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Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post's Pulitzer Prize–winning liberal political columnist, wrote that he knows who is to blame for Washington Redskins superstar quarterback Robert Griffin III's horrific knee injury. He has seen the culprit and it is us. Reaching for a cliché with more age than the jokes at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Robinson writes, "If you are a football fan and are appalled by what happened Sunday and want to find someone to blame, look in the mirror."
At first I shrugged off this analysis as a top columnist venturing out of his comfort zone to discuss a topic that had all of Washington buzzing, and falling flat. But Robinson's analysis actually reveals more than the liberal lion intended. It may say little about how RGIII was hurt, but it says so much about the Washington consensus liberalism that Robinson so ably represents.
There was a time when progressives, as a point of principle, made an effort to side with the people against the tyrannical and corrupt. The best of Bob Herbert, Jimmy Breslin or Molly Ivins always makes clear that the fish rots from the head and that the Beltway wisdom that "you get the government you deserve" served only to shield those in positions of power. But times have changed. Now, if you criticize President Barack Obama, if you say that armed drones and kill-lists shouldn't be part of US foreign policy, or that a negotiated austerity is nothing to cheer, or criticize anyone but Republicans, twenty-first-century liberals like Robinson see their role as blaming you for hobbling the president, weakening his hand and making the situation worse.
This shift of liberalism's focus is seen so clearly in Robinson's analysis of what happened to RGIII last Sunday. Robinson writes that the transcendent rookie was injured because "it is the fans—in the stands and in front of their television sets—who have made football our national sport. Risk and injury are not just a part of the game, they are at its heart." This analysis might seem to make sense to some on the face of it, but it's really just hot air that actually obscures the role that powerful people played in making RGIII's injury an inevitability.
If Eugene Robinson would only turn his gaze away from all of us, he'd see that fault actually starts not in the stands but in the owner's box with Redskins boss Dan Snyder. Snyder is a billionaire and despite years of terrible decisions, mediocre finishes and a franchise brand that's racist as all hell, the Redskins are the third most valuable organization in the National Football League. Even though Snyder holds this reservoir of resources, the field on Sunday was in a condition that would shame a public high school. As Chris Chase ofUSA Today wrote, "FedEx Field's turf was a dangerous embarrassment on Sunday. Before the game even started, there were bald patches between the hashmarks and sloppy turf near midfield. Once play began, conditions quickly got worse. Multiple Redskins slipped on the team's first possession. When their feet slid, chunks of grass would fly up like after a golfer hitting a 9-iron…. Players didn't need cleats, they needed work boots."
The quality of the natural grass turf claimed not only RGIII but also Seahawks pass rushing specialist Chris Clemons, who tore his ACL and is now out of action indefinitely. The conditions at FedEx Field have been an issue for years, with Minnesota Vikings superstar Adrian Peterson tearing every ligament in his knee last season on the same turf. The league should have long ago sanctioned Dan Snyder for putting players at risk. Now, his penny-pinching has jeopardized the face and future of the franchise. If nothing else, this nationally televised OSHA violation should have been front and center in Eugene Robinson's column, but neither the field nor Snyder are even mentioned.
Then there is Coach Mike Shanahan. Robinson's column is actually framed as a defense of Shanahan's decision to keep RGIII in the game after a first-quarter injury made the already ailing quarterback a limping, ineffective mess. The column is actually titled, "Don't blame Shanahan for leaving RGIII in the game." Shanahan, in Robinson's mind, was just enacting the will of the fans to see RGIII squeezed dry until he was twitching husk on the stadium's torn-up turf. This is beyond garbage. I watched the game with people who bleed the team colors of burgundy and gold, and they were screaming at the television after the first quarter to take RGIII out of the game. They were suffering with every limp, every hobble and every agonizing step the quarterback took. They wanted him out of there not just because he was completely ineffective and the team has an able backup in Kirk Cousins. They knew that he is the future of this team and that future needed to be protected. They've also grown to love the rookie and didn't want to see him in pain. The imperative to sit RGIII was obvious to everyone but Shanahan. Former Washington Wizards Etan Thomas, in a terrific column on the Post's website called "Robert Griffin III: An Open Letter" describes the reaction of his 7-year-old super-fan son Malcolm who said, "If RGIII is hurt and playing, couldn't he get hurt more? Look at his face daddy. He is in pain. Why is he still playing if he is in that much pain?" Shanahan froze and didn't protect his player, costing his team the game and perhaps costing the franchise its star. After the game, the veteran coach was even worse, saying that he kept RGIII in the game because the 22-year-old demanded to keep playing. What a profile in courage. As sports columnist Tom Boswell wrote in the Post, "If ever a veteran coach needed to accept responsibility for the reins of a player, it was Shanahan over Griffin in this game. Yet he simply passed the buck to his player."
Even worse, USA Today is reporting that Mike Shanahan has openly misrepresented what team orthopedist Dr. James Andrews said to him about RGIII's knee. As they reported, "Andrews insisted he never cleared Griffin to return to a game in which Griffin initially injured his knee, even though coach Mike Shanahan again tried to lay the responsibility on him." If this is true, then Mike Shanahan should never work in the NFL again. If it's true, it's also a horrific example of a person in authority abusing their power. Once again, this is something Eugene Robinson could have discussed. Instead, just as Shanahan passed the buck to RGIII, Robinson passed the buck onto us.
Yes, football is a game unsafe at any speed. Yes, it's governed by a toxic macho ethos that makes injuries like we saw Sunday inevitable. But there are real flesh-and-blood people we can hold to account for what took place. There was a time when we could count on liberals with a public platform to be a part of this fight. That era is starting to look as outdated as calling a team the "Redskins" or as much past its prime as a certain 60-year-old coach. If there is going to be a real fight against power and privilege, not just in sports but in politics, it might be time to champion some new fighters.
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A while back I saw this pattern...
I was intrigued by the double zip pouch. But, like most of us, I said to myself "I can figure that out myself". But I couldn't.. so I broke down earlier this week and bought the pattern. It was so simple!!
This is the 2nd pattern I've used by this designer and they are so well written! So much detail and easy to follow.
I made these so far - and plan to make a few more once I get more zippers.
I used her method to make the larger bag.. "Heidi's Stuff". This larger size wasn't included in the original pattern. I'm going to use it when I travel.. for my shampoo and bathroom goods.
