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|Feb 16, 1988
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|Horst Froessl
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|Horst Froessl
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This invention relates to techniques for manipulating data and, in particular, to improved techniques by which a human operator can identify, modify and add to data in a processing system.
This application includes improvements to the system disclosed and claimed in my co-pending application Ser. No. 499,500, filed May 31, 1983, now U.S. Pat. No. 4,553,261, issued Nov. 12, 1985, the content of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
Generally speaking, when one is interacting with a computer or computer terminal, instructions and data are input through a keyboard by the operator. Inputs can also be delivered, concurrently or not, by automatic readers, sensors, other computers and other kinds of machines and devices, but the human operator interface with the computer is by keystroke in a great majority of cases, aided in some special situations by a "mouse", lightpen or screen touch. This is not surprising because keystroke is the most efficient input for many situations. It provides a quick and relatively simple translation from human language and thought into either machine language or an intermediate code from which machine language can readily be derived by an assembler
Disregarding the limited and special circumstances in which a lightpen, mouse or the like can be used, there are some disadvantages to the keyboard as an input device, especially as an exclusive input device in some situations. Among these are the rather obvious fact that a keyboard occupies the operator's hands, minimizing or eliminating their concurrent use for any other task. Use of the keyboard also requires some degree of training and familiarity with the key location and sequencing as well as some degree of manual dexterity, the necessary amount of skill, training and dexterity being functions of the task to be performed.
Exclusive use of the keyboard as an input device is particularly disadvantageous if the operator must sort through or refer to other documents or the like while interacting with the terminal. Additionally, it would be highly advantageous if an individual in a decision-making capacity could interact with the computer without dealing with the keyboard problem. Still further, certain forms of handicap make the keyboard an obstacle rather than a tool.
While direct voice input to processing machines has been considered and experimented with, it is often regarded as an impractical alternative to keystroke and as somewhat of a technical curiosity. Thus, while the technological capability exists, it is not used.
Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide advantageous methods of using the human voice as an input to a data processing machine for control as well as for limited data input purposes.
A further object is to employ the use of the voice as an input for data and instructions under those circumstances in which it is a faster and more efficient input technique than keystroke or other methods.
A further object is to provide a system in which the voice can be used as an input in conjunction with other input techniques such as touch screen.
Briefly described, the invention includes a method for using a voice input to a data processing machine of the type having a visual display screen and means for displaying selectable images on the screen, including the steps of providing a set of visible divisions on the screen which segregate the screen into sections which can be uniquely described by one or more alphanumeric symbols and providing a storage location for data bits from which a display is to be produced on the screen. The storage location is functionally divided into a plurality of storage portions at least equal in number to the number of sectors of the screen so that addresses in the storage location can be functionally correlated with image features displayed on the screen. A voice responsive transducer is provided for converting received utterances into electrical signals representative of speech patterns and a stored dictionary of speech patterns of a plurality of utterances is provided, the utterances including the alphanumeric symbols identifying the sectors and preselected instructions. The speech patterns of words received by the transducer are compared with the stored dictionary of patterns and outputs of recognized utterances are produced as either an instruction or a sector identification followed by an instruction, a match of patterns being defined as recognition of an utterance. Recognition is followed by execution of the received command relating to a particular sector, when a sector is specifically identified.
In order that the manner in which the foregoing and other objects are attained in accordance with the invention can be understood in detail, particularly advantageous embodiments thereof will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus incorporating the present invention;
FIGS. 2, 3, and 4 are diagrams illustrating the sector technique, in a simplified form, as employed in the invention;
FIG. 5 is a block flow diagram illustrating a known speech recognition technique; and
FIG. 6 is a schematic block diagram illustrating a system including a further embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 1 illustrates a system in which the first portion is the same as that disclosed in previously mentioned U.S. Pat. No. 4,553,261. In that system, documents 10 are sequentially delivered to a printing device 12 in which they are marked with a unique identifying code. They are then supplied to a reader 14 which optically scans each document supplied to it. A digitizer 16 forms an integral part of the document reader and produces digitized signals representative of digital patterns approximating the characters and graphics which appear on source document 10. The printing, reading and digitizing functions are under the control of a control unit 18 which is normally supplied as an integral part of the reader and digitizer and which is easily adaptable to also control the printing function. After imprinting, reading and digitizing, the documents 10 are delivered to a source document storage location 20 where they are available for subsequent research, if necessary, but from which they would normally never be removed.
