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The Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies degree program offers a solid foundation in legal theory and practice, introducing you to various fields of law and a range of topics covered in-depth at law school. Our online program explores the interrelationships of law and society, legal philosophy and societal institutions, and jurisprudence and legal history. The curriculum is regularly evaluated and updated so your courses are based on current knowledge, research, and case studies in the field. You'll learn from professors who are legal practitioners with real-world experience in legal services, law, and policy. And enjoy collaborating with your professors and classmates via live seminars, discussions boards, and one-on-one instructor interactions.
The legal studies degree is not just for the legal field. You may wish to consider this program if you are interested in enhancing or changing your current career status.* Individuals with an associate's degree who wish to advance into a position requiring a higher level of legal knowledge should also consider this program.
As one of the largest providers of online legal studies programs in the United States† , Kaplan University has helped over 6,500 legal studies graduates achieve their educational goals since 2001. This means that when you earn your degree from Kaplan University, you join one of the most active and diverse alumni communities in the legal field.
This Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies program offers a practical curriculum and specialized elective options that allow you to customize your education to a particular focus. Courses offer a well-rounded academic foundation that emphasizes analytical thinking, reading comprehension, and communication skills while helping students develop the practical skills relevant to today's job market. It is designed to teach you:
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Eligible students in this bachelor's degree program who want to continue on to pursue a master's degree within an area of legal studies may be interested in the accelerated master's degree option. Students complete graduate-level courses within this undergraduate plan of study. Once accepted to the master's degree program, students transfer in the graduate courses and matriculate into a shortened degree plan. This accelerated option allows students to complete both their bachelor's degree and master's degree in less time and at a lower cost than completing both programs separately. Accelerated options are offered for the following programs. Qualification for accelerated options is subject to eligibility requirements.
The legal field is projected to grow and you could become part of that growth. Certain segments of the legal field are projected to expand as businesses create in-house legal departments and litigation continues to rise. Opportunities for legal assistants within law firms are also projected to expand as firms try to increase the efficiency of legal services and lower their expenses.‡ But, while opportunities are expected to rise, the legal field remains a competitive one. The Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies program is designed to help prepare you for a career in the legal, business, government, health care, banking, real estate or the service industry. Careers you could attain with this degree include:
Kaplan University offers multiple start dates, giving you greater flexibility with your education, life, and work schedules. Certain start dates may not be available at all ground locations; speak with an advisor for additional information.
Online and Campus Start Date
Oct 19, 2016
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Nov 09, 2016
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Building on your existing writing strengths will help develop a foundation for a successful education and career. You will learn strategies to express yourself with confidence and communicate your ideas effectively in personal, academic, and professional situations.
Prerequisites Required:
Total Program Credits: 180
This course helps students apply research and critical thinking skills to develop effective arguments. Students will create professional writings, incorporating post-draft revision strategies and working constructively with colleagues.
course introduces students to multidisciplinary techniques and concepts
pertinent to lifelong career development and professionalism. Students explore
career planning as a strategy and professionalism as a method in order to
pursue employment interests and career goals. Concepts include various professional
communication skills appropriate for the global workplace, interpersonal relationship
management, professional behavior, financial decision making, marketability,
and using proper technologies to manage professional identities.
Prerequisites Required:
The purpose of this introductory-level
American government course is to provide students with crucial
knowledge about how government works and about how they, as
individual citizens, fit within that system. Focus is on the
rights and obligations of citizens under the democratic political
system established under the U.S. Constitution; the branches and
levels of government; and the role of the media. This fundamental
knowledge combined with critical thinking skills will be valuable
personally and professionally.
Prerequisites Required:
Any college composition course
This course will take an in-depth look at the 1960s as a significant era in American history. Adopting multiple perspectives, we will explore the societal impact of such issues as the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Countercultural, Civil Rights, and Feminist Movements, the advent of the birth control pill, and many others. Through exploring the music, political climate, and advancements in technology and medicine of this historical era, we will discover how our individual lives and society as a whole were forever changed.
This is a social science survey course that will examine science and technology from a variety of social science disciplines including sociology, psychology, history, political science, anthropology, and economics. The use of science and technology has been a driving force behind all of human history, and even more so today. This course will take an interactive approach to study the relationship between humanity and technology throughout time and across the globe.
This course is designed to introduce students to some of the most important concepts in science including inheritance, energy, randomness, and measurement. In addition, the course will give studentsa chance to explore the human aspects of science: how people put science into practice, how societies think about scientific findings, and why science depends on ethical practices. Knowledge gained in the course will help inform further study in many disciplines and will help students better understand how science affects their personal and professional lives.
Fundamentals of Microbiology will review basic microbial cell structure, function, and genetics. The role of microorganisms and their effect on humans and the environment will also be explained. Aspects of medical and public health will be emphasized, as will bacterial and viral diseases, parasites, immunology, and epidemiology. Course material and labs are directly relevant to studies in health sciences, biological sciences, nursing, and genetics.