I want to make a bigger one for both my boys too.. for all the little things they want to bring in the car on road trips. Like game systems.. etc. Pin It

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The Who Biography
The Whorock band
One of the seminal rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. Roger Daltrey on vocals, Pete Townshend on guitar, and John Entwistle on bass played together in earlier incarnations as the Detours and then the High Numbers. Keith Moon joined them in 1963 on drums and they became the Who. Their albums include The Who Sing My Generation (1965), Tommy (1969), Quadrophenia (1973), and It's Hard (1982). The band was the subject of The Kids Are Alright, a 1979 documentary. When Moon died in 1978, he was replaced by drummer Kenny Jones.
Roger Daltreyvocalist; guitarist
Born: 3/1/1944
Birthplace: Hammersmith, London, England
John Entwistlebassist
Born: 10/9/1944
Birthplace: Chiswick, London, England
Died: Las Vegas, 6/27/2002
Keith Moondrummer
Born: 8/23/1947
Birthplace: Wembley, London, England
Died: 9/8/1978
Pete Townshendmusician; composer
Born: 5/19/1945
Birthplace: London, England
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|John Edgar Wideman
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Fab Fiber at the Vargas Galley
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Come out to the Vargas Gallery in the Gillmor Center from January 14 to February 21. An opening reception is Tuesday, January 15 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m.
To see Gallery Open Hours click here.
Dotti Cichon of California USA, Eszter Bornemisza of Budapest Hungary & Anitta Toivio of Sahalahti Finland use the medium of fiber to express themselves through their art.
Eszter's magnificent works are laboriously made with discarded newspaper, paint and thread and map places and ideas.
Anitta Toivio paints "Emotional Portraits" on fabric using her healing hands and intuition to guide her to reveal the soul of her models.
Anitta Toivio and Dotti Cichon have been collaborating on video installation projects together for almost 10 years. The projects always incorporate fiber in some way. The work in this show is titled "Weaving a Tangled Web" and is meant to be meditative and open to viewers' interpretation.
Dotti Cichon uses found and discarded fiber materials for her artwork. Many times, her work uses gold, silver and copper leaf to enhance the perceived value of discarded materials that have been transformed into works of art instead of finding their way into the landfill.
She also re-purposes Tyvek house wrap into meaningful art. Her work "Loss" in this exhibit is of an apricot tree that has lost all its leaves and its blossoms that can be seen on the ground below her tree. Silicon Valley once was known for its acres and acres of orchards of apricot and cherry trees, but they have all been lost to high-tech industry, factories, office buildings, homes, shopping centers, freeways and roads. Her work expresses this "loss" of the Silicon Valley of a former time.
Dotti is also a photographer and has been experimenting with ways to combine photography and fiber. An image of a flower printed on 2 layers of translucent silk is shown here for the first time anywhere as an experimental prototype for a conceptual show she is preparing about how species of plants are becoming extinct at an alarming rate and pointing out our need to do something to prevent this from continuing. Printing very thin images of endangered species on translucent silk is meant to express that these flowers are in danger of fading away. The image is hard to discern when seen from an angle and viewers must look at the image straight on to enable the image to be seen as a flower. Conceptually, this is meant to mean that the issue needs to be confronted head-on and if we do so, we can see the flower appear expressing hope for the future.
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Google, which is acquiring DeepMind Technologies, has agreed to establish an ethics board to ensure the artificial intelligence technology isn't abused, according to two people familiar with the deal.
The unusual step of establishing the ethics committee comes as Google, which is paying more than $500 million to acquire the company, won the deal over Facebook, several people familiar with negotiations said. Facebook was in serious acquisition talks with DeepMind late last year, these people said, and it is unclear why talks fell apart.
DeepMind's technology aims to make computers think like humans and has been used in demonstrations of computers playing video games. Like many other innovations, the technology could be used to controversial ends. The DeepMind-Google ethics board, which DeepMind pushed for, will devise rules for how Google can and can't use the technology. The structure of the board is unclear.
A spokesman for Google confirmed the acquisition and declined to comment further. A spokesman for Facebook could not immediately be reached for comment. The Information reported in December that both companies were looking at DeepMind in their race to bulk up on experts in the hot field. Re/Code earlier reported that Google was acquiring DeepMind for $400 million.


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Delirium is a condition that features rapidly changing mental states. It causes confusion and changes in behavior. Besides falling in and out of consciousness, there may be problems with
Causes of delirium include medications, poisoning, serious illnesses or infections, and severe pain. It can also be part of some mental illnesses or dementia.
Delirium and dementia have similar symptoms, so it can be hard to tell them apart. They can also occur together. Delirium starts suddenly and can cause hallucinations. The symptoms may get better or worse, and can last for hours or weeks. On the other hand, dementia develops slowly and does not cause hallucinations. The symptoms are stable, and may last for months or years.
Delirium tremens is a serious type of alcohol withdrawal syndrome. It usually happens to people who stop drinking after years of alcohol abuse.
People with delirium often, though not always, make a full recovery after their underlying illness is treated.


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Asym - This refers to a hammock whose shape is not symmetrical, such that if it were folded in half along the long axis, the two halves would not match. This is a technique used to allow for a more comfortable 'diagonal' lay in the hammock by creating more room for the head and feet.
Banana This is when the hammock occupant lays straight down the middle of an end-gathered hammock, causing their feet and head to be much higher than their butt. Most hammock occupants find this to be uncomfortable.
Bear Burrito - A derogatory term used by some bear pancakes ground-dwellers to refer to a hammock and it's occupant.
Bishop Bag - A typical stuff sack with a small hole on the end opposite the normal drawstring opening (often a button hole). The hole allows a hammock or quilt suspension cord to exit the bag such that the bag can be left in place when the contents are deployed. It is functionally different than a double-closure stuff sack in that there is never any doubt which end of the sack is which, and it allows easier stuffing of the sack since there is no second drawstring to fasten. The concept is named after one of the early members of HF.
Bivy Also known as Travelpod or Hammock Sock. A shell that encompasses the hammock to provide wind or water resistance.
Bug Net - Netting that keeps bugs out of the hammock. Can be permanently attached like the Hennessy line of hammocks, or can be removable like Speer hammocks.
Catenary-Cut This is a method of cutting a straight edge of a tarp into a curved line in order to; allow a more taut pitch to the fabric surface and to reduce flapping in the wind.
Cold Butt Syndrome - is what happens to the hammock occupant when the insulation under their buttocks compresses therefore; losing the insulating value resulting in a cold butt.
Cold sleeper one who tends to feel colder than that of the temperature rating of their gear (i.e. sleeping bags, under quilts and the like).
