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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 17, 2013 -> 06:47 AM) Bears former QB Jim Miller is a user too, lol again a player who put something in his body without clearing it first. While I agree he really wasn't a "user." You need to be smart about what you use and protect your job.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jan 17, 2013 -> 06:17 AM) There is no circumstance that I would accept Tebow on the Bears. Lets completely forget the fact that he is a QB that cannot do the basic function of a QB, which is throw the ball, and lets point out how much of a distraction he would bring to the team. No. f***ing. Way. If he came in at minimal salary and was told he was the backup QB/tight end/ H back kind of a player it could be worth a shot. You could design some creative plays with him and Cutler on the field. Similar to Kordell Stewart with the Steelers, not the version in Chicago when he was the starting QB.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 08:51 PM) there would be management and program costs like transportation. What happens when it's mostly cleaned in areas where poverty is endemic? What job skills do you learn picking up trash? Who is watching the kids at this time? What about the people on food stamps or housing assistance who are working? If these are jobs that previously employed people, those people are going to be displaced. Unless you expand funding for poverty programs, something else has to be cut. Others instead of cleaning up will be assigned to child care duties. Any job created by this program ie. transportation will be filled by someone from this program. If they are gainfully employed they would be exempt from the work program. They are always areas that need cleaning and once you hit them all, you start over again. Chicago while not the dirtiest city I've been to is not near the top of the cleanest either.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 10:30 PM) Certainly, it is helpful and can be more or less so depending on what you're doing and how you use it. It just bothers me that this kid (much like Marcus Stroman) will be marked as a "user" now. I agree. However, they are told and should know that you put nothing in your body without contacting the athletic trainer and getting it cleared. They are told this repeatedly. So when something like this happens, I really don't feel too bad.

QUOTE (GoodAsGould @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 10:26 PM) I think most agree Carter was not a good president, but to say he has American hate??? I think the guy has done more positive things post-president than anyone before him and probably most after him. But, my order would be Clinton, Carter, Jr., and Sr. I have a feeling Bush Sr. would be very boring and possibly fall asleep mid dinner or I'd put him 2nd or 3rd. Ask him about his time spent in the ocean after getting shot down in WWII. He will talk about a great crew that he lost. He actually tells stories very well and is very personable, not dynamic but enjoyable. I met him at an air show in Midland Tx where there is a small museum about his military career. He was just hanging around talking to pilots and spectators.

QUOTE (HickoryHuskers @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 03:47 PM) Why is the Bears Tebow jersey 5 when (a) his number of choice is 15 and (b) the number 5 has been retired by the Bears? Marshall currently has 15?

QUOTE (bhawk99 @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 03:37 PM) Wow great news, Flowers is projected to hit under .220 with less then 15 HR's and under 40 RBI's. Who needs AJ with those impressive numbers from our new starting catcher. With his defense and contract, he will be a much better value than AJ.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 02:51 PM) Surgery was a "success" http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/blog/eye-on-b...xmonth-recovery What in the heck did they do in there that would necessitate a 6 month rehab? That is a really long time for hip arthroscopy. Edit: Nevermind I just looked it up. It wasn't just a labrum. The was a bone impingement and a cyst as well.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 11:05 AM) @mortreport Chip Kelly is the new coach of the Philadelphia Eagles, according to league sources. No announcement yet. I predict bust with this one. Gimmick offense will not work in NFL. Similar to Spurrier.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 11:05 AM) Damn. I think South Bend just exploded. Wrong Kelly.

QUOTE (Athomeboy_2000 @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 10:16 AM) I had no idea my dad was on Twitter (my dad also hates the Cubs GM as well) I thought it was my father. He worked for the IC railroad when the Canandian National bought it. He HATES anything to do with Canada. He also hates the McCaskeys so anything to do with the Bears FO is always wrong.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 08:27 AM) Honestly, Kromer alone adds about as much to our OL's effectiveness as signing a free agent or spending a 1st day pick in the draft. Dude knows how to coach those guys. Until he became an HC and OC, Mike Tice was widely considered one of the best O-line coaches in the league.

