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I am an Associate Professor at Texas A&M in the English Department. My current research project focuses on the rhetoric of transhumanism, but I am broadly interested in the reshaping of rhetoric, discourse, and identity in the face of digital technologies. My research and pedagogical work touches on facets of digital rhetoric, digital humanities, emerging media, and technical communications.
My first book project (published by University of Minnesota Press, Fall 2017) explores the rhetoric of the transhumanism movement with regards specifically to its Utopian content. Order Transhumanism on Amazon!
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This project develops the rhetorical mode of "evolutionary futurism" and the rhetoric of the transhumanist movement. While transhumanism is usually dismissed by scholars of rhetoric, technology, and culture as a fringe movement with limited scope, my project instead argues that "transhumanism" is a name for a much more pervasive rhetorical mode that considers technology as a vector for evolutionary change operating on society, consciousness, and biology. I call this rhetorical mode "evolutionary futurism," and, in tracing this formation throughout 20th and 21st century culture, I suggest that transhumanism, rather than a fringe movement of renegade scientists and philosophers, is actually a postmodern form of Utopia in line with Fredric Jameson's discussion of the concept in Postmodernism.
My book then traces the rhetorical, Utopian mode I call "evolutionary futurism" through a number of important moments in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Chapters Summaries
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Associate Professor of English
Department of English
Texas A&M University
|Associate Professor
|Texas A&M University
|Assistant Professor
|Texas A&M University
|Assistant Professor
|Arizona State University
|Fixed-Term Lecturer
|Pennsylvania State University
|Graduate Teaching Fellow
|Pennsylvania State University
|PhD, English
|Pennsylvania State University
|May 2011
|MA, English
|Pennsylvania State University
|May 2007
|BS, Computer Science
|Georgia Institute of Technology
|May 2005
|BS, Science Technology & Culture
|Georgia Institute of Technology
|May 2005
Immutability: The World According to Software Bugs
Six Chapter Manuscript, In-Progress – This project is a media archeology of the computer bug. While numerous works explore computer hacking, my project is interested in accidental computer failure: unintended consequences that can have dangerous and far-reaching effects. I uncover that the accident is integral to software while mitigating this accidental nature has radically altered the landscape of contemporary culture. Planned chapters trace the software accident through the early mathematical foundations of computing, the 1990s emergence of home computing and the Internet, the collapse of post-structural thought and the related rise of infrastructure studies, recent changes in programming practices resulting from big data, and current discussions about the programmatic nature of reality itself.
Forms of Digital Labor: Accounting for Work in the Information Age
Edited Collection, Co-Editing w/ Shawna Ross, 13 Chapter Drafts Collected, 2 Additional Solicited, & In Talks with Publishers – CFP is online at: https://oncomouse.github.io/digital-labor-cfp/. This edited collection draws together interdisciplinary scholars working on the question of digital labor, its forms, and its histories.
Transhumanism: Evolutionary Futurism and the Human Technologies of Utopia
Six-Chapter Manuscript, University of Minnesota (2017) – This book explores the rhetorical history of "evolutionary futurism," a twentieth century Utopian rhetorical mode associating advancing telecommunications technologies with biological evolution to suggest near-future radical shifts in human existence and cognition. Tracing this rhetoric of transhumanism, chapters explore the evolutionary futurism of theosophy, 1940s science fiction, Raymond Kurzweil, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In addition to a theoretical introduction, the book also contains an extended discussion of contemporary digital aesthetics as transhuman vectors of evolutionary overcoming.
Prizes: 2017 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Book Prize
Reviews: Modernism/Modernity (25.1)
"The Ethos of Mr. Robot." Present Tense 7.1 (2018): n.p.
"Abducting Code, Translating the Future: Transpilers and the Implementation of JavaScript's Future." Amodern 8 ("Translation-Machination" special issue, ed. Christine Mitchell & Rita Raley) (2018): n.p.
"Life During Wartime: Science Fiction during and after World War II." Chapter in The Cambridge History of Science Fiction eds. Gerry Canavan and Eric Carl Link. (Collection Under Contract with Cambridge UP; Forthcoming, 2017).
"Polynesian Paralysis: Tiki Culture and the Aesthetics of American Empire." Chapter in The Year's Work in Cocktail Culture: The Shaken and the Stirred. Eds. Stephen Schneider and Craig N. Owens. (Under Preliminary Contract with Indiana UP in "The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory" series).
"Invoking Darkness: Skotison, Scalar Derangement, and Inhuman Rhetoric." Philosophy and Rhetoric 50.3 (2017): 336-355.
"'We twiddle…and turn into machines': Mina Loy, HTML, and the Machining of Information." Chapter in Reading Modernism with Machines eds. Shawna Ross & James O'Sullivan (2016).
"Insect Capital." New American Notes Online (NANO) 8 (2015).
"Self-Help Supermen: The Politics of Fan Utopias in World War II-Era Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies 41.3 (2014): 524-542.
"Review of Technosystems by Andrew Feenberg". Contemporary Political Theory (2017).
"Ethical Models for Nonhuman, Collective Rhetoric: A Review of Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times by Alexis Shotwell and Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene by Joanna Zylinska". Enculturation (2017).
"After 'The' 'Text': A Review of Comparative Textual Media." Review of Comparative Textual Media edited by N. Katherine Hayles and Jessica Pressman. Enculturation (2016).
"Review of MP3: The Meaning of a Format by Jonathan Sterne." Information Society 29.5 (2013): 316-317.
"Review of Slime Dynamics by Ben Woodard." Itineration, 2013.
"A Review of The Breakup 2.0 by Illana Gershon." Information Society 28.2 (2012): 126-127.
"Contagious Narratives: Towards a Global Epidemiology in Priscilla Wald's Contagious." Review Of Contagious: Cultures, Carriers, and the Outbreak Narrative by Priscilla Wald. BioSocieties 4.2-3 (2009): 326-328.
"What Does Flash Reason Look Like." Textshop Experiments 5 (2018): n.p.
"When the Coffee Machine Is Just a Human." An Object Lesson for The Atlantic (January 28, 2016).
Mina Loy Online. A collection of poems and manifestoes by avant-garde modernist Mina Loy, posted online in an open-access, typographically correct format. http://oncomouse.github.io/loy.
rake-and-pandoc, Lead Developer. Framework for writing books using the open source Markdown engine, Pandoc, and the task automation system, Rake.
jquery-inline-footnotes, Lead Developer. Open source plugin for the industry-standard Javascript framework, jQuery that converts footnotes generated by Markdown into responsive, elegant side notes.
The Goldilocks Approach SASS, Lead Developer. Open source port of The Goldilocks Approach (a CSS responsive design framework) to SASS (a CSS preprocessor used throughout the web development industry).
Co-author. "Toward a Digital Henry James." With Shawna Ross, College of Letters & Science at ASU. ASU Institute for Humanities Research Seed Grant, Fall 2014. Awarded.
Co-author. "Toward a Digital Henry James." With Shawna Ross, College of Letters & Science at ASU. ASU Institute for Humanities Research Seed Grant, Spring 2013. Revise and Resubmit.
SLS Faculty Summer Research Initiative, 2013 & 2014. (Arizona State)
Wilma Ebbitt Graduate Award in Rhetorical Studies, 2010. (Penn State)
Philip Young Memorial Endowment in American Literature, 2006. (Penn State)
"The What, Why, and How of Net Neutrality." New York Times Café. ASU Downtown Phoenix Campus. 2014.
"The Frontend: Modern JavaScript and CSS Development." Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI). Victoria, British Columbia. June 4-8, 2018. (Scheduled)
"Alien Megastructures: The Possibility of Extraterrestrial Life and the Rhetoric of Hope in the Anthropocene." 18th Biennial RSA Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2018. (Accepted)
"Events in Flux: Software Architecture and Rhetorical Subtraction." 18th Biennial RSA Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2018. (Accepted)
"Security Through Transparency: Minimal Computing in the Jungle of the Real." 133rd MLA Annual Convention, New York, NY, 2018.
Facilitator, "Commonsense Information Security for Academics." 133rd MLA Annual Convention, New York, NY, 2018. (Cancelled Due to Weather)
Roundtable Participant, "Hacking the Scholarly Worklow." 133rd MLA Annual Convention, New York, NY, 2018. (Cancelled Due to Weather)
"The Jungle of the Real: Hacking Infrastructure After Baudrillard." The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts 2017 Conference, Tempe, AZ, 2017.
"Rocket Into Darkness: Accelerationism, Space, and the Future of the Future." The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts 2017 Conference, Tempe, AZ, 2017.
Roundtable Participant, "Working Out Loud: Online Identity Building, Digital Networking, and Professional Development." 132nd MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, 2017.
"Lachrymator: Persuasion's Tear Gas." 17th Biennial RSA Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2016.
"The Rhetorical Future of the Soul at Work." 17th Biennial RSA Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2016.
"'The sharpest part of my skeleton': Digital Surrealism, Weird Posthumanism, and Performing Theory." Computers & Writing 2016 Conference, Rochester, NY, 2016.
Chair and Organizer, Critical Informatics and the Digital Humanities. 131st MLA Annual Convention, Austin, TX, 2016.
"Worlds Without Us: The Horror of Indifference in The Southern Reach Trilogy" The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts 2015 Conference, Houston, TX, 2015.
"Interpretation Comes Alive" The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Tampa, FL, 2015.
Roundtable Participant, "Approaching The Peripheral: First Responses to William Gibson's New Novel" 130th MLA Annual Convention, Vancouver, BC, 2015.
"Sex and the Singularity: On The Reproduction of Software Objects" 130th MLA Annual Convention, Vancouver, BC, 2015.
"Coffee Futurism" The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts 2014 Conference, Dallas, TX, 2014.
"Posthuman, Nonhuman, Inhuman: Toward An Eldritch Rhetoric" 16th Biennial RSA Conference, San Antonio, TX, 2014.
"Polynesian Paralysis" Cocktail Culture: A Conference, Louisville, KY, 2014.
"How Did I Get Here?: GPS, Surveillance Culture, and Personal Narrative" The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Indianapolis, IN, 2014.
"Shooting at Agency" Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference 2013, Salt Lake City, UT, 2013.
"'I am afraid of a draught of cool air': Lovecraft, Air Conditioning, and Autophagic Modernity" The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts 2013 Conference, South Bend, IN, 2013.
"When Writing is no Longer Writing: Institutions, Objects, Disciplines" Computers and Writing 2013 Conference, Frostberg, MD, 2013.
"Thinking Different: Primitive Accumulation, Cognitive Economies, and the Quest for a More Perfect Mind" 15th Biennial RSA Conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2012.
"Becoming Object: Facebook, Life Writing, and Tool-Being" The Conference on College Composition and Communication, St. Louis, MA, 2012.
"As Study or As Paradigm?: Humanities and the Uptake of Emerging Technologies," 127th MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, WA, 2012.
"Remixing 'Technical Communication': Design, Techné, and the Production of Documents," The Conference on College Composition and Communication, Louisville, KY, 2010.
"He Called It 'Utopia': Jameson's Social and Vedic Transhumanism," The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts 2009 Conference, Atlanta, GA, 2009.
"Utopia.com: Fredric Jameson and Piracy Online," The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts 2007 Conference, Portland, ME, 2007.
"Revising Tomorrow: the Historical Present, Telecommunications, and Capitalism in Nova and Neuromancer," Samuel Delany: A Critical Symposium, University at Buffalo (State University of New York), 2006.
Digital Authoring Practices (1 Section; 10 Students) – I developed and first taught this class for A&M. The course is designed to introduce students to the technologies of digital writing while asking them to formulate artifacts using computational artifacts.
Rhetoric of Style (1 Section; 30 Students) – Course documents the relationship between style and persuasion, with an emphasis on sentence analysis, tropes & figures, and classical rhetorical style exercises.
Graduate Seminar: History and Theory of Rhetoric since 1800 (1 Section; 6 Students) – Taught in Fall 2016 as "Rhetoric's Avant-Garde," which focused on the intersection between avant-garde writing practices and developments in rhetorical theory during the twentieth century.
Graduate Directed Study: History and Theory of Rhetoric (1 Section; 2 Students) – Graduate directed reading focusing on the history of rhetoric from ancient Greece through the Enlightenment and contemporary articulations of those concepts in rhetoric of science, rhetorical historiography, procedural rhetoric, and minority rhetorics.
History of Rhetoric (2 Section; 50 Students) – Focus on the history and development of rhetorical concepts from the ancient Greeks through the Enlightenment.
Modern Rhetorical Theory (4 Section; 100 Students) – Course focuses on the developments of rhetorical theory in the 20th century. Course emphasizes mutations in media and globality as preconditions for the flowering of rhetorical thought that mark our world.
American Literature From 1860 (1 Section; 24 Students) – In this born-digital approach to the literary survey, students learn the history of American literature since 1860 while exploring digital methods of textual analysis.
Frankenstein and His World (1 Section; 30 Students; Online Course) – In this course, students will read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in conversation with the texts that both influenced it and were influenced by the novel. Students also complete projects and papers on this cultural legacy.
Major American Novels (2 Section; 46 Students) – Course covering major works of the American novel. Additionally, students will complete assignments deploying thematic, stylometric, and mapping-based approaches to the study of literature in a project-oriented exploration American literary history.
H.P. Lovecraft: Style, Science, Myth (2 Section; 60 Students; Online Course) – In this course on the horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, students use digital humanities methods to complete projects dealing with Lovecraft's unique style, interest in science, and contemporary mythology.
Introduction to Contemporary Fiction (3 Section; 90 Students; Online Course) – Course introduces students to the current state of American fiction by focusing on novels published by living authors within the last three years.
Popular Cultural Issues: Apocalypse Now? (1 Section; 30 Students; Online Course) – Course asks students to think critically about the continuing popularity of post-apocalyptic and end-of-the-world narratives in contemporary literature, film, and television.
Rhetoric & Composition (6 Sections; 144 Students) – This first-year composition option at Penn State introduces students to college writing, critical thinking, and basic rhetorical theory.
Effective Writing: Technical Writing (7 Sections; 168 Students) – Advanced composition class for students in science and engineering fields. Focus on document design, readability, and technologies of communication.
Effective Writing: Business Writing (2 Sections; 48 Students) – Advanced composition class for students in business fields. Focus on effective and ethical communication, document design, and branding.
Science Fiction (2 Sections; 200 Students) – Course focusing on the history of science fiction in the 20th and 21st centuries. This large lecture class, composed mostly of non-majors, highlights the ongoing relationships between science, literature, and imagined futures.
Introduction to Critical Reading (1 Section; 24 Students) – Introductory class focusing on research methods and critical approaches within the English major. Specifically, instruction focused on media theory and critical appraisal of cultural texts.
Member-at-large, Executive Committee, The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts, 2015-2017.
Program Committee Member, The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, 2013.
Manuscript Reviewer, Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2018.
Manuscript Reviewer, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.
Manuscript Reviewer, PMLA, 2017.
Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Digital Literary Studies, 2016.
Manuscript Reviewer, Rhetoric Society Quarterly, 2015.
Digital Projects & Tools Editor, Journal of Digital Literary Studies, 2015-Present.
Graduate Studies Committee, 2017-Present.
Strategic Planning Committee, 2016-Present.
Digital Humanities Working Group Convener, 2015-Present.
Multimedia Editing & Writing Ad Hoc Committee, 2015-Present.
Ad Hoc Writing Committee Member, 2015-2016.
Rhetoric & Composition Search Committee Member, 2015 – Successful hire for tenure-track assistant professor in History & Theory of Rhetoric.
First Year Review Committee Member, 2015.
IHC English Education Search Committee Member 2014 – Successful hire for tenure-track assistant professor in English Education.
Noösphere Reading Group Organizer, 2014 – Ongoing, informal reading group of SLS faculty reading works related to the topics of global consciousness and global awareness.
IHR Nexus Lab Advisory Group Member, Institute for Humanities Research, 2013-2015 – The Nexus Lab, resulting from the work of the DH Initiative at ASU, serves as a focal point and incubator for collaborative, digital research across the humanities at ASU.
IHR Nexus Lab Data Visualization Working Group Member, 2014-2015.
Digital Humanities Initiative Working Group Member, Institute for Humanities Research, 2013 – Created purpose document inaugurating an interdisciplinary research and pedagogy initiative for digital humanities.
Peer Promotion Committee Chair, Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communications, 2012 – Reviewed materials for colleagues seeking promotion.
Computer Programming – Thorough knowledge of multiple computer programming languages such as C, Java, Ruby, PERL, and LISP. Significant experience in building websites using advanced technologies such as PHP, MySQL, Ruby on Rails, and Apache.
The Modern Language Association
Rhetoric Society of America
The Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Available Upon Request
My goals in teaching classes in both rhetoric and literature are intimately connected with my research interests.
"His dream was not so much to give a lecture to humans as to provide a program for pure computers."—Gilles Deleuze & Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus
My goals in teaching classes in both rhetoric and literature are intimately connected with my research interests. In my dissertation, I write about "transhumanism," a discursive community aimed at grappling with humans as objects of ongoing evolutionary processes. Often, these evolutionary processes have, specifically, to do with the evolutionary pressures exerted by new and emerging, digital technologies. As such, my motivation as a teacher is to better equip my students to deal with these pressures. Overall, I view my teaching as a chance to direct students in ways of living in a digital media ecology and preparing them for a future of ongoing, accelerating technological change.
This goal expresses itself differently, depending on the class being taught. For instance, in teaching Technical Communication, which I have done four times so far, I made an interesting discovery regarding my students and their attitudes towards writing. In conducting classroom discussion, I found that, thanks to Penn State's various internship and co-op programs, my students mostly had experience writing in a professional, scientific capacity. What they lacked, however, was basic knowledge of digital document production. As such, I've retooled my teaching of this subject to focus on combining content production and document design. In this fashion, students spend as much time focusing on how they write as on what they write. The class includes assignments in both report writing and webpage design. I find that students benefit more from this approach, as they can leave my course with marketable, new media skills in addition to a better understanding of the rhetorical stakes of technical writing. More importantly, I stress the importance of developing digital problem solving strategies, rather than specific tool use, so that students in my classes can be better prepared for a changing, evolving digital workplace.
My teaching of science fiction, which is a new experience for me, affords another opportunity for dealing pedagogically with the tenants of transhumanism. Where the technical communications classroom becomes a workshop for applied transhumanism, I view the science fiction classroom as focusing on the philosophical implications of this discourse. By focusing on close analysis of various texts that grapple with the nature of a radically altered future, I attempt to direct students toward thinking seriously about the ethical, moral, and philosophical issues raised by the rapid technological change experienced by the United States following World War II (which corresponds to the high point of American SF). Additionally, as many of these processes of change and acceleration are ongoing (especially with regards to emerging Internet technologies and mobile computing), I view science fiction pedagogy as an opportunity to raise my students' awareness that the issues raised in SF are, increasingly, being raised in their lives and their futures.
In both of these cases, I find focusing on the ongoing evolution of the human condition, by viewing my pedagogy from a transhuman perspective, both personally rewarding and hugely beneficial to my students in the classroom and beyond. While also helping them learn the course material at hand, my transhuman perspective allows students to step out of the classroom and the university with highly valuable "take-away" skills that can be applied in their future lives as students and as professionals. As such, I look forward to continue to explore this perspective in new and exciting pedagogical environments.
Article theorizing the use of ES6 transpilers (Babel & Traceur) in contemporary JavaScript as examples of novel machine translation systems.
This article argues for a turn-to-darkness in the rhetoric of the nonhuman.
Read this article on JSTOR. Read this article on Project MUSE.
This article argues that the turn to new materialism in rhetorical theory, specifically when inspired by object-oriented ontology, actually fills a need to address what this paper labels "boundless agencies": ecosystems, climates, pandemics, economies, etc. Our object-centric language lacks rhetorical strategies for dealing with these new inhuman agencies and, as they come to dominant our cultural rhetoric, we lack persuasive strategies to address them. Instead of a model of object rhetoric focused on rhetorical carpentry (Brown and Rivers), a strategy that proposes the enlistment of simulating objects to understand the nonhuman, this article nominates Lanham's concept of skotison—deliberately obfuscatory speech—as a key figure for rhetorically invoking these boundless agencies. Rhetorical invocation provides a strategy for thinking about the rhetoric of the inhuman, rather than the nonhuman, which is the more salient object for an extra-human rhetorical theory in our current age of horrors.
Uses the pattern of insect imagery in William Gibson's Neuromancer to talk about a theory of corporate culture informed by German Media Studies.
Tracing an inhuman theory of the corporation, this article uses Friedrich Kittler's understandings of media (that they shape humans, not the other way around) to argue that the corporation in postmodern, cyberpunk literature is a media form for adapting the human to the inhuman registers of global data. I trace this through the repeated invocation of the wasp hive as a metaphor for transnational corporation in William Gibson's Neuromancer. Ultimately, I show that, contra many readings of the novel, the book is actually a celebration of humanity's inability to adapt to new technologies, a common theme in Gibson's work.
This article discusses the presentation of anti-corporate resistance in Mr. Robot.
This article considers Mr. Robot as an important moment in the presentation of the outsider ethos in contemporary cultural texts. Specifically, the article doubly considers the show's presentation of the hacker as a revolutionary outsider, co-opting the language and imagery of the collective Anonymous and it's situatedness as part of USA Network's successful corporate rebranding as an edgier network that appeals to millenials. By considering the show's blatant commodification of dissent, the article asks after the true shape of anti-corporate ethos in the present and questions the revolutionary potential of popular entertainment in a network, globalized era.
A review essay of two recent works that connect nonhuman turns in philosophy to the practice of ethics. I speculate that these books form a possible foundation for a future, ethically-grounded set of nonhuman-engaged rhetorical practices in an age of extreme uncertainty.
Image Source: Lauri Heikkinen
Chapter on Loy, HTML, and the emergence of contemporary information.
This chapter argues that Mina Loy—avant-garde poet, fierce critic of Italian futurism, collage artist, and mystic—anticipates in her poetry written between 1910 and 1930 the turn from a concept of the machine as physical to the machine as information, a transformation also developed in 20th century Marxist thought. I base Loy's informatic futurism on discoveries made in translating her typographic fractals into HTML for online consumption. Loy's usage of an informatic machine critiques both the masculine ethos of her Futurist interlocutors but also interrogates the rational afterlives of this machismo in web design practices that inherits principles developed by avant-garde movements. Thus Loy's poetic account of machinic being serves as a potent site for exploring and resisting informatic rationality in the present.
Collection is edited by Shawna Ross and James O'Sullivan and published by Palgrave.
A Twitter bot that invents homework excuses for the truly desperate.
Online at: http://oncomouse.github.io/homework-copia/
On Twitter at: @HomeworkCopia
This project algorithmically generates an example of what Desiderius Erasmus called a copia. Specifically, it randomly iterates through copious versions of the famous excuse "My dog ate my homework." You can also follow this flowing stream of eloquence at @HomeworkCopia).
In De Copia, Erasmus suggests practicing the "abundant style" by imagining copious variation on given phrases. Famously, Erasmus offers 195 variations on the sentence "Your Letter Pleased Me Greatly" as an example of stylistic abundance in De Copia. James J Brown, Jr. argues in "The Machine That I Therefore Am" that Erasmus's copia are tiny rhetorical algorithms and, as an example, discusses @YourLetterBot, which produces further versions of pleased letter recipients.
Project source code: https://github.com/oncomouse/homework-copia
Online edition of Mina Loy's poetry and manifestoes formatted in HTML to be typographically correct, retaining the structural elements of Loy's writing that is often not produced online.
Online at: http://oncomouse.github.io/loy
This collection of Mina Loy's poems and manifestoes documents the canon of futurist works identified by Janet Lyon as crucial to understanding Loy's complicated relationship with avant-garde modernism. Additionally, Loy's usage of typography contains clues to how to interpret the poems, but many of these innovative, concrete features are lost when the poems are translated online. This online edition rectifies this lack by using CSS 3, HTML 5, and advanced web fonts to format Loy's poems in as close a format to their original publication as possible.
Edition currently includes:
Online at: http://oncomouse.github.io/loy
I couldn't make MLA 2018 this year due to a "bomb cyclone" in NYC and multiple flight cancellations from DFW. Through the superhero efforts of presider Élika Oretga, I was able to participate virtually in my panel, #304 "Activist Infrastructures"....
I am really excited to announce that I am on the schedule to teach at DHSI next year in Victoria. The class still has to make, of course, but otherwise it should be a go. According to Shawna, some people have been asking for the course proposal, so...
Twitter bots, are great, right? Of course they are. People are talking about them at #cwcon in Findlay this weekend. I was talking about them with people at RSA. I run a few (here, here, and here). They are a really great way to get into the world...
Does minimal computing mean minimal complexity in the age of the accident?
Presentation At: The Modern Languages Association Convention, Austin, TX
Paul Virilio has argued throughout his oeuvre that on the speed-obsessed contemporary globe, the industrial accident (an explosion at a fertilizer plant, say) becomes indistinguishable from terrorism. With this indistinguishability in mind, this paper argues that minimal computing, as a paradigm for designing information systems, functions as a security measure against the proliferation of accidents documented by Virilio. In thinking about information systems and minimalism, I argue that one cluster in Jentery Sayers's definitions of minimal computing is "minimal complexity," a strategy for designing information systems to minimize accidents. This turn to minimal complexity, of which the turn to immutability in JavaScript development is one example, is a response to a recent, and dangerously overlooked, revision to the way we think about digital technology. Where Jean Baudrillard famously declared that media technology produce a desert of the real, recent work in infrastructure studies has instead manifested the jungle of the real in which we live. As ecologists know, jungles are densely entangled, information rich systems that sustain a staggering complexity of life forms. Where scholars of Baudrillard's generation saw the digitization of life as an evacuation of the real, we find in studying infrastructure a tangle that sustains this virtuality that is rich in complexity and, also, ripe for accidents. As such, I conclude by proposing that minimal computing is a paradigm for securing infrastructure in an age of accidents.
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Infrastructure studies uncovers that a jungle is growing where Baudrillard says a desert should lie.
Presentation At: The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts 2017 Conference, Tempe, AZ
This paper considers the rise of infrastructure studies—scholarship that traces the materiality sustaining modernity—as a rebuttal to Jean Baudrillard's claim in "Precision of the Simulacrum" that technology transforms the world into "the desert of the real." Focusing on infrastructure, challenges the argument that media technology evacuates the world of meaning and returns a simulated media object. As the frequency of accidents reveal the fragility of our modernity, scholars in the humanities are discovering that underneath Baudrillard's desert, a jungle has bloomed. In the tangle of cables, protocols, pipes, powerlines, and standards, we find amongst our insecure modernity a new real that sustains Baudrillard's simulation. Thus, I conclude that infrastructure studies engages our assumptions of media as disembodiment and our understanding of the postmodern and beyond.
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Questions about the relationship between space in science and weird fiction and the radical construction of the future in contemporary theory.
Presentation At: The Society For Literature, Science, and the Arts 2017 Conference, Tempe, AZ
This paper contributes to the tensions between accelerationism and nihilism in contemporary theories of the future. I juxtapose theories of hope (represented by Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek's "#ACCELERATE Manifesto") and doom (represented by Eugene Thacker) as key examples of these two positions. Specifically, I explore space travel as a recurring motif in both bodies of work. Williams and Srnicek's version of accelerationism, which could be summarized as "Communism with rocket ships," connects the Marxist "way out is through" argument first identified by Benjamin Noys to contemporary science fiction tropes of space exploration, life extension, and mind expansion. In discussing this brand of accelerationism in conversation with Robert A. Heinlein, I show that Williams and Srnicek align with an older "rocket ship ideology" that saw space travel as atonement for Western humanism's colonialist sins. On the other hand, Thacker's brand of nihilism, informed by H.P. Lovecraft—who imagines Earth as an island from which humans should not stray—,is deeply suspicious of space beyond its dark, foreboding emptiness. To exemplify this view, I read Sam Kriss's "Manifesto of the Committee to Abolish Outer Space" as a rebuttal to rocket ship ideology. Kriss figures space travel as an escape from our Earthly responsibilities to deal with oppression. I conclude by juxtaposing Kriss's on rockets with Nick Land's optimistic take on accelerationist nihilism to ask if, in our contemporary moment, we must not only confront our muddied future but also our technological ideologies.
Image Source: Nasa Godard Space Flight Center
Software used in development.
This site is made using Jekyll, a static-site generator for Ruby. It uses Tachyons for CSS with some help from SCSS. The javascript is powered by Isotope.
The research and course information are stored in a flat-file collection of YAML files, with the dynamic elements (the "All My Courses" button) powered by PHP and spyc.
The PDF version of the CV is generated using Pandoc from a template derived from the markdown-cv repository.
The site was designed and coded by Andrew Pilsch.
This independent study will answer the question "How do we write about science?"
Fosters an appreciation for and better understanding of English prose style; the history of English prose; representative prose models for analysis and imitation; the impact of computer analysis.


