Cyprus crisis ruins dying father's plans for kids

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ? When Costas Kalapodas was diagnosed with brain cancer two years ago and given months to live, he saw one sure place to put his money: Cyprus' biggest bank.

The 43-year-old threw his entire savings into Bank of Cyprus stock, and even took out a 47,000 euro loan to pad his holdings. He then gave his wife Maria strict instructions to sell the shares when prices reached one euro per share in order to build a 500,000 euro ($640,000) nest egg that he felt would be sufficient to guarantee her, their 9-year-old son, Yiannis, and 4-year-old daughter, Rita, a secure future.

Bank of Cyprus, after all, was the bedrock of the nation's banking system. And Costas was himself a proud employee of the financial institution. He fought the tumor valiantly but succumbed last November, Maria Argyrou-Kalapoda said, certain that his investment was safe.

Today, a multibillion-euro bailout that cash-strapped Cyprus agreed with international creditors has rendered Bank of Cyprus shares effectively worthless, their value wiped out under the terms of a complicated recapitalization scheme. His 35-year-old widow, who never knew how much he originally poured into the bank, is wondering how she and her family will survive in the years to come.

"Costas was so sure about this, so meticulous about the way he went about this investment," said Argyrou-Kalapoda. "He even told me the exact price at which I should sell the shares so we would get enough money not to have to worry about the future."

Maria, who has held a job at the Cyprus Stock Exchange since 1999, says that in addition to seeing the value of her husband's savings destroyed, she's now saddled with a loan for something that has been taken away in the bailout.

"It's not that I'm shirking my responsibilities, but why should I be paying for shares that are worthless, especially when those shares were supposed to be security for my children's future?"

"It's unbelievable what's happening in this country," she said. "I feel lost."

It's not just fat-cat investors or Russian oligarchs bemoaning losses. Ordinary people who built up savings are the ones facing real disaster. Cypriot authorities agreed that all bondholders, investors and savers with over 100,000 euros tied up in the country's two biggest banks ? Bank of Cyprus and Laiki ? will take massive losses as part of bailout terms. The deal with Cyprus' euro area partners and the International Monetary Fund would secure the country 10 billion euros ($12.83 billion) in rescue money.

Costas and Maria, who diligently socked away money to ensure their kids a good education, had their plans go down the tubes literally overnight in the banking collapse.

Other Cypriots with more conventional savings are also in dire straits. Under the bailout agreement, Laiki, the country's second-largest lender, will be folded into Bank of Cyprus, with large depositors in Laiki losing most of their money. Depositors with more than 100,000 euros at the Bank of Cyprus face losses of up to 60 percent as part of the rescue deal.

Many have felt that Cyprus became ground zero for economic experimentation of the most radical kind: allowing international creditors to raid Cypriot savings in order to protect taxpayers elsewhere from having to pay for banking mistakes.

"When such drastic decisions are being made there's bound to be collateral damage," said University of Cyprus economist Sofronis Clerides. "My feeling is that when those decisions were taken on such a macroeconomic level, it's sometimes difficult to see the reality on the ground."

Uncertainty about the future has hardly dissipated three weeks into Cyprus' near financial ruin. Thousands of bank workers took to Nicosia's streets recently to voice their fear that hundreds of millions in their pension funds kept in Laiki and Bank of Cyprus accounts would be lost, as many jobs in the once thriving sector flush with foreign deposits will be lost.

"Everybody here stands to lose a lot of money, the money you worked for your whole life," said protester Marios Koullouros. "I've been working at Laiki for 27 years. And I think it is a pity to lose everything."

The beleaguered Cypriot government was at pains to assure that pension funds wouldn't be completely wiped out. Government spokesman Christos Stylianides said authorities had ensured pension funds in Laiki accounts wouldn't be lost, but transferred to the Bank of Cyprus. Nonetheless, they could take a hit of as much as 60 percent of their value.

