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King, Gayle
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|28 December 1954 at 09:02 (= 09:02 AM )
|Chattanooga, Tennessee, 35n03, 85w19
|EST h5w (is standard time)
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|06°19' 13°45 Asc. 23°55'
Black-American editor-at-large for O, The Oprah Magazine, and former reporter, news anchor, talk show host and some-time actress. She is a well-regarded best friend of Oprah Winfrey, per Oprah, since 1976. She regularly appears on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Oprah frequently recounts "Gayle" anecdotes to her huge TV audiences ever since their mutual humble beginnings at a Baltimore, Maryland television station.
King began her media career in 1975 as a college student, hired as a reporter and weekend anchor at WTOP-TV in Washington, D.C.. In 1976, she met Oprah (then a news anchor) when she worked at WJZ-TV in Baltimore, as a production assistant. At WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Missouri, she was a reporter and weekend anchor from 1978-1981. Then in 1982, she became a news anchor for WFSB Eyewitness News out of Hartford, Connecticut, staying there 18 years. In 1991, she briefly co-hosted an NBC daytime talk show with Robin Wagner called Cover to Cover until it was cancelled. In 1997, she was offered her own syndicated talk show for Eyemark Entertainment, "The Gayle King Show" which was cancelled after a year due to low ratings. In 1999, she became the editor for O and worked as a correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show and Good Morning America. In September 2006, King began to co-host Oprah and Friends on XM Satellite Radio.
Raised in Bethesda, Maryland, she is the eldest of four daughters born to Scott, an electrical engineer and Peggy King, a homemaker. She enjoyed a very comfortable middle-class upbringing and got to travel around the world until the family finally settled in Maryland. Gayle graduated from the University of Maryland in 1976. Though her degree was in psychology, she decided to pursue a media career. She began dating a local police officer named William Bumpers who was pursuing a law degree at Yale University. They married in 1982 and divorced in 1993 due to his infidelity. In the late 1980s, they had a daughter, Kirby, and a son, William, who are now in college. Thanks to godmother, Oprah's generosity, Gayle was able to hire a nanny, raise her children and pursue a career at the same time. She and Oprah call each other, shop, dine and travel everywhere frequently together, primarily at Oprah's expense.
When asked about why she never remarried, Gayle's implied that part of the reason is that men are intimidated by her and her celebrated soul-mate friend, Oprah. This response started speculation in the media and in hair salons that she and Oprah may have a lesbian relationship considering the fact that they seem to be inseparable. This gossip was further fueled by Gayle's statement in O Magazine, in 2006, that if Oprah were a man, she would date her! Both of them have publicly denied such a relationship, stating that if they were lesbians, they would be the first to admit it. They both believe there is nothing wrong with being gay.
Gayle admits to having size 10 feet and jokes about it frequently. She describes herself as a "news junkie", "technically challenged" and "not very organized" when it comes to her job, relying a lot on specialized staff. Her personal interests include searching out healthy gourmet food restaurants, shopping, music and world travel. She has visited South Africa numerous times with Oprah, who has had a $40 million dollar school for disadvantaged children constructed in Johannesburg. MediaTakeOut.com confirmed on May 17, 2007, through a South African official, that Gayle is in the lengthy process of adopting a 2-year old South African girl.
- friend relationship with Booker, Cory (born 27 April 1969)
- friend relationship with Winfrey, Oprah (born 29 January 1954)
- Relationship : Begin significant relationship 1976 (Met Oprah Winfrey)
- Relationship : Marriage 1982 (To William Bumpers)
- Work : Begin Major Project 1982 (Began as news anchor for WFSB Eyewitness News)
- Relationship : Divorce dates 1993 (From Bumpers)
- Work : Begin Major Project 2006 (Radio show for Satellite radio)
Source Notes
PT quotes her on giving her birth data on her radio show broadcast of Feb 13, 2007 in which she and astrologer Shelley Ackerman converse about her chart.
- Traits : Body : Race (African-American)
- Family : Childhood : Order of birth (Eldest of four girls)
- Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3 (Two)
- Vocation : Entertainment : Radio/ D.J./ Announcer
- Vocation : Entertainment : TV host/ Personality
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor (Editor at large for "O" magazine)
- 1954 births
- Birthday 28 December
- Birthplace Chattanooga, TN (US)
- Sun 6 Capricorn
- Moon 13 Aquarius
- Asc 23 Capricorn
- Traits : Body : Race
- Family : Childhood : Order of birth
- Family : Relationship : Number of Divorces
- Family : Relationship : Number of Marriages
- Family : Parenting : Kids 1-3
- Vocation : Entertainment : Radio/ D.J./ Announcer
- Vocation : Entertainment : TV host/ Personality
- Vocation : Writers : Columnist/ journalist
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor


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'The Bachelorette' Finale Recap: Does Desiree Find Love?
Monday, August 05, 2013
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Well, well well,
fans. It all comes down to this. Ours and Desiree Hartsock's combined quests for love come to an end this week, with the ultimate question being, will Desiree's search continue on her own (without us? without US??)? Are you prepared? I, for one, sure as hell am not.
We've grown accustomed to this being a sweet, hopeful night built on the possibility of everlasting love that, even if for just a brief moment in time, proves that fairytale endings
happen atop a far-off cliff overlooking a glistening lake as the setting sun brims on the horizon of singledom.
When a man, so overcome by his undying feelings of eternal bonding, drops to one knee with a shimmering diamond that couldn't possibly exist within the confines of our deepest savings account and professes his devotion to a woman, that
woman he cannot live without. The "one" we spend our whole lives fighting off crippling loneliness for in desperate searches that have only slim hopes of concluding in endless bliss.
Then Brooks took a crap in that loveless lake and reminded us this is a horrible reality television show designed to tear at our heartstrings while ripping out those of one woman and at least 24 other guys who will inevitably fall short in their efforts of landing that prized piece that some other dude would rather bone than bond with.
But hey, at least I'm not bitter.
For real, though, that shi -- err, stuff -- was tough to watch last week. I get this is the best thing other than a happy ending, but c'mon, we watched a woman's heart break in slow motion. And it just went on and on and on. I'll take hapless Ben picking the hot model villain of the season over this any day. And I don't expect things to get much better tonight.
I mean, what else can really happen? She's going to spend the first 90 minutes wondering if it's possible for her to go on when the man she dropped an early and technically illegal L bomb on basically told her he didn't love her back. Which, of course, she can't, because if she ended up with either Chris or Drew, they've already watched her say on national television that she couldn't love them the way they deserve.
Then we'll get to watch her break both of their hearts before we hope for some solace in the
After the Final Rose
show. This might be the first time since Jason Mesnick's season, when everyone was like, daaaaaamn, no you didn't! as they watched the Bachelor dump Melissa Rycroft and end up with his runner-up (one of the few relationships that actually ended in a marriage, to boot!), in which that post-show matters more than the finale. And I'm sure that sentiment will repeat itself if Desiree IS now with Brooks. Even though more than half of the poll takers in
our prediction article
are apparently rooting for that to happen.
