Prevent Acne!

http://answers.yahoo.com

use lemon and cucumber for oily skin,lemon and honey if you have dry skin let stand for 15 min and wash with cold water Although you should check your diet,avoid spicy & oily stuff. This should prevent your acne.And be patient.

To prevent it wash your face every day, exercise a lot, drink lots of water, and take a daily multivitamin.

To get rid of it, wash your face with a cleanser for your skin type, and try making a thick baking soda and water paste and leaving it on your skin overnight.

First of all you gotta Sleep early this happens when you stay up till LATE Two you gotta stop eating hot stuff what i mean by that i mean like Fast Food it makes your face Boil up and Chips candy. Three using Cream to put on your face its not a smart choice some can cause your face bad stuff there are side effects so you wouldn’t trust it much. Last but not least Eat a’lot of vegetables cut back on the junk food try a salad once in a while O.O Good Luck 😀

try proactive or oeher face washes.. it varies from person to person. clean and clear works too. my friend used neutrogena. so if i wer you id try the cheaper ones first. also, eat protein and get enough sleep

Best Beauty tip websites!

Ok girls, if you are really in dire need of beauty tips that really count its time I help you by consulting yahoo answers!

It says that the best beauty tips can be found in the websites of:

1. Cosmo Girl
2. Teenvouge
3. Seventeen

Need some Anger Management,.

As a Computer Science student its expected for you to “Help” your cousins and friends with some of their computer and laptop problems, and the bad news is sometimes its free! (Or in my case its always free) These people, as always, will look for you and tell you what their gadgets problem is. (in a very common panic sort of way) Then when you are actually fixing it, they’ll add more requests such as: download this, fix that, i want this installed, i want that removed, ect. The queue of work gets larger thus more possibility of stress resulting into a very fast mood swing or easy anger. Why is it that they cant understand that Computer Science is intended for software only and not troubleshooting and hardware, let the Engineers or technicians do that. An hour ago I was so stressed and a little bit ticked off that I argued with the caretaker: “I have already finished eating Im not hungry!”

Fixing the past,.

Siguro mga 8 months na rin akong nagiisip,hindi mapakali, at nakapako sa ala-ala nya…Hindi ko ba alam kung bakit kahit anong pilit kong burahin sya sa isip ko ay bumabalik at bumabalik pa rin ang alaala nya at ng magkasama pa kaming dalawa, siguro nakabaon na sa puso ko. I kept reading her text messages…Ay isang beses lang pala. But as I was reading nalaman kong tama lang ang ginawa nya, tama lang ang hatol nya, kahit napaka bigat. Ako yung sira-ulo. Bakit nga ba naman ipinipilit ko ang imposible? Siguro na rin dahil sa pag-ibig…Oo, tama yun na nga yun! Sya at sya pa rin ang mahal ko hanggang ngayon wala pa ring nagbabago, at siya rin ang pinakamalaking parte ng past ko. Sa sobrang pag-ibig naging gahaman at mapusok ang puso. Dalawa lang naman yan eh, either sa sobrang pagmamahal ay ibibigay mo lahat sa kanya o sa sobrang pagmamahal ay gagawin mo ang lahat makuha lang sya (walang kokontra trip ko to) I chose to be an ass hole so she can love me. Actually, ayoko na talaga. I want to be free! Free from her haunting memory…Pero mahirap, sabi ko nga sya ang pinakamalaking part ng past ko at medyo malakas din ang trip ng puso ko. Minsan, Go! pero madalas, No! I want a new life, I want to change the man I was a year ago. I want to start again from scratch, but this time, I’ll be better. I will be a better man than I was years ago. But to achieve that I must fix my past for a better future. Handa na ako, ewan ko kung ano ang nakain ko pero handa na ako. Dati ayoko syang makita, makausap, o makachat man lang. Dati hanggang Friendster lang ang tingin ko, siguro sa takot, sa pride at dahil na rin sa meron pa rin akong pagtingin sa kanya. Pero handa na ako, kelangan kong magpakawala, makalimot at humingi ng tawad. But I wont expect her to do the same….I dont expect her to…..Sana nga lang may pag-asa pa.

