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Publication number | US7194683 B2 |
Publication type | Grant |
Application number | US 09/798,430 |
Publication date | Mar 20, 2007 |
Filing date | Mar 2, 2001 |
Priority date | Mar 2, 2001 |
Fee status | Paid |
Also published as | US20020122054 |
Publication number | 09798430, 798430, US 7194683 B2, US 7194683B2, US-B2-7194683, US7194683 B2, US7194683B2 |
Inventors | John R. Hind, Yongcheng Li |
Original Assignee | International Business Machines Corporation |
Export Citation | BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan |
Patent Citations (3), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (62), Classifications (7), Legal Events (4) | |
External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet | |
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a computer system, and deals more particularly with methods, systems, and computer program products for improving and authoring of dynamic data content for Web documents (such as Web pages) by applying a content management paradigm to the representation, storage, and retrieval of the content.
2. Description of the Related Art
The World Wide Web (hereinafter, "Web") was originally used primarily as a distributed file system in which users retrieved documents (also referred to as "Web pages") having static, predetermined content from remote Web servers and viewed those retrieved documents. Typically, the client device used software such as a Web browser for retrieval and viewing of the documents. In some cases, the user was allowed to update the content of the remotely-stored document, or add content to it. The Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or "HTTP", was (and continues to be) used for exchanging messages of this type between the user's client device and the remote server.
In recent years, the Web has evolved from this distributed file system model into a Web-centered application environment in which the user's browser now functions as the user's interface or portal to applications running within remote Web servers. This new model facilitates dynamic generation of content for Web documents. Including dynamic data content is a key part of Web authoring in today's Web environment. Dynamically-generated content ranges from very simple processing, such as supplying a current date or time in the content of an otherwise static Web page, to content generation that may use processing which is quite complex. As an example of more complex dynamic content generation, information to be included in a Web document may be extracted from a back-end data store by issuing complex queries against a database; by invoking a legacy host application; etc. The Host Publisher software product available from the International Business Machines Corporation ("IBM") is an example of software that may be invoked in response to receiving a user request for Web content, where the generation of that content requires invoking a legacy host application or accessing a relational database.
Currently, there are two ways of generating dynamic data in Web documents. One is to let a program such as a Java™ servlet generate the Web document (including the dynamic content as well as markup language tags). The other is to embed some program code in the Web document for dynamic data generation of content to be included within that document, which is the JavaServer Pages™ approach. A Java servlet is a program written in the Java object-oriented programming language. A servlet is created in a way that allows it to be easily added to the code already running on a server, and is intended to extend the functionality provided by the server. A servlet typically implements code to perform a specific task, such as retrieving information from a particular type of database, performing some business application function, or performing a particular type of transcoding operation. "JavaServer Page", or "JSP", refers to a document encoded in a server-side scripting language. JSPs may be used to create dynamic content using JavaBeans™ and in-line Java scripting in a Web document. The JavaBean(s) referenced by a document may either be passive containers for data (i.e. they do not contain executable code, but instead are populated by other executing code such as a servlet), or they may be active containers which include executable code. What is required when using a JSP is to invoke a Web document (such as a Hypertext Markup Language, or "HTML" page or an Extensible Markup Language, or "XML", document) that contains JSP code embedded within it. The referenced JavaBean or scripting code will then be invoked automatically, by the JSP processing engine, as the Web document is being processed. (As is known in the art, invocation of a Web document is typically done by transmitting an HTTP request message from a client to a Web server, where this request specifies the Uniform Resource Locator, or "URL", used to locate the desired document.) ("Java", "JavaServer Pages", and "JavaBeans" are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc.)
Complicating today's Web-centered application environment is an industry shift away from the perspective of managing and authoring a Web site as if it was a collection of Web documents containing information, and toward the perspective of a site being a managed collection of information which may be presented in various views as authored documents. This shift introduces the notion of a content management system which owns both the collection of information and the authored documents which provide a window onto that information. With this new approach, one can easily assure that the site visitor will see a consistent set of information, regardless of which authored document the information is presented in: gone are the days when a price change, catalog description, licensing agreement, privacy policy, the Webmaster's e-mail address, or other content gets changed on only a subset of the site's pages—causing a nasty customer relations problem at best, or the loss of some significant money at worst on some eCommerce sites.
This new approach means, however, that the traditional authoring environment, where back-end scripting logic is invoked to create the dynamic content for a document, can no longer be used for dynamic data generation. In addition to JSPs executing on a Java-based Web server, as previously described, this traditional authoring environment is exemplified by Active Server Page ("ASP") processors of an Internet Information Server ("IIS") Web server and Common Gateway Interface ("CGI") scripts. JavaServer Pages, Active Server Pages, and CGI scripts were developed to provide high-level abstractions for writing logic to generate dynamic content for Web documents. These may be referred to as "scripting components", and enable content authors to describe how input requests are mapped to back-end application logic, and how the results of that logic are represented in an output response. ASPs are used on Microsoft Web servers to create ActiveX Controls, invoke their methods, and access their properties to generate dynamic content. CGI scripts are a technique which preceded JSPs and ASPs, and provide a simple interface for requesting a Web server to invoke an application program, where that application program typically then generates content dynamically and returns the content to the Web server for delivery to a client.
