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NFL Network Analyst Heath Evans Slams Holmgren, Hillis, Browns Offense
Former FB Heath Evans was outspoken about the Browns Wednesday / (Photo by Matthew Sharpe/Getty Images)
CLEVELAND (92.3 The Fan) ? Count NFL Network analyst and former NFL fullback Heath Evans as someone who doesn?t appear to be a big fan of Mike Holmgren and his current regime with the Browns.
Evans, who played for the Seahawks, Dolphins, Saints and Patriots, came on with the ?Bull and Fox? on 92.3 The Fan on Wednesday, and opened some eyes wondering if Holmgren is truly the answer for the Browns.
?I?m not sure if Mike Holmgren?s the guy to actually turn this thing around in Cleveland,? Evans said. ?There is so much more of a bigger need than replacing Colt McCoy in Cleveland.?
Count Evans as a fan of McCoy, but at the same time he feels that an offense that leads the team in drops is a huge reason why the QB hasn?t gotten the credit he?s deserved this season.
?If you take away half the drops, Colt McCoy is right in the middle of half the quarterbacks right now,? Evans said.
The analyst was asked more about Holmgren, who he played under while with the Seahawks. While saying that there was a lot of dysfunction while with Seattle, Evans said on ?Bull and Fox? that Holmgren simply hasn?t adopted to the style of today?s NFL.
?Mike Holmgren tries to squeeze everybody into that system, I?ve got news for ya, the west coast system is not a world beater anymore,? Evans said. ?In the 80?s early 90?s it caught everybody off guard the crossing routes all the mix and matches. Now if you?ve got good DC?s and disciplined players on the defensive side of the football it?s not beating anybody.?
While Evans doesn?t appear to be a big fan of Holmgren, one coach he does admire is Bill Belichick, who still is looking for another Super Bowl ring with the Pats. Evans says that unlike Holmgren, Belichick has adopted to today?s NFL style.
?We were a game plan team in New England, they still are,? Evans said. ?That?s why a majority of the time they come out on the winning side of the football.?
Evans says a big issue with Holmgren is how he forces the issue with players. He says that on the offensive side of the ball, the Browns are way to simple, and it goes back to what Holmgren has done with the roster.
?I think Mike just has a problem for seeing what each individual player can add to a team, instead of trying to stuff everybody into a system,? Evans said. ?I watch this offensive football team (the Browns) and I can call most of the plays.?
Then there?s the saga with running back Peyton Hillis. The bruiser ran himself into injuries that cost him six games this year, and Evans says from the people he?s spoken to about it, Hillis may not have been as banged up as he claimed to be.
?I just hear a lot of mixed emotion from players coming out of there about his position,? Evans said. ?You talk about guys questioning if he could have played, so many different things that have stirred up my thought process, hamstrings are funny things. This guys gets right back on the field and has big games, hamstrings don?t act that way.?
Evans says while he has not actual proof that Hillis was tanking it, there?s a number of reasons to believe that the running back was only looking out for his best interest when thinking about the future.
?Can I comment with facts? No, but there?s a lot coming out of that locker room that has raised my ear and made me say what is truly going on there,? Evans said.
The future of the Browns is for sure up in the air. The team is heading towards a likely 12 loss season, and with it, Evans said Wednesday that things need to change for the team to finally take a step to the next level.
?There?s some dysfunction there if the Cleveland Browns want to be successful have to be corrected, especially in that division,? Evans said.
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11 killed as Cyclone Thane hits southeast India
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People walk past fallen sign boards and other trash caused by heavy winds in Pondicherry, India, on Dec. 30, 2011. India's weather office has warned residents along parts of the country's southeastern coast that Cyclone Thane is likely to cause heavy rains and gale-force winds.
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People take shelter during heavy rain and wind in Pondicherry on Dec. 30, 2011.
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Motorcyclists drive past fallen trees during heavy rain and winds in Pondicherry on Dec. 30, 2011.
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A cyclone brought heavy rains and gale-force winds to India's southeastern coast, killing at least 11 people, uprooting trees and damaging homes.
The India Meteorological Department said Friday morning that Cyclone Thane was centered in the Indian Ocean, 22 miles southwest of the town of Pondicherry. Continue reading.
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Why is Windows Phone 7 yet to take off
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software has a unique, modern design that many say is superior to Android's more rugged.
Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 software has a unique, modern design that many say is superior to Android's more rugged, computery look. But a former Microsoft staff says looks alone are not enough to make Windows Phone succeed. Microsoft introduced Windows Phone 7 in November 2010, and has since formed a major partnership with Nokia in hopes of gaining a foothold in a mobile market that is dominated by Apple and Google.Despite the firm's best efforts, sales of Windows Phone 7 handsets are still tiny. Charlie Kindel, an entrepreneur who recently left Microsoft's Windows Phone team to start his own company, wrote a blog post Monday on why the software still hasn't taken off. He breaks down what each party in the cellphone business wants - most notably, the carrier and hardware maker.
The carrier wants to control the customer experience, and the manufacturer wants to own that and the hardware design as well. This is precisely why Windows Phone 7 faces hurdles, Mr Kindel says. To explain, Mr Kindel analyses Apple's approach with the iPhone and Google's approach with Android.
With the iPhone, Apple controls the design of the software and additional transactions through the App Store, and it controls its own destiny with hardware because it makes the iPhone itself. With Android, Google licenses the software to any manufacturer that wishes to use it, and allows the carriers to distribute Android software updates whenever they want. Many hardware makers and carriers are willing to play ball with Android, because it "bows down" to them.
