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GOSHEN — Less than a month ago, officials from one of the businesses seeking to buy the Valley View Center for Nursing Care and Rehabilitation assured Orange County lawmakers that their recent takeover of a county-owned nursing home upstate had gone smoothly and that the "vast majority" of workers had kept their jobs.
GOSHEN — Less than a month ago, officials from one of the businesses seeking to buy the Valley View Center for Nursing Care and Rehabilitation assured Orange County lawmakers that their recent takeover of a county-owned nursing home upstate had gone smoothly and that the "vast majority" of workers had kept their jobs.
But on Wednesday, the same legislative panel that questioned the Centers for Specialty Care's team in July heard a conflicting account from the union representing employees at the former Fulton County Residential Health Care Facility in Gloversville, about 50 miles northwest of Albany.
The good news for Fulton County workers was that 170 of the facility's roughly 210 employees kept their jobs and pay rates when the Bronx-based Centers for Specialty Care began running the nursing home on April 1, said Robert Compani, director of the Civil Service Employees Association's private-sector division.
Months later, all but 40 of those former county employees have left. Staffing remains at 170, a nearly 20 percent drop.
The bad news for workers was that contributions to their state pensions had ended, replaced by a 401(k) plan, and the cost of health insurance more than doubled.
Those who chose to take health coverage — most didn't — had to pay $980 a month for a family plan, or about 80 percent of the cost, and start making copays for all medical visits, Compani said.
"It had a serious impact on them," he said.
The Centers for Specialty Care has become a dominant player in New York as counties have weighed privatizing their nursing homes to save money. The company has bid on both Orange and Ulster counties' facilities and is negotiating to buy county-owned nursing homes in Essex and Washington counties.
On July 11, Bruce Gendron, a regional administrator for the company, told Orange County lawmakers that a contract with Fulton workers was negotiated within 30 days and that the transition to new ownership was "remarkably smooth."
Compani, whose private-sector division now represents the facility's workers, testified Wednesday that the negotiations actually took less than two weeks and happened so quickly only because formal talks couldn't start until after the takeover. That meant employees initially accepted jobs without knowing the terms.
"A lot of it is just because we were put under a tremendous amount of pressure," Compani said when asked about the swift negotiations.
While wages for holdover workers stayed the same, starting pay for new employees dropped.
Newly hired licensed practical nurses are paid $14 an hour as opposed to $16.25 when the home was publicly owned, and the hourly rate for a nursing assistant dipped to $9.50 from more than $10. Starting pay for all other workers is $8.50 an hour.
What has made the exodus of former county employees so striking is that few jobs are available in the economically distressed area, Compani said.
"They've just found it unbearable to the point where they just quit — in a city with no jobs," he said.


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Benedict1 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 610 diseños de 133 diseñadores freelance.
The Candy Buffet Company
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We can no longer use our existing logo (attached) due to a copyright issue with the heart-shape made out of candy. And that's where you come in!
We are looking for a rework of our logo that further extends the idea of "fashion meets candy" - a simple, elegant, sophisticated logo.
As with our existing logo, the heart shape is absolutely critical and the combination with lollies/candy is equally as important. I need to state this clearly - the heart shape must remain in some form, and candy/lollies/etc must somehow be involved. Within those constraints feel free to let loose your creativity. We appreciate clever ideas and from what I have seen at 99designs we're in the right place.
The words "The Candy Buffet Company" need to appear in the logo too.Along with the moniker "Sweeten Up You Next Event"
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Robert Pattison Hides In A Hotel
Robert Pattinson unsuccessfully tries to sneak his way past photographers into a hotel on Tuesday (March 3) in Los Angeles.
The 22-year-old Twilight star recently said he "might make an album but not through a record company or anything. I'd like to do something independent … I don't care if people buy it or not. I'd just like to have it just for myself so I can work with good musicians and stuff."
Pattinson also admitted that it was easy for him to nail down an American accent because "all of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies…It's weird because there were a lot of British people up for this part. The author's [Stephenie Meyer] choice was an English guy which was really strange. She wanted all English guys to play Americans. I think there is something about this myth in America of British people being classy."


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Devereux California Introduces Early Childhood, Resilience-Building Resources during Resilience Conference
Sold Out Conference Held in Collaboration with University of California Santa Barbara and Pacific Coast AEYC
Devereux California was proud to partner with The University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) Early Childhood Care & Education Services and the Pacific Coast Association for the Education of Young Children to host "Promoting Resilience" on March 1, 2013. Held at the UCSB West Conference Center, the event featured a presentation about building children's resilience by Linda Likins, the National Director of the Devereux Early Childhood Initiative.
