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As part of Costing and Analysis, Asset Management is responsible for maintaining the University's capital equipment inventory. Capital Equipment refers to durable, self-sufficient movable property with a useful life of more than one year and a unit cost of $3,000.00 or more.
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- Visit Asset Management on the FinanceLink website for further information and resources on tagging, disposal and surplus of NYU equipment.

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Banff Grizzly Remembered by Calgary Zoo
|The Calgary Zoo's member magazine remembers Dawn, the female grizzly bear killed by Lake Louise in May
Check out the informative story on Dawn, as well as a great article on Skoki, another Lake Louise bear that was removed from the Banff population years ago and who now serves his time at the Calgary Zoo thrilling and educating visitors with his majestic presence and sad tale.
Hope you enjoy the images and stories.
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SACRAMENTO — It appears center Andris Biedrins is going to miss more time. He returned to the lineup Sunday, which probably wasn't a good idea.
He played 21 minutes, totaling two points and six rebounds, before leaving the game for good midway through the third quarter. He went to the locker room for treatment and never returned.
"He's not doing very well," coach Don Nelson said. "I probably shouldn't have even played him, but we wanted to have another big guy if we possibly could. He couldn't do very much when he was out there, and he has injured himself again. So that was a bad decision on my part."
Biedrins sat out Friday's loss to the Los Angeles Clippers after tweaking his back in Wednesday's win over Memphis. Biedrins said before the game he had no problems during his pregame workout and started at center. But by the end of the game, he couldn't even carry his backpack without grimacing in pain.
When asked if he should rest his back, Biedrins' responded through a wince as he headed to the training room: "Now? Yeah."
Biedrins' regular backup, Ronny Turiaf (sprained left knee), did not play and hasn't practiced in days. It is doubtful he will be ready tonight. That leaves the Warriors with Mikki Moore and Anthony Randolph as the centers, and the only defense to Minnesota's Al Jefferson, a bruising 6-foot-10, 265-pound big man.
Nelson has said he doesn't want to start Randolph against opponents' starting center, so Moore is expected to start. But Sunday against Sacramento, Nelson gave Randolph the lion's share of the action at center.
Randolph played 22 minutes, finishing with 14 points and two rebounds. Moore had two points and a rebound in three minutes.
"He's got Rookie of the Year locked in," Warriors swingman Stephen Jackson said.
Warriors rookie point guard Stephen Curry was hardly a factor. He finished with nine points, six assists and five turnovers in 31 minutes. He had a hard time defending Kings point guard Beno Udrih, who finished with 20 points and six assists. Udrih is hardly the standard for the kind of point guards Curry will have to defend.
Nelson said he's going to keep Curry in the starting lineup for the immediate future.


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This plugin lets you stream music files to your mpd that are not in your
Mserver is compiled using the libmicrohttp library, which enables applications
to function as a minimal webserver. As MPD is perfectly capable of playing
Streams out of the box, you get a list of streams in your playback queue after
adding the files.
WWW: http://gmpc.wikia.com/wiki/GMPC_PLUGIN_MSERVER
make generate-plist
To install the port: cd /usr/ports/audio/gmpc-mserver/ && make install cleanTo add the package: pkg install gmpc-mserver
cd /usr/ports/audio/gmpc-mserver/ && make install clean
pkg install gmpc-mserver
PKGNAME: gmpc-mserver
SHA256 (gmpc-mserver-0.20.0.tar.gz) = dfc4872f1258a10819eec3f99562637b77fd745fb2a5cbdaf88c2c3e4e107052
SIZE (gmpc-mserver-0.20.0.tar.gz) = 314343
NOTE: FreshPorts displays only information on required and default dependencies. Optional dependencies are not covered.
No options to configure
gettext gmake libtool pathfix pkgconfig gnome
Number of commits found: 39
Cleanup some dead master_sites or WWW
Update to 0.9.52
- While I'm here:
- Remove USE_OPENSSL: it is not required after libmicrospdy removal
- Bump PORTREVISION for dependent ports
Changes: https://gnunet.org/git/libmicrohttpd.git/tree/ChangeLog
Submitted by: Hung-Yi Chen <email@example.com> (maintainer)
Remove ${PORTSDIR}/ from dependencies, Mk and categories a, b, and c.
With hat: portmgr
Sponsored by: Absolight
Convert LICENSE= "GPLxx # or later" to "GPLxx+"
Approved by: portmgr blanket
- Add LICENSE
- Strip library
Part 2 of adding USE_GNOME=intltool to ports that require it.
The reason for this is that in the GNOME 3.16 update, USE_GNOME gtk20 and
gtk30 don't pull intltool in anymore.
Exp-run by: antoine@
Reset miwi's maintainership per his demand
Hope to see you back! Thank for all the work!
Cleanup plist
- Update to version 0.9.37
- Add USES=libtool and bump dependent ports
- Add INSTALL_TARGET=install-strip
- Use option helpers
- Fix package listing when recent OpenSSL is available
Approved by: portmgr (implicit, bump unstaged port)
- Switch audio/libmpd to USES=libtool, drop .la files
- Bump dependent ports as .so version has changed
Approved by: portmgr blanket
- Switch to USES=libtool, drop .la files
Approved by: portmgr blanket
The FreeBSD x11@ and graphics team proudly presents
a zeising, kwm production, with help from dumbbell, bdrewery:
This update switches over to use the new xorg stack by default on FreeBSD 9
and 10 stable, on osversions where vt(9) is available.
It is still possible to use the old stack by specifying WITHOUT_NEW_XORG in
/etc/make.conf .
FreeBSD 8-STABLE and released versions of FreeBSD still use
the old version.
A package repository with binary packages for new xorg will
be available soon.
This patch also contains updates of libxcb and related ports, pixman, as well
- Stage support
- Update to 0.9.33
- Bump PORTREVISION for www/libmicrohttpd shlib change
Changes: https://gnunet.org/svn/libmicrohttpd/ChangeLog
PR: ports/185184
Submitted by: Hung-Yi Chen <firstname.lastname@example.com> (maintainer)
In preparation for making libtool generate libraries with a sane name, fix all
LIB_DEPENDS in audio
With hat: portmgr
- Update to 0.9.31
- Bump PORTREVISION for www/libmicrohttpd shlib change
- While I'm here:
- Use GNU micro
- Convert to new LIB_DEPENDS format
- Convert to new options helper
- Strip shared library
- Sort PLIST
- Support STAGEDIR
PR: ports/184199
Submitted by: Hung-Yi Chen <email@example.com> (maintainer)
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
Convert audio from USE_GMAKE to USES=gmake
While here:
- Trim headers
- Convert some USE_GNOME=pkgconfig to USES=pkgconfig
- Add some missing pkgconf dependencies
- Convert some USE_GNOME=gnomehack to USES=pathfix
- Convert USE_GETTEXT to USES (part 3)
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
Chase www/libmicrohttpd shlib version bump
Approved by: eadler (mentor)
- Chase www/libmicrohttpd shlib version bump
- Bump PORTREVISION
- update png to 1.5.10
- Chase libmpd shlib bump
Chase www/libmicrohttpd shlib bump
- Add LDFLAGS to CONFIGURE_ENV and MAKE_ENV (as it was done with LDFLAGS)
- Fix all ports that add {CPP,LD}FLAGS to *_ENV to modify flags instead
Submitted by: myself
Exp-runs by: pav
Approved by: pav
Chase libmicrohttpd shared lib bump
Approved by: bapt (mentor)
- Correct libmicrohttp depobj
Reported by: pointyhat
Feature safe: yes
- Update to 0.20.0
Submitted by: avl@
Approved by: portmgr (myself,pav)
Feature safe: yes
Chase the ftp/curl shlib version bump.
- update to 1.4.1
Reviewed by: exp8 run on pointyhat
Supported by: miwi
- update to jpeg-8
- Chase taglib update
Approved by: miwi (mentor)
Exp-run by: miwi
- Update to 0.19.0
Approved by: portmgr (pav, erwin)
Feature safe: yes
- Add backup mirrors
- bump all port that indirectly depends on libjpeg and have not yet been bumped
or updated
Requested by: edwin
Bump the version of the curl shared library after the ftp/curl update
to 7.19.2.
Bump PORTREVISION, even on the ports that do not have a versioned
dependency, since the binaries will most probably still stop working.
- Mark IGNORE (does not work with new gmpc)
Bump portrevision due to upgrade of devel/gettext.
The affected ports are the ones with gettext as a run-dependency
according to ports/INDEX-7 (5007 of them) and the ones with USE_GETTEXT
in Makefile (29 of them).
PR: ports/124340
Submitted by: edwin@
Approved by: portmgr (pav)
A plugin for gmpc that serves music.
WWW: http://sarine.nl/gmpc-plugins
Servers and bandwidth provided byNew York Internet, SuperNews, and RootBSD
No vulnerabilities have been reported in the past 14 days
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Las Vegas (Nev.) Bishop Gormon has developed an outstanding reputation for sending its best players to the D-I level and once again Bishop Gordon will be a destination point for college football coaches as the school has player who is getting national attention.
The player in question is tight end/defensive end Xavier Grimble (6-6, 245, 4.7). He has written offers on the table from UCLA, UNLV and Oklahoma's offered arrived just last Friday.
Grimble has verbal offers from Oregon, Oregon State and Duke. Schools such as Cal, Washington, Colorado and Florida have already been by the school.
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UCLA, Oregon and Georgia have invited Grimble to their junior day and will try to make all three, but Georgia may tough. Grimble will also try to visit Oklahoma.
The Sooners have two players from Bishop Gorman currently on their roster (linebacker Ryan Reynolds and running back Demarco Murray) and they recently signed a third last Wednesday in four-star defensive end Justin Chaisson.
"My options are pretty open right now," Grimble said. "I don't think playing far from home will be a major consideration."
"It will be more about the coaching staff and how I fit in the team," Grimble said. "Other considerations will be how I like the city, the location and how many players are returning."
"I have thought about when I will make my decision quite a bit," Grimble said. "I hope to make my decision before my senior season starts."
"I don't really want the added pressure for my senior season," Grimble said. "It is my turn to lead the team."
Grimble earned second-team all-state as a junior. He probably deserved first-team, but Nevada is a state that likes to honor seniors. He was first-team all-conference after accounting for 13 receptions for 305 yards and three touchdowns.
The talented tight end is planning on attending the NIKE Camp in April and will probably go to the Oregon team in June.
In the weight room, Grimble's current bench press is 285, squats 350 and has recorded a 30-inch vertical.
An outstanding all-around athlete, Grimble also plays basketball averaging 10 points and 8.0 rebounds per game.


