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Title: Cryptic Emeralds
URL: http://hakkai.winglica.com
by Licorne
Site Language/s: English
Source: Gensomaden Saiyuki (anime)
Site Description: The TAFL approved fanlisting for Cho Hakkai of Gensomaden Saiyuki! Part of Winglica.com.
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I don't get it. Is it the wordpress 2.0.3 or could it possibly be the hosting server?
Here is the URL of where the post should come out: http://inspiration.frih.net.
Please help!
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The Amazing Spider-Man is back, with a fresh new cast, and some new takes on the characters. Although the film was eagerly and almost boastfully advertised as Spider-Man's "untold" story, there ain't much new to the lore. If you're familiar with the Spider-Man mythos (and nerd or not, I can't imagine you aren't) then you'll know the story; Peter's a dork, Peter is bit by a radioactive spider ( genetically enhanced this time around) Peter develops spider sense, wall crawlin' capabilities, and the girl...after his Uncle Ben is offed and inspires him to do some good.

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Linux and Drivers question
Posted 10 November 2004 - 06:28 PM
just wondering, to i need to install my chipset drivers, lan drivers like i need to in windows? how?
Also, is there anyway to make my USB MP3 player workable on linux platform?http://www.msi.com.t...ail.php?UID=485
Posted 10 November 2004 - 08:49 PM
Chances are those drivers are no good for linux. The mp3 player should work. If you need help setting it up I'll be glad to help.
Posted 11 November 2004 - 12:24 AM
Additional drivers may be needed for some hardware, but without knowing what you have, we can't advise easily.
In the newer distros, drivers are not necessary in many cases. What will also help, is letting us know what version of Windows that you are running now.
...and what version and distro were you planning or thinking about running?
Posted 11 November 2004 - 06:24 AM
I'm running a FC2 on a Celeron 433Mhz(No Other OS installed) It works on a SIS chipset.. i'm not sure how to check since i've installed linux and my chipset checking program cant work on it... It has SIS integrated graphics also..
Audio is working. so no problem. Oh yah by the way, the motherboard is from a Compaq Presario 5356.
Posted 11 November 2004 - 12:14 PM
How much memory is in the system? This will also affect performance.
Is there anything that is not working, except the MP3 stick at this point?
If not, then I egorgry can work with you on the player.
Posted 11 November 2004 - 05:47 PM
I guess there's only the problem of my MP3 not showing up. How do i get around my MP3 now?
Posted 11 November 2004 - 07:26 PM
I guess there's only the problem of my MP3 not showing up. How do i get around my MP3 now?
I will certainly help you out with this when I get some time later tonight... hopefully. in the mean time what mp3 palyer do you have? and give me as much info about your system as possible this will save a lto of going back and forth with hardware and software questions. Post the output of lsmod, dmesg (with the device pluged in) and uname -a
from the command line it's just...
uname -a
Posted 12 November 2004 - 03:57 AM
Posted 12 November 2004 - 04:47 AM
Posted 12 November 2004 - 07:47 AM
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Posted 12 November 2004 - 04:52 PM
uname -a > uname.txt
lsmod > lsmod.txt
dmesg > dmesg.txt
now you will have three text files with the output form your commands.
Posted 13 November 2004 - 05:16 AM
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.5-1.358 #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Posted 13 November 2004 - 05:28 AM
Linux version 2.6.5-1.358 (firstname.lastname@example.com) (gcc version 3.3.3 20040412 (Red Hat Linux 3.3.3-7)) #1 Sat May 8 09:04:50 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000017bf0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000017bf0000 - 0000000017bf8000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 0000000017bf8000 - 0000000017c00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffef0000 - 00000000fff00000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
379MB LOWMEM available.
zapping low mappings.
On node 0 totalpages: 97264
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
Normal zone: 93168 pages, LIFO batch:16
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI disabled because your bios is from 99 and too old
You can enable it with acpi=force
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
mapped 4G/4G trampoline to ffff3000.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=02345000 soft=02344000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order 11: 16384 bytes)
Detected 434.392 MHz processor.
Using tsc for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 382372k/389056k available (1540k kernel code, 5944k reserved, 599k data, 144k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 854.01 BogoMIPS
Security Scaffold v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
There is already a security framework initialized, register_security failed.
Failure registering capabilities with the kernel
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized
Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 0183f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 128K
CPU: After all inits, caps: 0183f1ff 00000000 00000000 00000040
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb81, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 © Adam Belay
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ACPI: ACPI tables contain no PCI IRQ routing entries
PCI: Invalid ACPI-PCI IRQ routing table
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Using IRQ router SIS [1039/0008] at 0000:00:01.0
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1100342324.217:0): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.100 © Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected SiS 620 chipset
agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 317M
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe8000000
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 8 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device lo
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:00.1
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS620 ATA 66 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xffa8-0xffaf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: Maxtor 2B020H1, ATA DISK drive
Using cfq io scheduler
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hdc: ATAPI-CD ROM-DRIVE-56MAX, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 40020624 sectors (20490 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(33)
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdc: ATAPI 56X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver hid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
checking if image is initramfs...it isn't (no cpio magic); looks like an initrd
Freeing initrd memory: 187k freed
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 144k freed
SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 022db720(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ohci_hcd: block sizes: ed 64 td 64
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:01.2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: irq 11, pci mem 1a829000
ohci_hcd 0000:00:01.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using address 2
SCSI subsystem initialized
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: MSI Model: MS-551X Rev: 0100
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
USB Mass Storage device found at 2
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
SCSI device sda: 250624 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal
device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: firstname.lastname@example.com
Adding 779144k swap on /dev/hda3. Priority:-1 extents:1
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.13 <firstname.lastname@example.com>
microcode: CPU0 already at revision 0x3 (current=0x3)
microcode: No suitable data for cpu 0
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
