Fiat CEO sees 50 percent chance of Chrysler IPO, prefers buyout

KOKOMO, Indiana (Reuters) - Sergio Marchionne, the chief executive of both Fiat and its majority-owned Chrysler Group LLC unit, said he sees a 50 percent chance that Chrysler will go public but would prefer that it be fully merged with Fiat.

Fiat shares ownership in the smallest U.S. automaker with a retiree trust fund affiliated with the United Auto Workers labor union. Marchionne said he would prefer that Italian automaker Fiat buy the trust fund's holdings.

"My preference is to be one single company," Marchionne told reporters in Kokomo, Indiana, on Thursday. "We belong together."

Over the last four years, the two automakers have been blending their operations as Fiat has increased its stake in Chrysler, said Marchionne, who has been CEO of both companies since Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy in 2009.

Fiat, however, has been odds with the trust fund over Chrysler's worth. The fund is under pressure to squeeze as much value as possible from its Chrysler holding to pay for medical benefits.

Marchionne was speaking at a plant in Kokomo, Indiana, where Chrysler announced it would invest $374 million in four Indiana plants to support production of its more fuel-efficient eight- and nine-speed transmissions by the end of the year.

The move will create up to 1,250 jobs in Indiana, including as many as 850 jobs at the company's new Tipton Transmission Plant, Chrysler said on Thursday.

Chrysler is spending $162 million to make a nine-speed transmission at Tipton. Production at Tipton is expected to start in the first quarter of 2014.

About $212 million will be invested in the Kokomo Transmission, Kokomo Casting and Indiana Transmission I plants to make the eight- and nine-speed transmissions. The money will be used to install additional tooling and equipment needed to make Chrysler's eight- and nine-speed transmissions by the fourth quarter of 2013.

(Reporting By Bernie Woodall in Kokomo, Indiana; Editing by Gerald E. McCormick, Sofina Mirza-Reid and Leslie Adler)

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Petition to legalize phone unlocking reaches goal

Devin Coldewey , NBC News ? ? ? 13 hrs.

A Whitehouse.gov petition to rescind the recent decision making personal unlocking of cell phones illegal has reached the 100,000 signatures necessary for an official response from the administration.

Unlocking is the process of removing carrier restrictions on a device; For instance, a phone bought at Verizon might only work on its network, even if its hardware is compatible with AT&T's network. By unlocking it, a user could take their phone to another network and avoid having to buy a new one.

Various carriers took different approaches to unlocking phones, some offering unlocked phones out of the box, some making the process a chore. But if you wanted to do it, you generally could.

That is, until October of 2012 brought a decision from the Librarian of Congress that, under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), unlocking your own phone was technically illegal, and could only be done with carrier permission. A 90-day grace period allowed one last chance to unlock, but ended on Jan. 26, at which point it became forbidden by law.

The decision was criticized widely by groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation for removing consumer options for no good reason. Owners of phones, they argued, should be able to do whatever they like with them ? from installing custom software to unlocking the device for new carriers.

Shortly before unlocking became officially illegal, a petition on the Whitehouse.gov We The People site was started, asking for the decision to be rescinded, or if that wasn't possible, to pass a law allowing phone unlocking. With just two days left before its expiration, it hit the 100,000-signature mark that means the administration will issue an official response.

It's doubtful that unlocking will be made legal again in a hurry (such legislation would certainly take time), but at the very least, it is clear that many are concerned about this perceived misstep in tech governance.

Devin Coldewey is a contributing writer for NBC News Digital. His personal website is coldewey.cc.

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What?s the Matter With Vermont?

Vermont's State House in Montpelier

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Imagine coughing so hard and for so long that you turn blue and stop breathing. Pertussis, or whooping cough, can do that to an infant. The disease is caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis and occurs in three stages. The catarrhal stage, characterized by runny mucous, is highly contagious. It?s followed by the paroxysmal stage?unstoppable, sustained, violent coughing accompanied by a ?whoop? when you inhale. (Listen to a baby with whooping cough here, or see a video of a boy with whooping cough here.) In the final, convalescent stage, a cough can linger for several weeks. Pertussis can affect anyone, but it poses the most danger to infants.

A pertussis vaccine became available in the 1940s, and incidence of the infection dropped from around 200,000 per year to barely over 1,000 by 1976. But today the United States is in the middle of a pertussis epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than 41,000 cases of pertussis were reported nationwide in 2012. At least 18 people have died, mostly infants younger than 3 months of age?too young to be fully vaccinated. There hasn?t been such a major outbreak since 1959. The states with the most cases per capita are Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Vermont.

The epidemic is due in part to the reduced effectiveness and the shortened duration of immunity conferred by a relatively new vaccine. But the epidemic is also spreading because of a low vaccination rate.

Vaccination needs a critical mass to effectively confer ?herd immunity? on a population. When vaccine rates fall below 90 percent, diseases spread readily enough to endanger people who can?t be vaccinated because of illness or because they are too young. In parts of Vermont, the vaccination rate is only 60 percent. It is one of 20 states that allow a philosophical as well as religious exemption to vaccines, and it has one of the highest philosophical exemption rates in the country.

George Till, a state House representative and a physician, tried to change that last year by proposing a bill to eliminate the philosophical exemption to vaccines. Instead, Act 157, which became law on July 1?when the current pertussis epidemic was already raging?turned into a complicated, compromise vaccine bill that preserved the philosophical exemption.

Till lives and practices near Burlington, Vt., and was elected to the House four years ago. In his re-election campaign, he spent $18.55 for dog bones. With dog treats in hand, this soft-spoken doctor went door to door and asked his neighbors to vote for him. Till, an OB-GYN and a Democrat, did not accept donations to his campaign from any group?he even sent back a check from Planned Parenthood.

Act 157 originated when a pediatrician neighbor of Till?s came to him with a concern. In a local kindergarten class, 75 percent of students were not fully vaccinated. Till researched the issue and thought it was reasonable to get rid of the philosophical exemption in order to increase vaccination rates. Till proposed a bill in the House, and state Sen. Kevin Mullin proposed an almost identical bill in the Senate.

The Senate bill passed quickly, but not so in the House. Delays sometimes happen in Vermont?s ?citizen legislature,? where lawmaking is a part-time endeavor by ordinary people for just 18 weeks of the year. The bill languished in the health care committee. Then the Legislature was off for a week because the first Tuesday in March is reserved for town meetings in communities across the state.

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Video: ?Fishy? seafood may not be as advertised

>>> a new investigation by a conservation group shows all across this country the fish you order in a restaurant or buy at the store may not be what it says on the label. the group oceana says their dna testing showed a third of the fish they examined was something other than what it was supposed to be. sometimes it's cheaper fish being sold as something fancier, like red snapper . buttim so mislabeled substitutes westbound dangerous with high levels of mercury or toxins that can make you sick. so it's buyer beware . these days, 90% of the fish we eat in this country is imported. and just 2% of all of that is inspected, according to this report.

