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Secrets of Success
I Used to Be Fat
Sunday, January 13, 2013
(from my blog, Fat Girl Run, originally posted 11/23/12
With the weather getting colder, I recently walked into the newly-built LA Fitness near my house to join. As I sat with the sales consultant who sold me my membership, I told her about my recent weight loss (at the time, 65 pounds in about 10 months). When another salesman came over to say hello, she told him how much weight I'd lost.
"Wow," he said. "You're a real-life success story!"
It was the first time I'd heard someone call me a success story. I'd never thought of myself that way, but I suppose now that I think about it, I am. And now I'm taking ownership of it.
I wasn't always fat. I was a normal-sized, active child who was also a competitive figure skater. I stopped skating in high school, but even after dropping the skating, I was still a two-sport athlete. In the winter, I played on our girls' ice hockey team, and in the spring, I played on the badminton team.
It was after high school that my weight issues began, particularly in that caloriefest known as college. I entered college wearing a size 6/8 - I left it a size 14. The "Freshman 15" is supposed to be proverbial, but for me, it was a reality. I kept packing it on during college, and after graduation, I went even further off the deep end. By 2009, two years after graduating college, I was a size 18 and weighed 230 lbs.
I went on Jenny Craig in 2009, and by 2010, had successfully lost 55 lbs. But then, I plateaued. Hard. To make matters worse, I lost my job in 2011 and couldn't afford to order Jenny Craig anymore, and I subsequently lost all the forward progress I'd made.
I know now what the problem was. Instead of "changing my lifestyle," I'd learned to eat what was given to me. I thought I'd been changing my lifestyle, but what I really needed to do to change my eating habits hadn't sunk in at all. I had merely been forcing myself to eat the Jenny Craig food, and purposefully attempted to deprive myself of the cheeseburgers and burritos that I really wanted to eat.
Once Jenny Craig was out of the picture, all those deprivations were out the window. That coupled with unemployment meant I was sitting around all day eating those cheeseburgers I had so wanted the whole time I was on Jenny. I gained every pound back, and the size 18 jeans made a terrible reappearance.
The job market was a tough go in DC, and after six months, I was forced to move back in with my parents in the Chicago area in November 2011. I continue to lament the fact that I can't walk anywhere in my small suburb, but on the other hand, it has kept me from wandering two blocks down the street to Chipotle and has put a lot of home-cooked (and calorie-controlled) meals on my plate instead.
After I moved home, I started to lose weight. I'm not even entirely sure how it happened or why it happened, but I started to eat less and eat better food, snack less, and drink less. Fast food became a nauseating prospect, and full-fat cheese became Exorcist-level frightening. By June 2012, I'd lost 50 lbs by sheer diet changes alone.
But I needed to do something more. I'd lost 50 lbs, yes, but I could see my momentum start to slow. I'd never been a big fan of exercise - I hated sweating and doing any sort of exercise that I deemed not fun (which was, well, most exercise). Yet in July, I registered for my second 5K. I was determined to jog most of it, and knocked 10 minutes off my previous time, a Turkey Trot in November 2011 that I walked.
I don't know what happened exactly, but something in me switched on. Running was perhaps my most hated activity previously, and I could never find the motivation to follow through with it. But for some reason, I wanted more. I figured out what could make me exercise: competition. By nature, I'm a very competitive person, and I discovered that competition would give me the motivation to run.
So I purchased a Couch to 5K app on my phone for the internal competition of constantly striving for a better pace, a better time, a harder run. I also bought the Zombies, Run! app, which provided the best external motivation possible: running from zombies. With the two apps, I started running almost every day. From August to November, I lost another 20 lbs, bringing my weight loss total to 70 lbs.
In my second Turkey Trot, one year after a 230 lb walk, I completed a 29:48.7 5K, my first sub-30 race and a PR for sure. It's ridiculous to think about how far I've come in a year, and how much I believe I have really changed my lifestyle for good.
I'm a comfortable size 10 (which I haven't been since early freshman year of college), in a size medium in shirts (which I haven't been since high school), and 160 lbs. But I still have more to go. My goal is to lose 20 more pounds, to put me at a weight that is considered within the normal range for my height. I'd love to fit back into a size 6, but even an 8 would make me happy (though I do already have some size 8 pants that fit me).
I'm thinner and much fitter than I've been in almost 10 years, and I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life, physically and emotionally.
So why start this blog? Whenever I got excited about a new PR or a great workout, I feel like I was bugging my Twitter followers about it (most of them follow me for hockey, and probably don't really care about how my run went today). So for me, this is a place for chronicling my progress, bragging about my latest pace, lamenting hangups, but also reviewing healthy foods and recipes, athletic apparel, local races, and more.
Since I began this journey, I've had people tell me I'm an inspiration. It's a huge compliment, and something I'm still not totally comfortable agreeing with. But if you find inspiration from this blog, I'm glad. I just want to share my story in the hopes that others can believe they can do what I did.
Because it's possible. You can do it. You can run a 5K; you can lose 5, 10, 50 pounds; you can learn to love grilled chicken salads so much more than Five Guys cheeseburgers.
Thanks for visiting and joining me on the journey.
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You have motivated me to recommit myself to a healthier lifestyle. Thank you for sharing your story and helping me realize that I can do it if I just set my mind on it. You are a true inspiration.
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What a great blog !! You are truly a success story, so happy to see this. I love it when I see others out there losing weight and changing their life style for the better just by clean eating & exercise! Good for you
Good luck with your 10K or half marthaon training and welcome to spark people !!
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Wow, what an awesome journey! My goal is to become a runner, and I have been thinking about C25K. I wasn't aware of Run Zombies, but I will definately be checking it out now. Did you count calories at all during your 50 lb. weight loss? Or just focus on healthy swaps? You look great!
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Welcome to SP, so glad you are here! May your success story continue and grow!
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You're in the right place, hon - and a genuine inspiration! Glad you're here...
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WElcome aboard. Keep focused for success. You cn do it. Go for it.
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enjoyed hearing about your journey. keep it up.
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Edith Gru
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|It was your cousin's idea!
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Edith Gru is the adopted middle child of Felonius Gru and Lucy Wilde. She has an older sister, Margo, and a younger sister, Agnes.
