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"Marte hain aarzoo mein marne ki, Maut aati hai par nahin aati" - Mirza Ghalib
This couplet was the very first line of a recent verdict of Supreme Court delivered on March 7, 2011 by a Bench comprising Justices Markandey Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra. The path-breaking judgment which tends to legalize what is commonly referred as "Passive Euthanasia ( PE ) " as distinct from commonly known "Mercy Killing" or "Active Euthanasia" was the result of a petition filed for grant of such permission by one writer-cum-social activist Pinky Virani on behalf of Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug, a hapless comatose victim of sexual assault who has been in Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) for the past over 37 years at Mumbai's reputed KEM Hospital. Although the Apex Court declined such request in respect of Aruna, it permitted PE in appropriate cases albeit with stringent guidelines as till date there is no law in our country which governs the same.
PE is usually defined as withdrawing medical treatment with the deliberate intention of causing the death of terminally ill-patient. This form of euthanasia is different from active euthanasia or simply euthanasia, where such death is caused by the use of lethal substance(s). So the difference between active and passive euthanasia is that in the former something is done to end the patient's life while in latter something is not done that would have preserved the patient's life.
Next there is further categorization of euthanasia viz. voluntary and non-voluntary. Whereas in voluntary euthanasia, consent is taken from the patient while in respect of non-voluntary, consent cannot be obtained from the patient e.g. either the patient is in coma or otherwise unable to give due consent. Aruna's case was covered in the latter category.
Justice Katju, who in recent years, has successfully earned a distinct place for himself in judicial fraternity owing to usage of bold and daring remarks in rulings authored by him, has also been instrumental in discussing and duly incorporating leading decided cases of foreign jurisdictions in various judgments delivered by him. In Aruna's case too, he has discussed enormous global case law and legislations available on the subject.
In Netherlands, euthanasia is legal and regulated by Termination of Life on Request and Assisted Suicide (Review Procedures) Act, 2002. Switzerland has an unusual position on assisted suicide: it is legally permitted and can be performed by non-physicians. However, euthanasia is illegal, the difference between assisted suicide and euthanasia being that while in the former the patient administers the legal injection himself, in the latter a doctor or some other person administers it. Belgium also legalized euthanasia in Septemeber, 2002. In France and England, the law legalizing euthanasia has been defeated by Senate and blocked respectively. In the USA, although euthanasia is illegal in all states, physician assisted dying is legal in Oregon, Washington and Montana. Noteworthy that it was the leading Airedale case [Airedale NHS Trust v. Bland (1993) ] decided by the House of Lords (UK) which weighed heavily in the minds of Supreme Court Judges while allowing PE in our country.
Welcoming the verdict in favour of conditional passive euthanasia for terminally-ill patients, Bollywood star, Hrithik Roshan, who played a paraplegic patient who also files a petition requesting euthanasia in noted Bollywood director Sanjay Leela Bansali's Guzaarish, says he can realize the pain of a patient who loses all mobility. He said that the verdict was a good beginning and with time it would become easier for the society to accept it.
Reacting on the subject, Union Law Minister M. Veerappa Moily said that the government is examining whether a fresh legislation is required to permit passive euthanasia." "There is no question of concurring or not with the judgement. In fact, they (Supreme Court) are right that without a law you cannot resort to this kind of a decision with a judicial order. Therefore, there is a need for a serious debate regarding the matter. It has to be examined, it has to be debated upon," he said. Moily said that there were a lot of humanitarian points to be looked into and such petitions cannot be used as 'an instrument' to kill somebody.
It must be recalled that the 17 th Law Commission of India then headed by Justice M Jagannadha Rao in its 196 th Report submitted in April, 2006 titled "Medical Treatment to Terminally Ill-patients (Protection of Patients and Medical Practitioners)" had also supported the concept of PE . Among other recommendations, this report also recommended a draft legislation on the subject.
During the course of judgment in Aruna's case, the learned judges also commented that time has come when Section 309 of Indian Penal Code (IPC) should be deleted as it has become anachronistic. Therefore, they recommended to Parliament to consider the feasibility of its deletion.
In P. Rathinam v. Union of India (1994) the Supreme Court held that Section 309 of the Penal Code deserves to be effaced from the statute book so as to humanise our penal laws. It was held that Section 309 IPC violates Article 21, and so, it is void. But in March, 1996, this case was overruled by a Constitutional Bench of the Apex Court in Gian Kaur v. State of Punjab wherein it was held that Article 21 of our Constitution guaranteeing the right to life did not include a right to die or right to be killed. It was further held that, right to life was a natural right embodied in Article 21 , but suicide was an unnatural termination or extinction of life and therefore, 'incompatible and inconsistent' with the concept of right to life.
However, the court approved passive euthanasia by holding that one may, in a given case, have the right to die with dignity as a part of right to live with dignity. It was observed that, these are not cases of extinguishing life but only of accelerating conclusions of the process of natural death which has already commenced.
After a thorough perusal of ruling in Aruna's case, it seems that while approving passive euthanasia, the SC judges were well aware of its above cited earlier observations in Gian Kaur's ruling. The only point which was not clarified in that verdict was who should decide whether life support system should be discontinued in the case of an incompetent person e.g. a person in coma or PVS.
Now it has been laid down in Aruna's case that such a decision has to be taken by family members or close relatives or in their absence, person acting as next friend or even doctors attending him/her but it should be taken bona fide in the best interest of the patient. However, such a decision requires approval from the concerned High Court. The Chief Justice of the High Court would have to constitute a bench of at least two judges for the purpose who would further have to seek the opinion of a panel of three reputed doctors (a neurologist, a psychiatrist and a physician).
Although on face apparent it seems appreciable that medical professionals have been included in decision making process of grant of requests for PE considering that they are best experts to examine the condition and viability of terminally ill-patients, at the same time, we must keep in mind that of late a large number of persons have also emerged in medical fraternity who can go to any extent of compromising with their ethics for the sake of earning easy money. The reported cases of misuse of Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994 and PNDT Act, 1994 by certain medical personnel substantiate this apprehension.
Further, the SC has reiterated that as High Courts under Article 226 of the Constitution of India in addition to issuing writs also possess power to issue directions or orders, they would be the final authority to grant approval for withdrawal of life support in respect of a terminally ill-person who is incompetent to take such a decision. Although no doubts can be raised over wisdom of HC judges in dealing with such requests, the need of the hour is to enact a suitable comprehensive legislation governing PE with sufficient checks and balances. The statutory enactment would also ensure avoidance of different viewpoints/conflicts within members of judiciary while adjudicating such hyper-sensitive matters.
At the outset, it can be concluded that although PE has been granted judicial endorsement by the Apex Court under certain exigent circumstances, there is indeed a need for wider public debate on this vexed subject. Our Parliament in its wisdom as also bound under Doctrine of Parens Patriae (Father of the Country) ought to deliberate thoroughly on this topic involving all stakeholders before legislating over the issue as it is a matter concerning the precious life of terminally-ill patients of the nation.
Passive Euthanasia: Judicial Spot-Running?
Passive Euthanasia is not 'active' or 'positive' killing. And Passive Euthanasia is morally superior than, say, 'Active Euthanasia'. These are the two fundamental assumptions on which the recent Supreme Court judgment builds its tacit approval of a conditional 'inactively executed medical termination of life', which might sound like - and might also be - a contradiction in terms.
So, is 'letting die' better than 'killing'? More importantly, are the two different in all circumstances?
A man suffering from chronic asthma is hit by a sudden bout of intense asthma attack, and desperately reaches out for the lifesaving inhaler, which is now in the hands of someone who wants him dead. This angel of death grabs the inhaler, walks out of the room and closes the door behind him to 'let the fellow die' a painful death.
So, did he 'kill' or did he simply 'let die'? Actually, in 'letting' the person die he 'killed', or, to put it differently, he killed by letting die. The killer is as much a killer as he would be, had he put a knife through the man's heart or a bullet through his brain, for it is the intention which determines the nature of the act. In 'Passive Euthanasia' the intention is to kill, which makes it as active as 'active' can be. And if it is about interfering or not interfering with the 'impending death' or 'natural course of life', every single pill that you swallowed and every injection that you took did exactly that by standing between you and the natural consequences of the illness, which could as well be death.
The second premise that somehow 'letting die' is morally better off than 'killing' is equally ill-founded because when life is insufferable and death desirable, any delay in ending life is abjectly and indefensibly cruel. Among the martial communities in olden times, if a warrior was incurably injured and was dying a slow, painful death, he would be given a swift death unless he or she desired otherwise because delayed death meant prolonged suffering, which is cruel by all means. So, if death is better, terminate life immediately.
Thus, not only 'letting die' is much the same as 'killing', but is also morally inferior than the latter in cases fit for euthanasia. So, the very idea of and the whole talk surrounding 'Passive Euthanasia' is completely pointless, for it is unwise to look for a 'middle' or 'moderate' path where none exists.
The two central issues that cannot be left unaddressed are: One, whether or not the otherwise absolute Right to Life includes Right to Die in certain circumstances? If yes, what should be the distinctive nature of such circumstances? And, two, who has the 'right' - not the expertise or wisdom - to decide on behalf of the patient that his or her life is not worth living? Let's not forget that we are dealing with the most fundamental, inalienable right, and this is about someone else deciding to forego what even the person himself cannot in ordinary circumstances.
Therefore, the legal position of euthanasia cannot be conclusively determined until and unless these two questions are satisfactorily answered. And we have been skipping and spot-running so far.

