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For each song you will hear the full version, featuring the instrument with an Orchestral accompaniment, as well as a playback version for you to play along to.
The pieces in Tubes Du Jazz Saxophone are great for playing as part of a group. The included harmonic grids will help Bass and Keyboard players to get their bearings, and all of the featured pieces can be sung. Lyrics are included at the back of this book.


I walked outside earlier in the week to find this Titmouse doing it's best freeze tag imitation.
Sure enough, a handsome Hawk was perched on the far side of the yard, looking for his lunch.
You would have laughed if you could have seen the contortions I went through to try and get a clear shot of him amidst all the twigs and branches. I looked like I was playing Twister without the colored circles!
Here is a cropped close up of his head. It loses clarity, but is still pretty cool.
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Deadpool Just Poked Fun At The Infinity War Spoiler Threat With His Own Version
Not everybody likes spoilers. Most fans prefer to come into their movies without knowing important details in order to enjoy the cinematic experience and be surprised by every twist and turn. Marvel made a plea to fans to avoid spoiling Avengers: Infinity War for others, and now Ryan Reynolds has done the same with his new movie. Of course, as you might expect, the letter written by Deadpool asking fans not to spoil Deadpool 2 is quite a bit funnier than the one the Russos sent out. Enjoy it below.
Lovingly, Wade. #deadpool2 pic.twitter.com/FEPOCVKRDc
— Ryan Reynolds (@VancityReynolds) May 9, 2018
The Russo Brothers and other members of the Marvel Universe posted a letter to fans using the hashtag #ThaosDemandsYourSilence as a way to encourage the fans who saw Avengers: Infinity War early to keep spoilers away from those who would see it later so that everybody could enjoy the movie equally. Deadpool 2 seems to be trying to do the same thing, but, of course, the creative team is being ridiculous about it. In addition, Ryan Reynolds' hashtag is quite a bit longer. It's a good thing Twitter expanded the character limit.
It's difficult to decide what the best part of this letter is. Personally, I'm a fan of the 20th Century Fox logo being crossed out in the letterhead and replaced with TBD, because Fox is in the process of selling off its movie studio, and while the expectation has been that Disney will be taking over, late word is that Comcast hasn't given up quite yet, so nobody really knows where all this is going. Deadpool works for somebody, but he doesn't know who yet.
Then you've got the massive gloved hand holding the note, as the Avengers version also had, though this one adds a bunch of additional tiny hands, and paws. It's unclear if that's supposed to be a baby's hand or a mid-regeneration Deadpool limb.
From there we get into the plea to avoid spoilers, that includes the claim that even Ryan Reynolds doesn't know the plot of the movie. To be fair, the marketing for Deadpool 2 had done such a good job at just focusing on Ryan Reynolds being silly that the team was able to get pretty far without revealing much of anything regarding the plot, besides the fact that Josh Brolin was in it as Cable. More recently we have learned that the story will revolve around Cable's attempts to kill a child mutant, and Deadpool's decision to act as the kid's bodyguard.
That being said, beyond that basic setup there's a lot we don't know, and just because Deadpool 2 may focus as much on the comedy as the superhero action doesn't mean that people don't want to go into the movie just as spoiler free as they did with Avengers: Infinity War. Comedy is less funny the second time around and if for that reason alone we don't want to hear all the good jokes before we make it to the theater.
If the movie is half as funny as the letter, we should be in pretty good shape. Deadpool 2 hits theaters on May 18.
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Blue Bell gets in the Christmas spirit with its latest flavor
The Brenham, Texas-based business is out with its Christmas Cookies flavor.
Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes ice cream flavor to debut this holiday season
It's nearly that time of year again when Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes will be hitting store shelves.
Sweet news: The Museum of Ice Cream is coming to Texas this summer
This summer, the Museum of Ice Cream will be coming to Austin.
Blue Bell debuts coconut cream pie flavor in celebration of National Ice Cream Month
Beloved Brenham-based ice cream manufacturer Blue Bell released a new flavor, Coconut Cream Pie, in celebration of National Ice Cream Month.
Think outside the carton with these creative ice cream recipes
Once you've mastered the basics of homemade ice cream, try these fantastic flavors.
Our best pudding, parfait and panna cotta recipes for cool summer desserts
It's hard to say no to an eye-catching pudding, parfait or panna cotta for dessert on a hot day.
Blue Bell debuts new ice cream flavor just in time for summer
Did someone say ice cream? Just in time for the hot summer days, Blue Bell announced a new ice cream that is sure to keep you warm.
For 60 Years, Fred's Corner Grille Has Kept the Burgers and Ice Cream Flowing in Vernon
Fred's Corner Grille is celebrating its 60th anniversary. It is the oldest continually operating restaurant in Vernon.
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These are 10 of the crazy, unique flavors from beloved Montrose-based gelato shop, SweetCup
Temperatures are heating up as the days progress and the best remedy for warm weather is a scoop of your favorite frozen dessert.
Maskless woman seen in body-cam bank video arrested after incident at another business, officials say
Galveston Bank incidentGalveston police said Terry Wright refused to wear a mask inside of a Bank of America branch. Terry Wright was charged with resisting arrest and criminal trespass last week after refusing to wear a face mask inside a Galveston bank. Woman describes bank incident as 'absolutely ridiculous'The maskless woman involved in the incident at a bank in Galveston spoke last week..During a phone interview with KPRC 2, Wright said although she has yet to see video of the incident, she wouldn't do anything differently. Officers recognized Wright from video of the incident that occurred at the Bank of America location is Galveston last week. AdWright was taken into custody and transported to the Galveston County Jail by Texas City Police department for booking and processing.
Blue Bell's new ice cream flavor will take you back to your best school days
Blue Bell will debut its newest flavor, Cookies 'n Creme Cone, in stores starting on Thursday. (Blue Bell)HOUSTON – How about a throwback for lovers of Blue Bell's Cookie Cone? Texas' favorite ice cream unveiled a new flavor, Cookies and Cream Cone, inspired by the Cookie Cone served at school cafeterias since the late 90s. Our new Cookies 'n Cream Cone Ice Cream arrives in stores beginning... Posted by Blue Bell Ice Cream on Thursday, February 25, 2021According to a Facebook post, the flavor is a creamy vanilla ice cream combined with chocolate crème-filled cookie crumbles, chocolate cone pieces, dark chocolate and a chocolate fudge sauce. Blue Bell's Cookie & Cream Cone is available in half-gallon and pint-sizes for a limited time in stores.
Made in Texas: How Blue Bell went from making butter for locals to becoming one of the country's top ice cream brands
Today, we're featuring the iconic Texas-born ice cream company who some say makes the "best ice cream in the country" — Blue Bell Creameries. Ice cream flavors include 25 classic year-round options like homemade vanilla, cookies 'n cream and moo-llenium crunch. It wasn't until the 1980s when Blue Bell ice cream was available in stores outside of Texas. However, the company says it was quick to claim a spot as one of the country's go-to ice cream brands. What's your favorite Blue Bell ice cream flavor?
Chocolate lovers, rejoice! Blue Bell releases newest flavor, Fudge Brownie Decadence
BRENHAM, Texas You cant buy love or happiness, but you can buy ice cream (which is pretty much the same thing)! The Texas-based creamerys new flavor, Fudge Brownie Decadence, is a luscious chocolate French ice cream with fudge brownie chunks and a whipped topping loaded with chocolate flakes. Fudge Brownie Decadence is a French ice cream, which gives it a silky texture. Add in brownies, a whipped topping and chocolate flakes, and you will know why we put decadence in the name. And, if you love chocolate this is the perfect flavor to indulge your cravings.Fudge Brownie Decadence is available in the half-gallon and pint sizes for a limited time.
Mmmm: Cool off at these soft-serve ice cream places recommended by Houstonians
HOUSTON – The weather in Houston is perfect for soft-serve ice cream. Our KPRC 2 Facebook followers have sent us recommendations for the best soft-serve ice cream, from small, local restaurants to big chains. Here's what our followers recommend:Spanish Flowers Mexican Restaurant (multiple locations)Connie's Frozen Custard (12545 Jones, Houston)Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard (multiple locations)Jimmy Changa's (multiple locations)McDonald's (multiple locations)Dairy Queen (multiple locations)Sonic Drive-In (multiple locations)Ikea (7810 Katy Freeway, Houston)Yes. Happy Soft Serve Ice Cream Day. Posted by KPRC2 / Click2Houston on Wednesday, August 19, 2020What is your favorite place to get soft serve ice cream?
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Steve, right, and Chris Brophy, husband and wife owners of Brickley's Ice Cream, look out from the store they closed after teenage workers were harassed by customers who refused to wear a mask or socially distance, in Wakefield, R.I., Wednesday, July 29, 2020. "Some of them don't believe it's real (COVID-19) and some don't think it's a big deal, I do," Steve Brophy said, adding that he would rather close than put young workers and customers at risk of harassment, and the virus. "It's like it's OK to be a jerk in this environment." (AP Photo/David Goldman)
It's National Ice Cream Day! Here's where you can grab a scoop or two in Houston
July is National Ice Cream Month and the third Sunday in July is National Ice Cream Day so if you're craving something sweet (especially cold with this Texas heat) why not treat yourself with a scoop of ice cream?
Blue Bell brings back their Milk & Cookies ice cream
Blue Bell Ice Cream is celebrating National Ice Cream Month by bringing back their milk and cookies flavor. The flavor is a combination of their vanilla ice cream with chocolate chip cookie pieces. This celebratory treat is available in either a pint or gallon.
Ben & Jerrys, Houston Justice Coalition to host a Justice 4 Ice Cream Juneteenth pop-up
HOUSTON Ben & Jerrys Ice Cream, in partnership with the Houston Justice Coalition, said they will be giving away one free scoop of ice cream to participants if they sign Houston Justices Police Accountability Ordinance Petition on Friday, which is the Juneteenth holiday. Ben & Jerrys has a long history of political activism under founders Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, who were arrested in 2016 for protesting money in politics. Its been too long. This is the time right now that we say enough is enough, Douglas said. For more information, click here.
Haagen-Dazs releases new line of boozy ice cream
As if ice cream couldn't get any better, Haagen-Dazs just made dreams come true by introducing a new line of flavors that are made for those who are 21 and older. Haagen-Dazs is releasing five new boozy flavors of ice cream for its Spirits collection, and they're made with Irish cream, rum, bourbon and stout. The line of boozy ice cream has been available in Canada for more than a year, so it's about time we got in on the ice cream here in the States. Now before you think about turning up on a Saturday night with a pint of boozy Haagen-Dazs and the new season of "Grace and Frankie," we should note that the ice cream contains less than 0.5 percent alcohol, so you won't get drunk on the ice cream alone. However, a scoop of the Irish Cream Brownie on top of an Irish Coffee sounds pretty tasty; just saying.
Hooray for Ice cream!
Nancy Giles learns there is nothing plain vanilla about some of the ice cream flavors that are being concocted for hip, discerning palates. Bacon ice cream, anyone?