Digitizer 16 is in bidirectional communication with a digital pattern buffer store 22 on channels 24 and 25 which provide for data transfer and feedback regarding available storage space and other operating functions. The patterns stored in store 22 are supplied to a display unit 26 which can be a conventional CRT display, display unit 26 being in communication with store 22 on channels 28 and 29.
A primary purpose of this portion of the system, as explained in some detail as the previously identified application, is the presentation of the patterns from source documents 10, in a digitized form, on display 26 so that various forms of disposition of the documents can be determined and accomplished at that stage. A particular function is the selection of certain items of information from each source document or, if desired, the entire content of the source document, so that the patterns can be encoded in a standard digital code such as ASCII and stored in a mass digital store 30. For this purpose, it may be suitable for an individual to be positioned at a keyboard where display 26 can be observed, permitting the operator to position cursors to bracket and identify material to be saved, after which only that portion which has been selected will be encoded, the rest being eliminated from digital storage, thus making optimum use of the storage capacity.
There are, however, numerous other circumstances in which this direct relationship of a keyboard operator with a display is not the most efficient approach.
In accordance with the invention, the operator, indicated generally at 32, is supplied with a speech responsive transducer including a receiver 34, a speech recognition unit 36 and an assembler 38 which is connected to control certain functions of display 26. The speech recognition unit, which will be described in greater detail, is capable of receiving electrical speech signals produced by the microphone 34 from the acoustic utterances produced by the operator, the recognition unit being further capable of identifying certain utterances, within a defined lexicon, as being alphanumeric symbols and predetermined instructions. Utterances which are not recognized can simply produce a simple visual or audible indication of no recognition. Those which are recognized are delivered to assembler 38 in which they are implemented by causing display 26 to perform the instructed task.
An advantage of this system will be apparent by recognizing that the person reviewing the substance in documents 10 must make decisions about their disposition, commonly requiring reference to various other documents to identify individuals, locations and other information which will permit the decision-making process to be performed in an expeditious fashion. With a limited number of voice instructions, it is possible for an individual to have his or her hands free to accomplish these other tasks while issuing instructions to display 26 through the system described. As examples of simple commands, it is much quicker to center the display, if it is not centered, by simply saying "right", "up" or the like. Much more rapid movement of a cursor can be accomplished by commands such as "jump to" followed by a line or other identification of a position in the text.
This approach can also be employed to advantage by using the speech input in conjunction with other input or command devices. One of particular importance is the touch-screen systems which permit the operator to identify items depicted on the screen, or select locations thereon, by simply touching the item or location with a finger. The screen is made responsive to this touch by the provision of wires embedded in the screen structure or by infra-red sensors connected to the screen which respond to the operator's finger. The touch can, however, only perform an identification function; an instruction about what is to be done at the identified spot must be provided by some other technique. Voice input is especially useful in this regard, in conjunction with touch to provide instructions.
For example, if a sentence is to be selected for storage, the operator can touch the spaces before and after the sentence, issuing the instruction in conjunction with touching. If the sentence lies between points A and B, the sequence can be:
speak SELECT
touch A
touch B
The same basic approach can be used to select graphic images for encoding and storage or for other purposes. A particularly useful function of the overall system is the ability to rearrange the sequence of items. Assume, for example, that an order for a quantity of products is received, the order being in a format which has the data first, the customer's order number second, the customer's name third, the quantity fourth, the model number of the product fifth and the price sixth. The recipient, however, wishes to store the information in a completely different sequence, putting the customer's name first, the model number second, quantity third, etc. The rearranging for storage purposes can be easily accomplished by displaying the image of the original document on display 26, touching the customer's name and saying, e.g., "store", then touching the model number and repeating "store", etc., in the desired order.
It is particularly useful with graphic displays to be able to enlarge selected portions of the displays so that they can more easily be seen, within the limits of resolution of the equipment, and this is also useful with text because smaller portions thereof can be more easily identified.