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The Marion County Election Board has hit dozens of former candidates and political action committees with more than $72,000 in late filing penalties.
Filings were due January 15th and candidates and PACs that file late can be fined $50 per day up to $1000. The fines only apply to who ran local offices such as city, county, school boards or township offices and still kept their campaign finance committees open.
Officials that received $1000 fines included former Marion County Clerk Beth White, Center Township Trustee Tony Duncan, former Mayoral candidate Sam Carson, State Senate candidate Belinda Drake*, former IPS school Board candidate Josh Owens and former City-County Councilor Marylin Pfister
Former Marion County prosecutor Carl Brizzi, who is now running for Congress in the 5th Congressional District was fined $50 for missing the filing deadline by one minute. He filed at 12:01 p.m. on January 15th. The deadline was at noon.
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The Department of Public Health has made a list of valuable resources available to Massachusetts residents if you are looking to help with the disaster in Haiti.
The 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck near the Caribbean city of Port-au-Prince in Haiti on Tuesday afternoon was the worst earthquake in the past 200 years. The collapse of buildings and homes has left over 140,000 people dead and thousands more still missing or without a place to live.
Countries all over the world are sending rescue teams to Haiti to help where they are able, but it’s going to be a long haul before order is restored. According to information posted by the American Red Cross here’s a list of resources so MA residents can help bring relief to the thousands of families that fell victim to such a tragedy:
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- The Salvation Army is accepting financial donations. Call 617-542-5420 to learn more.
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Keep in mind that the immediate need is for money donated to any established relief organization to best support the victims of the earthquake. Visit www.interaction.org to get a list of credible organizations for international emergencies.


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On Sunday, June 10, Louisville’s newest public green space will makes its debut with a special ribbon-cutting ceremony and street festival. Emerson Gardens Park is located on the corner of Hickory and Sylvia streets in the Schnitzelburg neighborhood. The land, formerly the site of the Emerson School, was already home to the Willis B. Ewing Garden, a popular community garden where vegetables are grown. The remaining acreage has been transformed with the addition of a new gazebo, walking paths and playground equipment.
Gary Allen, President of the Schnitzelburg Neighborhood Association, says the park took five long years to come together. The idea for the park came to Allen one day when he was walking down Burnett Street and noticed children from a nearby day-care center playing in a gravel parking lot. “I thought it was a shame they didn’t have a park to go to,” Allen remembers. “As far as I know, this is the first park in this neighborhood.”
Allen credits Metro Councilman Jim King, former Metro Mayor Jerry Abramson and Congressman John Yarmuth for helping to bring his dream into reality. King and Yarmuth are expected to be at the ribbon cutting, which takes place at 5 p.m. at the new gazebo. The street festival starts at 3 p.m. and will include food along with arts and crafts booths. Proceeds will benefit the MUSCL (Ministries United of South Central Louisville) Senior Wellness Center of Schnitzelburg. The music will start at 5:30 p.m., featuring singer/songwriters John Gage and Mickey Clark, along with Pat Younger and his band, the Paloverde.
In a press release, Councilman King says, “We are excited that the new Emerson Gardens Park will be a treasured and popular destination for local residents and the community at large. We want this to be a true neighborhood hub for community gatherings, concerts and performances.”
Mark Pittman lives on Sylvia Street, across from the park. Pittman says the new development is one of the best things to happen in Schnitzelburg in the 18 years he has lived in the area. The Emerson School was still around when Pittman moved into his house. The building was originally an elementary school, but for the last few years of its existence it was a special school for pregnant teens.
“I love the new park,” Pittman exclaims. “It’s so much better than what was there before. When I first moved here it was the school and a big concrete lot. Kids were always breaking the windows and setting the alarm off. The fire department was always running out here unnecessarily.”
Allen says the new Emerson Gardens Park reflects the positive changes happening in the Schnitzelburg area. “We have so many young people moving into the neighborhood and some of them have children,” Allen explains. “They had no park to go to in our neighborhood. We want to follow the Willow Park model and have bands in the summer. It’s going to provide an opportunity for people to get together.”


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Tuesday, August 13, 6pm, Boston Public Library, Mezzanine Conference Room, 700 Boylston Street.
The purpose of this meeting is to provide the public with the opportunity to become fully acquainted with the proposed deck replacement and superstructure repairs on the Bowker Overpass over Beacon Street, Commonwealth Avenue and Muddy River in Boston. Work is currently expected to begin in the spring of 2014.
The proposed project consists of interim repairs to the superstructure and deck of the Bowker Overpass and associated ramps. Accelerated deterioration of the bridge structures requires that these interim repairs be conducted during the preliminary phase of the Bowker Overpass Planning Study. Repairs will include beam repairs, pin-and-hanger-retrofits, partial deck replacement and partial parapet replacement.
Celtics Forward Jared Sullinger Says: Sign Up for a Celtics Plate! posted on Oct 20
The Registry of Motor Vehicles’ new Boston Haymarket Center received a special visitor today: Boston Celtics forward Jared Sullinger. “Sully” joined Registrar Celia Blue to greet visitors, meet the staff, and encourage customers to sign up for the Boston Celtics Specialty License Plate. The Celtics …Continue Reading Celtics Forward Jared Sullinger Says: Sign Up for a Celtics Plate!
EZPass: New Service to Reload Transponders, Pay by Plate posted on Oct 17
MassDOT is supplementing All-Electronic Tolling at the Tobin Bridge with a new retail Cash Payment Network system. This program, which is now officially live, will allow cash preferred customers to pay their PAY BY PLATE MA invoices and replenish their MassDOT E-ZPass accounts at over …Continue Reading EZPass: New Service to Reload Transponders, Pay by Plate
Governor Patrick Announces Fairmount Line Service Upgrades posted on Oct 16
Governor Deval Patrick today joined MassDOT Secretary & CEO Richard A. Davey, MBTA General Manager Dr. Beverly Scott and state and local officials to announce a package of service upgrades to the MBTA‘s Fairmount Commuter Rail Line to improve the Line’s reliability, frequency and to …Continue Reading Governor Patrick Announces Fairmount Line Service Upgrades


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As expected, Harley-Davidson pulled the wraps off of two new 2012 models, the ’70s-styled Seventy-Two Sportster (pictured above) and the bobber-styled Softail Slim. Motorcycle.com‘s Tom Roderick attended the launch of the two new 2012 Harley-Davidson models and he’ll have a full report. In the mean time, here’s a quick look at the two new offerings from The Motor Company.Like the Forty-Eight first introduced in 2010, the 2012 Harley-Davidson Seventy-Two is named for the era that inspired its design.Tue, 01 Sep 2009
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I know that the LaRue has to be installed first because you have to remove the FS to do so.
What problem may this cause in the future, say if you gas tube goes t/u or what not. I'm tempted to just throw a KMC RAS on and be done with it. But, I have been told that the LaRue is a better system.


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Solo exhibition, Stella Baraklianou
17/06- 04/07/2021 GLOAM Gallery, Sheffield
The Magician was a solo exhibition of the work of artist and researcher Stella Baraklianou.
Baraklianou’s practice takes up the idea of the reversible; the reversible encountered in nature, in energy distribution patterns, in magic and folklore, in clothing and garments, and in digital formats and algorithmic codes. Bringing together the material processes of craftwork, textiles, photography and digital fabrication, Baraklianou’s exhibition, which focuses on the presence and absence of ‘The Tarot Magician’.


