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0.50 USBE Credit
Creating a culture of feedback means creating an environment in which giving, receiving, and acting upon feedback is continual. Learners and teacher are all a part of the process in which all parties reflect upon work (both their own and others') and give critical feedback. Students and teacher also receive and act upon feedback as a matter of course. Feedback provided is immediate, specific, and continuous, and is acted upon in a constructive manner.
To earn this 0.5 credit microcredential you will submit two different types of evidence from the list below to demonstrate your proficiency in developing a culture feedback with your learners. You will also complete a short written or video reflective analysis. Click Earn This Microcredential to learn more!
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This microcredential represents an educator's ability to go beyond just telling a student he/she did a good job. It is not even simply giving good feedback on assignments. This goes deeper to a culture dependent on feedback built on an atmosphere of safety and trust.
The teacher is responsible for creating and maintaining this culture. This is about the culture and environment of the classroom. It involves creating an environment in which students and teacher are comfortable giving, receiving, and acting on feedback. It should be a part of everything the students and teachers do. In a classroom with a culture of feedback, one should see students asking for feedback, receiving constructive feedback from either peers or teacher, and acting on it in such a way that their performance is improved. This should be a constant in the classroom.
Culture: Persistent, long-term attitudes and behavior characteristic of a social group, in this case the members of a class, school, or other learning environment.
Feedback: Constructive information about a person's performance on a specific task used as a basis for improvement.
Learning Intentions: This is a statement, created by the educator, that describes clearly what the educator wants the learners to know, understand, and be able to do as a result of learning and teaching activities. Clear learning intentions should help learners focus not just on the task or activity taking place but on what they are learning.
Success Criteria: These are linked to learning intentions. They are developed by the educator and/or the learner and describe what success looks like. They help the educator and learner to make judgments about the quality of learning.
Miss Lawrence has been working on her feedback skills, regularly practicing immediate, specific feedback with her students. She just finished reviewing a set of papers for her students, and she gave specific feedback the students could use to improve. She told students they could redo the assignment to improve. However, most of the students neglected to read the feedback, and very few made any attempt to change their work. Frustrated, Miss Lawrence realized she needed to make some changes, so students would see the value in receiving constructive feedback and acting on it. She does this by:
• Creating a culture where it is okay to make mistakes
• Systematically teaching procedures for students to share feedback with the teacher, other students and to self-reflect
Video: Record and submit a 5-10 minute video demonstrating the culture of feedback you have developed in your class, school, or other learning environment. This should include at least two types of feedback (teacher-to-student, student-to-student, student-to-teacher, student-to-self) during the video. Be sure to follow your district/charter guidelines for student privacy.
Student Work: Submit 3-5 samples of learner work on which feedback was received and acted upon. Show both before the feedback was received and after, so it is clear they acted on the feedback they were given. The feedback may be from an educator or another student. Be sure to follow your district/charter guidelines for student privacy.
Unit Plan: Submit an outline of a unit plan with specific details showing a systematic approach of specific, immediate, and continual feedback within the unit. This unit plan should demonstrate your effective and consistent approach to supporting a culture of feedback with your learners.
Student Performance Data: Submit data showing how learners' performance improved as a result of the culture of feedback in your classroom, school, or other learning environment. Data should include pre and post scores for three different assignments. Include a written description of the data and explanation of how learner growth was linked to your culture of feedback. Be sure to follow your district/charter guidelines for student privacy.
Survey Results: Create and administer a survey to learners or parents about their feelings and/or thoughts on the culture of feedback in your classroom, school, or other learning environment. Results should indicate a highly-effective culture of feedback among your learners. Be sure to submit the survey items (questions) along with the data.
Testimonial: Submit three testimonials from learners, parents, colleagues, or your administrator that demonstrate how the culture of feedback you have developed has helped them individually, or how they saw improvement in a learner or group of learners. Be sure to follow your district/charter guidelines for student privacy.
Observation Results: Submit 2 observations from a colleague and/or administrator demonstrating the culture of feedback you have developed in your practice. The results may be submitted as a written anecdotal record.
Candidate's Choice: Submit another type of evidence that does not appear elsewhere on this list. The evidence should demonstrate a well-developed culture of feedback you have developed with your learners.
4 Ways to Create an Effective Feedback Loop
4 Ways to Create an Effective Feedback Loop by David Robinson This article is geared mostly to administrators but could be adapted for teachers as well. How do we get honest feedback on our performance as teachers? Mr. Robinson gives some suggestions.
7 Powerful Tips for Creating a Culture of Learning in the Classroom
7 Powerful Tips for Creating a Culture of Learning in the Classroom by Tiffany Youtchoki This article gives seven ways to improve the culture of the classroom. Feedback and student interaction are included in the list
Creating a Culture of Feedback
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Ferriter, William M., and Paul J. Cancellieri. Creating a Culture of Feedback: Solutions for Creating the Learning Spaces Students Deserve. Solution Tree, 2017. Short book that explains why teachers should focus on giving good feedback rather than on grades. It also discusses how to create a culture of feedback.
Creating a Positive Feedback Culture
Creating a Positive Feedback Culture by Pauline Zdonek This ASCD article briefly discusses ways to create a culture of feedback in the classroom: model feedback, separate evaluation from feedback, and reward improvement.
Developing a Feedback Culture in Your Classroom (43:16)
This 45-minute video of a webinar related to John Hattie's Visible Learning talks about the research behind the importance of feedback in the classroom. It also gives suggestions for ways to create a culture of feedback in the classroom.
How Does a Feedback Loop Encourage a Culture of Learning Conversation in the Classroom?
How Does a Feedback Loop Encourage a Culture of Learning Conversation in the Classroom? By Melissa Thomas This article considers a feedback loop for a classroom and includes a basic pattern for feedback that could be incorporated into a classroom to create a culture in which feedback is valued and expected.
Making Student Feedback Work
Making Student Feedback Work by Leah Shafer Ms. Shafer gives suggestions about getting students to give honest feedback to help create a culture of feedback.
Peer Critique: Creating a Culture of Revision (4:32)
This brief video shows a school in which students constantly work to critique one another's work. It shows examples from elementary and secondary classrooms.
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South Indian Bank is a major private sector bank headquartered at Thrissur in Kerala, India. It has 850 branches, 4 service branches,48 ext.counters and 20 Regional Offices spread across more than 27 states and 3 union territories in India
Bank profile:
Type Private Company (public undertaking)
Traded as BSE: 532218
Industry Banking
Financial Services
Capital markets
Founded 1929
Headquarters SIB House, Mission Quarters, Thrissur City, Kerala, India, 680001
Key people Sri. V.G. Mathew, Managing Director & CEO
Loans, savings, investment vehicles, insurance etc.
