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Lexi's been watching toy unboxing videos on YouTube for a little while now. Her favourite seems to be Disney Car Toys, and just recently, she's discovered EvanTubeHD recently. Yes, the same kid that makes 1.3 million dollars a year off YouTube. That's no small amount of Mr. Potato Heads!
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- 6 medium sweet potatoes
- 1 can (8 ounces) crushed pineapple, drained
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 3 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions:Pierce sweet potatoes with a fork. Bake at 400 degrees for 50 to 55 minutes or until tender. Cool slightly. Remove pulp from potatoes, keeping the skins intact. In a bowl combine the pulp with pineapple, orange juice, butter, and salt. Refill potato shells and place in a greased 13x9x2-inch baking dish. Bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes or untill heated through.
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Our Mutual LoveWe sit at the Yamaha upright in a moment of interruption, which happens frequently during our lessons. Our eyes move from the page of the Schubert Fantasy in F Minor for one piano, four hands — I play primo; Heather, secondo — to our Dutch coach, Jeannette Koekkoek, who, though in her early 40s, has a mouthful of pastel-colored braces. They complement her punk haircut, which is an entirely faux shade of blonde.Jeannette drapes herself over the piano and leans into our faces, up close and personal. The piano is in a deconsecrated 14th-century Tuscan chapel made of stone, brick, and wood beams. Stone and brick make lovely chapels, but they are acoustic horrors — the reverberation when we play is deafening."You know what is your problem?" Jeannette quizzes, glaring through her granny glasses. Heather and I smile, amused at the thought of having just one problem."It is you are too nice girls," she says. Two nice girls. I try to decode what sounds like a cheesy pickup line. I am 48; Heather will be 48 next month. If a guy said something like this, I'd think he'd had a few too many."Here, in this passage, you must play fiercely! You must not be too nice," Jeannette explains, thrusting her face between Heather and me. "Be mean girls!""I see what you are saying," Heather says, smiling. As a psychoanalyst, she is good at understanding submerged meanings. "Again?" she asks me.We rip into the notes this time, accelerate maniacally through the fugue, and arrive at the last iteration of the sad theme that weaves throughout the piece. The mood shifts from intense drama to haunting poignancy. Then it's over, decaying notes hanging in the air. I glance at Heather, who is looking meditatively at her hands, now folded in her lap. As if she feels my glance, she turns and we give each other a huge hug.Secrets of Musical SisterhoodMusic has been a part of our lives since childhood, but for the past decade, playing duets has been a unifying aspect of our friendship, the way some friends take up tennis or go shopping. We were 14 when Heather and I met at New York's High School of Performing Arts. Music was our refuge from unhappy homes. To practice the piano was to block out pain and create an expressive release.We both left the school before senior year — I to attend college early, Heather to move with her family to Florida — and we lived hundreds of miles from each other for decades. We rarely spoke in those years, but now that our children are grown and our lives are more flexible, we have been meeting regularly for duet lessons in our home states of North Carolina and Rhode Island. It was my teacher in Providence, Arlene Cole, who first noted that many of the challenges still facing us had nothing to do with music, but with our approach to it. "You play too pianistically," she pronounced with typical music teacher candor. "This is not a solo performance, and you are not prima donnas; you need to make room for each other and play as one."Duets, like any relationship, require expanded awareness, and we hadn't considered what happens when two are seated on one piano bench. So when I learned of a chamber music workshop for amateur musicians in Monte San Savino in Tuscany, I took Arlene's advice to heart and persuaded Heather to enlist with me. It seemed, on some level, deserved, the result of having lived so long doing things for others. At last my children were independent. At last I felt sure enough at work to take time off guiltlessly. At last I had the financial wherewithal. Playing Schubert in Italy became my reward.The day before the weeklong workshop started, my husband, Harold, and I flew into Florence and caught a train to Arezzo, the city closest to Monte San Savino. Heather had already arrived, and the three of us walked the city's steep streets in the golden late-afternoon light, stumbling upon the birthplace of Guido d'Arezzo, the medieval monk who is credited with developing modern musical notation. Harold photographed us in front of Guido's house, my arm around Heather, both of us smiling at the idea of playing in an idyllic hilltop castello surrounded by olive groves.The Dance of a DuetBefore she plays a piece, Heather studies the score and writes in fingerings. My style is to plunge in, ignoring classic piano rules about practicing methodically before putting it all together in slow motion.
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MEDINA — The Medina County Port Authority issued $14.4 million in bonds for the countywide fiber-optic loop project just in time for Thursday's deadline to use the stimulus-funded Recovery Zone Bonds.
Bethany Dentler, administrator of the Port Authority, said many other projects were vying for buyers for the bonds. "We ran into a couple of challenges toward the end of the year, mostly because there were a lot of other projects going to market at the end of the year. So it took longer than we anticipated," she said.
Each county in Ohio had a set amount of the low-interest bonds to allocate to local projects. Earlier this year, county commissioners allocated about $13.9 million of the bonds for the fiber-optic project.
Dentler said pre-engineering for the fiber loop already has been done by One Community, the Cleveland nonprofit that will be constructing the loop. Construction is expected to start in March and be complete in early 2012.
The project involves building a 151-mile, 144-strand fiber loop throughout the county that would provide high-bandwidth connections for businesses and local governments. The Port Authority would own the loop, but private businesses and public entities like schools and libraries would lease access.
The fees such entities pay will be used to pay off the Recovery Zone bonds.
Ron Paydo, chair of the Medina County Port Authority, said in a release Thursday that more than a dozen clients have made commitments to subscribe to the fiber loop.
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The thunderstorms held off, no one got injured and Highland's baseball team had the good fortune of avoiding a meeting with powerful Cuyahoga Falls Walsh Jesuit until Friday.
Other than that, there wasn't a whole lot of immediate positive news for the Hornets, who fell 17-0 in five innings in the Tiffin Division II Regional championship at Heminger Field.
"Knowing this is my last high school game and I just lost 17-0 is not a good feeling at all,†senior Brenton Krivos said.
Things went so badly for the Hornets in their two-touchdown-and-a-field-goal loss they were actually behind by a safety, 2-0, before the game was even supposed to kick off.
