Utah Football: Utes could play Big Ten teams sooner than later

El Paso, Texas ? The agreement between the Pac-12 and Big Ten conferences has a target date of 2017 for each Pac-12 team to have a Big Ten team on its non-conference schedule. However, that matchup could come much, much sooner for the Utah Utes, according to Hill.

The only non-conference teams the Utes have on their future schedules is a Sept. 15 game against BYU next year and a three-year agreement with Utah State for the 2012-through-2014 seasons, giving the Utes some wiggle room when it comes to scheduling opponents.

?We left it open by design,? Hill said. ?We were hoping and anticipating the new TV contract might bring some new opportunities that would help us grow some national exposure and this agreement could help us maybe do that sooner rather than later.?

Hill said he has heard some Big Ten teams, including Michigan, are interested in scheduling Pac-12 teams soon but stopped short of saying a deal with the Wolverines might be in the works.

The Utes opened their 2008 season with a 25-23 win over Michigan in the Big House.

?This is a good thing for all our sports,? he said. ?It makes sense to schedule a team like Michigan or a Big Ten team like that because it would be an exciting thing, but it also makes scheduling difficult in some respects, we have to make sure we schedule ourselves to a point where we help our teams too.?

To that point, Hill doesn?t want to create a schedule that would be too challenging for the Utes. That concern could mean the rivalries with Utah State and BYU are in more jeopardy than they already were.

?I haven?t had a chance to talk to [BYU athletic director] Tom Holmoe or [Utah State athletic director] Scott Barnes yet,? Hill said. ?I don?t want to give people the wrong impression but we?ve said all along we don?t know what different opportunities are going to come our way. We have to take a deep breath and look at everything.?

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No fans? No worries

Even though the Utes sold just 1,500 tickets to the Sun Bowl, the Utes still won?t lose money on their bowl appearance thanks to a generous allowance from the Pac-12.

The Utes don?t get any revenue from the league per their agreement with joining the Pac-12 in 2011, but Utah did receive an estimated $750,000 from the league for the bowl appearance.

In addition, the Pac-12 pays for airfare for 500 people traveling to the bowl game. The Utes had no such help in the MWC.

The Pac-12 will also help cover some of the cost of the unsold tickets.

?They have a very generous formula,? Hill said. ?We anticipate we won?t lose any money.?

Hill said he wasn?t concerned his school might make a poor impression with the few tickets sold to the bowl game.

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After Nigeria's Church Bombings: The Advent of Christian-Muslim Conflict?

On the blood-splattered front walls of the blasted church, using wood burned into charcoal from the flames of the explosion, somebody scrawled two messages: "Revolution now" and "No more peace in the country." In the aftermath of the attack by Islamist militants against a Christian sanctuary in Abuja and four other churches in Nigeria, those are the symptoms of a sectarian backlash that Nigerian authorities are most alarmed about.

At least 32 people were killed as they poured out of the packed Christmas-morning Mass in St. Theresa Catholic Church near Abuja, the capital, Interior Minister Abba Moro told TIME. Four other bombs elsewhere in the country took at least three lives. Boko Haram, a group whose aim is to impose a strict interpretation of Islamic Shari'a on Africa's most populous country, took credit for the attacks. One-third of Nigerian states already live under Shari'a. (See TIME's photo-essay "Bombing in Nigeria.")

Authorities are now battling to keep a lid on the bubbling threat of a sectarian civil conflict that would pitch one half of Nigeria's population of 155 million against the other. "The fact that Christian facilities were bombed was intended primarily to provoke Christians into attacking Muslims," Moro told TIME. "We have appealed to our Christian brothers for them not to do so." But two days after the bombing, the area around St. Theresa remained tense as angry young men loitered just beyond military cars patrolling the area. "If the government cannot protect us, we will take revenge by ourselves," said Josiah Agbo, 18, whose mother was killed in the blast. He left only after a priest from St. Theresa took to the streets urging Christians not to attack Muslims. In a country where religious leaders wield enormous power, Muslim counterparts in the powerful Sokoto and Kano caliphates ? the country's historic Islamic communities ? denounced the bombings.

"The people lying in hospitals after the Christmas bombs were ... Muslim and Christian," Moro said. "Boko Haram aren't aliens from another planet. People know who they are. We want to draw members of the public into sharing that information to prevent future attacks." He said two arrests in connection with the Christmas bombings were made because of just such collaboration.