Turnover = INR 1 lakh crore
Revenue 26.4270 billion
Net income 2.3376 billion

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BREAKING: Siasia's Mother Released By Kidnappers
Ogere Betty, the mother of former Super Eagles star Samson Siasia, has been freed by her abductors.
The Bayelsa state police command confirmed her release on Sunday but did not immediately give details of the development.
Mrs Ogere Betty was kidnapped on July 15 at her Odoni residence in Sagbama, Bayelsa state
Recall that the 76-year-old was first kidnapped in November 2015 but regained her freedom 13 days later.


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The Role: Team Lead – Physical Security and Alarm Monitoring
Location: Etobicoke
The role …
We are looking for a Team Leader for our new Physical Security and Alarm Monitoring business.
You can read more about it here.
We are looking for someone that is youthful, hardworking and energetic. Ideally you are working at one of the 'other' alarm monitoring and installation companies. We would enjoy your experience but we are looking to do things a bit differently.
You can read about that here.
About you …
You are a accustomed to the traditional world of Physical security and Alarm Monitoring. We are using the 'new' technology. Specifically, we use the Honeywell Platforms (Lyric,
Vista, and LYNX) with an emphasis around the Lyric platform with the Total Connect Smartphone Application.
Our central monitoring station is from Bold.
What are we looking for…
We are looking for someone to be our product specialist. We need you to know how to install and support our platforms as well as operate our central monitoring station software as we roll out to more support reps between our Toronto and Moncton support centres.
You would be part of the support and quotation process and would be our primary liaison to Honeywell for Sales and Support related inquires and tickets. You would be the 'go-to' between our sales team and their customers to successfully promote our Physical Security and Alarm Monitoring services.
Who we are …
Frontier Networks is in the business of Broadband, IP Voice, Colocation and Physical Security. We have, by far, the greatest overall reach – spanning Canada, The United States and the United Kingdom with our multi-access network and our 100 percent coverage connectivity solution that rivals everyone
What we do …
Broadband, we provide Internet and Private Network connections across the country and around the world using any network access type and at any speed. It is true. We have the broadest range of services (from ADSL, VDSL, Cable, Fibre and Wireless) and we have regional Points of Presence across Canada and into the United States. There is no service proposal or requirement that we cannot fulfill.
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Voice, we provide innovative SIP based phone lines or a cloud based phone system to replace an aging premise based phone system (and vendor). We do this differently. We utilize our private and secure network to ensure that the customer experience is high.
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Colocation, we provide spaces where our customers can place their IT equipment.
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Physical Security (new), an innovative offering to secure our customers physical locations through advanced monitoring and innovative sensors.
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Who we do it for …
We sell directly to end-user customers as well as through a channel or agents and resellers. Our customers include national retailers and small, medium and large national enterprise customers with multiple locations.
Customer support is importantly to us. We take every customer, large and small, seriously. We have a sophisticated ticketing system and a Network Operations Centre (NOC) that operates 24 hours a day – 365 days a year.
We are passionate about what we do, we take quality and customer support seriously and our culture easily places us as one of the more fun and exciting places to work.
Our office is located at 530 Kipling Avenue (QEW and Kipling). We have easy access to both the Kipling Subway station and Lakeshore Line.


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- Approx Cost:
- Students need to have their own headphones
Students will be expected to have printing credit available for this subject (suggest a constant of $5)
- Technology Requirements:
- A laptop is not needed for this course
- Entry Recommendations:
Open Entry
- Course Outline:
This course introduces concepts and skills related to creating digital media outcomes, such as websites. Topics offered are likely to include:
- Using Hypertext Mark-up Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to create a professional and quality digital outcome of your choice
- Use of digital media tools to create quality outcomes
- Website design and creation
- Analysis of existing digital outcomes
- Using the Microsoft Office Suite
- Planning and Design of digital outcomes
- Communicating effectively
- Using graphics, text and sound to create a quality outcome
- Problem solving through the technological process
It is expected that students will engage with their projects beyond class time.
There is one internal NCEA assessment in this course.
- Where Does It Lead:
Year 11 Digital Technologies (Print Media) or
Year 12 Digital Technologies (Multimedia) DTM201
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Seven Patios to Visit in Lubbock
With 263 days of sunshine each year, Lubbock offers the perfect patio weather to sip a cocktail and soak in some Vitamin D. Whether it's a winery, courtyard or steakhouse, check out our list of must-see patios for summer, all while social distancing!
Two Docs Brewing Co.
If you're looking for a craft beer and local street food, look no further! Two Docs Brewing Co. has a menu of quality brews to help cool you off this summer. Rotating food trucks foster a unique experience with each visit.
Customers can enjoy the chill atmosphere on the patio with their pup, as it's dog friendly!
La Sirena
For a new experience, try this Latin American restaurant with a range of tapas such as freshly made street tacos, farmer's market bruschetta, Peruvian Style Ceviche and Fried Avocado Tostada. Pair any of these delicious dishes with a Blood Orange Margarita or Mermaid Water, and enjoy the intimate courtyard with twinkling lights in the background.
Teddy Jack's Hub City Grill
Located off of Milwaukee, Teddy Jack's Hub City Grill has something for everyone. This is a great choice to bring the family or for a night out with friends. From Tex Mex and homemade burgers to seafood and gourmet pizza, each dish will leave you feeling full and satisfied. Make sure to step through Teddy Jack's roll-up garage doors to enjoy games and live entertainment on the sunny patio! This is a location you won't want to miss.
McPherson Cellars
If you're looking for a place to sip a glass of award-winning wine and take in some local music, McPherson Cellars offers an eclectic patio to relax with family and friends. You might even run into winemaker and namesake Kim McPherson while sampling a glass al fresco. We recommend McPherson's 2016 Les Copains Rosé or Verde Verde.
The Garden
The Garden is ready to serve you, seven days a week! Customers can enjoy this dog-friendly patio and play a game of Jenga, or cornhole, while sipping on their craft beer or wine. With a permanent food truck and delicious drinks, this local spot is a great place to listen to live music and get out in the sun.
Order one of Lubbock's favorite margaritas at this college favorite on Broadway. The patio at Chimy's offers a great view of Texas Tech University with plenty of red and black as it's a hotspot for Red Raider alumni during any home game. Also, don't miss out a monstrous tray of nachos or their signature cheese fries!
