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Trash Talk: Penn State opens new chapter

Trash Talk: For Penn State, this is the first game of the Bill O'Brien era. He not only has to get a big-time football team to play its first game at home, but he knows the world will be watching to see how the Nittany Lions respond in the post-Paterno era.

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Bluetooth SIG releases certifications for fitness devices aimed at runners and cyclists

Fitness gadgets are great, but you never quite know what you're going to get when it comes to calorie counts, or a reading of how many miles you've run. That could change, though, thanks to a set of standards the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) is adopting with regard to fitness devices. These two certifications, which apply to running and cycling gadgets, respectively, affect the way data (e.g., cadence, speed, distance) is transmitted to paired devices like smartphones, sports watches and cycling computers. As far as SIG is concerned, too, more standardization means OEMs will have an easier time bringing new products to market -- not that there's any current shortage of options to choose from.

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Clooney aids Obama campaign with Geneva fundraiser

This photo combo made from file photos shows President Barack Obama, left, and actor George Clooney. Obama says Clooney is a good friend and a good person who is sensitive about protecting that friendship. The president tells Entertainment Tonight in an interview airing Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 that he got to know Clooney through his work on Sudan when Obama was in the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo)

This photo combo made from file photos shows President Barack Obama, left, and actor George Clooney. Obama says Clooney is a good friend and a good person who is sensitive about protecting that friendship. The president tells Entertainment Tonight in an interview airing Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 that he got to know Clooney through his work on Sudan when Obama was in the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo)

(AP) ? George Clooney raised almost $15 million for President Barack Obama's re-election campaign at the actor's Los Angeles home in May. For his second act, Clooney is set to arrive Monday in Geneva, a center for international organizations, governance and business.

Organizers expect to pull in a more modest amount of about $500,000 from U.S. donors for Obama's campaign, with many flying in to Geneva from around the world.

Americans Abroad for Obama, the event's sponsor, says on its Web site that guests are paying $15,000 per person to dine with Clooney, $5,000 for a photo with him and $1,000 to attend a reception before the dinner. About 30 people are attending the dinner, with at least 100 at the reception.

The event is co-hosted by Geneva-based American lawyer Charles C. Adams Jr. and Matthew Barzun, Obama's campaign finance chairman. The dinner is being held at Adams' home in an historic part of the city overlooking Lake Geneva, where Adams held a previous fundraiser for Obama in 2008.

Clooney was due to arrive in Geneva from the villa where he typically spends time during the summer on northern Italy's Lake Como. Obama campaign officials in Washington have declined to comment on the fundraiser.

The president has called the actor and director a good friend who tries to keep his distance so Obama won't be criticized for hanging out with Hollywood celebrities. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight earlier this month, Obama said he got to know Clooney through his work on Sudan when Obama was in the U.S. Senate. Clooney has led campaigns to end the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, and for more humanitarian aid for millions of people caught up in the fighting.

The Democratic president and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have both been aggressively hunting for campaign money overseas, seeking any advantage in a tight race that's expected to stay that way into the fall. Each has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in this fashion, not including the sums raised overseas by both party committees, though it is just a fraction of the more than $300 million Obama has raised overall and the $155 million raised by Romney.

American citizens and green-card holders can legally donate regardless of where they live, subject to the $2,500-per-person contribution limit that applies to those living stateside. U.S. law bans foreigners from contributing to political campaigns. Campaigns, the parties and political committees are expected to review donors and reject any ineligible contributions.

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Matthew McConaughey's pregnant wife Camila blossoming ... - Hello!

27 AUGUST 2012 Matthew McConaughey's wife Camila is taking?pregnancy in her very stylish stride ? despite having two little ones and a newly adopted dog.

Strolling along New York's waterfront district with?her growing family, the Brazilian beauty didn't look like she was feeling the strain.

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Dressed in a tight-fitting blue mini dress, accessorised with jewel-embellished sandals, Camila, 30, looked the epitome of a cool mum.

This time,?says the Latina lovely,?she has gone for a?more figure-hugging look than during her previous pregnancies,?with two-year-old Vida?and Levi, four.

She told an American magazine: "I look better if I have tight, fitted things. Anytime I put on anything that is really flowing, it makes me look twice as big than I am."

"Do not be afraid to be sexy while you're pregnant," she advised. "I'm learning that on my third pregnancy. I'm like, "Oh wow, you don't have to wear just flowing things."

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The actor, whom she wed two months ago in a beautiful sunset ceremony at?their Texan mansion,?must be pleased with the results.