But there have been almost 500 deaths in near daily bomb blasts and shoot-outs in the predominantly Muslim northeast in 2011 alone. And Boko Haram (a name that means "non-Islamic education is sacrilege" in the northern Hausa language) at times seems perilously close to plunging the country into chaos. "The Islamic militants want Nigeria to be an Islamic republic like Iran, but we may end up becoming a Sudan or Somalia if the violence continues at this pace and scale," says activist Shehu Sani, who heads the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria and led attempts to mediate a cease-fire with the group. "It all depends on the ability of the leadership to handle the crisis."

A diplomat who requested anonymity told TIME that Boko Haram has splintered into different factions that are prepared to use varying degrees of force. A December report by the U.S. Congress said Boko Haram has morphed from homegrown criminals into worldly terrorists with the capability of forging international links. Boko Haram spokespeople have claimed that its members have traveled as far east as Somalia, where al-Shabab militants have shared financing and techniques. In December, a serving Senator from Boko Haram's home of Borno State was charged with financing the organization. He denied the charges and has been released on bail. (See "Hell on Christmas Day: Nigeria's Deadly Bombings.")

Countries such as the U.S., France and the U.K. are stepping up assistance to Nigeria in areas like explosives forensics and intelligence gathering, a Nigerian military spokesperson says. "How does one keep one step ahead of not just one but all these groups? That is what we in Nigeria, just like in developed nations, need to work out," the spokesperson adds.

"Some people see Boko Haram as the right irritant to sting the government into action over poverty and corruption," says Sani, the activist. For some, however, the response from Nigeria's ruling elite has often seemed lackluster. "Still not a single [senior] government has visited," Agbo said at St. Theresa. "It's always the same. They are too busy with themselves to bother with us." Some of the Boko Haram mayhem can be traced back to the government. Its attempts to crush the group in 2009 led to the killing of Boko Haram's then leader and 900 other deaths in sectarian riots. The move may have further radicalized the organization, pushing its leadership underground and into neighboring countries. Meanwhile, the Muslim elite is grumbling over the ascendancy of President Goodluck Jonathan ? a southern Christian. His succession to the office violated an unwritten agreement that the highest office should rotate between north and south every two terms. A former university lecturer, Jonathan was dubbed the Accidental President by the local press after he succeeded Umaru Yar'Adua, a Muslim, who died in 2010 midway through his first term. The following year, Jonathan ran successfully for office.

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See TIME's 2011 Person of the Year: The Protester.

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Business Matters: How Adele's Success Undermines Marketing ...

December 28, 2011

How Adele Put Seth Godin on Blast
-- Seth Godin is a successful self-help marketing guru, but the success of Adele's "21" helps undermine his predictions for the music and book publishing industries.

Godin, an incredibly successful self-help marketing author, predicts an end to hit albums and books (at least the quantity of hits that can sustain an industry). He espouses confidence that all self-published writers have a shot at success. And why shouldn't the self-published author or independent artist have confidence if Godin predicts consumers will no longer be drawn to hits?

Take this excerpt: "The Long Tail creates acres of choice, so much as to make the number of options almost countless. But at the same time, it embraces (in every format) much lower production values. For what Michael Jackson and Sony paid to produce the Thriller album, today's artists can make and market more than 5,000 songs. You just can't justify spending millions of dollars to produce a record in the long tail world."

How strange that Godin would write that last sentence in the year Adele's "21" has sold the most albums - 5.68 million in the U.S. alone - of any album since 2004 (that was iTunes Music Store's first full year, a time when consumers had far less choice). The truth is you CAN justify spending millions of dollars to produce (and market) a record in the long tail world. In fact, a major label with a global presence NEEDS to spend millions on a hit record.

I've written many times about the relative success of hit albums and hit tracks in the long tail era, but here's an update. Through Dec. 25, the top ten albums in the U.S. accounted for 6.13 percent of all album sales, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's down slightly from 6.23 a year earlier but up considerably from 4.28 percent in 2006. Interpretation: Album buyers are more drawn to a small handful of hits than they were six years ago.

What about hits' unit sales? Let's compare 2011 sales to those of 2010 and five years earlier in 2006. The No. 10 album of 2011 sold far fewer units than the No. 10 album of 2006 (1.15 million versus 1.79 million). But album sales were especially hit-heavy in 2011. Adele's "21" sold 5.68 million units through December 25, far more than the No. 1 album of 2010 (3.35 million) or the No. 1 album of 2006 (3.69 million). And while "21" sold fewer units than Usher's 2004 hit "Confessions," "21" has a much larger share of year-to-date album sales (1.76 percent for "21" versus 1.18 percent for "Confessions"). Interpretation: Not only is "21" a hit in terms of units, it's a monumental hit in terms of market share.

