In response to rapidly growing demand, SSPA expands its services in maritime wind propulsion and introduces the new business segment “Wind-Powered Ships”. A special team of consultants, experts, and naval architects will support the maritime industry with independent guidance and assessments of wind-powered ships.
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High fuel prices and the International Maritime Organization’s policy framework on the reduction of GHG emissions continue to force ship owners and operators to reduce fuel consumption. Various saving measures, actions, and technologies are being investigated around the world. Among them one that has successfully been used for millennia: Wind.
Modern wind propulsion technologies have little in common with the canvas sails of old and range from “Flettner-rotors” over kites and suction sails to rigid sails that resemble vertical aircraft wings. All of these systems are major investments and the decision to install them requires careful consideration of many complex questions. Based on first-hand knowledge and full-scale data, SSPA has developed the methods and tools required to support the industry.
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Expertly illustrated in black and white, Lynette Richards’s debut graphic novel tells a fictionalized version of the life of Maggie/Bill Armstrong, an adventurer who defied gender expectations in a quest to do what they loved. A sailor aboard the SS Atlantic, Armstrong reached their premature end when the vessel sank unexpectedly off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1873. Richards’s thoughtful, well-researched approach comes through in the respectful way the story is told; no assumptions are made about Maggie/Bill and how they identified.
The story starts with the tragedy of the ship sinking. Even before we meet the protagonist, we are dropped into a stormy Nova Scotia night as a small community witnesses the horrible sight of an ocean liner lying on its side. Human bodies are tossed by the waves. It’s a dramatic and affecting way of setting up the stakes of the story – after all, we know our protagonist is doomed within the first few pages. The narrative then shifts back in time to 19-year-old Maggie’s decision to leave their stifling childhood home in New Jersey. Tired of their stepmother’s prejudice, Maggie takes a suit from their father, adopts the name of “Bill,” and runs away to New York to find work. Eventually hired as a sailor on a boat, Armstrong takes to travelling around Europe until the crew discovers that their shipmate was born a woman, which leads to Armstrong’s immediate dismissal. Bill eventually finds their place on another ship, and Richards illustrates them standing victoriously in front of the Atlantic.
Richards’s writing is engaging and never preachy, making points about gender expression and identity that fit naturally within the adventure. Armstrong identifies as Bill when wearing “pantaloons,” but otherwise still goes by their birth name of Maggie. It is easy to see Armstrong as an inspiring model for teenagers that don’t want to conform to gender roles – Maggie/Bill is the type of person who will fight bullies but also muse poetically about nature, and still have time to chat kindly with children onboard the ship. When Bill boards the ship for its long journey, they “didn’t feel homesick…he’d never felt more at home than he did at that moment.” So while this isn’t a happy story, it does emphasize Armstrong’s bravery, kindness, and freedom.

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Gaviscon Double Action Mint works in two effective ways to relieve symptoms of heartburn and indigestion.
The power of double action
- Neutralises excess stomach acid which helps relieve pain and discomfort
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Keep heartburn and indigestion at bay with Gaviscon Double Action.
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- Not suitable for children under 12 years unless permitted by your doctor
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Adults and children over 12 years:
- Take two to four 5ml spoonfuls after meals and before bed, up to four times a day.
Active ingredient: Each 10ml of oral suspension contains 500mg sodium alginate, 213mg sodium bicarbonate and 325mg calcium carbonate.
Also contains: carbomer, methyl (E218) and propyl (E216) parahydroxybenzoates, sodium saccharin, peppermint flavour, sodium hydroxide and water.

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Paul Douglas, a contestant on the famous cooking show MasterChef Australia, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting children. The court has sentenced Paul Douglas to 24 years in prison. Paul is accused of sexually assaulting 11 children 43 times over a period of more than 10 years. Sydney Downing Center District Judge Sarah Huggett sentenced Paul on Thursday.
Paul was arrested in the year 2019 and after his arrest, the trial continued for four years. Paul is accused of committing these crimes while he was a swimming coach in Sydney Southwest. Investigation revealed that Paul sexually abused children from 1996 to 2009.
While giving the sentence, the judge said that the accused, while being a swimming coach, created such an environment among the children in which he used to openly talk about sex and joke with the children. Besides, he also implicated the children’s parents with his words in such a way that his crime remained hidden for more than 10 years. Paul has been accused of sexually assaulting children up to 10 years.
Let us tell you that Paul Douglas has also participated in MasterChef Australia and reached the final stage of the show. Douglas, 48, was arrested at his Sylvania home in 2019 after being charged. After this he lost his job at the University of New South Wales. Now Paul will have to stay in jail till June 2047 and only after that Paul will be able to get bail.

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Bradley has boosted the squad with a series of new signings which include the return to the province of former Irish international Matt Mostyn (from Newport) and the AIL top try scorer, hooker Bernard Jackman from Clontarf.
Jackman will not be short of acquaintances in the front row as Clontarf props Warren OÂ¹Kelly and Adrian Clarke have also signed to bolster a line which also includes the experienced Dan McFarland and Ireland A international Peter Bracken.
Hooker Marnus Uijs will start his fourth campaign with Connacht while another No.2, John Fogarty, joins from Munster.
Former Australian U-21 lock Andrew Farley has joined from Swansea along with the Irish qualified Mike McCarthy who joins from Wasps having been capped at U-21 level by England.
Ireland U-21 John Muldoon from Portumna has been rewarded with a full-time contract for the first time and he will be joined in the back row by Michael Carroll from Blackrock College. Connacht have left two vacancies in the back row as they consider a number of options.
Another Irish U-21, Conor OÂ¹Loughlin from Buccaneers, is one of three scrum-halves in the squad along with Chris Keane and Mike Walls.
Eric Elwood, the only Connacht player to start more than 100 games for the province, will begin his 15th campaign for the side in a back line where Mark McHugh, Shane Moore, Darren Yapp, Tim Allnutt, Ted Robinson and Wayne Munn are all retained from last season.
In addition to the return of Matt Mostyn, Connacht have also signed St MaryÂ¹s College winger Conor McPhillips as well as David Hewitt who had a superb season as an out-half and full-back for Clontarf.
Connacht have awarded Development Contracts to the Galwegians duo of prop Ray Hogan and hooker Henry Bourke, Buccaneers backs Paddy OÂ¹Sullivan and Justin Meagher as well as Irish-qualified Christian Short, who joins from Bracknell in England having previously been with London Irish.
Connacht Squad 2003/2004:
Backs: Mark McHugh; Ted Robinson, Conor McPhillips, Matt Mostyn, Darren Yapp, Tim Allnutt, Shane Moore, Wayne Munn, Eric Elwood, David Hewitt, Chris Keane, Mike Walls, Conor OÂ¹Loughlin, Paddy OÂ¹Sullivan (Dev.), Justin Meagher (Dev.).
Forwards: Dan McFarland, Warren OÂ¹Kelly, Bernard Jackman, Marnus Uijs, John Fogarty, Peter Bracken, Adrian Clarke, Fabian Boiroux, Damian Browne, Andrew Farley, Mike McCarthy, Michael Swift, John Muldoon, Paul Neville, Tom Carter, Michael Carroll, Ray Hogan (Dev.), Henry Bourke (Dev.) Christian Short (Dev.). Note: Two more back row forwards to be added to squad.

