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Perhaps it's better to compare it to some of the Android phones out there. Several of those are
also very light. The key difference here is that those often attain the low weight by going with a plastic shell. That makes them feel cheap.
-- MG Siegler of TechCrunch
An all-new aluminum construction extends around the back, which is either anodized black or left raw depending on whether you opt for the darker or lighter of the two offerings. The white phone is bright and clean-looking; the black, dark and menacing. We'll let you draw conclusions about personality based on color preference, but we will say that the black surface seems to suck up fingerprints that are difficult to clean.
-- Tim Stevens of Engadet
The thing with the larger screen is that you get this feeling of having space on the display that you didn't have before. Clearly, that's true because the screen is larger, but I mean even more space than the screen allows. Perhaps it's a perceptual thing. If you told me that I would be able to see another few rows of emails or more of a Web page, I don't know that I would see the importance, but when you look at the iPhone 5, it's more than that.
-- Jim Dalrymple of The Loop
However, I found the new iPhone screen much easier to hold and manipulate than its larger rivals and preferred it. In my view, Apple's approach makes the phone far more comfortable to use, especially one-handed. It's easier to carry in a pocket or purse and more natural-looking when held up to your face for a call…
There's a temporary downside: Many apps will fail to fill the whole of the larger screen until they are revised. But they still work as intended.
-- Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD
The Lightning connector is infinitely easier to connect. It slots in nicely and does so regardless of orientation, plugging in right-side-up or upside-down. We were able to drive it home without looking the first time, and every time thereafter. (If only the same could be said for the USB connector on the other side.) It's also small, seems infinitely more durable than its flimsy-feeling elder and even stronger than micro-USB alternatives…
But Lightning comes up short in a number of important areas. It is, of course, incompatible with the roughly 350 million billion iPhone and iPod accessories currently on the market -- a problem mostly rectified by a $30 adapter. But, that's not a perfect solution, as even that won't support iPod Out, the specification used in some cars (most notably BMW and Mini) to enable in-dash control of an iPod or iPhone.
-- Tim Stevens of Engadget
Using an iPhone 5 on the Verizon LTE network in Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C., I averaged almost 26 megabits per second for downloads and almost 13 megabits per second for uploads. Download speeds peaked at 42 megabits per second. These speeds are more than 10 times the typical speeds I got on an iPhone 4S running Verizon's slower 3G network and are faster than most Americans' home Internet services. While LTE affects only data, voice calls I made on the iPhone 5 were clear, better than in the past. I had no dropped calls.
-- Walt Mossberg of AllThingsD
Running a few tests with the iPhone 5 using LTE, I regularly achieved speeds around 20 Mb/s down and 3 Mb/s up. By comparison, my iPhone 4S running on Verizon 3G was closer to 2 Mb/s down and 0/75 Mb/s up. (My tests last March of the new iPad with Verizon LTE was closer to 40 Mb/s down, so the network is clearly getting saturated, but again, still holding up well.)
– MG Seigler of TechCrunch
Seigler says that the iPhone 5 is "The smartphone nearly perfected", Stevens calls it "Without a doubt the best iPhone yet", and Dalrymple chimes in with "Apple has another winner on its hands".
Overall, the reviewers seem to be -- unsurprisingly -- in love with the iPhone 5. Apple is just now catching up to Android smartphone in terms of functionality (LTE, larger screen, larger RAM size), but the build quality of the iPhone 5 remains the one to beat with its all-aluminum construction.
Apple lovers are sure to jump on the iPhone 5 as soon as possible, while Android and Windows Phone users will likely still snicker from sidelines at Apple's late arrival to smartphone specs war.
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Alex Hales finished unbeaten on 66 as Notts wrapped up a six wicket victory with six overs to spare. A 22-run knock from Matt Wood and David Hussey's 15 laid the platform for Chris Read to hit the winning boundary.
"It was tough to middle the ball because the wicket was two-paced wicket so I decided to get after them by swinging as hard as I can and it paid off," said Hales.
"I've worked very hard over the winter and hope that I can continue this run of form. Twenty20 cricket suits my style and the team has delivered a great performance today."
Dirk Nannes became the first player in world cricket to amass 100 Twenty20 wickets with a two wicket-haul. Nannes' first delivery in Notts colours was called wide but he bounced back in style removing Jacques and Solanki in his second over.
Steven Mullaney devastated the Worcestershire middle order with a return of 3-12 in a spell of wicket to wicket bowling with good variations of pace. Sidebottom, White, Patel and Franks all took a single wicket.
Outlaws Twenty20 captain David Hussey said that Hales's knock served to demonstrate his potential to challenge for international honours in the years ahead.
"Alex has England potential if he keeps working hard and plays smart cricket," said Hussey.