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T.I. still has hundreds of hours of community service left, and he's required to spend that time teaching kids about the consequences of their actions. But not all parents want a convicted felon talking to their kids.
Tom Myers, who lives in a suburb of Atlanta, is TICKED because his daughter's middle school recently had T.I. as a special guest at an anti-bullying assembly WITHOUT clearing it with parents first.
Myers says he didn't find out that [lastfm]T.I.[/lastfm] was going to be there until after the fact, and so he fired off a few emails to the school's principal, Dr. Terry Oatts.
He says, quote, "The first e-mail I sent to him was to ask that from now on we have some kind of parental input whether or not a speaker is appropriate. If I don't want my child to be there, just give me the right to opt them out."
He says he also wrote, quote, "How about next time, let him mow the grass or pick up the trash around the school grounds? If the kids see that they might understand that what he did was wrong."
The principal sent him an email back saying, quote, "I thought about asking a guy who snorted cocaine and got arrested for DUI when he was 30 to come and speak to our kids, but President George W. Bush was not available."
The principal's point was that anyone and everyone makes mistakes, and he also explained that T.I.'s message was to tell kids, quote, "to take their education seriously, put forth their best effort, pursue their dreams and not engage in bullying."
Myers admits that he's cool with that message, but he still not a fan of T.I.'s appearance. He says, quote, "T.I.'s an actor and he can sit down and act with the best of them. He's an entertainer. That's what he does."
I think the kids were probably excited to have T.I. come speak for them, and they probably paid more attention to him than anyone else they could have had come talk about consequences of their actions. Thoughts? (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)


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text: Terry Bello's Daily Grooves is all about good music and positive words….A careless word may kindle strife. A cruel word may wreck a life. A timely word may level stress. A loving word may heal and bless. Life is all about wanting, praying, trying, getting, loving, losing, forgiving, and keep moving. If you ain't loving life, you ain't living right.


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Ryan Sidebottom says England must play without fear in their bid to avoid a NatWest Series whitewash.
Ryan Sidebottom admits England know where they're falling short ahead of the third one-dayer...
Ryan Sidebottom is hoping the weather will hold for England's opening ODI clash with the Aussies.
Ravi Bopara says he can't wait for the fourth Ashes Test to start, but expects Australia to come out fighting.
Ravi Bopara says a partisan Edgbaston can help England recover from Kevin Pietersen's injury blow.
Ravi Bopara blogs from the England camp, where they are treating the Ashes as a four-match series.
England's Luke Wright says that confidence is high in the camp prior to Thursday's clash against South Africa.
Luke Wright says England are in fine fettle as they head into the first game of the ICC World Twenty20.
Graeme Swann looks back on England's latest success before heading off for Twenty 20 duty with Notts.
Graeme Swann heaps praise on England's seamers as they bowl their way to success over the West Indies.
Ryan Sidebottom is confident of bouncing back after a double disappointment in the third Test
Ryan Sidebottom apologises for the first Test debacle and promises we will see a different England.
In his first blog from the West Indies, Ryan Sidebottom says he is looking forward to making a winning start.
Ryan Sidebottom will be cheering England on from home, he says in his skysports.com blog.
In his skysports.com blog, Ryan Sidebottom insists spirits are still high in the England squad.
In his latest skysports.com blog, Ryan Sidebottom is looking forward to getting some shut-eye!
Ryan Sidebottom opens up about his fitness problems in the latest instalment of his skysports.com blog.
In his latest skysports.com blog, Ryan Sidebottom says England can bounce back at Edgbaston.
In his latest blog for skysports.com, Ryan Sidebottom takes the positives from the first Test stalemate.
Ryan Sidebottom reveals in his skysports.com blog that he is relishing facing South Africa.