In this introduction to biology, students will
explore the living world of humans. The course emphasizes the
processes of life from the molecular work of genes and proteins
to human organ systems, all the way up to food webs and
overpopulation. Practical applications of biology in everyday
life are stressed throughout the course. No prior study of
biology is required to enroll in this nonmajors
Science for Everyday Life is designed to help students recognize the importance of science as it impacts their daily lives in so many different ways. In this course, students will explore different rooms within a typical home and discover what role science plays as they investigate areas such as their kitchen and bathroom, the garden, and even the impact science has on their families and pets. The knowledge gained in this course will help garner a new appreciation for the science applications already around us and how to interpret the strengths and weaknesses of information streaming in from various sources.
In this course, students will explore the impact of creative expression on cultures from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. By studying examples from the arts and humanities, students investigate how humans have the potential to shape history. Students develop skills to evaluate and analyze forms of creative expression, and discover how to apply these skills to their career goals, community, and daily experience.
In this course, students develop sound ethical
reasoning and judgment through the study of practical
applications of ethical theories. Topics studied include ethics
as it relates to business, health care, society, and the
environment. Emphasis is on practical applications of ethical
principles and analytical methods.
In this course you will be introduced to the humanities through a survey of human social and cultural life in a global setting. By investigating the social, artistic, religious, and economic developments of countries throughout the world, you will better understand each country's cultural identity as well as begin to appreciate cultural continuity and change as defining characteristics of the human experience.
This course covers topics of algebra including linear functions, equations, and inequalities, systems of equations with two variables, polynomial functions, rational and radical equations and inequalities, exponential and logarithmic functions, ratios, proportions, variation, and graphing.
Students will improve their background in mathematical concepts and skills utilizing real-world scenarios to solve math problems. Students will also enhance their own knowledge by demonstrating the ability to explain and interpret concepts, which is a valued skill in many fields. The topics may include sets, variables, measurement, and statistics.
This course is an introduction to the broad area of civil wrongs and their appropriate remedies as well as tort law principles in the traditional areas of intentional torts, negligence, absolute liability, product liability, nuisance, and commonly employed defenses.
Total Program Credits: 180
Online students will take LS 100: Introduction to the Law and Legal Profession and PA 230: Introduction to Legal Technology.
One of the basic tasks performed by the
paralegal is legal research—finding the law. Accurate, concise,
and up-to-date information can be the difference between winning
and losing a lawsuit. Students who complete this course gain
specialized skills in the area of legal
Prerequisites Required:
Prerequisites: CM 220 and PA 205
Some of the tasks performed by a skilled paralegal are to summarize statutes or regulations, analyze the component parts of written opinions of appellate judges through briefing, identify the legal issues in a fact pattern, and apply the reasoning of relevant legal authorities to a fact pattern. Students who successfully complete this course will be able to analyze and synthesize legal authorities and draft correspondence and memoranda commonly used in the practice of law.
Any College Composition I course
Legal assistants and paralegals must always consider the duties owed to clients by both the lawyer and the paralegal. In this course, you will learn to evaluate ethical dilemmas you may encounter as a legal professional and appropriately apply the rules of professional responsibility to these situations. This course discusses the duties and responsibilities regarding the ethical conduct of the paralegal in the legal workforce, codes of ethics, unauthorized practice of law, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and more.
Prerequisites Required:
This course provides students with a view of constitutional law's historical development of legal principles as well as the philosophical foundations of American legal principles. Significant trends in constitutional law as well as current issues in development of law and the balance between bureaucracy and democracy in a free society are presented.
The student completing this course will learn about the law as a generic entity with pervasive influence in all aspects of social interaction, formation, and change. Theories of design, enforcement, and remediation under the American system and interacting with different global systems will provide the student the opportunity to gain appreciation of the value, reach, and utility of a well-defined legal system.
Prerequisites Required:
PA 201 or any legal research course
This course provides the student with an opportunity to look at a number of historically significant philosophical and legal thinkers and theories. The student will analyze and compare them to the American theoretical and philosophical system. Critical thinking skills and communication competence are built through the individual and collaborative discussion and analysis process. Upon completion of the final project, the student will be able to identify the most historically significant legal philosophers and assess American legal philosophy in historical context. Further, philosophical thinking that contributed directly to the design of our system will be understood in current legal context.
Prerequisites Required:
This course is the research capstone option for students in the Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies degree program. Students will conduct approved scholarly research and finalize their e-Portfolio. Students will identify a topic for research, conduct a law and literature review, synthesize relevant law and scholarly literature, and prepare a formal research paper of no less than 25 pages that conforms to Bluebook and American Psychological Association (APA) style with a cover page, abstract, bibliography, and properly formatted citations.