With a stiff wind blowing, the threat of thunderstorms looming and both teams ready to go — or at least Highland thought it was ready to go — tournament officials began the contest about 10 minutes prior to its scheduled 2 p.m. start.
The Warriors quickly put up a two-spot, and by the end of the day their score by innings looked like a zip code — 27125. Highland, meanwhile, dialed "O†for five straight frames.
Walsh also beat Highland 11-1 and 10-1 during the regular season, meaning it won three games by a cumulative score of 38-2, but the Hornets took no great solace in losing to what was indisputably a better team.
"As a competitor, you feel like you can go out there and beat them every single time you play them,†Hornets senior Reese Montesano said. "It stings. I hate losing, especially to these guys. They come out expecting to win. I wanted to give them something they could cower about. It just hurts.â€
It might have hurt even worse, but Walsh, which used 17 players in all, began substituting freely in the top of the fourth inning.
"They're the best of the best,†Highland senior Jeff Avena said. "I think they're going to be state champions. That's what I'm banking on right now.â€
The Warriors (26-3) may do exactly that, but the Hornets (15-13) have no reason to apologize for their season after reaching the regional championship for the second straight year.
"It might take a little while (for it to sink in),†Krivos said, "but we had a great season.â€
To put what the five seniors on the roster — Krivos, Montesano, Avena, Cory Johnston and John Valentic — helped the Hornets accomplish, consider that Highland's varsity was 1-21 when they were in eighth grade.
That was Jeff Rollyson's first year as coach, but once his players bought into his theory of playing intelligent baseball with a hard-nosed attitude and solid work ethic, the program took off.
The Hornets went 12-15 in 2005, 15-10 in '06, 23-9 last year and won eight of their last 10 games to finish 15-13 in '08. Over those four seasons, Highland won 12 tournament games, including four in 2007 and five this year.
"It was nice getting back to this point,†Montesano said. "It all came together at once, but today we just met a helluva team.â€
The no-geographic-boundary Warriors, who got two home runs from Kevin Emmandorfer, are certainly a great team.
Walsh definitely didn't need any help from Highland, but the Hornets, who played so brilliantly in their previous postseason games, were in a giving mood.
When Montesano reached first on a walk to start the bottom of the first, he was promptly picked off.
What should have been a Walsh sacrifice bunt turned into a bases-loaded situation when pitcher Bryce Sedio unwisely tried to get an out at third.
A comebacker to the mound that should have been an easy out at the plate turned into a run when Johnston threw to third instead of running directly at the hung-up runner.
With the Hornets already down 10-0 heading into the bottom of the third, Rollyson chanted, "Let's play seven,†a plea for his team to avoid falling victim to the 10-run mercy rule.
Anthony Petrilla promptly led off with an infield hit, only to get picked off on a missed bunt attempt.
It was that kind of miserable day for the Hornets, but that should not — and will not — detract from another outstanding tournament run by an outstanding group of young men.
"Today we didn't do it,†Krivos said, "but no one expected us to be here.â€
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Israel-US Recipes: Trout in Herbs
Delicately seasoned, the fish is at its best.
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דג דגים בישול מתכון מטבח
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2 whole trout, opened
3 tbs. olive oil
1/4 c. fresh basil leaves
1/4 c. tarragon leaves
1/4 c. thyme leaves
1 grated lemon, 1 garlic clove
1/4 c. walnuts
coarse salt, freshly ground black pepper
Grate the leafy herbs in a food processor, add grated lemon, garlic and olive oil. Towards the end add the nuts so they remain in small pieces. Brush the paste on the inside of the fish, add the salt and pepper.
Place the fish on a roasting grate with the skin facing down, and bake at 160 C (325 F) for 12 minutes.
Suggested accompaniments: Yams, potatoes, broccoli.
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DRIVECLUB is being built as a game that will provide players with plenty of replay value, and isn't just a one time play through. DLC is always a way of accomplishing this, but Evolution Studios may have more in mind when it comes to the future of the game.
DRIVECLUB will be launching in a few short months for the PS4, and fans who want to stick around in this world will want more new content. DRIVECLUB Game Director Paul Rustchynsky remarked on the future plans the team has for DRIVECLUB.
"We've always viewed it as a game that will evolve over time, growing with its players in the same way that you see the most popular social networks grow with their users.
"We've already got lots of innovative ideas to extend the experience and we've already announced the powerful dynamic weather system we've been working on, which is just one of the ways we'll be expanding the game. We have more lined up to unveil in the coming weeks and months, too," Rustchynsky said.
A second screen experience can absolutely enhance a game, but for a racer, it's a bit harder to execute. Rustchynsky confirmed that the game will not have a second screen option and why that is.
"We experimented with ideas like this and found that they don't tend to work out as well as you'd hope, because of latency, or where you'd put your tablet while racing so you can still see where you're going; for one reason or another, most don't work out," Rustchynsky said.
Second screen aside, DRIVECLUB has plenty to offer players, especially from a connected, social standpoint. Players will be able to connect with friends and fellow racers like never before. It'll be interesting to see how the connected features of DRIVECLUB factor into the overall product. We'll finally get our hands on DRIVECLUB when it launches on Oct. 7 exclusively for the PS4.
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Evaluation of the association of prostate cancer-specific anxiety with sexual function, depression and cancer aggressiveness in men 1 year following surgical treatment for localized prostate cancer
Version of Record online: 1 AUG 2012
DOI: 10.1002/pon.3138
Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Volume 22, Issue 6, pages 1328–1335, June 2013
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Tavlarides, A. M., Ames, S. C., Diehl, N. N., Joseph, R. W., Castle, E. P., Thiel, D. D., Broderick, G. A. and Parker, A. S. (2013), Evaluation of the association of prostate cancer-specific anxiety with sexual function, depression and cancer aggressiveness in men 1 year following surgical treatment for localized prostate cancer. Psycho-Oncology, 22: 1328–1335. doi: 10.1002/pon.3138
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- Manuscript Accepted: 28 JUN 2012
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- Manuscript Received: 12 MAR 2012
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- prostate cancer;
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Cancer-specific anxiety (CSA) can affect treatment decisions and is common in men following surgery for prostate cancer (PCa). We hypothesized that CSA is also associated with factors affecting quality of life. Herein, we examine the association of CSA with psychosocial factors and PCa aggressiveness in a cohort of men 1 year after prostatectomy for localized PCa.
