We pretty much figured as much when we didn't hear anything from them by Friday evening. Oh well. Damn...it would have bee such a perfect job. Pay was great. Hours were great. Clothing was great. Even included a company car....sigh...oh well....at least now we can go ahead with our planned vacation at the end of January.
This is really only the 4th job that has looked like a good possibility....where he's actually had at least a telephone interview. 4 job interviews in 10 months ain't very good! He's filled out hundreds of applications...and to only have 4 even bother set up an interview with him. That's HORRIBLE!!!
I was hoping that Paul would get that job. Perhaps it would be better to wait until Paul gets a job before going on vacation? I know y'all enjoy going where you do, and who can blame you. But what if he doesn't get a job any time soon? That money you are spending on that vacation could be saved for living expenses etc. Please don't take that the wrong way. I want the best for you both, but I can't help but worry about you. I too was unemployed not so long ago, so I've been in Paul's shoes and the best way to survive is to plan for the what ifs while you still can. Good luck and I hope something good comes along for Paul and soon. God bless.
A handout picture released by the St Matthew-in-the-City Anglican church in Auckland shows an apparently naked Virgin Mary and Joseph in bed together. The billboard has sparked the ire of conservative Christians in New Zealand.
(AFP/HO/St Matthew-In-The-City)
Arnold Stang, actor known for nerdy roles, dies AP
by BDB
Arnold Stang, actor known for nerdy roles, dies
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AP FILE - In a June 1950 file photo, radio actor Arnold Stang in seen. Stang, a radio, theater, film and
By MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer Mark Pratt, Associated Press Writer 17 mins ago
BOSTON Arnold Stang, an actor who appeared alongside Milton Berle and Frank Sinatra and was known for his nerdy looks and distinctive nasal voice, has died. He was 91.
Stang died Sunday of pneumonia at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Massachusetts, said JoAnne Stang, his wife of 60 years.
She attributed her husband's career longevity to his willingness to tackle any professional challenge.
"He was really unique, because he could perform in any role, comedy or drama, he just loved it all," she said Tuesday. "He always thought of himself just as an actor, not any particular kind of actor, but just an actor who would play whatever he was asked to play."
Despite often playing goofy characters, Stang was the consummate professional, preparing the same for his biggest roles and the smallest commercials.
"I remember how smart he was, and how hardworking, and how disciplined he was, no matter what the role," his wife said.
The slight and diminutive Stang started his career on the radio as a teenager and never lost his love of the medium.
JoAnne Stang remembers her husband zipping across Manhattan in the 1940s and '50s, from radio show to radio show, all live and challenging in their own way because all the acting is done through voice, with no facial expressions or body language, she said.
"That was his education," she said.
He played alongside Berle on radio and television in the 1950s, starred as Sinatra's sidekick in the 1955 movie "The Man with the Golden Arm," and was a member of the ensemble comedic cast of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" in 1963.
The dramatic role alongside Sinatra was one of his favorites, his wife said.
He voiced cartoons, including the lead character in the 1960s cartoon "Top Cat," and did dozens of commercials, perhaps most notably for the Chunky candy bar.
He appeared in movies alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bill Cosby and continued acting into his 80s, playing a role in the 1993 movie "Dennis the Menace."
Stang invented and mischievously perpetuated a story that he was born and raised in the Boston suburb of Chelsea. But his wife said he was really raised in Brooklyn. He lived in the Boston suburb of Needham for the past decade.
Stang is also survived by son David and daughter Deborah.
The White House has appointed its cyber tsar, following a seven month search.
Howard Schmidt, a former eBay and Microsoft executive who advised President Bush, was appointed after others turned down the job.
Mr Schmidt has been set the task of uniting various disparate agencies and organisations to shore up the country's defence against cyber attack.
In May this year, President Obama pledged to personally appoint someone to the post.
In a letter posted on the White House website, John Brennan, assistant to the President for homeland security and counterterrorism said that protecting the internet was "critical to our national security, public safety and our personal privacy and civil liberties".
"It's also vital to President Obama's efforts to strengthen our country, from the modernisation of our health care system to the high-tech job creation central to our economic recovery."
