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Sir Washington, a 6-foot-3, 180-pound shooting guard from Las Vegas, Nev., has signed a letter of intent to attend Eastern Washington University and play basketball for the Eagles next year, Eastern head coach Jim Hayford has announced.
Washington was an All-Sunset Region selection as a junior, averaging 14.5 points, five rebounds and four assists as a junior in the 2011-12 season for Clark High School in Las Vegas. He helped the Chargers finish 23-5 and place second in the Southwest League behind eventual State 4A Champion Bishop Gorman. Clark ended the season with a 70-64 loss to Palo Verde in the Nevada Boys State Basketball Playoffs (4A Sunset Region).
"We are excited that Sir is joining our basketball family," said Hayford. "He is a quality young man and a dynamic player. Sir will fit in well with our other young players to give us a foundation of four- and five-year players in our program."
One of Washington's teammates at Clark was his cousin Kentrell Washington, who is now a freshman at Hofstra. They helped the Chargers reach the Sunset Region playoffs for the first time since 2006, improving by 15 wins in the 2012-13 season from an 8-14 finish the year before.
Sir and Kentrell played previously for Western High School, helping their team to state playoff appearances both years. Western was 21-8 in the 2010-11 season and 17-9 the year before. Sir averaged 13.0 points, 6.0 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.6 steals per game as a sophomore, and 10.1 points, 3.4 rebounds, 1.6 assists and 1.0 steals as a freshman.
Sir also played AAU basketball for the Las Vegas Prospects.
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I finally have started pumping/working -- before I was able to just nurse LO, either because he was with me....but also because his sitter is right up the hill. yay!
However, I don't know really how much he needs and my supply does not seem to be matching what he is taking.
I've been averaging about 1.5 oz for one side with compressions. I've always fed LO on just one side. He's always eaten every 2 hours. The only time I get more is the occasional time he's slept thru the night so I pump in the morning...but that is really thin.
The last 2 days I have fed him right before dropping him off @ 12:30 and then he downs the entirety of what I provide...about 4-5 oz. Some was just pumped within 24 hours and some was freezer stash. The freezer stash is the thinner milk.
But yes, even when I pump when he would be eating, I only get 1.5 oz. This is a big difference!! Is it because the freezer milk is thinner? Is he just taking it all because he can, but doesn't need it? Do I need to do something else to get better output? I do compressions the whole time, sometimes can get a second or third letdown, but it doesn't last very long.
If I can't pump enough, it's not the end of the world, because like I said, he's right up the hill. But I'd like to be able to let him have consistency @ the sitter's.
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Injuries Beginning To Hurt
The Phillies did not allow the injuries that occurred in Friday night's game to change the outcome. But as those injuries begin to pile up, it is starting to have an effect.
Pedro Martinez pulled a muscle in his neck while swinging the bat last night and was forced to leave the game after 3 innings and 3 runs allowed. The fact that he threw 130 pitches in his last start combined with his age and injury history probably did not help.
Friday night, the bullpen kept the Braves in check after JA Happ was pulled after he appeared to be in some pain in the 3rd inning. But last night, the pen did not get the job done. Chad Durbin allowed 2 earned runs which were the direct result of 2 walked batters, both of whom scored. Paul Bako, filling in for an injured Carlos Ruiz made a throwing error in the 4th which, combined with a walk issued by Durbin, allowed Nate McLouth to score on a sac fly for an unearned run. Those 3 runs turned out to be the difference in a 4-6 loss to the Braves.
The offense was shut-out through 8 innings but made a run at a comeback in the 9th. Ryan Howard hit a two run homer with no outs; then singles by Greg Dobbs and Jimmy Rollins plated 2 more runs. Had the bullpen held the Braves down, those 4 runs would have won the game for the Phillies. Instead, they took a difficult loss. Now this afternoon's finale of the series has become a must-win for the Phillies so they do not lose more ground to either the Braves or the Marlins, who also won their game last night.
Florida is now 7 games back and Atlanta is 7.5 back. Cliff Lee will try to get the Phillies a series win this afternoon at 1:30pm. Best of luck to him!
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Jenn: Injuries suck. But I guess it is better to get them out of the way now instead of in October. David Robertson of my Yankees was injured not too long ago, and I was very upset. But now he is throwing again and he should be ready to pitch this week. I'm happy he got that out of the way before October! -Virginia


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Results for my Labor Day weekend
Hey Everybody,
I just got back to beautiful S.C.. A little sad that I'm no longer in the smokies, but it sure was nice to be there for 4 days. I'll get right to the point, which is discussing my fishing results for the weekend. I'm happy to hear that lots of people have been giving Byron great reports for this weekend, unfortunately with the exception of Friday I am not one of those people. Got in town Friday thinking the park would be swamped. Drove up to Metcalf Bottoms approx. 3:00 p.m. to find the place absolutely empty with the exception of a few picnicers(I know this is a typo). I can never resist open water at Metcalf so My wife and I suited up and jumped in. Gave my wife a double rig, a Green Weenie with a Barbie Bug trailing it on 5x flouro. She managed to catch three rainbows, a 3", 6" and lastly a nice 10". All fish took the Barbie instead of the Green Weenie. After that we drove back to the Middle Prong where we caught anouther 6 fish, all rainbows the biggest of which went about 9". My wife hooked but missed several on Middle prong that were in the 8-9" range. This time it was a #10 BH Pheasant Tail with splitshot down deep. Seemed like every hole that had at least 3-4 feet of depth produced a good bite. I also forgot to mention I fished one spot a little wasy above metcalf where I caight one small bow on a parachute adams. FRIDAYS Total: 10 fish, all rainbows.
SATURDAY: I went back above Metcalf and fished a variety of nymphs and dries. I only managed to land 2 fish, again rainbows, and nothing bigger than about 7". Had several other bites, but where I was the fishing just didn't seem that hot compared to past experiences in the area I was fishing.
SUNDAY: Again I fished in between Metcalf and Elkmont. Fished Green Weenies and Parachute adams. I had several takes on both. Landed a total of 3, all rainbows again, biggest approx. 9". While I was getting bites, the fishing again just didn't feel as good as it has been at times to me in the past with similar water conditions.
MONDAY: Headed back home through the park. Stopped at the chimneys trailhead for a few minutes to see if I could catch my first brookie. Tied on a stimulator and it seemed like the fish were slapping at it, but not really eating it b/c I wasn't getting the hook in any of them. Saw some fish in a deeper pool, tied on the Green Weenie with splitshot, caught a nice 8" bow on the first cast. Move to the next pool and caught another 6-7" bow and had a really strong bite that I didn't even have to to react and set the hook before the fish was gone. Went to the next pool and quickly caught another 6" bow. Then the rain came down big time and my fishing for the weekend sadly came to an end.
Assessment: Probably fished for a total of about 10-12 hours over the 4 days. Managed a total of 18 fish which isn't bad for me and my wife given the amount of time on the water. I'm only beet at it for about 3 yrs in the smokies, so I'm no expert.
Biggest Dissapointments: 1. NO BROOKIES
2. NO BROWNS, This has happened to me in about 2 years.
3. The 13-14" rainbow I missed above Metcalf Bottoms. At the end of
my day on sunday, decided to tie on a Helgramite. Tossed it into a deep
run, saw a little twitch in my leader, gave a VERY WEAK hookset, pulled
this fish off the bottom up to the surface where he flipped one time and
the fly popped right out.
