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Press release from Business Wire
WellPoint Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Amerigroup

 Acquisition Advances the Companies' Capabilities to More Effectively and Efficiently Serve the Growing Medicaid Population, Including the Expanding Dual Eligible, Seniors and Persons with Disabilities, and Long-term Services and Support Markets

 Acquisition Expands WellPoint's Core Business and Advances the Combined Company's Future Growth Potential

 Combination Leverages Both Companies' Goals of Lowering Costs for Governments While Improving Care Quality for Program Beneficiaries

 Transaction Expected to be Accretive to WellPoint's Earnings Per Share in 2013

Monday, July 09, 2012
WellPoint Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire Amerigroup06:51 EDT Monday, July 09, 2012 INDIANAPOLIS & VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (Business Wire) -- WellPoint, Inc. (NYSE: WLP) and Amerigroup Corporation (NYSE: AGP) announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement through which WellPoint will acquire Amerigroup, one of the nation's leading managed care companies that is focused on meeting the health care needs of financially vulnerable Americans. This combination brings together two premier organizations with a common goal of creating better health care quality at more affordable prices for their customers. The acquisition also advances the companies' capabilities to more effectively and efficiently serve the growing Medicaid population, including the expanding dual eligible, seniors and persons with disabilities (SPD), and long-term services and support markets (LTSS). Under the terms of the agreement, WellPoint will pay $92.00 per share in cash to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Amerigroup for a transaction value of approximately $4.9 billion. "We believe that this combination will create an industry leader in the government sector serving Medicaid and Medicare enrollees. This is an opportunity to capitalize on the strengths of both companies to better serve our members and position our companies for future growth as the health insurance industry changes and as we prepare for health insurance exchanges," said Angela F. Braly, chair, president and chief executive officer of WellPoint. "Amerigroup has an excellent management team, a history of disciplined membership growth, and a proven track record in working with state and federal governments and the provider community to improve health care costs and quality for its customers. I am delighted to have not only Jim Carlson's continued leadership, but also other members of Amerigroup's senior team to help lead these efforts at WellPoint." States are looking increasingly to managed care as a solution to more effectively operate their Medicaid programs because of the increasing evidence of its value proposition. Additionally, the dual eligible, Medicaid SPD and LTSS markets present significant opportunities to help improve value in the entire Medicaid system, especially for people who are dealing with chronic or highly acute medical conditions. Amerigroup's deep experience and leading LTSS programs combined with WellPoint's CareMore subsidiary's services and care management model for chronically ill and frail members, enhances the ability to improve the quality of care for these members while holding down cost increases. "Today's health care arena is more transformative than ever and companies must have broad capabilities to succeed," said James G. Carlson, Amerigroup's chairman and chief executive officer. "In 14 states, WellPoint has the most powerful brand in the health care industry and we are looking forward to adding our experience and reputation to their capabilities." "We're continuing to advance our strategic objectives of creating the best health care value in our industry, excelling at day-to-day execution and capitalizing on new opportunities to drive growth," said Braly. "Both companies have similar cultures and values, and an unwavering commitment to our customers. We know that lowering costs for states while improving the quality of care for program beneficiaries is a winning proposition for our members, company, associates, shareholders and the entire health care system. We look forward to serving our new members, enhancing collaboration with providers and strengthening our presence in the communities we serve." Upon completion, WellPoint, with its affiliated Medicaid plans, will serve more than four-and-a-half million beneficiaries of state sponsored health care programs. The combined company's Medicaid footprint will include 19 states. The company will also have a presence in 13 states with significant near-term dual eligible managed care opportunities, including a presence in the four largest states that have a combined $105 billion in annual dual eligible spending. The acquisition is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013 and is subject to certain state regulatory approvals and standard closing conditions and customary approvals required under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act and the approval of Amerigroup's stockholders. The transaction will be financed with cash on hand, commercial paper and new debt issuance. The transaction is expected to be accretive to WellPoint's earnings per share in 2013, including one-time transaction and integration costs. Accretion is expected to increase in 2014 and exceed $1.00 per share by 2015, inclusive of the build out costs associated with the expanding dual eligible and reform-driven Medicaid opportunities. WellPoint is not changing its 2012 EPS guidance for this transaction. "The acquisition of Amerigroup expands our scale and further diversifies our business mix by deepening our investment in the high growth Medicaid marketplace. It also increases our flexibility to serve customers across the economic spectrum," said Wayne S. DeVeydt, executive vice president and chief financial officer of WellPoint. "We believe the acquisition is not only strategically important, significantly enhancing our future revenue and EPS growth opportunities, but will also provide an attractive return for our shareholders." WellPoint's financial advisor is Credit Suisse and its legal advisor is Linklaters LLP. Goldman Sachs & Co. and Barclays are acting as financial advisors to Amerigroup, and its legal advisor is Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Conference Call WellPoint will host a conference call and webcast today at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time ("EDT") to discuss the acquisition of Amerigroup. Joining the WellPoint management team will be Amerigroup's chairman and chief executive officer, James G. Carlson, and James W. Truess, chief financial officer. The conference call should be accessed at least 15 minutes prior to the start of the call with the following numbers: 800-230-1093 (Domestic) 800-475-6701 (Domestic Replay) 612-288-0337 (International) 320-365-3844 (International Replay) An access code is not required for today's conference call. The access code for the replay is 254066. The replay will be available from 11 a.m. EDT today until the end of the day on July 23, 2012. The call will also be available through a live webcast at www.wellpoint.com. A webcast replay will be available following the call. About WellPoint, Inc. At WellPoint, we believe there is an important connection between our members' health and well-being—and the value we bring our customers and shareholders. So each day we work to improve the health of our members and their communities. And, we can make a real difference since we have nearly 34 million people in our branded health plans, and more than 62 million people served through our subsidiaries. As an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, WellPoint serves members as the Blue Cross licensee for California; the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee for Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri (excluding 30 counties in the Kansas City area), Nevada, New Hampshire, New York (as the Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in 10 New York City metropolitan and surrounding counties and as the Blue Cross or Blue Cross Blue Shield licensee in selected upstate counties only), Ohio, Virginia (excluding the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C.), and Wisconsin. In a majority of these service areas, WellPoint's plans do business as Anthem Blue Cross, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Georgia and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, or Empire Blue Cross (in the New York service areas). WellPoint also serves customers throughout the country as UniCare and in certain California, Arizona and Nevada markets through our CareMore subsidiary. Additional information about WellPoint is available at www.wellpoint.com About Amerigroup Amerigroup, a Fortune 500 company, coordinates services for individuals in publicly funded health care programs. Currently serving approximately 2.7 million members in 13 states nationwide, Amerigroup expects to expand operations to Kansas as a result of a previously awarded state contract. Amerigroup is dedicated to offering real solutions that improve health care access and quality for its members, while proactively working to reduce the overall cost of care to taxpayers. Amerigroup accepts all eligible people regardless of age, sex, race or disability. Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking Statements This communication contains certain "forward-looking" statements as that term is defined by Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Statements that are predictive in nature, that depend on or relate to future events or conditions, or that include words such as "believes", "anticipates", "expects", "may", "will", "should", "estimates", "intends", "plans" and other similar expressions are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause our actual results in future periods to differ materially from those projected or contemplated in the forward-looking statements as a result of, but not limited to, the following factors: the failure to receive, on a timely basis or otherwise, the required approvals by Amerigroup's stockholders and government or regulatory agencies; the risk that a condition to closing of the proposed transaction may not be satisfied; Amerigroup's and WellPoint's ability to consummate the merger; the possibility that the anticipated benefits and synergies from the proposed transaction cannot be fully realized or may take longer to realize than expected; the failure by WellPoint to obtain the necessary debt financing arrangements set forth in the commitment letter received in connection with the merger; the possibility that costs or difficulties related to the integration of Amerigroup's and WellPoint's operations will be greater than expected; operating costs and business disruption may be greater than expected; the ability of Amerigroup to retain and hire key personnel and maintain relationships with providers or other business partners pending the consummation of the transaction; and the impact of legislative, regulatory and competitive changes and other risk factors relating to the industries in which Amerigroup and WellPoint operate, as detailed from time to time in each of Amerigroup's and WellPoint's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC"). There can be no assurance that the proposed transaction will in fact be consummated. Additional information about these factors and about the material factors or assumptions underlying such forward-looking statements may be found under Item 1.A in each of Amerigroup's and WellPoint's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, and Item 1.A in each of Amerigroup's and WellPoint's most recent Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2012. Amerigroup and WellPoint caution that the foregoing list of important factors that may affect future results is not exhaustive. When relying on forward-looking statements to make decisions with respect to the proposed transaction, stockholders and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and other uncertainties and potential events. All subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements concerning the proposed transaction or other matters attributable to Amerigroup and WellPoint or any other person acting on their behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements referenced above. The forward-looking statements contained herein speak only as of the date of this communication. Neither Amerigroup nor WellPoint undertakes any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements for any reason, even if new information becomes available or other events occur in the future, except as may be required by law. Additional Information and Where to Find It This communication is being made in respect of the proposed transaction involving Amerigroup and WellPoint. The proposed transaction will be submitted to the stockholders of Amerigroup for their consideration. In connection with the proposed transaction, Amerigroup will prepare a proxy statement to be filed with the SEC. Amerigroup and WellPoint plan to file with the SEC other documents regarding the proposed transaction. STOCKHOLDERS ARE URGED TO READ THE PROXY STATEMENT REGARDING THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION AND ANY OTHER RELEVANT DOCUMENTS CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROPOSED TRANSACTION. The definitive proxy statement will be mailed to Amerigroup's stockholders. You may obtain copies of all documents filed with the SEC concerning the proposed transaction, free of charge, at the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. In addition, stockholders may obtain free copies of the documents filed with the SEC by Amerigroup by going to Amerigroup's Investor Relations website page by clicking the "Investors" link at www.amerigroup.com or by sending a written request to Amerigroup's Secretary at Amerigroup Corporation, 4425 Corporation Lane, Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462, or by calling the Secretary at (757) 490-6900. Interests of Participants Amerigroup and WellPoint and each of their respective directors and executive officers may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies from the stockholders of Amerigroup in connection with the proposed transaction. Information regarding Amerigroup's directors and executive officers is set forth in Amerigroup's proxy statement for its 2012 annual meeting of stockholders and its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, which were filed with the SEC on April 27, 2012 and February 24, 2012, respectively. Information regarding WellPoint's directors and executive officers is set forth in WellPoint's proxy statement for its 2012 annual meeting of shareholders and its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, which were filed with the SEC on April 2, 2012 and February 22, 2012, respectively. Additional information regarding persons who may be deemed to be participants in the solicitation of proxies in respect of the proposed transaction will be contained in the proxy statement to be filed by Amerigroup with the SEC when it becomes available. Photos/Multimedia Gallery Available: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=50333862&lang=en WellPoint Contacts:Investor RelationsMichael Kleinman, 317-488-6713Sean Meenan, 317-488-6715orMediaKristin Binns, 917-697-7802Jill Becher, 414-234-1573orAmerigroup Contacts:Investor RelationsJulie Loftus Trudell, 757-321-3597orMediaMaureen McDonnell, 757-473-2731


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Health & Parenting
Bed-Wetting Myths Debunked
Don't Blame the Victim continued...
Parents should start looking into formal treatment sometime between the ages of 6 and 7, according to the National Enuresis Society or sooner if the child seems troubled by the bed-wetting.
"Older kid are not as likely to outgrow it and these are the kids that deserve specific help -- whether an alarm, medication, or a combination," he says. "With help, most kids will be dry within 12 weeks," he says.
I will never sleep through the night again.
If parents like Terry's find themselves setting their own alarm to wake their children during the night to urinate, they should purchase a bed-wetting alarm. "They really do work," says Shubin. Enuresis alarms sound in response to wetness and can be purchased at drugstores for as little as $60. They have a cure rate of 75%, according to a study published in the journal Pediatric Psychology. And when combined with medication such as desmopressin (DDAVP), which acts on the kidneys to reduce the flow of urine, the urine alarms are even more effective, the study says.
Just don't give up too soon, Greene says. "Many parents say, 'I tried it for a couple of weeks and it didn't work,' but enuresis alarms often take up to 12 weeks to make a difference." Be patient.
Before resorting to an alarm or medication, try using a "star chart," where you give a child a star for every dry night and a prize for a few dry nights in a row. But "if this doesn't work in two weeks, it won't and continuing it may only discourage the child," Greene says.
Behavioral changes too play a role in achieving dryness, he says. Try decreasing the amount that kids drink before bed. "This will make a difference and may just be enough for some kids," Greene says. Limit fluid intake to 2 ounces in the last two hours before bedtime and cut out caffeine, which is a natural diuretic, he says.
"Kids should not be drinking a lot of soda with caffeine anyway, but a lot of them do," Greene says.

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UHCL professor named Teacher Educator of the Year
| July 19, 2013
Photo By Courtesy of University of Houston-Clear LakeElizabeth Beavers is an assistant professor of Special Education.
Elizabeth Beavers, an assistant professor of Special Education at University of Houston - Clear Lake, recently received the 2013 Teacher Educator of the Year.
Presented by the Houston Area Association for the Education of Young Children, the award honored Beavers for her efforts to further the education of early childhood teachers in the region, according to a university press release.
A resident of Clear Lake, Beavers has worked in early childhood education for more than 20 years.
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11,800ft, and no parachuteA video of a New Zealand skydiver spiralling 3,600 metres (11,800ft) with a tangled parachute to the ground - where he was saved by bushes - was shown on television yesterday.
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Green ships and Japanese whalers in Antarctic clash
A sea battle between environmentalists and the Japanese whaling fleet was being played out among the icefloes of Antarctica yesterday with accusations of ships being rammed and attacks on crew members, and the issuing of a maritime distress call by one of the whalers.
Exiled Hamas leader calls for end to boycott after dealThe Palestinian prime minister, Ismail Haniyeh, returned to Gaza yesterday to begin selecting a list of ministers for a new coalition cabinet in the wake of a rare unity agreement between the rival Hamas and Fatah factions.
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HBO Orders Two Seasons of The Duplass Bros.' 'Animals'
New animated adult television series 'Animals,' created by Phil Matarese & Mike Luciano and produced by Duplass Brothers Television, to debut exclusively on HBO in 2016.
New animated adult television series 'Animals,' created by Phil Matarese & Mike Luciano and produced by Duplass Brothers Television, to debut exclusively on HBO in 2016.
Fettle Animation's BBC series, 'Children of the Holocaust,' set to screen at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June.
Swedish VFX and animation studio Fido creates hundreds of 80s-tinged VFX shots with everything from green screen compositing to characters riding atop a Tyrannosaurus Rex for David Sandberg's 'Kung Fury.'
Deal for German/Australian 3D animation feature includes all rights for the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.
Burbank and Vancouver-based visual effects studio creates a CG river of ooze, CG ships, CG set extensions and more for the second season of WGN America's first original series.
Warner Bros.' disaster film leads the North American box office with a $53.2 million domestic debut, the highest solo opening ever for star Dwayne Johnson.
