Monday, June 18, 2012

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High Park Fire 2012: Colorado Blaze Burns Record Number Of Homes

DENVER -- Additional crews were arriving Saturday at a wildfire in northern Colorado that has scorched about 85 square miles and destroyed at least 181 homes, the most in state history.

The High Park Fire burning 15 miles west of Fort Collins surpasses the Fourmile Canyon wildfire, which destroyed 169 homes west of Boulder in September 2010.

Fire information officer Brett Haberstick said Saturday that more than 1,500 personnel are working on the Fort Collins-area fire. The lightning-caused blaze, which is believed to have killed a 62-year-old woman whose body was found in her cabin, was 20 percent contained. The fire's incident commander said full containment could be two to four weeks away.

Haberstick said hot and dry conditions were expected to continue, but crews have made progress in containing a 200-acre spot fire that erupted Thursday afternoon north of the Cache La Poudre River, a critical line of defense against northward growth.

"We're hopeful that we will be able to contain it today, but that will be determined by Mother Nature," Haberstick said.

Firefighters have extinguished other incursions north of the river, but the most recent one appeared to be more serious.

National Weather Service meteorologist Kyle Fredin said some rain was expected in the fire zone Saturday evening, but it will not be enough to put the fire out.

"We need a rain that will really last all day," he said. "But it's better than dry wind at this point."

The fire was reported June 9 and has since raced through large swaths of private and U.S. Forest Service land.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who oversees the Forest Service, met with fire managers in Fort Collins on Saturday and said "fighting this fire is going to require us to be aggressive, persistent and also patient.

"We're going to continue to work to make our forests more resilient. We're going to continue to ensure that adequate resources are provided for fighting fires and we are going to continue to make sure that we encourage appropriate stewardship of our forests," he said.

Vilsack praised Congress for allowing the government to contract additional aircraft ? particularly heavy tankers ? to fight wildfires across the West. But he called on lawmakers for budget certainty to help plan for future fires.

Vilsack is scheduled to hold a news conference with U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell in Albuquerque on Sunday.

Meanwhile in New Mexico, questions were being raised about whether bureaucratic red tape prevented firefighters from saving more homes affected by the Little Bear Fire after federal officials released transcripts of the firefighters' response.

But officials released transcripts of the response on the Lincoln National Forest website that suggested firefighters were attacking the blaze as soon as it was a quarter of an acre.

The fire has destroyed 224 homes and burned 59 square miles.

In Arizona, the Northern Arizona Incident Management Team took command of the 1,500 acre blaze in the Tonto National Forest. Officials said the fire was 15 percent contained and firefighters continued to battle unseasonably dry fuels, high temperatures and low humidity.

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Associated Press writer Russell Contreras in Albuquerque contributed to this report.

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Sunday, June 17, 2012

Greek vote may give markets brief relief

By Caroline Valetkevitch, Reuters

Updated 4:27 p.m. EDT: NEW YORK -- ?Early results from Greece's elections on Sunday showed pro-bailout parties are on course to win a slim majority, which may give markets some respite, but any coalition's majority looks set to be narrow and may lack the stability needed to push through painful reforms.?

Whatever the outcome, Europe's problems are far from over as the debt crisis threatens to further engulf the larger economies of Spain and Italy.

Any sign of stresses in markets on Monday morning and investors will be looking for action from the world's central banks who, according to officials, stand ready to intervene if trading becomes turbulent.

At stake in Greece's election, as investors see it, may be the country's future in the euro zone and possibly the future of the currency bloc itself.

The Greek conservative New Democracy party and Socialist PASOK, who broadly back an EU/IMF bailout package keeping Greece from bankruptcy, looked set to jointly secure a slim majority in parliament. SYRIZA, the leading leftist party that pledged to tear up the terms of the bailout package, conceded defeat.

"Most probably they will try to form coalitions and the real question is, with the horse trading how stable is it?" said Doug Roberts, chief investment strategist at Channel Capital Research.com in Shrewsbury, New Jersey. "But right now it's more like kicking the can down the road. Either way you're not talking about a stable situation."

An official vote projection showed New Democracy taking 29.5 percent of the vote, with SYRIZA in second place with 27.1 percent and PASOK third with 12.3 percent.

Because of a 50-seat bonus given to the party that comes in first, the result translates into 128 seats for New Democracy and 33 seats for PASOK in the 300-seat parliament.

Roberts said whether or not central banks intervene will depend on markets next week. "If the markets start heading south I think they will be forced to," he said.

In one of the few markets trading shortly after the official election projections in Greece, the euro hit a three-week high against the U.S. dollar in early Australasian trade, rising to around $1.2730 according to Reuters data from around $1.2655 late in New York on Friday.

