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Triggering information by context
P. J. Brown
Computing Laboratory,
The University of Kent at Canterbury
Kent CT2 7NF
With the increased availability of personal computers with attached sensors to capture their environment, there is a big opportunity for context-aware applications; these automatically provide information and/or take actions according to the user's present context, as detected by sensors. When well designed, these applications provide an opportunity to tailor the provision of information closely to the user's current needs. A sub-set of context-aware applications are discrete applications, where discrete pieces of information are attached to individual contexts, to be triggered when the user enters those contexts. The advantage of discrete applications is that authoring them can be solely a creative process rather than a programming process: it can be a task akin to creating simple web pages.
This paper looks at a general system that can be used in any discrete context-aware application. It propounds a general triggering rule, and investigates how this rule applies in practical applications.
KEY WORDS: context-aware; triggering; information filtering; PDA; sensor
As personal computers become more aware of their environment, a whole new range of applications, called context-aware applications [Schilit et al, 1994], become attractive. The basic aim of this paper is to look at:
We expand on these aims later, but first we will describe context-aware applications in general, and show the wide range they cover.
Context-aware applications typically focus on a mobile user who is carrying a Personal Data Assistant (PDA) with environmental sensors. These sensors could cover:
The values of these sensors together constitute the present context of the user. Many context-aware applications work like this: there is a repository of information, consisting of individual notes, each of which is a piece of information attached to a particular context. (We use the term 'note' as a parallel to a Post-it note, which is a piece of information physically attached to a context.). A set of related notes, collected together as a unit, is called a context-aware document. When the user's present context matches the context on a note the note is triggered. Triggering can cause various actions, depending on the application, e.g.:
In most context-aware applications triggering is automatic, i.e. there is server push rather than client (user) pull: the idea is to present the user with relevant information that the user did not otherwise know about. Nevertheless the user needs some control, e.g. to tame or to silence over-enthusiastic triggering, and in some applications triggering is directly under the user's control.
Some examples of context-aware applications are:
All these applications can be based on discrete pieces of information. There are also more advanced applications where the information shown to the user changes continually as their context changes. A simple example would be one that continually showed the user's distance from a given goal. Such continuous applications cannot be modelled in terms of retrieving discrete pieces of information; instead their creation requires serious programming effort. We concentrate just on discrete applications in this paper since they are the easier to analyse: fortunately this still covers a vast field, though there is also a vast number of continuous applications, which are not covered here.
The advantage of discrete applications is that they can all be encompassed by a single general mechanism: the author creates notes in the appropriate format, and a general-purpose triggering engine triggers these when they match the user's present context. Thus authorship becomes an exercise in creative skills rather than programming, just as, for example, authoring web pages.
In detail the overall model is that the author creates notes and aggregates these into documents. One or more documents are loaded into the triggering engine. The triggering engine continually checks all its notes against the present context, and triggers those that match. The triggering engine sends the triggered notes to a client application, which interfaces with the user. The only programming that is needed is to create the application, with its user interface, and to set up a mechanism so that sensors can continually update the present context; once this infrastructure is in place, any author can create documents without programming effort. Most applications will be special-purpose in that they will have a user interface designed for a particular purpose, e.g. tourism or ecological fieldwork. It is possible, however, given a general triggering mechanism, to have a corresponding general-purpose application that presents all kinds of triggered information to the user. There is the usual trade-off between general and special purpose: on the one hand there are the advantages of generality and on the other of tailoring the user interface to a particular purpose. As an example of the latter, Figure 1 [Pascoe et al, 1997] shows the interface for one application, and Figures 2 and 3 [Ryan et al, 1998] for another: a key requirement of the first application is that the screen should have an extremely simple interface, since the user's attention would be on observing moving animals, whereas in the second that user is working with static material, and can afford to spend time concentrating on the screen.
Figure 1: the user interface for an ecology application: the two small square icons represent points for which information is available; the cross shows where the user is
Figure 2: the user interface for an archaeological application; here there is a more elaborate interface, where the user's track is shown.
Figure 3: shows the change in Figure 2 when the map is partially covered by a triggered note
Pretended fields and values
Almost all context-aware applications are enhanced by augmenting the 'real' world, as detected by sensors, by a 'pretended' world, controlled by the user and/or application. There are several examples of this.
Firstly consider a location-aware application used as a tourist guide. Clearly it is a limitation if the only way a tourist can see information about a place is to actually go there (not forgetting to take a GPS receiver attached to their PDA). It is much better if the user can, as an alternative, pretend to be at the place, and thus trigger the information: they can then judge whether the place is worth visiting. In the user interface, pretence can be implemented by allowing the user to point at a map, thus pretending they are at the location pointed at, and temporarily overriding the real setting for their location as given by a sensor.
Secondly, fields of the present context can relate entirely to imaginary concepts, with no real sensor at all. (We later explain in detail what fields are.) Continuing our example of a tourism application, it might have an optional extra field with the name 'companion'. The author provides some notes of special interest to architects, and these all have the imaginary companion 'Architect' as part of their context; a similar approach is used for other special companions, e.g. 'Historian'. The user can then pretend they are with one or more of these, by adding to their present context the information that they are with, for example, an Architect: the notes of special interest to architects are then triggered, provided, of course, that their other context fields are matched too, e.g. their location. Companions can also be used to implement tours: for example every note on a certain tour might have One-hour-tour-guide as an imaginary companion, and the user with this companion in their present context will see the notes for the tour – these will doubtless include notes that tell the user how to get from one sight on the tour to the next. This use of imaginary companions follows on from a technique described by Oren et al [1990], which was concerned with the use of imaginary companions to guide users though a large body of information concerned with American history.
Thirdly, values of fields can go beyond what is possible in reality. We discuss this later.
Retrieving information
Our aim in this paper is to look at what triggering behaviour is needed by authors and users of discrete context-aware applications, rather than to focus on how triggering is implemented, e.g. whether there is an underlying information retrieval engine or database management system. We now consider how a general-purpose triggering mechanism can work: its basic task is to match the user's present context with the contexts and associated information supplied by the author. We would like to have a matching algorithm which gives the user just the information he wants, with no surprises and no overloading, and makes the authorship of context-aware information straightforward. In addition there are some more specific needs:
The matching algorithm
We now consider the matching algorithm to meet these needs. The design of the algorithm is the essence of triggering. The choice of algorithm is not obvious, because context-aware retrieval is different from ordinary retrieval.
We will start by defining an overall model, which aims to be general enough to cover most applications, and most sorts of data – either existing data such as previous fieldwork readings or data specially created for a particular context-aware application. It is the model now used by stick-e notes [Brown et al, 1997], which is one technology for the creation of context-aware applications.
In addition to the matching algorithm, a key part of the model is the way data is represented. The method used to represent data is a simple one – even a simplistic one: each note just consists of a set of fields, each of which is a name/value pair. The meanings of the fields, e.g. whether they are context or information, is not fixed, but can be determined by the application. In the examples here we will show names of fields as SGML tags. A sample note is:
Note A:
<location> X
<body> This is the Westgate.
where X is a certain latitude/longitude, or other representation of location. We have called this 'note A', so that we can refer to it later. The repository contains all the notes that are currently active, i.e. poised for triggering. In some applications the repository will be quite static, whereas in others, e.g. traffic information, it will be changing all the time.