James Marsden, Thomas Middleditch, Rosario Dawson, Alfred Molina, Nathan Fillion, Jane Krakowski, Rob Riggle, Craig Robinson and Will Sasso lend voices to Canadian studio's first animated feature film.
First unveiled at FMX 2015 by Chaos Group's Christopher Nichols, Digital Emily 2 is now available to everyone as a free download for any non-commercial use.
Latest Anime Studio release streamlines animation production for studios and professionals with frame-by-frame design and raster-like characteristics with natural freehand drawing and painting for more life-like results.
Animated action series 'Dr. Dimensionpants' to premiere in the U.S. on streaming service Hulu on June 13.
Production company reteams with legacy client for five-part miniseries based on the Texas Revolution against Mexico and the birth of the Texas Rangers.
Led by David Sheldon-Hicks and Nick Glover, creative directorial team set to deliver effects for 'Agent 47,' Ridley Scott's 'The Martian' and 'Mission Impossible 5.'
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9 Story Media Group licenses second season of award-winning preschool series 'Daniel Tiger's Neighbourhood' to Disney Junior Latin America.
Dentsu Entertainment and LEVEL-5 appoint leading licensing and merchandising agency to bring hugely popular multimedia franchises to the U.S. and Canadian markets.
Live-action/animation hybrid short by Owen Rixon to compete for the prestigious McLaren Award at the 69th Edinburgh International Film Festival.
Season two of award-winning series from Tat Productions and Master Films headed to France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Poland, Lithuania, Quebec, the Middle East, Indonesia and New Zealand.
The Jim Henson Company promotes Blanca Lista to Vice President of Feature Film Production overseeing the Company's feature film development slate for live action, animation and puppet features.
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whomp[hwämp, wämp]
transitive verb
- to hit or strike heavily and loudly; thump
- to defeat decisively
Origin of whompechoic
the act or sound of whomping
whomp Idioms
whomp up
Informal to prepare quickly; whip up
A loud, heavy blow or thud.
verbwhomped, whomp·ing, whomps
verb, transitive
- To hit or strike.
- To defeat soundly; trounce: whomped the opposing team.
- To prepare or make, especially with little effort. Often used with up: "Meanwhile, you whomp up yams and spuds and bake your pies" (Garrison Keillor).
verb, intransitive
To hit or strike with a whomp.
(third-person singular simple present whomps, present participle whomping, simple past and past participle whomped)
- (slang) Hit extremely hard.
- If you don't cut that out, I'm going to whomp you so hard your head will spin!


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Do you agree that black men are the most attractive race of men?
I love black men in general. don't get me wrong I think white guys and hispanic guys are good looking to but if you put the hottest black guy next to... Show More
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everyone likes different stuff ya know?
i notice black guys who look attractive, they have nice style, good this, good that, but I'm rarely ever sexually attracted to black guys. and I'm black as well. I'm attracted to black girls (im bi) but not black guys. its weird to some people I guess but that's me, and I have several friends that are the same, more or less.
I don't think there's any one race that is the best looking, but I find myself most attracted to white guys. I like a lot of different types though. I've found chinese guys attractive, japanese guys, mixed guys, mixed latinos, etc. If I had to point out one that I find myself most attracted to, as far as men go, it would be white.
With girls, I'm all over the place. I have absolutely no noticeable bias in attraction with girls.
so you like black girls but not black guys? interesting..
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also, when I was younger there was a sense of inclusion. in elementary, my friends in my class were all white (the girls I mean) up until a certain grade. they liked white guys, paid attention to white heart throbs in the media, and so did i. at that time, all I wanted was to be closer to being white than black and I already shared the attraction to white guys, so that made me feel better.
i hope this rant makes sense to you.. :/
as far as differences, I mean women are usually made of different body parts than guys. lol there is a difference in actual gender expression allowed in very black-centric culture which I'm not in favor of, but I know not all black guys are a part of that. I just seem to think black girls are more attractive, aside from all my psychological stuff. black girls just look better to me.
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The two guys in your links are mixed by the way, is not the universal fact that Southern European men are the best looking in the World? Girls always speak about them and they win every country poll.
i disagree I do not think they are the hottest so that little fact of yours is wrong. and most girls I know would disagree
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i did answer I do not think africans looks better then african americans..
It's a cute idea
I can't really agree or disagree on the simple fact that I don't really think men in general are that attractive. From a girls point of view I simply have NO IDEA what is seen as attractive, based on the links you given, the men in your links look homosexual but if you like it no opinion but your own should matter.
I personally am most attracted to black women but this is my opinion, doesn't mean its the majority view but I just find black women stunning! and that's all I have ever dated :)
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I actually think white boys are more attracted. I just can't look at a dark persons d*** because it looks like poop to me. I do not even notice it is a penis.
so dark skin people remind you of sh*t? is that what you are telling me?
it is just there penis that does. I have met girls that won't be white boys because they are disgusted because their penis has too many vains. how a penis looks is a important factor.
I won't even go with dark Hispanics too because of that reason. I am Hispanic myself.
It's your preference. Don't let anyone bring you down or anything for it, but also don't bring anyone down for theirs. Yes, black men are beautiful (Tyson Beckford anyone? SMOKIN'!) But I love white guys, and I'm Black. Can't help it anymore than you can!
Hmm. I like Taye Diggs myself, though Tyson Beckford is in VERY good shape...
tyson beckford is my biggest crush!
Tyson Beckford certainly is gorgeous, but I don't think there is a "most attractive race of men". It's subjective. To each, their own. Personally, I can find attractive men amongst white, black, hispanic and Asian men. Beauty is everywhere, no race "more attractive" than the other, although some may be more "popular".
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SLI GTX 280 Problem on Win XP
Hi all, i'm new :)
i'm italian, sry for my bad english, but i have a problem with only one game, Crysis (cysis wars/warhead is the same). Look this screens:
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i have this problem only with sli and only in crysis...
What's this? help me please :(
Re: SLI GTX 280 Problem on Win XP
try changing your drivers wot are your system specs? post them so the guys on here can help you out.
Re: SLI GTX 280 Problem on Win XP
Fill in the blanks:
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The information will help very much. Especially for people that had the exact same problem. And maybe they also have the same Video card and Motherboard and or Chipset that you have too. But in a way, if they don't have the same, it also helps too.
Good Luck!
Re: SLI GTX 280 Problem on Win XP
ok, sry XD
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> Power Supply: LC-POWER MONOLITH-X v2.9 1200W
> Mainboard: XFX nForce 790i Ultra SLI
> Chipset : 790i Ultra
> Processor : Intel Core 2 Duo E8600 @4500mhz 1.3v
> Physical Memory : 2x 1Gb DDR3 1600Mhz cl7 OCZ 12800 Platinum Edition
> Video Card : 2x Zotac Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 AMP! Edition in SLI
> DVD-Rom Drive : HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10N (LG)
> Monitor Type : Samsung SM245B 24" 1920x1200 5ms
> Operating System: Windows XP SP3
> Forceware: is the same with all: now i have the latest 181.22
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ps. it doesn't happen quickly, but after little minutes. And often I have a blue screen with "nv4_disp.dll" or "dxg.sys" problem...
Re: SLI GTX 280 Problem on Win XP
Have you tried each graphics card separately? Its possible that one of your cards is bad.
Re: SLI GTX 280 Problem on Win XP
but now, maybe i have resolved it: i've installed the chipset driver (15.23_nforce_winxp32_international_whql.exe) cool :D
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initiating a telephone call over a first telephone line directly between the assisted user and the hearing user;
the assisted user initiating a telephone connection over a second telephone line to the relay;
at the station of the assisted user, the station transmitting the voice of the hearing user over the second telephone line to the relay;
at the relay, converting the words spoken by the hearing user into text;
transmitting the text created by the relay back to the station of the assisted user over the second telephone line; and
displaying the text to a captioned telephone display device within sight of the assisted user such that captioning of the communication session is provided to the assisted user.
