Comment: DNA as Property: Implications on the Constitutionality of DNA Dragnets

Joe Smith is a maintenance worker at County Hospital. One morning he reported to work to find an array of law enforcement vehicles and personnel scattered about the premises. He proceeded to his locker to prepare for work and was confronted by a policeman. Apparently an elderly female patient was sexually assaulted late one night during the previous week. The police officer informed Joe that all male employees were required to give a blood sample to rule out their implication in the assault. Joe was apprehensive and stated that because he worked first shift, he could not possibly have been involved. The police officer told Joe that a warrant would be obtained if he resisted. Reluctantly, Joe agreed, though he did not understand how a sample of his blood could help this investigation. Was Joe required to give this blood sample, and further, should he have been afforded any constitutional protections?\u

"Joe Annie Street"

A short critical fiction, derived from my experience of the demolition of my studio & home on Joe Annie Street, Houston, TX, placed in the context of a political/philosophical reflection on the "destructive character" (Benjamin) and the performative illusions or self delusions of street protest and street art in times of war

Lower Mississippian Lithostratigraphy, Northern Arkansas

Lower Mississippian lithostratigraphic units in northern Arkansas are (ascending order) the Bachelor, St. Joe, and Boone Formations. These formations disconformably overlie Middle Ordovician to Upper Devonian strata and are overlain disconformably by Meramecan or Chesterian strata. The Bachelor Formation is generally a thin (less than 0.3 m), persistent, orthoquartzitic sandstone with common to abundant phosphatic pebbles overlain by a green silty shale. In northwestern Arkansas, the Bachelor Formation commonly lacks sandstone. The Bachelor Formation has been confused previously with the Sylamore (Upper Devonian) and older sandstone units. Although commonly regarded as a member of the Boone Formation, the St. Joe Limestone should be raised to formation rank in accordance with the earlier proposal of Cline (1934). The St. Joe Limestone in northwestern Arkansas can be subdivided into (ascending order) the Compton, Northview, and Pierson Members which are recognized as formations in Missouri. In the type region, northcentral Arkansas, subdivision of the St. Joe is precluded by lack of the shaly Northview Member. A marked color change from gray to red from northwestern to northcentral Arkansas is accompanied by a general increase in the allochemical constituents. The St. Joe Boone boundary is taken to be at the first persistent chert. This contact generally coincides with a thin calcareous shale unit and a marked decrease in carbonate grain size

Interdisciplinarity [2nd edition] by Joe Moran

A review of 'Interdisciplinarity 2nd edition' by Joe Mora

Wish

This poem by Joe Wilkins originally appeared in Blackbird

Notes from the Bulls: The Unedited Journals of Verl Newman

This short story by Joe Wilkins originally appeared in Orion

Depositional History of the St. Joe and Boone Formations in Northern Arkansas

The Kinderhookian-Osagean (Lower Mississippian) St. Joe and Boone Limestone represent an unconformity bounded transgressive-regressive sequence widely distributed throughout the southern midcontinent. An irregular erosional surface developed on the Chattanooga Shale (Upper Devonian) or older strata. As Mississippian Seas transgressed, they deposited a thin interval of sandstone, shale, or the two together derived from these old beds. Carbonate deposition was initiated as grain-dominated, crinozoan-bryozoan packstones and grainstones, with subordinate wackestones, and is essentially chert free. These carbonates, referred to as the St. Joe Limestone, reflect a ramp across northern Arkansas that experienced condensed sedimentation and red coloration along its conditions reflected by carbonate mudstones, very fine-grained packstones and grainstones, and penecontemperaneous chert of the overlying lower Boone Formation. The upper Boone (Burlington-Keokuk equivalents) represents a regressive sequence that returned St. Joe-type, grain-dominated, lithologies with diagenetic chert replacement to the shelf. The regression terminated in a pronounced regional unconformity overlain by Meramecian or younger strata

American Myth-Busting

In this essay, Joe Wilkins discusses the new breed of western films

Gentrifier by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill

Review of John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill\u27s Gentrifier