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I have been a user of Apple Mac computers for 30 years, but it is absurd that this bit of commercial fluff is posted as some sort of top "news" story...this new Nola.com website is an absolute joke -- it remains very poorly designed and is polluted with ridiculous content.
The Rat Pack?? Weren't they primarily from the 1960s?? The Rat Pack had nothing to do with the WWII era...the show is probably campy and entertaining but what's next there, the Blues Brothers or perhaps staged versions of the Breakfast Club? Sounds to me like they've run out of ideas if they're booking this kind of shlock... Great museum complex though!
The person the hostages SHOULD be suing is George H.W. Bush, who negotiated a deal with the Iranian "students" to continue the hostage "crisis" so Reagan/Bush could use the situation as leverage in that up-coming election. This is fact and one of many reasons for which Bush should have been shot for Treason.
I know the old Latin expression "de mortuis aut bene aut nihil", but I cannot help but say good riddance to this professional liar and propagandist; may he rot in hell for being an affront to truth and justice.
Good point, 4dingo...of all the branches of the armed forces, the Coast Guard truly serves the citizens of the United States rather than primarily being pawns and cannon fodder for the corporations, banks, and military-industrial complex. The Coast Guard generally does outstanding work and everyone here in the region got a very personal and vivid demonstration of that during and after Katrina, when the fine, brave men and women of the Coast Guard consistently went above and beyond the call of duty during and after that storm. The Coast Guard was the ONLY Federal agency in the region that proved itself capable and competent during that disaster and in the critical first days after the levee failures. I also take my hat off to the LA Wildlife & Fisheries department, who rushed into the fray and performed bravely and admirably, while the NOPD (half of them anyway) fell apart and proved, once again, to be a disgrace.
I have a high degree of respect for the Coast Guard, but some of the other comments on this story are correct about the out-of-control spending of OUR money, and the massive debt obligations forced upon us, by an out-of-control government. I WANT the Coast Guard to have the tools it needs, so "defense" spending in other areas needs to be slashed. Ron Paul is absolutely correct in stating that the government spends WAY too much in trying to sustain an unsustainable military empire and our efforts at global empire and shoving a military/corporate hegemonic agenda down the throats of citizens of sovereign nations is NOT in the interests of the safety, security, and prosperity of the citizens of the United States. I WANT Bollinger Shipyards to be successful and keep contributing to the vital manufacturing base and economy of our region, but companies like Bollinger need to do it by attracting business and contracts from private enterprise and foreign countries rather than continuing to belly up to the government trough and emptying the money out of our wallets in the process.
So our beloved Gulf seafood is tainted and poisoned by toxic crude and equally toxic dispersants thanks to BP and Halliburton...Pacific seafood is now so full of toxic radiation that it glows in the dark thanks to the nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima (a MAJOR disaster that is STILL an extremely serious problem and a razor's edge away from causing a possible extinction event)...we're fast running out of viable seafood options. It's getting close to the point in which I'm going to have to spawn & stock fish in an indoor pool just to be able to enjoy seafood that won't make me seriously ill and/or drop dead.
LOL some of my comments are admittedly brutal and hard-hitting, but daaammmnnn...pretty funny though!
These guys are BOTH a couple of idiots. LSU guy for not being able to control his own behavior and getting so loaded that he passed-out in a public place and Alabama guy for being way too old to try to pull off a stupid stunt like that and have it pass for a harmless joke. Krystal was probably a mad-house after that game and I'm sure they barely had the staff to handle food (if that's what you want to call it in those dumps) service let alone staff to police the patrons. This is a personal responsibility issue and both of those idiots failed, but Alabama guy takes the prize and is paying a price for his asinine behavior. Who LSU drunkard guy SHOULD be seeking restitution from is his friends for leaving him behind while in that pitiful condition.
Both of these universities have legendary athletic programs, but both schools are also tainted and shamed by having some of the most obnoxious, idiotic fans in the country. I was a multi-sport inter-collegiate athlete and I've seen some ridiculously obnoxious fans in my day, but all-too-many LSU and Alabama fans are near the top on the wall of shame for fan behavior. What really gets me is how many of those idiots that strut around in purple and gold or crimson and white never spent a day at those respective universities. Being a fan and a supporter is one thing, being an overly-aggressive blow-hard idiot is another thing altogether.
Anyway, the guy that REALLY deserved to get a face full of balls was Les Miles for his prominent role in one of THE worst performances of all time in a championship game. I mean, the LSU players certainly struggled, but Miles really blew it in that absolute debacle.
muspench, I totally agree with everything you said regarding the chief and the futility of trying to build a Department with old, corrupt material, but a "federal authority" coming in and assuming control of the NOPD would be a disaster. The Feds are just as corrupt and dysfunctional, they're just better equipped, wear nicer clothes, and are generally smart enough to be better liars. I fear that we are getting dangerously close to having to use the "nuclear option" with the NOPD, meaning disbanding the force entirely and rebuilding from the ground up...yes, it is practically THAT bad, but we would be better off with no cops on the streets for a while rather than bad cops. Our situation in New Orleans is a much more complex problem than just the NOPD being a disgrace, but that is indeed a major component.
I am in full agreement to all of the comments above...they absolutely nail it. In addition, only the most naive and gullible out there would think that the NSA is not spying on American citizens just because they are "barred" from doing so. The NSA has the ability to analyze EVERY electronic communication (phone calls, emails, texts, etc) in the country, and they take every opportunity to do so.
This Associate Propagandists article also states that "China and Russia are the most proficient at cyber-espionage", but they conveniently fail to mention THE most proficient and insidious offender, which is our "friend" Israel.
This investigation of the fatal shooting may not fare so well for Officer Colclough, as the victim was reportedly unarmed, half naked, and exhibiting a very questionable level of threat of imminent danger. This is a tragic and regrettable incident, but Colclough was in a very unfavorable and unnecessarily risky position in being part of the raid/legal-home-invasion that led to the shooting. Thus, the failure for this goes to the District command level as an operation of that type ("drug raid") HAD to have been approved by rank...and the apparent need for a raid of that type in this case is questionable at best and was certainly rather reckless. Colclough was ordered into a tense situation and an unarmed man got shot to death.
The excessive force charge that Colclough faced was investigated and resolved in his favor, so it really doesn't have any bearing in the shooting case. And I have to admit that if I was a patrol officer and a subject/suspect resisted being detained and struck MY female partner without a REALLY good reason, then I can't say that I wouldn't have roughed them up some too.
Jamesjoyce2, I respect what you're saying but Beauty and Truth is not saying that ALL NOPD officers are guilty of those crimes and you know it. There is plenty of truth (though not a lot of beauty haha) in Beauty and Truth's comment, with all-too-many cases to back it up. No law enforcement agency is perfect; they are all far from it, but even ONE officer that rapes or murders or lies or steals is too many.
Aside from these particular cases, my general opinion of the NOPD is slipping further into the abyss as I firmly believe that more than half of the officers on the force are incompetent, or engaged in criminal activity themselves, and are not fit for duty. My experience and observations indicate that maybe 20% are good, effective officers. Policing a city like New Orleans is NOT an easy job, but the NOPD remains deeply dysfunctional and too many of the officers are simply not good cops, thus the department loses more credibility and citizen confidence every day.
Baby Snowflake sponsored by Shell... =P
Seriously though, thanks for the engaging story, peppered with delightful tinges of humor. Congratulations and all the best!
"Happy endings"?? Well, I suppose a hand-job could help one forget for a little while that their house is about to fall over from shoddy work, but what do they do when the brief euphoria wears off?
Though I have reservations about, and urge caution in, deep sea drilling (call me a little paranoid and un-trusting since the BP debacle in the Gulf which STILL poisons us), this story about a successful regional shipbuilder is great news! Every vessel manufactured and built by Edison Chouest pays big dividends to our local and regional economies...keep up the good work!