Not much is known about she and her sisters' past life. Just that some time in their life, they ended up in an orphanage. Miss Hattie, the owner of the orphanage, was a strict ruler, being harsh with the orphans she was supposed to be taking care of. The three of them were forced to spend most of their days walking around selling boxes of cookies, only to be belittled by Miss Hattie upon their return to the orphanage, regardless of how well they did or didn't do. Every night they would pray for someone to adopt them. One day, they sold cookies to Vector, who, at the time, was competing against Gru in stealing the moon. Gru, who had just failed several attempts at breaching Vector's security, looks on in as the three girls are able to walk right into Vector's base. He thinks up a scheme to exploit the girls to steal the shrink ray, which was a key component in both villains' plans to steal the moon, and was in Vector's possession at the time.
Not soon after, Gru follows through with his idea and adopts the three girls, and they move into his dark house. While Agnes is ecstatic at having a new father, Edith and Margo are wary of him, though Edith, being a tomboy, finds many "toys" to play with at Gru's house, including an iron maiden and several weapons, accidentally disintegrating Agnes' unicorn in the process of playing with one of his weapons. At one point Edith asks, "What does this do?" and breaks a glass bottle containing a potion-like substance of some sort.
Edith has dark bluish-grey eyes, light blonde shaggy cut hair and freckles. She wears a striped pink knit cap with ear flaps and tassels, even in bed. At first, she is seen wearing a matching sweater with a red skirt and dark purple leggings and white boots.
Later, in the second film, she instead wears a black garb resembling a ninja's with the same boots, only black. She has also begun carrying around a katana. For sleeping, she wears a long pink night gown. Her hair is never seen because she is never seen without wearing her knit cap.
Edith is currently the least explored of the three sisters, which is understandable considering she's the middle child, the likes of which are stereotypically neglected by their parents.
She shares many traits with Gru, being very destructive, tomboyish and sports a macabre sense of humor. In the beginning, she is reserved and quiet - being opposed to the idea of being an adopted child. Upon seeing all of Gru's weapons and torture devices, her dark, destructive nature is shown when she nonchalantly walks into an iron maiden and starts playing with Gru's dangerous weapons in his lab. She breaks glass bottles with foreign substances in them, plays with Gru's weapons, and at one point pokes at one of the bottles and asks, "Can I drink this?" at which Dr. Nefario responds with, "Do you want to explode?". In response to his answer, she kicks him in the shin and runs off. Edith is also good at ballet, and loves doing it with her sisters.
She appears athletic and agile in the second film, and proficient with many weapons and fighting techniques, including the katana and nunchaku. She had also apparently learned Japanese, as she responds in Japanese ("Hai!") when Gru warns her not to destroy anything at the Cinco de Mayo party. She also express disgust at open affection, saying "Can I be the first to say... Eew!" when Margo and Antonio go out on a date with each other, and when Gru and Lucy kiss at their wedding.
Despicable Me
Their life and relationship with Gru begins rather shakily. Gru sees the girls as pawns in an evil scheme, while Edith and Margo see Gru as some creepy bald guy. Agnes is the only one that trusts him wholeheartedly. Eventually, they do unwittingly fulfill their purpose in Gru's master plan. On their way home, the girls convince Gru to take them to a theme park, where the two groups begin to warm up to each other. Not long after that, Gru's feelings for the girls almost causes him to give up his life's work. Dr. Nefario intervenes, and sends the girls back to the orphanage. Their departure is conducted under stony silence. When they return to the orphanage, all three of them are placed in boxes of shame, which are basically solitary confinement chambers. Edith and Margo express their disappointment in Gru, while Agnes still clings to the hope that he'll come back for them.
At their dance recital, they get kidnapped by Vector, and held for ransom. Gru, in a surprising show of fatherhood, literally gives Vector the moon in return for his girls. Vector, however, betrays the deal, and unleashes his defenses on Gru. To Vector's horror, Gru smashes through his defenses with ease (and style), prompting Vector to flee in an escape pod. After chasing Vector through the skies, Gru, with the help of Dr. Nefario and his Minions, is eventually able to rescue all three of his girls. He promises to never let them go again.
That night, he reads them a bedtime story that he wrote himself, basically detailing how the girls changed his life. And right before leaving, he kisses all three of them good night, until her eyebrows is now scened, when Gru kiss her head.
The girls then hold a second dance recital, with Gru, his mother, Dr. Nefario, and all of the minions attending.
Home Makeover
The Gru family gets a call from the social worker and tells that they are coming to check that Gru's house is suitable for children. If not Margo, Edith and Agnes will be sent back to Miss Hattie. In the beginning, Edith thinks the house is built for kids but after almost slicing two minions with a falling giant axe, she helps her sisters making the house children approval.
Despicable Me 2
During Agnes' birthday party, Edith wearing the ninja suit, she performs a number of stunts. She, together with two other minions perform a magic show which is interrupted by Margo when one of the minions whips out a chainsaw. During the party Edith overhears the conversation between Gru and their neighbor Jillian about how Gru should try dating one of her friends.
After Gru comes back from the AVL, he tells Edith and Margo that they are supposed to go to bed already. When Edith finishes drawing she ask Gru when he is going out on his date and if he is scared of dating. Gru answers that he is not scared of dates or women (despite evidence to the contrary) and bids the girls goodnight.
The next morning Edith, Margo and Agnes begin signing Gru up for online dating. When they try to choose a picture of Gru, Edith falls off the sofa in terror when a image of Gru in his swimming trunks shows up. When Gru come in the room, Margo ask what celebrity does Gru look like, Edith suggesting Gollum, from The Lord Of The Rings. When Gru reveals the news of his new job, Edith is clearly the most enthusiastic about the idea of him being a spy.
The next day Edith accompanies her sisters to the shopping mall to visit Gru at work, finding him in a garbage can. Gru introduce Lucy to the girls by saying "Lucy these are my girls: Margo, Edith ,and Agnes; girls, Lucy; Lucy, girls". Edith greets by saying hi. When they have teased Gru about his budding relationship with Lucy, Gru tells them to go and have fun, though Agnes reminds them to give him a big hug first. A little bit later the three girls are hanging around the fountain and Edith is diving for coins. Agnes asks her if it's stealing but Edith responds "not if my wish was getting a lot of free coins." When Margo leaves her younger sisters to go with Antonio, Edith asks that she be the first to say "eww" and soon finds herself being violently shaken by an excited Agnes before they rush off to find and tell Gru.
