今天跟爸媽聊天，因為以前住的公寓要整修出租所以就聊到如何整修及裝潢等等，我就提出有關以前在台北租房子的經驗，不知不覺就聊到以前發生的靈異事情。
事情是發生在我大三的時候，那時我跟我堂哥，一位伯伯及他的姪子共同租在板橋的一間公寓一樓，我那時候住在最裡面的房間，房間窗戶外面就是防火巷和鄰居的牆壁，因為間隔不是很大，所以睡覺時都會開門讓空氣流通。
這天我一如往昔的上床睡覺，一樣沒關門。一直到半夜接近清晨的時候，我家的大門打開了，有一個人開燈走了進來。因為我睡覺一定關燈，所以當我被開門的聲音吵醒時我也看到客廳的燈，就覺得很刺眼。我那時睡得很熟，所以被吵醒時還矇矇糊糊只覺得希望有人幫我關燈，突然間我看到我女朋友探頭進來對我笑並叩一聲把門關上。因為門關了沒了燈光也知道誰來了，我就又在沉睡到早上七八點起床。
不過起床後覺得很奇怪，為什麼我女朋友不在了。我到客廳時剛好遇到伯伯的姪子我就問他有沒有看到她，他說沒有阿，我就說她好像是清晨來的。他就回答說不可能吧，因為他也是清晨回來的，我就問說那你回來時我門關了嗎，他說他也很納悶這件事，因為當他開完大門開燈後要去廚房快經過我房間時，我的門就突然自己關上了，我那時心裡就很毛~~因為我很確定看到一個長得很像我女朋友的女孩對著我微笑並幫我關上了門，我也很清楚的聽到關門聲而且就算是我眼花，以我房間的格局也不可能有那麼大的風可以由房間內吹出去且大到把門關上。
雖然毛毛的但也沒很在意，因為小時候半夜也常看到這些東西，隨著年紀大了就沒再看過了。雖然對這會害怕但因為也沒被害過，所以也都一直以平常心看待~~
無意中聊到這陳年往事，跟大家分享，改天在跟大家分享鬼壓床的經驗。ㄟ~~搞得好像BBS中靈異事件版喔~~ㄏㄏ
2008年4月16日 星期三
Concordancers
相信大家在寫英文作文時有時會發生不確定單字怎麼用才對的狀況，遇到這種情況時，online concordancers 將是你一個不錯的選擇，所謂的online concordancers是一種可以搜尋檢索單字及包含此單字的句子或文章，如此一來你就可以知道大家是如何使用這些字彙。以下是網路上相關的網站，大家可以進去試試看，真的不錯用喔~~
http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html
http://163.26.228.17/goodgo/login.aspx
http://llrc.eng.ntnu.edu.tw/English/search/Default.htm
http://www.edict.com.hk/
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/
http://ysomeya.hp.infoseek.co.jp/index.html
http://www.lextutor.ca/concordancers/concord_e.html
http://163.26.228.17/goodgo/login.aspx
http://llrc.eng.ntnu.edu.tw/English/search/Default.htm
http://www.edict.com.hk/
http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/
http://ysomeya.hp.infoseek.co.jp/index.html
2008年4月13日 星期日
Why Beautiful Women Marry Less Attractive Men
When I surf my homework in the internet, I find this article in yahoo news. I share this news with everybody especially men with less attractive.
Women seeking a lifelong mate might do well to choose the guy a notch below them in the looks category. New research reveals couples in which the wife is better looking than her husband are more positive and supportive than other match-ups.
The reason, researchers suspect, is that men place great value on beauty, whereas women are more interested in having a supportive husband.
Researchers admit that looks are subjective, but studies show there are some universal standards, including large eyes, "baby face" features, symmetric faces, so-called average faces, and specific waist-hip ratios in men versus women.
Past research has shown that individuals with comparable stunning looks are attracted to each other and once they hook up they report greater relationship satisfaction. These studies, however, are mainly based on new couples, showing that absolute beauty is important in the earliest stages of couple-hood, said lead researcher James McNulty of the University of Tennessee. But the role of physical attractiveness in well-established partnerships, such as marriage, is somewhat of a mystery.
The new study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, reveals looks continue to matter beyond that initial attraction, though in a different way.
Supportive spouses
McNulty's team assessed 82 couples who had married within the previous six months and had been together for nearly three years prior to tying the knot. Participants were on average in their early to mid-20s.
Researchers videotaped as each spouse discussed with their partner a personal problem for 10 minutes. The tapes were analyzed for whether partners were supportive of spouses' issues, which included goals to eat healthier, to land a new job and to exercise more often.
"A negative husband would've said, 'This is your problem, you deal with it,'" McNulty said, "versus 'Hey, I'm here for you; what do you want me to do?; how can I help you?'"
A group of trained "coders" rated the facial attractiveness of each spouse on a scale from 1 to 10, with the perfect 10 representing the ultimate babe. About a third of the couples had a more attractive wife, a third a more attractive husband and the remaining partners showed matching looks.
Trophy wives
Overall, wives and husbands behaved more positively when the woman was better looking.
The finding "seems very reasonable," said Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and Sloan School of Management. "Men are very sensitive to women's attractiveness. Women seem to be sensitive to men's height and salary," said Ariely, who was not involved in the recent study.
In couples with more attractive husbands, both partners were less supportive of one another. McNulty suggests wives mirror, in some ways, the level of support they get from husbands.
"The husband who's less physically attractive than his wife is getting something more than maybe he can expect to get," McNulty told LiveScience. "He's getting something better than he's providing at that level. So he's going to work hard to maintain that relationship."