My rank was 253 and my colleague's rank was 189 in January 2016 session.
How many consultants are there in your department in the concerned speciality?
We have 2 senior MRI/CT consultants, 4 senior USG consultants, 1 senior X ray & barium consultant, 2 junior MRI/USG consultants, and a PET consultant. In addition, 2 senior registrars are there with around 2-3 years of post PG experience.
XRAY/USG: 8-7 on Mon to Fri & 8-3 on Saturday.
CT/MRI: 8-8 on Mon to Fri & 8-4 on Saturday.
Emergency duties average 7-8 per month including one weekend in a month.
There is no problem with hands-on at all. We are allowed to do all the cases. Each and every ultrasound is documented first by the resident including free hand even in all the obstetric scans. Infact talking to the patient is essential, may it be before xray/usg/ct /mri reporting! Clinical Radiology in true sense!
All the Barium & Contrast Studies are done by the residents. We are allowed to do all radiography procedures like Micturating Urethrograms(MCU), Retrograde Urethrogram(RGU), IVP, Barium procedures(Swallow, Meal, Follow-up), assist in procedures like HSG, sonography guided ascitic and pleural tappings and assist in USG/CT guided Biopsies etc.
In X-RAY, the provisional reporting of all the cases is done by us and then the consultant comes and checks it.
In USG, right from the basic abdomen-pelvis scans, transvaginal scans, TRUS, sonomammos, obstetric scans to all forms of dopplers be it carotid, renal, portal or peripheral Doppler etc each and every scan including the portable sonographies, is documented first by the resident. Then the consultant comes and checks each image taken, points out the technical faults and any missed findings. This type of hands-on learning is unparalled anywhere in India.
In CT/MRI we get to see every scan, discuss it with the senior registrars and do the provisional reporting. Then finally the consultant comes and checks everything rectifying the mistakes if any. Infact, it is an excellent place to learn CT Chest and Cardiac & Musculoskeletal MRI!
After-all Radiology is not only about quantity but mainly about quality!
Academics are good ! All consultants keep insisting and probing us to read and learn! Our HOD too himself takes efforts to take lectures when time permits and his lectures on Chest including on ILD, Liver, Neck-spaces, Tongue and Oral cavity have been extra-ordinarily helpful.
There is an official integrated clinical meet every Friday in our institute, where in we not only learn about our subject (radiology) but it also helps us to know about other subjects. The inter-departmental meets helps all the branches to interact and discuss cases and prosper individually in their own fields. This not only helps us academically but also helps us to improve patient care and evolve better as Clinical Radiologist.
More importantly, are the case discussions which happen while reporting which helps us tremendously.
We get ample opportunities to attend Conferences/CMEs/Lectures/Workshops/Talks.
Many of our residents have already co-authored books with our Head of the Department who is very interested in academics.
Our Pass rate has usually been 100%. We get 2 months of preparation leave before theories and around 3 weeks before practicals.
Free food (including breakfast, lunch and dinner) is provided.
Accommodation is available in a separate hostel/flat on sharing bases in Shyam niwas society near the hospital and at Prabhadevi. Accommodation is also available within the hospital campus in a wing called as the Godrej wing on twin sharing bases. Accommodation is free with all the facilities.(Wifi, TV, AC etc).
Besides all these, call rooms are available for the on call residents.
The great advantage of this institute is that all the Consultants and residents sit in 1 Console room with many Mac s with PACS loaded so you can access any report and can discuss any case directly with the senior registrars and the consultants. The Consultants and seniors are very good &friendly.
A very important point as you start finding out about different colleges and hospitals, call the present residents there and find out. Only they are able to give real and honest opinions. The rest of opinions floating around online are very biased and sometimes downright false.
1. When I came to enquire about the hospital, I received positive vibes. I chose this hospital because it has a good reputation, it's patient load , exposure is very good and passing rate has usually been 100% .All the residents working here were extremely satisfied with the hospital. All seniors and staff were very cordial and helpful. Apart from these , the strong reason was our HOD Dr Anirudh Kohli, a jovial down to earth one of a kind human with extra-ordinary intelligence, who is a renowned radiologist nationally and internationally.
2.It is one of the best hospitals to pursue DNB in Radio-diagnosis. It has all the latest equipments and a dedicated PACS : MRI 3 T (with the latest 3T Vida machine launching next month), dual source CT, USG, Mammo, Dexa, Fluoro & PET. We have a Mac setup in every room and full PACS connectivity. Plus a Huge teaching files collection. Every resident has full 24*7 access to these facilities.
3.This hospital organises 2 conferences every year where the best National and International faculty comes and participates. The exposure and networking opportunities we get as organisers is unbelievable.


