The X Factor: Kyle enters The X Factor to follow his passion of singing and love of Girls Aloud. Will his idol Cheryl put him through to the next round?

El Peor Cantante del Mundo

La Mas Agresiva Del Factor X

This is probably the angriest contestant we’ve ever had on The X Factor. Rachel thinks she’s got what it takes to win – but her reaction turns nasty when the judges don’t agree.

The X Factor 2009: 40-year-old Daryl from East Sussex is a cabinet maker by day, but is following his passion in his brother’s memory. Will he make it through?

Eighteen-year-old, Leon, shop assistant wants to sing, but his mum’s not too sure. Has he got what it takes?

John & Edward The X Factor: Twins John and Edward from Ireland bound onto the stage with incredible confidence – but have they got the voices?

X Factor – Crazy girl, she is angry. Enjoy!!

The X Factor 2009: Olly Murs is an ‘ordinary geezer’ but dreams of making it big. Does he have The X Factor?

These girls certainly make an entrance! They give Dermot quite a surprise too!  They call themselves Fallen Angels

Lloyd Daniels The X Factor 2009: 16-year-old Lloyd has only ever performed in school plays, and is nervous about his audition. Will the judges be impressed?

The X Factor 2009: With a member of the group who has failed The X Factor before, have Miss Fitz got that spark the judges are looking for?   MISSFITZ

18 year old shop worker Matthew thinks he can be the next Robbie Williams… but he starts with some impressions of previous winners…

If someone asked you, “how old are you?” How would you respond?

In my current world of yuppies, fancy coffee shops and gadgets, I have often met people who answered that question with a gaze that seemed to say, “Is that even a question?” It’s true. Once a girl I met just stared at me when I asked that question. Another guy guffawed with gusto when I asked his age.

I really couldn’t help but wonder why they tried to avoid such a question as simple as how many earth rotations around the sun you have experienced. Why do people hide their age?

I have not found the answer to the question. Instead I have found out that when you reach past 20, everyone else beyond that age is the same age as you. Seldom do I find the “kuya” and “ate” among my yuppie workmates or church mates unless they were really way older like past 30 or more. I don’t mean to say that respect among co-workers or co-Christians is gone, but that distinction of a 1 or 2 year age gap disappears and, most often than not, negligible.

You may often hear about stories in the workplace where most co-workers would call someone “kuya” or “ate” and yet learn that the person they are addressing was in fact younger than they are. Sometimes it’s the other way around. It tells us that people have only been assuming their co-workers age and that they absolutely had no idea of their co-workers age. It happens most of the time that people are sometimes hesitant to ask something as simple as another persons age for fear of getting a blank stare.

So what’s behind the age secrecy? Call me a noob, I really don’t know.

Yet most people don’t seem to notice that age is relative. According to one worker at Princeton University, “Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” The man who said that was the one who started the atomic bomb among other things. He goes by the name of Albert Einstein.

It’s true though. Not everything that can be counted counts. Like our age.

I talked with a nutritionist friend today. Of course, when talking to a nutritionist, you’re talk would be the real veggie-tales. Talks about how fruits and vegetables are good and the like were inserted every now and then. I don’t mind actually. But then he started talking about health age. Say what!?

Health age. I really didn’t get what he meant but somehow it’s like determining your body’s age based on your health and how old you could get at the rate you’re living. Now isn’t that’s something short of predicting the future! Google the term and you’d find countless of site trying to figure out your health age.

It’s really funny. Since we, speech pathologists, also deal with another kind of age – Speech and language age. It’s basically how old you’re speaking compared to your chronological age. It’s a fad among parents to compare those test results – at least I guess it’s a fad. I really don’t know. But what I’m sure of is that it’s important to find out a child’s language age in order to set a reference point when doing therapy. Such is my life now. But I’m getting off track.

If we deal with language age, occupational therapists and psychologists concern themselves with cognitive age. I think there’s also a gross motor and fine motor age among other professionals but that’s gonna make more people dizzy when reading this. Try moving on to the next professional and you get another classification of age based on something or another. Maybe a computer-literacy age or house construction strength age. The possibilities are endless.

