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An excellent website designed to introduce high school students to what is truly the exciting world of engineering, depicting the profession for what it is: creative problem solving to make the world a better place. Site is for everyone, but special attention is paid to the outstanding women in the field.
The National Academy of Engineering presents this awesome web site for middle school girls!
The Tufts University Bridge Library:
Professor Brian Brenner and his graduate students have decveloped a "library" of bridges that they have allowed Boston Society of Civil Engineers Outreach volunteers to take to schools. They also have an excellent website with supporting materials for their bridge library, and a plethora of other information about bridges.
Celeste Baine, an engineer from Eugene, Oregon, has dedicated herself to enlightening students (and engineers, and everyone for that matter) to the vast world that is Engineering. Her personal website has links to tons of contests, interesting sites, and even engineering jokes.
The Engineering Education Service Center:
This website, put together by Celeste Baine, has a great discussion board and is a great source for purchasing engineering related educational materials.
The Northeastern University NUPrime Program:
NUPrime focuses on encouraging students from minority backgrounds and young women to open their eyes to Engineering. Our contests and many of our presentations are only possible through the help of NUPrime and Northeastern University, who help us reach students and regularly provide us with function space as well as freely allow us to utilize their resources.
The BSCES Outreach Organization Guide:
We are very proud of our own publication aimed at letting folks know what groups and resources are out there! This is a continually evolving guide.
Test your local ponds, beach, river, etc. and post the results on this internationally renowned website.
An evolving page, full of all sorts of info, activities and
other great stuff related to CIVIL ENGINEERING.
National Engineers Week Boston:
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So like, I have opinions about how shows should structure themselves. Specifically like adventure-y, action-y shows like the Hundo. It's built upon my years and years and years of watching shit like Buffy, Farscape, Charmed, Roswell, etc. (Micheal Geurin ILY)
This is basically my Grand Plan for when I inevitably am given a CW show. Inevitably. You know I'm for cereal because I'm going full adult capitalization on this bitch.
Overall Show Structure
First of all, I think a show should know how long it wants to run. There should be an end date in mind rather than letting it just go on forever until it dies in a last, pathetic choke for relevance. Yeah, lookin' to you SPN. As far as I'm concerned 3, 5, and 7 seasons are the best options for intended length but I think an argument can be made for other choices.
I'm going to focus on a 5 season structure because it's the one I think is best from both a story telling and fandom supporting stance. So, lets brush quickly on why I think 3 and 7 seasons are also good options.
3 Season Run
This form of the story is clear, concise and focused. There's nothing extraneous in a short run like this and I think there's a lot to be said for clean story telling like this. In a 3 season run season 1 shows us who characters are and what their relationships are; season 2 tests those relationships and asks characters to stretch themselves; season 3 breaks those relationships and the tensions first overcome in season 1 as the tearing points.
7 Season Run
Telling a story for this long is a big ask. A lot changes in that many seasons and honestly, I think this is the longest possible run before a show loses coherency (crime procedurals can escape this but I think they're a unique breed). The 7 season show follows the same structure as the 5 season run but the last 2 seasons pull from a dangled bit of information in season 3. This'll make a little more sense as we dig into my season break down. You're also almost certainly looking at some pretty big central cast choices by the end of 7 seasons.
5 Season Run
Okay, so my personal favourite, the 5 season run. I think this is the best length for a show of this type, action adventure stories that are ultimately about people. In a 5 season run you build characters, break them down, and let them reform themselves. 5 seasons is enough to really explore the depths of characters with time and focus but not so long that you end up repeating personal stories in clumsy ways. In broad brush strokes seasons 1 and 2 set up who are characters are and what their relationships will be; season 3 picks away and their sense of self and leaves them at their lowest point in it's finale; seasons 4 and 5 build them back up, reaffirm who they are and why it is that they're doing this.
Season By Season Breakdown
Season 1
A good first season is a hard one. You need a small, tight story with small, personal stakes. This is where you set up the core of your show (hopefully the central cast that will carry all the way to the end of your run) and tell us who we're rooting for. We're given 3 or 4 characters who are going to be at the heart of our show and we need to learn who they are. It's important that they have interpersonal tension and that by the end of the season they have a stable, working relationship.
This is also when you want to keep the stakes low. No one saves the world in the first season. Where do you go from there? The first season is about personal danger and personal stakes. We shouldn't even meet the real antagonist this season. Our plucky heroes duke it out with lackies and maybe a lieutenant, a second or third in command. We hear about but never meet the Big Bad. The season ends with the heroes defeating the small scale. For Buffy that was overcoming a prophecy of her own death. For the Hundo that was repelling an attacking force from their home. Small scale, personal. It shows us who our characters are but doesn't ask to much of them.
Season 2
All those relationships we set up in season 1 are going to be tested. We're going to meet the Big Bad who was calling the shots last season and we're going to take a swing at them. But season 2 also leads directly from season 1, maybe there's a time jump but it's short. Maybe there's a new direction but it is born out of the ashes of the season 1 finale hook.
Our core group expands, they stretch their wings and test what their relationships do under the stress of higher odds. Season 2 feels pressure on a bigger scale, the core group aren't the only ones at stake now. Maybe it's family and friends, or their town. The Big Bad has seen that they really are a threat and is playing for keeps. In a fatal show we should suffer a loss that hurts in the final episodes. There is a victory but it's not without it's losses
Season 3
We get a departure from our first two seasons. Season 3 can take a time jump, it doesn't have to fall directly on the heels of the second season. But something late in season 1 comes back up. A good way to play this is to take the antagonist from a two episode arch shortly before the conclusion of season 1 and make them a big deal. This is a good time to make the antagonist here someone with whom the Big Bad in the first two seasons had their own tension with. The heroes do this antagonist a favour when they take out the Big Bad but it proves that they're a force to be reckoned with.