Bob Ongs New Book! “Kapitan Sino”

Para sa masang Pilipino na mahilig magbasa ng libro ni Bob Ong may nakita po akong bagong libro na sinulat nya ito po ay ang “Kapitan Sino” nakita ko po ito sa website National Bookstore na nagkakahalaga ng Php 175.00

Descrition ng libro:
“There is something strange in your neighborhood…

Naunahan na naman ang mga pulis sa pagtugis sa mga holdaper ng isang jewelry shop. Bago noon, may iba na ring nakahuli sa isang carnaper; sumaklolo sa mga taong nasa itaas ng nasusunog na building; nagligtas sa sanggol na hinostage ng ama; tumulong para makatawid sa kalsada ang isang matanda; tumiklo sa mga miyembro ng Akyat-Bahay; sumagip sa mag-anak na tinangay ng tubig-baha; nag-landing nang maayos sa isang Boeing 747 na nasiraan ng engine; at nagpasabog sa isang higanteng robot. Pero sino ang taong ‘yon? Maililigtas nya ba sila Aling Baby? At ano nga ba talaga ang sabon ng mga artista?

Kapitan Sino ang pinakabagong superhero noon. Mas matibay pa sa orig. Sa mas mahabang panahon.”

Pero wala pa ata narerelease ngayon sa NBS

Boys and Girls: The difference

Again from alot of websites I copied alot of articles to bring you the difference between men and women.

I. MYTH: “Real” women don’t do math.
Related myths: You’re too pretty to be a math major.
Women are qualitative; men are quantitative.
Results:
High school girls who think of math as a “male thing” are less likely to go
on in math and are less likely to do well in math.
Girls are much less apt than equally talented boys to go into mathrelated
careers including engineering and the physical sciences.
Solutions: We all should:
• stop saying things like “Women aren’t good in math.”
• challenge others, both students and adults, when they make
stereotypic comments about girls and math.
• provide girls and boys with lots of examples of women and girls who
are successful in math and science (and who are also cool).
II. MYTH: There is a biological basis for sex differences in
math.
Related myths: There is a sex-linked math gene.
Hormones cause everything.
Results:
Parents have lower expectations for girls in math and science.
Some educators use the “math gene” as an excuse for their own
gender-biased classroom behaviors.
Biology is used to justify the smaller number of girls on math/science
teams and the smaller number receiving math/science awards.
Solutions: We should all:
• be aware that while there is no evidence of a “math gene,” there is a lot
of evidence that practice and encouragement improves math and
science skills for girls (and for boys).
• provide students with needed practice and encouragement
• read “scientific” studies with a critical eye, looking for what are facts
and what are opinions.
Myths and Realities
III. MYTH: Girls learn better from female teachers.
Related myths: Role models must always be of the same sex as
the student.
Results:
Some female teachers feel that being a woman is enough to encourage
girls, and it isn’t necessary to do anything else.
Some male teachers feel that it isn’t possible to reach girls so it isn’t
necessary to try.
Some adults and students feel that girls avoid classes taught by men.
Solutions: Explain to others:
• it makes little difference to most students whether they are taught by a
man or a woman. It is the quality of the teaching, not the gender of the
teacher, that matters.
• while teachers treat male and female students differently, this is
true for both female and male teachers. The gender of the teacher has
little or no effect on how they treat girls and boys.
• while women and men can teach girls well (or poorly), if students never
see women teaching math or science, the myths about who does and
doesn’t do math and science are reinforced.
IV. MYTH: It is not necessary to look at the interaction of
gender and race when dealing with girls in math
and science.
Related myths: If something applies to White girls it also applies
to African American and Hispanic girls.
If something applies to African American boys it
also applies to African American girls.
Results:
There is little research about African American and Hispanic girls and
about the best ways to encourage them in math and science.
There is potential for African American and Hispanic girls to be ignored
and to feel invisible.
Solutions:
• demand that information be broken down by gender and race.
• when looking at results, look for both similarities and differences.
• when analyzing your own classes, look at what is happening in terms of
gender and race.
• sometimes just look at statistics for African American or Hispanic girls.

For the first time — and in unambiguous findings — researchers from Northwestern University and the University of Haifa show both that areas of the brain associated with language work harder in girls than in boys during language tasks, and that boys and girls rely on different parts of the brain when performing these tasks.

“Our findings — which suggest that language processing is more sensory in boys and more abstract in girls — could have major implications for teaching children and even provide support for advocates of single sex classrooms,” said Douglas D. Burman, research associate in Northwestern’s Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers measured brain activity in 31 boys and in 31 girls aged 9 to 15 as they performed spelling and writing language tasks.