An independent business operating in anything close to a free market system should be able to set whatever "rules" it chooses so long as those rules are legal, then the market (i.e. the consumer) can decide whether to give business to that entity or not. It is fully within Gautreau's rights to institute such a policy, though it may seem a little extreme to some here in the City That Care Forgot. One of my business interests a few years ago included a restaurant, and I also had a few obligatory service industry jobs in my high school and college years, and I can tell you that the problem of reservations no-shows can have serious negative impact on the earnings of the business entity itself and the staff. The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Presented By A Predatory Corporate Vampire visitors, though a GREAT crowd, are notorious for multiple bookings, no-shows, or drastically late arrivals. Just as bad, or worse even, are the conventions of medical doctors, especially cardiologists and neurologists, who were infamous for multiple bookings, no-shows, abhorrent insulting behavior and condescending attitudes, and pitiful tippers...at least the crowd that comes for the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival Sponsored by a Predatory Corporate Vampire generally, though sun-burnt and a little beat up, have great easy-going attitudes and don't treat the staffs of dining establishments as slaves. Anyway, the consumer can choose where to spend their time and money and where not to, but I think we can all agree that we are incredibly fortunate to have so many excellent dining choices in New Orleans!
Though it doesn't have anything to do with the theme of this article, I could not agree with you more on your points about the ridiculousness of certain writers/editors jamming in the "presented by" bit when writing about something Jazz Fest related...it just smacks of pathetic sycophancy, shameless "product placement", and obscene corporate servitude. Jazz Fest was an institution and world-renowned event years before they decided to bend over for Shell's money and "sponsorship", so the Times Picayune writers & editors just come off as robotic corporate shills (especially YOU, music writer Keith Spera!) each and every time they spit out that awkward offensive absurdity of an "official name" of our beloved festival. I literally laughed out loud at the potential alternative name you wrote that we should indeed be grateful they chose NOT to use!
You offer a few good little nuggets of analysis and advice, Professor, but there is one glaring error in your premise that we are seeing a "recovering economy". There is, and will be, no true economic recovery until the fatal flaws in our economy and our system of predatory/casino capitalism are addressed and fixed. There is still massive fraud being perpetrated by the Federal Reserve, Wall Street, the big banks, and major investment houses. Sham investment vehicles, massive over-exposure to toxic "assets", unsustainable debt, years of stripping our once-great manufacturing base to the bone and shipping it, and the accompanying jobs, overseas while giving the associated corporations tax breaks to do so, a toothless and impotent SEC that has been taking its marching orders from the very firms that it is supposed to be regulating, and on and on.
Our economy has been shoved off a cliff, Professor, and any notions or indications of economic recovery are simply little up-drafts that we catch on the plunge into the abyss. The Dow Jones is owned by NewsCorp, a propaganda outfit so utterly shameless and nefarious that it would make Joseph Goebbels blush with envy, and anyone who actually has any faith in the Dow at this point is either smoking crack or completely delusional. Middle men do well in a robust economy, Professor, but they find themselves trying to sell pencils on street corners or performing sexual favors behind dumpsters in alleys for a bite of a sandwich when things get tough. Well, things are getting tough, and are about to get tougher. Predatory casino capitalism, massive fraud, fractional reserve banking, fascist economic practices, an out of control Wall Street, these all have us poised for a crash that will make the Great Depression seem like a debutante ball by comparison. Until the Federal Reserve and other criminal Central banks are destroyed, until we stop this lunacy of profits being privatized while losses are socialized, until we start actually designing and manufacturing things that the world wants to buy again, until the Wall Street and big bank criminals are arrested and have to face the music for their massive frauds, crimes, and scams, until people go back to following the law and using sound principles, until that time there will be no true economic recovery. The savvy investor finds opportunity in all economic conditions, but our current system is simply unsustainable.
Ummm, it's hard to tell if you are being sarcastic, PointThatWay. The arrival of the bumbling, incompetent, ham-handed idiots in the Department of Homeland Security is supposed to make the citizens of our fair city "over joyed"?!? Disturbed and horrified perhaps, but certainly not over-joyed. DHS is a disgrace. AG Holder, who declared that it is perfectly acceptable to murder American citizens on US soil without due process and who wouldn't know the Constitution if it bit him on his dumb behind, is a disgrace. The ATF and the DEA are beyond disgraceful, with at least half the agents of both those legitimized gangs completely out of control, worse than our current thug population, and deserving of prison time themselves...to be fair, I've worked with a few ATF agents that had it together, but it seems that the majority of ATF and DEA agents received their Federal agency credentials in a cereal box and are infinitely more dangerous and reckless than the criminals.
The solution to the crime problem in New Orleans is NOT to bring in incompetent and out-of-control Federal agencies. The solution lies in accountability in the NOPD (so many thugs walk due to sloppy police work, inaccurate reports, and mishandled evidence), a more effective DA's office, vigilant and responsible citizens, more effective use of the existing Orleans Parish Sheriffs Office (which can barely catch a cold these days, let alone criminals), an end to the disaster that is the welfare/nanny state in which people are PAID to NOT work, PAID to NOT contribute to society, PAID to have more children they can't take care of and properly educate and thus have a grim future, an educational system that is basically an abysmal failure (and a generation or two of parents that do not hold their own children accountable and help them strive for excellence and success), and on and on. The task is certainly not easy, but it is up to US, the people of New Orleans and Louisiana, NOT some hack Federal agencies. Serpas needs to go. Welfare needs MAJOR reform. The Sheriff's Dept needs to get its act together and join the fight as a law enforcement agency and not just act as prison guards or a bunch of clowns masquerading as cops while on the streets. Young people need a better education for real opportunities - we could certainly use more Vocational/Technical programs and schools at the High School level to teach REAL job skills. And we need accountability at the highest levels of business and government...as long as those big shots at/near the top of corporations, banks, agencies, and government keep getting away with fraud, robbery, grand larceny, and murder, then those further down the ladder will only continue to follow their examples.
Very well said, speak4self.
Let's be honest here: Israel is the threat to Iran, not the other way around. Israel is the rogue nuclear-armed nation, not the other way around. Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons, refuses any and all nuclear treaties, refuses any and all inspections by international bodies of their nuclear facilities, and constantly commits acts of aggression against it's neighbors. Iran has NO nuclear weapons, opens it's doors to any and all international inspections, ONLY enriches radioactive materials to the low-levels needed for energy and medical isotope usages, and has not started a war against any of her neighbors in a couple hundred years. Shoot, Israel has committed acts of aggression against the United States many times...enough, and certainly of a substantial enough level, that if Israel were ANY other country we would have bombed it into the stone age by now. But Israel gets a free pass for some reason. Here is a shocking fact: there is one foreign nation known to have nuclear weapons planted and hidden right here in the good ol' USA....that nation is Israel.
Ahhh the propaganda machine at the AP finally gives the brainwashed masses a glimpse at part of what this ever-growing demonization of Iran is REALLY about: the refusal of a sovereign country to be enslaved to a criminal international central banking system that is controlled by a handful of the biggest, most evil scumbags on earth.
Oh my God, I almost peed my pants at the laughable hypocrisy of that puppet Obama spouting the unadulterated steaming pile of pig manure that "more sanctions were warranted, 'particularly in light of the deceptive practices of the Central Bank of Iran and other Iranian banks.'" Hahahaha yes, let's talk about the "deceptive practices" of Central Banks, by all means!! Let's talk about what a criminal scam the so-called Federal Reserve is, how this cabal of private bankers has looted our Treasury, subverted the Nation, has plunged us all into unfathomable debt, has insured that YOU and your children and your children's children are, and will be, slaves! Let's talk about how OUR currency is created out of thin air by private bankers and is backed by nothing. Let's talk about the REAL mechanisms of money and banking. For if we have THAT discussion, openly and honestly, then A LOT of eyes will be opened and the ensuing rage will see sociopathic vermin such as the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, the Warburgs, the scum running Goldman Sachs, etc, including some of our complicit government "officials", will be literally thrown into the streets and torn to pieces by the masses.
The Iranians have shown an increasing reluctance and refusal to chain themselves to a rigged banking system run by criminal degenerates, to use and accept the manipulated and increasingly worthless American dollar for their oil and as the primary international "reserve" currency. For these actions, the drum beats of war become louder and more frequent. For, nations that refuse to play along with the international "central" banking scam and accept worthless American debt (yes, the American dollar since 1913 is actually an instrument of debt) for their valuable resources tend to get the ever-living snot bombed out of them and invaded.


