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Stran trenutno ni na voljo v vašem jeziku. Lahko si ogledate strojni prevod, ustvarjen s storitvijo Google Translate. Te storitve ne zagotavljamo mi in rezultatov prevoda nismo preverili.
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Introducing the RESOLUTE™ FS encoder
The RESOLUTE Functional Safety (RESOLUTE FS) optical absolute encoder is based on the design of the award winning RESOLUTE series with elements redesigned to meet FS safety standards. RESOLUTE FS encoder systems are certified as:
- A Category 3 PLd rated part against ISO 13849:2015
- Being suitable for use in a SIL2 application against IEC 61508:2010 and IEC 61800-5-2:2016
RESOLUTE FS encoders also achieve the higher level of FS EMC performance defined by IEC 61326-3-1:2008 and meet the same general environmental performance limits as the standard RESOLUTE series. Much of the redesign enhances monitoring and diagnostic coverage. The original design of the RESOLUTE series included a position integrity check which greatly simplified the process of developing a full FS derivative.
RESOLUTE overview
The RESOLUTE FS encoder is a true absolute encoder system designed to provide position feedback for the motion control of linear and rotary axes. It consists of three elements: a precision graduated scale, an electro-optical readhead and a compatible interface. The RESOLUTE FS readhead is available with RELA ZeroMet™ high-accuracy spar scale, RSLA stainless-steel spar scale, RTLA tape scale, RESA rotary scale or REXA high-accuracy rotary scale. The REXA ring can also be used with a dual input version of Renishaw's DRIVE-CLiQ interface, designed for use with two RESOLUTE readheads, to compensate for the effect of bearing runout by elimination of all 'odd' error harmonics including eccentricity.
RESOLUTE series encoders capture a 1-dimentional image of a barcode-like pattern on the scale and perform a type of image processing in order to extract position data. The position calculated by the RESOLUTE FS encoder is divided into two parts: a coarse position and a fine position in-between the scale period (≤30 µm). First, the encoder determines these values based on the scale data alone. A secondary coarse position is then determined independently by a position checking algorithm*, wherein the two most recent good readings are extrapolated in time to find the current position. If the measured coarse reading and the extrapolated values differ by more than half the scale period, then an error counter is incremented. Once the error counter reaches five, an error flag is sent to the controller which stops the machine. The RESOLUTE FS encoder variant also double checks the above process and includes a position validation check in order to satisfy IEC 61508. Position data is sent from the readhead via a custom output protocol and the position validation check confirms that the data arriving at the interface agrees with the values that have been internally generated in the readhead.
RESOLUTE FS scales have also been designed to minimise positional disturbance during operation. As a result, linear scales are applied to machine substrates with adhesive and rotary scales are installed in strict compliance with the installation instructions in the RESOLUTE FS installation guide and safety manual (L-9796-9134). Mounting instructions for the encoder readhead also specify the recommended screw type and a thread locking compound. These measures combine to ensure the correct reporting of position at all times.
Primary applications
Power drive system (PDS) use as defined by IEC 61800-5-2:2016
Encoders are essential for the correct operation of many obligatory safety functions in CNC machine tool applications and others where operators risk personal injury from heavy machinery. RESOLUTE FS encoders can be integrated into the safety control systems of adjustable-speed Power Drive Systems (Safety Related) – PDS (SR)s – to support the following safety functions:
- Safe stop 1 (SS1)
- Safe stop 2 (SS2)
- Safe operating stop (SOS)
- Safe limited acceleration (SLA)
- Safe acceleration range (SAR)
- Safe limited speed (SLS)
- Safe speed range (SSR)
- Safely limited position (SLP)
- Safely limited increment (SLI)
- Safe direction (SDI)
- Safe brake control (SBC)
- Safe cam (SCA)
- Safe speed monitor (SSM)
FANUC robotic arm (Image © FANUC)
In addition to enhanced safety, end-users also benefit from increased machine productivity and availability as they will no longer need to power down machinery whenever there is direct human interaction.
Robot control safety systems that require ISO 13849:2015
RESOLUTE FS encoders can also be integrated into PLd rated safety control systems of the robot types defined by the following standards:
- Personal care robots against ISO 13482:2014
Robots that perform basic household tasks, personal assistance and transportation.
- Industrial robots against ISO 10218-1:2011
Robots that operate in an industrial environment, for example robotic arms in automotive manufacturing.
- Service robots against ISO 18646-1:2016
Robots that perform useful tasks for humans or equipment excluding industrial automation applications.
- Medical robots – Please contact your local Renishaw salesman to discuss.
Robots that are applied in the medical sciences. They include, but are not limited to, surgical robots. A potential application could be Renishaw's neuromate® stereotactic robot.
FS data for use by safety system designers
RESOLUTE FS encoder compliance is as follows:
- PL = d
- Category = 3
- Mean-Time to Dangerous Failure (MTTFD)
- Siemens DRIVE-CLiQ system = 87 years
- Diagnostic Coverage (DC) = 90% / Medium
IEC 61508:2010 and IEC 61800-5-2:2007
- Probability of Dangerous Failure per Hour (PFH)
- Siemens DRIVE-CLiQ system = 1.33E-07
- Demand mode = continuous
- Lifetime = 20 years
RESOLUTE FS encoder systems still offer customers the outstanding metrology performance of the RESOLUTE series but with the added peace-of-mind that comes from compliance with the world's most stringent functional safety standards. New applications for the RESOLUTE family of encoders now include the latest collaborative robotic and industrial manufacturing technologies.
For further information on RESOLUTE FS systems, please visit www.renishaw.com/resolutefs.
*To read the white paper: Safety first - the position determination and checking algorithms of the RESOLUTE™ true-absolute optical encoder, please visit www.renishaw.com/encoderwhitepapers.
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Look at me
I will never pass for a perfect bride
Or a perfect daughter
Can it be
I'm not meant to play this part?
Now I see
That if I were truly to be myself
I would break my family's heart
Who is that girl I see
Staring straight back at me?
Why is my reflection someone I don't know?
Somehow I cannot hide who I am, though I've tried
When will my reflection show who I am inside?
When will my reflection show who I am inside?
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(Heh. No, they didn't read my passionate diatribe about the debate and offer me a future cabinet position.)
From the email:
CNN, WMUR, and the New Hampshire Union Leader will host a presidential debate on Saturday, June 13th in Manchester. Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Tim Pawlenty, Herman Cain, and Ron Paul will participate. In addition, unannounced candidate Michelle Bachmann and Rick Santorum will also take part.Nationally? Nope. Just with the evangelicals and fundamentalist social conservatives whose arses he continues to chap his lips upon.
Gary Johnson, however, will not participate. Why? Because he wasn't invited.
This morning, we learned along with the rest of world that CNN and the other debate sponsors have decided to exclude Governor Johnson from sharing your voice in the debate.
Apparently, the powers-that-be in the mainstream media do not want Americans to hear from the man who has been called "the most dangerous politician in America."
In the latest Gallup poll, released one week ago, Governor Johnson's level of support registered at 3% nationally. This is competitive with candidates like Tim Pawlenty and Rick Santorum, both of whom have been invited to participate. In fact, I'm not aware of a poll in which Mr. Santorum has out-polled Governor Johnson nationally.
To our shock, at about 6:30 this morning, we learned that Governor Johnson was not invited, he was not going to be invited, and he would not be allowed to participate.Nonsense. Insulting, infuriating nonsense.