Mr Schmidt would have "regular access to the President and serve as a key member of his National Security Staff", he said.
The White House's acting cyber-security head, Melissa Hathaway, stood down in August after complaining that the post did not allow her to implement necessary changes.
DALLAS (AP) - The white alabaster figures draped in cloaks show their grief in different ways: from a bent head, the face shrouded by a hood, to a hand swathed in cloth reaching up to wipe a tear.
The nearly 40 "mourners" commissioned in the 15th century to adorn the tomb of John the Fearless, the second Duke of Burgundy, will be seen together for the first time outside of France when they begin a tour of seven U.S. cities this spring.
"There's something quiet and very powerful about them," said Heather MacDonald, associate curator of European art at the Dallas Museum of Art, which is organizing the tour along with the Dijon Museum of Fine Arts under the auspices of the French Regional & American Museum Exchange.
The 16-inch-tall sculptures, completed in 1457 for the tomb of the assassinated duke, are traveling while the Dijon museum where they reside is renovated. Following their U.S. tour, the sculptures that depict clergy, family and others will be displayed at Paris' medieval Cluny Museum before returning home.
Rick Brettell, the museum exchange's U.S. director, said the Burgundy court was one of the most powerful in Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. He said people travel to Dijon specifically to see the sculptures.
"The mourning figures are universally admired," he said.
For the first four venues of the U.S. tour, a John the Fearless mourner that the Cleveland Museum of Art owns will join the 39 others, MacDonald said. She said there were originally 41 mourners for his tomb, but one was lost during the French Revolution.
The Dijon museum, which is the former ducal palace, won't be without mourners during the tour. Those adorning the tomb of John's father, Philip the Bold, will be on display outside the tomb during the renovation, said Sophie Jugie, director of the Dijon museum.
The tombs of the dukes were commissioned for the family's monastic complex outside Dijon, but were moved after the French Revolution and placed in the museum. Jugie said the dukes' actual remains are in Dijon's Saint-Benigne cathedral.
The mourners for both dukes are the work of the ducal sculpture workshop, which showed innovation with the three-dimensional, natural figures, MacDonald said.
In Dijon, the mourners for John the Fearless are lined up in arcades beneath effigies of the duke and his wife resting on a black marble slab, so the tour will be a chance to see them "in the round," said MacDonald, who describes the sculptures as "astonishingly beautiful."
"I think there's something incredibly immediate about them," she said. "There's that sense that they have an eloquence that feels undimmed by time."
The mourners' first tour stop will be in New York City at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"They're evoking the real people who were in the funeral processions of the dukes of Burgundy," said Peter Barnet, who is curating the exhibit in New York.
After running from March 2 through May 23 in New York, "The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy" will appear at the St. Louis Art Museum, from June 20 to Sept. 6; the Dallas Museum of Art, from Oct. 3 to Jan. 2, 2011; the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, from Jan. 23, 2011, to April 17, 2011; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, from May 8, 2011, to July 31, 2011; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, from Aug. 21, 2011, to Jan. 1, 2012; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, from Jan. 20, 2012, to April 15, 2012.
Titus 3:5
New International Version
He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
King James Version
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.
1864 During the American Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln from Georgia. The message read, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah."
1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen made the first X-ray. It was of his wife's hand.
1944 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington for a wartime conference with President Roosevelt.
1961 James Davis became the first U.S. soldier to die in Vietnam, while U.S. involvement was still limited to the provision of military advisers.
1984 New York City resident, Bernhard Goetz, shot four black youths on a Manhattan subway. Goetz claimed they were about to rob him.
1991 The body of Lt. Col. William R. Higgins, an American hostage murdered by his captors, was found along a highway in Lebanon.
1996 A car bomb exploded in Belfast, injuring a known IRA supporter. Police suspected that Protestant loyalists were responsible for the attack.
1998 A unit of RJR Nabsico pled guilty to attempting to smuggle cigarettes into Canada.
2001 Thirty Afghans, including two women, were sworn in as part of the new interim government in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai became the head of the post-Taliban government.
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
-- Novalis
Big Daddy Says:
We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that
good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at
the eleventh hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the
worst before it happens.
