Rolling Stones hope to play Glastonbury festival, Ronnie Wood says

LONDON (Reuters) - The Rolling Stones picked up two prizes at the NME Music Awards in London on Wednesday, and guitarist Ronnie Wood said the band hoped to play at Britain's Glastonbury music festival in June.

The Stones won for best live act and best film, and Wood was on hand to accept a pair of irreverent "middle finger" statuettes.

The Stones returned to the stage in late 2012 to celebrate 50 years in business, and their sellout mini-tour of London and the United States was a hit with critics and fans.

Wood told Reuters Television he wanted to do more live shows, including playing Glastonbury.

"Keep your eye out because you know I want to do some more (live shows) and I know that the boys do too," he said.

Asked about rumors the Stones could play at Glastonbury, one of the biggest European music festivals, for the first time in their long career, Wood replied:

"I want to do it badly, but I've no idea yet ... but I am just looking forward to. ... I know we're the best live, so I just hope we get it," he said.

The lineup for the June 26-30 Glastonbury festival has not yet been announced.

The veteran British rock group - comprising Wood, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Charlie Watts - is one of four acts to be nominated four times for the annual NME awards, organized by NME music magazine.

As part of its golden jubilee celebrations, the band collaborated on the documentary film "Crossfire Hurricane" recalling its meteoric rise to fame.

"Thanks #NMEAwards from me and the boys @RollingStones," Wood tweeted from the event, where he also took to the stage and performed "How Soon is Now" with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, who was handed the "Godlike Genius Award".

"You can't imitate Johnny Marr," said ex-Oasis guitarist and songwriter Noel Gallagher in a video message played at the awards ceremony. "He's in a class of his own. He makes the very difficult look easy."

The other multiple winner on the night was Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine.

She won best solo artist, despite collaborating with other musicians on her music, and best dance-floor anthem for "Sweet Nothing".

"I really didn't expect to get this again, especially because it's debatable whether I'm a solo artist," Welch said after her first honor. "Thanks to my band - it really is a collaborative thing."

Other major awards included best British album, which went to The Maccabees for "Given to the Wild", best track to the Foals for "Inhaler", best new band to Palma Violets and best British band to Biffy Clyro.

The opening ceremony of the London Olympics in July 2012, directed by filmmaker Danny Boyle, was awarded music moment of the year and U.S. President Barack Obama was named NME's "Hero of the Year".

According to NME, more than 10 million votes were cast to decide the winners, the highest number to date.

Following is a list of the main winners of the NME Awards 2013:

BEST BRITISH BAND:

- Biffy Clyro

BEST ALBUM:

- "Given To The Wild," The Maccabees

BEST INTERNATIONAL BAND

- The Killers

BEST TRACK

- "Inhaler," Foals

BEST MUSIC FILM:

- The Rolling Stones: "Crossfire Hurricane"

BEST SOLO ARTIST:

- Florence Welch

BEST NEW BAND:

- Palma Violets

BEST MUSIC VIDEO:

- "R U Mine?," Arctic Monkeys

BEST LIVE BAND:

- The Rolling Stones

BEST DANCEFLOOR ANTHEM:

- "Sweet Nothing," Calvin Harris featuring Florence Welch

MUSIC MOMENT OF THE YEAR:

- Olympics opening ceremony

HERO OF THE YEAR:

- Barack Obama

(Editing by Jill Serjeant and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rolling-stones-lead-winners-nme-music-awards-002431879.html

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USPTO Confirms All Claims of VirnetX's U.S. Patent No. 7,188,180 ...

Posted on 28. Feb, 2013 by admin in Press Releases

ZEPHYR COVE, Nevada. ? February 28, 2013 ? VirnetX? Holding Corporation (NYSE MKT: VHC), an Internet security software and technology company, today announced that, on February 27, 2013, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (?USPTO?) issued an Action Closing Prosecution (?ACP?) for VirnetX?s U.S. Patent No. 7,188,180 (??180 patent?), in the inter-partes reexamination filed by Cisco Systems, Inc. on October 25, 2011, confirming all its? claims as valid and patentable.

In particular, the USPTO rejected all of Cisco?s proposed validity challenges to the ?180 patent, and withdrew all of its grounds for rejection. All the reexamined claims were confirmed, including claims 1, 4, 6-17, 20, 22-33, 35, and 37-41.

?We are very pleased with the USPTO?s decision to fully confirm all reexamined claims of our ?180 patent,? said Kendall Larsen, VirnetX CEO and President.? ?This decision reinforces our belief in the strength of our intellectual property.?

The ?180 patent is one of many patents in VirnetX?s patent portfolio relating to establishing secure network communications.

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About VirnetX

VirnetX Holding Corporation is an Internet security software and technology company with patented technology for secure communications including 4G LTE security. ?The Company?s software and technology solutions, including its secure domain name registry and GABRIEL Connection Technology?, are designed to facilitate secure communications and to create a secure environment for real-time communication applications such as instant messaging, VoIP, smart phones, eReaders and video conferencing. ?The Company?s patent portfolio includes 20 U.S. and 32 international patents and over 100 pending applications. ?For more information, please visit www.virnetx.com.

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Forward Looking Statements

Statements in this press release that are not statements of historical or current fact, including statements regarding the? strength of Virnetx?s intellectual property, constitute ?forward-looking statements? within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. ?Such forward-looking statements are based on expectations, estimates and projections about the markets in which the Company operates, management?s beliefs, and certain assumptions made by management and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other unknown factors that could cause the actual results of the Company to be materially different from the historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements, including but not limited to (1) the outcome of any legal proceedings that have been or may be initiated by the Company or that may be initiated against the Company; (2) the ability to capitalize on the Company?s patent portfolio and generate licensing fees and revenues; (3) the ability of the Company to be successful in entering into licensing relationships with its targeted customers on commercially acceptable terms; (4) potential challenges to the validity of the Company?s patents underlying its licensing opportunities; (5) the ability of the Company to achieve widespread customer adoption of the Company?s GABRIEL Communication Technology? and its secure domain name registry; (6) the level of adoption of the 3GPP Series 33 security specifications; (7) whether or not the Company?s patents or patent applications may be determined to be or become essential to any standards or specifications in the 3GPP LTE, SAE project or otherwise; (8) the extent to which specifications relating to any of the Company?s patents or patent applications?may be?adopted as a final standard, if at all; and (9) the possibility that Company may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors. ?In addition to statements which explicitly describe such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements labeled with the terms ?believes,? ?belief,? ?expects,? ?intends,? ?anticipates,? or ?plans? to be uncertain and forward-looking. ?The forward-looking statements contained herein are also subject generally to other risks and uncertainties that are described from time to time in the Company?s reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including those under the heading ?Risk Factors? in Company?s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on February 29, 2012 and in the Company?s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC on November 9, 2012.? Many of the factors that will determine the outcome of the subject matter of this press release are beyond the Company?s ability to control or predict. ?Except as required by law, the Company is under no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to conform to actual results.

