(#3) Deus Ex Human Revolution Walkthrough – Video

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You play Adam Jensen, a security specialist, handpicked to oversee the defense of one of America #39;s most experimental biotechnology firms. But when a black ops team uses a plan you designed to break in and kill the scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes. At a time when scientific advancements are routinely turning athletes, soldiers and spies into super-enhanced beings, someone is working very hard to ensure mankind #39;s evolution follows a particular path, and you need to discover why - the decisions you take and the choices you make, will be the only things that can change it. Developer: Eidos Montreal Publisher: Square Enix Deus Ex Human Revolution WalkthroughFrom:YTGamePlayOnlineViews:3 0ratingsTime:25:44More inGaming

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(#5) Deus Ex Human Revolution Walkthrough – Video

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You play Adam Jensen, a security specialist, handpicked to oversee the defense of one of America #39;s most experimental biotechnology firms. But when a black ops team uses a plan you designed to break in and kill the scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes. At a time when scientific advancements are routinely turning athletes, soldiers and spies into super-enhanced beings, someone is working very hard to ensure mankind #39;s evolution follows a particular path, and you need to discover why - the decisions you take and the choices you make, will be the only things that can change it. Developer: Eidos Montreal Publisher: Square EnixFrom:YTGamePlayOnlineViews:2 0ratingsTime:18:28More inGaming

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Augmented Reality – Jennifer Myers – TEDxTheWoodlands2011 – Video

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Augmented Reality - Jennifer Myers - TEDxTheWoodlands2011
TEDx The Woodlands 2011 - Jennifer Myers - Augmented Reality http://www.youtube.com Jennifer Myers is an adjunct instructor of biotechnology at Lone Star College -- Montgomery in The Woodlands, Texas. Jennifer is also a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational Psychology at Texas A M University. Her specialty is educational technologies, including social media and games. She has a Master #39;s in Teaching from Tufts University and has worked professionally in molecular and cellular biology at Dartmouth College. In addition, Jennifer has worked with Steven Caney Design, assisting with the research and development of Steven Caney #39;s books that promote creative play and learning. Most recently, she was the researcher for Steven Caney #39;s Ultimate Building Book. Her current research investigates the relationship between play and transformative learning, especially as it applies to science education and professional development. Digital games are of particular interest because of the ways this form of play can promote systems thinking, problem solving, self-efficacy, and allow for embedded, authentic assessment. Jennifer hopes that more people will embrace play as an essential component of learning and development.From:BroadcastBCViews:12 0ratingsTime:23:59More inScience Technology

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Main Show Only – Future Science 2 Coast To Coast AM – Video

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WATCH THE LATEST VIDEO THAT CAME OUT TODAY HERE http://www.youtube.com http://www.jetstreamnews.com http://www.jetnews.us If You Use Twitter heres the Twitter address or just click the twitter link on the right of the channel page https Date: 03-17-11 Host: George Noory Guests: Michio Kaku, Dr. John Apsley Theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku discussed where science is taking us over the next century, and presented revolutionary developments in medicine, computers, quantum physics, and space travel. He pointed to four areas which will propel the evolution of science over the next 100 years: biotechnology, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and telecommunications. To that end, he surmised that someone from the year 2100 will be able to move things with their mind, possess "near perfect," ageless bodies, travel via flying vehicles propelled by super magnets, and have the ability to create a variety of unique creatures using genetics. "We #39;re going to become the Gods that we once feared and worshipped," Kaku said. One advancement which he foresees arriving in the "near future" is a form of contact lens which will be connected to the Internet. This "augmented reality," Kaku said, would allow for scenarios like being able to know all about a person as soon as you meet them and having subtitles printed beneath their face if they are speaking in a foreign language. He noted that such a device would be particularly popular for artists, since they could "conjure up new worlds, because it is in ...From:USAMOONBASEViews:44 0ratingsTime:01:08:27More inEducation

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ChemCoach carnival – an ear to the ground and a finger in every pie

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My mugshot, for those who want to put a face to the name

In response to SeeArrOh’s ChemCoach carnival call, here is an insight into my small part as a cog in the inner workings of Chemistry World towers.

