Sociodemographic and career characteristics in female and male faculty members of Swiss medical schools.
Women are still underrepresented in the senior ranks of medical school faculties. Thus far information has been lacking on gendersensitive career paths for professorial and nonprofessorial staff of Swiss medical schools. The aim of this study was to survey faculty members of all Swiss medical schools on sociodemographic aspects, career paths and current career position. 342 senior and junior faculty members (SFMs/JFMs) participated in a postal questionnaire survey. They represent 61.9% of female SFMs, 41.8% of male SFMs, 35.2% of female JFMs and 40.3% of male JFMs. There was no age difference between the men and women in the two groups (SFMs/JFMs). There were, however, significant gender-typical differences in terms of living arrangements, whether ornot they had children of their own, who the children's primary caregiver was, and whether or not the spouse was a researcher as well. Females were significantly lesslikely to be married or have children, and relied on childminders or nurseries for childcare. Their spouses were more often involved in research. The career paths of physicians in academic medicine showed that fewer female JFMs advanced to tenure; they obtained fewer academic awards and had a lower scientific publication rate. The data show that Swiss medical faculties reflect the same underrepresentation of women in the higher echelons of medicine as most other Western countries. Gender-sensitive mentoring is needed in medical faculties to support women, especially in advancing to tenure and increasing their publication activities.


The last UK census, which took place in 2011, found that there were just 299 Jews left in Bradford, a tiny number for a city that became home to so many German Jews in the 19th century that the warehouse district they created is still called Little Germany. The Muslim population, meanwhile, hit 129,041 the same year.

The city’s synagogue, a grade II-listed building, almost shut down in 2013, unable to afford roof repairs – until the Muslim community raised funds to cover costs. A £103,000 lottery grant followed, enabling full repairs, but the number of worshippers has stuck stubbornly at just 45 – with occasional newcomers balancing out the deaths of elderly worshippers.

All of this caught the attention of Nudrat Afza, a Muslim single mother who – despitepictures during services, unless she used a telephoto lens, which she could not afford, so they let her take pictures before and after. Afza has never been able to afford a camera since becoming a full-time carer for her disabled daughter 31 years ago, relying instead on borrowed equipment and grants. Her exhibition, Kehillah, which can mean congregation or community in Hebrew, is supported by Arts Council England.

Watchful … female worshippers. Photograph: Nudrat Afza

Photographing inside the dimly lit synagogue posed particular challenges, even with top-of-the-range cameras, including a medium-format Bronica and an XPan Hasselblad given to her on permanent loan by Simon Beaufoy, the Oscar-winning screenwriter behind The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire. Beaufoy became a fan after seeing Afza’s exhibition about the female supporters of Bradford City


on Valdes Island, a short drift south of Gabriola. That sparked new interest by the public, some of whom began combing beaches for sneakers bearing feet—and finding them.

The fourth foot, a female righty size 7, inside a New Balance, was found May 22 on Kirkland Island, across the strait from Valdes off the B.C. mainland, which catches the current coming out of the Fraser River.

The fifth, a male lefty size 11, inside a Nike, was found June 16 on Westham Island, near Kirkland Island; DNA tests later confirmed it was the mate to foot #3.

The sixth, a male righty size 11, inside an Everest sneaker, was found Aug. 1 mired in seaweed along the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Pysht, west of Port Angeles. That is moreof his study cases, a man who, for extreme sport and without bungee cords, jumped 221 feet off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1988. His friends were to pick him up at the beach below, but never saw him again until his funeral. He hit the water at 80 miles an hour, and washed up 32 hours later on Alki Beach in Seattle.

“He drifted south to Fox Island and came around and up through Colvos Passage,” says the oceanographer, adjusting his bifocals. “Quite a trip.” Ebbesmeyer and then–King County Medical Examiner chief investigator Bill Haglund wrote a paper on the case for the Journal of Forensic Sciences in 1994, to aid other investigators in tracking floating carcasses. They charted tides and currents and recreated the whirling trip through


About 28,800 plastic ducks, turtles, beavers, and frogs packed in containers slid off a freighter; after drifting 2,200 miles, portions of the toy armada began washing up near Sitka, Alaska. Ebbesmeyer even tracked one frog and one duck in a watery trek across the North Pole to Newfoundland “where their paths diverged—one to Maine and the other to Britain.” The toys were still being discovered as late as 2004, helping him score some new hydraulic drift findings. The ducky is also now emerging as his personal logo: One is featured on the cover of his forthcoming book, Flotsametrics and the Floating World, written with local author and former Seattle Weekly staffer Eric Scigliano. The autobiography is due out in March from HarperCollins.

Ebbesmeyer sometimes alerts his followers to hazardousthe Washington coast near Queets and sent along the bar-code numbers. Ebbesmeyer broke down the code to determine the footwear was new. He e-mailed Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Ore., and heard from exec Dave Newman. “Three containers went overboard in December 2002 off the northern California coast,” Newman confirmed, about 35 miles off Cape Mendocino, Calif. Generally, Newman said, 5,500 pairs fit in a standard 40-foot ocean container. That was enough to outfit 16,500 high-school hoopsters, at $100 a pair.

Evidence in hand, Ebbesmeyer called up an Alaska science writer he knew, and the story broke on the front page of the Anchorage Daily News: Free shoes! Moochers stormed the beaches, and though no one was counting, scads of the shoes were found on the West Coast tides—with one


of the Seven-Foot Mystery.

San Juan County Prosecutor and Coroner Randy Gaylord says a hiker made the discovery in March 2007, five months prior to the first B.C. foot find. A forensic anthropologist determined that the nearly decomposed man, who had a gold inlay, was about 5 feet 9 inches tall and likely white, Native American, or Asian.

Gaylord and investigators found no evidence of foul play, though one arm and the other hand were missing from the corpse. Notably, so were both feet. That’s not unusual if the remains came in on the tide, says Gaylord. “Feet and hands are small and light,” he notes, “and with a wide range of motion and smaller connective tissue, it is part of the natural progression that they separate from the restPage category:

Once remarked that "Any anti-communist is a dog!" Tried to use his influence to promote the absurd argument that North Korea didn't start the Korean War. Argued that intellectuals should ignore the evidence of the rise of the Soviet forced-labor camps, because talking about them might play into the hands of the French right. As millions starved to death in the camps, Sartre wrote: "As we were neither members of the party nor avowed sympathisers it was not our duty to write about Soviet labour camps; we were free to remain aloof from the quarrel over the nature of this system, provided no events of sociological significance had occurred." Unfortunately Sartre was very influential at the time he made these arguments, and many western intellectuals who agreed


with this thinking played dupes for Stalin.

Speaking for herself and Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir once wrote (in The Prime of Life) that she and Sartre were "temperamentally opposed to the idea of reform," because peaceful change was less sanguine to their temperaments than violent revolution.

I disagree with your suggestion that the Soviet Union was only revealed as evil when Khruschev gave his "secret speech." First of all, the speech was extremely slanted. It only dealt with Stalin's abuses which were directed at party members. He had nothing to say, for instance, for the 7 million Ukranians wiped out by a deliberately planned regional famine. Kruschev's motives were more political: he wanted to protect his power by discrediting those who aligned themselves with Stalin's positions on various arguments (suchas the organization of the Comintern). Secondly, there were numerous accounts of the horrors that had gone on in the Soviet Union. People like Sartre simply chose to ignore them, unless perhaps they came from someone who happened to be a Soviet communist himself. It is a fact that Sartre only admitted that torture existed in the USSR when Kruschev said it had. But before this event, he helped to discredit and humiliate the first-hand witnesses of such abuses. Interestingly, Sartre didn't display such fervent skepticism regarding accusations of terror involving his own government.

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French thinker born in 1905, engagement philosopher, existentialist, writer, Nobel Prize winner (he declined it).
His existentialist philosophy, proposes no god, no ethic, no moral, and was meant to be a cleaning of the old


without a break.(Huis Clos)

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In 1935, Sartre experimented briefly with mescaline, the only psychedelic drug available at the time. A couple of days later, he started having the persistent impression that he was being pursued by a giant lobster. The hallucinations lasted for some time - some sources say almost a year - and were a cause of concern to the budding existentialist.

The pivotal scene in his (1938) La Nausee, in which Roquentin, the hero, experiences a loss of the boundaries that his conceptual structures impose on the world, 'merging' with his immediate surroundings, (starting with a tree, as I recall) is very reminiscent of a description of a psychedelic experience.

Given that this passage is often taken as his presentation in literary form of the idea of theyou catch hold of
his arm and say, 'Why, good Heavings, if that isn't a new berberis.'"

"Yes, but I don't know what an old berberis looks like," said Guy,
hopelessly, "let alone a new one."