From our prospective PCa Registry, we identified 365 men who underwent prostatectomy for localized PCa who completed the Memorial Anxiety Scale for Prostate Cancer (MAX-PC) and Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite at 1-year follow-up. We evaluated the association of scores on the MAX-PC with demographics, clinicopathologic features, sexual function, and depression scores using Wilcoxon Rank Sum and Kendall's tau correlation tests.
Higher scores on the MAX-PC (i.e., higher anxiety) are associated with younger age (p < 0.01) and non-Caucasian race (p < 0.01). Men with higher MAX-PC scores also reported poor sexual satisfaction/function (p < 0.01) and increasing depressive symptoms (p < 0.01). Finally, although higher anxiety is associated with several pathologic features of aggressiveness (stage, positive margins, PSA at 1 year; all p-values < 0.01), we noted several men with clinically indolent disease who reported significant anxiety.
Our data suggest that higher levels of CSA are associated with poor sexual function and increased depressive symptoms 1 year after prostatectomy. Moreover, we noted demographic and pathologic features associated with higher CSA as well. If confirmed, our data support development of models to predict men at high risk of CSA following PCa surgery and targeted referral for additional counseling. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


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Following on from the success its show jumping day on July 19, 2008, Aberdeenshire Equestrian is delighted to announce a Show Jumping Gala Day, which will take place on Saturday September 13, 2008.
This event will be a qualifier for Keith Country Show 2009 – details are on the schedule. Please note that advanced entries are being taken for this event and cost just £5 per class. Entries on the day are welcome, but will cost £7.50 per class. For a copy of the schedule, click here or visit: www.aberdeenshireequestrian.co.uk Sunday September 14, 2008 is the centre's Dressage Gala Day, with a total of 10 classes. For a schedule, click here.
This gala weekend will finalise the summer events schedule at Aberdeenshire Equestrian and the success of what the centre does is reliant on riders attending. Aberdeenshire Equestrian would sincerely like to thank all of those who have come along during the summer months to support them. They have had a truly fantastic response and are extremely grateful for the commitment and support given to us from the equestrian community in the north east of Scotland. So a big THANK YOU from the centre.
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12.03.2009 / Posting by Adam Carriker, Former NU Player 2003-2006
Happy Holidays Husker fans. Adam Carriker checking in with another blog entry.
Big 12 North Champions!!! It sounds good to say it. It definitely made my Thanksgiving weekend more enjoyable watching the Huskers beat up Colorado and lock up the Big 12 North Championship. It is a great achievement that Nebraska hasn't been able to enjoy for a while, but I am thrilled that we can make that claim once again. I have some family from Colorado and it makes it even sweeter knowing we beat them. They were in town for Thanksgiving and I was able to rub it in a little. Colorado and their fans really put a lot of weight on our annual game with them. From what I've heard, they have rules that you can't wear red inside the athletic department all week and other stuff like that. We beat them both my junior and senior seasons and I played one of my best games against the Buffalos getting two sacks and forcing a safety in 2006.
I am really happy for the players who have worked so hard this year. It was great seeing a lot of the guys while I was back in town for the Oklahoma game a couple of weeks ago. I know many of them weren't too sure of how things were going to play out after all of the uncertainty of a couple of years ago, but Coach Pelini and his staff have done such an awesome job in such a short period of time. You can tell that the players really believe in the message the coaching staff is preaching and all the hard work they put in during the offseason, in practice and the film room is paying off. The defense has especially played "lights out" this year and once again came through big at Colorado. It seems like I say the same thing every week but the pressure they get upfront from the four down linemen is relentless. It's crazy what they have been able to do despite the game planning and double teams that other teams throw at them. I also thought the play of Alex Henery was huge... pinning Colorado deep in their own territory for most of the game. To have a weapon like that on special teams, really helps out a defense.
This week, the "Blackshirts" get their showdown with the top offense in the Big 12 and Heisman Trophy candidate Colt McCoy. I really think they match up well against the Longhorns and I expect Nebraska will be the toughest opponent that Texas has seen all year. I wish I could be there for the game. It should be a great atmosphere in Dallas at the new stadium and Nebraska fans should show up big. The key is containing Colt McCoy and not giving him a lot of wiggle room to get outside of the pocket and make plays on the run. If they can keep Colt contained and get a good surge up the middle of the field I think the Huskers will have a shot. I also don't put a lot of stock in the fact that the national media doesn't think we can move the ball. The coaches will have a game plan that suits the flow and style of the game. Expect the Huskers to hang tough against Texas. I know they want this bad.
Go Big Red... see you at the bowl game!
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Men's Tennis Dominates Chicago State, 6-1
Oct. 9, 2003
Chicago, Ill.- In their first and only dual match of the fall, the UIC men's tennis team stormed into Chicago State University and took eight of nine matches to defeat the Cougars, 6-1, on Wednesday afternoon.
The Flames were led by sophomore Paul Glendenning, who scored crisp victories in his No. 2 singles match against Dejan Avramovic, 6-2, 6-1, and his No. 1 doubles match with partner Karol Zarucki against the Cougars' tandem of Danai Samuriwo and Amit Wadhwani, 8-2.
UIC swept the three doubles matches to earn the doubles point while taking five of six singles contests. The lone blemish resulted from Samuriwo's victory against Zarucki at No. 1 singles in a back-and-forth match, 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), 10-5.
Sophomore Pat Zufan teamed with newcomer Sean Kreymborg to defeat Avramovic and Rajneesh Ali, 8-1, while junior Ken Howrey and sophomore Yevgen Ryeznik each scored strong singles wins.
The Flames are back in action on Thursday, October 23 for the ITA Regional Championships in Lansing, Mich.
