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Jets Announce Lenny Kravitz Will Perform Thanksgiving Night at Halftime
The Jets announced today that Grammy Award-winning artist and lifelong Jets fan Lenny Kravitz will perform live on Thanksgiving night when the team hosts the New England Patriots at MetLife Stadium.
The halftime show will feature a medley of Kravitzs hits and highlight Like A Jet, the song he penned exclusively for the Green & White. Like A Jet is part of the Pepsi NFL Anthems program, a national campaign that brings to life originally created anthems for seven NFL teams around the league. Fans can get a free download of Like a Jet at PepsiAnthems.com. The Jets-Patriots game is presented by Pepsi.The game on Thanksgiving has been dedicated to helping and honoring all those affected by Hurricane Sandy. At the game, the Jets will continue their support by partnering with the American Red Cross to collect monetary donations at all MetLife Stadium gates, with the team matching the total donation, up to $100,000, made by fans that night.
The Jets previously announced they will also honor 100 first responders during the game. The responders will participate in pregame duties, including holding a field-sized American flag for the National Anthem, to be performed by the Newark Boys Chorus. The team will also honor all those affected by Hurricane Sandy with a moment of silence before the opening kickoff.Fans attending the game will receive a special free gift a Jets-branded scarf and 100 lucky fans will have the opportunity to be on-field for the Kravitz halftime performance courtesy of Pepsi. The team is encouraging fans to keep their scarves, including the Pepsi NFL Anthems hang tags, handy and to pay close attention to the videoboards during the first quarter of the game for more on this opportunity.
Also, fans with the Jets official mobile app downloaded to their phones with Jets Connect enabled will have the chance to experience the halftime performance from the field. Fans are being encouraged to check their smartphones when arriving at the stadium for details.During the game, 11 sixth-graders from Florham Park, Madison and Harding, N.J., who were selected for their commitment and involvement in the Jets Play 60 Challenge presented by Kinect for Xbox360 will lead the team out of the tunnel during introductions. Also, each participant will receive an Xbox 360 console with Kinect.Fans who cannot attend the game will be able to enjoy the Kravitz halftime show and see the first-ever live performance of the Pepsi NFL Anthem Like A Jet as part of the NBC television broadcast. For the latest on the team and for the complete Gameday Guide, visit newyorkjets.com.
> http://www.newyorkjets.com/news/arti...0-07e9efe47a11
By BRIAN COSTELLO
Last Updated: 2:05 PM, November 20, 2012
The Jets are playing on Thanksgiving for the second time in three years. That is something that makes the teams owner happy, but might not be such a thrill for the fans.Owner Woody Johnson actually requested that his team play on Thanksgiving night, according to a league source, despite the challenges it presents for his team and the inconvenience it places upon its fans.
Clearly, fans are not thrilled with the idea of leaving Thanksgiving dinner to go to MetLife Stadium. As of yesterday, Stubhub had 5,622 tickets available for the game with the rival Patriots, some priced as low as $28.It is interesting that Johnson requested to play on the holiday. According to a source, the Giants ask the NFL not to schedule them on Thanksgiving.
The Jets players said all the right things yesterday about the game, but it presents football challenges for a team battling for its playoff life. The Jets would have had a Thursday game on the schedule regardless, but possibly earlier in the season when the game was not as crucial as this one.
Now, instead of having a week to heal injuries and prepare for Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, the Jets (who did win that last Thanksgiving game, 26-10 over the Bengals in 2010) must cram everything into three days.It is [challenging], tight end Dustin Keller said, but the other team is in the same exact situation. Youve just got to do all the things to keep your body healthy and get back on the field in three days.
The Jets crammed a lot into yesterday, treating it like a normal Monday, when they review their last game, and a Wednesday, when they begin preparation for that weeks opponent.The Jets had meetings from 12:45 until 4 p.m., then practiced from 4:30 to 6:15. Their itinerary for the week said Stay hydrated and well rested at the top of the page. Thursdays itinerary is simple, Beat the Patriots it says.
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The NFL's Thanksgiving Classic :
A guide to the 90-year-old football tradition
Millions of turkey-stuffed Americans are sure to gorge on Thursday's slate of three football games.
How did the NFL's Turkey Day tradition begin ?
For many Americans, Thanksgiving means three things : Family, food, and football. Every year, millions of Americans feast on turkey and stuffing and sink into their couches for a full slate of NFL games. But to the uninitiated, all the football fuss is somewhat flummoxing. Here's what you should know about the Thanksgiving Classic:
Which teams are playing this year?
First, the Houston Texans (9-1) will square off against the Detroit Lions (4-6) at 12:30 p.m. EST, when most Americans will still be waiting for their turkeys to cook. Next, the Washington Redskins (4-6) will take the field against the Dallas Cowboys (5-5) at 4:15 p.m. EST, right around the time most families on the East Coat will be sounding the dinner bell. The New England Patriots (7-3) will visit the New York Jets (4-6) at 8:20 p.m., when most Americans on the Eastern Seaboard will be ready to slip into a wine and tryptophan-induced food coma.
Are these particularly important, exciting games ?
Not really. The powerhouse Texans are generally expected to steamroll the struggling Lions. The Redskins and Cowboys are division rivals, but this year, both are middling teams unlikely to score a playoff spot. And the Patriots, who appear poised to win their ninth division title in 10 years, are widely expected to trounce the underperforming Jets.
So why is the Thanksgiving Classic such a big deal ?
In an age of Monday Night Football and regular midweek games, it may be hard to understand why football fans make such a big deal out of the Thanksgiving games. But for several decades after the NFL was founded, football was exclusively played on Sundays, with the sole exception of the Thanksgiving Classic games each year. The novelty of watching professional football in the middle of the week made the games a highly anticipated ritual for many football fans. Over the years, some teams have elected to pay homage to the historic tradition by wearing throwback uniforms.
Who started the tradition ?
The NFL team most synonymous with Thanksgiving football is the Detroit Lions, who played their first Thanksgiving game in 1934 when radio executive George A. Richards who had purchased the team as the Portsmouth Spartans and moved them to Detroit scheduled a game on the holiday in an attempt to win newspaper publicity. The game sold out more than two weeks in advance, establishing a Motor City tradition that has continued each Thanksgiving, apart from a six-season hiatus from 1939 and 1944.
What about the Cowboys ?
The Cowboys are equally well-known for their Thanksgiving games, which began in 1966 and have continued in an almost unbroken streak, with gap years in 1975 and 1977. The third Thanksgiving game wasn't added to the schedule until 2006, and the two participating teams have rotated each year.
Anything else I should know ?
For a quick primer on the history of the Thanksgiving Classic, watch a video recapping the 10 most memorable moments in the NFLs Thanksgiving Day history at NFL.com. Happy Thanksgiving !
> http://theweek.com/article/index/236...ball-tradition
Five nuggets of knowledge about the Patriots-Jets Thanksgiving Day game :
Win or go home :
A poor start by the New York Jets this season makes this a must-win game on Thanksgiving. The Jets are 4-6 and losers of three of their past four games. They cannot afford to lose another game with only six weeks left in the regular season. The Patriots do not need this win. But this is a prime opportunity for New England to end its biggest rivals season on the Jets home field. These two teams have had some intense games with a lot on the line before. Expect the Jets to throw everything they have left at the Patriots in this game.The Patriots will surely miss Rob Gronkowski's effectiveness in the red zone as he recovers from a broken forearm.
"Gronk" factor :
This will be the first game the Patriots play this season without Pro Bowl tight end Rob Gronkowski. He broke his forearm in Sunday's blowout win over the Indianapolis Colts and will be out several weeks. New Englands top-rated offense has a bevy of weapons and shouldnt miss Gronkowski too much in the short term. However, the Patriots will miss him most in the red zone, where Gronkowski has seven touchdown receptions in his past four games.
Big-game Sanchez :
Despite all the criticisms toward New York starting quarterback Mark Sanchez, one important thing he has going is the ability to play well in big games against the Patriots. Sanchez has a knack for lighting up New Englands defense. He threw for a season-high 328 yards in New Yorks Week 7 overtime loss to the Patriots. Sanchez also connected for a career-high nine passes of 15 yards or more in that game. Sanchez is 3-5 all-time against New England and likely needs another big game for the Jets to pull the upset.
More work for Talib :
New England made a midseason trade to improve its struggling secondary. The Patriots acquired talented but troubled cornerback Aqib Talib from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He made an immediate impact in his first game with an interception return for a touchdown against the Colts. Talib recently concluded a four-game suspension and was clearly winded at times. His workload will only increase as he continues to work himself into football shape.
Special-teams contrast :
Thursdays game will pit New England's hot special teams against the Jets' special teams, which have gone cold. New England is coming off one of its best special-teams performances of the season in Week 11. The Patriots had a punt return for a touchdown by Julian Edelman and also forced a fumble on special teams against the Colts. The Jets began the year in solid fashion on special teams but have been mostly outplayed in the past month. This third phase of the game could make an important difference.
> http://espn.go.com/blog/afceast/post...-patriots-jets
fyi :
The New England Patriots will play on Thanksgiving for the fifth time in team history and their first in a Thanksgiving night game when they travel to face their AFC East rival New York Jets.
PATRIOTS (7-3) at JETS (4-6)
Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012 at 8:20 p.m. ET
MetLife Stadium (82,500)
The New England Patriots will play on Thanksgiving for the fifth time in team history and their first in a Thanksgiving night game when they travel to face their AFC East rival New York Jets.The Patriots will look to improve to a 4-0 record in the division and earn a series sweep of the Jets with a win this week. The Patriots defeated the Jets, 29-26, in overtime in the first meeting on Oct. 21 at Gillette Stadium.
This weeks game will mark the Patriots fifth appearance in a Thanksgiving Game.
