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"George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People": Hip Hop, Public Discourse And Black Politics In The Early 21st Century, Hazel Bell James Cole

Dissertations

Recently, more scholars are examining hip hop as a powerful cultural, communicative force, yet hip hop's political orientation goes unnoticed. This study highlights the politics found in hip hop culture and in rap music since 2000 by exploring hip hop as a social movement. This study utilizes a critical, cultural approach by applying ideological case study and textual analyses methods. Song lyrics, activist efforts and black politics prove the political orientation of hip hop culture, which revealed that rap music in general is limited by capitalistic, hegemonic restraints juxtaposed to rappers serving as the legitimate voice of the marginalized and …

Campus Connection, December 2008, Vol. 10 No. 4, California State University, Monterey Bay

Campus Connection

Tanimura & Antle Family Memorial Library Opens -- WeTEC Guides Broadband Collaborative -- Aquarius Research Project Is 'Great Success' -- CSUMB Organizing New Philanthropic Foundation -- New General Manager Of Dining Services Named -- Be A Hero: Volunteer For Have A Heart -- Meet Chris Carpenter -- President's Speaker Series: Charles Fishman -- Workplace Walk-off Teams Log 28,284 Miles -- New Employees, Status Changes, Probation Passed -- Helping Students By Giving -- The New Library At A Glance -- Next At The World Theater: ODC Dance 'The Velveteen Rabbit"

December 2008

NASIG Newsletter

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An Alternative Calendar In Select Middle Schools In An Urban City School District, Mattie Lee Solomon

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study was conducted to understand parental perspectives on mandatory academies (intersessions) in three alternative (year-round) calendar middle schools. The alternative calendar was implemented by the study school district to improve student performance and parent attitudes toward the education their children receive. Academics (intersessions) are the source of time added to improve student performance. The three middle schools are located in an urban school district in the Midwestern state of Indiana. The students who attend are from lower socio-economic homes; the majority of the students live in homes where the guardian is a single mother or a member of the …

Recounting The Hurricane Of 1938: Local Memories Of A Regional Disaster, Syma A. Ebbin

Wrack Lines

The Hurricane of 1938 was one of those defining moments that divide time into parts that either precede or follow. It was transformative, impacting human lives and settlements as well as natural systems, coastal and inland, aquatic and terrestrial, with a force unsurpassed in the region’s living memory. Seventy years have now passed since that hurricane made its historic landfall on the afternoon of September 21, 1938. Humans have regrouped and rebuilt and nature has regenerated and reclaimed, but the memories of those who lived through the Hurricane of ‘38 remain.

Cole Train | V.7, No.1 (Fall 2008), Houston Cole Library

Library Annual Reports & Newsletters

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An Investigation Of The Reliability And Validity Of The Caperton Forgiveness Styles Inventory, Duane Caperton

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This research was an investigation into the process of forgiveness. The analysis of qualitative interviews with nearly 100 participants suggested four different approaches, or styles, of forgiving and non-forgiving. The Intrapersonal style describes people who forgive other people by focusing on their own thoughts, feelings, and actions. The Interpersonal style describes people who forgive other people by focusing on the thoughts, feelings, and actions of the offending persons. The Easy Going style describes the people who never forgive anyone because they rarely or never feel offended and consequently rarely or never feel the need to forgive others. The Grudge Holder …

A Performance And Productivity Study Using Mpi, Titanium, And Fortress, Amy Apon, Chris Bryan, Wesley Emeneker

Publications

The popularity of cluster computing has increased focus on usability, especially in the area of programmability. Languages and libraries that require explicit message passing have been the standard. New languages, designed for cluster computing, are coming to the forefront as a way to simplify parallel programming. Titanium and Fortress are examples of this new class of programming paradigms. This papers presents results from a productivity study of these two newcomers with MPI, the de- facto standard for parallel programming.