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Lenovo is definitely not lagging behind their competitors with their announcement of their new Yoga laptops and all-in-one. This time the focus seems to be on the display with the devices getting HDR, OLED or 4K treatment.
The Lenovo Yoga S940 is the latest in their ultraslim and line-up - at 12mm and 1.33kg. This time though, it comes with some innovative technology that could make it more of a hands-free experience.
Beside the front-facing infrared camera that supports Windows Hello, there is a built-in eye tracking software that lets you move content from the display to an external monitor, plus it blacks out the screen when you step away from the screen. As someone who has worked with eye-tracking computers back, these features are pretty neat - I wouldn't want people snooping on my screen either. Lenovo has also collaborated with Amazon to bring Alexa to this device, addition to Microsoft Cortana.
The specification is what you would expect - 8th-gen Intel i7 processor with up to 16GB of RAM and up to 1TB SSD, The display is available in Full HD and 4K, both supporting Dolby Vision for HDR.
Next up, the C730 is Lenovo's new convertible laptop - sporting a 15.6-inch AMOLED display. A few merit of an AMOLED screen: 1.6 times as many colors as IPS displays, deep contrast with true black in dark scenes, and puts out less blue light for less eye strains. The display supports Lenovo's Active Pen 2 for up to 4,096 levels of pressure sensitivity.
Again, the C730 carries 8th-gen i7 processor with up to 16GB of RAM, however only up to 512GB SSD. The device is relatively thin and light as well at 17mm and ~1.88kg.
The Yoga C730 will be available in April 2019 starting at $1,650 (MYR6754).
Finally, Lenovo's take on the all-in-one studio workstation - the Yoga A940. Aimed at digital content creators, this 17-inch display tilts down into a 25-degree angle and, of course, supports the Lenovo Active Pen. The display is available in QHD or 4K - both supporting Dolby Vision HDR, infrared camera for Windows Hello, and TrueBlock Privacy shutters. A Precision Dial changeable between the left or right side is optimised for Adobe Photoshop. Lightroom, Illustrator and more.
Similarly, it will carry an 8th-gen i7 processor up to 32GB of RAM and up to 512GB SSD with up to 2TB HDD. But it's packing better graphical performance with the AMD Radeon RX560 graphics card. The Yoga A940 also has speakers at the base that is enhanced by a Dolby Atmos speaker system.
The Yoga A940 will be launching in March 2019 starting at $2,350 (MYR9620).