The tasks were delivered in two sensory modalities — visual and auditory. When visually presented, the children read certain words without hearing them. Presented in an auditory mode, they heard words aloud but did not see them.

Using a complex statistical model, the researchers accounted for differences associated with age, gender, type of linguistic judgment, performance accuracy and the method — written or spoken — in which words were presented.

The researchers found that girls still showed significantly greater activation in language areas of the brain than boys. The information in the tasks got through to girls’ language areas of the brain — areas associated with abstract thinking through language. And their performance accuracy correlated with the degree of activation in some of these language areas.

To their astonishment, however, this was not at all the case for boys. In boys, accurate performance depended — when reading words — on how hard visual areas of the brain worked. In hearing words, boys’ performance depended on how hard auditory areas of the brain worked.

If that pattern extends to language processing that occurs in the classroom, it could inform teaching and testing methods.

Given boys’ sensory approach, boys might be more effectively evaluated on knowledge gained from lectures via oral tests and on knowledge gained by reading via written tests. For girls, whose language processing appears more abstract in approach, these different testing methods would appear unnecessary.

“One possibility is that boys have some kind of bottleneck in their sensory processes that can hold up visual or auditory information and keep it from being fed into the language areas of the brain,” Burman said. This could result simply from girls developing faster than boys, in which case the differences between the sexes might disappear by adulthood.

Or, an alternative explanation is that boys create visual and auditory associations such that meanings associated with a word are brought to mind simply from seeing or hearing the word.

While the second explanation puts males at a disadvantage in more abstract language function, those kinds of sensory associations may have provided an evolutionary advantage for primitive men whose survival required them to quickly recognize danger-associated sights and sounds.

If the pattern of females relying on an abstract language network and of males relying on sensory areas of the brain extends into adulthood — a still unresolved question — it could explain why women often provide more context and abstract representation than men.

Ask a woman for directions and you may hear something like: “Turn left on Main Street, go one block past the drug store, and then turn right, where there’s a flower shop on one corner and a cafe across the street.”

Such information-laden directions may be helpful for women because all information is relevant to the abstract concept of where to turn; however, men may require only one cue and be distracted by additional information.

Parents have heard it for decades: Boys play with guns and girls play with dolls because society brainwashes them into rigid sex roles. Oh, really? Anyone who’s raised both boys and girls can tell you how different they seem from the get-go — and there’s not much you can do about it. When my wife and I wouldn’t give our son a toy weapon to play with, he made swords out of fence slats and guns out of Tinkertoys. Our daughter, by contrast, was always too busy managing the intricate social world of toy animals to have the slightest interest in hunting for anything. Was this subconsciously our fault?

Probably not. Sure, parents can condition kids without realizing it — cooing and talking more to baby girls, for instance, or roughhousing more with boys. But a growing body of research suggests that something deeper is at work. High-tech scans, for example, show that in both boys and girls, certain areas of the brain are bigger or busier than in the opposite sex. In the womb, these areas of the brain get higher doses of certain hormones, suggesting that girls and boys start with natural tendencies at birth. “There’s a strong relationship between differences we see in the brain and the way children act,” asserts Ruben Gur, PhD, director of the brain behavior laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia.

As children grow, those inborn sex differences can guide what kids like to learn — and what gets reinforced. “Learning itself changes the brain,” says Lise Eliot, PhD, assistant professor of neuroscience at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, in Chicago. When kids play and think, cells in the most active parts of the brain grow new, livelier connections while cells that don’t get much action are pruned. In other words, gender differences that are present at birth become even more entrenched.

Such discussions, of course, raise all sorts of concerns and objections. Remember the furor last year when Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard, suggested that the shortage of female scientists may be, in part, because of innate differences between men and women? Still, it’s hard to argue with science, and evidence is mounting that male and female brains are simply not the same. Here are the key areas of difference.

Trivias about Countries

West Virginia is the only state in the Union without a natural lake.

The westernmost point in the contiguous United States is Cape Alava, Washington.

Tennessee and Missouri are bordered by more states than any other. Tennesee is bordered by eight states are Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia. Missouri is bordered by Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennesee, Kentucky and Illinois.

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world.