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But the 1934 earthquake, which killed more than 10,000 people, was a thing of the past, recalled by old folks, resurrected only in history books and works of fiction. History came alive on Saturday at 5 a.m. when I opened my laptop to write, in Bloomington, Ind., and saw the news.
I awoke my wife, who through bleary eyes looked at me in disbelief as I told her, "This is a big one." The next few hours were spent in frantic attempts to contact our loved ones in Katmandu; first and foremost my parents, whose old age makes them vulnerable, and my wife's mother, a widow, who lives in a tall building.
For many Nepali expatriates, attachment to the homeland is fierce. I love America, but Nepal is my home —it's a landscape I have returned to in all of my novels and short stories. And every year I return in person, with my MFA students. Last year we went up to the Himalayan region of Mustang, where my students bathed in the icy cold water from the 108 springs around Muktinath Temple, situated at 12,000 feet. Throughout the trip I was moved by Nepal's beauty and moved even more by the kindness of the Nepalis we encountered, from the old grandma who served us food at Hotel Bob Marley in Muktinath, to the hotel owner in the resort town of Pokhara who went out of his way to arrange transport for us.
That such calamity would befall such generous people is heart-rending. The initial quake on Saturday has been followed by countless aftershocks that have everyone panicked. Reports are coming in of entire villages laid waste in the mountains. My parents, with whom communication has been difficult because of erratic phone connections and lack of electricity, are camped out in rain on a small field near their home on the outskirts of Katmandu. My mother-in-law is staying with one of her daughters.
We had been warned. In the early '90s, when I returned to live in Nepal for two years, the country experienced mild earthquakes. Articles appeared in newspapers claiming that a major earthquake was imminent. The reason: movement of tectonic plates in the Himalayas, the very process that created those mountain peaks of stunning beauty in the first place. Concerns were raised about lack of preparedness, especially with the alarming growth of shoddily constructed buildings. But these prophesies of a major trembler didn't come true. I was among those who thought the experts were exaggerating. Read More
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Opportunities in Fire Protection Services
Here is everything you need to explore a career in this unique field. Written by a leading authority, this comprehensive guide gives all the information you need for intelligent career decision making. Among its many features are:
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Ronny J. Coleman, Opportunities in Fire Protection Services, (1992), VGM Career Horizons, ISBN: 0-8442-8623-0
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Chef Ronny J. Coleman is the retired State Fire Marshal for the State of California. He has received a Masters of Arts Degree in Vocational Education from Cal State Long Beach, a Bachelors of Science Degree in Political Science from Cal State Fullerton and an Associate of Arts Degree in Fire Science from Rancho Santiago College. Chief Coleman proudly served in the United States Marine Corps.