Date Opponent Score
11/22/1984 Dallas 17-20 (L)
11/23/2000 Detroit 9-34 (L)
11/28/2002 Detroit 20-12 (W)
11/25/2010 Detroit 45-24 (W)
QB Tom Bradys NFL debut came in a game against the Lions on Thanksgiving Day, 2000. In that game, he completed one of three passes for six yards while playing the final series of the game. Bradys first career completion was a 6-yard pass to tight end Rod Rutledge against the Lions. Brady will be making his third start on Thanksgiving. Brady started against the Lions on Thanksgiving Day, 2002 and in 2010.
Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has coached seven times on Thanksgiving: twice as an assistant coach with the Detroit Lions (1976-77), once with the Denver Broncos (1978), once with the N.Y. Giants (1982), and three as the head coach of the New England Patriots (2000, 2002, 2010). He has a 4-3 record in those games.
Date Opponent Score Coaching Position
1976 Buffalo 27-14 (W) Detroits Asst. Special Teams
1977 Chicago 14-31 (L) Detroits Asst. SPT/TE/WRs
1978 Detroit 14-17 (L) Denvers Asst. SPT/Asst. to DC
1982 Detroit 13-6 (W) Giants Special Teams/Linebackers
2000 Detroit 9-34 (L) New England Head Coach
2002 Detroit 20-12 (W) New England Head Coach
2010 Detroit 45-24 (W) New England Head Coach
TELEVISION: The game will be broadcast by NBC and can be seen in Boston on WHDH-TV Channel 7. Al Michaels will handle play-by-play duties with Cris Collinsworth providing color. Michele Tafoya will serve as the sideline reporter.
RADIO: 98.5 FM, The Sports Hub, is the flagship station for the Patriots Radio Network. A complete listing of the networks 40 stations can be found in this press release. Play-by-play broadcaster Gil Santos is in his 36th season as the voice of the Patriots and will call the action. Former Patriots quarterback Scott Zolak will handle the color commentary.
NATIONAL RADIO: This week's game will be broadcast to a national audience by Dial Global Sports. Ian Eagle and Boomer Esiason will call the game. Laura Okmin will be the sideline reporter.
The Patriots and Jets will meet for the 108th time, including three postseason games, since the series between the AFC East rivals began in 1960, and for the second time in 2012. The Patriots beat the Jets, 29-26 in overtime in the first meeting on Oct. 21 at Gillette Stadium.The Patriots will be looking for their 15th series sweep and second straight sweep when they play this week. Last season, the Patriots earned their 14th sweep in the series following a 30-21 win at Gillette Stadium on Oct. 9 and a 37-16 victory in the rematch at MetLife Stadium in a Sunday Night Football game on Nov. 13. The Patriots victory over the Jets earlier in the season put them in front 54-52-1 in the all-time series. The Patriots are 29-25-1 all-time in home games against the Jets, including 25-19 overall in Foxborough and 9-4 at Gillette Stadium.The teams have played in the postseason three times, a 1985 Wild Card game, a 2006 Wild Card game and an AFC Divisional game in 2010. New England beat the Jets, 26-14, in 1985 at the Meadowlands on their way to Super Bowl XX. In 2006, the Patriots defeated the Jets, 37-16, at Gillette Stadium. The Jets defeated the Patriots, 28-21, in the 2010 playoff game.New England is 25-14 against the Jets since Robert Kraft purchased the team in 1994. New Englands 54 victories over the Jets (including two playoff wins) are the second most over any single opponent, trailing only Buffalo with 64 all-time wins.
NEW ENGLAND 54, NEW YORK 52, 1 Tie
(Including New England 2, New York 1 in Playoffs)
Home Record, 29-25-1 (incl. 1-1 in playoffs) Record in Foxborough, 25-19
Gillette Stadium, 9-4
Foxboro Stadium, 16-15
Record in Boston, 4-5-1
Record in Birmingham, Alabama, 0-1
Away Record, 25-27 (incl. 1-0 in playoffs)
MetLife Stadium, 1-1
Giants Stadium, 17-10 (incl. 1-0 playoffs)
Shea Stadium, 5-14
Polo Grounds, 2-2
Seasonal Sweeps, Jets 14 (most recent '00), Patriots 14 ('11)
Bill Belichick vs. N.Y. Jets, 19-10 (18-9 with New England)
New England Ties
Jets DE Mike DeVito is a native of Wellfleet, Mass., and played college football at Maine from 2003-06.
Jets Offensive Coordinator Tony Sparano played center at the University of New Haven from 1978-82. Sparano returned to New Haven in 1984 when he received his first coaching position and spent four seasons (1984-87) serving as the offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator. Sparano left New Haven following the 1987 season and took a job with Boston University as the offensive line coach, recruiting coordinator and academic liaison. After serving in that capacity for two seasons, Sparano was promoted to offensive coordinator at BU. Sparano would return to New Haven once again in 1994 and serve as head coach through the 1998 season.
Jets Head Strength & Conditioning Coach Bill Hughan served as an assistant coach at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., from 1997-98.
Jets Offensive Line Coach Dave DeGuglielmo was born in Cambridge, Mass., graduated from Lexington High School in 1986 and was a member of the Boston University offensive line from 1986-90. DeGuglielmo has held a number of coaching positions throughout New England during his career and has coached at Boston College (graduate assistant OL 1991-92) Boston University (OL 1993-95, OL/Assistant Head Coach 1996) and the University of Connecticut (OL 1997-98).
Jets Defensive Quality Control Coach Brian Smith coached seven seasons at the University of Massachusetts and spent time coaching the defensive backs, linebackers and wide receivers during his tenure.
New York and New Jersey Ties
CB Kyle Arrington played football at Hofstra University from 2004-07.
S Steve Gregory was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., and was named Newsday and New York Daily News All-City RB at Curtis High School in Staten Island, N.Y. Gregory rushed for a borough-record 2,060 yards as a senior and finished his high school career with 51 touchdowns, 184 tackles and five interceptions.
CB Devin McCourty is a native of Montvale, N.J. and attended Saint Josephs High School before moving on to Rutgers University.
DL Justin Francis played at Rutgers University from 2007- 11.
Safeties Coach Brian Flores is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. and attended Poly Prep, where he was a running back and linebacker.
Coaching Assistant Steve Belichick attended Rutgers University where he played four years of lacrosse and spent one season as the long snapper for the football team.
Former Patriots
Jets RB Lex Hilliard had a brief stint with the Patriots earlier this season. Hilliard was signed by New England on Sept. 4 and waived on Sept. 19. Hilliard appeared in two games for the Patriots and tallied one carry for two yards.
Jets Quarterbacks Coach Matt Cavanaugh was a secondround draft pick of the Patriots in 1978 and played for New England for five years (1978-82).
Former Jets
Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick spent the 1997-1999 seasons as asst. head coach/secondary for the Jets before moving to New England for the 2000 season. The 1998 Jets became AFC East Champions under Belichicks guidance.
Patriots Linebackers Coach Pepper Johnson played two seasons with the Jets (1997-98).
Patriots RB Danny Woodhead was a member of the Jets in 2008 and through the first week of the 2010 season. Woodhead was released by the Jets on Sept. 14 and signed by the Patriots four days later.
Patriots CB Marquice Cole played for the Jets from 2009- 11.
Former Teammates
Jets QB Tim Tebow played for the Broncos from 2010-11 and spent time with Patriots WR Brandon Lloyd (2010) and Patriots TE Daniel Fells (2011).
Lloyd also played with Jets T Jason Smith in St. Louis during the 2011 season. Smith was also teammates with Patriots TE Michael Hoomanawanui in St. Louis from 2010-11.
Patriots LB Tracy White teamed up with Jets DT Daniel Muir for the Packers in 2007.
Patriots DE Trevor Scott played with Jets WR Chaz Schillens in Oakland from 2008-11.
Patriots S Steve Gregory and Jets CB Antonio Cromartie roamed the San Diego Chargers secondary together from 2006-09.
Jets S Yeremiah Bell played for the Miami Dolphins from 2004-11 and teamed up with a number of Patriots players. Bell played with Patriots WR Wes Welker (2005-06), Patriots OL Donald Thomas (2008-09) and Patriots DL Rob Ninkovich (2007-08).
Jets S LaRon Landry teamed up with Patriots WR Brandon Lloyd for one season in Washington (2007).
Patriots LB Niko Koutouvides played one season in Tampa Bay with Jets P Robert Malone (2010).
Former College Teammates
Jets QB Greg McElroy played at the University of Alabama with Patriots DL Brandon Deaderick (2006-08) and LB Donta Hightower (2008-10).
Jets QB Tim Tebow teamed up with Patriots players DE Jermaine Cunningham (2006-09), TE Aaron Hernandez (2007-09) and LB Brandon Spikes (2006-09) at the University of Florida.
Patriots OL Marcus Cannon and Jets WR Jeremy Kerley were teammates at TCU from 2007-10.
Patriots WR Brandon Lloyd played at the University of Illinois with Jets G Brandon Moore from 1999-01. Patriots rookie DB Tavon Wilson and Jets TE Jeff Cumberland also played together for the Fighting Illini from 2008-09.
Patriots DE Rob Ninkovich played with Jets TE Dustin Keller at Purdue from 2004-05.
Patriots rookie DB Alfonzo Dennard played one season (2008) with Jets G Matt Slauson at Nebraska.
Patriots P Zoltan Mesko and Jets LB David Harris played together at the University of Michigan from 2005-06.
Patriots G Logan Mankins played at Fresno State with Jets LB Garrett McIntyre from 2002-04. Patriots C Ryan Wendell played with McIntyre for one season (2004) and also played with Jets P Robert Malone from 2006-07.
Patriots RB Stevan Ridley was teammates with Jets S LaRon Landry for one season at LSU (2007).
