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Is it really complicated to be able to describe a bridal bouquet: accessory, simple floral composition or symbolic object with deep traditional meaning? In many years, perhaps you have never been able to find an answer, but this is certainly not a problem! There are many other questions that a future bride asks when choosing her bouquet of flowers. Which will be the most suitable for the season and style of your wedding?
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Any composition, floral or otherwise, to consider itself successful, unquestionably needs a good image balance! Looking at the spring bouquets. However, it could be said that sometimes this balanced harmony is a bit lacking: who has not noticed disordered compositions created with different types of flowers? We will reveal a secret to you: this asymmetry is a deliberately sought after effect!
Spring, in fact, is the season that more than any other offers an unparalleled variety of flora and vegetation. And sometimes it is almost impossible to choose a single type for your bridal bouquets. In addition, just in these months, the dances open at ceremonies in the countryside and at outdoor receptions. The bucolic messy bouquets are perfect for this type of wedding. As long as the effect is always well thought out and never left to chance.
The elegance of color
In spring, however, not only that irrepressible desire to spend time in the open air is unleashed: this season also represents the slow awakening of nature which slowly begins to be tinged with pastel shades and blurred colors. For the wedding celebrated right at the dawn of this natural rebirth. Mainly between March and April, the future bride can only choose a bouquet with delicate flowers in soft nuances with a desaturated look.
The whiteness of white, combined with a powder pink or pale yellow, acquires a completely fresh image in a floral composition that smells of novelty and light-heartedness. In this case, the flowers used will be much more similar to each other. Creating a perfect visual balance and a harmony of decidedly feminine and refined shades. Everything a future bride with an eternally romantic soul could ever wish for!
A refined assortment
Even in the most traditional and classic floral arrangements. When spring peeps out, the password is only one: variety! Whether it's an elegant bridal bouquets of peonies or a bundle of colored daisies, the bouquet of flowers that the future bride will hold in her hands must be pervaded by a sparkling air typical of the arrival of the summer. Is there a better way to express this mood if not with a super variegated set of petals, leaves, and seedlings?
As always, it will be necessary to believe in a precise style in order to obtain a perfectly harmonious and balanced result, but this does not negate the possibility of collecting flowers of different shapes or colors in the same composition! As previously seen, bridal bouquets made up of different types of flora are must in-country receptions, but this variety is also found in the most classic weddings. In fact, the same flower presented in various shades will give the bouquet that delicate touch peculiar to the spring season, maintaining a timeless elegance enriched by a breath of news!
Spring for all tastes
If you had to make a survey on which is the season that sees the most wedding invitations. That would undoubtedly be spring! A large number of couples choose this moment to celebrate their love. But it cannot be stated with the same certainty that all the wedding is the same or similar to each other. The decisive element to be able to distinguish them always remains the style of the future bride in question. And the theme is chosen for her big day. Consequently, even the bouquets will follow the same expression of the image!
Among the most popular wedding themes in spring weddings. A subtle connection with nature and its flowering certainly stand out. But at the same time also the trend of eco-green is confirming itself as one of the focal points for the wedding of this season.
How to find the perfect composition then? For classic, romantic and minimal chic weddings, just focus on a few colors and a perfect visual balance. But in the case of alternative, country and ironic themes, a large space for large flowers and brightly colored accents!
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"You can't be what you can't see" is a phrase used to explain in part why women are underrepresented in the Stem disciplines (science, technology, engineers and maths). Without female role models women and girls are less likely to pursue a Stem career.
A study by Microsoft found that girls who know a woman in a Stem profession were 17 per cent more likely to feel empowered to engage in Stem activities than those who don't know a woman in a Stem profession. Yet women have throughout history blazed trails into new disciplines, upsetting the apple cart and finding their way in previously all-male domains. Someone always has to be first.
In 2018, I was the first woman living in Ireland to be selected to participate in a global leadership programme for women in science called Homeward Bound. As part of the programme I spent three weeks on board a ship in Antarctica with 89 other female scientists. I met many women who had become what they could not see.
Tayyaba Zafar is one of the first women in Pakistan to study astronomy. Yi Luo is breaking convention to be a social scientist and social entrepreneur connecting young urban Chinese students to their heritage in rural China. She is in her mid-twenties and pursuing her dreams despite pressure to settle down and get married. From university professors to lion conservationists, electric mobility experts to geologists, most of the women I met were the "first" or the "only" woman in their role.
I found two women originally from Ireland in the Australian cohort on the ship: Dr Deirdre Collins from Dublin and Dr Charlotte Conn from Warrenpoint, Co Down. Deirdre is a geneticist and researches how Clostridium difficile infection spreads in hospitals and the community. Her decision to travel to Papua New Guinea as a young woman to study the spread of cholera was a first. PNG was not considered a safe place for single, young women and the lead scientists were all men.
But once on the ground she worked with three amazing local women technicians, one of whom has gone on to lead the lab (another first). Charlotte has a PhD in biophysical chemistry and is investigating the use of soft nanomaterials to improve the efficacy of protein and peptide based drugs, including those needed to manage global antibiotic resistance.
She had few female role models in Ireland or the UK where she studied, but then found "amazing female mentors" when she moved to Australia. She is now passing on what she has learned as chair of the Equity and Diversity committee for the Australian Colloid and Interface Society.
As Charlotte, Deirdre and I sailed along the western edge of the Antarctic Continent, one of the fastest warming places on the planet, past icebergs and melting glaciers, in the company of women scientists from a wide range of disciplines and geographies, we reviewed the facts. The world is in a leadership crisis with political upheaval, cultural division, undernutrition and inequality on the rise.
Climate change, biodiversity loss and air pollution threaten our health, our wellbeing and the very survival of humanity. Men hold most positions of power – only 11 women are serving as head of state and 10 as head of government around the world. Men run most of the world's corporations – there were only 24 women leading Fortune 500 companies in 2018. Could an increase in women's participation bring a change of leadership style and a fresh approach to addressing the world's problems?
The 90 women on our ship are convinced that having more women in leadership positions in universities, companies, local councils and parliaments will help. Over 21 days on a small ship, living by our own agreed rules, there was no division, tension or conflict.
The principles that guided our interactions were kindness, integrity, empathy and fairness and they led to collaboration, discovery, inspiration and action. As a result, there is a growing network of women scientists ready to support each other, work together, share information, amplify each other's work, write references and make recommendations: all things needed to get ahead in your career, whether you are an engineer or a surgeon.
Finding solutions to the world's problems will require a new way of living on planet earth. How we move, communicate, eat and work will be different and ideally better than it is now. The future of transport is zero emissions, the future of food is healthier and fairer and the future of work will see us work smarter, giving people more time to invest in their families and communities.
Science will be at the forefront of these transformations and the best science will be led by diverse teams of women and men who collaborate and share their information across disciplines and with the wider ecosystem of actors in society.
As human beings we can be what we can't see. We just have to imagine the future we want and then work hard to make it happen. This is same approach that the women scientists who were first followed: as they know, making a difference requires determination and bravery, vulnerability and humility.
My 11-year-old daughter says she wants to be president, not of Ireland, but of the world. A job that has not been invented yet, but who is to say it won't exist in 2060 and imagine if the first person to hold this position was a woman who came to power by leading with integrity, kindness and fairness. That is a future I am ready to imagine.
Dr Tara Shine is director of Change by Degrees and co-founder of Plastic Free Kinsale. This piece is to published to coincide with International Women's Day (March 8th). Applications for the fifth Homeward Bound programme open on the March 7th. Apply at www.homewardboundprojects.com

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During March in Motion (1st – 5th grade),
we are learning about humility
– putting others before yourself. All month,
we will be watching Matt Milton as he tries out
for his high school basketball team and learns
about humility through the process.
Check out episode 1 and see how Matt does
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This week spend some time helping your child learn the March memory verse:
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Philippians 2:3
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Toyota Hybrid Has Speed, Will Travel 24 Hours?
