| Prediction roundup: Patriots in a landslide
Only Greg Lee picks the Jaguars with the points (13½). Jeremy Green, Scouts Inc.: Jaguars. "So, yes, I guess I will continue to be unfazed by the Patriots' 16-0 record. And no, I am not a fan of the Jaguars or hater of the Patriots. A fan never thinks his team can lose, but no team is invincible. In the playoffs, it's one-and-done and anything can happen. Even Jacksonville beating New England." Cold, Hard, Football Facts: Patriots 38, Jaguars 23. �Special teams and Big Plays are two huge strengths for Jacksonville, but both are counteracted by New England. And as the final nail in the coffin, the Patriots are healthier, and playing at home. It all adds up to an easy win on the scoreboard, although the game may well be competitive throughout. � Peter King, Sports Illustrated: Patriots 37, Jaguars 20.
A Power Trip With Green Detours
Ford is unveiling the new full-size F-150 pickup, still the nation's most popular vehicle despite a sales meltdown late last year. (F-150 sales plunged by 105,000 units in 2007.) Development of the F-150, a truly crucial product for the troubled Ford Motor Company, was reportedly delayed for several months in 2006 for unspecified engineering changes intended to make the truck more competitive. Those changes, however, did not include making the F-150 smaller, lighter, less expensive or more environmentally friendly. At the show, Ford is also unveiling the Explorer America, a concept vehicle that suggests the next-generation Explorer may look a lot like a Brinks armored car. Ford says the next Explorer will be powered, like several of its new vehicles, by smaller, lighter, more efficient engines that can be souped-up with turbochargers and direct fuel injection.
SFGate: Raiders Silver and Black Blog
A motion penalty, barely visible to the naked eye, erased another Raven smothering on 4th-and-1. The final stroke of luck was a defensive holding penalty on another fourth-down pass play, negating one more potential Baltimore death blow. It was an awful call, one of the worst ever to decide a game. NFL refs, incompetent boobs in some cases, never make that call to decide a game. The Pats still needed to score and they did, even though replays showed that Pats WR Jabbar Gaffney was juggling the ball as he went out of bounds. True to form, the gutless replay judge did not overturn the call on the field, lest anyone think the worst officials in any sport in any country be put in a negative light. This lucky escape by the Patriots might have trumped the Tuck Rule game.
Buyer found for Brookline's historic Richardson House
But he redesigned much of the interior, and added new space for his office staff and library. The original house was built in 1805 as a summer retreat for the family of Boston's Samuel Gardner Perkins. Richardson lived there for almost all of his brief productive life. While there he created buildings that made him the most influential American architect of his century. He died in the second-floor bedroom, one of the rooms the deed restriction requires the new owner to restore. Among its features are two metal rings, bolted into the wall, which the architect gripped to pull his enormous bulk out of bed in his last years, when he was plagued by Bright's disease. According to a spokesperson, the new owner will also restore such details as the stained glass windows designed by the famed artist John LaFarge.
Data show decline in adolescent tobacco use
An apparent decline in student tobacco use has Missoula authorities encouraged that their Tobacco Free Missoula County campaign is working.Data in the 2005 Youth Behavior Risk Survey released last month show drops in the number of local young people smoking or using chewing tobacco. However, it also showed a spike in the number of high school teens who chewed compared to two years ago.The 2005 study looked at about 2,000 adolescents throughout Montana. Of those, 234 were in Missoula County. .
A Puerto Rican woman reps her Blackness. . . .
An interesting thing happened to me the other day. I was told I am not Black. The kicker for me was when my friend said that the island of Puerto Rico was not a part of the African Diaspora. I wanted to go back to the old skool playground days and yell: “You said what about my momma?!" But after speaking to several friends, I found out that many Black Americans and Latinos agree with him. The miseducation of the Negro is still in effect!
I am so tired of having to prove to others that I am Black, that my people are from the Motherland, that Puerto Rico, along with Cuba, Panama and the Dominican Republic are part of the African Diaspora. Do we forget that the slave ships dispersed our people all over the world, hence the word Diaspora?
The Atlantic slave trade brought Africans to Puerto Rico in the early 1500s.
Iraq: Biden Backfires
And then along came Senator Joseph Biden's resolution which instead suggested that Iraqi should be split into three sectarian regions. Here is a selection from blogs that cover a spectrum of Iraqi political opinion. Criticism Wafaa' was outraged: We, Iraqis, have invented the wheel, the alphabet and the law, we began lavish construction of hospitals and libraries, and have made endless scientific discoveries and inventions through the millenniums… Collectively, we refuse intimidation and occupation and so we are willing, able and ready to prevent IRAQ from being divided. Let us read this as a reminder and act upon it. We, Arabs, Kurds, Turkmans and other ethnic groups must work together and not allow the division of IRAQ to take place, ever.
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