The morning after Gru's disastrous date, Edith is surprised and confused by the heart-shaped pancakes Gru serves up for breakfast, usually preferring her pancakes to look like corpses.
When the family arrives at Eduardo's party, Gru's rules for the evening include that Edith should try not to kill anyone, to which she responds in Japanese. When Gru comes back from Eduard's secret lair he gets attacked by a blindfolded Edith who has just destroyed a piñata. Gru then grabs his daughters and raced back home, where he informs them that he had confirmed that Eduardo was actually El Macho. Edith became excited by the revelation, calling it cool, though Gru believed in the opposite. Suddenly, Dr. Nefario appears on the big screen, revealing that El Macho knows that Gru is working for the AVL and has Lucy captive. Edith is later left with her sisters in the house when Gru goes to save Lucy. After Margo and Agnes briefly escape from a mutated Kevin, Edith is found playing ping pong with her nun-chucks down in the lab with the Minions and asks what is going on. When the crazed minion come through the roof, Edith takes it upon herself to try and defend her sisters with her nunchucks.
Dr. Nefario saves the girls by using the antidote on Kevin and he later brings the three girls with him to save Gru. Edith is thrilled shooting all the mutated minions with her jelly machine gun though Gru isn't happy that the girls are there in the first place.
When Gru and Lucy kiss each other during their wedding, Edith is the only one not enjoying the romance in the air and is later seen dancing with her family and being violently shaken by an overjoyed Agnes.
She later joins in with others when the family starts taking pictures and gets shock by Minion who was still infected with the PX-41.
Edith was seen with her family watching a movie, when Dave's pet UFO destroyed the TV screen she and the other minions are the only one who are amazed by what happened.
- Main article: Edith Gru/Gallery
- She has never been seen without her kneecaps, but we did see her wearing her other outfits.
- Edith can be seen wearing her sweater sometimes in Despicable Me 2, but for the most part wears her ninja outfit.
- She's never been seen without her pink hat on in both the 1st and 2nd film.
- When doing ballet, Edith still wears her boots instead of tights and ballet slippers like Margo and Agnes do.
|Felonius Gru • Lucy Wilde • Margo • Edith • Agnes • Minions (Kevin • Stuart • Bob) • Dr. Nefario
|Vector • El Macho • Scarlet Overkill • Balthazar Bratt
|Other characters
| Kyle • Silas Ramsbottom • Marlena Gru • Robert Gru • Fred McDade • Jillian • Shannon • Natalie

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The foundation of the diet should be build by including cereals and millets in the diet. This provides complex carbohydrates which is the body's preferred fuel source. Each gram of carbohydrate provides 4calories.
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One of the many reasons I heart JR is the ability of the community to come together and help members on projects. Last week Krispijn Larrison submitted a video to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry's Month At The Museum contest. Several JR members helped out in producing and inspiring this video. This contest will choose one winner to live and breathe science 24/7 for 30 days as a full time resident of the museum. This whole concept warms my inner 12 year-old. Check out Krispiin's video and help him get into the Museum , Tweet about it with the tag #MATM. I would love to see one of our one JR members behind glass as a science experiment…. maybe that did not come out right awe well.
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How many of us live in the Lancs, Cheshire, Merseyside/Wirral areas?
I live in Southport, and I'm up for a bake off or two (or even three) over the next twelve months (a different venue each time).
So, could you please respond if you are interested, and list your answers to the following questions:
1) Preferred day(s) of the week
2) Preferred timing (morning/lunch; lunch/afternoon; late afternoon/early evening or evening from 6pm)
3) Preferred dates?
4) Willing to host?
5) Your location
6) if you want, a mention of kit you have (if hosting) or could bring
I'll start with:
1) &2) any evening, Mon - Fri
any weekend, late afternoon/early evening
3) flexible, except not over Easter, please
4) Happy to host one
5) Southport
6) Slim Devices Transporter, Jeff Rowland amps, not too much very movable to other venues though. Possibly dCS Verdi Encore to bring if it doesn't sell.


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Narrated by Queen Latifah, this moving film follows a walrus and a polar bear cub on their journey from birth to adolescence to maturity and parenthood in the frozen Arctic wilderness. Once a perpetual winter wonderland of snow and ice, the walrus and the polar bear are losing their beautiful icebound world as it melts from underneath them.
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The Oregon Legislative Assembly convenes on January 12 in Salem and will run through early July. Our priorities for the 2015 legislative session are primarily focused on reversing the decline in state investment in higher education. We are also pursuing a number of capital construction projects including the Marine Studies Initiative, expansion of the College of Forestry complex, continued expansion of OSU-Cascades in Bend, improving accessibility on the Corvallis campus and increased investments in the OSU Statewide Public Service Programs – OSU Extension, Agricultural Experiment Station and Forest Research Laboratory.
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Wash sale
Wash sale. Under IRS rules, a wash sale occurs when the same or a similar security is purchased within 30 days before or after the sale of a security, when that sale involves a capital loss. When a wash sale is triggered, the capital loss is disallowed.
Expanded Definition
Okay. So you've got a loss in a stock. Is there anything you can do to take advantage of this situation? Well, if the stock is held in a taxable account, yes, there is. If it's held in a tax-advantaged account such as an IRA or 401(k) account, then you'll just have to suck it up and eat the loss or wait for the stock to recover.
In a taxable account, you can sell the stock at a loss and record a capital loss. This can be used to offset a capital gain from some other sale. There are rules to follow there about how to allocate the offset, so be sure to understand them.
However, all if for naught if you don't follow some simple rules regarding that sale for a capital loss.
The basics
First, the capital loss must be in a taxable account. (Alright, this was already said. Bears repeating.)
Second, you cannot have bought the same security within the 30 days preceding the sale.
Third, you cannot buy the same security within 30 days after the sale. The point of this rule is that the IRS wants you to be exposed to the risk that the stock price could rise after the sale. Otherwise, you could sell the stock, take the loss, then immediately buy the stock back and get the benefit of that price rise. Sweet, but not allowed.
