Saturday, October 12, 2013

PC shipments crater and tablets are the bogeymen



The third-quarter numbers are in, and both of the major PC shipment bean-counting organizations agree that worldwide PC shipments are down year-on-year (IDC says down 7.6 percent, Gartner says 8.6 percent), but US shipments held relatively stable (IDC says down 0.2 percent, Gartner says up 3.5 percent). In short, it was the worst back-to-school quarter in five years.


Worldwide, Lenovo and HP are running neck and neck, both eking out a bit of growth; Dell's shipments are up slightly, but Acer and Asus have hit the skids, down 20 to 30 percent from last year. In the US, the big stories are Lenovo, with an increase of 25 percent or so; Toshiba, up about 14 percent in the US; and Apple, with a decline of 11.2 percent (IDC) or 2.3 percent (Gartner), depending on whom you believe.


IDC's numbers don't include iPads or "Android-based tablets with detachable keyboards." Gartner's numbers don't include "media tablets such as the iPad." Neither company breaks out Surface sales, which are presumably too small to make any difference.


Tablets are the bogeymen, of course -- blamed by one and all for sapping PC sales.


I tend to look at the numbers with a Windows 7 vs Windows 8 eye. Consumer PC shipments in the US invariably come with Windows 8 pre-installed, and corporate shipments commonly end up with Windows 7. Outside the US, PC shipments aren't always tied to an operating system -- any operating sytem. The fact that Lenovo dominates worldwide shipments, with 14 million PCs that may or may not have Windows pre-installed, yet only hits fourth place in the US, with 1.7 million PCs, speaks volumes: The US accounts for about 20 percent of all PCs sold worldwide, yet Lenovo only sells about 12 percent of its PCs in the US. Could the difference be at least partially attributable to flexibility in shipping Windows 8 pre-installed?


IDC says that Windows 8.1, due next week, led to an uptick in PC shipments late in the quarter:



While shipments remained weak during the early part of the quarter, the market was somewhat buoyed by business purchases, as well as channel intake of Windows 8.1-based systems during September.



To my jaundiced eye, that's a danger sign. If the general acceptance of Windows 8.1 mirrors that of Windows 8, we're going to see a whole lot of Q3 PC shipments sitting on the shelves this Christmas. Granted, enterprise customers will be moving from Windows XP to Windows 7 as fast as they can, and that will drive some PC shipments. But it doesn't seem likely that this one-time shift will turn the PC market around even temporarily, much less permanently.


While I have great hopes that Windows 9 will show a significant turnaround in the evolution of Windows -- primarily growing the phone system "up" into tablets, rather than forcing the desktop version "down" -- it's hard to be optimistic about Windows 8.1's prospects. A significant non-BandAid update to the PC version of Windows could well be a few years away, and the market's changing on Internet time.


A year ago Steve Ballmer predicted that 400 million Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 devices would be in use by now. No matter how you count the chips, Win8 reality hasn't quite met up with Ballmer's expectations.


This story, "PC shipments crater and tablets are the bogeymen," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Get the first word on what the important tech news really means with the InfoWorld Tech Watch blog. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


Source: http://www.infoworld.com/t/microsoft-windows/pc-shipments-crater-and-tablets-are-the-bogeymen-228542
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Thursday, October 10, 2013

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The Global Spa and Wellness Summit 2013


The Global Spa and Wellness Summit 2013


Hiya Everyone,


I attended the 7th edition of Global Spa and Wellness Summit on Saturday. It was held for the first time in India. The summit was a congregation of travelers, ministers of tourism, entrepreneurs and big players in spa and wellness industry. The Summit was based on the theme that these days a traveler is not just a business or a leisure traveler but also a wellness traveler. As in nobody wants to come back fatigued and obese from travel. A traveler wants his/her wellness also taken care during his/her travel. I found this idea intriguing.



In the beginning of the summit, there were certain presentations which explained the meaning of wellness tourism from international perspective, followed by presentations which talked about the estimates regarding the growth of this sector. Honestly, I was in double minds before attending this event. As I thought that after attending the event, what value addition will I come back home with?


1 hour into the summit, I was still looking for my answer as to why have I come here when one of the speaker said that why are we here? We are here because we are not normal. We are here because we think about health and fitness so much that we cannot separate it even from our travels. Huhh! from then on I was all ears to all the speakers and I came back home with some good food for thought.