Stylianides said new Finance Minister Harris Georgiades is in talks with trade unions to figure out how to minimize the damage as much as possible.

But all this is little comfort for Maria. She says she's spoken to lawyers who have advised her that she has a solid case to sue because the bailout terms possibly breached domestic laws.

She says she's still mulling it over, but hasn't made up her mind. Instead she falls back to a Cypriot character trait of counting one's blessings.

"I just want my kids and myself to be healthy," she says. "God will provide."

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Adam P. Pemble in Nicosia contributed.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cyprus-crisis-ruins-dying-fathers-plans-kids-070225658--finance.html

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Baby wash does not damage baby's skin barrier function, study finds

Feb. 15, 2013 ? New research has found washing newborn babies in a specific baby wash is just as safe as using water alone in terms of maintaining healthy skin.

The findings by academics at The University of Manchester, published in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing, compared Johnson's Baby Top-to-Toe wash against plain bath water on 307 newborn babies over a four week period.

The findings challenge the current advice from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidelines, that baby wash should be avoided in the first 6-8 weeks after birth.

Newborn skin is different to adult skin. The skin barrier on newborn babies is less mature and likely to be more vulnerable to environmental threats. But the study found no difference in transepidermal water loss (TEWL), which indicates the amount of water that escapes from the skin, between newborns bathed in water alone or with the wash product. Skin hydration increased in the wash product group compared to water alone when a babies' hydration at two weeks was analysed.

Project lead Professor Dame Tina Lavender said this offered reassurance that the wash product was not affecting the infant's natural skin barrier integrity.

Professor Lavender, Professor of Midwifery at The University of Manchester, said: "Whilst internationally it has been accepted that appropriate cleansing practices are important, a dearth of good quality clinical trials has led to variations in baby skin care regimens. However, women can now be confident that using this specific baby cleansing product on newborn skin is equivalent to bathing in water alone.

"This trial adds to the existing but limited evidence in the area and provides healthcare professionals with the strongest level of evidence available to date. Therefore we should no longer base our practice on tradition and experience alone. We should share the evidence from this study with parents, so they are able to make their own informed choices." This research follows another recently published study conducted by The University of Manchester in which the use of Johnson's Baby Extra Sensitive Wipes was found to be equivalent to the use of water and cotton wool in terms of skin hydration. Mums taking part in the study also reported nappy rash as being higher in the water and cotton wool group.

The findings from both studies should offer reassurance to parents who choose to use these particular baby cleansing products. "These results should provide healthcare professionals and parents with much needed evidence-based information giving them the option to support the skin care cleansing regime chosen by individual parents for their newborn babies," Professor Lavender added.

Note: The study, funded by Johnson & Johnson, the makers of Johnson?s Baby but carried out under strict, independent scientific protocols, including blind testing and peer review. Over a three year period Professor Dame Tina Lavender led a multidisciplinary health team comprising of a neonatologist, paediatric dermatologist, statisticians and midwives. The trial was conducted with a total of 307 newborns and their mums over a four week period at Liverpool Women?s NHS Foundation Trust who were randomised into two groups: bathing with water alone, and bathing with Johnson?s Baby Top-to-Toe Bath. Mums were advised to bathe their newborn three times a week and not to use any other products on their babies? skin to ensure robust methodology.

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Frito-Lay cuts local jobs, production

?Declining pretzel sales prompted Frito-Lay to cut jobs and reduce production at its Rold Gold facility.

The company, which had 162 employees, eliminated seven full-time and five part-time jobs. It also cut 15 workers to part-time hours.

Employees were told two weeks ago about the cuts.

The facility on 16th Street SW, west of Raff Road SW, is a specialty plant for Frito-Lay?s baked products. Its primary product is the Rold Gold pretzel line, but it also produces other snacks that are baked.

Frito-Lay is a division of Pepsico.