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When Neuroethicists Become Labmates
By Timothy Brown and Margaret Thompson
Timothy Brown is a doctoral student and research assistant at the University of Washington (UW). He works with the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering's (CSNE) Neuroethics Trust, where he explores the broader moral and societal implications of neural engineering and neural technology use. Through the CSNE's support, he is also embedded in the UW's BioRobotics Lab, where he investigates issues of autonomy and agency that arise for people with motor disorders who use next-generation, neurally-controlled deep-brain stimulators to manage their symptoms.
Margaret Thompson is a doctoral student in the BioRobotics Laboratory in the Electrical Engineering department at University of Washington, Seattle; she is also president of the Student Leadership Council at the CSNE. She received her Master's in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington in 2016 and her Bachelor's in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College in 2014. She researches side-effect mitigation methods for deep brain stimulation, as well as how human subjects learn to use brain-computer interfaces over months to years at a time.
Maggie Thompson and Tim Brown are graduate students at the University of Washington—Maggie studies electrical engineering, and Tim studies philosophy (in particular, neuroethics). They are both members of the Biorobotics Laboratory—a multidisciplinary lab investigating the interface between human bodies and machines. Tim serves as the lab's "embedded ethicist" through the support of the Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering (CSNE).
Together, Maggie and Tim work on projects related to deep brain stimulators (or DBS, where electrodes implanted in key areas of the brain apply enough current to treat various disorders) and brain computer interfaces (or BCI, where changes in the brain are read by sensors and used to control a computer system).
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Object 240 Ergonomics
There is a common misconception that the Soviet army had no regard for the conditions of its crew. This is provably false. Just as with the US army, the Red army had a medical service, which would evaluate the user-friendliness of its equipment. Tanks were no exception. For instance, the Object 240, the precursor of the IS-2 tank, was put through thorough testing by the medical service, and the faults that were discovered were corrected by the time the tank reached mass production.
"Conditions of servicing of the 122 mm D-25 gun in the IS tank
1. The D-25 gun is installed in the turret of the IS tank.
The fighting compartment has the following dimensions: turret ring diameter: 1800 mm, height in the rear part: 1520 mm, height in other parts: 1580 mm.
The height of the fighting compartment is insufficient for free work by standing people. The turret crew stands in a slouched over pose.
The short height of the fighting compartment is due to the metal crates with ammunition on the floor. The crates are covered in rubber and used as the floor of the fighting compartment.
To better evaluate the dimensions of the fighting compartment, they should be compared with those of the IS tank armed with a D-5 85 mm gun. With the same sized turret, the gun takes up much more space, which reduces crew comfort.
The width of the gunner's station is reduced by 60 mm (to 650 mm) and the breech operator by 30 mm (to 660 mm). It is narrow, but possible to work.
The distance between the deflector and the rear of the turret was 450 mm for the D-5 and is 200 mm for the D-25. It is not possible to pass behind the gun. It is also uncomfortable to load, since the casing does not fit into this opening and catches onto the rear ammunition rack. When inserting it the loader has to aim (make additional careful motions).
2. The conditions for the gunner are as follows.
The gunner works sitting down. The seat is soft, on a carrier. It can be collapsed underneath the gun when necessary. The seat can be adjusted vertically. The pipe with electrical wiring in front of it somewhat impedes sitting.
The gunner uses the following to aim:
Telescopic tank sight.
Hand operated elevation and traverse mechanisms.
Electric traverse mechanism for rapid turret traverse.
The gunner did not use the periscopic sight due to its unfinished state and low precision. The electric traverse mechanism was not used for aiming, since it is also very "raw" and it is impossible to alter the turret traverse speed.
The following table contains the characteristics of the hand traverse and elevation mechanisms:
Elevation mechanism
Turret traverse mechanism
Distance to the flywheel axle from the fighting compartment floor
Flywheel radius
Elevation effort
5-10 kg going up, 1-5 kg going down
From 3 to 25 kg (average 10 kg)
Maximum angle
+21 degrees 30 minutes to -3 degrees
Number of turns to traverse the entire range
Time to traverse the entire range
Traverse speed per second
3.5 degrees/second
0.6 degrees per second
Somewhat excessive and uneven effort was required to use the traverse and, in part, the elevation mechanism. The hand turret traverse mechanism speed is insufficient.
This data is satisfactory for towed guns of this caliber, but not enough for a tank gun, as the strict need to fire on the move and to fire at moving targets requires a certain ease of aiming.
The telescopic gun sight is uncomfortable to use, as it is positioned too close to the gun (40 mm distance between the center of the pupil and the gun) and the bulge of the trigger mechanism. This distance should be at least 80 mm for comfortable use.
The hand trigger mechanism is conveniently positioned close to the aiming flywheels. The effort to fire is 25 kg, which is high. There is no foot trigger.
The fact that the aim is somewhat offset by opening of the breech, inserting the shell and propellant casing, and closing the breech slows down aiming. Because of that, the gunner must adjust his aim after firing.
The ammunition racks are inconvenient. It is hard to open racks on the floor of the turret. To open a crate, one must clear the floor, take off the rubber mat, open the metal lid, and extract the heavy ammunition while standing on one's knees from the small box. All of this takes time. People in the turret and spent casings that litter the floor impede loading. It is hard to find the necessary crate when the turret rotates. The ammunition racks in the floor are therefore deemed inconvenient.
The rear rack for 24 shells, places in the turret bustle, also has it downsides. It is unsuitable for the HE shell, which is shorter (by 10 mm) and has a smaller diameter. When loading them into the rack, the lock has to be held at the correct height, which is difficult. The clasps get tangled. The clasps in the middle impede loading, since they have to be pushed aside when inserting the casing.
When the breech opens, the screw and handle move 350 mm to the right, which blocks the breech from the breech operator. Therefore the gun commander must perform most of the loading, and the breech operator can only open and close the breech. Involving the commander in the loading process prohibits him from observing the battlefield and correcting fire.
The loading assistance mechanism is bulky. The loader is impeded by the bulge on the right of the device. It is desirable to remove this bulge.
The inconvenient racks and cramped position of the breech operator after the breech is opened leads to a low rate of fire. At trials on October 22nd, 1943, a rate of fire of 2-3 RPM was achieved (20-30 seconds per shot).
During firing, the location of the recoil indicator proved inconvenient. It is placed in a dark place behind the machinegun. The measurement scale is inconvenient, as the runner obscures the number.
The commander cannot correct fire, as he only has a periscopic sight without a grid. The commander must have a commander's periscope with a grid. It is also necessary to free the commander from the loader's duties.
Firing was performed with closed hatches and without the fan and engine, as well as with the fan and engine.
In both cases, 10 shots were made at a rate of 1-2 rounds per minute.
Number of shots
CO concentration
Closed hatches, no ventilation
Closed hatches, engine running, fan on
As you can see from the data, the concentration of fumes did not surpass 0.224 ml/L. The crew did not suffer any ill effects. The personnel felt healthy. It is possible to fire for some time with closed hatches and no ventilation.
With the ventilation running, the concentrations do not surpass 0.1 ml/L. This ventilation is sufficient.
Major of the Medical Service, Aleksandrov"
Diagram of crew positions in the IS tank armed with a 122 mm gun.
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Shocking: Stella Oduah's N255M Armoured Cars Missing In NSA's Security List
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Stella Oduah, Nigeria Aviation Minister
Suspicion that Aviation Minister Stella Oduah might not have actually procured the controversial N255million armoured cars is gaining traction in the nation's security circle, with operatives trying to understand whether the minister merely masterminded a paper process to launder public funds reports PREMIUM TIMES.
PREMIUM TIMES can authoritatively report today that the bullet-proof cars are not on government's official list of armoured cars available anywhere in the country.
Car dealers as well as end users of reinforced cars such as those Mrs. Oduah claimed to have procured to ward off "imminent threats", are mandated to seek authorization from the office of the National Security Adviser, NSA, before ordering or importing such vehicles into Nigeria.
Under that regulation, no car dealer or end user, including private individuals, security agencies, and government parastatals can bring in armoured cars into the country without obtaining end user certificates from the office of the NSA in Abuja.
But reliable sources at the office of the NSA told PREMIUM TIMES no authorization certificate was ever issued to either Minister Oduah or the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA, to procure the controversial vehicles.
"We have thoroughly checked our list and I can confirm that at no time did we issue end user certificate to anyone to procure any such cars," one of our sources said. "It is likely the cars do not exist and that the documents were either forged to steal public funds. But if the cars indeed exist, the minister, the NCAA and Coscharis Motors will have to explain why they sneaked vehicles into our country without authorization.
"It is a serious violation, and the minister and other people involved have a lot of explanations to make."
Another source said the the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, was appointed into the three-member administrative panel appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan to probe the procurement of the cars specifically to determine whether the purchase of the vehicles did not breach Nigeria's security regulations.
Contacted Thursday over the matter, Mr. Dasuki said he would not comment on any aspect of his committee's work because he is not the chairman of the panel.
"My office is only serving as the committee's secretariat," Mr. Dasuki said. "I am not the chairman. And you have to wait for us to complete our work. The question you asked (whether end user certificate was issued for the vehicles) is one of the issues we will look into."
Although the NSA was evasive, top officials of his office told this newspaper that an internal review had long established that the controversial Stella Oduah's cars are not on the lists of armoured cars known to the authorities.
This new finding raises more doubt as to whether the cars were procured reinforced, a reason the aviation ministry cited for the alarming cost of the automobiles, or whether the cars were even bought at all.
There are suggestions the ministers and the NCAA prepared the documents in circulation to cover up the looting of public funds.
That suggestion is strengthened by the refusal of the NCAA and the minister to allow PREMIUM TIMES access to inspect the cars despite initially claiming the vehicles were open to viewing by interested journalists.
The purchase of the cars have also been found to violate Nigeria's appropriation and procurement laws: the transaction was neither in government budget nor was it advertised or openly bided for. The contract cost is also believed to have been inflated multiple folds.
Together, the violations have added to widespread outrage over the relevance of a multimillion car purchase when majority of Nigerians cannot feed. Still, a more distressing possibility could be that the cars were never purchased, and the deal was only sealed on paper as a cover for money laundering.
The ministry of aviation and the NCAA, the agency directed by Mrs Oduah to make the purchase for her, claim the two BMW sedans were bought steel-clad to keep Mrs Oduah safe from "imminent threats".
The NCAA director general, Fola Akinkuotu, said the practice of using reinforced cars for conveying aviation ministers and foreign aviation dignitaries-who he said were also beneficiaries of the cars-was a standard global practice.
Amid mounting calls for Mrs Oduah's removal, and for sanctions against all aviation officials involved in the scam, President Goodluck Jonathan named a three-member committee Wednesday to review the contract and submit its findings in 14 days.
Separately, the minister, alongside NCAA officials, as well as officials of Coscharis motors, the suppliers of the cars, and First Bank Plc, the financiers, are to appear before the House of Representatives standing aviation committee. The director general, Bureau of Public Procurement, is also expected to attend the hearing.
Mrs. Oduah jetted out to Israel on Tuesday, travelling with President Goodluck Jonathan for pilgrimage in Jerusalem. She was not available for the House hearing Thursday.
More inconsistencies
The House hearing established, to a large extent, that the purchase of the cars were clearly against government regulations and laws.
Also, PREMIUM TIMES careful perusal of the contract papers revealed even more conflicting details about the transaction, with recorded dates and figures contradicting each other.
While the NCAA purportedly originated the contract in August, with the first letter of order to Coscharis written on the 13th of that month, documents originating from the car firm show that the deal was long sealed in June and the car released at the same time.
The vehicle release checklist by Coscharis Motors was signed on June 25 with all basic functions of the cars approved as being in order.
There is also discrepancy in the contract sum. While Coscharis Motors listed the two cars as costing N225 million on the Goods Received Note of August 14, the NCAA approved N255 million, a difference of N30 million.
In all of Coscharis documents, nowhere was the figure N255 million used.
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Ballincollig Local History Society / Dermot Lucey (Editor). Journal of the Ballincollig Community School – Volume 6 (1989 Edition). Includes for example: History and Community (The Woollen Industry) / In County Cork 1891 – 1918 / The 1913 Lockout / The Church of St.Mary and St.John / Mass-Rocks and Altar Sites in County Cork / The Rank and File Response Cork City Corps Volunteers / Jack Lynch Remembers Ballincollig Hurling in the 1940's / Ovens and Farran Schools – A Photographic Record / Traditions of Our Place-Ovens, County Cork / The Royal Munster Fusiliers (Recruiting Song) / History Sources (Fenian Convicts in Australia) / Including an Index to 5 Years of Local History Journal / Frontcover Illustration shows the Muskerry Light Railway / Ballincollig, Ballincollig History Society, 1989. Octavo. 68 pages. Illustrated. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some staining to the brochure ! Very Rare !!
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During his entrepreneurial journey in the fast-growing Industrial Water Treatment business, Allan Connolly, President and CEO of Aclara acknowledges that distribution engineers in the sector are often faced with the challenging task of identifying cost-effective solutions to monitor their distribution and traditional meter-reading networks. To address these challenges, Connolly established Aclara as a stand-alone, privately-held company and supplier of Smart Infrastructure Solutions (SIS) that perform automated metering and reading—by incorporating a range of sensors, communications, and analytic technologies. This smart infrastructure technology lets utilities monitor their distribution networks, optimize operations, respond to issues quickly, and preempt problems.
According to Connolly, reliability starts with better visibility into the distribution network. With Aclara Grid Distribution Monitoring platform, engineers can detect faults and location, monitor power quality and classify of grid events to make informed decisions and deliver power reliably to their customers. The robust platform comprises of Smart Grid Sensors and a Sensor Management System (SMS) with the real-time actionable intelligence for distributor engineers to monitor and optimize power conditions and improve reliability.
Aclara's Smart Grid Sensors allow engineers to gain visibility into their distribution grid down to 3 amps and are inductively powered—maintenance-free to last up to five times longer than battery-powered alternatives. Theses sensors also alarms about grid conditions back to the Aclara SMS software that classifies power disturbance events and provides the visualization and situational awareness needed to quickly respond to load planning, outages, and power quality challenges.
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The firm's Power Sensors are designed to be an affordable turnkey solution. Aclara's cellular Power Sensors include 3G communications for high-speed real-time reporting of events and data. These sensors support easy integration with public and private IP-based networks via Aggregators or third party communications nodes and can be quickly installed, automatically powered up, connected to the network and back office. Aclara also offers Auto- Phase ID to users to have accurate phase identification throughout their feeders and single-phase laterals. "Our sensors track and report the proper phase of each sensor to resolve inaccuracies and maintain up-to-date, accurate network and load models," asserts Connolly. Over 700 utilities in nine countries rely on proven Aclara solutions to connect with their customers.
"Our recent acquisitions, coupled with our own developments, are helping utilities address challenges and open the door to new opportunities in the distribution grid. Our recent acquisitions with GE Meters, Smart Grid Solutions and Tollgrade Communications represent an important step ahead for Aclara as a leader in smart infrastructure today," asserts Connolly.
Aclara is expanding its services as the utility industry looks for more innovative ways to measure and control their distribution systems. "As we look to the future we are looking forward to serving our utility customers effectively for many years to come. We have got a detailed strategic plan, to convert Aclara from an AMI business to rapidly expand both the market sectors we play in today, by broadening the product solutions we offer to utilities," concludes Connolly.


