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(Oct 3, 2008)
Contact: Diane Dufilho, Meadows Museum at Centenary College, 318.869.5169
Friends of the Alger Meadows Museum Gala takes Place
Oct. 12
SHREVEPORT, La.—An annual fund raiser and gala benefitting The Friends of The Alger Meadows Museum takes place at Ernest's Orleans Restaurant Sunday, Oct. 12 from 5:30 until 7:30 p.m. The cost is $50 per person and includes buffet and cash bar.
The event includes a silent art auction that features nearly 40 works in a variety of media by artists from across Louisiana such as Luz-Maria Lopez and Clyde Connell. A representation of artworks by Louisiana artists will be offered for auction and include watercolors, acrylic paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and mixed media sculptures.
"It is important to celebrate our Louisiana artists and the art auction held annually by the Friends of the Algur Meadows Museum in conjunction with the Gala," said Diane Dufilho, Director of the Meadows Museum at Centenary College. During the gala and silent auction, the competitive bidding is done among fabulous food, great surroundings and engaging company."
The list of artists who have donated their works for auction include: Zama Dexter, Fletcher Thorne-Thomsen, Neil Johnson, Gwen Talbot-Hodges, Randy Hedgcock, Jasmine Morelock-Field, Jerry Wray, Nell Cahn, Laura Noland-Harter, Bruce Allen, Dorothy Allen, Ellen Soffer, Mary Virginia Hill, Graham Mears, Kathy Brodnax, Bill Bryant, Willard Cooper, Betty Freidenberg, Luz-Maria Lopez, Helen Feild, and Clyde Connell.
The gala takes place at Ernest's Orleans Restaurant, located at 1601 Market St. in Shreveport. Buffet items for the dinner include fruit and cheese, boiled shrimp, marinated crab claws, and mini muffulletas, cubed steak and mushrooms served with the old-Joe steak sauce, fried shrimp with remoulade sauce, fried catfish, and herbed chicken.
For more information, contact Diane Dufilho at 318.869.5169 or email.
(Right: Some examples of the artwork up for auction)
About Meadows Museum at Centenary College
The Meadows Museum of Art is located on the beautiful campus of Centenary College of LA at 2911 Centenary Boulevard in Shreveport, Louisiana. The Museum is open to the general public from noon until 4 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday; from noon until 5 pm on Thursday; from 1 to 4 pm on Saturday and Sunday. The Museum is closed on Monday. The Museum is free of charge to the general public. For further information or to receive a 2008-2009 Exhibition and Program Guide, call the Museum Business Office at 318.869.5040.


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Originally posted by UcDat
Obama's speach was sripted by Isreal its buisness as usual and they've done nothing but ramp it up for the past what almost 70 years. Here's what Trillions of our tax dollars are paying for.
Not to mention paying for all those amored bulldozers and tanks keeping them nasty pallestinians out and bulldozing their land. You know they're not allowed to build or even fix their homes in occupied lands! They drive them off build whatever they want on the land they took.
Heck you know what they do for a good time in the settlements?
Acording to this good if somewhat short documentary (for 11 bucks) by a fellow named Philip Rizk
they like taking baseball bats and such to Palestinian civilians working their land for fun. That is when their not throwing rocks at their kids... www.abovetopsecret.com...
So are the jews really hate full racist landgrubbing parasites who controll the world?
I don't really think so but much like America those in charge are puppets to evil itself and have us all dancing to their sick tune. Obama's little act will only serve to give an excuse for Israel to make stronger ties to it new best friend
While cutting its ties to the USA and taking the trillions they''ve given them and leaving our whithered husk for whoever wants to come and pick the bones....
Yep thats it in a nutshell America along with Europe is toast their econommies dead in the water and the sharks are hungry. While your military is depleted by the endless wars we have fought for them...
But but Obama said borders lol he also said weapons for Israel (forgot to say you gonna keep footing the bill) and no guns for palestine! Never said nothing about even slowing down aid. Heck he only decided to give more of your cash away to the new puppets in charge in Egypt and such. But much like the fake BC many saps wont see it even at the end.
Much of the worlds just waiting for the dollar to crash. Won't be long now that even Zimbabwe smells the blood! A little payback in imo. Once they go everyone else will follow just like Libya was going to before they sicked their french poodle Sarkozy on his Sugar Daddy Kadhafi Obama's self apointed father .
So did I miss anything or is the game getting way too obviouse?
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It doesn't matter how many photos you've seen of it, or how many documentaries you've watched, you'll still be surprised at the sight of it. It's just so big. And the light and colours are just so dramatic. And it's just so unlike anywhere else you might ever have seen, even if you've seen some impressive and exotic landscapes. Point being you'll want to spend more than a couple of hours exploring and just letting it all sink in. So you'll want to find one of the best hotels near the Grand Canyon to help you prolong your wonder.
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The North Rim is more remote and it's at a higher elevation so it's cooler and there are meadows rather than just desert. If you're looking for the famous Skywalk then it's the West Rim you should be heading for, which is part of the Hualapai Nation. It would mean hundreds of miles of driving to see all of these, but if you're staying in one of the best hotels near the Grand Canyon then you might have the time to do it.
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- If you're looking for the best places to stay near the Grand Canyon, and actually within the Grand Canyon National Park, then Phantom Ranch is for you. It's the only lodging inside the park, and you can only reach it on foot, via the Bright Angel and Kaibab trails, by raft or by mule. The rustic stone cabins are build entirely of local materials and blend in perfectly with their surroundings. The food is surprisingly good considering the limited access, think hearty stews and steaks.
Grand Canyon Village
Alternatively there's the Grand Canyon Village, which is just a few miles north of the South Entrance to the park. Here you'll find a number of restaurants and cafes, a grocery store, bank and shower and laundry facilities for campers.
- If you're looking for the best hotels near the Grand Canyon but you're on a budget then the cosy, rustic cabins and rooms of the Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins are a great option. You're right on the rim of the canyon so the views are incredible and there are great activities running in and out of the lodge. This is also one of the best hotels near the Grand Canyon for families, what with the private sitting rooms in the cabins. There's also family dining and plenty of opportunity to relax with scenic sundowners.
- The El Tovar Hotel is another good option in Grand Canyon Village. It's a historic landmark, also perched right on the rim - and some of the rooms have views looking right into the canyon. There are 78 spacious, comfortable rooms and a restaurant with a view.
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Phantom Ranch is the only lodging available in the Grand Canyon, accessible by hiking, mule or rafting. The rustic cabins are built of native stone and wood, blending perfectly with the surroundings. Meals consist of hearty stews or steak, ideal after a days exertions. A once in a lifetime place!Birdwatching - There a plenty of birds to be seen both on the hike down and while staying at the lodge.Great walks - Only accessible by hiking along the Bright angel and Kaibab trails.Barefoot Luxury - For total relaxation.Full of character
Bright Angel Lodge and Cabins 50 rooms from £84Grand Canyon Village, Arizona
Resting on canyon rim, these rustic cabins showcase nature at its finest with activities for all the family and a hideaway from city life. Cozy cabins with breathtaking views and private sitting rooms. Family-style dining with an all-American menu. Relax with a drink as the sunsets.Great walks - Trail of Time is a walking timeline through the history of the area.Sights nearby - Explore South Rim historical village.Remote - Off the beaten track.Secluded setting - For escaping.
El Tovar Hotel 78 rooms from £159Arizona
An historic national landmark hotel, perched on the edge of the Grand Canyon Rim. Rooms are spacious and comfortable, some have balconies with awe inspiring views. Full of old frontier charm and commanding the best view in Grand Canyon Village.Fishing - Arizona state fishing licenses are required for any fishing in the park, pick these up at General Store in Market Plaza.Lively - Hip and happening.Full of characterQuirky - An experience!


