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Complaint Review: Earthlink Internet Provider
Earthlink Internet ProviderP O Box 7645 Atlanta, Georgia U.S.A.
Earthlink In mid May 2008, I inquired with earthlink in regards to their e-mail service only. I had just cancelled my internet account with them since I purchased a pc ubs aircard. The first week of June I receive a bill for $9.95. I called and tried to explain to their rep that I did not order the account, only inquired about it. Please cancel. Atlanta Georgia
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I have been having a strange issue over the last little while. When I check google webmaster tools, I keep seeing reports of crawl errors. They all seem to be /feed at the end of the URLs.
Most thus far have been more general groups, like portfolio items for example, but the URL for the feed was pointing to the wrong place. I just set some 301 redirects to the right place and didn't think anything of it. Today however, I got a report of a /feed at the end of an actual blog post.
I have scoured the source code, and can't figure out where google is making the link to crawl it. I do have a link to my site's RSS feed on the page, however is is fully qualified megdrapes.com/feed/.
If anyone can offer some direction, I would be very appreciative
site URL: http://megdrapes.com
feed URL: http://megdrapes.com/feed/
post that had /feed crawled: http://megdrapes.com/tattoo-time/
-Google is reporting that is did link from this page
Thank you for your help

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Despite the Surprise, BoC Often Turns Outsiders Into Insiders
By Don Curren
Surprise us once, shame on you. Surprise us three times, shame on us.
That variation on the well-known adage about fools and shame could easily apply to the reaction to news Thursday that Canada's government had made a "surprise" choice for the new governor of the Bank of Canada.
How surprising could it be when the government had done exactly the same thing the last two times it's had to make such choice; i.e. overlooked the inside, status-quo candidate for an "outsider?"
Just as Malcolm Knight was overlooked for David Dodge, Paul Jenkins was overlooked for Mark Carney, so Tiff Macklem has been overlooked for Stephen Poloz, an economist who most recently was chief of the publicly owned Export Development Corporation.
But after the initial surprise wore off on the previous two occasions, the "outsider" was quickly absorbed into the bank, and a few months later was looked upon as a living embodiment of the status quo.
And that's a very telling thing.
The Bank of Canada's ability to swallow outsiders whole and transform them into consummate insiders is a reflect of two key qualities of the bank: It makes decisions by consensus, and it's governed by a very specific and very narrow policy goal.
The Bank of Canada's interest rate decisions are all directed at a simple, explicit goal–keeping inflation near 2% over the medium term.
The Federal Reserve might be charged with ensuring employment as well as keeping inflation at desirable levels, but Canada's central bank has only that one unequivocal mandate–keep inflation nailed down.
Of course, there's a certain amount of flexibility in the way the bank achieves that goal. That's been especially true of Mr. Carney's years at the helm, when a global financial crisis, and then an extraordinary run up of debt among Canadian households, has made policy making especially challenging.
The other thing that keeps things steady at the bank–whoever is at the helm–is that the bank's governing council makes its decisions by consensus. The six-member governing council does not make its deliberations public.
It's a way of working that seems quintessentially Canadian, keeping the fractious process of decision-making behind closed doors, and giving the bank a public image of solidarity, continuity, and consistency, that ultimately remakes its chief in its own image, no matter how "surprising" he might be.
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Walmart brings new checkout system to Valley
PHOENIX — Walmart is bringing to the Valley what might be the future of how customers checkout in stores.
The world's largest retailer introduced a program called "Scan & Go" last year to about 70 stores in Atlanta and Arkansas, where the company is headquartered.
The new program allows customers to scan items with their smartphones while shopping and later pay for them at self-checkout terminals.
Ashley Hardie, a spokeswoman for Walmart, explained what the new smartphone integration does for customers.
"Customers can use the Walmart iPhone app to scan the barcode of the items they would like to purchase," Hardie said. "The app keeps a list of all scanned items, allowing costumers to track their spending and bag items as they shop."
Hardie said the system uses QR codes, which are similar to barcodes, to call up all the items a customer has scanned.
"When you approach a self-checkout, you can scan the QR code that's displayed on the screen with your iPhone and this will wirelessly transfer the scanned items to the register," Hardie said. "And then complete the payment just as you would with any other transaction."
Scanning the items while shopping allows customers to avoid having to scan all their items at the checkout terminals, which could reduce lines and time spent waiting to pay.
Walmart originally implemented the program in response to changes in the way consumers were purchasing items, Hardie said.
"Our customers are shopping differently than they ever have before. They're using their mobile devices to search for coupons and compare prices," Hardie said. "So in order to meet their needs, we're experimenting with innovative technologies like mobile checkout."
The expansion has now jumped the program to more than 200 stores, in major cities including Dallas, Denver and Seattle.
It has also come to nearly 30 Valley locations including Chandler, Phoenix, Mesa and Glendale.
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HoneyBaked is wasting no time in preparing for the holiday season by adding more than 10,000 part-time employees to its current workforce — a 600% total increase in its workforce across 400 stores nationwide.
HoneyBaked is preparing for its annual holiday rush on its signature Honey Baked Hams, Turkey Breasts and full assortment of premium products by providing part-time jobs for thousands of people nationwide.
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Sunny and innovative music from up-and-coming artists take the spotlight in CBC host Tom Power's weekly picks of new music.
Coeur de pirate takes a different road for her latest album, a soundtrack to accompany the TV series Trauma, by presenting covers of 12 anglophone hits. The Quebec singer-songwriter starts with songs from a wide variety of artists (including The Rolling Stones, Kenny Rogers, Amy Winehouse, Bon Iver and the McGarrigle sisters) and completely makes them her own.
Next up, Australian indie rockers Boy & Bear offer up more "incredible, sunshiny, acoustic pop," Power says, with their second studio album Harlequin Dream. Will they be the next Mumford and Sons?
Finally, young Saskatchewan-based duo Kacy and Clayton dig into the depths of English and southern American folk tradition for gems and present them in a fresh, contemporary style in their new album, The Day Is Past & Gone.
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Complaint Review: Autonation Dodge of Grand Prairie
Autonation Dodge of Grand Prairie2615 W. I-20 Grand Prairie, Texas U.S.A.
Auotonation Dodge will not honor factory warranty ..selling laundered lemons
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I took a test drive with a tech and he said it needed a rear end. I set up an appointment to have the work done but instead of replaceing the rear end they tried to patch it. Well the patch did not work twice.
I was told that is all they can do and to take it back to Autonation so I did and the tech said the complete rear end needed to be replaced. I left the truck to have the work done and was refused service because they could not charge the work back to the other dealer and charged me $60 for a "loan" car. I then tried talking to Chrysler.
I was told to turn my radio up so I would not here the howl which was upsurd. I then filed for arbritration. When the dealers found out I filed for arbitration they wanted another chance to fix it. I had no problem with that so I took it in to the original repair shop. They had my truck 6 days. Less than 100 miles after the repair the rear end locked up completely while I was driving down the road.