It appears actress Nicole Kidman's next role may be as Mrs Claus.
Kidman's husband, Keith Urban, played Santa on Saturday, secretly buying a $450 guitar pedal for a shellshocked teenager while shopping in Brisbane.
Tym Brennan, of Tym Guitars, told ABC Radio this morning that Urban had come into his shop to buy a guitar following his concert at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on Friday night.
"I look up and there's Keith Urban and his band, which was quite a shock obviously," Mr Brennan told ABC.
"He spent abut half an hour in the shop trying out guitars, and there was a kid sitting there trying out a fuzz pedal, which is an effect you get for a guitar.
"Keith came back down the counter and was chatting away and had picked out a guitar he liked. He had heard the kid trying out the pedal for some time and he just leaned over and whispered, 'How much is the pedal that kid's looking at?' "I said, 'It's $450, it's not a cheap one', and he just whispered, 'Put it on my card.'
"Obviously I was quite shocked.
"I said, 'Do you want me to tell him?', and he said, 'No, wait 'til I leave.'"
Mr Brennan said as the Caboolture country rock singer made his way out the door, he simply shook the teen's hand, said Merry Christmas and left.
The teenager asked Mr Brennan afterwards whether it was in fact Urban, then got the shock of his life when told the guitar pedal was his.
"He looked at me several times blankly and sort of turned a bit white," Mr Brennan told ABC.
"After he settled down a bit he rang his dad on his mobile and said that Keith Urban had just bought him a Christmas present."
This cheese fondue has a nice bite to it. I love that the bread becomes the bowl to bake and serve the fondue in. Here's a little secret, too: The best part is eating the bread bowl, which has been cut into wedges after the fondue is mostly gone!
Ingredients:
* 1 (1 pound) loaf of round sourdough or French bread
* 8-ounce package shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese
* 2/3 cup light cream cheese
* 1 1/2 cups fat-free sour cream
* 1/2 cup chopped green onions
* 4 ounces canned, diced green chili peppers
* 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Preparation:
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Make a bowl from the round loaf of bread by cutting a circle in the top of the bread. Remove the top by working with your hands to get at the bottom to create a bowl shape (hollow out the loaf) but reserve the bread for dipping later.
2. In mixing bowl, beat the cheese, cream cheese, and sour cream, green onions, and chili peppers and Worcestershire sauce together on low speed. Spoon the mixture into the bread bowl and cover the filled bread bowl with a sheet of foil. While baking, place bread bowl on a cookie sheet, bake until the cheese is melted and bubbly (about 1 hour).
3. Serve with the bread top all cut up into bite-size chunks.
Yield:
16 appetizer servings
Nutritional Information:
Per serving: 168 calories, 9 g protein, 20 g carbohydrate, 5 g fat (2.9 g saturated fat, 1 g monounsaturated fat, 0.3 g polyunsaturated fat), 12 mg cholesterol, 1.1 g fiber, 324 mg sodium. Calories from fat: 27%
The Biggest Loser (Repeat)
NBC: Tuesday, December 22 7:00 PM
Reality, Game show, Health Thanksgiving
Where Are They Now?
Former contestants reveal how they look now and what they've been doing since they left the show; some former contestants reveal their struggle to maintain their weight loss, and others discuss the major milestones they have accomplished.
America's Funniest Home Videos (Repeat)
ABC: Tuesday, December 22 7:00 PM
Reality
A boy recites a seemingly endless Christmas list to a department store Santa; a boy steals Christmas cookies left for Santa.
Carrie Underwood: An All-Star Holiday Special
FOX: Tuesday, December 22 7:00 PM
Special, Music, Variety Christmas
The Grammy-winning country singer performs holiday songs in addition to selections from her albums; Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley and David Cook join Underwood on stage.
NCIS (Repeat)
CBS: Tuesday, December 22 7:00 PM
Crime drama, Action, Adventure, Mystery
Silent Night
The team is forced to put in overtime while searching for a suspect presumed dead when working on a case over Christmas.