"We had to cap our attendance for this conference at 50, which we thought was a great turnout," said Amy Evans, Executive Director of Devereux California. Conference attendees included Early Childhood professionals including teachers, mental health specialists, and program managers and directors from across Santa Barbara County. While Devereux California serves adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and emotional disorders, Evans wants to make the most of the resources Devereux has to offer, including cutting-edge research and programs produced by the Devereux Center for Resilient Children (DCRC). Comprised of professionals in early childhood education and mental health, DCRC's mission is to promote the social and emotional health of all children.
While DCRC primarily focuses upon promoting resilience in children, resilience, Likins says, is for everyone. It is very difficult to promote resilience in children if their adult caregivers are not resilient themselves. "We all want young children to be successful, but for many children, particularly those at high risk, life's challenges can be overwhelming. To overcome obstacles, they need protective factors that guard against risk and adversity," she said. During her presentation, Likins provided participants with the Devereux Early Childhood Assessments for infants, toddlers and preschoolers in addition to an Adult Resilience Survey, advancing the idea further that resilience is a life tool that can help everyone at any stage of life.
To organize the conference, Evans teamed with Leslie Voss, Director of UCSB Early Childhood Center. The goal of the collaboration, explains Evans, was to introduce Devereux to the early childhood community in Santa Barbara. "I think it is a great model for other centers—to bring a high level of expertise to our local Devereux communities," said Evans.
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Billion-Dollar Biotech Valuations Fueling New IPO Surge
Why are biotechnology companies rushing to go public? The sizzling performance of many newly public companies is part of the pull.
Since the beginning of 2011, nearly a dozen young biotechs have soared to valuations of $1 billion or more thanks to skyrocketing share prices—even though almost none of the high-flyers even has a commercial product yet.
One of them, Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc., a maker of drugs for chronic liver diseases, is up more than 2,300% since its October 2012 IPO and is now worth $7.13 billion, despite still being in clinical trials on the way to seeking FDA approval. Many other pre-commercial companies have doubled or tripled their share prices since they went public.
The last two weeks have produced a flurry of fresh biotech IPOs, bringing the total so far this year to 15, according to Dow Jones VentureSource. That follows a strong second half of 2013.
Public-market investors, having witnessed the growth of top biotechs such as Celgene Corp., have been searching for the next great drug developer and are attracted to the promise of these young companies' experimental drugs.
The one exception among the highest-rising biotechs is Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc., which made it past the pre-commercial stage by gaining U.S. approval for a postsurgical pain medication in 2011.
The soaring stock prices for this crop of companies is reflective of the overall health of biotech in the public markets, with the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index rising from about 1,500 to 2676.28 over the past year.
Several observers say this isn't a reprise of the 2000 bubble, when hype from the Human Genome Project sent shares of biotech upstarts soaring. Many companies going public today have moved drugs into advanced clinical studies, so investors see them as relatively low-risk.
Moreover, companies are increasingly able to aim their drugs at patients with specific genetic markers. This enables them to test their medicines in smaller, less-costly clinical studies, and it may improve their odds of securing Food and Drug Administration approval.
"The combination of reduced scientific risk and improved capital efficiency justifies some of the higher valuations you're seeing," James Niedel, managing director of New Leaf Venture Partners, said. NLV has backed Relypsa Inc. and other recently public drug-makers.
Here are some of the top-performing venture-backed biotechs that have gone public since Jan. 1, 2011 (based on Wednesday's closing prices):
Intercept Pharmaceuticals Inc. -- $7.13 billion valuation
Went public Oct. 11, 2012 at $15, now at $368.89 -- pre-commercial
Clovis Oncology Inc. -- $2.09 billion
Went public Nov. 16, 2011 at $13, now at $69.31 -- pre-commercial
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Inc.-- $2.08 billion
Went public on Feb. 3, 2011 at $7, now at $61.87 -- commercial
Acceleron Pharma Inc. -- $1.35 billion
Went public on Sept. 19, 2013 at $15, now at $43.79 -- pre-commercial
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. -- $1.30 billion
Went public Jan. 30, 2014 at $21, now at $44.78 -- pre-commercial
Relypsa Inc. -- $1.18 billion
Went public on Nov. 14, 2013 at $11, now at $41.14 -- pre-commercial
Epizyme Inc. -- $1.08 billion
Went public on May 31, 2013 at $15, now at $34.07 -- pre-commercial
Ophthotech Corp. -- $1.07 billion
Went public on Sept. 25, 2013 at $22, now at $34.04 -- pre-commercial
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. -- $1.06 billion
Went public on Nov. 5, 2013 at $16, now at $35.62 -- pre-commercial
Kythera Biopharmaceuticals Inc. -- $1.03 billion
Went public on Oct. 11, 2012 at $16, now at $48.33 -- pre-commercial
Portola Pharmaceuticals Inc. -- $1.03 billion
Went public on May 22, 2013 at $14.50, now at $25.95 -- pre-commercial
Tesaro Inc. -- $1.01 billion
Went public on June 28, 2012 at $13.50, now at $31.10 -- pre-commercial
Receptos Inc. -- $995.5 million
Went public on May 9, 2013 at $14, now at $45.98 -- pre-commercial
Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc. -- $972.2 million
Went public on July 24, 2013 at $18, now at $31.19 -- pre-commercial
OncoMed Pharmaceuticals Inc. -- $959.2 million
Went public on July 18, 2013 at $17, now at $34.38 -- pre-commercial
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CAIRO — Egypt's ousted leader Hosni Mubarak has been released from prison and private TV stations have shown footage of his arrival at a military hospital in a Cairo suburb where he will be held under house arrest.
Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi has ordered that Mubarak be put under house arrest as part of the emergency measures imposed this month after a wave of violence sparked by Islamist leader Mohammed Morsi's ouster. Thursday's move followed a court decision ordering his release in relation to charges of receiving gifts from a state-owned newspaper.
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UPDATED: Second woman arrested in Rochester deli robbery
ROCHESTER - Rochester police late Thursday afternoon announced they have arrested a second local woman in connection with the robbery of the Stop and Go Deli late Tuesday night.
Tanya Michelle Ouellette, 24, of 18 Reagan Drive, Gonic, was arrested Thursday at 3:30 p.m. She was charged by Rochester Police with conspiracy to commit armed robbery, as well as willful concealment for an unrelated shoplifting case.
She was held on $25,000 cash bail at the Strafford County jail pending her arraignment Friday.
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ROCHESTER - Rochester police late Wednesday afternoon announced they have arrested a local woman for the robbery of the Stop and Go Deli late Tuesday night.
Desiree Ann Maloy, 22, of 18 Reagan Drive in the Gonic section of Rochester, was arrested after a daylong investigation.
She was charged with one count of armed robbery and was held on $25,000 cash bail. She is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday, and police indicated that other arrests are expected in connection with the robbery.
ROCHESTER - A woman armed with a gun robbed the Stop and Go Deli late Tuesday night.
Police said the woman, disguised with a cloth covering her face, brandished a firearm as she entered the 26 Gonic Road store just before 11:30 p.m. She ordered the two clerks to give her the money in the cash register and then fled, heading to the woods behind the store.
A gold-colored SUV, which was parked in a nearby lot for a dentist's office, was seen leaving the area after the robbery, but police said they do not know if it was the getaway car.
The robber is described as a heavyset woman between the ages of 18 and 25, 5-foot-5 to 5-foot-9. She wore a gray, hooded sweatshirt, dark black sweatpants and a dark baseball cap with a blue sticker on the brim.
The store was closed while police processed the crime scene.
Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call Detective Joseph Rousseau at 330-7106.


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Movie News: Britney Spears Goes Bollywood; 'Texas Chainsaw 3D' Images; Trailers for 'Dead Man Down' and 'The Canyons'
Texas Chainsaw 3D: New images from Texas Chainsaw 3D, which opens on January 4, tease the bloody mayhem that is to come. The story picks up decades after the horrors that were unleashed in Tobe Hooper's 1974 original, as a young woman visits an old mansion that she's inherited and discovers terrible secrets in the cellars. [Coming Soon]
Britney Spears: Her film career in Hollywood may have stalled, but Britney Spears is ready to make her debut in Bollywood, according to producer Sadanandan Lucsam. He claims that Spears will sing and dance the title song of his next film, describing it as "a peppy number" that will be "shot lavishly" and be "a proper Hindi number with some good English lines." The world awaits. [Times of India]
Dead Man Down Trailer: The first trailer for Dead Man Down has arrived in a low-resolution version, which you can watch below. Colin Farrell stars as an enforcer for an underground crime lord, while Noomi Rapace (reuniting with original The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev) plays a woman with vengeance on her mind. The movie opens March 8. [Screen Crush]
The Canyons Teaser: Lindsay Lohan and adult-film veteran James Deen star in The Canyons, described as a modern-day film noir. Paul Schrader (American Gigolo) directed, based on a script by Bret Easton Ellis. The latest NSFW teaser has been released, spoofing the style of a 1930s black-and-white melodrama. The film does not yet have distribution. [Facebook via The Film Stage]
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Chimney swift courtship involves aerial displays. Nesting is often colonial and the breeding pair is often assisted by an extra adult "helper". The nest, which is constructed by both sexes, is shaped like half a saucer and is made of twigs glued together with the birds' saliva. Adults break off short dead twigs from trees while zooming past in flight. Clutch size is 4 to 5 white eggs (range 3 to 6). Incubation (for 19 to 21 days) is by both parents. Both parents feed young (by regurgitating insects). Young may climb out of the nest after around 20 days, clambering up vertical walls. Young typically first fly at around 28 to 30 days.
