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Coffee filter
A coffee filter is a coffee-brewing utensil, usually made of disposable paper. This enables it to trap the coffee grounds and allow the liquid coffee to flow through.
Paper filters remove oily components called diterpenes; these organic compounds, present in unfiltered coffee are known to be antimicrobial and antiinflammatory. Metal or nylon mesh filters do not remove these components.[1]
On July 8, 1908, the first paper coffee filter was created by German housewife Melitta Bentz. She wanted to remove the bitter taste caused by boiling loose grounds or using the typical method of linen to brew coffee.[2] She patented her invention and formed a company to sell the coffee filters, hiring her husband and two sons to assist her as the first employees.
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Coffee filters of paper are made from about 100 g/m2 crêpe paper. The crêping allows the coffee to flow freely between the filter and the filtration funnel. The raw materials (pulp) for the filter paper are coarse long fiber, often from fast growing trees. Both bleached and unbleached qualities are made.[3]
Typically coffee filters are made up of filaments approximately 20 micrometres wide, which allow particles through that are less than approximately 10 to 15 micrometres.[4][5]
For a filter to be compatible with a coffee maker, the filter needs to be a specific shape and size. Common in the US are cone-shaped filters #2, #4, and #6, as well as basket-shaped filters in an 8-12 cup size.
Other important parameters are strength, compatibility, efficiency and capacity.
If a coffee filter doesn't possess enough strength, it will tear or rupture, allowing coffee grains to collect in the coffee pot. Compatibility describes a filter medium's resistance to degradation by heat and chemical attack; a filter that is not compatible with the liquid passing through it is likely to break down, losing strength (structural failure). Efficiency is the retention of particles in a target (size) category. The efficiency is dictated by the particles or substances to be removed. A large-mesh filter may be efficient at retaining large particles, but inefficient at retaining small particles. Capacity is the ability to "hold" previously removed particles, while allowing further flow. A very efficient filter may show poor capacity, causing increased resistance to flow or other problems as it plugging up prematurely and increasing resistance or flow problems. A balance between particle capture and flow requirements must be met while ensuring integrity.
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Left 4 Dead - Omfg A Tank!!!!!
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Why hello again fuckers! ;D
I have done this because THE TANK IS FUCKING AWESOME! YEAHHHH!!!
That fucker is like king kong on crack. You mess with him and he'll throw a fucking rock the size of your average football player at you, so don't get cocky.
Credits to Valve/Turtle Rock Studios for making the original track.
PS: here is a .wav version that you can put into the game - http://www.mediafire.com/
Simply replace 'tank.wav' and 'taank.wav' located in C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\com mon\left 4 dead\left4dead\sound\musi c\tank
I will work on a 'taank' version later, 'til then keep your panties on.
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This should be in the game for the last tank on the rescue parts
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I've always liked your work, very good :D. 10/10 man. Very cool :D. If Valve ever make DLC with the midnight riders in L4D2 I reckon that they should use this music. Once again very awesome :D.
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Fuckin' Awesome!
I can just feel the rage of the Tank as I listen to this! You did a great job, dude!
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I like to be versatile so that I can take on a range of good projects which don't always have to match with my personal work, it keeps things interesting and challenging. It's good to mix it up so everything doesn't end up looking the same. I put lots of love into every project I work on so I think there's naturally an essence that ties all my work together, it's all coming from the same place. I am pretty selective about projects that I show on my website, it's the work I most enjoy creating and the directions I'd like to explore further. I believe one of the ultimate achievements is to attract professional commissions based on personal work.
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Keeping the design of the website simple and minimal to let the work itself be the main focus is important, I think. To put thought into presenting different projects well visually and making the descriptions short but clear. Choose your best work to display and make sure you keep on top of it, update it, maintain your blog, put new work on and take off any old work that you no longer relate to, keep it current.
In this series, we'll look deeper into some of the projects on Behance.net that were especially admired in our community. Camilla Cantrambone is a Florence based photographer. Her other projects include the cover of "Piazza Italia" magazine, and playful posters and direction for the Little Veg Book. We spoke with her about her recent project "Portraits of my Family," creative takes on the traditional portrait using beloved objects.
What was your inspiration for this project?
I've always been fascinated by objects, and I think every person is represented by their personal objects; the objects they choose and the way they use them tells you a story. When I started doing this project, I felt that the objects belonged to my relatives. They were still full of energy and capable of reminding me of moments I shared with them. In order to recreate specific memories, I started to reorganize these objects. For example, if I look at an image of my grandpa Mario, I can go back to a time when we sat at his writing table and fully feel the mood of that moment. The objects represented in every picture don't talk about the entire life of my grandpa, but they deeply describe a moment I shared with him.
"The objects represented in every picture don't talk about the entire life of my grandpa, but they deeply describe a moment I shared with him."
Did you expect it to be as popular as it's been on The Behance Network?
Not at all! Being a personal project I'd never thought to be so popular, but I'm glad I could communicate and share my feelings to people I don't even know
This Fall, Behance held our second annual in-house Hackathon. The API was used in very creative ways, and the day was filled with some amazing ideas, collaboration and participation from both the Behance team and some special guests.