"Never mind what the old ones look like. It's the new I'm telling you
of. Don't you understand that everyone who comes down, from Kew even,
says, 'That's a nice healthy little lot of _Berberis Knightii_ as you've
got a hold of.' 'Ha,' says the Rector. 'I thought as you'd go for to say
that. But it ain't Knightii,' he chuckles, 'and what's more, it ain't
got a name yet, only a number, being a new importation from China,' he
says. You go and call out what I told you, and he'll be so pleased, why,
I wouldn't say he won't shovel half


good company
until he dined casually like this at the Rectory. He never knew what he
ate and always accepted what was put before him like manna; yet he was
always conscious of having enjoyed the meal, and next morning he used to
face, unabashed, Miss Peasey's tale of ruined tapioca which had waited
for him too long.

The seal of perfection was generally set on these unexpected dinners by
chamber-music afterwards, when under the arched roof of the big
music-room for an hour or more of trios and quartets Guy contemplated
that family. The Greys could not have revealed the design of their life
with anything but chamber-music, and setting aside any expression of
inward things, thought Guy, how would it be possible to imagine them
more externally decorative than seated so at this formal industry of
art? He likedto avoid her so obviously to-day.
Richard had always realized that even if she were impulsive and foolish
she was also tremendously sympathetic.

"For I really am sympathetic," she assured her image in the glass, as
she tried to make the light-brown hair look tidy enough to escape
Margaret's remonstrances at dinner. If Guy were hopelessly in love with
Margaret, how sympathetic she would be; and she would try to explain to
him how interesting an unhappy love-affair always made people. For
instance, there was Miss Verney, whom everybody thought was just a
cross old maid; but if they had only seen, as she had seen, that cracked
miniature, what romance even her cats would possess! She must take Guy
to see Miss Verney or bring Miss Verney to see Guy; a meeting must
somehow be arranged between these two,


to keep
the King's Head before he dropped dead of the apoplexy on Shipcot
platform. 'That doesn't say he hasn't gone round by the field the same
as Mr. Burrows's servant used to when she was being courted by
We'll-mention-no-names.' 'No, and that he hasn't, either,' said I,
smacking the counter, for I was feeling a bit angry by now at all this
poking about in other people's business, 'that he hasn't,' I said,
'because the Rectory cook asked me most particular if there was anything
the matter down at Plashers Mead, seeing as Mr. Hazlewood hadn't been
near the Rectory for a fortnight. That doesn't look like Holy
Matrimony,' I said, and with that I walked out of the post-office. Mr.
Hazlewood," Godbold concluded, very earnestly, "the gossip of Wychford
is something as no one would believe, if theybegan to dawn on Guy that the time was coming when he
would have to make up his mind to do something definite, and on these
bleak mornings of early March, as he watched the scanty snowflakes
withering against the panes, he asked himself if there was any
justification for staying on at Plashers Mead in the new circumstances
of his life there. At night, however, when the wind piped and whistled
round the house, he used to dream upon the firelight and shrink from
the idea of abandoning all that Plashers Mead had stood for and all that
now still more it must stand for in the future. If only a plan could be
devised by which the house were secured against sacrilege; and
half-fantastically he began to imagine a monastic academy for poets, of
which he would


that smelt of tobacco smoke and meadowsweet. They stood by the
window looking out over their territory, and Guy told for the hundredth
time how, as it were, straight from this window he had plunged to meet
her that September night.

"Hullo!" he exclaimed, suddenly, reading on the pane that was scrabbled
with mottoes cut by himself in idle moments with the glazier's pencil:

  The fresh green lap of fair King Richard's land.
  Michael Fane. _June 24_.

"That's to-day! Then Michael must be here. What an extraordinary thing!"

Guy looked round the room for any sign of his friend; but there was
nothing except the Shakespearian record of his presence. Pauline felt
hurt that he should be so much interested in a friend when but a moment
ago he had brought her here as if hermake me more uneasy."

"You mean," said Guy, as she paused, "my staying on here and apparently
doing nothing? But, Margaret, really I can't leave Pauline to be a
schoolmaster, and surely you of all people can understand that?"

"Oh no, I wasn't thinking of that," said Margaret. "I think, in fact,
you're right to stay here and keep at what you're trying to do. If it
was ever worth doing, it must be doubly worth doing now. Oh no, the only
criticism I shall make is of something so small that you'll wonder how I
can think it even worth mentioning. Guy, you know the photograph of
Pauline which Mother used to have and which she gave to you?"

Guy nodded.

"Well, I happened to see it on the table by your bunk, and I wonder why
you've taken


intensity, and he lingered a
few moments in the drive, held by the whispering blackness. Behind him
the lamplight of the Rectory windows seemed for the moment sad and
unattainable and gave him the fancy he was drifting away from a friendly
shore. Then suddenly he marched away along the drive, content; for the
thought of "to-night," which latterly had often brought such a
presentiment of loneliness, now sounded upon his imagination like the
rapture of a nightingale.

Plashers Mead had never appeared so desirable as now, when it was the
prelude to such an enterprise as this of consecrating with a last
embrace the rain and gloom of November. If he had any hesitation about
the lightness or even, setting probity aside, about the prudence of such
an action, he justified himself with romantic reasons; and if he was
drivenher window his shadowy form. He must not even whisper;
he must not strike a match. Suddenly a light crossed his vision, and he
started violently before he realized that it was only a glow-worm
moving with laborious progress along the damp edge of the lawn. Black
indeed was the hour when a glow-worm belated on this drear night of the
year's decline could so alarm him. For a while he watched the creeping
phosphorescence and wondered at it in kindly fellowship, thinking how
like it was to a human lover, so small and solitary in this gigantic
gloom. Then he began to pick it up and, as it moved across his hand and
gave it with the wan fire a ghostly semblance, he resolved to signal
with this lamp to Pauline.

Midnight crashed its tale from the belfry,


the fifteenth of
this month. That would leave L23 10_s_., and he must knock off 7_s_.
6_d_. for Bob's license. About L3 had gone at Christmas and there were
the books still to pay. Twenty pounds was not much for current expenses
until next Lady Day. However, he decided that he could manage in
Wychford, if he did not have to pay out money for Oxford debts, the
creditors of which were pressing him harder each week.

                                          L       _s_.     _d_.

  _Lampard_. clearing target goes without wireless bidders covering the reverse figure, the more broadcasters question wireless bidder cries of a spectrum crunch necessitating the auction in the first place. "The results of the latest round of the TV auction leave us scratching our heads given the decade-long refrain of a spectrum crunch," said National Association of Broadcasters President Gordon Smith. "We look forward to the next round."

Preston Padden, executive director of the disbanded Expanding Opportunities For Broadcasters Coalition, was not too sanguine about the auction's prospects, though he was not ready to even call it by its given name.

"This is not an auction; It is a joke and an abuse of the broadcasters, the FCC and the public who will be put through a disruptive repacking process that increasingly


times April 30 by Christopher Manney after the officer responded to a call for a welfare check on a man sleeping in the park near a downtown coffee shop.

About 400 Milwaukee officers and dispatchers have received the 40 hours of training since 2006 to be certified under the Crisis Intervention Team program, a highly respected approach for policing. The plan is for another 1,000 or so members with the rank of police officer to get training by 2017, starting this spring. The 400 or so others in higher ranks will be trained by the end of 2018, according to Lt. Mark Stanmeyer.

The Greater Milwaukee Foundation is providing a $500,000 grant toward the $1.2 million cost. Barrett said he was confident others would step up and donate the rest.

Formonths, Hamilton's family and others have peacefully protested his death and demanded that District Attorney John Chisholm charge Manney. Hamilton's death was the first in Wisconsin to be investigated under a new law that requires an outside agency to lead the criminal review of any officer-involved death. In an email Thursday, Chief Deputy District Attorney Kent Lovern said no decision has been made yet. Lovern has previously said they are waiting for additional information from use of force experts.

According to Manney's account, Hamilton resisted a pat-down, leading to a struggle in which Hamilton grabbed the officer's baton and hit him in the neck. Manney then shot Hamilton 14 times. Hamilton's family said he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia but was not violent, and questioned the police version of


Topics

Breaking Down Barriers in the Fight Against Domestic Violence

When Ling and her soon-to-be-former husband were dating, they enjoyed the music of Pink Floyd. They also shared the same tastes in movies and many other things. Although he was always the jealous type, she didn't think it was a big issue.

"I accepted it as part of his personality," said Ling, a native of Taiwan who requested her last name be withheld to protect her privacy. But five years into her marriage, her husband's jealous rage turned into physical violence.

"He always imagined someone else pursuing me," said Ling, who has been separated for almost two years and now shares an apartment with her daughter and a friend from church. "He hit me for the first time after the baby wasborn, and it just got worse." The last straw came when her husband left her bleeding badly after another violent episode and disappeared for days. She called the police and had her husband arrested.

