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Hello Friends.
We are re-designing our App and we have a critical question, what's the best way (in terms of performance) of using TIFF images (about 20K size) with Oracle.
Currently we have a Windows shared file server and we create the tiff images there under a huge directory structure (like /images/ddddmmyy/aa/bb/001, then /images/ddddmmyy/aa/bb/002, etc, etc). Our database is usually in LINUX version 10, 11 or 12.
We create about 200,000 images per day, keep them for 60 days and then remove that structure.
Our Web app (developed with .NET) reads those images just to display them on a Web Session (IE).
As you can see, what we are doing now works fine. But network sometimes is an issue and also it's hard to keep synchronization with our DR server, backups, etc.
Are we taking the correct approach? It would be better to have the images in CLOB or BLOBS for better performance? If so, can you provide me some suggestions on the best way to implement this?
As I mentioned, performance is the KEY FACTOR and the most important item to consider in this design.


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This past weekend, my mom and I took a trip up to South Dakota to visit family. While it was wonderful to see everyone — and be asked by each and every relative how "high on that marijuana crap" everyone is here — it really made me realize how great Colorado is.
Like those mountains. Beautiful, and practical when you can't figure out what direction you're facing, unlike unhelpful jerk corn fields.
Beer? Forget about it. We've got that locked down.
And as it turns out, we're right in the middle of American Craft Beer Week. Perfect. So here's a few way to cheers to a state that knows its way around hops.
Upslope Brewing is celebrating Saturday with a free Upslope Get Down music festival at Flatiron Park (1898 S. Flatiron Circle) from 2 p.m. to midnight. The festival brings eight bands to two stages for all-day music. Groups like Euforquestra and Rowdy Shadehouse will hit the stages throughout the night. They'll also have food from Blackbelly Catering, Heirloom and Taco del Norte as you sip on some quality Upslope brews.
Let us keep the pints pouring, shall we? Over at Wild Woods Brewery (5460 Conestoga Ct.), folks are releasing their Molasses Brown Ale this Thursday. And then Friday, you'll be able to chow down on some grub from The Wheel and Whisk while you sip. But Saturday, that's when the Big Bonfire Anniversary Ale will be unleashed. Talk about a reason to head over. Try out the ale and enjoy $3.50 pints of year-round beers all day Saturday.
Over at Boulder Beer (2880 Wilderness Pl.), the brewers have a lineup that'll have you happy you stopped by. Like Thursday, you'll have Pro Leisure playing from 5 to 9 p.m. as you drink. Friday, they're tapping into their Hoopla, with a party from 4 to 7 p.m. You'll play games — with Hoopla memorabilia as potential prizes, signed by Kyle Hollingsworth, of String Cheese Incident fame — and get to enjoy the return of the Hoopla! And then Saturday, come over for Blue Soul, playing from 5 to 9 p.m.
Of course, Avery Brewing (5763 Arapahoe Ave.) brewers are all kinds of excited for this Friday. They're 21, and celebrating with Twenty One, an imperial India-style brown ale that's got all the specialty malts and dry hop flavors you could want. It'll be the last anniversary ale out at their Arapahoe Avenue location — a need-to-know as their new "Taj Mahal" of a location is in the works now. So get to the taproom at 5 p.m. and enjoy.
Finally, the horse races continue, and so does The West End Tavern's (926 Pearl St.) fun. The Preakness runs this Saturday, and so will the hermit crab races an hour before the big race. Get your Woodford Reserve Mint Julep and Black-Eyed Susan cocktails and have fun.
Follow Alex on Twitter: @ansieh.

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Ed Lippman, 58, wears a message on his jacket on Election Day while walking home, Tuesday, Nov. 6, in Hoboken, N.J.
New Jersey's emergency experiment with email voting hasn't fared well. One election official described it as a "catastrophe" and voters are complaining that computer glitches are blocking their last-minute efforts to obtain electronic ballots. An avalanche of requests for email ballots that overwhelmed county clerks' offices forced the state to extend its email voting deadline to Friday afternoon at 8 p.m., though email ballot requests had to filed by 5 p.m. ET Tuesday.
"It has become apparent that County Clerks are receiving applications at a rate that outpaces their capacity to process them without an extension," said Lt. Gov. Kim Guadango in her order extending the deadline.
Several election officials say misunderstanding is at the root of the problem: Email ballots are only permitted for residents displaced by Superstorm Sandy, but many who are not displaced are nevertheless deluging the system.
"The numbers are overwhelming. The county clerks are inundated with requests," said Michael Harper, clerk of the Board of Elections for Hudson County, N.J. which includes Hoboken, one of the hardest-hit regions recovering from Sandy. Asked to describe the situation, he said, "I would lean more towards catastrophe."
New Jersey has taken the extraordinary step of allowing votes to be cast all the way up until Friday. This applies to voters in counties affected by Hurricane Sandy, and could make the state vulnerable to lawsuits. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
New Jersey's email voting law allows overseas residents and active duty military to request ballots electronically; it was extended by state executive order on Saturday to apply to residents displaced by the storm.
NBC News Justice Department correspondent Pete Williams said the extreme step of extending the voting deadline could expose New Jersey to lawsuits.
"This raises some interesting legal questions," Williams wrote. "A federal law requires all states to choose their presidential electors the same day. But another law says if a state fails to do that, then its legislature determines how its presidential elections are determined. Some legal experts say they believe while New Jersey may be in technical violations of federal laws if it does this, it's Congress that makes the ultimate decision about whether to accept a state's electoral votes. And they doubt that Congress would fail to count the votes of a state brought to its knees by the storm. "
Another hitch is this: Residents must email or fax their requests to their county clerk's office, which must respond individually to each request. The mountain of last-minute requests is crushing clerks' capacity to respond.
Janet Larwa, the deputy clerk at the Hudson County Clerk's office, told NBC News there were eight workers trying to process 3,000 email requests as of mid-day Tuesday.
Frustrations weren't limited to Hudson County. In Essex County, which includes the state's largest city, Newark, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit after it received 25 complaints from residents who said they'd requested email ballots, but hadn't received them. Voters reported that emails sent to the county clerk's office were bouncing, indicating the clerk's inbox was full or not functioning.
"You've got people who are trying to utilize this email or fax voting capabilities the state has said they are entitled to," Alexander Shalom, policy counsel for the ACLU, told NJ.com. "The counties are so overwhelmed with these requests, they are not able to reply. People have emailed in requests to get ballots and they are not hearing back."
The ACLU sought a court order that would have allowed displaced residents to fill out a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot, typically used by overseas voters who apply for but don't receive their blank absentee ballots in time, but an Essex County judge rejected the petition on Tuesday night.
Essex County Clerk Christopher Durkin tried to ease the problem by giving out his personal email Hotmail address to voters, inviting them to send ballot requests there, according to a message posted on the official Facebook page for West Orange, N.J., a city in Essex County.
In Morris County, BuzzFeed.com reported that emails sent to that county's clerk were bouncing. The Daily Record reported the clerk there was struggling under a mountain of 1,000 requests.
