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A professional blogger needed here to work with us writing news story articles related to new and exciting technology/gadgets in the world as well as other news about stories related to the tech world.

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You can take a look and have an idea what kind of articles is to be expected from you. For this job, we require 5 short articles to be posted EVERY DAY BEFORE FOR ONE MONTH (except weekends). No copy & paste from other websites as this is easy for us to detect and employment will be terminated straight away.

The requirement for this job is excellent English skills (no poor grammar and no spelling mistakes) and love & passion about technology/gadgets. We also require the blogger to be pretty fast with the articles since they are news story articles, you will have to post stories which have been out in less than 24 hours. E.g: No posting stories that other blogs already posted 2+ days ago.

Backlinks gained from your articles from big well-known websites will be awarded with bonuses.

This is a recurring job which means, upon successful completion of the first month, we'll give you this work permanently. We also require that you visit this link here: http://thetechstuff.com/posts/2070/google-releases-its-own-youtube-app-for-ios and in your first message to us, tell us if there is a video embedded or not in the article? This is to confirm not only that you read this job description but you have also visited the website that you are applying for a job. We will not consider applicants who don't answer this.

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Technological innovation and the art market ? AMA

Paris, 18 September 2012. Art Media Agency (AMA).

In occasion of the International Art Industry Forum (IAIF) taking place on 19 and 20 September 2012 in Vienna, in partnership with the ViennaFair, we might question the importance of technological innovation in the art market, which is constantly evolving and booming. This market seems indeed to be one of the lasts to be trusted in these times of crisis for most Western powers. The IAIF was designed to give an account of this market and its current state, linked with the ever-growing importance of technological innovation. It will gather professionals of various fields, art investment, art insurance, art lending, art consulting, multimedia services, online commercial platforms, as well as gallery and auctions experts. This event is expected to be a combination of art and business, and will discuss the advantages technological innovation can bring to the art market.

For some years now the art market has been blossoming on the Internet, thus following the path previously traced by cinema and music. With MP3 and streaming the artistic offer is being changed. From now on, less and less people buy albums and go to cinema. These two forms of artistic expression are trying to hold on and adapt. Some are totally opposed to this radical change and urge the governments to get stricter (as for the Hadopi law). Others try and respond to it, as for instance French artist PV Nova whose last album is on free download, the website visitors paying whatever price they wish to.

A most important question then arises: will the art market follow the same path as music an cinema did?? Will the difficulties be the same, or new ones, will it succeed in adapting to technological innovation and make profit from it, whether it is the Internet or other technologies? Won?t the Internet eventually harm the art market?

Every day, this prolific art market is being conquered by the Internet. The way we look ?to artworks may change, and for some they become nothing but a link and picture on a screen. The rapport between the professional and the individual, collector or amateur, is fading away, or at least is weakening. Purchasing artworks goes now more and more through the Internet. But two categories must be defined. The first is that of pre-existing institutions willing to take advantage of the Internet boom, while the second category is that of online companies created only when technological trend became so universal.