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Nowadays of increasing functioning of network competitors, the Portuguese Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) of the Textile and Clothing Industry are facing new digital challenges. In order to strengthen their market power and reduce their dependence on foreign subcontractors, they should create a brand mark image. Inside this new digital and interactive context, they should interact with their consumers and take full advantage of the opportunities provided by new communication and media networks, by implementing Intranets and Extranets as privileged systems of external communication with clients, suppliers, and partners in competitive environment. This essay analyses their competitive advantages. With this purpose, TOWS Matrix's Model is used for tracing dominant strategic alternatives and convenient recommendations aimed at managers and public administrators, taking in to consideration the changes actually operated in the new economic platform, namely Internet. The Portuguese Government has been committed to foment entrepreneurship and act as a unifying agent, which could work together with SME to pursue the creation of a selective set of Portuguese brands which might better represent "Made in Portugal" products. Furthermore, the Textile and Clothing Industry should be promoted by incentives for the entrepreneurship of SME production enhancement with specifically innovated products, in upstream connection with the main raw materials suppliers, in order to foment Cluster Networks and Technological Poles. Besides, the downstream connections should be supported by the construction of a vertical chain sheltered by a selective set of Portuguese brands supported and promoted by national responsible agents. This is a sine qua non condition to create a classic and electronic International Store Chain, which could offer the SME products the needed visibility.
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Telling your child he/she is adopted or not?
Our youngest girl is adopted, we hade her since she was 4 days old, we went through the whole pregnancy with the bilogical mother and we paid for everything. She really does...
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Date: November 1, 2010
Bulletin Number: SU-174
Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (HIRE Act)
To provide the State University of New York (SUNY) and the City University of New York (CUNY) agencies with instructions for setting up employees in PayServ who are hired under the HIRE Act, and to explain how the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) will update PayServ records for employees previously hired under the HIRE Act.
Affected Employees
Employees hired under the HIRE Act by SUNY or CUNY in 2010.
Employees hired under the HIRE ACT and entered in PayServ, on or after November 4, 2010.
The US Congress and President of the United States enacted the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act (HIRE Act) effective February 3, 2010. This act allows employers an exemption from the employer's share of social security tax on wages paid after March 18, 2010 to certain employees hired after February 3, 2010. Generally, State governments are not eligible for this incentive. However, public colleges and universities (SUNY and CUNY) are eligible.
In order for New York State to take advantage of this incentive, information about the employee's FICA status is required. A new option of ER FICA Exmpt is now available in the FICA Status field on the employee job record. Because the HIRE Act was enacted prior to the required changes in PayServ, records for employees hired and entered in PayServ prior to the November 3, 2010 will have to be updated though a special process at OSC based on information provided by the agencies. PayServ is now updated to allow agencies to select the appropriate status at the time of the hire.
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OSC has added a new option in the FICA Status dropdown box on the Job Data page, ER FICA Exmpt, for employees hired under the provisions of the HIRE Act. When this option is selected PayServ will determine the amount of the employer share of social security taxes and will update the employee Tax Balance Page as displayed below.
Records for employees who were hired under the provisions of the HIRE Act prior to the availability of this option will need to be updated by OSC.
Agencies have provided OSC with spreadsheets listing these employees who were hired between February 3, 2010 and June 30, 2010. Agencies must now provide this same information for the period of July 1, 2010 through November 3, 2010 under the provisions of the HIRE Act(See Agency Actions below).
Using these spreadsheets OSC will automatically set the FICA Status to ER FICA Exmpt on all Job Data rows equal to or greater than February 3, 2010. OSC will also update the employee Tax Balance Page to reflect the employer share of the social security taxes.
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Agencies are to begin selecting ER FICA Exmpt on November 4, 2010 for all employees hired under the provisions of the HIRE Act that have not yet been entered in PayServ. When entering a new employee, agencies must select the FICA Status of "ER FICA Exmpt" on the Payroll tab of the Job Data page
In order for OSC to update the records for employees hired under the provisions of the HIRE Act between July 1 and November 3, agencies must provide this information using the spreadsheet attached. This spreadsheet should be sent to the Tax Administration and Compliance mail box.
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Cassadaga Valley residents approve water improvement project
SINCLAIRVILLE – Residents of the Cassadaga Valley School District on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a $1.5 million water improvement project. The vote was 146-4.
The Board of Education wanted approval to acquire easements for properties and to implement a storm water management system on the campus, install and connect a new water line to replace the existing one and do site and drainage work to improve the water-delivery system.
The project plan was prepared with the assistance of Clark Patterson Lee. The district expects state aid will cover much of costs of the project.