Contact:
Greg Wood
VirnetX Holding Corporation
775.548.1785
greg_wood@virnetx.com

VirnetX and GABRIEL Connection Technology are trademarks of VirnetX Holding Corporation. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

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Cloudflare Partners With World?s Leading Web Hosts To Implement Its Railgun Protocol, Speeds Up Load Times By Up To 143%

Cloudflare, the content delivery network and website security company that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco in 2010, just announced that the majority of the world's leading web hosting providers now support its Railgun web optimization protocol to provide advanced caching services and to improve their web performance. Railgun, Cloudflare's tests show, can optimize dynamic content to improve load times by an average of 143% and reduce bandwidth usage by close to 50%.

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Kim Kardashian Cashes in on Pregnancy, Blogs About "Amazing" Mommy Jeans

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Facebook urged to remove fake Newtown pages

Gerry Shih , Reuters ? ? ? 1 hr.

Three Connecticut lawmakers on Monday urged Facebook to remove fraudulent and abusive tribute pages related to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

In the months since 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed 26 students and teachers in Newtown, Connecticut, the world's No. 1 social network has been host to an outpouring of genuine online tributes ? as well as a hotbed of fraud. In December, a New York City woman was arrested for allegedly posing as the relative of a shooting victim on Facebook and swindling donors.

U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy, as well as Rep. Elizabeth Esty, wrote to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg in a joint letter, pressed the company to stamp out pages that "violate the privacy of families as they grieve, or seek financial gain through soliciting donations under false pretenses, or generating Facebook 'likes' for marketing purposes."

Facebook, in a statement, said it had devised a new process with dedicated staff to respond to user complaints related to Sandy Hook, in the wake of the December shooting.

"For the past few months, our rapid response team has acted swiftly to remove inappropriate materials flagged by the foundation and the families," Facebook said. "We will continue to be vigilant."

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Toronto Real Estate and Neighbourhoods Blog | Move Smartly: Best ...

Realosophy Team in Top Ten Neighbourhoods, Toronto Real Estate News, Home Buying, Home Selling

We're back with our annual Hottest Toronto Neighbourhoods list (Best Toronto Neighbourhoods for Price Appreciation). The Realosophy Analytics team is always happy to return to the dance that brought us here - our pioneering approach to tracking house trends and other analytical data at the neighbourhood level.

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Heat Map: Toronto Neighbourhoods by House Price Appreciation, 2011 to 2012

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Central Toronto Houses Hot

Seven of our top ten neighbourhoods are in central Toronto (west of DVP and east of Dufferin). In one half of the tale of two cities (the other being the gossamer that is Toronto's condoland), strong demand from urban families, coupled with a finite number of houses in central Toronto, means higher prices.

And in neighbourhoods offering detached houses or top schools, the appreciation is significant. The neighbourhoods on this list have appreciated 21% to 27%, well above the citywide appreciation rate of approximately 6%.

Almost one in four properties in Toronto sold for "over the asking price" in 2012 - a striking number as this is an indirect way to assess multiple offer activity. Half of the neighbourhoods on our list rated above the city average with 37-52% of properties selling "over asking."

Inner Burbs Rise

A handy catch-all, the ?urban family? actual encompasses several profiles. The New Urban (Nuburban?) family wants to ditch the commute, but not the detached house, larger lot and green lawns. This family sacrifices space, which they prize, and could buy more of in the outer suburbs, to gain time. These preferences are driving up prices in some inner burb (Etobicoke, North York, East York) neighbourhoods - see Islington Village, Parkwoods and Victoria Park Village on our list.

Luxury Redefined

The Established Urban family drives demand in upper-end neighbourhoods like Allenby, Caribou Park, Rathnelly and Casa Loma on our list. They value the pedigree of the neighbourhood, larger houses and local schools, rather than their urban features per se, but do appreciate excellent subway access and top quality main streets.

Long-standing luxury neighbourhoods - Forest Hill, Bridle Path and Teddington Park - start on higher ground so it's rare to see them on "best appreciation" lists - so while Forest Hill makes our list, it's important to note that a handful of super luxury sales can skew the average.

Urban Beauties

Core Urban families value the "urban" in urban living - diversity, access to bike lanes and public transit and walkable main streets. These preferences lead them to lead boldly in less economically established areas in very downtown locations, unfazed by the prospect of shared walls - think Dufferin Grove and Trinity Bellwoods on our list. These consumer preferences are at the core of Toronto?s urban revitalization trend of the past 10 years and counting, a period which may one day be seen as seminal in our city's history.

Understanding the Data

• Yellow Circle - Year over year change in average house prices from 2010 to 2011, calculated by Realosophy Analytics, based on Toronto Real Estate Board (TREB) Data
• Avg. Price - Average house prices in 2010 and 2011, calculated by Realosophy, based on TREB data
• Multiple Offer Activity - Indirect measure based on percentage of houses sold over the asking price in 2012, calculated by Realosophy, based on TREB data
• Housing Breakdown - Sales by type of House in 2012, calculated by Realosophy, based on TREB data
• Walkability - As calculated by Walk Score
• Top Schools - Area public schools with "A" ranking in 2012-2013; Average scores of 90 and above calculated by Realosophy Analytics, based on Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) test scores as reported by the Ontario Ministry of Education (Note: Our averages include all test scores with the exception of High School Math for which Academic Math is included but Applied Math is not)

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1. Allenby (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Allenby

Avg. Price 2012: $1,074,630

Avg. Price 2011: $846,534

Multiple Offer Activity: 52%

Housing Breakdown: 100% Detached

Walkability: 72/100

Popularity Points:

