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Cold As Ice
Make frozen treats and use wintry words.
- Target Age: 4-7
- Learning Goals: critical thinking, reading & language
- Related Episode: Martha, Sled Dog, Skits on Ice
Target Words
cold, defrost, freeze, frozen, icy, melt, solid, transform
- Craft or wooden sticks
- Fruit juice
- Paper cups or ice pop molds
Tell your child, "Today we're going to make a frozen dessert—a delicious, icy treat! What flavor should we make? Talking about what you are doing before, during, and after the activity will not only help your child learn new vocabulary, but will give him or her practice in following directions and learning simple science concepts.
- Decide what kind of fruit juice you will use. (Apple, cranberry, raspberry juices are all good choices. Try to choose 100% juice to make it healthier!)
- Ask your child what he or she thinks will happen when the juice is put into the freezer. Gently correct your child if necessary and say, "Putting the juice in the freezer until it is frozen willtransform it from a liquid to a solid."
- Help your child pour in the liquid into each container. Ask him or her to guess how long it will take to freeze. Remind your child that the freezer door needs to be kept closed or the ice pops mightmelt or defrost.
- When the juice is slightly frozen or slushy, put the stick in the middle of the cup.
- When the pops are frozen solid, remove and have a pops party! (You can invite your child's favorite doll or stuffed animal to join the party.) As you eat, talk about how the pops taste, feel, and look: "This is delicious—sweet and cold! What flavor should we make next time?"
Take it Further
Experiment with a variety of materials: bananas, fruit yogurt, or pudding. Find out which takes longer to freeze: Bananas or fruit? Yogurt or pudding? Blend in or mix berries to make the pops more chunky. You can also take the ices out before they are completely frozen and stir around. You've got slush!
Related Books
After you eat, try reading one of these books aloud to talk more about making ice-cold treats.
- Ice Cream: The Full Scoop by Gail Gibbons
Find out how this favorite food is made, from cow to factory to grocery store.
- Icebergs, Ice Caps, and Glaciers by Allan Fowler
Find out all about ice as it forms on the earth.
- Wemberley's Ice Cream Star by Kevin Henkes
Wemberly is worried that her ice cream cone will make a big mess.


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The past participle is formed by adding '-ed' to the end of regular verbs: asked, walked, wanted. You have to learn the past participle of irregular verbs separately. If you have a list of irregular verbs, the past participle is the third column.
Now the use:
We use the past participle to form perfect tenses: have + participle.
I have never BEEN to Paris. The train had LEFT when I arrived.
Also in passive sentences: to be + participle.
Hamlet was WRITTEN by Shakespeare. My car has been STOLEN.
I found this, maybe it will help-
Past Participles usually are formed by adding ed to the verb base. The past participle of hunt is hunted. Past participles function in three ways.
example: Hunted by lions, the antelope scattered into the trees. The past participle hunted is part of a phrase that modifies antelope. It's an adjective.
example: The hunted antelope scattered into the trees. Here the past participle is a one-word adjective.
example: The lions have hunted antelope. The past participle hunted is part of the main verb (have hunted).
example: The antelope will be hunted. The past participle hunted can be considered part of a passive verb or an adjective (better to consider it part of the transitive passive verb will be hunted so that you recognize the transitive active verb).
example: The antelope that was hunted today was male. The dependent clause that was hunted today can be simplified to the past participle phrase hunted today: The antelope hunted today was male.

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Born: June 13, 1934, Lambsheim, Germany
An only child, Freya was born to Jewish parents who lived in a small German town in the Rhine River valley. The Langs owned a successful dry goods business. At this time ready-made clothes were still rare in the countryside. Townspeople and local farmers would purchase fabric at the Lang's store and then take it to their tailor or seamstress to be sewn into a garment.
1933-39: When I was growing up, the Nazi party was in power. Many Jews left Germany--Grandmother Lang and one of my uncles sailed for America. But father didn't want to leave his business. He opened a new store in Mannheim, where we moved. On November 10, 1938, the Nazis rampaged, wrecking Jewish stores and arresting Jews [Kristallnacht, The Night of Broken Glass]. They padlocked my father's store and took him to the Dachau concentration camp. He was released in 1939.
1940-44: When I was 6 years old, my family was sent to a detention camp in France. An aid society managed to get me out and I was hidden with a French farm family--the Didiers. For safety, I was taught to be a "Catholic." When my classmates made their first communion, I wanted to also because everyone wore such a pretty white dress. But Madame Didier said no. She didn't say I was Jewish, just that I should "wait for my parents so they could be there." How I cried. After all, I no longer realized that I was Jewish.
In 1946 Freya was reunited with her father. She learned that days after she had been taken from the camp, her mother had been sent to Auschwitz, where she perished.
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Getting hitched: The Hook's guide to conjugal conundrums, nuptial nostalgia, and that utter rarity: the blissful bride
There's nothing like a wedding to bring out the best– and worst– in people. If you get along with your folks, planning a wedding can be a bonding experience.
If you don't? Well, didn't Dante write something about nine circles? In the Hook's third annual wedding issue, we've captured a little bit of everything: magic moments, tried-and-true tips, and worst-case scenarios. If you're getting married, ever have, or think you ever will, there's something inside for you!
And if you've vowed "Me married? Never!" these stories just might change your mind.


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Compliance and Implementation of the Convention
Activities under the Espoo EIA Convention and its Protocol on SEA
(period between 5th and 6th Meetings of the Parties, 2011-2014)
See also the previous activities relating to compliance and implementation:
- Compliance with and implementation of the Convention, 2004-2008
- Compliance with and implementation of the Convention, 2008-2011
Consideration by the Implementation Committee of received compliance submissions
The Committee completed consideration of three submissions. See Implementation Committee regarding submissions and draft decisions on compliance (ECE/MP.EIA/2014/L.3 and ECE/MP.EIA/SEA/2014/L.3).
Report on the Committee's activities to the sixth session of the Meeting of the Parties
|Completed, see report on the activities of the Implementation Committee and reports of meetings of the Implementation Committee
If necessary, review of the Committee's structure and functions and operating rules
Completed, see ECE/MP.EIA/2014/L.3, Annex I
Examination of the outcome of the third review of implementation
Completed, see reports of meetings of the Implementation Committee, and correspondence with Parties
Modification of the questionnaire for the report on implementation
|See review of implementation for revised questionnaire with two distinct parts for the Convention and the Protocol.
Distribution of the questionnaire to the Parties to the Convention for them to complete and return
|See review of implementation for completed questionnaires.
Preparation of a draft review of implementation
|Completed, see draft fourth review of implementation of the Convention.
Country-specific performance reviews and technical assistance in drafting legislation, in agreement with Parties wishing to strengthen their implementation of and compliance with the Convention.
(a) Review would include a period in-country examining legislation, procedures and practice (case study).
(b) Development of general guidance on resolving a possible systemic inconsistency between the Convention and environmental assessment within the framework of State ecological expertise.
