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Police haven't accused the quarterback of the nation's second-ranked team with a crime. Evidence shows he had an encounter with a woman who's accused him of one.

Jameis Winston

A DNA test has connected Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston with a woman who accused him of sexual assault, according to a report by ESPN's Mark Schlabach:

A DNA analysis completed by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement on Tuesday confirmed that DNA provided by Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston matched the sample taken from the underwear of a woman who has accused him of sexual battery.

According to the DNA analysis report, a copy of which was viewed by ESPN.com on Wednesday, the Florida state crime lab determined that the chances of the DNA in the woman's underwear are a match for someone other than Winston was one in 2.2 trillion.

As Schlabach points out, the positive test does not prove that Winston assaulted the woman or committed any other crime, but it does confirm that Winston's DNA was found on the accuser on the day she alleged that she had been sexually assaulted.

Reports surfaced last week, connecting Winston with a sexual assault investigation from December 2012. Winston has not talked with police in connection with the investigation, and a recent statement from the victim's family claims a Tallahassee detective discouraged her from pursuing the case. Tallahassee police denied these claims Wednesday night, saying the accuser stopped cooperating with the investigation in February 2013. The State Attorney, who took over the investigation earlier this month, has been in contact with the woman.

Winston is widely considered a top candidate for the 2013 Heisman Trophy, and his Florida State Seminoles are undefeated this season.

O'Bannon v. NCAA

Word came out Wednesday that the NCAA filed suit against Electronic Arts and the Collegiate Licensing Company on November 4, seeking to stop the proposed settlement between EA, CLC, and players who filed suit for use of their likenesses in EA's college sports games. The NCAA, which alleges in the suit that Electronic Arts did not hold insurance sufficient to cover the costs and damages in the O'Bannon case, is also seeking reimbursement of attorney fees and payment of any judgment against it for the video game franchises.

Northern Illinois remains unbeaten

No. 16 NIU left Toledo with a 35-17 win, clinching the MAC West for the fourth year in a row. The Huskies finish the season next week at home against lowly Western Michigan, meaning their first-ever unbeaten regular season is all but assured.

NIU will face the winner of Nov. 29's Buffalo-Ball State game in the MAC Championship Dec. 6, and a third straight conference title could send the Huskies back to a BCS bowl for the second year in a row.

Coaching searches

USC interim head coach Ed Orgeron is not out of the hunt for the full-time position at the end of the season, according to Trojans athletic director Pat Haden:

Pat Haden: ``What Ed had done has been absolutely remarkable. He is clearly in our eyesight. But my job is to find the best coach of #USC.''

— InsideUSC (@InsideUSC) November 20, 2013

Orgeron has racked up a 5-1 record since taking over for the fired Lane Kiffin in September, and led the Trojans to an upset win over No. 5 Stanford last weekend. Denver Broncos defensive coordinator Jack Del Rio, Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin, and former Chicago Bears coach Lovie Smith have also been connected with the coaching search.

Injuries

Baylor running backs Lache Seastrunk and Glasco Martin could return for the Bears' crucial Big 12 game against Oklahoma State this weekend. Both players suffered injuries in Baylor's win over Oklahoma and were unavailable against Texas Tech last week. Seastrunk has run for 888 yards and 11 scores this year, while Martin has 319 yards on 75 carries.

Elsewhere, South Carolina halfback Mike Davis is questionable for this weekend's game against Coastal Carolina with "a series of minor injuries." With backup halfback Brandon Wilds nursing a hamstring injury, Shon Carson is set to make his first collegiate start.

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Hog Wild

Established in 2002, Feral Brewing Company is a family owned and operated hand-crafted craftbrewery in Perth, Australia. Its range of beers, from White Beer to American IPA to Porter have made Feral one of the most popular craft breweries in Australia and one of the most celebrated, having won many prizes at the Australian International Beer Awards, including being the current titleholders of Best Large Australian Brewery. Yet, Feral remains unknown to less discerning beer drinkers and they wanted to extend their reach through a redesign of their logo and beer packaging, designed by Perth-based Block.

Block's rebranding is handcrafted and distinctive without detracting from the company's obsessive focus on its beers, flavours and ingredients, with an intentionally DIY, rough-and-ready aesthetic to match the company's hands-on approach to brewing.