Cafe J
Underneath the shaded patio, enjoy the warm Lubbock air while experiencing the delectable dishes at Cafe J. Known for its trendy decor, fine dining, and hand-crafted drinks, this cafe is a great option to appreciate the French-inspired experience with a southern twist. If you're looking for something to do on Friday and Saturday nights, stop by Cafe J's outdoor patio lounge to enjoy live entertainment.
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Club to Club Torino 2015
- Turin, Italien
- 4-8. November 2015
Italy's finest underground electronic festival
Club To Club Festival showcases an impressive array of electronic acts in Turin's coolest venues. Intimate performances from worldwide leaders in house, techno and progressive electro light up a whole new side of one of Italy's most beautiful cities.
C2C's well-deserved reputation is attested to by the likes Nina Kraviz, Ben UFO, Four Tet, Caribou, SBTRKT and Modeselektor having played at the festival in the last few years – and this year's edition will be no different.
The festival opens up spaces and stages across Turin, repurposing them with the C2C mindset and expertise. The parties run all night, with special live shows and many artists previewing new work for the very first time.
- Thom Yorke
- Four Tet [live]
- Jamie xx
- Jeff Mills
- Apparat
- Floating Points
- Nicolas Jaar [DJ set]
- Battles
- Thom Yorke
- Battles
- Four Tet [live]
- Jamie xx
- Todd Terje [live]
- Anthony Naples
- Carter Tutti Void
- Gang of Ducks Soundsystem
- Holly Herndon
- Kuedo
- Lorenzo Senni
- عمر سليمان
- Prurient
- Soundwalk Collective
- Tala
- Stenny
- Niños du Brasil
- Jeff Mills
- Nicolas Jaar [DJ set]
- Oneohtrix Point Never
- Andy Stott
- Dekmantel Soundsystem
- Jack Garratt
- LA Priest
- Lotic
- Not Waving
- Powell
- Rabit
- Shackleton
- The Sprawl
- Vaghe Stelle
- FilosofischeStilte
- Furtherset
- Giorgio Valletta
- Stump Valley
Club To Club takes over venues all across Turin, with warehouses, theatres and exhibition spaces hosting DJs and live acts for five days and nights.
Turin is in the north-west of Italy, around 70km from the border with France.
Various Venues, Turin, Italien
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The nearest airport is Turin International Airport, 16km out of Turin city centre where all the action unfolds. It's served by low-csst carriers from across Europe.
By car or taxi from the airport, it takes around 30 minutes to reach the city centre. This will cost between €30 and €50 in a metered taxi.
The SADEM bus also goes from Turin Airport to the city centre. This journey will take around 45 minutes and cost €6.50.
The quickest way into the city, though, is by train. The airport railway station is located a few metres from the arrivals terminal and it takes around 20 minutes to reach Turin GTT Dora Railway Station in the middle of town. This costs just 3€. Tickets are sold at the ticket office (Ricevitoria) at airport arrivals.
You must be at least 18 to attend, and ID will be required.
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You Can Unlock The Taken King Collector's Edition Emblem For Free Right Now
The Collectors edition of Destiny: The Taken King comes with a puzzle to solve for a unique emblem in game. Once it is figured out, you can redeem in on Bungie's site and use it when The Taken King comes out. Check out this guide to find out how to get the unique Emblem for free!
Destiny: The Taken King Collectors Edition Emblem Code
Some fellows over on Reddit (link) ended up getting their collectors editions early and have since figured out the puzzle that comes inside. The emblem is for anyone who uses the code on the Bungie website, not just for those who ordered the collectors edition.
The code is 3VF-LGC-RLX and you can redeem it at Bungie.net/redeem (Bungie Link) when you are logged in. The emblem can't be used until The Taken King launches next week but you can unlock it right now. The Emblem looks like some sort of tree and is actually pretty nice looking. Thanks to the guys over at Reddit who figured this one out!
Check back next week for more Destiny: The Taken King guides here!
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The Collectors edition of Destiny: The Taken King comes with a puzzle to solve for a unique emblem in game. Once it is figured out, you can redeem in on Bungie's site and use it when The Taken King
The new subclass for the Titan in The Taken King is called the Sunbreaker. You will have to complete some tasks to unlock the right to call yourself a Sunbreaker. This Destiny: The Taken King guide
As you explore the Dreadnaught in The Taken King, you will come across Calcified Fragments. These Fragments are turned into Eris Morn back in the Tower for a rare reward. This Destiny: The Taken King
With The Taken King expansion in Destiny you can finally equip swords. If you don't know where to look though, you might end up missing it for a long while. This guide will help you find your sword
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If you have been playing Destiny since the game came out, you might have heard of the VIP rewards. These are rewards for players who have put enough time into the game during year one. Check out


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Himalayan View Room with its large wide window and doors, a small door opens to a wide balcony into Himalaya nature, where you can do Yoga or meditation, natural sunlight, and cemented floor make this charming room perfect for the nature lovers. It sets admits in nature and contains a double bed and ensuite modern bathroom. This room includes a ceiling fan and one wide window two doors. Rate includes morning and afternoon tea and complimentary Himalaya walks. No televisions or telephones. Please note, this rate is for existing bedding only.
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By Karen
Pro-private-insurance trade group America's Health Insurance Plans(AHIP) has dangled a new carrot before Congress, using self-employed women like me as pawns to kill any chance we'll ever see affordable government-sponsored or single-payer healthcare.
Last November, AHIP president and CEO Karen Ignagni began trying to derail healthcare reform by offering to stop cherry-picking customers so only the healthiest and least likely to need it could qualify for individual insurance.
In March, she offered to stop charging ill people more, but quietly replaced illness with age as a reason to jack up premiums, disingenuously slipping insurers a means to hit everyone with hefty annual rate increases, ill or not.
Now, in the individual market where insurers can get away with anything, she's admitting they typically charge women 25-50% more than men as punishment for having uteruses.
Ignagni now agrees with Senator John Kerry (D-MA) that screwing women is wrong and is offering "not to recommend continuing it."
Senator Kerry, with all good intentions, has naïvely introduced a bill to prohibit insurance companies from using gender to set premium rates. But he's just playing into insurers' hands because they'll simply increase men's premiums to match women's.
Can you say "Ka-Ching!"?
Congress, instead of rewarding the AHIP's duplicity with lame "reform" that throws all Americans into the insurance pool to be devoured by these sharks, you need to recognize these tactics for what they really are:
Bold-faced admissions of an industry's longstanding unethical practices and unconscionable discrimination for profit at any cost.
