POWER...so fast, now already Qing Ming and I have cleaned up the my dad's urn and my mom's tombstone last Friday ( the actual day for Qing Ming ).
Tomorrow is already 1st of 3rd month in the lunar calander. Soon pretty another year comes and goess. We grew by 1 more yr older.
Guess everyone faced the same problem...rich or poor, young and old, guy or gal.
On the subject on luck....no luck so far this month. Can only hope that life be easier in future when the luck comes.
Saturday, April 05, 2008
Study: Men's brains link sex and money
A new brain-scan study may help explain what's going on in the minds of financial titans when they take risky monetary gambles -- sex.
When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary, such as a snake, or something neutral, such as a stapler, university researchers reported.
The arousing pictures lit up the same part of the brain that lights up when financial risks are taken.
"You have a need in an evolutionary sense for both money and women. They trigger the same brain area," said Camelia Kuhnen, a Northwestern University finance professor who conducted the study with a Stanford University psychologist.
Their research appears in the current edition of the peer-reviewed journal NeuroReport.
The study involved 15 heterosexual young men at Stanford University. It focused on the sex and money hub, the V-shaped nucleus accumbens, which sits near the base of the brain and plays a central role in what you experience as pleasure.
When that hub was activated by the erotic images, the men were far more likely to bet high on a random chance game that would earn them either a dollar or a dime. Each man made more than 50 gambles under brain scans.
Stanford psychologist Brian Knutson, a lead author of the study, says it's all about the power of emotion and arousal and our financial decisions. The trigger doesn't have to be sex -- it could be chocolate or a winning lottery ticket.
"It didn't matter if the sexy woman didn't tell you anything about the odds of winning a roulette game," Knutson said. "What really matters is that the sexy woman is having an emotional impact. That bleeds over into your financial decisions."
Kuhnen said the same link could hold true for women, but they didn't test it because it is more difficult to find an erotic image that would appeal to many different heterosexual women compared to heterosexual men.
The link between sex and greed goes back hundreds of thousands of years, to men's evolutionary role as provider or resource gatherer to attract women, said Kevin McCabe, professor of economics, law and neuroscience at George Mason University, who wasn't part of the study.
"Risk-taking is a natural way of increasing your relative success, but, of course, there's a downside to it, what we're seeing right now in the economy," McCabe said.
The results of the study jibe with real life on the trading floor, said Phil Flynn, a former Chicago, Illinois, commodities floor trader and current analyst at Alaron Trading Corp.
"I'm not shocked that it may be part of the deal," Flynn said Friday. "When you talk about all the euphemisms for trading [on the floor], they can be used for sex as well." ("Massaging the market" and "hardcore" were the cleanest he and his colleagues could come up with.)
The study conforms with recent research that indicates men shown a pornographic movie were more likely to make riskier sexual decisions. Another suggests straight men think less about their financial future after being shown pictures of pretty women.
One still-to-be-published study at Harvard University found a link between higher testosterone levels and financial risk-taking.
But the study conducted at Stanford, funded by the National Institutes of Health, went deeper, using functional magnetic resonance imaging machines. It's part of a new but growing field called neuroeconomics that attempts to take the hard-wired science of brain biology and mix it with the softer sciences of psychology and economics to figure out why we make the financial decisions we do.
An earlier study by the same team found that the brain's reward area lit up at about the same time as risky decision-making.
The erotic pictures experiment was designed to find which was the cause and which was the effect. The answer: Lighting up the reward area, in this case with soft-core pictures, caused the risk-taking, Kuhnen said.
"The more activation there you have, the more prone you are to taking more risk," Kuhnen said. "It could be a feedback loop."
The flip side was that the photos of snakes and spiders activated the portion of the brain often associated with pain, fear and anger. And those people were more likely to bet low.
This all makes sense to Harvard economist Terry Burnham, author of the book "Mean Genes." Burnham said it could be all summed up in a famous line from the movie "Scarface."
"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
Warao....guess rich or poor, for most guys will be thinking of sex most of the times in fact some ladies are also into this.
When young men were shown erotic pictures, they were more likely to make a larger financial gamble than if they were shown a picture of something scary, such as a snake, or something neutral, such as a stapler, university researchers reported.
The arousing pictures lit up the same part of the brain that lights up when financial risks are taken.
"You have a need in an evolutionary sense for both money and women. They trigger the same brain area," said Camelia Kuhnen, a Northwestern University finance professor who conducted the study with a Stanford University psychologist.
Their research appears in the current edition of the peer-reviewed journal NeuroReport.
The study involved 15 heterosexual young men at Stanford University. It focused on the sex and money hub, the V-shaped nucleus accumbens, which sits near the base of the brain and plays a central role in what you experience as pleasure.
When that hub was activated by the erotic images, the men were far more likely to bet high on a random chance game that would earn them either a dollar or a dime. Each man made more than 50 gambles under brain scans.
Stanford psychologist Brian Knutson, a lead author of the study, says it's all about the power of emotion and arousal and our financial decisions. The trigger doesn't have to be sex -- it could be chocolate or a winning lottery ticket.
