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What happens to the poor white men and women? Nothing good. This improper use of a once beneficial program completely undermines the foundations of equality and the incentive to work hard for those that will be adversely affected by affirmative action.

Her words and voice shall enlighten the many ignorant who naively call opponents to affirmative racist.

especially potent, in that it visualizes the supposed power of Twitter, while simultaneously implying that this is a de facto statement

illicits a level of understanding between the reader of the author

provoking readers

when at the beginning of a paragraph – if they

or tone

words jump off the page

inject personality

formal discussion of the topics at hand

Many of these shows are drawing in large audiences

On the other hand, weight loss shows may be setting unrealistic expectations for others who may be trying to lose weight. The contestants on these shows are given trainers and nutritionists, and because they are on a show they have nothing to do except work out.

When young people were asked about their reasons for dieting, they cited the celebrities that they saw in television shows. Since this study the amount of advertisements for weight loss supplements, diet programs, and thin women on television has only increased.

(I’m as guilty as anyone in indulging in these reality TV shows),

We make pledges to lose weight, to exercise, to eat healthy, but it is so much easier to go to the drive thru, to sit on the couch, and to avoid the scale.

Our meals are super sized, our population is becoming super sized, and now reality television is catching on to the trend.

because even if you are not trying to lose weight, there are tips on ways to start exercising and eating better, areas I know a lot of us could use some help in.

He created “The Money Diet,” and recorded all the foods he resisted buying, then calculated how much not buying junk food and fast food saved him.

(I’m usually in the drive thru with a serious craving for fries and a shake).

And when you really think about it, wouldn’t you rather spend that money on a fabulous pair of shoes instead of that burger at In n’ Out?

We are always hearing about how breakfast is the most important meal of the day, for everyone, regardless of size, and

pizzazz

In the real world you have to be able to motivate yourself.

I stumbled upon a blog with another interesting take on what can motivate people to lose weight,

Plus, money is usually a much better motivator than salad and the treadmill.

yet the waistline of our country seems to be growing every year.

Eating healthy and exercising are hard habits to get into, and it can be discouraging to go to the gym and jump on the elliptical next to the gorgeous, perfectly toned girl who doesn’t sweat

NOBODY

PHONES

Well, no, there were people filming it

the Nike official called out his Nike storm troopers, who promptly ran around the place shooting lasers and confiscating any and all tapes of the offending dunk

Animal Farmish

— happiness, in this case, being our unalienable right to laugh at LeBron

loved that slogan

*It’s ZAY-vee-ur. Not ex-ZAY-vee-ur.

to comfort the comfortable, to afflict the afflicted, to keep someone as beloved as LeBron James off of YouTube. I mean, what?

THE LeBron James

Personally, I think they should …

confiscate his entire career as a basketball executive

Confiscate Matt Leinart

a sport I have loved since birth basically

Basically, he doesn’t sound like he’s whining and that’s a good thing for the reader.

persona

He finds the right balance.

Besides being a pop fanatic, she has a love for "guilt pleasures, elephants, and all things aquamarine." Interesting.

swift

al of her

as if I am the privileged owner of a limited release DVD with BONUS special features.

Mel's voice is casual, honest, and creatively playful. If she were a singer instead of a blogger she would definitely be singing with melismas.

jazz artists include John Coltrane, Brian Blade, Vincent Herring, Bill Evans, and Joshua Redman.

or plague, depending on the song

urthermore, Mike displays a clear command of sarcasm and a witty sensibility which I appreciate very much.

(http://popdivalc.blogspot.com/2010/02/wgo-may-best-charity-single-win.html)

I play sax in a college big band (with a focus on modern jazz), lay down the sax/keys parts in a folk rock group (we are currently in the studio working on our next album), and have a solo project focusing on electronic/indie music.

I have been exploring both the academic and creative sides of music on a daily basis. I am also working towards a Biology degree, for what it’s worth.

1. Pay Attention!

You can see for yourself right here: Pop Trash. I

This blog,

musical discussion.

hroughout the posts relevant to the current

She hails from Manhattan, New York.

It is just this whale-of-a comparison that is representative of Mel's creative way with words, which is on display in every one of her posts. I

feel like she is supplying a window into her mind,

writing is sort of looming

hen I first reading

How money is scaring the meat market into the corner with a cleaver.  In a food/ethics blog.  In the words of the internet, lolzI'll definitely be reading more of his blog soon.

This week I’ve decided to do a sort of “tribute” bit about my newfound favorite blogger, “Wayne Yuen,” and his blog, “Piles of Philosophy.” 

Whether you are a carnivore, omnivore, “demi-vegetarian,” vegetarian, vegan, or fruitarian, you will probably be intrigued with what he has to say.  

Well for starters Yuen

iledohsoclosetogether

nd it only gets worse

though

The one that ran free looked like an animal, it had big legs, a smallish breast, and plenty of dark and white meat, while the run-of-the-mill supermarket turkey had the tiniest legs and hugest breast I have ever seen…there is NO WAY that thing could have ever stood up on its own. 

Long story short Wayne thinks it’s a was

Om nom nom…

Now, on to something completely different…

ever increasing

Ethics in food is a particularly hairy subject, but to get started, here are a few sites that I found helpful and interesting on my quest for knowledge and to sort out my own opinions…

Is this because we need harsher regulations? Or is someone slacking on the job

Although I enjoy a good demolition named after cheese as much as any other person

He doesn’t always write about popular, media-friendly sports. He is not scared to go down all the way to the high school level. In his post titled

does not

am hopeful that I can emulate Mark’s professionalism in my blog.

wait…a college basketball player?! As Joe notes, it must have gone down like this:

Ah, doesn't everyone love a good Star Wars reference? Joe’s use of imagery here is outstanding.