Luckily I was coming to a stop when it happened or it could have injured someone else or myself or worse someone killed. After I got a copy of the work order it stated that Chrysler zone tech had the dealer remove the interior and insulate it with sound deadening material. That is why I thought it was fixed before it locked up because I could not here the noise.
Autonation Dodge would not talk to me about it or even replace worn out shck absorbers under factory warranty. I had to take it to another dealer. I believe they are selling laundered lemons or they would have fixed my truck or gave my money back. Damlier Chrysler is just as guilty for letting this practice continue.
Now I have a truck that I think is a safety risk "I do not know when the rear end is going to lock up again. They say it is normal but I have at least 2 other people that have had the same problem. It is not normal. They have deep pockets so it is hard to fight them. The only way is to get it out in the public eye hopefully no body has to be killed before something is done.
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Well now-we're down to about three weeks before Revengeance drops. I'm sure some of my friends and my three readers are happy that I'll shut the /(#" up about it and be busy playing to keep gushing about it. (I'm sure I'll continue gushing about the game, don't worry. I've already played the demo through several times. I'm willing to say I've played this demo more than I have any other demo.) I've made it quite clear that I have a feeling this may well be one of the greatest action games ever; I'm going to discuss a few reasons why...and also, a bit later, a few things that I feel Platinum needs(well, needed-the game's boxed and ready to go as far as I know) to do to ensure it doesn't fall into some the many action-game traps.
So, what sorta things does this game have going for it?
A unique combat system that lets you do almost whatever you want.
While many an action game has 'combo strings', this one's strings are much more free-form; yes, they exist, but you can break them apart and invent other ways of mixing them together. Adding a pause mixes in more moves. You can interrupt one and go directly into another-and this will change the other string into something else. This is only in the demo with a single weapon; there seems to be several other weapons besides high-frequency blades that Raiden's going to get his hands(and, of course, feet) on that seem to promise even more moves and combos that one can put together.
Also, being able to cut many parts of the environment to have some extra fun with is just gravy. The game is going away from more defense by the look and wanting Raiden to be offensive-screw dodge rolls, he just does an offensive dodge or parries and counterattacks. It also promises to be solid and challenging, from everything I've experienced so far.
Holy "&#%, you're powerful.
Now, many an action game lets you do really crazy powerful stuff. That I admit is nothing new. Something about this one takes it to a whole new level. Having Raiden throw a RAY a kilometer into the sky before jumping after the damn thing and beating the crap out of it before kick-slashing it in half is all kinds of insane. Knowing that the cyborg troops are powerful but cutting them to pieces as if they're made of paper. You're a one-eyed cyborg god throwing around mechs and kicking swords through enemies' heads. You do feel damn unstoppable once you grasp the combat system.
It still has that Metal Gear feeling.
Codecs, cardboard boxes, sombreros, cardboard boxes with sombreros on them, watermelons, a cyborg driving a car that he can run more than five times the speed of, full-body Cyborg Raiden wearing a suit in a limo and other over the top stuff is still involved. Not much else to say here but that they nailed the feeling of the series quite nicely. Juggling mechs is a bonus. The dialogue also is very solid(heh) in the sense that it fits in perfectly with the Metal Gear universe.
Raiden seems goddamn awesome in this.
You get to play not only as a superpowered cyborg god, but as a superpowered cyborg god family man. Though in a sense, this has it's little bit of sadness-he never did get out of fighting after all. He seems to have enough of that sympathetic side that can outweigh the psychotic side that he seems to be heading into, rather than being a complete unlikable psychopath. You want Raiden to win. You want him to grind the enemies into a fine paste and remove the evil in the world, even when he's casually calling them 'walking vending machines'. From underdog near-brainwashed reluctant operative(and before that, child soldier) to his current form, I somehow got a severely satisfying feeling letting him go berserk on those villains. Sure, he's probably gone from his previous 'Chaotic Good' to 'Not stopping bloodshed until every bad guy is dead', but they seem to be onto something with his characterization here. Already in the demo he's a character that I felt good as hell playing, and hearing his conversations in the codec calls was a joy.
I already want to know what's happening with the story, and the characters so far are very cool.
Besides Raiden, I actually find the demo-codes showing Boris, Kevin, Courtney, and Herr Doktor as a rather fun crowd. I enjoyed watching their codes and seeing what they had to say. The story actually seems pretty interesting; going back to being a Raiden fan for a long time, I want to see exactly what the guy is going to have to go through. I'd like to know the deal with the cyborg unit(some stuff seems to happen in the Monsoon fight with the dialogue in that one), and what exactly sets off Raiden's changes. I'd also like to see if Sunny plays the role I think(in helping the guy out, and she's probably a better hacker now than when she was six, yeah child prodigies), and I'm also wondering if we're going to see ol' Hal, aka Otacon, showing up at all.
A smooth 60fps, really sweet looking cyberpunk environments, the aformentioned special moves looking slick, powerful, and brutal. The detail in Raiden's cyborg body is incredibly tight, even in an older demo-and the newer videos show that stuff just looks even more polished than it was. The soundtrack fits incredibly well also-the music is hard, driving, and epic. It has a 'mechanical' sort of feel that matches the whole theme of the game.
I'm pretty sure I just mentioned the entire game.
Yes, yes I think I did.
Go Ninja, go ninja go!
As said-I also want to go over a few things that I hope Platinum were careful about during the design. It's not a whole lot, but I feel that there are a few concerns some people may have, and even I myself may have; pitfalls that even the best designers can fall into.
Make sure the challenge stays tight and balanced.
Many an awesome action game can fall into this trap. It's not SO bad on Normal modes, but on higher difficulty modes, it's important, I feel, that Platinum avoids making the game too easy. Now I'm not some 'OMG TRUE GAMERS ONLY' type. Really, I'm not. But I think the difficulty levels should offer something for different types.
I trust Platinum with action games-I really do. But even the best designers can fall into this-something falls through the cracks and breaks the game. This is one of those games about not only feeling awesome, overpowered bastion of curb-stomping offense, but also being able to utilize a lot of player skill on the higher levels to get those high rankings. Hopefully the game is tuned to allow a wide variety of players who just want to bloodily kill s&%# on easier modes with no problem, for middle-gamers to get some sorta challenge while still roaring ahead on Normal, and for the challenge-types or action game vets to be able to both feel awesome and challenged at the same time on the harder modes.
However, I think it would be fine to have a 'Ripper Mode' type unlockable difficulty, sort of like DMC where you can get Dante with infinite devil trigger. It's purely optional, after all. I just hope there isn't something that breaks the normal game wide open into pure faceroll territory.
On that note, about Raiden staying 'awesome feeling' on higher difficulties:
I hope the harder difficulty modes don't fall into the hole that I often see games fall into; when the hardest modes devolve into tedious turtle/kiting-fests. This game is made to be extremely in-your-face; even the developers, as said, wanted the game to so much about 'Pushing forward and crushing everything in your path' that they only included a very basic dodge(and an offensive dodge on top of that.) Most of the time you want to be parrying and counterattacking the enemy directly in their face.
