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This week's Patriots mailbag is one in which e-mailers felt the need to vent.
There are different losses in the course of a season that produce varying emotions, and what unfolded Sunday in a 24-23 loss to the Seahawks in Seattle has ignited the overall frustration level among many followers.
Areas under fire include:
1. The secondary
2. Bill Belichick and his struggles to build a better defense
3. Josh McDaniels' play-calling
4. Tom Brady's late-game performance
Let's get right into it...
Q. Mike, please, be objective. The secondary is awful. The Patriots have devoted so many resources to fixing it and it is still awful. I have lost confidence that it will ever be a good unit. Are all of the players legitimately awful, or is coaching an issue? I think it is the latter. Something is seriously wrong. Too many bad players have passed through the secondary and I am not impressed with any of them. Also, I feel that many players have regressed the longer they have been in the system (Darius Butler, Devin McCourty, Brandon Meriweather, Patrick Chung, etc.). Please give me a reason to not give up on the pass defense. -- Sami (Boston)
A. Sami, I don't think we need to sugarcoat it, as the disappointing results are there for everyone to see. Specific to the Seattle game, the defensive backs have to play the ball better. On the Seahawks' go-ahead touchdown pass, it's just a costly mistake by an inexperienced player in Tavon Wilson in what appeared to be a simple coverage. In a perfect world, the Patriots would have had starters Patrick Chung and Steve Gregory in the game at safety, but injuries are part of the game and every team deals with them. The Seahawks also had young players in the secondary, and they played the ball better on a more consistent basis as part of a more aggressive scheme. After a game like that, and considering the personnel struggles in the defensive backfield in recent years, it's only natural to ask, "Why can't the Patriots do that?" They haven't and Bill Belichick takes the accountability for that. As for a reason not to give up on the pass defense, it's simple: There is a lot more football to be played. The Patriots couldn't stop the Steelers in a similarly frustrating game last October, and many of the same questions were being asked, and they ended up in the Super Bowl with a chance in the fourth quarter to win another ring. It needs to get better this year. I think it will get better this year. We'll see how much better and if it remains an Achilles' heel to their championship hopes. I understand why followers would have their doubts.
Q. Hi Mike, I won't pretend to have any answers to why this secondary continues to be one of the worst in football, but I will tell you one thing that's not the problem -- talent. There is plenty of talent in that secondary to build an average or above-average backfield. We've seen every single guy that played Sunday (short of Nate Ebner) make plays at some point during their NFL careers. We've seen Ras-I Dowling blanket Brandon Marshall, Patrick Chung shut down good tight ends, Sterling Moore break up passes with the AFC Championship on the line, and Devin McCourty cover just about everybody that came near him for 17 games in 2010. We even saw Terrence Wheatley cover Reggie Wayne once. All of these guys have talent. It's a matter of consistency, and somewhere between drafting/signing them and putting them out on the field something is going wrong. Thoughts? -- Tim (Georgetown, Mass.)
A. Tim, there has been a significant investment made in the secondary since 2007 -- two first-round picks and four second-round picks, as well as a lucrative contract for didn't-pan-out-after-one-year free-agent signee Leigh Bodden -- and not much in return. You'd expect it to be better. Belichick is accountable for the inability to build a unit that produces better results. In some cases, I think it's a talent issue (e.g. Terrence Wheatley, Darius Butler). But I don't think that's the only reason for such spotty results at the position, and it makes me wonder if perhaps the scheme, and what the players are asked to do, isn't bringing out the best in them. I will say this: I don't think the issue is position coaches Josh Boyer and Brian Flores. These guys are good coaches.
Q. Mike, I feel Bill Belichick is an overrated coach. It is not because of one lost game, the Patriots' secondary has been an issue for the last four years, and it is still the worst in the NFL. If he is a mastermind of defense, how come it is still not fixed? I feel he really needs proven coaches to support him, instead of hanging with a bunch of unknown guys. -- Mark (Boston)
A. Mark, I understand the frustrations about the defensive backfield. We've been talking about it, on and off, since the 2006 AFC Championship Game. That said, let's not go overboard. Bill Belichick is widely viewed as one of the best coaches in the NFL, and I feel quite certain that after he retires, we'll be longing for these days when a double-digit win season was the expectation and anything less was a disappointment. At the same time, Belichick is not perfect and he owns the struggles in the secondary. As for his position coaches, these guys are good. It's not on them. In 2008, the Patriots had respected veteran coach Dom Capers as their secondary coach and the unit still struggled. This is a bigger issue than a position coach.
Q. Mike, I have been a Patriots fan for over 30 years and have a great deal of appreciation for the job Bill Belichick has done. However, the defense and particularly the secondary has been awful for several years (ask Eli Manning), yet it seems like Belichick gets a free pass from the media. Why doesn't the media ever call him out or question him on the long-term failure of the defense rather than just the latest setback? -- Ron L. (Ohio)
A. Ron, without jumping too deeply into the role of ombudsman, I feel like Belichick gets his fair share of scrutiny, and I'm not here to sugarcoat the struggles to build a better defense, which have been consistent in recent years. I think it's a fair question to ask: Why haven't the Patriots been able to turn a more decisive corner on defense? Having the chance to experience the intensity of other media markets in the past 10-plus years, I'd put this one in the top five in terms of scrutiny, but one thing that has helped Belichick in this regard is the shine of those three Super Bowl rings (2001, 2003 and 2004) and a consistency of winning games that is unrivaled in the salary-cap era. That's a powerful kryptonite when critics start firing away.