This was actually my first Morgan Matson book (even though I've owned Amy & Roger for so long now), and it definitely did not disappoint. I've heard so many good things about her and her books and I understand now. I loved this book and I will definitely be picking up her others.
Taylor Edwards' family might not be the closest-knit—everyone is a little too busy and overscheduled—but for the most part, they get along just fine. Then Taylor's dad gets devastating news, and her parents decide that the family will spend one last summer all together at their old lake house in the Pocono Mountains.
Crammed into a place much smaller and more rustic than they are used to, they begin to get to know each other again. And Taylor discovers that the people she thought she had left behind haven't actually gone anywhere. Her former best friend is still around, as is her first boyfriend…and he's much cuter at seventeen than he was at twelve.
Taylor and her family have not been up to their lake house in years—not since Taylor ruined everything with her best friends. But when her family gets devastating news, they decide to go back for one last summer. Taylor is not happy to see her former best friend, or her first boyfriend, and they aren't too happy to see her either.
This story was told in part by flashbacks, which I liked. It added a depth to the story. We don't get to know what happened between Taylor and her friends until more than halfway through. But Taylor flips between the present, and that summer five years ago. I also really liked family-centered books, which this was, more than a romance. Taylor and her family have always been a little disconnected, not ones to really share their feelings or talk things out. But I loved seeing them grow closer, become more of a family. Warren with his dorky ways, Gelsey being way too serious for her age, the things Taylor learns about her dad.
But Matson was also just an excellent storyteller. She weaves and blends a story so perfectly that I was so sad when it ended. Also, that ending, where…things happen with her dad had me tearing up (and I NEVER tear…ever). So that tells you something. She knows when to be serious, when to be emotional, and when to be funny and light-hearted.
w I was going to feel about it going in, and I will admit that it took some time to hook me. But once it did, I was sold, and I really did love this story.
I gave this book 4 stars.
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The RSC coordinate refugee arrivals with resettlement agencies in the U.S.
All persons entering the U.S. as refugees undergo refugee status determination interviews by DHS/USCIS. When interviewing family units, all adults are interviewed, but only one member of the family unit needs to meet the US refugee definition. Members of their family may derive refugee status from the family member who is the principal applicant. DHS/USCIS regulations limit derivative status to the spouse and unmarried children under 21 years of age. Other family members, such as parents, siblings, married children, children over the age of 21, nieces, nephews, etc. must meet the refugee definition themselves. Such persons cannot derive refugee status from the principal applicant, though they can be included in the principal applicant's case for the purpose of obtaining an interview.
During the interview process, DHS/USCIS also determines whether or not the person is firmly resettled in the country of first asylum or elsewhere, which would deem them ineligible for resettlement to the U.S.
Persons rejected by DHS/USCIS during the refugee process cannot appeal the decision. An applicant, however, may request a reconsideration of his/her case on the basis of new information, or information that was not available in a previous interview. The request is made to the DHS/USCIS official or office who conducted the interview. Whether the request granted is entirely within the discretion of DHS/USCIS. To assist with this process DHS/USCIS has produced a Request for Review Tip Sheet.
Persons adjudicated as refugees by DHS/USCIS are conditionally approved for resettlement until they pass a medical examination and multiple, extensive security checks.
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Today, Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) announced that Andrew Bruce of Data Gumbo was named an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2020 Gulf Coast Area Award finalist. Now in its 34th year, the Entrepreneur Of The Year program honors entrepreneurial business leaders whose ambitions deliver innovation, growth and prosperity as they build and sustain successful businesses that transform our world.
Award winners will be announced through a special virtual event on October 6, 2020, and will join a lifelong community of esteemed Entrepreneur Of The Year alumni from around the world. This year, unstoppable entrepreneurs who have provided extraordinary support for their communities, employees and others during the COVID-19 crisis will also be recognized for their courage, resilience and ingenuity.
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As a leader in oil & gas and beyond, Bruce founded Data Gumbo, provider of GumboNet™, a massively interconnected industrial blockchain network for asset-heavy and capital-intensive sectors. By fostering commercial trust among counterparties through smart contracts backed by the immutable power of blockchain, GumboNet reduces transaction times, costs and eliminates transactional friction. Early on, Bruce recognized the worth of providing a blockchain network that delivers value to customers from day one, as opposed to any single company building its own siloed, stand-alone blockchain installation rife with associated risks, delays and a significant cost of adoption.
"I'm honored to be recognized among other amazing companies and founders in the Gulf Coast region by EY US," said Andrew Bruce, Founder and CEO, Data Gumbo. "Being named a finalist confirms the tremendous value that Data Gumbo brings by providing transactional certainty in contract execution across global industrial supply chains. I am proud to lead this charge for our company. The growth of our team and strong customer demand is a testament to the need for transformative processes that achieve maximum efficiency and reduce the costs of doing business.
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I recently worked on a secure device application which requires a PIN code to be entered as startup.The application database also needs to be encrypted. My first approach was to use a DESCryptoServiceProvider, which is among the few supported encryption methods in the .NET Compact Framework, to encrypt the database using the PIN code itself as the secret key.
My full code can be found here.
Soon after, I discovered the problem. The encrypted database can be decrypted if the secret key provided is slightly wrong. For example, if the secret key I used when encrypting is 12345678, the decryption will work with both 12345678 and 12345778 (wrong value). Thinking that this was almost certainly a bug, I went ahead to file a report at Microsoft Connect.
I did not have to wait until Microsoft responsed me (which was 3 days later) for an answer. Soon after I read the Wikipedia article on DES, I immediate realized my mistake. The key ostensibly consists of 64 bits; however, only 56 of these are actually used by the algorithm. Eight bits are used solely for checking parity, and are thereafter discarded. This explains why the wrong secret key can be used to decrypt the data as described above.
I changed to TripleDES only to observe the same behaviour. As AES is not supported on the compact framework, I end up encrypting the database using an MD5 hash of the PIN code. Although you may argue that MD5 has some chance of collision, the above hash + encryption combination will ensure, at least with ultimate possibility, that there is no way for the database to be decrypted without the correct password.


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Sir Stanley Spencer, RA (1891-1959)
Spencer was an English painter, born and raised in Cookham, Berkshire. He studied at the Slade School of Art and on leaving began working on biblical scenes, set in Cookham and often depicting his friends and neighbours as the Gospel characters. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Shipbuilding on the Clyde series, the former being a World War One memorial while the latter was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during World War Two. As his career progressed Spencer often produced landscapes for commercial necessity and the intensity of his early visionary years diminished somewhat while elements of eccentricity came more to the fore. Although his compositions became more claustrophobic and his use of colour less vivid he maintained an attention to detail in his paintings akin to that of the Pre-Raphaelites.
Spencer's works often express his fervent if unconventional Christian faith. This is especially evident in the scenes that he based in Cookham which show the compassion that he felt for his fellow residents and also his romantic and sexual obsessions. Spencer's works originally provoked great shock and controversy. Nowadays, they still seem stylistic and experimental, while the nude works depicting his futile relationship with Patricia Preece, such as the Leg of mutton nude, foreshadow some of the much later works of Lucian Freud. Spencer's early work is regarded as a combination of French Post-Impressionism and early Italian painting typified by Giotto. In later life Spencer remained an independent artist and did not join any of the artistic movements of the period, although he did show three works at the Second Post-Impressionist Exhibition in 1912.
Sir Stanley Spencer, RA (1891-1959), Swift's Cottage, Cookham, c. 1907
Pen and black ink
8.2 x 9.2 in (20.6 x 23.3 cm)
Signed and inscribed (verso): S. Spencer/"Fernlea" Cookham
Inscribed by Gilbert Spencer: (his first sketch)
This is a rare example from the intense and highly accomplished group of architectural and landscape drawings that Spencer made before his admission to the Slade in 1910.
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Q: How to hash a class or function definition? Background
When experimenting with machine learning, I often reuse models trained previously, by means of pickling/unpickling.
However, when working on the feature-extraction part, it's a challenge not to confuse different models.
Therefore, I want to add a check that ensures that the model was trained using exactly the same feature-extraction procedure as the test data.
Problem
My idea was the following:
Along with the model, I'd include in the pickle dump a hash value which fingerprints the feature-extraction procedure.
When training a model or using it for prediction/testing, the model wrapper is given a feature-extraction class that conforms to certain protocol.
Using hash() on that class won't work, of course, as it isn't persistent across calls.
So I thought I could maybe find the source file where the class is defined, and get a hash value from that file.
However, there might be a way to get a stable hash value from the class's in-memory contents directly.
This would have two advantages:
It would also work if no source file can be found.
And it would probably ignore irrelevant changes to the source file (eg. fixing a typo in the module docstring).
Do classes have a code object that could be used here?

A: All you're looking for is a hash procedure that includes all the salient details of the class's definition.  (Base classes can be included by including their definitions recursively.)  To minimize false matches, the basic idea is to apply a wide (cryptographic) hash to a serialization of your class.  So start with pickle: it supports more types than hash and, when it uses identity, it uses a reproducible identity based on name.  This makes it a good candidate for the base case of a recursive strategy: deal with the functions and classes whose contents are important and let it handle any ancillary objects referenced.
So define a serialization by cases.  Call an object special if it falls under any case below but the last.

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*For a tuple deemed to contain special objects:

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*The character t

*The serialization of its len

*The serialization of each element, in order

*For a dict deemed to contain special objects:

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*The character d

*The serialization of its len

*The serialization of each name and value, in sorted order

*For a class whose definition is salient:

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*The character C

*The serialization of its __bases__

*The serialization of its vars

*For a function whose definition is salient:

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*The character f

*The serialization of its __defaults__

*The serialization of its __kwdefaults__ (in Python 3)

*The serialization of its __closure__ (but with cell values instead of the cells themselves)

*The serialization of its vars

*The serialization of its __code__

*For a code object (since pickle doesn't support them at all):

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*The character c

*The serializations of its co_argcount, co_nlocals, co_flags, co_code, co_consts, co_names, co_freevars, and co_cellvars, in that order; none of these are ever special

*For a static or class method object:

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*The character s or m

*The serialization of its __func__

*For a property:

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*The character p

*The serializations of its fget, fset, and fdel, in that order

*For any other object: pickle.dumps(x,-1)
(You never actually store all this: just create a hashlib object of your choice in the top-level function, and in the recursive part update it with each piece of the serialization in turn.)
The type tags are to avoid collisions and in particular to be prefix-free.  Binary pickles are already prefix-free.  You can base the decision about a container on a deterministic analysis of its contents (even if heuristic) or on context, so long as you're consistent.
As always, there is something of an art to balancing false positives against false negatives: for a function, you could include __globals__ (with pruning of objects already serialized to avoid large if not infinite serializations) or just any __name__ found therein.  Omitting co_varnames ignores renaming local variables, which is good unless introspection is important; similarly for co_filename and co_name.
You may need to support more types: look for static attributes and default arguments that don't pickle correctly (because they contain references to special types) or at all.  Note of course that some types (like file objects) are unpicklable because it's difficult or impossible to serialize them (although unlike pickle you can handle lambdas just like any other function once you've done code objects).  At some risk of false matches, you can choose to serialize just the type of such objects (as always, prefixed with a character ? to distinguish from actually having the type in that position).

