Thursday, May 31, 2007
Monday, May 28, 2007
Scientists have long believed that mature brains can't grow or change other than losing cells with age. Now new research has reversed that dogma. Scientists found that London cab drivers' brains change as they memorize the city's layout. Growth occurs in the hippocampus of the cabbies, the area of the brain associated with memory and navigation.
Alan asks van Praag about exercise and the brain
In "Grow Your Own Brain," Fred Gage of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, uses an bright green dye to confirm the existence of newborn cells in adult humans' brains. And Henriette van Praag has discovered that running twelve hours a night not only makes mice grow new brain cells, but makes the mice smarter too. No one knows for sure what that means for humans, but Alan Alda for one is anxious to find out if a little less running has the same effect.
more links here
SNF magazine
CBS news
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Sunday, May 20, 2007
Ushtari i rruges
I was watching a special on Sundance Channel about Dave Chappelle and his Grandmother Maya Angelou, this story picked up..
Maya Angelou tells a story about the first time she met Tupac Shakur. It was on the set of the movie Poetic Justice by acclaimed director John Singleton. She left her trailer one day and encountered two young black men having a heated conversation. One of them was particularly worked up. He was cursing rampantly and had a grip on the other guy's shirt.
Dr. Angelou stepped in between the young men. She looked at the one who was the most worked up and asked him, "Do you know how important you are?" He began to turn his anger on her. Many other women would have been too scared to approach these young men or too intimidated to speak to them. However, Dr. Angelou brushed off his gruff demeanor and angry persona and asked again and again, "Do you know how important you are?"
When he got quiet enough to listen she asked him, "Do you realize how many of your ancestors lay in the holds of slave ships in their and others blood, excrement, urine and vomit for you? Do you know how many mothers stood on an auction block and endured the indignity of being examined and sold like livestock so that you could exist? Do you know how important it was to your ancestors that they survive so that you could live?"
The young man began to cry. Janet Jackson came upon them and told Dr. Angelou she was also talking to Tupac Shakur.
Shortly after the encounter, Afeni Shakur, Tupac's mother, called Dr. Angelou and thanked her for what she had said. Afeni Shakur told her that what she said had such a profound impact on him it probably saved his life.
I think about that story when I think about young people today. So many of them are willing to throw their lives away for such minor things. They are willing to fight and die for the most minute offenses but won't think of how their life and how they live it impact our present and the future.
Most of us will not have a far reaching impact on the world like a Tupac Shakur but that does not diminish our importance. It doesn't change the fact that each of us can make much needed contributions.
When Dr. Angelou stepped in between those young brothers, not knowing who either of them was, she didn't ask those questions of Tupac with the intention of inspiring him to change the world. She was asking him to look at himself and his actions in the context of what it took for him to even exist in this world. She was asking him to examine whether his present actions were worth the sacrifice others have made so that he could live.
Our youth need to know that they matter. Our youth need to know their being alive is no accident and that it can have a significant impact not just on their future but on all our futures. This is true, though, not just for young people but for all of us.
The choices we make, the way we interact with others, the contributions we give may seem insignificant in comparison to what our ancestors went through. They may seem to have little connection to what will happen generations down the road. The acts of one person can seem inconsequential in the scope of world issues.
We have to remember, though, that for every great iconic figure in this world and throughout history, there were dozens of nameless people who made choices and decisions that created ripples of change. Each of us must know our importance. We must remember that our lives count for something.
We must honor what has been endured for us and determine what we are willing to endure for the sake of the future.
Change happens through the acts of individuals. Each of us can do something to bring about positive change for the problems facing our world. One voice can stop genocide if it speaks loudly and often enough. One act can stop hunger if it is done with commitment. One moment can heal a person if it is given with compassion.
Each of us has a legacy to leave and ultimately only we can decide what that legacy will be and who will benefit or suffer from it.
Mariel Blake, a Daily News
contributing columnist, can be reached at:
marielblake@netscape.net
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Ali G - on the topic of sex Rated R
PEaCE AOUT !!!!(what up what up.. is he muslim or jewish...where did Ali come from?)
Do not mess with God, a letter.
Monday, May 14, 2007
Compliments to the Albanian race
Sunday, May 13, 2007
The truth needs to be told..
Saturday, May 12, 2007
I forgot...This is a good movie..
intrevista.. inspiruar nga candyland
E paarritshme
ndonjehere..
2a) Çfarë ju bën të çoheni në mëngjes?
Dielli
3a)Hera e fundit që u shkritë në të qeshur?
, Portokallia e Sales me Tosin si fatosa shkolle
4a) Vetia kryesore e karakterit tënd, cila është?
Sinqeriteti, dembelizmi
5a) Mangësia juaj kresore?
