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Today is 23rd March, when India remembers the 3 young martyrs who laid their lives for the cause of their nation. When these young revolutionaries gave away their lives without a second thought, they believed that their sacrifice would inspire more young men to happily give everything for the cause of freedom. They believed that the youth would make use of the opportunities that come with independence to shape us as the nation they dreamt of. Unfortunately, not many people followed the path they laid down.
Well, this article is dedicated to the bravehearts who did follow their path to give freedom a greater meaning for their people.
Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan and his brave men took charge to save the innocents trapped in the Taj Mahal palace during the 26/11 Mumbai attacks. In accomplishing this brave act, Major Unnikrishnan, in the finest traditions of the Indian Army, attained martyrdom.
"Do not come up, I will handle them", were his last words to his men as he was struck down by bullets while he continued firing back on the enemies of the state. His bravery was honoured with the Ashok Chakra, India's highest peace time gallantry award. He did his duty. His life was for his nation, for his army, for his men. His face is now an ageless, shining beacon- an inspiration for many.
Captain Vikram Batra was given the task of recapturing Point 5140 during insurgency in Kargil in the year 1999. He and his men ascended the steep rock-cliff from the rear, in spite of raining bullets emanating from the enemy machine guns. After reaching the top, he hurled two grenades at the machine gun post and single-handedly killed three enemy soldiers. His cry was 'yeh dil mange more', which became a famous slogan depicting the brave new Indian youth.
Capt. Batra didn't stop after one victory. Even with war injuries and high fever, he still led his men to victory with the recapture of Point 4750 and Point 4875. He died while rescuing an injured officer during an enemy counterattack against Point 4875. There was a reason why the terrorists in Kargil shivered, and it was not just the icy cold of the great Himalayas. It was because of the Himalayas our Indian soldiers carried in their guts. The embodiment of this very courage was Capt. Vikram Batra. Captain Vikram Batra was awarded the Param Vir Chakra.
Colonel N J Nair was stationed in Nagaland to suppress local insurgent groups. On 20th December 1993, he and his men were ambushed by about 100 armed insurgents. The enemies killed many of his men on the spot. Despite being gravely injured, like a true maratha, he ordered a fellow jawan to mount upon his shoulders and throw grenades at the enemy. He organised his troops in an assault line and charged. He led the counterattack from the front.
Amazed by such recklessness, the enemy broke and fled. Once the smoke cleared, Col. Nair was found dead. He was awarded the Ashok Chakra, posthumously, for displaying exceptional courage, far beyond the call of duty. For a country riddled with petty differences, he was a maratha who died in Nagaland. He died in his own soil, for his own soil.
These men couldn't build spider webs nor were they born in a distant planet with superpowers. They couldn't run faster than a speeding bullet or clear tall buildings in a single leap. But these men were definitely not ordinary men. They were not the men we meet everyday. They were the true sons of the motherland. Unfortunately, not many of us know of these awe-inspiring stories.
Well, to ensure that these lost tales of bravery are never forgotten, Indian War Comics has released a series of comic books based on the heroics of these great men. Their aim is to create a modern mythology and folk-lore around these post independence military heroes of the nation. These comics will turn out to be tremendously inspiring for our kids. They are the best gifts we can present our children with. They would not only be inspired by the stories of the real life heroes, they would further gain a strong sense of patriotism and national pride.
Indian War Comics have already released titles depicting the life, bravery and martyrdom of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Col. N. J Nair and Capt. Vikram Batra. Their next release will be on the life of Capt. Bana Singh.
I have read these books and found them to be beautifully crafted. The animation is stunning, and the characters realistic. They make a great read for young minds and adults alike.
In this digital age, to ensure the iPad generation is not left behind, JiniLabs has released these comics on an e-book reader app - JiniBooks. JiniBooks is a platform to showcase these stories on Smartphones and Tablets and is currently available on iPad. This digital strategy will help these stories reach a wider audience and fulfill this noble aim to revive the values of patriotism, duty and honour that drove these brave men to lay down their lives for the nation we so dearly call ours. iPad users can download the app here.