Here is a list of some great ideas that came to life:
BeSpoke: A suggestion engine tailored to your taste
BeSynth: A synthesizer that maps dominant colors of user projects to audio frequency, modulated by touch.
CAS3G: 3D globe of published Behance projects
Behance Mood Board
Behance Hue Lights: Hue lighting based on the average color of a project cover
Behance Data Mining
BeMix: Creative mosaics powered by Behance
Bettle: A battle game based on your Behance stats
Assisthance: Voice control…for everyone
This post is part of a series where Behance developers talk about the various tools they use to get things done and make ideas happen.
1. Who are you and what do you do at Behance?
Hello, I'm Chris Fortier and I am the Lead Quality Engineer at Behance. My main responsibility is to help guide the Quality Engineering Team so that we can figure out how to test all the various aspects of our websites. I've been on the team for a year now (I know, I've slacked off on writing this post) and I've been involved in quite a few projects. The first major project that I worked on was an automated process to build a replica of our production environments so that we can have a more effective development and testing process. These environments are built on VirtualBox and OpenStack virtual machines. For the past several months I've been working very closely with the DevOps team as we adopt Chef and standardize our infrastructure as code. Looking forward to 2014, we are in the process of a complete overhaul of our testing infrastructure and busy trying to figure out how to build a Continuous Deployment process. Stay tuned for details.
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We asked our members to share their Work-In-Progress with us on Instagram using the hashtag #BehanceWIP, and we saw some amazing things happening. Now that we've entered the new year, we would love for you to continue to share what you are currently working on.
Here are a couple of our favorites.
It's been an amazing year here at Behance and we're so excited for what we have in store for the coming year. We're constantly in awe of the work that you, the creative world, can turn out. You all help make life more interesting.
For the next few weeks, we'll be taking a look back at 2013 and featuring some of our staff's favorite projects from the past year at facebook.com/Behance while we recount our Top Tweets at twitter.com/Behance, so be sure to follow along!
Here's to making ideas happen!
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I bought my Droid Razr Maxx almost 3 weeks ago and when I bought it I had 4g then when I update to ICS the 4g stop working. When I turn data on at home it says 3g and when I test it on my sister Droid Razr its fine with 4g. Anyone have this problem, please answer me.
Hi clover. Your problem could be due to it still being set on global, which is the default ICS setting. To set it to the 4g LTE setting, go to settings --->more... (under data usage) ---> mobile networks ---> network mode ---> select LTE/CDMA. That should make a difference. Let us know. Sent from my DROID RAZR Maxx using Droid Forums
Ok, here is the next thing to try... Install the app, Phone Info, from play store. In that app, just above where it says "turn off radio" it should say "LTE/CDMA/EvDO." Touch that and choose LTE only. See if that will force your phone to use 4g. Make sure your Wi-Fi is turned off (4g/3g data is pretty much ignored on Wi-Fi) and make sure you are in a 4g area. Sent from my DROID RAZR Maxx using Droid Forums
I can't think of anything else to try.The only other thing I can think to do is a factory data reset. Which is worth a last ditch effort before getting a replacement. Sent from my DROID RAZR Maxx using Droid Forums
I called Verizon and they said Motorola get an update sometime this month to help fix the 4g problems
Do you think it might be an outage in your area? I have had zero problems with 4g. Great signal strength and no data drops or lags at all.
I would take it in. Only fix i can think of would void your warranty. Not worth it for a phone that new.
my sister have the droid razr and it work fine but mine have problems... I don't even have 4g after I update to ICS


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Channel-spacing-tunable multi-wavelength fiber ring laser with hybrid Raman and Erbium-doped fiber gains
Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 3, pp. 930-935 (2007)
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A multi-wavelength fiber ring laser of tunable channel spacing is proposed by employing an optical variable delay line (OVDL) in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. Stable lasing is achieved at room temperature with the hybrid gains of a single mode fiber (as the Raman gain medium) and an Erbium-doped fiber (EDF) in a ring structure. The channel spacing of the present multi-wavelength fiber ring laser can be continuously tuned by adjusting the computer-controlled OVDL.
© 2007 Optical Society of America
OCIS Codes
(140.3500) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, erbium
(140.3510) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, fiber
(140.3550) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, Raman
(140.3600) Lasers and laser optics : Lasers, tunable
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Lasers and Laser Optics
Original Manuscript: November 27, 2006
Revised Manuscript: January 16, 2007
Manuscript Accepted: January 16, 2007
Published: February 5, 2007
Daru Chen, Shan Qin, and Sailing He, "Channel-spacing-tunable multi-wavelength fiber ring laser with hybrid Raman and Erbium-doped fiber gains," Opt. Express 15, 930-935 (2007)
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Righteous Porkchop
When Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., first asked Nicolette Hahn Niman to head up his environmental organization's "hog campaign," she balked. Investigating hog manure pollution was hardly the glamorous assignment she pictured when leaving everything to work for him in New York. But Kennedy, she discovered, is not a man who takes no for an answer.
