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Monday, January 08, 2018
In Which We Serve
Directed by Noel Coward and David Lean and written, starring, and music score by Coward, In Which We Serve is the story of Royal Naval sailors fighting in World War II as deal with their role in the war as they fight the Germans. The film is a dramatization of the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten who would fight the Germans during a campaign in Crete in which his destroyer had sank during the campaign. Also starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Celia Johnson, and Richard Attenborough. In Which We Serve is a riveting and evocative film from Noel Coward and David Lean.
The film follows the life of naval crew whose destroyer is being attacked by German air forces as they think about their lives at home as well as their lives working on this ship they love. It’s a film that explores men who are dealing with survival as they also reflect on their lives at home as much of it takes place on a lifeboat where a captain and other survivors think about home and the events that lead to the situation they’re in. Noel Coward’s screenplay takes a back-and-forth narrative of Captain E.V. Kinross (Noel Coward) and his crew trying to survive as well as looking back into their own lives at home as well as their life on the destroyer known as the HMS Torrin. Much of the film is told through flashbacks of not just the life that Captain Kinross has but also some of his officers and crew members including sailors who had families to go home to. Notably Chief Petty Officer Hardy (Bernard Miles) and Seaman Blake (John Mills) who would both endure changes into their own lives at home.
Coward’s direction mainly focuses on a lot of the film’s dramatic moments as well as many scenes not set during the conflict as he aims for something simpler in the compositions with a few stylish touches. Shot largely at the Denham Studios in Denham with a few exteriors shot in nearby locations, much of Coward’s direction would have a few wide shots of the locations but mainly focuses on close-ups and medium shots to play into the drama. Notably the lives of Captain Kinross, Hardy, and Blake as well as a few others including their respective spouses/lovers where Coward’s direction has elements of theatricality in its framing and long takes but does manage to establish what is going on and who these characters are.
Much of the film’s action scenes are helmed by David Lean who would use a lot of wide shots and some stock footage to play into the battle as a way to showcase the intensity of these battles. Even in the scenes on the lifeboat where the survivors have to evade the firepower from enemy planes with the wounded on the boats. Coward and Lean would still provide moments that play into what is at stake as well as the need to survive and watch their beloved ship in its final moments. Overall, Coward and Lean create a gripping and compelling film about the life of a British destroyer’s captain and his crew as they try to survive against the Germans.
Cinematographer Ronald Neame does brilliant work with the film’s black-and-white cinematography as it play into the beauty of some of the locations outside of the studio the scenes in the sea with its usage of lights for the scenes in the day and night along with its interiors. Editor Thelma Myers, with additional work from David Lean, does excellent work with the editing in its usage of stylish transitional dissolves as well as some rhythmic cuts for some of the film’s action scenes. Art director David Rawnsley does amazing work with the look of the interiors of the destroyer as well as the shipyard and the homes of some of the characters.
The special effects work of Douglas Woolsey is fantastic for the usage of miniatures in some of the action scenes whenever the ships are destroyed as well as a few visual tricks in some of the transitions. Sound recordist C.C. Stevens does terrific work with the sound in capturing the sound of bombs during the blitz sequence as well as the sound of gunfire in some of the action scenes. The film’s music by David Lean, with contributions from Clifton Parker, is wonderful for its usage of orchestral string arrangements with elements of percussion bombast and military cadences to play into the drama and action throughout the film.
The casting by Irene Howard is marvelous as it feature some notable small roles from Daniel Massey and Ann Stephens as Captain Kinross’ children, George Carney and Kathleen Harrison as Blake's parents, Richard Attenborough as a young seaman who enters an empty bar following the Dunkirk evacuation, and Michael Wilding as a sailor named Flags. Kay Walsh is fantastic as Blake’s girlfriend/future wife Freda as a woman he meets on a train as they become a couple as she worries about what will happen to him. Joyce Carey is wonderful as Hardy’s wife Kath as a woman that knows what her husband is dealing with as she befriends Freda and helps her deal with being a sailor’s wife. Celia Johnson is brilliant as Alix Kinross as Captain Kinross’ wife who deals with the same issues as the other spouses as she is this picture of grace as someone who is trying keep her family together and know what to expect if things go wrong.
John Mills is excellent as Seaman Shorty Blake as a sailor who is dealing with a new love as well as the expectations of becoming a father while dealing with his role as a sailor as he does whatever he can to help his fellow sailors and officers. Bernard Miles is amazing as Chief Petty Officer Walter Hardy as an officer who is a second-in-command of sorts for Captain Kinross as well as be someone who is a friend of the sailors including Blake whom he offers advice to about marriage. Finally, there’s Noel Coward in a remarkable performance as Captain E.V. Kinross as the captain of the HMS Torrin who is trying to run things as well as be someone a group of sailors and officers can count on while being a good father and husband to his family as he knows the struggle he has in being away from them.
In Which We Serve is an incredible film from Noel Coward and David Lean. Featuring some dazzling visuals, an inventive screenplay, a great cast, and some amazing action sequences. It’s a war film that maybe a propaganda film for its time but it is still a riveting film that explore how important the need to fight for the good of the world. In the end, In Which We Serve is a marvelous film from Noel Coward and David Lean.
David Lean Films: This Happy Breed – Blithe Spirit - Brief Encounter - Great Expectations (1946 film) – Oliver Twist (1948 film) – The Passionate Friends - Madeleine (1950 film) – The Sound Barrier - Hobson's Choice - (Summertime (1955 film)) – The Bridge on the River Kwai - Lawrence of Arabia - Doctor Zhivago - Ryan's Daughter - (Lost and Found: The Story of Cook’s Anchor) – A Passage to India - (The Auteurs #75: David Lean)
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The advance of biotechnology and ICTs has placed the pharmaceutical and digital industries among the most innovative in recent decades. As a result, company profits in both sectors have increased, but in many cases this has led to the increase of inequalities in access to health services or the use of data. These inequalities show the tensions between the public generation of knowledge and its private appropriation. In this sense, the pandemic has reinforced some of these dynamics and poses challenges for nation-states in terms of these sectors. Have companies in these sectors increased their innovative rents during the pandemic? Has this widened (or could it widen) inequalities between people-patients and/or between countries? What has been the role of international governance in the face of these potential problems? How important are national innovation systems in this context?
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Kung Fu League movie review
Asian martial arts cinema has always delivered excellent productions that must be appreciated and valued in the canon of cult cinema. And in this opportunity, it is convenient to consider in depth what goes into this story that at first impression seems to be entirely promising and willing to satisfy the most demanding martial arts film buff.
Kung Fu League had been announced with a lot of buzz surrounding it and had generated even before its premiere all sorts of anticipation and hype, and it is not to deny that the pedigree that had formed around this super production would move the most cynical of film critics.
Hong Kong and China joined forces and were willing to do an epic story with ample scope that promised to bring together martial arts greatest masters of both countries. (albeit in a fictitious form, and not with the typical actors portraying the legendary martial arts masters)
And how did the final product turn out? Did they promise what they accomplished? Read it below to find out.
As soon as the film starts, it is in your best interest as a viewer to lower your expectations to the minimum. It was inevitable to assume that with so many expectations, and hype the final product was not going to be entirely what was promised.
You’ll be shocked to learn that instead of an epic martial arts film the final product seems to be that during its development phase made a sharp turn of 180 degrees, and became a comedy that only has famous fictional martial arts masters. They didn’t deliver what they promised, but that’s not the only disappointing aspect of the finished product, is it even good? No, not at all.
One thing worth emphasizing is that surprisingly it is not only a comedy but also a romantic comedy. The focus on action has been noticeably minimized which will piss off of many fans of the martial arts genre.
If you set aside the lack of action, what the film proposes doesn’t seem to be a bad idea at all, it can result in a funny and entertaining movie to pass the time, in other words, it can be a quite subversive experience, such a pity they don’t use it correctly in their favor.
The story is as follows, in the present, an extremely introverted young man who works as a comic book artist dreams that four legendary martial arts masters will help him conquer the heart of the girl he likes, and it turns out that is also a fellow colleague.
The young man always tries to get the girl’s attention to confess his feelings but is unsuccessful as he is overshadowed by another competitor in the girl’s affections who turns out to be an extremely mean boss. And are you wondering how the legendary martial arts masters ended up in the present despite existing centuries before?
The answer to that question is not entirely unexplainable, but not exempted from being preposterous. It happens that one day when he is drunk he invokes the characters of the comic he was working on and they turn out to be the legendary martial arts masters to help him win a fighting championship, and thus allow him to earn a lot of money so he can attract the attention of the girl he is madly in love with. Who says romance isn’t dead?
Now everything will be in the hands of Wong Fei Hung, Huo Yuan Jia, Ip Man, and Chen Zhen so that the wimpy geek can conquer the girl and to find their way back to their respective times and locations.
That’s the entirety of the plot. There are some slight detours over the course of the movie, such as the one with delinquents that end up facing the martial arts masters, and start following and helping the masters around after losing to them.
The movie is childish, it has light humor easy to tolerate that can be to the liking of the whole family, perhaps you may smile or chuckle a little bit but not straight out laugh.
Some favorable criticisms that are worth highlighting are the following, the tributes to various classic martial arts movies were undoubtedly the most prominent, were very good recreations, for the presentation of the masters, honoring films such as Ip Man, The Grandmaster as well as others.
The movie’s also mercifully short, it’s not overbearingly long, thank god, but it can feel like a chore through the midpoint, the movie total runtime is 102 minutes.
The actors who portrayed the roles of the legendary martial arts masters did a solid piece of work as an ensemble, they all have the wits and the hilarity their parts called for, they have good chemistry between each other.
Let’s get straight to the negative criticisms: the script is abhorrently cringeworthy, the supposedly comical scenes fall flat, and there are several groan-inducing gags that are used over the course of the movie, relentlessly that it feels like beating a dead horse. (A Wong Fei Hung subplot centered around cheating is completely asinine)
What can be said about the dialogue? It’s absolutely terrible, the acting, for the most part, is astonishingly dull for certain key characters (cough the love interest cough) and there is so much overacting with the villains that it feels forced and not natural enough to warrant a laugh out of it.
There is some homophobia thrown in the mix, not cool, or funny, like at all. The fighting choreography is quite neat when is filmed properly and well suited for the scene, the final fight scene is a total disappointment and a total waste of the actors/characters abilities and prowess in martial arts.
Leung Siu Hung (the same fighting choreographer for Ip Man) is quite talented as a choreographer but his talents were to waste in this sad excuse of a martial arts movie, especially in that final fight scene.
The pacing is terrible, the direction is flat, and the camera work is not kinetic or engaging enough, the man in charge of the whole operation is the culprit, and that person is director Jeffrey Lau, he has experience as a producer and scriptwriter, but as a film director he clearly lacked the experience to helm this project.
The score is run of the mill, the tempo doesn’t fit in certain key scenes and failing too hard to accentuate a light mood or a funny scene, the line work and special effects are wonky and barely passable, it’s laughable like you wouldn’t believe. The customs and setpieces are adequate, nothing to brag about, these key aspects of the production were the ones with the most efforts put into it.
The movie doesn’t focus on its strengths, and that’s unfortunate, too many subplots and the characters separated from each other, the whiny geeky man child it’s such a nuisance and a terrible lead character, you might wish he was a side plot instead of the lead character.
In the end, Kung Fu League it’s not even worth the effort or the time if you see it at a disposable bin somewhere just don’t pick it up out, just don’t. The movie could have been great, but it’s not, that’s unfortunate, it has few bright spots, but not enough to guarantee the slightest interest for an Asian martial arts film buff.