Your current job
I am one of two staff Science Correspondents for Chemistry World magazine. I am responsible for writing news and feature articles covering the whole range of chemistry research, industry, policy etc. I also edit two of our regular columns – Classic kit from the excellent Andrea Sella, and Totally synthetic, written by Paul Docherty (who some of you may know was once my lab- and flat-mate. It’s great when you can keep in touch with friends through your daily work.)

What you do in a standard “work day”
Like Carmen and a lot of others have mentioned, the nature of my role is very fluid. I can be writing and researching articles on anything from Rydberg atoms to Nobel prizes from one day to the next. That means I get to meet and speak to all sorts of interesting people, from the top researchers and industrialists around the world, to politicians and policymakers.

My usual day is spent hunting for news stories in journals and other sources (I read way more journals now than I ever did as a student), before our daily news meeting where we decide what we’re going to cover from what’s been found that day. Then I’ll be writing, researching or editing my latest pieces.

What kind of schooling / training / experience helped you get there?
I have a MSci in Natural Sciences (specialising in chemistry but including materials science, cell biology and pharmacology) from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD (or DPhil if you’re going to be picky) in synthetic organic chemistry from the University of Oxford. During my undergrad degree I spent time in both analytical and synthetic labs in industry, with a view to a career in med chem, which gave me a tiny insight into how Pharma works.

I have no formal training in journalism, but during my PhD I entered (and somehow managed to win) a writing competition run by the Daily Telegraph newspaper. On the back of that I did a bit more writing for the Telegraph and a few other places, which made me think I should consider it more seriously as a career. After writing up, I joined the Royal Society of Chemistry in Cambridge in a graduate communications role, and was fortunate that a job on Chemistry World came up a few months later.

How does chemistry inform your work?
Every day I am reading, writing and trying to understand chemistry of some kind. While my knowledge of the gamut of organic transformations may have dwindled, my general chemistry is stronger than ever, and I am constantly learning about new topics and applying my chemical understanding to see where they fit in to the bigger picture.

I also teach first year undergraduate chemistry one night a week in Cambridge, which is a great way to keep my basic chemistry ticking over.

Finally, a unique, interesting, or funny anecdote about your career
During my PhD, which I began in Cambridge, my supervisor was offered a permanent lecturer position at Oxford. This meant we needed to move the whole lab from one university to another. While Jon is quite a young group leader, we were fortunate enough to have inherited a reasonably large stock of chemicals and equipment from his former supervisor, who had emigrated to Australia. But that meant we had to transport it all.

My boss got some professional quotes for the move, but the £30k quote was somewhat above our budget, so we hired a couple of vans and loaded up for a group outing cross country. Luckily, my father could advise on the legalities of transporting chemicals, so we packed up pretty much everything that wasn’t pyrophoric, explosive, highly oxidising, overly smelly, strongly alkylating or otherwise likely to cause problems in the event of an accident, and trundled off.

There were, of course, plenty of surprises when clearing out the cupboards and fridges. Arcane glassware that not even the venerable technicians could identify, useful stuff we never knew we had, not to mention the two litre bottle of phosgene in toluene solution…

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(#6) Deus Ex Human Revolution Walkthrough – Video

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You play Adam Jensen, a security specialist, handpicked to oversee the defense of one of America #39;s most experimental biotechnology firms. But when a black ops team uses a plan you designed to break in and kill the scientists you were hired to protect, everything you thought you knew about your job changes. At a time when scientific advancements are routinely turning athletes, soldiers and spies into super-enhanced beings, someone is working very hard to ensure mankind #39;s evolution follows a particular path, and you need to discover why - the decisions you take and the choices you make, will be the only things that can change it. Developer: Eidos Montreal Publisher: Square EnixFrom:YTGamePlayOnlineViews:2 0ratingsTime:11:56More inGaming

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2p or not 2p: that is the title…

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…of a recent paper from the RSC’s Analyst, followed by the tagline ‘tuppence-based SERS for the detection of illicit materials’.

In the paper, scientists from Manchester explain how they used a UK two pence piece (a.k.a. tuppence) to do some drug detection work!

