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The third season of "The X Factor" U.S. was the lowest-rated so far, so it's no surprise that the third season finale was also the lowest-rated finale in "X Factor" U.S. history. In the episode (which aired on Dec. 19, 2013), boyfriend/girlfriend duo Alex & Sierra were named as the winners. Rock singer Jeff Gutt came in second place. Latin pop singer Carlito Olivero came in third place.) On Dec. 20, 2013, the Nielsen Company released the ratings for the previous night's prime-time network shows. "The X Factor" U.S. Season 3 finale had only 6.22 million U.S. viewers. (By contrast, "The X Factor" U.S. season finale in 2011 had 12.5 million U.S. viewers. "The X Factor" U.S. season finale in 2012 had 9.66 million U.S. viewers.)
The Season 3 finale episode finished in fourth place in its time slot (8 p.m. to 10 p.m. EST/PST) and fourth place overall among the 12 U.S. prime-time network shows that aired that night. Most the shows on the other networks were reruns that night. The ratings for "The X Factor" were so bad that the episode was beaten by a rerun of ABC's "A Charlie Brown Christmas." If "The X Factor" had to compete against mostly new episodes on the other networks, then ratings for the Season 3 finale would have been lower.
So what does this mean for the future of "The X Factor" U.S.?
Fox has not yet announced the fate of "The X Factor" U.S., but in a December 2013 conference call with journalists, "X Factor" creator Simon Cowell said he is confident that the show will be renewed for a fourth season in 2014, but he wants the show to have big changes, including an all-new judging panel. He declined to elaborate on the changes he had in mind.
In the conference call, Cowell said he will have a "different role" on "The X Factor" U.S. if the show is renewed in 2014. Fox probably will wait until May 2014 to officially announce the fate of "The X Factor" U.S.
Insiders have already said that Cowell plans to return to "The X Factor" U.K. judging panel in 2014, to fill the spot vacated by Gary Barlow, who replaced Cowell in 2011.
Demi Lovato (who became a judge on "The X Factor" U.S. in 2012) has officially confirmed her departure from the show after People.com reported that she is quitting the show to focus on her music career.
Rowland has told the media that she doesn't know yet if she will return to "The X Factor" U.S. in 2014, but she would remain a judge on the show if she's asked.
Rubio has not yet commented on her future with "The X Factor," but it's highly unlikely that she will continue being on the show because she was very unpopular with most "X Factor" viewers, who hated her ditsy behavior and inarticulate comments. Rowland and Rubio became judges on "The X Factor" U.S. in 2013, but it sounds like Cowell doesn't want them back on the show.
Ratings and critics' reviews for "The X Factor" U.S. hit an all-time low in 2013. According to the Nielsen Company, the show averaged 6 million U.S. viewers per episode in 2013. That's a big drop from the show's ratings of 9 million U.S. viewers per episode in 2012 and 12 million U.S. viewers per episode in 2011.
If Cowell leaves the show's judging panel or has reduced air time on the show in 2014, then it would be foolish to think that this change would increase ratings. Millions of people have already stopped watching "The X Factor" U.S., which in its last few weeks of Season 3 sunk into the lower half of the ratings for U.S. prime-time shows. If Fox thinks that the show is worth saving, the network better be prepared for "The X Factor" U.S. to get even lower ratings in 2014.
Although many TV critics and viewers have been saying "The X Factor" U.S. is awful and should be cancelled, Fox might still renew the show because despite the low ratings, "The X Factor" still has more viewers than many other Fox shows (such as "Glee") that are on the prime-time network schedule for the 2014-2015 TV season. The question is: Is "The X Factor" (which has been called the most expensive reality show in U.S. TV history) making enough money for Fox to justify renewing the show for a fourth season in 2014?
Zap 2 It (a website that covers the TV industry) has this prediction from writer Tom Shaw: "I still think the show comes back next year. Fox could replace it with three hours of other reality programming, but it would be tough – they'd either have to skip the summer edition of 'So You Think You Can Dance' or go with back-to-back seasons, AND air multiple Gordon Ramsey hours in the Fall. The more likely outcome is that 'The X Factor' comes back, but at a reduced number of hours per week. So why haven't we heard from Fox? That's because the real x-factor in Fox's 14/15 schedule is… 'American Idol.'
"If AI does poorly, then Fox might shrink both shows down to 1.5 – 2 hours a week. If AI does disastrously, then Fox might scrap both shows. If AI does well, then who knows. At this point, I think American Idol does well enough that both singing competitions come back for ~2 hours next season, leaving one extra hour open compared to this season (probably for a drama)."
