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Pepperbox - December 19, 2008, Student Newspaper Of Arcata High School Dec 2008

Pepperbox - December 19, 2008, Student Newspaper Of Arcata High School

The Pepperbox

Volume 81, Number 2


Florida Sentinel Bulletin, December 19, 2008, Gwen Hayes Dec 2008

Florida Sentinel Bulletin, December 19, 2008, Gwen Hayes

Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection

The December 19, 2008, issue of the Florida Sentinel Bulletin.


Quality In Education: Perspectives Regarding Baldrige-Based Practices And Instructional Leadership In Middle Schools, Felicia Maria Vaughn Coleman Dec 2008

Quality In Education: Perspectives Regarding Baldrige-Based Practices And Instructional Leadership In Middle Schools, Felicia Maria Vaughn Coleman

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

School systems nationwide confront declines in the number of principal applicants while facing increasing student accountability concerns. The idiosyncrasies of adolescent development and the social nature of the educational environment reflect the declines in applicants and impact student accountability. Using a three-tiered case study, the present research inquiry identified perspectives of superintendents, middle school principals, and middle school teachers regarding Baldrige-based practices in the four Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award-winning school districts in the United States. This study's data illuminated how a non-prescriptive framework such as the Baldrige National Quality Program (BNQP) combined with Baldrige Education Criteria for Performance Excellence …


Spring Break: The Economic, Socio-Cultural And Public Governance Impacts Of College Students On Spring Break Host Locations, John Laurie Dec 2008

Spring Break: The Economic, Socio-Cultural And Public Governance Impacts Of College Students On Spring Break Host Locations, John Laurie

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Spring Break, which has been transformed from a rather mild mid-winter vacation to a cultural rite over the past seventy-years, allows students to bring their values en masse to the host locations they visit. While only visiting these locales for a short time, college students nonetheless significantly impact the economic, public governance and socio-cultural processes of their Spring Break host locations. This dissertation explores the process of how and why students choose these locations and the impacts that occur as a result. A quantitative approach is used to determine the level of impact on a host location's economic, socio-cultural and …


Commencement Program, December (2008), Minnesota State University Moorhead Dec 2008

Commencement Program, December (2008), Minnesota State University Moorhead

Commencement Programs

No abstract provided.


Primary, Secondary, And Other Extensions Of Credit Originated On Friday, December 19, 2008, Federal Reserve System: Bank Discount Window And Payment Risk Dec 2008

Primary, Secondary, And Other Extensions Of Credit Originated On Friday, December 19, 2008, Federal Reserve System: Bank Discount Window And Payment Risk

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No abstract provided.


Primary, Secondary, And Other Credit Extensions Outstanding On Friday, December 19, 2008 By Remaining Term, Federal Reserve System: Bank Discount Window And Payment Risk Dec 2008

Primary, Secondary, And Other Credit Extensions Outstanding On Friday, December 19, 2008 By Remaining Term, Federal Reserve System: Bank Discount Window And Payment Risk

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No abstract provided.


Emergency Credit By Program Type Outstanding On: 12/18/2008, Federal Reserve System: Bank Discount Window And Payment Risk Dec 2008

Emergency Credit By Program Type Outstanding On: 12/18/2008, Federal Reserve System: Bank Discount Window And Payment Risk

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No abstract provided.


Determination, Henry M. Paulson Jr. Dec 2008

Determination, Henry M. Paulson Jr.

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A letter declaring the necessity of using TARP funds to purchase auto financing companies, and their qualification as "troubled assets" under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.


Bank Of Canada Announces Details Of Its 30 Day Term Loan Facility, Bank Of Canada/Central Bank Of Canada/La Banque Du Canada Dec 2008

Bank Of Canada Announces Details Of Its 30 Day Term Loan Facility, Bank Of Canada/Central Bank Of Canada/La Banque Du Canada

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No abstract provided.


Federal Reserve Releases Revised Information Detailing Operational Aspects Of Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (Talf), Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors Dec 2008

Federal Reserve Releases Revised Information Detailing Operational Aspects Of Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (Talf), Federal Reserve System: Board Of Governors

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No abstract provided.


Belgium - 2008 Article Iv Consultations: Concluding Statement Of The Mission, International Monetary Fund (Imf) Dec 2008

Belgium - 2008 Article Iv Consultations: Concluding Statement Of The Mission, International Monetary Fund (Imf)

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No abstract provided.