The Johnson campaign helpfully provided contact info for the folks behind this decision.
CNNBlow up their phones! Flood their inboxes! Get their attention!
(404) 827-1500 or (202) 898-7900
Text: CNN (space) and your news tip to 772937 (don't forget the space after CNN). http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html
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Please place that action. When you're done, make your most generous donation today. Let it be said that we did everything in our power to win the flight for liberty: donate.garyjohnson2012.com
I can promise you... mine is one email address they're going to get tired of seeing.
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Last Mile Mobile Solutions Program Streamlines Food and Aid Distribution in Real Time
Thoughtworks, a global technology company, in partnership with the Christian humanitarian agency World Vision Canada, announced that over 137,000 people affected by Typhoon Haiyan have received supplies, including rice and cash distributions via World Vision's Last Mile Mobile Solutions (LMMS) system. The mobile program empowers mobile users to register recipient information electronically and ultimately produce a bar-coded photo card. When swiped on the same hand-held device, this card produces the information needed to determine and distribute food and non-food items.
Generating reports through LMMS takes just seconds and the time associated with planning and distribution of relief supplies has been significantly reduced. This allows aid agencies to reach more distressed communities in the Philippines with the same human and financial resources. To date, more than 27,500 households in the areas affected by Typhoon Haiyan have been registered through LMMS World Vision staff in the Philippines. In addition, global humanitarian agencies, such as Oxfam, are being trained to implement the use of LMMS in their own relief efforts for Typhoon Haiyan.
Funded by a grant from the Government of Canada, Thoughtworks' Canadian team collaborated closely with World Vision to develop the necessary back-end technology to get the program up and running, including the ongoing development of an offline application to enhance the rapid emergency deployment capacities of LMMS. "The efficiency brought about by LMMS means that World Vision Philippines staff no longer spend many hours generating paper-based reports and other mundane tasks", says Keith Chibafa of World Vision's Global Office of Strategy Collaboration and Innovation. "The staff are proud to be associated with LMMS, which allows affected families to be treated with dignity because they no longer have to wait in queues for many hours on end to receive their rations."
"Over the last four months we have collaborated closely with World Vision and are proud to participate in a noble undertaking such as LMMS", said Craig Gorsline, Thoughtworks President and Chief Operating Officer. "The globalized nature of LMMS is exactly the type of work we at Thoughtworks get excited about, as we continue in our mission to empower people through technology. The people of the Philippines have a long recovery ahead, and we will do everything we can to help in the recovery process."
To learn more about how to donate to help survivors of Typhoon Haiyan please visit: http://www.worldvision.ca/GIVE-A-GIFT/Pages/Philippines-Disaster-Relief.aspx


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PRINCETON, NJ -- A record-high 50% of Americans now say the use of marijuana should be made legal, up from 46% last year. Forty-six percent say marijuana use should remain illegal.
When Gallup first asked about legalizing marijuana, in 1969, 12% of Americans favored it, while 84% were opposed. Support remained in the mid-20s in Gallup measures from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s, but has crept up since, passing 30% in 2000 and 40% in 2009 before reaching the 50% level in this year's Oct. 6-9 annual Crime survey.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States." The National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2009 found that "16.7 million Americans aged 12 or older used marijuana at least once in the month prior to being surveyed, an increase over the rates reported in all years between 2002 and 2008."
The advocacy group National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws claims that marijuana is the third-most-popular recreational drug in America, behind only alcohol and tobacco. Some states have decriminalized marijuana's use, some have made it legal for medicinal use, and some officials, including former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, have called for legalizing its use.
A Gallup survey last year found that 70% favored making it legal for doctors to prescribe marijuana in order to reduce pain and suffering. Americans have consistently been more likely to favor the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes than to favor its legalization generally.
Younger Americans Most in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana
Support for legalizing marijuana is directly and inversely proportional to age, ranging from 62% approval among those 18 to 29 down to 31% among those 65 and older. Liberals are twice as likely as conservatives to favor legalizing marijuana. And Democrats and independents are more likely to be in favor than are Republicans.
More men than women support legalizing the drug. Those in the West and Midwest are more likely to favor it than those in the South.
Bottom Line
Support for legalizing marijuana has been increasing over the past several years, rising to 50% today -- the highest on record. If this current trend on legalizing marijuana continues, pressure may build to bring the nation's laws into compliance with the people's wishes.
Survey Methods
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Oct. 6-9, 2011, with a random sample of 1,005 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample includes a minimum quota of 400 cell phone respondents and 600 landline respondents per 1,000 national adults, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents by region. Landline telephone numbers are chosen at random among listed telephone numbers. Cell phone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, and phone status (cell phone only/landline only/both, cell phone mostly, and having an unlisted landline number). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2010 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
View methodology, full question results, and trend data.
For more details on Gallup's polling methodology, visit www.gallup.com.


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Parker African Tusk 18 Karat Gold Necklace
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Our Parker African Tusk necklace is hand crafted in the USA, and hand dipped in 18 karat gold. It's a are part of our "Making a Difference" line, which means Jamie Dietrich will donate 5% of the sale of this piece to her favorite charity.
- Approx Length: 16" - 18"
Pieces in our collections are hand crafted using either natural sea life, geode stones, minerals or crystals which are personally hand selected by Jamie. All are unique in appearance and will vary slightly in character, size, color, etc. No two are alike making your Jamie Dietrich piece truly a one of a kind collectible piece of art.


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What an honour to follow in the footsteps of so many great names who have appeared on that wall in recent years!! And "UTEE: the hottest ticket" as a theme was right up my street, so I was buzzing, excited, flattered and totally itching to get going with all Suze's Melt Art goodies.
What to do...... hmmmmm.......... hmmmmm.... well its more like what NOT to do in a case like this, I mean we have beeswax (I love), Coloured & Metallic UTEE (I adore), Clear UTEE with to Dye for inks (I can't live without).....then of course what about all of Ranger's other cool stuff that it's impossible to keep my hands off like Perfect Pearls, Claudine's Paints, Paint Dabbers, Archival Ink, Distress Ink, Memory Frames & glass.......matte medium, glossy accents.....you know what a Ranger addict I have been for like my whole life.....so it soon became apparant that I needed to be mega restrictive with what I used. I didn't want to overcook the whole thing with too much Ranger....is there such a thing??? LOL But I also wanted some of those Leandra Beads on there too....and I a bird cage.....hmmmmmm
So I started by sketching out some ideas in my book. The background was easy. We had a large square piece of wood, and a ticket shaped item, also wood. I started with the ticket, did Claudines peeled paper, then proceeded to cover it all up with paint, about 20 layers until I had it the right shade. Lots of black, pool, espresso, sandal, pebble, white, mushroom, pool....over and over... and over
I also was clear about what I wanted the square wooden background to look like. Embossed metal at the edges, blue and red paints in the dips of the texture, and then blacken it all up to look quite dark to enable the 'glass' birdcage to 'pop' as the feature. It's just a background right?... so it didn't need it to be too busy or dominant....I laid out the bits I had done so far to get an idea of where to put the metal. And then got started on that.
Stuck the metal down - it was embossed on a Ten Seconds grid...not embossing the whole pattern just some of them...then stamped into some texture (to disguise the metal joins) And let that dry. Next step paint.