Hourly employees are represented by the Bakery Workers union Local 19, based in Cleveland.
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PS Vita price drop announced for Japan

PlayStation Vita will receive a price cut in Japan from its 24,980 yen ($269, which rounded to $250 in North America) to 19,980 yen ($215, should round to about $200 in North America) for both the 3G/Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi models, Sony has announced.

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Obama's Top Military Adviser Says Cuts Would Cost 'Time And Casualties'

It's been about a year and a half since Gen. Martin Dempsey left his job as chief of staff of the Army and became President Obama's top military adviser as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Dempsey is now responsible for reshaping the U.S. military after 10 years of war, which means scaling the forces down. At the same time, he's fighting to stave off across-the-board cuts to the defense budget ? the so called sequester ? that could happen in a couple weeks if Congress fails to reach some kind of budget deal.

Dempsey sat down with NPR's Rachel Martin to talk about the kind of impact these cuts will make and the recent cultural shifts in the U.S. military.

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Interview Highlights

On the risks of sequester:

"Two words: time and casualties. The way this plays out, when you hollow out readiness, it means that when the force is needed, when an option is needed, to deal with a specific threat ... it would take us longer to react to those. So time is the issue. Some people would say, 'So what?' Well, time generally translates into casualties in my line of work.

"We will weather this. The military is never going to fail to answer the call when the nation is threatened. So we will weather this, but shame on us all if we weather it at the expense of those who choose to serve in uniform."

On cultural changes in the military:

"The reason that we have taken these steps is that we actually do foresee a military that has to adapt to a changing world, [and] not just a socially changing world but literally a demographically changing world.

"I think it's fairly common knowledge that our population of military-age young men who qualify for the military is declining. So as a very practical matter, we decided [that] if in 2020 we're going to need these young ladies, and we're going to need to attract as much diversity and as much talent as we can possibly attract, if that's going to be the case, then what are we waiting for?"

On updating military standards:

"There are currently 66 military occupational specialties that are not open to women. So what you've seen us do is invert the paradigm. The paradigm was: 'These are closed to women so we don't need to explain why.' Now the paradigm is: 'These could be open to women, so we'd better explain why not.' ... What that's done is that it will actually make us wrestle standards to the ground and figure out if we've got them right.

"There are existing standards, many of which haven't dusted off in a very long time, [and] many of which have been narrowly focused just on physical standards, but without the companion piece of potentially psychological and intellectual standards. All I'm suggesting is taken holistically ... I think this will be a very healthy thing for the institution. And it will also have the added benefit of allowing a greater part of the population to compete."

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HTC One clone: GooPhone One launches in China

Whatever you might think your eyes do deceive you in this instance. We already know that HTC are planning simultaneous launch events in both London and New York for the arrival of their 2013 flagship; the HTC One, but Chinese mobile fans can grab a slice of that HTC design goodness now, sort of.

Rather than HTC having jumped the gun on their own launch date, what you?re looking at is the latest handset to come out of Chinese mobile manufacturer GooPhone. The company is famed for their impressively accurate lookalikes, having recently produced an HTC One S copy (called the GooPhone X1) and more impressively, an iPhone 5 clone running Android ICS called the GooPhone i5.

The HTC One clone, dubbed the GooPhone One, features the same distinctive ?capped? design which we?ve seen from the leaked images of the official HTC One, although we?re not 100% of the material choices or build quality in comparison to HTC?s well-established premium fit and finish. Naturally the notion behind the GooPhone One is a premium feel without the premium price tag, so the majority of the hardware isn?t on par with the official equivalent.

The 4.7-inch display most likely doesn?t feature Full HD resolution, the quad-core processor inside is MediaTek?s MT6589 chip and rather than a new version of HTC Sense, the GooPhone One sports what GizChina explain is Lewa OS. There?s apparently a gig of RAM on offer and surprisingly a 13-megapixel snapper, although we aren?t holding our breath for flagship-beating quality.