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Too many robbery incidents in Calabar these days. The wife of a police Bureau de Change operator, identified as Suleiman, was attacked while on her way to deposit money at the bank.
The incident happened along the Murtala Mohammed highway in Calabara at about 3pm.
A source said, “Mrs. Suleiman Offiong was going to deposit money into the bank when she was attacked on the highway in broad daylight.
“No security personnel came to her rescue when the incident happened for almost 10 minutes. There had been series of robbery attacks recently in Calabar. The situation is becoming alarming and we have police everywhere and yet nothing is happening.”
Police Public Relation Officer in charge of the command, Irene Ugbo, said no arrests had been made, but added that the matters were being investigated.
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Seven candles for Kwanzaa / by Andrea Davis Pinkney ; pictures by Brian Pinkney.
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Republican Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, one of the leading candidates to be the next Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives, wouldn’t say much Wednesday about the new direction of his now 72-member caucus. But he would say this: There will be a separate agriculture committee under Republican control, and it won’t be chaired by someone from Minneapolis.
That was a conspicuous dig at Minneapolis DFL Rep. Jean Wagenius, the outgoing chair of the Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Finance Committee in the House. It was also a strong indicator of the new flavor the all-new Republican majority will bring to St. Paul over the next two years.
That’s because Republicans have Greater Minnesota voters to thank for their newfound majority — they won 11 seats Tuesday night, and only one was from the metro area.
“There were a lot of Democrat freshman incumbents that came to St. Paul and voted with the Minneapolis and St. Paul members and really lost touch with their districts,” Daudt said at a press conference in St. Paul, where he was surrounded by new and old Republican lawmakers. “I think they suffered the consequences of that in the election last night.”
These are seats Daudt thinks they can hold again in two years if they do the right things with their newfound power. That means not overreaching and no wasteful spending — the things he said irked rural Minnesota voters under Democratic power.
The biggest liability for Democrats on the campaign trail was passing a new office-building project for state senators, Daudt said: “It was an example of misplaced priorities.”
But he hesitated to put too much blame on a controversial 2013 vote to legalize gay marriage in Minnesota. The vote put Democratic rural members on the spot whose districts had voted earlier for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. In the end, seven DFLers who bucked their voters on gay marriage lost Tuesday night.
Daudt noted, however, that the two rural Democrats who voted against gay marriage for that reason also lost their seats on Tuesday night. “I don’t think we can make a broad blanket statement that that issue had anything to do with the end results,” he said.
One thing Daudt did make clear about his new caucus: It wasn’t going to jump into power looking to “divide and conquer,” since it still has to work with DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and a DFL controlled Senate. The last time Minnesota had divided government, the state went into a 21-day government shutdown over a budget solution.
“I don’t see any reason why we would have a [government shutdown], I really don’t,” Daudt said, repeatedly trying to cast his new caucus in a different light than the Tea Party labels that had been tossed out on the campaign trail. “I hope that the Democrats see it that way as well.”
And what issues will a Greater-Minnesota-focused Republican House make a priority over the next two years? Daudt is still figuring that out with his members, but he did say this:
- Rural Republicans will prioritize road and bridge funding, but that doesn’t necessarily mean passing a gas tax increase, Daudt said. The last poll in the election cycle from KSTP/SurveyUSA showed Minnesotans were 80 percent opposed to raising the gas tax.
- In fact, Daudt didn’t say much about taxes at all, either holding the line on tax increases or repealing some increases Democrats passed over the last two years. Daudt said he would wait until they see the budget forecast in December and February before making any budget decisions.
- They will try to fix MNsure, the state’s health insurance exchange, but Daudt was hesitant to say he would push for a full-on repeal of the program. He said he wants to make sure the “MNsure board gets more active,” and bonuses seem unlikely for exchange executives. “We will try to fix it, but if repeal becomes the best solution, we will try to do that,” he said.


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Day 8 highlights the return of Rio 2016 podium finishers United States, China and Brazil, and the entry of Paralympic Games sophomore squad Canada in the semifinals of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games women’s sitting volleyball tournament.
Brazil and United States are once again pitted against each other in the semifinals of the Paralympic Games. These two squads met at the Paralympic semifinal in Rio de Janeiro on September 17, 2016, when the hosts conceded the match in straight sets to eventual Olympic champions USA.
Their Tokyo 2020 matchup promises to bring a lot of nostalgia but also new energy, as USA intend to defend their title while Brazil hope to improve on their bronze finish and bring home their second medal. The first semifinal is scheduled at 18.30 local time.
With the tournament’s top scorers belonging to these two teams, the matchup between China and Canada at 20.30 features the consistency and experience of the Asian side against the determination and assertiveness of the North American squad.
China are seeking to go one place higher on the podium after losing the gold medal to USA in Rio, while Canada are hoping to establish their status as a strong international contender.
The classification matches are scheduled in the afternoon, with Japan and Rwanda facing each other at the 7th-8th place classification at 13.30, to record their very first win the Paralympic Games.
Then the all-European derby between Italy and RPC will take place at 15.30 for the 5th-6th place classification. This matchup is a repeat of the 2019 European Championship final.

