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The Port of Houston is one of the world's largest ports and serves the metropolitan area of Houston, Texas. The port is a 50-mile-long complex of diversified public and private facilities located a few hours' sailing time from the Gulf of Mexico. Located in the fourth-largest city in the United States, it is the busiest port in the U.S. in terms of foreign tonnage, second busiest in the U.S. in terms of overall tonnage, and sixteenth busiest in the world. 

Notable firsts include: First port to be built with federal funds and local matching funds, thus guaranteeing local support (every port since 1930 has had a local match requirement), first direct shipment of cotton to Europe (November 1919 via the M/V Merry Mount), and first double-stack container train (1981).

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FATS, Fast Analysis of Tape Surfaces, is a program that will function on any IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) computing device or IBM-compatible tape drive or virtual tape system (VTS) supported by the host z/OS system.

FATS certifies the usability of physical tapes, both new and old, by writing a pattern on the full length of the tape; this is equivalent to the function of hardware tape certifiers. This helps to avoid write data errors at application run time by identifying potentially defective tapes.

Innovation Data Processing, the creator of FATS, is an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) of non-disruptive mainframe z/OS and OS/390 business protection and storage management solutions, known for their ability to eliminate business downtime in mainframe and mixed mainframe S/390 Linux, Windows, UNIX and Linux, SAN, NAS and LAN enterprise storage environments, delivers exceptional reliability and prize-winning price/performance. The IDP alliance with EMC Development Partner, which began in 1991, continues to deliver a continuous stream of solutions that combine the overwhelming power of Symmetrix DMX Enterprise Storage with the robust functionality of Innovation Data Processing software.

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Designed by Larry Ottino, Marty Solomon, and Harvey Toback, Son of the Instant Button Book was published in 1968 as the sequel to The Instant Button Book. It features a blank button attached to the front cover and five pages of adhesive color stickers—to be applied to the blank button—with slogans related to the hippie and left-wing political ideas of the day. Some of the slogans were particularly cheeky, including: “Virginity isn’t incurable”, “Warning: I am naked beneath these clothes”, and “God Save the Queens!”.

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David Martin and Denis Larkin published The Instant Button Book in 1967. Attached to the book cover is a blank white unlocking pinback button. Inside, the book has several pages of paper button faces for people to create their own buttons for any situation. The button faces are printed on a pressure-sensitive paper and, when removed from the waxy backing paper, can stick to the blank pinback button. The Instant Button Book is described as an “occasionally funny, often politically incorrect novelty book” due to its jokes surrounding the political climate of the 1960s. There are a few first and second editions for sale on retail sites. However, several are missing the attached blank white button. Most listings claim that the book does contain all the paper button face stickers. The Instant Button Book is a rare find that is listed for resale anywhere from $20 to $135.