Dembemelizmi dhe ndoshta kokebutesia
6a)Në cilat gabime tregoheni më tolerant?
Amerika na ka mesuar te tolerojm ne infinit.. dicka e till
7a)Me cilën figurë historike, je i apasionuar?
winston churchill. abraham linconl
8a)Cilët janë sot, heronjtë tuaj?
Mami im dhe activistet e te drejtave te njeriut
9a)Udhëtimi juaj më i dashur?
Do jete vajta ne Pesacola Beach again i hope..
10a) Shkrimtarët tuaj më të dashur ?
Dostojevski, Esenini, autoret ruse ne pergjithesi, dhe shume te tjere.
''''skip this question....Khalil Gibran - The Prophet
11a) Cilin virtyt, vlerësoni tek një burrë?
aftesine per te qene njekohesisht burreror dhe i ndjeshem
...kto do i mbushim me vone se tashi esht nje ndeshje sporti..!!:D
12a)...dhe tek një grua?
zgjuarsine dhe te qenit femer
13a) Kompozitori juaj i prefeuar?
hmm..Vivaldi ndoshta..po ja fus kot
14a)Këngën që fishkëllen kur je në dush?
fishkellimat e mia lene shume per te deshiruar :D
15a)Libri me mbresëlënës?
Jam duke lexuar "Angela's Ashes" nje histori e vertete plot me dhimbje, qe po me le shume mbresa.
16a)Filmi më mbresëlënës?
"Jeta eshte e bukur" nga Benigni
17a)Piktori juaj i dashur?
Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Mark Rothko..
19a) Ngjyra juaj e preferuar?
E zeze, e kuqe dhe bojeqielli
19a)-Cilin quani, suksesin më të madh tuajin?
Diplomimin e masterit se shpejti
20a)Pija juaj e preferuar?
leng pjeshke :D dhe vere e bardhe
22a)Për çfarë jeni penduar më shumë?
per humbje kohe
22a)Çfarë urreni më shumë nga çdo gjë?
paaftesine per te bere zgjedhje te sakta
24a)Kur nuk shkruani, cili është hobi juaj i dashur?
driving around in my car, leximi, fotografia, udhetimi
25a)Frika juaj më e madhe?
gjarperinjte..i urrej..
26a)Në cilin rast, zgjidhni të thoni gënjeshtra?
shume rralle..kur e verteta do prishte shume pune
26a)Cila është moto-ja juaj?
kurre mos thuaj kurre!
27a)Si do preferonit të vdisnit?
duke qeshur..
28a)Nëse ju ndodhte të takonit zotin, çfarë do të donit t’ju thoshte?
well done my daughter
29a)Në ç’gjendje shpirtërore ndodheni kësi kohe?
rremuje...dimplomimi, pune e re, njohje te reja,
e lumtur ndoshta, dhe pak e shqetesuar ne te njejten kohe.
Friday, May 11, 2007
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
Now you know whodunnit ;)
What the hell is going on... Islam missrepresented!!!
Tuesday, May 08, 2007
o0
I'll be fine
But she's waiting
The ring you gave to her will lose its shine
So don't bother, be unkind
For you, I'd give up all I own
And move to a communist country
If you came with me, of course
And I'd file my nails so they don't hurt you
And lose NO pounds, and learn about football ( it'd be
good if They learned about footbOll, and We learned about footbAll ;)
Shakira is like mexican food, spicy and delicious!...
Monday, May 07, 2007
more subliminal messages to come
Andain - beautiful things
Got up early, found somethings missing
My only name
No one else sees, but I got stuck,
Since forever came
Stop pushing moon for just a second
Then nothings changed
Who am I, this time where's my name?
I guess it crept awayNo one's calling for me at the door.
and unpredictable won't bother anymore.
Silently, it 's harder to ignore,
But straight ahead
There's nothing left to see
What's done is done
This life has got its hold on me
Just let it go, one man can never be
I forgot that I might see
So many beautiful things
I forgot that I might need
to find out What life could bring
Beautiful things
Take this happy ending away(!?), its
All the same
God won't waste this simplicity on possibility. Get me up, wake me up, dreams a feeling
This trace of blame
Frozen still I thought I could stop,
now who's gonna wait.
No one's calling for me at the door.
and unpredictable won't bother anymore.
and silently gets harder to ignore.
but straight ahead, there's nothing left to see.
what's done is done, this life has got it's hold on me.
just let it go, what now can never be.
So many, beautiful things
So many, beautiful things
Now, I do, I do,
Cannot change my mind,
Did I think things through?It was once my life - it was my life at one time
agent07 (remix)
Saturday, May 05, 2007
pvd - togetherwewillconquer
Friday, May 04, 2007
Tuesday, May 01, 2007
IraK.... now and then
Sorry we don't have any translators!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!GO ALBANIA!!!!!!!!!