"Batsmen won't enjoy facing Ryan Sidebottom and Dirk Nannes because they always challenge the batsmen and hunt for wickets.
"We've made an ideal start and I hope that we can replicate this level of performance against Derbyshire on Friday night."
A warm and dry forecast for Notts Outlaws' game against Derbyshire Falcons should ensure a decent crowd at Trent Bridge on Friday (6pm start).
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Acknowledging that you've forgotten more about this subject than I'll ever know, I own this compressor and I'm not sure it's as bad as you think.
I raced it against a Harbor Freight compressor rated at around the same CFM and found it to be about twice as fast at filling a tank. With a 1/8" sandblaster tip, this thing will hold 90psi forever. Maybe it is 14cfm, but as a practical matter, I can't find a way to outrun it.
I haven't had any problems with durablility, though that's not saying I wont. As I recall, if you use the IR startup kit, it has a pretty good warranty. Running it constant in nasty conditions for around 6 hours a day for a few weeks doesn't seem to bother it.
I know there is a lot of bias against Chinese stuff on this board, but I wouldn't say that a Made In America sticker assures quality any more than a Made In China sticker assures junk.
The point I was trying to make is that if you have a budget of $XX, be sure you balance the quality of all the parts of that system--electrical/compressor/dryer/etc. If you've got the dough, absolutely go Quincy.
No. Wait. Actually, my point was "for God's sake take it to a professional and pick it up done a week later!"
I'm still cleaning alum. oxide out of my ears and the **** got into my wallet and ruined all my credit cards. Oh, and it got into my shoes and ruined all my socks! Oh and...
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The old know it all never posted again in that thread once you posted your results.,
He obviously has a **** ** for IR, and anyone that does not agree with him.
I too have the same IR and have had excellent results with it.
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Help me correctly time a 360 magnum plz
I have a 300hp crate 360 magnum engine. I am running a dual plane edelbrock rpm air-gap intake manifold and a 600cfm manual choke edelbrock carburetor. I have a brand new mopar performance distributer that i purchased from Don over at Fbo systems, he curved and phased it for me.
Problem i am having is i cant get this engine to run right with the vaccum advance on manifold vaccum, wich is where don at fbo systems told me to run the vaccum advance off of.
I set my initial timing at 14 degrees and my total timing is at 32 degrees and i had the vaccum advance set to add 10 degrees of timing at 18 inches of vaccum, wich is how much vaccum my engine produces (18hg)
so with it set at 14 initial 32 total and 10 degrees from the vaccum advance on manifold vaccum the engine runs and sounds great, but when the engine is sitting still idling i hear thudding out the exhaust a slight (miss) every once in awhille while its an idle... I was running ngk v-power zfr5f11 plugs and decided to try a 1 step colder spark plug to see if that would help with the extra advance at an idle so i bought 8 brand new autolite 3923 plugs and that didnt seem to help at all, in fact seemed like it made it even worse.
I have tested my spark plug wires, everyone tested out at about 450 ohms of resistanceper foot. I even bought a tool that will tell you if the spark plug is working correctly with the engine running and my plug wires are working.
All of the wiring to my ignition is brand new, i am running a 4 pin Wells ignition module and a Wells 2 prong ballast resistor wich is a 1.0 ohm ballast my coil is a crane cams lx91 e-core style coil. My ignition module is grounded, i have an extra 10 gauage wire grounding my ignition module.
I am at a loss as to why this is happening, i put my vaccum advance back on the ported source and this issue mainly goes away but sometimes it comes back every once in awhile. I even dumped some atf down the carburetor while it was running just incase i had an exhaust valve that was sticking?
Just wondering if any of you guys have some suggestions for me, don at fbo systems told me that the whole problem is my carburetor and that i need a carburetor with a 4 corner idle circuit like a quickfuel ss series or a demon.
I dont have money for a brand new carburetor at the moment and this edelbrock i have is brand new.
I guess the first thing i am going to do is make a piston stop and make double sure that my balancer is reading correcly, thats the first thing i need to do.
I did a compression test on the engine and every cylinder was at 150psi.
I Dont know why my balancer would be reading wrong??? this engine doesnt even have 20 thousand miles on it. But i gess it is possible, i have pulled the distributer a couple different times, and i did have to find top dead center a few times on the compression stroke with my distributer pulled out of the engine. But i think my balancer only has 1 indicator line in i and it matches up with the zero everytime i check my initial timing with my dial back timing light.
But i know i need to first make sure the balancer is reading correctly then go from there. Any other suggestions would be great, this has been very frustrating. A friend of mine told me he thinks my balancer is reading wrong, he said my engine with 14 degrees initial timing plus another 10 degrees from the vaccum advance on manifold vaccum should not be too much timing for my engine, specially since i run 91 octane fuel.
