Gisele Bundchen

[BagOuttaHell]

Has there been an abundance of pics? I only see this set. They look regular IMO. I never believed this so called deflate gate would be their demise. If so, then they didn't have much to begin with.

 

[bag-mania]

Is it possible there is a new scandal already? Last night the Steelers headsets were not working properly during the first half of the game. Instead of hearing each other, all they heard was the Patriots radio broadcast. One thing about having a reputation for cheating, every time something weird happens everyone is going to be giving the Patriots the side eye.

What Exactly Happened With The Steelers' Headsets?

The Pittsburgh Steelers struggled with communication problems in the first half of their 28-21 loss at New England Thursday night, with their coach-to-coach headset system echoing the Patriots’ radio broadcast for most of the first half. Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin told reporters of the headset issues after the game “that’s always the case [here].” So what exactly happened, and are the Patriots to blame?

The NFL described the headset problem as “intermittent,” and elected not to shut down the Patriots’ system in return as would normally be required under the NFL’s “Equity Rule.” The NFL’s Gameday Policy Manual describes this process as follows:

System Malfunction – If the entire coaching staff of a club cannot communicate from the bench area to the coaches’ booth or vice versa, the technician or a representative from the affected club should notify the nearest game official or League representative immediately. Upon confirmation, the game official or League representative will instruct the opposing club’s coaching staff to relinquish its use of the beltpacks and headsets on the field and in the coaches’ booth to the technicians until communication is restored to the affected club.

NBC’s Michele Tafoya, confusingly, reported from the sidelines during the second quarter that the Patriots’ headsets were, indeed, shut off—contrary to what the NFL claims. (The Steelers, reportedly, are planning to file a complaint with the NFL.) Here’s how the Pittsburgh Steelers’ official website described tonight’s headset issues (emphasis mine):

The broadcast was so loud that the Steelers coaches were unable to communicate, and the NFL rule is that if one team’s headsets are not working the other team is supposed to be forced to take their headsets off. It’s what the NFL calls the Equity Rule. Strangely enough, whenever an NFL representative proceeded to the New England sideline to shut down their headsets, the Steelers headsets cleared. Then as the representative walked away from the New England sideline, the Steelers’ headsets again started to receive the Patriots game broadcast.

NFL spokesperson Michael Signora issued the following statement, in which he claims the NFL supplies the coaches’ communications equipment—and that, contrary to Tomlin’s claims, the problems didn’t last the whole first half:

In the first quarter of tonight’s game, the Pittsburgh coaches experienced interference in their headsets caused by a stadium power infrastructure issue, which was exacerbated by the inclement weather. The coaches’ communications equipment, including the headsets, is provided by the NFL for both clubs use on game day. Once the power issue was addressed, the equipment functioned properly with no additional issues.

This 2014 NFL.com article seems to dispute that the NFL provides clubs’ headsets to them on game day:

This year, Bose shipped about 50 headsets to each stadium, for use by coaches on the sideline and in the booth, medical and officiating personnel. Teams travel with their own headsets in a special case and many coaches, creatures of habit and superstition, have taken to labeling their headset, particularly if their teams win when they wear a specific one. [...] The NFL mandates that every coach have exactly the same headset, and that any modification be made available to all teams so that no competitive advantage can be gained.

In fact, the NFL’s own Gameday Policy Manual states:

Home clubs are responsible for the installation and maintenance of the coaching staff communications infrastructure.

It further explains that the visiting coaches on the sideline may use their own headsets, but those used by visiting coaches in the coaches’ booth are supplied by the home team.

As Tomlin implied, this is far from the first time opponents facing the Patriots have raised questions about headset issues.

2006: Patriots security staff audio interferes with the Jaguars’ coach-to-QB communication system at “crucial moments” during a playoff game. The Lions and the Bengals also reported their coaches’ headsets stopped working during games at New England.
2007: The Patriots are investigated for using unapproved communication frequencies to interfere with the New York Jets’ headset system.
2008: Karlos Dansby accuses the Patriots of tampering with the Cardinals’ headset system.
2011: Jack Del Rio has his Jaguars team practice without headset communications, as “that tends to happen in New England.”

Reports emerged while the game was still ongoing that pointed to a “grounding issue.” That makes sense when considering the NFL’s “power infrastructure” statement, but it doesn’t make sense given what we know about the NFL’s wireless communication technology.

The NFL switched to using Bose noise-reducing headsets for coaches when that company paid to be an official league sponsor in August, 2014; this Patriots.com article suggests the communication system runs on Microsoft software—presumably since that company became the league’s official technology sponsor in 2013. The league had previously switched to using digital, not analog, communications tech in 2012. This NFL Ops blog post suggests that the league deals with severe bandwidth issues on game days, even employing radio-frequency traffic cops to manage and ban intruders who might interfere with crucial coach-to-coach or coach-to-player links. (The NFL has pled to the FCC on multiple occasions for protection of existing channels for wireless audio communications.) And the NFL also claims it has 268 million military-grade encryption codes to secure all these communication channels.