The Hollywood Reporter offers this viewpoint from Jonathan Bernstein, who says Alex & Sierra were among the few highlights of the show in 2013: "Despite fanciful notions of a season four reboot, Cowell and his team are never going to get the American 'X Factor' right. They're Super Glued to the format's success in other territories where it's a camp circus aimed squarely at grandmas and over-stimulated tweens. But he should derive some small consolation – beyond his many hundreds of millions of dollars – that his show, whether it clings to life or dies with dignity, just produced a winning act that will easily outshine the competition."


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Tuesday, Jun 17, 2003
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KOCHI, June 16
THE State Industries Minister, Mr P.K. Kunhalikutty, has inaugurated the operations of A&B Toolers, a project for which a MoU was signed in the recently concluded Global Investor Meet, at the Kinfra Export Promotion Industrial Park Ltd on Saturday.
The 100 per cent export-oriented commercial tool room project, set up at an investment of $ 500,000, was commissioned in a record time of five months to manufacture moulds and dyes for plastic and steel metal processing companies.
The Minister expressed happiness at the pace at which projects were being taken up and executed in the State especially after the GIM.
The Minister also laid the foundation stone for two other projects in the park which include a modern laboratory furniture unit to be set up by Zeba Lab Furniture Pvt Ltd with an investment of Rs 1.20 crore and Bash P. International for the production of loose lifting gears used in the marine, lifting, oil and gas industries at a project cost of Rs 3 crore. Later speaking to reporters, Mr Kuhalikutty said the commencement of this project was an acid test for Kerala and if it goes well, then there may be more projects coming from potential overseas investors.
The State has a long way to go in terms of industrial development, he said. The Government would extend all support to help prospective investors willing to set up units here, he said.
Referring to the recent controversies on several GIM-related projects, the Minister said the Government is committed to take bold initiatives for various developmental projects. He pointed out that 50 per cent of the projects signed in the investor meet were mired in controversy. There is a feeling among certain quarters that inviting private parties for projects is not good, he said.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr G.C. Gopala Pillai, Chairman of the Kinfra Park, said that around 200 acres of additional land adjacent to the park would be acquired within one year as 100 per cent of land had already been allotted to parties.
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Join the last remaining robots on a quest to rebuild a lost civilization in a mysterious new solar system. Things quickly change when the bots find themselves in the middle of a war for the future of the Galaxy.
Take to the skies in your Stellar Fighter! Build a large cast of customizable robots and take on hordes of aliens in a unique blend of Strategy Defense and Sidescrolling Space Ship Shooter. The fate of the Galaxy is in your hands!
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Stellar Wars is a challenging, charming strategy/action/shooting title that will keep you busy and entertained." 5/5 -CultOfMac
"An Incredible Mashup of Casual Game Genres" 5/5 - 9 over 10
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Amazing Variety of gameplay all seamlessly integrated into one stellar story line.
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Read this.. There's just not enough levels
I waited for this game for a long time and followed livgames progress. Why? Because legendary and monster wars were simply amazing and they had sooo much content to the game. What I mean by that is how livgames did the campaign, with added difficulties making it fun to play through it numerous times.
I love stellar wars but i achieved 100% completion with ease. Hardly any time at all and without struggle. I enjoyed the game and think it's amazing but I beat it 100% so quickly. I felt like the other games they made could consume much more time.. This really was a bummer to me since I'm such a huge fan and love livgames...
I would rate it lower for a lack of content but I couldn't do that to this amazing game. If they have some massive content update I'll completely change my mind.
Great value with minor annoyances
Stellar wars earns 5 stars for the high gameplay value at low cost. But there are some annoying control issues that I'd hoped they would have eliminated after their experience making three similar games.
- the game encourages a certain amount if micromanaging, with the need to use certain bots' special abilities at certain times, but it's often very difficult to select the bot that you need from the crowd.
- bot AI can be frustrating, particularly when I need to protect the bot on the mothership and he keeps charging off into the enemies
- on the iPhone screen, it's difficult to control the stellar fighter without blocking your view of the action.
Not bad
I think that it was overall a pretty good game. It didnt last even close to as long as the two other LIV games, monster wars, and legendary wars. I liked those games so much better, especially monster wars. If you liked this game, then you would love monster wars and legendary wars. You will be playing those games for a very long time and not get bored of them. I would recommend those games to anyone, so if you want a good game, look up the other LIV games.
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When you apply security update MS07-040 to a computer that has the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 installed, an Error event that resembles the following is logged in the event log every 2 to 5 minutes:
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This problem occurs because the Aspnet_perf.ini file is not updated by the MS07-040 security update.
