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Preferred Signals, 1985, Woody Skinner

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We lived in a place where cable didn’t exist. Our water was pumped from a well, our electricity streaming in on a TVA river wave. We lived in Izard County, Arkansas, where dirt roads ribboned through hills, where people were all but waiting on a filmmaker to document their poverty.

But we had a satellite dish in our front yard. A marvel of engineering, a jellyfish puffing toward the sky. Its frame stiff, shiny, a monument to mass communication. According to my father, we were devotees of manufacturing, people who made an art out of industry. The satellite dish, the …

Two Poems, Ryo Yamaguchi

Booth

Poems include "Quarter" and "Decide".

Information Literacy & First Year Students: Programmatic Instructional Approaches & Assessment, Sally Neal, Sarah Lowe, Catherine Pellegrino, Bill Orme, Sean Stone

Scholarship and Professional Work

No abstract provided.

Are Etfs Good Or Bad?, Steven D. Dolvin

All Chapters

Like many questions, the right answer is probably, "it depends." Whether ETFs are the best investment vehicle for a particular person likely depends on their goals and needs. However, with trillions of dollars being held by ETFs, their size has necessitated a broader discussion of their merits. This is particularly true in light of recent pricing issues where ETFs traded well below their NAV (such as in August of this year, as well as during the "flash crash" in May 2010). See a good summary article here: WSJ.

Are Junk Bonds Signaling Trouble Ahead?, Steven D. Dolvin

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High-yield (or so-called junk) bonds are set to experience their first annual loss since the recent credit crisis. Because of the higher risk involved with these borrowers, they tend to be the first to experience trouble. Thus, many investors believe that they represent a leading indicator for overall market performance. If this is true, it could indicate trouble to come. See article here: WSJ.

Two Poems, Kayla Rae Candrilli

Booth

Poems include: "poultry" and "table manners for when the sex simmers".

Englightenment In Philosophy And Religion, Brent Hege

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Dr. Brent Hege's "Last Lecture" to the Butler Mortar Board Society, December 3, 2015.

Politics, Labor, And Rebellions Real And Imagined: Slaves, Free People Of Color, And Firearms In North Carolina, 1729-1865, Antwain K. Hunter

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

For much of North Carolina’s history its General Assembly sought to strike a balance between the undeniable utility of black people’s armed labor and the threat that gun-toting black people were thought to pose. Masters equipped their slaves with firearms much like many other tools and many citizens turned to the Assembly to undertake measures to ensure that this armed labor did not compromise white people’s safety or property. The state’s legislature dictated the terms under which masters could arm their slaves and while some slaveholders defiantly used armed African-descended laborers as they wished most white people believed that armed …

When Is It Mental?, Stuart Glennan

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Most philosophical debate over mental causation has been concerned with reconciling commonsense intuitions that there are causal interactions between the mental and the physical with philosophical theories of the nature of the mental that seem to suggest otherwise. My concern is with a different and more practical problem. We often confront some cognitive, affective, or bodily phenomenon, and wonder about its source – its etiology or its underlying causal basis. For instance, you might wonder whether your queasiness due to something you ate, or whether it is just nervousness, or whether your aunt’s memory loss is a neurological problem or …

Instructions For The Bereft, Jessica S. Baldanzi

Booth

Chapter VIII: a) Returning to Work b) In a Small Town

Heartland Wilds, Michael Credico

Booth

I returned home to the heartland wilds, striking Pa as hard as I could. It took him a long time to come to. I stood over him, bigger. I stood over him, and I saw a lot of me beneath the swelling...

Lower Minimum Investment, Steven D. Dolvin

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Charles Schwab cut the initial minimum investment from $2,500 to $100 for most of the mutual funds on its Mutual Fund OneSource platform, which charges no transaction fees. At the same time, it cut the minimum for subsequent investments from $500 to $1. See article here, Financial Advisor Magazine.

Nyse To Stop "Stop Orders", Steven D. Dolvin

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On August 24, many stocks fell by large percentages, only to recover shortly thereafter. Investors with standing stop-loss orders likely didn't fair well. And, in fact, many are blaming these orders for the volatility. The NYSE plans to eliminate stop orders, but brokerage firms can still facilitate these for their customers, as long as the final order is sent at market. See article here, Bloomberg.

Two Poems, H. K. Hummel

Booth

Poems include: "If You and I Said Fuck It, and Bought the Ranch in Montana" and "Yesterday’s Bestiary for Tomorrow".

Letter To The Man In Carnivorous Plants, Lauren Annette Boulton

Booth

Well, I’ve returned it, the book that I’ve come to think of as your book, the book that I could not think of as the library’s book, or a collective “our” book. The book that resisted being called “my book” in the way I think about books I’ve consumed. I can’t remember the author. It isn’t the author’s book anymore...

What Does Your School’S Counseling Program Look Like?, Brandie M. Oliver

Scholarship and Professional Work – Education

Dr. Oliver examines what makes a school counseling program effective.

The Nautonym Story Continues, . Anil, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

Nautonyms are words pronounced but not spelt tautologically, like RETREAT. Susan's challenge prompted us to reexamine all 32 nautonym candidates proffered by her and us and Dave Morice, plus two dozen new ones.

Colloquy

Word Ways

A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Fun With Nautonyms, . Anil

Word Ways

Here's an alphabet of coined phrase nautonyms that mostly avoids paired homophones (but not silliness).

Gifts From An Homonymous Benefactor, Don Hauptman

Word Ways

No abstract provided.

On Building Words Out Of Trigrams, A. Ross Eckler

Word Ways

Some thoughts on creating words out of Trigrams.

Antigram Quiz 1, . Anil

Word Ways

This is like an anagram quiz except the anagrams or polyanagrams are in some sense opposites, complements, or mutually exclusive.

Alphametics, Steven Kahan

Word Ways

A mathematical game.

Geographical Palindrome Contest, David Morice

Word Ways

The winners and entries from the August 2014 Word Ways Geographic Palindrome Contest.

*Please note page numbers are not accurate in this .pdf which has been edited to correct the order of pages in the print edition.

Dvorak And Colemak Keyboards, Darryl Francis

Word Ways

A previous article investigate typable words from the various rows of keys on the AZERTY and QWERTZ keyboards. In this article, I look at the layouts of the DVORAK and COLEMAK keyboards.

The Twelve Days Of Christmas, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

Mathematical equations for the twelve days of Christmas.

Alphabet Poems, Jon Bannon

Word Ways

A collection of poems.

The Arringtons, Jeff Grant

Word Ways

How many surnames end in -ARRINGTON? Here is an attempt to compile an initial alphabetic insertion, made up of names starting with every letter from A to Z.

Playful Poems, Ray Love

Word Ways

A collection of poems.

Crossdrome 07, John Falcone

Word Ways

A crossword puzzle.