What does it take to get kicked off reality TV?

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Cliff Crooks of "Top Chef," Puck from "Real World" and Frenchie Davis of "Idol" were all booted from their reality competitions, whether by producers or fellow cast.

Reality TV shows celebrate outrageous acts. The more over-the-top the contestant, the more screen time they get. At least that seems to be the case.

But on rare occasions, a player somehow manages to cross the line between so-bad-it's-good and so-bad-it's-banned. That's when the-powers-that-be behind the show in question decide there's no time to wait for a viewer vote, eviction, torch-snuffing or whatever means of elimination traditionally takes care of the problem. Instead, the troublemaker gets kicked off the show.

It's happened in the past, and now viewers want to know when it's going to happen again.

The sudden interest comes after weeks of bad behavior on CBS' summer-TV staple, "Big Brother." Racism, misogyny, homophobia ... you name the slur and it's a safe bet one or more of the houseguests have said it ? and then some.

In fact, the offenses have been bad enough to cost one player a job, another an agent and earn yet another a public reprimand. But what the offenses haven't done is earn anyone an early exit.

To date, CBS has yet to say much about this season's unacceptable behavior. Requests from TODAY.com for comment have been answered with statements that make no mention of possible consequences for the offending players. "At times, the Houseguests reveal prejudices and other beliefs that we do not condone," read one response by the network.

"We are weighing carefully issues of broadcast standards, an obligation to inform the audience of important elements that influence the competition, and sensitivity to how any inappropriate comments are presented," CBS later said.

As nasty as things have gotten this season, it isn't new for the show.

While the current unpleasant houseguests remain in the game ? yes, even Aaryn Gries ? for now, "Big Brother" hasn't shied away from making a cut in the past. Back in season two, Justin Sebik got the boot 10 days in. After smashing property and threatening fellow houseguests, he took things too far when he used a sweeper and a knife ? and a series of creepy lines ? to flirt and threaten player Krista Stegall. "Seriously, would you get mad if I killed you?" he asked before kissing her and holding the knife to her throat.

Season four saw the show kick out Scott Weintraub after he exhibited explosive mood swings and threw furniture. "Big Brother" handed out eviction notices again in season 11 when Chima Simone threatened producers, and when Willie Hantz threw food at a fellow player and head-butted another in season 14.

Other reality shows have had their issues with problematic personalities. Take MTV's "Real World," for instance.

Just last season, tensions between Nia Moore and Jordan Wiseley ran high. She stole his wallet, threatened to strike him with a clock, and more. He spit in her face and called her racial slurs.

The show's executive producer and co-creator Jon Murray told TODAY.com that though they were inundated with e-mails to kick out both housemates, the series is designed to let the participants solve their own problems. Whenever serious issues arise, the show leaves it up to the cast as to whether they want to evict the person in question. (And there have been several ousters; five people ? including the infamous Puck ? have been evicted in the show's 28 seasons.)

" 'The Real World' is about young people dealing with their own issues and hopefully figuring out ways to solve them on their own," Murray said. "But I could see us stepping in if somebody was purposely trying to use racist words to provoke a violent response."

Stephen Williams in season seven did get violent when he slapped housemate Irene McGee as she quit "Real World," but producers didn't step in. As Murray said, the show left the possibility of eviction up to the cast. They chose to keep Williams around.

One show that didn't tolerate physical violence is Bravo's "Top Chef." In the second season, contestant Cliff Crooks was yanked out of the competition when things got too physical. During a night of drunken shenanigans, Crooks dragged fellow chef Marcel Vigneron out bed and pinned him to the floor while yelling for the others to come shave the young man's head. (No one did, but they gathered around and laughed.)

After the shocking incident, head judge Tom Colicchio ? who also produces "Top Chef Masters" ? wrote on his Bravo blog, ?The Producers stepped in with a veto. Sending all of the chefs but Marcel home wasn?t going to happen. Bravo?s Legal department advised us that the Top Chef rules, which stated that harming or threatening to harm other contestants was potential grounds for disqualification. According to these guidelines, it was clear that Cliff needed to go.?