The harder modes shouldn't force Raiden into a corner and proceeding at the speed of a drugged slug, but more 'carefully and with great player skill.' In addition, I also hope that the stealthier segments are used a bit more sparingly, and with the option-if you're good enough-to let loose bloody judgment.
-Keep cutscenes short and snappy.
All of us know that in a traditional Metal Gear Solid game, the cutscenes go on so long that if you don't find something to eat during them your body is likely to begin digesting itself for sustenance.
Now, the Codec calls are one thing-those are optional, and people can take a look at them whenever they want. So far, they seem to be avoiding the typical MGS cutscene trap, but they really need to avoid it in a game like this. Ensure they're quick, snappy, fun, and skippable, so people do not get out of the action. Cyborg Raiden f'n HATES defense and waiting around by the look, and I'm sure by the look at things he'd be foaming at the mouth if he had to sit there during a typical Metal Gear-esque storytime cutscene.
''Hey there Raiden. Sit tight and grab some spineorade-oiled popcorn, it's time for more of Kevin's Bedtime Stories. Bet you don't know about Monsoon. Well, he wasn't always called that. He came from a country called..."
-Don't turn Raiden into a 'Kratos.'
Having a character begin to develop some(or a lot of)of their old, buried psychotic rage and bloodthirsty tendencies can be used to great dramatic-and therapeutic-effect in a game, but they hopefully do not go too far with this. Too far being turning Raiden into a 'villain who you control with no redeeming value whatsoever.' Go ahead and let him be brutal as all get-out to the bad guys. Go ahead and give him his 'Ripper Mode'. Let him crush his enemies, wiping their evil off the planet for the better of everyone. Let him snack on tasty spineorade. In addition, a well-written piece about how he almost falls back to his more psychotic persona for awhile and pulls out of it could be quite poignant. Just don't turn him into despicable evil with no way out.
Disclaimer: I am fully aware that saying things like 'let him crush his enemies into paste, drink their spineorade and be brutal as all get out, but don't make him evil' sound ridiculous in context, but I'm sure most people know what I'm talking about. I think.
Honestly-those are the things I think they need to have kept an eye on. It doesn't seem like much, but I am willing to go out on a limb to say if all of this is done, we're going to have what might be the greatest OTT action-game ever pressed to a disc in our hands in three weeks. Here's hoping the hype train has a smooth ride to Metal Gear land.
T-Storm is still playing several other games eagerly awaiting Revengeance's release, having played the demo far too much.


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Sheila Burke was born in 1965 and has lived in Ohio her whole life. Sheila and her husband have been happily married and chasing dreams together since 1989.
Sheila has been on a journey of self-discovery for many years. She has an open mind, loves to read and enjoys learning though a variety of subjects. Zen-Sational Living is Sheila's first book and was a long time in the making. It is not her own personal story, but rather a road map for others starting out on their own personal journey of self-discovery.
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XFORD, Miss. (AP) -- Derrick Millinghaus scored 16 points, Jarvis Summers added 14 and Mississippi beat Auburn 65-62 on Thursday night in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams.
Aaron Jones added 12 points, seven rebounds, five blocks and five steals for the Rebels (10-4), who were playing without suspended leading scorer Marshall Henderson.
Ole Miss has won five straight in the series against the Tigers. The Rebels won despite being outrebounded 40-30 and giving up 19 offensive rebounds.
Auburn (8-4) was led by Chris Denson's 28 points while KT Harrell added 11. Harrell missed a 3-pointer that could have tied the game on the final possession.
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PASADENA, Calif.—Mike Brown, the Richard and Barbara Rosenberg Professor and professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been named a co-winner of the 2012 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for his efforts to understand the outer solar system—work that led to the demotion of Pluto.
Brown shares the award with David Jewitt (MS '80, PhD '83) of UCLA and Jane Luu of MIT's Lincoln Laboratory; in 1992, Jewitt and Luu discovered the first object in the Kuiper belt, a collection of more than a thousand objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. Brown, who joined Caltech's faculty in 1997, has since become a leader in the search for planet-sized objects in the Kuiper belt. According to the prize citation, the three received the prize "for discovering and characterizing the Kuiper belt and its largest members, work that led to a major advance in the understanding of the history of our planetary system."
Brown's most well-known discovery came in 2005, when he found a Kuiper-belt object, later named Eris, that is about the same size as Pluto but 27 percent more massive. That finding caused astronomers to rethink the definition of a planet, resulting in the reclassification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.
"Mike spent years acquiring a massive number of images and learning how to process them to accurately detect objects that subtly shift in the sky over successive days—without knowing whether there was anything interesting to be discovered," explains Kenneth Farley, the W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geochemistry and chair of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. "But that dedication was rewarded by the discovery of several fascinating Kuiper-belt objects, and just as important as their discovery was Mike's effort in understanding them—where they came from, how they formed, what they are made of, and what they tell us about our solar system. It is wonderful to see Mike recognized for these contributions."
"This distinguished prize is further acknowledgment of Mike's extraordinary accomplishments and pioneering research that has literally reshaped our understanding of the solar system," adds Caltech president Jean-Lou Chameau. "He is truly a 'renaissance scientist' who approaches teaching and scientific discovery with passion and charisma. We are proud of Mike and are privileged to have him on the Caltech faculty."
"It's humbling to be included alongside previous Kavli Prize winners, from the people whose incredible designs for telescopes enable all of us to make these discoveries to the very pioneers of astrophysics," says Brown. "And it's an amazing reminder that some of the mysteries of the universe are right here in our own cosmic backyard."
The Kavli Prize, which includes a scroll, a gold medal, and $1 million, recognizes scientists in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience, and has been awarded every other year since 2008. King Harald of Norway will present the prizes to the winners at a ceremony in Oslo on September 4. Caltech's Maarten Schmidt, the Francis L. Moseley Professor of Astronomy, Emeritus, won the astrophysics prize in 2008. Past winners who are Caltech alumni include Jerry Nelson (BS '65), Roger Angel (MS '66), and Richard Scheller (PhD '80).
The Kavli Prizes were initiated by and named after Fred Kavli, founder and chairman of the Kavli Foundation, which is dedicated to advancing science for the benefit of humanity, promoting public understanding of scientific research, and supporting scientists and their work.
PASADENA, Calif.—For those who study earthquakes, one major challenge has been trying to understand all the physics of a fault—both during an earthquake and at times of "rest"—in order to know more about how a particular region may behave in the future. Now, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have developed the first computer model of an earthquake-producing fault segment that reproduces, in a single physical framework, the available observations of both the fault's seismic (fast) and aseismic (slow) behavior.
"Our study describes a methodology to assimilate geologic, seismologic, and geodetic data surrounding a seismic fault to form a physical model of the cycle of earthquakes that has predictive power," says Sylvain Barbot, a postdoctoral scholar in geology at Caltech and lead author of the study.
