"Like a soda promising happiness, a beer promising machismo, or a cereal promising health, Megyn Kelly is promising apoliticism ..."
-- Slate's Willa Paskin on Megyn Kelly's morning show.
I've been traveling thither and yon all week so I haven't had a chance to collect many links. However, I have a golden oldie that never, ever ages: It's Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers.
In the kind of bookshop where remaindering occurs...."
A man and his quest.
What it's like to ride out a hurricane.
I wondered if this existed about two seconds after I drove past a historical marker. The internet is full of wonders.
Someday, this mystery will be solved and we will all be amazed.
The data tells the tale.
"When Donald Trump was elected president last November, his elder daughter was portrayed as liberal America's consolation prize, like a Christmas present from an absentee dad plunked on the doormat in February. Uh, this is what you Democrats are into, right? Women? Businesswomen? Your little woman projects? That's still your thing, right?"
-- Lindy West on Ivanka in the New York Times.
I want to party with this gal.
Sure, it is great to get more underrepresented students onto college campuses. Admissions is only the first step.
A thing I wrestled with constantly ... before I just gave up.
Alton Brown goes to New Zealand.
"Writing: Relax. Take a deep breath. Just tell the story, simply and completely and with a sense of humanity."
-- the last in a series of rules issued by Martin Merzer, a former guru at the Miami Herald. It starts, "The main thing is, don't get overly stressed. You have to really work at it to get hurt by a hurricane these days...."
This is my (recently reorganized) yarn stash.
Why am I showing this to you? Two reasons: 1) it will likely not look this good for too long and 2) because I recently spent a great deal of time thinking about yarn stash because of Clara Parkes.
You might know Clara. You might not. She is, above all else, a lovely human who it's fun to be around. She also writes and edits books. And her most recent project is A Stash of One's Own: Knitters on Loving, Living with, and Letting go of Yarn. It'll officially be released on Sept. 12.
Yours truly just happens to have an essay in there, along with Meg Swansen, Lela Nargi, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, Amy Herzog, Ann Shayne, Gudrun Johnston, Kay Gardiner, Rachel Atkinson, Franklin Habit, Anna Maltz, Sue Shankle, Amy Christoffers, Clara Parkes, Jillian Moreno, Susan B. Anderson, Lilith Green, Rachael Herron, Kristine Vejar, Eugene Wyatt, Aimée Osbourn-Gille, Kim McBrien Evans, and Debbie Stoller. I can promise you that at least a few of these will be funny and a few will be touching and all of them will be good, because that's how Clara rolls.
If you're a yarn-y type or a word-lover or both, you should pre-order.
As for my stash closet: I learned that I really do not need another tote bag ever. EVER.
Reader: I laughed so hard.
The Waffle House Index in Houston.
There is so much I don't understand about sororities.
This confirms my theory that they shoot both the qualifying and the city finals during the same week.
The Hugo-winning Ursula Vernon is quickly becoming one of my favorite fantasy writers.
You can hear Sarah Bowen Shea and I discuss pelvic floors with Julie Wiebe on this week's Another Mother Runner podcast. I'm told it's pretty funny. And, ya know, informative.
Also: 99 Percent Invisible re-ran one of my all-time favorite episodes last week and it is even more resonant now: Notes on an Imagined Plaque. You should give it a listen.


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The story of Indian Art #23: Akbar Padamsee
Akbar Padamsee is a contemporary Indian artist and painter. He is considered as one of the pioneers in Modern Indian painting. Today his paintings are among the most valued by modern Indian artists.
Author Avinash Subramaniam Published July 31, 2018
Akbar Padamsee is a contemporary Indian artist and painter. He is considered as one of the pioneers in Modern Indian painting. Today his paintings are among the most valued by modern Indian artists. He was awarded the Lalit Kala Akademi Fellowship by the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Arts, in 1962 and the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian honour in 2010.
Artist: Akbar Padamsee
Born in Mumbai in 1928, Akbar Padamsee graduated from the Sir J J School of Arts in 1951, with a Diploma in Painting, following which he went to live and work in France. In 1952, he was awarded a prize by Andre Breton on behalf of the Journale d'Art.
He has participated in exhibitions and Biennales – Venice, 1953 and 1955; Sao Paulo and Tokyo in 1959; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1981; Royal Academy of Arts, London 1982 and National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, 1985.
Untitled Metascape by Akbar Padamsee
Akbar Padamsee has a deep and abiding interest in Sanskrit texts, a glimpse of which finds resonance in his statement on sun-moon metascapes of the mid seventies.
In an interview Padamsee says "in the introductory stanzas of Kalidasa's Abhijnanashakuntalam he describes the sun and the moon as the controllers on time – 'ye dve kal vighattah', and water as a source of all seeds – "sarva beej prakriti". I would never have thought of painting the sun and the moon together if it were not for this. I felt I could use the elements – water, earth, sky – without referring to any particular landscape – a metaphysical landscape".
Early in life, he started copying images from The Illustrated Weekly of India magazine in his father's accounts books at their store on Chakla Street, in South Mumbai. This is how he started his relationship with art. He studied at St. Xavier's High School, Fort, and it was here that met his first mentor, his teacher Shirsat, a water colourist.
Art by Akbar Padamsee, inspired by Kalidasa
He first learned this medium, followed by classes on nudes at Charni Road in preparation for his studies at the Sir J.J. School of Art. As a result, he was allowed to join the course directly in its third year. He was still studying fine art at the school, when the Progressive Artists' Group (PAG) was formed in 1947 by Francis Newton Souza, S. H. Raza, and M. F. Hussain. The group was to have a lasting impact on Indian art. By the time he received his diploma he was already associated with the group.
