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Verdict: Trent Williams had a GREAT game.
Also good: Brown and Hicks.
There is some great stuff in the article. I encourage you to read the whole thing. (Skins are one of three teams the writer is watching all season.)
This passage may have done more to help me understand zone-blocking and the stretch play more than anything else I've read:
However, in this game the Redskins really struggled to run the stretch play and the reason was pretty simple. DeMarcus Ware and Anthony Spencer did a phenomenal job setting the edge all night. What I mean by "setting the edge" is that when you are the last guy on the line of scrimmage, as Ware and Spencer usually are, it is your job to keep your outside arm free so you are able to keep contain. Not only that, but since birth, these guys have had it pounded in their heads that losing contain is the eighth deadly sin. I once had a coach who said, "You can either lose contain, or you can play defensive end. You can't do both." (In a 3-4 defense, especially in the Wade Phillips variant, the outside linebackers basically are the defensive ends.) Well, the zone stretch play was introduced to take advantage of that style of coaching. The offensive player, usually a tackle or tight end, attacks the defender's outside shoulder. The defender, fearing he is about to be reached, freaks out and starts working like crazy to get back outside. During this process, the defender will be so worried about getting outside that he won't notice that he has moved eight yards from his original alignment creating a huge seam.

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I have this thought. A nagging thought now. What does Pioli mean by the "Right 53" Some teams are built with a starting lineup and then the backups that do the dirty jobs and heaven forbid in an injury situation play spot starters. Well does Pioli build teams like that? Or maybe he has no true 1st line starters but a whole cadre of players that fill spots as needed. Maybe a squad of specialists. Players that are great against the run and weak on the pass defense. Pass Rushers when needed and Run stuffers at other times. This kind of grouping would require a whole roster of different talents and a lot of them would be cheap. Real Cheap in cost cause the rest of the League likes to have a starting lineup and a bunch of bench players that never see the field. I have maybe two examples to back up my idea.
The first would be the 2009 linebacking corp. We started Corey Mays and Demorrio Williams, who in obvious passing situations were replaced by Derrick Johnson and Jovan Belcher. Most NFL teams don't sub out the ILB corp for pass run situations. They have Starters that play in both circumstances. Now maybe that was just caused by Pendergast and not a Pioli/Haley preference.
The second would be the whole philosophy of upgrading personnel that the New England Patriots pursued. Seems to me that the Patriots always have a ton of picks in the draft. The reasons: They always were willing to move older players that they felt were replaceable (thus a lot of Compensation picks) and also picks due to trades. The only way they could do this is too have players ready to step into the vacant spots and play as well as the player just departed. How do you do that?
Well one way is to have a lot of situational players and play them all. The entire "Right 53" Of Course you have some everydown players mixed in. You would have to have a strong cadre of players on the interior and whether they play every down or not the are interchangable parts. Not Stars all by themselves but collectively WIN games and thus become those players that other teams feel can make a difference for them when they become available. We have experienced that to a degree with every Patriot cast-off being a possible signing. To Pioli they were part of a machine before and could be small cogs to start the New Kansas City Chiefs franchise in the mold that he knows best. Weis and Crennel were the master machinists in a previous franchise rebuild.
So to the point of the matter. Are we going to draft Stars or more Cogs in the machine? The "Right 53" I have given up on trying to figure out WHO Pioli will take. IMO, Pioli at 6:30 CST Thursday is not going to be totally sure either. He will have his board and his scouting reports and will wait to see who is there to pick. He then will weigh his options. If he decides we need a new LT bad enough, He will probably draft 2, just like we took 2 DE's last year. I have NO fear that Pioli will use Math to make sure that he gets what he needs. Looking at Scott Pioli's past drafts is very interesting to me. He seems to always generate 2-3 more picks than he should have every year. In 2010, We have 1 extra pick but all of the picks we have are in the Top 150 picks of possible players. I was looking at the Scout list of players and there star ratings, this years draft according to Scouts has 157 players rated 4 and 5 stars. We don't have to take any project this year if we don't want to. No reaches for talent. Our 1st three picks should be all of the highest caliber 5 star players.