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Possibilities of using acorn flour in products Based on flour
In: Proceedings of the 8th International Congress Flour - Bread '15 [and] 10th Croatian Congress of Cereal Technologists. / Koceva Komlenić, Daliborka; Jukić, Marko (Ed.). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, 2016. pp. 33-48. urn:nbn:hr:109:095336
Polimac, Mirjana; Koceva Komlnić, Daliborka; Lukinac, Jasmina
Flour - Bread '15 : Proceedings of the 8th International Congress Flour - Bread '15 | Book
Polimac, M., Koceva Komlnić, D. & Lukinac, J. (2016). Possibilities of using acorn flour in products Based on flour. In D. Koceva Komlenić, (Ed.), M. Jukić, (Ed.), Proceedings of the 8th International Congress Flour - Bread '15 [and] 10th Croatian Congress of Cereal Technologists (pp. 33-48). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:109:095336
Polimac, Mirjana, et al. "Possibilities of using acorn flour in products Based on flour." Proceedings of the 8th International Congress Flour - Bread '15 [and] 10th Croatian Congress of Cereal Technologists, edited by Daliborka Koceva Komlenić, edited by Marko Jukić, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, 2016, pp. 33-48. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:109:095336
Polimac, Mirjana, Daliborka Koceva Komlnić and Jasmina Lukinac. "Possibilities of using acorn flour in products Based on flour." In Proceedings of the 8th International Congress Flour - Bread '15 [and] 10th Croatian Congress of Cereal Technologists, 33-48. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, 2016. Accessed 2023 January 26. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:109:095336
Polimac, M., Koceva Komlnić, D. and Lukinac, J. (2016) 'Possibilities of using acorn flour in products Based on flour', in Koceva Komlenić, D. (ed.), Jukić, M. (ed.), Proceedings of the 8th International Congress Flour - Bread '15 [and] 10th Croatian Congress of Cereal Technologists, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, Osijek, pp. 33-48. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:109:095336 (Accessed 26 January 2023)
Polimac M, Koceva Komlnić D, Lukinac J. Possibilities of using acorn flour in products Based on flour. In: D. Koceva Komlenić, ed., M. Jukić, ed. Proceedings of the 8th International Congress Flour - Bread '15 [and] 10th Croatian Congress of Cereal Technologists. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek; 2016. Pp. 33-48. [cited 2023 January 26] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:109:095336
M. Polimac, D. Koceva Komlnić and J. Lukinac, "Possibilities of using acorn flour in products Based on flour", Proceedings of the 8th International Congress Flour - Bread '15 [and] 10th Croatian Congress of Cereal Technologists, D. Koceva Komlenić and M. Jukić, Eds. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Food Technology Osijek, 2016. [Online] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:109:095336 [Accessed: 26 January 2023]
Title (english) Possibilities of using acorn flour in products Based on flour
Author Mirjana Polimac
Author Daliborka Koceva Komlnić
Author Jasmina Lukinac
Oaks (Quercus spp.) are widespread species of temperate zone of the northern hemisphere including Europe, North Africa, Middle East, Asia and North America. Acorns, the fruit of the oak, have been used in human nutrition for thousands of years and more recently archaeological research confirms that in the past acorns have been important sources of food in different cultures around the world. Today it is used as food in Turkey, Korea, North Africa, China, the USA and as an important part of cultural heritage in some parts of Spain. Acorn was staple food in the diet of the Balkan peoples, but despite its long culinary tradition acorn has been neglected. The sad fact is that we have forgotten all about nutritional value of acorns that our ancestors knew and used. The aim of this study is a qualitative analysis of the existing literature concerning the investigation of food products from acorns, primarily the possibility of using acorn flour in products based on flour. Based on citation bases Web of Science and Scopus 42 articles have been selected that included the period from 1977 to 2015. Most of the studies were published by authors from the United States (14), Italy (6) and China (5). Additional searches were done by using Google Web Search. Regarding these results acorn flour can be used in modern diet as a replacement for wheat flour in wide range of applications in food production, primarily production of cakes, cookies, muffins, pancakes, pasta, noodles, flatbreads, pizza crust, pie crust, and also for thickening sauces and soups. However, analysis of the literature reveals a lack of research in Croatia, and generally points out the need for greater representation of these issues in the future.
acorn flour
products based on flour
Peer review Peer review
Publication title Proceedings of the 8th International Congress Flour - Bread '15 [and] 10th Croatian Congress of Cereal Technologists
Numbering pp. 33-48
Conference Title: 8th International Congress Flour - Bread '15 [and] 10th Croatian Congress of Cereal Technologists
Assembly type: Lecture


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Joel Hughes: 'The MacGyver of film research'
The PhD student examines how movies such as Lawrence of Arabia were used to promote assimilation of Aboriginal youth
By Tracey Lindeman
Joel Hughes: "It's important to piece together the history of the residential school system in ways that keep it in our consciousness." | Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures
Growing up in southern Ontario, Joel Hughes says, it was easy to ignore the problems faced by Canada's First Nations. But after moving to Winnipeg in 2008, he became aware of alarming racial inequality and a divisiveness surrounding Native people in and around the city.
"The relationship between Canadian citizens and the First Nations population living in Winnipeg seemed pretty fraught," He says.
His observations laid the foundation for his current PhD work at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, which examines the relationship between residential schools and film. It delves into the use of Canadian and American movies to indoctrinate and assimilate young Native children.
Hughes' research recently earned him the Film Studies Association of Canada's Gerald Pratley prize. Established in 1991 in tribute to Pratley's contribution to the advancement of Canadian Film Studies, the $1,000 prize is designed to assist with the cost of the student's continuing studies in the area of Canadian or Québec cinema.
Joel Hughes
"One of the things Joel is looking at is how the National Film Board of Canada was a participant in the programs of the schools," says Hughes's thesis supervisor Haidee Wasson. "No one's ever done anything like this, so his project is incredibly original."
For Hughes, context is everything.
For example, when a film like 1962's Lawrence of Arabia was shown to a group of theatre-admission-paying white people, it could have meant one thing. But showing the film — which has been criticized for racism — to a group of young Native children meant something else entirely.
"I think that allows us to try to discern how watching a film like Lawrence of Arabia in the school context was promoting assimilation," Hughes says.
Filling in the blanks
Finding evidence that film was used intentionally for assimilation purposes — rather than assimilation being a mere byproduct of an otherwise innocent film-screening program — has been a study in connecting the dots.
Hughes began with passing references in academic books to films shown in residential schools. Then he stumbled upon footage of hockey great Gordie Howe and an ABC camera crew, who were staying at a school rather than paying for a hotel, near Thunder Bay. "I started filling in the blanks," he says.
He took note of the films shown in the archival footage — notably, Lawrence of Arabia and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea — and the vintage 16mm projector they were shown on. The school principal had purchased the projector around 1930. What's more, he also discovered that many schools had bought cheap projectors at army-surplus stores as well.
In 1942, the NFB began its rural circuit — a group of about 30 travelling projectionists travelling to remote communities to set up film screenings. "Knowing that, and knowing that residential schools were usually in remote areas, I began to suspect the NFB would be in contact with these schools," Hughes says.
Hughes's research is timely, considering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recently concluded that aboriginal people in Canadian residential schools were subjected to cultural genocide. He hopes his contributions to uncovering the past will help encourage today's schools to teach colonialism and Canada's fraught relationship with native communities to all students.
"It's important to piece together the history of the residential school system in ways that keep it in our consciousness," he says.
Wasson calls Hughes the MacGyver of film research. "He's incredibly tenacious with regard to digging up stuff. People don't archive racism."
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Posted on July 23, 2007 by Alicia Bay Laurel	in Blog and tagged travel diaries.
May 19 and 20, 2007, I attended the Natural High Festival (logo above), two hours drive from Tokyo at a campground in the forest, just outside the mountain village of Doshi. Last October 2008 I lead a weekend workshop here for Kurkku. This time, I would do two performances and sell my books and CDs at a booth. Kurkku sponsored my participation in the Festival and let me use part of their booth to sell my stuff.
Soon after Jun, Ren and I arrived, we spent our lunch tickets at the vegetarian curry booth, which Jun's chefly nose discerned as a good choice. It was! I came back for dinner.
All around us, open-air booths, handmade clothing and drums, undulating banners, and relaxed people enlivened the forest.
An air of friendliness permeated everyone.
I could hear a tabla player drumming and chanting.
Nearby, I heard a musician playing a jew's harp. Like the didgeridoo, another favorite instrument for drone-saturated trance music, and like Mongolian and Tibetan throat singing, the jew's harp is an instrument whose melodies are overtones created by changing the shape of the mouth cavity.
There was, of course, the requisite tipi.
There was a booth with a banner that said "Slow Life," perhaps from the Slow Life Cafe in Tokyo, where they serve Slow Food. Slowly.
I visited the Good News booth (on the left), where tie-dyes, batik and patchwork hung for sale.
There I met Michiyo and Takeo, the owner/operators of Good News, and signed their copy of Living on the Earth. They knew I'd be at the festival and brought it along.
They presented me with one of their peace sign wash cloths. I knew I would display it on my bedroom wall instead of wash with it. So sweet.
Next I visited the Go Hemp booth, representing the Go Hemp Store in Shibuya, Tokyo (motto: "Enjoy Life"), where they were selling hemp clothing.
To my astonishment, they, too had books for me to sign, and hugs to spare. They even had me sign a t-shirt.
They presented me with one of their adorable signature hemp t-shirts.