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By jaredmoshe | Jared Moshé's Blog November 18, 2008 at 5:56AM
Joe the Plumber
Continuing to try to milk his 15 minutes of fame, and proving once again that like most Americans he cares about his own celebrity more than anything else, Joe debuts his own website where you can find such aliases as: Joe the Blogger, Joe the Reporter and Joe the Forum. Where's Joe the Musician? Oh, and you can also pre-order his book, cause what kind of celebrity doesn't try to milk it for all it's worth?
Joe the Lieberman
Senators: Vote "No" on Joe. Oh shit, too late. I still don't think it's good politics to keep him in the fold. Democrats you just handed Joe way too much power, and it's gonna bite you in the ass. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... er... three times, shame on me.

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Stoke City: Huth proves he's head and shoulders above the rest
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YOU'D never have guessed from Robert Huth's goal that he was struggling to head the ball properly.
The German had to have 28 stitches over his left eye after a clash of heads in the home draw with Wigan on January 29.
He's played 90 minutes at Arsenal and at home to Reading since then, but admitted he has been wincing every time the ball struck the still-tender area where his head had opened up.
That made his 67th-minute opening goal on Saturday all the more remarkable as he rose at the back post to crash home an unstoppable header from Glenn Whelan's corner.
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Huth, who is sporting an impressive scar, said: "It's still sore and I didn't want to head the ball too much! But a week off now should do it good.
"I am all right, but every corner in the first half came from our right which I had to head with the left side of my head.
"The first corner from the left-hand side was easier for me to head and I scored. That felt a bit more comfortable because swinging my head to the left would have been a bit sore.
"I hadn't done any heading since the Arsenal game until the warm-up before this game. I caught one and thought, 'I hope I don't get too many on my head today'. But as it turned out we didn't have too many defensive headers to do and just one or two in the second half."
The extent of Huth's injury makes it all the more remarkable that he managed to complete the 90 minutes against Wigan after the wound opened up in a first-half clash with Franco Di Santo. Huth played on with a bandage before the club doctor spent an hour after the game stitching up the damage.
The defender added: "I didn't think it was that bad at the time. I had one before and I felt a little bit concussed, but this time I thought, 'oh, it's just bleeding'. But when I took the bandage off, I could see it was a bit deeper than the other one. I'm not saying I'm a real man or anything. It affects some people, but I was okay with it."
Huth didn't look affected as he produced a commanding performance against the Royals. He says he was determined not to let the tender spot affect his performance.
He added: "It is in the back of your mind, but when a ball comes in there are 20 different ways to head the ball, even if it hits the top of your head. I'm glad we got through today, the three points is massive. "
Besides, Huth says manager Tony Pulis was always going to ask him to play. "Oh yes. It was never in doubt," he added.
Huth's fitness has become ever more important to Stoke after Matthew Upson left on loan on deadline day without a replacement being brought in.
But the German hasn't simply been a huge asset to City because of his defensive prowess since his £6m move from Middlesbrough in August 2009.
Since he joined Stoke, his 13 league goals have only been bettered by one top-flight defender, Leighton Baines, who has netted 15 for Everton in the same period.
However, Saturday's goal was Huth's first of the season, which is one explanation for Stoke's shortage of goals.
He said: "Defenders scoring is a big thing for the team. For some reason it hasn't hit off for us this season.
"Me and Ryan Shawcross have only got one each so it's not good enough. Usually we have three, four and five so hopefully we can chip in with a few more.
"I have always scored one or two, but since I came here I have really kicked on. Hopefully I can start scoring a few more."
Huth doesn't mind being behind Everton's free-kick specialist Baines in the goals tally. He said: "He scores a few more spectacular ones than I do so he deserves to be up there."


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Let me say straight out. Punishing Bush's commutation of Libby's sentence with censure would be like punishing Libby's obstruction of justice with just 400 hours of community service. It would simply reinforce the notion that Bush's Administration is above the law. It would be a punishment wholly unfit for the crime that has been committed: Obstruction of Justice. Bush's obstruction of justice piled up on top of Libby's obstruction of justice, all to prevent the American justice system from holding this Administration accountable for its actions.
I love Swopa. But I am astounded that he misses this fact: in a post arguing against getting lost in the minutiae, he presents the issue as one of Bush "coddling criminals," and not as one of Bush using his pardon power to hide his own (and Cheney's) involvement in a crime. It was not Libby who came up with the idea of leaking Valerie Wilson's identity to Judy Miller, it was Cheney, and he did so with the authorization of Bush.
This is not a mistake Wexler makes. Indeed, his resolution defines in clear terms what Bush's commutation amounts to:
[Bush's] decision to reward the perjury of Mr. Libby … effectivelyprotected President Bush, Vice President Cheney, and otherAdministration officials from further scrutiny.
Given that Wexler has such a clear understanding of the issue here, it is unfortunate that he stops at censure. Sure, it'd make for bad press for the President. On Tuesday. But by Thursday, Bush could rest easy that he had ended all scrutiny into his actions, once and for all. Censure would amount to a closing off of inquiry; it would provide a way for the Republicans to defeat any effort to get the grand jury materials that Fitzgerald and his team spent so much effort putting together. It would end this thing, at precisely the moment when the country is finally beginning to understand the magnitude of what Bush and Cheney did.
In fact, our forefathers gave us clear instructions what to do at a time like this, when a President uses his pardon authority to cover up his own crimes.
In the same convention George Mason argued that the President mightuse his pardoning power to "pardon crimes which were advised byhimself" or, before indictment or conviction, "to stop inquiry andprevent detection."
James Madison responded: [I]f the President be connected, in anysuspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to believe hewill shelter him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; theycan remove him if found guilty..
It doesn't take minutiae to prove that Bush has "sheltered" someone whose crime was "advised by himself." It takes Libby's notes and grand jury testimony.
The punishment for the abuse of the pardon power is clear: impeachment. Just as the punishment for Libby's obstruction was clearly 30 months. If we're going to complain about the commutation itself, we have no business letting Bush off with nothing more than censure.


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For show-and-tell at the State of the Union Address on Tuesday night, President Obama had Warren Buffett's secretary sitting next to the First Lady. Debbie Bosenek has become the poster child for the allegation that "the rich" don't pay their fair share of federal taxes.
But Buffett's secretary is not exactly poverty stricken. On "Fox and Friends" this morning, it was reported that she earns $200,000 a year. CEO's secretaries, on average, earn $67,000, according to Michael Patrick Leahy. She has also apparently bought a second house, in Arizona.
According to Buffett's article in the New York Times last August, he pays far less in taxes than the working stiffs in his office:
Last year my federal tax bill — the income tax I paid, as well as payroll taxes paid by me and on my behalf — was $6,938,744. That sounds like a lot of money. But what I paid was only 17.4 percent of my taxable income — and that's actually a lower percentage than was paid by any of the other 20 people in our office. Their tax burdens ranged from 33 percent to 41 percent and averaged 36 percent.
If Warren Buffett submitted a filing at the SEC this dishonest, he'd be in big trouble. But, since this fits the party line, the president took it as gospel, and the mainstream media has carefully refrained from asking any inconvenient questions. (h/t Powerline).
By conflating payroll (FICA) taxes and income taxes, Buffett is playing the intellectual equivalent of three-card monte. FICA taxes are collected only on wages, to a limited amount, in order to provide a limited income in retirement. Technically, they are not taxes at all, but "contributions," (although I wouldn't recommend deciding not to contribute). The fact that the federal government commingles these contributions with general revenues in order to make the federal deficit look better is a disgrace. Since Buffett's income comes overwhelmingly from investment income and he is one of the richest people in the world, of course the people working for him in his office pay a higher percentage of their incomes in FICA taxes.
And, as I have discussed earlier, he ignores the fact that his investment income, from dividends and capital gains, has already been taxed–at 35 percent–at the corporate level. So the personal taxes he pays on it are double taxation. His actual effective tax rate is closer to 44 percent than 15 percent. He's paying far more in taxes, as a percentage of income, than his secretary.
People sometimes have trouble grasping that corporate profits are the profits of the stockholders, especially as the corporate income tax has been in place for 100 years now. So let me see if I can make clear what is involved here.