The best part of the summit was that I got to interact one on one with a minister from tourism and a young entrepreneur. Basically I asked them a question that as a young Indian entrepreneur and as a fitness person who loves yoga, believes in ayurveda, and who likes to explore this world of spas and wellness. I want to see opportunities. As when I look as a lay man from outside I feel that spa and wellness is more of a luxury thing in India. It is still not a culture in our country. Where, How and what shall I initiate with to start to make it a culture?


Mr Veer Singh, A young entrepreneur who started Vana answered my question. He said,” The chances are immense you will have to explore and find out what do you find more creative and intriguing”. He said,” when you come to such summits and meet new people then extract new ideas and information from them. And be an opportunist :) ”.


I got his point :) . He told us about his wellness retreat Vana. I  loved the concept of Vana. It is a wellness retreat in Dehradune. I believe it is something similar to Yoga retreat that I attended in Goa. Something like living in the nature, eating simple Indian food and rejuvenating oneself with yoga therapies and ayurvedic massages.


Honestly, when I came back home. I found myself questioning that I do not go to these events and summits as a media person. I am not a media person. nor I want my company to be a media company. We are all about fitness, health and wellness. And such events kind of help me question myself as to what more I am yet to explore on things related to fitness, health and wellness.


Mr Veer Singh gave me USB of Vana. It had some enchanting instrumental music and some document on the vision and philosophy of Vana. The music took me back to my yoga retreat days when I use to stay in a bamboo hut and travel on foot through the barren beaches and jungles. Whenever I think what I want to be in next 10 years of my life. I think of practicing Yoga at advanced level. I think of running in the jungles, running on the mountains or the outskirts of the cities. I think of being the most expressive dancer. I think of diving into the deepest sea.


So my dream is to live somewhere in between the nature :P Loud music of the gyms and fast life of the cities is not my energy. I always believe that choosing a career option is about how do we chose to express ourselves in life. I would chose to express through peace and nature.. How? I am not sure :P But one day I will for sure and then may be I will sit and connect the dots.


It got a bit emotional :P Let us carry forward the same emotional energy in the comments. Have you ever thought that 10 years from now how would you like to express yourself in life? :) #foodforthought


These are some pic from the event


Mr Amitabh Kant from Incredible India


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Mr Veer Sing from Vana


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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Egypt: Islamists hit Christian churches

The ruins of the Evangelical Church of Malawi are seen after it was ransacked, looted and burned on Thursday by an angry mob, in Malawi, south of Minya, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. In the province of Minya south of Cairo, protesters attacked two Christian churches, security officials said. Many of Morsi's supporters have criticized Egypt's Christian minority for largely supporting the military's decision to remove him from office, and dozens of churches have been attacked this week. (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUT

The ruins of the Evangelical Church of Malawi are seen after it was ransacked, looted and burned on Thursday by an angry mob, in Malawi, south of Minya, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. In the province of Minya south of Cairo, protesters attacked two Christian churches, security officials said. Many of Morsi's supporters have criticized Egypt's Christian minority for largely supporting the military's decision to remove him from office, and dozens of churches have been attacked this week. (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUT

Rows of display cases are broken and empty at the Malawi Antiquities Museum after it was ransacked and looted between the evening of Thursday, Aug. 15 and the morning of Friday, Aug. 16, 2013 in Malawi, south of Minya, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. The interim Cabinet authorized police to use deadly force against anyone targeting police and state institutions on Thursday. The violence capped off a week that saw more than 700 people killed across the country. (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUT

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An Egyptian walks in the ruins of the Evangelical Church of Malawi Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013, after it was ransacked, looted and burned on Thursday by an angry mob, in Malawi, south of Minya, Egypt. In the province of Minya, protesters attacked two Christian churches, security officials said. (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper)

Egyptian gather in the ruins of the Evangelical Church of Malawi after it was ransacked, looted and burned on Thursday by an angry mob, in Malawi, south of Minya, Egypt, Saturday, Aug. 17, 2013. In the province of Minya south of Cairo, protesters attacked two Christian churches, security officials said. Many of Morsi's supporters have criticized Egypt's Christian minority for largely supporting the military's decision to remove him from office, and dozens of churches have been attacked this week. (AP Photo/Roger Anis, El Shorouk Newspaper) EGYPT OUT

(AP) ? After torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like "prisoners of war" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.

