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Bracelets made out of hemp or some other types of cording are very popular. In this video, you'll learn how to make a sliding square knot closure, which is a great way to finish off your free jewelry patterns in a tidy fashion.
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OBAMA: There was a strong anti-Obama sentiment in the Kentucky electorate: Voters there by a 22-point margin say they were casting their ballot to show opposition to Obama rather than support for him, 40 percent vs. 18 percent. And 63 percent disapproved of Obama's job performance overall, vs. 36 percent who approved.
Dissatisfaction with Obama translated directly into votes for Republican Senate candidate Rand Paul, who beat Jack Conway by 81-19 percent among those who disapproved of the job Obama is doing, and by 85-14 percent among those who cast their vote to express opposition to the president.
PARTISANSHIP: There was a higher-than-usual turnout among independents in Kentucky, and fewer Democrats than usual. That helped Paul, who won independents by 58-42 percent and got 91 percent of the Republican vote while Conway got a smaller share of his party's vote, 83 percent.
EXTREME: In a challenge to Paul's popularity, voters divided evenly, 48-48 percent, when asked if Paul's views are too extreme, a line of attack on which Conway focused. Fewer (41 percent) saw Conway as too extreme. But only 15 percent of those who viewed Conway as too extreme vote for him -- while, surprisingly, 27 percent of those who said Paul's views were out of the mainstream backed him anyway.
HEALTH CARE: A 53 percent majority said that the health care plan should be repealed, while 26 percent say it should be expanded and 15 percent said it should be left alone. Paul favors repeal; Conway backs the reform law. Paul won big among the majority of voters who say the health care law should be repealed (84-15 percent). But Conway won among the much smaller proportion of those who say it should be expanded (again 84-15 percent).
ROLE OF GOVERNMENT: Fifty-eight percent say government is doing too many things vs. 39 percent say it should do more to solve problems, in line with Paul's argument. Paul won 79-21 percent among voters who think government is doing too many things while those who think government should do more to solve problems favored Conway, but by a smaller margin (74-25 percent).
TEA PARTY: Kentucky voters supported rather than opposed the Tea Party movement ? with which Paul is associated -- by 43-28 percent-with 87 percent of supporters voting for Paul, as did 54 percent of those who view the movement neutrally. Conway won 90-9 percent among the 28 percent who opposed the movement.
OBAMA: Obama had a 45 percent job approval rating in Florida (which he won with 51 percent of the vote in 2008); 53 percent disapproved. GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio swamped his opponents among Obama disapprovers, with 81 percent of the vote, while Democrat Kendrick Meek and independent Charlie Crist divided Obama supporters.
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At about 1 p.m. this afternoon an inmate of the Bay County Jail walked away from the work crew he had been assigned to for the past month and fled into a nearby wooded area.
Kenneth Edward Godat, DOB 1/24/71, was working with his crew near the intersection of Minnesota Avenue and Baldwin Road when he stepped behind a building, took off his black and white striped inmate uniform and fled into a nearby wooded area. Godat had been working with the crew for about a month and had not had any disciplinary problems.
Before inmates can be assigned to a work crew, they must meet certain criteria. They must be incarcerated for a non-violent crime, evaluated and deemed non-violent and not a threat to society. Godat had been serving a sentence at the Bay County Jail for Grand Theft.
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A new technique is described which provides realtime visual feedback to the user while scrolling in standard windowing environments. This visual scrolling technique makes use of a transient overlay which provides direct visual cues to the user about the new areas of the scrolled document that have been exposed to view by the scrolling action. After a predetermined period of time or as soon as the user stops scrolling, the overlay fades from view. This feedback can substantially enhance the user's ability to maintain spatial context while the document moves, reducing error and strain, and enhancing ease of use and productivity. The visual scrolling technique can be used for both one-dimensional scrolling such as in long galleys of text, and two-dimensional scrolling and zooming such as in maps and technical drawings. It is especially useful for small displays, such as in handheld devices.
1. A method of providing visual feedback to a user while scrolling a document through a window, comprising:
overlaying a semi-transparent visual feedback layer on a newly exposed region of the document as scrolling is initiated, for enhancing the user's ability to maintain spatial context while scrolling the document; and
causing the visual feedback layer to gradually fade until it becomes transparent to allow for an unobstructed view of the document.
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13. A method of providing visual feedback to a user while zooming out of a document, comprising:
overlaying a semi-transparent visual feedback layer on a newly exposed region of the document as zooming out is initiated, for enhancing the user's ability to maintain spatial context while zooming the document; and
causing the visual feedback layer to gradually fade until it becomes transparent to allow for an unobstructed view of the document.
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18. A method of providing visual feedback to a user while panning a document, comprising:
overlaying a semi-transparent visual feedback layer on a newly exposed region of the document as panning is initiated, for enhancing the user's ability to maintain spatial context while panning the document; and
causing the visual feedback layer to gradually fade until it becomes transparent to allow for an unobstructed view of the document.
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wherein causing the visual feedback layer to gradually fade occurs when panning ceases; and
wherein overlaying the semi-transparent visual feedback layer on the document resumes if any one or more of the following actions occurs: panning, zooming or scrolling.
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The present invention relates to the field of data processing. Particularly, this invention relates to a realtime graphical overlay that provides visual scrolling feedback for a display window that offers a view into a presentation space or a viewport. The graphical feedback overlay is transient and provides direct visual guidance to the user about new areas being exposed to view by the scrolling action. The feedback overlay fades from view within a predetermined or programmable period of time, or when the scrolling action is stopped. The feedback overlay substantially enhances the user's ability to maintain spatial context while the document is being scrolled, reducing error and strain, and enhancing ease of use and productivity.