Indicative Summary Of Terms For [Chrysler] Secured Term Loan Facility, U. S. Department Of The Treasury Dec 2008

Indicative Summary Of Terms For [Chrysler] Secured Term Loan Facility, U. S. Department Of The Treasury

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No abstract provided.


Official Determination By Secretary Of Treasury Paulson, Henry M. Paulson Jr. Dec 2008

Official Determination By Secretary Of Treasury Paulson, Henry M. Paulson Jr.

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Official determination that "thrift and other holding companies engaged in the manufacturing of automotive vehicles and the provision of credit and financing in connection with the manufacturing and purchase of such vehicles are "financial institutions" for purposes of section 3(5) of the Act [containing TARP] as they are "institution[s]" established and regulated under the laws of the United States and have significant operations in the United States."


Establishment Of "Principal Terms And Conditions Of The Special Funds-Supplying Operations To Facilitate Corporate Financing", Bank Of Japan/Central Bank Of Japan Dec 2008

Establishment Of "Principal Terms And Conditions Of The Special Funds-Supplying Operations To Facilitate Corporate Financing", Bank Of Japan/Central Bank Of Japan

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No abstract provided.


Bank Of Japan, On Monetary Policy Decisions, December 19, 2008, Bank Of Japan/Central Bank Of Japan, Masaaki Shirakawa, Hirohide Yamaguchi, Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Miyako Suda, Atsushi Mizuno, Tadao Noda, Seiji Nakamura, Hidetoshi Kamezaki Dec 2008

Bank Of Japan, On Monetary Policy Decisions, December 19, 2008, Bank Of Japan/Central Bank Of Japan, Masaaki Shirakawa, Hirohide Yamaguchi, Kiyohiko G. Nishimura, Miyako Suda, Atsushi Mizuno, Tadao Noda, Seiji Nakamura, Hidetoshi Kamezaki

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No abstract provided.


President Bush Announces Plan To Aid Auto Makers, George W. Bush Dec 2008

President Bush Announces Plan To Aid Auto Makers, George W. Bush

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President Bush's offical documents detailing his plan to stabilize auto makers, can be found below in the YPFS related documents.


Term Sheet: Soffin, Commerzbank Ag Dec 2008

Term Sheet: Soffin, Commerzbank Ag

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No abstract provided.


Draumkvedet And The Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study Of Genre, Christian Carlsen Dec 2008

Draumkvedet And The Medieval English Dream Vision: A Study Of Genre, Christian Carlsen

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The Medieval English dream vision evidence influences from a variety of earlier vision literature, notably the apocalyptic vision and narrative dream. Philosophical visions by Plato, Cicero and Boethius, and Christian revelations of John and Paul contain traits that found their way into the dream poems by Langland, the Pearl poet and Chaucer. The Norwegian ballad Draumkvedet exhibits features that mirror these English visions. Notable characteristics pertaining to the character of the dreamer, the interplay between dreamer and dream, imagery of the vision, and structure, point to a common set of generic influences. Comparing Draumkvedet with its English counterparts demonstrates that …


Otherness And Assimilation: The Poetry Of Double-Consciousness In The Works Of Charles Simic, Marilyn Chin, And Susan Atefat-Peckham, Katherine Kidder Dec 2008

Otherness And Assimilation: The Poetry Of Double-Consciousness In The Works Of Charles Simic, Marilyn Chin, And Susan Atefat-Peckham, Katherine Kidder

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

This paper examines assimilation and double-consciousness in the poetry of Charles Simic, Marilyn Chin, and Susan Atefat-Peckham. Each of these three poets writes in English in an American setting but has a different heritage. Simic is a native Yugoslavian (Serbia) who fled Europe during WWII. Chin arrived in the U.S. from Hong Kong as a child, and Atefat-Peckham is a first-generation American raised by Iranian parents. Each of these poets expresses some degree of assimilation and double-consciousness (as described by various theorists including W.E.B. Du Bois and Werner Sollors, among others) through the form and content of their poetry. This …


A Semi-Supervised Information Extraction Framework For Large Redundant Corpora, Eric Normand Dec 2008

A Semi-Supervised Information Extraction Framework For Large Redundant Corpora, Eric Normand

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The vast majority of text freely available on the Internet is not available in a form that computers can understand. There have been numerous approaches to automatically extract information from human- readable sources. The most successful attempts rely on vast training sets of data. Others have succeeded in extracting restricted subsets of the available information. These approaches have limited use and require domain knowledge to be coded into the application. The current thesis proposes a novel framework for Information Extraction. From large sets of documents, the system develops statistical models of the data the user wishes to query which generally …