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Apparent drone attacks in Moscow…
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India will disclose its plans to expand its civilian nuclear power generation programs at next weekâs 55th annual International Atomic Energy Agency meeting in Vienna.
Indiaâs Atomic Energy Commission chairman Srikumar Banerjee, who is also Indiaâs Atomic Energy Department Secretary, will lead Indiaâs delegation.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has already announced his countryâs intention to pursue its atomic program to increase Indiaâs nuclear generation capacity in the next two decades to 63,000 megawatts over the nationâs present electrical power generation level of 4,780 megawatts, The Business Standard reported.
Last month Singh stated that he was convinced that nuclear energy "will play an important role in the country's quest for clean and environment-friendly energy."
Not everyone is convinced of the value of nuclear power in Indiaâs future. Director of Center for Environmental Studies, GITAM University, Professor T Shivaji Rao said that nuclear power is not only hazardous but expensive for India, commenting, "Nuclear power, which was considered a safe source of energy during the previous decades by several technologically advanced countries, has been recently proved to be a more uneconomical and hazardous option. Hence countries like Japan and Germany recently decided to close down the existing nuclear power plants in their countries. Since Nuclear Power is inherently unsafe in both conventional and advanced passive safety reactors, the Indian Prime Minister must learn from the lessons of Chernobyl and Fukushima Nuclear plant accidents and gradually close down the existing plants in India."
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The Museum contains a permanent collection of the art of British Columbia including an outstanding collection of nineteenth century Northwest Coast masks, one of Canada’s strongest Emily Carr collections, a selection of Vancouver’s celebrated photo-based art plus a gallery devoted to West Coast artist Edward J. Hughes.
The collection includes The Crazy Stair, a painting by Emily Carr which recently sold at auction for a record breaking $3.3 million. This price was the highest ever paid for an Emily Carr at auction, the highest for a work by a Canadian woman artist and the fourth most expensive work at an art auction in Canada.
In addition to the works from British Columbia the Museum displays up to three temporary exhibitions a year from leading museums around the world, creating an ever-changing display to delight locals and visitors alike.
Edward Burtynsky: The Scarred Earth
Date: June 10 – October 16, 2017
Description: The Audain Art Museum is proud to announce the third Special Exhibition of 2017. Opening on June 10, 2017, Edward Burtynsky: The Scarred Earth is the next in a series of international calibre experiences for our members and visitors organized by the Audain Art Museum’s Darrin Martens, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chief Curator.
Edward Burtynsky, as a documentary photographer, has chronicled humanity’s influence over the Earth’s surface over the past three decades. The Scarred Earth is an intimate look at how we, as a species, have altered our physical landscape through resource extraction.
Stone and Sky: Canada’s Mountain Landscape
Date: November 11, 2017 – February 26, 2018
Description: Lawren Harris and the Group of Seven shaped a vision of the landscape that remains synonymous with Canadian identity. Juxtaposing contemporary depictions of the natural landscape with historical perceptions, this exhibition brings together the work of iconic Canadian artists, including Lawren Harris, Emily Carr, W.P. Weston, Edward Burtynsky, John Hartman, N.E. Thing & Co.(IAIN BAXTER&), Gordon Smith and Kenojuak Ashevak.

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Paris Jackson is the latest cast member to join the upcoming American Horror Story Season 10 titled, ‘American Horror Story: Double Feature.
It was previously revealed that the upcoming season will feature two stories, one by land and one by sea, with Ryan Murphy having tagged the coastal town of Provincetown, Massachusetts, it’s possible that will be the setting for the upcoming season.
The series has also brought back some familiar faces along with new ones with the previously announced cast including Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, Macaulay Culkin, Leslie Grossman, Billie Lourd, Adina Porter, Lily Rabe, Angelica Ross, and Finn Wittrock.
Wittrock previously talked about the series, saying,
“I think this is OK to say, I think the suspense in this and the tight, constrained nature of the story is different than other seasons, I was really interested in trying to mount the pressure in the right way if that makes sense. It is different in tone than a lot of the other seasons.”
Ross also teased the upcoming season, saying,
“This new season is just incredible. I’ve already started working with Frances Conroy. The OG fans of ‘American Horror Story’ are going to be thrilled because it’s just got Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Finn Wittrock, just all of the OGs there. But then there’s, It’s just going to be a bloodbath. All I can say is, it’s gonna be a bloodbath. I don’t know if I can watch.”


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This is legitimately amazing. I am very impressed. You should be very impressed. We should be surprised that it happened, but it's the truth.
So what the heck am I talking about: NFL.com did preseason NFL power rankings -- and they actually got them (mostly) right. And by right, I mean they correctly identified the No. 1 team in the league. I don't know how No. 2-32 stack up.
Frankly, we could argue for days about whether Atlanta should be 17 and Jacksonville should be 18 and random stuff like that.
However, what matters is that the Patriots were ranked No. 1. That's right: the defending Super Bowl champs are considered the best team in the league this season, according to Dan Hanzus' lineup. He's a smart cookie for this one...
Here is what he had to say about the Patriots in particular:
"Defending champions should never drop out of the No. 1 spot in a preseason power rankings exercise. Josh Gordon's reinstatement is a huge lift for an offense crossing its fingers for an impact from the likes of Maurice Harris, Jakobi Meyers and first-round pick N'Keal Harry. As for the guy who will be throwing the ball: ESPN's Mike Reiss recently wrote that Tom Brady, who turned 42 earlier this month, has "been as sharp as ever" at Patriots camp. Don't be surprised at the end of the season when this is a top-10 offense -- again."
By again, he is referring to how the Patriots did pretty well last season.
This is like amazing stuff.
This is really nice. It is accurate but normally, we are subjected to crap takes about how the Patriots are finished and are going to go 4-12 and all that.
This is straight up honest. Getting Josh Gordon back is a nice addition to the receiving corps. Tom Brady is aging like fine wine. And then there's draft picks and all that who are apparently doing well. Good stuff!

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Thanks to Super Mario Maker (and Giant Bomb "editor") Dan Ryckert, I was forced to commit a horrible act to finish this stage (5330-0000-0071-CCBE). Watch me play the whole thing here.
Thanks To Giant Bomb 'Editor' Dan Ryckert, I Was Forced To Commit A Horrible Act
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She couldn't do it. She just couldn't. She didn't know why, all she knew was that she wasn't tired and she couldn't sleep for the life of her. She sat up in bed for the fifth time that night and looked at the clock: 12:30. It wasn't that late, but still. At the rate she was going, she probably wouldn't sleep until 6 a.m. if she didn't do something. So, she called the first person that came to mind. The only person she could call in her time of need.
"...what the fuck do you want, Harley?" Well, at least he answered, right? "Um, hi Dave. I uh, can't sleep. Would you be the coolest kid ever and possibly go walking with this damsel in distress?" There was silence on the other end. Then a sigh "Meet me at the bus stop near my house in fifteen" She was about to thank him, but he hung up. She quickly got out of bed and threw on a pair of skinny jeans, fuzzy white boots, and a jacket. Grabbing her big nerdy glasses and shovi


Amrita Rao has now become immune to all the link-up rumours that have been surrounding her. Not the actress has stopped reacting to such rumours of her recent link up with Harman Baweja. So this Rao isn't going to be part of yet another row.
Amrita Rao was not very happy during the shoot of the video Welcome to Sajjanpur because of the unprofessional attitude of the crew. Apparently, the director of the film Shyam Benegal wasn't present on the set and the video has been directed by some other director. (Pic Courtesy: Miss Players)
Amrita Rao appeared as a celebrity guest on Zoom TV’s Simply Sorted alongwith anchor Shruti Seth to help viewers who call in with problems and offer them some spicy advice.
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FET works with Now Zad District governor to improve, rebuild area
Story by Lance Cpl. Katherine M. Solano | Regional Command Southwest | Date: 04.12.2011
CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan – The female engagement team in Now Zad, Helmand province, Afghanistan, is pushing for the speedy development of a women’s center, new school and other community projects.
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PRICE OF POLITICS, ETC: Huckabee Offers Iowa Insight
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee knows something about Iowa and owes Iowans a big sloppy kiss for his good fortunes. He just offered a public smooch to a possible senate candiate. Huckabee won the Republican presidential caucuses in the state in 2008. Since then, he has become a well-known voice, and well-paid one at that, on television, radio and the speech circuit. On his nationally syndicated radio show, he offered praise for Fourth District Congressman Steve King, who is mulling a campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2014 (long-time Democratic Senator Tom Harkin’s seat, which he will give up when he retires).
Huckabee said during his interview with King, “Gosh, I’ve been in Iowa a lot. And if anything, Steve King would be an incredibly strong candidate, probably enough to scare a lot of the other Republicans off the ballot.”
King offered his appreciation for Huckabee’s kind words. He also continued his criticism of the Obama White House for releasing suspected illegal immigrants and blaming sequestration cuts. King said, “We find out this administration doesn’t need to have legal direction or legal justification for what they do. They just do whatever the politics of the moment seem to reward them and more forward accordingly.”
King also disagreed with fellow Republicans’ push for immigration reform.