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Via Licensing Adds China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom To Its 4G LTE Standards-Essential Patent Pool

Via Licensing Corporation today announced that China Mobile and Deutsche Telekom joined the company's LTE patent pool for standards-essential patents. The two telecom giants join AT&T, Clearwire Corporation, DTVG Licensing, HP, KDDI Corporation, NTT DOCOMO, SK Telecom, Telecom Italia, Telef?nica, and ZTE Corporation in this pool that launched last October. Give the vagaries of the patent system and the constant threat of litigation, a patent pool like Via Licensing's allows telecom companies to reduce the risk of litigations and makes it easier for them to license their own patents.

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Video: Breaking Down Hewlett-Packard's Quarter

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Police: Ex-Southern Vermont College official dead of self-inflicted wound amid embezzlement charges

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Douglas County schools to give pay hike, but union calls it a mirage

?The financial situation for the Douglas County School District appears to be leveling out after four years of budget cuts.

Douglas County plans no cuts for the 2013-14 school year and will give a 2 percent pay increase to all employees, the second year in a row teachers would receive pay hikes.

That was among the recommendations Superintendent Liz Fagenmade to the school board Tuesday night.

"We want to send a signal to our employees that they will have a raise next year," Fagen said before Tuesday's meeting. "They are going to have more money than this year."

But teacher union president Brenda Smith said teachers will actually be making less next year than they did this year, because the proposed salary does not include a one-time stipend and the base salary also is slightly lower.

"What she's proposing is just a mirage," Smith said. "It's misleading information."

Among Fagen's other recommendations:

? Eliminate the $25-per-student technology fee, which would save parents a total of $1.2 million;

? Absorbing a 0.9 percent increase in PERA benefits and increases in health insurance costs ranging from 6 to 8 percent.

There are about 65,000 students in Douglas County schools. This year, the district received a little more than $6,100 per pupil under the state school finance act. Worst-case scenario, the schools will receive an additional $200 per pupil, including a $125 increase from the state and a $75 one-time payout from the district.

The board will approve its budget later this year.

While the extra money for each student does not seem like a lot, it means plenty for schools that have seen either class sizes grow or teachers taking on more students than in previous years.

Legend High principal Corey Wise said the extra cash will work out to the equivalent of two full-time teachers across several departments at the Parker school.

"Any time we're a growing school, it's going to go to classes and increase in teachers," Wise said. "We get to hire more teachers."

But like with most things in Douglas County, the news can be seen from different vantage points.

Some believe the district has a carryover of its general fund of about $84 million, but that number has been disputed by the district. Regardless, that has led some to criticize the district for not putting the extra money back into the classroom.

"We are lacking basic funds to adequately serve our kids," Smith said. "What she is putting out is simply not enough to get our schools to where they need to be."

However, district officials say some of that money has already been spent or is earmarked for classrooms going forward. They project an end balance of $51.9 million at the end of this school year, and an unassigned fund balance of $15 million.

"We inherited an unhealthy budget situation," Fagen said, "and we've worked hard to stabilize it by spending the money we have, not the money we hope to have."

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Sanitizer, oil, static blamed in hospital fire

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ? A combination of hand sanitizer, olive oil and static electricity likely caused an accidental fire that burned a young patient at a Portland hospital, the state fire marshal said Wednesday.

Ireland Lane had used an ethyl alcohol-based hand sanitizer at Oregon Health & Science University's Doernbecher Children's Hospital, Fire Marshal Mark Wallace said. The girl's father, Stephen Lane, has said she also likely wiped the sanitizer on her T-shirt and wiped her bedside table with it.

Olive oil on Ireland's T-shirt and hair compounded the severity of the Feb. 2 fire, Wallace said. Olive oil is sometimes used to remove the glue that holds electrodes to the scalp for an EEG exam.

The girl, who turns 12 Thursday, had recently learned about static electricity and apparently was trying to create static sparks in her bed by scuffing her feet and rubbing the bed linens. Wallace said a static charge likely ignited fumes from the hand sanitizer and burned Ireland's olive oil-saturated cotton shirt.

"This was a very unusual combined set of circumstances that resulted in this young girl getting burned," the fire marshal said.

The Klamath Falls child suffered second- and third-degree burns to about 18 percent of her body, The Oregonian has reported. Ireland has already undergone one skin graft surgery and a second surgery was scheduled for Thursday.

The hospital, which supplied the hand sanitizer, immediately announced changes in its protocols.

Patients sometimes use olive oil to remove the glue that holds electrodes to the scalp for an EEG exam if the patient is allergic to the common compound that is used, a hospital spokesman told The Oregonian.

"We are no longer suggesting the use of olive oil for patients who have an allergic reaction to EEG gel remover," Dr. Stacy Nicholson, hospital physician-in-chief, said after the findings were announced. "In addition, while our placement and use of hand sanitizer meets industry standards, we plan to review our procedures to see if there are any additional adjustments we can make to promote safety."

Wallace said alcohol-based hand sanitizers are safe when used according to instructions.

"OHSU, as all medical facilities in Oregon, are very safe places," he said. "There is no reason to believe that anyone at OHSU or any other medical facility is in danger based on this highly unusual event."

A survivor of a rare childhood kidney cancer, Ireland had been was admitted to the hospital initially because she hit her head at school and lost consciousness. She was due to leave the hospital the day of the fire.

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Drones have killed 4,700, U.S. senator says

A Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. (Eric Gay/AP)Just how many people have America?s drones killed? Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has put the death toll at 4,700?the first time an American official has publicly put a figure on the impact of strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles. The South Carolina lawmaker's office said he was citing an estimate already discussed on cable television.

Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, disclosed the figure during a question and answer session on Tuesday with the Rotary Club of Easley in his home state of South Carolina. His remarks were first reported by the Easley Patch.

?We've killed 4,700,? the lawmaker said. ?Sometimes you hit innocent people, and I hate that, but we're at war, and we've taken out some very senior members of Al-Qaeda.?

Drone strikes, President Barack Obama?s signature tactic for killing suspected al-Qaida and other extremist fighters, have been ?very effective,? said Graham. ?It's a weapon that needs to be used.?

Amid a controversy sparked by Obama?s targeted assassination of American citizens overseas suspected of consorting with terrorists, Graham came down sharply against any judicial oversight of the drone war, calling the idea ?crazy to me.?

?I can't imagine, in World War [II] for Roosevelt to have gone to a bunch of judges and said, 'I need your permission before we can attack the enemy,'? Graham said.

Drone war expert Micah Zenko of the Council on Foreign Relations noted on his blog that Graham?s figure lined up with the high-end estimate by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism.

?Either Graham is a big fan of TBIJ?s work, or perhaps he inadvertently revealed the U.S. government?s body count for nonbattlefield targeted killings,? Zenko said.

Asked about the disclosure, Graham's office forwarded a clip from MSNBC in which the anchor cites the figure of 4,700 killed.

Obama's National Security Council and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not immediately say whether the lawmaker's comments amounted to an inappropriate disclosure.

Graham did not specify whether he was discussing CIA drone strikes or military drone strikes.

Obama's expanded drone war has broad popular support in the U.S., according to a poll released earlier this month by the non-partisan Pew Research Center. That survey found 56 percent support such strikes, and just 26 percent oppose them. At the same time, 53 percent worry about potential civilian casualties. But overseas it faces majority opposition, Pew found last year.

(Hat tip: Agence France-Presse via the London Telegraph.)