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Graduate Students
Graduate students in the UMass English Department hail from all over the United States and around the world, and they are wonderfully diverse with respect to age, race, sexual orientation, and professional interests. They regularly present papers at both regional and national conferences, and many leave with at least one publication at the time of their doctorate. Our students also compete successfully for University Fellowships, national fellowships, and the university's distinguished teaching awards. Students play an active role in program policy and governance, and they organize an annual conference, hosted by the English Graduate Organization.
Current Graduate Students
Faune Albert
Faune Albert received her BA in Cultural Studies, Literature, and Creative Writing from Hampshire College and completed her MA in English at UMass Amherst. She is currently working on her PhD in American Literature and developing a focus in the literature and history of the U.S South. She is interested in exploring the intersections between race, class, gender, and sexuality, and thinking about the relationship between psychological and physical experiences of embodiment. Other related interests include, broadly, Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, utopian thought, spatiality and temporality, and the relationships between history, memory, and the body. She is also currently completing the Certificate in Advanced Feminist Thought through the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at UMass.
Joshua Barsczewski came to UMass to study Composition and Rhetoric after first getting a degree in English literature at University of Pittsburgh. His interests are many, but include: cultural studies pedagogy, performance studies, queer theory, biopolitics, and histories of writing instruction. He is particularly interested in studying the way(s) writing is valued or not in the so-called knowledge economy or Information Age.
Sohini Banerjee received her M.A. in English Literature from Jadavpur University, India. She is currently in the first year of the PhD program, finishing coursework towards her degree. Her research interests include 20th century British literature, modernism and modernity, contemporary world literature, the Novel, feminist, narrative and transnational theory.
Leslie is interested digital writing and cultures of the Web. Her dissertation project looks at online food writing to consider how technologies of power influence expressions of subjectivity and subject formation. She is specifically interested in how attention-structures and communicative capitalism impact the circulation and valuation of writerly subjectivities online.
Eli Bromberg received his BA from Amherst College and his MA from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English. After working in college admission, he is now pursuing his PhD in English with a concentration in American Studies, and a focus on Jewish American studies. His current research interests include trauma theory, literary narratives involving intermarriage and incest, and feminist theory.
Michelle is a doctoral student studying medieval literature. Her research interests include Middle English literature, Chaucer, literary negation in later medieval prose and poetry, and medieval theories of affect. She is currently at work on her dissertation prospectus. Prior to attending UMass Amherst, Michelle received a BA and MA in English from California State University, Long Beach. Michelle is the Editorial Assistant for the Old English Newsletter. She also serves as Treasurer for the English Graduate Organization. Michelle has presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Medieval Association of the Pacific Conference, and the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference.
Research Areas: Medieval Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Theory and Culture
Emily Campbell holds a BA in History and English, with a concentration in Creative Writing, from Hollins University. She is an MA-PhD candidate in English at UMass Amherst, with a focus on contemporary (cross)genre texts. In addition to theories of genre, her research interests address the interplay between gender, performance, affect, and temporality. Emily is co-chair of the 2014 English Graduate Organization interdisciplinary conference "Close Encounters: Remapping Discipline through Genre." She is also a Graduate Student Senate representative for the English Department.
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Hayley Cotter
Hayley studies the literature and culture of early modern Britain. Her dissertation, 'On Neptunes Watry Realmes': Maritime Law and English Renaissance Literature, probes the intersection of early modern legal rhetoric and the oceans of English Renaissance poetry and drama (Spenser's Faerie Queene; Drayton's Poly-Olbion; and Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and Pericles). It places these literary oceans in the context of both the international law of the sea and the domestic battle for admiralty jurisdiction fought in the English courts. Hayley is also interested in Middle High German literature and the poetry of Tang and Song China.
Adam Daniell
I am currently studying towards an MA/PhD in English Literature (American Studies). My primary interest lies in discerning the manner in which historical and contemporary violence is represented in various forms of media; my goal, in this regard, is to draw modern scientific sources (from psychology and neurobiology) into conversation with more traditional theorists in the humanities.
Research Areas: American Literature, American, Atlantic & Hemispheric, Colonial, Postcolonial & Transnational, Theory and Culture
Matthew J. Donlevy
Matthew Donlevy earned his BA in History from The University of Virginia's College at Wise, and his MA in English from UMass Amherst. He is currently an English doctoral student at the latter institution where he follows the American Studies concentration. Matthew's work traces the development of traditional, subversive and aloof masculinities in 19th century American literature. In particular he investigates the ways by which the Black and Working Class laboring body informs, resists, and subsumes white bourgeois masculine norms.
His second major field of interest interrogates the interactions between literary Afro-Futurism, theories of Artificial Intelligence, and Political Theory. He maintains that mobilizing Octavia Butler's visions of a queer, racially mixed and non-hierarchical political body can (and will!) have broad restorative implications.
Research Areas: African, African American & African Diaspora, American Literature, Critical Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Marxist Literary Studies, Theory and Culture
Chris is a MA/PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric. His current interest is learning effective pedagogy, which he can use in his own classroom and also work to improve it on a larger scale in our country. One area he plans to explore is classical models of rhetorical training, specifically the Greek Progymnasmata, and seeing if/how they can be blended with more modern theories to create a more effective writing classroom. Aside from in-classroom pedagogy, he is also fascinated with writing centers and writing center theory. Chris hopes to support the writing center at UMass as well as join the larger national community and further educate himself about writing centers today.
Catherine E. Elliott is a PhD candidate in the English Department specializing in Renaissance Drama. Her dissertation, "Adaptive Transformations: Stranger Fictions on the Early Modern Stage" reimagines the cultural and social effect of alien, foreign, and stranger characters on the early modern stage and how they contribute to, alter, and imaginatively build the spaces of alien settlement in and around London. This project proposes and utilizes a new theory of adaptive transformation as a mode of engagement underway in the period, one that did not depend on galvanizing English nationalism or on relegating such characters to the station of issues that need fixing, defining, containing, absorbing, or assimilating, but that explored desirable, resistant, and often failing transformations of the as generative sites of unpredictable hybridity. Catherine is the recipient of the 2014 Folger Institute Grant-in-aid for "Mastering Research," and the 2017-18 Folger Institute Grant-in-aid for yearlong dissertation seminar "Researching the Archive," with Peter Stallybrass and Ann Blair. Catherine received her BA(hons) from Union College (NY) in 2012 and her MA in Renaissance Literature from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2015.
Research Areas: Drama & Performance, History of the Book, Medieval Literature, Renaissance Studies
Isabel is in the American Studies PhD program and is also a full time librarian in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library here at UMass. Her interests are Latino studies, Dominican writers, healing in literature of people of color, and participatory action research. She has an approved prospectus titled "Using Participatory Action Research to Study Dominican Women Writers in the United States." An early paper she wrote for a class in the program, "A Bridge to Brown: The Politics of Latin@ Reading," was published in the book Technofuturos: Critical Interventions in Latina/o Studies. She hopes to finish her dissertation in the coming year. But she will also be busy as Vice President/ President Elect of REFORMA: The National Association to Promote Library and Information Services to Latinos and the Spanish Speaking. Isabel is also Co-Chair of the Latino Caucus of the Green Party of the United States. She has three teenage children.
Dan Ehrenfeld is a PhD candidate whose research focuses on public rhetorics, textual circulation, media theory, genre, digital composing, basic writing pedagogy, and the rhetoric of health and medicine. In 2014, he was awarded the department's Walker Gibson Prize and in 2016 he was awarded the Conference on College Composition and Communication Chairs' Memorial Scholarship. Before coming to UMass, Dan received an MA (Secondary Education) from Loyola Marymount University, where his research focused on culturally responsive pedagogies and theories of second language acquisition. He received a BA (English) from Wesleyan University. Currently, he is working on a chapter for an edited collection focusing on methodologies in the rhetoric of health and medicine (under contract with Routledge) and a webtext interview (under review with Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy). In 2016, he will present a paper entitled "Material Circulation and the Networked Public Sphere: Rethinking the Social and Spatial Politics of the 'Public Turn'" at the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and a paper entitled "The Circulation of Rhetoric and the Question of Change: Networks, Systems, and Ecologies on a Historical Timescale" at the Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Conference. In addition, he serves as the Basic Writing and Placement Coordinator for the Writing Program.
