I wonder how much influence Singletary had on him. He was always telling him to get low on one of the training camp videos.

Mike Singletary a Huge Addition To Los Angeles Rams Defense

Mike Singletary a Huge Addition To Los Angeles Rams Defense
by Matt LaPan6 months agoFollow @Matt_LaPan

The Los Angeles Rams defense added another piece to an already explosive group. Their addition did not come on the field, but rather on the sideline as Hall of Fame linebacker and former San Francisco 49ers head coach Mike Singletary has joined the Rams coaching staff.

Singletary broke the news in a radio interview (courtesy of CBS Chicago), and the Rams later confirmed his role. It has not been announced where he will impact the Rams defense – but it is easy to speculate he will have a role with the linebackers after his career both on the field and in coaching.

His return from a two-year hiatus comes at the perfect time for Los Angeles, who will be working with starters in at least two new roles entering 2016. With Alec Ogletree making the full-time move inside and Mark Barron likely making the full-time move down to linebacker, defensive coordinator Gregg Williams and linebackers coach Frank Bush will need an extra set of eyes to solidify that group.

Singletary could also play a pivotal role in the development of the wealth of young linebackers on the Rams roster. They currently have five rookies and one first-year player on the roster, plus two second-year players. This inexperienced group is likely going to have to play a role in 2016, meaning their learning curve will be extremely sharp.

Singletary’s fiery coaching style mixes well with Williams’, and should help speed up the learning curve for players such as Josh Forrest, Bryce Hager and others.

The biggest role that Singletary could play is helping Ogletree learn how to play inside linebacker. As a member of the historic Bears defenses of the 1980’s, Singletary was one of the top inside linebackers. He played with great vision and instincts. His ability to teach Ogletree this, combined with Ogletree’s size and athleticism could lead to a smooth transition.

If Ogletree can slot in smoothly behind Aaron Donald and Michael Brockers, the Rams’ defense can continue to be one of the best in the NFL. As his role is more defined, Singletary’s importance in Los Angeles will grow. If he can work with the young linebackers and bring them along, he could be the most important defensive addition in 2016.

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http://www.latimes.com/sports/rams/la-sp-rams-ogletree-20160824-snap-story.html

During training camp, Ogletree has received guidance from defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, linebackers coach Frank Bush and Hall of Fame player Mike Singletary.

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http://www.espn.com/blog/st-louis-rams/post/_/id/30290/jeff-fisher-demands-that-todd-gurley-not-be-tackled

Mike Singletary: The Hall of Fame linebacker and former San Francisco 49ers head coach got on Alec Ogletree, in his first first year as middle linebacker. Singletary pulled Ogletree off to the side and whispered, “You can be on one of the best to ever play the game. You have it in you, in this body, the ability to be an off-the-charts player. But you’re not using it. And it pisses me off, man. You’re not using it. I want to see you hustle.” Ogletree was really upset that the Rams gave up a touchdown on the opening drive for the second straight week.

Rams team officials are unable to get out of Boston, where they interviewed Josh McDaniels, in time to meet with Shanahan in ATL

— Jason La Canfora (@JasonLaCanfora) January 8, 2017

Cool, Nittany

There are a lot of qualified coaches out there. So, in that sense, he can’t get it wrong. But, can he find a coach to lead the Rams to the Promised Land? That might be really hard. I would rather look for the best GM. I sort of like Snead, but maybe there is a better guy out there?

I don’t want McDaniels, for the same reason I don’t want Belicheat. He is just another cheater.

Published on Oct 25, 2016

Dark matter permeates the cosmos: The material keeps galaxies from flying apart and has left its imprints in the oldest light in the universe. Despite overwhelming evidence that the exotic form of matter lurks unseen in the cosmos, decades of searches have failed to definitively detect a single particle of dark matter.
Theoretical astrophysicist Dan Hooper of Fermilab in Batavia, Ill, said, “We’ve been looking where our best guess told us to look for all these years, and we’re starting to wonder if we maybe guessed wrong. People are just opening their minds to a wider range of options.”

Latest dark matter searches leave scientists empty-handed
Physicists ponder possibilities for bulk of universe’s mass
By
Emily Conover
5:30am, October 25, 2016
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DARK GRAVITY In this cluster of galaxies, the location of dark matter is shown in blue. Scientists indirectly detected this dark matter through its gravitational influence, which bends and distorts the light of galaxies in the background. So far, all efforts to directly detect particles of the invisible matter have fallen flat.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/latest-dark-matter-searches-leave-scientists-empty-handed

NASA, ESA, D. Harvey/École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, R. Massey/Durham University, HST Frontier Fields
Magazine issue: Vol. 190, No. 10, November 12, 2016, p. 14

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Scientists have lost their latest round of hide-and-seek with dark matter, but they’re not out of the game.