Say a man owns a house he rents out. His income from the property, after expenses, is $25,000. He's in the 30 percent bracket, so he pays $7,500 in taxes on the income and the $17,500 remaining is his.
Now, in an effort to make the rich pay their fair share (and, of course, anyone who owns rental property is rich, at least in liberal newspeak), the federal government decides to require that all rental properties must file their own tax returns and pay a 35 percent tax on income after expenses. That means that the house itself now pays an income tax of $8750. It then sends the rest, $16,250 on to the owner. But he's in the 30 percent bracket himself, so he has to pay 30 percent on what he gets after the house has paid its taxes, $4875. So now he's left with $11,375 to spend or save, not $17,500. Thus, the owner is now paying a tax of 45.5 percent on his rental income, not 30 percent.
For someone as good as Warren Buffett at numbers and financial analysis to call 45.5 percent 30 percent is to tell a bald-face lie. For President Obama and the mainstream media to call it truth is, well, typical.


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A notepad computer with a page display region displaying a page of a document on which a user can write using a pen or stylus type writing tool is provided. Associated with the page is an interface that can be used with the pen. The interface includes a core task tool region adjacent to the page where tool icons are partially visible until the pen is brought near one of the icons. The tool icon becomes fully visible when the pen is within the region of the icon. The tool when activated can pop-up a radial pop-up menu located at an edge of the document where all the menu choices are located in a semi-circle away from the edge so that the users hand while holding the pen and making a selection does not block the choices.
1. A display comprising:
an image information display region having a displayed edge; and
a radial pop-up menu located at the edge of the information display region, the radial pop-up menu having a number of menu choices in a semi-circle toward the information display region and opposite of an estimated position of a hand of a user operating a pen, wherein the radial pop-up menu is displayed each time the pen is brought near a designated location along the displayed edge in an orientation based on a radial direction from a point of activating the menu choices and based on a location of the pen relative to the visual plane of the display, wherein a menu choice is activated by a radial stroke from the point of activating the menu choices in a direction toward one menu choice, and wherein a number of menu choices is limited to up to five menu choices based on the estimated position of the hand of the user operating the pen so that the menu choices are not blocked by the hand of the user.
2. A display as recited in
3. A display comprising:
an information display region; and
a radial pop-up menu located in the region, having menu choices in a semi-circle away from an orientation of a hand of a user, wherein the orientation of the hand of the user is determined in part by a pen orientation relative to a perpendicular axis of a visual plane of the display when the pen is near the display, wherein a number of menu choices is limited to up to five menu choices based on the orientation of the hand of the user operating the pen so that the menu choices are not blocked by the hand of the user.
4. A display as recited in
5. A display comprising:
a radial pop-up menu having menu choices in a semi-circle, wherein the radial pop-up menu is displayed in either a first manner or a second manner based on an orientation of a pen relative to a perpendicular axis of a visual plane of the display and on a location of the pen on the visual plane of the display, wherein a menu choice is activated by a radial stroke from the point of activating the menu choices in a direction toward one menu choice, and wherein the number of menu choices is limited to up to five menu choices based on the estimated position of the hand of the user operating the pen so that the menu choices are not blocked by the hand of the user.
6. The display of
7. The display of
This application is a continuation of prior U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/011,713, filed Dec. 11, 2001, which is a divisional of prior U.S. application Ser. No. 09/196,100 filed Nov. 20, 1998 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,337,698), the contents of both of which are incorporated herein by reference as to their entireties.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is directed to a notepad or notebook computer interface that facilitates input via a pen and, more particularly, to a system that provides interface elements particularly suitable for pen-based input to, and interaction with, electronic documents.
2. Description of the Related Art
Making electronic information as handy as paper requires an interaction model which is somewhat different than conventional systems. Documents, the primary form in which people obtain and produce information, are most familiar and manipulatable in the form of paper pages. What is needed is a notepad or notebook computer based system that allows the easy manipulation of document pages. Marking on documents directly, with a pen, provides the most leverage of human motor skills for adding to and interacting with documents. What is needed is a pen based method of marking on and interacting with documents within a notepad or notebook computer.
Organizing information for recall is best done according to one's own experience and mental associations, i.e. "when, where I saw it last", and "what I think it's related to." What is needed is a system that will organize documents according to the user's experience and mental model.
Such a device and its software needs to: render in pages, favoring a portrait aspect ratio and dedicating as much of the screen as possible to displaying the page; support tasks via transitional user interface (U/I) elements which may appear inside or outside or overlapping with the page, and which are controlled directly with the tip of the actual pen (there is no other representation of the pen's location) taking into account the users left or right-handedness, with appearance and behaviors that are both obvious and unobtrusive, easy-to learn and efficient; and support the layering of ink and transitional U/I elements over the content in ways that minimize obstruction of the content and include presentation of such transitional elements in a way which exploits the viewer's ability to resolve overlapping and translucent images. Additionally, the system must support text entry via the pen, but not let the conversion of pen input to text impede the perceived natural flow of events.
A notebook computer should behave and allow interaction with it in a manner similar to interaction with a paper notebook. Likewise, a notepad computer should behave and allow interaction with it in a manner similar to interaction with a paper notepad. For example, when flipping pages of paper the user can separate a corner of the page from a stack to make it easier to flip. The position of the user within a stack of pages of a paper is readily visible via looking at the edge of the stack. A paper user can change pens (inks) with the simple motion of picking up another pen. What is needed is an interface that provides such functions simply and intuitively.
It is an object of the present invention to provide user interface elements along a side of the page that allow the behavior of the system to be changed in a pop-up mode and that do not obscure the page.
It is another object of the present invention to provide input menu pallets that consider the relation of the user's hand to the page, to the corresponding side edge of the display, and to limited numbers and types of selections.
It is also an object of the present invention to provide a page region specifically designated for flipping the pages, but to otherwise allow the user to mark pages directly for input.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide both an ability to convert handwriting to text after the writing, and a writing region adjacent to which converted text characters appear on the page during the writing, in specific relation to the writing region.
It is an additional object of the present invention to allow documents to be stacked and manipulated with a simple unambiguous organizational metaphor.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a system where both the location and orientation of the pen act to determine its function.
The above objects can be attained by a system that includes a page display region displaying a page of a document on which a user can write using a pen or stylus type writing tool. The page occupies substantially all of the display region. Associated with the page is an interface that can be used with the pen. The interface includes a core task tool region adjacent to the page where tool icons are partially visible until the pen is brought near one of the icons, at which time it becomes fully visible. The icons can pop-up radial marking menus located near an edge of the document where all the menu choices are located in a semi-circle away from the edge, so that the user's hand, while holding the pen and making a selection, does not block the choices. A page flipping tool is located in a corner of the page and is a two-stroke radial marking pop-up menu limiting the menu choices to opposite directions of pen movement and allowing selection of a next or previous page. A page scrolling tool can optimally be located along each edge of the page and allows scrolling in each appropriate direction. The interface also includes a stack region adjacent to the page display region having one or more stack icons each representing a stack of documents. Each stack icon is also a two-stroke radial pop-up marking menu having forward and backward choices for selecting documents in the stack. The interface also includes a typing tool which can overlay a portion of the page and includes a writing zone where a user handwrites text, and an adjacent page zone which is part of the page where typed text corresponding to the handwritten strokes is displayed as the handwriting occurs.
These together with other objects and advantages which will be subsequently apparent, reside in the details of construction and operation as more fully hereinafter described and claimed, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof, wherein like numerals refer to like parts throughout.
The present invention is directed to interface elements of a pen based, notepad or notebook computer, the hardware of which is described in detail in the related application previously mentioned. The notebook or notepad computer includes a liquid crystal display 10, as depicted in
An important attribute of an interface to a pen-based system, such as in the present invention, is the combination of spatial and gestural cues by which it deduces how the input should be processed. In the present invention, pen samples are, by default, used to write (see 33—
In a first mode switch, as depicted by the process 20 in
As depicted in
When the pen is detected in the selection orientation, the system indicates 30 the select mode by highlighting the select icon (see
The system then looks for the pen again while it has a selection and again determines 38 the orientation of the pen. If not in the selection orientation, the system determines 45 whether the pen has been put down on the display or pulled away. If on a selection 41, the drag/drop process is activated 42 otherwise the selection is released 43. Activation starts a process represented by displayed information or an interface element.
