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There's a simple reason perennials are so popular — you plant them once and they bloom year after year. And because different perennials bloom at different times, you can create a dynamic garden that changes with the seasons. Our perennials come in a huge range of flower and foliage colors, heights and shapes, giving you an endless opportunity to express your creativity.
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Woodland Wildflowers
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Lenten Rose Brandywine
Lenten Rose Brandywine's early blooms are a beautiful addition to the shade garden and are perfect in containers or borders, growing to be about 12-18 inches tall. (Helleborus)
More DetailsItem #: 5LROSESALE: $26.95 $20.21
Per Plant - 3.5" pot
Peony Cotton Candy Mix
Three favorite double Peonies: One each of pink Sarah Bernhardt, red Karl Rosenfield and white Shirley Temple. Plant together for an amazing display. (Paeonia lactiflora)
More DetailsItem #: 9COLGAs Low As $19.48
Per Bag of 3
Oriental Poppy Pizzicato Mix
This vibrant Poppy mixture blooms an array of colors, including red, scarlet, salmon, mauve, pink and white. Growing to be only 24-30" tall, this mixture is ideal of a border, container, or rock garden. (Papaver orientalis)
More DetailsItem #: ASL3Q31SALE: $13.95 $6.98
Per Plant - 3" pot
Yarrow Summer Berries
Summer Berries Mix includes all the good yarrow colors from gold to pink to red. From 24 to 28 inches tall. (Achillea millefolium)
More DetailsItem #: 4ACHAs Low As $8.95
Per Plant - 3" pot
Foxglove Foxy Hybrids
Foxy Hybrids produces extra bright bi-colored blooms in early summer. Great for shady areas. (Digitalis purpurea)
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Per Plant - 3" pot
Iceland Poppy Party Fun
As the name suggests, this Iceland Poppy variety boasts a rainbow of fun, boldly-colored blooms. Like other Poppy varieties, Party Fun is deer resistant and can be cut for colorful bouquets. (Papaver nudicaule)
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Per Plant - 3" pot
Columbine McKana Giants Mix
With brightly-colored flowers that bloom over delicate foliage, these plants brighten the late spring garden/early summer garden. (Aquilegia)
More DetailsItem #: 18PER3As Low As $10.95
Per Bag of 3
$3.65 / Per Root
Hollyhock Mix
Double flowers in mix of luscious colors bloom on tall stems. A must for the cottage garden; also good for screening unsightly areas. (Alcea rosea)
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Per Bag of 8
$2.13 / Per Root
Painted Daisy Robinson's Giant Mix
This mixture of large, vibrant daisies will range from white, to pink, to red. The stunning blooms are perfect for cutting and will provide a cheery show in late spring to summer. (Pyrethrum or Tanacetum)
More DetailsItem #: 5DAISYAs Low As $11.95
Per Plant - 3" pot
Echinacea Mix
A mix of three varieties of this popular perennial, this is an affordable way to fill your sunny garden with colorful flowers. (Echinacea)
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Per Bag of 3
$4.32 / Per Root
Delphinium Magic Fountain Mix
Magic Fountains Mix is a shorter variety of Larkspur. Only growing to 36 inches tall. Mixed colors with deeply cut foliage. No staking required. (Delphinium)
More DetailsItem #: 3DELAs Low As $9.95
Per Plant - 3" pot
Oriental Poppy Fruit Punch
This stunning mixture boasts silky, ruffled blooms in a variety of shades including red, hot pink, orange and purple. A true knockout both in the garden and cut for bouquets. (Papaver orientalis)
More DetailsItem #: ASL9P31As Low As $13.95
Per Plant - 3" pot
Lenten Rose
Lenten Rose illuminates the shady garden with charming, unique blooms. This plant prefers moist soil and is fantastic with Hostas and Ferns. (Helleborus orientalis)
More DetailsItem #: 72PERSALE: $23.95 $11.98
Per Plant - 3" pot
Lupine Gallery
These are the world-famous multi-colored lupines everyone loves. Growing to about 18 inches tall. (Lupinus)
More DetailsItem #: 101PERSALE: $8.95 $8.06
Per Plant - 3" pot
Daylily Mix
This stunning Daylily collection includes 5 different, hybrid Daylilies that are gardener's favorites. This Daylily mix is perfect for large plantings, banks, or any spot in the garden that needs a burst of reliable color! (Hemerocallis)
More DetailsItem #: 1PERGAs Low As $19.47
Per Bag of 5
Anemone Bulbs De Caen Mix
Large, poppy-like flowers in a mix of vibrant colors bloom on low-growing plants. (Anemone coronaria De Caen)
More DetailsItem #: 13BULB25As Low As $19.95
Per Bag of 25
$0.80 / Per Bulb
Anemone blanda Bulbs Mix
Daisy-shaped flowers in jewel colors bloom atop ferny foliage on this world-famous wildflower native to Greece. (Anemone blanda)
More DetailsItem #: 30BULB25As Low As $15.95
Per Bag of 25
$0.64 / Per Bulb
Anemone Bulbs St Brigid Mix
This double-flowering Anemone mixture blooms in a rainbow of colors and brings exquisite drama to the spring garden. Anemones are also deer-resistant, making them perfect for gardens with hungry deer.
More DetailsItem #: 46BULB25As Low As $19.95
Per Bag of 25
$0.80 / Per Bulb
Oriental Lily Bulbs Mix
Create bold, fragrant color in your summer garden with this Oriental Lily Bulb Mixture. It includes Oriental Lilies of all different colors, making this mixture perfect for planting extras and creating a gorgeous, fragrant bouquet! (Lilium)
More DetailsItem #: 55LILYGAs Low As $26.95
Per Bag of 8
Asiatic Lily Bulbs Mix
Plant this gorgeous mixture for a rainbow of color in the early summer. The variety of colorful blooms is gorgeous in the garden, perfect for bouquets, and extremely easy to grow! (Lilium)
More DetailsItem #: 6LILYGAs Low As $21.56
Per Bag of 10
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- Hosta So Sweet
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- Bee Balm Grand Marshall
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- Daylily Double River Wye
- Hydrangea Forever Pink
- Peony Immaculee
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- Penstemon Husker Red
- Coreopsis Cosmic Eye
- Deer Fern
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- Clematis montana Rubens
- Astilbe Mix
- Geranium Splish Splash
- Creeping Phlox Emerald Pink
- Heliopsis Summer Sun
- Black Eyed Susan Sonora
- Sedum Autumn Charm
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- Japanese Forest Grass Aureola
- Black Eyed Susan Viette's Little Suzy
- Hibiscus Lord Baltimore
- Anemone September Charm
- Dianthus Indian Carpet
- Maiden Grass Malepartus
- Bearded Iris Batik
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris English Charm
- Bearded Iris Gypsy Romance
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Mariposa Skies
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Orange Harvest
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Mother Earth
- Lavender Jean Davis
- Lupine Gallery Pink
- Phlox Flamingo
- Creeping Phlox White Delight
- Toad Lily White Towers
- Hydrangea Penny Mac
- Hydrangea Red Sensation
- Ninebark Monlo
- Bellflower Emerald
- Geranium Karmina
- Maiden Grass Gold Bar
- Sedum Chocolate Ball
- Toad Lily Yellow Sunrise
- Toad Lily Samurai
- Viola Heartthrob
- Bellflower Dicksons Gold
- Columbine Colorado Violet and White
- Columbine Clementine Red
- Geranium Purple Pillow
- Japanese Forest Grass Nicholas
- Coral Bells Snow Angel
- Sedum Xenox
- Sedum Matrona
- Clematis Multi Blue
- Vinca minor Illumination
- Hydrangea Invincibelle
- Heather Lady in Pink
- Heather Lady in Red
- Heather Lady in White
- Weigela My Monet
- Hosta Moonbeam
- Hosta Pearl Lake
- Asiatic Lily Bulbs Chianti
- Asiatic Lily Bulbs Reinesse
- Oriental Lily Bulbs Le Reve
- Oriental Lily Bulbs Mona Lisa
- Astilbe Younique Pink
- Balloon Flower Astra Double White
- Bleeding Heart Gold Heart
- Daylily Berrylicious
- Daylily Congo Coral
- Dianthus Red
- Foxglove Dalmation Purple
- Gaillardia Gallo Bi-Color
- Hollyhock Fiesta Time
- Hardy Pampas Grass Erianthus
- Bergenia Perfect
- Sunflower Sunshine Daydream
- Caladium Bulbs Red Flash
- Wild Lily Bulbs Martagon
- Bearded Iris Batik
- Bearded Iris Edith Wolford
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris English Charm
- Bearded Iris Gypsy Romance
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Harvest of Memories
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Hemstitched
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Immortality
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Mariposa Skies
- Bearded Iris Monet's Blue
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Mother Earth
- Bearded Iris Night Ruler
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Orange Harvest
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Sugar Blues
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Spin Off
- Bearded Iris Tiger Honey
- Asiatic Lily Bulbs Monte Negro
- Asiatic Lily Bulbs New Wave
- Asiatic Lily Bulbs Peach Pixie
- Double Asiatic Lily Bulbs Aphrodite
- Oriental Lily Bulbs Little Rainbow
- Oriental Lily Bulbs Roussillon
- Oriental Lily Bulbs Space Star
- Oriental Lily Bulbs Coldplay
- Astilbe Amethyst
- Daylily Bonanza
- Hosta Mediovariegata
- Hosta Antioch
- Peony Alexander Fleming
- Hydrangea Limelight
- Hydrangea Pinky Winky
- Marginal Woodfern