His work is introspective; his "Metascapes" or his "Mirror Images" are abstract images formed from the search for a formal logic. His topics include landscapes, nudes, heads and he has done portraits created in pencil and charcoal. Padamsee's pioneering spirit has allowed him to experiment with a wide range of media, from oil on canvas to photography and digital printmaking.
The artist lives and works in Mumbai. You can read more about him and see his work online here.
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Avinash Subramaniam
Avinash has been an advertising writer, fiction writer, poetry writer, freelance writer and serial wronger. Other roles he has been in include those of an editor, brand builder, and teacher. His interests include advertising, scrabble, body building, chess, cinema, making money, reading, internet culture, cricket, photography. To hear him air his thoughts, follow him on Twitter @armchairexpert.
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I wrote about Stalk of the Town not too long ago and featured their lovely Spring pop-up. Well, Rini and Estelle have done it again and curated a gorgeous pop-up shop, with more of a festive feel this time round. They've really rounded up the most beautiful products so do yourself a favour and go and visit.
The pop-up runs until 15 December and features work by Claudia Liebenberg, Elsje Design, Carin Smith, Katydid, Sarie van Zyl, J by Juanita, Tableart, Isobel Sipel, Keiskamma Art and Bloss & co.
Expect to find gifts with a festive botanical theme… from beautiful prints by Claudia Liebenberg and incredible handmade paper wreaths and flowers by Carin Smith, to bags, body products, cushions, vases and fresh flowers of course. Sigh, those peonies!


We head out on the road again a little after rush hour traffic, almost 6pm and go through Tucson without stopping, although I'm tempted to go to my womyn's bookstore there and try to look up my chosen family/friend Desire.
Jess is biting at the bit, wanting to get home to her honey, the womon she's going to marry and spend the rest of her life with, so I don't even suggest stopping, as we just spent almost 4 hours at the rest stop.
It is dark when we get to my very favorite Arizona rest stop & I have to fill the tank with veggie oil from my reserve container.
I am worried we won't have enough solar juice to run the motor that I use to pump the veggie oil from the storage container into the main tank, as it is dark & I'm not sure how much energy it will draw. But it turns out it is not a problem – I am able to pump the whole container into the main tank without drawing down the electricity under 24.7!
Jess does not offer to help or automatically pitch in at all. I have to ask her if I want her to do anything – then she does so willingly, but she's not the kind of person to see what needs to be done & to do it. Interesting.
I fill the tank with just one 55 gallon container, which will get us as far as I can drive tonite. Then when it's sunny, I'll continue filling the main tank with the other container.
It is very dark by the time we traverse almost the entire length of New Mexico arrive at the beautiful rest stop that sits on top of a cliff above Las Cruces: we can see the city lights sweep across the desert in a half circle, as far as we can see.
We are less then 30 miles to the Texas border, El Paso & it's sister city, Ciudad de Juarez. I will attempt to get up early & head thru as much of Texas as possible before the heat rises again.
It's almost 90 degrees and we've landed at the rest stop past Phoenix and before Tucson. I really wanted to make it to my favorite rest stop the other side of Tucson but it is so very hot & I'm not going to tax the truck.
Jess is okay to travel with – she has her i-pad i-pod whatever it is that plays music, & I have my book on tape. I'm reading "Saving Grace" & I recommend it 10000%. I feel really lucky to have such a great read as I drive.
A crisp old white man with drooping chubby pink cheeks, a new bright blue shirt, pale eyes that don't blink, creased trousers and a mop of white-white hair, comes up to me as I park, asking me to explain the truck.
I try to stifle my disbelief when he says he's never heard of Monsanto, genetically-modified food, or terminator seeds. I explain all three as briefly as I can, as his eyes slide sideways & lose interest after a sentence or two about each.
We move on to the back of the truck & he reads each word out-loud. I tell him it's time, we have to disarm.
I tell him fox spouts hate. He shakes his head, disbelieving. I urge him to face the truth, fox tells him to hate people like me, lesbians, Jews, single mothers.
He denies the Jew hatred but he believes the lesbian and poor part. I tell him we have to stop hating each other.
What a good question. I ask if he heard what I said, about stopping the hate – how much more christ-like can one get?, about me being a Jew.
I spell it out for him: we are ALL children of the creator, not just jesus: I point to his round beer belly that is thinly disguised by his blue shirt tails that billow softly in the breeze over the hump & declare he is a child of god, I am also.
Jesus, he mutters distraught, but where is jesus. I tell him see, I told you I'm a Jew – why would I have jesus on my vehicle?
Well, he huffs very christ-like as he turns heel, you have a nice day.
I don't give my usual response "as nice a day as the people we are bombing at least" but I urge him instead to have a thoughtful day.
We've made it to the new rest stop just east of Palm Springs and have been able to sleep for almost 4 hours.
Jess is not only severely immature, but she's so ridiculously full of right-wing propaganda, she's not going to know what she got herself into by the end of our trip.
She spouts Limbaugh rhetoric like it's the truth. I 'm struggling not to think she is just really stupid as in she can't think for herself, and trying instead to believe maybe she is just incredibly ignorant as in why should she think for herself.
So far she's said such things as we have to "kill them before they kill us"; and "we are all individuals with the same chances and choices"; and "if they would just try & work hard, they could make it, anyone who really wants to can make it" (talking of poor people of course).
As we talk, I reassess my opinion of her. She is able to hold up her end of the conversation, she doesn't get defensive, and she stays calm & explains her position as "that's just the way it is" when I ask why or what does that really mean to you?
Off we go, before the sunrise – I need to make it across the desert and thru as much of Arizona as possible before noon!


