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10 March 2009 @ 01:57 pm
Long time no update, update...
Hi everyone...I have been very bad about updating LJ over the past year but here goes an update. I'm sure you are all wondering what happened to me right? I was taken over by facebook and got lazy with LJ but now I am back! So whats been going on with me you might ask. The biggest news first I guess...
I AM IN A RELATIONSHIP!!!!! with
aka (Traci)
We just 'came out' on Facebook yesterday and no one seems shocked. They all seem to think it was obvious to everyone. I know most people here haven't been around Traci and I since we got together (about 8 months ago) but did anyone here know or think that we were together? From what I gather Traci and I weren't very stealth at Dragon*Con and many people noticed us doing things that a couple would do (holding hands, etc.) and assumed we were a couple then. Did anyone here see any of that...Rain?
In other news I am still trying to finish school but student loans are butt heads. I had an awful case of mono at the end of 2008 which I never want to repeat! I loved New York!!!! I can't wait to go back and live there one day soon.
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29 January 2008 @ 02:30 am
English Class Poetry Project:
Alright this is the third time I have tried to post this. I am doing a Poetry Project in English Class. We were given one word and had to write three poems that use the word. My word was longing. The other part was that we had to post one poem somewhere on the internet for our grade to count. So I am posting one here. It is behind a cut, you can either read it or not it's up to you, I wouldn't be posting if it was dependent on my grade.
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27 January 2008 @ 06:09 pm
Bye Bye Portus, Hello NYC
Well after going over it again and again there is simply no way I can afford to go to both Portus and New York. As much as I love Harry Potter (and I do) I have been to two Harry Potter cons in the last two year (Lumos and Phoenix Rising) and as much as I would love to go to another RENT is more important to me. So bye bye Portes, hello New York!
I am really excited about New York, I have never been before so it will be fantastic! I am really looking forward to seeing as much Broadway as I can fit in (maybe even see RENT more then once). I think the trip will be really great. My friend
and I are going the second week in may so that hopefully the weather will be a little warmer (if weather wasn't and issue I would want to leave NOW!...LOL). We will be staying for six nights to get as much of the city in as possible during our stay.
Any advices on things to check out or avoid from my f-list peps who live in NY.
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16 January 2008 @ 04:30 pm
RENT is closing....:(
I just got off the phone and I was informed that RENT (which I am slightly obsessed with) is closing forever on June 1st 2008. I am depressed, now I have to scramble and find a why to go to New York, and see the show. I have never been to New York so I look forward to going the only small, tiny problem is making my money for Portus stretch to cover another trip as well. I will do whatever I must do to go, as I have never seen it live before (I listen to the soundtrack just about everyday and it feeds my obsession as well as the movie). Now just trying to find the best time to go and getting the money are the only things left to do. I am still in shock that it is closing.
*Waves to all the New Yorkers on my f-list, since I will be up there soonish*
Here is the link to the NY Times article:
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14 January 2008 @ 12:46 am
Thanks everyone for my birthday party and gifts!
I just want to say a quick thank you to everyone that came to my birthday party. I had so much fun. I thought all the games were lots of fun (since it was my birthday party I guess that's what mattered most, right?) and I especially enjoyed playing Apples to Apples and ImaginIf.
Side Note***I do love cards and think they are wonderful but a simple card can make me very emotional and I don't like reading them in public. So when I opened them at the party I just glanced quickly at them. I did read all of them as soon as I got home. That way when I laughed and cried (which I did both many times reading them!) no one can see my reaction. I am just a sentimental sap but I don't want to admit it! :)
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05 January 2008 @ 12:59 pm
I have facebook!
I just got facebook, anyone on my f-list that has facebook go and friend me over there! You can type me name in and find me (Veronica Atkins) or here is the like to my profile
Hope to see you all there.
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28 December 2007 @ 02:13 am
Birthday coming up! Good Christmas!
My birthday is soon (Jan. 2nd)!!!!! Just 5 days away (thought the party is going to be later). I am making a birthday wish list.
1. VISA Gift Card
2. Bestbuy Gift Card
3. QT Gift Card (my car always can use more gas)
4. Cash (the gift that is never wrong)
Boring list but hay there it is.
OH yes, I got a video camera for christmas so I can make a video diary of the next year of AtlantaHP, Portus, and Dragon*Con! :)
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25 December 2007 @ 12:57 am
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Merry Christmas to all....
....And to all a good night!