- Cardinal Flower
- Maidenhair Fern
- Wild Blue Violet
- Oriental Lily Bulbs Muscadet
- Oriental Lily Bulbs Acapulco
- Double Asiatic Lily Bulbs Spring Pink
- Canna Lily Golden Lucifer
- Canna Lily Pacific Beauty
- Astilbe chinensis Mighty Pip
- Bleeding Heart Fire Island
- Butterfly Bush Flutterby Grande Blueberry Cobbler
- Bellflower Viking
- Bellflower La Bello
- Clematis Henryi
- Columbine Clementine Mix
- Columbine Double Winky Mix
- Coral Bells Vulcano
- Coreopsis Cosmic Evolution
- Daylily Black Eyed Stella
- Delphinium Cherry Blossom
- Dianthus Starburst
- Dianthus Purple Picotee
- Echinacea After Midnight
- Echinacea Virgin
- Gaillardia Jazzy Wheeler
- Gaillardia Trumpet Red
- Hosta Dream Queen
- Hosta First Frost
- Hosta June
- Hosta Lakeside Cupcake
- Bearded Iris Badlands
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Blue Suede Shoes
- Bearded Iris Parisian Dawn
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Pink Attraction
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Pure As Gold
- Lavender Ellagance Ice
- Lavender Anouk
- Lungwort Raspberry Splash
- Variegated Purple Fountain Grass Fireworks
- Masterwort Lars
- Baptisia Solar Flare PrairieBlues
- Brunnera Jack Frost
- Prunella Freelander Blue
- Veronica Atomic Violet Ray
- Peony First Arrival
- Phlox Light Pink
- Dwarf Asiatic Lily Bulbs Petit Brigitte
- Dwarf Asiatic Lily Bulbs Mount Duckling
- Dwarf Oriental Lily Bulbs Angelique
- Dwarf Oriental Lily Bulbs Showwinner
- Oriental Trumpet Lily Bulbs Robert Swanson
- Sunflower Lemon Queen
- Sunflower Capenoch Star
- Agastache Blue Fortune
- Primrose Pacific Hybrids
- Yucca Bright Edge
- Flowering Spurge Bonfire
- Daylily Open My Eyes
- Balloon Flower Astra Double Blue
- Bearded Iris Badlands
- Bearded Iris Brazilian Holiday
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Cloud Ballet
- Bearded Iris Parisian Dawn
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Pink Attraction
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Pure As Gold
- Bearded Iris Red Hawk
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Blue Suede Shoes
- Asiatic Lily Bulbs Gran Paradiso
- Oriental Trumpet Lily Bulbs Altari
- Oriental Trumpet Lily Bulbs Boogie Woogie
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- Poppy Turkenlouis
- Poppy Pinnacle
- Poppy Perry's White
- Astilbe Gloria
- Daylily Gentle Shepherd
- Daylily Hyperion
- Hosta Aureomarginata
- Phlox Blue Paradise
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- Astilbe Key West
- Astilbe Peach Blossom
- Astilbe Visions
- Hosta Wide Brim
- Peony Kansas
- Peony Rubra Plena
- Peony Rosea Plena
- Phlox Laura
- Phlox Orange Perfection
- Phlox Starfire
- Hosta Elegans
- The Classic Collection
- Deer Resistant Collection
- Candy Cane Spring Collection
- Blue and White All Season Collection
- Sunshine Collection
- Partial Shade Collection
- Fragrant Collection
- Reblooming Bearded Iris Collection
- Canna Lily Puck
- Canna Lily Bengal Tiger
- Anemone Fuchsia Pandora
- Anemone Red Pandora
- Baptisia Carolina Moonlight
- Baptisia Starlite PrairieBlues
- Echinacea Raspberry Truffle
- Hydrangea Perfection
- St John's Wort Magical Desire
- St John's Wort Magical Red Flame
- St John's Wort Magical Universe
- St John's Wort Magical Victory
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Again and Again
- Bearded Iris Blueberry Bliss
- Bearded Iris Kentucky Woman
- Bearded Iris Ominous Stranger
- Bearded Iris Rare Treat
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- Bearded Iris Sultan's Palace
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- Northern Sea Oats Grass River Mist
- Lychnis Lipstick
- Phlox Swizzle
- Weigela Merlot Rose
- Double Asiatic Lily Bulbs Strawberry Vanilla Latte
- Double Oriental Lily Bulbs Broken Heart
- Oriental Lily Bulbs Entertainer
- Trumpet Lily Bulbs African Queen
- Trumpet Lily Bulbs Golden Splendour
- Trumpet Lily Bulbs Pink Perfection
- Honeysuckle Vine Harlequin
- Lilac Tinkerbelle
- Elephant Ear Black Stem
- Butterfly Garden 12' x 6'
- Cut Flower Garden 12' x 6'
- Deer Resistant Garden 12' x 6'
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- Bearded Iris Avalon Sunset
- Bearded Iris Orange King
- Bearded Iris Cache of Gold
- Bearded Iris Delta Blues
- Bearded Iris Fires of Fiji
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- Bearded Iris Edgefield Glow
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Feed Back
- Re-blooming Bearded Iris Invitation
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- Hosta Vulcan
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In the context of the collapse of every explanation for the war in Iraq (other than the obvious strategic ones which were never expressed by the administration or discussed in the media), the looting of Iraq, the looting of this country, and the peril we find ourselves in, the outing of Joseph Wilson's wife certainly should have been a minor matter. And some Republicans, both inside and outside the administration, while fiercely attacking Wilson, have indeed tried to make light of it. The Washington Post, for instance, reports (Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, "Outside Probe of Leaks Is Favored," Oct. 2): "At the Capitol, aides to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (Tex.) distributed paper sacks labeled 'Leak Hyperventilation Bags.'" But of course neither loosing the attack dogs, nor brushing the matter off has shown the slightest sign of working, and the burgeoning scandal hasn't been eclipsed by other breaking scandals either — from intelligence failures to a secret $20 million "slush fund" the Pentagon created by padding the budget of the U.S. Special Operations Command, a scandal reported Sept. 28 by the St. Peterburg Times. ("It is unclear what the Pentagon intended to do with the $20-million, or what became of the money.") The story broke on July 6, when Joseph Wilson wrote his New York Times op-ed outing the administration on the Niger uranium story. Thanks to those senior officials, Novak then outed Wilson's wife on July 14th. Why did the administration do this? I include below the most interesting explanation I've seen because it indicates how consistent this administration's actions have been, whether in dealing with enemies abroad or at home. Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst and a founding member of VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity), writes in a piece first posted at Tompaine.com: "Was it another preemptive attack, which — like the attack on Iraq — seemed to the White House a good idea at the time? It certainly fits that pattern, inasmuch as little thought seems to have been given to the implications, consequences, and post-attack planning. . . There are, after all, hundreds of people in US intelligence and foreign service circles who know about the lies — the non-existent weapons of mass destruction, the non-existent ties between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda. Worse still from the White House's point of view, some are about to retire and escape the constraints that come of being on the inside. And, more often than not, the chicanery that took place can be exposed without divulging classified information." David Corn of the Nation magazine reading the Novak column realized that Plame's outing was a potentially criminal act and soon after wrote "A White House Smear" (July 16). ("This is not only a possible breach of national security; it is a potential violation of law. Under the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982, it is a crime for anyone who has access to classified information to disclose intentionally information identifying a covert agent.") But the story gained no traction (except at the fringes) for almost two and a half months. It's interesting to look back at Corn's piece now, not only because he had a fine eye for a story, but because almost the whole story as we now know it was basically in place months ago (as was no less true, for instance, of the fraudulent Niger uranium story, almost all the pieces of which were available well before the war). But the question perhaps shouldn't be, why wasn't the Plame story picked up, but why, undealt with, didn't it go away? And, of course, why now? Probably the first factor to consider is the individual one. Unlike most significant figures in the Democratic Party (and on endless issues, most of the mainstream media as well), when ex-ambassador Wilson was first ignored and then attacked, he didn't go silent. Quite the opposite. Obviously angered — as who wouldn't have been — he grew ever louder. For two and a half months, his voice never rested and his charges only strengthened in the face of an escalating administration smear campaign. He made himself harder to ignore, a brave act. More important certainly, in the days between the Times op-ed and the Novak column, the administration tried to saddle CIA Director George Tenet with responsibility for those sixteen little words on Niger uranium in the President's State of the Union speech and then tip him over the side of the already slightly listing ship of state. He was clearly to be the fall guy. And he fell a small way — but only onto a sword he had already carefully blunted. In a subtly