If Don set up your distributor it is good and yes he sets them up the good way, for manifold vacuum. It will give you more timing at idle without affectin g hot starts.
Do you require a ballast with that ignition? Did Don say that was correct for the application.
Here is how I do my iginitions since the 80's..A 4 pin gm hei and stock mopar hei distributor with Dons curve kit. All you need and clean. About $80-90 total cost. Wires, kit, coil, module, etc.
Dont pour junkin your engine.
24 is not too much at idle or any other moment.
I have to stop editing, and it is hard to understand what questions to answer with all the information .
Yeah, don sells demon and quick fuel so he will go for the sale to correct your issue. That engine would be better off with a 600 afb. You sound new to carbs and that is the easiest one. What you have is fine, dont go buying stuff.
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i was just trying to be as detailed as i could about whats going on and what i have... I know the number 1 thing i needto do is make sure my balancer is reading correctly. Since i have had the distributer out of this engine a couple times and have had to find top dead center on the compression stroke i guess it's possible my balancer got lost in the midst of all that and is reading wrong.
Cause if it is reading correctly, wich there is a good chance it is, then i dont know what in the world is causing the miss while its idling with the vaccum advance hooked up to manifold vaccum. Distributer is new brand new wires are good ignition wiring is good. I didnt buy any ignition module from don, just the distributer that he curved and phased. I'm running the stock mopar electronic ignition basically except i have a little hotter then stock coil and a little lower ohm rating ballast to feed the coil more.
Don suggested a new carburetor because he says the noise i am hearing from my exhaust is my engine telling me it wants more fuel, so i turned out the idle air mixture screws to richen it up and it does help, but when i do that i am not longer getting the highest vaccum reading at an idle, wich is how i was told to tune the idle air mixture screws on an edelbrock carburetor, with a vaccum gauage and set them to the highest vaccum reading.
Don told me the edelbrock carburetors are extremely limited on the idle circuit and they suck to try and dial inn perfectly, he said i would benefit tremandously with a carburetor that has a 4 corner idle circuit. I am not familiar with any carburetors except for the edelbrocks, theey are the only carbs i have ever owned, i can take apart and tune an edelbrock all day long, i'm sure i could easily learn how to tune a demon or a holley or a quickfuel if i bought one and started playing with it because thats how i taught myself to work on the edelbrocks.
Rigt now i am running .092 jets in the primary side and .092 jets in the secondary side of my edelbrock with the 7047 metering rods and the silver step up springs, i have my accelerator pump linkage in the middle hole. And i hve my idle air mixture scrwes tuned for the highest vaccum reading, i have also triple checked my floats and they are good. I guess i could try going a step up on the primary jets and see if that helps the car while at an idle but i thought i have read the primarry jets in the edelbrocks have no affect on the idle circuit... I will have to double check, i have 2 books on edelbrock carbs.
I'm going to make a piston stop and make sure my balancer is reading correctly, thats what i need to do first, if it is reading correctly then it will be interesting trying to figure out whats causing this miss with the vaccum advance on manifold vaccum.
I'm running the ngk v-power zfr5f11 plugs right now, (stock heat range) and i'm running 91 octane fuel and i'm also 4000 feet above sea level. But i will try and get a piston stop made asap and i'll let you know if my balancer was reading right or not and go from there.
You did not give any specifics. That is important. Like, what carb cfm, what is this noise, at rpm, how bad does it shake, if you pull a boot does it keep running, stuff like that. A miss could be hundred possibilities you need to investigate.
The 360/300 is a nice mild road engine. A baseline edelbrock 600 would be perfect, you would not need to cange jets and rods to get a god ride. The airdoor would compensate for hard throttle.
The jets and rods have no effect on idle. Edelbrocks idle feed is more than sufficient for the engine.
Is this the original harness, and do you have 12volts at the distributor / coil, if you took power from the coil + wire that has 9-10volts? How did you delete the mopar ignition box? run jumper wires from the battery to the coil + and - see if that cures it.
Did you see my picture, that is all the ignition equipment you need.
My oppinion, a 4 corner is not going to anything to fix this, that makes no sense. Don, will baseline a carb for you so that will be crossed off the list of possiblilities.
Put the timing at 24 mechanical at same idle, vacuum hose off and plugged. Is the problem the same? What tests have you done? Why the carb changes?
The balancer is keyed to the crank. That is not going to variate unless the outer balancer ring failed and the balancer needs replacement.
This is not one tooth off on the distributor gear is it, You state that you drove thousands of miles when did this start.