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The fourth edition of FeST, the TV Series Festival, will be held on 23-24-25 September. An all-Italian event dedicated to contemporary television seriality. The project is signed by Dude and is completely free, in collaboration with Triennale di Milano, with the support of the Milan Office of the European Parliament and under the patronage of APA, the Audiovisual Producers Association. Edoardo Ferrario will return to host the award ceremony, this time flanked by Aurora Leone of The Jackal.
The focus of FeST will be on investigating the state of the art of television seriality and, through three days of screenings and events, meeting those who have written, directed and interpreted the TV series of the moment. A festival that will turn first and foremost into a party, an experience that will see the participation of major broadcasters such as Netflix, Prime Video, Rai Fiction, De Agostini Editore, Warner Bros, Discovery, Disney+ and Sky.
FeST will also be supported by media partnerships with Radio Deejay, Radio Capital and One Podcast. A new feature this year will be FeST Academy- Education & Entertainment, a series of meetings to be held on Friday 23 September, dedicated to the world of education in the TV film seriality sector, in collaboration with Academies, Schools and Universities.
As in previous editions, the FeST will take place on four parallel stages. Main stage, hosted inside the Triennale Milano Teatro, will host previews, interviews and panels. Industry stage, on the other hand, will be where broadcasters, distribution and production companies, and personalities linked to the entire audiovisual chain will discuss Italian seriality. Unstage will be the stage hosted in the Triennale garden and will give voice to cult niches with games and unexpected interactions between TV series and reality. Finally, the Kids stage, scheduled for Saturday, will be dedicated to content for children and young people. The youngest will thus be able to attend previews and meetings with the protagonists of the best-loved or most anticipated animated series and dramas.
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According to claims from some gay bar insiders in New York City the Mafia still may have a hand in at least a few establishments.
Of course, such claims should not be startling. The Mafia once enjoyed near-monoply control over gay bars in New York City, and even as late as 1985 reputed capo Matthew "Matty the Horse" Ianniello was convicted with several associates for skimming profits out of several bars including the tranny bar Gilded Grape and the hustler bar Hay Market.
One former barback of a currently-operating downtown gay bar claims that the place is run by the mob, and although only nineteen years old at the time of his under-the-table employment allegedly was allowed to guzzle all the alcohol he could at a discounted $1 a drink. A freelance writer who was working on an ultimately-killed story for a major online gay news site interviewed a bartender at that same establishment who reportedly acknowledged a "rumor" about Mafia control but was "too afraid" to ask about it.
And a former manager of a currently-operating uptown gay bar alleges that the establishment at which he worked -- plus another one nearby -- is run by "wise guys." A bartender at that same uptown joint even once identified an alleged mobster who from time-to-time made an appearance, and although married with children the purported wise guy apparently has a little sugar in his tank and is known to sample the merchandise.
Many gay bars today are backed by legitimate business people, and the Mafia certainly does not maintain the near-monopoly it previously enjoyed for decades. However, no one really should expect the Mafia completely to exit gay nightlife. After all, the Mafia was instrumental in creating the industry and no doubt claims certain rights beyond bragging for its enterprising vision.
Indeed, the record bust last Thursday of over 100 suspected mobsters shows one thing for sure: the wise guys know when they have a good thing going, and they rarely are inclined to let it go. According to the federal allegations the mob maintains a grip -- largely through union corruption and extortionate threats -- on the waterfront and in construction notwithstanding decades of prosecution in those rackets. The money is just too good to let a few pinches thwart its schemes. Similarly, it would be extraordinarily naive to expect the Mafia simply to walk away from its gay bars -- particularly since law enforcement over the years generally has left the reputed mobsters behind the suspected joints to their own devices.
Given that a primary purpose of the Stonewall riots was to kick the Mafia out of gay bars, perhaps more than forty years later it's time to honor the memory of those pioneering gay and lesbian street activisits by finishing their work. After all, the mob is no friend to the LGBT community even if it has befriended a few Auntie Gays. So if you have any info involving the hidden hand of the mob in any gay bars, feel free to tip off the FBI. The agency's New York Field Office can be reached by phone at (212) 384-1000 or by email at firstname.lastname@example.org


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Bekaaboo 28 May 2023 Written Story Update On HindiTvGhar.com
The episode commences with Nayra expressing her desire to go back home, prompting Ranav to share the same sentiment. However, Bela, not wanting Ranav to accompany Nayra, opposes their decision. In an effort to capture Ranav’s attention, Nayra devises a dramatic scheme right in the middle of the road. She pretends to be a victim of molestation by a stranger and fiercely defends herself by attacking the individual. Her blows are so forceful that the man begins to bleed. The piercing cries of Nayra reach Ranav’s ears, manipulating his perception of the situation. Upon hearing Nayra’s screams, Ranav rushes towards the scene of the altercation, determined to rescue her. Engaging in a fight with the man, Ranav emerges victorious, having defeated his adversary. The sight of human blood touches Ranav deeply, pushing him perilously close to losing his temper.
Nayra desired for Ranav to consume human blood, hoping it would amplify his monstrous nature. However, Beka firmly opposed this idea, and Ranav genuinely heeded her words. Bela hurried to Ranav’s side, checking on his well-being. Suddenly, water cascaded onto Ranav’s face, seemingly from nowhere. Bela cradled his face, diligently wiping away the blood from his cheeks. She embraced him tightly, seeking to calm his agitated state and alleviate the thirst within his mind. Within Bela’s arms, Ranav felt a profound sense of relief.
Patali scolded Nayra, attributing her failure to accomplish the mission, and delivered a resounding slap across her face. Nayra elucidated how Bela continuously diverted Ranav from becoming ferocious and wild. Nayra acknowledged the depth of their bond and love. Upon hearing Bela and Ranav’s love story, Patali’s fury towards Nayra intensified. Patali yearned to regain custody of her son. Unbeknownst to them, Bela inadvertently made a sound that captured Patali’s attention, exposing her presence. Nayra caught Bela red-handed, and Patali demanded a confrontation between them.
Bela claims to have overheard their conversation, while Patali recollects how Bela had foiled her plans right from the beginning. Patali expresses her intense dislike for Bela and Ranav’s relationship, warning Bela to leave Ranav or face her wrath, even threatening to kill her. Fearlessly, Bela dismisses Patali’s negativity and dark powers, emphasizing her unwavering faith in the divine. Patali disregards Bela’s words, belittling the power of the Almighty, but Bela remains undaunted by her megalomaniacal remarks.
Patali perceives that Bela is no ordinary girl and inquires about her true identity. In a show of strength, Bela confidently confesses that she is a Pari, and asserts her determination to triumph over Patali, just as she had done in the past. A fierce battle ensues between Patali and Bela, with Patali forcefully pushing Bela away. Both combatants unleash their supernatural powers against each other. Patali summons a host of sinister birds as a manifestation of her dark power, while Bela fervently prays to the omnipotent for salvation.
However, Bela’s confession turned out to be nothing more than a figment of her imagination. Despite that, she portrays herself as innocent and oblivious to Patali’s motives. As Patali removes her own mask, Bela takes the opportunity to taunt her for her hypocrisy. Patali, challenged by Bela, decides to slap her in front of Ranav.
In her room, Bela becomes insecure due to Patali’s challenge. She concocts a plan to prove Ranav’s love for her by faking an attack on herself. Ranav rushes to her aid, expressing his concern and care. However, his irritation with Bela’s childish behavior soon surfaces, and he leaves the room, calling her a silly girl. Nevertheless, Bela responds with a loving smile towards Ranav.
Meanwhile, Mallika arrives to invite them to her son’s birthday party. The party begins, and Patali notices Bela and Ranav’s arrival. Yudith is assigned to keep Nayra company, but Nayra attempts to gain Ranav’s attention and win his heart. Ranav directs Nayra’s attention towards other boys to distract her, but she continues to seek his favor. Bela joins the scene and mocks Nayra’s insecurity, acknowledging that such attractions towards men are natural. However, she purposely stands close to Ranav and urges Nayra to leave him alone, reminding her that Ranav is already a married man. Irritated, Nayra chooses to remain silent.
Bela skillfully manages the tension that exists between Nayra and Ranav, ultimately succeeding in removing Nayra from the spotlight. The party is inaugurated by Mallika, who warmly and dramatically welcomes Nayra to the event. Mallika teases that she has an extraordinary surprise in store for both Yudith and Nayra. The party kicks off with Mallika’s sizzling dance performance, captivating the audience. After a while, Yudith and Nayra take the stage together for a joint performance. Despite Nayra’s attempt to entice Ranav with her sensual dance movements, Bela intervenes and takes Ranav’s hand, leading him into a captivating dance with her. They perform flawlessly together, leaving the audience mesmerized.
Following their enchanting performance, Bela makes her way towards her room but is unexpectedly jolted by Patali, causing her to stumble and fall down the stairs. Dadi requests Bela to retrieve Yudith’s gift from upstairs, prompting Bela to ascend the staircase. However, Patali, invisible to everyone, maliciously pushes Bela from the stairs. Ranav reprimands Patali for her actions, but Bela insists that she was pushed by Patali. Patali, on the other hand, blames Bela for orchestrating a dramatic act.
Concerned for Bela’s well-being, Ranav swiftly gathers her in his arms and carries her to the safety of their room.
Precap : Ranav and Bela are gearing up for an epic face-off, each fully aware of the formidable power possessed by the other.


