PFT: Geno Smith won't be back in building for Round 2

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After assessing each team?s draft needs, offensive and defensive approaches and the prospects still left on the board, here is PFT?s Round Two mock draft:

33. Jaguars: Cornerback Johnthan Banks, Mississippi State

34. 49ers: Nose tackle John Jenkins, Georgia

35. Eagles: Quarterback Geno Smith, West Virginia

36. Lions: Offensive guard Brian Winters, Kent State

37. Bengals: Cornerback Darius Slay, Mississippi State

38. Cardinals: Outside linebacker Cornelius Washington, Georgia

39. Jets: Quarterback Ryan Nassib, Syracuse

40. Titans:?Wide receiver Justin Hunter, Tennessee

41. Bills: Tight end Zach Ertz, Stanford

42. Raiders: Quarterback Matt Barkley, USC

43. Buccaneers: Cornerback Jamar Taylor, Boise State

44. Panthers: Cornerback Blidi Wreh-Wilson, Connecticut

45. Chargers: Nose tackle Johnathan Hankins, Ohio State

46. Bills: Offensive tackle Menelik Watson, Florida State

47. Cowboys: Running back Eddie Lacy, Alabama

48. Steelers: Linebacker Manti Te?o, Notre Dame

49. Giants: Tight end Gavin Escobar, San Diego State

50. Bears:?Defensive tackle Kawann Short, Purdue

51. Redskins: Linebacker Kevin Minter, Louisiana State

52. Patriots:?Wide receiver Robert Woods, Southern California

53. Bengals: Safety Johnathan Cyprien, Florida International

54. Dolphins: Cornerback Will Davis, Utah State

55. Packers: Nose tackle Jesse Williams, Alabama

56. Seahawks:?Running back Andre Ellington, Clemson

57. Texans: Outside linebacker Damontre Moore, Texas A&M

58. Broncos: Defensive end Margus Hunt, Southern Methodist

59. Patriots: Center Barrett Jones, Alabama

60. Falcons: Defensive end Tank Carradine, Florida State

61. 49ers: Cornerback David Amerson, North Carolina State

62. Ravens: Wide receiver Keenan Allen, California

UPDATE 12:54 p.m. ET on Friday, April 26: A new addition to the mock is Florida International safety Johnathan Cyprien ? surely a well-regarded prospect, as some have mentioned in the comments. After further review, he?s in. This bumped down Andre Ellington to No. 56. Also, I switched picks Nos. 40 and 41.

Source: http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/04/26/geno-smith-says-he-wont-be-back-on-friday/related/

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"Evidence" of Syria chemical weapons use not up to U.N. standard

By Anthony Deutsch

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Assertions of chemical weapon use in Syria by Western and Israeli officials citing photos, sporadic shelling and traces of toxins do not meet the standard of proof needed for a U.N. team of experts waiting to gather their own field evidence.

Weapons inspectors will only determine whether banned chemical agents were used in the two-year-old conflict if they are able to access sites and take soil, blood, urine or tissue samples and examine them in certified laboratories, according to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), which works with the United Nations on inspections.

That type of evidence, needed to show definitively if banned chemicals were found, has not been presented by governments and intelligence agencies accusing Syria of using chemical weapons against insurgents.

"This is the only basis on which the OPCW would provide a formal assessment of whether chemical weapons have been used," said Michael Luhan, a spokesman for the Hague-based OPCW.

With Syria blocking the U.N. mission, it is unlikely they will gain that type of access any time soon.

The head of the U.N. inspection mission, Swedish scientist Ake Sellstrom, will meet U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York on Monday.

The United Nations wrote to the Syrian government again on Thursday to push for unconditional and unfettered access for the U.N. investigators, Ban's spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters on Friday.

"The Secretary-General urges the Syrian government to respond swiftly and favorably so that this mission can carry out its work in Syria," Nesirky said. "You need to be able to go into Syria to be able to do that investigation properly."

"In the meantime the members of that team have been collating and analyzing the evidence and information that is available to date from outside," he said, adding that there was a concern "about the degradation of evidence" within Syria.

The White House on Thursday said the U.S. intelligence community has assessed with varying degrees of confidence that the chemical agent sarin was used by forces allied with President Bashar al-Assad. But it noted that "the chain of custody is not clear."

QUESTIONS AROUND 'PHYSIOLOGICAL' SAMPLES

The Israeli military this week suggested Syrian forces used sarin and showed reporters pictures of a body with symptoms indicating the nerve gas was the cause of death.

Ralf Trapp, an independent consultant on chemical and biological weapons control, said, "There is a limit to what you can extract from photograph evidence alone. What you really need is to get information from on the ground, to gather physical evidence and to talk to witnesses as well as medical staff who treated victims."