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How Marriages are Made?Not Found - Marriage Right

Why do couples who are convinced they have found ?the one? end up divorcing each other just a few years (or sometimes a couple decades) into their marriage? There was a time when they couldn?t imagine being apart for five hours; now they can?t bear the thought of being together for five minutes; what happened?

Artificial intimacy
In many cases, the relationship existed only on what I call ?artificial intimacy.? True intimacy?that sense of ?oneness? that we all seek?has to be pursued and built rather than simply discovered and felt. Artificial intimacy is sustained by the common events of life, but usually comes to a huge crash as soon as the couple enters the empty nest years if true intimacy hasn?t replaced it.

Let?s look at how artificial intimacy begins, how it is temporarily sustained, and then how couples who believe they have been gripped by it can learn to grow into true intimacy.

In the beginning
Artificial intimacy begins with the onset of infatuation, a ?grab your brains with a vengeance? neurochemical reaction that makes us virtually blind to our partner?s faults. Infatuation is notoriously short lived, with a shelf life of about 12 to 18 months. Dr. Helen Fisher, a preeminent neurologist who has written on the topic, provides the following neurological markers of an infatuation:

• The lover focuses on the beloved?s better traits and overlooks or minimizes flaws.
• Infatuated people exhibit extreme energy, hyperactivity, sleeplessness, impulsivity, euphoria, and mood swings.
• One or both of the partners develops a goal-oriented fixation on winning the beloved.
• Relational passion is heightened, not weakened, by adversity; the more the relationship is attacked, the more the passion grows.
• The lovers become emotionally dependent on the relationship.
• Partners reorder their daily priorities to remain in contact as much as humanly possible, and they even experience separation anxiety when apart.
• Empathy is so powerful that many report they would ?die for their beloved.?
• An infatuated person thinks about their lover to an obsessive degree.
• Sexual desire is intense, and the relationship becomes marked by extreme possessiveness.¹

The way many researchers describe this brain state overall is an ?idealization? of the one you love. You focus on strengths (many of which might be imaginary) and are blind to weaknesses (many of which are readily apparent to outside observers). You ?idealize? this person to make them the kind of person you want them to be. It should be clear that this is an artificial intimacy; it?s not genuine, but it feels real, and is enough to lead many couples into marriage.

How many of your friends have told you, after being let down by someone they truly loved, ?He?s not the person I thought he was?? That?s because he wasn?t. That?s a true observation! They were relating to an idealized (fictional) version of a man?or woman?not that person?s authentic self.

In addition to infatuation, your relationship compatibility is also enhanced artificially via sexual chemistry. When infatuation and sexual chemistry are strong, compatibility or incompatibility barely even register. You both feel crazy about each other, you can barely keep your hands to yourself?how could you not be compatible? You don?t even really have to do anything to sustain your desire for each other; just being alive makes you feel compatible. And so, on this basis, and often on this basis alone, the couple decides to get married.

When spring turns to summer
When a couple begins to move toward marriage and set a date for the wedding, even though the initial artificial intimacy may be on the decline, planning the ceremony gives them something in common and keeps them going. They plan it, talk about it, and divide up tasks to make it happen. This is ?intimacy? of a sort, but it?s a superficial intimacy, the intimacy of co-workers, not life-mates. Still, in the throes of infatuation and high sexual chemistry, it feels like intimacy and continues to sustain the relationship.

I implore engaged couples to set strict ground-rules that three days out of the week they will not talk about the wedding ceremony. It is silly to give so much effort, expense and focus to a ceremony lasting less than an hour while neglecting the cultivation of a life-long relationship. If the couple doesn?t do this, the honeymoon can hit them pretty hard. They?ll be thrilled the ceremony is over, enjoy the sexual consummation, and then spend the first few days talking about what went right at the wedding, what went wrong, who was there, who wasn?t there, and so on. Along about the third or fourth day of the honeymoon, the 30 minute ceremony and 2 hour reception will be talked to death. If they have put true relational intimacy on hold, once the false intimacy of ceremony planning has been digested and discussed ad nauseum, the couple is likely to fall into an awkward and even terrifying silence. When you?ve been living for something that is now past, you?re like a five-year-old child on December 26th. The surprise is over, and reality isn?t quite as enchanting.

Once the couple gets back from the honeymoon, they will start setting up a house, move into a new apartment or neighborhood, and try to join two lives. That also joins them in a common task and gives them something to talk about. What color should we paint the bedroom? Do you think we?ll be here long enough to bother with planting trees outside? Where?s our new favorite hangout?

As life moves on, just when things could get boring again, the couple is likely to start raising kids. That?s a big thing to have in common and requires a lot of communication. You go to childbirth classes, you build a nursery, you raise the kids, and then you have to communicate to get the kids to the right places. You share your kids? failures and successes. Eventually those kids repay you for your faithful service by growing up and leaving the two of you alone together.

That?s when you find out how much intimacy you really have.

At the start of the relationship it was just infatuation and sexual chemistry. Then it was the joint task of planning a ceremony. Then, setting up a home. After that, raising kids. In days past, these life events could take marriages to the doorstep of death and eternity, but modern couples can blow through these stages of life in two and a half decades, often leaving another 30 years or more of marriage to follow. That?s a long time to be lonely and to live with a familiar looking stranger.?If you haven?t consciously built true intimacy, the relationship is going to collapse right at this point.

Some couples have to wake up to the reality that they?ve been living relationally on shared tasks, not shared intimacy. They haven?t prayed together. They haven?t shared their dreams. They haven?t carried each other?s burdens and then built that all-important empathy for each other. They?re teammates, not spouses, but now that the season is over, what?s to hold them together?

I can?t prove this with any scientific study, but it?s my belief that this in part explains why so many couples suddenly declare ?incompatibility? even though they obviously once thought they had found their perfect match in each other and have lived together for over two decades. They?ve simply come to the end of this false compatibility and realize they have very little common ground with which to face the rest of their life together.

When couples get divorced and start over with someone else, the second relationship initially feels more fulfilling than the first because, once again, it?s existing on artificial intimacy: infatuation and sexual chemistry retake their place on center stage, the two once again enter the relationship building of sharing past histories, planning a ceremony, setting up a new life together? But the same dynamics will bring this affection to an end as well if the couple doesn?t consciously build true intimacy.

Making a marriage
One of the main messages of my writing/speaking career on marriage has been this: a good marriage isn?t something you find, it?s something you make, and you have to keep on making it. Just as importantly (and herein lies the hope), you can also begin ?re-making? it at any stage.

If you wake up to the sobering reality that you?ve existed on artificial compatibility, that doesn?t mean you can?t begin now to build true intimacy. True intimacy can be pursued at any stage of marriage. It would be much better for everyone involved if, instead of seeking a divorce and building yet another relationship on artificial intimacy, the couple chooses to begin building true intimacy, with God as the center of the relationship.

As a Christian, I believe we are so self-centered that we need to be transformed and to have God?s Spirit working within us to give us even the capacity to know true empathy, a willingness to sacrifice, and the ability to overcome the petty sins that destroy affection and create bitterness. That?s just another way of saying that building and sustaining true intimacy requires nothing less than God?s direct intervention through His Holy Spirit.? It?s no good just starting over with another sinner who simply sins in different ways, because eventually, I?ll grow just as weary with the second?s wife sin as I did with my first wife?s foibles. How much better to attack the sin and grow in the grace of forgiveness than to live on a carousel of ever-changing spouses.