By Jonathan Ingram | Senior Writer
LE MANS, France – There was thunder as the new Toyota TS 030 Hybrid broke cover at Le Mans for the first time. In place of traditional Toyota red seen previously, the Japanese company's LMP1 class hybrid carried a blue paint scheme for its first "Vingt-Quatres Heures du Mans."
The new panels, composed with subtlety fitting of an impressionist painter, accomodated a theme of blue skies and persistant streaks of lightning that closely resemble electric current. But will the Toyota prototype equipped with super capacitor technology strike with real thunder after an accelerated development curve?
The Test Day taking place tomorrow will provide the first clue after a Saturday where the front straight resembled the racing version of a fashion show runway. Photos ops and official scrutineering were the only reasons for cars to be on the track. After the lone Test Day on Sunday, qualifying and the race will be held June 13-17
Born out of the defunct Formula 1 team based in Cologne, Germany, the latest international program from Toyota deserves a lot of respect. Despite a testing accident that forced the cancellation of the TS 030 Hybrid's debut in the second round of the World Endurance Championship at Spa the first week of May, the new car has a worthy provenance. The team is composed of those who worked on the F1 team at Toyota Motorsports GmbH up until 2010. Before that, many of the key personnel helped campaign the redoubtable Toyota GT One that came within a blown tire of challenging for the win at Le Mans in 1999.
That's why there's confidence within the team in the car's speed during preparations for qualifying that will take place in 11 days time. "For sure the pole is the target," said Project Leader John Litjens, one of the many experienced F1 engineers overseeing the hybrid project and a former engineer on the GT One. "But it will be a tough target to compete for the pole against the Audi diesels."
The confidence at TMG, which will use a 3.4-liter V-8 running standard racing fuel, likely emanates from the use of a super capacitor for recovered energy storage instead of a battery. The capacitor was chosen in hopes of providing a quicker burst in the zones designated by the Le Mans organizers for use of stored energy. Since the maximum amount of electric energy between braking points on the 13-kilometer circuit will be regulated, the speed and smoothness of application will be critical. By contrast, the rival Audi R18 e-tron quattro will use the flywheel storage method pioneered by Williams Grand Prix Engineering and later the Porsche GT3 R Hybrid.
Originally scheduled to compete in selected events this year and the full championship in 2012, Toyota got a hurry-up call from the Automobile Club de L'Ouest, organizers at Le Mans, after Peugeot abruptly withdrew from the FIA-sanctioned world championship. When the ACO changed the rules to limit factory points to one car and to allow a factory to pick seven out of eight races for the championship, Toyota tried to join after Round 1 in Sebring at the second race in Spa.
But an engine misfire led to a spectacular testing crash by Nicolas Lapierre at the Paul Ricard circuit in early April. Lapierre emerged without injury, but the first TS 030 was destoyed and its debut postponed. Prior to that, Toyota's new car often struggled to get even a handful of consecutive laps at Ricard.
Initially missing something in the speed department despite the latest "four-square" approach of full sized Michelin tires front and rear, Toyota re-designed its nose to more closely resemble Audi's controversial raised nose and split floor approach, which uses Formula 1-derived technology to efficiently speed the flow of air to the underside and the diffusers at the rear of the car. When Peugeot protested Audi's use of what was called a "third wing" inside the R15 three seasons ago, specific bodywork dimensions were established and it's believed Toyota is using those outlines for its latest nose.
There's nothing secret about the Toyota approach, although the execution is slightly different. "That's to get as much air as possible to the underbody," said Dutchman Litjens of the nose re-design. In general, the TS 030 Hybrid seems to have more flaps, vents, crafted openings and channels than any other car on the grid. That results in part because the heat generated by the "instant on" super capacitor system poses cooling challenges.
Introducing a new hybrid prototype at Le Mans is a lot like designing, building and then learning how to play the violin in public. In addition to the cooling, weight and reliability problems, choosing the location of equipment and weight within the car is completely different process from anything designed by Toyota previously. "The space packaging is a real challenge," said Litjens.
Given the complete newness of the project and short time frame, the team is hesitant to predict anything beyond a spirited run for the pole. "Our preparation time was shortened due to the accident in April," said Litjens. "The lap times should be good, but we'll have to see what happens in the race."
While the car is now front and center, the back story at Toyota concerns the Japanese company's willingness to continue racing on the international level despite the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March of 2011. The destruction and disruption in the wake of the natural disaster forced a six-month delay of the Hybrid.
TMG has been trimmed from 800 employes at the height of the Formula 1 era, where budgets were estimated as more than $300 million, to the current 400. The company, which features a multi-national staff, is still very active in F1, doing contract work for current teams. Many of the personel working on the Hybrid spent mornings on the sports car project and afternoons fulfilling F1 contracts.
The team plans to enter two cars at Le Mans – assuming each survives a Test Day where rain is predicted. But in the remaining five rounds of the WEC championship TMG will campaign only one car due to budget concerns. Given the absence of the team from the first and second rounds, there's virtually no chance of contesting Audi, which introduced its e-tron quattro in Belgium alongside the lightweight R18 Ultra, for the championship.
Hence Toyota's initial emphasis on poles first and endurance later.
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The Niagara region is known for many things – magnificent Falls, history, golf courses and of course the vineyards and their grapes that produce award-winning wines. However, all things considered, a spectacular glass of wine can (and should) be paired with some of the amazing food Niagara has to offer too!
Agriculture is a booming industry in Niagara, and with it has blossomed a burgeoning movement towards farm-to-table – in food and wine.
According to Tiffany Mayer, food blogger at eatingniagara.com, not supporting the farm-to-table movement is denying Niagara's identity; "farm-to-table is about being inspired by what's available locally." Restaurants across the region have increasingly adopted this mentality as a way to tell a story through food for their patrons. The food becomes more meaningful to consumers when they feel a connection to it, and most of the time, it tastes better because it has been created at the height of its freshness.
Restaurants and food trucks in the area, like The Yellow Pear (farm-to-truck cuisine) boast that their menus give local businesses and farmers a place to showcase their products and celebrate good, hard, honest work. Who wouldn't be excited about eating something they have a personal connection to? Mayer is proud to note that with the exception of salt, she can eat an entire meal that is full of Niagara produce.
When asked why the farm-to-table movement and Niagara wines are a natural fit, Mayer commented that things that grow together, go together. Brian Hamilton, winemaker at Southbrook Vineyard in Niagara on the Lake has noted how important the farm-to-table mentality is to wineries as well. At Southbrook in particular, all of their wines are organic and biodynamically certified and their grapes are estate grown or from other organic and local vineyards.
During this year's Brock Homecoming, we will be highlighting amazing cuisine that Niagara has to offer when we partner Niagara wine with Niagara food; wineries with restaurants and caterers which practice the farm-to-table mentality at our Fine Food, Fine Wine event on Saturday Sept. 21.
If you would like to savour the flavour that Niagara has to offer, make sure you get your tickets to Fine Food, Fine Wine on Saturday, Sept. 21. You'll join fellow 'localvores' (people who prefer to consume locally grown and produced foods) for a unique taste experience that will indulge our taste buds and help us celebrate Niagara's fine food and award winning wines.
To register for Fine Food, Fine Wine, visit the homecoming website at brocku.ca/homecoming
Fine Food, Fine Wine Pairings
Syndicate Brewery & Restuarant & Pillitteri Estate Winery
The Yellow Pear foodtruck & Southbrook Vineyard
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Richard A. Williams
Richard Williams is a Senior Affiliated Scholar, the former Director of the Regulatory Studies Program, and the former Vice President of Policy Research at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He is an expert in benefit-cost analysis and risk analysis, particularly associated with food safety and nutrition. He is currently consulting at marginal regulation and writing a book about FDA.