inserting floppy driver for 2.6.5-1.358
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0a.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xde00, 00:c0:26:26:0a:f1, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: © 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (3039 buckets, 24312 max) - 296 bytes per conntrack
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0a.0
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xde00, 00:c0:26:26:0a:f1, IRQ 10
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 0000:00:0c.0
Posted 13 November 2004 - 05:29 AM
Module Size Used by
sd_mod 16384 0
usb_storage 55392 0
nls_utf8 1536 1
nls_cp437 5376 1
vfat 10496 1
fat 33472 1 vfat
snd_mixer_oss 13824 2
snd_es1938 15908 4
snd_pcm 68872 1 snd_es1938
snd_page_alloc 7940 1 snd_pcm
snd_opl3_lib 7424 1 snd_es1938
snd_timer 17156 2 snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib
snd_hwdep 6276 1 snd_opl3_lib
gameport 3328 1 snd_es1938
snd_mpu401_uart 4864 1 snd_es1938
snd_rawmidi 17184 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 6152 2 snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd 38372 13 snd_mixer_oss,snd_es1938,snd_pcm,snd_opl3_lib,snd_timer,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore 6112 3 snd
parport_pc 19392 1
lp 8236 0
parport 29640 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 10624 0
sunrpc 101064 1
8139too 17792 0
mii 3584 1 8139too
ipt_REJECT 4736 1
ipt_state 1536 4
ip_conntrack 24968 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 2048 1
ip_tables 13440 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
floppy 47440 1
sg 27552 0
scsi_mod 91344 3 sd_mod,usb_storage,sg
microcode 4768 0
dm_mod 33184 0
ohci_hcd 14748 0
ipv6 184288 8
ext3 102376 2
jbd 40216 1 ext3
Posted 13 November 2004 - 04:48 PM
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
SCSI device sda: 250624 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
looks like you have everything you need
You can probably just mount this thing up like a flash drive.
as root type
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/user/mp3-playa
where I have /home/user/mp3-playa is the mount point you will need to create a directory where you want to mount your device.
once you mount it and are happy with the location youcan add this to line to the /etc/fstab. Here is mine for my flash drive just change the mount point /mnt/FlashDrive to whatever you decide on.
/dev/sda1 /mnt/FlashDrive vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
Posted 14 November 2004 - 08:13 AM
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
SCSI device sda: 250624 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB)
sda: assuming Write Enabled
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
looks like you have everything you need
You can probably just mount this thing up like a flash drive.
as root type
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/user/mp3-playa
where I have /home/user/mp3-playa is the mount point you will need to create a directory where you want to mount your device.
once you mount it and are happy with the location youcan add this to line to the /etc/fstab. Here is mine for my flash drive just change the mount point /mnt/FlashDrive to whatever you decide on.
/dev/sda1 /mnt/FlashDrive vfat user,exec,umask=0 0 0
Err.. sorry, could you explain with a bit more detail.. cause those mounting terms... i dun really understand..
Posted 14 November 2004 - 04:39 PM
a mount point is simply a directory where you want to mount the device.
make a directory (folder) where you want the mp3 player to show up.
let's say you made the folder in /home/serverxeon/mp3-playa
then to mount it you need to be root to use mount from teh comman line just type...
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/serverxeon/mp3-playa
Then you can switch into that directory and all you files should be available.
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by InvestorPlace Staff | July 11, 2012 5:28 pm
[1]Researchers at Engage have crunched the data and found out something interesting about the web sites people "like" on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB[2]): knowing what sites a person likes gives them a clue about their political affiliation[3].
By using a special piece of software[4], Engage was able to track thousands of users' Likes, political affiliation, and behavior — whether or not a person showed a high or low level of political engagement.
What are some of the things they've discovered?
Fans of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY[5]) were the most likely to support Romney, and the most likely to do so at a high level of political engagement. Another web site whose fans were likely to be rabid Romney backers was eBay subsidiary PayPal.
What's BuzzFeed[6], you ask? Billed as "The Viral Web In Real Time", BuzzFeed serves as an aggregator of web content that has gone viral. Its fans were deemed the most likely to support Obama among those who were highly engaged.
The popular stick figure comic's fans are the most likely to be Obama supporters. However, Engage scored them as having a low level of political engagement. Also popular among minimally engaged Facebook users who support Obama were social news site Reddit and handmade e-commerce site Etsy.
Fans of Google (NASDAQ:GOOG[7]) were more likely to support Obama, and more likely to be engaged politically than fans of Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT[8]) Bing search engine.
Angry Birds For Obama, Farmville for Romney
Fans of Zynga's (NASDAQ:ZNGA[9]) popular social game Farmville are strongly likely to be Romney supporters, while Angry Birds fans are just slightly more likely to be Obama backers. Both groups of fans have a low level of political engagement, however. Perhaps they're too busy playing to discuss politics?
Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN[10]) fans lean Romney, while fans of Amazon subsidiary Zappos prefer Obama. Zappos fans seem to be slightly more engaged then their Amazon brethren.
The web site with the largest number of fans on Facebook — Facebook itself — also appears to have the most centrist group of fans. Facebook sits right in the middle, with no real preference in presidential candidate, and a medium level of political engagement.
For more analysis of Engage's research, check out this article from The Atlantic[11]. For a graph visually demonstrating the likelihood of a site's users being supporters of Obama or Romney, as well as their level of political engagement, check out Engage's web site[12].
— Benjamin Nanamaker, InvestorPlace Money & Politics Editor
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Federal prosecutors have urged a U.S. District Court judge to sentence home run king Barry Bonds to 15 months in prison for obstructing justice.
Bonds is to be sentenced Friday by Judge Susan Illston on one count of obstructing justice for providing evasive testimony to a federal grand jury in 2003 about his use of steroids from the Bay Area Laboratory Cooperative, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
Prosecutors said Bonds denied using performance-enhancing drugs as part of a "calculated plan to obfuscate and distract" the grand jury investigating BALCO, the now-defunct lab that had made steroids used by athletes.
Bonds had faced three perjury counts, on which a jury deadlocked in April.
The former San Francisco Giants star's lawyers, who have said they will appeal the obstruction conviction, are seeking probation, pointing to his clean criminal record and charitable work.
Federal sentencing guidelines stipulate a prison term of 15 to 21 months, but they are not binding, and Illston's record in sentencing athletes who lied under oath in the BALCO case suggests she won't impose that harsh a penalty.
It's unlikely Illston will sentence Bonds to prison time, legal experts say. They point to her sentences of world-class cyclist Tammy Thomas, who received six months of home detention for perjury, and track coach Trevor Graham, who received a year of home detention for lying to federal agents.
"Home detention is probably the right solution," said Rory Little, a former federal prosecutor and Hastings College of the Law professor.