crafted, Byzantine statement of "responsibility" on July 11, he implicitly pointed a finger (I won't say which one, though it's now quite obvious) at the administration). Then after the Plame outing occurred, he unsheathed a well sharpened knife and, with a request to investigate sent to the Justice Department, stuck it rather elegantly between the administration's ribs. As James Pinkerton, conservative columnist for Newsday, commented recently ("Inept CIA Chief Has White House Cornered," Sept. 30): "[N]ow Tenet, who bungled the intelligence-gathering on Iraq, is safe in his job. Why? Because if President George W. Bush fired him, it would look as if the White House were retaliating, even cover-upping. And so the CIA chief can sit in his Langley, Va., office, serene and secure, despite his incompetence, as scandal-cancer eats his masters across the Potomac River at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave." Job security. In the present market, no one should knock it. Next, we need to remember that many in the larger intelligence "community" were steaming over their treatment, especially by the Vice-president's office, as various screws were turned by administration neocons and hawks to try to get the "intelligence" they needed to justify the war they not only wanted but had already decided upon. So, as McGovern indicates, lots of knives inside the national security bureaucracy are now being unsheathed. The operative word, used in a recent Christian Science Monitor report, was undoubtedly "revenge." To take the intelligence pulse of the moment, consider, for instance, this comment by Larry Johnson, a former CIA officer, who once trained with Valerie Plame, pulled from a Julian Borger piece in the Guardian (10/2): "I'm a registered Republican and I'm sickened by this," he added. "I've spoken with four colleagues who have since left the agency who worked with her. And they are livid." Or check out a livid piece by former agent Jim Marcinkowski in the op-ed pages of the Los Angeles Times ("Outing a CIA Operative: Simply Outrageous," Oct. 2). Or for those of you who watched, consider Friday night's Nightline (10/3) in which four ex-agents (all "registered Republicans") and a CIA agent still in the field ("Jane Doe"), a voice-altered, Darth-Vader-like blotch on the screen, denounced the Bush administration for outing Plame with the sort of venom that's usually reserved for shock-jock talk radio. So — and here, I suspect, may be the true Watergate analogy — you have an intragovernmental fight that's only beginning, and such internecine battles, once they break into the open, are not only fair game for the media, but provide patriotic cover for criticism. It's usually not reporters but angry insiders who drive such scandals. Then, of course, you have the opposition party finally beginning to act somewhat oppositional. This is obviously a poll-driven phenomenon — polls being the living, breathing political evidence of who's vulnerable — and we all know where the polls have been heading in the last months. Again, the media is generally willing to move to the edge of wherever the mainstream opposition may be (another form of patriotic cover, as Mark Hertsgaard pointed out years ago in On Bended Knee, his book the Age of Reagan media). Of course, for most of the last year — a few marginalized Democrats like Kucinich, Byrd, Dean, and Waxman aside — there was no edge to move to. This, of course, adds up to the very opposite of Profiles in Courage. Now, our high-handed, unbelievably arrogant, deeply secretive, extremist administration is clearly about to be hoist on its own national security petard and there have to be a lot of people licking their chops. Add to this, the arrogance embedded in the relative openness of the act itself. (It was, after all, meant as a warning, so it wasn't supposed to be completely hidden.) There have to be lots of people — journalists, administration officials, and those they've told (and people have obviously been yakking) — who know fully well where this outing came from. Although Karl Rove may indeed have been at the other end of at least some of the calls to reporters, suspicions seem to be pointing toward Dick Cheney's office and his close aide (and fierce neocon) I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby. (See, for instance, columnist Justin Raimondo's recent piece for antiwar.com, "Cheney's Chief-of-Staff Named as Spy-gate Leaker" — and then check out, Lobe's fine recent portrait of Cheney and his associates as extremists and the true patrons of the Pentagon neocons, "Cheney's mask is slipping," Asia Times online, Oct. 1.) But none of this, of course, makes sense if you leave out Iraq. Our fundamentalist leaders made a genuine pact with the Devil (and I'm not talking about the Great Satan Saddam here). They sold their souls for a Middle East of their dreams and for control over the great global oil spigot, rolled the dice, had their moment, and now when the Devil's come to collect, they've left themselves no way out. (That's the real Iraqi "quagmire.") And so, instead of driving their foes before them, they are being driven; and, in the end, what's driving them are the acts of resistance of undoubtedly relatively small numbers of increasingly better organized Iraqis — angered urbanites, farmers who have lost kin, Baathist hardliners, embittered, discharged army veterans, Islamicist extremists (both homebred and foreign), unknown numbers of them brutes, thugs, fanatics, and criminals. Remarkably enough — and this is just the truth of the matter — they now hold the fate of the Bush administration in their hands. The Wilson affair may be minor in itself, but what's been unleashed around it isn't, and were it to disappear tomorrow, the new atmosphere would have many other things to attach itself to. It may be that this administration won't come clean on Valerie Plame. After all, it's hard to throw one of your own to the dogs when court-time, if not jail time, looms. They've already seen what happened when they tried with Tenet. On the other hand, stonewalling isn't likely to work either, nor is hanging on to the investigation for dear life. From Danny Schechter's always valuable news dissector e-bulletin, came the following on October 3: "What will the FBI find out? It is not altogether reassuring to learn that John Dion is heading the investigation. Dion is widely known in intelligence circles as one who does not feel he can go to the bathroom without first asking the Justice Department for permission. Sadly, we can expect the kind of 'full and thorough investigation' that Richard Nixon ordered then-Attorney General John Mitchell to conduct into Watergate." But I suspect it's already too late. Today, Walter Pincus and Mike Allen offered clear evidence in the Washington Post of how the damage is spreading ("Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm," Oct. 4): "The leak of a CIA operative's name has also exposed the identity of a CIA front company, potentially expanding the damage caused by the original disclosure, Bush administration officials said yesterday. The company's identity, Brewster-Jennings & Associates, became public because it appeared in Federal Election Commission records on a form filled out in 1999 by Valerie Plame, the case officer at the center of the controversy, when she contributed $1,000 to Al Gore's presidential primary campaign. "After the name of the company was broadcast yesterday, administration officials confirmed that it was a CIA front….A former diplomat who spoke on condition of anonymity said yesterday that every foreign intelligence service would run Plame's name through its databases within hours of its publication to determine if she had visited their country and to reconstruct her activities." Pincus and Allen then offer this little preview of events to come: "Wilson and his wife have hired Washington lawyer Christopher Wolf to represent them in the matter. The couple has directed him to take a preliminary look at claims they might be able to make against people they believe have impugned their character" Investigations and lawsuits, the bane of any administration's existence. But let us of course keep this scandal in perspective. As Ira Chernus wrote for the Commondreams website, posted on Oct. 3, one type of scandal we need to watch out for is "Scandal Type D: Using one scandal to distract public attention from all the others. What the White House did to Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame was unforgivable. But in the long run, is it really a worse offense than building up our military, and giving it nuclear first-strike capability in space, while ignoring the crying human needs in Iraq, in the U.S., and around the world? Will we be so voyeurstically transfixed by the "official" scandal of the season that we ignore the greater scandals, the ones that may haunt us for decades to come? That would be the greatest scandal of all." [This is excerpted from an article that first appeared on Tomdispatch.com, a weblog of the Nation Institute, which offers a steady flow of alternate sources, news, and opinion from Tom Engelhardt, long time editor in publishing and author of The End of Victory Culture and The Last Days of Publishing.]
