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“I won’t be hosting next season’s X Factor which is a shame, but I can’t complain as I’ve had a great time. [1]

The dismissal of that 13-year-old, Rachel Crow, represented everything that was wrong with the first season of “X Factor”: It was jumbled and confusing, with too much happening at once. [2]

From left, host Steven Jones and TV personalities Nicole Scherzinger, L.A. Reid and Paula Abdul speak onstage at “The X Factor” panel during the FOX portion of the 2011 Summer TCA Tour on Aug. 5, 2011, in Beverly Hills, Calif. [3]

Tick.Tock.Tick.Tock - Eek it’s nearly time for The X Factor 2012 Live Tour! [4]

Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. [...] Cowell’s former talent competition pulls in about 20 million viewers, and Cowell had said that if he didn’t beat that number, he would consider the ‘X Factor’ a failure. [1]

“X Factor” judges Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger may have sealed their fates when they let a 13-year-old go home bawling. [2]

Sign in now, or log in with your Facebook account. [...] The “X Factor” news came fast and furious on Monday night — first, that host Steve Jones would not be returning, then that judge Nicole Scherzinger was exiting and finally that Paula Abdul also would be shown the door. [5]

The X Factor is a registered trademark of FremantleMedia Ltd & Simco Ltd. Based on the television programme ‘The X Factor’ produced by talkbackTHAMES (part of the FremantleMedia Group) and SyCo Tv. [6]

Sources:
[1] ‘X Factor’ Bloodbath?: Paula Abdul Following Nicole Scherzinger …
[2] ‘X Factor’ Shakeup an Admission of Failure; Enter Mariah? | Reuters
[3] Steve Jones, Nicole Scherzinger not returning to “The X Factor …
[4] The X Factor - Home
[5] ‘X Factor’ Exorcism: Paula Abdul & Nicole Scherzinger Out …
[6] The X Factor - Home

Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson (January 31, 1919 ‘ October 24, 1972) was the first African-American Major League Baseball (MLB) player of the modern times. [1]

Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play in baseball’s major leagues in the modern era. [2]

Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball, becoming Rookie of the Year in 1947, National League MVP in 1949 and a World Series champ in 1955. [3]

But then again, there haven’t been many people like Jackie Robinson. [4]

Jackie Robinson’s high school teachers suggested a career in gardening. [5]

Only white players were accepted in the major leagues until 1947, when Robinson was called up to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers. [2]

Jackie Robinson led the way for generations of black athletes. [4]

To appreciate how far the nation has come, propelled by what began 60 years ago today, consider not the invectives that Robinson heard from opponents’ dugouts and fans but the way he had been praised. [5]

In 1997, on the 50th anniversary of Robinson’s first year with the Dodgers, Major League Baseball permanently retired Robinson’s uniform number, 42. [2]

Inducted into the Hall of Fame by BBWAA as Player in 1962 (124/160 ballots). [6]

Sources:
[1] Jackie Robinson - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Jackie Robinson: Biography from Answers.com
[3] Jackie Robinson Biography - Facts, Birthday, Life Story …
[4] ESPN.com: Jackie changed face of sports
[5] Jackie Robinson: Taking a Bat to Prejudice | All Pro Dad
[6] Jackie Robinson Statistics and History - Baseball-Reference.com

The Vitruvian Man is a world-renowned drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1487. [1]

An illustration of Vitruvian man by Cesariano in his Cosmo Vitruvius of 1521 reeks of failure. [2]

Having had access to Alberti’s and Vitruvius’ treatises, it is no surprise that Leonardo produced his own version of the Vitruvian man in his notebooks. [3]

In popular text on the golden ratio, one often finds the claim that the navel in the Vitruvian Man divides his hight in the golden ratio. [4]

Neither Leonardo nor Vitruvius make no mention of the Phallus as the center of the square, but it plays an important role in Leonardo’s success. [5]

The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci, Vol. 1 pp. 182-3. [6]

