that ipod i won was more trouble than it was worth. pushed me into a higher income tax bracket.
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Speaking of which, I open my mailbox today and there's the familiar tried and true 1040 booklet :bleh: Nice way to start New Year's weekend!
gaijin mark wrote:Speaking of which, I open my mailbox today and there's the familiar tried and true 1040 booklet :bleh: Nice way to start New Year's weekend!
Dang.
That means I'll probably get mine tomorrow. :sweat:
Went to Little Tokyo today and @ this store I think i saw the jacket that Horikita Maki wore in her Teppan Shojo Akane drama for sale. It was up for $75 + tax.
I wanted another jacket though, but it was $180 and the worse thing is they didn't have a big enough size for me. Arm length is fine, but the jacket wasn't even down to my waist :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:
Well, I tried out as many recommended places here that Triky gave me.
Didn't make it to Beard Papa's cream puff, Shinsengumi, Curry House, or the Sushi place. Gyu-Kaku was amazing and same with Daikokuya. OH, i was able to get their shirt too :woot: :woot: :dancing: :dancing: Musha was lovely. Great place, cute hostess and another cute girl working there too. For some odd reason or another, she resembled Tanaka Rena :drooling: :drooling:
Can't wait for the next time i come back here.
I wanted another jacket though, but it was $180 and the worse thing is they didn't have a big enough size for me. Arm length is fine, but the jacket wasn't even down to my waist :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:
Well, I tried out as many recommended places here that Triky gave me.
Didn't make it to Beard Papa's cream puff, Shinsengumi, Curry House, or the Sushi place. Gyu-Kaku was amazing and same with Daikokuya. OH, i was able to get their shirt too :woot: :woot: :dancing: :dancing: Musha was lovely. Great place, cute hostess and another cute girl working there too. For some odd reason or another, she resembled Tanaka Rena :drooling: :drooling:
Can't wait for the next time i come back here.
K.T.Tran wrote:Went to Little Tokyo today and @ this store I think i saw the jacket that Horikita Maki wore in her Teppan Shojo Akane drama for sale. It was up for $75 + tax.
I wanted another jacket though, but it was $180 and the worse thing is they didn't have a big enough size for me. Arm length is fine, but the jacket wasn't even down to my waist :shamefulcry: :shamefulcry:
Well, I tried out as many recommended places here that Triky gave me.
Didn't make it to Beard Papa's cream puff, Shinsengumi, Curry House, or the Sushi place. Gyu-Kaku was amazing and same with Daikokuya. OH, i was able to get their shirt too :woot: :woot: :dancing: :dancing: Musha was lovely. Great place, cute hostess and another cute girl working there too. For some odd reason or another, she resembled Tanaka Rena :drooling: :drooling:
Can't wait for the next time i come back here.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Man u're hilarous. It's too funny to follow ur "little "adventures". Wish I could have been with you :hehe:
I just saw Ayaka's video clip on MTV Indonesia.
Well that's pretty rare since japanese PVs don't appear that often here.
Is she supossed to be the next Hikki or somethin?
Her japanese accent is weird though. Is japanese her mother tongue?
Not a very good pv though. Hikki's and Ayu's are much better done...
Well that's pretty rare since japanese PVs don't appear that often here.
Is she supossed to be the next Hikki or somethin?
Her japanese accent is weird though. Is japanese her mother tongue?
Not a very good pv though. Hikki's and Ayu's are much better done...
Sangohan wrote:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Man u're hilarous. It's too funny to follow ur "little "adventures". Wish I could have been with you :hehe:
My little adventure sure is fun.
You should join in. The girls down here are really cute :mrgreen:
Though if we were to go to Japan, I don't think we'd be able to pick which girl out of the many thousands to follow and ask them for their #s :beaten: :beaten:
I'd be able to go on a nanpa spree the next time i'm down with friends or just brother and cousins. With mom and step dad around, I can't get out of their site :sweat: :sweat:
K.T.Tran wrote:Didn't make it to Beard Papa's cream puff, Shinsengumi, Curry House, or the Sushi place. Gyu-Kaku was amazing and same with Daikokuya. OH, i was able to get their shirt too :woot: :woot: :dancing: :dancing: Musha was lovely. Great place, cute hostess and another cute girl working there too. For some odd reason or another, she resembled Tanaka Rena :drooling: :drooling:
Can't wait for the next time i come back here.
Which Musha??
I didn't know... I coulda met you there. :puppydog:
bmwracer wrote:
Which Musha??