Wednesday's Results
UIC def. Chicago State, 6-1
#1. Zarucki/Glendenning (UIC) def. Samuriwo/Wadhwani (CSU), 8-2
#2. Kreymborg/Zufan (UIC) def. Avramovic/Ali (CSU), 8-1
#3. Howrey/Ryeznik (UIC) won by default
#1. Danai Samuriwo (CSU) def. Karol Zarucki (UIC), 5-7, 7-6 (7-3), 10-5
#2. Paul Glendenning (UIC) def. Dejan Avramovic (CSU), 6-2, 6-1
#3. Ken Howrey (UIC) def. Amit Wadhwani (CSU), 6-1, 6-1
#4. Yevgen Ryeznik (UIC) def. Rajneesh Ali (CSU), 6-0, 6-0
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Marlins optioned LHP Edgar Olmos to Double-A Jacksonville.
Corey Seager is getting the day off Monday against the Pirates.
D.J. LeMahieu left Sunday's game against the Diamondbacks with a bruised left knee.
Gerrit Cole (triceps) threw off a mound on Sunday for the first time since going on the disabled list.
Adrian Gonzalez will sit for the second straight game Monday against the Pirates.
According to John Perrotto of FanRag Sports, the Pirates aren't looking to shop Andrew McCutchen until the offseason.
David Freese walloped a three-run double in the second inning on Sunday, leading the Pirates to a 4-3 victory over Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers.
Mark Reynolds blasted a walk-off two-run homer on Sunday, powering the Rockies to a 9-7 victory over the Diamondbacks.
Conor Gillaspie hit a walkoff RBI double in the bottom of the ninth inning as the Giants beat the Phillies 8-7 on Sunday afternoon in San Francisco.
Matt Carpenter blasted a pair of bombs at Safeco Field on Sunday, helping to power the Cardinals to an 11-6 victory over the Mariners.
Bud Norris was superb in Sunday's 5-2 win over the Mets, hurling seven innings of shutout ball.
Tanner Roark fired seven shutout innings Sunday in the Nationals' 3-2 defeat of the Brewers.


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when I get the time I'll upload the disc with replaced WADs to MediaFire. I still think it's pretty cool that I got them to install. 0.o .
You should use ios9-v516
Or perhaps ios16-v257 or ios36-v1042 installed as ios3.
By don't see any difference, I meant that I don't notice anything different after installing these DevCerts. I'll try booting up a game and see if that does anything.
I wonder if IOS4 is a better fit in place of IOS3... I have an IOS4-v3 WAD (yes it's real, it's from one of the leaked RVT-R discs).
Interesting read. I've just installed IOS9 (v1034) to IOS3 with Multi-Mod Manager and dumped it with BlueDump.
I don't know if it'll be of any help, but here it is. :)


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The expansion brings the total number of GLIAC schools to 14 full members and two affiliate members. Lake Erie and Ohio Dominican were granted membership June 2009.
"This marks a very important day regarding the growth of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference," GLIAC commissioner Dell Robinson said in a statement. "The addition of these two institutions continues to align us with our strategic planning goals."
Lake Erie is a 1,200-student college in Painesville, Ohio, that offered 20 varsity sports last year. Ohio Dominican, in Columbus, Ohio, offers 14 sports and has 3,100 undergraduate students.
Saginaw Valley State will play Lake Erie football at home Sept. 18. Northwood will play at Ohio Dominican Sept. 11.


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A short journal about the restart of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, December, 2009
University of Colorado physicists are among the several thousand from around the world who participate in research with the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) now coming into operation at CERN, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. When fully operational the LHC will supply a handful of detector facilities with data that may answer questions such as how does matter assume mass, and what is the nature of the dark matter in the universe. Professor Bill Ford and graduate student Bernadette Heyburn are two of the Colorado group in the CMS collaboration, whose name is derived from the shorthand description of their detector, "Compact Muon Solenoid." Here they provide a first-hand account of their impressions upon jumping into the thick of the action as the LHC collider delivered its first proton collisions to CMS in December.
Graduate students Bernadette Heyburn (left) Brian Drell and in the CMS detector hall in 2007, during the assembly of CMS.
(Bernadette) Sunday Dec 6, I get a call from my brother in Portland, OR at 4:30 AM to make sure I'm awake. I take the tram and bus to the main CERN site, so I can catch the 6:15 shuttle to Point 5 (CMS, five miles away on the far side of the LHC ring) for my 7:00 shift. The control room is especially crowded - incoming and outgoing shifts are both present, plus several experts for each subdetector. My particular responsibility as a "shifter" is for the pixel subdetector, a very fine "camera" that sits closest to the collision point. We want to be sure that if any issues arise during this exhilarating new period of collisions, we can fix them right away. I spend my time checking DQM (data quality monitoring) plots, monitoring voltages, currents, and temperatures, checking the data files, etc. There are at least four other pixel people here, all experts.
(Bill) At 9:00 AM I'm just off the plane at Geneva airport. In the rental car shuttle I hear second-hand from one of the Fermilab postdocs that we've had collisions since 5:00 AM. An hour later I'm sitting in the CERN cafeteria with my laptop. I see that the run in progress has been going since 6:00 AM.
(Bernadette) At 10:00 I receive an email from an old friend who is watching the LHC Portal Page from Los Angeles. Even non-physicists are anxious! At 10:40 the run stops as we have lost Beam 2. Forty minutes later, we notice that the temperatures of the pixel detector are rising and that we have lost one of the cooling plants. We power off the detector completely as a safety measure. The cooling issue is soon fixed and we return low-voltage power to the pixel detector and wait for more stable beams.
The example posted by Kevin, Brian, and Keith of an event with a K0 (K-short) reconstructed from the pair of pions into which it decayed. The detector elements with signals are shown in yellow, the particle trajectories reconstructed from these in green, and that of the candidate K0 in red. The outer green circle bounding the tracking detector has a radius of about 1 meter.
(Bill) The K0 e-mail reaches me at the CERN cafeteria, where I'm still waiting for my room in the hostel to be ready. Jim H., also just flown in from the U.S., is frantically searching for 2-jet events. The balance of the jets' energies will give a measure of how well the calorimeters are working.