This is a good season to narrow down, break a couple of those relationships. Swinging at the Big Bad last season cost our heroes something. In season 3 we know that heroes don't have plot armor, the Good Guys don't always walk away. The loss of a friend and the knowledge that this probably wont be the last loss weighs heavily on our heroes. They handle it differently and it starts to rupture the fabric of the group. Tension in the season is born of a question of how or if our group will stick together.
This is a good season to have one of our heroes play on the dark side a little. Maybe our new antagonist isn't totally wrong about the way they view the world.
The end of this season should see this antagonist dead and our heroes tentatively recommitted to the cause. A Pyrrhic victory at the conclusion of this season can make sure our heroes don't want those deaths to be in vain.
Season 4
At some point in first half of the first season a lacky mentioned some Ultimate Villain that our first Big Bad was afraid of. Yeah, that mother fucker is back in the game. Or heroes are only tentatively recommitted to the cause, they're as dark as we've ever seen them and they're not all comfortable with the things they've done to get here. So season 4 is going to make them earn it. This is a season where they're asked to prove that they are hero types, to make hard calls, to stretch themselves.
But we also get victories. Someone they helped in the first or second season comes back as a guest star, is involved in their lives in a positive way because they helped them. This is where we get to see our heroes really commit, really see that they're a force for good.
At the end of season 4 the Ultimate Villain isn't defeated but they know what they have to do. They have achieved the first half of defeating this villain, maybe it's securing a Magic Item, or a certain location, maybe it's just figuring out who the fuck the villain actually is and what that means. But at the end of season 4 our heroes are poised to take their step at the Ultimate Villain. This is where we have our "I aim to misbehave" speech. Going into the fifth season our heroes are hard, are focused, and are ready to take no prisoners.
Season 5
We should get a victory march. Season 5 should be an absolutely adoring ode to why we love these characters. It shouldn't be easy for them, hell no. It should cost. We need one of the core group to die, absolutely. And die senselessly, die because the group make a stupid arrogant call because they're the Heroes and they forgot what that can cost. Season 5 should pull away the arrogance that they learned in seasons 2, 3 and 4. By the end of season 5 they defeat the Ultimate Villain and walk out on top, but they do it by being the characters we first meet, the best versions of themselves. They have had all their rough edges buffed away by seasons of hardship and then they have the arrogance that winning gave them kicked out by hard, aching losses. But at the end of the finale the surviving cast should be their best selves, alive and well because they were the people that their friends could count on and because their relationships have helped make them the best they can be.
So. Yeah. Someone give me a show.

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The stigma around mental health is pretty thick. It's even thicker within Black communities. Growing up in Jamaica, I noticed that mental health was almost never spoken about. While living in both the U.S and Canada, I have met others who could attest to the same thing. However, as I've advanced further into my studies, I've found new ways to explore these stigmas and am actively working alongside my peers to ensure that more discussions like these are happening. Below are two of many stigmas attached to mental health within the Black community:
"Black people do not suffer from mental health issues in the same way other races, especially their white counterparts, do."
I've heard many variations of this sentence before. The hyper-masculinity ascribed to Black men help to create a false sense of immunity to mental illness and vulnerability. It's stigmas like this that make it less inviting for Black people, particularly our men, to talk openly about their feelings. On top of the more common economic, personal, and social stresses that come with being a provider, Black men have to deal with racism and microaggressions that their white counterparts do not. Police brutality, the re-emergence of white supremacist hate groups and the overuse of terms like 'thug' to incriminate their existence, are just a few social triggers that can threaten mental well-being among Black men. Regardless of whether a Black man gives into the false notion of inferiority, he exists in a world where many people harbour hostility towards him, whether they do so subconsciously or with full intent.
Though Therese Brochard, a contributor on Psych Central, mentions it is more acceptable for women to show vulnerability, social labels such as "the strong Black woman" and the double burden of facing racism and sexism illicit a source of resilience in Black women that often result in us neglecting our own emotions and needs.
Both men and women of color undergo their own struggles, but without a healthy outlet and support system, the result often materialize into failed relationships and broken homes, leaving a disproportionate amount of Black women having to serve as both caregivers and breadwinners. Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden's book Shifting: Double Lives of Black Women in America, speaks to the notion that Black women have adapted to finding "humor in heartache." This coping mechanism is harmful if not coupled with a more direct way of addressing issues. Dr. Monica Coleman, a Professor of Constructive Theology and African American Religions at Claremont School of Theology, reported that during her depressive episode, a friend attempted to downplay this experience by remarking, "We are the descendants of those who survived the Middle Passage and slavery. Whatever you're going through cannot be that bad."
Let it be known that today, exposure to racism and discrimination is an added stressor to both men and women. The Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities in the UK reported that "those who had experienced a racist attack were nearly three times more likely to suffer from depression and five times more likely to suffer from psychosis. Those who said their employers were racist were 1.6 times more likely to suffer from psychosis." Often times when those who are targeted speak out, they are commended on their resilience, but the extent of the damage caused on the targets either emotionally or mentally, is not as commonly spoken about as it should be. These studies help to show that experiencing racism can take a serious toll on mental health.
"Slavery was a long time ago….get over it"
I've also heard different variations of this, even from Black people. While it is important to question the modern day devices that influence mental health, without any historical context, there is no big picture! If we are going to talk about poverty and socioeconomic barriers, it is important to acknowledge the legacy of enslavement and intergenerational trauma as factors that play into Black mental health.