Fourth, it doesn't matter whether you buy the stock back within the same taxable account or in a different account (other taxable account, IRA, etc.). So, you cannot sell the stock in your taxable account and two weeks later buy it back in your IRA. That's essentially the same security and you're out of luck on taking the loss.
Fifth, you cannot direct a company you own or have control over to buy the stock instead or have your spouse purchase the stock within that + / - 30 day window. This is part of the "essentially" definition according to the IRS. The IRS views both of those as "essentially" you doing the purchase.
In other words, Fool, if you want to take advantage of a capital loss to offset some taxes you owe on capital gains or even your income, you have to be completely out of the stock for a set amount of time. Just remember, that 30-day window applies to both sides of the sell date.
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However, the loss is not disallowed forever. If you manage to forget and buy the stock back during that + / - 30-day window, the loss is not allowed. Instead, the disallowed loss is added to the basis for the new shares. This essentially wipes out the capital gain you would have up to the amount of the loss from when you do sell those shares in the future.
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The Moraine Park Foundation's third annual Phantom Golf event raised just over $1,300 for scholarships for Moraine Park Technical College students.
This year's Phantom Golf was based on the 2009 U.S. Open Championship, which will take place June 15-21 at Bethpage State Park's Black Course in Farmingdale, New York. On March 19, Phantom U.S. Open golfers "played" 18 holes of the Black Course by drawing scores from marked range balls from the comfort of their chairs at Schmitty's Oar House in Fond du Lac. This year's event was sponsored in part by Schmitty's.
Top prizes included dinner packages, U.S. Bank Championship tickets, U.S. Open merchandise, concert tickets and rounds of golf.
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The first time I voted, I'm so ashamed to say that it was for Clinton in his first term. I was pretty apolitical then, and just doing what the people I was around a lot then did. It didn't take long for me to realise my mistake-first, once I began really thinking about things (that always helps,duh:)), I realised I didn't really agree with him on anything. Why did I vote for him then, you may well ask? Good question, I'll have to think more to give a rational answer, LOL, because I don't think that there is one. All I can say is that while I was uninformed, I voted for him-once I became more informed, I realised my mistake. Growing up helps a lot too.
The Lewinsky/impeachment mess just put it all into stark relief for me, I was converted (or maybe not converted, I would say finally understood myself, having finally actually given things some thought) by the time that came about.
So the moral of my story is, when you are uninformed either in honest ignorance or willfully, there is much chance that you may vote for a liberal. Once you're informed, if you're honest about things, there is no choice but to vote for conservatism. I'm ashamed to say that I came to the realisation later than I should have, considering that I was never a socially liberal person.
But all's well that ends well, and the more I learn, the more I am reinforced in the rightness of true conservatism, and the more I abhor liberalism. To know it is to despise it and its most prominent proponents of present times. For the leading lights of present liberalism, I don't believe that THEY even believe in it. Most seem to have no TRUE convictions of ANY kind, other than what serves their own purposes of ambition, greed, or ego.
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Now you can eat local and fresh all year round at many Hudson Valley farmers' markets. Start tomorrow,
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Next Saturday, January 18, "Down to Earth Farmer's Market," 10 a.m.-2 p.m. (every first and third Saturday until April) – Amenia Town Hall, 4988 Rte. 22, Amenia
January 18, 12 noon – 3 p.m. – "Say Cheese. Mastering Quick Mozzarella" at Hawthorne Valley Farm Creamery. Start the new year with a fun day of stretching mozzarella. Watch the process from start to finish and taste what Hawthorne Valley cheese maker Peter Kindel creates against some of the other mozzarellas out in the market. Space is very limited for this special workshop; so register in advance. $20 deposit required; class is $50 per person.Register via email or phone 518-672-7500, ext. 232.
Peter Kindel has been making, selling, tasting, and teaching facts about cheese for 18 years. He has been a cheese maker at creameries in Vermont, Colorado, and California and is currently the cheese maker at the Hawthorne Valley Farm Creamery, 327 County Rte. 21C, Ghent.
January 24-26 – Northeast Organic Farming Association NY (NOFA) Winter Conference "Preserving the Past; Seeding the Future" – The 32nd Annual Organic Farming and Gardening Conference at Saratoga Hilton and City Center, Saratoga Springs – Pre-registration ends January 15. For further information or the conference schedule, visit Winter Conference.
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I'm looking at buying a new iMac 27" for university and want the hard drive + ssd but the problem is that its so expensive. So is it possible to install another hard drive without adding in the option? Also I don't want an SSD - I want more storage for the OS, so I would replace it for a 500gb hard drive if it would fit. Has anyone done this, or is it not possible?
On the immediate downsides - You will need special tools and be handling some delicate parts. Also, there is concern that the temperature sensing since the 2009 model iMac causes the fans to run faster with non-apple drives.
If you really want to get dust between the LCD and the front glass on a brand new mac and take the chance of ripping a tiny ribbon cable - just do some research at ifixit.com or talk with a local tech that works on new iMacs a lot. Do also research fan control and know if you are not planning on an Apple specification drive to install.
My guess is Apple SSD are expensive because the parts are cherry picked to be the best of a lot (more so than the SSD consumers buy) and perhaps loaded with custom firmware and generally have temp sensors specific to the mac. I could be totally wrong, but even if you feel the drives are overpriced, Apple installing any SSD is better than a consumer due to the labor for for installing them is almost nil as they are installed at the most economical time - at assembly.
If you can't afford it now - why not expand to an external SSD over firewire or ThunderBolt later. They are totally silent and small. It just seems the risks of DIY on a new mac make it better for most people to pay a trained tech to do the install.
The current line of iMacs has space for one 3.5" and one 2.5" drive. You can fit a SSD or HDD in either slot at a later point in time. But be cautious, this is not an easy task due to the space constrained nature of the device.
Yes you can install an aftermarket SSD into the 27" iMac but there are a few obstacles which you will have to overcome, like the Hard drive sensor cable and cleaning the iMac glass so particles are not stuck between the actual display and the glass.
