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According to the invention, a method for creating an electronic greeting card that references a gift is disclosed. In one step, a selection of the electronic greeting card is received from a sender of that greeting card. Identification of the gift is received. A code indicative of the gift is created, whereby the code facilitates retrieving information about the gift. The code is embedded in the electronic greeting card.
1. A electronic greeting card that references a gift, the greeting card comprising:
a greeting portion of the greeting card, wherein the greeting portion is primarily designed by someone other than a sender of the greeting card, wherein:
the gift is separately provided to a receiver of the greeting card; and
a code that provides information for the gift, wherein:
at least some information for the gift is unique to the gift, and
the code is adapted to be used by both the receiver to retrieve and display the electronic greeting card, and a payment enabler of a money transfer system working in concert with a first web site which received the selection of the greeting card by the sender to reference the electronic gift chosen by the sender; and
a customized portion that changes with status of the gift.
2. The greeting card that references the gift as recited in
3. The greeting card that references the gift as recited in
4. The greeting card that references the gift as recited in
5. The greeting card that references the gift as recited in
tracking delivery of the gift;
rerouting delivery of the gift;
researching the gift;
returning the gift;
substituting the gift for another;
accepting the gift;
refusing the gift;
selling the gift; and
repairing the gift.
6. A method for generating an electronic greeting card that references a gift, the method comprising:
generating a greeting portion of the greeting card, wherein the greeting portion is primarily designed by someone other than a sender of the greeting card;
separately providing the gift to a receiver of the greeting card;
providing a code that provides information for the gift, wherein at least some information for the gift is unique to the gift;
using the code by the receiver to retrieve and display the electronic greeting card;
using the code by a payment enabler of a money transfer system working in concert with a first web site which received the selection of the greeting card by the sender to reference the electronic gift chosen by the sender; and
providing a customized portion of the greeting card that changes with status of the gift.
7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium for generating an electronic greeting card that references a gift, the non-transitory computer-readable medium have sets of instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:
generate a greeting portion of the greeting card, wherein the greeting portion is primarily designed by someone other than a sender of the greeting card;
separately provide the gift to a receiver of the greeting card;
provide a code that provides information for the gift, wherein at least some information for the gift is unique to the gift;
use the code by the receiver to retrieve and display the electronic greeting card;
use the code by a payment enabler of a money transfer system working in concert with a first web site which received the selection of the greeting card by the sender to reference the electronic gift chosen by the sender; and
provide a customized portion of the greeting card that changes with status of the gift.
This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/531,030 filed on Sep. 12, 2006 and entitled "Electronic Gift Linking"; which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/313,934 filed on Dec. 5, 2002 and entitled "Electronic Gift Linking"; which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/010,068, filed on Dec. 6, 2001 and entitled "Electronic Gift Greeting"; which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/737,912 filed on Dec. 15, 2000 and entitled "Online Method and System for Ordering and Having Delivered a Paper Greeting Message and Payment Instrument," and which claims the benefit under 35 U.S.C. ¦119(e) of U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/256,127 filed on Dec. 15, 2000 and entitled "Electronic Gift Greeting." The entire disclosure for each of the above listed Applications is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety for all purposes.
This invention relates in general to greeting cards and, more specifically, to electronic greeting cards.
Electronic greeting cards (eCards) are analogous to paper greeting cards, but are available only on computers in electronic form. These eCards are available from web sites such as BlueMountain.com™. An eCard is usually sent by an e-mail message that invites the recipient to execute a program or applet that displays a greeting that could be animated or could include a personalized message. Some eCards are displayed within a browser window and could use Macromedia Flash™ animation
With paper greeting cards, the sender may accompany the card with a gift commensurate with the occasion as is customary in some cultures. It is known to also include cash, a check or gift certificate along with the paper greeting card to serve as the gift. Electronic greeting cards provide no mechanism for including a gift with the card.
The present invention is described in conjunction with the appended figures:
In the appended figures, similar components and/or features may have the same reference label. Further, various components of the same type may be distinguished by following the reference label by a dash and a second label that distinguishes among the similar components. If only the first reference label is used in the specification, the description is applicable to any one of the similar components having the same first reference label irrespective of the second reference label.
The ensuing description provides preferred exemplary embodiment(s) only, and is not intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of the invention. Rather, the ensuing description of the preferred exemplary embodiment(s) will provide those skilled in the art with an enabling description for implementing a preferred exemplary embodiment of the invention. It being understood that various changes may be made in the function and arrangement of elements without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for embedding electronic gifts and gift information in electronic greeting cards (eCards). A sender of the eCard can select the electronic gift during the eCard creation process. The receiver redeems the electronic gift or otherwise receives status after receiving it in the card. Electronic gifts could include any tangible gift, a credit in a stored value fund, a foreign currency credit in the stored value fund, a prepaid credit or debit card, a prepaid phone card, promotional points, airline mileage credits, a gift certificate for one or more retailers, and a separately delivered negotiable instrument. The prepaid credit or debit cards are backed by a credit card company and are usable like a credit card for purchases up to a specified amount. For example, a $50 MasterCard™ prepaid credit card could be issued that is good for any goods or services offered by a merchant that accepts MasterCard™ until the $50 credit is spent. The tangible gifts are referenced in the eCard and certain status information is available.
In one embodiment, the present invention provides a method for creating an electronic greeting card that references a gift. In one step, a selection of the electronic greeting card is received from a sender of that greeting card. Identification of the gift is received. A code indicative of the gift is created, whereby the code facilitates retrieving information about the gift. The code is embedded in the electronic greeting card.
In another embodiment, the present invention provides a greeting card that references a gift. Included in the greeting card are a greeting portion and a code. The greeting portion could be primarily designed by someone other than a sender. The code provides information for the gift. The gift is separately provided to a receiver of the greeting card. At least some of the information for the gift is unique to that gift.
In yet another embodiment, the present invention provides a computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave. For example, this could be an e-mail message sent by way of the Internet. A first code segment includes code for a greeting portion of an electronic greeting card. A second code segment includes a code that provides information for a gift associated with the electronic greeting card. The gift is separately provided to a receiver of the electronic greeting card.
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The eCard site 140 is a web site on the Internet 150 and may include servers and other computers as is well known in the art. The sender 110 points their browser to the eCard site 140 to choose an eCard to send to the receiver 130. Although this embodiment shows the eCard site 140 being separate from the money transfer system 190, other embodiments could combine these into the same location or spread portions among any number of locations.