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We're poised to do a fair bit of traveling over the next few months to keep up with a jet-setting significant other, so www.3floz.com has become one of our favorite Web destinations of late. (Don't worry, our laptop will be clearing security with us, so Beauty Counter will be going global.) To keep us properly addicted to its revolving cast of miniature, TSA-approved beauty essentials from brands like Jonathan Product, Pangea Organics, and Dr. Hauschka, site creators Kate Duff and Alexi Mintz have recently added customized kits to their offerings. The six collections include standouts like the Urban Traveler, a set of face towelettes, sanitizers, a mini body lotion, and a lip balm; the Gym Kit, which boasts a dry shampoo, a refreshing mint-scented body wash, and an herbal deodorant; and Duff's own picks like Philip B Avocado & Peppermint Shampoo and Lightweight Conditioner, Ole Henriksen's Walnut Scrub (exfoliating is a must to boost skin cell renewal while you're on the move), and Dr. Hauschka lip balm, an all-natural in-flight savior. Look out for an After Sun and Sun kit as well, which launch in two weeks—just in time for Coachella and the beginning of the summer festival season.
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Beauty house calls are becoming an increasingly popular way to get your blowouts, highlights, eyebrow waxing, and manicures done—often at a fraction of the in-salon cost. Please note: Covertly convincing your aesthetician to cheat the system and come to your apartment may resemble illicit solicitation, so just choose your words carefully. [NYT]
Coldplay will release a new perfume called Angst. Or so they told fans this morning as a playful April Fool's joke. It's a shame to waste such a good fragrance name on a prank, if you ask us. Do it for real, Chris Martin. You know it would sell. [UKPA]
Everybody loves a celebrity makeover story, and now Us Weekly has obliged our collective guilty pleasure with a newly launched 15-photo slideshow. It mostly includes before-and-after pictures of weight loss and haircuts, but Christina Aguilera's transformation really stands out; her new, anti-drag queen beauty approach is really working for her, no? [Us]
Thinking about a professional-grade teeth-whitening treatment but too squeamish to sit through the procedure at the dentist's office? A new study shows that acupuncture can actually help you endure the anxiety so you can get the pearly whites of your dreams. [Science Daily]
Or you could just download a new ringtone to soothe your nerves. Therapeutic ring tones that can do things like cure allergies or help curb your appetite are the newest technological rage in Japan. [BBC via Allure]
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Live Web casts have emerged as the marketing world's favorite new channel for generating buzz for everything from fashion shows to celeb-fronted symposiums. Pantene is the latest brand to get in on the game, using the digital format to announce some spokesperson news that's been hyped all week. For the past few days, clues have been planted on its Facebook page to keep fans of the brand guessing, but turns out the "former Time Person of the Year" who can "handle the pressures of reality" and is "known for rock star locks" that are "admired by men and women" is…Bret Michaels. Just kidding. Michaels was on the Web cast that aired a few minutes ago, however, as a funny April Fool's joke (ha ha) and also to announce that the real spokesperson is you. Pantene is launching the first Reality Hair Star search and is looking for one-minute videos from 15-minutes-of-fame seekers who think they have the strands to stand up to a new nationally aired commercial. The top contestants will be flown to New York City for a screen test, and the winner will appear in the ad spot and get the chance to go on tour with Michaels this summer. That's not an April Fool's joke but a prospect that strikes us as hilarious nevertheless. Click here to enter and vote for your favorite videos by April 18.
Drugstore Discovery of the Week: Facial Wipes, 2.0-------
Go ahead and rejoice in the sun's triumphant return to New York City today, but try not to get too comfortable. Seeing as how spring is all about weather curveballs, we could very likely see another weeklong rainy spell or, maybe worse, a return to biting, near freezing temperatures. It's hard enough to know what to wear this time of year, let alone deal with your skin, which can vacillate between dewy/sweaty and dry/dull. To properly offset the barometric changes that have been messing with my complexion, I've been carrying around Yes to Cucumbers' new Natural Glow Facial Towelettes. They control grease and eliminate surface shine on the go, without relying on the harsh alcohols or unnecessary oils that come standard on most moistened wipes. It's the little extras, though, that have earned them a coveted spot in my purse: Each towelette is soaked in a mellow blend of organic cucumber to soothe, aloe vera to rehydrate parched patches, and green tea to gently exfoliate any flakiness. They're also cut from a different cloth—specifically, a soft woven fabric that's sustainable and certified by the FSC, a nonprofit that supports responsible forestry. Even better, the pack is sealed with a handy snap closure, instead of those lame sticker flaps, to prevent the wonderful botanicals from escaping. At $5.99, they're a good investment that should give you some much needed security in these few months of flux.


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The Dick Henderson Bridge connecting Saint Albans and Nitro is being replaced. Onlookers were able to see the bridge from a distance, but Thursday, members of the West Virginia Division of Highways released a video showing an up close look of the bridge and its piecemeal demolition.
Workers are cutting the steel truss and lowering the bridge piece by piece onto a barge. The barge then takes the piece to a recycling plant.