Starting with pool and red pepper in the dips, and then adding white over the top...hmmm...liking it pale like this with the white-mushroom dabbers on the top layers...but I knew it needed to be blacker...so hard as it was to do I kept adding more and more black until it got it darker. You can see here how it ended here below with the addition of a few stamped PaperArtsy flowers and ideaology bellies. I like how the pool and red pepper paints just peek through.
OK now my Big challenge. UTEE on the cage. I still wasn't sure how to do it. I mean UTEE on a wire frame..had it been done before? If so how? I wanted to UTEE a wire bird cage....where did that come from...I don't know.... but how the heck to UTEE it????
More Hmmmmmmmm's..... for days.........wire...Runny UTEE.....??? Dip??? Mold and Pour??? ....hmmmmmm...heat gun??? Heat proof gloves????
Several more days of trying to figure it out......Xmas looming....mother coming from New Zealand ...still ......hmmmmmm....... so I spoke to Lin about it Lin Brown from LB Crafts...and of course she said you want to do WHAT??? and how the heck will you do that???? And how will it get there without breaking???? And do you know what day it is already????
You are bonkers....mad.....stuff like that.....and then she suggested 'Maybe you'd better make a spare for me to take with me just in case' ...and proceeded to churn her item out in less than 24 hrs and sent me quicksie kind of blurry pics........hmmmmmmmmm......and of course hers was to die for even though I couldn't see too much detail in her late night pics. But yesterday people at CHA saw it and started raving about it so this is the best pic I found thanks to Dy who blogged it at CHA. Fabulous isn't it!
It includes loads of really great ideas...spoons filled with UTEE, embossed metal, painted texture and of course in her signature colour scheme. She also used beeswax, and 2 of her superb UTEE techniques she developed this year...UTEE poured on Ten Seconds molds, (that was a "ka-ching" moment after Suze and Lin had a play day in Lin's shop last year) and she has demoed it around the UK at shows this last year. Fab idea. She also figured out a twist on Suze's cookie cutter technique. Lin pours clear UTEE over a piece of stamped and puffed metal..see the diamond bellie top left...(BTW we taught both these fun ideas at our October 2009 ArtsyCrafts weekend event last year) Lin is amazing. Everything she does is beautiful, well thought out and executed.......so while her piece was winging its way in a timely manner over to the USA.... no pressure ..... I still hadn't figured out...... how to UTEE over wire....
Let's just start with the Leandra beads and see what happens. So a couple of years back I figured out how to make beads by dipping wire into UTEE, fondue styley. You can read the original post here with step outs. Sometimes I use paper as a base, other times existing beads or sequins. For this project I picked up the blue from the background, painted wooden beads and dipped them into clear, wrapped with wire and dipped again. The beads are attached to the bottom of the cage in the holes created around the cage base. They also look great with perfect pearls trapped in the layers too.
That just left the cage and it's birdie to go on the perch. I started with some mold and pour pressed on the inside.
And then started with the UTEE on the outside. I found that perfect pearls can change the effect too, so some sections are totally clear (no perfect pearls) and others have a dusting of PP to make it more opaque and shimmer. You prolly need to see it IRL to get that bit.
After all the hmmmmm's , it wasn't that hard after all! LOL I was sweating it though....as I had no plan B if it failed! LOL
In the back of the cage the little metal embossed tweeter is very happy on his perch. And I hope he has been well behaved while all those CHA people are peeking at him throughout the show.
So here it is the whole piece finished.
Glad to be able to share this with you all, and don't forget the PaperArtsy January sale finished soon. Check it out. We added a Bargain Bin this weekend with lots of end of line goodies in it and more are being added daily.
I'll catch you later in the week with some fabulous 'Clock themed' items from our design team.
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Nearly 31 years after he was convicted of rape and armed robbery, Kirk Odom on Tuesday all but won his fight to be declared an innocent man.
The Justice Department filed court papers saying, "There is clear and convincing evidence that Mr. Odom is innocent of the charges for which he was convicted," and apologized for the "terrible injustice."
Prosecutors confirmed that DNA tests and hair analysis ruled him out as the culprit in a 1981 crime in Washington, D.C., but only after Odom spent more than two decades in prison, was placed on parole until 2047, and was forced to register as a convicted sex offender.
Odom is one of only about 300 people nationwide to be exonerated by DNA after conviction. A judge must sign off on the motion to throw out Odom's convictions, but both sides described that as a foregone conclusion.
Odom met with NPR this week outside the H. Carl Moultrie Courthouse. The building is named after the judge who sentenced him to spend more than 20 years behind bars.
"Well, I wouldn't want to go in there, not in the wrong door, no way," Odom says.
Odom says when he drives, he avoids stopping anywhere near the building in downtown Washington, not far from the historic National Mall. "This is just where, where it all happened at, you know," he says.
At Home, With A Witness
In the spring of 1981, D.C. police accused Odom, then only 18 years old, of breaking into a woman's house, raping her, and stealing hundreds of dollars in traveler's checks.
Odom said he was home at the time, with his mom, waiting for his sister to return from the hospital with her brand-new baby daughter. But neither police nor the jury bought his alibi.
"They didn't believe it. Why? She's my mom, you know, and moms protect their children. So, you know, they just disregarded that," he says.
At the trial, the victim identified Odom, and prosecutors presented evidence that they had matched him to hair taken from the crime scene.
A jury convicted him after only a few hours of deliberation.
The memory causes Odom to groan.
"Justice, justice at the time was just blind," he says. "I mean they were just, they just wasn't, I guess you could say, up to date. ... It was chaos."
That changed a couple of years ago, when another inmate from the Washington, D.C., area was exonerated, in part based on faulty hair analysis.
Letters From Behind Bars
Odom's public defender remembered his case and letters Odom wrote like this one, from 1982:
"I want to know why I have to do time for something I didn't know about," the letter says. "That lady don't know me, and I don't know her."
Sandra Levick, a lawyer at the Public Defender Service in Washington, took up his case. She calls Odom's letters from prison "heartbreaking."
"They are the written cries of someone who has at 18 been arrested for a brutal crime that he had nothing to do with," Levick says. "And at 19, saw himself not only convicted but sentenced to 20 to 66 years in prison."
Odom bounced around the system. It takes him more than half a minute to list all the places he's been incarcerated.
He eventually got out on parole. He found a job fixing heating, air conditioning and plumbing systems. And he found a wife — Harriet Kopi-Odom.
"He's got a good heart. He's a hard working man, he's very loving," she says.
And then Kirk Odom caught another break. At his lawyer's request, the government found stained bedsheets, a robe and that hair from the crime scene. They'd never been tested with state-of-the-art science. When the results came back, they cleared him.
A Victim's Testimony
That still left the victim identification. But Levick pointed out some problems.
"It was before dawn. She had the briefest opportunity to view her assailant. The circumstances were terrifying," says Levick. "A gun was held to her head. The victim and her assailant were of different races."
Experts like Jennifer Dysart, who teaches at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, call bad witness identification "the leading contributing factor to wrongful conviction in this country."
Dysart says all over the country, police have made big changes to the way they conduct lineups (making sure, for instance, that the people running the lineup don't know who the suspect is) and do photo arrays (showing victims pictures one at a time, instead of a whole bunch simultaneously).
Not so much in D.C., where public defenders say legislation in the City Council to reform those practices has been opposed by prosecutors and police.
Odom, who celebrates his 50th birthday on Friday, says he just wants some peace.
"Life now, still a few clouds, dark clouds, but pretty soon the sun'll shine through," he says.