In the early days of the personal computer, browsing a document was difficult to do. The document would often take up several screens worth of information, and it was difficult for the user to find specific sections of the document. The user would often have to scroll through an entire document one screen at a time, by pressing function keys assigned to "scroll up" and "scroll down" functions in an often futile attempt to find a specific section. This was slow and cumbersome, and resulted in many users printing the entire document instead of trying to view it on the display. This constituted a significant waste of valuable manpower and natural resources.
The advent of the "graphical user interface" (GUI) programs ushered an optimistic outlook to addressing the above problem. Scrolling the content in a GUI window is one of the most frequent tasks in interacting with today's computers. The content of the GUI window scrolled, also referred to herein as "document," can be a file directory, a word processing file, a computer program source code, a spreadsheet, a two-dimensional map or image, an engineering drawing, a world wide web page, and so forth.
Traditionally, there are three ways to scroll through a document. One is by pressing on the cursor keys in the computer board. The second is by pressing the "page up" and "page down" keys. The third is a feature of the GUI programs and is referred to as a "scroll bar". The scroll bar is commonly associated with a display window, and is most useful when only a small portion of a document can be displayed in a display window at any one time. The scroll bar contains what is known as a "slider". The slider's relative position in the scroll bar graphically indicates the position of the display window relative to the entire document being displayed. One scroll bar is often used to indicate the relative vertical position, while another scroll bar can be used to indicate the relative horizontal position.
A scroll bar is normally used in conjunction with an input device such as a mouse, track ball, or light pen. When a user wants to move to a different section of a document, he or she can either move the mouse cursor to a new position on the scroll bar (click operation), or place the mouse cursor on the slider, press and hold one of the mouse buttons, and move the mouse cursor either one side or the other of the slider (drag operation). While both of these operations are helpful in rapidly moving from one section of a document to another section, they do not sufficiently help the user to find the specific section of the document he or she is looking for.
A standard technique often used in representing scroll bars is to make the slider on the scroll bar of proportional length, representing the portion of the full document which is in view. This places the viewed section in context with respect to the entire document, but does not directly relate to the newly exposed document portion after a scrolling action. If the document is very large relative to the portion currently being viewed in the window (e.g., as in a very long galley of text, or at high magnification of a two-dimensional image), the size of the slider becomes too small to interpret or use.
Another technique is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,532,715 to Bates et al., titled "Visually Aging Scroll Bar", where a visually aging scroll bar is associated with a window or viewport on a computer display, and contains a slider to indicate relative positioning in the window of a document. After a first predetermined sampling period has elapsed, a first region matching the current position of the scroll bar slider is created. The visual appearance of the region is determined by a predetermined region heating rate. For example, a newly created region starts at "cold", which can be indicated by a violet-indigo color. After a second sampling period has elapsed, the computer system again checks the current position of the scroll bar slider. If the current position still matches the first region, the visual appearance of the first region symbolically "warms up" as indicated by the region heating rate. This incrementally changing visual appearance continues for as long as the current slider position matches the first region, up until a maximum region symbolic "temperature" is reached.
Some techniques adopt an input device that offers a dedicated scrolling mechanism to enhance the operation of the scroll bar, by making it easier for a user to find a specific section he or she is looking. One such scrolling mechanism is the ScrollPoint� stick which is incorporated in the IBM ScrollPoint� mouse. Another mechanism is a scroll wheel described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,530,455 to Gillick et al. and titled "Roller Mouse for Implementing Scrolling in Windows Applications". Another scrolling mechanism is IBM's TrackPoint� that includes a button, which, when pressed, enables scrolling in IBM's Thinkpad� TrackPoint� notebook computers. Yet another mechanism is the touchpad where scroll areas are used for examples in notebook and keyboards.
The relative input control performance of the above scrolling mechanisms has been studied in Zhai, S., Smith, B. A., Selker, T., "Improving Browsing Performance: A Study of Four Input Devices for Scrolling and Pointing Tasks," Proceedings of INTERACT: the Sixth IFIP conference on Human Computer Interaction, pages 286-292 (1997). While these scrolling mechanisms may have realized their intended purposes, scrolling through documents is often confusing and causes a loss of context for the user, regardless of the input devices used, particularly since conventional scrolling mechanisms do not offer spatial clues or visual scrolling feedback, especially if the document consists of visually similar sections of material such as a continuous text.
For example, when using a page up or page down key, many applications scroll by one window length of document, so that the user can expect where the last read sentence should appear after the operation. A common frustrating experience with page keys, however, occurs when the user reaches the end of the document, where the remaining document is arbitrary in relation to a window's length which depends on the user's setting and resizing. The remaining document is scrolled into the window, but the user has to search through the document to locate the last read sentence.
The lack of visual scrolling feedback is evident in both one-dimension, such as when scrolling through long galleys of material (i.e., web pages), and in two-dimensions, such as when panning or zooming through maps and engineering drawings. It is aggravated on small-display devices, such as handheld devices, where loss of context requires extensive mental effort, eye motion and time to re-acquire the context, reducing productivity and increasing the user's strain and fatigue level.
In most conventional GUI software applications "windowing" occurs when the user's physical scrolling action causes the viewing window to "move" in the same direction. However, the viewing window does not actually move in relation to the computer physical monitor or the user's body. What moves is the document although in the opposite direction to the user's input. Reference is made to Bury, K. F., Boyle, J. M., Evey, R. J., and Neal, A. S., 1982, "Windowing vs Scrolling on a Visual Display Terminal", Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, pages 41-44 (1982).