People need to understand that just as how it is unethical to ask someone to forget the Holocaust or forget about 9/11, it is just as unethical to suggest that one should forget about slavery. It is not a matter of dwelling on the past but a matter of acknowledging that it exists in order to move towards a place of healing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that undiagnosed childhood trauma serves as the root cause of mental health and behavioral problems in adulthood. If we apply this same notion to the history of physical, mental, and systematic oppression, faced by Black people, then we can understand the value in acknowledging our past.
Something that has stuck with me for years is that in order to solve a problem you have to understand that there is a problem in the first place. Discourse is a powerful tool because it eventually translates into action. The way we think and talk about mental wellness will influence the way we deal with issues around mental illness.
A group that I co-lead called the Future Black Physicians at UTSC is actively trying to break some of the silence around mental health in our Black community. A lot of the time, it feels like the elephant in the room, but my team and I have gotten the opportunity to hear so many different perspectives on why mental illness is not taken as seriously in the Black community from students here on campus. In general, I'd say people have a lot to say about it, but often times it just takes someone to reach out and start the conversation. This is the first step to reducing the stigma.
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Operator: 911, what's your emergency?
Celtics fan: This guy I know, he was really mean.
Operator: How was he mean, sir?
Celtics fan: Um, he assaulted this other guy I know.
Operator: Where did this happen, sir?
Celtics fan: At the TD Garden.
Operator: Is the victim badly hurt?
Celtics fan: His feelings, yes.
Operator: Sir, you can't call 911 to report hurt feelings.
Celtics fan: BUT THEY WERE HURT REAL BAD!
Operator: Sigh. Explain the situation for me, please.
Celtics fan: Deep breath. OK, so it was late in the game and the Celtics were gonna win easy but Tyler Hansbureau drove the lane all mean and made a MONSTER dunk on Delonte West but it was Delonte's first game back from an ankle injury so it wasn't all that nice to ruin his return. Was it?
Operator: . . .
Celtics fan: I mean, it's not as bad as what Dwyane Wade did to Perk, but I'm sure you guys are already on top of that one.
Operator: . . .
Celtics fan: So what is the punishment for dunking on someone while having a mean face?
Operator: Sir, this is the police. We don't handle offenses on the playing field or, in this case, court.
Celtics fan: I see. Do you have the number for Montreal's 911?
Operator: Wait a minute. Are you also a Bruins or Habs fan?
Celtics fan: Habs, oui.
Operator hangs up.


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Eric Bledsoe, Channing Frye carry Suns over Warriors
The Phoenix Suns nipped the Golden State Warriors, 106-102. Phoenix (14-9) is now on a five-game winning streak.
Eric Bledsoe scored 24 points on 7-16 shooting from the field (2-5 from behind the arc) and 8-12 from the free throw line. He added 8 rebounds, 8 assists and 3 steals also. Other key performers for Phoenix were Channing Frye with 20 points and 5 rebounds, and Marcus Morris with 11 points and 5 rebounds. Stephen Curry had another strong performance for Golden State in the loss, putting up 30 points on 8-17 shooting (4-7 on 3-point attempts), in addition to going 10-11 from the free throw line. He also recorded 7 assists, 6 rebounds and 3 steals. David Lee chipped in 18 points and 13 rebounds.
The Warriors had 19 assists against 20 turnovers for a ratio of .95. This year, they are winless (0-3) when having more turnovers than assists in a game. Conversely, the Suns are 4-1 when holding their opponents below an assist-to-turnover ratio of 1.00.
Golden State (13-12) has now dropped consecutive games after losing to Houston on Friday.
Coming up, the Suns square off with the San Antonio Spurs, who are 19-4 on the season. The Warriors go up against the New Orleans Pelicans, currently sitting at 11-11 this year. The Suns are 0-1 versus San Antonio this season. The Warriors have a 1-0 record against New Orleans this season.


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The Macroeconomic Impact of Scaled-Up Aid; The Case of Niger
We develop a simple macroeconomic model that assesses the effects of higher foreign aid on output growth and other macroeconomic variables, including the real exchange rate. The model is easily tractable and requires estimation of only a few basic parameters. It takes into account the impact of aid on physical and human capital accumulation, while recognizing that the impact of the latter is more protracted. Application of the model to Niger-one of the poorest countries in the world-suggests that if foreign aid as a share of GDP were to be permanently increased from the equivalent of 10 percent of GDP in 2007 to 15 percent in 2008, annual economic growth would accelerate by more than 1 percentage point, without generating significant risks for macroeconomic stability. As a result, by 2020 Niger's income per capita would be 12.5 percent higher than it would be without increased foreign aid. Moreover, the higher growth would help Niger to cut the incidence of poverty by 25 percent by 2015, although the country will still be unable to reach the Millennium Development Goal of poverty reduction (MDG 1).
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"I wore the headscarf in order to come face to face with Islamophobia"
25-year-old Amani al-Khatahtbeh is one of the few voices of Muslim women to be heard in Western media
Born in New Jersey, but with roots in Jordan, 25-year-old Amani al-Khatahtbeh is the founder of the digital platform MuslimGirl. What began as a blog written by a teenager has ended up as a hugely successful project with thousands of readers and some one hundred collaborators around the world, featuring on mainstream media such as Fortune, Forbes, the BBC, CNN and Al Jazeera. Al-Khatahtbeh recently visited Spain for the first time to talk about how she turned her cause into a successful business. She was attending the Sustainable Brands conference, alongside such companies as Nestlé, Coca-Cola and Vice. She is the only woman in her family in the US to wear the headscarf.
Why did you decide to create MuslimGirl?