Williams has testified before the US Congress and addressed numerous international governments, including those of the United Kingdom, China, South Korea, Yugoslavia, and Australia. His media appearances have included NPR, Reuters, Bloomberg, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
Before joining the Mercatus Center, Williams was the director for social sciences at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) where he worked for 27 years. He also was an adviser to the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis and taught economics at Washington and Lee University. He is a US Army veteran who served in Vietnam.
Williams received his PhD and MA in economics from Virginia Tech and his BS in business administration from Old Dominion University.


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Do you still mano po? Do you still call your siblings ate/kuya or manang/manong/ading? Do you know the recipes that your grandparents used in their cooking? Do you miss the local Filipino restaurant or store that no longer exists? Do you wear barongs or baro't saya? What markers of Filipino culture do you still preserve in your family and community?
As Filipino Americans, many cultural practices that many of us grew up with may be slowly fading away. Some may completely vanish, but others may still be preserved. Many practices may even take on new forms, yet keep the same meaning behind them. Change is inevitable in this fast-paced world, but what cultural practices get preserved in our community and why? In this episode, the TFAL crew discusses some cultural practices that our parents and grandparents may have passed on to us, but are slowly changing due to the realities of living in the United States.
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Fish Oil?
Contrary to most writing rules, I'm opening this post with a question, rather than a statement. Fish oil is one of those things that I always heard awful things about growing up - how awful it tasted, and how my parents (growing up in the 50's) had to swallow it daily.
Fish oil?, a photo by livingglassart home of oddballs and oddities on Flickr.
Fish oil?, a photo by livingglassart home of oddballs and oddities on Flickr.
And here I am finding myself fishing for some oil and spilling half of it on my hands as I try to measure out the right amount. I know it also come in capsules, but I've been swallowing so many anti-inflammatory drugs recently in order to convince a herniated disc to go back to where it belongs; that avoiding more pills, even if it means swallowing some disturbing and smell stuff seems rather appealing.
With it's "great lemony flavour" it actually does not taste all that bad. But it leaves a streak of scent on my fingers no matter how hard I try not to spill. Lemon and fish oil. Sigh... And guess what? I'm finding it strangely appealing. Sort of like a low concentration of calone. Almost like the aquatic men's cologne that's been permeating the elevator in my building for the past week or so (Aqua de Gio or something along these lines).
That lemon and fish scent reminds me of Orcas' interplay between seaweed and lime (although it's not nearly as fishy); and makes a little turn to bring me to the Coal Harbour perfume, juxtaposing rather horrific man-made scents with the delightful nature contrasting it - diesel lawn-mawer and cut grass; ocean breeze and jet fuel; decaying polluted sealife and airy flowering trees...
I promise it will end up being wearable. But it will take a while...


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Greek Shrimp and Olive Salad with Lemon Dressing
Courtesy of Laurie Constantino
Adapted from a recipe by Ellen Pavlakos, 'The Greeks Have a Word Recipe For It,' by the Philoptochos Society of St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church (Melbourne, Florida 1981)
Serves 4
1 lb shrimp, preferably Alaska spot or side-stripe shrimp
1 cup Kalamata olives, pitted and sliced into thirds
1 cup Greek green olives, pitted and sliced into thirds
Lemon Dressing:
1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
2 tsp Dijon mustard
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
8-10 cups mixed greens, including arugula, spinach, watercress, Belgian endive, radicchio, Romaine lettuce, dandelions, or other edible green
1 cup thinly sliced green onions, both white and green parts
1 cup roughly chopped fresh Italian parsley
1/4 cup fresh basil cut into thin ribbons (chiffonade)
1 cup diced red bell pepper or ripe tomato, 3/4" dice
Freshly ground black pepper
1/2 cup toasted pine nuts*
Greek Shrimp and Olive Salad is perfect fare for long summer days when the cook wants to be outside instead of in the kitchen. It's packed with flavor, simple to make, and very flexible. Use the freshest greens available from the garden or farmers markets, singly or in combination. Don't have two kinds of olives? Use one. No red pepper? Use tomato. No lemon juice? Pull out the white wine vinegar. Can't afford pine nuts? Use walnuts or slivered almonds. Cold-water spot or side-stripe shrimp are juicier and more flavorful than Southeast Asian farmed shrimp, but any shrimp will do. For no-fuss entertaining, make most of the recipe early; dress greens just before serving to prevent soggy salad.
Make Topping: Bring large pot of salted water to rolling boil. Stir in shrimp and turn off heat. Remove shrimp from water as soon as they're cooked through, about 2-3 minutes. If using large shrimp, cut into 2-3 pieces. Toss shrimp and olives in bowl with 1/4 cup lemon dressing.
Make Lemon Dressing: Whisk together lemon juice, mustard, salt and freshly ground black pepper. Slowly whisk in extra virgin olive oil. Taste and add lemon juice, salt and freshly ground black pepper, as needed.
Assemble Salad: Mix greens, green onions, parsley and basil in large bowl. Lightly salt chopped tomatoes and set aside. (Recipe may be made ahead to this point.)
When ready to serve, mix greens with 1/4 cup lemon dressing. Taste and add more dressing, salt or freshly ground black pepper, as needed. Spread out dressed greens on serving platter. Mound topping over dressed greens and arrange red pepper or tomato around edge of platter. Sprinkle toasted nuts over salad.
NOTE: Toasting pine nuts brings out and concentrates their flavor. It also requires caution; pine nuts burn very easily. The quickest and easiest way to toast pine nuts is in a dry skillet but, if you walk away from the skillet, pine nuts have a 95 percent chance of burning (I know this from painful personal experience). To oven-toast nuts, preheat oven to 350°F, put pine nuts on baking sheet, and bake for 5-7 minutes, stirring nuts every 2 minutes.


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Chas. Hude was founded by Charles Christian von der Hude in 1896. Today Chas. Hude is one of the leading IPR firms in Denmark.
At Chas. Hude, transformation and tradition go hand in hand; with years of experience, Chas. Hude has evolved into a modern business. But our business values are unchanged: We strengthen the value in your ideas and innovation.
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Racism is finally making headlines, but this scourge is not just on American streets. Racism is literally in every sector of our life, including climate reporting. This is not less true about climate reporting in Africa.
Without ending racism, we won't be able to achieve climate justice. Those who face the impacts of climate change are the least heard. How shall we be able to get justice for the people whose voices keep being buried in the ground? There is no climate justice without racial justice. Environmental justice begins with amplifying the most affected communities. Climate justice can only be justice if it is global enough and it includes everyone.
This became painfully clear to me in January 2020. I had been invited to take part as a youth delegate in the Davos Summit Arctic basecamp. There, I happened to be part of a press conference with Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer, Isabelle Axelsson, and Loukina Tilla. I clearly remember telling the media to stop being biased when reporting about climate change and climate activism. I asked them to be more inclusive and to ensure that every voice is listened to. Unfortunately, they didn't listen to mine.
After the press conference I came across an article where I was cropped out of a photo. I had not been introduced as one of the climate activists at the press conference. To me, this was an erasure of my voice and the voices of the activists that have for so long tried to tell their stories but all in vain. We are not a helpless continent. We have stories to tell and solutions to give.
Not voiceless
Think about Africa. The helpless continent. The continent that can't birth solutions. But is it, really? Why is Africa's image portrayed that way? Why do the 54 countries in this continent (often pictured as a homogeneous land) appear so defenceless? As it turns out, Africa isn't helpless. But its power is not included in the narrative, and that hurts our ability to use it.
African changemakers have powerful voices, but no one amplifies them. The people driving solutions and change in the African countries are not given their fair chance to tell the stories of their communities and the actions that they are taking towards a meaningful change. This does not help us, the African people, implementing our solutions to the climate crisis. Our voices are robbed. Our stories are robbed. Our solutions remain buried.
And they should be heard. Africa is already experiencing the devastating impacts of climate change. If we do not talk about the crisis in Africa and fail to amplify the activists who are speaking up and demanding climate action, the people will continue facing environmental injustices and many will continue to lose their lives.