With such high-quality looking knockoffs like this, how much would you be willing to pay for a device that has the appearance of a top notch phone, without the underlying quality the real thing will most likely win out with.

Source: http://recombu.com/mobile/news/goophone-one-launches_M18759.html

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India Ink: Modern in Mumbai

Cecilia Morelli Parikh is still a woman on a mission. Nearly two years ago, with Julie Leymarie and Aur?lie de Limelette, she opened Le Mill, a multibrand fashion and home store, in a converted warehouse in a gritty section of Mumbai, India, which brought a contemporary Western aesthetic to an affluent Indian shopper. Last November, Morelli Parikh and her co-founders (Leymarie is a former L?Or?al executive; de Limelette has designed numerous displays for Herm?s) rolled out a second store, this one in the city?s decidedly fancier Breach Candy area. Morelli Parikh describes the first store?s location as the equivalent of New York?s ?meatpacking district, 30 years ago,? while the new store?s surroundings are ?the Upper East Side.?

At 1,900 square feet, the second Le Mill is much smaller than the 15,000-square-foot flagship store (which, as of next month, will carry only home products, including the store?s own furniture and tabletop lines, designed by de Limelette, as well as European brands like Carl Hansen & Son, Gervasoni and Gubi). In contrast to the flagship?s industrial look ? the name Le Mill refers to the building?s early life as a rice mill ? the new store is ?more polished,? Morelli Parikh says. The entry floor is painted in a gray and white abstract geometric pattern; the cashier?s desk is a shipping container painted glossy white. It?s the perfect backdrop for the store?s sharply focused fashion offerings ? from contemporary labels like 3.1 Phillip Lim, Alexander Wang, Erdem and the Row ? as well as jewelry by Mawi, En Inde, Shourouk and Tom Binns, among others, and gift items and tableware.

This spare but sensual look ? in design as well as fashion ? is what Morelli Parikh and her co-founders want to bring to the Indian luxury goods market, which still lags well behind that of, say, China. It wasn?t that long ago that Indian women began to abandon traditional dress for Western fashion, and even then they often chose flashy over fashion-forward. Add India?s high import duties and the fact that affluent Indians, who travel frequently, prefer to shop in London, Dubai and New York, and the women behind Le Mill had their work cut out for them.

But none of this fazes the American-born, London-raised Morelli Parikh, who, after working at Bergdorf Goodman, married Rohan Parikh ? who runs the real estate and construction branch of his family?s shipping company, Apurva Natvar Parikh Group, or A.N.P.G. ? and settled in Mumbai two years ago. She noticed a lack of multibrand stores, and realized that while many Western fashion and home products are made in India, with its traditions of craftsmanship, those goods ? and their contemporary aesthetic ? were generally not available there. So she, Leymarie and de Limelette set about ?bringing that heritage into the 21st century,? away from heavy and ornate toward a lighter, more modern take on tradition.

It is no surprise that the apartment that Morelli Parikh and her husband share, in an Art Deco building on Marine Road (which has one of the largest concentration of Art Deco buildings in the world), embodies her ?more natural, raw, delicate? outlook. The 2,400-square-foot space?s monochromatic restraint is leavened by contemporary Indian artworks and luxurious touches like the master bedroom?s inlaid marble floor. The furnishings are a mix of de Limelette?s understated pieces for Le Mill, Western classics like a Carl Hansen & Son lounge chair and contemporary works like dining chairs by BDDW in New York (available by special order at Le Mill). The look is comfortable and stylish, but modern.

And that is exactly the direction that Morelli Parikh is taking with Le Mill?s second store. Now that younger, less mainstream designers have proven to be successful, Le Mill has introduced fashion from what Morelli Parikh calls ?even edgier? labels like Peter Pilotto and Mary Katrantzou. Still, Morelli Parikh explains that there?s a market for more classic clothing, so this month Joseph will join the store?s designer roster. But its biggest move to date will be the addition of Azzedine Ala?a in March. Morelli Parikh explains that the designer already has a following among the store?s core customers, about 50 women who represent a good 60 percent of Le Mill?s ready-to-wear business. ?Ala?a is sexy, but it?s so chic,? she says.