Recommendations to the country on strengthening capacity, including amendments to legislation, procedures and institutional arrangements
Pre-accession legislative assistance:
(a) Technical support to Uzbekistan to review its national legislation for implementation of the Convention and to propose amendments;(b) Technical advice to Belarus and Ukraine on improving legislation to implement the Protocol and advice in drafting necessary amendments. Review of legislation and administrative measures with aim to ratify Protocol.
Recommendations to the country on strengthening capacity, including amendments to legislation, procedures and institutional arrangements.
|Collection of findings and opinions from the Committee regarding the Convention and the Protocol, posted on website
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This new song by Bill Janovitz -- guitarist for Buffalo Tom but better known to me, at least, as the author of the 33.3 book on Exile On Main Street -- is making the rounds and I'm going to do my part.
I saw it at Surviving Grady and followed the link back to Bill's blog for the mp3 and lyrics. Bill wrote, recorded and posted the song yesterday morning -- after enjoying Wake's gem on Tuesday night.
He makes the ball flutter, it don't need to go fast
Hitters swinging just like cartoons when it passes
The knuckleball from Timmy Wakefield ...
When the boys are all flailing as the weather gets warm
He always remains the calm eye of the storm
There are 18 year-old people who might have been born
When a night game was pitched by Tim Wakefield
Batters strike out, pop up, heads bowed low
And into dark dugout tunnels they go
And still confused as the video shows
They were defeated by Wakefield ...
Bill also gets a thumbs up for this couplet:
Doug Mirabelli was his stitch in time
The State Police escorted him for no crime
May 21, 2009
The Ballad Of Tim Wakefield
by allan at 10:20 AM
4 comments:
- laura k said...
It's hard to take seriously a song that begins with "He don't need no injections in his ass".
But I'm sure it will be an instant classic.
- May 21, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- allan said...
Not knowing his music at all, he sounds more than a little like John Hiatt here.
- May 21, 2009 at 10:27 AM
- laura k said...
That will make it palatable, anyway. :)
- May 21, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Unknown said...
I thin Buffalo Tom are responsible for some of those NESN bumps, at least that's what I'm told.
- May 21, 2009 at 10:46 AM
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HTC One (M8) Battery: It Keeps Going and Going
To say that the HTC One (M8) is a powerful phone is a bit of an understatement. As much as we try to bring it to its knees, the phone holds its head high and accomplishes the task at hand without breaking a sweat. But does the phone's raw processing power get in the way of endurance?
Over the years, HTC has given us few phones with outstanding battery life. Last year's HTC One max got praised for its lasting power, but that's only because the massive size of the phone allowed HTC to equip the phone with a 3,300 mAh battery. The phone could easily get through two full days of use with 6-8 hours of screen-on time. The new HTC one (M8) comes with smaller 2,600 mAh battery. It's not much of a bump form the 2,300 mAh battery HTC crammed into the HTC one (M7), but the 13% increase in capacity makes a much bigger impact than we were expecting.
The Full Day Phone
If you consider yourself a power user, the HTC One (M8) may be the first flagship device to give you a full day's use. On our highest use day, we managed to kill the HTC One (M8) in just under 12 hours. But that's the worst case scenario. Over the past 16 days, we've managed to use the phone 12 full days (from the time we woke up until the time we went to sleep) without worrying about the phone's battery charge. On most days, the battery still had 15-20% charge. We also spent a few days to see just how long we could extend the life of the phone by not playing any games, capturing pictures of watching video. We finally plugged the HTC One (M8) into its charger after 39 hours. the remaining 3% charge could have gotten up to the 40 hour mark, but the One (M8) had already proven its point.
The incredible lasting power of the HTC One (M8) is partly credited to the larger 2,600 mAh battery, but the Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 and HTC's software optimization should be commended as well. Qualcomm's newer chip is a lot more power efficient than the Snapdragon 600 that was used to power last year's HTC One, allowing for infinitesimal power draw when the phone is not in use.
Media and gaming junkies will appreciate the HTC One (M8). When all four of the Snapdragon 801 cores on the phone are engaged while playing graphic intensive games, power draw does increase quite bit. But it's not as noticeable as it is on other devices. Don't be surprised if the phone's power level drops 20% after an hour of intense gaming, but more casual games like Threes, Droid Rage or Flappy Bird have a significantly lesser impact on the One (M8)'s battery.
Power Saver
Those who don't do a lot of gaming will definitely want to check out HTC's Power Saver mode. When turned on, Power Saver gives you the option to underclock the processor, reduce screen brightness, turn off the vibration motor and cut the phone's data connection when the display is turned off. The feature turns on automatically when the phone's power level reaches 20%, but you have the option to use it all the time. With Power Save engaged and a 100% charge, the HTC One (M8) should easily be able to hit 50 hours with light use.
Extreme Power Saver
One of the features HTC is most proud of on the HTC One (M8) is Extreme Power Saver. How many times have you glanced at your phone only to see that you have 4% battery left? By the time you turn down your screen brightness and switch the phone into Airplane Mode, the splash screen shows up, informing you that your phone is officially out of commission.
With Extreme Power Saver mode, HTC claims that the One (M8) can last up to 15 hours on a 5% charge. Enable Extreme Power Saver mode with a 100% charge and the phone will theoretically last over 10 days. But don't think for a second that you'll have access to any of the features that make the HTC One (M8) a smartphone when Extreme Power Saver mode is turned on. Flip the Extreme Power Saver mode switch and you're greeted with a bare UI that only lets you access the Phone, Messaging (SMS), Email, Calendar, Calculator and Clock apps. Everything else it gated off. You don't even have a notification bar at the top to pull down.
We haven't been able to test it out for ourselves, because the software feature isn't yet available on the Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T models of the One (M8) here in the US. Sprint pushed out an update for its version of the HTC One (M8) a few days ago, which included Extreme Power Saver mode, so we expect other carrier branded devices will get it in the coming weeks. We'll share our results once we spend some quality time with the feature.
The HTC One (M8)'s lasting power isn't in the same league as the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, HTC One max or any of Motorola's MAXX phones, but the phone doesn't claim to be. HTC has equipped the HTC One (M8) with a battery that gives enough power that you can go through a full day without ever worrying about finding the nearest outlet. Yes, the battery may last you less than 10 hours if you're constantly watching YouTube clips or trying to beat The Walking Dead in a single session, but that's pretty much par for the course. The HTC One (M8) may be ushering us into the era of the full-day phone.


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Former Anglican Archbishop Is Happy to Be a Catholic Parish Priest
At the conclusion of a year of dramatic developments for converts from Anglicanism, newly ordained Father Peter Wilkinson says he has 'no regrets' about joining the Catholic Church.
VICTORIA, B.C. — When Father Peter Wilkinson returned to his hometown of Victoria, B.C., 42 years ago, with five years of service in the Anglican Church in England under his belt, he was deemed too "Catholic" by the local bishop and never got an Anglican parish of his own.