The people who make decisions that affect our future need to understand that the marginalized communities of this world are rising and demanding justice. But this is not possible if the media continues to erase the voices of the people demanding change.
We don't need Western media to tell our stories, we can do that ourselves. We don't need Western media to give us a voice. We already have voices. What we need is better collaboration between African and Western media. We need them to work together to help us drive change in the most affected communities. We need more representation of African journalists in Western media. We need people who understand what is happening on the ground to work hand in hand with western media to tell these stories.
Work together
Western media has a role to play, but they can't ignore our voices anymore. Instead, they can choose to work hand in hand with African journalists. If we all work, together, we will be able to amplify what's happening at the most affected communities and help drive change and climate action.
Do you want to tell African stories? That's great! You can get in touch with African journalists and work with them to tell what goes on in African communities. We need more inclusiveness and more efforts to drive change and action while involving everyone.
If these solutions are ignored, we will continue to see many voices erased in marginalized communities and we will not be able to get environmental justice. Remember that environmental justice starts with you amplifying the most affected communities. Climate justice is only justice if it is global enough.
Africa can tell its own story. Africa can amplify its voices. Africa can drive solutions to the climate crisis. We can do this. All we need is to work together. Together and united, we will be able to drive change in our communities.
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Sunday art fair has been steadily building a reputation as one of the most curated off-broadway fairs, and this year's edition is no different, with a tight edit of some for the world's more interesting small galleries bringing their artists to London.
In no order, don't miss:
1 Brit multi-media artist Elliot Dodd at Evelyn Yard Gallery's booth. Dodd' unsettling video piece mixes digital animation with Dislogue from Jane Eyre for an exquisitely unsettling, strangely sexualised experience. www.evelynyard.com
2 Strauss Bourque-LaFrance's naïf textural wall sculptures at Rachel Uffner Gallery. Bright pop colours and and expressionistic painting style combine with woodworking skills honed in the artist's family furniture making business for an engaging spatial intervention. www.racheluffnergallery.com
3 Neil Raitt's sand-filled tent and deckchair installation seem to bring the dark side of California life to the Anat Ebgi Gallery booth. An American-centric installation by the Leicester artist calls to mind the temporary structures of well funded aid-centres or military encampments, made ridiculous with a giant plastic cactus lamp. anatebgi.com
4 At Ltd. Los Angeles, fine artist Anja Salonen returns to figurative painting with psychological portraits of herself and her friends posing with chains, wigs, sunglasses; all elements the artist explains as connected to the formation of the personalities of those shown. www.ltdlosangeles.com
5 Vanessa Safavi's arresting work puts materiality to the fore with sheets of brightly hued silicon squashed under glass, on Barbara Seiler's stand. The artist's interest in the tactility and folds of her own skin is her subject matter. www.barbaraseiler.ch
6 Johannes Vogt's themed booth invites viewers to examine aspects of feminist philosophy, with a particular stand out from artist Monika Bravo, who's wall piece Bild-Objekt layers materials to create solid forms. The Colombian artist was famously included in the Vatican pavillion at 2015's Venice Biennale. www.johannesvogt.nyc


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JD.com Inc., formerly 360Buy Jingdong Inc., will begin trading on the NASDAQ today — Unsurprisingly it goes public ahead of Alibaba Group. The IPO price is set at $19 per ADS and the company will raise $1.78 billion in the offering.
Chinese tech giant Tencent gained a 15% stake in JD.com through a deal the two companies announced earlier this year. Tencent will buy 5% more of JD at IPO price thus it will be the second largest shareholder in the company, only after JD founder Richard Liu.
Now JD.com owns the business-to-customer and customer-to-customer marketplaces that failed to gain traction when under Tencent, and a minority stake in Yixun, the online retailer Tencent invested in. JD has the right to fully acquire Yixun later.
A vice president at JD reportedly published a Weibo post saying the dedicated channel — referred to as "prominent level 1 access points" on WeChat (or Weixin), the most popular mobile messaging app in China, and Mobile QQ, Tencent's flagship brand, would go live in several days (report in Chinese). Although he deleted that post later due to unknown reasons, but it is expected it will happen sooner or later. With that, WeChat users will be able to purchase goods from JD directly including make payments.
According to its updated filing with the SEC, JD reported RMB21.7 billion ($3.5bn) in online sales, a 63.5% increase, for Q1 2014.
Different from Alibaba, JD started from direct sales, which has been with a thin profit margin. Liu said at an event in the past March this year that JD decided to introduce third-party retailers onto its platform in 2010 after the company failed making profits from selling clothes on their own.
Whilst Alibaba has been making good profits from third-party retailers on its marketplaces, Taobao and Tmall, through retailer-facing services, such as search marketing, display ads, display network Alimama (not included in the Alibaba business that will go public soon), among others.
At the above-mentioned event, Liu said ten years later 70% of JD's profits would be generated from financial services. Like Alibaba, JD rolled out small loans to retailers on its platform.


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"Though renowned in her own time, noted Interregnum and Restoration poet Katherine Philips fell into relative obscurity within a few decades of her sudden death at age 32 and was soon relegated to the margins of the English canon. In recent decades, however, critics have begun to rediscover and recognize the importance of Philips's poems and translations. This first scholarly collection devoted solely to the poetry of Katherine Philips is an important milestone, not only in the continuing recovery of Philips's reputation, but in our understanding of her influence in the literary circles of the seventeenth century.
As Orvis and Paul explain, Philips's work ranges across genres, modes, and forms; she wrote epithalamia and elegies, pastorals and panegyrics, dialogues and Pindaric odes; she even tried her hand quite successfully at dramatic translation. Her significance as a poet became clear with her appearance in several notable print publications of the time, which had rarely included women writers. Though she continued to be cited by writers after her death — John Keats, for example, highly praised and quoted one of her friendship poems in an 1817 letter — editions of her poetry fell out of print after 1710, and her work became far less known. Until the recent surge in interest in "women's writing," Philips, if mentioned at all, was seen by early twentieth century scholars as a minor writer who dealt with rather inconsequential subject matter.
The field of Philips scholarship is rich and diverse, however, despite its relative youth. As this collection demonstrates, her work resists attempts to pigeonhole it, bringing together questions of politics, sexual desire and identity, and poetic tradition. These 13 essays from a wide range of scholars are organized around three salient fields of inquiry: cultural poetics and the courtly coterie; innovation and influence in poetic and political form; and articulations of female friendship, homoeroticism, and retreat."


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Press Releases
September 29, 2016
Kite Pharma Names Christine Cassiano as Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160929006258/en/
"Christine arrives at a key inflection point for Kite as we advance our CAR-T and TCR pipeline toward key company milestones, including our BLA submission for KTE-C19 with the
With a dual background in investor and public relations, Christine has an extensive history developing innovative approaches that advance communications in corporate positioning, issues management, employee engagement, commercialization and investor relations.
"My enthusiasm for Kite's groundbreaking research goes beyond my professional drive to innovate healthcare communications - it is also deeply personal," said Cassiano. "Like many who have lost a loved one to cancer, I understand first-hand the optimism and promise scientific progress offers to patients whose lives depend on significant breakthroughs in care. I am eager to further the understanding of Kite's role in advancing breakthrough therapies for cancer."
Cassiano was most recently Head of Healthcare for the
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Customer Reviews
Great starter pod
Just got my new rainbow Smok Nord. Love it. Super easy to use and fill.slim design makes it easy to store in my purse or pocket without turning it on accidentally. great flavour. Would recommend this. Going to buy another for my mom to help her quit smoking.


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Sand dollars
This year, it was estimated that roughly 125,000 people would show up to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival during the weekends of April 13-15 and April 20-22 to see Beyonce, Eminem and the Weeknd headline the trendy festival.