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Supreme Court gives Subrata Roy's Sahara Group more time to repay investors
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- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives, to hold talks with PM on boundary, water issues
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Supreme Court (SC) gave the Subrata Roy-led Sahara Group more time to repay billions of dollars it had raised from investors through bond sales that were later ruled to be illegal.
The court ordered Sahara to initially deposit 51.20 billion rupees ($937 million) with the capital markets regulator and pay the remainder in two instalments in January and February.
On Aug. 31, the court had asked Sahara to repay within 90 days as much as 240 billion rupees ($4.4 billion) collected from nearly 30 million mostly small investors, plus interest of 15 percent a year, to the capital markets regulator.
Sahara had also been ordered to submit detailed documents with the regulator if it had refunded any money collected through the so-called optionally fully convertible debentures to investors.
The regulator says Sahara has not complied with the top court's order, while Sahara says the regulator "deliberately refused" to accept documents and information submitted by it.
Sahara said in newspaper advertisements on Saturday it had "cleared" about 330 billion rupees raised in the outlawed bonds and had maximum outstanding liability of 51.20 billion rupees, which it was ready to deposit with the authorities.
India's capital markets regulator said in late October it had received complaints from investors that they were being forced by agents and officials of Sahara to switch the money held through the bonds to other investment products sold by the group.
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SC asks Sahara to refund Rs 24,000 cr to investors by February
(PTI) The Sahara Group today got nine weeks time from the Supreme Court to pay back Rs 24,000 crore with 15 per cent interest to over three crore investors in its two companies, with an immediate upfront payment of Rs.5,120 crore.
- Quake-hit and shaken, Bhaderwah spends nights in the open
- UP blast accused dies on way to jail, govt wanted to drop case against him
- Former civil aviation secy changes mind, seeks airport security exemption as EC
- BCCI suspects Gujarat players in other teams were also approached
- Police on money trail, Sreesanth in fresh trouble
- Chhattisgarh 'encounter' leaves 8 villagers dead, no Maoist link yet


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Douglas W. Hubbard, author of ‘The Failure of Risk Management: Why It’s Broken and How to Fix It,’ and Nir Kossovsky, author of ‘Reputation, Stock Price, and You,’ to serve as keynotes for two-day virtual event
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 13, 2020 — It’s impossible for any business or organization to predict with 100% accuracy when a disaster or crisis may strike. It is, however, possible to plan for the unexpected, and one of the best ways to do that is with a sound enterprise risk management (ERM) strategy.
“If you’re going to be a successful company today, you really need to be proactive with regard to ERM,” says M. Michael Zuckerman, an associate professor of risk, insurance, and healthcare management at Temple University. “In the past, it was OK for companies to manage risk by just purchasing insurance, but today, risk is present in cybersecurity, supply chain, climate change, human capital, data analytics and more. This all has been exacerbated by COVID-19, as well. That’s why an ERM plan is so key.”
Temple’s Fox School of Business welcomes industry leaders, educators, practitioners and students to the “2020 Enterprise Risk Management Conference: ERM in an Age of Uncertainty and Disruption,” which will be held in a virtual format on Thursday, Nov. 19, and Thursday, Dec. 3, from 8:30 a.m. to noon each day. The conference will focus on ERM implementation and operation, while offering a deeper look at reputational risk management and the role of environment, social and governance (ESG) principles in managing risk.
The conference is free and open to the public. Guests can register by visiting the ERM Conference website.
“While this year’s conference has a special focus on ESG principles, there will be key takeaways for any organization—small or large, profit nonprofit, public or private,” says Zuckerman, the organizer of this year’s event. “If you do not already have an ERM program, this is a great opportunity to launch one or if you do have one, this conference will really help you enhance it.”
The conference features two keynote speakers. The keynote for Nov. 19 is Douglas W. Hubbard, president of Hubbard Decision Research and author of “The Failure of Risk Management: Why It’s Broken and How to Fix It.” Hubbard has completed more than 100 risk/return analyses of large, critical projects, investments and other management decisions. His books have also sold more than 100,000 copies in eight different languages.
The keynote for Dec. 3 is Nir Kossovsky, MD, CEO and co-founder of Steel City Re. Kossovsky is an authority on business process risk and reputational value and author of “Reputation, Stock Price, and You – Why the Market Rewards Some Companies and Punishes Others.”
Speakers also include strategic and enterprise risk management experts from the following organizations:
- Centene Corporation
- Temple University Office of Ethics and Compliance
- AmerisourceBergen Corporation
- Wawa Inc.
- Temple University – Beasley Law School and Center for Compliance and Ethics
- Spencer Educational Foundation
Visit the Fox School’s website for more information on the conference, which has been organized with support from the Spencer Educational Foundation, the Deleware Valley Risk and Insurance Management Society and Hubbard Decision Research.
About the Fox School of Business
The vision of Temple University’s Fox School of Business is to transform student lives, develop leaders, and impact our local and global communities through excellence and innovation in education and research.
The Fox School’s research institutes and centers as well as 200+ full-time faculty provide access to market-leading technologies and foster a collaborative and creative learning environment that offers more than curriculum—it offers an experience. Coupled with its leading student services, the Fox School ensures that its graduates are fully prepared to enter the job market.
The flexibility and responsiveness of our knowledge-creating research faculty allow the school to address the needs of industry and generate courses and programs in emerging fields. As a leader in business research, the Fox School values interdisciplinary approaches and translational research that influence and impact real-world problems. Our research informs an adaptive curriculum, supports innovation in teaching and prepares students for the ever-changing business environment.


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Reflections of Passion A Collection of Sports Comment by Wang Jingqian and Wang Lili (Chinese Edition) by Wang Jingqian and Wang Lili (Oct 1, 2012)
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Xu Jingqian, also known in some historical records as Li Jingqian, posthumously honored as Prince Ding of Chu, was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Wu, serving as junior regent under his father, the senior...

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Merridith Frediani loves words and is delighted by good sentences. She also loves Lake Michigan, dahlias, the first sip of hot coffee in the morning, millennials, and playing Sheepshead with her husband and three kids. Merridith writes for Catholic Mom, Diocesan.com, and her local Catholic Herald. Her first book, Draw Close to Jesus: A Woman’s Guide to Adoration, is available at Our Sunday Visitor and Amazon. You can read more at MerridithFrediani.com.

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This cover for the motor of Raymond Corp.ís 8000 Series pallet trucks has to fend off some bumps and bruises on the warehouse floor. And it has to look good while doing so. Mack Molding produces this rugged cover, which won the competitionís materials handling category,† from a structural foam molded thermoplastic elastomer (TPE). According to Michael Hansen, a senior development engineer for Mack, the elastomer goes through a water-based painting process that allows the part to flex without harming the glossy cosmetic surface.
Two new technologies from Stratasys, created in partnership with Boeing, Ford, and Siemens, will bring accurate, repeatable manufacturing of very large thermoplastic end products, and much bigger composite parts, onto the factory floor for industries including automotive and aerospace.
Focus on Fundamentals consists of 45-minute on-line classes that cover a host of technologies.
You learn without leaving the comfort of your desk. All classes are taught by subject-matter experts and all are archived.
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Experience revolutionary design and construction with the Charcoal Freedom leash, a game-changer in the world of surf accessories. The cutting-edge features of this leash are optimized for performance and reliability.
Crafted with a super low-drag cord, the leash is not only lighter but also stronger. The High-Tensile over-braided nylon ensures durability, and it comes with a built-in 'over-stretch' limiter, guaranteeing that it always returns to its original length. This innovative construction enhances your surfing experience by minimizing drag and maximizing strength.
The ankle cuff is thoughtfully designed with comfort and functionality in mind. It incorporates 3mm neoprene padding and features a low-profile Velcro closure for a secure fit. The silicone printed grip on the lining prevents rotation during your sessions. Additionally, the cuff includes a lightweight molded pull-tab, making it easy to locate in emergency situations.
One of the standout features of the Charcoal Freedom leash is its extended 'stand off,' effectively reducing back foot tangling. This design element is especially crucial when you find yourself in the pole position for the set of the day.
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One in five five-year-olds has tooth decay in the Kirklees area and almost one in 12 is obese, according to a new report.
The figures, produced by the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), look at levels of obesity, tooth decay, injury and early childhood development for under-fives across England.
However the overall statistics show that children in the Kirklees area live in one of the least-deprived areas in England, coming 58th out of 150 local authorities in the charity’s Deprivation Extent Rankings.
Across Kirklees, 511 four and five-year-olds - or nine per cent - suffer from obesity.
2,109 children, or 38.5 per cent, were already showing signs of tooth decay. The national average is 25 per cent.
Children aged 0-4 were also less likely than most to be admitted to hospital due to injury. The Kirklees figure was 143 per 10,000 children.
The bureau also recorded 61.3 per cent of children are achiveing good level of development by the end of reception, compared to 60.4 per cent nationally.