I didn't know... I coulda met you there. :puppydog:
One in Torrance my friend.
We were there around 6:15.
Next time aibo.
Hopefully i can make the trip down during my Spring Break along with some friends if they don't mind and if they have time.
K.T.Tran wrote:One in Torrance my friend.
We were there around 6:15.
Ah, phooey: If I was able to convince my brother to go there today, we woulda been there with his wife and daughter... :doh:
bmwracer wrote:
Ah, phooey: If I was able to convince my brother to go there today, we woulda been there with his wife and daughter... :doh:
is the daughter kawaii??? wait wait.....is she at least 18? :sweat: :sweat:
joking. I'm not that desperate.
Yea it would've been great if we could've met up and ate dinner.
It was amazingly crowded today though :shocked: :shocked:
I had no idea what to order though. Will have to go with your recommendations on what to eat there when we do meet up :mrgreen:
I'm now going to try to get some rest. Sleeping in the back of my step dad's truck is close to impossible and not very comfortable too :beaten: :beaten:
K.T.Tran wrote:is the daughter kawaii??? wait wait.....is she at least 18? :sweat: :sweat:
She's 21... Going to UCLA at the moment... And very kawaii.
She's got a bf who's on the San Jose Fire Department.... He just graduated there. :)
K.T.Tran wrote:
Well, I tried out as many recommended places here that Triky gave me.
Gyu-Kaku was amazing and same with Daikokuya. OH, i was able to get their shirt too :woot: :woot: :dancing: :dancing: Musha was lovely. Great place, cute hostess and another cute girl working there too. For some odd reason or another, she resembled Tanaka Rena :drooling: :drooling:
that's awesome man so you got to try a few places that I recommended to you. great....so you hit those three spots...i'm impressed given the fact that you're staying so far north of L.A. guess the restaurants were ones you liked, huh? :victory: that's great, man!
well those places are all so different from one another, one ramen-ya, one yakiniku restaurant, and one izakaya so you really got a broad range of available japanese tastes.
glad you seem to have enjoyed your trip quite a bit.
Originally published December 30 2006
Study adds to evidence that green and black teas have anticancer effects
by Ben Kage
(NewsTarget) A new U.S. Department of Agriculture study adds to the growing body of evidence that suggests the compounds found in green, black and other types of tea, have strong anticancer properties on tumors.
"These findings extend related observations on the anticarcinogenic potential of tea ingredients and suggest that consumers may benefit more by drinking both green and black teas," wrote lead author Mendel Friedman in the Journal of the Agricultural and Food Chemistry. "Because tumor promotion may be the only reversible event during cancer development, its suppression is regarded as an effective way to inhibit carcinogenesis."
Green tea contains between 30 and 40 percent of water-extractable polyphenols, which previous studies have already linked to weight loss benefits, protection from Alzheimer's disease, and a decreased risk of certain cancers. Black tea -- green tea that has been oxidized through fermentation -- contains somewhere between 3 and 10 percent of polyphenols, and semi-fermented oolong tea's polyphenol content stands somewhere between green and black. Tealeaves contain four primary polyphenols: Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), epigallocatechin, epicatechin gallate, and epicatechin.
Friendman joined with researchers from the South Korean universities of Keimyung, Uiduk and Yeungnam to study the effects of nine green tea catechins, three black tea theaflavins, and theanine -- extracted using either water or a water/ethanol mix -- on human cancer cells and normal cells. The majority of the compounds, and all general tea extracts, reduced human breast, colon, liver and prostate cancer cells. The water/ethanol extracts were found to contain higher levels of flavonoids and kill more cancer cells, but the flavonoid levels of the teas did not correspond with the anticancer activities, the researchers said.
The results of the study merit further investigation, they added.
"Because it may be too risky to translate results from cell assays to in vivo effects, the observed destruction of a broad range of cancer cells suggests the need for animal and human studies designed to ascertain whether the observed wide variation in potencies of tea compounds and teas can predict corresponding effects in vivo," they wrote.
Study adds to evidence that green and black teas have anticancer effects
by Ben Kage
(NewsTarget) A new U.S. Department of Agriculture study adds to the growing body of evidence that suggests the compounds found in green, black and other types of tea, have strong anticancer properties on tumors.
"These findings extend related observations on the anticarcinogenic potential of tea ingredients and suggest that consumers may benefit more by drinking both green and black teas," wrote lead author Mendel Friedman in the Journal of the Agricultural and Food Chemistry. "Because tumor promotion may be the only reversible event during cancer development, its suppression is regarded as an effective way to inhibit carcinogenesis."