Research Areas: Composition and Rhetoric
Nicole S. Erhardt
Nicole Erhardt completed her BA in Poetry and Visual Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2013. She is currently in the American studies MA/PhD concentration, focusing on contemporary American poetry and poetics. Her current research interests include feminist and political theory, visual art, and the ways in which creative and critical works overlap. She is an Assistant Director for the Juniper Institute for Young Writers.
Research Areas: American Literature, Creative Writing, Gender and Sexuality, Poetry and Poetics, Visual Culture
Andrew Fox
Andrew Fox received a BA in English and an MA in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College Dublin, and an M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin. He is currently at work on a dissertation focusing on the twentieth century Irish short story. Other research interests include postcolonial and narrative theories, modernism and empire studies. Forthcoming articles include: "Transnational Displacement: 'Native American Material' in Paul Muldoon's New Weather" in New Hibernia Review, and "Samuel Beckett: The Last Naturalist" in Writing from the Margins: the Aesthetics of Disruption in the Irish Short Story, Ed. Catriona Ryan. Andrew presents regularly at the American Conference for Irish Studies, and has published fiction in the Dublin Review, Prairie Schooner and the Massachusetts Review. His first play won the 2012 RTE PJ O'Connor Award for radio drama.
Liz Fox received her BAs in English and Drama from Ithaca College and completed her MA in English at UMass Amherst. She is currently working on her PhD in English Literature with a focus on early modern drama. Her current research interests include representations of audiences on stage and the codes of signification through which early modern drama was made and understood.
Alejandro Garrido
Alejandro is a student in the M.A./Ph.D. Program and a recent alumnus of The University of North Texas, where I double majored in English (with a focus in Literature) and Social Sciences with a minor in Chinese. As a McNair Scholar, he has conducted research on the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, focusing on an interpretation of the exoteric/esoteric levels of meaning that link the author's prefaces to his romances. Alejandro presented this research project at several different conferences and is interested in continuing to work on this project, but also considers himself open to taking up new projects in the general area of American Literature that engages with politics and citizenship.
April studies women and the household 17th century British literature and culture. Her work considers the drama of the period alongside quasi literary texts such as household recipe books and manuals, letters, and other domestic papers in order the claim the household as a site of women's authority and competence. She is also interested in the transmission of knowledge through networks of women, particularly the exchange of culinary, medical, and scientific knowledge that originates in the household. April is an editorial assistant for the Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture book series, and one of several Graduate Employee Organization Stewards for the English department. She lives in the Mt. Toby woods with her husband, baby boy, and two cats.
Sean Gordon received his BA in English Literature from Boston University. He is currently in his third year of the MA/PhD program in English Literature with a concentration in American Studies and a period focus on the nineteenth century. His interdisciplinary research interests include the cultures of US imperialism, literature as political theory, the history of US democracy, and transnational and postcolonial American Studies. Sean has taught many sections of College Writing. In the spring of 2012, he co-taught the writing workshop, "Writing as Social Action," a course that he co-designed. He co-chaired the UMass-Amherst English Graduate Conference, "Citizenship and Its Discontents: Belonging in a Global World" (2012-13) and is currently the co-chair of the English Graduate Organization.
Travis Grandy is a Doctoral student studying Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research areas include discourse & genre studies, queer & disability studies, writing in new media, and writing across the curriculum. As a graduate student, Travis has taught courses on composition, writing in social media, and writing center studies. Travis is Assistant Director at the UMass Amherst Writing Center, and he also works as a coordinator for the UMass Junior Year Writing Program. Read more about him at his website, travisgrandy.com.
Rebecca Griffin
Rebecca Griffin received her BA in English-journalism from the University of New Hampshire. Rebecca worked a newspaper reporter for nearly a decade, prior to earning her MA in English from the University of Maine. At UMass, she is working on her PhD in English Literature with a focus on modernist American literature. Her current research interests include proletarian poetry and fiction of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Rebecca has presented at the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, the Southern Connecticut State University Graduate English Conference, and the UMass English Graduate Conference.
Andrea Griswold
Andrea is an 8th grade middle school teacher. She earned her BA and MA in English literature at UMass Amherst and is slowly working on her doctorate in Comp/Rhet. She is particularly interested in critical pedagogy, writing workshop and writing assessment. She has five children and one husband with whom she lives in Shelburne Falls.
Jennifer Gaboury
Robin Garabedian
Mary Griffis
Catherine Grygorcewicz
Josephine Hardman received her BA in English from Florida Atlantic University. She is currently in the MA/PhD program at UMass Amherst, working on the comparative study of English and Spanish Renaissance dramas. Josephine is also interested in translation theory and the diachronic development of literary genres. She recently co-translated a Golden Age play by Tirso de Molina, which premiered at UMass's Curtain Theater in 2011, and has presented conference papers at the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.
Annaliese Hoehling holds a BA in English (Henderson State University), MA in English Literature, and MFA in Literary Translation (University of Arkansas). After receiving her MFA, Annaliese worked in the nonprofit sector before returning to pursue her PhD, with a focus on British and Atlantic Modernisms, fin de siècle and twentieth-century fiction. Her interests include narrative and feminist theories; transnational inquiries and methodologies; global modernisms; and textual facilitation of encounter. She has served as Communications Officer ('14-15) and Co-Chair ('15-17) of the English Graduate Organization at UMass. She is the recipient of the John Hicks Essay Prize ('15), the LeeAnne Smith White Essay Prize ('15), and the Postcolonial Studies Association Post-Graduate Essay Prize ('15). Her current research combines feminist phenomenology with neobaroque aesthetics to describe literary manifestations of Atlantic Modernisms.
Research Areas: 20th Century British Literature, Colonial, Postcolonial & Transnational, Theory and Culture
BA, Honors, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2009; MA, UMass Amherst, 2011. Interests include poetry and prose of British Renaissance, especially the reception of classical ideas and transmission of classical texts in the period.
Carly uses her background in Linguistics to study American fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her dissertation, The Fiction of Dialect: Character Speech in American Letters, deconstructs the notion of character "dialect" in works by Mark Twain, Charles Chesnutt, and Sarah Orne Jewett, among others, in order to emphasize the politics of surface representation. Spelling, punctuation, and other surface variations carry social meaning that sometimes has little to do with American dialects, but everything to do with the construction of race, class, and gender.
Research Areas: African, African American & African Diaspora, American Literature
William Hrusovsky received his BA in literature from Kent State University and his MA with a focus in Renaissance Literature from Texas Tech University. He is currently working on his PhD in Renaissance Literature with research focusing in Early Modern poetry and prose, Textual Studies and Book History, and Digital Humanities. William is currently the Editorial Assistant for English Literary Renaissance housed at the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.
She received her BA in English in University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and her Mphil in English from the same university. She also worked as a lecturer in English in the Department of English, University of Peradeniya before enrolling in a PhD in English in UMASS-Amherst. She is currently working on African American women's narratives of the 19th century.
Research Areas: African, African American & African Diaspora
Nirmala Iswari received her BA (2007) and MA (2009) in English Literature from Stella Maris College, Chennai, India. She is currently in the PhD program at UMass Amherst. She is still working on defining a focus for her dissertation in which, broadly put, she will be situating some early twentieth century African-American texts in a transnational context where ideas about blackness and democracy circulated, reading them as a body of political thought. Her broader interests include approaches to reading American literature in transnational contexts, postcolonial approaches to reading literature, with particular attention to the literatures of South Asia and the South Asian diaspora (primarily those written in English), and intersections between (creative / non-theoretical) literature and political theory (particularly those with special attention to democracy in global contexts).