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Regional Aerosol Observations
**This is a section of NOAA's Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory Summary Report No. 22 from 1993
In order to address questions concerning climate forcing by anthropogenic aerosol particles (Charlson et al., 1992; Penner et al., 1994), CMDL is establishing a network of regional aerosol monitoring stations. Two of the stations are located in marine locations and three in continental locations; for each category, one site in relatively free of anthropogenic influences and the others are frequently perturbed by anthropogenic aerosols. Table 1 lists the sites, their characteristics, and their current status. Each station operates in close collaboration with a local university or government agency, which provides on-site support for the measurements.
|Category||Perturbed Marine||Perturbed Continental||Perturbed Continental||Clean Continental||Clean Marine|
|Location||Sable Island, Nova Scotia, Canada||Bondville, Illinois||K'puszta, Keszcemet, Hungary||Niwot Ridge, Colorado||Cheeka Peak, Washington|
|Collaborating Institute||Atmospheric Environment Service, Canada||University of Illinois, Illinois State Water Survey||University of Veszprem, Veszprem, Hungary||University of Colorado, Boulder||University of Washington|
|Status||Operational August, 1992||OperationalJuly, 1994||Expected to be operational September, 1994||site feasibility measurements began Nov. 1993||Operational, May 1993|
|Sample RH||RH < 40%||RH < 40%||RH < 40%||uncontrolled||RH < 40%|
|Sample Size Fractions||Dp < 1 µm, 10 < Dp < 1 µm||Dp < 1 µm, 10 < Dp < 1 µm||Dp < 1 µm||uncontrolled||Dp < 1 µm, 10 < Dp < 1 µm|
|Optical measurements||ssp(3l), d(4l)||ssp(1l)||ssp(1l), ssp(1l), d(4l)||ssp(1l)||ssp(1l), ssp(3l), sbsp(3l)|
|Chemical measurements||major ions||major ions||major ions||none||major ions|
The scientific questions that define the context of the measurements at these sites include:
Clearly, ground-based measurements at a few sites will provide answers to only a few of these questions. Recognizing this, the strategy of the CMDL regional aerosol measurement program is
The measurements will provide ground-truth for satellite measurements and global models, as well as key aerosol parameters for global-scale models (e.g., scattering efficiency of sulfate particles, hemispheric backscattering fraction). An important aspect of this strategy is that the chemical measurements are linked to the physical measurements through simultaneous, size-selective sampling and thermal analysis, which allows the observed aerosol properties to be connected to the atmospheric cycles of specific chemical species. When the sites are fully operational, continuous measurements will include the total particle number concentration (Ntot), cloud condensation nucleus number concentration (Nccn), aerosol optical depth (d), and components of the aerosol extinction coefficient at one or more wavelengths (total scattering ssp, backwards hemispheric scattering sbsp), and absorption sap). Size-resolved impactor and filter samples (submicrometer and supermicrometer size fractions) will be obtained for gravimetric and chemical (ion chromatographic, organic/elemental carbon) analyses. All size-selective sampling, as well as the measurements of the components of the aerosol extinction coefficient, will be performed at a low, controlled relative humidity (40%) to eliminate confounding effects due to changes in ambient relative humidity.
A limited sampling program was conducted from April 1993 to March 1994, to evaluate the suitability for long-term, ground-based, aerosol measurements of the proposed monitoring site outside of Laramie, WY. This site was chosen because vertical profiles of aerosol size distribution have regularly been obtained by the University of Wyoming for the last 20 years at this site. However, our twelve months of surface measurements of ssp and Ntot revealed that the site is very frequently contaminated by local sources in the Laramie Valley, making it unrepresentative as a clean continental monitoring site. Consequently, measurements of ssp and Ntot were initiated in November, 1993 to evaluate the feasibility of using the University of Colorado's facility on Niwot Ridge as a clean continental site. Initial results from this site are promising, although transport of polluted air from metropolitan Denver occurs regularly during afternoon, upslope flow conditions in the summer.
The Cheeka Peak site is operated independently by the University of Washington, with major funding from the NOAA Climate and Global Change Program. Although the sampling protocols are essentially identical to those used at the other CMDL sites, all data acquisition and processing is the responsibility of the University of Washington. Eventually, data from this site will be included in the CMDL archive and tabulated in a future CMDL Annual Report.
Summary results for Sable Island for 1992 and 1993 are shown in Figures 1 and 2 (daily geometric means) and Tables 2 and 3 (monthly geometric means). Table 4 contains statistics on the measured parameters at Sable Island (August 1992-June 1994) for three categories: all cases, and those cases when both Ntot and ssp (550 nm, D< 1 µm) are below and above, respectively, one standard deviation of their mean value ("clean" and "dirty", respectively). These cases correspond to Ntot < 398 cm-3 and ssp < 5.0 Mm-1 (clean) and Ntot > 2089 cm-3 and ssp > 22.9 Mm-1 (dirty). The Sable Island site was chosen to provide information on the properties of pollution aerosols subsequent to long-range transport from the continent, as well as information on aerosols in the clean marine boundary layer. The initial results reflect the different transport patterns influencing the site, with periods of low aerosol number concentration and light scattering coefficient interspersed with periods of high aerosol loadings. Trajectory analyses of a limited number of cases reveal that transport from the south and southeast (clean marine) is associated with low aerosol loadings, and that trajectories from the west and southwest (polluted continental) are associated with high aerosol loadings. Monthly mean aerosol loadings are considerably higher than the levels encountered at the CMDL baseline stations, due to the proximity of Sable Island to continental pollution sources.
|Param.||Max. Diameter (µm)||Wave-length (nm)||Units||August||September||October||November||December|
|Param.||Max. Dia. (µm)||Wave-length (nm)||Units||Jan||Feb||Mar||Apr||May||Jun||Jul||Aug||Sep||Oct||Nov||Dec|
|Parameter||Max. Dia. (µm)||Wave-length (nm)||Units||Clean cases||All cases||Dirty cases|
Notes: (1) The Ångström exponent is denoted å to avoid confusion in the future with the mass scattering efficiency a. (2) The entries for "ssp fine/total" are the fraction of the total aerosol light scattering coefficient attributable to submicrometer particles. (3) Geometric means are reported for Ntot and ssp, while arithmetic means are reported for å and ssp fine/total. (4) Clean and dirty cases are those hours when both Ntot and ssp are below and above, respectively, one standard deviation of the mean value.
Inclusion of size- and wavelength-dependence of ssp in the sampling protocol allows identification of systematic shifts in the aerosol size distribution under different conditions (Table 4). Fine particles (diameter < 1 µm) are responsible for less than half of the aerosol light scattering (550 nm wavelength), and this fraction systematically increases from clean to dirty conditions. Similarly, the Ångström exponent å systematically increases from clean to dirty conditions, for both fine and total size fractions. Together, these two findings indicate that fine particles are systematically smaller, and more abundant, under dirty conditions. Linear regression analysis demonstrates that 75% of the variance in the Ångström exponent (total size fraction) can be explained by variance in the fraction of light scattering caused by fine particles (550 nm wavelength), i.e., the major factor controlling å is the relative abundance of fine and coarse particles (diameter > 1 µm).
Information and data from the aerosol group at CMDL is now available on the Internet via FTP and World Wide Web servers. Recently processed data, file format specifications, documents summarizing data processing and flow, and clean processed data presented in hourly averaged files for all years of station operation are available via anonymous FTP to ftp.cmdl.noaa.gov, directory "aerosol".
Charlson, R.J., S.E. Schwartz, J.M. Hales, R.D. Cess, J.A. Coakley, Jr., J.E. Hansen, and D.J. Hofmann, Climate forcing by anthropogenic aerosols, Science 255, 423-430, 1992.
Penner, J.E., R.J. Charlson, J.M. Hales, N. Laulainen, R. Leifer, T. Novakov, J. Ogren, L.F. Radke, S.E. Schwartz, and L. Travis, Quantifying and minimizing uncertainty of climate forcing by anthropogenic aerosols, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc. 75, 375-400.


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Research station manager Spud Thomas outlines the year ahead
He says on-going research into cattle genetics and cell grazing is delivering results for the cattle industry.