Accordingly, the invention contemplates the use of a grid system as illustrated in FIGS. 2, 3 and 4. As seen in FIG. 2, an image appears on the screen which is shown in a simplified form as a square 35. Vertical and horizontal lines are provided on the screen, either in a permanent form on the exterior of the screen or by video line generators, the vertical and horizontal columns and rows being identified by alphanumeric symbols as illustrated in FIG. 2. It will be assumed that the operator wishes to enlarge that portion of the image displayed in FIG. 2 which is in the square C3. It is necessary only for the operator to say "C, 3, full screen", this utterance being interpreted as an instruction to enlarge C3 to occupy the entire screen as illustrated in FIG. 3. The process can be repeated by the operator saying "A, 1, full screen" whereupon the material shown in square A1 is enlarged to occupy substantially the entire screen as shown in FIG. 4. That portion can then be stored or, alternatively, a segment thereof can be stored by the operator saying "B, 2, store".
It will be recognized that these instructions are merely examples and that other forms of code words can be used, the only requirement being that a suitable comparison dictionary be established.
Movement of a cursor is much more rapid and other forms of examination and activity are similarly more rapid using this technique than a keystroke technique.
The operation of the system can further be understood by carrying the system further in its intended use A major purpose is to permit access by selected individual to the images of the documents which have been saved in store 30. Assume, for purposes of example, that a person in a decision-making capacity is supplied with a display screen 40 having a buffer memory 42 which is bidirectionally connected on a cable 43 to store 30. The individual 44 is supplied with a microphone 46, a speech recognition unit 48 and a location and instruction assembler 50 which is connected to buffer 42. Upon command, those documents designated for individual 44 by whatever code is used within the organization, is called upon from store 30 to buffer 42 and is available for simultaneous or sequential display. With a simple group of instructions, the individual 44 can instruct disposition of the various documents by ordering that the particular documents either be returned to store with no action, transmitted to another individual within the organization, transmitted to someone outside of the organization, or other action taken. Addresses can be referred to by the sectors identified as illustrated in FIGS. 2, 3 and 4, the actual number of divisions on the screen normally being somewhat larger than that shown in FIGS. 2-4.
The system illustrated in FIG. 1 is also useful for correction of text or, to a more limited extent, addition of data. As will be seen from the previously identified co-pending application, a further function performed by operator 32 in viewing the digitized text before encoding and storing is to add letters which were not recognized by reader 14 or to correct letters or other symbols which were not properly read. This is a function which can be performed more quickly by voice than with the conventional cursor keystroke controls by using an instruction such as "cursor jump to" followed by the location. For example, if the screen grid is divided into five sections by horizontal lines and four sections by vertical lines, a command "Al cursor jump to B4" is capable of moving the cursor to a region which needs correction or addition much more expeditiously than with a keystroke system. Further refinement of the position can be accomplished by "left, right" commands or by keystroke. The cursor repositioning can also be accomplished by using the combination of touch and voice controls, e.g., by touching the cursor at its existing location, saying "jump to" and then touching the new location. Additions of text can be accomplished only within the limitations established by the size and preconditioning of the lexicon, although it will be apparent that letters and numbers can be added without difficulty since these will be fundamentally necessary symbols recognizable by recognition unit 36 or 48.
A typical speech recognition system is shown in FIG. 5 in which a speech signal input is received, in electrical form, from microphone 34 or 46. This signal is subjected to an analysis and pattern-matching process in which signal analysis and parameter extraction are accomplished in block 56. A major problem in speech recognition systems, generally speaking, is a recognition of the termination of each word. Thus, the next step 58 is utterance-end-point determination. Step 60 is normalization in frequency and time, after which, in the recognition mode, the signal is subjected to time warping which is a form of dynamic programming of which several examples exist. A dictionary 64 is provided with patterns of the utterances which the system is intended to recognize, and these patterns are compared with the processed speech signals, the extent of similarity being determined by a similarity scoring procedure 66. The resulting decision indicates whether or not an instruction or alphanumeric symbol is recognized and the suitable indication is given.