With Windows Phone 7, Microsoft tells the carriers when they must issue software updates, and tells manufacturers how they must design the phones in order to run the operating system. This ensures a consistent experience among different devices. And that is why Windows Phone faces so much difficulty gaining traction in the market, Kindel says. It creates friction among Microsoft, the carriers and the manufacturers.
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Do'h! Top science journal retractions of 2011
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Medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles led to a drop in crime, according to a report by the RAND Corporation. Except they didn't. After flaws in the data were exposed, RAND retracted its finding.
By Christopher Wanjek
LiveScience Bad Medicine columnist
Bad science papers can have lasting effects. Consider the 1998 paper in the journal the Lancet that linked autism to the MMR vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella. That paper was fully retracted in 2010 upon evidence that senior author Andrew Wakefield had manipulated data and breached several proper ethical codes of conduct.
Nevertheless the erroneous paper continues to undermine public confidence in vaccines. After the Lancet article, MMR vaccination rates dipped sharply and haven't fully rebounded. This decline in the MMR vaccine has been tied to a rise in measles cases resulting in permanent injury and death.
Each year hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles are retracted. Most involve no blatant malfeasance; the authors themselves often detect errors and retract the paper. Some retractions, however, as documented on the blog Retraction Watch, entail plagiarism, false authorship or cooked data.
No journal is safe from retractions, from the mighty "single-word-title" journals such as Nature, Science and Cell, to the myriad minor, esoteric ones.
Yet as astronomer Carl Sagan once said, "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." Below are five science results retracted in 2011, pulled permanently off the books in part for falling far short of meeting the Sagan standard.
#5: Los Angeles marijuana dispensaries lead to drop in crime.
Keep smoking. The RAND Corporation retracted its own report in October after realizing its sloppy data collection.
Crime data compiled from neighborhoods with these highly contentious medical marijuana dispensaries supposedly revealed slightly lower crime rates. The authors attributed this decline not to marijuana itself but rather the presence of security cameras and guards in and around the dispensaries, having a positive effect on the neighborhood. [ The History of 8 Hallucinogens ]
The L.A. city attorney's office was incensed with the report, having argued the opposite ? that the dispensaries breed crime. The city's lawyers soon found critical flaws in RAND's data collection, largely stemming from RAND's reliance on data from CrimeReports.com, which did not include data from the L.A. Police Department. RAND blamed itself for the error, not CrimeReports.com, which had made no claims of having a complete set of data, and, in fact, didn't even know about the study.
#4: Butterfly meets worm, falls in love, and has caterpillars.
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a fantastic claim in 2009 by zoologist Donald Williamson, which was delightfully reported in the science news media. Williamson claimed that ancestors of modern butterflies mistakenly fertilized their eggs with sperm from velvet worms. The result was the necessity for the caterpillar stage of the butterfly life cycle.
The PNAS paper got a few laughs among evolutionary scientists, but it hasn't yet been retracted. Williamson's follow-up 2011 paper in the journal Symbiosis, however, has been retracted.
Researchers Michael Hart and Richard Grosberg at the University of Texas, Austin, systematically refuted all of Williamson's claims in the pages of PNAS by the end of 2009. They based their arguments entirely on well-known concepts of both basic evolution and the genetics of modern worms and butterflies. When Symbiosis published its butterfly-meets-worm article in January 2011, Hart raised questions with the editor. As of November the paper is no longer available.
#3: Treat appendicitis with antibiotics, not surgery.
The Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery published an article in 2009 by Indian researchers titled "Conservative management of acute appendicitis." The gist was that antibiotics might be a safe alternative to an appendectomy, the surgical removal of the appendix.
Well, maybe not. The journal retracted the paper in October. Italian surgeons had raised a red flag with the study in a lengthy letter published in 2010 in the same journal, politely citing a multitude of problems with the study's methodology. The Indian researchers responded a month later with their own two-paragraph letter defending the methodology and calling for a larger study to establish the superiority of antibiotic treatment over surgery.
There's no word whether that larger study is pending, but the journal's editors retracted the original article for reasons of alleged plagiarism, stating that "significant portions of the article were published earlier" by other researchers in 2000 and 1995.
#2: Litter breeds crime and discrimination.
It sounded so reasonable: Graffiti and litter in urban settings can trigger changes in the brain that can lead to crime, hatred and discrimination. Alas, the senior author of this April 2011 paper in Science, Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel, might have fabricated much of the data.
The journal Science retracted the paper in November upon realization that Stapel, a media darling whose name frequented the New York Times, may have faked data in at least 30 papers, according to a report from Stapel's university, Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Stapel has since been suspended from Tilburg pending further investigation.
The objective reader must now question other pet theories from Stapel. These include his "findings" that beauty-advertising works because it makes women feel worse about themselves, and that conservative politics leads to hypocrisy.
#1: Chronic fatigue syndrome is caused by a virus.
Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a disorder of unknown origin. Some researchers, in fact, consider this a psychological disorder largely confined to wealthier countries, affecting women more than men.
Then came a study published in Science in October 2009 by researchers from the Whittemore Peterson Institute in Reno, Nevada. The researchers associated CFS with something called xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV), which they said they found in blood samples of patients with CFS.
CFS advocates were elated. At last there was proof that their disease was real, they said. Retrovirus experts, on the other hand, were skeptical. Maybe the blood samples were contaminated. It turns out that the paper is likely wrong. No other lab could reproduce the results.