Joy Hayward-Jansen is a doctoral student working in the intersections of queer and postcolonial studies with a particular interest in South African literature. Inspired by work being done in queer of color critique in the U.S. and transnational feminism(s) at large, her research revolves around questions of temporality, homonationalism(s), and futurity. She won the Postcolonial Studies Association postgraduate essay prize, and her article "Ibn Fadlan: Crossing Over and the Nature of the Boundary" was published in The Postcolonialist June 2014.
Research Areas: African, African American & African Diaspora, Colonial, Postcolonial & Transnational, Gender and Sexuality
Florianne is currently in coursework towards the PhD in Composition and Rhetoric. Her research interests lie in Philippine studies, transnationalism, migration, and Filipino rhetoric. She has most recently presented at the Thomas R. Watson Conference on Composition and Rhetoric and the UMass Boston Conference on Teaching.
Research Areas: Asian American & Asian Diaspora, Colonial, Postcolonial & Transnational, Composition and Rhetoric, Critical Race and Ethnicity
Sunmi received her BA and MA in English literature from Seoul National University in South Korea. Sunmi is currently a PhD candidate in English at UMass Amherst, with a focus on nineteenth century British literature. Her research interests include Victorian studies, Gothic fiction, monster/spectre studies, gender and sexuality studies, cultural studies, queer theory, affect theory, critical theory, and psychoanalysis.
Research Areas: 18th & 19th Century British Literature, American, Atlantic & Hemispheric, Gender and Sexuality, Theory and Culture
Jenny Krichevsky received her BA in English Literature and her MA in English with a specialization in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Jenny is the Assistant Director of the UMass Amherst Writing Center, has served as co-chair of the annual UMass English Graduate Conference, and is currently the co-chair of the English Graduate Organization. Entering her last semester of coursework, she is working in Critical University Studies scholarship to engage with the ways representations of nation and citizenship collide with literacy practices and inform pedagogical, administrative, and disciplinary structures.
Amanda Lagji is a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her articles include "Revising the Narrative of Failure: Reconsidering State Failure in Nuruddin Farah's Knots" in ARIEL (2014); "'Willing Liberates': Nietzschean Heroism and Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions" in Pacific Coast Philology (2011), and "Cosmopolitan Commitments: Beyond the 'Nation' and the 'Meantime' in Nadine Gordimer's The Pickup" in Criterion: A Journal of Literary Criticism (2011). She has an article forthcoming in Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal on Mayra Montero's Dancing to 'Almendra'. Her dissertation, 'Waiting for Now: Postcolonial Fiction and Colonial Time' theorizes a 'temporality of waiting' in postcolonial fiction. The Postcolonial Studies Association awarded two of her essays special mention for the postgraduate essay prize in 2011 and 2013. She has presented papers at the Modern Language Association's annual conference in 2014, 2015, and 2016. More information can be found at her website: www.amandarwlagji.com
Ruth A. H. Lahti
Ruth A.H. Lahti is a graduate fellow and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her dissertation, "Transnational Gestures: Rethinking Trauma in US War Fiction," remaps the ethics of American war writing through a focus on characters' bodily gestures as they evince the transnational dimensions of war. Her research interests include American war fiction, transnational fiction and theory, feminist theories of embodiment, and trauma theory. At UMass Amherst, she teaches classes on American literature and culture, the modern novel, and gender and sexuality in global literature. Her articles have appeared in The Journal of Transnational American Studies and Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa.
Amy is a PhD student in the English Department. Recently, she spent a year in the School of Education earning her Secondary Education License as well. Her research interests include trauma and memorial sites in WWI, writing under the influence of alcohol and opium in Victorian Literature, and social justice in education.
Rohit Lanez-Sharma received his BA in Creative Writing from Hunter College, City Universities of New York and completed his MA in English, with a concentration in Eighteenth-Century British Literature, at Fordham University. He is currently working on his PhD in English Literature with a focus on British literature of the long eighteenth century. His current research interests include eighteenth-century British women writers, materialism and consumer culture of eighteenth century Britain, satire, and the colonial literature.
Kate Litterer is a poet and feminist scholar who focuses on historiography and rhetorics of 20th Century queer women's experience in the US. She received a BA from the University of Pittsburgh (2009), an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts MFA Program for Poets and Writers (2013), and an MA in Composition and Rhetoric from the University of Massachusetts (2015). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts, where she focuses on feminist research methods, butch-femme lesbian history, and queering the archive. Kate's poetry has been published widely online and in print, including in the anthology "Please Excuse This Poem: 100 New Poets for the Next Generation." Her first collection of poetry, Ghosty Boo, is forthcoming in January 2016 from A-Minor Press. Kate's website is katelitterer.com.
Research Areas: Composition and Rhetoric, Creative Writing, Gender and Sexuality, Poetry and Poetics
Kelin Loe received her MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (2012) and her BA in Literatures in English and in Asian Studies with a concentration in China area studies from St. Olaf College (2008). She is currently working on her MA/PhD in Rhetoric and Composition. Her current research interests are in the crossover between rhetoric and poetics, creative writing and composition. She is the author of the chapbook The Motorist, published by minutesBOOKS (2010). Her poetry can be found online in jubilat, H_NGM_N, and Jellyfish Magazine.
Saumya Lal
Danbi Lee
Elizabeth D. Lloyd-Kimbrel
After many years as an ABD, I have returned to the fold to complete a dissertation. My BA is from Connecticut College, and I did graduate and postgraduate work at Trinity-Oxford (UMass Summer Seminars), McGill, and York-Centre for Medieval Studies (UK), in addition to UMass Amherst proper. During the intervening time from when I was last a formal denizen of Bartlett Hall to now, I worked as project manager for a non-profit multimedia company and then, for nearly 15 years, as executive assistant to a college vice president. Concurrently, I have been a freelance editor and writer with creative and critical work appearing in literary and scholarly journals, biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias, as well as presentations at various conferences. My research interests are eclectic, with a non-exclusive tilt toward British literature, medievalism, biography, and film. Serendipitously, my dissertation on the realistic historical fiction (which re-visions the Matter of Britain) by the once-lauded and now-neglected British novelist Bryher (née Annie Winifred Ellerman) incorporates aspects of all those interests.
Selected accomplishments: Summer 2015 Dissertation-Writing Retreat, Graduate School, UMass-Amherst (June 2015).
Liane is a PhD candidate in the Composition-Rhetoric program, a Teaching Assistant in the Writing Program, and a tutor at the UMass Writing Center. Her research interests include feminist theory, 19th century histories of rhetoric, archival methodologies, and community literacy. Liane's dissertation project explores the rhetorical practices of women who worked in settlement houses in major US cities between 1889 and 1915.
Kate Marantz is a doctoral candidate in English with a focus on twentieth-century American literature. She received her BA in English from Skidmore College and her MA in English at UMass Amherst. Her dissertation examines the politics of gender and race in four 1970s U.S. women's novels through their representations of bodily, geographic, and narrative spaces. Her article, "The Work of Ambiguity: Writerly and Readerly Labor in Carol Shields's The Stone Diaries," appeared in the October 2014 issue of Narrative. Kate has presented at the conferences of the American Literature Association, the Northeast Modern Language Association, and the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, among others. She also completed a Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies through the Women Gender Sexuality Studies department at UMass.
Research Areas: African, African American & African Diaspora, American Literature, Gender and Sexuality
Rebecca Maillet
Patricia Matthews
Patricia Matthews is a student in the PhD program with interests in 20th and 21st century experimental women's writing and performance. She is drawn toward questions of form, namely the ways in which innovative and experimental texts make unique demands upon the attentions and interpretive practices of their readers. Pat holds a BA in French and Comparative Literature from the University of Rhode Island and an MA from UMass Amherst.