Another scrolling input technique which is more direct in perception-motor correspondence is the "grabber hand," according to which a pointing cursor is transformed into a hand symbol that "grabs" the underlying document. Moving the cursor drags the document in direct correspondence to the movement of the cursor. Though this motion is intuitive, scrolling is limited to movements that are a fraction of a screen size, and it becomes tedious if a large, multi-screen movement is desired. It also cannot be used for smooth, continuous scrolling.
Certain applications, such as the Lotus Notes™ client application uses a "tic" mark in the margin to mark the boundary of the newly exposed text when scrolling documents. This approach requires eye motion to find the mark and then to use the mark to re-acquire the reader's position in the text. Other software applications, such as Microsoft� Word™, displays a box of text with the page number and headings of the document when the user clicks and drag the slider in the scrollbar. While this may provide useful information, the information is not directly integrated with the context of the document. The granularity of the information feedback is also low as it is limited to page numbers and headings, and does not provide the user with a direct and continuous visual feedback that overlays the scrolled image and that corresponds exactly to the scrolling action.
Other graphic applications show a thumbnail view of the page being, which is effectively a two-dimensional version of proportional scrollbars. While this technique helps with two-dimensional scrolling, it is not very useful where the visual landmarks in the document disappear at the scale of the thumbnail image, or where the aspect ratio of the document is large (i.e., much longer than wide).
One GUI application uses semi-transparent graphics as a user interface, and is described for example in the following publications: Bier, E. A., M. C. Stone, Buxton, W., Baudel, T., "A Taxonomy of See-Through Tools," CHI '94 Conference Proceedings, pages 358-364 (1994); Zhai, S., Buxton, W., Milgram, P., "The "Silk Cursor": Investigating Transparency for 3D Target Acquisition," CHI '94: Conference Proceedings (1994); Zhai, S., Buxton, B., Milgram, P., "The Partial Occlusion Effect: Utilizing Semi-transparency in 3D Human Computer Interaction," ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 3(3), pages 254-284 (1996); Harrison, B. and K. Vicente, J., "An Experimental Evaluation of Transparent Menu Usage," ACM CHI 96: Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 391-398 (1996); and Hinckley, K., Sinclair, M., "Touch-Sensitive Input Device," CHI 99: ACM Conference in Human Factors in Computing Systems, pages 223-230 (1999).
However, none of these references directly associates a transient semi-transparent visual feedback layer with the scrolling action in a display window, for providing direct visual guidance to the user about new areas being exposed to view, such that the feedback layer fades from view so that it does not affect the legibility or permanent appearance of the source image.
In accordance with the present invention, a software package is provided as a new technique that provides realtime visual feedback to the user while scrolling in windowing environments. This technique is accomplished by a transient overlay that provides direct visual cues or guidance to the user about the new areas of the scrolled document that have been exposed to view by the scrolling action. After a predetermined period of time such as a fraction of a second, or as soon as the user stops scrolling, the overlay fades from view. This feedback substantially enhances the user's ability to maintain spatial context while the document moves, reducing error and strain, and enhancing ease of use and productivity.
One feature of the present visual scrolling feedback technique is its ability to be used for both one-dimensional scrolling documents such as long galleys of text, and multi-dimensional scrolling, panning, and zooming out of documents such as maps and technical drawings. The visual scrolling feedback technique is well suited for two dimensional scrolling and at arbitrary angles other than horizontal or vertical, and is particularly suited for small displays such as handheld devices.
The technique of the present invention provides the user with temporary visual feedback in a form which is not distracting, which is directly embedded in the document itself, which does not obscure the source material, and which conforms to an intuitively understood and adapted physical process, thus requiring no prior training. As the user moves the document through the GUI window, by for example scrolling, panning or zooming, the newly exposed portions "develop" or are transformed from a muted state (e.g., lower contrast, painted with semi-transparent overlay color or pattern, or distinguished by some image transformation such as a shift in hue or color balance) to a normal contrast and brightness state in a second or two after the user stops scrolling. Many combinations of overlay color, pattern and image transformations are possible, depending on the nature of the document being viewed.
As new pointing and scroll control devices are becoming available, the user's ability to smoothly scroll at high speed may exceed his or her ability to maintain visual context. The present visual scrolling feedback technique reduces the user's effort significantly, and improves the user's scrolling speed without losing position context. Some important aspects of the present technique include:
Superimposing graphical overlay information, represented by a visual feedback layer on a document, helps the user track scrolling movement. The graphical information is transient, and fades away after the user stops scrolling. The graphical overlay information can be an outline or semi-transparent by means of standard image combination ("compositing") techniques with the base document, such as alpha-blending, or image multiplication.
The graphical overlay information may include a periodic, spatially-repetitive pattern or color. The period of the pattern can be selected to perform various functions: to the size of the window to convey how far the user has scrolled by the number of pattern cells that have passed; to a size appropriate to the document, e.g., to a page size for text documents; or to a scale appropriate to the underlying data, e.g., to a map scale.
The various features of the present invention and the manner of attaining them will be described in greater detail with reference to the following description, claims, and drawings, wherein reference numerals are reused, where appropriate, to indicate a correspondence between the referenced items.
FIG. 1 is a high-level block diagram of a computer system that provides visual scrolling feedback according to the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of an exemplary implementation of the present invention, illustrating a visual graphical feedback layer which is superimposed on a document being viewed through a window for tracking the user scrolling movement.
