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QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 10:45 AM) Organic is a piece of crap term in general. Buying local from farmers markets is the way to go. and regardless, we're not really talking about nutrients, but the "extras" like those pesticides that come with it. And no, in small doses, the pesticides probably don't matter. But my concern is over continued low-dose exposure over a LONG period of time. Obviously that's harder to test, but I just feel like 50 years from now we'll be looking at GMOs the same way we look at leaching. That was good for you too. ... I'm certainly not against the organic movement, the notion of buying local, etc. but we must also insist on efficiency and not be anti-science because of fuzzy notions on what is and is not natural and the idea that unnatural=bad. It makes sense as a consumer to not consume things that logically could harm AND are not researched. As a keeper of the Earth, we must also not shut out artificial methods of sustaining human life, though. Basically -- watch the Penn and Teller Bullsh!t episode on Organic Food and then watch Food, Inc. and then tell me how your brain feels

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 10:39 AM) This is bulls***, gonna quote someone from another mb: So can we say "poverty culture" and get on with solving the problem?

There is not sufficient evidence to show that organic food (which is necessarily non-GMO) is more nutritious than non-organic (which is usually, though not always, GMO). The following study, which was actually an analysis of 250 other studies, from Stanford found that there is no demonstrable difference in nutrient density between these two sorts of foods. There were more pesticides in non-organic foods, though both had acceptable amounts. There were more instances of antibiotic resistant bacteria in non-organic foods, though both were considered acceptable amounts. They were equal in terms of the organisms that cause food poisoning. I highly doubt that most GMOs could harm humans, but I am not against researching things. Lots of things that make sense don't hold up to scientific inquiry. edit: link for perusal http://annals.org/mobile/article.aspx?articleid=1355685

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 24, 2013 -> 10:22 AM) English - specifically, grammar. Any time I hear or see somebody use grammar improperly, I generally forget what the hell they're talking about for a brief moment and just think to myself, "God, what an idiot." Verbally, the double negative kills me. I also hate that people don't understand the difference between there, their, and they're, were and we're, your and you're...just say it out people. Some of the s*** you see on facebook is terrible. I think a lot of folks associate good writing with over demanding teachers -- they never wanted to put the effort into writing well in school, which means they never tried hard enough to make it come naturally. Now, their way of being an independent adult is saying f*** the teachers I can write the way I want when I'm not being graded.

There are certain aspects of what you might call "black culture" (I know, reductive) that contribute to the disproportionate crimes rates and even some of the poverty problems. Unfortunately, these are problems made by white people for enslaving, segregating, and discriminating against these people for the vast majority of their time spent in the USA. There are issues beyond getting them to make more money since we basically forced a huge group of people to live in and accept poverty, for sure, since not everyone can simply decide they want the WASP dream of college, car, house, wife, 2.5 kids when that isn't part of the culture they grew up in. I'm sure the most efficient way to fix this is still to get these folks higher paying jobs. I'm interested in some public housing research that has been done and I assume is still being implemented. Instead of housing projects, they do housing vouchers and try to focus on locating these poor folks in middle and higher income areas. In the research I've been privy to see, the children raised with public housing vouchers in middle or high income areas have had much better rates of behavior, academic success, and other important factors. Interestingly, the parents didn't have any significant improvements in terms of crime rates, income, etc between those placed in low-income vs middle and higher. In other words, it is important to raise at-risk children in such a way that they are exposed to more successful role models. Once they get older, it gets much trickier. So this will be a slow process but a big first step beyond a policy focus on ending poverty is ending segregation. This has been mentioned on here before, but Chicago is a perfect example. It is extremely segregated and we are at a point where the people in bad parts of Chicago are raised too far removed from the great parts to see a legitimate way out.

There are reasons to inquire and be skeptical of GMOs, but you can't deny the utility of crops that are less likely to die and produce more food. This type of innovation will certainly extend the amount of time man can spend on Earth.

