Ego|Extension of my Brain

People with voices deemed sexy and attractive tend to have greater body symmetry upon close inspection, suggesting that what we hear in a person can greatly affect what we see in them.

“The sound of a person’s voice reveals a considerable amount of biological information,” said Susan Hughes, an evolutionary psychologist from Albright College in Reading, Pa. “It can reflect the mate value of a person.”

Hughes, whose new study is detailed in the June 2008 edition of the Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, cautions that an attractive voice does not necessarily indicate that this person has an attractive face.

A symmetric body is genetically sound, scientists say, and in evolutionary terms, in the wild, it can be an important factor when selecting a mate. But sometimes changes during prenatal development can slightly skew this balance. For instance, the length ratio between index and ring fingers, known as the digit ratio, is fixed by the first trimester, a time that corresponds with vocal cord and larynx development. If the hormone surge that affects vocal development also affects finger growth, there should be a connection between an individual’s voice and digit ratio.

Hughes could not demonstrate a connection between voice attractiveness and digit ratio in her previous work, possibly due to vocal changes that occur during puberty. So in the new study, about 100 individuals listened to previously recorded voices and independently rated them on nine traits important during mate selection: approachability, dominance, healthiness, honesty, intelligence, likelihood to get dates, maturity, sexiness and warmth.

Study participants generally agreed on what made a voice attractive. But when Hughes used a spectrogram to analyze these voice ratings according to different acoustic properties such as pitch, intensity, jitter and shimmer, she could not find a common feature that made these voices seem attractive.

This indicates our perceptual system may be more advanced than expected.

“We can agree on what’s an attractive voice yet I can’t capture it with a computer,” Hughes told LiveScience.said.

8 Rules in Telling your Stories in your Blog
By Jennifer Fulwiler

1. Start with a bang

Writing a story for the web is different than writing a story for print publication. Web readers have much shorter attention spans and will quickly move on if a post doesn’t immediately capture their attention. Before you go into any background details or set the stage for your story, begin with one or two bold, concise sentences that will grab readers’ attention.

2. Identify your take

Sometimes when we sit down to write stories or personal reflections we forget to pause for a moment and ask, “What’s my take?” In other words, why are you writing this? Take a moment to identify no more than two or three salient aspects of your story that you want to make sure readers understand, and structure your piece around those elements.

3. Highlight dialogue

Dialogue is a great way to break up your story and quickly convey the personalities of the people involved — even if the “dialogue” is simply something you thought to yourself. Include snippets of conversation whenever possible, and be sure to start a new paragraph whenever you switch speakers.

4. Include section headers

If your story is more than a few hundred words long and there’s no way to condense it, break it into mini “chapters” by including bolded titles for each main section of the story.

5. Use breakout sentences

“Breakout sentences” — single-sentence paragraphs — are a great way to make your story more scannable. Identify one or two turning points in your tale, and write an attention-getting sentence as its own paragraph to mark this point in the story. (For example: “When I saw the test results, I knew my life would never be the same again.”)

6. Vary paragraph size

A long story that consists of paragraphs of similar sizes looks monotonous. Don’t be afraid to have an occasional long paragraph if you need it to complete an idea, but try to follow it with a shorter paragraph or perhaps a breakout sentence (see #5).

7. Go for authenticity over perfection

Keep in mind that this is not a term paper and you’re not writing for your high school English teacher. Your readers are more likely to read an imperfect story that is exploding with sincerity and energy than a perfect story that dryly conforms to all the proper rules of grammar and sentence structure. Many of the most popular diary-style bloggers interject their tales of everyday life with things like all-caps exclamations and incomplete sentences, and their readers love it.

8. Cut, then cut some more

Re-read your story and edit ruthlessly. Think about your take that you identified in #2, and with every single sentence ask yourself: “Would it detract from the piece or weaken my point if I cut this?” If the answer is no, delete it.

As the rapidly increasing popularity of personal, slice-of-life blogs shows, there is a place in the blog world for longer posts that convey personal stories. By following these eight rules you’ll find that you have no trouble gaining a readership of people who are delighted to hear your tales.

Jennifer Fulwiler is a writer and web developer whose websites have been mentioned in Slate, USA Today and National Lampoon. Her current project is ConversionDiary.com

My desktop screenshot is simple
I use windows xp | Fake windows vista (it’s just a theme)

I really like the wallpaper made by aicatch
I like the flow of the design, colors that he used is great, the effects is also great
Hopefully I can make a graphic design like that, (If I have an extra time)

I don’t have many Icons in my desktop , co’z it’s kinda dirty
If you are going to put many icons hehe..

Resources: Tetzor.com
Digital Artwork with a vector thinggy on it, I used lear brushes downloaded at Deviantart it’s made in Adobe Photoshop Cs2
I didn’t use AI.

This information was shared by my  filipino teacher so with my curiosity I searched about his predictions in the net. . 