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Since the first extravehicular activities in 1965, the capabilities of EVA astronauts to do useful work outside of their spacecraft have steadily progressed. Likewise, our understanding of EVA astronauts' capabilities and limitations have also progressed through inflight experience, experimentation in neutral buoyancy and parabolic flight, and engineering tests of space suits and EVA tools. Computer models and dynamic simulation are the most recent tools for analyzing EVA capabilities. Computer simulation of EVA has several advantages over physical simulations, including the ability to accurately reproduce forces and displacements in six degrees of freedom and the absence of inherent time and workspace limitations.
One important shortcoming of current EVA models is that they lack an accurate representation of the torques that are required to bend the joints of the space suit. Modern space suits are designed to move with astronauts, using bearings and constant-volume joints to minimize resistance to motion. However, the torques required to perform EVA tasks still have a significant impact on task performance. The torques required to move space suit joints are complicated nonlinear functions of joint position and rate. Uncertainty in the knowledge of these torques leads to large variations in predicted task performance and metabolic costs. The focus of this research project is to quantify the interaction between the human and the space suit, for the Shuttle EMU, developing physics-based, data-driven models of the human-suit interaction. Simultaneous joint position and torque data was obtained using advanced optical motion capture techniques and robotic technology. Results have been applied to developing revolutionary locomotion spacesuits and to providing simulations for astronaut training.
- Unsuited test subjects performed representative EVA tasks. Optical motion tracking system measured arm and leg joint positions.
- Suited test subjects performed the same tasks, while joint position data was acquired.
- Motion data acquired from unsuited test subjects is used to command unsuited robot, while robot joint torques are measured.
- Motion data acquired from suited test subjects is used to command robot suited in Shuttle EMU, while joint torques are measured.
Results: simultaneous joint position and torque data for suited and unsuited conditions.