Copyright 2023 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Google is testing a new feature that will allow celebrities and other notable figures to answer users' search queries directly in the form of "selfie" videos posted in the Google Search results. The company says this program is initially being piloted on mobile with a handful of people for now, including Priyanka Chopra, Will Ferrell, Tracee Ellis Ross, Gina Rodriguez, Kenan Thompson, Allison Williams, Nick Jonas, Mark Wahlberg, James Franco, Seth MacFarlane, Jonathan Yeo and Dominique Ansel.
Of course, the celebs aren't answering users' queries in real-time. Instead, Google has had them pre-record their videos in response to what it already knows are some of fans' most-asked questions typed into the Google search box.
The videos provide answers to questions like "Can Will Ferrell really play the drums?" or "How many languages does Priyanka Chopra speak?" or "Can Tracee Ellis Ross sing?," for example.
When users search for one of these queries, the video answers will appear at the top of the search results, above Google's standard set of blue links.
After watching the first video, the carousel automatically switches to the next one in the celeb's series of QA's, or you can can choose to swipe through them yourself.
This isn't the first time Google has opened up its search results to celebrities.
In March, the company announced that more organizations and celebs could take advantage of the "Posts on Google" feature. Initially an experiment during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Posts on Google lets individuals post Twitter-like status updates right on Google's search results pages. This year, Google expanded the feature to organizations like museums, sports teams and leagues, and people and firms associated with movie-making, later followed by local businesses.
Using Posts on Google, people could share images, videos, and GIFs, in addition to text.
With this launch, Google was trying to make its search engine itself a more social product, instead of only relying on the Twitter search results it aggregates to pull in these sort of shorter answers.
The new celeb video QA feature seems to take that idea a step further, turning previously run-of-the-mill search results into something that feels like it would be more at home on a mobile social app, like Instagram.
While Google has historically updated its search results to return answers and information beyond the world of text-based web pages, these celeb videos have a tinge of social envy to them, on Google's part. The company has never figured out how to build a successful social platform of its own, having instead brought us creations like the overly engineered Google+, and various social app failures, like group chat app Spaces.
Given it can't seem to build a real social platform, it's now trying to make Google Search itself feel more social, it seems.
The feature may also increase users' time on site using Google, which could impact the company's bottom line.
The video results are appearing in mobile search results, and in the Android Google app. The iOS Google app is rolling out the videos over the course of the day, Google tells us.
[updated 1:20 pm et with rollout details]
Article source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/07/googles-mobile-search-results-now-include-videos-of-celebs-answering-your-questions/


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Texts Concerning Zionism: Excerpts from "The Jewish State"
by Theodor Herzl (1896)
Theodor Herzl, the father of political Zionism, outlined his vision for a Jewish state in his publication called Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), published in February 1896. The following are excerpts.
To read the complete text, CLICK HERE.
The idea I have developed in this pamphlet is an ancient one: It is the restoration of the Jewish State. . . The decisive factor is our propelling force. And what is that force? The plight of the Jews. . . I am profoundly convinced that I am right, though I doubt whether I shall live to see myself proved so. Those who today inaugurate this movement are unlikely to live to see its glorious culmination. But the very inauguration is enough to inspire in them a high pride and the joy of an inner liberation of their existence. . .
The plan would seem mad enough if a single individual were to undertake it; but if many Jews simultaneously agree on it, it is entirely reasonable, and its achievement presents no difficulties worth mentioning. The idea depends only on the number of its adherents. Perhaps our ambitious young men, to whom every road of advancement is now closed, and for whom the Jewish state throws open a bright prospect of freedom, happiness, and honor perhaps they will see to it that this idea is spread. . .
It depends on the Jews themselves whether this political document remains for the present a political romance. If this generation is too dull to understand it rightly, a future, finer, more advanced generation will arise to comprehend it. The Jews who will try it shall achieve their State; and they will deserve it. . .
I consider the Jewish question neither a social nor a religious one, even though it sometimes takes these and other forms. It is a national question, and to solve it we must first of all establish it as an international political problem to be discussed and settled by the civilized nations of the world in council.
We are a people — one people.
We have sincerely tried everywhere to merge with the national communities in which we live, seeking only to preserve the faith of our fathers. It is not permitted us. In vain are we loyal patriots, sometimes superloyal; in vain do we make the same sacrifices of life and property as our fellow citizens; in vain do we strive to enhance the fame of our native lands in the arts and sciences, or her wealth by trade and commerce. In our native lands where we have lived for centuries we are still decried as aliens, often by men whose ancestors had not yet come at a time when Jewish sighs had long been heard in the country. . .
Oppression and persecution cannot exterminate us. No nation on earth has endured such struggles and sufferings as we have. Jew-baiting has merely winnowed out our weaklings; the strong among us defiantly return to their own whenever persecution breaks out. . . Wherever we remain politically secure for any length of time, we assimilate. I think this is not praiseworthy. . .
Palestine is our unforgettable historic homeland. . . Let me repeat once more my opening words: The Jews who will it shall achieve their State. We shall live at last as free men on our own soil, and in our own homes peacefully die. The world will be liberated by our freedom, enriched by our wealth, magnified by our greatness. And whatever we attempt there for our own benefit will redound mightily and beneficially to the good of all mankind.


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Neo Vertika luxury condominium in the Miami Brickell neighborhood was completed in 2006 and stands 36 stories high with 443 residences. Residences are available in one to three bedroom configurations and one to two bedroom lofts, between 700 and 1483 square feet of interior space. Residences enjoy views of the Miami River, Downtown Miami, and some residences have Biscayne Bay Views.
Neo Vertical offers an urban habitat with a resort style residential community. Its' design celebrates clean lines and has split floorplans with high ceilings and top of the line finishes and imported materials. Residents enjoy a state of the art fitness center, colvanic rock sauna, racquetball court, roof top lounge, concierge service, and valet. The 8th floor is 49,000 square feet devoted to amenities and some more unusual amenities include a dog park and cigar parlor. These residences offer the latest in luxury with a premium on casual living in the middle of the city.
Neo Vertika is located in the heart of Brickell, which is the Miami financial district. Residents in Brickell enjoy a pedestrian lifestyle and it has been called the Manhattan of Miami for the resemblance to its northern counterpart. The Miami Metro Rail runs through Brickell and connects it to Downtown. Miami International Airport is a short drive of 15 minutes and South Beach is also 15 minutes. The shopping and dining in Brickell is some of the best in the city and it also is a popular destination for casual nightlife, with many happy hours and lounges. The area's location and Neo Vertika's amenities make a popular choice for both young professionals and those looking for an urban retreat.


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Researchers at California State University, Long Beach, investigated the formation of collagen gels using modified gold nanoparticles. According to a report by the American Chemical Society, published in Biomacromolecules in 2008, the scientists used 1-ethyl-3-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) carbodiimide (EDC) hydrochloride coupling to cross-link modified gold nanoparticles covalently to collagen via peptide bonds.
The fibrous collagen gels reportedly lacked mechanical integrity and were opaque, blue and almost solid. They were studied with environmental scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope, micro-differential scanning calorimetry and trinitrobenzenesulphonic acid (TNBS) assay, and the cross-linking was found to sharply decrease the pore diameter of the collagen, depending on the concentration of the nanoparticles. These lightly cross-linked gels exhibited discrete nanoparticle arrangement in the collagen matrix, whereas the nanoparticles were interconnected in the more tightly coupled collagen network.