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Children deserve to be raised, protected, and represented by their loving parents, without government interference. When it comes to raising children, parents know best. As a mom of four children – all with different interests, dislikes, needs and personalities – Natalie knows that there is no one-size-fits-all method to parenting. Parents have a vital and irreplaceable role in the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of their children. As a State Senator, Natalie Feuerstein will work tirelessly to protect children by empowering parents.
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Spring is one of Adam Pasco’s favourite times of the year. As the days get warmer you can almost watch the plants grow day by day, as new leaves unfurl, bulbs burst into bloom and the winter bed continues to flower. There is lots to do in the spring flowering garden as Adam explains.
As we move into spring there is plenty to do in the garden if the weather stays fine. Adam Pasco gives us his guide to what jobs to be getting on with.
Several fuchsia varieties are totally hardy outside in the UK, even in the toughest winters. To protect them a thick layer of compost or bark spread in the autumn helps to ensure the frost does not penetrate down and damage the crown of the plant. Adam Pasco has some tips on how to look after them as we move into spring.
Now is the time of year to think about ordering your summer flowering bulbs. Adam Pasco is a big fan, finding it hard to resist the mail order companies and garden centres. Some of Adam’s regular favourites are begonias, dahlias, canna lily and pineapple lily.
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15 SIGNS YOU HAVE HIGH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (PART 3)
When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding. People with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time. This anomaly threw a massive wrench into the broadly-held assumption that IQ was the sole source of success.
11. You neutralize toxic people
Dealing with difficult people is frustrating and exhausting for most. High emotional intelligence individuals control their interactions with toxic people by keeping their in check. When they need to confront a toxic person, they approach the situation rationally. They identify their own emotions and don’t allow anger or frustration to fuel the chaos.
They also consider the difficult person’s standpoint and are able to find solutions and common ground. Even when things completely derail, emotionally intelligent people are able to take the toxic person with a grain of salt to avoid letting him or her bring them down.
12. You don’t seek perfection
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High emotional intelligent people won’t set perfection as their target because they know that it doesn’t exist. Human beings, by our very nature, are fallible. When perfection is your goal, you are always left with a nagging sense of failure that makes you want to give up or reduce your effort. You end up spending your time lamenting what you failed to accomplish and what you should have done differently instead of moving forward, excited about what you have achieved and what you will accomplish in the future.
13. You appreciate what you have
Taking time to contemplate what you are grateful for is not merely the right thing to do, it also improves your mood because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23 percent. Research conducted at the University of California, Davis, found that people who worked daily to cultivate an attitude of gratitude experienced improved mood, energy and physical well-being. It’s likely that lower levels of cortisol played a major role in this.
14. You disconnect
Taking regular time off the grid is a sign of a high EQ because it helps you to keep your stress under control and to live in the moment. When you make yourself available to your work 24/7, you expose yourself to a constant barrage of stressors. Forcing yourself offline and even gulp, turning off your phone gives your body and mind a break. Studies have shown that something as simple as an email break can lower stress levels. Technology enables constant communication and the expectation that you should be available 24/7.It extremely difficult to enjoy a stress free moment outside of work when an email that will change your train of thought and get you thinking about work can drop onto your phone at any moment.
15. You limit your caffeine intake
Drinking excessive amounts of caffeine triggers the release of adrenaline, and adrenaline is the source of the fight or flight response. The fight or flight mechanism sidesteps rational thinking in favor of a faster response to ensure survival. This is great when a bear is chasing you, but not so great when you are responding to a curt email. When caffeine puts your brain and body into this hyper aroused state of stress, your emotions overrun your behavior.
Caffeine’s long half-life ensures you stay this way as it takes its sweet time working its way out of your body. High emotional intelligence individuals know that caffeine is trouble and they don’t let it get the better of them.
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Are you looking to directly reduce your carbon footprint or support projects that cut emissions elsewhere? Then carbon credits allow you to do either of these.
A carbon credit is also called carbon offset in the voluntary carbon market (VCM).
Each credit goes through a general lifecycle process that starts from creation to retirement. Individuals and firms use these credits to voluntarily offset their emissions.
- With growing pressure on corporations to take climate action, the VCM demand deems to grow up to 10x over the next 10 years and 30x by 2050 from 2020 value.
As such, we’re also expecting to see more carbon offset project developers enter the market to meet the rising demand.
This calls for a better understanding of the role of developers in the VCM. The same goes for the state of the carbon project developer ecosystem and its maturity level.
That’s important to inform the supply-side views on the market’s ability to deliver on the integrity claims of carbon credits.
Most notably, this article will also shed light on what are the top carbon offset project developers that contribute to the growth of the market. We’ll identify five of them to help you find the best developer you need.
The Role of Carbon Project Developers in the VCM
Delivering the promise of the Paris Agreement calls for adopting more ambitious emission reduction initiatives.
It also requires more commitments to develop carbon offset projects to neutralize unavoidable emissions.
It’s becoming clearer that well-designed VCMs are critical to achieve the Paris Agreement goal. That’s to enable the world to reach net zero emissions by 2050.
And carbon project developers play a central role in the VCM. They are key to delivering its success given the current state of the market and its projection.
Project developers perform several tasks to help ensure the growth of the VCM. These include:
- Sourcing carbon offset projects
- Working with carbon credit standards and verification bodies, and other partners, and
- Bearing the financial risks of developing carbon projects
The Current State of Carbon Project Development
Observing the current state of the carbon project development ecosystem reveals a couple of insight.
One of them tells us that the carbon project developer ecosystem remains concentrated by volume into a few players with big portfolios.
Yet, it’s the small and mid-sized carbon project developers holding smaller carbon portfolios that dominate the market.
The difference is so huge that you’d think the developer market remains largely untapped. And it seems to be the case right now.
- 9 out of the top 10 carbon offset project developers by issued volume are working on large-scale avoided conversion / REDD+ or improved forest management projects.
Another notable observation is the dominance of avoidance carbon offsets, particularly with renewable energy.
Renewable energy developers, which are mostly from India and China, dominate the market by number.
But the recent supply shifts prompt project developers with avoided emissions portfolios to expand into nature-based projects.
However, lack of expertise in nature-based projects may limit developers with removal portfolios producing industrial carbon capture credits.
This may give them higher project development risks like fire.
Lastly, when it comes to type of project, nature-based seems to be dominant.
- Almost half of total volumes of credits issued was from nature-based project developers. This result is due to high entry to market barriers.
Most issuances are in the hands of a few large nature-based operators in the Global South.
While the top carbon offset project developers of most improved forest management portfolios are in the U.S. Blue Source and Finite Carbon are the dominant players in this field.
Offset buyer preferences are forcing project developers to shift to nature-based solutions and removal credits.
But with limited new market players, there’s a risk of failing to meet increasing demand. This may further impact the current carbon pricing.
Project developers tend to focus on nature-based avoidance carbon credits. But other types of carbon credit projects are also available to consider for your offsetting needs.
With that being said, here are the top five carbon offset project developers that made it to our list.
Top Carbon Offset Project Developers
1. BlueSource, now Anew
Formally founded in 2001, Blue Source has a new brand name called Anew after merging with the Element Markets last June. It gets the top one slot when it comes to providing offset credits from improved forest management, carbon capture, and other projects.
It has offices in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and an environmental commodities portfolio that extends across 5 continents.
Since inception of its legacy companies, Anew has the following achievements:
- transacted 150+ million tonnes of carbon
- provided 240+ million diesel gallons equivalent of renewable fuels for transportation
- developed projects on over 3.5 million acres of forest and farmland
- developed 400+ overall projects
Anew’s activities amount to the emissions avoidance of 539 million solar panels generating power for an entire year.
Plus, the firm also developed projects with protocols made via scientific review and public stakeholder processes. Oversight for these projects comes from the top carbon standards, including:
- Climate Action Reserve,
- Verified Carbon Standard (Verra),
- American Carbon Registry,
- California Air Resources Board,
- Alberta Environment, and
- Canadian Standards Association.
What sets Anew apart from other project developers is that it serves the multiple functions of a broker, trader, retailer and advisor in the carbon space.
Under its core project development expertise, forestry projects, Anew follows these steps for a project to be eligible for offset crediting:
Apart from developing natural climate solutions like forestry projects, Anew also offers the following services and project development:
2. Finite Carbon
Finite Carbon, founded in 2009, is North America’s biggest developer of forest carbon offsets by volume. It focuses mainly on improved forest management projects.
With offices in 7 US states, it combines unparalleled project development experience with extensive carbon market knowledge.
To date, this offset developer is able to achieve the following performance.
The developer generated over ⅓ of all compliance offset supply. It has also delivered 800+ million dollars to landowners.
Unlike other top carbon offset project developers such as Anew, Finite Carbon is working with landowners who have 5,000 acres or more. Anything less than 1,000 acres is not a cost-effective project for the company.
- But with its upcoming Core Carbon program, those who own as little as 40 acres can enter the growing carbon offset market.
Its entire offset project development process can take up to 6 months long, depending on several factors. In general, it involves the following processes:
Same with other developers, Finite Carbon pays the capital for each project. And then it collects only a percentage of the carbon offsets once completed.
With its wide coverage, the developer’s projects are in every region and major forest type from the Appalachians to coastal Alaska. Below is its project map showing its forest projects.
If you’re after a project developer that demonstrates expertise in forestry offsets, Finite Carbon should be on your top list.
For over 15 years, 3Degrees has been a pioneer in providing climate solutions. Within that time period in the project development market, the company has achieved these results:
The company also deals with many other carbon offset projects apart from nature-based solutions. They mostly include landfill gas capture projects.
3Degrees’ project development solution is broken down into 5 major phases:
Setting aside its proven track record in the space, what makes 3Degrees stand out from other top carbon offset project developers are a couple of differences. They include the following:
3Degrees works with all four of the major internationally-recognized voluntary carbon offset standards. They include Verra, Gold Standard, American Carbon Registry, and Climate Action Reserve. The firm ensures that each project adheres to approved protocols.
3Degrees help organizations build a portfolio of high-quality projects that are relevant to their business and engage stakeholders.
The project developer takes a holistic approach to portfolio management. It works with clients to balance immediate needs with long-term program goals.
All these enable 3Degrees to be a strategic partner for entities looking to build a portfolio of high-integrity carbon reduction and removal projects. They include opportunities both for long-term and new project development.
4. Forest Carbon
Making it to the top 4 spot, Forest Carbon’s main goal is to restore degraded tropical forest and wetland ecosystems. These projects fall under the broad category of REDD+.
- So far, it’s a premium restoration project developer in Southeast Asia. Its projects deliver benefits for local communities, biodiversity and investors.
With offices in Jakarta and Singapore, Forest Carbon’s team is built on a track record of success in the region. The team brings a decade of experience working on the ground, from mapping wetlands and assessing below-ground carbon storage, to winning community support.
The REDD+ developer follows these key project development stages.
Forest Carbon is on the ground to assess threats to tropical forest ecosystems and develop business models to protect them.
From the dry dipterocarp forests of Malaysia to the carbon-rich peat swamp forests of Indonesia, the developer specializes in assessing these areas. It offers the following major advantages in creating carbon credits from natural climate solutions:
- Rapid GIS assessments with our in-house team
- Automated carbon credit calculations
- Drone-based aerial surveys
In designing its REDD+ projects, Forest Carbon works exclusively under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS). It also adopts the Climate Community and Biodiversity Standard.
Forest Carbon has designed Indonesia’s first peatland restoration project in Central Kalimantan under VCS. It also did the same with Seima, Cambodia – WCS Restoration Project.
Forest Carbon is leveraging IoT sensors and machine learning for a project’s robust impact verification.
These IoT sensors monitor water table levels for peatland ecosystems. They also provide fire risk data in real-time in a project dashboard. The data generated make it easier to measure project impact by auditors.
5. C-Quest Capital
C-Quest Capital (CQC) is a social impact project developer that aims to transform the lives of families in poor communities worldwide.
- The firm does it by providing access to sustainable energy services and clean energy technologies that reduce emissions.
CQC was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington D.C., USA, with local offices in India, Malawi, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia and Australia. Its global teams lead project operations across Sub-Saharan Africa, Central America, and South and Southeast Asia.
The developer creates high impact carbon offset credits under three operational platforms:
- Cleaner Cooking,
- Efficient Lighting, and
- Sustainable Energy (Nature-based Projects).
Together, they form the so-called Transformation Carbon projects. They all comply with specific carbon offset standards. They then go through rigorous 3rd-party assessments by auditors to ensure credits are real and measurable.
Currently, CQC certifies all new projects under the Verra Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) same with other top carbon offset project developers on our list.
Each project is registered onto a cloud-based data management system using Android phones or tablets. Registration involves data collection for monitoring and follow-up.
Doing all these are critical for project evaluation, verification, and improvement.
So, for high integrity and high impact offsets that help the poorest communities, CQC tops this project category.
As you can see, each project developer has its own set of processes when developing a project. But overall, you have to carefully think about the specific results you want to achieve.
They may follow the same offsetting standards but not all carbon offset project developers will make it to the top of our list. You’ll never go wrong with any of them.


