Ute, BYU football: Utah-BYU games not 'grandfathered' into Pac-12 schedule ... yet

Utah wins as Brigham Young Cougars place kicker JD Falslev (12) holds his head as the University of Utah defeats BYU 24-21 in football Saturday, Sept. 15, 2012, in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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CULVER CITY, Calif. ? Utah and BYU are expected to play each other in the final game of the season in 2018. In all likelihood, however, it won?t be something that happens every year thereafter.

Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said it?s a question of logistics and timing. Nothing philosophical or anything like that.

It?s all about cherished USC-Notre Dame and Stanford-Notre Dame rivalries. Those late-season games, Scott explained, occasionally open up some dates for other games.

?We haven?t changed our fundamental policy that nonconference games going forward need to be the first three weeks,? Scott said. ?But because having these Notre Dame games for USC and Stanford is a high priority for us, we made a decision recently that we want to do that even if it opens up some other nonconference games later in the season.?

And in 2018, Utah and BYU will square off in late November for the first time since the Utes joined the Pac-12 in 2011.

?Basically there were some openings that came up as we looked at future calendars that made sense for them to reinstate the rivalry game, which we think is terrific,? said Scott, who noted that the Cougars will also play Stanford and USC in the future.

As for Utah-BYU, Scott noted that it could be scheduled late in the season when it makes sense.

?We?re not at the point where we?ve said it?s something that?s going to be grandfathered the way the Notre Dame rivalries (are), which go way back in our conference,? Scott said. ?But we?ll see. The thing about the football calendar is it?s an evolving thing and I don?t think anything is set in stone permanently.?

TOPPING THE LIST: When camp opens Aug. 5, Utah coach Kyle Whittingham noted two priorities ? cornerbacks and special teams specialists. The Utes, he explained, are undergoing ?complete rebuilds? in both areas.

Although short on experience at cornerback, Whittingham added that there are six or seven talented players in the program to compete at that position.

?But that learning curve has got to be very short and they?ve got to get up to speed very quickly because with our defense we rely on great corner play and so that?s what we?ve got to have,? he said.

QUARTERBACK BATTLE: Sophomore Travis Wilson enters camp atop the depth chart at quarterback.

?He?s the incumbent. He?s the guy. It?s his job to lose,? Whittingham said. ?But there is nobody who is guaranteed a starter. You?ve got to continue to produce and we?ve got some talented players behind him.?

Whittingham noted that the Utes have five ?very talented quarterbacks? in Wilson, Adam Schulz, Brandon Cox, Conner Manning and Micah Thomas.

?Talent-wise we feel like we?re in as good a shape as we?ve ever been at that position,? Whittingham said.

The challenge, he added, will be to get the rotation down to three fairly soon and ultimately two as quickly as possible in camp.

?That?s really all you can afford to get ready during the course of the season during game weeks is two guys,? Whittingham said.

MEDIA DAZE: Pac-12 coaches were part of a whirlwind bicoastal media tour that began with a trip back East to ESPN headquarters in Connecticut and concluded with the California gathering. Whittingham and the other 11 coaches made the journey in private jets, arriving back in Los Angeles Thursday evening.

Source: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865583697/Ute-BYU-football-Utah-BYU-games-not-grandfathered-into-Pac-12-schedule--yet.html

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Ft. Hood Shooter: U.S. Military at War with My Religion

by AWR Hawkins 27 Jul 2013, 9:26 AM PDT post a comment

Acting as his own attorney in his trial over the shooting that killed 13 and wounded more than 30 others in November 2009, Hasan says he regrets his time in the U.S. Army and describes the War on Terror as "illegal and immoral":

I would like to begin by repenting to Almighty Allah and apologize to the (Mujahideen), the believers, and the innocent. I ask for their forgiveness and their prayers. I ask for their forgiveness in participating in the illegal and immoral aggression against Muslims, their religion and their lands.?

Releasing the statement to Fox News, Hasan bemoaned his ties to the U.S. Army: "My complicity was on behalf of a government that openly acknowledges that it would hate for the law of Almighty Allah to be the supreme law of the land."

Attorney Neal Sher, who represents victims of the?Ft. Hood shooting, responded to Hasan's statements by saying, "This is yet a further confirmation of a fact that everyone knows except our government. That is, the Fort Hood shooting was a terrorist jihadi attack."

Hasan's court marshal begins August 6th.?

Follow AWR Hawkins on Twitter @AWRHawkins.