Such systems are normally caused to undergo a training mode in which the significant formants in the voice of the operator are recognized and stored as part of the dictionary, usually by averaging a significant number of repeated statements of the same expression, so that the system is subsequently capable of recognizing terms spoken by the same individual. A very high rate of accuracy is obtainable with a limited vocabulary spoken by the same individual, the degree of precision decreasing with other individuals.
The combination of voice and touch, or voice alone, can also be used to produce graphical illustrations on the display screen. As will be apparent, the production of "drawings" on a display screen with a keyboard input alone requires considerable familiarity with the specific computer and the programming language. With voice alone, or with voice supplemented by a touch responsive screen, much of the learning is eliminated. The operator can be essentially untrained in the operation of the machine except for learning a small vocabulary of instruction words.
As an example, assume that a line is to be drawn between two points. It is only required that the operator touch the points and utter the instruction word which has been defined in the dictionary to mean "line". The touches and instruction provide all of the information which is normally entered on a keyboard, i.e., the end points in a Cartesian coordinate system and an instruction to draw a line, in a relatively large number of keystrokes. It is important to note that no changes would usually be required in the basic program of the machine. The programs for graphics purposes normally recognize an instruction which involves a small number of input words. These words are supplied by the assembler, which is necessarily tailored to the computer language and operating system, in response to the spoken command.
More sophisticated diagrams than a line, of course, can be drawn with nearly equal ease. Two points and a "circle" instruction can be used to define the center and radius of a circle, and portions can be erased by defining the same kinds of limits. This approach thus requires somewhat less skill than with a keyboard alone.
FIG. 6 illustrates a further aspect of the invention in which the selection and encoding process can further be used for enhanced microform storage. The selection accomplished by the portions of the system shown in FIG. 1 are shown again in FIG. 6 with the encoder and storage 30 separated into an encoder 70 and a mass store 72. As a security supplement or as an alternative to source document storage 20, and as a redundant storage technique to mass store 72, it is desirable to provide a microfilm or microform record of the significant portions of received documents. For this purpose, the encoded signals are supplied to a high resolution digital to video converter 74 which is, in essence, a reverse video camera, capable of accepting digital signals and producing high resolution images which can be supplied through a conventional optical system to microfilm 76 delivered by a supply reel 78 to a take-up reel 80, driven in a well-known fashion by a step or intermittent drive 82. Although a reel type of film is illustrated, it will be recognized that this film can be any size and can be replaced by microfiche or microdot storage as well.
While certain advantageous embodiments have been chosen to illustrate the invention, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that various changes and modifications can be made therein without departing from the scope of the invention as defined in the appended claims.
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Why are you writing the speech? Maya Angelou once said, "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." This is so true. When we think about people, the first thing we remember is our emotional response to them.Whatever you write, bear in mind that your audience will mostly take away a feeling from the speech, so it is important that you elicit the response you want with the words you choose.
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Audiences expect two things from a speaker: A path and a destination. They want to know where you are going and why they should listen to you. It is a good idea to tell them what you will be covering and why they need to know it at the beginning of the speech.Tip: Focus on structure and simplicity. Remove anything that is confusing, extraneous, and contradictory. If it does not help you get your core message across, remove it.
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In his newest book, How Do You Kill 11 Million People, Andy Andrews approaches the subject of integrity from a unique viewpoint – the killing of millions of Jews and others during the Nazi reign over Europe in World War II. The answer to the question, how do you kill 11 million people, is simple: You lie to them. The German people, and subsequently the Jewish people, were fed an elaborate series of lies. The bigger the lie and the more consistently it was told, the more believable it became. The end result was that 11 million Jews, vagrants, homosexuals, gypsies and other "undesirables" that the Third Reich determined should die, were complacently carted off to their deaths with barely a whisper.
The bottom line to this book is that we basically get the government we allow, and thus deserve. We have become so use to our government officials lying as a matter of course that we have become to believe this is normal, acceptable behavior. Andy points out that when we, the citizens, lie to Congress, it is called a felony. When members of Congress lie to us, the citizens, it is called politics. But it should not be that way. We, the citizens, have a right to expect integrity from our elected servants. And if we tolerate and elect those who will not, or cannot, tell the truth, then we are getting the government we deserve.