Constrictor ropes - refer to both Whoopie Slings and UCRs, which are both suspension methods made by creating adjustable constricting splices in cording.
Darts - Z shaped overlap way to shorten the edge of a piece of material. Several darts used on each edge can create a pouch like effect for the enclosed perimeter of the cloth.
Diagonal Lay - is a method in which the hammock occupant lays with their head on one side and their feet on the opposite side of the hammock. With proper sag in the hammock fabric, this method allows for a flatter lay.
Diamond fly is a diamond or square shaped tarp whose ridge line is pitched diagonally over the hammock and has only two stakes to hold it down to the ground.
Durable Water Repellent - also called DWR. A fabric treatment that improves wind and water resistance but allows the fabric to remain breathable. Can be a chemical wash-in or spray-on treatment to an existing fabric or can be incorporated into the material's manufacture. Generally comes in 1.1 oz and 1.9 oz weights, and useful for projects requiring breathability like hammock, windsuits, quilt shells, etc.
Dutch clips - These are small lightweight aluminum clips that replace the function of a carabiner in an adjustable webbing suspension. They are named after their designer, who is a member of the forum.
Figure 9s - small lightweight aluminum clips, marketed by the company 'NiteIze', that are designed to allow the easy holding and adjustment of cording. Commonly used on tarp ridgelines.
Fly See tarp.
Foot box a compartment in a top quilt or an extension on the right hand side of a Warbonnet Black Bird (a brand and model of hammock) that you put your feet into.
Grosgrain - (pronounced "grow grain") a ribbon-like material used as trim on many projects or as a structural element on some designs, such as tarp edging or bug netting, allowing tension to be pulled on the netting without ripping the cloth.
Ground dweller This is a person who uses a tent, bivy bag, cowboy camps, or otherwise sleeps on the ground while camping for some reason or lack of sense.
Hammock sock - A shell that encompasses the hammock to provide wind or water resistance and to retain some body heat.
Hangers Ones who uses a hammock while camping.
Hex fly This is a hexagonal shaped tarp, often elongated. It has a central ridgeline and at least four stakes to hold it to the ground. These usually contain at least one caternary-cut edge.
Neo tarp - Colloquial name for the camouflage Guide Gear tarps, named after one of it's most famous advocates on the forum.
Noseeum - netting similar to mosquito netting but with smaller holes. Used to keep insects out of hammocks and as baffle material to separate down chambers in some quilt construction.
PeaPod - An oversized sleeping bag by Speer Hammocks that completely envelops the hammock, providing insulation above and below the hammock. Because the PeaPod does not drape over the body, a top quilt is often required below about 50 F.
Quilt loops - single tied stitches from one side of a quilt or under insulation that are often used with batting insulation.
Ridge Line - Two types of ridgelines.
First, the structural ridgeline is very tight, non-stretchy, and sets the amount of sag on the hammock. When you pull the hammock supports tight, you're also pulling the ridgeline tight...but since the ridgeline holds a fixed length, the fabric in the hammock body isn't affected. I like it b/c no matter how you hang your hammock, it always has the same amount of sag. Also, you can tie the supports to the tree at a lower level and still have a comfortable hammock b/c it increases the sag.
Next, non-structural ridgelines are just strung up support bugnets or tarps and don't change how the hammock sags. Some of these are elastic and some are cord, occasionally webbing on some homemade ones.
Both kinds are good for holding boots, jackets, stuff sacks with nighttime essentials, etc. I always hang my headlamp and emergency whistle up there...that way I can blow the whistle when a bear comes sniffing and never have to leave the hammock. Since I switched to a soft-sided Nalgene I use my water as a pillow, but before that I always had a stuff sack with a snack and bottle of water hung on the ridgeline.
Hammock ridgelines are also different from tarp ridgelines. Tarp ridgelines are sometimes just a sewn seam running along the center length that needs to be sealed, and some folks actually run a cord for the full length between the trees and the tarp lays on top of it. Each type has advantages...but as I said, don't confuse tarp ridgelines with hammock ridgelines.
Ridge Ties - The tension lines that are used to suspend a tarp from the trees on tarps that don't have a full-length corded ridgeline. Those tarps typically have a seam along the ridge. (example - the OES MacCat style).
Sag - Sag describes how tightly the hammock is strung between the trees. If the hammock is very loose between the trees and adopts a "U" shape, it has a lot of sag. This makes it easier to lay on the diagonal. If the hammock is strung tightly, laying on the diagonal will be more difficult and may cause shoulder squeeze.
Hennessy hammocks have integral ridgelines that set the amount of sag for the hammock, and the sag doesn't change no matter how tightly you hang it. See the "ridgeline" entry for more details.
Segmented Pad Extender (SPE) - A pad sleeve sold by Speer Hammocks that has wings to hold non-compressible insulation against the occupant's shoulders and hips. Without a pad, the hammock will compress the sleeping bag or top quilt at these points, causing cold spots.
Shoulder squeeze - is a painful or annoying pressure on the hammock occupants shoulders that happens when lying in a hammock that is too small or strung too tightly.
Side Tie-Outs - A feature of various hammocks. Elastic lines are attached to the long side of the hammock; these tie-outs are staked to the ground to pull the hammock open. It does not change how the hammock supports the user, but makes it feel more open inside. The elastic also acts as a dampener to reduce the hammock's swing.
Silnylon - silcone-impregnated ripstop nylon. A ripstop nylon material impregnated with silicone, creating a waterproof, non-breathable fabric. Weight for lightweight hiking gear is usually 1.1 oz per square before the treatment is applied, so the silnylon usually ends up weighing about 1.3 oz per square yard. Also commonly found in 1.9 oz/sqyd. Used for tarps and other projects where breathability is not required.
Snakeskins Snakeskins are a tapering cloth tubes that slide over the hammock when you are storing it. Snakeskins make it easier to setup and break down the hammock system, and can also help to keep the hammock dry. Python Skins are oversized snakeskins that are large enough to hold the hammock and an underquilt. They were manufactured by Jacks R Better until Hennessy announced a patent pending, but the term is still used to refer to oversized snakeskins.
Spinn UL is a water proof fabric lighter in weight than silnylon used for tarps or other applications where water proofing is important and breathability is not.
Straps refers the webbing, normally ¾ to 1 in width, used to secure hammock to a tree or stand.