Chimney Swifts migrate in flocks, apparently during the day. They winter in eastern Peru, northern Chile, and in the upper Amazon basin of eastern Peru and northwestern Brazil.
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Berlin City Council accepts education official's resignationBy SARA YOUNG-KNOX
Special to the Union Leader
April 19. 2013 4:46AM
BERLIN - Nathan Morin's resignation from the Berlin Board of Education was accepted with regret Monday by the Berlin City Council.
Mayor Paul Grenier said that though they often disagreed, Morin brought a different perspective to the board, and that government works best with different voices.
Morin objected to the board's decision to rework the proposed fiscal year 2014 budget numbers after the board's operating budget was too high for the council.
At the April 8 Berlin City Council meeting, school officials presented a budget pared down from the one presented to the council in March.
The board's proposed operating budget is $17,306,815, an increase of $575,691 over the fiscal year 2013 budget. In March, the board presented a budget of $17,389,644.
Morin resigned to protest the way board chair Nicole Plourde has dealt with the budget process, objecting to the board negotiating with the mayor and council after the board had already held a public hearing and voted on its proposed budget.
"To suggest that a discussion about our responsibility to local taxpayers to be good stewards did not occur before we voted on the proposed budget is simply unconscionable," Morin said. "It is the responsibility of the board to demonstrate why the proposed budget is the right investment. The school board has demonstrated its commitment to fiscal responsibility by returning a surplus to the city to use for tax relief."
Bryan Lamirande, SAU 3 business administrator, said Thursday, "We want to work cooperatively with the city."
He said the city council keeps the best interests of the city and schools in mind as the mayor and council deal with a tough economic situation and high property taxes.
"You need to talk," he added. "We still need more money, but we need to be flexible."
City and school officials are hoping that the legislature will restore state education aid for next year to this year's levels. For fiscal year 2013, Berlin's aid is $10,756,851. for fiscal year 2014, it's reduced to $10,383,137.
Grenier said that if the $373,684 drop in state education aid is restored by the legislature, then the school system would get the lion's share of the funds.
Morin has also taken issue with the council's no vote on a new contract for custodians and bus drivers.
"The school board and the Local 1444 have negotiated in good faith. To bully this group into accepting items or proposals they do not want just to satisfy the mayor and council's political agenda is unethical," Morin said.
"The mayor and council's conduct is starting to have an extremely negative impact on employee morale. It is my hope that both the school district and the Local 1444 will consult legal counsel on what can be legally done to force the council into accepting the proposed contract. There is no reason for either the school board or the Local 1444 to go back to the bargaining table at this point."


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Overcome temperature measurement installation challenges with best practices
Your design looks great on paper. Now it has to work just as well in the real world, so make sure you install it using the same care.
You have designed and purchased the optimal temperature measurement system to meet the performance requirements of your process. Your job is done, right? Wrong, because if it is not installed properly, the actual measurement results can fall far short of expectations. The field installation technician must understand the design decisions that were made to ensure that the "as installed" details agree with the "as designed" specification.
Best practices for proper installation
The level of effectiveness of a temperature system (a sensor with a connection head, a thermowell, and a transmitter) is dependent upon several factors including proper installation. If you were not the design engineer, you may not know what decisions were made about such things as mounting location, mounting style, what the immersion depth should be, or what the environmental conditions are at the intended mounting location. Therefore, several installation factors should be considered, including the installation, point-of-penetration, insertion length, mounting, and installation wiring.
Here are some considerations made in engineering a temperature system and the installation requirements that follow:
1. Locate the point of penetration—Start by locating a suitable measurement point that is representative of the desired measurement and is accessible. Determine the size of the pipe or vessel, the insulation thickness, and the presence of surrounding structures that may impede installation of the thermowell and access for future maintenance or replacement. Take into consideration the dimension of the entire assembly including an integrally mounted transmitter or connection head.
For installations downstream of static mixers, heat exchangers, or other turbulence producing elements, the insertion point must be far enough downstream where the streams have recombined into a homogeneous mixture that flows smoothly. Generally, a downstream distance equal to about 25 pipe diameters is sufficient.
There are special considerations for some other difficult applications like viscous fluids with laminar flow where the temperature at the pipe wall is different than that at the centerline. Insertion length is critical to get to a representative part of the flow at the centerline. Small pipe diameters present more of a challenge where tee fitting mounting or angled insertion may be considered.
After a suitable location is chosen, determine if it will be necessary to drain and clean the pipe or vessel before cutting into it to install the well. Ensure that the appropriate permits and approvals are secured.