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Monday 15th August 2016
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"The Greatest Underground American Rock Band of the Last 25 Years" - Classic Rock Magazine
"They Rock!" - Eddie Vedder
"If You Don't Like Supersuckers, You Don't Like Rock 'n' Roll" - Lemmy
Supersuckers were originally signed to Seattle's Sub Pop label where they released their debut album "The Smoke of Hell" in 1992. The group stayed with the label throughout the 1990's until their final greatest hits release in 1999 "How the Supersuckers became the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll band in the World". Forming their own label Mid-Fi Recordings the band continued to release great albums up until 2015's "Holdin' the Bag".
Eddie Spaghetti - Vocals, Bass
'Metal' Marty Chandler - Guitar, Vocals
'Captain' Chris Von Streicher - Drums
Sunday 15th October 2017
Price: £17.50 advance (+stbf)
Doors 19:30


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SUNO New Student Orientation, July 22-23, 2014
Southern University at New Orleans - New Student Orientation
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM - Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 1:30 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
New Student Orientation is a special on-campus program for newly admitted incoming freshmen to meet with advisors in your major, register for classes, get more information about financing your education, on-campus housing, student life and student services, and more! Led by SUNO staff and student orientation leaders, you will arrive a high school graduate and leave a SUNO Knight! Register today!
New Student Orientation will take place from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM on Tuesday, July 22 and continues from 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM on Wednesday July 23. It is a two day session.
IMPORTANT! If you are a prospective business major, then please register for this session which includes a special session for business majors.
Also these two New Student Orientation sessions are for admitted new fall 14 freshmen only. If you are not an admitted freshmen we will contact you prior to cancelling your registration. However, we invite you to apply for admission by visiting http://www.suno.edu and clicking on the Apply to SUNO link. If you are looking for a tour to campus, please email either Bridget Jacobs at firstname.lastname@example.com or Candace Stanton at email@example.com.
If you are from out of the area and require housing, contact Bridget Jacobs, Director of Recruitment and Admissions for more details on housing rates at firstname.lastname@example.com. Otherwise, New Student Orientation is free of charge for new incoming SUNO students!
When & Where
Southern University at New Orleans
6400 Press Dr
New Orleans,
Tuesday, July 22, 2014 at 9:00 AM - Wednesday, July 23, 2014 at 1:30 PM (PDT)
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Southern University at New Orleans - New Student Orientation
Southern University at New Orleans
Recruitment and Admissions
6400 Press Dr
New Orleans, LA 70126


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The best advice I can give anyone who has started – or is thinking about starting – a personal blog is to write about what you love. When you write about what you are passionate about, it will show through in your writing. The entire process of writing will be more enjoyable as well when you are writing about the things you are passionate about; it will not feel like a chore and you will rarely run out of topics.
If you have no passion for what you are writing about, why are you writing at all? Your entries will come across as boring or flat and you will not gain the readership your writing skills deserve. When you write about what you love, it is a lot easier to sound like an expert in your field.
If you are not sure what you are passionate about, take the time to figure it out. You owe it to yourself, and your potential readers, to know and write about what makes you get out of bed in the morning. If your goal is to make money with a blog, write about what you love and the money will follow… You will have more readers and will write better posts. Great content brings traffic/conversions and when you write about something you love it is difficult to write poorly.


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When: Sat., Feb. 23, 8 p.m. 2013
WHPK, University of Chicago's student-run radio station, hosts its annual multimedia festival Pictures and Sounds, headlined by LA-based noise artist John Wiese. The program features experimental musicians improvising alongside new video work, as well as silent and outsider film. Locals Bil Vermette and Jason Soliday also perform.


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In a crude tented amphitheatre set among the Ozarks of Arkansas last week was made the first presidential nomination for 1932. Nominee of the Liberty Party was William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, So, half-blind veteran of the "free silver" era of politics. His nominators were half a thousand discouraged Republicans, disgruntled Democrats, disgusted Socialists, Populists and Independents who gathered from 25 States. Plain, thin-pursed men with faces stamped with sun and soil, most of them were in overalls or shirt sleeves. Theirs, they needed no realist to tell them, was a hopeless gesture...
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This is one of my family's favorite quick-finish dinner delish. It
really is one tasty dish. Its a short list of ingredients, and an even
shorter list of directions, so lets dive right into it.
From the bottom up: rye bread, garlic deli aioli, fresh
delicious avocado, homemade turkey patty (its the same shape as the
bread), sauteed onion and mushroom, and I melted the Muenster over the
onions and mushrooms so that they wouldn't fall off the sandwich.
a good aioli is the secret ingredient to almost any delicious
sandwich. Its just one part mustard, 2 parts mayonnaise, and ground
garlic/salt/black pepper to taste. DELICIOUS!
That picture is a toasted sesame bun. From the bottom up, it's
roasted red pepper spread, which I made myself by slicing up roasted red
peppers and marinating them in Parmesan, garlic, olive oil and pignoli
nuts for 1 week before blending it into a spread. Then its sliced
tomatoes. Then its ground turkey meat which was mixed with mashed
sauteed red onion, sweet baby corn, spicy ketchup and yellow mustard,
and that's all topped off with a nice slice of meunster. IT WAS
1- slice some red onion super thin, and toss it in a pan with a
teaspoon of olive oil. a good measurement is one Tablespoon of red onion
to every 1/2 pound of ground turkey meat.
2- While the red onion is cooking, take 1/2 pound of ground turkey
meat and mash it up in another pan, on medium-high heat. add 1/2
Tablespoon of olive oil and mix it in so the meat doesnt stick to the
pan and burn. Turkey meat is super soft so it wont crumble like ground
beef until it cooks for five or so minutes, so don't worry.
3- when the red onion is done, toss it into the pan with the turkey
meat, along with one Table spoon of sweet baby corn, one and a half
Tablespoons of spicy ketchup, 1/2 Tablespoon of yellow mustard, and two
turns of black pepper. add salt to taste, because everyone likes a
different amount of salt in their food. make sure to mix it all up once
all the ingredients are in the pan.
4- Now if you've ever made sloppy joes, you know what to do from
here. If not, keep cooking the turkey meat on medium-high for eight(8)
to ten(10) minutes.
5- take some homemade or store-bought roasted red pepper spread and
spread it on the bottom bun of a toasted brioche roll. Take a slice of
tomato and place it on top of the roasted red pepper. Spoon the Turkey
meat on top of the tomato, and finish off with a nice thick slice of
meunster cheese. Put the top bun of the toasted brioche roll on, and
***How to make Homemade roasted red pepper spread***
1. Buy a can or jar of roasted red peppers ( strips or whole peppers)
2. Drain the roasted red peppers.
3. If its whole peppers, slice the peppers into 1/2 inch long strips
and mix with 1 Tablespoon pignoli nuts, 2 Teaspoons dried Oregano, 1
Teaspoon dried Basil, two segments of diced garlic/ 3 Teaspoons of dried
Minced Garlic, 2 Teaspoons of grated parmesan, and 2 Tablespoons of
olive oil.
4. Cover the mixture and let it marinade in the fridge for at least a day. ( I let mine marinate for a week)
5. After it has marinated, throw the whole mix into a blender, and
blend in bursts until you reach the consistency you desire. anything
from completely unblended, to smooth as butter works perfectly fine.