Amit Rana, one of the creator of the app- JiniBooks and co-founder of JiniLabs says:
"The Indian War Comics series is a very noble initiative. These are the stories that need to be told, re-told to every Indian and human being who will be inspired by reading them. Keeping the memories of these heroes alive is the least we can do to respect their supreme sacrifice. This is our objective in launching them on JiniBooks - to reach where the traditional media can't reach."
Thank you Indian War Comics and JiniBooks! I wish your initiative becomes a major success. A set of your books goes to my young nephew. I have already started to dream of a day when the young ignited minds of the nation discuss Major Sandeep and Capt. Batra in their play fields!


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Cayman's national men's and women's flag football teams head to an international tournament in Florida.
The Cayman Islands Flag Football Association's women's and men's national teams are competing in the United States Flag and Touch Football League (USFTL) championship in Plant City, Florida from Jan. 12-16.
The women will be defending their championship title from last year.
In addition to teams from Cayman and the United States, more than 450 flag teams will participate, including from Canada, the Bahamas, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
The Cayman team consists of coaches Brendon Malice and Clayton Lopez and an estimated 45 players.
The FLOW 2016 Cayman Islands Flag Football Premier League ended the season on Saturday at Ed Bush playfield, with HSM Vipers taking the women's crown and Island Heritage Predators winning the men's league.
The first game of the day was between HSM Vipers and Maples Lynx.
Both teams prevented the other from scoring for the majority of the game; however, HSM Vipers QB Lisa Malice found Stephanie Watler and Alicia Dixon in the end zone for touchdowns and Carly Dignam kicked for an extra point conversion putting HSM in the lead. Camille Solomon of Maples Lynx received a touchdown in the final seconds of the game.
The game ended with a score of 13-8 in HSM Vipers' favor, making them the FLOW 2016 Cayman Islands Flag Football Women's League Champions.
HSM Vipers was formed two years ago with experienced players such as Alicia Dixon, Dionne Whittaker, Glenita Logan and Sheyla Torres, and coached by Brendon Malice. Coach Malice described the team as family, saying that the players have their differences because of personality clashes but always figure out how to work together for the betterment of the team.
Since the formation of HSM Vipers, they have become the team to beat. However, they were outwitted in the semifinals last year. Coach Malice said that last year was a tough year for the team as they went from being undefeated in regular season to being knocked out of the semifinals after five overtimes.
"It was the toughest loss I've faced as a woman's coach," he said. He described this year's final as a "revenge game," which the players were determined to win from the very first snap of the ball.
Lisa Malice's great pre-snap reads allowed her to find open receivers which allowed the offense to move the ball down the field.
Brendon Malice said the team dominated the league this year again because he used his players. The team acquired Maggie Ebanks, whom the coach described as "one of the best players in the league," whose toughness and leadership helped the team develop a more two-dimensional offense.
He also used speed players like Shenel Gall and Jen Choice and powerhouses like Schmarrah McCarthy and Jo Ziegler.
Malice said that he has had the privilege of teaching the game that he loves to many great women, who have had success both internationally and locally. He said it feels "nice to retire with an international and national league championship title." This is his third and final women's league championship.
The HSM Vipers won the women's flag football league.
Island Heritage Predators vs. Kensington Hellcats
The last game of the day was crowd favorite Island Heritage Predators versus Kensington Hellcats.
On Saturday, the Predators were determined to take the title from the very first possession of the ball. QB Jordan Stubblefield threw his signature long ball down the field to receiver Cueme Parker on the second down of the play for a touchdown and Roy Forbes kicked for an extra point.
The Predators struggled to score more points because of strong Hellcats defense from players like William Peguero, who received multiple interceptions. On offense, the Hellcats were unable to score because of the Predators' tight defense.
The game ended with a 7-0 score in Predators' favor, making them the FLOW 2016 Cayman Islands Flag Football Men's League Champions.
The Island Heritage Predators, coached by Clayton Lopez, was formed three years ago with a mixture of experienced and inexperienced players. They became a crowd favorite as they showed unity on and off the field.
The Predators have a mixture of speed and strength and Lopez made sure to use his personnel every time they stepped on the field. Jordan Stubblefield said it was challenging to get everyone to buy into Coach Lopez's system and to not only depend on a few select players.
He said the Predators made a lot of changes coming into the season this year. The team chemistry was at its best, he said, and they practiced very hard and put in a lot of time reviewing plays, watching films and teaching the younger players how to play.