FIGS. 3, 4, 4A, and 5 are views of the exemplary implementation of FIG. 2 with the document removed for ease of illustration, illustrating an absolute positioning feedback approach of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is a view of an exemplary display screen illustrating one-dimensional visual scrolling feedback according to the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a view of an exemplary display screen illustrating two-dimensional visual scrolling feedback according to the present invention.
FIGS. 8 and 9 are view s of the exemplary implementation of FIG. 2 with the document removed for ease of illustration, showing a relative positioning feedback approach of the present invention.
FIG. 10 is a high-level block diagram illustrating the operation of the visual scrolling feedback process of the present invention.
FIG. 1 illustrates a computer system 10 capable of providing the user with visual scrolling feedback according to the present invention. The computer system 10 includes a display 17, a keyboard 18, and an input device 19, each of which is connected to a system unit 11. The system unit 11 contains a processor 12 connected to a memory 13, a storage 14, and a display adapter 15. The processor 12 is suitably programmed to carry out this invention, as described herein in more detail.
In a preferred embodiment, the computer system 10 is an IBM system such as a personal computer, a handheld computer, or a microcomputer connected to a larger computer system (e.g. IBM AS/400). The processor 12 is a microprocessor, the display adapter 15 is an IBM display adapter, and the display 17 is an IBM display. The input device 19 is preferably an IBM mouse but may also be a track ball, light pen, or another input device. The storage 14 is a magnetic hard disk file and contains the operating system software, preferably OS/2, as well as preferably one or more OS/2 application programs. When running, these application programs are partially or completely installed in the memory 13 and executed by the processor 12.
The display 17 contains a window 20. For the purposes of this invention, a "window" or "viewport" can occupy anywhere from substantially all of the display screen to a very small portion of the display screen, and may be displayed in conjunction with (possibly overlaying portions of) other windows in a multi-asking environment such as OS/2, or be by itself in a single-tasking environment such as DOS. A portion of a document 21 is displayed in the window 20. Hereinafter, the term "document" will be used to refer to any source document such as a data file, a text file, an image file, an audio file, a video file, a spreadsheet and so forth. In certain instances, the document 21 cannot be fully displayed or otherwise represented in the window 20. The window 20 also contains a scroll bar 30 with a slider 32. The relative position of the slider 32 in the scroll bar 30 indicates the relative position of the document 21 currently displayed in the window 20. For illustrative purpose, a portion of the document 21 is shown in the window 20 of FIG. 1.
FIG. 2 illustrates the general implementation of the present invention, wherein graphical overlay information, represented by a visual feedback layer 44, is superimposed on the document 21 for helping the user track scrolling movement.
The visual feedback layer 44 is transient and fades away after the user stops scrolling. It is preferably an outline or semi-transparent by means of standard image combination ("compositing") techniques with the base document 21, such as alpha-blending, or image multiplication.
The projection of the window (or viewport) 20 onto the document 21 represents the region 55 of the document 21 which is visible to the user. The document region 55 is cross-hatched for ease of illustration and is bounded by a peripheral contour 57. The projection of the window 20 onto the visual feedback layer 44 represents a region 60 which is visible to the user, which overlays the document region 55, and which is bounded by a peripheral contour 62. The outer contour of the window 20 is referenced by the numeral 68.
The user can control the appearance of the visual feedback layer 44 by personalizing its compositing with the document. In one embodiment, the visual feedback layer 44 is overlaid on the document 21 according to an absolute positioning feedback approach, as it will be described later in connection with FIGS. 3 through 7. In another embodiment, the visual feedback layer 44 is overlaid according to a relative positioning approach, as it will be described later in connection with FIGS. 8 and 9. The user can employ either one or both of these two approaches as desired to better suit his or her individual needs.
FIGS. 3-5 show how regions of the document 21 change visual appearance based on the current position of the document 21 in an absolute positioning feedback approach. The document 21 is linearly represented by a vertical scroll bar 30V and a horizontal scroll bar 30H. For example, if a user wishes to go to the middle of the document 21, he or she would move the mouse pointer to points 31V and 31H (FIG. 3) of the vertical scroll bar 30V and the horizontal scroll bar 30H, respectively.
FIGS. 3-5 also illustrate various exemplary positions of the window 20 relative to an outer boundary 70 of the document 21, and the locations of the vertical and horizontal sliders 32V, 32H, respectively. As the user views the document 21, the contours 57, 62, 68 of the document region 55, the visual feedback layer visual feedback layer 44, and the window 20, respectively, appear to coincide. As the window 20 moves such as by a scrolling movement, or its size changes such as by a zooming or panning action, the positions and sizes of the document region 55 and the visual feedback layer region 60 change accordingly, and the contours 57, 62, 68 remain in coincident relationship.
With reference to FIG. 3, before the user initiates the scrolling operation, the visual feedback layer 44 is clear and does not obstruct the user's view. With reference to FIGS. 4 and 6, as the user scrolls the window 20 from one position to another, such as when scrolling downward, a different region 55 of the document 21 as well as a different feedback layer region 60 of the visual feedback layer 44 become exposed to the user, but remain in an overlapping relationship.