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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/7492
Seismic site response analysis considering ground motion variability and site property variability
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|One of the critical aspects of the geotechnical earthquake engineering is to evaluate the response of soil grounds under earthquake loading. Generally, three types of uncertainties are contributed to the seismic site response analysis — ground motion variability, site property variability and uncertainty associated with the constitutive soil models and numerical methods used for the analysis. This study focuses on quantifying the effects of ground motion variability and site property variability on the seismic ground response analysis. An equivalent-linear approach and a modified version considering frequency-dependent modulus and damping are used to perform the seismic site response analysis. Two types of intrinsic variability in ground motion intensity measures are considered in the site response analysis. The first type is the variability from a scenario earthquake, given the earthquake magnitude, rupture distance etc, and is termed as "unconditional" variability. The second type is the variability of the ground motion intensity measures conditioned on a specified response spectrum value at a specified spectral period, which is termed as "conditional" variability. In this study, a new ground motion selection scheme is implemented to select ground motions that preserve the conditional and unconditional variability of the spectral acceleration (Sa). Due to the complexity of ground motion time histories, different ground motion intensity measures can only represent certain aspects of ground motion characteristics. Thus the ground motion selection scheme is further extended to simultaneously capture the joint unconditional and conditional variability of multiple intensity measures, specifically the spectral accelerations and cumulative absolute velocity (CAV). Soil property variability is also an important source of uncertainties in seismic ground analysis since soil properties vary spatially across the site and variations in soil properties can change the surface response considerably. Two statistical models were implemented to simulate the site property variability in terms of shear velocity profiles, as well as the shear moduli and damping ratios of the soils. The influences of the ground motion variability and soil property variability on site response are examined by Monte Carlo simulations. Ground motion variability is found to be the most important controlling factor compared with the soil property variability. A new site-specific response analysis approach is therefore proposed to evaluate the site response by considering the ground motion variability at a specified seismic hazard level. In this approach, seismic hazard deaggregation is performed to identify the controlling earthquake scenarios. The ground motions are selected and modified to preserve the conditional variability of the scenario earthquakes conditioned on the Uniform Hazard Spectrum (UHS) at different conditioning periods. Seismic site response analyses are performed on two sites located in California, representing a stiff soil site and a soft soil site, respectively. Compared with the traditional method that selects ground motions to tightly fit the target UHS curve at all periods, the new approach is more consistent with the probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) framework. The study also shows that the effects of spectral accelerations and CAVs of the input motions are not coupled in the site response analysis using the equivalent linear analysis method.
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Well it's been a while since I've been here...I wonder if I remember how to do this...
Life has been crazy these last few months, and finding time to pour out my heart is difficult. I mean, there's that, and I'm also addicted to Candy Crush. Seriously. Addicted. It's not just blogging, I haven't read a book in months. I remember really liking books. Reading them, smelling them, spending the evening with them. I miss books.
I thought it was really important to chronicle 2013. Probably way more important to me than you, but hopefully you'll enjoy the read regardless.
2013 was a year of new beginnings. My momma got married (!) and my brother and his wife had a beautiful baby girl, their first (of many??) and my first niece. I know that I'm a tad biased, but folks, I am telling you this is the most beautiful baby girl in the world. One of the many benefits of being an introvert is the immense joy that I receive living vicariously through others. No joke. I couldn't have been any happier in these situations if they had actually happened to me.
So Q and I downsized from a four bedroom, 3 bathroom house to a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom suite. I thought I would feel claustrophobic in our new digs, but I actually found that I love the smaller space. First and foremost, the cleaning takes me roughly 1/4 of the time to clean and secondly, it is just so cozy. It's also encouraged me to purge and put less emphasis on *things* (and gives me so much more time to play Candy Crush...kidding...sort of...)
I started a new job. It was such a great opportunity and I was in sooooo far over my head. But you know what? I made it through. I learned that my capacity to learn new things is great, and this gave me so much confidence in myself. I had a great year and enjoyed every second of it. Then I got an even better job and had to decide between two awesome job opportunities. Seriously. Would you like this completely awesome job that you know you love, or would you like this new one that has the potential to be even more amazing? How do you make a decision like that without thinking you might be missing out on something no matter which choice you make?
And those were just the physical life changing events.
I know, right?
All that, and some personal growth too? What?!?!?!?! Who gets that lucky??
2013 was a year of calm for me. As a natural born anxiety case, this is really saying something. There was no insane drama. There was no unnecessary stress. There was only calm.
I spent a lot of time alone and came to terms with my introvert qualities. I never really though of myself as an introvert, but the older I get, the more I enjoy quality time with myself. Nothing delights me more than an evening alone. I used to feel guilty about this - like I should be out with *people* doing *things*. But spending time by myself has given me a deeper insight to me...and there can't be anything wrong with that. I'd rather be alone than in a room full of people I can't relate to or having nothing in common with.
I got to spend another year getting to know and getting to teach this wonderful child I'm blessed enough to call my son. I can think of no greater reward or blessing in my life than my child. Sometimes it's the smallest thing that gives me the greatest surge of pride, like when I give him something inconsequential and he says, "Thank you". Nothing sounds better than "Mommy" and "I love you" and "Sweet dreams". Just recently, over Christmas, Q was super sick with the stomach flu. Amidst cancelled Christmas plans, I'm running around cleaning up his puke, and washing bedding and clothes, and checking his temperature, and bringing him ginger ale and I think to myself, "I freaking love being a mom". Seriously, there is no greater gift than being able to take care of my child. Gah, his whole life is ahead of him and I just know he is destined for great things and I want to give him the best beginning ever. I just want to have a million kids and give them all the best start ever. I just don't want to give birth to all these kids and there are sooooooo many kids out there that need someone to give them their best start. I know that this is what I'm here on earth to do. I don't want anyone to waste their potential because someone says they can't, or they're not worth it, or they're not wanted. I want to WANT all those children in our foster care system, and give them love.
Oh....so corny, right? I wish more people felt that way though. You know, share the blessings around.
But, C, what about the boyfriend....there must be one of those, right???
Nope. Nope, there isn't. And for the first time in my whole life, I can honestly and certainly say that I am TOTALLY okay with that. Totally. It's funny because this is a pretty significant life situation for most people - easily 2/3 of my friends are married or dating. I mean, what would life be without romantic comedies? What would Pinterest be without a "One Day" board? What would Martha Stewart be without "Weddings" magazine? Our whole society has placed a fair importance on being married, being doubled up, having a better half. And don't get me wrong, I am so not opposed to it happening to me should that be the case, but I am so content with my life the way it is. I am okay with me the way I am. I don't need anyone else to complete me or my life. I've been able to spend this time with my son. Watching him grow and learn and be. We have a really unique bond and connection to each other because it's just the two of us. I remember falling asleep to the fantasy of finding the perfect man and having the perfect wedding and the perfect marriage. Or looking at every man I passed, wondering, "Is he the one?" And there's nothing wrong with having an active imagination, but wishing your life away is more of a waste than playing Candy Crush, in my opinion. And I see God providing for me in a million other ways that make me so happy to be me. It's kind of like He's saying, "It's not time yet for you to have a husband, but in the meantime, would you like this blessing that will help provide for your needs??" Uh. Ya. Totally
I've become so much more spiritual. And I don't mean yoga and feng shui. Christians these days get such a bad (somewhat well deserved, though) rap about being these judgmental, self righteous, pious individuals whose belief is something so out there/naive/supernatural that makes them better than anyone else. I don't want to be that person. Ever. I would agree that believing in a God who lovingly created each one of us in his image, then sent his one and only Son to die for our sins (because ugh, we are not perfect and we screw up soooo much) so that we could have eternal life in heaven where the streets are made of gold is pretty crazy. On an almost a daily basis, I ask myself if I'm sure that's me. And each time, I cannot find anything else that seems plausible to me. I'm not stupid. I've heard the big bang theory. But at the end of the day, I choose to believe this instead. Loving, well thought out, bigger plan, grace and mercy sounds so much more wonderful to me than BOOM!!! here we are, this organism reacted with this blob that became that blob and then millions of years later, here I am...a blob. I try to live life like this: Before I do anything, I ask myself two things, "How would Jesus react to this situation?" and "Will this right now matter when I'm in heaven?" And then I try to do likewise. At the end of the day, an eternity in heaven when I die sounds a whole lot more comforting than just ceasing to exist.
Okay, so what does that mean? That means that when the Landlord fails to shovel my walk after a (relative to Vancouver) snow storm, I don't rant and rave about how careless and irresponsible he is for a home owner with a paying tenant (because this whole event won't matter when I'm in heaven). Instead, I get the shovel and shovel my walk and his (because this is what I imagine Jesus would do, and while the snow pile won't matter in heaven, my reaction to it certainly will.) I try to meet every situation with this formula. Homeless person on the street asks for money, I go into to coffee shop and buy him a hot coffee and some chili. He gets a full belly of food, and I know he's not buying booze (which, in my experience, don't really go well on an empty tummy).
I don't want to judge. I want to love. I want my love to be contagious. I want my love to be inspirational. I want to be the example of someone who has been saved by grace. If that makes me silly or naive, well I'm okay with that. Totally. At the end of the world, if I'm wrong, I will not regret my choice to live life the way I did. And in the meantime, no one will (hopefully) be affected negatively by my decision. And, I know from experience that living this way is so much more fulfilling than drinking myself into a coma or sleeping with another man who tells me, "It's just sex."
* Please note: This does not mean I will not drop the occasional f bomb while sitting in rush hour traffic.
Phew...see what happens when you don't write for a while?? A novel comes out.
It almost seems like the end to Single Dating Mommy, because that's not what defines me anymore. Not just the end of the chapter, but the end of this book. Unfortunately, "Mommy" doesn't really have the same ring to it. It's a little short for a blog title. So I might keep the name, but I assure you, the content will not be the same.
Will you join me in my new journey? I sure hope so!!
And...here's to 2014!