He said their win was "no fluke" as Lopez is a very organized and detailed coach and expects nothing but the best from his players. Stubblefield added that the team scored 231 points in 14 games, with only 52 points scored against them.
He said the team has gelled to become as close as a family. For example, during Saturday's final, one of the players, Josh Parsons, got injured and was taken to hospital. Instead of the team going to celebrate their first championship win, they were in the waiting area of the hospital.
Stubblefield said, "They could have just as easily been out celebrating but instead they came to check on him; that is family." He said it feels amazing to have finally won the championship after many years.
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Next up for flag football is an awards and family fun day, hosted by the Cayman Islands Flag Football Association Adult and Youth Leagues at 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 1 at the Field of Dreams.
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I'm with Jesse. And it seems that you find a soul mate when and where you
least expect it, usually when you've decided to "move on" and not worry
about it any more. Work on what you enjoy. Enjoy time doing things you
love (but not just at home, of course) and let nature take its course.
After all, DH's grandfather didn't marry his grandmother until after DH and
I got married. At the wedding, my sister-in-law gave them "booties" and
insinuated it was a "have to...shotgun" wedding. Grandpa thought that was
great! It is NEVER to late for something wonderful to happen.
You are valuable with or without a mate. (Ask all my DH's old maid aunts.
They were all business women in the 30's and didn't want to be saddled with
a relationship that would prevent them from achieving their career goals!
LOL! They did alright by themselves.)
Jesse, Congratulate Natalie! I know it isn't easy, but it does wonders for
one's self esteem.
Bonnie (SW OH - zone 5)
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Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: [OT] South Beach Diet
Chris...you never, EVER know what is around the corner in your life. You
just need to take care of yourself....FOR yourself, not for anybody else.
There are lots of people who are married and surrounded by people all the
time, but still feel lonely. Maybe you need to dig down in your soul and
find some peace from within. I know that WE ALL LOVE YOU on this list.
"Christopher P. Lindsey" <email@example.com> wrote:
> Youngest daughter Natalie did the South Beach Diet for 2 weeks. She lost
> 15 pounds. And she needed to. She is a candidate for Type 2 if she is
> not careful. You can do anything Pam if you look at it like they do in
> AA meetings "just for today I will not drink the beer (0r whatever it
> is you want) and I will be healthy". It's not forever. Just until you
> get your weight where you want it. Cardio exercise will help with that.
> Natalie NEVER gets cardio exercise. Some physical body types just need
> the cardio more than others. I have a fast metabolism. Natalie does not.
Catching up on email here...
Three years ago I had lost a whole bunch of weight (about 80 pounds) and was
pretty close to my target weight. For me, the best way was Atkins. I don't
believe in Atkins as a lifestyle, but more as a quick results/motivator.
Within one month of doing Atkins I was down by about 30 pounds. At that
point I was hyped enough that I was more willing to eat healthy and exercise
wasn't nearly as painful.
Unfortunately, I lost weight for the wrong reason -- I wanted to meet
someone. What I learned is that losing weight just makes you thin and lonely
instead of fat and lonely. I've gained some of it back and probably could
lose it again, but I don't really have a motivational reason. I mean, do I
want to lose weight so that I can live a longer, lonely life? Gee, that
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Zimmer Holdings Inc. manufactures a number of hip replacement devices and parts. Zimmer's most problematic hip product is the Durom Acetabular Component, commonly called the Durom Cup.
Zimmer is a medical device company that creates a variety of orthopaedic implants. In 2015, the company officially became Zimmer Biomet. According to the company, Zimmer products and implants give orthopaedic surgeons as many options as possible when choosing the right prosthesis for a patient.
Previous hip replacement devices were limited in size and shape. Surgeons had to make the hip bone fit the artificial hip. Some Zimmer medical devices use what the company calls Kinectiv Modular-Neck Technology, which has four parts instead of three. The surgeon can choose each component of the Zimmer prosthesis in a size and shape that best matches the patient's actual hip.
Some Zimmer hip products use Metasul Metal-on-Metal articulation. This type of hip joint is forged metal, instead of cast like traditional hip implants. This is supposed to make it harder and smoother, which should make it more durable.