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5. A method as claimed in
6. A method for providing captioned telephone service to an assisted user communicating over a first telephone line with a hearing user using a captioned telephone device, the hearing user speaking words in voice, the method comprising the steps of
while the assisted user is conversing over the first telephone line with the hearing user over a first direct telephone connection between the assisted user and the hearing user, the assisted user operating a control on the captioned telephone device to initiate a captioning service;
the captioned telephone device initiating a telephone connection over a second telephone line to the relay;
the captioned telephone device transmitting the voice of the hearing user over the second telephone line to the relay so that the relay can convert the words of the hearing user into text;
the relay transmitting the text created by the relay back to the station of the assisted user over the second telephone line to the captioned telephone device; and
the captioned telephone device displaying the text within the sight of the assisted user such that captioning of the words spoken by the hearing user is provided to the assisted user.
7. A method for providing captioned telephone service to an assisted user communicating with a hearing user, the assisted user using a telephone station to communicate with a relay having speech to text translation capability, the hearing user speaking words in voice, the method comprising the steps of
initiating a telephone call over a first telephone line directly between the assisted user and the hearing user;
the assisted user initiating a telephone connection over a second telephone line to the relay;
at the station of the assisted user, the station transmitting the voice of the hearing user over the second telephone line to the relay;
at the relay, converting the words spoken by the hearing user into text using voice recognition computer software;
transmitting the text created by the relay back to the station of the assisted user over the second telephone line; and
displaying the text to a captioned telephone display device within sight of the assisted user such that captioning of the communication session is provided to the assisted users.
8. A method for providing captioned telephone service to an assisted user communicating over a first telephone line with a hearing user using a captioned telephone device, the hearing user speaking words in voice, the method comprising the steps of
while the assisted user is conversing over the first telephone line with the hearing user over a first direct telephone connection between the assisted user and the hearing user, the assisted user operating a control on the captioned telephone device to initiate a captioning service;
the captioned telephone device initiating a telephone connection over a second telephone line to the relay;
the captioned telephone device transmitting the voice of the hearing user over the second telephone line to the relay so that the relay can convert the words of the hearing user into text using voice recognition software to create the text;
the relay transmitting the text created by the relay back to the station of the assisted user over the second telephone line to the captioned telephone device; and
the captioned telephone device displaying the text within the sight of the assisted user such that captioning of the words spoken by the hearing user is provided to the assisted user.
This application is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 09/783,679, filed Feb. 14, 2001, pending, which is a continuation-in-part of application Ser. No. 09/288,420, filed Apr. 8, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,233,314, which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/925,558 filed Sep. 8, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,909,482.
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The present invention relates to the general field of telephone communications. In more particular, the invention relates to systems to assist telephone communications by those persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, or otherwise have impaired hearing capability.
Most modem human communications in both social and business environments takes place through sound communications. Yet within modern society there are many persons who have attenuated hearing capability. To assist those persons in making use of our telephonic communication system built for the hearing majority, there has been developed a system of telephone communication which has been principally used by the deaf community. That system makes use of a category of device known variously as a telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD), text telephone (TT) or teletype (TTY). Current TDDs are electronic devices consisting of a key board and a display as well as a specific type of modem, to acoustically or directly couple to the telephone line. Modem TDDs permit the user to type characters into their keyboard, with the character strings then encoded and transmitted over the telephone line to be displayed on the display of a communicating or remote TDD device.
Most TDD communication is conducted in an idiosyncratic code specific to the community of TDD users. This code, known as Baudot, evolved historically at a time when many telecommunication devices for the deaf were based on mechanical or electromechanical devices rather than the current technology based on digital electronic components. Accordingly, the Baudot protocol was constructed for a set of constraints which are no longer relevant to present date devices. The original Baudot protocol was a unidirectional or simplex system of communication conducted at 45.5 Baud. The conventional Baudot character set was a character set consisting of 5 bit characters and the system encodes the bits of those characters in a two-tonal system based on carrier tones of 1400 and 1800 Hertz.
The system of TDD communications is widely used and in fact has become indispensable to the deaf community throughout the industrialized world. Deaf persons extensively communicate with their neighbors and with other deaf and hearing people remotely, using the TDD system. In addition, systems have been developed to facilitate the exchange of communication between the deaf community and hearing users who do not have access to or utilize a TDD device. In the United States, telephone companies have set up a service referred to as a "relay." A relay, as the term is used herein, refers to a system of voice to TDD communication in which an operator, referred to as a "call assistant," serves as a human intermediary between a hearing user and a deaf person. Normally the call assistant wears a headset that communicates by voice with the hearing user and also has access to a TDD device which can communicate to the deaf user using a TDD appropriate protocol. In normal relay operations in the prior art, the call assistant types at a TDD keyboard the words which are voiced to her by the hearing user and then voices to the hearing user the words that the call assistant sees upon the display of his or her TDD. The call assistant serves, in essence, as an interpreting intermediary between the deaf person and the hearing person to translate from voice to digital electronic forms of communication.
A system to assist users of the telephone system who are hard of hearing but not deaf has been described. This system, sometimes referred to as text enhanced telephony, makes use of the existence of relays to supplement telephone communications for users who can hear, but have attenuated hearing capabilities. This systems includes, in its simplest embodiment, a visually readable display connected in series between the telephone used by the assisted user and the connection to the telephone network. The text enhanced telephone call is connected through a relay which transmits both the voice of the hearing user at the other end and a text stream of the words spoken by that user on the same telephone line. The details of the concept and of some embodiments of that system are disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,075,842, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
The present invention is summarized in that a relay system to facilitate the translation of information and communication between deaf and hearing persons includes a call assistant who re-voices the words of the hearing person which are spoken to the call assistant. The words spoken by the call assistant are recognized by a speech recognition computer program which has been trained to the voice pattern of the call assistant, such that the words are promptly translated into a high speed digital communication protocol. That high speed digital communication message is then transmitted electronically promptly by telephone to a visual display accessible to the deaf person.
It is an advantage of the invention described herein that the call assistant does not have to type most, if any, of the words spoken by the hearing person in the communication session so that the overall speed of communications from the hearing person to the deaf person is dramatically increased.
It is an object of the present invention that the design and utilization of a relay operated in accordance with the protocols described herein permits the introduction of small hand-held personal interpreter which will enable on the spot communications between deaf persons and hearing persons wherever the deaf persons might go.
Other objects, advantages and features of the present invention will become apparent from the following specification when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of a re-voicing relay.
FIG. 2 is an exterior view of a personal interpreter enabled by the relay of FIG. 1.
FIG. 3 is a schematic block diagram of the personal interpreter of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 illustrates the operation of a captioned telephone service supported by a relay.
FIG. 5 is a schematic illustration of the concept of the two wire captioned telephone device connection with sound inter-connection.
FIG. 6 is a schematic illustration of the connection of a personal interpreter/captioned telephone device connected to two telephone lines.
The present invention is intended to provide an alternative arrangement for the delivery of text assisted telephone services, also called captioned telephone, to a telephone system user with diminished hearing. The present system is intended to take advantage of two developments in the field of assisted telephone services, the personal interpreter and the re-voicing relay. The arrangement for using these capabilities here is designed not to provide text services for the profoundly deaf, but to provide a text assistance service for those who can hear, but who may have diminished hearing. This service is designed to supplement rather than replace the transmission of the spoken voice word to the assisted user. To assist understanding what is contemplated here, the basic technologies of the personal interpreter and the re-voicing relay will be described here first, after which the description will return to the main topic, text assisted telephone services or, as they are also known, captioned telephone services.