He has been taking good care of his gorgeous partner, preparing all her favourite dishes.

Matthew, 42, said: "There's a Brazilian dish that her mother does, so we're having it more often than we're used to. That involves a lot of chicken, a lot of cheese and things like that...

"She loves a good steak, so I've been making a good rib-eye for her when I can."

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European snooker: Advani beats English veteran Mark King

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Ace Indian cueist Pankaj Advani continued his winning streak on the Professional Snooker Tour, beating Mark King 4-3 in the fourth round of qualifiers for the Paul Hunter Classic event.

Following a fabulous show on Friday when Advani won all his three matches, he carried thie momentum into the match against the English veteran Saturday.

In a closely fought match, Pankaj produced a brilliant display of snooker to emerge victorious.

World No. 35 Mark King took a 2-0 lead, but Advani stormed back into the match winning the next two frames, with a 60 points break in the fourth. With the match evenly poised, Mark took the fifth frame to gain a slight edge, but Pankaj won the sixth to level the contest. Thriving under pressure, Pankaj was unstoppable in the seventh frame, opening with a 44 points break to pocket the game and match.

Pankaj will now face another Englishman, Ryan Day, in the quarterfinals.

He had defeated former World No. 1 John Higgins earlier in the competition.

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Armstrong called humble hero who served country

Robert Spellman, telescope demonstrator at the Griffith Observatory, joins visitors in a minute of silence for astronaut Neil Armstrong in Los Angeles on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Armstrong died on Saturday. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Robert Spellman, telescope demonstrator at the Griffith Observatory, joins visitors in a minute of silence for astronaut Neil Armstrong in Los Angeles on Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Armstrong died on Saturday. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)

Visitors gather around the Apollo 11 command module ?Columbia? that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their historic voyage to the Moon and back on July 16 to 24, 1969, at the Smithsonian Institution?s National Aiur and Space Museum in Washington Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Neil Armstrong who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon died Saturday. He was 82. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Visitors gather around the Apollo 11 command module ?Columbia? that carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their historic voyage to the Moon and back on July 16 to 24, 1969, at the Smithsonian Institution?s National Aiur and Space Museum in Washington Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012. Neil Armstrong who became a global hero when as a steely-nerved pilot made "one giant leap for mankind" with a small step onto the moon died Saturday. He was 82. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

When Neil Armstrong walked on the moon all those years ago, he made his country believe that anything was possible with ingenuity and dedication ? and in the process became of America's greatest heroes, his friends, colleagues and admirers said Saturday after news that the former astronaut had died.

"When I think of Neil, I think of someone who for our country was dedicated enough to dare greatly," said former astronaut John Glenn, who went through jungle training in Panama with Armstrong as part of the astronaut program and was a close friend. He said Armstrong showed exemplary skill and dedication.

The idea of Armstrong as a humble pilot who served his country above all echoed around the country Saturday, by visitors to museums that fete his accomplishments and by his former NASA colleagues. Armstrong died Saturday at age 82 from complications resulting from cardiovascular procedures, his family said.

In California, visitors and staff at the Griffith Observatory paused for a moment of silence. At the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Armstrong's hometown of Wapakoneta, Ohio, a black ribbon hung over a plaque of Armstrong in the museum's entryway and a U.S. flag was lowered in Armstrong's memory.

Tourist Jonathon Lack, a judge from Anchorage, Alaska, said he decided to visit the Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., after hearing of Armstrong's death.

"What really hit me is that he was in his 30s when he walked on the moon," said Lack, who is 42. "That made me think about how little I've done."

He saw in Armstrong's death a reminder of an America where people dreamed big things and sought to accomplish the inconceivable.

Armstrong commanded the Apollo 11 spacecraft that landed on the moon July 20, 1969, capping the most daring of the 20th-century's scientific expeditions during the climax of a heated space race with the Soviet Union.

Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent nearly three hours walking on the lunar surface, collecting samples, conducting experiments and taking photographs. Aldrin, who became the public face of the moon landing after shy Armstrong recoiled from the public eye, said his colleague's leap changed the world forever and became a landmark moment in human history.

"Whenever I look at the moon, it reminds me of the moment over four decades ago when I realized that even though we were farther away from Earth than two humans had ever been, we were not alone," he said. "Virtually the entire world took that memorable journey with us. I know I am joined by millions of others in mourning the passing of a true American hero and the best pilot I ever knew."

The third astronaut on the mission, Michael Collins, circled the moon in the mother ship 60 miles overhead while the other two went to the surface. "He was the best, and I will miss him terribly," Collins said, according to NASA's website.

