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Both Harbaugh's went to my high school (Ann Arbor Pioneer), pretty cool to see.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 11:07 AM) makes perfect sense, and actually as you're training as an actor the one thing you hear over and over again is "if there's something else you're good at, something else you enjoy, or like to do besides acting, you better do that." Yeah, maybe it wasn't your dream job - but when it comes down to it, if you enjoy what you do and the quality of life is where you want it - that's a win to me. It's this thing Duke's talking about where he'll take ANY job just to make more money that I don't really understand. Sure you're making 60K now... but is there room to grow? Room for improvement? or will quitting school have limited that? I don't know the answer - just wondering. I know plenty of people that turned something they loved doing into a job (mechanic for example), but it ended up ruining what they loved to do because it was now work. Sometimes it's better to find something you don't mind doing for work, and saving what you love to do for hobbies.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Jan 21, 2013 -> 10:19 AM) Granola bars are one of the biggest lies ever sold to people as health food. Even intelligent and otherwise healthy people never bother to look at the fact that most granola bars are about equal to eating a snickers bar in terms of calories, fat and sugar. Yea it's ridiculous, the only bars I eat now are the high fiber ones, and I only have those rarely (for more than just nutrition reasons).

I'd love to get some ideas for meals in this thread. One of my favorite snacks to make: English muffin pizzas Take halves of whole wheat english muffins, put on pizza sauce (store or homemade), sprinkle mozzarella/romano, and add some form of protein (grilled chicken, turkey pepperoni, or turkey italian sausage). Bake in over/toaster over until golden brown. Usually about 100 calories per muffin half, tastes really good (if spiced right), satisfies cravings and is decently filling for a snack. I'd much rather eat something like this compared to a near 200 calorie granola bar.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 10:06 AM) I don't see how we could possibly reach .500 in the conference at this point. Games against Nebraska and Penn State are no longer easy wins. Just embarrassing. If there was any talent on the bench I'd say bench the seniors and start working towards next year. But I think Groce is stuck. And while I don't want to blame Groce, since this season epitomizes what Richardson/Paul/Griffey have done while at Illinois (playing well out of conference, being wretched in conference) - the lack of any offensive or defensive scheme is pretty troubling, as is the lack of improvement over time. That's the way these guys have been the last 4 years, but Groce does nothing to help the team other than scowling at the officials. There are no offensive sets that are being run when the team needs a basket. They're not running or forcing tempo. They are AWFUL defensively with few adjustments being made. They're not even competitive anymore. It's run down the court, pass the ball once or twice, get a ball screen, jack up a shot, go back on defense. They average less than a point per possession the last 6-7 games. Abrams disappeared. Bertrand has been in a funk the last several games. Egwu can't stay out of foul trouble. We have no PF. Our bench players have one dimensional skills, and that's being generous. I like to think i'm overreacting but other than Ohio State they really haven't been "good" since the Missouri game. And it's pretty clear that game against Ohio State was much more about Ohio State not showing up than Illinois playing really well. I still think 8-10 in conference, plus 1 win in the BTT gets us in. But yea, one thing I loved about Groce was he kept saying that this team was going to improve throughout the season, that was one his biggest goals. Now, I'm starting to question Groce more (still a big believer), because this has got out of hand once again. I still put most of the blame on this senior class, these guys just don't respond well to adversity or take charge when they need to. Throughout this season and their career at Illinois they have been thrown wake up calls left and right, yet they can never capitalize and instead disappear.

QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 18, 2013 -> 08:19 AM) I've only watched a handful of Archer episodes. Why is everyone yelling all of the time? Because they're all idiots and it's great. Suits premiered last night as well, need to go back and watch both.