A paper describing their model—the result of a Caltech Tectonics Observatory (TO) collaborative study by geologists and geophysicists from the Institute's Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences and engineers from the Division of Engineering and Applied Science—appears in the May 11 edition of the journal Science.
"Previous research has mostly either concentrated on the dynamic rupture that produces ground shaking or on the long periods between earthquakes, which are characterized by slow tectonic loading and associated slow motions—but not on both at the same time," explains study coauthor Nadia Lapusta, professor of mechanical engineering and geophysics at Caltech. Her research group developed the numerical methods used in making the new model. "In our study, we model the entire history of an earthquake-producing fault and the interaction between the fast and slow deformation phases."
Using previous observations and laboratory findings, the team—which also included coauthor Jean-Philippe Avouac, director of the TO—modeled an active region of the San Andreas Fault called the Parkfield segment. Located in central California, Parkfield produces magnitude-6 earthquakes every 20 years on average. They successfully created a series of earthquakes (ranging from magnitude 2 to 6) within the computer model, producing fault slip before, during, and after the earthquakes that closely matched the behavior observed in the past fifty years.
"Our model explains some aspects of the seismic cycle at Parkfield that had eluded us, such as what causes changes in the amount of time between significant earthquakes and the jump in location where earthquakes nucleate, or begin," says Barbot.
The paper also demonstrates that a physical model of fault-slip evolution, based on laboratory experiments that measure how rock materials deform in the fault core, can explain many aspects of the earthquake cycle—and does so on a range of time scales. "Earthquake science is on the verge of building models that are based on the actual response of the rock materials as measured in the lab—models that can be tailored to reproduce a broad range of available observations for a given region," says Lapusta. "This implies we are getting closer to understanding the physical laws that govern how earthquakes nucleate, propagate, and arrest."
She says that they may be able to use models much like the one described in the Science paper to forecast the range of potential earthquakes on a fault segment, which could be used to further assess seismic hazard and improve building designs.
Avouac agrees. "Currently, seismic hazard studies rely on what is known about past earthquakes," he says. "However, the relatively short recorded history may not be representative of all possibilities, especially rare extreme events. This gap can be filled with physical models that can be continuously improved as we learn more about earthquakes and laws that govern them."
"As computational resources and methods improve, dynamic simulations of even more realistic earthquake scenarios, with full account for dynamic interactions among faults, will be possible," adds Barbot.
The Science study, "Under the Hood of the Earthquake Machine; Toward Predictive Modeling of the Seismic Cycle," was funded by grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Southern California Earthquake Center.
PASADENA, Calif.—Last year, images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured sand dunes and ripples moving across the surface of Mars—observations that challenged previously held beliefs that there was not a lot of movement on the red planet's surface. Now, technology developed by a team at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has allowed scientists to measure these activities for the very first time.
The new method for data processing is outlined in an advance online publication of the journal Nature.
"For many years, researchers have debated whether or not the sand dunes we see on Mars are fossil features related to past climate, since it was believed that the current atmosphere is too thin to produce winds that could move sand," says Jean-Philippe Avouac, the Earle C. Anthony professor of geology at Caltech, who initiated the study. "Our new data shows that wind activity is indeed a major agent of evolution of the landscape on Mars. This is important because it tells us something about the current state of Mars and how the planet is working today, geologically."
Using the COSI-corr software (for Co-registration of Optically Sensed Images and Correlation), which was invented at Caltech, a team of researchers gathered high-resolution imagery from Mars to look at a specific field of sand dunes called Nili Patera. The images came from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
The team focused on precise, subpixel measurements of movement between pairs of images. On the dunes at Nili Patera, the software automatically measured changes in the position of sand ripples from one image to another over a 105-day period, resulting in the surprising findings that the ripples are moving fast—some upwards of 4.5 meters during that time—which contributes to the total motion of the sand dunes.
"This is the first time that we have full, quantitative measurement of an entire dune field on a planetary surface, as opposed to the localized manual measurements that were done before," explains Francois Ayoub, a coauthor of the paper and a scientist engineer in Avouac's lab. "Using this technique, you could monitor other dune fields, or you could also follow a particular area over a longer time frame to see the seasonal or annual evolution of the sand dunes. This is a huge step in terms of the data that you can obtain from the surface of Mars."
The team also found that the dunes at Nili Patera appear to move similarly to those found on Earth in Victoria Valley, Antarctica. This implies that the rates of landscape modification due to wind are similar on the two planets. Interestingly enough, getting these measurements was much easier on Mars—the researchers could not quantify dune ripple migration rates on Earth using the same technique because that would require satellite imagery of our planet at a resolution that makes it classified information.
"These new measurements provide keys to interpreting the landscape and the stratigraphic record that you see exhumed when you look at the imagery—we see sediments and wonder what they mean in terms of the past geologic history," says Avouac. "The fact that you can describe the current activity of surface systems will help us understand Mars's past geological record, which is a reason that this is important."
Next, the team will focus on learning more about how the sand is actually moving on the surface of Mars.
"We would like to use this new data to tie our observations to the physics of sand transport, which are not well understood," says Sebastien Leprince, a coauthor of the study and a senior research scientist on Avouac's team. "By learning more about how the sand moves around, we may also learn more about the atmosphere on Mars."
The group also plans to use the HiRISE images paired with COSI-Corr to explore other regions of Mars and monitor for surface motion. For example, there are parts of the planet that may have glaciers covered with dust, and other places where fault lines can be seen and could be tracked for displacement.
"We are going to visit other areas on Mars to get a better view of what kind of activity there is on the planet today—geologically speaking, of course," says Avouac, who points out that while they are not looking for life on Mars, their technique is detailed enough that it would detect very small changes on the surface.
The Nature study, "Earth-like Sand Fluxes on Mars," was funded by grants from the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech, NASA's Mars Data Analysis Program, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Director's Research and Development Fund. Additional authors on the study are Antoine Lucas, a postdoctoral scholar in planetary science at Caltech, Nathan T. Bridges from Johns Hopkins University, and Sarah Mattson from the University of Arizona. An exclusive license to Caltech's COSI-Corr technology was recently awarded to Imagin'Labs Corporation (www.imaginlabs.com).
PASADENA, Calif.—Hiroo Kanamori, the John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been elected one of 21 new foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences. Eighty-four new members were also announced during the 149th annual meeting of the academy in Washington, D.C.
Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the academy who have citizenship outside the United States. Membership in the National Academy of Sciences is considered one of the most important distinctions that a scientist can achieve.
Kanamori is a leading authority on the physics of earthquakes and is known for developing a moment-magnitude scale for determining the magnitude of large earthquakes based on the amount of energy they release. He is particularly interested in the application of seismology to hazard mitigation as well as the study of tsunamis and the implementation of early-warning systems.
Kanamori earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Tokyo (BS '59, MS '61, PhD '64) before coming to Caltech as a postdoctoral researcher in 1965. After stints at MIT and the University of Tokyo, he returned to Caltech as a full professor in 1972 and became the Smits Professor of Geophysics in 1989. He served as the director of Caltech's Seismological Laboratory from 1990 until 1998 and became the Smits Professor of Geophysics, Emeritus, in 2005.