The drawbacks of the current dynamic content generation techniques include:
Accordingly, what is needed is an improved technique for dealing with dynamic data content which avoids the drawbacks of prior art approaches.
An object of the present invention is to provide an improved technique for representing and managing dynamic data content which avoids the drawbacks of the prior art.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an improved technique for using dynamic data content in Web documents wherein the generation of the content is separated from its presentation.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a technique for using dynamic data content in Web documents that clearly delineates the responsibilities of a Web document designer and a Web content application developer.
A further object of the present invention is to provide a technique that enables dynamic data content for Web documents to become a reusable component.
Still another object of the present invention is to provide a technique that efficiently and effectively supports a Web authoring model wherein a Web site is comprised of a collection of information and Web pages or documents which provide windows onto that content.
Other objects and advantages of the present invention will be set forth in part in the description and in the drawings which follow and, in part, will be obvious from the description or may be learned by practice of the invention.
The present invention will now be described with reference to the following drawings, in which like reference numbers denote the same element throughout.
The workstation 110 may communicate with other computers or networks of computers, for example via a communications channel or modem 132. Alternatively, the workstation 110 may communicate using a wireless interface at 132, such as a CDPD (cellular digital packet data) card. The workstation 110 may be associated with such other computers in a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the workstation 110 can be a client in a client/server arrangement with another computer, etc. All of these configurations, as well as the appropriate communications hardware and software, are known in the art.
Still referring to
The gateway computer 146 may also be coupled 149 to a storage device (such as data repository 148). Further, the gateway 146 may be directly or indirectly coupled to one or more workstations 110.
Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the gateway computer 146 may be located a great geographic distance from the network 142, and similarly, the workstations 110 may be located a substantial distance from the networks 142 and 144. For example, the network 142 may be located in California, while the gateway 146 may be located in Texas, and one or more of the workstations 110 may be located in New York. The workstations 110 may connect to the wireless network 142 using a networking protocol such as the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol ("TCP/IP") over a number of alternative connection media, such as cellular phone, radio frequency networks, satellite networks, etc. The wireless network 142 preferably connects to the gateway 146 using a network connection 150 a such as TCP or UDP (User Datagram Protocol) over IP, X.25, Frame Relay, ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network), etc. The workstations 110 may alternatively connect directly to the gateway 146 using dial connections 150 b or 150 c. Further, the wireless network 142 and network 144 may connect to one or more other networks (not shown), in an analogous manner to that depicted in
Software programming code which embodies the present invention is typically accessed by the microprocessor 112 (e.g. of workstation 110, of a server such as server 147, and/or of an intermediary such as gateway 146) from long-term storage media 130 of some type, such as a CD-ROM drive or hard drive. The software programming code may be embodied on any of a variety of known media for use with a data processing system, such as a diskette, hard drive, or CD-ROM. The code may be distributed on such media, or may be distributed from the memory or storage of one computer system over a network of some type to other computer systems for use by such other systems. Alternatively, the programming code may be embodied in the memory 128, and accessed by the microprocessor 112 using the bus 114. The techniques and methods for embodying software programming code in memory, on physical media, and/or distributing software code via networks are well known and will not be further discussed herein.
A user of the present invention may connect his computer to a server using a wireline connection, or a wireless connection. Wireline connections are those that use physical media such as cables and telephone lines, whereas wireless connections use media such as satellite links, radio frequency waves, and infrared waves. Many connection techniques can be used with these various media, such as: using the computer's modem to establish a connection over a telephone line; using a LAN card such as Token Ring or Ethernet; using a cellular modem to establish a wireless connection; etc. The user's computer may be any type of computer processor, including laptop, handheld or mobile computers; vehicle-mounted devices; desktop computers; mainframe computers; etc., having processing (and optionally communication) capabilities. The remote server and the intermediary, similarly, can be one of any number of different types of computer which have processing and communication capabilities. These techniques are well known in the art, and the hardware devices and software which enable their use are readily available. Hereinafter, the user's computer will be referred to equivalently as a "workstation", "device", or "computer", and use of any of these terms or the term "server" refers to any of the types of computing devices described above.
In preferred embodiments, the present invention is implemented in software, although embodiments in hardware and/or a combination or hardware and software are also within the scope of the present invention.
The present invention defines a new technique for authoring dynamic data content for use in a Web document. It uses what is referred to herein as a "transformation flow container", or "TFC". A TFC contains one or more transformations, and is specified using a set of markup language tags (which in preferred embodiments are XML-based tags) to describe transformations to be performed. In preferred embodiments, two primary types of transformations are used in TFCs, and specie (1) how the dynamic data is generated and (2) how the data should be presented or "styled" for presentation. This TFC technique completely separates the data generation and the presentation thereof, which allows Web document authors and application programmers to focus on their own jobs. Managing and modifying Web documents with dynamic data content becomes much simpler. The new content management model facilitates reuse of dynamic data content in a Web authoring environment. The TFCs may be stored and managed by a content management system or other repository (referred to hereinafter as a content management system, for ease of reference) in the same way simple raw pieces of information, like the e-mail address of the Webmaster, could be managed in the prior art. Furthermore, the dynamic data content itself may optionally be stored in a cache, from which it is then available for reuse, yielding even greater efficiencies.