2. Verify insertion length and other dimensions—Although the design engineer has made decisions about the thermowell mounting and insertion lengths based on the information at hand, it is incumbent upon the installation technician to verify pipe or tank diameter dimensions to determine that the thermowell provided has the correct insertion length. There is no standard formula to determine the insertion length of the thermowell. Rather, there are a few common practices that process industry plants follow along with good engineering judgment. Ideally, the tip of the thermowell should be located at an optimal process point, typically near the centerline, with flow conditions that represent the true process temperature. A general guideline for insertion length into pipe for optimal performance is 10 times the diameter of the thermowell for air or gas and 5 diameters for liquids.
The other dimensions of the thermowell may be verified by consideration of factors such as:
- Insulation thickness
- Connection type
- Lagging length, and
- Length of any required extensions to protrude through the insulation layer.
Be aware of connection head or integral transmitter housing dimensions added to the extension length relative to interference with nearby structures or equipment at the mounting site. (See Figure 1.)
3. Mounting the assembly—During the design phase, the engineer would have made mounting style decisions about using a threaded, welded, or flanged style of thermowell to meet the required process conditions of pressure rating, fluid velocity, type of fluid, conformance with codes and standards, and plant piping specifications and preferences. Consideration of speed of response, mechanical strength, and wake frequency concerns would have led to a decision of using a straight, tapered, or stepped thermowell profile.
4. Installation wiring—There are several options to consider in choosing how to get the signal reliably from the field sensor to the control system with performance levels required by the application. Figure 2 shows the most common choices.
The most common and preferred installation is a transmitter integrally mounted with the sensor and thermowell. In other cases, the transmitter is mounted separately but near the sensor-thermowell assembly.
Alternatively, sensors are connected to a marshaling cabinet using a twisted, shielded two-wire cable. From there a multi-pair bundle is typically run back to the control room. Ideally, the proper cable types have been specified during the design phase of the project. In all cases the conductors should be twisted and shielded with an outer insulated sheath selected in conformance with the environmental conditions where the wiring trays will be installed. For multi-conductor cables there are many designs. A common design has individually shielded pairs with an overall shield with drain wire for maximum noise protection and has an overall insulated sheath.
The sensor wires and output cables should be pulled through the conduits and fittings and into the transmitter housing and junction box through conduit seals.
Grounding and surge protection
Proper grounding and surge protection can pay huge dividends in enhanced performance. Here are some best practices to improve outcomes.
Follow proper grounding and shielding practices-Each process facility has its own guidelines for proper installation of grounds and shields. These guidelines should be followed where practical and appropriate. However, it may be prudent to verify that these guidelines are appropriate for your installation and, if in doubt about how to proceed, consult with the on-site electrical team leader and/or refer to the guidelines below.
Option 1. Remote mount with two separate grounding points-Connect the sensor shield, if supplied, only at the remount mount head and ensure that it is not connected at any other point and is electrically isolated from any grounded equipment. Ground the signal wiring shield only at the power supply end to an instrument system grounding point and ensure that the transmitter end is carefully isolated. (See Figure 3.)
Option 2. Remote mount with a continuous shield-Connect the sensor shield only to the signal cable shield and ensure that it is electrically isolated from the transmitter and all other field equipment. Alternatively, connect the signal cable shield to instrument system ground only at the power supply end. (See Figure 4.)
Option 3. Integral mount-Ground the signal wiring shield at the power supply end only to the instrument system ground ensuring that it is electrically isolated from the transmitter housing and all other field equipment. This is used for integral mount installations. (See Figure 5.)
One additional tip: The instrument system ground should not be connected to a power wiring ground which can carry noise, surges, and spikes that could interfere with measurement signals and/or destroy transmitters. An instrument system ground must be a very low resistance path to an earth grounding rod or grid.
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I did a very fun appearance on Bill Bennett's radio show this morning. We began by talking about the Miss World pageant, and continued on, in a more serious fashion, with the politics and the legalities of the Democrats' commitment to terrorists' rights. Click the play button to listen to it:
Bill exemplifies a quality that I think is typical of the best conservative commentators: the ability to combine good humor, broad learning and sober analysis of current affairs. His show is always a pleasure to appear on, or to listen to.
UPDATE: As one of Bill's callers and several of our readers have pointed out, I blew the translation of habeas corpus. I don't speak Latin, actually, and was relying on my 30-year-old law school memory. The legal principle, unlike the translation, was correct. Mea culpa, which means, I think, My fault!


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Showtime Announces 'The Ride,' Following 'Amazing Race' Host Phil Keoghan on A Cross-Country Cycling Adventure, 2/18
SHOWTIME takes the ultimate road trip with The Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan in THE RIDE, a new documentary premiering on Saturday, February 18th at 8 PM, ET/PT (the night before the 20th season premiere of The Amazing Race on CBS). The documentary chronicles Emmy(R) winner Keoghan on a grueling 40 day bike ride across America during the spring of 2009.