A line 90 delineates the newly exposed region 100 of the document 21. The "old" or previously displayed region 102 of the document 21 remains clear and unobstructed by the visual feedback layer 44. However, the newly exposed region 100 is overlaid with the pattern 110 of the visual feedback layer 44. In the embodiment illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 6, the pattern 110 emerges as a triangle. As scrolling continues in the same direction, the pattern 110 assumes the shape of a diamond (similar to that shown in FIG. 8). As the user scrolls down, the document region 55 scrolls upward. The pattern 110 is repetitive for ease of recognition and association by the user. It should be clear that in other embodiments, the pattern 110 does not need to be repetitive, and that different colors can be used to complement the feedback to the user. In addition, while the present invention will be described in terms of a diamond shaped pattern 110, it should be clear that other shapes, colors, and a combination thereof can alternatively be used. According to another embodiment, as the user scrolls down, the document region 55 scrolls upward and the visible pattern 110 gradually changes its apparent shape. For example, there is a smooth gradation in muting down the page, with the rate of visual change determined by the rate of scrolling. According to still another embodiment, as the user scrolls down, the document region 55 scrolls upward, the visible pattern 110 simultaneously changes its apparent shape and gradation.
The document 21 remains visible during scrolling because the superimposed visible pattern 110 is either semi-transparent or a wireframe. When the user stops scrolling, the transient visual effect overlaying the newly exposed region 100 of the document 21 starts to fade gradually or instantly as the visual feedback layer 44 becomes increasingly transparent and the visible document region 55 becomes more clearly visible (FIG. 3). According to another example, the demarcation line 90 is pattern impressed upon the visual feedback layer 44. According to yet another example, the visual feedback layer 44 does not include a pattern, but rather a semi-transparent color for coloring the newly exposed region of the visible document region 55, between the demarcation line 90 and the bottom edge 111 of the window 20.
FIG. 7 illustrates a two-dimensional scrolling technique using a translucent, repeating pattern. In this example, the user can scroll around an image of a map, where the repeating pattern indicates not only the scrolling context but establishes a physical scale and grid, which relates to geographic position and distance. The user performs diagonal scrolling of a map, using a "hand grabber" tool. The user pulls the map image down and to the right, exposing a new section 100 of the map, which is temporarily colored by a checkerboard pattern. The prior area viewed is clear and is not affected by the visual feedback layer visual feedback layer 44, and is further captured within a rectangle in normal color and contrast. The rest of the document region 55 that has been recently exposed, fills the remainder of the window 20 and is overlaid by the visual feedback layer 44. In this example, the visual feedback layer 44 is a muted color that eventually develops to full color, either instantaneously or gradually, when scrolling ends.
According to another example, such as when scrolling multiple pages (windows worth of space) of a world wide web HTML document, the newly exposed region 55 of the document 21 is covered with a translucent graphical pattern 110. The superimposed pattern 110 coincides with the window length, and each period can be coded with a different color. This gives the user cues or guidance to track how many pages have been reviewed and his or her location in the page, as shown in FIGS. 3, 4A, and 5, which illustrate a translucent repeating pattern of diamonds (for example pink colored) with a period corresponding to a page size (such as a blue background). Once the user stops scrolling, the superimposed graphics fade away in one to three seconds so it does not affect the document reading. The visual feedback layer 44 can also be replaced by patterns that consist of simply lines that do not obscure the content of the document 21. The visual effect may not be as appealing as a colored and patterned background, but the lines require less computation resources.
A useful aspect of the absolute positioning feedback is that each diamond can cover a specific number of lines, for example 100 lines of text, and consequently the user can easily scroll to a specific line number, for example line 50, by graphically scrolling one half the diamond size.
The visual scrolling feedback technique can be totally implemented as a software package, or alternatively, it can be totally implemented or partly complemented in graphic accelerator cards, such as are those commonly used in personal computers (PCs). When the visual scrolling feedback technique is implemented using hardware components, it can provide realtime feedback to the user without imposing excessive overhead on the central processing unit (CPU) or memory bandwidth. A variety of standard or available image processing algorithms can be used to combine the overlay with the image of the source document.
FIGS. 8 and 9 illustrate an example of the relative positioning feedback technique. According to this technique, the visible spatial pattern 110 of the visual feedback layer 44 has discrete size and shape relative to the size and position of the window 20, so that when the window 20 moves, the viewable region 60 of the visual feedback layer 44 remains unchanged to the user. In this example, the user sees a diamond shaped overlay pattern 110 before and after he or she scrolls the window 20. In other terms, the four corners 180, 181, 182, 183 of the diamond shaped pattern 110 maintain their position relative to the sides of the window 20, regardless of the scroll, pan, or zoom position and size of the window 20.
FIG. 10 summarizes the operation of an exemplary visual scrolling feedback process 200 of the present invention. The process 200 is initiated at block 205 by having the user select the desired feedback mode: absolute positioning approach or relative positioning approach. The user starts scrolling at block 210, and the visual feedback layer 44 starts. appearing and overlaying the newly exposed region 55 of the document 21. As soon as scrolling stops at block 220, the visual feedback layer 44 starts to gradually fade until it becomes completely transparent.
This will provide the user with the opportunity to review the document 21 (block 230) with an unobstructed view. As soon as the user resumes the scrolling, panning, or zooming operation, the foregoing process is repeated until terminated by the user. The method 200 can be readily implemented in graphic accelerator cards, such as are commonly found in personal computers, where it can provide realtime feedback to the user without imposing excessive overhead on the CPU or memory bandwidth.
It is to be understood that the specific embodiment of the invention is merely illustrative of specific applications of the principles of the present invention. Numerous modifications may be made to the visual scrolling feedback and associated method described herein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention.