The retail gift site 142 also includes servers and other computers to implement its functionality. Other embodiments may have any number of retail gift sites 142 that may or may not be affiliated with the system 100. Affiliated gift sites 142 allow automatically providing gift information for an eCard. Non-affiliated gift sites 142 could also used for a gift in an eCard, but the sender may have to manually identify the gift and provide status information. For example, the sender may buy a set of shoes at a bricks-and-mortar retailer. The eCard site 140 could accept the stock keeping unit (SKU) identifier for those shoes to reference description information on the shoes for the eCard. Some embodiments could reference items not even purchased at retail, for example, used merchandise.
The transfer system 190 works in concert with the eCard site 140 to provide certain types of electronic gifts for embedding in the eCard. Also, the receiver 130 may interact with the transfer system 190 to payout the electronic gift. In some cases, the sender 110 chooses a type of electronic gift that does not require the receiver 130 to interact with the transfer system 190, such as with a gift certificate or tangible gift. Money handlers 160 are used to pay-in money used for the electronic gift or payout gifts of money. The user interfaces 180 provide a variety of ways for the sender and receiver 110, 130 to interact with the transfer system 190. Further, the user interfaces 180 could be used to interact with the eCard site 140 and/or gift site 142. Although this embodiment uses a money transfer system 190 for some gifts, other methods could be used to fund these gifts.
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The promotion handler 160-1 allows adding and removing money in a form other than legal tender or a negotiable instrument. Examples include airline mileage programs and prepaid phone cards. For example, a user could use money in their stored value fund to purchase airline miles with an airline mileage handler 160-1. A conversion rate would be applied to convert the money to mileage credit. The promotion handler 160-1 may need special information from the payment enabler 170, such as the sender's 110 promotion account number, etc. Some of the interfaces 180 used to gain access to the payment enabler 170 could be used to also gain access to the eCard site 140 to allow ordering a eCard with an embedded gift where a computer 120 may not be readily available to the sender 110.
The credit and debit card handlers 160-2, 160-3 largely behave the same. Both can be used to add money into the payment enabler 170. In other embodiments, these handlers 160-2, 160-3 can also be used to remove money from the payment enabler 170 also, for example, to purchase a prepaid credit/debit card, to pay down a balance on a credit card, or to add credit to a bank account associated with a debit card. To use these handlers 160-2, 160-3, the payment enabler 170 stores the information for receiving money from credit or debit cards in the conventional way, such as the account number, expiration date, name, and/or PIN. Similar information may be used when paying-out money to a credit/debit card.
The bank handler 160-4 allows electronic funds transfer (EFT) of money to a bank account of the user. The user enters the account number and routing information into the payment enabler 170 with a user interface 180 to facilitate adding and removing of money from the payment enabler with this handler 160-4. In one embodiment, an automated teller machine (ATM) could incorporate the bank handler 160-4 along with an ATM interface 180-1 to allow adding and removing funds along with interfacing with the payment enabler 170. Another embodiment uses a bank handler 160-4 branch location as a retail interface 180-4 for interacting with the payment enabler 170. Some embodiments could wire money into a bank account of the user instead of an EFT.
The retail handler 160-5 typically corresponds to a retail location 600 that may wire money, print money orders and/or cash checks. Money may be sent to the retail handler 160-5, whereafter the user 130 is issued cash or a negotiable instrument for that money. Money can be added to the system 100 by the retail handler 160-5 also. For example, the user 110 may give cash to the agent who enters a credit into the payment enabler. The user could further specify to the agent a receiver who 130 should get the money. A retail interface 180-4 at the retail location 600 is used by the agent to indicate to the payment enabler 170 that the money has been received from or by the user 110, 130. Through a retail handler 160-5, a sender 110 could use the online money transfer system 100 without any knowledge of computers or without any debit/credit card or bank account.
Gift certificates are dispensed through one or more gift certificate handlers 160-6. The gift certificate can be limited to merchandise and/or services from a single store or a group of stores. In some cases, the gift certificate is used only online by entering a code provided to the receiver or could be printed for use in a bricks and mortar store. Cash equivalents such as Flooz™, formerly available from Flooz.com, could also be provided to the receiver 130.
As briefly discussed above, the ATM interface 180-1 allows interaction with the payment enabler 170. The user 110, 130 may or may not have an affiliation with the ATM that is used to interface with the payment enabler 170. Under this circumstance, the owner of the ATM may charge the user a fee for this service. The user 110, 130 can receive cash or deposit cash if the ATM is coupled to a bank handler 160-4. In any event, the ATM interface 180-1 can be used to interface with the payment enabler 170 in the same way a user 110, 130 may interact through a web browser and computer 120 with the payment enabler 170. If the ATM has a magnetic stripe or smart card reader, this could be used by to avoid entering credit or debit card information manually for the payment enabler 170.
A kiosk interface 180-2 allows a user to interact with the payment enabler 170, but typically does not allow adding or removing cash. The kiosk interface 180-2 may be a browser terminal available for general use. Some embodiments may include a check or money order printer for removing money from the system 100. The kiosk interface 180-2 could be in a retail location 600 and linked to the other systems in the retail location 600 such that a payout could be provided by other systems in the retail location 600.
An Internet interface 180-3 is typically implemented through a web browser. The browser downloads web pages from the payment enabler 170. The Internet interface could be hosted by the computer 120 of the user. Some embodiments could host the Internet interface on a portable device such as a wireless phone or personal digital assistant (PDA). The Internet interface 180-3 may also be used by the ATM, kiosk and retail interfaces 180-1, 180-2, 180-4 in whole or in part. The Internet interface 180-3 uses encryption for the link to the payment enabler 170 in some embodiments.
The retail interface 180-4 allows for specialized interaction by an agent at the retail location 600. Agents typically have special training and offer enhanced services over most interfaces 180 and handlers 160. The agent can move money between senders 110 and receivers 130. Also, the agent can pay-in and pay-out money from the transfer system 100. The retail interface 180-4 allows an agent to act on behalf of the user when manipulating the user's account. For security, the user's password or PIN may be entered by the user during this manipulation. Further, the agent may verify the identity of the receiver 130 before disbursing the electronic gift. In one embodiment, a test question is provided by the sender 110 that the receiver 130 must answer before the electronic gift is paid-out.
Interaction with the payment enabler 170 may also be performed over a telephone 140 interfaced to the plain-old telephone system (POTS) 155. The phone interface 180-5 provides voice prompts and recognizes the user's touch-tone or speech recognized input. Enhanced interaction with the phone interface 180-5 could be provided with wireless phones having wireless access protocol (WAP) and/or browser graphical user interfaces (GUIs).