This first category includes great auction houses like Sotheby?s and Christie?s willing to have their own life on the Web, with some difficulties at the beginning. In 2011, visits to Christie?s website increased by 77%, and the online auctions by 25%. The Internet hosts now 29% of the auctions? total turnover. Auction houses also use the Internet to present and publish their catalogue. The H?tel Drouot for instance offers a direct broadcast of the auctions on its website and allows the users to bid. Auctions are then open to a wider public, which is a benefit for auction houses. Since the use of the Internet has proved profitable, these rates will certainly increase in the future. The second category composed of online auctions websites seems to reach its zenith. Websites such as Antiquities-Saleroom.com and Artprice.com, and even to a lesser extend eBay, are the rising stars of this virtual scene. The most famous example is by no doubt Artnet, which unfortunately goes through some internal difficulties nowadays. Indeed Artnet is willing to be a database, an auction house and a magazine, an opening door to the art world, but exclusively online. The website allows artworks estimation and analysis, purchasing and selling, and even access to basic information. Actually the Internet allows the art market to reach beyond experts and professionals that speak a jargon impenetrable for most people. The phrase ?Art for all? has now come to some meaning. The Internet allows everyone interested in art to enter it. The Art.sy project, supported by some major art market actors from all over the world is a perfect example of this will to make art accessible and comprehensible for all. Since the Internet cannot offer a face-to-face meeting between galleries and clients (or aficionados), the website, thanks to ?The Art Genome Project?, advises visitors on works they may be interested in. As many websites, Art.sy presents a selection of artworks depending on the visitor?s previous data. Artkhade, a new database on Asian, Oceanian, African and American art is also a perfect example of this phenomenon, of this intention ?of opening the art market, previously? destined to the elite. Artkhade lists the auction results, thanks to a ?tag? system which allows a very simple access to the desired data and works. However, the Internet is not the one and only proof of the importance of technological innovation for the art market. Galleries, museums and other institutions have discovered a new wayof capturing the attention and attract potential purchasers. For instance, more and more iPhone, iPad and Android apps are being created. The Cisneros Foundation will launch in 2013 a collection of eBooks, a digital version of the acclaimed Conservaciones series. As many others, the foundation gets into much trouble to invest in the digital world. Canadian museums, or the Palais de Tokyo cannot escape it either. Indeed the Civilization and War Museums have adapted their websites to smartphones, which are being more and more used. They are highly functional and even include a GPS guiding safely the visitor into the museums. The Palais de Tokyo as well, in partnership with Orange, launched a mobile app in order to allow an easier visit, better information for the public and to encourage its coming back. Another example, Nuage Editions will release on 17 October a book application allowing to rediscover Da Vinci?s Mona Lisa on our tablets. The use of new technologies is truly allowing art and its market to be rediscovered. Moreover, the Louvre?s virtual visits and the usual audioguides have been replaced by 5000 Nintendo 3DS since April 2012. Their very simple use and ability to show 3D images without glasses have seduced the museum. It is true that, Nintendo being familiar to many visitors under 30 and families, it shows the museum as a pleasant place, explains Agn?s Alfrandri, in charge of the Louvre?s multimedia services. This propensity to technological innovation is not reserved only to museums, on the contrary. Galleries let themselves be tempted, proposing more functional and attractive websites interfaces. DigitisedArt for instance allows galleries, artistic fairs and collectors to virtually manage and share their collections. Available on computer, iPhone and iPad, DigitisedArt is intended as a top-quality technological, functional tool. Depending on financial possibilities, technological innovation may even be significant in the very organisation of a gallery or a fair. It is indeed highly probable certain internationally known galleries should propose iPads to their visitors, in order to inform them about the exhibited works, their prices and the artists. We have clearly entered a 2.0 era for the art market.