QUOTE (gatnom @ Jan 16, 2013 -> 12:31 AM) I really hate this line of thinking. ALL players are gambles on some level or another. Dunn was one of the most consistent players in the majors for nearly a decade, and as soon as he comes here he falls off a cliff. Alex Rios is also a "proven" MLB player. How much faith do you have that he will be worth $12.5 million next year? Veterans are less likely to outright bust (at least in the early years of their contracts), but are significantly more damaging when they do. It's also pretty unlikely that they ever significantly outperform their contracts in the way a prospect can. You need to achieve some sort of balance if you wish to have some measure of sustained success. You may not like it but it is the way many people think . Of course all players can be a bust especially for one season. However, odds are that proven MLB veterans have a better chance to perform than unknown prospects. However, on the other side they may not have the superstar potential either. It's usually a good idea to try some of both. The hard part is picking the right ones. Personally I never considered Alex Rios a proven player. He has always been very inconsistent. He is a veteran but I wouldn't have put him in the proven player category. When KW acquired him it wasn't at the expense of unproven prospects though, just money.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 01:17 PM) Wow. That is a huge number. I expected a one year deal. Did you see the crazy contract. Only 7 mil for each year of the contract but 14 mil deferred to 2018-2025. Heck of a lot better than the pension I'm going to get once the state government gets through shredding mine.

QUOTE (Jake @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 07:01 PM) The substance he got burned for is nothing. It is a stimulant that for some users feels stronger than caffeine. It was in every popular pre-workout supplement for about 5 years before the FDA made it illegal for not being from a plant source. A few people with heart problems have reported issues with it, but it isn't really any more dangerous at high doses than caffeine at high doses. The performance advantage would be negligibly different than someone using a couple cups of coffee and could easily become a detriment if he used too much because it causes notable crashing. I have a big bottle of the encapsulated ingredient in my room if somebody wants to try. It is notably the good the first time you try it, then never works as well after that. Anyone that gets banned for that is careless, but not a cheater. This policy is based on the olympics where even certain levels of caffeine are banned as well. For some events the quick burst of a stimulant can be helpful.

QUOTE (The Ultimate Champion @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 06:10 PM) My point was more along the lines of not being afraid to act. Everyone makes mistakes. Mistakes are necessary if you want to learn anything. A GM will make mistakes but a good one will learn from those. As long as a GM is acting on good information and is doing the right things at the right times, i.e. going for it when the contention window is there, building toward a new contention window when the current one seems to have closed, etc. then as long as he's primarily signing *proven* talent and trading *unproven* prospects with speculative value which (see: Molina, Nestor) can crash abruptly, then more often than not he's going to be on the right end of things. I see Hahn as being afraid to make a move. Kenny's aggression was a wonderful quality and I miss it. While others may not want to immediately hold Rick Hahn up to KW standards, I do. As a fan I expect an excellent General Manager running things. As far as Lohse you have a point, although I am not sure he ever would have been a Hahn/Sox under anyone target, and I really doubt we're looking to add salary. However, that Floyd trade which never happened would have given us salary room, and in theory, getting something of value for Floyd and then turning around and recommitting those funds to another area makes the organization's future appear brighter since talent would have been added overall, talent also with expiration dates beyond 2013 like Floyd. But going with Lohse as an example, signing Lohse to a 3 year deal, trading Floyd for parts/prospects, and then dealing off Lohse after 1-2 seasons and dumping salary probably is a lot less riskier than losing Floyd for nothing when just about everyone needs starting pitching. I will applaud Hahn if and when he does something right. He has no leash with me since he's failed already. At least 2 of Crain/Thornton/Floyd should have been gone with at least one good young piece coming back who is ready to compete for a job in ST 2013. He's done jack. I think from a certain point of view that this is actually backwards, that KW was the conservative one and Hahn is the gamblers. KW traded away unproven prospects for proven veterans. I don't care how good the prospect is they are still suspect until they prove it at the MLB level. So KW was trading the gamble for the proven player. Hahn on the other hand seems willing to hold on to everyone and gamble that either the players will improve or that his prospects will come through. Again it's still too early to say it for sure but it appears he is patient and willing to wait for the right deal and not afraid to go into the season with his own players. Thus KW is the more conservative (going more with the proven player) while Hahn is gambling on unproven players.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 02:32 PM) it was me I thought your hands would burn if they touched a rifle. I don't believe you.