The problem is putting a burnable mixture in front of the spark plug that the plug can set on fire in the allocated time. Obviously the first thing is whether the spark is there. Cold plugs especially in a cold engine foul by developing a conductive layer of unburnt fuel and carbon on the insulator, so the spark energy is as likely to bleed down the insulator as it is to jump the electrode gap. A hotter heat range plug, a higher engine operating temp, and a multi-strike high energy ignition are helpful as is more spark advance at idle which has to come out someplace else. Also and this seems counter intuitive, is that too much advance will cause the miss, this is a case of putting in the spark before there is enough mixture density setting in front of the plug to carry the fire through the mixture. When the mixture density is low (this being a measure of fuel and air molecules trapped in a given space) there is considerable distance between molecules early in the compression cycle and always at closed throttle idle. So the fire if it catches at all will burn slowly compared to more open throttle positions and higher RPMs, the fire even if once caught in this situation can go out as it is unable to jump to the next set of consumable molecules. The point is a lot of things can and do go wrong sometimes in unexpected ways. By the way, I dont use resistance wires on anything; the closest I come is spiral wound wires. The electronics of modern ignitions are already creating a square wave profile so a resistance that takes off the lower voltage as it ramps up in a sine wave as in the good old days just isnt necessary.
A four corner idle circuit may, or not, pick up the issues by providing a more balanced fuel mixture between the front and rear cylinders, if indeed that is a problem. A lot of mayhem occurs within intake manifolds especially those that do not have exhaust heat under the plenum. In those cases mixture homogenization is dependent upon high RPMs to provide a sufficiently violent flow within the manifold to bust up fuel globules and mix them with air instead of forcing fuel vaporization with heat. For an engine without this feature it can be expected for it to miss at idle because there isn't enough agitation within the intake to break up large globules of fuel and these just will not burn. Combined with the low molecular mixture density this really gets to a problem at idle. Running the engine at a higher operating temperature can help some but the air gap manifold is a big part of this problem and getting it to heat up to any extent is difficult as it's not intended to get warm. Here-in lies a fundamental problem; while power goes up as the induction temperature goes down, this is a situation that is dependent upon mixture velocity and turbulence to bust up liquid fuel and globules travelling on the manifold walls. For a street engine, this is a situation that is not frequently encountered so it causes operating problems. The Magnum engine's heads like those of the Vortec at GM and the GT40's at Ford were designed for operation with fuel injection which breaks up the fuel with high pressure spray from the injectors, an advantage that carburetors and throttle body injection systems don't enjoy. You may be able to overcome this problem by richening the idle mixture or choking longer, but this will tend to foul the spark plugs and wash upper cylinder lubrication from the walls, pistons and rings. Getting rid of the air gap would help as it would allow you to run a warmer mixture which would fire better due to vaporizing the fuel before it gets to the cylinder.
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The New Zealand Rugby Union has been criticised recently for taking on the French in a three-test series, rather than going to Fiji to celebrate their 100th anniversary.
NZRU general manager of strategic relationships and partnerships Nigel Cass says an alternative of sending the Maori All Blacks was proposed instead - but in November, not June, as the Fijians requested.
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What if Buehler himself said that all the jokes were worn out?
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if he kills me in the process, so be it
I gotta give it to Bob.
Funniest poster here by a country mile.
There's not even a second place.
WG and me are far too sophisticated and mature to cat fight over a man my dear. As much as I adored Woodson back in the day as a player on and off the field -- I <3 Barber and Austin.
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What a little brat, but it was good so I'll give him that.
Sure make me feel older than I already do with my 30th birthday coming up in September.
Yeah, it was a good one. They don't know that I wouldn't wish a young guy on my worst enemy.
Re: 30. No worries. You'll have even more fun in your 30s than you did in your 20s. Why? Because you'll be able to afford more stuff.
okay so i took the required photo of the big screen, my son said ya know what would be fun ? he took a picture of me i had already ran thru photo funia and put it on the biggest HDTV screen in the world....my thanks to the guy whose picture is on the small end screen. ( my son )
:laugh2: Slate posts pics of himself on here?? hahahaha I'm going to give him so much **** for this!
give it up SLATE we know it's you
your not turning 30 shush its not nice to lie it leads to more grey hairs.
and WG we know you keep the young bucks for your self
That's me in my former dorm room/prison cell. I just got out July 31st.
Holy Moly Gordons fisherman, You are the catch of the day.
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Upcoming: producer/performer, Big Dance Theater's Big Dance: Short Form at ICA/Boston; performer/rehearsal director, Phantom Limb Company's Memory Rings at BAM Next Wave (BAM Harvey, November 2016); associate choreographer, Annie-B Parson's I Used to Love You, commissioned by the Martha Graham Dance Company.
His own created performances and improvisation scoring have been supported with a residency from TOPAZ ARTS and shown at AUNTS (American Realness), THROW (The Chocolate Factory), FLICFest (Irondale Center), for Sarah Maxfield's One-Shot and In and Out of Uniform (Museum of Arts and Design and Abrons Arts Center), at 92Y Fridays at Noon, and for Movement Research at the Judson Church.