Men who are more attractive than their partners would theoretically have access to partners who are more attractive than their current spouses, McNulty said. The "grass could be greener" mentality could make these men less satisfied and less committed to maintain the marriage.
Physical attractiveness of husbands is not as important to women, the researchers suggest. Rather, wives are looking for supportive husbands, they say.
So it seems the mismatch in looks is actually a perfect match. "Equitable is unlikely to mean the same on every dimension," Ariely said during a telephone interview. "It just means that overall two people make sense together."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080410/sc_livescience/whybeautifulwomenmarrylessattractivemen
Women seeking a lifelong mate might do well to choose the guy a notch below them in the looks category. New research reveals couples in which the wife is better looking than her husband are more positive and supportive than other match-ups.
The reason, researchers suspect, is that men place great value on beauty, whereas women are more interested in having a supportive husband.
Researchers admit that looks are subjective, but studies show there are some universal standards, including large eyes, "baby face" features, symmetric faces, so-called average faces, and specific waist-hip ratios in men versus women.
Past research has shown that individuals with comparable stunning looks are attracted to each other and once they hook up they report greater relationship satisfaction. These studies, however, are mainly based on new couples, showing that absolute beauty is important in the earliest stages of couple-hood, said lead researcher James McNulty of the University of Tennessee. But the role of physical attractiveness in well-established partnerships, such as marriage, is somewhat of a mystery.
The new study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, reveals looks continue to matter beyond that initial attraction, though in a different way.
Supportive spouses
McNulty's team assessed 82 couples who had married within the previous six months and had been together for nearly three years prior to tying the knot. Participants were on average in their early to mid-20s.
Researchers videotaped as each spouse discussed with their partner a personal problem for 10 minutes. The tapes were analyzed for whether partners were supportive of spouses' issues, which included goals to eat healthier, to land a new job and to exercise more often.
"A negative husband would've said, 'This is your problem, you deal with it,'" McNulty said, "versus 'Hey, I'm here for you; what do you want me to do?; how can I help you?'"
A group of trained "coders" rated the facial attractiveness of each spouse on a scale from 1 to 10, with the perfect 10 representing the ultimate babe. About a third of the couples had a more attractive wife, a third a more attractive husband and the remaining partners showed matching looks.
Trophy wives
Overall, wives and husbands behaved more positively when the woman was better looking.
The finding "seems very reasonable," said Dan Ariely, a professor of behavioral economics at MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences and Sloan School of Management. "Men are very sensitive to women's attractiveness. Women seem to be sensitive to men's height and salary," said Ariely, who was not involved in the recent study.
In couples with more attractive husbands, both partners were less supportive of one another. McNulty suggests wives mirror, in some ways, the level of support they get from husbands.
"The husband who's less physically attractive than his wife is getting something more than maybe he can expect to get," McNulty told LiveScience. "He's getting something better than he's providing at that level. So he's going to work hard to maintain that relationship."
Men who are more attractive than their partners would theoretically have access to partners who are more attractive than their current spouses, McNulty said. The "grass could be greener" mentality could make these men less satisfied and less committed to maintain the marriage.
Physical attractiveness of husbands is not as important to women, the researchers suggest. Rather, wives are looking for supportive husbands, they say.
So it seems the mismatch in looks is actually a perfect match. "Equitable is unlikely to mean the same on every dimension," Ariely said during a telephone interview. "It just means that overall two people make sense together."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080410/sc_livescience/whybeautifulwomenmarrylessattractivemen
The cause of "fat"
source:METRO, http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=141278&in_page_id=34
This painting 'Benefits Supervisor Sleeping' is painted by Lucian Freud, entitled , is displayed Christie's auctioneers in London, April 11, 2008
According to METRO news says that the JobCentre manager who was the muse for one of Lucian Freud's paintings could see her naked portrait sell for £18million.
Sue Tilley posed for the artwork "Benefits Supervisor Sleeping" which is to be auctioned at Christie's in New York on May 13.
Christie's expects it become the most expensive work sold at auction by a living artist and estimates the painting will make between $25 and $35 million. The current auction record for a living artist was £12million paid for Jeff Koons's "Hanging Heart (Magenta/Gold)" in New York in November.
The cause of "fat"
After reading Angel’s essay named "Cause and effect of going on a diet" and seeing above painting, I decide to control my figure. The first thing I do is to find the cause of fat. And I find an interesting paper named “A Common Variant in the FTO Gene Is Associated with Body Mass Index and Predisposes to Childhood and Adult Obesity”tells us a big finding. Maybe I can explore some clues to control my weight.
British researchers found a clear evidence of a 'fat' gene that causes some people gain weight and others do not. The gene, called FTO, is common in Europeans, and scientists hope to use this new finding to solve this growing global health problem.
In this paper, we can find if you have two copies, it means that you have a 70 percent risk to be a fat person than those people with none. Moreover, you will have an average of nearly 3kg fat than others with no copies. And those with one copy have a lesser risk than with two copies. But they still have higher risk than those with none.
This paper explains why some people will find it harder to change their weight than others because of their genes. Therefore two people eat same foods and do same exercises, and there is still a person fatter than the other.
The researchers said they do not know what the gene actually does to cause people to be obesity. But they still hope this knowledge of the gene's role can lead to new ways of treating and preventing obesity.
Although researchers only survey Europeans like England, Finland, Italy and northern Europe. They still believe other ethnic groups will have this gene. In the future, they will continue to research these ethnic groups.
I think I can send a mail to tell this research group that I can be a volunteer to understand if I have this gene or not. If I actually have this terrible gene, I think I will eat less and do exercises more. If I do not have it, I will go on a diet later because I have capacity to reduce weight quickly.
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