In the four days since security forces cleared two sit-in camps by supporters of Egypt's ousted president, Islamists have attacked dozens of Coptic churches along with homes and businesses owned by the Christian minority. The campaign of intimidation appears to be a warning to Christians outside Cairo to stand down from political activism.

Christians have long suffered from discrimination and violence in Muslim majority Egypt, where they make up 10 percent of the population of 90 million. Attacks increased after the Islamists rose to power in the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that drove Hosni Mubarak from power, emboldening extremists. But Christians have come further under fire since President Mohammed Morsi was ousted on July 3, sparking a wave of Islamist anger led by Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood.

Nearly 40 churches have been looted and torched, while 23 others have been attacked and heavily damaged since Wednesday, when chaos erupted after Egypt's military-backed interim administration moved in to clear two camps packed with protesters calling for Morsi's reinstatement, killing scores of protesters and sparking deadly clashes nationwide.

One of the world's oldest Christian communities has generally kept a low-profile, but has become more politically active since Mubarak was ousted and Christians sought to ensure fair treatment in the aftermath.

Many Morsi supporters say Christians played a disproportionately large role in the days of mass rallies, with millions demanding that he step down ahead of the coup.

Despite the violence, Egypt's Coptic Christian church renewed its commitment to the new political order Friday, saying in a statement that it stood by the army and the police in their fight against "the armed violent groups and black terrorism."

While the Christians of Egypt have endured attacks by extremists, they have drawn closer to moderate Muslims in some places, in a rare show of solidarity.

Hundreds from both communities thronged two monasteries in the province of Bani Suef south of Cairo to thwart what they had expected to be imminent attacks on Saturday, local activist Girgis Waheeb said. Activists reported similar examples elsewhere in regions south of Cairo, but not enough to provide effective protection of churches and monasteries.

Waheeb, other activists and victims of the latest wave of attacks blame the police as much as hard-line Islamists for what happened. The attacks, they said, coincided with assaults on police stations in provinces like Bani Suef and Minya, leaving most police pinned down to defend their stations or reinforcing others rather than rushing to the rescue of Christians under attack.

Another Christian activist, Ezzat Ibrahim of Minya, a province also south of Cairo where Christians make up around 35 percent of the population, said police have melted away from seven of the region's nine districts, leaving the extremists to act with near impunity.

Two Christians have been killed since Wednesday, including a taxi driver who strayed into a protest by Morsi supporters in Alexandria and another man who was shot to death by Islamists in the southern province of Sohag, according to security officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release the information.

The attacks served as a reminder that Islamists, while on the defensive in Cairo, maintain influence and the ability to stage violence in provincial strongholds with a large minority of Christians.

Gamaa Islamiya, the hard-line Islamist group that wields considerable influence in provinces south of Cairo, denied any link to the attacks. The Muslim Brotherhood, which has led the defiant protest against Morsi's ouster, has condemned the attacks, spokesman Mourad Ali said.

Sister Manal is the principal of the Franciscan school in Bani Suef. She was having breakfast with two visiting nuns when news broke of the clearance of the two sit-in camps by police, killing hundreds. In an ordeal that lasted about six hours, she, sisters Abeer and Demiana and a handful of school employees saw a mob break into the school through the wall and windows, loot its contents, knock off the cross on the street gate and replace it with a black banner resembling the flag of al-Qaida.

By the time the Islamists ordered them out, fire was raging at every corner of the 115-year-old main building and two recent additions. Money saved for a new school was gone, said Manal, and every computer, projector, desk and chair was hauled away. Frantic SOS calls to the police, including senior officers with children at the school, produced promises of quick response but no one came.

The Islamists gave her just enough time to grab some clothes.

In an hourlong telephone interview with The Associated Press, Manal, 47, recounted her ordeal while trapped at the school with others as the fire raged in the ground floor and a battle between police and Islamists went on out on the street. At times she was overwhelmed by the toxic fumes from the fire in the library or the whiffs of tears gas used by the police outside.

Sister Manal recalled being told a week earlier by the policeman father of one pupil that her school was targeted by hard-line Islamists convinced that it was giving an inappropriate education to Muslim children. She paid no attention, comfortable in the belief that a school that had an equal number of Muslim and Christian pupils could not be targeted by Muslim extremists. She was wrong.