But as an Anglican Catholic member of a worldwide communion of dissenters from the direction of Anglicanism, he rose swiftly to bishop and then to metropolitan for Canada — before giving that all up earlier this year to be received as a simple layman into the Catholic Church.
On Dec. 8, the feast of the Immaculate Conception, and at the ripe age of 72, he was ordained a Catholic priest and immediately assumed his duties as priest and pastor of St. Columba of Iona Church. Father Wilkinson's flock comprises 22 former Anglican Catholics, who, with him, were received into the Church early this year and at the same time into the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.
The ordinariate, which is headquartered in Houston, was created on Jan. 1 to provide a North American structure for Anglicans coming into the Church who wish to retain distinctive elements of their theological, spiritual and liturgical patrimony as Anglicans.
Father Wilkinson's ordination was the third in Canada for a former Anglican cleric who has entered the Church through the ordinariate, and it coincided with a key announcement for these new Catholics and for other Canadian Anglicans who are considering following in their footsteps.
On Dec. 7, Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson, the leader of the ordinariate, jointly announced with Cardinal Thomas Collins of Toronto that the Holy See had approved the establishment of a new deanery for groups of Anglicans and Anglican clergy in Canada who have come into the Church.
In a statement, Msgr. Steenson announced he had appointed Father Lee Kenyon, administrator of the first ordinariate congregation in Canada at St. John the Evangelist Church in Calgary, Alberta, as dean of the new Deanery of St. John the Baptist.
Cardinal Collins, who is the ecclesiastical delegate for the ordinariate in Canada, and Msgr. Steenson jointly petitioned the Holy See to create the new deanery after receiving unanimous backing for the proposal from the Canadian bishops in September.
It's Not About Me
"I'm loving it," Father Wilkinson told the Register, when asked about his membership in the Church. "I haven't regretted this for a moment."
As for his demotion in ecclesial rank, he laughingly commented, "It isn't about me. I simply want to be a holy priest and serve out my remaining years in that capacity."
Anglican Catholics like Father Wilkinson are part of a spiritual revival that was initiated in the English Anglican Church, whose leaders included Blessed John Henry Newman before his conversion to Catholicism in 1845. It looked to the restoration of pre-Reformation liturgy, celebration of the full range of sacraments, devotion to Mary, communal religious life and, for some, ultimate reunion with Rome.
But Father Wilkinson believes that right from the time of the English Reformation (when King Henry VIII nationalized the Church of England in 1534 under the authority of the English crown), there was a movement within Anglicanism for reunion with Rome.
Many of today's Anglican Catholics broke away from their national Anglican churches in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere when these churches voted to ordain women.
"It was the straw that broke the camel's back," explained Scott Vannan, a Victoria Anglican Catholic who joined the Catholic Church earlier this year along with Father Wilkinson. Anglicans who were praying and working for reunion with Rome saw women's ordination as an insuperable obstacle, given Rome's adamant rejection of women priests, not to mention the similar stance of the Orthodox Church.
"But there were many other doctrinal issues which pointed to the question of authority," said Vannan. "Anglicanism has never had a magisterium, but it did believe that it shared a common deposit of faith which nobody was authorized to change. Now they do change it."
Some of the disaffected Anglicans left for Catholicism, the Orthodox Church or Lutheran churches as individuals, but many left their national Anglican churches within whole parishes. These then coalesced into two distinct, and sometimes competing, traditional Anglican communions in North America.
The one Father Wilkinson and Vannan joined was the Anglican-Catholic Church of Canada, which became part of the 240,000-strong worldwide Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), as did the like-minded Anglican Church in America.
Father Wilkinson became the pastor of Victoria's traditional Anglicans, then the western Canadian bishop and finally the metropolitan of a scattering of 38 parishes comprising 1,500 individuals across Canada.
In 2007, Father Wilkinson and two other TAC bishops proposed to Pope Benedict XVI a package deal: bring in the Anglican Catholics en masse, but with provisions for the retention of existing parishes, those elements of the Anglican liturgy compatible with Catholicism and the married priesthood.
Benedict's Inspiration
Pope Benedict was as enthusiastic as the TAC leaders had hoped.
"Some of our bishops had been meeting with him personally since the 1990s," said Father Wilkinson. "They really liked him. And I had corresponded with him myself — in fact, I wrote him a fan letter. I even had an appointment to meet him, but it was the very week Pope John Paul II died, and he couldn't see me."
Father Wilkinson's own personal road to Rome was partly paved by Pope Benedict's 1986 book Seek That Which Is Above, which "spoke in a reasoned way, but also from the heart in a way that was fresh. It revealed the whole man. I hadn't found that in other Catholic books."
He said that the Pope shares the Anglican-Catholic belief "that the saints and beauty are the Church's two great converting forces." This is why the Pope permitted the Anglican Catholics to keep their traditions centered on the Book of Common Prayer.
"It is in our bones," said Father Wilkinson of the 463-year-old prayer book. "It is written in beautiful, sacral English, intentionally using a higher register of language."
After the Pope issued his invitation to Anglican converts in November 2009 through his apostolic constitution Anglicanorum Coetibus, many Anglican Catholics turned out to be less enthusiastic than the leadership for communion with Rome. Of 38 parishes Canada-wide, only three have entered into full communion, with 150 members.
The parish Father Wilkinson started in Victoria has split twice over such issues as the authority of the Pope and the loss of local autonomy. In the second split, it lost its pastor. A similar reduction in expectations has occurred in the United States.
But this is not necessarily a bad thing, said Vannan. "Before, the tension was always there under the surface. Now, we are completely united. There is a great sense of peace."
Warm Welcome
On the other hand, some Catholics have had difficulty grasping the Anglican-Catholic attachment to its liturgy and wondered why Father Wilkinson's group could not simply have converted as individuals. But most have been "very welcoming," said Father Wilkinson. He praised Victoria Bishop Richard Gagnon and Father John Laszczyk, the rector at St. Andrew's Cathedral in Victoria, for their support.
"Everybody has been wonderful," said Father Wilkinson. As for Father Laszczyk, who stood in as pastor for the past few months and is a strong proponent of beauty in liturgy, he described his experience with the Anglican Catholics as "profound."
The small parish of 22 people now has its own home in a former Anglican church. And instead of Father Laszczyk celebrating the Mass in a deep baritone, they will again have Father Peter Wilkinson's tenor chanting.
Looking ahead a few days before Father Wilkinson's ordination, Vannan commented, "It's a wonderful time for us. I am looking forward to his next Good Friday sermon on the Crucifixion. It is the same every year, and each time I understand a little more of it."
Register correspondent Steve Weatherbe writes from Victoria, British Columbia.


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Mary Robinson aims to put justice for the poor and the forgotten at the heart of the climate debate and to empower the marginalized to achieve sustainable and people-centred development
The year 2012 brings with it fresh opportunities to reframe action on climate change in a positive light – to focus on the benefits – economic, social and environmental – of a low carbon green economy. 2012 is UN Year of Sustainable Energy for All and, in the middle of the year, all eyes will focus on Rio – 20 years on from the World Conference on Sustainable Development – when we will have a long hard look at how we have developed, who has benefited, and at what cost. Rio+20 provides an opportunity to look at how we can all grow and prosper, without overstretching our limited natural resources and without compromising the lives of many, for the benefit of a few. We need to mould economic, social and environmental development into a new model of inclusive development.
