[FOX] Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star who was convicted of murder in 2015, killed himself in his prison cell Wednesday morning, officials said.
Hernandez, 27, was found hanging in his cell by corrections officers around 3:05 a.m. at the Souza Baranowski Correctional Center, Massachusetts Department of Correction officials said in a statement.
He was pronounced dead an hour later.
Hernandez was in a single cell in a general population housing unit and hanged himself with a bed sheet attached to his cell window. He also tried blocking his door from the inside with various items, officials said.
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On the bright side, with credit for time served, his 'life sentence' was reduced just over two years and Massachusetts tax payers finally catch a break.
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One assumes he didn't tie the proper neck-breaking knot, and did not have a long enough drop to break it anyway. An unpleasant way to die, and one he likely deeply regretted partway through.
I'm not familiar with the case -- was it really murder, or would it have been called manslaughter had he not been famous?
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What I don't understand is the suicide after he was acquitted recently in a different case. Did he think he'd be released from the first sentence or something? Did someone say something to him and really amp up the guilt?
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The guy he went to prison for murdering, he murdered because he thought the guy was going to snitch.
He was just acquitted in the double murder case that he committed the murder to avoid. So I'm sure it was the horrible irony that made him lose hope and end his life.
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Herb McCoy7309, except the snitch might have changed the course of the recent trial so its not really all that ironic.
The F-35 Joint Strike Figher represents the US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps' vision for the future of combat aviation, but a damning 2015 report detailed how the F-35 had lost in dogfights with F-16s and F-15s -- the very planes it was intended to replace.
Essentially it came down to energy management in the early days of the F-35's testing, according to the report.
During a dogfight, jets have to manage extreme amounts of kinetic energy while making pinpoint turns and maneuvers.
With smaller wings than some legacy fighters and an inferior thrust-to-weight ratio, the early F-35 pilots found it nearly impossible to engage with F-16s.
The report has since become a talking point for detractors of the F-35 program who say it's too expensive and not capable.
But according to retired US Marine Corps Maj. Dan Flatley, who helped design the training syllabus for F-35 dogfights, the F-35's lackluster performance against legacy jets had more to do with old habits of the pilots and a weapons system in its infancy rather than anything wrong with the F-35 concept itself.
"When you first get in the F-35 and try to fight it visually, you immediately go back to everything you knew in your legacy fighter," Flatley told Business Insider in a phone interview.
Indeed, the same report that details the F-35's losses to older jets states that the pilot himself had 2,000 flight hours in an F-15 Strike Eagle, which is a very different beast.
"If you try to fight it like a fighter it isn’t, you’re going to have terrible results," Flatley said of the F-35. Like any new weapons system, the F-35 takes some getting used to. In 2015, F-35 pilots were pulled from other fighters and introduced to a plane that fundamentally reimagined aerial warfare. A learning curve had to be covered.
Unlike dogfighters from World War II, the F-35 mainly focuses on flying undetected while using its array of fused sensors to paint a clear picture of the threat environment for miles out and to engage with targets before they're ever seen.
As exciting as dogfights are, it's been decades since a US jet engaged an enemy in a turning dogfight, and the F-35's design reflects that new reality.
"If I went out and fought an F/A-18 on day one I’d get destroyed," said Flatley. "But if you do what the jet is really good at, you can do things those other jets wouldn’t dream of."
Flatley stressed that dogfighting, where the close range diminishes the F-35's stealth and sensor fusion advantages, is certainly not the purpose of the Joint Strike Fighter, but rather it can excel in those situations in the right hands.
That's not to say the F-35 was a perfect aircraft that was simply misunderstood in 2015. Flatley said he did approach Lockheed Martin to suggest changes to the jet after its poor run against legacy aircraft.
One attribute the F-35 has that, counterintuitively, helps it in dogfights is its ability to slow down during a turn, but it was during these slow turns that pilots weren't able to control the plane how they were used to.
Basically, the engineers at Lockheed Martin built the F-35's flight controls with an incredible amount of automation, which Flatley said could make the jet "feel like it was fighting you," or "feel like the hand of god pushing you in certain directions."
Flatley and other F-35 pilots needed the ability to push their airplane right to the edge of its abilities -- almost to the point where it would fall out of the sky because it hit slow speeds at insane angles -- should they need to in a do-or-die dogfight.
"You guys are hand-holding us," Flatley told the engineers, who hadn't imagined the fighter pilot's need to push the limits of their aircraft.
"We want more authority. I want to be able to throw my nose around if I need to," said Flatley, referring to the plane's ability to point its front end at threats in order to better assess and target them.
So Lockheed Martin worked with the pilots and fixed the issues keeping them from acing dogfights, as they do now.
Since that test, the F-35's record speaks for itself. During Red Flag, the US Air Force's most realistic and challenging jet-fighter training event, the F-35 came out with a stunning 20-1 kill ratio on the legacy aircraft that had once beaten it.