"It didn't matter if the sexy woman didn't tell you anything about the odds of winning a roulette game," Knutson said. "What really matters is that the sexy woman is having an emotional impact. That bleeds over into your financial decisions."
Kuhnen said the same link could hold true for women, but they didn't test it because it is more difficult to find an erotic image that would appeal to many different heterosexual women compared to heterosexual men.
The link between sex and greed goes back hundreds of thousands of years, to men's evolutionary role as provider or resource gatherer to attract women, said Kevin McCabe, professor of economics, law and neuroscience at George Mason University, who wasn't part of the study.
"Risk-taking is a natural way of increasing your relative success, but, of course, there's a downside to it, what we're seeing right now in the economy," McCabe said.
The results of the study jibe with real life on the trading floor, said Phil Flynn, a former Chicago, Illinois, commodities floor trader and current analyst at Alaron Trading Corp.
"I'm not shocked that it may be part of the deal," Flynn said Friday. "When you talk about all the euphemisms for trading [on the floor], they can be used for sex as well." ("Massaging the market" and "hardcore" were the cleanest he and his colleagues could come up with.)
The study conforms with recent research that indicates men shown a pornographic movie were more likely to make riskier sexual decisions. Another suggests straight men think less about their financial future after being shown pictures of pretty women.
One still-to-be-published study at Harvard University found a link between higher testosterone levels and financial risk-taking.
But the study conducted at Stanford, funded by the National Institutes of Health, went deeper, using functional magnetic resonance imaging machines. It's part of a new but growing field called neuroeconomics that attempts to take the hard-wired science of brain biology and mix it with the softer sciences of psychology and economics to figure out why we make the financial decisions we do.
An earlier study by the same team found that the brain's reward area lit up at about the same time as risky decision-making.
The erotic pictures experiment was designed to find which was the cause and which was the effect. The answer: Lighting up the reward area, in this case with soft-core pictures, caused the risk-taking, Kuhnen said.
"The more activation there you have, the more prone you are to taking more risk," Kuhnen said. "It could be a feedback loop."
The flip side was that the photos of snakes and spiders activated the portion of the brain often associated with pain, fear and anger. And those people were more likely to bet low.
This all makes sense to Harvard economist Terry Burnham, author of the book "Mean Genes." Burnham said it could be all summed up in a famous line from the movie "Scarface."
"In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
Warao....guess rich or poor, for most guys will be thinking of sex most of the times in fact some ladies are also into this.
Sex takes 3 to 13 minutes, study says ( done in the US )
Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed. It's difficult for men of all ages to make sexual intercourse last much longer, a psychologist says.
A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike at the notion that endurance is the key to a great sex life.
If that sounds like good news to you, don't cheer too loudly. The time does not count foreplay, and the therapists did rate sexual intercourse that lasts from 1 to 2 minutes as "too short."
Researcher Eric Corty said he hoped to ease the minds of those who believe "more of something good is better, and if you really want to satisfy your partner, you should last forever."
The questions were not gender-specific, said Corty. But he said prior research has shown men and women want foreplay and sexual intercourse to last longer.
Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, cited a four-week study of 1,500 couples in 2005 that found the median time for sexual intercourse was 7.3 minutes. (Women in the study were armed with stopwatches.)
It's difficult for both older men and young men to make sexual intercourse last much longer, said Marianne Brandon, a clinical psychologist and director of Wellminds Wellbodies in Annapolis, Maryland.
"There are so many myths in our culture of what other people are doing sexually," Brandon said. "Most people's sex lives are not as exciting as other people think they are."
Fifty members of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research in the U.S. and Canada were surveyed by Corty, an associate professor of psychology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and student Jenay Guardiani. Thirty-four members, or 68 percent, responded, although some said the optimal time depended on the couple.
Corty said he hoped to give an idea of what therapists find to be normal and satisfactory among the couples they see.
"People who read this will say, 'I last five minutes or my partner lasts eight minutes,' and say, 'That's OK,' " he said. "They will relax a little bit."
Well....it is true that most guys would love to last at least 15 to 30 mins of pure pumping action but the truth is that it may not be possible unless got super controlling power by the guy. Myself if the hole is wet....then I won't last long but still I can tahan to what the study said...3 to 15 mins. I can safely said....that I on the longer end of the range if not longer.
A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike at the notion that endurance is the key to a great sex life.
If that sounds like good news to you, don't cheer too loudly. The time does not count foreplay, and the therapists did rate sexual intercourse that lasts from 1 to 2 minutes as "too short."
Researcher Eric Corty said he hoped to ease the minds of those who believe "more of something good is better, and if you really want to satisfy your partner, you should last forever."
The questions were not gender-specific, said Corty. But he said prior research has shown men and women want foreplay and sexual intercourse to last longer.
Dr. Irwin Goldstein, editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, cited a four-week study of 1,500 couples in 2005 that found the median time for sexual intercourse was 7.3 minutes. (Women in the study were armed with stopwatches.)
It's difficult for both older men and young men to make sexual intercourse last much longer, said Marianne Brandon, a clinical psychologist and director of Wellminds Wellbodies in Annapolis, Maryland.
