AP, NBC to announce awards Super Bowl eve

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers looks on during warm-ups before an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions game in Green Bay, Wis. on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. Rodgers got to rest up for the playoffs and backup Matt Flynn threw for a franchise-record six touchdowns, giving the Packers a 45-41 victory. (AP Photo/West Bend Daily News, John Ehlke)

Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers looks on during warm-ups before an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions game in Green Bay, Wis. on Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. Rodgers got to rest up for the playoffs and backup Matt Flynn threw for a franchise-record six touchdowns, giving the Packers a 45-41 victory. (AP Photo/West Bend Daily News, John Ehlke)

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees (9) passes as Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Jason Shirley (71) rushes during the second quarter of an NFL football game in New Orleans, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Bill Feig)

New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, right, hugs Buffalo Bills linebacker Kirk Morrison after an NFL football game in Foxborough, Mass., Sunday, Jan. 1, 2012. The Patriots won 49-21 to clinch home-field advantage in the AFC playoffs. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The Associated Press and the NFL will announce the annual league awards, including Most Valuable Player, in a two-hour prime-time special "NFL Honors" to air on NBC on Super Bowl eve, Feb. 4.

All seven AP NFL awards will be presented from 9-11 p.m. EST live from the Murat Theater in Indianapolis during a show hosted by "30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin. The show will feature a live performance by Lenny Kravitz and appearances by Hall of Famers Jerry Rice, Barry Sanders, Deion Sanders, Shannon Sharpe and Steve Young.

The awards program will be preceded by a red carpet show on NFL Network from 8-9 p.m. EST.

In addition to MVP, the league will announce the winner of the Walter Payton NFL Man of the Year Award, which recognizes a player's community service as well as playing excellence.

The other AP awards are Coach of the Year, Comeback Player, Defensive Player and Defensive Rookie, and Offensive Player and Offensive Rookie.

Last year, the awards were presented on the NFL Network throughout the week leading up to the Super Bowl.

A nationwide panel of 50 media members who regularly cover the NFL votes for the awards. The AP tabulates the ballots.

Among the leading candidates for MVP are record-setting quarterbacks Aaron Rodgers, Drew Brees and Tom Brady.

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Iraq's Fugitive Vice-President

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On Dec. 18 in Baghdad, a plane carrying Iraq?s vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, was stopped before it could take off. Instead, Hashimi and his bodyguards were escorted off the aircraft. When the plane was finally allowed to leave, two of Hashimi?s men were arrested on charges of terrorism. Thus began a national crisis and the beginning of the unraveling of Iraq?s fragile democracy.

TAGGED: Iraq, Nouri al-Maliki, Tariq al-Hashimi

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Increase the Speed of Kindle Fire's Silk Browser [Kindle Fire]

Many Kindle reviews noted the sluggish performance of the Silk browser, but you can quickly increase the speed by changing a few settings. In addition to turning off Flash and changing the browser from desktop to mobile view, turning of Silk's touted acceleration feature will all make Silk faster.

Lifehacker alum The How-To Geek provides these tips and makes an argument for not using a desktop browser mode on a 7" screen. All three tips can be accessed in the Silk browser by tapping Menu, then Settings and making the changes in the screenshot above.

Keep in mind that many sites, including YouTube, can operate fine without Flash. If you need to regularly access a site that no longer works you can of course reverse these settings at any time.

How to Make the Kindle Fire Silk Browser *Actually* Fast | The How-To Geek

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Boston College Basketball: Keys for the URI game

While you first look at URI's record and see it's 2-12, you may think this will be a comfortable win for the young Eagles. However, this game is no cakewalk. After seeing the URI vs. Providence game, I believe there is a chance the Eagles can lose this one. I'm going to the game, so I figured I might do some keys to the game.

1. Slow down the tempo: They are called the "Runnin' Rams" for a reason. Jim Baron's club is most effective when they speed up the tempo. Early on against Providence, the Rams controlled the tempo and took a 14-9 lead. After Providence slowed the tempo a little more and played in the half court, URI had massive problems scoring.

2. Take advantage of URI's press: Jim Baron loves to press, and the young Eagles have had trouble breaking the press before. Jordan Daniels and Gabe Moton are going to have to be good floor leaders and command the team handling the ball. Also, if you break the press, it's going to allow a lot of open shots. Providence broke the press effectively against the Rams, and Providence constantly got easy buckets.

3. Box out and rebound effectively: URI has 2 very good rebounding big men in Jonathan Holton and Orion Outerbridge. The Rams average 37.8 rebounds per game, putting them at 73 in the country. The Eagles big men are going to be tested, so they need to be ready.

4. Don't turn the ball over: URI is at their best when they force a lot of turnovers. Providence turned it over 8 times in 4 minutes against the Rams, but adjusted to only have 11 the rest of the game. And Providence still blew out URI by 19.

5. Make the scoring for both teams come from the perimeter and the free throw line: URI can't shoot, plain and simple. They were 3-20 from 3 against Providence. 3-19 against UCF. 1-12 against Cleveland State. Donahue needs to realize that he can easily beat URI if the scoring for both teams comes from the perimeter and free throw line. URI gave Providence 35, yes, 35, free throws. Providence only made 22, but 22 points is a lot.

Prediction: I think BC wins the game, but URI is always really pesky and hangs around a lot until the end.

BC-68

URI-55

Source: http://www.bcinterruption.com/2011/12/31/2673184/boston-college-basketball-keys-for-the-uri-game

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This year was UK's second-warmest ever (Reuters)

LONDON (Reuters) ? The year 2011 was Britain's second-warmest ever, the Met Office said on Friday, although temperatures in December have in fact been close to average.