Harper, from Hudson County, said the problems stem from the wider email voting process being "thrown upon us at the last minute," not to mention the unprecedented volume. Larwa said that voters who aren't displaced from their homes are being turned down. Her office is calling some voters and denying their email ballot requests, telling them to go to their usual polling place. With power restored to much of Hudson County within the past 48 hours, very few polling locations have been relocated, she said.
The problems might not stop with delivering email ballots, however. Experts are also worried that even if all New Jersey voters who need them receive email ballots in time, there will be confusion about submitting the ballots. The state's email voting procedure is a three-step process which is new to nearly all voters, and ripe for confusion, according to J. Alex Halderman, an electronic voting expert at the University of Michigan. Voters must request a ballot electronically; email or fax the completed ballot to the clerk; then mail the original hard copy to the clerk.
"I'm not sure that voters will understand they still have to mail the ballot," Halderman said. "They may not be aware for requirement, even though it's on the form. If people don't do that, it will be fodder for lawsuits."
Halderman is also concerned that computer hackers can intercept email ballots and alter votes, or otherwise electronically tamper with the process.
"Email voting is tremendously risky ... you never want to make last minute change to an election process. That's a recipe for chaos," he said. "It's a reflection of desperation and seriousness of the situation New Jersey (post-Sandy) that officials are using email voting."
Voting officials in New York apparently agree with Halderman. New York State Board of Elections co-chair Doug Kellner said during the weekend that his state rejected emergency email ballots because, "they're hackable and they're not verifiable," according to USA Today.
Still, Halderman is worried that voters who get a taste of email voting may clamor for it in future elections.
"We are definitely concerned that voters will want to have access to this again if they it convenient," he said. "But transmitting votes by email doesn't have good secrecy or integrity protection. It's easy to spoof an email, intercept an email, find it in someone's outbox and alter it ... It's possible to hack email servers and change votes after they are received. It's the highest level of risk for any kind of electronic voting."
With reporting by NBC News Talesha Reynolds.
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Cathedral Window Cushion
This is without a doubt my absolute favorite finished object.
I found it easier to start on the outside edge then work my way in. I planned it out so I only had to lift the needle up every other row (something like that, I know I didn't have to do it every time).
Almost there! Centers just need to be done.
I tried my best to get the points to match up, I'm sure pins would have helped immensely. I posted before about my hatred for pins though. I use them as little as possible.
As you can see above, the underside is already finished and quilted. That's the great thing about this pattern–if I wanted to make a quilt, I wouldn't have to add a backing! I'd just shove batting underneath the colored fabric pieces and throw on a binding.
This cushion was pretty easy–from start to finish it took me about 4-5 hours? Cutting and ironing took more than half of that time.
I'm so so happy with it 🙂 At first I was going to sell the cushion but I fell in love with it before it was even finished. I considered giving it to my almost-frenchie (haven't picked her up yet!) so it would still be under the same roof, but as I was stuffing it a wave of selfishness hit me. I don't know where I'm going to put it, but it's mine. Mine mine mine.
Also, a quick update on Maggie–It was a "fox tail" that got stuck in her foot so today she is going in for surgery. Apparently it's fairly common, the vet said he gets at least one of these cases a week. Not that I wish Stinky would get injured or sick, but it's always Maggie that has something wrong with her 😦


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EDMONTON - At long last, Edmonton Oilers owner Daryl Katz spoke out on the arena issue on Monday. What he said won't please everybody. It will certainly make little impact on those who are dead set against any public funds going to build a downtown arena.
But Katz is finally talking because he needs to explain to arena supporters, both on city council and in the public, why they should continue to support the deal, something that is now in doubt after reports came out that Katz is asking for a $6-million annual subsidy to operate the Oilers in a new downtown arena.
In an hour-long interview with me and my colleague John MacKinnon, a sometimes frustrated, sometimes rueful and undoubtedly passionate Katz did his best to address the various controversies around the arena.
Katz says he has always made it clear to city negotiators that there should be a subsidy for him to operate the arena, and that he had in mind a gaming subsidy similar to what the Winnipeg Jets and Pittsburgh Penguins receive in their new deals. In Winnipeg, the team gets $12 million a year in operating subsidies, Katz said, a portion coming from gaming.
About a year ago, the city agreed to take this request for a gaming subsidy to the province, Katz says, but nothing has materialized. Yet he still needs that subsidy.
"If it didn't work out, it didn't work out," Katz says of the gaming idea. "But when two parties are trying to make a deal, it's just not sufficient for one to say, 'Too bad, so sad, you guys eat it.' That's not how two sides make a reasonable deal."
Katz says he was surprised that city councillors never knew about the request for an operating subsidy. "But to have my integrity and commitment questioned, and to suggest this is new and came out of nowhere, is not true and not fair."
At city hall, I've been hearing whispers about this ask from Katz in regards to the casino funding for the arena for more than a year now. My understanding was that the city would write a letter to the province on Katz's behalf.
So Katz is correct that the city agreed to pursue this, though there was no promise from the city that any funds would come through.
I asked Katz why any public subsidy of the arena is needed, with Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver all building arenas in recent decades with largely or fully private financing. But Katz pointed out that various owners, Rod Bryden in Ottawa, the Molsons in Montreal and the Griffiths in Vancouver, all suffered huge losses and lost control of their arenas and teams.
"Let's be frank, the only privately funded NHL arena (in Canada) that hasn't been a financial disaster is ACC (Air Canada Centre) in Toronto, where they have the Leafs and an NBA franchise. Everyone else lost their shirts ... They lost their buildings and their teams. So this has to be a private-public partnership (in Edmonton).
"Edmonton is a great hockey town, not necessarily a great hockey market. We have the best and the most knowledgeable and, to be honest, the most loyal fans in the NHL. That's what we believe. But Edmonton is tied for the smallest media market by far. And we have the lowest percentage of corporate season ticket holders."
Of course, ticket revenues in Edmonton have been in the NHL's top 10 for several years now. Yet Katz is correct that Edmonton is not Toronto, and that the team owners who built privately in Montreal, Toronto and Ottawa got knocked out of business.
If no deal is done, might Katz move the Oilers out of Edmonton after his lease ends in 2014?
"I'm focused on making this deal work," he says. "God knows I've spent enough money. You know, my wife thinks I'm nuts, OK?"
MacKinnon and I both chuckled at that.
"Guys, don't laugh!" Katz said. "I'm telling you. She thinks I'm nuts.
"If this doesn't work, what can I say?" he added, returning to the prospect of the deal failing. "Obviously all bets are off and we'll have to figure out what comes next. And I don't know what that will be. That's truthful."
Katz scoffed at those who would suggest he's asking for too much now to scuttle the deal so he can take a sweeter offer in another city. You just have to look at his track record to see commitment, he asserts.