I was really angry. It was a combination of factors, but I suffered harassment, bullying and Islamophobia at school after the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers. The media began to only focus on the War on Terror, on Islam... and without even giving a Muslims a say in the debate. This spread hatred towards everything to do with Islam. I didn't only suffer directly as a Muslim woman, I was tired of seeing blond white non-Muslim women talking about how Muslim women are oppressed without actually asking for our opinion. There weren't many Muslims in my community, I didn't have anyone to speak to about my problems or to offer me answers, so I found my space on the internet.
Why Muslim 'girl', in other words, why only 'Muslim woman'?
There was no space to really talk about things that I cared about and which I saw as a problem. I had no problem registering the MuslimGirl.net domain, almost for free! The only content I found at the time was to do with issues such as what a Muslim woman should or should not wear in public, nothing to do with the problems that I was facing as a Muslim teenager in the US. I felt alienated, I had self-esteem issues and quickly found many other women who felt like I did. The blog grew really quickly, dealing with everything from fashion to politics, and from culture to feminism.
For many, feminism and Islam are incompatible...
For me, the phrase 'Muslim feminist' is redundant. If you're a Muslim, you have to be a feminist because gender equality is one of the principles of Islam. This idea that all Muslims oppress their wives is highly politically motivated. Patriarchy, misogyny and sexism exist in most societies and religions. Nevertheless, it is as if it's taken for granted that they're problems that go hand in hand with Islam. The number one cause of death among women in the US is domestic violence. And we say 'domestic', and not sexist. Islam ought to be as revolutionary as when it was born, we need to find a more progressive interpretation of Islam.
Why did you decide to wear a headscarf?
I wear the hijab because for me it's a means to reclaim my identity. I decided to put it on after my first trip to Jordan. I was still at school. I'd fallen in love with my roots, after having tried to hide the fact that I was a Muslim at school, and I decided to wear it when I returned. My mother doesn't wear it, I'm the only woman in my family in the United States who wears it. The first day, before going through the school door, I burst into tears, I was so afraid of being rejected. But I decided to wear it as a declaration of my pride in being a Muslim in a society that wanted to force me to feel ashamed. I wanted to come face to face with Islamophobia. Now for me it's more a socio-political symbol, rather than a religious one, because nowadays it means so much more in our society.
European courts ruled that employers can force female staff not to wear the headscarf.
There's one thing we fail to understand, and it's that forcing a woman to remove her headscarf ends up being the same as forcing her to put it on. They're no better than any of those Middle Eastern countries they see as being barbaric and backward. At the end of the day, they're deciding what a woman can or can't wear. Leave us alone! We need to ask ourselves whether it's really about women's rights, or the problem comes from the fact that we feel uncomfortable with a woman who decides to cover her body.
You've signed deals to distribute content with big media outlets such as Teen Vogue. Do companies see Muslim women as a business opportunity?
Sure, there's a business opportunity and, in the end, we all play the same game. It's the system, the only way it works is through page views and clicks, and what we've done is we've tried to make the best possible use of it. But all our content is produced by freelance Muslim partners, we already have a staff of six and we ensure that in all our agreements Muslim women get something out of it. For example, Nike's initiative to make a hijab is great, but I'm sure there were Muslim designers who'd done it before and we're forgetting about them. Visibility isn't the same as representation.


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Grande Vitesse Systems Introduces its Broadcast Automation Software Solution for Live Production EnvironmentsControl multiple event lists, create and manipulate play lists and play back QuickTime native media files (May 02, 2006)
The GVS Broadcast Automation Software solution (BASS) can be used as standalone software on a wide variety of PowerMac G5 products, but is specifically suited as a complete end-to-end solution bundled with the GVS90004NXU, GVS90004NXU VTR, GVS90004XU, and GVS90001U-IS. Integrate these fully tested products with your favorite QuickTime compatible editing system and you can direct your playlist to BASS, allowing you to control multiple event lists (program streams), easily create and manipulate play lists and play back QuickTime native media files in a live production environment; and without the need to render the entire project, you will be able to broadcast instantaneously.
BASS�s basic function is to build playlists and organize and initiate the events associated with each play list. A sequence of events can be built that can be controlled by keyboard, GPI closure, time, or event duration. Events or groups of events can be easily and quickly moved by simply selecting the events you want to move and cut and pasting them. Up to 20 additional event types will be added to the "Events" menu when GVS Broadcast Automation Software is configured for use with external equipment or the "DV" or "Mac Audio" drivers. Each device that is configured adds an additional item to the "Events" menu.
Because it�s hardware independent and forward compatible, as new FireWire media converter hardware is developed, it will be easily integrated into the GVS Broadcast Automation Software system. Currently GVS Broadcast Automation Software supports FireWire DV media converters for DV file play out, but future releases will support other hardware including PCI and PCI-e cards that support HD playback.
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How many of us grew up with the admonition from our parents, usually from our dad, that the car's oil needed to be changed every 3,000 miles?
Actually, it was more like three months or 3,000 miles. Times have changed, but far too many of us are still adhering to those outdated recommendations.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the state government is trying to break owners' habits in California of changing their vehicle's oil too often. According to a recent national survey conducted by NPD Group, about 51 percent of vehicle owners stick to the three month/3,000-mile oil change rule, while 33 percent more wait just until 4,000 miles to head back in for another oil change.
In California, the numbers are even higher. A survey by the California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery found that nearly half of all California drivers are changing their oil every 3,000 miles or sooner.
All this too-frequent oil change is resulting in millions of gallons of oil wasted every year as well as polluting America's waterways from contaminated motor oil that's not properly disposed of.
If not 3,000 miles, what is the recommended interval for changing our vehicle's oil? CalRecycle has a nifty widget that can quickly help you determine how often to change the oil in your vehicle. Go to www.checkyournumber.org and enter your year, make and model of vehicle and then click "Let's Go." The "odometer" will change to give you the mileage recommendation for an oil change for the year/make/model you entered.