Science issued an "Editorial Expression of Concern" in July after the authors themselves refused to retract their paper. The Science editorial states bluntly that the study purported "to show that ? XMRV was present in the blood of 67 percent of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome compared with 3.7 percent of healthy controls. Since then, at least 10 studies conducted by other investigators and published elsewhere have reported a failure to detect XMRV in independent populations of CFS patients."
The authors finally issued a partial retraction in September, removing data now known to be from contaminated samples. Science followed with a full retraction on Dec. 23. Meanwhile, in a disturbing twist, senior author Judy Mikovits was fired from the Whittemore Peterson Institute in September and arrested in California in November over charges for possession of stolen property and unlawful taking of computer data, equipment and supplies. Science is investigating whether the data were manipulated.
Following the history of this paper is enough to make you fatigued.
Christopher Wanjek is the author of the books "Bad Medicine " and " Food At Work." His column, Bad Medicine, appears regularly on LiveScience.
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Obama sees approval rating rise. Is it the economy or something else? (The Christian Science Monitor)
President Obama has enjoyed a rebound in popularity, putting him in a stronger position to defend his presidency in next year's election campaign.
Of course, there's a long way to go between now and a 2012 vote that's still more than 10 months away.
But for Mr. Obama, the important thing for now is that his job approval ratings are moving generally up rather than down, despite attacks by Republican rivals and a still-weak economy.
The latest sign: Gallup polling shows the president garnering 46 percent approval from American adults, the highest level since July and a big run-up after starting the month of December at 41 percent.
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Various polls of Obama's job approval, averaged by the website RealClearPolitics, show the same recovery over the past month.
Why the reversal of fortunes, after a summer downdraft in public support?
One big factor is that presidential ratings can be, in part, a mirror of how people feel about the economy and their own prospects. And on that front, the consumer outlook is that the economy is weak but improving.
On Tuesday, a widely watched index of consumer confidence, released by the Conference Board in New York, rose for December to 64.5, up from 55.2 a month earlier. (A reading of 100 on the index would equal the optimism seen in 1985.)
"After two months of considerable gains, the Consumer Confidence Index is now back to levels seen last spring," said Lynn Franco, director of research at the Conference Board. "It is too soon to tell if this is a rebound from earlier declines or a sustainable shift in attitudes."
The revival of consumer confidence, in turn, has come as the job market has shown signs of progress, the stock market stabilized, and European nations have made progress toward quieting a financial crisis.
Another reason the Obama brand name has gained ground, political analysts say, is the partisan fight over renewing a payroll tax cut for US workers. Amid a partisan stand-off, the president appears to have successfully cast himself as standing for middle-class interests.
House Republicans have supported the idea of a full-year extension for the tax break, but until recently looked unwilling to strike a compromise on a plan moved by Democratic-controlled Senate.
Assuming an extension of the payroll tax cut comes through, Obama can tout a win for average Americans ? something he fought for and delivered that affects their bank accounts.
But if Obama is back in competitive territory, he remains vulnerable. As of the latest Gallup numbers (an average of its latest three days of polling), his disapproval rating is two points higher (48 percent) than his approval rating (46 percent).
Typically, sitting presidents who win reelection have had approval ratings above 50, Gallup says.
A lot will depend on where Obama's presidency heads from here, how the Republican campaign against him shapes up, and how the economy performs. For now, the race for president looks like it could be close.
A mid-December matchup by Gallup's shows voters opting for Obama over Mitt Romney as a Republican nominee by a 50-to-48 margin. The poll got the same result for another hypothetical matchup, Obama versus Newt Gingrich.
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Paul returns to Iowa as rivals eye his supporters (AP)
DES MOINES, Iowa ? Rep. Ron Paul of Texas is rallying his diehard supporters, whom his rivals regard as the greatest complication in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
With less than a week until Iowa's leadoff contest, Paul planned to meet with supporters near Des Moines. The other GOP candidates spread out across the state Wednesday to woo potential caucus-goers, many of whom are still undecided amid a flood of television and radio ads. Paul's rivals also worked to disqualify him on social issues, foreign affairs and even his decades-old newsletter.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday he couldn't vote for Paul if he were to become the GOP nominee and called his views "totally outside the mainstream of every decent American" during an interview with CNN.
Gov. Rick Perry said during a campaign stop in Council Bluffs that his fellow Texan was dangerous: "You don't have to vote for a candidate who would allow Iran to wipe Israel off the face of the earth and then ultimately America."
As Paul's poll numbers have risen, so has scrutiny of him. That has led to questions about a newsletter he published in the early 1990s, when he was not serving in Congress. Among the quotes from the newsletter: "Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities."
Paul has said many of the passages were written by aides but acknowledged he was responsible.
A conservative with libertarian leanings, Paul commands strong allegiance from his supporters but appears to have little potential to expand his appeal and emerge as a serious challenger for the nomination. Yet he could complicate other candidates' pathway to the nomination.
Some polls show Paul on top in Iowa, and a caucus victory for him could prove embarrassing to candidates such as Rep. Michele Bachmann or former Sen. Rick Santorum. Both essentially relocated to Iowa ? it's Bachmann's birthplace ? with hopes that momentum from here would launch a national campaign.
"If I finish dead last, way behind the pack, I'm going to pack up and go home," Santorum said in a radio interview on WHO in Des Moines. "But I don't think that's going to happen."
Santorum, more than any of the others, has campaigned in Iowa the old-fashioned way ? by doggedly visiting all 99 counties and holding hundreds of town hall meetings.
