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Omnicell, Inc has the following openings in Fort Worth, TX (Telecommuting permitted from anywhere in the U.S.):

Software Engineer III-Test Automation (Job# 00044048): Lead, create and extend test automation and quality practices. Work as part of a team to design and develop effective test strategies and tools as well as maintain company’s current portfolio.

Engineer III, Software -Applications (multiple positions) (Job#00040559 / 00054745): Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain and improve software.

Engineer III, Software (Job# 00049511): Analyze users’ needs and then design and develop software to meet those needs.

Engineer IV, Software – Applications (multiple positions) (Job# 00043850 / 00041601): Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.

Engineer IV, Software (multiple positions) (Job# 00041641 / 00049391): Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve software.

Engineer V, Software, Applications (Job# 00041918): Analyze users' needs & design & develop software to meet those needs.

Manager, Software Engineering (Job# 00045865): Lead software engineers to build software, enhance & maintain software platforms. Establish & maintain best practices for agile software development.

Engineer III, Software (Job# 00050500): Analyze users’ needs and then design and develop software to meet those needs. No telecomm.

Sr. Developer, IT (Job# 00053867): Perform full life-cycle development of Windows-based database applications against Oracle & Microsoft SQL Server databases. No telecomm.

Send resume to: humanresources@omnicell.com

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Position summary: Mechanics are responsible for repairing and refurbishing fusion equipment in a distribution plant by performing the following duties:

• Diagnose, maintain and repair fusion equipment including; small diesel/gas engines, generators, electrical circuits and hydraulic systems

• Perform quality inspections of rental fusion equipment prior to returning to service

• Maintain records of service, repairs and scheduled maintenance of rental fusion equipment

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• Communicate with maintenance coordinator and service advisors on status of down equipment and customer repairs

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• Prepare equipment for shipping

• Previous experience with computers for order entry, parts ordering and email is a plus

• Ability to utilize local vendors and/or vendor websites to locate required parts as needed

• Perform other related duties as assigned

EMPLOYMENT

Omnicell, Inc has the following openings in Fort Worth, TX:

Engineer III, Software (Job# 00050500): Analyze users’ needs and then design and develop software to meet those needs.

Sr. Developer, IT (Job# 00053867): Perform full life-cycle development of Windows-based database applications against Oracle & Microsoft SQL Server databases.

Send resume to: humanresources@omnicell.com

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The Cruelest Month

Let them protest — the students, not the conservative justices.

BY KEN WHEATCROFT-PARDUE

What a week it was. Last Wednesday at the University of Texas, city police and state troopers decked out in riot gear — at the invitation of the school’s president and with loud cheering from our MAGA governor — stopped a peaceful protest billed as a “Public University for Gaza.”

“These protesters belong in jail,” Gov. Greg Abbott posted without citing any evidence, perhaps hoping to score some points with GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and possibly replace puppy-killer Kristi Noem on the felonious orange racist rapist’s list of potential VPs.

Despite what you may have heard, anti-Israeli protests are not inherently antisemitic, and public universities are meant to be places where issues can be discussed. Little wonder then that the party that wants to limit what teachers can teach also wants to curtail free speech.

I don’t necessarily back everything some pro-Palestinian protester might utter, but someone getting their feelings hurt doesn’t mean we should shut it all down. Also, as a former UT grad student, I am personally offended that at the same campus where I felt safe, students were set on by officers with guns, pepper spray, and batons. Leave the kids alone. They’re alright and should be allowed to peacefully protest.

Let’s not forget the overriding issue here. Nothing justifies Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of innocent civilians, hospitals, mosques, universities, apartment buildings, and refugee camps. Not October 7th, not anything. And whether we like it or not, our country provides the weapons and the money for the Israeli war machine to keep on rolling over dead Palestinians. Right now, these UT kids and others across the country are our conscience, and leaders should heed them, not make political hay out of opposing them.

Then on Friday, the conservative bloc of the U.S. Supreme Court seemed confused as to exactly why we revolted against the British in the first place. Totally unnecessary spoiler alert: It was because we didn’t want

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Life is good the very same week we got a flashing warning light about a possible future Trumpocracy.

college students peacefully protesting and the conservative Supreme Court’s complete indifference to Trump’s fomenting an insurrection on January 6 put in stark relief the GOP’s utter antipathy to democracy.