Support line See Suspension System
Suspension System - The broad term to describe the connection between the anchoring object and the actual hammock, which can be made from a number of material combinations that consist of but are not limited to: cording, webbing, knots, hardware, etc. Sometimes just referred to as 'suspension'.
Taco - is what happens when the hammock occupant sinks into the hammock and becomes so engulfed by the sides that they are unable to see out.
Tarp Also know as fly or rain fly. It keeps you dry. Tarps on hammocks are generally rectangular (8'x10'), a square hung diagonally (8'x8'), or a shaped tarp (catenary cut).
Thread injector a sewing machine
Top Quilt An insulating layer used inside the hammock like a blanket on top of the hammocker. An unzipped sleeping bag can also be used as a top quilt.
Travel pod see hammock sock
Tree Huggers Webbing straps that wrap around a tree and have loops on each end that the hammock ropes tie to. Tree huggers not only reduce damage to the tree but they also are less likely to slip.
Utility Constrictor Rope (UCR) - is a hardware-free hammock suspension method made by splicing one length of cording through another, thus creating an adjustable constriction. These are commonly DIY items made from 12-strand single-braid cording like Amsteel.
Undercover fabric hung on the bottom of a hammock to keep it dry from mist or splashing. It can be used to hold additional insulation.
Underquilt An insulating layer that is mounted underneath the hammock on the outside.
Warm sleeper is one who tends to feel warmer than that of the temperature rating of their gear (i.e. sleeping bags, under quilts and the like).
Weather shield - is a fabric panel or tube used on or over a hammock to keep cold and rain out. It is found on some models of Clark Hammocks and as a do it yourself modification.
Whoopie sling - is a hardware-free hammock suspension method made by splicing the end of a single piece of cording back through the standing end, thus creating an adjustable loop. These are commonly DIY items made from 12-strand single-braid cording like Amsteel.
Zigzig stitch - stitch used to allow the long length of a stitched line to lengthen with nylon cloth when it stretches under load.
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Sally tweeted an article re CD47 and LVHF during SITC. How does this affect her and your views re SCTPF and the Stanford efforts?
SITC 2014 Cancer Immunotherapy Day 1
National Harbor, MD – The 2014 Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) annual meeting officially kicked off today, with a record-breaking 1,500 attendees. The organization has grown by 33% over the past year highlighting the explosive progress in the field, and the growing importance of SITC!
There was a lot of thought provoking science on display as researchers and translational scientists came from all around the world to share results and talk about the future.
What struck me at the meeting today was the collegiality and friendliness of all who are here. It's exciting times in immunotherapy and immuno-oncology and everyone at the meeting is bound by a common goal of making a difference to the lives of cancer patients.
The President of SITC, Francesco Marincola (Sidra) quoted Winston Churchill in his introductory address:
"Now this is not the end.
It is not even the beginning of the end.
But, perhaps it is the end of the beginning."
Dr Marincola's choice of quote seemed to strike the right balance of where we are at today: there's still a long way to go to optimize cancer immunotherapy treatments, but equally there's been tremendous progress to reach the point we are at where there are durable long-term responses in many patients who would otherwise not be alive today.
What was the highlight of Day 1 of SITC 2014?
For me, this morning, it was the presentation by Marcel van den Brink (MSKCC) on the influence of the microbiome on graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) for which there's been no effective new treatment for over 25 years:
Fascinating talk by Marcel van den Brink on GvHD & how gut microbiome influences survival post SCT #SITC2014 pic.twitter.com/DE1Mb1tLnV
— Pieter Droppert (@3NT) November 7, 2014
In the afternoon, it was the presentation by Roy Herbst (Yale) on the top ten lessons learned about immunotherapy for NSCLC.
One of the best presentations at #SITC2014 – Herbst says the winners in NSCLC will be the patients pic.twitter.com/jVgXQFJtZl
— Pieter Droppert (@3NT) November 7, 2014
It's unfair to single out two presenters when there were multiple presentations and posters of note, but they stood out for me. If you'd like to read our more detailed notes from the road after Day 1 of SITC 2014, do log-in if you are already a subscriber.


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We can't wait for the day when we'll read newspapers and magazines on our tablet computers, but what will happen to those darling newspaper stands and kiosks when that day comes? Based on this demo, they'll become better than ever.
Vizio's Latest TVs Go All Quantum
This demo was given at SXSW and shows one way in which we might purchase our favorite publications in the future. Sure, over-the-air downloads would work just as well, but this could be a solution for those who choose Wi-Fi-only tablet computers or ebook readers. [eMedia Vitals via Business Insider]


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Jeb Bush Says Illegal Immigration Not A Felony, But An 'Act Of Love'
By Lisa Mascaro, Tribune Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — Republican Jeb Bush knew that calling illegal immigration an "act of love" was going to light up the political world even before he made the unorthodox comment, and then he did it anyway.
The former Florida governor and potential 2016 Republican presidential contender served up a tough-love message to his party, which has tried but largely failed to soften its often rough tone against immigrants.
"We need to get beyond the harsh rhetoric to a better place," he said over the weekend during a 25th anniversary celebration of his father's presidency at the George H.W. Bush Library and Museum in Texas.
"I'm going to say this and it's going to be on tape, and so be it," he said, before launching into a defense of those who cross borders illegally — often "a dad who was worried their children didn't have food on the table."
"Yes, they broke the law, but it's not a felony," he went on. "It's an act of love, an act of commitment to your family. I honestly think that is a different kind of crime."
Bush's comments come as action on an immigration overhaul has ground to a halt in Congress, even as protesters held a vigil and fast Monday on the National Mall.
House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, has shown no interest in taking up a bipartisan Senate-passed bill, and efforts by Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., to draft an alternative measure to help younger illegal immigrants have all but fizzled.
Republican party elders have urged congressional leaders to pass an immigration overhaul because the issue is important to Latino voters, who have fled the GOP in the years since the last Bush was in office.
Last week, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Rep. Howard "Buck" McKeon, R-Calif., refused to add a measure — sponsored by other Republicans to help veterans obtain green cards — to a must-pass defense bill.
Bush, whose political family has long tried to lead the party on immigration issues, said he thought the Senate bill was a "good effort" and that a reform of immigration laws was needed to help bring immigrants into the U.S. economy.
"They could contribute to our country if we actually organized it in a better way," he said.
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In this March 29, 2018 photo, the logo for social media giant Facebook, appears on screens at the Nasdaq MarketSite, in New York's Times Square. (RICHARD DREW / AP)
HYDERABAD/SAN FRANCISCO — Over the past year, a team of as many as 260 contract workers in Hyderabad, India has ploughed through millions of Facebook Inc photos, status updates and other content posted since 2014.