When the pen arrives in the selection orientation, the selection mode is indicated and the system awaits a movement 45 of the pen down to the display or away from the display. When the pen comes down but not on the existing selection 46, the system starts 47 the additional selection. If on an existing selection, the system shrinks 48, the existing selection.
While the pen is held near the display in the orientation noted above in step 30, the appearance of a select icon 50 (see discussion below) is modified to indicate the selection mode as shown in
In the first selection mode mentioned above, when the pen approaches the display over an element which is set for and the system knows to have a special response to input events, and which is called an object, the input events are passed to that object, such as a writing tool. When the pen touches down and subsequently moves beyond a distance threshold of the object before coming up, the mode is switched back to writing and subsequent events are no longer passed to the object.
When events are passed to objects, the objects will determine which behavior is to occur. In cases where the objects are "pen-aware", they may respond to the approaching pen by highlighting, and respond to pen down and pen strokes by activating other pen-related processes, such as recognition, and upon a stroke may suppress or "undo" some or all of the subsequent writing (which continues unless suppressed).
One set of such objects is, for convenience, called the core task tools (see
The preferred embodiment of the core task tools is a set 68 of core task icons and related pop-ups which are also unique in their appearance and in the functions they represent. As depicted in
The process 100 associated with the core task tool display, as shown in more detail in
One of the types of tools available in the interface is commonly called a radial marking, popup menu. In such a menu the selection of the menu item is governed by the direction of a stroke across the display generally from a starting point in a vicinity where the icon is located. U.S. Pat. No. 5,689,667 (incorporated by reference herein) describes how such menus are used to make such stroke based selections.
The display of the right-handed or left-handed versions of the menu can be controlled by a prior selection of the user by setting a preference or by determining the orientation of the pen in the user's hand during writing when the pen is in a normal orientation for the user. The two-stroke menus discussed herein can also be oriented for left and right handed people and the orientation would be determined in the same way.
With the menu items oriented in a semi-circle as in the menu 170 and radially, and the making of selections via pen strokes with a cursor-less, direct use of the pen, the user's ability to discover and use gestures to make the selections is maximized. Such radial marking menu items, none of which is obscured by the pen or the hand, are displayed radially from the location where the pen tip first touches down, with a preferred maximum quantity of five selections, each choosable with a single stroke whose path is indicated graphically. When this type of menu is used as in the present invention, there is no cursor; the pen tip is the sole representative of position and items on the screen are preferably highlighted when the pen passes over them to indicate their availability for selection.
Another of radial marking pop-up menu in the present invention is a two-stoke menu 180, an example of which is depicted in
The icons for both the palette and two-stroke type radial menus can exhibit alternative behaviors when the pen leaves the display surface without selecting a menu item, including but not limited to: toggling the system in/out of a mode (such as selection); and toggling to show/hide an alternative pop-up (other than the menu) for related, more permanently-displayed functions, such as dialogues.
Human visual perception of objects, and of relationships between objects, is wholly dependent on how light reflects and/or emanates from (radiates from or passes through) those objects. In the real world, the shadow is a uniquely valuable clue as to the relationship between a pair of objects, because it is not a property of either object alone but of their combination. The human visual system recognizes shadows as indicating 1) space between two objects, and 2) a foreground/background relationship. Like the real-world windows after which they are named, the objects in computer graphical user interfaces have been given borders, even to excess, in order to separate them from their surroundings. Shadows offer a fundamentally clearer approach. One reason is that a shadow changes the appearance of the object on which it is cast, but does not replace it. A shadow is a dark, weakly saturated color that is blended with the background object and has the shape of the foreground object. Thus, the computer system must deal with the process of blending. Techniques for blending the background object with the shadow cast on it are well known, including alpha-blending within a pixel (in which the value an object alone would give a pixel is simply averaged with the value the shadow alone would give it), and dithering (in which alternate pixels are taken from alternate sources and the eye does the averaging, although at lower resolution). However, to design a user interface around shadows is to assume the computer to have one or more of these blending capabilities. The present invention including shadow outlines makes that assumption. The fundamentals of a shadow outline are that it 1) exist entirely outside a foreground object, 2) modifies, even degrades, the image of a background object in order to support the notions of space between, and foreground-background relationship between, the two objects. The degradation of the image of the background object is preferably proportional to its proximity to the foreground object. Thus, far from the foreground object the shadow is faint, near the foreground object the shadow is dominant. There are many techniques by which the shadows can be algorithmically created; the use of any such algorithms to separate graphical user interface elements of a computer system fall within the scope of the present invention.
Scrolling is the predominant means of moving through electronic content today. But with a display sized and shaped for holding a page, and with enough resolution to include what people expect in a page of paper, flipping through content as discrete pages becomes important. The invention includes two interface tools: the dog-ear and the stack, which are designed to facilitate the use of the system like pages of paper relatively loosely arranged on in a bundle such as in a note book or stack. The two-stroke type tool, as depicted in
The function of the dog-ear, a page flipping tool, is simply to let the user flip to the next or previous page (screen full) within the current document, and to next and previous documents in a stack if a predominant sequence exists. An associated page number menu can be used to jump to any other page in the current document.
The function of a stack is to facilitate moving forward and back in a sequence, typically another sequence, of documents. The sequence can be a browsing history, an alphabetical index, or any other useful list. Given this function for stacks, being able to "organize" documents by dropping them onto one or more stacks, at once captures the manipulability of shuffling paper and extends it by offering multiple sets and sequences, while avoiding the containership of metaphors such as files and folders. Both a dog-ear 200 and two stacks 202 and 204 are depicted in
The process 230 performed associated with the flipping of pages using the dog-ear and scroll shadow tools, as well as other tools, is shown in
When a pen event is detected 240, several different actions can be taken depending on the type of event. If the pen approaches the dog ear 236, the back side 242 of the dog-ear 236 is highlighted 244 as well as the shadow 246 on the next page as shown in
If the pen is then brought down 248 on the dog-ear 236, a two-stroke menu 250 for selecting the next page 252 or the previous page 254 is typically displayed, as depicted in
The system then awaits 256 (
When the pen is brought up in this glow selection situation, the system changes 260 the displayed page to the next page, showing the page number as shown in
If the document is longer than one page, or if the page is larger than the display, one or more scroll shadows appear when the pen event (240—
When the pen touches the dog-ear (256—
The scroll shadow can appear on two or more edges at the same time, as illustrated in
As previously mentioned, the function of a stack is to facilitate moving forward and backward in a sequence of documents. The sequence can be a browsing history, an alphabetical index, or any other useful list. Given this function for stacks, being able to "organize" documents by dropping them onto one or more stacks, at once captures the manipulability of flipping through paper and extends it by offering multiple sets and sequences, while avoiding the containership metaphors, such as files and folders. A collection of documents is put in a sequence, given a name, and represented as a stack.
The process 310 of operating with stacks is shown in
In general stacks respond to the pen in essentially the same manner as the dog-ear. Upon a pen event 322 (
Another tool provided by the present invention is called, for convenience, a typing tool or typing ribbon 360 as depicted in
The writing zone 362 runs "horizontally" underneath the text line in the zone 366 which it is editing Oust like a typewriter ribbon). Handwritten strokes written on the ribbon in the zone 362 are sent to a conventional handwriting recognition system, with output of the recognizer targeted, in real-time, at the cursor location (or a selection to be replaced) on the text line above the ribbon which line is located within the page of the document being displayed.
The ribbon 360 can also be rotated to a diagonal orientation, as shown in
We have recognized that the sequencing of experience is fundamentally important in human-computer interaction. The world wide web offers such complexity in navigation that effective browsing would be nearly impossible without a back button. By the sequence of experience, we mean what the user perceives to have happened recently, to be happening now, and to be expected in the future, presented and best thought of as stepping with the option of viewing before stepping. It is perhaps best thought of as a combination of viewing and stepping.
The sequencing of experience has been supported in fragments scattered throughout the prior art of computer-human interaction. The list includes Dialog boxes, with their myriad variations on OK and Cancel; the Edit menu with its Undo and Redo items; Graphical User Interfaces with their various scroll bars; and myriad viewing and stepping options using the keyboard's enter and escape, home and end, arrow and page keys, function keys, and modifier-based shortcuts.