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US stocks tumble over fiscal cliff
Published: November 8 2012 - 10:11AM
US stocks have tanked more than two per cent after President Barack Obama's re-election victory set up a tough battle with Republicans over the looming "fiscal cliff".
The Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 312.95 points (2.36 per cent) to finish at 12,932.73, closing below 13,000 for the first time since August.
The tech-rich Nasdaq Composite shed 74.64 (2.48 per cent) at 2937.28.
The S&P 500-stock index, a broad measure of the markets, skidded 33.86 (2.37 per cent) to 1394.53.
"Despite the re-election of President Obama clearing up some of the political uncertainty in the US, stocks are selling off," said analysts at Charles Schwab.
The rout came "as attention turns to the looming automatic spending cuts and tax hikes known as the fiscal cliff, complicated by Congress remaining divided," they said.
Obama won a resounding victory for another four-year term.
But voters left Congress divided, with Democrats maintaining control of the Senate and Republicans holding the House of Representatives.
After opening sharply lower, losses on the stock indices accelerated in a tsunami of red ink.
"By returning a divided government to Washington, the electorate has given neither party a clear mandate to address the lacklustre recovery, the fiscal cliff, and the looming debt crisis," said Brian Kessler at Moody's Analytics.
This story was found at: http://www.theage.com.au/business/us-stocks-tumble-over-fiscal-cliff-20121107-28zix.html


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SOLD OUT Navy Yard Master Plan Update: How New Revisions will Set the Course for the Future
The 2013 update to The Navy Yard Master Plan by the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) focuses on historic preservation, sustainability and smart growth, as well as integrating environmentally friendly workplaces, industrial development, great public spaces, waterfront and retail amenities, improved mass transit, and residential development.
The goal of the 2013 update is to reinforce and expand on the 2004 Plan's vision of The Navy Yard as a dynamic, urban, mixed-use 1,200-acre campus. Based on previous successes the new Plan concentrates on land uses east of Broad Street; features revised "Districts" which include more office buildings in the new Canal District; proposed residential development; expansion of public open spaces (including a five-acre "Central Green"); improved mass transit; and more.
This ULI Philadelphia marks the first gathering of the team members most intimately involved with the development and revision of the Plan, following a mid-January press conference unveiling by Mayor Michael A. Nutter and PIDC. Speakers include: Brian Berson, Director of Leasing and Development for the Navy Yard, Liberty Property Trust; Mark Celoni, Principal, Pennoni Associates; and Mark Seltzer, Director, Management & Development, PIDC. Special thanks to sponsors of this event – Liberty Property Trust, Pennoni Associates and PIDC. And we thank our annual Young Leaders sponsors: TD Bank, Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company, and The Daniel M. DiLella Center for Real Estate at The Villanova University School of Business.


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I hate to admit it, but sometimes I find myself ignoring the "dog for adoption" photos that my friends post on Facebook or the fliers that get posted at the pet store. There are just so many of them and sometimes it feels overwhelming how endless the overpopulation problem is. Obviously this kind of promotion works. I found my puppy, Scuttle, when a friend posted her photo online and I'm so thankful for that!
But I recently saw this really cool idea that aims to encourage a happy feeling when talking about shelter pets. The Animal Farm Foundation started creating fliers that promote two key messages to their community: choose adoption and when you do, choose our organization. Instead of spending energy creating individual dog fliers, they chose to show how much fun people have when they adopt a dog from AFF and become a part of their family. AFF considers their adopters their best marketing resource.
I love AFF's fliers because it really gives you a happy feeling to see all the photos of dogs in their new homes. I think it also challenges shelters and rescue groups to think of innovative ways to promote the positive side of adoption.


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Third Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 08/01/2004, Docket: RP04-380-000, Status: Effective
First Revised Sheet No. 96 First Revised Sheet No. 96 : Effective
Superseding: Original Sheet No. 96
RATE SCHEDULE QNIT (Continued)
3.2 Gathering Charge
If Shipper designates a Point of Receipt identified as a Gathering
Point of Receipt on the MRPL, then in addition to the Usage Charge
established in Section 3.1 of this Rate Schedule QNIT, Shipper
shall pay a monthly Gathering Charge which shall be the product of
the actual Quantity of Gas received at such Point of Receipt and
the applicable Gathering usage rate per Dt as set forth on the
effective Tariff Sheet No. 17.
3.3 Surcharges
Shipper shall pay all usage surcharges specified in Section 21
of the General Terms and Conditions and as set forth on the
effective Tariff Sheet No. 17. In addition, the Usage Charge
shall include all other applicable surcharges specified in the
General Terms and Conditions and as set forth on the effective
Tariff Sheet No. 17 or which otherwise may be applicable to
service under this Rate Schedule QNIT from time to time.
3.4 Range of Rates
Unless otherwise agreed to in writing between Shipper and
Trunkline, any rate applicable to a Shipper for service hereunder
shall be the applicable Maximum Rate per Dt as set forth on the
effective Tariff Sheet No. 17, plus all surcharges specified in
the General Terms and Conditions, as may be applicable from time
to time. If an amount less than the applicable Maximum Rate and
not less than the applicable Minimum Rate is agreed upon, such
amount shall be applied prospectively and only to those Points of
Receipt and Points of Delivery identified in writing. Trunkline
shall be responsible for compliance with any reporting
requirements prescribed by the Commission. Trunkline shall not be
required to enter into any Service Agreement for Transportation
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Five people were injured in a shooting at a Phoenix, Ariz., office complex Wednesday afternoon. Check out this video, courtesy of Talking Points Memo, in which Gabby Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, breaks the news of the shooting to lawmakers.
In response to a question from Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Kelly said:
While we were having this hearing -- and we certainly don't know the details -- but in Phoenix, Ariz., there is another shooting with multiple victims. It doesn't look like anybody's been killed but the initial reports are three people injured in Phoenix, Ariz., with multiple shots fired, and there are 50 police cars on the scene.
I certainly agree with you that a universal background check that's effective, that has the mental health records, that has the criminal records in it, will go a long way to saving people's lives.
Kelly's wife, Gabby Giffords, testified earlier this morning. Watch her statement here.


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The San Francisco 49ers had just returned to the celebratory locker room after clinching the NFC West and ending an eight-year playoff drought when players immediately turned their attention to several televisions around the room.
They were just in time to catch the thrilling final seconds of the unbeaten Green Bay Packers' 38-35 road win over the Giants. The Niners (10-2) might be the new division champions at last, yet one message resounded: This is just the first step. They care a whole lot about trying to keep up with the defending Super Bowl champions.
There will be plenty of scoreboard watching to come, and perhaps some rooting against the Pack.
"It's come up, sure it will come up more in the next few weeks," coach Jim Harbaugh said of watching the weekly results. "It has significance."
Frank Gore, among a group of playoff first-timers that includes Alex Smith, Vernon Davis, Patrick Willis and Joe Staley, doesn't plan to rest in the remaining weeks. He is determined to do his part to put the 49ers in the best playoff position possible.
"Nah, nah, we're playing ball," Gore said Monday, a day after passing the late Joe Perry to become the franchise's career rushing leader. "We've got four more games left, man, so we're playing ball. We're trying to win these last four and hopefully whatever happens with Green Bay, we'll get the No. 1 or No. 2 seed and it would be great for us."
Any postgame fun following a 26-0 rout of the St. Louis Rams on Sunday to wrap up the division was well over by Monday, when the team turned its attention to Sunday's game at Arizona. Linebackers Tavares Gooden and Parys Haralson were on the field Monday morning moving sleds in an optional workout.
Harbaugh and Co. want to make a mark in the playoffs. Winning out or going 3-1 over the season's final month would put San Francisco in position for a first-round bye — and that's the focus now.
"Everything has it's time and place. We have a long way to go," defensive tackle Ricky Jean Francois said. "Some people look at it as a bad thing that we've got a long way to go."
Team president Jed York didn't hide the fact he hopes to see a lot more from the 49ers the rest of the way.
York stood in the winning locker room Sunday night in a drastically different scene than the last time he did so: after a 25-17 loss at St. Louis in Week 16 of 2010 that marked the final game for fired coach Mike Singletary.
"I had the flu that day so that wasn't a real fun day for me. This time is a little bit better," York said. "I knew that we had talent on this team and I've said that a lot. It's great to see it all come together. Even at 10-2 there are things we can do a lot better on the field and off the field and that's what we're going to be working on."
York and general manager Trent Baalke can take pride in the fact they lured Harbaugh to the 49ers despite nearly a decade of losing.
Harbaugh came aboard in January, hired away from nearby Stanford on a $25 million, five-year contract, and challenged to pull off an immediate turnaround. Little did anybody know it would be such a drastic transformation so soon.
York was a junior at Notre Dame the last time the 49ers made the playoffs in 2002.
"It's a great accomplishment. The expectation is to win the division," he said. "That's the first step, the first milestone for us this year. That's what we set out to do. I'm proud of the guys for their work ethic, their fight, but we need to keep this up for the rest of the season and carry this into the playoffs. There's a lot of work that we need to do if we want to get there. We can't let up. ... You have to be prepared. Sometimes celebrating this early isn't always a good thing. We need to make sure we keep our heads down, we keep focused and we keep moving forward."Comment on this story
All along, Harbaugh has preached the notion of getting 1 percent better each day. He hopes his guys continue to apply that philosophy as the season winds down and they prepare for the NFL's big stage.
Still, he wants the players to cherish what they've done so far.
"It's a great thing winning the division," Harbaugh said. "Much like a diploma or a certificate you might receive in school, it has your name on it and what you did. Put that in a little frame, put it up on the wall, feel good about that accomplishment and then move forward to the next goal."