My approach to these issues is encapsulated in the climate justice approach I am dedicated to, and which my Foundation, the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice (MRFCJ), is committed to delivering. Climate justice links human rights and development to achieve a human-centred approach, safeguarding the rights of the most vulnerable, and sharing the burdens and benefits of climate change, and its resolution, equitably and fairly.
Developing countries
In the context of the next industrial revolution, it will be critical to ensure that benefits are shared equitably and fairly. Developing countries, and marginalized communities within these countries, must be enabled to actively participate in and benefit from the next wave of economic growth and opportunity. In many ways, developing countries have an advantage – as they are starting with a clean slate. They will be building infrastructure for the first time, rather than retrofitting. They are embarking on new fiscal and development policies, which can deliver a climate resilient, low-carbon economy. And they have growing, young, and increasingly educated populations to power this green economic revolution.
There is an urgent need to capture this potential now, so that developing countries can be part of the supply-side solutions, and part of the innovation and creativity that will inform a new wave of growth. Developing countries should not be mere consumers of green technology – they need to be empowered to be the engineers, designers, producers and marketers of the technologies that respond to their needs and facilitate their growth. This requires us to do things differently, to make brave investment choices, and to see the potential of innovators and entrepreneurs in developing countries. Business as usual will not do it, and we should see 2012 as the year where we make the choice to change direction, embrace opportunity, and bring some new actors onto the scene.
Real partnerships
We cannot assume that green technologies and policies will trickle down to benefit the poor and marginalized. Specific, targeted approaches will be needed to bring those at the bottom of the economic pyramid into the green economy – to enable them to contribute to, and to reap the economic and social benefits of, inclusive green growth. Without a doubt, the billions of people without access to modern forms of energy constitute a significant potential market for clean energy – but market forces alone will not deliver what they need. We need to work in real partnerships with developing country policymakers, researchers, and entrepreneurs to design energy solutions to complement and safeguard livelihoods, to improve social well-being, and to provide opportunity.
Women will be key users, and hopefully designers, of green technology, and can make a significant contribution to sustainable green growth. The World Development Report 2012 reminds us that "women now represent 40% of the global labour force, 43% of the world's agricultural labour force, and more than half the world's university students." Capturing this contribution would boost productivity and drive the green economy – "eliminating barriers that discriminate against women working in certain sectors or occupations could increase labour productivity by as much as 25% in some countries."
In addition, women have a great sense of inter-generational equity, seeing life in terms of not just their lives, but those of their children and grandchildren. Harnessing this ability for long-term planning, with the productive value of their contribution to economic life, would provide a powerful engine for sustainable low-carbon and climate-resilient growth.
Women's leadership
With this in mind, I am working to harness women's leadership from the grassroots to the international level to maximize the potential of women as agents of change, innovators, investors, and entrepreneurs. To enable this we need to provide women with access to education and credit, active participation at all levels of decision-making, and the chance to have their contribution valued. We have an opportunity to make 2012 the year we finally register the fact that women and men will power the next industrial revolution, and that inclusive sustainable development means investing for the long term, while making sure benefits flow to the vulnerable and marginalized. We have many untapped resources, and I am not just talking about wind and waves!
If we start to value the things we take for granted, everything from the power of the sun to the contribution of women to society – we will be able to power a new inclusive sustainable future for ourselves and, most importantly, for our children and grandchildren.
● Mary Robinson served as the seventh, and first female, President of Ireland (1990-1997), and as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), and was founder and President of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (2002-2010). She is currently the President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice (MRFCJ).


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Anyhow, BH's exclamations about things on the floor almost always knock me for a loop, because to me the floor is something inside a building. Of course, in AmE I can also talk about the forest floor, but I think of that as being a very speciali{s/z}ed usage; it doesn't just mean the ground in the forest, it means all the ferns and mosses and things that one finds on the ground in a forest. Similarly for the ocean floor--to me, it's about an ecosystem, not just a surface.
I've asked various BrE-speaking friends whether they use floor to mean ground, and their replies have been mixed. (But it also should be said that I usually don't think that asking people whether they say X is a very productive or accurate way of finding out if they say X. What we do when speaking is a largely subconscious process, and when we reflect on that process, all sorts of things, not least ideas about how we 'should' speak, get in the way.) Looking in the OED, I find that it lists the sense 'the ground' as obsolete, except in dialects.
Now, as a Saaff Lundun boy descended of a long line of South Londoners, I kind of doubt that BH is hanging on to some old ways that the OED compilers thought of as 'dialectal'. So, my hypothesis is that this usage has been re-introduced to the general language through cricket. (This would contribute to explaining why BH uses it more than most of my girlfriends.) As the OED notes, floor is the ground of a cricket ground--that is to say, the dirt/grass part of the cricket field (too many senses of ground in that last clause). So, the OED also lists
I was reminded of the whole floor issue while watching the quiz celebrating Channel 4's 25th anniversary last night. (For certain reasons, I'm watching way too much television lately.) They showed a clip of a program(me) in which Derren Brown gets 'normal' people to hold up an armo(u)red bank car. And in that, in the out-of-doors, the robber demands that the bank guy get 'down on the floor' (i.e. on the street/road). You can see a clip from that (BrE) programme/(AmE) show here on YouTube, but to hear people saying floor, skip to about 7:24. Here, of course, there's the possibility that the speakers have been affected by seeing lots of dramati{s/z}ed robberies that take place inside banks, and so the thing that one says in that condition is Get down on the floor. But it still sounds really unnatural to me--I can't help but think that I'd say Get down on the ground. Next time I rob an armo(u)red vehicle, I'll have to have someone tape me.
So--can you refer to the surface of a road as the floor?


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Good vegan cookbooks
Hi...this is my first time posting on this forum even though I have made tons of amazing food based on recipes from the site. I was wondering if anyone knew of any really good vegan cookbooks that were written by nutritionists or health professionals.
I've read the Skinny Bitch cookbook, and while I thought that some of the recipes themselves were good, I have a very hard time trusting the nutritional information Kim Barounin provides because she is not a licensed nutritionist and some of the information she presents has no citations at all. I have found some other good ones, but I'd like to be able to read something written by a professional. I just recently made the complete transition from vegetarian to vegan, and I'm taking it seriously.
Thanks a lot! :)
read the cookbook review threads, lots of great info!
You might be interested in Jack Norris and Ginny Messina's book Vegan for Life, it's both a cookbook and a vegan resource book written by two registered dieticians.
Dr. Neal Barnard just put out a cookbook. Google him. I don't have it so can't vouch for it.