This manufacturer also sells hip products that use Zimmer Trabecular Metal Hip technology, which is a three-dimensional material that is supposed to simulate the body's spongy bone. It should provide a high level of friction allowing the hip joint to quickly stabilize after being implanted. It should also allow growth into the artificial hip implant.
In April 2014, the company announced it had bought Biomet, another joint manufacturer, for $13.35 billion. The sale finalized in early 2015, and made Zimmer the No. 2 orthopaedics maker in the country.
Zimmer's Hip Replacement Products
The Zimmer orthopaedics catalog features total hip replacement products including femoral (neck and stem) components, acetabular (cup) components and revision surgery systems. The company believes it uses special technology to make the devices safe and cutting-edge. It offers both cemented and uncemented hip prosthetics. The Zimmer uncemented hip replacement parts are covered in a special coating that allows the patient's natural bone to grow around it, securing it in place. Doctors recommend uncemented devices for patients with adequate bone stock, meaning their bones are strong and healthy.
Zimmer Femoral Components
- M/L Taper Hip Prosthesis: This alloy hip stem helps to conserve bone and is available in 14 sizes.
- Fitmore Hip Stem: Designed to be used in minimally invasive procedures, providing a number of benefits, including quicker recovery time, less scarring and quicker stabilization.
- Trabecular Metal Primary Hip Prosthesis
- VerSys Epoch FullCoat Hip System
Zimmer Acetabular (Cup) Components
- Continuum Acetabular system
- Trabecular Metal Modular Acetabular System
- Trilogy Acetabular System
- Durom Acetabular Component
Zimmer Hip Revision Surgery Components
- Trabecular Metal Acetabular Revision
- ZMR Hip Systems
- Wagner SL Revision Hip
Zimmer's Durom Acetabular Component (Durom Cup)
This manufacturer's most problematic hip product is the Durom Acetabular Component, commonly known as the Durom Cup. It is a synthetic replacement for a natural acetabulum and is made from a single piece of cobalt chromium alloy metal. Nearly 13,000 patients received the Durom Cup.
The acetabulum is the cavity at the bottom of the hipbone, one shaped like a cup. The top of the thigh bone – also referred to as the head of the thigh bone, which is shaped like a ball – fits into the acetabulum. This ball-and-socket meeting creates the hip joint.
The Durom Cup was designed to address two problems that were inherent in the function of previous artificial hip devices – durability and range of motion. Durability became an issue because doctors began performing total hip replacements on younger patients, people who planned to continue with active lifestyles. Longer-lasting synthetic devices were needed to keep up with a younger patient demographic.
The active lifestyle of these younger patients – people who desire a life of more or vigorous exercise and not just playing golf, walking or going dancing after dinner – requires hip-replacement devices with more range of motion. The prosthesis needed to do more than just accommodate walking without dislocating. While larger device heads are supposed to provide greater range of motion than smaller ones, they also cause more wear and tear on the hip replacement device.
Zimmer Holdings believed the Durom Cup solved both problems. It was intended for use with the Zimmer Metasul Metal-on-Metal Tribological Solution LDH (large diameter head), providing a total metal hip replacement device that was durable and had larger diameter heads for maximum range of motion.
But Durom Cups can slip out of place, something that can cause excruciating pain. After a brief recall and many lawsuits, surgeons seem to have moved away from the once-celebrated Durom Cup to other devices.
Problems with the Zimmer Total Hip Replacement Durom Cup
In 2006, the FDA approved the Durom Cup for use in total hip replacements. Just a year later, however, problems began to surface.
In 2007, Lawrence Dorr, M.D., a nationally recognized orthopedic surgeon and a paid consultant for Zimmer, reported problems with the Durom Cup. He said that within a few months after implanting the Durom Cup in patients, the device failed and caused great pain. In some cases, he performed corrective surgery to replace the Zimmer hip replacement device. He blamed the product's "poor construction."
In 2008, Dorr told colleagues at the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons about his experiences with the Durom Cup. At the time he wrote the letter, 10 revision surgeries out of 165 had already been performed and four more patients needed revision. These Zimmer artificial hip failures occurred within the first two years after implantation.
Dorr made the following points:
- During the first year after surgery, revisions were required because of loose implants.
- Fixation surface wasn't adequate.