Either way, I hope you're ready for two hours of tears and no happy ending. Though the promo tells us we have no idea how it's going to end, so maybe we're all wrong. And we'll also find out
that Juan Pablo is
the identity of the next Bachelor. Get the tissues ready, folks, it's
finale time.
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Chris Harrison bused in a live studio audience of estrogen-backed emotion to watch the events unfold, and our two-part finale continues. Our hopes of once again meeting Desiree's sweetheart parents and a you-know-what of a brother were crushed when Brooks left, and she has no idea what to do next. She sobs that she just wants to go home, and the overly-soft spoken host can only offer condolences that good old Nate actually ended up being right ... again. Seriously, he-who-shalt-not-be-named Damien was correct in back-to-back Desiree seasons.
She considers the merits of Drew and Chris and insists that she's not broken, even though her heart is shattered. She doesn't want them to feel how she feels, so she wants to continue on in her journey and see where it goes, if she'll develop that spark that can lead to a lifetime of happiness.
The Boys Arrive for a Rose Ceremony
Drew and Chris show up, having no knowledge of all that has happened and thinking they're about to be whittled down from three to two. Chris Harrison breaks the news that Brooksy is gone, but he leaves it to Desiree to offer the details.
She fights back tears as she uses words like "unpredictable" and "a two-way street" to define love. But she doesn't want Brooks to dictate her other relationships, so she offers each of them a rose. Drew and his eight-pack promise to beat down every member of the Jets
the Sharks, while Chris offers a rhyming three-lined couplet professing his love.
No, for real, they both just accept the flowers, with Chris struggling to deal with Desiree's tears and Drew vowing to propose and never leave. Like, ever. (Taylor Swift reference!)
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The Studio Audience Weighs In
Because it's
feelings that really matter. One chick thinks that Brooks is a stand-up guy who was just being honest, and her fingers are crossed that he comes back. The crowd cheers. Another girl who really, REALLY wants to be a contestant on the show declares her allegiance to team Chris because he communicates well.
A pro-Drew girl likes how much he adores Desiree, while girl number four is team Chris but believes it's Brooks or no one. An older lady thinks Brooks went wrong by asking advice from two women instead of a dude, while our last girl tells Chris and Drew to run for the hills. Then the overwhelming majority of the audience claps for love. Woo, love! Yeaaahhhh, love!!
Back to the Depressing Action
Cause we haven't seen Desiree cry in, like, 13 minutes. But she seems like a different Des the next day, promising us that her spirit isn't broken and giving the guys one last chance to make her believe on a final Antigua dream date. Desiree even gets a Sean Lowe-like moment as she dons a bikini in anticipation of possible Brooks-esque love with Drew.
They ride horses on the beach, with the ever-present cumulonimbus cloud of Brooks hanging over their conversation. They try and make small talk for, like, seven minutes before Desiree sits Drew down, bursts into tears and tells him she can't be 100% for him.
Drew, ever my favorite, thanks her for her honesty and mutters "I don't know," like, eight times. He even tells her not to apologize, and says she doesn't have to be sorry for not being in love with him. It's out of her control, and he wouldn't want anything less than for her to love him as much as he loves her. Outside, the dude looks like Superman. Inside, he more resembles mashed potatoes.
He says goodbye, hugs her and wishes her happiness, and that's that for remaining Bachelor number one. Poor Drew. He deserves better.
He's crushed, confused and didn't see coming out of this without Des. "When it was all said and done, she just didn't want to be with me," he pines. Facing the prospect of a life without her, Drew sheds one perfectly-formed gelled and combed tear. He vows to start over in the search for that perfect life, and the women in the live audience tremble. How they still have 75 minutes of stretched-out finale remaining, I have no clue.
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Will Chris Suffer the Same Fate?
Chris kicks off their date with a haughty "Welcome!" and a giggly Des is, like, did you really just start our date that way? She says it already feels "different from Drew, in a good way." Ouch.
He brings up the topic of Brooks' departure first, with good intentions, saying it was tough to watch her cry, that he wanted to console her and that he'll always be there. They share some kisses, fruity alcoholic beverages, awkwardly flirty conversation and a swim, and she's actually doing a pretty good job of fooling herself. The only way Chris even makes it past today is if they have the "perfect" date she says she needs. But there's just no way she can accept a proposal at this point. Brooks is always going to be in the back of her head.
Date Night
She is really throwing herself, metaphorically as well as physically, into Chris' arms. It's an admirable effort. Chris says he's fallen in love and is interested to see what the future brings, and she praises his strength and confidence.
Amazingly, he does not have one final poem for her. Mistake, my friend, as she
them. Still, he thanks her for the experience, which she appreciates and reciprocates with gratitude for him being by her side.
Their relationship is easy and always picks up where it left off with an "Oh, hey." It's the crucial element of every loving relationship. At least we don't have to worry about him trying to be smooth. Unless this IS him trying to be smooth.
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Token Love and Love Tokens
Chris asks if Desiree wants him to meet her parents, and she says maybe, kinda, I guess, that could happen soon. He also gives her a journal with the inscription, "To Des, thank you for all the great moments and everything you have shared with me. Love, Chris," and the quote, "The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are but the direction of where we are going." In the back are alllll the poems we have been subjected to over the last few months.
She is swept off her feet and feels so lucky to be the person receiving his love, because she's never felt like anyone has loved her as much as she has loved them. And that's why it's hard for her to feel so loved. And she feels guilty for not having loved him so much since the beginning.
Tons o' smooches follow, but is she just getting our hopes up?
Filler from the Past
As if to confirm there wasn't enough footage to fill the final hour, Chris Harrison welcomes Jackie, Lesley, Lindsay, Catherine and Sean to weigh in on what's just transpired. But first, a
wedding update: Sean Lowe and Catherine are still in love but have not yet set a date. It's reality show heaven.
If Catherine had done what Brooks did, Sean says he would've packed his bags and gone home, but he's hopeful Desiree had a change of heart with Chris. He had frustrating points during his season as the Bachelor, but never an I-want-to-quit moment.
Catherine, for her part, doesn't think Chris could propose once he finds out how in love she was with Brooks. But if he has unconditional love for her, they could still end up together.
Jackie is convinced Brooks was the one, but love is blind, and it appears Desiree has "come further" since her true love walked away, like, three whole days ago. She loves Chris and thinks they look great together.
It's evident to Lesley and, in her opinion, the entire studio audience that Desiree was just extremely happy with Chris and that she couldn't stop smiling, and Chris Harrison points out it's a total rebound moment and that there's no way it was totally sincere. Lesley disagrees, because Desiree is clearly in love with Chris.
Lindsay was Sean's runner-up, and it's hard for her to watch her friend suffer. Lindsay wants to throw a shoe at Brooks' head, and while she sees chemistry with Chris, she feels like Brooks is the one.
Yep, we'll never get those last 10 minutes back.
Welcome to the Family
Desiree is making one last effort to sort through her feelings, so she has decided to let Chris meet her family. The whole gang is there -- mom, dad and Nate -- and Damien peppers him with questions while seemingly on his best behavior. Chris gives his usual slightly-awkward but honest and endearing answers.