Q. Russell Wilson seemed to be having a field day on his deep passes. Pats nation sounds like a broken record complaining about our pass defense. If you had to point to one specific problem with our secondary on Sunday, would you say the problem is personnel, scheme or technique? -- Sherm (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
A. Sherm, that was a tough spot to have rookies Tavon Wilson and Nate Ebner as the safeties at the end of the game (they were in because of injuries to both starters and possibly even reserve Sterling Moore). Both might be solid players in years to come, but this was their sixth career game and to count on them as the last line of defense was asking a lot. These are the growing pains that often come with young players, as Wilson's technique was way off on the TD. There are plays to be made on the ball in various occasions (e.g. Kyle Arrington on the first two drives; Devin McCourty in the second half). They just have to make them.
Q. Mike, it is so frustrating to the average fan to watch the Patriots take the ball out of Tom Brady's hands when they are trying to close out a game. Trying to run time off the clock when your ground game is not working was so futile. Why did they do this on Sunday? -- Neil P. (North Branch, Mich.)
A. Neil, I don't think the overall game management was up to the high standards that Bill Belichick has set in the past. I believe the sequence you are referring to was with 3:02 remaining when they had back-to-back runs of 1 yard by Stevan Ridley, which led the Seahawks to use their first two timeouts. The Patriots had the clock in mind, but my greater criticism on game management actually came on the previous drive. The Patriots led 23-17, it's first-and-10 on the New England 47, and there was 4:56 left. After runs of 6 and 9 yards, the Patriots went pass-pass-pass there (incomplete, intentional grounding, 9-yard completion on third-and-20) . . . Not very smart from a clock-management perspective, as the Seahawks got the ball back with 3:56 left. The better situational-football play there would have been to shorten the game with at least one run on first down, seeing if the Seahawks burned their timeouts. If they didn't, run it again on second down and shorten the game even more. If they did, maybe you try a pass on second down. Instead, the Patriots made it easy for them.
Q. Mike, I think you're way off base criticizing the pass/run balance in the Seahawks game. I think we'd both agree the Patriots have always been, with remarkable success, a "game-plan" offense. They don't attack every defense the same way. Seattle is, if not the best, certainly among the top three run defenses in the NFL. I don't think the idea that the Patriots could have had more success in the run game if they were just more persistent makes sense in light of this fact. Secondly, the Patriots actually moved the ball rather effortlessly in the game, and were it not for a few uncharacteristic mistakes by Brady in the red zone, they would have put up a lot more points. And let's be honest, if Brady could take back those two egregious red-zone plays, we wouldn't be talking about how the Patriots should have run the ball more. Don't you think people are only bringing up the pass imbalance because of the final result? Everything else indicates that a pass-heavy attack was actually the smart game-plan versus a run defense that's been nigh-impenetrable all year. Like Logan Mankins said earlier this week, if the run game isn't working, there's no need to keep banging your head against the wall. It just seems reactionary to argue that sticking with more runs against the best run defense in the NFL would have produced better results. -- Qu (Ann Arbor)
A. I think you make some great points, Qu. As a reporter and analyst, my feeling is that it's a good thing to ask yourself "Is this opinion based on the result of the game/play, or a more thorough examination that factors in all circumstances as to why the decisions were made?" As I re-watched the game from start to finish on Monday, a few thoughts stood out to me:
1. Of their 26 rushes, 11 of them were for 2 yards or less. Not good production. A few negative runs early in the third quarter really hurt them and that supports the thinking of being more pass-oriented.
2. But they did have a few good runs in there (Brandon Bolden for 13 in the second quarter; Danny Woodhead for 12 in the fourth quarter) and that's where the persistence thought came in, specifically in the pass-pass-pass sequence with 4:56 left. That's my biggest criticism when it comes to the run game and how it tied in to some questionable decisions from the coaches. Given the benefit of time to review things, which the coaches don't have at the time, I didn't think that was smart football.
3. Look at the Giants-49ers game as an example of persistence in the running game. The Giants had 11 rushes for 23 yards in the first half (when they led 10-3). They finished with 37 rushes for 149 yards. I understand the thinking by the Patriots' coaches, but I just felt they conceded a bit too much ground in that area on Sunday.
4. No question, the Patriots' red-zone struggles changed the complexion of things (one touchdown in six trips). As they got close, they seemed to flip-flop between an aggressive and conservative mindset. There didn't seem to be much flow.
Q. Mike, I don't think I have ever seen a team with the lead use its timeouts on defense like the Patriots did in Seattle (other than to ice the kicker). What do you think that says about Bill Belichick's confidence in their ability to protect a lead, and could that message have factored into their play? -- Evan (Needham, Mass.)
A. Evan, the Patriots called only one timeout on defense in the game, and it came right before the 2-minute warning in the fourth quarter. It was because the defense had a substitution mix-up and had 12 men on the field, which is inexcusable. I don't think it had anything to do with confidence; it had to do with organization and communication. I'm sure no one feels worse about it than the coaches, who I think generally do a great job. That's on them. No one's perfect.
Q. Hi Mike, what do you think about the last play of the second quarter? Why don't you kick the FG and take the points? Why do you think Belichick took that choice? -- Ricardo (Bogota, Colombia)
A. Ricardo, those points ended up being the difference in the game, and I thought that entire sequence -- which included letting 10 to 15 seconds tick off before calling a timeout after a first-down completion -- highlighted some overall questionable game-management decisions by the Patriots. The feeling here was that the right decision was to kick the field goal. The Patriots, with the ball on the 3 with six seconds remaining, felt like they could run one more play. They did something similar in Week 3 against the Ravens and it was successful, so give Bill Belichick credit for consistency. The big difference to me is the score and game conditions. The Patriots could have made it a two-possession game at that point (one step closer to taking the crowd out of it), and on a rainy day against a strong defensive team that is offensively challenged, I decisively thought that would have been the right decision. In Baltimore, it was still a one-possession situation. I think it's a good football debate.
Q. Mike, to pick out one specific play that really hurt us yesterday, let's talk about Brady having that intentional grounding at the end of the first half. The play cost us 3 points. This isn't the first time this happened -- the Super Bowl also saw Brady have a costly intentional grounding. Are we not protecting well enough, are receivers not where they are supposed to be, is Brady just not executing? -- Alana (Newton, Mass.)