Scrubs (New)
ABC: Tuesday, December 22 8:00 PM
Sitcom
Our Mysteries
J.D. seeks Turk's approval; Lucy tries to find the courage to perform a medical procedure; Drew and Denise make things official.
Better Off Ted (New)
ABC: Tuesday, December 22 8:30 PM
Sitcom
Battle of the Bulbs
Lem's mother (Khandi Alexander), a brilliant scientist who has always intimidated him, visits and begins an affair with Dr. Bhamba.
NCIS: Los Angeles (Repeat)
CBS: Tuesday, December 22 8:00 PM
Crime drama, Action, Adventure, Mystery
Killshot
Following a murder, the secrets to classified software are thought to be lost until NCIS uncovers a suspect from Vance's past.
The Jay Leno Show (New)
NBC: Tuesday, December 22 9:00 PM
Entertainment, Talk, Variety
Actor Dane Cook.
Christmas at the White House: An Oprah Primetime Special
ABC: Tuesday, December 22 9:00 PM
Special Christmas
President and Mrs. Barack Obama discuss White House preparations for the holidays.
The Good Wife (Repeat)
CBS: Tuesday, December 22 9:00 PM
Drama, Law
Crash
Will and Alicia have 72 hours to prove that a train company is responsible for a freight train crash; Alicia and Jackie clash over taking the children to visit their father.
Brittany Murphy -- Frantic Rescue Effort (check out the meds)
by Tanya
Brittany Murphy -- Frantic Rescue Effort
Posted Dec 22nd 2009 12:07AM by TMZ Staff
Brittany Murphy's husband and mother made a frantic attempt to revive her before paramedics arrived ... this according to notes written by an investigator from the L.A. County Coroner's office. And, there were a shocking number of strong prescription meds on Brittany's nightstand.
TMZ has reviewed the documents, written by Investigator Blacklock. According to his notes, Brittany Murphy "had been complaining of shortness of breath and severe abdominal pain" for 7 to 10 days prior to her death. According to the notes, Murphy went into the bathroom at around 7:30 AM Sunday and shut the door.
A half hour later Brittany's mother, Sharon Murphy, went to check on her daughter, opened the bathroom door and "discovered the decedent lying on the floor unresponsive." According to the notes, Sharon yelled for help. Brittany's husband, Simon Monjack, who was in bed, heard the screams and ran to the bathroom.
According to the notes, Sharon called 911 and Simon "attempted to revive the decedent by placing her in the shower and running the water."
The notes continue -- "The decedent remained unresponsive and purged her stomach contents prior to the arrival of the paramedics."
When the paramedics arrived, Brittany was "without signs of life."
Paramedics moved Brittany from the bathroom to the master bedroom, where they found a slew of prescription drugs -- "A check of the nightstands revealed large amounts of prescription medication in the decedent's name. Also noted were numerous empty prescription medication bottles in the decedent's husband's name, the decedent's mother's name and unidentified third party names."
According to the notes, the medications included Topamax (anti-seizure meds also to prevent migraines), Methylprednisolone (anti-inflammatory), Fluoxetine (depression med), Klonopin (anxiety med), Carbamazepine (treats Diabetic symptoms and is also a bipolar med), Ativan (anxiety med), Vicoprofen (pain reliever), Propranolol (hypertension, used to prevent heart attacks), Biaxin (antibiotic), Hydrocodone (pain med) and miscellaneous vitamins.
The notes say, "No alcohol containers, paraphernalia or illegal drugs were discovered."
According to the notes, "The night prior to her death, the decedent had consumed some noodles, leftover Thai food, Gatorade, water and tea with lemon."
The notes also say Brittany had a history of hypoglycemia and was hospitalized in April 2009 for low blood sugar while on location in Oregon."
Monjack told the investigator during the 7 to 10 days prior to her death, Brittany complained of shortness of breath and severe abdominal pains but he was not overly alarmed because "she often suffered from severe menstrual pains."
The investigator spoke with police at the scene, who told him "foul play is not suspected."
2 Brothers Drown After Trying to Save Dog in California Lake
by BDB
2 Brothers Drown After Trying to Save Dog in California Lake
Monday, December 21, 200
MCARTHUR, Calif. Authorities say two brothers drowned after falling into icy waters while attempting to rescue a dog that fell into a Northern California lake.