A method and system are provided for delivering personalized messages to a calling party who calls a called party who is engaged in an Internet session over a telephone line not capable of receiving telephone calls without interrupting the Internet connection. The called party receives a notification on her computer screen of an incoming telephone call from a calling party. A drop box on the called party's computer temporarily interrupts the called party and identifies the calling party. The called party may answer the call, forward the call to a separate telephone number, place the call on hold, send the call to voice mail, or type, select or record a personalized message that is delivered to the calling party without interrupting the Internet session. The personalized message may be a text message or a voice message. Text messages are converted from text to speech before delivery to the calling party. If the calling party'terminates the call attempt prior to hearing the message, the calling party is contacted for delivery of the message. If the calling party is not reached after a number of attempts, the called party is notified on her computer screen, without interrupting her Internet session, that the message to the calling party was not delivered. The called party may request the calling party be placed on hold after hearing the personalized message. At the expiration of the hold time, the called party may terminate the Internet session and automatically connect to the calling party.
This invention relates to a method and system for providing personalized messages over an Internet call waiting system.
A growing number of businesses, homes, and schools make use of the Internet through a variety of personal and business computing systems. In a typical home setting, an Internet user goes on-line via her home computer over a telephone line connected to her home. If the user has a standard analog telephone line, for example, non-digital subscriber line, non-T1, etc., that is used for both voice telephone calls and Internet service, the user ties up the telephone line anytime the user is connected to the Internet. Likewise, if the user is using the telephone line for voice telephone calls, the user may not use the same line to connect to the Internet. If the user is on the Internet via the telephone line, and the user receives a voice telephone call, the calling party either receives a busy signal or is forwarded to another telephone number, such as the called party's voice mail service, through a call forwarding service. In order to avoid this problem, the user may subscribe to a separate phone line for use exclusively for Internet connection. Likewise, the user may subscribe to a digital subscriber line or T1 line over which the user may send and receive both Internet connectivity and voice telephone connectivity simultaneously. However, such solutions are expensive, and often, digital subscriber lines and T1 lines are not available at the user's home.
Internet call waiting systems have been used that notify a called party of an incoming voice telephone call when the called party is engaged in an Internet session. Such systems allow the called party to answer the telephone call and thereby disconnect the.Internet session or forward the calling party to a different telephone number. However, such systems fail to allow the called party to interact with the calling party while maintaining the Internet connection.
Still other systems have been used for allowing a text-to-speech message to be sent to a calling party after a calling party is directed to the called party's voice mail system. Unfortunately, such systems do not allow real-time interaction between the called party and the calling party while the call is in progress so that called party may be connected to the calling party at the conclusion of the called party's Internet session.
In accordance with the present invention, the above and other problems are solved by a method and system for delivering personalized messages to a calling party who calls a called party who is engaged in an Internet session over a telephone line not capable of receiving telephone calls without interrupting the Internet connection. The called party receives a notification on her computer screen of an incoming telephone call from a calling party. A drop box on the called party's computer temporarily interrupts the called party and identifies the calling party. The called party may answer the call, forward the call to a separate telephone number, place the call on hold, send the call to voice mail, or type, select or record a personalized message that is delivered to the calling party without interrupting the Internet session. The personalized message may be a text message or a voice message.
Text messages are converted from text to speech before delivery to the calling party. If the calling party terminates the call attempt prior to hearing the message, the calling party is contacted for delivery of the message. If the calling party is not reached after a number of attempts, the called party is notified on her computer screen, without interrupting her Internet session, that the message to the calling party was not delivered.
According to another aspect, the called party may request the calling party to be placed on hold after hearing the personalized message. At the expiration of the hold time, the called party may terminate the Internet session and automatically connect to the calling party.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating components of a telephone network that provides an exemplary operating environment for the present invention.
FIG. 2 illustrates a computer screen display showing a user interface for Internet call waiting according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 illustrates a computer screen display showing a user interface for Internet call waiting with personalized text messages according to the present invention.
FIG. 4 illustrates a computer screen display showing a user interface for Internet call waiting with personalized voice messages according to the present invention.
FIG. 5 illustrates a logical call flow of an Internet call waiting process according to the present invention.
FIG. 6 illustrates a logical call flow of an Internet call waiting text message process according to the present invention.
FIG. 7 illustrates a logical call flow of an Internet call waiting voice message process according to the present invention.
FIG. 8 illustrates a logical call flow of an Internet call waiting voice or text message process followed by connection to a calling party according to the present invention.
The following description of an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is made with reference to the above-described drawings wherein like numerals refer to like parts or components throughout several figures. The present invention is directed to a method and system for delivering personalized messages to a calling party who calls a called party who is engaged in an Internet session over a telephone line not capable of receiving telephone calls without interrupting the Internet connection.
While working on-line, the called party receives a notification on her computer screen of an incoming telephone call from a calling party. A drop box on the called party's computer temporarily interrupts the called party and identifies the calling party. The called party is given the options of answering the call and thereby terminating the Internet session, forwarding the call to a separate telephone number, placing the call on hold, or sending the call to voice mail. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the called party is given the option of typing or selecting a previously stored personal text message that is delivered to the calling party without interrupting the Internet session. Alternatively, the called party may record and deliver to the calling party a personalized voice message without interrupting the Internet session.
The text message typed or selected by the called party is converted from text-to-speech and is played to the calling party before the calling party terminates her call attempt. During the text-to-speech conversion process, the calling party may be provided a recorded message such as "Please wait, the called party has a personal message for you." Alternatively, a personalized voice message selected by the called party may be sent to the calling party immediately.
If the calling party terminates the call attempt prior to hearing the message, the calling party's phone is called and the text-to-speech message is delivered if the calling party answers. If the calling party's voice mail system answers, the message is left in the voice mail system. If the calling party's line is busy, the delivery of the message is attempted to the calling party for a set number of times. If the calling party is not reached, the called party is notified on her computer screen, without interrupting her Internet session, that the message to the calling party was not delivered.