The initial implementation of stick-e notes made the mistake of fixing, at time of authorship, how notes were to be retrieved, e.g. that <location> fields were part of the context to be matched, and <body> fields represented triggered information. In short, the author was required to wire in a lot of semantic information. It soon became clear, initially as a result of fieldwork applications created by Pascoe [Pascoe et al, 1997], that users want to trigger context-aware material using all sorts of criteria, just as they use all sorts of criteria for normal information retrieval. For example, they may want any note whose <body> field contains the word 'snake' to be triggered automatically when its location is matched, irrespective of any other fields – thus the <body> field is used as a criteria for triggering (and indeed may also be used as the information triggered). Stick-e notes now use the simpler model of a set of name/value pairs; this has two advantages:
Within this model the present context is also a note, i.e. a set of name/value pairs. Some or all of these fields will represent current values set by sensors (or pretended sensors). Thinking of the present context as a note brings some benefits of symmetry: for example if we save the present context, every ten minutes say, then the set of saved notes can itself act as a repository for later retrieval. This can be valuable for field applications.
We assume in this paper that each field within a note has a unique name. In fact this need not be so, but the detail is a distraction.
We are now ready for the first example: assume that the user's PDA has a single sensor, a location sensor, and that the present context is
Present context P:
<location> Y
The natural rule is that note A above should trigger if location X matches location Y. The rules for determining whether two values match will be set by the application. Typically two possible approaches are used for matching locations:
In most of the applications we have worked with, fields on notes, if numeric, specify ranges of values rather than single values, as in approach (2) above. Thus a criteria for triggering might be a temperature in the range 30..40, rather than, say, exactly the temperature 35. (In some cases matching of field values may involve boolean operators such as AND and OR, string-matching operators, etc., but we will not discuss such detail here.)
When a note has been matched, triggering often consists of bringing to the user's attention those fields that did not take part in the matching process. In the above example this is just the <body> field of note A.
As a second example, assume that the user now has a (Centigrade) temperature sensor fitted to her PDA. Thus the present context might be
Present context Q:
<location> Y
<temperature> 25
A natural rule, in line with requirement (3) for retrieving information, is that note A should still trigger if its location is matched, irrespective of the current temperature. More generally, a field of the present context that is not mentioned in a corresponding note is considered as irrelevant to the matching.
We now consider a second note, note B, which is general information about mild temperatures. This note consists of
Note B:
<temperature> 10..30
<body> No extra maintenance schedule is needed.
Following the same rules, this note will match present context Q above, since the values of the temperature field match. In this match it is the location field of the present context that is irrelevant rather than the temperature field, since note B does not have a location field.
Now consider a third note, note C, which is concerned with maintenance, at certain temperatures, of a particular machine, located at X. Assume this consists of
Note C:
<location> X
<temperature> 0..10
<body> Add antifreeze, by pouring it
in the blue chamber on top of this machine.
Given that both note C and the present context contain a location field and a temperature field, a natural rule is that both these fields should match if note C is to be triggered. If, incidentally, the user did not have a temperature sensor, note C would be triggered if the user's location matched: we have suggested there be a default rule that the information which the user sees in this case should be the fields that were not involved in the match. Thus the user might see on the screen something like
Temperature: 0..10
Body: Add antifreeze …
This ends the sequence of examples: their purpose has been to suggest what the user would like as a default triggering behaviour.
A matching rule
We will now try to generalise the behaviour illustrated by the above examples and formulate a rule for matching the present context with each note. The rule first involves defining the names of the fields of the present context that will form part of the matching process. We call these fields the retrieval-awareness. Normally the retrieval-awareness fields will be the fields corresponding to sensors, real or pretended. As an example, we have assumed that, in the present context Q above, the retrieval-awareness fields are location and temperature, whereas in present context P it is just location. The retrieval-awareness fields will be set by the application, doubtless with some interaction from the user. However, the user should not need to be aware of the concept of retrieval-awareness, but should work in more problem-oriented terms. The constituents of the retrieval-awareness may change dynamically, e.g. when the user says 'from now on, take the time field into account'. Given the concept of retrieval-awareness, the rule for matching a note N with the present context is as follows:
Relation with general information filtering and retrieval
It is instructive to relate context-aware retrieval to the general fields of information filtering and retrieval. DeClaris [DeClaris et al, 1994], following on from Belkin and Croft [1992], categorises these general fields as follows: "Retrieval and filtering are two extremes of a continuum. In information retrieval user's queries may vary significantly during a single session, while the collection of information to be searched is relatively static. In information filtering, a user's interests are relatively static, but those interests are matched against a dynamic information stream, such as newly published medical journals or conference proceedings". Context-aware retrieval indeed lies in this (multi-dimensional) continuum. It is similar to information filtering in that the present context, and the changing values of the fields within this, represent the dynamic information stream, while the notes are the equivalent of a set of different user interests (actually they are the interests, as the author sees them, of the same user in different contexts); however what is retrieved, i.e. shown to the user, is the note, not the retrieval-awareness – the opposite way round to information-filtering.
Fortunately context-aware retrieval is in many ways a much easier case than general retrieval, especially when our simple models for information representation and matching are used. In particular:
Because the problem is so much simpler, it is possible to find simple solutions, such as our suggested matching algorithm, to what is in the general case an extremely challenging problem.
Combining with normal retrieval
A general lesson in the retrieval field is that no one approach covers all needs, and a combination of approaches is often needed. This applies strongly to context-aware retrieval, and a good partner is often conventional information retrieval – the form of retrieval that is called IR (or just 'retrieval' in DeClaris' definition). Thus as well as an retrieval-awareness, which controls context-aware retrieval, the user might like to have, within the present context, a further retrieval-selector, which uses ordinary retrieval techniques to select from the notes that match the retrieval-awareness. For example the retrieval-selector might say the <body> field must contain a certain word and/or that there must be a location field that matches a certain area ("I only want to see triggered notes that lie within [the limits of the city wall]"). These two forms of retrieval working together can be a powerful aid to meeting the user's needs. The order in which the two forms of retrieval are applied is an implementation matter, but for the purpose of this discussion we will assume that the retrieval-selector applies to the notes triggered through context-aware retrieval; thus a retrieval-selector may cut out some or all of the triggered notes.
Triggering once
Another way that context-aware retrieval is different from ordinary retrieval is that notes need triggering just once. For example assume that the triggering engine is being regularly asked to supply notes to the application. There is one note covering the whole area of a certain city; this is triggered when the user enters the city, and this is passed to the application, which will doubtless make the user aware of the existence of the triggered note. It is not desirable for this note to be continually re-triggered all the time the user is in the city; thus the job of the triggering engine is just to trigger new notes which have not been triggered before. There are some sub-issues here, when the user leaves the city, concerning possible de-triggering (i.e. telling the application that a triggered note is no longer in context) and then re-triggering if the user later re-enters the city. These issues need not concern us here; in the design of most applications, de-triggering is not a requirement, though re-triggering on leaving and then re-entering a context might be.
Enhanced retrieval using pretended values
We have highlighted the use of pretended values and fields to give the user more control over the retrieval of context-aware notes. In order to enhance this, pretended values can be carried one stage further by extending reality. A simple example of this is that a user can pretend they are in a whole area, a nature reserve perhaps, thus triggering all the notes for that area and allowing the user to preview the complete scene. This extension of reality contradicts the saying 'you cannot be in two places at one'. Going a stage further, it is possible to have metavalues likenone, any (meaning all values) and not-working (an error condition when there is a problem with a sensor). These metavalues can be used to set the present context, and can also be used on notes, e.g. a note:
<location> not-working
<body> Your location is currently unknown,
but this application
also supplies a lot of information that
is not dependent on location.