Prerequisites Required:
Last term or permission from the Dean
Technology is pervasive and the modern law office is chock-full of technological appliances, tools, and applications that the paralegal must be able to master. At the core of most software applications are the basics—word processors, spreadsheets, databases, and tools for presentations. Of course, the ubiquitous communication tool, email, is the center of modern electronic communications. This course will explore the most common tools and applications found in law firms and those that every "technology-literate" paralegal must know. Word processing, document assembly programs, and tools for case management, time and billing, calendaring, electronic communications, and creating presentations are a few of the topics explored in this course. Students will leave this course with a solid foundation of the basics in legal technology.
This course teaches students to use the current Microsoft Office suite of applications. Topics include an introduction to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and cloud-based file management systems. Students will also learn how to analyze appropriate software applications to address solutions within a profession.
Dynamic Description:
Throughout your educational and professional career, you may often need to use such applications as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. IT 133: Software Applications, will provide you with those desired skills and the ability to meet the demands of future classes and requirements in today's workplace. You will acquire some powerful take away skills in this class that can be used to further enhance your Microsoft Office application skills.
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What's Next?
After successfully completing IT 133, you may want to learn more about Excel. If that is the case then consider taking IT 153: Spreadsheet Applications. This course will help you to gain a deeper understanding of the power of Excel. The skills you will acquire in IT 133 are relevant to what businesses are currently looking for in perspective employees and could help prepare you for your upcoming job searches.
This course examines the foundation, organization, and structure of the American legal system with an emphasis on the careers available in the legal profession through an exploration of the roles and responsibilities in the legal field. Students will learn the professional and ethical practices needed to succeed as a legal support professional or as a legal specialist.
Designed to facilitate personal and professional success, this course introduces students to the purposes and processes of university education. An emphasis is placed on study, communication, and thinking skills that support academic achievement. Students also examine the relationship between learning and motivation. (Onsite only)
Total Program Credits: 180
Eligible students who choose to complete an accelerated master's degree option will take four graduate-level courses in addition to selected undergraduate electives.
The 25% tuition reduction applies only to international students living outside of the United States. This discount does not apply to military students. Please check with your advisor to see if you are eligible.
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Kaplan University Learning Center students will only complete a portion of their program on site. You will need to complete at least 50% of the program requirements online, or through transfer credit awarded via prior learning assessment. If you have any questions about these requirements, please speak with an Admissions Advisor. Not all programs are available for enrollment at the Kaplan University Learning Center.
Learn more about grants and Kaplan University Scholarships that may help reduce the cost of your education.
Kaplan University tuition reductions (including military servicemember, spouse, and veterans tuition rates; scholarships; grants; vouchers; and alumni and alliance reductions) cannot be combined.
Kaplan University has significantly reduced many of our tuition rates and fees for servicemembers, their spouses, and veterans. Click here for more information.
Some states have additional curricular requirements. Check the University Catalog or speak with an Admissions Advisor.
* Kaplan University cannot guarantee employment or career advancement.
† Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS ), 2009-2010, Bachelor's and Master's Degrees Conferred, Law and Legal Studies, on the Internet at http://nces.ed.gov/IPEDS. (Accessed November, 2012). Based on total number of degrees granted by Kaplan University compared to other Title IV degree-granting institutions.
‡ Source: U.S.
Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Outlook Handbook,
2016-17 Edition, Paralegals and Legal Assistants, on the Internet
www.bls.gov/ooh/Legal/Paralegals-and-legal-assistants.htm. National long-term projections may not reflect local and/or short-term economic or job conditions, and do not guarantee actual job growth.
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Songs of Francis Poulenc: An Evening of Opera
Wednesday, April 10
6:30 p.m.
Museum Members $25; Public $35 Buy tickets
Experience the revival of a popular Gilded Age pastime during this operatic performance in the Driehaus Museum's period ballroom.
During the 19th century, when both opera and French culture were adopted en masse by the newly wealthy American elite, Samuel M. Nickerson's cousin Uranus S. Crosby commissioned Chicago's first opera house. Until the Great Fire of 1871, it stood on the north side of Washington Street between State and Dearborn in downtown Chicago.
This spring, the Museum is pleased to pay homage to Mr. Crosby with a performance of original works by Parisian composer Francis Jean Marcel Poulenc (1899–1963). Poulenc's songs, as well as the Gilded Age pastime of enjoying live opera, are brought to life by members of Roosevelt University's Chicago College of Performing Arts and Chicago Opera Theater's joint Professional Diploma in Opera Program, with its director, Scott Gilmore.
Seating for the program begins at 5:30 p.m., with guests able to explore the Museum prior to the start of the performance.
About the Performers
The Chicago College of Performing Arts (CCPA) of Roosevelt University is a world-class performing arts college that offers gifted students professional training at its prestigious Music Conservatory and Theatre Conservatory. Honoring its roots as one of the earliest conservatories founded in the United States, nearly 500 students – from more than 40 states and 25 countries – come together to form this unique community devoted to excellence in the performing arts.