The school has a high-profile location. It is across the road from the main railway station and adjacent to a busy bus terminal that in recent weeks attracted a large number of Islamists headed to Cairo to join the larger of two sit-in camps by Morsi's supporters. The area of the school is also in one of Bani Suef's main bastions of Islamists from Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood and ultraconservative Salafis.

"We are nuns. We rely on God and the angels to protect us," she said. "At the end, they paraded us like prisoners of war and hurled abuse at us as they led us from one alley to another without telling us where they were taking us," she said. A Muslim woman who once taught at the school spotted Manal and the two other nuns as they walked past her home, attracting a crowd of curious onlookers.

"I remembered her, her name is Saadiyah. She offered to take us in and said she can protect us since her son-in-law was a policeman. We accepted her offer," she said. Two Christian women employed by the school, siblings Wardah and Bedour, had to fight their way out of the mob, while groped, hit and insulted by the extremists. "I looked at that and it was very nasty," said Manal.

The incident at the Franciscan school was repeated at Minya where a Catholic school was razed to the ground by an arson attack and a Christian orphanage was also torched.

"I am terrified and unable to focus," said Boulos Fahmy, the pastor of a Catholic church a short distance away from Manal's school. "I am expecting an attack on my church any time now," he said Saturday.

Bishoy Alfons Naguib, a 33-year-old businessman from Minya, has a similarly harrowing story.

His home supplies store on a main commercial street in the provincial capital, also called Minya, was torched this week and the flames consumed everything inside.

"A neighbor called me and said the store was on fire. When I arrived, three extremists with knifes approached me menacingly when they realized I was the owner," recounted Naguib. His father and brother pleaded with the men to spare him. Luckily, he said, someone shouted that a Christian boy was filming the proceedings using his cell phone, so the crowd rushed toward the boy shouting "Nusrani, Nusrani," the Quranic word for Christians which has become a derogatory way of referring to them in today's Egypt.

Naguib ran up a nearby building where he has an apartment and locked himself in. After waiting there for a while, he left the apartment, ran up to the roof and jumped to the next door building, then exited at a safe distance from the crowd.

"On our Mustafa Fahmy street, the Islamists had earlier painted a red X on Muslim stores and a black X on Christian stores," he said. "You can be sure that the ones with a red X are intact."

In Fayoum, an oasis province southwest of Cairo, Islamists looted and torched five churches, according to Bishop Ibram, the local head of the Coptic Orthodox church, by far the largest of Egypt's Christian denominations. He said he had instructed Christians and clerics alike not to try to resist the mobs of Islamists, fearing any loss of life.

"The looters were so diligent that they came back to one of the five churches they had ransacked to see if they can get more," he told the AP. "They were loading our chairs and benches on trucks and when they had no space for more, they destroyed them."

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Friday, August 16, 2013

International Conference on Mechanical and Industrial Engineering ...

GENERAL?INFORMATION

International Conference on Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (ICMIE?2013) aimed at presenting current research being carried out in that area and scheduled to be held ?August 28-29, 2013 Penang (Malaysia).?The idea of the conference is for the scientists, scholars, engineers and students from the Universities all around the world and the industry to present ongoing research activities, and hence to foster research relations between the Universities and the industry. This conference provides opportunities for the delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, to establish business or research relations and to find global partners for future?collaboration.

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Author Delegates: 175 USD
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Prospective authors are invited to submit full papers including results, figures and references. Paper will be accepted only?by:

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2. Electronic submission through the conference web site (Click on the Paper Submission?link)

CONFERENCE?VENUE

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Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited?to:

  • Advanced Energy?Sources
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  • Automobiles
  • Automotive?Engineering
  • Energy Engineering and?Management
  • HVAC
  • Innovative Techniques in Fusion?Energy
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  • Materials for Energy and Environmental?Applications
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Thursday, August 15, 2013

AvantCredit secures $20M to make financial loans more accessible ...

Online lending startup AvantCredit has raised $20 million for its big data technology that assesses loans.

AvantCredit?s platform uses machine learning to determine lending risk, rather than relying solely on a credit score. The platform takes inputs from dozens of data sources while the customer is filling out an application. It applies a range of algorithms to find a customer?s ?true? credit worthiness and and can approve and fund a loan of up to $10,000 in near real-time. Cofounder John Sun said this immediacy is something not even banks offer.