Re: Results for my Labor Day weekend
Meant to say that the No Browns thing has not happened to me in about 2 years. Next time I actually proof read what I write.
Re: Results for my Labor Day weekend
I noticed the same thing above Metcalf. I fished Saturday where the road turns to Elkmont and cught 4 bow's one about 10". Fished yesterday at the same spot and caught only 2. I quit when the rain began. The water temp was cool 64 and it should have been ideal. I don't know why it was soo tough for me. I stopped at LRO and Byron was telling me that Sunday was good all over. I was home Sunday of course.
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i noticed the same thing about the brookies just slappin at it but not taking it. we tried going from a size 14 stimmie to 16. got a few more hookups. didnt help that much though. glad you got to be in the park this weekend catchin some fish. i was stuck on the caney . glad you had a good time
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I am glad you had a nice trip to the park. I always carry a stream thermometer and check the water temps in the current freqently. The water temps around Metcalf have been running to high for me to fish those areas over the last couple of months. I have been fishing areas where the water stays between 58-62 degrees F. That is probably the main reason for sluggish fishing below Elkmont. The next time the fish seem to slap at your fly and you have trouble hooking up, bend the gape of the hook slightly to one side of the fly and make sure the fly stays sharp. I have gotten frustrated with missing fish
before and it was because the hookpoint had dulled somwhat from ticking rocks or snagging on limbs.
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Mr. Atwater: I know it is not customary to write without a problem or a question, but I have an observation. It seems that since all you do is talk about problems, you misrepresent sobriety (from booze, food, other people or whatever).
I didn't get sober to continue with the same set of problems I had before. I rarely see you talk about the successes, the miracles and the pure joys of living that come with sobriety, so I want to do just that.
I try to live by a motto I saw once that reads, "Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty." It sure is a long way from what I used to practice. Life for me today is full: sometimes hurtful, sometimes joyful, sometimes angry, sometimes grateful. I don't feel ashamed of feeling anymore, and I don't usually stay in one emotional place too long. When I'm mad, I express it and get through it. When I'm sad, I cry it out until I am done, and when I need something I ask directly, willing to accept "no" for an answer.
I don't have resentments today. I don't have "problems," either. I'm exactly where I need to be, learning what I need to learn.
Don't get me wrong. Things happen I don't like, and I do feel pain, but I don't run from it anymore. I get through it with as much grace as I can muster, learn my lessons gratefully and get on with it. I feel very fortunate I have been able to begin to accept life on life's terms. and it makes living a lot lighter.
Dear Reader: Thanks for your observation. It seems people often want answers and are not willing to accept advice that requires waiting, accepting, letting go or other less tangible things.
Most people I talk to who are struggling with recovery issues are in a stage of their recovery that requires more tangible and direct information. My guess would be you have been a 12-step person for a good long time, and I applaud you for having found some contented sobriety.
But don't forget how long it took you to get where you are. Just like the progression of the disease, there is a progression in recovery – it doesn't happen overnight. Another thing I've noticed is everyone takes their turn in the barrel. You may have five great years and hit a rough spot, but miraculously your rough spot isn't at the same time as those around you who support you. You support them when their turn comes, and they'll support you when you're in the barrel.
Even the biggest complainers, the major league deniers, those with seemingly insurmountable problems and those with zero gratitude have turned out to be happily sober while those that sounded real good got drunk.
I've learned to have patience, remember how important tangible things are and how often I've been dead wrong in my assumptions about others because, like you, I know there are miracles.
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Hey, I know how to solve equations with variables, but not when they involve fractions. I have a problem like this: R= I need to "Solve for B". How would I do that? Please reply as soon as possible.
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stapel_eliz wrote:The steps for solving equations with fractions are the same as for solving equations without. Where are you getting stuck?
Note: Since this "fraction" is of the form "divided by one", you can ignore the denominator and simply solve "R = x(A + B)" in the usual manner.
stapel_eliz wrote:Work with the algebra, and see which of the answer-options matches your answer. The only difference is one of formatting: they did the addition/subtraction to isolate the B-term first, whereas you went the (usually harder) route of doing the multiplication/division first.
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"Self insurance, even with stop loss insurance, is wrought with so many uncertainties that it constitutes a risk of such grate magnitude that is irresponsible, if not potentially reckless." Those words were written by Sullivan County treasurer Ira Cohen and read by lawmakers David Sager at a special meeting of the legislature on September 22.
Most of the lawmakers did not agree with Cohen, and they voted seven to one to move forward with ending the county's insurance coverage with the New York State Insurance Program (NYSHIP), and instead become a self-insured county with a third party administrator, EBS-RMSCO, running the program.
Initially officials projected that the county would save $1.7 million with the switch. That was lowered to an estimated $1.2 million, but facing a $13 million deficit for 2012, the majority of lawmakers thought it was too good a deal to walk away from.
With the NYSHIP plan, the county pays monthly premiums and NYSHIP pays the claims. Under the proposed plan, the county will be responsible for paying the claims. But two separate re-insurance policies allow the county to be responsible only for claims up to $250,000 for any individual and about $16 million overall. Any costs beyond those levels will be covered by the re-insurance or "stop-loss" policies. The county, however, would have to lay out the cash and then be reimbursed, which is in part why Cohen feared it could create a cash-flow problem for the county.
County chairman Jonathan Rouis, however, said that even if the county had to borrow some short term funds, which the county does from time to time, it would still realize significant savings with the change.
Teamsters Local 445 business agent Sandy Shaddock, who represents about 600 county employees, said her members were fearful about the switch. She promised that if the new program delivered fewer services that the NYSHIP plan, the union would take the necessary steps to force the county to comply with the contract, which stipulates that health car coverage must remain essentially at the same level.
Officials have said that new coverage will be a mirror image of the old, and said that within the next six weeks EBS-RMSCO would undertake an education campaign to answer questions county employees might have. Shaddock said after the education campaign was complete, she would ask her members to vote on whether they wanted to offer the county a concession worth $1 million in exchange for keeping the NYSHIP coverage.
Lou Setren, the former business agent for the Teamsters, challenged Shaddock on that remark. He said, "The employer is obligated by contract to provide the equivalent existing coverage. To offer the employees the opportunity to take money out of their pockets, when we are already substantially underpaid compared to other counties and the private sector, is a wrong-headed move."
Monticello – The Sullivan County Legislature today approved a self-funded Health/Prescription/Dental Insurance Program that was negotiated through a Request for Proposals process, and recommended by County Manager David Fanslau. The workgroup that put in many hours researching and analyzing the program included Fanslau, Deputy County Manager Joshua Potosek, Human Resources Director Lynda Levine, Purchasing Director Kathy Jones, Risk Management and /insurance Director Monica Farquhar Brennan, and Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Management and Budget Janet Young.
"After a lot of hard work and recommendations from our county staff, I am excited to report that the County Legislature voted to implement a new, self-funded Health/Prescription/Dental Insurance Program administered through EBS-RMSCO, Inc. This new program will offer cost savings to the county, comparable care to what employees and retirees are receiving now, and an innovative healthier workforce program to offer our employees and retirees," said Legislator Alan J. Sorensen, Chairman of the Government Services Committee.
"The cost avoidance that this program will realize is critical to the County's budget process in 2012 and beyond, particularly when we are realizing reduced revenues and State Aid, and a new property tax cap law," said Jonathan F. Rouis, Chairman of the Sullivan County Legislature.