Chris gets some QT with dad and asks permission for Desiree's hand, which he easily gets. I think dad just wants to get her married off already, and he knows it's up to his daughter anyway. I mean, they've known the guy for all of 18 seconds. The couple says goodbye, and Desiree returns to get her family's opinion.
Nate asks if Chris is the one Des wants to spend the rest of her life with, and she says, "In this moment, yes." Which is what every groom wants to hear. Brohan urges her not to settle or rush into anything, but he thinks if she picks Chris, it's the right choice. Then with no urging from show producers (wink, wink), Nate asks about Brooks and the obvious connection they had when Nate visited her hotel room.
She insists she is over him, but we all know that's bull, because it JUST HAPPENED, and people don't get over stuff like that in a few days. She is determined to trust her heart, but Nate pointing out the absolutely obvious (and all on his own, no less ... wink, wink) throws a kink in her plans.
Desiree's Final Day in Antigua
Will it be the greatest day of her life? Or the worst? We'll find out soon enough!
Chris picks out an engagement ring, a giant, gorgeous if not gaudy rock that he expects she will cherish forever. He gets all snazzy in his tux, unaware that he is the last man standing, while Desiree puts on her illustrious and flowing gown. She wants to be in love desperately, but even now she has no idea what she's going to do.
The first step, she decides, is to confess exactly how strongly she felt about Brooks. Or not, cause she doesn't.
The Final Decision
The end time has arrived, the moment we've all been waiting for. So will Desiree find love? Or will she be the first of nine Bachelorettes to leave empty-handed? Or the first to say "I love you" to two different guys?
Chris tells her she looks beautiful and gives a passionate speech about his poetry and about being in love with her, saying he doesn't want to make decisions alone anymore. He wants to be the rock that doesn't break for her. Then, as he is about to drop to one knee, she stops him so that she can be "completely honest."
He's all smiles after she tells him she already sent Drew packing and that he's the only one who met her family. But he's getting ahead of himself, because first she has to admit that she was blindsided by Brooks. And that prevented her from seeing that what she needed was right in front of her all the time.
So, not the truth at all, then? She promises she'll tell him everything later. Great.
Desiree is grateful for him and thanks him every day for never giving up. He means the absolute world to her, and she loves him with all her heart and wants to spend the rest of her life with him.
He drops to left knee, asks her to start a family and grow old with him and says he wants to be her first and last. He presents her with the ring and asks her to marry him, and she says, "1,000 times yes."
They kiss, and forever is as close as a dive off that cliff they're standing on. I don't know about you, but I find this quite the unfulfilling end to the season. I just can't buy this being for real, and we're treated to a nice little montage of their moments together before the stunned studio audience erupts in tears and cheers.
I wish them the best, but c'mon. Do you really think this one is going to last? We get an update during the
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What were your thoughts on Desiree's final choice? Were you on team Chris? Did you see any of this coming? And how disappointing was Dante-Nate? Are you satisfied with how the season ended up? Me? Not so much. At least Drew is still single.
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Obviously, the Panthers prefer one way over the other.
A victory the Atlanta Falcons or a New Orleans loss to Tampa Bay on Sunday would earn the Panthers their third NFC South crown. The other three teams also have cliamed three titles since the division formed in 2002.
"We bump heads a lot, and you never know who is going to come out on top," defensive end
Not only have the other seven current divisions had repeat champions, five of them have had more than one team repeat. The exceptions are the AFC North, where the New England Patriots just wrapped up their 10th title in 12 years, and the AFC South, where the Indianapolis Colts just earned their eighth title.
Only twice has the defending NFC South champion even finished as runner-up the next year. The Panthers, of course, hope to buck that trend if they're able to prevail over the Saints.
"And I expect Atlanta to be back next year and Tampa to challenge," head coach Ron Rivera said. "You look at each team in this division, and we all have what we believe is our franchise quarterback – I know that Tampa feels very good about Mike Glennon. Each team has a very good defense, playmakers at wide receiver, and running back and tight ends that can make plays.
"This is going to be a tough division for a long time."
"If they didn't go and I went, I would be happy for myself but would be extremely disappointed in the voting process," Mitchell said. "They deserve it. They're huge anchors in our defense. Who is playing the position better than they are?
"It would be a catastrophe."
Kuechly, third in fan voting at inside linebacker last week before his 26-tackle game, seems to be in good shape. It's a more tenuous situation for Davis, who wasn't in the top 10 at outside linebacker last week. Fan voting ended Thursday, and the Pro Bowl selections will be announced Friday.
The good news for Davis is that coaches and players account for two-thirds of the vote, but it may still be an uphill battle. That's because the outside linebacker group includes rush linebackers in 3-4 schemes that have a chance to produce more eye-popping numbers. Davis is competing against nine outside linebackers with double-digit sack totals, all of whom play in 3-4 defenses.
"If he did rush every play, I'm sure he could get just as many sacks as everyone else is getting," Mitchell said. "They've got to figure out a way to separate it out."
"This is what you dream about as a kid, and I come out every day and prepare as if I'm going to play," McNutt said. "You don't want it under these circumstances, but I'm definitely thankful for the opportunity.
"I just hope it comes along with a speedy recovery for Steve, but anytime you get to play football, you've got to be excited – especially on Sundays."
McNutt, the University of Iowa's all-time leader in receiving yards and receiving touchdowns, played in four games as a rookie with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2012 but didn't record any stats. He spent the first five weeks this season on the Miami Dolphins' practice squad before Carolina signed him to the active roster, but he's yet to be active for a game.
"Obviously, my role won't be what Steve's is, but it's about helping out wherever I can," McNutt said. "I've got to be just as sharp as if I was playing 70 plays."
KICKING IT: The Panthers easily could have had two players of the week given the way
Nortman set the tone for his day with a 55-yard punt – which proved to merely be his fourth-longest. In the second half, he skied a punt that was downed at the 2-yard line, then launched/landed a 57-yarder at the 2.
It all added up to a 50.8 gross-yardage average and a 47.0 net-yardage average.
"When the field gets so wet, it tends to catch better. It's not going to take as strong a bounce," Nortman said. "Now once the ball hits the ground it's up to God where it goes, so I just kicked it where I wanted to and luckily it died there.
Nortman now ranks fourth in the NFL with a 47.7 gross average and fifth with a 41.7 net average.
GOOD GREG: Tight end has been selected as this year's winner of the Tom Berry Good Guy Award by the Carolinas chapter of the Pro Football Writers of America.
The award is named for Tom Berry, the long-time Panthers beat writer for the High-Point (N.C.) Enterprise who passed away near the start of the 2009 season. Each year, the award goes to the player the local writers believe is most helpful to the media. Past winners include
Olsen, always approachable in the locker room, is approaching his team records for receptions and yardage by a tight end set last year and ranks fifth among NFL tight ends in receptions (67), sixth in yardage (774) and ninth in touchdowns (five). Last season, he caught 69 passes for 843 yards and five touchdowns.


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I'll give you three guesses who said this about President Bush:
We don't expect the President to give the American people every detail about a classified surveillance program. But we do expect him to place such a program within the rule of law, and to allow members of the other two coequal branches of government – Congress and the Judiciary – to have the ability to monitor and oversee such a program. Our Constitution and our right to privacy as Americans require as much.