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Underrated: "His Verses Just Kills People When He Hops On Their Songs"
Monday, Dec 26, 2011 12:15AM
[The Wrap-Up: With the year coming to a close, this week SOHH celebrates entertainment personalities' most favorite 2011 SOHH Underrated emcees. After Roscoe Dash gave Wale/J. Cole shine last week, we highlight Detroit's hometown hero eLZhi for receiving frequent love throughout 2011.]
In today's times, the most underrated rapper out right now I would have to say is Elzhi. Elzhi from Slum Village, in my opinion, is one of the most underrated rappers out. I don't know what it is exactly about him. It's hard to really explain it. I think people who hear him automatically are like, "God d*mn this motherf*cker is nice!" But it's the same thing with me, I just want more people to recognize how good he is. That's something important. -Pharoahe Monch (Rapper)
eLZhi is one of the top three greatest rappers of all time to me. That dude can put together words and wordplay that no other can do. His lyrics and what he's saying on tracks is so ridiculous. I just don't think people are recognizing. -Apollo Brown (Producer)
Who is the most underrated, hmm. Let me think about this. I think eLZhi, formerly of Slum Village, is very underrated. He just recently did a live version of Nas' Illmatic and it is the best hip-hop album that I've heard in a really, really, really long time. It just moves me that [the project] didn't get more notoriety. It moves me that it didn't get more notoriety being that Illmatic was such a classic album. You know it ain't too many people that can really compare to Nas. -Rah Digga (Rapper)
I like eLZhi a lot. It's kind of hard because you're not going to get as much credit unless you play the game a certain way. I think he plays the game his way. He put out the Illmatic tribute album and some other things but when I heard him, his verses just kill people when he hops on their songs. He's just murderous. He hasn't been in the game for 20 years or nothing like that but I think eLZhi is really nasty, technical-wise with his rhymes. It may not be for everybody but the way he puts his words together, as a rapper, you're just like, "Wow. Where did that come from? He said something I wish I could have came up with." -Charlie Smarts (Rapper)
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Mar28-08, 08:17 PM
Please refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfest_paradox for a description of this very interesting paradox.
Although I understood the apparent paradox, I could not get a grasp of the resolution ofthe paradox, as explained on Wikipedia. Could any of the pros on this forum explain the resolution in more simple terms?
I still could not understand how an observer at rest will be able to reconcile the fact that she is observerving a circumference less than 2pi times the radius that she observes. No shape in Euclidean geometery would satisfy what she observes. And how could the space between the axis of rotation of the train and the circular path become bent simply due to the motion of the train?
More puzzling is the view from the perspective of an observer on the rim of the disc. She actually measures a circumference greater then 2pi.
Mar29-08, 04:07 AM
Now imagine when the train is stationary, that you place a laser on one box car and aim it so the laser fires pulses at a spot marked on another box car. Now after the train has accelerated to its final cruising speed you notice that the laser pulses no longer hit the same spot that you marked on the box car. On board the train light seems to follow curved paths just as on the massive planet. (Not exactly the same, because the curved light paths are assymetric on the train but we won't worry about that right now). Anyway, to you on board the train space certainly looks curved. To Mary, each photon pulse follows a straight line, so everything looks all nice and Euclidean to her, and the corners of triangles add up to 180 degrees (but not for you on board the train).
Bob is the observer on the train. Initially the train is stationary when he gets on board. He has a truck load of rulers and places them end to end all the way around the train. Each ruler is 10 inches long so it take 96 rulers. When the train is moving the rulers have shrunk leaving gaps between the rulers. He pushes all the rulers together to close the gaps and then finds he need more rulers to span the total length of the train. In fact he has to add another 24 rulers making a total of 120 rulers. By his measurement the length of the train is 1200 inches. How can that be? The rulers have shrunk but the so should the train. Well, the box cars have shrunk, and they will appear to be unchanged to Bob but the elastic couplings have stretched and the couplings will seem much longer to Bob now the train is moving than when it was at rest. This is because the couplings have not been allowed to naturally length contract and they will be under a lot of stress.
So here is the important part. Mary sees the total length of the train as shorter than Bob's measurement by a factor of gamma, but unlike in regular straight line inertial relativity she sees no change in the total length of the train when it is stationary or when it is moving. It is Bob that sees the change.