In addition to his work as a performer, he was commissioned to be a 2013-2014 Context Notes Writer for New York Live Arts, after recently completing a year as guest editor for Movement Research's Critical Correspondence, and as guest curator for One-Shot. His writing was featured in Sarah Maxfield's Nonlinear Lineage series, and has been published by The Performance Club, Culturebot, Hyperallergic, Critical Correspondence, The Brooklyn Rail, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Hartford Stage, and the BAM Next Wave Festival. He has taught movement for actors at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' Playwrights Horizons Theater School and given master classes and lectures at Keene State College, Duke University, Sarah Lawrence College, Florida State University and Emerson College.
He also has extensive experience in arts management. In 2002, he was brought on as company manager, and in 2006 named general manager, of the Mark Morris Dance Group, where he produced and collaboratively programmed all public performances of the company and its music ensemble through June 2010, including engagements at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Brooklyn Academy of Music, English National Opera and New York City Opera, in addition to annual national touring and numerous international festivals. He has since provided freelance management services for Toby Twining Music, Dance Heginbotham, Tina Satter/Half Straddle and Faye Driscoll. He currently produces projects for Beth Gill and Pam Tanowitz, and is the executive director of Big Dance Theater.
Past performances: Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival (Harvey Theater/2014, 2011), American Realness Festival (Abrons Arts Center/2015, 2013), Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, D.C.), Hartford Stage, Broad Stage (Santa Monica, CA), Museum of Contemporary Art/Chicago, Tanz im August (Berlin), Cutler Majestic Theater (Boston), Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, New York Live Arts, Walker Arts Center (Minneapolis), Paramount Theater (Boston), Theatre National de Chaillot (Paris), Les Subsistances (Lyon), Institute of Contemporary Arts/Boston, NYC River to River Festival, Joe's Pub, La Mama E.T.C., P.S. 122, Dance Theater Workshop, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, The New Museum, Dance New Amsterdam, The New York International Fringe Festival, HERE Arts Center, 92nd Street Y, Judson Church, Bard College's Summerscape Festival, The Getty Villa, and the Historic Asolo Theater (Sarasota, FL).
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Building an Internal Business Development Team
As you know, an effective business development strategy is essential to growing a small business. Yet many businesses choose to outsource this critical function, especially in the early stages. Over time, I have found several distinct advantages to building an internal business development team.
First, by bringing one or more individuals in-house to manage business development, you will have greater access to them on a regular basis. This is an important factor when it comes to communication and the ability to act quickly. Internal business development managers are ideally situated to move in step with significant business decisions such as changes in strategy, positioning, and/or marketing.
In addition, when you hire people and make them part of your team, they automatically have a more personal stake in the success of the business. To me, having someone on staff with expertise in your business area and the right attitude and motivation to propel your business forward is a key component of success.
Finally, it's important that the individuals you choose have demonstrated some flexibility and openness to change. This is especially important in young technology companies where the business can evolve quickly.
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Game-by-game look at Packers' home streak vs. Lions
Dec. 6, 1992 - Packers, 38-10
Lowdown: Packers favored by 3½ points. Flawless on offense, they gain at least 5 yards on 23 of 27 first-half snaps for 35-10 lead. Field at County Stadium covered by snow; wind chill of 5 degrees.
Lions' lament: Rodney Peete suffers memory loss after early hit and is replaced by Andre Ware, who fumbles five times. Lions fumble eight times in all (four center exchanges), most against Packers in 14 years.
Quotable: "We're on the right road. The best part about this team is its future." - Packers LB Brian Noble.
Nov. 21, 1993 - Packers, 26-17
Lowdown: Packers by 3½. Issue in doubt until LeRoy Butler's spectacular interception and 22-yard return sets up late score at County Stadium. Darrell Thompson and Edgar Bennett rush 33 times for 139 yards behind Mark Chmura's superb edge blocking. Chris Jacke boots four FGs in 27 mph wind.
Lions' lament: Peete passes for 89 net yards, then complains that no one respects Detroit despite 7-3 record. Lions are outgained, 404-205.
Quotable: "They controlled the game. They just flat-tailed beat us." - Lions coach Wayne Fontes.
Nov. 6, 1994 - Packers, 38-30
Lowdown: Packers by 5½. Green Bay leads, 31-7, midway through third quarter before 15-year veteran Dave Krieg, a native of Schofield, Wis., throws three TD passes en route to 125.2 rating. Doug Evans breaks up an end-zone pass with 36 seconds left.
Lions' lament: Scott Mitchell leaves shortly before halftime with broken navicular bone in right hand. His passer rating is 7.8. After six carries for minus-4 yards in first half, Barry Sanders finishes 15-47.