• Good elementary and high schools
• Detached houses
• Walking distance to great shops and restaurants on Eglinton
• Short walk to the subway

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Full Neighbourhood Profile for Allenby

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2. Caribou Park (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Caribou Park

Avg. Price 2012: $942,877

Avg. Price 2011: $745,408

Multiple Offer Activity: 17%

Housing Breakdown: 74% Detached, 26% Condos

Walkability: 63/100

Popularity Points:

• Large 4-bedroom detached houses
• Between Lawrence (Yonge subway line) and Lawrence West (University subway line) stations

Full Neighbourhood Profile for Caribou Park

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3. Islington Village (West) See Current Houses for Sale in Islington Village

Avg. Price 2012: $611,917

Avg. Price 2011: $490,361

Multiple Offer Activity: 9%

Housing Breakdown: 50% Condos, 43% Detached, 3% Condo Townhouse, 3% Row/Townhouse, 1% Other

Walkability: 38/100

Popularity Points:

• Good schools
• Excellent proximity to Islington subway station
• Islington Golf Club located in centre of neighbourhood
• Many condos close to Bloor
• Detached bungalows and 2-storey houses closer to Rathburn

Top Elementary Schools:

Top High Schools:

Full Neighbourhood Profile for Islington Village

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4. Dufferin Grove (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Dufferin Grove

Avg. Price 2012: $873,853

Avg. Price 2011: $703,408

Multiple Offer Activity: 54%

Housing Breakdown: 48% Semi-Detached, 28% Detached, 12% Row/Townhouse, 10% Condo Townhouse, 2% Condos

Walkability: 92/100

Popularity Points:

• Spacious houses offering good value given proximity to downtown
• Dewson and Ossington-Old Orchard schools
• Dufferin Grove park
• Dundas and College West rapidly changing and improving

Top Elementary Schools:

Top High Schools:

Full Neighbourhood Profile for Dufferin Grove

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5. Forest Hill (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Forest Hill

Avg. Price 2012: $1,294,297

Avg. Price 2011: $1,054,733

Multiple Offer Activity: 17%

Housing Breakdown: 56% Detached Houses, 27% Condos, 12% Co-Op, 3% Semi-Detached, 2% Row/Townhouse

Walkability: 63/100

Popularity Points:

• One of Toronto?s most luxurious neighbourhoods
• Nearly 40% of sales in 2012 were condos
• Good quality elementary and secondary schools
• Home to top private schools, Upper Canada College and Bishop Strachan School

Top Elementary Schools:

Top High Schools:

Full Neighbourhood Profile for Forest Hill

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6. Rathnelly (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Rathnelly

Avg. Price 2012: $869,401

Avg. Price 2011: $710,149

Multiple Offer Activity: 18%

Housing Breakdown: 57% Condos, 39% Semi-Detached, 5% Detached

Walkability: 83/100

Popularity Points:

• Short walk to Dupont subway station and to Yorkville neighbourhood
• Brown Junior School District
• Close to half of sales in 2012 were new condos on Macpherson; rest mainly semi-detached

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7. Trinity Bellwoods (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Trinity Bellwoods

Avg. Price 2012: $802,706

Avg. Price 2011: $656,268

Multiple Offer Activity: 41%

Housing Breakdown: 40% Row/Townhouse, 32% Semi-Detached, 17% Detached, 6% Condo Townhouse, 5% Condos

Walkability: 90/100

Popularity Points:

• Proximity to Downtown and Queen West
• Mainly single family homes - row houses and semi-detached
• Trinity Bellwoods park

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8. Casa Loma (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Casa Loma

Avg. Price 2012: $1,182,560

Avg. Price 2011: $968,437

Multiple Offer Activity: 37%

Housing Breakdown: 50% Detached, 23% Row/Townhouse, 17% Condo Townhouse, 10% Semi-Detached

Walkability: 80/100

Popularity Points:

• Walking distance to Dupont and St Clair West subway stations
• Spacious detached houses
• Very close to downtown
• Short walk to Wychwood Barns

Full Neighbourhood Profile for Casa Loma

9. Parkwoods (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Parkwoods

Avg. Price 2012: $554,318

Avg. Price 2011: $454,074

Multiple Offer Activity: 39%

Housing Breakdown: 46% Detached, 33% Semi-Detached, 19% Condos, 1% Condo Townhouse, 1% Other

Walkability: 67/100

Popularity Points:

• Detached houses on a wide 50-60? lots
• Good access to DVP and 401 highways

Top Elementary Schools:

Top High Schools:

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10. Victoria Park Village (Central) See Current Houses for Sale in Victoria Park Village

Avg. Price 2012: $428,406

Avg. Price 2011: $355,028

Multiple Offer Activity: 19%

Housing Breakdown: 38% Detached, 37% Condos, 13% Semi-Detached, 9% Condo Townhouse,? 3% Row/Townhouse, 1% Other

Walkability: 65/100

Popularity Points:

• Detached bungalows on wide 50? lots
• Affordable condos
• Good access to DVP and 401 highways

?Full Neighbourhood Profile for Victoria Park Village

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High-stakes trial begins over 2010 Gulf oil spill

Protestors from the National Audubon Institute, the Gulf Restoration Network and other organizations stand outside Federal Court on the first day of the Gulf oil spill settlement trial in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is scheduled to hear several hours of opening statements Monday by lawyers for the companies, federal and state governments and others who sued over the disaster. Barbier is hearing the case without a jury. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Protestors from the National Audubon Institute, the Gulf Restoration Network and other organizations stand outside Federal Court on the first day of the Gulf oil spill settlement trial in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is scheduled to hear several hours of opening statements Monday by lawyers for the companies, federal and state governments and others who sued over the disaster. Barbier is hearing the case without a jury. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

FILE - In this aerial file photo madeWednesday, April 21, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip, an oil slick is seen as the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns. Nearly three years after the deadly rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico triggered the nation's worst offshore oil spill, a federal judge in New Orleans is set to preside over a high-stakes trial for the raft of litigation spawned by the disaster on Monday Feb. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, file)

Protestors from the National Audubon Institute, the Gulf Restoration Network and other organizations stand outside Federal Court on the first day of the Gulf oil spill settlement trial in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is scheduled to hear several hours of opening statements Monday by lawyers for the companies, federal and state governments and others who sued over the disaster. Barbier is hearing the case without a jury. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Protestors from the National Audubon Institute, the Gulf Restoration Network and other organizations stand outside Federal court on the first day of the Gulf oil spill settlement trial in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is scheduled to hear several hours of opening statements Monday by lawyers for the companies, federal and state governments and others who sued over the disaster. Barbier is hearing the case without a jury. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? A BP lawyer says other companies that worked on the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon drilling project made crucial mistakes that led to the deaths of 11 workers and the massive 2010 Gulf oil spill.