In the end, your age doesn’t matter anymore. So why still cower and try to hide it from everyone? Age is after all relative. Most of the time you don’t think and act your age so what’s the use of hiding your age?

So how old are you?

The underground Cyberspace Dictatorship

The human biological phenomena of advertising is the most powerful and sustained system of propaganda in human history and its cumulative cultural effects, unless quickly checked, will be responsible for destroying the world as we know it.

It has taught us how to live, what to be afraid of, what to be proud of, how to be beautiful, how to be loved, how to be envied, how to be successful.. Is it any wonder that the American population tends increasingly to speak, think, feel in terms of this jabberwocky? That the stimuli of art, science, religion are progressively expelled to the periphery of American life to become marginal values, cultivated by marginal people on marginal time?”

Kids are among the most sophisticated observers of ads. They can sing the jingles and identify the logos, and they often have strong feelings about products. What they generally don’t understand, however, are the issues that underlie how advertising works. Mass media are used not only to sell goods but also ideas: how we should behave, what rules are important, who we should respect and what we should value.

Read the whole article @ Comfortnetworks.nl

http://gino.comfortnetworks.nl/index.php/2009/11/27/commercial-child-exploitation/

Here’s a thought, if Ampatuan was guilty then it was the most stupid thing he could ever do. The Ampatuans had been involved in politics for so many years which gives them enough strategies from experiences they had.  This event I think is irrational and immature. For Andal Ampatuan Jr to commit this massacre is stupid and careless on his part. Why would he commit a crime which would only put him into a disadvantage? If he had enough neurons in his brain or just simple logic, I think, he could have realize that he would be the primary suspect or be convicted for the crime? Simple right? If you want to win in the election, killing the enemies would not make the public favor you over your enemy. And I think Andal knows that. And also doing this would end his dream, bring shame to his family and lose everything he had.

If Ampatuan is not guilty, then government is just deviating the public to the real culprit of this massacre. I find this much more reasonable since it is possible for someone to commit crime  esp if you know you would be the least possible suspect of it. The culprit could have thought that this crime would put Ampatuan into blame and Magudadatu out of the picture.

On the other hand, even if the Mangudadatus have become victims, they cant be eliminated as suspects. We know for a fact that the death of a Mangudadatu would end the dream of the Ampatuans in winning this election which gives the Mangudadatus a sure win. They would have the public’s sympathy for this issue. But to consider this makes the Mangudadatus inhumane for killing their own and helpless media. But remember, whether we like it or not, greed and power can make anyone do evil things either to them, to love ones or to other people.

I think the culprit is someone who gets the best out this issue. The culprit is someone who is highly influential and powerful to pull this act together. Who would turn out to have an advantage in terms of popularity and power? Who could appear as hero in this event? Who is crazy enough to commit such crime? Who would benefit if the Mangudadatus win this election?

I hope the government is not just trying to please the public and the media for this issue by trying to appear that it had solve it. I hope justice is serve to those who truly are guilty of this crime. I think that the government is not seeing the bigger picture in this Maguindanao Massacre. I hope innocent people wont be victims to crimes they did not commit.

Hi I am back here.. after a few months of silence, i am now back to share a few things that has been transpired so far in my life. I am glad to tell that I had finish school. For 5 years and 5 months of struggle in keeping my academic ivory tower strong and intact in facing the turmoils of examinations from various subject areas, I have finally made it. At long last, I would be part of those people who would walk with pride and happiness after achieving their fields of study. Wahaha.. this is soo deep. Sorry I got carried away, wahaha.  Well, I am very much glad that I had done it with the help of friends and family. With God’s grace, I was able to make it through it all. However amidst the happiness, I also had worries. Well, I am a little bit paranoid because I am still thinking of unforeseen events in the future that might hinder my graduation. But my friends and people close to my heart had shared their views and somehow provide me calmness. They all assure me that my graduation is an inevitable  event on April. I really am hoping and believing what they said is true. You can’t really blame me if I feel this way. I am both excited and worried for the coming graduation this 2010. Hope everything would turned out fine.