A. Alana, on that particular play, it's on Brady. He knows the time is limited and that a quick decision must be made. He just has to throw that ball closer to a Patriot. He held himself accountable and no one is harder on himself than Brady. Once the Patriots decided to take that risk and run one more play, it's on Brady to avoid the one mistake that can't happen. He didn't. My thought: Why even take the risk?
Q. Mike, I like to consider myself a pretty level-headed football fan, but the more I think about the loss to Seattle, and all of the other games that the Pats have lost in a similar fashion, I'm really starting to get concerned about Tom Brady and this team in general. Is Brady done being a clutch QB? Are the Pats done? Talk me off the ledge! -- John R. (Stoneham)
A. John, don't jump off that ledge. The Patriots aren't done. Look around the AFC, and no one is running away with things. The conference is down this year and I still believe the Patriots will be there in the end. They'll get better. The question is, can they improve enough between now and then to beat the best teams? It's fair to have concerns on whether this secondary can limit a top passing attack. As for Brady, he's still one of the best in the game. Everyone has an off day, and Sunday in Seattle was one of the sloppiest games we've seen him play in recent memory. We haven't seen the same late-game magic from him on a consistent basis as we did in prior years, but I can't think of too many other quarterbacks I'd rather have leading the huddle in today's NFL. I still believe it's in there.
Q. I'm writing this while I'm still a little angry over the loss on Sunday and I can't put it into words how frustrating it was to watch. New England seems to be able to get ahead but never to hold the lead. Look at the two Super Bowls against the Giants, as well as this year's losses to the Ravens and Seahawks. Can this trend be stopped? I really hope this lights a fire under the Patriots because it's really hard to watch them being physically and mentally beaten like they were by the Seahawks. -- Nick (Montreal)
A. Nick, I sense similar frustration from other emailers as well (perhaps you've picked up on that vibe if you're read to this point in the mailbag). The Patriots used to be known as great finishers, but they haven't been able to capture that ability to rally in recent years on a consistent basis. I'll just say this: When you're talking about players like Brady, Vince Wilfork, Wes Welker, Logan Mankins and Jerod Mayo, among others, it's a prideful group that is going to give you everything they have. If they don't succeed, it won't be because of a lack of effort.
Q. Mike, it seems like the Pats are having trouble closing games out in the fourth quarter. In your opinion, is this more due to poor execution (Brady missing passes, WRs dropping passes, lack of pass rush, DBs missing everything) or scheme and coaching? Have the Patriots been changing their play-calling both offensively and defensively in the fourth quarters of games? Thanks. -- Sean (Hudson)
A. Sean, I don't think it's black and white. It varies from game to game. But to simplify it, when looking at the three losses this season, there have been a small handful of plays that have determined the outcome in the fourth quarter. Make the play, you win. Don't make the play, you lose. In the end, I think it's about the individuals rising up in the critical situation to make those plays. The Patriots, who have prided themselves on this in the past, haven't done that enough this season.
Q. As Belichick says, it's on to the Jets. The Jets are ranked 18th in total defense but 31st against the run. You would expect the offensive game plan to be more balanced. Do you think that will happen? -- David (North Attleborough, Mass.)
A. David, whenever the Patriots go up against a Ryan-coached defense, one of the things that comes to mind is disguise. Brady annually calls this one of the toughest games to prepare for. I'd expect more balance this week, and also a tighter operation from the sideline to the field. I think the Patriots are a better team than they showed Sunday in Seattle in one of the more frustrating losses for them in recent memory.
Q. Hi Mike, any word on Brandon Lloyd? If he is out next week, how might that affect the offense? The Jets have had success shutting down the middle of the field in the past, and Lloyd would be very handy in that situation. -- Nathan (Melbourne, Australia)
Nathan, Lloyd returned to the game for the final two plays after the apparent shoulder injury on the final drive. But he did go for tests after the game and I'm not sure of the results. I watched him walk out of the stadium and he wasn't showing any emotion; I wouldn't read anything into that. I think the sting of the loss was also painful.
Q. Hey Mike, to me the inconsistency of the offense has been in part when they use backup linemen. I have little faith that Sebastian Vollmer will ever be 100 percent this year. Do you think the backups can improve over the next couple of months? I know Dante Scarnecchia is amazing, it just seems this year there is steep drop-off after the starters. -- Devin (Lowell)
A. Devin, I think they are thin there, specifically at tackle. I do think we'll see improvement from the backups, but I agree, it's a noticeable drop-off, mainly from a consistency standpoint, when players like Sebastian Vollmer and Logan Mankins aren't in there. Both those players are very tough. Overall, I don't think the offensive line is one of the primary issues facing this club at this time. They are getting good play up there from this view.
Q. I'm wondering why Dan Connolly would get any reps at fullback given the thin nature of the offensive line and his history of head injuries. In addition, the defensive back play is alarming and the recent track record for player development at that position is even worse. At some point doesn't the coaching need to come under some fierce scrutiny? -- dbates (Ipswich)
A. I think they are both fair points, although I'd just say that if we're going to lodge complaints against the Patriots' coaching staff, I'd ask anyone to point out a coaching staff that has it all figured out. The Patriots, like everyone else, aren't perfect. But when you match them up against their peers over a long stretch of time, it's hard to argue with the bottom-line results. Maybe this isn't the best week for consumer confidence after a disappointing turn of events in Seattle, and the struggles to develop talent in the secondary is real, but who else would you really want? On Connolly, I'm uneasy about that as well. They dressed eight linemen Sunday in Seattle and I also wondered if it would be smarter to call on one of the backups in that type of power fullback role.
Q. Hi Mike, when I watch the running game (common to Stevan Ridley and Brandan Bolden) what I notice is that it seems like they run through friction. I think the observation is that they are often able to avoid getting squared up and are able to get the forward lean. In the past I remember this when Curtis Martin was running for the Jets, so many of those 3-yard runs turned into 13-yard runs because the tackler couldn't square him up and stop his forward progress. -- Ned in NC (Greensboro, N.C.)
