| Belichick can't bear to see perfect season tick away for Patriots
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) -A single second showed on the clock - a tick away from a Giant upset. Before Eli Manning could take a final knee to seal New York's 17-14 upset victory Sunday night, Patriots coach Bill Belichick ran onto the field for a quick handshake with Giants coach Tom Coughlin and made a beeline for the locker room. The so-called genius coach with the three Super Bowl rings appeared little more than a poor sport. "I mean, look, they played well," Belichick said. "They made some plays. We made some plays. In the end, they made a couple more than we did." They sure did, and that should alarm Belichick. He put together perhaps the best team the NFL has seen in a long time, setting records galore on offense with Tom Brady and Randy Moss.
WHS student enjoying time as sideline reporter
A position as a High School Playbook sideline reporter for KOCO News Channel 5 has offered a local teen opportunities to gain experience and improve skills, which could prove valuable as she prepares for college and a career.Woodward junior Mallory Ross, 17, said she has always had an interest in film – an interest that "started out as a hobby.""My cousins and I would make these stupid movies over holidays," she said.But soon Ross began to develop her skills and volunteered her talents to help her church make children's music videos. When her computer teacher Bryan Stephenson suggested she apply for the sideline reporter position, where she would get to film sporting events, Ross said she figured it was worth a shot. She filled out an application one day last and received a call from the television station the next day inviting her to interview.Taking time out from her Thanksgiving break, she went to Oklahoma City and interviewed with some of the station members, including sports reporter Mark Rodgers."It was my first formal interview, so I was a little nervous," Ross said.
Violent porn flick prompts apology
Sex Week at Yale ran into more controversy Saturday night when porn director Paul Thomas, on campus to participate in the event, screened a graphic porn film that featured violent sado-masochism. Coordinators said they were appalled by the film — which they had not watched before it was aired in front of an audience of over 200 students — but members of the gender-balanced crowd did not appear upset by the movie and reacted with disappointment when the Sex Week team ended the film early. On Sunday night, Sex Week coordinators emphasized that they do not support the practices displayed in the film, which depicted fantasy rape, bondage and piercing. Colin Adamo '10, Sex Week event coordinator, called the screening a grave mistake. “We really dropped the ball on this one," he said.
Hobart family claims police abuse
HOBART | Candace Olig couldn't hold back the tears Monday as her lawyers played a videotape they say provides visual proof of her family's accusations of police abuse. Watch the surveillance video (Edited for brevity).The 32-minute videotape, taken on the night of Aug. 30 in the Oligs' front yard, shows police arriving at the home in response to a call by the Oligs, who reported a disturbance in their neighborhood involving a speeding car. In moments, the scene turns violent.Words are exchanged before a police officer enters the Oligs' front yard and then is seen throwing a punch that knocks Candace Olig to the ground. As a struggle ensues involving other officers and family members, the same officer is seen in the video pointing his gun at her.Other family members, including husband James Olig, 46, and sons David, 21, and Brian, 18, can be seen in the videotape being grabbed, wrestled to the ground and handcuffed by police.
Lunar eclipse: The view from history's perspective
There's more to a lunar eclipse than mere spectacle and natural wonder. Aristotle, it turns out, used lunar eclipses to prove that the Earth was not flat - but spherical - back in 350 B.C., said Bradley Schaefer, a professor of astronomy at Louisiana State University. So when the shadow of the Earth creeps over the face of the moon about 10 o'clocktonight, you can retrace this critical juncture in the evolution of Western thought, when observation and reason started to eclipse superstition and myth. And, said Schaefer, you don't need a telescope or a Ph.D. in astronomy. Aristotle didn't have either. Armed with nothing but reason and vision, the Greek philosopher pointed out that the shadow of our planet looks like a circle or a portion of one, Schaefer said.
Face it: Rockies hit cool meter
TUCSON — The Rockies are on the verge of being cool. The way Allen Iverson and Carmelo Anthony are cool now. The way John Elway and Terrell Davis were cool back in the day. On the East Coast, where teenagers proudly wear sweat-stained Red Sox and Yankees caps, baseball's been cool for a long, long time. Becoming a baseball fan is a rite of passage in Boston and New York. Not quite so much in Colorado. For a short time, when the majors finally arrived in the Mountain time zone, the Rockies rocked. But those vibes faded years ago. When this newspaper switched me from the Broncos' beat to covering the Rockies, a common refrain from my friends was, "Oh, I'm so sorry." But when Matt Holliday, Troy Tulowitzki, Todd Helton and Co. carried the Rockies to the World Series last fall, the Rockies were suddenly a hot commodity.
Organic rules roost as chicken flies off shelves
One contributor from Fife to an online debate about the subject wrote last week: "One supermarket in Glenrothes has had none at all since these programmes went out."Another said: "In Lanark, at the local supermarket, the free-range chickens were nearly sold out and other people at my work also commented on the same thing happening at their local stores."From now on, it's only free range in our house because standard chicken farming should not be supported by our money."Last night, a spokesman for Sainsburys said its customers in Scotland had been buying free-range or organic chickens in vast numbers.The programmes fronted by Oliver and Fearnley-Whittingstall included images of birds kept in spaces smaller than an A4 piece of paper and spending virtually 24 hours a day in near-darkness.Oliver concentrated on chickens being raised to satisfy the demand for cheap food whilst Fearnley-Whittingstall set up two poultry farms, one free range, the other intensive to try and highlight the differences in both technique and quality of life for the birds.However, many consumers are continuing to buy battery chickens and their eggs despite a recent RSPCA survey showing 75% of the British public thought supermarkets should only sell organic or free-range poultry products.A spokesman for the charity added: "Since recently discovering that standard chickens were farmed in poor conditions these people now buy chickens that have had a better life."Nearly three out of four people feel supermarkets should only sell higher welfare chicken such as Freedom Food, free-range or organic."This directly supports the RSPCA's January campaign in which we asked people to sign a petition calling on supermarkets to sell only higher-welfare chicken by 2010.
The year of the nest
Forget about white, tan and beige; the new neutrals are toned-down colors. The designers at HGTV.com call these low-key colors "huetrals." Pale, weathered, faded, nature-inspired hues go with everything: soft, buttery yellow; a milky, seafoam green; pretty sky blue and icy gray. Punch those "huetrals" up a notch with your accessories. On a recent episode of Style Minute, the new multimedia component of my blog, Design Notebook (www.statesman.com/designnotebook), I offered the scoop on the must-have colors for 2008. The Pantone Color Institute announced blue iris as the color of the year, and it's already cropping up everywhere, but its close cousin, purple, is gaining popularity as well. The editors at Elle Decor reported seeing scores of purples at the January Maison & Objet trade show in Paris.
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