Grand Rapids, Michigan was the first city in the US to put flouride in their water.

Only two countries border three oceans — the United States & Canada.

The only country whose name begins with an “A”, but doesn’t end in an “A” is Afghanastan.

Shortest Intercontinental Commercial Flight in the world is from Gibraltar (Europe) to Tangier (Africa.) Distance 34 miles, flight time 20 minutes.

Texas is also the only state that is allowed to fly its state flag at the same height as the U.S. flag.

Every Swiss citizen is required by law to have a bomb shelter or access to a bomb shelter.

49.6% of US residents live in Eastern time zone, 29.3% live in the Central time zone, 5.3% live in the Mountain time zone, 15.0% live in the Pacific time zone and .8% live in any other time zone.

Alaska could hold the 21 smallest States

Santa Fe, New Mexico is the highest state capital at 7,000 feet above sea level.

Sante Fe is also the only State Capital with no regularly scheduled commercial airline service.

Santa Fe was founded in 1607 making it the oldest continuously occupied state capital.

Hudson Bay is the largest bay in the world, (larger than England) bordering only one country Canada, and only two provinces and a territory.

There is a city called Rome on every continent. Source: David Katz-Doft

New York City is nicknamed the Big Apple after an early swing dance that originated in a South Carolina club (actually a converted church) called The Big Apple.

Devon is the only county in Great Britain to have two coasts.

There are four Commonwealths in the United States: Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Virginia — the rest are states.

Gilroy, California in Monterey County claims to be the “Garlic Capital of the World,” but Fresno County now produces more Garlic. Fresno County is the largest agriculture producing county in the United States. Source: J.B. Seibert

Illinois has the most personalized liscense plates of any state. Source: Steven Turano

Ohio is the only state not to have a rectangular flag. It’s a pennant.

Dominica, Mexico, Zambia, Spain, Kiribati, Fiji and Egypt all have birds on their flags.

The Dominican Republic has the only national flag with a bible in it.

Cyprus has a map on it’s flag.

Nepal is the only country without a rectangular flag (it looks like two pennants glued on on top of the other).

Libya has the only flag which is all one color with no writing or decoration on it.

Australia is the richest source of mineral sands in the world. Source: Benn Skender

Iowa is the only state bordered on both east and west entirely by rivers. (Mississippi on the east, Missouri and Big Sioux on the west.)

I, Q, and X are the only letters that don’t start a city that ends in -ville in the state of Ohio. i.e. Brownsville, Zanesville, etc.

The Atlantic Ocean is saltier than the Pacific Ocean. Source: “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader”

In 1771 the kingdom of Poland was larger in area than any other European country except Russia, and had a bigger population of any other European country except France. But within 25 years it had vanished from the map.
In 1772, Russia, Prussia and Austria between them annexed about one-fifth of Poland. Twenty years later Russia took over half of what remained, and all three powers shared in the final carve-up in 1795. It was not until 1918, in the aftermath of the First World War, that an independent Poland surfaced again, to be overrun yet again in 1939. Source: “Reader’s Digest Book of Facts”

The bridge of Sighs, most famous of the 400 bridges in Venice, Italy, connects the Dodge’s palace to the old state prisons and the place of execution. It was built in 1600 and is believed to have got its name from the sigh of the condemned. Source: “Reader’s Digest Book of Facts”

32% of all land in the U.S. is owned by the federal government. Source: “Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader”

There are, surprisingly, very few nations in the world named after an actual person. Among those are Bolvis, for Simon Bolivar; Columbia, for Christopher Columbus; Nicaragua, for Chief Nicarao, Liechtenstein, for Johann von Liechtenstein; Saudi Arabia, for King Saud; and the Philippines, named after King Philip. The United States of America got its name from Amerigo Vespucci. Source: “Knowledge in a Nutshell”

More than 25 percent of the world’s forests are in Siberia. Source: “2201 Fascinating Facts”

There are two independent nations, both in Europe, that are smaller than Central Park in New York City. They are Vatican City and Monaco. Each is less than one square mile. The next three smallest countries are Bauru, eight square miles, in the western Pacific Ocean; Tuvalu, ten square miles, the Southwest Pacific; and San Marino, 24 square miles, in Europe. Source: “Knowledge in a Nutshell”

The Philippine flag is displayed with its blue field on top in times of peace. When war is declared, it is flown with the red field on top. Source: “Selwyn Clyde Alojipan”

The capital of Portugal was moved to Rio de Jeneiro, Brazil (at the time a colony of Portugal) from 1807 until 1821 while Portugal was fighting france in the Napoleonic Wars. Source: “Knowledge in a Nutshell”

If the world’s total land area was divided equally among the world’s people, each person would get 8.5 acres.