Thus began Niman's fascinating odyssey into the inner workings of the "factory farm" industry and her transformation into an intrepid environmental lawyer who goes up against the big business farming establishment and—unexpectedly—finds love along the way.
Starting her work for Kennedy's organization in North Carolina, Niman uncovers the shocking practices of hog factory farms, including inhumane animal confinement and devastating water and air pollution. She organizes a national reform movement to fight these practices and shows again and again that livestock farming can be done in a better way—not only for hogs, but also for poultry, fish, and dairy cows.
Through Niman's work, she also tours the best of farms, where traditional farmers and ranchers treat their animals humanely and have joined with other farmers to successfully market the foods they produce. She profiles the innovative and cost-effective methods these operations have incorporated to make a profit by ethical, sustainable means.
Along the way, the story takes a surprising turn when Nicolette is swept off her feet by a high-profile cattle rancher. At first, they seem an unlikely pair: Nicolette, a thirty-something, urban, East Coast, vegetarian attorney, and Bill Niman, an older, West Coast, cowboy type. But they share a passion for raising animals with kindness, and she soon finds herself transitioning to ranching life at the famed Niman Ranch in Northern California.
In telling her story, Niman details not only why to choose meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, and fish from traditionally farmed sources (and avoid products tainted by chemicals and antibiotic-resistant bacteria), but also how to do so. She reveals what to look for on labels, why to skip animal products from outside the United States, and what questions to ask when eating out.
A searing account of an industry gone awry and one woman's passionate fight to remedy it, Righteous Porkchop is a must-read for anyone who cares about food sources or good eating.
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Title: Righteous Porkchop
Author: Nicolette Hahn Niman
Chapter One
My Crash Course in Modern Meat
A New Assignment
There I was, driving through sheets of relentless rain, straining to get a good view of the road in front of me. The year was 2000 and I was heading east on I-80 toward my new job in New York City, anxiously anticipating what lay ahead. As I made the trip from Michigan, I thought about all I'd given up. I'd just quit my job, sold my house, given away most of my possessions, and crammed the rest—my least expendable belongings—into my aging Volkswagen Golf. I had the overwhelming sense that this new beginning would be a turning point in my life. A few days later I would start as the senior attorney for the environmental group, Waterkeeper, headed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
After some long hours on the road, I finally reached New York and collapsed on a friend's sofa. Two days later, my first day on the new job, I settled into a small, austere office at the Pace University Law School, where Waterkeeper was housed, and awaited direction. These initial weeks on the job turned out to be atypical in both the tasks I was given and the hours I worked. Bobby (as everyone calls him) threw a hodgepodge of requests at me, relating to everything from employment issues, to air pollution, to the organization's tax status. These were tests, I suspected, yet none of the work seemed particularly pressing. Diligently but dispassionately, I plodded along as a legal factotum in a regular rhythm of nine to five.
That all changed one Saturday afternoon when I got a call from Bobby (for whom a mere wisp of a line separates on- and off-duty). "Nicolette, I want you to take charge of our hog campaign," he barked in a way that sounded half command, half request. "You'll have a lot of autonomy and responsibility," he continued, "but it's also going to be a lot of hard work." At that moment, there was really no "hog campaign" to speak of. It was little more than Bobby's notion that he wanted to sue hog farming operations for contaminating rivers with their manure and that he wanted it to be part of a larger national crusade against industrialized animal operations that caused pollution.
The responsibility and autonomy were certainly appealing, but I knew almost nothing about hog farming and it struck me as, well, an immersion in poop. It was not exactly the glamorous job I'd envisioned when abandoning everything for New York. "Uh—I'm not sure I want to work full-time on manure," I ventured.
There was another reason for my reticence. I'd sought this job with the idea of dedicating myself to environmental causes dear to my heart, yet livestock farming didn't hold much interest for me. Just after my freshman year of college, a tangle of vaguely informed concerns about the environment, health, and animals had inspired me to quit meat. However, since I wasn't much of a proselytizing vegetarian, I'd largely ignored the dark details lately emerging about the meat industry. Frankly, I found those stories so depressing I intentionally avoided them. (Anyway, why did I need to read that stuff—wasn't I doing my part by abstaining from meat?)
Hearing my hesitation, Bobby responded that before giving my answer, I should see for myself what this was really about. "Just go to Missouri and meet the people who've been asking for our help. Then you can decide."
A steamrolled community
As Bobby is not a person easily gainsaid, a few days later I found myself stepping off a plane in Kansas City. My ultimate destination was a Missouri town three hours to the northeast that had become densely populated by the hog operations of the large agribusiness corporation, Premium Standard Farms (PSF). Two farmers, a lawyer, and an environmental advocate would be my guides. They met me at the airport terminal exit in a white rental van.
From our phone conversations, I already knew that Scott Dye, a Sierra Club employee in the group, was a straight-talking, salty-tongued fountain of knowledge. With his grizzled beard, booming voice, red plaid shirt, and baseball cap, he struck me as more lumberjack than tree hugger. Scott gave my hand a firm shake then introduced me to the others.