From the offset Terminator Genisys, the fifth movie in the Terminator franchise, was touted as transforming the series into event level entertainment, with Producer and Terminator movie rights holder David Ellison making it very clear by stating the following about Skydance Media (the production company responsible for making Terminator Genisys)…
“We want to be Marvel,”David Ellison
This also included continuing on the franchise as PG-13, something that fans had made abundantly clear that they didn’t want; believing that it had prevented the previous installment ‘Terminator Salvation’ from living up to its potential.
Director, Alan Taylor was tasked with doing what could be considered impossible; and a lot of fans were going to rail hard against it and understandably so (though the task of further converting a franchise, which was born in horror into a child friendlier model seemed far more possible in 2015).
Even Alan Taylor’s partner Jane Wu, also part of the industry and whom Taylor met on the set of Thor: The Dark World told him not to take the Terminator Genisys gig; with Taylor recounting what his partner told him after she read the Terminator Genisys script with a laugh.
“Well, she read the script, she said, ‘You should be doing something you love right now, something that’s more personal.’”Alan Taylor told THR
Taylor however wanted a shot at redeeming the franchise and fancied working with Arnold Schwarzenegger after meetings for Terminator Genisys went well. Perhaps blindsided by the Austrian Oak‘s charisma, charm and also the past legacy of the franchise with James Cameron leading the charge.
“All the voices in my head, and all the ones around me, were saying I should do it because who didn’t love the first two films? I thought we would go in and fix the script and everything could be great.”Alan Taylor
However, Taylor and producers had presumed that the fanbase was an open book, and easy to satisfy.
“I had lost the will to make movies, I lost the will to live as a director. I’m not blaming any person for that. The process was not good for me. So I came out of it having to rediscover the joy of filmmaking.”Alan Taylor told THR
Terminator Genisys did well at the box office thanks to Asia, largely in part due to what could be attributed to curiosity, a curiosity that was not present for the sixth entry (Terminator: Dark Fate), resulting in a box office blunder and not the sure fire hit in Asia that the studios thought they were sitting on.
Had Alan Taylor been given more freedom, been allowed to make a Hard R Terminator and been given a lower budget; we may have seen him shine more within the property. We don’t consider Terminator Genisys to be the worst entry in the franchise but (we feel) it stands on the same level as Terminator: Dark Fate.
We wish Alan Taylor great success with his new Sopranos prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark.


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28 Jan If you're a single-monitor user -- or even if you're not -- multiple virtual desktops can be very handy. While Windows has supported this feature. 10 Aug Windows 10 finally added virtual desktops as a built-in feature. If you keep a lot of apps open at once—or use your PC for very different types of. 19 Jul Windows 10 has made it extremely easy to set up and use multiple virtual desktops in Windows Multiple desktops are great for keeping.
Multiple desktops is just a way to run several desktops on a single monitor. Some people connect two or more monitors to their computer so that they can double. 12 Mar Download VirtuaWin - Multiple virtual desktops for free. Multiple desktops on a Windows box. VirtuaWin is an application for the Windows user. Switchable desktops were designed and implemented at Xerox PARC as " Rooms" by Austin Henderson and Stuart Card in.
25 Mar Multiple desktops in Windows let you separate program windows into different groups. You might have all your files related to one project open. 11 Feb This issue is currently on our list to fix up. For some reason, windows that have been removed from the Primary taskbar (like ones that have. 20 Apr Use multiple desktops in Windows 10 to organize projects, or quickly switch between desktops before a meeting. 17 Oct This utility enables you to create up to four virtual desktops and easily switch between them. Learn how to create and manage virtual desktops independently on each monitor in a multiple display environment.
17 Mar Windows 10's virtual desktops feature gives you more space to work with on your PC. Here are instructions on how to start using them. 18 Apr Virtual Desktops are a feature typical to Windows 10 in which one can open multiple desktops at the same time and toggle between them using. 16 Jul Learn how to use the Task View or Virtual Desktops feature in Windows You can create, use, delete desktops in Windows 10 effectively to. Virtual desktops are accessible through client software installed directly on an endpoint, which presents the desktop to the user and allows them to interact with it.


The newly launched Redmi Note 10 Pro Max is now available to purchase in India via Amazon and official Xiaomi channels. The phone’s siblings, the regular Redmi Note 10 and Redmi Note 10 Pro, went on sale in the country earlier this week. The top-end model, the Redmi Note 10 Pro Max carries a 108-megapixel primary sensor and a 120Hz display. The newly launched device would compete against popular mid-budget offerings such as OnePlus Nord, Vivo V20, and Samsung F62.
The Redmi Note 10 Pro Max price in India starts at Rs 18,999 for the base 6GB + 64GB model and goes up to Rs 19,999 for the 6GB + 128GB option. The top model of 8GB RAM and 128GB carries a price tag of Rs 21,999. Xiaomi is offering sale deals such as Rs 1,500 instant discount with ICICI Bank credit cards. Customers purchasing the smartphone from Mi.com can get Mi WiFi Smart Speaker at Rs 1,999. Amazon is offering a no-cost EMI payment mode with select cards.
The Redmi Note 10 Pro Max’ main display has a hole-punch cutout while the rear panel has a distinct rectangular module, housing the quad cameras, Ambient sensor, and LED flash. The smartphone comes in Dark Night, Vintage Bronze, and Glacial Blue colour options and sports a 6.6-inch Full-HD+ (2,400 x 1,080 pixels) Super AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate and 1200 nits of peak brightness.
Under the hood, the Redmi Note 10 Pro Max packs the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 732G chipset, paired with Adreno 618 GPU and up to 8GB of RAM and 128GB storage. The onboard storage is expandable up to 512GB with a dedicated microSD slot. It ships with Android 11-based MIUI 12 out-of-the-box, and the phone will “soon” get the MIUI 12.5 via an OTA update. The quad rear camera setup on the Redmi Note 10 Pro Max includes a 108-megapixel primary ISOCELL HM2 sensor by Samsung for detailed HDR pictures. The camera setup also includes a 5-megapixel super-macro camera, 8-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera, and 2-megapixel depth sensor. For selfies, there’s a 16-megapixel camera inside the hole-punch cutout. The camera app comes pre-loaded with modes like Night Mode 2.0, Magic Clone Mode, Long Exposure Mode, and Video Pro Mode.
The Redmi Note 10 Pro Max comes with a 5,020mAh battery that is touted to last for two days with standard usage. The box includes a 33W fast charger that charger the phone to 59 percent in just 30 minutes.


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I distinctly remember the day I had lunch with my good friend + Catering Manager at the Hilton Mission Valley, Morgan Wessells, and my beloved partner in crime, Elyse of Plum & Oak Photo. We drank wine, and ate, brainstormed, and drank some more wine. That’s really when our creative minds got to work dreaming up one of the most unique set-ups I’ve done to date. It was over wine that we decided to take on a challenge- mix Indian boho vibes with a beachy feel. The masterpiece we dreamt up came to life with San Diego’s best vendors. My heart still swoons.
We brought the All-American guy together with the most stunning Indian bride covered in henna. I had my sites set on working with Pow Wow and boy was I a giddy soul the day I got to roam their warehouse. It was heaven. The florals were OUT. OF. THIS. WORLD. The Dainty Lion really outdid herself on this one folks! The biggest challenge of the day came in setting up the chairs at the ceremony site in a half circle. Don’t give the girl with OCD and perfectionist-syndrome that job. Lesson learned. My favorite part though was the table scape. I remember every weird look I got when I explained my vision and squealed in excited for the elephant plates. I wouldn’t have done it any other way. The hints of fun in a classic white setting was pure dreaminess.
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Event Design: Kelsey Rae Designs
Videography: Beautifully Cinematic
Venue: Hilton Mission Valley
Floral Design: The Dainty Lion
Props/ Rentals: Pow Wow
Hair & Makeup: Beauty by Stacey
Calligraphy: Louise Letters
Cake/ Cupcakes: Frost Me Gourmet
Models: Monique Ramos & Rhett Wellington
Tux: Friar Tux
Cake Topper: The Roc Shop
Wedding Dress: Brides by Demetrios
Henna: Henna Trendz by Wardah
Fanfare Chairs: Classic Party Rentals