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19 December 2007 @ 04:39 pm
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My friend and I are working on a Harry Potter version of Family Feud for our HP group's January Party. Remember how that game had questions (like 'Name a musician who goes by one name' or 'Name a unit of currency used in a country other than the US.') where 100 people were surveyed and they put the top answers on the board, and the teams had to try to a guess the answers. We are trying to survey 100 HP fans to get our game's top answers. We have surveyed 63 HP fans so far, but we need 37 more. If you are an Harry Potter fan could you please take a couple of minutes and reply to the survey posted below the cut (your survey will be screened to keep the answers secret). It would be greatly appreciated!
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- Draghi Rally Lets Skeptics Dump Spain for Bunds (Bloomberg)
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- When Would Bernanke's Successor Raise Rates? (WSJ) that's easy - never
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Proposed Banking Regulations Would Drive Gold Prices HigherSubmitted by George Washington on 06/26/2012 16:17 -0400
Proposals from BIS, OCC and FDIC Would Reclassify Gold as a Tier 1 Asset
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Good Plan Gone WastedSubmitted by Bruce Krasting on 06/21/2012 15:34 -0400
The memo says: We will make your life miserable.
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The "Formerly Brilliant Dimon" And Maxine Waters Debate Delta Hedging And Negative Convexity LiveSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 06/19/2012 09:31 -0400
As if last week's bought and paid for by JPMorgan media circus in the Senate was not enough, in which Jamie Dimon played several bribed muppets like a fiddle, today we get part two. Momentarily, the Committee on Financial Services will pick up the baton where the Senate left off, and confirm to everyone that the people who lead this country, at least on paper, are some of the most incompetent, and outright clueless when it comes to financial matters. The same matters that have led America to the Second great depression, which has so far been prevented from wiping out 20% of the economy only courtesy of Bernanke's relentless money printing. Dimon's testimony, which is a replica of last week's, can be found here. In other news, Jamie Dimon is furious he never bribed Maxine Waters before. Now he will have to explain introductory math for absolute idiots. Karma is a bitch.
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Live Senate Hearing On JPMorgan Prop Trading LossSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 06/06/2012 09:57 -0400
Sadly the man who thought (with good reason) he was more important than the Chairsatan (until the whole CIO fiasco blew up in his face of course), Jamie Dimon, will not be there (and will thus not be available to provide an update on the CIO's losses to date, which are likely orders of magnitude greater than the $2 billion benchmark previously disclosed, but that does not mean today's Senate hearing on lack of regulatory oversight and massive bank prop losses will be any less interesting. From C-Span: The Senate Banking Committee will hold an oversight hearing on efforts to overhaul the regulation of derivatives. Lawmakers will focus on the steps the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are taking to implement provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, and their efforts to reduce systemic risk and improve market oversight. The session also will spotlight J.P. Morgan Chase's $2 billion trading loss, which is under investigated by the FBI and the SEC." We, for one, can't wait to find out what the FBI's trained CDS forensic experts discover on this one...
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Guest Post: President Obama, The View, And The False Notion Of Too Big To FailSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 05/16/2012 00:56 -0400
From the 2008 financial crisis to Bernie Madoff, federal regulators have consistency proven too incompetent or too in-the-pocket to actually catch big disasters before they happen. Their interests, like all government employees, are politically based. State bureaucracies seek more funding no matter performance because their success is impossible to determine without having to account for profit. There is never an objective way to determine if the public sector uses its resources effectively. The news of JP Morgan's loss has reignited the discussion over whether the financial sector is regulated enough. The answer is that regulation and the moral hazard-ridden business environment it produces is the sole reason why a bank's loss is a hot topic of discussion to begin with. Without the Fed, the FDIC, and the government's nasty history of bailing out its top campaign contributors, JP Morgan would be just another bank beholden to market forces. Instead it, along with most of Wall Street, has become, to use former Kansas City Fed President Thomas Hoenig's label, a virtual "public utility." Take away the implied safety net and "too big to fail" disappears. It's as simple that.
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No Hints Of QE In Latest Bernanke Word CloudSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 04/13/2012 13:10 -0400
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Addressing his perception of lessons learned from the financial crisis, Ben Bernanke is speaking this afternoon on poor risk management and shadow banking vulnerabilities - all of which remain obviously as we continue to draw attention to. However, more worrisome for the junkies is the total lack of QE3 chatter in his speech. While he does note the words 'collateral' and 'repo' the proximity of the words 'Shadow, Institutions, & Vulnerabilities' are awkwardly close.