A. Ned, one of the things we talked about after our podcast last week was Bill Belichick's comment about how the real good running backs don't just get what is blocked for them, but they are able to get more on their own. So your observation is a good one. It wasn't the best day for the running game on Sunday in Seattle, but I still thought there were flashes.


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Today's guest rabbitorial has kindly been sent to us from John Mathieson, his own local adaption of an email story. Thanks John.
Christmas 2022
"Winston, come into the dining room, it's time to eat," Julia yelled to her husband. "In a minute, honey, it's a tie score."
Actually, Winston wasn't very interested in the traditional holiday rugby game between Auckland and Wellington. Ever since the government passed the Civility in Sports Statute of 2017, outlawing tackle rugby for its "unseemly violence" and the "bad example it sets for the rest of the world", Winston was far less of a rugby fan than he used to be. Two-hand touch wasn't nearly as exciting.
Yet it wasn't the game that Winston was uninterested in. It was more the thought of eating another Tofu Turkey. Even though it was the best type of Veggie Meat available after the government revised the New Zealand Anti-Obesity Act of 2018, adding fowl to the list of federally-forbidden foods, (which already included potatoes, cranberry sauce, and mincemeat pie), it wasn't anything like real turkey.
And ever since the government officially changed the name of "Christmas Day" to "A National Day of Atonement" in 2020, to officially acknowledge the misinterpretation and management of the "Treaty of Waitangi", the holiday had lost a lot of its lustre.
Eating in the dining room was also a bit daunting. The unearthly gleam of government-mandated fluorescent light bulbs made the Tofu Turkey look even weirder than it actually was, and the room was always cold. Ever since the Greens had passed the Power Conservation Act of 2016, mandating all thermostats - which were monitored and controlled by the electric company - be kept at 20 degrees Celsius, every room on the south side of the house was barely tolerable throughout the entire winter.
Still, it was good getting together with family. Or at least most of the family.
Winston missed his mother, who passed on in October, when she had used up her legal allotment of life-saving medical treatment. He had had many heated conversations with the Regional Health Consortium, spawned when the private insurance market finally went bankrupt, and everyone was forced into the government health care program. And though he demanded she be kept on her treatment, it was a futile effort. "The RHC's resources are limited," explained the government bureaucrat. "Your mother received all the benefits to which she was entitled. I'm sorry for your loss."
Ed couldn't make it either. He had forgotten to plug in his electric car last night, the only kind available after the Anti-Fossil Fuel Bill of 2021 outlawed the use of the combustion engines - for everyone but government officials. The 50 mile round trip was about 10 miles too far, and Ed didn't want to spend a frosty night on the road somewhere between here and there.
Thankfully, Winston's brother, John, and his wife were flying in.
Winston made sure the dining room chairs had extra cushions for the occasion. No one complained more than John about the pain of sitting down so soon after the government-mandated cavity searches at airports, which severely aggravated his haemorrhoids. Ever since a terrorist successfully smuggled a cavity bomb onto a jetliner, the TSA told New Zealanders the added "inconvenience" was an "absolute necessity" in order to stay "one step ahead of the terrorists".
Winston's own body had grown accustomed to such probing ever since the government expanded their scope to just about anywhere a crowd gathered, via the Anti-Terrorist-Profiling Act of 2022. That law made it a crime to single out any group or individual for "unequal scrutiny", even when probable cause was involved. Thus, cavity searches at malls, train stations, bus depots, etc. had become almost routine. Almost.
The Supreme Court is reviewing the statute, but most Kiwis expect a Court composed of three Labour, and six conservative Greens to leave the law intact. "A living Constitution is extremely flexible", said the Court's eldest member, Elena Kagan. "Europe has had laws like this one for years. We should learn from their example," she added.
Winston's thoughts turned to his own children. He got along fairly well with his 12-year-old daughter, Brittany, mostly because she ignored him. Winston had long ago surrendered to the idea that she could text anyone at any time, even during Atonement Dinner. Their only real confrontation had occurred when he limited her to 50,000 texts a month, explaining that was all he could afford. She whined for a week, but got over it.
His 16-year-old son, Jason, was another matter altogether. Perhaps it was the constant bombarding he got in public school that global warming, the bird flu, terrorism, or any of a number of other calamities were "just around the corner", but Jason had developed a kind of nihilistic attitude ranging between simmering surliness and outright hostility.
It didn't help that Jason had reported his father to the police for smoking a cigarette in the house, an act made criminal by the Smoking Control Statute of 2018, which outlawed smoking anywhere within 500 metres of another human being. Winston paid the $5000 fine, which might have been considered excessive before the New Zealand dollar became virtually worthless as a result of yet another world share market crash of 2019.
The latest round of quantitative easing the government initiated was, once again, to "spur economic growth". This time, they promised to push unemployment below its years-long rate of 18 per cent, but Winston was not particularly hopeful.
Yet the family had a lot for which to be thankful, Winston thought, before remembering it was a Day of Atonement.
At least he had his memories. He felt a twinge of sadness when he realised his children would never know what life was like in the Good Old Days, long before government promises to make life "fair for everyone" realised their full potential and before the broad sweeping laws to protect ourselves from ourselves came in. Winston could still remember the days spent out in the sun enjoying the beach but of course that was before the government law of 2016 "Sun Smart", or the "SS" as it was known, demanded everyone must be fully clothed to protect against the threat of the sun. But he regretted like so many of his fellow Kiwis that he now had to take large doses of vitamin D (readily available from the government pharmaceutical supply company) to compensate for the lack of sunlight, fortunately he didn't need the new on the market sperm rejuvenator after it was discovered that due to constant over heating from wearing all the "safety clothing" in summer that the majority of Kiwi males were infertile.