Granted, this is for normal driving, not severe driving, which is defined as:
- Extensive idling or driving in stop-and-go traffic
- Cold weather, less than 10 degrees
- Extreme heat, more than 90 degrees
- Extreme humidity
- Repeated short-distance trips of less than five miles
- Towing a trailer or hauling heavy materials
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Newer models have extended oil-change intervals
Doing a quick check of some older model year vehicles using checkyournumber.org, it's easy to see how the auto manufacturers have gradually implemented changes in engines so that they require oil changes less frequently.
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A 2000 Pontiac Montana and a 2004 Chevrolet Malibu, under normal driving conditions, still require an oil change at the 3,000-mile interval.
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A 2007 Ford Fusion and a 2010 Toyota Sienna have a 5,000-mile oil change recommendation for normal driving.
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Taking two other popular minivans, the 2010 Chrysler Town & Country and the 2010 Honda Odyssey, shows two different recommended oil change intervals: at 6,000 miles for the Town & Country and at 7,500 miles for the Odyssey.
A 2009 Cadillac CTS should have its oil changed – again, under normal driving conditions – at 7,500 miles. The same applies to a 2009 Saturn Vue and a 2012 Ford Escape.
But there are some manufacturers with vehicles that really go a long time between recommended oil changes. For the 2011 Ford Explorer, the interval is 10,000 miles, while the 2011 Mercedes-Benz M-Class is 12,000 miles and the 2011 BMW X3 is 15,000 miles.
The point is that there's probably some money to be saved, not to mention time and convenience, and less pollution and waste of resources, if we pay attention to the right time to get our vehicle's oil changed.
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Some manufacturers have oil monitor reminders to alert us to when this should be, based on what's actually going on inside the engine and due to our "severe" as opposed to "normal" driving conditions. We can also check our owner's manual for the manufacturer's recommendations for our particular vehicle.
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Wednesday Sept. 13, 2015
Biff Isn't a Real Person, says the comedian who played him, Tom Wilson
Strangers say "I hate you" to Tom Wilson at barbecues, because they were so greatly impacted by his legendary portrayal of Biff in "Back to the Future." The twist: Wilson was bullied as a kid; then he portrayed film's most iconic comic bully; and ever since then he's had one stranger after another bully him verbally. Wilson is quite funny and deep in this fascinating conversation about Los Angeles, the small mean Internet, Back to the Future, his work for Nickelodeon, and his book "The Masked Man: A Memoir and Fantasy of Hollywood."
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Sept. 19, 2015
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Big, tall Brad Garrett gives us a private stand-up gig, more or less, from his living room couch, where I interviewed him, thumped his coffee table like a drum, and laughed at jokes about Donald Trump, Obama, Bernie Sanders, butts, colons, running, Fargo, love, health, fat, reflux, plastic and oh yes, Terry Fator.
Sept. 11, 2015
Our Favorite Books with Geoff Schumacher
What kinds of books might political conservatives write better than liberals? What's the deal with fantasy novels? What are the best Vegas mob books? Here are answers from Geoff Schumacher, writer, editor, publisher, and now content director of the Mob Museum.
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Two Redwood City fire captains and a firefighter retired last year with at least an extra $200,000 tacked onto each of their final paychecks.
Most of that money came from payouts for unused paid leave and a big bonus for getting off the city's payroll.
In all, 16 of 27 employees who retired last year took advantage of the city's "exit incentive" bonus offer last year, according to salary data provided by the city. In addition to the three firefighters, 11 employees left with an extra $100,000 to $199,000 each, the data shows.
With base pay included, 17 city employees retired with take-home pay of $200,000 or more for the year.
City spokesman Malcolm Smith said the retirement program was one of several compensation changes the city negotiated with workers to rein in costs. When an older, higher-paid employee retires, the city can bring in a replacement at a lower salary and with a reduced pension benefit.
Firefighters hired before October 2011 are eligible to retire at age 50 and those hired after that date have to wait until they're at least 55. All retired firefighters collect pension payments equal to 3 percent of their highest annual salary — which includes overtime pay that year — multiplied by every year worked, according to Leah Lockhart, a senior human resource analyst for the city.
Fire Captain David Raymaker began working for the department in 1980 and retired in May 2012 with a final paycheck that totaled more than $290,592 — $60,957 in five months' base pay, $18,600 in overtime, $30,193 in vacation payout, $50,003 in sick leave payout, $45 in comp time payout, a $629 uniform allowance, $3,055 in holiday comp and a $127,110 exit bonus.
Fire Captain Bruce Meisenbach began working for the department in 1986 and retired in June with $279,329, which included $71,142 in six months' base pay, $30,428 in vacation payout, $50,003 in sick leave payout and a $118,331 exit bonus.
Like Meisenbach, firefighter Martin Moore served in the department for 26 years and retired in June. His last check came out to $269,811, which included $59,838 in six months' base pay, $60,685 in vacation payout, $42,058 in sick leave payout and a $100,086 exit bonus.
Fire Chief Jim Skinner acknowledged that the sums are "an incredible amount of money … no doubt," but explained that the exit bonuses allow the city to hire new firefighters at a lower cost.
The monthly pay for a new firefighter is $6,591, with a top step of $ 8,015, according to the salary schedule posted on the city's website.
The new hires generally have a higher education and are more technology savvy, Skinner said.
But it hasn't been easy seeing so many people retire, he said. After 12 firefighters retired last year by the city's June deadline to collect their bonus, the department struggled to fill shifts and help San Carlos plug staffing holes under a contract.
"They had to leave by the end of the fiscal year," Skinner said. "You lose experience, you lose the historical knowledge of the organization and the job." Besides firefighters, bonuses also were offered to police officers, police sergeants and managers eligible for retirement, according to Lockhart.