"El Factor X"

El Factor X: 27 años de edad, profesor Danyl tiene una pasión por el canto y se roba el escenario por completo en una increible primera audicion!

The X Factor: 27-year-old teacher Danyl has a passion for singing and manages to completely own the stage in an incredible first audition!

Connie Talbot singing Ben and winning her Britains Got Talent semi final

Andrew Johnston

The X Factor: It’s difficult to surprise Simon Cowell, but Stacey Soloman manages to do just that… Does she have The X Factor?

Jamie Archer AKA Jamie Afro has never had his chance to break into music, despite it being a lifelong dream. Will he get that chance today?

Joseph McElderry The X Factor: Joe from South Shields immediately got a yes from Cheryl before he started singing! But will he be able to perform well enough to impress the other judges?

Susan Boyle – Memory from Cats – Made Amanda Cry – Piers said brilliant!

You voted him, out of thousands of entrants, your X Factor winner 2007! Watch Leon Jackson perform his brand new single When You Believe!

Lucie Jones,The X Factor 2009: Nervous Lucie takes to the stage, but her choice of song is questioned by Simon. Has she got The X Factor?

The X Factor: 24-year-old Duane returns to The X Factor after failure at last year’s Boot Camp. Has he got what it takes for this year’s competition?

Shaheen Jafargholi Britains Got Talent Wins Semi Final,UNBELIEVABLE 12 YEAR OLD BOY SINGS!!!

Nicky Evans, who recently lost her father, tries her luck at the auditions – and manages to amaze even Simon!

I’ll be honest i took this idea with me to the project meeting, i was just too cautious to talk about it as it didn’t really seem to fit in with everyone else’s ideas, but now i don’t think that’s such a bad thing.

The image pretty much speaks for itself, it’s an idea about a different kind of ’screen’ to one which we’re maybe used to. A ’screen’ that’s not necessarily a screen…

Placing sensors beneath the ’screen’ would react to what’s happening on top of it.

I’ve touched on natural surfaces and i think i’d like to further explore this now, creating some kind of interactive surface which involves nature, perhaps and we think of it, or perhaps more man-made.

na tumalon/Sa bintana/ng bahay ko/At sa pagtalon ko/Bali-bali buto… (sing to the tune of I Have a Dream from Mamma Mia!) ~”Remixed” lyrics by my friend the Elephant. ;P

No, that’s not what I’m going to talk about. xD

I felt quite abused this morning. I was waiting for Akiko-senpai to arrive because I had something to show her, so I dumped my things on the benches(? They’re not really benches) in front of the fourth-year’s building, along with all my other friends’ things. After a while I got a message from her, telling me to come to the library foyer (the entrance she usually uses) after ten minutes and help immediately, accompanied by several exclamation points. I thought, What? What does she need help for? It must be something really very important! As I had read the message right when the ten minutes were up, I ran the whole the entire stretch between the fourth-years’ building and the library foyer, which was most definitely not a short distance to cover.

When I arrived, she, her sister and a batchmate had just stepped in. She definitely didn’t look like she was in trouble, however, I found out why she called for me in just a few seconds. After she got her things through the guard (everyone’s stuff gets examined before being allowed to enter the school), she gave me a huge smile and held out the heavy-looking plastic bags she was carrying to me. I blinked twice before I registered her intentions. Her friend, Yuri-senpai, was smiling in amusement and her sister just said, “I didn’t think you’d actually appear!”

***. She’s making me carry her things for her again. No, I’m not saying that she’s fooled me twice (I’m not that stupid!). The last time I carried her stuff for her was when… Shoot. That was also when she had her FIT program. >_>

I feel so abused. I allow my senpais to bully me (because they are senpais, after all), but there is only so much that I can tolerate. @_@

On the other hand, 90% of today’s missions were accomplished. *happy, but not quite* I must achieve 100% tomorrow.