Bachmann was trying to match that. She scheduled 11 stops Wednesday to build momentum and media attention. She is lagging in fundraising, as her rivals have poured millions of dollars in advertising onto the airwaves.
The candidates and allied groups have spent more than $12 million on commercials to air through caucus day next Tuesday. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Perry and groups supporting the two men account for almost half the total, according to one estimate.
Gingrich and Perry also planned to continue their bus tours, although at a slower clip.
Romney, who a day earlier looked past his Republican rivals toward the general election during a speech to Iowans, planned the first three stops of his tour in a state he had largely kept at arm's length.
"Mr. President, you have now had your moment," he said Tuesday, criticizing President Barack Obama and sounding every bit the nominee he hopes to become. "We have seen the results. And now, Mr. President, it is our time."
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AP Special Correspondent David Espo in Des Moines and Associated Press writers Charles Babington in Des Moines, Tom Beaumont in Mason City, Shannon McCaffrey in Dubuque and Kasie Hunt in Davenport, Iowa, and Steve Peoples in New Hampshire contributed to this report.
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Winter League suspends Torrealba
While playing in the Venezuelan winter league last week Rangers catcher Yorvit Torrealba attacked the home plate umpire following a strikeout, screaming in his face and then shoving his head.
You can see the incident for yourself in this video.
Rangers general manager Jon Daniels said yesterday that the team was looking into the situation, but in the meantime the Venezuelan winter league has suspended Torrealba for 66 games, which amounts to the rest of this winter league season and all of next season.
Torrealba, who?s under contract with the Rangers for $3.25 million in 2012, could still face further discipline from MLB.
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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Analysis: Isolated on tax cut, House GOP blinks (AP)
WASHINGTON ? With tea party-backed first-termers calling the shots, House Republicans snatched political defeat from the jaws of victory in a year-end showdown over Social Security payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits.
This time, they pushed the country to the brink ? and wound up blinking.
"In the end House Republicans felt like they were re-enacting the Alamo, with no reinforcements and our friends shooting at us," said veteran Republican Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas.
Precisely.
By spurning a deal that Senate Republicans had embraced, for a two-month extension of tax cuts for 160 million Americans and jobless benefits for millions more, the House wing of the party isolated itself politically and by some calculations improved President Barack Obama's re-election prospects.
Friday brought a humbling surrender, the only realistic alternative despite grumbling from scattered holdouts and Newt Gingrich, courting tea party support in the race for the presidential nomination.
By then, even allies said Republicans had become vulnerable to Obama's accusation that they, alone, were threatening a fragile economic recovery and the well-being of the employed and unemployed alike. "Right now, the bipartisan compromise that was reached on Saturday is the only viable way to prevent a tax hike on Jan. 1," Obama said Tuesday after the House rejected the two-month measure that had sailed through the Senate on a vote of 89-10.
The reliably conservative editorial page of The Wall Street Journal piled on, referring to a circular Republican firing squad. The GOP has "achieved the small miracle of letting Mr. Obama position himself as an election-year tax cutter. ... This should be impossible," it wrote on Wednesday.
One poll said Obama ran ahead of Republicans when it came to handling taxes, an issue that has generally favored the GOP since Ronald Reagan sat in the White House three decades ago.
No less critical were Senate Republicans, fearing the impact on their own political prospects, both individually and as a group eager to gain a majority in the 2012 elections. A gain of four seats would give them control, and several close races are likely. Losses suddenly seemed possible instead. There was in even talk that the hardline stance by House Republicans was putting the GOP's big majority in that chamber in danger.
Most importantly, for the first time all year, Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell wasn't in a position to help as House Speaker John Boehner sought to carry out the wishes of his rank and file, the Kentucky senator having voted for the bill that House Republicans insisted was a loser.
At its core, the dispute was a simple one.
Talks between the two parties in the Senate on a full-year extension faltered when negotiators could not agree on the cuts needed to make sure the measure did not increase deficits. The two-month stopgap bill was designed to keep the tax cuts and jobless benefits going until the negotiations could resume again after the first of the year.
To the tea party types, that smacked of government as usual, precisely what they came to Washington to change.
"We're as unified as we've been all year," said Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, on the night before the House Republicans rejected the Senate bill, demanded negotiations on a compromise and drove themselves into a political dead end.
This time, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Democrats had no incentive to negotiate, unlike earlier when brinkmanship pushed the government to the edge of a partial shutdown or an unprecedented default.
They and the White House had already caved to Republican demands that any extension be paid for, and that Obama decide within 60 days whether to allow construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.
The president had threatened to veto any measure that linked tax cuts and the pipeline, hoping to postpone a decision on the project until after the election. Late last week, he did an about-face and demanded Congress send him a bill that did precisely that.
The reversal gave Republicans the political victory some had sought if they were going to approve an extension of the tax cuts and jobless benefits at the core of Obama's jobless program.
Boehner told House Republicans as much in a conference call on Saturday, according to several officials who listened. They added he recommended no specific course of action and sought the all views.
Some lawmakers suspected Boehner had acquiesced in the two-month extension that McConnell worked out, and he was challenged on it 48 hours later in a closed-door meeting. He bristled at the accusation, according to several participants, and denied it flatly.
There were hints of infighting. Behind closed doors, one Republican lawmaker raised a concern about a memo ? inaccurate, he said ? from an unidentified staff aide who wrote that Boehner favored a more conciliatory approach than Majority Leader Eric Cantor and other members of the leadership.
"We're here and ready to work," Boehner told reporters on Wednesday morning. He spoke at a made-for-television event with Cantor and the eight Republicans, including three first-termers, appointed to conduct non-existent negotiations with Democrats.