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Original Songs
Standalone Songs
"The Barista" is a monodrama that I am currently developing as part of a larger musical dramatic piece. Stay tuned!
Songs from Tarrytown
Songs from Zionsville
Songs from "The Battery's Down"
The score to "Sign," a 15-minute silent film, helped tell the story and anchor it emotionally, garnering awards at film festivals around the world
"On Lincoln Square" is a pas de deux ballet piece
"Mime Time" is a fun music cue from the film "Are You Joking?" directed by Jake Wilson
Another cue from "Are You Joking?"
Adam composed the theme to this wildly popular web series by Andrew Keenan-Bolger and Kate Wetherhead
"The Platt-Turners" is a pilot by Jake Wilson telling multiple stories simultaneously of a family with a lot of secrets
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BAE Systems reports production of titanium spar for wing using additive layer manufacturing
5 January 2014
In December, BAE Systems in the UK reported the production of one of the largest 3D printed metal parts to be made in the UK, a long titanium spar section for an aircraft wing. The part, measuring 1.2m in length was produced in 37 hours from digital model to a complete 3 dimensional part.
The part is the result of a research project led by Cranfield University to develop processes for the manufacture of large structural parts using the 3D printing process, otherwise known as Additive Layer Manufacturing (ALM).
The large titanium component, known in the industry as a spar section was designed by BAE Systems engineers in Lancashire. It sits longitudinally to form part of an aircraft wing structure. The design was a generic one, having features representative of a typical spar section on a military aircraft. Manufacture of the part took place at Cranfield University using a specific kind of 3D printing known as the Wire and Arc Additive Manufacture (WAAM) process.
|Mark Potter, a member of the ALM team at BAE Systems with long titanium spar section. Click to enlarge.
What we've been able to demonstrate from this project is that we have the ability to manufacture titanium parts on this scale. The next stage is to continue working together to produce more parts and to develop a robust set of processes so that we can take this technology and apply it safely and seamlessly into the aerospace industry.—Matt Stevens, BAE Systems engineering lead
There are several benefits to producing parts this way, cutting costs and saving time being two of the key ones. To date, BAE has already flown a number of flight-cleared 3D printed non-metallic parts made out of materials such as ULTEM and Polyamide12.
At RAF Marham, where the Tornado squadron is based, BAE Systems has helped to install the capability to produce protective covers for Tornado cockpit radios, support struts for working on air intake doors and protective guards for PTL shafts. The protective covers are made through 3D printing in a day for less than £100 (US$164) each, meaning savings to date of £300,000 (US$492,000) with a projected four-year reduction in manufacturing costs of £1.2 million (US$2 million). A replica repair plate, guaranteed in its accuracy, can be turned round in a day, as opposed to nearer a month.
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Sources have informed FiveOuncesOfPain.com that Andrei Arlovski has signed an agreement with Golden Boy Promotions.
Full details of the deal are not known at this time, but Arlovski had been rumored to enter the boxing world since early in 2008. Recently, trainer Freddie Roach confirmed that Arlovski was going to start boxing following the fight with Fedor Emelianenko. At the time, Roach stated that he wanted to Arlovski to challenge WBA heavyweight champion Nikolay Valuev.
News of the signing with Golden Boy signals that Arlovski's entry into boxing is more than just rumor and is now expected to become reality.
Arlovski, a former UFC heavyweight champion, challenged Emelianenko for the WAMMA heavyweight title last month during Affliction M-1's "Day of Reckoning" event in Anaheim, Calif. After winning much of the first round, Arlovski was knocked out by a right cross delivered Fedor while attempting to finish the former PRIDE champion with a flying knee.
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Props (Glee)
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Episode 20
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|Original air date
|May 15, 2012
|Guest appearance(s)
"Props" is the twentieth episode of the third season of the American musical television series Glee, and the sixty-fourth overall. Written and directed by Ian Brennan, the episode is the first of two new episodes that aired back-to-back on Fox in the United States on May 15, 2012. It features New Directions preparing a new performance routine for the impending Nationals competition, an extended sequence in which Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) has a vision of the glee club having swapped roles, including herself as Rachel, and an appearance by special guest star Whoopi Goldberg as NYADA dean Carmen Tibideaux.
The episode received mostly positive reviews overall, though reaction to the musical performances was not as strong. The body-swap sequence was given an enthusiastic reception. The scenes featuring Coach Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones) and Puck (Mark Salling) were also much praised, and in particular the pair's acting was highlighted. Their performance of the song "Mean", by contrast, received the most divergent reactions from reviewers, yet it was the one song from the four singles released from the episode to chart in North America, and debuted on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100.
Upon its initial airing, this episode was viewed by 6.09 million American viewers and received a 2.5/8 Nielsen rating/share in the 18–49 demographic. The total viewership was down significantly from "Prom-asaurus" the week before.
When New Directions starts planning a setlist for the impending Nationals competition, Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz) is frustrated that Rachel (Lea Michele) is again singing lead while she remains stuck in the background, and walks out. When Rachel tries to bribe her to withdraw her objections, she tells Rachel that she wants to experience a standing ovation of her own. Tina later falls into a fountain and strikes her head, which causes her to experience a vision in which all of the glee club members have switched roles,—most notably, she sees herself as Rachel and Rachel as Tina. "Rachel" performs "Because You Loved Me", and the club gives her a standing ovation. She thanks "Tina" for her support, and "Tina" in turn gives "Rachel" advice on how to salvage her failed NYADA audition. After Tina comes back to reality, she conveys that advice: Rachel should see NYADA dean Carmen Tibideaux (Whoopi Goldberg) in person—she is conducting a master class at Oberlin. Tina drives Rachel there, but Carmen has been annoyed by Rachel's repeated messages and says she does not deserve any special attention. Tina disagrees, telling Carmen that although Rachel gets whatever she wants and is "a pain in the ass", Rachel gets it all because she is exceptional. Rachel invites Carmen to attend their Nationals performance, and pledges to audition for NYADA every year until she is accepted.
Sue (Jane Lynch) announces that rival glee club Vocal Adrenaline is the team to beat, thanks mostly to its transgender lead singer Wade "Unique" Adams (Alex Newell), who has become a media star. Sue decides that New Directions needs a similar gimmick to win and she tells Kurt (Chris Colfer) to dress in drag, but he adamantly refuses. Puck (Mark Salling) dons a dress and volunteers to lead the drag number, but Will vetoes the gimmickry and refocuses the group on its choreography.
Santana (Naya Rivera), Brittany (Heather Morris), and Mercedes (Amber Riley) are worried because Coach Beiste (Dot-Marie Jones) has not left her abusive husband, Cooter (Eric Bruskotter), as she claimed. Beiste tells them that adult relationships are more complex and insists she is fine. Hockey player Rick "The Stick" (Rock Anthony) ridicules Puck for being seen in the dress; they agree to a fight outside the school. Rick gains the upper hand and Puck is thrown into a dumpster, but he emerges brandishing a switchblade. Coach Beiste breaks up the fight; in the locker room, Puck tells her that the knife is a fake stage prop, and she retorts that he could have gotten expelled. Puck replies that he is flunking out anyway and a failure, telling her that she does not know what it feels like to be worthless. He breaks down, and Beiste comforts him as he cries. At home, Beiste tells Cooter that she is leaving him, and removes her wedding ring. He asks who else would love her; she answers: "Me". Back at the school auditorium, she joins Puck in singing "Mean", tells him that she has arranged for him to retake a crucial test to graduate, and promises to help him pass. As the episode ends, Rachel and Tina sing "Flashdance... What a Feeling", and board the glee club's bus to Nationals.
This episode was written by Glee co-creator Ian Brennan, who also made his directorial debut in this episode. While the first scenes for the episode were shot on March 30, 2012, on a day that also saw scenes shot for the previous two episodes,[1] shooting on the episode began in earnest on Monday, April 9, 2012, after the completion of the prior episode at the end of the week before.[2][3] Filming continued into the following week at least through Wednesday, April 18, 2012, by which point the next episode had begun shooting in parallel.[4]
The plot has Tina suffering a "mild" head injury—she falls into a fountain—that causes her to see an alternate reality version of New Directions: actors playing club members had to swap roles with another actor in the cast.[5][6] Chris Colfer, who normally plays Kurt Hummel, said that the portrayals "were really hard to nail—they're not over the top by any means".[6] Pairs who are swapping roles include Tina and Rachel, Kurt and Finn (Cory Monteith), Mike (Harry Shum, Jr.) and Joe (Samuel Larsen), Puck and Blaine (Darren Criss), Artie (Kevin McHale) and Santana,[5] Quinn (Dianna Agron) and Sugar (Vanessa Lengies), Rory (Damian McGinty) and Sam (Chord Overstreet), Mercedes and Brittany, and Will and Sue.[7]
In addition to those mentioned above, other recurring roles include football coach Shannon Beiste (Jones) and her husband, football recruiter Cooter Menkins (Bruskotter), and Newell as Vocal Adrealine lead singer Wade "Unique" Adams.[8] Special guest star Whoopi Goldberg returns for a second appearance as NYADA dean Carmen Tibideaux.
Four songs from the episode were released in the US as singles available for digital download: Taylor Swift's "Mean" performed by Jones and Salling,[9] Jason Mraz's "I Won't Give Up" performed by Michele,[10] Irene Cara's "Flashdance... What a Feeling" performed by Michele and Ushkowitz, and Celine Dion's "Because You Loved Me" performed by Ushkowitz as Rachel.[11][12] "I Won't Give Up" is also featured on the soundtrack album Glee: The Music, The Graduation Album.[13] A fifth song, an excerpt of "Always True to You in My Fashion" from Kiss Me Kate, is performed by an unnamed male student (Derek L. Butler) singing in a master class for Carmen; it was not released as a single.[14]
"Props" was first broadcast on May 15, 2012 in the United States on Fox. It aired at the usual time for an episode as the first hour in a two-hour special evening with "Nationals" as the second hour. It received a 2.5/8 Nielsen rating/share in the 18–49 demographic, and attracted 6.09 million American viewers during its initial airing, down from the 2.7/8 rating/share and 6.67 million viewers of the previous episode, "Prom-asaurus", which was broadcast on May 8, 2012.[15] Viewership was down significantly in Canada, which also aired the episode as the first hour of a two-episode special, where 1.34 million viewers watched the episode on the same day as its American premiere, down over 18%. It was the fourteenth most-viewed show of the week, down from thirteenth in the previous week, when 1.65 million viewers watched "Prom-asaurus".[16]
Although the United Kingdom also aired these two episodes together, viewership rose rather than fell. "Props" first aired on May 17, 2012, and was watched on Sky 1 by 795,000 viewers. This was an increase of nearly 7% from the previous episode, "Prom-asaurus", which attracted 744,000 viewers when it aired the week before.[17] In Australia, "Props" was broadcast on May 17, 2012, but unlike in the other three countries, it was the only episode broadcast that week. It was watched by 607,000 viewers, a decrease of over 4% from the 636,000 viewers for "Prom-asaurus" on May 10, 2012. Glee was the seventeenth most-watched program of the night, down from thirteenth the week before.[18]