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What is gained from the community must be returned to them, including the care for the environment always supported every step. "We always remember that the Coca Cola can grow into a great company is due to the role of the community. So, it's time for us to share happiness with them. Though being small, we hope it can still mean a lot," said Fatma Kemala Andika, CSR & Corporate Affairs Specialist of PT. Coca-Cola Amatil Indonesia (CCAI) in Kuta recently.
Through the CSR program, added Fati, the close appellation of the women from Padang, her party ceaselessly devoted to the environment and shared love to each other through social activities. Developing human and natural resources was a sustainability program having been conducted in various regions across the archipelago. "The program is focused on the community by providing education, health, infrastructure assistance and aid for the victims of natural disasters," she said.
Meanwhile, in the preservation of the environment, her party often performed turtle hatchlings release, cleaned up shrines, reforestation and beach cleanup held since 2008. "The social actions have now entered into the parts of Indonesia considered necessary to get the attention like Aceh, Lampung, Java and now in Bali," she said.
On Paradise Island, explained the woman liking shopping, the PT CCAI Environmental Care Team selected the Kuta area as the center for environmental awareness activities. It was driven by the fact that Kuta was the center for Bali tourism visited by many foreign and domestic tourists. Dense population living in the area automatically resulted in the greater community and the environmental problem. "We are deploying special officers to clean up the beach over there," she said.
According to her, the coastal janitors consisted of local residents paid each month. They were in charge of cleaning up the beach every day whose length reached about 75 km. There were five beaches whose sanitation was always maintained by her team, namely the Jimbaran, Kedonganan, Kuta, Legian and Seminyak Beach. Each of these beaches had different members, pursuant to the width and volume of garbage. "By and large, when tourists see the activity, they will be interested and directly participate," said Fati proudly.
Meanwhile, for the programs focused on the community, the CCAI provided free education to underprivileged children. One of them was by providing support through training facilities in the form of the method of processing waste and living a healthy life. For children in the rural area of Bangli, her party provided the experiences and opportunities for children that liked playing football. They were trained to play football by the Asia Soccer Academy. "Through this program, we want the underprivileged children can channel their hobby," she said.
Moreover, when giving a contribution to protect marine wildlife, tourists and local residents always participated. As evidence, her party got involved in the Kuta Beach Sea Turtle Conservation 2010 filled with turtle hatchling release and attended by hundreds of tourists. At that time, her party made collaboration with Kuta customary village, Kuta Task Force and the Bali Sea Turtle Society. "In the future, the CCAI will take action in eastern Indonesia such as Kupang," she concluded. (BTN/ocha/015)
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If you haven't gotten over the break up of the White Stripes, then you should check out Blood Red Shoes. Though they're not exactly like them, there are times when the UK duo are reminiscent of the band only with less blues influences. For their fourth album they decide to turn up their raw power making way for an intense adventure into garage rock. The songs here are harder, dirtier, and better than the ones found on their previous release.
The opening instrumental "Welcome Home" prepares the listener for what they should expect to find here. It's nothing but dirty, harsh, sexy music coming at you to get your head banging. As soon as you hear the opening lick, it pulls you in for more. The way the guitar riff keeps building up throughout the short track keeps the listener in anticipation, wondering what to expect next. Even though it is an instrumental, it never grows dull. "Everything All At Once" has a raw feel with music buzzing throughout the entire song. It's upbeat, energetic, and something that definitely gets you pumped up. It's songs like this that make you wonder why these guys don't get more recognition in the States.
"Grey Smoke" is notable for it's smoldering hot riff and sensual vocals from Laura-Mary Carter. Everything here sounds dangerous, yet sexy at the same time. The way she sings "Fire, in the bottom of my stomach/being taken/Over, it will hold ya, in the grip of his cold hands" tingles your spine. The whole vibe is really slick and cool. But if there's one song that makes you think of The White Stripes it's "An Animal." Something about the dirty, classic rock inspired guitar riff reminds you of the former band; probably because it's simple, yet powerful. The guitar is intense, sounding like it's about to snap in half. But things get a bit mellow on "Far Away."
There's a slight musical build up here, but it doesn't get too intense allowing the band to take it easy. But just because it's a slower track doesn't mean it's boring. They keep things going with the heartfelt lyrics like "Were you listening? Let's go/Took me all the way back into your car/Where we going? I don't know/I just wanna be anywhere but here" and the interesting music. Also, the vocal style here is awesome. Steven Ansell sings the majority of the song in a straightforward, almost monotone manner. Carter comes in during the chorus sounding sweet and as lovely as ever. It's a really nice contrast with their singing styles, which is one of the reasons why the two work so well together.
From here the LP gets slow, heavy, and a bit dark. "Speech Coma" has slow, intense, dirty riffs that hypnotize you while the two constantly sing "I can't get the words out/it's like someone cut out my tongue." It seems like a simple song that works on repetition and heavy music, but either way it's still a satisfying song. Plus, the way they use repetition here is catchy, rather than annoying. "Stranger" is significant because it begins with a riff that sounds like nothing else on the LP. It a haunting riff that sets up the tone of the song. Carter's vocals even follow the melody of the riff in a dreamy sort of way, but it also sounds like there's pain hidden in her voice, which provides a somber undertone making the entire thing kind of eerie. Still, it's great to hear them shake things up every once in a while.
For this album, Blood Red Shoes pulled out all the stops and made sure to be rawer, harder, and more intense than before. The music is fierce most of the time, but there are moments when it's downright eerie. Still, all of the tracks here will get you headbanging and ready to jump around. They take listeners back to pure rock music with no fancy tricks or gimmicks. Just two musicians who want to deliver the best music to the world. One thing is clear, this UK duo loves to rock out and don't show any signs of stopping anytime soon.
Blood Red Shoes' new LP is available now. They will be touring the US in support of the new album this May. The duo will make their Chicago stop May 17 at Schubas. Tickets are on sale now. To learn more about Blood Red Shoes, visit their official website.