The collagenase biodegradation assay reportedly showed improved stability of cross-linked material while the cell viability assay indicated that the gold nanoparticles are not toxic at the concentrations used in gel synthesis. This new material reportedly has potential for the delivery of small molecule drugs, as well as gold nanoparticles for photo-thermal therapies, imaging and cell targeting.


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If you're an absolute beginner, we strongly recommend that you follow "The Basic Soldering Guide" - by Alan Winstanley.
SAFETY: Adapting equipment voids the manufacturer's guarantee, and the attempt may cause irreparable damage. Always use adapted equipment under supervision, and disconnect any batteries when not in use. These adaptations are at your own risk. Good luck!
You may be able to obtain LARGE Palco 'Electro Dice' directly from Palco Marketing, or search Google for other stockists. Tormont made a nice, easy to adapt, electronic dice for their giant Marvel and Disney board games, sometimes found at boot sales and on eBay. If all else fails, stores such as Maplin Electronics, sell Electronic Dice kits, although these don't always have sound, and require more skill and time to build.
You can daisy-chain these dice using a 3.5mm full stereo 2-into-1 adapter (such as Maplin's FP34M) and a 3.5mm jack to jack lead (mono or stereo will work fine).
You can use the following steps to adapt most low voltage devices that operate from a push button switch. Just make sure that there's room in the casing to fit the socket. If not, you could try bringing a lead out of the casing.
Buy pre-adapted: You can buy ready to go adapted Electronic Dice from the OneSwitch shop.
Locate the position of the internal spring switch (see cut-a-way image). Make a small pilot hole, using a soldering iron or sharp point, centrally beneath it at the casing join.
Holding the casing tightly together, drill a 1/4" hole as pictured, being careful to stop as soon as you're through.
Open up the die, by unscrewing the 2 outer and 2 inner screws. The clear viewing plastic only fits one way, so avoid taking this out.
Take a note of which way the batteries are fitted, e.g. by marking the casing as pictured, then remove them. This will help protect the device whilst you work on it.
Cut or saw off the spring switch. The die will no longer activate when you tap or roll it, as it was originally designed to.
As not all sockets are connected alike, you will need to find which 2 of the 3 contacts you need to solder to.
Attach a test lamp or multimeter to any 2 contacts. Plug in your switch, then press it. If the lamp comes on when pressed you have the right connections, otherwise try a different combination. There's only 3 possibilities.
Solder two 5cm lengths of wire to the socket. Expose the ends, tinning them if you wish.
The circled solder connections are the underside of the spring switch, and the points to which you need to connect the 3.5mm switch socket.
If you have the batteries connected, then touch these two points together with a short piece of wire. If you trigger a roll of the die, you've found the right places.
Carefully solder the socket to the spring switch connections, aiming to have nothing jutting out from the board.
Blow on the board to cool it down as soon as the solder flows. Too much heat could damage the workings of the die.
Put the batteries back in, and test the die. If all seems OK, put it all back togther being careful, when tightning up the socket, not to twist the wires too much.
Test the die with a switch several times, then leave it alone for a few minutes. If it activates by it's self repeatedly, there's probably a short circuit. Pull it apart again, and examine the accuracy of your soldering carefully, especially on the socket.
Don't worry if the die rolls occasionally when you touch the socket. This is due to a build up of static electricity, and is fairly normal, providing it stops when you remove your touch.
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Five do-at-home exercises from The Body Smart Studio
Ah, the cozy joys of winter. You're hibernating at home — drinking hot chocolate, staying warm and catching up on all five seasons of Breaking Bad.
Unfortunately, you're also gaining weight in the process.
What do you do? Read on to find out how you can burn calories without changing your daily routine. Here's five suggestions from The Body Smart Studio in Southold.
1. Planking (otherwise known as Reading Your iPad)
Want flatter abs, stronger shoulders, better balance and more endurance? Start planking.
An excellent exercise for building core strength, planking is fun and free. And the best part: you can still enjoy that mystery novel you're reading on your iPad or your friends' Facebook pages while doing it.
As its name suggests, your body should resemble a plank of wood — straight and firm — when this exercise is performed properly.
Start by laying face-down with your hands and feet on the ground. Push your body up so that you're resting on your forearms. Make sure you maintain a straight line from your shoulders to your ankles, pull your belly button in toward your spine, and hold this position for as long as you can. Try to get to that next chapter in your book!
For a slight variation, try a side plank (otherwise known as watching a movie): rest your weight on just one forearm at a time, turning your entire body to the side.
2. Squats (otherwise known as Getting Out of Your Kitchen Chair)
Squats are an extremely effective way to tone your thighs and butt, and fit into your favorite pair of jeans again.
For this exercise, stand with your feet slightly wider than your hips. Shift your weight back so that it's on your heels.
With a flat back and your belly button pulled into your spine — this engages your core muscles — bend so that your lower legs and back are parallel to each other. For more of a challenge, grab the nearest child (we recommend a baby), hold him or her out in front of you, and squat into your kitchen chair.
3. Push-ups (otherwise known as Looking Under the Bed for Your Lost Keys)
It's the old standard in calisthenics – with a domestic twist. The next time you misplace any of those essential items that just love to go missing at inopportune moments (keys, wallets, glasses, etc.), you can turn your search into a opportunity for fitness.
Instead of simply getting down on your hands and knees to look under your bed or table, try a push-up: start in an elevated plank position, up on your hands, with your hands placed slightly wider than your shoulders. Bend your elbows and lower your chest, forming a 90-degree angle between your upper and lower arms.
Even if you've already found your keys, try this one a few times — and never feel stressed about losing them again.
Who knew misplacing things could actually be good for you?
4. Lunges (otherwise known as Heading Down the Hall to Get Your Laundry)
Laundry doesn't have to be a bore! Whenever you find yourself taking that long dull walk to the laundry room, don't walk at all. Lunge your way there instead, and enjoy the toned legs and perfect balance that will result.
To properly perform this move, think of it as a slightly longer walking stride. Step forward with one foot and drop down at your hip so that your thigh is parallel to the floor. Move forward and switch legs, keeping your abdominal muscles tight the entire time to help develop balance.
And while you're at it, why stop at laundry lunging? Lunge across your backyard when getting your snow shovel. Lunge down the driveway to retrieve the mail. Ignore your neighbors' stares as you lunge to your car in the morning — your new shapely legs will speak for you.
5. TRX Sprinters (otherwise known as Pulling Your Kids Across the Snow in a Sled)
Developed by a former Navy SEAL, the intense TRX workout has been gaining popularity in gyms across America for almost a decade.
Its suspension-based training not only strengthens major muscle groups, but also builds stability, balance and flexibility. If you can't make it to the gym this winter, however, the snow in your yard and that sled in your garage will work just fine!
Round up the kids and head outside for some family fun; pulling them up hills and across snowy fields will not only do wonders for your body, it'll also make you the coolest parent on the block.
For those of you looking to step up your fitness routine even more, come join us at The Body Smart Studio in Southold.
You'll benefit from small group instruction, personal attention, certified instructors, top-notch equipment — and a whole room full of fellow lungers and plankers.
Check out the video below for a demonstration of our high-energy Real Ryder cycle — a spin cycle designed to move just like a real bicycle. You know, the one that's sadly stuck in your garage until April.
For more information, visit our website at thebodysmartstudio.com or call Chris at 631-765-8442. And remember our motto: "If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you!"