Hits exist in digital music, too. The record-setting 1.74 million digital albums "21" has sold this year account for 1.75 percent of all digital albums sold in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan. Last year's top album, Eminem's "Recovery," accounted for 0.98 percent of digital album sales. Back in 2006, the top digital album represented 0.61 percent of sales. Interpretation: digital album sales have become more hit-focused over the years.

Digital track sales have also become more hit-heavy. The top 10 tracks of 2011 have a 3.07-percent share of all track sales, about even with 2010 (3.03 percent) and up from 2006 (2.52 percent). Same with the top 20, top 100 and top 200. The top track of 2011, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep," accounted for 0.46 percent of all track sales. That's a higher share than achieved by the top track of 2010 (0.37 percent) and 2006 (0.34 percent).

It's worth noting that Adele's "21," has sold 12.2 million single tracks. So that's 12.2 million tracks on top of 1.74 million digital albums and 5.68 million total album units. And that's just in the U.S. One report puts sales of "21" at 16 million in 2011 http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/16075504. The idea that Sony can't spend a few million dollars supporting this record is really quite absurd.

"21" simply shouldn't exist in Godin's world. The notion that hits can't exist in a digital world certainly fits in with - and furthers -Godin's role as self-help marketing expert and partner with Amazon.com in a new self-publishing business. He's saying too few hits ("experiments at the cutting edge," he calls them) will exist in the digital age to feed a hit-driven industry. And if you can't get a hit, why not set your aims lower and self-publish?

Of course, Godin could point to the record business's struggles as proof that hit-oriented businesses are untenable in the digital age. It's no secret that recorded music sales are down and record labels need to continue to adjust to evolving market conditions. Copyright owners make money from other revenue streams, too. Godin skips over how much the business has changed in the last ten years, however. It's hardly a secret that record labels are smaller, distribution companies have been gutted and licensing and sponsorships now play a greater role.

Traditional business models will indeed be challenged, but here's the bottom line: As this year's U.S. sales figures show, digital consumers have become more drawn to hits. If you're building a business on titles created on "$10 of out of pocket expenses," as is Godin, you're going to fight over the scraps of digital spending.
( The Domino Project)

Pandora's Sponsored Live Hub
-- Pandora has found another way to integrate sponsorships into its webcasting business: a "live concert series hub" that's an online extension of the live concert series it launched in December. All artists that participate in the live music series will be sponsored at the hub, which can be found at www.pandora.com/pandorapresents. Currently sponsored by Budweiser (so get ready to enter your date of birth to access the page), the hub now hosts a performance by the band Dawes in Portland, Oregon.
( Pandora blog)

Others Countries' SOPA-Like Debates
-- As the U.S. public debates the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, other countries continue to grapple with online piracy, too. And it's not always easy for content owners.

An Italian court's ruling earlier this month will allow Google to continue hosting sites that allegedly violate copyright laws. An Italian media company wanted to force Google and GoDaddy to shut down websites that host pirated soccer game streams. The court declined to issue an injunction since Google removed the infringing content being streamed at its Blogger blog publishing platform. It also declined to issue an injunction for future violations. As Courthouse News notes, the Italian court's ruling is similar to one last month by the Court of Justice of the European Union that said ISPs would be violating privacy protection if they filtered content.

At its European Public Policy Blog, Google said it takes piracy seriously and pointed to efforts it has made to easier for content owners to have infringing content removed from its sites. "Without rightsholder cooperation it is impossible for a platform like Blogger to know whether an item has been uploaded with or without a rightsholder's permission," wrote Maril? Capparelli, Google's Italian Senior Legal Counsel.
(Courthouse News)

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Is Shift Worker Diet An Occupational Hazard?

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An editorial in PLOS Medicine makes the case for considering the poor eating habits of shift workers, and the associated health risk, as a legally defined occupational hazard. Sophie Bushwick reports.

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For shift workers, odd hours usually mean strange sleeping habits and unhealthy meals. And now an editorial in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine takes the position that unhealthy eating associated with unusual working hours could be considered a new form of occupational hazard. Because such eating is a risk factor for obesity and diabetes. [Poor Diet in Shift Workers: A New Occupational Health Hazard?]