True intimacy is, I believe, rooted in worship, in which I learn to love my wife out of reverence for God. This lifts our love away from the subjective, ?does my spouse deserve my love today?? to the rock solid and never changing truth of,

God always deserves to be revered, and He calls me to love my wife as Christ loves the church.?

In addition to worship, true intimacy is built via thoughtful, God-empowered and God-directed perseverance: the commitment to keep doing small things that feed relational intimacy, in their proper order and priority. As married couples:

• We persistently communicate; there is no relationship without communication.
• We don?t let bitterness grow.
• We keep caring enough to resolve our differences, and we go to God to forgive each other?s weaknesses.
• We reserve time for each other. We make memories between the two of us?this is an intentional pursuit of deciding to do mutually enjoyable things together, without the kids.
• We remain the best of friends and alarms go off if anyone else begins to feel closer.
• We keep praying for each other.
• We learn to laugh together, we play together, we work together and cry together.
• If there?s not a physical reason why sex stops or becomes less frequent, we find out why our intimacy is on the wane and address it.

If we stop doing the things that sustain marital intimacy, the relationship withers and dies. What?s so sad is that when couples get to the end of all artificial intimacy they often blame it on the person instead of the relationship. They say, ?I must have married the wrong person? instead of ?we haven?t nurtured the relationship.? This is tantamount to buying an expensive ornamental tree, never watering or feeding it, and then, when it dies, saying, ?This is just a defective tree.?

Intimacy is something we can choose to build and even re-build if it has been lost. It has to be two-way; if one partner resists, intimacy will suffer. But if two people want to rekindle their love, by God?s grace, they can, just by doing the things couples do. Pray. Talk. Spend time. Laugh. Have sex. Build friends. Seek first God?s kingdom (be involved, together, in Kingdom work). Quit worrying about how romantically intense you feel and focus instead on your call to love.

Here?s an analogy that might help bring this truth home. I?ve qualified for and have run the Boston marathon three times. After my third Boston, I moved to Houston, where the heat and humidity index make long runs painful. I left the Pacific Northwest, home of Sushi and organic greens, neither of which is a particular temptation for me, to move to a city besieged by Barbecue and Mexican restaurants?temptations over which I have the control of a six-year-old boy. My weight went up accordingly. I could not run a marathon now in a time that would qualify me for Boston, because I haven?t been doing the little things you have to do to run long and fast: maintain a certain mileage base, maintain a certain body weight, perform speed workouts. Having once been in shape?even having been in that shape for several years? time?doesn?t guarantee that I stay in shape. Once I stop doing what keeps me in shape, my fitness level decreases.

I don?t need to find a new heart, or buy new legs. I just need to go back and train that old heart and those old legs to do what they are capable of doing by performing the same things I did before, faithfully, persistently. If I?m seriously out of shape, I can?t decide to get back in shape in one day, or even one week. When it comes to marathon shape, it?s going to take several months of persistent, faithful training.

The same thing is true for relational intimacy. You can have true intimacy with an ?old? spouse, but you can?t turn it back on overnight. You have to start feeding it, slowly build it back, be faithful in pursuing it even when you don?t see the initial returns, and watch it slowly come back to you. When it does, it won?t be artificial. It?ll be real. It?ll be satisfying. It?ll be less than perfect, because it?s not an imagination. But it?ll be more than enough to sustain you in your later years.

Gary Thomas (www.garythomas.com) is the author of Sacred Marriage and the newly released The Sacred Search: What if It?s Not About Who You Marry, but Why?? from which this article was adapted.

Source: http://www.startmarriageright.com/2013/02/how-marriages-are-made-not-found/

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France's Hollande: euro zone needs to defend its currency

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said on Tuesday that the euro currency zone must develop an exchange rate policy to protect the currency from "irrational movements".

"Europe... is leaving the euro vulnerable to irrational movements in one direction or the other," he said in his first speech as president to the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

"A monetary zone must have an exchange rate policy or else it ends up subjected to an exchange rate that does not match the true state of its economy."

(Reporting By Mark John; Editing by Nick Vinocur)

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Semiconductor physics: Taking control of spin

Jan. 31, 2013 ? Generating and sustaining electrical currents with unique properties for information processing comes closer to reality after a successful theoretical demonstration.

Spintronics is a form of signal processing similar to that used in traditional electronics, but it takes advantage of a property of electrons known as spin. Spin is often visualized as an arrow about which the electron rotates, much like a top spinning around its axis. Generating a stream of electrons in which these 'arrows' are all parallel -- a so-called spin-polarized current -- is the foundation upon which spintronics is based. Imperfections in a material, however, can easily destroy polarization. Simply applying an oscillating voltage across the device could help to maintain a spin-polarized current even in the presence of impurities, according to theoretical research by Seng Ghee Tan at the A*STAR Data Storage Institute, Singapore, and co?workers.

Tan and his colleagues considered a two-dimensional electron gas: a system in which the electrons can move only in one plane. When a spin-polarized current flows through such a material, the spins interact with the electron's motion through an effect known as Rashba spin-orbit coupling. This makes the spins start to 'wobble' or precess: at first they point upwards but then point downwards, and this reduces the total spin polarization to zero. "We want to prolong the life span of a spin current in the channel by controlling the strength of the Rashba coupling," says Tan. To this end, he and his team investigated a device, known as a spin-current rectifier, that lets a spin current flow with one particular polarization -- upwards only, for example.

The researchers developed a simple mathematical equation that predicts the behavior of the spin current as an alternating voltage is applied across the device. Their model shows that when the frequency of the voltage is zero, the spin polarization goes back and forth as expected. "However, by increasing the frequency, we see an increasingly asymmetrical pattern of oscillation in favor of positive polarization," explains Tan. "We call this a gradual process of rectification."

Their approach can even suppress precessional motion entirely. When the external modulation frequency is much faster than the natural precessional frequency of the spins, known as the Larmor frequency, the spins have no time to change direction so remain pointing upwards. Consequently, the system maintains a spin-polarized current.

Once spin currents can be sustained, spintronics will have all the potential of electronics with the additional advantage of an extra degree of control. The spin-current rectifier investigated by Tan and his co-workers could therefore become a vital component in this future technology.

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FNATIC.com: The Future of eSports

The Future of eSports

The recent discussions and issues in eSports have caught my attention and I thought about the future of eSports.?

Introduction

?In my opinion eSports most certainly have a bright future. Things that are happening now and numbers involved with eSports, such as the number of competitive games, international LAN events and the number of people watching these events, as well as the money involved is something that I simply couldn?t imagine 10 years ago. When you look at it from a certain angle, you will see that eSports is all about people spending their time together on events all over the world, sharing great moments together and most importantly - doing what they love, together with people from all over the globe. And, as for myself, I think this is one of the best things about eSports. However, with lots of money being involved, everything has to be done in a certain way, and that is a professional way. There are many people already working strictly professional for companies, organisations as well as themselves.?The most important thing is - they all have the same goal and that is to expand and develop eSports as much as they can. That is what matters the most. I'm sure if we keep developing eSports, and if everyone gives his/her best, we will grow along with the community we love, and raise it on a different, even more professional level.? - Andreja Mahovic, former Professional Gamer.