In either case of a personalized text message or personalized voice message, the called party may request the calling party to be placed on hold for a number of minutes. At the expiration of the hold time, the called party may terminate her Internet session and be connected to the calling party. For example, the called party may type a personalized message such as "Hi Joe, I'm in the middle of placing an order over the Internet. Hold on for five minutes. I'll be right with you." According to the present invention, the announcement is played to the calling party, and if the calling party accepts being placed on hold, the calling party is placed on hold until the called party terminates her Internet session. When the called party terminates her Internet session, she is then connected with the calling party. Accordingly, the called party may send a personalized text or voice message to a calling party followed by connection to the calling party at a later time.
It is advantageous to describe an exemplary operating environment in which the current invention may reside. FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating components of a telephone network that provides an exemplary operating environment for the present invention. The public switched telephone network that evolved in the 1980s incorporated the advanced intelligent network (AIN). Some of the components of the advanced intelligent network are illustrated in FIG. 1. The advanced intelligent network (AIN) uses the signaling system 7 (SS7) network for signal or system control message transport. The components thereof are well-known to those skilled in the art. The operation of many of the components of the advanced intelligent network is also described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,245,719 to Weisser entitled "Mediation of Open Advanced Intelligent Network Interface by Shared Execution Environment" which is incorporated herein by reference. The SS7 communications protocol is provided in the document entitled "Bell Communications Research Specification of Signaling System 7," Document TR NWT-000246, Issue 2 (June 1991), plus Revision 1 (December 1991), which is also incorporated herein by reference.
A plurality of central offices are provided in a typical public switched telephone network. As shown in FIG. 1, each central office may include an electronic switch known to those skilled in the art as a service switching point (SSP). These are indicated in FIG. 1 as SSP switches 19 and 20. The terms "SSP" and "switch" are used interchangeably hereinafter and are understood to refer to a telecommunications switch having AIN capability and which may be utilized for connecting voice channel circuits, including voice channel lines, such as the trunk circuit 30.
As shown in FIG. 1, central offices switches (SSP) 19 and 20 have a plurality of subscriber lines 18 and 26 connected thereto. Each of the subscriber lines 18 and 26 is connected to a terminating piece or pieces of customer premises equipment that are represented by telephone 21 and computer 23. SSP switches 19 and 20 are connected by a trunk circuit 30. These are the voice path trunks that interconnect the central offices 19 and 20 and over which calls are connected when completed.
Each piece of terminating equipment in the PSTN is preferably assigned a directory number. The term "directory number" is used herein in a manner consistent with its generally understood meaning of a number that is dialed or input by an originating party at an originating station to reach a terminating station associated with the directory number.
Much of the intelligence, and the basis for many of the enhanced features of the network, resides in local AIN service control points (SCP) 42, 43. As is known to those skilled in the art, AIN service control points, such as SCP 43, are physically implemented by relatively powerful fault tolerant computers. Among the functions performed by the service control points is maintenance of network databases used in providing enhanced services.
The SCP 42 is also connected to a caller name (CNAM) database 48. The CNAM database comprises a plurality of directory numbers along with associated names for the directory numbers. The CNAM database may be used to provide a look-up database to provide caller identification (ID) service. The CNAM database may be comprised of directory numbers from wireline customers as well as wireless customers of a wireless network.
The modern Advanced Intelligent Network also includes service nodes (SN) such as service node 55 shown in FIGS. 6-8. Those skilled in the art are familiar with service nodes, which are physically implemented by the same types of computers that embody the SCP 42. In addition to the computing capability and data base maintenance features, service nodes 55 use ISDN lines and may include DTMF signal recognition devices, tone generation devices, text to speech (TTS) voice synthesis devices and other voice or data resources.
The Internet 50 is well known to those skilled in the art as essentially a package-switched network based on the family of protocols called Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), a family of networking protocols providing communication across interconnected networks between computers with diverse hardware architectures and between various computer operating systems. Operation of the Internet 50 and the TCP/IP transmission protocols is well known to those skilled in the art. The Firewall 60 is preferably a combination of hardware and software that prevents or limits exposure of computers or network computers to unauthorized access or attack from outside the protected computer or network of computers. Accordingly to the present invention, the Firewall 60 prevents or limits access to a secure telecommunications network wherein the functionality of the present invention resides. That is, the Firewall 60 prevents or limits unauthorized access to the data, files, messages, and the like of subscribers to the services of the telecommunications provider. The secure AIN Intranet 70 preferably is a distributed telecommunications and computing network for providing services in accordance with the present invention. The Internet Call Waiting Gateway 80 provides access to the secure AIN Intranet 70 by the other components of the telecommunications network illustrated in FIG. 1. As is well known to those skilled in the art, a gateway may provide a number of functions including connectivity between incompatible communications networks.
Referring now to FIG. 2, the computer screen display 100 is illustrative of an Internet Web Page being viewed during an Internet session of a user of the present invention. According to the present invention, if the called party receives a telephone call during an Internet session, the personalized messaging drop box 110 is displayed over the display 100 that temporarily interrupts the called party's viewing of the contents of the display 100. The drop box 110 includes identification information for the called party 120 as well as identification information for the calling party 125. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the identifying information including the name, telephone number and address may be provided by a database look-up into a calling name database such as the CNAM database 48.