- A circular cutting surface on the edge of the implant prevented it from seating.
Dorr later discovered other doctors had had similar experiences, but Zimmer blamed the problems on Dorr's technique and not on its Durom Cup, The New York Times reported in 2010. In response to the NYT article, Senator Charles E. Grassley wrote a letter demanding that the company disclose its data on tracking its Zimmer orthopaedic devices. He also requested the manufacturer provide information on how it responded to safety concerns brought up by outside consultants.
Zimmer Briefly Recalls Durom Cup
The Durom Cup was in use until 2008, when the company recalled it. The FDA says the recall was because "instructions for use/surgical technique instructions were inadequate."
Zimmer sent "Dear Surgeon" letters explaining the recall and urging orthopedic surgeons to stop implanting the device until they had received additional training.
After updating the Zimmer product labeling and creating a surgical training program on its website, the company returned the Durom Cup to the U.S. market despite its problems.
Durom Cup Hip Replacement Lawsuits
Zimmer has received claims from patients who had the Durom Cup implanted who are now seeking reimbursement costs and compensation for pain and suffering. The company in 2008 created a $69 million fund to pay claims that met specific requirements. It was management's estimation of Zimmer's liability regarding revision surgeries associated with the Durom Cup.


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The Bank of England's Governor, Mark Carney, defended his flagship forward guidance policy yesterday and said the Bank's job was to prevent the recovery turning into another "false dawn".
Since the Bank pledged a month ago to hold down interest rates at 0.5 per cent until 2016, financial markets have reacted with apparent scepticism, with traders bringing forward their expected date for the next rate rise to early 2015 or even late 2014.
But giving testimony to the Commons Treasury Select Committee, Mr Carney denied forward guidance had been ineffective, pointing to its influence beyond the City of London. "My experience in talking to businesses, our experience in terms of surveys of household expectations have been that the message has been understood," he said. The Canadian rebutted the suggestions by MPs that the policy was difficult to understand and said that forward guidance was supporting growth. "By making policy more effective, we make it more stimulative and reinforce the recovery," he added.
Traders have priced in a more rapid interest rate rise partly in response to economic surveys pointing to accelerating GDP growth in the third quarter of 2013. Mr Carney told the committee recent signs of a more rapid recovery were welcome but said that "we shouldn't be satisfied", pointing out that the economy was still below its output levels of five years ago. "Our job is to make sure it is not another false dawn that we saw a few years earlier, and to make sure that as soon as possible this economy reaches a form of sustained velocity", he said.
Mr Carney also repeated his pledge that if the recovery falters the Bank would consider injecting more monetary stimulus.
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Law and Borders - The Rise of Law in Cyberspace
David R. Johnson
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David G. Post
OTI/New America Foundation
Stanford Law Review, Vol. 48, p. 1367, 1996
Global computer-based communications cut across territorial borders, creating a new realm of human activity and undermining the feasibility--and legitimacy--of applying laws based on geographic boundaries. While these electronic communications play havoc with geographic boundaries, a new boundary, made up of the screens and passwords that separate the virtual world from the real world of atoms, emerges. This new boundary defines a distinct Cyberspace that needs and can create new law and legal institutions of its own. Territorially-based law-making and law-enforcing authorities find this new environment deeply threatening. But established territorial authorities may yet learn to defer to the self-regulatory efforts of Cyberspace participants who care most deeply about this new digital trade in ideas, information, and services. Separated from doctrine tied to territorial jurisdictions, new rules will emerge, in a variety of on-line spaces, to govern a wide range of new phenomena that have no clear parallel in the nonvirtual world. These new rules will play the role of law by defining legal personhood and property, resolving disputes, and crystallizing a collective conversation about core values.
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So my prediction of a Lakers victory in Game 1 was, well, slightly off. Only missed by 29 points.
Perhaps Lakers fans can take solace in the fact I picked Oklahoma City to win the series. Based on my Game 1 success, look for the Lakers to now sweep the next four by an average of 30 points.
The consensus immediately after the game was the same conclusion most people will draw between now and the opening tip of Game 2 on Wednesday. The Lakers need to start with Kobe Bryant defending Russell Westbrook.