With an American master's degree in business administration, Ling is fluent in Chinese, English and Japanese. She does not fit the image many may have of a typical victim of domestic violence. But a recent report by Garden of Hope, a Flushing-based organization that serves Chinese-speaking victims of domestic violence, showed that among the 200 clients interviewed, more than 40 percent have college degrees or higher. Among their abusers, more than 50 percent have received higher education.

"Domestic violence has nothing to do with race, age and educational background," said Kristen Liu, executive director of Garden


of Hope.

The causes of domestic violence can be very complex, encompassing stress over work, drug use, alcoholism, extra-marital affairs, jealousy and different opinions on child rearing. In immigrant communities, cultural patterns and fear of going to the police add to the problem.

Hiding the Shame

In Ling's case, her husband is many of the above: a drug user, alcoholic, unemployed and later diagnosed with clinical depression. But she was reluctant to tell anyone because "saving face" is very important in Chinese culture

"In the beginning, I was thinking about getting help but I was ashamed," said Ling, who relied on her parents for money after her husband closed his business. "I was trying to maintain my social status. I couldn't tell my family or friends. ... I was too shy tothe majority of Latin American countries, domestic violence is, what can I say, the thing of the day," said Haydee Zambrana, executive director of Latin Women in Action, which primarily serves the Mexican and Ecuadorian communities in Corona, Queens. "It takes place so often and the laws there, as many women indicated, do not protect them as well."

Often, spousal abuse leads to child abuse, Zambrana said. The abuse of a child, she said, is frequently what tips off the authorities to other violence in the home.

"The school is the number one reporter of child abuse," said Zambrana. "Then the Administration for Children's Services will require the parents to attend workshops on parenting, anger management and domestic violence. Through that way they become aware of the services they can


Colombia. "We want to ensure that they get everything they need."

About two thirds of the clients at the Queens center and more than a third of those in Brooklyn are foreign born. To serve these clients, the centers' staffs speak more than a dozen languages and offer interpretation in 150 languages through its Language Line Program. Among the many services provided, interpretation is one of the most popular. Every month an average of 225 people take advantage of the translation services at each center, according to Ruth Villalonga, the domestic violence office's communications and outreach manager.

To help victims of domestic violence get back on their feet and gain financial independence, many agencies offer self-sufficiency services, including career training and English as a second language classes.

Immigration and Legal Issues

ImmigrationOrder 41, issued in 2003 to allow all New Yorkers, regardless of immigration status, access to vital city services. As a result, she said, victims should "feel they can come to the police, hospitals, family justice centers and get into shelters."

Federal law may offer protection in some cases as well. Victims of domestic violence may be able to gain legal status under Violence Against Women Act asylum. U Visaprovides nonimmigrant status for four years to victims of crime who are willing to help law enforcement investigate the offense and prosecute. It was specifically created by the Department of Homeland Security in 2007 to "strengthen the ability of law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute cases of domestic violence," among other crimes. After three years, visa holders may apply


Gazette is published by Citizens Union Foundation and is made possible by support from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Altman Foundation,the Fund for the City of New York and donors to Citizens Union Foundation. Please consider supporting Citizens Union Foundation's public education programs. Critical early support to Gotham Gazette was provided by the Charles H. Revson Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.While the Spirit and Opportunity rovers this summer soldiered on after more than five years on Mars (despite a number of glitches), an intrepid bot called the benthic rover created by scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) showed its chops as a remote research vehicle by spending most of July traveling over the Pacific Ocean floor about 40 kilometers off the California coast, some 900 meters below sea level.

Robotic voyagers today give scientists the ability to continuously study remote places and phenomena previously available only in snapshots. MBARI's rover afforded researchers a close-up view of life on the deep seafloor, collecting information they're hoping will help document the effects of climate change on marine life as the oceans warm. The aquatic roamer took 18 different


it to drop its weights when you want to retrieve it," Smith says. The researchers are planning at some point to outfit the rover with an acoustic modem so it can communicate information in real-time with buoys, which can then relay messages to researchers on board ships or onshore.

The rover's next mission will be to continue measuring sediment samples at its underwater stomping ground in Monterey Bay for two and a half months this fall. In 2010 the researchers plan to increase the stakes, sending their creation on a six-month crawl of the ocean floor 220 kilometers off the central California coast at a depth of about 4,000 meters (its depth limit is 6,000 meters). Success in these endeavors could see the rover sent to study the seabedSubscribe to this website for news on the next Cascadia Poetry Festival, April 30 – May 2, 2021, on San Juan Island, at the Multiverse. The Life and Legacy of Robin Blaser and The Practice of Cascadia/The Practice of Self will be organizing themes. This fest will be a hybrid retreat/festival and will happen at The Multiverse on San Juan Island. Scheduled presenters are subject to change, but at this time include Mary Norbert Körte, Miriam Nichols, Daphne Marlatt, Ching-in Chen, Sharon Thesen, Barry McKinnon, Bill Yake, Thomas Hitoshi Pruiksma, Meredith Clark and others TBA.

Registration is now available at:

https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4434330

Cascadia Poetry Festival-Anacortes May 9-12, 2019: A Tribute to Sam Hamill

Video of the 2019 fest is online now thanks to Leopoldo Seguel.

The festival was a huge success and we are


in the very early stages of planning a retreat rather than a festival as this work of merging poetics and bioregionalism continues. CPF-2019 featured the launch of two new anthologies: Make It True meets Medusario and the Samthology: A Tribute to Sam Hamill.

The Cascadia Poetry Festival is absolutely unique, offering both attention to local conditions (both social and geograpical/ecological), and to general matters of aesthetics (what poetry is up to right now–what matters to poets, and how are they responding to what matters). I know of few communities like this in the world – the other I am familiar with is in the UK: open, focused, exploratory, welcoming, democratic and engaged to its very core. The Cascadia Poetry Festival is a vital necessity.

– Stephen Collis

The Cascadia Poetry Festivalis an international event which gathers writers, artists, scientists and activists to collaborate, discover and foster deeper connection between all inhabitants and the place itself. Over four days the fest serves as cultural bioregional investigation and features Academic, Democratic and Performance components, late night readings, a Small Press Fair and several workshops. Some of the best poetry minds in the bioregion gather, discuss this place and begin to better understand Cascadia and our role here. The festival was founded by SPLAB, a Seattle-based non-profit organization founded in 1993.

The festival was not staged in 2018, but two retreats were facilitated to allow organizers and bioregional activists and poets to investigate the intersection of poetics and bioregionalism:

Becoming Cascadian, May 31-June 3, 2018, in Rainier Beach (Seattle) WA

Deep in Cascadia Poetics


Retreat, September 6-9, 2018, in Cumberland, BC.

The 2017 festival schedule is here.

Some reviews of CPF5 by participants:

I’ve been to many poetry festivals over the years, and the Cascadia Festival is one of the best at combining literary energy with explorations of environmental, political, historical, and sociological pursuits with a general celebration of poetry. The invited poets offered a wonderful representation of the diversity of our bioregion—as did the poetics of the works shared. There were youth events, Veteran events, “living room readings” (that featured festival poets and anyone from the community could share work in). The WA historical piece embodied by the celebration of Richard Brautigan, the consistent return to thinking about poetry and the environment, the involvement of young poets, older poets: really, I cannot articulate howfirst iteration happened in 2012. Cascadia 2 happened at Seattle U and Spring Street Center in Seattle (2014) and Cascadia 3 was staged in Nanaimo, BC, in 2015 by David Fraser and a dedicated local organizing committee. CPF4 happened Nov 3-6, 2016 at Spring Street Center and other Seattle venues.


lessee built a hotel on the property, which is still in operation today. In

January 1967, CHME entered into a sublease to operate the hotel. The lease and

sublease were assigned to HOM in August 1988. RME became the owner and current

lessor of the property in October 2012.

      The lease’s initial term commenced on 1 January 1966 and was scheduled to

terminate on 31 December 2015. However, the lease contained a renewal option that

allowed HOM to extend the lease for an additional forty-nine years. HOM exercised

the renewal option in September 2014, and the additional forty-nine-year lease term

was set to commence on 1 January 2016.

      Central to this case, the lease contained two provisions that required HOM, as

lessee, to pay taxes assessedthe song played when Uday Chopra sees Rani for the first time, and you can perform on this song by remembering the time when you saw your girl for the very first time.

27) Bole Chuddiyan – Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham

Bole Chudiyan is the perfect song for the girls’ gang to perform on.

28) Haule Haule – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi

Haule Haule song from the movie Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi is a very sweet song starring Shah Ruk Khan, and Anushka Sharma. The movie is a love story of a Punjabi girl where her love dies, and then she gets married to Shah Ruk Khan, and a nice love story takes place.

29) Radha – Student of the Year

One of the best songs for the Sangeet function is Radha.