Research Areas: Drama & Performance, Gender and Sexuality, Theory and Culture
Ashley Nadeau
Ashley Nadeau is a doctoral candidate in English with a specialization in nineteenth-century British fiction. Her current work examines the relationship between Victorian innovations in public architecture and narrative form. Her essay "Exploring Women: Virginia Woolf's Imperial Revisions from The Voyage Out to Mrs. Dalloway" appeared in volume 44:1 of Modern Language Studies. Ashley has been awarded a University of Massachusetts Amherst English Department Dissertation Fellowship (2015), an Institute of Historical Research Mellon Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship (2014), the Leanne Smith White Prize for best graduate essay on American culture and literary studies (2013), the John Hicks Prize for best graduate essay on English literature excluding Shakespeare (2013), and was named a runner-up with special mention for the Postcolonial Studies Association/Journal of Postcolonial Writing Postgraduate essay prize. She has presented work at the annual meetings of the American Comparative Literature Association, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies, the North American Victorian Studies Association, the New England Modern Language Association, and the American Studies Association.
Research Areas: 18th & 19th Century British Literature, Colonial, Postcolonial & Transnational, Gender and Sexuality, Theory and Culture, Visual Culture
Celine is an American Studies & English PhD student committed to bringing her own studies into the classrooms in which she teaches; fostering critical thought and deep engagement with students are priorities. Her paper "Myth, Medicine & Merriment: Maximo and Bartola, Mid-19th Century Othering, and the Curious De/Construction of Citizen-Subjects" was awarded the 2009 Book Prize in Cultural Studies at UMass, Boston. She will be presenting the paper "Puertorriqueño in the Classroom: Bilanguaging / Biculturing as Emancipatory Pedagogical Foundation" at a conference in the spring of 2014, and is currently developing a dissertation topic around the negotiation, critique, and exploration of citizenship and identity in Puerto Rican cultural productions. Celine has lived and taught in the U.S. and Spain.
Gina Ocasion is a PhD candidate in English and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She teaches and writes at the intersections of childhood studies, settler colonial studies, women's studies, legal studies, and popular culture. Her dissertation titled, "Minor Subjects in America: Everyday Childhoods of the long Nineteenth Century," is a study of popular children's culture and the diverse texts shaping American and Native American literary and legal representation. She has presented pieces of this project at the American Studies Association's annual conferences and as a fellow at the Futures of American Studies Institute.
Research Areas: American Literature, Critical Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Native & Indigenous, Theory and Culture
Kate Perillo received her BA in studio art and English from Clark University in 2009, her MAT in English education from Clark University in 2010, and her MA in English literature from UMass-Amherst in 2015. She is currently working toward her PhD, studying British and global Anglophone modernisms, literary representations of urban space, and the intersections of global modernist studies with speculative fiction. During her time at UMass, Kate has also been active in the English Graduate Organization and has served as co-chair for the organization's annual graduate conference.
Research Areas: 20th Century British Literature, Colonial, Postcolonial & Transnational
Thomas John Pickering
Thomas John Pickering holds an M.A. in rhetoric and composition from Washington State University and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Massachusetts. His work occurs broadly at the intersections of composition/rhetoric and marxism, and his interests include critical pedagogy, rhetorical ecology theory, basic writing, circulation, and digital writing theory and practice.
Research Areas: Composition and Rhetoric, Digital Humanities & Media, Theory and Culture
Tom Poehnelt received his dual-BA in English and Public Communications from Buffalo State College and completed his MA in English and American Literature at NYU. He is currently working on his PhD in English via the American Studies track, specializing in Asian American literature and graphic novels. His current research interests include American orientalism, critical race theory, diaspora, violence and war, and counter-hegemonic cultural practices. Tom has presented at the SUNY Stony Brook Graduate English Conference. He has also been the recipient of the Mary S. Morris Sterling Academic Scholarship and is a member of the Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society.
Marlene Perez
Anne Piecuch
Neelofer Qadir is a PhD candidate in the English department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her dissertation, Afrasian Imaginaries: Global Capitalism and Labor Migration in Indian Ocean Fiction, 1990 - 2015, argues for re-orientations in postcolonial, transnational, and global Anglophone literary studies by taking as its central focus relationships between African and Asian peoples to assert that turning to these Indian Ocean fictions provides fresh opportunities to engage with global capitalism both in its historical development and its contemporary manifestations. Neelofer has taught composition courses and literature courses at UMass, including College Writing, World Literature in Film, Later British Literature 1700-1900, and Film & Literature. She was also the co-chair of the annual graduate conference, Citizenship and Its Discontents: Belonging in a Global World, in 2013 and she is a co-organizer for Methods Symposium 2016: New Approaches in Queer, Postcolonial, and Black Studies.
You can learn more about her research, teaching, and service at neeloferqadir.com.
Research Areas: African, African American & African Diaspora, Asian American & Asian Diaspora, Colonial, Postcolonial & Transnational, Critical Race and Ethnicity, Theory and Culture
Lauren Rollins received her BAs in Government and International Politics and English from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA, and her MA in English from Georgetown University. She is currently completing a PhD in Renaissance English literature. Her research interests include Tudor and Stuart drama, particularly the work of Thomas Heywood, diplomatic relations between England and Spain, and early modern naval piracy.
Anshula Ravi Kumar
Shakuntala Ray
Stacy Reardo
Elise Swinford received a BA in English and Women's Studies from DePauw University and a MA in English from Miami University. Her research areas include Virginia Woolf studies, British and global modernism, performance studies, and feminist theory. She is currently working on her dissertation, preliminarily titled "Theatres of War: Queer Nationalism in Modernist Narratives."
Lauren Silber received her BA in English with a minor in Economics from the University of Connecticut and her MA in English and American Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Currently, she is a Ph.D candidate in English and American Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst working on her dissertation entitled "The Politics of Feeling and the Work of Belonging: Popular US Immigrant Fiction in the Post-Cold War Era." Lauren has taught courses on Ethnic American literature, the American Experience, Gender, Sexuality, Literature, and Culture, as well as composition courses. Other interests include, broadly, immigrant and refugee narratives, 20th and 21st century American literature and culture, memory and trauma, comparative and critical ethnicity studies, gender and sexuality, affect and emotions, and popular culture.
Research Areas: American Literature, American, Atlantic & Hemispheric, Asian American & Asian Diaspora, Critical Race and Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality, Theory and Culture
Anna-Claire Simpson Steffen received her BA in English Literature from UCLA. She is currently working on her MA/PhD in English Literature at UMass Amherst, with a focus on Renaissance drama. Her interests include representations of childhood onstage, child actors/acting troupes, marginalized figures (in terms of age, socioeconomic status, and race), and performance theory.
Will received his BA from Hampshire College in 2011. He is currently transitioning from finishing his MA coursework to beginning his PhD coursework. His primary research focuses on early modern English drama and travel writing, empire studies, and cannibalism.
Gregory Sargent
Tori Sheldon
Sarah Stetson
Lisha Daniels Storey
Steven Tagle
Steven Tagle received his BA in English and psychology from Stanford University. Supported by a 2013 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, he studies fiction writing in the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets and Writers. He has won the Harvey Swados Fiction Prize and the Deborah Slosberg Memorial Award in Fiction. His work explores power structures within Asian and gay male communities, blurring lines between folklore and memoir, intimacy and abuse, passivity and control. He has been published in Spork and The Rumpus, and his documentaries have aired on Current TV.
Research Areas: Creative Writing, Gender and Sexuality
Emily Thompson is a PhD candidate specializing in English Renaissance drama and theatre history. Her other areas of interest include performance studies, body studies, and affect theory. She holds an MA in English Literature from George Mason University. She is currently working on her dissertation, which studies the affective encounters between stage and spectator during moments of staged bodily violence in Tudor and Stuart tragedy.