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AISD's Empty Ballot
Still a logjam, still no declared candidates
By Richard Whittaker,
9:35AM, Thu. Aug. 7, 2014
So does no one realize there's an Austin ISD election this November?
Five of the district's nine seats are on the Nov. 4 ballot: Last week, there were two filed candidates: Incumbent Robert Schneider had filed for his fourth term representing District 7, while next door in District 6 former Austin Council of PTAs president Monica Sanchez has filed to replace outgoing incumbent Lori Moya, who is stepping down.
A week later and, well, there are still only those two candidates. Plus AMD creative director and district Boundary Advisory Committee member Yasmin Wagner has designated a treasurer, and looks set to challenge Schneider, but has yet to finish the filing process.
That all means there is still no declared candidate to replace Cheryl Bradley in District 1, Vince Torres in District 4 (both of whom are stepping down) or At-Large trustee Tamala Barksdale, who has yet to make any firm comment on her electoral future.
There are candidates lined up, but the line is complex: If Barksdale declines to run again, she seems likely to find a rumored replacement (let's call them Candidate A) coming out of District 1. If she does run, then it seems that Candidate A will run in District 1 instead. Residents of North-East Austin should not panic: There is at least one other candidate (Candidate B) lined up but, and here's where it gets tricky, suggestions are that Candidate B will not run against Candidate A. Neither is talking publicly about running, because they don't want to preempt anyone else's announcement, and commit to a seat for which they may not end up running.
So everyone is sat on their hands until Barksdale makes an announcement. She told the Chronicle that she planned to make a decision within the week, and that was over a week ago. Now the expectation is that she will make a final decision early next week. That's also when local PR consultant Paul Saldana, who has said that he is considering a run, will make a firm statement. Like Barksdale, he was due to make an announcement by today, but he is out of town for a few days. Meanwhile, Schneider's second announced opponent, former teacher-turned-Realtor Theresa Bastian, has made no further forward motion.
All that still means no front runner to replace Torres. Again, there is a rumor of a candidate, but nothing confirmed. And the clock is ticking: Filing closes on Aug. 18, so there is less than two weeks to go. However. AISD director of intergovernmental affairs Edna Butts said she is hopeful there will be more candidates filing in short order in all races, at least by the beginning of next week.
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Cal coach Sonny Dykes responded to the worst defense in school history on Wednesday by demoting coordinator Andy Buh and firing two assistant coaches.
"I owe it to our student-athletes to provide them with the best conditions for success, both on and off the field," Dykes said in a statement, "and I am committed to hiring coaches who will develop our players to their fullest potential while being excellent teachers in all aspects of the game."
Buh will be reassigned to a position coaching assignment that has not been announced, although he was responsible for Cal's linebackers last season. Defensive tackles assistant Barry Sacks and defensive backs coach Randy Stewart were fired.
Dykes will find a new coordinator and at least one defensive position coach.
Cal allowed an average of 45.9 points and 529.6 yards per game during a 1-11 season. Those figures are the worst in school history, and both ranked 122nd nationally among 123 Football Bowl Subdivision teams.
Schedules announced: The Pac-12 released schedules for its member schools. Cal will host Stanford in the Big Game on Nov. 22. Cal will play a home game Friday, Oct. 24, against Oregon at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.
Stanford will play two games on Fridays: Washington State visits Stanford Stadium on Oct. 10, and the Cardinals plays UCLA at the Rose Bowl on Nov. 28.
See Page 8 for the teams' full schedules.
Bound for NFL: Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel declared for the NFL draft after two seasons in which he became the first freshman to win the Heisman Trophy and helped the Aggies make a splash in their first two years in the Southeastern Conference.
Some NFL draft analysts have Manziel ranked as high as the third overall pick in mock drafts.
Manziel led the Aggies to a 52-48 win over Duke in the Chick-Fil-A Bowl on New Year's Eve in his final college game.
Atkinson was Notre Dame's second-leading rusher. He was suspended from playing in the Pinstripe Bowl for violating an unspecified team rule.
Atkinson's father, former Raider George Atkinson Jr., said his other son, Josh Atkinson — George III's twin brother — will stay at Notre Dame. Josh Atkinson spent time at cornerback and wide receiver this past season.
Louisville: A member of the Louisville board of trustees said Western Kentucky's Bobby Petrino has accepted an offer to be the Cardinals' next head coach. Petrino, 52, will replace Charlie Strong, who accepted the Texas job over the weekend.
Petrino returns to the school he led to a 41-9 record from 2003-06 as a first-time head coach. He was 8-4 last season at Western Kentucky, his first position since his April 2012 firing by Arkansas.
Florida State: Receiver Rashad Greene and starting linemen Cameron Erving and Tre Jackson said they will return next season. All three were first-team all-conference selections.
Staff writer Jon Wilner and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Making Sure Your Little Ones are Halloween-Ready!
Halloween is the best opportunity for your patients to show off their creative side. From pop-culture references to visual puns, there is an endless sea of possibility as to what they and their little goblins can be for Halloween this year. Instead of working around a child's glasses, why not try to incorporate their adorable Read More