Maine is the toothpick capital of the world.

Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means “the capital” in the Korean language.

Libya is the only country in the world with a solid, single-colored flag — it’s green.

Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.

Ogdensburg, New York is the only city in the United States situated on the St. Lawrence River.

St. Paul, Minnesota was originally called Pigs Eye after a man who ran a saloon there.

The Boston University Bridge (on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts) is the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane. Source: “Random Trivia” fact contributed by Jim Cobb

Rhode Island is the smallest state with the longest name. The official name, used on all state documents, is Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

The state of Maryland has no natural lakes.

Seattle, Washington, like Rome, was built on seven hills.

Kitsap County, Washington, was originally called Slaughter County, and the first hotel there was called the Slaughter House.

The coast line around Lake Sakawea in North Dakota is longer than the California coastline along the Pacific Ocean

Brooklyn is the Dutch name for “broken valley”

There are four states where the first letter of the capital city is the same letter as the first letter of the state: Dover, Delaware; Honolulu, Hawaii; Indianapolis, Indiana; and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Lake Nicaragua boasts the only fresh-water sharks in the entire world.

The flag of the Philippines is the only national flag that is flown differently during times of peace or war. A portion of the flag is blue, while the other is red. The blue portion is flown on top in time of peace and the red portion is flown in wartime.

The only city in the United States to celebrate Halloween on the October 30 instead of October 31 is Carson City, Nevada. October 31 is Nevada Day and is celebrated with a large street party.

Eleven square miles of southwest Kentucky (Fulton County) is cut off from the rest of the state by the Mississippi River. If you wish to travel from this cut off section to the rest of the state or vice-versa, you must first cross a bordering state.

Point Roberts in Washington State is cut off from the rest of the state by British Columbia, Canada. If you wish to travel from Point Roberts to the rest of the state or vice versa, you must pass through Canada, including Canadian and U.S. customs.

New Jersey has a spoon museum featuring over 5,400 spoons from every state and almost every country.

Of all fifty states, the most crowded is New Jersey, which has the most people per square mile.

The Dutch town of Abcoude is the only reasonably sized town/city in the world whose name begins with ABC.

Alaska is the most northern, western and eastern state; it also has the highest latitude, the most eastern longitude and the most western longitude.

In Alaska it is illegal to look at a moose from the window of an airplane or any other flying vehicle. Source: “2201 Fascinating Facts”

U.S. Interstates which go north-south are numbered sequentially starting from the west with odd numbers, and Interstates which go east-west are numbered sequentially starting from the south with even numbers.

The floral emblem of Western Australia is Mangles’ Kangaroo Paw; the state animal is the numbat; and the state bird is the black swan.

The smallest mountain range in the world is outside of Marysville, California and is named the Sutter Buttes.

Of all the East Coast States, New Hampshire has the shortest coastline, about fourteen miles.

The translation of the Monongahela River’s name is high banks breaking off and falling down in places.

The Monongahela River flows through Monongalia County, West Virginia. While the river is actually the namesake of the county, the difference in spelling is due to a spelling error that was made in the registration process of the county.

New Hampshire is the only State name the has four consecutive consonants in it (in the same word).

Ontario is the only Canadian Province that borders the Great Lakes.

Alaska has the longest border with Canada of all the fifty states. Montana has the longest border with Canada of the lower forty-eight States.

The coastline of Alaska is longer than the entire coastline of the lower-forty-eight states of the United States. Source: “Isaac Asimov’s Book of Facts”

Montana borders the most Canadian Provinces of all the fifty states. It borders three of them.

Arkansas is the only US State that begins with “a” but does not end with “a”. All the other States that begin with “a”, Arizona, Alabama and Alaska, also end with “a”.

Maine is the only state that borders only one other US State.

Martha’s Vineyard once had its own dialect of Sign Language. One deaf person arrived in 1692 and after that there was a relatively large genetically deaf population that had their own particular dialect of sign language. From 1692-1910 nearly all hearing people on the island were bilingual in sign language and English.