Among other distinctions, Kanamori was made a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987, was given the Walter H. Bucher Medal by the American Geophysical Union in 1996, was honored by the Japanese government with the Cultural Merit Award in 2006, and was selected for the Kyoto Prize by the Inamori Foundation in 2007.
Kanamori's election brings the total number of living Caltech faculty members who belong to the National Academy of Sciences to 71. Four of those, including Kanamori, are foreign associates. In addition, three current members of the Caltech Board of Trustees are academy members.
The National Academy of Sciences is dedicated to the "furtherance of science and technology and to their use for the public good," according to its mission statement. Established by a 1863 act of Congress that was signed by President Lincoln, the academy provides scientific advice to the government "whenever called upon" by any government department.
There are now 2,152 active members and 430 foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences.
PASADENA, Calif.—There is an old trick for remembering the difference between stalactites and stalagmites in a cave: Stalactites hold tight to the ceiling while stalagmites might one day grow to reach the ceiling. Now, it seems, stalagmites might also fill a hole in our understanding of Earth's climate system and how that system is likely to respond to the rapid increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide since preindustrial times.
Many existing historical climate records are biased to the high latitudes— coming from polar ice cores and North Atlantic deep ocean sediments. Yet a main driver of climate variability today is El Niño, which is a completely tropical phenomenon. All of this begs the question: How do we study such tropical climate influences? The answer: stalagmites.
"Stalagmites are the ice cores of the tropics," says Jess Adkins, professor of geochemistry and global environmental science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He and geochemist Kim Cobb of the Georgia Institute of Technology led a team that collected samples from stalagmites in caves in northern Borneo and measured their levels of oxygen isotopes to reconstruct a history of the tropical West Pacific's climate over four glacial cycles during the late Pleistocene era (from 570,000 to 210,000 years ago).
The results appear in the May 3 issue of Science Express. The lead author of the paper, Nele Meckler, completed most of the work as a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech and is now at the Geological Institute of ETH Zürich.
Throughout Earth's history, global climate has shifted between periods of glacial cooling that led to ice ages, and interglacial periods of relative warmth, such as the present. Past studies from high latitudes have indicated that about 430,000 years ago—at a point known as the Mid-Brunhes Event (MBE)—peak temperatures and levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide in interglacial cycles were suddenly bumped up by about a third. But no one has known whether this was also the case closer to the equator.
By studying the records from tropical stalagmites, Adkins and his team found no evidence of such a bump. Instead, precipitation levels remained the same across the glacial cycles, indicating that the tropics did not experience a major shift in peak interglacial conditions following the MBE. "The stalagmite records have glacial cycles in them, but the warm times—the interglacials—don't change in the same way as they do at high latitudes," Adkins says. "We don't know what that tells us yet, but this is the first time the difference has been recorded."
At the same time, some changes did appear in the climate records from both the high latitudes and the tropics. The researchers found that extreme drying in the tropics coincided with abrupt climate changes in the North Atlantic, at the tail end of glacial periods. It is thought that these rapid climate changes, known as Heinrich events, are triggered by large ice sheets suddenly plunging into the ocean.
"In the tropics, we see these events as very sharp periods of drying in the stalagmite record," Adkins says. "We think that these droughts indicate that the tropics experienced a more El Niño–like climate at those times, causing them to dry out." During El Niño events, warm waters from the tropics, near Borneo, shift toward the center of the Pacific Ocean, often delivering heavier rainfall than usual to the western United States while leaving Indonesia and its neighbors extremely dry and prone to forest fires.
The fact that the tropics responded to Heinrich events, but not to the shift that affected the high latitudes following the MBE, suggests that the climate system has two modes of responding to significant changes. "It makes you wonder if maybe the climate system cares about what sort of hammer you hit it with," Adkins says. "If you nudge the system consistently over long timescales, the tropics seem to be able to continue independently of the high latitudes. But if you suddenly whack the climate system with a big hammer, the impact spreads out and shows up in the tropics."
This work raises questions about the future in light of recent increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide: Is this increase more like a constant push? Or is it a whack with a big hammer? A case could be made for either one of these scenarios, says Adkins, but he adds that it would be easiest to argue that the forcing is more like a sudden whack, since the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased at such an unprecedented rate.
In addition to Adkins, Cobb, and Meckler, other coauthors on the paper, "Interglacial hydroclimate in the tropical West Pacific through the late Pleistocene," are Matthew Clarkson of the University of Edinburgh and Harald Sodemann of ETH Zürich. Cobb is also a former postdoctoral scholar in Adkins's group and has been collaborating on this project since her time at Caltech. The work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the German Research Foundation, and by an Edinburgh University Principal's Career Development PhD Scholarship.
What's it like to build an entire research program from scratch? It's all about becoming part of a community, according to three brand-new professors:
"It's very important to generate an environment where people help each other." —André Hoelz
"I have two challenges getting started here. One is bringing in students and postdocs, and the other is fostering a connection between economics and computer science." —Katrina Ligett
"It is not traditionally a field Caltech has done. . . . So when I was looking at coming to Caltech, the idea of being 'the oceanographer' was an exciting prospect.' —Andrew Thompson
Read "From the Ground Up" in the Spring 2012 issue of Caltech's Engineering & Science magazine.
PASADENA, Calif.—The second-largest mass extinction in Earth's history coincided with a short but intense ice age during which enormous glaciers grew and sea levels dropped. Although it has long been agreed that the so-called Late Ordovician mass extinction—which occurred about 450 million years ago—was related to climate change, exactly how the climate change produced the extinction has not been known. Now, a team led by scientists at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a framework for weighing the factors that might have led to mass extinction and has used that framework to determine that the majority of extinctions were caused by habitat loss due to falling sea levels and cooling of the tropical oceans.
The work—performed by scientists at Caltech and the University of Wisconsin, Madison—is described in a paper in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The researchers combined information from two separate databases to overlay fossil occurrences on the sedimentary rock record of North America around the time of the extinction, an event that wiped out about 75 percent of marine species alive then. At that time, North America was an island continent geologists call Laurentia, located in the tropics.
Comparing the groups of species, or genera, that went extinct during the event with those that survived, the researchers were able to figure out the relative importance of several variables in dictating whether a genus went extinct during a 50-million-year interval around the mass extinction.
"What we did was essentially the same thing you'd do if confronted with a disease epidemic," says Seth Finnegan, postdoctoral scholar at Caltech and lead author of the study. "You ask who is affected and who is unaffected, and that can tell you a lot about what's causing the epidemic."
As it turns out, the strongest predictive factors of extinction on Laurentia were both the percentage of a genus's habitat that was lost when the sea level dropped and a genus's ability to tolerate broader ranges of temperatures. Groups that lost large portions of their habitat as ice sheets grew and sea levels fell, and those that had always been confined to warm tropical waters, were most likely to go extinct as a result of the rapid climate change.