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Chicago cops honored after being shot during undercover investigation
FOX 32 NEWS - Two Chicago police officers who found themselves as mistaken targets in an ongoing gang feud were honored Tuesday.
Their undercover surveillance vehicle was hit with a hail of gunfire.
Despite being shot multiple times, the veteran officers returned fire saving their own lives.
Chicago police officers Colin Ryan and Leo Augle were honored for heroism and dedication in the line of duty after surviving an ambush last month. It happened when the veteran officers, who were working undercover, were mistaken as rivals to Chicago's "La Raza" street gang. The shooter, armed with a high powered assault rifle, fired 28 times, riddling their van with bullets.
Hit multiple times, somehow Augle and Ryan managed to return fire.
"We both relied on the training we received, we knew we just had to get ourselves in a better position and stay in the fight and we knew help was coming and it did and the help that came was great," said officer Colin Ryan.
"We were lucky that day - there's no if's ands or buts about it, we were very lucky that night, and thank our lucky stars that's all I can say," said officer Leo Augle.
Also honored was newly retired Chicago police detectives John Halloran and Jim O'Brien, who were among the first officers to come to the aid of Augle and Ryan. They then led a team of investigators interviewing a number of known gang members in an effort to identify those responsible. Their hard work and dedication led to the arrest of 18-year-old Angel Gomez, who is believed to be the getaway driver. Gomez is now awaiting trial on two counts of attempted murder.
"The police department does what it always does in situations like this. It came together and everyone worked for the common goal, which was to make sure these guys were treated taken to the hospital and that the bad guys were located and we did our jobs...we did what we were paid to do," said Detective Jim O'Brien.
An arrest warrant has been issued for the shooter who is still on the run.


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Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.
Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.
Today I am one of the senior technical cadre that makes the Internet work, and a core Linux and open-source developer.
Linux evolved in a completely different way. From nearly the beginning, it was rather casually hacked on by huge numbers of volunteers coordinating only through the Internet.
For the first time, individual hackers could afford to have home machines comparable in power and storage capacity to the minicomputers of ten years earlier - Unix engines capable of supporting a full development environment and talking to the Internet.
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Adam Levine: Geek Chic on 'Song' Set
Adam Levine rocks a pair of square-rimmed glasses as he and co-star Keira Knightley get to work on the set of their upcoming movie Can A Song Save Your Life? on Thursday (July 12) in New York City.
The 33-year-old Maroon 5 frontman and his 27-year-old English co-star shared some laughs while they worked on a scene.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Adam Levine
Adam recently tweeted about a documentary: "Watching 'Game Change' on HBO. I love when they combine comedy AND horror," he joked.


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Capital One refinances SNF in Chicago
A 318-bed skilled nursing facility in Chicago will be refinanced with the help of a $20.9 million loan from Capital One.
The fixed-interest HUD 232/223 (f) loan was facilitated by the financial company's Multifamily Finance's Office in Chicago and Senior Vice President Joshua Rosen. The loan is just one of several different HUD-insured projects the pair have funded in six different states.
Rosen said issuing the loan required collaboration between a number of different parties.
"This was a complex transaction involving multiple master leases, accounts receivable lines that cross multiple facilities, and a multilayer organizational tier structure," Rosen said. "The Chicago HUD office worked hand-in-hand with us to help us meet the client's deadline."
The Medicaid- and Medicare-certified facility was built in 1975. It currently offers onsite dialysis and offers services to patients with dementia.


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Date: April 19, 2011
Contact: Adam Navarrete—(800) 875-6467
Web: http://www.logos.com
Logos Bible Software 4 named finalist in SIIA's 26th annual CODiE Awards
BELLINGHAM, WA—April 19, 2011—Logos Bible Software 4 has been named a finalist in the Software & Information Industry Association's 26th Annual CODiE™ Awards for Best Educational Reference Solution.
The Best Educational Reference Solution category recognizes the service that best packages reference, library, or research information for educational purposes. Finalists in the category are considered among the best in the education technology industry.
Logos Bible Software 4 combines a powerful and streamlined user interface with a fully integrated digital library, enabling unprecedented depth of biblical studies in a fraction of the time of print-based research. Logos contains detailed maps, infographics, and one-of-a-kind databases take Bible study to a whole new level, and then keeps your study in sync across Mac, PC, and mobile devices.
"Logos Bible Software is unusual in that we rewrite it from the ground up every few years," said Logos Bible Software CEO, Bob Pritchett. "This lets us use the latest technology and design concepts and keeps the interest of a world-class software development team. The result is an excellent product, and we're thrilled to see our team's work recognized as a CODiE™ finalist!"
The winner of the Best Education Reference Solution 2011 CODiE™ Award will be announced during special events taking place at the SIIA Ed Tech Industry Summit, May 22–24, in San Francisco.
About SIIA
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 500 leading software and information companies. The SIIA Education Division serves and represents more than 150 member companies that provide software, digital content and other technologies that address educational needs. The Division shapes and supports the industry by providing leadership, advocacy, business development opportunities and critical market information. www.siia.net/education
About the CODiE™ Awards
The CODiE™ Awards, originally called the Excellence in Software Awards, were established in 1986 by the Software Publishers Association (SPA), now the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), so that pioneers of the then-nascent software industry could evaluate and honor each other's work. Since then, the CODiE Awards program has carried out the same purpose - to showcase the software and information industry's finest products and services and to honor excellence in corporate achievement. http://www.siia.net/codies/2011
About Logos Bible Software
Logos Bible Software is the leading publisher of high-end, award-winning, multilingual Bible software on Mac, Windows and mobile platforms. Logos partners with more than 130 publishers to make more than 12,000 electronic books available to customers in more than 180 countries. The company serves church, academic and lay markets, bringing the best in software innovation to Christians worldwide. http://www.logos.com