(Bernadette) After shift at 3:00 PM, the shuttle back to CERN is full, and although we are tired, we are all chatting away at what an interesting day it had been. Back at the main CERN site, I go to the cafeteria for an early dinner and to see all the people in town for CMS Week!
(Bill) Monday, Dec. 7, start of the CMS week collaboration meeting. The first talk describing the experience in operating the LHC collider exudes admiration at how well the instrumentation describes the properties of the beams, and how well these agree with the calculations from the model. Then come the reports from collaboration management, subdetector conveners, the computing guy, the safety guy. I keep seeing those pictures of K0 mesons, tracker efficiency, a new one of lambda baryons, and many others produced by our collaborators. A nice 2-jet event is shown (not Jim's actually, but someone else's).
Postdocs Mauro Dinardo (left) and Keith Ulmer in the CMS detector hall during the assembly of CMS. The central part of CMS is in the background.
Tuesday, Dec. 8. At breakfast Sridhara reminds us that we're getting data at a rate one billionth of what it will be when the machine works at its design energy and intensity. The energy of the collisions we're studying is a sixteenth of the collider's design energy, and half that of the long-running Fermilab Tevatron collider in Illinois. So let's not get carried away; we still have a lot of work to do.
(Bernadette) Friday Dec 11. My last shift and it's a good one! In the morning we run with 5x5 bunches at a relatively high intensity, but unfortunately the CMS solenoid is only at partial strength. We have a small problem with the cooling, but it is fixed within minutes and the pixel detector remains in a stable, cooled state. There's a small break for a couple of hours, and then the LHC starts to inject again (4x4 bunches). I won a bottle of champagne for having the most shifts for the pixels, which I plan to share with my colleagues later!
(Bill) Wednesday, Dec. 16 - back in Colorado. Over the past few days the LHC has finished its work for 2009, before taking a breather for the holidays, with some data at energy a bit higher than Fermilab's. We can now claim to hold the energy record for a man-made machine.
The distribution made by Kevin, Brian, and Keith of the reconstructed mass of pion pairs. The appearance of the sharp peak just below 0.5 GeV corresponds to the decay of a K0 (K-short), whose mass is known to be 0.497 Ge.
The CERN laboratory is the European center for research in elementary particles based on the study of reactions of protons or electrons from high-energy accelerators. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the laboratory's latest project, under design and construction since about 1990. When fully operational it will store protons in counter-circulating beams with energy of 7 TeV (7 trillion electron volts). The beams are confined by superconducting magnets to the inside of a vacuum pipe of a few centimeters cross section traversing a 27-kilometer diameter circle, deep underground straddling the Swiss-French border near Geneva. The two beams collide at several locations around the ring, at which experiments are set up.
The colliding protons react to produce elementary particles such as pions, kaons, protons, neutrons, electrons, muons, etc. The experiments are performed with detectors that can sample the trajectories of some of these particles, measuring their speeds (or more precisely, their momenta) by how much they bend in the magnetic field of a solenoid coil; others are detected more crudely by the splash of photons, electrons, and other debris produced when they react violently with matter (or for muons, by their lack of strong interaction with matter). Six detectors at LHC are in place, each designed with unique features and goals.
High on the list of potential discoveries at the LHC is the Higgs boson. The theory ("standard model") of particle physics states that all matter is built of fundamental "fermion" particles (quarks and leptons), which come in a dozen flavors. These include electrons, and the "up"- and "down"-quarks of which protons and neutrons are made. The interactions of these particles are mediated by half a dozen "boson" particles, such as the photon (quantum of light). But in this theory the matter particles can only attain mass through the action of a hypothetical boson, Higgs, which has yet to be seen experimentally. The Higgs is predicted to appear within our reach by most any reasonable extrapolation of current knowledge.
Extensions of the standard model to higher energies lead to theoretical difficulties that are solved in some theories by the introduction of a family of hypothetical objects known as SUperSYmetry (SUSY) particles. The LHC experiments will also search for these. Among them would be a candidate for the dark matter in the universe.
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector is one of the experimental facilities within CERN. Currently fourteen members of the physics department at the University of Colorado are among the collaborators that contribute to its research program. The CU participants are
faculty: John Cumalat, Bill Ford, Uriel Nauenberg, Jim Smith, Kevin Stenson, Steve Wagner
Also mentioned in the journal:
CMS has a diameter of 15 meters, length of 21 meters, and has around 100 million electronics readout channels. Its main subdetectors are (1) the "tracker", silicon pixel and silicon strip cylinders and disks nearest the beam line, which are used to measure where the various charged particles originated, and by their curvature in the magnetic field, their momentum; (2) the superconducting coil and iron return yoke (12,000 tonnes worth) that provide the magnetic field; (3) "ECAL", sampling calorimeter optimized for electron and photon location and energy measurement; (4) "HCAL", sampling calorimeter optimized for hadron location and energy measurement; (5) ionization detectors embedded in the return yoke to measure the trajectories of muons; (6) electronics, over and above the readout circuits of each subdetector, to collect all the data, and to decide which are valuable enough to keep.
Perhaps it's not too surprising that such a device would require approximately 2000 physicists, plus nearly as many engineers and support staff, to assemble, operate, calibrate, and maintain it. These come from 180 institutions in 40 countries. The Colorado group is particularly concerned with the pixel tracking detector.
The LHC started its maiden run in September 2008. Beams were made to circulate in the machine with remarkable ease. But very soon thereafter, during tests to bring a section of the magnet ring toward its design energy, an electrical connection in the superconducting circuit failed, creating thermal runaway that boiled a large volume of liquid helium coolant and caused extensive mechanical damage. About 14 months elapsed before repairs, and the installation of new protection systems, were completed. The 2009-10 run plan calls for a much more gradual approach to full operation of the LHC. The first circulating beams were achieved on November 20, 2009.
Some of the pictures described in the journal appear in one of the semi-monthly CMS Times newsletters from the December run period.
Point 5, the site on the LHC ring at which the CMS detector sits. It's about 5 miles away from the main CERN site, across the ring.