However as for the cinema and music market, for the art market as well the Internet seems to cause some problems: illegal downloading for cinema and music, fakes and imitations for the art market. The Internet is a real bazar, where one cannot know true from false. This art market movement to the Internet certainly allows a greater accessibility, but also constitutes a dreadful trap for the profane, and even for professionals. One can find Picasso paintings for 450 $ only (cheaper than branded shoes, says the New York Times). These are indeed only reproductions, since Sotheby?s estimates 100 M $ a single painting of the artist. To establish a work?s authenticity is getting harder and harder, especially with no possibility to actually see it. Some fields of the art market are thus completely obstructed. Being the online art market so prolific, it has become very easy to present fakes among the works put to sale. Besides, the experts explain the ?certified and authenticated? mention is worthless. A parallel can therefore be made between other Internet phenomenons, whose authenticity is being questioned, as for instance Twitter accounts. Online auctions are the first victims of these fakes; what was already difficult to state in a ?real? auction house is even more difficult online. A Chinese businessman forged a false jade suit, authenticated by experts and estimated 375 M $: we may think counterfeiting has now no limits. Some Matisse works will continue being sold for nothing, and those who sell them will continue getting rich thanks to credulous buyers. Moreover, even when a work proves to be a fake or reproduction, it is difficult to bring suit. Sellers might not be found, or the website, like eBay, might not consider these cases, leaving the deceived purchaser to deal with it by himself. Websites like Antique-Saleroom.com do take some measures to prevent such things. The sale is thus finalized only when the purchaser is completely satisfied. However one cannot be certain of the authenticity. Fake affairs reached a new level when gallery owner David Crespo was accused of having sold Picasso fakes. He purchased them years before for 50.000 $, believing them to be authentic. When he realised the fraud, he contacted unsuspicious clients and sold them for over 100.000 $ each, providing each time authenticity certificates. We can therefore see that the Internet, in some way, alters the art market. Moreover, purists declare technology might harm art. Why should you go to a museum, if you can see all the works on the Internet? Wouldn?t virtual visits and apps commercially damage museums, for people would stop visiting? Visual criteria tend to disappear, but this doesn?t mean? overnight museums, galleries and fairs will be deserted, only because everything can be found and seen online. On the contrary, to see real artworks remains for most people a true achievement. Tourists go to the Louvre to see Mona Lisa?? in flesh and bone?, while they have almost surely already seen a reproduction of ?it in a book or on the Internet.

In these times of globalisation, the art market is developing and modernising. As for cinema and music, the raptures of the Internet induce as many miracles as disappointments. It certainly allows the art market to reach a new public, but as well favours the selling of fakes and imitations. Lawsuit being impossible, deceived purchasers cannot have their money back. This explains the development of organisations for the protection of the artists? rights and against the Internet fakes. Galleries, museums and fairs are being attracted by these new technologies, and create websites and apps in order to reach a ?geek? public, for whom technology has no secret. Since even great auction houses make profit of the Internet and new services are being offered to collectors and gallery managers, it is highly probable technological innovation in the art market will continue to develop: to serve the art market through technology then seems not a negligible idea.

Source: http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/52431/technological-innovation-and-the-art-market/

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Can men and women be 'just' friends? An interview with my lady ...

The third interview I did for this series was with my friend Chris; a 27 year old bisexual woman who is in what she calls a ?monogamish? (so, monogamous, but flexible) relationship with a man.

I met Chris through my ex-boyfriend. She plays music with some of his friends and band mates and is super awesome. I?ve only known Chris for a few years but we?ve made an effort to keep a semi-regular after work date at local bar/live music venue. Chris is a feminist and knows lots of things about Scotch. So I like that.

I talked with Chris about her experiences navigating platonic relationships that turn temporarily sexual with both her male and female friends, about the stupidity of the ?friend zone?, and about dudes who can?t take a hint.

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Meghan: So do you have platonic male friends?

Chris: Yes

M: And how did those friendships develop?

C: In college I met a lot of awesome people through music and made a bunch of really good male friends that way. What?s followed, though, is this trend where, maybe 5 years later, after we?d been friends for a long time, it was like, ?Oh hey, I?m not in a relationship anymore and I guess we?ve been meaning to do this for a while?? So we?d sleep together just once and then that would be it. It was always really great and fun then it was like ?OK, that happened. And it?s fine.?? We always stayed friends and nothing really changed.

M: So sex didn?t make it awkward? It didn?t impact your friendship?

C: No. I mean, it was kind of cute and maybe awkward temporarily but it never changed our friendship. I think it was more funny then anything else ? especially with old friends, I mean, we?d just laugh our asses off about it, like ?OK, that was hilarious. I guess we probably should have done that a long time ago ha ha. Anyway, cool, I?ll see you next week.?? So it?s never been a thing and that makes me really happy.

I don?t know what that says about us or the way that I think about sexuality in general where it?s not a huge deal and its not going to change everything?