Another important part is this. Bob will see the radius as larger than the radius measured by Mary. Imagine a bridge is built from one box car to a pivot at the centre of the circular track. Bob find he needs more rulers to span the length of the bridge when it is moving relative to the ground than when it was stationary. This is because of a general relativity effect that causes objects in a gravitational "field" to length contract in the vertical direction. Remember, being in a rotational frame is like being in a "wierd" gravity field. He will measure the radius as being a bit longer, but probably not enough longer to rescue Euclidean geometry. You would have to work out the integral to find out exactly what he measures the radius to be, because the rulers nearest the moving train will shorter than the rulers nearest the central pivot. Maybe, an expert would be able to tell us what Bob measures the radius to be in inches?
The rulers along the perimeter (onboard the train) are not affected by the "gravitational" length contraction because length contraction does not happen in the horizontal direction in a gravitational field.
As you probably guessed, I am no expert :P
An expert would say something like the resultion of the paradox can be summed up as "the geometry 'in the small' is approximately given by the Langevin-Landau-Lifschitz metric".
Mar29-08, 08:45 AM
The following previous threads might be helpful...
Tip: The best way to search PF is using Google. I found these by searching for
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Thats two years to the day since Vonnie and I started seeing each other. It feels like its only lasted a few months sometimes and then you look at what what we've actually managed to do in that time and you begin to wonder… Sometimes I'm convinced its more like 4 years we've been together as theres no way most folk would get as much done as we have in that time I think!
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Chicago (AP) -- A report from the Chicago-based Civic Federation predicts that Illinois' backlog of unpaid bills will reach nearly $22 billion within five years without legislative action to hold down pension costs.
The Civic Federation's analysis was released Monday. The watchdog group notes some improvement since last year when it was forecasting a $35 billion backlog in overdue bills. The improved outlook is largely because of $1.6 billion in Medicaid cuts Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law last year.
Civic Federation President Laurence Msall says Illinois lawmakers need to restructure its pension systems because they are keeping the state in what he calls "its fiscal downspin."
The report says the state's backlog of unpaid bills is expected to grow to $21.7 billion in 2018 from $7.8 billion this year.
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Switching Between Tools in Complex Applications
Journal of Usability Studies, Volume 3, Issue 4, August 2008, pp. 173-188
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We rate tool switching and tool switch patterns in two ways. First, switches that statistically dominate successful task execution (defined both as task completion and satisfaction with the task experience, as measured by SUS) are rated as preferred by users. Secondly, however, the choices made in the course of the work can be evaluated as regards timing (by observing whether task progress before the switch point was satisfactory) and in terms of choice (by observing whether users choose the most effective tool).
These ratings are concrete data descriptive of users' cognitive behavior, based on observation, consistent with other summative work in usability studies. Their quantity and quality are made possible by automated detections and pre-processing of all events in this category, and artificially extending (and compressing) the facilitator's observation time through the use of recordings and flagging of events. The technique remains qualitative; its foundation is the experienced observer's analysis of critical incidents. However, quantitative methods (plots and statistics) identify patterns and clustering, which suggest where those critical incidents lie.
The analysis has four steps: choice of event types (or perhaps design changes) for study, parsing and processing of logs into statistics or graphics that arrange the data into useful views, pairing events and patterns with their metrics, and checking conclusions against test recordings. The final step connects the statistical abstraction with actual test observations, and also warrants that conclusions are not distorted by outliers.
We have already observed problem patterns prior to the study that stands out in the timelines and data. We expect to discover further orderings of subtasks (groupings or effective sequences) that, although they alter the naïve flow of the task, are so evidently more productive that design should reinforce them. One example of such a technique is copying and pasting if, then, and else constructs as a block, and then updating the contents of the new block. Speed, accuracy, and neatness are achieved by "going out of order." These sometimes unexpected strategies are fruitful because of dependencies between subtasks that users discover and exploit (Card et al., 1983). Graphical presentation of workflows (Figures 3 and 4) help us detect patterns and dependencies.


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Kind of a Tweet of the Day and Video Fridays installment all in one.
Stephen Drozd is one of the musical geniuses behind one of my favorite bands, The Flaming Lips, and I got a total kick out of this tiny clip, from the camera angle to the lighting, and most especially the revelation that the Lips are working on a cover of an Emerson, Lake & Palmer classic.
@waynecoyne hey I'm getting that iPad solo down on Lucky Man by ELP! twitvid.com/HYCWY—
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It might be kinda quiet here at Fish & Bicycle for the next few days, as the family and I are moving to new digs here in Bellingham.
Hopefully, I'll have new stuff up by Monday, so in the meantime, make yourself at home, kick off your shoes, pour yourself a mug of beer or a glass of wine, and browse around the vast Fish & Bicycle archives.