But markets have had a tendency to react positively to political developments late Sunday and early Monday only to quickly reverse. That was the case last weekend after the EU announced a 100 billion euro bailout for Spanish banks.

Weeks of worry over the potential outcome of the Greek election have prompted a number of central banks to prepare for market problems.

Central banks from major economies are ready to take steps to calm markets should the outcome of the Greek elections create a market storm, officials from the Group of 20 told Reuters.

Among them, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said the ECB was ready to step in and fund any viable euro zone bank that gets in trouble. The Bank of England on Thursday announced a $155 billion (100 billion pound) offer of loans to banks.

Group of 20 leaders kick off a two-day summit in Mexico on Monday and the rest of the week is not likely to be any quieter.

The Federal Reserve is due to release a policy statement on Wednesday at the end of its two-day meeting, and the steady flow of sovereign debt warnings and downgrades is likely to continue.

In another sign of investor nervousness, the CBOE Volatility index <.VIX>, Wall Street's fear gauge, was up for much of Friday even as stocks rose, although the VIX closed lower. Stocks and the VIX typically have an inverse relationship.

Many investors have been trying to prepare for the worst.

"People have been hedging their positions aggressively over the past two weeks heading into this weekend," said Alec Levine, a derivatives strategist at Newedge Group SA in New York.

"No matter what happens (this) week, we will return to a massive game of chicken between the newly elected Greek government, whoever that may be, and the EU, specifically Germany."

THE FED AHEAD

Despite the fears, stocks ended the week on a positive note, marking a second straight week of gains. The benchmark Standard & Poor's index <.SPX> is now up 6.8 percent for 2012, though still well off its highest levels of the year.

Part of what has spurred optimism for stock investors in recent weeks has been the hope that the Fed and other central banks would act to provide more economic stimulus. There has been continuing speculation over whether the Fed will engage in a third round of quantitative easing.

"We do think that expectations of QE3 will drive the market one way or the other," said Omar Aguilar, chief investment officer for equities at Charles Schwab Corp, in San Francisco.

But the fact that the Fed has made no recent changes to policy could mean the economic data policymakers are seeing is "not as bad as everyone thinks," Aguilar said.

Also ahead of the vote, Russell Indexes said certain events in Greece could mean changes in its indexes through implementation of its "financial crisis" rule. Its indexes include the Russell Global Index.

ON RATINGS WATCH

Adding to investor nervousness has been a slew of recent ratings cuts.

Among the most recent, Fitch Ratings on Friday downgraded Egypt's sovereign credit rating deeper into junk status. On Thursday, Egan-Jones cut France's sovereign credit rating.

Many investors see that trend continuing as agencies try to gauge the impact of the euro zone and other problems on the global economy.

"We're probably going to see more of it," Peterson said.

Below, CNBC's Sue Herera looks ahead to what are likely to be next week's top business and financial stories.

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Sony's Google TV-enabled NSZ-GS7 Network Media Player up for pre-order at J&amp;R

Sony's Google TVenabled NSZGS7 Network Media Player up for preorder

We knew Sony's next batch of Google TV-enabled hardware was coming this summer, and now at least one device is up for pre-order at J&R. Folks who've been wanting the Android-based service without shelling out for a full TV set from the company will now only need to part with $200 for its NSZ-GS7 Network Media Player. The unit comes complete with an updated remote featuring a QWERTY keyboard, motion control, a microphone (for "voice commands") and a touchpad, and it's said to work with most of Sony's 2012 TV lineup. There still seems to be no word on this streaming box's exact specs, a ship date or when you'll be able to snag its Blu-Ray touting sibling, but you can hit the source link to secure one for yourself in the meantime. Here's to watching whether it'll muster up more gusto for the platform than Logitech's Revue, once it's planted consumers' AV racks.

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Saturday, June 16, 2012

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Voting for America?s Next Top Model Cycle 19 College Edition Round #7 is now open.

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Friday, June 15, 2012

Seattle has two baseball teams: Road Mariners and Home Mariners

The 2012 Seattle Mariners are good. They?re actually pretty good.

They beat one of the best teams in baseball, the Texas Rangers, 10-3 then turned around and pummeled them 21-8 the next night. They fought hard and took a series from the red-hot Los Angeles Angels, including two 8-6 victories. As a team, on their last road trip, they batted .281 with 14 home runs and 60 RBI in just nine games.

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John Jaso reacts after striking out with two runners on base in the eighth inning Wednesday against the Padres. (Otto Greule Jr./Getty Images)

The problem is the Mariners are only good on the road.