The only civilized response to "deals" like these is to shove universal healthcare bills HR.676 and S.703 down Karen Ignagni's throat and eliminate all such double-talking, self-serving, useless leeches from the equation.
P.S. If anyone out there thinks you can scare me with "rationing," go get yourself some individual insurance, visit a doctor, file a claim, and see how much of it, if any, gets paid. THAT'S rationing. We have it right now, thanks to the insurers Ignagni represents.


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More than 1,000 Industrial High School students are complaining about being forced to study in un-air conditioned classrooms, and some are getting sick because of the heat.
High school students are sweating, sick in hot temporary classrooms
Date Posted: 2008-07-10
Its too hot, and we cant study at all, students are telling school officials. Do something, please. The students are relegated to temporary classrooms while the Okinawa Prefecture-owned Industrial High School is under construction renovations. The school has installed two electric fans, but students say they dont help reduce the heat.
The Industrial High School principal confirms about 20 students have been visiting the health clinic every day, telling how bad theyre feeling and asking for air conditioning. Temperatures are running 35C (74F) to 40C (84F), and students say nothing is being done to cool the classrooms.
The Prefecture Board of Education says we dont have budget money to put air conditioning in the temporary classrooms. A board official says we can spread water on the roof by sprinklers, and put more fans in, but the new school building is to be completed by next February. The school principal has erected temporary shade nets over each classroom, but students say theyre no help at all.
Governor Hirokazu Nakaima has been pressed on the issue, and an Okinawa Prefecture Assembly member attending a school business meeting was also told something needs to be done, because students are feeling bad and cannot study.


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Honor 8 Pro
Honor, a sub-brand of Huawei, is a company conceived in 2011, established in 2013, and internationalized in 2014.
Available at – Amazon
The primary aim of Huawei was to build a company that would help it compete in the online "BUDGET" market.
Now, earlier in April, Honor announced the Honor 8 Pro. Since then it has been a mediocre success for the company. Let's take a look at what it has to offer.
1) Honor 8 Pro sports a seamless metal unibody design that looks and feels solid, as well as premium.
2) The blue variant of course is my personal favorite, and quite a head-turner.
3) It is 6.97mm thick, not the thinnest but considering the amount of battery it offers, it is quite impressive.
4) Its dimensions are 157 x 77.5 x 7 mm (6.18 x 3.05 x 0.28 in) and its weight is 184 g (6.49 oz.)
1) The screen on the phone is impressive.
2) It has a 5.7-inch (~73.6% screen-to-body ratio) LTPS IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen with a resolution of 1440 x 2560 pixels (~515 ppi pixel density).
3) Yes, that is a 2K display. The display on the Honor 8 Pro offers a maximum brightness of 560 nits, which is brilliant.
4) The black levels are deep and while there's a blue tint on white, it's not too noticeable to the naked eye.
Internals (Hardware + Software)
1) The 8 Pro comes with HiSilicon Kirin 960 Chipset, 6 G.B. RAM, and the Mali-G71 MP8 GPU.
2) It has 128 G.B. of internal storage. It has support for MicroSD card for upto 256 GB of storage.
3) It offers 4000 mAh battery with support for fast charging.
4) On the software front, it has Android 7.0 Nougat with its own EMUI 5.1 on top.
5) It also has support of the 3D Vulkan API.
1) The rear camera on the Honor 8 Pro features a dual camera setup.
Available at – Amazon
2) There's no Leica branding this time around, but Huawei was one of the first in the dual-camera game and has put out several devices with this feature already.
3) The dual camera setup boasts of one RGB sensor and another monochrome sensor – both 12-megapixel ones with f/2.2 aperture.
4) And there's a dual-tone LED flash. Both sensors work in unison to produce detailed photos with higher dynamic range.
5) The RGB sensor processes all the color information while the monochrome sensor extracts the details from the shadows as well as highlights.
6) It can record 4K videos.
7) The front camera has an 8 MP sensor with f/2.0 aperture.
Other small details:-
– Performance: Basemark OS II: 3429 / Basemark OS II 2.0: 2865 ; Basemark X: 30853
– NFC support
– USB Type-C 2.0 port.
– Display: Contrast ratio: 1404:1 (nominal), 3.341 (sunlight)
– Loudspeaker: Voice 64dB / Noise 71dB / Ring 87dB
– Audio quality: Noise -93.3dB / Crosstalk -93.3dB
– Colours: Navy Blue, Platinum Gold, and Midnight Black
Here is a spec table:-
|2K 5.7-inch AMOLED
|HiSilicon Kirin 960
|4,000 mAh
|Dual 12 MP with f/2.2 aperture
|8 MP, f/2.0
|EMUI based on Android 7.0 Nougat.
Price- The Honor 8 Pro costs Rs. 29,999.
Should you buy it?
Available at – Amazon
Depends. It does offer that bank for your buck. If you are looking for a phone with better camera, screen and speakers, then this is the one. If performance is more important to you then you might want to look towards the OnePlus 5.
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Warriors blitz Nuggets with National Basketball Association record 51-point first quarter
They rank second in scoring (117.4 ppg), first in FG percentage (48.6), fourth in 3-point percentage (38.5) and first in free-throw percentage (82.4). The Warriors celebrated their feat by watching highlights in the locker room after the game, who will even get more risky this Friday when Demarcus Cousins is expected to make his debut.
National Football League playoffs will see rivalries and a possible generational torch pass
This is LAUGH-OUT-LOUD amusing. Yeah, we can now conclude that Mr. Brady will be ready for this game and an opportunity at another Super Bowl appearance. He said this isn't the week for the Patriots to not play up to their potential, noting that all three phases have to be on point throughout the night.
Steelers says no trade discussions for WR Antonio Brown
After all that has happened over the past month, it's hard to see Antonio Brown going into training camp with the Pittsburgh Steelers . He reportedly skipped meetings and practices and didn't return Tomlin's calls. "Everybody knows we need to be better, including Mike". Sanders didn't stop there, as he went on to criticize the leadership abilities of Roethlisberger.
Texas Rangers Hall Of Fame Pitcher John Wetteland Arrested
The Bartonville Police Department says it launched an investigation into the 52-year-old former pitcher on January 9 after receiving information from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services. Three years earlier, Wetteland was sacked by Nationals manager Frank Robinson for playing practical jokes while working in the bullpen. I talked to John on a number of occasions and told him flat-out what I needed and how I wanted things done.