(Internally, these metavalues can be implemented as 'impossible' values, or all-encompassing ranges; this may be necessary if an existing retrieval engine is being used to implement context-aware triggering.)
As we see in the next section, the metavaluenone can have an important role in limiting the amount of context-ware information that is triggered.
Drowning and dams
The matching rule has an element of 'when in doubt trigger'. For example if the present context has no temperature field in its retrieval-awareness, as in present context P, then note C, which gives information on what to do at a certain temperature and at a certain location, is triggered when the user visits the location. The user then makes their own judgement of whether the information is relevant – for temperature the user can probably make an informed guess as to what the current value is. In many applications this triggering of potentially irrelevant information is an important safeguard, but in others the user may regard the flood of triggerings to be as welcome as SPAM e-mail.
Overall therefore the user needs to have a mechanism to prevent floods of triggerings. The mechanism is, in fact, quite simple: use metavalues. If, for example, the application places
<share> none
as an retrieval-awareness field in the present context, then no note containing a share field will be triggered (because the metavaluenone, by definition, is a mismatch with any value). As a second example, if the user/application places
<companion> none
as an retrieval-awareness field of their present context, then specialised notes with a pretended companion such as Architect or Historian will not be triggered.
Overall, therefore, the use ofnone fields represents an effective dam to prevent a flood of information. Indeed the sea of triggered information might be cut down to a small puddle, containing just the information that is absolutely relevant. As we have emphasised, our philosophy is that retrieval is under the control of the end-user rather than the author, but we bend this a little by allowing authors to make suggestions of retrieval-awareness fields and their default values, to be used if the field does not already exist in the present context. Thus our set of notes for tourists may suggest
<companion> none
be a default value in the present context, and that this be a retrieval-awareness field. The suggestion can be applied, or rejected, by the application/user when the set of notes is loaded into the repository.
The advantage of using two types of retrieval
Consider a note of special interest only to architecture buffs:
Note D:
<location> X
<companion> Architect
<body> …
If the user wants specialised notes such as this to be triggered, and in addition to have other notes triggered normally, they can place
<companion> Architect
as an retrieval-awareness field in their present context. Thus they are using the normal context-aware retrieval mechanisms. If, on the other hand, the user only wants to see notes of special interest to architects, then they use ordinary information retrieval methods to select what they want, i.e. they specify a filter that only lets through notes that have an architect as a companion. Specifically they place
<companion> Architect
as a retrieval-selector field of the present context, and this is applied in addition to context-aware retrieval (which, if location was part of the retrieval-awareness, would trigger the notes whose location field matched). Thus, by exploiting the two types of retrieval, the user has flexibility in what they trigger. The user need not, of course, be aware of all these machinations: they can just have buttons like 'Architect only' and 'Architect as well', which, when selected, make the necessary settings of the retrieval-awareness and retrieval-selector fields of the present context.
(There is, however, one detail that requires resolving: there is an ambiguity as to whether a note such as note D is (a) only of interest to architects, or (b) both of general interest and of interest of architects. There must be something to distinguish notes of type (a) from those of type (b). In our model the difference manifests itself when the user has, as a retrieval-awareness field, a companion other than an architect. In this situation the user should still trigger notes of general interest (type (b) above). However the matching rule says that note D should not be triggered when the companion in the present context does not match Architect. There are ways round this using attributes, etc., but it is an unsatisfactory detail.)
Several applications have been created using these principles: the most developed one in terms of triggering is a tourist application created by Xian Chen. In addition, Jason Pascoe and Nick Ryan have created applications, in ecology and archaeology respectively, where the accent is on capturing information, which might then be used for later triggering. These implementations have not been built round existing database or retrieval systems, partly because a PDA represents a constrained environment and partly because the matching and triggering processes are straightforward to code in a general and portable way without relying on existing software. Nevertheless several of our applications need to relate to data stored in databases, and we interface with them via uploading and downloading: e.g. store notes in the database; download them into the PDA at the beginning of a trip; use them for triggering during the trip; at the end of the day, if the notes have been changed, upload them back into the database.
In addition to the applications that have been used in practice, we have created prototypes to show the generality of the model over a wide range of areas, ranging from share price triggering to attaching information to tagged animals.
To summarise, the purpose of this paper has been to present a general model for discrete context-aware applications. The model covers the way information is represented and how it is triggered. The model allows context-aware retrieval to be combined with ordinary retrieval, thus giving the user great flexibility in controlling what they want to be triggered. There are, we believe, numerous applications waiting to be exploited, particularly those that bring together many contextual fields in order that triggered information is tied ever closer to the users' contexts and thus to what they are really likely to want.
My colleagues John Bovey and Xian Chen, working under an EPSRC grant, have contributed greatly to our research programme in context-aware applications. In addition, Nick Ryan, David Morse and Jason Pascoe, working under a JTAP grant, have been concerned with applying these ideas to applications in fieldwork, and have come up with many insights. Outside the University of Kent, I would particularly like to note the contributions of staff from Xerox Research Centre Europe at Cambridge, and the anonymous referees for their comments.
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Anyone who has ever played "Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots" knows that artificially intelligent machines exist to punch the bejesus out of each other for our viewing enjoyment.
Really, what other uses would we have for one of humanity's greatest scientific accomplishments? Sure, saving lives and cleaning up nuclear disaster zones is great, but how are we supposed to bet on that?
First, let's look at a few examples from our sci-fi pop culture. Up first? The trailer for the upcoming film "Real Steel," which apparently features Hugh Jackman, Kate from "Lost" and Liz Lemon's dentist in supporting roles opposite a bunch of punching machines.
This robot is called Geminoid DK and looks remarkably realistic: This is from the first test of the Geminoid. The first hint of a smile triggers immediate response. The people laughing in the background are the designers, who at this point have worked on the robot for months, and here see it operated for the […]
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by Jonathan Strickland | February 3, 2011
It's no secret I love Microsoft Kinect hacks — I've posted videos of some on here in previous blog entries. Now I'd like to include a pair I discovered while browsing other tech sites. The first I learned about on CNET. It's a video of a Roomba robot following gesture commands given by a human using the Kinect device as a camera. Click through to see the video.
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Like most males of my demographic, I've been playing a lot of "Red Dead Redemption" of late on the old Xbox 360 and am suffering from a severe hankering to use excessive cowboy speak at work. So I'll go ahead and say it: If you kind folks wanna catch an earful about worms, dirt and some right clever tin cans, then I reckon these here podcasts will suit 'ya fine as cream gravy.
Did you know that some high schools give out a varsity letter in robotics these days? And that some schools send off their robotics teams to matches with a hearty pep rally? You get what you celebrate, says FIRST President Paul Gudonis, who was kind enough to talk with us the weekend of the FIRST Championship, held here in Atlanta, about a month ago. And this podcast, we were celebrating the sport of competitive robot building.
