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A method and system for collaborative annotation by team members of a master document using a digital pen system is described. At least one hardcopy printout of the master document is printed on digital paper used with a digital pen system. Using the digital pen, annotations are made to the hardcopy representation. The user may then select which of the annotations may be shared with each of the particular team members. In another example, the user may select annotations for promotion onto an action item cover sheet.
1. A method for managing the annotation of a document comprising:
obtaining an original document;
making an original electronic version of the document available to an annotation manager system;
associating the original electronic version of the document with digital paper;
printing a plurality of hardcopies of the original electronic version of the document on the associated digital paper;
distributing the hardcopies to a plurality of team members;
receiving a plurality of annotations from the team members;
receiving selective sharing data for at least one selected annotations of the plurality of annotations from the respective team members that authored the respective annotation, wherein the selective sharing data comprises digital pen strokes on the associated digital paper that indicate a selective sharing mode and corresponding annotation selection pen strokes made in the vicinity of the at least one selected annotations;
associating each public annotation with a location in the original electronic version of the document and a group of team members allowed access to each respective public annotation; and
associating each non-public annotation with a location in a non-public electronic version of the document.
2. The method of
creating a new annotated version of the original electronic version of the document incorporating the public annotations.
3. The method of
incorporating annotation metadata into the new annotated version.
4. The method of
the metadata includes a time and date associated with each annotation; and
the metadata includes a user identification for each annotation.
5. The method of
anchoring at least one of the annotations to a paragraph of the original electronic version of the document.
6. The method of
determining if any annotations collide.
7. The method of
if annotations collide, determining if annotation priority can resolve the collision, and resolving the collision by ignoring the lower priority annotation.
8. The method of
if annotation priority cannot resolve the collision, modifying the annotations to remove the collision.
9. The method of
grouping a plurality of pen strokes into each of the plurality of annotations.
10. The method of
the grouping step utilizes time and space data associated with each pen stroke.
11. The method of
receiving selective sharing data for each of the plurality of annotations from the team members includes receiving permitted recipient data from a respective author of each respective annotation and the selective sharing data comprises digital pen strokes on the associated digital paper that encircle the at least one selected annotations.
12. A method for managing the promotion of annotations on a digital paper document for a user comprising:
printing a hardcopy of the original electronic version of the digital paper document on associated digital paper;
receiving a plurality of annotations from the user by receiving user pen strokes that were placed on the hardcopy;
receiving a content promotion command indication from the user, wherein the content promotion command comprises user digital pen strokes made on the associated hardcopy that indicate a content promotion command and corresponding annotation selection user pen strokes that were placed on the hardcopy near at least one of the plurality of annotations to indicate content promotion selection of the at least one of the plurality of annotations;
determining which pen strokes indicate content promotion selection; and
rendering a duplicate copy of each selected annotation associated with the content promotion selection on a separate content promotion page of the document.
13. The method of
exporting action item data based upon the content promotion selection data.
14. The method of
incorporating annotation metadata into the rendered copy.
15. The method of
each content promotion selection is rendered on the content promotion page in the order that the annotation appears in the document.
16. The method of
each content promotion selection is rendered on the content promotion page in the order that the annotation was selected for promotion.
17. The method of
grouping a set of pen strokes as an annotation using a relatedness parameter.
18. The method of
determining the relatedness parameter using spatial data related to the pen strokes.
19. The method of
determining the relatedness parameter using temporal data related to the pen strokes.
The present application is related to co-pending, commonly owned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/707,582, filed Dec. 22, 2003, entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANNOTATING DOCUMENTS, which is incorporated herein by reference.
The illustrative embodiments described in the present application are useful in systems including those for document modification and workflow and more particularly are useful in systems including those for collaborative annotation of documents including selective sharing of annotations and selective creation of action item events.
Documents are often created by groups of people that collaborate through iterations of additions, changes and suggestions. Team collaboration is often used when creating or maintaining documents. A principle author may create an original document. Similarly, a principle author may create an initial draft of a document. The principle author typically uses a processing system such as a personal computer with document creation software installed. Once created, the document may be circulated to several team members for annotation. Typically, hardcopy paper printouts are circulated to the team members. The team members then each mark the document as needed and forward the annotations to the principle author or another designated person so that the updates and comments may be processed.
The processing system typically includes a personal computer such as an INTEL PENTIUM � based personal computer using the MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP � operating system. A physical hardcopy printout of the electronic master version of the document may be created using a laser or inkjet printer. Computer systems are typically used to edit and publish each revision of the document. The documents are often word processor data files used with a word processor and the computer systems typically include word processing programs such as MICROSOFT � WORD � (hereinafter "WORD") manufactured by Microsoft Corporation of One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Wash. However, the documents may also include, but are not limited to, business reports, contracts, legal briefs, articles, books, speeches, reports, slide show presentations, financial reports, technical drawings, sales, marketing and advertising materials.