New Zealand is the only country that contains every type of climate in the world.

The smallest port in Canada is Port Williams, Nova Scotia.

The Canadian province of Newfoundland has its own time zone, which is half an hour behind Atlantic standard time.

Westmount, Quebec, was the first city in Canada to be granted a coat of arms.

Fitchburg, Massachusetts is the second hilliest city in the US.

Pierre, South Dakota is the only example of a state and capital in the U.S. that don’t share any letters.

The Bronx, New York got its name from explorer Henry Bronk.

Until 1965, driving was done on the left-hand side on roads in Sweden. The conversion to right-hand was done on a week day at 5 pm. All traffic stopped as people switched sides. This time and day were chosen to prevent accidents where drivers would have gotten up in the morning and been too sleepy to realize *this* was the day of the changeover. In left hand drive countries, such as the UK, Ireland, Japan, and Australia, drivers sit on the righthand side of the car. Except for Sweden, where drivers sat on the left, as in North-America.

Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the Netherlands, followed by Belgium.

The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with, e.g. Asia, Europe.

If you come from Birmingham, you are a Brummie. The Dutch town of Leeuwarden can be spelled 225 different ways.

There was once a town named “6” in West Virginia.

Nauru is the only country in the world with no official capital. Its government offices are all in Yaren District, but there’s no official capital.

There is only one Transylvania in the United States: Transylvania County, North Carolina and the county seat is Brevard.

Singpore is the only country with one train station.

The airport in La Paz, Bolivia is the world’s highest airport.

Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro.

The longest U.S. highway is route 6 starting in Cape Cod, Massachusetts going through 14 states, and ending in Bishop, California…

The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. Source: “Random Trivia” fact contributed by Jim Cobb

The United States is the fourth largest country based on population and geographic area.

The state with the longest coastline in the US is Michigan.

The most eastern part of the western world is located in Ilomantsi, Finland.

The largest city in the United States with a one syllable name is Flint, Michigan.

Only two states’ names begin with double consonants: Florida and Rhode Island.

A person from Glasgow, is called a Glaswegian.

The Fort George Point in Belize City was formed by the silt run off of Hurricane Hattie.

The slogan on New Hampshire license plates is “Live Free or Die”. These license plates are manufactured by prisoners in the state prison in Concord.

South of Tucson, Arizona, all road signs are in the Metric System.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

In the Dutch province of Twente people live on average half a year shorter than in the rest of the Netherlands.

If you were standing in the northern most point in the contiguous (48) states, you’d be standing in Minnesota.

There are almost twice as many people in Rhode Island than there are in Alaska.

Maine is the only state that borders on only one state.

Little known Cathedral Caverns near Grant Alabama has the world’s largest cave opening, the largest stalagmite (Goliath), and the largest stalagmite forest in the World.

Zaire is the world leader in cobalt mining, producing two-thirds of the world’s cobalt supply.

Canada is an Indian word meaning “BigVillage”.

Michigan was the first state to plow it’s roads and the first to adopt a yellow dividing line.

Woodward Ave in Detroit, Michigan carries the designation M-1, named so because it was the first paved road anywhere.

Alaska was the only part of the United States that was invaded by the Japanese during WWII. The territory was the island of Adakin the Aleutian Chain.

The southern most city in the United States is Na’alehu, Hawaii.

Mt. Vernon Washington grows more tulips than the entire country of Holland.

The roads on the island of Guam are made with coral. Guam has no sand. The sand on the beaches is actually ground coral. When concrete is mixed, the coral sand is used instead of importing regular sand from thousands of miles away.

Many northern parishes (counties) of Louisiana did not agree with the Confederate movement. To show their disapproval, they changed their names. That’s why there is a Union Parish, Jefferson Parish, Assumption Parish, etc.

At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.

Montpelier, Vermont is the only U.S. state capital without a McDonalds.

There were no squirrels on Nantucket until 1989.

Soweto in South Africa ws derived from SOuth WEst TOwnship.

The first Eagle Scout west of the Mississippi is buried in San Marcos, Texas.

The parking meter was invented in North Dakota.

Iowa has more independent telephone companies than any other state.

The geographical center of North America is near Rugby, North Dakota.

Brain Facts and Trivias

From http://www.biotele.com

* The brain is the most complex system known to date.