Upon receiving an incoming call from the calling party 125, the called party 120 may exercise a number of options provided in accordance with the present invention. Selection of the Voice Mail button 130 allows the called party to forward the incoming telephone call to her voice mail without interruption of the Internet session. Selection of the Hold button 135 allows the called party 120 to place the calling party 125 on hold until the called party terminates her Internet session. Selection of the Forward button 140 allows the called party to forward the incoming call to a designated forwarding number. Selection of the Answer button 145 allows the called party to terminate the present Internet session and Answer the incoming telephone call.
In accordance with the present invention, the user may type or select a previously stored personalized text message by selecting the personalized text message button 150. Selection of the text message button 150 causes the text message drop down box 160 to be displayed as shown in FIG. 3. As illustrated in the text message drop down box 160, a number of previously stored personalized text messages are displayed. For example, text message 165 includes the message "I'll call you back." Text message 180 reads "I'm putting you on hold for X minutes," where X is the number of minutes selected by the called party. According to the present invention, the called party may select any one of the previously stored personalized messages by highlighting the message and selecting the send button 200. Alternatively, the called party may select the edit button 195 to edit one of the previously stored personalized messages. If the called party wishes to type a new personalized message, the called party may select the type button 190, and the called party may type a new personalized message.
Referring back to FIG. 2, selection of the personalized voice message button 155 opens the voice message drop box 210 illustrated in FIG. 4. The voice message drop box 210 includes a Record Now button 215, a Send Message and Disconnect button 225, and a Send Message and Hold button 230. If the called party receives an incoming telephone call and wishes to record a voice message to be sent to the calling party while the user concludes her Internet session, the user may select the Record Now button, and the user then speaks the desired message into the microphone on the user's computer or telephone set. For example, the user may select the Record Now button and speak the message "Hi Bob. Sorry I missed you." After the user has recorded the desired personalized voice message, the user may select the Send Message and Disconnect button 225, and the recorded message will be forwarded to the calling party as a response to the telephone call, and the call will be disconnected. Alternatively, the user may select the Send Message and Hold button 230, and the personalized voice message will be sent to the calling party, and the calling party will be placed on hold until the called party terminates the present Internet session.
Having described an exemplary operating environment and exemplary user interfaces with reference to FIGS. 1-4, the following is a description of the logical call flow of a system and method of the present invention for providing personalized text and voice messages to a calling party while a called party is engaged in an Internet session. At call state 1, a calling party 125 places a telephone call at his telephone set 21 through his local switch 19 directed to a called party who is engaged in an Internet session at the computer 23. The call attempt is received at the called party's switch 20, and a termination attempt trigger at call state 2A is fired causing a query at call state 2B to be forwarded to the SCP 43. According to the present invention, the trigger provisioned on the called party switch 20 causes the query to the SCP 43 for instructions from the SCP 43 for processing the call directed to the called party 120.
At the SCP 43, a determination is made that the called party 120 is a subscriber to the functionality of the present invention for personalized voice and text Internet call waiting messaging. At call state 3, the called party's switch 20 provides an audio ring announcement to the calling party 125 at the calling party's telephone 21. At call state 4 a, the SCP 43 determines that the called party is engaged in an Internet session utilizing the telephone line 26 between the called party's computer 23 and the called party's switch 20. The SCP 43 also determines that the called party is a valid subscriber to the functionality of the present invention.
In response to these determinations, the SCP 43 sends an Internet call waiting, message to the called party at the called party's computer 23 via the Internet Call Waiting Gateway 80 and through the Internet 50 to the Internet protocol address of the called party's computer 23 as located and determined by the SCP 43. At call state 4 b, prior to sending the message to the called party, the SCP 43 queries the CNAM database 48, via the SCP 42, for caller identification information on the calling party 125. At call state 4 c the caller identification information is forwarded to the SCP 43 for inclusion in the Internet call waiting message.
At call state 7, the called party selects one of the response buttons 130-155 to send an Internet call waiting message (reply) back to the SCP 43 for processing in accordance with the present invention. For example, if the called party selects the voice mail button 130, the selection will be forwarded through the Internet 50 and the gateway 80 back to the SCP 43. The SCP 43 will instruct the called party's switch 20 to open a trunk line between the calling party and the voice mail system of the called party. Likewise, if the called party selects the Answer button 145, the SCP 43 will instruct the called party switch 20 to terminate the Internet session and open a voice trunk between the calling party and the called party.
Referring now to FIG. 6, if the called party decides to forward a personalized text message to the calling party, the called party selects the personalized text message button 150 to display the text message drop box 160 illustrated in FIG. 3. As described above, the called party may select among the previously stored personalized text messages, or the called party may type a new text message or edit an old text message. For example, if the called party selects text message 165 reading "I'll call you back," the text message is forwarded to the SCP 43 via the Internet 50 and gateway 80. At call state 8, the SCP 43 instructs the called party's switch 20 to forward the calling party to the service node 55 to receive the text message from the called party. At call state 9, the switch 20 forwards the calling party to the service node 55 for presentation of the text message to the calling party.
At call state 10, the SCP 43 forwards the personalized text message to the service node 55. As described above, the service node 55 converts the personalized text message selected by the called party from text to speech for presentation in audio form to the calling party. If the conversion of the text message to audio format will take an excessive amount of time, the service node 55 may play a message to the calling party such as "Please wait. The called party is sending you a personalized message." At call state 11, the service node 55 plays an audio version of the personalized text message to the calling party. At call state 12, the service node 55 disconnects the call from the calling party.
If the calling party hangs up while the service node 55 is converting the text message to speech, the service node 55 places a return call to the calling party at the calling party's telephone 21. If the calling party answers the call, the text-to-speech formatted version of the personalized text message is played to the calling party. If the calling party's voice mail system answers the call, the service node 55 will send the text to speech message to the calling party's voice mail system. On the other hand, if the calling party's line is busy, the service node 55 will attempt to call the calling party with the personalized message for a set number of times prescribed by the called party as a subscriber to the services of the present invention. If the prescribed number of call attempts is exceeded, the SCP 43 may send a message to the called party at the called party's computer 23 that the personalized text message was not delivered to the calling party.