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With the full launch of Dark Mode on 17 June 2020, we've shut down this post as a way to get feedback and bug reports. Thank you to the many people who have posted answers, comments, and done the curation work of keeping this post in order so that Aaron could more easily find and address the issues. As of posting, Aaron has updated the status of all the posts in the compilation answer.
There are some outstanding issues, particularly related to the Developer Story page, which is difficult to fix without breaking a lot of things. There are also a handful of items that we've deferred acting on but there shouldn't be anything critical that is left. Being out of beta doesn't mean we won't look at these or new bugs brought to our attention, only that we feel this project is stable and ready to go.
Our team working on this is pretty small but they're excited to have this project in a good place so they can move on to other things like working on getting the rest of the site responsive.
From today on, If you find new bugs, please post them as a new question here on MSO.
Thank you so much for your interest in helping us find bugs in our dark mode version! The response to this has been amazing! My one request is that you look through existing answers before posting a new one. Nearly all of the newer answers I've gotten have been identified previously so the answers are duplicates!
For those of y'all waiting for fixes, we're already working on many of them and you should start seeing status tags added to the answers soon. We appreciate your help and feedback!
For years the answer to "can we have dark mode" has been a resounding "no!" Because of a huge number of technical complexities, which our design systems lead Aaron discusses in this blog post, creating dark mode has been too big of a project to take on with such a small team. You can read a bit about it in this discussion about dark mode.
As Aaron's been working on building Stacks styles and he and the other developers have been gradually converting site elements to Stacks, Dark Mode was finally in reach for development. We've had Dark Mode in mind with our Stacks updates since July 2019 and started really focusing on it for the last two months.
Starting today Dark Mode is in beta for all logged-in users on Stack Overflow
It's going to be a long road to complete this project but we felt that we were finally in a place where we could get your help finding all of the long tail bits we may have missed. For now, this is Stack Overflow in English only at this point - it doesn't even work on MSO currently. The beta test will also be active on any Teams you may be on, so switching between the two shouldn't cause blindness.
Thank you so much for your patience with us in getting this out. It's been really neat to see the work some of y'all have done in creating userscripts to emulate dark mode here on SO and I hope you enjoy our version of it. I've been pestering Aaron with bugs for the last couple of weeks and I'm sure he's going to love getting them from all of you!
Beta means some pages are out of scope
There are some parts of Stack Overflow that are currently opted out during the beta for various reasons. These include:
- Homepage of Stack Overflow for non-logged in users
- Jobs
- Talent client portal
How to enable it:
To enable this, visit your Stack Overflow profile, go to the "Edit profile and settings" tab, scroll down to "Preferences" under "Site Settings" and find the "Theme" section at the top of the page. You have three options - light, dark and "system setting" which will adjust the theme based on what your system prefers.
(click the image to see a gif of the path)
How to give feedback:
Write an answer below. Be sure to give us the following information:
- Description of the issue
- Screenshot of the issue
- Link to the page you're seeing this problem
There are a couple of issues we're already aware of that we're working on but weren't able to clean up before release:
- We still need to do an audit of our badges and see if we can simplify them a bit on our way to dark mode.
Various tabs
- There are still some legacy filter tabs on a few pages that we need to convert to newer components.
- Mostly impacts moderator (
) pages, though there are a couple on/tools
Future releases
At this point, the focus of Dark Mode is on Stack Overflow and we'll eventually bring it to MSO. While the retheming we did across the network two years ago makes updating our LESS easier, creating dark versions of all of our sites, particularly the custom-designed ones, is going to be a huge challenge we're not able to contemplate at this time. The artwork on some of those sites simply can't be made dark because we don't have access to the original art files and, to be honest, some of the themes will always be better as-is.
If you have questions about dark mode on the network, please ask them on MSE rather than here.
In addition to bug reports, let me know if you have any questions or things I can clarify.


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Ubibot Audio Splitter-1 male to 6 females
One male to six female; working with GS1 series and SP1; more connectors, more options
This splitter is specially designed for UbiBot series products GS1 and SP1. It is 1 male to 6 female, 3.5 mm audio jack connector. With this splitter, you can connect multiple external probes at a time, such as Soil Sensor, PT- 100 Probe, TH30S-B Probe, CO2, etc. Note: only one probe of each type can be connected at a time, you cannot have two probes of the same type connected to a UbiBot device at the same time.
- Only one probe of each type can be connected at a time, you cannot have two probes of the same type connected to a UbiBot device at the same time.
- UbiBot 1-Male-6-Female Audio Plug Splitter is specially designed for UbiBot devices only. If you want to use it with non-UbiBot devices, please contact us before you place the order.
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Legs made for walking
LOS ANGELES — Earlier this summer Hyland's introduced its Leg Cramps Ointment to complement its line of homeopathic Leg Cramps tablets. Expect the leg cramp market to grow. According to one study, about half of all seniors suffer from leg cramps — they're more common in women (56%) than men (40%). And two drug classes with strong links to leg cramps include diuretics and the inhaled long-acting B2-agonists (e.g., Advair, Serevent, Symbicort).


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1 Who is like the wise?
Who knows the explanation of things?
A person's wisdom brightens their face
and changes its hard appearance.
Obey the King
2 Obey the king's command, I say, because you took an oath before God. 3 Do not be in a hurry to leave the king's presence. Do not stand up for a bad cause, for he will do whatever he pleases. 4 Since a king's word is supreme, who can say to him, "What are you doing?"
5 Whoever obeys his command will come to no harm,
and the wise heart will know the proper time and procedure.
6 For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter,
though a person may be weighed down by misery.
7 Since no one knows the future,
who can tell someone else what is to come?
8 As no one has power over the wind to contain it,
so no one has power over the time of their death.
As no one is discharged in time of war,
so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
9 All this I saw, as I applied my mind to everything done under the sun. There is a time when a man lords it over others to his own hurt. 10 Then too, I saw the wicked buried—those who used to come and go from the holy place and receive praise in the city where they did this. This too is meaningless.
11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people's hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong. 12 Although a wicked person who commits a hundred crimes may live a long time, I know that it will go better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. 13 Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
14 There is something else meaningless that occurs on earth: the righteous who get what the wicked deserve, and the wicked who get what the righteous deserve. This too, I say, is meaningless. 15 So I commend the enjoyment of life, because there is nothing better for a person under the sun than to eat and drink and be glad. Then joy will accompany them in their toil all the days of the life God has given them under the sun.
16 When I applied my mind to know wisdom and to observe the labor that is done on earth—people getting no sleep day or night— 17 then I saw all that God has done. No one can comprehend what goes on under the sun. Despite all their efforts to search it out, no one can discover its meaning. Even if the wise claim they know, they cannot really comprehend it.


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K-5 iPad Apps for Creating (Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, Part 6)
An elementary library media specialist reviews apps for Evaluating Evaluation in the fifth post of this six-part series.
In 1948, the Swiss inventor George de Mestral returned from a hike with his dog covered in burs. After examining how nature designed these clinging bristles under a microscope, it dawned on him that a similar structure could function as a clothing fastener. The synthesis of his thoughts and prior experiences gave birth to the invention of Velcro.
The process George de Mestral used to arrive at a novel solution for fastening a future generation's sneakers is exactly how Bloom defines synthesis. The merging of previous experiences with new ideas, can lead to the unlocking of the creative mind. Using a clear set of objectives, this process asks students to reorganize divergent experiences and sets of knowledge to solve problems.