CMS center: A satellite control room for CMS, at the main CERN site.
event: A pattern of signals from the detector within a narrow time window that meets pre established criteria for recording, normally corresponding to the reaction of a particular proton in one LHC beam with one in the opposing beam.
hadron: a particle that is affected by strong (nuclear) forces, or interactions. Among these are protons and neutrons.
meson: a hadron that can be created or destroyed (may act as a quantum of force).
baryon: a hadron that cannot be created or destroyed, except as one of a pair with an anti-baryon; proton, neutron, and quark are examples.
pion, or pi meson, is the lightest hadron. kaon is a bit heavier (about half the mass of a proton).
K0 (neutral kaon) is a meson that decays into two pions (also called a K-short). It has no electric charge, so leaves no track in the detector. But the two (charged) pions from the decay do leave tracks.
pi0 (neutral pi meson) is so short-lived that it travels no measurable distance before decaying into a pair of photons (quanta of light).
Lambda hyperon: a baryon, a bit heavier than a neutron.
muon: a lepton, a particle much like an electron but with mass 200 times greater.
Fermilab: The Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois; central facility for accelerator-based particle physics in the United States.
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Stocks Finish Mixed After European Elections
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Stocks barely budged Monday as Wall Street reacted with restraint to the shifting political landscape in Europe following weekend elections in France and Greece.
The subdued response implies that investor worries about efforts to instill austerity in the eurozone as well as long-term questions about the overall stability of the single-currency bloc were already priced in to a large extent.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down nearly 30 points, or 0.23%, to finish at 13,008.53. The blue-chip index sank as low as 12,970 earlier in the session.
The S&P 500 was up slightly less than half a point, or 0.04%, to close at 1369.58, and the Nasdaq advanced 1.4 points, or 0.05%, to settle at 2958.
Breadth within the Dow finished mildly negative with 17 of the index's 30 components moving lower. The biggest percentage losers among the blue chips were Caterpillar(CAT) , Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) , Home Depot (HD) and Microsoft(MSFT) . Bank of America (BAC) was the biggest percentage gainer, rising 2.8%.
Walt Disney (DIS) was also a standout on the upside, gaining 2.1% after The Avengers enjoyed tremendous success at the box office, raking in a record $200.3 million in North America during its opening weekend. The company is due to report its fiscal second-quarter results after Tuesday's closing bell.
Shares of Intel(INTC) , which announced a 7% increase in its quarterly dividend payout before the opening bell, were ticked down 0.5%.
In the broader market, winners narrowly outpacing losers on the New York Stock Exchange , while gainers were slightly ahead of decliners on the Nasdaq.
On Sunday, Greek voters punished mainstream politicians and voted in favor of a far-right group for Parliament. With the country now in political gridlock and its ability to form a coalition government in doubt, questions have reignited over Greece's ability to carry out the strict reforms and cutbacks required for its crucial international bailout and future with the euro.
Without any relief to the deadlock, Greece may be faced with repeat elections under a caretaker government in mid-June. Around this time, Athens was supposed to be in the process of pushing through a new austerity package worth €14.5 billion ($19 billion) for 2013 to 2014.
During that month, Greece was also scheduled for a € 30 billion ($39.4 billion) installment of aid from other eurozone nations and International Monetary Fund.
Meanwhile, Francois Hollande defeated incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the French presidential election by about four percentage points on Sunday.
The election had turned into a referendum on austerity measures championed by Sarkozy and his close partner, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as they sought to lead the eurozone out of its debt crisis.
Merkel has already invited Hollande to Berlin for his first official visit as France's president after his inauguration on May 15. Merkel cautioned though against any expectations that the austerity measures and the fiscal compact that European leaders have agreed upon will be undergoing renegotiation.


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Educated Case Western; Cornell.
He is a private pilot with over 250 hours in single engine land aircraft and gliders, and over 600 hours flying as mission specialist in NASA T-38 jet aircraft.
Selected by NASA in January 1990, Dr. Thomas became an astronaut in July 1991. He has worked in the Safety and Operations Development Branches of the Astronaut Office working on issues relating to Shuttle Orbiter systems, and was also a spacecraft communicator (CAPCOM) for Shuttle missions STS-47, 52 and 53. A veteran of three space flights, he has logged 663 hours and 27 minutes in space. He was a mission specialist on STS-65 (July 8-23, 1994), STS-70 (July 13-22, 1995) and STS-83 (April 4-8, 1997). He is scheduled to fly aboard Columbia on STS-94 in the Summer of 1997.
STS-65 flew the second International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-2) Spacelab module. The seven-member crew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 8, 1994, and returned there on July 23, 1994 setting a new flight duration record for the Space Shuttle program. During the 15-day flight the crew conducted more than 80 experiments focusing on materials and life sciences research in microgravity. The mission was accomplished in 236 orbits of the Earth, traveling 6.1 million miles.
On STS-70, Dr. Thomas was responsible for the deployment of the sixth and final Tracking and Data Relay Satellite from the Space Shuttle. The five-member crew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery launched from the Kennedy Space Center July 13, 1995, and returned there July 22, 1995. During the 8 day 22 hour mission, the crew completed 142 orbits of the Earth, traveling 3.7 million miles.
STS-83, the Microgravity Science Laboratory (MSL-1) Spacelab mission, was cut short because of problems with one of the Shuttle's three fuel cell power generation units. Mission duration was 95 hours and 12 minutes, traveling 1.5 million miles in 63 orbits of the Earth.
Birth Place: Cleveland, Ohio.
Status: Inactive.
Born: 1955.05.06.
Spaceflights: 4 .
Total time in space: 43.34 days.
Mission Specialists: Bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science or mathematics and minimum three years of related experience or an advanced degree. Vision minimum 20/150 uncorrected, correctable to 20/20. Maximum sitting blood pressure of 140/90. Height between 150 and 193 cm.. Reported to the Johnson Space Center in late July 1990 to begin their year long training. Chosen from 1945 qualified applicants, then 106 finalists screened between September and November 1989.
With delays in International Space Station construction leaving ample room in the shuttle schedule, NASA made the unique decision to leave the equipment installed in Columbia and refly this mission with the same crew later in 1997 as STS-94.