Little more than 24 hours later, the charade ended when Boehner informed his own rank and file, no consultations permitted.
By then, even two newcomers to the House had issued public statements calling for an end to the standoff.
"I don't think that my constituents should have a tax increase because of Washington's dysfunction," said freshman Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., now a voting member of the government he was criticizing.
The struggle over, Reid said he hoped the episode had been "a very good learning experience, especially to those who are newer" to Congress.
"Everything we do around here does not have to wind up in a fight."
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EDITOR'S NOTE ? David Espo covers Congress for The Associated Press.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011
Forecast favorable for most holiday travelers
Holiday travelers throughout most of the United States are getting the gift of good weather to help their travel plans this Christmas Eve.
On Sunday, Christmas Day, at least 99-percent of the country will not have any snowflakes in the air, AccuWeather reported.
"It doesn't get much quieter than this, this time of year," said Tom Kines, a meteorologist with AccuWeather.
But winter storm warnings in the southern Plains, rain and snow in Texas, and rain in the Pacific Northwest could snarl some travel plans in those areas.
Moderate to occasionally heavy snow will continue on Saturday to blanket parts of the southern Plains where winter storm warnings remain in effect, according to the National Weather Service.
The greatest accumulation is expected in far southeast New Mexico and areas west of Midland, Texas.
Along with the southern Plains, parts of Colorado, areas of the Northeast and the Great Lakes region will see a white Christmas with the snow that's already on the ground.
But most of the country will have no new snow on Sunday, with the exception of parts of the Northeast and Great Lakes region, which may see some snow showers. Rain is also expected in parts of the Southeast, reported AccuWeather.
"A large part of the country is going to be green or brown on Christmas Day," said Kines. "It stinks for Santa because he doesn't have the snow for his sleigh."
Kansas City, like most cities in the Midwest, is no exception. Temperatures there were forecast for 47 on Saturday and 48 on Sunday, under sunny skies.
Snowless Minneapolis
While snowless Christmases are not that unusual in Kansas City, they are more so for Minneapolis. Last year a winter storm 12 days before Christmas dumped 17 inches of snow on the city and caused the roof of the Metrodome, the Minnesota Viking's football stadium, to collapse.
This year, Minneapolis has no snow and will have temperatures in the high 30s over the weekend, according to the National Weather Service.
According to AccuWeather, El Paso, Texas, and Chicago are tied for seasonal snowfall so far with a total of 1.7 inches.
Video: Americans hit the road for holidays (on this page)In a typical December, Chicago sees 8.5 inches of snow. To date this December, Chicago has seen the lowest amount of snow since 2003, according to Victor Murphy with the National Weather Service.
Drought-weary Texans are welcoming the snow and rain there. The worst one-year drought in the state's history sparked devastating wildfires, killed as many as half a billion trees, and prompted the most serious urban water use restrictions ever.
Story: Little to no snow this Christmas for northern USSome of the most extreme water rationing will be lifted this weekend because of the rain. But Roland Ruiz, Vice President of the Edwards Aquifer Authority, which manages the underground reservoir, a main source of drinking water for millions of Texans, said the severe drought is still very much alive.
"Aquifer levels remain well below historic averages, and a return to severe restrictions is possible early in 2012," he said.
Texas needs 10 to 20 inches of rain in some areas just to return to normal levels for the year, and forecasters are not expecting anything close to that.
The National Weather Service's latest Seasonal Drought Outlook forecasts the drought to 'persist or intensify' across all but northeast Texas through March.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
Adam Lambert says "lesson learned" after arrest (Reuters)
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Former "American Idol" finalist Adam Lambert brushed off his arrest in Finland on Thursday, blaming his bad behavior on travel, booze and "irrational confusion" and adding "lesson learned" on Twitter.
"Jetlag+Vodka=blackout. Us?blackout=irrational confusion. jail+guilt+press=lesson learned. Sauli+Adam+hangover burgers= laughing bout it. :)," Lambert tweeted to fans.
The "Whataya Want From Me" singer, 29, was involved in an argument in a Helsinki bar with his boyfriend, Finnish reality TV star Sauli Koskinen. Their quarrel became physical and the pair were arrested, questioned then later released by authorities, according to media reports.
Koskinen also addressed the incident on his blog, writing in Finnish, "publicity is not easy. But celebrities are only human people."
Lambert, whose colorful costumes and makeup earned him the nickname "Glambert," rose to fame in 2009 on U.S. singing contest "American Idol," but lost in the final round of the No. 1-rated TV show to Kris Allen.
Despite being the runner-up, Lambert forged a solid career and now enjoys a loyal following as a singer. His single "Better Than I Know Myself" was released on Tuesday, and is currently at No. 30 on the iTunes singles chart.
(Reporting by Piya Sinha-Roy; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)
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Flyers coach Laviolette shoves Stars' Ott in tunnel scuffle
Philadelphia Flyers coach Peter Laviolette exchanged words with Dallas Stars tough guy Steve Ott, and then gave Ott a shove, after the first period of Wednesday's game in Dallas.
Ott appeared to block the coach?s path back toward the dressing room as the teams were leaving the ice. Laviolette responded by trying to move the Stars forward out of his way.
After the game, Ott said the confrontation was all about allowing the Stars to exit first as a courtesy in their own building.
"It's disrespect of our building, just let our team off, it's not a big deal," Ott said. "He obviously thought that he has a higher power than everybody else and a little bit more arrogance. Of all the coaches in the whole NHL, that's probably the first time I've seen that.