Although it will take +P, I do not intend to use much in it. I'll be sticking with regular loads. Except for when I carry it and a few practice rounds.
I have enough 130gr FMC to share. I am going to Cabelas at lunch tomorrow to try and locate a box of 148gr HBWC and 158gr SWC for it.
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Besides titanium and cobalt, drill bit choices also include steel, high-speed steel, black oxide and carbide-tipped. Drill bits vary with respect to how long they stay sharp and the type of application for which they are used. Both of these factors are determined by the materials used to make the bits.
Materials and Coatings
Cobalt bits are made of cobalt steel which makes them hard enough to bore through tough metals such as stainless steel. Cobalt steel also makes these bits dissipate heat rapidly which is a prime consideration when cutting metal. Titanium bits are coated in a titanium ceramic material over a high-speed steel. The coating makes them hard, long lasting bits, and the titanium makes them dissipate heat rapidly as well. Titanium is suitable for wood, plastic and most metals, although cobalt is a better choice for stainless.
Both titanium and cobalt drill bits hold their sharpness for a long time. However, titanium bits cannot be sharpened unless you grind off their coating in the process. The shank of a sharpened titanium bit will retain its coating but the point will be steel only. Cobalt bits take a sharpening many times since they are made of cobalt steel throughout the bit. As a result, cobalt bits remain sharper longer than titanium bits. While it maintains its original strength through many sharpenings, cobalt is a more brittle material, which can cause breakage sooner than titanium bits.

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Art. LXIII.—Notes on Refrigeration.
[Read before the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury, 5th May, 1881.]
Some weeks ago, Mr. Montgomery, Chairman of our College Board, requested me to give my attention to the means available for producing such a slight reduction of temperature as might render it possible to ship home the butter and cheese that was made in the Banks Peninsula and other grazing districts of Canterbury. He assured me that the question was of considerable importance, as there was a very large quantity of land exceedingly suitable for grazing purposes and not very well adapted for other branches of agriculture, yet the want of a market has hitherto prevented its being fully applied to this object. I was afterwards consulted by Mr. J. L. Coster, Chairman of the New Zealand Shipping Company. I have, therefore, thought it desirable to give a brief statement of the ideas that have suggested themselves in connection with the subject.
Temperature may be reduced by three essentially different modes: 1st, night radiation; 2nd, the expansion of compressed air at ordinary temperature; and 3rd, change of state—that is, solids becoming liquids and liquids becoming gases.
The liquefaction of solids is the basis of all the so-called freezing mixtures. The volatilization of liquids divides itself into two branches; the evaporation of water and the ebullition of such liquids as boil at an exceedingly low temperature, such as liquid carbonic acid, sulphurous acid, ammonia, ether, etc. Of these methods those that appear most likely to be useful are night radiation, evaporation of water, expansion of compressed air and freezing mixtures.
It must be understood that the problem to be solved is a very different one to the production of a daily supply of ice, for it is evident that if we could obtain a perfect nonconducting air-tight chamber that once had its temperature lowered, it would remain at that temperature for an indefinite time, and require no further attention unless there were an internal action such as chemical change or friction that would develope heat. There is no substance but allows the passage of more or less heat, but substances differ to an extraordinary extent in this particular. It would be a matter of experiment to discover the most suitable nonconductor, though I think it probable that well-carded wool of good quality would be the best. It would also be a matter for experiment to ascertain how tightly this would have to be packed to be most nonconducting.
Having ascertained the most effective material and the conduction of this material that offers the greatest resistance to the flow of heat, it would be necessary to investigate the temperature and other conditions under
which butter and cheese may be kept for a sufficient time to enable their transit to be made. Doubtless, the question of time is a very important one, as it may be found possible to carry them with little trouble in a steamship, whilst the uncertainties of the tropical calms may result in complete failure with a sailing ship. A careful investigation into all these matters would doubtless well repay its expense.
In practically carrying out any method of reducing temperature, we are met with the difficulty that air, when cooled, will generally deposit moisture; yet a most important point in the keeping of cheese is that it should be dry. Therefore, in all our processes we must associate drying the air with its refrigeration. There are two different methods of cooling a chamber, and each of these methods will require a different mode of drying the air. These two modes are either by replacing the air by cooler air or by cooling the air. already in the chamber. When fresh air is admitted the drying may be effected by passing the air to the bottom of the chamber down a thin copper tube inside the chamber. It will thus part with its heat to the chamber, becoming warmer and consequently drier. As this tube would be much cooler than the air in the chamber, dew would probably be deposited on the outside. Means should be taken to catch this as it trickled down the tube. This would tend to dry the air inside.
If we adopt the method of cooling the air already in the chamber, this will have to be effected at the top, and all that will be necessary to dry the air inside will be to make arrangements to lead away the dew that will be deposited on the coolers. These two methods are extremely simple, and I believe would prove perfectly satisfactory.
Before it could be determined which would be the best method for producing the refrigeration, careful quantitative experiments would be necessary. In this paper I shall only give the outlines of the modes of applying each of the principles already mentioned, leaving it to experience to decide which is best.
If freezing mixtures be used, it would probably be best that the air already existing in the chamber should be cooled, only introducing fresh air occasionally. To cool the air, holes should be made in the roof and large thin copper pipes closed at the bottom should be fitted into them. The mixture should be placed in another slightly smaller similar vessel and slipped down into the inside of the other upper tubes and stirred in situ. The heat required to allow the salts to dissolve would come from the inside of the chamber. The dew that was deposited on these tubes should be caught in receivers fixed on the bottom of the pipes. This action as already stated would tend to keep the air dry. As the air was cooled by contact, it would fall by convection and be replaced by warmer air.
In making freezing mixtures it is usual to dissolve in acid, but for this purpose I think water would be best, as the solution might be evaporated and recrystallized. In this way the salt may be used over and over again any number of times. It may be mentioned that as a means of reducing temperature on a considerable scale, it is impossible freezing mixtures could be economized. But during a great part of the journey it would not be difficult to prevent the temperature rising above 60°C., so that if not suitable for a long journey it may be a valuable adjunct.
If expansion of air, evaporation, or night radiation, or any combination of these processes, be used, then it is probable that it would be best to exchange the air inside the chamber by the cooled air, although it is not necessary to do so, as the cooled, air may be passed along tubes with thin copper bottoms thus acting in the same way as the freezing mixtures.
In taking advantage of night radiation, a black bulb thermometer should be consulted, and when it stands low air should be passed through a vessel with a thin copper top, the other parts being nonconducting; the copper should be smoked on each side. Arrangements would, of course, have to be made to catch the water precipitated. The air by its own density would pass down its tube to the bottom of the chamber, and it may not be necessary to use any artificial means of propelling the air.
If air expansion be used, then the strong vessel into which the air is compressed having been allowed to cool, the air must be allowed to expand into a separate vessel to precipitate moisture; this may be either a non-conductor outside the chamber, or a conductor placed inside; the latter would probably be the most economical.
Evaporation should be taken advantage of when the wet bulb thermometer is much lower than the dry bulb. Of course a Daniel's Hygrometer would be a superior test; the cooling may take place in copper tubes covered with calico, kept wet by water dripping on it. This method may be used with any of the others already mentioned. The whole of the methods are so extremely simple that any intelligent man would quickly know how to use any one or any combination.
I was told that it was mentioned in a paper that the recent cheese and butter shipment was made under my instructions; but my connection with the experiment was a very simple one. It was proposed to keep the chamber cool by passing ordinary air through it. I explained that this could not possibly reduce the temperature below that of the air of the tropics, and suggested that artificial means of producing cold must be used in addition to ventilation, mentioning the methods spoken of above; but the ship started in a few days, so there was no time to make machinery, and not much time for experiment. I suggested that if the experiment must be thus hurried,
whenever the temperature of the air was such as to render ventilation useless it was probable freezing mixtures would be the best to try this time, especially as from experiments I had made I could not recommend cooling by evaporation. This I believe was done. Mr. J. Anderson made some experiments in his boiler-room, and found a small quantity of freezing mixture sufficient to keep an experimental chamber 15 degrees below the temperature of the air of the room. I cannot say I am sanguine of the success of the experiment. The varying ripeness of the cheese and the difference of quality found in butter, even in Christchurch, would I fear prevent a great success, even were the confessionally perfunctory arrangements for cooling found to be sufficient. I believe, with Mr. Bowron, that the factory system, or some other means of guaranteeing uuiformity, is an indispensable feature of any successful scheme of making Europe the market for the butter and cheese of Canterbury.
I may add that I personally know nothing of the time or the temperature at which butter and cheese will keep sweet; but if they will keep good at 63° Fahr., I do not believe it would be a difficult matter to keep the air in a good nonconducting chamber from rising above that temperature during an ordinary voyage.