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MUSIC NEWS - Musician and human rights activist Peter Gabriel will host the 6th Annual Focus for Change benefit dinner and concert for WITNESS, the international human rights organization. The special event will be on Thursday, December 2, 2010 in NYC, NY at the legendary Roseland Ballroom.
The event will includes performances by Grammy Award-winner Sheryl Crow and reggae legend Jimmy Cliff (no word on Gabriel). Also on tap, Jack Dorsey, the co-founder of Twitter, will be a keynote speaker who will highlight the power of online spaces to inform people about on-the-ground abuses and mobilize them to take action.
The event will showcase WITNESS' innovative use of video and storytelling to end human rights violations. Co-founded in 1992 by Gabriel, WITNESS has trained and supported thousands of human rights defenders in 80+ countries to use video in their campaigns for change. Video has been used by WITNESS partners to corroborate allegations of human rights violations; as evidence in courts; to promote grassroots education and mobilization; as a resource for news broadcasts; and as a deterrent to further abuse.
"Video testimony ensures that the suffering of thousands of people all over the world cannot be denied or forgotten. Those voices can be amplified and heard in the places of power and courts of justice," said Gabriel of the organization's impact.
This year WITNESS is honoring HBO for using the power of documentary film to educate, illuminate and inspire. It is also honoring WITNESS partner LICADHO for its work to end forced evictions in Cambodia. Dr. Pung Chhiv Kek, President of LICADHO, and the Venerable Luon Sovath, a human rights defender also known as the "multi-media monk" will represent the organization at the event.
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The Metropolitan Museum's wonderful Charles Engelhard Court in the American Wing will be the setting for an unusual collaboration in music and dance Thursday night.
Alarm Will Sound, the fine contemporary classical group that is in residence at the Met this season, teams up with choreographer John Heginbotham for a hybrid program based on the music of Aphex Twin, Tyondai Braxton and Edgard Varèse.
According to a statement by Alarm Will Sound, a 20-member group, "this concert centers on three pioneers of electronic music: Edgard Varèse, Raymond Scott, and Aphex Twin. This music has been an inspiration for John Heginbotham, who found the mechanical sounds and offbeat humor of these artists resonant with his wit and with the fun he had with mechanical movements."
Dance Heginbotham, founded in 2011, is devoted to the presentation of dance and theatrical work created by the Brooklyn-based choreographer and performer. Reviewing an earlier event, New York Times dance critic Alastair Macauley write that Heginbotham had "a true theater artist's instinct for commanding his audience."
When I spoke about the season with the Met Museum Presents General Manager Limor Tomer, she cited this presentation as "a really hot program," combining the 21st century talents of Alarm Will Sound with choreography by one of the new stars in the dance firmament. On the program: excerpts from Twin (2012) and the world premiere of Fly by Wire (2014).
What's also exciting is that families don't have to break the bank to attend. Children's tickets are just $1 each when accompanied by an adult with a full-price ticket. See the Metropolitan Museum Presents to order.


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Virtual Ban, Real Problems
Annelena Lobb reports:
Many Wall Street investors resented the Securities and Exchange Commission's recent short-selling ban. The SEC's prohibitions weren't very popular in virtual markets, either.
On Sept. 19, the SEC enacted a temporary ban on short sales of shares of 799 financial companies. More companies landed on the list as the days passed, and the ban lasted through Oct. 8. On fantasy-investing Web site UpDown.com, users were subject to the same restrictions. UpDown enacted the ban a day after the SEC did in an effort to make its simulated market mimic the real one as closely as possible, said UpDown CEO Michael Reich.
Some of the responses from UpDown's short sellers smacked of real-world complaints, too.
"It affected my strategy, big-time," said Steve Orlowski, an UpDown member who runs a trucking company in Louisville, Ky. "If they hadn't enacted the ban, I could have made a couple million dollars more, easy." Mr. Orlowski, who joined UpDown in September of last year, has made more than $9.5 million. Each UpDown user starts with a virtual $1 million, and can take long or short positions.
During the ban, Mr. Orlowski said he shorted companies such as Arch Coal, Potash, and Monsanto.
Ofek Levy, a junior at the University of Texas at Dallas, said that the ban hurt confidence in the market.
Yowceph Haddad, a senior at the University of Notre Dame, said he stopped trading almost entirely during the ban. "With no way to hedge any positions or speculate on specific stocks going downward, it just wasn't worth it," he said.
The site's top 20 short sellers of financial stocks refrained from shorting companies such as American International Group, Lehman Brothers, Washington Mutual, and Fannie Mae — the four companies they shorted most in the week before the ban — and moved to other targets, said Mr. Reich. In the week before the ban, 64% of that group's trades were shorts, compared to 28% in the ban's second week.
Short interest on the (real) Nasdaq and NYSE fell during the period the short-selling ban was in effect, though other factors besides the short-selling ban may explain the decline.
One important difference: In a real short sale, an investor would arrange to borrow stock with a broker before betting its price will fall. On UpDown, there's no way to simulate borrowing stock.
Some site users note that. Retiree Verlin Abbott, who keeps an UpDown portfolio "just for kicks and high-risk ideas," says he will only short a limited number of shares in a company at a time on the site. "Normally, you'd check with your broker to see what you could borrow," Mr. Abbott said. "I would only short a small number [on UpDown], because I think that's what I'd be able to borrow in the real world."
Mr. Reich says that the site is considering getting a feed about share availability from a broker to help simulate the borrowing process in the future.


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Why it may be good to be confused: Mary Lo Verde's Motivational Discussion at Oracle
By User769227-Oracle on Aug 31, 2012
Why it may be good to be confused: Mary Lo Verde's Motivational Discussion at Oracle by Olivia O'Connell
Last week, we were treated to a call with Mary LoVerde, a renowned Life-Balance and Motivational Speaker. This was one of many events organized by Oracle Women's Leadership (OWL). Mary made some major changes to her life when she decided to free herself of material positions and take each day as it came. Her life balance strategies have led her from working with NASA to appearing on Oprah.