"I would never do that if I was in Philadelphia in their building and had to walk through their lineup. Just let us go and show a little respect, that's all."
Laviolette refused to comment on the incident after the game, instead wanting to focus on how the Flyers' win put the team back atop the Eastern Conference standings.
"Unfortunately, the Blackhawks won," Laviolette said, meaning that the Flyers would not be atop the NHL standings, just the East. "We should probably keep it about the game because it was such a big win for our team
Ott continued to get chirpy in the second period with the Flyers? bench. Marc-Andre Bourdon dropped his gloves to try to fight Ott, but Ott never engaged him.
"I was trying to stand up for my partners," said Bourdon. "If he's chirping at others, just fight me but then Morrow got in there. He [Ott] turned around first... He's just a [bleep]."
At the end of the second period, the Flyers were instructed by officials to leave the ice through the Zamboni door at the far end of the rink.
The Flyers won the game, 4-1.
The NHL's Director of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell will get to make the call of whether or not Laviolette was in the wrong, according to Darren Dreger of TSN.ca.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Ogilvy acquires stake in the leading Chinese advertising agency, Nanjing Yindu
WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company Ogilvy & Mather, the leading advertising and marketing communications network, has acquired, subject to regulatory approval, 49% of Nanjing Yindu Advertising and Commerce Co., Ltd. ("Yindu"), the leading independent advertising agency in the People's Republic of China. This move expands Ogilvy's reach into the important Yangtze River Delta, a crucial region that encompasses not only Jiangsu province, which has the second highest GDP of all Chinese provinces, but also Anhui and Zhejiang provinces. And in strengthening Ogilvy's offering, as it does, in second-tier cities this initiative underlines WPP's regional approach in China, not confined to the coastal region.
Founded in 1994 and based in Nanjing, Yindu is a full service communications agency with capabilities including strategic planning, advertising, branding and corporate identity, print and media production and media buying. Areas of particular expertise include FMCG, pharmaceutical, technology, financial and lifestyle brands. It employs 250 people and clients include well known national brands such as Jiangsu Mobile, Heilan Home, Jiangsu Yanghe Brewery, Nanjing Iveco, MoonHare, Simcere, Longliqi and China Construction Bank.
Yindu had gross assets as at 31 December 2010 of RMB 57.8million and reported billings for 2010 of RMB 428.5million.
This investment continues WPP's strategy of developing its services in fast-growing and important markets and sectors. Greater China - a region WPP has been committed to for over 20 years - remains one of the fastest growth markets for the company, currently WPP's fourth largest market with revenues of US $1.1 billion. The Group currently employs 13,000 people (including associates) across Greater China, underlining its strong leadership position in the region - as in Asia overall - across all communications services.
Contact
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+44 (0)207 408 2204
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Cowboys build early lead, then coast to victory (AP)
TAMPA, Fla. ? Tony Romo was nearly flawless in getting the Dallas Cowboys back on track in the NFC East.
Romo threw for three touchdowns and ran for a fourth score Saturday night, helping the first-place Cowboys beat the struggling Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-15.
Dallas stopped a two-game losing streak in which it blew fourth-quarter leads to allow a seemingly solid grip on the division lead slip away.
The victory gave the Cowboys (8-6) a half-game lead over New York. Although the Giants hold a tiebreaker advantage after beating Dallas 37-34 last week, the Cowboys can claim the division title and host a playoff game by finishing with wins the next two weeks over Philadelphia at home and the Giants on the road.
The Bucs (4-10) lost for the eighth straight time and played a miserable first half that certainly didn't do anything to help coach Raheem Morris make a case for keeping his job.
Romo threw a pair of 8-yard TD passes to Miles Austin and Dez Bryant in the first quarter, then finished a seven-play, 89-yard drive with a 9-yarder to Laurent Robinson to make it 21-0 with just under 5 minutes remaining in the second quarter. Romo made it 28-0 on a quarterback sneak in the closing seconds of the opening half.
Tampa Bay managed just one first down and was outgained 279 yards to 55 in the first two quarters, but found a way to make it interesting in the second half.
The Bucs, who had had yielded 69 consecutive points dating to the second quarter of the previous week's 41-14 loss to Jacksonville, finally got on the scoreboard in the third quarter when rookie Adrian Clayborn sacked Romo from behind, forcing a fumble that linebacker Dekoda Watson returned 4 yards for a TD for a much-needed spark.
Josh Freeman's 13-yard TD pass to Dezmon Briscoe and a two-point conversion throw to Kellen Winslow trimmed the Dallas lead to 31-15 heading into the final quarter.
The Cowboys have led in the fourth quarter in five of their six losses, however there wouldn't be a late collapse this time. Tampa Bay turned the ball over on downs twice in the last six minutes, and Sammy Morris picked up a first down inside the Bucs 10 to give the Cowboys an opportunity to run out the clock.
Austin's TD midway through the first quarter was set up by Tampa Bay's NFL-leading 32nd turnover, a fumble by Freeman on the fifth play of the game.
The Tampa Bay quarterback scrambled 25 yards on third-and-5 to march the Bucs near midfield, but the opening possession of the night came to an abrupt halt on the next play when Freeman took off again for a 7-yard gain and was stripped of the ball at the Cowboys 44.
Linebacker Bradie James recovered and it took Romo seven plays to get Dallas in the end zone for the first time. The Cowboys marched 69 yards in 10 plays on their next possession, with Romo finishing the drive by finding a wide-open Bryant in the back of the end zone to make it 14-0.