More Robots to Manhandle Human Corpses
by Robert Lamb | March 23, 2010
Yes, if the prospect of corpse-eating warbots wasn't enough, Swiss engineers are keeping the dream of a horrifying and ghoulish robotic future alive with Virtobot, which will "not only study dead bodies virtually, but create a digital copy of the cadaver so that it might be studied years down the line." What's not to love?
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COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) - Higher wages are on the way for those making the minimum. On July 24, minimum wage is going up by seventy cents to $7.25 an hour.
Even though it's not even a buck, in a 40-hour week that adds up to 28 more dollars. An almost $30 raise for all employees is giving some businesses a headache.
Waiting for ice cream on a hot summer day. Customers come to Rosewood Dairy Bar for a number of reasons. The workers like to think it's because of the low prices, and that's something they don't want to change, even if they have to pay their employees more. Instead of taking from the customer, when minimum wage increases they say they will be forced to take from the employee.
"The only thing we can control is labor, so we're going to have to cut the labor costs down, decrease the number of hours each employee works," says manager Pete Wysocki.
Wysocki says about 90 percent of his employees make minimum wage, like Carol Knight, who says she is already planning to cut back her hours when school starts back.
"It will be nice to have it kind of balance out some, with the higher paycheck, since I'll be working less hours," she says.
But not all employees agree.
"I have to find another job, I can't live where I'm at and work here if my hours are being cut, try to find something on the side to do or maybe just get another full time job," says Talmadge Joel.
Joel has been working at the Rosewood Dairy Bar for six years, and it's his livelihood.
"It's hard though, you got to tighten up your belt, you got to cut some stuff out, can't go to certain places, you want to go where you normally would have gone," he said.
Some argue the increase is disproportionately hard on small businesses.
"Like a McDonald's, Burger King or Taco Bell, they have unlimited resources, they can afford to increase the wage," said Wysocki.
And Pete says everyone is going to have to absorb the cost.
"Even though it seems like they are going to have more money to spend, the market is going to go up with what they have to pay people," he said.
A couple of small businesses said labor is going to be their number one cutback, but some say they can't even afford to cut that. At Rockaway's, for example, the manager said he can't cut people, and he doesn't want to increase the prices for fear business will drop. He says he's just stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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Training camp is underway for every NFL team and there are a few notable story lines developing ranging from the success of the NFL's rookie wage scale in preventing rookie holdouts to quarterback competitions to Peyton Manning's new home.
These aren't all the story lines in camp; I'm missing roughly 1,000 of them, at least it seems. Let us know in the comments what the biggest story is in your team's training camp.
More: Training Camp News, Position Battles, Injuries And More | Position Battles
Almost all the draft picks were in camp on time thanks to rookie wage scale
There were a few stragglers but the vast majority of the rookie deals were done in time. Dontari Poe was the third to last 1st round draft pick to sign and he inked his deal shortly before Chiefs camp began. Kendall Wright was a couple days late to the Titans training camp before he signed his contract and Justin Blackmon, the Jaguars top pick, has yet to sign. Blackmon is the lone unsigned pick at this time and it may not be done for a while.
Save Blackmon and Wright, the NFL's rookie wage scale worked out great this year.
Quarterback competitions are all the rage
Three teams are going through quarterback competitions. In Arizona, the Cardinals will start Kevin Kolb over John Skelton in their preseason opener against the Saints this weekend. In Tennessee, Jake Locker is reportedly the favorite to win the job over Matt Hasselbeck, but that's a ways from being decided. In Miami, David Garrard, Matt Moore and Ryan Tannehill are all competing for a job.
Related: Dolphins Training Camp Battles | Seahawks Training Camp Battles
My pick on the Week 1 starters would be Kolb for the Cardinals, Hasselbeck for the Titans and Moore for the Dolphins. The most intriguing race could eventually come down to if or when Tannehill steps in for the Dolphins.
The status of the injured players
Adrian Peterson is the biggest name returning from an injury. He tore up his knee last year but AP is a machine and there's a legitimate chance he'll return to the Vikings for the season opener. He's currently on the PUP list after the December ACL and MCL tear but could see some time in training camp. Returning from that injury in nine months would be more than impressive.
Matt Schaub played just 10 games for the Texans last year before suffering a season-ending injury but he's back in action. The Texans made the playoffs with T.J. Yates at the helm down the stretch. Think of how much better than can be with a healthy Schaub.
The Chiefs have three stars returning from ACL tears -- Tony Moeaki, Eric Berry and Jamaal Charles. Moeaki has been injury prone dating back to college so he's a concern. Berry and Charles both look healthy and have been participating in Chiefs training camp, as has Moeaki. They're all on track to return to full health by Week 1.
Maurice Jones-Drew is the big name holdout
Every year, there's a player under contract who is upset with this deal and doesn't report to training camp. This year, that's Maurice Jones-Drew and the Jaguars. He's not reporting to camp, accruing fines of $30,000 per day (if the team chooses to fine him).
There doesn't appear to be an easy answer to this one. If MJD is skipping camp and willing to pay the fines, he means business. The Jaguars have publicly stated he's not getting a new deal so there's no way they can give him a new deal and save face.
The Peyton Manning show rolls on
If you've watched NFL Network or ESPN lately, you probably saw Manning throwing to his Broncos teammates. Besides Tim Tebow and the Jets, Manning is the biggest name in a new place. He doesn't feel 100 percent yet, but he's on his way.
The question with Manning is how quickly he'll be able to acclimate to his new teammates. You can only do so much in training camp. At some point -- like the first preseason game -- he'll need to go full action. I want to see him get hit the first time. I want to see his first deep ball. I want to see him read a defense. All those things we haven't seen him do in over a year, we need to see.
Every player is more excited about this season and in the best shape of their life
Carson Palmer just told me: "I've never been this excited for a football season in my life."— Peter King (@SI_PeterKing) July 31, 2012
Of course he is. Find a player who has said:
- He's not more excited about this season than any other
- He's not in the best shape of his life
- He's taking it two days at a time, and not one
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Lol all of u guys need to chill. But... They should franchise tag desean then trade him and Asante Samuel to idk... Miami??? I would say Oakland but lol they traded for carson. The eagles could get a 1st rounder for that combo. But I HATE mike Vick he sucks. Eagles won't go nowhere with him. What I want to know is: what do you guys think..? I mean I am trying to put up a poll but my fuckin phone is being gay. So just leave your comments saying whether the eagles should :
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National Swim Championships: Mering, Sollom-Brotherton Breaking New Ground for Whitman Men's Swim Program
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WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- Junior Galen Sollom-Brotherton and freshman Karl Mering will break new ground for the Whitman College men's swim team when as they hit the water Wednesday for the start of the NCAA Division III national swimming championships in Indianapolis, Ind.
They are the first Whitman men to qualify for the national championships since Whitman shifted its athletic affiliation from the NAIA to NCAA DIII in the late 1990s.
Both Missionary swimmers will swim in one individual race each day of the meet, which continues through Friday at the Indiana Natatorium in Indianapolis.
Sollom-Brotherton starts with the 500-yard freestyle on Wednesday before tackling the 400-yard individual medley on Thursday and the 1,650-yard freestyle on Friday.
After swimming the 50-yard freestyle on Wednesday, Mering turns his attention to his best stroke -- the butterfly. He swims the 100-yard race Thursday and the 200-yard distance Friday.