The drawing, which is in pen and ink on paper, depicts a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. [1]

The pen and ink drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, depicting a man fitting his body to a circle and a square by adjusting the position of his arms and legs, is probably the most famous drawing in the world - judging by the fact that I see it in advertisements and worked into logos for holistic health centers and it is even the wallpaper design for my Windows main page. [2]

Encyclopaedia Britannica online states, “Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo (cosmography of the microcosm). [1]

“We know very little about Leonardo’s apprenticeship in Verroccio’s workshop, but the short account provided by Vasari confirms that it included architectural and technological design, according to a concept that was being revived on the model of Vitruvius, as reproposed by Alberti” (Pedretti 14). [3]

Sources:
[1] Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] Vitruvian Man - The Alchemical Egg Introduction
[3] The Vitruvian Man - Worlds of Leonardo da Vinci
[4] Talk:Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Vitruvian Man - Alternative view on art, architecture and religion
[6] THE VITRUVIAN MAN - AzothGallery.com Art Gallery & Web Services

Welcome to free online war games where you can can a range of different types of war games. [1]

Made at a time when public perception of computers’ abilities far exceeded their actual potential, WarGames benefited greatly from the mass confusion inherent in the onset of the home-computing movement. [2]

WarGames is a 1983 American Cold War suspense/science-fiction film written by Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham. [3]

Login to War Games to compete in the high score leaderboard, to comment on games, and more! [4]

What we know, but Broderick doesn’t, is that the Pentagon, hoping to eliminate the chancy “human element” in the event of an actual war, has given its computer total, irreversable control over the launching of nuclear weaponry. [...] Computer-game aficionado Matthew Broderick inadverently taps into a hush-hush Pentagon computer, then proceeds to inaugurate his favorite game, “Global Thermonuclear War”. [2]

A young man finds a back door into a military central computer in which reality is confused with game-playing, possibly starting World War III. [5]

As much as the first factor dates it and the second factor may alienate viewers who came of age after the fall of the Iron Curtain, neither element prevents director John Badham ’s film from still playing like a skillfully put together thriller. [2]

The film follows David Lightman (Broderick), a young hacker who unwittingly accesses WOPR, a United States military supercomputer programmed to predict possible outcomes of nuclear war. [3]

Combining the addictive game play of tower defense with the explosiveness of war games - this is Warzone Tower Defense! [4]

Sources:
[1] War Games - Play Free War Online Games
[2] WarGames: Information from Answers.com
[3] WarGames - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] War Games | Play Free War Games Online
[5] WarGames (1983) - IMDb

Game Change and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. [1]

Game Change will premiere on HBO on March 10 at 9pm EST. [2]

The award winning team behind HBO’s fantastic political drama Recount are back with an adaptation of the best selling book “Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime” by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. [3]

Game Change is an upcoming Jay Roach film based on the book of the same name by journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. [4]

Like I said, not a huge fan of the music, however, that’s a minor point to dwell on when there is so much to love - mostly the extended looks at the uncanny performances delivered by Ed Harris and, the incredible, Julianne Moore. [3]

The book also detailed an hour-long meeting between Hillary Rodham Clinton and pollster Mark Penn, during which Clinton accused Obama of “playing the race card ” and importing people into Iowa to improve his chances at the caucus. [5]

Check out this newly released trailer for Julianne Moore ’s upcoming film Game Change! [2]

Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime is a book by political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin about the 2008 United States presidential election. [5]

The television movie is based on a book of the same name, which documents the paths taken in an effort to win the 2008 presidential election. [2]

She captures everything we know about Sarah Palin, her look and her speech, as well as diving deeper into the actual person behind the cameras and tailor made suits. [3]

Sources:
[1] Amazon.com: Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin …
[2] Julianne Moore: ‘Game Change’ Trailer! | Julianne Moore : Just …
[3] HBO’s Game Change Preview: This Is Sarah
[4] Game Change (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[5] Game Change - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia