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The Two-Shot #9: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Phantom of the Paradise!
Everyone loves The Beatles, so why does nobody love the movie "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band?" It probably has something to do with the film's tedious story, forgettable cover songs and completely wasted all-star cast, which includes The Bee Gees, Peter Frampton, Alice Cooper, Aerosmith, Earth Wind and Fire, Steve Martin and George Burns!
But hey, at least it's the perfect double feature with Brian De Palma's passionately eccentric camp musical " Phantom of the Paradise," about a musician who sells his soul for rock and roll!
This week on THE TWO-SHOT, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold review one of the worst movie musicals ever made, and a film that deserves reputation - according to one of our critics, at least - as one of the best.
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Q: How Can I Merge Multiple Directories into One keeping the subdirectories I have multiple directories and each one contains multiple subdirectories. How do I send all subdirectories to the same directory?

A: What tool are you using? cp rsync scp
They all have a way to do a "recursive" function
I know with cp you can copy multiple recursive directories pretty easily. With cp you can list 100+ directories or files to copy, and what ever is listed last on your cp command is the destination for all.
cp --help shows
    Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST
      or:  cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY
      or:  cp [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE...
    **Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.**
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-R, -r, --recursive          copy directories recursively

Ex:
cp -rv /path/to/copy1 /path/to/copy2 /path/to/copy3 /dest/dir

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AAA Top Car Picks for 2006
John Neff
Mar 9th 2006 at 4:30PM
That trusty institution that's always ready to lend a tow has announced its Top Car Picks for 2006. AAA looked at more than 200 vehicles and chose winners in 13 categories based on criteria like ride, performance, braking, handling, cargo space, value and fuel economy. The categories have been broken down by price as well as class and the "Cool Car" category, won by the Corvette Z06, was thrown in there just for fun.
While the Honda Ridgeline did take top honors in the Pick Up Truck category, it's stablemate, the Honda Civic, came up empty handed for the first time this year, bested instead by the well-liked Mazda3 in the Under - $15,000 category.
Under - $15,000 Mazda3
$15,000 - $20,000 Honda Accord Sedan
$20,000 - $25,000 Dodge Charger
$25,000 - $30,000 Toyota Avalon
$30,000 - $35,000 BMW 3 Series
$35,000 - $40,000 Volvo S80
$40,000 - $50,000 Infiniti M35/M45
$50,000 Jaguar XJ8L
SUV $30,000- Ford Escape Hybrid
SUV $30,000 Mercedes-Benz M-Class
Minivan Honda Odyssey
Pick Up Truck Honda Ridgeline
Cool Car Chevrolet Corvette Z06

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Tim Henman hails Emma Raducanu's display as 'simply stunning' while Greg Rusedski is left 'dumbfounded'
Former British No 1 Tim Henman branded Emma Raducanu's performance in her US Open semi-final win over Maria Sakkari as "simply stunning".
Raducanu made history by becoming the first qualifier to reach a grand slam final with a dominant 6-1, 6-4 victory over Maria Sakkari.
She is also the first British woman to reach the final at Flushing Meadows since Virginia Wade won the title 53 years ago.
It's been 53 years since the last time a 🇬🇧 woman played in our singles final.
That champion, Virginia Wade, watched Emma Raducanu follow in her footsteps tonight. pic.twitter.com/1Ezvm8ZcA6
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 10, 2021
"It's an absolutely staggering performance," Henman told Amazon Prime. "If we just look at the way she came out and played, her quality of tennis from start to finish, she was so resilient. She never flinched.
"She never let up. It was relentless. And then you've got to throw in the scenario of being a qualifier, an 18-year-old, with all the legends who have ever played this game at Grand Slam level. She is the first person to qualify and reach the final. It's simply stunning.
"She deserves all the credit in the world. On the biggest stage in our sport at every opportunity she plays on her terms. It's incredible to watch.
Teen Queen 🌟. Incredible achievement. 👏💪👍💥 https://t.co/rtOY9yJaqe
— judy murray (@JudyMurray) September 10, 2021
"She'll need to enjoy this tonight and then get ready for Saturday."
Greg Rusedski, a US Open finalist in 1997, added: "I'm dumbfounded. That performance was worthy of a world number one, a US Open champion, a multiple Grand Slam champion.
"The composure, the belief, the handling of the big points. This is her first Grand Slam semi-final and it was like she was playing in the first round. It was astonishing."
Emma Raducanu is all of us after witnessing that performance. pic.twitter.com/1LqiXSpUXe
Martina Navratilova, the 18-time Grand Slam singles champion, knows a thing or two about making history.
She told Amazon Prime: "When you make history you do it at one level or two. Emma is doing it at so many levels.
"You can't even think about the repercussions. We've been hyping her up but it's happening. She's backing it up."
Raducanu will meet fellow teenager Leylah Fernandez in the final.
Emma Raducanu Tim Henman
Novak Djokovic news: It's all over for world No 1 as he loses appeal and court confirms his deportation
Novak Djokovic ordered to leave Australia.
A big week for Thanasi Kokkinakis in Adelaide.


Who are the people behind Binalot?
Binalot is owned and operated by Binalot Fiesta Foods Incorporated, a Philippine – based company established in 1996 by certified food lovers and innovative entrepreneurs led by its President, Rommel T. Juan.
What are the qualifications of a Binalot Franchisee?
has the ability to provide the required business investment and manage the finances.
How many branches does Binalot have?
Binalot meals are enjoyed at close to 50 stores across the Philippines.
How much is a Binalot franchise?
What will the Binalot Franchise Program cover?
Like most successful franchise systems, the Binalot Franchise System has invested in research and development, restaurant business operations, marketing and brand development to build the strong Binalot brand recognized today.
The Franchise Fee allows a Franchisee the initial license to use the Binalot name and trademark, and to learn Binalot's proven system of operations.
Ideally, we award a franchise to individuals only. However, a corporation is also acceptable provided that the individual franchise applicant shows a clear majority ownership.
The outlet's profitability varies on several factors such as sales, location, occupancy costs, market potential, investment, and the ability of the Franchisee to manage and control his operating expenses. Questions on return on investment (ROI) and other queries on financial viability will be discussed only during the interview process.
Who will provide the manpower to operate the outlet?
Binalot will assist the Franchisee in the recruitment and training of the pioneer store team. A maximum of five (5) employees must attend the full training program. This program is designed to provide you with an understanding of the technical, operational and administrative aspects of running your Binalot store. The training cost is included in the franchise fee.
Yes. Binalot will assist in the grand opening of the store, which is designed to build your customer base quickly. In addition to your full training program, Binalot will send trained representatives to work with you at your store for a period of 15 days.
The initial term of the Binalot Franchise Agreement is six (6) years. The Franchise Agreement is renewable for another six (6) years with a renewal fee of 50% of the then-current franchise fee, provided that the Franchisee meets the renewal criteria.
Once a Franchisee, will there be other fees to be paid to the Binalot franchisor?
Of the earnings to be made monthly, 7% of the monthly gross sales will be funneled back to the Binalot Franchisor, broken down as follows: 5% as Royalty Fee and 2% as contribution to the system's National Marketing Support Fund. This fund will benefit all franchisees as they will be spent for promotion and marketing of the brand.
What assistance will I receive from the Binalot franchisor?
How do I know if my chosen site is acceptable?
Franchise applicants should look for sites that are located in high traffic commercial/business districts that are accessible to both pedestrians and motorists.
During initial talks with Binalot, we will provide the applicant with our site selection criteria. We will also request the applicant to verify the viability of the site by conducting a market study. Binalot will then evaluate the prospective location by verifying the results of the market study.
How big should the Binalot store site be?
The size of the property required for a Binalot store is dependent on the store model that will be developed in a particular market. Store are may be anywhere from 6 to 150 square meters.
In-line Stall 15-45 sq. m.
What type of training will the Binalot Franchisee receive?
The Binalot Franchise Training program will orient the Franchisee and the pioneer store team on how a Binalot store is managed and operated. Training will take 2-3 weeks. This program is designed to provide the trainees the necessary knowledge and skills on store operations in time for the store's opening.
When the Binalot store is operational, regular training programs and seminars will be conducted to provide continuous learning.
Who will build my Binalot Store?
Binalot will provide you with designs and building plans for the Binalot store. Any one of Binalot's accredited vendors can construct the store, the cost of which is to be shouldered by the Franchisee.
How is franchise applicants evaluated?


This page displays sold house prices for Dighton Street in Bristol.
Dighton Street in Bristol BS2 consists predominantly of flats. Properties on Dighton Street typically have values around £150,000 - £150,000, ranging up to around £150,000 for top end flats.
Map showing Dighton Street in Bristol.


Spectrum started in a dusty old woodshed and has grown out of a passion for handmade. Machines and wood scraps at my fingertips, I put my hands to work on an experiment that turned into something bigger and more beautiful than I expected.
I believe in a thorough design process, and start with a specific concept for each of my collections. I primarily work with varieties of woods, but I find my inspiration in all different materials and found treasures. Starting with raw materials is my jam, faceting and forming them with my hands to create something new. I find beauty and design everywhere I look, even if I have to look upside down.
I hope you enjoy my work. Thank you for supporting independent artisans!


It's monsoon weather in St Andrews when our Hong Kong cocktail champion, Rai Amrit, arrives at Eden Mill. This is a season he's familiar with, being from the eastern edge of Nepal. He's wrapped up in a winter coat and when I ask how he is his first comment is "cold". This does nothing to dampen his spirits; every time I look at him he's grinning from ear to ear.
In 2016 with the support of Eden Mill, Montrose Fine Wines and Bar Talk Magazine, Rai competed against forty mixologists from China and Macau to be crowned grand cocktail champion. Seven finalists were challenged to make an Asian-themed cocktail using one of Eden Mill's gins and Rai's time as a bartender at Hong Kong's Artesian, The Langham, gave him the perfect training. His creation, a 'Spiced Thai Royale', incorporated our Oak Gin, lime juice, kaffir lime leaves, lemongrass stalks, thinly sliced chilli and his own home made Thai sour mix. Perhaps the most stand out feature of his cocktail was the coconut-crafted cup, made by his carpenter father. He chose this to compliment the woody flavours of the Oak Gin and the effect is truly eye catching.
One of the prizes was a trip to Scotland to visit some of the amazing bars in Edinburgh and Glasgow and spend some time at Eden Mill Distillery. During his time in Scotland, Rai will be distilling his own gin using botanicals brought from his homeland of Nepal.
They're carefully wrapped in plastic bags and when he opens the first one I get a powerful whiff of wood smoke. He takes out a handful of dark brown pods and explains that it's black cardamom, native to Nepal and called aalaichi in Rai's native tongue. It grows in the eastern hills and when Rai splits one open the smoky smell turns to fresh menthol. It's a confusing botanical but easy to see how beautifully the flavours would lend themselves to a juniper-based spirit like gin. The second bag contains oddly familiar dried red flowers. When I bring a handful to my nose I'm immediately transported back to the temples of Kathmandu and the sweet floral aromas that hang in the air. We would recognise the flowers as red rhododendron but Rai identifies them as laliguras, Nepal's national flower.
Rai is of small stature with a young face but he has lived a lot in his twenty five years. He moved to Hong Kong to study hotel management at college and has already completed his level two WSET exams with an eye to tackling level three. He started working in bars in 2015 and had competed in four other cocktail competitions before winning last year. He tells me that craft beers and spirits are popular in Hong Kong and the interest continues to grow. The trend is geared towards new, exciting drinks and Rai is ready to take it on. Ultimately his dream is to work in distilling and brewing and he is blown away by the the size of Eden Mill as he never realised so much work could go on in such small packages. It could be seen as a fitting analogy for his own accomplishments; one thing is for sure, Rai Amrit is one to watch in the future of Hong Kong's cocktail, beer and spirits culture.
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Why Unequipped Workplaces Force Mothers to Give Up Their Careers
Pragya Kumar (mycity4kids blogger)
Back to Work, Weekend Reads
Now that our society has accepted that a woman's job is more than just taking care of the house, we see a lot of women who enjoy a satisfying career. Kudos to woman power! I appreciate women who efficiently juggle home (especially kids) and office duties.
However, have you come across the woman who possesses all the abilities to pursue a career, but is unable to do so because she has nobody to take care of her kids? Although child care is the responsibility of both parents, sadly, in our country it is the woman who has to leave her job to nurture the kids, almost every time.
Therefore, I'm writing this article ONLY on behalf of those women.
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So, what do you think is the reason behind her dilemma? Why does she have to sacrifice her career for her kids?
When I think about it deeply, one major reason comes to my mind - unequipped workplaces.
By unequipped, I mean that workplaces in our country should be more thoughtful about providing facilities for children. Earlier, women chose to (or I should say were made to) be at home and look after kids. Today, they are more educated and look forward to a fulfilling career. Unfortunately, however, the organizational set-up in our country is yet to evolve. Until and unless proper child-care facilities are provided in the office space, how can women come forward to rebuild their careers?
Many of you will ask, "How do other women manage to work? Things are not different for them, after all."
I agree. There are women who survive all odds to have a flourishing career, but life is not easy for them, either. It is challenging to manage kids as well as a career, even though it seems otherwise. I applaud these women for making it seem like a cakewalk. But the truth is, they too will benefit if childcare facilities are provided at every workplace.
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Now, let's think about the other childcare options that come to a working woman's rescue. Some have parents' or in-laws' support, others have a nanny, some choose a private childcare facility, and few others have slightly older kids who are equipped to manage on their own.
However, many families are not lucky enough to have the support of an elder who can take care of the children, having a nanny could raise child-safety issues, and leaving kids atoa private daycare is still inconvenient for many; if the daycare is situated far off from the workplace, how are parents supposed to reach immediately, if needed?
The most difficult situation is for mothers who are still breastfeeding, or those who have toddlers to look after. Younger kids need more support. A childcare facility at the workplace makes it convenient for the mother to keep a check on the child as and when it is required.
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Our country wishes to move ahead. We talk about women empowerment. But, how can women be empowered if they are not given the opportunity to showcase their abilities?
Organizations that wish to employ women must give it a thought because this is one of the main reasons women are opting out of their career after having kids.
Why should there be a question of choosing between career and children? Provide adequate facilities, and then leave it to the women. If given the opportunity, women would be glad to handle their job AND their kids efficiently. All they need is a little support!
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Epiphany: Not Your Average Christmas Pageant!
Our text this week is Matthew's story of the magi visiting the baby Jesus. Us Westerners are very familiar with this text. And those of us who are preachers often get bored by this story from preaching it every year. It has no sense of drama or surprise anymore. Our yearly Christmas pageants render it toothless. However, I have found that a political historical-critical reading of this story brings nuances to the surface that I certainly don't hear in pageants. To my taste, it breathes new life into this story, its theology, and its implications.
The first thing that critical Biblical scholars emphasize is that the birth stories in Matthew and Luke are different. Contrary to our Christmas pageants, it does a disservice to the authors and their messages if we mash them together. For example, Luke's birth narrative ties into his emphasis on the Great Reversal. For Luke, God works with the unexpected, especially the disenfranchised. In this gospel, the first is the last, and the last is the first. Matthew, however, has a different perspective. His birth story is all about politics. The spotlight swings onto the (inter)national scene and portrays Jesus as a rival king who threatens the powers that be. When the magi (more on them below) come and worship Jesus, they grant him political legitimacy.
Do you see the different stories that Matthew and Luke are telling? Matthew's political story ties into his broader emphases, as well. For him, Jesus is the new Moses. Here, Jesus is not destroying the Law but perfecting it. In this gospel, the problem is not that the Pharisees follow the law in all of its minutia; it's that they don't follow it well enough!
Matthew's portrait of the new Moses shows up as early as his birth story. Herod plays the role of Pharaoh. In real life, Herod was a very complex man. He was famous in the ancient world. He oversaw massive building projects, absolutely transforming the infrastructure of the region. The projects, of course, cemented his extraordinary fame. However, massive building projects accrue massive costs. Herod steeply increased taxes on the working population—the majority of whom were living close to subsistence level.
That being said, Herod was also famous in another way. He was obscenely obsessed with power and hyper-paranoid. Moreover, when trying to protect himself, he was absolutely brutal. He constantly stayed on guard against threats to his power. His track record shows the extent of this paranoia. In total, he killed 300 public officials, 2 of his sons (whom he strangled), and one of his wives, all on the suspicion that they were plotting conspiracies against his throne.
At the risk of speculating, perhaps these show that Herod was deeply insecure. After all, though he was serving as king, he didn't have any royal heritage, he was an ethnic outsider, and his family converted to Judaism just one generation before he took the throne. He was installed by the Roman state, not by his subjects. Did these things explain why he was over-compensating? (Napoleonic Complex, anyone?) But as I said, at this point, I'm just speculating.
Let us also notice in this story the religious leaders. Unlike some commentators, we cannot denigrate all of these actors as religious elites. That being said, the structural function of the religious leaders was to maintain the hierarchical/colonial power structures of the Temple and the Roman imperial rule. These leaders ultimately serve Herod and make sure things don't get too out of hand.
The outsiders in this story are the magi. We have incorrectly learned from carols that they were Three Kings. Wise Men is perhaps more accurate, but as we will see, even that title does not really get at their ambiguous status. A magus (singular of magi) was a particular royal position in the Persian priestly class. They directly served the king, which means that they had ties to the political centers of power. As a class, they claimed to gain supernatural knowledge through astrology.
This was a deeply unsettling, weird class of people. We see some of this come out in the story of Simon the Magus in Acts. He is a sorcerer tapping into some sort of arcane magic—a deeply ambiguous figure, fascinating but suspicious, shifty and crooked. Some kings also harbored suspicions, recognizing that the magi, in delivering a negative prophecy, could be a threat to the royal apparatus.
But for the Greco-Roman elites, giving magi even this much credit was too much. They simply saw them as "frauds" and "unreliable." Moreover, as Easterners, these elites also attached stereotypes to them: drunkards, regular attenders of brothels, superstitious, "slaves." In spite of these stereotypes, however, some Greco-Roman rulers were still intrigued. They imported magi to join their royal courts. Perhaps for us moderns to understand their deep ambiguity, the best parallel is to fortune-tellers. Like them, magi were superstitious and couldn't be trusted—but yet they still held a mysterious appeal.
The magi, of course, were following a star. As hard as people try to find naturalistic explanations for this, basic Greco-Roman beliefs provide the best explanation. Many different ancient peoples believed that a star appeared in the night sky at one's birth. The brighter it was, the more important the person will be. Since the magi saw such a bright star, they recognized that a new king had been born. The importance of this event made it worth it for them to make the long trek to find this new king.
Note well: this is precisely the thing that Herod was terrified of. This is why he slaughtered hundred of his subjects: to eliminate any royal contenders. The title "King of the Jews" was the same title that Rome bestowed upon Herod when he officially got their backing. But in Matthew's story, we see Jesus also gaining the title "King of the Jews" from members of a royal court. In Jesus' birth, Matthew shows us the arrival of this alternative king through a number of different symbols.
This king will be truly different from the kings we have seen before. Herod is perched in his gaudy palace, firmly located in the center of sociopolitical power. Jesus, by contrast, comes to a house in the backwater town of Nowheresville. (Note that in this story, Jesus is born in a house. The manger is the property of Luke's narrative.) Herod is infamous for his brutality, and paranoia about his status and power. Jesus instead teaches downward mobility, voluntarily taking on servanthood, and nonviolent use of power.
So then, Matthew ends up narrating a story of several sketchy fortune-tellers dropping a bombshell on the king and those supporting him. Standing in for the role of Pharaoh is Herod and Jesus for Moses. Just as in the Exodus, it is a show-off between coercive, dictatorial power and God's power, mediated by a human. However, beyond the Moses story, the magi insist that Jesus is a new alternative King.
Herod (like Pilate) was indeed right that Jesus did pose a threat to his rule. However, it didn't look like they expected. Jesus did not accommodate to the demands of empire. Empire demands total allegiance, but Jesus' way refuses to give allegiance to anybody but God.
 For an excellent political reading of the gospel of Matthew (which was my main conversation partner for this article), see Warren Carter's Matthew and the Margins (Maryknoll, NY; Orbis Press, 2001).
Colin Cushman is the pastor of Seabold United Methodist Church in Bainbridge Island, Washington. His primary focus is on the intersection of social justice, and Biblical studies and theology. He and his wife enjoy living in such a beautiful region of the country and look forward to seeing what God is at work doing here.
Posted on December 26, 2016 November 28, 2016 by modernmetanoiaeditorPosted in Epiphany, UncategorizedTagged Epiphany, Matthew.
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Chet Faker Contributed
by scronin
Seanna Cronin APN Entertainment Editor
A US ex-pat, Seanna has been writing about the Australian entertainment industries for the past six years and is also a documentary producer, photographer and scuba diver.
26th Jan 2015 7:04 PM | Updated: 7:14 PM
MELBOURNE'S Chet Faker has taken out this year's Triple J Hottest 100 with his song Talk Is Cheap.
The Melbourne electronic producer and songwriter, real name Nick Murphy, topped the youth broadcaster's annual listener poll with his chart-topping song Talk Is Cheap.
The Hottest 100 received more than two million votes, the most in the poll's 26-year history.
#1 @Chet_Faker - 'Talk Is Cheap' #Hottest100
— triple j (@triplej) January 26, 2015
Murphy won five ARIA Awards last year for Built on Glass, the debut album off which Talk Is Cheap was released.
Peking Duk's High, which was widely tipped to take out this year's top spot, came in at No 2 and was one of two Top 10 songs for the Canberra electro duo (Adam Hyde and Reuben Styles).
"It's been crazy; we just started out doing club shows… it's been a blur," the duo told Triple J's Matt Okine and Alex Dyson from their own Australia Day party in Portsea, Victoria.
Voting for this year's poll was overshadowed by the #Tay4Hottest100 campaign, which would have seen Taylor Swift's Shake It Off come in at No 12 if the song hadn't been disqualified.
The broadcaster released an official statement before the countdown began this morning with eight "hilarious but totally true" reasons why votes for the pop star couldn't be counted.
Mark Ronson's funk hit Uptown Funk, which has received a lot of airtime on commercial radio, came in at No 6.
Adelaide's hip-hoppers Hilltop Hoods ranked higher than expected with their party track Cosby Sweater.
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Triple J Hottest 100 Top 10
1. Chet Faker - Talk Is Cheap
2. Peking Duk - High
3. Hilltop Hoods - Cosby Sweater
4. Milky Chance - Stolen Dance
5. Peking Duk feat Safia - Take Me Over
6. Mark Ronson feat Bruno Mars - Uptown Funk
7. Chet Faker - Gold
8. Chet Faker - 1998
9. Sia - Chandelier
10. Asgeir - King and Cross
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My take on the E3D Titan Aero!
E3D have upgraded their extrusion lineup once more – but is it an improvement this time?
This is the new E3D Titan Aero – you got a sneak peek of it in my E3D portrait video and I've been using the prototypes and the final version for the last few weeks. It was originally known as the "Lidsink", and for the record, I did like that name name better, but the concept of moving the heatsink for your 3D printer's hotend from the hotend itself to the extruder body still hasn't changed. I think it's a good step forward, but I think we should still discuss whether this new integrated arrangement an actual improvement over the classic Titan + v6 combination or if it's just an easy backport of the older Makerbot-style extruders.
Let's get to it.
For reference, this is what E3D's extrusion system looks like if you don't use the Aero heatsink:
It's the 3 to 1 geared Titan extruder with the hotend's groovemount fitting perfectly into the Titan's body along with a little filament guide spacer part for the distance between the hotend and the hobbed gear. This is really useful for flexible or even somewhat softer filaments like Nylon.
You've got that separate fan on the hotend, clamped on with a polycarbonate shroud, which, on some of my hotends did get quite loose over time from popping it on and off a few too many times. And while this setup works and makes good use of the components that were already available, it was just that and nothing more – the existing E3D hotend clamped into the made-to-fit Titan body. With the new Aero heatsink and fan, you're now replacing the hotend heatsink, fan shroud, fan and the clear Titan lid.
The rest of the components are unchanged and compatible both ways, so you can upgrade a classic Titan to an Aero and vice-versa. Overall, it actually makes the assembly about 11g heavier, due to the larger heatsink and fan, but also 50mm shorter. While you won't be increasing your printer's usable print area with the Aero, your printer can still potentially gain up to 50mm in print height if your linear guides and Z-axis drive are long enough.
On a delta, that usually isn't an issue and just results in extra usable print volume, but for a classic Cartesian machine, you'll need to check that you have enough space on the linear guides and spindles at the extreme positions. Usually, it's ok and you'll simply end up with a longer usable Z-axis, but it's something to check for before taking the plunge.
But that's not the only geometry change: There's this corner of the heatsink sticking out on the side that used to be flush with the Titan body, and that required me to change a few mounting parts, granted, they were pretty tight anyways, and there's also the extra depth from the aluminum fins and the fan, so if you had for example a part cooling fan and fan duct mounted close to the Titan's lid, you will need to move it. I think it's a bit of a missed chance on E3D's side to not include a native part cooling fan to the full Titan Aero + v6 package, which is already most parts of a 3D printer's toolhead in a box, but who knows, maybe we'll see, like, an official fan and printed fan shroud bundle some time soon from E3D.
And one more thing to note: Since the Aero heatsink is now the equivalent of the v6's heatsink, its filament path geometry is now also specifically made for either 3 aka 2.85mm, or 1.75mm filament, but as far as I know, the only thing that changes is this little hole on the aluminum piece between the filament guide in the Titan and the screwed-in heatbreak. In the 1.75mm version, it's 4mm through-hole that gets lined with a short bit of Teflon tube, in the 3mm one, it's just a plain, I believe, 3.2mm hole that gets no liner. Yes, they are physically different, but to be honest, I don't think using the 1.75mm version with the larger hole for 3mm filament is going to be an issue at all, the filament is extremely well right as it leaves the filament guide above it and as it enters the heatbreak.
So how well does it work in actual use?
To be honest, there's just not much of a difference when you look at how well it prints, at its core, it's still the same extruder and hotend, after all. Which doesn't mean that it's not performing well, quite the opposite, but aside from the much shorter filament path, and maybe the slightly changed cooling performance, there's just nothing that would influence print quality. In theory, the shorter hotend should help with flexible filaments as they're going to see less friction in the filament path, and it should also make the assembly more stable as the Aero moves around, but unless you have a particularly flimsy mount or machine, or have your printer move at ludicrous speeds, it's probably not going to directly translate into nicer prints.
Instead, I see the Aero as more of a comfort upgrade, I guess, and as the logical next step in pushing filament through a tiny heated hole, even though the Aero is probably the largest change in concept E3D has ever attempted. The larger fan on the Aero is mounted much more securely than the old one clipped onto the standard v6 heatsink, so this new setup is never going to start rattling, and just having that larger fan means it won't have to work as hard for the same amount of airflow so it's going to be less noisy for the same cooling performance. Though it doesn't guide air out of the heatsink in quite the same control. The extra 50mm of usable printing height are also nice, but again, you're most likely not going to see a difference in print quality. Still, having the hotend's heatsink further on the extruder instead of having it as a separate piece just makes sense. But wait a second, haven't the Makerbot-style MK7, 8, 10 extruders and their clones always done that? Yes they have. With the older Makerbot-style extruders, the typical assembly has quite a substantial aluminum block with the hotend's heat break threaded in, that block also serves as a mount and then it has a standard flat heatsink attached to it, and a pair of screws that thread all the way into the stepper motor.
It's the same basic concept as the Aero and while the Makerbot-style clones are usually not quite as nicely machined, usually they also do their job for the most part. But if you're just looking for something that kinda does its job and not much more, the E3D Aero probably isn't the extruder and hotend combo for you. Instead, the Titan Aero and, for that matter, the classic Titan as well do have a specialties: They do come with the advantage of the 3 to 1 gearing, which helps with printing fast or optimizing the extruder for weight by using a smaller stepper motor, and the Titan has much better filament guidance, well, I guess it's hard to do any worse than these MK extruders. As usual, the hobbed profile on these cheaper gears isn't particularly sharp or even consistent, and there have been reports that they don't run true, which causes light artifacting on a print's surface as well as a reduced overall strength, which I have been observing on a few printers using these gears before. E3D's Hobbgoblin profile is sharp as ever and does dig into the filament quite well. It's still only a single-gear extruder, and I will need to investigate whether something like Bondtech's new dual-drive Mini extruder actually makes a difference in how consistently the filament is fed into the hotend, especially at higher speeds.
Of course, you can still do everything with the Aero as you could with the standard V6, after all it's the exact same setup from the heatbreak downwards. That means you can still drop in different nozzles, like hardened, coated or copper, tungsten, stainless-based ones and use all the different sizes from a tiny 0.15mm one up to 1.2mm with a Volcano block. You can put a sock on it, upgrade it to different temperature sensor cartridges like the high-temperature PT100 or a thermocouple, and even on the extruder side you swap out the mid-size stepper motor that you can add to the kit to either the super-light pancake types, high-resolution 0.9° motors or a super beefy one if you want to print really fast.
And I've read on the RepRap forums that someone was complaining about not having that clear section where you can peek in and see how far you've tightened the idler spring. Yes, the Aero lid is obviously not transparent aluminum, through to be honest, that would be incredibly cool, but there is still a small window to that spring and the accompanying nut that lets you check out how tight you've set everything.
So the Aero is available right now in about two dozen different configurations, it's 90 GBP for the full kit, and then you get various motor, voltage and diameter options. In total, it's about as expensive as buying a full v6 hotend and regular Titan extruder. Alternatively, E3D are also offering an upgrade kit for 32 GBP, but I don't think it's necessary to upgrade your existing setup to the Aero unless you want the shorter assembly or need that edge with flexible materials.
I mean, it's not like the Aero is a bad product or anything, it's just that what E3D offered before it just worked really well already. Still, if you're building a new 3D printer and have the option of using either a classic Titan + v6.1 combo or the new Aero, it's an obvious choice for the Aero, I think.
So there you go, that's the E3D Aero setup. If you want to grab one, there's a link in the video description below that'll take you to the appropriate shop for your region. If you found this review helpful, give it a thumbs up, and get subscribed if you want to see more stuff like this. Also, bell, notifications and stuff, you know. Check out the other affiliate links as well, for anything you might buy on Aliexpress, Matterhackers, Amazon, eBay or iGo3D, or if you want to directly support what I'm doing here, head over to Patreon to chip in a dollar or two per month. So thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.
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A: Seems this is just some internal problems downloading tiles from server for the new Apple maps. I also see similar errors, but they do not affect anything and are not related to your code.


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South African Journal of Chemistry
versão On-line ISSN 1996-840X
S.Afr.j.chem. (Online) vol.72 Durban 2019
http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/0379-4350/2019/v72a10
A Liquid-Solid Two-phase Flow Computational Fluid Dynamic Modelling of the Operational Characteristics Effects on the Cleaning Time of a Circulating Flow Loop
Mohsen DehvedarI; Parviz MoarefvandII, *; Ali Reza KiyaniI
IDepartment of Petroleum Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
IIDepartment of Mining & Metallurgical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Tehran, Iran
Flow loops and computational fluid dynamics are the main research approaches for resolving the hole-cleaning problems. Cutting transport phenomena can be considered as a Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) model by using Eulerian assumptions for the turbulent liquid-solid flow in concentric annuli. The effect of time along with the main operational characteristics on the hole-cleaning phenomena is not negligible but recent studies have had paid little attention to it. Poor near bit cleaning causes many problems such as bit balling, decline in the rate of penetration, pipe sticking, etc. In addition to the effect of inclination, drill pipe rotary speed, cutting size, nozzle velocity and fluid viscosity as well as the effect of the bit nozzle arrangement on the cutting transport process were discussed. The results demonstrate that at a critical inclination angle of 30 degrees the cutting transport is inefficient. For all sections, the effect of drill pipe rotary speed was negligible at high velocities. In the horizontal section, at low flow rates and high drill pipe rotation speeds, Newtonian viscous fluids or water has no effect on the time needed for initial hole-cleaning butby removing the drill pipe rotation speed in similar conditions, a dramatic influence on time is observed. In inclined annuli, increasing the cuttings size and decreasing the nozzle velocity result in having no cutting in the output. Under critical inclination (30 degrees) the effect of the nozzle angle pattern on the hole-cleaning time is negligible. However, for a vertical annulus, the nozzle angle significantly influences the cutting transport. The best performance is obtained when the nozzle angle was perpendicular to the drill pipe axes.
Keywords: Two-phase flow, flow characteristics, CFD, jetting flow.
The cutting transport phenomenon is one of the main important subjects in drilling of horizontal and extended reach wells. Inadequate cutting transport is associated with many problems such as lowering the drilling performance, grinding of cuttings into fines at bit, difficulties in mud and solid control maintenance, increasing the equivalent circulating density (ECD), increasing the mechanical torque and drag, over pull on drilling string and unnecessary back reaming and fishing operation.1,2,3 Therefore, the bottom hole has been a concern for drilling operations which is resulted in excessive well construction expenditure.4
Bottom Hole Assembly (BHA), drill pipe rotary speed (RPM), flow rate, rate of penetration (ROP) and drilling fluid properties and inclination are the common factors that can be manipulated and controlled to gain a proper hole .5 Since the investigation and study of the effective drilling characteristics on the bottom hole on a drilling rig is costly, researchers have attempted to study this subject with a variety of approaches such as flow loops and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD).6,7 Usually the cutting concentration, mean bed height and the length of the bed are the main variables that are traced for hole-cleaning efficiency across the annulus.8,9
Cutting transport phenomenon can be considered as a liquid-solid system in CFD modelling.10 Simulations are validated based on the experimental data from the flow loops.11 Many parameters can be considered in simulations such as collisional mod-els,4,12 drag models,2,13 aggregation,14 restitution coefficient,15 specularity coefficient,16 sphericity,17 and the mesh size effect.18 In this study, cutting transport phenomena is considered as a CFD model using Eulerian assumptions for the turbulent liquidsolid flow in a concentric annulus. In reality, it was not a good assumption for a long annulus but it helps to have a good sense about the cleaning process time. The first step was the validation of a model built based on the dimension of our experimental setup. The effect of the jet velocity and the nozzle angle (with respect to the drill pipe axes), inclination, viscosity, rotary speed and the cutting size are investigated on the particle removal in the annulus. The initial mass of cuttings at the bottom of the annulus was cleaned by the fluid flow. In our previous work,19 the critical cleaning inclination at which the cutting transport was inferior was been found to be 30 degrees.
This work describes a simulation model built in ANSYS Fluent, together with an experimental setup to study the effect of key parameters such as time, flow rate, cuttings size, etc., on wellbore cleaning in simulated horizontal, vertical and inclined well sections.
2.1. Experimental Flow loop
A flow loop was designed and developed providing a variety of options for controlling test settings, i.e. properties of the annulus, drilling fluid, cuttings, the drill string, temperature and pressure, see Fig. 1a. The annulus was an acrylic tubing with a length and internal diameter of 220.0 cm and 9.0 cm, respectively. Increasing the length of the flow loop not only increased the mesh number and consequently, the simulation time, but also caused some limitation in the inclination range. The inner stainless steel pipe had an outside diameter of 4.3 cm and contained four nozzles with an internal diameter of 0.8 cm. The nozzles were attached on the body of the pipe as shown in Fig. 1b. The inner pipe was connected to an AC motor with a shaft and gear-box and the rotary speed was controlled by an inverter. The cuttings were injected into the annulus at different rates through a designated inlet. The inclination was also adjusted with two arms from a vertical to a horizontal position. A centrifugal pump was used to inject the fluid into the string and the flow rate was controlled with a flow meter and a bypass system which was installed between pump and flow loop. At the output, a screen was used to collect the cuttings. A mixer was used to prepare the drilling fluid and a differential pressure (DP) transducer recorded the pressure drop in the annulus as indicated in Fig. 1c.
The circulating flow loops mechanism was similar to the drilling operation with minor modifications to suite the laboratory conditions. First, the length of the flow loop seemed a bit small for a horizontal or inclined flow. Second, the jet from the four nozzles had a strong effect on the cuttings transport in the present setup. The jetting nozzles were placed at a 7.5 cm distance from the origin. Third, in the drilling operation, the nozzle size was usually optimized based on maximizing the jet impact force or hydraulic horse power, but the pattern of placement was not seen in this setup because of using a centrifuge pump instead of triplex pumps.
2.2. CFD Method
The flow loop model was generated with Gambit software used for CFD modelling. The model materials were sand and water. The solver in ANSYS Fluent was pressure-based for absolute velocity formulation in the transient flow. An Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase flow for granular cuttings was selected with a standard k-e and a standard wall function with mixture multiphase model.
2.2.1. Governing Equations
With merging Eulerian-Eulerian sub-models with the kinetic theory of granular flow,20,21 the governing equations are presented in this section.
The continuity equation for the solid phase can be written as Equation 1:
The momentum equation for the solid phase is:
The fluctuation energy of the solid particles (granular temperature) is written as:
The constitutive equations used for the Euler-Euler model are22,23,24: Liquid phase stress tensor:
Solid phase stress tensor:
Solid shear viscosity:
Solid bulk viscosity:
Collision energy dissipation:
Solid pressure:
Radial distribution function:
where as is the solid volume fraction and asmax is the maximum packing limit.25 And the drag coefficient Cd is:
2.2.2. Model Assumptions
The flow loop model was generated with Gambit software to be used in CFD modelling. The model materials are sand and water. The solver in ANSYS Fluent was pressure-based for absolute velocity formulation in the transient flow. An Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase flow for granular cuttings was selected with a standard k-e and a standard wall function with mixture multi-phase model. The plexy wall was stationary with standard roughness and no-slip condition for solids. The roughness constant was 0.5. The drill pipe was a moving wall with 11.5 rad s-1 rotary speed. The k-e turbulent model has some limitations for the near wall condition. In this study, an effort was made to neglect these defects with an attempt to y+ diagram. Table 1 shows the related cutting properties in the model.
Solid phase shear bulk viscosity was obtained through applying the kinetic theory to granular flows. Frictional viscosity for modelling the granular flow was also available. The fluid was water with 998.2 kg m-3 for density and 0.001003 kg m-s-1 for viscosity. The model assumptions for the designated inlet and outlet are given in Table 2.
All simulations were performed on a core (TM) i7-6700K CPU at 4.00 GHz with 32.0 GB RAM.
2.2.3. Mesh Independency and Model Validation
The geometry of the model was meshed by a hybrid of tetrahe-dral and hexagonal elements as shown in Table 3a. A structural mesh has many advantages such as reducing the grids and consequently the simulation run time, but it was difficult to confirm as a single block for this case. Matching and merging the separated meshed volume was a big challenge. If the annulus was assumed symmetric, the structural mesh was perfect. While, due to the complexities in the geometry, it was not possible to mesh it structurally. There were nozzles, cutting inlet and drilling fluid outlet and they made the geometry of the model hard to mesh. Likewise, in this study, there were three main sections and in each of them the turbulent flow regime, fluctuation in the flow parameters and the velocity of the drilling fluid were different especially in the inlet section (cutting inlet and nozzles) there were five velocities inlet surfaces. Unstructured mesh was a better choice due to these constraints and limitations. Each inlet and outlet section had the separated subsections. The mesh generation for each section led to specific errors in Fluent software. With changing the mesh type from structured to unstructured, the ANSYS Fluent errors were resolved within the volume interfaces. The unstructured mesh was more flexible than the structured mesh type.
In this study, three types of mesh with different mesh numbers were applied. The mesh properties such as maximum ortho-skew, minimum orthogonal quality, the existence of boundary layer and aspect ratio were shown in Table 3b . For the investigation of mesh independency, the results of the three mesh types were compared to each other in the ANSYS Fluent software environment (Table 3c). The results of cutting transport experiments were compared to the simulation results. For the validation of the simulation results, the calculated error value between the experience and simulation results was used (Table 3d).
2.2.4. CFD Tests
The effect of the main drilling characteristics such as inclination, drill pipe rotation, cutting size, nozzle velocity, drilling fluid and the jetting angle on the hole-cleaning phenomena were investigated with CFD simulations. Table 4 summarizes the design of experiment parameters including the test ID and the testing parameters. The effect of inclination was studied from test T1 to T7. The effects of cutting size (from T8 to T10), drill pipe rotary speed (from T11 to T13), nozzle velocity (from T14 to T16), the combination of the effective characteristics (from T18 to T19) and the jetting angle (from T20 to T22) were investigated under three configurations.
Table 5 lists the parameters of four experiments designed to evaluate the effect of the nozzle jetting angle (test numbers: T1, T5, T21 and T22).
Each test has a specific label. Table 6 gives the details of a typical sample label of /T1V15S1RPM110WINC90'.
3. Results and Discussion
A decline in the nozzle velocity or annular velocity can lead to an increase in the cutting amount. In addition, there is a correlation between the increasing amount of the cuttings and the increasing of the rate of penetration (ROP). In this situation the amount of cuttings, the bed length and the height are increased and also the hole-cleaning problems such as sticking are increased. In the lower rate of penetrations, as the drill pipe rotation speed increases, the ROP increases linearly with the higher penetration rate. With the further increase the ROP rate decreases and it leads to the low hole-cleaning efficiency. Note that removing the drill pipe rotation has no effect on the hole cleaning of the slant wells at the high velocities. The hole cleaning of horizontal sections is one of the hard situations in the cutting transport. As mentioned in the introduction, drill pipe rotation speed, drilling fluid rheological properties, the flow rate or nozzle velocity and the time are the most important characteristic ones.
The main characteristics considered in this study are: inclination, rotary speed, fluid viscosity, cutting size, nozzle velocity and jetting angle.
3.1. Inclination
Directional wells can be categorized into four types, namely S-shaped, slanted, inclined and horizontal types. In each type, if the pump is turned off, the cuttings are slumped in the low side of the borehole bottom due to gravity. The minimum amount of hole cleaning occurs in a critical inclination, at which the cutting transport is more problematic.
In CFD simulation, the critical inclination can be determined with different approaches. In the first method, the volume fraction was calculated at different times. In the second approach, the sand and water velocities are compared across the annulus at different times. Lastly, the critical inclination was determined based on the knowledge of the mass of the remaining cuttings in the annulus. It was found that the remaining cuttings in the annulus were increased by increasing the inclination from 0 to 30 degrees and then it was decreased from 30 to 75 degrees inclination (Fig. 2). In all approaches, it was found that the critical inclination angle was approximately 30 degrees.
3.2. Drill Pipe Rotary Speed and Drilling Fluid Viscosity
The agitation and rotation of drill string improve the cutting transport process by decreasing the pressure drop and cutting bed height across the annulus. The rotation of drill string has no significant effect on the cutting transport process at high flow rates. In other words, the effect of the drill string rotation in assisting cutting transport can be replaced by increasing the flow rate. At high flow rates, during the drilling operation, the rotation of drilling string did not affect the cutting transport a lot. In the presence of water or Newtonian viscous fluids as drilling fluids, at low flow rates but at high speeds of drilling rotation, the initial hole-cleaning time was not affected by these parameters. However, in the state of the drilling string with no rotation, the time for completing the hole cleaning changed for each drilling fluid. In the horizontal sections in similar operational conditions, the hole-cleaning time for water at low flow rates and non-rotating pipe (T52-RPM0-NV) was approximately two times of the hole-cleaning time for a Newtonian viscous fluid (T42-NV 5) (Fig. 3). This can be interpreted as the roles of viscous force in increasing the cutting carrying capacity. In this study, the effect of drilling fluid viscosity was investigated on cutting transport by water with 1 cp and a high viscosity Newtonian fluid with 10 cp of viscosity. Using viscous fluid forms a specific cuttings transport regime across the annulus. Figures 4 and 5 show the effects of viscous drilling fluid in the presence of the drilling string rotation and no rotation of the drilling stringin a horizontal section. Figure 4 is a snapshot of the system with no rotation of the drilling string after 30 seconds in different cross-sections. In this state, the cutting bed extended on the low side of the system as the cross-section views show. As the cutting bed has been moved and extended from the first points of the system, its height was increased gradually toward the middle points of the system. Hence, at the end points of the system, the height of the cutting bed was decreased. This state can demonstrate the effect of viscosity in increasing the shearing forces to pick up and carry the cutting from the cutting bed into the drilling fluid. This caused the cutting bed to gradually creep toward the outlet.
In the state of the drilling string rotating, as is obvious in Fig. 5 after 23 seconds, the cuttings were dispersed in the annulus and there was no concern for forming the cutting bed in the horizontal section. The cuttings were agitated by the rotation of the drilling string and moved spirally toward the outlet. As shown in the cross-section views in Fig. 5, the cuttings were agitated and rotated around the drilling string and they were picked up from the low side to the annulus space and carried by the flow regime.
3.3. Effect of Cutting Size
To investigate the effect of particle size on the cutting transport; two particle sizes (1 mm and 5 mm) were selected. These sizes are normal cutting sizes in drilling operations. Figure 6 shows the results of 1 and 5 mm of particle sizes on the hole-cleaning time. The hole-cleaning time was prolonged as the cutting size increased. In the critical inclination, increasing the particle size had an adverse effect on the hole-cleaning process and almost no cuttings were carried out of the annulus (T13). However, in vertical (T11) and horizontal (T12) conditions, an increase in the particle size results in much more time for an efficient hole cleaning.
3.4. Effect of Nozzle Velocity
In this section, the effects of the nozzle velocity on the cutting transport were investigated for two jetting velocities (5 m s-1 and 15 m s-1). For 15 m s-1 velocity of the nozzle jetting, the cleaning process of the annulus was efficient at all inclinations, whereas, for5ms-1 of jetting velocity of nozzles, the cleaning process took longer for both vertical and horizontal sections. CFD results demonstrated that in the critical inclination, no cutting was carried to the outlet by decreasing the nozzle velocity from 15 m s-1 to 5 m s-1 (see Fig. 7).
Figure 8 shows a streamline contour view of the system after 2.065 seconds from the drilling fluid pumping. The streamlines were started from the nozzle and flown through the system.
3.5. Jetting Angle
In this section, the effects of jetting angle on the hole cleaning were studied for three different patterns of nozzle angles (Fig. 9) due to different types of nozzle arrangement in common bit types (Fig. 10). Initially, a mixed pattern of 75, 60, 45, 30 nozzle angles was used for a vertical annulus and after that due to the poor hole cleaning at the low nozzle velocity (5 m s-1)at 30-degrees of inclination, we investigated the effect of changing the nozzle angles to 45-degree rather than the normal vector of the jetting surface.
3.5.1. INC30-90 Degree Nozzle Angle
In this case, the cutting transport process was investigated by the system in 30 degrees inclination with 90 degrees nozzle angles. The cuttings were deposited on the low side of the annu-lus. A narrow tail of the cuttings was formed on the low side and traced toward the output of the annulus. The cuttings were carried to the upper part of the annulus space, but according to this inclination as the critical inclination (30 degrees), the cuttings slumped down on the low side of the annulus space. Eventually, they were deposited over each other, massively on the lower side of the annulus (Fig. 11).
In this situation, after 40 seconds about less than 1 gram of cuttings had exited from the annulus space which is very small compared to the elapsed time of the drilling fluid pumping.
3.5.2. Mixed Pattern (75, 60, 45, 30 Degrees)
In this case, a mixed pattern of nozzle jetting angles was studied. 750 grams of the cuttings was injected into the annulus space after that the drilling fluid (water) was pumped after 500 seconds all of the cuttings were evacuated from the annulus space. After 70 seconds of pumping water, the cuttings were dispersed in the annulus space, but some separated bulks of the cuttings were formed around the drilling string. It can be illustrated that the rotation of the drilling string agitated the whole mass of the cuttings and cut them into smaller bulks that can be carried by drilling fluid. This simulation demonstrated that the mixed pattern of nozzle angles was not as effective as the 90-degree nozzle angle pattern on the cutting transport process. Even after about 500 seconds of the simulation, there was still about 50 grams of the cuttings in the annulus space. Changing the nozzle angle into the mixed pattern resulted in an improper hole cleaning and the hole-cleaning time was sharply increased.
In practice, the nozzle angle design has a strong effect on the near bit cleaning as the first point of hole-cleaning process. Improper design of the nozzle angles can cause poor near bit cleaning, bit ball, bit burning and consequently increasing drilling time and cost.
In this case, as Fig. 12 shows after about 500 seconds almost 750 g of cuttings were evacuated from the annulus space.
3.5.3. INC30 - Nozzle Angle 45 Degrees
In this simulation, the nozzle angles were changed to 45-degrees (Fig. 9). For 30-degree inclination as the critical inclination, in practice, almost no cutting was transported out of the annulus (less than 1 g). This amount of cuttings was very negligible rather than the elapsed time of the simulation (Fig. 13).
Similar to the previous case, the cuttings were deposited on the low side of the annulus over each other and due to the rotation of the drill string, a snake tail of cuttings was extended on the low side of the annulus space toward the output. The tail was not as thick as the pattern with 90 degrees jetting angles. Similarly, due to the previous case, the cuttings were carried up by the flow regime to the upper parts of the annulus; however, they were slumped down and deposited at the bottom of the annulus. Maybe an increase in the flow rate can carry the cuttings out of the annulus space.
In these two cases, the nozzle angle pattern affected the bottom hole cleaning in a deviated drilling system. If two systems are considered for a certain elapsed time of 40 seconds, almost no cuttings have been exited from the system in 45-degree nozzle angles; however, when the nozzle angle pattern was 90 degrees, it was slightly more effective than the case of 45-degree nozzle angles. The 90-degree nozzle pattern generally had a better performance than the 45-degree nozzle angle pattern. It can be demonstrated that the nozzle angle pattern did not influence the cutting transport near the bit and the system inclination was a dominant factor in this situation (Fig. 13).
In this study, the cutting removal was studied by using a three-dimensional model based on the kinetic theory for the granular flows. The model was further validated with the experimental data. In both experimental and CFD ANSYS modelling, an attempt was made to remove the initial sand by the means of the water jetting. The following are the main conclusions:
1. At low flow rates but at high speeds of the drilling string rotation, for Newtonian viscous fluids or water, the viscosity had no effect on the initial hole-cleaning times; however, by setting the speed to zero, the required time for each fluid changed.
2. As the particle size of the cuttings increased, the time of the hole cleaning increases. In the critical inclination, increasing the size had an adverse impact on the hole-cleaning progress and in practice no cuttings exited from the annulus space. However, for vertical and horizontal cases, by increasing the cutting size, the time of the hole cleaning increased.
3. In the critical inclined section, the cutting transport was stopped by lowering the nozzle velocity from 15 m s-1 to 5 ms-1. The 90-degree nozzle pattern generally had the better performance than the 45-degree arrangement. Downward jetting angle pattern was not suitable for the hole-cleaning process.
4. Adding viscosifiers into the low viscous dense fluids can lead to an increase in bed length that reduces the mechanical sticking probability.
5. All conditions that lead to a decrease in cutting size can be efficient for the cutting transport process.
6. The 90-degree nozzle pattern generally has better performance than the 45-degree arrangement at the critical inclination.
7. In the critical inclination, downward jetting angle pattern is not profitable for the hole-cleaning process.
Cd Drag coefficient
d Diameter (m)
e Restitution coefficient
g Gravity (m s-2)
go Radial distribution function
kQ Diffusion coefficient for granular energy (kg msJ) Unit tensor
12D Second invariant of deviatoric stress tensor
p Pressure (Pa)
v Velocity vector (m s-1)
Re Reynolds number
t Time (s)
x Particle concentration
M0 Initial patched mass (gram)
Mt (Min) Current mass in the annulus (gram)
Mout Exited mass from the annulus (gram)
t1/2 The time of exiting semi amount of initial patched mass
a Volume fraction
ñ Density (kg m-1)
t Stress tensor (Pa)
b Inter-phase momentum exchange coefficient (kg m3 s-1)
g Collisional energy dissipation (kg ms-3)
ë Bulk viscosity (kg ms-1)
ì Shear viscosity (kg ms-1)
as,max Maximum solid volume fraction
Q Granular temperature (m2 s-2)
0 Internal friction angle (°)
Subscripts
1 Liquid phase s Solid phase
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P. Moarefvand: orcid.org/0000-0002-2117-4937
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Received 15 July 2018
Revised 27 December 2018
Accepted 28 January 2019
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: parvizz@aut.ac.ir
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Günter Lammers is een Duits musicus, muziekproducent en songwriter. In 1980 had hij enkele hits in het duo Bogart. Hij was een van de producenten en schrijvers van enkele platen van Taco en Pussycat. Daarnaast schreef hij voor Duitse artiesten als Andrea Berg en Michael Holm.

