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Kris Du Vall of Elkhorn Outdoor Sports grabbed this photo at their Rio Linda Store of Jesse Willis who as Du Vall put it, "Busted a 44-inch, 41 pound striper on a slough in Rio Vista on Sunday." Jesse was trolling a P-Line Predator Lure, White with Red Head in color, with a white worm Trailer.
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Article and photo by Jeff Goodwin
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By Mike Mogler
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Extra 2M smolts raised by Stamp Funds
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Let's check out the Upper Sac
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Sacramento River trout love Dick-Nite spoons
By Jeff Goodwin
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Crystal Lake fish planting going well
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By Gary Heffley
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Finding Fish from Discarded DNA
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Pacific halibut 2015 regulations in effect
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Agencies halt commercial sardine fishing
F&GC adopts in-river sport fishing regs 04/23/15 -- The California Fish and Game Commission adopted changes to the Central Valley and Klamath River basin salmon sport fishing regulations for the 2015 season on Friday, April 17. The changes include fall-run...Full Story
Fishing the Klamath below JC Boyle Dam
By Trouteagle
03/02/15 -- Year round trout action can be found on the Klamath River within the 20 or so miles of free flow within Oregon and California. While fishing below the flumes at the JC Boyle powerhouse, it can be difficult to know just when...Full Story
The Mystery of the Middle Fork, Part IV
By Jim Broshears
11/10/14 -- This trip was to be the final chapter in the saga that began three years ago but is actually over 20 years in the making. As Bruce, Tuck and I journeyed back to the Middle Fork of the Feather River we made...Full Story
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German brown trout afternoon in Modoc
By Lea Huetteman
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Throw the kitchen sink at them
Article and photos by Phil Akers
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Humboldt Bay: Busy port, excellent fishery
Pulled into the pipes: Green Sturgeon
03/04/14 -- [Posted with permission of FISHBIO] Living in the Sacramento River can be a risky business for juvenile green sturgeon (Acipenser medirostris). The young fish must swim through a gauntlet of water... Full Story
Not Just Any Fish
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By Phil "Flip" Akers
01/26/14 -- Meet Phideaux, a 110-pound neurotic chocolate Lab. His name is pronounced "Fido" but it is spelled "Phideaux" because he is a Cajun dog. Anyway, last summer Phideaux took his human (that's me) on a trout hunt up into...Full Story
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01/11/12 – Lake Oroville is probably one of the best lakes for sheer numbers of Spotted Bass in Northern California. This is not just on a seasonal basis, but year round. To start, I have a list of baits that produce decent results... Full Story


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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to manipulation and selection of menu entries and icons using interactive manipulation of graphics images and, more particularly, to arrangements providing increased visibility and ease of selection of icons and menu entries without compromising cursor response.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In the field of computers and data processors, it has long been recognized that the capability of a user to receive and assimilate information in order to interact easily with the computer is of major importance in the usefulness of the computer in many applications. The utility of increased "computing power" to execute programs at ever increasing speeds diminishes in all but a relatively few highly complex programs which require only slight interactivity with a user when the user cannot readily perceive, understand and react to the results thereof. Therefore, the interest in and dedication of a significant fraction of available computing power to the user interface has become a widely accepted practice for both hardware and software design in the data processing field. In recent years, it has also been found that displayed graphics images, especially if manipulable by the user provide a particularly good medium for both the communication of information to the user including processor and program execution status and for the input of user control information and data, particularly users suffering disabilities or handicaps. Arrangements utilizing various techniques to provide bi-directional communication between processor and user through display manipulation are often collectively referred to as graphical user interfaces.
Input of control signals and data through the medium of a graphic display requires the use of a device by which a location on the display may be specified, together with a mechanism for selection of that location in order to select an object, such as an icon or displayed data, associated with that location. This requirement, in turn, requires some arrangement to provide visual feedback to the user, commonly by display of a cursor, pointer or the like so that the operator can control the specification of a location without inputting of data or exercising control until the location is correctly specified.
Increased interactivity of the user and data processor also increases the number of control and/or data options which must be displayed to the operator at any given time. In the past, large numbers of control options were grouped by category and the categories listed as a menu of only one or a few text lines on the screen; individual options being found by accessing an individual item in that menu to access one or more further menus, generally arranged in a hierarchical fashion, to find the desired option. A particularly successful form of this arrangement is generally referred to as a pull-down menu. Nevertheless, such a hierarchical selection process consumes substantial user and processor time and assumes that the operator is highly familiar with the application program in order to accurately select a category in which a desired option is to be found without laborious searching or browsing through successive menus.