* A few spoonfuls of yogurt contain 1011 lactobacillus bacteria: ten times the number of cortical neurons in a human brain
* Average number of glial cells in brain = 10-50 times the number of neurons
* There are roughly 1013 synapses in cortex. Assume each stores one bit of information: that’s 1.25 terabytes.
* To put this in perspective, this 2.0 terabyte hard drive is readily available and costs less than $900.
* Also, the Library of Congress (80 million volumes, average 300 typed pages each) contains about 48 terabytes of data.
* Volume of the human brain: about 1.4 liters.
* Number of neurons in a human brain: 1012. Number of neurons in a rat brain: 1010.
* Number of neurons in human spinal cord: 109
* Average loss of neocortical neurons = 1 per second; 85,000 per day; ~31 million (31×106) per year
* No neuron fires faster than 1 kHz
* The total energy consumption of the brain is about 25 watts
* “For all our neurocomputational sophistication and processing power, we can barely attend to more than one object at a time, and we can hardly perform two tasks at once”

9 Brain Habits You Didn’t Realize You Had…(from Mindcafe.org)

Brain is certainly the most amazing part of human body. It becomes more interesting when it does not work the way you expect it should. Psychology frequently establishes our intuitions about how human mind works, but it reveals a number of surprises as well…
Although some psychology students will have heard one or two of these before, here’s a list of brain habits you probably didn’t realize you had:
1. The maximum capacity of your short-term memory is seven.

short-term memory is seven

Humans have basically three forms of memory: Sensory, Long-term and Short-term. Long-term memory is just like hard-drive space. Similarly, Short-term memory functions like a very small RAM. This Short-term memory is capable to hold only about five to nine (seven is an average) items at a time.

Retrieving information longer than this will need you to either pack it together into seven units or store it in Long-term memory. Have you observed that most phone numbers have only seven digits?

2. The most visible color is Chartreuse.

Yellowish green, chartreuse is naturally placed right in the middle of the frequencies of visible light. Human eyes have receptors for green, blue and red. Being placed in the middle, chartreuse actuates the most of these receptors to fire, making it distinct and easier to spot. For the same reason, in some metropolises, firetrucks have been modified from red to a yellowish green color to make them more visible and obvious to the eye.

3. Subconscious is smarter than you.

Subconscious is smarter than you. In other words, it is more powerful. In a recent study, a square was attributed to a location on a computer screen through a complex pattern. After watching it out, people began to get results better than chance of recognizing where the square would crop up next. However, when they were inquired to consciously find out the pattern, even given a few hours, nobody really did it!

4. There are two nervous systems.

We have two sets of nervous systems. One controls excitation, while the other controls inhibition. If you hold out your hand, you might observe minor tremors. This is actually stimulated by slight, random differences in the amount each of the two systems are firing.
5. Brain is exceptionally bad at probability.

Brain is exceptionally bad at probability

Your high-school math teacher might have told you about this fact. Here what’s interesting isn’t that your brain is bad at probability. But how? In one study, recipients were asked:

Nearly 90% of students responded that #7 was more probable than #5. This is despite the fact that to be a bank teller and in the feminist movement is entirely contained within the set of #5 (just being a bank teller). It is observable that our minds like to think more details make events more probable, not less.
6. Memory isn’t great either.

Memory isn’t great either

Research has revealed that people are highly probable to misremember past events. Even worse, it is quite easy to suggest a memory that never happened. Due to this fact, so-called “repressed” memories should be given a lot of consideration. It is extremely easier to suggest a memory of a situation that never encountered, then it is to recover one that actually did.

7. Depth is perceivable with one eye.

It’s not quite true that depth perception is totally the result of having two eyes. Binocular vision does help in making a three-dimensional image. Still, most of your capability to perceive depth comes from inside your brain. It has been wired to look at angles and proportions to measure distance.

If you needed two eyes to perceive depth, then most optical illusions wouldn’t work and it would be extremely difficult to gather information from two-dimensional images. Not to mention a great number of one-eyed pirates walking overboard.

8 . Long-term memory closes up during sleep.

The components of the brain that carry information to Long-term memory turn off while sleeping. For the same reason, dreams quickly fade out after you wake up. Although you may have quite a few dreams in a night, they aren’t being memorialized into Long-term memory. Normally only the fragments of a dream left in Short-term memory have a possibility to be converted after you wake up.