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Prior to that she was content editor for the JaguarFuture.com project, created by Jaguar to tell the stories behind the C-X16 concept car. From 2009 - 2011 Vikki was editor of Reputation Online, a sister title to new media age at Centaur Media that presented both editorial and user-generated coverage of the digital PR landscape. During her time there she penned a weekly column for NMA on the same topic.She helped to co-found The Really Mobile Project, contributing to the site regularly during its early life - and penned a monthly column for Communicate magazine throughout 2011.She was part of the founding team of writers for BitchBuzz.com, an independent women's lifestyle network with readers spread across the US & UK. A G20Voice blogger for Oxfam at the London and Pittsburgh Summits in 2009, her work has featured in The Guardian, Mobile Industry Review, within Marketing Week and many others. Vikki has also provided freelance consultancy to the likes of Vodafone, O2, Talk Talk and Big Yellow Self Storage.In a previous life Vikki worked in PR, specialising in digital and social media for clients including Acceleration, ZYB, Skype and Vodafone.
ExactTarget launched the latest addition to its Subscriber, Fans and Followers series of reports yesterday to coincide with the UK leg of its user conference for 2011.
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Global advertising agency Publicis Groupe and mobile giant France Télécom-Orange have pledged to invest €150m in digital start-up projects across Europe.
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Blippar, the mobile augmented reality app, is being used by Waitrose for its 'School of Christmas Magic' campaign.
Ambarish Mitra, co-founder and CEO of Blippar, told us that the retailer's 'pause and blipp' concept first aired during The X Factor and Downton Abbey this past Sunday.
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Burberry has made its first attempt at 'mass customisation' by launching Burberry Bespoke, a programme that allows people to design and purchase their own, personalised version of the company's iconic trench coat.
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Adobe announced this morning that it has acquired video advertising company Auditude.
Privately-owned Auditude operates a video advertising management and analytics platform aimed at publishers and media companies.
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Last week we saw Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) lose its appeal to overturn a privacy action in the French courts by actor Olivier Martinez.
Martinez successfully sued the publishers of the Sunday Mirror in 2008 over an article that was published online about the actor's then relationship with Kylie Minogue, saying that it negatively affected his reputation in France.
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US 6996609 B2 Abstract A voice web browser system includes a telephone, an access system coupled to a TCP/IP network, a telephone system coupling the telephone to the access system, and a speech-to-text system for �reading� text that had been sent over the TCP/IP network to the telephone user. Preferably, the access system receives TCP/IP packets from web pages accessible over the TCP/IP network and parses the HTML code of the web pages into text and non-text portions, such that the text portion can be read to the telephone user. A computer implemented process for obtaining web page information over a TCP/IP network includes implementing a connection of a telephone user to an access system that is coupled to a TCP/IP network, detecting a selection of at least one navigation command by the telephone user to access a web page accessible over the TCP/IP network, and navigating over the TCP/IP network to the web page in response to the navigation command, resulting in a verbal communication of at least some information derivable from the web page to the telephone user. A method for retrieving e-mail that was sent over a TCP/IP network includes calling from a user telephone to an access computer coupled to a TCP/IP network, providing user identification to the access computer, retrieving e-mail via the access computer that was sent over the TCP/IP network and addressed to the user, and reading the e-mail to the user of the user telephone utilizing a text-to-speech system.
Claims(20) 1. A voice web browser system comprising:
a telephone;
an access system coupled to a TCP/IP network, said TCP/IP network comprising a plurality of nodes, said TCP/IP network providing access to web pages stored on computer systems coupled to said TCP/IP network, said web pages comprising HTML code that can be transmitted via TCP/IP packets to said access system over said TCP/IP network, said access system being able to receive said TCP/IP packets and to parse said HTML code into text and non-text portions;
memory coupled to said access system including computer executable instructions for:
(a) retrieving a web page via a network browser including a parser, a converter and a player;
(b) selecting at least one audio advertisement; and
(c) playing said selected at least one audio advertisement to a user of said telephone;
a telephone system coupling said telephone to said access system for interactive communication with said access system; and
a text-to-speech system associated with said access system for reading at least some of said text to a user of said telephone.
2. A voice web browser system as recited in
3. A voice web browser system as recited in
4. A voice web browser system as recited in
5. A voice web browser system as recited in
6. A voice web browser as recited in
7. A computer implemented process for obtaining web page information over a TCP/IP network comprising:
implementing a connection of a telephone user to an access system that is coupled to a TCP/IP network;
detecting a selection of at least one navigation command by said telephone user to access a web page accessible over said TCP/IP network; and
navigating over said TCP/IP network to said web page in response to said navigation command, resulting in a verbal communication of at least some information derivable from said web page to said telephone user;
selecting at least one audio advertisement; and
playing said at least one selected audio advertisement to said telephone user.
8. A computer implemented process as recited in
9. A computer implemented process as recited in
10. A computer implemented process as recited in
11. A computer implemented process as recited in
12. A computer readable media encoded with the computer implemented process of
13. A voice web browser comprising:
connection means for implementing a connection of a telephone user to an access system that is coupled to a TCP/IP network;
means for detecting a selection of at least one navigation command by said telephone user to access a web page accessible over said TCP/IP network;
means for navigating over said TCP/IP network to said web page in response to said navigation command, resulting in a verbal communication of at least some information derivable from said web page to said telephone user;
means for selecting at least one advertisement; and
means for playing said at least one selected advertisement.
14. A voice web browser as recited in
15. A voice web browser as recited in
16. A voice web browser as recited in
17. A method for retrieving e-mail that was sent over a TCP/IP network comprising:
calling by a user from a user telephone to an access computer coupled to a TCP/IP network;
providing user identification by said user to said access computer;
playing an audio advertisement to said user over said user telephone under the control of said access computer;
receiving an indication at said access computer that said user would like to have e-mail that was transmitted over said TCP/IP network read via a text-to-speech process and;
reading said e-mail as retrieved by said access computer to said user utiliziing a text-to-speech system.
18. A method for retrieving e-mail as recited in
19. A computer readable media encoded with software instructions and data to implement the method of
20. A system for retrieving e-mail that was sent over a TCP/IP network comprising:
an access computer means coupled to a TCP/IP network, said access computer means being accessible by a user via a user telephone;
means for providing user identification to said access computer means;
means for retrieving e-mail via said access computer means that was sent over said TCP/IP network and addressed to said user;
means for selecting at least one advertisement;
means for playing said at least one selected advertisement; and
means for reading said e-mail to said user of said user telephone.
Description This application claims the benefit of U.S. provisional patent application No. 60/016,680 filed May 1, 1996, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference, and U.S. provisional patent application No.60/016,873 filed May 6, 1996, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. This application is related to U.S. patent application No. 08/847,816, filed concurrently with this application, and since abandoned, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference. This invention relates generally to computer networks and, more particularly to wide area networks such as the Internet. The origins of the Internet date back several decades to a U.S. government sponsored military/educational/business wide area network (WAN) that was designed to remain operational even in the event of the catastrophe, e.g. a major earthquake or a nuclear war. To accomplish this goal, robust protocols and systems were developed which allowed a geographically distributed collection of computer systems to be connected as a WAN such that the loss of a particular computer, or group of computers, would not preclude the continued communication among the remaining computers. While the use of the Internet has been prevalent for many years now, its use has been limited by the arcane and difficult commands required to access the various computers on the network. To address this problem, a protocol known as the �World Wide Web� or �WWW� was developed to provide an easier and more user-friendly interface for the Internet. With the World Wide Web an entity having a domain name creates a �web page� which provides information and, to a limited degree, some interaction with the entity's �web site.� A computer user can �browse�, i.e. navigate around, the WWW by utilizing a suitable web browser and an Internet service provider. For example, UUNET, America Online, and Global Village all provide Internet access. Currently, the most popular web browser, known as the Netscape� Navigator� is made by Netscape Corporation of Mountain View, Calif. The web browser allows a user to specify or search for a web page on the WWW, and then retrieves and displays the home page of the desired web page on the user's computer screen. While the Internet, in general, and the World Wide Web, in particular, are extremely popular, the computer apparatus typically used to access the services is quite expensive. For example, a contemporary Pentium� or Macintosh� computer system capable of running state-of-the-art web browsers costs many thousands of dollars. There are many potential users of the World Wide Web and other Internet services who simply do not wish to pay that much for access to those services. To partially address the cost problem, at least one company has announced a �Web Appliance� which permits web browsing when coupled to either a television receiver or to a computer monitor. More particularly, Japan Computer Corporation, USA (JCC) announced in a news release entitled �JCC Announces �Web Toaster� and �Web Copier� Home/Office Universal Internet Access Devices� on Feb. 20, 1996 that the iBOX Communicator series would be demonstrated at the Email World, Web World, and Internet Expo shows at the San Jose Convention Center on Feb. 20-21, 1996. However, both the Web Toaster and the Web Copier still cost many hundreds of dollars, and must be used with other expensive equipment such as a television receiver or video monitor. Therefore, a user must still invest in hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars worth of hardware and software in order to access the World Wide Web and other Internet services when using a Web Appliance. In a news release dated Mar. 4, 1996, downloaded from the WWW on May 1, 1996, NetPhonic Communications, Inc. announced �Web-On-Call Voice Browser� which reportedly will be able to access certain Web documents with a touch-tone telephone, cellular telephone, or facsimile machine. The browser reportedly uses text-to-speech technology that can play back Web documents over the telephone. It is also said to �support documents retrieved via fax, e-mail and postal mail service.� The Web-On-Call Voice Browser was said to be available in �mid-1996.� The news release reported that �NetPhonic Communications will be demonstrating Web-On-Call Voice Browser in Booth #2027 at Computer Telephony Expo 96 at the LA Convention Center in Los Angeles Mar. 12-14, 1996.� A reading of the NetPhonic materials, downloaded from the WWW, reveals a database management system that runs on a web server. More specifically, the software
As is evident from the foregoing, the NetPhonic Web-On-Call Voice Browser therefore allows a telephone user to call-in to a web site and to access data stored in the �Unified Information Store�, where that information is also available through the WWW. Therefore, the NetPhonic software would not appear to be a true web browser, in that it does not appear to permit a telephone user to access any web page on the WWW. The NetPhonic software is, in essence, a web server manager, in that it creates a database dedicated to a particular web server and allows telephone and other access to that web server's database. Furthermore, the NetPhonic software does not permit telephone users to create their own web pages, or perform certain other common Internet functions. In consequence, heretofore it was necessary for a user to purchase, rent, lease or borrow expensive computer equipment, and learn how to use it properly, in order to access and make use of the many capabilities of the Internet. The resultant cost and technical sophistication barriers excluded millions of users from accessing the WWW and other Internet features such as electronic mail (e-mail), electronic publishing, electronic news services, etc. The present invention uses an ordinary touch-tone telephone to provide access to many of the features of the Internet, including e-mail, the ability to �cruise� the World Wide Web, and the ability to create and edit web pages. Since virtually everyone has access to a telephone (which can cost as little as $15-$20 to purchase), the many resources of the Internet are much more universally accessible due to of the methods, apparatus and systems of the present invention. Briefly, the invention includes an Internet Interface Computer coupled to one or more telephone lines, and an Internet Server coupling the Internet Interface Computer to an Internet Service Provider. Alternatively, the Internet Interface Computer and the Internet Server can be provided as a single computer system. Still more alternatively, the Internet Interface Computer, Internet Server, and Internet Service Provider can be provided as a single computer system. The incoming telephone lines can be normal toll telephone lines, 1-800-telephone lines, 1-900-telephone lines, 1-976-telephone lines, or any other type of analog or digital telephone line supported by the local telephone system. The Internet Interface Computer serves as an interface between audio (e.g. voice and DTMF) communication with a telephone and digital communication with an Internet Server. In particular, the Internet Interface Computer provides text-to-speech capabilities which allows text derived from TCP/IP packets that were received via the Internet to be �read� to a telephone user. The Internet Interface Computer is also responsive to DTMF tones of the telephone when a user of the telephone presses telephone buttons. One embodiment of the Internet Interface Computer also provides speech recognition to convert spoken commands of the telephone user to a format that can be understood by the Internet Interface Computer. Preferably, the Internet Interface Computer waits in an �event loop� for a telephone user to �call-in� to the service. Once a call has been detected, the Internet Interface Computer �picks-up� the phone line and �reads� a series of options to the telephone user. By �read�, �speak�, and the like it is meant herein that the computer uses text-to-speech software to convert machine-readable text stored in its memory to a spoken (audio) output. The Internet Interface Computer then enters an event loop waiting for a response from the telephone user. This response can take the form of a dual-tone, multi-frequency (�DTMF�) signal made by pressing a key on the touch-tone pad of telephone, or can be the spoken command of the telephone user. Such commands include creating a World Wide Web (�WWW�) page, editing a WWW page, accessing a WWW page, to �cruising� or �browsing� the Internet, or to sending electronic mail (�e-mail�) to a designated address on the Internet. The Internet Interface Computer is capable of handling multiple telephone input lines simultaneously, thereby providing simultaneous access to the Internet by a number of telephone users. By using the apparatus and processes of the present invention, a telephone user has audio access to the World Wide Web, Internet e-mail, and other Internet services. For example, a telephone user can send voice mail and e-mail to other Internet users, can receive voice mail and e-mail from other Internet users, can create an �audio� web page which can be accessed by anyone having a web browser, can �cruise� or �browse� on the World Wide Web by having the Internet Interface Computer convert the text of web pages to a synthesized reading of the text, can have pre-arranged telephone conversations with other Internet users, etc. The apparatus of the present invention can be accessed from any type of telephone, including home telephones, business telephones, pay telephones, cellular telephones, air telephones, marine telephones, etc. This provides inexpensive and nearly universal access to the Internet and to the World Wide Web. In one preferred embodiment of the present invention, a caller's telephone number is used as an identification of the identity of that caller. This permits the apparatus of the present invention to automatically recognize a user from the �caller-ID� provided by many telephone systems. Alternatively, a user can enter their telephone number to provide a caller-ID. If multiple users use the same telephone number, extensions can be provided to identify a particular individual. In any case, a password (�keyword�) is preferably used to confirm the identity of the user. The precise implementations of the systems, methods, and apparatus of the present invention are dependent upon the business model that is chosen. For example, if a centralized 1-900 number is used as the entry to the Internet Interface Computer, allowing country-wide toll-plus-service-charge access to the computer, users across the country are automatically billed by their local telephone company for access to the service. If 1-976 numbers (which are similar to 1-900 number but which are regional in nature) are used, then local �feeder servers� are preferably used to access a database of a �master server.