The Apollo 11 command module Columbia is on display at the Air and Space Museum, and visitors there Saturday gathered around it to remember Armstrong and his accomplishments.

Bob Behnken, the chief of the NASA Astronaut Office, said Armstrong's historic step was the reason many became astronauts.

"Neil Armstrong was a very personal inspiration to all of us within the astronaut office," he said. "The only thing that outshone his accomplishments was his humility about those accomplishments. "

Daniel Zhou, a student at Armstrong's alma mater Purdue University in Indiana and a member of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space, said Saturday was sad day.

"He will always be a source of inspiration for our generation, and for the generations to come, as we ask ourselves, 'Why explore space?'" Zhou said.

At New York's Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, a 1960 photo of Armstrong hangs near the space shuttle Enterprise ? showing a youthful NASA pilot standing and smiling next to the X-15 rocket plane he was testing.

On Saturday afternoon, many among the hundreds of visitors filing past the mammoth white display didn't know he had died.

'I'm shocked!" said Dennis McKowan, 49, a computer network engineer from Sunnyvale, Calif., on a business trip to New York. "I used to skip school to watch the Apollo launches."

He was a child when he watched the moon landing.

"How do you top that? No one has gone farther yet."

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Long reported from New York. Associated Press writers Verena Dobnik in New York, Seth Borenstein and Bradley Klapper in Washington, Marcia Dunn in Cape Canaveral, Fla., and Lisa Cornwell in Cincinnati contributed to this report.

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Jessica Szohr, Miranda Cosgrove Do Generation Glamour!

Glamour is running a new user-generated photo campaign for those of us in the Glamour generation who want to show the world that we are strong, beautiful women! Find out how it works, and check out Jessica Szohr and Miranda Cosgrove in some promotional photos all swagged out! A little confused about what this is? Well, it?s simple. Anyone with a Twitter account can snap a picture of themselves and add the hashtag #GENERATIONGLAMOUR. Those pictures will most likely end up on the website for the campaign: generationglamour.com. The site is setup so that you can browse through all of the pictures that they include. You can also sort them by how recently they were added, or even the most viewed photos. They are mostly just girls having a laugh together, or striking a pose. It?s pretty cool. Even better, some of the ladies will be picked to end up on the promo for the campaign that will be used during fashion week! Can you imagine all of the A-list celebrities, and all of the high-end ads that will be spread around during fashion week and your smiling face might be among them. That?s a big deal. Glamour says that [...]

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This Israeli Chocolate Ad Shows John Cleese ... - Business Insider

A new Israeli ad (above) portrays "Monty Python" alum John Cleese as a Western General who gives the IDF the go ahead to perform an air strike against an anonymous Middle Eastern enemy, presumably, Iran. Not quite what you'd expect from a commercial for a Nutella-esque chocolate-hazelnut spread.

"We need your approval of the attack," an Israeli in the war room says. "I promise you, we will be in and out in 33 minutes...we have the right to defend ourselves!"

A distracted Cleese then grabs a jar of HaSachar Haole's Sababa Egozim spread, messily licks the wrapper, and then announces a Hebrew phrase that the Jerusalem Post translates as "Great stuff" but what appears to be the company's official YouTube account translates as "Let's get nuts!" Generals high five; Cleese doesn't notice the residual chocolate smudge on his nose.

The Algemeiner reported that Cleese received $50,000 for the spot. Shot at Cleese's home in Monaco by Inbar, Merhav, Shaked Advertising agency, the ad apparently aimed "to convince Israeli parents that Hashahar Ha-oleh chocolate spread is really the most filling option for their growing children."

A separate Israeli ad for HOT, an Israeli cable company, created a stir in Iran last February. The spot showed four stars from a HOT series entering Iran, "near the nuclear reactor." ("Where will we find a Kosher kitchen here?" one asks). The men, dressed as Iranian women to fit in, meet up with a Mossad agent and admire his Samsung Galaxy tablet before accidentally pressing a button that sets off an explosion.

The explosion, which the New York Times characterized as "a clear reference to a string of deadly attacks on Iranian scientists and installations that have been attributed to Israel," is shrugged off.

"What? Another mysterious explosion in Iran."

An Iranian official suggested a country-wide ban on Samsung products, although the tech company told All Things D, "This advertisement was produced by HOT cable network without Samsung?s knowledge or participation.?

Watch the spot below:

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Great evening of golf for 25 ladies at Chinook Cove Golf

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