"This is the first really attractive demonstration of how you can use multivariate approaches to try to understand extinctions, which reflect amazingly complex suites of processes," says Woodward Fischer, an assistant professor of geobiology at Caltech and principal investigator on the study. "As earth scientists, we love to debate different environmental and ecological factors in extinctions, but the truth is that all of these factors interact with one another in complicated ways, and you need a way of teasing these interactions apart. I'm sure this framework will be profitably applied to extinction events in other geologic intervals."
The analysis enabled the researchers to largely rule out a hypothesis, known as the record-bias hypothesis, which says that the extinction might be explained by a significant gap in the fossil record, also related to glaciation. After all, if sea levels fell and continents were no longer flooded, sedimentary rocks with fossils would not accumulate. Therefore, the last record of any species that went extinct during the gap would show up immediately before the gap, creating the appearance of a mass extinction.
Finnegan reasoned that this record-bias hypothesis would predict that the duration of a gap in the record should correlate with higher numbers of extinctions—if a gap persisted longer, more groups should have gone extinct during that time, so it should appear that more species went extinct all at once than for shorter gaps. But in the case of the Late Ordovician, the researchers found that the duration of the gap did not matter, indicating that a mass extinction very likely did occur.
"We have found that the Late Ordovician mass extinction most likely represents a real pulse of extinction—that many living things genuinely went extinct then," says Finnegan. "It's not that the record went bad and we just don't recover them after that."
The team used data about North American fossils from the public Paleobiology Database as well as information about the sedimentary rock record from the Macrostrat Database developed by the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Along with Fischer and Finnegan, additional coauthors of the paper, "Climate change and the selective signature of the late Ordovician mass extinction" are Shanan Peters and Noel Heim of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Finnegan will begin a new appointment at UC Berkeley in the fall. The work was supported by the Agouron Institute and the National Science Foundation.
PASADENA, Calif.—Many of us see a man in the moon—a human face smiling down at us from the lunar surface. The "face," of course, is just an illusion, shaped by the dark splotches of lunar maria (smooth plains formed from the lava of ancient volcanic eruptions).
Like a loyal friend, the man is always there, constantly gazing at us as the moon revolves around Earth, locked in what's called a synchronous orbit, in which the moon rotates exactly once every time it orbits Earth. But why did the moon settle into an orbit with the man—rather than the moon's crater-covered far side—facing Earth?
Previously, some scientists have thought the fact that we see the man is just the result of a coincidence, a sort of lunar coin toss, says Oded Aharonson, professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). But he and his colleagues have now found that is not the case. In the past, the moon spun around its axis faster than it does today, and their new analysis shows that the fact that the man now faces us may be a result of the rate at which the moon slowed down before becoming locked into its current orientation.
Aharonson, along with Peter Goldreich, the Lee DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics, Emeritus, and Re'em Sari of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, describe their findings in a paper published online on February 27 in the journal Icarus.
Although the moon looks spherical, it is actually elongated, almost like a football. Not long after the moon formed just over four billion years ago, while it was still hot and largely molten, Earth's gravity began to stretch its new companion. When the moon cooled, its slightly oblong shape stuck. Today, the man in the moon occupies one of the two elongated ends.
And the reason he faces us at all times is because the moon rotates around its axis once with each revolution around the Earth, so that the same face is always pointing earthward. A couple billion years ago, give or take, the moon rotated around its axis much more rapidly, so that the inhabitants of Earth would have seen all the different sides of the moon at various times.
Eventually, however, Earth's pull on the moon slowed down its rotation through a dissipative process first explained by Goldreich in the 1960s. Tidal forces tugged on the moon, creating another slight bulge—in addition to the moon's already-elongated shape—that moved to stay on whichever side was closest to Earth at that moment. The bulge continued to point toward Earth as the moon rotated through it, causing the moon's interior to squish and flex as the bulge changed position. The internal friction from this flexing acted as a brake that slowed the moon's spinning until its rotation rate matched its revolution rate, when it settled into a synchronous orbit.
In this way, as a result of Earth's gravity, the moon became locked into an orientation with its long axis pointing toward our planet. The question, then, is why the side that ended up facing Earth is the one with the man—especially since the reverse configuration is actually favored, the researchers say. The side of the moon without the man has higher mountains and an elevated topography, they explain. Based on a naive analysis of the physics, it might be expected for this side to face Earth, because its surface—and its mass—would be closer to Earth.
In the work described in the Icarus paper, the researchers analyzed the physics of the moon and discovered that what determines which side of the moon we see is the rate at which the moon slowed down its spinning—how fast it dissipated its rotational energy. If the moon had lost energy at a significantly different rate—say 100 times faster—than it really did, there would have been a 50/50 chance that the man would face us. In that scenario, Aharonson says, having the man face us would indeed have been merely the result of a coin flip. But, as it turns out, the moon's actual rate of energy dissipation was much slower—and that means the man in the moon had about two-to-one odds of facing us. "The coin was loaded," Aharonson says.
By tweaking the dissipation rate in computer simulations, the researchers were able to simulate moons that resulted with either the man or the mountainous far side facing us every single time. In other words, they were able to load the coin however they wanted.
"The real coincidence is not that the man faces Earth," Aharonson says. Instead, the real coincidence is that the moon's dissipation rate was just the right amount to create such fascinating physics and load the coin.
But there is a caveat, he adds. The researchers' analysis is based on the present-day moon. "In the past, when the moon first locked, it could've had different properties," Aharonson notes. If that's the case, then the explanation for why we see the man might result in different odds. But, if the moon locked into its synchronous orbit relatively recently—within the last billion years or so—then there's a good chance the researchers' analysis is fitting.
The title of the Icarus paper is "Why do we see the man in the moon?" Support was provided by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project.
PASADENA, Calif.—Paul D. Asimow, professor of geology and geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), has been awarded the Richard P. Feynman Prize for Excellence in Teaching—Caltech's most prestigious teaching honor.
Asimow was selected for his "exceptional energy, originality, and ability to explain complicated concepts effectively," according to the award citation.
The Feynman Prize was established in 1993 "to honor annually a professor who demonstrates, in the broadest sense, unusual ability, creativity, and innovation in undergraduate and graduate classroom or laboratory teaching." Any member of the Caltech community—including faculty, students, postdoctoral scholars, alumni, or staff—may nominate a faculty member for the award. A committee appointed by the provost selects the winner.
"I'm both utterly surprised and deeply gratified, as the classes I teach are pretty small and specialized," says Asimow, who teaches Introduction to Geology and Geochemistry, and Thermodynamics of Geological Systems, among other courses. "I never expected to be considered alongside the professors who shoulder the hard work of teaching the big classes. I'm inspired by this recognition to keep putting my efforts into improving and updating what and how I teach."