A sample TFC which contains two transformations is illustrated in
The name attribute 323 may be used, for example, by a content management system or document authoring system (as illustrated below with reference to
From the Web document author's viewpoint, he merely constructs Web page 300 using a relatively small set of markup language tags to specify the TFC, and thereby creates a Web document which contains a specification of dynamic data content as well as a specification of the styling thereof. (An alternate technique, described below with reference to
According to the present invention, transformation flows in a TFC are bracketed by a "<Transformation>" tag (see 328 and 329 in
An example of the first of the primary types of transformations is illustrated at 330 of the example. This type of transformation specification (referred to hereinafter as a "WebApplication transform") enables easily invoking executable code to perform a transformation. Use of this type of transformation within a particular TFC is optional. Within a type "WebApplication transform", executable code such as a JavaBean may be invoked, as shown by use of the "<JspBean>" tag 332. (Note that the term "transformation", as used by the present invention, includes the case of a "nothing to something" transformation, i.e. a transformation which generates new content.) In this example, the JavaBean to be invoked is denoted as the value of a "<Class>" element 333, and in this example has the name "test.class" 334. The Web application that is used to retrieve dynamic content may have parameters or named properties which represent input and output information, and an optional "<Properties>" tag 335 is used to bracket the specifications of these parameters. Optionally, a description 340 may be provided for explanatory purposes (e.g. to make the TFC self-documenting). An <Error> tag 341 may optionally be used to specify an error message that may be used as an output of a type "WebApplication" transform (for example, when some type of error happens in invoking the JSP application, such as application not found, incorrect parameters, etc.).
Returning now to the Properties element 335 of a type "WebApplication" transform, several different child tags may be specified within a <Properties> tag. The example in
The "Indoc" element 336 indicates which named property of the invoked JavaBean should receive the input document, as indicated by the "name" attribute (which has a value "docin" in this example). An optional "type" attribute (not shown in this example) can be used to indicate the kind of document(s) that the invoked JavaBean understands.
The "Outdoc" element 339 identifies the named property of the invoked JavaBean from which the output document generated from the transform will be taken, as indicated by the "name" attribute (which has a value "docout" in this example). The optional attribute "target" shown in this example with the value "example.dtd" is used to indicate the document type of the output.
The "Property" element (see 337, 338) is used to set named properties of the invoked JavaBean to values which will tailor the way the JavaBean performs its function. The "name" attribute is used to identify the property name, and the "value" attribute is used to pass a value which is placed in the named property before the invoked JavaBean is executed. In this example, the invoked JavaBean has two properties named "AA" (see 337) and "BB" (see 338), which in this example are XPATH specifications of where to find input parameters in the "docin" input document named at 336. Since this transform 330 is the first one in the TFC 320, a default document (illustrated in
Referring now to
In preferred embodiments, the Web application invoked from a type "WebApplication" transform generates its result in XML format. Alternative embodiments may generate content in other markup languages, if desired, in which case it will be obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art how to modify the teachings disclosed herein.
Returning now to
A small amount of static content has been shown in the sample document of
In preferred embodiments, the present invention utilizes the "custom tag" technology of JSPs. Thus, the "taglib" statement shown at element 302 of
Turning now to
This replacement may be a physical in-line replacement within the TFC sub-tree of the DOM, as is depicted in
The flow in
The general manner in which XSLT transforms operate will now be briefly described.
An XSL style sheet, which is itself an XML document, consists of declarative rules that are applied by the XSLT processor. A typical rule contains a pattern to be matched against the input DOM, and a template (also known as an "action") describing what is to be placed in the intermediate DOM (or in the output document, for an output document which bypasses creation of the intermediate DOM) when that pattern is matched. When applying a style sheet, the patterns in the rules are matched against the syntax of the source document (as represented by the input DOM). When a match is found with the pattern, an output fragment for the intermediate DOM (or output document) is created according to the actions specified in the template (which may include processing additional elements in the source document beyond the matching element and/or generating new data). The template generally includes some markup, some new data, and some data copied out of the tree nodes matched by the rule's pattern, where this information from the template is to be inserted into the intermediate DOM (or output document). The source document is parsed recursively, until no more matching patterns are found. The resulting document fragments are then aggregated to yield a complete intermediate DOM (or output document). It is this rule matching and substitution of different document elements according to the actions in the matching rules that enables style sheets to transform documents. (Refer to "Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL), W3C Working Draft 21 Apr. 1999" and "XSL Transformations (XSLT), Version 1.0, W3C Working Draft 9 Jul. 1999", which are available on the Web at http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl and http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xslt, respectively, for more information on using XSL for formatting and transforming documents. The manner in which the pattern matching process creates a new DOM or output document markup is explained in detail in section 2, "Tree Construction".)