Cooperative Jamming In Wireless Networks - Turning Attacks Into Privacy Protection, Jingqi Wu Dec 2008

Cooperative Jamming In Wireless Networks - Turning Attacks Into Privacy Protection, Jingqi Wu

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Generally, collisions between packets are undesired in wireless networks. We design this scheme, Cooperative Jamming in Wireless Networks (CJWN), to make use of collision to protect secret DATA packets from being sniffed by a nearby eavesdropper. We are intending to greatly increase the Packet Error Rate (PER) at the eavesdropper when the PER at the receiver is maintained at an acceptable level. This scheme is not intended to completely take the place of various encryption/decryption schemes which are working based on successfully received packets. Adding CJWN to the popular CSMA/CA adopted in IEEE 802.11 will add more security even the …


Application Of X-Ray Diffraction Methods And Molecular Mechanics Simulations To Structure Determination And Cotton Fiber Analysis, Zakhia Moore Dec 2008

Application Of X-Ray Diffraction Methods And Molecular Mechanics Simulations To Structure Determination And Cotton Fiber Analysis, Zakhia Moore

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

The results of three very different studies are presented. X-ray diffraction has been utilized for single-crystal structure determinations, fiber diffraction analyses, and in conjunction with molecular modeling of Cellulose IIII. Although each technique is different in its sampling, data acquisition, data treatment, and identification, the common denominator has been the use of x-rays. The single-crystal structure determination of ethylene glycol bis(tropane-3-carboxylate) is presented as an example of the use of modern single-crystal x-ray instrumentation including the use of coupled charged devices (CCDs) as detectors for accurate data collection and rapid elucidation of crystal structures. The structure determination of Cellulose IIII …


Casa Samba: Twenty-One Years Of Amerizilian Identity In New Orleans1, Lauren E. Lastrapes Dec 2008

Casa Samba: Twenty-One Years Of Amerizilian Identity In New Orleans1, Lauren E. Lastrapes

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

Samba drumming and dance traditions work in New Orleans in ways that they do not elsewhere. Casa Samba, a drumming and dance troupe in the tradition of the Brazilian escolas de samba, shows how it works. Integral to this analysis of Casa Samba are the ways in which the group's identity and the identities of its individual members are processual, mutable, and "unfinished, always being remade" (Gilroy 1993:xi). This thesis examines how Casa Samba has situated itself in the New Orleans music scene. This work seeks, through ethnographic interviews with long term members, to identify what makes Casa Samba attractive …


Twenty-Four-Hour Woman, Mawiyah Bomani Dec 2008

Twenty-Four-Hour Woman, Mawiyah Bomani

LSU New Orleans Theses and Dissertations

"Sweet Black Pussy for Sale" sets the stage for this very feminine and colloquial laced collection of verse. Both figuratively and literally, the voices of a seldom-traveled African-American culture are depicted through these songs. In this thesis, I consider myself a GRIOT, sworn to tell nothing but the truth. These poems speak from places some might consider sacred and others quite sinful. These poems moan out the anthems of those unsung heroes and heroines from my family lineage. The voices of my long dead grandfather, grandmother, aunts and great uncle haunt poems such as "Blues," "Salvation," "A Memorial for Lawrence," …


Ebrd May Invest In Latvia's Parex Banka, Robert Anderson Dec 2008

Ebrd May Invest In Latvia's Parex Banka, Robert Anderson

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No abstract provided.


Eu Offers Latvia Up To Eur3.1bn Assistance, Reuters Staff Dec 2008

Eu Offers Latvia Up To Eur3.1bn Assistance, Reuters Staff

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No abstract provided.


Ebrd To Consider Taking Part In Stabilization Of Parex Banka, Nina Kolyako Dec 2008

Ebrd To Consider Taking Part In Stabilization Of Parex Banka, Nina Kolyako

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No abstract provided.


Bush Announces $17.4 Billion Auto Bailout, Mike Allen, David Rogers Dec 2008

Bush Announces $17.4 Billion Auto Bailout, Mike Allen, David Rogers

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No abstract provided.


Chrysler Captive Faces Challenges After Split, Jim Henry Dec 2008

Chrysler Captive Faces Challenges After Split, Jim Henry

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No abstract provided.