Bill Belichick (199) needs one more win to become the eighth NFL coach with 200 victories.
With one touchdown pass against the Jets, Tom Brady will extend his streak to 43 straight games with at least one touchdown pass and continue his third longest streak all time, behind Drew Brees (53-current) and Johnny Unitas (47).Brady has 51 career 300-yard games in the regular season and needs one more to break a sixth place tie with Hall of Famer Dan Fouts (51) and move into a tie for fifth place with Kurt Warner (52).Brady has two rushing touchdowns in 2012 and needs one more to tie his single-season career high of three set in 2011.Brady tied Drew Brees with his ninth NFL game with four touchdowns, 300 yards and no interceptions against St. Louis and needs one more such game to be alone in first place.Brady (42,955) needs 85 passing yards to move past Dan Fouts (43,040) into 10th place all time. Brady (2,976) needs 24 passing yards for his 10th 3,000- yard season.
Stephen Gostkowski (7-of-10) needs one more 50-yard field goal to tie Adam Vinatieri (8-of-17) for most 50-yard field goals in Patriots history.
Gostkowski has two 50-yarders so far in 2012 and can become the first Patriots player with three 50-yard field goals in a single season.
Jerod Mayo needs to have a 10-plus tackle game against the Jets for his ninth game in 2012 and his fifth straight game with 10 or more tackles. His career best is two fourgame streaks with 10 or more tackles in 2010 and ten games in 2010 with 10 or more tackles.
Rob Ninkovich has a team-leading five forced fumbles. If he has one more forced fumble he will break a tie with Mike Vrabel (five in 2007) for the most forced fumbles for a Patriots player within the last 20 years. Ninkovich has 6.0 sacks in 2012 and needs one more to set a career best. He had 6.5 sacks in 2011.
Wes Welker (16) needs one more 10-plus catch game to break a second place tie with Marvin Harrison (16) and Andre Johnson (16) and tie Jerry Rice (17) for the most 10-catch games in NFL history.Welker needs one reception to extend his streak to 88 straight regular-season games with at least one reception as a member of the Patriots to extend his franchise record. Welker has an overall streak of 104 straight regular-season games with at least one reception, including his time with the Miami Dolphins.
Since the 2010 season, the Patriots are 18-0 in the second half. In both 2010 and 2011, the Patriots were 8-0 in the second half of the season. Their last loss was in the 2009 season-finale at Houston, a 34-27 loss, on Jan. 3, 2010.
The Patriots have lost three games in 2012 by two points or fewer. They are the first team to lose three games by two points or less in the first six games since the 1960 Dallas Texans.
Rookie DE Chandler Jones has forced three fumbles on sacks so far in 2012.
Julian Edelman returned his third punt for a TD vs. Indianapolis and joins Troy Brown and Irving Fryar as the only Patriots with three punts returned for a touchdown.
Rob Ninkovich has three forced fumbles on sacks so far in 2012.
The number of interceptions in 2012 by rookie S Tavon Wilson, one more than the total he had during his college career at Illinois.
The number of sacks by rookie DE Chandler Jones in the first ten games of the season. The Patriots rookie record for most sacks in a season is 10.5 by Garin Veris in 1985.
The number of strip-sack/turnovers the Patriots have in 2012 with 1 by Vince Wilfork and 3 each by Chandler Jones and Rob Ninkovich.
The number of 20-yard runs by RB Stevan Ridley. Since 2000, Corey Dillon and Antowain Smith are tied with 13 runs of 20 or more, followed by Ridley and Laurence Maroney (11).
The number of times that Wes Welker has reached 100 yards receiving in a half (6 in the first half and 3 in the second).
The number of rushing yards the Patriots defense held Tennessee to in the 2012 season opener tied for fifth-lowest total in team history.
The number of first downs by the Patriots vs. Denver (10/7) to set a franchise record and make the Patriots the first team since the 1970 merger to have three straight games with 30 or more first downs.
Julian Edelman had a 47-yard run vs. Indianapolis, the longest run ever by a Patriots wide receiver, topping a 35-yard run by Troy Brown in 2000
During the Patriots 18-game second half winning streak, the Patriots have forced opponents into 51 turnovers, while turning the ball over four times.
The number of rushing yards through the first 10 games by Stevan Ridley, putting him on pace to finish the year with 1,347 yards and become the 12th Patriots player to reach 1,000 yards.
Tom Brady became the first player to follow a 500-yard performance with a 400-yard performance after Brady had backto- back games with 517 yards and 423 yards to start 2011.
The number of seasons that Brady has reached 4,000 passing yards. His four 4,000-yard seasons are tied with Warren Moon and Philip Rivers for the fifth most in NFL history.
Brady became the sixth NFL quarterback in NFL history to have 30 or more touchdowns passes in at least three seasons.
Tom Brady is one of 14 quarterbacks in NFL history to throw for 500 or more yards after he passed for 517 in the 2011 opener at Miami.
The number of times Tom Brady has earned AFC Offensive Player of the Week honors to tie Peyton Manning (22) for the most Player of the Week awards earned by a player since the accolade was instituted in 1984.
The number of times that Brady has thrown for at least three touchdowns with no interceptions, third in NFL history behind Peyton Manning (37) and Brett Favre (36).
The number of consecutive games that Brady has thrown at least one touchdown pass, third best behind 53 by Drew Brees and 47 by Johnny Unitas.
The number of regular season 300-yard passing games by Tom Brady, a team record.
The number of times that Brady has thrown two or more touchdowns in a game. The Patriots are 87-16 when he throws for two or more touchdowns.
The number of passing yards by Brady in 2011, the second most in a season in NFL history.
The number of Super Bowl championships the Patriots have won since Robert Kraft purchased the team in 1994. That mark is the highest total in the NFL over that span. Only Denver (2; 1997 and 1998), Pittsburgh (2; 2005 and 2008) and the NY Giants (2: 2007 and 2011) have won multiple Super Bowl titles since 1994.
The number of conference championships the Patriots have won since Robert Kraft purchased the team in 1994. That mark is the highest total in the NFL over that span. Pittsburgh is second with four conference titles since 1994.
The number of division championships won by the Patriots since Kraft purchased the team in 1994.
The number of playoff seasons earned by the Patriots in the 18 seasons since Robert Kraft purchased the team.
The number of playoff games the Patriots have won since Robert Kraft purchased the team in 1994. That mark is the highest total in the NFL over that span. Pittsburgh ranks second with 17 playoff wins over that span.
The number of playoff games the Patriots have appeared in since 1994, the most in the NFL. Pittsburgh has the second most with 27.
The number of consecutive home games that have been sold out, including playoff and postseason games dating back to the 1994 season opener.
Bill Belichick is one of just four coaches to win three championships since the Super Bowl era began. Belichick joins three members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame in the exclusive club (Chuck Noll 4, Joe Gibbs 3 and Bill Walsh 3). Belichick is the only coach to win three Super Bowls in the post-1993 salary cap era and the only one to ever win three in four years.
Bill Belichick has 199 career victories as a head coach, including playoff games for 8th place all-time.
> http://www.patriots.com/news/article...7-8d2ea2451011
This Holiday Nights a Test of Jets Character
Recently, the New York Jets have been one of the NFL's holiday teams.They have played five times on Christmas Eve, including last year's home game against the Giants at MetLife Stadium. Once they played on Christmas Night, that big win on a rainy evening in Miami in 2006.
New Year's Eve ?
At home against the Raiders in '06.
New Year's Day ?
Last year at Miami.And of course Thanksgiving. Tonight's affair with the New England Patriots is the Jets' eighth all-time, their third in the last six years, their second at home on Thanksgiving night in three years.We could give you more numbers to give some idea of what might happen tonight between these AFC East rivals of long standing. How the Jets have done on this special November day (4-3, 3-0 at home), How the home teams have fared in this season of a Thursday night game every week (quite well at 7-3). How Rex Ryan teams have beaten Bill Belichick teams two of the last three in the Meadowlands and three out of seven since '09.But the records mean little because, well, because they normally mean little. What does it matter for this game that the Jets have never lost at home on Thanksgiving night in 1960, 1961 and 2010?And they mean less than ever because of the state of the teams.
Patriots Riding Their Offensive Wave
The Patriots are cresting,especially on offense,as they frequently haveduring the Bill Belichick/Tom Brady collaboration 2007 comes to mind.Jets CB Antonio Cromartie said he relishes the opportunity to duel Brady one more time."Definitely, just going against one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, if not the best quarterback in the NFL, is always a competitive edge," Cro said. "You always want to make sure that you go up against the best and do well against the best.Thats something Imalways looking forward to."But the defensive coach in Ryan lays out the difficulty of that challenge."Somebody was telling me before we played them [last month] that I think they were going for a record maybe they got it against us with over 350 yards or something as a team, for like 500 games in a row or something like that," Ryan recalled. "I dont know what it is, but it just seems like it. You look at the numbers and 'Hey, theyre struggling in this, theyre fourth in the league in this category, so thats something that we really take advantage of.'
"When you look at them offensively, Brady doesnt get sacked, they dont turn the ball over, they lead the league in points, rushing is in the top five. Its like, man, I dont know."They haven't been perfect, with losses at home to Arizona (!) and on the road at Baltimore and Seattle. But they're in familiar territory win or loss tonight, they will still be in sole possession of the division top spot for the 100th week in the last 10 seasons, or since dynasty really got rolling in 2003.