Whitman came close to qualifying for nationals in the men's 800-yard freestyle relay, which is limited to the top 16 times in the nation. Mering, Sollom-Brotheron teamed with senior Mitchell Lee and freshman Kevin O'Leary earlier this season to post the 20th-best time in the nation.
"Although our relay was not selected, we are really proud of what those four guys did," Whitman coach Jenn Blomme said. "Whitman has never had a relay considered for national competition, and to post the 20th fastest time in the country is incredible."
Junior Katie Chapman also came this season to qualifying for the national championships, but her provisional qualifying in the 200-yard butterfly failed to make the final cut.
Chapman would have been the second Whitman woman to make nationals. In March of 2008, Erin Pettersen capped her senior season when one of her provisional qualifying times made the final cut for nationals.
"We are so excited to see Galen and Karl make their mark on the national scene this year," Blomme said. "It is reflective of their great talent and a lot of hard work this season."
"But looking beyond this season, it is exciting to consider that this is just the beginning for them, and in many ways just marks the beginning of a new phase of Whitman swimming," she added. "Having swimmers from our program compete at the NCAA's, and to have a relay in contention for the meet, contributes to a paradigm shift with a lot of awesome new possibilities.
"For many years now, there has been significant momentum in our program, and I've been saying what an exciting time it is to be involved in Whitman swimming. As soon as I say that, there is something new and exciting that happens."
Sollom-Brotherton's best shot this week at earning All-American honors (top eight) will come in the 1,650-yard freestyle, where his winning effort (15:35.53) in Febuary's Northwest Conference finals is the second-best NCAA DIII time posted this season.
He will also swim in the 500-yard freestyle, where he has the nation's fifth-best time (4:30.02), and in the 400-yard individual medley, where he ranks 12th (3:59.24).
Mering, the only freshman in the country to post a qualifying time in the 100-yard butterfly, ranks 16th in that event. His time is less than four-tenths of a second out of the eighth spot, however, and less than a minute out of the second spot.
Mering will also swim in the 200-yard butterfly, where his time (1:52.18) ranks him 22nd among those swimming at nationals.
His third event is the 50-yard freestsyle, an event where elite swimmers are separated by hundredths of a second. His time (20.93) ranks 37th among competitors at nationals, but three-tenths of a second is all that separates him from the top 16.
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A-Listers host art mixer at Athenaeum on Aug. 29
Choose a cocktail and a song when the Athenaeum A-List presents "Member's Choice: Pick Your Poison," 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29 at the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, 1008 Wall St.
Forty-six San Diego artists have works in the 22nd Annual Juried Exhibition at the Athenaeum, where their 51 diverse pieces coalesce from a muddled collection to a smooth cocktail of art. At this event, guests and members may vote for their favorite piece.
The competition will continue in the music room as dueling pianists battle on a pair of grand pianos. Rhythmic dissonance will melt into melodic harmony as they enliven their music with a battle of the keys.
The choices carry on at a pair of gourmet food trucks and a create-your-own vodka cocktail bar.
The A-List is a membership group for young professionals of generations X and Y who are interested in expanding their horizons in music and art. Founded in 2005, The A-List hosts six events a year at either the library in La Jolla or the Athenaeum's School of the Arts studio off-site in University Heights.
Each 21+ event features an art exhibition, music by a local band/artist, food and drinks, and a communal art project. Admission to the mixer is free for A-List members. Tickets are $12 for nonmembers at ljathenaeum.org/alist or (858) 454-5872.
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- [Exclusive VIDEO] Disney's 'Wreck-It Ralph' and 'The Simpsons' Director Rich Moore draws crowds to Spike & Mike's Festival of Animation in La Jolla
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ACC Has A "Great Deal" With ESPN
ESPN talking heads debate if it's ok for FSU and CU to even look at other conferences. The situation is compared to a marriage, a building fire, and a shopping mall (could ESPN hire less intelligent people?). Of course FSU is portrayed as evil because they're only thinking about "keeping up with the Jones's" lol.


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Leaders of the Paulding County United Way are planning a luau at the Paulding Eagles on Saturday, April 2. The event is both a fund-raiser for United Way and a part of the organization's new effort to sponsor family activities in the local area.
The luau will include a social time from 5-5:30 p.m., recognition from 5:30-6 p.m., a 6 p.m. pork dinner, a fun and game time from 7-8 p.m. and a concert by the group "Junk Yard Band" from 8 p.m.-midnight.
Dinner tickets are $10 each and may be purchased at the United Way office or at Paulding Eagles. Tickets also are available at the door on Saturday.
There will also be a reverse 50/50 raffle. Tickets are $1 each and six for $5.
In addition, a grand prize raffle will offer two tickets to see Kenny Chesney in Fort Wayne on May 6. Chesney raffle tickets cost $5 each.
"Bring your hula skirts and Hawaiian shirts. Best dressed wins a trophy," said United Way administrative assistant Pam Miller.
"This is part of our continuing effort to offer regular programs that will interest the community and connect the United Way with the community in a special way," noted Miller.
Some of the prizes available in the 50/50 raffle will include cash, a gas grill, a cooler, stainless steel grill tools, tiki torches, lawn chair, beach bag, sand and water toys, citronella candles, jewelry, gift certificates featuring two steak dinners from the Eagles, golf balls, beach towels, Paul Mitchell bag and gift certificate.
The main feature at the event will be the Junk Yard Band, known for its concerts at parties, dances, fund-raisers, festivals and custom car shows in the Fort Wayne area. The band has also headlined at Pierre's and was the featured act at the WAJI Magic 95 Bicentennial Fort Wayne New Year's Eve party.
"The Junk Yard Bard continues to rock on," said lead vocalist Dale Pequignot. "A full playing schedule is testimony to the band's popularity and staying power. A diverse classic rock and oldie's list are all part of today's Junk Yard Band."
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Formula One: Sebastian Vettel laments "absurd" double points proposal
Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel has branded plans to award double points at the final race of the 2014 season as "absurd".
Vettel who drives for the Red Bull Racing Team based in Milton Keynes said the idea would punish those who have worked hard for a whole season.
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The grand prize winner of our "Orlando Dream Vacation Giveaway" was announced earlier today.
The Pensacola International Airport, Silver Airways and WEAR-TV3 were happy to give Annette Azzariti four round trip airline tickets to Orlando.
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The NFPA's latest community tool kit is aimed cooking fire, the leading cause in home fires in the U.S.
JUDY COMOLETTI is the manger of public education at the non-profit National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and she is responsible for implementing NFPA's revised public education strategic plan implemented in 2008. The plan refocuses NFPA's efforts to position NFPA as the primary source of fire and other hazard information to reduce residential fire deaths, injury, and property loss. High-risk outreach activities reaching the very old, very young, urban and rural poor, and people with disabilities are an integral part of NFPA's public education efforts. She is a media spokesperson on educational issues and represents the association at educational symposia, conferences and other professional gatherings. She is an internationally recognized expert in fire and life safety education responsible for training educators, fire service personnel and other advocates to assist them in implementing NFPA educational programs.
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Twelve weeks ago, the School Spirit Showdown started with 80 area schools competing for votes at kcbd.com.
Tuesday night, Dawson beat out 79 other schools to win the $3,000 Grand Prize.
Located in Welch, Texas, the school received 33 percent of the vote at kcbd.com during finals voting to beat out Trinity Christian by 2,400 votes.
Trinity finished 2nd with 28 percent of the vote. SouthCrest Christian finished third with 26 percent and Valley, who won the contest in 2006 finished 4th with 13%.