More than 15 percent of workers in the United States are employed in shifts, with workers taking over for each other so that the establishment can stay open for up to 24 hours a day. Because some shifts take place at night, employees have their circadian rhythms disrupted, and thus their metabolisms.

Taking round the clock shifts also makes eating a good diet and getting sufficient exercise difficult. A recent study in the same journal found an increase in diabetes risk among nurses who performed shift work. [An Pan et al, Rotating Night Shift Work and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Two Prospective Cohort Studies in Women]

The editorial suggests not only employee incentives, but also legislation to make healthful diets easy and cheap. It concludes that treating poor eating among shift workers as an occupational hazard is consistent with the history of workplace safety rights.

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Teen Murdered in London Retail Hub

(NewsCore) - A teenage boy was stabbed to death Monday on Britain's busiest shopping street as bargain hunters flocking to post-Christmas sales looked on in horror.

The 18-year-old was attacked inside a branch of Foot Locker, sources told Sky News.

He staggered out of the store and collapsed on central London's Oxford Street, where he was pronounced dead, reports said.

The chilling incident was one of two knife attacks that took place as the iconic shopping destination was teeming with bargain-hunting Britons, who had already spent an estimated ?15 million ($23 million) in the first three hours of post-Christmas trading.

A large swath of the one and a half mile (2.5km) thoroughfare was closed after the first attack at 1:45pm local time, causing chaos in surrounding streets and prompting some stores to close early.

As a section of Oxford Street remained taped off Monday evening, reports surfaced of a second incident in which another man was stabbed near the junction with Regent Street, another landmark London address.

He was taken to the hospital with a leg wound but was expected to survive, police told Sky.

London's Metropolitan Police said approximately 10 people were arrested in connection with the fatal stabbing but the victim's identity has not been disclosed.

There have so far been no arrests in connection with the second attack and it is not known if the two are linked.

Detectives will now comb through hours of surveillance video from the numerous security cameras positioned around Oxford Street, which is crammed with around 300 stores.

They also have potentially hundreds of witnesses to question.

The killing comes just days after the release of retro Nike Air Jordan sneakers sparked scuffles and near-riots in shoe stores across America Friday.

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Foxconn Eyeing Record with iPhone Plant Expansion

Foxconn, the Chinese manufacturer, has been an integral partner of Apple in the production of iPhones. The company is now, reportedly, planning to increase the size of its iPhone-producing plant, which currently manufactures more than 200,000 units in one day.

The smartphone plant is situated at Zhengzhou, and if the reports turn out to be true, then Foxconn will gather a place in the Guinness Books as the largest smartphone manufacturing company in the world. As a part of the expansion, the company will be spending $1.1 billion for the construction and other needs.

Foxconn Eyeing Record with iPhone Plant Expansion

The plant will be built in Central China?s Henan province with the base centered at Foxconn Science Park in Zhengzhou. The company believes that they will get $20 billion in sales revenue next year.

After the installation of the new plant, the company?s current production lines are expected to touch a new mark of 95. Foxconn is the world?s largest contractor?of?electronic?components and last year they had opened two new factories in?Henan?and?Sichuan.

This step was taken aiming at the low labor costs and rising markets in the inland provinces. In the currently employed 1.2 million people, about 1 million are based on the Chinese mainland.

As of now, there are 130,000 employees working in the Zhengzhou plant. The company also has a production plant in Brazil, for producing certain iPhone models in the country.

The company is currently rumored to be working on solving the local legal issues for setting up an iPad manufacturing plant based on a $12 billion investment. Foxconn is also expected to start iPad 3 productions from January onwards.

The company looks to be truly advancing through innovations.

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LG announces ICS upgrades to begin in Q2 2012

Following the footsteps of Samsung and Sony, LG has come forth with details on which devices will be getting Android 4.0 -- also known as Ice Cream Sandwich -- and when we can begin expecting those upgrades to roll out. The phone manufacturer made its official announcement via its Facebook page, stating that several of its 2011 models will be on the receiving end of ICS starting in the second and third quarters of next year, with a full-scale rollout occurring sometime afterward.

In the second quarter we should expect to see updates for the LG Optimus LTE, Prada 3.0, Optimus 2X, Optimus Sol, myTouch Q and the Eclipse. Fast forwarding to the third quarter, the Optimus 3D, Optimus Black, Optimus Big, Optimus Q2 and the Optimus EX will all be lucky recipients. As can be expected, LG was careful not to lump carrier-branded devices into the mix here, as a large portion of the timing depends on the carrier's testing procedures. Head on past the break to see the full statement by LG.

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