The Jets' Inner Game
And the Jets are still in grim must-win mode. Let safety LaRon Landry set the stage :
"What's understood doesn't have to be explained. Our record is our record. We need to win, basically we need to win out, to get where we envisioned us going since OTAs, know what I mean? ... It's not about our opponent anymore. It's about who we want to be as Jets, what our character is. What are we made of ? Who are we representing? That's how I look at it."The Green & White have had some, but only some, positive answers to those questions. One came in the Oct. 21 game at Gillette Stadium. If Mark Sanchez doesn't throw that interception, if Stephen Hill doesn't drop that pass, if the defense makes a quicker third-down stop on either of two last-minute field goal drives, if Sanchez doesn't lose the ball on the Rob Ninkovich overtime sack ... an upset in Foxboro was oh so close.Then the efficient performance on most fronts at St. Louis displayed some of that character Landry and others are looking to see. Sanchez was 15-for-20 passing & QB'd only his third game as a Jet with at least a 70% completion rate and no giveaways. (The first was the '09 wild-card game at Cincinnati, the second the '10 home regular-season win over New England.)And the defense, with DE Muhammad Wilkerson in the lead, harassed the upticking Rams back into a downward trend. Perhaps in the spirit of non-trash bonhomie this week, even Brady threw the Jets' D some bouquets."They played us in our game as well as any defense weve faced all year," the Pats QB said. "They limited us offensively in what we did. We didnt do much. They looked like the same Jet defense to me like they always have. Theyre very good, disruptive, physical, tough, smart. They play well together. Theyve really got a very good group."
Next Chapter in the '12 Storybook
Maybe the defense can coax another turnover or two out of the Brady offense, or the special teams will bring only the Jekyll part of their personality and not the Hyde side to the stadium. Perhaps the Jets' three-headed running back of Shonn Greene, Bilal Powell and Joe McKnight is ready to take off from its game by the Gateway Arch. Maybe the Jets' relative health compared to the Patriots missing not only TE Rob Gronkowski but also G Logan Mankins & DEChandler Jones will come into play.But that's asking an awful lot of stars to align. The one element the Jets control is their approach to this game, their demeanor, the narrative to their season."it's good to have a plan, but when it comes down to the comedown, the reality is you got to execute that plan,"Landry said."Some games we didn't execute that plan, we didn't finish, so now we're where we're at right now."It's all about how we fight and how we finish. We can't tell you ahead of time how we're going to finish, but we can tell you this: We're going to fight, we're going to play hard, we're going to give it all we've got. And we'll let the outcome be the outcome."
"This storybook is a 16-chapter story," said DT Sione Pouha, "and the story's not done until it's done. We're starting to see the team turn around a little bit. The win we had last Sunday was in the right direction. We're continuing to work on it, just getting better and building from it."Interesting that in that metaphor, tonight's game for the Jets is Chapter 11. If they want to keep building their story tonight, they can't show up bankrupt in the character department. They need to have a holiday game for the ages.
> http://www.newyorkjets.com/news/arti...b-f835ad282f94
Welcome to MetLife Stadium, where the New England Patriots (7-3) will face the New York Jets (4-6) in a Thanksgiving night clash.Doesn't feel like late November. The current temperature in North Jersey is 55 degrees, and the temperature is expected to stay in the 40s throughout the game. Skies are clear, winds are light, and no precipitation is in the forecast. A great night for football.Four more inactives needed. The Patriots will need to deactivate an additional four players for this game. The team has already declared tight end Rob Gronkowski (forearm/hip), guard Logan Mankins (ankle/calf), and defensive end Chandler Jones (ankle) as out for the game. There are an additional 13 players listed as questionable.
Carey gets the call. Tonight's official is Mike Carey, who will be officiating his first Patriots game this season.Thanksgiving festivities. NBC is airing its first ever Thanksgiving night game, which will include a live halftime performance by musician Lenny Kravitz.Scouts in the house. There are scouts from the Arizona Cardinals, Miami Dolphins and New York Giants in attendance at tonight's game. The Patriots travel to face the Dolphins next week, while the Jets will host the Cardinals. The Giants, of course, share this facility with the Jets.
> http://espn.go.com/blog/boston/new-e...life-stadium-3
Hope everybody had a terrific Thanksgiving right up to the 8:30 pm eastern time mark
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Island Chic
Art doesn't always have to hang on a wall or sit on a shelf. It can tell time, block the afternoon sun, keep you warm or serve pupu for a party. Meet 10 Island artisans who create stunning, functional pieces for the home.
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Kaypee Soh
Somace Lifestyle, pillows and upholstery
One look at Kaypee Soh's pillows and you'll spot his background in fashion. "It's artwork first," says Soh, who has done fashion campaigns for L'Oréal USA, Stella McCartney and other designers. "I design individual pillows. I don't create yards and yards of material and then [mass] produce them." Soh's fabric designs—contemporary Pacific and tropical— are printed in Washington, four to 20 at a time, and sewn locally by a seamstress. The feather and down pillows, $120 each, have two sides, with two unique but complementary designs, and Soh's signature is a red zipper hidden on one of the pillow's sides. Soh's foray into home décor resulted in So'mace Lifestyle storefront in 2004, a combination of his and the company's managing director, Edward Macey's, names. So'mace is also eco-friendly, using fabric from natural and organic fibers and dying them with natural inks.
In addition to his colorful nature-inspired pillows, Soh also creates upholstery designs for lampshades and chairs (chairs starting at $1,428), which are then handcrafted in California. He hopes to one day produce them locally. He also puts his photography skills to work to create art for the home with printed and canvas plant-life photos. Soh and Macey liken their design philosophy to that of a woman accessorizing her little black dress; the wall art is like jewelry and the pillows are like a handbag. 1115 Young St., 593-8780, www.somacedesign.com.

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Farinata or Faina is a savory flatbread made from chickpea flour whose origins lie in Liguria, Italy. You may recognize it by another name; it's twin is the popular French version called Socca. I was introduced to this dish by Gera of Sweet Foods who lives in Uruguay where it is wildly popular.
Farinata is made with a loose batter of highly nutritious chickpea flour, water, olive oil and salt. This version also includes thinly sliced onions and fresh, fragrant rosemary. It is baked in a hot cast iron skillet or pizza pan that renders a golden crispiness to the outside with a soft, tender middle. It is sometimes used like pizza dough and topped with sauce and cheese or vegetables. And I have even heard of it being put right on top of pizza.
For such a simple list of ingredients the flavors are surprisingly rich and complex. I was happily surprised. And I can truly say it is one of the most delicious things I've ever tasted. I gobbled up half of the pan in a matter of minutes. The taste is almost indescribable because chickpea flour doesn't exactly taste like chickpeas. Strange but true. It has a unique flavor that no one in my family could identify.
Chickpea or Garbanzo bean flour can be found in the health food section, Italian or Middle Eastern section of your market or in specialty stores. I buy mine at the health food store – the Bob's Red Mill brand. And while I usually don't post recipes that require 'special' trips to find ingredients this one is well worth it.
This makes a great appetizer straight from the oven warm. Or if you're like me; dinner. It's rustic, healthy, and ridiculously simple to make!
Farinata Genovese
(adapted from Mark Bittman's The Best Recipes in the World)
1 cup Chickpea Flour
1 + 3/4 cup Water
3/4 teaspoon Sea Salt or 1/2 teaspoon Table Salt
1 teaspoon, at least, ground Black Pepper
5 tablespoons Olive oil, divided
1/2 large Onion, thinly sliced, optional
1 tablespoon fresh Rosemary, optional.
1. Sift chickpea flour into a bowl; add salt, then slowly add the water, whisking to eliminate lumps. Stir in 2 tablespoons olive oil. Cover, and let sit for one hour, or up to 12. The batter will thicken and should be about the consistency of heavy cream.
2. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Put a well-seasoned or cast-iron skillet(I used a 10-inch) or 12-inch pizza pan over medium high heat and add 2-3 tablespoons oil into heated pan, swirl to cover pan evenly. When the oil is hot add onion and let it cook for one minute. Pour in batter and sprinkle top with Rosemary.
3. Drizzle a little olive oil over top and bake for 20-40 minutes until it is no longer custardy in the middle and it is firm with the edges set. Turn on broiler and broil top for a minute or two until it takes on a golden brown, spotty color.
4. Allow to set for a few minutes and then carefully remove from pan to a cutting board using two spatulas. Allow to cool briefly. Cut into wedges and season generously with black pepper. Best served warm.
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.And B.J. and Janish are finally raking in Dayton
Szymanski's powr has been impressive, but isn't he still batting like .240?
.And B.J. and Janish are finally raking in Dayton
Szymanski's powr has been impressive, but isn't he still batting like .240?
In a league he is much too old for.Originally Posted by Superdude
He does have a .496 SLG% (12th in MWL) and 8 HR's (2nd in MWL) and has come along way since his huge slump out of the gate. Let's not forget that he's coming back from a season-ending injury last year and he's not been out of college even two years yet. Take away last year's injury and he may be playing at Hi A or AA right now. I'm sure he and Janish will be promoted soon anyway.Originally Posted by Superdude
I wouldn't be surprised to see him at AA sometime this year.
Janish has been great, but even with Szymanski's recent turn-around, he's gonna have to prove he can do more than just survive low-A pitching at 22-23 year old.
Our closer at Indiana State had lunch with a D-backs scout yesturday and the D-backs want and think they will be getting Bard for their first pick. You can take that for what it's worth. I'd rather pass on him and take a college arm.
MLB.com has the Reds taking Drew Stubbs in their latest Mock Draft.
Originally Posted by dougdirt
We need pitching.
I agree. I just hope Stubbs isn't the BPA.With a farm system ranked dead last, BPA sounds fine to me.
*Cracks knuckles*
This is one of my favorite times of the year.
To start out, I really hate to be a Debbie Downer, but...I have a list of Scott Boras' college clients:
Luke Hochevar
Max Scherzer
Ian Kennedy
Matt LaPorta
Jason Donald
Colin Curtis
Overall, this is a bad year for position players. In college, Stubbs has terrific potential, but he's been having production problems lately. SS Evan Longoria, arguably the most hilarious name in the draft, is probably the top college position player...yet only projects to be decent as a position player. LaPorta has awesome power, but has struggled. Chad Tracy is supposedly Mike Piazza without the power. After that, it gets bleak...