Critical reception[edit]
The episode received mostly positive reviews. John Kubicek of BuddyTV called it "easily my favorite episode of the past two seasons, and quite possibly one of the best episodes the show has ever made".[19] Damian Holbrook of TV Guide described it and the episode that followed, "Nationals", as "clever, funny and filled with moments that felt like little gifts to the fans who have hung in there".[20] Houston Chronicle's Bobby Hankinson said the "double feature continued the recent hot streak" of episodes, and Michael Slezak of TVLine highlighted this episode's "script that winkingly acknowledged fan complaints that Ryan Murphy & Co. all too often ignore some of Glee's original players in favor of new and more-hyped flavors".[21] The A.V. Club's Todd VanDerWerff wrote that it showcased writer and director Ian Brennan's "strengths of acid comedy and sad stories of small-town teenagers who'll never get anything but to sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream"; he gave "Props" a "B" grade.[22] Rae Votta of Billboard said, "It felt organically Glee, zany but with heart."[23]
E! Online's Jenna Mullins thought the body-swap sequence "breathed fresh 'n' crazy air into Glee", and Kubicek called it "the best thing Glee has ever done and will ever do".[19][24] Jyll Saskin of MTV said it was "super trippy, makes no sense plot-wise" and was a "totally awesome Glee moment"; Entertainment Weekly's Erin Strecker wrote that "the entire cast deserved an MVP award for their completely on-point mannerisms", and singled out "Finn and Puck all snuggly together, holding hands and dressed up like Kurt and Blaine".[25][26] VanDerWerff, however, described it as a "totally odd curiosity that comes out of nowhere", and said that the car trip taken by Tina and Rachel later in the episode was more successful at showing Tina "what Rachel's life is like".[22] Kubicek called the offer of the trip and subsequent drive a "sweet bonding moment" between the pair, and called it "great" that "Tina is the one who saves the day" at the meeting with Carmen, but Chaney wondered why it took Rachel two episodes to regain her drive and aspirations.[19][27]
The scenes with Puck and Beiste were much praised, as were the actors. While reviewers such as Bell and VanDerWerff criticized the domestic abuse storyline, both were far happier with the way it was ended than with how it had been introduced in "Choke"—VanDerWerff wrote that "the fact that both Puck and Beiste's storylines resolve at the same time in the same scene is a nice piece of writing, with some strong acting".[22][28] Votta called the pair's scenes "delightful" and thought they merited a "road trip adventure spin-off"; Bell said that she "could have seriously watched an hour dedicated to Beiste and Puck".[23][28] Slezak highlighted "terrific work" by Jones and Salling, and the scenes with "Beiste holding a sobbing Puck" and confronting Cooter as "pretty remarkable".[21] Strecker called the latter scene "painful to watch, in the best possible way", and Bell described Salling's performance in the former as "truly incredible".[26][28]
Music and performances[edit]
The musical performances were greeted with somewhat less enthusiasm than the episode as a whole, and given mixed to positive reviews. An example of this was the song's opening number, "I Won't Give Up". Saskin wrote that "Rachel sings Jason Mraz, like everything else, beautifully", while Rolling Stone's Erica Futterman credits her for having made a "sappy ballad mildly more tolerable".[25][29] Strecker gave the performance a "B+" grade and called it a "classic Berry power ballad"; "B" grades were given by Slezak and Washington Post's Jen Chaney, who also noted Rachel's "vocal power".[21][26][27]
"Because You Loved Me" performed by Tina as Rachel received the most consistently positive reviews, though both Chaney, who gave the song an "A−", and Strecker, who graded it a "B+", stated their belief that the real Rachel would have done it better, and Saskin was more blunt: "We love you, Tina, but you just can't belt like Rachel".[25][26][27] Futterman was the most pleased, and wrote: "The richness of her voice removes some of the Lite FM softness embedded in the tune, and it really is great to see Tina get a song that suits her vocal abilities".[29]
The most divergent views were expressed about Puck and Beiste's performance of "Mean". Crystal Bell of Huffington Post asked, "How could you not be moved by their duet in the auditorium?"[28] E! Online's Jenna Mullins called it "one of the highlights of the season", and Slezak gave it a grade of "A".[21][24] Chaney's "B+" followed her statement that "it was more effective than Swift's version because I can believe that both Puck and Beiste have had it rough", and Strecker described it as "lovely and thematically perfect" and gave it a "B".[26][27] VanDerWerff said he "could have done without" their duet, and Futterman was even harsher: "it was quite unfortunate".[22][29] Houston Chronicle's Bobby Hankinson wrote that he "sort of liked" how the pair were "simultaneously improving upon and butchering a Taylor Swift song", and Saskin characterized it as "heartfelt and passionate".[25][30]
Futterman said of "Flashdance... What a Feeling" that "there was a glimmer of old-school Glee in the performance, carefree underdog status that made me smile".[29] Saskin and Chaney both found the performance lacking; the former wrote that "something about this version falls flat", and Chaney gave it a "B−" and said it "wasn't as soaring as it could have been", though "Rachel and Tina's bonding moment was sweet" and she liked "the way it took us from hour one into hour two and Nationals".[25][27] Slezak and Strecker both gave the performance an "A−".[21][26]
Chart history[edit]
One of the four singles released for the episode, "Mean", charted on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 at number seventy-one, which was higher than either of the two songs that debuted on that chart from "Nationals" in the same week; none of these songs charted in the US.[31][32] One other single from the episode, "I Won't Give Up", though it did not sell well enough to chart on the US Billboard Hot 100 the week it was released, affected the charting there of the Jason Mraz original, which moved up from thirty-four to twenty-nine on the Hot 100; it had previously charted as high as number eight.[33]
- ^ Michele, Lea (March 30, 2012). "Twitter / @msleamichele: I shot scenes from 3 different episodes today!!!! Crazy!!!!". Retrieved April 29, 2012.
- ^ Michele, Lea (April 9, 2012). "Twitter / @msleamichele: Rise and shine everyone:) Early morning here on the glee set.. Starting episode 20 today.. Only 3 more to go". Retrieved April 29, 2012.
- ^ Anthony, Rock (April 5, 2012). "Twitter / @TheRockAnthony: Just filmed the funniest scene...turned out really good...can't wait for u all to see it...oh #glee u so funny!! 319 is a wrap on to 320! :)". Retrieved April 28, 2012.
- ^ Michele, Lea (April 18, 2012). "Twitter / @msleamichele: Shooting 2 episodes today.. 20 and 21.. #finchel scene up first:)". Retrieved May 15, 2012.
- ^ a b Goldberg, Lesley (May 1, 2012). "'Glee' Cast Shares Funny, Poignant Moments From Season 3". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved May 2, 2012.
- ^ a b Ausiello, Michael (April 22, 2012). "Chris Colfer on Glee's Big Role-Swapping Episode: 'I Didn't Want to Disrespect Anybody'". TV Line. Mail.com Media. Retrieved April 29, 2012.
- ^ "Fox Primetime - Glee - Episodic Photos". Fox Flash. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
- ^ "The Glee Club Gets Ready for Nationals on an All-New Special Two-Hour "Glee"". The Futon Critic. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
- ^ Keck, William (May 1, 2012). "Twitter / @KecksExclusives: #glee SCOOP: In two weeks @dotmariejones Coach Bieste will sing Mean by @taylorswift with Puck @MarkSalling". Retrieved May 2, 2012.
- ^ Dresdale, Andrea (May 15, 2012). "Jason Mraz Happy About Tuesday Night's "Glee" Cover of "I Won't Give Up"". ABC News Radio. Retrieved May 15, 2012.
- ^ "Glee Cast – MP3 downloads". amazon.com. Retrieved May 5, 2012.
- ^ "First Listen Friday: Props". Glee: The Music. Columbia Records. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
- ^ "Glee: The Music, The Graduation Album Available May 15". GleeTheMusic.com. Sony Music Entertainment. April 17, 2012. Retrieved April 26, 2012.
- ^ Ian Brennan (director, writer) (May 15, 2012). "Props". Glee. Season 3. Episode 20. Fox.
- ^ US viewership data:
- "Props": Bibel, Sarah (May 16, 2012). "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'NCIS', 'Glee' Adjusted Up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- "Prom-asaurus": Kondolojy, Amanda (May 9, 2012). "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'Voice', 'Glee', 'DWTS' + 'NCIS' Adjusted Up; 'LA Complex', + 'Private Practice' Adjusted Down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved May 9, 2012.
- ^ Canadian viewership data:
- "Props"": "Top Programs – Total Canada (English): May 14 – May 20, 2012" (PDF). BBM Canada. Retrieved May 26, 2012.
- "Prom-asaurus": "Top Programs – Total Canada (English): May 7 – May 13, 2012" (PDF). BBM Canada. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 28, 2013. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
- ^ UK viewership data:
- "Props": "Weekly Top 10 Programmes (Sky 1, w/e 20 May 2012)". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on July 18, 2014. Retrieved May 28, 2012.
- "Prom-asaurus": "Weekly Top 10 Programmes (Sky 1, w/e 13 May 2012)". Broadcasters' Audience Research Board. Archived from the original on July 18, 2014. Retrieved May 21, 2012.
- ^ Australian viewership data:
- "Props": Dale, David (May 14, 2012). "THE RATINGS RACE: Somebody put Glee, Grey's and the Despos out of their misery". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved May 18, 2012.
- "Prom-asaurus": Dale, David (May 7, 2012). "THE RATINGS RACE: All the Friday footy figures you could possibly want". Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
- ^ a b c Kubicek, John (May 15, 2012). "'Glee' Recap: Everybody Gets a Chance to Shine". BuddyTV. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^ Holbrook, Damian (May 16, 2012). "Watercooler: OK Glee, You Got Us!". TV Guide. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Slezak, Michael (May 15, 2012). "Glee (Hour 1) Recap: Being (Rachel) Is Believin'". TVLine. Mail.com Media. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ a b c d VanDerWerff, Todd (May 16, 2012). ""Props"/"Nationals"". The A.V. Club. The Onion. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ a b Votta, Rae (May 16, 2012). "'Glee' Recap: 'Props' Was Fun, But 'Nationals' a Bust". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^ a b Mullins, Jenna (May 15, 2012). "Glee Recap: Did New Directions Win Nationals?". E! Online. NBCUniversal. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Saskin, Jyll (May 16, 2012). "'Glee' Recap: 'Props/Nationals'". Hollywood Crush. MTV Networks. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e f Strecker, Erin (May 16, 2012). "'Glee' recap: Edge of Glory". Entertainment Weekly. Time Inc. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^ a b c d e Chaney, Jen (May 16, 2012). "'Glee' by the musical numbers: No time for losers". The Washington Post. Katharine Weymouth. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^ a b c d Bell, Crystal (May 16, 2012). "'Glee' Recap: We Are The Champions". HuffPost TV. Huffington Post. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^ a b c d Futterman, Erica (May 16, 2012). "'Glee' Recap: What a Feeling". Rolling Stone. Wenner Media LLC. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^ Hankinson, Bobby (May 16, 2012). "Glee: A super-sized trip to Nationals, with Lindsay Lohan!". Houston Chronicle. Jack Sweeney. Retrieved May 20, 2012.
- ^ "Glee Album & Song Chart History: Billboard Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
- ^ "Glee Album & Song Chart History: Billboard Canadian Hot 100". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved May 10, 2012.
- ^ Grein, Paul (May 23, 2012). "Week Ending May 20, 2012. Songs: J.Lo's Song Sputters". Chart Watch. Yahoo! Music. Retrieved May 28, 2012.