While physical violence is a very clear line to draw, for some reality shows, it doesn't take that much for producers to step in with a disqualification.

"American Idol" is one such example. The singing competition has booted several hopefuls in its 12 seasons, and none for violent behavior. Delano Cagnolatti from season one was the first to find out how a minor infraction can lead to the end of one's singing dreams: He was booted for being 29 years old when he claimed to be 23. (Contestants had to be under age 25 at the time.)

The following year, Corey Clark made it to the top 10 before he was disqualified. His crime? Crimes. According to producers, the singer never revealed his criminal record. But Clark claimed his real crime was having an alleged romance with judge Paula Abdul. Season two also saw now-Broadway star Frenchie Davis kicked out in the semifinals due to topless photos that were published online years earlier. She disclosed that detail from the start, but show staffers waited weeks to take action.

Later seasons saw the show disqualify hopefuls for undisclosed criminal records, drunk driving the night before the Hollywood rounds, past legal woes and a previous contract that might have interfered with the "Idol" agreement.

On "The Bachelor," it took getting a little too close to the staff be disqualified. In season 14 of ABC's romantic contest, Rozlyn Papa had her chances of getting the final rose crushed when it was discovered that she was having what host Chris Harrison called an "inappropriate relationship that got physical" with a show staffer. Both Papa and the employee were promptly dumped.

One good way of ensuring an elimination by producers is cheating and rule-breaking, something that contestants of "Project Runway," "RuPaul's Drag Race" and "America's Next Top Model" have learned.

"Runway" designer Keith Michael was booted in season three after he'd smuggled in pattern-making books ? a big no-no on the competition. "Drag Race's" Willam Belli was a frontrunner in season four until it was discovered that his husband was a frequent visitor when contestants were supposed to be sequestered. And on "Top Model," cycle 17 finalist Angelea Preston was unceremoniously dumped, causing The CW to reshoot parts of the finale. Rumor was that she may have announced her later-reversed victory before the finale aired

So with all these disqualifications in mind, what's it going to take to finally send the nastiest "Big Brother" contestants home for their bad behavior this season? Will the producers finally say "enough" and step in as viewer outcry continues to mount? Or will it be up to the housemates to make the move? Only time will tell.

? Additional reporting by Maria Elena Fernandez

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Source: http://www.today.com/entertainment/violence-racism-lies-what-does-it-take-get-kicked-reality-6C10660703

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Long day and a good score for Tiger Woods

GULLANE, Scotland (AP) ? By the time Tiger Woods finally made his way up to the 18th green, the bleachers were half empty and long shadows crept across the fairway. If Woods needed to be reminded how long this day was, the clock on the giant yellow scoreboard read 7:37 p.m. ? more than five hours after he teed off.

The major championships are usually grinds, but for anyone playing in the afternoon Thursday the first round of the British Open proved more of a test than ever. The wind was blowing harder than expected, the golf course was drying up by the minute, and anything around par was a score to be respected.

And there was Woods, feeling awfully good about a 2-under 69 that had to give him hope his five-year drought in the major championships might come to an end this week on a golf course playing like it is in the middle of a drought.

"It was tough," Woods said. "The golf course progressively got more dried out and more difficult as we played. I'm very pleased to shoot anything even par or better."

A day that began with a near catastrophe off the first tee ended with a six-footer that found the center of the cup on the 18th green. Hardly surprising since Woods had 10 one-putts as he scrambled his way around the links course for one of the better scores of the afternoon.

He was three shots off the lead set by Zach Johnson, who was part of a morning surge of players who took advantage of easier conditions to set the pace. More importantly, perhaps, Woods has a morning tee time of his own Friday on a course that at least for the first day was set up to favor the early players.

"The guys that played early had a huge, huge break," Phil Mickelson said after shooting a 69 himself in the morning. "Because even without any wind, it's beyond difficult."