With the growing popularity of the event, another trend has emerged in the Coachella Valley — and it's helping Angelenos pocket several thousands of dollars. Young entrepreneurs are raking in immense profits by buying homes in the desert region for the sole purpose of renting them out in the festival season.
"Even if it's an $800,000 house and not that special, [renting out] a four-bedroom house for every festival will pay all your property taxes in a short week," said Madison Hildebrand, a luxury broker at Pacific Union.
Festival rentals provide an "opportunity to part-time residents to make an investment knowing that they also have additional revenues that they can subsidize, and that has made a huge boom in the real estate industry," said Aftab Dada, managing director at the Hilton Palm Springs.
On home-sharing platform Airbnb, options for the Coachella festival weekend start at $300 a night for a single bed in a shared room and range up to $2,000 for a three-bedroom house. A private home in non-peak season might cost an average of $200 per night, with the luxury homes clocking in at $700 per night.
Richard Bartholomew, an Agency broker based in Palm Springs, said large estate properties will rake in anywhere from $50,000 to $100,000 for a single weekend. The average house, he added, will probably rent for three times the standard price.
"I have clients that usually don't do vacation rentals, but they'll move out of their house for those two weekends because it's such a cash flow," Bartholomew said.
The increase in festival rentals has even contributed toward an uptick in home prices in the region, sources said. In just one year, the median home price in the Coachella Valley rose 13 percent, to $390,000, in February 2018, according to Market Watch, which tracks home values for the California Desert Association of Realtors. That's an increase from $200,000 in February 2002, when the festival was still in its infancy.
"You have big celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio who are bringing the young, hip crowd to Palm Springs," said Martin Beaurivage, CEO and co-founder of the concierge service Elite Luxury Homes. "All of these A-listers bought houses, and still the property value is not even 30 percent in comparison to property in L.A."
Beaurivage's company is just one of many that have sprung up to serve ancillary needs created by the local music festivals. Elite Luxury Homes arranges a VIP experience for clients attending the events. The firm, which serves companies looking to host events, as well as individual partygoers, takes care of finding a home for groups, as well as arranging a driver and security and even snagging a few VIP passes to the festival for a 20 percent service fee.
The leases Elite arranges rake in anywhere between $15,000 to $80,000 for the weekend, with a four-night minimum stay. From that, homeowners will net about $10,000 to $50,000 from a single weekend, Beaurivage said. Most of the homes are also pocket listings and not found on typical home-sharing platforms, which adds a level of exclusivity to the experience.
Rumor has it Beyonce dished out $75,000 a week to crash at a desert mansion this year, according to Hildebrand.
Hospitality's not hurting
Although the hotel industry has come out in full force against home rentals in other markets, those in Coachella Valley are far more friendly to the trend.
"All of us in the Valley consider vacation rentals as complementary to the hotel industry," the Hilton's Dada said. Unlike other major metropolitan markets in New York or Chicago, our business is in the weekend. All of us unanimously support the vacation rentals."
Like the Coachella Festival's effect on home prices, the event has a similar influence on hotel room prices, though not quite as drastic. Rates can start at $300 a night for a hotel room and range as high as $900 during the festival weekends, up from the usual $125 to $400 nightly rate, Dada said.
The increase in rates has been growing steadily each year. In 2012, the revenue per available room for April had grown 123 percent from the year prior, according to a Palm Springs report from hospitality data firm STR Global. More recently, that number has skyrocketed to 240 percent year-over-year growth.
The Hilton Palm Springs hotel often sells out a year in advance of the festival dates, with most people securing rooms even before the lineup of performers is released, Dada said. The hotel is already all booked for 2019.
Legislating rentals
Despite support from the hospitality sector, the fate of many of these short-term rentals will be decided in June, when Palm Springs residents will get to vote on an ordinance that could eventually phase out rentals in the city.
As is the case in Los Angeles, city officials in Palm Springs have been trying to find ways to curtail home-sharing platforms like Airbnb from exacerbating California's housing shortage (see our story on page 46).
In March 2017, the city passed a short-term rental ordinance limiting landlords to 36 rentals a year and prohibiting such rentals in apartments. Vacation rentals taking place in apartments have until Jan. 1, 2019, to shutter all operations.
In the fiscal year 2016 to 2017, tax income from vacation rentals clocked in at $7.58 million, according to a report published by the City of Palm Springs. By December, the total number of registered vacation rentals or homeshares was 1,986.
On June 5, voters in Palm Springs will decide whether they want to modify the city's rental ordinance to phase out short-term rentals in residential zones. Should the measure pass, the city could lose more than $200 million annually, as well as 74 percent of available vacation units, according to an economic impact report published by consulting firm Tourism Economics.
The Agency's Bartholomew said many don't expect the vote to pass. "Palm Springs in particular gets so much tax revenue from their vacation rental business," he said. "It's what Palm Springs is all about."


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TNC Community provides habilitation services to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Our agency's investment in the health of individuals receiving support from TNC is evident. At the heart of our organization are the residents and staff that make up our communities. Some residents, most of them medically fragile, require 24/7 care, while others just need some assistance with every day tasks. We understand that every disability is as unique as the person so we customize our care to meet the need of each individual. Our health team intimately knows each individual – their moods, attitudes, behaviors so when something seems amiss, we begin to ask questions to determine the source of the change.
As the numbers of individuals who reside in Missouri state facilities continues to decline, the demand for supportive services from agencies like ours will remain a necessity. TNC employs an entire health team dedicated to our residents.
Our health team consists of:
- A 24-hour on-call Director of Health Services who oversees the entire team
- Community RNs
- Health Support Coordinators who schedule routine and urgent medical appointments, provide transport and accompany the individuals
- A Pharmacy Support Coordinator who monitors the usage of medications and any changes
- A registered Dietician for nutritional evaluations and a full health assessment for each individual
Our collaborative efforts, along with medical providers, allow us to quickly communicate any medication side effects or other health-related issues.
Community Integration is vital to the health and well-being of our residents. TNC Community offers assistance with planning activities and provides transportation to these outings.
TNC's Residences are Located Throughout the Kansas City Metro Area


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Mon 4 July 2011 – Fuel standards body ASTM International has passed specifications for the commercial and military use of renewable jet fuels produced from vegetable oil-containing feedstocks such as algae, camelina or jatropha, and also from animal fats. A newly issued ASTM D7566-11 spec allows a 50 per cent blending of fuels derived from hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA) with conventional petroleum-based jet kerosene. Last week, KLM became the first airline to take advantage of the landmark certification by operating a scheduled flight between Amsterdam and Paris using a blend based on used cooking oil sourced from the United States (see story). The ASTM subcommittee responsible for alternative jet fuel certification, which approved Fischer-Tropsch synthesis fuels two years ago, will now turn its attention to approving fuels derived from sugars, alcohols and some other synthetic technologies.
The certification is the result of years of intensive work by the D02.J0 subcommittee, which consists of more than 2,000 members from 66 countries, and a successful ballot a few weeks ago on final approval. Representatives from companies across the fuel supply chain plus HEFA fuel producers, aircraft and engine manufacturers, and regulatory agencies were involved in the process.
"The revision of D7566 reflects an industry cooperative effort to accomplish this task," said Mark Rumizen of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), who helped lead the work and is head of the certification-qualification group for the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative (CAAFI). "Because of the great emphasis on safety when you're dealing with aviation fuel, the passage of this ballot required a collaborative effort between the members of the aviation fuels community."
Aviation fuel producers, distributors, airport fuel farms and airlines throughout the world will use the standard to verify fuel quality and performance by testing to the D7566 specification requirements for components such as thermal stability, distillation control and trace material amounts.
After blending, new lubricity, distillation and composition requirements in D7566 must also be met. As a result, notes Rumizen, the blended jet fuel is essentially identical to hydrocarbons found in conventional fuel. However, the absence of natural aromatics from HEFA fuels, which are present in conventional petroleum-based fuels and essential to the safe operation of aircraft turbine engines, necessitates for the time being no more than a 50% usage of bioderived fuels in blends. Research is underway to find if synthetic aromatics could be developed to allow for higher blend mixes.
