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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 10, 2013 -> 10:46 AM) I've also read that it's important psychologically to focus on good diets and exercise for their own sake, not as part of some weight loss goal or ideal. Some people are going to be naturally heavier or skinnier than others at the exact same levels, and someone who's overweight can be perfectly healthy still. When you make diets and exercise tied to weight loss, if someone isn't losing as much as they'd like, they become discouraged and stop. Or they reach their goal weight and then start slipping back into unhealthy diets and reduced activity. Some studies have found that heavily promoting nutritional and exercise programs as weight loss programs can end up having the opposite effect and discouraging obese people from following them. As for the class split, I'd put my money on health care access, not diet or weight issues. Also, the types of jobs worked and the daily stress and struggle of life. Yeah, I don't own a scale...I don't care what I weigh..I gauge my health by how I feel, how I look, and how easy or hard my workouts are. For instance, this morning, I did a pretty intense plyo workout...usually this workout is somewhat stressful for me but not too bad if I am in good shape...but this morning, it was very difficult for me...I struggled to lower my heart rate and keep my breathing under control at times. This was a clear indicator that I have been slacking and need to lay off the pizza a bit and get more workouts in during the week. Americans are so obsessed with weight. It isn't about weight, folks. It's about eating healthy and exercising semi-regularly and being generally active. But that doesn't sell. What sells is results, and tangible results are weight loss. It's unfortunate, but true. As for your last point, I think it is all of the above. I have all the health care access I need, but I cannot tell you the last time I used it, other than to pick up a z-pack or something when I had a cold. Additionally, the stress does add quite a bit, like you mentioned, and there are probably larger instances of smoking and drinking habitually among those at lower income levels. But I do think it is a combination of everything.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 10, 2013 -> 11:37 AM) There's a cultural and economic/market aspect to your own diet, too. Ultimately, yes, you do control what you actually put into your mouth, but your desires for what you want to eat are going to be shaped by the culture around you (advertising, what others are eating, what you were raised on, etc.) and what's available (can't eat what you can't buy). The good thing is that more and more folks are taking an interest in what they eat and how much they exercise, although, the graph you posted earlier makes it clear this is something that is split by class, which is understandable, since more healthy foods do tend to cost more (sometimes significantly more) than less healthy foods.

QUOTE (chw42 @ Jan 10, 2013 -> 11:11 AM) Vazquez has had a few good seasons in the NL (one of them real good), Floyd's on-the-surface numbers haven't really looked good since 2008. But Javy's been out of baseball for a whole year, not to mention he's on the wrong side of 35. He had more than one really good season in the NL...but those were a long, long time ago... I'd take him on this particular squad though.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 9, 2013 -> 02:42 PM) 5 division titles and 1 world series title is the best ownership run since Charles Comiskey. Yes, but in the past there were far fewer playoff teams eligible, so the comparison is not exactly fair.

Don't forget about Tucker/Norm ("Who goes to Santiago, Chile twice in one year?" and Pat Healy ("Really it's only a side thing for my true passion...I work with retards.")

QUOTE (juddling @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 06:59 PM) all this talk about architecture and not one Ted Mosby reference??? Hah, nice...guess he is just too young...

QUOTE (ChiSox_Sonix @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 03:57 PM) Lovie Smith may interview for the Chiefs DC position. I'd have no problems at all with that. That would be one dangerous combination...

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 04:14 PM) I do think his apt buildings in chicago are s*** though. I have been house hunting since I've already torn through the 46 units available in my area and got a chance to look at a Frank Lloyd Wright home for sale in Oak Park. Man I would kill for one of those. Really? What was it priced at? Gotta be a pretty big deal when those hit the market...

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 02:18 PM) well wikipedia disagrees!!!! they called it the "International Style" but I don't know too much about architectural art history so maybe that's just a subset of mid-20th century modern style. Today MCM generally refers to the modernist movement that occurred between 1930 and 1967 or so...I am sure there are subsets with many different names that fall under the larger MCM umbrella.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 01:08 PM) There's the Farnsworth House in Plano edit: It's not MCM but it's pretty much all glass Oh it absolutely is MCM...Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is one of the most celebrated Mid Century Modernists...

Here is a pretty amazing example from brothers Keck & Keck

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 12:14 PM) I'm guessing with Chicago winters, there aren't a lot of places like that in this area of the country, no? Well, Chicago, since the Great Chicago Fire, has been one of the architectural centers of the world, so there actually are quite a few examples. A lot of the MCM movement, especially the American MCM movement came out of the Bauhaus School in Germany. The center for the American take on the Bauhaus actually was Chicago. So a lot of the famous architects from the MCM era did work in Chicago and you can find a lot of MCM works there. To your point though, not all of the MCM homes in the midwest feature such expansive use of glass as their western counterparts.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 11:58 AM) Yea it was more towards the furniture. These are some examples that I would be down, taking advantage of the scenery with the large windows: Yeah, those are absolutely gorgeous. I've read that Cameron's father's house from the Ferris Bueller movie is actually for sale. It's difficult to capture the scenery concept in Las Vegas because there really aren't many areas that are wooded like that. However, we do have some beautiful desert views of the mountains and so forth. One of the things I have been interested in for a few years is an area called Cold Creek, which is about 45 minutes outside of Vegas and is situated at an elevation that is termed "High Desert." It experiences all four seasons, has incredible mountain views, borders National Forest land and has wild horses roaming the area. Unfortunately, it is off the grid, which requires solar power, propane tanks, and backup generators, which is a bit of a hard sell for most people. Land is still affordable there, and I would love to put a prefab on about 5 acres, but I can't convince anyone to live out there with me.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 11:52 AM) Come on shack, call up house hunters and have them tour you around Vegas looking for a MCM home. Honestly, I have probably seen most of them already with the exception of the gated areas that I can't get in to...and even many of those I have seen online... The problem with most of them is that they were either horribly renovated by some idiot in the 80's or 90's, or are just so ravaged by neglect that they are beyond saving. Most of the really outstanding examples are outside our budget (I found an amazing one last week and looked it up online only to find out it sold for $1.2 million cash in '08). The one I have a line on now happens to be located across the street from the Mayors Goodman...I am contemplating calling who I believe to be the owners to gauge their interest in selling, but am still trying to convince the girlfriend that the area is a good area to buy in.