"I bought the Oilers (in 2008) because the EIG (Edmonton Investors Group) was fractured and Edmonton's ability to keep the team was at risk. OK? Nobody can doubt that. That was only four years ago. EIG knew and the Katz Group knew that the key to Oilers' sustainability was a new model and a new arena. I stepped up. Nobody else would. I stepped up with two goals. To ensure the Oilers long-term sustainability in Edmonton and to turn Edmonton's need for a new arena into something unbelievable for the city. Now I've been at this five years. I spent $200 million on the team. I've funded operating losses since. I put $70 million into acquiring land. Nobody can question my good faith or my commitment."
Katz – quite rightly – sees one solution in the Community Revitalization Levy. It's a 20-year fund that will gather up new property taxes in the downtown to pay for downtown infrastructure. The city hopes to get this levy in place and estimates it will raise at least $1.2 billion, with $45 million of that going to pay for the arena.
Katz suggested the CRL will earn several billion and argues more of it should pay for the city-owned arena. Without the Oilers and the arena, downtown won't boom nearly so much. "The CRL is a gold mine for the city. The Oilers are the anchor for the arena and the arena is the catalyst for the CRL. Some would argue it should pay for the whole arena. We're not asking for that. We're willing to partner with the city to meet the needs of everyone and capitalize on the opportunity. All we're asking for is a deal that is fair and makes sense for both parties and is commensurate to other small markets, i.e. Pittsburgh and Winnipeg."
The way Katz sees it, every major city needs a major arena. Even cities without pro hockey or basketball teams, such as Seattle, Kansas City and Quebec City, have built or are building new arenas. Edmonton needs a new one because, as Katz puts it, "our arena was built in 1972 and it's falling apart."
Edmonton can use the Oilers to help pay off its new arena, Katz says, but the deal must be right for both sides.
"Every deal has to look at risk/reward. The city has little risk. But it has enormous reward. Because it needs a new arena that it would otherwise have to pay for by itself without us. So what do they get? They get a 35-year deal for the NHL in Edmonton. They get a subsidized arena because the NHL team is there to play in one of the league's smallest markets. They get a revitalized downtown. That new downtown will drive a $2-plus billion CRL annuity. Katz Group, for our part, we make a 35-year commitment to what some would say is the NHL's smallest market and we get a cost sharing in some elements, but nothing yet that is commensurate with Winnipeg, even Pittsburgh, which is three times the size of the Edmonton market. And neither Winnipeg nor Pittsburgh has the upside of the CRL to offset the investment they are making to keep their pro sports franchise in the city."
Of course, Winnipeg and Pittsburgh did benefit from whatever property taxes and other taxes were created by their new arenas, CRL or no CRL. But it's also fair that if Edmonton's CRL does take off, if it raises a billion, or several billion, that far more than $45 million should be directed to pay off the arena. Numerous interested parties on all sides of the deal agree the arena will indeed be a catalyst for Edmonton's downtown boom.
This is where a solution to Edmonton's arena funding question might reasonably be found.
Katz says the deal can still happen. That's what he tells those who think he's crazy to stick with it.
"Everything that is worth doing is worth making sacrifices for. There's no deal or no transaction that is easy to get done. This has been maybe more trying, but I think we're close to realizing our vision with the city, and I think if we work together and are reasonable, we could do so."
Still, with all he's invested in the Oilers, his frustration comes through with the public bashing he's taken over the subsidy issue. "What happened the last couple of weeks just isn't fair," he says. "Some guys just wouldn't put up with it."
I don't doubt Katz's commitment. He's not trying to scuttle any agreement. Instead, he's groping for a solution. He's been held back, in part, by his own reticence to make his case in public. So it's crucial to this debate that he's finally making his own arguments in public. More of the same is needed, such as a full news conference.
He clearly has no trouble expressing himself and making strong arguments, even if some of them are self-serving.
But this project can serve us all, not just Katz. His arguments are worth a listen, worth solid consideration, so it's good he's finally made them for all of us to read, for all of us to judge.


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Ready for the end of the world as we know it? The popular culture certainly is.
When "Elysium" blasts into theaters Thursday it will land on an already busy post-apocolypse-obsessed entertainment landscape.
Ahead of Matt Damon attempting to leave the slums of 2154 earth for the rarefied existence of a space station (the titular "Elysium") where the wealthiest 1% live out a pampered existence above the chaos below, the summer box office has witnessed a slew of movies centered around worst-case scenarios for Earth dwellers.
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Most recently "Pacific Rim" featured giant robots piloted by humans defending the earth against an alien attack. Prior to that Brad Pitt endeavored to halt a global takeover by ravenous zombies in "World War Z." In "After Earth," Will Smith found himself stranded on our planet 1,000 years after humanity has flown the coop following cataclysmic events, and "Star Trek: Into Darkness" pitted the crew of the Enterprise against a one man weapon of mass destruction with the Earth in his sights.
Things are as equally dire on the small screen. NBC's ongoing series "Revolution" takes place in a Chicago that no longer has access to electricity. Over on AMC, "The Walking Dead" wrapped its third season earlier in the summer with a record-setting finale that drew 12.4 million viewers happy to witness zombies terrorize a band of survivors eking out an existence in a decimated area of Georgia.
Brock Wilbur, author of "Filmpocalypse! 52 cinematic Visions of the End of the World," believes the genre is universal. "It transforms as we do. The apocalyptic cinema serves as sort of a gateway to talk about bigger issues in an exaggerated way and in different time periods."
"Elysium" director Neill Blomkamp ("District 9") believes the future Earth depicted in his film is not far from where we will eventually find ourselves.
"We are reaching a place in the world that we have never experienced before," Blomkamp says. "We have so many people and less and less ability to give them water, food. The only way to raise standards of living is to come to the places that have more. And that results in its own problems as we empty one bucket to fill another."
Directors have looked to globe-changing scenarios since the early 20th century when Dutch film makers released a movie about a meteor crashing into the planet Earth (1916's "Verdens Undergang"). Over time, such perceived threats - real or imagined - have grown as our view of the planet and humanity expanded.
"Ever since the finish of the second world war when we got the glimpse of the atomic bomb there's been this sense that the world could end in the blink of an eye," said Robert Thompson, director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University. "One of the reasons it may be so resonant now is that there are so many things we hear on a daily basis that seem to say to us that the possibility of massive planetary annihilation is within the realm of think-ability"
It's real life informing reel life and vice versa.
Thompson says there are often "documentary overtones" humming in the background of such fare. "If you look at the monster films of the 1950s, they are quite believable given what we were starting to know about radioactive mutation. 'The Day After Tomorrow' was kind of couched in some of the climate change arguments we had been hearing in the news at the time. These kind of exaggerated, speculative things get a little more voltage because they don't seem that totally outrageous."
Art imitating life is not always planned. "Oblivion" saw Tom Cruise living on a drone-policed Earth destroyed by a nuclear holocaust that was triggered to battle alien invaders. Apt timing considering that drones have been a constant presence in the news of late. According to the film's director Joseph Kosinski the parallels are a mere coincidence. Kosinski wrote the original story eight years ago - drones included. "It's interesting how the news seems to somehow parallel the entertainment business," Kosinski said.