Despite overwhelming evidence that an exotic form of matter lurks unseen in the cosmos, decades of searches have failed to definitively detect a single particle of dark matter. While some scientists continue down the road of increasingly larger detectors designed to catch the particles, others are beginning to consider a broader landscape of possibilities for what dark matter might be.

“We’ve been looking where our best guess told us to look for all these years, and we’re starting to wonder if we maybe guessed wrong,” says theoretical astrophysicist Dan Hooper of Fermilab in Batavia, Ill. “People are just opening their minds to a wider range of options.”

Dark matter permeates the cosmos: The material keeps galaxies from flying apart and has left its imprints in the oldest light in the universe, the cosmic microwave background, which dates back to just 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Indirect evidence from dark matter’s gravitational influences shows that it makes up the bulk of the mass in the universe. But scientists can’t pin down what dark matter is without detecting it directly.

In new results published in August and September, three teams of scientists have come up empty-handed, finding no hints of dark matter. The trio of experiments searched for one particular variety of dark matter — hypothetical particles known as WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles, with a range of possible masses that starts at several times that of a proton. WIMPs, despite their name, are dark matter bigwigs — they have long been the favorite explanation for the universe’s missing mass. WIMPs are thought to interact with normal matter only via the weak nuclear force and gravity.

Part of WIMPs’ appeal comes from a prominent but unverified theory, supersymmetry, which independently predicts such particles. Supersymmetry posits that each known elementary particle has a heavier partner; the lightest partner particle could be a dark matter WIMP. But evidence for supersymmetry hasn’t materialized in particle collisions at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, so supersymmetry’s favored status is eroding (SN: 10/1/16, p. 12). Supersymmetry arguments for WIMPs are thus becoming shakier — especially since WIMPs aren’t showing up in detectors.

Scientists typically search for WIMPs by looking for interactions with normal matter inside a detector. Several current experiments use tanks of liquefied xenon, an element found in trace amounts in Earth’s atmosphere, in hopes of detecting the tiny amounts of light and electric charge that would be released when a WIMP strikes a xenon nucleus and causes it to recoil.

The three xenon experiments are the Large Underground Xenon, or LUX, experiment, located in the Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, S.D.; the PandaX-II experiment, located in China’s JinPing underground laboratory in Sichuan; and the XENON100 experiment, located in the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. Teams of scientists at the three locations each reported no signs of dark matter particles. The experiments are most sensitive to particles with masses around 40 or 50 times that of a proton. Scientists can’t completely rule out WIMPs of these masses, but the interactions would have to be exceedingly rare.

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BETTER LUX NEXT TIME The LUX detector, shown above, failed to detect dark matter through interactions with liquid xenon. A souped-up version of the experiment, known as LZ, will continue the search.
C.H. Faham

In initial searches, proponents of WIMPs expected that the particles would be easy to find. “It was thought to be like, ‘OK, we’ll run the detector for five minutes, discover dark matter, and we’re all done,’” says physicist Matthew Szydagis of the University at Albany in New York, a member of LUX. That has turned into decades of hard work. As WIMPs keep failing to turn up, some scientists are beginning to become less enamored with the particles and are considering other possibilities more closely.

One alternative dark matter contender now attracting more attention is the axion. This particle was originally proposed decades ago as part of the solution to a particle physics quandary known as the strong CP problem — the question of why the strong nuclear force, which holds particles together inside the nucleus, treats matter and antimatter equally. If dark matter consists of axions, the particle could therefore solve two problems at once.

Axions are small fry as dark matter goes — they can be as tiny as a millionth of a billionth the mass of a WIMP. The particles interact so feebly that they are extremely difficult to detect. If axions are dark matter, “you’re sitting in an enormous, dense sea of axions and you don’t even notice them,” says physicist Leslie Rosenberg of the University of Washington in Seattle, the leader of the Axion Dark Matter eXperiment. After a recent upgrade to the experiment, ADMX scientists are searching for dark matter axions using a magnetic field and special equipment to coax the particles to convert into photons, which can then be detected.

Although WIMPs and axions remain the front-runners, scientists are beginning to move beyond these two possibilities. In between the featherweight axions and hulking WIMPs lies a broad range of masses that hasn’t been well explored. Scientists’ favorite theories don’t predict dark matter particles with such intermediate masses, says theoretical physicist Kathryn Zurek of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, but that doesn’t mean that dark matter couldn’t be found there. Zurek advocates a diverse search over a broad range of masses, instead of focusing on one particular theory. “Dark matter direct detection is not one-size-fits-all,” she says.
Nuclear recoil

Xenon dark matter experiments work by watching for dark matter interactions that cause xenon nuclei to recoil. Such interactions would theoretically release photons (orange lines) and electrons (red lines), which create two consecutive bursts of light that can be observed by light-detecting photomultiplier tubes (circles) at the top and bottom of the detector, as seen in this schematic of the LZ experiment.