Flatly, who came from an F/A-18 background, said he had to shake the old habits he formed in an aircraft that was originally conceptualized in the 1970s, but young pilots training today won't have those problems and could revolutionize the way the F-35 fights.
"The next generation, the first lieutenants that have never flown an F-18 before, those are the pilots that are going to define what the F-35 is going to do," said Flatley.
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During a dogfight, jets have to manage extreme amounts of kinetic energy... --Col. Boyd's Energy–maneuverability theory, yes. In WW2 the US pilots to dive, shoot n' disengage against the Zero ... or die.
The thing that bothers me is that the battlefield is not a dueling arena. Suppose your super-stealthy F-35 gets spotted by an enemy that wanders into the battlespace while you are trying to ace your opponent?
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"The next generation, the first lieutenants that have never flown an F-18 before, those are the pilots that are going to define what the F-35 is going to do,"
Yea, die! The first rule of air combat is to survive!
Really, go so slow in a turn, that makes them sitting ducks for any propeller war planes. The Japanese Zeros (Mitsubishi A6M) was almost unbeatable in WW2 until we finally got airplanes that can out-maneuver the Zeros. Point is the more maneuverable aircraft will almost always win, the F-35 "flying Turkey" ain't it.
Sorry Major Dan Flatley, I don't buy your explainion, it frankly smell of BS.
During a dogfight, jets have to manage extreme amounts of kinetic energy while making pinpoint turns and maneuvers.
Seriously, how does one manage kinetic energy other than throwing parts overboard? I'm thinking the guy does not understand mass as well as he think he does. Last time I checked, the laws of physics has yet to be overturned.
As exciting as dogfights are, it's been decades since a US jet engaged an enemy in a turning dogfight, and the F-35's design reflects that new reality.
Winning a dogfight is mostly being able to outturn your enemy. It's been a while since we were in any kind of dogfight. "New reality"? Anyone remember the F-111?
This article is IMO, a pathetic attempt to justify the F-35. I would have scrapped this designs after the first few prototypes. Copying the SR-71 look for the "cool" and "wow" factors does not make a decent fighter plane.
Wind energy at its finest. We're not in Kansas, anymore, Toto.
[MNN] In the 1980s, a project in Spain used the sun to warm air near the ground and then funneled up to a turbine to create energy. While solar chimneys have been around for centuries, working on a scale capable of meeting larger power needs would require an incredibly tall chimney. But tornadoes are nature's chimneys in a way, so why build a chimney when you can just make a tornado?
One way to make a big vortex is power plants. Power plants generate a great deal of heat waste already, so why not harness that waste to create a tornado that will turn some turbines?
An AVE would gather up all that heat waste and use it to maintain the vortex. The inventor said this process could "increase output [of the power plant] by 10 to 20 percent, without using any additional fuel." If you're wondering how big this tornado created by a power plant would be, the answer is about 9 miles high. Most tornadoes only clock in about 5.6 miles. Oh. A man-made 'tornado'.
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Plus, no gerbils would be wormed in the creation of the Giant Spanish Suck.
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And how do they keep a nine miles high tornado in place? What are the environmental costs? Once the tornado is 'running' how do they keep the sun shining on the cylinder?
Too many things wrong with this concept, I'm thinking this is just a money trap designed to get as much money as possible with little or no return.
The New York Times bemoans Trump’s "recklessness." Ishaan Tharoor, a Washington Post blogger with the modest remit of covering the entire world, warns of the "dangers" of Trump’s policies. Even Ian Buruma, an expert on Dutch politics most famous for his bizarre attacks on the exceptionally brave Ayaan Hirsi Ali, has weighed in on Trump’s approach to North Korea: Apparently it "plays into North Korea’s hands."
And yet, the Trump approach is receiving plaudits precisely where it matters most: in South Korea.
South Korea, perhaps because its population is among the world’s oldest, remains a country dominated by print newspapers, which are highly influential. An official affiliated with the country’s dominant conservative party estimates to me that more than half of Koreans still read a daily newspaper. And those newspapers’ editorial boards have praised Trump’s North Korea policy.
The team of Trump, Tillerson, and Mattis have found in just weeks a policy that puts Pyongyang on notice, moves China closer to becoming a responsible player, but hasn’t pushed Seoul any closer to total political chaos.
After three Administrations worth of can-kicking, that’s not bad.
[Reddit] The troubling implications of the conflict in Berkley today.
I have seen quite a bit of media that has come out of Berkeley today, including watching some of a live stream, and it is very troubling.
The right was able to hold their own to a large degree against antifascists, in one of the most radical metropolitan areas in the country. They gave as good as they got, and they were able to keep a presence in the streets for hours.
Everything that we have vocalized about the Trump presidency, that it has mobilized racists and fascists, that it emboldens them, that it allows them to present their bigotry as simply another political opinion, is coming true.