?We?re improving the borrowing experience for millions of ?near-prime? customers,? he said to VentureBeat. ?We?re also able to offer more competitive rates than sub-prime lenders because we?re able to do a better job assessing a customer?s credit worthiness. The goal was to build a product that?s clear, transparent, and easy to use for customers while still doing as much as possible behind the scenes to make sure that customer gets the right product for their needs.?

Near-prime borrowers are people with below average credit scores. Sun said that ever since the recession in 2008, credit availability has become increasingly tight. AvantCredit?s technology searches for patterns in thousands of data attributes. It gets better at predicting customer riskiness as time goes on and generates customized interest rates. This opens up loan opportunities to a wider range of people. The startup has also automated the process so securing a loan doesn?t have to involve multiple trips to the bank and tons of paperwork.

Sun and cofounder Paul Zhang participated in Y Combinator for a startup called Debteye that automated credit counseling. It analyzed people?s financial situation and made recommendations to help get them out of debt. While building this startup, he saw an even greater opportunity in the ?huge product-gap? for near-prime customers. Along with CEO Al Goldstein, Sun and Zhang started AvantCredit in 2012.

?We wanted, from the beginning, to really revolutionize the way that people borrow money, by looking at all the things we hated about how people borrowed money today and doing it better,? Sun said.

AvantCredit is one of many startups that has emerged to bring Internet technology to the world of finance. The financial crisis made many people skeptical of banks and interested in alternative sources for managing their money. Lending Club is the most notable example of this. The company is an online community that connects people who need to borrow money with people who are willing to lend it. It is on track to do $2 billion in loans this year.

Lending Club investor Charles Moldow, a partner at Foundation Capital, said the uses of technology in the financial industry are ?limitless.?

?We?ve never seen a market opportunity of this size and magnitude,? he said. ?In the financial services industry, we are seeing a shift toward the transparency of information. There is a massive restructuring taking place. This is disrupting the traditional banking model as we know it.?

Chicago-based AvantCredit launched in July 2013. Four months ago it raised $9 million of equity and $25 million of debt. This second round of $20 million was led by August Capital and Victory Park Capital. Sun said its biggest competition is Springleaf Financial and OneMainFinancial, as well as large financial institutions like Capital One.

Source: http://venturebeat.com/2013/08/14/avantcredit-secures-20m-to-make-financial-loans-more-accessible-with-big-data/

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

More miracles: tree in California weeping A) God?s tears? B) Divine love? C) Excrement?

It?s kind of funny how the meaning of words can change over time. ?Whenever I hear the word ?miracle? lately, I don?t think ?an act of god?. ?Instead I think ?oh, some more people are overlooking a simple explanation? or ?somebody?s declaring they have proof of magic after less than a second of investigation.? ?Or, at least, that?s what I thought when I heard of a tree in California that is weeping god?s tears.

Rosemarie Navarro, a parishioner at a Fresno, California Catholic Church says, ?I said my prayer and asked the Lord to give me a miracle cause I?m really, really sick.?

Navarro counts herself among the believers, a small but growing group that thinks the liquid dripping from this Crape Myrtle tree is the tears of God.

Parishioner Maria Ybarra says, ?When you say ?glory be to God in Jesus name? the tree starts throwing out more water.?

Water is dripping from a tree and you can think of no more likely explanation than god deciding the best way to help is not to cure your sickness, but to make water drip from a tree? ?Hell, why not just say the rain is god?s tears?

Like the rain, there?s a perfectly reasonable (and fitting) explanation for ?god?s tears?.

On close inspection, arborist Jon Reelhorn agrees, something is falling from the tree in front of St. Johns Cathedral. But it isn?t water.

?The aphides will suck the sap, the sap goes through the aphid and then it is a honey dew excrement from the aphid and it gets so heavy in the summertime that it will drip down,?? Reelhorn says.

He calls it a natural process. He also found another tree dripping across the street.

Yes Rosemarie, god?s tears are, in fact, aphid shit. ?They?re not as shit as standing in the face of something mundane and declaring it a miracle, but they?re still shit none the less. ?You asked for a miracle, that?s what god sent.

If you ask your doctors for a miracle, at least they?ll give you medicine. ?God couldn?t even be bothered to do that.