In March 2009, 41-year-old Keoghan set out to pedal 3,500 miles from LA to New York. His goals: experience a once-in-a-lifetime adventure with his father; embark on the biggest mental and physical challenge of his life; and work towards raising $1 million for his favorite charity, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. However, this life-changing adventure did not come without a price, which included a trip to the hospital, extreme exhaustion, countless spills, drastic weight loss and a dangerous crash in Ohio that left him bloodied and shaken.
THE RIDE also explores the relationships between Keoghan and his fellow adventurers. Viewers will get to know his beloved father John, training partner Ben, best friend and cameraman, Scott, and Greg, a colorful and protective former highway patrolman. Additionally, they'll see Keoghan and his team meeting countless individuals who are living with the crippling disease and the thousands of dedicated MS volunteers and citizens who came out to show their support.
Starting out as a film camera assistant 25 years ago, Keoghan has worked in more than 100 countries around the world as an actor, author, speaker, television host, producer and director. His work has earned him numerous awards, including eight prime-time Emmy(R) Awards as a producer and host of the hit CBS series The Amazing Race, premiering its 20th season on Sunday, February 19 at 8 PM ET/PT.
The premiere of THE RIDE on SHOWTIME is a celebration of Keoghan reaching his $1 million mark for MS fundraising.
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Although the upwind scheme is the underlying scheme for the robust or non-linear methods given in Section 2.18 , we haven't actually implemented this method for general use. It would be very diffusive and it is unlikely that it could ever produce more useful results than the positive higher order schemes.
Upwind bias is introduced into many schemes using the abs function and it allows the first order upwind flux to be written:
If for some reason the above method is desired, the second order flux limiter scheme described in Section 2.18.1 reduces to the above scheme if the limiter is set to zero.
By: Liz Eggleston February 7, 2014
Jessie Young graduated from the second cohort of
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and went on to take an apprenticeship at thoughtbot, where she works today. Jessie tells us about how she found her passion in tech (even after getting a degree in humanities), the difference between an internship an apprenticeship, and the types of students who thrive at Dev Bootcamp.
What were you doing before you attended Dev Bootcamp?
I was working in marketing for a startup. I was mostly doing content creation, analytics, and event planning and management.
What sparked your interest in programming? Why did you make the switch?
I had been working for startups for about 4 years. My first company was moving to Rails in 2009, so I heard the word "Rails" at work a lot. I had no idea what it meant, but I remember making a mental note to look into it.
I was a philosophy and political science major in college and joined my first company because of my interest in health care policy. But what I took from that job was that I was more interested in the technology itself than the ties to health care policy. So when that job ended, I kept working in the tech industry. And because I loved tech, I figured I should get more familiar with the technical side of things. I went to a RailsBridge workshop when I moved to San Francisco in 2010, and then another one, and another until eventually I was good enough to teach the workshop.
Which bootcamps did you apply to? Why did you ultimately choose Dev Bootcamp?
Between the time I attended my first RailsBridge workshop and the time that I applied to Dev Bootcamp, I had been studying Ruby and Rails on my own for over two years. During that time, I was doing online exercises, meeting up with friends who were also learning, and regularly attending hack nights. I even asked my company if I could intern in the engineering department. When that didn't work out, I applied for unpaid internships at other companies, but never got an offer.
The first time I heard of any bootcamp was Hungry Academy in DC. I couldn't believe it! It sounded perfect and Jeff Casimir, who ran Hungry Academy, was really cool. But ultimately, I didn't get in. Jeff didn't tell my why I got rejected, but he did tell me about Dev Bootcamp, so I emailed Shereef Bishay (one of Dev Bootcamp's founders) and went to sit in on one of the first cohort's sessions. It was great.
Do you think you were ever at an advantage having a background in the humanities?
I don't know if a humanities background is an advantage, but I do think one of my unique advantages was that I was already tapped into the tech community. I knew that there were people at tech companies who needed engineers, and I was an avid consumer of technology and understood the trends.
On a different note, I don't think having a degree in computer science would have been a big help at Dev Bootcamp. Ruby and Rails are not what you learn when you get a CS degree.
What kind of students were in your cohort? Did you find diversity of the group?
There was a lot of diversity. There were people new to programming, CS majors, recent college grads and people who'd had entire careers in a different field before deciding to attend Dev Bootcamp. What surprised me the most was the age diversity. I was 26 then and I thought I might be one of the older people, but I was pretty much exactly in the middle.
So there are a number of online boot camps and online classes that teach Ruby and other languages- why did you choose an in person class and why was that important?
Before I decided to quit my job and attend Dev Bootcamp, I thought I could teach myself Ruby and Rails by doing self-study two days a week. So, I started working part time and spent Mondays and Fridays working on tutorials, building practice applications, and reading books and HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby, and Rails.