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Robosigned | $25 Billion Mortgage Servicing (Foreclosure Fraud) Agreement Filed in Federal CourtSubmitted by 4closureFraud on 03/12/2012 13:30 -0400
Foreclosure Fraud Settlement Documents Released, Read Them Here
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You Cannot Build a Strong Economy or a Bull Market on Fudged Numbers and LipstickSubmitted by Phoenix Capital Research on 03/05/2012 10:46 -0400
Having spent this money, your next concern becomes avoiding popular outrage as sooner or later folks will find out that this money was practically given away and that everyone else got a raw deal. Let's say that you just spent a large sum, to the tune of several trillion Dollars, bailing out various businesses that were literally run into insolvency by shortsighted and greedy business practices.
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There were a lot more deadwood piles here than we'd seen yet. I couldn't imagine the manpower that went into this. All of these carefully stacked piles went for miles. MILES.
Kind of a cool pic.
I see a little silhoutto of a man...
When the gravel ran out, we rode along the South Umpqua River for awhile. We thought it might cross up with 28 again at some point. In the meantime, it was beautiful riding.
John's sand madness was long forgotten, but this is when he started getting the fish madness. In some of these spots, we could actually see them down there. We didn't pack poles and I didn't think I'd have much luck hitting them with my hunting knife. The fish wait for another day.
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Memphis jury convicts on second-degree murder in Southland Mall shooting
A Criminal Court jury Friday convicted a gang member on a reduced charge of second-degree murder in the shooting death last year of a security guard who tried to break up a fight at Southland Mall.
Defendant Terrell Loverson, 21, who did not deny killing Marques Rainey, faces 15 to 25 years in prison with no parole when he is sentenced next month by Judge W. Mark Ward.
His lawyers argued that Loverson shot out of fear and that there was no premeditation that is required of first-degree murder. Jurors asked the judge at one point Thursday about elements of premeditation.
Rainey, 28, who had served four years in the Marines, was shot once in the chest when he tried to break up a fight among gang members on Feb. 27 last year near the north entrance of the Whitehaven mall.
"He was a father, a husband, a friend, a Marine who served our country and he was brutally murdered in cold blood in broad daylight in front of women and children," state prosecutor Ray Lepone told jurors in closing arguments Thursday. "What did he do? He did his job."
Jurors watched the shooting on a surveillance tape from a store in the mall.
Rainey is seen trying to detain Loverson who quickly gets away when another gang member intervenes.
After taking a few steps, Loverson reaches into his front pants pocket, pulls out a 9mm pistol and fires a shot into Rainey's chest. Customers in the store and the mall walkway are seen scrambling for cover.
Defense attorney Sam Perkins did not deny that Loverson was the shooter, but said his client was frightened when the larger Rainey aggressively began choking him and that he fired in self-defense.
Loverson, who was arrested later hiding in the attic of his girlfriend's home, also was convicted of assault on a police officer.
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TV-PG | 22 min | Animation, Comedy | Active
The satiric adventures of a working-class family in the misfit city of Springfield.
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The Bride continues her quest of vengeance against her former boss and lover Bill, the reclusive bouncer Budd and the treacherous, one-eyed Elle.
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When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent with the only athlete who stays with him.
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Ally McBeal and Billy Thomas were going steady throughout their childhoods. Ally even followed Billy to Harvard law school despite having no interest in law. But when Billy chose to pursue ... See full summary »
Creator: David E. Kelley | Stars: Calista Flockhart, Greg Germann, Jane Krakowski, Vonda Shepard
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Stars: David Letterman, Paul Shaffer, Alan Kalter, Biff Henderson
Votes: 8,952
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Three women, detectives with a mysterious boss, retrieve stolen voice-ID software, using martial arts, tech skills, and sex appeal.
Writers: Ryan Rowe, Ed Solomon, John August, Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts | Director: McG | Stars: Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore, Lucy Liu, Bill Murray
Votes: 134,655
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PG | 92 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
In the Valley of Peace, Po the Panda finds himself chosen as the Dragon Warrior despite the fact that he is obese and a complete novice at martial arts.
Writers: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger, Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris | Directors: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson | Stars: Jack Black, Ian McShane, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman
Votes: 257,029
18. Payback (I) (1999)
R | 100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.
Writers: Donald E. Westlake, Brian Helgeland, Terry Hayes | Director: Brian Helgeland | Stars: Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, David Paymer
Votes: 103,672
19. Chicago (2002)
PG-13 | 113 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Writers: Bill Condon, Bob Fosse, Fred Ebb, Maurine Dallas Watkins | Director: Rob Marshall | Stars: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs
Votes: 156,782
20. NYPD Blue (1993–2005)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
NYPD Detectives of Manhattan's fictional 15th precinct investigate criminal cases.
Creators: Steven Bochco, David Milch | Stars: Dennis Franz, Gordon Clapp, James McDaniel, Bill Brochtrup
Votes: 7,896
21. The Man with the Iron Fists (2012)
R | 95 min | Action
On the hunt for a fabled treasure of gold, a band of warriors, assassins, and a rogue British soldier descend upon a village in feudal China, where a humble blacksmith looks to defend himself and his fellow villagers.
Writers: RZA, Eli Roth | Director: RZA | Stars: Russell Crowe, Cung Le, Lucy Liu, RZA
Votes: 50,039
22. Home Improvement (1991–1999)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The daily trials and tribulations of Tim Taylor, a TV show host raising three mischeivous boys with help from his loyal co-host, domineering wife, and genius neighbor.
Creators: Carmen Finestra, David McFadzean, Matt Williams | Stars: Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Earl Hindman, Taran Noah Smith
Votes: 27,435
23. Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Animation, Action, Adventure | Post-production
Continuing his "legendary adventures of awesomeness", Po must face two hugely epic, but different threats: one supernatural and the other a little closer to his home.
Writers: Jonathan Aibel, Glenn Berger | Directors: Jennifer Yuh, Alessandro Carloni | Stars: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Jackie Chan, Seth Rogen
24. Joey (2004–2006)
TV-14 | 30 min | Comedy, Romance
In this spin-off of "Friends", Joey Tribbiani moves to Los Angeles to pursue his acting career.
Creators: Shana Goldberg-Meehan, Scott Silveri | Stars: Matt LeBlanc, Paulo Costanzo, Drea de Matteo, Andrea Anders
Votes: 34,286
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Not in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was not merely a response to modernity but arose from forces long at play within Judaism itself.
Biale explores how ancient Hebrew books like Job, Song of Songs, and Esther downplay or even exclude God altogether, and how Spinoza, inspired by medieval Jewish philosophy, recast the biblical God in the role of nature and stripped the Torah of its revelatory status to instead read scripture as a historical and cultural text. Biale examines the influential Jewish thinkers who followed in Spinoza's secularizing footsteps, such as Salomon Maimon, Heinrich Heine, Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein. He tells the stories of those who also took their cues from medieval Jewish mysticism in their revolts against tradition, including Hayim Nahman Bialik, Gershom Scholem, and Franz Kafka. And he looks at Zionists like David Ben-Gurion and other secular political thinkers who recast Israel and the Bible in modern terms of race, nationalism, and the state.
Not in the Heavens demonstrates how these many Jewish paths to secularism were dependent, in complex and paradoxical ways, on the very religious traditions they were rejecting, and examines the legacy and meaning of Jewish secularism today.
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A telephone set incorporates a conventional keypad to allow the user to program a custom ring tone and pattern into the telephone set. After such programming is established, when the telephone set detects a ring signal from the central switching station, a ringer is activated and deactivated according to the programmed ringing parameters so as to provide a truly customized ring signal to the user.
1. A telephone set responsive to a ring signal including, a user programmable ringer, a keypad for both dialing out and programming said ringer, said set further comprising;
processing means, integral to the telephone set, for receiving a plurality of user coded ring parameters from said keypad, said processing means including, memory means for storing from said processing means said coded ring parameters;
ring generator means, integral to the telephone set responsive to the processing means and to the ring signal, for activating said user programmed parameters from said memory to produce an audible ring pattern and ring tone.
2. A telephone set, according to claim 1, wherein the said plurality of ring parameters includes parameters representative of an intergroup delay and pulse group duration.
The present invention relates generally to telephone set ringing devices and more particularly, to the practice of variably controlling such ringing devices.
Known techniques for activating the ringer in a telephone set fall into two general areas. The first area encompasses direct techniques, wherein a high voltage, subaudible, signal is placed on the subscriber line in order to directly power the ringer in the telephone set. The second area includes indirect techniques, wherein a specific analog or digital signal is placed on the subscriber line in order to activate a ringing device which contains circuitry to detect the presence of the ringing signal on the subscriber line.