When the M?s come home to Safeco Field, Seattle fans see a different team. They see the Home Mariners, a fledgling group of guys who can?t even hit .200. They see players who can?t string together enough hits to bring runners home, and when the M?s do get a rally going, it?s usually with two outs. They see supposed power-hitters who can?t swat a ball past the warning track. They see great pitching squandered by poor batting.

For the past five games, fans have watched the Home Mariners play boring baseball, offensively at least. Really, there?s barely been any contest. The M?s have lost four of their five games this homestand ? two to the best team in baseball, two to the worst. And the only way they were able to win last Friday?s game against the L.A. Dodgers was with a historic pitching performance: That six-pitcher no-hitter was just the 10th combined no-hitter in the modern era of professional baseball.

But when the team leaves Seattle, when they leave Safeco Field and the fans and the hometown press, they become the Road Mariners.

The Road Mariners are batting .257 this season, with four guys around .300. They have twice the runs and RBIs of the Home Mariners. They have twice the doubles of the Home Mariners. They have twice the total bases of the Home Mariners. They have twice the stolen bases of the Home Mariners. And they have three times the home runs of the Home Mariners.

Granted, the Road Mariners have played 10 more games than the Home Mariners. But the difference is obvious; it?s a glaring discrepancy. The 2012 Seattle Mariners are good on the road, but they stink at home.

?Offensively, we?ve just gotta figure this out here at home. It?s no secret,? manager Eric Wedge said after Wednesday?s 1-0 loss to the San Diego Padres. ?We?ve shown what we?re capable of doing on the road. And we?ve just gotta work to help these guys get over the hump here at home, to where we can go out there and be the offensive team that we?ve shown to be very capable of being.?

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Six Mariners pitchers combined for a no-hitter against the Dodgers on Friday. (Elaine Thompson/AP Photo)

After the series in Texas, when the Mariners outscored the Rangers 33-15 over three games at the end of May, it looked like the up-and-down M?s had finally turned a corner. It was apparent that those games boosted their confidence. They returned home with a 5-4 record on the road trip, winning two series against A.L. West foes.

Seattle fans got some excitement Friday with that ?no-no-no-no-no-no-hitter,? but at the same time the Mariners didn?t add much offensively. Once again, they had trouble with runners in scoring position ? the M?s recorded eight hits, but only got one run when Kyle Seager drove in Ichiro Suzuki from second on a two-out single.

The offensive drought continued: four hits for three runs on Saturday, five hits for two runs on Sunday, and while a late-game rally pushed the M?s up to 12 hits on Tuesday, they still lost 5-4. On Wednesday, the Mariners had several big chances to tie the Padres or take the lead, but went 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position and lost 1-0 despite getting eight hits.

The past two games must have been particularly frustrating for Justin Smoak, who hit two long fly balls Tuesday and another Wednesday that, in just about any other stadium, would have easily been homers. The Road Mariners have been hitting lots of dingers, but the Home Mariners still haven?t figured out the big dimensions of Safeco Field.

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Among regular players, Ichiro Suzuki has the Mariners' best home batting average at .250. (Otto Greule Jr./Getty Images)

And while it would be easy to blame the stadium ? or, like 710 ESPN Seattle?s radio hosts Brock Huard and Mike Salk, advocate for the Mariners to move in the outfield walls next season ? that?s a bit of a cop-out. Sure, Seattle would get more home runs with a smaller outfield, but singles and doubles wouldn?t be much easier to come by.

So why can?t the Home Mariners play like the Road Mariners?

?You know, we?ll get it. They?re good hitters. I think they?re trying to do a little bit too much here at home,? Wedge said Wednesday. ?Regardless of where you?re playing, or what the temperature is, or home or away, or what the score is, you?ve still gotta go up there and put up the type of ABs (at-bats) and do the things situationally that put you in a better position to score runs.

?These guys don?t make any excuses, they?re very accountable for what they do. And they?re very aware of what happens. That?s half the battle. So now it?s just about myself and all the coaches helping these guys get over the hump here at home offensively.

?You can?t play it this close. You can?t be perfect or have to try to be perfect ? you know, one-nothing ballgames or one-run ballgames ? all the time. You gotta be able to go out there and do what we?ve done on the road, be able to score 10 runs every now and again, break it open and be able to breathe a little bit.

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Mariners manager Eric Wedge says his young players need to calm down at home and focus on individual at-bats. (Jeff Golden/Getty Images)

?You know, there?s a lot more going on at home than on the road, a lot of the things these young men are going to have to handle better, whether it be distractions or press or just everything that goes along with being at home. It?s just part of it. It?s part of being a pro. And these guys are good with that. So, I really do believe that when it?s all said and done, and these guys settle in, we?re going to be very consistent here at home as well.?