From the introductions I learned that all but one in the group came from farming families. That fact stood out to me because I had already encountered claims from agribusiness that complaints about industrial animal operations are made only by misguided "displaced city-dwellers" who simply don't understand agriculture. It seemed to be a classic agribusiness response to any criticism.As we drove north, I heard facts and stories about the people who'd been raising crops and animals in the area for generations, long before big agribusiness moved in. Seated next to me was one of them: Terry Spence, a second-generation farmer with a Red Angus cattle herd. He seemed a modest, soft spoken man. But I soon detected a will of iron underneath as he described the company's inauspicious arrival in their town a decade earlier.
At the time, Terry was serving on the local township board. When he and his fellow board members heard that PSF planned to move to their community after being blacklisted in neighboring Iowa, they leapt into action. The board drafted land use ordinances that would prohibit animal operations from causing pollution and odor, laws by which traditional farmers could easily abide.
The company responded by making a beeline to the state capitol to flex its political muscle. The day after the township adopted its anti-pollution ordinance, the state approved PSF's permits, effectively overriding the local laws. The legislature even passed a law that explicitly exempted Terry's county from the protection of a decades-old state statute that makes farming by out-of-state corporations illegal. Everything coming out of the capitol appeared hand-tailored for the company to seamlessly set up its facilities in Terry's township.
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A special innings from Dwayne Smith gave Mumbai Indians the impetus to spoil Kolkata Knight Riders' victory bid in the Wednesday's Pepsi IPL-VI match at the Eden Gardens.
Playing his second match of the season, Smith hammered KKR's two promising spinners — Iqbal Abdulla and Sachithra Senanayake — to set the platform for the other batsmen to finish the job with a ball to spare.
MI captain Rohit Sharma, who was asked to lead after Ricky Ponting opted out from the playing XI, was all praise for the West Indian.
"Dwayne is someone who gives us a lot of options. He can be dangerous with the bat, which he showed today; he can bowl and is a good fielder as well. He did the job for us and made fantastic use of the opportunity," Rohit said.
On Ponting, he said it was the Aussie's decision to sit out. "It needs a lot of heart and guts to take such a decision. He was the one who stood up for this move keeping in mind the team balance," Rohit said.
Important victory
"It is a very important victory for us. We have been winning at home but it was important for us to win away games. This is the third match on the trot away from home," he said.
KKR's ace bowler, Sunil Narine was ecstatic about dismissing Sachin Tendulkar but was disappointed at the defeat.
"It is a great wicket, but the defeat is a big disappointment. We just have to go back and train harder," he saidKKR captain Gautam Gambhir had a different take on the team's loss. "It is not that we are playing too poorly and losing. Despite playing some very good cricket we are unfortunately finishing on the wrong end," he pointed out.
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The Protean Theatre takes a middle-of-the-road approach to Edward Ravenscroft's exceptionally naughty Restoration comedy The London Cuckolds (Blue Heron), a work that achieved great popularity in the 17th century before being tsk-tsked out of the English repertory for the next 200 years. While the play's absence was no great loss for dramatic literature, this commedia dell'arte-inspired farce deploys a gleeful ensemble of stock characters (lunkheaded husbands, randy wives, wily servants) in sketches that are one part sexual satire, two parts slapstick.
John Byrne's faithful 1985 adaptation attempts to smooth out the unwieldy plot, yet the repetitive nature of the ribald shenanigans calls for more judicious cutting. Director Owen Thompson's cast seems to have taken a common vow of shamelessness, which pays decent comic dividends for the cuckolded leads. But by converting the adulterous wives into harmlessly horny cartoons, the production packs little subversive punch. Imagine the cast of Sex and the City guest-starring on The Benny Hill Show. Sure, there's plenty of vulgar fun, but without any real moral danger the entire affair amounts to a long and increasingly tedious smut joke.
The Queen's Company's all-female version of Aphra Behn's The Rover (Currican) employs the old strategy of cross-gender casting in their lively, if overly winking, approach to the Restoration playwright whom Virginia Woolf deemed the mother of all modern women writers. The production, directed by Rebecca Patterson, includes more fey crotch-grabbing than a Michael Jackson video. But the goatee-donning ensemble can't quite get beyond the novelty of the drag conceit. This kind of gender-bending has become rather familiar, and two and a half hours of Behn require more than ballsy posturing.
The convoluted tale of masked women navigating the shoals of their future (convent, prostitution, or marriage), while rakish men vie clumsily for their maidenheads, never rises beyond the level of mugging parody. Perhaps a more liberated textual adaptation, like the production's amusingly updated prologue, would have better served Patterson's playfully anachronistic drag act. In any case, the shortcomings of this elbow-nudging version of The Rover remind that an actor in nuanced command of her craft is always more radical than any "queer" directorial concept.
Dawn Powell has been "rediscovered" so many times that nearly every age tries to claim her as a contemporary. But this Greenwich Village wisecracker belongs to the Hemingway era that started tying one on during Prohibition and kept debauching into the 1950s. Powell actually set out to be a playwright, though her lack of success quickly convinced her to become a novelist. First produced in 1934, Jig Saw is one of her early "failed" playsa satiric stab at New York life with French farcical overtones. Like most of her writing, it's the stinging wit of her unflinching observations that rescues the work from its formal clunkiness.