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Favorite wild friends are embroidered in rows atop this organic cotton quilt. Creating the look of sweet storybook illustrations, each animal is brought to life with a variety of decorative stitches.
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Our florists love making bouquets and arrangements for UK flower delivery, and we can send flowers to Putney Vale, Greater London for you.
We have a wide range of Roses, Freesia flower bouquets, and Lilies, as well as Classic Bouquets and our Colourful flower Bouquets, and our range of Flowers under £21.00. Our home page provides more information on our extensive range of next-day flower delivery services, all of which are available for next day UK flower delivery to Putney Vale, Greater London, Or indeed anywhere in the UK!
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The Putney Vale Cemetery was established in 1891, because there was no more space for burials at the Putney Cemetery. The grounds were designed by J.C. Radford who was the Borough Surveyor and the gardens were planned by J. Melady and Sons of Barnes. The cemetery was expanded in 1909 and again in 1912. Inside the cemetery people can see 2 gothic chapels that are linked together. These chapels were partially converted into a crematorium on the inside in 1935. The crematorium was damaged in a fire in 1946 and was finally rebuilt in 1956. Visitors can also see mausoleums and a garden of remembrance. Some of the more significant monuments in the cemetery include the Ismay tomb of 1937, the symbolist monument to Emma Vickey, the grave of Sir Harry Renwick and the Lyons grave.
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Hi! I have two quick questions about the Great Reading Adventure:
1) Can I set up multiple ongoing reading programs that exist simultaneously? We have 1000 Books and 100 Books programs that run year round as well as seasonal Summer and Winter Reading Programs.
2) Is it possible to log levels from the staff side? We have patrons that do not have internet access at home and check in with us at the library to log levels and receive prizes.
Thank you! Katie
It sounds like you could use the multi-tenancy feature of the software to do some of what you're thinking about. The only thing that sticks out to me is that the software isn't really designed for year-round programs - it probably will work but it might be a little...weird. Depending on your IT infrastructure you might also just want to deploy several copies of the software for single-use (here, for example, we deploy each year for winter and summer).
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The College of Science offers a number of scholarship opportunities for incoming freshman, undergraduate and graduate students. Students are encouraged to review the information for each scholarship individually and apply for scholarships for which they meet the eligibility requirements.
To apply complete the General Application and select SCIENCE (GR)andSCIENCE (U) under Program of Study. Once you complete the General Application you will see a list of College of Science scholarship opportunities. Application deadline is March 6, 2017.
Current University of Utah students must provide a signed Permission to Release Waiver to each academic or research professor asked to write a letter of recommendation. High school students are NOT required to provide a permission to release waiver unless requesting a letter from a University professor.
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Nothing brings a community together like "breaking bread together," and this year, Wellington Park Community League will be breaking bread with its entire community on Community League Day, thanks to the generousity of Northlands. And Wellington can thank its residents for that.
Everyone who visited the EFCL booth at the 2016 K-Days midway were asked which community league they belonged to - and the most people to visit our hard working volunteers were from Wellington.
Not only did the league win a visit of the Northlands Food Truck to its #CLDay event on Sept. 17, the prize also includes $1,000 worth of food for everyone to enjoy and the Northlands Sports Cage. Wellington Park folks can really test out how face their soccer kick is or their baseball pitch.
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At GSA, we manage an inventory that includes some of the oldest buildings in the country, buildings that not only need repairs to keep them in working order, but often require extensive renovations to ensure that they meet the standards of modern government. In today's tight fiscal environment, those investments are not always possible. That is why GSA is looking to create partnerships with the private sector that enable them to utilize public assets that can no longer serve the federal government in exchange for resources that can.
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Andrea del Castagno
Andrea del Castagno
The Italian painter Andrea del Castagno (1421-1457) was a leading artist in the early Florentine Renaissance.
Andrea del Castagno was born in a village in the hills east of Florence. He is first recorded in Florence in 1440, when he was commissioned to paint frescoes (now destroyed) showing condemned traitors hanged, a traditional job given to little-regarded artists. Like nearly all the major Florentine artists of the age, he visited Venice (1442), where in collaboration with the otherwise unknown Francesco da Faenza he executed a modest set of saints with God the Father on the vault of a chapel in S. Zaccaria. Back in Florence, Andrea designed a window and executed minor works for the Cathedral (1444-1445). His frescoes for the lawyers' guild in Florence (1444-1445, 1447) are no longer extant, nor are his frescoes completing the life of the Virgin (1450-1452) begun by Domenico Veneziano in S. Egidio, Florence.
No records exist for the great frescoes Andrea painted for the Carducci country house and for the convent of S. Apollonia in Florence (these are now assembled in the Castagno Museum, S. Apollonia). For the hall of the Carducci house he painted a Virgin and Child, Adam and Eve, and nine famous persons—a local version of the "Nine Worthies" common on medieval tapestries. In Andrea's version three Florentine poets, three Florentine soldiers, and three famous women are depicted standing in simulated marble niches, both niche and figure hard and bright. From earlier Renaissance artists like Donatello and Masaccio, Andrea learned to paint massive three-dimensional figures, but unlike his predecessors he was not interested in integrating these figures harmoniously with the environment. Rather, he used his knowledge of perspective to make the figures dominate the space.