Which brings us back to Thursday night, and asking how a deciphered audio intrusion entered what is allegedly an encrypted, digital system. After all, the power/grounding issues the NFL blames for the problem should and could not exist in an “all-digital system.” A signal intrusion due to grounding or electrical problems could, by definition, only exist with analog audio.

But the NFL’s communication system isn’t, entirely, digital.

Assume the Gillette Stadium visitors’ coaching booth utilizes an analog headset amplifier—commonly called a Telex box, after the best known manufacturer of them—and that Telex box suffered from either faulty construction or poor electrical grounding in the booth. The Patriots’ radio booth too featured a mixer or other device with faulty construction (or the booth was improperly grounded). That would provide a path for the radio audio to get into the Telex box, and thus into the Steelers’ communication system. That’s the simplest explanation, albeit the one that implicates the Patriots (or their electricians) as possibly exposing people to millions of volts of electricity in the circumstance of a lightning strike or power surge.

Except! The NFL’s Gameday Policy Manual also mandates each coaches’ booth be powered by a separate, secured, 10 amp electrical circuit with isolated ground and a circuit breaker. (The same goes for the sideline-located wireless base stations.) We’re not sure how to reconcile the NFL’s explanation with their own requirements, unless the Patriots specifically have a noncompliant visitors’ coaching booth. And that’s before we bring up the electrical safety issues.

The wireless audio issues aside, the NFL also requires six wired intercom lines run between each coaches’ booth and the field. These lines are to be unspliced, secured, and exist specifically in the case of wireless headset failure. No reports from tonight indicate these were used, or if they too suffered from the signal intrusion.

But the improperly grounded Telex box is the only scenario I can come up with that takes the NFL at its word with regard to how their comms systems work and what went wrong Thursday night. If you’re inclined to suspect both the Patriots and/or the league are less than honest—which is entirely reasonable!—then the answers remain more mysterious, and perhaps more sinister.

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[boxermom]

^Visiting teams have complained about this for years. They expect it to happen, especially on crucial plays.

I read the ESPN report and it was almost comical the lengths Belicheck will go to gain an edge on opponents. Going into the visitor locker room to look for info on game plans; searching the visiting team's hotel rooms for any info they can find. And of course, placing people with cameras in a position to photograph their play calling charts. They seem to believe an even playing field isn't good enough for them. They need to find every advantage, even if it's illegal.

It would be funny except it possibly cheats other teams and players out of a game, a playoff win or even a Super Bowl. I don't argue that Brady is excellent and Belichek is a smart coach, but play by the rules.

 

[CuTe_ClAsSy]

^^ I've heard some teams have even started leaving fake trails for him. It really would be hysterical if it weren't so terrible.
I think a lot of people would argue it directly cost several teams trips to the super bowl. Some people are still mad they didn't take their super bowl title away after they got cheating in the AFC championship game.
At this point I'm just tired of hearing about it. We all know we don't have to hear about it all season. But I understand why they keep bringing it up because it is a huge issue that the league should do a better job addressing.

 

[Sasha2012]

Zimbio

New England Patriots game vs Pittsburgh Steelers at Gillette Stadium on September 10, 2015 in Foxboro, Massachusetts.

 

[bag-mania]

What's up with Gisele's neck in this photo? It looks like she's got a big flap of skin folding over.

 

[redney]

brady is a douche.

 

[Luvbolide]

^Visiting teams have complained about this for years. They expect it to happen, especially on crucial plays.

I read the ESPN report and it was almost comical the lengths Belicheck will go to gain an edge on opponents. Going into the visitor locker room to look for info on game plans; searching the visiting team's hotel rooms for any info they can find. And of course, placing people with cameras in a position to photograph their play calling charts. They seem to believe an even playing field isn't good enough for them. They need to find every advantage, even if it's illegal.

It would be funny except it possibly cheats other teams and players out of a game, a playoff win or even a Super Bowl. I don't argue that Brady is excellent and Belichek is a smart coach, but play by the rules.

Wow - I must admit that I don't pay any attention to the Pats most of the time. I had no idea that so many allegations were being made. I suspect that Brady's talent is such that game outcomes were not affected, but the taint of cheating like this will never wash off.

It also makes me wonder what, if anything, the NFL has done to investigate such allegations.

Ugh...

 

[ByeKitty]

What's up with Gisele's neck in this photo? It looks like she's got a big flap of skin folding over.

That's the little bone-ish thing that sometimes sticks out when you tilt your head and/or open your mouth...

 

[boxermom]

That's the little bone-ish thing that sometimes sticks out when you tilt your head and/or open your mouth...

It's a tendon, isn't it? It's more apparent in some people than others. She's tall and thin so it shows more.