The personal interpreter is intended to be a small portable device capable of delivering, with the support of a relay, text to a deaf user of any human conversation occurring in the presence of the personal interpreter. The personal interpreter is set up to connect telephonically to a relay, transmit spoken words to the relay, and then display for the assisted user the text of the words transmitted over the telephone connection to the relay. To make the personal interpreter work more seamlessly to produce more conversation-like communication, a faster relay methodology was needed. To fill this need, the re-voicing relay was designed.
The re-voicing relay is based upon the underlying technology of using voice recognition software, operated by a call assistant (a "CA"), to assist in the voice to text translation inherent in providing relay services. The re-voicing strategy is described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,909,482, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference. The re-voicing relay has its first implementation in providing voice to text transcription services for the deaf. However, the relay voice to text transcription service has use for users other than those who are deaf. It is envisioned that there are a number of hearing or partially hearing users who would have reason to benefit from voice to text transcription services. Relay voice to text service might also be useful for any application in which it is desired to supplement voice communications by a text transcription of the voice spoken on the telephone. Thus, while the operation of the relay will sometimes be described here by referring to an "assisted user," who may be deaf or hard of hearing, but who also may be a normally hearing person who simply wants text assistance for some reason. The user at the other end of the line will be referred to here as the hearing user, simply for the purpose of having something to call that person, even though both users may be hearing.
Shown in FIG. 2 is an illustration of what a personal interpreter 10 can look like. This would be a small hand held device typically the size of a small hardbound book. It would have a keyboard of minimal size, but useable by a deaf person who can type. It would have a two or four line display, but the display could be any size that conveniently fits in the case of the device. The device would also have a key or switch which would initiate its operation.
Shown in FIG. 2 is a schematic block diagram of the internal mechanics of the personal interpreter. The personal interpreter keyboard shown at 12 and its display as shown at 14. Inside the interpreter itself is a microprocessor shown at 16. Not shown, but included within the personal interpreter, would be the appropriate memory and interface devices so as to allow the microprocessor to be programmed and to operate the personal interpreter and perform its functions, in a manner well known in the art. Also inside of the personal interpreter is a modem 18. The modem 18 is preferably a modem specifically designed for interface with the deaf telecommunications system. Most telecommunications with the deaf community are conducted using a Baudot type code. One useful alternative is for the modem be designed to use the enhanced form of Baudot communication known as "Turbo Code" (Ultratec), which is generally described in U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,432,837, 5,517,548, and 5,327,479, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference. Another alternative is that the modem use a new variant of Turbo Code, one which uses higher carrier frequencies (in the range of 3000-3500 hertz) and a faster baud rate (over 100 baud). The most preferred alternative is for the modem to use a digital communication protocol which can both transmit and receive digital packets which contain either or both of voice and text. The output of the modem is preferably wired to a cellular telephone 20 included within the case of the personal interpreter 10. The cellular telephone 20 has a suitable antenna provided on it so that it may dial a cellular telephone network by radio frequency communications of the type normally conducted by cellular telephones. The personal interpreter also includes jack 28 to connect to a conventional wired or land-line telephone line as well. The personal interpreter also includes a microphone 22 and a speaker 24. A filter 26 connects the speaker 24 and the microphone 22 to the telephone 20.
A brief description of the operation and functionality of the personal interpreter reveals the dramatic improvement and convenience and portability that this device gives to text assisted people. A assisted user could go into an establishment, be it a government office or retail facility, in which there are only hearing persons. The assisted person would carry with him or her the personal interpreter 10. The assisted user would then place the personal interpreter 10 upon a counter or other surface, open it up, and press the initiation key or start button. The microprocessor 16 and modem 18 of the personal interpreter then power up and act in many ways like a normal TDD device operating in telecommunication standard, such as Turbo code. However, there is one critical difference. The start or initiation key further causes the microprocessor 16 of the personal interpreter to dial a relay to set up a relay communication session and includes in its communication with the relay a message, using the enhanced command features available in advanced telecommunication protocols, such as Turbo Code, to initiate a special format of relay call adapted for the personal interpreter. Other codes which permit command functions, such as ASCII or CC ITT, could also be used. The first operation is to activate the cellular telephone and direct the cellular telephone to dial the number of a relay operating in accordance with the method of the present invention. The cellular telephone dials the relay. Obviously, no wired connection is required to allow the cellular telephone function to establish a telephone connection with the remote relay, but alternatively the jack 28 to a conventional telephone line could be used. In addition, when the relay answers the telephone connection, the microprocessor 168 of the personal interpreter 10 is instructed to provide command codes to the remote relay. These command codes, a feature possible through the use of Turbo Code, permits the personal interpreter to tell the relay that this is a personal interpreter-type relay communication session. All of this can happen in the time necessary to initiate the cellular call, perhaps two to ten seconds.
Then, the assisted person can use the personal interpreter to translate words spoken by hearing persons in the presence of the personal interpreter into visually readable text. This is done by the personal interpreter 10 through an unseen relay. Words spoken by the hearing persons in the presence of the personal interpreter 10 are picked up by the microphone 22. Those words are then transmitted through the cellular telephone 20 to the remote relay. The relay, operating as will be described below, then immediately transmits back, in enhanced Turbo Code, a digital communication stream translating the words that were just spoken. The words are received by the modem 18, and the microprocessor 16 in the personal interpreter 10, and it is displayed promptly upon the display screen 14. If the assisted person can speak, he or she may then answer the hearing person with a spoken voice, or, the assisted person may alternatively type upon the keyboard 12. If the assisted user types on the keyboard 12, the personal interpreter transmits the communication by digital communication to the relay. The call assistant at the relay then reads and speaks the words typed by the assisted user which are transmitted to the speaker 22 contained in the personal interpreter into a voice communication which can be understood by the hearing users. The filter 26 filters out the digital communication frequencies from the sound generated by the speaker 22. Thus, in essence, the assisted person has a personal interpreter available to him or her at all times of the day or night wherever the assisted person is within the range of the cellular telephone system. Also, because the relay is preferably operating in accordance with the fast translation methodology described below, a very conversation-like feel can occur in the communication session between the assisted user and the hearing persons in the presence of the personal interpreter 10. In order for this communication session to be satisfactory to the hearing users as well as the assisted person, however, the relay must operate exceedingly rapidly. It is, in part, to meet the need for the exceeding rapidity of this conversational style of communication that the re-voicing relay protocol has been designed.
Shown in FIG. 1 is a relay intended to provide the voice to text capability to support the personal interpreter, and which can also support other voice to text services to provide services for assisted users. FIG. 1 is intended to show, in schematic fashion, how such a relay system can be set up. Shown at 32 is a telephone of a hearing person. Instead of a telephone of a hearing person, the input could also be the microphone of the personal interpreter translator 10 shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. The telephone of the hearing person 32 is connected through a telephone line 34 to a voice input buffer 36 at the relay. The telephone line 34 can be an actual physical land line, or two pair between the telephones, or can be a cellular or other over-the-air telephone linkage. The voice input buffer 36 is a simple buffer to ensure temporary capture of the voice in the event that the call assistant gets behind and needs to buffer or delay the voice of the hearing person. In any event, the output of the input voice buffer 36 is provided to a headset 40 where earphones 38 produce the sound of the remote speaking person in the ear of the call assistant. The call assistant is wearing the headset 40 and sitting at a computer 42 capable of communicating in an enhanced Baudot communication, such as Turbo Code or whatever other code protocol is being used. However, typically the call assistant does not type the words which the call assistant hears in his or her earphone 38. Instead, the call assistant then speaks the words which he or she hears in the earphones 38 into a microphone 39 in the headset 40. The microphone 39 on the headset 40 is connected to transmit the voice of the call assistant to the computer 42 at which the call assistant sits.