Pete Christy will head out to Welch in the coming weeks to present the school with the $3,000 Grand prize and Championship Trophy.
In 9 years of hosting these yearly contests to generate pride and enthusiasm in our area towns, over 2.5 million votes have been recorded at kcbd.com and $30,500 has been given out to area schools.
The School Spirit Showdown was sponsored by Sonic and South Plains College.
Next year, it's back to the Pep Rally Playoffs. Whiteface win the $3,000 Grand Prize the last time in 2009.
Pete wants to thank all of our area schools for participating and showcasing their spirit and excitement.
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When doctors come face to face with teen patients, young people may not open up about sensitive issues. Now, doctors at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, have found that teen friendly technology can help kids be more open and honest about their concerns. They are using a wireless device to help young patients get the answers to any sensitive medical questions on a touch screen before they go into the exam room.
Dr. Kelly Kelleher, of Nationwide Children's Hospital, says, "That might be drug use, sexual behavior, it might be suicidal thoughts. Those are things that are uncomfortable to talk about." Teenager Kinzie Davis adds, "I don't want my parents to hear some of those things, so in order not to hurt their feelings or try to upset them or anything, it's easier to just answer truthfully without worrying about their reactions to it."
If a patient answers yes to a question about drug or alcohol use, an e-touch device then prompts them to answer more in depth questions, and only their doctor will see what they say.
So far, doctors say that this computerized screening has helped them to identify adolescents and young adults at risk of depression, suicidal behavior, and alcohol & drug use.
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I'm reposting an announcement for an interesting upcoming event hosted by the Philadelphia Center for the History of Science (PACHS). If any of our readers are in attendance, I hope that you will continue the discussion here at AmericanScience.
What Matters About the History of Science and What do we Do About it?
Feb 3, 2012, 4-5:30, Followed by a social hour and light dinner. The American Philosophical Society's Franklin Hall, 427 Chestnut St.
Join three distinguished scholars for an evening of big questions: What do historians want audiences to understand about the history of science, technology and medicine? What do historians want students to take away from classes, audiences from events, readers from books? What answers to these questions does the community of historians share in common? How do—or should—historians promote what matters about history of science?
Nathaniel Comfort is Associate Professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University specializing in history of biology; history of recent science; and oral history and interviewing. In addition to his academic publications, he writes newspaper and magazine articles for wider audiences.
Matthew Jones is James R. Barker Associate Professor of Contemporary Civilization at Columbia University working on history of early modern science, technology and philosophy. He is also chair of Contemporary Civilization in the Core Curriculum, a program that aims to prepare students to become active and informed citizens by introducing them to issues concerning the communities that people construct and the values that inform and define such communities.
M. Susan Lindee is Professor of the History and Sociology of Science and Associate Dean for the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania where she works on the history of genetics, gender and science, science and popular culture, and science and war. She was a journalist for ten years before entering academia.
If you are in the area and plan to attend, RSVP by clicking through to the PACHS website here.
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Reflecting on History of Science, Feb 3 in Philadelphia
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History of Medicine, For Human Dignity
An announcement for this conference on the history/memory of the Tuskegee experiments caught my eye in part because it aims higher than do most (and reflects on its use of history more explicitly than is usual). For instance:
Our purpose will not be to engender shame or guilt. Rather we will maturely enter into the realities of the past so as to re-imagine a deeper sense of human care in ourselves today, and thereby build a future never again marred by a holocaust of any kind. This conference will be a rich moment in time to prevent the worst by promoting the best of who we are and what we can do to protect the dignity and respect that is fundamental to being human.I cannot tell from the agenda (pdf), however, the true degree to which it will be historical in nature. At any rate, offered for your consideration.
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Diagnosing the diseases of the past, today
Historians of science and medicine debate whether it is possible to re-diagnose diseases manifested in the past with modern terms. But what about "diseases of the past" that come back today.
Note this 'graf from a Chicago Tribune article on vaccination and the resurfacing of now uncommon diseases:
Note this 'graf from a Chicago Tribune article on vaccination and the resurfacing of now uncommon diseases:
Bonwit said medical schools must do a better job of teaching young doctors the history of medicine, which is largely the history of disease and death, he said. Archival footage of children with measles or whooping cough, for instance, should be teaching tools to help students identify diseases and understand their severity, he said.Via Hope Leman. See below.
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Funding Database
If you don't already know about ScanGrants, perhaps you should. It is "a public service listing of grants and other funding types to support health research, programs and scholarship" supported by Samaritan Health Services and maintained by Hope Leman, MLIS (who is also an invaluable and prolific contributor to H-Med-Sci-Tech).
Here are the listings for "history of science" grants.
Here are the listings for "history of science" grants.
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Friday, January 20, 2012
Now that's a dune, Dr. Cowles!
On a personal note, I love the images of Lake Michigan dunes. As an undergraduate at Michigan State, I did my best to escape every year to explore these enormous white-sand oddities and feel a bit of wonder.
I did not realize at the time that those same dunes had inspired Cowles' theory of ecological succession, beginning with his 1898 dissertation "The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan."
In that seminal work, Cowles explained:
"Ecology, therefore, is a study in dynamics. For its most ready application, plants should be found whose tissues and organs are actually changing at the present time in response to varying conditions. Plant formations should be found which are rapidly passing into other types by reason of a changing environment." (3-4)
While I saw the dunes as a wonder-filled getaway, Cowles saw a natural laboratory: "These requirements are met par excellence in a region of sand dunes. Perhaps no topographic form is more unstable than a dune." (4)
The LOC site has some useful background pieces on Cowles and the other ecologists involved. There are also many more photos worth perusing. I enjoy the group shots especially, for what they show about "the field" as a place that is certainly serious, but also quite fun.
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No dessert unless you eat your US history...
I love this insight from scientist and blogger Ian Hopkinson (SomeBeans) on some salutary side-effects of well-done history of science:
"In the same way that Poirier's biography of Lavoisier introduced me to the French Revolution, this book on Franklin has introduced me to the American War of Independence. It's like sneaking vegetables into a child by hiding them in something they like."Yummy.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Print Culture and Online Publishing
|The Wikipedia Homepage on Jan. 18th, 2012
Today is a big day for the internet! Visit the English-language version of Wikipedia and instead of the familiar start page, you'll see the ominous image above with a message prompting you to "Imagine a World Without Free Knowledge." By denying its Anglo-American users access to the site, Wikipedia is protesting two anti-piracy laws making their way through the United States Congress that it and many other internet content providers (especially social networking sites and blog hosts) claim are overly restrictive. These and other issues surrounding the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act are both important and complex. You can read more about them in today's Washington Post. (If you have a subscription, you can also check out a story in today's New York Times.)
But what caught my attention was another story in the Times, about a website called ResearchGate designed to encourage scientists to collaborate, share ideas and data, and publish their results. Check it out. This is just the newest installment of many similar efforts to make the web into a platform that encourages scientists to collaborate and share results, intended to bypass traditional academic institutions like conferences and peer reviewed journals. Others include arXiv.org and PLoS.