Nancy Pelosi suggests Trump delay State of the Union over shutdown
The site is on Pennsylvania Avenue, about halfway between the Capitol and the White House, and the group's founder, chef José Andrés, said the location is symbolic of the need for Americans to come together. The first lady's office also oversees White House tours - through the White House Visitor Center - and takes the lead on social events though the White House Social Secretary, who is based in the East Wing.
Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul Give Their Statements To BCCI CEO Rahul Johri
Rahul chose his words wisely while replying to Karan Johar's questions throughout the show, but it was Hardik Pandya who got carried away and never really seemed like he quite understood what he was saying throughout the hour-long show.


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UPDATE: Onions
May 07, 2015
Markon First Crop (MFC) Onions are available in California, Idaho, Oregon, Texas, and Washington. Storage stocks from the Northwestern regions will remain on the market through the end of the month. Expect MFC Onions from New Mexico to become available the first week of June. Markon will continue to send recommendations regarding whether to purchase in the Northwest or South Texas/California; factors include quality, supply, price levels, and members' distribution centers' geographic locations.
- MFC Red and Yellow Onions are available
- Large sizes dominate the crop, especially jumbo and colossal supplies
- Spring onions are milder in flavor and lighter in color than storage stocks from the Northwest
Eastern Oregon/Idaho/Washington
- MFC Yellow Onions will remain available for the next several weeks; MFC Red Onions will be sporadic
- Breakdown, internal decay, and sprouting are becoming more apparent; supplies are diminishing sooner than anticipated
- The storage stocks that are being shipped continue to maintain solid texture, globe-like shape, dry flaky husks, and zesty, peppery flavor
- MFC Red and Yellow Onions remain inconsistent due to wet and cool weather conditions; yields are lower than normal
- Approximately 75-80% of the Texas crop has been affected by seeders, a condition that occurs when the bulb of the onion does not receive enough heat, preventing maturation
- Spring onions are milder in flavor and lighter in color than storage stocks from the Northwest
New Mexico
- MFC Red and Yellow Onions are expected on the market the first week of June; sporadic packer label supplies will be available the week of May 25
- Acreage will be comparable to last season's crop; weather pending, yields will be high
- Jumbo and colossal sizes dominate this crop
- Spring onions are milder in flavor and lighter in color than storage stocks from the Northwest
Please contact your Markon customer service representative for more information.
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Cook Time: 40 minutes
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60 g Jerusalem artichokes
60 g parsnip
1 tsp Arqa mustard seed
a few curry leaves
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp Arqa coriander powder
1 tsp Arqa red chilli powder
1 tsp ginger, chopped
1 green chillie, chopped
10 ml oil
few sprigs of coriander cress
Arqa salt to taste
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- Peel the parsnips and artichokes and roast in the oven at 170 degree C for 20Minutes.
- Keep in the blast chillier until temperature reaches below 5 degree C.
- Then take a tray and grate the artichokes and parsnip. Pour some oil in a pan, add mustard seed, curry leaves, ginger and chilli and sauté till light brown in colour.
- Add the powder spice and sauté and mix with the grated items. Make small patties and griddle on the pan until golden brown in colour. Serve with tamarind chutney and garnish with some coriander cress.


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As kids read the CSB Big Picture Interactive Bible, they will see scenes from the Bible literally pop off the page via a free downloadable app that lets them view the images in an augmented-reality, Digital Pop-Up™ format. And they'll listen to a narration by Jenna Lucado Bishop. This colorful, fully designed Bible meets children in the visual world they are so accustomed to by bringing Bible pages to life and showing young readers how they are a part of God's great story. Features include:
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The CSB Big Picture Interactive Bible
By Holman Bible Publishers
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Genesis is the first book of the Bible. It is also the first of the five books of the Law. Genesis actually means "beginning," and it is filled with beginnings: the beginning of the universe, the earth, plant and animal life, and people, families, and nations. Sadly, it is also the beginning of sin.
The first eleven chapters tell the story of creation and how sin came into the world. Adam and Eve were created by God in His own image. But they chose to disobey God, bringing sin, suffering, and even death into the world.
The rest of Genesis is often called the "patriarchal history." It tells of how God chose Abraham and his descendants to be His people. Genesis also contains all the exciting stories of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph. The book ends as the Israelites come to live in Egypt.
Genesis was written by Moses. Of course, Moses was not alive when the earth was created — his writing was inspired by God. That means God told Moses what to write.
Moses, the writer of Genesis, lived during the 1400s BC. The events of Genesis begin with creation — the beginning of time itself — and end with the death of Joseph in 1805 BC.
Genesis shows that God is the Lord and Creator of all things. He has perfect control over all of His creation. God can use even terrible things to bring about great good — just as He did when Joseph was sold into slavery.
The Big Picture
Genesis tells us where we came from (God) and how sin came into the world (disobeying God). It also shows us the beginnings of God's grace. Even before creation, God had a plan to save His people — first, through His promise to Abraham, and finally through Jesus, His Son.
* Stories from Genesis
* The Creation Genesis 1:1–2:3
* The Temptation and the Fall Genesis 3:1-7
* God Warns Noah Genesis 6:9-22
* The Tower of Babylon Genesis 11:1-9
* Joseph's Dreams Genesis 37:1-11
The Creation
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
God Created the World, Genesis 1:1-25
Genesis 1:1
1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. 3 Then God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." There was an evening, and there was a morning: one day.
6 Then God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters, separating water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above the expanse. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." Evening came and then morning: the second day.
9 Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering of the water he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, "Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds." And it was so. 12 The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 Evening came and then morning: the third day.
14 Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night. 15 They will serve as signs for seasons and for days and years. They will be lights in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made the two great lights? — the greater light to rule over the day and the lesser light to rule over the night? — as well as the stars. 17 God placed them in the expanse of the sky to provide light on the earth, 18 to rule the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 Evening came and then morning: the fourth day.
20 Then God said, "Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the large sea-creatures and every living creature that moves and swarms in the water, according to their kinds. He also created every winged creature according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them: "Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth." 23 Evening came and then morning: the fifth day.
24 Then God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that crawl, and the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds." And it was so. 25 So God made the wildlife of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that crawl on the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness. They will rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, the whole earth, and the creatures that crawl on the earth."
27 So God created man in his own image; he created him in the image of God; he created them male and female.
28 God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls on the earth." 29 God also said, "Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This will be food for you, 30 for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth? — everything having the breath of life in it? — I have given every green plant for food." And it was so. 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good indeed. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.
2 So the heavens and the earth and everything in them were completed. 2 On the seventh day God had completed his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested from all his work of creation.