QUOTE (bigruss22 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 12:39 PM) First off, this is about the least weird aspect of you Oh and congrats on the future engagment! Personally, I like to look at pictures of these places, but don't know if I'd ever live in one. It'd really depend on the style, since this genre is pretty broad in that aspect. The biggest thing I have against the genre is that comfort is way distant to style, almost every single chair/sofa that gets put in these places looks like a back nightmare to me. Haha...some of the furniture is very interesting, that is for sure...I have liked the furniture as well, but tend to go with the more contemporary takes on pieces from that era. If you have grandparents that have furniture from this time period though, buy it all off them and put it in a UHaul and come out to California and sell it, because these pieces are going for mucho deniro right now. I don't know about comfort being distant to style though...a lot of what drives the mcm philosophy is integrating nature into the home...lots of windows and natural light, clean lines, an emphasis on landscaping that includes the extensive use of trees and water. But I suppose you are right in the sense that much of the furniture from the era is somewhat spartan due to it's minimalist nature and straight lines.

For about 3 years now I have been obsessed with midcentury modern homes. The home I bought in Sept of '11 has some mcm characteristics, but isn't what I would call truly mcm. Vegas has a fairly rich history of midcentury homes, since the first large scale development took place in the '50's and '60's, but unfortunately, Las Vegas does not do a good job of respecting and restoring it's history. Many of them are in areas that are depressed or dilapidated. Anyways, my girlfriend and I have begun researching potential homes and areas to buy into, as we expect to get engaged shortly (in a few months) and when we move in together will have outgrown our own respective homes. I've been doing a lot of scouting into a few of Vegas' nicer older neighborhoods (there are a few) in search of a really authentic example of midcentury modern. There are a few really great ones I have found, but unfortunately none of them are for sale. This is where I go into cyberstalking mode and begin tracking the owners down via the assessor's office and hitting them up to see if they would sell. Is anyone else into this type of architecture? Anyone live in a mcm home in the Chicago area or another area? Or am I just weird?

Yeah, I feel much better about them interviewing a lot of candidates rather than jumping on a guy like Marrone immediately. I'm just a bit worried we'll outsmart ourselves and hire like some random linebackers coach or something that turns out to be a bust.

Schefter said Emery is getting tips on how to improve the Bears' offense for free by conducting all these interviews

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 08:34 AM) RGKnee conversation with "Expert" at ESPN was quite informative. More at link. I believe Eric Kuselias was tagging her.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 09:03 AM) Saw a projection that had the Sox as a 77 win team right now. I think that's a fair assessment. I think that is fair as well.

QUOTE (kev211 @ Jan 8, 2013 -> 12:28 AM) Norte dame didn't lose to Oregon tonight so your point is worthless Not surprisingly, my point was lost on you.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 18, 2012 -> 05:32 PM) Wait a second . . . nope, Oregon still stuck on 14 points. Wait a second...nope, Notre Dame still f***ing blows donkey balls.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Nov 18, 2012 -> 05:27 PM) Having an opinion isn't disrespectful, but when you spend weeks talking about how much better Oregon and KSU are than ND and then those two go out and wet themselves, then expect to hear about it. Hmmm....

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 7, 2013 -> 07:06 PM) I don't really agree with that. We got nothing in the second half out of Konerko and Dunn. We got nothing out of John Danks. Addison Reed flopped pretty badly out of the closer role. Peavy and Sale didn't really go a full season. There is still plenty of upside here. Maybe so, but we got out of Quintana some pretty similar production that one could have expected from John Danks, Dunn hit 40 home runs, and I don't see PK improving on his '12 numbers a whole lot this season. Hard to expect Sale and Peavy to replicate '12, let alone improve on it in '13, if you ask me.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Jan 7, 2013 -> 03:55 PM) Take a look at how that .733 OPS compares to the production the White Sox got out of 3b, on the whole, for last year. The White Sox got a .201/.286/.314/.600 line out of 3b, with poor defense to boot. Yes, that's including Youkilis's contribution. If Keppinger gives a .700 OPS and stability at 3b, that is effectively an additional impact player for this team compared to last year. My problem is that we got about as much production out of what I would call the "keys" to our ballclub last year as one could legitimately expect, and still couldn't win a crappy division. I just don't see those same keys putting up that same production again this year. It's like when you're playing blackjack and you can't win with 19 and 20's...at some point, you just shake your head and say "it's not my night." I'm kind of feeling that way about this roster. I sure hope I am wrong.