Not to overindulge on Purple Drink like the Black kid in the Sunny Delite commercial, but the Queens are finally starting to put it together. For the first half of the season, the Vikes played to the level of competition and struggled to find continuity on both sides of the ball. Sunday’s game versus Seattle marked the return of EJ and Fat Pat With the Astro Caps as game changers in the middle, the continued evolution of a fair and balanced offense, and an increasing awareness of an undeniable fact: the skill position players are the prettiest in NFL history.

It’s not like EJ Henderson or Pat Williams missed a ton of games this year — both have played in eight — but it’s the way they’ve played. I can’t really recall a game during the first half when you heard either’s name called much. Certainly not to the expectations of anyone involved. Henderson’s recovery from last season’s injury answered the production questions at the Mike spot, but William’s legal saga and lifestyle culinary choices extreme body mass more than explained his struggles, it had me feeling maybe he got old on us. And then Sunday happened. Good to have you back, fellas. Can’t wait to see you two meeting up with ‘Toine and blowing up Forte in the Bears backfield this weekend.

As the D rights itself, Purple Jesus and His Twelve Disciples continue to levitate their game to hallowed grounds. I’m talking Ninety-Eight isht. I could make comparisons and bloviate until my fingers hurt from typing — Favre reinventing himself much like Randall; Percy Harvin as Randy Moss-meets-David Palmer; the Visanthe Shiancoe/Andrew Glover corollary; the solid lines blending Pro Bowl-caliber veterans and young, unproven talent; etc etc etc — but I will refrain at this premature juncture. It’s too early. I will say that our receiver corps and running backs are emerging as the most talented group in the league. More freaks than a Cancun foam party.

All of which makes my last point more palatable for the average Iron Range-diehard — the starting receivers and back are beyond good looking or even metrosexual. Sorry to say this, but Bernard Berrian, Sidney Rice, and Adrian Peterson look like they could be Prince’s backup singers circa Graffiti Bridge they’re so pretty. His whole fashionista ambitions aside, Bernard Berrian’s game face approximates Zoolander’s Blue Steel and his voice sounds like Ralph Tresvant in “Cool It Now.” And his hamstring is more tender than the Butter Knife Steak at Murray’s. Pretty. Sid the Kid is pure dope on the field, but he also looks like a cross between the Predator and a My Little Pony. Prettier than a Wesley Snipes jumpshot in “White Men Can’t Jump.“ And if you see me, please don’t get me going on the prettiest running back in the NFL since Jamal Anderson. Dude spends more time out of his shirt (and sometimes pants) than LL Cool J and Tyrese combined. Soooooo pretty.

You would look like this too (well not really)

Ok…so while I was working on a cd cover for a friend of mine (SHOUT OUT NEVAHURD…The future is looking friendly my dude! LOL)…I stumbled upon this SICK SHOW (and I know don’t mean ebonics ’sick’..lol)

There is nothing nasty about the show…but man, the things that they do JUST to get a laugh…I wonder if stuff like this will end up on North American Television.

So the premise, the show is called ‘PANIC FACE KING’…the show is about real situations (for example: this scene is about a dude that is about to see all of his friends get SNIPERED…Yes, getting gunned down except for him).

I’m not gonna lie, I was in a state of shock..but still had to laugh at the dude’s face…PRICELESS…but JUST WRONG..lol

Take a gander <CLICK HERE>

Holla!

-Ryan

(Video Courtesy of Break.Com)

3203702    สัมมนาปฏิกิริยาของเนื้อเยื่อในช่องปาก    Seminar in Oral Tissue Reaction

สัมมนาและอภิปรายเกี่ยวกับลักษณะทางคลินิก จุลพยาธิวิทยา พยาธิกำเนิด การวินิจฉัย การพยากรณ์ แนวทางการรักษา และผลกระทบต่อผู้ป่วยอันมีผลมาจากปฏิกิริยาของเนื้อเยื่อในช่องปากที่มีการเสื่อม การตายเฉพาะส่วน การอักเสบ และการซ่อมแซม หรือเป็นโรค

(Presentation and discussion of oral tissue reactions about degeneration, necrosis, inflammation and repair or diseases which concerns clinical features, histopathology, pathogenesis, diagnosis, prognosis, guidance for treatment and effects on patient.)