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Lahore, June 10, 2010: The recent controversy over the appointment of judges to the superior courts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) has exposed constant manipulation of the judiciary by the executive and the consequent politicization of the judiciary in AJK, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said.
Launching the report of an HRCP fact-finding mission into the upheaval in the AJK judiciary, on Thursday, the Commission said that political interference must end in order to strengthen the justice system in AJK. The report can be accessed at: http://www.hrcp-web.org/pdf/AJK_Report.pdf
The judicial crisis brewing in AJK for the last several years had started with the appointment of Justice Reaz Akhtar Chaudhry as Chief Justice of the AJK Supreme Court in October 2006. Justice Chaudhry had merely spent three weeks as judge of the apex court when he was made the AJK chief Justice, superseding a more senior judge, Justice Manzoor Hussain Gillani.
A number of petitions were filed in the AJK High Court and the Supreme Court of Pakistan by lawyers and members of AJK superior judiciary, challenging appointment of judges to superior courts in AJK. References were submitted to the AJK Supreme Judicial Council against Chief Justice Chaudhry and Justice Gillani. Both the judges resigned in May 2010.
Shortly before the resignations, the polarization had reached the point that lawyers protesting against one of the judges had accused the judge of blasphemy based on a sentence he had written in one of his judgments. The AJK Supreme Judicial Council had also concluded that blasphemy had been committed and had cited it as one of the grounds for removal of the judge in question. HRCP said that it was astonished by the charge and added that “such dangerous allegations against judges can become a terrifying trend if not effectively discouraged… There can be no independence for the judiciary if judges are not protected against sanctions for expressing themselves through their judgments.”
The HRCP report added that the two judges’ “departure will not remove the root causes of tension within the political and judicial systems of AJK. These must be addressed so that the citizens of AJK can enjoy basic human rights, build a democratic political system and strengthen the rule of law.”
HRCP added that it is critical that all appointments and promotions of judges of the superior courts in AJK are made on merit, through a proper consultative process and without capricious interference from the executive authorities established through the constitutional framework of AJK.
HRCP recommended that a serving judge should not head the AJK Election Commission, which should be made a permanent and autonomous body. HRCP added that the appointment of the Chief Election Commissioner should be made in consultation with the AJK prime minister, leader of the opposition and chief justice of AJK Supreme Court, in order to remove serious doubts cast on the election process.
HRCP emphasised an enhanced role of the civil society of Pakistan and AJK, in particular bar associations, to monitor general elections of AJK. HRCP said that the powers shared between the authorities in AJK and the AJK Council, headed by the Prime Minister of Pakistan, should be rationalized on democratic principles, notwithstanding the peculiar status of AJK.
The HRCP mission concluded, “[i]nterference in the appointment of judges in AJK has not ended [even though the two SC judges have resigned]. Lawyers in AJK have ended their protests but surely the issue was not about the appointment of one individual but graver issues are at stake in AJK. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan can only hope that institutional changes rather than the change of a few faces will be adopted as a policy in AJK and by the Government of Pakistan.”
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The Government will spend 60 million pounds in an attempt to save 3000 lives per year from bowel cancer. The money is to be spent on a new screening programme wherein 1200 experts will be added to the current NHS count.
All of this is part of a 164 million pound grant that will see the NHS reorganised to offer better cancer care. There will also be 50 million pounds spent on life extending drugs that have been unavailable in the UK up to now.
The Prime Minister is attempting to meet a goal to make the country a world leader in cancer survival.
All of this centres around Flexi-scope procedure, which is a process that is highly valuable in bowel cancer detection and prevention. The procedure will be added to the NHS screening programme with diligence. Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland are expected to quickly follow with approval for the procedure, also.
It is noteworthy to recognize that almost 30,000 residents of the UK develop bowel cancer every year and that more than 16,000 of that number will die.

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The Boker Plus Little Friend, designed by Jesper Voxnaes, is innovative and compact. The blade of this knife is made of CPM-S35VN and is paired with handle scales made of wine-red G10. This blade steel provides excellent edge retention and corrosion resistance, and the G10 provides a wonderful grip even in adverse conditions. The blade can be opened with the flippers or the tear-shaped thumb hole, and the reliable liner lock keeps the blade solidly in place. The beautiful burgundy handle is complimented by the star-shaped axle screw with a gold-colored ring, the brass backspacer, and the discreet ricasso on the back of the blade. This is an excellent, eye-catching everyday carry.
Includes a deep carry pocket clip for tip-up, right side carry only as well as a lanyard hole and a nylon sheath for a variety of carry and storage options.
- Blade Length: 3.03"
- Handle Length: 4.33"
- Overall Length: 7.32"
- Blade Thickness: 0.16"
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Some time ago, we dined at a very popular and well-established Ramen restaurant in Tokyo where we had a delightful one-of-a-kind culinary experience. The thickness of the noodles paired with the pork bone & back fat infused broth topped with a generous portion of bean sprouts and thick cut pork left an everlasting impression on us. The ramen dishes served at this establishment inspired us to create a heavenly new ramen experience for our Los Angeles who enjoy a hearty meal. Hence, Tsujita Annex was born.
You'll find an awesome combination of our original handmade flat and curly noodle accompanied by our luscious pork bone broth. Please enjoy the impeccable balance of sweet and tart showcased by the pork's fat. Please let us know if you need extra broth to be added to the soup so you can enjoy it till the last drop!
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Former bodyguard to Hip-Hop sensation T.I. has been sentenced to a year and one day in federal prison for his involvement in the weapons scheme that led to the rapper’s 2007 arrest. The Smoking Gun reported that Corey Williams accepted a plead deal for acquiring illegal firearms, which included machine guns and silencers, for T.I. whose legal name is Clifford Harris.
Court papers confirmed that Williams was hired by Harris in July of 2007. Shortly after, Williams’ clean rap sheet allowed him to obtain the firearms for the rapper who had been prohibited from purchasing weaponry due to his previous criminal history. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms learned about the transaction when Williams made an attempt to purchase the gun and silencer without registering the weapon, which is a federal offense. After his arrest, Williams agreed to wear a wire to record several face-to-face encounters with Harris, which eventually led to his arrest on felony weapons charges. Harris was charged and faced up to 10 years in prison, but struck a deal with prosecutors that permitted him to intervene in the lives of troubled youth as a 1000 hour community service pledge. The rapper chronicled the interventions in an MTV reality series called “Road to Redemption.”
Harris and Williams were both sentenced to a year and one day in federal prison. While Harris’ sentence will commence in May of this year, Williams has already begun his jail time
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Global Village Dubai sets three new Guinness records
Global Village - one of the largest cultural parks in the world and the first family destination for culture, entertainment and shopping in the region - has managed to achieve three new Guinness World Records records through three works of art as part of its celebrations of the 49th National Day of the state, which included entertainment programs that won everyone’s appreciation and left with them. The most wonderful memories, which establishes its first place among family entertainment destinations, to celebrate this occasion dear to the hearts of all residents of the Emirates.
More than 1000 flags from the UAE flags were collected to achieve the record for the largest pooled number using flags in the world, which constituted No. 49, and the record for the largest mosaic panel was achieved using tickets to "form a flag", as 9,200 entry tickets to the global village, colored by the colors of the flag, were used to form The flag of the Emirates in a wonderful work of art that won the admiration of guests at the gate of the world.
Global Village broke the record for the largest grouping sentence using plastic sheeting in cooperation with Aquafina, after it used more than 14,000 plastic sheets to form the phrase "Live My Country" from the national anthem on the left wall of the main stage to be a wonderful artistic picture in front of the guests.
It is reported that Global Village will donate all the covers used in this attempt to the "Digrid" company, which will in turn recycle the covers into raw materials that are used in the manufacture of wheelchairs.
Global Village continues its attempts to break a total of 25 records during the Silver Jubilee season, after collecting 5 numbers so far.
Bader Anwahi, CEO of Global Village said, “This year was full of milestones that stirred everyone’s feelings, and we are all proud of being able to receive our guests in the global village with a festive atmosphere that reflects the importance of this occasion that the people of the UAE are proud of in front of the world. It is the preferred family destination for residents and tourists to celebrate National Day, which we have experienced this year as well. "
He added, "We are happy with the remarkable turnout of guests during the national holiday to enjoy the distinctive entertainment programs that we have prepared for them, ranging from the artworks that adorned the global village to the epic operetta" Emirates: Land of Peace "which narrated the story of the Emirates from the past and the present in front of our guests as I was personally honored with the participation The main stage with His Excellency Khalifa Hassan Al Drai, Executive Director of the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services, to launch fireworks that we have dedicated to express gratitude and gratitude to the efforts of the first line of defense soldiers from his team for all the high services they provide to the country.
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Thanks for a Fun Summer!
We've had a great time so far with this year's summer reading and oceans of possibilities! We want to thank everyone who joined us and helped. Can't wait to see you next summer for more reading and fun!
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The library now has Brainfuse – on demand, anytime, anywhere eLearning for all ages and levels. Brainfuse is one of the nation’s leading online tutoring providers for libraries and schools. Users get real-time tutoring from instructors through the Brainfuse online classroom. Brainfuse HelpNow Students work with live tutors using an interactive whiteboard to chat, write,…
Let us help you with that! We can recommend a series or new authors that you will love.