In a traditional document collaboration effort, a principle author or editor creates an original document draft. The copies of the draft are circulated to the group and a member of the group is assigned the task of updating the draft to a new version. The group members typically provide change suggestions or comments by annotating the paper copy and returning it to the editor. The task of updating is usually performed by the principle author or editor and may include adding information, deleting information and/or changing information. There may be many hardcopy comment versions to reconcile and the process may be cumbersome. Furthermore, two or more of the suggestions may present a conflict and the member updating the draft may decide to enter the competing versions as alternatives or resolve the conflict. The process may be iterative as the editor circulates subsequent drafts for comment until the document is finalized.
The draft versions are typically hand-delivered or circulated by mail. More recently, document teams have begun using word-processing systems such as WORD that include some collaborations features. For example, draft versions of WORD documents may be distributed electronically. The team members may enter suggested changes and comments using the Track Changes feature of WORD. The editor then decides which changes to accept. The editing/annotation process may be accomplished in a round-robin fashion, with one single electronic copy circulated to each team member in a serial fashion. Such a system requires that the team members utilize a computer equipped with WORD and may also require that only one team member at a time manually check-out the document to enter suggestions.
Such traditional annotation methods are cumbersome, time-consuming and error-prone when the number of recipients is more than a very small number. Furthermore, such traditional methods do not provide for selective sharing of annotations and for selective creation of action item entries based upon annotations.
The present application describes systems and methods for providing a document annotation manager system for use in team collaboration environment and for providing for selective sharing of annotations in the collaborative environment. Using a digital paper and paper system (DPP), an electronic document is associated with the special digital paper that is used for hardcopy printouts. Each team member may annotate the document using a digital pen. Using the illustrative embodiments described herein, the team member may then selectively choose which annotations to share with which team members. The globally selected annotations are then each displayed with the electronic version of the original draft together with an identifier listing the particular team member and a time stamp for the annotation. The non-globally selected annotations are then displayed as an overlay with an appropriate privacy notice on the electronic versions viewed by only the selected team members.
In a further illustrative embodiment, the user may select a subset of annotations in order to create an action item list such as promoted annotations on a cover page or action item data entries that may be exported to a calendaring system.
The accompanying drawings illustrate presently preferred embodiments of the invention, and together with the general description given above and the detailed description given below, serve to explain the principles of the invention. As shown throughout the drawings, like reference numerals designate like or corresponding parts.
Illustrative embodiments describing systems and methods for the collaborative annotation of documents are described. Digital Pen and Paper systems (DPP) allow a user to capture or digitize handwriting or pen strokes that the user writes on a medium such as a piece of paper by using a processor such as a personal computer. DPP systems include the Sony-Ericsson CHA-30 CHATPEN and ANOTO paper available from Anoto AB of Sweden. However, other digital pen systems may also be utilized. The illustrative embodiments are described with reference to several examples. Furthermore, the embodiments include alternatives such as including the illustrative embodiments of co-pending, commonly owned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/707,582, filed Dec. 22, 2003, entitled SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ANNOTATING DOCUMENTS, which is incorporated herein by reference.
Traditional physical documents are often used in a team environment for collaboration among team members. The systems and methods described in the above reference patent application provide Digital Pen and Paper (DPP) based annotation manager systems. A system described there utilizes a digital pen is distributed to each member of a team along with a hard copy of the document. Each member of the team may write annotations on a common hard copy of the document or an individual copy of the document. Such annotations would be transferred from the physical realm to the digital realm and they would be merged with the original digital document.
Traditional pen and paper tools adequately support groups that are working with a single copy of a document and only need to view the annotations on or near creation time. With all members of the team present in one location, it is easy to identify and/or clarify annotations from the team member even before they are written. However, this is not always the most practical or the most convenient approach for a group.
For example, a user may prefer that her annotations remain private or be shared with only a subset of a team. Accordingly, she may wish to share a subset of her notes with specific individuals. Additionally, a user may want to organize annotations and/or generate action items directly from her handwritten notes. In a traditional paper environment, the user's notes on the paper would be static and inflexible by nature. In the methods and systems described herein, the user is provided a system for manipulating the electronically captured pen stroke annotations to allow organization of the comments and action item creation.