Dr. Neal's book Food forLife is extremely helpful in my opinion. I'd love to have more of his books but alas, never the money anymore to buy the extras in life that I wish I had. He's great and he's been on air with some great shows about nutritional information.
I'm wondering what cookbooks you've already delved into hollerbee.
For her book "Appetite for Reduction" Isa Chandra Moskowitz used an RD named Matt Ruscigno and he wrote a chapter in her book explaining vegan nutrition and now to get all the nutrients you need while being a vegan.
Color Me Vegan by Colleen Patrick Goudrea is a cookbook that focuses on good nutrition through variety getting disease fighting anti-oxidants and phytonutrients.
Brendan Brazier is a professional Ironman triathlete whose passion is vegan nutrition through whole, sometimes raw, high peforming food and he has the blessing of Neal Barnard. His book has some sound, well researched ideas. He's recently this year put out a new cookbook.
Dr, Dean Ornish has put out a few books, and his recipes are mostly vegan.
I'm not sure if he's put out any books lately but Dr. John McDougall is a big expert and proponent of vegan nutrition.
I'm important to note that a single meal or recipe isn't going to give you 100% nutrition. The key to a healthy vegan diet is a wide variety of healthy foods to include veggies of all varieties especially leafy greens but all the colors of the rainbow, legumes, nuts and seeds, fruits of a wide variety and whole grains. So when cooking ask yourself: is it whole foods, low in sugar, salt and fat? If yes, go for it and remember: variety, variety, variety.
I have Dr. Dean Ornish's Program To Reversing Heart Disease. It has lots of information on how and why to go vegan and it also has a lot of information on balancing the vegan diet. It has recipes also but, I haven't tried any yet.
I have everyday Cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish also. I've looked it over and it has all the nutritional information on the recipes and serving sizes also. I haven't tried the recipes yet.
I have The McDougall Plan and it also has a lot of information on nutrition and the vegan diet. The recipes that I have tried are great. It does not have the nutritional facts on the recipes.
I also have The Get Healthy Go Vegan Cookbook by Dr. Neal Banard and Nutritionist Robyn Webb. It has a overview of how and why to go vegan and how to balance the diet, The recipe that I have tried were very good. They also have nutritional and serving sizes.
I also have Skinny Bitch Ultimate Everyday Cookbook by Kim Barnouin. I haven't tried the recipes yet but there are a lot that I'm planning on trying. According to her bio she has an MA in Holistic Nutrition.
I really need to post a pic of all my cookbooks because I love cookbooks. I'll look through some more to see the best ones to recommed to you. The one I've been usuimg the most lately is the Neal Barnard one.
Look into Becoming Vegan. I know it has tons of information about being vegan written by nutritionists about what to look out for, myths, etc. I can't vouch for any of the recipes but there is a wealth of information there!
When shifting to a vegan diet for the first time, the transformation can take some time. Not only that, you would also need to change your entire perspective related to taste and cooking. So, while you get yourself used to the ways of vegan cooking and eating, here are some of the best Vegan Recipes for you to try out and enjoy the joys of vegan cooking and eating. http://thecheapestnewcar.com
Try Veganomicon! It's fantastic, especially the Chickpea Cutlets.
Also, Clean Food by Terry Walters is great. She has different sections for different seasons and the recipes are really good.
I used to have a cookbook that explained protien combinations that make it so that you get more protien by conbining foods. For instance beans and rice give you more protien that either beans and rice do alone. Some of the combinations include soy sauce and rice. beans and cheese,. I lost that cooklbook during the "97" flood here and I can't remember the name of it. If anyone know of a book or good source of protien combinations I would be interested to hear the title. I have tried to search it on the internet and can not find anything on this!
I am looking to find this book to help a young girl that is Vegan and is tired all the time and I think it would help her to have this information. Thank You in advance!
Moonbloodstone I think you are thinking of Diet for a Small Planet. However, the idea of protein combining at every meal has been largely discredited. It is enough to eat a variety during the day. If you google "protein combining" there is a lot of information on this. There was a peer reviewed study published a few years ago--I think it was the journal of clinical nutrition or something like that--that addressed the protein combining issue.
if she is tired perhaps she is not eating a well-balanced diet.


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Wow that shock tower looks sweet
Wow that shock tower looks sweet
Nice tower!! Prototype isn't easy but duplicates always kill me
some nice lookin pieces you have fabbed up there
Thanx again for the kind words. I'm really trying on this build.
I hope to get all the towers done by next weekend, but my worn hands will have the final say on when.
Oh well, off to bed.
this build is a true example of how rewarding, making your own parts can be. Its satisfying to know you've made a specific part yourself that works out.
from the frame rails, and now the shock towers...looking froward to seeing the next part creation by nigelpheron.
just like others on this forum, I learn and get ideals from other builds and i like to think that once in a while i come up with a ideal for other members and viewers.
oh, great. Another 'first build' that shames the whole community right out of the gate! Amazing custom work right here, people. All eyes are watching this one. :bugeyes:
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I'm watching this on thumbs up dude
Shames the community. Nah man. I'm only influentialy-copying you guys. I want a nice truck too.
It's my first 1.9 scale build; but my R/C life, my 43rd R/C vehicle.
It'll be slow this week. I got the 3-other towers cut, but won't be filing it into shape. Fingers are too dry-cracked. They need rest. Can't even slappa da bass.
Got them all done this morning, brazed them in the afternoon, and just assembled the parts.


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A dubious shadow seems to have been cast over how we're supposed to determine what is truly worthy of making our annual Dubious Dozen of the Sports Media list.
Essentially, the innocence of blunderment feels as if it's almost been taken out of the equation. It's harder to laugh at our human selves if we're constantly looking over our shoulder for that snarky knife attack.
In chronicling media miscues and comically ethical conundrums for the last 15-plus years, the process has gone from storing bits of information we've come across, letting it simmer, and eventually filtering it back, examining whether there are lessons learned. Those reading mean-spiritedness between the lines were missing the point.
In '13, as bad luck would have it, it's taken on a different meanness. Meaning, if there's an instance where ESPN iconic anchor monster Chris Berman goes stumbling into something chaotic – caught on tape yelling at someone off camera, or pontificating about his place on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — it's likely already been plucked, pulverized, diffused and reconstituted into a mini-scandal. Then replaced a couple hours later by something even more innocuous.
You can cite websites such as Deadspin, TheBigLead or AwfulAnnouncing for setting the tone, but it's more catty copy-catting than that. Because as adept as they've become in providing meaningful information — credit Deadspin for blowing the lid off the whole Manti Te'o fake girlfriend saga at the beginning of this year — they're just as sophomoric in inflating a media muff out of context for the sake of, what, letting us all feel better about ourselves?
"I think your premise is pretty solid on this," said Will Leitch, a founding editor at Deadspin.com in 2005, who has become senior editor at SportsOnEarth.com while also writing for Slate, New York Magazine, GQ and the New York Times.
"What was funny about a Berman thing (years ago) was that it was rare. It felt like it was saved specifically because it was unusually funny. We weren't waiting for Berman to screw up and then laughing and pointing when he did.