Referring now to FIG. 7, if the called party chooses to send a personalized voice message to the calling party in response to the incoming telephone call, the called party selects the personalized voice message button 155 in order to display the voice message drop box 210 illustrated in FIG. 4. The called party next selects the Record Now button 215 followed by the desired personalized voice message. For example, the called party may speak into the microphone of her computer 23 the message "Hi Bob, sorry I missed you." After the voice message is recorded, the called party may select the Send Message and Disconnect button 225. At call state 7, the voice mail message recorded by the called party is digitized in a digital audio file such as a WAV file or an MP3 file at the called party's computer 23. The digitized voice message is forwarded to the SCP 43 via the Internet 50 and gateway 80 for presentation to the calling party.
At call state 8, the SCP 43 instructs the called party's switch 20 to forward the calling party to the service node 55. At call state 9, the switch 20 connects the calling party to the service node 55. At call state 10, the SCP 43 sends the called party's voice message to the service node 55 for presentation to the calling party. At call state 11, the service node 55 plays the digital audio file prepared at the called party's computer 23 to the calling party. At call state 12, the service node 55 disconnects the telephone call with the calling party. As should be understood, if the called party had selected the Send Message and Hold button 230, the service node 55 would have placed the calling party on hold and awaited the called party's instruction to take the call from the calling party. As described above with respect to delivery of personalized text messages, the service node 55 may attempt to call the calling party to deliver the personalized voice message if the calling party hangs up before receiving the personalized voice message from the service node 55.
As shown in FIG. 8, the call states are illustrated for connection of the calling party to the called party after delivery of a voice or text message to the calling party in accordance with the present invention. If the called party forwarded a personalized text message or personalized voice message to the calling party with a request that the calling party be on hold for a set amount of time, the called party may terminate her Internet session and answer the call from the calling party by selecting the Answer button 145 illustrated in FIGS. 2-4. At call state 13, the dialog box 110 is refreshed with the Answer button 145 as an option available to the called party following call state 12 in which the calling party was placed on hold after being presented with the personalized message from the called party. At call state 14, the called party selects the Answer button 145, and the called party's Internet session is terminated. It should be understood that termination of the Internet session in this context includes making the telephone line between the computer 23 and the switch 20 available for use by the called party for receiving a voice telephone call from the calling party.
Selection of the Answer button 145 signals the SCP 43 via the Internet 50 and gateway 80 to connect the calling party with the called party. At call state 15, the SCP 43 sends the answer instruction to the service node 55. At call state 16, the service node 55 may play a previously recorded message to the calling party such as "One moment please while we connect your call." At call state 17, the service node 55 places a call to the called party via the called party's telephone 24, and the service node then connects the call between the calling party and the called party for completion of the call.
As described, a method and system are provided for allowing a called party to forward personalized text and voice messages to a calling party while the called party is engaged in an Internet session without interrupting the Internet session. The personalized text and voice messages are forwarded to the calling party in real time for receipt by the calling party and response thereto while the call remains in progress. Advantageously, the calling party may hold while the called party completes her Internet session followed by connection to the called party. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications or variations may be made in the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein.
if the calling party disconnects the calling party's line prior to the step of sending the message to the calling party, then calling the calling party to provide the message to the calling party.
connecting the calling party to the called party after the called party's telephone line is available for use.
while notifying the called party of an incoming telephone call from the calling party, keeping the call from the calling party in progress.
routing the caller identification information to the called party's computing device via a distributed computing system.
5. The method of claim 4, wherein the distributed computing system is the Internet.
displaying caller identification information on the called party's computing device.
7. The method of claim 6, whereby the step of displaying the caller identification information includes displaying the caller identification information via a graphical user interface overlaying a screen display presently displayed on the called party's computing device.
providing the called party with options for responding to the call from the calling party.
9. The method of claim 8, whereby the options include routing the calling party to a called party voice mail system.
10. The method of claim 9, whereby the options further include placing the calling party on hold.
11. The method of claim 10, whereby the options further include forwarding the call from the calling party to a different telephone directory number.
12. The method of claim 11, whereby the options further include disconnecting the called party's computing device from the called party's line, and answering the call from the calling party.
13. The method of claim 1, prior to the step of sending a message to the calling party, selecting a previously saved message.
sending a message to the calling party while the call from the calling party is still in progress.
sending a text message to the calling party.
converting the text message from text to speech format.
17. The method of claim 15, prior to the step of sending the message to the calling party, editing a previously saved text message.
18. The method of claim 15, prior to the step of sending a text message to the calling party, typing a text message for sending to the calling party in response to the call from the calling party.
disconnecting the calling party's line after sending the text message to the calling party.
placing the calling party on hold after sending the text message to the calling party.
21. The method of claim 20, after the step of placing the calling party on hold, connecting the calling party to the called party after the called party disconnects the called party's computing device from the called party's line.
sending a voice message to the calling party.
23. The method of claim 22, after the step of sending the voice message to the calling party, placing the calling party on hold.
24. The method of claim 23, after the step of placing the calling party on hold, connecting the calling party to the called party after the called party disconnects the called party's computing device from the called party's line.
25. The method of claim 22, whereby sending a voice message to the calling party further comprising sending the voice message to the calling party while the call from the calling party is still in progress.
26. The method of claim 22, prior to the step of sending the voice message to the calling party, recording a personalized voice message in response to the call from the calling party.
27. The method of claim 22, after the step of sending the voice message to the calling party, disconnecting the calling party's line.
if the calling party does not answer, notifying the called party that the message was not delivered to the calling party.
sending a voice message to the calling party while the call from the calling party is still in progress.