Such coincidences do not mean the premise or inspiration should be discounted though, warns the director. "['Oblivion'] explores the idea of our relationship with technology and it can be good and not so good," says Kosinski." "I think it is something we need to be wary of. Technology is amazing and can do amazing things for us, but it is something for us to keep an eye on."
And as these perceived notions of impending global dangers has increased over time, so too has the way we expect to see them portrayed on screen.
"The Vietnam War was a big turning point in the level of gore we saw in movies," explains Thompson. "Suddenly all the sanitized versions of blood and guts that had come before just wasn't realistic to audiences anymore."
In a post September 11, YouTube-obsessed world where everything can be filmed and posted online via cellphones and personal tablets, bigger is better when it comes to wowing audiences with sequences depicting apocalyptic scenarios.
Thompson believes the images we repeatedly witnessed in the weeks following the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings trumped every disaster movie ever made. "How do you make something seem big and shocking after that. A lot of people said, 'Oh we're not going to be seeing exploding buildings now, it's going to be too soon.' They were absolutely wrong. What we instead saw was a ratcheting up of the scope. To be bad enough now you had to be taking out whole cities. Back in the day we could be shocked by Hitchcock terrorizing a little seaside village with birds. Now we have seen and heard so much that our expectations are so extreme that we have to take out the entire world to make it seem like it matters."
Ultimately though, what draws us to the genre is not seeing our destruction writ large, but what happens next.
"The interesting thing is that most cases in the genre, while they are about the so-called end of the world, the world doesn't end," Thompson says. "In 'The Walking Dead' the zombies are all over the place but there are other people who on some level are triumphing simply by being alive.The same goes for 'Revolution' or 'Defiance' – it's the story of the survivors."
Author Wilbur sees the appeal in pushing the "reset" button. "The way that we live now in 2013 has a real disconnect with what we are as a species," he says, "and post-apocalypse films get back to that idea of wanting to roam around and hunt and gather and scavenge and live in a tent and not have to answer a cell phone or worry about Facebook. It's a chance to reset and go back to what our biology tells us we should be doing. That can make the bleakest film actually uplifting. It's the same reason that post-apocalypse themed video games are such a hit."
The producers of SyFy's "Defiance" took that idea to heart, launching a video game based on the series - which centers on an earth drastically changed following the arrival of aliens and a war for supremacy - to coincide with the series' televised debut.
Yet no matter how frightening or thought-provoking these movies, series and games may be, we return to the post-apocalypse genre again and again for that opportunity to push the reset button, to start over, to build a better future once the dust settles.
"I like to think it's a hopeful message," "Elysium" star Matt Damon said in a publicity statement of the films dystopian view. "Even in a future where it is everyone man for himself, it'll be possible for a human being to hold on to his humanity."


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VetEx climbed and trained all summer long in the Colorado high country. VetEx Climbing Teams stood on the summits of Longs Peak, Mt. Meeker, Crestone Needle, Humboldt Peak, Mt. Shavano, Tabeguache Peak, Mt. Harvard, Mt. Yale, Mt. Belford, Missouri Mountain, and Huron Peak. Our veteran teams trained in mountaineering and mountain travel techniques.
Longs Peak was one of the more memorable climbs of the summer. It stands out because of the reasons why two of our vets wanted to climb this mountain so terribly bad. Marine veteran Livio Ciciotti had just received a call that far too many veterans receive, one of his buddies had just taken his own life.
Livio reached out to his veteran community at VetEx and what came about was some very hard and heartfelt discussions on suicide. Turns out many of the veterans Livio climbs with at VetEx have had experience with veteran suicide and their willingness to talk and add their support reminded us all of why VetEx started in the first place. It is to build veteran community through the outdoors and carry through to day to day life.
So we climbed Longs Peak for Kevin Oboyle. Livio knew that Kevin had wanted to climb Longs Peak and it was his mission to pay tribute to him at the summit. VetEx Co-founder Nick Watson wore a Boston Red Sox hat to honor Kevin's favorite ball club and Nick's as well.
Navy veteran Dana Niemela showed up for the Longs Peak climb with a mission as well. Dana is a Colorado resident, a VetEx regular, and lives in Denver. She has been staring at Longs Peak for many years. She wanted to climb the mountain in her daily horizon and knew this was the crew to climb with.
We had a spectacular day on Longs as we paid tribute to our fallen friend. We climbed with ease as we remembered that many in our community are suffering. We climbed because it made us feel good about not taking this day for granted. We climbed to inspire others to join us. We will leave you with shots from other climbs across the beautiful state of Colorado.
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Montreal Canadiens goalie Carey Price's wife Angela and Toronto Maple Leafs winger Daniel Winnik's wife Taylor have joined the cast of Hockey Wives for Season 2.
Angela Price and Taylor Winnik are among those completing the cast for season two, which debuts Oct. 28 on W. Other new names announced include Paige Getzlaf, wife of Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf, and Ashley Booth, wife of free agent David Booth.
That foursome joins seven previously announced cast members: Fellow newcomers Keshia Chanté (dating Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ray Emery) and Rhianna Weaver (married to Montreal Canadiens defenceman Mike Weaver); and returnees Kodette LaBarbera (married to Anaheim Ducks/Norfolk goalie Jason LaBarbera), Tiffany Parros (married to the retired George Parros), Noureen DeWulf (married to Vancouver Canucks goalie Ryan Miller), Maripier Morin (engaged to Montreal Canadiens winger Brandon Prust) and Martine Forget (engaged to Toronto Maple Leafs goalie Jonathan Bernier).
Hockey Wives takes a behind-the-scenes look at what life is like for the wives, fiancees and girlfriends of NHL players. There certainly can be a glamorous side to it, and a great deal of humour as well. But also it's a world fraught with uncertainty, with every player in the league just an injury or a trade away from having their lives – and the lives of their family members – turned upside down.
The network and producers promise that season two of Hockey Wives will be filled with lots of laughs and plenty of drama, with new contracts, nuptials, new babies, difficult moves to new countries and painful goodbyes.
When you're a cast member on Hockey Wives, training camp never ends.


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Howto: access removable media from andLinux
From andLinux
Accessing removable media from andLinux using COFS
Having instant access to hot pluggable or removable media (such as USB sticks) on andLinux can be tricky. There is no direct way to do so from the UI and users typically have to edit fstab or other configuration files, with mixed success. In addition, automatic mounting is not fully supported and the mounted volume may no longer be accessible to Windows.
Fortunately, there is a solution to that, using Windows itself and the power of NTFS. Like Unix file systems, NTFS supports mount points, which allows a physical drive to be mounted inside an empty directory and its contents seamlessly displayed. This works for USB drives and CD/DVDs as long as the host drive is formatted with NTFS.
Here's how to mount a drive as a directory in Windows XP:
- Insert the external drive or media
- Open Control Panel/Administrative tools
- Open Computer Management
- Select Disk Management in the storage section
- Right-click the desired drive or partition
- Select "Change drive letter and path"
- Add a mount point to an empty NTFS folder
- If you want, you can now remove the drive letter in the previous dialog
andLinux/coLinux having mounted a NTFS partition as cofs will see these subdirectories as genuine NTFS folders. Any automatic volume mounting will be handled by Windows and will be transparent to Linux.