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The payment controller 304 manages operation of the payment enabler 170. The handlers 160 and interfaces 180 along with user information and money conversion tasks are all choreographed by the payment controller 304. The payment controller 304 is interconnected to the other portions of the payment enabler 170 by one or more networks.
The payment enabler 170 is involved in the process of embedding gifts in eCards. Once a gift is selected in the payment enabler 170, status information is provided to the eCard site 140 by the affiliate interface 333. The payment enabler 170 receives information from the eCard site 140 through the affiliate interface 333 to prepopulate forms. When funds clear or fail to clear, that could also be relayed to the eCard site 140 by this interface 333.
The payment conversion function 328 allows converting between disparate forms of money as it is transferred through the transfer system 190. An exchange rate database 332 holds conversion factors that allow determining the proper weight to give one form of money with respect to the others. In one example, the payment conversion function 328 may convert money in U.S. dollars to money in European Union Euros. In another example, a user may convert money into airline miles of eight miles for every dollar for a promotion handler 160-1. The exchange rate database 332 is updated with conversion rates as often as practical using conventional methods. The conversion rate may accommodate a percentage service fee for the exchange, or instead of a conversion rate, a flat fee could be charged.
A billing function 312 monitors and charges for the services of the payment enabler 170. There may be charges when transferring money, converting money, sending electronic gifts, printing and mailing negotiable instruments, using kiosks, ATMs or retail locations, etc. These charges are normally deducted from a transfer, but other embodiments could charge monthly fees or charge a fee to the sender 110 in addition to the amount transferred. Some embodiments could recover a fee from the handler 160, for example, a fee could be charged to the gift certificate target store instead of charging the sender 110. The different types of handlers 160 may have different fees associated with them. For example, a credit card may have a three percent charge, but a bank transfer may only have a one percent charge. The sender 110 and/or the receiver 130 can be charged to transfer money between themselves. The transfer in or out of the system 100 may incur a separate charge. The billing function 312 may issue invoices for some users 110, 130.
There are handler interfaces 308 to support the various types of handlers 160. Each of these interfaces 308 may support a single handler 160 or a group of handlers. For example, a single interface may perform EFT both to and from all bank handlers 160. When money is sent to or received from a handler 160, the appropriate handler interface 308 passes the money and transfer information to the payment controller. In some embodiments, the cost of the transfer to or from the handler is reported by the handler interface 308 such that the billing function can recover those costs.
Information for the users of the system 100 is stored in the user database 324. This information includes an address book of other users, money credit in the stored value fund, past money transfer information, account number, e-mail addresses, contact information, handler interface information, handler preference information, etc. The money credit is stored in a trust account for the benefit of the user according to the entry in the user database 324 corresponding to that user and interest may or may not be paid on that money credit.
The enabler interface 320 is used by the various interfaces 180 to interact with the user or their agent. The enabler interface 320 produces the form web pages and informational web pages to allow the user to create and maintain their account, transfer money, select electronic gifts, and learn to use the system 100. The appropriate user interface 180 formats and processes the enabler interface information according to the device used to interface with the payment enabler 170. For example, the Internet interface 180-3 takes the information from the enabler interface 320 and formats into hypertext mark-up language (HTML) appropriate for the computer 120 of the user. Other embodiments may not have a web interface, using application software instead to interact with the enabler interface 320.
A messaging function 316 is used with some configurations to notify the user of certain events. Requests for money are sent by the messaging function 316 along with acknowledgment and billing messages. For example, a transfer not clearing could be sent to the sender 110 such that another payment option could be used to fund the transfer. These messages could be accessed using a web browser, an e-mail program, an instant messaging program, a pager, a WAP enabled device, etc. In some embodiments, the messaging function 316 may issue printed bills for users. The messaging function 316 is also used to communicate with retail locations 600, the eCard site 140 in various embodiments.
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The card site controller 404 manages the functions of the eCard site 140. The card web interface 408 allows interaction with information in the greeting card database 412 and user database 416. Both the sender and receiver 110, 130 interact with the web interface 408 to either send or receive the eCard.
The possible eCards that the sender might select are stored in the greeting card database 412. Templates and possible customizations for each greeting card are also stored in this database. The user database 416 has the customizations for a particular card sent to a particular receiver.
Any account information on the sender and receiver 110, 130 is stored in the user database 416. As mentioned above, the user database 416 also stores the chosen eCard with any customizations for the benefit of the receiver 130. When the receiver provides the e-mailed code to the web interface 408, the eCard is retrieved and displayed in this embodiment. The code is used by the payment enabler to reference the electronic gift chosen by the sender 110. In some embodiments, the code may embed details of the electronic gift or other information.
When the sender or receiver 110, 130 works with an electronic gift, the web interface 408 hands them off to the transfer system 190. The enabler interface 420 facilitates the communication between the eCard site 140 and the transfer system 190 such that the user 110, 130 is provided with a seamless experience. User information is passed by the payment enabler interface 420 to the messaging function 316 of the transfer system 190. Through that same pathway, information on the selected electronic gift is provided to the eCard site 140.
When the sender 110 configures the electronic card to include a tangible gift from the retail gift site 142, the gift site 142 and eCard site 140 interact by way of the retail gift interface 420. After the gift is chosen, status information is also provided to the eCard site by this conduit 420. For example, shipping status, tracking status and return information are provided by the gift site 142 to the eCard site 140 by this interface 420.
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The retail site controller 504 manages operation of the eCard site 140. Web or interface pages are formulated by the site controller 504 and presented through the retail web interface 508 to allow creating accounts, buying goods or services, tracking orders, and providing account status. Communication with the gift site(s) is performed by the gift site interface 520 to provide gift status and receive demographic information.
Information is stored in the user database 516 and the order status database 512. The user database 516 has demographic information and payment information on the users of the gift site 142. Some embodiments of the retail site 142 could use the money transfer system 190 as one form of payment. Information on the orders placed by the users of the gift site 142 is maintained in the order status database 512. For example, the order status database 512 knows which items are shipped, which items are accepted by the receiver 130, the shipper tracking for items, the warranty information for each item, and any product information for each item. The product information may include pricing information that is removed in some embodiments before presenting the product information to the receiver 130. Information in both the user database 516 and the order status database 512 can be shared with the eCard site 140 to reduce redundant entry by a user 110, 130. For example, where a user of the retail site 142, but new to the eCard site 140, purchases something to include with an eCard, demographic information could be provided to the eCard site 140 along with information on the gift.