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'Fez II' abruptly canceled after developer Phil Fish explodes in rage on Twitter

Phil Fish, the creator of celebrated indie video game Fez, is notorious for voicing angry, controversial opinions about the state of video games and their development. Today, however, he seems to have ragequit on the entire video gaming community, and has taken the sequel to Fez down with him. On his Twitter account and on developer Polytron's website, Fish has announced that Fez II has been canceled.

Polygon and Joystiq both independently confirmed with Fish that it's not a joke: the game is no more. Developer Polytron also confirmed the cancellation in a tweet to its followers, writing "we apologize for the disappointment."

"Compare your life to mine and then kill yourself."

What happened? It's not clear, and Fish writes that it "isn't the result of any one thing," but the game's cancellation did come at the end of an unprecedented tussle on Twitter. GameTrailers host Marcus "AnnoyedGamer" Beer and Fish got into an argument after Beer called Fish a "hipster," a "tosspot," a "wanker" and a "fucking asshole" on yesterday's episode of Invisible Walls, a GameTrailers video podcast, after Fish refused to answer questions about Microsoft's decision to allow indie developers to self-publish on Xbox One. Fish then lashed out at Beer, claiming that the GameTrailers host had assassinated his character, telling Beer to "compare your life to mine and then kill yourself," and asking him to apologize on camera.

The argument culminated with Fish writing "im done. FEZ II is canceled. goodbye," and locking his Twitter account.

Phil Fish's struggles to bring the original Fez to market were chronicled in Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary film which debuted last summer.

Source: http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/27/4563738/fez-ii-abruptly-canceled-after-developer-phil-fish-explodes-in-rage

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Behold The The Glory of '70s and '80s Jersey Shore (PHOTO)

By David Rosenberg

In 1979 and 1980, Joe Maloney, who wasn?t really known for taking pictures of people, decided to take some shots in the beach town of Asbury Park, N.J.

Girl With Stuffed Animals, Asbury Park, New Jersey, 1980
Copyright Joe Maloney. Courtesy of Rick Wester Fine Art, New York.

?I didn?t really fit into the Hamptons. I was driving around in a Pinto at the time, and everyone else was driving a BMW,? Maloney said. ?I wanted to do something different, and I started going down to Asbury Park because it was a funky kind of place. It wasn?t a ?beach boy? beach town; it was a ?greaser? beach town.?

Maloney is hardly loyal to one aesthetic, process, or format of photography. He shot ?Asbury Park and the Jersey Shore, c. 1979? as well as his other series with a range of cameras including an 8x10 to the Plaubel and was a fan of the dye-transfer process before educating himself on the wonders of Photoshop. Maloney received his first camera from his father, who was in the FBI. Drafted into the Army, Maloney tested tanks and took a lot of pictures of people who were ?really beating the shit out of these tanks.? A major heard about the pictures and ended up making large prints out of the negatives.

When he got out of the Army, Maloney eventually became a member of Light, the groundbreaking gallery in New York with a big-name roster, including Stephen Shore and Mitch Epstein.

But in the early 1980s, Maloney bought a country house and became interested in renovating it. Disenchanted with the gallery scene in New York, he and his wife had kids and eventually left New York City completely. ?I was still making stuff, just making other stuff,? he said. Apart from renovating the house, ?stuff? included making furniture, specifically Windsor chairs, and photographing his kids at baseball games and ballet recitals.

Through a series of serendipitous events, including the purchase of a drum scanner he bought from the son of a friend he knew in New York followed by a gallery show in Berlin of his dye-transfer portfolio, Maloney?s Asbury Park work suddenly was able to see the light of day.

?Frankly, it?s way overdue,? Maloney said. The work is on view at Rick Wester Fine Art in New York through Aug. 16.

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/joe-maloney_n_3659441.html

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?Catholic Church Not Against Burying Gays?

That?s the headline accompanying the piece below in the Columbus Dispatch. The headline and story, I think, reveal much about both the people in the pews and the perception many have of the Church.

Details:?

As they drove home from a recent funeral in Cincinnati, the 60-something Westerville couple started thinking about the plans they had made for their own burials, and those of their children.

What would happen, they asked each other, when their openly gay son died? Would they be permitted to bury him in one of the plots they had purchased in a Roman Catholic cemetery north of Columbus?

The couple called Resurrection Cemetery and were told that, yes, a gay Catholic could be buried there.

They remained concerned, though, in view of recent media reports about the Roman Catholic Church?s stance against same-sex relationships. The couple, who asked that their names not be published due to family sensitivity, are now considering other burial options.

Funeral and burial benefits are given to members of the Catholic Church under its governing Canon Law, and they cannot easily be cast aside, said Monsignor Stephan Moloney, vicar general of the Diocese of Columbus.