The workers categorize items according to five "dimensions," as Facebook calls them.
These include the subject of the post is it food, for example, or a selfie or an animal? What is the occasion - an everyday activity or major life event? And what is the author's intention - to plan an event, to inspire, to make a joke?
Facebook said the work is aimed at understanding how the types of things users post on its services are changing, so as to help the company develop new features, potentially increasing usage and ad revenue
The work is aimed at understanding how the types of things users post on its services are changing, Facebook said. That can help the company develop new features, potentially increasing usage and ad revenue.
Details of the effort were provided by multiple employees at outsourcing firm Wipro Ltd over several months. The workers spoke on condition of anonymity due to fear of retaliation by the Indian firm. Facebook later confirmed many details of the project. Wipro declined to comment and referred all questions to Facebook.
The Wipro work is among about 200 content labeling projects that Facebook has at any time, employing thousands of people globally, company officials told Reuters. Many projects are aimed at "training" the software that determines what appears in users' news feeds and powers the artificial intelligence underlying many other features.
The labeling efforts have not previously been reported.
ALSO READ: Facebook anticipates an FTC privacy fine of up to US$5 billion
"It's a core part of what you need," said Nipun Mathur, the director of product management for AI at Facebook. "I don't see the need going away."
The content labeling program could raise new privacy issues for Facebook, according to legal experts consulted by Reuters. The company is facing regulatory investigations worldwide over an unrelated set of alleged privacy abuses involving the sharing of user data with business partners.
The Wipro workers said they gain a window into lives as they view a vacation photo or a post memorializing a deceased family member. Facebook acknowledged that some posts, including screenshots and those with comments, may include user names.
The company said its legal and privacy teams must sign off on all labeling efforts, adding that it recently introduced an auditing system "to ensure that privacy expectations are being followed and parameters in place are working as expected."
But one former Facebook privacy manager, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed unease about users' posts being scrutinized without their explicit permission. The European Union's year-old General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has strict rules about how companies gather and use personal data and in many cases requires specific consent.
"One of the key pieces of GDPR is purpose limitation," said John Kennedy, a partner at law firm Wiggin and Dana who has worked on outsourcing, privacy and AI.
If the purpose is looking at posts to improve the precision of services, that should be stated explicitly, Kennedy said. Using an outside vendor for the work could also require consent, he said.
It remains unclear exactly how GDPR will be interpreted and whether regulators and consumers would see Facebook's internal labeling practices as problematic. Europe's top data privacy official declined to comment on possible concerns.
We make it clear in our data policy that we use the information people provide to Facebook to improve their experience and that we might work with service providers to help in this process.
A spokeswoman for Facebook
A Facebook spokeswoman said: "We make it clear in our data policy that we use the information people provide to Facebook to improve their experience and that we might work with service providers to help in this process."
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US Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat and leading critic of social media, told Reuters in a statement that large platforms increasingly are "taking more and more data from users, for wider and more far-reaching uses, without any corresponding compensation to the user."
Warner said he is drafting legislation that would require Facebook to "disclose the value of users' data, and tell users exactly how their data is being monetized."
Human-powered content labeling, also referred to as "data annotation," is a growth industry as companies seek to harness data for AI training and other purposes.
Self-driving car companies such as Alphabet Inc's Waymo have labelers identify traffic lights and pedestrians in videos to fortify their AI. Voice assistant developers including Amazon.com Inc have people annotate customer audio to improve AI's ability to decipher speech.
Facebook launched the Wipro project in April last year. The Indian firm received a US$4 million contract and formed a team of about 260 labelers, according to the workers. Last year, the work consisted of analyzing posts from the prior five years.
After completing that, the team in December was cut to about 30 and shifted to labeling each month posts from the prior month. Work is expected to last through at least the end of 2019, they said.
Facebook confirmed the staffing changes but declined to comment on financial details.
The company said its analysis is ongoing so it could not provide any findings from the labeling or resulting product decisions. It has not told labelers the purpose or results of the project, and the workers said all they have inferred from their limited view is that selfies are increasingly popular.
The Wipro labelers and Facebook said the posts are a random sampling of text-based status updates, shared links, event posts, Stories feature uploads, videos and photos, including user-posted screenshots of chats on Facebook's various messaging apps. The posts come from Facebook and Instagram users globally, in languages including English, Hindi and Arabic.
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Each item goes to two labelers to check accuracy, and a third if they disagree, Facebook said. Workers said they see on average 700 items per day. Facebook said the target average is lower.
Facebook confirmed labelers in Timisoara, Romania and Manila, the Philippines are involved in the same project.
Among Facebook's other labeling projects, one worker in Hyderabad for outsourcing vendor Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp said he and at least 500 colleagues look for sensitive topics or profane language in Facebook videos.
The aim is to train an automated Facebook tool that enables advertisers to avoid sponsoring videos that are, for example, adult or political, Facebook said. Cognizant did not respond to a request for comment.
Another application of labeling involved the social network's Marketplace shopping feature, where it automated category recommendations for new listings by first having labelers and product experts categorize some existing listings, Facebook's Mathur said.
Facebook users are not offered the chance to opt out of their data being labeled
Facebook users are not offered the chance to opt out of their data being labeled.
ALSO READ: New Zealand official calls Facebook 'morally bankrupt'
At Wipro, the posts being examined include not only public posts but also those that are shared privately to a limited set of a user's friends. That ensures the sample reflects the range of activity on Facebook and Instagram, said Karen Courington, director of product support operations at Facebook.
Facebook's data policy does not explicitly mention manual analysis.
"We provide information and content to vendors and service providers who support our business, such as by providing technical infrastructure services, analyzing how our products are used, providing customer service, facilitating payments or conducting surveys," the policy states.
Europe's GDPR also requires companies delete user data upon request. Facebook said it has technology to routinely sync labeled posts with both deletion requests and changes to content privacy settings.
Facebook and other companies are testing techniques to curtail the need for outsourced labeling, in part to analyze more data faster and cheaper. For instance, AI training data for news feed rankings and photo descriptions for the blind came from hashtags on Instagram posts, Facebook's Mathur said.
"We try to minimize the amount of things we send out," he said.


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Despite a number of social/behavioral intervention and educational programs, the spread of hepatitis C (HCV) in people who inject drugs (PWIDs) remains a chronic problem. Now, researchers affiliated with New York Universitys Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR) are focusing on intervention strategies that highlight the lesser-known dangers of HCV transmission through the sharing of other injection equipment such as cookers, filters, drug-dilution water and water containers.