Presently, it is considered desirable to provide as many options as possible on a single menu displayed on the display screen in order to more fully inform the operator of the options available for control and to avoid the multiple selections required for operation of successive hierarchical pull-down menus. At the same time, however, an increased number of selectable options presented on the display screen consume a substantial portion of the screen display space and would interfere with display of, for example, a document unless the area allocated to each selectable item is limited; implying small displayed size of the menu item or icon. Such area limitation is facilitated by use of graphical legends, generally referred to as icons, which use standard images rendered on small standardized areas rather than alphanumeric legends which may require variable size fields. However, the small size of icons when many options are available increases the accuracy with which a location must be specified for correct selection as well as reducing visibility to the operator and the difficulty of maintaining the cursor at that location during selection.
While some advances in improving immunity to modification of specified position during selection has been achieved, such as in copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/340,935, filed Nov. 17, 1994, the only improvement toward ease of operator selection with a cursor has been in the provision of a so-called gravity well around each selectable icon or menu item. (An icon is a special case of a menu item only to the extent that a graphic image may be implied. As used hereinafter, the term "icon" is to be understood to be generic to any form of menu item. ) Little, if any development has been directed to improvement of icon visibility or to aid recognition by a user.
The "gravity well" approach comprises the provision of position comparison between an icon location and cursor position to provide cursor stability at a selection point within the icon and to provide a degree of "attraction" of the cursor to the nearest icon or menu selection, usually by weighting increments of cursor movement specified by the operator to develop a preferential direction of cursor movement toward the nearest menu item. Unfortunately, while such an arrangement reduces positional errors during selection, linearity of cursor response is inherently compromised by the implementation of such an arrangement. For example, if a plurality of icons or menu selections are placed adjacent to each other, a substantial amount of actuation of a graphic input device may be necessary to move a cursor away from a selection position of enhanced stability due to the gravity well. Therefore, if a cursor is positioned on an icon, the amount of movement of a graphical input device necessary to move the cursor away from that icon toward the desired icon may cause overshoot of the desired icon to another icon which the operator does not wish to select. Correction then becomes equally difficult since the cursor again becomes trapped in the gravity well of another undesired icon.
Additionally, when a large number of icons are presented on an acceptably small portion of the screen area, visibility of the individual icons and the ability of the user to recognize the identity of individual icons is severely compromised. This is especially true where overall available display area or resolution is limited such as in portable and notebook computers, many of which have adequate processing power to support multitasking which is preferably implemented with display of plural overlaid windows, each window necessarily being of smaller size than the screen. The use of such windows further reduces the display area available to a particular application since the edges of overlaid windows must also be displayed to the operator to indicate processor and application status.
Additionally, many applications contain procedures and sub-routines which require user intervention; either of a mandatory nature (e.g. requiring an acknowledgement or confirmation of a command, input of a print command or a correction of input data) or selection between a limited subset of menu items. In some applications, the user is informed of the requirement for user intervention by the automatic display of a so-called text balloon, help window or special purpose menu. However, such procedures or routines may be entered unexpectedly and these types of display images require substantial display area and may obscure the portion of the display screen which the user needs to see in order to make the required decision and appropriate input to the system.
As an alternative which avoids such consumption of display area, it is also known in such instances to call the operator's attention to particular menu choices or mandatory required inputs by altering the visual attributes of icons or menu items, such as by blinking, change of color or increasing display brightness or intensity of particular displayed items. However, when the icon or menu item is already displayed at small size, change of display attributes does not enhance and generally degrades recognition of icon or menu item identity by a user. Further, blinking or intensity change of a very small area of the display is often not immediately evident to a user and does not immediately convey the need for an input or selection. This latter problem is particularly characteristic of some display media, such as liquid crystal displays in which the gamut of available visual image values is limited in intensity range. In any case, the alteration of visual attributes of a menu item such as an icon is necessarily displayed in an area which is displaced from the location on the display where current input data is displayed and the change of visual attributes must, at best, be detected by the peripheral vision of the user.