Winston never realised how many things could change when they didn't happen all at once, but little by little, so people could get used to them. He wondered what might have happened if the public had stood up while there was still time, maybe back around 2012, when all the real nonsense began.
"Maybe we wouldn't be where we are today if we'd just said 'enough is enough' when we had the chance," he thought.
Maybe so, Winston.
Maybe so.
Posted on 30-01-2013 13:43 | By Sambo
anyone called Winston will not allowed to be alive, and "no" will be erased from a vocabulary that will make elevator music seem intellectual, a wage and a benifit will finally mean the same thing, and a job will be something you do in cyberspace. Keep it rolling Mr Rabbit, enough is never enough, and no pasture will be big enough for the amount of holes you want to dig.
Posted on 28-01-2013 10:44 | By Phailed
But sadly, no-one elses. A green type govt run NZ and farming has been reduced from a once profitable business earning enough to pay everyone else welfare benefits, to a form of subsistence agriculture. Cars can now only be used by MPs, and air travel is restricted to politicians and their spouses on fact finding study tours. Quantitative easing has made the $NZ more worthless than Zimbabwe's currency. Laws against offending anyone have been used to stop any criticism of the government. Let's hope it was just a nightmare.
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Nice work, John. Better than Rabbits. Time Rogers was put out to pasture. Looking forward to your next work, John.
Posted on 26-01-2013 17:47 | By tuiruru
Brilliant stuff. I wonder what Winston's last name is?
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Menninger's book, Love Against Hate, really is an extension and in parts a duplication of what he presented in his very searching analysis of Man Against Himself, reviewed some time ago in the Archives. Many of the same examples and case reports are used in this book, but the duplication only increases the message of hope, of creativity, and of the need for channeling and bridling destructive aggressions. Perhaps this really is the last best hope for mankind. A coldly practical view of the scene does not prevent Menninger from taking an optimistic view which he presents in a constructive way even though he makes no effort to see all his troubles as blessings in disguise. Menninger believes that there is more ultimate purpose in the existence of human beings than the mere surface facts of animal life. Thought about the selection and evaluation of experience will lead to further
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Having for some time seen Gen. Stanley McChrystal in TV profiles and read several of his print interviews, it came as somewhat of a shock to read his quotes (and those of his top aides) from the new issue of Rolling Stone. McChrystal's image has been that of an extremely disciplined leader devoted to serving his country, but somehow the discipline part took a short vacation when Rolling Stone's Michael Hastings showed up on the scene. Now he's "The Runaway General," (the article's title) and portrayed as an outsider who didn't mix well with the Obama administration. The civilian press officer responsible for the interview has (not surprisingly) resigned, but what happens to McChrystal when he talks to his boss today? Was his gaffe a true representation of himself, or simply one of the symptoms of "the fog of war"?
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Grant: Yankees? Rays? Rangers have no reason to fear either squad
ARLINGTON - Few Rangers would let on Sunday that they were even the slightest bit interested in the outcomes of the games that would determine their AL Division Series opponent.
New York, Tampa Bay; Tampa Bay, New York. It didn't matter.
Well, it did to Ian Kinsler.
He admitted after a regular-season-ending 6-2 loss to Los Angeles that he found himself constantly looking at the scoreboard in left field for updates on the Yankees-Red Sox and Tampa Bay-Kansas City games. An 8-4 Yankees loss that ended in the seventh inning of the Rangers game ensured Texas will open the Division Series at Tampa Bay on Wednesday. It also brought Kinsler a little peace of mind.
"Sure," Kinsler said when asked about concerns over where the Rangers would be going. "I wanted to know whether or not to pack a jacket."
This is what passes for concern these days in the Rangers' clubhouse.
The days when the Rangers dreaded facing the Yankees in the playoffs? Long gone. Not because the Rangers don't respect the Yankees, but because there is no connection between this team and the three previous AL West champs, who all went to New York and promptly got obliterated by the Yankees' dynasty. OK, Darren Oliver was here in 1996, but he's pitched for so many teams since then and is so laid back, nothing fazes him. Lest anybody need reminding, Texas has lost nine straight postseason games to New York and scored a total of two runs in the past six.
Those bad memories belong to the fans. Not this team. The longest-tenured Ranger, Michael Young, didn't even join the organization until 10 months after the 1999 sweep. The bulk of this team joined the Rangers in 2007 or later..
"It was not an issue," Young said, nearly rolling his eyes. "Most of the guys in here, hey, they probably don't even know this team ever played the Yankees in the playoffs. It just wasn't a concern."
Actually, the fact the Rangers will go to St. Petersburg, Fla., to start the series shouldn't be a concern, either. Again, not because the Rangers don't respect the Rays; they do. It's just that you get a feeling this team respects everyone and fears no one.
And, quite frankly, Tampa Bay isn't playing all that well heading into the series. The Rays managed to close out the season with a 12-inning, 3-2 win over the Omaha, er, Kansas City Royals on Sunday, coming back from a 2-0, ninth-inning deficit to do so. Take a slightly larger sample, though, like the last month of the season, and you don't exactly find a team hitting its stride as the playoffs approach.
If it's possible for a team to back into home-field advantage throughout the AL playoffs, then that's exactly what the Rays did. They "caught" the Yankees in the East by going a thoroughly average 15-15 after Sept. 1. The Yankees were a dreadful 13-17.
The Rays' offense has been hard to figure all season. Tampa Bay finished 13th in the 14-team AL in batting average (.248) and struck out more times (1,292) than any previous AL playoff team. Yet the Rays ranked third in the AL in runs scored. The offense has been practically absent for the last week. In the first six games of the week, the Rays were shut out three times and hit .146.
The offense has been further weakened by the 10-day absence of cleanup hitter Evan Longoria due to a strained quadriceps. He's expected to be back for the postseason, but he'll be rusty.