All of the above techniques suffer from one principal drawback, namely that an audible ringing signal produced by each telephone set is virtually identical. In a large office area in which several telephones are located, this makes it extremely difficult for a person away from his desk to determine which telephone is ringing. This difficulty is mainly caused by the similarity between prior art ringing devices, which offer the user little or no opportunity to alter the audible ringing signal so that his telephone set produces a distinctive audible ringing signal.
There have been attempts to address this problem. One known prior art system, the "MERLIN"™ office telephone system, available from AT&T, offers only the selection of one of three tones for the audible ringing signal by means of a switch on the telephone set. Another system, referred to as CLASS, provides one of several customized rings from a central office. This feature is only provided to paying subscribers and is limited by the capacities of the central office.
In all known cases, the pattern of the audible ringing (i.e. pulse duration and timing within the ringing interval) is strictly fixed by and dependent upon the pattern of direct or indirect ringing signals placed on the subscriber line by the telephone switching office. Such control is not applicable for radiotelephone systems, and it prevents the user of a telephone from truly customizing the ring tone.
There is therefore a need for telephone ringing system which overcomes the aforementioned problems.
It is a general object of the present invention to provide a telephone ringing system which overcomes the above deficiencies.
It is a more specific object of the present invention to provide a programmable telephone set ringing device, also useful for radiotelephone applications, having ringing patterns and tones which may be customly programmed by the user.
The features of the present invention which are believed to be novel are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The invention, together with further objects and advantages thereof, may best be understood by making reference to the following description taken together with the accompanying drawings, in which reference numerals identify the elements, and wherein:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a telephone system incorporating a telephone set with a programmable ringing device, according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a flow chart of an input process which may be implemented using a microprocessor (MPU) 145 of FIG. 1 to establish a customized ring;
FIG. 3 is a flow chart of a process which may be implemented using the MPU 145 of FIG. 1 to activate the ringer in the telephone set upon receipt of a ringing signal on the telephone line; and
FIG. 4 is a timing diagram, according to the present invention, illustrating a programmable ringing sequence that can be programmed by the telephone set user and executed by the MPU 145 of FIG. 1.
The present invention is directed to a telephone set having user-customizedringing capability. More particularly, the present invention is directed toa telephone set having programmable input capabilities which may be selected to specify a plurality of ring parameters independent of any ringing signal supplied by the telephone switching office.
FIG. 1 illustrates such a telephone set. In FIG. 1, a conventional central switching station 110 (e.g., central office or cellular switch) is shown coupled to a telephone set 115. Coupling therebetween is provided by a communication link 120. The communication link is preferably a radio frequency channel such as that provided for conventional cellular communication. Alternatively, the communication link 120 may be implemented using standard tip and ring lines, fiber or other types of known subscriber lines.
The telephone set 115 preferably appears as a standard touch-tone telephoneset. However, the circuit arrangement within the telephone set 115 is novel, according to the present invention. Included therein are conventional circuits: switchable load 125, ring detector 130, audio processor 135 and hook switch 140. Consistent with conventional operation,the load 125 electrically simulates the off-hook condition produced by a standard analog telephone, but is under direct control of a microcomputer (MPU) 145 rather than being directly controlled by a hook switch as in theconventional operation. Of course, the load 125 is only needed in such a situation where communication link 120 comprises conventional tip and ringlines.
The ring detector 130 detects the presence of a ring signal on the communication link 120. The ring detector 130 produces a high logic level signal to the MPU 145 upon detection of the ring signal. This logic level stays high for a period of time, preferably about 6 seconds, which is the selected maximum interval between consecutive ring signals received over the communication link 120.
The audio processor 135, consistent with conventional operation, separates inbound and outbound audio signals on the communication links and couples them to the microphone and earpiece, respectively, in the user handset (not shown). The audio processor 135 may be implemented using a conventional hybrid transformer.
The hook switch 140 indicates when the handset (not shown) is off hook.
The MPU 145 may be implemented using one of many commercial microprocessor devices. Preferably, the MPU 145 includes digital I/0 and interrupt capability. An exemplary microprocessor is the M68HC11, available through Motorola, Inc. As will be subsequently discussed with FIGS. 2 and 3, the MPU 145 receives input command messages via a keypad 150, and in response thereto, controls a ringer 155 through a ring generator 160 to provide user customized ring.