Their article, The Staying Safe Intervention: Training People Who Inject Drugs in Strategies to Avoid Injection-Related HCV and HIV Infection, published in AIDS Education and Prevention (Vol. 26:2, April 15, 2014), explores the feasibility and efficacy of their Staying Safe Intervention, a strengths-based social/behavioral intervention conducted with small groups of PWID, designed to facilitate long-term prevention of HIV and HCV.
The Staying Safe Intervention seeks to reduce injection risk by intervening upstream in the causal chain of risk behaviors by modeling, training in, and motivating the use of strategies and practices of long-term risk-avoidance, says Dr. Pedro Mateu-Gelabert, the studys Principal Investigator, at the NYC-based National Development Research Institutes.
Mateu-Gelabert and his NDRI-CDUHR team evaluated 68 street-recruited injectors from the Lower East Side of Manhattan; the objective was to reduce participants injection risk behaviors, empower and motivate behavioral change, and teach tactics to help reduce drug intake. The current program was built upon findings of their 2005 study, Staying Safe, which looked at the behaviors and strategies of individuals who had injected drugs for long periods of time (8-15 years) but had not contracted HIV or HCV.
The Staying Safe Intervention does not focus exclusively on the moment of injection, explains Mateu-Gelabert, but on the upstream determinants of risk behavior, such as stigma, risk networks, social support and income, while encouraging injectors to plan ahead in order to better manage the drug-related risk contexts they are likely to face.
The social/behavioral intervention showed substantial improvement in motivation and planning to avoid injection-related risks, increased use of stigma management strategies, and decreases in drug withdrawal episodes (known to reduce safe injection practices) and number of weekly injections. The research team also noted that participants in the study have been spreading the word on safer drug use within their communities.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)Â estimates that not only do nine percent of new HIV infections originate from drug use, but 18 percent of PWID are HIV positive and up to 70-77 percent of PWIDs have HCV.
Given the substantial reductions observed among Staying Safe participants in key injection-related risk behaviors associated with HCV transmission, the Staying Safe Intervention may have the potential to contribute to sufficient additional risk reduction to help address the seemingly intractable rates of HCV transmission among PWID, says Mateu-Gelabert.
Currently, Mateu-Gelaberts team is researching HCV and HIV risk associated with nonmedical prescription opioid use. Future research will evaluate the effectiveness of the Staying Safe Intervention in preventing HIV and hepatitis C infection among young prescription opioid users who have transitioned to heroin injection.
The project described was supported by Award Numbers R21DA026328, R01DA019383, R01DA031597, and R01DA035146 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Source: New York University College of Nursing


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Investigators trying to piece together the scattered shards of evidence to solve the quadruple murder of an Iraqi-British family and a French bicyclist on September 5 have finally made a crucial breakthrough.
Saad Al-Hilli, 50, his wife Iqbal, 47, and her mother Suhaila Al-Allaf, 74, along with 45-year-old French bicyclist Sylvain Mollier were gunned down and left for dead on a lonely road in the French Alps six weeks ago. The Al-Hillis' daughters miraculously survived – seven-year-old Zainab was found outside the car, pistol-whipped and shot in the shoulder, and her four-year-old sister Zeena was discovered hiding under her mother's corpse in the back seat.
Since the bodies were discovered, investigators have focused their attention on Saad al-Hilli, whose curious past and actions before he was killed suggested a man on the run. Rumors of secret Swiss bank accounts and hidden property, coupled with the discovery of a Taser gun and the fact that he changed the locks on his Surrey home before packing up the family camper and heading to France fed conspiracy theories that he was the assassin's target. U.K. tabloids reported that he was on a British special-forces watch list prior to the Iraq war in 2003, though confirmation of that is elusive. Even the discovery of a phone message on al-Hilli's phone from a worried teacher at the daughters' school, wondering why they hadn't turned up for the first day of class, seemed to underscore that the trip to France was spontaneous, and therefore suspicious. Al-Hilli, born in Iraq, spent a lot of time ranting in anti-Semitic online chatrooms, according to family friends, which helped fuel the fire. But on Friday, French authorities released the first solid ballistic and blood-splatter-trajectory report, which has turned the investigation upside down.
According to the report, Mollier the cyclist was the first person to catch the assassin's wrath. Investigators had initially proceeded on the theory that the cyclist, who was on paternity leave from Crezus, a company that supplies equipment to nuclear-power plants, had unwittingly come upon a murder in progress. Mollier was a plant supervisor for the division that does research and development into zirconium products with allegedly distant ties to Iran.
Mollier had been shot, it was originally thought, only because he was a witness to the carnage. But after meticulous forensic analyses of the blood splatters on the bodies and especially the soles of the victims' feet, investigators now know with certainty that al-Hilli and his daughter Zainab were outside the family car when Mollier was shot. The cyclist's blood was on al-Hilli's pant leg and on the soles of his daughter's feet, even though al-Hilli was shot through the window as he sat in the driver seat.
The first shots at Mollier didn't kill him, based on his autopsy report and his trail of blood on the ground. Instead, investigators theorize that the assassin disabled the cyclist—perhaps intentionally keeping him alive—and then turned fire to the al-Hillis. According to the report, Saad al-Hilli then scrambled back into the family car, locked the doors and frantically threw the vehicle into reverse, backing into a muddy bank where the rear axel got stuck. Little Zainab never made it back into the car. The assassin then pistol-whipped and shot her before turning to al-Hilli, his wife, and mother-in-law, shooting them while they were in the car, and finishing each off with two shots to the forehead. Then, according to the investigators' theory, the assassin went back to Mollier and fired the final two fatal shots into the cyclist's cranium. They believe the assassin then searched the body and moved it closer to the car before escaping.
Now the question is why the cyclist was targeted and whether he and the al-Hilli family had met by chance on that fateful day, or if their meeting was planned— and if so, why?


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Materials aside, hard cases for the iPhone fall into three broad categories: ill-conceived, well-intentioned and nice but not great, and thoroughly impressive. Over the next day, we're going to briefly review eight recent iPod cases that range in price from $20 to $50, and in design from one end of that spectrum to the other: four are made mostly from metal, the other four mostly from plastic. This review covers the metal cases: JAVOedge's JavoShield for iPhone ($20), Innopocket's Metal Deluxe Case ($30), and identical PDair and Wireless Ground cases called Aluminum Metal Case – Flip Type ($28) and Monaco Aluminum Case ($40), respectively.