I've been thinking about the things I learned from elementary school to high school and how some things have been extremely useful in my daily life even when I didn't expect them to be. This is somewhat inspired by Tex's thread where he brought his students on Soxtalk and some blogs -- I couldn't help but think what a surprisingly useful thing that would be to learn. Some things that come to mind for me: -Mandatory keyboarding class in high school -Several things that were required for PE in high school: sex ed (seriously, though this happened in junior high as well), nutrition class, weightlifting -Civic education throughout school, most kids hate it but it is immensely useful to actually know how your government works -Note taking: my 5th grade teacher drilled us with these lessons on note taking, but now I'm so glad to be able to have coherent notes in my college classes. I often look at my neighbors who have completely useless looking notes. Some kids literally just write their notes like they're writing prose in paragraph form. -Public speaking. This was taught to me by a professional actor who was very demanding. It stressed me the hell out with the performances, memorization, practice, etc. but I learned a ton about the mechanics of speaking, how to stand and look at an audience, and also just conquered some bashful demons. -Statistics. I took this at the AP Level and eventually had to take two classes in my college's Political Science department on the subject, but it is very useful in terms of evaluating the kind of stuff you see touted as fact on a regular basis. There are lot of things that you would know anyway, but you would never have otherwise thought to have inquired about. -I had to take computer courses that required me to know the ins and outs of Microsoft Office that still makes me the unofficial computer tech in my circle of friends -We had a mandatory consumer ed at my high school and I'm glad I knew how credit cards worked, how to write a check, needing to make a budget and plan ahead, how mortgage and car/home loans work, etc. That's just off the top of my head. What things occur to you as especially useful? Anything still stick out as a tremendous waste of time?

Lunges brah. Hold weights in your hand if you can/want, but either way its both functionally awesome and great for mass building as well. You can go for distance, do it in place, step up onto a platform or step, forwards, back, side ways, etc.

Who are these 8 teams in on Michael Bourn? Supposedly some "surprise" teams in there. You'd think that the Sox would have inquired, but I honestly don't like Bourn at all

People were talking about Jo's big play last night possibly giving him a push into the AS game... ...and of course SportsCenter decided the Bulls-Pistons game would be the one NBA game they didn't cover today. Nobody will even know that play happened.

I have to think that technological breakthroughs will allow us to do better than might seem possible today. It is somewhat troubling, though, that there is such a strong push against some of those technologies (like genetically modified crops, for instance)

QUOTE (Dick Allen @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 06:58 PM) Ventura thinking about moving Rios to the 3 hole and moving Dunn down a bit. He had to. Will have a significant effect on how many lefties ADA sees in late innings.

Speaking of hot sauce, a guy I know is making a fat-burning hot sauce. Has a couple fat burning ingredients, most notably raspberry ketones and capsaicin (which is normally too spicy to put in any other sort of supplement). Decent chance it doesn't help you burn any appreciable amount of fat, but it is still aptly named "Thermogenesauce" http://www.nutraplanet.com/product/thermog...ce-5-fl-oz.html

Starting Strength will tear you a new asshole. You'll be getting plenty of work if you have the equipment to follow that program -- I have a feeling you won't have adequate weights for it, though.

QUOTE (Brian @ Jan 23, 2013 -> 05:20 PM) UNDEFEATED is the best sports documentary since HOOP DREAMS. It's great. I don't live too far from there.

I like my oats drier than most folks so I don't think overnight would work out for me. Anything that is soggy turns me off so my oats are usually more like a paste than a soup, if that makes sense. Most people think I'm crazy when they see the way I eat my oats.

Thanks for the links guys!