"It's part of the general outrage society now. I mean, mistakes now are always seen as diabolical, or some sort of 'gotcha!' contest. I don't think it's that Deadspin is any more mean now, it's that everything is.
"I don't actually think people are more mean than they used to be. I just think with everyone –- media, readers, commentators, everyone –- constantly looking for 'exclusives,' it turns into this dumb circle of combing for mistakes, and then amplifying them.
"People often aren't really upset and offended. It's this odd kabuki thing, where we all feel like we're all play-acting the cycle, endless. I'll confess, I find it discouraging."
Dan Levy, the national lead writer for BleacherReport.com who has also written for SportingNews.com and WashingtonPost.com, says we could go to "any number of sites at this point and find the same thing. We're in the business of instant — and usually over — reaction, so it's in the best interest of any general sports site to give readers as much content as they can, especially when it's click bait like someone messing up on the job.
"I do think it's unfortunate when a simple chyron failure makes the rounds like it's breaking news. We probably celebrate typos a little too much these days.
"To the overall point of 'gotcha' media going too far, I think it's merely a product of the times in general. I don't think we're quicker to blow up a story for any reason but we're getting the story quicker. Years ago, a gaffe on a local telecast would have to make a blooper reel or be so bad it hit the network level for it to become a national gag. Now, it's on YouTube before the broadcast is even over.
"I do, however, wonder if our wide-open world may turn some people off to jobs they would have flocked to in the past. If you're a TV newsreader, do you want your personal life being an open book because you were good enough to get a national job? At what point is being in the spotlight worth it, when so many people are pointing theirs at you?"
We get the point. Maybe. Hopefully.
And, for the time being, we'll offer up one more round of our troubling Top 12. Maybe the last list?
Talk to us in 12 months.
The culprit: ESPN
The crime: In August, the network made an awkward exit, ending a collaboration with PBS' "Frontline" in the production a multi-platform documentary called "League of Denial," which probed some scandalous research on the long-term effects of NFL concussions. ESPN said it didn't have the editorial control it was promised.
The aftermath: The assumption, based on previous experiences with the plug pulled on a scripted series years ago called "Playmakers," was the network got cold feet because it worried about its financial relationship with the NFL.
As perception felt more and more like realty, it wasn't until earlier this month when ESPN senior vice president and director of news Vince Doria told ShermanReport.com editor Ed Sherman that the network didn't get too queezy about the process.
"People either didn't do their homework as well as they could have, or maybe didn't want to do their homework as well as they could have," Doria said. "It is an easy enough story if you wanted to connect some dots to it and say, 'Look, they kowtowed to the NFL.' But if you looked slightly further, and look at what the on‑air product was and what we delivered and the volume of what we delivered, the platforms over which we delivered it and so forth, show me somebody else that comes anywhere near giving that kind of exposure to the concussion issue as it relates to the NFL. I don't think there is anybody."
The culprit: NFL Network analyst Deion Sanders
The crime: During a Super Bowl pregame show February, the Pro Football Hall of Famer called out players trying to sue the league for issues related to concussions. As more than 2,400 retired players had already been named in litigation, Sanders exclaimed: "The game is a safe game, the equipment is better. I don't buy all these guys coming back with these concussions. I'm not buying all that. Half these guys are trying to make money off the deal. That's real talk. That's really how it is. I wish they'd be honest and tell the truth because it's keeping kids away from our game."
The aftermath: In September, it was discovered that Sanders filed a head injury claim in 2010 under the California workers' compensation system against his former team, the Dallas Cowboys, whom he played for from 1995 to 1999. The claim said four independent doctors found Sanders to be 86 percent impaired. Maybe that explains his selective memory?
The culprit: CBS
The crime: During an extended power outage at Super Bowl XLVII in New Orleans, the network broadcast team went into a scramble mode that didn't play very well on the TV screen. As communication connections were cut off, there was little to no information given about what was going on, nor was an NFL official brought on to explain things.
Sideline reporter Steve Tasker was eventually thrown on the air to explain what he knew. Which wasn't that much. The horrifying result was watching Shannon Sharpe, from the network pregame show, vamp to no end.
The aftermath: Will Leitch wrote at SportsOnEarth.com: "As embarrassing as it was for the NFL and the city of New Orleans that the power went out for 34 minutes during Super Bowl XLVII, it's not even close to how humiliated CBS should feel. … That was the worst display of broadcasting I've seen in my entire life. CBS probably would have been better off if it had just kept the screen blank for the whole half hour. We are all stupider for having witnessed it. … never has the vapidity of NFL commentators been more painfully in evidence."
Wrote Brian Lowry in Daily Variety: "If the delay showed anything, it's how ill-equipped sportscasters often are when it comes to dealing with anything that isn't about the game."
The culprit: Brent Musburger
The crime: From the tail end of Alabama's 42-12 win over Notre Dame in the BCS national championship football game came ESPN's 73-year-old play-by-play man's comments when the cameras spotted Katherine Webb, the girlfriend of Tide quarterback AJ McCarron, sitting in the stands.
"Now, when you are a quarterback at Alabama, you see that lovely lady there, she goes to Auburn — I want to admit that — but she's also Miss Alabama and that's AJ McCarron's girlfriend, OK? Wow. I'm telling you – quarterbacks, you get all the good-looking women. What a beautiful woman. … So if you're a youngster in Alabama, start getting a football out and throwing around the backyard with Pop!"
The aftermath: From "CBS This Morning" co-anchor Gayle King: "I think it's so unbecoming when a grown man slobbers and drools. You wanted to say to Brent, 'Down boy, down'."
ESPN actually issued an apology on his behalf.
As Webb's Twitter followers went from about 2,300 to more than 109,000 by the next morning, the attention gained was cashed in.
Before the next college football season in September, she starred in a fast-foot chain's hamburger ad, dripping Buffalo sauce on herself while a Musburger sound-alike narrated it.
The culprit: Doug Gottlieb
The crime: The CBS basketball analyst, merged into the NCAA tournament studio show with TNT talent, found himself sitting next to Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, Greg Gumbel and Greg Anthony. All of whom, by the way, are black.
As Gottlieb was introduced on the first day of coverage, he joked: "I don't know why you guys ask me, I'm just here to bring diversity to this set, give kind of the white man's perspective."
The aftermath: As Twitter backlash heightened, Gottlieb not only apologized, but he needed Barkley came to hose down the flames: "I want to say something about Doug Gottlieb. He made a joke earlier tonight and people are going crazy, all those idiots on Twitter, which I would never, ever do. Listen — me, Kenny, Greg Anthony and Greg Gumbel did not take that personally, so all you people at home who got no life who are talking bad about Doug Gottlieb, get a life. It's over with and it's no big deal."
The culprit: Hugh Douglas
The crime: In August, ESPN's NFL studio analyst since 2011 was fired after a confusing confrontation with Michael Smith, ESPN's "Numbers Never Lie" co-host, at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention and Career Fair in Orlando.