Well, we?re more than one-third through the season. The M?s have played 27 games at Safeco Field, and 37 on the road. How long will it take for the Home Mariners to settle in?

Fans have heard all along that 2012 would be another rebuilding year for the Mariners ? hopefully their last one. Five of the regular starters are 25 or younger, and just eight guys on the roster are 30 or older. The young M?s don?t have much in the way of veteran leadership: Brendan Ryan, 30, is hitting .157; Miguel Olivo, 33, just returned from the disabled list; Chone Figgins, 34, is having his own problems; Kevin Millwood, 37, is a quiet pitcher on his last legs; and the oldest guy at 38, Ichiro, is ? well, Ichiro is Ichiro.

Wedge, who recently gave reporters a lecture on how he knows better than anyone how to rebuild a team, is saying fans have to be patient. The young pros are learning to be pros. And, Wedge says, they?re well on their way.

?I like where our guys are fundamentally, really, for the most part. I really do. They?ve worked hard to get there and we?ve seen it pay off for them,? he said. ?But you just gotta really slow it down and take it at-bat by at-bat. Keep your mind in the moment, just focus on what?s in front of you, and don?t get caught up in the ninth inning, or the end result in the first or second inning. You can?t do that. You gotta just really focus on what you?re doing and go up there and put up good ABs.

?I still feel like we?re having pretty good ABs. Tonight was somewhat typical, last night as well. What?d we have, 12 hits last night, eight or nine hits tonight? You know, you need to score more than a couple runs. Getting the hits, getting on base, that?s a big part of it.

?We?ve been here before, you know. And they got over it. So we just need to do it again.?

All stats current as of June 1, 2012.

Seattle's 21 runs on May 30 were just one away from tying the club's single-game record. On April 29, 1999, the Mariners beat the Detroit Tigers 22-6 at the Kingdome. The 21-8 win over Texas tied for the team's second-biggest game; the M's beat the Angels 21-9 on Sept. 30, 2000, at Anaheim. (Rick Yeatts / Getty Images)

Twenty-one was the most runs scored by any MLB team this season, and the most since the New York Yankees beat the Oakland Athletics 22-9 on Aug. 25, 2011. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

The 2012 Mariners are just the second team in baseball history to, in the same season, be the victim of a perfect game and to score 20-plus runs in a game. And they are the first team to pull it off in the modern era. The 1880 Cleveland team was the last club to do so. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

It was just the 27th time the Mariners had 20 or more hits in a game, and the first since beating Texas 12-6 on Sept. 1, 2008, in Arlington. That ballpark is good to the Mariners, it seems. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

It was the first time in club history that the Mariners scored eight runs in consecutive innings -- the seventh time in MLB history and just the fourth in the modern era. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

For the club, those 16 runs were the second-most scored in consecutive innings. On April 29, 1999, the M's scored 11 in the fifth and 6 in the sixth on their way to that 22-6 win over Detroit. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

The Mariners' 11 extra-base hits tied for the second most in club history for one game. The club record is 12, set on May 11, 1996, when the Mariners had eight doubles and four home runs en route to an 11-1 win over the Kansas City Royals. On Wednesday, the M's hit seven doubles and four homers. (Rick Yeatts / Getty Images)

Though he got the win, starting pitcher Blake Beavan gave up five runs on eight hits. It was the most hits he's given up in a game this year, and the outing tied for the most runs he's given up in a game this season. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

The Mariners had scored 21 runs in the previous six games. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

It was the first game of the season that Ichiro Suzuki had off. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

The M's lineup batted around in both the second and third innings -- the first time in club history that the Mariners had batted around in consecutive innings. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

Jesus Montero was just a triple short of hitting the cycle. Of course, Montero runs so slowly, he's not likely to get a triple anytime soon. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

Each starter had at least one hit and at least one run. Only Mike Carp, who pinch hit for Alex Liddi in the top of the eighth, put a zero up in the box score. He hit a fly ball deep to right field to end the inning -- in which the M's had already scored four more. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

Justin Smoak had his first career multiple-homer game and recorded a career-high 6 RBI. (Tony Gutierrez / Associated Press)

Relief pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma, despite entering the game with a 17-5 lead in the bottom of the seventh, recorded a save thanks to a statistical oddity. A pitcher can earn a save if he pitches at least three innings and finishes the game. He tied the club record for a save with the biggest margin of victory; Bill Swift got the save in Seattle's 15-2 win over Detroit on June 15, 1991. (Rick Yeatts / Getty Images)

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