This program features the following CCPA performers: Catheryne Shuman, soprano; Catherine Spitzer, soprano; Megan Williams, soprano; Louise Rogan, mezzo-soprano; Drew Ladd, tenor; Loren Battieste, baritone; Matthan Ring Black, baritone; Sarah Jenks, piano; and Scott Gilmore, piano. These members of the Professional Diploma in Opera Program at Chicago Opera Theater (COT) young artists, receiving their tuition at CCPA and performing with COT, with Mr. Gilmore heading the prestigious program.
Image: Francis Poulenc. Photograph courtesy of the CCPA.
Please note that in exchange for your reservation and/or ticket, you have authorized the Driehaus Museum to photograph, record, film, video tape, or otherwise use your likeness, performance, image, and/or voice for use in general and/or program-related Driehaus Museum promotional materials. If for any reason, you do not wish to be photographed, please provide your name(s) at registration that evening.
Featured Program
Mark Twain Lecture
Thursday, October 6
This lecture by Jennifer A. Greenhill, PhD., Associate Professor of Art History, American Art and Visual Culture, University of Southern California explore the creative possibilities offered by the comic press during the Gilded Age through the work of Mark Twain. Read more
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Artistic Furniture
Thursday, October 13
This second Nickerson Lecture by Moira Gallagher, Research Assistant in the American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, brings to light the significant, yet little known cabinet making and decorating enterprise of George A. Schastey. Read more
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As pressure grows on the Sanford Police Department, information about George Zimmerman's past actions as a watch captain show that he has called police several dozen times to report a "suspicious" person, the same type of call he made the night he shot 17 year old Trayvon Martin who was walking back to a family friend's home from a 7-11 during the NBA All Stars Game on Feb 26 with a bag a of skittles and a can of iced tea for his father.
In fact according to past reports, police saw Zimmerman as an over reactive, sealous and aggressive person who was trying to get involved with police action.
As we were the first to report, the FBI is now investigating the incident shooting and the handling of the case by Sanford Police.
Sanford Police have bungled past investigations also and only took action once information went public.
Meanwhile, students from local area colleges were at the Seminole County Courthouse today, protesting the Sanford Police's botched handling of the case which most experts agree was not done in accordance to legal standards in use today. Specifically they were calling on the State Attorney's office to take action and arrest George Zimmerman.
Several of the protestors were wearing hoodies also and held signs the read "Am I suspicious".
More protests are being called for and Zimmerman has moved from his residence to an unknown location.
In the 911 recording over this incident, he can be heard telling the 911 operator that he sees someone suspicious because he has a hoodie on and is walking too slow in the rain. Police instructed Zimmerman to not take any action and to stay in his car. Moments later Trayvon Martin was dead from a gun shot wound from George Zimmerman's gun.
In another call to 911 from residents who witnessed the incident, one caller said the "boy is yelling for help", then suddenly a gun shot is heard.
This along with several other witnesses tried to report what they saw to the Sanford Police, but say the police were not interested, and narcotics investigators combed the scene instead of homicide investigators.


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The offseason is a time of hope for every NFL team. A team can forget about the previous seasons' failures and look ahead to the promise of a new, unblemished season.
Every team feels as if they have a chance to compete, and that a good offseason can lead to a great season.
Some teams make it to the next level by signing the big free agent, while others opt for the draft as their catalyst for a successful season.
But Wait.
Free agents are not always what they seem to be. A bad free agent signing can ruin a team's season, and seriously hamper a franchise.
Teams need to make wise choices when working the free agent market, but good decisions are not always made. There have been many bad free agent signings in the past, but I will only be looking at the 10 worst free agent signings of the modern era.


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Fabric roses are a great craft because they can bloom at any time and in any climate! Save an old t-shirt and repurpose it to create your own Upcycled Vintage Fabric Flowers from Linda Peterson. Stick a flower anywhere - on your shirt, your shoes or in your hair!
- Aleene's Fabric Fusion Peel and Stick Tape
- T-shirt to cut up
- 3" length of beaded trim (optional)
- Tulip Fabric Paint – Pink and Green pearl
- Scissors
- Fabric brush
- Pencil
- Pin back or barrette (optional)
- Cut out a circle from a piece of the t-shirt material. The bigger the circle, the bigger the flower.
- Draw a spiral inside the circle and cut out. (Please note that the dark pattern line in this photo is for reference only, your pattern line should be drawn barely visible.)
- Apply tape to edge of fabric.
- Peel off backing and begin rolling the fabric around itself. It is okay if the fabric gathers and bunches in different areas. If necessary, trim off the "cone" on the back of the flower. Cut another circle of fabric to fit over the back of your flower. Apply Peel and Stick Tape and press the fabric in place over the back of your flower. Turn flower over and arrange the petals.
- Create a rectangle from t-shirt fabric. Fold each side down creating a point in the center.
- Apply a piece of tape along bottom and fold the edges towards the center again. Trim off bottom to be flush. Paint leaf green.