The aftermath: The 10-year NFL defensive end Douglas tweeted: "I am very disappointed to be leaving ESPN and will have more to say about this situation and my future at the appropriate time."
No other explanation has come out since then.
Six weeks later, Douglas was arrested on charges of third-degree assault and second-degree strangulation involving his girlfriend at a Hartford, Conn., hotel. He pleaded not guilty in October. He told police that her neck injuries were from rough sex. The case is waiting to be heard.
The culprit: The 21st ESPY Awards
The crime: It took place, again, at the Nokia Theatre in L.A. Live.
The aftermath: In a year where ESPN had to lay employees off to meet bottom lines, Deadspin.com's John Koblin reported the event has become "a sore spot for a bunch of folks in Bristol for two reasons: 1) Symbolically, it's weird for ESPN to be so comfortably palling around with the athletes it covers (not to mention willfully ignoring some strange exploits that its reporters may or may not see in the hotel); and 2) Why not spend that money elsewhere?"
As the cost of the show was going north of $7 million, Koblin cited that ESPN executive John Walsh and longtime show producer Maura Mandt re-selling it to the company based on this reasoning: Do you want Fox Sports or CBS or NBC to start a sports awards show if we canceled it? Because they will.
"It's dubious logic," wrote Koblin, "and surely sounds worse than that to the hundreds of ESPN employees were let go earlier this year and are now looking for jobs with those competitors."
One of them, longtime research guru Howie Schwab, explained his fate on a Facebook post when ESPN let him go suddenly after 26 years: "I am extremely disappointed to say farewell. … I always did everything asked of me and more. What did I get in return today … word that I should get lost. The only thing that mattered was my salary, which in my view was the lone reason I lost my job."
The culprit: WGNU-AM radio co-host Jack Clark
The crime: The former St. Louis Cardinals slugger and one-time Dodgers batting coach was fired from the station one week into his new job in August on a show called "The King and the Ripper Show." (Clark was known as "Jack the Ripper" when he played). Clark intimated several times while on the air that former Cardinals All-Star and current Angels first baseman Albert Pujols took performance enhancing drugs, based on what a former team trainer "basically told me."
The aftermath: In October, Pujols filed a defamation lawsuit seeking damages that would be donated to charity, and asked for an apology.
Clark challenged Pujols to a lie-detector test. The case is pending.
The culprits: Atlanta radio hosts Nick Cellini, Steven Shapiro and Chris Dimino.
The crime: The team called "Mayhem In The AM" on 790 The Zone did a bit on their show in June. Shapiro and Dimino took a "call" from Cellini, pretending to be Steve Gleason, the former New Orleans Saints safety suffering from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. Gleason is unable to speak, move or eat because of the condition. Cellini used an automated voice, sounding like another ALS victim, physicist Stephen Hawking, and told a series of jokes. He eventually asked the two others to do him a favor by smothering him.
The aftermath: The three hosts were fired. But earlier this month, Shapiro and Dimino were hired by another Atlanta station, 680 The Fan.
"I wonder if it sends the message that even the most deplorable and misguided attempts at humor and jockularity can be easily forgotten if you just have name recognition," wrote Matt Yoder on AwfulAnnouncing.com.
The culprit: Steve Buckhantz
The crime: The Washington Wizards' play-by-play man screamed "Dagger!" after it looked to him that Wizards forward Trevor Ariza hit a game-winning 3-pointer from the corner against visiting Detroit in February. Except Ariza's shot was an air ball. The Wizards lost, 96-95.
The aftermath: How did Buckhantz blow the call in his own arena? It all depends on your perspective. He explained to the Washington Post that he and analyst Phil Chenier were moved to a spot 20 rows up across from the Wizards bench during the 2012-13 season. They had been courtside the previous 15 seasons. "Where you're at a disadvantage are certain angles, and also the disassociation with the game," Buckhantz said. "What I'm learning is, which I didn't offer very much last night, is that you have to try to be a little bit more patient, because there are times when you see something that you thought you saw but you didn't see it. … I'm not making an excuse. I'm just saying from where we were, it looked like it went in. You know, you live by the dagger and you die by it."
The culprits: Mistakes will always find their way into newspapers. God love 'em. And enough people still read them to call 'em on it.
Like the Columbus Dispatch in September. In a story about Denver's win over Baltimore, the headline read: "Elway Throws Seven Touchdown Passes." Actually, it was Peyton Manning who threw the TDs. John Elway, of course, has been retired since 1998.
The aftermath: If not for the corrections and retractions that occasionally run, we may never really know what we were missing. The New York Times had to include this at the end of a story on March 26:
"An article in some editions on Saturday about second-seeded Georgetown's loss in the first round of the N.C.A.A. men's basketball tournament contained a number of errors in some copies.
"The team that defeated Georgetown, 78-68, is Florida Gulf Coast University — not Gulf Coast College, as noted in several instances.
"Georgetown's record is 25-7, not 25-6. Florida Gulf Coast's record in the Atlantic Sun Conference was 13-5, not 17-1.
"Florida Gulf Coast became the seventh No. 15 seed, not the sixth, to beat a No. 2 seed.
"Georgetown has made it to the N.C.A.A. tournament five times in the past six seasons — not the past seven seasons — and all five of those times it failed to advance past the Round of 16. (Seven seasons ago the team not only made it past the Round of 16, but also went on to the Final Four.)
"And the Florida Gulf Coast forward who said, "We just all have a good time together," is Eddie Murray, not Murphy."
Otherwise, the story stands.
The culprit: Deadspin.com
The crime: In November, the website posted an item headlined:: "Are you a Hall of Fame voter? We'd like to buy your vote." The premise was that the year before, 15 candidates were up for Baseball Hall of Fame election, and no one was voted in, because of PED assumptions in many cases that likely enhanced their statistics.
"What was meant as a way to honor great ballplayers is now an annual exercise in vigorously insulting them, and thereby asserting the power of the baseball writer," wrote Deadspin's Tim Marchman.
By the end of the month, Deadspin announced it had found a voter who "sold us" his/her vote, willing to fill in whatever names the website's readers wanted.
Michael Bradley, who teaches sports journalism at Saint Joseph's, Villanova and Neumann Universities, wrote for Indiana University's SportsJournalism.org: "Secrets are tough to keep these days, and the identity of the offending party will eventually become known. When it does, the person should be banned from press boxes around the country. He should find it impossible to get a credential to cover a grade school track meet, much less a World Series game. His decision … is an affront to the process and to the field of journalism. … He may consider his actions a protest about how things are done, but they seem more like a middle-school cafeteria practical joke, the journalistic equivalent of loosening the lids on all the salt shakers.
"Deadspin has some culpability in this, for helping to denigrate the process in exchange for some publicity. It is a prime example of today's collision between journalism and commerce – and how the business side of thing is winning. No matter how some regard the site, it will gain plenty of interest (notoriety?) and attract new eyes to its content. Like a 4-year old who cares not how he gets noticed, Deadspin will embrace positive and negative attention and love it all."