I confess, I did it AND I'D DO IT AGAIN!!!!!!!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 01:36 PM) They do have to take lobbyist money if they want to fund a reelection campaign. The ketchup thing was just another example. The USDA under Reagan proposed counting ketchup as a vegetable Apparently that "pizza is a vegetable" story is from the federal level, and it was mostly over whether or not tomato paste should be called a vegetable and thus subsidized: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkbl...BXgmhN_blog.htm . I agree that politicians do this do be re-elected thus it makes them corrupt. The whole system is designed this way and needs to change. That article is one view on subsidies (a biased one at that). The federal level started it but not all local governments need to buy into it. Unfortunately Will county does.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 12:12 PM) the gov't has no idea what it's talking about when it comes to food, fitness and health. end of story. Hence the reason government should stay out of most everything. The current BMI calculation need to be updated and is an easy but poor way to determine health. IMHO health really comes down to carviovascular health as if it's in good shape the person will be doing pretty good. The best way to do this is using the katvonen formula of resting heart rate and exercise heart rate.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 13, 2013 -> 11:11 AM) IIRC this is because of lobbying, e.g. ketchup producers lobby to get ketchup considered a vegetable so that schools will buy more of it. I think it's more because Illinois politicians are corrupt and idiots. They don't have to take the lobbyists money but they are more than willing. what pizza has ketchup anyway?

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 12:03 PM) http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-02...t-coast-offense Jay ran the west coast offense in Denver and has the best seasons of his professional career. The Denver offense sure didn't seem like the west coast offense to me. I thought I remember him rolling out alot and being on the move, all of which isn't in the original west coast offense with the strict move your feet to each read. shannahan sure didn't seem to run that offense. I guess my impressions of what Denver and Shannahan did with him was off.

QUOTE (WHarris1 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 11:55 AM) Here's an article about how Steve Young sees the Cutler/Trestman duo working out: http://espn.go.com/blog/chicago/bears/post...a-qb-specialist The only problem I have is that Trestman was a "west coast" offense guy. I don't know if he has changed but that type of offense would not suit Cutler.

QUOTE (Marty34 @ Jan 15, 2013 -> 11:21 AM) People who rag on the fans for their support are really advocating franchise relocation. Fans who don't show up at the ballpark and support the team are advocating for franchise relocation.

QUOTE (Tex @ Jan 14, 2013 -> 08:41 PM) Last month I attended a workshop on the flipped classroom concept and have been busy converting my classes. The hardest part so far is learning to produce quality screencasts with decent video. Basically the idea is delivering new content via video as homework and then the students work on what was homework, in class. Using Bloom's Taxonomy it would be having the student working on the lowest levels, comprehension and knowledge at home and the higher levels, synthesis and evaluating in school. I was using the free trial of Camtasia to record video and audio together with a PowerPoint presentation. The software is nice but not $300 nice. Then it seems to drop to freeware that is a struggle to get working correctly. I know we have a couple educators here and perhaps a video person or two. And as a student what do you think? Any thoughts? This is kind of the updated technology version of the socratic method of teaching. They get the knowledge on their own time and spend the time with the instructor discussing it to understand it. Like you said with Bloom's the lower knowledge on their own then analyze, synthesize and evaluate with instructor guidance. however, as stated it only works if the majority of the class comes prepared.