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S. S. Rajamouli Net Worth
S.S. Rajamouli net worth: S.S. Rajamouli is an Indian director and screenwriter who has a net worth of $8 million. S.S. Rajamouli was born in Raichur, Karnataka, India in October 1973. He is best known for working in Telugu cinema. Rajamouli has directed the blockbuster films Magadheera in 2009, Eega in 2012, Baahubali: The Beginning in 2015, and Baahubali: The Conclusion in 2016. He has also directed the movies Sye, Vikramarkudu, Maryada Ramanna, and Chhatrapati. Rajamouli's 2012 film Eega won awards at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. Rajamouli was named Entertainer Of The Year 2012 by Star World India. He has also won National Film Awards, Nandi Awards, and Filmfare Awards South.
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El Paso's citizens could be asked to cough up more of their hard-earned money to the city, because the city's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2015 includes a tax increase of 2.3 cents per $100 valuation.
The city manager defended the tax hike to KVIA news, saying that "it's cheaper than having a cell phone." But such an increase would not be necessary if the city exercised the same budgetary discipline as hard-working El Pasoans. The city manager's introduction to the proposed budget states that it "is a prudent and realistic plan that focuses resources in the area of greatest need."
Yet in spite of the pledged focus on need, the budget increases taxes to pay for a great many wants.
Consider the tax increase necessary to pay for the recently announced certificates of obligation slated for August. Certificates of obligation, or COs, are debt instruments that, unlike traditional bonds, are not voted on by taxpayers.
A large part of the FY 2015 tax increase, 1.21 cents, is going to pay for the new debt service necessitated by the city's proposed issuance of $73 million in COs.
The new debt is being issued to fund a slate of projects including $12.6 million for Sun Metro, $5.3 million for land acquisition for Environmental Services, and $9.9 million for transportation, among others. Some funds are budgeted for renovating the San Jacinto Plaza. These may be nice projects, but are they truly necessary? Should taxes be raised to go deeper into debt burdening El Pasoans in the process?
According to the Bond Review Board, the City of El Paso owes over $1.5 billion in principal and over $634 million in interest. The total obligation for taxpayers, adding principal and interest, is over $2.1 billion. Considering the 2013 Census population estimate of 674,433, that is over $3,100 in debt service per El Paso resident. The addition of $73 million in CO debt will add another $108 in debt per person, not including interest.
More debt service will come from other projects approved by voters in 2012 as part of the $470 million "Quality of Life" bond, including the construction of a massive 35 foot by 6 foot interactive digital video display wall named "Digie" at the El Paso Museum of History. Digie costs $3 million, not including the hiring of two new employees for nine months at a cost of $60,473.
Although El Paso's Museums and Cultural Affairs Department is expanding its range of services, it is not a fiscally sound department. For FY 15, operating revenues, including donations, for facilities and programs in the department is projected at $875,516, with another $568,470 proposed to come from federal, state, and local grants.
Meanwhile, the department's expenditures are proposed to be slightly less than $5 million for FY 15. The entire department is projected to run a deficit of well over $3.4 million in the coming year. In spite of losing such a substantial sum, however, the department's appropriations are increasing by 13 percent for the FY15 budget.
Another area of the budget seeing a big increase in 2015 is the travel budget.
Elected officials' travel budget is proposed to increase by 31.7 percent to $40,180, while the employee travel budget is proposed to rise by 43 percent to $238,732. Why might travel expenditures increase so much in the proposed budget? It may have to do with the increase in training costs.
The budget item labeled "Seminars Continuing Education," which includes such things as training seminars, is proposed to increase by 11.4 percent to $663,158. Presumably, travel expenses increase as the number of training seminars increases.
It is understandable that El Paso wants its employees to be well-trained. Similarly, one cannot doubt the city's benign intentions in trying to provide quality of life services. But those things are discretionary wants, not essential needs.
When the city government is raising taxes to pay for wants, El Pasoans must question where the city's priorities really lie.
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Potato Chip Chicken FingersSubmitted by Netmonger on Thu, 11/08/2012 - 13:52
What's not to love about the marriage of potato chips and fried chicken tenders?!
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
1 bag (11-ounce) Lay's® potato chips, crushed
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 11/2 pounds)
Vegetable oil, for frying
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Place the flour in a shallow bowl and season generously with salt and pepper. Place the beaten egg in another shallow bowl. Leave the crushed potato chips in the bag. (This way you don't dirty another dish!)
Rinse the chicken and pat dry with paper towels. Slice each chicken breast lengthwise into 4 or 5 strips. Generously season the chicken with salt and pepper. Working in small batches, lightly dredge both sides of the chicken in the seasoned flour, shaking off the excess. Next dip the chicken in the egg wash to coat completely, letting the excess drip off. Then dredge the chicken through the crushed potato chips, evenly coating on all sides. Place the prepared chicken on a baking sheet or cutting board.
In a large stockpot or Dutch oven pour enough oil so that there is an approximately a 1-inch layer of oil. Over medium-high heat, warm the oil until a few droplets of water sizzle when carefully sprinkled in the pot. In batches so as not to over crowd the pot, cook the chicken until golden brown, about 3 minutes per side. Transfer the chicken to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Transfer to the oven and bake until the chicken is cooked through, about 15 to 20 minutes. Serve warm.


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Remembering Himan Brown
A radio and TV producer named Himan Brown, an important figure in media broadcasting, passed away in 2010. On December 10th, a dramatized history of his life which I wrote was performed at the Martin E. Segal Theatre, CUNY Studios, in New York.
Mr. Brown's accomplishments in radio drama included "The Inner Sanctum" with its signature of a creaking door and the ghostly voice of Raymond welcoming you to that place. "The Inner Sanctum," The CBS Radio Mystery Theatre," and many of his other shows utilized thousands of scripts by our writers.
In the 1970's, he produced a Madison Square Garden spectacle saluting Israel for defending itself successfully against an attack by her enemies. And he produced a short film starring Edward G. Robinson. In a courtroom setting (borrowed from "Perry Mason") Robinson condemned the Soviet Union for its anti-Semitism. I was the author of that film.
The memorial event on December 10th was performed by a troupe of wonderful actors all of whom worked with Brown in the past. They included Marian Seldes, Tony Roberts, Bob Kaliban, Russell Horton, Roberta Maxwell, Jada Rowland, and Paul Hecht who directed the show. Vintage radio clips were provided by David Saviet. The tribute was produced by Melina Brown, Hi's granddaughter.
The principal hope of Hi Brown in his later years was that the golden age of radio might be some day revived, a move that would be welcomed by us all. Especially by those of us who remember the unique rewards of radio, the locations created by sound and dialogue that become more vivid than million dollar sets; the unequaled adventures and pleasures arising from our own imaginations, aptly described by Hi Brown as "the joy of listening."
Jerome Coopersmith is an award-winning dramatist whose work ranges from multiple episodes of Hawaii 5-0 to Broadway's Baker Street (a musical adventure of Sherlock Holmes). His awards include a Tony Nomination (for Baker Street), a Robert E. Sherwood Award for television writing, and Best New Play of 1998 (Reflections of a Murder) awarded by the Charlotte Repertory Theatre Festival.