"This change will permit the County to reduce the cost of health care by $1.2 million in health insurance expenses in 2012. These cost savings will also help to reduce the burden of employee health benefits on taxpayers and is one step the County has taken to take to get our fiscal house in order," added Legislator Sorensen.
The self-funded plan will mirror the current plan documents that are in place through the New York State Health Insurance Program (NYSHIP), which will essentially become Sullivan County's plan documents. Included in the service agreement are wellness programs, and disease management programs.
"Throughout the due diligence process, I have insisted that the self-funded program would be a good plan, and provide more coverage, not less coverage. I have also insisted that as a priority of mine, that all subscribers (employees and retirees) will be educated on the details of the self-funded plan, as there is nothing worse than dealing with unknowns when facing healthcare issues," said Legislator Jodi I. Goodman, Chair of the Management and Budget Committee.
"Covered and eligible employees and covered and eligible retirees that currently have treatments, prescriptions, and diagnoses approved and covered by NYSHIP will have those same services approved seamlessly through the self-funded plan. If it is covered by NYSHIP, then it will be covered under the self-funded program. All current co-payment schedules for providers and prescriptions will remain the same as they are currently under NYSHIP," said County Manager David Fanslau.
Retirees that are Medicare primary will actually receive an enhanced benefit over the NYSHIP program, and the County will realize a reduced cost for the enhancement. Basically, if a medical provider accepts Medicare, then this program will cover 100% of costs above Medicare, and there will be no need for the medical provider to be in a network. Any retiree that is not Medicare primary eligible will be covered through the self-funded program, with the same coverage that they now receive from NYSHIP.
The County Manager will facilitate numerous educational sessions to be conducted by EBS-RMSCO, INC. that will commence next week. These sessions will educate and inform the County covered and eligible employees and the covered and eligible retirees about the self-funded Health/Prescription/Dental Program that will essentially convert the current NYSHIP plan to be the Sullivan County Plan Documents; and to review the network of providers, and take appropriate steps to realize as many of the current providers providing medical services to County subscribers, to be included in the Sullivan County network of providers as possible.
A feature that will potentially reduce plan costs is an innovative Interactive Health Solutions Program (IHS) that will be offered to County employees. This innovative program has been credited with catching serious illnesses and diseases in early stages that produce a better healthier outcome for participants, and reduced claims expenses for the plan.
"The self-funded program will not be limited to a single network of providers. This program will permit EBS-RMSCO, INC. to place subscribers in the network that is the best fit for them, as well as, the best network for the plan. Also, this program will allow EBS-RMSCO, INC. to recruit providers into Sullivan County's network, providing a great deal of flexibility," concluded Fanslau.


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Some Oahu water customers will begin receiving letters in the mail tomorrow about a glitch with their water bills.
The Board of Water Supply told KITV in June that once it realized that some customers were being overcharged, it began taking steps to get a handle on the problem.
The letters being sent to 26,000 affected customers acknowledged the mistake.
"The Board of Water Supply has discovered situations where some bills were being estimated when, in fact, actual meter readings were available," it read.
"It is being mailed area-by-area so not all the customers will receive one in the next couple of days," said Board of Water Supply chief engineer Ernest Lau.
Lau said the miscalculated bills are being canceled and recalculated, using the actual meter readings.
Not everyone was overcharged--some customers underpaid for actual usage.
So what if you owe more than you can afford to pay right now??
"We are totally willing to enter into a payment plans what they can afford to pay each month to pay off the balance," Lau said.
Lau assures that customers should not have to worry about being assessed for the Board of Water Supply's mistake.
"We are not charging late fees to our customers and they do not have to worry about interest penalties for unpaid amounts on the bills," said Lau.
Lau said while his department had been able to get the number of estimated bills down to 2 percent-- this problem was flagged when an alarming 16% of its customers' bills were estimated--and some for more than one billing period.
Lau said it may take a few billing cycles before the Board of Water Supply can tackle the backlog of problem bills.
It has hired temporary staff to try and expedite things.
If you think you have a problem with your bill, Lau said the waits for phone calls are still about a half hour-so you may get a quicker response if you go online.


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There are few things more frustrating to the FreeBSD novice than to be told to RTFM (Read The Friendly Manual), especially since the "F" does not always represent the word Friendly. Everyone quickly learns that they should always RTFM, but there are very few resources available to tell a novice "how" to find the information they need in the manual. Unless you've managed to befriend a very patient Unix guru, the fine art of manpage reading is learned through painful trial and error.
Most of the files that came with your FreeBSD system have explanations of their usage in the manual, which has been divided into sections to help categorize the different types of files. The
man utility is used to format and display the section pertaining to the file in question. To find out what sections are available, type:
intro(1) - introduction to general commands (tools and utilities)
whatis intro
Here you can see that the manual has been divided into 9 sections or categories. For example, section (1) deals with commands used by users, whereas section (8) deals with the commands or daemons used by your FreeBSD system. If you wish to read a bit more detail on the sections, type:
man 1 intro
man 2 intro
and so on for a quick explanation of what types of information are contained in each section of the manual.
Knowing the different sections of the manual is important, as some files have information in more than one section of the manual. Unfortunately, if you just type:
man name_of_file
you will only be taken to the first section that exists for that file; if that file has entries in more than one section of the manual, they will not be displayed unless you specify the section for the man utility, like this:
man (number) name_of_file
Try this:
man who
WHO(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual WHO(1)
man utmp
UTMP(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual UTMP(5)
man init
INIT(8) FreeBSD System Manager's Manual INIT(8)
Here we did not specify which section to open for the above three files, but the man utility automatically displayed the first section dealing with each file. It would appear that the first section dealing with
utmp is section 5; to prove this to yourself, try:
man 1 utmpNo entry for utmp in section 1 of the manual
man 2 utmpNo entry for utmp in section 2 of the manual
man 3 utmpNo entry for utmp in section 3 of the manual
man 4 utmpNo entry for utmp in section 4 of the manual
man 5 utmpUTMP(5) FreeBSD File Formats Manual UTMP(5)
If you're really bored, you can try the same exercise with the
init file.
When the man utility displays a section of the manual for a specified file, it uses distinct headings that are formatted in boldface print. Let's open up a manpage and examine these headings in more detail:
man who
WHO(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual WHO(1)
Again, notice that the very first line in every manpage indicates which section of the manual you are reading.
NAME who - display who is logged in
The first heading of every manpage is NAME. Whenever you use the
whatis command, every NAME heading in the manual is scanned and those files whose NAME matches your query are displayed on your terminal like this:
whatis who
biff(1) - be notified if mail arrives and who it is from
from(1) - print names of those who have sent mail
rusers(1) - who is logged in to machines on local network
rwho(1) - who is logged in on local machines
w(1) - display who is logged in and what they are doing
who(1) - display who is logged in
Note that our query for
who matched both the name and description of every manpage containing the word "who" in the NAME heading.
The next heading in every manpage is SYNOPSIS:
SYNOPSIS who am I who [file]
Since we are in section 1 of the manpages, this is a very useful heading as it contains the syntax and switches used by the command. Here, the
who command has two possible syntaxes which yield different results:
who am i
genisis ttyp0 Sep 24 10:52
genisis ttyv0 Sep 24 08:41
genisis ttyv1 Sep 24 08:42
genisis ttyv2 Sep 24 08:42
genisis ttyv3 Sep 24 09:06
genisis ttyv4 Sep 24 09:14
To understand the meaning of all the syntax options, scan the DESCRIPTION heading which immediately follows the SYNOPSIS.