If you guessed Barack Obama, give yourself a cookie. But as Glenn Greenwald notes, and as I have been documenting for the past three years, this principled position evaporated the moment he inherited Bush's power:
The last decade has spawned a massive expansion of the domestic Surveillance State. Worse, the U.S. Government has vested itself with the virtually unchallenged ability to operate this surveillance regime in full secrecy and even beyond the reach of judicial review, which is another way of saying: above and beyond the rule of law.
Each time U.S. citizens in the post-9/11 era have accused government officials in federal court of violating the Constitution or otherwise acting illegally with how they spy on Americans, the Justice Department employs one of two secrecy weapons to convince courts they must not even rule on the legality of the domestic spying: (1) they insist the spying program is too secret to allow courts even to examine it (the Bush/Obama rendition of the "state secrets" privilege); and/or (2)because the spying is conducted in complete secrecy, nobody can say for certain that they have been subjected to it, and the DOJ thus argues that the particular individuals suing the Government — and, for that matter, everyone else in the country — lacks "standing" to challenge the legality of the spying (because nobody knows on whom we're spying, nobody has the right to sue us for breaking the law).
A government that can spy on its own citizens without judicial review is a government which, by definition, operates outside of the rule of law; as Alexander Hamilton put it in Federalist 15:
It is essential to the idea of a law, that it be attended with a sanction; or, in other words, a penalty or punishment for disobedience. If there be no penalty annexed to disobedience, the resolutions or commands which pretend to be laws will, in fact, amount to nothing more than advice or recommendation.
And that is all the constitution is these days with regard to the power of the executive branch, a set of suggestions casually ignored. Bush and Obama together have, for all practical purposes, brought the rule of law to an end in the United States.


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President Obama is using all the White House weapons at his disposal to woo voters in critical swing states in the campaign's final stretch, announcing a $30 million investment aimed at creating a manufacturing hub in Ohio to help boost technology and create jobs in a three-state region.
Recent polls show the president holding a slim edge over Republican rival Mitt Romney in Ohio, and Mr. Obama and Mr. Romney have crisscrossed the state pitching their competing economic plans.
The new initiative, which White House officials announced Wednesday, creates partnerships among manufacturing firms, universities, community colleges and nonprofit organizations in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia and will be based in Youngstown, Ohio, an area hard hit by manufacturing-job losses even before the economic recession.
"I'm pleased that we are taking steps to strengthen American manufacturing by launching a new manufacturing institute in Ohio," Mr. Obama said...
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I'm sure the constitutional scholar cited the supporting clause or amendment in the Constitution that allows him to spend the public money this way.
Expect nothing but silence or glowingly positive reports from those same networks on this.
FDR employed similar tactics to assure his first reelection. No surprise here.
Funding Ma Chalmers and her soybeans, eh?
He can announce he's giving them ten bazillion gazillion but Congress has to approve the money.
Are the Ohioans so dumb as to fall for another round of the messiah's phoney promises?
In fact, are Americans?
Yep, short answer is none.
How does the Whitehouse just keep dumping money without help from Congress?
As I understand it the money is already there and it's just being redirected.
Congress cannot stop this. They don't have the balls to try either.
the "hurricane" that leveled Youngstown et al hit in the Seventies. Now Zero wants to create more Union jobs be assured. Restaurants will prosper of course.
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W. Timothy Few, assistant professor of business, and Talha Harcar, associate professor of business, each have co-authored recent articles.
Few co-authored "Psychological Contracts and Organizational Identification: The Mediating Effect of Perceived Organizational Support" which appeared in the Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 32, No. 3. Harcar co-authored "Young Consumers' Cell Phone Usage in Developing Market: The Case of Turkish Youth Market" which appeared in the Journal of Marketing Development and Competitiveness, Vol. 5(3), 2011.
Few holds a doctorate in strategic management and an executive M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh, Katz Graduate School of Business, as well as a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics from Colby College. Harcar holds a doctorate in business administration, and a master's degree and two bachelor's degrees in marketing from Istanbul University. He also holds a master's degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth and is the recipient of the 2010 Penn State Beaver Advisory Board Faculty Excellence in Research Award.
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Ukraine's sex workers are counting on the country hosting the Euro 2012 soccer championship to bring in clients and cash. Concurrently, however, AIDS advocates are issuing stark reminders that the nation has the highest HIV infection rate in Eastern Europe.
Hundreds of thousands of fans are expected for the games, which begin June 8 in Warsaw, Poland, and end in Kiev, Ukraine's capital. According to the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, Ukraine is home to between 52,000 and 83,000 sex workers -- 11,000 in Kiev alone. Other eastern Ukraine tournament venues in Donetsk and Kharviv have some 3,000 sex workers, while Lviv is home to nearly 2,500.
UNAIDS reports upwards of 350,000 Ukrainians age 15 and over are HIV-positive. Further, a 2011 study by the International HIV/AIDS Alliance asserts that 24 percent of prostitutes in Kiev and 38 percent of those in Donetsk are HIV-positive.
One Ukrainian sex website claims Kiev prostitutes are even attempting to gain a competitive edge by studying the histories of participating nations, as well as the basics of soccer. Although Kiev prostitutes and brothels contacted by Agence France Presse said they realize the risks and use condoms, only 60 percent rule out unprotected sex. Others, as many as 22 percent according to 2010 survey data, are willing to forgo condom use for an added fee.
Fearing a rise in sex tourism related to Euro 2012, Ukrainian feminist group FEMEN is waging a campaign saying "Ukraine is not a brothel."
European soccer's governing body, UEFA, also has launched a campaign championing condom use. "Show HIV and AIDS the red card. The HIV virus doesn't play fair, so you have to," says the campaign.
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Charlie Villanueva hit a 3-pointer with 9.7 seconds left and Rodney Stuckey sealed the win with two free throws as the Detroit Pistons beat the Milwaukee Bucks 105-100 on Saturday night.
Brandon Jennings, who scored 26 points, took an inbounds pass from Monta Ellis and made a tough fadeaway shot with 47.8 seconds left, but Jose Calderon, who tied his season high with 23 points, came back with a running layup for Detroit that tied it at 100.
After a timeout, the Pistons worked the ball to Villanueva, who got it at the top of the key and swished a 3 with 9.7 seconds left. On the Bucks' next possession, Jennings fired up a 31-foot 3-point attempt with 3.2 seconds left. Stuckey's two free throws with 1.6 seconds remaining were the final margin.