That Woods managed to break 70 in the afternoon was impressive enough. That he did it after nearly snap hooking a 3-wood out of bounds on his opening tee shot and having to take an unplayable when the ball nestled in a deep clump of unruly grass was doubly so.

"When I got over that tee shot I was (thinking), if I hammer it, this 3-wood is in that bunker," Woods said. "So maybe I should take something off it. Maybe I should hit 5-wood. Hence I hit a flip hook left and there she goes."

Woods somehow managed to make a bogey five on the first hole even with a penalty shot by hitting his third into a greenside bunker and getting up-and-down. It set the pattern for a day of one-putts that not only prevented the round from getting away from him, but put him in prime position going into the second round.

"We're supposed to get a different wind tomorrow," Woods said. "It will be interesting to see what the course setup is."

Just how tough was Muirfield in the afternoon? So tough that the threesome Woods was playing in became a twosome when former champion Louis Oosthuizen withdrew on the ninth hole with an apparent injury after going 4-over-par through eight holes.

So tough that his other playing partner, Graeme McDowell made two double bogeys and shot a 75 despite feeling he played well.

So tough that Woods was 1-over at the turn before one-putting the next four holes to spark a 3-under 32 on the back nine.

"Tiger played phenomenally well for his 2-under par," McDowell said. "Really ground it out well, did what he did best."

Playing well early in majors hasn't been the issue for Woods in recent times, though. Closing it out on the weekend has been, the main reason why he's still stuck at 14 major championships and hasn't won one since beating Rocco Mediate on one leg in the 2008 U.S. Open.

Last year he opened the British with a pair of 67s only to fade to a tie for third place behind Ernie Els. This year he was in the mix at the U.S. Open before shooting 76-74 on the weekend.

He came here well rested and healed up from a strained elbow that was acting up at the U.S. Open, his last competitive event. He also came with the knowledge gained from years of playing links style golf on this side of the pond, including his two wins at St. Andrews and his other win at Hoylake near Liverpool.

"They're so different, so different," Woods said. "I mean, this is almost ? it's about as fast as Hoylake was. But there's knee-high rough here. And plus this golf course changes directions a lot. This is a totally different setup."

Not so different, though, that Woods doesn't like his chances of winning a fourth claret jug.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/long-day-good-score-tiger-woods-201523818.html

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Ranton overcomes heart condition to excel at golf

As has happened quite often this summer season, Waterloo?s Trevor Ranton is in the hunt at a high-end golf tournament.

The 16-year-old was seven shots off the pace through two rounds of the Ontario junior boys championship at Ambassador Golf Club.

He shot 72-73 for a three-over 145 heading into Thursday?s third round, which was interrupted by lightning and heavy rain.

Ranton is part of an impressive team from Whistle Bear Golf Club.

The club qualified 11 players into the 156-player field and five made the cut (+10 152).

With a surprise win at the prestigious International Junior Masters in Buffalo recently, Ranton is starting to turn heads in a sport that was his second choice.

A promising basketball player in grade school, Ranton had to give up the game because he has the same heart condition that took the life of Windsor Spitfires? captain Mickey Renaud.

Ranton was diagnosed as an infant with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a condition that can lead to sudden cardiac arrest in young otherwise healthy athletes like Renaud in 2008.

?I was lucky to be diagnosed early,? the six-foot-two Ranton said. ?Some never know.?

Once his parents attended a conference on HCM and learned the added risks of high-intensity sports, his days of running around a basketball court were over.

?I was mad at first,? he said. ?But I knew I?d find another sport.?

Ranton started playing tournament golf when he was 12 and four years later he?s having the summer of his life.

He reached the final 16 at the Ontario junior match play and qualified for the Canadian men?s amateur next month in Victoria, B.C. He tied for 31st at the Ontario men?s amateur in Collingwood.

He was the 32nd seed and final qualifier in the championship flight in Buffalo where his game heated up in match play and took him all the way to the title with a 5-3 win over Mexico?s Raul Pereda.