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"Tonight Show" host Jay Leno is bringing his comedy act to the Pechanga Theater on July 28. Also bound for the same Pechanga venue is Hawaiian ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, who will perform there Oct. 4.
Meanwhile, the Sept. 30 Pechanga concert by Crosby, Stills & Nash -- for which tickets were set to go on sale this Friday -- has been canceled. CSN will now now perform Sept. 30 at Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay on Shelter Island, where the trio's Sept. 29 show sold out the same day it went on sale last month.
Tickets for the Pechanga performances by Leno ($80-$100) and Shimabukuro ($20-$40) go on sale May 4 at 3 p.m. at the Pechanga box office, online at pechanga.com and by phone at (877) 771-2946.
No reason has been given for the cancellation of CSN's Pechanga concert. Tickets for the group's new Sept. 30 concert at Humphrey's will go on sale May 12 at 10 a.m. at all Ticketmaster outlets, by phone at (800) 745-3000 and at the Humphrey's box office. Tickets for the Humphrey's show by CSN are priced at $107 each.


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Peanut-Butterscotch Haystacks
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- 1/2 cup chunky peanut butter
- 2 cups chow mein noodles
- Melt butterscotch chips and peanut butter on top of a double boiler, or in a microwave. Blend together.
- Stir noodles gently into the melted peanut butter mixture.
- Drop dough by forkfuls onto waxed paper. Cool until set. Keep refrigerated.