The who utility displays a list of all users currently logged on, showing for each user the login name, tty name, the date and time of login, and hostname if not local.
Available options:
|am I
Returns the invoker's real user name.
By default, who gathers information from the file /var/run/utmp. An alternate file may be specified which is usually /var/run/wtmp (or /var/run/wtmp.[0-6] depending on site policy as wtmp can grow quite large, and daily versions may or may not be kept around after compression by ac(8)). The wtmp file contains a record of every login, logout, crash, shutdown and date change since wtmp was last truncated or created.
The DESCRIPTION heading for who is fairly short and intuitive once you've tried running the command both ways. Let's look at a manpage with a longer DESCRIPTION:
man ls
LS(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual LS(1)
ls - list directory contents
ls [-ABCFGHLPRTWabcdfgiklnoqrstu1] [file...]
Unlike the
who command, which had no switches, the SYNOPSIS for the
ls command looks like the ingredients in alphabet soup. Note that the only part of the synopsis that is not enclosed by
[] is
ls itself; this means that all switches and files are optional. If you just type:
you will still get a listing of your current directory.
Remember that to Unix, everything is a file, including directories. So:
ls /etc
will list the directory contents of /etc.
ls /etc/rc.conf
won't yield much, but
ls -l /etc/rc.conf
will yield information on the
rc.conf file.
The SYNOPSIS shows all legal switches, but the DESCRIPTION heading
explains the usage of each switch, in the order they were listed in the SYNOPSIS. If I wish more information on what
-l does, I can either use my page down key to look for it, or type:
/ -l
to invoke the search function and receive the following explanation:
(The lowercase letter ``ell.'') List in long format. (See below.) If the output is to a terminal, a total sum for all the file sizes is output on a line before the long listing.
One can then page down and look for the "long format," or keep pressing the
/ key until one finds it:
The Long Format
If the -l option is given, the following information is displayed for each file: file mode, number of links, owner name, group name, number of bytes in the file, abbreviated month, day-of-month file was last modified, hour file last modified, minute file last modified, and the pathname. In addition, for each directory whose contents are displayed, the total number of 512-byte blocks used by the files in the directory is displayed on a line by itself immediately before the information for the files in the directory.
The headings that follow the DESCRIPTION will vary depending on the manpage you are using. If the manpage you are reading has a FILES heading, it will list the full pathnames to the files (usually configuration files) associated with that command. For example, if we continue with:
man who
we'll see that it uses the following files:
FILES /var/run/utmp /var/log/wtmp /var/log/wtmp.[0-6]
Each file listed will probably have an associated man page in section 5, since this is the section that deals with file formats. In this case,
man 5 utmp
man 5 wtmp
will yield useful information on the formats of these files.
Section 5 of the manpages is useful whenever you need more information on what a particular configuration file does and what type of information should be put into it. For example:
man 5 resolv.conf
will bring you to section 5 of the manpage for resolver, so not only will you learn the syntax for the configuration file, you also learn what command reads this file.
Which brings us to the last heading seen in all manpages, the SEE ALSO heading:
man who
SEE ALSO last(1), users(1), getuid(2), utmp(5)
This heading is indispensable when you are learning a new command as it shows manpages that may shed additional light on the subject at hand.
In this example,
last and
users are commands related to the
who command;
getuid explains the system calls or error messages used by the who command, and
utmp is the configuration file read by the who command. We know all this thanks to the number placed in
() next to each of these names.
If I was researching this topic further, I would try:
man 5 utmp
and scan its SEE ALSO section. This would tell me that this file is also read by the user commands
login, and
w, and by the system commands
ac and
init. At that point I could do a
whatis on any file that sounded intriguing, like this:
whatis ac
ac(8) - connect time accounting
and if that description piqued my curiosity, I could learn more about this system command by doing this:
man 8 ac
You'll find that once you know what to look for in a manpage, there isn't any shortage of useful information. If anything, you may find yourself being side-tracked as you navigate from one interesting manpage to another. I'm constantly amazed at how much other stuff I learn when I thought I was going to research something else.
A couple of notes on navigation within manpages: Besides the handy
search key, you can also use
b to go back one page, and once you've found what you are looking for, you can use
q to quit and receive your cursor back. To find other navigation tricks, type
h while in a manpage to receive the help screen on the summary of commands.
Where are the manpages for the built-in utilities and configuration files actually located on your FreeBSD system? To find out, try:
whereis manman: /usr/bin/man /usr/share/man/man1/man.1
ls -aF /usr/share/man./ cat4/ catn/ man4/ mann/ ../ cat5/ ja/ man5/ whatis cat1/ cat6/ man1/ man6/ cat1aout/ cat7/ man1aout/ man7/ cat2/ cat8/ man2/ man8/ cat3/ cat9/ man3/ man9/
I used the
a and
F switches with the
ls command to show all entries in
/usr/share/man, and to include the
/ symbol after directory entries.
Note that the manpages themselves are stored in
/usr/share/man. This directory contains subdirectories for all of the commands in each section of the manpages. Since section 1 of the manual contains user commands, there is a separate directory for the newer elf format and older aout format commands.
Many new FreeBSD users despair that they don't know what manpage to read because they don't know which command they need to accomplish a task. Next time you're bored and want to learn more about your FreeBSD system, try a
ls /usr/share/man/man1
to receive a listing of the available manpages for the built-in (elf) utilities that came with your FreeBSD system. If you're half as curious as I am, you'll have several hours of interesting manpage reading ahead of you.
If you want to learn more about the built-in configuration files, try:
ls /usr/share/man/man5
And to find out more about the system utilities that came with your FreeBSD system:
ls /usr/share/man/man8
And my favorite time-killer:
ls /usr/share/man/man6
You're probably better off not trying that last command at work; save it for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
And what about the
cat subdirectories? We'll save those til next week when we discuss how the
man utility formats and displays manpages and what effect this formatting has on your ability to search within and to print
Dru Lavigne is a network and systems administrator, IT instructor, author and international speaker. She has over a decade of experience administering and teaching Netware, Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint, SCO, Solaris, Linux, and BSD systems. A prolific author, she pens the popular FreeBSD Basics column for O'Reilly and is author of BSD Hacks and The Best of FreeBSD Basics.
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Visitors to Texas Woman's University in Denton often remark at the beauty and warmth felt while on campus. From our historic buildings to our lush gardens, from the Little Chapel-in-the-Woods to the public golf course, our campus invites visitors to take a closer look and explore.
You can start your tour here, or choose from the list of buildings.
Denton Campus Buildings
- ADM: Admissions Building
Admissions, Financial Aid, Scholarship and Registrar's offices
- ACT: Administration & Conference Tower
- ASB: Arts & Sciences Building
- MUS: Music Building
Margo Jones Performance Hall
- ART: Visual Arts Building
- HDB: Human Development Building
- OMB: Old Main Building
- CFO: Classroom Faculty Office Building
- MCL: Multipurpose Classroom Laboratory Building
- HH: Hubbard Hall
Department of Public Safety, Student Health
- BHL: Blagg-Huey Library
- SH: Stoddard Hall
- JH: Mary Gibbs Jones Hall
- GSH: John A. Guinn Hall & Nelda C. Stark Residence Halls
The Commons
- LC: Little Chapel-in-the-Woods
- SC: Student Union
Bookstore, Post Office
- PH: Pioneer Hall
- Greenhouse
- Gardens
- Redbud Lane
- Information Booth
- Pioneer Woman Statue


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OverviewVerilog and VHDL are commonly used to model digital designs. Designers use RTL constructs to describe hardware behaviors. However, certain RTL simulation semantics are insufficient to accurately model hardware behavior. Therefore, simulation results are either too optimistic or pessimistic as compared to actual hardware behavior.