31. The method of claim 30, after the step of sending the voice message to the calling party, disconnecting the calling party's line.
connecting the calling party to the called party after the called party disconnects the called party's computing device from the called party's line.
a service node operative to place a return call to the calling party to provide the message to the calling party in response to the calling party disconnecting the calling party's line prior to the service control sending the message to the calling party.
to send an audio message to the service node from the called party directed to the calling party for provision to the calling party.
to connect the calling party to the called party after the called party's telephone line is available for use.
to send a text message to the service node from the called party directed to the calling party for provision to the calling party in speech format.
to provide the text message to the calling party.
to disconnect the calling party's line after providing the text message to the calling party.
to connect the calling party to the called party after the called party disconnects the called party's computing device from the called party's line.
to send a voice message to the calling party while the call from the calling party is still in progress.
to disconnect the calling party's line after providing the voice message to the calling party.


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People watch the "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare" video game trailer at the Activision booth at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, Calif. on June 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
Watching People Play a Video Game Makes You More Likely to Buy It
July 18, 2016 Updated: May 4, 2018
LOS ANGELES—The rise of online audiences watching video gamers stream themselves playing isn't simply a new form of entertainment seen by millions. It's also driving video game sales, as well as drawing the attention of federal regulators.
A study released Wednesday by live streaming company Twitch attributed 25 percent of newly released game sales to those games being played on Twitch. The study found that viewers were more likely to buy a game within 24 hours of watching a stream of the game in action.
"There's a clear relationship between viewing and purchasing behavior," said Twitch data scientist Danny Hernandez, who studied users who connected their Twitch account to online game retailer Steam for increased social interaction.
A spectator watches players trying out the PlayStation "Gravity Rush 2" video game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles on June 15. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)
While the majority of online gamers freely stream themselves playing, many of the most popular streamers with millions of followers are now regularly paid or sponsored by game publishers, a practice that was recently investigated by the Federal Trade Commission.
The FTC said on Monday that Warner Bros. will settle charges it deceived consumers by not properly disclosing it paid influencers with big followings on YouTube to promote the action game "Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor" in 2014.
The government said Warner Bros. hired YouTubers such as Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg, who boasts over 46 million subscribers, through an advertising agency and instructed them to publish the sponsorship disclosure where consumers couldn't easily spot it.
As many outside the gaming realm continue to wonder why anyone would want to watch someone else play a video game online, the audience for such content continues to swell to staggering heights. Twitch's daily active users have grown this year from 8.9 to 9.6 million.
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And it's not only the most popular online players who influence sales. The Twitch study found that mid-tier streamers — those with audiences between 33 and 3,333 concurrent viewers — are responsible for 46 percent of game sales.
The interactive industry tracker Newzoo said in a February report that over 470 million gamers watch online gaming content on a regular basis and that number is expected to surpass 500 million viewers in 2016.
"The convergence of video and games means game companies can now entertain people across all screens at every moment of the day," said Peter Warman, CEO of Newzoo. "I think game companies are realizing this opens up new revenue possibilities — not just selling games — but advertising and content rights."
A Teen Once Died After Playing Video Games For 22 Days Straight
Warman noted that online video is more than twice as effective to reach consumers as TV. He said 35 percent of gamers use YouTube to discover new titles, while only 14 percent do through TV commercials.
While most online gaming content is viewed on YouTube and Twitch, Facebook is now attempting to lure gamers to its own streaming service, Facebook Live. The social media giant partnered earlier this summer with "Overwatch" and "Call of Duty" publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. to broadcast live games and e-sports events on the social network.
The medium also no longer seems relegated to the indoors anymore. A few savvy gamers have begun streaming themselves playing mobile games like "Pokemon Go," the augmented reality sensation that's played on smartphones in the real world.


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"Jane.com" Features Powerful Story of LDS Mom Who Gets Unthinkable News Right After Her Son's Birth
byLDS Living Staff | Dec. 12, 2016
VideosMormon Life
"It's a really infinite love," Kristin Sumbot says about the love she has for her son in a video created by jane.com. "He's a piece of my heart."
Two days before her due date, Sumbot heard the unthinkable. "You have a brain tumor." After being in remission from leukemia for five years, Sumbot was given a terminal diagnosis.
"I had these visions of being a mom and spending all this time with him. I want to take him to his first day of school. I want to be there when he comes home and gets off the bus. I want to be that kind of mom for him," she says.
And Sumbot has found a way to be that mom and to find happiness in her family, despite her diagnosis.
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Seydways Master Class
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Ted Mattison
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Richard Seyd | Director of Seydways Acting Studios
Richard has been a director and teacher for over 35 years. As his professional directing career grew, he found that more and more professional actors sought his work for individual coaching. From this demand, he opened Seydways Acting Studios in 1991 as a training ground for professional actors in the Bay Area. Over the years as a successful director and teacher, Richard developed a uniquely sensitive, specific, and effective approach to actor training. This approach is summarized in his now patented Trigger Approach and Stretch Work. In 2003, Richard opened his Los Angeles studio, where he continues to teach classes for professional actors in both Los Angeles and San Francisco.
His work as a director includes most recently Noises Off by Michael Frayn at La Mirada Theater in Los Angeles. Other Los Angeles credits include By The Waters Of Babylon by Pulitzer award-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan at the Geffen Playhouse; The Lion In Winter at La Mirada Theatre; and Present Laughter, The Presentment and Noises Off for the Pasadena Playhouse; The Mad Dancers at Mark Taper, Too! Sarah's Story at LATC along with many other workshops with SCR, Mark Taper and Pasadena Playhouse.