In three career games against Tampa Bay ? all lopsided victories ? Romo has thrown for 908 yards, 11 touchdowns and no interceptions. He was 23 of 30 for 249 yards and was sacked twice Saturday night.
Felix Jones, back in the starting lineup after DeMarco Murray broke his right ankle last week in a 37-34 loss to the Giants, broke a 38-yard run on the drive leading to Robinson's TD and finished with 108 yards on 22 carries ? his second straight 100-yard performance had 67 yards rushing on 12 carries at halftime.
Freeman, making his second start since missing a game because of an injured throwing shoulder, was 17 of 27 for 148 yards and no interceptions. He led the Bucs in rushing with 37 yards on four attempts and was sacked three times, once by DeMarcus Ware, who notched his 16th of the season.
Thanks to a large contingent of Cowboys fans, the Bucs played before a sellout crowd at home for just the second time in two seasons. Judging by all the blue and white jerseys scattered throughout the 65,000-seat stadium, at least half the house appeared to be rooting for Dallas.
The Bucs have lost eight straight following a 4-2 start that included wins over NFC South rivals New Orleans and Atlanta. The skid has coach Raheem Morris on the hot seat just a year after the NFL's youngest head coach led his team to a surprising 10-6 finish that heightened expectations coming into this season.
Tampa Bay played Saturday night without starting receiver Arrelious Benn, who suffered a concussion during last week's loss at Jacksonville. He was replaced by Briscoe, who began the night with just 23 receptions yet shared the team lead in touchdown catches with three.
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Occupy protesters arrested in New York (Reuters)
NEW YORK (Reuters) ? Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters took to New York City's streets on Saturday in an attempt to establish a new encampment, with scores arrested as they tried to move onto church-owned land.
The protesters had used a wooden ladder to climb over a chain-link fence into the lot owned by Trinity Church, an Occupy Wall Street spokesman said.
Police had no immediate figure on how many protesters were arrested, but Gideon Oliver, president of the New York City chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, put the number at about 55, including between five and 10 members of the clergy.
The demonstrators continued moving around Manhattan's streets into the evening, at one point saying they were headed to the house of the Trinity Church rector.
"We are unstoppable. Another world is possible," and "Whose street? Our street," were among the chants from the protesters, who blocked some streets as they marched.
Later, as they started to move toward Midtown, some of the demonstrators were hemmed in by lines of police, and police on motorcycles tried to disperse protesters who were in the middle of streets.
The Occupy movement began with protesters taking over a park in New York in September to draw attention to economic inequality and a financial system they say is unfairly skewed toward the wealthy.
In ensuing weeks the protests and encampments spread to cities throughout the United States as well as to some in other countries.
But Occupy camps in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and a number of other major cities were shut down in recent weeks in operations that resulted in hundreds of arrests and have raised questions about the movement's future.
Authorities have justified their moves against the camps on a variety of grounds, including that the camps were causing sanitation problems and were dangerous to public safety.
(Writing by Jerry Norton; Editing by Dan Whitcomb)
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Saturday, December 17, 2011
SHERWIN-WILLIAMS AUTOMOTIVE FINISHES DONATES $12000 ...
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Hoffman Estates, IL ? November 16, 2011 ? Sherwin Williams Automotive Finishes has come to the aid of three school collision programs by donating $12,000 in product through the Collision Repair Education Foundation. Applied Technology Center (Rock Hill, SC), Freedom High School (Freedom, WI) and Sarasota County Technical Center (Sarasota, FL) all applied for the 2011 Ultimate Collision Education Makeover $50,000 school grant and within their wish lists, specifically requested Sherwin-Williams? products. The Collision Repair Education Foundation forwarded these requests to The Sherwin-Williams Company for consideration of donation and they have come through for the schools.
Freedom High School Technology Education Instructor Jay Abitz said, ?Sherwin-Williams has fulfilled a large need for my school. Their generous donations have taken a huge burden off of my shoulders and my budget. In these difficult economic times, educational budgets have shrunk, but thanks to Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes and the Collision Repair Education Foundation we have been able to keep high quality, current products in the hands of my students. I cannot thank them enough!?
Applied Technology Center and 2011 Makeover school grant winning instructor Mark Dellinger said, ?This donation is huge! With a shrinking budget that is tightening everyday, it is next to impossible to let my students just blow through waterborne basecoat. Along with quality comes money. This is a quality waterborne line that all students need to be exposed to on a regular basis. Ready or not, water is coming. This will definitely help us to be ready. All of my students are already excited about waterborne, whereas; some painters now fear it. Let?s change the mindset early.?
Sarasota County Technical Center Program Manager (Industrial Programs) Kristey Richardson said, ?Sherwin Williams is an active and valued partner to our Sarasota (SCTI) Automotive Collision Repair and Refinishing Program. Without Sherwin Williams? involvement on our program advisory committee and occasional donation of product we would not have the program success we enjoy at this time.?
Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes Director of Training Operations Rod Habel said, ?It is always a pleasure to work with the Collision Repair Education Foundation and its team of dedicated members to bring materials and knowledge to the schools interested in improving their programs. We at Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes are always willing to help toward the development of new and well educated people for our industry and working with the Education Foundation helps everyone in the industry benefit from this working relationship.?
Collision Repair Education Foundation Executive Director Scott Kruger said, ?Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes not only assisted our 2011 Makeover winning school but they also helped the two other applicant schools that specifically requested product from Sherwin-Williams through their Makeover grant application. It is a true testament of The Sherwin-Williams Company?s commitment to the future of the industry when it can be stated that they fulfilled all of the schools requests from the 2011 Makeover grant. We thank Sherwin-Williams for their continued support.?