Manager Joe Maddon will go with Matt Garza in Game 2. Garza has a 5.88 ERA since Sept. 1. He can be a little jumpy. But Jeff Niemann, the other experienced option, has a 6.93 mark for the same time frame, and Wade Davis is a rookie.
In other words, Tampa Bay enters the playoffs looking beatable. Just like the Yankees, they have starting pitching issues after their ace. Just like the Rangers, they have some holes in the lineup. Just like Minnesota, they play good defense, can scrap out runs, but sometimes lack pop.
In other words, the AL playoff field is as balanced as it has been in a long time. The Rangers respect every other team. This time, they have no reason to fear any of them.
• Can the Rangers win a playoff game? They have lost nine consecutive post-season games, dating to the 1990s. All of them, however, came against the New York Yankees.
• Can the Rangers win a game on the road? Texas is 0-12 against the rest of the AL playoff field (Tampa Bay, Minnesota, New York) on the road this season.
• Josh Hamilton returns to his roots: So much of Josh Hamilton's background in and out of baseball is tied to Tampa Bay, which made him the first overall pick in the 1999 draft. As Hamilton said Sunday: "It's ironic that's our opponent. But it's nice for me to have come full circle."


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Following a first degree in Natural Science from the University of Cambridge, Dr. Foster completed his doctorate on the biochemistry of permeability changes to eukaryotic cell membranes caused by enveloped viruses at St. George's Hospital Medical School, University of London in 1980. Following post-doctoral research into inositol phosphate metabolism in neuronal tissue with Professor Tim Hawthorne at the University of Nottingham, he moved to Beecham Pharmaceuticals, subsequently SmithKline Beecham, where his research focused on arachidonic acid metabolism and signal transduction in inflammatory cells. He left SB in 1992 to join the newly established Speywood Laboratory Limited. Here he was responsible for establishing, de novo, a research facility and team to undertake studies into the therapeutic potential of botulinum neurotoxin fragments. In 1995, Dr. Foster moved to CAMR, now the UK Health Protection Agency (HPA) at Porton Down, to continue the work on the neurotoxin fragments. This work established proprietary technology for the targeted delivery of clostridial neurotoxin endopeptidase activity that is the basis of TSI proteins and led to the spin-out of Syntaxin Ltd., of which Dr. Foster is a Founder, from the HPA in 2005. Dr. Foster is an internationally recognised expert in botulinum neurotoxin biology, with over 20 years' experience in the field, and is currently Chief Scientific Officer of Syntaxin Ltd.
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Dr. Berraondo completed his B.S. Degree in Pharmacy at the University of Navarra (Spain) in 1999 and earned his Pharm.D. in drug design, synthesis and evaluation from the University of Navarra (Spain) in 2004. His main project was the production and evaluation of an adeno-associated virus encoding interferon alpha for the treatment of chronic hepatitis in the woodchuck model. Dr. Berraondo carried out postdoctoral research at the Institut Pasteur in Paris (France) under the supervision of Dr. Claude Leclerc, where he worked on tumor immunotherapy for the European project THERAVAC. In February 2007, he joined the Gene Therapy and Hepatology department at the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA). Dr. Berraondo primary research interests include tumor gene immunotherapy and therapeutic protein and peptide delivery.
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Rachel Rennard is a Senior Scientist at Merrimack Pharmaceuticals, where she has been involved in antibody and protein engineering efforts, including the engineering of MM-141, an anti-ErbB3 and anti-IGF1R bispecific antibody in late preclinal development.
Simon Brack, Ph.D., Director, Discovery Research, Covagen AG
Simon Brack serves as Director Discovery Research at Covagen. He joined Covagen in 2007 to contribute to the development of the Fynomer technology. Before working for Covagen, Simon Brack was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Oxford (UK) in Professor Herman Waldmann's lab. He earned his PhD from the ETH Zürich for his work on antibody fragments for tumor targeting carried out in Professor Dario Neris group.
Volker Schellenberger, Ph.D., CSO, Discovery, Amunix
Volker is currently Chief Scientific Officer of Amunix Inc, which he co-founded with Willem Pim Stemmer in 2006. Volker is lead inventor of Amunix' XTEN technology enabling the engineering of biotherapeutics characterized by long vivo half-life, low safety risk due to their biodegradable nature, and efficient recombinant production. Volker has 18 years of industry experience in protein engineering and drug discovery. He served as Director of Genencor's Protein Engineering department, where he invented combinatorial consensus mutagenensis, selection by micro-compartmentalization as well as mutator technology. He focused on the discovery and engineering of antibody-enzyme fusion proteins. Prior to his work on biotherapeutics, Volker led projects optimizing enzymes for industrial applications as well as microbes for metabolic pathway engineering. Volker received his Ph.D. from Leipzig University in 1986 for studies on protease catalyzed peptide synthesis. After postdoctoral studies at the Institute for Protein Research in Pushchino (Russia) he moved to the University of Göttingen where he developed a novel method for the production of peptides from recombinant peptide-multimers. After a postdoc with Bill Rutter at the University of California, San Francisco he joined Genencor in 1994. Volker is author of over 40 scientific papers and inventor of more than 70 issued or pending patent applications. He is the recipient of the Karl Lohman award of the German Society of Biochemists.
Joachim Feldwisch, Ph.D., Director, Pre-Clinical Development, Research, Affibody AB
Dr. Feldwisch joined Affibody AB in 2002 where he worked as Project Manager Biotherapeutics and later as Director Preclinical Development. He received his MSc in Biology with main focus on biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of Cologne and earned his PhD at the Max-Planck-Institute für Züchtungsforschung in Cologne in 1992. In the following years he worked at Pharmacia, Pharmacia&Upjohn and later Biovitrum both with biologicals and small molecule pharmaceuticals. His current research interests include optimization of small scaffold proteins as well as preclinical and clinical development of Affibody molecules for imaging and therapy.