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A new algorithm for solving large-scale convex optimization problems with a separable objective function is proposed. The basic idea is to combine three techniques: Lagrangian dual decomposition, excessive gap and smoothing. The main advantage of this algorithm is that it automatically and simultaneously updates the smoothness parameters which significantly improves its performance. The convergence of the algorithm is proved under weak conditions imposed on the original problem. The rate of convergence is \(O(\frac {1}{k})\) , where k is the iteration counter. In the second part of the paper, the proposed algorithm is coupled with a dual scheme to construct a switching variant in a dual decomposition framework. We discuss implementation issues and make a theoretical comparison. Numerical examples confirm the theoretical results.
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- Title
- Combining Lagrangian decomposition and excessive gap smoothing technique for solving large-scale separable convex optimization problems
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Computational Optimization and Applications
Volume 55, Issue 1 , pp 75-111
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- 2013-05-01
- 10.1007/s10589-012-9515-6
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- 1573-2894
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- Springer US
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- Excessive gap
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- Separable convex optimization
- Distributed optimization
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- Carlo Savorgnan (1)
- Moritz Diehl (1)
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- 2. Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam


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Post-speech, 60 percent of Jewish voters approve of Obama
Last week, Ben Smith reported an unquanitified but nonetheless very real "tipping point," caused by President Obama's May "1967 borders" speech, which, Smith argued, "crystallized the doubts many pro-Israel Democrats had about Obama in 2008 in a way that could, on the margins, cost the president votes and money in 2012 and will not be easy to repair." Today, in a report that, unusually, explicitly rebuked Smith's piece, Gallup released a new poll finding that Jewish support of Obama remains exactly where it was, compared to that of the general population, before the May speech. In June, 60 percent of Jews approved of Obama's job, while 32 percent disapproved. Just as importantly, 46 percent of the general public in June approved of Obama's job, and "the 14-percentage-point difference in the two groups' approval ratings in June … is identical to the average gap seen over the past two and a half years." In a subsequent section headlined, "Israel Speech Not a Watershed in Jewish Views Toward Obama," Gallup shows that Jewish Americans' views of Obama in May before and after the speech were essentially (and statistically) unchanged. Smith's conclusions, Gallup itself concludes, "may apply to certain politically active members of the Jewish-American community, but according to recent Gallup trends, is not reflective of the views of Jewish Americans more generally."
Smith pushes back gently, noting that he was not making a broad claim and that the Obama campaign wouldn't feel the need to make its claim to Jewish voters if it weren't somewhat concerned. (The new talk is that, at long last, Obama is planning to visit Israel.) And anyway, as both Smith and Gallup seem to agree, it is important to remember that, as far as voting is concerned, support for Obama does not occur in a vacuum, but rather in the context of the alternative candidate—which is to say, the Republican presidential nominee. Who that is, and how good a job he or she can do reaching Jewish voters on Israel while not alienating them on all the issues that have long made the Democratic Party the home of the vast majority of Jewish voters—and all this in November 2012, not July 2011—will make far more difference.
Meanwhile, one other Gallup finding, unrelated to this larger narrative, confirms past findings and what we've long known, but still never ceases to provoke. About half of one group of Jewish voters has approved of Obama over the past three months, while more than one third of the same group disapproved of him; more than two-third of another group of Jewish voters has approved of Obama over the past three months, while only one quarter of this group disapproved of him. The two groups? The former, who are not as bullish on Obama, attend synagogue weekly or nearly weekly; the latter, who do still like the president by and large, attend synagogue rarely or never. The observance gap, to my mind, is the more fascinating dynamic.
Obama May Be Losing the Faith of Jewish Democrats [Politico]
Solid Majority of Jewish Americans Still Approve of Obama [Gallup]
No Exodus [Ben Smith]
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador: Obama Planning to Visit Israel [Haaretz]
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What's missing from this great round up of creative and enterprising Borderstan entrepreneurs? Women. One group is helping to change the face of local business in 2013. Enter Her Corner, a new DC-based company helping to bring women business owners together through personal, face-to-face relationships to build, grow and support one another's businesses.
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The Japanese are about relationships and prime minister Narendra Modi's visit is high on the soft signals over talking shop. Work may definitely get done but the second track of symbolic gestures is headlining what appears to be a new equation in the regional game. Narendra Modi and Abe hugged each other on arrival instead of a customary handshake.
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Over the five-day visit, may be the next few days will take up defence, nuclear, geo-political and business talks, but like the Japanese themselves Modi is first laying the course with the subtleties. A few other exchanges on twitter before Modi took off included tweets in Japanese.
"Friends from Japan asked me to talk to the people of Japan directly in Japanese. I also thank them for helping with the translation," Modi explained. Using English, Abe tweeted back: "India has a special place in my heart. I am eagerly waiting for your arrival in Kyoto this weekend."
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SEVIERVILLE — Those who favor mixed drink sales for Pigeon Forge businesses have outspent those who oppose it by about a 10-to-1 margin so far, records show.