"Michael Jordan could stop anybody defensively," TNT's Charles Barkley said. "That's what made him the greatest ever. If Kobe Bryant wants to be compared to Michael, (he has to say,) 'You know what? I'm going to take this challenge and stop Russell Westbrook myself.' That's the only adjustment I think they can make."
Bryant has done just that in the past (against Westbrook and many others), and the guess here is he won't have to lobby coach Mike Brown to do it again this time.
Clearly, the Lakers have to defend better, have to stop dribble penetration, have to close out quicker on Oklahoma City's outside shooters. That's the only way they can win this series.
If the Thunder are allowed to shoot like they did in Game 1, the Lakers are in serious trouble.
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Boston College looking to shore up their defense
In giving up 45 points and 576 yards of total offense in its loss Saturday to Clemson, the Boston College defense that had been notoriously stingy under coach Frank Spaziani again looked out of character.
Under Spaziani, the Eagles have never been lower than fourth in the Atlantic Coast Conference in scoring defense. The defense was at its stiffest in 2010 when the Eagles were second in the ACC in scoring defense and first in total defense, forced a conference-best 33 turnovers, gave up just 15 touchdowns in the red zone, and had Luke Kuechly lead the conference in tackles.
But a quarter of the way through the 2012 season, the Eagles are giving up 27.8 points and 436 yards per game, fourth worst in the conference in both categories. Their four sacks are a conference low. Opponents are converting nearly half of their third-down attempts, and they've given up seven touchdowns in the red zone.
Stopping teams rarely has been an issue under Spaziani. Scoring has. Now, after getting into shootouts with Miami and Clemson and watching Northwestern run 100 plays for 560 total yards, it's the other way around and the Eagles are trying to solve the problems they've had defensively.
"It's real frustrating," Spaziani said. "There's a trend as you go through college football now. A lot of these things [high-scoring games] are happening. Not that that adds any consolation for us. But it's frustrating that a lot of people are putting up a lot of points.''
Even though he threw for three touchdowns Saturday, quarterback Chase Rettig left the game feeling like he should have thrown two more. The offense may be more capable than it's been in the past, but Spaziani said there's a clear onus on the defense to share the load.
"We never want to get involved in these junior high basketball game scores," Spaziani said. "It's just not good.''
Injuries, inexperience, and the Tigers' high-powered players at skill positions made a troublesome cocktail for the Eagles. They were thin on the defensive line with end Kasim Edebali (shoulder) and tackle Kaleb Ramsey (foot) sidelined. Their absence played a part in Clemson running for 209 yards.
"It affects our performance, our execution," Spaziani said. "One of the things with these types of offenses that are proliferating in college football now, you've got to be good up front.''
While Ramsey's status is uncertain — "Ramsey's an enigma wrapped up in a conundrum right now," Spaziani said — the reports on Edebali have been positive. He began running Sunday and will be looked at again Tuesday. The junior lineman got off to a fast start, leading all defensive linemen in tackles (13) and sacks (1.5) before going down.
With four tackles and a sack, Brian Mihalik was a more than adequate replacement. But the line had a hard time keeping Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd and running back Andre Ellington contained.
"The D-line does a great job but when you have a talented quarterback like that that can move around it kind of make their job a little bit harder," defensive back Sean Sylvia said. "We have to take responsibility on the back end, challenging more routes and putting more on our shoulders."
More than anything else, big plays have taken momentum from the Eagles and broken games open. They've given up five plays of at least 40 yards.
"We would have liked to have some plays back where we could have pinned them in their own territory," middle linebacker Nick Clancy said. "We definitely needed to execute more on defense. We definitely needed to make more big plays. We let up too many big plays.
"It's just one of those things you wish you could have those plays back. We'll take a look at it on film and we'll see what the problems are and we'll get them corrected."


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Who's next?
That will be the question surrounding the Knicks for the rest of this season and into the offseason.
Below, we present four candidates for the full-time job:
PHIL JACKSON: The Zen Master is currently retired, but many believe he will return to coaching next season if the right offer emerges. Can the Knicks bring him back to the bench? Jackson has won his championships with star players (Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal). And New York has star power in Carmelo Anthony and -- to a lesser degree -- Amare Stoudemire and Tyson Chandler. The key here is, does Jackson think he can win with this roster? If not, he probably won't take the job.