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The kiosk interface 180-2 is primarily intended for users to interact with, and the retail interface 180-4 is primarily intended for agents to interact with. In some embodiments, both interfaces 180-2, 180-4 are used to perform a transfer and/or gift purchase. For example, the agent may use the retail interface 180-4 to perform the transfer while the kiosk interface 180-2 is used to monitor the agent's actions and enter a password or PIN that is kept secret from the agent. The kiosk interface 180-2 may also be used to perform a complete transfer in circumstances where the user 110, 130 is trained to use the system 100, but does not utilize other interfaces 180 for whatever reason.
The retail interface 180-4 and kiosk interface 180-2 can output a negotiable instrument with a printer 612. Examples of negotiable instruments include money orders, cashiers checks, tellers checks, certified checks, checks, gift certificates, coupons, etc. In some embodiments, each interface 180-2, 180-4 may have a separate printer. The printer 612 may also be used to print receipts and messages related to the transfer of money.
Money can be added to or removed from the system 100 at the retail location 600 with money distribution devices 608, 616, 620. In the conventional manner, cash can be received by the cash register, credit or debit cards and be debited by the card terminal 608, and checks can be confirmed with a check validation terminal 620. Cash can be paid out from the cash register 616 or added to a credit or debit card by the card terminal 608 in a conventional fashion. These money distribution devices 608, 616, 620 all interface with the system 100 by way of the retail interface 180-4 such that pay-outs and pay-ins can be automatically recorded by the payment enabler 170. Where the user may not have convenient access to an interface 180, the interaction with the gift site 142 and eCard site 140 at the retail location 600 are performed using the kiosk and/or retail interfaces 180-2, 180-4.
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A personalized portion 708 has a message from the sender 110 with possible hot links to information. For example, the bolded "scooter" can be selected to link to product information on that scooter. The message could have any number of hot links provided by the sender 110. When creating the eCard, certain pre-determined information is made available, such as, product information, retailer information, manufacturer information, product reviews, tracking information, warranty information, content ratings, safety ratings, recall information, frequently asked questions, care instructions, clearing status of a money transfer, expiration of promotional points and coupons, etc. This embodiment also has buttons that activate hot links. A track gift button 712 provides tracking information on the goods and a gift information button 716 provides product information and product reviews for the goods and/or services. The product information is retrieved from the order status database 512 of the gift site 142 or other sources of product information.
Even though some embodiments can provide information on the gift automatically from the retail gift site 142 or money transfer system 190, this information can be manually entered for gifts not from an affiliated gift site 142. More specifically, product information, retailer information, manufacturer information, product reviews, tracking information, warranty information, care instructions, clearing status of a money transfer, expiration of promotional points and coupons, etc. could all be entered by the sender 110 in some way. For example, the sender 110 may buy something at a discount store, but by entering the SKU into the eCard site be able to get access to product information, manufacturer information, product reviews, tracking information, warranty information, care instructions, for that item. The tracking code provided by the shipper of the item could also be manually entered by the sender 110.
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A substitute gift button 812 allows the receiver 130 to receive credit for the gift that could be used for store credit, for credit at another affiliated gift site 142, or for cash in a stored value account of the money transfer system 190. The hot link in the eCard 800 to the scooter of this embodiment could be changed to reflect the substitute gift. The order status database 512 of the retail gift site 142 is updated to reflect any substitute gifts.
An alternate delivery address can be chosen by selecting the reroute gift button 816. Once the address is correct, the receiver can accept the gift. In some embodiments, the sender could be provided status on the substitute gift or addresses.
The sender 110 could specify whether the gift can be rejected, substituted or rerouted by the receiver 130 and the buttons would be displayed accordingly. Further, some retail sites 142 may not allow certain options. For example, a given retail site 142 may not allow rerouting a package. The eCard site 140 could recognize that rerouting is not available and not present the reroute option to the sender 110 or receiver 130.
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Where the receiver 110 decides to include an electronic gift of money, promotional points, a gift certificate, a negotiable instrument or other gifts available from the money transfer system 190 in step 1212, processing continues to step 1216 where the sender 110 is handed-off to the payment enabler 170. Any user information is passed by the payment enabler interface 420 to the affiliate interface 333 of the payment enabler 170. This information is used to pre-populate any forms presented to the sender or later to the receiver 110, 130. In step 1220, the money is paid into the payment enabler 170 to pay for the electronic gift. If more work is required on the eCard, the sender 110 could be passed back to the eCard site 140. As the funds that paid for the gift clear or don't the eCard site can be notified of this status.
In some cases, the sender 110 may choose from step 1212 to send a gift that is referenced in the eCard 700. In step 1243, the sender chooses from a list of affiliated gift sites 142 and is handed off to that site to select the gift to reference in the eCard. Some embodiments could provide an option for manual entry of the gift information referenced in the eCard 700. The sender 110 chooses goods and/or services from the gift site 142. Information on the chosen gift is provided from the gift site 142 to the eCard site 140 in step 1245. This status information could be updated over time as the item is accepted, shipped, received, no longer returnable, out of warranty, etc.
If the eCard creation process is complete, the eCard 700 is sent by e-mail or other electronic methods to the receiver in step 1224. Some embodiments could print the card with its associated information and mail that print of the card to the sender 130. Links in the printed card could be entered by the receiver 130 to get access to the electronic version or other information on the gift. In step 1228, the receiver 130 opens the email, WAP or pager message referencing the eCard and clicks on a link in the e-mail to open a browser window directed at the web interface 408 of the eCard site 140. Some embodiments could include an executable eCard application as an attachment to the e-mail message.
If an electronic gift is included in the eCard as determined in step 1232, an icon or button appears in the eCard 700 that is clicked to direct the receiver 130 to a eCard screen 700 that informs the receiver 130 of the gift and presents the greeting of the eCard 700. This screen could include another message, information on the electronic gift, advertisements, and/or other information. The screen may give all the information necessary for redeeming the electronic gift. For example, another button may be presented entitled "redeem your gift certificate" that would forward the user to the target merchant(s) for the gift certificate. To verify identity, the target merchant would require the e-mail address for the eCard be used to configure an account. Where money is available from a stored value fund on the payment enabler 170, the receiver 130 is invited to create an account where there is none. Some money gifts from the payment enabler 170 do not require creation of an account.
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In this embodiment, there are two ways in the process 1220 to fund the payment enabler 170. The first starts in step 1304 and is done through the Internet 150 or other electronic means and the second starts in step 1328 and is done at a retail location 600. Referring initially to the first way that starts in step 1304, the sender 110 logs into the enabler interface 320 after being handed-off from the eCard site 140. In some embodiments, the sender 110 may be automatically logged-in based upon information from the eCard site 140. Depending on the situation, the sender 110 may or may not need to open an account with the payment enabler 170. Where the sender 110 does not create an account for the electronic gift, the sender 110 is said to remain "external" to the transfer system 190. If the transfer is not from an external sender as determined in step 1308, an account is opened in step 1312 if there is none. For external transactions, money handler information is provided in step 1316.