"There are so many myths in our culture of what other people are doing sexually," Brandon said. "Most people's sex lives are not as exciting as other people think they are."
Fifty members of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research in the U.S. and Canada were surveyed by Corty, an associate professor of psychology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and student Jenay Guardiani. Thirty-four members, or 68 percent, responded, although some said the optimal time depended on the couple.
Corty said he hoped to give an idea of what therapists find to be normal and satisfactory among the couples they see.
"People who read this will say, 'I last five minutes or my partner lasts eight minutes,' and say, 'That's OK,' " he said. "They will relax a little bit."
Well....it is true that most guys would love to last at least 15 to 30 mins of pure pumping action but the truth is that it may not be possible unless got super controlling power by the guy. Myself if the hole is wet....then I won't last long but still I can tahan to what the study said...3 to 15 mins. I can safely said....that I on the longer end of the range if not longer.
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Just no luck with share, 4D and toto
Maybe time to change my nick hahaha....to shithead becoz not getting anywhere with the above lately.
Shares....when I bought the shares, it went down like a ton of weight. Luckily....managed to get back up but still lost money. Once I sold it.....it shot thru the roof. FCUKED...( yes! I know how to spell that.
For the 4D....same thing, the moment I stopped buying the set of numbers....it popped up but when I continue buying it....no smell. Funny thing is when no luck....no matter how many set of I-bets I buy...also all no smell.
Toto....well, just continue with my old man's numbers. Also no smell....but I have faith that he will help me hehehe. Btw I have dreamt of him lately....maybe it is due to "Chang Ming"? I will
go pray pray to him tml....the actual day itself.
Cheers!!!
Shares....when I bought the shares, it went down like a ton of weight. Luckily....managed to get back up but still lost money. Once I sold it.....it shot thru the roof. FCUKED...( yes! I know how to spell that.
For the 4D....same thing, the moment I stopped buying the set of numbers....it popped up but when I continue buying it....no smell. Funny thing is when no luck....no matter how many set of I-bets I buy...also all no smell.
Toto....well, just continue with my old man's numbers. Also no smell....but I have faith that he will help me hehehe. Btw I have dreamt of him lately....maybe it is due to "Chang Ming"? I will
go pray pray to him tml....the actual day itself.
Cheers!!!
Paying it forward - worth a try to do this.
The other day I was at the supermarket getting fruits and vegetables when I overheard an elderly lady saying that she was short 60 cent on her purchase and that she would need to put back an item. Just at that moment, a young man in the store dropped a $1 coin on the countertop and said he didn't want her to go without her greens. The woman thanked the young man profusely and asked what she could do in return. He told her to look for an opportunity to help three other people when she sees a need.
I knew what this Good Samaritan was talking about -- a practice called Pay It Forward, which comes from a book by Catherine Ryan Hyde and was later made into a movie by the same name. The story involves a young boy who proposes doing good deeds for at least three people and then asks his recipients to do good deeds for three more people.
The nicest thing about the idea of paying it forward, is that we can practice it on our own. We don't have to be wealthy philanthropists to help others. Sometimes the things that can make a difference in others' lives are as simple as a smile or the offer to extend a helping hand. And these little ordinary acts of kindness paid forward in ever growing numbers can have a real impact on the world.
If you are ready to try paying it forward, you can begin by becoming aware of your surroundings and opening yourself up to situations that you could have a positive effect on. The person who becomes the recipient of your good deed could be someone you know or even a stranger. When someone asks you how they can repay your act of kindness, encourage them to extend kindness to three other people and then tell those people to do a good deed for three more people, and so on. And whenever you feel that someone has done something nice for you, remember to pay it forward as well.
Paying it forward can be a very uplifting experience. Just remember that when you pay it forward, be sure to take care of yourself, as well. Giving of oneself is an important and wonderful thing, but we should remember that the better off we are, the more we are able to do for others. May it help you to improve your own situation so that you can pay it forward.
May all blessings be yours!!!
I knew what this Good Samaritan was talking about -- a practice called Pay It Forward, which comes from a book by Catherine Ryan Hyde and was later made into a movie by the same name. The story involves a young boy who proposes doing good deeds for at least three people and then asks his recipients to do good deeds for three more people.
The nicest thing about the idea of paying it forward, is that we can practice it on our own. We don't have to be wealthy philanthropists to help others. Sometimes the things that can make a difference in others' lives are as simple as a smile or the offer to extend a helping hand. And these little ordinary acts of kindness paid forward in ever growing numbers can have a real impact on the world.
If you are ready to try paying it forward, you can begin by becoming aware of your surroundings and opening yourself up to situations that you could have a positive effect on. The person who becomes the recipient of your good deed could be someone you know or even a stranger. When someone asks you how they can repay your act of kindness, encourage them to extend kindness to three other people and then tell those people to do a good deed for three more people, and so on. And whenever you feel that someone has done something nice for you, remember to pay it forward as well.
Paying it forward can be a very uplifting experience. Just remember that when you pay it forward, be sure to take care of yourself, as well. Giving of oneself is an important and wonderful thing, but we should remember that the better off we are, the more we are able to do for others. May it help you to improve your own situation so that you can pay it forward.
May all blessings be yours!!!
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