Odds that he is the next Knicks coach: moderate.
JOHN CALIPARI: Calipari has what he calls "the greatest job in basketball at any level" at Kentucky. But it could be tough for Calipari to resist the pull of New York. If Calipari wins a national title at Kentucky this season, you have to think he'd get the itch to rectify his reputation in the NBA. Calipari had a 72-112 record over three seasons in New Jersey. If he wants to make people forget about his Nets tenure and prove that he can win in the NBA, the Knicks will offer a great opportunity.
Odds that he is the next Knicks coach: strong.
JEFF VAN GUNDY: Van Gundy has shown that he can coach the aspect of the game many Knicks fans clamor for: defense. But because of ownership, many feel he won't get another shot in New York. Van Gundy coached in New York over parts of seven seasons and had a successful run, going 248-172 (the second-best winning percentage in Knicks history). But his exit was messy. He resigned and the team collapsed under Don Chaney. So there's strong sentiment out there that Garden management won't be willing to give him another shot.
Odds that he is the next Knicks coach: lukewarm, at best.
MIKE WOODSON: Don't count Woodson out. The Knicks are in a free-fall now, losers of six straight, and are now six games under .500. If Woodson can pull them out of it and lead them to a strong showing in the playoffs, then he should be considered as a permanent candidate. He's the brains behind the Knicks' turnaround on defense this season (they ranked 21st in defensive efficiency last season and rank 10th this year) and is well-respected in the locker room. If the Knicks can rebound from their current funk and make a run in the playoffs, don't count him out.
Odds that he is the next Knicks coach: depends on the next 24 games.
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Lib Dem conferences are usually good value for money, and this year's was no exception.
I was particularly cheered by the stream of constituency delegates who arrived at the platform to deliver their verdicts on the "cuts". You could tell at a glance they were Lib Dems – not through any badges of affiliation but by certain idiosyncrasies of dress and style. The clerical dog-collar, the obtrusive waistcoat, the finger held aloft punctuating the torrent of exemplary good sense that surged below: all these are as characteristic of modern liberalism as seats around the cabinet table or bracing remarks about bankers. It was especially good to hear the delegate who declared that "fairness" in the realm of cost savings was a contradiction in terms, a wonderful rhetorical flourish that rather sidestepped the wider question of what a government is supposed to do with its limited resources when the country is hundreds of billions of pounds in debt and we are, in effect, living on tick.
Curiously, all this – the constituency mobsters marching proudly to the podium, the nervous expressions on the faces of presiding big-wigs – brought back memories of the Conservative and Labour jamborees of the 1970s. Both these parties long ago tamed their activists and turned their annual conferences into rallies, but 30 or 40 years ago such assemblies were the focus of some genuine grass-roots opinion. Never mind the occasions on which brother Bootle of the Wheel-tappers and Shunters Union advanced on to the platform to inform his comrades that James Callaghan had sold them all down the river; one of the nastiest things I ever saw in politics, as an impressionable schoolboy, was Margaret Thatcher's foreign affairs spokesman John Davies, trying to defend Rhodesian sanctions against the baying of some red-faced hearties from the Monday Club.
The Lib Dems have not yet learned the trick of anaesthetising grass-roots fervour: a touching belief in pluralism and democratic decision-making is still their distinguishing mark. And yet, for all the chastening of the hard-line Labour left and the old-style Tory racists, the air that hangs over the three major party conferences grows ever more sectarian: a result, you imagine, of the prodigious decline in party memberships. Back in the 1970s, the sight of brother Bootle outlining an "alternative" economic programme that could have been devised for him by the Kremlin was made narrowly tolerable by the thought that this, just about, was still a people's party. It was the same with Mrs Thatcher's Conservatives who, for all their obduracy, were at least representative of something. You sometimes feel that, in an age that manifestly doesn't "do" politics, the only things that modern politicians represent are themselves.