Appropriately performed at the Bank Street Theatre, in the heart of the author's old stomping grounds, the Peccadillo Theater Company's handsome production captures the drunken style of the period. Set designer Michael Allen's swanky penthouse sumptuously re-creates an Upper East Side abode, where mother and daughter feud over the same handsome flounderer. Powell's decidedly un-p.c. punch lines can still provoke apoplectic laughter, yet something is off in this cast's timingthe actors haven't settled into the dialogue as comfortably as they have Linda Ross's silky loungewear. Director Dan Wackerman has all the elements for a first-rate revival. Perhaps his production simply needs to marinate in some period gin.
While not comedies, two other recent theater offerings provided sui generis delight. Chelsea Bacon's Breaker: An Aerial Fairy Tale (Dixon Place) conjures a dreamland of trapeze artistry, live blues music, and a surreal fable about a lost magical fishing village that fell into the sea. A glittery, small-scale circus for kids, the production contains hypnotic depth for childless adults as well. Though the sketchy story could use further development, the groovy orchestra, featuring the lush vocals of Rachelle Garniez, lulls the imagination into accepting a world of balletic sea monsters and rope-climbing urchins who sleep suspended by their agile toes.
Teatro delle Albe's L'Isola di Alcina (presented last week at the Kitchen) is an exquisitely staged dramatic poem by Nevio Spadoni about two sisters, one aptly named after Ariosto's sorceress in Orlando Furioso, the other a mute casualty of a failed romance. Performed as a spoken avant-garde opera, the piece unfortunately offered no simultaneous translation of its hermetic Romagnolo dialect, which severely limited most native Italian speakers' access to the material, never mind someone with just a few language courses and a Sicilian grandmother to his credit. But the ravishing mise-en-scène (particularly Luigi Ceccarelli's cornet soundscape and Vincent Longuemare's palette of amber lights) fulfills theater's ultimate ambitionholding an audience entranced in a visceral present.


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Worilds is the guy I'm most excited about. With his size/speed combo, I think he could be on the trajectory of a 15+ sack season if he can stay healthy.
Wouldn't it be crazy if all the guys come into camp in shape and stay healthy. Everyone's asleep on the Steelers, but I think this year could be it if just a couple guys work a little harder.
1.22) Owamagbe Odighizuwa, OLB, UCLA
2.56) PJ Williams, CB, FSU
3.87) Jeremy Langford, RB, MSU
4.121) Alex Carter, CB, Stanford
5.160) Nick O'Leary, TE, FSU
6.198 ) Sean Mannion, QB, Oregon St.
6.212) Lynden Trail, OLB, Norfolk St.
7.239) Kyle Loomis, P, Portland St.
"Before you can win a game, you have to not lose it." -- Chuck Noll
1.22 OLB Shane Ray 6'3" 245 lbs. Missouri
2.56 CB/FS Eric Rowe 6'1" 205 lbs. Utah
3.87 TE Clive Walford 6'4" 251 lbs. Miami
4.121 DE Henry Anderson 6'6" 294 lbs. Stanford
5.160 WR Stefon Diggs 6'0" 195 lbs. Maryland
6.199 OLB Kyle Emanuel 6'3" 255 lbs. North Dakota State
6.212c CB Quandre Diggs 5'9" 196 lbs. Texas
7.239 RB John Crockett 6'0" 217 lbs. North Dakota State
I'll love him when he shows me what he can do on the field.
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We hear so much about respecting boundaries that we tend to forget there's a world of difference between violating them and simply testing them. Every breakthrough -- whether in science, in art or in a one-on-one relationship -- involves crossing a boundary. And not all boundaries are as hard to cross as they seem.
Forget about the biology of it for second (that was mom's job), my dad never let on that he thought there was a difference in when I could speak, how I could learn, what choices I should have or what I should be allowed to achieve and contribute with my life. My dad never questioned that I would grow up to be his equal, to be the equal of my brothers. To my dad, my value as an equal to boys and men was a basic truth.
While Kwong may have been overly eager to show his hand to the audience, his points are valid. Humans enjoy both order and chaos of varying degrees. But it is the line between these poles that we really seem to desire; therein lies the journey of exploration and deciding what to do with this experience that really keeps us on our toes.
Kwong is right: people are born puzzle solvers. I've been inspired by how enthusiastically my children have learned language, absorbed math, mastered technology, become skilled athletes, and fallen in love. Life for them--for all of us--is an infinite variety of puzzles about what it means to be human and live in this world successfully.
It seems not to matter that, like so many veterans of other ugly wars, the young people who experienced the brutal Drug War had only become soldiers in the first place because of a "poverty draft." It also seems irrelevant to most that the longer these young conscripts to the Drug War lived with its brutality, the more violent they themselves became.


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Joss Whedon's spellbinding "Much Ado About Nothing" reaches its ecstatic apex when Benedick (Alexis Denisoff) tells Beatrice (Amy Acker) that they are "too wise to woo peaceably." Rarely has wisdom been more joyous than in this supple contemporary version of William Shakespeare's seminal comedy.