Blood Red Shoes North American tour dates
May 07 DC9 Washington, DC
May 08 Kings Raleigh, NC
May 09 Shaky Knees Fest Atlanta, GA
May 10 Strange Matter Richmond, VA
May 11 Boot & Saddle Philadelphia, PA
May 13 Great Scott Boston, MA
May 14 Glasslands Brooklyn, NY
May 15 Mercury Lounge New York, NY
May 16 The Garrison Toronto, Canada
May 17 Schubas Chicago, IL
May 18 The Frequency Madison, WI
May 19 7th St Entry Minneapolis, MN
May 21 Riot Room Kansas City, MO
May 22 Larimer Lounge Denver, CO
May 23 Kilby Court Salt Lake City, UT
May 26 Casbah San Diego, CA
May 28 Brick & Mortar San Francisco, CA
May 30 Barboza Seattle, WA
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2005 - Against USC, jumped a lifetime-best 23-2.50 in the long jump ... Placed second in the triple at the RJ/JJK Invite (48-6.25, season-best) ... Won the triple at the UCLA Invite (46-7.25) ... In indoor track, jumped 22-7.25 in the long jump at the Husky Invite.
2004 -- Placed fifth at the UCLA/USC dual meet with a best of 22-5 ... Jumped 47-7.75 in the triple jump at Pac-10's, finishing 13th overall ... Had an Indoor best of 48-2 in the triple jump at the MPSF Championships.
High School -- At the CA State Meet, placed third in the triple jump with a jump of 48-10.75 ... Named a Los Angeles Times' Boy's Track and Field All-Star ... Received All-league and All-Ventura County honors ... Was named second-team All-CIF Southern Section ... School record holder in the long and triple jumps ... Prep bests are 22-6 (LJ) and 48-11 (TJ).
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Who would have thought Indiana had reptiles who needed rescued?
When Sheryl Mitchell was a mother and completing her undergraduate degree at Indiana University, she never would have guessed that she would one day be Bloomington's very own Marlin Perkins. But, as Sheryl has certainly found out, life is full of surprises. Much like ASR reporter Gabrielle Reed's surprise when she discovered that a Midwestern town had a dire need for a reptile rescue center.
While some people believe that the only good snake is a dead snake, Sheryl makes it her life's mission to rescue abandoned reptiles in the area. This episode was reported and produced by Gabrielle Reed.


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Is there any way to mount NTFS partitions in OpenSolaris? This is the main issue preventing me from testing it out for more than a day. I need to be able to mount my external. I have vast experience with GNU/Linux and want to try out other Free-Libre Operating Systems.
You'll need the ntfs-3g driver just like on GNU/Linux systems. You can grab it here from sunfreepacks.com as
You can then mount them like so:
Of course, change the disk and partition accordingly.
An update for mid-2012: OpenIndiana/Illumos (essentially a community fork of OpenSolaris) continues to use the same approach, but I found a few differences in the setup and a very useful tip from DAMIAN WOJSŁAW at http://trochejen.blogspot.com/2011/11/openindiana-and-ntfs-3g.html. The following recipe, which includes initial steps for identifying an external USB harddrive with the NTFS partition on it, was effective for me on OpenIndiana desktop 151_a5:
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For 56 years, RSSI has established itself as the premier show in the rail and rail transit communication and signal industry. With dedication from exhibitors, railroad attendees, and board members, RSSI has seen its member companies grow to more than 285. The 2016 RSSI C&S Exhibition will be an RSSI only event focusing on bringing C&S suppliers together with their rail and rail transit customers. Food and beverages will be provided in the exhibit hall during show hours. The 2016 exhibition will be held June 28-30, 2016 at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center, Grapevine, Texas. For additional information, go to http://www.rssi.org/2016-portal/index.html.
The international conference on Next-Gen Train Control will feature comprehensive project updates and in-depth technical sessions presented by leading rail experts from around the world. Entering its third decade, this conference is the rail industry's single-most important gathering of communications and signaling professionals from around the globe.
The leading international trade fair for transport technology every 2 years in Berlin. The 5 main segments consists of Railway Technology, Railway Infrastructure, Public Transport, Interiors and Tunnel Construction. In 2014 the show combined 138,000 attendees from 146 countries with 2,700 exhibitors from 55 countries.
Railway Age builds on its successful Crude by Rail conferences with a revised and expanded format: ENERGY BY RAIL. We'll examine the issues and trends surrounding the many types of liquid energy and ancillary products that move in railcars. Liquid energy, a growing source of railroad traffic as well as a driver of new freight car construction for carbuilders and component suppliers, is tightly regulated and a source of public concern over safety. The agenda will discuss LNG, compressed natural gas, crude by rail, ethanol, energy independence, regulatory changes, and more.
The 2016 Railroad Environmental Conference will be held 1-2 November on the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. RREC 2016 will feature presentations by railroaders, consulting engineers, academics and others involved in all aspects of railroad environmental topics. Presentation topics will include: Compliance & Permitting; Ecological Conservation; Energy, Emissions & Air Quality; Environmental Analysis; Environmental Management Systems; Environmental Response; Noise & Vibration; Passenger Rail & Transit; Remediation; Risk & Liability Management; Stormwater & Wastewater; and Sustainability.
All individuals interested in the topics to be presented are encouraged to attend. We expect representatives from all of the Class 1 railroads, as well as short line, passenger, commuter, and rail transit organizations to be in attendance. In addition, most of the major environmental engineering consulting firms serving the railroad industry will be represented. Environmental researchers from academia and representatives from environmental regulatory agencies are also expected.
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Prep School Scam: Chinese Students Exploited by Endowment-Hungry American Schools
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Chinese getting scammed for once? :D
Anyway, they worship brand names more so than the rest of the world. Having an Ivy League education would do wonders for them back home.
Even so it's not ethical for the schools to take advantage of them like that. At some point these students will have to prove their international education skills and when that time comes they will realize that their education was just a waste of money. Students and parents world-wide should be able to make the difference between quality education and education that only wastes their money. I preferred to have an online mba degree just because I assessed my options locally and I couldn't find something to stand up to my expectations. Doing some research before applying for an university really pays off.
I don't see the fraud.
The Chinesee recruiters said "your child will get a "special education" with other "special" students and that's what they got.
It makes me smile to see the Progressive usurpation of language coming back to bite them in their socialist asses.
Doesn't Schumer want to give citizenship to any foreigner who comes in and spends 500k on our real estate?
Hey you. American Looser. Buy my plastic crap to give your kids and I buy your house and your kids place at school. Deal? ROTFL
Nest up: Chinese student bubble.