"At a time when all the big guys are jumping on the craft brew trend and every bloke and his accountant-mate starting a trendy craft-brewery, Feral is the real deal. Feral is all about what's in the bottle, so we felt this rebranding shouldn't look overworked or pretentious. What we have created is the antithesis of the minimalist or 'ye olde' beer brands that are cluttering the market," says Mark Braddock, Creative Director at Block.

The branding process started with the purchase of an old photocopier for $50 so that the packaging and promotional material would be genuinely fresh and DIY.

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Block was kind enough to share some of the non-design materials presented to Feral, including the non-scientific research below, sketches of the titular hog, and the brand vision for the brewery.

To say that this is an improvement over the original logo and packaging is an understatement. While the original bottles and logo had that naive, amateur charm of craft breweries and their unpolished logos and labels — which can only take a brewery so far — the new approach maintains the same raw energy but with a much clearer purpose and strategy. Even if the punk rock collage aesthetic isn't your thing, the level of consistency within the inconsistent and chaotic look is perfectly crafted — speaking for myself, the punk rock collage aesthetic is very much my thing (mostly because I can't do it myself but wish I could). The resulting identity is as bad-ass as the brewery's name and everything from the cutout animal illustrations to the red pencil markings to the flaming ass of the smoked porter makes me want to drop what I'm doing and drink a beer.

As Wisconsin drivers contend with this winter's storms, they can thank mozzarella and provolone for keeping them on the road.

Sure, this 2,000 square-foot, no-windows, no-view property is a bit of a fixer-upper. But think of the Halloween parties you could throw down here.

My first massively open online course ended recently, and I just can’t stop asking multiple-choice questions.

Here’s one: Which of the following statements might be true?

1) Two-thirds of those enrolled never showed up

2) More than half of the students earned a passing grade

It’s obviously a trick question since the answer is “both.” The apparent contradiction is entirely dependent on another, perhaps bigger question, one that is often phrased as a challenge—if not to to the idea of MOOCs, to the idea of their value: What good is a class where only 2% of the students bother to finish?

Or, to put it a little more quantitatively: What denominator should we use in computing student participation, engagement, and completion in a course like this, when the numerator is going to be the number who passed (in my case, 1,196)?

While there are plenty of ways to answer that, the one I decided to try—in keeping with the modality of a MOOC—was asking the students.

So, halfway through “Understanding Media by Understanding Google,” my Northwestern course on Coursera, that’s what I did. And though the 302 students who replied didn’t entirely agree, the preponderance of the evidence pointed me to a different answer than any of those I first offered as possibilities. Should it be, I asked them, based on the number of people who watched even one lecture—or all the lectures? How about the number who tried the first quiz? Or should we just stick with that great big enrollment number?

So, back to my opening pair of answers. The “two-thirds who never showed up” are the 36,378 people who never encountered any course content after enrolling.  That number is 66% (or 55,412 enrolled minus 19,034, the number who actually at least started to watch one lecture).

And the “more than half” who passed? Since a student had to turn in at least two homework assignments to have a mathematical chance to earn 70 points, that denominator would be 2,385.  And 1,196 is indeed a little more than half that total. (You could get marginally higher percentages by using just the students who remained registered throughout, represented in the chart by the blue segments of the bars.)

There is, of course, sample bias at work in the students’ definition: Most who weighed in were still doing the work halfway through the six-week course. Several of the 302 responses, however, did come from people who said they never intended to earn a grade. They reported they would think of themselves as having completed the course if they watched all of the video lectures. In fact, they assigned themselves the well-established label of “auditors.”

 Still, why do the numbers seem to shrink so?

Let’s move from our idea of “auditors” to another staple of academia, the course catalog. And let’s do a little comparing and contrasting.

I’ll start with the people I could call MOOC-omores, 55,000 people who happen to sign up for a free course that sounds interesting. Then I’ll create a completely theoretical population of second-year students at Bricks and Mortar U. who at the same are trolling for enjoyable on-campus electives—why, let’s call them sophomores. And I’ll set the second population size at 100 for ease of math.  How do these two groups proceed?