The tone generator 165 and the keypad 150 may be implemented using conventional telephone (control) circuits. For general information on telephone circuitry, reference may be made to MOTOROLA SEMICONDUCTOR MASTER SELECTION GUIDE AND CATALOG, 1988, p. 76, Motorola, Inc., P.O. Box 20912, Phoenix, Ariz. 85036, and data sheets supporting the integrated circuit MC34010 illustrated therein.
More particularly, the MPU 145 receives messages from the keypad 150 through the tone generator 165 and a tone decoder 170. The tone generator 165, as indicated above is preferably a conventional DTMF generator responding to a conventional telephone keypad. The tone decoder 170 is preferably a DTMF decoder such as that which is described in Motorola Semiconductor Application Note AN-08, incorporated herein by reference. The tone decoder 170 decodes the keypad output provided through the tone generator 165 and produces a unique digital code word for each detected DTMF tone. These code words, provided by the tone decoder 170, are received by the MPU 145.
The ring generator 160 is preferably composed of a conventional digital to analog signal converter (DAC) whose analog output is coupled to the frequency control input of a voltage controlled oscillator, such as an NE566, available from Signetics, Inc. The MPU 145 is used to program the ring tone by inputting digital codes to the DAC and is coupled to the voltage controlled oscillator to control the oscillator in an on-off manner, as dictated by ring parameters, subsequently discussed. The ringer155 is preferably composed of a speaker which receives the output of the voltage controlled oscillator. There are various other ways such tone generation may be accomplished. For example, the variable frequency timingpulse source from U.S. Pat. No. 3,255,292 may be employed as well as programmable sound generators incorporated in integrated circuits UMC 3482and AY-3-8910A, both of which are available from Radio Shack, Inc. and depicted in Radio Shack's 1988 Catalog, No. 419. Alternatively, the ring generator may comprise a power bell, buzzer, electronic beeper or a programmable audio oscillator circuit such as the MC34012A, available fromMotorola, Inc. followed by an audio amplifier so as to provide drive to a speaker simulating a ringer.
In FIG. 2, a flow chart illustrates the manner in which the MPU 145 may implement such messages. The flow chart begins at block 210 where the MPU is illustrated performing background tasks. At block 220, the MPU polls the tone decoder or, alternatively, is interrupted by the tone decoder viaan interrupt line. At block 230, a test is performed to determine if a ringer program code has been entered. The ringer program code is a specialpredesignated code which informs the MPU that the user desires to program ring parameters into the telephone set. For example, this code may be implemented by the following series of keys: *#*. If the MPU does not detect the input of the program code, flow returns to block 210. If the MPU detects the input of the program code, flow proceeds from block 230 toblock 240.
At block 240, the MPU awaits the input of the customized ringer program commands. These commands represents selection of the ring parameters previously referred to. Preferably, once the program code has been entered, the following parameters are input by the user: ringer tone, single pulse duration, number of pulses per group, pulse group duration, intergroup delay, and the intercycle delay.
When fewer than all four of these parameters are input by the user, the MPUreverts to either a predetermined telephone set parameter or the most recent parameter input by the user. Additionally, the MPU may be programmed to allow the user to select the maximum ring duration. Each of these parameters, including the ring cycle duration is illustrated in and subsequently discussed with FIG. 4.
From block 240, flow proceeds to block 250 where the MPU translates the ringer program commands into the ring parameters illustrated in FIG. 4. Atblock 260, the MPU stores the ring parameter's in memory for subsequent use.
In FIG. 3, the subsequent use of these program parameter is illustrated. After performing background tasks (block 310), the MPU performs a test to determine if the handset is on hook, depicted at block 315. If the handsetis not on hook, flow proceeds to block 320 where the ring generator is turned off. From block 320, flow returns to block 310.
If the handset is on hook, flow proceeds from block 315 to block 325 where the MPU polls the output of the ring detector. At block 330, a test is performed to determine if the output of the ring detector indicates that aring signal is present. If not, flow returns to block 310. If a ring signalis detected, flow proceeds from block 330 to block 335.
At block 335, the MPU begins to retrieve the ring parameters from memory (internal to the microcomputer). At block 335, the ring tone is retrieved.At block 340, the MPU sets the ring generator tone by programming the ring generator in the case of a tone-programmable ring generator. Blocks 335 and 340 may be bypassed in the case where the ring generator and ringer can only produce one fixed output tone.