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There is no need to read this sutta as indicating some sort of absolute reality or any other type of absolute "otherness." The terms refer to the reverse sequence of conditioned arising (paṭiccasamuppāda): not-born (ajāta) = cessation of birth (jātinirodha), not-become (abhūta) = cessation of becoming (bhavanirodha), not-made (akata) = cessation of craving and cessation of clinging (taṇhānirodha & upādānanirodha), not-fabricated (asaṅkhata) = cessation of volitional fabrications (saṅkhāranirodha), which refers to the the calming of all specific fabrication and volitional intention mentioned in MN 140 Dhātuvibhaṅga Sutta:Viscid wrote:Ud. VIII.3 wrote:"Verily, there is an Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed. If there were not this Unborn, Unoriginated, Uncreated, Unformed, escape from the world of the born, the originated, the created, the formed, would not be possible"
- One does not form any specific fabrication or volitional intention towards either existence or non-existence. Not forming any specific fabrication or volitional intention towards either existence or non-existence, he does not cling to anything in this world. Not clinging, he is not excited. Unexcited, he personally attains complete nibbāna. He discerns that, 'Birth is ended, the holy life fulfilled, done is what had to be done, there is nothing further here.'
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[A] That is not so. Because their absence is an impossibility, since if they are absent their non-presence follows. [Besides, if nibbāna were absence of present aggregates too,] that would entail the fault of excluding the arising of the nibbāna element with result of past clinging left, at the path moment, which has present aggregates as its support.


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In the end, Wayne Gretzky decided the time wasn't right for a changing of Team Canada's guard.
Instead, the executive director of Canada's entry at the Turin Olympics filled the 23-man roster with players who have gotten the job done for the country in the past. The emphasis on experience should come as a surprise to nobody.
This wasn't about who Team Canada could add to the roster, as Gretzky suggested a few months ago, it was about who they could subtract. That's why the incumbents were given every chance to make the team.
"The philosophy has not changed a whole from 2002 (in Salt Lake City) and 2004 (World Cup of Hockey)," said Team Canada coach Pat Quinn yesterday. "It is important to have people who have succeeded, to have continuity with our lineup,
"We like the chemistry and the experience of this team. I think you need to have people who have had success before. That's why they're part of this team."
But not a soul should argue that this isn't a gold-medal team. Gretzky built an Olympic champion in Salt Lake City by putting the right people in the right places and used a similar philosophy to the one we saw yesterday for the 2004 World Cup, which Canada also won.
"I don't think that's a surprise that a lot of these players have played for Canada before," said Senators defenceman Wade Redden last night from Philadelphia. "A lot of these guys have had success with the country in the past and if you look at the way Team Canada has been built before, that's the way it has been."
Sure, eyebrows were raised about Canada's decision to put Edmonton Oilers forward Ryan Smyth and Colorado Avalanche blueliner Adam Foote on the regular roster, ahead of guys like Carolina's Eric Staal, Ottawa's Jason Spezza and Calgary's Dion Phaneuf. But there won't be much screaming.
Gretzky is a loyal man. He isn't just going to shove players aside who have done it for Canada before. That's why Mario Lemieux and Steve Yzerman were allowed to bow out gracefully because if they wanted to play in Turin, spots on the roster would have been saved for them.
While it's true players like Rob Blake, Shane Doan and Foote have struggled this season, the Team Canada staff feels it has the right mix to handle an intense, short tournament. It'll take eight games in 12 days to win gold.
"A lot of these guys were chosen because they're not going to panic or under-perform in tough situations because we've seen them a number of times and we know they can help us," said Team Canada assistant executive director Kevin Lowe. "I know a lot of people are concerned because some of these guys aren't having great NHL years, but we feel in a tournament like this, we need to have this kind of experience."
The strength of this team is the goaltending. New Jersey's Martin Brodeur has already been anointed as the No. 1, but Dallas' Marty Turco and Florida's Roberto Luongo will be waiting in the wings if needed.
"We're impressed with all of our goalies," said Lowe. "We like the way these guys have performed in the past and we feel they all bring different elements to the table because they all have different strengths and styles."
Turco has had a standout season so far, while Luongo stepped up during the World Cup for an injured Brodeur. Luongo and Turco will both push the Devils star.
"We're going to have a good competition and that's what you want," said Brodeur.
Perhaps, the saving grace was the three-man taxi squad, which can only be used if there are major injuries. Staal, Spezza and Maple Leafs defenceman Bryan McCabe make up that unit.
"We saw top performances by all three. We didn't necessarily see these guys on the team at all when we started," said Quinn. "Staal and Spezza have really lit it up. We just felt there was nobody we wanted to take out. We felt these kids have really played well and, God forbid anybody gets injured, we feel these guys can step in for us to get the job done."


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PHOENIX - Three Republican Arizona state senators who voted for a bill that has triggered a national backlash from gay rights advocates are now urging Gov. Jan Brewer to veto the legislation.
Sen. Bob Worsley says he and Sens. Adam Driggs and Steve Pierce sent a letter to Brewer Monday asking her to strike down the legislation allowing business owners with strongly held religious beliefs to refuse service to gays.
Worsley says he was uncomfortable when he voted for the bill. Both he and Pierce called their votes a mistake.
The legislation passed last week. The Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry is requesting a veto because of fears it will hurt tourism.
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I've just realized that I can't see those options either !
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Field Tests Seek Optimal Weed Control Methods For Herbicide-Resistant Soybeans
As the cost and scale of farming operations have increased, so has the usage of herbicide-resistant crops. These crops provide a weed management tool to meet the needs of modern agriculture. A corresponding decrease has been noted in the use of soil-applied herbicides that farmers have relied on heavily in recent decades. Because weed species are developing resistance to herbicides, changes in our weed control methods are warranted.
Reliance on soil-applied herbicides has declined since the introduction of glyphosate-resistant soybeans in 1996 and glufosinate-resistant soybeans in 2009. The number of active ingredients and herbicide modes of action within a growing season have declined in soybean production, along with the total number of herbicide applications.
As glyphosate use has continued, weeds have also developed glyphosate resistance. In the U.S., 13 weed species are now resistant to glyphosate, including Palmer amaranth, waterhemp, and giant ragweed. These weed biotypes affect most soybean and corn production in this country. Methods of weed control are needed that do not lead to more resistant weed biotypes yet have minimal impact on crop yields.
The journal Weed Technology reports on a field experiment conducted in two mid-Missouri counties in 2010 and 2011. Herbicide programs for the management of summer annual grass and broadleaf weeds were tested in soybeans resistant to 2,4-D and glufosinate herbicides. This study compared several treatments of herbicides that contain glufosinate plus 2,4-D: a pre-emergence treatment followed by a post-emergence treatment, a two-pass post-emergence treatment, a one-pass post-emergence residual treatment, and a one-pass late post-emergence treatment.
The two-pass treatments resulted in the highest levels of weed control at 90 percent. The one-pass treatments showed up to 59 percent less control than the 2 pass treatments. In 2,4-D-resistant soybeans, two treatment methods show enhanced control of common waterhemp: a pre-emergence followed by post-emergence treatment, and a two-pass post-emergence herbicide program that incorporate 2,4-D amine with glufosinate. These methods provide better control than glufosinate alone, and they offer similar levels of control of other summer annual grass and broadleaf weeds. Soybean yields were not statistically different among the various sites and treatments.
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Say goodbye to infinite combos! NetherRealm has revealed that they've incorporated a clever piece of new tech in Mortal Kombat that allows them to make behind-the-scenes adjustments to game-balance without requiring folks to download annoying patches.
Mortal Kombat series creator Ed Boon remained secretive about the exact nature of how the technology worked when he revealed its existence to Eurogamer, but did refer to it as a "mini-update."