Other low level NTFS features that will show up in mounted cofs partitions are junction points and hard links, which are equivalent to directory symlinks and file hard links in Linux. These features are hidden from the standard UI but can be accessed with free third party tools like Alax.Info NTFS Links.


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Straddling the Rocky Mountains, Colorado has a reputation for awe-inspiring vistas. But the Centennial State has plenty of other attractions for retirees, including plentiful cultural activities, culinary havens, below-average taxes and a climate which offers the best of two worlds (temperate and sunny much of the time, while still dumping plenty of snow on ski resorts).
These attributes have helped make Colorado one of the fastest-growing states in the nation, with a population growth of more than 17% since 2000 to just over 5 million residents, according to U.S. Census estimates. Colorado also has the second lowest obesity rate in the nation, at 20.4%, and retirees often say they are drawn here by an active lifestyle, says Bruce Willard, managing broker for Austin & Austin Real Estate, in Greeley, Colo. "People in Colorado take advantage of all the gifts we have been offered in terms of hiking, fishing, rafting, skiing and our great weather," he adds.
Sue Norris, a 67-year-old retired medical biller, and her sister Jane Drew, a 66-year-old retired ophthalmic nurse, abandoned Glendale, Ariz, often touted as a favorite retirement destination, because of temperatures that climbed up to a fiery 124° F one summer. In 2013, they moved to Greeley, where, even in summer, the average high temperatures are in the 80s to low 90s and humidity is low. "We wanted a return to the four seasons," Norris says.
While overall cost of living is almost 8% higher than the national average, Colorado's state and average local taxes are among the more consumer-friendly in the nation, with an average tax burden of 9.02%, compared with a national average of nearly 10%, according to the Tax Foundation. The state imposes no tax on Social Security and pension income up to $20,000 for retirees under age 65, or on the first $24,000 for those 65 and over.
The state's higher cost of living is driven in part by pricey locations such as bustling, arty college town Boulder and famous ski resort communities such as Vail and Aspen. Boulder's cost of living is 45% higher than the national average and the median home costs $411,000, nearly double the rest of the nation, according to Sperling's Best Places. Living on the slopes requires an even heftier nest egg. Vail has a cost of living 82.5% higher than average and a median home price of $618,500, while Aspen has a cost of living is 157.4% higher than average and median home price of over $1 million.
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She might have gotten away with that, had she not first cut off an unmarked police car in the parking lot while illegally talking on her cellphone, police say.
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Evangelism: Trying to Decide
For He says, "In an acceptable time I have heard you, and in the day of salvation I have helped you." Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation. —2 Corinthians 6:2
This is so desperately a matter of importance for every human being who comes into the world that I first become indignant, and then I become sad, when I try to give spiritual counsel to a person who looks me in the eye and tells me: "Well, I am trying to make up my mind if I should accept Christ or not."
Such a person gives absolutely no indication that he realizes he is talking about the most important decision he can make in his lifetime—a decision to get right with God, to believe in the eternal Son, the Savior, to become a disciple, an obedient witness to Jesus Christ as Lord.
How can any man or woman, lost and undone, sinful and wretched, alienated from God, stand there and intimate that the death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and God's revealed plan of salvation do not take priority over some of life's other decisions? Christ the Eternal Son, 121-122.
"I have a neighbor, Lord, who may soon enter a Christless eternity. Give me boldness to share; give him faith to believe—today! Amen."
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Thirteen-year-old McKenna Pope of Garfield, N.J., met on Monday with officials at the company's Pawtucket, R.I., headquarters.
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has anyone here done rhapsody? a friend of mine has been trying to convince me of it's superiority to itunes and while i'm sure it's cooler, "pay a buck, own a song" is pretty damned easy, and i've found a metric ton of cool stuff there i'd never heard of... how's the selection on rhapsody, if anyone knows?
I had used Rhapsody a little bit because certain things are only available to buy on it. It's kind of a pain, having to keep everything segregated. Each song also comes with an embedded "certificate" or something. You can only move it to different devices up to three times before it is no longer allowed. I got around this by burning it as an audio cd (can't remember how difficult or easy it was to do; it was different) and then playing that cd in the computer and loading it into itunes.
If you've got a lot in itunes already, it's not really worth it to switch and I don't appreciate it when things that shouldn't be are program exclusive. Plus, it's always trying to make itself your primary player. It gets annoying.


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As fans gird themselves for the cataclysmic marital revelations expected to emerge at any moment from the impending divorce of actors Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise, I can only think about the spiritual insanity awaiting little Suri.
Suri, 6, is just one year younger than I was when my parents divorced and decided to leave the choice of my religion to me. We were in process of moving out of New York City to New Jersey. In my case, a religious riff was also in the mix. I became the spiritual football as my parents beat each other up both physically and emotionally.
My maiden name is Goldenthal. My father, God rest him, was Jewish, my mother a Roman Catholic. I celebrated Passover and Easter, Christmas and Hanukkah. My mother gave me a little gold cross and my father bellowed, "If Jesus died today, would you all wear little gold electric chairs around your necks?"
Oy Vey!
It was the 1970s, a crazy time in the church when nuns were suddenly spotted on beaches in bathing suits or singing with a guitar. My mother, partially excommunicated when she married a Jewish man was being reinstated as the divorce took place. The loophole was that the marriage was then considered never to have taken place in the eyes of the church. I was told by my local priest that I was "illegitimate in the eyes of the church."
I didn't understand the term "illegitimate," or much else happening at the time, so I decided to look it up in the dictionary: "not authorized by the law; not in accordance with accepted standards or rules: 'an illegitimate exercise of power by the military;' (of a child) born of parents not lawfully married to each other."
I wasn't a military exercise and I'd seen the wedding pictures, so I mentally morphed the definition, applying it to my immortal future as "spiritually illegitimate." Within a week of that event, at age 7, I was told to choose between the two religions as divorce talk in our home got louder.
It was Mission Impossible – asking a child so young to make that choice.
In the Catholic religion I was rapidly approaching the rite of passage known as First Holy Communion. To this day I can't sort out if my parents actually meant well for what ensued, or if they had made the conscious choice to use me against each other. Now, at age 47, I don't know, don't care.
In my case humor has always been my best defense, so we come to the story of what happened the day my father spiritually weaponized me by taking me to visit the Hillel Yeshiva School and St. Mary's Catholic School, both in New Jersey.
"I told your mother you get to make your own choice about which religion you want to be," he explained as we drove his old metallic brown Plymouth, first to the Jewish school to see the rabbi. On the way he told me about Solomon and the good parent who chose the child's welfare over her own. He was clearly on the role of "good parent" here and it was pretty clear I was expected to be Jewish at the end of the afternoon. No pressure. (Before we left the house mom reminded me of how many presents I got last Christmas. Again, no pressure. Hanukkah meant eight pairs of socks and Christmas was Barbies.)