At block 345, the MPU retrieves the ringer pattern from memory. The ring pattern is determined according to the previous programmed pulse group duration, intergroup delay and intercycle delay. Of course, the ring cycleduration can be retrieved at this time as well and may be implemented usinga software timing routine to terminate the activation of the ring generatorafter a period of time. At block 350, the MPU begins activating and deactivating the ring generator according to the established ring pattern (and ring tone). From block 350, flow returns to block 315. Blocks 315 through 350 constitute a program loop which maintains the selected ringingpattern as long as a ringing signal is present on the channel and the handset remains on hook.
In FIG. 4, the previously discussed ring parameters are illustrated in an exemplary programmed waveform. The ring cycle duration 440 is the period during which the ring generator is controlled to audibly signal the telephone set user that a party is calling. The pulse duration 410 is the selected maximum continuous period the ring generator is activated. The number of pulses per group (2 in this example) and the pulse duration define the pulse group duration 415. In the above embodiment, the MPU controls the ring generator at a 50% duty cycle within a pulse group duration, i.e., the ring generator is activated for the same amount of time the ring generator is inactivated. The intergroup delay 420 is established as the off time between each pulse group. The intercycle delay430 is the period which sets apart two cycles of pulse groups and intergroup delays.
The foregoing operation may be best illustrated by the following example. Presuming the ringer program code has already been entered, the user firstselects one of the keys 0-9 to select a ringer tone (in units of 100 Hz above a base frequency of 440 Hz). The user then selects one of the keys labeled 1-9 in order to set the pulse duration (each number representing aunit of 0.1 second). Next, the user selects a key numbered 1-4 to set the number of pulses per group. Subsequently, the user selects a key numbered 1-3 to set the intergroup delay, in units of 0.5 seconds. The user then selects a key number 1-4 to select the number of groups per ring cycle. The user then selects a key numbered 1-3 to set the intercycle delay, in units of seconds. Finally, if desired, the user sets the ring cycle duration by entering two sequential digits from 00 to 99. After the secondof these two digits is received, the MPU proceeds to the operation set out in FIG. 3.
Accordingly, the present invention provides a telephone set having circuitry which may be customized to the user's desire. While being directed primarily to a radiotelephone application, the present invention facilitates customized ring signal without any need of employing a ring tone provided by the switching station.
As set out in the following claims, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing illustrations and discussion merely exemplify preferred embodiments of the present invention and that there ismodifications and changes may be made without departing from the spirit andscope thereof.
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text: The Manidoog wiki last edited by fesak on 04/02/13 03:39PM View full history The Anasazi are a race of superhumanly powerful humanoid beings worshipped by the original North American tribes of the modern United States and Canada from about 3000 BC when their first sacred sites and communities began to appear into recent times. Many of the Anasazi still have worshippers today, but they no longer traffic with their worshippers to the extent they did before the European invasions of North America. The Manidoog dwell primarily in Shipolo, an extra-dimensional cosmology of worlds adjacent to Earth by Ekutsihimmiyo, a bridge which connects the two realms; an interdimensional nexus between Shipolo and Earth exists somewhere near Mount Rainer in modern Washington with other access points in the Four Corners region of the United States. According to ancient legends, the mortal descendants of the Manidoog reached Earth through a cave near Mount Taylor in Nevada. The human worshippers of the Manidoog called their gods by varying names unique and distinct to their individual tribes. The Algonquin tribes had several similar names for Manabozho throughout their lands while the Navaho to the west knew him as Tshohanoi and the Eskimo clans far to the north knew him as Tulugaak or Torngasau. The Manidoog no longer actively seek worshippers on Earth, but are still worshipped today. They still appear on Earth on very rare occasion. Owayadota still appears to his mortal protégé, Red Wolf, while Hotamintanio once secreted himself into Asgard to remind Danielle Moonstar of her Cheyenne heritage. The precise origin of the Manidoog, like that of all of Earth's pantheons of gods, is shrouded in legend. The earliest known Native American gods were Gitche Manitou, the Great Spirit, and Nokomis, the Earth-Mother. It is believed that Nokomis was actually Gaea, the primordial earth-mother who had survived the destruction of the Elder Gods of Earth by infusing her life into the life-giving essence of the Earth. Many of the Elder Gods had degenerated into demonic status and were destroyed by Atum or had fled Earth for other planes of existence. Atum had been born from Gaea by mating with the sentient biosphere of the Earth known as the Demiurge. Atum later departed the earth after shedding the excess