 

[Swanky]

Mine shows too when I smile, sometimes it makes me look thin, sometimes I feel like it makes me look old.

 

[tanya devi]

It's her sternocleidomastoid muscle. It's engaged because she is turning her head slightly.

 

[boxermom]

It's her sternocleidomastoid muscle. It's engaged because she is turning her head slightly.

Yikes! I wouldn't even know how to pronounce that!

Thanks.

 

[Sweetpea83]

That's the little bone-ish thing that sometimes sticks out when you tilt your head and/or open your mouth...

Yep. Happens to me when I pose like that, lol..

 

[Swanky]

Would you pay $700 for a book about Gisele Bundchen? Supermodel is set to release very a pricey publication featuring nude portraits of herself

• The Brazilian beauty, 35, will debut a limited edition coffee table book featuring 300 photos in November
• Some nude shots, such as her famous portrait by photographer Irving Penn, will be included in the publication
• Gisele will also share her own personal thoughts and anecdotes in the expensive book

Now this might seem over-the-top for even the most extreme Gisele Bundchen fan.
The 35-year-old Brazilian supermodel is releasing a book about herself, featuring 300 modelling photos - including some nudes - and selling it for a whopping $700 per copy.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her career, the German publishing company Taschen has put together the limited edition coffee table book, which is set to debut in November.

Pricey literature: Gisele Bundchen, 35, is set to release a $700 book featuring 300 photos of herself in November; here is a look at the cover, which DailyMail.com had to partially cover

She likes to show off what she's got: Bundchen walks the runway during the Hope Valentine Day Special Collection Launch Fashion Show in Brazil in 2011

Model behavior: The Brazilian supermodel will personally sign each of the 1,000 copies of the limited edition book. The publication will include nude shots of Gisele from Irving Penn and other famous photographers

Only 1,000 copies of the 11 x 15.4 hard cover book will be released, and Gisele will personally autograph each individual copy.
Gisele, who recently topped Forbes' list of highest-paid supermodels for the ninth year in a row, has 'personally designed and curated' the book in collaboration with Brazilian-Italian creative director Giovanni Bianco, who has also worked with Madonna and Versace.
In a statement announcing the book, Taschen said the photos will be 'accompanied by tributes from Gisele’s closest friends, family, and fashion leaders, who shed light on how and why she has become one of the greatest models of all time.'

Strike a pose: Gisele, who recently topped Forbes' list of highest-paid models for the ninth year in a row, has personally designed and curated the book with Brazilian-Italian creative director Giovanni Bianco

Modelling veteran: The German publishing company Taschen put together the hard cover book to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Gisele's career

The mother-of-two and wife of Tom Brady, who shot to fame in the late 1990s, will also share her own personal thoughts and anecdotes in the book.
Taschen revealed that the publication will include Gisele's legendary nude portrait by Irving Penn, which was chosen as the book's cover.
Gisele's volume will also feature 'iconic shots from such industry luminaries as David LaChapelle, Juergen Teller, Inez & Vinoodh, Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott,and Corinne Day,' said the publishing house.

Catwalk queen: Gisele, who retired from the runway in April after 20 years, will also share her personal thoughts and anecdotes in the book

She's still got it: After beginning her career at the age of 14, the beauty still remains one of the most successful supermodels in the industry. Above, she's seen in a campaign from H&M

This year alone, the beauty earned $44 million - which is $35 million more than Forbes' second top-earning models, Cara Delevingne and Adriana Lima.
She recently posed topless on the cover of Vogue Paris for the magazine's 95th anniversary issue, donning only a pair of white underwear with her name printed on the back.
Gisele announced she was quitting runway modelling in April, posting on her Instagram page: 'I am grateful that at 14, I was given the opportunity to start this journey.

Loving husband: Gisele's book may feature quotes from her husband Tom, as well as other famous friends

'Today after 20 years in the industry, it is a privilege to be doing my last fashion show by choice and yet still be working in other facets of the business.'
Explaining why she decided to stop, Gisele added: 'Automatically my body tells me if what I do is worth it, and it asked to stop.'
She ended her catwalk career by walking in the Colcci spring/summer 2016 show in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Tom sat front show at her last runway show, and later posted a sweet message to his wife on Facebook, writing: 'Congratulations love of my Life... Nobody loves life more then you and your beauty runs much deeper then what the eye can see. I can't wait to see what's next.'
The mom of five-year-old Benjamin and two-year-old Vivian recently stood by Tom's side after he was accused of being privvy to the Patriots staff wilfully deflating footballs in the 45-7 defeat of the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Champsionship game.
Gisele, who is also stepmom to her husband's eight-year-old son John, whom he had with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan, was spotted visiting the NFL star at the Patriots stadium on September 10.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/a...ing-nude-portraits-herself.html#ixzz3mfHUinDw
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