The Revised Taxonomy differs slightly from the original writing of Benjamin Bloom. Not only is the hierarchy of cognitive processes redesigned and "synthesis" renamed "creating," the focus changes to more of a problem-solving outline. Creating contains three subcategories: the initial category focuses on the generation of ideas, then moves to planning, and lastly targets the production of solutions.
Generating: Production of a Unique Communication
When Bloom first wrote about this sub-category, he discussed how an effective use of communication of ideas and feelings could create a desired response within a particular audience. Bloom addresses the creation of writing, speaking and music composition in particular. The Revised Taxonomy on the other hand centers attention on the generation of ideas. Using set criterion, this phase asks students to generate a multitude of possible ideas to solve given problems. Productive thinking requires fluency, flexibility and the ability to elaborate. The more ideas, the more likely students will develop novel solutions.
Planning: Production of a Plan
Following the specific requirements and task objectives, students design a plan of action to solve a problem. Working together, they propose designs to accomplish a given task. Unlike the first category that is more divergent in nature, this subset is convergent. The goal is to narrow down the options and create a plan that will accomplish certain objectives.
Producing: Derivation of a Set of Abstract Relations
Keeping in mind the distinct specifications of the given problem, students produce a solution. The final products, inventions or discoveries are not necessarily unique as much as they successfully meet the desired functions or objectives of a problem. Although originality may be a valid component for a definition of creativity, it is not a requirement for this cognitive stage.
Thoughts on Creative Potential
Does a healthy democracy rely upon its citizen's capabilities as productive thinkers? Benjamin Bloom believed so. In his original taxonomy, he stressed that a successful democracy relies on an educational system that provides opportunities for genuine problem solving.
"Real problems that face democratic countries here and now, point out that we cannot expect to progress nor even survive unless we develop and draw upon the creative potentialities of the entire population."
Bloom's taxonomy makes a passionate plea to equip all students with the skills necessary to become creative producers. He points out that children of low socio-economic levels often have fewer opportunities to engage in learning experiences that will develop critical and creative thinking. As a result, many students are ill prepared for numerous career choices. Bloom cites Allison Davis' research from 1949...
"We are depriving ourselves of untapped resources of human ability and robbing children of their right to full development."
It deeply sickens me to think that in 2011, this still holds true. In a desperate attempt to deliver a mass consumption of content, too many of our nation's schools are requiring teachers to do little more than parrot published materials. Occasionally, these resources do provide opportunities for students to critique ideas, but rarely do they intend to foster creative thought.
Critical and creative thinking cannot, and will not, happen in our schools unless we unshackle our teachers from the confines of our test-driven curriculum. We cannot expect teachers to promote productive thinking in the classroom, if they themselves do not receive this same opportunity in their schools. It is imperative that our nation respects an educator's professional capabilities to evaluate student performance, and design original curriculum that meets the unique needs of their underlings. Finally, we need to allow teachers to act upon the solutions they propose, even if it steps outside of the scope and sequence of scripted curriculum. Educators will be free to properly empower a new generation of creative producers once we honor their own productive problem solving abilities.
If we want students producing original content, we need speedy transformation. The current generation cannot afford to wait another ten years for politicians, school board members, and administrators to enact change. While they are busy forming committees that place blame, or waste time admiring problems and entrapping themselves in circular conversations of internal power plays, the short-lived years of childhood passes. I see the injection of mobile devices into schools as a game changer. While publishers dawdle over offering digital content, educators have a unique opportunity to sneak change in through the back door and stake claims on a new frontier. As educators we need to become savvy about the ways apps can foster creativity and possibly begin to produce them ourselves.
Apps that fit into the "creating" stage provide opportunities for students to generate ideas, design plans, and produce products. Verbs commonly used to describe this phase include generating; producing, hypothesizing, integrating, re-arranging, brainstorming, designing, modifying, imagining, combining, composing, planning, devising, proposing, assembling, constructing, inventing, and executing.
When locating these "applying" apps, consider the following questions.
Does the app help the user ...
1. Construct designs?
2. Generate possibilities?
3. Compose ideas?
4. Propose hypotheses?
5. Produce solutions?
6. Brainstorm solutions?
7. Design products?
8. Assemble plans?
9. Re-arrange operations?
10. Imagine possibilities?
Toontastic is MUST HAVE storytelling app for every Kindergarten through 5th grade classroom. A few features that make this app stand out from other storytelling apps are it's flexible graphic organizer, tools for drawing unique settings and characters, screen animation, audio recording, and a safe online environment for publishing. As a member of a global audience, students can share and listen to stories on the Toontube site. In addition, a wonderful, interactive globe shows the approximate origin of every story. Toontastic provides fantastic opportunities to generate ideas, construct story outlines, and produce unique communication with a worldwide audience. Book Creator
Book Creator provides a quick and easy way for students to create eBooks and instantly share them on iBooks. Book Creator fits in perfectly with Bloom's insistence that students produce unique forms of communication. Story creation also provides opportunities to practice designing story structure, assembling content and creating a final product to share with an audience. To watch how easy it is to work with view their promotion video. Storyboards
Storyboards will help budding filmmakers, and screenwriters produce plans for upcoming movies. An excellent tool useful for the planning and designing camera shot sequences, students can pick from a range of camera angles, action poses, backgrounds, characters, props and costumes. iMovie
iMovie is by far the best app for movie creating on the iPad. All aspects of the cognitive level creating exist within this app. Students can merge photographs, film clips, sound tracks, artwork, audio files, and sound effects into unique combinations. The timeline allows opportunities to learn how to construct compositions, and arrange content. When the process is complete, the final product is available for the world to see. Garageband
Garageband does for music, what iMovie does for film. With this app, students can generate, compose and produce their own music. There is a wide selection of "smart" instruments within the app, app plugins, and built-in microphones. Students can arrange and design up to eight soundtracks. When finished, email or upload completed songs directly into iTunes. With this app, anyone can play with the band. TinkerBox HD
TinkerBox HD is a free app that gives students an opportunity to invent machines that capitalize basic engineering concepts. The goal is to manipulate the organization of a wide array of mechanical gadgets so that they solve a given problem. Using trial and error, students can arrange and re-arrange elements until they design a successful solution. The invent mode lets users create their own machines. iBrainstorm
iBrainstorm is the perfect tool to use for idea generation and focusing on possible solutions. Sort ideas recorded on post-it notes into groups or hierarchies. Assign colors to each post-it while separating ideas. Electronically collaborate with iBrainstorm with up to four iPhones. Draw or notes additional notes on the background. View video of app in action Juxtaposer
Juxtaposer is the ideal way to demonstrate how the combination of divergent ideas can create new products. It is incredibly easy to overlay and merge images. With transparent brushes, stamp tools and layering options, students can playfully generate ideas for story characters or product designs. 123D Sculpt
123D Sculpt lets users create virtual sculptures. This is another great tool to build products designs and construct models for plans. The app also has an entertaining function that allows users to paint photographic images directly onto a sculpture. This app may be a bit difficult for younger students to manage but is perfect for upper elementary and middle school students and of course, adults. Faces iMake
Faces iMake merges images of everyday items into collages. There are 20 different categories of images (school, food, kitchen, etc), frames, head shapes, soundtracks, and art tutorials. Apps like this can help students develop flexible and fluent thinking necessary for creative problem solving. Consider asking students "How many different images can be created with a pear?" Opportunities to generate as many ideas for the possible use of an image are excellent exercises for productive thinking.