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Lotus Grain Free Chicken and Vegetable Pate Can Cat Food
Lotus Grain Free Chicken and Vegetable Pate is a gourmet dinner that is both delicious and healthy. Made with local ingredients, it is cooked in small batches with no processing aids. High quality chicken provides a great source of protein and an all natural source of taurine. Fresh and frozen fruits and vegetables are a great source of antioxidants. New Zealand Green Mussel, a natural source of glucosamine and chondroitin, is added for joint health. Omega Fatty acids, DHA and EPA are beneficial for brain health, inflammation and healthy skin and coat. Grain free, it is a great choice for cats with food sensitivities. It is made in the USA, so you can feel great about giving it to your best friend.
- For cats of all life stages
- Made with real chicken
- Grain free
- High quality protein
- Mussels provide glucosamine and chondroitin
- Antioxidant rich
- Fatty acids for skin and coat health
- DHA for brain health
- Made in the USA
Chicken and Vegetable
5.5oz can, case of 24
Crude Protein: min 8.0%
Crude Fat: min 5.0%
Crude Fiber: max 1.5%
Moisture: max 78.0%
Ash: min 1.893%
Calcium: min 0.309%
Phosphorous: min 0.245%
Magnesium: min 0.023%
Taurine: min 0.053%
Omega 3 Fatty Acids: min 0.263%
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Ramgarh (Jharkhand): On 17 July, a 10-member police team from Saraikela Kharsawan district on the eastern border of Jharkhand arrested independent journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh, 37, from his residence in neighbouring Ramgarh district, claiming he had links with the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) or CPI (Maoist).
The arrest warrant was issued by the sub-divisional judicial magistrate, Saraikela. It said Singh was arrested in connection with a first information report (FIR) registered at the Kandra police station of Saraikela Kharsawan.
The FIR had been registered on 13 November 2021, after alleged Maoist leaders Prashant Bose, Sheela Marandi and four others were arrested by Jharkhand police from a toll plaza.
An upper-caste Rajput from neighbouring Bihar who was moved by and involved in issues concerning India’s most disadvantaged community, its 110 million Adivasis or tribals, Singh was not among those originally accused in the case.
Like Bose, Marandi and the other named accused, he was, three months later, charged under six sections of three laws.
The charges: sections 10 (penalty for being a member of an unlawful association) and 13 (unlawful activities) of the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), 1967; sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 467 (forgery of valuable security, will, etc) and 471 (using as genuine a forged document) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860; and section 17 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1908.
A tall, sturdily built man who smoked Gold Flake cigarettes, smiled often and was deeply moved by injustices on Adivasis, lower castes, workers, women and other marginalised groups, Singh was the latest journalist to be arrested in a democracy where media freedom is widely regarded as being under siege.
In recent years, independent voices in Indian media have been gradually choked, with criminal cases (here, here and here), pressure to self-censor and instances of top editors resigning or fired (here, here and here) over disagreements on such censorship by owners.
The Reporters Without Borders’ global Press Freedom Index listed India at 150th out of 180 countries in 2022, behind countries such as South Sudan, Nigeria and Guatemala, and lower than the country’s ranking of 142 in 2021 and 2020. The RSF note alongside the latest ranking said “violence against journalists, the politically partisan media and the concentration of media ownership all demonstrate that press freedom is in crisis” in India.
Singh’s arrest appeared to follow the Kashmir pattern of action against journalists, as Article 14 has reported (here and here): file an FIR or deliver warnings in some other fashion; launch punitive action if the journalist does not back off or otherwise cooperate with the police, as in the case of The Kashmir Wallah editor Fahad Shah and independent journalist Sajad Gul, both now in jail for over six months.
The Warnings He Did Not Heed
In June 2019, the Bihar police booked and arrested Singh under the UAPA, alleging Maoist links. In addition, by Singh’s account in a December 2020 interview with Article 14, an interrogator allegedly offered him money to start a social media channel and turn informer. He declined.
With the police failing to produce a chargesheet, Singh was released on bail six months later in December 2019 and soon plunged back into reporting.
From 2020 till his re-arrest on 17 July, Singh travelled across Jharkhand, including its remotest districts where the CPI (Maoist) was active. His reported stories related to, among others, displacement, militarisation, pollution, fabricated cases against Adivasis and alleged extrajudicial killings of Adivasis. Many of these were published on the portal of ‘Janchowk’, a collective of reporters from several states, which views journalism as a medium of social change and publishes 'impartial and fact-based, popular reportage' in Hindi.
Singh reported and wrote all of these after being released on bail in the 2019 UAPA case. On his re-arrest, politico-legal advocacy group Rihai Manch said he was being punished for reporting on the plight of Jharkhand’s Adivasis, while the Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ), a body that promotes press freedoms worldwide, said the arrest was harassment in retaliation for his work.
Singh was the latest among a string of journalists in Maoist insurgency-hit areas in the states of Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh to face reprisals. In Chhattisgarh for example, journalist and editor of Bhumkal Samachar Kamal Shukla, who continues to report on extra-judicial killings and human rights violations in the Bastar division, faces multiple cases (see here and here). Two others who faced cases quit journalism.
In 2021, when investigations into the use of Israeli spyware Pegasus for snooping on Indian activists revealed that three phone numbers belonging to Singh and his wife Ipsa Satakshi were among the potential targets, the couple jointly petitioned the Supreme Court questioning the constitutionality of this surveillance.
Like in 2019, several groups condemned Singh’s arrest in July (here, here and here). Human rights groups called it an attempt to muzzle free speech and dissent, and petitioned the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), contending that his arrest was in violation of procedures.
Protests seeking his unconditional release were held in Delhi, Kolkata, Patna, Bhagalpur and other parts of the country as well as various parts of Jharkhand including Ranchi, Bokaro, Giridih, Latehar and Hazaribag.
Alleged Procedural Lapses In Search And Arrest
Singh was arrested from his residence in Ramgarh on 17 July at 1.40 pm, after a nine-hour search operation.
Around 5.30 am, the police team led by Saraikela Kharsawan’s deputy superintendent of police Chandan Kumar Vats served the couple a search warrant . “They searched the entire house for nine hours, including containers of rice and flour in the kitchen,” Ipsa Satakshi told Article 14, “and seized two laptops, two mobile phones, a hard disk, invoices of a motorcycle and a car owned by the family, a bed sheet and a notebook.”
The police were courteous, but refused to state why they were seizing items such as a torn bed sheet, a blank notebook, a hard drive that Satakshi used for academic purposes, and a laptop belonging to their 32-year-old niece Ilika Priy.
A petition filed before the NHRC by advocacy group Human Rights Defenders Alert said there were procedural lapses, including not providing hash values—a series of numbers generated via cryptographic algorithms that accurately and uniquely represent data on electronic devices—for the seized devices, leaving open the possibility of them being tampered with later.
Police also showed the couple the arrest warrant for Singh issued by the Saraikela sub-divisional judicial magistrate on 16 February, five months earlier, only after the nine-hour search was over. They brought him to court on 18 July, more than 27 hours after his arrest, violating Article 22 of the Indian Constitution, under which every person arrested or detained must be produced before the nearest magistrate within 24 hours of the arrest.
Article 14 sought comment from Anand Prakash, superintendent of police, Saraikela Kharsawan, but he did not answer phone calls or WhatsApp messages sent on 29 July and 6 August.
‘He Can’t Even See Another Human From His Jail Cell’
Following his arrest, Singh was remanded in judicial custody at the Saraikela jail on 18 July, but was taken into police remand on a number of occasions in the subsequent period.
Satakshi, who spoke to him a few times in court and over the phone said he was questioned by teams from the Ranchi and Patna offices of the National Investigation Agency (NIA), the Andhra Pradesh State Intelligence Bureau, the West Bengal Special Task Force, the Jharkhand State Intelligence Bureau, and various officials from Jharkhand, including the inspector general (Operations) of Jharkhand police.
Satakshi accused the jail administration of mentally torturing Singh. She said Singh was first placed in a room adjacent to those of four prisoners with communicable diseases, and was later shifted to a dilapidated and abandoned building of the jail, where he was the only prisoner.
“Forget talking to someone, he can’t even see another human being from there,” said Satakshi. She added that Singh was not being provided food and other facilities according to the jail manual.
Himani Priya, superintendent of Saraikela jail, denied Satakshi’s allegations. She said Singh was provided food according to the menu card and the jail manual.
Priya said while it was not possible to reveal, for security reasons, where Singh was lodged in the jail, he was safe. He was in a quarantine ward for 14 days keeping in mind the COVID-19 pandemic, she said.
Asked when the quarantine period would end, the jail superintendent said it was difficult to say, as Singh was being taken into police remand every now and then.
Singh’s Concern For Adivasis Ruptured Stereotypes
A day after Singh’s arrest, Rajni Murmu, an assistant professor in Jharkhand’s Godda district, posted on Facebook a note about her first meeting with Singh when the Jharkhand Jansangharsh Morcha, a state-level confederation of people’s movements, was established in October 2020.
“I felt that his grief for the ongoing exploitation of Adivasis was genuine,” Murmu wrote.
She recalled accompanying Singh on reporting trips during her vacations thereafter, and learning about the plight of Adivasis in Jharkhand, though she herself was Santhal and a native of the Santhal Pargana, one of the state’s five administrative divisions, while Singh was a Rajput from eastern Bihar’s Bhagalpur district.
In November 2021, after Jharkhand Police arrested alleged Maoist leader Sheela Marandi and claimed she owned properties worth crores, Murmu travelled with Singh to her village. Marandi’s family lived in a mud hut, and could not even afford a lawyer for her, and Singh’s report from this visit busted the police’s claims about her wealth.
Singh also travelled to the villages of Jharkhand Jansangharsh Morcha members Bhagwan Kisku and Baldev Murmu, who police claimed had links with Maoists. Kisku was arrested while Baldev Murmu was detained for more than 52 hours, in late 2021, from Giridih and Hazaribag districts. Rajni Murmu recalled that he spoke to residents and fellow activists and published reports questioning the police’s claims. These reports were shared widely on Facebook and Twitter.
“I was witnessing with my own eyes, for the first time, a non-adivasi who was deeply troubled by the atrocities on adivasis,” Murmu wrote. “Until then, I had only seen dikus as exploiters of adivasis.”
Diku in Santhali means an outsider, and Murmu was drawing attention to the role of dikus—mostly mostly upper caste Hindu men employed in various government departments–in disenfranchising adivasis of their traditional and constitutional rights since the colonial period.
Singh, she wrote, was a rare diku who stood with the adivasis of Jharkhand.
A Tryst With Leftist Student Politics
An upper-caste Rajput from Sarauni village in Bihar’s Bhagalpur district, Singh, in an interview with Article 14 in December 2020, recalled the discriminatory environment at home and in the village against lower castes.
Rajputs did not prioritise education, and Singh’s family was unsupportive of his interest in studies. He funded his schooling from class 10 to 12 by collecting cow-dung and making and selling cow-dung cakes.
In 2003, when Singh signed up for a Bachelor of Arts in History (Hons) degree at the Bhagalpur National College 35 km from his village, his Rajput pride received a further boost, but only for a short while.
“Rajputs and Bhumihars had complete hegemony in the college, which stoked my feelings and I started moving around with them,” said Singh. Once, when a fellow student accidentally collided with him in the corridor, he got together with his caste brethren and beat him up. Only later did he realise that the victim was the president of the students’ union and a Yadav.
The Yadavs were a powerful community—Rabri Devi, a Yadav, was then chief minister—and Singh fled to his village, fearing retaliatory attacks. There, he was approached by members of the All India Students’ Association (AISA), a students’ union affiliated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation.
“I knew nothing about the organisation (AISA) or about Communism then,” Singh said. They offered to protect him in the college and make him the union’s election agent in the ensuing student council polls, and he joined them.
Inspired by a speech by CPI(ML) Liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya about the role of student politics in creating a world without oppression, he began reading books including Bhagat Singh’s Why I Am An Atheist.
“I tore and threw away my janeyu (sacred thread),” said Singh.
After his graduation in 2006, he became a full-time activist with AISA and was given charge of the Naugachia subdivision of Bhagalpur.
About a year later, disillusioned with party politics, Singh quit the AISA and shifted to Delhi, where he lived with friends, worked for brief periods in a call centre, a container depot and other places until, in early 2009, frustrated by his failure in finding a steady, well-paying job, he returned to the CPI(ML) Liberation and took up the same post of AISA in-charge in Naugachia.
In May 2010, he was kidnapped and detained for 36 hours—a reprisal for organising people against criminal gangs that collected levies from people.
Eventually, unable to shake off his disillusionment with the party especially upon learning that caste dynamics was an important factor in selecting candidates for elections, Singh dissociated from CPI(ML) Liberation in early 2012 and once again moved to Delhi.
In the national capital, he worked in event management, attended protests and meetings in Jantar Mantar and Jawaharlal Nehru University, and wrote long posts on Facebook about contemporary issues and events, which catalysed his transition into a journalist.
Giving A Voice To People Ignored By Mainstream Media
In early 2014, Singh moved to Jharkhand to write a book based on ground reportage about displacement, fake encounters and state repression of the adivasis.
“Media coverage in Jharkhand is driven by events and incidents, but reportage on the rights of adivasis and their violation is rare,” Singh told Article 14 in the December 2020 interview. “Topics like false cases and encounters and state repression get even lesser attention, and I wanted to address that through the book.”
He lived on rent in Bokaro for about five years, where his would-be wife Ipsa Satakshi was a college lecturer. They married in 2016, and their son Agrim Aviral was born in August 2017.
Between 2014 and mid-2019, Singh travelled to remote tribal villages in Giridih, Saranda, Latehar and other parts of Jharkhand, documenting instances of displacement, alleged false cases and encounters, and other human rights violations. He shared these on Facebook, and he wrote numerous news reports published by portals including Mediavigil, Janchowk and The Wire Hindi.
His approach to reporting was based on his exposure to Communist politics, and he liked to listen to and learn from people, spending two-three days in every place he reported from. “...I believe that a journalist who works for the people is also supported by the people,” Singh said.
In the initial years, he would visit a village, meet the traditional village head—a highly respected person in adivasi culture—and tell them that he wanted to stay a few days and understand their problems. Most welcomed him, took care of his food and stay and organised meetings where the entire village would turn up.
Later, as activists and organisations learned of Singh and his reportage, they reached out to him with requests to cover issues that were ignored by the mainstream media.
Bacha Singh, general secretary of Mazdoor Sangathan Samiti (MSS), a trade union that was banned by the state government in December 2017 over allegations of being a Maoist front until the ban was lifted by the Ranchi high court in February 2022, remembered Singh as prompt and diligent, especially about speaking to people at the grassroots, and making their voices heard through his reports.
“Rupesh reported on the activities of our union hu-ba-hu (as it was, see here, here and here). Very few reporters do that,” said Bacha Singh, “they are more interested in adding their own spin.”
Rupesh Singh reported on protests by villagers against the establishment of security camps and police stations in Dumri and Pirtand blocks of Jharkhand’s Giridih district, which they feared would restrict their movement; and on the encounter of Motilal Baske, a member of the MSS and a doli majdoor, or labourer who carries pilgrims to temples located on hills, on allegations of being a Maoist ( here and here).
Bacha Singh and other activists in Jharkhand felt that while these reports endeared Rupesh Singh to adivasis, workers and other marginalised groups and established him as a fearless reporter, they also paved way for his arrest on 4 June 2019. The laptop on which he was writing the book on militarisation and state repression was also seized, and the draft of his manuscript lost.
Arrested in Bihar, Singh Wrote A Jail Diary
In the interview with Article 14, Singh said that he, a lawyer friend and their driver were on their way to Aurangabad district of Bihar for a short trip on 4 June 2019 when they were detained during a halt near Hazaribagh in Jharkhand. They were taken to a security camp in south Bihar’s Gaya district that housed a paramilitary unit, called the 205th COBRA battalion, and detained there till 6 June.
CoBRA (Commando Battalion for Resolute Action) battalions are a specialised force of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) raised for guerilla warfare to quell the Maoist insurgency.
During his interrogation, police claimed that Singh was a state committee member of the banned CPI (Maoist), and editor of Laal Chingari, its magazine purportedly published in Bihar and Jharkhand. They also claimed that Singh was going to Gaya to meet his alleged fellow Maoist leader Sandeep Yadav, to whom he was supposed to deliver a chip.
“They wanted me to agree with this story, and did not care about what I had to say,” said Singh.
He recalled being interrogated by an assistant superintendent of police who asked him why he reported about adivasi and jal-jangal-jameen (water-forest-land) issues, and claimed his reportage provided support to the Maoists. The officer allegedly offered him money to start a channel (on social media) in return for becoming a police informer.
Singh turned down the offer, he said. He was produced in court on 6 June 2019, nearly 48 hours after his arrest, and spent six months in Bihar’s Sherghati and Gaya jails before being released on bail in December.
Though the book he was working on did not materialise, he published his jail diary titled Qaidkhane Ka Aaina (Mirror to the Prison) months after his release. The book documented accounts of numerous prisoners who said they were in jail under fabricated charges, and the rampant corruption in prisons.
It also provided details of Singh’s efforts to organise the 200-odd prisoners in Sherghati jail to demand the provision of food, medical facilities, toilets, library and other entitlements according to the jail manual.
Fears That He May Be Implicated By Multiple Agencies
Like the first time he was arrested, Singh’s family members and associates believe the real intent behind his arrest is to muzzle dissent.
“We fear that he may be implicated in other cases and kept in jail for a prolonged period under false charges,” said Satakshi. “This is more so because teams from different states and agencies are interrogating him.”
Bacha Singh, the trade unionist, said Rupesh Singh was perhaps the only reporter in Jharkhand who wrote consistently about the exploitation of adivasis; and the rights of workers. “He reports truth from the grassroots, and has exposed the policy of repression followed by governments in the state and at the centre. This is the primary reason he was arrested—in 2019 and as well as now,” said Bachha Singh.
A number of protests and demonstrations demanding Rupesh Kumar Singh’s unconditional release are planned in Jharkhand in subsequent weeks. The Jharkhand Jansangharsh Morcha, one of the largest civil society groups in the state, will kick off its campaign on 19 August by demonstrating in front of the Raj Bhavan in Ranchi and submitting a letter to the governor. Demonstrations and meetings are also planned in Gumla (21 August), Dhanbad (22 August), Giridih (25 August), Garhwa (26 August) and Hazaribag (28 August).
(Aritra Bhattacharya is an independent journalist and researcher based in Kolkata.)