That said, this has happened with a lot of my female friends as well so I can?t say that this has necessarily been a gender thing for me.

M: And how did that play out with your female friends? Did those friendships develop in similar ways?

C: Yeah. It seems like that?s just my story of my college time ? which sounds a little stereotypical but at the same time its like you finally get out of the house and start meeting people. I do seem to develop friendships first and then the sex comes later.

In fact that seemed to happen even more with female friends where we?ll have been friends for years and then all of sudden its like ?Hey lets try this out.? It usually ended up cementing our bond a little more. These are women who are my really close friends and we?ve got a shared history and then you see each other at your most vulnerable and at your silliest?I mean, sex is so stupid and funny, right?

I think it?s great to sleep with someone you?ve known for a long time, who you already have a pre-established relationship with. You hook up for a night and then you can laugh about it after and it?s no big deal. That?s not something you can do if you?ve just meet somebody at the bar or something? you don?t know what their background is. You don?t feel as comfortable.

M: Well yeah, I mean sex is the best, in my experience, when you can be vulnerable and it?s just not necessarily that easy to be comfortable or vulnerable with someone you don?t know or you only just met.

C: But with a friend, it?s different. Well, for the most part? You were telling me earlier that with some male friends you felt like they were just always waiting for the opportunity to pounce. I do feel like I?ve been really good about eliminating those people from my life really quickly and being like, ?I don?t want to be friends with you ? I can tell you?re being creepy.?? It?s that whole ?nice guy? thing where its like ?I?m going to befriend you to get you to trust me and then when you?re not expecting it I?ll try to get in there.?

M: Sometimes I feel like that?s just about dudes who don?t respect women. I feel like, if you can?t just see me as a friend and we?ve known each other for a long time and I?ve already said no and you continue to feel like you need to try to get in my pants whenever you get the chance, then maybe you?re not comfortable seeing women in a non-sexual/sexualized way.

C: Yeah I think my bullshit tolerance is just really low. If somebody were to hit on me and I were to say ?No, I?m not interested? and they say ?Oh, that?s cool. We can just be friends? but then they keep at it and don?t take the hint, like, I just cant even fucking handle that. I would happily cut that person out of my life because they aren?t respecting what I said.

M: Do you feel like that happens more with men than with women?

C: I do. Yeah. I?ve never had a female friend or even a woman that?s hit on me who has pursued anything after I said no. I just think women are socialized to be a lot more sensitive. But guys get a lot of messages that say ? just keep pursuing. It?s that evolutionary psychology bullshit where it?s like you just have to keep pursuing the prey. Like it?s a competition or like eventually you?ll just wear down her defenses.

M: Well yeah, also women are (within kind of stereotypical heterosexual dating) supposed to be that ones who say ?no? ? and men are taught to keep trying and are taught that ?no? actually means ?maybe? or ?yes?. Women are supposed to be chaste and men are supposed to be obsessed with trying to get laid all the time.

C: I feel like I?m talking in stupid stereotypes that I hate but yeah?

M: Well I?m not sure they?re stereotypes, I think we?re socialized to behave or think that we need to act as gate-keepers in a sense. Whereas men are taught to pursue, pursue.

C: They?re cultural narratives, right? And we?re immersed in it all the time via movies and books and television etc. On top of that, it gets backed up by certain science ?? again it?s that evolutionary psychology / evolutionary biology stuff, some of which makes sense but, you know, that stuff really doesn?t explain behaviour and doesn?t take socialization into account. So when people start talking about behaviour and being like, ?Back in cave man times?men would hit women over the head with a club and drag them back to their caves!? and you have to say, ok, but where have you seen that? Have you seen that in fossil evidence? Have you seen that in any kind of texts? In cave paintings? Or have you seen that on The Flintstones? Or people will look at chimpanzees and say that, you know, chimpanzees are the closest related primate to humans and therefore all chimpanzee behaviour explains human behaviour so, for example, this chimpanzee has a harem of female chimps and that?s ?natural? male behaviour. Or they observe male chimps fighting over the available females or observe competitive behaviour when it comes to mating and then use that to justify reinforcing stereotypes around heterosexual relationships.