- Paint flower pink. Apply leaf and trim to back of flower with Fabric Fusion tape. Glue pin back or barrette onto back of flower.
For a comprehensive video tutorial of this project, check out How to Upcycle a T-shirt into a Vintage Rose Embellishment.
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The Inception Effect: New X-Men Film Sheds 'Physics-Bending' Fight Scenes
Posted on Monday, August 2nd, 2010 by Russ Fischer
This was probably bound to happen: in the wake of the release of Inception, we now know of the first film to cut out dreamlike sequences that feel too much like scenes in Christopher Nolan's film. Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman have been hard at work rewriting X-Men: First Class so that the film can go into production. But after seeing Nolan's film, Vaughn had the sinking feeling that some of their ideas for First Class would be taken to be too much like Inception. So he dumped them. Read More »


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Diverse staff - Different stories
Diversity and inclusion form the basis of our success
Hampshire County Council embraces diversity and already employs staff from diverse areas of the community.
The stories told in these short films (each between 2 and 4 minutes in duration) cover many areas of diversity.
Click on the wording in the relevant boxes to take you to the video pages where you can hear their stories, you will also find transcriptions to read.
Person Centred Planning Officer
Specialist Housing Occupational Therapist
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Deluxe Continental Breakfast, comp. coffee bar in lobby 24 hours, extended stay rooms with kitchenettes, outdoor pool. Meeting room for up to 36 people. Conveniently located on I-85 Exit 173. 5 miles South of the S.C border, 2 miles from Tuguloo State Park, close to Lake Hartwell for boating/swimming recreation. Antique shopping, flea markets galore. Sixty miles from Helen, Ga. Restaurants within walking distance.
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Sunday: 12:00AM - 12:00PM
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AAA Rating: 2
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Bus / Motorcoach Parking on Site, Continental Breakfast Served, Exercise Room/Fitness Center, Free Local Calls, Free Parking, Golf Nearby, Grill on Site, Meeting Space Available, Outdoor Pool, Restaurant Nearby, Smoking Allowed on Premises
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ADA-compliant, Connecting Rooms, Family-friendly, Handicapped Accessible (Limited) , Pet-friendly
Group Amenities
Group-friendly, Motorcoach-friendly
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Charge for Wi-Fi: no
Free Wi-Fi: 1
Wi-Fi in Public Space: 1
Wi-Fi In-Room: 1
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The intensely brilliant glazes on Jun Kaneko's recent ceramic dango (rounded form) sculptures bring them more into the realm of painting than ever before.
Kaneko was certainly headed in that direction in 2008, when he had his first exhibition of dangos on Locks Gallery's roof — and when the Opera Company of Philadelphia staged its production of Fidelio featuring his set designs and costumes — but his palette was often black and white and his imagery vacillated between all-over zigzag and dot patterns and arrangements of monochrome blocks. Those works were emphatically monumental, too, like enormous sentinels, as were the ones shown in the Philadelphia Museum of Art's Perelman Building between 2009 and 2010.


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Hans Peter Verne
>I just installed the new patch (5473) on a bunch of machines. All
>went fine, except on one of them. Here, the rqsall seems to hang
>forever, ie. inst says:
> (... the usuall stuff, nothing wrong ...)
> Installations and removals were successful.
> Requickstarting ELF files (see rqsall(1))
>And there it hangs. In another shell, I can see
> lavoisier:/# date
> Sat Feb 7 16:21:41 MET 2004
> lavoisier:/# ps -ef | head -1 ; ps -ef | grep '[r]qs'
> root 616672 619262 0 11:15:36 ? 294:31 /usr/etc/rqs -force_requickstart -load_address 0x7c70000 -timestamp 0x4024bac8
> root 619262 619653 0 11:12:21 ? 1:16 /usr/etc/rqsall -force -no_echo -inst #3 -o /var/inst/.rqsfiles -rescan /var/in
>So, rqs has been running for 5 hours. With top, I can see it gets
>~95% CPU. There is nothing interesting in /var/adm/SYSLOG .
This is a big surprise. No 'hanging rqs' issue is known
or has been known for years (in fact I don't recall such at all ever,
though a couple of botches have lead to rqsall never finishing
due to circular-links in /var/inst/.rqsfiles).
Try interceping with par(1) to get a report on what it is doing.
It is written to be safe at all times.
A new DSO is written out and the removal and replacement
of the old is designed to be 'atomic'.
So I should be the case that killing 616672 should cause
no problem.
>Can I somehow find out what's holding up rqs? I checked the file
Well, look at par(1). That can help.
>/var/inst/.rqsfiles, it is dated 11:12, and ends with
>which tells me nothing, apart from suggesting the problem is
>related to libc.... Or perhaps not
No, not a correct conclusion.
>I have never seen this before, and I have no idea what do do.