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Turin’s vibrant centre plays host to a range of stores, café’s, but most of all an interesting and diverse street architecture. Continue reading “Turin at Night”
The River Seine bisects, and in a very real sense defines, the geography of the city of Paris. So let us being our journey along the Seine, late in the afternoon, and watch as the light changes through sunset, until finally the golden city comes to light.
Continue reading “Views from the River Seine, Paris”
The Danube River, once the north eastern border of the Roman empire, provides gorgeous reflections at night from the twined cities, Buda and Pest (Budapest). Together these now merged cities straddle the river with dramatic bridges and buildings. Continue reading “The Danube River at night, Budapest”
The Prague underground stations surprised this traveler with a common theme employed in their construction. The first impression is one of a blocky, soviet-style architecture and of course the inclination is to dismiss this as a somewhat inelegant, blocky, perhaps overdone, building style given the minimalist modes and elegant lines of modern construction. Looking more closely at the architecture, you realise this presumption is both ill-considered and, dare I admit, uncouth! Continue reading “Prague Train Stations”
West of the Vltava River is the Castle precinct of Prague. It is quite different than the east side, which is mostly flat compared with the hilly terrain upon which the castle is built, as well as its environs. The city has continued to take advantage of its geography, with parks adorning the hills offering both splendid views of the medieval city centre as well as places to relax and spend quality time with friends and family. The castle precinct also holds St Vitus Cathedral, some images of which can be seen here. Continue reading “West of the Vltava River, Prague”