It is instructive to note that (1) an XSLT transform may fire a pattern which produces a result without consuming any input, and (2) an XSLT style sheet may contain application code references which produce nodes that augment the nodes from the document being styled, and hence these produced nodes may also be styled by the pattern engine. This means that an XSLT transform used with the present invention can operate on a container of complex data (such as a catalog entry), or a script which performs back-end application execution (such as the means by which a Web service is performed). The XML-based markup tags introduced by the present invention for use in Web documents (as shown in
Note that while the TFC 320 shown in
The template in
From the example Web documents shown in
The block containing the TFC may reside as if it were simple raw information within a content management repository, from which it may be retrieved and injected into an authored document at run-time like any other managed content. With it's styling able to dynamically react to the document's format (e.g. being injected into an HTML page, or an XML document, etc.), the page author, information manager, and application programmer are no longer locked into an interdependent tangled mess.
The flowcharts in
At Block 900 of
Otherwise, Block 915 evaluates the remaining transformations in this TFC. In some cases, one or more transformations in a TFC may have an unknown output type, such that it is not possible to determine the final path to a result document until some subset(s) of the transformations have been performed. Thus, the logic of
Block 920 tests to see if the next series of transformations selected in Block 915 can be executed in parallel. The flow model depicted in
If it is determined that parallel execution can occur for the next series, then at Block 935 the processing engine loads the style sheets and wires events between those style sheet transformations, after which Block 940 executes this series using the data referenced by variable IC as the input to the first transform, and evaluates the style sheet rules iteratively against the available data. This process is depicted in more detail in
As shown in
If a transformation family is specified in the Web document as the value of a <XSLFamily> element in the TFC, then it may be necessary to choose one or more style sheets from that family at run-time in order to style the document content that is input to the type "XSLT" transform. The first selected style sheet is preferably determined based upon the type of the input document (see 339 a of FIG. 3)—and/or may be implied by careful structuring of style sheet families, and the last style sheet is preferably determined based upon the desired output document type (see 325, 326 of
First, it may be possible to deduce the output document type from the characteristics of the next stage in the flow. For example, the last transformation in each flow may be deduced from the type of the template in which the TFC was embedded or referenced. As an example of this technique, the <html> tag 301 in
As a second technique for determining which style sheet(s) to apply, the flow author may provide one or more "hints" with the type specification. U.S. Pat. No. 6,463,440 , (filed Apr. 8, 1999), which is titled "Retrieval of Style Sheets from Directories Based Upon Partial Characteristic Matching", teaches a technique whereby information about the applicability of style sheets to particular uses (i.e. the characteristics of the style sheet) may be stored and used by a search engine to locate style sheets that may be appropriate for use in a particular situations. Preferably, the hints provided by the flow author are specified as one or more name/value pairs within <Hint> tags (not illustrated in the examples) within the <Transformation> element for a type "XSLT" transform in the TFC. For example, the dynamic content generated by a type "WebApplication" transform may have gathered current news items from a Web news site named "XYZ News". The Web application may be adapted to clipping out particuiar items of interest to a user, for example, where these items are then to be formatted and displayed on the user's client device. Suppose a type "XSLT" transform is to be applied for creating the proper formatting tags (and perhaps performing other styling, such as pruning the content beyond what has been performed by the Web application). Further suppose there are two style sheets available to choose from, and the defined characteristics for one indicate that it is adapted to styling news articles from site XYZ_News and formatting the articles into tables, while the characteristics for the second style sheet indicate that it is adapted to styling news articles in general and formatting them as HTML paragraphs. If the hint provided by the Web document author indicates that HTML tables are desired, then the search engine disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,463,440 will select the first style sheet, because it is a better match.
As a third technique for determining which style sheet(s) to apply, ordering or "chaining" within the style sheet family for the subset of sheets handling the input type may be used. This technique is depicted graphically in
The input to a type "WebApplication" transform within a TFC may require values for properties (i.e input parameters) of a JavaBean, as has been stated. In this case, a means for obtaining those values must be provided.
Continuing with the example in
As has been demonstrated, the present invention provides advantageous techniques for representing, storing, and managing dynamic data content for Web documents, which avoids drawbacks of prior art techniques. Note that where reference is made herein to using XML, this is intended to encompass other similar notations such as WML which may be parsed and represented using DOM trees and/or operated upon using the SAX API. Similarly, although the preferred embodiment has been described as using XSL style sheets and an XSLT processor, style sheets and processors using other notations may be used instead (e.g. Document Style Semantics and Specification Language, or DSSSL, which is an International Standard ISO/IEC 10179: 1996) without deviating from the inventive concepts of the present invention.
While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications in those embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims shall be construed to include both preferred embodiments and all such variations and modifications as fall within the spirit and scope of the invention.
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The bluefish are cruising the Red Hook surf in large numbers, say fishermen who have been hauling them in off the Louis J. Valentino, Jr. Pier at the end of Coffey Street. Stripers are also solid, especially, at night.