RihaNNa - umbrella
Why hate america
... Also not to miss is this performance. Funny how ppl can make money out
of breakin up.. or faking it who knows who cares, my point is this is how i really feel about my "irrepleaceable"
..she goes in a school in Providence, ironically providence was not really meant.. so far! www.dictionary.com - Providence - (E.K.;)or YOU can follow the links
linkone Blue Angel, Pensacola Beach 2003)
and this performance as well...
Sunday, April 29, 2007
Modern Talkin - Self Control babyy
....
on a more SERIOUS note we follow with our FEATURE PRESENTATION..
What What.. G's up Ho's down.. rraprasentin fool..
also here's a link for a beatiful video of Nadia Ali, Who is Watchin live with Armin Van Buuren.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODmSLw0tNJY
Saturday, April 28, 2007
Andain - you once told me
Friday, April 27, 2007
Expansion pains
http://dritan-xhelo.blogspot.com/2007/04/wi-fi-children-at-risk-from-electronic.html
MERJEME is MY GRANDMOTHER BY THE WAY
Monday, April 23, 2007
What an inampropriate song for the starting of spring, insane graphix apo jo?
Pink Floyd - Goodbye blue sky
Sunday, April 22, 2007
Not making fun of Britney on this video at all. Actually shame on ppl gangin up on a subject that they know crap about. Nobody's puttin their nose in these journalists lives every freakin minute. She may not be All that, but she's not all that bad either.. i actually like a couple of her songs. I dedicate this song to one of my best friends in Albania who said it makes him cry everytime it cought him.He's an ex-alcoholic :D K.D. what's up niggaaa..
So-here's how Britney feels about it
Here's how I feel about my ex - good job to the mexican guys
Why even attempt writing original blog entries..
I'd rather watch this than read a blog entry by you wouldn't you.. i mean, :D
Thank YOU Tube
Tiesto
i'm sEEing starz..
then.. piece by piece,
You came in from the darkness and held the door open wide
You stood there like a vision before my unbelieving eyes
I believe in what I see and also what I hear
But did the night play tricks on me or were you really there.
Am I being hypnotised
Feeling like I'm hypnotised Am I being hypnotised
Feeling like I'm hypnotised
Fear has gripped my heart and I am.......... whispering out your name
Can you hear the silence screaming, do they sound the same
....
....but i can't see him there's so much smoke in his room
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Me & You Forever (2005 - English Movie)
Some poetry
30. At the Crossroads
You to the left and I to the right,
For the ways of men must sever—
And it well may be for a day and a night,
And it well may be forever.
But whether we meet or whether we part 5
(For our ways are past our knowing),
A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart
On the ways we all are going!
Here's luck!
For we know not where we are going. 10
Whether we win or whether we lose
With the hands that life is dealing,
It is not we nor the ways we choose
But the fall of the cards that's sealing.
There's a fate in love and a fate in fight, 15
And the best of us all go under—
And whether we're wrong or whether we're right,
We win, sometimes, to our wonder.
Here's luck!
That we may not yet go under! 20
With a steady swing and an open brow
We have tramped the ways together,
But we're clasping hands at the crossroads now
In the Fiend's own night for weather;
And whether we bleed or whether we smile 25
In the leagues that lie before us
The ways of life are many a mile
And the dark of Fate is o'er us.
Here's luck!
And a cheer for the dark before us! 30
You to the left and I to the right,
For the ways of men must sever,
And it well may be for a day and a night
And it well may be forever!
But whether we live or whether we die 35
(For the end is past our knowing),
Here's two frank hearts and the open sky,
Be a fair or an ill wind blowing!
Here's luck?
In the teeth of all winds blowing. 40
..Under construction!
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- Goodbye kids!!!
- Scientists have long believed that mature brains c...
- picture of me here.. messing with the picassa pro...
- good job kid
- Respect your elders.. you freakin idiot
- Ushtari i rruges
- Ali G - on the topic of sex Rated R
- Do not mess with God, a letter.
- Compliments to the Albanian race
- No title
- The truth needs to be told..
- I forgot...This is a good movie..
- intrevista.. inspiruar nga candyland
- well.. hmmm... what can you say...
- Strangers in Albania
- Desert Rose.. ??
- TIRONA... in the remix
- Now you know whodunnit ;)
- What the hell is going on... Islam missrepresented!!!
- Mother's day coming up?
- o0
- more subliminal messages to come
- Ozomatli... in kathmandu, Nepal
- pvd - togetherwewillconquer
- Funny dude
- How wars start??! :)
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