Man and Woman in the Garden
4 These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, 5 no shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground. 6 But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
8 The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he placed the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden, as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river went out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers. 11 The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 Gold from that land is pure; bdellium and onyx are also there. 13 The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is Tigris, which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, "You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die." 18 Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him." 19 The Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. 20 The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man no helper was found corresponding to him. 21 So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man, and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. 22 Then the Lord God made the rib he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man. 23 And the man said:
This one, at last, is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called "woman," for she was taken from man.
24 This is why a man leaves his father and mother and bonds with his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 Both the man and his wife were naked, yet felt no shame.
The Temptation and the Fall
3 Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You can't eat from any tree in the garden'?
2 The woman said to the serpent, "We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden. 3 But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, 'You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.'?"
4 "No! You will not die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." 6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. 7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Sin's Consequences
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"
10 And he said, "I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid."
11 Then he asked, "Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?"
12 The man replied, "The woman you gave to be with me? — she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate."
13 So the Lord God asked the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:
Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life. 15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
16 He said to the woman:
I will intensify your labor pains; you will bear children with painful effort. Your desire will be for your husband, yet he will rule over you.
17 And he said to the man, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'Do not eat from it':
The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life. 18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field. 19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust."
20 The man named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living. 21 The Lord God made clothing from skins for the man and his wife, and he clothed them.
22 The Lord God said, "Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever." 23 So the Lord God sent him away from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken. He drove the man out and stationed the cherubim and the flaming, whirling sword east of the garden of Eden to guard the way to the tree of life.
Cain Murders Abel
4 The man was intimate with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. She said, "I have had a male child with the Lord's help." 2 She also gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel became a shepherd of flocks, but Cain worked the ground. 3 In the course of time Cain presented some of the land's produce as an offering to the Lord. 4 And Abel also presented an offering? — some of the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. The Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but he did not have regard for Cain and his offering. Cain was furious, and he looked despondent.
6 Then the Lord said to Cain, "Why are you furious? And why do you look despondent? 7 If you do what is right, won't you be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it."
8 Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." And while they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
9 Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?"
"I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's guardian?"
10 Then he said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground! 11 So now you are cursed, alienated from the ground that opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood you have shed. 12 If you work the ground, it will never again give you its yield. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth."
13 But Cain answered the Lord, "My punishment is too great to bear! 14 Since you are banishing me today from the face of the earth, and I must hide from your presence and become a restless wanderer on the earth, whoever finds me will kill me."
15 Then the Lord replied to him, "In that case, whoever kills Cain will suffer vengeance seven times over." And he placed a mark on Cain so that whoever found him would not kill him. 16 Then Cain went out from the Lord's presence and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
The Line of Cain
17 Cain was intimate with his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Enoch. Then Cain became the builder of a city, and he named the city Enoch after his son. Irad was born to Enoch, Irad fathered Mehujael, Mehujael fathered Methushael, and Methushael fathered Lamech. 19 Lamech took two wives for himself, one named Adah and the other named Zillah. 20 Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of the nomadic herdsmen. 21 His brother was named Jubal; he was the father of all who play the lyre and the flute. 22 Zillah bore Tubal-cain, who made all kinds of bronze and iron tools. Tubal-cain's sister was Naamah.
23 Lamech said to his wives:
Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, pay attention to my words. For I killed a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me. 24 If Cain is to be avenged seven times over, then for Lamech it will be seventy-seven times!
25 Adam was intimate with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, for she said, "God has given me another child in place of Abel, since Cain killed him." 26 A son was born to Seth also, and he named him Enosh. At that time people began to call on the name of the Lord.
Excerpted from The CSB Big Picture Interactive Bible by Holman Bible Publishers. Copyright © 2017 Holman Bible Publishers. Excerpted by permission of B&H Publishing Group.
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Rickey Henderson won two World Series with two different teams. His first came in 1989 with the Oakland Athletics, and his second in 1993 with the Toronto Blue Jays.
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These Major League Baseball players knew how to hit home runs, steal bases, throw pitches, and rack up other statistics during their careers. How much do you know about them, though?
Over time, baseball has gone from a game of star players to a game of numbers. In today's game, every Major League team uses some form of sabermetrics, which involves a statistical analysis of individual players. These players are defined more by their numbers than by their heroic efforts on the field. The most efficient players make rosters going into the baseball season.
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Rickey Henderson won two World Series with two different teams. His first came in 1989 with the Oakland Athletics, and his second in 1993 with the Toronto Blue Jays.
Lou Brock played 19 seasons in Major League Baseball. His primary position was left fielder.
Derek Jeter spent his entire playing career with the New York Yankees. Because of his leadership and play, Jeter's #2 was retired in 2017.
After winning three World Series with the Red Sox, Babe Ruth was traded to the Yankees in 1919. The Red Sox would not win another World Series until 2004.
Hank Aaron spent most of his career with the Braves. He started with the team while they were located in Milwaukee, then followed them to Atlanta.
Barry Bonds' record is controversial among baseball critics because of his connection to steroid use. This has also kept him out of the Hall of Fame.
Henderson was named the AL MVP during the 1989 season. He also won the Gold Glove Award in 1981, showing he was one of the most well-rounded baseball players of all time.
Ty Cobb played 23 seasons in Major League Baseball, setting records across the board during his career. Many of those records would be broken by future generations.
Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's record of 60 home runs in 1961. However, it took Maris eight more games to accomplish it, leaving many to believe the new record was not legitimate.
Nolan Ryan struck out Rickey Henderson to get 5,000 strikeouts for his career. No other pitcher has ever reached 5,000 strikeouts.
Hack Wilson competed with Babe Ruth for the greatest hitter of their time. However, Wilson was only 5 feet, 6 inches" while Ruth was 6 feet, 2 inches.
Sam Crawford was one of the earliest stars of Major League Baseball. He was a two-time home run leader in 1901 and 1908.
Roger Clemens was a two-time World Series champion. He won both titles with the New York Yankees.
Nolan Ryan threw one of the fastest balls in Major League Baseball. This was one reason his career lasted 27 season.
Mariano Rivera was a relief pitcher for the New York Yankees from 1995 until 2013. He was named the World Series MVP in 1999.
Pete Rose made 17 All-Star appearances during his career. The most amazing thing about this accomplishment is that he did it at five different positions.
Chief Wilson began his MLB career in 1908 but played only for nine seasons. During that short career, he managed to win a World Series in 1909.
Tatis accomplished this while playing against the Los Angeles Dodgers. His team won the game 12-5.