I was 7 years old and a New Yorker with a massive vocabulary and attitude, yet I was terrified. When the rabbi asked if I had any questions about his religion, I squared my chubby little shoulders, shook my curly brown hair out of my chubby face and asked, "How do I get into Heaven?"
The kindly gentleman gave a little shrug and broke the unfortunate news, "Well, you don't."
I don't? I don't. Was I wearing a sign that said I was spiritually illegitimate? Had word made it in from the Arch Diocese of Trenton that fast?
"Only a child born of a Jewish mother can go to what you think of as Heaven," explained the rabbi.
I remember holding back tears that might have come from humiliation, disappointment or rage. I shot back furiously, "Well Jesus was born to a Jewish mother! And they (Catholics) let you be bad your whole life and if you say sorry at the end you're in! Everybody is in. Not that I'm gonna be bad. Just saying."
Then (with my face burning red with shame) I was led to a small room and given a test of my academic prowess, which I failed in the true spirit of Santa Claus in the film "Miracle on 34th Street." I made sure to spell even my own name wrong.
In the totally silent Plymouth on the way to St. Mary's my father asked, "Why? Why on God's earth would you purposely fail such a basic test? You made me look like an idiot!" At the next light he back-hand slapped me across the face. It couldn't be seen on top of the red already there.
At St. Mary's I passed the tests. I began classes there that fall – a Goldenthal in a sea of O'Kids. I spent more time arguing religion than learning academics. Every time I came home crying, or was sent home for arguing with a nun over whether or not we should associate with "Jews," my father reminded me, "That's what happens when you make the wrong choices in life."
He was right, but the choice was never mine to make. It wasn't kind and it wasn't right. They did make me into a weapon – one set on spiritual self-destruct. I could never fully believe in any religion, having been backstage at two productions my entire life.
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Enjoy bluebird skies by day, incredible starry nights in the evening and a plethora of outdoor activities in some of the most beautiful terrain in the US. This area is the seasonal homes to many rich and famous people including Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet, Tom Hanks and Tony Robinson to name just a few.
Sun Valley was opened as a destination resort in 1936 by Union Pacific Railroad. It is famous for having a perfect pitch mountain face - that is, no flats or plateaus during your run, just pure descent! Soar from a peak of 9,150ft to the base where many of the day lodges are at an elevation of 5,750ft. The longest run is 3 miles and there are a total of 80 runs serviced by 19 lifts including one gondola which opened in 2009-10. The main mountain is Bald Mountain which features 12 lifts (including the gondola) that cover over 2,000 skiable acres. "Baldy", as it is known to locals, also offers a challenging progressive terrain park including a superpipe. For a change of pace you can also enjoy over 25 miles of Nordic skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating and hockey.
Throughout the rest of the year enjoy a variety of activities including golf, horseback riding, biking, hiking, fly fishing and rafting. Golf Digest recently rated Sun Valley as one of the top 75 resort courses. Sun Valley's signature course, Trail Creek, designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. and offers a challenging course for your ego combined with incredible mountain views. A total of 45 holes of golf are offered at Sun Valley with 3 challenging and varied courses. There are a total of 8 courses in the Sun Valley area.
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Study Suggests Light Drinking During Pregnancy Is Okay but Don't Pop the Cork Just Yet
Jun 2012
On the short list of things you have to give up when you get pregnant is your evening glass of wine right? Well some Danish researchers say maybe not.
For their newly released study, published in medical journal BJOG, the researchers surveyed the drinking habits of over 1,500 women and then analyzed their children's intelligence test results.
According to the report, mothers who consumed small amounts of alcohol during the early stages of pregnancy had children with no visible signs of mental problems at age five. Even up to eight drinks per week was not associated with significant mental impairments. The kids whose moms drank nine or more drinks per week, however, were more likely to have lower attention spans.
But before you pop the wine cork, know that the research only observed the children up to the age of five. The researchers themselves warned that their findings aren't proof that light to moderate drinking is safe for baby. "As alcohol is a known teratogen [meaning it causes birth defects], it remains the most conservative advice for women to abstain from alcohol during pregnancy," they said in a release.
And while there has been other research suggesting light drinking may be okay during pregnancy, there are also studies that say no amount of alcohol during pregnancy is proven safe. Sounds like more research needs to be done to reach a real conclusion.
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GREATER SANFORD AREA — Members of several local churches meet at 6:30 p.m. on the second Sunday of each month for "Singspiration," a chance to sing hymns. Anyone who enjoys singing is welcome to attend. "Singspirations" will be held next at the Pleasant Street Free Baptist Church at 10 Pleasant Street in Springvale on Dec. 9.
SPRINGVALE — The Nasson Community Center at 457 Main Street will host a New Year's Eve gala with a buffet, live music and dancing on Dec. 31. Tickets are $45 per person. This event is to benefit the community center. To request more information or to make reservations, please call Pat at www.nassoncc.org.
WELLS — A Holiday Fair and Raffle to benefit York County Shelter Programs will be held on Saturday, Dec. 8, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Hampton Inn at 900 Post Road in Wells. Donations of new, unwrapped toys would be greatly appreciated. For more information, please call Linda at 646-9733.
SANFORD — Curtis Lake Church at 38 Westview Drive serves free community meals every Monday at 5:30 p.m. A church service follows the meal at 6:15 p.m. For more information, call 324-0652.
SANFORD — The American Red Cross will hold a blood drive at the Seacoast Career School on Eagle Drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29.
GREATER SANFORD AREA — Saco HomeHealth Visiting Nurses is holding weekly flu clinics for children and adults at their Saco office at 15 Industrial Park Road on Wednesdays from 2 to 6 p.m. and at their Kennebunk office at 72 Main Street on Fridays from 8 to 11:30 a.m. These clinics will be held now through Nov. 30. For more information, please call 1-800-747-4358 or visit online at www.homehealth.org.
SANFORD — Janine Robichaud is instructing yoga classes for cancer patients and their caregivers at the Cancer Care Center of York County off Route 109 in South Sanford. The healing-inspired yoga classes will be held on Tuesdays from 2 to 3 p.m. Classes are free-of-charge to patients diagnosed with cancer and their caregivers as a result of a generous grant from the Maine Community Foundation. Each week, Robichaud, a certified yoga coach and instructor, will help patients and caregivers navigate through the challenges they are faced with each day by exploring a different level of the healing program. Pre-registration is required. For more information or to register, please contact Janine Robichaud directly at (207) 251-9577.
SPRINGVALE — The Sanford-Springvale Historical Museum at 505 Main St. is open from 2 to 8 p.m. on Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Fridays, and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.
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Capcom shows off the cover to its Marvel VS Capcom 2 hip-hop mixtape today, with a limited-edition vinyl version of the soundtrack up for grabs at the San Diego Comic-Con this week.
As we mentioned back in June, Capcom has teamed up with some of hip-hop's greatest talents to produce a downloadable mixtape, replacing the game's original jazzy soundtrack with something a little easier to fight to. Today they've revealed the cover art for the disc, available in printer-friendly downloadable form over at the Capcom Blog, in case any of you are still hooked on reading your music off of archaic silver discs.