The remaining cases in this roundup all have a lot in common: they are heirs to the iPod Armor legacy started by Matias, and continued by myriad other companies: InnoPocket's Metal Deluxe Case, PDair's Aluminum Metal Case – Flip Type, and Wireless Ground's Monaco Aluminum Case could easily be coming from the same factory—the latter two most definitely are. They're all made from thin but sturdy aluminum, with a hinged front that opens to let the iPhone in, and neoprene to keep the metal from scuffing the iPhone's back, face, or sides. InnoPocket's design opens from the side, and has decent padding; the other two open from the top, and their padding has an unfortunate tendency to stick a little to the iPhone.
It's worth explaining at this stage that, despite their different brand names, many cases are purchased from factories called OEMs or ODMs, which produce goods for resale under different badges, offering packaging or small branding marks to differentiate one company's product from another. Consequently, we just happened to receive boxes from PDair and Wireless Ground on the same day, each containing the same four iPhone cases: black and silver iPhone-sized aluminum enclosures, two with built-in hard clear screen protectors, two without.
Pink versions are also available, and each comes with the same pack-ins: a detachable plastic belt clip, plastic belt clip nub, and a lanyard necklace. Notably, InnoPocket's Metal Deluxe Case comes with a metal clip nub and nicer belt clip, but no lanyard; this isn't a loss, as we wouldn't expect any person to actually wear a metal-encased iPhone around his or her neck.
The open-faced PDair/Wireless Ground cases and the Innopocket design have basically the same approach to iPhone coverage and access, which is to say that they don't cover enough but provide plenty of access. Every part of the iPhone you might need to access is left open, and no stickers, rubber plugs, or other pack-ins fill the gaps. InnoPocket exposes a bit more of iPhone's face, leaving the entire area around its ear speaker and Home button open; the PDair/Wireless Ground cases cover more. All three cases provide access to iPhone's Dock Connector, bottom speaker and microphone, but Innopocket's design is more open.
As a consequence of its open bottom design, Metal Deluxe Case also exposes more of iPhone's back, particularly around the antenna compartment; with this case, iPhone's wireless functionality doesn't suffer. PDair and Wireless Ground's version uses ventilated strips of metal to cover the iPhone's back and sides; we briefly saw the phone's signal strength nosedive during testing, but it came to rest at a bar below normal with these cases on.
Needless to say, we wouldn't pick these cases as tops for use of iPhone's wireless features.
We noted in our review of PDair's similar Aluminum Metal Cases for iPod touch that the company offered a choice between a hard plastic screen protector, which renders iPhone's screen unusable unless you open the case, and no protection at all. The same thing is true here: the PDair and Wireless Ground Cases both eschew a smarter compromise solution in favor of letting the consumer pick from two bad options. InnoPocket's single protector-free solution isn't better; other companies do a better job of protecting the iPhone while covering it.
Overall, for $30, the Metal Deluxe Case is a good but not great design, offering a better than typical belt clip and solid, nice-looking protection for parts of the iPhone while ignoring other parts altogether—a flaw common to peer-priced, B-rated cases we've tested. The PDair and Wireless Ground cases would have rated a little under that, but for the signal strength issue we saw when we put the iPhone inside of them. That knocks them down a full grade level, and beyond that, the only reason for the difference in their ratings is pricing: we favor products with lower standard prices over those that keep changing all the time. PDair always sells its versions of these cases for $28.


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How to be a better headphone listener
The Audiophiliac muses about how to heighten the pleasure of listening to headphones.
When you're listening to speakers the sound comes from "over there," but with headphones where is the sound? A lot depends on the recording and the headphones. With mono recordings the sound is centered inside your head, with stereo the sound picture is more complicated. Vocals, or any sound mixed to appear centered between the left and right channels, will be inside your head, like a mono recording. The sounds over to the left and right might come from next to your ears.
Listening over one of the better open-back full-size headphones, the sound might feel like it's surrounding you. You're in the middle of the sound field, or it might come from slightly above your head. The headphones melt away and you are one with the music. Sometimes when I'm watching a movie I forget the headphones. The sound isn't over there, it's all around me; I'm in the middle of a sound "bubble."
I'm not suggesting that headphones can ever mimic what we hear from speakers. Headphones can't do that, but the downside to speakers is they can never be heard directly; the speakers' sound is combined with the room's reflections, reverberations, and other forms of acoustic interference. With headphones the sound "couples" directly to your ears, so you have a far more intimate connection to the music.
With full-size over-the-ear headphones, the contours of your outer ears direct the sound to your inner ears in the same way sound is heard from speakers. In-ear headphones "bypass" the outer ear and produce a more direct connection to the recording. With purely acoustic music, the sound over headphones takes on what I call a microphone perspective, you hear what the mics "heard."
That's not the case with electronic music since no microphones were used to make the recording. Even so, I find lots of electronica sounds amazing, and some of the best albums were mixed to produce out-of-head stereo imaging. Listen for depth, does the sound seem very close to your ears or further away? Recordings vary a lot in their stereo imaging, but the more closely you listen, the more aware you will be of spatial cues in headphone listening. Try some of Brian Eno's ambient albums like "On Land" and "Apollo" to hear what I'm talking about.
To get started, relax and focus on the sound. Your surroundings should be fairly quiet, close your eyes, and sink into the music. After a few minutes the separate left, center, right stereo perspectives should fall away, and your head will feel like it's in the center of an expansive sound field.
Share your thoughts on spatial headphone listening below.
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CrawlTrack, webmaster dashboard.
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CrawlProtect, your website safety.
Protection against hacking, spam and content theft
Two php/MySQL scripts, free and easy to install
The tools you need to manage and keep control of your site.
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It's not only a Web Analytics script such as Google analytics, AWstats, phpMyVisites or Piwik, but it's a complete tool. With CrawlTrack you will get informations that all the others are unable to give.
With CrawlTrack you will get a detail view of the crawler activity on your site. Crawlers visits count for more than 85% of hits on www.Crawltrack.net; some are usefull, other far less and even dangerous (30% are hacking attempts on www.crawltrack.net).
Only the php technology used by CrawlTrack is able to give a clear view of spiders crawling your site, to follow your site indexation minute per minute. This is fundamental to help you to improve your site ranking in search engine index and so the number of visitors.