Additional information about Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes can be found at www.sherwin-automotive.com. Inter-industry organizations and individuals who are interested in supporting the Education Foundation and increasing the amount of assistance provided to collision schools and students should contact Education Foundation Associate Director of Development Brandon Eckenrode at Brandon.Eckenrode@ed foundation.org.
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Partisan Gridlock Erupts Over Payroll Tax Cut (ContributorNetwork)
COMMENTARY | The House has passed a bill that would extend the payroll tax cuts for another year, causing outrage among Senate Democrats and in the White House. The Democrats are mad about two aspects of the bill, according to Bloomberg.
The first thing the Democrats are mad about is that the House would offset the payroll tax cut by enacting spending cuts. The Democrats would prefer to slap a surtax on all incomes over $1 million. The Republicans respond such a surtax would dampen economic growth and job creation.
The other thing about the payroll tax cut bill that upsets the Democrats is it calls for the approval of the Keystone XL pipeline that would take oil from the tar sand fields of Alberta to refineries in Texas. President Barack Obama has deferred approval of the pipeline until after the election to appease his environmental supporters.
Republicans point out the pipeline would create jobs and would open up a source of oil from a friendly country that would offset oil now being bought from unfriendly Middle Eastern countries.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is vowing to block the House version of the bill and President Obama has promised a veto. And so, once again, the government is at an impasse over a bill that almost everyone says they support.
It should be noted the Senate, run by Democrats, has yet to pass any version of a bill that extends the payroll tax cuts. As much as Democrats like to posture about making the "rich" "pay their fair share" they have been unable to pass legislation that includes a millionaire's surtax.
The politics of this outbreak of gridlock are interesting to observe. President Obama and his allies will blame the Republicans for any increase of payroll taxes that occur next year. Republicans will point out the House, which they run, has passed a bill extending the payroll tax cut. It is the Democrats, they will point out, who are holding things up.
Somewhat diluting the class warfare stance of the Democrats is a plan by Reid to insert some extensions to business tax breaks, due to expire at the end of the year, to mollify House Republicans. But a bill that does not include the Keystone XL provision might not be acceptable.
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Friday, December 16, 2011
Texas drought takes cow numbers down by 600K (AP)
LUBBOCK, Texas ? The worst drought in Texas' history has led to the largest-ever one-year decline in the leading cattle-state's cow herd, raising the likelihood of increased beef prices as the number of animals decline and demand remains strong.
Since Jan. 1, the number of cows in Texas has dropped by about 600,000, a 12 percent decline from the roughly 5 million cows the state had at the beginning of the year, said David Anderson, who monitors beef markets for the Texas AgriLife Extension Service. That's likely the largest drop in the number of cows any state has ever seen, though Texas had a larger percentage decline from 1934 to 1935, when ranchers were reeling from the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, Anderson said.
Anderson said many cows were moved "somewhere there's grass," but lots of others were slaughtered. He said that in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Louisiana and Arkansas, about 200,000 more cattle were slaughtered this year, a 20 percent increase over last year.
That extra supply could help meet increased demand from China and other countries, but the loss of cows likely will mean fewer cattle in future years.
"Consumers are going to pay more because we're going to have less beef," Anderson said. "Fewer cows, calves, less beef production and increasing exports."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that beef prices will increase up to 5.5 in 2012, in part because the number of cattle has declined. That follows a 9 percent increase in beef prices in the past year.
Oklahoma, the nation's second-largest cattle producer, also saw about a 12 percent drop in cows, Oklahoma State University agriculture economist Derrell Peel said.
Anderson said beef production nationally will be down 4 percent next year.
In Texas, the problem is primarily due to the worst single-year drought in the state's history. From January through November the state got just 46 percent of its normal rainfall of about 26 inches.
The drought was the result of a La Nina weather pattern, which brings drier than normal conditions to the southwestern states. Forecasters have said La Nina is back, meaning another dry year for Texas, Oklahoma and other nearby states.
The lack of rain coupled with blistering summer heat caused pastures to wither, leaving rancher with the choice of buying feed for the cattle or selling them.
Betsy Ross, a 75-year-old rancher from the small central Texas community of Granger, said she sold all but 80 of the 225 grass-fed animals she had in January. With feed costs up 40 percent and her pasture parched, Ross said she didn't have any other option.
"It's not a profitable year, heavens no," she said. "If you can't keep them on grass when they're grass fed you're not going to make any money."
About 200 miles north in Sulphur Springs, Texas, part-time rancher Dwyatt Bell said producers in his part of the state sold off up to half their herds. Bell said high prices for cattle have helped offset increases expenses, but many ranchers still are struggling to stay afloat.
"It's been a rough year," he said.
Across Texas, the drought has caused an estimated $5.2 billion in losses to farmers and livestock producers, and that figure is expected to rise
Nationally, the number of cows has dropped by an estimated 617,000 this year, a 2 percent decline from the 30.9 million animals on Jan. 1. That number would be larger, but states in northern plains such as North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska, increased their cow herd.
Anderson said it's unclear whether high beef prices would hurt U.S. sales or limit exports. The U.S. is the world third largest consumer of beef per capita at 85.5 pounds per year. Uruguay is first at 137 pounds per capita.
"Exports have been the strongest part of beef demand all year and they're expected to remain so but higher prices should constrain their growth," he said.
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