Sarin is a fast-acting nerve agent that was originally developed in 1938 in Germany as a pesticide. It is a clear, colorless, tasteless and odorless liquid that can evaporate quickly into a gas and spread into the environment, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Because it evaporates so quickly, sarin presents an immediate but short-lived threat.

Sean Kaufman of the Center for Public Health Preparedness and Research at Emory University, a former biodefense expert for the CDC, said people who have been exposed to sarin most typically die or recover fully. Testing for sarin, he said, requires access to the environment where the nerve agent was used or the clothing of someone who was exposed.

The White House, which has called the use of chemicals weapons in Syria a "red line" for possible military intervention, said its assessment was partly based on "physiological" samples. But a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity declined to detail the evidence. It is unclear who supplied it.

Even if samples were made available to the OPCW by those making the assertions, the organisation could not use them.

"The OPCW would never get involved in testing samples that our own inspectors don't gather in the field because we need to maintain chain of custody of samples from the field to the lab to ensure their integrity," said Luhan.

Established to enforce the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, which bans the use of toxic agents in warfare, the OPCW has exhaustive rules on how inspectors collect and handle evidence, starting with the sealing of a site like a crime scene.

Multiple samples must be taken and there need to be "blank" samples from unexposed matter and tissue, to set a baseline against which levels of contamination could be determined.

The samples would be split, sealed and flown in dark, cooled air transports to up to three certified laboratories, including one at the OPCW's headquarters in The Hague.

A team of 15 experts, put together in response to a request from the U.N. Secretary General to investigate the claims, has been on standby in Cyprus for nearly three weeks.

Headed by Sellstrom, it includes analytical chemists and World Health Organisation experts on the medical effects of exposure to toxins.

(Additional reporting by Michelle Nichols at the United Nations and Julie Steenhuysen in Chicago; Editing by Giles Elgood, Mary Milliken and Cynthia Osterman)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/evidence-syrian-chemical-weapon-not-u-n-standard-151206262.html

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Details of Boston carjacking victim's ordeal comes out in Globe interview

>> we will revisit this.

>>> chilling details surrounding the tsarnaev brothers alleged plot to attack the heart of new york city after causing so much damage in boston . according to city officials, the two marathon bombing suspects discussed driving to new york to detonate their remaining explosives in a spontaneous assault on times square . at the time, their arsenal included five pipe bombs and one pressure cooker bomb similar to the ones used in last monday's deadly attack. police say the younger brother had visited times square once last year but their plan fell apart after realizing the mercedes-benz car they hijacked did not have enough car to get to new york . a pre- miranda rights interrogation of 19-year-old dzhokhar tsarnaev it appears the younger brother has stopped answering questions about the bombing since he was read his rights on monday night and that has sparked a debate among lawmakers how the government should handle domestic terror cases.

>> we can't have, in a case like than, the judiciary deciding because it's on tv and it might look bad for them to allow the public safety exemption that is deemed legal by the united states supreme court that they would somehow intercede in this, it is confusing and it's horrible god awful policy and danger to the greater community and we have got to get to the bottom of this and we have got to fix it right now.

>> tsarnaev was reportedly questioned by investigators up to 16 hours over the course of two days and answering questions mostly in writing due to the severe injury to his neck.

>> jane harman , there would be some people that would look at the fact that the plot in times square was foiled because they didn't have enough gas in their tank to get down to new york as a sign -- as a good sign that this was half-baked plot. it actually scares me that guys -- this ill-prepared could be running around with bombs. it's the sort of thing you're not going to pick up chatter. you're not going to pick up any clues from overseas. this is a sort of a random violence that we should all really be child by even more so than if they had some contacts overseas.

>> i agree. mike hayden said the other day, the former director of the cia , that this is the new normal. in this case, i think we will learn that some mistakes were made. we should have been on these guys earlier than we were, but this type of thing, self-radicalized people, in this case, maybe this fellow misha had a lot to do with radicalizing these kids. self-radicalized people who go on the internet and you can find the recipe for building pressure cooker bombs or pipe bombs or other kinds of small weapons can maybe sometimes get lucky and pull it off in this country. they have to be right once. we have to be right 100% of the time but on something that mika said just before, joe, she said mike rogers , among other things, perhaps, are complaining that this fellow was mirandaized. a liberal named george will had an op-ed in "the washington post " yesterday talking about incarcerating the japanese during world war ii and made the point if we live by our values and we follow the rule of law, we do better and, in this case, i think when we look back on all of this, the way we handled the investigation and the prosecution of this fellow who for sure, i think based on the evidence we know who likely will be convicted, will be a model for the world and it will show people that we followed the rule of law here and that is what we have to do.