Joe’s writing is great because he can

slam dunk home run knock out…you get the idea.

I want to talk about the impact of sports that stretches beyond the box score. Basically, I will dive into the magical world behind the bleachers – the one we usually don’t hear about.

To some, success isn’t measured in wins and losses. It’s all business, right?

I researched the intricacies of the Collective Bargaining Agreements, and I was hooked.

An example of the type of issues I hope to discuss

I will try my best to make sure that this blog

wish to discuss

I do not know if Technorati has filtered out inactive blogs

he presents topics from both the collegiate and professional level

The blogger, whose name is posted simply as “Mark”, is an attorney working in private practice. He spends most of his time dealing with sports related matters. Mark began work on this blog on January 11th 2005 and has posted about 3-4 times per week since then. His style involves using mostly short, but very information-heavy posts. Some of his posts are simply links to articles related to sports business that he found interesting, but didn’t have time to discuss.

Mark discusses the recent agreement that the city of Irving, Texas made with Kraft Foods.

One thing that I really appreciate about this blog is that it does not try to be anything other than what it is. Mark knows that there probably isn’t an overwhelming population that is interested in sports business, but he sticks to his content.

Joe, a former writer for Sports Illustrated, updates his blog nearly every day and enjoys quite a large following.

His use of all capital letters at the end of the quoted section also demonstrates the passion and aggression that this post was crafted with.

The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.

. Now my concentration often starts to drift after two or three pages.

Still, their easy assumption that we’d all “be better off” if our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, by an artificial intelligence is unsettling. It suggests a belief that intelligence is the output of a mechanical process, a series of discrete steps that can be isolated, measured, and optimized

Just as there’s a tendency to glorify technological progress, there’s a countertendency to expect the worst of every new tool or machine.

He feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for the knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one of the dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful.”

I’m not the only one. When I mention my troubles with reading to friends and acquaintances—literary types, most of them—many say they’re having similar experiences.

we may well be reading more today than we did in the 1970s or 1980s, when television was our medium of choice

Even a blog post of more than three or four paragraphs is too much to absorb. I skim it.”

As the late MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum  observed in his 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, the conception of the world that emerged from the widespread use of timekeeping instruments “remains an impoverished version of the older one, for it rests on a rejection of those direct experiences that formed the basis for, and indeed constituted, the old reality.” In deciding when to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listening to our senses and started obeying the clock.

The result is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration.

That’s the essence of Kubrick’s dark prophecy: as we come to rely on computers to mediate our understanding of the world, it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificial intelligence.

As we are drained of our “inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance,” Foreman concluded, we risk turning into “‘pancake people’—spread wide and thin as we connect with that vast network of information accessed by the mere touch of a button.”

"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?”

The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle.

Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill for human beings

“You are right,” Nietzsche replied, “our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts.”

“systematize everything”

The idea that our minds should operate as high-speed data-processing machines is not only built into the workings of the Internet, it is the network’s reigning business model as well.

HAL’s outpouring of feeling contrasts with the emotionlessness that characterizes the human figures in the film, who go about their business with an almost robotic efficiency.

It almost seems that they go online to avoid reading in the traditional sense.

When we read online, she says, we tend to become “mere decoders of information.”

It’s becoming our map and our clock, our printing press and our typewriter, our calculator and our telephone, and our radio and TV.

“Dave, my mind is going,” HAL says, forlornly. “I can feel it. I can feel it.”

The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes.

The faster we surf across the Web—the more links we click and pages we view—the more opportunities Google and other companies gain to collect information about us and to feed us advertisements.

The last thing these companies want is to encourage leisurely reading or slow, concentrated thought. It’s in their economic interest to drive us to distraction.

As people’s minds become attuned to the crazy quilt of Internet media, traditional media have to adapt to the audience’s new expectations. Television programs add text crawls and pop-up ads, and magazines and newspapers shorten their articles, introduce capsule summaries, and crowd their pages with easy-to-browse info-snippets.

“I now have almost totally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish article on the web or in print,

But it’s a different kind of reading, and behind it lies a different kind of thinking—perhaps even a new sense of the self

Sometime in 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche bought a typewriter

And because they would be able to “receive a quantity of information without proper instruction,” they would “be thought very knowledgeable when they are for the most part quite ignorant.”

Last year, Page told a convention of scientists that Google is “really trying to build artificial intelligence and to do it on a large scale.”

“Certainly if you had all the world’s information directly attached to your brain, or an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you’d be better off.”

For me, as for others, the Net is becoming a universal medium, the conduit for most of the information that flows through my eyes and ears and into my mind.

Then again, the Net isn’t the alphabet, and although it may replace the printing press, it produces something altogether different. The kind of deep reading that a sequence of printed pages promotes is valuable not just for the knowledge we acquire from the author’s words but for the intellectual vibrations those words set off within our own minds.

Never has a communications system played so many roles in our lives—or exerted such broad influence over our thoughts—as the Internet does today.

I think I know what’s going on.

"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?

malfunctioning machine

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Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave

"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?”

brain

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C’mon. Be Honest. You kinda love Heidi Montag. I mean, if nothing else you love to hate her. Frankly, I give her props. She has managed to stay in the spotlight for what, like 5 years now? (does anyone know why, exactly?) And just when she and good old Spencer begin to fade out of US Weekly…BAM! She’s on the cover of People, staring at you with her expressionless face (courtesy of unnecessary Botox) and breasts that are so unnaturally large they might pop out of the cover and stab you in the eyes.

it remains academic, giving only necessary information.