Quotable: "No disrespect to Scott, but the worst thing for us was to get Dave Krieg in there. From Pop Warner to college to the pros, there's always a psychological lull when you get ahead by a certain amount of points." - Packers DE Sean Jones.
Dec. 31, 1994 - Packers, 16-12
Lowdown: Packers by 4. NFC wild-card playoff game. Playing without WR Sterling Sharpe (neck) for the first time, the Packers never trail in wind and slop. Evans breaks up 23-yard end-zone pass at end to Herman Moore in which he was beat badly but Krieg threw way late.
Lions' lament: Sanders rushes 13 times for minus-1; Lions' rushing net of minus-4 remains NFL playoff record. In final minute, Moore ruled just beyond the end line on 17-yard TD pass.
Quotable: "It's probably the first time since I've been here that another team has just dominated our line of scrimmage. They just out-physicaled us. We never had a chance." - Lions coach Wayne Fontes.
Oct. 15, 1995 - Packers, 30-21
Lowdown: Packers by 3½. Packers put up 436 yards, including four passes of 30-plus, in first big offensive showing in post-Sharpe era. Lions never in it despite 18-124 from Sanders.
Lions' lament: Other than the first series, the Lions' defense gets run over. Brett Favre burns Lions with 120 passer rating.
Quotable: "We have more trouble against them than almost anyone in the league, including Dallas and San Francisco." - Sanders.
Nov. 3, 1996 - Packers, 28-18
Lowdown: Packers by 12. Favre is brilliant with four TD passes, prompting GM Ron Wolf to say: "He's clearly the best player in the league. What the hell are you going to do?" WR Terry Mickens has greatest day (7-152).
Lions' lament: Former Packer Don Majkowski has to start when Mitchell hurts his ribs in practice 72 hours before kickoff. He is sacked five times and throws a flock of wounded ducks. To no avail, Sanders finishes 20-152.
Quotable: "They really feel like they can't be beat here (Lambeau Field)." - Packers coach Mike Holmgren.
Nov. 2, 1997 - Packers, 20-10
Lowdown: Packers by 10. Rookie Darren Sharper, playing his first game in the dime defense, grabs one of Mitchell's four interceptions and streaks 50 yards for TD. Packers limited to 11 first downs, 244 yards. 20th straight victory at Lambeau Field, a scene described by Patriots scout Joe Mendes afterward as "reeking of the old Celtics. It's the utmost compliment you can give an organization."
Lions' lament: Mitchell, in typical panic mode in pocket, drags down terrific effort by his defense. Segment of Lambeau crowd serenades Detroit in this Sunday nighter to the tune of the Tokens' "The Lion Sleeps Tonight."
Quotable: "I think our fan support is as good as you can have. This is a very intimidating place to play. The noise level is a factor." - Wolf.
Sept. 6, 1998 - Packers, 38-19
Lowdown: Packers by 9. Favre hits 12 of 13 for 186 yards and two TDs on third down, and Lions coach Bobby Ross says: "He might be the greatest that's ever played the game."
Lions' lament: Mitchell is stripped by LB Brian Williams on failed fourth-and-1 sneak and Butler returns it 32 yards for TD, setting the tone early. Says DT Luther Elliss: "We're tired of being the same old Detroit Lions. We're not the same old Detroit Lions."
Quotable: "Don't give too much credit to the stadium. You put Brett Favre in any other stadium in the country and the results would be the same. The true advantage is him." - Lions D-coordinator Larry Peccatiello.
Nov. 21, 1999 - Packers, 26-17
Lowdown: Packers by 5. Battling his lingering right thumb injury, Favre has rough day overall but makes enough plays mainly at the expense of CB Terry Fair. Dorsey Levens rushes 23 times for just 47 yards.
Lions' lament: Behind retread QB Gus Frerotte, Lions squander 17-12 halftime lead. Favre takes taunting penalty with late throat-slash gesture toward Lions that he says they sent his way two months earlier at the Silverdome.
Quotable: "Today, Favre wasn't horrible. I thought he was pretty damn good. Sure, they've lost some games (5-5), but as long as the quarterback is there . . . " - Lions VP Ron Hughes.
Dec. 10, 2000 - Packers, 26-13
Lowdown: Packers by 4. Ahman Green rushes 27 times for 118 yards, scoring two fourth-quarter TDs to decide tight struggle. Favre, Charlie Batch battle high winds, temps in teens at end. About 15 of Favre's 21 incompletions flutter far off-target.
Lions' lament: Detroit turns it over five times, and Batch's passer rating is 31.1.
Quotable: "I do think there's a mystique about Lambeau Field and the cold weather and when it starts to snow. Other people have bought into that when they come in here. I'll play twice a week if we can play here in December." - Packers coach Mike Sherman.