"We've seen other fighting games, including our own, have characters we wish were more balanced, more powerful or weaker," explained Boon. "So we devised a system that lets us modify the rules of the game, dynamically."
While not confirmed by Boon, these covert updates sound very similar to the tactics employed by other titles, namely to circumvent the arduous console certification process. Super Meat Boy's 'Teh Internets' gave owners of XBLA version of the game free levels, and Monday Night Combat has also been receiving invisible balance updates in a similar way.
Even if the idea is not entirely new, it's true that the length of the certification process for official patches makes it tough for developers to deliver timely game-balancing updates. Given that exploits and balancing issues are both cancerous to the fighting genre, Boon's promise to "monitor what things players may have an issue with and then correct them as needed," sounds like a great way to keep the fighting fair - at least until you rip out the other guy's spine.


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Today's picture shows men playing chess. I will have to admit of the games we have looked at this week, I would be most likely to play dominoes or checkers. I do not care for chess that much. I really don't want to think that hard about something that does not matter that much. I would like to play a game to relax, so checkers is more my speed.
Each day we bring you one stunning little glimpse of history in the form of a historical photograph. Enjoy!
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Today's picture shows some old gentleman playing a game of Cribbage. The picture was taken in about 1910 at Sailors' Snug Harbor. Normally, cribbage is played with cards, but there is a version which uses dominoes, and that appears to be what these guys are playing. I have never played cribbage, so am not sure what is involved.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Today we have a picture of a group of men playing checkers at a service station. The picture was taken in Greensboro, Georgia in 1939. Wow, this picture really takes up back to a day when life was lived at a slower pace. You could go to a station like this and they would fill the car up for you, visit with you, clean your windshield, check your oil, and your tire pressure. You actually enjoyed getting gas. Ah, I do miss those days!
Monday, August 27, 2012
Today's picture shows a group of soldiers playing poker in camp. The picture was taken at Camp McKibbin in 1893.
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Playing Dice
Game Week continues today with this picture of men playing dice. The picture shows miners outside the company store in Osage, West Virginia. It never ceases to amaze me how it is often those who work the hardest for their money that lose it the fastest. I notice that nowadays in convenience stores. Sometimes when paying for gas I will see a person in line in the convenience store buying lottery tickets, a few packs of cigarettes, and some snacks, and shell out $50.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Beer Joint
This picture shows a "Juke Joint" in Belle Glade, Florida. The picture was taken in 1941. I might be mistaken, but is the man with his back to us holding a rifle?
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Cowboy Bar
This picture lets us peer into the bar featured in Sunday's photograph. The picture was taken in Birney, Montana in 1939. No shortage of Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer. I wonder if they still make that? I was never a beer drinker but I can remember growing up that was one of the big brands. I think there has been a lot of consolidation in the beer industry since then.
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Iowa Tavern
Today's picture shows a quaint main street scene from 1940. Pictured is a tavern in Scranton, Iowa. The building is a two story, so I wonder if the proprietors lived upstairs.
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Barber Shop
Today's picture shows a barber shop with a pool hall upstairs. The picture was taken in Berwyn, Maryland in 1937. I love the distinct look of these old businesses.
Monday, August 20, 2012
Pool Hall
This is Beer Joint and Pool Hall week, so we better work in some pictures of Pool Halls. This is a great one from Shasta County, California. The picture is from 1940. There was a pool hall in the small town I grew up in in the 1960's. Social norms were, polite society did not frequent such a place. The county I lived in was "dry" so there was no alcohol served there, but none the less, you would never consider walking in such an establishment. I can remember looking in the window once, and there were not even any pool tables in there. It was a bunch of men sitting around playing dominoes. So, I am not sure what the stigma was associated with that place.
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Cowboy Bar
Today's picture shows some cowboys with horses at a bar in Birney, Montana. This is really a classic picture and looks as if it could have been in the 1800's, even though it was taken in 1939. I would love to know what the inside of the building looked like.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
Beer Joint
Welcome to Beer Joint and Pool Hall week here at OPOD. We kick things off with this picture of a cowboy in a beer joint in Alpine, Texas. The picture was taken in 1939. While I love the little town of Alpine in far West Texas, I don't think I like this guy very much. He just looks like a guy that maybe does not respect women. Don't know why I say that, but he just looks like a wife beater and a cheater to me.
Friday, August 17, 2012
American Bomber
Today's picture shows American Servicemen servicing an A-20 Bomber. The picture was taken in 1942 at Langley Field in Virginia.
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Navy Pilot
This is a picture of a Navy Pilot. He is being trained at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Base in Texas. The picture was taken in 1942. I bet someone out there can tell us more about what this airplane is.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Today's picture was taken in 1942, and it shows a great shot of a WWII P-51 Mustang. This was one of the main allied fighter planes. The plane was made by the North American Aviation Corporation.
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
B-17 Bomber
Today's picture is a silhouette of the B-17 bomber, known affectionately as the Flying Fortress. The picture was taken in 1942 at the Langley Field in Virginia.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Test Pilot
Today's picture shows a test pilot for the Douglas Aircraft Company. The picture was taken in Long Beach, California. The photo was made in 1942.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Marine Pilot
This picture shows a United States Marine in pilot training. The picture was taken at Page Air Fiels on Parris Island, South Carolina. The picture was taken in 1942.
Friday, August 10, 2012
Berry Pickers
Today's picture features Eskimo Berry Pickers. The picture was taken near Nome, Alaska in the early 1900's. I would imagine berries would be a welcome addition to a diet of mostly protein and meat.
Thursday, August 9, 2012
Eskimo Whalers
Today's picture shows a group of Eskimo Whalers. They are launching their boat for the hunt. The picture was taken in 1929. The boat seems fairly small to me for the task at hand.
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Home Sweet Home
Today's picture shows an Eskimo Family building an igloo. The picture was taken in 1924. I wonder if there are any Eskimo families who still live in igloos today, or if they have all moved to town? I can remember watching a documentary in the 1960's were there were still some groups maintaining their traditional lifestyles.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Reading the Paper
Welcome to Eskimo Week here at OPOD. We will be exploring various photographs of these Native Alaskans. We kick things off with this picture from 1913. The picture shows an Eskimo Man reading a copy of the Saturday Evening Post. This is really an unusual picture.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Shop Window
Today's picture shows a little girl looking at items in a store window. The picture was taken in 1942 in New York. The shop sells Jewish religious items.
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Drug Store Window
Today's picture shows a Drug Store window display. There is something of a publicity stunt going on. They are trying to sell a patent medicine called "Digestit", which promises all type of curative powers. To promote it, they have a piano player who has been playing non-stop in the window for over 60 hours. I really wonder if a person can play a piano for 60 hours without rest. I suspect that he has a twin brother, and when the man goes for a 2 minute potty break, his brother comes back. I just don't think someone could stay awake that long playing a piano.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
Clothes Shopping
Today's picture shows a man window shopping for a suit. The picture was taken in Chicago in 1940. I guess by this time the Great Depression was slowly coming to an end.