The MOOC-omore		Activity		The sophomore
Clicks “Enroll Now”	55,000	Likes a title in the course catalog	100	Adds to a “shopping cart”
May or may not un-enroll, but stops considering	25,000 vanish	Finds an even better-sounding course or encounters a scheduling conflict	45 vanish	Removes course from the cart
May or may not un-enroll, but stops considering	Another11,000 vanish	Assesses the syllabus negatively	Another20 vanish	Removes course from the cart
Remains enrolled	19,000	Assesses the syllabus positively and tries first class	35	Formally enrolls
Becomes an auditor, un-enrolls, or picks another MOOC	Another13,000 vanish	Decides not to take quizzes	Another 24 vanish	Withdraws and transfers to another course; rarely, audits
	Another4,000 vanish	Decides not to do or grade homework	Another 7 vanish
Keeps coming to class	2,000	Tries to pass the course	4	Keeps coming to class

Admittedly, we don’t have many four-person elective classes here at Northwestern’s Medill School, where I teach journalism in some of those bricks-and-mortar buildings, so the comparisons do finally break down somewhat. But then again, the sophomore has limited tuition dollars as well as limited choices. The MOOC-omore has limited time and attention, but hundreds of choices, whether among other online courses or other life activities.

It’s also a factor that, as recently noted in the New York Times, signing up for a MOOC “takes less time than signing up for an iTunes account,” and that it then takes even less time simply to disappear from a crowd of 55,000.

For now, as I work on evaluating how much the 1,196 learned en route to the finish line, I think I have one helpful way to think about the 54,000 who didn’t get there. (Soon, I’ll have results of my post-course survey of students both who passed and who didn’t, perhaps allowing me to further refine my thinking—and my choice of metaphors.)

This is what I say for now: Sure, the entire population of the Chicago suburb of Mount Prospect can sign up for a course. But when it’s over, we can hold graduation in the same auditorium on Northwestern’s campus that we use for the journalism school.

Owen’s blog is the Next Miracle and you can follow him @YoungOwen. We welcome your comments at ideas@qz.com.

Architecture for Dogs | Kenya Hara | Via

Kenya Hara is the main founder of the Hara Design Institute. Their latest project deals with ‘Architecture for Dogs‘, an ‘extremely sincere collection of architecture and a new medium, which make dogs and their people happy’, explains Kenya Hara. Thirteen constructions are featured in the project, all of which are designed around specific dog breeds, including the Shiba, Spitz and Pug. Each house is designed by a different architect whose unique aesthetic is represented in works that complement the size and personalities of the chosen dogs and their master. Kenya offers to download some of these elaborately designed ingenious structures and to ‘make it yourself for your dog.’

Amazon destruction up by 28% in year

Washington Post

Suspected US drone hits Islamic seminary in Pakistan, killing six Washington Post PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. drone targeted an Islamic seminary early Thursday in northwest Pakistan, killing six people in an attack likely to inflame tensions over the CIA drone campaign. According to local officials, three missiles were fired ... Rare US drone strike kills 5 in PakistanBusinessweek Drone Strike Reported Outside Pakistan's Tribal RegionNew York Times US drone kills senior militant in Pakistani seminaryReuters The News International -TIME -BBC News all 276 news articles »

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design-is-fine:

M. C. Escher, Covered Alley in Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, 1931. Wood engraving.

archimaps:

Concept for Battery Park City in 1969, New York City

Photograph by Naoya Hatakeyama

abandonedography:

The images above show the former Osaka Stadium in Japan around 1998-1999. Prior to this, it was the home of the Nankai Hawks baseball team until the owner sold it to the Daiei Group and the team was moved to Fukoka City. After the sale, the stadium was abandoned and purchased by a property development company that used the space as a model home showroom. Eventually the stadium was demolished and a shopping center now resides where a stadium and former showroom once presided.

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Kanye West claims Zappos sells sh*t product. So Zappos does. It's a $100,000 toilet seat and brush, which is already enjoying positive reviews.

'You can only s--- your pants so many times before you have to go to the emergency room,' Lawrence told David Letterman. When asked about her condition, Lawrence told Confidenti@l she was feeling good, but 'gassy.'

art-of-swords:

The ‘Lost’ Second Book of Nicolatto Giganti (1608): A Rapier Fencing Treatise

Last month ARMA announced that the previously thought ‘lost’ second book by Nicoletto Giganti (dated circa 1608) had not only been found, but was being translated into English! Today, this work is finally available and can be ordered!!!

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Nicoletto Giganti is one of the most celebrated Italian fencing masters of the 17th century. His widely-acclaimed treatise of 1606 promised a second work, which however was long considered lost or never to have been written. Nonetheless in 1847 Alberto Marchionni did describe a purported second book by Giganti, outlining its contents in reasonable detail.