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Digital Signage technology: our take-aways from the ISE 2014
Two from our EDIFICOM team – Ian and Kate – attended the 11th ISE (Integrated Systems Europe) convention in Amsterdam on February 4th.
More than 40,000 people are expected to attend the show between the 4th and the 6th to visit more than 950 exhibitors showcasing digital signage solutions, residential solutions, unified communications, and smart building solutions.Our primary focus was to research digital signage solutions and regard trends that are happening in this space.
The digital signage hall alone consisted of about 170 booths, however across the whole RAI convention center complex, there were over 323 companies exhibiting digital signage solutions. It was immense!
Spotted trends:
– Touch screen. Everything is leading toward touch screen – it really engages the user, capturing their attention way longer than an old-fashioned paper poster could ever do, and it's just downright fun.
– 4K (Ultra high definition) digital signage is really picking up momentum. Every booth seemed to have a huge "4K" callout. You can't believe the definition and clarity that these monitors emit! It's like watching live theater less than two feet away.
– Video walls. The more screens, the bigger the message – or multiple messages at once – the better.
– Interactive retail and restaurant digital signage is definitely becoming a standard. No more paper posters or handwritten menu boards. Those deploying digital signage can easily adjust prices or options across many locations with a simple touch of a button. Bonus: more eco-friendly than producing / discarding paper.
- Great examples:
- A cool concept shown off by Scala was a coffee app: Your menu board is touch screen allowing you to choose your coffee type. Once chosen, a picture is taken of your face. Above the barista is a board that shows customers' pictures along with their coffee order that will indicate when their order is ready.
- Another Scala solution that is in Tesco stores in the UK was a liquor information board. A small cabinet featuring several different types of whiskey was displayed. When you picked up a bottle of whiskey, the digital monitor immediately illustrated the type of whiskey, the price, the origin, tasting notes, etc. If you picked up two bottles at the same time, a comparison chart would pop up. Very user-friendly and engaging.
– Outdoor digital signage: Retail advertising and Education are target consumers for these solutions. These are nice for higher education in terms of using way-finders for large campuses or complex buildings.
- Example shown in retail advertising: We visited Onelan's booth where there was a small camera attached to the monitor that could detect who was standing in front it and would then reactively change the advertising messages. When Ian stood in front of it, an advertisement for a car popped up. When Kate stood in front of it, an ad for cologne popped up (sexy man included). Great for city centers and commercial complexes.
- A separate booth showed this feature a bit more in depth: video surveillance showed you on screen and predicted your age and mood. (Kate was quite happy to have been captured as being a 24-year-old female. No comment on how off this was, but it's apparent the app needed some tweaking.)These technologies are able to take targeted marketing to the extreme.
– Simple management. A lot of digital signage solutions come with templates and are easy to use (so a graphics person on payroll is not necessary). Also user-friendly is the simple management from not only a computer but a tablet or even smart phone. Again, with the click of a button, users can change an item from their smart device and implement an immediate change within seconds, or program a change for the future across multiple devices.
Bottom line: digital signage technology today is all about engaging a customer/viewer at the highest level possible visually and physically.
Take a look at some of our photos from our fun day at Amsterdam RAI, including the holographic signage that I am certain we will see more and more of in the near future:
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Whether you think he should be the pick or not (if he falls to 12)...at least it gives us options. And that certainly can't be a bad thing.
Whether you think he should be the pick or not (if he falls to 12)...at least it gives us options. And that certainly can't be a bad thing.
Terrific, terrific player in my opinion although a little part of me still wonders if he's better suited to the 4-3.
You're being watched. You know who you are.
i assume you'd be thinking about the lack of physicality on his part for someone with his size and strength. i tend to agree with you there. i still think he'd be great in our 3-4 - but 4-3 might suit him a little better. that's the main reason i favor spikes when comparing the two - spikes is as physical as it gets - where mcclain seems to tone it down at times.
I wonder how he gets covered up so well by Cody and how plays, as Chris so rightly says, get funnelled to him. I think he's physical enough but sometimes i get the feeling that there's 10% left in his game. And at times, especially straight ahead, he has trouble disengaging. You get those big guards out to him and can he get off the really, really good ones: Faneca, Carl Nicks, Logan Mankins, Ben Grubbs, etc.
i want McClain or Bryant at #12 either one would be great
I think some people are getting a little picky.....
Having the guy on "your" team is like having a defensive co-ordinator on the field calling the plays......priceless.
He organises.
He tackles.
He covers.
Dont make things tougher than they need to be....lol....He didnt win the best LB in the country award for nothing.
If he's there at 12 you hire Usain Bolt to run the card up to the commish!


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I first met Steve Mitchell when I left local radio and started working for a little- known but vital part of the BBC called GNS, the General News Service, and he was my boss's boss. It supplies all the national and international news to the BBC's network of local radio stations. The combined audience is huge and tends to be the people the BBC is often accused of ignoring – those on lower incomes, the elderly, people living in rural areas. GNS reporters break national and international stories, produce great original journalism and are well-known names outside the M25. However, they're unknown within TV Centre. And if people don't know your work, they don't trust your editorial judgement. And, more importantly, don't give you a job. We used to call it the "Hotel California".