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Below are the meeting, banquet, conference and event spaces at Residence Inn Slc Downtown.
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No, you don't need a smartphone or house phone to do this - all of it works online through your computer.
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This app permits you to connect with family and friends or make new friends easily.
You can make video & voice calls, play games, send text messages, send music messages powered by spotify and more for free.
Join over 160 million people across the world using Tango as the #1 social entertaining and messaging application.
Once you're all setup, you can (almost) instantly connect with family, friends, co-workers, or anyone else who is using the same app.
After you install one of the free video chat apps you see below, there are just a few things you need to make sure you have: an active internet connection, ample bandwidth, a webcam, and an audio input and output device (microphone and speaker).


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If you're looking for a talented web developer you'll find people like Charchit to help you accomplish your needs.
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What is the AS/400? The AS/400 is the new name for what was formerly called the “IBM iSeries”. The AS/400 is a midrange server built with small businesses in mind. The AS/400 is also ideal for use within specialized departments in larger corporations.
Organizations that implement that AS400 iSeries can choose from thousands of different applications that have been pre-written for easy iSeries access for Windows and other platforms. IBM has outlined several important uses for the AS 400 iSeries, including data warehousing, Java application development, web and e-commerce serving and corporate groupware services. With these tools, an experienced Java developer can get a business up and running in no time. Popular applications such as Domino and Notes come standard on IBM iSeries products, making these servers ready to hit the ground running.
Planning on purchasing some of these servers for your business? They’re a great investment! But be sure to have the right personnel on your team to capitalise on this incredible hardware, and reach your full potential. This is where Freelancer.com can help! Choose from a wide array of IBM iSeries experts at a click of a button
Freelancer.com has an incredible wealth of Java developers for hire that are sure to meet your Google Chrome OS application development needs. You will be able to outsource IBM iSeries development with ease using the plethora of tools available to employers using the Freelancer platform. It's as easy as posting a public project. It's free too! Simply write a detailed description of your software development needs and in no time freelance developers from around the world will be flocking to your project, offering competitive bids for their services.
Does your project require a certain set of skills or experience? Not a problem! Use the Freelancer Directory to find a Java developer to work on your application. View his or her public profile and offer to hire them directly from their page.
With all of the talented software developers on the site, it’s completely understandable if you become overwhelmed by the decision you’re about to make. It’s a good problem to have! Fortunately, the Preferred Freelancer Program has identified the site’s top application development talent and made it directly available to you! By hiring one of Freelancer.com’s talent recruiters, your project will be shared with the best freelance Java programmers on the site.
Just like public projects, these Preferred Freelancers will offer competitive bids along with their proposals on how to make your AS400 development project the very best it can be. Talk with the Preferred Freelancers and your Recruiters about the bids and from there you can make an informed decision on which freelance software developer to proceed with.
Still having trouble deciding? Your Recruiter can even provide their personal recommendation as to which IBM iSeries expert to hire! Between your Preferred Freelancer and Recruiter, you’ve got a winning team!
Finding a server expert on Freelancer.com is as easy as ever, so what are you waiting for? Kickstart your IBM AS400 project today by finding your next Java developer at Freelancer.com.
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DebtBench Consolidates The Business-to-business Loan Marketplace Into One Place
Apr 10, 2018
The Benzinga Global Fintech Awards are a yearly showcase of the best and brightest in fintech. In preparation for its biggest installment yet in May 2018, we're profiling the companies competing for the BZ Awards. Our next feature is on DebtBench . Benzinga: What does your company do? What unique problem does it solve? DebtBench: We are creating an Open Banking marketplace structure where business borrowers can connect and gain access to capital at lower rates, in far less time, than they would by going to a brick-and mortar institution. According to our estimates, banks, credit cards and other lending institutions generate $870B+ each year in fees and interest from over $3.2 trillion in lending activity. The interest rate spreads gained by financial institutions can be minimized. By connecting borrower with appropriate lending partners, Debtbench can make banks more competitive and gain access to the flow of debt information needed to make markets more efficient. The power of sharing data will result in a more competitive environment for financial institutions, lower interest rates and steadily decreasing monthly debt payment for a struggling population of debtors. Having readily available financial data will change how people borrow funds. Problems being solved:
Consumers accustomed to low interest rates, incorrectly assuming interest will stay low. Misconception proven strongest in lower income groups. Consumers do not compare among lenders and often receive only one stated interest rate, eroding consumer capital through higher than necessary interest payments. Low and middle-class consumers consistently lack necessary financial knowledge, access, and expectations. Lenders use complex and predatory terms to obscure the true cost of consumer borrowing. Benzinga: Who are your customers? DebtBench: Business owners seeking to lower existing debt or entrepreneurs looking to purchase a business. Benzinga: How long have you been in business? DebtBench: One year.