The coroner's office identified the men Monday as 38-year-old Noel Smith of Burney and 32-year-old Nathan Smith of Citrus Heights.
Authorities say the men ended up in the water Saturday evening after their dog fell through the ice at Big Lake in Shasta County. One of the men was submerged for about 20 minutes and the other for about 50 minutes. Rescuers pulled them out but were unable to revive them.
A third man in their group also went into the water, but managed to swim back to shore. He's being treated for severe hypothermia.
3 friends sentenced in NH Walmart worker slaying
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Dec 21, 9:27 PM (ET)
By JOHN CURRAN
NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. (AP) - Denounced as "evil" and "despicable," three young friends who plotted the killing of a developmentally disabled Walmart cashier who had been hitting on a co-worker drew long prison terms Monday.
Timothy Smith, Anthony Howe and Amber Talbot, who pleaded guilty to murder and conspiracy in the October 2008 death of 25-year-old Christopher Gray, sat at adjoining tables in court as the victim's family members tearfully remembered him and berated his killers.
"Just remember that night," said David Kemp, 33, Gray's brother. "I hope it eats you and eats you and eats you until can't take it (any) longer."
Smith and Howe each got 40 years to life and Talbot 25 to 50 years for taking the Groton, Vt., man to a mobile home under the pretext of watching movies. There, Smith, 24, and Howe, 19, who are cousins, stabbed and strangled him as they stood around a campfire.
Gray, an aspiring auto mechanic whose buoyant personality helped him overcome a low IQ, attention deficit disorder and a speech impediment, became a target after wooing Talbot, 18, who also worked at the Woodsville Walmart.
Her boyfriend, Michael Robie, 19, became enraged when he heard about it and plotted revenge, enlisting the other three from his cell. Robie, who was heard discussing the attack in tape-recorded telephone calls from jail, has pleaded guilty to assault and conspiracy.
He is awaiting sentencing.
On the night Gray went missing, Walmart surveillance video showed the three picking him up after work at the Woodsville store, before they drove to Talbot's home. "He was only there because he wanted you to be his friend," his father, Michael Gray, told them Monday.
Talbot hung her head, her brown hair falling in her face, as Gray's "mom," legal guardian Annie Crowley, 38, of Groton, Vt., chided her as the one who lured Gray.
"Are you more than just a stupid girl that who caught up with the wrong crowd?" she told Talbot, standing at a podium in the hushed courtroom. "I think so. I believe all the young men involved are your victims."
Crowley, who had been his guardian for about two years before his death, broke down in tears as she read her statement. "How am I supposed to live with myself, knowing that I was his guardian? I was supposed to be looking out for him," she said.
Shirley Kingsbury, Gray's aunt, stood by the podium as Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin read her statement for her.
"You are despicable human beings," he read from her statement. "My heart is broken forever."
Smith, who had confessed to the killing in a handwritten letter to Gray's family after the slaying, apologized again Monday.
"I see Chris every time I try to sleep. No matter how many times I say I'm sorry, I can't bring him back. But I wish I could. That night, I should've told Chris what we planned on doing, and not to come," Smith said.
Before the sentencings, Gray's family and friends threw an appreciation luncheon for police and prosecutors from Vermont and New Hampshire who cracked the case.
A dozen uniformed officers and plainclothes detectives received lapel pins from Crowley in an informal ceremony before sitting down to a buffet lunch at a community organization's office in nearby Wells River, Vt.
"It was my honor to work on this case," said Assistant New Hampshire Attorney General Lucy Carrillo, as she stepped up to have Crowley pin her.
"We just felt it was important that they be recognized for the work they put into it," said Crowley. "I felt Chris would have appreciated that and would have wanted us to be grateful," she said.
Soldier gets surprise wedding at TIA
Reported by: Chris Martinez
Email: cmartinez@wfts.com
Last Update: 8:50 pm
TAMPA, FL -- Shawna Hodge waited in her wedding gown in the middle of Tampa International Airport, holding a sign with the name of her true love.
Hours after she was supposed to say "I do", Shawna was still missing her groom.