During the BSE Inquiry in 1998, it struck me that every local radio station either had a victim of vCJD on their patch, or a farmer who'd been affected by the agricultural melt-down surrounding the disease. The demand for material from local radio stations was massive, and with the contacts and experience I gained in providing it, I ended up developing a rural affairs and environment specialism within the department in the years that followed. Armed with specialist knowledge, I started applying again for national news jobs. Problem was, still, no one knew who the hell I was. However, Steve did, and I have him to thank for his advice and support in making the jump to network correspondent. He has always been honest and frank; if he can't help, he won't say he will and then spend the next six months trying to avoid you. At the same time, he will always give constructive advice. He's the one I ask for advice when I have really big stories, as I know he will cast his experienced eye over it, and treat it on its merits. He's always courteous and considerate, and I wouldn't be doing this job if it wasn't for him.
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HMHS Somersetshire
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Name | HMHS Somersetshire | ||
Type: | Hospital ship | ||
Tonnage | 9,716 tons | ||
Completed | 1921 - Harland & Wolff Ltd, Belfast | ||
Owner | Bibby Brothers & Co, Liverpool | ||
Homeport | Liverpool | ||
Date of attack | 7 Apr 1942 | Nationality: British | |
Fate | Damaged by U-453 (Egon Reiner Freiherr von Schlippenbach) | ||
Position | 32° 13'N, 26° 34'E - Grid CO 6896 | ||
Complement | 187 (7 dead and 180 survivors). | ||
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Route | Alexandria - Tobruk | ||
Cargo | None | ||
History | Completed in June 1921 as motor merchant Somersetshire for Bibby Brothers & Co, Liverpool. 1927 converted to a troopship with accommodation for 1300 troops. In October 1927 the ship sailed to China and from January to May 1928 she transported troops to Karachi and was laid up in Dartmouth thereafter. During another voyage to China in 1931, influenza broke out which affected 300 person but fortunately there were no deaths. In September 1939, the Somersetshire was requisitioned and converted into HM Hospital Ship No.25 with 507 beds, 118 medical staff and 171 crew members. She participated in the withdrawal from Narvik in April 1940 and on 6 Dec 1940, was bombarded from shore as her launches brought of the wounded at Tobruk. In February 1941, the ship joined her sistership HMHS Dorsetshire in evacuating the wounded from the besieged Tobruk, before operating from the Red Sea to South Africa, Australia and New Zealand repatriating wounded soldiers. Post-war: From 1944 to 1946, the Somersetshire sailed all over the world as a hospital ship and finishing up in the Pacific. In February 1948, the ship was decommissioned and rebuilt until November by Harland & Wolff to a passenger ship with accommodation for 550 passengers. In 1953, the ship briefly returned to trooping to East Africa during the Mau Mau troubles and in March 1954 was broken up by Thos. W. Ward in Barrow-in-Furness. | ||
Notes on event | At 12.57 hours on 7 April 1942, U-453 fired a spread of four torpedoes at a steamer of 10,000 grt and heard three detonations after 47 seconds. HMHS Somersetshire was not recognized as a hospital ship by the U-boat. The ship, which was carrying no patients, was hit on the starboard side forward and settled by the head with a list. Seven lives were lost. 114 crew members, 64 medical staff members and two stewardesses abandoned ship in 13 lifeboats. The crew later reboarded her and managed to reach Alexandria on the port engine and assisted by tugs. The remaining survivors were picked up by a Greek destroyer. | ||
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Lombard Medical Inc, a medical device company focused on Endovascular Aneurysm Repair (EVAR) of abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAA), announced that the first procedures were successfully performed in Japan using the Company's unique Aorfix Endovascular Stent Graft with the new AorFlex Delivery system.
The AorFlex Delivery system received approval from the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in March, and provides controlled, easy delivery of Aorfix, the first and only endovascular stent graft with worldwide regulatory approvals for the treatment of patients with aortic neck angulations up to 90 degrees.
The first AorFlex cases in Japan were performed at ShinSapporo Hospital of Cardiology by Dr Yoshihiko Kurimoto, Director, Aortic Endovascular Therapeutic Center of Teine Hospital, and at Nara Medical University Hospital IVR Center, by Prof Kimihiko Kichikawa and Dr Shinichi Iwakoshi, Department of Radiology.
Dr Kurimoto stated, "Aorfix addresses unmet needs which we could not achieve with other devices, providing great benefit to my patients. The AorFlex delivery system allows for improved control, ensuring that I deploy the stent graft more accurately." Prof Kichikawa, Nara Hospital added, "AorFlex provides enhanced navigation in tortuous anatomies and allows precise deployment, especially in AAA patients with challenging anatomies. With AorFlex, I believe Aorfix will become a leading AAA device option in Japan."