Royston Goodacre and team from University of Manchester altered the surface of a copper two pence piece with silver to make it suitable for the vibrational spectroscopic technique surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), which they then used to differentiate between the drugs: 4-methylmethcathinone (mephedrone), 5,6-methylenedioxy-2-aminoindane (MDAI) and 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine (MDMA).

The team made up methanolic solutions of the drugs, soaked the coins in the solutions (the drugs bind to the rough surface) before running SERS on it.

SERS usually works on thin roughened films, but the team says that these are expensive, with the most complex needing specialist equipment to prepare. Their aim in this case was to find a substrate that was cheap and accessible, providing a robust surface that can be used by non-specialists.

US coins have been used for SERS recently to detect melamine in infant formula, but the elemental composition differs from UK coins, say the researchers. It’s this difference in metallic composition that can affect the morphology of deposited silver and SERS enhancement, they add. So, finding the right coin can be tricky. And the team was restricted to pre-1992 coins as these contain 97% copper, unlike the post-1992 coins that are composed of copper-plated steel.

Well, that’s one thing I never thought of doing with my loose change!

Elinor Hughes

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Bloodhound rocket test – whoosh or bang?

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Almost exactly 15 years since the Thrust supersonic car broke the sound barrier and the land speed record, last week the team behind Bloodhound SSC tested the rocket system that they hope will break that record.

The Bloodhound engine roars into life © Stefan Marjoram

Based at RAF St Mawgan in Newquay, UK, the test brought together hundreds of engineers, sponsors, media and schoolchildren. The RAF base was chosen because of its hardened air shelters (HAS), bomb-proof hangars originally designed to protect fighter planes during the cold war. This meant that those of us gathered to watch would be well-protected if the rocket exploded.

The rocket system consisted of a Cosworth Formula One engine, a pump from a 1960s Blue Steel cruise missile, 400 litres of ultra-pure hydrogen peroxide and 180kg of solid rubber rocket fuel (HTPB). You might think that a Formula One engine would be used to power the wheels, but then Bloodhound isn’t one of the ‘small, slow cars that goes round in circles’, as its driver Andy Green describes F1 cars. In Bloodhound, that powerful engine is needed just to push the peroxide into the rocket chamber at a high enough pressure.

That peroxide is fed through a silver-plated grating to break it down into oxygen and water, releasing energy and raising the temperature to 600°C. The combination of high pressure oxygen and heat ignites the rubber fuel, burning at 3000°C and unleashing up to 27,000 pounds of thrust.

There were a lot of unknowns before the test: would the pump withstand the high pressure, would the fuel burn evenly, would the chamber withstand the high temperature? In a year’s time, Andy Green will be sitting directly in front of that rocket system and the team need to be certain that the answer to those questions is a resounding ‘yes’.

We assembled 200 metres from the rocket in a neighbouring HAS to watch the test streamed live. The atmosphere was tense as we sat in complete silence while the engineers went through the final checks and the bombproof doors closed behind us. On the screen we could see the rocket chamber pointing slightly downwards, held in place by a large concrete rig. As the engine roared into life and started pumping the peroxide, we could see the flame leaving the back of the chamber as the fuel rod ignited. The engineers then unleashed the full power of the engine, pumping the peroxide at 820psi – the equivalent pressure of four family cars sitting on your palm. At this point, for a split-second, the screen turned white as the camera tried to adjust for the brightness. This was just long enough for it to appear as if the rocket had exploded. That was always a possibility and the engineers had even said beforehand that an explosion would be better than nothing happening. Happily, the camera quickly adjusted to reveal the incredibly smooth shape of the flame bursting out of the chamber. But we didn’t need the camera to know that the rocket was burning steadily, we could feel it in the ground. The quaking of the earth and deafening roar were clear signs that the engineers had got it right.

After 10 seconds, when the fuel was exhausted, the hangar erupted in applause. We had just witnessed the largest rocket test in the UK for 20 years and it was a great success. The rocket will be tested four more times over the next year, before the first record attempt in South Africa in late 2013. But the team don’t just want to break the 763mph record; they want to smash it. In 2014 they will return to South Africa and push the car to 1000mph. Keep an eye on http://www.bloodhoundssc.com to follow them every step of the way.