An identifier is entered for the receiver in step 1320, although this step could be automatically performed with information from the eCard site. The identifier in this embodiment is the e-mail address of the receiver 130, but other identifiers could also be used in other embodiments. In step 1324, the sender is given options for the electronic gifts and the prices associated with each. The prices may include any service fees. The money is moved from the specified money handler 160 to the stored value fund of the receiver in step 1344.
The second way for the sender 110 to fund the stored value fund of the receiver begins in step 1328 where money is given at a retail location 600. The money can be in the form of a credit/debit card, negotiable instrument, promotional points, coupons, and/or cash. If the eCard 700 were already selected online and stored, the agent could access the eCard 700 to add the electronic gift. More typically, the sender would select the eCard 700 at the kiosk interface 180-2 in the retail location 600. The agent is able to pull up the eCard transaction by the identifier of the receiver 130 or other information in step 1332. With the provided money, the agent enters the desired electronic gift and the amount associated with it or pays the merchant associated with the tangible gift. In step 1344, the money is moved to the receiver's stored value fund minus any fees.
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In any event, the depicted portion of the process 1236 begins in step 1404 where the types of external payouts are separated from the internal payout option. Step 1406 is the start of the external payout option where a negotiable instrument is provided to a retail location 600. After clicking on the button or icon in the eCard for the electronic gift a screen is presented with information on the electronic gift, or negotiable instrument in this case. That screen or a subsequent screen allows the receiver to find a retail location 600 that is conveniently located for pick-up of the negotiable instrument. In step 1408, that retail location is notified of the negotiable instrument and particulars on the receiver 130. These particulars may include a way to validate the identity of the receiver. For example, a test question and answer could be used to verify identity. In step 1412, the negotiable instrument is printed for the receiver 130 after any verification of identity.
The next external payout option involves mailing out a printed negotiable instrument. In step 1416, the sender 110 enters the delivery address for the receiver. The payment enabler 170 decides which money handler 160 to use to print the negotiable instrument. That money handler 160 prints and sends the negotiable instrument in step 1420.
In another external payout option, a gift certificate or store credit is forwarded to the target retailer(s) for the benefit of the receiver 130. In some embodiments, the gift certificate could be redeemable at a number of retailers, such that one of those would only get credit if the receiver 130 spent the gift certificate at the one's store. In step 1424, the sender 110 enters the target retailer into the payment enabler 170. The retailer is notified of the issuance of the gift certificate in step 1428. In step 1430, the credit is paid out to the retailer either before or after the receiver 130 purchases items with that retailer.
In the final external payout option depicted, a gift is referenced in the eCard 700. The receiver 130 accepts, reroutes and/or substitutes the gift in step 1451. The receiver 130 can track the package and receive other status information during the process. The personalized portion 708 or other portions of the eCard 700 may change in response to status changes of the gift. In step 1455, the gift is shipped to the receiver 130 so long as the gift was accepted by the receiver 130. Some embodiments could ship the gift and not give the receiver 130 an option to reject, reroute or substitute the gift. In step 1459, the status of the gift is updated on the eCard site 140 by the retail gift site 142.
With an internal payout, the receiver 130 is given the equivalent of cash that can be used in any number of ways supported by the payment enabler 170. The sender 110 may be able to choose which ways are available for a particular gift. When the electronic gift screen is opened from the eCard 700, the receiver 130 is invited to log into the payment enabler interface 420 in step 1436. As indicated in step 1440, the receiver 130 can log into an existing account or open a new account in step 1312. Once an account is logged into or created, the receiver moves the money out of their stored value fund in step 1444.
Referring to
Once an e-mail address is given to the payment enabler 170, it is verified. A message is sent to the e-mail address in step 1508. A code is provided and an URL such that the user can click on the URL to load a page where the code is entered to verify the e-mail address. In this embodiment, the code is a randomly generated set of alphanumeric characters. Other embodiments could use any number of methods to verify the e-mail address.
The user 110, 130 enters contact information in step 1512. This contact information could include address, phone number, pager address, instant message address, wireless phone address, contact e-mail address, etc. In step 1516, the user enters handler interface information. For example, the user might enter credit card information and bank transfer information. In step 1520, the information is verified with the handler 160 to the extent possible for that handler 160. In step 1524, the process 612 can loop back to step 1516 for entering and verifying additional handlers.
In step 1528, a default input handler 160 and a default output handler 160 can be chosen for transferring money into and out of the system 100. These two handlers 160 may be different. In step 1532, the payment enabler 170 waits for verification at least one of the e-mail addresses before activating the account for sending and receiving money with that e-mail address in step 1536.
With reference to
Where there is not sufficient funds in the stored value fund, processing continues to step 1616 to load funds. In step 1616, the default pay-in handler 160 is determined. The information used to transfer money from the handler 160 into the payment enabler 170 is retrieved from the user database 324 in step 1618. The sender 110 may be given an opportunity to change the default pay-in handler 160 for this transaction or for all further transactions. Presuming there are no changes, the default handler 160 is interfaced in step 1620 to transfer the money. If there is no stored value fund for the receiver 130, a temporary fund is created in step 1624. A temporary stored value fund can be used for a single transfer, but the receiver may want to make the temporary fund permanent by opening an account with the payment enabler 170.
Regardless of whether new money is added or whether existing money is used, processing continues to step 1628 from both step 1612 and step 1624. In step 1628, the money is attributed to the receivers 130 stored value fund to the detriment of the sender's stored value fund in step 1628. In some embodiments, the payment does not originate in the sender's stored value fund, but passes directly from the money handler 160 of the sender 110 to the stored value fund of the receiver 130. In other embodiments, the sender can select a future time that payment is made such that the payment is configured now, but completed at the future time.
Referring to
A user may have a number of different currencies of money in their stored value fund. The user may select some or all of the different currencies for paying-out. In many cases, the handler 160 only accepts money in a single currency or the user may simply wish to exchange money to another currency. In step 1710, any currency is exchanged. The exchange rate database 332 is queried for the current rate that is applied by the payment conversion function 328.