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The United Way of Portage County has raised $75,000 in new money as a result of a $25,000 challenge grant from the GAR Foundation to United Way of Portage County, through the Fund for Our Economic Future.
Brian Duchon, president and CEO for United Way, said the challenge was answered by more than $50,000 in increased donations from more than 300 qualifying contributors, above and beyond their pledges from last year. GAR Challenge Grant funds are used to match dollar for dollar all new and increased donations to United Way of Portage County's 2013 campaign.
"We are leveraging the GAR Foundation challenge grant to raise new resources and bring in outside dollars to support Portage County." Duchon said. "These funds will help United Way and our partners to improve kids in-school performance, ensure financial stability for families and support individuals health and wellness."
The money is going to support the community impact fund, the general United Way fund that will be distributed through allocation teams this spring. The United Way supports 43 different programs in the county.
Duchon said the new contributions came at a good time.
"This is going to help offset some losses we knew were coming this year. The GE plant (closing in Ravenna) was a big loss for us," he said.
Individuals interested in supporting United Way should contact United Way's Stephanie Rummel at firstname.lastname@example.org or at 330-297-1424.
United Way of Portage County is a local non-profit organization focused on improving lives in Portage County by creating opportunities in the areas of education, income and health. United Way works to advance the common good by identifying community goals, developing impact strategies and implementing those strategies in partnership with community stakeholders, contributions and partners. For more information about United Way visit www.uwportage.org or by phone at 330-297-1424.
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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Southern California is heating up and could see a record number of scorching days by mid-century, according to a UCLA study released Thursday.
According to the study, which forecasts weather patterns from 2041 to 2060, the number of days with temperatures above 95 will triple in downtown Los Angeles each year by the middle of the century, quadruple in parts of the San Fernando Valley and jump five-fold in a portion of the high desert in Los Angeles County.
“Every season of the year in every part of the county will be warmer,” Alex Hall, the lead researcher on the study, said. “This study lays a foundation for the region to confront climate change. Now that we have real numbers, we can talk about adaptation.”
The study, titled “Mid-Century Warming in the Los Angeles Region,” raises concerns about the long-term sustainability of the city’s water supplies, which are replenished by snow and water captured by local mountain chains.
Research on the effects of climate change on precipitation and groundwater will be released in the fall.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said the forecasts provide the groundwork for local governments, utilities, hospitals and other institutions to prepare for the hot spells to come.
The mayor touted the city’s green-building standards, tree-planting program and increase of green and open space, which he said will also help the city adapt to climate change.
Villaraigosa instructed relevant city departments to prepare vulnerability and risk assessments based on the UCLA data.
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. You may use any other stock photos. Please remember to follow their rules. Although there is not a model restriction, your chances of winning are greater if you exclude the model.You may enter as many times as you like.Remember you must use something from the digital-amphetamine gallery!Even though this is for a contest, you still must credit and note the stock providers. This contest is for photo manipulations.
No drawings please.The contest will end December 27, 2008 [Sicsaxion-'s 21st birthday!] 12 AM EDT
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After the turn out with Dark is my Demeanor, we are launching our second contest! The theme is much different, but we think it might spark some interest. Personally we love seeing photo manipulations of places and scenery! We want to see castles, abandoned cities, places of fairy tales, and etc!
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English Literature and Creative Writing Faculty
Joseph Alkana, Ph.D. (Texas, 1990)
Fields: 19th-century American literature, Jewish literature.
Author, The Social Self: Nineteenth-Century Psychology and the Writings of Hawthorne, Howells, and William James (1996). Co-editor, Cohesion and Dissent in America (1994).
A. Manette Ansay, M.F.A. (Cornell, 1991)
A. Manette Ansay’s first novel, Vinegar Hill, was published in 1994, followed by a story collection, Read This and Tell Me What it Says in 1995. She has since published four more novels: Sister (1996); River Angel (1998); Midnight Champagne (1999), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and her latest novel, Blue Water (2006). Ansay is also the author of a memoir, Limbo. She's been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Friends of American Writers Prize, and two Great Lakes Book Awards, among others. Vinegar Hill was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her November 1999 Book Club Selection. Ansay is at work on a new novel, to be published by HarperCollins.
Anthony Barthelemy, Ph.D. (Yale, 1984)
Fields: African-American and Renaissance literature.
Author, Black Face, Maligned Race: The Representation of Blacks in English Drama from Shakespeare to Southerne (1987). Editor, Critical Essays on Shakespeare's "Othello" (1994).
Jaswinder Bolina, MFA, Ph.D. (Michigan 2003, Ohio University 2010)
Fields: Creative writing (poetry and nonfiction)
Jaswinder Bolina is author of Phantom Camera (Green Rose Prize, New Issues Press and Hachette 2013) and Carrier Wave (Colorado Prize, Center for Literary Publishing, Colorado State University 2007). His poems have appeared widely in national and international literary journals and in the Best American Poetry series. His essays have appeared at the Poetry Foundation dot org and The Huffington Post; in magazines including The State and The Writer; and in the anthologies Poets on Teaching (University of Iowa Press 2011), Language: A Reader for Writers (Oxford University Press 2013), The Task of Un/Masking (University of Georgia Press 2014), and The Force of What’s Possible (Nightboat Books 2014).
Robert Casillo, Ph.D. (Johns Hopkins, 1978)
Fields: Modern poetry, Victorian literature.
Author, The Genealogy of Demons: Anti-Semitism, Fascism, and the Myths of Ezra Pound (1988), The Empire of Stereotypes: Germaine de Stael and the Idea of Italy (2006); Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese (2006).
Eugene Clasby, Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison, 1966)
Professor and Director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program
Fields: Medieval and Renaissance literature.
Translator, The Pilgrimage of Human Life by Guillaume de Deguilleville (1992).
Renée Fox, Ph.D. (Princeton, 2010)
Renée Fox specializes in nineteenth-century British and Irish literature, with particular interests in the Gothic, mid-to-late Victorian literature and culture, poetry, and contemporary Irish literature. She is the co-editor of an exhibition catalogue called The Cracked Lookingglass: Highlights from the Leonard L. Milberg Collection of Irish Prose, which accompanied an exhibition of 18th- to 21st-century Irish prose at the Princeton University library, and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the New Hibernia Review and Victorian Poetry. Dr. Fox has been the recipient of an Ahmanson-Getty Fellowship from UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, as well as fellowships from the Josephine de Kármán Foundation and the Mrs. Giles M. Whiting Foundation. Her current project is entitled Necromantic Victorians: Reanimation, History, and Literary Innovation.
Donette Francis, Ph.D. (New York University, 2001)
Associate Professor and Director of American Studies
Donette Francis specializes in Caribbean literary and intellectual histories, American immigrant literatures, African diaspora literary studies, globalization and transnational feminist studies, and theories of sexuality and citizenship. Her book, Fictions of Feminine Citizenship: Sexuality and the Nation in Contemporary Caribbean Literature (Palgrave 2010), is concerned with the archives, intimacy and narrating history. Through an interdisciplinary and comparative study of novels by contemporary diasporic Caribbean women writers, Fictions charts an alternative history of racial and sexual formation in the Caribbean— moving across historical periods and national contexts. Defining this emergent literature as the Caribbean "antiromance," Dr. Francis writes against the critical impulse to underscore women's agency, and considers instead how Caribbean female subjects dwell in liminal spaces of both vulnerability and possibility. Dr. Francis is currently writing The Novel 1960s: Form and Sensibilities in Caribbean Literary Culture, an intellectual history of the 1960s. She is the co-editor with Belinda Edmondson of the "Special Forum: American Studies—Caribbean Edition" of the Journal of Transnational American Studies.
Dr. Francis has been the recipient of Ford Foundation Summer Fellowships, the Dr. Nuala G. Drescher Award, and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Faculty Fellowship at Binghamton University. She sits on the Editorial Board of Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature and the Trotter Review. Her articles have appeared in Small Axe, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noir, and Research in African Literature, among others. Before joining the faculty of the English Department at the University of Miami, Dr. Francis taught at Binghamton University and New York University.
Kathryn Freeman, Ph.D. (Yale, 1990)
Kathryn Freeman, whose fields are British Romanticism, Orientalism, Blake studies, and women’s literature, received her PhD from Yale in 1990. Her first book, Blake’s Nostos: Fragmentation and Nondualism in The Four Zoas (SUNY 1997) explores Blake’s non-linearity as a means to reassess Blake’s poetics and his relationship to his contemporaries. Her second book, Women Writers and the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1785-1835: Re-Orienting Anglo-India (Ashgate 2014) investigates the literary relationship between women writers of the late eighteenth century and the Orientalist transmission of Vedic texts. She has published related articles on Sydney Owenson’s The Missionary; on Phebe Gibbes’ Hartly House, Calcutta; and on the translations of William Jones and Charles Wilkins. She is currently completing A Guide to William Blake, a companion to Blake’s cosmology and historical context that challenges the premise of referentiality in the spirit of Blake’s text and design.