� If regular toll-lines are used (where the telephone user is charged only for the telephone tolls), the use of �feeder servers� and a �master server� is again preferable. With regular toll-lines, the present invention preferably takes a two-tier model, where a first-tier of service allows Internet browsing and is supported by the sale of audio commercials �narrowcast� (�read�) to the telephone user, and where a second-tier of service that allows for the creation of web pages, the use of voice-mail and e-mail, and is supported by monthly telephone user payments. Major advantages of the present invention therefore include nearly universal access to the Internet and World Wide Web at a relatively low cost. For example, virtually every person can, by using a telephone, add their own web page to the World Wide Web. Furthermore, anyone with a telephone will be able to receive Internet e-mail. In addition, users of the system will be able to communicate verbally with other users at, potentially, a fraction of the cost of normal telephone charges. These and other advantages of the present invention will become apparent upon reading the following detailed descriptions and studying the various figures of the drawings. In As noted, the Internet is one form of a wide area network (WAN). When accessing the Internet via the World Wide Web (WWW) protocol, data is sent in the form of TCP/IP packets. The Internet is therefore one instance of a TCP/IP network including a number of nodes, as described previously. Computer systems coupled to, thereby becoming part of, the TCP/IP network �host� web pages comprising HTML code that can be transmitted via TCP/IP packets over the TCP/IP network. Private Intranets (i.e. private networks utilizing TCP/IP protocols) are other instances of TCP/IP networks. A preferred embodiment of the present invention operates in conjunction with TCP/IP networks, as described. The telephone 12 can be an ordinary touch-tone telephone. Alternatively, the telephone can be any electronic device emulating the functionality of a telephone, such as a personal computer. In addition, other forms of telephones, including rotary dial telephones, direct-connect (i.e. �dial-less�) telephones, etc. can be used. The telephone 12 is connected to the Telephone-to-Internet access system 16 by a telephone system 14. The telephone system 14 is illustrated schematically as a land-line system having telephone wires 20 supported by telephone poles 22 and directed by one or more switch offices 24. Of course, this is a highly stylized representation of a telephone system 14 which typically also includes multi-level switching stations, relays, microwave links, fiber optic links, satellite communications, underground wire systems, etc. It is therefore intended that this representation of a telephone system 14 represents a telephone such as it is typically provided by public and private utilities. A Telephone-to-Internet access system 16 of the present invention includes an Internet Interface Computer 26 and an Internet Server 28. It should be noted that the functionality of the Internet Interface Computer 26 and Internet Server 28 can be provided on two or more stand-alone computer systems, or may be integrated on a single computer system. For example, the Internet Interface Computer 26 can be a personal computer (PC) such as an Intel Corporation Pentium�-based computer system, while the Internet Server 28 can be a UNIX�-based system available from such companies as Silicon Graphics, Inc., Sun Microsystems, Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, etc. Alternatively, a single, powerful computer system running, for example, Microsoft Windows NT can provide the functionality of both the Internet Interface Computer 26 and the Internet Server 28. For the purpose of discussion herein, it will be assumed that the Internet Interface Computer 26 is preferably a Pentium-class personal computer system operating under the Windows 95 or Windows NT operating systems, or a Power-PC Macintosh computer. The Internet Server 28 will be assumed to be preferably a UNIX-based system running a commercially-available Internet and World Wide Web Server software package on, preferably, a Silicon Graphics UNIX workstation. The Internet Interface Computer 26 is preferably coupled to the Internet Server 28 by an Ethernet� 3connection 30. As noted in The Internet 18 is shown in a schematic form to have a number of �nodes� 32, comprising computer systems such as routers, switches, etc. Internet Server 28 is coupled to Internet Service Provider node 32 a to provide access to the rest of the Internet 18. It should be noted that the functionality of the Internet Service Provider node 32 a can be integrated with the Internet Server 28 and/or the Internet Interface Computer 26. In general, there is a hierarchy of Internet Service Providers (or �hosts�) commercially available depending upon the bandwidth of communication desired between the System 16 and the Internet 18. For example, if a single �b� channel or a double �b� channel of an ISDN telephone line is used as the connection 34 between the Internet Server 28 and the Internet Service Provider node 32 a, a relatively low-order Internet Service Provider node 32 a can be used. A single ISDN �b� channel carries a theoretical 64 kilobits of information per second (effectively about 56 kilobits/second), and a dual �b� channel ISDN line carries a theoretical 128 kilobits/second (effectively about 112 kilobits/second). Alternatively, if a Tl line was used as the connection 34, a theoretical 1.5 megabits of information per second can be carried and a higher-order Internet Service Provider node can be used. Such connections 34 between an Internet Server 28 and an Internet Service Provider node 32 a are commercially available and are typically handled by the Internet Service Provider. In The CPU 36 is preferably a Pentium-class microprocessor, as mentioned before. Typically, the CPU 36 is combined with a commercially available �chip set � to control the buses 38 and 39, the memories 40 and 42, etc. as it is well-known to those skilled in the art. The RAM 40 serves as temporary or �scratch pad � memory, and ROM 42 includes the basic input/output system (BIOS) and other �firmware� for the computer system 26. A variety of I/O devices are coupled to the CPU 36 by the I/O bus 39. For example, disk storage 44 is preferably coupled to the I/O bus 39 to provide a non-volatile read/write memory storage for the computer system 26. Disk storage 44 can be a hard disk drive, a floppy disk drive having removable floppy disks, or the like. Also coupled to the I/O 39 are a number of telephone line interfaces 46 which are coupled telephone lines 20. In this instance, there are N telephone interfaces 46 to couple to N telephone lines 20. Also, coupled to the I/O bus 39 is an Ethernet interface 48 which is coupled by an Ethernet link 30 to the Internet Server 28. As mentioned previously, computer systems 26 are commercially available and their operation is well-known to those skilled in the art. Likewise, telephone interfaces 46 are commercially available, as are Ethernet interfaces 48. Therefore, the construction and use of a computer system 26, in accordance with the block diagram of In In The step 58 can determine if there is a response in several different ways. A preferred method for detecting a response is to detect a dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signal sent by the telephone 12 when the user presses one or more of the touch-tone keys of the telephone keypad. For example, pressing the �1� key will produce a first DTMF tone, and pressing the �8�key will produce another DTMF tone. In this way, the telephone user can respond in step 56 to a �menu� of options provided by the process 50. Alternatively, the response can be spoken by the telephone user. This requires voice recognition technology, which is quite effective if the vocabulary of the voice recognizer is small. For example, a voice recognition system which recognizes the numbers 0 -9, yes, no, and perhaps a few dozen other words is relatively inexpensive and tends to be quite accurate. For voice recognition systems with large vocabularies, the accuracy level tends to drop and the cost tends to increase. However, the costs of voice recognition systems are continuously decreasing and the capabilities of such systems are continuously increasing, which makes the voice recognition option increasingly attractive. Therefore, a preferred embodiment of the present invention utilizes voice inputs from the user of the telephone 12 to enter information and commands to the Internet Interface Computer 26. If step 58 detects a response, process 50 branches appropriately. For example, if the response is �Create WWW Page�, process control branches to a step 60 where a WWW page is created and then to a step 62 where the WWW page is edited. Next, a decision step 64 determines whether the user is done and, if so, process control branches to step 54 to await another user call-in. If the telephone user is not done, step 64 branches to a step 56 where the options are again provided to the user. If the response detected by step 58 is �Access WWW Page� or �Cruise� (�Browse�) the Internet, there is an appropriate branch to an Internet Browser (�WWW browser�) 66. More particularly, if the response is �Access WWW Page�, the user enters their own WWW home page in a step 68. When the user leaves their home page, process control is returned to step 64. Alternatively, if the response detected by step 58 is �Cruise the Internet�, a service provider WWW home page (for example) is accessed in a step 70. When the user leaves the service provider WWW home page, process control is returned to step 64. If the response detected by step 58 is �send e-mail�, a step 72 sends the e-mail and process control is turned over to step 64. Finally, if the response is �receive e-mail�, a step 73 verifies the identity of the telephone user, and either plays a voice mail message to the telephone user or �read� an e-mail message to the telephone user, preferably utilizing text-to-speech technology. The display/speak option step 56, and steps 60, 62, 66, and 68-73 will be discussed in greater detail subsequently. It is therefore clear from the forgoing, that a computer implemented process of the present invention first implements the connection of a telephone user to an access system that is coupled to a TCP/IP network. As explained previously, this �implementing a connection� can involve the telephone user calling in to the access system via the telephone system or by some other communication channel. However, the access system can also initiate the call to the telephone user. Next, there is typically some form of verbal communication with the telephone user in the form of a greeting or the like, although such verbal communication is optional. The access system then detect the selection of one or more navigation commands by the telephone user via DTMF signals, voice command, etc., in order to access a desired web page over the TCP/IP network. The access system then navigates over the TCP/IP network to the web page, and then makes a verbal communication of at least some of the information derivable from the web page to the telephone user. The verbal communication can be accomplished by �playing� a recorded verbal communication, or by parsing text from non-text portions of the HTML of the web page, and �reading� some or all of the text portions of the web page to the telephone user using a suitable text-to-speech system. Player systems for recorded verbal communication and text-to-speech systems are commercially available.