Le Mill is forging ahead with plans to open stores in other prosperous Indian cities, like Delhi and Bangalore, and an e-commerce site will make its debut next month: ?There is lots of wealth in third- and fourth-tier cities where there are no shops,? Morelli Parikh says. Being a tastemaker in a brave new world is ?incredibly challenging,? she adds, ?but really fun.?

Source: http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/modern-in-mumbai/?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Sunday morning show roundup: On the GOP?s Twitter problem, Hagel ?

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Project Gutenberg Adds Dropbox Support, Perfect for Syncing to All Your Devices

We've shown you how to load up your ereaders with free ebooks, and Project Gutenberg is a great place to do it. Recently, they made accessing their catalog of 42,000 free ebooks that much easier by adding Dropbox integration.

All you have to do is find your favorite ebook and click the Dropbox icon next to it, and that book will be synced to your Dropbox?as well as all of your devices on which you've installed the Dropbox app (like your phone, tablet, or even rooted Nook). That means you essentially have one click syncing for all the books you care to read from Project Gutenberg. Kindle users will have to go a step further and email the file to their Kindle email address, but it's nothing you couldn't automate with Wappwolf. Hit the link to read more.

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Should Schools Respond to Shootings More Like the Military Does?

Residents call for an end to gun violence during a march on February 2, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old honor student who performed in President Obama's second inauguration parade, was shot and killed while hanging out with friends on January 29. Pendleton was the 44th homicide recorded in Chicago for 2013.

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The NRA and its like-minded allies have talked about putting armed guards in schools to prevent school shootings like the one we saw in Newtown. But when it comes to dealing with the aftermath of violence?be it a mass shooting in the classroom or gang-related violence off-campus?some schools are looking to another organization with its own expertise in guns: the military. Could the military?s methods actually do some good in America's schools?

That's one of the questions asked by a new two-part This American Life series that began airing Friday evening. The show is definitely worth a listen. One specific part that jumped out is a segment about how one Chicago public school in particular?West Englewood's Harper High School, which has seen 29 current and recent students shot and eight killed in the past year alone?is grappling with gun violence.

Three years ago, Harper administrators started using a system called After Action Review, or AAR, to respond to violent incidents involving their students. TAL chronicles the school's response after a former student gets shot outside of a gas station. The day after the shooting, Harper's principal convened the AAR group, which consists of about two-dozen people all together, ranging from social workers to the school's football coach. Such meetings serve as something of a debriefing during which the school pieces together the information they have about the incident: What happened? Who was involved? The group's main purpose is reactionary, but it's a start. If you listen to the episode, you can start to comprehend what a daunting task it must be to combat gun violence as a community-wide epidemic.

So where did the school get this idea from? That's right, the military. Here's the relevant snippet from tonight's transcript:

A couple years ago Chicago Public School officials were visiting Fort Leavenworth in Kansas to research military training tools?tools they might use to prepare people working in the city?s roughest schools. They came across the AAR, the Army?s tool for analyzing events, for assessing damage, compiling information, and trying to figure out how to respond. ...

A district administrator told me, think about it: the natural response for a school after a shooting is to go into panic, and to grieve and to hope that it never happens again. That?s normal. And so when the Chicago Schools first brought the AAR in from Fort Leavenworth, and suggested it to Harper some people said it felt wrong. Like they?d be planning for students to be shot. But the staff at Harper knew it would be better to have procedures and a plan to contain the damage. That?s the AAR.

You can listen to the first episode?here.