Arieh Gertler, Ph.D., Professor, Biochemistry, Nutrition and Food Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Prof. Arieh Gertler has authored over 240 reviewed papers in the fields of Enzymology, Animal Nutrition, Molecular Endocrinology and Biotechnology. During the last 30 years, his main search interests included: hormonal control of development and differentiation of bovine mammary gland; purification and characterization of prolactin receptors from various species, cloning of prolactin and growth hormone receptors extracellular domains; investigation of the mitogenic effect of prolactin, preparation of recombinant hormones and investigation of structure-function relationship of growth hormones and placental lactogen by site-directed mutagenesis. Over the years, he had prepared over 400 different recombinant proteins or their mutated analogues which are used by numerous investigators worldwide. Since 1998 one of his focuses has been leptin and over 60 papers concerning this subject have been published. The culmination of this research was the most recent development of human, ovine, rat and mouse superactive leptin antagonists.
José Luis Millán, Ph.D., Professor, Sanford Children's Health Research Center, Sanford-Medical Research Institute
José Luis Millán received his early training in clinical chemistry/biochemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and joined La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation, the predecessor of Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, in 1977 as a trainee in Clinical enzymology. Dr. Millán then completed his Ph.D. studies at the University of Umeå, Sweden from 1981-1983 and after a period of postdoctoral training at the La Jolla Cancer Research Foundation he was appointed Assistant Professor in 1986 and promoted to Associate Professor in 1989 and to Full Professor in 1994 at the same institution. He held the Chair of Medical Genetics at the Department of Medical Biosciences, School of Medicine, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden from 1995 to 2000. Dr. Millán is currently Professor at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, and he has adjunct affiliations with the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery, Murcia, Spain.
Dr. Millán's current research in elucidating the basic mechanisms that control the initiation of skeletal mineralization has lead to significant translational applications, such a the development and implementation of the first successful treatment for Infantile Hypophosphatasia (a genetic form of rickets) and current efforts to prevent and treat medial vascular calcification, a condition common in end-stage renal disease, obesity, diabetes and aging. His research also focuses on understanding what factors determine the composition of the gut microbiota and control fatty acid absorption, a subject of relevance to understanding obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, all major afflictions of our modern, often sedentary, way of life.
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A friend once opined that there were two kinds of weather in New Orleans: too freakin' hot and not so cold. But during the last weekend in April, a third (and rare) type was in abundance. You know the kind of day — temps in the high 60s, low humidity and brilliantly clear, sunny skies. The kind that makes driving the Audi A5 convertible not only a bliss-inducing pleasure, but darn near an addiction. Especially if you happen to be daytripping through the cypress-dotted marshscapes near Venice, enjoying the unobstructed, 360-degree view afforded when the power soft-top roof is retracted into the trunk.
All the while nudging the turbocharged, 2.0-liter four-cylinder powertrain in manual-shift mode as you cruise toward the Gulf of Mexico on the southernmost tip of the Louisiana delta, putting this luxury coupe's optional all-wheel-drive, eight-speed Tiptronic transmission through its paces, and watching the egrets flying overhead high above the roadside Sunday anglers trying to hook the catch of the day.
We might have stopped to chat if we hadn't been otherwise occupied pushing down some serious blacktop thanks to the slinky gusto the transmission provided in the shape of 211 horses and 258 pound-feet of torque. We reveled in the superb road manners and fiercely uncompromising handling, all aided by electronic stability control, variable-speed power steering and five-link front suspension.
A thought occurred: the mere fact that a German company like Audi is capable of stealing the thunder from its pan-Asian competitors by crafting its own version of a near-perfect, 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine, which until recently has been the undisputed domain and pièce de résistance of Japan's automotive holy trinity — Honda, Toyota and Nissan — is in and of itself quite a feat. Forget the fact the A5's biggest schoolyard challengers include the BMW 3 Series and Mercedes-Benz E-Class coupe. This Bavarian-headquartered carmaker is looking to slap competitors located halfway around the world in the Pacific Rim.
At one point we thought of turning on the optional Bang & Olufsen audio system just to sample the new CD of original 1940s Argentine tango music we had packed for the trip. But we thought better of the idea after realizing that in a convertible this would not only be a disservice to one of my favorite genres of South American music, but also the sounds of nature we were enjoying during our drive.
Namely, the wind.
Caution: if you're a top-down driver, make sure to pack sunscreen on your first-ever road trip in the Audi A5. I didn't and paid the price with a sunburn halfway into the trip. For the return leg, I had little choice but to borrow my traveling companion's diaphanous headscarf, featuring a lovely spring floral print, which I wrapped protectively around my face before shielding my eyes with a pair of sunglasses. Visually the effect was stunning, in a girly-man bank robber-meets-terrorist sort of way.
Comforts of home
If at first blush the Audi A5 Cabriolet strikes you as the cute middle sister when seen in between its comparatively conservative siblings, the A4 and A6, you wouldn't be too far off the mark. Tapered and tailored, the four-passenger convertible version of the A5 even manages to achieve a rare feat within the circle of cabriolets: when the top is up, the profile and bodylines are not warped or mangled-looking but instead mirror almost identically those of its non-convertible cousin.
Inside, nearly all the comforts of home await. From the double-stitched leather shifter and white-accent stitched leather upholstery to the uber-quality hard plastics, tri-spoke steering wheel with audio and cruise controls, wind blocker (for when the top is down), heated side mirrors, automatic climate control, eight-way power front and four-way power front passenger seats, and 50/50 split rear folding backseat, the A5 seems seriously intent on winning your luxury car-loving heart.
If the oh-so-comfortable, black-leather upholstered sports seats with faux-suede insets can't woo you, perhaps the ergonomically arranged center stack and cleanly configured center console will be more your cup of tea.
