Future-proofing the Past?: Digital History and Preservation in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

Digital history has grown into a critical aspect of history scholarship and practice. The literature surrounding digital history is colored by its discussions of the possibilities and problems of digital history, both as an archiving tool and a method of increasing interaction with public history. This literature is also defined by its lack of answers to these questions, and lack of examinations of these possibilities in cases studies. By examining how three different New Orleans historical institutions have embraced digital history for preservation and public history in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, this thesis will illustrate how questions of preservation, access, and the impact of digital history on research are being answered by these institutions. The New Orleans historical institutions evaluated in this paper have used digital history to bolster their preservation in the face of natural disaster, and to foster increased interactivity and importance with the New Orleans community

An Examination of Voter Groups That Make Up the Emerging Democratic Majority Thesis

In 2002, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira published The Emerging Democratic Majority, a book that postulated that the United States was in the beginning of a political realignment that would spell the end of the Reagan-era coalition that gave Republicans an electoral advantage on the presidency. The authors claimed an electorate that would favor the Democratic Party would emerge to take its place. Since Senator Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election was powered by a coalition that looked much like the one Judis and Teixeira described, it appeared the authors’ thesis was being borne out by actual election results. However, the events of the 2000s and early 2010s have lent both credibility and doubt to this possible realignment, and have drawn attention to the problems of regular realignment theory. Exploring the premise laid out by Judis and Teixeira from their work, The Emerging Democratic Majority, as well as observations about the changing composition of the American electorate, I analyze key groups in the American electorate to determine if these groups are trending more Democratic in presidential and congressional races since the 1988 presidential election. Findings showed several of these groups regularly supported Democratic candidates but did not consistently trend to the Democrats from year to year. Changes across time often depended on match-ups of nonconsecutive years, with Democrats in the year 2008 drawing especially strong support from hypothesized voter groups. While Democrats can count on the support of groups such as voters who achieve high levels of college education or voters with secular outlooks on life, their success still depends highly on candidate quality and advantage on issues and cannot be taken for granted

A Research Note on Street Pricing Requirements in Major U.S. Airport Retail Concessions Requests for Proposals

When reviewing the subject of airport marketing, much of the literature is broken down into issues external or internal to the airport. The external literature tends to divide and differentiate airports on the issues of size (passenger counts) and who is the target of the marketing campaign. Those articles and books that tend to focus on the larger commercial airports (Jarach, 2005; Halpern and Graham, 2013) note the role the airport can play in economic development. Much of the external marketing tasks for the larger commercial airports are aimed at either attracting more airline service to the community or working in conjunction with economic development and tourism agencies in promoting the desirability of the location. Some discussion may examine those few markets in the U.S. where competition can occur between airports, however as airports tend to be dominated by the type of airline in place, legacy or network carriers in contrast to low cost or ultra-low cost carriers, the airlines in place often drive customer choice

An Examination of Voter Groups That Make Up the Emerging Democratic Majority Thesis

In 2002, John Judis and Ruy Teixeira published The Emerging Democratic Majority, a book that postulated that the United States was in the beginning of a political realignment that would spell the end of the Reagan-era coalition that gave Republicans an electoral advantage on the presidency. The authors claimed an electorate that would favor the Democratic Party would emerge to take its place. Since Senator Barack Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election was powered by a coalition that looked much like the one Judis and Teixeira described, it appeared the authors’ thesis was being borne out by actual election results. However, the events of the 2000s and early 2010s have lent both credibility and doubt to this possible realignment, and have drawn attention to the problems of regular realignment theory. Exploring the premise laid out by Judis and Teixeira from their work, The Emerging Democratic Majority, as well as observations about the changing composition of the American electorate, I analyze key groups in the American electorate to determine if these groups are trending more Democratic in presidential and congressional races since the 1988 presidential election. Findings showed several of these groups regularly supported Democratic candidates but did not consistently trend to the Democrats from year to year. Changes across time often depended on match-ups of nonconsecutive years, with Democrats in the year 2008 drawing especially strong support from hypothesized voter groups. While Democrats can count on the support of groups such as voters who achieve high levels of college education or voters with secular outlooks on life, their success still depends highly on candidate quality and advantage on issues and cannot be taken for granted