He directed the world-premier of A Reckoning with Jonathan Pryce in London at the SoHo Theatre. Other regional credits include: A Feast of Fools (with Geoff Hoyle), Marines Memorial Theatre and LaJolla Playhouse; Dinner with Friends (Bay Area Critics Circle Award); The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Bay Area Critics Circle Award); Collected Stories (Garland Award from Backstage West); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Bay Area Critics Circle Award); and, A View From the Bridge: Berkeley Repertory Theatre. He garnered many other awards for his directing work including Drama-Logue, Backstage West and Bay Area Critics Circle Awards for his direction of Cloud Nine, About Face, Noises Off, Oleanna, A View From the Bridge, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and A Streetcar Named Desire.
From 1992-1997 he served as Associate Artistic Director of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. While at ACT, he directed The Learned Ladies, Dario Fo's The Pope And The Witch, Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Oleanna, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, Othello, The Matchmaker, and A Streetcar Named Desire.
In his earlier years of directing (1981-1991) Richard held the position of Associate Producing Director of the Eureka Theatre, where he directed many productions for the company including Cloud Nine, The Wash, Threepenny Opera, and Dario Fo's About Face. Other directing credits include The Pickle Family Circus (London Tour), King Lear at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, As You Like It for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, A Midsummer Night's Dream for the California Shakespeare Festival, and productions at the Classic Stage Company and the Wonderhorse Theatre's in New York. He is also the director of an award-winning 35 mm short film entitled Brass Tacks. Currently, Richard is working on the world-premiere of a new rock-musical called The 12 written by Tony-Awarding Winner Robert Schenkkan with music by Neil Berg. This production is scheduled to premiere in April of 2015 at Denver Theatre Center. He is also developing a musical of The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Prior to his directing career, Richard acted as well. His training began at school at Dartington Hall (England). He received his Theatre Training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and acted with the affiliated Old Vic Company. He became a founding member of Stage Two – a company based on the works of Jersey Grotowski that was begun by James Roose-Evans. He then received an Advance Teaching Degree in Drama from North-Western Polytechnic of London.
In 1968, he co-founded Red Ladder Theatre, Britain's first professional, political theatre collective, now over 45 years in existence. With Red Ladder, he acted, directed and produced for the company for seven years. Upon moving to San Francisco in 1975, Richard taught at the Cultural Training Center. It was from here that directing became his main focus as detailed above. Additional teaching experience includes lecturer positions at various colleges including Stanford University, UC Irvine and UC Davis.
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Richard Seyd knows what he's doing. Like the best of his British counterparts, his tips, approaches and directions push the actor's character development always in the service of the script. He's the perfect antidote to indulgence and lack of discipline while being warm, perceptive and very funny. You cannot do better.
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NOCTURNAL was founded in september 1993 by Nocturno Blasphemias ( guitars ) & Necronoise ( drums ). We started to search for the proper place for recharsals and for first blasphemious creations worshipping the black side. Death Cult jointed NOCTURNAL in december, but he didin't stay long with the horde, soon he is replaced with Nocturno Blasphemias. And so in fabrulary 1994 the two people recorded their first material - promo tape "Union In Unholy Pentagram", containing two song - Pagan ancient Rites & Funeral at the Fullmoon ( the return of eternal sleep ) in the devilish songs of Unholy Black Metal. 04.94. Abbadon joined NOCTURNAL, and the band this completated started to work upon their new relase. But new obstalces come up. the band didin't find their rehersal room .four new songs were created but they were nowhere to be recorded.
In the beginning of 1995 Abbadon left, and soon after the that Necronoise as will, also was replaced by Nebiros ( drums ), they all started to create their new materials. Mone over new project come to live - DIABOLICAL -Nocturno Blasphemias ( drums, voc.) and Nebiros ( guitars, voc.). Their songs were supposed to be diametricaly different from the ones spawnet by NOCTURNAL. In august 1995 the new promo of DIABOLICAL was recorded ( in the extreme conditions ), constaining four songs of fast Pagan Black Metal. In January 1996 DIABOLICAL entered the studio to record their first demo I - "Into The Pagan Night", four songs were recorded in the styl of BATHORY from "Hammerheart". After that Hellhorn joined NOCTURNAL & DIABOLICAL but hi stayed there only one month. In april 1996 NOCTURNAL registered eight songs in the were some studio - their first demo, - "Witchcraft", which cold bye descambled as Pure Unholy Black Metal.
The band tried to find to label finally they started to woperated with RANGAROK records. In june 1996 the second demo of DIABOLICAL was recorded - "The Spirit Of Mystical Woods", and Necronoise was innted to join the session. The whole material was recorded by Nocturno Blasphemias ( guitar, choirs ), Nebiros ( vocals, guitar ) and Necronoise ( drums ).
That blood spilling relase contained eight songs ( induding cover of BATHORY - Call From the Grave). as will. Both materials were released by RANGAROK records at the end of 1996.
The beginning of 97 they planned to records split - NOCTURNAL/THE MYSTIC FULLMOON but unfortunately both bands ceased to exist.
The end of 2002 - NOCTURNAL is brought back to life, and soon spawns the eight-song demo tape "It's Pure..." The beginning of 2003 - the promo containing 2 songs is created in order to promote the forthcoming full-length album.


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Statistics relative to the New York State unemployment insurance fund, 1936-1976.
New York (State). Dept. of Labor.
Published 1978 by State of New York, Dept. of Labor in [Albany] .
Insurance, Unemployment -- New York (State) -- Statistics
Series Labor research report ;, 1978, no. 11
LC Classifications HD5725.N7 A29 1978, no. 11, HD7096.U6 A29 1978, no. 11
Pagination v, 55 p. ;
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