While a very short book, How Do You Kill 11 Million People is nevertheless an important work in a time when the truth is being distorted on both sides of the political aisle as a matter of course.
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Featuring a Jacuzzi, an outdoor pool and a private beach, Grand Bahia Principe Tulum is located in Akumal and provides themed accommodation. Some of the facilities on offer at this 5-star hotel are outdoor tennis courts and an all-inclusive meal plan.
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The hotel's 858 themed rooms provide tea and coffee making facilities, a telephone and a mini bar, plus all the necessities for a comfortable stay. A hair dryer and cable/satellite channels are also provided.
There are a variety of restaurants and cafés near Grand Bahia Principe Tulum, and Tulum and Puerto Aventuras are an easy car trip away. Xel-Ha Park and Xelha are just a 20-minute drive from the hotel.
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Disabled Access, Air Conditioned, Mini Bar, Cable / Satellite TV, Coffee / Tea Maker, Hair Dryer, TV, Disabled Accessible Rooms
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Nokia announced a selection of enhancements to heighten your mobile and music experience. Nokia aims to sell 80 million music enabled devices in 2006, making Nokia the world's largest manufacturer of digital music players. As the mobile device is increasingly becoming the main music device, we're introducing a wide range of enhancements to provide the best possible music experience with Nokia Nseries multimedia computers and other Nokia devices. Enjoy your music player tunes with the Nokia Advanced Music Headphones HS-62 or the Hi-fi quality Nokia Stereo Headset HS-81. Your music will travel with you on the latest portable speakers, Nokia Music Speakers MD-3 and Nokia Music Speakers MD-4.
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Times readers raise £900,000 for good causesPublished at 12:01AM, February 2 2016
Contact the Elderly, which organises monthly tea parties for lonely elderly people, plans a vast expansion over the next five years
There are many high points in the Parliamentary year — Budget Day, the Queen's Speech and, of course, the Westminster Kids Club Christmas Party. This is a chance for all the children of MPs and Westminster staff to see where mum or dad spends all those long hours away from home.
This year there was an even greater treat in store for the 130 or so children who crammed into the Members' Dining Room in the House of Commons for the afternoon. A very special guest with a long white beard and red and white coat, who bore a striking resemblance to the Shadow Chancellor, Ed Balls, made sure all the economic gloom was temporarily swept away.
But there was a serious point to the fun. Organisers were so moved by reports in The Times about the British charity War Child, one of the good causes in this newspaper's Christmas Appeal, they decided to donate all the proceeds from the party's raffle to support its work. Keith Vaz, the Labour MP who has been organising the party for the past decade, said: "I was moved by the articles, and felt it was a small charity well worth supporting."
Proceeds were thought to be well over £1,000, which will be added to the £27,500 already donated by readers in just five days. Corporate matching brings the total to more than £50,000.
The Alzheimer's Society and Greenhouse are the other two good causes chosen for this year's campaign.
To donate to The Times Christmas Charity Appeal, click here or call 0870 0433764.
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PH groups push for climate funding amid closing of UN summit
Filipino civil society groups in the international climate conference in Durban called on delegates in the talks "to act with urgency and agree on real action" as negotiations neared its end on Friday, December 9.
Aksyon Klima Pilipinas, a 100,000-strong civil society network working on climate change and development issues, renewed its call for the immediate operationalization of the Green Climate Fund.
"Developing countries need access to the fund ASAP. Climate impacts are worsening while adaptation needs continue to grow. Funding is vital in particular to implement the recently approved 18-year National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP)," said Rowena Bolinas, Aksyon Klima coordinator.
"The Fund needs to be under the full authority of the Conference of the Parties and it needs to dramatically reduce World Bank influence in its operations,"
Aksyon Klima is also pushing for the continuation of the Kyoto Protocol, the legally-binding climate treaty requiring developed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a second commitment period. The Protocol's initial commitment period will end in 2012. Without a second commitment period, the world does not have any readily available instrument that binds major emitters to further cut down their GHG production.
This exposes particularly poor and vulnerable communities to more dangerous climatic changes, if GHG releases in the atmosphere continue to increase.
The Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia (UEA) recently published new analysis by its Global Carbon Project that shows an increase in emissions from fossil fuels by 5.9 per cent in 2010 and by 49 per cent since 1990 – the reference year of the Kyoto protocol.
The network called for climate change adaptation to be prioritized and funded, together with a functioning Adaptation Committee within the UN convention.
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Harper Tom - the school's biggest blockhead - bullies everyone and anyone in his way, but he especially takes pleasure in making Moxwell Drew's life hectic, whenever he has the time. Moxwell already deals with enough nonsense from Harper, but he's in for rude awakening when he becomes aware that Harper Tom is his new neighbor.
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@Wackyweirdochic I can't wait for you to update those works too. I love all your books :)
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Claim: It's possible to cook corn on the cob in a portable picnic cooler.
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The Best Way to Cook Corn on the Cob for a Crowd?
It's Cooler Corn!
Am I the only person who hasn't heard of "cooler corn"?
As an obsessive food nerd, you'd expect that I would have at least heard of it, but over the weekend I was blind-sided by the simple genius of this method for cooking loads of corn on the cob perfectly.
I was hepped to it while visiting my family in Maine. Short story: We like corn on the cob. And with eight adults at the table, that means a couple of dozen ears. We would have used the lobster pot to cook them all, but the lobster pot was busy steaming lobster.
Then my sister, a capable Maine cook with years of camping experience, says "let's do cooler corn!" Before I can ask "what the hell is cooler corn?" a Coleman cooler appears from the garage, is wiped clean, then filled with the shucked ears. Next, two kettles-full of boiling water are poured over the corn and the top closed.
Then nothing.
When we sat down to dinner 30 minutes later and opened it, the corn was perfectly cooked. My mind was blown. And I'm told that the corn will remain at the perfect level of doneness for a couple of hours.
Turns out, Cooler Corn is pretty well known among the outdoorsy set. But for those of us who avoid tents as much as possible, it's perfect for large barbecues and way less of mess than grilling. In fact, I may even buy another cooler just so I'm ready for next summer. Now That I'm in the know.
Origin: This intriguing bit of culinary advice began circulating on the Internet in September 2011. Judging from the numerous posts we found online from folks who had tried this method of cooking corn, it does indeed work, producing nicely-prepared ears of corn.
However, that something works doesn't necessarily equate with its being a good idea. Coolers (also known as portable ice chests) are fashioned by placing insulating material between hard plastic inner and outer shells. They are not meant to be used as cooking vessels, and potentially dangerous chemicals could leach from the plastic used in their manufacture into the corn being prepared there.
The inner liners of coolers are typically made of polypropylene or reground polyethylene, substances not known to contain bisphenol A, the "toxin out to get you" that has been so much in the news of late. However, that ice chests liners don't contain BPA (a chemical commonly found in plastics that has been shown to promote human breast cancer cell growth as well as decrease sperm count in rats) doesn't mean they're safe to heat up. When heated, plastics can release some of the chemicals used to make them into the foods they encase. It is for this reason you should not cook or reheat food in plastic containers unless they are specifically marked "microwaveable" or "microwave safe." Likewise, you shouldn't send plastic food storage containers through the dishwasher's cycle, lest the heat of washing break down the plastic enough to allow chemicals to leach into foods subsequently kept there.
In a nutshell, yes, you can cook corn in an ice chest. Whether you should is another matter.
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Alea_Ki A Stefano Scarani / Tangatamanu gestural musical instrument; allpow you to play a virtual instrument with your hands using the Kinect video-sensor.
The Pop Up Play project explored how immersive digital technology can be used to create learning opportunities for children and young people, in order to enhance their creativity, language and communication skills. The project was funded by the Digital R&D Fund for the Arts and was a joint project between The Spark Arts for Children, De Montfort University and Dotlib Ltd (Luke Woodbury). The Pop Up Play system is comprised of three parts - a video system, audio system and a lighting system.
simpleKinect is an interface application for sending data from the Microsoft Kinect to any OSC-enabled application.
dp.kinect is a native external for the Kinect which can be used within the Cycling '74 Max development environment to control and receive data from your Microsoft Kinect. Full details, beta releases, downloads, etc.