BP attorney Mike Brock acknowledged during his opening statements Monday for a high-stakes trial that the London-based company also made mistakes and "errors in judgment" before its Macondo well blew out.

But Brock accused Deepwater Horizon owner Transocean Ltd. of failing to properly maintain the rig's blowout preventer and claimed cement contractor Halliburton used a "bad slurry" that caused the well to flow before the blowout.

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is hearing the case without a jury. Barring a settlement, he will decide months from now how much more money the companies must pay.

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Week of Weird: Sony Jumps the Gun, Google Luxury-Prices Its Yugo

This really has been an entire month of the strange. We had Boeing's Dreamliner sidelined for batteries that catch fire. We had Tesla locking horns with the NYT. We had Sony announce its new game system nearly nine months before it would be available -- but not actually show it. Biggest of all, despite Chromebooks failing to sell in the $250 range, we had Google offer a refresh priced at $1,500.

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Ikea's Swedish meatballs latest victim of horsemeat scandal

STOCKHOLM (AP) ? Swedish furniture giant Ikea was drawn into Europe's widening food labeling scandal Monday as authorities said they had detected horse meat in frozen meatballs labeled as beef and pork and sold in 13 countries across the continent.

The Czech State Veterinary Administration said that horse meat was found in one-kilogram (2.2 pound) packs of frozen meatballs made in Sweden and shipped to the Czech Republic for sale in Ikea stores there. A total of 760 kilograms (1,675 pounds) of the meatballs were stopped from reaching the shelves.

Ikea spokeswoman Ylva Magnusson said meatballs from the same batch had gone out to Slovakia, Hungary, France, Britain, Portugal, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Ireland. Magnusson said meatballs from that batch were taken off the shelves in Ikea stores in all those countries. Other shipments of meatballs were not affected, including to the U.S., even though they all come from the same Swedish supplier, Magnusson said.

"Our global recommendation is to not recall or stop selling meatballs," she said.

However, the company's Swedish branch announced on its Facebook page that it won't sell or serve any meatballs at its stores in Sweden out of concern for "potential worries among our customers."

Magnusson said Ikea saw no reason to extend that guidance globally. She said Ikea was conducting its own tests of the affected batch "to validate" the Czech results. She also said that two weeks ago Ikea tested a range of frozen food products, including meatballs, and found no traces of horse meat.

"But, of course, we take the tests that Czech authorities have done very seriously," Magnusson said. "We don't tolerate any other ingredients than those on the label."

Ikea's trademark blue-and-yellow stores typically feature a restaurant that serves traditional Swedish food, including meatballs served with boiled or mashed potatoes, gravy and lingonberry jam. Meatballs ? "Kottbullar" in Swedish ? are also available in the frozen foods section.

Magnusson said all of the meatballs are supplied by Gunnar Dafgard AB, a family-owned frozen foods company in southwestern Sweden. Calls to the company were not immediately returned.

European Union officials were meeting Monday to discuss tougher food labeling rules after the discovery of horse meat in a range of frozen supermarket meals such as burgers and lasagna that were supposed to contain beef or pork.

The Czech authority also announced Monday that it found horse meat in beef burgers imported from Poland during random tests of food products.

Spanish authorities, meanwhile, announced that traces of horse meat were found in a beef cannelloni product by one of the brands of Nestle, a Switzerland-based food giant. The Agriculture Ministry said it was a case of fraudulent labeling but represented no health threat.

In a statement on its website, Nestle Spain said that after carrying out tests on meat supplied to its factories in Spain it was withdrawing six "La Cocinera" products and one "Buitoni" product from store shelves.

It said it was taking the action after the traces of horse meat were found in beef bought from a supplier in central Spain. Nestle said it was taking legal action against the company, adding that the products would be replaced by ones with 100 percent beef.

Some EU member states are pressing for tougher labeling rules to regain consumer confidence.

The 27-nation bloc must agree on binding origin disclosures for food product ingredients, starting with a better labeling of meat products, German Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said.

"Consumers have every right to the greatest-possible transparency," she insisted.

Austria backs the German initiative; but others like Ireland say existing rules are sufficient although Europe-wide controls must be strengthened to address the problem of fraudulent labeling.

The scandal has created a split between nations like Britain which see further rules as a protectionist hindrance of free trade under the bloc's single market, and those calling for tougher regulation.

Processed food products ? a business segment with traditionally low margins that often leads producers to hunt for the cheapest suppliers ? often contain ingredients from multiple suppliers in different countries, who themselves at times subcontract production to others, making it hard to monitor every link in the production chain.

Standardized DNA checks with meat suppliers and more stringent labeling rules will add costs that producers will most likely hand down to consumers, making food more expensive.

The scandal began in Ireland in mid-January when the country announced the results of its first-ever DNA tests on beef products. It tested frozen beef burgers taken from store shelves and found that more than a third of brands at five supermarkets contained at least a trace of horse. The sample of one brand sold by British supermarket kingpin Tesco was more than a quarter horse.

Such discoveries have spread like wildfire across Europe as governments, supermarkets, meat traders and processors began their own DNA testing of products labeled beef and have been forced to withdraw tens of millions of products from store shelves.

More than a dozen nations have detected horse flesh in processed products such as factory-made burger patties, lasagnas, meat pies and meat-filled pastas. The investigations have been complicated by elaborate supply chains involving multiple cross-border middlemen.

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Associated Press writers Juergen Baetz in Brussels, Karel Janicek in Prague and Ciaran Giles in Madrid contributed to this report.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/horse-meat-found-ikeas-swedish-meatballs-112154426--finance.html

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Top GOP Voter ID Crusader Loses Virginia Election Panel Post

Hans Von Spakovsky in his official FEC photo taken during former President George W. Bush's administration.