Selective Sharing Annotation Manager System
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The illustrative DCS configuration shown includes an author's personal computer 12 and the original author of a DPP annotation capable document uses an application on the PC 12 such as ADOBE PDF (or MICROSOFT WORD) in step 1 to create the original version of document 14. The document 14 may be printed, but it may also be transmitted electronically in step 2. The DPP processing system in the illustrative embodiment is an instance of the HP FORMS AUTOMATION SYSTEM (HP-FAS) 16 available from Hewlett Packard Company of Palo Alto, Calif. In step 3, the document is sent to storage in the Digitized Document Repository 18. In step 4, a user from a collaborative group of users with personal computers and communications access to the DCS 10 retrieves the document. In step 5, a user sends a print request to the FAS 16. In step 6, the FAS 16 sends a print command to DPP printer 20 that is capable of printing digital paper such as ANOTO paper. In step 7, the digitized document hard copies 24 are provided to the users.
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Sharing specific pieces of annotations on any part of any page can prove to be a difficult challenge. This system overcomes the challenges presented utilizing several techniques including using a special DPP cover sheet as described herein. Alternatively, the left margins of every page of a DPP document are reserved for checkboxes used to indicate a user's intent to share the annotations. In another alternative, the system may utilize gesture recognition of editorial annotations (e.g., *, & %, #, etc.) to mark notes that are to be shared and to indicate which team members should be allowed access to the notes. The system aggregates the annotation digital pen strokes electronically to generate the final version of the electronic document that mimics the physical one. The annotation pen strokes contain information that is useful to identify and manipulate the content. Hence, the user is able to lift digital content onto front of the document in electronic realm. Thereafter, the key contents such as comments, action items, and others can be identified.
This system provides a model in which users can freely annotate a document independent of other members of the group. Once the annotations are made on the same physical document or any other copy of the document, the annotations can be viewed electronically through the system. Users also have the option to share all or specific pieces of their annotations with the entire group or only certain members of the group, thereby supporting privacy and simultaneous collaboration. Annotations are also converted to ASCII text, which allows the user to read annotations more easily and search them if needed. If a user selects to share an annotation with the entire team, it is a public annotation at least in terms of being publicly available to all of the team members. If any team member is not included in the distribution for a particular annotation, the annotation is a non-public annotation. In that case, the annotation has a distribution profile that determines who can access the annotation. The system may render separate versions of the underlying document for each team member based upon the distribution profile for each annotation or may render them when requested by a team member.
In the illustrative system described here, each user is assigned a personal digital pen. The user can then use that pen to make annotations on any digital document create using the DCS. When the user is done annotating a document, the annotation pen stroke information stored on the pen must be downloaded to a corresponding computer such as a desktop computer, a laptop, or a cell phone. The information may be transferred in real time over a wireless link or in some batch mode when the pen is physically docked with the corresponding computer. Once the information is downloaded from the pen and sent to the APS via the HP-FAS service controller, the annotations are stored in a database. A rendering is created for the newly annotated document and any shared documents that may be affected. The user or any team member with authorization may then view the annotations through the AVS.
The APS incorporates much of the functionality described relating to the enhanced sharing of annotations according to the illustrative embodiments described here. When a user is merely viewing her annotations, the system merges the annotations with the background image in a straightforward manner. A different approach is applied when viewing annotations from more than one user merged together. In this embodiment, each team member is registered with the system as a participant in the particular collaboration effort associated with the DPP Document. During the registration process, each pen is assigned a unique annotation color and each pen is associated with a user. All strokes that are made with the pen assigned to a particular user will appear digitally in the assigned color. This approach provides for quick identification if you know which color is assigned to each user.
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One approach for processing the pen strokes would be to add the proper date/time stamp and user information to every stroke. However, that approach would make the document extremely cluttered. Natural handwriting involves lifting up the pen (and thus discontinuing pressure) various times when writing or drawing. This natural property of writing or drawings creates a need for the system to logically group the strokes. The ACS intelligently groups strokes by scoring each of the strokes relative to each other based on how "related" they are. The term "related" refers to how likely two strokes were intended by the user to be a single annotation. This relatedness property has temporal as well as spatial components. It is understood that that 2 or more strokes are related if they are relatively close to one another in time and in space.
The following algorithm is used to estimate the temporal relatedness of 2 or more pen strokes by the following equation:
A different algorithm is utilized to determine spatial relatedness according to the following formula:
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When two or more team members are collaborating and annotating different physical copies of the same underlying document, they may write annotations in the same area of a page. If these annotations are simply transferred to the electronic realm and merged down onto the page without further processing, it would be very hard to tell what each user wrote because their strokes collide. In order to avoid the collision problem, the APS utilizes a hierarchy of users in which each team member has a corresponding rank. When annotations from two separate users collide, the annotation from the user with higher rank will be shown on the final copy and the other will be ignored. Alternatively, the second annotation may be indicated in the margin or by providing a note indicating where it can be found.
If annotations from two or more users with the same rank collide, then the APS separates the annotations so that they will each fit on the page and will not interfere with each other. The system does this by first properly grouping the strokes of the annotations as described above with reference to the ACS, and then by scaling and positioning the annotations so that they fit on the page and each can be seen. Furthermore, two additional separate versions of the document are made available each including the original annotations fro the two users.