Watching BBC One's News at Ten Tuesday night, and wondering why it annoyed me so much, I realised that the source of the irritation lay not in the stories themselves but in the people presenting them. First up was the Lib Dem conference and a star turn by the BBC's political correspondent Nick Robinson. Mr Robinson's cheek on these occasions is simply breath-taking. He asks questions that a child of five would think uncivil, is smart-alecky and insinuating by turns, and contrives to give the impression that only the merest accident prevented him from running the country himself. Next came the corporation's economic commentator, Robert Peston, to dilate on bankers' bonuses. The corpse of J M Keynes, lately disinterred and brought out into the merciless light of a TV studio, could not have been more gravely condescending. We inferred that, however great the mess that might have been unfolding before our eyes, we were jolly lucky to have Mr Peston here to explain it all to us.
It is not, I should hastily add, that messrs Robinson and Peston don't know what they are talking about, for their analyses of the country's political and economic ills are usually horribly astute. It is just that, nine times out of 10, the information itself takes second place to the self-projection. Contrast this with the reports filed during last week's papal visit by the BBC's religious affairs correspondent, Robert Pigott. Mr Pigott was modest and unassuming. He explained various technical matters relating to the Catholic Church without inviting us to admire his cleverness, and the interviews he conducted were genuine conversations rather than exercises in point-scoring. Knowing how the BBC works, I wouldn't bet that promotion was on the cards.
Rock fans of a certain age will have been saddened to learn of the death of the former Florida gym teacher Leonard Skinner. "Coach Skinner" made the mistake, sometime in the late 1960s, of disciplining a boy named Ronnie Van Zant for his collar-length hair. Van Zant's band then rechristened themselves Lynyrd Skynyrd in tribute. Rather like Evelyn Waugh, who constantly inserted references to his old Oxford tutor C R M F Cruttwell into his novels, the group's mockery of their old teacher did not abate, and the cover of their 1975 album Nuthin' Fancy used the sign from a real estate business he had moved on to run, while neglecting to remove both name and telephone number. Happily, time seems to have softened these asperities, and the group's only surviving member, Gary Rossington, declared that "Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time."
There is, of course, no mythology quite as powerful as the mythology of band-naming: Led Zeppelin, for example, taking their moniker from Keith Moon's remark that they would go down "like a lead Zeppelin". Significantly, its power is such as to invest quite ordinary framings with a resonance they don't always possess.
The late John Peel had a story about his late 1960s stint as chauffeur to Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band when they were touring England. Beefheart, whom Peel credited with extra-sensory powers, and who could predict telephone calls, was then the farthest of the far out: the car once had to be stopped so that he could "hug a tree". On one occasion the band were booked to play a venue in the Midlands called Frank Freeman's Dancing School. This was an era when West Coast bands tended to be called Quicksilver Messenger Service or New Riders of the Purple Sage. "Wow," one of Beefheart's sidesmen – possibly the guitarist Zoot Horn Rollo – remarked, "that's a really groovy name." No, Peel found himself explaining, the proprietor was called Frank Freeman, and he, er, ran a dancing school.
Several commentators noted the distinctly collaborative air that hangs over Seven Days, Channel 4's new reality show set in Notting Hill. The producers have hinted that the programme will adapt itself to the immediate response of the audience. At the same time there is an implication that viewers will provide what one newspaper called "a consultancy service for those hanging on the brink of big decisions".
One hears a lot of this kind of thing these days, even in the upper reaches of the arts world. The novelist Kate Pullinger has speculated that, come the mid-century, novelists will find themselves writing soap operas for gangs of online subscribers, whose views on plot, character and theme will be factored into a constantly changing text.
The implications of this move to interaction in the arts are substantial. Not only does it threaten an end to that creative autonomy that all of us artists are supposed to regard as our battle-flag; it will almost certainly have a deeply depressing aesthetic effect. To go back to the narrower world of Notting Hill, surely a TV reality show is meant to be naturalistic – that, is the things that happen in it happen because they were meant to, not because some viewer sends an email? If the Seven Days principle were applied to great works of literature, Little Nell would already have risen smiling from her death bed and Hardy's President of the Immortals would have been told that he had had enough sport with Tess of the D'Urbervilles and should go off and find someone else to torment
It was a week in which, as generally happens in the autumnal feeding frenzy, madness descended on the book trade: "madness" being defined as "giving away products which people are anxious to buy". Stephen Fry's autobiography, cover price £20, is being sold for £10, while the eight titles included in the current Richard & Judy promotion are available at 55 per cent off. Independent booksellers wanting to stock up will find it easier to buy copies at their local supermarket.
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