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Jackson, Mississippi Mississippi officials emphasize that a 1,000-employee Hattiesburg call center will answer questions regarding not only subsidized insurance through the federal Health Insurance Marketplace, but Medicare and other subjects.
Gov. Phil Bryant announced plans Thursday for the General Dynamics Corp. center. Mississippi is giving the Falls Church, Va., company a $1 million incentive to aid setup.
Federal officials have indicated that the call center contract is expanding to accommodate questions about the marketplace, also called a health insurance exchange. But they also say that the center will also take calls on Medicare.
Bryant blocked efforts for Mississippi to create its own exchange and strongly opposed Medicaid expansion, the other major prong of the federal health overhaul. Spokesman Mick Bullock says it's unfair to say the state is aiding the health overhaul.


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Tools for Monitoring HIV Care: HIV Clinical Quality Measures
September 2013
Review of HIV-related quality measures, how they are currently being used to monitor the delivery of HIV care by federal programs.
Sections include:
- Why are clinical quality measures important for health care reform and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy?
- What HIV-related clinical quality measures are available?
- What are the key federal programs that collect data on HIV-related quality measures?
- Who are some of the key players in the development, endorsement, and maintenance of HIV clinical quality measures?
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text: Ceremonial defilement prohibited a Jew from approaching a sanctuary or offering sacrifice and forbade human fellowship. It might be contracted by tending a corpse (which accounts for the behaviour of the priest and the Levite in the parable of the Good Samaritan, Luke 10), by 'leprosy' (Mark 1: 44), or by menstruation, with the implication of being frequently excluded from society. An elaborate system of rules about defilement existed by the time of Jesus, and he taught that moral duties had priority (Mark 7: 2–4).


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In the spring of 2003, Pete Carroll decided that Matt Leinart should be named USC's starting quarterback over Matt Cassel. In the spring of 2008, he decided that Mark Sanchez should be named the Trojans' starter over Mitch Mustain and Aaron Corp.
While Carroll's dynastic run at USC was notoriously about non-stop competition, he also understood team dynamics. He believed that it was important to name a starting quarterback as soon as possible. When he saw separation, he believed a starter should be "anointed." And, yes, that was the term he used.
"Part of the reason for naming [Sanchez] is to see [leadership] come out," Carroll told me in 2008. "He wasn't able to show it. He hadn't been anointed yet."
That formal anointing allowed the quarterback to gain and then demonstrate confidence. He became the offensive leader.
In the spring of 2011, Washington coach Steve Sarkisian, formerly Carroll's offensive coordinator, leaned on this lesson when he opted to name Keith Price his starter over Nick Montana.
In all three cases, a coach made a decision and it turned out to be the right one. That is what good coaches do. They use their wisdom and intuition to make decisions that help their football team reach its potential.
At a place like USC, "reach its potential," means winning and winning big. And that is -- critically -- where USC coach Lane Kiffin, who also coached under Carroll, has fallen short. He has made decisions and they have turned out to be the wrong ones. Those wrong decisions now have him riding an 8-7 record since his team started the 2012 season ranked No. 1.
When judging Kiffin, that is what matters: The concrete decisions he makes and the real-world results of those decisions. It's not about folks who have never talked to him one-on-one judging his personality or character. It's not about the perception that he's smug or hasn't paid his coaching dues. Forget perception and personality. It's about results.
Two games into the 2013 season, after a miserably disappointing 2012 campaign, those results have been terrible, at least in the specific areas that Kiffin oversees: offense and quarterbacks. Though Clay Helton is the titular quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator, Kiffin's decision -- another bad one -- to retain play-calling duties this fall makes him responsible entirely for the results on offense.
Those results? The Trojans' longest pass play this year is 19 yards. They passed for only 54 yards -- 2.6 yards per completion -- in the 10-7 loss Saturday to Washington State, which yielded 263 yards passing per game last year. Auburn, which is using a former defensive back as its quarterback, passed for 99 yards in a win over the Cougars the week before. USC is ranked 112th in the nation in passing offense, despite having the nation's best receiver in Marqise Lee, the extremely talented Nelson Agholor and two future NFL tight ends in Xavier Grimble and Randall Telfer.
Of course, a defense lawyer pleading Kiffin's case could try to change the narrative. He could say USC doesn't have a Leinart, Sanchez or even a Price on its roster. He could say the QB competition was too close to call -- to anoint -- at the end of spring practices. He could say Kiffin should be able to call plays because it's his team, as Carroll called plays on defense and Sarkisian calls his offensive plays. He could say USC is leading with its stout defense. He could say NCAA sanctions are hurting Kiffin's offense.
He could say the season is far from over, and that would be unquestionably true.
The easy and decisive counter to all that is to wheel in a TV and turn on a replay of the loss to Washington State. To use a Kiffin phrase, "It is what it is." And that is horrific. If the prosecutor wanted to pile on, he'd then make it a double-feature with the Sun Bowl loss to Georgia Tech.
Yet, it's also easy to counter each defense argument.
QB talent? Max Wittek was No. 3 and Cody Kessler was No. 29 in the ESPN.com ranking of QB recruits in 2011. True freshman Max Browne was the No. 2 QB in the 2013 class. Young QBs across the country are putting up big numbers, most of whom were lower rated than these guys.
Competition too close to call? There wasn't an observer during spring practices who didn't believe Kessler had outplayed Wittek.
Call his own plays because it's his team? As the head coach, it's his job to judge performance objectively. By any measure, USC's offensive playcaller in 2012 failed at his job. He also certainly failed through two games this season.
Leading with a stout defense? Well, take a look at the scoreboard. That stout defense needed more help if winning remains the goal.
NCAA sanctions? Really? You'd use that argument after losing at home to a team that has averaged 9.8 losses per season over the past five years?
Kiffin's chief problem in 2012 was getting distracted by little things. He seemed consumed with gimmicks and gamesmanship. He hasn't seemed to grasp the fundamental fact of coaching USC: If superior players execute well, they win just about every time.
USC still has superior players. While that advantage might not be as decisive these days when matched with Oregon and Stanford, or even a rising UCLA, it certainly is when standing opposite Washington State.
Kiffin made a pair of decisions entering the 2013 season: 1. He would retain play-calling duties; 2. He would play two quarterbacks. After two games, those decisions are abject failures by even charitable measures.
Based on the "Fire Kiffin" chants in the Coliseum as the clock wound down last weekend, more than a few folks are done with charitable measures.


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The NexentaOS project has released the 2nd alpha of their OpenSolaris distribution, which uses the Debian userland and tools. It includes a new installer (with auto-partitioning), the addition of KDE, WiFi drivers, full support from booting off of removable drives such as USB sticks, the complete Mono platform including Beagle, Java runtime environment, OpenSolaris build 30, and much more. You can visit the getting started page (screenshots included), read the changelog, and then proceed to the downloads.


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Students publish new books on Scandinavia
11 October 2012
Students from undergraduate to PhD level have pooled their skills to publish two new books on Scandinavia.
Working with professional mentors, current and former BA, MA and PhD students have written, translated and edited the books, which will be published by UCL Scandinavian Studies' Norvik Press.