BTN2Go FTW

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 05:31 PM) We're comparing him to Kirk Hinrich, and Nate's hit some big shots. Kirk does the same thing to a much higher degree with regards to holding the ball. PER Nate Robinson - 16.7 Rip Hamilton - 13.4 Kirk Hinrich - 10.5 Marquis Teague - 5.8 Oh, and for s***'s and giggles, Deron Williams has a PER of 18 and Ty Lawson has a PER of 14.6. Nate's been pretty valuable this year to a team that greatly lacks scoring. Nate has filled his role extremely well and I think Thibs has utilized him perfectly. This team occasionally needs a primary scorer to be out there and Nate does that. He can score and create his own shot.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 12:06 PM) i think you're confusing TDEE with BMR Yes I am LOL QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 12:11 PM) Chipotle is the healthiest fast food there is. Free range chicken, grass fed beef, organic local veggies. Good stuff. only problem is that sodium content so... ya know... going ALL chipotle may not be the best idea. I wouldn't stress too much about sodium without an existing condition unless you don't like the bloat or something. QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 03:17 PM) coconut oil is high in saturated fat but it's GOOD saturated fat. I use it every day. WebMD isn't really the greatest source of information. (see the thread in the buster about the gov't and major medical not understanding nutrition) Yeah, I doubt anyone would have too much coconut oil. I advocate it big time. It's not perfect, but it's also nothing like other sat fats -- that said, you need sat fats anyway.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 11:26 AM) What exactly makes him more of a hard worker than say Nate Robinson? You just made fun of the "he's white" idea, but then completely 100% backed it up by saying he's a "hard worker" when it's damn-well guaranteed he doesn't work harder than some of our other bench players. But, he's Kirk Hinrich, so he's a hard-working, white guard? Come on. I look at hard work in terms of what goes on on the court. Obviously NBA players work hard. On the other hand, Kirk is a physically limited guard who has earned a reputation for playing good defense and likewise being a hustle player. Nate doesn't play defense -- not because he's black, a little bit because he's short, but also because he slacks on defense. A lion's share of NBA players use defense as time to rest for offense. Kirk doesn't and never has done this and it is part of him that I like. It is largely the reason he was signed. When I say he's a hard worker, it is because he works harder than most other players, even on a Tom Thibodeau-coached team. I also consider Luol Deng and Joakim Noah as notoriously hard workers. Derrick has a reputation for tireless practice and intensity in game, but we've also seen him look lazy on defense before (this has gotten much better recently). I can't see everything the players do and we're obviously working with a high baseline as far as effort goes. Certain players repeatedly shine because their effort is at a higher level than that baseline and I believe that is perhaps the main reason that Kirk is still an NBA player. And I really don't give a s*** that he's white. If we want to bring up another white guy, Kyle Korver never stood out as a hustle guy to me nor does Marco Belinelli. Marco admitted that he's not used to trying on defense and basically said it was the reason for his early season struggles. With Omer, I can't decide if he was slow in brain, slow in feet, or a bit lackadaisical.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 11:13 AM) Seneca, Selma and Stonewall It wasn't until the mid-90's that interracial marriage became accepted by a majority of people in this country. Wow. I wonder how different it would be if the question was, "do you approve of your child marrying someone of different racial background?" Even my dad, while not being a liberal hero he still is a rather non-bigoted man, once expressed concern that he wasn't sure if he'd be okay with a hypothetical daughter dating a black guy. He said that his childhood best friend was a black guy, he'd never personally known a bad black guy, but nonetheless it is true that in our hometown it would probably a ruin a girl's reputation. This is in Illinois of all places. In the 5-10 years since I brought up that hypothetical, I have a feeling that he feels completely different and wouldn't care so much about what everyone else thinks. I think this type of longitudinal polling shows that same sort of trend. While the raw number of people that approve has shot up, I have to assume the strength of the conviction in those other approvers has gone up as well. Some might have approved in theory but were still uneasy, but I bet now many more are actually fully comfortable with the notion.

QUOTE (Cali @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 11:44 AM) I stay away from Meat and Dairy (sans the occasional Pizza and Fish -- I'm not a hardcore Vegan by any stretch haha) No refined sugars (or HFCS obviously) No GMO's I try to stay away from Oil's and only cook with Coconut Oil if It's needed for a recipe Cut out bread and pasta... bread is the worst one for me haha Try and make all my meals at home and on rare occasions dine out -- It saves $$$ and you know exactly what is going into your food. I do eat lots of greens, and fruits. Fresh nut butters (Almond and Cashew in particular). Make lots of hearty vegetable based soups/chili. Whole grains and brown rice. And most importantly LOTS of Water... Make sure you get enough fats -- I know you are into nut butters, which is a good thing. I'd hate to see you have too low a fat take due to your low intake of oils. You do need fats of all kinds (minus trans fat, more or less) for a fully functioning body. Saturated fat in particular plays a crucial role in testosterone production. Some steak here and there will help you with that, though there are other ways. The MCTs in coconut oil, while AWESOME, do not serve this role btw despite being classified as saturated fats.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 22, 2013 -> 10:16 AM) I dont like him as a person so I am on board with you. He's a tremendous douche. but......he's white!!! I'm okay with Kirk. Don't know anything about him as a person, he's a hard worker, he can defend some and plays smart. He plays okay sometimes, other times he plays so badly that we tolerate Nate Robinson's defense just to get a PG that might score.