Yoon Shabnami – Saawariya

Saawariya was the debut movie of Ranbir Kapoor, and Sonam Kapoor. The movie was picturized inside the studio, there were no outdoor shooting. The complete idea was of Sanjay Leela Bhansali. The song Yoon Shabnami is sung by Ranbir for Sonam, on the occasion of Id in the movie. The song is very romantic, and performance on this is a must.

20) Barfi – Barfi

If you want to do something “hat ke”, then performance on the song Barfi is the one you need to do.

21) Jeena – Badlapur

Jeena by Atif Aslam is one of the most popular and romantic songs starring Varun Dhawan, and Yami Gautam. You can have a couple of dance with your fiancé on this song.

22) Masha-allah – Saawariya

Another song starring Ranbir Kapoor,A man kisses his ballot paper before voting in Barcelona. Albert Gea / Reuters

In a day marked by calm, long lines outside polling stations, and a record high voter turnout of over 80%, the big winner was the constitutionalist party Ciudadanos.

Led by Inés Arrimadas, the party which has campaigned strongly against independence had, with 99% of the vote counted, won 37 seats in the 135-seat regional parliament – more than any other party – and picked up more than one million votes, making it the most-voted party in the region by a long margin. The result also gives the party a clear leadership position among the anti-independence forces in the region.

However, the success of Ciudadanos was not enough to put the brakes on the three pro-independence parties that


governed from 2015 until October 27 of this year, when Madrid ousted them from power using emergency measures to stop the secessionist bid. The Catalan Republican Left (ERC), Junts per Catalunya and the radical left-wing party CUP won a combined 70 seats in the Catalan regional parliament – enough to form a majority government.

The ERC picked up 32 seats while Junts per Catalunya – the party of former premier Carles Puigdemont, who watched the results come in from Belgium where has been since the regional parliament passed a unilateral declaration of independence in late October – won 34 seats. The CUP won four seats.

The Catalan Socialists, led by Miguel Iceta won 17 seats, or one more than in the regional election of 2015.Since starting with two students in 1970, the BBSA at the University of Michigan has been a center for academic and professional excellence. With over 70 members, the BBSA continues to serve the needs of Ross Students in professional, academic and community development. With a legacy of hundreds of alumni members, we strive to improve awareness of diversity in business at Ross and throughout the business community.“Dr. E” was a tireless advocate for change in business and education. He inspired every student who sat in his office, and this conference serves as a tribute to his legacy and a reminder of the opportunity we have to make an impact at Ross, in our careers, and in the world. We are pleased that you can join our BBSA family


Wednesday, 15 December 2010

In Praise of....Silence

Last week I read an article in The Guardian's Comment section entitled In Praise of...Silence. It was the first time I had heard about the planned release of John Cage's 4'33 in an attempt to beat Simon Cowell & his karaoke competition to the Christmas Number 1 this year.

Under the name Cage Against The Machine (referring to last years efforts from Rage Against The Machine's efforts), members of various bands met up to record 4'33 last week. I think its a mint idea, a perfect revolt against Cowell. Plus its all for charity. The recording has gone on sale this week, so support it and buy buy buy.YoungHee Woo

YoungHee in her studio

The paintings of Korean-born nightmarish and entrancing. Often melding archetypal YoungHee Woo are equally themes (the recursive nature of death within life, the genesis of biological and social forms) with folkloric tropes (such as chess boards, sacred owls, and mirrors as symbols of introspection), Woo’s paintings rarely venture off into the realm of pure abstraction. Rather, her decidedly figurative bent helps to flesh out what she terms “the philosophical sense of life and death” upon which her work is based. In Woo’s pictorial universe, fantasy elides with reality, creating imagined vistas where gestures, the placement of objects, and the expressions on faces take on a double-meaning. While carefully rendered in all their features, the eyes of her figures often appear glazed over, as though


Month: February 2018

President Donald J. Trump and his White House Chief of Staff, former General John Kelly each came to their current position from different places and a different time. When Marine General John Kelly was commanding American and Coalition forces in battle in Western Iraq, if he heard that an exceptionally effective aide or company commander…

There’s not much news in the House Intelligence Committee Majority Staff Memo on abuses by a few individuals at the FBI and Department of Justice (DOJ) in the use of FISA (Federal Intelligence Surveillance Act) to conduct surveillance on domestic political opponents. There is confirmation of the leaks that the discredited “Trump Dossier” a/k/a “Steele…

Letter to the Editor, Boston Globe, February 1, 2018. It is ironic that an article, mocking the notionField of the Invention
The subject invention relates to golf clubs and more particularly to golf clubs with alignment features.
In the prior art, various alignment features have been suggested, primarily for use with putters. It has also been suggested to provide a circle of the precise diameter of a golf ball on the top surface of a wood as in U.S. Pat. No. 3,884,447.
No prior art has suggested alignment means for use with an entire line of clubs or an alignment mechanism adaptable throughout a club line.
One of the important features impacting on club alignment and proper striking of the golf ball is the "sweetspot" which surrounds the center of gravity of the club. The prior art has generally failed to integrate alignment means with the positioning of the


An All-Star New Zealand Māori team will square off against the Australian Indigenous All Stars in a mens and womens double-header in Melbourne next February to open the 2019 NRL season.

The NRL has revamped the Harvey Norman All Stars concept after a one-year break following last year's World Cup, replacing the World All Stars with a New Zealand Māori side to add some passion, culture and tribalism to the event which started in 2010.

The match, which will be played at AAMI Park on Friday, February 15, will pin the likes of Newcastle superstar Kalyn Ponga up against Greg Inglis and for the first time will also include a women's match with the same teams.

South Sydney centre Dane Gagai is one of four players eligible for both teams (alongwith Reimis Smith, Javid Bowen and Josh Hoffman) and will have to pledge his allegiance to one of the teams in the coming months before the January voting window.

One of the criticisms of the original All Stars concept was the lack of motivation for the World All Stars in comparison to the Indigenous side, with a large number of players withdrawing from the match.

There was also a lack of interest from fans in supporting the WorldAll Stars, but there will be no such concerns with a Māori team, especially when you consider the number of Kiwis living in Melbourne.

Storm stars launch new All-Stars concept

The NRL had every intention of reviving the Indigenous All Stars, and they used this year's hiatus to research and survey fans and players about


the match in order to improve the spectacle and ensure more people feel connected to the match.

The least supported concept was the original World All Stars team, with the New Zealand Māori side earning greater support than a Pacific All Stars team combining players from Tonga, Samoa, Papua New Guinea and Fiji.

There were some cultural sensitivities around a potential combined Pacific team which also contributed to the decision to appoint a NZ Māori team.

The pre-game Māori haka and Indigenous war cry will be a feature of the event.

Some of the biggest names eligible for the New Zealand Māori team include Ponga, Gagai, Jordan Rapana, Corey Norman, Valentine Holmes, Issac Luke, Jordan McLean and James Tamou.

Gagai, Tamou and McLean are the three players who have represented Australia at Testlevel eligible for the New Zealand Māori team.

The Indigenous side is blessed with a wealth of riches in the backline, with fans to choose from the likes of Inglis, Gagai, Josh Addo-Carr, James Roberts, Latrell Mitchell, Will Chambers, Blake Ferguson, Alex Johnston, Tyrone Peachey and Jack Wighton.

It could also be a farewell game for the likes of Johnathan Thurston and Sam Thaiday, who will both retire at the end of this season.

Johnson excited by Maori All Stars concept

It's expected Laurie Daley will continue as coach of the Indigenous side but it is undecided who will take control of the inaugural Māori team.

It will be the first time the All Stars game will be played in Melbourne having previously been hosted in Brisbane, Newcastle and the Gold Coast.

The NRL


Houston-area teacher accused of punching second-grader

A Houston-area teacher accused of punching a second-grader in the face has been tossed out of school and hit with a felony charge.

"I'm tired of you," Lisa Allison, 48, allegedly told the child, according to court documents.

On Monday, prosecutors filed a felony injury to a child charge for the Oct. 12 incident caught on camera at Landis Elementary School.

Court documents say the footage shows the young student sitting on the floor in a hallway as the teacher bends over him and tells him something.

Then the boy stands up with his backpack and walks away - and the teacher snatches him as he tries to leave.

The two struggle down the hallway and then the teacher punches her pupil in the face, according to theprobable cause statement.

The wayward instructor forces the student to the ground and sits on his back, according to the documents.

Eventually administrators arrive and tell her to get up.

The student later told campus police it all started when Allison tossed him out of the classroom. As he gathered his backpack, the teacher allegedly came out and told him, "I'm tired of you."

Allison offered a different recollection of the day's events, according to authorities.