John Funchion, Ph.D. (Brown, 2008)
Assistant Professor of English and American Studies
Fields: Early North American and nineteenth-century U.S. literatures; Atlantic Studies; aesthetic theory; and digital approaches to literary studies.
John Funchion’s essays have appeared in Early American Literature, Modern Language Quarterly, Modernist Cultures, and The Henry James Review. He recently completed a series of final revisions on his first book, States of Nostalgia: the Aesthetics of Antagonism in the Nineteenth-Century U.S. for a major university press. He also co-edited and contributed an essay to Bordering Establishments: Mapping Regions in Early American Writing (Georgia, forthcoming). He is currently at work on two new projects. His second book manuscript, Reading against the Law: Localities of Dissent in the Early Republic establishes how regional writers in the U.S. engaged novelists, poets, revolutionaries, and legal thinkers across the Atlantic and throughout the Caribbean to challenge the rising dominance of legal and literary federalism in the early nineteenth century. He has also begun developing a digital humanities project, [alt] Periodicals, which will provide a searchable archive of radical and alternative periodicals published in the U.S. between 1865 and 1919.
M. Evelina Galang, M.F.A. (Colorado State, 1994)
Professor and Director of Creative Writing
M. Evelina Galang received her M.F.A. degree from Colorado State University in 1994. She is the author of two works of fiction - Her Wild American Self, a collection of short fiction (Coffee House Press 1996) and One Tribe, winner of the 2004 AWP Prize in the Novel (New Issues Press 2006). Galang is also the editor of Screaming Monkeys: Critiques of Asian American Images (Coffee House Press, 2003), an anthology that was awarded the 2004 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Awards Advancing Human Rights. In 2001, she was the Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in the Philippines where she continued to explore the stories of Surviving Filipina Comfort Women of World War II for her collection of essays, "Lola's House: Women Living With War."
Galang teaches fiction in the MFA Creative Writing Program where she introduces students to a wide range of tools, voices and perspectives. She hopes that from this vast array of choices students will find their way to a place where craft, substance and art come together.
Galang also serves as the advisor for the Filipino Student Association and UM Screaming Monkeys, a student group whose mission is to explore issues of race, culture and social justice through the spoken word.
Amina Gautier, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania, 2004)
Fields: Creative writing (fiction), American literature, African American literature
Amina Gautier is the author of two short story collections: Now We Will Be Happy (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and At-Risk (University of Georgia Press, 2011), which won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her short stories have appeared widely in national and international literary journals and anthologies.
Dr. Gautier has been the recipient of the Crazyhorse Fiction Prize, the Danahy Prize, the Jack Dyer Prize, the Flannery O’Connor Award, the Lamar York Prize in Fiction, the Schlafly Microfiction Award, the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and the William Richey Award. Her work has received scholarships and fellowships from the American Antiquarian Society, Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Callaloo Writer’s Conference, Hurston/Wright Foundation, Kimbilio, Prairie Center of the Arts, Sewanee Writer’s Conference, and Ucross Foundation, as well as artist grants from the Illinois Arts Council and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her critical essays and reviews appear in African American Review, Daedalus, Journal of American History, Libraries and Culture, Nineteenth Century Contexts and Whitman Noir: Black America and the Good Gray Poet, and have been supported with fellowships from the Northeast Modern Language Association, Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.
Thomas Goodmann, Ph.D. (Indiana, 1990)
Thomas Goodmann received his PhD in English from Indiana University with a Certificate in Medieval Studies. He has published an essay on John Wyclif in the DLB volume, Old and Middle English Literature, and on modern literacy in medieval languages in Exemplaria, and is currently editing and contributing to Approaches to Teaching Langland's "Piers Plowman" for the Modern Language Association. He serves on the Executive Council of the Medieval Academy's Committee on Centers and Regional Associations, and co-hosted the annual meeting of the Academy on Miami Beach in 2005.
Professor Goodmann offers courses on medieval British and European literatures, and on literature and environment. He is also at work on a book entitled, “Remembering the Summer Earth”: Women Writers of the Rural and the Wild.
Tassie Gwilliam , Ph.D. (Cornell, 1985)
Author: Samuel Richardson’s Fictions of Gender (Stanford 1993); articles in Novel, Journal of the History of Sexuality, ELH, Representations, and Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century.
Dr. Gwilliam’s teaching focuses on the encounters between popular culture and elite literature in the Restoration and eighteenth century; on sexuality and gender in the period; and on medicine and literature. Her current research project, Embodying Narrative: The Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture, examines such artifacts as counterfeit maidenheads, cosmetic treatises, and chameleon actresses to construct an understanding of the relationship between body and text in the eighteenth century.
Pamela Hammons, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1997)
Professor and Department Chair
Dr. Hammons specializes in early modern English and medieval literature, manuscript culture, poetry, women’s writing, and theories of gender and sexuality. She is the author of Gender, Sexuality, and Material Objects in English Renaissance Verse (Ashgate 2010), Poetic Resistance: English Women Writers and the Early Modern Lyric (Ashgate 2002), and essays in SEL, ELH, Criticism, Clio, Women’s Writing, Literature Compass, Write or Be Written: Early Modern Women Poets and Cultural Constraints, and History of British Women’s Writing, 1610-1690. She is the editor of Book M: A London Widow’s Life Writings by Katherine Austen (Iter, Inc. and CRRS 2013) for The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series. Dr. Hammons has been the recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Faculty Research Award, and an NEH Summer Stipend.
Robert Michael Healy, Ph.D. (University of Miami, 1997)
David Ikard, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2002)
Director of Africana Studies
David Ikard specializes in African American literature. His interests include black feminist criticism, hip hop culture, black masculinity and whiteness studies. His essays have appeared in African American Review, MELUS, Palimpsest, African and Black Diaspora Journal, The Journal of Black Studies, and Obsidian III. He is the author/co-author of three books. Breaking The Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism (2007)reconsiders the role of black men in feminism and identifies intraracial patterns of complicity in dominant modes of power that undermine even the most earnest and informed anti-sexist and anti-racist efforts. Co-authored with Martell Teasley, Nation of Cowards: Black Activism in Barack Obama's Post-Racial America (2012)explores the disconnect between the national hype over Barack Obama's historical election to the presidency and the ever-increasing economic distress of the black community that Attorney General Eric Holder broached in his controversial "race speech" in 2008. It received the Best Scholarly Book Award by DISA in 2013. Blinded by the Whites: Why Race Still Matters in the 21st Century (2014) uses black cultural and gender theories to engage the persistence of racial profiling, economic inequality between blacks and whites, disproportionate numbers of black prisoners, and disparities in health and access to healthcare. In addition, it sheds light on the shifting discourse of white supremacist ideology, including post-racialism, neoliberalism and colorblind politics, that frustrates black self-determination, agency, and empowerment the 21st century. His current project, Loveable Racists, White Messiahs, and Magical Negroes, investigates the tenacity and cultural capital of white redemption narratives in literature and popular media from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin to Kathryn Stockett’s best selling book cum blockbuster and Oscar Award winning movie The Help. He is also working on a multi-authored project, Missing Trayvon: Respectability Politics, Activism, and Cultural Memory, that uses Trayvon Martin’s tragic death as a hallmark to rethink the efficacy of essentialist racial critiques.
Catherine Judd, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley, 1992)
Fields: Victorian novel, women's studies.
Author, Bedside Seductions: Nursing and the Victorian Imagination 1830-1880 (1997).
Catherine Judd received her masters in Comparative Literature in '86 and her PhD in English Literature in '91 both from UC Berkeley, and is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Miami in Coral Gables Florida. She has written a book on Victorian nursing and articles on various nineteenth-century topics including representing the London crowd, women writers' use of male pseudonyms, English representations of the Irish Famine, and English responses to the American Civil War. Currently she is writing about Londoners converting to Mormonism in the early 1840s and how some of these conversions connect back to English dissent traditions of the 1640s and '50s. After she finishes this project she will be working on an essay focused on Percy Bysshe Shelley's influence on Thomas Hardy's novels, particularly "Jude the Obscure." She has been the recipient of several research awards including a National Institute of the Humanities Summer Research award. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing
Patrick A. McCarthy, Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1973)
Research fields: British and Irish modernist literature, science fiction, textual editing, genetic criticism; particular interest in James Joyce, Malcolm Lowry, Samuel Beckett, and Olaf Stapledon
Pat McCarthy, whose major fields are modern British and Irish literature and science fiction, has published critical interpretations of works, studies of literary relationships, genetic critical studies, and annotated scholarly editions of literary texts. His current projects are a scholarly edition of Malcolm Lowry’s “lost” novel In Ballast to the White Sea and an article on Book III Chapter 2 of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. He is also the editor of the James Joyce Literary Supplement.
Brenna Munro, Ph.D. (Virginia, 2005)
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Fields: Gender and sexuality studies, postcolonial theory, Anglophone African, Caribbean, and contemporary British literature, and queer postcolonial writing and cinema.