As they play out their classic romantic grudge match, this Beatrice and Benedick are almost always irresistible, to the audience if not to each other. As Benedick, Denisof is superbly dry and as Beatrice, Acker is buoyant, especially when she goes on the attack -- which she does from the get-go.
Beatrice: "I wonder you still be talking, Signior Benedick, nobody marks you." Benedick: "What, my dear Lady Disdain, are you still living?" Beatrice; "Is it possible disdain should die while she has such meet food to feed it ... ? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come in her presence." Benedick: "Then is courtesy a turncoat."
Yet Beatrice and Benedick achieve conjugal perfection when their friends manipulate them into mending their quarrelsome ways. More than ever, they come to represent hard-won commitment in a plot that contrasts their odd courtship with the swift betrothal of callow Claudio (Fran Kranz), Benedick's new best friend, to virginal Hero (Jillian Morgese), Beatrice's cousin.
With cunning cable-news iconography, Whedon conveys the power of Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon (Reed Diamond), who has just led Benedick and Claudio into battle. Don Pedro, his officers and security detail emerge from matching limos, with Don John (Sean Maher), his malignant bastard brother, handcuffed and in tow. John has supposedly "reconciled" with Pedro, but he's actually humiliated and seeking revenge – hence his urge to besmirch Hero and sabotage the happiness of Claudio, his brother's protégé. In several marvelous innovations, Whedon and Maher turn John into a slick libertine with a made-for-L.A .entourage. His henchman Borachio (Spencer Treat Clark) looks like the coolest guy on a club line, and Conrade, usually played by a man, becomes a svelte blonde (Riki Lindhome) – a henchwoman with benefits.
Their host, the benign patriarch Leonato (Clark Gregg), learns that this royal group has suffered very few casualties. "A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers," he remarks. It comes off as tart irony in an era when wars are waged by remote control. But it's pure fun to see Leonato, as Hero's father and Beatrice's uncle, welcome the diverse cast into his open kitchen and book-lined rooms and guest quarters strewn with his daughter's childhood toys.
Whedon shot this film in and around his own Santa Monica home and grounds, with performers he knew from his previous work, on a remarkable 12-day schedule. The whole film has a paradoxical quality of relaxed intensity. The actors fully inhabit their characters, neither declaiming their lines in the standard British manner nor exaggerating nuances so that every emotion becomes "big" and instantly understandable. Whedon's black-and-white camera (manned by Jay Hunter) attends to their most intimate feelings and guides audiences without coercion.
Except for a couple of unimaginative pratfalls, Whedon's choices effortlessly expand on the play's jokes. Take Beatrice's notorious declaration, "He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him." That speech gets all its knowing laughs. But it also lingers in the air, because in the film we actually see Benedick shave his beard as a sign of devotion to Beatrice. (In the theater the actor removes his stage beard between acts.) Could a bearded man who shaves become Beatrice's ideal? Or is Benedick becoming a romantic fool?
Whedon finds the roiling, exuberant depths in a work often played for melodrama and farce alone. His update is thrillingly sophisticated. It values the seasoned connection of Beatrice and Benedick over the jejune floundering of Hero and Claudio. Benedick's bantering rendition of female types, like Beatrice's account of bearded and beardless men, proves that this person has thought hard about the sexes: "One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another is virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace."
In a speech some productions just glide over, Shakespeare suggests that Beatrice and Benedick share some kind of past bond. (As Beatrice puts it, Benedick once lent her his heart, and she "gave him use for it.") In Whedon's interpretation, they were, briefly, bedmates. These two have never thrashed out why they came together and broke apart. To borrow from Cole Porter, they're bewitched, bothered and bewildered, roughly in that order. To borrow from Lennon and McCartney, they get by with a little help from their friends.
In this "Much Ado About Nothing," the audience snaps to attention when Beatrice demands that Benedick kill Claudio for spurning Hero at the altar. We know Beatrice means business. In the play, love is often a dance; Whedon fills the movie with partying. But love here is also a matter of life and death. In this high-wire production, the key performers at a pivotal masked ball are trapeze artists. Whedon's understanding of the work's duality generates images that are equally funny and haunting. Hornswoggled about Hero by the malicious, always-scheming John, Claudio freezes up in a swimming pool, wearing goggles and holding a martini glass as he stands in neck-high water.
Seldom has a director on stage or screen glided so enchantingly among the Bard's doubled plots and characters, from the echoing pairs of lovers to the opposite Dons, and from the sanctioned figures of authority to the Keystone Cops constable Dogberry (Nathan Fillion) and his intrepid watchmen. Even if Whedon doesn't find a satisfying rhythm for the low-comedy scenes, Fillion's deadpan delivery of Dogberry's garbled commands provokes a leveling hilarity. When he says "comparisons are odorous," or takes "tedious" as a compliment, or notes that his men have "comprehended two aspicious [sic] persons," he stumbles into the same world of wordplay that Beatrice and Benedick rule with their wits.
"For man is a giddy thing," says Benedick; "and this is my conclusion." And Whedon's "Much Ado About Nothing" is giddy in every sense of the word: it's dizzying, dazzling, and by love possessed.