In step 1712, processing branches in one of six directions depending on the type of handler the user has chosen. The first two directions are depicted on
In another branch that begins in step 1736, a promotion program is chosen as the handler 160-1. Either the promotion handler 160-1 or the exchange rate database 332 can be queried in step 1736 to determine the exchange rate for program credits or points. In step 1740, the conversion rate is presented to the user for approval. Presuming the rate is approved, the promotion credits or points are purchased in step 1744 by interfacing with the promotion handler 160-1. The payout of money to the promotion handler 160-1 is recorded in step 1732.
In yet another branch that begins in step 1748 of
In the branch labeled "B," a bank transfer is used to payout money from the system 100. In step 1760, an EFT message is formulated for the handler bank 160-4. The EFT message is sent to the handler bank 160-4 in step 1764. Receipt of the EFT message is confirmed by the handler interface 308 in step 1768 and the transfer is recorded in step 1732.
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In the last branch of
With reference to
For gifts not originating from an affiliated gift site 142, processing goes from step 1856 to step 1860. These gifts could be new or used. In step 1860, the sender 110 identifies the gift by entering a SKU or some other identifier to be able to get product information, manufacturer information, user guides, warranty information, product reviews from a database of such information in step 1864. Where the item is unique or otherwise not available in the database, the sender can write their own description and provide links manually to other information on the gift. The sender 110 can enter a tracking number or identifier in step 1868 such that tracking information can be retrieved for the gift as it travels to the receiver. If any of this information is not currently available, the sender 110 can return later to enter it.
Regardless of whether the gift is from an affiliated gift site or not, processing continues to step 1852 where the sender returns to the gift site 142. The sender can choose in step 1866 options for the eCard 700. Options include allowing returns, allowing exchanges, providing tracking, allowing reroutes, assisting resale, assisting repair, etc. as demonstrated in
While the principles of the invention have been described above in connection with specific apparatuses and methods, it is to be clearly understood that this description is made only by way of example and not as limitation on the scope of the invention.
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IFC's Video on Demand Connects Niche Movies and Their Audiences
If you have digital cable, you've probably already discovered the joys of the "on-demand" option, calling up last week's episode of Mad Men or a just-out-of-theaters Hollywood blockbuster whenever the fancy strikes. But some of the smaller (and more interesting) theatrical film distributors are using video on demand to turn your set into an elite cinema outlet. The company taking biggest and best advantage of on-demand is IFC, which has been using its cable-channel foothold to roll out its theatrically distributed titles on VOD simultaneously as it puts them into theaters, months before they hit DVD/Blu-ray. It might not seem like good business on paper, but fewer and fewer movie theaters take chances on smaller, more challenging films (e.g., Lars von Trier's 2009 IFC-distributed Antichrist), even for a week. With VOD, IFC can reach paying customers directly anywhere for months, as long as they have a cable box.
Current IFC VOD offering Valhalla Rising is a good example of the kind of film that has little or no chance in today's distribution market but doesn't necessarily merit the relative ignominy of straight-to-DVD. The trailer makes it look like a gritty Viking action-adventure epic, which would surely be good for a few box-office bucks. The film itself, however, is a slow and brooding meditation on violence and faith and humanity—as much beholden to Andrei Tarkovsky as to Ridley Scott. One Eye (Mads Mikkelsen) is a mute slave, kept in a cage when he's not winning his Viking master glory and wagers in gruesome gladiator bouts. He escapes, along with a boy slave (Maarten Stevenson), and falls in with another Viking band bound for the Crusades. But a mysterious mist puts the Vikings far off course and delivers them to an unknown land where their plans for redemption through battle don't quite come off as planned. Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn (the Pusher trilogy) proves expert and unreserved when it comes to moments of shocking violence, but more often he relies on mood and atmospheric menace (aided by stark Scottish locations) as he barely advances the faintest hint of a plot (one not dissimilar to Tony Stone's 2007 über-indie Viking flick Severed Ways). The vaporous atmosphere and untied loose ends threaten to dissipate entirely, but the unrelieved grim tone and Mikkelsen's stoic charisma help bind the whole thing together.
From the obscure to the already infamous, IFC VOD has also been offering The Human Centipede (First Sequence) for home viewing. Vacationing BFFs Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams) and Jenny (Ashelynn Yennie) are exactly the sort of vapid idiots the gorno genre loves to torture. But what the Teutonic Dr. Heiter (Dieter Laser)—and writer/director Tom Six—have in store is so depraved that even these ugly Americans don't seem to deserve their fate: surgically daisy-chained together with another poor kidnapped unfortunate (Akihiro Kitamura). But what's perhaps most disturbing about The Human Centipede is that it can't easily be dismissed as genre trash. Despite a few moments of borderline Udo Kier-like camp, Laser proves a formidable villain, and Six constructs a number of moments of genuine dread. (What's worse than being surgically attached to someone's ass? Anticipating being surgically attached to someone's ass.) It would be most comforting to be able to write off the film as an abomination, the ultimate in poor taste. The truth is it's surprisingly well made and memorable for more than its central conceit.
Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me hasn't earned quite the notoriety that The Human Centipede has, but its turn on the festival circuit led to widely reported walkouts and post-screening outrage. It doesn't take long to see why. Within a few reels, this period adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel presents boyish small-town Texas deputy Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) beating the beautiful prostitute (Jessica Alba) he's been seeing on the sly. And beating her, and beating her, and beating her, and beating her—and apologizing and telling her he loves her in a high drawl while he pounds her face to mush. It's ostensibly part of some elaborate revenge scheme, but as the pulpy plot unfolds and the track-covering and blackmail ensues, the sociopath behind Lou's aw-shucks good ol' boy demeanor bleeds through. Affleck turns in another in a recent string of uncanny performances, and he's backed up by an estimable cast that includes Ned Beatty, Kate Hudson, and Elias Koteas. Winterbottom's reliance on voiceover straight out of the novel maybe seems a bit too pat, but it's his emphasis on unblinking violence against women that seems most dubious, especially since other deaths are handled more discretely, even off camera. And such nose-rubbed grimness deserves a less eye-rolling ending than the director musters up here.
Please keep in mind that IFC offers all sorts of films via VOD, many of which include no blood or mayhem at all, like the acclaimed biodoc Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work. Nonetheless, for lightning-rod titles and smaller markets, VOD is shaping up as an excellent option for your more adventurous cinema fix.


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Don't fancy forking over full whack for a new Xbox? Microsoft provides the solution.
Microsoft has confirmed that it's stopping production on the budget Xbox 360 Arcade - the cheapest of the Xbox range with a mere 256MB of built-in storage - and replacing it with a similar budget version of the new 360 sometime later this year.