Verilog and VHDL RTL simulators ignore the uncertainty of X-valued control signals and assign predictable output values because of these semantic limitations. As a result, RTL simulations often fail to detect design problems related to the lack of X-propagation. However, these same design problems can be detected in gate-level simulations, and often many gate-level simulations must be run only to debug X-related issues. With the new X-propagation support at RTL in VCS®, engineers can now save time and effort debugging differences in X-modeling between RTL and gate-level simulation results.
VCS Xprop Datasheet
VCS XpropVCS® Xprop is designed to help find X-related issues at RTL and reduce the requirement for lengthy gate-level simulations. The simulation semantics of conditional constructs in both HDL languages, Verilog and VHDL, are insufficient to accurately model the ambiguity inherent in un-initialized registers and poweron reset values. These issues are particularly problematic when the indeterminate states that are modeled as 'X' values become control expressions.
One of the most common sources of simulation differences highlighted when VCS Xprop is enabled is incorrect initialization sequences. The behavior is typically caused by a reset or clock signal transitioning from 0 to X, 1 to X or vice-versa. If a flip-flop is sensitive to the rising edge of its clock signal, an X to 1 transition will trigger the flip-flop and pass the value from input to output when coded using the Verilog posedge or the traditional VHDL flip-flop behavioral code: clk'event and clk'1'. Conversely, if the flip-flop is coded using the VHDL rising_edge(event) construct, the flip-flop will not load a new value. Effectively, the Verilog construct as well as one VHDL construct consider the X to 1 transition as true while the other VHDL construct considers it as false. However, in a VCS Xprop simulation, the same clock transition will cause the flip-flop to merge the input and output, possibly resulting in an unknown value. Hence, to effectively load new values onto a flip-flop, you must ensure that clock signals have valid and stable values, which will be shown in RTL run through a VCS Xprop-enabled simulation.
Figure 1: Verilog Semantics with and without VCS Xprop
VCS Xprop Scope and SupportVCS Xprop is user-controllable in scope allowing partial instrumentation of the design. A user can also configure VCS Xprop to user different merge algorithms (providing support more or less pessimistic semantics). VCS Xprop works with all testbench and high-level description languages supported by VCS (SystemVerilog, SystemC/ C++ and VHDL). VCS technologies including coverage, debug, and native low power are also supported with a VCS Xprop simulation as well as VCS in co-simulation mode including AMS co-simulation.
Figure 2: VCS native low power simulation with and without VCS Xprop enabled
VCS Xprop DebugWhen a bug is found in VCS Xpropenabled simulations, the user may still dump waveforms. Debugging an X-related simulation mismatch actually becomes easier at RTL rather than at gate level because RTL descriptions are closer to the actual functional intent of a circuit. There are different methods to debug RTL simulation failures, but typically, when VCS Xprop is enabled, the regression is run, a regression or test failure is identified, the test is rerun with waveform dumping enabled, the user goes to the point of test failure (usually identified by an assertion or monitor failure), and the user leverages signal tracing to identify the origin of the X and root cause the problem.
Figure 3: X-tracing a VCS Xprop-enabled simulation in Verdi3™
VCS Xprop Improves the Efficiency of X-related DebugVCS Xprop has been shown to be effective on dozens of commercial designs and has been in production since 2010. VCS Xprop provides a methodology to debug X-related issues quickly in large designs with no additional tools or recoding required. Please contact your account team for more information.
Synopsys VerificationSee the complete list of verification solutions at http://www.synopsys.com/ verification/.
For more information about Synopsys products, support services or training, visit us on the web at: www.synopsys.com, contact your local sales representative or call 650.584.5000.


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This is Jeremy Keith's brilliant session on The Long Web from Tuesday, Oct 8 2013 at Future of Web Design in New York City.
Before Clearleft Jeremy was a freelancer front-end developer, working with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Jeremy acts as the Research and Development wing of Clearleft: investigating new technologies, trying out new techniques, and keeping abreast of the ever-changing world of web development. He also curates our annual conference dConstruct.
At Clearleft, Jeremy has worked on projects for Nuts.com, Razoo and Rate My Area, and Matter, an exciting Kickstarter-funded online journalism project.


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Located on the lower level of the historic St. Francis Xavier (College) Church, the Xavier Ballroom has been celebrating special occasions in the heart of St. Louis for 15 years!
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The Ballroom can seat up to 330 people for a seated dinner, 275 for a buffet-style event, and 550 theater style.
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We hope that you enjoy our website and schedule an appointment to visit our Ballroom by contacting Sandy Hauck, Facilities Coordinator, by phone at 314-977-7303 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Show of arms Event promoter vows background checks on gun sales
Bill Borchers thinks Vermont and its gun laws have gotten a bad reputation in recent months. Hes trying to change that perception by setting an example at his gun shows.
For seven years the Chester man has brought the Vermont Gun Show to venues throughout Vermont including Rutland, where hundreds will gather today and Sunday for the shows fourth annual appearance in the city.
In Borchers experience, the vendors, buyers and sellers who attend his shows are responsible, law-abiding gun owners.
Which is why in the wake of the shooting spree in Connecticut three months ago, he said hes discouraged that Vermonts gun laws and sales are being portrayed as what he describes as the lawless West.
Right after the unfortunate scene in Connecticut, Vermont got a lot of undue press about being a wide-open state where you can buy guns off the street, he said.
Borchers was referring to fact that in Vermont, gun shop owners are required by federal law to perform background checks on buyers but no conditions or restrictions exist for private sales including those at gun shows.
Some Vermont communities have imposed their own rules for gun shows, including Burlington which bans the sale of assault weapons at shows and Barre where background checks are required for all transactions at shows.
Rutland doesnt have any special requirements for gun shows on the books. Mayor Christopher Louras has said that he leaves public safety issues in the hands of his police chief and he reiterated that view this week.
Im not at all worried, Louras said. Like I said before, unless theres a compelling reason to get involved, then I will take no role in their affairs.
Borchers said he doesnt want to give city officials or anyone else the idea that his gun show is a place where guns could end up in the wrong hands. Thats why one of the house rules for his show is that vendors and private sellers alike must do background checks on potential buyers.
I didnt want guys in the inner city saying Hey, lets go to Vermont to buy guns, he said. Dealers and nondealers alike dont want to sell their guns to a felon.
At no additional expense, Borchers said his show provides sellers with the means to conduct the background checks.
Of the 50 background checks conducted so far this year for sellers who were not gun shop owners at his shows, Borchers said only one buyer didnt check out.
The gun shows willingness to expand the level of background checks, coupled with a high level of security, put it in good standing with Rutland Police Chief James Baker.
The promoter reached out to us early on, he said. Hes very conscientious. Were not expecting any issues.