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Release Notes: MATtool is now ported to Solaris/x86. Numerous problems with the command macros have been fixed. The installer now works correctly with xinetd.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- The upcoming fifth season of the ground-breaking U.S. reality TV show, "Queer Eye," will be its last, Bravo has said in a statement.
The Emmy Award-winning series, starring Ted Allen, Kyan Douglas, Thom Filicia, Carson Kressley and Jai Rodriguez, concludes its four-year run with 10 all-new episodes, starting Oct. 2 with a special premiere, including a "Straight Guy Pageant," presented by soap star Susan Lucci.
The premiere will be followed by an all-new episode, which introduces the world to Eric, a small-town Denver boy who enlists the help of the "Queer Eye" guys to prepare for his first meeting with New Yorker Tracie after they connected on Match.com.
Since it premiered, the show has helped straight men everywhere improve their grooming, clothing choices, relationships and appreciation for culture.
"'Queer Eye' refashioned Bravo when it premiered four years ago, and the Fab Five's areas of expertise are now the tentpoles of Bravo's programming: fashion, food, beauty, design and pop culture," said Frances Berwick, Bravo's executive vice president of programming and production. "The show continues to combine a rare mix of emotional stories of personal growth, with relevant information on style, cooking and culture, and a liberal dose of humor."


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iMesh Toolbar is a browser extension that you may install to your system while downloading a music sharing program called iMesh. The thing is that you don't only get this program but also a number of different ad-ons. The program also modifies your browser settings and can include some unknown websites to your bookmarks list. Besides, it alters your homepage to search.imesh.net and changes your default search. Whn you try to do some searches on your computer you may end up being redirected to iMesh website as well.
iMesh Toolbar is not considered to be an illegal program, however, it uses unfair ways to infiltrate into your computer and it can also track your browsing history, user names and passwords. As you know, later this information can be used for different purposes. Everybody who cares about their security should not allow such things to happen.
As you see iMesh Toolbar is not only annoying and it interrupts into your browsing activities. It can also cause some security related issues. For these reason you should remove iMesh Toolbar from your computer as soon as you detect it on your system. You should run a full system scan with a reliable antispyware program, for example Spyhunter. After that you will have to restore some settings automatically. Below we explain how to do it:
- Go to Control Panel and uninstall iMesh toolbar if it still exists there.
- Open IE Press on the arrow close to search bar, set default search engine to google or any other that you prefer and then delete iMesh from list.
- Open Firefox (optional). On the main tool bar, click on 'Tools', and select 'Options'. Select General panel (Main panel in Firefox 3.5). Change the home page address and search engine.
- Open Google Chrome (optional). Click on gear icon, go to settings, manage search engines, change search engine back to google and delete iMesh toolbar from the list. Then Go to section "On start" and make sure you get blank page while creating new tab.
Automatic iMesh Toolbar removal tools
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Important Note: Although it is possible to manually remove iMesh Toolbar, such activity can permanently damage your system if any mistakes are made in the process, as advanced spyware parasites are able to automatically repair themselves if not completely removed. Thus, manual spyware removal is recommended for experienced users only, such as IT specialists or highly qualified system administrators. For other users, we recommend using Reimage or other tools found on 2-viruses.com.