>> as congresswoman harmon is talking we are getting word that dzhokhar tsarnaev has been transported from beth israel hospital to prison. we are talking about his physical condition. apparently it's upgraded to the point they have taken him out of the hospital new and he has been moved to a prison in massachusetts. one of the people we haven't talked about a lot but we have heard about is this guy who was car-jacked a week ago. he is a 26-year-old chinese man in this black mercedes suv and come to boston to go to grad school and now working on a start-up. he lives in boston . he gets car-jacked around 11:00 last thursday night and taken on an interview with "the boston globe " a 90-minute ride. remember it was reported 30 minutes ? he says it's 90-minute ride. you have to talk about this key to these two brothers being caught. he said finally after this 90 minutes they realized they don't have enough gas to get to manhattan and pull up to a gas station and turns out it's cash only. so they have to go inside. one of the brothers has to go inside the gas station to pay. at that point, this guy who calls himself danny, didn't want to give his real name, makes a decision even though the other brother is in the back seat that is going to bolt. this is life and death . he unbuckles the seat belt and he said he ran in an angle that would be hard for the brother to shoot him. he runs across the street to another gas station and tells the attendant to call 911. he left his iphone in the car so it could be tracked and traced. it's a remarkable account if you have a chance to read "the boston globe " about two and a half hour interview where he gives a moment-by-moment recap and he is critical to these two guys being caught.

>> no doubt. that is when everything started unraveling for them and there was even the moment where his friend kept calling him up and he said if you speak in mandarin, i'm going to kill you right here. you get to the part where the brother was doing an english mandarin translation to tell him what to text back to his friend and the guy just kept his head and was responsible for these two terrorists being caught.

>> the reason the i phone was left in the car? the two brothers wanted to listen to music so he plugged in his iphone to the car.

>> oh, my lord!

>> so the phone was not on his body, it was plugged into the car.

>> runs across the street to a mob mobil station and they call 911.

>> it speaks to a new normal which congresswoman harman was touching on. i find your sentiment far more alarming than anything else. deval patrick , the governor, i thought handled it so well. he said the next day the young tsarnaev went to school and went to the gym and paertrtied with friends as if nothing had happen. going forward for law enforcement , how do you track this and what steps to prevent this from going forward? an e in the course challenge for law enforcement and intelligence officials going forward.

>> one of the tragedies, though, is president kennedy saw this. he said if someone wants to trade their life for mine, no way i can be protected. men with guns change history, whether it's sarajevo or memphis in 1968 . the day before, you broke in and you said this guy, these people are going to do than, everybody would go, come on, they could never pull this off, but they did.

>> jane?

>> yeah. the nypd has a lot of tools that other local police departments may have to learn about. of course, new york is a much bigger target and so is washington. perhaps than boston or someplace in the midwest. but they have a thousand intelligence officers . they have a huge police department . 35,000 people compared to 2,000 in boston . i think that's the number. obviously, a bigger population. but they can detect signs early. for example the older brother was thrown out of his mosque and there was behavior there they would pick up because they built trust with the muslim community . let's be clear that all would-be radicalized people are not muslim but nonetheless they can pick up signs and follow these people much more closely and they have thwarted a lot of plots. we have been successful more than we have failed in blocking plots against our country.

>> yes.

>> and these small bore plots, i know a lot of people were hurt but this is nothing like 9/11, are going to be in our future and if we have better intel in our local police departments, we're going to do better getting ahead of the curve, even with people like this who are substantially invisible.

>> jane harman , thank you so much. on monday, we will be marking six months since superstorm sandy devastated the eastern seaboard . we will be live from some of the hardest hit spots and see how they are recovering.

>>> coming up, mike florio will join us to break down the nfl draft .

>> thanks, willie.

>> trickalso chemical war fare in syria. richard haass weighs in on the significant developments in that conflict. chadwick boseman describes his role as the great jackie robinson .

>> great movie.

>> a new article "the atlantic" says changing technology means we may never run out of oil. james bennett is here to explain.

>> there you go!

>> the top stories coming up next and the political playbook.

>>> first, bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill?

>> good morning. it's a nice happy forecast for so many people in this country as we head to a nice, warm weekend for once. just about everywhere on the map. we are going to have some rain to deal with but first recap yesterday. one of the warmest days we have seen in montana, colorado through the central plains . it was beautiful. the last spot to warm up is minneapolis, north wards and up through the great lakes. that warm air coming your way this weekend. we do have a little bit of rain this morning. kansas city and st. louis that's going to head for louisville, nashville, memphis, little rock and tulsa during the day today so you need your umbrellas. tomorrow a lot of that rain will be in kentucky and tennessee. although it's warm, it will be, unfortunately, a little bit wet. here is your forecast into the weekend. starting with today, another great day from new york to boston to d.c. it is a little chilly in the northeast this morning but this afternoon, perfect. then the weekend forecast look at minneapolis. about time! 72 warm degrees! you're going to be the same temperature as atlanta because the southeast you're going to be dodging the raindrops all weekend long and maybe even a few thunderstorms mixed in too and wrap it up with your sunday forecast and notice kansas city , you deserve that after the spring you had. 74 and sunny beautiful degrees! overall, this is a thumb's up weekend. the only exception being the rain in the southeast. you're watching " morning joe ," brewed by starbucks.