Sept. 9, 2001 - Packers, 28-6
Lowdown: Packers by 7. Green (17-157), Favre (129.2) lead magnificent opening-day effort in the rain. Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila, Jim Flanigan and Vonnie Holliday combine for seven sacks of Batch.
Lions' lament: Detroit plays without four of its top five DBs. First-year GM Matt Millen in process of cleaning house.
Quotable: "We did nothing. But it's not where you start but where you finish." - Lions coach Marty Mornhinweg.
Nov. 10, 2002 - Packers, 40-14
Lowdown: Packers by 10. Donald Driver, Terry Glenn and Javon Walker combine to catch 16 balls for 262 yards in 503-yard outburst against makeshift secondary. Defense shuts out WR Bill Schroeder, who drops three and catches none in return to state.
Lions' lament: Mornhinweg goes for it on fourth and 1 at own 35, but rookie QB Joey Harrington is stuffed by MLB Hardy Nickerson. Says Harrington: "How many teams are going to walk out of here and lose, 60-7? Not us. We came in and played hard."
Quotable: "Green Bay put a football clinic on our butt today. Period. They're a fine, fine football team . . . but things change fast in this league." - Mornhinweg.
Sept. 14, 2003 - Packers, 31-6
Lowdown: Packers by 7. Three inches of rain falls in 48 hours before kickoff. Favre gives rare and fiery pregame speech one week after home-opening loss to Vikings. Green's 23-carry, 160-yard day spearheads 200-yard rushing afternoon.
Lions' lament: Harrington fires 55 times, passer rating of 37.
Quotable: "This is what we want to do. Every time they called a run we had a little extra spring in our step." - Packers G Mike Wahle.
Dec. 12, 2004 - Packers, 16-13
Lowdown: Packers by 9. Ryan Longwell's 23-yard FG with :02 left wins it. Al Harris shadows WR Roy Williams, taking him right out of the game. Wind gusts to 43 mph make passing hazardous. Favre improves to 38-1 in 34 degrees and below.
Lions' lament: Rookie Kevin Jones rushes 33 times for 156 despite consistent eight-man boxes. Harrington finishes five for 22; fewest completions against Packers in 26 years. Lions lead at the half, 13-0. Detroit drops five passes.
Quotable: "If they were in a dome, do you think they were going to drop it? Probably not." - Packers S Bhawoh Jue.
Dec. 11, 2005 - Packers, 16-13 (OT)
Lowdown: Packers by 6½. Sunday night, 14 degrees. Green Bay (2-10) trails, 13-3, at halftime but rallies behind RB Samkon Gado (29-171). From the Packers 1-foot line in fourth quarter, Gado flips the ball forward to avert safety as he's being tackled by MLB Earl Holmes. It's ruled an incomplete pass after replay review because he's outside tackle box. Longwell's 28-yard FG wins in OT after Packers capture coin toss.
Lions' lament: Lions drive almost length of field with score tied, 13-13. From the 4, Artose Pinner rushes three times for 3 yards. After a timeout, QB Jeff Garcia's sneak is repulsed by NT Grady Jackson and others.
Quotable: "We won a ball game tonight. That's about as far as it goes. These are our playoff games." - Sherman.
Dec. 17, 2006 - Packers, 17-9
Lowdown: Packers by 6. Cullen Jenkins registers three of six sacks against Jon Kitna, covering for sluggish offense. Favre's rating is 32.9, Green held to 79 in 22 carries.
Lions' lament: Detroit minus eight starters, down to No. 4 RB Arien Harris (9-18). Packers turn it over four times. Williams shut down once again by Al Harris.
Quotable: "The bottom line is we were lucky to win. I stand humbled before you as I am today. I can't even believe we're mentioning playoffs." - Favre.
Dec. 30, 2007 - Packers, 34-13
Lowdown: Packers by 3½. Locked in as the No. 2 seed, Mike McCarthy rests six starters and replaces Favre with Craig Nall after 21 snaps. Brandon Jackson has best game (20-113). Green Bay rolls early.
Lions' lament: T.J. Duckett (13-29) leads lifeless ground game in Mike Martz' finale as O-coordinator.
Quotable: "I think the Lions played as hard as they could trying to win it. But I think early we took away their competitive will." - Packers LB Brady Poppinga.
Dec. 28, 2008 - Packers, 31-21
Lowdown: Packers by 11. There are about 5,000 no-shows in 22 degrees to see Lions finish as first 0-16 team. After WR John Standeford burns Al Harris twice for 71 yards, the Packers' lead is just 3 points with 7½ minutes left. On next play, Aaron Rodgers hit Donald Driver for 71-yard TD.
Lions' lament: QB Dan Orlovsky finishes with 64.1 rating. CB Leigh Bodden is burned by Driver.
Quotable: "I felt they gave it their best. I felt I gave it my best, but sometimes your best isn't good enough." - Lions coach Rod Marinelli.