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If I recall there is a lot of dodging and "stick skills" for some parts. I only played alone so I don't know if you'd be able to mitigate that some with two people running a muck.
The cyberspace puzzley parts are pretty annoying and tedious. Agreed. I mostly just ignored the loot for a while and stopped to put on better clothes/weapons between segments of combat. I'm a "pick up all the pants" type of guy though.


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Oh my. The engine is sad enough. It's obviously a stock KA24 truck motor. But it "comes with" the turbos and whatnot to do a twin turbo conversion or something! Basically, it's a ruined 240 with a pile of parts and some broken dreams. I wish the buyer luck because the PO that did this work.......wow......just wow.
Want more proof it's really an R33? Like the poorly placed badging and poor stencil paints aren't enough?
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A team of researchers have found that happy marriages and marital like relationships may help protect against heart disease, according to a new study published in the June 2014 issue of Psychosomatic Medicine.
Study author Thomas Kamarck, a professor of psychology at the University of Pittsburgh Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, pointed out that there is a growing body of evidence showing how the quality of marriages can influence the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Accordingly, Kamark and researchers from the University of Pittburgh, PA, launched their own study to confirm if happy marriages cut the risk of cardiovascular disease.
For the study, the team analyzed 282 healthy middle-aged couples who were either married or living together in a marital-like relationship. Over a period of four days, the researchers monitored the couples each hour. Additionally, the participants' self-monitored their interactions, rating them as either positive or negative.
The researchers also measured the thickness of the participants' carotid arteries. The carotid arteries, located in the neck, supply oxygenated blood to the head and neck – and when they thicken, they can lead to atherosclerosis, which causes a narrowing of the arteries and a build-up of fatty plaques on the interior walls. When this happens, the risk of developing cardiovascular disease is increased.
The results of the study found that those who had positive interactions with their mates had a lower incidence of CVD, compared with those who had negative interactions in their relationship, which increased their risk of cardiovascular disease by 8.5 percent.