Collaborating with software developers SourceFabric to test the new desktop publishing software BookType, a team of Nordic Cinema students wrote, peer-reviewed, edited, and published their own essays in Framed Horizons: Student Writing on Nordic Cinema.
The book is available as a paperback and will shortly be launched in e-book format. The production of Framed Horizons is a pilot project, with the longer-term ambition that students will be able to integrate transferable skills in publishing into learning and teaching. This project was made possible by funding from the UCL Enterprise Knowledge Transfer Champions scheme.
Meanwhile, another team has produced a series of new translations of Swedish playwright August Strindberg's one-act plays.
August Strindberg's One-Act Plays: A Selection, features four plays translated by a team of postgraduate students mentored by experienced professional translators. This innovative approach to training in Swedish-English translation grew out of the UCL Impact PhD Studentship scheme, which is supported by the Barbro Osher Foundation, the Swedish Academy, and Mr Stefan Olsson.


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The Easter Bunny visited Kane County Cougars fans at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark in Geneva for breakfast and an Easter egg hunt on the ball field on Saturday.
About 115 parents and children attended the first time-event, according to Director of Promotions Jenni Brechtel, adding the ballclub hopes to make it an annual event.
The Easter Bunny made his rounds to all the tables doling out high-fives, receiving hugs and posing for photos, later joined by team mascot Ozzie Cougar.
Elena Giudice, 2, of Aurora gave the bunny a big hug, but told him simultaneously, "You forget to give me candy," amusing her mom, Kimmy.
The four Karlovsky children of Algonquin, all wore tall bunny ears to breakfast and brought pails to collect eggs. Their parents, Dawn and Tim Karlovsky, are regular season ticket holders.
Zach DellaFranco, 6, of St. Charles described meeting the bunny as "cool." He has a broken arm, but he wasn't going to let it slow him down when it came to gathering eggs, saying, "I'm going to collect all of them!"
For more information, go to kccougars.com.


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Locavore Paris: Fall Market Shopping & The Perfect September Tart
September 19, 2012
I am a real foodie now. I have committed to buying locally and seasonally. So long sweet pineapples; see you sporadically. Most expats have their sentimental reasons that keep them in France. A perfect café crème, a favorite terrace, or unpasteurized cheese can easily outweigh all the persistence, courage, and patience it takes to build a life in Paris. Continue Reading »
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OpenGL Shading Language 3rd Edition 46
|OpenGL Shading Language Third Edition
|Randi J. Rost, Bill Licea-Kane
|Addison-Wesley Professional
|Martin Ecker
|A solid introduction to developing shaders in the OpenGL Shading Language GLSL
The next few chapters introduce the syntax and semantics of GLSL. At its core, GLSL is very similar to C. All the usual control flow statements, such as if statements and for loops, are available. However, the language adds some graphics-specific types, such as vectors and matrices. Even though this material is fairly dry, the writing is easy to follow and all concepts are presented with plenty of examples. Also uniform blocks — a new feature of GLSL version 1.40 — are discussed. Uniform blocks are used to efficiently send a block of variables via a uniform buffer to the GPU.
After familiarizing the reader with the language itself, chapter four delves into the integration of the shader-programmable units into the OpenGL pipeline, in particular the vertex and fragment shader units. Note that geometry shaders are not discussed in this book since they are a fairly recent addition to the OpenGL 3.2 specification. The next chapter goes over all the built-in, common functions that GLSL provides, such as sin, cos, abs, fract, and so on. Being more of a visual learner, what I really like about this chapter that the authors provide function graphs for each of the functions introduced. After all the basics of the shading language have been laid out in previous chapters, chapter six is dedicated to a full-fledged example that uses GLSL to procedurally render a brick pattern. If you're already familiar with other shading languages, such as Direct3D's HLSL or Cg, and you want to switch over to OpenGL/GLSL, I recommend jumping straight to this chapter to see how much you can grasp and then going back to the preceding pages to fill in the blanks if necessary.
The somewhat lengthy chapter seven contains detailed descriptions of the entry points provided by OpenGL to create and set up shader programs. Among other things, it describes how shader objects are created, compiled, and then linked to form shader programs that can then be used to render objects. Chapter seven concludes the dry, technical part of the book that introduced both the shading language and the necessary infrastructure to use it from a host program running on the CPU. The remainder of the book concentrates on numerous graphics techniques that can be achieved with shaders, such as bump mapping, lighting, shadows, animation, procedural effects, and many more. In short, it's the real fun part of the book where all the theory gets put into practice.
One of the highlights for me is the chapter on writing lighting shaders that discusses hemi-sphere lighting, image-based lighting using environment maps as light probes, and spherical harmonics lighting. The chapter on lighting is concluded by a discussion of the ÜberLight shader, a shader for a very versatile lighting model initially presented as RenderMan shader by Pixar Animation Studios.
Where there's no light there's shadow and so the book has an interesting chapter on various shadowing techniques, in particular ambient occlusion, shadow maps, and an interesting technique for rendering shadow volumes using deferred shading. The latter technique can be used to render soft shadows convincingly.
The most interesting chapter for me in the book is the one on surface characteristics. It discusses and develops shaders to render surface materials that exhibit complex light interaction. The authors start out with a discussion of refraction and present shaders to achieve the classic Fresnel reflection/refraction and chromatic aberration effects. Then diffraction, i.e. light bending around sharp edges, is discussed and a shader that renders a vinyl record realistically is developed. Finally, the chapter focuses on BRDF-based lighting and develops various material shaders using the BRDF model, a quite important topic nowadays since more and more video games now actually use BRDF-based lighting models.
Another important chapter in the book in my opinion is chapter seventeen about antialiased procedural textures. I consider it important because it is often ignored that shaders that procedurally create textures usually suffer from aliasing artifacts. This chapter shows a number of anti-aliasing techniques to diminish these issues. Chapter eighteen is a fun chapter on non-photorealistic rendering, discussing hatching, Gooch shading, and how to render the Mandelbrot set in a shader. Finally, the book closes with a comparison of GLSL with other shading languages, in particular RenderMan, HLSL, and Cg. This is mostly of interest to real geeks and language lawyers ;)
As in the previous edition, all images and diagrams in the book are in black and white, except for a few pages that contain 34 color plates in the middle of the book. Most of the images are not overly "flashy" but do give a practical idea of the types of rendered images a particular shader can produce.
The book's accompanying website offers the source code to all the shaders presented in the book for download. Also available are other shaders not mentioned in the book and a demo application including source code, which nicely demonstrates the shaders in action. Most of the shaders are available under a very liberal BSD-style open source license.
The third edition of "OpenGL Shading Language" is an excellent introduction to shader programming with GLSL. It provides an in-depth and comprehensive discussion of the shading language itself as well as the C shader API used to create and manage shaders in the host program. The best and largest part of the book focuses on developing shaders for various applications, such as lighting, shadows, animation, and other areas of real-time computer graphics. If you're interested in learning GLSL and shader programming in OpenGL, this is the book to get.
Martin has been involved in real-time graphics programming for more than 10 years and works as a professional game developer for High Moon Studios in sunny California.
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