Ranton can qualify for the Canadian junior if he stays in the top 30 at Ambassador and he?s still young enough to enter the Ontario juvenile in a few weeks? time.

While he lives with HCM, he certainly doesn?t allow it to control his life.

?I used to play baseball and it?s not like I was thinking about it when I was playing,? he said. ?It?s gotten easier as I?ve grown up. I?m used to it.?

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Source: http://blogs.windsorstar.com/2013/07/18/ranton-overcomes-heart-condition-to-excel-at-golf/

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Officials say new anti-leak measures set at NSA

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) ? The National Security Agency is implementing new security measures because of the disclosures by former NSA-systems-analyst-turned-fugitive Edward Snowden, top defense officials said Thursday.

NSA chief Keith Alexander said his agency had implemented a "two-man rule," under which any system administrator like Snowden could only access or move key information with another administrator present. With some 15,000 sites to fix, Alexander said, it would take time to spread across the whole agency.

"Some of your sites are small ... and you only have one system administrator, so you've got to address all of those, and we are working our way through it," he said after speaking to an audience at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado.

Alexander said that server rooms where such data is stored are now locked and require a two-man team to access them ? safeguards that he said would be implemented at the Pentagon and intelligence agencies after a pilot program at the NSA.

Snowden leaked to the media information revealing that the NSA was gathering millions of U.S. phone records and intercepting some U.S. Internet traffic.

"This was a failure to defend our own networks," Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said at the forum.

"In an effort for those in the intelligence community to be able to share with each other, there was an enormous amount of information concentrated in once place. That's a mistake," Carter said. "The loading of everything onto a server creates a risk."

Carter said they are also looking at how to better monitor individuals with access to that kind of information and suggested the Pentagon might monitor intelligence workers just as it monitors staff at nuclear installations.

"When it comes to nuclear weapons, you watch people's behavior in a special way. We don't let people all by themselves do anything," he said. "There is always some aberrant individual and you've got to recognize that."

Alexander said he hoped to more quickly implement a new intelligence sharing system in which all such information uploaded to a server was encrypted, such that only analysts that needed access to certain information would have the code to read it.

Alexander, Carter and National Counterterrorism Center director Matthew Olsen all said the Snowden leaks damaged national security. Olsen said during the forum that al-Qaida and related groups are seeking to change how they communicate to avoid U.S. detection and surveillance because of Snowden's leaks. Previously, U.S. officials have said anonymously that Snowden's leaks to the media have been damaging and prompting terrorists to change their ways.

"We have concrete proof that terrorist groups and others are taking action, making changes, and making our job tougher," Alexander said.

His comments and those of the other officials seemed at odds with testimony only a day earlier by John C. Inglis, the deputy director of the NSA. He told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that while the impact of Snowden's disclosures can be very harmful, "it's too soon to tell whether, in fact, adversaries will take great note of the things that he's disclosed."

Alexander defended the surveillance and data collection programs Snowden disclosed, one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that monitors U.S.-based Internet servers for foreign terrorist or espionage-related activity.

He told the Aspen audience that the secrecy about how the programs work was needed "not to hide it from you, it's to hide it from those who walk among you and are trying to kill you."

Alexander said the congressional intelligence committees were looking at whether it was feasible in terms of cost for the private companies to hold the data themselves instead of handing it over to the NSA. He said it would take an act of Congress to require them to hold the data, and added that he thought his agency could figure out how to process and analyze the information if that's what Congress deemed necessary.

In a separate development, Alexander and Carter both said the Pentagon is close to launching a 4,000-person cybersquad of both offensive and defensive teams that would both protect Defense Department systems and launch cyberattacks against enemy networks when the White House orders it.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/officials-anti-leak-measures-set-nsa-015038390.html

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Japan beckons Coimbatore industrialists

According to reports, just as a business delegation from the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ICCI) has returned from a trip to Japan, a delegation from the Coimbatore District Small Industries Association (Codissia) is now preparing to visit the Land of the Rising Sun.