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To those who closely follow the voter ID wars, Hans von Spakovsky is a household name, one of the nation's leading crusaders against voter fraud, and also one of its more controversial. Days before the 2012 election, The New Yorker profiled him as "the man who has stoked fear about imposters at the poll."

So it was news that von Spakovsky, a Republican lawyer and scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation, failed to get a second term on the electoral board of Fairfax County, Virginia's largest county, despite being the top choice of the county's Republican Party.

It was the kind of local personnel change that normally wouldn't get much attention ? except that von Spakovsky has become something of a national lightning rod.

The panel of county circuit court judges who approve the political parties' nominees to the board voted to replace von Spakovsky with another Republican lawyer, Brian Schoeneman. County Democrats had accused von Spakovsky of being hyperpartisan and a master at voter suppression tactics, charges that have trailed him for years.

In an email to my request for reaction to his judicial decision, von Spakovsky, whose term ends Feb. 28, wrote:

"The 'partisanship' claim is disproved by a very simple, uncontested fact, which is reflected in the minutes of the January 10, 2013, meeting of the Board.

"I asked our clerk in December to total up all of the votes taken by the Election Board since Seth Harp, the Democratic appointee to the Board, took office. There were 224 votes taken during that time period. The Board voted 2-1 on only three issues. All remaining votes were unanimous.

"It is a bit much to claim we (or I) acted in a partisan manner on the Board when the Democratic member voted with me in 99% of all of the votes of the Board.

"But then, a majority of the judges who made this decision are Democratic appointees and they clearly made a purely partisan, political decision. They apparently don't like someone who has stood up for the integrity of the election process as I have."

According to Jay McConville, chairman of the county's Republican Party, it was the first time to his knowledge or that of those he consulted that the county's judges rejected one of the two major political parties' top choices to the electoral board. In an interview with me, he said:

"In my opinion it was the unprecedented, unnecessary and really unacceptable protest by the Fairfax County Democrats. And for reasons that are very hard to understand other than just being partisan gamesmanship. They've broken a longstanding tradition honestly because they want to show that they can. And that's really unfortunate.

"... What we care about in the Republican Party is defending the vote and free elections where qualified folks can vote. And make sure it runs well. Hans is an expert on that and he should be on the board."

Fairfax County Democrats agree that the circumstances surrounding von Spakovsky were unprecedented, though they put their emphasis not on how he is leaving the board but rather how he arrived.

Bettina Lawson, an official, said:

"What was unprecedented, actually, was the original nomination of the Fairfax County Republican Party of Hans von Spakovsky. He has a national reputation for efforts to suppress the vote with his various positions on voter identification and creating a lot of fear about voter fraud. And putting a person like that on the Fairfax Electoral Board was the original problem.

"What we did in the last three years was experience the results of that. That's why the Fairfax Democratic committee took the step of sending the letter to the judges to say, we want you to know that this man has this reputation. While he has been on our electoral board he's continued these efforts."

Von Spakovsky pushed successfully to end the practice of providing multilingual voting information in the voter registrar's office, Lawson said, a problem in a county with considerable diversity. He also succeeded in removing from the registrar's office nonpartisan informational material provided by the League of Women Voters that the county had long been made available to voters.

These and other actions made Democrats seek to permanently suppress von Spakovsky's vote on the board by getting him kicked off.

Von Spakovsky was a George W. Bush appointee to the Federal Elections Commission. But it was von Spakovsky's work before that as a Justice Department political appointee that drew the praise of voter ID proponents and ire of those opposed to the controversial laws.

As NPR's Peter Overby reported in 2007 at the time of von Spakovsky's confirmation hearing to the FEC, von Spakovsky critics accused him of, among other things, being overly partisan:

"In 2003, he worked on a redistricting plan from Texas. Tom Delay, then the most powerful Republican in Congress, drew the plan to add Republicans to the state's Congressional delegation. Career lawyers in the Justice Department said it shouldn't be approved. Von Spakovsky and other politicos thought it should be, and it was.

" ... Here are other notable cases, too. In 2005, Justice reviewed a voter identification law from Georgia. Critics said it discriminated against poor people who would have the hardest time getting photo IDs. Von Spakovsky had published a law review article arguing strongly for voter ID laws, but he'd used a pseudonym so no one connected him to it. He oversaw the review of the Georgia case at Justice and once again he overruled the career lawyers. After that career employees say there was a purge.

"... Von Spakovsky has drawn other criticism as well. At the Federal Election Commission, he declared that a proposal to regulate political advertising was equivalent to the Alien and Sedition Acts, laws that were enacted in 1798 in an effort to silence attacks on President John Adams. Proponents of stronger campaign finance regulation questioned his commitment to enforcing policies that he so clearly opposes. Von Spakovsky declined to be interviewed for this piece."

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/02/22/172722972/top-gop-voter-id-crusader-loses-virginia-election-panel-post?ft=1&f=1001

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Pa. girl defends her Catholic football league play

In this 2012 photo provided by Marycecelia Pla, her daughter, Caroline Pla, foreground, carries the ball during a Catholic Youth Organization league football game. The 11-year-old girl who's been playing football since kindergarten wants Philadelphia's Roman Catholic archdiocese to overturn a boys-only rule. (AP Photo/Pla Family)

In this 2012 photo provided by Marycecelia Pla, her daughter, Caroline Pla, foreground, carries the ball during a Catholic Youth Organization league football game. The 11-year-old girl who's been playing football since kindergarten wants Philadelphia's Roman Catholic archdiocese to overturn a boys-only rule. (AP Photo/Pla Family)

Caroline Pla, 11, listens to a question during an interview Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in Doylestown, Pa. Pla is fighting the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia for the right to continue playing church sponsored youth football. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Caroline Pla, 11, poses for a photograph with her helmet Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in Doylestown, Pa. Pla is fighting the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia for the right to continue playing church sponsored youth football. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Caroline Pla, 11, listens to a question during an interview Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013, in Doylestown, Pa. Pla is fighting the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia for the right to continue playing church sponsored youth football. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

In this 2012 photo provided by Marycecelia Pla, her daughter, Caroline Pla (10), center, plays in a Catholic Youth Organization league football game. The 11-year-old girl who's been playing football since kindergarten wants Philadelphia's Roman Catholic archdiocese to overturn a boys-only rule. (AP Photo/Pla Family)

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) ? The Roman Catholic church in Philadelphia doesn't need another public relations headache after years of priest-abuse and school-closure headlines, but it's got one in the form of a pony-tailed 11-year-old athlete.