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text: For six innings Tuesday, Newton softball played flawless defense and had control of its game with Salem. Ironically, what powered them to a 2-0 lead wound up aiding Salem to a 3-2 win. The Lady Rams (4-2) made two costly errors in the seventh inning and Taylor Beachcamp made them pay with a two-run triple to cap a three-run inning for Salem (2-0). Riley Rogers set down Newton in order in the bottom of the inning to preserve the come-from-behind win. "It's pointless to play six great innings just to give it away in the seventh," Newton coach Virginia Waters said. "I think the umpire made a tough call at second in that inning and it sort of spread from there. They (Salem) got loud and I could tell Lattice (Albert) got a little nervous after the umpire told her not to rub the ball (between pitches) but it's just stuff we have to work through." Albert pitched six scoreless innings with her defense playing at times spectacularly behind her before a pair of errors in the seventh led to the loss. Kelsey Swinson made two diving plays at shortstop but allowed a groundball to sneak under her glove to put runners on first and second with no outs in the seventh. Albert struck out the next batter but catcher Zhandria Usher's throw to first was dropped to load the bases. One run scored on the play. Beachcamp then promptly ripped a line drive into the left field corner to plate two. She was thrown out trying to score. "Nobody's perfect, we just need to remember what we're going to do with the ball when it's hit," Waters said. "Kelsey's not one of those people that makes a lot of errors so I don't expect her to make many after tonight." Up to the seventh, Newton was in total control. Albert kept Salem's hitters off balance and worked out of one-out bases loaded jams in the third and sixth innings to keep Salem off the scoreboard. Newton's defense made plays all over the field. They tracked balls down in the gaps and cut two runners down at the plate to hold Salem scoreless. "I'm glad it wasn't a fluke this weekend in Griffin," Waters said. "We played great defense and executed when we needed to. We left some base runners on when we shouldn't have but I was pleased with everything up until that seventh." Newton took a 1-0 lead in the first inning off a walk and a two-out single from Swinson. The Lady Rams added a run in the fifth off a slow roller off the bat of Usher. But the Lady Rams also left nine runners on base including leaving the bases loaded in the sixth and was 3-for-10 with runners in scoring position. "This was probably the fastest pitching with the most movement we've seen and we have to adjust," Waters said. "Our timing was a little off. We try to work on quick hands everyday in practice and some of our girls caught up to it eventually late in the game and some of our girls still had trouble so it will be something we continue to work on and prepare for next time." Neither team put up big offensive numbers. Riley held Newton to six hits in seven innings while Salem had seven against Albert. Despite the tough loss, Waters doesn't expect it to have any lingering effect. "It's definitely disheartening to win six innings and give it up in the seventh but I think luckily with this group, it won't stay in their heads too long," she said. "By tomorrow afternoon at practice we'll have forgotten about it." The Lady Rams get a chance to redeem themselves Thursday when they travel to Spalding.


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how can he have been born in 1589, died in 1617 and be 35? see last paragraph —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.108.40.206 (talk) 21:43, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
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Mr Rad, 31, was detained more than two months ago, but the arrest and closed-door hearing were kept secret until details of the case were leaked on Monday in the London-based Arabic weekly Al Wassat. Only then was military censorship lifted, and some details are still classified. Ze'ev Schiff, dean of Israeli military commentators, said he was caught before he could do any serious damage.
Israeli government lawyers confirmed yesterday that Mr Rad was charged with spying for Iran. They alleged that he had volunteered his services to the Iranian embassy in Turkey and had subsequently visited Iran.
According to the Israelis, he was arrested in Israel after returning home at the end of April. A report in Al Wassat that he was abducted in Turkey by the Mossad external-security service - evoking parallels with the kidnapping of the nuclear whistle-blower, Mordechai Vanunu from Italy in 1986 - was officially denied.
The defence lawyer, Zion Amir, said Mr Rad was kidnapped and tortured by the Iranians and tried to commit suicide in an Iranian prison. He had come back to Israel to report on the terrible things that were done to him in Iran.
The case has revived demands in Israel for less secrecy in spying and other high-security trials. According to the law, a magistrate or district judge can decide that such a case will be heard in camera, and the prisoner can be held for up to 60 days without legal representation. Secrecy may prevail for years after a conviction.
Yosef Amit, a major in Israeli army intelligence, served seven years of a 12-year sentence for espionage before the case was disclosed in 1993. The same year, censorship was lifted in the case of a biology professor, Marcus Klingberg, who had already spent 10 years in jail for passing germ- warfare secrets to the Soviet Union.
n London - The Rad affair has brought Mossad under the spotlight at a time when it faces demands to reduce its budget and its semi-independent status, writes Adel Darwish.
Despite the official denial, a former official connected with Mossad believes that, in the same way Vanunu was lured from London to Rome to be kidnapped and taken to Israel for trial, Mr Rad was lured from Austria to Turkey in late May. Two hours after his arrival in Istanbul, it is said, he was kidnapped, drugged by Mossad agents and put on board an El- Al flight to Tel Aviv.