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International News Archive - March 05, 2006
By Telly Nathalia and Jerry Norton JAKARTA (Reuters) - Thousands of Indonesian Muslims demonstrated against the United States on Sunday, calling it the world's enemy in general and criticising it over issues including a pending oil deal and cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing urged Iran on Sunday to resume talks with Russia and the European Union on its nuclear programme as soon as possible, a day ahead of a key meeting of the U.N. atomic watchdog.
By Vithoon Amorn BANGKOK (Reuters) - More than 5,000 Thai police prepared to keep the peace on Sunday at another major rally where protest leaders threaten street protests to oust Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.
BEIJING (Reuters) - China must wipe out corruption and government inefficiency or risk losing popular support, but it will not be an easy task, delegates to the country's annual meeting of parliament said on Sunday.
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani army helicopters pounded mountains near the Afghan border on Sunday after nearly 50 people were killed in clashes with pro-Taliban militants, a resident of the area said.
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's ruling conservatives are tying for public support with the opposition socialists after losing a two percentage point poll lead in less than a month, opinion polls showed on Sunday.
By Kirby Chien BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese Commerce Minister Bo Xilai said on Sunday that anti-dumping duties by the European Union and U.S. threats of more trade complaints contradict the spirit of free trade and add to global protectionism. "The actions of the U.S.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A newly elected councillor for South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) was shot dead late on Saturday in what police said could be a politically motivated killing after last week's local government polls.
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Sunday told the U.N. nuclear watchdog not to get led astray by political concerns at its board of governors meeting on Monday as pressure mounts for action against Tehran's atomic programme. Iran was reported to the U.N.
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Correlated equilibrium
Correlated equilibrium | |
A solution concept in game theory | |
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Superset of | Nash equilibrium |
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Proposed by | Robert Aumann |
Example | Chicken |
In game theory, a correlated equilibrium is a solution concept that is more general than the well known Nash equilibrium. It was first discussed by mathematician Robert Aumann (1974). The idea is that each player chooses his/her action according to his/her observation of the value of the same public signal. A strategy assigns an action to every possible observation a player can make. If no player would want to deviate from the recommended strategy (assuming the others don't deviate), the distribution is called a correlated equilibrium.
Formal definition[edit]
An -player strategic game is characterized by an action set and utility function for each player . When player chooses strategy and the remaining players choose a strategy profile described by the -tuple , then player 's utility is .
A strategy modification for player is a function . That is, tells player to modify his behavior by playing action when instructed to play .
Let be a countable probability space. For each player , let be his information partition, be 's posterior and let , assigning the same value to states in the same cell of 's information partition. Then is a correlated equilibrium of the strategic game if for every player and for every strategy modification :
In other words, is a correlated equilibrium if no player can improve his or her expected utility via a strategy modification.
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Dare | Chicken out | |
Dare | 0, 0 | 7, 2 |
Chicken out | 2, 7 | 6, 6 |
A game of Chicken |
Consider the game of chicken pictured. In this game two individuals are challenging each other to a contest where each can either dare or chicken out. If one is going to Dare, it is better for the other to chicken out. But if one is going to chicken out it is better for the other to Dare. This leads to an interesting situation where each wants to dare, but only if the other might chicken out.
In this game, there are three Nash equilibria. The two pure strategy Nash equilibria are (D, C) and (C, D). There is also a mixed strategy equilibrium where each player Dares with probability 1/3.
Now consider a third party (or some natural event) that draws one of three cards labeled: (C, C), (D, C), and (C, D), with the same probability, i.e. probability 1/3 for each card. After drawing the card the third party informs the players of the strategy assigned to them on the card (but not the strategy assigned to their opponent). Suppose a player is assigned D, he would not want to deviate supposing the other player played their assigned strategy since he will get 7 (the highest payoff possible). Suppose a player is assigned C. Then the other player will play C with probability 1/2 and D with probability 1/2. The expected utility of Daring is 0(1/2) + 7(1/2) = 3.5 and the expected utility of chickening out is 2(1/2) + 6(1/2) = 4. So, the player would prefer to Chicken out.
Since neither player has an incentive to deviate, this is a correlated equilibrium. Interestingly, the expected payoff for this equilibrium is 7(1/3) + 2(1/3) + 6(1/3) = 5 which is higher than the expected payoff of the mixed strategy Nash equilibrium.
One of the advantages of correlated equilibria is that they are computationally less expensive than are Nash equilibria. This can be captured by the fact that computing a correlated equilibrium only requires solving a linear program whereas solving a Nash equilibrium requires finding its fixed point completely.[1] Another way of seeing this is that it is possible for two players to respond to each other's historical plays of a game and end up converging to a correlated equilibrium.[2]
- Aumann, Robert (1974) Subjectivity and correlation in randomized strategies. Journal of Mathematical Economics 1:67-96.
- Aumann, Robert (1987) Correlated Equilibrium as an Expression of Bayesian Rationality. Econometrica 55(1):1-18.