Geothermal (Ground-Source) Heat Pumps: Market Status, Barriers To Adoption, And Actions To Overcome Barriers, Patrick J. Hughes

United States Department of Energy: Publications

More effective stewardship of our resources contributes to the security, environmental sustainability, and economic well-being of the nation. Buildings present one of the best opportunities to economically reduce energy consumption and limit greenhouse gas emissions. Geothermal heat pumps (GHPs), sometimes called ground-source heat pumps, have been proven capable of producing large reductions in energy use and peak demand in buildings. However, GHPs have received little attention at the policy level as an important component of a national strategy. Have policymakers mistakenly overlooked GHPs, or are GHPs simply unable to make a major contribution to the national goals for various reasons? …

"What Should I Write?" Helping Students Respond To Prompts, Nancy Mack

English Language and Literatures Faculty Publications

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Growing Fields Of Interest: Using An Expand And Reduce Strategy For Domain Model Extraction, Christopher Thomas, Pankaj Mehra, Roger Brooks, Amit P. Sheth

Kno.e.sis Publications

Domain hierarchies are widely used as models underlying information retrieval tasks. Formal ontologies and taxonomies enrich such hierarchies further with properties and relationships associated with concepts and categories but require manual effort; therefore they are costly to maintain, and often stale. Folksonomies and vocabularies lack rich category structure and are almost entirely devoid of properties and relationships. Classification and extraction require the coverage of vocabularies and the alterability of folksonomies and can largely benefit from category relationships and other properties. With Doozer, a program for building conceptual models of information domains, we want to bridge the gap between the vocabularies …

Bs News

Building Services Engineering

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Determining Chemical Signatures Of Geologic Materials For Establishing Provenience Of Anasazi Red And Gray Wares Using Esem-Eds And Icp-Ms, Champagne Springs Ruins, Co, Steven Mathew Di Naso

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Compositional analyses of prehistoric ceramics and geological materials allow archaeologists to establish provenience of artifacts through comparative analysis of the materials used in prehistoric ceramic production. Where pottery clay pastes and tempering constituents originate from locally or regionally available geological materials, identifying their chemical composition and their geographic location and distribution facilitates a better understanding of the inter and intra socio-spatial and socioeconomic patterns among neighboring communities. The Champagne Springs Ruins were occupied during the late Pueblo I (A.D. 700 -A.D. 900) to early Pueblo II (A.D. 900 TO A.D. 1100) periods. The traditional view of local ceramic production from …

Winona Currents Magazine, University Advancement - Winona State University

Winona Currents

This magazine published by Winona State University’s University Advancement was intended to inform WSU Alumni, students, faculty, staff and the greater community about Alumni and the university.Enchanted Forest: Alum Forrest Musselman updates favorite tales for fortieth Children's Theatre.

Bromido[1-(?6-4-Tertbutylbenzyl)-3-(2,4,6-Trimethyl-Benz-Yl) Benzimidazol-2-Yl-Idene]Chloridoruthenium(Ii), Hakan Arslan, Don Vanderveer, Smail Özdemir, Serpil Demir, Bekir Çetinkaya

College of Health, Science, and Technology

A new ruthenium complex, [RuBrCl(C28H32N2)], has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, IR-spectroscopy and a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. The Ru atom in this complex is best described as having a considerably distorted octa-hedral coordination environment with the arene occupying three coordination sites. Two further coordination sites are occupied by chloride and bromide ligands, while the sixth site is occupied by the carbene. The carbene portion of the ligand is a benzimidazole ring. This ring is connected to the C6H4C(CH3)3 arene by a CH2 bridge. This leads to a system with very little apparent strain. …

1-(2-Phenylbenzyl)-3-(2,4,6-Trimethylbenzyl)Imidazolidinium Bromide, Hakan Arslan, Don Vanderveer, Sedat Ya?Ar, Smail Özdemir, Bekir Çetinkaya