Until finishing his national service in 1988, Mr Rad lived with his family, who set up a textile business in Jerusalem. In 1989 he travelled to the US, where he spent most of his time since. In Los Angeles he formed a business relationship with members of the prosperous Iranian community and, it is claimed, Iranian agents recruited him.
The Israelis were tipped off about his visits to Iran by a West European intelligence service. According to this version, the decision to kidnap him was taken in early spring.
The former Israeli official said an operation on this scale could not be carried out without the approval of the inner cabinet or the Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin.
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Trainer Bobby Frankel couldn't have been happier that his champion Ginger Punch drew the rail for the $500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap (gr. I) on April 5 at Oaklawn Park.
"Perfect," Frankel said after being told the news by his assistant, Jose Cuevas. "The inside is the place to be at Oaklawn."
The Stronach Stables' homebred Ginger Punch, winner of three grade I races last year including the Breeders' Cup Distaff (gr. I) en route to capturing an Eclipse Award as the nation's top older filly or mare, is listed as the even-money choice among the half-dozen entered in the 1 1/16-mile Apple Blossom. The chestnut carries top weight of 122 and must concede from six to 12 pounds to her rivals, which helps kick off Oaklawn's "Racing Festival of the South."
Frankel is at Keeneland this week preparing Country Star for the Ashland Stakes (gr. I), while Cuevas, his long-time assistant and lead exercise rider, tends to Ginger Punch. Ramon Dominguez takes over the riding chores on the 5-year-old Awesome Again mare, replacing Rafael Bejarano, who has been out of action for the past three weeks with two compressed vertebrae fractures.
"Ginger Punch put in a couple of sharp works before we left Hollywood Park," Cuevas said, "so she doesn't need much. I just jogged her once around the track (Thursday) morning, and she seemed to handle everything fine.
"From post one, I expect she will sit second behind the speed (Clever Strike), and make her move about the three-eighths pole. She is a push-button mare. She'll do whatever Ramon asks."
Winner of five of her past six races, the Florida-bred Ginger Punch has not run since a 6 3/4-length romp in the Sunshine Millions Distaff Jan. 26 at Gulfstream Park in her only start of the year. Ginger Punch's task in the Apple Blossom was made a bit easier by the defection from the field of Hystericalady, who lost to the champion by a neck in an exciting edition of the Breeders' Cup Distaff at Monmouth Park Oct. 27.
Ginger Punch brings an 8-5-1 record in 15 starts into the Apple Blossom. She has earned $2,176,679.
Her opponents include the undefeated Zenyatta, a 4-year-old Street Cry filly from Southern California with three wins to her credit for trainer John Shirreffs and owners Jerry and Ann Moss. Zenyatta defeated grade I winners Tough Tiz's Sis and Romance Is Diane in her last start, the El Encino Stakes (gr. II), when she was the 6-5 favorite at Santa Anita Jan. 13.
Moss paid $60,000 for Zenyatta as a yearling at Keeneland in September 2005. She debuted with a three-length win over maidens going 6 1/2 furlongs at Hollywood Park last Nov. 22. The strapping dark bay then posted a 3 1/2-length win over first-level allowance foes in her first try over a route of ground Dec. 15. For the first time, Mike Smith is to ride Zenyatta, who is 7-2 on the early line.
Smith, who replaces David Flores, has won the Apple Blossom four times, three of them successively aboard the champion Azeri from 2002-04, and on Nine Keys in 1994.
Zenyatta, out of the Kris S. mare Vertigineux, is a half-sister to the millionaire Balance, a three-time grade I winner.
"She's progressed quickly in the caliber of races that she's participated in," Shirreffs told Daily Racing Form. "She's just a really, very, very talented filly. She has a beautiful way of going, and a big stride, and she finishes very strongly."
Calvin Borel, a two-time Apple Blossom winner (with Halo America in 1997 and Gourmet Girl in 2001), pilots the 3-1 second choice Kettleoneup, who is expected to come from off the pace as well.
Trained by Michael Tomlinson for owner/breeder Tom Crouch, the 5-year-old Victory Gallop mare had a string of three consecutive stakes victories ended by Hystericalady in the March 9 Azeri Stakes (gr. III), in which she finished fourth after a mild bid. Kettleoneup has won seven of 19 lifetime starts and earned $639,091.
Brownie Points, a late addition to the field by trainer Donnie Von Hemel, ran second in the Azeri last time out. Clever Strike, expected to set the pace for Shaun Bridgmohan at 110 pounds, finished third in the Azeri. Lemon Drop Mom came home last of five in the Azeri.
$500,000 Apple Blossom Handicap (gr. I, Race 8, 4:57 p.m.), Fillies & Mares 4 & Up, 1 1/16 Miles
PP. Horse, Weight, Jockey
1. Ginger Punch (FL), 122, Ramon A. Dominguez
2. Brownie Points (KY), 114, Luis S. Quinonez
3. Lemon Drop Mom (KY), 112, Clinton L. Potts
4. Kettleoneup (KY), 116, Calvin H. Borel
5. Clever Strike (KY), 110, Shaun Bridgmohan
6. Zenyatta (KY), 116, Mike E. Smith
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