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Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP)
Type: Nutrition assistance
Max Award: Varies by state, payments range from $15-$50 per person each year
Big Idea: To provide low-income seniors with coupons that can be exchanged for fruits, vegetables, herbs and honey at farmers' markets, roadside stands and community supported agriculture (CSA) programs, and to promote the use and expansion of farmers' markets, roadside stands, and CSA programs throughout the country.
Who Can Apply: Low-income seniors, generally defined as individuals who are at least 60 years old and who have household incomes of not more than 185% of the federal poverty income guidelines
Possibilities: State agencies have considerable flexibility in the type of program model they choose to provide SFMNP benefits to eligible senior participants:
- Most States use a coupon model, in which checks or coupons are issued to each participant, who then takes the checks or coupons to an authorized farmers' market or roadside stand. In 2010, over 21,000 seniors visited 850 farmers, at 210 farmers' markets and 70 roadside stands to purchase locally-grown fruits and vegetables.
- Some States purchase bulk quantities of fruits and vegetables directly from local farmers and then provide each participant with boxes or bags of produce on a regular basis throughout the harvest season. Each of West Virginia's 24,000 SFMNP participants received a five-pound bag of West Virginia-grown apples last year.
- And a few States operate in cooperation with CSA programs, purchasing a share on behalf of each senior participant of selected farmers' harvests. Maine's FarmShare Program provided close to $1 million to its 141 participating farmers between May and October 2010 by signing up nearly 19,000 senior shareholders through the SFMNP.
Real example: Fresh, nutritious, unprepared fruits, vegetables, herbs, and honey may be purchased with SFMNP benefits.
Get more information: For more program information, please visit the Food and Nutrition Service's (FNS) Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) page, and to apply, please visit the FNS's SFMNP contacts page (the program is generally operated through State departments of agriculture or health and is currently in 51 states, territories, and Indian Tribal Organizations).


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The state Department of Transportation is advising Oahu motorists that access to Lagoon Drive, adjacent to the Honolulu International Airport, will be restricted south of Aolele Street to area business tenants, their employees and customers on official business from 6 p.m., Monday night, December 31, to 2 a.m., Tuesday morning, January 1.
Sheriff's Deputies will be operating a security checkpoint and patrolling on Aolele Street to ensure that only authorized persons and materials are allowed access to Lagoon Drive. Consumption of alcoholic beverages, use of fireworks and open flames are not permitted on airport property.
Anyone seeing suspicious persons or unsafe activities near the Honolulu International Airport is encouraged to contact the Sheriff's Detail at 836-6606 or the Airport Duty Manager at 836-6434.


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State lawmakers continue to twiddle their thumbs on pension reform, arguably the most significant issue facing Illinois in a generation.
Separate reform bills passed by the House and the Senate have lingered for nearly two weeks now.
But what's the hurry, right? There still are two weeks remaining in the spring legislative session.
Never mind that the state's five failing public pension systems are underfunded by more than $96 billion. Or that that number grows by about $17 million a day.
You'd think these staggering numbers would be enough to spur action by our legislative leaders.
So what's taking so long?
Well, there apparently are more burning issues in Springfield.
Count legalizing medical marijuana as one.
That's right. Illinois Senators on Friday joined their colleagues in the House in passing a bill that will allow doctors to prescribe marijuana to patients with specific terminal illnesses. The vote in the Senate was 35-21 in favor.
Of McHenry County's legislators, Sen. Pam Althoff, R-McHenry, voted with the majority while Sens. Dan Duffy, R-Lake Barrington, and Karen McConnaughay, R-St. Charles, opposed.
Last month, the House voted 61-57 to legalize medical marijuana as part of a four-year pilot program. With the Senate's approval, the bill now moves to Gov. Pat Quinn, who has not indicated whether he will sign or veto it.
I don't dispute that there are some merits – as well as significant risks – to legalizing medical marijuana. But with our state facing fiscal insolvency, should legislators be spending time on this issue?
Of course not.
As every day passes, we get closer to the time when more taxpayer money will be spent on retired public employees than current ones. That means deteriorating public services, including in our schools.
Our message to our elected representatives and senators in Springfield should be this: Enough of the nonsense! Get back to work on our precarious fiscal situation. Pass meaningful pension reform – that excludes the bill that passed the Senate – now!
By tomorrow, we're another $18 million in the hole.
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Pat on the back: I spend enough time and space berating elected officials when I think they're doing a bad job. I should acknowledge them when they accomplish something in the public's interest.
State Rep. Jack Franks, D-Marengo, and Sen. Duffy managed to get legislation passed through the General Assembly that eliminates pension and insurance benefits for future appointees to Chicago-area mass-transit boards.
One of the many reasons this state is going broke is because far too many undeserving people are eating at the public trough. Part-time members of state boards (or less than part-time – some don't event meet once a month) should not qualify for taxpayer-funded insurance or pension benefits.
With help from Duffy, Franks bill passed the Senate on a 54-0 vote last week. It was approved by the House in April, 106-0.
These transit board members already are paid a decent public salary for the work they do. An RTA board member receives $25,000 a year, a CTA board member gets $20,000, and a Metra board member is paid $15,000 annually.
I encourage Franks, Duffy and McHenry County's other lawmakers to get similar legislation passed for this state's many other less-than-part-time boards.
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Chilly night: Despite near freezing temperatures, more than 300 people spent last Saturday night in tents, cardboard boxes and other makeshift shelters at Living Waters Lutheran Church to support programming for McHenry County's homeless population. With other participants throughout the county, more than 550 participated this year, according to Christin Kruse, chief development officer at Pioneer Center for Human Services.
The fourth annual SleepOut for Shelter unofficially raised about $65,000 for McHenry County PADS, a division of Pioneer Center. I say "unofficial" because pledges still were being tabulated late last week.
As a member of Pioneer Center's Board of Directors, I want to thank all the volunteers and participants who made this year's fundraiser such a huge success. That includes Pastor Carol Gates and the Living Waters Lutheran Church, which hosted the event.
Special thanks also go out to Vince Foglia and Sage Products, the Cary-based company that Foglia founded. They have been huge supporters of PADS and SleepOut for years. Foglia also helped to inspire Lake County PADS to join in the efforts. Lake County PADS raised just under $60,000 with its SleepOut event, its largest fundraiser ever.
Barb Swanson, Pioneer's community outreach and special events coordinator, also deserves a shoutout for organizing such an outstanding event.
Thanks again to all.
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment on Tuesday announced a new universal media that combines Blu-ray and DVD movies on the same media. The new "flipper disc" technology will allow to enjoy new movies on both Blu-ray disc (BD) and DVD players, however, the question is whether the cost of the new media type will actually be economically feasible.
"Universal's flipper discs are the perfect way for consumers to future-proof their collections while still enjoying their favorite movies on all their existing DVD players. The flipper disc offers an easy way for viewers to convert to Blu-ray now or at any time in the future, confident in the fact they will be able to experience their home entertainment purchases in the highest quality picture and sound when they do," said Craig Kornblau, president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Universal's flipper discs will feature two Blu-ray layers holding 50GB capacity in total in addition to a couple of DVD layers with up to 9GB of information. Each side of Universal's flipper discs includes the entire movie as well as all available bonus features, with the Blu-ray side featuring exciting BD exclusives such as U-Control and BD-Live. So, in general, the flipper seems to be similar to DVD/HD DVD combo discs that were used by Universal and Warner Brothers several years ago. As a result, flipper technology has chances eventually be used by other studios as well.