The new D7566 'drop-in' fuels should be able to be seamlessly integrated into the distribution infrastructure and onto certificated aircraft as they will meet the requirements of the D1655 standard for aviation turbine fuels, which has been in industry use over many decades.
Commenting on the HEFA certification, CAAFI Executive Director Richard Altman said: "We congratulate the hundreds of aviation sponsors, biofuel producers and agricultural stakeholders on this great achievement. The leadership, focus and dedication of this team of professionals has resulted in the qualification of now two new non-petroleum fuel processes within the last 24 months. The gateway is wide open to broad deployment of sustainable, secure, and economical jet fuels that will benefit our industry, the flying public and the world at large in more ways than we could ever imagine."
Shell Aviation's aviation fuels technology manager, Rob Midgley, who is also a D02 member, said the D7566 revisions would help better define approval pathways for other renewable blends in which the industry was showing interest.
According to Altman, amongst the fuels that await approval are from advanced processes that use alcohols (for example from companies such as Gevo and LanzaTech), pyrolysis oil and synthetic biology (for example Amyris). "These are the subject of intensive R&D and are progressing through the Fuel Readiness process," he said.
"These various pathways could produce outcomes in the 2013 to 2015 timeframe. As flight programmes are indicated in the 2012 to 2014 period it is clear that sufficient quantities of these fuel types will be available and the track record we have now demonstrated supports the goals we set several years ago in this regard."
Rumizen explains that two groups are currently actively engaged in the ASTM process: the Alcohol to Jet (ATJ) Task Force and the Direct Sugar to Hydrocarbon (DSHC) Task Force. He says several companies are participating in the ATJ Task Force involving processes that utilise sugars, starches or lignocellulosic (woody biomass) feedstocks.
It's too early to project dates on when jet fuels from these processes could be approved, Rumizen told GreenAir. "I will say that we expect to start seeing data from both task forces before the ASTM meeting. After analysing the data, we will have a better idea of how long it will take.
"A third pathway is also beginning to engage on processes involving pyrolysis and High Temperature Fluid Catalytic Cracking that start from woody biomass. So we expect to be very busy at ASTM over the next couple of years."
ASTM International
This article was updated 5 July 2011
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Terror still a no-show on US soil
Experts cite better intelligence and security since 9/11, but warn of complacency.
After one of the most intense periods of public anxiety about security since 9/11, Americans are going back to work en masse Monday - without having experienced a major terrorist hit.
While a heightened state of alert remains in effect - and more than a dozen international airline flights have been canceled or delayed - the US has managed to make it through another tremulous holiday season without an attack on its soil.
True, one could come at any moment - and, government and terrorist experts predict, almost certainly will at some point. Yet for now a domestic Al Qaeda strike remains a possibility rather than a reality.
All of which raises the question: Why? Is Al Qaeda more of a paper tiger than people thought? Has it decided to focus on overseas targets instead? Is it just waiting for the right moment to hit here?
Experts cite several reasons for the relative quiescence:
• Better security everywhere, from airports to ballparks to nuclear plants.
• Intelligence gathering and analysis at home and abroad has improved dramatically since 9/11.
• Al Qaeda may well be content hitting overseas targets, where it can make both a political statement and inflict considerable damage on US interests, directly and indirectly. But don't think it won't try something in the US in the future.
"The war on terror is not static," says Bruce Hoffman, a terror expert at the RAND Corp. in Washington. "The arms race of the cold war is being played out on this level today."
It's not that Islamic extremists haven't been active. It's just that most of their attacks have been centered in the Middle East, often in Muslim countries allied with the US, including against nations in solidarity with America.
Last month, for instance, a series of car bombs rocked Istanbul, Turkey, where terrorists targeted the British Consulate, a bank, and a Jewish place of worship. In May, a triple suicide bombing left 35 dead, including eight Americans, at a residential complex in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, a Washington ally in the war on terror, has been the subject of several recent assassination attempts.
Nor does the absence of an attack in the US mean there aren't consequences. The mere heightening of the security alert system to orange (high), as a result of intelligence suggesting a strike, can cost millions of dollars in extra police and baggage screeners across the country, not to mention the unease it causes Americans.
Nowhere has this been more evident than in the nation's air-travel system over the past two weeks. At least a dozen flights have been canceled or delayed - including ones from London, Paris, and Mexico to the US - amid the tightest international airline security in history. Several other planes were escorted by F-16 fighter jets as they entered US airspace. "I've never seen security at this level before," says John Lampl of British Airways. "Just when you think you've seen everything, something else happens. This is brand new and probably for very good reasons...."
Intelligence and law-enforcement officials both here and abroad say they continue to pick up specific threat information through electronic eavesdropping and interrogations of detained terrorists. Some of the intercepted conversations mention specific flight numbers, but do not include sufficient detail to piece together entire plots.
Still, officials say, if they receive the information, it's better to err on the side of caution. "There is some intelligence that has provided names or country locations or flights that could be problematic," says a US law-enforcement official. "It's never been this intense, in terms of security. But as long as it continues to be a viable threat, even though we've taken security precautions against a lot of this, we have to act on it."
Security, of course, was ratcheted up during the holidays last year, too. But it was a different threat. Most of the "chatter" then was about five individuals who were planning to cross the Canada-US border to carry out a hit, according to the federal official. "That turned out to be inaccurate," he says. "But you have got to work with the information given you...."
The amount of information has exploded, officials say, partly due to enhanced collection capabilities, but also because of increased cooperation between foreign governments and the US. Some 90 countries are now sharing intelligence in the war on terror.
Much of that has led to enhanced security in the US, particularly at borders, nuclear power plants, and airports. But, experts point out, terrorists are likely to continue to try to identify weaknesses in the security net. Even the day before the 9/11 attacks, a group of the hijackers passed through security at Dulles airport just to "check it out."
Authorities say the best way to counter terror activities is to use a variety of tools to keep would-be attackers off balance - like the closer scrutiny now being given to international flights.
"That sends a powerful message to our enemies," says Mr. Hoffman. "It shows we haven't grown complacent and are still willing to do what we need to do to protect ourselves."
One reason for the focus on air travel is because planes remain the weapon of choice among terrorists for a strike in this country, experts say. They maintain that a hijacking or turning an aircraft into a missile would allow Al Qaeda to both make a political statement and inflict the kind of economic and psychological damage it wants.
Suicide bombings, the preferred tool in the Middle East, is difficult to do here, in part because so many Muslims are now under surveillance. "Al Qaeda continues to be interested in airplanes," says a US government official. "They go to things that have been successful in the past and that have the potential for carrying out a spectacular attack."
Some experts suggest that, without an attack in the US soon, Al Qaeda could start to lose credibility in the Muslim world. That's just one more reason, all agree, that this is no time for complacency.
"Al Qaeda carries out attacks on its schedule," says an intelligence official. "The 9/11 attack and the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen were in the works for several years. We expect they have others in the planning stages waiting to go operational."


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Pilar Celaya
From El Salvador to Ann Arbor with hope and good cooking
For immigrants, it's a bittersweet experience seeing their children embrace a new culture. Pilar Celaya says this first hit her when she was at the Pioneer High graduation of her two oldest kids. "When they started playing the national anthem, [the American] not the El Salvadoran one, I started crying--thinking I was only supposed to stay here one year and now my children are graduating in another country."
An Ann Arbor resident for eight years, Celaya, fifty, has a story as dramatic as that of any refugee from Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. Forced to flee El Salvador because their lives were in danger, she and her family came by chance to Ann Arbor because the Society of Friends (Quakers) offered them sanctuary. A short (four feet nine) woman with slightly graying shoulder-length brown hair and sparkling eyes, Celaya arrived penniless and without knowing English. Today, she has her own catering business, her husband, Aurelio, has a permanent job, and all five of her children have earned high school diplomas. Two have gone on to college, and one has graduated.