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What standard should the United States and its NATO allies apply when deciding whether to intervene militarily in war-ravaged countries such as Syria?
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The most persuasive answer I've seen was delivered by Charles Krauthammer, in a sweeping 2004 lecture to the American Enterprise Institute entitled "Democratic Realism: An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World."
In that lengthy speech, Krauthammer began by outlining the established foreign-policy schools, including isolationism, liberal internationalism and realism. All are problematic.
Isolationism "is an ideology of fear." Its limited viability was destroyed by 9/11, which demonstrated that no country can simply pull up the drawbridge and let others fight their wars on the other side of the moat.
Liberal internationalism — epitomized by Bill Clinton's interventions in Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo — is well-intentioned. But it prompts great powers to involve themselves in obscure conflicts, in strategically insignificant parts of the world, that have little connection with America's "raw national interest." (Moreover, Krauthammer noted, liberal internationalists always seek to tie down the United States within a paralyzing web of coalitions, treaties and UN resolutions.)
Realism, on the other hand, goes to the other extreme: Its proponents conduct foreign affairs as if it were an amoral chess game, in which the only real motivation is a desire to impose power over the largest possible number of chessboard squares. The problem here is that, as Krauthammer says, Western democracies are not amoral: "Our foreign policy must be driven by something beyond power."
After rejecting all of the established options, Krauthammer created a new doctrine called "democratic realism." He defined its central axiom as follows: "We will support democracy everywhere, but we will commit blood and treasure only in places where there is a strategic necessity — meaning, places central to the larger war against the existential enemy, the enemy that poses a global mortal threat to freedom."
"Fifty years ago, Germany and Japan [were the existential enemy]," Krauthammer added. "Why? Because they were the seeds of the greatest global threat to freedom in mid-century — fascism — and then were turned, by nation building, into bulwarks against the next great threat to freedom, Soviet communism. Where does it count today? Where the overthrow of radicalism and the beginnings of democracy can have a decisive effect in the war against the new global threat to freedom, the new existential enemy, the Arab-Islamic totalitarianism that has threatened us in both its secular and religious forms for the quarter-century since the Khomeini revolution of 1979."
Western voters had no taste for war in Africa because the savage warlords we'd be confronting were regional butchers
I recite fragments from Krauthammer's decade-old speech because the doctrine of democratic realism comes the closest to explaining how most ordinary people — not just the sort of conservative intellectuals who attend American Enterprise Institute speeches — think about foreign interventions.
Though they recoiled at the horror in Darfur and Congo, Western voters had no taste for war in Africa because the savage warlords we'd be confronting were regional butchers with no geopolitical ambitions. The same was not true of al-Qaeda, which sought to bring the West to its knees with terrorism from its base in Afghanistan; or Saddam Hussein, who had an apocalyptic streak and half the world's oil supply in his backyard. In both those cases, there was a case to be made that America and its allies were confronting "the existential enemy, the enemy that poses a global mortal threat to freedom." (As for the 2011 Libyan campaign, it was tolerated more than supported back at home — and only then because no NATO forces were put at risk.)
By this standard, should the West intervene in Syria? Liberal internationalists might argue yes, because more than 100,000 people have died in that country. But even if the Assad regime collapsed tomorrow, the nation's civil war likely would continue. The idea that Syria might soon be transformed into any sort of real democracy is a wishful Western fantasy, earnestly peddled by outgunned non-jihadi rebel groups desperate to attract aid from the United States.
The key question, then, is whether there is any sort of "strategic necessity" to intervene. And on this, the answer is no: The civil war within Syria has become a fight involving two camps — Sunni jihadis, and Iranian-backed regime forces — that both hate the West, and whose fighters would be killing Western infidels if they weren't too busy killing each other. Putting moral considerations to one side, if there is any Western "strategic necessity" at play here, it would be to encourage these two forces to fight each other to the death (as with the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s).
In the cold calculus of self-interest, the war already has paid abundant dividends for the West: By joining a fight against fellow Arabs, Hezbollah — once lionized as southern Lebanon's anti-Zionist protector — is now widely vilified among the region's Sunnis. Iran is being bled dry at a time when it can ill-afford such losses. Hamas has become estranged from both Damascus and Tehran. Israel, a Western ally, might conceivably come under attack if Bashar Assad becomes truly desperate. But in other respects, the country is now watching its enemies turn their guns against one another.
My National Post colleague Matt Gurney argues that the West should use air strikes to destroy Syria's stock of chemical arms. That might be a defensible step — assuming we know where the weapons are, and they are in strikeable locations — given that the spread of weapons of mass destruction to non-state actors, possibly including rebel paramilitary groups allied with al-Qaeda, would indeed have "existential" implications for Western security.
But even here, there are risks: For two years, Assad has defended his regime's atrocities with the claim that he is engaged in a campaign of "resistance" against an American- and Zionist-orchestrated terrorist conspiracy. Why would we want to give him any evidence for this thesis? Moreover, as Jeffrey Goldberg has pointed out, assuming Assad survives a limited Western bombing campaign largely unscathed, he would then be able to pose as a sarin-era Saladin, and make the West look ineffectual.
The United States has intervened militarily in Muslim nations three times since 9/11, with mixed results. Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan remain violent countries, with only the most nominally democratic governments. The standard for involvement in a fourth war must be high, and the doctrine of "democratic realism" supplies a suitable standard — one that Syria does not meet.
— Jonathan Kay is Managing Editor for Comment at the National Post, and a Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington, D.C.


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Today is Feb. 16.
Had a condo made of stone-ah, King Tut! On this date in 1923, archeologists opened the treasure-laden tomb of Tutankhamen -- a.k.a. King Tut -- in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. Unlike the tombs of many of Egypt's other pharaohs, Tut's had been untouched by graverobbers.
In the mid-1970s, King Tut fever swept America as an exhibit of his treasures toured U.S. museums. People waited in line for hours, prompting comedian Steve Martin to record a novelty tune, titled "King Tut," that asked -- among other things -- "How'd you get so funky?"
Fidel Castro was sworn in as Cuba's leader on this day in 1959. He's still there -- although he's given up his cigars, trimmed his beard a bit and wears a business suit almost as often as those green fatigues. (He probably didn't like it when rock musicians began wearing the same things on MTV.)
Windbreaker jackets, much sheerer ladies stockings and a whole bunch of other stuff became possible on this date in 1933 when DuPont was awarded a patent for the synthetic fiber nylon.
And on this date in 1992, the Los Angeles Lakers retired the jersey number of "Magic" Johnson, who'd retired after discovering he was HIV-positive.
We now return you to the present, already in progress.


text: I'm a huge fan of roasted chestnuts. Last year was an unbelievably good year for the chestnuts in my opinion. Most were meaty, sweet, the "hair" didn't stick to the meat and there were very few mold ones. This year I've bought 3 batches and they're all dry, flavorless and hairy. Bummed! I'm wondering if Italy had terrible weather for chestnuts this year or if I should stop buying them from the Food Coop, which is where I got all my awesome ones last year.


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Leverage the brilliance, talents and expertise of your team to create possibilities and achieve amazing results.
Introducing coaching into your workplace will help create a coaching culture where employees are engaged, challenged, and provided with learning opportunities that will support success. Through the Coaching Out of the Box® program for managers, you will learn coaching skills in a simple, engaging and experiential way. You will become a more effective leader while developing your employees.
This seminar provides easy-to-understand overviews and concept introductions and plenty of coaching practice. The instructor taps into the participant's natural way of coaching and shares resources and learning to compliment what they are doing and who they are naturally.
Build your competencies in coaching by:
Each participant receives a box full of resourceful materials for learning and supporting their coaching. The box includes a Participants Workbook, Desk Reference Pyramid with the 5/5/5/ model, 365 Coaching Questions booklet, 50 Coaching Questions quick reference bookmark and The Airplane Journals DVD, a documentary on coaching by an award winning documentary filmmaker which includes coaching demonstrations and instruction.
Continuing Education Contact Hours: 10.5
This is an elective module in the Human Resource Development Program.
Managers, supervisors, project leaders, team leaders and human resource professionals.
This seminar is not currently scheduled.
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