M: Well yeah. I mean we live in a society and we are capable of making rational decisions and we aren?t just driven by biological urges. We are technically capable of using our rational brains to make decisions about what?s good for us and for society at large.

C: Exactly. It?s almost like people will take the worst behaviour that people engage in and try to justify it somehow. We?ve seen that with war, rape, objectification and all kinds of other things. Just because our ancestors did something or, you know, even if we were somehow genetically predisposed to be rapists or just even not know how to take a hint or not know how to respect someone?s personal boundaries, like, these are behaviours that we can think about and decide not to replicate.

M: For example, if someone isn?t interested in sleeping with you, we all have the ability to move on and recover from that and behave in a mature, respectful way about it.

C: Sure. I mean there?s also the issue of socialization and how women are taught to behave. So you meet someone at a bar, you have a good time chatting, but then you go out on a second date and then you just aren?t really feeling it ? I feel like there?s a pressure on women to let guys down easy and not be direct and say ?no I?m not interested.?

M: Yeah. And honestly what I usually just end up doing in those situations is just that ? kind of avoiding the situation ? not answering the phone or whatever rather than saying ?I?m not attracted to you? because I don?t want to hurt someone?s feelings. Of course, in the end, being passive aggressive about it is much worse and much more disrespectful than just being honest. But I think that feeling like we have to be polite all the time leads us to behave in really messed up ways.

C: Right. Which is awful for everybody. And then some men are socialized to believe, for example, if a woman breaks up with them and says ?let?s just be friends,? that they?ve still got a chance because she hasn?t cut him off completely. Like, she?d say no if she really meant it. So those messages are getting crossed.

Women today are supposed to be able to say what we feel because supposedly we?re super empowered and feminist but it doesn?t always happen that way. I wish that more women could be honest and that more men could not feel so butt-hurt about being rejected. It should be nipped in the bud a lot sooner in order to avoid trying to drag on a friendship where the dude is just hoping that she?ll change her mind or realize that oh actually she DOES love me. Don?t fake a friendship if you don?t think the person is interesting or if you don?t respect them and if it?s just about you hoping that if you hang out with them for long enough they?ll have sex with you. If that?s your only motive then fuck off.

M: So for you it sounds like there is no ?friend zone?.

C: Yeah that?s stupid. The ?friend zone? would be like if I actually wanted to be your friend? So is that a bad thing? So we would have a mutually enjoyable relationship as equals and peers and enjoy each other?s company.? There?s no ?friend zone?. There?s being friends. If you?re not friends then what are you doing?

M: Right, if you think it?s a waste of time to hang out with me unless I?m going to fuck you, then I definitely don?t want to hang out with you ever.

C: And then the ?friend zone? is his problem. If he can?t respect a woman as a friend that?s his own mental block if he can?t move beyond that ? I mean, he?s friend zoning himself. He?s trapping himself in this terrible purgatory where if he doesn?t want to be her friend for real and he doesn?t want to engage with her and hang out with her without any promise of sexual satisfaction then he should just end that. Save yourself the heartache, man.

If you genuinely like that person as a person then why not be friends with them? And then look for someone who actually wants to be with you. I mean, don?t you want to be with someone that wants you back?

It?s the enthusiastic consent model. That can be applied to everything ? friendships even. You want to hang out with people who want to hang out with you.

M: For sure. So would you say your friendships with women differ from your friendships with men?