The present invention, as depicted in
Two pairs of buttons 384/386 and 382/388 are arranged vertically along one of the side edges, where the display is most naturally held for reading, in close proximity to the display (within 10 mm) to support on-screen labeling. The buttons are sized, shaped and recessed so as to be easy to find and depress intentionally (specifically, with a thumb edge while holding it, and with a thumb tip or fingertip while it rests on a surface), and unlikely to be depressed accidentally while handling for other reasons (specifically, with a palm while carrying it or with the heel of a hand while writing on it). The visually dominant pair of buttons 384/386 is designed to convey that they are paired, opposite in function, and up and down in direction, without the use of words or icons which could conflict with on-screen labels. The function of the central pair 384/386 is to support viewing, and in particular, viewing pages and viewing where to step, and the myriad semantic variations thereof. The secondary pair of buttons 382/388 is designed to convey that they are also paired and opposite in function. The function of the secondary pair 382/388 is to support stepping forward (i.e. follow a link, confirm a dialog) and back (i.e. undo a mistake, cancel a dialog), and the myriad semantic variations thereof. The secondary pair 382/388 is preferably spaced close enough to the visually dominant pair for a user holding the system to access them by only rotating the thumb away from either button of the visually dominant pair (specifically, without having to adjust the location of the fingers), while far enough away and different enough in shape to be quickly and easily distinguished by thumb feel. The display area nearest the buttons may be optionally used for labels 392, 394 and 396 for the buttons An additional button may optionally be placed adjacent to the four buttons and the display, for similarly ergonomic control of audio input functions, including recording, conferencing, and recognition.
These button tools 380, can be provided either in the form of physical buttons mounted along the side or bottom of the display, or touch-screen buttons that appear in the tool region alongside or below the displayed page. If physical buttons 382, 384, 386 and 388 are implemented (see
The present invention has been described with respect to user interface elements as separate from and either in front of or behind, the information concurrently displayed by the system.
The many features and advantages of the invention are apparent from the detailed specification and, thus, it is intended by the appended claims to cover all such features and advantages of the invention which fall within the true spirit and scope of the invention. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation illustrated and described, and accordingly all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention.
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NISO Z39.98-2012 Authoring and Interchange
Working Group Main Page
What is the Z39.98 Authoring and Interchange Framework?
Please refer to ZedAI_Introduction for a gentle introduction.
The current version is available at http://www.daisy.org/z3998/2012/
A page with user information is available at ZedAI_UserPortal
Working Group
- Markus Gylling, DAISY, TPB (lead)
- Kenny Johar, Vision Australia
- Ole Holst Andersen, Nota
- Marisa DeMeglio, DAISY
- Stephen Phippen, RNIB
- Per Sennels, Huseby
- Boris Goldowsky, Center for Applied Special Technology
- Matt Garrish, CNIB
- Sam Ogami, California State University
- Dennis Leas, GH Braille
- Josh Altherr, GH Braille
- Leona Holloway, Vision Australia
- Kathryn Randall, Vision Australia
- James Pritchett, RFB&D
- Christian Egli, SBS
- Christian Waldfogel, SBS
The work of the Z39.98 Authoring and Interchange working group is sponsored by:
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- The Z39.98 Authoring and Interchange Framework Specification
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- Documentation of Profiles and Modules
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- Supporting deliverables
- Full-featured validator
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- November 2008: onset
- May 29 2009: first public working draft -- release of complete set of deliverables (excluding supporting deliverables)
- May 2009 to May 2010: 1-n further public working drafts
- May 2010: Release Candidate 1
- March 28, 2011 to September 28, 2011: Draft Standard for Trial Use -- release for formal NISO public review process
- August 2012: final release of standard (including supporting deliverables)
Iteration Reports
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LAX F2F March 2009
This F2F is semi-virtual. Participants who wont make it to LAX will join via the net (Skype is the default communication medium).
- Date: 23d and 24th March
- Time: The meeting starts at 8AM PST (UTC 16:00) each day.
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- Agenda: see ZedAI_F2F_20090323-24
The target is to bring the framework into a state where it comes as close as possible to publishing as a first z39.98 committee-internal, feature-complete draft.
The work will be performed through division into subgroups (whether you are participating virtually or not) and recurring reports/briefings.
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Field of action. the moscow conceptual school in context
Thursday 30 June 2011
18.30, Education Space, INIVA, Rivington Place, London EC2A 3BA
Andrei Filippov, Book on Skates, 1989-2004, Collection Ekaterina and Vladimir Semenikhin Speaker(s): artist Vitaly Komar, Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich and David Thorp, co-curators of the exhibition, writer and art historian Elizaveta Butakova.
Chair: Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Ticket/entry details:Open to all, free admission but advance booking required via Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/1759961091
Organised by: Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art) and Lina Dzuverovic (Calvert 22)
Further information:In the third in a series of talks organised by Calvert 22 and The Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, a select panel explores key themes raised by the exhibition Field of Action. The Moscow Conceptual School in Context a specially adapted exhibition for Calvert 22. This first UK major presentation of the highly influential Moscow Conceptual School organised in collaboration with the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation in Moscow, examines the work of a group of 'unofficial' artists, united by a distinctive artistic discourse and operating within a significant and complex period of latter 20th century Russian history. Panellists place the work of the Moscow Conceptual School in a wider international context of conceptualism.
The discussion will be followed by a drinks reception.
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Southern Vance allowed 331 rushing yards and turned the ball over three times in Friday's 36-20 homecoming loss to Louisburg.
Antonio Smith scored three times for the Warriors, racking up 163 yards on 29 carries.
Louisburg, of the 1-A Tar-Roanoke Conference, improved to 3-2 overall and Southern dropped to 2-3.
Louisburg led 16-8 at halftime and recovered on an onside kick to start the second half.
The Warriors drove it to Southern's 3-yard line, but the Raiders stopped the visitors short by inches to force a turnover on downs.
Louisburg got it back two plays later when Chris Smith recovered a fumble in Southern's backfield.
Smith scored eight plays later and ran in on the two-point conversion to make it 24-8.
Southern quarterback Ty-Traveon Roberts scored on a keeper to cut the lead to 24-14 after hitting Jeremiah Williams on a 33-yard pass play.
But Louisburg added another third-quarter score and went up 36-14 with 6:03 to play in the fourth quarter.
Louisburg finished with 393 yards of total offense to Southern's 227.
The Warriors held the Raiders to 77 rushing yards.
Southern quarterback Ty-Traveon Roberts was 7-of-16 passing for 150 yards and had a 35-yard touchdown pass to William Henderson in the fourth quarter.
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There are many cheap and reliable Hosting for WordPress out there and one of them is Bluehost. I have used Bluehost for my client sites and what I like about them is unlike many other hosting, they don't over sale it. Also, they come up with only Shared and reseller hosting package, where you can host multiple sites. This guide is for newbie users to learn how to install WordPress on Bluehost hosting.
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Bluehost offers standard cPanel hosting, which comes with Fantastico. Fantastico is one of the easy way to install WordPress or you can use manual WordPress installation method. Though, for the ease of installation process, I would suggest to use Fantastico. So, I assume you already have a Bluehost account and you are ready to move ahead with this tutorial.
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On the next screen click on Start in-front of Wordpress installation pop-up. This will lead you to next page where you can make many changes.
On the next page there are three options, carefully examine all the options. The major one is option 1 and option 2.
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In this step you can select how do you want your blog to look like. You can make it look like
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In this step you can select your WordPress username and password for your login. Make sure you don't select admin as username. Instead use some random username and use complex password. Also keep a check mark on Automatic create a database.
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Terpolymers comprising propylene and small amounts of ethylene and butene-1 are made in a two-stage process wherein a relatively high melting random terpolymer is made in a first stage and a relatively low-melting random terpolymer incorporating a higher concentration of ethylene, is made in a second stage so that it is dispersed in the product of the first stage. The two process stages may be operated in a single batch reactor or two continuous reactors in series.