>Simply kill rqs and hope for the best? Reboot? xfs_check?
a) try par on rqs to find out what it is doing, report that
b) kill rqs.
c) xfs_check is a good idea: a file system problem is
the only cause I can think of offhand.
c2) If /usr/lib*/so_locations is trashed this can
give rqs problems, though not leading to an infinite loop
that I know of.
>This is an Power Indigo2 XZ, Extreme, IP26, running 6.5.18m.
d) even if rqs and rqsall fail your machine will still be ok.
It just might not start up some system utilities quite
as fast as it could when they are run.
e) Neither has any known bugs (I do have things I'd like to
do to improve reporting of its actions -- right now the
available options for reporting are not very useful)
f) I don't understand what is causing the problem.
g) You can always rerun rqsall (don't run 2 at once!) later if
you wish to. Not a bad idea given this odd situation.
See the rqsall man page.
Sign me very surprised by your diffficulty.
David B. Anderson davea at sgi dot com http://reality.sgiweb.org/davea
[rqs, rqsall maintainer.]


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Canberra: Pakistan-born legspinner Fawad Ahmed has been named in an Australian Prime Minister's XI to play the West Indies on January 29, only two months after gaining asylum in Australia at his second attempt.
The one-day match at Canberra's Manuka Oval is a traditional part of the Australian cricket calendar, which gives the national selectors a chance to blood rising young players against touring teams.
The Prime Minister's XI will be led by former Australia captain Ricky Ponting, with veteran wicketkeeper Brad Haddin as his vice-captain.
Fawad, 23, emigrated to Australia in 2010 on a short-term visa and later claimed refugee status, saying he faced persecution from religious extremists if he returned to Pakistan.


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By Alex Myers
The 1999 U.S. Open. Pinehurst. Payne. Phil. The putt.
Those are the broad strokes of how one of the greatest golf tournaments ever played out, but there was so much more. How has ESPN not done a "30 For 30" documentary on this one? Here's a sample tagline:
What if I told you that four of the best golfers in the world would battle to the final hole at the U.S. Open on one of the country's most historic courses, with the game's most popular announcer calling the action, all while one of the key players was waiting to hear if he'd have to leave the course at any minute to be by his wife's side for the birth of their first child, and that in an unimaginably tragic turn, the winner wouldn't live to see the end of the year?
Too long? Too bad.
Let's start with Tiger Woods. This was just before he was about to morph into Tiger "Don't even bother trying to beat him at majors" Woods. Tiger began the final round two shots behind Payne Stewart, but that quickly changed after he hit his approach to three feet on No. 1. Game on.
Related: The best Sunday duels at majors of all time
Two groups later, Stewart (one under), playing with Mickelson (even), teed off in the day's final pairing. Mickelson, who carried a beeper (they were still cool) to alert him if his wife went into labor, made a 10-footer for par on No. 1. Stewart split the fairway with his drive and hit a great approach to set up an easy opening birdie.
"Total flowing swing," NBC's Johnny Miller, who was in the booth with Dick Enberg, said of Stewart. "That does not look like a guy in his 40s. That swing might last awhile." I got a chill when he said that.
By the way, this was only 1999? The pixelated picture makes it seem like 1899. We'll discontinue the play-by-play and simply provide some other random observations:
-- Woods wore clothes that were a lot baggier back then. Of course, he was also a lot skinnier.
-- Tim Herron, playing with Woods in the second-to-last group, almost fell down going quickly up a steep bank to mark his ball before it rolled away. Sorry, Lumpy, that was funny.
-- "Most U.S. Opens you see guys struggle and succumbing to pressure. We are not seeing much of that today. We're seeing top players at the top of their games on a super tough course." Johnny Miller was at the top of his game as well.
-- Hey, there's David Duval! Remember when he was the best player in the world? That was then. But it wasn't his week, despite him being a co-leader after 36 holes and playing in one of the last groups on Sunday. Double D double bogeyed No. 9 and that was the end of him.
-- Vijay Singh, not Duval, was the fourth great golfer seriously in the mix that day. He was within one shot until his lone bogey of the day on the 16th hole.
-- Woods had AWFUL distance control. Three times he air-mailed greens from the center of the fairway with a wedge in his hand. He really should have won this thing.
-- Woods had good control putting with his 3-wood from off the green. He used to love doing that.
-- Woods also used to love sticking his tongue out:
-- And celebrating big putts with big reactions:
-- Mickelson was playing with Yonex clubs. Yep, someone almost won a major using Yonex clubs.
-- Apparently, Mickelson used to be a fairway-hitting machine. He hit 12 of 14 that day. We take it back, Yonex!
-- Roger Maltbie (ROG!) was already in his current role of walking with the final pairing. At one point, he notes the crowd support is equal between Payne and Phil. Crowd support will not be equal no matter who Phil is paired with at Pinehurst this year.
-- Stewart and Mickelson were put on the clock at the turn. Slow play isn't a new issue, people.