Accordingly, it is seen that currently known display enhancement techniques are not well-suited to a very large number of commonly encountered conditions where communication between a user and data processing system are required. While some attempts have been made to automatically evaluate the display and to modify the display enhancement, such as providing for variable location of help windows or switching between display enhancement modes, none have been fully successful in resolving trade-offs between required screen area and low visibility and/or user recognition in order to significantly improve the efficiency of communication through the graphic user interface.
All of the above problems are increased in severity for users of data processing equipment who may have some degree of visual impairment. In particular, the number of users of computers, particularly of the portable or notebook type who are of an age at which some loss of focal accommodation is to be expected has greatly increased in recent years. Therefore, when the displayed size of icons or menu items is reduced, particularly at a fixed display resolution, recognition of the identity of icons and menu items becomes particularly difficult and slow for such users. While some arrangements have been proposed to display images at increased size, such as fractional windows which cover less than the full page size or width of a document, no arrangements are known for enhancement of menus as a visual aid for such users. Further, fractional windows are not generally satisfactory due to the changes (usually abrupt shifts) of position of the document under the fractional window and general functional incompatibility with the goals answered by overlaid windows in multi-tasking environments, as discussed above.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a display enhancement which minimizes required display area but improves the ability of a user to recognize icons and menu items.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an enhancement to a graphic user interface which reduces the accuracy with which a cursor must be positioned on a display for menu item selection, particularly using icons, which does not require interference with cursor manipulation.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a graphic user interface enhancement which improves visibility and communication of mandatory user action and particular groups of available options in applications.
It is yet another object of the present invention to provide an automatically operable visual aid for enhancement of icon visibility and recognition in a graphic user interface.
In order to accomplish these and other objects of the invention, a method for visually enhancing a display of menu items is provided including the steps of establishing a location of at least one menu item on a display, establishing a location of a cursor image on a display, determining proximity between locations of menu items and the location of the cursor image, and displaying a menu item in accordance with an attribute determined in generally inverse relation to the proximity of the cursor and the menu item.
The foregoing and other objects, aspects and advantages will be better understood from the following detailed description of a preferred embodiment of the invention with reference to the drawings, in which:
FIGS. 1, 2, 3A and 3B are a sequence of displays of an iconic menu produced in accordance with the invention,
FIGS. 4 and 5 are a sequence of alternative displays corresponding to a requirement for mandatory input in an application in accordance with a feature of the invention,
FIG. 6 is a depiction of a further variation of the display for enhancing attraction of the user's attention, and
FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of the architecture of a preferred embodiment of the invention.
Referring now to the drawings, and more particularly to FIGS. 1-3B, there is shown an exemplary sequence of displays produced is accordance with the invention. It is to be understood that this sequence is merely exemplary and intended to enhance understanding of the intended function of the invention in regard to attainment of the above-noted objects and the attendant advantages thereof. Other types and arrangements of the display are certainly possible and will be evident to those skilled in the art in view of the description of the invention which follows.
Specifically in the example shown by FIGS. 1-3A, a portion 10 of a display includes an icon menu 30 which is assumed, for simplicity of explanation, to be positioned at the top of a display screen or window thereon. A graphic cursor 20 (as opposed to a text cursor, although a text cursor may be used in the practice of the invention) is also provided on the display and is assumed to be fully manipulable by a graphic input device such as a mouse or, preferably, an isometric joystick such as that described in the above-noted copending application. In most applications, it is provided that the graphic cursor is hidden upon actuation of a key of a keyboard or other data input and reappears upon a subsequent manipulation of the graphic input device, after a lapse of a time period, etc. The graphic cursor is therefore assumed to be active and visible in this explanation of the operation of the invention.
It is also assumed for simplicity of explanation that the space allocated to each icon is approximately two character spaces although the articulation of the display and the icon menu is not critical to the practice of the invention. In any event, an address or location of the center or boundaries of each icon is known and either address (or any other address but preferably within the boundary of each icon) can be used in the practice of the invention. Likewise, in known systems for manipulation of a graphic cursor, a reference address or location around which the graphic cursor image 40 is rendered will also be known.
Accordingly, a distance d can be readily computed from some address within the icon menu 30. (In this simplified case, the distance is considered in only the vertical direction from the top of the display or window to the selection point location 25 on the cursor 20. However, in point of fact, in any situation or application in which the icons or menu items are aligned in a row or column, it is only necessary to perform an evaluation of d in a single coordinate direction.) It is desirable that the display of the icon menu be unaffected for cursor image positions over most of the display area or window. Therefore, some specific or inherent threshold of proximity between the icon menu 30 and cursor selection position 25 should be provided as will be described in greater detail below in regard to FIG. 6.