An interesting matter is that while DVD and HD DVD replication technologies had a lot in common, Blu-ray and DVD have virtually nothing in common. As a result, production cost of flipper discs is likely to be high since Universal will need new manufacturing equipment. In fact, Warner Brothers already proposed Total HD format that would combine BD and HD DVD onto the same media, but eventually dropped the idea since no other companies supported it. Thus, the question is whether flipper discs will be much more expensive than Blu-ray discs that already carry premium price tag.
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Vt. House to give final approval to aid in dyingThe Associated Press | May 01,2013MONTPELIER — The Vermont House is expected to give final approval to a bill that would allow Vermont doctors to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who request it.
The likely final passage of the bill sets up a clash with the state Senate, which passed a different proposal.
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The House version contains several safeguards, including waiting periods totaling 17 days, the requirement that the patient be deemed mentally competent and make the request three times, once in writing, as well as others.
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Oops! 'Newsroom' Star Alison Pill Accidentally Posts Nude Photo On Twitter
The Newsroom star Alison Pill accidentally posted a topless photo of herself on twitter Wednesday, surprising her 14,000-strong fanbase with the revealing shot. The photo was intended for Alison's actor fiancee Jay Baruchel.
Alison, who plays associate producer Maggie on the hit HBO series, quickly deleted the image and apologized to her fans -- but the damage was done and the photo has made its way around the internet (obviously) .
"Yep. That picture happened," she tweeted. "Ugh. My tech issues have now reached new heights, apparently. How a deletion turned into a tweet... Apologies."
The actress didn't seem to mind the image getting around though -- after all, a few screenshots of her flashing her breasts in the 2004 movie Dear Wendy; about a town of misfit teens who join together with a passion for guns and pacifism; has been circling the 'net for years.
And Baruchel had no problem with his fiance's mess-up either; he replied to her tweet with, "My fiancee is an hilarious dork" and "Smartphones will get ya."
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Iowa Past to Present Online Teacher's Guide
Browse the links on this page or select a chapter from the list below for related content and classroom resources.
Chapter 13: Life on the Farm—Iowa Style
Agriculture has always been important in Iowa, which is known throughout the nation as a major farm state. During the nineteenth century, most Iowans lived of farms. Farming is still Iowa's most important industry, although most Iowans now live in cities and towns. Today, living on a farm is not too different from living in town, but for many years farm living and town living were very different.Explore the resources on this page to find out more about ideas in the chapter:
- Iowa Past to Present Teacher Guide: Chapter 13
- Pathways: Find related articles and make connections with other ideas in Iowa history.
- Artifacts: View related images, videos and more.
- Side Trails: Explore more on this topic on other websites.
Suggested Classroom Resources and Lesson Plans
- Camp Silos, Silos & Smokestacks National Heritage Area
- Social and Economic Development in Iowa 1870 - 1940, Explorations in Iowa History Project, University of Northern Iowa
- "Work" Curriculum Collection, Prairie Voices, State Historical Society of Iowa
- Iowa Pathways Quest and Challenges
The Iowa Pathways Quest and Challenges are a collection of tasks that support students as they make and interpret connections among the people, places, events, and ideas of Iowa. Worksheets that model the thinking and research process are provided, as well as rubrics to aid you and your students.
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Iowa Past to Present Chapter Listing
This online teachers guide was developed as a companion to the textbook Iowa Past to Present: The People and the Prairie (Revised 3rd Ed.); written by Dorothy Schwieder, Thomas Morain, and Lynn Nielsen; published by University of Iowa Press. Select a chapter from the list below to find related content and classroom resources.
- Chapter 1: The Changing Land
- Chapter 2: American Indians, The Earliest People in Iowa
- Chapter 3: Many Flags over Iowa
- Chapter 4: Pioneers on the Prairie
- Chapter 5: Pioneer Life on the Prairie
- Chapter 6: Rivers, Trails, and Train Tracks, Transportation in the 1800s
- Chapter 7: A Nation Divided
- Chapter 8: Settlers from Many Lands
- Chapter 9: Providing a Government
- Chapter 10: Schools for a New State
- Chapter 11: Keeping Faith on the Frontier
- Chapter 12: Experiments in Community Living
- Chapter 13: Life on the Farm—Iowa Style
- Chapter 14: New Inventions Bring Change
- Chapter 15: Business and Industry in Iowa
- Chapter 16: Word War I and Hard Times After
- Chapter 17: Depression, Changing Times, and World War II
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It's the first week of January, a common time for us to evaluate our lives and maybe make one or more of those famous New Year's resolutions. In fact, according to Statistic Brain, the most common New Year's resolution for Americans is to lose weight, followed by get organized and spend less. Of course, the website also reports that while 45 percent of Americans usually make a New Year's resolution, only 8 percent are successful in achieving that resolution.
This year, I encourage you to think differently about resolutions. Consider how you can take steps to make your career healthier. In "Strategic Leadership: The Essential Skills," which appears in the January/February issue of the Harvard Business Review, Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Steve Krupp, and Samantha Howland lay out six skills that "when mastered and used in concert, allow leaders to think strategically and navigate the unknown effectively." The six skills are [the ability to]
The authors offer tips on improving these six skills. For example, to hone anticipating skills, they advise talking to customers, suppliers, and other partners to understand their challenges; using scenario planning to conceive of a variety of futures and "prepare for the unexpected;" attending conferences and events in other industries or functions; and more.
Up first under the recommendations for improving challenge abilities is focusing on the root causes of problems rather than the symptoms—looking at the five whys. The APICS Dictionary, 13th Edition, defines the five whys as follows: "The common practice in total quality management is to ask 'why' five times when confronted with a problem. By the time the answer to the fifth 'why' is found, the ultimate cause of the problem is identified." I know that readers in the APICS community are familiar with this concept. Also included is encouraging debate and including "naysayers" in the decision-making process. Learning in the New Year
It should come as no surprise that "learn" is an essential skill for strategic leadership. "Strategic leaders are the focal point for organizational learning," Schoemaker, Krupp, and Howland write. "They promote a culture of inquiry, and they search for the lessons in both successful and unsuccessful outcomes."
Among the authors' recommendations for improving the skill of learning are rewarding managers who try something impressive but fail in terms of outcomes; conducting annual learning audits to determine where decisions and team interactions may have been unsuccessful; and indentifying initiatives that are not producing as expected and examining the root causes.
Your connection to APICS can enhance your ability, not only to learn, but to anticipate, challenge, interpret, decide, and align as well. Whether you attend an APICS conference, earn your APICS Certified in Production and Inventory Management or Certified Supply Chain Professional designation, or participate in your first (or 50th) APICS professional development meeting, APICS prepares you to be a strategic leader. Browse apics.org to see where APICS can take you in 2013.
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Expansion of the DEcIDE Distributed Research Network (DRN) Infrastructure to Support Studies of Comparative Effectiveness – Part II
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Background: Clinical, administrative, and other kinds of health care information from very large populations provide a valuable resource for investigating the potential harms and benefits of treatments in different patient groups and across different settings of care. A distributed network supports AHRQ's Effective Health Care goals to conduct patient-centered research by providing standardized and re-usable information technology approaches that may speed the initiation and conduct of comparative effectiveness studies through the DEcIDE program. A fully-operational distributed research network (DRN) may also allow for rapid evidence generation on the effects of new treatments and other medical technologies. In addition, a fully operational system may make actionable information available in a more timely way than traditionally occurs in standard research environments. In the first phase of this pilot project, DEcIDE investigators developed the design specifications for a scalable DRN, created a prototype for the network (see http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/index.cfm/search-for-guides-reviews-and-reports/?pageaction=displayproduct&productid=316), performed a study using distributed research principles assessing the comparative effectiveness of second line anti-hypertensive therapy, and created a blueprint for implementing a distributed research network. This next phase of the project builds upon that initial work.