When questioned, she told police the boy was thrown out of class for making noise and that he'd begun kicking lockers in the hallway. She said she only went out to escort him to the office and didn't remember hitting him, but did admit to holding him down on the floor.

"The Harris County District Attorney's Office has


and the company was accused of misbranding. In April, the Indian defence ministry’s canteen stores departments, a network of 3,900 stores servicing the Indian military forces, suspended sales of Patanjali’s amla (gooseberry) juice after the product was declared unfit for consumption by a local food-testing lab. Nonetheless, Patanjali has been going strong with a turnover of Rs10,561 crore in the financial year 2017, all the while rattling its domestic competitors, including some of the world’s largest consumer goods companies.

However, the latest round of quality trouble could hurt its plan to expand its footprint in foreign markets. Ramdev even recently made public his plans to take Patanjali to countries like China and Pakistan, while expanding its distribution in Bangladesh, Nepal, and some middle-eastern countries.

Ramdev has big ambitions for PatanjaliThis is something that I think about often but have been unable to articulate. It is a manifestation of the rotten underbelly of our culture, of misogyny and inequality.

By Anonymous

In first grade, a boy named John— a notorious troublemaker—systematically chased every girl in our class during recess trying to kiss her on the lips. Most gave in eventually. It was easier to give in than keep running. When it was my turn, I turned and faced him, grabbed his glasses off his weasel face, and stomped on them on the hard blacktop. He ran to the principal’s office and cried.

In fifth grade, I was asked to be a boy’s girlfriend over email. It was the first email I ever received. He actually told me he wanted to send


me an email, so I went home and made an AOL account. We went to a carnival and he won me a Garfield stuffed animal, and then he gave me a 3 Doors Down CD. A few days later, he broke up with me, and asked for Garfield and the CD back. I said no.

In sixth grade, a girl in my year gave head to an eighth grader in the back of the school bus while playing Truth or Dare.

In the summer after sixth grade, I kissed a boy for the first time at sleep away camp. He was my summer love. During the end-of-the-summer dining hall announcements, where kids usually announced lost sweatshirts and Walkmen, an older girl stepped up to the microphone, tossed her hair behindnight when I was showering, she ripped open the curtain and snapped a photo of me on her disposable camera. I screamed. She laughed. We both laughed when I got out of the shower a few minutes later. After camp was over, her father took the camera to the convenience store to get it developed. When he gave the finished photos back to her, he said, “Your friend [Anonymous] has grown up.”

Sophomore year of high school, one of my best friends Hilary had a party in her basement while her mom was away. We invited some of the guys in our grade and someone’s older brother bought us a handle of vodka. One of the boys who came sat next to me in Spanish class. His name was


Gonzales had all of the girls sit in the front row. Señor Gonzales called on any girl who was wearing a skirt to write on the chalkboard. Señor Gonzales asked a friend of mine, who had broken her finger playing an after school sport, if she broke her finger because “she liked it rough.” Señor Gonzales was a tenured teacher.

Senior year of high school, I got my first real boyfriend. His name was Colin. He was on the lacrosse team with Thomas. He told me that sophomore year, Thomas told everyone on the team what happened that night at Hilary’s. Everyone cheered. Colin said that, even then, he had a crush on me. Even then, he wanted to punch Thomas.

Colin and I lost our virginities to each other.the street and realized he had taken me a block away from the intersection I wanted. I walked to my apartment and threw rocks at my roommate’s window until she let me inside. She yelled at me for waking her up. I escaped. Nothing happened. I was fine.

The summer after I graduated college I helped Hilary find an internship. She was an art major and wanted something for her resume besides waitressing. We found a posting on Craigslist to be a studio assistant for a painter in the Bronx. It was listed as an unpaid internship. The toll for the George Washington Bridge was twelve dollars, plus gas, but she got the internship anyway. She wanted the experience.

The artist was a 38-year-old Canadian painter named Bradley. Hilary was


22.There was another intern there, an art student from Manhattan named Stella. Bradley needed assistants to help him make bubble wrap paintings. Stella and Hilary would take a syringe and fill the tiny bubbles with different color paints until it formed a mosaic. Bradley always had Hilary stay after Stella left to clean the paintbrushes and syringes. He told Hilary she was beautiful. More beautiful than his wife, who he only married for citizenship. He told Hilary they had a loveless marriage. He told Hilary he wanted to have her beautiful children. They began an affair. He told Hilary has wife knew and didn’t care. He told Hilary he was going to leave his wife soon.

Everyday Hilary drove to the Bronx, cleaned Bradley’s paintbrushes, and had sex onthe studio floor. Everyday she went home with no money, and everyday she paid the toll at the George Washington Bridge. She needed the internship for her resume, she said. It was too late to find a new job, she said.

I could go on. I could tell you a lot more. About the whistles on the sidewalk, the kids who sat at the bottom of the stairs in high school to look up our skirts, my friend who was a prostitute in South Carolina, the men who’ve cornered me in parking lots and bars calling me a tease, the unwanted grabbing on the subway, the many times my father has called me fat, the time I traveled to the Philippines and discovered Western men pay preteen locals to


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My mom has told an important story. Through her “Sens og Sans” photography workshop she met many of the asylum seekers in Oslo, and wanted to tell their story. In the end she found Yemane. Here is his story.

Yemane has lived 26 years in refugee centers.

Yemane is Ethiopian and 58 years old. When he was 17 years old he left his country embroiled in a bloody war. This is a country that does not want him back.

Yemane has been denied all his refugee applications. He does not have documentation.

Yemane has not have had a private life for the last 26 years. He shares a room of 10 square meters with a stranger.

Yemane is one of Norway's poorest. Heowns almost nothing. The little he had, he lost in a fire at a refugee center some years ago. He receives 1800 kr per month, which is supposed to cover everything. Norwegian prison inmates receive 1900 kr per month, in addition to free food and medicine. They have their own room and many activities they can take part in at the prison. Yemane wonders whether it would be better for a "papirløse"like him to become a criminal?
A few years ago he was granted permission to work for two years. The only thing he wishes for now is the ability to make a living again. The Norwegian state will not allow him to work.
Yemen goes for long walks every day. This and the Bible hold him psychologically stable. He


somehow. Beijing was his home now, in Beijing he felt he was kind of a big deal. He mattered.

It wasn’t just on the career front that things were taking off for him either. Things were looking up on the lady front too. It was as though escaping England allowed him to escape from his past and from himself. He was freer here, and more confident, and it undoubtedly showed with the ladies. He had, literally, dozens of numbers. Back home had to work to get a girl’s number, but here he would lay down the charm, tell a few jokes, then just ask, and the numbers would flow.

Back home Leroy was sick of the game, but in Beijing there was no game to be sick of. Girls acceptedhim for who he was, and he preferred it here. They say the past is a foreign country, but Leroy knew that was all wrong. The future was a foreign country, and it was called China, the "Middle Kingdom".

And as for the women, bloody hell. Such beauties. Ya Ya, the receptionist from Old Oriental. Cherry, a student from the very same school. Bei Bei (he called her baby!) from Red Club, she couldn’t speak English but was easily the most friendly girl of them all, he had even tried to kiss her once. Ting Ting from WeLovePeking.com, a really sweet social networking site for Beijingers. Leroy had almost had about five dates from that website alone. And there was Oogil, his language partner from Inner Mongolia. Leroy suspected


had been doing a lot of stuff with these girls – watched a couple of movies, done quite a few hot pots, and walked around Chaoyang Park (three times). He’d even been to the Great Wall. He was on the cusp of something big and knew it.

His future flashed before him – the writing, the music, the Chinese wife, hell, he could easily open up a small bar or even his own language school. God he loved this city. He was going to make it. And if that didn’t work out, fuck it. He could always buy himself another big Tsingtao.

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Carlos Ottery has been living in China since 2008. He is the founder of Comedy Club China, an editor at The World of Chinese and the lead actorUK judge rules wealthy Russian died of natural causes

December 19, 2018

LONDON (AP) — A British judge says a wealthy Russian businessman who collapsed near his home outside London died from a heart attack.

Alexander Perepilichnyy collapsed while jogging in November 2012. Police initially said the 44-year-old died of natural causes, but foul play concerns increased after ex-Russian spy Sergei Skripal was poisoned with a nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury earlier this year.

Perepilichnyy had been helping Kremlin critic Bill Browder expose an alleged $230 million Russian tax fraud before he died.

Judge Nicholas Hilliard, who oversaw a long-running coroner’s inquest into the death, concluded Wednesday that “it is more likely than not he had died from natural causes,” namely sudden arrhythmic death syndrome.

He said the other potential cause


Larry's leather jacket and shirt were pulled off his shoulders. The smiles and fine sharp teeth looked like the ones on the Myrna's Place logo.

Larry's eyes went wide. A tiny trickle of blood ran down his chest. He stared after them as they left the market and didn't even notice Lilia pulling his clothes back in place.