HS is not that good, either. 3B Chris Marrero has great tools, but hasn't performed well. 3B/OF Billy Rowell is really athletic, 6'5 with a good frame and speed, but reminds me a little too much of Cubs bust-turned mediocre OF Luis Montanez. Everyone else either doesn't have the tools or doesn't have the performance record to really get hopes up about them. Guys like Conger and Parmelee have been slipping because of that.
The pitchers are a little better. College-wise...Andrew Miller will probably go #1 overall. If not him, then likely Tim Lincecum. Brandon Morrow out of California is probably the most intriguing guy out there, as he's finally managed to harness his incredible stuff with a productive season. Scherzer is terrific, but his injuries are a matter of concern. Ditto Joba Chamberlain. Ian Kennedy's velocity has taken a dive.
In HS, Clayton Kershaw has been flying up the charts. He's committed to Texas and might be hard to pry away, though. Kyle Drabek is incredibly talented, but apparently needs to work on maturity issues. Chris Tillman is a project, albeit a tantalizing one. Jeremy Jeffress is on the smaller side, but apparently has touched 100 mph this spring and has a nice delivery.
Most people don't sound too thrilled with this draft in terms of its overall talent. That said, this isn't a good draft to be looking at position players, from all accounts.
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Seems to be lacking in top-top shelf talent. But there are always players to be found. Will be interesting to see how the first Buckley-led draft goes. I'm guessing heavy college.Most people don't sound too thrilled with this draft in terms of its overall talent. That said, this isn't a good draft to be looking at position players, from all accounts.
"Baseball is a very, very complex business. It's more of a people business than most businesses." - Bob Castellini
If the Reds pass on Bard they should be shot
What are you, people? On dope? - Mr Hand
You say that now, but you have no idea what the future holds for him, or for whoever the Reds will end up taking if its not Bard.Originally Posted by flyer85
Interesting. I like when folks really get behind a player. Makes it fun to see how the guy pans out.If the Reds pass on Bard they should be shot
On the other hand, it annoys me when a player gets trashed the moment he's drafted. That's draftnickery, I guess.
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Ultimate Universe
Real Name
Peter Parker
Arthur Simek, Spidey, WebHead, Webslinger, Wall-Crawler,
Secret, known to S.H.I.E.L.D., May Parker, Mary Jane Watson, Gwen Stacy (deceased), Kitty Pryde, Eddie Brock, Harry Osborn, Norman Osborn, Donald Roxxon, Silver Sable and her Wild Pack, Morbius (seen him without his mask), Ben Reilly, Doctor Curt Conners (Lizard), many of Parker's enemies,the Fantastic Four and the X-Men, Peter's clones.
Place of Birth
First Appearance
(as Parker) Ultimate Spider-Man #1 (2000); (as Spider-Man) Ultimate Spider-Man #3 (2001)
Ultimate Spider-Man #1-6 (2000-2001)
140 lbs
Peter's relatively normal life changed abruptly during a school trip to Osborn Industries, Inc. The company had been working on a super soldier serum, the Oz Compound; a spider exposed to it escaped and bit Peter before it was destroyed. Peter soon discovered that he had been mutated, gaining superhuman strength and agility and various spider-like powers. After Peter accidentally broke jock Flash Thompson's hand in a fight, the Parkers were hit with expensive medical bills; to help pay them, Peter secretly took up a wrestling challenge, wearing a mask to hide his youth and identity. The fight promoter gave him a more colorful costume and dubbed him Spider-Man, but his new career was cut short when he was accused of stealing money. Peter allowed a robber he encountered on the way home to escape because of his bad mood, an action that would later haunt him. He subsequently argued with his uncle over his slipping grades and recent poor attitude, and ran off to cool down; but when he returned home, he learned that a burglar had slain Uncle Ben in his absence. Overhearing some cops mention a cornered criminal who might be the burglar, Peter donned his costume and raced to capture him, only to find it was the same criminal he had allowed to escape earlier. Guilt ridden, Peter finally accepted the great responsibility which came with his powers, becoming a crime fighter as Spider-Man.
Norman Osborn transformed into a monstrous, Green Goblin-like menace after mainlining the Oz Compound and attacked Peter's school, battling Spider-Man until he was shot down by police marksmen and presumed dead; Harry vanished into police custody for protection and questioning. Spider-Man encountered the criminal Shocker, the mutant Wolverine (on the run from Weapon X) and the rampaging Hulk. To help his aunt pay the bills, Peter tried to sell photos of Spider-Man to the Daily Bugle, and ended up hired to maintain the newspaper's website. Learning that Uncle Ben's killer worked for Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime, Peter set out to bring him down. After trying to get information from the Enforcers, he learned the Kingpin's whereabouts from ambitious underboss Mr. Big. Breaking into the Kingpin's office while Fisk hosted a party elsewhere in Fisk Tower, Spider-Man was spotted on the security cameras, defeated by Fisk's superpowered henchman Electro, unmasked, and thrown out a window. Kingpin figured out who had provided his intruder's information, and personally murdered Mr. Big before having the body dumped in the river wearing Spider-Man's mask. Peter inquired about the security cameras in the Internet and sent them a letter going by the name Arthur Simek. He then learned that the security cameras record everything on CDs and that they were stored in an armored cabinet. Peter returned to Fisk's building, and after defeating Electro, the Enforcers and Fisk in the building's basement, sent the Daily Bugle security footage he had stolen showing the murder of Mr. Big; Fisk swiftly went into hiding.
The next day at school, Harry returned—but Peter's joy evaporated when Norman resurfaced, too. The senior Osborn offered Peter a stark choice: work for him or see his loved ones killed by the goblin. The following day, Peter learned from General Nick Fury that S.H.I.E.L.D. was monitoring him, and was aware of the Osborn situation, but could not intervene unless the goblin made a public move. Spider-Man confronted Osborn to say he would not be intimidated, unaware that Harry had invited Mary Jane over; the goblin seized her and carried her to the Queensboro Bridge, then dropped her off it, and Spider-Man only narrowly managed to catch her. Facing both Spidey and S.H.I.E.L.D. attack helicopters, Osborn fled back home and overdosed on the serum, mutating further. Peter pursued but was nearly killed before Harry walked in on the fight and saved him by driving a spike into the goblin's back. The pursuing helicopters shot the goblin, who turned back to Osborn and was taken into custody. In the aftermath, Nick Fury told Peter that when he turned 18 and was an adult, he would be forced to work for S.H.I.E.L.D..
Peter's friendship with Gwen Stacy grew as she began to confide in him regarding family troubles, though this meant he arrived minutes too late to assist Iron Man in capturing the rampaging Rhino. When an imposter dressed as Spider-Man committed a string of robberies, the real Spider-Man was shot in the shoulder by police trying to apprehend him, and Fury sent the Wasp over to Peter's school to patch him up. While this was happening, the fake Spider-Man killed Captain John Stacy, Gwen's father. Enraged, Spider-Man foiled the imposter's latest bank robbery, beat him to a pulp but stopped when he realized he almost killed the guy and left him for the police, clearing his name. As her mother had run off with another man, Gwen moved in with the Parkers; Mary Jane, meanwhile, broke up with Peter, fearful he would one day be killed.
Finding boxes full of mementos of his parents in the basement prompted Peter to track down Eddie Brock. Now a university student, Eddie was trying to complete their parents' Venom Project, a protoplasmic medical dip nicknamed "the Suit" which could enhance its wearer's abilities while healing illness and injury – even curing cancer; however some of Eddie's comments led Peter to wonder if their parents had been murdered by their corporate employers. As Spider-Man, he broke into Eddie's lab to examine the dip, but it enveloped his body, creating a new black costume. He briefly enjoyed this new look, easily stopping a kidnapping and beating an upgraded Shocker; however, after the Suit took control of Peter and nearly killed a mugger, Peter had to electrocute himself to remove it. Seeing the danger of the dip, Peter went back to the lab to destroy the rest of it, confiding in Eddie that he was Spider-Man and apparently convincing Eddie to let him destroy the dip, unaware Eddie had more hidden away. Exposing himself to the Suit, Eddie became an insane, monstrous menace and attacked Peter. In the end, an accidental electrocution seemingly killed Eddie, though the subsequent disappearance of his belongings suggested Brock may have survived. After confronting Nick Fury to ask if his parents had been murdered, Peter returned to the lab, where he found the rest of the dip gone and encountered Eddie's professor, Curt Conners, the former lizard-man, who deduced Peter was Spider-Man.
Shortly thereafter, Peter got back together with Mary Jane; offered guidance to unstable Latverian mutant teen Geldoff alongside the X-Men; and stopped martial artist Danny Rand from using his "Iron Fist" on an aggressive man during a street fight. Wounded X-Man Wolverine later sought refuge in Peter's home while fleeing remnants of Weapon X. They were also joined by Daredevil who helped them only because innocent people are getting hurt. Also a brief appearance by Black Widow. The Enforcers returned, as did their boss, the Kingpin, who had gone free after the murder evidence against him was ruled inadmissible. Sam Bullit ran for D.A. on an anti-Spider-Man platform, supported by Jameson and the Bugle, and when Peter spoke out against the Bugle's anti-Spidey stance, he was fired; however, reporter Ben Urich learned that Bullit was tied to the Kingpin, and the Bugle withdrew its support. The Enforcers tried to intimidate Jameson into reversing this, but Spider-Man intervened. Soon after, Jameson admitted his mistake to Peter and reinstated him. Spider-Man next encountered the burglar known as the Black Cat, who became attracted to him. She had stolen a stone tablet sought by the Kingpin, and Elektra was hired to retrieve it. After a fruitless three-way skirmish between Black Cat, Elektra and Spider-Man, Peter and the Kingpin both figured out the Black Cat was secretly Felica Hardy, who was soon trapped by Kingpin and Elektra. Spider-Man's arrival allowed her to get free, and she threw the tablet into the river, only to be seemingly slain by Elektra.