Objectives: This is the second phase of a project to continue testing and to implement a distributed research network infrastructure that supports patient-centered studies and collaborative research on comparative effectiveness. The objectives of the project are to:
1) Expand the one DRN model that was created in phase 1, including enhancing the security, scientific capacity, governance structure, and functionality of the application and web portal to address questions of comparative effectiveness;
2) Institute a DRN Stakeholder Committee;
3) Develop new research topics nominated from stakeholders for comparative effectiveness using the DRN;
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5) Collaborate with the other DEcIDE investigators testing other models to implement DRN's.
Methods: The project will make operational a scalable data network that supports secure analyses of electronic information across multiple organizations. With appropriate IRB protection of human rights and privacy, investigators will build on the prototype developed during the first phase of work to expand the network's technical capabilities, develop governance policies, create an array of partnerships to stimulate use of the network, and collaborate with AHRQ to disseminate the findings of this work. Activities will include substantially enhancing the functionality of the existing DRN prototype, creating operational network "nodes" that include four or more large health plan sites, investigating the technical requirements needed to perform distributed multi-variate analysis using network resources, developing a governance plan for the use of the network resources, updating a million member DRN research dataset created during phase 1, convening a stakeholder group to advise on the use of network resources, using the recommendations of this group to select a study that uses the expanded dataset, collaborating with 2 of AHRQ's DEcIDE research consortia to develop research proposals that would take advantage of the future DRN, collaborating with DARTNet (another DEcIDE DRN project), and participating with AHRQ in programs that disseminate the project findings and engage relevant stakeholders.
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This album just seems to be oozing with ideas. Blackened death/grind, thrash, catchy (if not forgettable) hooks, and even some nice stuff which is perfect for walking through the woods in late autumn (the not so mellow kind fyi). I feel the album is almost at its worst when they're trying to straight up black metal. Sometimes it sounds like immortal, but usually sunds unoriginal. Sadly even some of the best parts are hurt by a lack of direction or forethought. The best example of this would be "Abaddon the Destroyer", with its thrash rhythm section which would make any band of the a mentioned genre green with envy....only to be ruined by a consistent power chord melody (it may not actually be a power chord, but it wounds like it to me) slabbed right in the middle of it, simply breaking any momentum of energy brought about by the riff. Maybe it could have been more progressive or better timed, but it just seems so pointlessly tacked on. At times I feel some of the melodies should have really opened up more. Overall, not terribly original and could use more pollish. If this was a new band, I'd say they have some great promise, but they seem to have been around the block for a bit now, and looking at there more recent album, they aren't changing much.


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(BLUEFIELD)—Spring Semester 2013 general registration will be conducted at Bluefield State College campuses in Bluefield and Beckley on Friday, January 18, 2013 (8 a.m.-4 p.m.). Faculty will be in their offices to assist advisees. There will be no general registration on Thursday, January 17.
BSC features 14 nationally accredited programs of study and a variety of career-focused academic disciplines. Full-time, in-state tuition ($2,590/semester) is the most affordable among all public baccalaureate colleges and universities in West Virginia. For full-time students living in out-of-state counties bordering West Virginia, tuition is now $3,772/semester. Out-of-state tuition for all other full-time students is $4,972/semester.
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PRINCESS ANNE, MD-(May 24, 2011)"Go with your dream. It is your job to make it come true," Gloria Banks, the speaker at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore's 124th spring commencement on May 20, told some 400 graduates.
Banks talked about overcoming challenges—her struggle with dyslexia, being a victim of domestic violence in a first marriage and becoming a single mother—to go on to graduate with an MBA from Harvard, become one of Mary Kay Inc's top saleswomen and meet and marry the man of her dreams.
"Look up. Reach up. Expect up. You'll be in a position to reach down and bring someone with you," she said.
Of the graduates sitting before her, 254 were from within the state—73 of which from the Lower Shore. Top programs based on number of graduates this year were criminal justice and biology with 42 and 33 graduates, respectively.
President Thelma B. Thompson also addressed a capacity crowd at the William P. Hytche Athletic Center. She touched on a few of the highlights of the academic year. The UMES School of Business and Technology recently received accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business for its undergraduate business degree program—a milestone for the school that took six years to reach and created a plus for graduates.
Thompson also announced a partnership between the university and IBM over the past two years is paying dividends for the university's business and technology students. With a modified curriculum and guest lecturers from the corporation, some of the students have found high-paying jobs in computer technology and related fields.
Honorary degrees were awarded to Annapolis businessman Maurice B. Tose' and Banks. T. Jan Wiseman, executive director of the Greater Salisbury Committee, and John T. Steele, an agriculture economist solving hunger problems southern Sudan, received UMES Presidential medals.
An honor guard from the university's Department of Public Safety presented the colors followed by the national anthem by graduating seniors from the UMES Concert Choir. International students attending the university presented a colorful "Parade of International Flags." The UMES Gospel and Concert choirs and the Wind Ensemble performances enlivened the ceremony.
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Food lovers who also cross country ski, take note. For two Saturdays in February, Treetops Resort and Spa in Gaylord is hosting its inaugural Skiable Feast.
The progressive ski/meal, held on Feb. 1 and 15 beginning at 11am, features a four kilometer tracked trail through rolling hills and pine forests along the Pigeon River on the resort's property.
Stops along the way include an old bridge shelter and a couple of vintage cabins, where skiers will sample gourmet goodies prepared by Treetops' culinary team.
Novices and experienced cross-country skiers will cruise at their own pace through Project Nature, an area that once held an outdoor zoo with exotic animals back in the early 1980s.
Project Nature fell on economic hard times, and Treetops, then owned by Harry Melling, purchased the remote tract of undeveloped acreage. Elk and deer have been spotted in the area and bobcat tracks have been seen along the river.
The cost of the event is $79 per person, which includes trail pass, transportation and five food stations paired with Michigan beers and wines. The Nordic Center in the Jones Pro Shop is the meeting place and first food station. There are assorted miniquiches and a Greek yogurt bar with lots of flavors to start.
Next, skiers will be bused to Project Nature, embarking on the trail from the Old Bridge shelter after sampling pastry treats and fruit kabobs.
A kilometer later, skiers will enjoy venison or white bean chicken chili and grilled vegetable and beef kabobs brushed with a house-made bourbon glaze.
The longest section is about three kilometers and meanders to a wilderness cabin near a pond. Organizers say this section is best for viewing wildlife. Pan fried cod sliders topped with coleslaw and tarragon tartar sauce will be served by an open fire.
A final half-kilometer ski takes skiers back to a bus, which circles back to the Nordic Center and the final food station. There, hot and cold hors d'oeuvres, beer, and wine will be served for skiers who want to unwind one final time.
For those who would like to stay overnight, Treetops has a package that includes a night's lodging, breakfast, and feast. It starts from $146 per person, based on double occupancy.
The Skiable Feast is scheduled for two Saturdays in February: the 1st and the 15th. The feast starts at 11am and costs $79 per person. For more information, call Treetops Resort and Spa at (866) 348-5249.