Therefore, as will be appreciated from the illustration of To receive �mail�, button 6 can be pressed on the user's telephone. The access system then retrieved voice mail or e-mail that was designated for that user. In the case of voice mail, the message is simply played to the telephone user. In the case of e-mail, the message can be �read� to the telephone user using a text-to-speech system. It is preferably that both a user ID and a password be required for access to mail, to ensure the security of that mail. In The present invention also includes a specialized keyboard that emulates the DTMF coding described above. The keyboard is either coupled to the telephone line, or is acoustically coupled to the hand-set of the telephone, as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art. Pressing a key of the keyboard results in the audio encoding of that key in DTMF tones that is transmitted over the telephone line. For example, pressing the �B� key on the keyboard produces the same pattern of DTMF tones as described above, namely, the tone associated with the �2� key of the telephone will be made twice, followed by the tone associated with the �*� key of the telephone. These tones can be produced quite rapidly, resulting in little or no delay on the part of the typist. In this way, each of the keys of the keyboard can be encoded in DTMF tones for receipt by the Internet Interface Computer of the present invention. By providing a keyboard that communicates with DTMF tones, expensive modems and keyboard processors can be eliminated. Using the name and the first password as entered by, for example, one of the above methods, the process creates a World Wide Web (WWW) �home page� written in HTML and stores it on the Internet Server 28. There are many commercially available tools for creating WWW pages. The created home page is preferably linked to a master home page or �domain home page� for the service, e.g. the �SpiffyTalk� home page in this example. This is because second level domain names such as �spiffytalk.com� need to be registered on the Internet before they can be used. The first level domain name is �com�, and other first level domain names are, for example, �gov�, �edu�, �net� for government, educational, and network entities, respectively. However, this is anticipated to be a commercial service, so a first level domain name of �com� is considered appropriate. However, �users� within a domain, such as the hypothetical 37 Bob� can have a �home page� as a user of the domain that is subsidiary to the domain home page. For example, Bob can have the home page �http://www.spiffytalk.com/�bob/� which does not have to be registered on the Internet and can be maintained by the Internet Server 28 itself. Therefore, a WWW page can be created instantly by a telephone user without having to register a name on the Internet using the system of the present invention. The process is then completed as indicated at 82. In The step 80 of The edit step 90 of The home page 92 includes four pre-defined hyperlinks 98, 100, 102, and 104. The hyperlink 98 is �About Moo-Cow,� the hyperlink 100 is �Moo-Cow Private (Requires Password),� hyperlink 102 is �Moo-Cow Communication,� and hyperlink 104 is �Moo-Cow Miscellaneous.� The hyperlink 98 is linked to a web page that can be created and modified by the telephone user which explains the business of the company, or has a biography of an individual for individual users. The hyperlink 100 is linked to a web page including private information and functions that requires a password (i.e. a password #2) for entry. Hyperlink 102 is linked to a communications web page for moo-cow, where e-mail and voice mail can be sent and received, and where the telephone user can have a conversation with another telephone user over the Internet. This is accomplished by one telephone user or another �posting� themselves onto the communications web page, and the other user selecting the posted user for two-way telephone conferences over the Internet. Software for Internet telephony using personal computers is commercially available. Finally, hyperlink 104 links to a web page for miscellaneous and user-defined uses. It should also be noted that the Internet and WWW protocols also support sound per se. Therefore, instead of entering text into a web page, which might have to be subsequently converted to sound with a text-to-speech engine, voices and other sounds can be directly entered into the web page. In this way, the recorded voices and other sounds can be �played back� from the web page, either into a telephone or into any computer that has a web browser capable of supporting sound outputs. It should be noted that the process of the present invention creates �Voice-Web� pages, where a user needs only use a telephone to create and edit a personal web page. These Voice-Web pages can be accessed by any web browser on a personal computer coupled to the Internet. If a personal computer using, for example, Netscape Navigator opens a Voice-Web page, the visual image (with sounds, if any) can appear on the screen of the personal computer, and the Voice-Web page can be operated the same way as any other web page on the WWW. With reference to both With respect to step, the step 108 of Therefore, process 108 will be described in terms of commercially-available Netscape Navigator software that provides an interface to the Internet via the Internet server 28 and a �plug-in� of the present invention which expands and enhances the capabilities of the Netscape software. It should be noted that the entire process 108 preferably takes place within the Internet Interface Computer 26, i.e. Netscape and the plug-in are preferably running on the computer 26. The operation and functionality of Netscape software is well-known to those skilled in the art. Also well-known is how to create plug-ins for the Netscape software. As noted previously, the step 73 allows a telephone user to retrieve voice mail and/or e-mail. It will be appreciated that, as a first step, the step 73 will preferably verify the identity of a telephone user (typically using an account and keyword) to ensure that the telephone user should be allowed to access the mail. Then, if the mail is voice mail it is simply �played� to the telephone user, preferably utilizing a menu of (DTMF) commands implemented with the telephone keypad, as will be appreciated by those skilled in the art. If the mail is e-mail, it is �read� to the telephone user utilizing a text-to-speech system, and again preferably utilizing a menu of commands implemented with the telephone keypad. Therefore, the computer implemented e-mail retrieval method includes: calling from a user telephone to an access computer coupled to a TCP/IP network; providing user identification to said access computer; retrieving e-mail via said access computer that was sent over said TCP/IP network and addressed to said user; and reading said e-mail to said user of said user telephone utilizing a text-to-speech system. Preferably the method further includes providing at least one command to the access computer via a DTMF signal developed by the user telephone. In Therefore, process 108 will be described in terms of commercially-available Netscape Navigator software 132 that provides an interface to the Internet 18 via the Internet server 28 and a �Plug-in� 134 of the present invention which expands and enhances the capabilities of the Netscape software 132. It should be noted that the entire process 108 preferably takes place within the Internet Interface Computer 26, i.e. Netscape 132 and the plug-in 134 are preferably running on the computer 26. Also provided by a combination of hardware and software functionality on the Internet Interface Computer 26 is a voice recognition interface 136, DTMF decoding interface 138, and audio output interface 140, all of which provide interfaces between the telephone 12 and the plug-in 134, and all of which are readily commercially available. The operation and functionality of Netscape software 132 is well-known to those skilled in the art. Also well-known is how to create plug-ins for the Netscape software. The plug-in 134 of the present invention receives a hypertext mark-up language (HTML) file 142 from Netscape 132 as part of the normal functioning of Netscape 132. A parser 144 parses the HTML file into an intermediate file 146 which is input into a converter 148. The converter uses a text-to-speech engine 150 to convert text from the intermediate file into sound, i.e. the converter 148 passes text as indicated at 152 to the text-to-speech engine 150 and receives in return, corresponding sound as indicated at 154. As noted previously, text-to-speech engines are commercially available. The converter 148 then creates a �QuickTime Movie File� 146 which, as will be explained in greater detail subsequently, provides a convenient way for linking an audio track to hypertext links. It should be noted here that the QuickTime Movie File is an example of an audiovisual and linked hypertext engine, and that there are other commercially available engines to perform a similar function. The QuickTime Movie File 156 is then input into a player 158 which can provide audio (i.e. voice and other audio output) to the user of telephone 12 via the audio interface 140. Also, the player 158 responds to DTMF tones created by the telephone 12 and detected by the DTMF interface 138 of computer 26, and may also be responsive to the spoken word of the user into the telephone 12 via voice recognition interface 136 of the computer 26. The player 158 sends appropriate commands to Netscape 132 as indicated by arrow 160. In use, the Netscape 132 is used to make a connection to the Internet 18 via the Internet Server 28. When an HTML file is received by the Netscape 132 over the Internet, it is passed to the plug-in 134 as HTML file 142, where it is parsed by parser 144 into the intermediate file 146. The converter 148 converts text to speech and stores it in a convenient format such as a QuickTime Movie File 158. The player 158 then plays the converted HTML file as a spoken message to a user of a telephone 12 via audio interface 140. Concurrently, the player 158 is responsive to inputs and commands from the user of telephone 12 via DTMF interface 138 and/or voice recognition interface 136. If a valid command or input is received by the player 158, the player 158 will put the command or input in a proper format and send it to Netscape 132. Netscape 132 will then act upon the commands and input accordingly. In The parsing process 144 will be explained by way of example with The web page 162 includes first text 164, hyperlinks 166, 168, 170, and 172, a graphic 174, and additional text 176. In the present preferred embodiment, the system does not recognize graphics, photographs, and other types of non-text objects, such as the graphic 174. However, in an alternate embodiment of the present invention, the system can recognize at least types of non-objects. For example, the system can recognize a non-text object as a �graphic,� a �photograph,� a �graph,� a �Sava Applet,� etc. and provide a text-like description in its parsing of that non-text object. An even more sophisticated embodiment of the present invention can provide Neural Network and other techniques to make an identification of the non-text object such as by providing the text string �there is a graphical representation of a cow.