We all see that the community is growing and the entire scene is improving, money is involved and people are interested, but is that enough for a bright future of eSports ?

Naturally the people who are interested in gaming are becoming more and more, but I think this can not only be contributed to gaming itself, but comes along with the technical progress.

Yet this does not mean a bright future for eSports ?in General, as there is still a huge majority of people who think Gaming is only something for males and nerds. The problem is that they don?t have access to this community and do not know what it is about. Spending 8 hours in front of the computer is still frowned upon the society, but spending 10 hours on your smart-phone and computer on social networks on the other hand is not. The question ?is how can we, as the community and the scene reach out to the people and make eSports something ?normal? in the modern society.

It is for sure, that this is not possible by just waiting and keeping the status quo, but by gaining stability and professionalism towards the outside.

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Alabama town mourns for bus driver amid standoff

As the police standoff with an Alabama man accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage continued Saturday, a nearby community prepared to bury the beloved bus driver who was shot to death trying to protect children on his bus when the episode began days earlier.

Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66, who was known around town as Chuck, was described by folks in his hometown of Newton as a humble hero. Hundreds of people attended a viewing service for Poland on Saturday evening. His funeral was set for Sunday afternoon.

"I believe that if he had to do it all over again tomorrow, he would," said Poland's sister-in-law, Lavern Skipper, earlier Saturday. "He would do it for those children."

Authorities said Jim Lee Dykes boarded a stopped school bus filled with 21 children Tuesday afternoon and demanded two boys between 6 and 8 years old. When Poland tried to block his way, the gunman shot him several times and abducted a 5-year-old boy ? who police say remains in an underground bunker with Dykes.

Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said in a briefing with reporters Saturday that Dykes has told them he has blankets and an electric heater in the bunker, which is located on his rural property. Authorities have been conferring in a nearby church and communicating with Dykes through a ventilation pipe to the underground bunker.

Olson also said Dykes has allowed police to deliver coloring books, medication and toys for the boy.

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Police and emergency personnel remain on site at the property of Jimmy Lee Sykes, a suspect accused of holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker on Saturday Feb. 2, 2013 in Midland City, Ala. Negotiators were still trying to persuade Jimmy Lee Dykes to surrender. Police have said they believe the Lee Dykes, a Vietnam-era veteran, fatally shot a school bus driver Tuesday, and then abducted the boy from the bus and disappeared into the home-made bunker. (AP Photo/al.com, Joe Songer) Close

"I want to thank him for taking care of our boy," Olson said. "That's very important."

The shooting and abduction took place in Midland City, a small town near Dothan, Ala., in the state's southeastern corner.

Newton is about three miles away, a small hamlet with fewer than 2,000 residents. It sits amid cotton farms and rolling hills sprinkled with red earth; most of the residents commute to Dothan or to a nearby Army post. And many knew Poland.

William Lisenby, a school bus driver who also taught Sunday School with Poland, was flanked by other area bus drivers as he arrived at Saturday night's viewing at a local funeral home.

Lisenby spoke in Biblical terms when referring to Poland.

"If you'll notice the similarities there, of what Chuck did was the same thing that Jesus Christ did. These children, even though they were not Chuck's, he laid down his life to defend those children. My hat's off to him for that," he said,

"He was a bus driver just like we are," Lisenby said. "But for the grace of God that could have been us."

Others spoke of the loss of a good man, and their hope that the little boy being held captive is alive and well and will be released soon.

"The community is real concerned," said Fred McNab, mayor of Pinckard, Ala. "You can tell by the food that's been carried over there to the church. It's just devastating. We want it to come to a resolution. We want to save that little child."

Earlier Saturday, local residents remembered Poland as a friendly man who was quick to lend a helping hand to others.

"He's probably the nicest guy you'll ever meet," said Lonnie Daniels, the 69-year-old owner of the NAPA Auto Parts store, one of three establishments in town that was open Saturday.

Daniels last saw his friend Tuesday morning, when Poland agreed to buy a car from him. The two men shook hands and closed the deal "like gentlemen," Daniels said. Poland was to return after working his bus route to pay for the car.

"He never came back," Daniels said quietly.

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Sylvester Stallone supports assault weapon ban

Actor Sylvester Stallone attends the "Bullet To The Head" premiere at AMC Lincoln Square on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Actor Sylvester Stallone attends the "Bullet To The Head" premiere at AMC Lincoln Square on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Actor Sylvester Stallone attends the "Bullet To The Head" premiere at AMC Lincoln Square on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013 in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) ? Sylvester Stallone says that despite his "Rambo" image and new shoot-em-up film "Bullet to the Head," he's in favor of new national gun control legislation.

Stallone supported the 1994 "Brady bill" that included a now-expired ban on assault weapons, and hopes that ban can be reinstated.

"I know people get (upset) and go, 'They're going to take away the assault weapon.' Who ... needs an assault weapon? Like really, unless you're carrying out an assault. ... You can't hunt with it. ... Who's going to attack your house, a (expletive) army?"

The 66-year-old actor, writer and director said he also hopes for an additional focus on mental health to prevent future mass shootings.

"It's unbelievably horrible, what's happened. I think the biggest problem, seriously, is not so much guns. It's that every one of these people that have done these things in the past 30 years are friggin' crazy. Really crazy! And that's where we've dropped the ball: mental health," he said. "That to me is our biggest problem in the future, is insanity coupled with isolation."

Stallone is now in production on his next project, pairing up with the former "Raging Bull" Robert De Niro for "Grudge Match," about two aging boxers.

"People think it's going to be some geezer brawl. Really? OK, they're in for a surprise. I'm telling you. I've been working on the fight, the choreography. He's taking it deadly serious. Because no one wants to be shown up," Stallone said of De Niro. "It's going to be like a 'Rocky' fight. This will be 'Rocky 7,' with me fighting ? with Rocky fighting the 'Raging Bull.'"

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Police chief: No sign of fear from slain attorney

This undated handout photo provided by the Kaufman County Sheriff's office shows assistant district attorney Mark Hasse, 57, who was shot and killed Thursday morning, Jan. 31, 2013, in Kaufman, Texas. Authorities said they were searching for two suspects that attacked him as he exited his vehicle in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex where he worked. (AP Photo/Kaufman County Sheriff)

This undated handout photo provided by the Kaufman County Sheriff's office shows assistant district attorney Mark Hasse, 57, who was shot and killed Thursday morning, Jan. 31, 2013, in Kaufman, Texas. Authorities said they were searching for two suspects that attacked him as he exited his vehicle in the parking lot behind the Kaufman County Courthouse annex where he worked. (AP Photo/Kaufman County Sheriff)

Evidence markers line Grove Street after an Assistant District Attorney was shot and killed on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 in downtown Kaufman, Texas. Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was shot and killed early Thursday morning as he was walking from his car to the courthouse. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, David Woo) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET USE BY AP MEMBERS ONLY

David Byrnes, Sheriff of Kaufman County, right, bows his head as Mike McLelland, District Attorney of Kaufman County answers questions at a news conference at the Kaufman Law Enforcement Center on Thursday, January 31, 2013, in Kaufman, Texas. Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was shot and killed early Thursday morning as he was walking from his car to the courthouse. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, David Woo)

Law enforcement officers walk past some evidence markers that were placed on Grove Street after an assistant District Attorney was shot and killed on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 in downtown Kaufman, Texas. Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was shot and killed early Thursday morning as he was walking from his car to the courthouse. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, David Woo) MANDATORY CREDIT; NO SALES; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET USE BY AP MEMBERS ONLY

ATF agents stand close to the area where an Assistant District Attorney was shot and killed on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 in downtown Kaufman, Texas. Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse was shot and killed early Thursday morning as he was walking from his car to the courthouse. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, David Woo)

KAUFMAN, Texas (AP) ? A North Texas police chief says he doesn't have any information suggesting that a top-notch prosecutor feared for his life before he was fatally shot outside his office.