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

In two papers published in Physical Review Letters on January 7 and September 14, Zurek and colleagues proposed using superconductors — materials that allow electricity to flow without resistance — and superfluids, which allow fluids to flow without friction, to detect light dark matter particles. “We are trying to broaden as much as possible the tools to search for dark matter,” says Zurek. Likewise, scientists with the upcoming Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search SNOLAB experiment, to be located in an underground lab in Sudbury, Canada, will use detectors made of germanium and silicon to search for dark matter with smaller masses than the xenon experiments can.

Scientists have not given up on xenon WIMP experiments. Soon some of those experiments will be scaling up — going from hundreds of kilograms of liquid xenon to tons — to improve their chances of catching a dark matter particle on the fly. The next version of XENON100, the XENON1T experiment (pronounced “XENON one ton”) is nearly ready to begin taking data. LUX’s next generation experiment, known as LUX-ZEPLIN or LZ, is scheduled to begin in 2020. PandaX-II scientists are also planning a sequel. Physicists are still optimistic that these detectors will finally find the elusive particles. “Maybe we will have some opportunity to see something nobody has seen,” says Xiangdong Ji of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the leader of PandaX-II. “That’s what’s so exciting.”

In the sea of nondetections of dark matter, there is one glaring exception. For years, scientists with the DAMA/LIBRA experiment at Gran Sasso have claimed to see signs of dark matter, using crystals of sodium iodide. But other experiments have found no signs of DAMA’s dark matter. Many scientists believe that DAMA has been debunked. “I don’t know what generates the weird signal that DAMA sees,” says Hooper. “That being said, I don’t think it’s likely that it’s dark matter.”

But other experiments have not used the same technology as DAMA, says theoretical astrophysicist Katherine Freese of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “There is no alternative explanation that anybody can think of, so that is why it is actually still very interesting.” Three upcoming experiments should soon close the door on the mystery, by searching for dark matter using sodium iodide, as DAMA does: the ANAIS experiment in the Canfranc Underground Laboratory in Spain, the COSINE-100 experiment at YangYang Underground Laboratory in South Korea, and the SABRE experiment, planned for the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory in Australia.

Even if no particles are detected anytime soon, most scientists remain convinced that an unseen form of matter exists. No alternative theory can explain all of scientists’ cosmological observations. “The human being is not going to give up for a long, long time to try to search for dark matter, because it’s such a big problem for us,” says Ji.

More than you ever wanted to know about dark matter.

A more ?radical/not main stream view of dark matter. Just to show that there are other ideas out there.
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Their idea is that Plasma Physics [electro-magnetic forces] can explain the effects attributed to dark matter.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Agamemnon.

I am going with whoever can catch the ball.

http://www.csnphilly.com/philadelphia-eagles/2017-nfl-draft-top-5-wide-receivers

Here are the top five receiver prospects in college football:

1. Mike Williams, Clemson, redshirt junior (6-3/225)
Williams came back from a scary neck injury to show why he’s been so highly touted. So far this season Williams has 73 catches for 1,014 yards and seven touchdowns. But Williams is no one-year wonder. He had a monster sophomore season, posting a 57-1,030-6 line. His ball skills may be the best of anyone in the class. He’s the whole package.

2. JuJu Smith-Schuster, USC, junior (6-2/220)
I know, I know, a USC receiver. Smith-Schuster does have a lot going for him though with a great combination of size and speed. He’s had a bit of a down year (59 catches, 758 yards, eight TDs), but much of that has to do with the inconsistency at quarterback. With Cody Kessler at the helm, Smith-Schuster produced a stellar sophomore season (89 catches, 1,454 yards, 10 TDs).

3. John Ross, Washington, junior (5-11/190)
I slot Ross just below Smith-Schuster because of Ross’ size. But he’s legit. He’s pulled in 64 catches for 991 yards and 15 touchdowns. He’s also more than just a big-play threat. Ross is an excellent route runner and has shown the ability to get open against physical corners.

4. Corey Davis, Western Michigan, senior (6-3/213)
You want production? Davis has 309 career catches for 4,980 yards and 49 touchdowns. You want size and physicality? Davis has it at 6-foot-3 and 213 pounds. You want speed? Davis has averaged 16.1 yards per catch in his career. The only thing Davis doesn’t have is a big-school pedigree, though the Broncos are currently ranked No. 21. If he’s a second-round pick, he’s a steal.

5. Dede Westbrook, Oklahoma, senior (6-0/175)
The fact that Westbrook is No. 5 on this list is a pretty good indication of how deep this receiver class is. Westbrook is extremely explosive. On the season, the senior has caught 70 passes for 1,354 and 15 touchdowns. That’s almost 20 yards a catch, and that’s after starting the season off slow. He had 154 yards combined in his first three games with no touchdowns. He’s averaged 150 yards and almost two touchdowns a game in his last eight.

Dark Matter is winning. It seems to beat out Modified Gravity and the Electric Universe.

What if you could cast a negative vote? Just take one vote away from the most hated candidate.