Make no bones about it: the A5 will seduce you only to make you glad to fork over the extra bucks for upgraded options like the $9,200 Prestige package. This adds adaptive Xenon headlamps, LED daytime running lights and taillights, an auto-dimming interior mirror, heated front seats, tri-zone climate control, navigation system, rear parking sensors, and a Bang & Olufsen sound system. The $1,500 S-line package, meantime, adds 19-inch wheels, a black-cloth headliner, burnished aluminum inlays and leather surfaces. Up the ante to the $1,000 Sport package and you get front sport seats, 18-inch 10-spoke wheels and sport suspension.
No. 2 with a bullet
Five years ago, Audi announced the company's intention to step up its game and begin competing in earnest in the U.S. market against long-time German rivals Mercedes-Benz and BMW — brave talk for a notorious lag-behind European carmaker when compared to its Teutonic brethren.
But Germans know how to rally. And Audi is no exception. Case in point: in the past five years, Audi has catapulted itself from seventh place into the No. 2 slot behind BMW as the top-selling European luxury car in the United States, according to experts.
And no small amount of this growth can be traced to rollouts of vehicles like the A7 Sportback and the A5, which first rolled off the assembly lines in 2008, according to company officials.
During the past two years, I have had the pleasure of test-driving numerous Audis including the A8 luxury tourer, A6 Quattro, A7 Sportback, A3 diesel and, most recently, the A5 Cabriolet.
Friends like to ask which one I would buy if money were no object.
Tough call. All this paddle-shiftin' fool knows for certain is that his traveling companion is holding her smartphone up in the air to snap our picture as the A5 Cabriolet swoops into another turn somewhere near Pointe-a-la-Hache, the wind blowing in our happy faces.
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12 rounds hurt Hagler the most. But it was not a gamebreaker. I think Hagler's mistake was in completely underestimating the emotional potency of Ray's return and the air of nostalgia it instilled within the crowd. He didn't realise he was battling against arguably the biggest home-team advantage in modern times (look at the likes of Gene Hackman cheering like a schoolkid for Leonard) until it was far too late and went down fighting an unbeatable myth rather than a very beatable man.
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Rounds. No doubt. Totally a ***** move. But this is also very true ^^^. As painful as it is to admit.
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Yes, Hagler did look slow. However, any careful observer could see that Leonard was also a pale shadow of his former self. For sure he was beating Marvin to the punch. But he could only sustain his attack in short bursts. Hagler needed to be in Leonard's face every time he took his foot off the pedal.
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Hagler was beat by Leonard. . . No robbery here. . . Hagler didn't have to deal with anything different than other fighters have had too. . . Leonard looked amazing in this fight. . . so much hand speed. . . AMAZING wheels on him too. . . that's boxing IMO. . .
PIECED Hagler up. . . Lol then Hagler acted like a baby and cried about it. . . "waaaaaa i got beat but i think i deserved to win!" WAAAAAAAAAA!
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Benitez (38-0-1) - TKO15
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What an F-in' Resume.
Clearly, nobody was ever going to KO Marvelous, owner of arguably the greatest chin in boxing history.
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Of what u list though i think the distance, even though im of the understanding its what both guys wanted - 15 would have suited Marvin better what with SRL's inactivity
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I think a rematch, if it were to happen would have clearly gone to Marvin. He would of used every inch of his stamina to take the fight to ray and fight him on the inside with a good body attack which would have done ray in IMO. but se la vie
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You took the words out of my mouth, I voted that the 12 round distance was the biggest factor, but boxing was going that way anyway. The amount of 15 round fights after 1987 was much reduced. Come to think of it, no title fights even jump to mind.....was there any 15 round fights post 1987? I'm stuck to think of one!!! So no real excuse there for Hagler fans........
And yes, Hagler looked old and slow. Although the fight was closer on second viewing, Hagler was made to look foolish at times with wild missing, he was slow to capitalise on Leonard's mistakes, he didn't apply enough pressure, his handspeed was quite reduced too. Come to think of it, did Leonard actually miss with any of his combinations? Hagler was quite a goal keeper that night. If Leonard didn't beat him he might have been exposed shortly after regardless. I think that the Hagler that fought Leonard would have had a tough time with Hearns, Barkley, Benn or even Eubank a few years later.
Adding to all the above he gave away the early rounds trying to make a point of fighting orthodox, what was he and the Petronelli's thinking? Come to think of it, the Petronelli's cornerwork was dire that night. Even Gil Clancy remarked on the telecast that they were talking to Hagler like it was 'an IBM meeting' between rounds, no hint to their fighter that the scoring might have been a little close!!!
Was prime Hagler better than Leonard at middleweight? Yes
Would Hagler have won a rematch? Possibly
What was the real reason Hagler lost? His age! He wasn't prime any longer.
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does this mean... bmw is also gunna stop making E36 parts few years down the road? and we gotta make our own parts ?
I don't believe so; remember your car was probably the very first e30 model to arrive in North America in the mass production sense. Bmw was quite small at the time and was considered quite elite. e30's put bmw on the map of production and sales. so chances are trying to get parts for such an early model will be quite difficult. Unless, as stated you find a place that can fabricate some for you and custom make them. I'm surprised you haven't done that by now..lol.
I think I've had 14 bmw's in 4 years.
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by Danielle Crittenden
Modern, manic mothering has given birth to a new literary genre: the Mommy Diaries. The newest entry is by conservative journalist Crittenden, whose first novel finds conflicted mom Amanda Bright quitting her job as a publicist for the National Endowment for the Arts to raise two kids. Even mothers who can't ditch their careers will recognize the 24/7 juggling act required of today's parents and laugh at some fine satiric moments (the peanut butter cookie Bright's 5-year-old brings to school is a "loaded gun" to his peanut-allergic mates). But Crittenden has a tendency to whine (about potties, about self-worth). Her British counterpart, Allison Pearson, had more bite in last year's bestseller I Don't Know How She Does It. (Warner, $23.95)
BOTTOM LINE: Family fare that's only fair
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