Green tea contains between 30 and 40 percent of water-extractable polyphenols, which previous studies have already linked to weight loss benefits, protection from Alzheimer's disease, and a decreased risk of certain cancers. Black tea -- green tea that has been oxidized through fermentation -- contains somewhere between 3 and 10 percent of polyphenols, and semi-fermented oolong tea's polyphenol content stands somewhere between green and black. Tealeaves contain four primary polyphenols: Epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG), epigallocatechin, epicatechin gallate, and epicatechin.
Friendman joined with researchers from the South Korean universities of Keimyung, Uiduk and Yeungnam to study the effects of nine green tea catechins, three black tea theaflavins, and theanine -- extracted using either water or a water/ethanol mix -- on human cancer cells and normal cells. The majority of the compounds, and all general tea extracts, reduced human breast, colon, liver and prostate cancer cells. The water/ethanol extracts were found to contain higher levels of flavonoids and kill more cancer cells, but the flavonoid levels of the teas did not correspond with the anticancer activities, the researchers said.
The results of the study merit further investigation, they added.
"Because it may be too risky to translate results from cell assays to in vivo effects, the observed destruction of a broad range of cancer cells suggests the need for animal and human studies designed to ascertain whether the observed wide variation in potencies of tea compounds and teas can predict corresponding effects in vivo," they wrote.
bmwracer wrote:
Hmm, that's odd: detail would be a resolution thing, I think... Colors would be a result of how you set your video card: 24/32-bit color is the same as that of a TV... You must have a crappy computer monitor.
Maybe the fact that a monitor is higher resolution (regular TVs have 500-600 lines of detail max and it's interlaced) that it exacerbates the lack of quality in the video cource.... :headscratch:
This was stated on the KABC computer show and I think this is what I may be trying to say also:
"You also may find that LCD monitors, though superior in a number of regards, are not as flexible as CRTs in displaying
non-native settings at sharp resolutions."
ralphm1999 wrote:This was stated on the KABC computer show and I think this is what I may be trying to say also:
"You also may find that LCD monitors, though superior in a number of regards, are not as flexible as CRTs in displaying
non-native settings at sharp resolutions."
Ah yes, your PC monitor is an LCD... Nearly all PC LCD monitors have a shortcoming: screen refresh.
Because PC monitors can't refresh the screen fast enough, any constant motion in an image, like a video image, will result in ghosting and/or similar artifacts... A lot of manufacturers try to counteract this by giving each pixel 6-bits of color resolution instead of the typical 8-bits... And as a result, the colors on the LCD monitor aren't as good as a CRT monitor, which gives you 8-bits (or more) of color per pixel...
I think if you dug up an old CRT PC monitor and set the color resolution to like 24 or 32-bit color, you'd see comparable, if not better, picture quality than your TV. :)
Here's the poop on pixels from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel :)
Tu_triky wrote:Study adds to evidence that green and black teas have anticancer effects
All the more reason to drink even more o-cha. :victory:
bmwracer wrote:
All the more reason to drink even more o-cha. :victory:
very coincindental that i read that this morning after our lil' discussion regarding tea yesterday...^_^
dood, at this point, it's pretty much irrefutable that green tea antioxidants are valuable in the fight against cancer as well as many other ailments.
i've read so many studies and abstracts it's beyond reproach.
bmwracer wrote:
Well, since James Brown just died four days ago... :sweat:
Yup. I guess there''s no mourning period for people gearing up to monopolize and make money off the deceased. :shakehead:
bmwracer wrote:
Ah yes, your PC monitor is an LCD... Nearly all PC LCD monitors have a shortcoming: screen refresh.
Because PC monitors can't refresh the screen fast enough, any constant motion in an image, like a video image, will result in ghosting and/or similar artifacts... A lot of manufacturers try to counteract this by giving each pixel 6-bits of color resolution instead of the typical 8-bits... And as a result, the colors on the LCD monitor aren't as good as a CRT monitor, which gives you 8-bits (or more) of color per pixel...
I think if you dug up an old CRT PC monitor and set the color resolution to like 24 or 32-bit color, you'd see comparable, if not better, picture quality than your TV. :)
It's been years since I had a CRT monitor. Does anyone still make or buy them? I'd have to go to a crt graveyard to find one....But I do remember the photos on CRTs were vibrant and glossy.... not dull as they are on an LCD, I wonder if LCDs will ever match CRTs for glossy color rendition.
Too bad :beaten:
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