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DJ Trace was an early member of the tight-knit crew of producers constituting popular techstep drum'n'bass label No U-Turn. Like colleagues Nico and Ed Rush, Trace's first crack at broad exposure came through the Techsteppin' compilation, released by the Emotif label and containing a number of tracks licensed from No U-Turn studios. Released in 1995, the compilation helped seed a new direction in drum'n'bass, one characterized by heavy use of electronics, cavernous beats and basslines, and the dystopian histrionics that have since become trademarks of the No U-Turn/Nu Black sound. Trace's 1995 release on Emotif, "The Mutant" (itself a remix of T-Power's "Mutant Jazz"), also spawned a remix of its own, and Ed Rush's "Mutant Revisited" became an influential trial run of tech's by now cliched "hoover" bassline and rolling, relentless breaks. A popular DJ whose schedule busied as No U-Turn's popularity peaked in 1996, Trace moved from the U.K. to Philadelphia that same year and has participated in a number of U.S. events (including 1997's Big Top tour) both solo and with other members of the No U-Turn crew. ~ Sean Cooper


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Friday, March 15 2013
The artist market’s return from an after-hurricane hybernation: CREATIVE GROVE reopens March 15 2013
But we need some help:
Annual license fee fundraiser with a big party!
Pastiche takes you on a German minimal electronic tour,
Kaliptus will create left brain- right brain transcendental synapses interactions,
Caridad’s performance piece NEW SKIN involves latex body paint,
Eclectic Urban tribal market place with handmade originals!!
Art by various artists one day showing
March 8, 8pm-2am@ Fish with Braids gallery and art space, 190 columbus drive.
With your $20 donation we jazz up your night.
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Please let this be just an elaborate hoax*...
*(The problem with just assuming that this IS a hoax - since both the White House and the German government sources deny it - is that 1) sane people in both governments have powerful reasons to deny the the Tangerine Toddler may actually have done this while, given his oft-stated position that the chintzy Eurotrash are welching on their NATO budgets, it seems eminently possible that he WOULD do something just like this, and 2) this is the same week that the White House simply flat-out lied about Trump's golfventures, one more in the seemingly countless ridiculously pointless lies that emerge from this Administration.
Ridiculous because they have made lying their coin and it has become extremely difficult to believe they're NOT lying when they assert something they want to be true or deny something they wish weren't; that's the difference between the sort of "normal politician lies" and "Trump Administration lies". The latter could be, and have been, without any genuine rationale or need, and one of the enormous problems with this sort of constant lying. Soon even the truth is assumed to be an imposter within the bodyguard of lies...)


ExxonMobil must re-bury its Silvertip Pipeline beneath the Yellowstone River and take other measures before restarting the pipeline, after it leaked up to 1,000 barrels of crude oil into the river over the weekend, federal authorities have ordered.
The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has issued a Corrective Action Order that will require ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. to make safety improvements along the Silvertip hazardous liquid pipeline.
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|Up to 42,000 gallons of crude oil spilled into the Yellowstone River.|
ExxonMobil must re-bury the pipeline underneath the river bed to protect it from external damage and conduct a risk assessment on the pipeline where it crosses any waterway, the agency said. The company must then submit a restart plan before operation can resume.
Leak under Investigation
Twelve inches in diameter and about 69 miles long, the Silvertip Pipeline transports crude oil from the Silvertip station in Elk Basin, WY, to an ExxonMobil Refinery in Billings, MT.
The 20-year-old Silvertip pipeline delivers 40,000 barrels a day along a route that passes beneath the river.
On Friday (July 1), an accident on the pipeline released 750 to 1,000 barrels of crude oil into the Yellowstone River.
The cause of the release has not yet been determined, although the local fire chief told the Associated Press that high waters might have eroded parts of the riverbed, exposing the pipeline to debris.
PHMSA is on the scene, working with the Environmental Protection Agency and Coast Guard to investigate the cause of the spill and assist with clean-up.
$1.5B Verdict Returned
The spill occurred the same day it was announced that a jury had awarded $1.5 billion in damages to 160 plaintiffs suing ExxonMobil over a 2006 leak at a Maryland gasoline station.
That case involved a leak of 26,000 gallons of gasoline over 37 days in January and February from a pressurized gasoline line in Jacksonville, MD, according to Reuters.
The Silvertip pipeline burst about 10 miles west of Billings, coating parts of the river where it runs past the town of Laurel, the New York Times reported. Fearing an explosion, officials evacuated about 140 people for four hours on Saturday morning. The pipeline was also shut down for a day in May, due to fears of rising waters in the region, the Times said.
The EPA is directing about 350 responders on the scene to clean up the spill. Residents are concerned that the spill has already extended beyond ExxonMobil’s designated clean-up boundary.
|The pipeline, 20 years old, carries 40,000 barrels of crude each day.|
“The safety of our nation’s pipelines is a priority, and the investigation into this incident is ongoing,” said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.
“It is our responsibility to ensure pipelines are safely delivering energy to U.S. households and businesses, and when companies are not living up to our safety standards, we will take action. We will continue to work with the EPA, while ensuring that those responsible are held accountable.”
Pipeline Safety Measures Announced
This spring, in the wake of several major pipeline accidents, LaHood announced a pipeline safety action plan to immediately begin addressing concerns about the state of the nation’s aging pipeline infrastructure. He called on U.S. pipeline owners and operators to conduct a comprehensive review of their oil and gas pipelines to identify areas of high risk and accelerate critical repair and replacement work.
LaHood has also proposed federal legislation to strengthen oversight on pipeline safety. The legislation would increase the maximum civil penalties for pipeline violations from $100,000 per day to $250,000 per day, and from $1 million for a series of violations to $2.5 million for a series of violations.
The proposal would also authorize the Department to close regulatory loopholes, strengthen risk management requirements, add more inspectors, and improve data reporting to help identify potential pipeline safety risks early.


