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    An Interview with Tony David Sampson: Author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks

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    Tony D. Sampson is Reader in Digital Culture and Communication in the School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI) at the University of East London, where he directs the EmotionUX lab, supervising research on the cognitive, emotional, and affective aspects of user experience. In 2013, he co-founded Club Critical Theory, an organization dedicated to the application of critical theory in everyday life in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Tony is the author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks and The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture, both from the University of Minnesota Press. He blogs at viralcontagion.wordpress.com. The editors of this special NANO issue are delighted to have the opportunity to talk with Tony about how his work touches on issues of imitation and contagion—a loaded term unpacked within his 2012 book

    Revisiting Tony Price’s (1979) account of the native vegetation of Duck River and Rookwood Cemetery, western Sydney

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    The Duck River Reserve and Rookwood Cemetery in the highly urbanised Auburn district of western-Sydney hold small but botanically valuable stands of remnant native vegetation. In the late 1970s, local resident G.A.-(Tony) Price, recognised the value of these remnants, both for the species they held and the clues they could give us-to the past, and spent three years surveying and collecting plants at these sites. Price recorded the species present and-their abundance, and described the habitats in which they were found. He observed the ecology of plant interactions,-moisture, shading and fire response, interpolating them into a picture of the landscape and vegetation of the district-prior to European settlement. At a time when field botany was inaccessible to many, and the focus of conservation was-largely on the broader scale, Price’s local scale work at these sites was unusual and important. Though never formally-published, Price’s 1979 account ‘The Vegetation of Duck River and Rookwood Cemetery, Auburn’ has been cited in-all subsequent work of consequence for the area. This paper presents and reviews Price’s work and discusses his-observations in relation to the current vegetation of these areas. Tony Price’s contributions also highlight the value and-role that ordinary citizens can play alongside professional botanists and plant ecologists in long term data collection,-considered observation and environmental management. A copy of Price’s original unpublished account has been-included as an appendix to this paper

    Tony Tulathimutte: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival

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    Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and has written for The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, Playboy, The Nation, and others. He also runs CRIT, a writing class in Brooklyn

    Tokyo Burning Interview with Tony Barnstone

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    Interview with Tony Barnstone about adapting his poetry to music. Tokyo\u27s Burning is a CD that tells history from the inside, telling stories of the Pacific theater of WWII not from the God\u27s eye view but from the points of view of American and Japanese civilians and soldiers who lived and suffered through Pearl Harbor and Iwo Jima, the firebombing of Tokyo and the atom bomb drop on Hiroshima. Songs in the CD are based upon 15 years of research into the Pacific theater of WWII by Tony Barnstone—poet, author, and professor at Whittier College in Los Angeles. Tony worked with oral histories, histories, diaries, letters, and memoirs, and did his own interviews with vets and their families to write a book of poems titled Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki (BkMk Press, 2009). Though many of the songs deal with atrocity—sex slavery, torture, internment camps, even cannibalism—the CD itself is meant to take a neutral stance, allowing each character to speak his or her view, without judgment, assuming that the readers will find their own moral paths through these competing voices and viewpoints. As one character says, Seems everyone has a point of view, but no one has perspective. L.A.-based songwriters John Clinebell and Ariana Hall, who work together under the name Genuine Brandish, were commissioned by Tony to work with him to translate his book into 15 songs (with the essential help of producer Andrew Bush). What if history had a human face? What if the people who lived history could speak to it? This CD is an attempt to amplify the smaller voices, the human voices, of those who lived through the war and help them to sing history to us

    Minnesota's Next Steps with Health Reform

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    Health reform in Minnesota expanded coverage, but MNsure's IT system and financing have continued to falter. The Governor appointed a task force to recommend improvements of MNsure and other public programs. What reforms should be made and will the Legislature and Governor approve them? A panel of national and state experts discuss Minnesota's options.Center for the Study of Politics and Governance, Humphrey School of Public Affair, UMNArio, Joel; Benson, Michelle; Lourey, Tony. (2016). Minnesota's Next Steps with Health Reform. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/194132

    Tony Ardizzone, 3rd Annual ODU Literary Festival

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    From the training grounds of Chicago and Bowling Green, Tony Ardizzone serves as running guard for the creative writing program at ODU. Author of a novel ( In the Name of the Father ) and a collection of short stories ( Idling ), he is also the editor of Intro, an annual journal of the best writing from college workshops around the country. In a nearly completed accompanying volume to In the Name of the Father, Ardizzone traces the route by which the character Vito Scaparelli reaches Vietnam. Ardizzone has published 15 short stories in distinguished fiction quarterlies. He believes that the writing of fiction is the crafting of interiorized drama

    Improving urban planning: the case of New South Wales. by Tony Sorensen

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    tag=1 data=Improving urban planning: the case of New South Wales. by Tony Sorensen tag=2 data=Sorensen, Tony tag=3 data=Policy, tag=4 data=8 tag=5 data=2 tag=6 data=Winter 1992 tag=7 data=31-36. tag=8 data=PLANNING tag=10 data=The NSW Department of Planning is proposing changes to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act. The author reviews the proposals and highlights the difficulties of making urban planning efficient and equitable. tag=11 data=1992/4/10 tag=12 data=92/0672 tag=13 data=CABThe NSW Department of Planning is proposing changes to the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act. The author reviews the proposals and highlights the difficulties of making urban planning efficient and equitable

    DNA damage responses : a combination of maintenance and fire-fighting.

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    The DNA in every living cell is constantly subjected to damaging events. Fiona Benson and Tony Carr describe how the integrity of genes is maintained

    DNA damage responses: a combination of maintenance and fire-fighting

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    The DNA in every living cell is constantly subjected to damaging events. Fiona Benson and Tony Carr describe how the integrity of genes is maintained

    Tony Ardizzone, 12th Annual ODU Literary Festival

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    Tony Ardizzone, former Director of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University from 1979-1987, now teaches at Indiana University. He is the author of two novels, In the Name of the Father, 1978, and Heart of the Order, 1986, which was awarded the 1985 Virginia Prize for Fiction and named by The National Sports Review as one of the ten best sports books of 1986. He has also published a collection of short stories, The Evening News, 1986, which won the Flannery O\u27Connor Award. His stories have been cited twice in Best American Short Stories and been given Prairie Schooner\u27s Lawrence Foundation Award and the Black Warrior Review Fiction Prize. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Associated Writing Programs
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