Mr. Juseleeno Nobulega DaRoose whose predictions grace and dominate many of the chinese and vietnamese blogsites. Very little is known about him except that he is born in 1960 (reportedly still alive in 2008), and is a Brazilian.

He has made many predictions, and MOST have come to pass, including Princess Diana’s death by car accident (which is instigated by someone near her and will probably unfortunately be written off as a car accident), 911 and the 2004 Indonesian tsunami.

He sees the future in his dreams, and has an average of 3 to 9 such predictions per day. When he wakes up, he will write them down, and send warnings to those concerned. If it concerns only a normal individual, he will write a letter to warn him/her.

If it is a famous person(celebrity, politician etc.), or matters concerning the public, he will not only send it to the individual himself/herself, but also related agencies, government, and media. He urged the media to publicise these predictions, but the reply always went along the lines of rejection for fear of arousing public panic.

The following are a few of his predictions:

2008, July: There will be an earthquake in Japan, which will cause a tsunami of 30 plus metres high to occur as well.

2008, 18th September: An earthquake with magnitude of approximately 9.1 will rock China , simultaneously causing a tsunami of more than 30 metres to occur, resulting in the deaths of more than 1 million people. Although this huge earthquake will happen after the Olympics have ended, there will be a series of relatively smaller earthquakes occurring in China before the huge earthquake. The China government, which is more concerned with the success of the Olympics, will most likely neglect to employ appropriate cautionary measures, thus the high casualty rate. If the China government does not publicise the occurrence of these minor earthquakes and evacuate people, the number of deaths will be as predicted.

2008, 17th December: terrorist attack in America

2010: The temperatures in some countries of Africa could be as high as 58 degrees Celsius, and there will be a serious shortage of water.

2010, 15th June: The New York Stock Exchange market will fail, causing an international financial crisis.

2011: The research on the treatment of some cancers will be completed, but a new life-threatening virus will appear. People who are infected will die after only approx. 4 hours of coming into contact with the virus.

2013, 1st – 25th November: Research on treatment of cancers, except for brain tumors, will be completed. An earthquake, caused by volcanic eruptions, will happen on Bahama Island of the Canary Islands. A gigantic tsunami of roughly 150 metres will result. America mainlands, Brazil etc. will be affected, with the tsunami pushing into the land as far as 15 to 20 kilometres. Before the occurrence of this gigantic tsunami, the sea/ocean water levels will sink by about 6 metres, and large flocks of birds will start to migrate.

2014: A small planet that has been gradually closing in on Earth might eventually collide with Earth, and this collision, if come to pass, will affect the survival of humans as a whole.

2015: By the mid of November, the average temperature of Earth could be as high as 59 degrees Celsius. Many people will die from the overheat, and international confusion and terror ensues.

2016, April: A huge typhoon will invade China, causing massive damage. The 43rd USA president, George Walker Bush, will enter the hospital, and faces a life or death situation.

2026, July: A super earthquake will occur in Sans Francisco, and it will be named “The Big One”. Huge damage to surrounding areas. Many volcanoes will re-activate, and the height of resulting tsunami will be more than 150 metres.

Mr. Juseleeno made known his predictions in hopes that people will take heed of his warnings, so that these disasters may be avoided. He hopes there will be a major change in the thinking of people’s mindsets in the time period 2007 – 2008.

One factor will be the environmental issue of global warming, which is more serious than what some meteorologists assume.

Honestly, I don’t know If I’m going to believe him because He is not a GOD to tell what will going to happen in the feature GOD only knows what will happen.

Registered nurse si Bebeng sa L.A.  Kasama niya ang kanyang ina na nagpagamot doon. Namatay ang ina nito.  Dahil sa kamahalan ng pamasahe pabalik sa Pilipinas, nagtipid si Bebeng.  Pinauwi na lang niya ang kabaong ng kanyang ina na mag-isa.  Pagdating ng kabaong, napansin ng mga kapamilya niya na nakadikit ang mukha ng ina sa salamin ng ataul. Nagkomento tuloy ang isang anak, “Ay, naku! Tingnan mo ‘yan… hindi sila marunong mag-ayos ng bangkay sa Amerika! Nakudrado tuloy ang mukha ng inay.”

Upang ayusin ang itsura ng bangkay, binuksan ang kabaong. Aba!  May sulat na-nakastaple sa dibdib ng ina. Kinuha nila ito at binasa.  Ang nilalaman ng liham na mula kay Bebeng:

Mahal kong tatay at mga kapatid:

Pasensya na kayo at hindi ko nasamahan ang nanay sa pag-uwi riyan sa Pilipinas dahil napakamahal ng pamasahe.  “Ang gastos ko pa lang sa kanya ay mahigit $10,000 na. Ayoko nang isipin pa ang eksaktong halaga.  Anyway, ipinadala ko kasama ni nanay ang mga sumusunod…

Nasa likod ni nanay ang dalawampu’t apat na karnenorte at isang dosenang spam. Ang adidas na suot ni nanay ay para kay tatay.  Ang limang pares ng de-goma ay nasa loob ng dalawang asul na Jansport na backpack na inuunan ni nanay.  Tig-iisa kayo.