9. The Brain has an amazing instant playback feature.

The last form of memory, i.e. Sensory memory is actually your brain’s equivalent to an instant playback feature. Functioning for both your vision and hearing, your thalamus can resend signals a few seconds after they were originally sent.

Let’s suppose being at a party and overhearing someone call your name. Often you can recall what they said even if you were concentrating on another conversation. This is because your sensory memory re-sends the signals when it feels something important, such as your name. If you missed this form of memory, activities such as multitasking or taking notes from a speaker would not be practicable for you.

If you’re supposed to repeat something you just said because the other person wasn’t hearing, just wait for a few seconds. Often they can replay the message in their head and cause to a reaction.

Teach me Reflexology

I really want to learn reflexology, I dont know why but I think it may help me relax more. I wonder who can teach me?

Ang batang si Norian (Kakaaliw…Sakalin!)

Si Norian Laferla ay isang 3 taong gulang na bata,cute,may lahing italiano, anak ng aking pinsan from my mothers side ang tatay nya ay isang italianong gwapo. Nakakaaliw ang batang ito sa maraming dahilan. Pero higit sa lahat napaka kulit. Grabe! As in to the next level.

Dati rati maliit pa lang si Norian takot sya sa akin. Kapag nakikita ako lumalayo, hindi ako kinakausap at nagtatago pag lumalapit ako.

Pero dati yun iba ngayon, ang sarap nyang dos pordosin, mwahahahahaha!

Mga pangyayari:

Bagong paligo si Norian:

Norian: (Habang inaamoy ang sarili) Ang bango ko, si Genawd ang BAHOOO!
Gen: (Loko to ah!)

Kumakain si Norian:

Ate Donna: Kumain ka para lumaki ka katulad nina Genard
Norian: Sige kain ako
Gen: (utu-uto!)
Pagkatapos kumain
Norian:(Biglang tatayo) Ang laki ko na!
Gen:(yah…42 inches)

Nasa loob ng banyo:

Norian: (kakatok) Patingin iyo titi!
Gen: (Silahis!)
Norian: (kunwaring iiyak) Ate Maris! Ayaw ipakita ni Genawd titi nyaaaaa!
Gen: (Aba nagtawag pa!)

Habang naglalaro sa umaga:

Gen: Hala Norian ayan na ang tyanak!
Norian: (paiyak na) wag mo akong takutin! waaaaahhh! Ateeee Mareeeessss!!!
Gen: (Bwahahahahaha!)

Pagkakita ko sa aking Italian Dictionary:

(Sinulatan ni Norian)
Gen: (NOOOOOOOOO!)
Nakita ni Norian ang kopya ko ng “Diary ni Ella” book.
Norian: (May maitim na balak)
Gen: (Subukan mong sulatan yan at pipilipitin ko yang ulo mo ng 360 degrees!)

Naglalaro ako ng PSP:

Gen: (Yessss! Lebel aaap!)
Norian: (Lalapit at magpapapansin)
Gen: (Hindi namamansin)
Norian: Yaah! (Sabay hampas sa kamay ko)
Gen: Potek! (@#%^%&!)

Nakahiga ako sa sofa:

Norian: Pweh! (Sabay dura)
Gen: (@$#%#^!)

Habang naglalakad:

Norian: Ang pangeeet ni Genawd ako gwapo!
Gen: (Chura neto!)

Bagong paligo ang kapatid kong si Aga:

Norian: Patingin titi!

Nakita ni Norian na naka brief kami:

Norian: Meron din ako nyaaan! (Sabay ibababa shorts)

Naglalakad si Norian ulit:

Norian: (Nakalabas ang titi)
Gen: Mwahahahahaha!

Pagkagising ko sa pagkakaidlip:

Norian: Ang kati ng pwet ko ate Mareeees!
Ate Mariz: Kamutin mo.
Kakamutin nya ng nakatuwad.
Norian: (Inamoy ang daliri at umiyak) Ang bahooooo!
Gen: (Nakasilip) Bwahahahahahahaha!

Sa totoo lang mukhang ako ang kontra bida dito noh, pero ayos lang madaming happy moments (Kahit yung iba karumaldumal) ako ngayong bakasyon dahil sa batang to. Mwahahahahaha!