The referendum on liquor by the drink, in which only Pigeon Forge city residents or property owners are eligible to vote, will be held Thursday at Pigeon Forge City Hall.
Both sides were late in filing the required pre-election financial disclosure statements with the Sevier County Election Commission.
The anti-liquor group Concerned Churches and Citizens of Pigeon Forge filed theirs Friday, one day late.
Forging Ahead, which is campaigning for mixed drink sales, did not file until late Tuesday afternoon, due to what they say was a misunderstanding about when it was due.
From Jan. 1 through March 1, Forging Ahead reports it raised $26,737 and spent $26,718.85, records show.
Most of that was spent on getting out their main campaign message that increased tax revenues from alcohol sales will help fund the three county system schools in Pigeon Forge. Almost $10,000 was spent on TV advertising, another $5,500 on radio advertising and nearly $6,000 on advertising in newspapers.
Their report also listed as obligations two unpaid bills: $8,000 from the Knoxville-based public relations firm Moxley Carmichael, and $5,000 from the Calvert Street Group,
a Nashville-based political consulting firm.
Five Pigeon Forge businesses gave $2,000 each. The largest contributor was Ken Maples, co-chair and chief spokesman for the group, who contributed $2,500 of his own money and another $2,500 through his motel businesses.
For the same period, Concerned Churches reports it has raised $3,700 and spent $2,500, all of it paid to Targeting Strategies of Knoxville for "phone calls and mail outs." CCCPF listed more than $1,400 in obligations to two Bristol, Va., firms, for printing and signs.
The largest contributors to Concerned Churches were its chairman and spokesman, Jess Davis, who gave $2,500 through Spirit of the Smokies Condo Lodge, one of his businesses. The next largest listed contribution was $1,000 from Ogle's Baskin Creek Apartments in Gatlinburg.
Thursday's referendum was ordered by a judge who voided a Nov. 6 referendum in which liquor by the drink passed by 100 votes. That election was flawed because nearly 300 county voters were given ballots that included the referendum in which only city residents or property owners should have been allowed to vote.
Early voting for the new referendum began Feb. 22 and ended Saturday.
In a letter to the Election Commission, Forging Ahead said it was late filing its financial disclosure because someone at the commission had told them that they did not have to file a disclosure report until after the election.
Election Commission attorney Dennis Francis said he found it "quite unusual that such advice would be given by an employee of the Sevier County Election Commission in a form other than a written form, and it is also unusual that a candidate or campaign would rely on such advice that was not given in writing."
The state Registry of Election Finance rules for single issue referendums state: "A campaign financial statement must be filed no later than seven (7) days before the election," and include all contributions and expenditures made up to 10 days before the election.
Forging Ahead spokeswoman Cynthia Moxley said that in meetings she has had with the group, several members were clearly under an impression that there was no need to file before the election.
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It's March 2015. Now to most that doesn't mean much, but to me it's sort of special in that it makes 20 years I've written this column for the Enterprise.
That's 1,040 weeks ... minus a few when I had heart surgery and those pesky "early deadline" times I missed.
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St. Charles Middle School's seventh and eighth grade teams both won the NIT Championship under the direction of Head Coach Jimmy Morgeson.
Lebanon native Alexus Calhoun, a 2014 graduate of Marion County High School and freshman forward at Berea College was named a 2014-2015 USCAA (United States Collegiate Athletic Association) Honorable Mention All-American.
Calhoun led the Mountaineers in total rebounds, rebounds per game and blocked shots.
She helped Berea reach the 2015 USCAA Women's Division I Championship game where the Mountaineers fell to Daemen College, 78-75.
Makayla Epps, a 2013 graduate of Marion County High School, was named to the All-SEC first time for the Kentucky Wildcats women's basketball this season.
During the regular season, Epps averaged 14.3 points. In SEC games, she averaged 15.1 points and 2.9 assists.
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Participants can still register for $30, but they should be aware that shirts will be available while supplies last. Participants can also register the day of the race starting at 7:30 a.m.
The race will be chip timed. After the race and before the awards, there will be a Turtle Trot for the younger kids covering two blocks There will be shirts available for children for $15.
The Marion County Lady Knights' season ended Tuesday evening at North Hardin High School. In the first round of the Fifth Region tournament, the Green County Dragons defeated Marion County, 60-50.
The Lady Knights end the season with a 13-15 record.
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Well oil a baking sheet, and dip the top of each biscuit in the oil on the sheet, and then turn over to bake.
Bake in a 400° F.oven for 15 minutes or until lightly browned.
NOTE: Sweet milk may be soured by adding 1 tablespoon cider vinegar to 1 cup sweet milk.
Fifty percent allpurpose flour may be used to make a lighter biscuit.
After the milk has been added, the dough should be moist.
Biscuit ' dough that is too dry will not make a light biscuit.