Spider-Man stopped the maniac Gladiator, who had taken hostages in a museum, and met Captain Jeanne De Wolfe of the NYPD. Injured by Gladiator's blades, he sought medical assistance from Dr. Conners, who later experimented with Peter's blood in search of cures for disease, having obtained Peter's reluctant permission to do so. A few months later, a creature Conners had created by mixing Peter's DNA with his own reptile-infected DNA escaped, killing a number of people, including Gwen Stacy, as it followed echoes of Peter's memories back to his home. Peter accused Conners of being behind Gwen's death, and Conners revealed what he had done, just as the creature came out of hiding. Peter attacked it, eventually tricking it into leaping into a fiery factory smokestack. Later, an angry Peter convinced Conners to turn himself in. Deciding that Spider-Man had caused enough death, Peter told Mary Jane he was dropping his dual identity; but he could not avoid his sense of responsibility, stopping a mugging while wearing a makeshift mask, and soon realized he could not quit.
When the X-Men's Jean Grey used her telepathy to punish Wolverine for an indiscretion, she unwittingly swapped the minds of Spider-Man and Wolverine, trapping each in the other's body. After a series of misadventures, the duo foiled another robbery attempt by the Shocker before Grey restored them to their rightful bodies. Later, Peter enjoyed a trip to the beach with Mary Jane, Kong, Liz and a new kid in school that Liz liked, Johnny Storm. After the secretly superhuman Storm was unexpectedly ignited by their campfire and flew off, he came back the next day to apologize to Liz; as Spider-Man, Peter offered Storm advice and they formed what might prove to be an enduring friendship. Together, they rescued people from a tenement fire.
Later, Spidey got caught up in a gang war between Kingpin and his rival Hammerhead, and has encountered the mysterious vigilante Moonknight, as well as fighting Hammerhead and the Enforcers alongside Shang-Chi, Iron Fist,Elektra and Black Cat. He has also started dating Kitty Pryde of the X-Men.
Recently, Spider-Man was kidnapped along with the X-Men by Deadpool and his Reavers. They were taken to the island of Krakoa to star in a show where mutants were hunted down for crimes they had committed or been accused of. They managed to escape with Peter after the whole ordeal finally feeling ready to reveal his secret to his Aunt May. Upon his return home however, Peter found a message on his answering machine left by his dear Aunt stating she would be staying the night with Miles Warren. So with no need to explain why he was missing for the entire night into the morning he decided to put off telling her for another time.Peter was at a mall with Mary Jane, when a mysterious man wearing a scorpion costume attacked them. When Peter tore the mask off of the mystery man, he saw his own face staring back at him. Confused, he brought him to the Fantastic Four for a DNA test. When the results came back as Peter Parker, Spidey took off his own mask to prove that the man couldn't be him, but, in fact, a clone.
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Release Notes: This release fixed new problems with jobcontrol introduced with the new vfork() support, and an old problem with jobcontrol and (cat /dev/null; cat /dev/null) | cat.
Release Notes: The Bourne Shell now supports the use vfork() to speed up execution, and implements true and false as builtins. Some bugs in the libschily/*,at.c routines were fixed. Star was bumped to version 1.5.3, Smake to version 1.2.4, and Cdrtools to version 3.01a24.
Release Notes: isoinfo now allows the user to extract all files from an ISO image based on the built-in find(1) command. This works even for milti-extent files (files > 4 GB).
Release Notes: dotfiles samples for bsh, sh, and ved have been enhanced. bsh now correctly handles "$@" as "$1" "$2". bsh now supports the option -o aliasowner=user as the Bourne Shell does. The Bourne now correctly handles begin aliases that end in space or TAB. A new variant of the Bourne Shell has been created. This variant is highly portable but is reduced to the features and bugs of the Bourne Shell from SunOS-5 (Solaris) and installed as "osh" for shell script portability testing purposes.
Release Notes: This release fixes a bug in smake makro expansion, adds support for the "clang" compiler, adds several other enhancements in the schily makefilestem, and makes some minor changes to make all programs compile and work on recent Mac OS X versions.
Release Notes: Cdrtools has been bumped to version 3.01a23. A typo fix in README.compile for the mail address. star -c list=filename now skips empty lines in "filename". The Bourne Shell man page is now a bit closer to man(5) standards. libschily/sleep.c and libschily/usleep.c have been modified to work with MinGW.
Release Notes: The portable smake bootstrap compile environment works again. include/schily/varargs.h now contains a wrapper struct to allow it to copy av_list typed variables. include/schily/getargs.h now has a comment to explain the callback interface of the option parser. libschily/format.c (printf() base) now supports argument reordering using %n$ with n <= 30. libschily/getargs.c option parser no longer dumps core with combined boolean options using callbacks. cdrtools has been bumped to 3.01a22. star no longer archives all files as a sparse file when using "star -c -sparse -force-hole".
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Alumnus' Book 'Goblin Secrets' Is Winner of a National Book Award
- 02-05-2013
- By Amanda Kenyon Waite
On his 36th birthday, alumnus Will Alexander G '06 got one of the better gifts any writer could receive. His novel Goblin Secrets was named a finalist for a 2012 National Book Award. "I was pretty sure it was a prank," he says -- one that was becoming "increasingly elaborate" when the news broke the next day to media. Not long after, things took another step toward the surreal when Alexander prevailed for the top prize in young people's literature.
"Writers fantasize about winning awards," he admits. "And the real way to aggressively waste your time daydreaming is to write in your head acceptance speeches rather than writing the work…But even wildly daydreaming, I never thought National Book Award."
It's not that Alexander, even at the age of 36, was new to the scene of national awards (two of his short stories had been nominated for the Pushcart Prize), but his genre of writing is often an outlier in literary circles. "Secondary world fiction is more or less famous for being the least respectable kind," he explains. "The further you get from respectable realism, the less you expect to get taken seriously -- or be accused of writing 'literature.'"
While Goblin Secrets is a fantastical story about goblins, witches, orphans and enchantment, it's also a story with the history of theater and folk tradition at its core. Set in Zombay, where theater is outlawed, the story follows Rownie, a young orphan searching for his lost brother. A goblin acting troupe agrees to help him, and Graba, the witch whose house he escaped, hunts him.
Sketches of the characters -- the goblins in particular -- were drafted in Burlington coffee shops. Alexander would fill notebooks at Uncommon Grounds and Muddy Waters, early thoughts that would grow into the novel after he moved to Minneapolis with his wife following grad school.
He came to UVM with an undergraduate degree from Oberlin, where he studied both theatre and English. He applied and was accepted to the English master's program at UVM, and over the course of the two years, he completed a thesis on strategies for fitting oral traditions into novels.
It was a subject that set the stage for Goblin Secrets, which includes a dark, Brothers Grimm-style fairy tale at its core, but it was also the work of writing the thesis itself that prepared him for the leap from short stories to novels. "It's impossible to write a novel -- they're too big!" he says. "But you can write a page of it." That's what the thesis taught him -- "how to work on a long-term project…how to focus on smaller pieces of it so it grows," he says. "I had no idea how to do that until after I had written my master's thesis."
He's since tackled the task again. His publishing arrangement was a two-book deal, so in March, his next novel, Ghoulish Song, will be released. Not exactly a sequel, the book still takes place in Zombay -- and at exactly the same time as Rownie's tale. But the story follows a different character, one we meet briefly in the first book.
If the title gives anything away, the subject matter will be equally surreal -- and unsettling.
"If we deny kids unsettling stories, then we deny them the very best hope that they'll have for dealing with unsettling events," he says, with mischief creeping around the edges of his voice. "So we have a responsibility to tell unsettling stories."


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Swaner Preserve & EcoCenter Names New Director and Director of Development
Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014
Nell Larson was recently named new director of the Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter in Park City, Utah, and Jon Paulding was named the center's director of development.
Larson was previously the EcoCenter's conservation director, where she focused on the restoration and management of the 1,200-acre nature preserve. As director, she will work closely with Swaner staff, advisory board members and Utah State University administration to develop Swaner's strategic direction. She will continue to direct the conservation programs at the preserve. She earned a bachelor's degree in environmental studies and a master's degree in environmental management with a focus on ecology from Yale University.
As director of development, Paulding's primary focus will be to secure financial support from individuals, foundations and corporations to help further the mission of the non-profit center. He earned a bachelor of art degree in psychology from Connecticut College and a master's of social work from the University of Utah.
The Swaner EcoCenter was given as a gift to USU in 2010 and has had an ongoing partnership with Utah State University Extension since that time. With the recent administrative changes, center personnel will now report to USU Extension Vice President Ken White.
White praised the appointment of Larson and said he looks forward to the continued partnership with the center's professionals who are striving to protect the land and teach good stewardship principles.
"It's my feeling that when we have the opportunity to partner with an impressive center like Swaner, it complements Extension's land-grant mission to provide educational activities that enhance the quality of life for families and individuals in our state," White said. "This also opens new opportunities to bring the strong portfolio of educational programming Extension provides to the Park City community."
Extension's mission is to extend the university's reach throughout the state with its research-based, educational programs that enhance quality of life. Because of its partnerships throughout the state, Extension provides broad access to educational resources and programs, such as the Swaner EcoCenter, to help people learn about and connect with the natural world. Other Extension partners include the Utah State University Botanical Center in Kaysville, a 100-acre site dedicated to conservation, education, research and outreach; the Ogden Botanical Gardens, with a mission to promote inner-city beauty and educational opportunities through an outdoor classroom and many demonstration gardens; and Thanksgiving Point Institute, where hands-on discovery is delivered through innovative educational courses, day camps and field trips. Other Extension partners include Jordan Valley Conservation Garden Park and the Southern Utah Water Conservation Garden.