All this happened the same week that my wife and I put in our spring garden, albeit a little later than we wanted. Even though I’m not much of a gardener, I enjoy it every year, getting down on my knees and digging into the black dirt filled with teeming life. We planted our “crops” — tomatoes, peppers, and green beans — just in time for good soaking rains. After the storms headed off to our east, we stepped into our backyard under the canopy of oak trees to check on our babies, and all our new plants seemed happy, so life is good the very same week we got a flashing warning light about a possible future Trumpocracy.

Whoever is elected president next will have a good chance to nominate two new justices. If more Federalist Society political operatives receive lifetime appointments to ignore civil rights, back big business, and weaken our democracy further, we are all screwed, so let’s enjoy our brief spring before our temperatures rise and our unforgiving Texas sun bleaches the grass yellow, all while not forgetting that democracy, like any garden, needs to be tended. With all the downright meanness in politics, it’s tempting to look away, to concentrate on our personal lives. That is understandable, but we cannot allow our democracy to whither on the vine. l

Ken Wheatcroft-Pardue spent three years in Austin back in the ’80s and loved every minute of it.

a king. To paraphrase Tom Paine: Here, the law is king.

Or so I thought before listening to Justices Roberts, Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch jointly obfuscate the issue behind Trump v. United States, which could be an apt title for what’s happened in this country since the lifelong conman came down the

golden escalator. The exchanges, some bordering on the bizarre, all left me wondering whether even Amy Coney Barrett still harbors any serious doubt that her fellow conservative justices are nothing but political hacks.

This past week of Republicans’ cheerleading for law enforcement to manhandle

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Democracy is just as fragile as the author’s crop, whose harvest was reaped by Grandchild No. 2 last year.

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KKKakistocracy

The Texas education system has daddy issues.

BY E.R. BILLS

In 2022, a 15-year-old Virginia Beach girl named Simone Nied began a modest campaign to remove the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) from the list of nonprofits afforded exemptions from real estate, deed recordation, and personal property taxes in the state of Virginia. The “White House” of the Confederacy was located in Richmond, where Confederate President Jefferson Davis lived during the Civil War. Nied’s efforts seemed Sisyphean.

But earlier this year, a bill stripping the UDC of tax breaks was passed in the Virginia House of Delegates, and in early February — with two Republicans joining all 21 Democrats — the Virginia Senate agreed. The legislation went to Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who did what most spineless pols do when they want to stay in office — he punted. The GOP leader inserted red tape to require lawmakers to pass the bill again in 2025 and added an amendment to require the state’s Department of Taxation to study Virginia’s recordation tax exemptions and their effect on state revenues.

In the meantime, I also marvel at the preposterousness of the affair. How did the United Daughters of the Confederacy receive tax breaks in the first place, and why have they been extended into the 21st century? Is insurrection a religion? Didn’t the Confederacy’s insurrection comprise the exact opposite of a nonprofit campaign? Wasn’t the entire war waged to protect the profits reaped by the Southern white aristocracy from slave labor?

Does Texas have a chapter of the UDC?

We do, and it’s taxed just like a church. And here’s part of its mission statement.

The United Daughters of the Confederacy is a nonprofit organization formed by the joining of many local groups whose purpose was to care for Confederate Veterans and their families, in life and death, and to keep alive the memory of our Southern heritage.

The Texas Division, UDC was officially organized in 1896. Today, the Texas Division continues the work of our predecessors. We are dedicated to the purpose of honor-

ing the memory of our Confederate ancestors; protecting, preserving and marking the places made historic by Confederate valor; collecting and preserving the material for a truthful history of the War Between the States; recording the participation of Southern women in their patient endurance of hardship and patriotic devotion during and after the War Between the States; fulfilling the sacred duty of benevolence toward the survivors and those dependent upon them; assisting descendants of worthy Confederates in securing a proper education; and honoring the service of veterans from all wars as well as active duty military personnel.

“Collecting and preserving the material for a truthful history of the War Between the States”? “Assisting descendants of worthy Confederates in securing a proper education”?!

Talk about a prophetic “nonprofit.” Sounds like the perfect recipe for the current Texas legislature.