Such benefits, he said, are refused ?only in extreme circumstances? ? when someone has publicly denied or renounced the Catholic faith or become a schismatic; when someone has chosen cremation for reasons contrary to the Christian faith; and when someone is a ?manifest sinner? who cannot be granted a funeral without causing scandal.

?In the funeral liturgy, the church prays that all the sins of the deceased will be forgiven by the mercy of God and the merits of Christ the Savior,? Moloney said. ?All of us are sinners. Unless the contrary is evident, the Church presupposes that those sinners who have died are repentant.?

The Westerville couple raised their concerns after hearing that a physical-education teacher was fired from a diocesan high school in March after she listed the name of her same-sex partner in her mother?s obituary. Their fear, they said, is that if their son would not be welcome to work for the church, would he be welcome in one of its cemeteries?

But Kevin Pica, an openly gay Catholic who attends St. John the Baptist church in Italian Village, said that he and his partner of 10 years plan to be buried next to his grandparents in St. Joseph Cemetery, a Catholic cemetery in Lockbourne.

Pica said he has talked to priests and funeral directors who cited no issues when it comes to funerals and burials for gay parishioners.

?One place the Catholic Church is really, really, really nice about is death,? Pica said. ?That?s where they treat people the best.?

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One of the most prominent cases I can recall of a Catholic being refused a funeral Mass occurred after the death of John Gotti:?

?Notorious mob boss John Gotti will be interred in a?Roman Catholic?cemetery alongside his son, but his?family?was denied permission to hold a funeral Mass for the convicted killer.

Gotti, responsible for at least five murders during his bloody reign atop the Gambino crime family, will not receive a Mass of Christian burial, the Rev. Andrew Vaccari, chancellor of the Diocese of Brooklyn, said Wednesday. Instead, Vaccari said in a one-sentence statement, ?there can be a Mass for the dead sometime after the burial of John Gotti.?

Gotti died of cancer Monday at a prison hospital in Missouri. He had been sentenced to life in 1992. The Brooklyn diocese also oversees nearby Queens, where Gotti is to be buried.

The decision on the Mass echoed the ruling made by church officials after the Gotti-ordered murder of his Gambino predecessor, ?Big Paul? Castellano, in 1985. Castellano?s family received permission for a private Mass after his burial, but was denied a funeral Mass with the body in the church. But unlike Gotti, Castellano was also denied burial in a?Catholic?ceremony because of his life of crime.

In Gotti?s case, he had reportedly been offered the chance to celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation in the last hours before his death?and refused. But, as the story notes, he is buried in a Catholic cemetery, and a private Mass for the family was celebrated later.

Source: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/deaconsbench/2013/07/catholic-church-not-against-burying-gays/

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Pope Francis' killer pace wearing out his aides

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) ? Pope Francis' killer pace is wearing out his aides.

The 76-year-old Argentine Jesuit, who lost most of one lung following an infection in his youth, has been acting like a man half his age during his first international trip as pope, adding in events at the last minute to his already full schedule and gamely going with the flow after heavy rains forced major changes in the World Youth Day agenda.

His spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, noted Thursday that such vigorous activity has been the norm at the Vatican ever since Francis came to town, saying the Vatican's usually staid bureaucrats were getting "stressed out" by his pace ? and that that was a good thing.

But he quipped: "I'm happy we're half-way through because if it were any longer I'd be destroyed."

Francis added two unscheduled events Thursday to an already full day: a morning Mass with some 300 seminarians from the region, and then a meeting at Rio's cathedral with some 30,000 Argentine pilgrims.

Asked when Francis would actually return to his home country, Lombardi revealed that there were no plans for a trip to Argentina in 2014 as had been widely expected.

Rather, he said, the pope planned to visit another continent given he had already been to Brazil in 2013 and, as he announced somewhat unexpectedly on Wednesday, would be returning in 2017 to mark the 300th anniversary of the discovery of the statue of the Virgin of Aparecida, Brazil's patron saint.

Lombardi didn't say which continent might get a papal visit in 2014, but mentioned Africa, Asia or the Holy Land as possibilities.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pope-francis-killer-pace-wearing-aides-012729123.html

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Dealzmodo: Sony RX100, Klipsch Airplay, Sodastream, iTunes Money

The best point and shoot camera for under $1000 can be yours today for $554. The Sony RX100 received a stellar review from Gizmodo and was placed at the top of its category by The Wirecutter. The successor to this shooter is also available for $200 more. [Amazon]

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