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An Interview with Tony David Sampson: Author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
No full textTony 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
Tony Tulathimutte: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTony 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
No full textInterview 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
Tony Ardizzone, 3rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textFrom 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=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.
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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
Einwohnerveredelung im Länderfinanzausgleich: Defizite und ein Alternativvorschlag
No full textZwischen den Pro-Kopf-Ausgaben für öffentliche Güter und der Einwohnerdichte besteht ein Zusammenhang, der in der Einwohnerveredelung des Länderfinanzausgleichs und den kommunalen Finanzausgleichssystemen zum Ausdruck kommt. Dabei wird ein erhöhter Finanzbedarf der verdichteten Regionen simuliert, der zu Transfergewinnen führt. In der Literatur wird die Berücksichtigung der Einwohnerveredelung in Finanzausgleichssystemen kontrovers diskutiert. Dieser Beitrag schlägt eine Verbesserung des bestehenden Systems vor, um im Länderfinanzausgleich kommunale Bedarfe länderübergreifend approximativ besser erfassen zu können. Da Länder und Gemeinden bundesweit als finanzielle Einheit zu verstehen sind, nivelliert der Länderfinanzausgleich nicht nur die Steuereinnahmen auf Länderebene, sondern auch auf Gemeindeebene. Anhand kommunaler Spezifika werden für jedes Bundesland länderspezifische Veredelungsfaktoren berechnet, da die bisherige Anwendung der Veredelung auf Gemeindeebene der Situation in Flächenländern wie Bayern nicht gerecht wird, in denen Agglomerationsräume sowie ländliche Räume vorhanden sind. Ferner sollte die Veredelung regelmäßig an die sich verändernden Siedlungsstrukturen angepasst werden. Es wird aufgezeigt, wie bereits eine Zeitspanne von zwei Jahren auf die jeweiligen Finanzansprüche der Bundesländer einwirkt. Ein weiterer Vorteil des neuen Modells ist, dass Fusionsvorhaben von Stadtstaaten und dem Umland durch die differenzierte Berücksichtigung kommunaler Bedarfe nicht mehr benachteiligt werden.The relation between per capita public expenditures und population density is implemented in specific population weights, which are used in the German financial equalization schemes. The population weights simulate above-average financial requirements of regions leading to higher transfers. The literature controversially discusses the specific weighting of population. For this reason this paper proposes a significant improvement of the present practice to determine municipal financial requirements on German states level with a higher accuracy. The German financial equalization scheme for the German states balances the tax revenues for the German states as well as the local municipals. So the paper analyzes municipal characteristics und combines these to a specific population weighting. The previous practice of population weighting cannot reflect the situation of German states like Bavaria, where are regions with high population densities as well as rural areas. Furthermore, the population weights should be continually adjusted to the structures of urban development. The paper analyzes the changing financial requirements of German states for a short period of two years only. Moreover the introduced model leads to an elimination of disadvantages for fusions between ’Stadtstaaten" and ’Flächenländern" by the differentiated observance of local municipal requirements
Länderzuschläge auf die lokale Einkommen- und Körperschaftsteuer – Wirkung auf den Länderfinanzausgleich und Optionen für eine aufkommensneutrale Implementierung
No full textBereits seit langer Zeit wird über ein Zuschlagsmodell auf die Einkommen- und Körperschaftsteuer diskutiert, um die Steuerautonomie der Bundesländer zu erhöhen. Die dazu erforderliche Senkung der bundeseinheitlichen Steuersätze führt bei aufkommensneutralen Zuschlagssätzen im Zusammenspiel mit den Unterschieden in der länderspezifischen Finanzkraft zu deutlich höheren Zuschlägen der finanzschwachen Bundesländer. Diese Arbeit stellt die Gründe für die Benachteiligung dieser Länder durch die Mechanismen des Länderfinanzausgleichs (LFA) dar. Zudem werden Optionen diskutiert, diese Benachteiligungen zu vermeiden. So führt das vorgeschlagene Neutralisierungsverfahren zu einem homogenen Zuschlagssatz, der das bisherige Finanzniveau nach LFA wiederherstellt. Das für die Grunderwerbsteuerautonomie genutzte Normierungsverfahren weist dagegen einige Mängel auf, die zu Fehlanreizen bei der Zuschlagssatzbestimmung führen könnten. Received: March 2, 2010 Accepted: October 29, 2010Since several years surcharges on the income tax of German states are discussed in order to increase their tax autonomy. The decrease of the nationwide tax rates required for revenue neutrality leads to considerably higher surcharges for states which are financially weaker. This paper highlights the reasons for the disadvantages which are caused by the mechanisms of the German fiscal equalization system. Moreover, options for avoiding these disadvantages are discussed. The recommended neutralization scheme provides a homogenous and revenue neutral surcharge of each German state. The previously used standardization method for the German property transfer tax contains some deficits which may cause disincentives in the determination of the States'surcharge rate. Received: March 2, 2010 Accepted: October 29, 201
Tony Ardizzone, 12th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTony 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
Tony Woodman et Jonathan Powell (Ed.), Author and Audience in Latin Literature
No full textTordeur Pol. Tony Woodman et Jonathan Powell (Ed.), Author and Audience in Latin Literature. In: L'antiquité classique, Tome 63, 1994. pp. 382-383
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