Research Areas: Drama & Performance, Renaissance Studies
Anna E. Waltman
Anna researches the political economy of contemporary American poetry, with emphasis on the role of the university and its associated economies in shaping the political aesthetics of today's poets. Her dissertation will focus on the development of leftist poetics in northern California, especially Berkeley and Oakland. She has secondary interests in working-class poetry, Marxist critical theory, and critical university studies, as well as a strong background in post/colonial feminist theory. Anna has had papers accepted to the 2013 Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Studies Association conference and the 2015 Northeastern Modern Languages Association (NeMLA) conference, and in 2012 presented at our own English Graduate Organization conference. She is a member of the AAUP Committee for Graduate and Professional Studies and serves as Communications Director for the NeMLA Graduate Caucus. From May 2013- May 2015, Anna was co-chair of the UMass Amherst Graduate Employee Organization (GEO-UAW) and served as co-chief negotiator on the union's 2015 contract campaign, which saw major gains in the form of paid parental leave, increased protections against overwork, and access to all-gender restrooms. She continues to serve on the union's Steering Committee as well as the Labor-Management Committee.
Research Areas: American Literature, Marxist Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetics, Theory and Culture
Heather Wayne received her BA in English and Art from Furman University and completed her MA in Literary, Cultural, and Textual Studies at the University of Central Florida. She is currently working on her PhD in Literature with a focus on nineteenth-century American fiction. Her current research interests include transnational approaches to American literature, studies of commodity chains and "thing theory," and intersections between the literary and visual arts. Heather has presented at the Conference for the Society for the Study of American Women Writers, the British Women Writers Conference, and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference.
Damien Weaver holds a BA in American Studies from Texas A&M University. He received his MFA in creative writing from The New School, and his MA in American Studies from NYU. He is currently working on a PhD in American Studies with a focus on jazz and blues literature of the mid-twentieth century.
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(2) The tenant is not required to effect the insurance with a nominated insurer if—
(a) the house is insured under a policy of insurance issued by an authorised insurer,
(b) the policy covers the interests of both the landlord and the tenant,
(c) the policy covers all the risks which the lease requires be covered by insurance provided by a nominated insurer,
(d) the amount of the cover is not less than that which the lease requires to be provided by such insurance, and
(e) the tenant satisfies subsection (3).
(3) To satisfy this subsection the tenant—
(a) must have given a notice of cover to the landlord before the end of the period of fourteen days beginning with the relevant date, and
(b) if (after that date) he has been requested to do so by a new landlord, must have given a notice of cover to him within the period of fourteen days beginning with the day on which the request was given.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3)—
(a) if the policy has not been renewed the relevant date is the day on which it took effect and if it has been renewed it is the day from which it was last renewed, and
(b) a person is a new landlord on any day if he acquired the interest of the previous landlord under the lease on a disposal made by him during the period of one month ending with that day.
(5) A notice of cover is a notice specifying—
(a) the name of the insurer,
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(b) the risks covered by the policy,
(c) the amount and period of the cover, and
(d) such further information as may be prescribed.
(6) A notice of cover—
(a) must be in the prescribed form, and
(b) may be sent by post.
(7) If a notice of cover is sent by post, it may be addressed to the landlord at the address specified in subsection (8).
(8) That address is—
(a) the address last furnished to the tenant as the landlord's address for service in accordance with section 48 of the 1987 Act (notification of address for service of notices on landlord), or
(b) if no such address has been so furnished, the address last furnished to the tenant as the landlord's address in accordance with section 47 of the 1987 Act (landlord's name and address to be contained in demands for rent).
(9) But the tenant may not give a notice of cover to the landlord at the address specified in subsection (8) if he has been notified by the landlord of a different address in England and Wales at which he wishes to be given any such notice.
(10) In this section—
''authorised insurer'', in relation to a policy of insurance, means a person who may carry on in the United Kingdom the business of effecting or carrying out contracts of insurance of the sort provided under the policy without contravening the prohibition imposed by section 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (c.8),
''house'' has the same meaning as for the purposes of Part 1 of the 1967 Act,
''landlord'' and ''tenant'' have the same meanings as in Chapter 1 of this Part,
''long lease'' has the meaning given by sections 74 and 75 of this Act, and
''prescribed'' means prescribed by regulations made by the appropriate national authority.'.—[Ms Keeble.]
Brought up, read the First and Second time, and added to the Bill.
Clause 171 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Ms Keeble: I beg to move, amendment No. 88, in page 134, line 39, at end insert—
The Chairman: With this is will be convenient to take Government amendments Nos. 85, 86 and 87.
Ms Keeble: This is a group of technical amendments, which is intended to bring about the early commencement of clauses 102 and 168, 169 and 170 and to subsequently provide for the repeal of clause 102. It might be helpful to the Committee if I explain why that is necessary. Clause 102 amends the Land Registration Act 1925, to make the right to manage a registerable interest in land. The Bill currently provides that all the provisions of part 2 other than clauses 172 to 174 are to be commenced by order. That is to be done in England by the Secretary of State and in Wales by the National Assembly for Wales. The Land Registry has asked that we ensure that the clauses commence at the same time for England and Wales. We believe that the amendment is
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The amendment to schedule 14 is intended to provide for the repeal of clause 102. As we have discussed before, the Land Registration Bill is currently before Parliament and will repeal the Land Registration Act 1925. That will make clause 102 redundant. Therefore, amendment No. 88 will allow for the appeal of clause 102 of this Bill by order. Amendments Nos. 86 and 87 are consequential to that.
Members will notice that amendment No. 85 also provides for the early commencement of clauses 168, 169 and 170. That is consequential to the early commencement of clause 102. The main reason for the amendments is to ensure that clause 102 has effect in England and Wales at the same time. We must therefore commence the provisions relating to Wales at the same time as commencing clause 102. I hope that that has served to explain these technical amendments.
Amendment agreed to.
Schedule 14, as amended, agreed to.
Amendments made: No. 85, in page 87, line 19, at beginning insert
No. 86, in page 87, line 27, after '1' insert
No. 87, in page 87, line 28, after '14' insert
Clause 172, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Clause 173 ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Ms Keeble: I beg to move amendment No. 20, in page 87, line 35, leave out subsection (2).
This is a technical amendment.
Mr. Sanders: I do not want to oppose the amendment, simply to take the opportunity to record my thanks for your chairmanship, Mr. Hurst, and for that of Mr. Illsley, and to thank other Committee members for what have been enjoyable and—given the original timetable—quick sessions to debate a complex Bill.
Ms Keeble: I very much appreciate your chairmanship, and that of Mr. Illsley. They have been extremely important in moving the debate along. It has been an extremely good debate for both sides, and it has been conducted with good humour. I am sure that you, Mr. Hurst, have contributed to that good humour with your chairmanship. The debate has given us all a good appreciation of some of the issues that arise in relation to property tenure in various parts of the country. As so often happens, legislation that touches on hon. Members' constituency interests and experiences is given an extraordinarily high level
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The Committee has made considerable progress in improving what was already an extremely good Bill which will make a real difference to the lives of many people. I look forward to continuing the debate on Report.
Mr. Cash: I only wish to add that, if we are to have two days on Report, it is important that we do not programme our debates to the point where we cannot use the time properly. I include such things as the unguided missile of an unexpected statement—or two—that can suddenly appear out of the blue.
Shona McIsaac: Or three on both days!
Mr. Cash: Or even three, as the hon. Lady says.
As I said on Second Reading, we should conduct our proceedings in the national interest. We believe that these proposals can lead to improvements, and
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I thank you again, Mr. Hurst, and you co-Chairman, Mr. Illsley, for chairing our Committee so well. I thank also those others who are not known to be present but who have helped us to get through our proceedings so expeditiously.
The Chairman: Order. Most of what has just been said was out of order, but I am sure that it was appreciated.
Clause 174, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.
Bill, as amended, to be reported.
Committee rose at seventeen minutes to Five o'clock.
The following Members attended the Committee:
Hurst, Mr. Alan (Chairman)
Cash, Mr.