Sixth-grader Caroline Pla is fighting the archdiocese for the right to keep playing church-sponsored youth football.

The soft-spoken twin has been battling boys on the gridiron since she was 5. She's played the last two seasons in a Catholic Youth Organization league, where the 5-foot-3, 110-pound offensive tackle and defensive end made the all-star team.

But the archdiocese may put the kibosh on her Catholic youth league career. While at least a few U.S. dioceses let girls play football, and about 1,600 girls play on U.S. high school teams, the Philadelphia league is open only to boys.

"First they said it was a boys sport. Then they said it was a safety issue. Then they said it was inappropriate touching. I think they are just constantly looking for excuses to not change it," Caroline said Thursday at her home in Buckingham Township, Bucks County.

She first played in a public Pop Warner league, then moved along with her teammates to the Catholic Youth Organization league in fifth grade. After one season without a hitch, she learned last fall that an overlooked boys-only rule would be enforced. The archdiocese, though, agreed to let her finish the season.

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput is now reviewing the ban, with a decision expected next month after a panel of coaches, parents and doctors weigh in.

"Traditionally, football is a boys-only sport due to its full contact nature," the church said in a statement. "Most parents and players have preferred this; some now disagree."

Caroline sent Chaput an email in January, explaining that her Catholic youth league team had been the best chapter in her burgeoning, three-season sports career.

By then, she and her parents, George and Marycecelia Pla, had taken to the airwaves to lobby for a rule change. An online petition has attracted more than 100,000 signatures, and Caroline recently appeared on Ellen DeGeneris' show as well as newscasts.

"I'm perplexed that you would contact me last, after publicizing your situation in both the national and regional media," Chaput wrote in a January email shared by the family. "That kind of approach has no effect on my decision-making. CYO rules exist for good reason."

The Women's Sports Foundation believes there are instead good reasons to reverse the rule ? and not just for the sake of girls.

"What the diocese is missing is all the wonderful things that come out of co-ed sports. The mutual respect that lasts a lifetime between girls and boys," said lawyer Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a 1984 Olympic gold medalist in swimming who now is senior director of advocacy for the Women's Sports Foundation.

From a safety perspective, pre-pubescent girls and boys are often the same size. And legally, private or religious groups that receive any type of federal funding ? through low-income lunch programs or other aid ? must abide by Title IX, the 1972 law that guarantees girls equal access to sports, she said. There are exceptions for contact sports, but they cannot be invoked once girls have been allowed to play in a program, she said.

Hogshead-Makar advises colleges to make sports activities co-ed whenever possible ? in the weight room, on the team bus, on the court. She believes the mutual contact fosters respect and reduces rates of violence against women.

No matter how Chaput rules, Caroline could still play football next season for Pop Warner or her school team. And she has no plans to play in high school because she doesn't think she'll be big enough to play her position at that level.

Her brother plays on the high school freshman team, while her twin sister and an older sister have been cheerleaders.

"Right now, I'm one of the biggest because I've hit my growth spurt and a lot of them haven't," said Caroline, who scored her first touchdown this past season on a 15-yard run. "It's just really fun."

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Kyocera Torque hands-on

We're on the ground at Pepcom's MobileFocus Global, where we've just had the chance to get some hands-on time with Sprint and Kycera's latest smartphone, the Torque. Announced in late January and coming to market on Mar. 8, the Torque is the Japanese company's first ruggedized Android phone.

It runs a 1GHz CPU, a WVGA screen and Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, pretty run of the mill stuff for a low-priced smartphone. But what's unique about the Torque, aside from its water resistance and toughened shell, is the system it's employing for audio playback.

Instead of using a traditional speaker, the Torque is fitted with skin a ceramic-based solution that vibrates the shell of the handset. That means it can be heard through skin and bone conduction, as well as through hardcore construction ear-protection gear. The effect works pretty well, and it's easy to see how this kind of feature could be useful to anyone working in a noisy environment.

Check out our hands-on video and gallery after the break. The Sprint Kyocera Torque launches on Mar. 8 for $99 on-contract.

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Elderfield: Carefully targeted debt relief welcome

Elderfield: Carefully targeted debt relief welcome

Saturday, February 23, 2013

The deputy governor of the Central Bank, Matthew Elderfield, welcomed recent announcements by the pillar banks that long-term loan modifications would form part of the range of solutions to the mortgage arrears crisis.

By John Walsh, Business Correspondent

?It is encouraging to hear more than one bank CEO acknowledge that, while repossessions will inevitably rise significantly, for co-operating owner- occupier borrowers there will also be a step-up in the volume of cases of long-term loan modification ? carefully targeted debt relief if you like.?

His view was echoed last night by Finance Minister Michael Noonan who said he envisaged the emergence of what he termed a ?menu? of possible solutions for those in mortgage arrears to include interest-only payments and other methods of relieving the burden on distressed borrowers. However, he drew a sharp distinction between ?those who can?t pay and those who won?t pay?, saying the latter faced repossession.

Earlier, speaking at the spring lunch for the Institute of Directors, Mr Elderfield said: ?Wider industry recognition of this balanced approach is important: recovery of loans in full wherever possible, repossession, voluntary surrender or trade down if necessary, but for co-operating homeowners who are insolvent and at the threshold of repossession having already cut back their living expenses, that there will be more use of long-term loan modification where they are willing to repay what debt they can but also want to remain in their home.?

The deputy governor of the Central Bank took up this position in Jan 2010 in the middle of the financial sector implosion.

The Central Bank conducted stress tests of the banking system in Mar 2011 and ordered the banks to raise ?24bn of fresh capital to act as a buffer against future losses. There would be very active engagement with the banks to ensure they deal with mortgage arrears and that these efforts are matched in their small business portfolios.

A fully functioning banking system is needed for Ireland?s economic recovery, noted Mr Elderfield. ?In this respect, the outlook remains difficult, with low levels of domestic economic activity and compressed net interest margins.?