It's the circle of media life playing out. Hasn't Deadspin called enough attention to itself just by publishing the latest foibles, legit or not, by the sports media players?


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The defense is a huge part of it as is the O-line for its run blocking but Tebow's 4th qtr stats are laudable
I simply don't get it. There are religious guys on EVERY team in football. Tons of them. Yet, I do think this is what a small number of people dislike him for, because he believes in God and is outspoken about his beliefs. The part that I don't get is where that has anything to do with him as a football player. On the field, he isn't discussing God or his beliefs with any fans.
The Broncos won 7 in a row 2 years ago with a terrible defense and Kyle Orton as QB. Vince Young won a bunch of games his rookie and the next year and people were saying the same thing about him knowing how to win. Orton was released and Young isn't far behind.
They can win with Tebow. The guy is smart, a good athlete, and seems incredibly determined. He may turn into a good NFL QB. But if they win with Tebow, it will be because he did just that. It won't be like they're winning now. Like I said in the other thread, he's like the closer who comes in with 2 run leads, loads the bases, walks in a run, then gets a line drive double play to end the inning. We hear from some how they get the job done based on their save totals. We've seen this closer in Cincy. Eventually, the luck goes the other way, and the result is ugly.
Their current brand of football is not sustainable and I guarantee you Elway and Fox know it. I wouldn't at all be surprised if they draft a QB next year. Tebow's easy to root for. I got tired of the hype in college and it's even worse now (if that's possible), but he's not done anything to warrant sports hate.
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I don't find the fact that he's praying funny at all. The melodramatic "pose" in which he does it is pretty funny though.
FWIW, Drew Brees is a pretty outspoken Christian, and you don't see people poking fun at him. I never found anything funny about Jon Kitna when he was playing for the Bengals (bone headed football plays excepted).
I don't hate Tebow a bit, so maybe you're mistaking where I'm coming from for what you've seen out of others. However, I sincerely get a chuckle out of how melodramatic the guy is. Sorry, but I'm just not going to feel bad about that. Why should I when it has 0% of anything to do with his religious beliefs.
How do we know he's not Mel Torme?
Don't think this is sustainable at all, and actually think there's a good chance Denver loses by 35 this weekend, but long term it wouldn't surprise me at all if Tebow improves enough to actually be good. A smart coach that wants him would do him some good.
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the Kruger in the draft is the one I want...unfortunately he likely won't last to #30! We need high motor guys...who play a full 60....what i wouldn't give to have a young Kearny or young brooking (back when he was a good defender and not full of himself) and a diamond in the rough like a Jessie Tuggle......if we could add three pieces like that.....we could be HUGE!
and no I wouldn't pay big money for the other Kruger....we need to get younger as much as we can....We need to find those young high motor guys.....give a chance to some kids that may slip in the draft due to something else....(like the honey badger.....the guy has problems and needs guidance.....but truth is he can hit and cover and would have been a first rounder....now he is like a 5th to 6th rounder.....i have heard a lot of peeps don't think he can change.....we SOLID leadership which I believe we do have......we could benefit from taking a few chances.....
we also need to bring James Rodgers back and make him our slot receiver......like a wes welker......he is motivated....fast but not super fast...but he like Quizz never quits on a play.......he is a high quality guy that should be on the falcons roster.
No way we see Kruger. He'll get tagged if a deal doesn't get done. They're (Ravens) losing Ray and possibly Reed this year. They'll be scrambling to keep all their younger players. I think I read where they have ~15 mil in cap room. So, they'll have some space to work with.
Joe Flacco will get the tag before Kruger does.
Yeah, but do you really think they're gonna have to tag Flacco? He'll get a deal long before Kruger. Don't get me wrong, I think Kruger would do well here. I like to consider Kruger what we all hoped and envisioned out of Bierman (and a little more) but never got. So yea, I'd like to have him here.
Well the reports are that the Ravens and Flacco have been talking about a new deal since last summer and haven't made a whole lot of progress towards a new deal. The sticking point appears to be that Flacco wants to be paid off his postseason performance, which is as good as you can ask for the last couple of years, and the Ravens only want to pay him based on his regular season work which leaves a lot to be desired.
Maybe the Ravens are trying to pay him based on his actual post season performances instead of just the win.
What do you guys think about Paul Kruger? He's a free agent. Dannell Ellerbe is also a free agent for the Ravens. There's talk about the Ravens only being able to keep one of them. So if Kruger hits the market would you want the Falcons to pay big money to get him? I sure would. He would be another piece needed if the Falcons are indeed switching to a 3-4 base defense.
Kruger has gotten better every season he has been in the NFL. In just 15 games (6 starts) this season he had 42 tackles (30 solo), 9 sacks, 1 interception and 1 forced fumble and actually showed up in the playoffs. He had 2.5 sacks against the Broncos.
I would love for us to get Kruger, but his asking price may be way too steep. Ellerbe I'm glad hes done so, well, hes a free agent from UGA, he didn't get drafted. But I think were set at safty, but at linebacker, he might be a good fit, probably would be cheaper than Kruger Will be. ;)
Kruger posted regular season career-highs in tackles (42) and sacks (nine), and is reportedly seeking a contract in the $40 million range. His stock is on the rise after emerging on the national stage with a postseason flurry. Kruger graded out as a top-seven 3-4 outside linebacker in 2012 by Pro Football Focus.
Sounds like the same talk that boosted Ray Edwards too the second best Free agent DE a couple of seasons ago. Take away Ngata, Sugg, Reed, Ellerbe, and Ray lets see how good he is. I am a little weary of Ravens players because they're very well coached and scheme system specific. Visions of Ed Hartwell still torment me.
You do know that Reed, Suggs and Lewis all missed most of this season when Kruger had his best season right? Kruger isn't just a "product" of the Ravens defense. This kid can play and would easily be the best pass rusher on the team. Yes even better than Abe because Abe is DONE.
you just described half of our defense.
Kruger posted regular season career-highs in tackles (42) and sacks (nine), and is reportedly seeking a contract in the $40 million range. His stock is on the rise after emerging on the national stage with a postseason flurry. Kruger graded out as a top-seven 3-4 outside linebacker in 2012 by Pro Football Focus.
This and this reason alone will keep him from joining us....Though if TD could get him to accept something smaller.....it would be interesting....
It would be fun to bring in some of these guys and perhaps a few veterans that have maybe 2 years left in the tank (perhaps some just looking for the best opportunity to win a SB)....and see if we can strike hard this upcoming year and have some of these vets teach these younger guys.....
Could you imagine if we could get like 4-5 guys for peanuts because they want a championship....That would be a nice superbowl story!
Bart Scott, Adalius Thomas, Jamie Sharper, Ed Hartwell, all looked like beast in that organization. I could be wrong or it could be a trend. You are either the driver or just along for the ride.
The only one on that list that bombed after leaving the Ravens was Hartwell. The rest were still good players.