C: I can?t be disingenuous and say it?s perfectly equal; though it feels like it is on certain levels. There are definitely nights when I only want to be around women to talk and drink wine and we usually end up talking about wildy different subject matter. But it does also depend on the individual person. My female friends discuss politics and economics in the same way my men friends do but there are times when I am really just craving female company. You can get a lot more intimate with women friends because you share the same physical body in many ways and the same experiences growing up as women. You can?t relate that stuff to a lot of men and that can be a block sometimes. If you?re upset about something that?s clearly a gendered experience and you don?t want get brushed off, you might be better off talking to other women about that. I find my conversations with female friends can get a lot more in-depth about our experiences in the world and how we navigate the world and I find conversations with my male friends are more on the surface ?? more about external things as opposed to getting into a lot of feelings. While I don?t necessarily like that dichotomy that is my experience.

M: Do you feel that your friendships with men change when you have a male partner? A boyfriend or whatever?

C: Well I?m still affectionate and flirtatious but that means that I have to try not to give mixed signals if I can help it and I do try to just be really direct. I enjoy being flirtatious and outgoing and I like making new friends so I like to try to make myself be really straightforward about my intentions and boundaries? I?ll actually have a conversation with someone I just met and say you know, I?ve been flirting with you all night but I do have a boyfriend, just so you don?t get the wrong impression. And I think that?s fine.

M: Sure. If you?re being straight and direct and honest then that?s the best you can do.

C: If you?re not leading anybody on and if you?re extremely direct about it then I think it?s on them if they then choose not to believe me and try to pursue something despite that. Just because people flirt doesn?t mean they have to follow through with sex and if you don?t respect my boundaries and you push that I?m going be pissed off. I shouldn?t have to say it a second time.

M: Exactly. Well that?s it from me, Chris. Thanks so much for chatting!

C: Thanks Meghan!

Source: http://feministcurrent.com/6267/can-women-and-men-be-just-friends-an-interview-with-my-lady-friend-chris/

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Boy Scouts face release of damaging sex abuse files

By Reuters

The Boy Scouts of America could face a wave of bad publicity as decades of records of confirmed or alleged child molesters within the U.S. organization are expected to be released in coming weeks.?

On Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reported the organization failed to report allegations of sex abuse of scouts by adult leaders and volunteers to police in hundreds of cases from 1970 to 1991. In some cases, the Boy Scouts helped the accused "cover their tracks," the paper said.?

The story was based on a review of 1,600 internal Boy Scouts case files the newspaper said it obtained that detailed accusations against confirmed or alleged child molesters within the youth organization.?

About 1,200 "ineligible volunteer" files dating from 1965 to 1985 are set to be publicly released under a June order by the Oregon Supreme Court, including some already reviewed by the newspaper.?

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Those files played a key role in a 2010 civil trial in which an Oregon jury found the Boy Scouts liable in a 1980s pedophile case and ordered the organization to pay nearly $20 million in damages.?

The files will be released within three to four weeks, said Paul Mones, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiff in the Oregon case.?

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In the wake of revelations about systemic child sex abuse within the Catholic Church and the recent Penn State sex abuse scandal, the files threaten to damage the reputation of one of America's most trusted institutions.?

Mones said the allegations revealed in the Oregon case are not necessarily comparable to the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal.?
"In the Catholic Church there were overt cover-ups, and I don't think you see a lot of that here with the Boy Scouts," Mones told Reuters on Sunday.?

The Boy Scouts of America said in a statement on Sunday that while it regrets past incidents where scouts were sexually abused, its current policies require even suspicions of abuse to be reported directly to law enforcement.?

"The BSA (has) continuously enhanced its multi-tiered policies and procedures, which now include background checks, comprehensive training programs and safety policies," the statement said.?

The organization said it has maintained an internal "ineligible volunteer" file since at least 1919 to prevent suspected or confirmed child sex abusers from joining or re-entering its ranks.?

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Boy Scouts of America officials and attorneys have said the files represent only a fraction of the adults who participate as scout leaders each year.?

The Boy Scouts have annually counted between 3.5 and 5 million scouts and more than 1 million adult leaders and volunteers among its members since the 1960s, a spokesman for the organization said.?

The organization is facing more than 50 pending child sexual abuse cases in 18 states, according to Kelly Clark, another plaintiff attorney in the Oregon case.?