No arrests have been made since the killing Thursday of Mark Hasse, an assistant district attorney in Kaufman County.

Kaufman police Chief Chris Aulbaugh says investigators continue to examine the crime scene and sift through Hasse's cases in hopes of finding a person of interest in his death.

Aulbaugh said Friday that there is no indication of any fear on Hasse's part before he was killed.

The slaying of 57-year-old Hasse rattled prosecutors across the state and angered those who worked with him in Kaufman, located 33 miles southeast of Dallas.

The reward for information in the case has reached nearly $65,000.

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Dell nears buyout, deal could come as soon as Monday: sources

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Dell Inc is nearing an agreement to sell itself to a buyout consortium led by its founder and Chief Executive Michael Dell and private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, possibly announcing a deal as soon as Monday, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Michael Dell is expected to take majority ownership of the world's third-largest personal computer maker, which currently has a market value of $23 billion, while Silver Lake and Microsoft Corp would become minority investors, a third person familiar with the matter said.

The final price the group is expected to pay Dell shareholders could not be immediately learned. The deal would mark the largest leveraged buyout since the global financial crisis.

The transaction is set to be finalized over the weekend but the buyout consortium is working on last-minute details and the timetable could still slip, the people cautioned, asking not to be named because the matter is not public.

The investment group, which held negotiations with Dell's camp in New York on Thursday, has secured up to $15 billion of debt financing to take Dell private from four investment banks -- Barclays, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse and RBC Capital, people familiar with the matter said.

Barclays is also advising Silver Lake on the transaction, along with Perella Weinberg Partners, said two of the people. JPMorgan Chase & Co is advising Dell.

Representatives for Dell, Microsoft and Barclays declined to comment. Silver Lake and Perella Weinberg could not be immediately reached for comment.

As part of the transaction, Michael Dell will contribute his existing stake of almost 16 percent in the company toward gaining majority ownership, sources close to the matter have said.

Going private would allow Dell, which has been trying to become a one-stop shop for corporate technology needs as the PC market shrinks, to conduct that difficult makeover away from public scrutiny.

Dell has formed a special committee of its independent directors and hired Evercore Partners Inc to assess whether the company is getting the best deal for shareholders and not one that is just in the best interest of Michael Dell, several people familiar with the matter have told Reuters previously.

(Additional reporting by Poornima Gupta in San Francisco and Bill Rigby in Seattle; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)

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Outdoor fast food ads could promote obesity

Jan. 30, 2013 ? Past studies have suggested a relationship between neighborhood characteristics and obesity, as well as a connection between obesity and advertisements on television and in magazines.

Now, new research from UCLA has identified a possible link between outdoor food ads and a tendency to pack on pounds. The findings, researchers say, are not encouraging.

In a study published online in the peer-reviewed journal BMC Public Health, Dr. Lenard Lesser and his colleagues suggest that the more outdoor advertisements promoting fast food and soft drinks there are in a given census tract, the higher the likelihood that the area's residents are overweight.

"Obesity is a significant health problem, so we need to know the factors that contribute to the overeating of processed food," said Lesser, who conducted the research while a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar at the UCLA Department of Family Medicine and UCLA's Fielding School of Public Health.

"Previous research has found that fast food ads are more prevalent in low-income, minority areas, and laboratory studies have shown that marketing gets people to eat more," said Lesser, now a research physician at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute in California. "This is one of the first studies to suggest an association between outdoor advertising and obesity."

For the study, the researchers looked at two densely populated areas in Los Angeles and New Orleans, each with more than 2,000 people per square mile. They focused on more than 200 randomly selected census tracts from those two areas, which included a mixture of high- and low-income residents.

The team used data on outdoor food advertising in those areas gleaned from a previous study on ads and alcohol consumption (which had tracked all the outdoor ads). They then linked that information with telephone-survey data from the same study, in which nearly 2,600 people between the ages of 18 and 98 from those areas were asked health-related questions in addition to questions about their height, weight, self-reported body mass index (BMI) and soda consumption.

The researchers found a correlation: The higher the percentage of outdoor ads for food, the higher the odds of obesity in those areas.

"For instance, in a typical census tract with about 5,000 people, if 30 percent of the outdoor ads were devoted to food, we would expect to find an additional 100 to 150 people who are obese, compared with a census tract without any food ads," Lesser said.

Given that the study focused on only two areas, the authors urge further research to determine if the findings would be replicated in other areas. Because the study was cross-sectional, the researchers do not claim that the ads caused the obesity. They also note that self-reported information about weight is subject to recall bias, and people often under-report their true weight.

But this study suggests enough of a link between outdoor food advertising and "a modest, but clinically meaningful, increased likelihood of obesity" to warrant further examination, the researchers conclude.

"If the ... associations are confirmed by additional research, policy approaches may be important to reduce the amount of food advertising in urban areas," the researchers write, while noting that outright bans on such ads might be deemed unconstitutional. "Innovative strategies, such as warning labels, counter-advertising, or a tax on obesogenic advertising should be tested as possible public health interventions for reducing the prevalence of obesity."

Frederick J. Zimmerman of UCLA and Deborah A. Cohen of the RAND Corp. co-authored this study, which was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program.

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Ateneo-FEU game a draw; La Salle beats NU in UAAP men?s football

By Celest R. Flores
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MANILA, Philippines ? Ateneo and Far Eastern University battled to a 1-1 draw on Thursday but the Blue Eagles kept the top spot in the UAAP season 75 men?s football tournament.

Midfielder Carlo Liay scored on a header to equalize in the 89th minute, which kept the Blue Eagles undefeated in the tournament with seven wins and three draws for 24 points.

Eric Giganto put FEU in the scoreboard early with a goal in the 12th minute, but yielded a last minute goal and failed to pounce on the chance to wrest the number one seeding.

The Tamaraw booters, though, kept their hold of the second spot with 22 points on seven wins, two setbacks and a draw.

Meanwhile, La Salle defeated National University, 2-0, to secure third place in the other game at the football fields inside the Ateneo campus.

Don Rabaya scored both goals for the Green Archers, who improved to 21 points on seven wins and three losses.

The Bulldogs, on their first shot at men?s football, absorbed their eight setback with two losses and a draw for seven points.