-- Woods lipped out two short putts, including one on No. 17 after an incredible birdie on 16 had gotten him to within one of the lead. Did we mention he really should have won this thing?
-- This was the leader board late on Sunday:
-- Payne Stewart made arguably the greatest putt ever on No. 16, a double-breaking 25-footer for par. Fifteen years later, I still can't believe he made that putt.
-- The 17th hole was so good it deserves its own documentary. With the leaders tied, Stewart hit a brilliant 6-iron to four feet on the 196-yard par 3. When Mickelson matched Stewart with his own tight approach, Miller exclaimed "Oh what a shot! You're kidding me! . . . Woo!" Yes, Johnny Miller blurted out a "Woo!" on live TV. That's how good it was. See for yourself (Phil's shot starts at the 1:40 mark followed by the "Woo!" at about 1:54):
-- More Miller on No. 17 as the two players approached the green: "Roger, can you hear me? I don't think so. It's too loud down there."
"Two of the finest iron shots under pressure you'll ever see." (Just not two of the finest putts, as Mickelson missed and Stewart made to reclaim the one-shot lead he began the day with.)
Of course, the 18th hole wasn't bad, either. We all know the rest of the story that day. Now in front, Stewart missed his drive right, hacked out to the fairway, and then hit a shot to about 15 feet. Meanwhile, Mickelson found another fairway and green and two-putted for par. The stage was set for Stewart.
Miller: "The odds are quite good there will be a playoff and that will be tomorrow (would Phil even be able to play the next day?). But, he's been here before, he's won this championship. He can do it."
He did it.
After rolling in a third consecutive clutch putt to win his second U.S. Open and third major title, Stewart leaned, punched and kicked into a celebratory pose that would eventually be commemorated by a statue behind the green. Cool. Caddie Mike Hicks jumped in his arms to celebrate. Awesome. Next, he embraced Phil, reminding him he was about to become a father. Touching. Then, a tearful Stewart, hugged his wife, Tracey, telling her he'd listened to the putting tip she'd given him the night before. "I held my head still all day. All day." Stop, you're going to make me cry!
Related: 15 years later, Payne Stewart's Pinehurst win still looms large
Unfortunately, we all know the rest of story for Stewart as well. Four months later -- and just a month after Stewart helped the U.S. win the 1999 Ryder Cup -- a private jet he and five others were flying on lost cabin pressure and flew on autopilot until it crashed into a field in South Dakota.
Stewart was gone, but the memory of his U.S. Open win and all that happened at Pinehurst on that magical day wasn't. Good thing. High-definition or not, this one is worth watching again.


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Looks, it bears repeating, can deceive. Who would guess, after all, perusing this flawless package of pecs and pout, that David Charvet is happier slicing spuds than playing stud? "I cook the meanest scalped potatoes." he claims, "and I make the best rack of lamb." And who would think that Charvet, 20, who plays bad-boy lifeguard Matt Brody on the syndicated hit Baywatch (known as Babewatch to its fans), would pass up a starring screen role because, he says, "there were too many sex scenes.
But then, Charvet has never been quite what he appears. He was picked to trumpet Bugle Boy menswear because the company felt he had an all-American look. Surprising for a guy who is, in fact, Gallic to the cheekbones. No matter what his nationality, Baywatch executive producer Gregory Bonann's first reaction was tidal—and typical: "He walked into the room, and we were just blown away." Born in Lyons, France, to mom Christiane, now an L.A. boutique owner, and dad Paul Guez, who founded Sasson Jeans, Charvet moved to the U.S. at age 9. Seven years later a scout from the Elite modeling agency spotted him. Uninterested at first, he changed his mind when his mother's birthday approached, and "I thought if I did a couple of modeling jobs I could get some money and buy her a nice present." A generous impulse, considering that mom played amateur barber during Charvet's schoolboy days and, he recalls, "I had a long bowl haircut. I looked like a Little Rascal." No longer. With Baywatch making waves from New Zealand to Norway, he's nearly run over on airport runways worldwide. Does he know he's a heartthrob? "Well, he's 11 not stupid," says Baywatch costar Alexandra Paul.
Once linked with the show's Pamela Anderson, he's surfing so these days. "I like being around people, but I'm starting to like being by myself," says Charvet, who drives a 1968 Cadillac and lives in a two-bedroom Zuma Beach condo. "I read books on therapy and psychology. Everybody has problems. If I deal with them when I'm 20, I think I'll be I in pretty good shape when I'm 30."
David Charvet
updated 05/03/1993 AT 01:00 AM EDT
•originally published 05/03/1993 AT 01:00 AM EDT


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Given that then-sex object Robert Redford played an inspirational journalist a generation ago in 1976's "All the President's Men," it only makes sense that this generation's dreamboat, Justin Timberlake, is taking the role of an ink-stained wretch for his upcoming movie debut, "Edison."