� In Next, in a step 268, it is determined whether the caller-ID is recognized. This is determined, for example, by looking up the caller-ID in a database accessed by the Internet Interface Computer 26. Preferably, this database is stored, for example, in disk storage 44 of computer 26. By �recognize� it is meant herein that there is record associated with that caller-ID in the database. Other information in the record can include the passwords, name, address, billing information, etc. of the user. If the caller-ID is not recognized by step 268, a step 270 is initiated where the options are displayed and/or spoken to the user. The process is then completed at 272, and step 58 of If the caller-ID is recognized by step 268, it is first determined if there is an extension associated with the caller-ID. If so, a greeting can be provided in step 278. For example, if extension �33� of the telephone number �1-415-555-1234� belongs to �Bob Smith�, the greeting in step 278 can greet Bob Smith with the greeting �Good morning Bob. Good to hear from you! It has been 2 days since your last visit.� If there is no extension as determined by step 274, or after the greeting of 278, a step 276 prompts for and then detects the password of the user. A suitable prompt is �Please Enter Your Password To Enter Your World Wide Web Home Page.� If the correct password is not detected, process control is turned over to step 270. If the proper password is determined, the user's WWW page is entered in step 68 (see FIG. 3). As noted previously, a preferred business model sells advertising time on the voice browser so that �free� browser service can be provided to telephone users. To accomplish the interleaving of voice advertising with the browsing feature of the present invention, a process 280 (see As seen in It should be noted that the speed of downloading will be heavily dependent upon the operating characteristics of the web server hosting the desired web page, the current �traffic� load on the Internet, the number of nodes on the Internet over which the TCP/IP packets of the web page must traverse, etc. Therefore, the amount of time that the web page takes to download can vary depending on the time of day (e.g. prime time versus non-prime time), the size of the HTML file representing the web page, the transmission characteristics between the web server and the download computer, and a number of other Internet related factors. After step 286 predicts the download time of the page, i.e. predicts an �advertising timeslot�, the download is initiated in step 288. A step 290 then selects one or more advertisements that fits the advertising time slot and begins playing those one or more advertisements. For example, the Internet interface computer 26 preferably stores a number of voice advertisements of various lengths, e.g. 5 second, 10 second, 15 second, 20 second, etc. If it is determined in step 286 that it will take 30 seconds to download the WWW page, two 15 second advertisements, or a 20 second and a 10 second advertisement or three 10 second advertisements, or six 5 second advertisements can be played during the download time. Preferably, the selected advertisements are played in their entirety, although in an alternative embodiment of the present invention, the advertisement are �cut-off� once the web page is fully downloaded. However, as noted in Once the advertisements have been played, a step 294 determines if the download of the web page is complete. If not, an optional step 296 can play a �filler� such as music, more advertisements, an audio reminder such as �one moment please, downloading�, etc. Once the download is completed as detected by step 294, the process 280 is completed at 298. In The arrangement of system 300 reduces toll-charges for users of the telephones 308. Absent use of the feeder servers 302 of system 300, a telephone caller from a telephone 308 would call directly to the master server 304, resulting in possibly large toll-charges (�telephone charges�). The system 300 is therefore well adapted for business models where it is desirable to minimize the telephone charges incurred by the user. The system 300 is therefore well adapted for the business model where free Internet access is provided (i.e. the �advertising� model) and also for local 1-976 models where feeder servers must be located within each �976� operating area or region. On the other hand, a 1-800 model or a 1-900 dial-in business model does not need to rely on feeder servers 302 (although they could still be used), since the �800� and �900 � number permit country-wide access to the master server 304. The master server 304 is the �host� or �home� of a master home page 310 of the service. For example, the �SpiffyTalk� home page 310 can be provided on the master server 304. In addition, a database 312 is connected to the master server 304 to store such things as a database of caller-IDs, URLs, customer information, etc. If caller-ID information is available, step 320 turns over process control to step 324 which causes a �jump38 to the SpiffyTalk caller-ID page. By �jump� it is meant herein that the proper URL is given to the Netscape browser 132 of If the user is calling in from a telephone, the password 336 is provided by pressing the appropriate numeric keys on the telephone to enter the password 336, and then pressing the �#� key on the telephone. If, however, the page 334 is accessed by a computer coupled to the Internet, the page 334 is displayed on the computer screen and the password 336 can be entered with the keyboard of the computer. The user of a computer coupled to the Internet can press the number (�#�) key 338 or the star (�*�) key 340 by using a pointing mechanism, such as a mouse. With reference to In If step 190 determines that user displayable text is not present, or after the completion of step 194, a decision step 196 determines whether there is a hyperlink. If yes, a step 198 coverts the text portion to speech sound, the sound is written to a quick time file in a step 200, and the URL is written to the QuickTime Movie File in a step 202. If step 196 determines that there is not a hyperlink, or after the completion in step 202, a decision step 204 determines whether an end of file (EOF) has been found in the intermediate file 146. If not, process control is returned to step 186. If an EOF has been found, the process is completed as indicated at 206. In In In While this invention has been described in terms of several preferred embodiments, there are alterations, permutations, and equivalents which fall within the scope of this invention. It should also be noted that there are may alternative ways of implementing both the process and apparatus of the present invention. However, such modifications will become readily apparent to those skilled in the art after studying preceding descriptions and studying the drawings. It is therefore intended that the following appended claims be interpreted as encompassing all such alterations, permutations, and equivalents as fall within the true spirit and scope of the present invention. Patent Citations
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Next Generation winner bests councilmembers for Dem convention seat
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Published on March 8, 2012, 5:45am | Comments
An out gay Asian-Pacific Islander-American brought together a coalition of voters, boosted by support from the LGBT community and labor, to beat out sitting Councilmembers Marion Barry (D-Ward 8) and Jack Evans (D-Ward 2) as the top vote-getter in the race to become one of 15 delegates who will represent the District at the 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C., in early September.
According to certified results released March 7, Gregory Cendana, the executive director of the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO, took 187 votes to become one of four male delegates representing the District's Voting District 1, consisting of Wards 1, 2, 6 and 8; compared to Barry's 138. Evans, who ran with Barry and four others on the ''DC for Obama 2012'' slate, won 134 votes.
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Coming in fourth place was Jeffrey Richardson, former president of the Gertrude Stein Democratic Club and current head of the Mayor's Office of GLBT Affairs, with 108 votes.
''This campaign was run on the principle of uniting all groups within D.C.,'' Cendana told Metro Weekly after the unofficial vote totals were released. ''This was really about the grassroots, being able to prove that organizing works.''
Cendana, 25, one of four winners of the 2011 Metro Weekly Next Generation Award, said his win sent a clear message to the District's political establishment.
''We appreciate the work they've done in the past, and their history with the District,'' Cendana said of politicians like Barry, first elected to office in 1972 as a member of the school board, and Evans, a councilmember since 1991. ''But it's important to bring in new people and build broader coalitions in order to maximize the opportunities and potential that the District has.''
Cendana, who describes himself as a ''proud Filipino,'' said he owes his election to the labor community and the volunteers and donors who helped run his campaign. He also said that as a representative of the Asian-Pacific Islander community, he hopes to push the Democratic Party to establish stronger relationships with that community and be more responsive to the community's concerns.
''The 2010 census shows that Asian-Pacific Islanders are one of the fastest-growing communities,'' Cendana said. ''We need to be able to engage them and work, in coalition with other groups, to build a collective agenda.''
Asked whether the official Democratic Party platform should include an endorsement of marriage equality, Cendana was more measured, saying he saw many opportunities to use the party platform to discuss issues of LGBT equality. He also said it was the responsibility of delegates, particularly LGBT delegates, to emphasize the importance of LGBT rights.
''I feel this conversation around marriage equality is inevitable,'' Cendana said. ''Folks can have it now – or they will have it later.''
District 1 voters also elected four female delegates, including one who will serve as the District's ''alternate'' 15th delegate. According to the certified results, Susan Meehan won 124 votes, with current Stein Club President Lateefah Williams coming in second with 115 votes, and Sheila Bunn, another member of Barry and Evans's slate, coming in third with 109 votes. Denise Lopez, in fourth with 103 votes, will serve as the District's alternate delegate.
Taken together, the victories of Cendana, Richardson and Williams mean that 20 percent of the District's delegates will be LGBT people of color. Five other members of the LGBT community, including David Meadows, another former Stein Club president and staffer for Councilmember Michael A. Brown (I-At Large) and Alexander Padro, an ANC 2C commissioner and the executive director of Shaw Main Streets, also ran for the District 1 slots.
In Voting District 2, consisting of Wards 3, 4, 5 and 7, no known members of the LGBT community were among the seven delegates – three males and four females – elected to the convention. The LGBT person with the largest number of votes in that race, former Stein Club treasurer Alexandra Beninda, received 82 votes.


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- Publisher: Activision
- Genre: Action Platformer 3D
- Release Date: May 24, 2005
- ESRB: Everyone 10+
Defeating leader Foosa
When you are facing the leader Foosa at the very end when you are on a platform with spikes around you, he will first make the back catch on fire then start chasing you. He will get tired and give you a chance to hit him. After that, he will blow green air at you. Keep jumping. He will then go to the other side of the platform and start to give the vultures a signal to attack. Keep roaring at them. This process will repeat until the leader Foosa's life meter goes out. Sometimes the penguins will drop mangos.
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