"Partnering with USU Extension is a huge benefit to us, given our symbiotic missions and Extension's strong history of research and educational outreach," said Larson. "Swaner's mission to preserve, educate and nurture will continue with a wonderful variety of programming for adults and 4-H youth, on-the-ground research and distance education. We look forward to 2014 and the new opportunities it will bring."
For youth, Swaner offers programs such as summer camps, school field trips, a teen council and a Little Naturalists program for early learners. For families and adults, the center provides monthly lectures, weekly snowshoe and Preserve tours and a variety of college courses and degrees through USU's Regional Campuses and Distance Education program.
The Swaner Preserve and EcoCenter includes a 1,200-acre nature preserve in the Snyderville Basin and a 10,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art facility dedicated to environmental education. The EcoCenter was the first building in Utah to achieve the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum rating for new construction, with its energy, resource and water conservation features and elevated indoor air quality. The Swaner Preserve permanently protects more than 1,200 acres of open space, including a historic farm, 800 acres of valuable wetlands, miles of streams and diverse wildlife habitat. The preserve also includes nearly 10 miles of trails that are open to the public for hiking, biking and snowshoeing.
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Writer: Julene Reese, 435-797-0810, email@example.com
Contact: Nell Larson, 435-649-1767, email@example.com


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How many? Enough to cover everywhere at the same time?
My concern is that a private corporation might mass produce drones to take pictures and identify objects and build a huge search engine for it. Or perhaps just add the data to a massive database they have already.
Government could just access that as well as a ton of other people that don't really have your best interests at heart.
My concern is that a private corporation might mass produce drones to take pictures and identify objects and build a huge search engine for it. Or perhaps just add the data to a massive database they have already.
Google Earth Street view 2.0? (not just restricted to ground level)
Google Earth Home Window View 1.0!
v2.0 will include the use of infrared cameras!
A huge searchable database of images from all over the world? That would be awesome!
What exactly are you worried about, specifically? What are these drones going to see you doing that you're so afraid of them? Can you come up with a realistic example?
Yeah, it would be super awesome! Just imagine all the possibilities for stalking ex-girlfriends! And if women don't want to be watched everywhere they go then they shouldn't break up with me, so it's really their own fault.
Privacy is a self-validating principal.
The "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care" line of reasoning, is the primary tool of tyrants, and how can you be sure you have nothing to hide from that type? Depending on their whims, the time of day you go to bed may be a black mark.
Privacy is a self-validating principal.
The "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care" line of reasoning, is the primary tool of tyrants, and how can you be sure you have nothing to hide from that type? Depending on their whims, the time of day you go to bed may be a black mark.
Principals tend to be self validating. Principles OTOH not so much.
I've been able to see my last two years of 'medicine gardens' mature on Google earth (Just south of the tomatoes, next to the garage). That is still a federal crime, but nobody cares.
The only thing this will change is real time monitoring.
The "if you have nothing to hide, why do you care" line of reasoning, is the primary tool of tyrants
But they sure want their secrets kept secret, no?
They don't need government spies... just "commercial contractors" who act on the government's behalf. If we learned anything from the wars in the middle east, it's that contractors can do and get away with things that "soldiers" can't. And what we learned from the warrantless wiretapping crap is that data collection by contractors doesn't need a warrant and will be given retroactive immunity if they are sued for their activities.
I'm looking forward to commercial SAMs [wikipedia.org].
Can anyone point me to a good EMP-type device that might work agains these things? I know the cops were experimenting with such a device to stop automobiles in their tracks.
Very good!
Of course if I get tossed in the slammer for asking a rhetorical question* I don't get to pay off student loans, my mortgage, my property taxes and I'll get three squares and free healthcare for life. Sounds like I win.
* EVERY question I ask is a rhetorical question. I Love Big Brother.
Really... it's already been done. [telepresenceoptions.com]
AAAhhhhahahahahahah! [thetandd.com]
Talk about a bad fucking shot. If I were the man behind the trigger I would never show my face again. The copter was several times the size of a clay pigeon, moving very slowly, and it took - what - 6 shots to nick the thing. Now it sounded like he was using a rifle, not a shotgun, which makes it a bit more challenging (why did you bring a rifle to a shotgun fight anyway?). Piss poor marksmanship, imho.
Funny none-the-less.
On the one hand, extreme animal rights groups like this one tend to be really obnoxious and a tad crazy. On the other, shooting at an elevated target in the direction of a populated area? That is extremely dangerous, and the people who would be at an event like that surely knew it. They risked harming or killing another human being because they were angry.
Gun owners always claim that guns are safe as long as the people using them know what they're doing and follow best practices. These guys should be as
Regardless what you think about the group who were launching the drone, I think we can all agree that our first reaction to seeing the ugly thing would be to shoot first and ask questions later. Years of first person shooter games with enemies that fly around have permanently implanted the reaction into my brain.
And then the drone shooters "fled scene on small motorized vehicles". Weird, but awesome.
> Years of first person shooter games with enemies that fly around have permanently implanted the reaction into my brain.
The fact the current resolution is a lot higher than what you're used to, should clue your inhibition engine to kick in
Ah, Slashdot. The world's only technology site populated by Luddites.
Newsflash, buddy... The people you're so terrified of already have helicopters. What's wrong with making flight cheaper and more accessible?
The people controlling these things are just people. They are no different from your friends, your relatives, your neighbors, or any random joe you meet on the street. They aren't out to get you.
If there are particular government policies that bother you (e.g. the war on drugs), then that's a valid concern and something that you should fight against through votes, activism, etc. But saying that technology shouldn't advance because you think that there's some shadowy conspiracy the members of which ar
The people controlling these things are just people. They are no different from your friends, your relatives, your neighbors, or any random joe you meet on the street. They aren't out to get you.
Poor argument IMHO, because groups of people exhibit emergent behaviors - behaviors which any single member on their own would not show. Take any large-scale abomination committed in human history, and the people involved were always no different to friends, neighbors, relatives, etc. This is no guarantee that they won't do terrible and stupid things.
Weapons don't kill people, the people handling them does. Sometimes could be one friend, or relative, or random joe, that ends kill someone because is not aware of the full consequences (is just pressing a trigger, not actually hitting with their fist to someone), or because the people that picked him to handle that weapon did it because is not someone afraid to use it against other people, or just by mistake.
Now replace weapons with drones, and kill with whatever you could do with one of those drones, inc
Putting layers of disconnect between people has strange consequences to rational and moral behaviour. For example, people tend to be more crass and 'jerkish' on the Internet to perfect strangers than they might be in public to the same person due to the disconnect caused by technology. Using a drone to spy on someone doesn't feel the same as sneaking into their yard to do it, and results in a totally different resulting behaviour.
Letting the person doing their 'job' get more and more distant from their ta
Ah, Slashdot. The world's only technology site populated by Luddites.
Newsflash, buddy... The people you're so terrified of already have helicopters. What's wrong with making flight cheaper and more accessible?
Might not the availability of private drones lead to a business of providing service to those pestered by drones?
Celebrity weddings and events might become plagued by Paparazzi drones, but some company will also rush in to provide blocker drones to block the shots or accidentally dangle "antennas" into rotors, or just take them out via collision.
A cloud of security drones around a site would probably discourage other drones as well.
I'm not sure the whole idea here is "making flight cheaper and more accessib
I know reading it hard, but try to at least get through the first sentence of the summary.
A new federal law, signed by the president on Tuesday, compels the Federal Aviation Administration to allow drones to be used for all sorts of commercial endeavors
They are required, by law, to allow drone use by commercial endeavors. So no, it's not just "accessible for the police" as you claim. This law does the exact opposite of what you claim, by making it so that the drones aren't just "accessible for the police".
As well as case the joint for anyone else that pays them.
Have you noticed any problem Real Estate agents encounter when getting pictures for a building they want to sell? Seems the sellers are only too happy to provide inside and outside shots.
This is a totally bogus use case, drummed up to make the whole thing look innocuous.
Joe RC Enthusiast? Not really. Too expensive, and already goverened.
Friends have been doing this for years. On cheap little RC planes with cheap RF cameras. Also, it has long been the case that anything that you do in public that can be seen, can be prosecuted if it is illegal, and will stand up. Interestingly, if you're running around in the yard naked, (or nearly so) and someone takes exception, you're just fine. http://www.statecollegelaw.com/you-have-the-right-to-remain-nude/ [statecollegelaw.com]
All I can figure is that all the fearful folks didn't know that planes have a long history
Ah, Slashdot. The world's only technology site populated by Luddites.
Newsflash, buddy... The people you're so terrified of already have helicopters. What's wrong with making flight cheaper and more accessible?
Cheaper and more accessible makes all the difference. What's the difference between a world where handguns cost $50,000 each and a world where handguns cost $25 & up? Both worlds will have handguns, but the distribution and usage patterns will be very different.
You can buy a whole drone system for the cost of operating a small helicopter for a few weeks.
Oh that's a very bad line of thinking. When tech makes something cheaper and easier you definitely should re-examine the rules.
EMP is the wrong way to go - bulky power supplies, collateral damage and the fact that you're gonna look stupid pointing that thing all around the neighborhood. People might talk.
I'm thinking more along the lines of a combination new age rocketry and some easy electronics. I should think it possible to actually control an Estes type rocket with tiny piezoelectric motors controlling minature flaps, enough to guide the rocket to a target. Use thermal or ultrasonic guidance and you have yourself a tiny litt
Ten years federal time for putting a guidance system on an Estes rocket. Same as owning an unregistered machine gun.
no But I can point to the prisons you can end up in just for thinning that way.