Crausby, Mr.
Doughty, Sue
Hendrick, Mr.
Hepburn, Mr.
Iddon, Dr.
Keeble, Ms
Lewis, Dr. Julian
McIsaac, Shona
Marsden, Mr. Gordon
Moffatt, Laura
Sanders, Mr.
Selous, Andrew
Stringer, Mr.
Taylor, Mr. John
Thomas, Gareth
Wiggin, Mr.
Woolas, Mr.
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Book 5, Chapter 6 Summary
Lady Ygraine and her husband leave for Cornwald. Merlin tells Uther of the plans. Merlin informs him the outcome again is to be a child. Uther is to go after Gorlios. Merlin's plan is to disguise himself, Uther and Ulfin as Gorlois and his servants and have them ride into Tintagel, while Gorlios is at Dimilioc waiting for Uther.
Merlin disguises himself as Brithael, Gorlios's friend. Merlin, Uther and the others sneak into the castle at Tintagel. Cadal waits on the path for them. Merlin tells Cadal of the true King that will be born from the night's activities. This is all that seems to matter to him.
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UT Arlington lost its third straight Sun Belt Conference game, falling 92-89 to UL Lafayette on Thursday night at College Park Center.
The Mavericks dropped to 9-13 overall and 4-6 in league play.
The Ragin' Cajuns (14-9, 5-5) jumped to a 25-point lead in the first half and withstood UTA's late flurry that cut the lead to two with 1.8 seconds left.
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Luka Modrić career
Best Midfielder of the UEFA Champions League
Supercopa de Espana
UEFA Supercup
Croatian Football Oscar
UEFA Champions League Team of the Season
La Liga
UEFA Champions League
FIFA World Club Cup
Silver Ball FIFA World Club Cup
UEFA Super Cup
UEFA Champions League
FIFPro World Award XI 2015
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La Liga's Best Midfielder
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Croatian Football Oscar
Modric signed a five-year contract with Real Madrid. He made his debut in the Spanish Super Cup where he won the first trophy with Real.
Supercopa de Espana
Croatian football Oscar
European Championship in Poland and Ukraine.
Croatian Footballer of the Year
Tottenham Hotspur F.C. player of the Year.
Signed a contract with London's Tottenham for 6 years.
With the Croatian national team he goes to European Championships in Austria and Switzerland.
UEFA Euro Team of the Tournament
Last season Luka spent as team captain in Dinamo, winning the championship and the cup.
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SN Yellow Shirt Award
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First HNL
Croatian Cup
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First HNL Player of the Year
Croatian Footballer of the Year
He made his debut for the Croatian national A team in March. He played for Croatia in the World Cup in Germany.
He joined the team of GNK Dinamo.
First HNL
Croatian Supercup
Went on loan to NK Inter-Zaprešić where he helped the club in winning second place in the championship.
Croatian Football Hope of the Year
On loan for one year in HŠK Zrinjski Mostar.
Bosnian Premier League Player of the Year.
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Vigilance sleuths in Jammu and Kashmir arrested a senior prosecuting officer for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 2,00,000 for helping an accused in a murder case in Rajouri district here. Ajaz Ul Hassan, currently a senior prosecuting officer at Mendhar court in Poonch district, was arrested last night for helping an accused in a murder case in 2014, State Vigilance Organisation (SVO) Director Muneer Khan said.
He said that more arrests are likely as the investigation progresses.
A case was registered by the SVO against the official, for demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 2,00,000 from Moulvi Mushtaq Ahmed of Panaid village for not arraying him as an accused in a murder case in 2014, in which Ahmed's family members were also booked, Khan said.
During investigation it was found that Hassan, then senior prosecuting officer at Thanamand court, had demanded the bribe from Ahmed and accepted it in three instalments, he said.
In order to carry out detailed questioning regarding his involvement in the case, Hassan was arrested, the director said.
Over thirty-five government officials have been arrested on charges of corruption by the SVO after Khan took charge as its director last month.
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On grass, the grassroots seem in favor. Does a vote risk reefer-madness headaches?
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Help wanted throughout Michigan, but still not enough qualified takers
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- May 24, 2018
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After a nail-biter of a spell spent teetering on the brink, Michigan's economy is well into recovery. Unemployment is low and job growth is steady. Talk to Michigan's employers, however, and it's plain there is still work to be done, on its workforc...
Would public transit benefit Southeast Michigan? That's the easy question. How to pay for it? That's complicated.
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- May 22, 2018
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Revenue estimating projects a surplus. Now what to do with it.
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- May 18, 2018
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In a nutshell: Economic growth is expected to continue at the same slow pace. Revised General Fund and School Aid Fund projections increase state revenues by about $500 million over the next two years; a 1 percent increase. Attention turns to the legislat...
Evaluating the Effects of Term Limits on the Michigan Legislature
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The Stakes for Michigan in the 2020 Census
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- May 3, 2018
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When is a constitutional amendment not an amendment? When it's a 'general revision.' It's an important distinction this election year.
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Hope springs eternal for the Detroit Public School District, at least its financial future
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Can be sold in Boston to NPC vendors for 8 Silver Pieces.
How to Tan Hides
- Place a raw hide on a Drying Frame. It'll become a Dried Hide after 8 hours.
- Use Lime on a Bucket of Water to make Milk of Lime
- Craft Limed Hide from the craft menu
- Use a Brain(or 2) on a 10L Bucket of Water to make a bucket of 10L Tanning Fluid (concentration is 5% or 10%).
- Place up to four Limed Hides into the tub
- Pour the Tanning Fluid into tanning tub and wait. Make sure to add 10L of Tanning Fluid per hide you wish to tan.
- Every time a hide tans 100% it consumes 10L of Tanning Fluid and is converted into Leather. There's a chance of getting Foetid Ooze instead, if that happens the Tanning Fluid will not be consumed.
- Whilst on the Drying Frame or Tanning Tub a faint white dial appears over the hide icon to indicate its progress. Animal hide takes roughly 8 (real) hours to dry and to tan.
- Solution concentration doesn't affect tanning time. High concentration raises resulting leather quality a little bit.
- Plain water can be added to the tanning tub if it's not empty.
- Adding plain water dilutes the solution requiring a brain to be added. If the solution falls under (4.8), the hides will not tan.
- A Brain can be added directly to the tub if the solution falls under this concentration to bring it back up. Maximum concentration is 10%.
- Brains are only acquired with butchering a dead deer, beaver or March Hare, and only after Tanning is learned.
- Tanning Fluid may also be created by boiling Birch Bark. Boiling four pieces of bark in a full Clay Pot yields 3L of Tanning Fluid with 6% concentration which takes 30 minutes be made.


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I've been watching this thread since the beginning, and now that y'all brought up networking, I believe I may have some useful suggestions in that arena.
Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm thinking maybe one or both LAN cards have a problem with packets > exceeding a certain size. > Are all the intermediate network devices at layer 2 (switches)? If so, a simple look at counters for those ports involved would rule out or in any problems with those network devices. I'm sure that if you have an MTU of 1500 bytes across the board (on the hosts and the switch(es)) then you will not have a problem with fragmentation at that layer on 100 Mbit Ethernet. Make sure you're at 100baseTX-FDX. If you are using hubs, DO NOT use full duplex on your hosts. A hub can not function at full duplex, only half. If there are any intermediate layer 3 devices (routers), it's possible for them to fragment your packets. Verify the MTU on any of these devices as well as the appropriate duplex setting. Run netstat -s after passing a good bit of traffic between the hosts in question. Don't forget to do the math to determine error percentages. tcpdump could also reveal much about the packets such as their size and contents, whether they are fragments, if the DF bit is set, which host was the last to communicate, etc... A tcpdump along with your application trace may show you just the insight you needed to see. Do you have any packet filters between the devices? Make sure they're not dropping anything you need. I don't remember if NFS is one of these, but some things like to talk from high-port to high-port for [certain] things and high-port to low-port for other [certain] things. One thing I'd try that is a surefire way to determine if your network hardware is to blame, that is if you don't want to do all that crap above: Run your scenerio with your two devices connected via an ethernet crossover cable and NICs hard-coded to 100baseTX-FDX. It'll rule out everything except that cable and your NICs. Speaking of NICs, some [really old] NICs may report they are running at full-duplex when they really are not and can not. Incrementing port error counters (specifically, frame-check-sequence and collisions) will give this away, though. > > Is this purely a diagnostic suggestion? > > Well, if it changes anything then it would definitely show there's a > hardware problem to fix... > --peace, ~~Mike. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Sneak Peek: Raman & Sunny
Here's a little peek into Raman & Sunny's Big Fat Indian Wedding this past weekend. It was such a pleasure to get to know this wonderful and special couple as we planned their reception decor for a multi-day wedding affair! It was truly awesome!