The computer 42 has been provided with a voice recognition software package which can recognize the spoken voice of the call assistant and immediately translate words spoken in that voice into a digital text communication stream. It is a limitation of currently available speech recognition software that the software must be trained or adapted to a particular user, before it can accurately transcribe what words the user speaks. Accordingly, it is envisioned here that the call assistant operates at a computer terminal which contains a copy of a voice recognition software package which is specifically trained to the voice of that particular call assistant. It is also important that the voice recognition system be capable of transcribing the words of the voice of the call assistant at the speed of a normal human communication. It has been found that a recently available commercial voice recognition package from Dragon Systems, known as "Naturally Speaking," is a voice recognition software which will accomplish this objective and which will translate to digital text spoken words of a user at the normal speeds of human communication in conversation when operating on conventional modem personal computers. A voice recognition software system known as "Via Voice" from IBM provides similar functionality.
The computer terminal 42 of the call assistant then translates the text created by the voice recognition software to a modem 46 out through a telephone line 48 back to the display 50 located adjacent to the assisted person. The display 50 can be a conventional TDD located at the home of the remote assisted user, or can be the display 14 of the personal interpreter 10, or can be any other display or text capture device used by an assisted user.
For reasons that will become apparent, there is also a connection from the microphone 39 of the headset 40 of the call assistant to the incoming telephone line 34 through a switch 52. The switch 52 can physically be an electrical switch located between the microphone 39 and the telephone lines 34 and the computer 42 or, as an alternative, it can be a software switch operating in the computer 42 which passes the voice of the call assistant through to the telephone lines as voice, or not, under conditions which are selected by the call assistant, by choices he or she makes at the keyboard 44 of the computer 42. The switch 52 is functionally a single pole double throw switch although, of course, if this function is performed by the computer it will be a logical not a physical switch. In the simplest embodiment, the switch 52 is a simple single pole dual throw foot switch readily accessible to the call assistant which passes the voice of the call assistant from the microphone either out onto the telephone line 34 or to the computer 42.
It is a further enhancement to the operation of the relay constructed in accordance with the present invention that the earphones 38 have noise attenuating capability. Noise canceling earphones are commercially available today or, for this purpose, the computer 42 can be provided with noise canceling sound generation software which would create sound transmitted to the earphone 38 so as to cancel the sounds of the call assistant's own voice. The noise attenuation or cancellation avoids distracting the call assistant, since he or she would then be less distracted by the words that he or she has spoken, and thus would be less likely to be distracted from the concentration of the task of re-voicing the sounds of the voice heard in the call assistant's ear.
Similarly, another option which would be advantageous is that the software providing for the creation of the digital text string by voice recognition be buffered in its output flow to the modem 46. Before the computer 42 would pass the data on to the modem 46, the data would first be displayed on the computer screen of the computer 42 for review by the call assistant. The purpose of this option would be to permit the call assistant to use the keyboard to type or correct hard-to-spell words, or to create corrections of any misinterpretations created by the voice recognition software, from the words spoken by the call assistant. It is anticipated that if such an option is utilized, it would require fairly infrequent use of the keyboard by the call assistant, since frequent use would clearly slow down the through-put of the communications.
The relay of FIG. 1 can operate with normal TDDs or with a personal interpreter as shown in FIGS. 2 and 3. In either event, the hearing person speaks in the telephone 32 and the words are transmitted through the telephone line 34 to the voice buffer 36. The voice buffer 36, again operating under the control of the call assistant, would buffer the voice signals from the hearing user as needed for the call assistant to keep up. The call assistant would hear the voice of the hearing user through the earpiece 38 and then would re-voice those same words into the microphone 39. The words that the user speaks into the microphone 39 would be fed to the computer 42 where the voice recognition software, trained to the voice of the call assistant, would translate those words into a digital text stream. The digital text stream would be turned into a digital communication stream by the modem 46 and passed on the telephone line 48 to a display 50 which can be observed by the assisted user. Experience has shown that using currently available technology the delay between the time the hearing user speaks into the telephone 32 and the time the words appear on the display 50 of the assisted user is a modest number of seconds.
In the reverse, when a non-speaking assisted user types onto his or her telecommunication device, the digital signals are transmitted to the computer 42 which displays them for the call assistant who then voices those words into the microphone 39 which words are then transmitted onto the telephone line 34. Note that the presence of the switch 52 is therefore important in this mode. Since the voice of the call assistant serves two different functions in the operation of this system, the signal on the call assistant's voice must be switched so that the hearing user 32 only hears the voice for the communications which are intended to be directed to that person. The switch 52 allows for the voice of the call assistant only to be directed to the hearing person at the appropriate times.
Note that if the relay of FIG. 1 is used to facilitate a translation based on a personal interpreter such as that shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, there will be only one telephone line between the personal interpreter and the call assistant. In essence, in a modification of FIG. 1, the telephone 32 and the display 50 would both be within the personal interpreter 10. There would be only one telephone line, a cellular link, between the personal interpreter 10 and the call assistant. Note therefore that the voice of the call assistant and the digital communications created by the computer 42 would then travel on that same telephone linkage to and from the personal interpreter 10. It is therefore important for this embodiment that the personal interpreter 10 have appropriate filtering (i.e. the filter 26) to filter out the digital communication carrier frequencies of the digital communications protocol, so that they are not heard by hearing listeners in the presence of the personal interpreter 10. The telephone line must still carry voice signals, however, so that the spoken words articulated by the call assistant in response to digital instructions from the deaf user can be properly broadcast by the speaker contained within the personal interpreter.
The provision for filtering of the digital frequencies can be done in any number of ways with two being the principal preferred methodologies. If Turbo Baudot communications are conducted at the conventional Baudot frequencies of 1400 and 1800 Hertz, the personal interpreter 10 could be provided with notch filters 26 to filter out signals at those particular frequencies. It has been found that such notch filters still permit the transmission of audible and understandable human speech, even if they filter at those particular frequencies. As an alternative, it is possible to change the Baudot frequencies to those which are much higher, such as frequencies of 3000 to 3500 Hertz. If this alternative is selected, the personal interpreter 10 is then provided with a low pass filter which permits low frequency sounds to go to the speaker to be broadcast into the environment of the personal interpreter, while high frequencies are excluded.
It is also specifically envisioned that the filter of text communications signals from the voice signal can be done digitally or logically rather than by analog filter. For example, it is possible to implement the modem at site of the assisted user using a digital signal processor, or DSP, integrated circuit. Such a DSP chip can be programmed to recognize to separate voice signals from text communications signals and to pass along only the voice signals to the speaker at the location of the assisted user. It is also contemplated that the telephone linkage between the relay and the assisted user could be a digital connection rather than an analog telephone line. For example, the linkage between the relay and the assisted user could be a digital wireless linkage or an internet protocol linkage, wired or wireless. In either of these instances, the appropriate protocol calls for the transmission of packets of digital data, the packets being marked to indicate the type of information carried in the packets. The packets might contain, for example, voice signals which have been digitized or might contain simple digital information representing the text string of a conversation. In the instance of such a digital packet type communication protocol, the filtering out of the digital text information could be implemented simply by only converting the packets marked as voice back into sound. Packets marked as containing digital information would be used to recover the text information for display to the assisted user.
As mentioned earlier, captioned telephone is a technology intended to provide text assistance to assisted user during the course of a voice telephone communication session. As will become apparent from the discussion below, a captioned telephone connection can be a single line connection or a multiple line connection. There are advantages and disadvantages of each approach. A single line connection is known in the art, as exemplified by U.S. Pat. No. 6,075,842, mentioned previously. The advantages and details of the use of a multiple line connection are described below. The discussion of captioned telephone will begin with a single line connection.