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It has been established that system users do not always want to share all of their annotations with the entire team. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to allow the user to be able to share all or some of the annotations selectively. In this system, a special DPP cover sheet 60 is used to determine how the user wishes to share annotations. Alternatively, similar selection tools can be added in the margins of the physical pages to perform the same function. Therefore, the user is provided with a mechanism to decide which annotations to share with which team members. In order to share specific annotations, the user selects the proper command on the cover sheet and then draws a box around the annotation or annotations that the user wants to share. The box is interpreted as a command to the APS and will not be displayed in the electronic draft of the annotation. As can be appreciated, additional selection mechanisms may be utilized.
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While there are many possible methods for selecting comments for promotion, the illustrative example allows the user to identify the content she intends to convert to action items by circling the content with a bounding stroke. The strokes located within the bounding stroke are considered as the candidates for content rendering. These strokes rendered to image files, and then finally merge onto a digital document such as PDF. The main purpose of this aspect of the system is to allow the user to copy (promote) her comments from the document body onto the front of the electronic rendering of the document in question. Accordingly, the activity is referred to as Content Promotion.
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In a second content promotion example, the user takes notes (annotations) with the digital pen in a normal fashion. The user then checks the Content Promotion checkbox of the cover page. Then, the user circles the annotations to be promoted in a sequential manner on the document body that need to be brought forward. Finally, the user docks the digital pen in the cradle and the system processes the content promotion algorithm to bring a copy of the circled annotations to the cover page in the order that they were circled. The third and forth steps must be completed in order. Furthermore, in the example, the user must circle the contents in a sequential order without being interrupted by any strokes that are not bounding strokes.
The content promotion algorithm includes several steps. Including searching for qualified stroke bounding boxes, rendering the strokes onto a blank page or onto predefined background images and converting the rendered image file or files to a more useful format such as Portable Document Format (PDF).
First, the program searches for qualified bounding strokes. The program gathers all of the pen strokes from the current session and all of those from historical sessions if they exist. Historical sessions for each user on particular document templates are stored in a database and may be retrieved for processing. Each pen stroke contains many parameters including information such as the start and end time of the stroke, the page number of the stroke and the (x, y) coordinates of the stroke. The system then stores or sorts the strokes in time order sequence. Then the system retrieves the latest stroke from the sequence. If the programming is following the first content promotion check box processing example described above, the system finds the latest stroke for whole document and then go through all remaining strokes. The system then finds all strokes in which the bounding falls within the bounding box of the page where the latest stroke is located. These strokes are considered qualified strokes and are then saved to a temporary location that holds strokes targeted for content promotion. After the program loops through the list of strokes on the page, the searching process will stop and the program will move on to the next step if the temporary storage for qualified strokes is empty or if the strokes are located on first page of the document where the check box is located. Otherwise, the stroke will be saved along with its associated end timestamp, bounding box, page number and a list of strokes located within its bounding box.
Secondly, the system renders the qualified strokes onto an image file. The qualified strokes are merged either to blank pages or predefined background images. They are copied to front of the electronic rendering of the physical document and saved in memory. However, the first page of the document 90 that includes the content promotion checkbox requires special rendering. Instead of merging the background image of this page with its strokes, the first page of the document actually generates multiple images where each represents a promoted content. The files for these images are given unique names.
In the third step, the system merges the image files into a PDF file. After the image files are generated, this system merges the image files onto a PDF file using a merging program such as the iText API. In this embodiment, the first page of the PDF file includes all of the promoted content images. The images are organized on the electronic page in time-ordered fashion. Additional information such as, page number and content timestamps are also displayed for user's convenience. The page number and the timestamp are parsed from the file name. The rest of the pages in the PDF file are simply a merger of the background images and the annotation strokes.
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In step 145, the process determines whether the current stroke is newer than the latest stroke from all of the pages. If not, the process returns to step 125. If it is, the process proceeds to step 150 and saves the stroke as the latest stroke of all pages. In step 155, the process starts to loop through all pen strokes on the page that includes the latest pen stroke. If there are more strokes, the system proceeds to step 160. In step 160, the system determines whether the stroke is within the boundary of the latest stroke. If it is not, the process returns to step 155. If it is, the system proceeds to step 165 to store the stroke in a temporary location and then returns to step 155. If there are no more pen strokes after step 155, the system proceeds to step 170.
In step 170, the process determines whether any pen strokes are stored in the temporary location. If there are, the system proceeds to step 175. In step 175, the process determines whether strokes are located on the same page that includes the content promotion check box. If not, the system proceeds to step 180 to save the strokes with page number and bounding stroke timestamp. The process then returns to step 125. If strokes are located on the same page in step 175, the process proceeds to step 185 and ignores the pen strokes and then proceeds to step 195. In step 170, if there are no strokes stored in the temporary location, the process proceeds to step 195.