But what caught my attention was another story in the Times, about a website called ResearchGate designed to encourage scientists to collaborate, share ideas and data, and publish their results. Check it out. This is just the newest installment of many similar efforts to make the web into a platform that encourages scientists to collaborate and share results, intended to bypass traditional academic institutions like conferences and peer reviewed journals. Others include arXiv.org and PLoS.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Happy Birthday, William James
Today marks what would've been the one-hundred-and-seventieth birthday of one of the most well-regarded and enigmatic figures in American science: William James. (And, while he's a central figure in my work, my admiration doesn't even approach that of one of my colleagues: William James Dromgold Bouk turns two this March.)
James is a towering figure in American intellectual history – and he's gotten lots of attention in the ensuing century as a result. Lately, it's been picking up. The last few years marked a series of centenaries, including those of some of his best-known works: most significantly, The Varieties of Religious Experience in 1902 and Pragmatism in 1907.
But it's more than anniversaries that have raised James's profile. From Louis Menand's Metaphysical Club (which won the Pulitzer in 2002) to Robert Richardson's Bancroft-winning biography (2006) to the privileged place given him by Jim Kloppenberg in Reading Obama, James is on bookshelves outside of the academy in a big way.
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Monday, January 9, 2012
Cetacean Scientists in the US
Paul Greenberg recently reviewed D. Graham Burnett's The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century in the New York Times. Greenberg traces the arc, as told by Burnett, of the cetacean scientist from standing knee-deep in whale innards at the turn of the century to being newly enlightened by whale-ish complexity in the interwar years to fighting alongside other frustrated technocrats at the dawn of an age of international conservation to expanding the human and Cete mind in groovy ways amidst a backdrop of Cold War science. He comes away fascinated by the experience, but also wonders if the reading public wouldn't benefit from something less that 793 pages, with footnotes for the footnotes (almost) ---or actually, he wonders if the public wouldn't benefit from more: a shortened version to accompany the encyclopedic one.
Read the review. You'll encounter the characters who most capture Greenberg's imagination: A. Remington Kellogg (the Prince of Whales) and John C. Lilly, both of whom are American scientists worth extended consideration.
(There's a similar, but not so extensive, review at the Wall Street Journal.)
(Also, I haven't seen the text yet, but it sounds like it has footnotes and not merely endnotes. I *love* footnotes. Am I alone here?)
Read the review. You'll encounter the characters who most capture Greenberg's imagination: A. Remington Kellogg (the Prince of Whales) and John C. Lilly, both of whom are American scientists worth extended consideration.
(There's a similar, but not so extensive, review at the Wall Street Journal.)
(Also, I haven't seen the text yet, but it sounds like it has footnotes and not merely endnotes. I *love* footnotes. Am I alone here?)
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Sunday, January 1, 2012
Happy New Year!
Let's make it a good one.
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Pearl: Have you read the comments from people on that article? If we thought the people were angry about low interest rates, it is nothing to how angry some of these folks are. I agree with many of them. The gov is ready to go after SS and Medicare after "they" used the money for other sources and yet they don't seem to do much about the people who took $800,000.00 of our tax dollars for that GSA convention (?) and all the other wasteful spending going on with "our" money. It just gives me the cringes to hear how we are sending tons of money to other countries who don't really like us and then want tax payers to help with our deficit problems! Let them cut out all the giveaways to others before they ask us to bite the bullet, imo. Too bad I can't find a Petition against this. I would gladly sign!
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Infinite is a seven-member boy group composed of Sunggyu, Dongwoo, Woohyun, Hoya, Sungyeol, L, and Sungjong under Woollim Entertainment, also home to Epik High and Nell. The group debuted on June 9, 2010 with "Come Back Again (다시돌아와)" being their first promotional song under first single, "First Invasion." They promoted another song, "She's Back" afterwards.
They made a comeback with "Before the Dawn (BTD)" in January 7, 2011. The song immediately became a huge hit not only in Korea but also overseas. Their choreography accompanying the song called the "Scorpion dance" has brought a widespread attention to the group. The song has also brought them to debut in Japan with "To-Ra-Wa" which gave them success as rookies in the said country. Not a month later after ending promotional duties with BTD, on March 7, 2011, they released the very catchy "Nothing's Over" under their first ever single album, "Inspirit," which is also the same name given to their fans club.
Name: Kim Sung Gyu (김성규)
Position: Leader & Main Vocals
Birthdate: April 28, 1989
Height: 178cm
Blood Type: A
Hobbies: Watching movies, listening to music.
Talent: Speaking Chinese
DONGWOO (Rapper)
Name: Jang Dong Woo (장동우)
Birthdate: November 22, 1990
Height: 175cm
Blood Type: A
Hobbies: Skateboarding.
Talent: Beatboxing, snowboarding
WOOHYUN (Main Vocal)
Name: Nam Woo Hyun (남우현)
Birthdate: February 8, 1991
Height: 176cm
Blood Type: B
Hobbies: Skiing, tennis.
Talent: Cooking
HOYA (Vocal,Rap & Dance)
Name: Lee Ho Won (이호원)
Birthdate: 03/26/91
Height: 175cm
Blood Type: AB
Hobbies: Playing games.
Talents: Dance, rap.
SUNGYEOL (Vocal)
Name: Lee Sung Yeol (이성열)
Birthdate: 08/27/91
Height: 180cm
Blood Type: B
Talent: Rap.
L (Vocal & Face of Infinite)
Name: Kim Myung Soo (김명수)
Birthdate: 03/13/92
Height: 178cm
Blood Type: O
Hobbies: Cooking, exercise, rap.
Talent: Rap.
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Name: Lee Sung Jong (이성종)
Birthdate: 09/03/93
Height: 177cm
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OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. — A 16-year-old student with special needs who was reported missing last month was later discovered locked in a school bus at the Ocean Township Board of Education transportation yard.
The teen's mother reported him missing on May 4 after he did not return home from school in the afternoon. The bus driver, George Werman, told officers involved in the investigation that he dropped off the student at his residence at about 3:20 p.m. and observed him being supervised by another family member as he entered the home.
A follow-up investigation and search led to the teen being found inside the bus at the transportation yard by officer Kate Delanoy. It was estimated that he had been left unattended in the vehicle for about two hours and 45 minutes.
Werman and Robert Cronin, an aide who rides the bus, were arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child.
As a school bus driver and parent of 3 kids, school bus drivers should always do a child ckeck every time you drop at a destination. There is no excuse for this to happen, it is just plain lazyness and irresponsible.
I drive a bus, it is my job to walk that bus before and after every route. You can put a buzzer on the bus, but that's not going solve all the problems. They must look under seats and behind them. Its there job to walk that bus and not depend on a buzzer system.
I have been in the business for 30 plus years, drivers are required to do a walk threw from front to back each time they transport students. some of the newer vehicles have the tot minder. This should never happen at all anywhere.
If the driver is responsible and they do what's required no students should be
left. The bus aide also missed the boat... I would guess that there careers are over in transportation.....
Really, this happened all because the bus may have not had a child check system in place???? What about professional responsibility? Not to mention the fact that there were two adults on this route. I suppose the aide thought he was being paid to just "ride along." JKramer seems to have lost touch with school bus transportation industry as a whole. The driver is RESPONSIBLE and should know that they assume FULL RESPONSIBILITY for the safety and well being of students they transport. When they cannot meet that commitment; then yes, expect the lynch mob, especially when jeapordizing the life of a child. Parents can live in their own hell if their loss is a result of their own blunder. School districts and bus companies have to assure the community that their child will be safe with the PROFESSIONAL STAFF that they employ to provide service.