Shown in FIG. 4 is an illustration of how a typical telephone call involving a single line captioned telephone would be set up. The hearing user at telephone 62 communicates through a telephone line 64 with the relay, indicated at 66. The relay, a re-voicing relay, communicates through a telephone line 68 with the assisted user. At the site of the assisted user is a telephone 70 used by the assisted user and also a captioned telephone device 72. The telephone 70 is conventional. The captioned telephone device 72 is constructed to accomplish two objectives. One objective is to filter, or separate, the digital signals carrying the text information from the voice signal. The other objective is to take the digital signals and create a visual display of the text information for the assisted user. This device is thus intended to assist the user to understand a greater portion of the conversation by providing a visually readable transcription of the text of the telephone conversation so that the assisted user can read any words that he or she cannot hear properly. While the captioned telephone device 72 of FIG. 4 is illustrated as a separate stand-alone device from the telephone 70, those of skill in the art can readily appreciate that the two functions can be combined in a special capability telephone station. Such a special purpose station can both provide conventional telephone service and also include a display which can be used to provide captioning for an assisted user.
The two line captioned telephone is indicated in FIG. 5. In its simplest embodiment, the two-line captioned telephone can be conceptually thought of as a personal interpreter used to provide text assistance to a telephone user. Thus in FIG. 5, the telephone of the hearing user 62 and the telephone of the assisted user 70 are connected directly by a simple single telephone connection, indicated by the telephone line 64. The assisted user then uses a personal interpreter/captioned telephone ("PICT") device 74 to connect to a relay 76 over a second telephone line or connection, indicated at 78. There must be some form of communication between the telephone of the assisted user 70 and the PICT device 74, so that the voice of the hearing user can be transferred to the second telephone line 78 to the relay 76. At its simplest, the connection can be a simple acoustic connection, such as placing the sound pick-up microphone of the PICT device in such a location that the sound of the hearing person's voice is picked up and transmitted to the relay. A microphone connected to the PICT device 74 could be placed on the handset of the assisted user's telephone 70. However, it is preferred that the PICT device be electronically connected to the telephone of the assisted user so that the voice of the hearing user can be transmitted to the relay call assistant with minimal interference or noise. The PICT device includes a visually readable display and suitable decoding electronics and software so that the device can receive and display a text stream received from the relay over the second telephone line.
The main advantage of the two-line approach to captioned telephone is that the captioned telephone service can be added to a telephone call already in progress. By contrast, to use single line captioned telephone for an incoming call, the call must directed through the relay to the assisted user at the beginning of the call. For a two-line captioned telephone call, however, the call can be started as a normal telephone communication session, without the relay or the captioning. Then, if the assisted user decides captioning would be helpful to his or her understanding of the conversation, the captioning service can be added while the call is in progress. To add the captioning service, the assisted user simply has the PICT device dial the relay over the second telephone line. The voice of the hearing user is then transmitted over the second telephone line to the relay. The relay converts the voice to text and the text stream created by the relay returns to the assisted user, also over the second telephone line. Note that in this arrangement, as indicated in FIG. 5, voice and text are transmitted in opposite directions over a single telephone line between the PICT device and the relay, voice going to the relay and text returning on the same line. This arrangement of voice and text is the same as used for the personal interpreter.
One device intended to implement the two-line captioned telephone approach is illustrated in FIG. 6. The PICT device 80 of FIG. 6 is an analog device connected in series between the telephone line 64 to the hearing user and the telephone 70 of the assisted user. As seen in FIG. 6, the telephone line 64 is connected directly through the PICT device 80 to the telephone 70. However, that telephone connection is also connected through a transformer 82 to a 2-wire to 4-wire converter 84. Connected to the output of the converter 84 is a low pass filter 86, the output of which is the input to an amplifier 88. The output of the amplifier 88 is connected to a 2-wire to 4-wire converter 89 which connects, in turn, to the telephone line 78 which connects to the relay (not shown here). The input signals from the telephone line 78 are connected to a hi-pass filter 90, the output of which passes through a receive modem 92 to a microcontroller 94. The microcontroller operates the display 96. The microcontroller also includes the capability to generate DTMF dialing tones and impress those tones on the telephone line 78 when it is time to dial the relay. Thus here the single PICT device 80 connects to two telephone lines. A call can be initiated or received by the assisted user in the same manner as with a conventional telephone, using only the first telephone line 64. When the user wishes to invoke the captioning service, the assisted user presses a button,97, on the PICT device 80 that causes the device to automatically dial the relay on the second telephone line 78. The PICT device automatically transmits the voice signals on the first telephone line to the second telephone line (through the low-pass filter 86) for transmission to the relay. At the relay, the voice is converted into text and a text stream is sent back down the telephone connection 78 to the PICT device. The PICT device filters the text data, at the hi-pass filter 90, and transmits it to the microcontroller 94 for display to the user. None of the text data, and no digital carrier signals, are heard by either the hearing user or the assisted user. Normally the hearing user does not even need to be aware that captioning is being used on the call.
This example assumes that the digital carrier signals for the text message are carried on high frequencies, and the low pass and high pass filters are used to separate voice from text. While this filtering can be implemented as an analog filter, in many telephonic systems today, digital forms of communication are used. Using a digital communication protocol between the relay and the PICT device, communication is in the form of digital data packets of either text or digitized voice. In that event, the logical filtering simply consists of not creating any acoustic noise from the packets designated as carrying text.
Several physical versions of the PICT device are contemplated. In the version illustrated in FIG. 5, the PICT device is a stand-alone appliance inserted in series between the telephone of the assisted user and the telephone jack on the wall of the user's home. It may also be convenient for the user to package the PICT device as a single two-line unit intended to provide both conventional telephone service, as well as captioned telephone services. The device could look like a normal telephone, but have a display. The captioned telephone feature would be activated by a button or key, which would cause the unit to dial a pre-selected relay and set up a captioning session, whether or not a call on the other line is yet in progress. The voice signals incoming on the first telephone line from the hearing user would be transferred electronically to the telephone line to the relay. Text signals would be transmitted on that same telephone line back from the relay to the PICT device, which would display that text for the assisted user. Since the re-voicing relay operates with only a very slight time delay, the text display for the assisted user would trail the hearing person's voice slightly, but the text would still assist the user in comprehending the conversation.
It is a desirable feature of the two-line captioned telephone arrangement that the use of the captioning service is transparent to the hearing user. The hearing user would dial to connect to the assisted user as with any other telephone user. The assisted user invokes the captioned telephone service without the need to involve the hearing user at all. The service can be used equally well and transparently for both incoming and outgoing calls.
It is also envisioned that the captioned telephone service can be implemented in a way that uses three telephone lines. One line is for voice communications with the hearing user. The second line is directly connected to the first line so that the voice of the hearing user is transmitted to the relay. The third line is a connection to transmit the text stream from the relay to the station of the assisted user.
In the implementation of a relay providing captioned telephone service, the relay receives the voice of the hearing user and transmits both a digital text message stream and the voice of the hearing user over a telephone connection to the station of the assisted user. It is to be understood, however, that a conventional telephone single line connection is only one example of a telephonic connection that can be used in this arrangement. Digital wireless connection, or PCS connection, or even internet protocol (IP), wired or wireless connection can be used to connect the relay to the assisted user, so long as the connection in capable of transmitting voice to that user.
Thus the term telephone line as used in this specification is intended not only to apply to a traditional land-line two-wire telephone line, but also to all equivalents that offer similar functionality. Each of the telephone lines could be, for example, a portion of the bandwidth of an ISDN or DSL service. The telephone line could be an analog or digital cellular telephone link or a PCS connection. The PICT device could also be connected to the internet communication in IP, and in that event the two telephone lines would simply be simultaneous digital data exchange with two remote locations.