Source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/16/this_american_life_chicago_high_school_uses_military_protocol_to_respond.html

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Want to Turn Your NFL Franchise Around? Look No Further Than EJ Manuel

September 23, 2012 should have been one of the best, most elating days of EJ Manuel?s young life. As a senior quarterback of a championship contenting Division I FBS team, Manuel played the best game of his life against an in-conference foe to set the team up to go on a championship run and have a chance to be cemented in college football history.

Still, there endured a lucking void of uneasiness and hopelessness in Manuel?s life, his mother, Jackie Manuel, was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly before the 2012 season.

For Manuel, this season has prepared him for anything the NFL could possibly throw at him.

Despite his devastating circumstances, Manuel knew that the world was not going to stop to allow him to grieve. He had to continue on, finding ways to numb the stress and anguish along the way.

Because quite frankly, no one was going to care, as Manuel predicted:

"I knew nobody else was going to care, to be honest with you. People will say, sorry, and this and that, but you've still got to go out and play. I understood that."

Manuel knew he had no choice but to suffer in silence:

"That's why I never really said anything publicly about it, because Florida State fans may say sorry, but when you're not winning games, they're still going to have things to say negatively or just be upset."

Somehow, Manuel was able to channel his thoughts on football when his team needed him, as Florida State went on to win the ACC Championship and Manuel secured his position as one of the top quarterback prospects to enter the 2013 draft.

Just like in college football, Manuel will not find any kind of forgiveness for the inability to perform in the NFL. Andy Reid was fired just months after losing his son in August. Having to cope with witnessing a suicide did not excuse Scott Pioli and Romeo Crennel for the Chiefs? 2-14 record. No one shed a tear while Rex Ryan coached his 6-10 Jets while his father battled cancer.

What Manuel endured last season does not just prepare him for other traumatic events that occur in life; it gives him a unique sense of perspective that few people his age have. As Manuel told ESPN:

"That's why I told my teammates, 'don't take anything for granted, don't wait. If you can go ahead and do something now, if you can go study and watch film now, go do it. Don't try to say I'll put it off until tomorrow because you don't know what will come tomorrow."

Yes, Manuel is blessed with NFL talent (which is described below), but his ability to focus his energies on football while maintaining proper perspective on the game is what separates him from any other player in this draft class and would be tremendous asset to any NFL team.?

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On the Field

We know Manuel has the mental makeup to survive the tremendous ups-and-downs in the NFL, but he is also a tremendously talented player in his own right and has the right tools to succeed in the NFL.?

Arm Strength

One of Manuel's best attributes is his arm strength, as it allows him to get out of trouble as much as it helps him make plays.?

This play is a fake screen pass that takes some time to develop, and Manuel's pass is almost intercepted by a roaming linebacker near his own goal line.?

However, even without stepping into the throw, Manuel gets enough juice on the pass to get the completion and the first down.?

Obviously, these are not the kind of throws Manuel should be making in the NFL, but this play is a perfect example of how Manuel's arm strength allows him to get away with throws other quarterbacks cannot.?

Even when watching him making routine throws on shorter routes, the ball comes out with a ton of velocity that make it very hard for defenders to get a chance to make a play on it. His arm strength is also evident in how he rarely has to take a big step into his throw in order to fit it into a tight window.?

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Accuracy

Manuel is not going to thread needles in short-to-intermediate routes with?incredible?consistency, but he does have the ability to throw a tremendous deep ball, especially when given a clean pocket.?

In what was one of the best (and most clutch) throws of Manuel's 2012 season, he drops a ball right into the hands of Rodney Smith for the go-ahead touchdown.?

Notice how Manuel had enough arm strength so that he did not have to step into the ball. He put just enough touch on the pass so that it went over the defender's head but had enough velocity to meet Smith in the corner of the end zone.?

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Mobility

While he is not quite Russel Wilson or Robert Griffin III, Manuel has enough mobility to keep defenses on their heels. He can make plays from broken situations as well as run the option.

This play is a designed option, which Manuel elects to keep. He has enough speed and agility to score from 16 yards out.?