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Django Unchained 2012
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
With the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
A legendary Native American-hating Army captain nearing retirement in 1892 is given one last assignment: to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory back to his Montana reservation.
This classic western masterpiece is an epic film about a widow whose land and life are in danger as the railroad is getting closer and closer to taking them over. A mysterious harmonica player joins forces with a desperado to protect the woman and her land.
The Texas Rangers chase down a gang of outlaws led by Butch Cavendish, but the gang ambushes the Rangers, seemingly killing them all. One survivor is found, however, by an American Indian named Tonto, who nurses him back to health. The Ranger, donning a mask and riding a white stallion named Silver, teams up with Tonto to bring the unscrupulous gang and others of that ilk to justice.
Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.
William Munny is a retired, once-ruthless killer turned gentle widower and hog farmer. To help support his two motherless children, he accepts one last bounty-hunter mission to find the men who brutalized a prostitute. Joined by his former partner and a cocky greenhorn, he takes on a corrupt sheriff.
Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the "3:10 to Yuma", a train that will take the killer to trial.
While the Civil War rages between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hit man and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Against his wishes, she joins him in his trek into the Indian Nations in search of Chaney. They are joined by Texas Ranger LaBoeuf, who wants Chaney for his own purposes. The unlikely trio find danger and adventure on the journey, and each has his or her "grit" tested.
Wounded Civil War soldier, John Dunbar tries to commit suicide – and becomes a hero instead. As a reward, he's assigned to his dream post, a remote junction on the Western frontier, and soon makes unlikely friends with the local Sioux tribe.
A stranger stumbles into the desert town of Absolution with no memory of his past and a futuristic shackle around his wrist. With the help of mysterious beauty Ella and the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde, he finds himself leading an unlikely posse of cowboys, outlaws, and Apache warriors against a common enemy from beyond this world in an epic showdown for survival.
After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.
As a wild stallion travels across the frontiers of the Old West, he befriends a young human and finds true love with a mare.
When Rango, a lost family pet, accidentally winds up in the gritty, gun-slinging town of Dirt, the less-than-courageous lizard suddenly finds he stands out. Welcomed as the last hope the town has been waiting for, new Sheriff Rango is forced to play his new role to the hilt.
New York meets the west in this comedy starring Billy Crystal. Three New York business men decide to take a 'Wild West' vacation that turns out to not be the relaxing vacation they had envisioned.


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Follow these accent reduction tips and improve your American English pronunciation!
Use accent reduction books, CDs and software to help you learn to make sounds correctly. Select a systems such as "Master the American Accent" which shows you on video how to form your mouth to make sounds correctly. Such systems show how your mouth, lips, tongue, and chin should be positioned to make vowels and consonants sounds like a native speaker of English.
Pick a sound (such as "th" "r" or "v") to focus on each week. Take a newspaper or magazine and select an article. Circle all words with your target sound. Now read the article aloud, focusing on your sound of the week. This will reinforce correct pronunciation, says accent reduction expert Judy Ravin. Practice is essential in solidifying correct pronunciation in your mind.
Figure out the sounds you have the most trouble with and focus on them. Depending on your native language, certain sounds will give you trouble. For example, native Spanish speakers have particular trouble with the sounds "j", "y", and "th", native Chinese speakers have trouble with the sounds "r", "i", "ld" and the final "l", native Korean speakers struggle with the sounds "p" and "f", "r" and "l" and "th", native Japanese speakers with the sounds "v" and "b", "r" and "l" and "th", and native Russian speakers with the sounds "h", "th" and "r". For a helpful guide on English pronunciation problems by 40 major languages, visit this web page on Answers.com, compiled by Wikipedia: Non-native pronunciations of English.
Pay attention to the rhythm of English. Every language has its own unique rhythm. Think of it as the music of the language. Listen to the "music" that native speakers make when speaking English. Play their sentences back in your head. When do their voices rise? When do they fall?
Speak slowly. It may feel unnatural at first to slow down your rate of speech, but it will help your pronunciation. This is true for speakers of all native languages.
Familiarize yourself with the International Phonetic Alphabet. The IPA is what you'll find in standard dictionaries - it's used to indicate the proper way to pronounce words. Print out ESL Mania's handy Phonetic Alphabet Reference Card offered free by clicking here and refer to it whenever you look up a word in the dictionary.
Let your American friends and colleagues know that you want them to stop and correct you when they hear you pronouncing a word wrong. Out of politeness, most of them will not automatically do this. You need to make a point of telling them. Say something like, "I'm really making an effort to improve my accent. Please stop me if you hear me pronouncing a word incorrectly." People appreciate being asked to help.
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The Cancer Wellness Center also proudly partners with many local hospitals and oncology practices to provide programming and services on-site. All programs and services are staffed by the Cancer Wellness Center, and are offered free of charge to those affected by cancer.
Weekly yoga and exercise classes and one-on-one counseling available at the Cancer Survivorship Center, 1999 Dempster Street in Park Ridge.
Weekly yoga, t'ai chi and feldenkrais classes and one-on-one counseling available at Cancer Institute Resource Center, 801 S. Milwaukee in Libertyville.
Weekly one-on-one counseling available at the Cancer Treatment Center, 5140 N. California Ave in Chicago.
For a complete list and schedule of current programs and services available at our hospital partners, please consult our quarterly Program Guide. For more information call the Cancer Wellness Center at 847.509.9595.


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Sunbelt Rentals, Hertz Equipment Rental and The Home Depot offer several types of garden tillers for rent as of 2015. Tiller availability, rates and rental terms vary by store location.Continue Reading
Depending on location, The Home Depot provides a choice of six tiller models, ranging from light-duty to heavy-duty. The Mantis tiller is lightweight, easy to maneuver, and tills up to 10 inches deep and 9 inches wide. A mid-tine tiller from Honda has a 26-inch tilling width, side discs for easy alignment and an easy start engine. For hard soils, clay and sod, The Home Depot offers the all-hydraulic Barreto E1320HX with counter-rotating tines. The company offers rentals by four-hour increments, per day, per week or per four-week period.Learn more about Tools


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I've been after a de-soldering device for a while. I can't afford a de-soldering station at £100+ so bought a heated solder sucker the other day for £6 ish. I'm quite pleased with it. It deals with IC's well, same goes for transistor's. you don't really need the sucker part for caps etc. The suction is better than on a non heated sucker, mind you mine is a bit old, so may not be the best.
The only down side to it is it does get a bit uncomfortable when de soldering for a length of time as it's very hot. Got a bit fed up with having to keep pressing the plunger, but apart from that I'd recommend it to anyone. It only has one size of nozzle BTW.


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Eisele, Henry 1863-1938, S. Rebecca 1862-1928.
Husband & wife. Henry is son of Jacob, wife, Susan Rebecca Bell. Children Homer Eisele & Ada Eisele & Susan's family also buried here)
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Over the years, your roof can become covered in moss, staining, and all sorts of other debris. Our Roof Pressure Cleaning service can get your roof back up to scratch and leave your house as the envy of all your neighbours!
We have all the safety procedures in place, all our staff are fully trained and all risk assesments are in place to make sure the job not only gets done to a high standard, but also gets done safely. The service we provide will remove all the moss/algae from the roof tiles, ridge tiles and coping tiles, we then spray a fungicide over the clean roof to make sure any remaining moss spores are killed, keeping your roof cleaner for longer. We make sure all gutters and downpipes are free from debris after we have finished, and leave all surrounding areas clean. We leave it how we found it!
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Kinect controller for Xbox 360 will cost $150, says Microsoft
Kinect buyers will be set back $150, when the motion-sensing Xbox 360 controllers goes on sale Nov. 4.
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Microsoft says its Kinect motion-sensing game controller will cost $150 when it goes on sale Nov. 4.
The Kinect system recognizes users' gestures and voices, so you can control on-screen characters in racing, action and sports games simply by speaking or moving your body. It will come packaged with a game, "Kinect Adventures."
Microsoft Corp. said Tuesday it will also start selling an entry-level Xbox 360 game console in August. The $200 unit will have a four-gigabyte hard drive. It's $100 less than the Xbox with much more storage, 250 gigabytes.
The entry-level console, plus Kinect and the game, will also be available as a bundle for $300.
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Internal Medicine Residency Program
Greetings from the Internal Medicine Program Director
Randall S Edson, MD, MACP, FIDSA
Welcome to the California Pacific Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency website! We hope this site will give you a sense for what makes our program so special. My favorite sections are the Frequently Asked Questions and From Our Residents pages where you can learn even more about our unique culture of clinical and academic excellence.
There are a few key points about our program that I would like to highlight. We are a residency program which strives to promote outstanding education in a wonderfully collegial, nurturing environment. We are an academic community hospital and take pride in ensuring a robust clinical foundation for our preliminary interns and categorical residents. Our residents and interns are prepared for life-long careers in medicine. We also enrich our educational environment through our affiliations with the Dartmouth Medical School and the University of California, San Francisco.
In our clinical realm, CPMC is a cutting-edge community-based hospital that serves as a quaternary referral center for a large portion of Northern California. We serve a diverse, multi-cultural patient population that includes patients of all socio-economic levels. We care for a wonderful mix of patients with common and uncommon illnesses.
Finally, I'd like to return to the special culture that is CPMC. Our residents cherish the collaborative medical community that develops them into outstanding clinicians while promoting wellness, academic rigor, and collegiality. Again, I invite you to explore this website further and better yet, come for a rotation or apply to our program.