There's no defending that loss. I don't really know what to say after that loss except I can't wait to get some new players on this team.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 17, 2013 -> 10:51 AM) http://www.salon.com/2013/01/17/notre_dames_double_standard/ Well the nation is starting to say a giant f*** You to ND and their players. It's slowly changing, but as ND gets more ridiculous people are starting to not accept their bulls***.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 09:43 PM) How many more fans? What should the punishment be? Decades of Sox fans getting their brains beaten in by the media for the Cubs outdrawing us has us thinking we're bad fans. Don't succumb to it and continue to hold the ownership accountable to put a better product on the field. Ownership put a team in first place for over 100 days last season, fans didn't show up. Sox fans have as many excuses as anybody to not show up. Do the Sox need to play well to get Sox fans to buy tickets? Absolutely. But even a .500 ballclub should be around league average for attendance.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 09:20 PM) I don't understand the point of ragging on the fans. Those that do never give an acceptable attendance for the team's performance and what the punishment should be for not making that figure. Should the team be taken away, should we not make the postseason? Just what are they getting at? It's odd to me that people blame the customers of the business while management gets a "they are doing all they can." It's on both sides, 1 part needs to deliver a product people want to watch and the other part needs to show they will support a winning product. Last year the Sox were in first for what, 117 days or something like that? More fans should have been at the park than what we had. That said, a year like 2007 where we just sucked balls, I expect attendance to drop.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 06:51 PM) I appreciate the constructive riticism Russ. What specific posts do you mean? I dont feel like spending the time digging up specific posts, but how about these comments on recent topics: -Fans not supporting the Sox: Multiple posters found solid facts about attendance and correlations to winning/selling off players. It may be true that the Sox haven't done everything they could to put out the best team on the field, but Sox fans definitely haven't put forth their best effort to support the team. It's not a one way street on either side, both need to get better. Also, the whole moving the team comment irked me, but that was probably more just me. -Sox not spending every dime that comes in: It's a business, private at that. Meaning we don't see their books, and therefore it's extremely hard to see exactly what they are spending and/or saving. It may be much closer to the break even point than we know. It's not like the Sox aren't spending money either, they spend quite a bit actually. Could some areas, such as the draft, get more money or need more money? Sure, but that's changing with the CBA rules anyways. -Mods vs poster: This is tiresome, no matter if it's you or any other poster. The mods here are posters as well, maybe they get away with some stuff but from everything I've heard they still get talked to if they go to far. They're still going to bring in some opinions, sometimes extreme ones (look at the Filibuster), but I honestly haven't seen any comment from them that is drastically different/worse than any other poster on here. It's a tiring "woe is me" defense when the poster isn't getting the positive feedback they may desire on a viewpoint.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 06:27 PM) The mods are what make this board what it is. Marty, I used to support you and thought some of your opinions were good in a different way. Recently, you've become a complete ass. You've made some very opinionated statements and haven't backed them up well, and when people question you about them you just blame it on something else or ignore their point while continually stating your opinion without evidence. It's become a tiresome act on this board (not just you, but a lot of posters lately).

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 06:10 PM) I will applaud Hahn if and when he does something right. He has no leash with me since he's failed already. At least 2 of Crain/Thornton/Floyd should have been gone with at least one good young piece coming back who is ready to compete for a job in ST 2013. He's done jack. You are f***ing ridiculous. Hahn can only make moves like this if someone offers those good young pieces. I'd like to see your proof that Hahn hasn't tried getting exactly that for those players. Stop blaming Hahn for factors outside of his control.

Did he really miss the connection between the Lincoln car company and Lincoln himself? That's like the most obvious one.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 03:21 PM) I hated this stuff in college. Whether it was my microecon, macroecon, finance, calculus, econometrics, whatever class - the teacher would go over the simplest problems he could, and then he'd assign 4 or 5 ridiculous problems, and the one on the test would always have some stupid catch that made you stop and question what you were doing. Well, I don't have a problem with having to think about a hard problem on a test But I definitely know what you're onto, a teacher goes over the simple problems, assigns harder ones, and tests on either A) Ridiculously hard questions B) Material you haven't even seen or talked about in class before.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 03:23 PM) Actually the failure of KW to acquire a CF for multiple years was one of Kenny's biggest misses. But he had Sweeney and Anderson on the farm who were supposed to be good one day, plus Chris Young who KW was vilified for, etc. and then Joe Borchard was a CF prospect for a time, and a huge one, as was Jeremy Reed, and all of these guys were at one time very highly touted and consensus ranked top prospects, with a couple being elite in the game. The farm had CF penciled in as more of a strength in terms of prospect depth, but they didn't turn out. If you're going to blame Kenny and say he failed because these guys didn't turn out then go ahead and call everyone else in the game, every GM and every talent evaluator who also liked these players when they were prospects, failures too. Kenny doesn't deserve to be criticized for BA not listening to his coaches or Sweeney not acquiring that power he was supposed to develop, but he does deserve to be criticized for running out Jerry Owens and DeWayne Wise as starting CFs and opening up with Grinderstad in CF as opposed to anyone with any kind of long-term organizational value. So yeah, you hit on one potential area for KW criticism, but only kind of by accident, like when Mike MacDougal found the strikezone. That's actually all on Kenny (when he was GM) He's the one evaluating this players, from talent to coachability, that's 100% on him. It comes with the title. Rick has that now, if Keppinger pulls a Teahen he'll be knocked on that as well. If this team surprises and wins the division then he'll be glorified for that as well.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 03:16 PM) Hey I canonized Kenny a long damn time ago. Kenny has his Reinsdorfian golden parachute retirement prize position now. Sure he's "in the front office" on your computer screen should you take the time to visit whitesox.com but in reality he's on a beach somewhere and the only thing he's scouting is ass. And here I am freezing my balls off getting all worked up over Alejandro DeAza's trade value. Thanks Rick. If it sucks so much then just stop. Rick clearly explored his options for every player on the team I'm sure. He, and the FO, didn't like what was offered then. He's waiting to either get a better deal, and if it doesn't come along then this team is competitive enough to put butts in the seats.

