Whats today... Sunday?

ive forgotten it was sunday... whoops!! so anyway today i was having fun with my friends then i went to laser tag so it was a pretty good day!

anyway my basketball game:

cavs V.s trailblazers 30-30 overtime. two minutes left. tip off cavs ball, 2 min remaining. goes up and down the court for 1 min. offensive charge. now its 5 seconds left to go (i know i skipped alot but thats cause i dont remember what happened) cavs - 32 trailblazers 33. 5 seconds left we go down and with 1 sec left shoot a layup. cavs 35 trailblazers 33... the crowd goes wild..

and thats how the game ended. it was an amazing game by both teams but we came out on top! 4-0 baby. UnDeFeAtEd!

anyway not much goin on this week. hoping to sit down for about 30 min one day and post a really long one. thats my goal this week.


QuOtZ:

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence. Helen Keller

Smile today! (like the cat... BIIIG SMIILEE)

So today me and candice had a good laugh. because i was on the phone with her and we remembered a show we watched when i was maybe 7 or 9. we thought it was the funniest thing. the people would run around the supermarket and they had to find the designated item, whenever we watched it we had a blast. the show was called supermarket sweep! woohoo.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSwmFurzkpQ


anyway so thats what made my day was laughing about that. so todays quote.

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. ~Hubert Humphrey

when i first read this i thought it was kind of a sad quote... but then i realized that it really isnt. "It's what you do with what you have left" i think that this quote should be famous! its a very good quote about how to live your life to the fullest.. When life gives you lemons.. Sell them for cash!, just kidding, i think we all know how that ends!

REMEMBER TO SMILE TODAY!

Tuesday

so today (this might be really random) bu i figured out something. The more mad you get about something the worse you do in it! so why be negative if it'll have a negative effect on you. Also in language arts we are doing a project where we have to debate other people (within the school) about topics and my group has "Video games are good for you" and i think this is an interesting "article" or subject to discuss. so when i do my debate on the 18h or 19th ill post how it went and the whole debate.. so look for that ahead (by the way, we have really good facts to support our side) Here is a sample of one site we are using: http://www.pri.org/science/technology/benefits-of-video-games-1741.html

Pop star Rihanna gaming on an Xbox. (Image: flickr user: gamerscoreblog (cc: by-sa))

A host of new studies show that video gaming might actually improve visual skills and increase brain capacity.

The following is a partial transcript; for full story, listen to audio

Turn off the computer and go outside and play! We've all heard the conventional wisdom that says video games will turn your brain to mush. But a host of new studies show that gaming might actually be good for your health.

Researchers at Nottingham University found that playing certain video games could achieve in one hour what eye patches achieve in 400 hours; while researchers at the University of Rochester found that first-person shooter video games improve visual skills by increasing the brain’s capacity to spread attention over a wide range of events.

But wait, there's more! The Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, N.M., found that Tetris players developed a thicker cortex than those who didn’t play. And the Nintendo Wii has been helping Parkinson's patients improve balance. So, are video games good for you?

Baratunde Thurston, host of "Popular Science's Future Of," a TV show on the Science Channel, says video gaming has more positive effects than you might think.

He says the research shows that there are several benefits to video gaming. "There's the social; There's a new sort of storytelling format, and the way of interacting with other people. It's a mental workout. It's fun, and there's also the ability to destroy things," said Thurston.

Technology writer Clive Thompson, the blogger for Collision Detection and a frequent contributor to "Wired" and "The New York Times," says some of the studies support the mental workout that players can get from the games.

"There's been studies that show for example, if you play Tetris a lot, it increases the white matter in your brain. And the more white matter in your brain, the more efficient you are at doing certain types of thinking.

"And there's been other studies that show surgeons -- laparoscopic surgeons -- if they play video games before they do surgery, they actually have almost 40 percent fewer errors. I's sort of getting their hand-eye coordination up to speed before they do a delicate task like that."

When gaming involves multiple players, it encourages both teamwork and individual effort.

"It's a little society and you learn to be a member of a society with the values and reputation and cost that goes with it," said Thurston.

The idea that gaming might improve certain skills shouldn't be too surprising, since pilots and astronauts have long been trained in video simulators.

"The idea that games could affect your behavior is intuitive because all sorts of areas have used them to train people in doing things quickly, said Thompson. "The thing that's really interesting is that the research has started to branch out to look at these unexpected ways that games might be good to you.

"There's a piece [of research] that came out earlier this year that completely fascinated me, which was the idea that you could us Tetris to treat post-tramatic stress syndrome. Now people think that PTSD as something that happens if you go to Iraq, but it most often happens if you've had a car accident. And what they discovered was if you get someone to play Tetris for 45 minutes or so after a car accident, it might seriously decrease the amounts of flashbacks they have. Essentially it occupies the visual cortex so much that you don't take all those flashbacks images of being in a car accident and read them into your brain as well."

But, Thompson says, there is still that side to gaming that isn't so positive. "Video games are designed to be very addictive. People pay tens of millions of dollars to make these things as addictive as possible. So it's absolutely true that the great danger with them is you'd rather play them than eat."

"The Takeaway" is a national morning news program, delivering the news and analysis you need to catch up, start your day, and prepare for what’s ahead. The show is a co-production of WNYC and PRI, in editorial collaboration with the BBC, The New York Times Radio, and WGBH.

So thats just how we are doing our debate.

thanks for reading

Quote:

"You can think best when you're happiest" -Peter Thomson

(last is i hit 100 views! WOOHOO! i have 105... 104 of them from the US one from India)

Wednesday For ket-chup

So today i wanted to say that i COMPLETELY forgot to say the score of my basketball game on Saturday which we won 33-26 over the bobcats, i had no points and no shots but i had 2 steals so thats on the positive side.

Also i forgot to say to my sister GOOD LUCK AT SCHOOL, she just went back to California and actually she started school on Feb. 1st so congratz to her.

Anyway i found or thought of rather a good example of positive attitude while i was watching TV. I was watching The Biggest Loser last night and i saw these people who were 300..400 pounds and i thought to myself "They may be overweight but they have the power to choose how the handle it and they are handling it with a positive attitude and making a difference." So as i say this i say this for just about everything else in life. It is all about how you look at things, i know i ALWAYS go back to this example but the glass half Empty/Full. if you look at it half empty then you are choosing to look at it in a negative way. Now my question to the people who look at it that way.. Why? why look at the glass half empty when you could join me and millions of other people in the world who live a positive life and look for the positive in EVERYTHING!

Also-last i just wanted to say that in school we are debating about certain things and in MY opinion i dont think that there is anything to debate about being positive or negative.

Quote:

A man is not defeated by his opponents but by himself

--Jan Christian Smuts--