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A technical pause was taken in the negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations to end the war until March 15, while the negotiations themselves continue. Adviser to the head of the Office of the President Mykhailo Podolyak reported this on his Twitter page.
"A technical pause has been taken in the negotiations until tomorrow. For additional work in the working subgroups and clarification of individual definitions. Negotiations continue…," Podolyak tweeted.
Context. On February 28, the Ukrainian and Russian delegations held the first round of negotiations and went to their respective capitals for consultations on further decisions.
On March 3, the second round of negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian delegations was held. According to Podolyak, the Ukrainian delegation did not achieve the results they had hoped for in negotiations with the Russian Federation. At the same time, the parties reached an agreement on the joint provision of humanitarian corridors.
The Ukrainian delegation in the course of the third round of negotiations held on March 7 with the delegation of the Russian Federation got positive results in the context of the humanitarian corridor logistics.


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This Ginger Oak Moss Solid Facial Cleanser is the sister to my Ginger Oak Moss Cleansing Balm Stick; the two accompanied me all around New Zealand last December, and did brilliantly. The inspiration for this came from a product I stumbled across while perusing /r/AsianBeauty: the Su:m37 Miracle Rose Cleansing Stick. I immediately saw the travel (and general) awesomeness potential of a solid facial cleanser in a push-up stick, and set out to create one of my own.
If you’ve made one of my foaming facial cleansers you’ll notice quite a few familiar ingredients: a gentle blend of SCI and Cocamidopropyl Betaine form the bulk of it, with some added foaming silk because I had some and it sounded like a lovely thing in a facial cleanser. That blend is solid on its wn, but pretty soft and sticky, so we’ll harden it up with some silky cetyl alcohol, conditioning BTMS-50, and creamy mango butter. Some hydrolyzed silk and panthenol bring some moisturizing and skin soothing properties, and a touch of Penstia™ powder improves the lovely glide of the final product.
I packed the first version of this into a paperboard container, just like its cleansing balm sister—I figured it would be a good way to give them a run for their money. Between international travel, a cross-New-Zealand road trip, twice daily handling (often with wet hands) and a fair amount of getting slammed around in my bag, they definitely weren’t getting babied. I’m happy to report both of them performed pretty darn well! I’m not sure I’d recommend them for such a task as paper + frequently getting wet doesn’t seem like an awesome long-term combination, and if it was a product I had purchased I’m not sure I’d be happy with the level of visual wear after two months, but perhaps people who go out of their way to purchase products in paperboard containers are not the type of people to fuss over such things? Anyhow—the specific tubes I used are from YellowBee, and they have the best paperboard tubes I’ve used. Some of the daintier ones I’ve tried soak through with oil in a matter of hours, whilst these sturdy ones from YellowBee haven’t soaked through at all and I’ve had concoctions in their tubes for upwards of a year now.
This cleanser contains 32.54% active surfactant matter, or ASM. We’re using SCI at 24%, and since it is 84% active, that’s 20.16%. Cocamidopropyl Betaine at 36% works out to 10.8% ASM (as it is 30% active), and Foaming Silk (31.5% active) brings 1.58% ASM to the blend at 5% usage. Upwards of 30% ASM would be high for a liquid cleanser, but higher ASMs are common (and rather necessary) in solid cleansers. Not only do the surfactants create the bulk of the bar and contribute heavily to its solid-ness, but we use significantly less of a solid cleanser than we would of a liquid one. Think of the amount of liquid soap you use compared to the amount of solid soap; an imperceptible swipe of a solid bar does the work of a full pump of liquid soap. You’ll find you use next to no product when using this cleanser, which is easily one of my favourite things about it—it lasts for absolutely ages!
The first time I made this cleanser I used a water bath, but found that it took absolutely ages, and the cleanser remained so thick and sticky that it was really hard to work with. I tried to remedy this by quickly microwaving it, which resulted in a small sudsy volcano in my microwave (whoops!), so this time I oped for using the stovetop over low heat. I found that really sped up the SCI/Cocamidopropyl Betaine melting time and ensured everything melted together quite a lot faster (BTMS and I have a bit of an ongoing why-won’t-you-melt-until-transparent-in-a-waterbath spat). You are certainly welcome to do everything in a water bath instead (especially if they’ve worked well for you in the past), but if you do decide to join me in the world of direct heat please watch it carefully! It’s easy to get a bit slack on the supervision when you’re used to water baths, which are very forgiving. Direct heat is not forgiving, and we are working with small amounts of things, which heat up very quickly. Make sure you have everything measured out before you turn the stove on as things will move much faster than usual, and you don’t want to walk away from your concoction lest you accidentally fry your facial cleanser.
Our essential oil blend is a lovely one: intoxicating oak moss, warm ginger, and bright michelia alba. You’re certainly welcome to mix it up and use something else if you don’t have those essential oils, or aren’t a fan of warm/woodsy/mysterious scent blends, but I sure like this blend! It’s soft and sweet, with bright, lightly spicy top notes, and it’s difficult to pin down any one individual note, which I love in a scent blend. Swoon!
Ginger Oak Moss Solid Facial Cleanser
Secondary Heated Phase
2.5g | 5% foaming silk (USA / Canada)
5g | 10% cetyl alcohol (USA / Canada)
5g | 10% BTMS-50 (USA / Canada)
3.55g | 7.1% mango butter (USA / Canada)
1g | 2% panthenol powder (vitamin B5) (USA / Canada)
1g | 2% hydrolyzed silk (USA / Canada) (wondering about substitutions?)
1.5g | 3% Penstia™ powder (USA / Canada)
Combine the Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate and Cocamidopropyl Betaine in a small saucepan and place over low heat until smooth and uniform, stirring frequently. Ensure the heat is very low!
While the surfactants are melting, weigh out the cetyl alcohol, BTMS-50, mango butter, panthenol, hydrolyzed silk, and Penstia™ powder into a small bowl or beaker to add later.
Once the Sodium Cocoyl Isethionate and Cocamidopropyl Betaine have transformed into a smooth, uniform white paste, stir in the foaming silk. When that is uniform, add the remainder of the secondary heated phase, stirring to combine and melt through.
When the mixture has melted completely, remove it from the heat, and stir as it cools. Once the temperature drops below 50°C, stir in the liquid germall plus and the essential oils, and then quickly transfer the mixture to a 30g (1oz) push-up tube (USA / Canada). You’ll need to sharply rap the tube on your counter to knock the paste down as it’ll be rather stiff—a necessary side effect of allowing the mixture to cool enough to add our preservative.
Once all the paste is packed into the tube, smooth off the top with your spatula and leave it to set up for a day before using it. To use, glide the surface of the cleanser across damp skin, and then wipe it off with a damp microfibre cloth.
Shelf Life & Storage
Because this cleanser will regularly come into contact with water, you must include a broad-spectrum preservative to ward off microbial growth. This is non-optional. Even with a preservative this project is likely to eventually spoil as our kitchens are not sterile laboratories, so in the event you notice any change in colour, scent, or texture, chuck it out and make a fresh batch.
To make the 2:3 SCI:Cocamidopropyl Betaine pre-made paste simply weigh 100g SCI and 150g Cocamidopropyl Betaine into a 250mL mason jar. Place that mason jar in a water bath until the paste is uniform and smooth. Keep the paste in the freezer and use as needed.
As always, be aware that making substitutions will change the final product. While these swaps won’t break the recipe, you will get a different final product than I did.
- As I’ve provided this recipe in percentages as well as grams you can easily calculate it to any size using a simple spreadsheet as I’ve explained in this post. As written in grams this recipe will make 200g.
- You can use a different liquid anionic surfactant instead of the foaming silk; foaming oats would be a good option! Look for something that is approximately 30% active matter for a similar final total surfactant concentration.
- You can use a different soft butter instead of mango butter; shea butter, sal butter, or mowrah butter would all be good choices.
- You can use a different hydrolyzed protein instead of silk, like oat or wheat.
- You can replace the Penstia™ powder with arrowroot starch or a light clay like kaolin or French green