Ian Le Guillou

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On the apparent horrors of requiring high school students to take chemistry.

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Theres a guest post on the Washington Post Answer Sheet blog by David Bernstein entitled Why are you forcing my son to take chemistry? in which the author argues against his 15-year-old sons schools requirement that all its students take a year of chemistry.

Derek Lowe provides a concise summary of the gist:

My son will not be a chemist. He will not be a scientist. A year of chemistry class will do nothing for him but make him miserable. He could be taking something else that would be doing him more good.

Bernsteins post is a slurry of claims about chemistry, secondary education, and the goals of education more generally with respect to human flourishing in other words, the kind of thing I need to take apart for close examination before responding.

So, thats what Im going to do here.

Lets start with Bernsteins account of the dawning of the horror:

I discovered that my 15-year-old son must suffer through a year of chemistry because a Committee of Ten academics was assembled in 1892 in order to standardize the curriculum (hows that for a bad idea?) and recommended that chemistry, among other subjects, be taught to everyone everywhere.

Bernstein is right that tradition is not in itself a good reason to require that all high school students take a year-long chemistry course. On the other hand, tradition is not in itself a good reason to assert that a year-long chemistry course is a wrongheaded requirement.

The author proceeds to make noises acknowledging that he is glad that someone in our society is doing chemistry, what with all the goodies it delivers to enhance our modern lifestyles. He even writes:

[M]y very own mother, who if I am lucky will never lay eyes on this article, is a chemist, and believes that chemistry is the most noble of human pursuits and doesnt understand how I, a former philosophy major, was able to eke out a living.

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Watch the Nobel prize in chemistry live as it’s announced

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Speculation over who will win this year’s chemistry Nobel prize has been feverish. Is it the turn of the biologists again (an old complaint that the lack of a biology Nobel prize means those feckless biologists have to filch our prize!) à la the 2009 prize for the structure of the ribosome? Or will it be awarded for more traditional chemistry like the 2010 prize for cross-couplings? Or it could even be another one like last year’s prize for quasicrystals that came completely out of left field and surprised a lot of people. We don’t know! But, if you want to see the predictions people have been making and even the odds for them then check our blog post. Otherwise sit back, relax and we’ll soon know who’s taken the most prestigious gong in the sciences and then the nice people on the Nobel prize committee will explain why it’s important and what it all means.

Patrick Walter

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Chemistry Nobel Prize Could Lead to Drugs with Fewer Side Effects

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Two US researchers have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for uncovering and mapping a key mechanism used by cells to detect and respond to the presence of hormones and other chemicals they encounter, a mechanism seen as vital to the pharmaceutical industry's development of new drugs.

The prize, which carries an 8 million krona ($1.2 million US) purse, was given to Robert Lefkowitz of Duke University in Durham, N.C., and the Maryland-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and to Brian Kobilka of Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif.

The two were awarded for work on a family of proteins embedded in cell walls that detect the presence of a hormone such as adrenaline outside a cell, then conduct that information through the cell wall to a protein switch inside that touches off a cell's response.

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The cellular sensors, dubbed G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), help coordinate "an orchestrated response from billions of individual cells that make up our bodies" as the cells respond to an outside stimulus, said Sven Lindin, chairman of the committee awarding the chemistry prize. One such stimulus: the startling, raucous appearance of a ghoul at a Halloween haunted house.

The receptors have become prime targets for new drugs to treat a range of diseases, he added at a press conference on Wednesday announcing the award. By some estimates, roughly half of all the drugs used today rely on GCPRs as pathways for affecting the cells of interest. Armed with a knowledge of the receptor molecule's unique pattern of folds when it's triggered, he adds, pharmaceutical companies are working to develop new drugs that have fewer side effects.

The notion that cells must have some mechanism for sensing their environment emerged toward the end of the 1800s, researchers say, but no one succeeded in identifying the sensors cells use.

Indeed, "when I started doing my work 40 years ago, there was still huge skepticism as to whether things like receptors really existed even from some people who were central in pharmacology," said Dr. Lefkowitz in an interview for Nobel.org.