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Samsung sells 69.4 million smartphones in first quarter for 33 percent share: report

SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co sold a record 69.4 million smartphones in the first quarter, boosting its market share to an all-time high of 33.1 percent, data from research firm Strategy Analytics showed on Friday.

Apple Inc, which sold 37.4 million iPhones in the March quarter, took 17.9 percent of the market, it said.

LG Electronics Inc grew to the third biggest on 10.3 million unit shipments, followed by China's Huawei.

(Reporting by Miyoung Kim; Editing by Jacqueline Wong and Richard Pullin)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/samsung-sells-69-4-million-smartphones-first-quarter-013117756--finance.html

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T-Mobile to keep GoSmart prepaid brand after MetroPCS deal closes

MetroPCS to continue on as a nationwide prepaid brand

GoSmart Mobile, which is T-Mobile's latest nationwide prepaid brand, is confirmed to be sticking around even as the merger with MetroPCS comes to a close this year. The brand, which is completely owned by T-Mobile but operated as an independent carrier, just launched nationwide in February and caters to a price-sensitive crowd with $45, $35 and $30 tiers that offer unlimited talk, text and either 2G or 3G data service. With the MetroPCS merger now confirmed, T-Mobile plans to keep that brand around as a nationwide prepaid carrier as well -- which would make sense considering the brand equity it has.

Because both MetroPCS and GoSmart will continue operating concurrently, we would expect the carriers to both hit different price points and service levels. Given the pricing structure of GoSmart, we expect the MetroPCS brand to slot in above it with higher prices and more options. This is not unlike the strategy of Sprint, which operates its self-branded postpaid services separate from Boost Mobile and Virgin Mobile, which are completely owned prepaid subsidiaries.

Source: FierceWireless

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Obama to meet business executives ahead of Central American trip

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet on Friday with a group of U.S. business executives whose companies have a major presence in Mexico and Central America, the White House said on Thursday.

Obama departs for a trip to Mexico and Costa Rica next week.

Here is the list of business leaders expected to meet with him at the White House:

John Bilbrey, chief executive, Hershey Co

Franklin Chang D?az, president, Ad Astra Rocket Company

Andres Gluski, chief executive, AES Corp

Robert A. McDonald, chief executive, Procter & Gamble Co

Manuel Medina-Mora, co-president, Citigroup and chairman, Banamex

Luis Alberto Moreno, president, Inter-American Development Bank

J. Miles Reiter, chief executive, Driscoll's

Mark Snell, president, Sempra Energy

David Starling, chief executive, Kansas City Southern

Patricia Woertz, chief executive, Archer Daniels Midland

(Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Paul Simao)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-meet-business-executives-ahead-central-american-trip-005605086.html

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Seattle police look for fake nurse who tried to steal meds from IVs

By Elaine Porterfield

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Seattle police call it one of the boldest attempted drug thefts they have seen: A woman impersonating a nurse, apparently addicted to painkillers, crept through the hospital rooms of patients and tried to steal medication from their IV machines.

"It's pretty unusual, pretty brazen," Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt said on Wednesday. "It really shows how desperate this woman is and how powerful addiction can be."

Police are looking for the woman who, dressed in a shirt that resembled scrubs and wearing clogs on her feet, entered a man's room at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle on April 13 and began fiddling with his pain medication IV machine.

The patient did not recognize the woman and when he asked what she was doing, she promptly left, police said.

When the man's real nurse came into the room, she noticed his IV line had been cut and pain medication was dripping on the floor. The machine had pry marks, where the intruder apparently had tried to access pain medication, police said.

Shortly afterward, the same woman was spotted on another floor of the hospital peering into patient rooms, Witt said. She told a staff member she was there to check the IV machines.

The woman went into a room and again tinkered with a patient's IV machine, police said. As she left, a relative of the occupant noticed blood dripping on the floor and saw that lines to the patient's IV machine had been cut.

Witt said neither patient suffered any injuries, and the only thing stolen was about 2 feet of tubing from the patient-controlled medication machines and possibly some pain medication from the tubes.

Police said the woman appeared confident both in talking to hospital staff and in walking into patients' rooms. They released images of the woman on Wednesday and asked for the public's help in identifying her.

(Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis, Cynthia Johnston and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/seattle-police-look-fake-nurse-tried-steal-meds-005508907.html

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