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Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society
Springer 2007 hardback 197 pages
Ted Trainer, of the University of New South Wales, has made a valuable contribution to the literature of energy and resource depletion with his new book Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain a Consumer Society.
The title says a lot I think. With the focus of most mainstream debate on peak oil and energy being on the supply side – the oil is running low so what are we going to use instead? – Trainer brings a refreshing approach in which he provides a detailed and technically comprehensive analysis of existing renewable energy options- including wind, solar thermal, solar electric, biomass and energy crops, and hydrogen, as well as nuclear and the issue of storing energy. He concludes:
…we could easily have an extremely low per capita rate of energy consumption, and footprint, based on local resources- but only if we undertake vast and radical change in economic, political, geographical and cultural systems.
In the first section he outlines the context I which these discussions have been taking place: a context full of “Greenwash” and wild exaggerations on behalf of some renewable energy suppliers, which has been repeated by the media and left the public with a quite illusory understanding of what renewables can and cannot do.
In writing the book, Trainer claims that
considerable difficulty has been encountered from people hostile to having attention drawn to the weaknesses in their technologies and proposals… Where commercial interest might be threatened by critical enquiry, prickly reactions, including harassment, can be encountered.
In most of the renewable technologies Trainer examines, the conclusion is that although they may make a significant contribution to an energy system backed up by fossil fuels – from 10-20% in the case of wind for example – they simply cannot deliver enough constant power to run our current society entirely.
This issue is compounded when we take into consideration that our society is predicated on a growth ethic, with population and thus the demand growing:
If world population reaches 9+ billion, a global carbon use budget of 1Gt would provide us all with about 150 kg of fossil fuel per year, which is around 2-3% of our present rich-world per capita use of fossil fuels… Alternatively only about 170million people, 2.5% of the world’s present population, could live on the present rich-world per capita fossil fuel use of over 6 tonnes per year.
In the case of solar thermal, for example, Trainer concludes that power stations built in hot regions of the world that use heat from the sun to drive turbines can make a valuable contribution in the summer, but not in the winter. From a global point of view, there would be difficulty in running long transmission lines from, for example, the Sahara to Europe. Even in the best case, large-scale solar thermal is likely to cost 7x the price of coal-fired energy.
In the case of wind, there are similar limitations in the summer, and again, the difficulty of exploiting enough good sites to meet current needs. In Australia, for example, Trainer estimates that because of wind variability, problems of integration with other systems and availability of space on suitable sites would limit the contribution wind could make to 10-20% of current demand.
The hope that wind and solar could be combined – one picking up when the other slackens off – is limited by the costs and logistics of building several large-scale systems each of which would effectively have to be capable of meeting peak demand.
Trainer has a detailed look at biomass but finds this would also run into problems of scale and absolute limits: since many studies have found that ethanol from corn may in fact take more energy to produce than it actually provides, the only possibility to keep the industrial rich world supplied with the volumes of liquid fuels for transport from biomass would be from cellulosic or woody input material – short rotation willow coppice and some other high-yielding shrubs and grasses.
He concludes that if the entire world’s available land were given over to producing ethanol to supply just for the 1.5 billion people living in rich countries, it would still be possible only to meet 15% of our current consumption.
For the nuclear industry to supply all the world’s needs at current rates of energy demand, we would need to build at least 100,000 more reactors and the uranium feedstock would be used up in just 12 years.
Having demonstrated in the first part of the book that renewable sources of energy cannot come anywhere near to replacing fossil fuels in sufficient quantity to keep running the current globalised, capitalist industrial economy, Trainer devotes the last two sections of the book to outlining what amounts to his manifesto which he refers to as “The Simpler Way”:
…the essential factor in our global predicament is over-consumption… [so] we must move to far more materially simple lifestyles…We have to come to see as enjoyable living frugally, recycling, growing food, â€˜husbanding’ resources, making rather than buying, composting, repairing, bottling fruit, giving surpluses and old things to others, making things last, and running a relatively self-sufficient household economy. The Buddhist goal is a life â€˜simple in means and rich in ends’.
In other words, Trainer argues that the quest to keep the unsustainable growth-based system going by renewable energy sources is a fools’ errand:
It is a mistake to think better technology is important in solving global problems, let alone the key. Most of the things we need in the Simpler Way can be produced by traditional technologies.
Instead, Trainer advocates small-scale, decentralised communities designed around permaculture principles, a no-growth based local economy, the wise management of local natural resources, local community government, simple design approaches such as passive solar, and the replacement of TV and energy-intensive recreations and pastimes with gardening and crafts.
A key part of this which Trainer makes some valuable contributions is the actual number crunching of footprint analyses: how much land is needed to support how many people at what level of consumption?
- while agribusiness, with high fossil inputs, requires 5,000 square metres to feed one North American, bio-intensive methods such as have been demonstrated by Jeavons (2002) show it is possible for people to feed themselves on perhaps 1/100th of this space using far less energy-intensive methods, and requiring perhaps only 4 hours work per week;
- frugal use of electricity could provide a comfortable life sufficient to our needs at less than 2% of typical rich-world household consumption (4 kWh/day), easily achievable with renewables;
- a remarkably low overall footprint per capita of 0.25ha.- 0.5 ha could be achieved- “still under the 2050 globally available figure of 0.8ha”.
Trainer concludes with a discussion of the Transition Process, and acknowledges that he has become increasingly pessimistic that this process will take place in an orderly or timely manner- not because of lack of resources, technologies or knowledge, but because of lack of will:
The problem group, the key to transition is- people in general. If they came to see the Simpler Way as preferable, consumer-capitalist society would be more or less immediately replaced…The battle therefore is to do with the ideology, world-view or vision held by ordinary people.
This is difficult because the Simpler Way involves the developments of social and economic systems that “flatly contradict some of the fundamental elements in Western Culture.” But by turning the spotlight away from governments and political leaders and onto the role each citizen has to play in the way they make decisions everyday about how they live, Trainer offers an empowering response that anyone can begin with right now: it is up to you. Start your garden. Talk to your neighbours. Research low-tech energy options for your community.
Ultimately The Simpler Way is the Only Way. An abrupt petroleum crash would do wonders to focus people’s mind on the predicament we face.
Anyone interested in Energy Descent Planning, Community Powerdown responses and Economic Localisation should read this book.