So intent is the Grammy winner on being accurate in his portrayal that last week Timberlake trailed one of the Associated Press's reporters, Bob Porterfield, to get a first-hand taste of journalism, the news service reports.
"He was interested in learning how you retrieve these public records. Basically, I showed him how you find them, how you request them," Porterfield told his own employer.
Timberlake's role is that of a reporter who uncovers an elite team of corrupt police. Veteran actors Kevin Spacey and Morgan Freeman costar, as does fellow musician LL Cool J. Shooting is expected to start in Canada in the coming weeks.
Of course, anyplace Timberlake goes, he is bound to cause a stir (even if he didn't rip off Porterfield's shirt). True to form, the pop star created a commotion at the downtown Los Angeles county courthouse for the 45 minutes he accompanied the real journalist. He then applied to see the legal documents and then pored over them in a public viewing area, says AP.
The two examined an old case filed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington, who sued an electronics firm that allegedly used their likeness in ads without permission.
Porterfield, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who teaches graduate-school journalism, gave Timberlake, 23, an A for his efforts.
"I thought he was sharp," said Porterfield, justifying Justin's efforts. "He seemed attentive and interested in learning this stuff. He has a real interest in developing his part. He took quite a few notes."
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Web posted Sunday, October 18, 1998 6:03 a.m. CT
Tascosa spikers squander huge lead as Coronado storms back
By CHRIS GOVE
Globe-News Sports Writer
The depth of Tascosa's volleyball tradition is obvious by the imposing row of playoff banners that line one side of the school's gym.
But on Saturday afternoon, the chances of the Lady Rebels putting another one up took yet another big hit.
Lubbock Coronado, playing the first portion of the District 3-5A match like it was in awe of the Tascosa Activity Center surroundings, wrestled the momentum away from the Lady Rebels in the middle of the second game and emerged from the match with a 2-15, 15-9, 15-8 victory.
Tascosa's lead was 15-2, 5-1 at one juncture and 9-6 in the second game before an avalanche of errors put Coronado in control.
The result was Tascosa's third straight loss, a 2-4 record in district with just two matches left to play and the distinct possibility that it might miss the playoffs for the first time this decade.
The Lady Rebels must beat Lubbock High and Lubbock Monterey and hope for some help just to have a shot at the playoffs.
"Once we started going back in the second game, we never turned it around and got it going in the right direction," Tascosa coach Carrie Slechta said. "We couldn't stop the downward swing of momentum. The first game, we blew them away and we had a good time in doing it.
"The girls were up, they were intense, and it was a fun game. There's no excuse for our performance in Games 2 and 3."
The Lady Rebels were dominant in the first game, winning behind five kills by Jenny Donohoo, two by Lindsey Tyler and one each from Megan Moore and Amy Hayes.
They had just one hitting error in the game, missed just one serve and ran their offense flawlessly with the aid of solid passing and setting.
In contrast, Coronado had just three kills in the game and four hitting errors.
"I think they wanted it so badly that they just started off playing tentatively," Coronado coach Patty Jones said. "They got themselves in a hole and didn't know what to do at that point."
The Lady Mustangs didn't have an answer early in the second game either as Tascosa ran out to a 5-1 lead and looked on the way to a routine - and much-needed - victory after falling in consecutive matches to Monterey and Amarillo High.
Even after Coronado surged to a 6-5 lead, Tascosa responded to go back up 9-6 behind a pair of blocks from Wendy Ridings and one from Shawna Tiffin.
After a pair of side-outs, though, Tascosa went into a funk that proved to be the difference.
Three setting errors and a bad set put Coronado ahead 10-9, and after a timeout the Lady Mustangs ran off the next five points behind three Mandy Ratliff kills for a game-ending, nine-point service run by Bonny Smith.
"When we were up 2-1, I started talking to the girls about picking it up," Slechta said, "about playing with fire and having intensity. We didn't do that. Not only did we not play sharp, we made tons and tons and tons of mistakes."
Coronado didn't let the momentum swing go to waste, running out to an 8-0 lead in the third game - including a seven-point run on setter Lindsay Frantz's serve - for an 8-0 lead.
Tascosa did get back within 8-5 on a five-point run by Tyler, including a Donohoo kill and two blocks by Moore, but the Mustangs began producing too much offensively and defensively for a shellshocked Tascosa to respond.
"It's tremendous," Jones said of the victory. "We knew our backs were up against the wall, and I was really proud of the kids for stepping up and taking care of the job."
Coronado and Monterey are tied for second in the 3-5A standings at 3-2 behind undefeated Amarillo High (6-0).
"We were looking at it as do or die going into the Amarillo High game," Slechta said. "Our goal was to win all four (matches), so we assured ourselves of being in control of our playoff possibilities and not depending on other teams in the district to do our job. I was very pleased with our play Tuesday and I was hoping it would carry over to today and it didn't.
"We're still in that do or die situation. We've got to step up - and I believe that we will."
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