Through that experience, I found that It's just really hard to stay motivated when everything is a struggle and you're alone. At Dev Bootcamp, it was never a struggle to stay motivated because I was surrounded by enthusiastic peers and teachers who could help me when I was stuck and couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.
Did you (and your cohort) complete a project at the end of the program? What did you choose?
We built an app that was really similar to Lift, right before Lift came out. We used Stripe to process payments and users would wager an amount of money that they would complete their goal. If they completed the goal, they would get their money back. If they didn't, we would keep it. Not the most brilliant business idea I've had, but it was fun to build.
Describe your experience after Dev Bootcamp- Did you feel fully prepared to interview and why did you end up taking an apprenticeship?
We had a big hiring day, where a bunch of employers interviewed us. In the weeks after graduation, I went through multiple rounds of interviews with over a dozen companies. In the end, my top two options were a year-long fellowship with Code for America or a 3-month apprenticeship with thoughtbot. Code for America would allow me to mix my interests in tech and civic engagement and I'd been following the program since its inception. thoughtbot would allow me to see many different projects and had a great reputation in the Rails world because of its open source contributions and popular blog.
I ended up choosing the apprenticeship with thoughtbot. It was kind of scary choosing a 3-month position over a 1-year position, but I was 90 percent sure I had what it took to be hired after the apprenticeship. Plus, it was the opportunity that would enable me to grow the most. I knew that after 2-3 years at thoughtbot, I would be a kick-ass developer, and that was my number one priority.
Tell us what an apprenticeship is!
Dave Hoover just gave a talk on apprenticeships, where he provided an analogy for those who are familiar with internships but not apprenticeships: an internship is like dating, and an apprenticeship is like an engagement.
The goal of an internship is usually for the intern to get the feel of a job and then move on. The goal of an an apprenticeship is to get the necessary training to be hired for the job. That is certainly the case at thoughtbot, where the majority of apprentices are hired as full-time developers or designers after their apprenticeship.
What are you up to today? Where are you working? What does that entail?
I've been at thoughtbot for about 1.5 years. We're a consultancy, so I'm on a new project about every 4-6 weeks. I have worked on everything from apps for huge companies to prototypes for individuals who come in and need something to get investors excited about their idea. To date, I've worked on 12 different projects; mostly for startups or nonprofits.
What has been your experience as a woman in the tech industry? Do you feel it changing?
When I was hired at thoughtbot, I was the only female developer (they had hired women in the past, but there weren't any at that particular moment) in the entire company. Now, as the company has expanded, we've been hiring women more aggressively. Today, we have six women in the San Francisco office. My happiness levels have increased since we started hiring more women.
One of the challenges is that a lot of the women here come in as apprentices, which means they're all junior. Our most senior people are still all men. This is something that only time can change, but it's one of the continuing challenges of women entering the field at a lower level. It's going to be a while until I can sit at a table with five female senior developers.
What kind of person would you recommend attend Dev Bootcamp? What kind of person won't succeed?
People who will succeed are those who have tried (and even failed) to learn programming on their own first. I get a fair number of emails from people who are interested, and about 20% of them have never touched code. They might work around engineers, but they haven't actually taken the time to sit down and learn a programming language. Dev Bootcamp costs over $10k and requires you to quit your job and devote three months to nothing but learning. I wouldn't take that leap without knowing for sure that I enjoyed creating web applications.
There are students who don't complete DBC. Dev Bootcamp has a refund policy more formalized so that students who fall behind can start over at any time. By week 3, there were a few people who just weren't able to keep up and had to start over. I think that experience was upsetting to the whole class, because we all cared for each other and wanted to continue on together. I'm not sure why those particular students fell behind, but I would guess that it had to do with how much time they had spent learning Ruby and Rails pre-Dev Bootcamp. There will always be people who can come in with no experience and keep up with the class. But if I had started Dev Bootcamp with nothing but a few RailsBridge workshops under my belt, I would have floundered.
People who won't succeed might be people who see this as a get-rich-quick scheme. It's true that developers make more money than people in many other professions, but I can't imagine that money alone would have been enough motivation to get me as far as I've gotten today.
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The last equation, the discrete continuity equation, can be summed in the vertical to yield the free-surface equation:
The source term P − E on the rhs of continuity accounts for the local addition of volume due to excess precipitation and run-off over evaporation and only enters the top-level of the ocean model.
The vertical momentum equation has the hydrostatic or quasi-hydrostatic balance on the right hand side. This discretization guarantees that the conversion of potential to kinetic energy as derived from the buoyancy equation exactly matches the form derived from the pressure gradient terms when forming the kinetic energy equation.