Joe DiMaggio was a three-time AL MVP. He won the award in 1939, 1941, and 1947.
Ted Williams' career was interrupted twice when he was called to join in both World War II and the Korean War. He still had one of the most successful careers in baseball history.
Cy Young played for five different teams from 1890 until 1911. One of his greatest accomplishments was winning a Triple Crown in 1901.
Warren Spahn won the Cy Young award in 1957. That same year, he won a World Series with the Milwaukee Braves.
Ichiro Suzuki played his first nine seasons in the Nippon Professional Baseball league in Japan. He accomplished his 10 consecutive 200-hit seasons with the Seattle Mariners.
Ty Cobb was known for his fiery demeanor on the field. However, this led to him being portrayed as a hateful man by many of his biographers.
Rogers Hornsby was the NL MVP in both 1925 and 1929. He also won the Triple Crown in 1925.
Tris Speaker, who played from 1907 until 1928, was known as "The Golden Eagle." His play on the field made him statistically one of the greatest baseball players of all-time.
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Every so often, toy makers stumble upon little ideas that turn into outlandish successes. Those toys become cultural icons, ingraining themselves into our collective consciousness and spanning generations. Shrinky Dinks is one of those products.
For more than 40 years, Shrinky Dinks has enthralled children and adults with its crafty charm. The premise is pretty basic. Color a sheet of floppy plastic to create a fun design and then slide your creation into a warm oven.
Before your eyes, the plastic film bends, warps, curls and then slowly flattens into its original shape. The difference is that your artwork shrinks by approximately two-thirds, and it's nine times thicker. The result is a more rigid and durable trinket suitable for any number of projects.
You can use blank sheets of the plastic to cut your own custom shapes and designs. Clever artists make their own Christmas tree ornaments, zipper pulls, jewelry, key chains, pet identification tags and even greeting cards.
Various manufacturers churn out many types of premade Shrinky Dinks designs, too. They feature cartoon characters, sports team logos and Barbie doll shapes. There are themed kits brimming with monsters, princesses and comic book characters, and there are even educational kits for learning numbers and letters.
No matter the theme, all of the Shrinky Dinks kits share one primary ingredient – the so-called "magical" shrinking plastic film. This film relies on the shape-shifting properties of a particular type of plastic. Without those properties, this plastic would just burn, melt into goo, or create a cloud of toxic gases in your home.
Keep reading, and you'll learn more about how Shrinky Dinks plastics work. You'll also see how two enterprising stay-at-home moms found new, artful value in this commonplace plastic, turning it into a global business that's netted millions of dollars.
Decades of Shrinkage
Shrinky Dinks has been around for more than four decades, and the legend began in the kitchen oven at a private residence in Brookfield, Wisconsin. It was 1973, and Cub Scout moms Betty Morris and Katie Bloomberg were searching for crafting ideas for their local troop.
They stumbled upon a craft book demonstrating a fun trick – use a permanent marker to draw a picture on a plastic food container lid and then pop the lid into a warm oven. After a few minutes the plastic curled, shrank and then flattened into its original shape ... only much smaller and more rigid.
It sounded like just the kind of project that would appeal to Boy Scouts. The women figured the kids would get a kick out of making plastic Christmas tree ornaments.
Getting enough of the plastic for their project, though, proved to be a challenge because the material was generally sold in bulk to manufacturers. Morris called a plastics company, which told her that she'd need to place a minimum order of 1,000 pounds. She requested a dozen sample sheets instead, never intending to actually buy half ton of the stuff.
But a funny thing happened during their ornament project. The Boy Scouts had a crazy amount of fun playing with the plastic. So much fun, in fact, that Morris and Bloomberg decided to try and sell the plastics as a crafts kit targeted at children. Each woman rounded up $600 (a total of more than $6,000 after accounting for inflation) and they bought an order of the plastic.
Then they assembled the $2 kits by hand and began looking for places to sell their wares. They originally considered arts-and-crafts shows, but the organizers of those events required finished products, not kits for making art. After some thought, they tried a different approach, and, as you'll see, it paid off.
From Mall to Mainstream
Although craft event organizers weren't keen on Shrinky Dinks kits, Morris and Bloomberg didn't give up. Instead, they set up a booth at a local shopping center. To hook passersby, they brought along a toaster oven and conducted live demonstrations of their product, which was now officially called Shrinky Dinks. People were immediately intrigued, and within four months, Morris and Bloomberg had sold more than $50,000 worth of their kits under the name K & B Innovations. In today's cash value, those ladies had already hauled in a cool quarter of a million dollars.
With those kinds of sales, it was no surprise that they caught the attention of a local toy distributor, M.W. Kaasch Company, which agreed to manufacture and distribute Shrinky Dinks.
Years later, when the first distribution deal ended, the two began licensing their brand name to other companies, which applied the Shrinky Dinks name to their own plastics kits. Major companies, including Milton Bradley, Golden Books and Colorforms, bought into the Shrinky Dinks craze. With major manufacturers backing the product, Shrinky Dinks hit the big time. The 1970s and '80s saw the kits all over the country and all over the world.
In 1981, Bloomberg decided that she'd had enough dinking around. She quit the business and put her notoriety to use, running for local office and eventually becoming the mayor of Brookfield, Wisconsin. That left Morris in charge of the Shrinky Dinks empire.
Licensing agreements came and went, and Morris decided to try a different business model. Instead of focusing on licensing, she shifted to supplying materials. Now, all companies that want to use the Shrinky Dinks name are required to purchase the plastic directly from K & B Innovations.
Since its inception, Shrinky Dinks has appeared in 400 different products and been sold in more than 40 countries. In all, the company has sold about $150 million worth of those plastics kits.
Now that you know the story behind the Shrinky Dinks enterprise, it's time to pick apart the science of why this one type of plastic has such strange and wonderful properties in the presence of heat.
Polystyrene's Properties
The plastic that's used in Shrinky Dinks is called polystyrene. You'll see it frequently in cafeterias – it's used for the clear lids that protect sandwiches and other foods. If you dig through your recycling bin, you'll almost certainly come up with recycled plastic No. 6. That's polystyrene, too. In fact, by simply cutting apart these containers, sanding and coloring them, they'll work just like the plastics in Shrinky Dinks.
All plastics are polymers, which are long chains of repeating molecules. Polystyrene, like so many plastics, is made from petroleum-based chemistry.
Polystyrene has some distinct characteristics. At room temperature, it's rigid, lightweight and transparent, making it well-suited for food containers and similar products. When warmed to temperatures above 375 degrees Fahrenheit (190 degrees Celsius), polystyrene melts and can easily be manipulated into many shapes.