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In recent weeks the talk of the town has been a sleek black external 12x Blu-ray WRITER from the folks at Plextor. The Plextor PX-LB950UE connects via USB 3.0 or eSATA cables and is capable of burning single layer Blu-ray Disk (BD) media at 12x, double layer BD media at 8x and DVD-R media at 16x speeds. In addition, it supports the playback of Blu-ray 3D movie titles.
The drive packs in a 8MB buffer and supports LightScribe direct media labeling with the appropriate lightscribe media. This full sized external optical drive naturally accommodates DVD authoring in both the + and - formats, as well as reading and writing to DVD-RAM and Dual-Layered DVD-R discs, CD-R and CD-RW formats. Plextor ship the Px-LB950UE with PowerDVD 9 BD Software Suite (Power DVD, Producer, Director, 2Go, Backup, InstantBurn and LabelPrint software) and PlexUtilities.
External Blu-ray drives make the prospect of turning a simple computer system into an advanced Home Theatre PC for watching high definition Blu-ray movies quite alluring. With more and more computers sporting HDMI video outputs, it's not as difficult to connect a PC to a wide screen HDTV as it once was either.
The bonus to going the Blu-ray writer route, is that BD-R media is even more useful than DVD media for archiving MASSIVE amounts of data, be that digital photographs, audio, movies or what have you. For ~$13 a disk, a single layer recordable BD-R disk will hold 25GB of data. Priced a few dollars higher, double layer BD-R media will soak up 50GB of data on one disk!
Retailing for about $219 CDN ($220 USD £140 GBP) (Newegg ), the Plextor PX-LB950UE brings top of the line 12x Blu-ray writing and playback, along with external CD and DVD authoring to modern PC systems. Minimum system requirements call for at least a 3.4GHz Pentium D or higher CPU, USB 3.0 or eSATA ports, minimum 1GB RAM and WinXP SP2. Blu-ray movie playback demands an HDCP compliant videocard and display as is typically the case.
Plextor PX-LB950UE Blu-Ray Burner INCLUDES: User's Manual, eSATA cable, USB 3.0 cable, PowerDVD 9 BD software and PlexUtilities Software CD, vertical stand. Blu-Ray Write: 12xDVD Write: 16xData Connections: eSATA, USB 3.0 Average Price at time of review: $239
Plextor PX-LB950UE Blu-Ray Burner
INCLUDES: User's Manual, eSATA cable, USB 3.0 cable, PowerDVD 9 BD software and PlexUtilities Software CD, vertical stand.
Blu-Ray Write: 12xDVD Write: 16xData Connections: eSATA, USB 3.0
Average Price at time of review: $239
The Plextor PX-LB950UE is essentially an external chassis wrapped around a PX-LB950SA internal optical drive with a custom bridge board to split the drives' native SATA connection into USB 3.0 and eSATA. A small power brick allows this drive to be used outside of a computer chassis as it does not draw power via the USB cable. The entire unit weighs 1.2kg and measures 22 x 16 x 5cm; it fits nicely next to a laptop without taking up much table space.
The plastic chassis is finished in a shiny black coating that looks fantastic but gets smeared with fingerprints like no tomorrow. Since this is an external optical drive, chances are you'll be touching it frequently so Plextor kindly include a small micro-fiber cleaning cloth.
The only controls on the front of the drive are the eject button, a status LED and manual eject hole for removing stuck disks. Power is supplied by the aforementioned 12V 2A DC power adaptor. The PX-LB950UE connects to the PC via a USB 3.0 (blue) or eSATA cable. USB 3.0 cables are backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports, but this is not recommended as the data rates for USB 2.0 are far far less than what USB 3.0 will deliver (for any use other than BD media, USB 2 should be fine). A clear plastic stand is supplied if you want to keep it one edge to save desk space.
The rear of the Plextor PX-LB950UE features a USB-B 3.0 data port, eSATA data port, DC power jack and power switch. Incidently it's a bit of a tight fit to get the USB and eSATA cables into the slots as the surrounding plastic bezel is a tight fit. Be sure the cables are firmly seated before turning the device on, they will engage without excessive force if the cable overmould is not butting up against the surrounding bezel.
Plextor PX-LB950UE Supported Media Speeds
Blu-ray Data Connectivity
Blu-ray is the high capacity successor to DVD and the 'blu' in Blu-ray refers to the wavelength of light emitted from the laser. To be precise, a 405nm blue laser is used which has a shorter wavelength than the traditional 650nm red laser you're no doubt familiar with from the era of the CD. In simple terms, the finer stream of light allows more information to be packed into a the same space, thus data density can be greatly increased.
The default read rate for Blu-ray media is 4.5 megabytes per second (referred to as 1x speed), so a 12x speed rating for the Plextor PX-LB950UE is equivalent to ~54 megabytes per second of bandwidth! This much bandwidth requires a better connection speed than USB 2.0 can offer, hence we find a USB 3.0 and eSATA data ports at the rear of the Plextor PX-LB950UE external 12x Blu-ray writer.
So the obvious question is, which is better? USB 3.0 or eSATA?


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Title: Fame & Secrets (Lords of Lyre #2)
Author: Cora Kenborn
Genre: Romantic Suspense
Cover Designer: Deranged Doctor Design
Publisher: Limitless Publishing
Expected Release Date: March 14th, 2017
Hosted by: Lady Amber's PR
An empty house in Hollywood isn't what Phoebe Ryan envisioned when she said "yes" to a rock star's proposal…
Phoebe is pregnant and alone in Tinseltown. She had hoped for a fresh start, but instead gets flashing cameras and tabloid gossip while her famous fiancé is on tour. Then the body of a young woman surfaces, bearing the same scars Phoebe has kept hidden for years. Phoebe fears the nightmare she can't forget has come to collect an overdue debt.
Julian Bale struggles to balance his life as a touring rock star and his new role as a family man…
Everyone wants something from him, but he just wants to go home to the woman he's fought so hard to keep. When inside information comes to light, threatening his fiancée and unborn child, he'll do whatever it takes to protect what's his, even if it costs him everything he's worked for.
Phoebe and Julian thought they left the drama and danger behind, but they thought wrong…
When the monster from Phoebe's past claims the most innocent of victims, accusations and grief shred what they've fought to build. Some say tragedy can make or break a family, but can Phoebe and Julian unite to fight for what was taken from them, or will fame and secrets ruin everyone?
Cora Kenborn writes romantic suspense novels with strong heroines, complex alphas, harrowing danger, and snappy banter. She is the author of the rock star stalker series, Lords of Lyre but refuses to be pigeon holed into one specific genre. She loves delving into the twisted mind of a dark villain as well as giggling while writing rom-com banter.
Cora lives in Eastern North Carolina and is a true Southern girl, growing up on sweet tea, front porches, and the simple life. She says "y'all," "fixin' to," and should you deserve it, will "bless your heart." She's the proud mother three hyperactive and occasionally adorable children, and the wife of a husband who tolerates her chaotic writer's cave.
Although reading is her passion, she can usually be found watching true crime shows and crafting inspiration for twisted new tales. Cora admits to being a horrible cook, an even worse baker, and believes she's more dangerous with a hot glue gun than any weapon on earth. Oh, and she and autocorrect are mortal enemies.
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