- Fudenberg, Drew and Jean Tirole (1991) Game Theory, MIT Press, 1991, ISBN 0-262-06141-4
- Leyton-Brown, Kevin; Shoham, Yoav (2008), Essentials of Game Theory: A Concise, Multidisciplinary Introduction, San Rafael, CA: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, ISBN 978-1-59829-593-1. An 88-page mathematical introduction; see Section 3.5. Free online at many universities.
- Osborne, Martin J. and Ariel Rubinstein (1994). A Course in Game Theory, MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-65040-1 (a modern introduction at the graduate level)
- Shoham, Yoav; Leyton-Brown, Kevin (2009), Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical Foundations, New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-89943-7. A comprehensive reference from a computational perspective; see Sections 3.4.5 and 4.6. Downloadable free online.
- Éva Tardos (2004) Class notes from Algorithmic game theory (note an important typo) [1]
- Iskander Karibzhanov. MATLAB code to plot the set of correlated equilibria in a two player normal form game
- Noam Nisan (2005) Lecture notes from the course Topics on the border of Economics and Computation (lowercase u should be replaced by u_i) [2]


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Roberto Mancini has committed his long-term future to Inter Milan and believes the club will be strong enough next season to challenge for their first title in six years.
Lukas Podolski slammed Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger for lacking "respect" in an acrimonious parting shot after his move to Inter Milan this week.
Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri has confirmed that the Serie A leaders are interesting in signing Dutch midfielder Wesley Sneijder from Galatasaray.
Brazilian football legend Roberto Carlos on Sunday resigned as coach of Turkish top flight side Sivasspor after a succession of poor results, reports said.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger knows all about the ups and downs of football management and expressed sympathy for his beleaguered Liverpool counterpart Brendan Rodgers ahead of their clash at Anfield on Sunday.
Galatasaray's attacking midfielder Wesley Sneijder has been reportedly seeking an exit from the Turkish club, with Premier League duo of Southampton and Manchester United have been alerted.
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has risked angering frustrated fans by saying the under-performing London club do not need any January signings if everyone in the current squad stays fit.
Stunning goals from Lukas Podolski and Aaron Ramsey, who both scored twice, gave Arsenal a morale-boosting 4-1 win over Galatasaray as they finished in second place in Group D of the Champions League on Tuesday.
Arsene Wenger has vowed to field a strong team against Galatasaray on Tuesday as the under-fire Arsenal manager bids to silence the critics by snatching top spot in Champions League Group D.
Arsenal will again be without Theo Walcott for Saturday`s Premier League trip to Stoke City as the England forward is still recovering from a thigh injury.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho claimed that club legend Didier Drogba will end his career at Stamford Bridge.
Jose Mourinho believes Didier Drogba`s dynamic display in Chelsea`s 3-0 win over Tottenham proved the Premier League leaders have the strength in depth to last the pace in the title race.
Hamza Hamzaoglu is the new coach of Turkish football club Galatasaray following the departure of former Italy boss Cesare Prandelli.
Spanish midfield player Albert Riera was sacked by Udinese, without ever playing a match in Italy, over an abusive tweet, Gazzetta dello Sport reported on Saturday.
Galatasaray have dimsissed former Italy World Cup coach Cesare Prandelli after a string of poor results culminating in their exit from European competition, the Dogan news agency reported on Thursday.
Coach Jose Mourinho saluted his "very good" Chelsea side after they produced a 5-0 demolition job at Schalke 04 on Tuesday to equal their best away victory in the Champions League.
The first Milan derby of the season provides Roberto Mancini with his first test on his return to Inter while Lazio host leaders Juventus looking for the win that could boost the title chances of city rivals Roma.
Turkey`s struggling national football team was Monday engulfed in fresh turmoil after top goalkeeper Volkan Demirel walked out of a crucial Euro 2016 qualifier due to abuse by Turkish fans.
Borussia Dortmund want to use their high-flying Champions League form to help turn around their dire Bundesliga fortunes when they host Borussia Moenchengladbach on Sunday.
Galatasaray, fined 50,000 euros ($62,575) last month over crowd trouble at a Champions League game away to Arsenal, are facing further sanctions after disturbances at Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday, UEFA said on Thursday.
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I wholeheartedly agree with Tony on the need for publishers to be flexible at this stage; we are starting to see that the types of content used in these native tests matters to a significant degree as well. Interactive is driving engagement back to the advertiser.
Joe Sinkwitz, Chief Revenue Officer
This transition is natural because flash banners are such a poor advertising format. However, sponsored content seems to only provide real value to publishers and advertisers.
Pubs get money and are able to tout new ad formats and brag about being innovative, lulz. Advertisers get professional content that speaks about their brands in some fashion; there is nothing more that a company loves than to see on of their own brands mentioned.
Consumers though, seem to be the odd man out. What are they getting from this kind of content? If the content isn't important/engaging enough to be published with out an advertiser paying for its creation, is it any surprise that consumer's aren't flocking to it and engaging with it en masse?
The search for new success metrics is only the result of consumers not engaging with the content at a high enough rate that publishers can justify their price point.
Nielsen study found that sponsored content wasn't trusted by readers by a very large margin: http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2014/03/nielsen_study_finds_v.php
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