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I was raised Reconstructionist, a movement which has ordained gay and lesbian rabbis since its inception. So for me, going into last weekend, the question was not how could one be gay and Orthodox, it was how could one be gay and Orthodox? I think, after this weekend, I understand this much better.

For Rabbi Greenberg, the Orthodox community was one he fell in love with at the age of 15/16. It welcomed him in as an adult member of the community, and it engaged him. I can understand being reluctant to leave that, even if the community itself is making a concerted effort to convince you to leave, which has not been Rabbi Greenberg’s experience.

He raised the question at lunch on Saturday: “If you were asked by the rabbi of a congregation not to go to services, would you?”

There were a couple of answers to this question that people gave. Personally, when I think about it that way, I think I would go anyway. In part because the alternative was not going to services at all, and in part because the Orthodox community is one Rabbi Greenberg is a part of, and has been a part of for most of his life. The discomfort of individuals shouldn’t exclude someone from participating in a community, or at least having the opportunity to try.

People keep asking me and Mark how we feel and the honest answer is that we just don’t know yet. This is all so uncertain, things seem to change so drastically so quickly and until we have something more definitive than we have right now, we just aren’t committing to any particular reaction or emotion.

We feel sad, for Austin, for Braedan (who, if he hasn’t felt abandoned up until this point, probably will now — ha, cancer humor), for us. We feel scared, angry, worried, hopeful, resigned, frustrated, tired, bewildered, numb. We feel everything all at once and we feel nothing at all.

We will wait until December 10 and in these two weeks, we will carry on as normal, going to school and on outings, painting together at the new house in what has become a family labor of love, Austin with an endless array of colors in his hair. We will cook and bake and eat on Thanksgiving and be thankful for all that we have. And we will wait until that next ultrasound to see if this new little thing has indeed grown.

And if it has grown, then we will assume it is cancer, because, really, what other small round hard object is going to appear out of nowhere in this boy’s kidney but cancer? The dilemma of the past month will be irrelevant and we will do whatever we have to to get it out of his body and make sure it never comes back.

And if it hasn’t grown, the great hope of the moment, we will go back home (to which house, we’re still not sure!) and buy our Christmas tree and decorate it, and celebrate yet another holiday all together, happy and apparently healthy, and be thankful for all we have.

And then we’ll do another ultrasound two weeks after that and then a scan in mid-January and we’ll go as long and as far as we can until we have a reason to change course. And if and when the time comes that we have to take that kidney out, then that’s what we’ll do and we’ll move forward with dialysis and learn a new set of terms and adopt a new diet and meet the new nurses and we’ll be thankful for all that we have.

202341     วิศวกรรมปฏิกิริยาเคมี     Chemical Reaction Engineering

จลนพลศาสตร์เคมี จลนพลศาสตร์ของปฏิกิริยาที่เป็นเนื้อเดียวกัน การออกแบบเบื้องต้นสํ าหรับเครื่องปฏิกรณ์เคมี สารเร่งปฏิกิริยาที่เป็นของแข็ง เครื่องปฏิกรณ์ที่ใช้สารเร่งปฏิกิริยาที่เป็นของแข็ง

(Principles of chemical kinetics, kinetics of homogeneous reactions, design fundamentals for chemical reactors, solid catalysts, heterogeneous catalytic reactors.)

(202341 มหาวิทยาลัยเกษตรศาสตร์)

Clearly, Brett Favre has still got it.  His final numbers were outstanding, and he only played 3 quarters:  22 of 25 for 213 yards, four TDs, no picks, 141.7 rating.  Brett looks better than ever.

