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You’ll Go Blind If You Stare At That TV Any Longer!!!
Haven’t we all heard that as kids? I remember playing Nintendo and even Atari and hearing that from my parents. 😉 Well, aparently they were all wrong! There is a new study out that says video game playing is actually good for your eyes. Man, I guess that doesn’t include staring at a computer all day for work, because let me tell you, my eyes certainly aren’t getting any better…
Study Says Video Games Are Good For Eyes
Wed Feb 7, 2:52 AM ET
SINGAPORE, Feb 7 (Reuters Life!) – Video game addicts, rejoice: U.S. researchers have found that playing is actually good for your eyes, and despite all those dire warnings from your parents, it won’t make you blind.
A study by the University of Rochester showed that people who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved their vision by about 20 percent.
“Action video game play changes the way our brains process visual information,” Daphne Bavelier, professor of brain and cognitive sciences, said in the study published on the university’s Web site, www.rochester.edu, on Tuesday.
“These games push the human visual system to the limits and the brain adapts to it. That learning carries over into other activities and possibly everyday life.”
Bavelier and a graduate student tested college students who had played very few, if any, video games in the last year.
Test subjects were given an eye test similar to the one used at regular eye clinics and then divided into two groups — one played shoot-em-up action games for an hour a day while the control group played a less visually complex game.
Their vision was tested after the study, with those who played the action game scoring better in the eye test.
The researchers said their findings could help patients with several types of visual defects.
Who will save New Yorkers from their IPODs?
Below is an article from Reuters about how a New York State Senator wants to ban electronic devices while crossing the street. Yes, ban electronic devices while crossing the street. Sounds a bit silly doesn’t it.. I mean seriously, since September 3 people have been killed because they walked in to the street without looking and they couldn’t hear people yelling “watch out!” They were wearing headphones. My question is: why does the government waste it’s time and money to make laws to help people from being stupid? What’s next no talking while crossing the road? No chewing gum while walking? It just seems a waste of time to me. Shouldn’t they police be more worried the murder rate or theft?? Is this really a nationwide problem?
NEW YORK (Reuters) – New Yorkers who blithely cross the street listening to an iPod or talking on a cell phone could soon face a $100 fine.
New York State Sen. Carl Kruger says three pedestrians in his Brooklyn district have been killed since September upon stepping into traffic while distracted by an electronic device. In one case bystanders screamed “watch out” to no avail.
Kruger says he will introduce legislation on Wednesday to ban the use of gadgets such as Blackberry devices and video games while crossing the street.
“Government has an obligation to protect its citizenry,” Kruger said in a telephone interview from Albany, the state capital. “This electronic gadgetry is reaching the point where it’s becoming not only endemic but it’s creating an atmosphere where we have a major public safety crisis at hand.”
Tech-consuming New Yorkers trudge to work on sidewalks and subways like an army of drones, appearing to talk to themselves on wireless devices or swaying to seemingly silent tunes.
“I’m not trying to intrude on that,” Kruger said. “But what’s happening is when they’re tuning into their iPod or Blackberry or cell phone or video game, they’re walking into speeding buses and moving automobiles. It’s becoming a nationwide problem.”
Red Rose League
We had another game tonight at Red Rose.
This is the first time I’m played over 30’s there. The game is very different because you can play off the walls. But, it is also very different because the refs are not real refs, and they don’t call anything. I had a break away tonight and some guy took me out from behind. Anywhere else it would have been a yellow card. I barely even got a call. Since they don’t call anything the game got really rough. We lost at least one player to injury too. And towards the end of the game our goalie got kicked in the face, and was bleeding. The guy reffing kept saying he definitely didn’t get kicked. Come one he was bleeding!
Anyway, we tied. We could have won but the other team scored in the last 30 seconds. It ended up to be 5-5. I had 3 goals though! So far we have lost 2 games and tied 1. The next game we should win at this rate!
Lancaster German Language Group
In order to practice my German I have joined a couple of different groups that meet and speak German. The groups are made up of Germans living in the US, and people like me from the US, who lived in Germany and don’t want to lose their German, as well as others that want to practice their German.
Today I just became the coordinator of the Lancaster German Language Group We meet every first and 3rd Wednesday at Macaroni Grill in Lancaster.