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This is a Max Jitter external for OpenNI on Windows and Mac OSx. I caution everyone that OpenNI is dead.


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Harrietstown board suggestion
The Harrietstown Town Council is trying to figure out how to adapt to the departure of Supervisor Bob Bevilacqua, who has resigned due to a family medical issue. After being deadlocked on whether to stick with a four-member board and to appoint a fifth member, the council now seems to be leaning toward picking a fifth. We support that.
Councilman and Deputy Supervisor Ron Keough also now seems to be leaning toward making that interim fifth member the supervisor rather than a council member. We're not so sure about that.
To us, the fact that the four-member council was deadlocked shows the need to appoint a fifth member. Mr. Keough and Councilwoman Nichole Meyette say a four-member board worked fine for eight months in 2012 after Supervisor Larry Miller resigned, but that board tended to agree on things. That isn't always the case, and shouldn't always be. Disagreement is an essential part of life, and government is a way to work through disputes. The current board, which is being pulled in more than one direction, needs a tiebreaker to get things done until the voters make their choice in November.
Getting a board majority to agree on that person will be a challenge, but that's one of the messier, necessary aspects of democracy. The board could consider one of the candidates who lost last fall's election, or someone else. That's up to them.
But we tend to think the interim fifth should be a councilman or -woman rather than a supervisor.
The best way to handle this is the simplest and most straightforward. There is a person already designated to fill in for the supervisor when he or she is not present, and that's the deputy supervisor – Mr. Keough. He was appointed to that role by Mr. Bevilacqua. Sure, that appointment was political, but it was also legitimate – consistent with official town government protocol and honored by the other council members when, for instance, the supervisor has to be absent for a meeting.
Mr. Keough is also available and willing to fill in through the fall, so there you go. The alternative would be to make up new protocol, and we don't see the need for that.
Plus, we'd prefer it if the council's seat of greatest power was held by someone elected by the people rather than appointed by the board.
Councilmen Howard Riley feels differently. He wants to appoint Mike Kilroy, the town's budget officer, as interim supervisor until the election. Mr. Riley says the problem with letting a council member be supervisor is that it gives that person a leg up on the competition if he runs for supervisor in November – assuming that Mr. Keough is considering a run. Mr. Kilroy has promised he won't run, and this being a small town, we'll take him at his word.
Mr. Kilroy is certainly well qualified and trusted in the community. He also happens to be a Democrat, like Mr. Riley.
Jan Plumadore, a retired state Supreme Court judge, has also volunteered to be interim supervisor. He, too, is well qualified and trusted in the community. He happens to be a Republican, like Mr. Keough.
Mr. Keough is also well qualified and trusted in the community, and he already holds the job of deputy supervisor. We have confidence in him to continue in the role through the fall.
We feel more comfortable with an interim supervisor who is, to use a baseball metaphor, in the on-deck position rather than subbing in a pinch hitter from the grandstands.


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So i am really big into cardio, i love it, i do it 6 times per week every morning before breakfast, even on work days. It makes me feel good and healthy and it helps on a cut as well. Today I was working out at my local gym and walked into the nutrition center where I know the owner to be a very big and dedicated bodybuilder. I have known him for several years (but i never buy anything from him because its crazy expensive and a rip off)....So my question to him was if by doing cardio every day (45 minutes elyptical) if i was going to mess up my metabolism and slow it down because it would get used to it...His answer was no, but then he also stated that doing the elyptical is a big waste of time and that it does not do anything...so he said that the best thing to do is either run, or walk on the treadmill..well, im a big boy (220 pounds, 13%BF) and running hurts my knees and dedication, so im not running..........But it surprised me when he said that walking the treadmill is better than the elypitical........He brings up good points, only people doing the elyptical are fat out of shape people, you never leave the ground and just keep goind in circles.....But he said that when you walk, you are actually moving and doing something which burns more calories...if that is correct then why after doing the elyptical for 45 minutes do I feel tired, and I sweat so much that it looks like i took a shower in my shirt??? IM confused, would the more advanced people here explain ?
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