Asimow says he credits his success in academia to a teacher he had as an undergrad at Harvard. "My own career path was determined by one incredible professor, James B. Thompson, Jr., who recently passed away," he notes. "I'd like to acknowledge the legacies of both Feynman and Thompson."
A member of the faculty since 1999, Asimow earned his MS and PhD at Caltech in 1993 and 1997, respectively. His research focuses on characterizing the mineralogy and melting of the earth's mantle, the formation of crust, and the nature of the core-mantle boundary.
Asimow is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Mineralogical Society of America, the Geochemical Society, and the American Physical Society. He is the winner of the 2003 F. W. Clarke Medal of the Geochemical Society, a 2003 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow, and the recipient the 2005 James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union. His work was supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER grant from 2003 to 2007.
In nomination letters written by students, Asimow was commended for his enthusiasm, clarity, and depth of knowledge. Several students described him as the professor to whom graduate students in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences turn when confused about a paper, when they can't agree on the answer to a scientific question, or when they're starting a new project or finishing a composition. The award citation also highlighted what the committee called a "striking innovation" of Asimow's curriculum for an advanced graduate class in petrology; in that class, he "invites his students to vote on the subject matter of the course on the first day of the term, laying the foundation for the extensive teacher-student interaction that forms a critical part of his teaching style."
"He is as inspiring as he is informative, and a great role model for us aspiring professors," said June Wicks, a graduate student in geochemistry, in her letter nominating Asimow for the prize. "He pours his energy into describing concepts both precisely and thoroughly."
Asimow says that the best thing about teaching at Caltech is its dynamic, engaged, talented, and curious student population.
"It makes all the difference to a teacher when the students are able and willing to interact, question, and even challenge the professor," says Asimow. "With small class sizes and suitable encouragement, I often get a group of students that help me and help each other to explore a subject in a satisfying and complete way. That's very rewarding."
Previous winners of the Feynman Prize in the past four years are J. Morgan Kousser, professor of history and social science; Dennis Dougherty, George Grant Hoag Professor of Chemistry; Jehoshua (Shuki) Bruck, Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Computation and Neural Systems and Electrical Engineering; and Zhen-Gang Wang, professor of chemical engineering.
The Geological Society of America has named Jason Saleeby, professor of geology at Caltech, the recipient of their Mineralogy, Geochemistry, Petrology, and Volcanology Division's Distinguished Geologic Career Award for this year.
The Distinguished Geologic Career Award is given to an individual "who throughout his/her career, has made distinguished contributions in one or more of the following fields of research: mineralogy, geochemistry, petrology, and volcanology, with emphasis on multidisciplinary, field-based contributions."
Saleeby's research interests include tectonic and geochronological studies in orogenic terranes of western North America, emphasizing the paleogeographic development of the Pacific Basin and its margins.


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State Mammal LbNA # 20507 (ARCHIVED)
|Placed Date
|Feb 18 2006
|Livingston, TX
This box was reported missing on 10/28/06
This box is in Lake Livingston State Park
This is part of my State Symbols series
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Augusta, GA--The Augusta RiverHawks professional hockey club, proud member of the Southern Professional Hockey League (SPHL) and reigning Coffey Trophy Champion, is pleased to announce that defenseman Curtis Megginson will return to Augusta for a third season.
The 23-year old blueliner has spent the past two seasons with the RiverHawks, where he has chipped in 28 points and 50 penalty minutes in those two seasons.
"I am very happy to have Curtis back in a RiverHawks' uniform. I think that his work ethic and leadership will steer our team in the right direction from the first drop of the puck this season," commented RiverHawks' Head Coach, Rob Miller.
The 5'-11" native of North Bay, Ontario, was amongst the top ranks of the Team in plus/minus rating last season with +16.
"Megginson's style and energy have been a positive for the RiverHawks since day one and we look forward to monitoring the continued development of his game," remarked RiverHawks' President, Mark Richards.
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Enzo Maccarinelli Gives His Opinion on Marco Huck
Former WBO World Cruiserweight Champion Enzo Maccarinelli will be watching the man who now holds his title, Marco Huck, in action tonight.
"Captain" Huck makes the eighth defence of his title against tough Argentinian southpaw Rogelio Rossi LIVE and exclusive on BoxNation (Sky Platform Ch. 456) starting at 7pm.
KO King Maccarinelli, a commentator on BoxNation, held the title from 2006-2008 and made four successful defences in that time.
Big Mac said, "He's strong and crude, but very effective, I enjoy watching him fight and would liked to have got in the ring with him while I was champion,"
"He's got a tough fight against Rossi who's a bit of an unknown quantity. From his record he looks like he carries a good punch with 11 stoppages in 17 wins so it could turn out be an interesting fight,"
Huck, who makes his first appearance on BoxNation, said, "It's great to be fighting live on BoxNation. My fans love me for my power and explosivness. My fights are always exciting to watch. Saturday will be another great win for me. Rossi is a tough guy. All challengers from Argentina are tough. But I´m tougher. Rossi will go down! Be sure to tune into BoxNation to witness a spectacular fight!"
Rossi said, "I will win on Saturday. Huck is a good champion but I have the strength to beat him. On Saturday I will take his title home to Argentina. This is my time!"
[QUOTE=JimmyMcNulty;11322819]"KO King" LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Yeah the King at getting KO'd!!![/QUOTE] lol , i thaught the sameComment by JimmyMcNulty on 10-22-2011
[QUOTE=Fishkie;11323118]Your an idiot:buttkick:[/QUOTE] And you clearly know nothing about boxing.Comment by TheGreatA on 10-22-2011
He's about right. Huck is not much of a boxer but he does have a powerful right hand which is about the only punch in his arsenal.Comment by Fishkie on 10-22-2011
[QUOTE=JimmyMcNulty;11322819]"KO King" LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Yeah the King at getting KO'd!!![/QUOTE] Your an idiot:buttkick:Comment by JimmyMcNulty on 10-22-2011
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Browns defensive coordinator Dick Jauron met with reporters today. Here is a transcript from the news conference:
(On how the defensive unit has come together)- "I've said it a number of times, they are a really good group of guys. They work hard. I think they are serious about it, they want to be good. We've obviously got a long way to go. It's not always pretty, but they're tough. They have toughness to them. So far they have done a pretty decent job. We've just got to keep getting better because it's just going to get harder and harder as we move on through the season. It always does. I certainly like them. I'm not sure that's critically important (joking), but I really like them. I like being around them and they've got a great attitude. It will be a huge test for us. This is a very talented football team at almost every position. They are really confident, playing at a high level. They just lost that one overtime game to the Cowboys."
(On the teams in the AFC North being ranked 1-4 defensively and if when he took the job he looked at the other division teams and thought we have to get to that level)- "It's pretty clear that this division is very good, it's very good. I don't know that I ever thought that. I thought we would have to have a very good football team overall to get really competitive in this division. That's what we're trying to do."