Assuming sufficient vertical proximity (e.g. d=8 arbitrary units, such as character rows, or less) between cursor 20 (or location 25) and an icon address to indicate by that combination that the user may wish to make a selection from the icon menu, the horizontal address of the cursor location 25 is compared to horizontal addresses of each of the icons 35 in icon menu 30 to identify the icon with the closest address to that of the cursor. The display of the nearest icon can then be increased in size in a manner well-understood in the art in accordance with any of a number of known techniques such as sprites, objects, overlays, z-buffers and the like; the choice and specific implementation of which is unimportant to the practice of the invention. In accordance with the proximity d, a degree of expansion of the icon is specified, preferably in some linear or non-linear inverse proportionate relationship to the proximity of the graphic cursor and the icon rendered in expanded form. For example, some arbitrary number such as sixteen could be divided by d and the integer portion of the result used to specify how many times each raster line of the original icon image is repeated to render the enlarged icon. In such a simple case, truncation of d and/or the result of division provides a sufficient degree of size stability to the enlarged icon. This process is preferably repeated for each frame or each small plurality of sequential frames of the display.
Thus, as shown in FIG. 2, when the proximity between icon address and graphic cursor address is reduced to d=6, icon 40 and graphic imagery within it is rendered at a yet larger size as shown at 40'. Selection zone 45 within the icon is also expanded accordingly as can be readily accomplished by appropriate scaling of position comparison boundaries.
Further motion of the graphic cursor toward the icon until d=4 causes redisplay of the icon and its imagery at a further expanded size as shown at 40". The selection zone 45 is also further expanded and, in FIG. 3A, has actually captured the graphics cursor position. No further movement of the graphics cursor toward the top of the screen is necessary for selection but further expansion of the icon as a visual aid can be readily accomplished by such further motion. Whether or not such further expansion is desired or required by the user, at the degree of expansion shown at any of FIGS. 1-3A, horizontal motion of the cursor may be sufficient to change identification of the icon selected, as shown in FIG. 3B. It should be noted that the icon address is not changed and resolution for selection based on closest proximity remains the width allotted to each unexpanded icon, in this case, two character spaces. Therefore, horizontal motion of the cursor, preferably at low speed, in any of the screens or windows of FIGS. 1-3A will cause a sequence of expanded icons to be displayed at slightly differing positions corresponding to the original address of each icon.
Thus, any degree of expansion of icon images is readily available to the user as an adjustable visual aid. Further, expansion of the selection zone 45 with the icon images provides positional stability during selection achieving the same purpose as the "gravity well" but without adverse effect on the linearity and controllability of graphic cursor motion. There is no conflict between the horizontal extent of the selection zone 45 of a particular icon and the positional resolution for determining the nearest icon for such expansion since the onset of selection can be determined and the intended icon location restored to any point in its dynamic motion history, much in the manner that cursor motion during selection can be canceled, as disclosed in the above incorporated copending application.
Referring now to FIG. 4, a variation of the display of the invention is shown when a mandatory control or other command or user action such as a print or retry command must be exercised at some point in an application program currently running (e.g. active in a foreground window). Since the command is mandatory, it is considered desirable to expand the icon sufficiently to capture the cursor (as occurred due to cursor proximity in FIG. 3A) as can easily be accomplished in numerous ways. For example, if the technique alluded to above for expansion of the icon by dividing an arbitrary number by d is employed, the arbitrary number can be iteratively increased by repetitively adding it to itself and testing the icon selection zone against the cursor position on each iteration. Alternatively, the icon can be expanded to an arbitrary size and the graphic cursor brought to the selection position.
If the cursor is captured in one of these ways or any other fashion, the operator need only perform selection to authorize the function.
However, in the former case, since the position of the cursor is not known in advance, it is considered desirable to incrementally expand the icon, possibly repeatedly, to a point where the selection zone of the icon includes the cursor position. Repeating the expansion simplifies the repetitive testing for capture and also provides for possibly shrinking the icon, as will be described below. Repetitive expansion of the icon and the animation of the displayed image is highly effective for attracting the attention of the operator.