Pigeon-holed as a cheerleader’s car in its first life, the VW Cabriolet has been uncovered by many early-water-cooled VW enthusiasts as the good car it is – a 4-place convertible with decent power (especially with the manual) and good passive safety for the time. Of course, stock power is never enough for some folks, and that’s why there’s another popular pastime among VW fans – dropping in a later VW factory powertrain to add power. So that brings us to this 1989 VW Cabriolet for sale for $3000 in Revere, MA.
Helios Blue Metallic is an appealing color, certainly more durable and distinctive than the popular white-on-white-on-white wedding cake color scheme. Said to have 146,000 miles, the thing that makes this car interesting over most other Cabriolets is the supercharged G60 engine, likely sourced from an ex-Corrado. Unfortunately, there are no pictures, but from the factory this engine was good for 160hp, so you’d probably give things like a MR2 SC a run for its money, at least in a straight line. All fawning over a supercharged engine aside, the seller does not expand on why the car went into storage one month after the conversion, except to say he wants something to drive every day – was it simply stored at the first snow/salt?
The car is also said to be mint, but needs a good interior cleaning and is currently sporting a not-so-right dorifto steering wheel that needs to be in a Corolla GT-S or something. The rest of the dash, interior and top look pretty clean, though. It’s nice to see the car comes with its original top boot, since that pram-style folding top is pretty conspicuous when it’s down.
The teardrop wheels are a nice touch, probably sourced from a late Mk2 GTI. For a mint car, there do seem to be some issues with flaking paint on the rear bumper, finish oxidation and maybe even rust – all those plastic covers over the sills and fenders probably cover up the beginnings of corrosion pretty well. The car is said to have Raceland coil overs, but if you’re feeling serious about things, you might want to plan for work on bushings, ball joints and more. All in all, this looks like a fun alternative to any number of roadsters that can accommodate you and three friends.


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The police are searching for a man or woman who apparently drove a BMW onto the train tracks in San Diego County and abandoned it. On Wednesday at 10:30 p.m. the train engineer of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe train saw the car on the tracks, but could not stop it. Luckily, no one was hurt when the train hit the car near the intersection of Coast Boulevard and 15th Street in Del Mar.
Sheriff’s Transit Enforcement deputies responded to a report of a train versus vehicle collision around 10:20 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2016. The conductor told San Diego County Sheriff’s deputies that just moments before the crash, he saw a woman in a red dress standing near the BMW. The police searched but found no one. According to the Sheriff’s press release, Deputies stated it appeared the car was driven up onto the tracks. Until the police find the person who left the car there, they do not know if it broke down on the tracks or was left there intentionally. The BMW 328i had no plates but it did have a dealership tag from Auto City and was registered in Chula Vista.
Anyone with information about this case or knows who the mystery driver is can call the Sheriff’s Dept. at 858-565-5200.


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PCL MS-41: Marjorie Dorner Collection
Marjorie Dorner is a contemporary American author of mystery-suspense novels, literary short stories, and one play. The manuscripts of working and final versions of her four mystery-suspense novels form the core of the collection.
Marjorie Dorner transferred her manuscripts to the Popular Culture Library, Bowling Green State University, in December 1993. The collection is open for research, but photocopying or other duplication of manuscripts must comply with applicable copyright laws. This register was compiled by Kevin Lause under the supervision of Jean Geist, Popular Culture Library Associate II in September 1996 and updated in September 2009 by Patricia Falk.
Marjorie Dorner was born on January 21, 1942 in Luxemburg, Wisconsin. She received a B.A. from St. Norbert College in 1964, an M.A. from Marquette University in 1965, and a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1971. Since graduating from Purdue, Dorner has spent most of her professional life as a Professor of English at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota. She also resides in Winona with her two adopted daughters.
Dorner began her writing career by publishing short stories in small newspapers and by having a play (The Hundredth Battle) produced at the Green Bay Community Theater, Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1976. Her first work in the mystery-suspense genre was the novel Nightmare, published in 1987 and televised (as "Don't Touch My Daughter!") on NBC-TV in April 1991. Since then Dorner has published three other mystery-suspense novels -- Family Closets (1989), Freeze Frame (1990 -- Winner of the 1991 Minnesota Book Award for Best Mystery), and Blood Kin (1992). In an interview with the editors of Contemporary Authors, Dorner identified her major concerns in the mystery-suspense genre as " . . . ordinary people whose lives are suddenly visited with violence" and "...in explaining the ways we interact with and depend upon our social institutions, such as the law and the family." She also noted in the same interview that her major avocational interest is "...travel -- especially to England and the Caribbean" and this interest has obviously served her well in the careful detail she has provided in her novels' varied settings. In 1992, Dorner broadened her creative output with the publication of a collection of literary short stories (Winter Roads, Summer Fields -- Winner of the 1993 Minnesota Book Award for Fiction) which also illustrates the strong influence of oral storytelling upon her writing.
The Marjorie Dorner Collection houses the handwritten literary manuscripts for four novels: Nightmare (also listed under the working and final British edition title A Choice of Nightmares), Family Closets, Freeze Frame (also listed under the working title Double Exposure), and Blood Kin. The collection also includes thirteen 5 1/4" floppy diskettes that contain the "Interim" working version of most of Family Closets, and the "First," "Interim," and "Final" versions of Blood Kin.
Researchers interested in the mystery-suspense genre and in the craft of mystery writing will find this collection useful.
- Manuscripts, Literary
- 1987, 1989, 1990, 1992
- Arranged chronologically by date of published work
- This series includes the handwritten manuscripts for her four mystery-suspense novels. Also included are 13 floppy diskettes (5 1/4", Applewriter) containing some of the revisions for Family Closets and all of the revisions for Blood Kin. The two sets of diskettes are arranged chronologically by date of publication of the final manuscript.
|1||Also labeled A Choice of Nightmares -- author's original title|
Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 1, pp.1-49
|2||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 2, pp.50-99|
|3||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 3, pp.100-149|
|4||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 4, pp.150-184|
|Family Closets||1987, 1989|
|5||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 1, pp.1-50|
|6||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 2, pp.51-100|
(See also author's additional notes on back of manuscript page 99)
|7||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 3, pp.101-150|
(See also author's additional notes on back of manuscript pages 108 and 150)
|8||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 4, pp.151-200|
|9||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 5, pp.201-230|
(See also author's additional notes on back of manuscript pages 226 and 229)
|10||Also listed under author's original title, Double Exposure |
Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 1, pp.1-48
(See also author's additional notes on back of manuscript pages 34 and 38)
|11||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 2, pp.49-98|
(See also author's additional notes on back of manuscript pages 56,67,68,71, and 79)
|12||Handwritten manuscript---Volume 3, pp.99-146|
(See also author's additional notes on back of manuscript page 145)
|13||Handwritten manuscript---Volume 4, pp.147-196|
(See also author's additional notes on back of manuscript pages 190,191,195, and 196)
|14||Handwritten manuscript---Volume 5, pp. 197-202|
(See also author's additional notes on back of manuscript page 199)
|1||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 1, pp.1-68|
(See also author's additional notes on back of manuscript page 56)
|2||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 2, pp. 69-138|
|3||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 3, pp. 139-209|
|4||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 4, pp.210-280|
|5||Handwritten manuscript -- Volume 5, pp.281-345|
|6||Family Closets ||1989|
|7||Six (6) 5 1/4" floppy diskettes containing the entire "First Version" of the novel, two chapters of the "Interim Version" and one chapter of the "Final Version." |
|8||Four (4) 5 1/4" floppy diskettes containing the "Final Version" of Blood Kin |
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Hi friends! Yoga is a form of exercise that has been shown to have several health benefits, especially in the prenatal period. Today we are going to talk about what those benefits are.
Doing prenatal yoga has been shown to have many positive impacts on both physical and mental health of the mom and baby. Prenatal yoga has been shown to improve low back pain during pregnancy (Babbar, 2016). Yoga has also been shown to help improve sleep (Babbar, 2016).
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Along with improvements in physical health, yoga can help with mental health. Prenatal yoga has been shown to have benefits on mental health and can partly reduce depressive symptoms in the prenatal and postpartum period (Gong, 2015; Bolanthakodi, 2018). Yoga can also help with anxiety and stress (Babbar, 2016).
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