To make sheets of plastics like those needed for Shrinky Dinks, manufacturers use an extrusion process. In short, that means they load all of the ingredients for polystyrene into a heated mixing drum, which then forces the pliable, rubbery plastic through a slot die, creating sheets that are 0.09 inches (2.3 millimeters) thick.
While the sheets of 0.09-inch (2.3-millimeter) plastic are still warm, the machine feeds them through a roller that compresses the sheets down to 0.01 inches (0.3 millimeters) in thickness. And here's where the true magic of the process happens. Those rollers are cooled, meaning they quickly chill the freshly compressed plastic, in essence "freezing" the plastic molecules into their stretched and flattened form.
What consumers receive, then, are sheets of polymers just begging to return to their original extruded 0.09-inch (2.3-millimeter) shape. When heated in ovens, that's exactly what happens. Warmed to a more flexible condition, the molecules realign themselves and return to a thicker sheet that's two-thirds smaller. It's as if the polystyrene remembers its original form. That's why some people refer to polystyrene as memory plastic.
Not all plastics shrink evenly, and that's partly because of production conditions. In stretching the plastics, manufacturers can pull them in just one direction (called axially oriented) or two directions (biaxially oriented). When warmed, polymers that are axially oriented shrink unevenly. Those that are biaxially oriented, however, return to their original shape without much distortion. Shrinky Dinks require biaxially oriented polystyrene – otherwise, when shrunk, your cute cartoon characters might take on nightmarish proportions.
Serious Shrinking
The same properties that entice kids to play with polystyrene also appeal to scientists and researchers, but for much more serious purposes. Dr. Michelle Khine, who works at the University of California, Irving, is a biomedical engineer who has utilized the shrinking effects of polystyrene in several projects [source: UCMerced].
It all started when she was working with microfluidics devices, which are basically computer chips interlaced with tiny tubes that serve as plumbing. With limited funding, she lacked the type of pricey facilities capable of quickly cranking out prototype devices to keep projects moving forward.
Instead of waiting for better circumstances, she improvised. She etched microfluidics patterns onto the polymer sheets and then shrank them. As the sheets shrank, the patterns on them bulged and became more pronounced. Those etchings in effect become the minute plumbing perfect for experiments requiring cell assay or very small samples of body fluids.
Ultimately, these kinds of devices are used for important purposes. They can be designed to test for diseases inexpensively and quickly (particularly in countries where medical facilities are substandard), determine drug toxicity or even help culture stem cells.
Stem cells, for instance, require a lot of constant upkeep, as researchers must continually change the fluids that nourish and suspend the cells in tiny, separated chambers. When that process has to be done for each individual group of cells, it's time-consuming drudgery. With sophisticated, interconnected microfluidics chambers created on polystyrene, the process can be completed in one quick, clever step. That speeds up research, which in turns speeds up results.
Really, any sort of science that relies on small, intricate components might benefit from Shrinky Dinks plastic. That's especially true for anyone who works with computer data storage, solar energy or other research that necessitates a lot of trial and error. Designs are easily applied to the plastic and then they are shrunk to a much smaller size that suits testing.
Best of all, the sheets of plastic are so inexpensive that scientists can change their designs on the fly and see their work in action in just minutes instead of days or weeks.
It's heady stuff for a polymer that's most popularly known as a children's toy and packaging material. From home ovens to high-tech labs, Shrinky Dinks kits aren't just a fun diversion for artsy kids (and adults). They're potentially a tool to solve some of the world's pressing problems, too.
Author's Note: How Shrinky Dinks Work
Play time and serious research have often intersected. Sometimes it's the fun that accidentally leads to scientific breakthroughs. Other times, as with Shrinky Dinks, an established industry product finds an entirely new market thanks to playful, fresh eyes. Furthermore, Shrinky Dinks are proof that plastics like polystyrene are an indispensable aspect of our current society.
Related Articles
- Big Time Toys Corporate Page. "The Shrinky Dinks Story." (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.bigtimetoys.com/SDPR/History_of_Shrinky_Dinks09-2012.pdf
- Ceceri, Kathy. "Shrinky Dinks Science Creates Tiny Dark Evil Creatures." Wired. May 23, 2008. (Nov. 14, 2014) http://archive.wired.com/geekdad/2008/05/shrinky-dink-sc/
- Fellman, Megan. "The Nano World of Shrinky Dinks." Northwestern University. Aug. 13, 2010. (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/08/shrinky-dinks-nanopatterning-odom.html
- Forker, Jennifer. "Creative Uses for Shrinky Dinks Keep Growing." AZ Central. Sep. 14, 2011. (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.azcentral.com/style/hfe/articles/2011/09/14/20110914shrinky-dinks-craft-projects.html
- Goates, Wayne. "Shrinking Science." National Science Teachers Association. Feb. 1, 2002. (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.nsta.org/publications/news/story.aspx?id=46502
- Hajewski, Doris. "Shrinky Dinks Founder Hopes to Sell Toy Business." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Oct. 27, 2008. (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.jsonline.com/business/33422804.html
- Leonard Gelfand Center. "Shrinky Dinks." Carnegie Mellon University. (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.cmu.edu/gelfand/k12-teachers/polymers/molecular-rearrangement/shrinky-dinks.html
- Rhodes, Jesse. "The Science of Shrinky Dinks." Smithsonian. Oct. 14, 2010. (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-science-of-shrinky-dinks-36715644/?no-ist
- Rosenberg, Max. "This Scientist is Using a Cheap Kids Toy to Detect Diseases." Business Insider. Feb. 26, 2013. (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.businessinsider.com/dr-michelle-khine-on-biomedical-engineering-2013-2
- Rowe, Aaron. "Hack: Young Professor Makes Lab-On-a-Chip with Shrinky Dink and Toaster Oven." Dec. 4, 2007. (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.wired.com/2007/12/macgyver-scienc/
- Shrinky Dinks Corporate History Page. "Shrinky Dinks History." (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.shrinkydinks.com/SD_history.htm
- Shrinky Dinks Maker Corporate Page. "About Shrinky Dinks." (Nov. 14, 2014) http://shrinkydinksmaker.com/about-2/
- University of California, Merced Press Release. "Child's Play Leads to Serious Innovations in Shrinky Dinks Microfluidics." Mar. 7, 2008. (Nov. 14, 2014) http://www.ucmerced.edu/news/2008/childs-play-leads-serious-innovations-shrinky-dinks-microfluidics


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