In step 195, the process determines if it has completed looping through all of the pages. If not, the system proceeds to step 200. In step 200, if the page number is not 1, the system proceeds to step 190 and saves the normal content. To save the normal content, the system merges the page background image with the pen strokes on the page. If the page number is 1, the process proceeds to step 205 to save the promoted content. To save the promoted content, the system processes the saved pen strokes and merges them into images using the page number and bounding stroke timestamp as the image file name.
If the system has looped through all of the pages in step 195, the system proceeds to step 210 and pastes all of the promoted content images onto a PDF file with the bounding stroke time and page number. The system then proceeds to step 215 and pastes and appends all normal content images onto the PDF file. Finally, the process ends in step 220.
The illustrative embodiments of the present application are described with reference to a word processing system such as the MICROSOFT� WORD system. However, the embodiments of the present application may be used with other document creation and editing systems such as CAD systems and presentation systems including MICROSOFT� POWERPOINT. The systems described herein may be implemented using computer software development systems such as MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO� and using programming languages such as C and C++ with appropriate libraries. Similarly, a commercial product modification tool such as VISUAL BASIC APPLICATIONS (VBA) may be used to modify a commercial application such as WORD. Alternatively, an open source system such as OPEN OFFICE may be modified to perform the functions described herein.
The processing systems used are typically INTEL PENTIUM� based personal computer, but other computers such as MACINTOSH APPLE computers may be used. Similarly, the processing systems may include, but are not limited to, data processors, keyboards, dictation equipment, drawing tablets, pointing devices, mobile computers, tablet computers, Personal Digital Assistants (PDA), cell phones and digital pens.
The illustrative embodiments described herein utilize the HP DP 250 pen system. However, other digital pens including LOGITECH pens may be utilized. Certain digital pen systems utilize an imaging device to scan or record an image of the pen stroke. Other digital pens use mechanical sensors in order to record a pen stroke. Digital pen systems may utilize positioning systems such as light-based scanning systems including infrared (IR) sources and detectors in order to determine an absolute or relative position of the pen. Those pen systems and the digital pen systems include the LOGITECH IO pen system from Logitech of Freemont, Calif., the N-SCRIBE system available from Digital Ink of Wellesley, Mass. and the E-PEN system available from E-Pen InMotion of Matam, Haifa Israel may be utilized. Similarly, digital pointing device systems including the V-PEN system available from OTM Technologies of Herzliya Israel may be used.
The present application describes illustrative embodiments of a system and method for annotating documents. The embodiments are illustrative and not intended to present an exhaustive list of possible configurations. Where alternative elements are described, they are understood to fully describe alternative embodiments without repeating common elements whether or not expressly stated to so relate. Similarly, alternatives described for elements used in more than one embodiment are understood to describe alternative embodiments for each of the described embodiments having that element.
The described embodiments are illustrative and the above description may indicate to those skilled in the art additional ways in which the principles of this invention may be used without departing from the spirit of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of each of the claims is not to be limited by the particular embodiments described.
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Domestic Violence in Victorian England By Megan Markevich "Wife beating" was a prominent occurrence in Victorian times. It is socially acceptable and may be seen as a characteristic of the lower classes, but "wife beating" is prevalent in all classes. In William Montagu"s social investigation Round London: Down East and Up West, he tells of women in the hospital: "Sometimes as many as twelve or fourteen women may be seen seated in the receiving-room, waiting for their bruised and bleeding faces and bodies to be attended to […] In nine cases out of ten the injuries have been inflicted by brutal and perhaps drunken husbands" (Montagu). Many incidents of domestic violence in Victorian times are influenced by alcohol. But "wife beating" is present in all classes, not just the lower classes as Montagu portrays. Caroline Norton, a Victorian author in mid nineteenth century England, commonly writes of her husband"s continuous "wife-beating." Her husband being a member of parliament is obviously not lower class. Yet she writes of his "physical violence" towards her and how the servants restrain him from "inflicting serious damage" (Norton 1). Sir Pitt also beats his wife also even though he is considered upper class. The article "Spousal Abuse" discusses that Victorian perception of religion, domestic principles, and laws allows men to justify "wife-beating." Domestic violence during Victorian times is mainly attributed to the idea that the man is the ruler in all worlds. The man"s responsibility of being a protector is the main idea in contributing to domestic violence. In the area of religion the "emphasis of religious based subordination suggested that, for a woman to be virtuous and serve God, she must follow the lead of her husband […] this gave men the impression that they had a