Check out these amazing photos from Joel Ross Photography
More to come soon!
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How to prepare the Scarface cocktail:
For the Scarface recipe we can't use cocaine of course, so we rim a martini glass with salt instead. Put some ice in a cocktail shaker and add the tequila, the lemon vodka, the lillet, the agave syrup and the lime juice. Strain onto large ice cubes and garnish your Scarface drink with a lime slice.
The Scarface mixed drink is the cocktail of the day for April 25 when Al Pacino celebrates his birthday. Al Pacino played Tony Montana in the 1983 hit movie Scarface.


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Walter Pall's main blog about bonsai and his work with trees from day to day. Lots of good pictures of good trees and lots of valuable information about bonsai.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Best wishes for you all
Posted by Walter Pall at 12:18 PM
3 comments:
- JK said...
Thank you for your christmas greetings so here are mine back to you.
It is always fun and inspiration to follow your blog here.
Thank you.
A happy new year to come for you and your family and calm days in the rest of this year.
Patrick Junk
- December 25, 2014 at 12:41 PM
As a regular follower of your blog, I want to thank you for all the time and effort you put in communicating your passion to others.
Merry Christmas and a happy year 2015 full of health, joy and bonsaï.
- December 25, 2014 at 5:02 PM
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La anul si la multi ani !
All the best for the new year and many happy returns !
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Santa Barbara County is literally bursting with things to do to celebrate the Fourth of July on Thursday.
» The 39th Annual Old-Fashioned Fourth of July will be held at Rancho La Patera & Stow House, 304 N. Los Carneros Road, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This family-fun event will include museum tours, all-day live music, kid-friendly games, great barbecue, classic cars and more. Cost is $6; children under 12 are free.
» Santa Barbara Elks Lodge No. 613 is hosting a family-fun fair that will include music, pony rides, bingo, a children's craft area and more. Activities will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 150 N. Kellogg Ave. in Goleta.
» The Rotary Clubs of Goleta Fireworks Festival takes place at Girsh Park, 7050 Phelps Road behind Camino Real Marketplace. The Rotary Clubs of Goleta are hosting the 16th annual festival, which starts at 4 p.m. Before the fireworks show, there will be entertainment, kid-friendly games and great food.
Tickets are $6 each, with children under 12 free. Click here to purchase tickets.
» Lompoc's annual Fourth of July Fireworks Show will take place at Lompoc High School's Huyck Stadium, 515 W. College Ave. Gates will open at 5 p.m. Jump Drive will provide live music as spectators enjoy games and great food.
Tickets are $4 for adults and $2 for children until July 2 at Anderson Recreation Center, 125 W. Walnut Ave., and Lompoc Community Bank, 705 W. Central Ave. Tickets will be available at the gate for $6 for adults and $4 for children.
The Village Fourth Parade will take place in Montecito, starting at Upper Manning Park on San Ysidro Road and traveling to Lower Manning Park. The parade starts at 11:30 a.m. with festivities following at Lower Manning Park.
The San Ysidro Firehouse is holding a pancake breakfast at 7:30am. Tickets available at the door. For more information, call 805-969-2026
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» The Fourth of July Old Mission Art Show is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Santa Barbara Mission, 2201 Laguna St. More than 45 local artists will be featured. From water color paintings to jewelry, sculptures to pottery, many art pieces will be on display in the garden setting.
» Washington on the Plaza, an exciting new musical drama of first reading of the Declaration of Independence, will be performed at De la Guerra Plaza from 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. This family-friendly production includes a high-energy sing-a-long to American ballads, and children are encouraged to participate.
» The Spirit of '76 Foundation is putting on the 51st Annual Fourth of July Parade in Santa Barbara. Starting at 1 p.m., the parade will begin at Micheltorena Street and travel down State State. The parade is fun for the whole family. Get there early to find a great spot to watch the festivities.
» The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission is holding its sixth annual Fourth of July Carnival in the Rescue Mission's parking lot, 535 E. Yanonali St. From 2 to 5 p.m., a barbecue dinner will be served to homeless guests as they enjoy carnival games and music.
» The Spirit of '76 Foundation will present an Independence Day Concert at 4 p.m. at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden, 1100 Anacapa St. This classical concert will commemorate the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
» The West Coast Symphony Orchestra will perform American Salute — A Fourth of July Musical Celebration starting at 5 p.m. at the Courthouse Sunken Garden. The early performance will present American favorites and allow time for spectators to walk to the fireworks show at the Santa Barbara Harbor.
» The City of Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara SPARKLE are hosting a free fireworks display at West Beach. Festivities begin at noon, and fireworks start at 9 p.m.
Santa Maria
» The Santa Maria Fairpark, 937 S. Thornburg St., is presenting the free Fourth of July Community Fireworks Celebration. Gates open at 3 p.m. At 5:30 p.m. there will be a free classic oldies concert by Hot Rods, and the fireworks show will begin at 9 p.m.
» The Solvang Fourth of July Parade will begin 11 a.m. at Mission Drive, turns on Fourth Street, and then continues to Copenhagen Drive. Festivities follow at Mission Santa Inés, 1760 Mission Drive, where the fireworks show will be taking place when the sun sets.


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E-market1ng, in the broadest sense, is a business segment of the company with objective to promote a seller's product and service on the market throughout digital media (especially Internet) and in coordination with marketing department, sales department and company management.
E-market1ng is processing market research, building company reputation, defining and promoting products and services, positioning them in the market, creating customer interest and sales opportunity, following activity trends on site, assessing and provide measures to improve business strategy. The single most important goal of E-market1ng is to increase business income.
Definition of E-market1ng strategy is the first and the most important step towards E-world. E-market1ng strategy depends primarily on the global strategy of company, as well as plans and goals arising from it, but it is mostly associated with marketing strategy and sales strategy. In addition , the estimated budget is one of the most important factors influencing definition of E-market1ng strategy. Unfortunately, since E-market1ng is a new field of business , budgets are often limited and not among top priorities. In Serbia and its neighboring countries E-market1ng budget is usually predefined as a part of the total marketing budget. This does not leave many room for creativity and fundamental performance in E-world, so the development of E-market1ng strategy is quite complex.
In any case, definition of E-market1ng strategy is fluent process, requiring a lot of changes and adjustments during implementation and also afterwards, during the monitoring and correction processes. Long-term monitoring of E-market1ng activities can predict many factors affecting success, but in today's turbulent market and constant internet innovations, E-market1ng strategy is subject to radical and frequent changes. With the new promotion channels and with explosive expansion of various tendencies in behavior of internet users, E-market1ng teams often react on a daily basis, changing the course of action.
On the other hand, companies using E-market1ng as integral part of their business, after certain amount of time are realizing its direct influence on achieved business results. That is why, in subsequent cycles, they fundamentally change approach to budget planning and global strategy development, focusing more attention to E-marketing.
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E-market1ng strategy is created by specialized agency or E-market1ng manager in cooperation with other company sectors.
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