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Perry Biggerstaff's 2010 NFL Mock Draft V3

Friday, April 16, 2010
By Perry Biggerstaff
SteelersFever.com Guest Columnist

1. St. Louis Rams - QB Sam Bradford, Oklahoma
TEAM NEEDS: QB, DE, DT, OG, CB, WR
It looks like everyone is jumping on the Sam Bradford bandwagon. I predicted very early that the Rams would pass on Suh and build their team around a Franchise QB. I think that Clausen might be more NFL ready, but Bradford has the higher ceiling and there is no doubt that the Rams seem enamored with the Oklahoma product. Bradford completed an impressive 67.6 percent of his passes in college with 88 TDs and only 16 interceptions.

2. Detroit Lions - DT Ndamukong Suh, Nebraska
TEAM NEEDS: DT, CB, DE, LT, OG, WR, OL DEPTH
Some experts are predicting that the Lions might pass on Suh due to their signing defensive tackle Corey Williams. I think that there are several reasons why the Lions will stick with the Defensive Tackle from Nebraska. Suh is the best player in this draft and would bring a level of excitement to a franchise that desperately needs it. He is also a better DT than Williams but more importantly is versatile enough to either play beside Williams in a revamped defensive line or fill in at DE if needed.

3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers - DT Gerald McCoy, Oklahoma
TEAM NEEDS: DT, DE, WR, CB, S, OL DEPTH
No change here. McCoy is a 6-3 and 300 pound, prototypical 3 technique who will bring a tremendous presence to the Bucs defensive front. He is a three year starter with 33 career TFL and 14.5 sacks. If there is anything that differentiates McCoy from Suh, it's McCoy's lunch pail attitude and his willingness to be a leader on the field.

4. Washington Redskins - OT Russell Okung, Oklahoma State
TEAM NEEDS: OT, QB, SLB, RB, OG, C
There are a couple of teams that will control the direction of this draft and Washington is one of them. They could very well go QB at this slot and throw a wrench into the rest of the team's draft boards but I still believe that they will find a replacement for retired OT Chris Samuels. I wouldn't be surprised to see the Redskins draft a QB in the first 3 rounds, but whoever is going to be steering this teams will need someone protecting their blind side.

5. Kansas City Chiefs - OT Bryan Bulaga, Iowa
TEAM NEEDS: OT, OG, 3-4 OLB, WR, 3-4 NT, C, S
Kansas City needs to move Brandon Albert to his more natural Guard position by drafting a true LT. By doing so will upgrade their O-line at two positions. Bulaga is outstanding as a run blocker and as a pass blocker. Some teams might be leery of his diagnosed thyroid condition, but every there is every indication that it is completely controlled.

6. Seattle Seahawks - OT Trent Williams, Oklahoma
TEAM NEEDS: LT, OG, QB, RB, S, DL
I think that the Seahawks will realize that they can't afford to wait until pick #14 to grab a premier OT. As usual, there will be a run on offensive tackles early in the draft and Seattle will have to take Williams here to ensure that they can upgrade the position. If Clausen is still available they may draft him and take the unlikely gamble that an OT somehow falls to them with their second 1st round pick.

7. Cleveland Browns - CB Joe Haden, Florida
TEAM NEEDS: RT, 3-4 DE, ILB, CB, WR, S, TE
Haden answered all the skeptics with a very good forty time at his pro day and by doing so has placed himself back in the top 10. Some mock drafts have Eric Berry at this slot, but conventional wisdom says that you always draft a blue chip CB over a blue chip Safety.

8. Oakland Raiders - OT Bruce Campbell, Maryland
TEAM NEEDS: 4-3 NT, DE, OT, RG, CB, LB, QB
I want desperately to put Anthony Davis in this slot, but I can't get past Al Davis's propensity to draft players on physical attributes alone. That being said, I think the Raiders will pick up combine hero Bruce Campbell. The good news for Raiders fans is that the Maryland OT will end up being a very serviceable player.

9. Buffalo Bills - QB Jimmy Clausen, Notre Dame
TEAM NEEDS: QB, LT, DT, OLB, WR, OL DEPTH
I think that the Bills may be one of the front runners in the Donovan McNabb sweepstakes and this pick would change if they pick up the Eagles aging but effective QB. If not, they will go with the Notre Dame QB who will not only start, but upgrade the position on day one.

10. Jacksonville Jaguars - SS/FS Eric Berry, Tennessee
TEAM NEEDS: DE, OG, S, DT, C, WR
With the signing of DE Aaron Kampman, the Jags have addressed their need to upgrade an anemic pass rush. Now they can focus on drafting Safety Eric Berry, who is a steal at no. 10. Jacksonville gets nothing less than a pro-bowl caliber safety that will man the position for the next several years.

11. Denver Broncos - ILB Rolando McClain, Alabama
TEAM NEEDS: DT, S, OT, MLB, CB DEPTH
Dan Williams would have been the pick here if not for the Broncos signing ex-Charger NT Jamal Williams. Now the Broncos can take inside thumper Rolando McClain. McClain is a huge inside linebacker (6-4 260 pounds) who is said to have outstanding football intelligence. Given a year or two and McClain will be making the defensive calls on the field.

12. Miami Dolphins - OLB Brandon Graham, Michigan
TEAM NEEDS: 3-4 NT, 3-4 OLB, 3-4 ILB, WR, S, OL DEPTH
Brandon Graham has an astonishing 56 career TFL with 29.5 sacks and 8 forced fumbles. Parcells LOVES to draft linebackers in the first round. NT might also be a need, but all things being equal the Dolphins will have trouble passing on Graham's obvious talent and his ability to fill a need in the Dolphins defense.

13. San Francisco 49ers - OT Anthony Davis, Rutgers
TEAM NEEDS: OT, CB, OG, DE/OLB, S, 3-4 NT
The 49ers tried to fill the right tackle spot with Marvel Smith who couldn't get on the field due to back problems. Tony Pashos tried to fill in but was injured in week 7 and now has signed with the Browns. The 49ers draft the young OT out of Rutgers to man the right side of the line and play bookend to LT Joe Staley.

14. Seattle Seahawks - RB C.J. Spiller, Clemson
TEAM NEEDS: LT, OG, QB, RB, S, DL
This is a no brainer. The Seahawks upgraded their line with their first pick and now need to do something about their #29 ranked running game. Spiller will actually upgrade the Seahawks passing game by keeping defenders honest and closer to the line. The Clemson product is a threat to break out for a long run on any given carry.

15. New York Giants - LB Sean Weatherspoon, Missouri
TEAM NEEDS: 3-4 DE, C, 3-4 NT, OG, 3-4 ILB, WR, CB
Weatherspoon can play at any of the linebacker spots. There are mixed reviews as to whether the Missouri Linebacker is brash or self-centered, but any way you look at it, by drafting Weatherspoon you are getting a defensive player with 406 career tackles and an incredible 43.5 career TFL.

16. Tennessee Titans - WR Dez Bryant, Oklahoma State
TEAM NEEDS: DE, CB, OG, OLB, WR, OL DEPTH
Just as in past years, the WR prospects in this draft will slide a bit on draft day. Character issues are some concern but a team like the Titans will be willing to work with Bryant due to his high ceiling. Keep in mind that this is a player that recorded 1,480 yards and 19 TD's in his last full season of play.