And for those of you even more archaic, Capcom will be offering an extremely limited-edition vinyl copy of the mixtape at its fighting games panel at Comic-Con on Friday from 2:30-3:30 in Room 5AB, noting that it could also be used as a bonus for those buying items at the Capcom booth. Man, my Comic-Con swag battle plan gets more and more complicated every minute.


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ON ARCHITECTURE- Tom already: Construction to begin on Shadyac's shelter
After three years, the vision of Hollywood director/UVA grad Tom Shadyac for a day-shelter along Market Street, is finally becoming a reality.
While filming Evan Almighty in Crozet in 2006, where a giant ark was built near a traffic circle Old Trail Village, Shadyac was living at the Omni hotel on the Downtown Mall, where he noticed a number of homeless people outside.
According to Jim Barns, who founded a would-be shelter called Compass Day Haven, the director befriended several homeless people and even put them up at the Omni.
"He's a religious guy, but he doesn't wear it on his sleeve," says Barns. "Stories of his generosity while he was filming here are legendary."
Shadyac went one step further. In 2006, he purchased the former First Christian Church for $2.1 million.
"I wanted to do something to help," Shadyac says in a release.
Not only did Shadyac purchase the church, he's also funding the renovation of the 9,340-square-foot, 110-year-old Gothic Revival-style building and its simple brick addition, an effort that began in earnest on March 16.
But why has it taken three years?
"The project is extremely large in scope," explains project director Janet Matthews. "It was important to have everything correct before we opened our doors."
If all goes according to plan, Matthews says the facility should be open around Thanksgiving. She declined to reveal the budget but said it will be a "complete renovation" of the interior, including new electrical and HVAC systems. Architect and Board of Architectural Review Board Chair Fred Wolf has the design honors, and construction firm Hale & White will handle the renovation.
Matthews also says it wouldn't technically be a homeless shelter.
"The center will offer a broad set of services to anyone in need," she says. "The whole purpose of the project is to serve the community, and that doesn't just mean the homeless."
The day shelter component will offer a full-service kitchen for free daily breakfast. Plus, there will be showers and laundry facilities, and "plenty of space to allow people to seek refuge both from the natural elements and the harsh realities of everyday life."
There will also be employment counseling, job training services, free medical and mental health screenings, and substance-abuse counseling– as well as space for 12-step groups and instruction in the English language.
As if that weren't enough, the old sanctuary will also play host to events and performances such as theater, poetry readings, debates, and even weddings.
"It will be a very flexible space for the community," says Matthews.
"We wanted to create a place that not only helped to solve immediate problems, but that could help break the cycle of poverty," says Shadyac.
Toward that end, Matthews says they plan to house various local community service organizations and make the church "a home for our partners who are already serving the community."
"For over a hundred years, the church was a sacred space," says Shadyac. "What's more sacred than a community coming together to serve those in need, or to gather to celebrate art, music, or culture?"
While the project has enjoyed widespread support, some suggest it might actually increase homelessness in Charlottesville. One homeless man interviewed by the Hook explains that many homeless consider Charlottesville a "mecca" because of available services and facilities like the Salvation Army, Region Ten, and soup-serving churches.
Given that charitable landscape, what will happen when word gets out about a Hollywood director's new day shelter? For mayor/homeless advocate Dave Norris, it's a non-issue.
"Homeless people are already congregating in the downtown area," says Norris, "and having a day shelter would offer them a more appropriate place to spend time during the day, and access to the resources and services they need to get back on their feet."
Perhaps the most poignant endorsement for what's being called the First Street Church Project came from Charlottesville Police Chief Tim Longo, who mentions in a letter of support to Barns that a family member of his had once been homeless.
"Far too often," Longo wrote, " I encounter persons in our public parks or on our public streets that are without food and shelter. Sometimes, these persons are substance impaired, but more often than not they are simply hungry and in need of human interaction and care."


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The St. Cloud Rox added 11 players to the 2012 roster Wednesday. The players are St. Cloud State's Phil Imholte and Garrett Anderson, Nebraska lefthanded pitcher Zach Hirsch, Minnesota infielder Tony Skjefte, Minnesota righthanded pitcher Ben Meyer, Creighton righthander Andy Urban, Wayne State pitcher Tadd Johnson, California righthander Keaton Siomkin, California infielder Chris Paul, and Ohio catcher J.R. Reynolds. Hirsch, Urban, Johnson and Reynolds played for the St. Cloud River Bats in 2011.
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Jan. 14, 2013
NOTRE DAME, Ind. – University of Notre Dame running back Cierre Wood announced today he will forgo his final season of athletic eligibility and submit his name for the 2013 NFL Draft.
Wood leaves Notre Dame as the seventh-leading rusher in school history, having gained 2,447 yards on 450 career carries. No running back in Notre Dame history with as many career rushes as Wood has a better yards-per-rush average as his 5.4 yards-per-carry average.
"Having to make a decision like whether to stay in school or leave to pursue a lifelong dream of playing in the NFL is never simple," Wood said. "I had to weigh many factors over the last month, but ultimately it came down to what I felt was the right decision that would most benefit my family. With that in mind, I'm leaving Notre Dame and am entering my name for this year's NFL Draft.
"There are so many people I need to thank that have helped get me to this point. My teammates are friends I know I'll have the rest of my life. I'll miss hanging out with them in the locker room and around campus. They are a great group of guys and are poised for success next year.
"I also want to thank all of the coaches, specifically Coach Kelly and Coach Alford. Coach Kelly has the program heading in the right direction and I'm happy to know he'll remain our head coach in the future. Coach Alford has been so much more than a coach to me. He's been a mentor and a role model. He's helped turn me into the man I am today.
"Lastly, I want to thank the school, our fans and the extended Notre Dame family. The love and appreciation you've shown me in my four years can never be repaid. I'll always remember the ovation I received as I ran out of the tunnel on senior day and I can't thank you enough."
Wood became the 16th Notre Dame running back to eclipse 2,000 career rushing yards and his 52 career receptions are tied for eighth all-time among Notre Dame running backs. He started 18 of 37 career games played for the Irish and scored 18 total touchdowns at Notre Dame (16 rushing and two receiving).
"Cierre has been an important member of our football team in my three years at Notre Dame and I appreciate all he did to help get our program back on top," Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly said. "I wish him well in the future and hope he has a successful playing career at the next level."
Wood totaled 742 rushing yards in 2012 and was Notre Dame's second-leading rusher. He averaged 6.5 yards per carry and scored four rushing touchdowns this year. Wood posted a season-best 150 rushing yards on 11 carries on senior day vs. Wake Forest and recorded 114 yards on 18 carries against BYU. Perhaps Wood's most memorable run was the 62-yard touchdown at Oklahoma that gave the Irish a 7-3 lead vs. the Sooners.