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Michael Kors 2-Tone Chronograph Bracelet Watch, $225 (buy here)
Description (from Nordstrom):
Rose gold embellishes a beautiful bracelet watch with a sparkling chronograph dial texturally contrasted by a knurled topring.
- Deployant clasp closure.
- Approx. band length: 190mm.
- Approx. band width: 18mm.
- Approx. case diameter: 36mm.
- Water-resistant to 10 ATM (100 meters).
- Stainless steel/rose-gold ionic plating/Swarovski crystals/mineral crystal/mother-of-pearl.
- By Michael Kors; imported.
On to the review!
Size: The watch face size is a little larger than my standard watches but I didn't feel like it overwhelmed my wrist. Of course, keep in mind, that I also just purchased a men's watch with a case diameter of 40 mm.
Fit: The fit needs to be adjusted as with all watches but this is easily remedied by removing a few links.
The typical out of box loose fit
Overall Opinion: I like the general size and I know the fit can be adjusted. However, a few things made me decide to return it:
- The contrast between the silver and rose gold looked very sharp on the website but more muted in person.
- The watch was a bit too heavy for my liking. I weighed it (bc I'm a nerd like that) and it was twice as heavy as my J. Crew / Timex.
- I just didn't fall in love with it :(
So back to Nordstrom it went! I'm still interested in MK watches, but I'll try it on in person next time before purchasing. What's your favorite everyday watch?
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Project X Origins: Dark Blue Book Band, Oxford Level 15: Top Secret: Mixed Pack of 5 by Tony Bradman, Chris Powling, John Malam, Joanna NadinProject X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Each book contains inside cover notes that highlight challenge words, prompt questions and a range of follow-up activities to support children in their reading. Project X Origins guided reading notes offer step-by-step teaching support for each book with guidance about phonics, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, spelling, grammar, punctuation and writing. Each set of notes has in-built assessment and is fully correlated to all UK curricula. This pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 5 reading books, 1 of each of: Team X, Meteorite, Crack the Code, The Secret Diary of Danny Grower, The Spy's Secret Handbook.
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The Oak Brook, Illinois-based retailer says it will be doing the posting of calories that their burgers and fries contains in a bid to help customers understand their food choices. The voluntary labeling of calories that McDonalds is undertaking has come from pressure from public health activists, as well as a new healthcare law that requires restaurants (especially those with 20 or more locations) in the U.S. to put calorie counts and other nutrition facts on menus. California and New York already have this requirement for restaurants.
The chain was previously strongly opposed to calorie disclosure suggestions but now it has changed position and says it views this as an opportunity. To make this work, the hamburger chain has been helping customers identify the ‘healthier’ choices on the menu by having a ‘Favorites under 400’ category, which are meals on its menu that have a calorie range below 400. It also changed its popular Happy Meal by cutting the fries portion and adding an apple. It has plans to include produce options in 2013 such as a McWrap that will have cucumber slices and a breakfast option, the Egg McMuffin with egg whites and whole grain muffins.
The retailer already provides calorie information in Australia, UK and South Korea, but this will be the first time it does so in the United States.
Panera Bread Company became the first restaurant to have voluntary calorie disclosures in 2010. Subway, best known for its sandwiches, has used calorie information disclosures to sell its products as healthier options to competitors like McDonalds and Burger King Worldwide Inc.

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Firm Louis XIV inlaid said jasmine veneered ebony, fruit timber, resting on a base having two drawers and eight legs connected by a spacer.
It opens at the top by fourteen drawers and a central ventail unveiling a theater of eleven drawers framed gilded twisted columns on a perspective cubic inlay.
We find this perspective upside of ventail. The decor is acanthus foliage that mingled birds and flowers, all, wood of various colors. The sides are richly inlaid fruitwood contained scrolls and vases of escape or bouquets.
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On the Edge
Author: Theresa Santy
Kristen lives on the edge—of sanity, life, death, and faith.
For as long as she can remember, Kristen Craemer has been running from something. In high school and college, she ran competitively, until her Olympic dreams were shattered. Now, she runs to escape—from her past, from intimacy, from reality, and from the cold, black mist that haunts her nights.
Desperate to stop running, she turns to therapy, alcohol, and pills—anything to dull the fear—but her struggle intensifies with every passing night. Gradually, the nightmares encroach on her days, until everything she holds dear slips further away.
Kristen’s fears increase when she meets Ethan, a bronze-eyed Jesus freak. The claims he makes about God are too unbelievable to be true, and to Kristen they are more terrifying than her recurring dreams. She can’t open her heart to Ethan, and she won’t open her heart to his faith. Instead, Kristen keeps running, and every time she runs she finds herself standing at the shore of the Pacific Ocean, glaring into the crashing waves and fighting the urge to submerge herself beneath the turbulent water forever.
On the Edge is the powerful story of a “girl next door” who struggled to make it out of childhood alive, only to drown daily in shame and fear . . . until she finally dives over the edge and into redemption.
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THERESA SANTY lives on the sparkling coast of Southern California with her husband, son, and daughter. She enjoys reading, writing, learning about Jesus, and ministering to the homeless. Theresa’s debut novel On the Edge won the FaithWriters Page Turner award for 2013. She is currently working on an eagerly awaited sequel.


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- The U.S. Postal Service plans to raise the prices of multiple shipping services on Jan. 21, 2024, amid continued financial struggles and volume losses, the agency announced Wednesday.
- Rates are slated to increase for USPS Ground Advantage, Parcel Select, Priority Mail and Priority Mail Express, according to a filing with the Postal Regulatory Commission, which will review the adjustments.
- Prices for Connect Local, the Postal Service's same-day and next-day local delivery service, will remain unchanged.
U.S. Postal Service rate hikes effective Jan. 21, 2024
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Source: U.S. Postal Service. The price increases are pending Postal Regulatory Commission review.
The U.S. Postal Service's rate hikes follow the 5.9% average increases announced by UPS and FedEx earlier this year, but the agency said in a news release that it remains an affordable alternative to top carriers.
"The Postal Service continues to offer a great value in shipping," the Postal Service said. "Unlike some other shippers, the Postal Service has upfront pricing and does not add surcharges for residential and regular Saturday delivery, nor fuel."
The agency is highlighting Ground Advantage in particular as a worthy competitor to similar offerings from FedEx and UPS. The service launched in July as the Postal Service's flagship ground package service, replacing existing shipping services in First-Class Package Service, Retail Ground and Parcel Select Ground. It provides package delivery in 2 to 5 business days across the continental U.S.
The Postal Service's rate increase announcement came one day after it revealed a net loss of $6.5 billion in fiscal year 2023, which ended Sept. 30. The agency attributed the results in part to inflationary pressures. While revenue for shipping and packages increased 1% year-over-year, that segment saw a volume decline of 2.4%.
Despite reduced demand, the agency views increasing its share of the parcel delivery market as a critical part of its long-term transformation strategy. It expects to grow its package business by over $1 billion in 2024, Postmaster General and CEO Louis DeJoy said in prepared remarks Tuesday at a USPS Board of Governors meeting.
"Our goal is to reduce costs by improving our operational precision through the deployment of modern-day logistics strategies and suitable operational assets to compete for a growing share of the growing package market," DeJoy said.
The Postal Service is also updating "Merchant Rate Card" prices on e-commerce platforms that are part of its Connect eCommerce program, which offers discounted pricing for shipping, the Postal Service said in an emailed statement. Participating platforms and marketplaces include eBay, Shippo, PitneyShip, Stamps.com and Shopify.
The adjustments will be in place by Saturday. They vary by Merchant Rate Card, with some prices decreasing for Ground Advantage and some prices increasing for Priority Mail, the Postal Service said.
Merchant Rate Card prices are generally lower than commercial published prices for Ground Advantage and Priority Mail.

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Sreedhar Seepna to direct Kalyaan Dhev.
Chiranjeevi’s son-in-law Kalyan Dhev, who debuted in the film Vijetha a few years back, has now signed another film. He is working with debutant director Sreedhar Seepna, for this new film.
Sreedhar is known as a writer. “I worked as a writer for many films and as I prepared this story, I felt Kalyaan Dhev is the right actor for it. It’s a complete entertainer with all emotions,” says Sreedhar about the story.
The other cast and crew will be announced later. Shooting is scheduled to start in March. T.G. Viswa Prasad and Abhishek Agarwal are jointly producing the film while Allu Aravind’s GA2 Pictures is presenting it.

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The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said the karaoke night DJ reported his vehicle had been burglarized between 2 and 3 a.m. June 4 in the parking lot of Betty's Tavern and the incident was caught on a surveillance camera, First Coast News reported Friday.
Investigators said the victim recognized the woman in the video and showed them a picture taken earlier the same night of the suspect, identified by the sheriff's office as Traci Bullard, singing karaoke at the bar.
The sheriff's office said a warrant was issued for Bullard's arrest and she was being sought by deputies.
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