demonic energies of the Elder Gods he had slain; some of these energies becoming demonic beings like Mephisto, Satannish, Mikaboshi and possibly Khlog and the Adversary, a demonic force that takes on typically Native American appearance. The Manidoog have several varying accounts of their origins as a result of the cultural diversity of their worshippers, and as a result, lack any form of a truly unified pantheon. Several of the Anasazi, such as Hino, Tawa, Hotamintanio and Owayodata share roles in various separate minor tribes of the Manidog. The Eskimos, for example, revere Sedna, the sea-goddess, as their Great Mother, while some Canadian tribes revere the water-god, Raven, a trickster, as their patron deity. According to a wide majority accounts ranging from the Navaho to the Algonquin, Manabozho had been cast from Shipolo due to the treachery of his half-brother, Coyote. Manabozho befriended the original Native Americans on Earth and welcomed the Lenni-Lennapi, the mortal descendants of the Native American gods to their lands when they traveled to Earth. After doing as much good as he could on Earth, Manabozho was allowed to return back to Shipolo when Gitche Manitou stepped down to allow him to rule in his place over the Manidoog. Around 1000 AD, Manabozho was approached by Odin, Chieftain of the Asgardian gods, whose Viking worshippers had seized parts of Greenland and Western Canada. Odin had called upon the rulers of the other gods once worshipped on Earth to discuss the threat of the Third Host of the Celestials. The Celestials had threatened to seal off the portals of each of their godly realms unless they promised to stop interfering in mortal affairs. Both Odin and Manabozho in liege with the other god-kings swore to this pledge and even made a vow to Odin to donate the necessary life energies to the Asgardians slain during the Fourth Host of the Celestials. When Thor came to Shipolo to petition a portion of the required life energies as part of this vow, Manabozho saw that a debt had been paid to his realm and offered Thor the necessary energies to restore the slain Asgardian gods to life. As part of this pact, Manabozho gathered with the other godheads to discuss other threats to the gods of Earth. When called upon by Odin, Manabozho sent Tawa to battle the primeval entity Demogorge and later traveled to Asgard when Thanos of the Eternals seized the Infinity Gauntlet. Many of the worshippers were ousted from their homelands granted to them by their deities when Europeans colonized North America and founded outposts that would become the modern United States and Canada. The Manidoog like the Coatli gods to the South were forbidden to act on behalf of their worshippers due to the pact with the Celestials although Coyote, pressured by the anamaqkui (spirits) of his worshippers lashed out years later before hampered by Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Strange. The Eskimo gods of the North, however, felt antagonism from extra-dimensional beings known as the Great Beasts who managed to bind them from ever returning to Earth. 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Fast Path Re-planning Based on Fast Marching and Level Sets
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We investigate path planning algorithms that are based on level set methods for applications in which the environment is static, but where an a priori map is inaccurate and the environment is sensed in real-time. Our principal contribution is not a new path planning algorithm, but rather a formal analysis of path planning algorithms based on level set methods. Computational costs when planning paths with level set methods are due to the creation of the level set function. Once the level set function has been computed, the optimal path is simply gradient descent down the level set function. Our approach rests on the formal analysis of how value of the level set function changes when the changes in the environment are detected. We show that in many practical cases, only a small domain of the level set function needs to be re-computed when the environment changes. Simulation examples are presented to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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- Fast Path Re-planning Based on Fast Marching and Level Sets
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Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
Volume 71, Issue 3-4 , pp 303-317
- Cover Date
- 2013-09-01
- 10.1007/s10846-012-9794-2
- Print ISSN
- 0921-0296
- Online ISSN
- 1573-0409
- Publisher
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- Keywords
- Path planning
- Autonomous vehicle
- Autonomous navigation
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Bin Xu (1)
- Daniel J. Stilwell (1)
- Andrew J. Kurdila (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. The Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA
- 2. The Department of Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA


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Posted: 07/02/2010 - A public defender is arguing that Kentucky's death penalty law is unconstitutional.
Posted: 07/02/2010 - A grand jury has indicted a Lexington man for a shooting at a Frankfort nightclub back in May.
Posted: 07/02/2010 - The Coast Guard issued a shark advisory Friday, telling recreational boaters and paddlers in one area of the country to be guard.
Updated: 07/02/2010 - After a five year absence the fireworks display at Cave Run Lake is returning.