Mones said he did not expect many new lawsuits to result from the upcoming release of the Scouts' files, predicting that statutes of limitation on sex abuse charges in most U.S. states would prevent victims from successful civil or criminal prosecution of alleged molesters.?

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Nevada's Fajardo racks up big dual-threat numbers

The season is now three weeks old, and the stats are proving what defensive coordinators have known for years.

A dual threat quarterback is still the most dangerous weapon an offense can have.

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DUAL THREAT TRIO: Michigan's Denard Robinson and Ohio State's Braxton Miller are the nation's most prominent dual-threat quarterbacks.

They're both looking up at Nevada's Cody Fajardo in the stat book.

Robinson, Miller and Fajardo are the only quarterbacks in the nation with at least 1,000 yards passing and 300 yards rushing this season. But Fajardo has more yards of total offense per game than either of his more famous counterparts after running for 118 yards and three touchdowns and throwing for 237 yards and a score in Saturday's 45-34 win over Northwestern State.

Fajardo has 362.3 yards of offense per game, good for eighth-best in the nation. Robinson is ninth at 350 yards a game, and Miller is 12th after throwing for a season-high 249 yards and four TDs in a dramatic 35-28 win over California.

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GENO ON POINT: West Virginia's Geno Smith doesn't need to use his feet to beat up on opposing defenses.

Smith is 66 of 75 passing for 734 yards and nine touchdowns through two games. He's got as many passing TDs as incompletions and his 88 percent completion percentage leads the nation.

Smith might not find as many open receivers starting this week when the Mountaineers (2-0) face Maryland. West Virginia then starts its first season in the Big 12 by hosting Baylor on Sept. 29.

Based on Smith's passing prowess, the Mountaineers should fit right in to their new league.

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BAD START: Massachusetts could use a dual-threat quarterback ? and pretty much everything else.

UMass, in its first season in the FBS, is last nationally in scoring offense and defense. The Minutemen are scoring 6.5 points per game and giving up 48.3 after getting blown out by Robinson and the Wolverines 63-13.

UMass (0-3) is also the only team in the country gaining less than 200 yards a game and one of just nine allowing more than 500 per outing.

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RUSHING STARS: UCLA freshman quarterback Brett Hundley can run when he needs to.

He's quickly learned that it's better to turn around and hand it to Johnathan Franklin.

Franklin and Nevada's Stefphon Jefferson are the only players in the country with over 500 yards rushing this season. Franklin maintained his national lead despite a season-low 110 yards on 25 carries in a 37-6 win over Houston. Franklin has 541 yards, and Jefferson has 529 after exploding for 247 yards in Saturday's win over Northwestern State.

Fresno State's Robbie Rouse is third with 382 yards rushing.

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SEMINOLE SHUTDOWN: Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd will take touchdowns any way he can get them next weekend in Tallahassee.

Florida State (3-0) leads the nation in points allowed per game at 1 having pitched a pair of shutouts after allowing a field goal in a season-opening win over Murray State.

The Tigers are scoring nearly 40 points per game behind Boyd, a junior. But they'll be hard-pressed to match that total against the Seminoles.

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EXTRA POINTS: Ohio State's Braxton Miller is also the only quarterback ranked in the top 10 in rushing yards per game with 125.7 ... Utah's Sean Sellwood leads the nation with 48.9 yards per punt. ... Louisiana-Monroe, which nearly knocked off Auburn on Saturday after stunning Arkansas, is averaging 37:02 in time of possession. ... Oklahoma State has reached its opponent's red zone 20 times in three games and has scored every time. The Cowboys have settled for field goals inside their opponent's 20 twice. ... It's no surprise that Alabama is the nation's top-ranked team. The Crimson Tide leads the country in turnover margin, with 12 takeaways against just one turnover.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/nevadas-fajardo-racks-big-dual-threat-numbers-072604198--spt.html

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