In the early 1980's, the Celaya family (the name is an alias they chose to safeguard their identity when they arrived in the United States) was living in El Salvador's capital city, San Salvador; Pilar worked in a textile factory and Aurelio in a food processing plant. They lived just outside of town in a small farmhouse with a dirt floor, unpainted walls, and an outdoor toilet, but lots of room outside. They grew squash, bananas, and avocados, and raised chickens, ducks, and pigs--all of which they sold. They enjoyed their pets: numerous birds that flew around freely, and five dogs, one for each child. Leaders in their unions at work, they were also active members of the Emanuel Baptist Church, inspired by its social activism.
The terrible series of events that forever altered the lives of the Celaya family began on the night of February 17, 1980, when three men pulled up in a jeep and burst into their house. The men were part of El Salvador's notorious "death squads," who didn't like the family's union activism. They killed Celaya's two brothers-in-law, wounded two of her nieces, and destroyed the house. Afraid the death squads would return--all in all, death squads killed more than 70,000 people over a ten-year span--the Celaya family went into hiding.
After Pilar's brother was arrested, Aurelio escaped to Mexico. At risk to herself, Celaya waited until her brother was released from jail before she and the children joined Aurelio in Mexico in 1982. There, she found work managing a laundry, while Aurelio worked as a chauffeur. She says of their stay in Mexico, "Even though we could speak the language, we were not so lucky in Mexico. The country is poor. There are not many opportunities."
In 1985, they accepted an offer of sanctuary made by the Friends congregation in Ann Arbor. Though half a million people had fled the fighting in El Salvador, the U.S. government did not recognize the conflict as a civil war, and so denied them political asylum. In defiance of that policy, the Friends offered to help the family enter the U.S. illegally and to harbor them in the large house they own on Hill Street.
The Celayas crossed the border in Arizona, after a four-and-a-half-hour walk that included fording a river. The trip from Arizona to Ann Arbor took a month, with the Friends transporting them in a twentieth-century Underground Railroad, exchanging drivers and putting the family up at different homes.
Finally arriving, tired and dispirited, at their new home at 1416 Hill, the Celayas were cheered when Barry Lyons, one of their hosts, welcomed them in Spanish. For a week, Lyons slept on the couch to be on hand in case of an encounter with the police or immigration officials. Luckily, the authorities didn't bother them, then or later.
A month after her arrival, Pilar Celaya began speaking in public about her experiences in El Salvador, taking a translator with her, eventually traveling around the country to sanctuary conferences. Reliving the terrible events caused her to suffer nightmares after each engagement. "It wasn't easy," she says, "but I wanted to make a real effect and do something concrete."
Celaya and her family had to adjust to everything in Ann Arbor, from the weather (they had never seen snow) to the abundance of specialized stores to Americans' fondness for gadgets. Although delighted to find such previously unknown luxuries as a blender and a mixer in the Quaker House kitchen, Celaya once exclaimed to a friend in Ann Arbor, "I think North Americans don't sleep! They have to be awake to think what they can invent to make money."
When the family first came to Ann Arbor, Pilar and Aurelio could not work because, as illegal aliens, they could not get Social Security numbers. The Friends and others took care of their day-to-day expenses and their medical and dental bills. The couple took care of the house, did odd jobs to earn spending money, and took English classes. Learning English was more of a struggle for them, because of their ages and their relative isolation, than for their children.
While learning to cope with her new life, Celaya kept Salvadoran ways alive. Although her children picked up English quickly, she insisted that they speak Spanish at home. She continued to cook Salvadoran-style food. When the younger boys wanted to go on overnights, she refused to allow them, because that is not the custom in El Salvador. She also held to a strict nighttime curfew.
At first, the Celayas assumed that they would soon be returning to El Salvador. After two years had passed and conditions back home remained unstable, they applied for political asylum. With the help of U-M law professor Alex Aleinikoff and his students, they gained TPS--Temporary Protective Status. Although technically they could still be deported, the Celayas feel safe today, after eight years.
Once she knew she could be legally employed, Pilar Celaya started thinking of a way to earn a living. As a teenager and young wife, she had earned money cooking and selling tamales and soup on the street on weekends. Early in her residency at Quaker House, she and Aurelio found that they could repay people's kindness by cooking--giving tamales as gifts, inviting new friends for meals, and cooking for Quaker functions.
Celaya began her professional cooking career in 1988 by selling tamales. A year later, she moved into full-scale catering, using either the kitchen where she lived or the one at First Baptist, their Ann Arbor church. In 1990, she took a Community Development course on how to run a small business. She now does her catering out of a kitchen she rented on North Fourth Avenue next to New Grace Apostolic Church. Relatives on the West Coast help by sending authentic ingredients like plantain leaves for the tamales and spices such as azafran, borraja, and biente de leon
Two years ago, the Celayas made the big leap from the Friends house to living on their own at Arrowwood Hills Co-op. They live in a four-bedroom townhouse, with a bedroom for each of the three boys still at home.
Celaya has filled the place with tropical plants, Latin American art, including a Diego Rivera print and a Peruvian wall hanging, pots and knickknacks from around the world, and many books, in both Spanish and English.
Eleven years after their flight to Mexico, Celaya says she still misses "everything--my people, my culture, my church, my home." A recurring dream suggests her nostalgia: "I see myself in my house in El Salvador with my kids, but always they are little. I go shopping, and on the way back I remember I have to take an airplane or a bus to Ann Arbor. Then I wake up and realize I am in Michigan."
Officially El Salvador is at peace now. But Celaya knows from contacts back home that there are still killings by people who oppose the peace agreement between the government and the rebels. And there is the Americanization of her children. "After eight years of their lives here, I can't ask them to go back," she says. Her daughter, Carla, who graduated from Nazareth College two years ago, married an American in a large and festive ceremony at Cobblestone Farm. A son, Alezandro, attends Eastern Michigan. The three other sons, all high school graduates, are working and saving money for college.
Celaya herself wishes she could afford to attend college. That and opening her own restaurant are her dreams. And while she doesn't want to give up her Salvadoran citizenship, the family is applying for a different immigration status that would allow them to leave the country and return.
Celaya's friends are amazed that after all she's been through, she's still such a warm, caring person. She says, "I thank God I'm still alive, I still have my health, and my kids are good people. We're lucky people as a family. I know bad things have happened, but I'm happy with my life."
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aio_cancel - cancel an asynchronous I/O request (REALTIME)
#include <aio.h> int aio_cancel(int fildes, struct aiocb *aiocbp);
The aio_cancel() function attempts to cancel one or more asynchronous I/O requests currently outstanding against file descriptor fildes. The aiocbp argument points to the asynchronous I/O control block for a particular request to be canceled. If aiocbp is NULL, then all outstanding cancelable asynchronous I/O requests against fildes are canceled.
Normal asynchronous notification occurs for asynchronous I/O operations that are successfully canceled. If there are requests that cannot be canceled, then the normal asynchronous completion process takes place for those requests when they are completed.
For requested operations that are successfully canceled, the associated error status is set to [ECANCELED] and the return status is -1. For requested operations that are not successfully canceled, the aiocbp is not modified by aio_cancel().
If aiocbp is not NULL, then if fildes does not have the same value as the file descriptor with which the asynchronous operation was initiated, unspecified results occur.
Which operations are cancelable is implementation-dependent.
The aio_cancel() function returns the value AIO_CANCELED to the calling process if the requested operation(s) were canceled. The value AIO_NOTCANCELED is returned if at least one of the requested operation(s) cannot be canceled because it is in progress. In this case, the state of the other operations, if any, referenced in the call to aio_cancel() is not indicated by the return value of aio_cancel(). The application may determine the state of affairs for these operations by using aio_error(). The value AIO_ALLDONE is returned if all of the operations have already completed. Otherwise, the function returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error.