Andrea began the frescoes for the refectory of S. Apollonia about 1447. On the upper part of the end wall are the Crucifixion, Entombment, and Resurrection; the muscular men in twisting robes are presented on a single plane. On the lower part of the wall is Andrea's famous Last Supper. Thirteen stony figures sit around a long table in front of a paneled marble wall. There is no emphasis on the figure of Christ but some on Judas, isolated on the other side of the table. The room is actually drawn in rather deep perspective, the side walls half as long as the back one, but a shallow space suggested by the table and figures is what spectators register in this single case of elaborate perspective in Andrea's work. The frescoed monument to the general Niccolò da Tolentino (1456) in the Cathedral of Florence, like Paolo Uccello's earlier one to Sir John Hawkwood next to it, is a simulated sculpture; typically, Andrea eliminates Uccello's perspective brackets and flanks the base with muscular shield bearers. Andrea's other late frescoes, a Trinity and a St. Julian in SS. Annunziata, are more relaxed, letting light and air tone down the hard ascetic figures.
Andrea del Castagno died of the plague in Florence on Aug. 19, 1457.
Further Reading
The standard work on Andrea del Castagno is in Italian: Mario Salmi, Paolo Uccello, Andrea del Castagno, Domenico Veneziano (1936; rev. ed. 1938). There is no satisfactory monograph in English. □
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Andrea del Castagno (ändrĕ´ä dĕl kästä´nyō), c.1423–1457, major Florentine painter of the early Renaissance. His first recorded painting (1440; now destroyed), effigies of hanged men, enemies to the Florentine regime, brought him fame in spite of its disconcerting subject. Two years later he was in Venice, frescoing the ceiling of the chapel in San Zaccaria. He returned to Florence and c.1445 began the cycle of the Passion of Christ for the church of Sant' Apollonia. Best known of these scenes is the Last Supper. Castagno combined a rigorous perspective with harsh, metallic lighting that greatly intensified the drama of the scene. He decorated the hall of the Villa Pandolfini with heroic figures, including Pippo Spano, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Here the influence of Donatello can be felt, particularly in the vitality and plastic rendering of forms. In the Annunziata Church there is a powerful conception of the Savior and St. Julian. His last dated work is the equestrian statue of Niccolò da Tolentino in the cathedral. Other examples of his art are David (National Gall. of Art, Washington, D.C.) and the Resurrection (Frick Coll., New York City).
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NYC Parks Events Calendar
Get up, get out, and do something! Just about any day of the year, you can find something fun, informative, and healthy to enjoy at an area park. Feel free to browse the listings below, or use the search tools to find an event that matches your interests and location.
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Saturday, October 22, 2016
Family Day: Make a Silhouette Puppet
at Morris-Jumel Mansion (in Roger Morris Park), Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Come learn about the art of silhouette puppet making and make your very own puppet to take home!
Category: Arts & Crafts, Education, History, Best for Kids
CANCELLED: It's My Park at Harlem River Park
at East 135th Street and Madison Avenue, Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
This It's My Park season, volunteer with Trash Hero New York to weed and do general clean up at Harlem River Park.
Category: Volunteer, It's My Park, Waterfront
CANCELLED: It's My Park at Corlears Hook Park
at Flagpole Area (in Corlears Hook Park), Manhattan
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
This It's My Park season, volunteer with Friends of Corlears Hook park to help do a fall cleanup and plant bulbs at Corlears Hook Park.
Category: Volunteer, It's My Park
The Amazing Maize Maze by Moonlight
at Queens County Farm Museum (in Queens Farm Park), Queens
11:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m.
Ready to be amaaazed? Kids and adults alike will have a blast finding their way out of this three-acre corn maze! The adventure begins with a "Stalk Talk" to prepare you for…
Category: Nature, Festivals, Games, Best for Kids, Fall Festivals
Pumpkin Patch
at Queens County Farm Museum (in Queens Farm Park), Queens
11:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
October is Pumpkin Month at Queens Farm! Enjoy wandering through our patch to find your perfect pumpkin.
Category: Halloween, Fall Festivals
Plant Adoption Event: Outer Seed Shadow
at Myrtle Avenue Plaza (in Fort Greene Park), Brooklyn
11:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.
All the surviving plants representing the interviewed immigrants will be available for adoption.
Category: Nature, Art
Garden Centennial Exhibition
at Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (in Pelham Bay Park), Bronx
12:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m.
Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum is pleased to present an exhibition of outdoor sculpture celebrating one hundred years of its formal garden designed by Delano & Aldrich in 1916.
Category: Nature, Seniors
Fall Festival & Movie Night
at Joseph P. Addabbo Memorial Park (in Tudor Park), Queens
12:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Join NYC Parks, The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment & Council Member Ulrich for a day of fun activities including crafts, inflatables, face painting, games, a pumpkin patch, music, and more!
Category: Arts & Crafts, Festivals, Film, Best for Kids, Halloween, Fall Festivals
The Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade
at Tompkins Square Park, Manhattan
12:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Pooches let their alter-egos shine, putting on some of the cutest and most creative costumes you've ever seen at the annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade.
Category: Games, Best for Kids, Dogs
Ed Center Open Hours
at Environmental Education Center (in Brooklyn Bridge Park), Brooklyn
1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.
Get to know Brooklyn Bridge Park with our 250-gallon aquarium filled with critters from the East River, a 10'-scale model of Brooklyn Bridge Park, crafts, a reading corner, and much more!
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Growing up this was a favorite of mine. If you are looking to stretch your food dollars this is a good way to make a few ingredients go further.
Hash Brown Tater Tot Casserole
Hash Brown - Tater Tot Casserole
Tater Tot classic is a dish so many of us grew up on.
- 1 pound Ground Beef
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- 2 tablespoons Italian Seasoning
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Orchard duo O'Hanlon and Rafferty are aiming sky high
Armagh duo Ciaran O'Hanlon and Ethan Rafferty will be hoping to land a double bonus within a matter of days when they line out in tonight's Ulster U21 football championship semi-final against Tyrone at Healy Park, Omagh (8.00pm).