Adrian Peterson is already over 1,000 yards was over 1,000 rushing yards for the season, but a few negative yardage carries and he finished with 999.

At the beginning of this year, I seem to recall people talking about the Vikings receiving corps as being average.  Brett Favre has made many average receivers (see: Antonio Freeman, Robert Brooks, etc.) look good.  That’s not the case here.  Percy Harvin, Sidney Rice, and Bernard Berrian are the real deal.

The Vikings are playing great, and most all, playing like a team.  Case in point:  Shiancoe missed a block and did pushups on the field.  Seriously.

Finally, I have to completely agree with Adam Schefter, “There’s only one word to describe how well Vikings are playing — schism. They’re creating a schism between them and the rest of league.”  Well played, sir.

First and foremost, if Al Harris misses time, we could be in trouble.  The 49ers figured it out right away and attacked our backup cornerbacks.  Our defense is our strength, and we need to keep it this way.

As Cheesehead TV and Packer Update both pointed out, the running game looked great.  If this trend (can I call it a trend after 1 game?) continues, it could help the defense by keeping it fresh.  On that same note, the offensive line looked pretty good. Rodgers was sacked only twice!

If I’m not mistaken, the penalty situation was “taken care of this week” (You have to admit it was better than past weeks.) Finally, Mike McCarthy’s post-game comments rang true.  It was just a case of the 10th time is a charm.  That’s how that idiom goes, right?

Speaking of post-game comments, McCarthy said that Harris’ and Kampman’s knee injuries “don’t look very good.”

Special Teams is still a big concern.  Once again a big kickoff return allowed the momentum to shift to the opposing team. Before today’s game, Packer Update wrote pretty frankly (as always) about Shawn Slocum and the Packers special teams (or lack thereof).

Overall, a win is a win, and the Packers are in the thick of the playoff hunt.  Let’s hope for a truly happy Thanksgiving where the Lions play like they should – poorly.

The attacker can easily tell where you expect the blow to come from. If you are ready for any strike or grab and react to touch, you will not be misled by a feint.

Dr. Hans Selye, a pioneer in helping us understand stress, once told a story about two boys who grew up in the same home with an alcoholic and abusive father.  Adulthood took them down separate paths with differing priorities and life decisions.

Many years later, both men participated in the same psychological study, though each did it separately.  In-depth interviews with each one showed just how different they had become.  One would have nothing to do with alcohol and had become an upstanding and well-respected citizen in his community.  The other had followed his father’s example and become an alcoholic with a path of destruction in his wake.

When asked what factors influenced each brother’s lifestyle, both men returned the same answer, “What else would you expect when you have a father like mine?”

It’s not what happened to you; it’s how you responded to what happened to you that has created the person that you have become.  Have you chosen to become the victim or the victor?

If you chose the victim’s role, the sooner you accept accountability for your choices, the sooner you will begin to heal.  Blame and resentment over what happened to you only gives the other person or thing a never-ending supply of power over your life.  If you chose the victor’s role, then you undoubtedly know the truth behind the maxim, “That which doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger.”

Life has many things to teach us, but we have to show up ready to learn.

Truly, they are.

As you all know (if you bothered to even read the titile of my blog), I’m a newbie in blogging. And I must say, I have never yet seen any of my statistics as low as this. I was shocked (or was it horrified?) when I saw the statstics of the people viewing my blog.

Don’t get me wrong – when I first came here to wordpress I told myself  that no matter how popular or unpopular my blog is, I will continue to blog, and I shall stick by that promise (I cable-squared with the PC) until I lose the will to write.

But it doesn’t really help motivate me blog when I see that hardly anyone appriciates what I write (or if anyone knows that I even exist).

I think I’d be better off if I just remove the statistics option … now how to do that is the question …

It’s here and it’s causing quite an uproar. No full-frontals, but PlayGirl claims that it’s only the first set of pictures. So, there might be peen in the future. Click below for a relatively NSFW gallery.