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It's cold here in Indiana. I think there has been snow on the ground every day except one for the past 2 months. I love it, but my bones do not. The electric blanket goes on the bed and the food I cook becomes much heartier. Pot roast is one my current favorites, having grown up with it, and I enjoy cooking inexpensive cuts of meat.
I made this the first time when I was a bachelor for a week, as my wife was at a conference. It was so good I decided to make it again for her parents while we visited them over the holidays. And in my next post I will tell you what we did with the leftovers!
1 chuck roast (top or bottom), 4 pounds
2 tablespoons butter
2 onions, sliced thin
1 large carrot, chopped medium
1 celery stalk, chopped medium
2 garlic cloves, minced
2-3 cups beef broth
1/2 +1/4 cup red wine (for braise and sauce separately)
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 bay leaf
1 sprig fresh thyme plus 1/4 teaspoon chopped
2 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
2 tablespoons cornstarch
salt and pepper for seasoning
Cut chuck roast in half and trim excess fat. Season with 1 tablespoon salt, set on wire rack and let stand at room temperature for ~1 hour. Heat oven to 300°F.
In a Dutch oven over medium heat, melt butter. Add onions and cook until starting to brown, stirring often, about 10 minutes. Add carrot and celery and cook 5 minutes. Add garlic and cook 30 seconds, Stir in 1 cup beef broth, 1/2 up wine, tomato paste, bay leaf, and thyme sprig and bring to simmer.
Pat beef dry and season with pepper (liberally). Nestle meat on top of vegetables so it rests partially in the broth. Cover pot tightly with foil and cover with lid, place in oven and cook until knife slips in and out of meat easily, 3 1/2 to 4 hours, turning meat over halfway through cooking.
Transfer meat to cutting board and tent with foil. Remove thyme sprig and bay leaf and discard. Transfer vegetables to blender jar. Add remaining broth to measuring cup and skim off fat. Add enough beef broth to increase total liquid to 3 cups. Add liquid to blender jar and blend until smooth, about 2 minutes. Transfer broth back to empty Dutch oven over medium heat.
Stir in chopped thyme, remaining 1/4 cup wine, and vinegar into sauce. Season to taste with salt and pepper. The sauce tends to be in the thin side, and if it is combine the 2 tablespoons cornstarch with 2 tablespoons water and add to pot to thicken. Season with salt and pepper. Slice meat against grain and serve with sauce on top.


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Game: Find out your nurse fortune!
Who among us hasn't wished they could know what the future held–even if it was just a little snippet of info, like whether or not you'd be able to take a real lunch break on your next shift?! Well, we can't predict the future, but we can offer you the next best thing: Scrubs fortune cookies!
Crack open one of our cookies, written by our Facebook fans and your Scrubs editors, for a little glimpse at what your future might hold. Some are funny, some are inspirational, but all are written with nurses in mind and will make you smile, even if they don't necessarily come true. So go ahead, take a look at what your future might hold…and then crack another–we won't tell!
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The Stetson University School of Business Administration's Summer Innsbruck Program holds classes at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. Centrally located in the cool and beautiful Alps, Innsbruck is an ideal base for study and travel throughout Europe. Students benefit from the comfort, culture, history, outdoor activities and beauty of Innsbruck.


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Entrix sells a strong range of 3G and 4G cellular wireless routers from Digi International (incorporating the Sarian Systems technology), Teltonika and Virtual Access.
These products give you the ability to connect devices and networks over the mobile phone network at varying speeds according to the cellular coverage and the speeds required for your application.
These mobile routers are perfect for mobile broadband applications, first fix sites, temporary networks, telemetry where ADSL or other Internet provision is not available and can also be used as backup for fixed lines for mission critical applications.
Speed of Internet access will always depend upon the service and signal strength provided in your location but can range from 56 Kbps with GPRS all the way up to 100 Mbps download/50 Mbps upload with 4G-LTE and 3G to 21 Mbps download/6 Mbps upload.
Choosing a suitable router can be a complicated business so don't hesitate to call if you want help. Telephone 01223 750277 or send us a contact message and we will call you.
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To take the State Bank of India recruitment exam, fill out an online application through the SBI website during a specific window of time. The last date available to fill out the application for 2015 is November 20. Upload a recent photograph of yourself and a photograph of your signature in the appropriate format, and submit them with your application. Online payment of a fee is required to submit the application.Continue Reading
After submitting the application, SBI sends an email containing more information regarding the dates of the exam.
The exam process requires applicants to take multiple online written tests. The first test consists of 100 questions on the English language, quantitative aptitude and reasoning ability. Applicants have one hour to complete this test. Qualified candidates who pass the preliminary exam move on to the final two tests, an objective test consisting of 200 questions on reasoning, data analysis and interpretation, English language and general awareness, marketing, and computers, and a descriptive test, which requires applicants to submit an essay.
After the examinations, the State Bank of India contacts qualified candidates for an interview. Only those applicants who are Indian nationals between the age of 21 and 45 with a professional degree from a recognized university or council may apply.Learn more about Applying & Interviewing


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In Britain we tend to be fairly blasé about orchestras visiting from abroad, so often do they pop in in the course of a European tour. In Macedonia, however, it is a different matter. This concert, the first to be given in Skopje by Moscow's Bolshoy Theatre Orchestra, was also one of those rare occasions on which any major foreign classical ensemble had made an appearance in the city. The paparazzi were out in force; the 2,500-seater venue was packed; dignitaries and members of the public clamoured for tickets.
This was a signal event as well as a musically rewarding one. A vital catalyst in its happening at all was Simon Trp?eski. His exceptional pianism might be well-known worldwide, but that is nothing compared to his fame in Macedonia, where, as any taxi-driver will tell you, he is a national figure to match any football hero or pop star. His friendship with Alexander Vedernikov, the Bolshoy's music director and chief conductor, had clearly been a crucial factor in initiating the concert, and it was only natural - not to mention a positive public expectation - that he should be part of it.
Moves are afoot to give Skopje the new concert hall it merits, and work is underway at a site in the city centre on the north bank of the River Vardar between the Music Academy and the Macedonian Opera and Ballet Theatre. The Metropolis Arena, chiefly a conference centre, was not actually designed for symphony concerts, but the acoustics stood up surprisingly well. Somewhat on the matt side, they nevertheless fostered clarity of definition in the orchestral sonority, and the Bolshoy's distinctive, rich, pungent timbre asserted itself.
They began with Tchaikovsky's "Hamlet" overture and ended the advertised programme with Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony. Both performances generated strongly profiled playing, combining gravitas with animated, fully formed instrumental detail and a mature command of the music's emotional ebb and flow. In between, with Trp?eski as soloist, came Rachmaninov's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini". This was a true interpretative coalition. Trp?eski's art, echoed by Vedernikov and the orchestra, is to probe deep beneath the notes and elicit the essential character and substance of a score. Here in the "Paganini Rhapsody", darkness and light, shadows and brilliance, deftness and passion made for a performance that was extraordinarily compelling in its freshness and in its capacity to expose the music's very heart.
Despite the intensity of Skopje's early summer heat, there was no wilting of artistry or energy. There were three encores. Trpceski played, with limpid poise, a Mendelssohn "Song without Words" and the orchestra let rip with the Trepak from Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker". They came together for a new arrangement for piano and orchestra of a piece that Trpceski has played before in its solo version. "In Struga" by Pande Sahov draws on the lyrical lilt and rhythmic conundrums of Macedonian folk music, a genre in which Trpceski is steeped and which, I have long been convinced, contributes to the impulse and warm sensibility that his playing evinces.
The piece had particular resonance here on home soil, and made an apt envoi to what had been billed as a "spectacular concert". It was precisely that, not in any crass, superficial sense but rather in the superb display of musicianship on stage and the rapt attentiveness with which it was witnessed.


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Love, Money and Preventing Financial Feuds
Jennifer Profitt/WSMH-TV (Flint, MI)
14 February 2016
"I pretty much handle everything, I'm a control freak," said Gabriella Ramirez, who's getting married later this year. She's been with her fiancé for seven years, and they've found a system that works well for them. Still, financial counselor Midea Porterfield, a financial counselor with GreenPath, Inc. Saginaw Township, said it's a good idea to make sure both partners are aware of your household spending and saving.


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