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The Ghosts knew there would be periods where literally nothing would happen; they just would have to figure a way to persevere.
"It's a mindset of trying to stay the course because they're so patient," Kaukauna coach Mike Schalow said. "You might go two minutes without a shot, so you have to understand you have to have patience."
After 4-2 first quarter, No. 5-seeded Kaukauna picked up the pace as much as it could and in the end the Ghosts scared No. 4 Pulaski out of the postseason with a 43-35 win, sending Kaukauna to No. 1 Seymour on Saturday in a regional final.
Schalow, who led the Ghosts to a state runner-up showing in 2012, knew what the key was to Friday's win.
"I think it was us trying to keep our composure more than anything," he said. "They came out and ran a triangle-and-two on Kyle (Schalow) and Carter (Belling), saying they were going to take them out of the game.
"We had to get some other guys some shots. We just kind of grinded it out on the defensive end, switched things up, tried to keep them off balance and once we got the lead, we were able to throw some things back at them."
One of the reasons Kaukauna (15-8) got the lead was 6-3 Trent Nytes. With Pulaski (17-5) paying attention to guards Schalow (11 points per game) and Belling (10 ppg.), Nytes (13.6 ppg.) found himself with chances around the basket and made the most of them with 14 points.
"I was looking to get inside because they were playing a triangle-and-two," Nytes said. "We did a good job of getting it inside."
Nytes helped Kaukauna hold a lead after every quarter, but it was the final quarter where that obviously mattered most. With Pulaski's deliberate style, Schalow wanted the lead late to force Pulaski to play faster and he got that as the Ghosts held at least a two-possession lead most of the fourth quarter.
"If we had a lead we had a chance to go to a variety of defenses," Schalow said. "On offense, if we could get the lead and get to the free-throw line; that proved to be a factor down the stretch."
Kaukauna goes for a regional title Saturday at Seymour. Schalow said he thought his team was nervous Friday but then settled in.
Now he feels good about his team, which he knows has to play well to advance.
"Getting that first game, you have to find a way to win," Schalow. "We've been battle-tested, we have a good league. We know Seymour's good. If we come to play, hit some shots and defend, we have a chance to win that game."
Added Nytes: "Looking forward to it a lot; ready to go. Shutting down Sandy Cohen is the key."
Follow Doug Ritchay on Twitter @dougritchay


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Baguette joins IndyCar Series with Conquest
22 March 2010 – Bertrand Baguette has confirmed that he will be racing with the Conquest team in the IndyCar Series from the third race of the season onwards. The World Series by Renault Champion will therefore make his Indy debut at the Barber Motorsports Park before driving in the prestigious Indy 500 in late May.
Having run with only Brazilian Mario Romancini for the season-opening race in São Paulo two weekends ago, it is now official that Conquest will be fielding a car for Baguette for all but two of this year's races, meaning the Belgian will take part in the legendary Indianapolis 500 for the first time.
"I am now working hard in order to be as fit as possible for my IndyCar debut on the streets of Birmingham, Alabama on 11 April."


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Carbon County court news
The following actions were filed as mortgage foreclosures for alleged defaults on loans.
Bank of America, c/o 7105 Corporate Drive, Plano, Tex., filed against Adnryan Stephen Vanakadi, 126 Mechesville Rd., Albrightsville, over property at that address. Sought is $222,297.27 and continuing interest.
Bank of America filed against Adita Rodriguez, 2922 Barnes Ave., Bronx, N.Y., over property at 1501 Township Road, aka, 30 Old Stage Road, Albrightsville. Sought is $212,971.62 and continuing interest.
Ocwen Loan Servicing, c/o 1661 Worthington Rd., West Palm Beach, Fla., filed against Harold Parra, Lot 2635, Mt. Pocohontas, aka, Meckesville Rd., Albrightsville, over property at that address. Sought is $188,827.47 and continuing interest.
HSBC Bank, c/o 1661 Worthington Rd., West Palm Beach, Fla., filed against Donald and Rhonda Fritz, 724 Pine St., Bowmanstown, over property at that address. Sought is $139,009.68 and continuing interest.
Bank of New York, c/o 1800 Tapo Canyon Rd., Simi Valley, Calif., filed against Elizabeth S. and Henry O. Westedarp, 57 Wolf Hollow Rd., Lake Harmony, over property at that address. Sought is $602,838.88 and continuing interest.
Divorces started
Ronald Dale Hoffner III, 333 W. Abbott St., Lansford, filed against Christina Hoffner, same address. They were married May 26, 2009.
Elizabeth L. Fretz, 609 Gypsy Hill, Lehighton, filed against Jobi L. Fretz, 1219 Wood Ave., Easton. They were married Feb. 25, 2000.
Dean Beltz, 2919 Mountain Rd., Slatington, filed against Lenore Beltz, 698 Pinchtown Rd., Montgomery. They were married Oct. 30,1976.
Robert Apollo, Box 142, Aquashicola, filed against Patricia Apollo, 3070 Summer Mountain Rd., Palmerton. They were married Feb. 14, 2007.
Credit defaults
The following actions were filed by credit card companies, or their collection agencies, for alleged defaults on credit card/loan accounts.
Asset Acceptance, Mechanicsburg, filed two actions as follows: Theresa M. Hunsicker, 6 Pine St., Lehighton, seeking $1,902.86; and Shaneil Maier, 380 Center Rd., Lehighton, seeking $3,143.81.
Midland Funding, Philadelphia, filed thee actions as follows: Thomas Gisonti, 1118 Indian Mountain Lakes, Albrightsville, seeking $1,040.43; Lewis Ginder, 111 Alum St., Lehighton, seeking $3,573.53; and Dorothy Shupp, 457 Lafayette Ave., Palmerton, seeking $6,882.04.
Capital One Bank, Richmond, Va., filed five actions as follows: Amber L. Donahue, 103 Penn Spring Drive, Jim Thorpe, seeking $1,941.40; Amy J. Gellock, 96 Lehigh Ave., Palmerton, seeking $4,754.44; Bruce Shuman, 929 Delaware Ave., Palmerton, seeking $1,332.58, Gerald A. Shiffert, 29 1-2 E. Ridge St., Lansford, seeking $1,245.44; and Zenaida Marrero, 117 Kickapoo Trail, Albrightsville, seeking $1,075.27.
American Express, Salt Lake City, UT., filed against Cecila Wassallo, 635 Hazelwood Rd., Palmerton, seeking $6,053.50.
LVNV Funding, Greenville, S.C., filed two actions as follows: Ross Stoico, 900 Koch Rd., Kunkletown, seeking $5,037.18; and Raymond Deats, 1587 Indian Mountain Lakes, Albrightsville, seeking $5,374.76.
FIA Card Services, Newark, Del., filed against Cyril M Shickora, Box 185, 101 Hickory St., Tresckow, seeking $6,193.70.