Ang iba’t-ibang klase ng tsokolate at candy ay nasa puwetan ni nanay.  Para sa mga bata ito. Bahala na kayong magparte-parte. Sana’y hindi natunaw.  Ang pokemon stuffed toy na yapos-yapos ni nanay ay para sa bunso ni ate.  Gift Ko sa first birthday ng bata.  Ang itim na Esprit bag ay para kay Nene.

Ate, nasa loob ng bag ang pictures ni inay,  japanese version ng pokemon trading cards at stickers.  Suot ni nanay ang tatlong Ralph Lauren, apat na Gap at dalawang Old Navy t-shirts.  Ang isa ay para kay Kuya at tig-iisa ang mga pamangkin ko.  Maisusuot ninyo ang mga iyan sa fiesta.

Suot din ni inay ang anim na panty hose at tatlong warmer para sa mga dalaga kong pamangkin. Isuot nyo sa party.  May isang dosenang NBA caps sa may paanan ni nanay.  Para sa inyo, itay, kuya, dikong, Tiyo Romy. Bigyan nyo na rin ng tig-isa ‘yung mga pamangkin ko at  yong isa ay kay Pareng Tulume.

Ang tigdadalawang pares ng Nike wristband at knee caps na suot-suot din ni nanay ay para sa mga anak mo, diko, na nagbabasketball.   Tigdadalawang ream ng Marlboro lights at Winston red ang nasa pagitan ng mga hita ni nanay.

Apat na jar ng Skippy Peanut Butter, dalawang dishwashing liquid, isang Kiwi glass cleaner at tig-aanim na Colgate at Aqua Fresh ang nakasiksik sa kilikili ni nanay.  Hati-hati na kayo, huwag mag-aagawan.

Isang dosenang Wonder bra ( Victoria ’s Secret ata ang tatak) gustong-gusto ni Tiya Iskang society natin, suot-suot din ni nanay.  Alam kong inaasam-asam nyo ‘yan, tiya. Anim na lipstick lang ang kasya sa bra. Ang Rolex na bilin-bilin mo tatay, suot-suot ni nanay.  Nakatakip sa Nike na wristband.  Kunin mo agad, Itay.

May isinisik akong zip-loc sa bunganga ni Inay na naglalaman ng $759 dollars.  Hindi na ako nakatakbo sa ATM.  Puede na siguro sa libing iyon.

Iyong tong na makokolekta, i-time deposit niyo Kuya para pag namatay si Tatay may pambili na ng ataul. Ang hikaw, singsing at kuwintas (na may nakakabit pang anim na nail cutters) nagustong-gusto mo, ditse, ay suot-suot din ni n anay.  Kunin mo na rin agad, ditse. Ibigay mo ang isang nailcutter kay Jay bakla sa kanto.

Tanggalin niyo ang bulak sa ilong ng inay, may isiniksik ako 3 diyamante sa bawat butas. Ibangon niyo lang si inay at tiyak na malalaglag na ang mga iyon.  Konting alog lang siguro ng ulo.

Marami pa sana akong ipaglalalagay kaya lang, baka mag-excess at si nanay pa ang maiwan.  Basta parte-parte kayo, tatay, kuya, ate, dikong, ditse.  Para sa inyo lahat ito. Bahala na kayo kay nanay.  Pamimisahan ko na lang siya rito.

Balitaan ninyo na lang ako pagkatapos ng libing.  Alam ni ate ang email ko.  Paki-double check ang lista kung walang nawala sa mga ipinadala ko.

Nagmamahal,
Bebeng

Chorva has its etymology from the greek word CHEORVAMUS meaning ” for lack of the right word to say or in place of something
you want to express but you cannot verbalize”

amazing isn’t it??

naniwala ka naman.. Chorva lang yun!!!

Marian Student Government Logo Requested by my friend named - Ruzelle (special mention)

These Logos were designed using Adobe Photoshop Cs2.

Oh c’mon. I only have 2 days left .. to finish the logo of msg , post in my blog and in my site because we are going to move. In the place that we are going to move there’s no internet connection it’s full, so we don’t have internet but we need internet you know?, especially my mom for her work. *We are using globe broadband. We don’t like pldt my dsl because their system is always down amf..so no choice..no internet.

A.S.T.I.G.G. - Achieving Success through it’s Good governance

A Gift for ASTIGG PARTY LIST , simple design but IT’S VERY EYE CATCHING (THEY SAY)because of it’s colors and the flow of the design
But sad to say this party list was lose