It is to be understood that the present invention is not limited to the particular illustrations and embodiments disclosed above, but embraces all such modified forms thereof as come within the scope of the following claims.
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The grid's dumbest component (and how to make it smart)
By Jesse Berst
What is the single dumbest electrical component? It's the load panel (the circuit breakers) in your home or office, which typically has a digital quotient of exactly zero. Even door locks are going digital more quickly.
An Israeli company wants to change that, and they've come a long way already. Computerized Electricity Systems (CES) stuffs the following functionality into its CES Smart Distribution Panel:
· A class 1 meter supporting up to eight tariffs. And not just a lump-sum meter for the whole panel, but a separate monitor for each and every circuit
· Two-way communication modules that support most popular standards
· Load control switches for each circuit (turn things on or off)
· Timers for each circuit (turn things on and off on a schedule)
· Surge protection and arc fault interrupter (AFI) for each circuit
· Phase balancing - distributing loads evenly across different phases (useful for electric vehicle charging)
This functionality can be accessed via an included software program (which is quite extensive), or via APIs from your own software.
The Smart Distribution Panel also has the ability to switch between different energy sources. It can switch seamlessly between grid power, storage, backup generation, or renewable energy (e.g. roof top solar). A property owner can program the CES software to choose the cheapest source of energy. It could, for instance, use rooftop solar when that is available, sell that solar to the grid when it has excess, and switch to batteries or to the grid as required, each time automatically calculating the least-cost source.
On top of the hardware, the company has built a software platform that includes much of the functionality of:
· Typical smart home software (turn on the lights upstairs, lower the electric lines, etc.)
· Building energy management software (in the event of a DR event, first or not the lowest priority devices, then the second lowest, then the third lowest, etc.)
· Demand response software (run a DR event at 3 PM, sending e-mails and text messages to all customers)
The software even supports time-of-use pricing. It allows building energy managers to program how they want their building to behave. They can program their priority 5 loads to turn off if the price reaches x cents; the priority 4 loads when it hits x+5; priority 3 when it hits x+10; and so on.
But what about cost?
The units are currently assembled in Israel. The cost (before installation) ranges between $1,500 and $3,000 depending on the number of circuits. CES is negotiating with global contract manufacturers. As volumes move from the hundreds to the thousands, costs should drop.
Even so, the CES Smart Distribution Panel is clearly best suited today for new construction and large scale remodels, not for retrofits. CES has about 80 installations in North America, including hotels, bases and apartment buildings.
Why a partnering strategy is crucial
CES's progress will be gated less by the technology and more by its marketing and partnering strategies. Today, CES works with builders, solar integrators and regional distributors. Its future clearly lies in a partnership with one of the global giants such as Schneider, GE or Honeywell. Indeed, CES is already working with GE on military bases and on multi-station EV charging. It has also done a few small pilots with Duke, Southern and others.
In fact, the Smart Distribution Panel was selected by the Pecan Street Project for those homes that have solar and storage and an EV. The first unit will be installed this week.
So riddle me this. Why have we embedded sensors, monitors and digital intelligence into virtually every piece of the electricity value chain... except the load panel? As soon as I heard what CES is doing, the light bulb went on over my head. (It was an LED bulb, of course, none of those inefficient incandescents for my brainstorms.)
What's your take on the smart panel concept? Is it the breakthrough it appears at first glance? The Talk Back form below awaits your comments.
Jesse Berst is the founder and chief analyst of Smart Grid News.com. He consults to smart grid companies seeking market entry advice and M&A advisory. A frequent keynoter at industry events in the US and abroad, he also serves on the Advisory Council of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Energy & Environment directorate.


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Registration for the 2012-13 Valley City Youth Bowling Leagues will be held on Sept. 9 from 1to 3:30 p.m. at Sky Lanes.
The Valley City Youth Bowling Leagues are open to all area youth in kindergarten through high school. Grades 3-6 bowl Saturday at 9:30 a.m., grades K-2 bowl Saturday at 11:00 a.m. and grades 7-12 bowl Sunday at 1:30 p.m.
So far this season, Valley City High School volleyball coach Katy Van Dyke has put the emphasis on defense.
After Tuesday's 25-23, 25-8, 25-18 home loss to Fargo Shanley to open Eastern Dakota Conference play, she's expecting to change that emphasis.
Though the Hi-Liners had plenty of success digging balls and keeping them alive, they struggled at times with getting spikes to land in-bounds.
The Maple Valley Raiders volleyball team won its season and home opener to the Barnes County North Bison Thursday.
The Raiders started their season with a 3-0 win, heavily leading in points throughout the match.
Short and and out-of-bounds serves by BCN gave the Raiders some points in the first game, and a scoring streak by senior Cassie Pautz serving produced more points as BCN struggled to respond.
Maple Valley started off the first game with four points in the first couple minutes.
BCN redeemed themselves with four points, but not for long as Maple Valley scored five more.
Valley City High School's girls cross country team took first place in their division Friday in the first annual VCSU Cross Country Meet at the Valley City Town and Country Club.
Running against teams from Jamestown High School, Central Prairie and Sargent Central, the Hi-Liners ended up with 27 points, and VCHS 10th grader April Berntson took first running the 3K race with a time of 12:04.
Jamestown's Maya Moltzen came in second with a time of 12:19, and Jamestown's Rachel Morin came in third with a time of 12:30.


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It is one of my nicer tablets, but an iPad killer it is not. In less than 6 months, the battery life has deteriorated to half to a third the run time. I have older iPads that have better battery life.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Clear graphics. Very fast processing, easy to use. Very happy with my tablts size.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
need updates to kitkat
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I had this table for almost two years, my only complaints are the severe lack of updates and the limited number of multi screen apps that are available. Its has a long lasting battery and sharp screen
no fast charging, cannot even buy oem power supply, no os upgrades, mediocre battery life
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this is an excellent product
By patscats06
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This is the second tablet that I have owned of this kind (unfortunately, I dropped the first numerous times and broke it so it has a good shock value to it!) but I was so impressed with the features and the quality of the product that I have bought a second one and will continue to buy Samsung products in the future. As a matter of fact, I have a Samsung Smart TV also.
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I have used this Tablet everyday since I got it in the mail and I love it!
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Been wanting a Samsung Note 10.1 2014 ever since it came available. I finally bought one and love it! I haven't seen a better screen on any other device. Love the multi window. This is definitely the best tablet on the market. I only own Samsung products. Samsung has a variety of choices in all price ranges. I haven't ever been disappointed with Samsung products.
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I love the Galaxy note... the one thing I would Recomendación is being able to use external drives to view movies or videos since the tab can only hold so much memory. .. but, I love it just the same.
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I've owned this tablet for a close to a year now, and can only say nothing but outstanding things about it. This tablet is not only beautiful, but its powerful, durable, and helps me accomplish work with ease while at home (mainly) or on the go. The multi-window feature along with the use of the S-Pen is fantastic. The camera quality is nothing short of amazing (for being a tablet). What else can I say...everything works flawlessly. The tablet is amazing. I'm super happy with this purchase.
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By bluesoda007
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Middle of May 2015 and still no lollipop update. I've really enjoyed this tablet but really discouraged at why a big company like Samsung cannot seem to put out updates in a timely matter. there is no reason why this tablet shouldn't already have the latest version of Android Lollipop. Also no docking station accessorie, hard to use when battery is low without a docking station. will not purchase another samsung tablet due to lack of updates..
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BOURG, La. (AP) � The Grand Caillou-Dulac Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw tribe is planning a celebration to mark the 10th anniversary of receiving formal recognition by the state.
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