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Where the Shekel Stops / The Math of the Tent Protesters' Demands: Mistakes Amounting to Billions
The letter, published Tuesday, is a compilation of the protest movement's demands of the government.
The letter of demands compiled by the tent protesters is riddled with mistakes that amount to tens of billions of shekels, according to an analysis by TheMarker.
The letter, published Tuesday, is a compilation of the protest movement's demands of the government. It includes a great many demands of the national budget and details how they could be financed through tax increases.
The document's authors state that the total cost of their demands is NIS 36.6 billion and that the tax increases they propose would amount to NIS 38 billion. Ergo, all their demands could comfortably be met and the government would still have an extra NIS 1.5 billion, according to their math.
Their demands include: renewing public housing (the government builds apartments through the Amidar corporation and rents or sells them to the poor ) at a cost of NIS 2.6 billion, according to the protesters; extending free preschool so it starts from the age of 3 months (NIS 8 billion ); reducing the number of children in classrooms to the OECD norm of 21.4 (NIS 3 billion in four years ); meeting all the Israel Medical Association's demands (NIS 3 billion ); increasing the number of police officers and firefighters per capita to OECD standards (NIS 1.5 billion ); increasing the number of social workers and teachers per capita to OECD standards (NIS 1.5 billion over a decade ); raising the minimum wage to 50% of the average wage (NIS 1.5 billion ); creating employment centers in the country's outskirts (NIS 1 billion ); and adding 500 inspectors to enforce labor laws.
All these demands, which the protesters calculate will cost NIS 36.6 billion a year, they propose to finance through profound tax reform. For instance, they advocate lowering VAT from 16% to 5% (over four years; they claim this will cost NIS 15 billion ), while increasing income tax (adding NIS 22 billion ). They propose instituting income tax on all income (a highly amorphous proposal - they apparently mean abolishing discount tax rates on capital gains and interest gains ) - which they say will add NIS 6 billion a year. They propose that extra tax income be used to increase the state budget (NIS 10 billion ). All in all, they calculate that these changes would add NIS 38 billion to finance their demands.
But TheMarker checked the figures with the Finance Ministry and external experts and found that many of the numbers are completely wrong.
Imaginary money
First of all, lowering VAT from 16% to 5% wouldn't cost NIS 15 billion. It would cost NIS 40 billion. By the way, in no country in the world is VAT that low. Most European nations charge VAT of 15% to 25%. Minus various exemptions, the average VAT rate in Europe is 13%. In other words, VAT in Israel is only slightly higher than the norm in Europe.
Let us also remember that VAT is a burden shared by all members of society, so its reduction would help mainly the people who consume the most - the well-off. The Bank of Israel found in 2005 that for each 1% lopped off VAT, the lowest-earning tenth of the population gets 5.7%, while the highest-earning tenth gets 17.1%.
In other words, lowering VAT helps the strongest, not the weakest. It's also true, however, that when looking at how much people spend on VAT out of their income, the poorest are the hardest hit because they spend a greater proportion of their income on consumption.
The protesters' calculations of how much the state would get by raising taxes are also wrong. If the government suspends its plans to lower corporate and income tax and increase the tax on the highest earners, say, raising it to 50%, the state would gain NIS 15 billion, not NIS 22 billion, say the experts.
The calculation of lost income from low tax rates on capital gains and interest, NIS 6 billion, is taken from the Finance Ministry's State Revenue Administration. But that department warns that the calculation is theoretical, and in practice, income from these sources could not reach NIS 6 billion a year.
The proposal that surplus tax collection of NIS 10 billion a year be used to increase the budget is ludicrous. The state perennially runs a budget deficit. Any "surplus tax collection" is relative to projected income from tax, which is estimated at the start of the year. The state budget is based in part on that projection of tax income. The "surplus" is relative to a forecast; meanwhile, the government is operating on a deficit and issues bonds to finance it.
Therefore - "surplus tax" is theoretical, not money that can be spent. Also, the protesters' math completely ignores the state's need to repay debt and reduce the national debt. Diverting "surplus tax collection" for budget spending, not debt repayment, would mean sacrificing our children's future and imperiling Israel's very financial stability.
The upshot is that the protesters' claim they have found budget sources to finance all their demands is nonsense. Their solutions would increase direct tax by NIS 20 billion and lower indirect tax by NIS 40 billion. On the spot Israel would suffer a revenue deficit of NIS 20 billion. Now add to that demands of another NIS 20 billion. What the tent dwellers propose would create a gap of NIS 40 billion in the state budget.
How not to reform education
Some of the protesters' demands themselves raise eyebrows. Fewer pupils per classroom? Studies show that this in itself achieves nothing and that education reform shouldn't focus on the number of children per class. As for setting teacher numbers according to the OECD average - no study has been done showing that Israel suffers from a lack of teachers.
As for raising the minimum wage to half the average wage - it already is.
Adding more positions and beds to the healthcare system - this is already being done, in part. The argument with the Israel Medical Association at present is about pay, not positions.
And on top of all that, one might note that the most important social assistance Israel can provide to its citizens, a central issue in the OECD recommendations on how Israel could improve its social policies, isn't even on the protesters' list. That assistance is helping the lowest earners through negative income tax. Today the state earmarks about a billion shekels a year for that, no more. The OECD thinks the figure should be far higher.
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JACKSON — Carolyn Meyers, a past president of Norfolk State University, was named Monday as the preferred candidate for president of Jackson State University.
If formally named president, Meyers would be the first woman to lead Jackson State.
The College Board also announced the selection of Christopher Brown, the current executive vice president at Fisk University, as the preferred candidate for president at Alcorn State University.
Meyers and Brown will now attend a series of campus meetings, leading up to a final vote by the College Board.
Alcorn State has been without a permanent leader since George Ross stepped down in February to become president of Central Michigan University.
Former JSU President Ronald Mason left at the end of June to take over the Southern University System, based in Baton Rouge, La. Former professor Leslie McLemore has been interim president.


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