O'Hanlon was man of the match at midfield and Rafferty fulfilled a key role in attack when the Orchard County clinched promotion to Division Two of the Allianz League by beating Louth (0-10 to 0-8) on Saturday.
Tonight they will form the Armagh engine-room against the Red Hands, hoping to take their side into the provincial decider.
Tyrone, too, boast a ration of senior experience in their line-up. Mark Bradley and Cathal McShane have been catching the eye in Mickey Harte's side of late and can bring their combined skills into play against what is regarded as a formidable Armagh defence.
Armagh boss Steven McDonnell acknowledges that his side will face a much more rigorous examination than they did in their recent one-sided quarter-final romp against Antrim (2-13 to 1-5).
"We know that Tyrone will be very tough opponents. They have a good tradition at this level and they certainly have some quality forwards in their side," states McDonnell.
Tyrone encountered little difficulty in dealing with the challenge of Fermanagh in their quarter-final, which they won by 0-17 to 0-7.
In the other semi-final, Donegal and Monaghan will clash at Brewster Park, Enniskillen.
Donegal caused a shock when they beat reigning champions Cavan at the quarter-final stage, a Ryan McHugh goal underpinning their 1-7 to 0-9 triumph.
Darach O'Connor and Hugh McFadden are other influential players in the side while Monaghan will look to Ryan Wylie and Ryan McAnespie.
Monaghan beat Derry 0-15 to 1-8 in the quarter-finals.
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Hi, I'm Colton Hill i'm awesome and i can prove it. And here it is my first and only veigar build and why its awesome. Because it gets to over 1000 AP easily. and not only that but it also causes your score to go sky high. I've played maybe 10 games with this build and won every game but not only that went 20 kills or more and 10 or less death
I choose these runes because they help you not only put out a lot of damage early game, but also allow you to stay alive longer, and with veigar that is necessary. The quinttesenses can be changed to relatively anything to do with magic. i don't recommend health or any thing like that just simply because it wont help you much late game and late game is where its at. If you change your seals make them AP same or marks.
With these masteries you will be able to pump out damage and quickly especially with your Q it has a 2 second cooldown. that's just as long as your stun duration. and not only that but without any items you will still have around 60 AP to work with+ your passives gain.
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These spells are for 2 easily told reasons getting away, Attacking, and so you can keep casting. always utilize these spells they are of no use if not used and very good when they are used. Flash especially needs to be used every gank or team fight you initialize someone always gets away right well with this build and flash that should not be possible
Be very aggressive with this build always be casting a spell whether it be on champion minion or jungle. the more kills and minion kills the more AP so keep killing the creeps. no matter what try to get as close to the enemy as possible. and in any case if you are getting pounded get out of there because it is not worth dying. veigar is amazing in team fights and needs to be involved in all of them. the spell steal also will help you in team fights if your close to dying throw dark matter down on a champion near minions or just minions them selves just for that extra 1000 hp your gonna get and the gold you can use to buy potions and elixers. Also Never ever get assists always go for the kill even of it means KS remember at 18 your kills count as 5 AP doesn't seem like much but 20 kills is 100 AP assists are not. If you can lane mid if not go to a lane with a melee or someone not very strong against you. DON'T LANE WITH KASSADIN or against him. he will take the majority of your kills
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Metropolis Refound Trailer (2010)
13 February 2010 Factual 47 mins
Argentine film historians find a complete print of "Metropolis" and take it to Germany for restoration. The story includes the discovery itself, the history of the 35mm print (later converted to 16mm), a showing in 1959, what historians knew about the missing scenes, and the often-frustrated search. Fernando Martin Pena and Paula Felix-Dider carry the narration, Enno Patalas verifies the discovery, and scholars at the Murnau Institut and the Deutsche Kinemathek are on camera when they see the print. The story concludes with evidence of multiple takes available for distributors to construct their own prints, which varied greatly from country to country. Written by (Taken from the imdb page)
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Catholic Villagers Join Protest against Israeli Separation Barrier
China Balks at Bush Encouragement on Religious Freedom
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Members of the Believers' Church in the north Indian state of Himachal Pradesh met peacefully Sunday, despite death and arson threats issued by Hindu extremists. "About 20 people came for the service. This was lower than usual as some villagers were facing opposition, but at least we were able to meet without incident," Ramesh Masih, the son of Pastor Feroz Masih, said. The church meets in Masih's house in the town of
Consumers Flock to Weekend Shopping Boycott
Jody Brown and Allie Martin, AgapePress
A nationwide boycott aimed at Target Stores has succeeded in attracting hundreds of thousands of consumers who say they intend to shop elsewhere during the busiest shopping weekend of the year. On Nov. 18, the American Family Association (AFA) launched an online boycott against Target, citing the retailer's decision to ban Salvation Army kettles from their store entrances, and the use of "Merry Christmas" in their promotions and advertising. By Nov. 21, almost 300,000 individuals had "signed" an online petition indicating they planned to express their disapproval of that decision by avoiding Target during the Thanksgiving weekend. At press time, that number had jumped to more than 340,000. "Target's decision… has made them an easy bull's-eye for people who are fed up with politically correct retailers," says Randy Sharp, AFA's director of special projects. He says if Target does not want to wish him a Merry Christmas, that's fine with him. In return, Sharp says he will do his part to "make sure they don't have a profitable one." Meanwhile, home improvement retailer Lowe's has joined Target in striving to be politically correct this Christmas. Sharp says Lowe's "no longer sells Christmas trees. They've decided that it's more politically correct to sell 'holiday' trees." The AFA is encouraging Christian consumers to call Lowe's at 1-800-44LOWES just to tell them "just how ridiculous the idea of selling 'holiday' trees is."