It is also considered preferable to be able to at least repetitively test the selection zone of the icon against the cursor position so that the icon need only be as large as necessary to capture the cursor position. If this is done, the user can not only further enlarge the icon at will but also shrink the icon by moving the cursor toward the normal position of the icon in the unexpanded icon menu to reveal any part of the screen which may be concealed by the expanded icon. Also, since it is usual to provide an option of avoiding authorization of the mandatory command, such a possibility is readily accomplished by simply not providing for the icon to be shrunk below its unexpanded size. In this case, the icon selection zone location within the icon will provide a margin in which selection of the operation will not occur, as shown, for example, if the cursor were to be moved to location 25', as shown in FIG. 4, at the upper edge of the screen. Positioning is not critical since the cursor location will be at the limit of cursor movement or, alternatively, outside the display window altogether.
If more than one command may be chosen in response to the state of an application but fewer than all commands represented by the icon menu are appropriate, it is not appropriate to capture the cursor with any particular icon. However, the available options may be communicated to the user by expanding less than all of the icons in the menu, as shown, for example, in FIG. 5. This can be readily accomplished, for example, by providing for application control over whatever means is used for selection, overriding proximity as the criterion for expansion, deselection of all unavailable options as candidates for expansion and expanding the remainder to a predetermined degree, such as by performing a single addition of the arbitrary size number to itself before dividing by d in the simple example given above.
In the variation of the display given in FIG. 5 and discussed above, the icons remaining after deselection may be considered as a sparse array of icons which may be provided by the application in normal operation (e.g. even if deselection of some icons is not performed by the application). In such a case, and others as well, another variation of visual enhancement of the icons may be desired as will now be explained in connection with FIG. 6.
Specifically, if the icons E and P are at arbitrary locations on the screen 61, 62 and the cursor at another arbitrary location, evaluation of d' and d" would ordinarily be done in regard to both orthogonal directions on the display by, for example, applying the well-known Pythagorean theorem to the distances between the icon address and the cursor address in both coordinate directions. As before, differences in d provide for different degrees of expansion of respective icons. However, at any arbitrary size of the respective icons, the relative difference in addresses in each coordinate direction may be used to produce skew by advancing or delaying the rendering of each raster line of each icon image in dependence on the sign of the positional difference and the amount of the delay corresponding to respective values of d' and d".
Thus each icon will be distorted and appear to reach out for the cursor as depicted at 63. If the skew is produced non-linearly, an amorphous, "amoeba-like" curved appearance to the outline of the icon can be achieved. In either case, the visual distortion of the shape of the icon as well as the distortion of the graphic image therein is believed to be extremely effective in attracting the user's attention. As with other visual enhancements described above, the selection zone is also expanded and selection facilitated without the need for introducing non-linearities of cursor movement, such as are caused in the so-called gravity-well stabilization scheme described above. Additionally, visual enhancement of the icon image as well as effective attention-attracting attributes are provided.
Many equivalent ways of producing the above visual effects will be apparent to those skilled in the art in light of the above-described function and operation of the invention. It is also to be understood that other display attributes such as expansion of an icon in whole or in part with an image shaped similarly to a drop-shadow can be provided in a similar fashion (e.g. controlled in a generally inverse relation to proximity to the cursor) in addition to or in substitution for size and skew. However, inclusion of size change in generally inverse proportion to proximity is preferred since it provides a user-controllable vision aid. Likewise, skew is preferred since the distortion is effective in attracting the attention of a user.
To aid in a visualization and a full understanding of the invention, however, an exemplary block diagram of suitable apparatus for producing the above-described effects will now be discussed. It is to be understood from the following discussion that the invention can be implemented in either hardware or software emulating the same on special purpose or general purpose processors; the latter being preferred for ease of implementation with a wide variety of applications. A combination of hardware and software such as the use of a math or display co-processor will usually provide increased speed of response. Further, it is to be understood that the following discussion is of an exemplary arrangement and that other equivalent arrangements or portions thereof could be employed within the spirit and scope of the invention.
Referring now to FIG. 7, an application 100 defines the addresses and graphics corresponding to a plurality of icons or menu items and stores the same in registers 110. As the display is generated, the graphics of each icon are selectively provided to the display controller 180 and the address of each icon is provided to a digital subtractor circuit 120 which also receives an address of the graphics (or text) cursor (determined by graphics input device 175) from register 180 and evaluates proximity d of each icon. Thresholding may also be performed on d at the subtractor 120 to limit the number of comparisons of d which must be made. For example, if the icon menu is provided in a row (or column) as in FIG. 1-3B, only a maximum of two distances must be considered which may be chosen in accordance with the horizontal (or vertical) display address of the cursor. A threshold may also be used to disable the remainder of the invention when the graphics cursor is remote from the menu or any icon. Comparison may also be simplified by only evaluating either Δx or Δy as d when the menu is arranged in a row or column.