?An early exit from the guarantee will help to normalise the sector and reduce a drain on profitability. Continuing efforts are also needed on cost control. The path ahead remains a difficult one and progress will inevitably continue to be slow given the significant dislocation that has occurred to the banking sector and the economy as a whole.?

There would be a new era of a much more robust regulatory framework at the Central Bank. ?Our strategy is one of assertive risk-based supervision underpinned by the credible threat of enforcement.?

Mr Elderfield stressed there would be new corporate governance standards that company boards would have to comply with in future.

The new guidelines include restrictions on the number of directorships that can be held. Moreover, there will be a goal of encouraging more diversity of background and robustness of challenge by broadening the gene pool of corporate life, he said.

?Do you have the right gender diversity? Do you have the right international experience? If you look around the board table and you are all the same sex, ethnicity, nationality and educational background, well, the answer is probably no. Board effectiveness reviews with these goals in mind are essential and need to be tackled in a structured and determined way, ideally with facilitation on these key points, to help offset the inertia that comes from incumbency.?

Picture: Central Bank deputy governor Matthew Elderfield who welcomed moves by the banks on mortgage arrears. Finance Minister Michael Noonan last night said he envisaged a ?menu? of possible solutions for those in difficulty. Picture: Jason Clarke

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Who won, who lost at NBA trade deadline

Thomas Robinson was the big winner of the 2013 NBA trade deadline. (Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)

By?Ben Golliver

Thursday?s NBA trade deadline passed without a splashy move to rival the James Harden and Rudy Gay trades from earlier this season. J.J. Redick was the biggest name dealt. High-profile players who are set to become free agents such as Josh Smith, Al Jefferson and Paul Millsap stayed put. None of the stars mentioned in rumors ? Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Rajon Rondo, Monta Ellis, Pau Gasol and Dwight Howard among them ? actually changed zip codes.

Still, plenty of business was done, as 12 trades involving 18 teams and more than 20 players were completed in the final 24 hours before the 3 p.m. ET deadline.

Let?s take a look at the winners and losers from the deals that went down at the deadline. (The Point Forward will address the deals that weren?t made on Friday.)

Winners: Teams

Houston Rockets: A vast majority of deadline moves were subtle deals that involved fringe rotation members or financial considerations. Not Houston?s trade. General manager Daryl Morey acquired the No. 5 pick in the 2012 draft, Thomas Robinson, in a six-player deal that didn?t require the Rockets to part with an A-list asset (player or pick), meaningfully compromise their cap space this summer or receive a dead-weight contract in return. This was as clean a pilfering as you will see in the modern NBA, as if Morey helicoptered in to pluck Robinson off of the roof as flames engulfed the Sleep Train Arena.

Robinson has the most untapped potential and upside of any player traded this week. The Rockets look like a fairly solid playoff team this season, but their window is just opening around a young core that includes Harden, Jeremy Lin, Chandler Parsons, Omer Asik and now Robinson. Parting with the serviceable Patrick Patterson ? who has one more year left on his rookie contract after this season ? is a small price to pay for the chance to see whether Robinson can blossom into the game-changer some believed he would be coming out of Kansas.

Oklahoma City Thunder: Delicate is the word to describe Thunder GM Sam Presti. Oklahoma City pulled off two moves on Thursday, dealing reserve point guard Eric Maynor to the Trail Blazers for a trade exception and acquiring guard/forward Ronnie Brewer from the Knicks for a 2014 second-round pick and cash.

The Thunder boast one of the league?s deepest rosters, but the two moves provides just a touch of improved balance. Maynor was not having his best year after a major knee injury that cost him most of the 2011-12 season. The more athletic Reggie Jackson was emerging as Russell Westbrook?s backup and there just aren?t that many minutes to go around when the All-Star starter plays 36 per game. Brewer gives coach Scott Brooks one more experienced, defensive-minded body to add to a wing mix that includes Kevin Durant, Thabo Sefolosha and Kevin Martin. Brewer, a strong defender, can be used when OKC goes to smaller lineups or in certain matchups that might not be as favorable for Martin. He also provides an added degree of injury protection for Sefolosha.

Presti also shaved more than $1 million off of his books this season. That?s delicate defined: improving the bench?s positional balance while cutting payroll.

Golden State Warriors: The Warriors? owners are deep-pocketed, so money isn?t the end-all, be-all. But the new collective bargaining agreement strongly encourages teams to dip into the luxury tax waters carefully rather than make a habit of swimming in those waters year after year. Where the luxury tax zone was once an annoyance, now it can be a true impediment to team-building and a costly one at that.

The Warriors dumped 2011 second-round picks Jeremy Tyler and Charles Jenkins to move under the $70.8 million luxury tax line. This year?s luxury tax payments would have been?minuscule, but the fact the Warriors are now?recipients?of luxury tax money rather than payers is a?nice bonus. The bigger deal: Staying under the luxury tax line prevents the Warriors from taking a strike in the new ?repeater? system, which promises escalating fines for teams that are regularly taxpayers. With big dollars committed to Andrew Bogut, David Lee and Stephen Curry, plus expensive players options for?Richard Jefferson and Andris Biedrens in 2013-14, the Warriors will be headed to the luxury tax vicinity again next year. These moves, while very predictable, kept them from being behind the financial eight ball down the road.

Portland Trail Blazers: The Blazers? backup point guard position has been one of the NBA?s biggest disasters this season. Few teams fall off as hard when one player checks out as the Blazers do when Rookie of the Year front-runner Damian Lillard hits the bench. Obtaining a new backup has been a glaring need since training camp opened, and Portland finally plugged that hole by acquiring Maynor for nothing more than the draft rights to Greek forward Georgios Printezis. To make room for Maynor, the Blazers released veteran guard Ronnie Price.

Maynor is in the final year of his rookie contract, so this amounts, first and foremost, to a rental tryout. He?s struggled this season, particularly with his shot (he?s shooting a career-low 31.3 percent), and he?s only a little more than a year removed from suffering an ACL injury. With the weakest bench in the league and a need for a longer-term option to back up Lillard, the Blazers were smart to take a ?buy low? flier on a game-managing point guard with some playoff experience who can spell Lillard or potentially play alongside him. ?If he works out, they?ve added one piece to a bench that needs three or four more of them. If not, no assets were expended in the trial.