This would not happen if they had a child safety device in the back of bus, best thing our School Board ever did.This should be a must for all school buses.
How can you not know there is still a student left on your bus? What happened to his post trip? It is just as much the drivers fault as the bus attendant. Why didn't the attendant verify that all the students were off the bus? How did the driver miss that students stop? It sounds like they were both preoccupied and instead of putting the students needs first they were only worried about themselves. On top of that it was a special needs student! I hope they never work with children again!
This is absolutely the drivers fault! As a trainer and Director for Transporting Special needs students and clients, there is not room for error. And clearly this is a driver error. The school bus should be checked every time it's parked no exceptions. Both of these folks should loose their jobs before it's too late.
As a busdriver myself, I don't understand how anyone can be in that much of a hurry to get off the bus without checking it. Our busses are equiped with a buzzer that has to be pushed in the back of the bus. It is drivers and monitors like this that give us a bad name. They should both loose their jobs - no questions asked
One of my grandchildren was left sleeping on a Head Start school bus. When we found out the bus was not equipped with a child check reminder device we did not raise hell about the driver, nor attack the driver's character. Since this is a well know issue in both the industry and with parents in private cars, we considered the provider neglectful, by not having installed an inexpensive working child/driver protective device. What shocks me is the reality that parents or grandparents (including a NASA rocket scientist) with just with just one child to keep track of in one seat behind the driver, can forget that child. These designated parent mistakes leads to many deaths every year, yet parents, grandparents and the like have excellent support from the vast majority of other parents and in the press to help them get though these actual tragedies. Happens some 5,000 times each year in our industry with no deaths, and seems all we have to offer our drivers is a lynch mob.
That's what happens when drivers and attendants are in such a hurry to put students off the bus they don't have time to go to the back to see if anyone is still on. Which they are required to do. Both of them should geat suspended at least. If if was their kid they would raise HELL.
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Kent residents Todd and Jennifer Fisher are grateful for two things: their daughter Madelyn's life and the young man who saved it.
Madelyn was playing near the Cuyahoga River in downtown Kent Sunday when she slipped and fell into the rushing water. Moments later, on the river's west bank several hundred feet from where she fell in.
Johnston said it all happened so fast that he and the Fishers simply parted ways afterward without even exchanging names.
"I will always remember his face and his incredible kindness," Todd Fisher said of Johnston today. "I am forever deeply indebted to him and the city of Kent safety forces who responded so quickly to the incident. It has changed my life forever. We are truly grateful."
Madelyn, 9, had been playing on some flat stones in the pool area just south of the Main Street Bridge and behind the Stone Arch Dam when she fell in at about 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The roaring water quickly swept her through the old canal lock and downstream. Fisher said his only course of action was to dive into the rapids and try desperately to catch her.
"When I jumped in, I could barely keep my head above the water in some places," Fisher said. "The current was incredible. I was so worried that she would be pinned under some branch or rock. I kept yelling at her to swim towards the bank and not to fight the current. There was no way I was going to catch up with her."
While Fisher swam after her, Johnston was sprinting down the boardwalk from to trying to reach a shallow part of the river so he could wade out after her.
"I instinctively thought I could make it down there before her and wade out into the water and get her," Johnston said.
As he ran, Johnston's friends called 911.
"I was so relieved to see Eric and his college friends at the river's edge attempting the rescue," Fisher said. "I could have never ran up those steps and down the boardwalk in time to rescue her."
Johnston, a music education major at , plays the trombone and runs for fun. A healthy set of lungs and legs helped him reach that low point in the river near the Silk Mill Apartments where he pulled her out. The Kent Fire Department arrived moments later to find everyone safe, but soaked, on the river bank.
Kent Fire Capt. John Tosko credited Johnston with saving Madelyn's life. "She could have easily drowned," he said.
Fisher said his daughter is holding up well after the dramatic incident.
"She is one brave little girl," he said. "Madelyn told me how she did not panic and kept her cool in the water. Thank God she is such a good swimmer."
The Fishers are hopeful two things will come of Sunday's events — parents will learn from it and teach their children to swim and be safe around water, and they want to nominate Johnston for an American Red Cross Real Heroes of Summit and Portage Counties award.
"I hope other parents read (this) story and realize how important it is to keep a constant eye on your children and to teach them how to swim and be comfortable around water," Fisher said. "I really want to give this young man the recognition he so bravely earned and deserves. I know my wife and I personally want to thank him for saving Madelyn's life and show him our gratitude."


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- Call partners periodically to find out how their work is progressing. Offer assistance when appropriate, congratulate and thank them for their achievements and show interest in the work they do on behalf of people with arthritis.
- Invite partnering staff to participate in the programs and/or to meet some class participants so they have more direct experience with the benefits of the programs.
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- Update partners regularly on your program efforts. Provide verbal reports by conference calls and in–person meetings. You also can circulate a newsletter or other written communication through regular or electronic mail. Tell them about program changes that may affect their organization.
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Friday, Jan 21, 2005
Regulatory Bodies & Rulings
Corporate - Mergers & Acquisitions
SEBI mulls altering takeover code
Veena Venugopal
Mumbai , Jan. 20
THE Securities and Exchange Board of India is considering changing the takeover code.
According to the draft amendments to the regulation, creeping acquisition of over 55 per cent in a company cannot be made through open offers, market purchases or preferential allotments.
If a promoter has acquired shares or voting rights through market purchases or preferential allotments, beyond 55 per cent, he should disinvest the shares acquired in excess of this limit, suggest the draft amendments.
Currently, the regulation allows creeping acquisition up to 75 per cent.
Also up to 100 per cent of the stake can be acquired through an open offer and preferential allotment is capped at 5 per cent per year.
Public announcement is necessary for acquiring any stake over 55 per cent, suggests the draft.
An acquirer who has acquired 55 per cent or more but less than 75 per cent of the shares or voting rights in a target company, may acquire any additional share or voting right, only if he makes a public announcement to acquire shares or voting rights, the draft amendments say.
Also under Regulation 10 dealing with the acquisition of 15 per cent or more of the shares or voting rights of the company, a provision has been inserted which says that acquisition of over 55 per cent stake must go through the reverse book building route.
Effectively, this will also do away with the route of open offer for acquiring up to 100 per cent stake in the target company.
Where any public offer is made under the regulation dealing with consolidation of holdings, the offer should be for such percentage of voting capital of the target company so that the acquisition does not result in the public shareholding in the target company being reduced to a level below what is specified in the Listing Agreement of the company.
If, after the public offer, the public shareholding falls to a level below the limit specified in the Listing Agreement of the company with the stock exchanges, the acquirer should raise the level of public shareholdings within a period of 12 months by issue of new shares or disinvestments through an offer for sale.
The acquirer can also sell his holdings through the stock exchange, suggests the draft.
The draft also seeks to expand the definition of `promoter' to include any person acting in concert with the promoter in any disclosure made in terms of the Listing Agreement.
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Business aircraft movements at Lagos-based Evergreen Apple Nigeria have more than doubled from a year ago to an average of 15 daily movements. Flights arriving at the African FBO are predominantly coming from Europe as business executives enter Nigeria. Arrivals from the Middle East are also increasing, it added. Driving the growth is expansion of the oil and gas energy industries, which have attracted renewed interest from European companies.
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