Other customers appeared. Larry and Lilia were Flea celebrities and had a good day—even the dollhouse sold.

Larry was bedazzled. Lilia knew he always gravitated to the key clique and always managed to get himself accepted. Now he'd found a group so special it was legend, and they loved him.

That week Larry was distant and distracted. He got on her nerves. She got on his. The next Sunday morning they brought to marketand watch the fire that keeps the shadow at bay, focus on it till all the world slips away around the edges, and there is just the flicker-dance of flame against nothingness. He has learned to listen to the sound of his own breathing, the air rushing in and out of his wheezing chest; and beneath it his heartbeat, frail and reedy. He has learned that Outside, the powers of darkness are always in wait—whirling through the air like flurries of black snow, seeking to enter where they may in a draft beneath the door, a crack in the window, a weak place in the heart. He must be strong. He must endure until the dawn.

The worst thing is the footsteps on the stairs. Each night now, each


her and on his painting was rapidly fatiguing him. He appreciated her silence, however—he might not have been able to work at all if she'd said anything. It occurred to him she smelled differently. Under the perfume was a kind of staleness—or gaminess, for lack of a better word. Like a fur brought out of storage and warming up quickly. Finally it was he who spoke.

"You're great company." It was the first time he'd ever said such a thing. "But I'm feeling so tired, I don't know why, but I think I might just fall over. I'm sorry—I usually can work a lot longer."

"You should lie down." She stood and led him to the bed in the other room of the small apartment. So quickly there hardly seemedone I'd been introduced to that day, died. The nurses tried to keep our morale up by gathering us together periodically, and I heard about it the last day they propped us up in front of the television in the dayroom. We noticed that we were only five; the nurses evidently had planned to keep this from us, telling us only that so-and-so was a bit too sick to join us. Jihan, however, had been visiting this person when he went. Jihan struggled to make himself heard over Garfield Goes Hawaiian. With haunted eyes, he kept pressing his hands to his throat, and his lips trembled as he spoke. The remote was missing, and none of us could get up. Jihan's voice failed, but he continued to whisper


team directly for this mistake.”

When Crull appeared before the CRTC three years ago, he insisted that Bell never interfered on the editorial side.

In his statement, Cope thanked Crull for his contributions to Bell’s customers and shareholders and praised him for his role in spearheading Bell Media investments in Canadian content.

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Crull was replaced by Mary Ann Turcke, who takes over responsibility for Bell Media’s national broadcast and digital operations, Cope said.

Turcke, who also joined Bell in 2005, was formerly a media sales group president.

Read more about:The New York Comedy Festival had plenty to talk about this year, from a controversial Bill Cosby show to a topless set by Tig Notaro. But its most prominent inclusion wasn’t a standup show at all. Its big coup was in drawing Comedy Central’s hit late night show @midnight away from its comfy Los Angeles confines for a week of shows in the Big Apple.

The road trip gave the show a chance to feature New York-based comics like Judah Friedlander and Jim Norton, and welcome a slew of celebrity guests – Jon Hamm, Ben Stiller, Gilbert Gottfried, Stephen Colbert, and Broad City’s Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson all appeared during the week. The show even included a few of the more aggressive stand-ups that New York tends to


which introduced Shrenu Parikh as Gauri Kumar Sharma.

Speaking about introducing a spin-off of  Ishqbaaaz, lead actor Kunal Jaisingh said, “Spin-offs as a trend have come to India now. It has always been there in the west. ‘Ishqbaaaz’ had three stories running together and just 20 minutes couldn’t do justice to all three. That’s how the idea of ‘Dil Boley Oberoi’ came. The show came through beautifully. And it was of course amazing to have my own story and see my character grow.”

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The changes remain unpopular with refugee advocates who say valid claims are being brushed aside. Immigration Minister Chris Alexander has also lashed out at Ontario, one of many provinces continuing to provide health care for claimants who Ottawa says want to "game the system."

Waiting times to hear asylum cases plummeted in 2013, from 20 months to two, and the average time needed to deport a failed claimant is now four months, not four years, Mr. Alexander announced Wednesday. Canada has also cut its case backlog by two-thirds and deported 10,000 failed claimants in the past


of the Canadian Council for Refugees.

Canada designates 37 countries as safe places that shouldn't generate many legitimate refugee cases.

They include many in the European Union, which provided 85 per cent of Canada's refugee claims in 2011 – what Mr. Alexander called a paradox. Designated countries now include Hungary, which had been Canada's top source of refugees from 2010 to 2012, when the changes took effect. Hungary's Roma community was a major source of refugees.

The changes also blocked most health-care services for people from designated countries, except if their cases were ultimately accepted, sparking a battle with provinces. Some decided to pick up the tab themselves – including Ontario, to Mr. Alexander's dismay.

"It makes Canada, and Ontario in particular, a magnet for bogus asylum seekers. It's also unfair forother problems with the changes. Refugee claimants have too little time to prepare for their cases to be heard, she said, particularly those suffering from trauma.

Medical groups across Canada have called on government to reinstate health funding for refugees from designated countries.

"The message is getting out that Canada is an inhospitable country to refugee claimants," said Dr. Philip Berger, a founding member of Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care and medical director of the inner city health program at Toronto's St. Michael's Hospital. "This is an attack on Canada's historic ethical tradition of accepting people who were seeking safe-haven and refuge. And it's almost punishing in its consequence. It's vindictive."

Editor's note: an earlier version of this story published online and in Thursday's paper incorrectly stated Dr. Philip Berger's title.


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Thousands of New Jersey residents spent their first night away from home as Sandy approaches asking,' "how bad will it get?"

They'll have plenty of time to consider that question as most schools across the state are closed, thousands of flights have been cancelled by the airlines, public transportation has shut down and non-essential state workers have the day off.

High water has closed the Garden State Parkway in the southbound direction from the Atlantic City Expressway (exit 38) to the road's end in Cape May. Routes 35 is closed in several sections including Aberdeen and Wall while Route 36 is closed at the Highlands Bridge.

Downed trees have closed lanes on a number of roads around the state due to fallen trees. The Port Authority


Ash Wednesday services took place at both St. Celestine Church in Elmwood Park and St. Cyprian Church in River Grove, as the churches began the Lent period for the first time as a combined parish.

The churches together make up the St. Mother Theodore Guerin Parish. On March 6, the Rev. Paul Cao, the parish’s pastor, was at St. Celestine, which offered three Masses and one service. The Rev. Andre Beltran was at St. Cyprian, which offered a service and a Mass.

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At St. Celestine, Cao said Catholics should remember three things during the Lenten season: prayer, fasting and giving.

“Lent gives us an opportunity to be closer to God,” he said. “The church sets aside 40 days during Lent to help us connect to the Lord.”

Last year, the Archdiocese ofChicago announced St. Cyprian Church and St. Celestine Church would combine as St. Mother Theodore Guerin Parish, as a part of its Renew My Church initiative.

Ash Wednesday marks the first day of Lent, a season known for urging sacrifice. At St. Cyprian, Beltran urged parishioners, “instead of being so focused on giving up something, focus more on having a clean, forgiving heart. Have a joyful heart.”

Cao noted that many traveled back and forth from the two worship sites, opting to go to both St. Celestine and St. Cyprian on Ash Wednesday.

“Lent is a time to be grateful we have two churches together with more options to receive ashes,” Cao said.

The Rev. Paul Cao gives ashes to Eric Robinson during the 4 p.m. Ash Wednesday service at St. Celestine


states a cause of action against the funeral director, giving the benefit of all inferences and facts pled, in favor of the pleader.[1] The allegations of the amended complaint are quoted below:
24. While the funeral procession was leaving the premises operated by Union Park Memorial, an employee of Union Park Memorial was standing and directing the vehicles onto the roadway.
25. During the years past, Union Park Memorial has retained the gratuitous *428 services of the Orange County Sheriff's Department at no charge to direct traffic and/or provide escort services from the funeral home through minor and major intersections to the cemetery.
26. At the time of the accident described herein, the Orange County Sheriff's Department had ceased offering traffic direction or escort services to Union Park Memorial as anot retain or attempt to retain their services.
H. Private escort services were available for hire by Union Park Memorial at the time of the accident but were not retained by Union Park Memorial.
30. Defendant, Union Park Memorial, was negligent in the foregoing manner despite its knowledge that the funeral was being attended by guests unfamiliar with the geographic area where the accident occurred and despite its familiarity with the are and the knowledge that the intersection was heavily travelled and its knowledge that all vehicles in the funeral procession could not pass through the intersection during one cycle of the green light for traffic on State Road 50.
In our view, the amended complaint should not have been dismissed for failure to state a cause of action. Its dismissal


is only *429 proper if the funeral director as a matter of law, owed no duty to Hutt (one of the participants in the funeral procession) to see that the vehicle in which she was riding made it safely across a major intersection heavily travelled by motor vehicles in all directions after the light turned red. The complaint set out that the funeral director was sufficiently acquainted with the intersection and the length of the funeral procession, to have foreknowledge that not all of the cars would make it across the intersection with a green light. Hutt further alleged the local police were no longer providing escort services for such processions as they had in the past, and that the funeral director made no effort to do so,(JTA) — The body of a Lithuanian Jewish woman who died in Germany 78 years ago was exhumed for reburial next to her husband in Chicago.