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Spain, a country that many felt was leading the global renewable energy race, recently suspended subsidies to 143 solar plants for failure to show that they were operational before state funding was slashed three years ago.
In 2008, Spain became the world's biggest solar power market, and investors rushed to take advantage of generous subsidies before the government capped them in September of that year.
In Spain, solar plants receive preferential "feed-in tariffs" designed to make it gradually competitive with power generated by burning gas or coal, according to Reuters UK.
Spain's National Energy Commission (CNE) said the 143 newly suspended plants generated 90 megawatts between them, compared to the 4,000 MW currently provided by plants that remain in service.
This decision added to 808 plants which have been provisionally suspended as part of a review of more than 9,000 plants under way since last year.
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I'm really sorry to hear that Spain is cutting these subsidies, not least because they no doubt needed the money to support their banks (who in their time so badly mismanaged their own resources). We have feed-in tariffs in the UK too, these allow private householders who qualify (ie they have a south facing roof) to get PV panels fitted and maintained for free (and to use the electricity they produce) .The UK doesn't enjoy the same amount of sun shine as Spain (the panels only produce at full capacity in full sun) but every little helps. The 16 panels on my roof produce around 1 - 2 kW per hour (3kW when the sun shines). The feed in tariff (and the ever rising cost of electricity) means that the company who fitted it will, under the UK scheme, get their money back in 14 years, after 25 years the PV panels become mine. Public money has been put in to making this scheme work, possibly to ensure that the UK complies with agreed emission targets but as we are expecting another 15%+ rise in electricity prices this year I'll take any free and green) electricity I can get.
Spain has at least been trying. I wish we could do the same in the US. Why do we have to give so much money to the oil companies
Well at least they tried! ?Which country brought the whole world in this misery.
Now they have to cu spending. If ever there is a recovery, they might come back to their program.
Will the US do the same? Not sure!
yes!!!, go spain go
Too little too late!!
I dont understand, if America was sincere about its efforts (and it could have) changed the world as we all know it. Certinaly one expects something useful from the world's leading nation to do something positive and meaningful for the world so the the rest of the world can say America really was the hero for future generations, outside of Hollywood.
But in reality it turned out no more differnt than the Nazis 70 years ago, gave the world not only pollution but war, irresponsibility when in power and urban legends about people who want to destroy American freedom.
If the money spent on the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Syria and the rest of mid-east were spent on human welfare, i assure you that there would be no more hunger, poverty, unemployment, homelessness in the world today.
Need i say where we would be if this money was spent on the environment or animal welfare and protection of endangered animals.
I implore everyone to see the documentary:
"Zeitgeist: moving forward"
it was released in January 2011 and has some excellent solutions to take the world forward in a truely new age. If there is a visionary here on care2, or if there is someone who feels we need to get out of this current mess but doesn't know how, i highly recommend this documentary.
And if you haven't seen their earlier documentaries they are:
"Zeitgeist" and ""Zeitgeist: Addendum."
You will thank me for it, i guarentee it.
Like every where they have run out of other people's money
MAKE people responsible for what they spend...DONT expect to be bail out ALL of the time!!!!
at least they have them. What does North America have?
It takes some way to store power--either batteries or pump-storage--to integrate large amounts of sustainable electricity into the grid. It also helps to have both wind and solar because wind tends to blow more at night and solar power works only in the day-time.
Spain ran out of money.
That is what happens when you decide to fund a program that really cannot work, assume that failure is for lack of funding, and then dump in more money until it works. This is why I tend to oppose pursuing projects which are doomed from the start. In this case the failure came from the fact that the technology to make a solar power-based grid does not exist. It looks good as long as you ignore the "technical details", (load-balancing, distribution, maintenance-problems, efficiency, etc.) but to put something into practice all those details must be addressed.
There is a place for solar power, but it is not on the general grid of a developed country. It is good for charging batteries to run very low-energy economies. For example, my former elementary-school principal was, as of a few years ago, running a program through the World Bank to bring solar power and laptops to remote villages in underdeveloped countries. She was setting up essentially modern schools through that to help bring those villages into the 21st century.
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Location: Longmont Colorado
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Ice !!
Riding into the foothills a couple weeks back I stopped and carefully backed up when I came up to a patch of ice. (Easy to do when pointed uphill). With lots of cage experience on black ice, I have this fear of my GS suddenly flying out from under me. Until we get deep into winter, snow around here usually starts out wet. By next morning it ends up as snow over ice. So with the night temps almost always below freezing, I ride on sunny days (like today), and cage it when there is any chance of precip. Yet lurking here I sometimes see pictures of a bike on a snowy road. Some of you guys obviously have this worked out. How do you guys do it? Chains? Studded knobbies? Karma?
Really like to hear advice & comments about winter riding. Not about staying warm -- about controlling the bike.
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Joined: Jan 2006
Location: So.California
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This pass was a little tricky, it was midnite and lots of black ice. I was riding alone enjoying a night ride with an HID,
I know the 525mini-bike is nothing like the BMW 18" wheeler, but snow and ice feels just like white mud to me, it only gets REAL bad when it starts to get over about 2 feet deep and you have to either peg it WFO or get up and paddle, I really miss when I have to leave it running with the tire spinning in a hole, get off and pull it out. Its even more fun when you have to all get together and take turns pushing and pulling. Now those were the days !
last March I rode a 60 mile ride with 8 miles of 2 to 4 feet deep wet drift with ice on the bottom.