1. Method of making a modified polypropylene in hexane slurry, said polypropylene having improved low-temperature thermal properties comprising (a) maintaining in a first stage under polymerizing conditions, including a pressure of about 140 psig to about 160 psig, a hexane-catalyst slurry in equilibrium with a gas phase composition comprising about 93.9% propylene, about 4.65% to about 5.15% 1-butene, and about 1.14% to about 1.26% ethylene, to form a dispersion in said slurry of terpolymer particles, and (b) then imposing on said slurry of terpolymer particles, under polymerizing conditions in a second stage, a concentration of ethylene in the gas phase increased to about 2% to about 4%, thereby forming a substrate terpolymer including about 3% to about 4% ethylene and about 3% to about 5.6% 1-butene, and recovering a polymer product having a melting point of about 130° C. to about 140° C.
2. Method of claim 1 wherein the concentrations of monomers in step (a) are maintained in the slurry by maintaining the reaction vessel at a pressure of from about 140 psig to about 160 psig.
3. Method of claim 1 wherein the second stage of the process is conducted in a reaction vessel different from the first stage.
4. Method of claim 1 wherein no 1-butene is fed to the second stage.
5. Method of claim 1 including the step of recovering a polymer product having a melting point of about 130° C. to about 140° C.
6. Method of claim 1 wherein the gas cap concentration of ethylene in the second step is maintained at about 3.23% to about 3.57%.
This is a continuation, of application Ser. No. 718,591, filed Apr. 1, 1985, now abandoned.
Terpolymers comprising 90% or more propylene having a DSC melting point lower than 140°-145° C. cannot be prepared in hexane slurry at 60° C. because the polymer particles swell by absorbing the hexane diluent, become very sticky, and thereby cause agglomeration and reactor fouling. While the use of 1-butene as a termonomer along with small amounts of ethylene is not new, its advantage over ethylene of not increasing the solubility of the polymer as much as ethylene has not been fully utilized in the past because a satisfactory method of manufacturing the polymer has not been conceived to take advantage of the unique contributions of 1-butene while also benefiting from the use of ethylene to modify a basically polypropylene product.
In the past, numerous combinations of monomers, principally ethylene and propylene, have been introduced into the same or different reactors with or without the presence of a chain terminator such as hydrogen between the stages. See, for example, U.S. Pat. Nos. Davison et al 2,839,515, Edmonds, Jr. 3,970,719, Cox 3,264,184, Short 3,318,976, Kontos 3,378,606, Hassell 3,378,608, Hagemeyer, Jr. et al 3,529,037, Gobran et al 3,649,579, Koga et al 3,974,236, and Shiga et al 4,254,237. Many such processes have as their objective the manufacture of block copolymers and/or dispersions of particles in a matrix in which particles of one structure are evenly distributed within a medium comprising a polymer of another, more or less modified, polymer. Both batch and continuous processes for producing such composite products are found in the prior art.
The reader may also be interested in U.S. Pat. No. Shirai et al 3,642,951, Saito et al 4,066,718, Furutachi et al 4,128,606, and particularly Scoggin 3,525,781, which teaches preparing block copolymers continuously by feeding batch prepolymers into a continuous polymerization zone, Baba et al U.S. Pat. No. 4,433,110, which provides propylene and 1-butene polymerization in a first stage and propylene and ethylene polymerization in a second stage, and particularly Frese et al 3,959,409, which discloses the production of crystalline propylene/ethylene/butene-1 terpolymers in series-connected reactors, the ethylene being introduced only in the second or subsequent reactors. See also the large number of examples of terpolymer production in Suzuki et al U.S. Pat. No. 4,304,890. The feed of ethylene is increased, compared to propylene, after the first stage in Sennari et al U.S. Pat. No. 3,670,053.
We are not aware of any rationale in the prior art for utilizing 1-butene to facilitate the manufacture of low melting point polymers of propylene and a small amount of ethylene.
We have invented a two-stage polymerization process which employs three monomers in each stage, under carefully controlled concentration conditions, to produce a polymer having unique desirable properties. The two-stage process may be operated conveniently on a commercial scale by using two continuous reactors in series. The following examples demonstrating the process use, for convenience, the process equivalent of two reactors in series, namely a single batch reactor wherein the batch is treated in a first and a second stage. Concentrations of the termonomers are maintained in the first and second stages of the batch reactor at levels equivalent to those in two reactors in series operating continuously and at steady-state conditions.
In our process, high concentrations of propylene and 1-butene are maintained in the reaction zone throughout, but only low concentrations of the very reactive ethylene are maintained. The major distinguishing difference between stages is that the ethylene concentration is increased in the second stage to promote greater incorporation of ethylene into the terpolymer system, thereby lowering the melting point of the product of the two stages into the desirable low temperature range of 130° to 140° C.
Specifically, we propose a hexane slurry polymerization system where the first reactor is charged with hexane or other solvent for propylene, about one-half percent to about one percent of a titanium tetrachloride catalyst supported on magnesium chloride and about 2.5-3.0% of a solution of 10% triethylaluminum in hexane. Temperature is preferably maintained at about 35° C. and pressure is about 150 psig. The termonomer composition in the reactor to produce a product melting in the range of 130° to 140° C. is typically the following as determined by sampling the reactor gas cap and analyzing for the weight ratio of monomers by vapor-phase chromatography:
______________________________________ First Stage Second Stage______________________________________ethylene 1.2 3.4propylene 93.9 90.51-butene 4.9 6.1 100.0 100.0______________________________________
In the second stage, the ethylene component of the termonomer mixture is maintained at a higher level than in the first stage by supplementing the liquid termonomer feed with ethylene typically in 3 psig increments. Product melt flows in the range of 5 to 55 are produced by maintaining levels of hydrogen in the reactor of 0.025 and 0.25 weight percent in stages 1 and 2, respectively, in the gas cap, by vapor-phase chromatography.
This process, with variations in the content of ethylene and 1-butene of plus or minus five percent and consequent possible variations in content of propylene, will produce a terpolymer having a DSC melting point of about 135° C., typically about 130° to 140° C., and containing about 3.1 weight percent ethylene and about 4.3 weight percent 1-butene. Our invention includes products recovered from the above process containing from about 3% to about 4% ethylene and about 3% to about 5.6% 1-butene and having a melting point between 130° and 140° C., according to the formula:
-5.0689(C2)-2.1135(C4)+161.56=130° to 140° C.
where C2 and C4 are the concentrations of ethylene and 1-butene in weight percent. We have found that our terpolymers having a melting point between 130° C. and 140° C. have excellent heat sealability. The product slurry is in the form of small particles dispersed in the hexane diluent. The size of the terpolymer particles is determined primarily by the size of the original catalyst particles. The terpolymer particles isolated from the reactor slurry have a size ranging from 200 to 2,000 microns diameter.
Within the above formula, we prefer to make terpolymer product having an ethylene content in the lower part of its range and a 1-butene content in the higher part of its range, in order to minimize the portion of product which is undesirable because it is soluble in hexane. Specifically, we prefer product made by controlling the gas cap concentrations of C2 and C4 at about 3.2 to 3.4% and 6.1 to 6.4%, respectively.
In the following examples, the reactor was loaded with hexane and catalyst components, and 1 psig was maintained in the reactor gas caps for one hour at 35° C. by feeding propylene. The catalyst used was a commercial Montedison FT1SS catalyst.
After loading the reactor with hexane and catalyst components, and optionally carrying out the pre-polymerization step, the initial reactor charge at 35° C. is carried out as indicated in the table of examples.
A stirred, jacketed reactor of 300 psig maximum operating pressure was used to make up and feed the termonomer mixtures to the polymerization reactor. 1-butene, propylene, and ethylene were charged in that order to give the liquid-phase feed composition indicated in the table of examples below. The termonomer mixture was then heated to 30° C. to raise its pressure above 150 psig so that it could be metered by way of a needle valve to the polymerization reactor, on demand, to maintain 150 psig.
The termonomer feed mixture of the compositions indicated in the table of examples was fed to the polymerization reactor, on demand, to maintain the "First Stage" gas cap composition shown above at 150 psig. Demand is manifested immediately when the reaction begins.
The second-stage was started by supplementing the termonomer feed with 3 psig incremental additions of ethylene to elevate the ethylene content of the reactor gas cap to 2-4 wt.% ethylene.