Source: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wwjtd/2013/08/more-miracles-tree-in-california-weeping-a-gods-tears-b-divine-love-c-excrement/

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Saturday, August 10, 2013

College football notebook: Delany all for NCAA reform, but not for separation

From wire reports Friday August 9, 2013 5:33 AM

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and his brethren from the other four football power conferences feel it?s time for the NCAA to restructure itself to better serve the athletic and academic needs of the larger schools.

But Delany said that he wouldn?t be in favor of the bigger conferences, including the Southeastern, Pac-12, Big 12 and Atlantic Coast, splitting off from the NCAA if this doesn?t happen.

?I don?t really go there,? he said at Penn State media day.

Delany said he didn?t expect the NCAA to complete restructuring ?in six months or 16 months.?

The NCAA spent the day working on a redesigned governance structure, as the board of directors and executive committees started discussing a major overhaul to how the organization works.

? ?A former Division II college star who disappeared in the Michigan wilderness during a fishing trip died of pneumonia caused by inhaling his vomit, according to an updated autopsy, after he became disoriented possibly because of painkillers combined with having a degenerative brain disease.

The report said that former Grand Valley State quarterback Cullen Finnerty?s anxiety and paranoia in the woods the night of May 26 might have been exacerbated by an ?elevated? level of oxycodone along with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease that has been found in a number of ex-football players.

The report said it?s likely that Finnerty, 30, had anxiety, disorientation and paranoia from being alone in the woods while waiting for his in-laws to pick him up. The pain medication was prescribed to Finnerty for back injuries likely sustained during his football career.

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and his brethren from the other four football power conferences feel it?s time for the NCAA to restructure itself to better serve the athletic and academic needs of the larger schools.

But Delany said that he wouldn?t be in favor of the bigger conferences, including the Southeastern, Pac-12, Big 12 and Atlantic Coast, splitting off from the NCAA if this doesn?t happen.

?I don?t really go there,? he said at Penn State media day.

Delany said he didn?t expect the NCAA to complete restructuring ?in six months or 16 months.?

The NCAA spent the day working on a redesigned governance structure, as the board of directors and executive committees started discussing a major overhaul to how the organization works.

? ?A former Division II college star who disappeared in the Michigan wilderness during a fishing trip died of pneumonia caused by inhaling his vomit, according to an updated autopsy, after he became disoriented possibly because of painkillers combined with having a degenerative brain disease.

The report said that former Grand Valley State quarterback Cullen Finnerty?s anxiety and paranoia in the woods the night of May 26 might have been exacerbated by an ?elevated? level of oxycodone along with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease that has been found in a number of ex-football players.

The report said it?s likely that Finnerty, 30, had anxiety, disorientation and paranoia from being alone in the woods while waiting for his in-laws to pick him up. The pain medication was prescribed to Finnerty for back injuries likely sustained during his football career.

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and his brethren from the other four football power conferences feel it?s time for the NCAA to restructure itself to better serve the athletic and academic needs of the larger schools.

But Delany said that he wouldn?t be in favor of the bigger conferences, including the Southeastern, Pac-12, Big 12 and Atlantic Coast, splitting off from the NCAA if this doesn?t happen.

?I don?t really go there,? he said at Penn State media day.

Delany said he didn?t expect the NCAA to complete restructuring ?in six months or 16 months.?

The NCAA spent the day working on a redesigned governance structure, as the board of directors and executive committees started discussing a major overhaul to how the organization works.

? ?A former Division II college star who disappeared in the Michigan wilderness during a fishing trip died of pneumonia caused by inhaling his vomit, according to an updated autopsy, after he became disoriented possibly because of painkillers combined with having a degenerative brain disease.

The report said that former Grand Valley State quarterback Cullen Finnerty?s anxiety and paranoia in the woods the night of May 26 might have been exacerbated by an ?elevated? level of oxycodone along with chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a brain disease that has been found in a number of ex-football players.

The report said it?s likely that Finnerty, 30, had anxiety, disorientation and paranoia from being alone in the woods while waiting for his in-laws to pick him up. The pain medication was prescribed to Finnerty for back injuries likely sustained during his football career.

- See more at: http://workplace.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2013/08/09/0809-sports-report-art-gnso4e5u-1.html#sthash.OS39BQID.dpuf

Source: http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/08/09/Delany-all-for-NCAA-reform-but-not-for-separation.html

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