17. San Francisco 49ers - CB Devin McCourty, Rutgers
TEAM NEEDS: OT, CB, OG, DE/OLB, S, 3-4 NT
I think that the 49ers will take a good long look at DE/OLB Sergio Kindle, but in the end they will draft CB Devin McCourty. Though Kyle Wilson and Patrick Robinson are rated higher on most draft boards, the 49ers will see McCourty as an upgrade over Walt Harris and Dre Bly, and they will also take into consideration that McCourty comes with the additional bonus of being a superb kickoff returner...another major need for San Francisco.

18. Pittsburgh Steelers - CB Earl Thomas, Texas
TEAM NEEDS: CB, OT, FS, OG, 3-4 NT, 3-4 ILB, 3-4 OLB DEPTH
With the understanding that Pittsburgh has picked up a Safety in free agency, I still think that Thomas is the most likely player to be drafted by the Steelers. He is versatile enough to be listed as a CB on many draft sites and can fill in at either Safety position. If Dan Williams is still on the board there is a chance that he will be drafted as a future replacement for Casey Hampton, but for now I think that Pittsburgh will strengthen their most obvious weakness.

19. Atlanta Falcons - DE Derrick Morgan, Georgia Tech - DE Everson Griffen, USC
TEAM NEEDS: CB, DE, OLB, WR/TE, OL DEPTH, DT DEPTH
Kyle Wilson would have been a possibility here but the Falcons have strengthened the CB position in the off season. Look for the Falcons to upgrade a pass rush that missed when it drafted Jamaal Anderson a few years ago. They rectify that draft by taking the high energy DE out of Georgia Tech who finished last season with 18.5 TFL and 12.5 sacks.

20. Houston Texans - OG Mike Iupati, Idaho
TEAM NEEDS: OG, CB, 4-3 NT, FS, DE DEPTH, RB
The Texans struggled to run the ball last year and Chester Pitts,one of their better linemen, is shopping his skills to other teams. Mike Iupati is the best Guard in this draft and actually might be an upgrade over Pitts who will be on the wrong side of 30 when the season starts.

21. Cincinnati Bengals - DE Everson Griffen, USC
TEAM NEEDS: OG, S, TE, WR, DT, SLB
Cincinnati dealt with their lack of WR depth (sort of) with the signing of Antonio Bryant and Matt Jones. Geathers has been having trouble getting to the QB and Odom ended his season with an Achilles injury, so look for the Bengals to add a DE like Griffen who has the quick initial step and strength to put pressure on opposing QB's.

22. New England Patriots - DT Jared Odrick, Penn State
TEAM NEEDS: 3-4 OLB, 3-4 DE, OG, ILB DEPTH, TE, WR DEPTH
Odrick is a versatile D-lineman who I anticipate to be a DE for the Patriots. If the Pats pass on him look for them to address their need at , but with the loss of Seymour and Jarvis Green, DE remains New England's weakest position.

23. Green Bay Packers - CB Kyle Wilson, Boise State
TEAM NEEDS: LT, CB, S, DL, 3-4 OLB DEPTH, RB
I have seen Kyle Wilson drafted much higher on some mock site and in some publications. I personally think that his skill set places him near the bottom of the first round but only due to a his lack of resume in run support. The tape that I have seen leads me to believe that he...eventually...will be very adequate in that regards and will become a well rounded CB.

24. Philadelphia Eagles - DE Jason Pierre-Paul, South Florida
TEAM NEEDS: DE, FS, OG, CB depth, OLB, RB DEPTH
I usually apply to the mindset that one year wonders shouldn't be drafted in the first round. Two years ago Pierre-Paul was playing for Fort Scott Community College. With only one year of production at a legit college, he has all the ear markings of a potential bust, but there are always teams that fall in love with these players and are willing to take the gamble. I look for the Eagles to take a chance and attempt to bolster a defensive unit that has very little DE depth outside of Trent Cole.

25. Baltimore Ravens - OLB Sergio Kindle, Texas
TEAM NEEDS: WR, CB, DE/OLB, TE, DL DEPTH
The Ravens have picked up WR's Anquan Boldin and Dante Stallworth in free agency in an attempt to give Flacco a few targets other then Mason. There will be ample opportunity for Kindle to be drafted before this slot but the OLB slides due to character issues in regards to drunken driving charges...suspensions...and leaving the scene of an accident.

26. Arizona Cardinals - OT Charles Brown, Southern California
TEAM NEEDS: LT, ILB, OLB, OL DEPTH, CB, TE
Brown is now a fixture on most first round draft boards. Brown will man the LT position eventually, which will allow the Cardinals to leave Levi Brown on the right side. Charles Brown is a converted TE who is maybe a couple of seasons away from being an exceptional starter.

27. Dallas Cowboys - S Taylor Mays, USC
TEAM NEEDS: OT, FS, ILB, DE, CB DEPTH, OG DEPTH
The Cowboys would love for one of the top free safeties to fall to them. From all accounts, Mays much heralded deficiencies in coverage are very correctable, and his over the top athleticism and speed will make him very attractive this late in the first round.

28. San Diego Chargers - RB Ryan Mathews, Fresno State
TEAM NEEDS: RB, RT, 3-4 NT, CB, 3-4 DE, LB DEPTH
Mathews is the consensus 2nd best running back in this draft. Matthews is a versatile back with very good hands and a willingness to block if needed. He has a career 6.1 YPC average and burst on the scene last year with 1,807 yards and 19 TD's.

29. New York Jets - NT Dan Williams, Tennessee
TEAM NEEDS: 3-4 DE, 3-4 OLB, OG, CB, WR, 3-4 NT
When NT Kris Jenkins went down last year with an injury, the Jets were exposed by their lack of depth at the position. The 31 year old Jenkins is on the third year of a five year contract which gives Dan Williams the opportunity to rotate with the veteran until he is ready to take over.

30. Minnesota Vikings - CB Patrick Robinson, Florida State
TEAM NEEDS: OG, S, CB DEPTH, QB, LB DEPTH, DL DEPTH
This pick is going to be predicated on the assumption that Favre will be the starting QB in Minnesota. If not, look for the Vikes to grab a QB here and not wait until the second round when any potential starters may be gone. With that assumption in mind, the Vikings should go with CB depth in this draft. Robinson just ran a 4.40 at his pro-day and has long been considered a solid first round pick.

31. Indianapolis Colts - DT Brian Price, UCLA
TEAM NEEDS: DT, OT, CB, OG, DE DEPTH, LB DEPTH
OT and DT are the two biggest needs for a team with very few legitimate holes. . Price had 23.5 tackles for loss and 7 sacks last year and would be an upgrade for a defensive front that has been looking for a better pass rush. If Price isn't available , don't be surprised if the Colts draft OC Maurkice Pouncey with this pick.

32. New Orleans Saints - DE Carlos Dunlap, Florida
TEAM NEEDS: OLB, NT, DE, C, OT DEPTH, TE DEPTH
The Saints will be looking for a DE to replace the recently released Charles Grant. Dunlap is another player with some baggage, and will need to be brought along under a watchful eye. He has great size and very good lower and upper body strength. A disciplinarian like Sean Payton might be just what Dunlap needs to maximize his potential.

Source: http://www.steelersfever.com/editorials/1003.html

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