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Police, college edu­cators and social ser­vices experts have once again joined forces to present two one-hour classes at the University of Sci­ence and Arts of Ok­lahoma. The courses, Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, are a joint effort be­tween three local in­stitutions -- the Women's Ser­vice and Family Resource Center, the Chickasha Police Department and USAO's sociology faculty.

Can you believe summer is already over? Just like when I was in elementary school, it flew by. Especially as soccer season quickly approached.

And now, I firmly believe I will be crazy busy until school breaks in December. But that's the nature of the business, and you know I love it.

Letter from the President / The Trend Freshman Issue
August 2010

Welcome freshmen and returning students!

Letter from the President to Discover Chickasha Special Edition
Chickasha Express Star / Summer 2009

Our Second Century has begun!

SET GLOBAL max_allowed_packet=16*1024*1024;

Use this snippet if Drupal is giving you this error: user warning: Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes query:

DELETE FROM cache;

Used to delete all from table... replace "cache" with whatever table you want to delete all entries from.

I was reading my favorite blog today, The Daily Heller, and he mused about this book 420 Characters. Illustrator Lou Beach is using his Facebook status (limited to 420 characters) as a holding place for short stories, very short stories, and very poetic. How creative is that! Last year I was reading about sms poetry contests, and now facebook status short stories!

Can't Wait for Fall 2010!  Come by & See Me!

USAO is an amazing place to work.  I love interacting with the students.  My husband and I have become very close friends with a girl from Africa.  It's wonderful to get to know students from many different nations, including this one. Each student is extra special; all kinds of different personalities and outlooks.  Each one created for something special in life.

Change permissions Recursively

For chmod and chown you can use the -R option. With -R it is possible to change files and directories recursively.  This will change the permissions of the testfolder and all files and subdirectories inside.

chmod -R 755 /testfolder

File Transfer via SSH

copy from a remote machine to my machine:

scp user@192.168.1.100:/remote_user/Desktop/file.txt /me/Desktop/file.txt

copy from my machine to a remote machine:

Today I added Git (the fast version control system) to our server so that I should be able to keep track of code changes.  This involved a few days of research and a ton of trial and error.   The best resource I could find would be joemaller.com.  His site had exactly what I needed.