Sad our nation is becoming one Big Fraud.
Move over. Gonna buy a shitty 250k house and get a visa. American losers!
Interesting article. I heard the opposite--that the Chinese are sending these kids to "infiltrate" America by learning its language and culture--probably paranoid nonsense.
In any case, significant numbers of rich American students take a coctail of meds each day. I hate to think of what the long term effects of this will be on their developing brains. I have a real issue with these meds, which I believe are based on false "science" with little or no controls or accountability by big pharma. But for some reason--misplaced trust in experts perhaps, their parents buy into the psychological/psychiatric meme. You would think they would know better since many of them play a big role as "experts" in trashing the world economy.
I would imagine the Asian students who come are probably not saturated with meds. Whether that or their work ethic explains their superior performance, they at least do the work and do not have to be "gently persuaded" or coddled. This completing of assignments, keeping up with the daily homework, and studying in advance for tests gives them an incredible advantage. Many of them also display amazing virtuosity in musical performance. They really raise the bar for American students, only a few of whom are at the same level. From a purely student perspective, ours is a degenerate culture of entitlement soon to be buried by these go-getters who really know the score. Pity for America, with its tradition of anti-intellectualism, but richly deserved. America's getting-something-for-nothing mentality is proving to be our undoing.
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You may not be THAT paranoid. And, everything else you mentioned is spot on, too!
Thanks...regarding meds, I recall reading an article several years ago in Der Spiegel which implicated ritalin in early onset Parkinson's disease. It always made me wonder if Michael J Fox, bless his heart, was given ritalin as a prepubescent child.
I can't speak to Hero's experience, but I can speak to my own. Speaking from personal experience, the private schools engaging in this behavior are truly in essence scams. The bottom line you will find in common with all is that they possess no endowment. They are broke. They are 501c3's that have escaped notice by the IRS which is not assuring that governance and stewardship is occurring.
Therefore, since these schools are essentially bankrupt and have usually done very little in the last forty years to upgrade facilities or build modern and innovative structures for science and lab work and the like, they totter from year to year hoping to get "heads on beds" in order to pay operating expenses.
The Boards at well run private schools spend a lot of time doing governance and making sure that money is raised. So, there are plenty of private schools with endowments of 10 million and more.
Those endowments then provide specific monies for professional development and student programs as well as capital monies to fix the campus.
At prep schools which are scamming the Asians, typically you have an over staffed administration; lots of duplication of staffing across departments; heads of schools pulling down fat salaries and living rent free and traipsing about the world supposedly raising money but actually merely on a lark.
The IRS should look into schools that are failing to raise money. That's why they get to be called a 501c3 and not a for profit. But they have to demonstrate ample fund raising. If they can't, pull their status.
I predict that will begin to happen sooner rather than later.
Sadly. Because some very fine old places that were mismanaged will close.
Pretty much the only people who send their kids over to the US are ones with money who either:
1) Have dumbass kids who failed to get into good schools here
2) Have kids who's potential failure to get into a a good school over here was be a major loss of face
For high school enrollment, it's basically because they want to get out of gaokao requirements and have the money to do so... or again, they failed to get into the major high schools and see a US educational background as preferable to a no-name school over here.
The only thing worthwhile in US education anymore is grad and post-grad... but even that is starting to shift now. In hiring decisions, local applicants with overseas education are pretty much straight into the circular file as far as my decisions go unless it's a MS or PHD. Been burned too many times in the past by dumbass rich kids who have no idea what they are doing, while locals with local education have the basics down more times than not.
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Smarter Chinese and Korean families send their children to Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Even India and nearby Philippines are good for immersion in English speaking environments. English language schools are good business.
And the best American Universities have now opened branches in China itself.
Dook opened in China this summer, and they sent Coach K & the basketball team over to play exhibitions.
Just got the annual report from the prep school in NC where my oldesst daughter went to. Valedictorian was from Seoul. He got a full ride to that other well known basketball power, Cal Tech.
How about milking these internationals, and then using that to give a merit blind free ride to US citizens? If you want to see our own educated, take these families to the cleaners and use the money towards a first class education for US citizens.
>How about milking these internationals, and then using that to give a merit blind free ride to US citizens?<
"The number of Chinese students at U.S. private high schools... 6,725 in 2010-11"
- How many US students do you think will be 'helped'?
- What benefit would students, or society at large, derive from giving kids a 'merit blind free ride'?
How many US students do you think will be 'helped'?
The more international students that pay in full to US universities(public and privately funded), the more US students will be helped.
What benefit would students, or society at large, derive from giving kids a 'merit blind free ride'?
The reason I say merit blind is to keep the US open admissions system intact - where one number doesn't tell you how much freedom you will have - versus a less open system like those found outside the US.
Keeping it merit blind for all US universities, outside of US citizenship and completing secondary education, improves access.
In short, make a good situation out of it by giving more opportunity to US citizens, instead of handing slots exclusively to internationals.
Let's give all "merit blind free riders" what they deserve. A swift kick in the ass daily.
The Chinese middle class is rising. They now have spare money to throw away. A growing manufacturing base makes everything look rosy. The middle class Chinese entrepreneur is optimistic about the future. That's what this article tells me.
I can tell you endless stories of corruption in the US educational system. I used to frequent Princeton Review's site 10 yrs ago to give prospective grad students tips on scoring high on the GRE, LSAT, etc & I heard so many stories of outright corruption in the US educational system.
Concenring the article about preying on foreign students, it's been going for the last 40 yrs as far as I know & this article is only the tip of the iceberg. I will be more than happy to write articles for ZeroHedge or even publish a book on this subject. Feel free to contact me. But from my personal observation, there's too much greed & profit-generating mentality in Western international schools, most prominently in catholic schools. I learned the hard way why state & church are separated for a good reason. They are cash cows for the American education industry & you are educated to become cheerleaders of Bush.....The mentality was like "It's OK to kill Arabs & steal their oil as long as you don't get caught (...like shoplifting).
But as a side note, the story is a bit more complex than the above article claims...There's fraud actually on both sides - the students & the school (from elementary school to graduate universities.)
And the best part is, these kids aren't learning jack! And there's no jobs for them! The divine comedy continues.