Oct. 18, 2009 - Packers, 26-0
Lowdown: Packers by 14. Rodgers (113.7) picks apart eight- and nine-man boxes in 435-yard offensive outburst.
Lions' lament: Detroit without seven starters, including QB Matthew Stafford and WR Calvin Johnson. Lions finish 0 for 10 on third down, gain 149 yards and turn it over three times. QB Daunte Culpepper bows out in third quarter with hamstring injury and is replaced by Drew Stanton.
Quotable: "I'll tell you one thing. Before this game, they looked like they were getting better." - Packers LB Brandon Chillar.
Oct. 3, 2010 - Packers, 28-26
Lowdown: Packers by 14½. Charles Woodson's 48-yard TD return of Shaun Hill's interception early in third quarter stands as winning points. Woodson stops Lions' late upset bid with three great plays in a row. John Kuhn (7-34) plunges away as Green Bay drains last 6:32 off clock.
Lions' lament: Lions outgained Packers, 431-261, running 78 plays to 40.
Quotable: "Vastly improved. They're a team on the rise." - Poppinga.
Jan. 1, 2012 - Packers, 45-41
Lowdown: Lions by 6½. Both teams already in playoffs, but Lions motivated to seek No. 5 seeding and oddsmakers paid heed. McCarthy rests Rodgers, Woodson, Clay Matthews, among others. Matt Flynn (136.4) ends record-setting day with 4-yard TD pass to Jermichael Finley to win it in final minute.
Lions' lament: Lead changes hands 11 times. Stafford (520), Johnson (244) set all-time opponents' records against Green Bay. Stafford is picked by Sam Shields to end it.
Quotable: "Next week we play Drew Brees, a top-three quarterback. Matt Flynn played like a top-three quarterback in the league today." - Lions CB Alphonso Smith.
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Chicago: Kith & Kin
"I was born and raised in Queens, in New York City; I was as far from being Southern as you could be," chef David Carrier says. But after cooking at Trio outside Chicago (another far cry from the South), Carrier moved down to the Florida panhandle and immersed himself in the region's food. Kith & Kin's menu isn't strictly Southern, but there are a fair number of Southern dishes, like a wonderful pimento cheese. As for the shrimp with okra, confited veal heart and orzo, "It looks like jambalaya, but it's not," Carrier says. "I love good Cajun food, but it's not my thing."
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American Airlines announced a record-setting order for new aircraft today, and it shows where the airline industry is headed.
The Dallas-based company will buy 460 planes from Airbus and Boeing, with options for another 465. The massive order comes as airlines rush to reduce operating costs by replacing their aging fleets with new, more fuel-efficient aircraft. The order brought with it an announcement from Boeing on the fate of the 737, which will be updated and not replaced.
With the current state of the economy and many airlines still counting pennies, the giant order has raised questions in some quarters. But airline analyst Richard Aboulafia says it's all about the race toward efficiency.
"It's fundamentally a defensive move," he says. "Everybody is looking for a hedge against expensive fuel."
In the world of single aisle, narrow body airliners, that hedge comes from new, fuel-efficient engines.
New engine designs and technology are driving the efficiency push we're seeing from Boeing and Airbus. We're also seeing improvements in the airframes, including weight reduction and aerodynamic improvements. Both companies claim efficiency improvements of around 15 percent for the newest narrow body models expected to fly within the next several years.
The technology is available to dramatically cut fuel costs with re-engined airplanes compared to the airplanes in many fleets that have been flying 20 years or more. This gives the industry the motivation to purchase new airplanes, says Aboulafia. The key is there is money available to buy the jets — more than $20 billion in the case of the American deal.
"You've got access to jet finance coupled with high fuel prices," " Aboulafia says, "and that shifted the cost burden away from capital costs and towards operating costs."
Airbus appears to be the winner in the American Airlines order with 260 airplanes. It begins with current A320 series airplanes in 2013 and 130 orders for the new A320neo (new engine option) beginning in 2017. The A320neo was the big hit of the Paris Air Show last month. American placed options to purchase another 365 airplanes from the European company.
On the Boeing side, the order includes 200 airplanes. Half will be from the existing lineup of 737s known as the 737NG (Next Generation). But the big news was Boeing's announcement that it will not replace the 737 with a new model, but instead re-engine the current 737 and make improvements to the airframe. This is similar to what Airbus did with the A320neo. There's no word on the new name for the improved 737. May we suggest Next Next Generation, or NGSquared?
Boeing CEO Jim Albaugh says the decision was driven largely by the need to have airplanes available sooner rather than later.
"Our customers wanted more efficiency now and certainty of delivery," he said.
American placed options to buy an additional 100 airplanes from Boeing's 737 family in the announcement today.
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