Here is another play where he is able to break tackles and elude defenders to extend the play and hit a wide open receiver for a touchdown:

At 240 pounds, Manuel will be able to withstand much more contact in the NFL. His build is much larger than players like Michael Vick and RGIII, who have been unable to stay healthy while maximizing their potential as mobile quarterbacks.?

Manuel's athleticism is better compared to that of Andrew Luck. Luck is not going to outrun defensive backs, but he will take yards when they are available and has enough bulk to withstand hits from linebackers.?

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Where does he have to improve?

Manuel has all of the physical tools to succeed in the NFL, but he just needs to tie everything?together?to become a more finished product.?

Manuel is a bit rough when it comes to mechanics and being a fluid passer. He is a bit awkward in his stance and delivery,?but that is one of the few areas of quarterbacking that can be (relatively) easily coached in the professional ranks.?

While he does have experience working under center, the offense he ran at Florida State was rather elementary, requiring just one or two reads on every dropback.?

However, recent history shows that quarterbacks in relatively simple college offenses can make the mental transition to the NFL, as long as they are willing to work at it. Cam Newton ran an offense at Aurburn that was ran with cards on the sideline, and RGIII ran a relatively simple spread system at Baylor.?

When you factor in Manuel's mental makeup, you would be hard-pressed to bet against his willingness to learn a pro offense and improve in his ability to make faster reads.?

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Conclusion

Unlike last year, the 2013 quarterback draft class has no can't-miss prospect, and Manuel is no exception. He flashed outstanding arm strength and deep accuracy and has the mobility to run the pistol read-option offenses that are slowly taking over the NFL.?

Most of his weaknesses as a player lie in the more minute aspects of the game?mechanics, progressions, and ball placement.?

Where Manuel will ultimately go in this year's draft is still very much up in the air, as he can go anywhere between the first and fourth rounds, depending on how the draft process shakes out.?

No matter where Manuel will?ultimately?go, what he has been able to overcome this season will give him a unique weapon few players his age have developed: an?unmatched?sense of perspective and the ability to channel one's energy into the things that matter most to Manuel?family and football.

It may take some time for Manuel to develop into a professional, winning quarterback. The tools and the mental makeup to do the job are there.?

When paired with NFL-level ability, that kind of mindset and mental makeup alone has the potential to change the fortunes of a franchise. ?

Source: http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1530233-want-to-turn-your-nfl-franchise-around-look-no-further-than-ej-manuel

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Google Sues British Telecom in Retaliation for Android Lawsuit

Published on: 14th Feb 2013

?Google has launched a patent lawsuit against UK based landline operator, British Telecom (BT) as the two sides escalate a tit-for-tat patent battle.

BT had initiated the fight in late 2011 after it sued Google over a series of mobile patents which it said were being infringed in Android smartphones.

Google has now hit back with its own lawsuit and it citing four patents covering IP networking technologies that it says BT is infringing. Google is suing BT in both the USA and the UK.

"We have always seen litigation as a last resort, and we work hard to avoid lawsuits," Google spokeswoman Niki Fenwick told Reuters. "But BT has brought several meritless patent claims against Google and our customers - and they've also been arming patent trolls."

As a former state-owned monopoly with a sizeable research division, BT built up a formidable patent portfolio of its own, which was memorably demonstrated when the company pointed out that it owned the patent to the hyperlink used in websites, having patented it long before anyone knew of the concept.

BT eventually lost a test case against a USA based ISP in 2002 over that patent.

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California Cop Killer is Huge Fan of Piers Morgan, Obama and Gun Control

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Americans are watching with morbid fascination as authorities continue to search high and low for Christopher Dorner, the former Los Angeles Police officer and naval intelligence analyst who allegedly shot and killed one police officer and two civilians, as well as wounding two more officers. ...