In 2012 Joshua Pendragon (as Guest Exhibition Curator for the Noble Art of the Sword exhibition at the Wallace Collection in London) and Piermarco Terminiello, determined that the 1608 edition of Giganti held in the Lord Howard De Walden Library, is none other than the volume promised by Giganti in 1606, and described by Marchionni.

This is the only known extant copy, of a work whose very existence had long been considered no more than a rumour. A book sought after and anticipated for centuries.

Source: Association for Renaissance Martial Arts

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CowboyRobot writes "The price of a stolen identity has dropped as much as 37 percent in the cybercrime underground: to $25 for a U.S. identity, and $40 for an overseas identity. For $300 or less, you can acquire credentials for a bank account with a balance of $70,000 to $150,000, and $400 is all it takes to get a rival or targeted business knocked offline with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire attack. Meanwhile, ID theft and bank account credentials are getting cheaper because there is just so much inventory (a.k.a. stolen personal information) out there. Bots are cheap, too: 1,000 bots go for $20, and 15,000, for $250."

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Toronto Star

Palo Alto man removed from plane, detained in North Korea San Jose Mercury News An elderly grandfather from Palo Alto has been detained in North Korea for more than three weeks. Sources say North Korean authorities removed Merrill Newman, 85, from the plane on which he was to leave the country on Oct. 26. Newman and a neighbor ... 85-year-old American vet taken off plane and detained in North Korea, son saysCTV News all 475 news articles »

With Journey Through Middle-Earth, Google’s latest Chrome Experiment, you can explore fantastical locations from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit film trilogy. You can select specific locations like Dol Guldur, Rivendell, or the Trollshaw forest from a map of Middle-earth. Then, you can learn about the location’s history and explore the area in first-person view. The interactive journey works in Chrome on laptops, smartphones, and tablets, and Google says it will be adding more locations in the coming weeks. Check it out for yourself here. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug hits theaters on December 13th, 2013.

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Daily Mail

JetBlue flight makes emergency landing in Orlando after an emergency slide ... Daily Mail A JetBlue flight was forced into an emergency landing this afternoon after one of the planes emergency evacuation slides deployed mid-flight inside the aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed that JetBlue Flight 1266 from Fort Meyers to Boston ... Boston-bound JetBlue flight diverted after evacuation slide opensKDAL Flight diverted after slide activates on boardLompoc Record all 97 news articles »

Daily Mail

Secret deal was made to allow NSA store personal data on Britons Irish Times The phone, internet and email records of UK citizens not suspected of any wrongdoing have been analysed and stored by America's National Security Agency (NSA) under a secret deal that was approved by British intelligence officials, according to ... Documents show Blair government let US spy on BritonsChannel 4 News US can spy on Britons despite pact, memo saysSydney Morning Herald German Lawmaker Asks for UK 'Spy' FilesABC News Telegraph.co.uk -ZDNet all 115 news articles »

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So I can’t do my math homework cause my duck fell asleep on my calculator..

Happens.

It would be nice if the system overall was a little bit more forgiving or smarter about how it interprets voice commands as well. For example, I tried launching a game by saying "Xbox, go to Kinect Sports" and received no response. I tried "Xbox, go to Kinect Sports Rivals" and still got nothing. It was only when I got out the mouthful "Xbox, go to Kinect Sports Rival Preseason" that it deigned to launch my game. The need for such precision can be a little overwhelming if you're relying on voice commands. "Snap Netflix" won't work even if the system is still listening after a previous command; you need to add the "Xbox" again or the system will just ignore you. Don't add that "Xbox" if you're using app-level commands, though, or the system is liable to ignore you. You'd better remember that it's "Add favorite" and not "Xbox, add favorite" when browsing Internet Explorer. And don't forget, it's "Xbox on," but "Xbox, turn off." Mix those up, and it just won't work. What's worse, if you give an improperly formatted command, the system seems to just pretend it doesn't hear you. There's no indication on screen telling you if what you said was actually an invalid command, or if the system simply misheard what would have been a correct command if it had been working correctly. It took me way too many attempts at saying "Xbox, Snap Skype" before I finally realized that Skype actually can't be snapped to the side of the screen, and thus Kinect was just ignoring my commands as meaningless.

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