(On if he has ever been around a game that was a low yardage as last week)- "I'm going to say yeah, I just don't remember them. We got some breaks and it kind of has to work that way. I think you have to play well, you have to play hard, you have to be a little bit lucky and you have to stay lucky. Some things went our way obviously, but it was a great win. I really was a great win for our whole football team and our fans. That would have been a very tough one to lose."
(On the 49ers loading up on the run game and sometimes only having one wide receiver on the field)- "They are unique. As I said earlier, their talent level is very deep. They may be out there with one so-called wide out, unfortunately for the league and for us this week is their tight ends are as fast as anybody's wide outs. They can be out there with three tight ends, but two of them are like wide receivers. This is an advantage they have in there and they are smart in how they use it. You've got to be a little bit careful, you can't load up in terms of defensive personnel for example, because you will get mismatched. There's no guarantee they'll stay in a packed in set and run the ball in those situations. They do a very nice job running it, throwing it and threatening you with that speed down the field."
(On his relationship with Donte Whitner and what he looks like on film this year)- "I haven't seen Donte this year. We had a good relationship. He's a very good player, very fast safety, not overly big. He had a lot of skills, played hard, likes the game. He was a good guy for us."
(On the thought process when they drafted Whitner when he was in Buffalo)- "A lot of the things I just said, people felt like he was not a large safety, but a tough safety, somebody who would come and tackle you, would be a good blitzer. He had the speed to cover, had some coverage experience. He could play at times in the sub package as a cover guy like a nickel or dime player for sure. He was a good attitude guy."
(On how he feels about the play of his three safeties)- "We are learning more and more about each one of them as we get into this regular season. I am learning more how to use them and how to use their skills. They're all really competitive guys. They're all tough guys, which is something you have to have to play this game. They're getting more and more comfortable with us too. I am happy with their play. I think overall it's kind of like we said about the whole defense, and that includes us, the staff, we've just got to keep improving, getting to know each other."
(On how Usama Young has done in coverage)- "He's done pretty well. He's a big athlete that can move. It took him a long time to get back to us from that injury, it really set him back early. He's catching up, I think he might be caught up now. We will keep playing him, rotating him like we've done, keep them all ready to go."
(On if the Seattle game was the best T.J. Ward has played this year)- "Probably, yeah. He's a tough guy, competitive guy. He made a huge play in the game. The turnover was a huge play in the game. Hardly any points were scored and I think that led to our first three. It was a big play anyway just to get them off the field. He's an aggressive guy, we've got to keep finding ways to use him that way."
(On if any guys have surprised him so far this season)- "Going in we thought our linebacker core would be good and it's solid. That's a solid group of guys and they play well. The secondary we knew that Joe (Haden) was coming off a really good year and T.J. (Ward). They've played really well. Joe's played exceptionally well I think. There can't be a lot of corners playing at a higher level than him. I'm sure there are some that are playing at the same level. Sheldon (Brown) has been solid for us. Up front, with the two rookies they keep advancing. I think Jabaal (Sheard) flashes. Both of those guys I believe will just keep getting better. Jabaal has made a number of plays. Phil's been in on a lot of tackles. He's learning that you've got to keep those pads down in this league, because no matter how big you are or how strong there are bigger and stronger. They'll all come off the ball and challenge you. We've said a number of times, it's tougher in there. They come at you from a lot of different ways and this week will be no different. Jayme (Mitchell) is a really good team guy, plays hard and gives you everything he's got all the time. Because it was such a unique offseason, it's been a very interesting and short time together. We're still learning a lot about each other."
(On if he has faced Alex Smith before)- "I'm going to say yeah."
(On why Alex Smith's numbers are better this year than in the past and why)- "Again, their confidence level is so high now, you can see him playing with great confidence. The ball is coming out fast. They vary it, they do a very nice job. They will stretch the field. They will go down the field with the ball. They will also get it out of his hands quickly. They're very talented in their skilled people. They're tight ends, everybody talks about. They're wide receivers are very talented guys. As an offensive roster they are just fill it with number ones all over the place. I think all those things all contribute. Other than that it's another year. He's got another year behind him and it's clearly not a very easy position to play in this business. He's really doing a fine job."
(On why it's hard to defend Frank Gore)- "He has a very low center of gravity. He keeps his pads down, not a lot of surface to hit. He doesn't give you a lot of hittable surface, shoulder pads, knees. He's got great balance, very tough. He really fits in their scheme. He's just a terrific inside runner, always has been. He is hard to knock off his feet."
(On Kendall Hunter's traits)- "He looks like he's got real good speed off the edge. He's somewhat like Frank Gore inside. He's got good balance, good pad level. Frank Gore's pad level is very unique I think. You have to go a long way to find a runner that really has that kind of leverage, keeps that kind of leverage on hitters, just hard to get to his body and get a solid hit on him. They're a real good combination, a real good one-two combination."
(On if there are secrets for trying to tackle Frank Gore)- "There are no secrets. You've got to get a lot of people to the ball and they've got to really want to tackle. You've got to want to tackle this guy and get a number of people around the ball. Clearly on the field every Sunday there are people that are a lot bigger than him. That's an advantage if you can get you big people to him you've got a chance to get him off his feet. Really, he's one of the premier runners in the league."
(On what sets Vernon Davis apart)- "It starts with speed. There aren't many guys that size that can run like that. Both of their tight ends can run like that. He can really stretch the field and you've got to be really careful of the matchups that you make or get yourself into on him. He's a good blocker. He'll block you at the point of attack, work on you. He seems to be a very competitive guy. But, that speed, you can't teach speed. It's just something you're given and he's got it."
(On how Kaluka Maiava played)- "Kaluka was terrific. You people know him. He's not fazed by a whole lot. He's very, very tough. I'm really glad we've got him."
(On Chris Gocong and how he played moving to the strong side)- "Chris gives you great comfort because he's a smart player and he's got experience. He's tough and he's an athletic guy. He did play well. He just moved over there and handled it, fit right in. It's a great thing to have. As we said, kind of going into it with the three starters and Kaluka and Titus (Brown), that's a nice setup. Quinton (Spears) made a big play in that game for us down in the red zone when they got the big pass on us. They threw that reverse screen back to the wide out. If Quinton hadn't been there and turned him back or slowed him down, but Joe made the tackle. That was a huge play in the game for us. Our linebacker corps has been really solid."
(On if Gocong could play strong side in the future)- "I think Chris could probably play any of them. Really, he could play any of them, SAM, WILL or MIKE, I think."
(On the Sidney Rice's long catch catch)- "It probably started off with being a bad call. It wasn't a call I had made any other time in the game. We didn't play it particularly well either and kind of anywhere. It was just one of those deals. Every play in the game is the critical play. I think T.J. would've gotten him, I'm glad he stepped out of bounds when he did. I think T.J. would've gotten him. Then it was a great job by the guys keeping them out of the end zone."
(On if Maiava will get more playing time)- "We wouldn't be afraid to do it, but generally speaking we wouldn't do it. I really don't have an answer for why or why not, but it's just never been generally done. You almost always rotate your big guys, very seldom do you rotate those guys or the secondary."


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