God given right to control their wives, even if this mean through the use of physical correction" (Nolte 1). Due to the fact that religion is claimed to be an important Victorian ideal, men believe that for women to lead a virtuous life, she must follow the wishes of her husband. Even if these wishes allow her to be beat. Domestic principles of Victorian England also promoted the dominance of men. The husband was the supreme being in the house and it was "a husband"s duty to protect his wife […] this authority also allowed for him to use violence, if necessary, in order to keep her in line" (Nolte 3). Caroline Norton gave evidence of this when she disagreed with her husband upon the actions of another lady. When Norton defended this certain lady, her husband "seized me by the nape of the neck, and dashed me down on the floor" (Norton 5). Norton"s husband believed that he was keeping her "in line." Also a lot of the laws in Victorian England favored men. A man had legal power over most all of his wife"s possessions, including her wages, children, and any inheritance. Many women felt enslaved to their husbands as Frances Power Cobbe describes in her writing "Wife Torture in England:" "The whole relation between the sexes in the class we are considering is very little better than one of master and slave" (Hamilton 442). The comparison between the relationships of a wife and husband versus a slave and his master is very common in Victorian literature concerning domestic violence. The laws of the Victorian era contributed to this relationship because it gave the legal right for men to be overbearing: "It was widely accepted around the world that "wife-beating- was included in a man"s legal right power over his wife and her property" (Nolte 2). "Wife-beating" is not taken seriously in Victorian times as it is today. The men casually justified it, while most women accepted it as a way of life. The ideals concerning law, religion, and domestic roles contributed to the allowance of spouse abuse. But, in the later nineteenth century, women did gain some rights through reform laws which allowed them child custody and possession of their own things. Works Cited "Caroline Norton." The National Archives Learning Curve. 3 November 2004. <http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wnorton.htm>. Hamilton, Susan. "Making History with Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminism, Domestic Violence, and the Language of Imperialism." EBSCOHost. 4 November 2004. <http://search.epnet.com>. Montagu, Williams. Round London: Down Easy and Up West. 1894. The Victorian Dictionary. 4 November 2004.<http://www.victorianlondon.org>. Nolte, Michelle. "Spousal Abuse" Women's Issues Then and Now: A Feminist Overview of the Past Two Centuries. 3 November 2004. <http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/femhist/spousal_abuse.shtml>.
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On 9/15/11 I purchased a brand new 2011 Ram 1500 Tradesman, with a 5.7 Hemi. Filled up only once so far. Used 89 octane with ethanol. My manual say 87 octane is acceptable, 89 octane is preferred. All the gas stations close to me have ethanol in their 87 & 89 octane gas. But on my way to work, there are a few stations that have 87 octane with out the ethanol.
So, why is 89 octane preferred over 87 anyway? And if I used 87 with out the ethanol, would I notice any difference (less MPG, etc.)?
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I dont think it makes any difference. If so, it would sure be hard to tell. 87 with ethanol in my tank every time. No problems here at all.
89 octane allows the computer to not have to pull as much timing to avoid pinging. In some cases though even with 89 the computer will pull timing so you have to go 93
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87 octane will work good for you
if you have low RPM pinging, it is ok
if you have higher RPM pinging, you need to jump up to 89 octane
as far as ethanol is concerned, if you put in more than 10% ethanol, your warranty won't cover your Ram engine
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I've actually been experimenting with 89 NON-ethanol gas to see if there was any MPG difference. There is not. I'd say the truck runs a little better and has a little more pep out of the gate, but not to justify the $4.19 price they want around me. 89 with 10% ethanol is the cheapest, best way to do it. IMO
Ethanol has a lower BTU content than gas, so (at least on paper) 87 non blend could perform better than 89 with ethanol. As an example, the new 4.7 Ram get 13/18 mpg on gas, 9/13 on E85!
Running 93 all the time won't hurt anything but your wallet!
All the previous posts seem dead on....they recommend 89 octane because of the amount of compression and timing advance in the engine....87 will not hurt the engine, but if the knock sensor sees pinging/detonation it will retard timing and you will lose some mpg/performance. Some people say they get much better mpg/performance with the higher octane and some say they don't notice a difference, you'll have to experiment. Some say they even see better results with 91/93 octane as well, but I think that's usually not the case. Running a higher octane than required will never cause damage, but will cost more. You should run the lowest octane you can without causing pinging and loss in performance/mpg (to get the most for your money). I would definitely recommend ethanol free gas, you WILL get better mpg and peformance with it, like he said above ethanol has less energy per volume than pure gasoline.
From all my years playing with unnaturally aspirated engines, I've learned that not only does the octane rating stated on the pump differ, but what brand of station. I've had great performance with Arco, and absolutely crappy with Texaco and Shell.
The reality is that 87 will suffice for the vast majority of drivers.