Biografie
Lammers werkte sinds de jaren zeventig veel samen met Rolf Steitz, die als Juan Bastós bekend was geworden met de hit Loop di love (1971). Rond 1978/1979 richtten ze het duo Bogart op dat in 1980 drie hitnoteringen kende in Duitsland, met On Broadway, Stop lovin' you en Primaballerina. Begin jaren tachtig speelde hij op de toetsen voor de band Heartbeat.

Aan het begin van de jaren tachtig produceerde hij enkele singles voor de Nederlandse zanger Taco, die zijn bekendheid ervoor had verkregen met Putting on the ritz (1982). Het jaar erop was hij een van de producers en songwriters van het laatste album van Pussycat, After all (1983).

Voor zowel Taco als Pussycat schreef hij ook liedjes, evenals voor verschillende andere artiesten. Hij schreef onder meer voor Andrea Berg, Andy Borg, Klaus Densow, Michael Holm, Michael Morgen en Rosanna Rocci. In de jaren negentig was hij producent voor verschillende artiesten, zoals voor de Curaçaose Guillermo Marchena en de Oostenrijkse kleinkunstgroep Die Blauen Engel. Sinds 2000 is hij arrangeur vanuit Lindlar nabij Keulen.

Duits musicus
Duits muziekproducent
Duits tekstdichter

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Leaders are people in your organization that can inspire, motivate and encourage others to work towards a common strategic goal. Managers are those that plan, organize and coordinate. While many people use the two words interchangeably, they are two distinct roles and one should not be confused for the other. Leaders provide direction for an organization and get people working towards the same goal or objective, while managers execute that vision by leading day-to-day operational tasks.
The main point of distinction between leaders and managers is the use of influence over authority. A leader has the ability to influence those around them to make changes, while a manager relies on authority to enact change through orders. It's important for a business to have strong leaders because it's been shown employees respond well to those that don't rely on a title to wield power, but instead possess traits that encourage others to perform at their best.
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Exclusive: Chelsea Bain Releases Lyric Video for "Medicate" – Watch!
Arizona Native, Chelsea Bain is making her way as a newcomer on the Country Music scene, but she is no newcomer to performing in front of big crowds and winning over listeners who have never heard her before.
Bain recently released an EP titled Drinkin' Alone that showcases incredible vocal strength and a sound mature beyond her years that we're left wondering how many lifetimes she's actually lived.
In the Country Music scene, where there's so much talent making their way, Bain offers her stories, that resonate with listeners and a sound that's not forced. She isn't trying to be something she's not or sell a song that doesn't ring true to herself.
"Medicate" is just one of the many songs on the Drinkin' Alone EP that listeners will be able to relate to, not having a cure for getting over a heartache.
I've tried like hell to find / Someone with a fix for heartache / I'd die for a dose or five / Write me a prescription / I'll take it / You're the only problem / That's got me in pain / That I can't medicate.
When you hear Chelsea Bain belt out a song – be it a beautiful ballad or rousing rocker – you know it comes straight from her heart.
A distinctive vocalist and instinctive songwriter, every word she writes and every note she sings proves her strength, her passion, is born from experience.
Chelsea harbored two great passions as she was growing up on an Arizona farm. When not listening to Shania Twain or the Dixie Chicks, Chelsea picked up a love for horses from that cowboy culture in which she was raised. As young as 4 years old, she was trying her luck at barrel racing. Later she graduated to doing breed shows. Sometimes her two interests intersected — on one occasion, with embarrassing results.
Still, Chelsea didn't have many opportunities to perform her first love, country music, in her hometown. And so, like so many other hopefuls, at just 19 years old she made the move to Music City.
Always a songwriter, Chelsea's creativity, heart and outright boldness were ramped up to an entirely new level when she befriended singer/songwriter Rachel Farley. The two began collaborating, and Farley helped pull out emotions and attitudes Chelsea wasn't even aware she possessed. The two co-wrote all five songs on Chelsea's upcoming EP, and songwriter/producer/instrumentalist Jordan Sapp joined them on four of tracks.
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In a previous report here on OscarMini we told you that Xiaomi was warming up to launch its Xiaomi Redmi 3, little did we know that it was even coming sooner than we expected. Well the latest on that is Xiaomi has officially launched its Redmi 3 smartphone at a price of CNY 699 (approximately N21.000). The major highlights of the latest Xiaomi Redmi 3 is its 4100mAh non removable battery. With a battery density of 685Wh/L, which extends the talk time of its predecessor by reportedly 80 percent, the Redmi 3 comes with support for 5V/2A fast charging as well.
In terms of design the new Xiaomi Redmi 3 boasts of a metal body along with a textured rear panel. It will be available in gold, grey and silver color variants.
The Xiaomi Redmi 3 packs plenty of power and speed to meet your needs. the smartphone features a 5-inch display with a 720 x 1280 pixel resolution. It is powered by a 1.2GHz octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 616 processor, paired with 2GB RAM. It sports an internal storage of 16GB which can be further expanded up to 128GB via microSD card. Xiaomi Redmi 3 runs on an unspecified Android version with MIUI 7.
In addition to this, the new Xiaomi Redmi 3 also sports a 13MP rear camera with LED flash along with a 5MP front facing camera. The selfie camera also supports full-HD recording.
The dual SIM (GSM and GSM) smartphone that accepts Micro-SIM and Nano-SIM also includes connectivity features such as Bluetooth, GPS, A-GPS, Glonass, GPRS/EDGE, Micro-USB, and Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n.
The Xiaomi Redmi 3 is not yet available in Nigeria. However, the device is available on Mi.com and Tmall and will go on sale in China starting tomorrow. When available in Nigeria it will sell for around N21.000.