Posh and Tawdry: Rethinking E.J. Bellocqs\u27 Storyville Portraits

In this thesis I examine the contextual framework in which New Orleans photographer E.J. Bellocqs Storyville Portraits have been placed, and resituate Bellcoq\u27s oeuvre in a vernacular context. Bellocq was a commercial photographer working in the nineteen-teens who photographed the prostitutes of New Orleans red light district, Storyville. After his death, Lee Friedlander purchased these now damaged negatives and reprinted the full plates, and in 1970 MOMA exhibited Friedlander\u27s new prints in a formulaic, modernist fashion. The Storyville Portrait\u27s recontexualization by MOMA, converted them from commercial erotic advertisements for prostitution in Storyville to fine art photographs, raises issues of how the placement of private pictures in the fine art museum. Through aestheticizing these photographs, they also lose their values as historical document, and as some of the only remaining cultural patrimony of the now lost Storyville district of New Orleans.\u2

Characterization of a Shallow Urban Aquifer in Atlanta, Georgia

The City of Atlanta is a rapidly growing urban center in the Southeastern U.S. whose increasing population will place considerable strain on the city\u27s water supply in terms of quality and availability. The purpose of this research is to characterize the water quality and provide lithological context of an unconfined aquifer on Georgia State University (GSU) campus as a prospective non-potable water supply to meet Atlanta’s demand for water. Two groundwater monitoring wells were installed at 100 Auburn Avenue and serve as the network by which the surficial aquifer was characterized and water quality assessed. Based on groundwater monitoring, water quality varies due to the occurrence of volatile organic compounds in one well exceeding EPA drinking water standards. In addition, the depth to bedrock varied significantly with topography. As a result, water quality and availability would need to be assessed on a site basis for non-potable use and production needs

Amino Acid-Supplemented Diets and Amino Acid Requirements in Corn and Soybean Meal Diets for Broilers and Pigs

The objectives of this research were to: 1) evaluate the role of Gly in low CP, AA supplemented diets for broilers, 2) determine subsequent effects of supplementing Gly in broiler diets, and 3) determine the Val and Ile requirement in an AA supplemented, C-SBM diet for 20- to 45-kg pigs. Three experiments were conducted to evaluate supplementation of Gly, creatine, GAA, and fishmeal in C-SBM diets on growth performance of broiler chicks and to determine if Gly, creatine, or GAA could be added to a C-SBM diet in place of fishmeal to produce similar growth performance. The results from these experiments indicate that supplemental Gly, creatine, or GAA can be supplemented in a C-SBM diet in replacement of fishmeal and produce similar growth performance to broilers fed a C-SBM, fishmeal diet. Two experiments were conducted to determine the effects of supplementing Lys and Gly and effects of feeding 2 dietary Lys levels without and with supplemental Gly and antibiotics on growth performance, serum uric acid, and intestinal and organ responses of broilers. Results from these experiments indicate that increasing dietary Lys in diets for broilers increases growth performance and supplementation of Gly in low CP, AA supplemented diets increases feed efficiency. Thus, this improvement in G:F coincides with an increase in serum uric acid and occurs in diets that are high (1.40%) or low (1.26%) in dietary Lys. The increase in G:F is not similar to the feed efficiency response seen when antibiotics are supplemented in broiler diets. An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of feeding increasing levels of supplemental Lys without and with supplemental Gly from 0- to 10-d and the subsequent effects of feeding these diets from 10- to 24-d. Results from these experiments indicate that the inclusion of up to 0.15% supplemental Lys can be added in a C-SBM diet without or with supplemental Gly without reducing growth performance of 0- to 10-d old broilers. These results also indicated that providing Gly in the starter phase (0- to 10-d) increased G:F during the subsequent grower phase depending on the supplemental Lys level that was provided in the starter phase. Three experiments were conducted to determine the Val and Ile requirement in an AA supplemented, C-SBM diet for 20- to 45-kg pigs. The Val and Ile requirement for 20- to 45-kg pigs in an AA-supplemented, C-SBM diet is 0.56 to 0.58% SID Val (0.67 to 0.70 SID Val:Lys) and 0.43% SID Ile (0.52 SID Ile:Lys)

S98RS SGB No. 22 (Spring Concert)

A BILL To appropriate four hundred dollars ($400.00) to the creation of forty (40) double-sided signs in order to promote the Spring Concert

Airline Marketing

The role of airline marketing has now expanded to include a more expansive view of the travel planning process. The chapter utilises a classic four P\u27s approach – product, place, promotion and price – while reviewing some of the possible legal and regulatory concerns that impact on how airline marketing is addressed today. Airlines must determine what is the right product for the premium passenger mix of the airline. The chapter examines the role of how a classic promotional tool, sponsorship, can be combined with the tools of social media to provide an overall promotion campaign to target audiences. As airlines develop new fare products, airline information systems must be updated to deliver the variety of products and services, with multiple price points involved, to the consumer. Airlines face the task of meeting the basic needs of passengers in a constantly changing technological and world marketplace