The more desirable products for our purposes are those of examples 12 and 13, having good or excellent processability with a melting point between 130° C. and 140° C., providing good heat sealability.
__________________________________________________________________________ Example No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13__________________________________________________________________________Pre-polymerization yes yes yes yes yes no no no no no yes yes yesInitial reactor chargeat 35° C.:hydrogen, ΔP psig 1.0 1.2 1.0 1.0 1.2 1.0 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.2 1.2 1.21-butene, lbs. 4.7 4.6 6.9 9.2 4.0 3.0 3.8 4.8 5.5 5.0 6.9 6.9 6.9propylene, lbs. 20 38 35 42 21 36 46 46 46 46 35 35 35ethylene, ΔP psig -- -- -- -- -- 5 3 3 3 3 -- -- --Liquid termonomer feed:1-butene, wt. % 4.0 3.4 6.2 5.4 5.5 4.1 2.6 4.0 6.1 2.1 5.7 5.9 7.0propylene, wt. % 93.4 94.3 91.4 92.0 90.2 91.9 93.0 91.5 90.0 93.6 91.8 92.0 90.5ethylene, wt. % 2.6 2.3 2.4 2.6 4.3 4.0 4.4 4.5 3.9 4.3 2.5 2.1 2.5Product characterization:melting point, ° C. 138.0 146.7 142.1 140.6 130.2 138.9 142.7 134.4 138.5 135.0 140.4 135.5 133.8melt flow rate 2.2 9.4 5.7 3.3 1.9 3.5 3.5 4.1 8.4 4.0 9.3 5.6 5.5(ASTM D1238, condition L)composition(by IR analysis), wt. %:1-butene 2.4 2.3 3.4 3.8 2.1 1.4 1.4 1.5 2.7 1.6 3.5 3.4 4.3ethylene 3.1 2.3 2.5 3.3 5.9 4.0 3.4 4.1 3.2 5.4 2.4 3.5 3.1propylene (by difference) 94.5 95.4 94.1 92.9 92.0 94.6 95.2 94.4 94.1 93.0 94.1 93.1 92.6Reactor slurry processability poor excel. good poor poor poor poor poor poor poor good good excel.by solid-bowl centrifuge__________________________________________________________________________
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Sector 5
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Sector 5 (伍番街, Goban-gai?) is a location in Final Fantasy VII. Located in lower Midgar, it is under the Shinra Electric Power Company's control. Like every sector of the metropolis, it is composed of both Slums and Plate sections, though no media depicts the Plate.
The Sector 5 slums are Aerith Gainsborough's adopted hometown, where she spends most of her life under the care of her adoptive mother, Elmyra Gainsborough. During this time, she avoids capture from the Turks, as Shinra is seeking her for her Ancient heritage. Aerith spends most of her time at the Sector 5 Church and her ability to grow flowers in the metropolis's inhospitable climate becomes an inspiration for the local citizens.
- See also: Sector 5 Reactor and Sector 5 Church
Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-Edit
In Episode 11 the Player Turk protects Aerith from kidnapping from the terrorist group AVALANCHE, in what they call "Operation Laura". The AVALANCHE commanders, Shears and Fuhito, are caught by surprise by the Turk's appearance, since none of their intelligence stated a Turk had been dispatched.
The Player Turk stumbles upon the AVALANCHE attack by accident and Shears defeats the Turk, capturing the player and Aerith. Aerith is brought to the AVALANCHE leader, Elfé, and is told to reveal the location of the Promised Land, so it wouldn't end up in Shinra hands. The Turk breaks in and fights the AVALANCHE leaders, but seems beaten. He or she is saved when Elfé collapses, forcing AVALANCHE to retreat.
Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-Edit
Zack Fair falls through the Upper Plate after being defeated by Angeal Hewley up in the Sector 5 Reactor. He falls the 150 meter drop down into the slums, but the church flowers save his life by softening the landing. He thanks Aerith by giving the compensation of one date. While Zack and Aerith are out, a boy steals his wallet in the marketplace.
After wandering around asking the less than helpful citizens for help, Zack finally gets it back; the boy's wallet had been eaten by a group of monsters in the Sector 6 park, so Zack defeats them and gets the boy his money back. Aerith and Zack go to the playground where they discuss SOLDIER members' supernatural abilities. Their date is cut short when Zack receives a call from his superior, Sephiroth, telling him to return to the Headquarters. Afterward, Zack can travel to Sector 5 slums whenever he wishes by boarding a train from Sector 8.
Later on, Zack builds Aerith a flower cart and helps her sell flowers at the park, although this does not go well.
Final Fantasy VIIEdit
Five years later, after Zack has disappeared from Aeris's life, Cloud Strife falls into the church through the roof. Aeris offers Cloud to be her bodyguard in exchange for a date, just like Zack offered her many years ago. He helps Aeris escape from the Turk Reno and back to her adopted mother's house. Cloud spends the night at the house, but leaves in secret at Elmyra's urging. He tries to sneak away, but Aeris follows.
Later on, after Sector 7's destruction, Cloud, along with Barret Wallace and Tifa Lockhart, use Aeris's house as a temporary base to plan their next move, and Elmyra recites the story of Aeris's childhood. Barret's daughter, Marlene, is kept in the house for a time, until she is later moved to Kalm by Reeve.
The town is largely destroyed along with the rest of Midgar by the fall of Meteor.
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Outside ReactorEdit
[the walkway outside the reactor where Air Buster is fought]
No. 5 ReactorEdit
- Main article: Sector 5 Reactor
From Midgar Highway. To World Map.
Church EntranceEdit
- Main article: Sector 5 Church
From church, once.
- West
- East
Earthen PipeEdit
Weapon StoreEdit
Item StoreEdit
Materia StoreEdit
- 1f.
- 2f.
Aeris's HouseEdit
- 1f.
- 2f.
Aeris's GardenEdit
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Hidden MoneyEdit
In one of the houses, there is a boy sleeping upstairs. If the player looks into the drawers they can find 5 gil in a hidden compartment. If the player takes the money they will later find the boy crying over having lost his savings. If the player leaves the money, the boy will give out a Turbo Ether later on. The boy's room also has one of the Turtle's Paradise flyers on the wall.
Returning in Discs 2 and 3Edit
Sector 5 can be revisited on discs 2 and 3 after finding the Key to Sector 5 in Bone Village. The player can still find Turtle's Paradise Flyer #1 inside of a residence in Sector 5 in case it was missed, and sleep for free in Aeris's house. The man in the pipe Cloud and Aeris could find the first time visiting the area is no longer there, and nearby NPCs say he has departed while talking of the Reunion.
Items FoundEdit
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Item ShopEdit
Weapon ShopEdit
Materia ShopEdit
|600 gil
|600 gil
|600 gil
|750 gil
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In Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- shops can only be visited from the menu. Sector 5 Materia Shop is available after completing Mission 6-2-3.
|Strength Up
|1,000 gil
|Vitality Up
|1,000 gil
|Magic Up
|1,000 gil
|Spirit Up
|1,000 gil
|1,000 gil
|1,000 gil
Enemy FormationsEdit
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Sector 5 Slums - Street (1st and 2nd Screen)Edit
- Whole Eater x2
- Whole Eater, Hedgehog Pie x2
- Vice x2
- Vice (Back attack)
Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-Edit
Musical ThemesEdit
|"Flowers Blooming in the Church"
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In Final Fantasy VII "Flowers Blooming in the Church" (教会に咲く花, Kyōkai ni Saku Hana?) plays in Aeris's church, Aeris's house and the areas nearby to the two areas. "Under the Rotting Pizza" (腐ったピザの下で, Kusatta Piza no Shita de?) plays inside the Sector 5 slums.
In Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- the theme of the slums is "Where Light Does Not Reach". "A Flower Blooming in the Slums (from FFVII "Aerith's Theme")" plays in scenes involving Aerith.
Other AppearancesEdit
Final Fantasy Airborne BrigadeEdit
- Various Japanese text can be seen around the backgrounds on Sector 5 in Final Fantasy VII. The pipe with the man inside reads "Safety First". In the screen before the church there is a graffiti on a piece of metal that reads "We Gods". The big red graffiti on the wall leading to Sector 6 reads "Yamato" (大和), an old name of Japan.