Preying on international students is nothing new.....I went to a catholic high school run my missionaries & it was so corrupted.
Bribing teachers (especially Indian female students) & corruption were so rampant that the principal was kicked out of school. The guy was such a d**khead he liked money & touching women more than eductional & Indian girls took advantage of him in exchange of higher grades.
I can tell you endless tales of corruption.
pure insanity
This is so funny, truly funny. Pretty soon nobody will want to come to the US because they can't trust anything in the country. We are a third world nation.
Yes, this is eventually what will happen - once the US degrees' value depreciates on account of such practices, word will spread quickly around the continents and except for the top 10% or 20% of institutions, the rest will be seen with suspicion.
In Europe they are touting the same to Asia but from what I have seen, at least their screeninng and selection process is pretty intact and uniform so that only those who meet the benchmark and have money get in.
There's a Sucker born every minute...with 1.5 billion people, maybe five suckers born every minute.
Hey, how about the sucker ads on TV for colleges of every description that will train you do become CEO earning Bookoos money upon graduation...even better, it's all online! You don't even have to go to class....
Yes, just fill out these loan papers here....lets see.....
The higher education system has been the place where people learn about extortion and influence peddling. The system turns out good little corporate widgets, for a fee. These are the situations that "
The Four Money questions" deal with very well.
I am not sure of the point of this other than a bunch of well off Chinese parents are sending their kids to America and may be overpaying. The reality is that Asians are more and more the dominant demographic on University campuses in the West; US, Canada, UK etc. Have you reviewed the last names of the class of 2011? undergrad, grad, meds etc.
Your comment
(Typically, I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but this whole thing looks at least in part like some kind of an effort to retard China's progression to a developed economy starting from the next generation, but to no avail.)
is, to use your words, retarded.
That's a problem of admissions policy and Affirmative Action not applying for white students not already covered.
Your Bradshaw link does not show the huge overrepresentation of Jews at the elite colleges. Combining this with the strong asian presence and the ongoing efforts to load up on minorities leaves a shrinking place for white European-descended non-Jews.
Higher education is a big player in anti-white policy.
The only thing this tells me is the chinese must use phonics reading instruction rather than the whole language model that most U.S. public schools use. My local public schools traditionally produce 8th graders that test at 2-3 grade levels below reading comprehension. 75% of our high school juniors fail the state high school exam, and 40% drop out. The NIH, Eunice Kennedy Schriver Institute says that explicit, systematic, phonics is the way that our k-3 students should be taught to read. Yet, our teachers colleges continue to train prospective elementary school teachers whole language instruction. How many more generations of children will be lost do to this progressive nonsense before the American public finally wakes up. I'm 57 and my grade school teachers were women in there 50's and 60's and phonics is what they used. I'm am so disappointed with the people I speak to about this issue, when while presenting these facts their eyes just seem to glaze over. I think it is time to start buying gold.
The dumbing down of America is intentional. It's easier to control a population that is illiterate and can't perform basic math. There were people in my MBA classes that belonged in remedial math class. My MBA school is a top 50 in the country
I used to think this was a conspiracy theory but lately I have met people who know people who work for people in "public office" and it was startling: with all the fiscal mess the US finds itself, tax revenues will be hard to increase unless the economy comes into a growth trajectory (growth that starts to lower unemployment), and big business is already a lean, mean fighting machine having cut jobs in great quantities in 2008 and increasing productivity and work loads for those who are lucky to keep their jobs. Meanwhile the population keeps ticking higher but hard times are causing drop-outs from high schools and universities - so there are morons in the USA who say that this is like an "equalizing mechanism" - less skilled jobs opportunities mean less skilled people needed and so as youth drop out of universities, they will be less educated and "easier to keep busy" while we need a decade or half to shrugg off the impact of all this mess......so in short: we'll cross that bridge when we get there - for now let these "self-correcting mechanisms kick in".
Illiterate people are a lot smarter than you think. They haven't been indoctrinated and have oral stories stored in their brain instead of on paper. If they could take an I.Q. test they'd put all of us to shame. They're very creative people and can recite just about any thing. It's quite the opposite because it's literacy that has dumbed us down. Similar to how copy and paste has dumbed me down. This quote is true because I could only remember the context of it. North Koreans are the most literate people in the world and the most oppressed. Now you know what the war on illiteracy is all about.
"for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality." - Plato on Phaedrus
Illiterate people are a lot smarter than you think, IF they aren't brainwashed by TV and other artifacts.
You mean Fahrenheit 451? I've read it. The end implies a new renaissance where people store knowledge in their minds rather than on paper. The message of the book is the same. Anything, though, is better than watching television which is a very efficient brainwashing machine. You could give people the most aggressive brainwashing at an institution and still in most cases they wouldn't live in fantasy like the television does to people. Television is degenerative and puts people in a suggestive state of mind which is ripe for implanting new beliefs.
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One exclusive injury note has morphed into a desire by the athletic department to control all information related to it, and that the Ducks' media policies at spring practice are unreasonable and excessively harsh. Funny how a simple news item can take on a completely different meaning. Not so funny when it began at your own keyboard. The football program provides an injury report for the media's perusal prior to every practice. It does not go into specifics for reasons such as privacy and I should have refrained from doing so as well. Bottom line, I screwed up.
How this led to grousing about Oregon's media policies at practice is a mystery. The new coach is locking out the media? Give me a break. Chip Kelly is one of the most accessible coaches I've ever worked with and has even encouraged people to come watch the Ducks practice on his own blog. Spring practices are open - as they've always been - and reporters can interview players and coaches at the end of practice - as they've always been able to do. The changes we've made from a media standpoint are that all interviews are held after practice, not before AND after, and that media members make their interview requests a day in advance. The first change is because players go directly from meetings to practice and the second helps out from a scheduling and efficiency standpoint. Wow, hardcore stuff.
Now before I dig a deeper hole for myself, let me get back to blogging about uniform combinations and burgers slathered in peanut butter.
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Practice on Saturday will feature the Ducks' first extensive scrimmage of the spring and will be held inside of Autzen Stadium - also a first this spring. The start time of practice is officially 12:30 p.m., but the scrimmage will begin at 1:10.
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