Losers: Teams

Sacramento Kings: Trading a top-five pick like Robinson just nine months after selecting him without ever giving him a true shot at major minutes reflects failure in so many aspects of the management process. One: Certainly the pick could have been used more effectively. Two: A loose leash, or at least some level of patience, should have come into play in managing his role. Three: This was the best they could get as far as a return package?

The move also reflects an obvious desire to cut costs as an ownership transfer from the Maloofs to a Seattle-based group unfolds. Dealing Robinson to the Rockets reportedly netted the Kings $1 million, along with an additional $1 million-plus in salary savings. Is tossing away Robinson?s potential really worth that little? If Sacramento?s fans hadn?t been through so much in recent years, this would have prompted?unadulterated?outrage. Instead, it joins a long line of blood-boiling, pathetic decisions.

The Wizards?received?a puzzling package in return for Jordan Crawford. (Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images)

Washington Wizards: Dealing Jordan Crawford for Leandro Barbosa and Jason Collins is just a mess. How exactly do you move a rotation player on a rookie deal for a journeyman center and a player with a season-ending injury without receiving any other assets and take on money (albeit only a few hundred thousand) in the process? Who cares how?inefficient Crawford is or disgruntled he might be; how does this move benefit Washington in the slightest? Shedding his $2.2 million contract for next season would seem to be of little concern when, by comparison, the twin powerless towers of Emeka Okafor/Nene pull in a combined $27 million.

There really wasn?t a second-round pick to be found for Crawford? It really wouldn?t make more sense to just wait until the summer and try to move him then?

Winners: Players

Thomas Robinson, Rockets: It?s hard to improve your lot in life more than Robinson did this week. He goes from not playing much for a lottery-bound franchise loaded with question marks and distractions to a young, fun-and-gun team on the rise that promises to commit real minutes to him?and is likely headed to the playoffs. ?He goes from backing up a veteran in Jason Thompson to being penciled in as an every-night starter on a fast-paced team that can put his athleticism to full use. He goes from a me-first squad that has the second-worst assist rate in the league to a Houston team that moves the ball with slightly better than average regularity.

Tobias Harris, Magic: If there?s one totally under-the-radar player moved on Thursday who can emerge into a real player by shifting locales and being given a larger opportunity, it would be Harris. Included as one of the pieces Milwaukee sent to Orlando in exchange for Redick, Harris has good size for a wing and posted decent per-minute numbers in a limited role for the Bucks. Milwaukee simply had too many veteran options in front of the 20-year-old, who was the 19th pick in 2011. In Orlando, coach Jacque Vaughn should be delighted to give Harris the opportunity to showcase his talents.

Eric Maynor, Blazers: After fighting ? and mostly losing ? a battle with Reggie Jackson for scant backup minutes in Oklahoma City, Maynor has the opportunity to start a second chapter to his NBA career in Portland. The Blazers are fading fast, having lost six straight games, and Maynor could very well see at least 20 minutes a game consistently as the season winds down. Missing out on a possible Finals run this year will be a bitter pill to swallow, but he has more immediate concerns, such as shoring up his future in the league.

Jordan Crawford, Celtics: It?s not every day that players stuck on atrocious teams exit that situation as cleanly as Crawford. He moves to the Celtics, a team that is actually playing for something, and plugs into an injury-ravaged backcourt that will need him to provide minutes.

Sebastian Telfair, Raptors: Much like Crawford, Telfair just saw the rest of his season become relevant again. Rather than watching his playing time erode in favor of rookie Kendall Marshall as the Suns limp to the lottery, Telfair moves into the backup point guard hole created when the Raptors shipped Jose Calderon to the Pistons in the deal that netted Rudy Gay. While Toronto has some serious ground to make up to get to the No. 8 seed in the East, that uphill climb is far better for a vet like Telfair than Phoenix?s trudge toward a top-five pick.

Twins Marcus (left) and Markieff Morris will play alongside each other in Phoenix. (Bill Baptist/NBAE via Getty Images)

Marcus Morris, Suns: Marcus and twin brother Markieff, famously inseparable, are now reunited in Phoenix. If you must play for one of the NBA?s worst teams, you might as well have your best friend alongside you.

Kenyon Martin, Knicks: After essentially begging for a job, Martin finally got one, agreeing to a 10-day contract after the Knicks opened a roster spot by moving Brewer. This is a good spot for Martin: a veteran-laden team with championship aspirations that includes a number of his former teammates from the Nuggets days, including Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith. Will he make the most of it?

Losers: Players

J.J. Redick, Bucks: It seemed like the whole NBA world wanted Redick?s services these past few weeks, and for good reason. He?s a great teammate and great shooter and has developed into a solid all-around player. Given his expiring contract, he was the ideal trade target for a contender to add in an attempt to push itself over the top. Instead, the Bucks, the No. 8 seed in the Eastern Conference at 26-27, added Redick in an attempt to prevent a slide back into the lottery. Redick?s reward for suffering through months of rumors and being one of the most coveted trade deadline targets could very well be a four-game sweep in the first round at the hands of the Heat before he undergoes the madness and uncertainty of free agency. He will surely take it all in stride, but you can?t help but feel sympathy for him.

Hakim Warrick, Magic: How many times can one man be traded? Since signing a four-year contract with the Suns in July 2010, Warrick has been traded from Phoenix to New Orleans to Charlotte and now to Orlando, where he will be bought out. Perhaps all that traveling might be worth it if he finds a playoff team to hook on with for the stretch run.

Ronnie Price, Blazers: The Maynor trade came just before the buzzer and it was a bit of a surprise, as Blazers management had been promising a quiet trade deadline. The move cost Price his job and unfairly so, given that he?s played better this season than 2010 first-round pick Nolan Smith. Blazers GM Neil Olshey said the franchise felt an ?organizational responsibility? to continue developing Smith, but that responsibility didn?t extend to picking up Smith?s rookie option for next year. Price is left watching a less deserving player keep a roster spot that should have been his.

Luke Zeller, Suns: Zeller was released to make room for Marcus Morris. The undrafted free agent must now find his next job, a tall task with just 58 minutes of playing time to show for his rookie season.

Source: http://nba.si.com/2013/02/21/nba-trade-deadline-winners-and-losers/?xid=si_topstories

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