The glossy black wonder of the new Xbox 360 Arcade will be available for a lowly $199 (or £134) in the States - $100 cheaper than its bigger brother.
More on the Xbox 360 and Kinect:
Microsoft Kinect is the official name for Project Natal
Microsoft Kinect: Motion control videos
Microsoft Kinect launch titles announced
New Xbox 360 Slim: First impressions
Kinect will be available to buy as part of a bundle with the new 360 Arcade. Although no pricing (or the name "Arcade", for that matter) has been confirmed, US chain Gamestop may have leaked the bundle prices when it advertised them on its website - $299 for the Arcade bundle and $399 for the it's full-sized counterpart.
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I have raving reviews for VP2. This is the only restaurant that my family still eats at since I was a teenager 15 years ago that is still around. The food quality and the service is still just as good. I however, ran into one rude server and that was it. The owners and workers here know my family.
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Used to eat here all the time but no longer enjoy the food or atmosphere. There's a weird unclean smell about the restaurant now. Needless to say I won't be going back.
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I order here everyday love loved this place. But recently they must of gotten new management or a new chef because the food quality has decreased. The customer service is poor! Tried to place a delivery order and they wouldnt deliver for 9.20 because it didnt meet there minimum! I asked them to charge met he .80 cents to cover the cost and they had the nerve to be rude and hang up on my face! I will never order again. Thank you.
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Super thick and tasteless. Oh well.
Posted by Anonymous on 01/04/2011
I'm a vegetarian with a weakness for VP2's [mock] chicken fajitas. Everything I've tried on this creative menu is tasty to downright delicious. The service is extremely friendly (especially once the servers get to know you) and the management will bend over backwards to make sure you're happy. Oh, and the price is right. I read some of the negative reviews and feel as if I must be on a different planet from those customers. There's no pleasing everyone! I'm a regular and couldn't be happier here.
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The quality of VP's food and the portion size vs. price has quickly gone downhill since the restaurant was sold to new owners. Yeah, it's the same name and mostly has the same menu items, but their food has lost that awesome flavor that made it one of my fave restaurants in NYC. Everything's just a little...off. Perhaps the new owners didn't think it was necessary to also buy the recipes or keep the same chef. It's a shame. This place has been here for, like, 25 years...and I fear it will be going out of business soon if they don't scramble and beg the former owners for those yummy recipes. HEY, NEW OWNERS: Get the quality and taste of your food back up to where it was before you bought the place, or you're going to be in serious trouble.


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EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story did not credit KGOU News for their photos and independent reporting that appear in this story. We apologize for the error.
Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner Patrice Douglas and former state Sen. Steve Russell will meet in a runoff election for the Republican nomination in central Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District.
Douglas and Russell were the top vote getters in Tuesday' Republican primary. They will meet again in an Aug. 26 runoff to determine who will advance to the Nov. 4 general election. The winner faces the winner of a Democratic runoff and three independent candidates for the seat being vacated by Republican Rep. James Lankford, who is running for the U.S. Senate.
Douglas was elected mayor of Edmond before she took her statewide seat on the state Corporation Commission.
Russell is a retired Army lieutenant colonel who served in the state Senate from 2008 to 2012 after a more than 20-year Army career.
Retired university professor Tom Guild has advanced to a runoff in the race for the Democratic nomination in central Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District.
Guild was leading two other candidates but not by a large-enough margin to take the nomination outright. Republicans will also have a runoff Aug. 26.
The candidates are seeking to replace Republican Rep. James Lankford, who Tuesday night won the GOP nomination for an open U.S. Senate seat.
Guild taught political science and legal studies for 27 years. He ran unsuccessfully for the 5th District in 2010 and 2012 as a Democrat. The former Republican also ran unsuccessfully three times for Corporation Commissioner.
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In the waning hours of his presidency Monday, outgoing Roxbury Community College president Terrence Gomes signed a sweeping resignation agreement that prohibits him, the college's board, and their successors from speaking negatively about "each other, their officers, agents, or attorneys, in any manner whatsoever.''
The agreement also includes a clause stating that its terms are to be kept confidential to almost all parties except "as may be required by law.''
Under the Roxbury Community College deal, obtained Tuesday by the Globe through a public records request, Gomes will receive $98,374.25 by the end of July, as well as payment for unused vacation days and sick leave. He has been a state employee for four decades, so the latter payment is expected to be substantial.
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Calf Grazing Skirts at Peter Som, Marc Jacobs, and Costello Tagliapietra.
Style tip? Calf grazing skirts aren't naturally the most flattering cut, as most womens' optimal skirt length is at or around the knee. But what these calf grazing skirts lack in figure flattery, they compensate in retro, Hitchcock heroine appeal. The key to wearing these calf grazing skirts without looking matronly is to keep the silhouette of the skirt slim, like an exaggerated pencil skirt. Finish the look off up top with a wildly patterned blouse, as at Costello Tagliapietra, or a perfectly tailored bodice, as at Marc Jacobs. What kind of shoes to wear with calf grazing skirts? Heels, of course, to create the longest, leanest leg line possible.
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Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories, by Sholem Aleichem
A Classic
Tevye the Dairyman and the Railroad Stories
by Sholem Aleichem.
Translated and with an Introduction by Hillel Halkin. Library of Yiddish Classics/ Schocken. 309 pp. $19.95.
Sholem Aleichem (pen-name for Sholem Rabinovich, born in Russia, 1859, died in New York, 1916) remains the central figure of modern Yiddish fiction—not with regard to technique or style, which have since followed other paths, but in his profound identification through his characters and his vivid narrators with the collective spirit of Yiddish-speaking Jewry. In his own lifetime he rapidly achieved the status, with the attendant simplifications, not of writer but of beloved folk hero. His funeral in New York, attended by scores of thousands, was a rite of national mourning.
Sholem Aleichem's relation both to his fictional materials and to his audience was essentially episodic and conversational. The two works drawn together in this new volume were both composed over a span of years by fits and starts. Tevye the Dairyman, probably Sholem Aleichem's most famous work, began as a story published separately in 1894. Further tales of the struggling Tevye's tribulations with his daughters were produced in 1899, 1904, 1905, 1907; and even after the first publication as a book in 1911, the writer continued to fiddle with the material, adding an episode as late as 1914.
Tevye, though not strictly speaking a novel, benefits from the unifying presence of its narrator-protagonist, who in his shrewd humor, his flamboyant absurdities, his capacity for deep affection, and his sheer energy of persistence, is one of the great characters of modern fiction. By contrast, The Railroad Stories, a total of twenty short pieces written in two series, 1902-03 and 1909-10, is patently an assemblage of miscellaneous tales. In this case, the frame that holds the episodes together is purely formal: a traveling salesman who goes back and forth on trains through the Pale of Settlement, listening to the sundry stories of the Jews packed into the third-class carriages and reporting their words to the reader.