The most experience I ever got on a heavy bike in hiway snow was on a '71 750 Honda so I can't really be much help other than I just ride it like it's white mud. I plan to handle it that way on the GS also,if I ever have to, wheel as vertical as possible and keeping the wheels turning as fast as possible to keep the gyro effect up
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Hit black Ice on a 550 katana once. One second upright the next sliding down the road watching the bike smash into the bridge i was crossing. My advice pray often
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Ice is tricky. I've gone down once on ice. No warning the bike just suddenly came out from under me. Fortunately I was going slow and just a slight bruise on my hip was the only injury. Bike was undamaged. I picked up a vw bug shortly after that for winter driving.
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+1 on ice
I was on a #3 road and some logging trucks had packed some wet snow basically into ice. I was gingerly putting along when all of a sudden my back end decided it wanted to lead. Next thing I remember is the bike doing a 180 then me laying it down. I was only doing about 2-3mph so I only suffered a sore ankle inside my riding boots.
Not a good feeling on a 500lb bike. Though I did learn the term outriggers QUICK!!!
Joined: Mar 2006
Location: Aspen, CO
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There was a thread on this awhile back that was pretty good. You might check.
Last year I had an xt225 with smallish knobbies. I put little machine screws in the knobs along the edges of the tire--one every third or fourth knob. I would have put more, but my route took me from about 50 yards of gnarly ice to dry pavement for the rest of the ride. The screws worked well. There is a guy in town with a Dakar and another with a KLR and both of them have about three screws in each knob and they do very well. (but crappy on pavement, I bet.)
So that's the problem: you can equip it for ice, but I don't think it's much good like that when you get off the ice, and rarely here in CO do we get all ice.
And, as somebody said, keep an eye out for the ice that lurks in the shadows and the places that never get sun in winter. You can ride across them, but not if you're not prepared.
This year I've got the 12, so I'm just going to avoid it.
Yesterday on was on a little bit of it and the bike was fine when I made sure and kept it upright (no leaning inputs) and the throttle on.
I think it will take more than it looks like it will take, but yeah, when you go down it's very sudden and there's no recovery possible. So if you're on it go way slow.
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Location: Omaha, Nebraska
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To put it simply ice sucks and most of the time you will go down if you hit it. I ride my GS pretty much year and around and I have learned a few things about avoiding ice.
Temperature has little to do with ice, humidity is the problem.
In the morning look at the windshields of cars parked on the streets. If there is just a little frost, don't worry. If the frost is thick, think about driving. If there is ice on the windshields then you should probably drive.
When riding in conditions where there may be some ice, completely avoid back roads. Only ride where you know lots of cars have been and try to stay in the wheel tracks.
Watch for trucks leaking water and really pay attention to the road surface. Also watch for snow melt running onto the roads.
If you think you see some black ice coming up and you can not go around it make sure the bike is standing straight up and don't touch the brake or the gas. I have made it through over 100 feet of black ice like that without going down. My underwear did not come out as well.
Despite what others will tell you, street tires will offer the most traction on ice. Dual sport tires like Anakees do very well on ice. With knobbies you will go down every time.
The good thing about going down on ice is that the ice is nice and smooth and you will not damage your gear. The bad part is that you will get bruised when you come off and hit the hard ice.
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Location: Longmont Colorado
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Thanks for the comments. You guys are great.
I kind-of knew that snow is "maybe" ok, but ice is definitely not. The problem is there is sometimes ice under the snow. I had already guessed that dirt (knob) tires are better for snow but not worth a shit on ice. (I have Tourances on my '95 GSA).
Gumbydave, that is a good point about sheets of ice flying off the roof of semi trailers on the freeway. My mental image of that was something like "holy shit, that could slice your head off!!". Stuff also falls of the roofs of ordinary cars and SUVs when they just clean the windshield enough to barely see and drive off.
Sounds like the basic plan is:
- Don't go very fast
- Watch for water sources (trucks leaking, melt, . . .)
- Expect ice in shade (already learned that from cage driving)
- Don't follow too close, stuff might come off roofs
- Wear padding bcuz ya might fall down !!
- Pray (I like that one)
Interesting about the screws. I had not thought of that.
Thanx again for the comments.
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I've had the same problem on top of the Snowy Range and in the Poudre Canyon. Worst part is when you round a curve and there it is where yesterday's snow melt ran across the patch of road that's shaded all winter. Haven't dropped it yet but I paid a lot of attention to keeping the beast within about 1/10 degree of vertical, no braking, and very light throttle (I don't want to come to a stop on the stuff). At times like that you thank yourself for putting the engine protection bars on 'cuz they'll take what a 5-mph get-off can dish out.
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I stay off it. Last week I went out for a ride - it was 35 and pretty nice at my place. As I got higher in elevation it cooled off pretty quick and was soon bouncing around 31-33. I'd come up on these shaded sections of road where the surface was shining, I'd ride around or stay in the middle of the lane where the cages had dried it off. I don't like ice, I'd rather ride in snow where I can get some traction. I also choose my routes carefully, I wanted to ride along the river here but it's a road that gets no sun because of the tree cover - I passed on that one.
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Think I'll add to the basic plan: Get some engine protection bars. There are some other threads here about them. I will look around for suggestions.
The GS will be down for a couple weeks next month while I get a new seat (Rick Mayer). Thinking of painting the tank during that time (bubbles on plastic now), and doing some general maintenance. Maybe I can get some protection bars ordered so they can go on at the same time.
Thanx for the ideas.
Everyone have a great holiday. My son is a warehouse manager at Avery Brewery in Boulder. He's not only bringing us lots of really good beer, he is also a far better cook than either of us.