Join me, Tom Corless, and a cast including Justin Heyman, Anthony Yacullo, Scott Smith, Matt Paul, Mike Remy, Adam Goodger, Jeff Arauz, and Luke Manning for a variety show that celebrates the Walt Disney World Resort and its many fans. So what are you waiting for? Let's celebrate another week of Walt Disney World information and fun on the WDW News Today Podcast!!!
To kick off episode 87, we have your Walt Disney World Resort News and Rumor Report. In this week's report, we will be discussing at which restaurant you can find a friendly little rat while at World Showcase in Epcot, where you will be able to get some sound financial advice while visiting Innoventions, and the unexpected addition of a "sponsor" to the Walt Disney: One Man's Dream exhibit at Disney's Hollywood Studios.
Following that, we have the latest edition of our WDWNT game show, "Where in the World is Tom Corless?". For this fifth episode, four of our listeners will collide with two of our staff members to see who will walk away with another fantastic prize package. Who will win this fast paced installment of the game? You'll have to listen in to find out!!!
Finally, to end this weeks program, we continue our countdown of the 20 Biggest Moments in Disney's Hollywood Studios History as voted by you with a look at what took the #7 spot on the list. We'll also be examining just how important this moment are in the near 20 year history of the park.


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A Prout Perspective on Taxes
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Historically, taxes have been viewed as a "necessary evil" in order to fund government. They have been difficult to collect, have exacerbated inequalities in society, and encouraged a host of illegal activities. In modern times, personal income taxes are particularly egregious, as they directly reduce an individual's income that was earned through direct labor. PROUT suggest the elimination of income taxes and replaces it with a production tax levied at the point of production. Producers of goods or services would pay a tax before their production is purchased by the consumer. Although PROUT's decentralization policy would greatly reduce the need for importation, all imported goods would be subject to an import tax to be paid by the importer before it became available to consumers.
The production tax would be levied progressively, so that essential commodities are taxed less than non-essential goods. In this way, those who choose to spend more of their incomes on non-essential items would pay higher prices due to higher tax rates. PROUT's system of taxation would be far simpler to maintain, make tax collection more efficient, reduce tax evasion, and place more tax burden on those willing to pay more for luxury goods and services.
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The Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) is working in partnership with London Funders, the Association of Charitable Foundations and a number of independent funders on research to explore place-based funding approaches.
The term place-based funding is used to describe a spectrum of approaches. At one end of the spectrum, it may be used simply to refer to grant-making limited by geography – a decision to fund only in specified geographic areas; at the other it may refer to long-term and multi-faceted collaborative partnerships aiming to achieve significant change. In most cases, it is more than just a term to describe the target location of funding; it also describes a style and philosophy of funding.
Develop a series of case studies that focus on learning about the approaches in terms of rationale, success and failure.
The paper draws on current practice and literature to explore what place-based funding is, looking at: how it is delivered; the different types of approaches and roles funders play; benefits and challenges of working with place.
This briefing paper is a working document that will be refreshed during the course of the research. Readers who would like to give feedback on the paper or who are interested in the study are invited to contact Eliza Buckley.


Joint Programming, in its specific meaning of the Joint Programming Process launched in 2008 by a Communication of the Commission and subsequent Conclusions of the Council, is a research and innovation policy concept driven by societal challenges. Its aim is to tackle grand societal challenges through more efficient use of resources, by the alignment of funding at national level and through decreasing fragmentation in the European Research Area (ERA). It is a structured and strategic process whereby Member States agree, on a voluntary basis and in a partnership approach, on common visions and Strategic Research Agendas (SRA). On a variable geometry basis, Member States commit to Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) where they implement joint Strategic Research Agendas together. Ten Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) have been launched to date. They have established their own governance structures and have elaborated their SRAs. The current challenge for the JPIs is the effective implementation of the SRAs through joint activities, and the alignment of funding at national and European level.


Livestock industries are significantly affected by changes in consumer behaviour. In order to add value to meat and livestock production, many firms and farms are supporting the development of new products -- these products can differ by credence attribute, by degree of processing and by marketing strategies. The literature suggests that one of the most important determinants of success in product innovation is an understanding of the market the product is introduced into. In this report consumer preferences for meat products, by animal species including minor meats, and by type of processing are examined. Responses to economic variables such as price, advertising and income are identified as are responses to food safety and meat related health issues. Interesting results include the fact that income elasticities of demand for meat products purchased at grocery stores are negative in this study and that own and cross price elasticities for certain meats, across processing levels for example, show strong substitutions. Thus introducing new meat products may not result in increased sales by animal species may only result in substitution of one meat type product for another product of the same meat type. Successful new product introductions or changes in product quality are shown, in this report, to be accompanied by significant marketing/advertising investment and, either by design or by serendipity, to have credence attributes in line with consumer's changing concerns. An example of this is the response to branded chicken sales, at the time of BSE in Canada, for a brand that could advertise itself as being 100% grain fed. Marketing strategies, such as working with the Health Check program of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada are shown to have an impact on firm level sales (as well as on sales at the individual product level), a halo effect, that may be of importance in the firm's development of other value-added products. Significant heterogeneity exists in consumer behaviour and it is important to recognize this heterogeneity in the development of value-added meat products. Added to the consumer heterogeneity, in general, is the heterogeneity in responses by meat type. What works for one sector, such as poultry, could be problematic in other sectors given differences in economic interrelationships reported in this study.


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Exit Strategy Music
Exit Strategy - Pushin On 5:27
Exit Strategy - Elderberry Wine 5:46
Exit Strategy - Melt 8:04
Exit Strategy:
Chris Ramey - guitar, vocals
Jonah Magnoni - drums, vocals
Stephen Waud - bass, vocals
This was Chris' power trio in Burlington, VT from 2004-2006. Exit Strategy focused on his original material and funk, rock and reggae covers. Notably, the group appeared at Red Square July 3rd, 2006 for an epic (!) show complete with pyrotechnics provided by the city of Burlington's fireworks. "Pushin On" and "Elderberry Wine" are from June 2006 demo recordings and "Melt" is from November 2005. There are several recorded live shows that have yet to be reviewed in the archive project. Expect more original tunes to surface from this period, including "(Smoke and Drink) At The Same Time" and "Hurry Up and Wait."


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