He found receptors by adding tiny quantities of radioactive iodine to a hormone. Once the hormone bound itself to receptors, Lefkowitz and his team could pinpoint them.

In the meantime, other researchers were trying to identify the molecular switch that triggers a cell's response once it sensed a change in the environment outside the cell. Indeed, two other American biochemists shared a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 for uncovering that internal switch, known as a G protein.

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Yum yum, liquid N2?

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Probably best enjoyed without liquid nitrogen

Reports are coming out that an 18 year old woman has had her stomach removed after drinking a ‘nitro’ cocktail given a smoky effect using liquid nitrogen. It seems that outside of labs liquid nitrogen is proving quite the star turn… from making ice cream in Camden, to being used in cocktails around the country.

These cocktails seem to come in two types, either a small amount of liquid N2 is used to cool the drink without dilution and with added smoky effect, or much more N2 is used to whisk up a frozen cocktail, more N2 is then poured over for, again, that smoky effect. Basically, everyone wants a cocktail that looks like it comes from the set of an Addams family movie.

So what happened in this instance? Well, the bar isn’t commenting and its website and Facebook page are unavailable, but the wonders of cached websites suggest that the cocktails the bar serves were of the smoking but liquid variety. That at least removes the risk of super cooled ice causing burns, but I can just imagine after a few drinks you’re not going to wait for the ‘smoke’ to disappear. Peer pressure, ‘having fun’, whether it was some super cooled ice in the drink or the liquid nitrogen itself, it sounds like a recipe for disaster and in this instance it was.

I recall, as well as having fun freezing things with left over liquid nitrogen, getting some pretty serious warnings about how to use liquid nitrogen safely – don’t touch any of the pipes, use protective gloves, never take the lift with it and instead put the container in the lift and send it off, while you take the stairs. I even saw how items dipped quickly into liquid N2 did not freeze, because they were protected by an insulating layer of gaseous N2 (a phenomenon known as the Leidenfrost effect), but how if left in contact for longer tissue could be frozen and destroyed.  I somehow doubt the risks of liquid nitrogen were spelled out to the poor woman in the same way they were to me and so, at the age of 18, she has lost her stomach.

But, to counter some of the more alarmist news reporting going on today, liquid N2 is not toxic, it’s incredibly cold and used in a controlled manner it’s safe and can add drama to restaurant dining halls and labs alike. But I wouldn’t drive drunk, I wouldn’t go into the lab drunk and I’d not trust myself with liquid nitrogen when drunk.

Laura Howes

 

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Who will win the chemistry Nobel?

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With the Ig Nobels behind us, CW Towers now waits with bated breath for the chemistry Nobel. The prize for medicine and physiology has already been handed to John Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka for their work on understanding what makes a stem cell different to a mature, adult cell and how an adult cell can be transformed into a stem cell. This work could help produce a limitless supply of stem cells for therapeutic purposes without some of the ethical concerns that have dogged this promising medical technology. Supplies of stem cells are currently mostly derived from human embryos.

Today was the turn of physics. And that prize was taken by David Wineland and Serge Haroche for their work controlling quantum systems. Their research is seen as a first step on the road to creating quantum computers that would use ions or atoms as quantum bits. These quantum computers would calculate not just in ones and zeros, as conventional computers do, but have an extra state, a superposition that is both a one and a zero at the same time. This extra state, which relies on the weirdness of the way the quantum world works, holds the promise of making quantum computers vastly more powerful than any even the fastest binary supercomputer in existence.

Out of the sciences this leaves just the chemistry prize to go tomorrow morning – you can watch it live on our blog. And there are plenty of predictions out there of who’s in with a chance of taking home this prestigious gong.

Paul Bracher over at ChemBark has also put together his predictions and added a few more as he’s still smarting over not having Dan Shechtman’s quasicrystals down on his list for last year’s chemistry Nobel! He makes his predictions on a whole host of criteria, including the all-important gut feeling. Clearly he thinks it’s the biologists turn (as they don’t have their own Nobel prize) and has given nuclear hormone signalling the shortest odds.