College of Health, Science, and Technology

In the title salt, C26H29N2+·Br-, which may serve as a precursor for N-heterocyclic carbenes, the imidazolidine ring adopts a twist conformation with a pseudo-twofold axis passing through the N - C - N carbon and the opposite C - C bond. The N - C - N bond angle [113.0 (4)°] and C - N bond lengths [1.313 (6) and 1.305 (6) Å] confirm the existence of strong resonance in this part of the mol-ecule. In the crystal, a C - H?Br inter-action is present. The dihedral angle between the biphenyl rings is 64.3 (2)° and the phenyl rings make …

1,3-Bis[4-(Dimethyl-Amino)Benz-Yl]-4,5,6,7-Tetra-Hydro-1h-1, 3-Diazepan-2-Ium Chloride, Hakan Arslan, Don Vanderveer, Yetkin Gök, Smail Özdemir, Bekir Çetinkaya

College of Health, Science, and Technology

The title N-heterocyclic carbene derivative, C23H33N4 +· Cl-, has been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, 1H and 13C NMR, IR spectroscopy and a single-crystal X-ray diffraction study. Ions of the title compound are linked by three C - H?Cl inter-actions. The seven-membered 1,3-diazepane ring has a form inter-mediate between twist-chair and twist-boat.

0577 Health Care Task Force, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

No abstract provided.

0579 Transportation Legislation Review Committee, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

No abstract provided.

0581 Wildfire Issues In Wildland-Urban Interface Areas, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

No abstract provided.

0585 Continuing Examination Of The Treatment Of Persons With Mental Illness Who Are Involved In The Justice System, Colorado Legislative Council

All Publications (Colorado Legislative Council)

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The Lab Report, Volume 02, Issue 07, Todd Ristau

Lab Reports

• Resource: WordBRIDGE Playwright's Laboratory
• Guest Profile: Michael Kerry Williams
• Area Highlight: Jefferson Center
• Resource: InSIGHT for Playwrights
• From the Director: Your Application Package

Mustang Daily, December 1, 2008

Cal Poly Student Newspaper

Student newspaper of California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Stability Program Of The Netherlands, Ministerie Van Financien/ Dutch Ministry Of Finance

Documents

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Intelligence Techniques Are Needed To Further Enhance The Advantage Of Groups With Diversity In Problem Solving, Oscar Castillo, Patricia Melin, J. Esteban Gamez, Vladik Kreinovich, Olga Kosheleva

Departmental Technical Reports (CS)

In practice, there are many examples when the diversity in a group enhances the group's ability to solve problems -- and thus, leads to more efficient groups, firms, schools, etc. Several papers, starting with the pioneering research by Scott E. Page from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, provide a theoretical justification for this known empirical phenomenon. However, when the general advise of increasing diversity is transformed into simple-to-follow algorithmic rules (like quotas), the result is not always successful. In this paper, we prove that the problem of designing the most efficient group is computationally difficult (NP-hard). Thus, in …

Off-Guard And Online: The Unwitting Video Stars Of The Web And The Public Disclosure Tort, Matthew R. Porio

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

A Critical Analysis Of Sport Organization Bankruptcies In The United States And England: Does Bankruptcy Law Explain The Disparity In Number Of Cases?, Timothy D. Cedrone

Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law

No abstract provided.

The New Hampshire, Vol. 98 [99], No. 21 (Dec. 1, 2008), The New Hampshire

The New Hampshire Print Edition

An independent student produced newspaper from the University of New Hampshire. This volume was printed as 98, but it is the 99th volume in the series. This was corrected in pencil.

What's Happening: December, 2008, Maine Medical Center

What's Happening

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A Model To Use Denied Internet Traffic To Indirectly Discover Internal Network Security Problems, Chet Langin, Hongbo Zhou, Shahram Rahimi

Department of Computer Science Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works

We propose a model for using firewall log entries of denied inbound Internet traffic for indirect discovery of local IP addresses that have security problems. This method is used successfully to discover two computers on the network of Southern Illinois University which were infected with malicious feral software, as well as two more IP addresses on the university network with other security problems.