"Nothings gone as we've wanted, but we're working it out," said Shawna Hodge.
Winter weather stranded her soldier husband-to-be up north, and every path to get him home to Orlando met a dead end. It seemed every flight Cody Beckwith booked from the Baltimore area to Orlando was delayed or canceled.
It quickly became clear he'd be missing his own wedding.
So when Cody's family finally found him a midnight flight to Tampa, Shawna decided the airport would just have to do. With the wedding party in tow, Shawna took a road trip to TIA to get her man.
Dressed all in white, Shawna waited for Cody to arrive and give him the surprise of his life. Everything was set for an impromptu wedding.
Around midnight Sunday, Cody finally arrived. He quickly said "I do" to Shawna's improvised wedding plans.
It was hardly the homecoming Cody expected, and far from the wedding of Shawna's dreams. Still, after a ceremony that lasted a matter of minutes, the couple says their wedding was just about perfect.
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Updated Dec 21, 2009 8:55 PM EDT
IRVING, Texas (AP)
The Dallas Cowboys are two wins from bringing a playoff game to their new $1.2 billion showplace. They're also two losses from possibly extending the longest playoff victory drought in franchise history, which might spark a search for the sixth coach since that last postseason win nearly 14 years ago.
It would be easy for the Cowboys to get blinded by the bright side after handing New Orleans its first loss Saturday night. Coach Wade Phillips was quick to recognize that Monday.
"You've still got to back it up and play the next one just as well," Phillips said. "We played well in a lot of areas. We still have some work to do."
First on the list before Sunday night's visit to Washington was cutting kicker Nick Folk after he missed a late 24-yarder that forced the Dallas defense to secure the 24-17 win by making one more stop against one of the league's most dangerous offenses.
It was the sixth straight game with at least one miss by Folk, which finally forced the team to hold auditions Monday for a replacement. Late in the day, Dallas signed former Redskins kicker Shaun Suisham and released Folk.
As well as linebacker DeMarcus Ware played just a week after a frightening neck injury, the Cowboys still have to evaluate his health daily and decide whether he can return to playing every down.
Ware practiced sparingly last week and was limited mostly to passing situations against the Saints. Phillips said he thinks the playing rotations will return to normal against the Redskins.
"He went back in the game in regular situations," Phillips said. "He felt good enough to do that and did that."
Before Folk's miss put the outcome in question, receiver Roy Williams ruined a chance for Dallas to answer the first Saints touchdown when he dropped a third-down pass near midfield early in the fourth quarter. Less than four minutes later, New Orleans (13-1) scored to pull within 24-17.
Critical drops by Williams are magnified because he cost Dallas three draft picks and a $45 million contract extension a year ago. But Phillips flatly rejected a question Monday about whether Williams might be headed to the bench.
"I think we still have hopes that the things we see in practice more and more are going to happen," Phillips said. "He's going to keep working at it, and we're going to keep working at it."
The last time the Cowboys felt this good was the last time they won a big game. Their 20-16 victory at Philadelphia in early November gave them a four-game winning streak and sole possession of first place in the NFC East.
That roll even prompted questions about Dallas playing a "trap" game in Green Bay because the Packers were 4-4 and coming off a loss to lowly Tampa Bay. The Cowboys promptly played their worst offensive game of the season in a 17-7 loss.
This time, the last-place Redskins are on tap.
"We're going to go over the film today, and we're going to be hard on them for the mistakes they made," Phillips said. "They realize there's things we could have done better and there's things that cause you to play your best to win. And that's every game, whoever you're playing."
If the Cowboys (9-5) win in Washington, they will finish the regular season at home against Philadelphia (10-4) with a chance to win the NFC East and host a playoff game at Cowboys Stadium a week later.
The stakes won't be as high as the finale last year, when Dallas was trounced by the Eagles in Philadelphia with the NFC's final playoff berth on the line. But for a team that risked losing control of its playoff fate if it had lost in New Orleans, it will be quite a turnaround.
"I told them before the game it'd be an upset if we got beat. And that's what we felt like," Phillips said. "I think we can build on that. That's the kind of game that define you as far as confidence."
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