In 2011, Wood registered the 16th 1,000-yard rushing season in school history as he paced the Irish with 1,102 yards on 217 rushes and added nine touchdowns. He caught a career-high 27 passes for 189 yards and Wood's 1,291 total yards from scrimmage in 2011 were the ninth most in school history.
After sitting out his freshman season, Wood led the Irish in 2010 with 603 rushing yards and averaged 5.1 yards per carry. He added 20 receptions for 170 yards and two receiving touchdowns and returned 15 kickoffs for 300 yards.
Wood's Place in the Notre Dame Record Books
Career Rushing Yards – 7th, 2,447
Career Receptions by a Running Back – tied 8th, 52
Career Yards from Scrimmage – 9th, 2,831
Career 100-Yard Rushing Games – 12th, 6
Single-Season Yards from Scrimmage – 9th, 1,291 (2011)
Single-Season TD Receptions by a Running Back – tied 9th, 2 (2010)
Single-Season Receptions by a Running Back – 10th, 27 (2011)
Single-Game Yards per Rush – 4th, 13.6 (2012 vs. Wake Forest)


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- Functional (or Transferable) Skills are talents and aptitudes (both natural and those you have developed over time) that are transferable from one situation or job to another. Skills such as communication, interpersonal, managing, organizing, coordinating, writing, and analyzing can be categorized as functional/transferable skills.
- Adaptive Skills are skills that are developed from life experiences such as flexibility, leadership, patience, responsibility, maturity, decisiveness, commitment, enthusiasm, etc. Although these skills are not job or career specific, they are extremely important and very marketable.
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Graduate Council Meeting
May 19, 2003
I. The meeting was called to order at 2:35 p.m.
Voting members and alternates present were: J. Belcher, G. Bernhardt, N. Bourbakis, J. Brandeberry, A. Chamberlain, D. Cole, J. Coleman, J. Gomez-Cambronero, R. Grubbs, C. Holdcraft, M. Kazimierczuk, H. Klein, I. Leffak, S. McConnell, T. McKee, D. Orenstein, L. Ream, E. Self, J. Talbott, S. Thomas, J. Thomas (Chair), R. Williams
Non-voting alternates present were: C.Ryan.
Non-voting attendees were: S. Foster, E. Friese, A. Johnson, J. Kimble, N. Klingbeil, R. Schuster, W. Mase
II. Approval of Minutes:
It was moved and seconded that the minutes of the February 24, 2003 meeting be approved as written. Motion carried unanimously.
III. Report of the Dean (J. Thomas)
The Spring Quarter, 2003 enrollment report indicates an increase over Spring Quarter, 2002 of 5.8 percent in total graduate headcount (3,393 total headcount, an increase of 185 students), and an increase of 10.7 percent in graduate credit hours (21,481 GCH, an increase of 2,075 GCH).
The Graduate Student Excellence Awards Program is scheduled for Wednesday, May 21, at 5:00 PM in the Student Union Atrium. Thirty-seven graduate students will be recognized as outstanding in their programs. Five 2002-2003 Graduate Council Scholars will also be recognized.
Dean Thomas presented lists of members of the Policies, Membership, and Student Affairs Committees and the Research Council thanking each for a productive year.
IV. Committee Reports
· Policies Committee (C. Ryan)
The Policies Committee reviewed and approved a new concentration in the Master of Music degree program. The new concentration is in Performance and will be offered in addition to the current concentration in Music Education. D. Orenstein presented an overview of the new concentration to the Graduate Council. The Performance concentration will have emphases in choral and instrumental conducting and instrumental, piano, and vocal performance.
The Policies Committee reviewed and approved a new concentration in the MBA program, an Executive MBA to be offered in China. Initially, two cohorts are planned to begin the program in China during the coming academic year. WSU RSCoB faculty members will travel to China to teach the classes, in sequence in a concentrated format. Additionally, a trial cohort may undertake the program on the WSU campus. R. Williams presented the rationale for the program to include international economic development opportunities for the faculty.
The Policies Committee recommended approval of a new Master of Public Health degree. The full proposal has been reviewed by a Reading Committee with representatives from six colleges and recommended to the Policies Committee. Previously, a Program Development Plan had been reviewed statewide by RACGS providing useful input to the full proposal preparation process. An Executive Summary was distributed to the Graduate Council and is attached to the minutes. R. Schuster, Department of Community Health, presented an overview of the new degree program emphasizing the involvement of the regional public health community. It was moved and seconded that the new program be approved; the motion passed unanimously. The Proposal will now be presented to Faculty Senate, the Board of Trustees, and then to the Ohio Board of Regents.
· Student Affairs Committee (N. Klingbeil)
The Student Affairs Committee announced their selection for the Graduate Council Scholars Program. The Scholars receive a $12,000 stipend and tuition scholarship for up to two years. Two students were selected through the accelerated process and three were selected by the Committee. The selected students are in the following programs: Chemistry, Biomedical, Industrial, and Human Factors Engineering, Classroom Teacher, School of Professional Psychology, and English.
· Membership Committee (R. Grubbs)
The Committee brought forward six nominations for full graduate faculty membership.
The full member nominees are:
Frank Ciarallo, Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science
Raymond Hill, Biomedical, Industrial & Human Factors Engineering, College of Engineering and Computer Science
Cheryl Meyer, School of Professional Psychology
Brenda Mobley, School of Professional Psychology
John Rudisill, School of Professional Psychology
LaPearl Winfrey, School of Professional Psychology
It was moved and seconded that the nominees be approved. Motion passed unanimously.
V. Research Report (E. Friese)
As of April 2003, external funding has increased $1.6 million dollars since July 2002.
The Research Council Research Incentive Program funded three Research Initiation proposals for a total of $30,000 and eight Professional Development proposals for a total of $22,449. Results of the Major Collaboration grants are due soon. Technology Commercialization grant proposals are under review.
Letters of Intent for "Third Frontier" proposals (Ohio Biomedical Research Technology Partnership awards, Wright Centers of Innovation, dual BRTT/WCI, and Ohio Eminent Scholars Program) for FY 2004 are due June 6, 2003.
The Ohio Board of Regents Hayes Investment Fund proposals for 2003-04 are due June 9, 2003. Wright State is listed as a partner on nine final proposals.
New Facilities and Administrative (F & A) cost rates are effective July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2007, as follows:
on campus research: 43.5%, off campus research: 26%, on campus other sponsored activities: 28%, off campus other sponsored activities: 21%.
The Research and Sponsored Programs New Faculty Orientation is scheduled for October 23, 2003.
VI. New Business
J. Kimble presented the concept of converting the Graduate Catalogue to an electronic format effective with the 2004-2006 catalogue. Each college/school dean was requested to delegate a representative to offer input to this concept. The catalogue will be up-dated on a quarterly basis, as needed. A limited number of hard copies will be available. The change to an electronic format will be more cost effective than hard copies. J. Coleman commented that catalogs will still need to be available for a particular date to review student degree requirements. This will be done. G. Bernhardt asked if this increased the college workload? J. Thomas responded that the work to implement changes is simply spread out over the nominal two-year catalog period.
VII. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:15 p.m.