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Apple makes MacBook Pro with Retina display faster and more affordable

Apple has just announced some changes to their industry-leading Mac Book Pro with Retina display lineup, including a new, lower starting price, and updated processors. According to Apple:

Apple is making the MacBook Pro with Retina display faster and more affordable with updated processors and lower starting prices. The 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display now starts at $1,499 for 128GB of flash, and $1,699 for a new 2.6 GHz processor and 256GB of flash. The 15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display now features a faster 2.4 GHz quad-core processor, and the top-of-the-line 15-inch notebook comes with a new 2.7 GHz quad-core processor and 16GB of memory. Apple today also announced that the 13-inch MacBook Air? with 256GB of flash has a new lower price of $1,399.

I've been using the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro since it was announced at WWDC 2012 last year, and it's the best computer I've ever used. It's so good I barely go near my Mac Pro anymore, and my MacBook Air has been retired. The only exception is the Intel HD GPU, which is redlined by Retina, but hopefully that gets solved in future generations.

At a lower starting price and with faster CPU options, it sounds even better. Anyone hitting the order button?

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Participant, Doha Film Institute form $100 million film fund

Finola Hughes has called the upcoming 50th anniversary of "General Hospital" a "really sweet" moment."I think the fact that we, at 'GH,' are doing so well right now, and to enter into our 50th anniversary on such a high, it feels really sweet," the actress, who plays Port Charles Police Chief Anna Devane, told Access Hollywood, when asked about the daytime drama's impending anniversary.

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The New York Mets No Longer Face Financial Ruin, Are Completely Out Of Debt

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Over the past few seasons, the New York Mets have shrunk payroll and quickly spiraled into non-contention. They haven?t finished with a record above .500 since 2008, and they haven?t made the playoffs since 2006. Their payroll in 2009 was $149 million, second highest in the league behind the Yankees. Their payroll in 2012 was 14th highest at $93 million.

Much of this blanket minimalism stemmed from the $1 billion lawsuit brought in 2011 against the team by the victims of the Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme. But as pointed out by New York Times, the roots of financial instability were already in place. Beginning in 2009, when the Mets? record dipped below .500 to 70-92, poor on-field performance led to a declining attendance; an average attendance of 38, 941 in 2009 was 7th best, but by 2012 that number had slipped to 28,035 and 17th. Coupled with the unfortunate timing of an economic downturn coinciding with the opening of Citi Field (2009) ? a financial strain in its own right ? dollars in Queens were at a premium. Then, the Madoff lawsuit.

In March, Mets ownership settled with the ponzi scheme victims, owing only $60 million, 6% of the original suit ? which is to say that, given the recent fiscal freefall, things were looking up. The team had walked into another $240 million from 12 new minority investors, providing enough money to pay off loans from Bank of America and Major League Baseball.

Though the expected trajectory of progress was forward leaning, it was still a few years away from reaching its pinnacle. But according to Mets owner Fred Wilpon (by way of ESPN?s Adam Rubin), Mets ownership is now completely free and clear, financially speaking. Although Wilpon makes a point of illuminating the true cause of the financial hair-splitting over the past few years ? it wasn?t all Madoff-related ? the more salient point is that the team has finally broke back even.

??It [the Madoff lawsuit] wasn?t, as people have written, the reason,? Wilpon said about the Madoff issue and payroll slashing. ?It was a balance there, because we had to make sure the banks got paid off all of the debt. There?s no one in my family ? there?s the Katz family, the Wilpon family, kids ? [that now] has any personal bank debt. Zero. Everything has been paid. We don?t owe a dollar to anybody. We have mortgages on buildings and stuff like that, but we don?t owe a dollar.

?That?s what made us tight. We were still getting revenues. Lots of revenues. But those revenues were going to pay off debt. That?s done.??

Field a competitive team, eh? Then you probably shouldn?t mess with the ballpark to help the visitors.

[ESPN]

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10 moments you never expected to see in WWE

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