The mean temperature so far this month has been 4.7 degrees Celsius (40.5 degrees Fahrenheit), 0.5 above the 1971-2000 average, a far cry from 2010, when temperatures were 5 degrees below average to notch up the coldest December on record.

"While it may have felt mild for many so far this December, temperatures overall have been close to what we would expect," said John Prior, national climate manager at the Met Office.

"It may be that the stark change from last year, which was the coldest December on record for the UK, has led many to think it has been unseasonably warm."

This year marked a return to a trend of warmer than average annual temperatures, the Met Office said, noting that all the UK's top seven warmest years have happened in the last decade. The warmest was 2006.

It was the warmest April and Spring on record in 2011, and the second warmest Autumn on record.

The highest single-day temperature for October was also broken -- with Gravesend in Kent notching up 29.9 degrees on Oct 1, beating the previous record of 29.4 at March in Cambridgeshire on October 1 1985.

The top temperature of the year was 33.1 on 27 June at Gravesend, which was the warmest temperature recorded in the UK for five years. Britain's hottest-ever mark came in the Summer of 2003 when the record of 38.1 degrees was reached, again in Gravesend.

There were some marked variations in rainfall in 2011.

Scotland had its wettest year on record, beating the previous record set in 1990 but some parts of England have had very low levels of rainfall. East Anglia had its second driest year on record and the Midlands its third driest.

(Reporting by Stephen Addison; editing by Peter Griffiths)

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2011's Best Episodes: Game of Thrones' Shocking Beheading, Walking Dead's Discovery (omg!)

From Oprah's surprisingly low-key farewell to the year's most soul-crushing break-up on The Good Wife (Kalicia, no!), the year was packed with fantastic hours of television ? pretty much all of which we watched. There were teary goodbyes (Friday Night Lights' Texas forever! Smallville's tights and flights!), tense face-offs (why can't all CIA interrogations take place on the front porch of a cabin, like on Homeland?) and of course we made room for a little Glee (because certain underdogs deserved it). Which made the list. Tune in all week for our top 25.

Here's the second batch in our weeklong countdown of 2011's best episodes (Catch up first with Episodes 25-21, Episodes 20-16 and Episodes 15-11):

10. "Queen of Jordan," 30 Rock
How do you fill the void left by larger-than-life personality Tracy Jordan? With wine-throwing, weave-pulling and a pointless cocktail party. In other words, it's a job for Real Housewives! Or at least a Real Housewives spoof! Scene-stealer Sherri Shepherd rose to the occasion as Tracy's wife Angie, who is just as off-the-wall and out of touch with reality as her crazy hubby. Although shot in spot-on Housewives style, the episode still featured 30 Rock's classic absurdist comedy (the gay hairdresser thinks Jack is gay when he says he played both ways on the college football team, Jenna forces her own intervention to get attention and is shipped off to Minnesota), but added a little something special. We would call this one of the comedy's best episodes, but legal said we can't use "best."

9. "Pretty Much Dead Already," The Walking Dead
In the midseason finale of its sophomore season, this show somehow managed to revive -- or reanimate, if you will -- the humanity that's at the core of compelling zombie dramas. In the episode's final minutes, Farmer Herschel is devastated to witness his hoarded horde of zombies (that he alone views as "sick" humans) get riddled with bullets before his eyes. The tragic capper, however, is when a zombiefied Sophia, the missing little girl they've all been searching for, stumbles out, and it falls on Rick to pull the trigger with her mother sobbing nearby.

8. "The Sun Also Rises," The Vampire Diaries
The second season's penultimate episode was filled with tears, culminating in Klaus turning Aunt Jenna into a vampire before ultimately killing her. Worse, watching Elena lose her only semblance of a parent and knowing she was responsible for the death was wrenching. We've felt terror, hysteria, and laughed pretty darn hard while watching this show; this was the first time we sobbed.

7. "The Weekend," Homeland
What begins as a weekend getaway between new lovers ends with the fiery confrontation that's been brewing since the pilot. Although Carrie fully gives in to her lust for Brody, the Marine sniper she suspects is plotting a terrorist attack, she can't shake her nagging suspicions. So when she accidentally gives away details that suggest she's been watching Brody via surveillance, Carrie spills her entire theory. Cue the most excellent interrogation scene ever staged at a cabin in the woods. Brody convincingly answers enough of Carrie's questions to sway her, but when she begs his forgiveness for not trusting him, his unflinching "F--- you, Carrie," sets her in a tailspin the culminates in the show's also excellent season finale. (Oh, and he was lying.)

6. "Baelor," Game of Thrones
A pivotal event in this episode is so shockingly audacious that even now we'd like to issue a spoiler alert lest readers miss out on one of television's biggest surprises. HBO's epic fantasy series may have been hard to grasp at first -- a huge cast, foreign-sounding names, a feudal-type setting and baffling political intrigues -- but eventually we got to know the central characters, especially hero, patriarch and all-around upstanding fellow Ned Stark, played by Lord of the Rings' Sean Bean. We rooted for the morally high-minded right-hand man of the king, and so viewers could only watch (and rewind their DVRs) in disbelief as Ned was summarily beheaded in an act of betrayal -- with his two young daughters watching -- in a public square. What? Killing off someone who was supposedly the protagonist and emotional center of the show did not compute -- and drove home the fact that no one, not even the passive viewers, are untouched by the fantastical cruelty of this world conceived by author George R.R. Martin.

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