Kenny and Rick are just hotboxing Rick's office. Letting anyone in or out would ruin all the hardwork they've spent on being patient enough to get that office just the way they like it. Seriously people, calm down.

QUOTE (Quinarvy @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 02:34 PM) Anyone know when companies generally start posting summer internships? I keep checking daily for some newspapers and nada. Though I don't even know where I'd look. What area are you looking into? Most companies looking for business and engineering internships filled up in the Fall, though there are still plenty of companies who changed their mind/expanded their programs/etc still looking for interns.

Not sure what I'll be getting back, this is my first time as a fulltime employment so it's by far the most income I've ever had. I usually got a sizeable check back but not sure how much my taxes are going to differ since I'm sure I got bumped up into a higher bracket since it's 7mths of work versus about 4mths of work.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 11:21 AM) People who rag on the fans for their support are really advocating franchise relocation. Yea, please move my favorite team far away from me!!

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 09:22 AM) This is the fanbase that used to make fun of Cubs fans for accepting losing, right? Now we have people who actually want to be losers on purpose? Yeesh. The same fan base that complains about spending money at the park, but still demanding top FAs.

QUOTE (witesoxfan @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 09:03 AM) Another "should have traded everyone post." Awesome. Those have gotten to the point where they've joined any number of other pipedream scenarios on this board, except that I don't know why it should be a pipedream considering the track record of blowing teams up. Because becoming worse is somehow getting better. Nevermind attendance, nevermind the fact that we are constantly fighting for fans from another in-city team. Reason be gone, finances be damned, we want change! We don't care that the Sox are trying to get good deals, we wanted them to make every move rashly!! Bring back Kenny! You know, that same guy we just bashed for the last 5 years for making rash moves!!

Soxtalk is not "me against the mods", it's ridiculous posters who want change for change sake and disregard reason vs realists.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 14, 2013 -> 08:41 PM) Last month I attended a workshop on the flipped classroom concept and have been busy converting my classes. The hardest part so far is learning to produce quality screencasts with decent video. Basically the idea is delivering new content via video as homework and then the students work on what was homework, in class. Using Bloom's Taxonomy it would be having the student working on the lowest levels, comprehension and knowledge at home and the higher levels, synthesis and evaluating in school. I was using the free trial of Camtasia to record video and audio together with a PowerPoint presentation. The software is nice but not $300 nice. Then it seems to drop to freeware that is a struggle to get working correctly. I know we have a couple educators here and perhaps a video person or two. And as a student what do you think? Any thoughts? So I'm not sure about the classroom part, but I've had college courses where the professor essentially reused a taped classroom/ppt video set for almost all the teaching. There was a discussion session each week that would go over some of the problems. (Quizzes and homeworks were done/turned in online). You really have to produce a good set of videos, just because it's on a computer doesn't mean the student will pay attention. In fact, it's probably harder to since the internet, aka Facebook, is right there then. I would really suggest having parents download the videos, and turn off the wifi setting on the desktop/laptop the student is using, that way they are forced to pay more attention. I highly suggest trying to make the videos interactive somehow still, so the student has to pay attention (maybe have quizzes on the content at the end or in class at least). The great thing about this is once done well, it can be reused by the teacher, or can be replayed by the student if they didn't initially understand it. If they need something explained twice, they don't have to hold up the rest of the class. And in a world where critical reasoning is starting to fade, having teachers on hand for that part in class could be useful as well.