You will also have information regarding the number and origin of visitors, the bounce rate, the number of 404 errors, the number of file downloads, your server load usage and your site indexation. You will be able to follow on a daily basis your position in search engine and your rank for each keyword who send you visitors.
And, this is really unique, CrawlTrack is not only counting and recording information, it will block numerous hacking attempts.
As soon as you will have try it, you will ask you how you were doing before to know Crawltrack.
The 14th May 2009, all Google services went down for a few hours. As a result of that, numerous sites using Google analytics were very difficult to reach during that time.
Who has access to your statistics datas?
Is-it wise not to know it?
Usually, you share your strategics secrets?
With CrawlTrack, you keep control on your datas.
When you use CrawlTrack to measure the audience of your website, you have the full control of it and don't depend to anybody else. You don't share your strategics visits datas with any other company as they are on your own server and your site access depend only on you.
Every day webmasters are discovering that a hacker has tacken control of their server and defaced their site or, worst, destroy all files and datas. CrawlTrack can help you to protect your site by blocking numerous code injection or SQL injection tentatives. CrawlTrack is one barrier more that the hacker will have to pass to hack your site.
With nearly all the web analytics solution available on the market you know only 6%* of the total number of hits on your site. Yes these 6% are the main importants ones as it's your visitors, but is-it a reason to forget the other 94%?
* datas record on that server the 13th May 2009
CrawlTrack has been downloaded 0 times since 2005.
You do not need any particular technical skills, you just need to have an host with php (version >=4.3.2 with GD2) and one MySQL database. The installation is fully automatic.
For more informations, have a look on the documentation and if you have any problem, use the forum to ask questions.
AbachoBot, ABCdatos, Acoon Robot, Aesop, Aibot, Alexa, Altavista, Amfibibot, Amidalla, Antibot, ArchitextSpider, Ask Jeeves/Teoma,
Baiduspider, BBlitzsuche, Blogbot, Boitho, Bruinbot, CipinetBot, Clushbot, Cobion, Cortina, DataFountains, Drecombot,Earthcom, Elsop,
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It's only a small sample of what CrawlTrack can detect; and that list is regularly updated.
The spiders and crawlers tracking script CrawlTrack is developed by Jean-Denis Brun and a team growing regurlarly. You can contact me.


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The new Big East will have a West Division, and Temple, located in Philadelphia, will be part of it.
The conference revealed its divisional alignment Tuesday for the 2013 football season, when it becomes a 12-team league. The announcement came after the Big East presidents approved the plan at a meeting in Chicago.
The East will have Central Florida, South Florida, Connecticut, Louisville, Cincinnati and Rutgers. The West will have Boise State, Houston, Memphis, San Diego State, SMU and Temple.
Big East Commissioner Mike Aresco said the goal was to keep natural rivals such as Louisville and Cincinnati together and make it as simple as possible for fans to know which teams are in which division.
"I like the East-West," Aresco said in a telephone interview. "I like the clarity of the divisions. I like the identifiability. Some conferences, it's hard to know who is in what division."
Navy will join the Big East for football only in 2015, and the conference plans to add another football member to reach 14.
Commissioner Mike Aresco indicated that division alignment would be readdressed after 2014.
"Despite the fact that Temple will be in the West Division during the 2013 and 2014 football seasons, we will have every opportunity to play institutions from the East Division and be eligible for the first Big East championship game," Temple athletic director Bill Bradshaw said in a statement.
"Beginning with the 2015 football season, there will be two seven-team divisions with the addition of Navy and another football school (to be announced later) with every indication that division alignment will be reconstructed."
Aresco said the conference will do everything it can to ease travel burden for the Owls.
"We will draft a schedule that will minimize travel," he said.
The first Big East championship game will be played at the home field of one of the participating teams on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013.
Aresco said the conference has yet to decide how it will determine which division winner will host the championship game. The typical way is to give it to the team with the best conference record, but he said having overall records and/or rankings involved in some way is still a possibility.
On Monday, the Big East got good news when the commissioners of the major football conferences agreed to reserve a spot in the new postseason system for the highest ranked team from a group of five conferences that includes the Big East.
The Big East will have to compete against the Mountain West, Sun Belt, Mid-American Conference and Conference USA for a bid in one of three marquee bowls. It's not as good as its current setup — the Big East has an automatic bid in the BCS — but it's better than being left out.
"We're a re-invented conference. This gives us an opportunity to elevate our conference and elevate our brand," Aresco said. "This is all about having the opportunity to show we are one of the power conferences."
The Big East is currently seeking a new television deal and it is on the open market, after an exclusive negotiating period with ESPN ended without a deal being struck. Aresco wouldn't speculate on when a new deal could be done.
"We feel we're in the early innings still," Aresco said. "You just don't know with negotiations."


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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
An Appreciation of Tramp
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This reminded me of my own fascination with Tramp The Mysterious early last year...ReplyDelete
Trampier is my favourite FRPG artist of all time. Thanks for sharing this link!ReplyDelete
A nice read.ReplyDelete
If Tramp is still living, someone needs to find a way to (re)introduce him to the OSR. He's a gem.
Those pictures at Saladin Ahmed's site really are some of the most integral images to how I want to remember D&D. Tramp was always my favorite. "Wormy" is one of the best comics (and most beautifully drawn) comics I've ever read.ReplyDelete
Tramp was the 20th Century's answer to Albrecht Dürer or Gustave Doré- simply the best fantasy artist to work in the RPG industry.ReplyDelete
As I noted in that thread, I wish he'd posted a panel or more of Wormy. Some of Tramp's color work in that comic, especially in the winged panther arc, has a quality that reminds me of Maxfield Parrish.ReplyDelete
What a shame that the guy quit the industry like that.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the link, it was a great read! Trampier's artwork is so powerful and captivating, he and the Hildebrand brothers were some of the first to grab hold of my teenage imagination.ReplyDelete
Wasn't there a posting about someone who convinced Tramp to getting Wormy published into a single book? I remember reading something about that on one of the boards..ReplyDelete
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Wasn't there a posting about someone who convinced Tramp to getting Wormy published into a single book? I remember reading something about that on one of the boards..ReplyDelete
As I recall, Jolly Blackburn of Kenzer & Co made contact with Tramp in order to try to produce such a volume and Tramp politely declined any interest and ask that Jolly lose his phone number and never contact him again. By all account, Trampier is very bitter about his days in the gaming industry and wants nothing more to do with it.
For me, it's all Erol, all the time. DAT's stuff never thrilled me.ReplyDelete