In the aftermath of this event, It is time for some serious reflection. Now is not the time to sugar coat the truth, to revel in the feeling of success of a clean punch to a Nazi's face, but rather to take a step back and ask what organizational steps can take place to stop this from happening again. What tactics can we use to disrupt their events, even when there are similar numbers to our own? What differences must we put down, and alliances we need to create, in the resistance to fascism?
My thoughts are with our comrades in the Bay who were injured today. The highest level of respect to you.
Bash the Fash.
Now more than ever.
Response from one commenter:
There's nothing at stake for antifa besides their social media profiles. No one getting hauled into prison camps, no rights being infringed for them, the 'nazi' are just pretend nazis, the little rebel costumes and all that shit don't hide what everyone knows they are. They're kids, mostly weak, many female, college drop outs, many paid or doing it for college credit. You can hope for better outcomes but you can't change the fact that under it all there is no compelling message besides 'take selfies, wreck stuff'. The other side has their freedom to fight for and many of them have had years of military training to do just that.
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Hold their own? Hell, they cleaned the streets faster than a SWAT riot team. Stayed together, cooperated, grabbed antifa leaders and beat them for a few seconds then sent them on their way bloody way, and the rest of the idiots fled.
Expect more weapons to be brought in though and things to grow more violent.
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This could get really nasty. I've seen a story about the "anti-"fascists lining up knives to take and use in a scrum, the little folding ones the size of a credit card.
Now I know that the good guys will go "that's not a knife..." but then someone will go for a gun and...........
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About those little knives, AlanC -- Rantburg has the story here.
Reading the comments at the link is interesting. One hopes the anti-Antifa crowd lurk there and similar open source sites regularly as part of their observation step.
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Yeah TW that's where I read the story but my befuddled old brain couldn't remember where I'd seen it. Heck it was probably an hour or so had passed.
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If they were smart (/sarc) the antifast would ignore the 'Nazi's'. The media would certainly help them in that regard. The Berkeley police might even help in making it difficult for certain groups to get permits and such.
By going for direct confrontation they raise the visibility of the 'Nazi's' as well as expose how vile they are themselves.
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I remember seeing history documentaries showing B&W newsreels footage of the Spartacists vs. Freikorps riots in Wiemar Germany. Most of these clueless fools have no idea the havoc they are unleashing.
[Breitbart] It was a photo finish in the "jungle primary" special election in Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District on Tuesday to select a replacement for Rep. Tom Price (R-GA), punctuated by unusual technical reporting delays from Fulton County, the largest county in the district.
In the early hours of Wednesday morning, thirty-year-old Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff fell just short of the 50-percent-plus-one vote total he needed to avoid a June runoff with the GOP’s Karen Handel, the former Georgia Secretary of State who finished in a distant second.
CNN declared the race a runoff between Ossoff and Handel shortly after midnight.
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I like the headline over at Politico: Democrats begin to wonder:
When do we win? For all the roiling anger and energy at the grass roots, the party still fell short in Georgia and Kansas. And Democratic prospects in upcoming elections aren't promising.
The leader of California separatist group Yes California announced in a 1,600-word statement on Monday that he "intends to make Russia" his "new home" and is therefore withdrawing his petition for a "Calexit" referendum. Great. Now Dems have something they can investigate for real. I'm sure they'll get right on it.
Louis Marinelli, who has spearheaded the Calexit campaign since 2015, set up a makeshift embassy in Moscow in December in partnership with far-right Russian nationalists who enjoy Kremlin support while promoting secessionist movements in Europe.
"I have found in Russia a new happiness, a life without the albatross of frustration and resentment towards ones’ homeland, and a future detached from the partisan divisions and animosity that has thus far engulfed my entire adult life," Marinelli wrote on Monday. "Consequently, if the people of Russia would be so kind as to welcome me here on a permanent basis, I intend to make Russia my new home." Is this a fancy way of saying he found a Russian girlfriend?
He added that he will "not return to California in the forseeable future," so "it is only proper" that he withdraw the Calexit ballot initiative petition and "allow a new petition, free from ties to me and drafted by others, to be resubmitted at future date of their choosing." Since you're probablynot returning, you'll want to revoke your US citizenship so you won't have to pay double taxes.
Marinelli had been organizing the California independence referendum from Russia's fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, where he has lived with his wife, Anastasia, since September. Oops, I guess it wasn't a girlfriend thing. The wife was homesick and the commute to work was a bi+ch.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FOX] Aaron Hernandez, the former New England Patriots star who was convicted of murder in 2015, killed himself in his prison cell Wednesday morning, officials said.
The F-35 Joint Strike Figher represents the US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps' vision for the future of combat aviation, but a damning 2015 report detailed how the F-35 had lost in dogfights with F-16s and F-15s -- the very planes it was intended to replace.
[Reddit] The troubling implications of the conflict in Berkley today.
The leader of California separatist group Yes California announced in a 1,600-word statement on Monday that he "intends to make Russia" his "new home" and is therefore withdrawing his petition for a "Calexit" referendum.