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coinneach wrote:Why is there no integration with the People hub?
Qyv42 wrote:BoxSoft wrote:There is, to an extent:
- Click on someone's address, it will take you to the map (not Waze's).
- Click on the "up arrow" icon to get directions. It shows a basic route on that map.
- Press the "right turn arrow" icon to launch a navigation app.
- Choose your desired app. My list shows Waze and HERE Drive+.
So it seems to be hooked in, just like Nokia HERE.
Your steps above work, but unlike with the HERE apps, the actual directions don't seem to be getting passed in to Waze so that it generates a route. I always use the Search button on the phone to quickly find whatever location I'm looking for, then get directions via the WP maps app and then go to HERE Drive via the "right turn arrow" as you note above. With HERE Drive, the route is automatically generated if I do that, but with Waze, the app just launches and nothing else happens, so I have to do all searching from within Waze. This isn't a huge deal, but one of the cool things about Windows Phone is the ability to pin things like a contact to the Start screen - that way I have their contact info handy, and can also get directions to any address in that contact if needed. So it would be great if Waze could integrate with the WP maps app and get the directions handed off when Waze is launched from that entry point.
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While sensitizing students of the St. Theresa's Convent in Monrovia early this week about the deadly Ebola virus, a professional Liberian nurse working at the Redemption Hospital in New Kru Town cautiously called on politicians not to politicize the outbreak of Ebola in the country.
Mrs. Maima Pelham, quoted by the Liberia News Agency (LINA), pointed out that the disease is actually in the country and has already claimed the lives of some Liberians, and therefore, the professional Liberian cautioned further that politicizing the issue of Ebola will further put the lives of more Liberians at risk.
On the other hand, Mrs. Pelham, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the Serene Health Mobile Clinic, admonished the students of the St. Theresa's Convent to avoid eating plums and other fruits that are partially eaten by bats so as not to contract the deadly Ebola virus.
Mrs. Pelham further admonished the students to also avoid touching people with signs of the disease, especially when they constantly vomit, toilet or are weak and when they have rashes on their skin.
She advised them to wash their hands constantly when they shake hands and should always chlorinate their water as well as avoid eating or touching bush meat such as monkeys, and chimpanzees, among others.
She also advised them to ensure that piercing instruments used on them at health centers are new or sterilized because if an instrument used on an Ebola patient is used on another person the risk of contracting the disease is high.
We agree with Mrs. Pelham that politicians must not politicize the outbreak of the fatal Ebola virus in the country.
By politicizing the disease, we will be doing more harm than good, and therefore, we join Mrs. Pelham in also cautioning politicians not to politicize the outbreak of the disease.
Undeniably, the Ebola virus is life threatening and so all efforts must be exerted to combat it head on instead of politicizing it.
We have leant that the deadly Ebola virus, which was discovered in 1976, has no cure but can only be prevented.
Creating serious awareness about the disease, we have also learnt, is the only remedy to the spread of it, and hence, people who are involved in creating awareness about the Ebola virus must encouraged.
Against this backdrop, we commend all those, including Mrs. Pelham who are sensitizing the public, including students about the Ebola virus for this worthy cause.
We encourage them to continue the crusade against this deadly disease until the desired objectives are achieved.
It is our hope that all of us will heed the messages that have to do with the prevention of the killer Ebola virus.


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Hostelworld "meet the world" by Lucky Generals
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By Maisie McCabe, campaignlive.co.uk, Monday, 11 August 2014 10:03AM
The film, created by JWT London, features animated cats performing their own take on Band Aid's 'Do they know it's Christmas', which raised money for famine relief in Africa in the 1980s.
People will be able to buy the cat song, initially through Bandcamp and then through iTunes.
All the money raised will go to Care for the Wild.
Care for the Wild will expand the campaign through PR and social media activity, using the hashtag #CatAid.
Philip Mansbridge, the chief executive of Care for the Wild, said: "JWT have been the perfect partner in this project, having worked tirelessly to produce content that is playful and engaging.
"The campaign pushes the feeling of collaboration to make a change – which we love."
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LV= Cup: Ben Botica stars as Harlequins beat London Welsh
Last Updated: 26/01/13 5:09pm
Harlequins maintained their perfect record in the LV= Cup following a 23-6 success over winless London Welsh.
The Aviva Premiership champions were missing a number of regulars and responded to falling behind to Alex Davies' penalty with a try from Mark Lambert.
Youngster Ben Botica, son of Wigan rugby league legend Frano, converted and continued to do the damage with the boot with a penalty in the 20th minute.
Davies make it 10-6 to Welsh five minutes later, but that was as good as it got for the visitors with two more penalties from Botica and a late converted try by Dave Ward completing the victory.
The Quins now face Ospreys at Bridgend next Sunday in their final group fixture when a draw would be sufficient to see them through to the semi-finals.
For Welsh it was their third consecutive defeat in the tournament, which leaves them bottom of Pool Four without a single point.
The game was very poor despite both teams trying to run the ball at every opportunity. At times it resembled a sevens match as both were guilty of regularly turning over possession. There were far too many handling errors as neither side could bring any continuity to their play.
The home side dominated the set scrum as the Welsh retreated at every engagement but in the loose the visitors were the masters and their hard-working pack were very unlucky to come away with no reward.
Harlequins had impressive performers in forwards Tom Guest and Luke Wallace and behind the scrum had far more pace than their opposite numbers but they failed to capitalise on their advantage.


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