The aio_cancel() function will fail if:
- The fildes argument is not a valid file descriptor.
- The aio_cancel() function is not supported by this implementation.
aio_read(), aio_write().
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Rockaway Brideסופר/ת: Pippa Grant קריינות: Jason Clarke, Savannah Peachwood ספר מוקלט
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Tit for tat. Or tat for tit. However you want to look at it.
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Now, she's holding me hostage, and she won't let me go until we hit every item on her sparkly new, completely insane bucket list.
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Through the past more clearly.
Right after the bomb hit about Julian Assange being hunted on the streets of Stockholm for double rape (you might have had to see the printed edition of Expressen for that, a duckpond exclusive) and a few hours later when chief Stockholm prosecutor Eva Finné dismissed the major charges and rescinded the warrant, someone contacted Expressen's archenemy Aftonbladet and offered an 'exclusive'.
It was Anna Ardin.
What wasn't known at the time was that there were other events occurring as well - such as Anna Ardin's telephone interrogation with inspector Sara Wennerblom which took place the same Saturday, beginning at 11:31 and ending 49 minutes later at 12:20.
Some time during this interrogation, inspector Wennerblom asked if perchance Ardin still had the condom she accused Julian Assange of willfully and deliberately ripping right in the middle of an act of intercourse.
Now normally most people don't hang onto used condoms. Of course they don't. Which makes Ardin's response to Wennerblom all the more surprising. For Ardin told the police inspector she might very well have to look around, as the odds were good it was still there somewhere.
The thought boggles the imagination of course: Johannes Wahlström saw Ardin's flat, a mere 25 square metres with barely the room to do a U-turn on foot. Could one realistically waylay anything - much less a condom - in that small space?
No matter. For it's known today, thanks to the leak of the crime lab report - that Ardin did in fact produce a condom for the police who came knocking on her door only minutes after ending her interrogation, and that this condom lacked all semblance of genomic DNA, and condoms used by human beings irrevocably and without exception are literally soaked in genomic DNA, and therefore the condom Ardin gave the police that Saturday afternoon 21 August 2010 was falsified evidence.
The crime lab results don't lie. They can't. It's there in black on white. No genomic DNA. How did Ardin do it? How did she rip a new condom to make it look like what she'd told Wennerblom? And why? That's not known, but it's not important either. For she seems to have realised only a short time afterward that she'd made a very very bad mistake.
The announcement came on the radio first: chief inspector Eva Finné had reviewed the Assange case, was in fact the first prosecutor to have access to any documentation on the case, and she stated unequivocally that although she believed the testimony of Sofia Wilén, in fact there was no crime committed.
Case closed, arrest warrant rescinded, Julian Assange was a free man.
But Eva Finné had not yet seen the interrogation of Anna Ardin, so she left that part of the case open.
Ardin had been the silent partner up to that point. She'd been the one who'd suggested to Wilén that they go to the police to 'ask questions about STDs' (knowing full well it was nonsense) and most likely it was she who told the first prosecutor on duty at Klara that 'this was about rape' (something that evidently bewildered Sofia Wilén) but Ardin managed to stay in the background.
Ardin's 'job' was to get the spacey Wilén to the police, get charges filed (it's a crime against the state, so Wilén doesn't have to file charges herself, even know what's going on, Ardin needs only get the police to see the case as 'rape').
And Ardin gets drawn in a bit but things are under control. Her own interrogation is the following day, and she has plenty of spirit and energy to go out partying that Friday evening with Kajsa Borgnäs and others.
It's not known if Ardin stayed throughout the entire Wilén interrogation. This would of course be unethical if not illegal. It's been suggested she was there for a while. It's not thought she remained until Wilén and Krans were informed that Julian was now being hunted and was under arrest - the time when Krans decided Wilén was too upset at the news to continue any further.
Ardin got home (or to a bed somewhere) that Friday evening thinking everything was hunky-dory. Sara Wennerblom rang her right before noon the following day. Cosy chitchat and at one point Ardin says the following.
'In answer to a question Anna says she didn't look closer at the condom, if it was broken as she thought, but she says she thinks she still has the condom at home and will look at it.'
And so although Ardin claims to be terrified of the possibility she's been infected (or impregnated) and although she's accusing Assange of deliberately (and magically) destroying a condom whilst conducting sex, she hasn't even checked the condom in ten days to see if it's true?
But now Ardin's out in the open. She's no longer the 'grey eminence'. The Assange case has been closed - save for her part.
And her part stinks to high heaven.
So Ardin worked fast. And irrationally. And later that afternoon hears that the case is dismissed by Finné save for her own part. And that part hinges on a flaky story and a bit of falsified evidence.
And that's when she seeks out party comrade and artful dodger Claes Borgström, he of the notorious Quick scandal.
Anna Ardin didn't seek out Claes Borgström to get Sofia Wilén's part of the preliminary investigation reopened only hours after it had been closed. The idea is totally absurd, it wouldn't have been her business to do that, and she didn't even know such a thing could be possible, according to Claes Borgström himself. Ardin didn't seek out Claes Borgström for that purpose.
Ardin was scared. She'd fucked up bad. She needed advice - and fast. She sought out Claes Borgström. And what better lawyer to contact than the most corrupt in the country?
To her great relief, Claes Borgström told Ardin it was possible to petition to have a preliminary investigation reopened. Claes Borgström applied to be and was approved as legal counsel for both Wilén and Ardin, was soon in contact with inspector Gehlin, Gehlin forwarded Wilén's unsigned testimony, Borgström doctored it a bit according to all the unwritten rules, sent it back, Gehlin ordered Krans to reinsert the doctored testimony into the case files, the rest is history.
All save for one final detail.
Flashback's espressino is also going back in time, taking a second look, and he was fascinated by the interview Ardin suddenly gave Expressen's archenemy Aftonbladet the same Saturday (covered in Rixstep's Twelve Hours That Shook the World).
But espressino saw something no one else has noticed before - which may not be surprising, as people didn't have the facts then as they do today.
Namely Anna Ardin's 'we' complex. Espressino explains.
Anna Ardin's statement to Aftonbladet turned Finné's dismissal into a renewed attack on Assange
I think we get a very good picture of events through the 'anonymous' interview with AA in Aftonbladet 2010-08-21. This transpires after Finné's dismissed the 'rape' charges.
What sticks out is her 'we' - as if she's automatically become the spokesperson for all that's happened - as well as her formulations which have as their purpose to get the investigation reopened again.
'Out of consideration to the ongoing police investigation, the 30yo woman doesn't want to reveal any further details at the present time, but she's already given the police a very detailed account. Even the other woman has given the police a very detailed account.'
How does Anna know the other woman gave a detailed account?
But does she know SW broke down at that point and refused to sign the testimony?
'It's completely incorrect that we were afraid of Assange.'
How does she know that we weren't afraid?
'The other woman wanted to press charges for rape. I offered my testimony as evidence for her testimony and to support her. We stand for this testimony, the woman told Aftonbladet.'
Again it's we! The other woman is the same woman who, when speaking to Assange, when the threats were very real, made an agreement with him that everything would be OK!
'The accusations against Assange are of course not orchestrated by the Pentagon or anyone else. The responsibility for what happened to me and the other girl lies solely with a man with a twisted view of womanhood who can't take 'no' for an answer.'
Then the concluding remark where AA on behalf of both women deals with Assange's 'twisted view of womanhood' - did AA really believe that she at that point could continue to be anonymous? Evidently! Note as well that AA reserves the right to define 'twisted'. This is published on Saturday, the day after Assange is hung out by Expressen, after he's been exonerated by Finné.
Did AA have an agenda to get the case back on track again? You be the judge.
Note: The attack articles at Ardin's Rebella blog began the following week and initially included a defence of Ardin, a defence which was successively reworded several times over the months to come.