"The Scoop!" is finally here!
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I'm sorry, I got so carried away with the beauty of this thing, I forgot to tell you what it does. Basically, Anytime you want you can show "The Scoop!" Empty, use it to scoop a Full-Scoop of Ice-Cream from Anywhere you want, then Deposit the scoop of Ice-Cream into Any Other Thing you want, whereupon said Ice-Cream Vanishes! I always wanted to say "whereupon," but seriously, think of the possibilities! You can use "The Scoop!" with your Milk Pitcher to Vanish a Milkshake… or Change it into Milky Ways Candybars like Harlan does! You can scoop Ice-Cream into your spectator's Pocket, Hat, Backpack… or whatever! You can even Change a scoop of Ice-Cream into a Folded, Signed Playing Card in your spectator's hands, if you want! If you have your own TV Special, you can visibly Change one Flavor of Ice-Cream into a Different Flavor… just ask Harlan first (he'll consult for you)!
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Yup i just made this badboy for my g/fs b-day. I think it spretty pimp.
A man who can bake a cake is a keeper. Tell her that.
So it's your girlfriend's 10th birthday?
dont put candles on it.
where do you get 10 from?
She's gonna love that, it's so sweet (literally).
Give it to her naked.
That cake looks great man, she's going to be very happy. Girls love it when you take the time to bake/cook them something.
Now what in hell is wrong with you boy?
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Home Chess in Africa OFFICIAL LAUNCH: QUEEN VEE'S CHESS ACADEMY YOLA
OFFICIAL LAUNCH: QUEEN VEE'S CHESS ACADEMY YOLA
Adesewa
QUEEN VEE'S CHESS ACADEMY YOLA
Motto: stir up child's intelligence
For years now, it has been believed that chess is only for geniuses and elites. However, with the passing of time and scientific facts, it has been discovered that chess exercises the brain, develops it, and helps it function better.
As we all know, strategic thinking has become a very high demand skill needed for survival in this millennium generation, hence making chess an important game most especially for kids.
Teaching children chess at the earlier stage of their lives will help them develop intellectual skills, cognitive skills in recognizing patterns, and decision making. Playing the game of chess contributes greatly in shaping the golden future of a child through mental exercise which eventually helps in the development of a healthy mind, increase the level of concentration and reduces the chances of serious mental disorder such as dementia.
Did you know that Scientific research has shown that playing chess can improve mental age by up to 14 years? Imagine that for a child's mental development!
The amazing benefits of chess and its contribution to the human brain have driven so many schools all over the world to include it to their curriculum and the best part of all these is that Chess is fun both for children and adults.
For long chess has been considered as a game played only by intellectuals and individuals with critical thinking capabilities, however, the fact is that chess can be played by people of all age groups and mindset.
Chess is extremely helpful in the early brain development stage of a child, improves self-confidence, concentration, and discipline.
The love for chess and its numerous benefits to the human mind has made Queen Vee's Chess Academy Yola launch a child's intelligence program to help develop and improve the mental capacity of a child.
Queen Vee's Chess Academy Yola was founded in 2018 but officially launched in 2020. it was founded by Vivian Ibrahim, an Award-winning female chess player in Northeast Nigeria and Miss Adamawa 2017/18.
With the motto 'stir up child's intelligence', its purpose is to use the game of chess to improve the mental capacity of kids between the ages of 7 to 15years.
Each session will last for a maximum of two (2) months, and there will be a chess tournament at the end of every session whereby the students will be issued certificates.
The classes are divided into two (2),
Gold class: for children within the ages of 7 to 11yrs
Diamond class: for children within the ages of 12 to 15yrs
To further raise the awareness and growth of chess in Nigeria, there is a need to establish chess academies whereby children can enroll and learn the concept of chess.
That is why Queen Vee's Chess Academy Yola was established to target young generations and create a fun and exciting way to help children with intelligence development and strategic thinking by playing the game of chess.
Our classroom is ready…
Our Address: Labondo Discovery Hub Adjacent Fire Service Main Gate Jimeta Yola Adamawa State
You can contact us for more details: 08163493224
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Adesewa Oyewole is a lawyer and a content writer. She studied Law and graduated from the prestigious Obafemi Awolowo University Ile- Ife. She later attended and finished from the Nigerian Law School, Kano campus, after which she was called to the Nigerian bar. Her passion for writing led her into content creation, which she has done professionally for over four years. Adesewa takes on freelance writing gigs, and she is a full-time Content Curator and Correspondent for BruvsChess Media.
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Your not being rude - your just asking questions! Visits from utility or cable workers.
Occasionally, the Sheboygan Police Department receives suspicious complaints in regards to an individual suspected of posing as a municipal utility worker (water, etc.) or cable provider and asking to enter a person's home to check on an item to ensure working correctly. Residents should not hesitate to ask for identification prior to allowing a person to enter their home and asking for the phone number of the worker's place of business. In both cases, a legitimate worker will present an ID and encourage the homeowner to call their place of business if suspicious. If a person is allowed into one's home, it is a good idea to accompany them to the area of concern while also being aware of the security to the rest of your home. A legitimate utility or cable worker understands your precautions while a person of ill intent quickly decides they have stopped at the wrong house (and leaves)!


This up and coming commercial construction company has a strong reputation for delivering projects on time and on budget with an outstanding commitment to client service delivery. They are led by innovative and youthful directors offering new ideas. They focus predominantly in the medium project space and are preferred suppliers for a number of larger clients, their project time frames are generally in the 4 month - 9 month region.
This opportunity represents a medium term option for the driven to take an equity stake in this business. They are looking for a driven and motivated commercially minded estimator or senior QS that is interested in becoming a part of this company's future, assisting with mapping out strategy, contributing to the profit targets and setting out overall direction. The current commercial director would like to step back and focus on other business related activities passing on many of his responsibilities.
Working with the commercial director, the key focus of the role is to assist in managing the tendering and estimating tasks of the construction process from start to completion, the role requires precision estimating understanding margins and quality tendering. Areas of responsibility include, analysing information for the preparation and presentation of tender projects, attending meetings, identifying opportunities for growth and evaluating the feasibility of these opportunities, process improvement, and ensuring quality.
The role would also have senior QS related responsibilities including scheduling/estimating, bills of quantities, cost management, subcontractor management, claims and variations.
This role requires you to work both autonomously and as part of team with accountability, it requires being responsive to change and achieving commercial profit targets.
In order to be a success in this position, you must have at least 10 years of estimating and/or quantity surveying experience as well as knowledge of the local market, understanding rates and commercial construction legislation. You are appropriately tertiary qualified.
* You are determined and results driven.
Salary $120K - $160K + veh and commensurate with experience awaits for the right candidate as well as an opportunity for the ambitious to be part of this company securing your future as a director.


In this Valentine's Day, we feature postcard US-1823773 to Germany that shows a heart-shaped sculpture at the corner of Union Square in San Francisco. Every year, a set of 5-foot, 400-pound hearts are made, painted by local artists, and put on display around various city locations in San Francisco. They are auctioned off to raise funds for San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. The picture on the card was taken on June 24, 2012.
You can find more pictures of the hearts at other locations from a post I Left my Heart in San Francisco at blog Little Hiccups.