Wednesday’s exhumation of the woman, whose family asked not to be named by the media, was a rare exception to Jewish religious laws that forbid disturbing graves under all but very special circumstances, Yehudah Teichtal, a rabbi of the Jewish Community of Berlin, told JTA. Teichtal oversaw the procedure.

The woman arrived in Germany from Lithuania in 1937 with her family en route to the United States but died in Berlin.

“The Nazis and Adolf Hitler were already in power, there was not time to wait around, so the family had to bury her in Berlin and move on,” said Teichtal, who prepared the woman’s


Anti-Gender Ideology Demonstration in Lima Last Saturday

The March for Life in Lima.The attack on life is the other

side of the same coin.

(Lima) Peru is defending itself against the state's compulsory inclusion of gender ideology in the schools. After months of resistance at all levels, from rallies before parliament to parliamentary debates, from newspaper articles and television discussions to signature collections, a million and a half Peruvians went on the streets on 4 March.The gigantic popular movement was initiated by the movement #Conmishijosnotemetas (hands off my children). In many Peruvian cities, large-scale demonstrations were held. The biggest demonstration took place in the capital Lima.The Peruvian government wants to transform the entire curriculum at public schools in the sense of gender theory starting with the coming school year, with effectson the children from the most tender age. Cardinal Cipriani Thorne speaks of "ideological colonization." The organizers described the gender-compliant curriculum as "ideological brainwashing for the new generations." The curriculum is a serious attack on parental rights, which should be given priority in the education of children.The President of Peru has been Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard since July 2016. This son of a German Jew and a Swiss Protestant is Catholic. The director Jean-Luc Godard is his cousin. Peru is a semi-presidential republic. The President of the State appoints the government. Parliament can overthrow the government by a vote of no confidence. However, this has not yet happened. In parliament, Kuczynski's party has only 20 out of 150 seats. The absolute majority is held by the party of


Keiko Fujimori, whom Kuczynski had just narrowly defeated. Fujimori is the daughter of former Peruvian president, Alberto Fujimori. The Peruvian left supported Kuczynski as a "lesser evil" against Fujimori.Kuczynski is a dazzling figure. The investment banker, who became Minister for the first time at the beginning of the 80s, took part in the Bilderberger Conference in Tyrol in 1988. After his election as president, he dedicated Peru to the heart of Jesus and the heart of Mary. He implements the gender agenda, which is run by international institutions, including several UN agencies, without hesitation. The will of his people and the convictions of the vast majority of the Peruvians do not seem to bother him.Beatriz Mejia, the spokeswoman for #Conmishijosnotemetas, called on Kuczynski to take a step backwardand not to impose on the people anything that they neither want nor need.Massively present in this mass uprising against gender ideology was the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. It was led by Cardinal Cipriani Thorne, Archbishop of Lima and Primas of Peru. The next date was just announced at the rally: the March for Life on the 25th of March. The right to life is the other big front, which is attacked from the international side.There was massive criticism of the mass media at the demonstration, which barely offered space to cover the popular protest against the gender ideology, or downplayed and ridiculed it. The media follows a script that similar popular movements in other countries have experienced: fromin France, the Family Day in Italy and to


high-side switch is coupled between the positive supply terminal and the switched terminal.

12. The device of claim 10, further comprising:

a first diode; and

a boost capacitor,

wherein the first diode is coupled with its anode to the switched terminal and with its cathode to a first terminal of the boost capacitor, and

wherein a second terminal of the boost capacitor is coupled to the positive supply terminal.

13. The device of claim 11, further comprising:

a first diode; and

a boost capacitor;

wherein the first diode is coupled with its cathode to the switched terminal and with its anode to a first terminal of the boost capacitor, and

wherein a second terminal of the boost capacitor is coupled to the negative supply terminal.

14. The device of claim 12, further comprising:

a first diode;

a second diode; and

a boostcapacitor,

wherein the first diode is coupled with its anode to the switched terminal and with its cathode to a first terminal of the boost capacitor,

wherein the second diode is coupled with its anode to the positive supply terminal and with its cathode to the first terminal of the boost capacitor, and

wherein a second terminal of the boost capacitor is coupled to the negative supply terminal.

15. A voltage converter comprising:

a relay comprising an inductor and a mechanical contact, wherein the inductor performs a primary function of switching the mechanical contact of the relay and a secondary function of converting a voltage; and

a switching regulator comprising the inductor to provide an intermediate voltage at an intermediate terminal.

16. The voltage converter of claim 15, further comprising:

a first switch to connect the


an example of an electronic switch connected in parallel to the switched contacts of a relay. Once a soon drop out of the relay is signalized by a voltage induced in the coil of the relay due to the corresponding breakdown of the current through the coil of the relay, the electronic switch may be closed with the help of the energy stored in the coil of the relay even if the actual voltage supply of the relay driver breaks down. The electronic switch may be switched off, as soon as the relay has dropped out.

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As the date of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union approaches without a final agreement, the question remains over what will happen at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

There are currently no official passport checks between Northern Ireland, which is part of the U.K., and the Republic of Ireland, which is part of the E.U. Once the U.K. officially leaves the E.U. at the end of March, the 499-kilometer border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland will become an external border of the E.U.

Residents have reflected on the state of the border during "the Troubles," a period of political unrest and violence in Northern Ireland during the late 20th century. The conflict officially ended with the Belfast or Good FridayAgreement in 1998, rendering the border between the nations invisible. While nothing is decided yet, residents of the area fear the effects the return of a hard border could have on their lives and businesses.

The remains of a railway bridge between the villages of Blacklion in the Republic of Ireland and Belcoo in Northern Ireland can be seen on February 22nd, 2019, in Belcoo, Northern Ireland. The bridge was blown up by the British army in the 1970s during the Troubles. Along the winding 499 kilometers of the Irish border are vestiges of a harder boundary: derelict customs houses, "dragon's teeth" bollards and two-toned tarmac. These relics evoke a time when movement between the countries was less free, and underscore what is at stake as the U.K. negotiates


its exit from the E.U. Both parties have vowed to avoid a physical border, but, as the Brexit deadline approaches on March 29th, a final agreement has so far eluded them. (Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Stella Lynne and William Andrews pose for a photograph as they take part in the weekly market that takes place on the Irish border on February 17th, 2019, in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. The couple, who are Democratic Unionist Party voters, voted to remain in the E.U. Referendum in 2016 and now fear the return of a hard border. "It looks like the border is coming back, which won't be good," they said. "We've already started to gather tinned food just in case." (Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Julie Taylor feeds her donkeys along the Irishborder on February 15th, 2019, in Muff, Ireland. Taylor, who lives on the northern side of the border in nearby Londonderry travels the short distance into Ireland to attend to her animals. She says if a hard border returns, "They don't have the manpower to control a border." (Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

Denny Johnston (right) poses for a photograph alongside John Taylor (left) as he trades from the back of his trailer on the Irish border at the Mullan roadside market on February 17th, 2019, in Mullan, Northern Ireland. Johnston, who buys and sells his goods on both sides of the border, fears for his business if a hard border returns. (Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

A Border Communities Against Brexit sign can be seen on Aghalane Bridge on February 17th,


2019, in Aghalane, Ireland. Britain will leave the E.U. on March 29th following the referendum in 2016. Many people in Northern Ireland and Ireland are concerned about a return of a so-called hard border, which could inspire unrest reminiscent of the Troubles. (Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

The Culicagh mountain boardwalk, which threads along the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, is pictured on February 22nd, 2019, in Florencecourt, Northern Ireland. (Photo: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images)

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In 1972 four young scientists at MIT wrote a book called The Limits to Growth that shocked the world and became an international best-seller. Using the World3 computer model, the authors looked into the future and sounded an alarm, for the first time showing the consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet. Their book gained worldwide attention and became the cornerstone of a global debate on how to achieve a sustainable future.

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About the Authors

Dennis Meadows

Dennis Meadows is Emeritus Professor of Systems Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire, where he was also Director of the Institute for Policy and Social Science Research. In 2009 he received the Japan Prize for his contributions to world peace and sustainable development. Hehas authored ten books and numerous educational games, which have been translated into more than 15 languages for use around the world. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from MIT, where he previously served on the faculty, and has received four honorary doctorates for his contributions to environmental education.