Brenna Munro specializes in queer and postcolonial studies, Anglophone African literature, and queer global writing and cinema. Her first book, South Africa and the Dream of Love to Come: Queer Sexuality and the Struggle for Freedom, published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2013, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist in LGBT Studies. Dr. Munro is currently working on the politics of sexuality in contemporary writing from Nigeria and its diaspora. She is on the editorial board of Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies.
Joel Nickels, Ph.D. (California, Berkeley 2007)
Joel Nickels focuses on global modernisms, American and British literature since 1900, world literature and literary geography. He is the author of The Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism and the Multitude (Minnesota 2012). His second book project examines representations of self-government outside the nation-state in twentieth and twenty-first century world literature.
Elizabeth Oldman, Ph.D. (New York University)
Elizabeth Oldman is a graduate of Barnard College (B.A., English), Yale University (M.A., English), and New York University (Ph.D., English), and has studied at Leiden University and The Hague. Her research interests include Renaissance literature, the history of law and political thought, the literature and philosophy of war, gender studies, and the intersection of literature and the visual arts. In 2011, she was invited to become an honorary member of the University of Miami’s chapter of the Golden Key International Honor Society, in acknowledgment of her outstanding teaching and support of the undergraduate community. She was the 2008 recipient of The Josephine Louise Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Newcomb Student Body at Tulane University, where she was Visiting Assistant Professor in Early Modern British Literature from 2006-2009. Her recent essays include “Milton, Grotius, and the Law of War in Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes” (Studies in Philology, 2007), and “Milton’s Tenure of Kings and Magistrates and Eikonoklastes: Illegitimate monarchy and legally-sanctioned king-killing” (Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2012).
Frank Palmeri, Ph.D. (Columbia, 1981)
Frank Palmeri has published on comparative literary studies of the 18th and 19th centuries; satire in narrative and graphic forms; conjectural history and the history of social thought; animal studies; and the novels of Thomas Pynchon. In addition to being comparative (primarily involving British, French, German, and American), his work is interdisciplinary—calling on the critical methods of history, visual studies, and philosophy.
His most recent book, A Genealogy of Modern Social Thought: The Afterlives of Enlightenment Conjectural History, is forthcoming in Columbia University Press’s Series in Political Thought/Political History. He has published two other authored books—Satire in Narrative: Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, Pynchon (1990), and Satire, History, Novel: Narrative Forms 1665-1815 (2003). He has edited two volumes: Critical Essays on Jonathan Swift (1993) and Humans and Other Animals in 18th Century Britain: Hybridity, Representation, Ethics (2006). His essays have appeared in journals such as ELH: English Literary History, Comparative Literature, Criticism, Postmodern Studies, and SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, as well as numerous edited volumes.
He is currently directing 2 dissertations and has directed 7—on topics including 19th-century women writers and satire; Charles Reade and the sensation novel; the postmodern historical novel; fiction of the Partition from South Asia; and ideology and utopia in postcolonial fiction.
His current project is Satire and the Public Sphere: Caricature, Novels, and Politics in England, 1790-1910.
Prof. Palmeri is an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Philosophy.
Jessica Rosenberg, Ph.D. (Pennsylvania, 2014)
Jessica Rosenberg specializes in early modern literature and culture, with a particular focus on the history of science and the history of the book. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania and MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge. An essay on husbandry and poetry is forthcoming in English Literary History, as are others in collections on Shakespeare and Hospitality (under contract with Routledge) and Ecological Approaches to Early Modern Literature (forthcoming from Ashgate.) She is currently working on a book project entitled Botanical Publics that explores the relationship between horticulture and reading practices in early modern England.
John Paul Russo, Ph.D. (Harvard, 1969)
Professor of English and Classics
Chair, Department of Classics
John Paul Russo has published books and essays on the theory of criticism, ethnicity, and history of culture. The recipient of three Fulbright Fellowships, most recently (2006) to the University of Salerno, he has been visiting professor at the universities of Palermo, Rome, and Genoa. He is book review editor of Italian Americana and an editor of Rivista di Studi Nord Americani. He has received the UM Faculty Senate's Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award and Outstanding Teaching Award, and a Cooper Fellowship. In 2006 his Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society won the Thomas N. Bonner Award. His study of representations of Italy, Italians, and Italian Americans since the Renaissance, co-written by Robert Casillo and entitled The Italian in Modernity, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011.
Patricia J. Saunders, Ph.D. (Pittsburgh, 1999)
Professor Saunders's research and scholarship focus largely on the relationship between sexual identity and national identity in Caribbean literature and popular culture. Her work has appeared in The Bucknell Review, Calabash, Plantation Society in the Americas, The Journal of West Indian Literature and Small Axe. Her first book, titled Alien/Nation and Repatri(n)ation: Caribbean Literature and the Task of Translating Identity will be published by Lexington Books in 2007. This book traces the emergence of literary nationalisms in the Anglophone Caribbean region while mapping these transformations through discourses of exile, national and sexual identity, and diaspora race politics in four cultural and political contexts: pre-independence Trinidad, post-independence Britain, the Civil rights era in the United States, and Canada. Other works in progress include an edited collection of essays on Jamaican popular culture and the politics of sexual and national identity. The essays in this collection explore critical aspects of dancehall culture and the points of intersection with global flows of capital, violence and culture.
Current project: Fusion and Con/Fusion: Gender, Sexuality, and Consumerism in Jamaican Dancehall Culture.
Peter Schmitt, M.F.A. (Iowa, 1983)
Fields: Creative writing (poetry and fiction), American literature, British literature.
Peter Schmitt is the author of three full-length collections of poems: Renewing the Vows (David Robert Books), Hazard Duty, and Country Airport (Copper Beech Press). He has also published two chapbooks: Incident in an Apartment Complex: A Suite of Voices, and To Disappear, both from Pudding House. Schmitt has received The Julia Peterkin Award in Poetry from Converse College; The Lavan Award from The Academy of American Poets; The “Discovery”/The Nation Prize; is a two-time recipient of grants from The Florida Arts Council; and was awarded a Fellowship from The Ingram Merrill Foundation. His poems have been featured several times on NPR’s Writers Almanac, and his poem, “Packing Plant,” won The Sunken Garden Poetry Festival (CT) open competition. His work has appeared in many leading publications, including The Hopkins Review, The Hudson Review, The Nation, The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Southern Review, and has been widely anthologized. A native Miamian, Schmitt has taught at The University of Miami since 1986.
Maureen Seaton , M.F.A. (Vermont College, 1996)
Professor (On Leave)
Field: Creative writing (poetry).
Maureen Seaton has authored fourteen poetry collections, both solo and collaborative—most recently, Stealth, with Sam Ace (Chax Press, 2011); Sinéad O’Connor and Her Coat of a Thousand Bluebirds, with Neil de la Flor (Sentence Book Award, Firewheel Editions, 2011); and Cave of the Yellow Volkswagen (Carnegie Mellon, 2009)—and a memoir, Sex Talks to Girls (University of Wisconsin Press, 2008, Living Out Series), winner of the Lambda Literary Award. She is co-editor, with Denise Duhamel and David Trinidad, of the anthology, Saints of Hysteria, A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. She has received numerous honors, including the Lammy and the Iowa Poetry Prize for Furious Cooking, the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award for Venus Examines Her Breast, the Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize for Fear of Subways, the Society of Midland Authors Award for The Sea among the Cupboards, the NEA, and two Pushcart prizes. She writes an online column celebrating poets at almostdorothy.wordpress.com/category/themes/glit-lit Her website is: www.maureenseaton.com
Frank Stringfellow, Ph.D. (Cornell, 1988)
Associate Professor, Associate Chair, and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Fields: Psychoanalytic criticism.
Author, The Meaning of Irony: A Psychoanalytic Investigation (1994)
Mihoko Suzuki, Ph.D. (Yale, 1982)
Professor and Director of the Center for the Humanities
Mihoko Suzuki’s research and teaching focuses on Renaissance and early modern studies, English and continental, with a special emphasis on gender and authorship; early modern political thought and historiography; and the classical tradition.
She has published two authored books and eleven edited or coedited volumes and is an active participant in various professional societies. For detailed information on her work, please visit http://www.humanities.miami.edu/humanities/about/staff/msuzuki/
At the University of Miami, Professor Suzuki has directed nine Ph.D. dissertations, with two in progress. She also has served on a number of dissertation committees for the Departments of History and Modern Languages and Literatures, as well as for other universities.
Tim Watson, Ph.D. (Columbia, 1998)
Tim Watson teaches 19th- and 20th-century literatures in English. With Ashli White (History Department), he organizes the interdisciplinary Atlantic Studies research group at UM.
He is the author of Caribbean Culture and British Fiction in the Atlantic World, 1780-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and editor, with Candace Ward of Florida State University, of a new edition of the 1827 novel Hamel, the Obeah Man by Cynric R. Williams (Broadview Press, 2010). He recently edited a special issue of the journal Clio on the topic of "Atlantic Narratives." He is at work on a new book on transatlantic literature and anthropology in the 1950s.