RF emissions like that are illegal... the FCC will be happy to confiscate your equipment, especially when the last thing seen is you aiming an EMP cannon at them. They'd probably somehow pin a terrorist plot on you for protecting privacy, too. Where I live, I could legally use the shotgun suggestion, however.
But actually, it's not that difficult to blind a camera. A high power laser would also do it but would be obvious where it originated. While visible light cameras have IR/UV shields, an IR laser could p
Why make it complicated? A good rifle should take it out just fine....
I figure hacking their wireless frequency and redirecting them would be a lot more fun personally.
I really don't want to go trough that old SD cliche...I for once, welcome...blahblah
Anyway, I'm actually for these drones, especially since I'm an avid hobbyist builder of all things robotic, so it's natural that it'd be okay to manufacture these as well and allow them to be used for useful purposes.
Maybe this will be spearheading our future with flying vehicles, Müeller and his infamous sky-car didn't get off the ground due to technical issues, maybe due to MAKERS everywhere, we'll now get rid of the final safety bugs in the designs, and make headway for the very real thing.
Define useful purposes.
Do so in such a way that your neighbor's rights to privacy, peace and quiet, and safety are not violated by your selfish definition of useful.
Ron was good with tools. It would not surprise me a bit if he knew enough about copseyes to knock out the whole system.
Maybe someone ought to stop him.
But knocking down copseyes wasn't illegal. It happened all the time. It was part of the freedom of the Park. If Ron could knock them all down at once, well . . .
Maybe someone ought to stop him.
- Cloak of Anarchy, Larry Niven, 1972
I for one welcome our blah blah overlords.
Does the regulation allow for personal private use? Or are the rules tied under recreational RC planes?
There are rules for RC aircraft that boil down to keeping within line of sight, and under 400ft agl. The article mentions the 400ft altitude limit.
The growing disagreements between drone enthusiasts and entities such as the FAA and LA's motion picture unions stem from the commercial use of hobby-grade drones to film real estate, agricultural lands, etc. LA's movie unions don't want small operations filming real estate because they believe that if there's any filming around Hollywood, they better damn well g
While the commercial uses of these UAVs are cool (hunting feral pigs tearing up your crops using an IR camera on a drone and then radioing the location to your brother with a shotgun! That would be something that only a few militaries in the world could do a decade ago...) the real impact is going to be on the complete loss of privacy for just being anywhere outside in public.
I've long thought that the ease by which something can be obtained really does matter. I mean, things like divorce records have always been "public", but for most of history, that meant going to the city offices and having some surly clerk find the records for you in a basement filing cabinet. Which meant that strictly speaking, they were public, but in practice most people would never go to that trouble. With online records, finding out juicy details about your neighbour's divorce can be as easy as clicking a link. So the change in ease of obtaining records really does change the meaning of "public", even if it doesn't change the definition in a strictly legal sense.
It's the same thing with being outside. The advent of huge networks of computerized cameras on the street, on business fronts, and now perhaps on ubiquitous flying unmanned vehicles... it means that while you had no expectation of privacy in public before, in practice it meant that you could generally go places without anybody knowing about it, as long as you didn't just happen to run into somebody that knows you. Before long, an unblinking computer eye will see you everywhere. The idea of going somewhere without anybody knowing about it will be a thing of the past.
Now, is this, overall, a good thing? That I'm not sure about. Good and bad sides to it, I guess. (I'll be very interested to see its impact on strip clubs and massage parlours, though! Especially if divorce lawyers can subpoena the records.)
you are asking questions and taking the time to wonder, a bit, before taking steps.
I wish those in control would do the same.
but we don't. we see that something is *possible* and without any serious thought about implications short and long term, we plow ahead.
I wish more people were a bit more like you and they'd test these new privacy invading technologies before just assuming that the gains outweighs the downsides.
when it comes to privacy, I'm usually in favor of NOT proceeding ahead with some new
Several states have sealed driving records to the point it's near impossible to get a name and address from a license plate. Other records will eventually be sealed in such a way as to protect the name and address of people for such life changes as birth, divorce, accident etal.
Eventually those drones will come under such restrictions. I will support prohibitions against non government use of those and strong prohibitions against use of those without a warrant.
Get shot out of the sky.
http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104668&article=9779655 [wtam.com]
You'd think they'd be better shots - that thing wasn't moving nearly as fast as a clay pigeon.
Of course, I was quite disappointed in the video - they really needed to keep a better zoom/focus on the copter. Also, with the camera on board, I would have expected some video of the shooter's position. Overall a lackluster confrontation.
You'd think they'd be better shots - that thing wasn't moving nearly as fast as a clay pigeon.
I think it was shot down with a rifle not a shotgun. You don't shoot clay pigeons with a rifle.
If one lands in my backyard, can I keep it? Can I play the grumpy old man, with the fenced-in yard, who tells the neighborhood children: "No, no ball went over the fence into my yard!" . . . "and their ain't no drone here, neither. Now, scram!"
Are the Iranians selling the plans for their catcher? Or do I have to trade them weapons-grade plutonium for them?
How can you know if drones are circling overhead? Do they have a special air traffic control frequency? Do the drone pilots back at the base commu
Go get some clue [diydrones.com].
That's not their style - too indiscriminate.
That's not their style - too indiscriminate.
Oh, you mean targeted attacks like the 9/11 planes and all the car bombs they set off in syria
9/11 was clearly intended to be symbolic, and not cause the deaths of more than a few hundred people. There's no way you're telling me they expected both towers to collapse.
They considered much more indiscriminate killings but Bin Laden warned them off. Sure, I'm sure he had propaganda rather than human interest in mind, but it makes no difference. He was the boss. It's not clear what the new boss thinks.
Not sure it's them at work in Syria. When countries are that fucked, who's to say.
lovely link to a PICTURE of a helicopter,
here is the product listing
wifi? broadcast? NEITHER!
I'm imagining the sonorous whine of a quadrotor buzzing in with a delicious deep dish supreme in 12 minutes or less (bakes on the way).
I wager 5 quatloos the first drone related death or injury happens within 6 months from the date of this post.
To try daily one into White House or Congress House invading its aerial space and then to be triggered the alarm!.
It's the question, to be fined or not? The cause of all is its broooken federal law!.
JCPM: i told them many times that the lawmakers (politicians) that did break themselves their laws (written by themshelves) must be punished or condemned or fined! It's the thing of a wise mankind.
This could revive a long dormant industry.
This could revive a long dormant industry. (barrage balloons)
Too easy for zoning and the FAA to make illegal.
I was thinking more along the lines of laser gun sighting systems that automatically compute proper sighting "lead" (the amount of distance one must aim ahead of a moving target for the round to meet the target as it travels) that could be fitted to most shotguns or rifles.
Center the target, activate the electronic sight, and an aiming "pip" will appear in the sight picture at the proper distance ahead of the direction of the target's travel, indicating where
These are the drones looking for you
I think a moments thought will make someone realize that the possibilities for using these for terrorist (or assassination also known as "targeted killing") is real.
How hard would it be to attach a simple grenade to one of these things? Or a lightweight gun? Combined this a cell phone or GPS trigger (gives a new application for Geo-fencing) and you've got a device that can be triggered at distance.
I know that the "rules" will prohibit them fom being used out of sight of the controller but I imagine many s
I see worries in the comments about "the police using them to spy on civilians". They already can.
The only thing a new law like this does is to fix a loophole. UAS and UAV systems can already be used by cops and state govs, by universities (limited), by companies developing experimental aircraft (limited), and for hobby purposes (unregulated, but there are some clear limitations such as flying within range of an airport or above buildings). But you cannot be legally paid to do aerial photography from a UAV/UAS! In other words, you have to pay a pilot to fly a photographer around to legally get aerial pictures. The only other option was using blimps (tethered) and cranes. An entire industry has evolved for erecting collapsible poles to attach cameras because of this rule.
Here are the rules. [faa.gov] In it you'll find a letter with the common sense approach for hobbyists, and statements that the FAA will not grant companies any licenses to fly UAS except for experimental aircraft.
Lastly, SHAME ON THE NYT for that last sentence. They just had to jump on the idiot bandwagon and imply a connection between terrorists and photography. [schneier.com]
I have been wondering for a while now whether it might be practical to equip trains with little automated drones, which fly ahead of the train. The idea is to spot dangerous obstructions before the train gets too close to stop.
My original idea was some sort of little train car that ran on ahead of the train. You would have to make it able to carry enough fuel to run for a long-enough length of time, yet not be so massive that it has too much momentum to stop itself in time before its cameras see an obstru
I have been wondering for a while now whether it might be practical to equip trains with little automated drones, which fly ahead of the train. The idea is to spot dangerous obstructions before the train gets too close to stop.
This line of thinking -- giving trains a lot of advance warning about potential problems -- is currently being addressed by fixed wayside sensors. Mostly it is of the "there is another train ahead of you, stop!" variety, but some progress has been made on the "there is something other than a train ahead of you, stop!" front. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV#Separation [wikipedia.org] for one example
It would be interesting to see how well a drone aircraft/mini-train can work in formation with a high speed train, but bec
NRA files suit to allow an armed drone body-guard for self-defense. I can imagine a flock (is that the correct term?) of drones following me everywhere I go, circling overhead, ready to respond to any threat against me with deadly force.
Crop dusting is inherently dangerous to the pilot. It is by definition done only in low population areas. There are no privacy concerns. That is one application where drones are pure win.
Pilot license required for operation.
Use ham radio to take them down. Not by using RF, but by hanging a lot of wire!
http://www.hamuniverse.com/multidipole.html [hamuniverse.com]
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