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Jorgen Randers is professor of climate strategy at the BI Norwegian Business School, where he works on climate issues and scenario analysis. He was previously president of BI and deputy director general of WWF International (World Wildlife Fund) in Switzerland. He lectures internationally on sustainable development and especially climate, and is a nonexecutive member of a number of corporate boards. He sits on the sustainability councils of British Telecom in the UK and the Dow Chemical Company in the United States. In 2006 he chaired the cabinet-appointed Commission on Low Greenhouse Gas Emissions, which reported on how Norway ...A body found "hog-tied" and bound with tape in an air conditioning vent of a downtown building is believed to be that of a missing cleaning woman, according to reports.

The woman discovered stuffed in the 12th floor air conditioning duct at 2 Rector Street died from asphyxiation caused by the black and yellow construction tape that was wrapped around her head and face, the medical examiner said today.

The tape held a gold cricifix to her mouth, cops said.

Police believe the body is that of Eridania Rodriguez, a cleaning woman who worked at the building and disappeared five days ago. The building’s security tapes contained no footage of her leaving after her shift in the building on Tuesday.

"You could see what appeared to be someone in the hog-tied position,"


Paul Browne, the NYPD spokesman, told the New York Post.

The Post reported the woman's body was fully clothed except for her shoes, which had been placed neatly beside her. She was hog-tied and had a cross over her mouth, the report said.

Medical examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said an autopsy revealed the cause of death was homicide. The identity of the body has not been released.

An elevator operator who worked in the building is under surveillance, police sources and published reports said. The Post reports the man has a history of criminal behavior, including attacking a girlfriend's car with a bowling ball.

Police had been searching landfills in Western Pennsylvania trying to find her body Friday night, but when the search turned up no results they relaunched a search ofthe building.

Rodriguez was last seen going into work. She had punched in for work around 5 p.m. She donned her blue uniform, chatted with other after-hours employees and was last seen on security cameras around 7 p.m., according to a lawyer for her family, Daniel Ferreira.

Then, she disappeared. Police will continue to search the landfills and relaunch a top-to-bottom search of the building where she disappeared.

The leading theory is that she was killed -- probably strangled -- on the 8th floor of the building where her hair clips and mop were discovered, said a law enforcement source. Then, sources theorize, the killer stuffed her inside a garbage bag which was collected with the rest of the building's garbage about 9:30 p.m.

Police have already questioned two men, but have


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The woman's family is distraught and fears the worst, Ferreira said. Rodriguez is married with several children. One of her brothers is Victor Martinez, a top-ranked professional bodybuilder.

Police quietly sealed off the building Wednesday morning to hunt for clues. They found no trace of the missing woman. Workers were finally allowed back in shortly before noon.

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Miss Cougar Gloria Navarro (PHOTO LINK)

Many people have been hoping the "cougar" craze would die a quick death, but it would appear it's still going strong. Strong enough to have its own beauty pageant, even!

A California woman was just crowned the first annual(?) Miss Cougar, beating out stiff competition from various other older women, whose claim to fame is that they prefer the company of youner men. The winner Gloria Navarro, won in front of an audience full of the young men she claims as her prey...or however this works.

The younger men, known as cubs in this alternate bizarro world, lapped up the display of these older sex symbols, and with any luck some cougar-cub romance was sparked. As far as I'm concerned, there shouldn't evenbe anything strange about an older woman being with a younger man, and we shouldn't need a special name for it. After all if an older man likes younger women nobody ever bats an eye. See the link below for photos of the Cougar Pageant winner.

The winner of the first annual Miss Cougar America contest is ... California's own Gloria Navarro. Navarro, of Redwood Shores, California won the esteemed title of Miss Cougar America at the National Single Cougars Convention, this last Friday in Palo Alto, Calif. The 42-year-old, who was recently divorced, is a suburban management consultant accepted her new title before more than 200 attractive guests, most of them men in their 20s, 30s and 40s.


Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Farmers in Wales would be offered money to carry out work which protects and enhances the environment

A major law to replace EU agriculture subsidies will not now be introduced until after the next assembly election, which takes place in 2021.

Plaid Cymru called it a "U-turn" but the Welsh Government insisted that its reform plans have not been held-up.

Ministers are also holding off replacing EU environmental protections while talks with UK ministers are held.

First Minister Mark Drakeford set out his legislative plans in the Senedd on Tuesday.

Proposals that have been announced, and would need to be passed by the assembly, include plans to overhaul the way Wales' bus network is regulated.

Image caption Cardiff Bus is one of two council-owned bus firms in theUK

Mr Drakeford's statement to assembly members confirmed that a new law replacing EU farming subsidies will not be introduced to AMs until after the assembly election.

Rural affairs minister Lesley Griffiths said in September last year that she hoped to bring the bill forward before the end of the assembly term.

Initially the Welsh Government had hoped to phase in its plans, including a new funding scheme to replace EU farm subsidies, from 2021 but said last week that the ongoing Brexit uncertainty had held them up.

A second consultation on revised proposals is under way, with another promised for the autumn.

Farmers in Wales would be offered money to carry out work which protects and enhances the environment, under the post-Brexit proposals.

The Welsh Government insisted it was not a delay to


to get government funding is planned by the end of the assembly term, but not in the next year.

The first minister said the government would "press on with important measures in respect of education, housing and transport which will lead to improvements across Wales".

"These plans will introduce positive and innovative improvements for the people of Wales," Mr Drakeford told the Senedd on Tuesday.

"The government's programme demonstrates that we are determined to drive forward ambitious plans until the end of this assembly terms, not withstanding the uncertainty that we face."

Image caption Plaid Cymru said Mark Drakeford's government had "run out of their own ideas"

Welsh Conservative leader Paul Davies accused Mr Drakeford of being "haunted by his empty promises" on the environment.

"It's incredibly disheartening to see that after 20 yearsof Labour governing Wales, all this programme has to offer is a rehashing of the same old failed ideas," he said.

Plaid Cymru's leader Adam Price said it was a "bland legislative programme from a Labour government that has clearly run out of their own ideas".

A Brexit Party assembly group spokesman said the programme "says as much about where he won't be legislating as where he will".

The British Lung Foundation said it was disappointed Mr Drakeford had not made mention of a Clean Air Act to reduce pollution - Mr Drakeford told BBC Wales a plan would be published in the autumn.


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Iran Is Not Complying with the Nuclear Deal

Per the Iran Nuclear Review Act of 2015, the Trump administration is required to certify to Congress every 90 days that Iran is in compliance with the July 2015 nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA) and that this agreement is in the national-security interests of the United States. The next certification is due on July 17, 2017.

It is crucial that the Trump administration, in the next JCPOA certification statement, correct the gross error it made in April, when it certified that Iran was complying with this agreement and that the JCPOA is in the national-security interests of our country. Unfortunately, the administration reportedly might make this same mistake again.

The April certification went against Mr. Trump's accurate statementsObama administration's dangerous concessions to Iran on uranium enrichment, heavy water, and other issues. In addition, under the JCPOA, U.N. sanctions can be "snapped back" only in the event of "significant non-performance" by Iran, and a vote by a majority of the agreement's parties (U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China, and Iran). I believe there is zero chance the British, French, and Germans would ever vote with the Trump administration to reimpose U.N. sanctions on Iran through the JCPOA process, regardless of the seriousness of Iran's violations of the pact.

The four senators said in their letter that even if we ignore Iran's violations of the JCPOA, continuation of the current policy "would be tantamount to rewarding Iran's belligerence," noting that Iran continues to wage a campaign of regional


require Tehran to resolve all outstanding questions about its past nuclear-weapons work, fails to include a halt to Iran's ballistic-missile program, and does not require Iran to cease its belligerent behavior and sponsorship of terrorism. As a result, the review should call for the JCPOA to be terminated or substantially renegotiated.

Three. Filling national-security jobs across the government, especially Senate-confirmable positions that deal with controversial issues such as the JCPOA. The president cannot fully implement his foreign-policy agenda until his people are in place in the bureaucracies of State, the Pentagon, and other agencies. There also should be a house-cleaning at State, the Pentagon, the CIA, and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to reassign partisan careerists placed in sensitive jobs by the Obama administration who havebeen working against - and in many cases leaking - to undermine the Trump administration.

An honest declaration by the Trump administration that Iran is not complying with the nuclear deal and that this agreement is not in the national-security interests of the United States will do more than fulfill one of the president's top campaign promises. It also would be a major step toward Mr. Trump's assuming control of U.S. foreign policy from pro-Obama careerists and reversing President Obama's disastrous policies. This must be followed by an aggressive effort by the White House to fill vacant political national-security jobs as soon as possible.

Fred Fleitz writes for the Center for Security Policy. He is senior vice president for policy and programs with the Center for Security Policy. He held