Comparator/selector 130 selects the icon image or small plurality of icon images halving the smallest value of d or as specified by the application for prompting for a mandatory input and provides the corresponding value(s) of d to divider circuit 140 which divides an arbitrary number Q by each value of d to determine a size factor at which the icon is to be rendered. It should be noted that the address of the icon does not change but the display addresses at which it is rendered on the screen will change with the size of the icon. It should also be noted that the size factor can be limited by the application such as for limiting size expansion to prevent unintended selection or the use of skew for visual enhancement as described in connection with FIG. 6 or delimiting size expansion in the case of a requirement for mandatory input.
The coordinates of the limits of the icon and the selection zone at any particular size are provided to selection zone comparator 150 which also receives a cursor address and a control signal from the application to determine whether or not a mandatory input is required. If a mandatory input is required and the cursor coordinates do not fall within the selection zone of the icon, the zone comparator adjusts Q in divider 140 to further expand the icon and the selection zone. If not, Q is not adjusted but set at an arbitrary value.
In either case, if zone comparator finds the cursor address to be within the selection zone, Q is not further incremented. As noted above, Q can be reset to an arbitrary value periodically or at will and again incremented until the cursor is captured in order for the icon size to be controlled (e.g. increased or decreased) by cursor movement in a simple and visually enhanced manner through cursor movement. Successful capture of the cursor or determination that the cursor is within the selection zone may also be reported to the display controller which may provide some attribute for enhancing the cursor display upon selection capability being achieved.
The selection zone comparator preferably also provides a control signal to skew timing element 160 which also receives Δx and Δy signals from comparator/select circuit 130. This is considered preferable since it is considered undesirable to perform distortion of the icon beyond the point at which the selection zone reaches the cursor. Further, d, which regulates the amount of skew provided (when increase of size is limited) will generally be implicit in the size factor and the amount of skew provided for each icon will be determined in accordance with that value. Therefore, the zone comparator is a convenient location at which these functions may be combined. Non-linearities of skew timing, mentioned above, may be introduced at will in the skew timing element, independently of any other process or operation within the general architecture of the invention.
The size factor, the skew timing of the icon graphics (or legends, in the case of alphanumeric menu items) and the icon addresses are thus derived and provided to the display controller 180 which renders the icons in a visually enhanced manner on the display. Depending on the enhancement mode determined by the operational state of the application, any and all of the variations of display enhancement described above may be selectively produced.
In view of the foregoing, it is seen that the invention, as described above, can be easily and naturally used to provide visual enhancement of several sorts including increase of ease of recognition of small icons which may be enlarged to attract the attention of the operator in several different ways. The area of the display or window can thus be limited, even for a large number of icons, and effective stabilization of cursor position during selection can be provided without alteration of linearity of response to a graphic input device. Mandatory inputs can be signalled in an obvious manner while obscuring of important areas of the screen display can be easily avoided by the operator without complex automatic screen image evaluation.
While the invention has been described in terms of a single preferred embodiment, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention can be practiced with modification within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.
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Vitamin B-12 may be the Trojan Horse in War on Cancer
Assistant Professor Dr. Joseph Lupica is researching the effects of a man-made drug on cancer cells. For more than ten years, he has collaborated on the cancer treatment research with the Trojan-Horse vitamin B12-based compound known as NO-Cbl discovered by Walsh alum Dr. Joseph Bauer '94.
"It's an ongoing process where you don't often get to see the end results of your work. The frustration with cancer research is that we are one small piece of a very big puzzle of work," said Dr. Lupica. "You find a piece here and another piece over there. Everything we do will go into a big collection and somebody across the globe, ten years from now, might need that piece to complete the puzzle."
Cancer cells are known to carry receptors that draw vitamin B-12 into the tumor. While studying in graduate school, Dr. Bauer began to wonder if B-12 could act as a Trojan horse and carry the deadly chemotherapy agent nitric oxide. The plan of attack would begin with the B-12 Trojan Horse making its way deep inside a cancer tumor and, when there, activate and kill the cancer cell from the inside out. Once the cancer cell is dead and the nitric oxide no longer active, the vitamin B-12 would then move naturally into the blood stream and aid in the healing process of the patient.