But it begs a legitimate question. Do any brave teenagers reside in the Lone Star State?

And before any of you Bonnie (or Donnie) Rebs get your hackles up, take a wee gander of what the original incarnation of the UDC trotted out as a position statement on education in Texas in 1915:

Strict censorship is the thing that will bring the honest truth. That is what we are working for, and that is what we are going to have. — Mrs. M.M. Birge, chairwoman of the Textbook Committee, Proceedings of the 20th Annual Convention of the Texas Division, United Daughters of the Confederacy

An answer before a question.

A dictate to ensure denial.

A mandate for seditious ignorance.

The current red-state agenda around these parts was baked into the proverbial cake, and now it’s too late. A legislature full of conservative feebs is pushing for more voucher programs for institutes of Anglocentric propaganda, and the Texas Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy is getting a tax break for the Lost Cause indoctrination that they engineered.

The latent term is kakistocracy.

Thanks to the UDC, the conservative playbook has been the script for Texas education for over a century. Because Texas conservatives want to preserve “the honest truth.” Because Texas conservatives don’t believe “the honest truth” should include the monstrous atrocities they committed or the regime of inhumanity they perpetuated.

The UDC has serious daddy issues, and our tax dollars have been helping them sweep the truth under the rug for decades.

Fort Worth native E.R. Bills is the author of The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas and Letters from Texas, 2021-2023

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Love Match

Tennis players volley lines and love back and forth

in Luca Guadagnino’s romance.

BY KRISTIAN LIN

The astronomy guys have this thing called the three-body problem, which you may have heard of lately because it gave its name to a prize-winning Chinese science-fiction novel and now a Netflix adaptation of the same. The three-body problem is built on the idea of three celestial bodies like our Earth, sun, and moon, except all of them are roughly the same size. When that happens, what is orbiting what? I thought about that concept while watching Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s sports drama depicting three tennis professionals whose romantic entanglements are constantly shifting. Even though the cast is young, this is the sort of grown-up movie that they supposedly don’t

The framing story takes place in the summer of 2019 at the finals of a challenger tournament in upstate New York, contested by Patrick Zweig (Josh O’Connor) and Art Donaldson (Mike Faist). While Patrick is ranked 271st in the world and has $70 in his bank account, Art is a six-time Grand Slam winner playing himself back into shape after a major injury. Looking on is Art’s wife and coach, Tashi Duncan Donaldson (Zendaya), and the movie flashes back to 2006 when she’s a teen sensation who crushes opponents like the next Serena Williams. That’s when she meets both Art and Patrick, who are friends from the same tennis academy, doubles partners, and opponents in the finals of the U.S. Open juniors. The boys are both smitten with her, but while she starts out dating the charming and shiftless Patrick, she gravitates to the steadier Art after blowing out her knee before

If you haven’t been paying close attention and haven’t seen Euphoria, you might think Zendaya is nothing more than some clothes horse who strikes poses in the Spider-Man and Dune films. Granted, that’s pretty much what she did in the first Dune movie, but she crushed it in the second one. Here she goes from the cocksure junior champion who twists boys around her fingers to the coach who’s more uncertain as her life on the sidelines goes on. (The script by Justin Kuritzkes gives all the actors clever lines to work with.) During a late scene when Art tells her he sees the end of his career at hand, she looks terribly sad as she’s torn between the guy she molded into a champion and the guy she couldn’t mold and still carries a torch for her. She is downright stellar in a late scene where Tashi tells Patrick that

Challengers

of his car just to flame out in the second round of Wimbledon.

Guadagnino isn’t afraid of the melodrama in this setup, as a scene between Tashi and Patrick takes place in a gale-force windstorm. Even better is the director’s infectious joy in filming bodies in motion. The same kineticism he brought to the female dancers in his Suspiria remake he brings here as he takes in the sweat pouring off the tennis players, their muscles straining to serve and skidding to a stop in front of the net to return drop shots. A climactic point in the match has the camera attached to the ball as Art and Patrick fire it back and forth. Guadagnino and cinematographer Sayombhu Mukdeeprom conceive all sorts of creative camera angles, including one under the players’ feet looking up through a glass pane. The sport of tennis has never been filmed in such ecstatic terms, and if you’re a tennis fan, that’s recommendation enough.