Apart from underscoring the importance of Japanese investment in India, what is significant is that at the centre of both visits is the SME sector. While ICCI wants the potential opportunities in Coimbatore to be known to the SMEs of Japan, Codissia is largely a representative body of the MSMEs.

Speaking to Business Line today, R. R. Balasundharam, President, ICCI, said the main aim of the visit to Japan was to make the Japanese companies aware of the immense potential in the SME sector.

During their visit, the delegation members addressed seminars in the three key cities of Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo.

Japanese SMEs appeared to be interested in five areas. These were semiconductors, biomass for power generation, water and waste water management, instruments and sensors and Information Technology (IT).

He said Japanese SMEs in Coimbatore could be offered incubation facility.

The Japanese participants evinced interest in visiting Coimbatore later this year. R. Ramachandran, President, Codissia, is leading a delegation of 30 members to Japan, during which they would visit companies such as Isuzu Motors, Yamazaki Mazak and Toshiba Carrier Corporation.

He believes the visit will offer an insight into the best practices followed by the Japanese companies and this will help ?enhance the competitiveness of MSMEs in the international market.?

He said the Codissia team has planned a visit to the Renewable Energy & PV Japan 2013, Tokyo. This has assumed importance in the context of the efforts taken by the Tamil Nadu Government to tap solar energy for power generation.

Source: http://panchabuta.com/2013/07/19/japan-beckons-coimbatore-industrialists/

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Samsung announces Galaxy Tab 3 devices for Australia

Samsung has announced the Australian launch of its Galaxy Tab 3 range of Android tablets.

The company will offer three Galaxy Tab devices in 10.1in, 8in and 7in sizes.

The devices will retail for $249, $349, and $399, respectively, and will go on pre-sale in Australia from tomorrow.

The Galaxy Tab 3 products will initially be available as Wi-Fi only tablets and are priced as entry level products.

Samsung's vice president of telecommunications, Tyler McGee, says the Galaxy Tab 3 range offers consumers "great product choice" to support the growing demand for tablets in Australia.

"We recognise that tablets are becoming an essential device for a wide range of Australians, but perhaps most significant is the uptake and use among families."

"The Galaxy Tab 3 represents the next evolution of our highly successful Galaxy Tab 2 range, offering consumers more of what they have come to expect from the Galaxy brand, with an array of options in terms of size, local content and features."

The Galaxy Tab 3 devices have almost identical software and are only differentiated by screen sizes and a slight variation in technical specifications.

The Galaxy Tab 3 7-inch has a 1024x600 screen, is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, has 1GB of RAM and comes with 8GB of internal memory.

The Galaxy Tab 3 8-inch has 1280x800 screen, a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 1.3-megapixel front camera. It has 16GB internal memory and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor.

The larger Galaxy Tab 3 10.1 has the same resolution screen as the Galaxy Tab 3 8-inch but includes a faster 1.6GHz dual-core processor. However, it only has a 3-megapixel rear-facing camera.

All three models feature a microSD card slot for memory expansion and run the latest version of Google's Android operating system, Jelly Bean 4.2.

Samsung has confirmed the Galaxy Tab 3 range in Australia will come with 50GB of Dropbox cloud storage for two years, a one month free trial of Samsung's Music Hub music streaming service, a 14 day trial of Quickflix's movie and TV subscription streaming service, and a 60 Day Mobile Security Trial from Norton.

All three Galaxy Tab 3 models also come with a two year hardware warranty.

While the Galaxy Tab 3 range will initially be available as Wi-Fi only tablets, McGee confirmed that 4G models of the tablets will be released in Australia in the coming months.

"Yes there will be [4G devices], and they will be coming towards the end of Q3. I can't divulge carrier info yet."

"We won't bring anything other than 4G devices to the marketplace in tablets."

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 range will be available from Thursday, 18 July on pre-sale through Samsung's Experience Stores in Sydney and Melbourne.

Samsung says the devices will be available "soon" through major Samsung retail partners.

Source: http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/521112/samsung_announces_galaxy_tab_3_devices_australia/?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=taxonomyfeed

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