In 2011, Dr. Bauer's company BNOAT Oncology, Inc., was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I Research Contract for $200,000 through the Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services. With support from the grant, Dr. Bauer enlisted the aid of a team at Walsh, including Dr. Lupica, Dr. Heston, and Dr. Dunphy, to assist in the initial groundwork on the SBIR Phase 1 to advance the clinical development of NO-Cbl through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a treatment for cancer.
Tiffany Slutz, a Walsh biology pre-med major, has aided by researching the best way to optimize the production parameters of the drug; for example, what is the best ratio of the solvent to the precursor drug?
"Tiffany's research was translated into some pretty useful data into the drug production," said Dr. Lupica. "The real proof will be how effective the mass produced drug will be in inhibiting the growth of cancer cells. Our students are growing cancer cells in the lab and treating them with both the small and large batch of NO-Cbl drug. We then compare results and answer the question, 'how well does the mass produced drug inhibit the cancer cell growth?'"
The ultimate hope is that NO-Cbl research will lead to a revolutionary new medicine that could redefine the standard of care in cancer treatment for both humans and animals.
Slutz also spent her lab hours researching and comparing the stability of the two drugs to help aid in the final manufacturing process. Her discoveries became a part of her final senior research project in 2014.
"Tiffany investigated how fast each drug could break down if exposed to different variables such as ultra-violet light, cold, or heat. Conditions that are often found on a shelf or in a warehouse," said Dr. Lupica. "These are all things that a drug might be exposed to while waiting for distribution. Doses must be the same from batch to batch, and consistent in treatment results. There is a lot of testing required to make sure a treatment drug is safe to distribute."
All of Walsh's research becomes a part of NO-Cbl's FDA approval process.
"We all want to be the big breakthrough. We all want to be the Alexander Flemings who discover penicillin. And that just doesn't happen very often," said Dr. Lupica. "But scientists are actually motivated a little differently than most. We are motivated by the discovery process itself. In all research, if you are looking for that home run, they are few and far between. In total, it's the small victories that add up to a game well-played."


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Colon and rectal cancer incidence and water trihalomethane concentrations in New South Wales, Australia
1 School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Australia, Room 215, Samuels building (F25), Botany Street, Randwick NSW 2052, Australia
2 Woolcock Institute of Medical Research, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
3 South Western Sydney Clinical School, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
4 Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
5 School of Health and Human Sciences, Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
6 National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
7 Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
BMC Cancer 2014, 14:445 doi:10.1186/1471-2407-14-445Published: 17 June 2014
There is evidence, although inconsistent, that long term exposure to disinfection by products (DBPs) increases the risk of bowel cancer. No study has been conducted in Australia to examine this association and due to difference in the methods of disinfection the risk can vary across geographical regions and. This study was conducted to analyse the association of trihalomethanes (THMs) in water with colon and rectal cancer in NSW Australia.
Average yearly concentrations of total and individual species of THMs were obtained for 50 local government areas (LGAs). Indirectly-standardized incidence rates of colon and rectal cancers in LGAs for the period 1995 to 2001 were regressed against mean THM concentrations lagged five years, adjusting for socioeconomic status, high risk drinking, smoking status, usual source of water and year of diagnosis, including local and global random effects within a Bayesian framework. The incidence rate ratios (IRRs) for an interquartile range (IQR) increase in THMs were estimated.
Using five year lag of exposure there was a positive association between bromoform concentration and CRC in men (IRR = 1.025, 95% CI 1.010, 1.040) but not in women (IRR = 1.003, 95% CI 0.987, 1.018). The association in men was mainly found in colon cancer with bromoform (IRR = 1.035, 95% CI 1.017, 1.053). There was no appreciable association of colorectal cancer with other species of THMs. Sensitivity analyses did not materially change the associations observed.
A positive association was observed between colon cancer and water bromoform concentrations in men. Given the potential population impact of such an association, further research into the relationship between THMs, particularly brominated species, and colorectal cancer is warranted.


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"If the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else"
"It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge."
"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."
"The obstacles you face are... mental barriers which can be broken by adopting a more positive approach."
"Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity"
"It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles."
"Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals."


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Should the Doctor get a Tricorder? Oh wait, he has one apparently.
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Yeah, I'm fed up with the use of the sonic screwdriver. Especially in the rings or akendendom or whatever. It's just the writer lacking creativity and getting the doctor and co out of any situation by using it. I remember in some Tennant episodes he said it couldn't work against wood, yet the doctor can do pretty much anything else with it. bad writing, although this serie has been a big imrovement over the travesty that was series 6, the writing has become sloppy in alot of cases.
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Meet the demure Mrs West! Kim Kardashian is almost unrecognisable as she trades sexy frocks for Amish style billowing dress
She is known for showing off (almost) every inch of her famous figure.
Even leading up to her wedding last month, Kim Kardashian shocked onlookers in Paris wearing a cleavage baring gown without a bra.
But on Tuesday, the reality star appeared to have had a change of style, as she was seen covering up in a billowing graphic print gown.
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Her most covered up look ever! Kim Kardashian is unrecognisable as she hides her famous figure in billowing dress leaving a restaurant in Beverly Hills on Tuesday
Kim, 33, also kept her head down, with her glossy brunette locks shielding her face as she left her vehicle.
Unsurprisingly, Kim's 58-year-old mother Kris Jenner was on hand to show off some flesh, baring her legs in a short dress.
Perhaps Kim has thrown herself back into maternal mode, after she admitted yesterday that she missed her daughter while honeymooning with Kanye.
Ravishing: Kim sported glossy brown locks and sultry eye make-up for the outing
That's too much Material, Girl! Kim, 33, stepped out in a huge billowing dress on Tuesday
Her catwalk: Kim sashayed to her car following lunch with her mother
Surprise! Kim is seen leaving the posh eatery Craig's in Beverly Hills along with her mother Kris Jenner
Striking at every angle: As Kim left the eatery, she showed off how the dress looked from the side
The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star was reunited with baby North West, who is set to celebrate her first birthday on June 15, on Sunday after jetting back to Los Angeles from her romantic holiday with husband Kanye West following their wedding in Florence, Italy on May 24.
The brunette beauty wrote on Twitter: 'Missed my baby girl so much! Excited to be home to squeeze her so tight!'
The reality TV star also took the opportunity to pour cold water on reports she hated every second of her 'boring' honeymoon in Ireland, which was organised by the rapper, and made him leave early so they could enjoy a few days in Prague before attending his stylist's wedding in the Czech Republic on Saturday.
Not an obvious influence: Kim's long, patterned dress bore more than a passing resemblance to the traditional gown of the Amish woman
No handbag? Kim carried just her cellphone, forgoing accessories to allow her unusual dress to take center stage
Maternal instinct: Kim recently tweeted that she was happy to be reunited with her daughter North West
A whole new Kim! Perhaps the Kardashian is now adopting a more refined look, now she is a married woman
Letting the side down: Kris Jenner showed off her legs for the occasion as she joined her daughter Kim
Love Is An Open Door: Kim heads for a much-need snack at Craig's restaurant in LA
She wrote: 'Had the best most relaxing romantic honeymoon in Ireland & Prague!'
Kim's mother Kris Jenner brought North back to LA from Italy to allow her daughter to spend a few quiet days with Kanye following their lavish nuptials.
A source previously revealed the couple were eager to have a honeymoon-baby, as they want to expand their family as soon as possible.
She comes baring gifts! Kris was seen holding what appeared to be presents as she arrived at Craig's
Not driving? Kim was spotted taking the passenger seat in her billowing dress
But no Kanye! Meanwhile Kim's husband was seen out shopping for clothes in New York City as he smiled brightly to fans waiting to see him
Not missing Kim then? Kanye West was seen upbeat in New York on Tuesday, as he spoke with fans on the street
The insider recently said: '[They] both want more kids. Kanye would have already been trying for another, but Kim just wanted to get back to feeling like herself again first. But more kids are definitely in the plan.'
Mountain bike guide Fergal Somers also told People of their honeymoon: 'They were clearly enjoying having this time together. They were very affectionate, and it was obvious they were enjoying the remoteness of the location and the lack of people around.'
However, Kim has noticeably been apart from Kanye since arriving back, as the rapper has been spotted out and about in New York
Meanwhile... Across town, Kourtney and Khloe were seen parading their curves in the Hamptons on Tuesday
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