^that's true, just because it says "87", doesn't mean you get 87....also, just because it says "up to 10% ethanol", doesn't mean it's not more than 10% ethanol...Some stations around me have been busted for purposely not providing what they advertise, others fined for doing it on accident.
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Jul. 15–WASHINGTON — Frustrated tomato growers and sellers have asked the government to lift a five-week-old salmonella warning and want taxpayers to reimburse them for losses that could exceed $100 million, industry officials said yesterday.
Tomato farmers, packers and distributors made the request to the Food and Drug Administration last week, a month after the agency first told consumers to avoid eating certain tomatoes from suspected regions, later identified as parts of Florida and Mexico.
Industry officials say they no longer see a need to keep the warning. Tomatoes haven't been harvested from the suspected areas in weeks, and investigators haven't found any evidence that tomatoes were to blame. Last week, the government said it had expanded the focus of the investigation to include jalapeno peppers and other produce.
"After going through fields and packing houses, testing over 2,000 samples and not finding one positive, we feel the time has come to release tomatoes and make it clear they were not part of this crisis," said Bob Spencer, a part owner of West Coast Tomato, a Florida grower and packer.
Industry officials from California and Florida, two of the country's leading tomato producing states, said they have started talking to members of Congress about getting legislation that would compensate them for losses that could reach $250 million.
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State and federal investigators implicated tomatoes early on, and the FDA issued a nationwide warning June 7 that cautioned consumers against eating raw red plum, red Roma and round red tomatoes. The only exceptions were vine-on tomatoes, cherry tomatoes and grape tomatoes — as well as tomatoes from areas that weren't harvesting the crop at the time the outbreak began.
That list of cleared regions has grown to encompass virtually all sources of tomatoes — 44 states and eight countries.
Industry officials have argued to the FDA that, at this point, the warning is serving only to scare away consumers and threaten the long-term prospects of a $3 billion-a-year industry.
"They are very quick to say, 'Stop eating,'" said Tom Nassif, president of Western Growers Association, representing Arizona and California farmers, packers and shippers. "They have to put as much effort into saying, 'Tomatoes are safe to eat,' as when tomatoes were the possible source."
FDA officials are talking about eliminating the list of cleared regions and plan to talk with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about possible steps to clarify any warning to consumers, said Dr. David Acheson, the FDA's associate commissioner for foods. But people keep getting infected, and investigators cannot yet rule out tomatoes, he said.
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Some state health officials have said the FDA is being unfairly singled out, because the agency was acting on the findings of health departments in New Mexico and Texas, working with the CDC, in issuing the warning.
Industry officials maintain that tomatoes aren't a threat to consumers, since suspect regions haven't produced tomatoes in a month or more. They also note new evidence that at least a portion of the outbreak was caused by tainted jalapeno peppers, though no contaminated peppers have yet been found.
Last week, the FDA issued a new warning, cautioning the elderly, infants and those with weakened immune systems to stay away from raw jalapeno and serrano peppers, which are often confused with jalapenos.
Tomato growers are especially frustrated because they must decide soon whether to plant for the coming season. Growers don't want to make the $10,000-an-acre investment if the warning persists and consumer demand remains low.
"If we don't seed the crop, we're out of business. If we do seed the crop and FDA doesn't clear us, we're out of business," said Reggie Brown, executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Exchange, an association of growers and shippers.
Industry officials say the FDA's inaction has forced them to seek help from Congress. Tomato farmers, distributors and retailers are trying to determine the precise amount of damages the scare has caused.
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The problem is that the seller cannot disclose what he does not know.
It takes a professional such as a surveyor, rigger or diesel mechanic to find certain types of problems.
TJ, no offense, but how long have you been around boats? How many boats have you bought/sold?
When I sold my last boat, the surveyor found (minor) things that I was not aware of. In fact it is very, very unusual for a survey to come out entirely without findings.
You should not be too pissed off on spending $1K on a survey that made you walk, how much would it have cost you in the end if you had bought the vessel?
Again, no problem with the normal minor things a survey would find.
The issue is disclosure. The problem is the sellers/brokers do know but do not disclose. it is what has the OP so upset that he calls them lying DBs! I agree with him.
As far as how many boats have i owned and how long i've been around boats? Funny how by my questioning the process you take me as newb who just fell off a hay wagon. Apparently questioning an imbedded process is a foreign concept here. So just to restate it again, I question the offer - disclosure order of business that is the boat selling industry. Bidding without disclosure is bidding in the blind. Of course all offers are contingent. And surveys will turn up nit picking problems. Most of which won't slow the process. Not what this is about.
To answer your question:
I've owned boats since i was 17 years old. Lets count the boats i've owned-
18' Winner ( or was it a 19'?)