In the ocean, using z-coordinates, the hydrostatic balance terms are discretized:
In the atmosphere, using p-coordinates, hydrostatic balance is discretized:
where Δ Π is the difference in Exner function between the pressure points. The non-hydrostatic equations are not available in the atmosphere.


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iPhone VS Android Sioux Falls Cold Weather Test
Whenever I get a call from co-worker Chad I know it's one of two things. Either something needs to be done, or he has an idea for something. Today it was 'idea time' for Chad.
Chad mentioned that he had just been talking to his sister and they were wondering if their iPhones were going to have a 'POLAR VORTEX' episode during our cold snap that's coming up. I asked what he was talking about and he said;
I was out shoveling snow the other day, and I reached in my pocket to make a call and my iPhone had totally shut down. It was charged, it just shut off. Period. Then I talked to my sister and she said that her phone was doing the same thing.
So naturally I asked, What kind of phone do you have. He said, 'I was just going to say that: iPhone.
Now, this isn't a which hunt on the iPhone. If they carry a smart phone, half the world carry the iPhone. But it does seem that iPhones, like most people aren't a fan of the extreme cold weather. We asked the question on our Facebook page:
If you have a smartphone, does it behave differently in extreme cold weather. I-Phone, Android? What do you have and have you noticed? JD
Becca Warner My Samsung galaxy s4 is good to go in all conditions.Like · Reply · 1 · 3 hours ago · Edited
Mark Krumvieda I got an I phone and if your out in the cold for more the 5 min it will shut down really hate that about them should work no matter what conditions your inLike · Reply · 2 hours ago
Kirstin Kuchta I have an iPhone and the only thing I noticed is when it's cold my battery drains extremely fast!Like · Reply · 2 hours ago
Michael Oliver If? The only two people without them probably don't have Facebook anyways.
Josh Pavlish The iPhone shuts down if it is to cold until it warms and shuts down if it gets to hot. I would imagine its a safety feature but maybe it's because they suck(sarcasm)
So, I did a little more research. I discovered that Huffington Post had posted an article on iPhones and their dislike for cold weather.
On its website, Apple suggests that you only use your (4th generation or later) iPhone in environments between 32º and 95º F, since "low- or high-temperature conditions might temporarily shorten battery life or cause the device to alter its behavior to regulate its temperature."
If the temperature drops below 32º, your best bet is keeping your phone turned off and stored somewhere warmer, Apple suggests. It'll probably still work though — so you can take your chances. But when the temperature gets crazy low, falling below -4º, Apple says to put it away. (You should also store it when the mercury tops 113º F.)
Toronto's Global News recently ran an experiment to see how iPhones reacted to the cold. They took two iPhones of the same model and left one outside in the cold (where temps barely edged above zero Fahrenheit ) and took the other one inside. Thirty minutes later, the iPhone that was inside had gone from 100 percent battery life to 99 percent, while the one left in the cold had dropped to 86 percent from 100. When they tried to use the cold iPhone it shut off.
Hey, this doesn't mean that Android phones are better than the popular iPhone. It does mean though that they in fact do react to cold weather differently.
If you do a lot of outdoor activities in cold environments you might want to consider that. If you're an ice fisherman or work in construction in cold weather it might be something to consider.
Personally, I use a Samsung Galaxy S4 that I use courtesy of Sprint/Sioux Falls and the weather doesn't seem to bother it. From the looks of our unscientific survey taken on our Facebook page, most Android users would agree.


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UPDATE: Mother, daughter fell from Crotched Mountain ski liftBy KATHLEEN BAGLIO HUMPHREYS
Special to the Union Leader
December 12. 2013 8:35AM
BENNINGTON – Officials at Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride Area said it was a mother and her six-year-old daughter who fell from the charlift at the area Wednesday afternoon.
"The mother was transported by ambulance to Monadnock Community Hospital and the daughter was airlifted to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, said general manager Pat Terry. "It is unclear at this point on how they came off the lift; however a mechanical issue was clearly not the case. We are investigating and continuing to gather witness statements."
The accident happened Wednesday at 4:30 p.m., when the two fell approximately 25 feet. They were riding the Rocket quad and the accident happened around the halfway point up the mountain at tower six when they fell onto a trail called Pluto's Plunge.
The New Hampshire Tramway Board was at the mountain Wednesday evening, and according to Terry confirmed there were no mechanical issues with the lift.
The ski area is not releasing the names of the two but did say the family lives in New Hampshire.
Previous story follows:
GREENFIELD - An adult and child who fell about 50 feet from a ski lift at Crotched Mountain Ski & Ride in Bennington Wednesday afternoon were transported to an area hospital, public safety dispatchers said.
Bennington fire and police and the Antrim ambulance service responded to the ski area after getting a call about the incident about 4:05 p.m., dispatchers said. The conditions of the two skiers was not immediately available.