Guadagnino’s homoeroticism is also in evidence here, as Tashi coaxes the guys into a three-way during their teen years and then slips out of it to turn it into a two-way. (For all the sexuality dripping from this movie, there are no actual sex scenes, and the men are the ones who get naked here.) The movie ends with the outcome of the match still in doubt, as Art and Patrick play a point in a third-set tiebreaker that forces both of them to play beyond themselves and transcend their limitations. Tashi’s scream of “Come on!” is the perfect punctuation mark. We still don’t know who’s orbiting whom when Challengers ends, but a bit like that earns this

Starring Zendaya, Mike Faist, and Josh O’Connor. Directed by Luca Guadagnino. Written by Justin Kuritzkes. Rated R.

Mike Faist, Zendaya, and Josh O’Connor find love more difficult to play than tennis in Challengers

MUSIC Calming Influence

On his new EP, SageModeWrex offers respite and rhymes.

BY PATRICK HIGGINS

We certainly live in weird times. Between a genocidal war in the Middle East looking like a prelude to WWIII, a vice-like economic structure squeezing every last cent out of us at every turn, and a political divide as wide as it has been since the 1960s, it can all be more than a little overwhelming. Music can often be an escape from the noise. That counts doubly when the sounds are specifically intended to serve as a refuge.

While the latest release by thoughtful Fort Worth rapper SageModeWrex — the tranquil and soothing EP Calm in the Storm — is meant, like much of his work, to be a personal meditation of sorts, it offers valuable insight for listeners to follow for centering their own perspectives and a way to navigate through life’s external turmoil.

Recently released through Wrex’s own imprint, Mount Olympus, the five tracks on Calm were recorded at Fort Worth’s Crooked2th Studios, with the sessions engineered, mixed, and mastered by Fostepco (Tropicanna, Slug DLO). The languid beats were produced by Wrex’s longtime collaborator 4D Tha OG (Cali Cuddy, Amerika Akbar), who provided the sounds on Wrex’s previous works like The Wrex Files and Professor Wrex 4D’s production offers the perfect soundscape for Wrex’s introspective rhymes.

In his own words, Calm is him “ focusing on the things within my control — breathing, staying present, working towards my goals — despite the chaos of the world. Weird energy, the internet hive mind, comparisons, et cetera — I’m trying to stay independent of outside influence.”

Each of the EP’s five tracks present themselves as affirmations, offering peace, perspective, acceptance, and control. Opener “High Beams” is a meditation on foresight. Wrex speaks of focus and concentration, using these powers to control his own destiny. “I can see what’s in front of me / But I’m not sure what’s down the road / Can I

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“Time Don’t Exist” is a lesson on being present in the moment and staving off one’s inner demons, with Wrex rapping, “These are just my diaries / My lower forms / My higher me’s / My confidence and insecurities / Battle with the man that the mirror sees,” while “Family to Feed” is a mature rumination on responsibility and accountability.

The record’s closer, “That’s All Folks,” is the album’s standout. Attacking the genocide in Gaza right out of the gate, Wrex takes the listener through a dire roll of tragedies, disappointments, and frustrations with the world before flipping the tone and lifting us up with a message of hope: “I’m just trying to live, learn, and teach / Spreading love / Because I feel that is really what we need.”

It’s this last line that seems to encapsulate the work’s theme. The world is chaotic, but we have control over how we handle it. We accept what we can, we persevere, and we live on, with love as the thing that makes it possible.

Though the EP is meant as such, after a period of “calm” in which Wrex’s output has slowed, a storm of new material from him is forming. He appears on seven tracks on Dru B Shinin’s new album Featuring …, and he’s also just finished work on an EP with local rap supergroup Mount Olympus, which features Fort Worth’s top tier in hip-hop traditionalists like Dru, Aroy, Kwu Lion, and YKK. Then Wrex has another EP of his own material slated for a summer drop.

“I’m getting back to being prolific and giving away as much music as possible this year for the ones who enjoy it,” he said.

Fans of hip-hop and hope are the beneficiaries. SageModeWrex’s voice is a much-needed one not only in town but on this planet. l

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On Calm in the Storm, SageModeWrex offers wise insight into weathering life’s challenges.

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