Every year Thomson Reuters also puts together its predictions by doing some number crunching using Web of Knowledge to pick out those researchers whose work has been cited the most. One of the guys behind the Thomson Reuters picks has claimed that it has the best record of anyone at picking winners – although just not in the year they make those predictions! They’ve added gold catalysis, photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide and quantum dots to their list for this year’s prize. Thomson’s says that after 11 years they’ve successfully predicted 26 Nobel laureates to date (although this also includes the other Nobel prizes) – we’ll have to wait and see how they do this year.

At the Curious Wavefunction, a whole host of predictions have been made, although he hasn’t put odds to them. Nuclear receptors again feature high up on the list. Other possibles include DNA fingerprinting, the synthesis of cholesterol-busting statin drugs and the discovery of chaperone proteins that help other proteins fold correctly.

There’s still time to have a flutter, so have a look through the list and make your own predictions! Who do you think will win the chemistry Nobel prize?

Patrick Walter

 

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Jermichael Finley cites chemistry issues with Aaron Rodgers

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Green Bay Packers tight end Jermichael Finley has a reputation in the teams locker room for being a player who speaks his mind freely.

Its worth wondering if Finley went a little overboard this time in comments that could come back to haunt him when discussing the struggles of the 2-3 Packers as they prepare for their showdown Sunday night with the unbeaten Texans in Houston.

According to Paul Imig of Fox Sports Wisconsin, Finley says chemistry is lacking in the Packers offense this season. Specifically, he says his chemistry with quarterback Aaron Rodgers needs work.

It's OK," Finley said, according to Imig. "Not good enough at all. Something to be worked on, and try to work on it as much as I can, try to talk to him as much as I can, but like I said, it takes two people.

I need the quarterback on my side, and I need to catch the ball when he throws it to me. So it takes two things to get that going, the chemistry. I feel we need to get that going."

Finley, who signed a contract extension in the offseason, isnt putting up the kind of numbers he has previously. Drops have plagued his game, as well, which must fall under a chemistry problem on his half.

"I think everybody's gotten lost in the (Rob) Gronkowski numbers and Jimmy Graham numbers, going for a K (1,000 yards) a year," Finley said of the leagues best tight ends a year ago. "I mean, that's unheard of. Five years ago, you'd get in the Pro Bowl (as a tight end) at 500 yards. It's just gotten lost.

"I think I'm doing fair. I think I'm doing well, doing what I'm supposed to do. I think I'm giving my all out on the field, for sure. I think I'm doing fair. I'm not doing the best I can do, of course, but hey, who said it was going to be a great year?"

Finley went on to give credit to Rodgers for taking ownership of the offenses struggles earlier this week during an appearance on ESPN Wisconsin. But then Finley went on to call the quarterback scared. Oops.

"I would say, first of all, that's a leader taking the blame on himself," Finley said. "That's what you're supposed to do as a player, like I would say it's on me. So you've got to check yourself. I think that's leadership.

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Tight end Jermichael Finley began the 2010 season as the featured receiver in the Green Bay Packers' offense. Then he was lost for the year with a knee injury in Week 5.

Things haven't been the same since.

Finley's 2011 season was plagued by drops during a contract year for the matchup nightmare. The Packers' scheme also reduced the emphasis on Finley. With an extension signed, Packers fans hoped Finley would blossom and reach his Pro Bowl potential in 2012. The Green Bay offense, however, has taken a step back as a unit.

Finley believes the chemistry with quarterback Aaron Rodgers is lacking.

"I need the quarterback on my side, and I need to catch the ball when he throws it to me," Finley said, according to the Green Bay Press-Gazette. "It takes two things to get that going. So, the chemistry, I feel like we need to get that going."

Finley has 22 receptions for 198 yards and one touchdown this season. He is on pace for a career-high 70 catches, but his yards per game is down from 2011 (39.6 from 47.9). He's on pace for three touchdowns after having a career-high eight last season.

Finley had three receptions for 11 yards last week before a "slightly dislocated AC joint" in his shoulder forced him from the game. He did not practice Thursday.

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Finley called the chemistry between he and Rodgers "OK."

"Not good enough at all," Finley said. "Something to be worked on, and try to work on it as much as I can, try to talk to him as much as I can.

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