Mary's MO is "cold turkey is better than dead duck!", in other words, knowing when to quit. It is a surprising concept that flies in the face of the "winners don't quit" notion and focuses on how we limit our capabilities and satisfaction levels by doing something that we don't feel passionately about.
Her arguments about quitting were based on the conception that '"it" is in the way of you getting what you really want' and that 'quitting makes things easier in the long run'. Of course, it is often difficult to quit, and though we know that things would be better if we did quit certain negative things in our lives, we are often ashamed to do so.
A second topic centred on the perception of Confusion Endurance. Confusion Endurance is based around the idea that it is often good to not know exactly what you are doing and that it is okay to admit you don't know something when others ask you; essentially, that humility can be a good thing. This concept was supposed to have to Leonardo Da Vinci, because he apparently found liberation in not knowing. Mary says, this allows us to "thrive in the tension of not knowing to unleash our creative potential"
An anecdote about an interviewee at NASA was used to portray how admitting you don't know can be a positive thing. When NASA asked the candidate a question with no obvious answer and he replied "I don't know", the candidate thought he had failed the interview; actually, the interviewers were impressed with his ability to admit he did not know. If the interviewee had guessed the answer in a real-life situation, it could have cost the lives of fellow astronauts.
The highlight of the webinar for me? Mary told how she had a conversation with Capt. Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger who recalled the US Airways Flight 1549 / Miracle on the Hudson incident. After making its descent and finally coming to rest in the Hudson after falling 3,060 feet in 90 seconds, Sully and his co-pilot both turned to each other and said "well...that wasn't as bad as we thought". Confusion Endurance at its finest!
Her discussion certainly gave food for thought, although personally, I was inclined to take some of it with a pinch of salt.
Mary Lo Verde is the author of The Invitation, and you can visit her website and view her other publications at www.maryloverde.com.
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Spring Football Opens for Wyoming Cowboys on Tuesday, March 22
Cowboys Return 18 Starters, Including 9 on Offense, 8 on Defense and 1 on Special Teams
Scott Fuchs will begin his 22nd season as a college coach in 2015. He brings a great deal of knowledge coaching offensive linemen with him to Wyoming as 20 of his previous 21 years of coaching experience have been as an offensive line coach. In 10 of his previous 21 seasons as a college coach, Fuchs has helped coach his teams to either the NCAA Division II or Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) Playoffs.
In 2014, Fuchs coached senior offensive tackle Connor Rains, who signed as a free agent with the Denver Broncos following his senior season. Fuchs also coached 2014 Honorable Mention All-Conference offensive guard Chase Roullier, who will return for his junior season in 2015.
An outstanding offensive lineman himself, Fuchs was named to the 1993 Kodak/American Football Coaches Association First Team All-America squad as a senior offensive guard at North Dakota State. NDSU won three consecutive North Central Conference rushing titles during his three years as a starter. He was part of three North Central Conference Championship teams at NDSU in 1990, '91 and '92. The 1990 Bison captured the NCAA Division II National Championship.
Fuchs coached the offensive line at North Dakota State, his alma mater the previous five seasons (2009-13) before coming to Wyoming.
From 2011 through 2013, Fuchs helped NDSU to a 43-2 (.956) overall record and a 22-2 (.917) Missouri Valley Football Conference (MVFC) mark on way to its three consecutive FCS national titles. The 2013 NDSU squad became the first undefeated (15-0) FCS National Champion since Marshall went 15-0 to win the 1996 title. That 15-0 record by the Bison also set a North Dakota State school record. NDSU extended its winning streak to 24 consecutive games with the 2013 FCS Championship. That tied both the FCS and NDSU records for consecutive victories. The University of Pennsylvania set the FCS record of 24 consecutive wins from 1992-95. Montana later tied the record from 2001-02. The NDSU record was originally set from 1964-66.
In 2012 and 2013, Fuchs coached Consensus First Team All-America offensive tackle Billy Turner. Turner was selected in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins. In 2011, Fuchs coached Consensus All-America offensive tackle Paul Cornick, and center Joe Lund, who was selected as the FCS Rimington Award winner, which is presented to the top center in the nation each season. All total, Fuchs has coached nine All-Americans and 31 All-Conference performers during his career.
Fuchs has been on coaching staffs that have won nine conference titles during his college coaching career.
In 2013, the North Dakota State offense ranked No. 10 in the nation in scoring offense (38.7 points per game), No. 7 in rushing offense (257.3 yards per game) and No. 14 in total offense (457.5 yards per game).
Fuchs offensive lines helped pave the way for North Dakota State to have a 1,000-yard rusher for 11 consecutive seasons. In 2011, '12 and '13, the NDSU offense featured a pair of 1,000-yard rushers each season. The 2011 season was the first time in NDSU school history that the Bison offense featured two 1,000-yard rushers and a 1,000-yard receiver in the same season. Sam Ojuri rushed for 1,105 yards, and DJ McNorton tallied 1,020, while receiver Warren Holloway had 1,003 receiving yards. In 2012, Ojuri (1,047 yards) and John Crockett (1,038) each rushed for 1,000 yards. The 2013 season saw Ojuri (1,398) and Crockett (1,277) duplicate their 1,000-yard seasons of the previous year, while the 2013 offense also featured 1,000-yard receiver Zach Vraa (1,191 receiving yards).
Prior to returning to his alma mater, Fuchs coached one season at Southern Illinois in 2008. That team tied for the conference title and advanced to the First Round of the FCS Playoffs. He also coached at Grand Valley State (2007), Nebraska-Omaha (2003-06), Minnesota-Crookston (2000-02), Wisconsin-Eau Claire (1999) and Valley City State (1997-98). The only school he did not coach the offensive line was his one season at Wisconsin-Eau Claire when he coached the defensive line.
Fuchs' first position as a college coach was as a graduate assistant at NDSU working with the tight ends from 1994-96.
Fuchs earned his bachelor of science degree from North Dakota State in physical education and social science education in 1995 and his master of education degree with a specialization in physical education and athletic administration in 1997.
Scott and his wife, Emily, have three boys, Hank, Jack and Gus.