Hobie 16 ( I've owned 3)
Hobie 14
Hobie 18
Inter 20
Inter 17
Mariner 19
Beneteau First 345
Boston Whaler Dauntless 18
Sea Ray 270 Sundancer
Sea Ray 370 Sundancer
How many is that? I bought and sold every one of these boats myself with exception of one Hobie 16, which i still own. Am i qualified to speak or are there more tests?
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1 pound
raw, bulk Italian sausage
1 1/2 cups
brown sugar
1 1/2 cups
white sugar
eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup
chopped pecans
3 cups
all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon
baking powder
1 teaspoon
1 teaspoon
pumpkin pie spice
1 cup
cold coffee
1 teaspoon
baking soda
If you follow this recipe as laid out it works out fantastic and is very delicious. I have cooked it for one Christmas party and for a Christams Eve dinner this year (2007), I ended up passing on the recipe to another 6 people they liked it so much.
One variation I did for the Christmas was to use 1/2 cup less of the brown and white sugars to make it a little less sweet, I also cooked it on a cookie sheet with parchment paper, it took only 60 minutes to cook. It was just as delicious and a little less sweet which went well with the turkey dinner. Both times I cooked this the sausage was fully cooked and you could not even tell it was in the bread.
Lastly - no worries about the sausage being cooked and yes I mixed it in raw. It does not look very apatizing prior to cooking; but, it is outstanding once cooked and looks a little like the traditional fruit cakes.
It's possible that I didn't do something right, but this bread was terrible. Not knowing what I was supposed to do with the sausage, I added it raw to the wet ingredients per the instructions, and it made kind of a thick sludge to which the dry ingredients were added. Once baked off, the bread was just very dense with a strange flavor, vaguely resembling sausage, and clashing horribly with the spices and sweetness. I also thought the bread was too sweet, but then again I tend to not like things as sweet as the average person. Perhaps the sausage should have been cooked and crumbled, and then folded into the bread batter? I could almost see that -- sort of a sweet/savory kind of holiday bread. I hope I just misunderstood the instructions!
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Maybe he gets to see it in the mirror on a daily basis as a reminder of what he's living his life for? It doesn't HAVE to make sense to you. I personally think it's the exact same thing as someone having self-destructive spending habits and racking up thousands of dollars of credit card debt. Why is it OK to criticize someone because they got a mark on their body, but it seems acceptable/accepted that someone smokes cigarettes, etc? IMHO, that's an equally visual indication of someone unable to reason/follow a logical train of thought, no? Is the counter argument that they can quit? Is it/is it not still a character flaw? Is being pre-disposed to addiction and/or fallacious images of 'cool' not at all comparable to having a "permanent" mark on your body? Is it the (opportunity) cost?
I'm all for people having their own opinions regarding body modifications, but there's interesting (double) standards when it comes to calling these decisions out, I find.
Couldn't have said it better myself, tattoos are definitely one of those really subjective areas. I've encountered quite a bit of judgement so I'm used to it but people are stuck in their ways.
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Lot 21 View Catalog
Cargem Mignon No.33 Ultra Lite Spinning Reel. With a very good plus condition leather reel case, this excellent condition blue colored reel with perforated spool and gold medallion is complete with spare spool and fold down handle.
Lang's is privileged to offer items owned by the late author Martin J. Keane. This is one of 309 lots which encompass not only Keane's personal fishing tackle, but moreover the inventory for his upcoming catalogs. Equally important to his lists of quality antique and collectible tackle, was the foundation for collecting that Keane was paramount in creating. His devotion to fine bamboo rods would translate into print when in 1976 he published the landmark volume Classic Rods and Rodmakers. Keane's book exposed a wealth of previously unknown information on many of the greatest rod makers in history. Makers such as Payne, Edwards, Gillum, Garrison and Powell were placed in the well deserved limelight. Detailed aspects of each maker's rods were complimented with personal information and developments on each of their unique styles. Classic Rods and Rodmakers remains a benchmark reference that will continue to inspire rod collectors and fly fishing enthusiasts for decades to come. While tackle collecting was still in its infancy, Keane began to develop a mailed list of for sale tackle items that grew exponentially over the 30 plus years of its distribution. Many collectors can still recall the thrill of receiving a Marty Keane list, filled with exceptional quality rods, reels and flies, and trying to be the first to acquire one of the many outstanding items therein. It can be said that Keane was responsible for the contents of many of the most important rod and fly fishing collections built over the last few decades in this country. In addition to being a highly respected author, collector, and revered tackle broker, Keane worked diligently as a staff member for the Museum of American Fly Fishing. At all times, ready and willing to share, teach, and encourage anyone who showed an interest in fly fishing, the art of rod building or collecting, especially if it involved antique fly fishing accessories of any kind. While his peers mourn the passing of a true gentleman, Marty Keane will live on forever in the annals of fishing tackle collecting and rod appreciation, not only in published reference, but as a pioneer in the field he cherished.