Green Tea Helps Eyesight

Beneficial ingredients in green tea penetrate into the tissues of the eye and may help protect against glaucoma and other eye diseases, says a new study.Researchers analyzed eye tissue from rats that drank green tea and found that the lens, retina and other tissues absorbed significant amounts of green tea catechins, which are antioxidants believed to protect the eye. Catechins include vitamin C, vitamin E, lutein and zeaxanthin.The action of the green tea catechins in reducing harmful oxidative stress in the eyes lasted for up to 20 hours. Something as simple as green tea can help protect your eyes seems astonishing to me, if I had this information before I would be drinking green tea everyday.

Shutter Island

I felt a little cheated by the "twist" in Shutter Island, but overall it was a good movie. Shutter Island is a movie about two cops investigating a mental institution where apparently government sponsored experiments on humans take place, and the main character is trying to investigate. Thematically it makes sense to me in terms of Martin Scorsese's work because I do think it was an effective character study. DiCaprio's performance blew me away though. I think he's really one of the best actors working and this was one of his best performances as far as I'm concerned.

Project Update

Our project is coming along very smoothly. We have quite a few scenes done and I would say we are atleast 30 percent completed. Our concept has changed a lot from when we first started. We now have two characters who have very different personallites, Neeraj's charater is outgoing and has a lot of friends, while Naeems's charaters struggles to make any friends and in simple terms; a loser. We show the deep contrast in the highschool life today and the difficulties of bieng a loner.

The Ipad

Apple's iPad was one of the hottest things on its first day of sales, it sold over 300,000 units. The new technology is absolutely incredible and the ease with with you can browse the web is extraordinary. This "new" technology isn't exactly new, its basically an iphone or itouch on some serious performance enhancing drugs. It has a 256 MB ram, which is lower than I expected from apple but the 1 Ghz processor , I think is good enough for the Ipad. I am pretty sure I will buy one when it is released in Canada because I love the my Itouch and the iPad it seems to be just a bigger, better, faster, ipod touch.

PLAYOFFS!!!

It’s NBA Playoffs time! I love me some playoffs, and in honor of the second season, I thought I’d lay down my picks for the various NBA awards.

Most Valuable Player:
LeBron James, Cleveland Cavaliers. Duh. I will be shocked if this isn’t unanimous. Actually, no I won’t, some jackass media member will vote for Dwight Howard or Kevin Durant, just to be different.

Rookie of the Year:
Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors. Yes, Tyreke Evans was more consistent and joined the elite 20-5-5 Rookie club, but Curry was the best rookie the last 4 months of the season, in a much harder situation – having to share the ball with Monta Ellis is the least desirable situation for a rookie point guard. Plus, Curry gets points for having the most beautiful stroke in the league, at least in my opinion. His percentages were also ridiculous: 46.2 FG%, 43.7 3PT%, and 88.8 FT%.

Defensive Player of the Year:
Dwight Howard, Orlando Magic. This one is too easy. As much as I like Josh Smith’s versatility on defense, Superman became the first player ever to lead the league in blocks and rebounds two years in a row. He’s going to win a lot of these before he’s done. Now, if he could only stop blocking everything into the upper deck…


Most Improved Player:
Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City Thunder. The hardest category to understand. I feel like good players are hampered by virtue of being good to start with. However, that’s bullshit, and Durantula definitely improved more than anyone in the league, rising into top 5 status, and winning the scoring title at 21. TWENTY-ONE. It’s scary to think about how good he could still become.

Fugative runs into prison

Police say a motorist fleeing officers in Cleveland abandoned his car and jumped a fence landing in what turned out to be a prison yard.
The chase started in that suburb early Monday over a traffic violation and reached speeds of 90 mph.
Police say that after a race through several communities, the driver and a passenger bolted from the car and headed for a fence.
They apparently did not realize it was on the outside the state women’s prison in Cleveland.
Criminal as stupid as these deserve to be in prison for the majority of their lives.

A Jordanian newspaper's April Fool's Day report chronicling a late-night visit by 10 foot tall aliens in flying saucers sparked public panic and almost led to the town's emergency evacuation, officials said Monday.

The Al Ghad newspaper published a front-page article April 1 about the fake UFO landing near the desert town of Jafr, some 300 kilometers from the capital, Amman. The report said the UFOs lit up the whole town, interrupted communications and sent fearful residents streaming into the streets.

I believe a reputable newspaper cannot get caught up in things like April fools and send an entire country into a frenzy.

Now That's Commitment

A New York City pizza deliveryman outwitted an armed robber trying to make off with his pies and still managed to deliver them to his customer.
As the Pizza guy headed to the 27th floor of the building where he was supposed to deliver his pizzas, he came across two men in a hallway who started harassing him, one of the men pulled out a gun and told him to drop the pizzas on the ground. As the gunman reached down, the delivery boy lunged at him, and toppled him off balance. He scuffled with the men as building security making a routine check came by,the two robbersd fled. After the ordeal he still managed to deliver his pizzas.

April Fools

In 1985 Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch, and he could reportedly throw a baseball at 168 mph with pinpoint accuracy. This was 65 mph faster than the previous record. Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the “art of the pitch” in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the “great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa.” Mets fans celebrated their teams’ amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information. In reality this legendary player only existed in the imagination of the author of the article, George Plimpton.

Just too stupid in my opinion, if they said the guy could throw 125 mph maybe that would have made this one a little more realistic but only a dope-head from the 80’s would fall for this poorly crafted fool’s joke.