The enormous difficulty in translating Sholem Aleichem is that his fiction is more talk than story or novelistic evocation, its deep interest flowing from the charm, the wit, the terrific energy of the talk. In fact, there is in Sholem Aleichem a good deal of talk about the attractions of talk, and when, in one of The Railroad Stories ("Elul"), an actual Russian novel rears its Gentile head, the narrator wants to make sense of it in his own anecdotal terms: "Just tell me how it ends, what's the punch line?" But in Sholem Aleichem's own writing, even anecdotal plot and point are often secondary to sheer talking performance. This is true in the catalogue of mounting disasters with daughters that is the narrative frame of Tevye, and it is even more evident in The Railroad Stories, many of which are really shaggy-dog stories broken off before they come to any resolution. As the narrator says at the beginning of the last piece in the collection, "This is not so much a story as a little chat."
What is all the talk for? As Hillel Halkin aptly puts it in his introduction, the spoken word in Sholem Aleichem is "many things: a club, a cloud, a twitch, a labyrinth, a smokescreen, a magic wand, a madly waved paper fan, a perpetual motion machine, a breastwork against chaos, the very voice of chaos itself." Let me underline the double function of defending against chaos and giving it a voice. Although Sholem Aleichem abundantly deserves his reputation as a compassionate comic writer, his stories record the most dismal accumulation of catastrophes: daughters disappear, commit suicide, or, what is worse, apostasy; people are bamboozled out of their life savings; children are smitten with incurable diseases; dear ones suddenly perish; and, on the historical scale, the whole fabric of family, shtetl community, and traditional life is torn apart. The mechanism of brilliant, wild garrulity, wittily playing with biblical verses, clowning with proverbial expressions, flaunting absurdities, is thus a nervous dance with the forces of dissolution, at once a recognition of their inexorability and a paradoxically buoyant expression of superiority to them.
Tevye knows his own powerlessness as surely as any protagonist of Kafka's, but he knows the consolation of language as well, is pleased to pretend (and pleases his readers through the pretense) that language is an ultimate source of power. Thus, he mutters to himself about the most arrogant and infuriating of his sons-in-law: "Just you wait, you Putzhoddur, you, I'll let you have such a verse from the Bible that you'll see fireworks before your eyes."
This whole comic conjunction of language and anguish is badly explained by the old soppy formula of laughter through tears. The hilarity is a mode of mental survival, even an expression of resilience, but it is often used at the same time by Sholem Aleichem's sundry speakers to hone the tooth of suffering that gnaws at them inwardly.
The translator's quandary is how to convey this power of oral performance in a language that lacks Yiddish's interplay of Germanic, Hebraic, and Slavic elements, its easy use of scriptural and rabbinic citation, its reservoir of distinctive folk sayings, its panoply of habitual little phrases for the invocation of blessing and the averting of misfortune. Hillel Halkin, who over the past fifteen years has firmly established himself as the leading English translator of Hebrew fiction, undertakes a Yiddish work here for the first time. Although he confesses that his Yiddish is not nearly as solid as his Hebrew, and that for matters of accuracy he has had to depend on the expertise of his editor, Ruth R. Wisse, he has produced a brilliant English version of Sholem Aleichem, easily eclipsing all previous translations.
Let me illustrate by quoting the opening lines of Halkin's Tevye and then the same passage in the 1946 translation by Julius and Frances Butwin.
Halkin: If you're meant to strike it rich, Pani Sholem Aleichem, you may as well stay at home with your slippers on, because good luck will find you there too. The more it blows the better it goes, as King David says in his Psalms—and believe me, neither brains nor brawn has anything to do with it. And vice versa: if it's not in the cards you can run back and forth till you're blue in the face, it will do as much good as last winter's snow. How does the saying go? Flogging a dead horse won't make it run any faster. A man slaves, works himself to the bone, is ready to lie down and die—it shouldn't happen to the worst enemies of the Jews. Suddenly, don't ask me how or why, it rains gold on him from all sides. In a word, revakh vehatsoloh ya'amoyd layehudim, just like it says in the Bible! That's too long a verse to translate, but the general gist of it is that as long as a Jew lives and breathes in this world and hasn't more than one leg in the grave, he mustn't lose faith.
Butwin: If you are destined to draw the winning ticket in the lottery, Mr. Sholom Aleichem, it will come right into your house without your asking for it. As King David says, "It never rains but it pours." You don't need wisdom or skill. And, on the contrary, if you are not inscribed as a winner in the Book of Angels, you can talk yourself blue in the face—it won't help you. The Talmud is right: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink." A person slaves, wears himself to the bone, and gets nowhere. He might as well lie down and give up his ghost. Suddenly, no one knows how or for what reason, money rolls in from all sides. As the passage has it, "Relief and deliverance will come to the Jews." I don't have to explain that to you. It should be clear to both of us that so long as a Jew can still draw breath and feel the blood beating in his veins, he must never lose hope.
The obvious stiffness and literary formality of the Butwin version ("the winning ticket in the lottery," "give up his ghost," "as the passage has it") scarcely need COMMENTARY. Halkin's English, by contrast, here and throughout the book, has a kind of Runyonesque colloquial snappiness which is partly a matter of diction, partly a consequence of the bouncy rhythms, the alliterations, and the improvised rhymes that give the prose the liveliness of oral performance. To achieve this general effect, he allows himself—with good warrant, I think—a certain degree of freedom. Thus, the slippers of the opening sentence are a little embellishment absent from the Yiddish but one which helps set the needed note of colloquial vividness; the little joke at the end about four Hebrew words (from Esther) being "too long a verse to translate" is not in the original, which says more or less what the Butwin version says at this point, but it is perfectly in keeping with the jocular use of citation, and Tevye's statement in the Yiddish that the verse needs no translation is a good deal less appropriate for English readers than what he says in Halkin's version.
This problem of how to convey in English Sholem Aleichem's zany play with traditional Jewish texts and practices is crucial for any translator. The Butwins' strategy in general is to make Tevye sound pious—here, for example, by introducing the Book of Angels and the Talmud, neither of which is mentioned in the Yiddish. Halkin, by contrast, either finds a way to get across the gist of the joke or, when that is impossible, tries to create an equivalent joke.
Thus the horse, refusing to drink in the Butwins and dead in Halkin, is part of a wonderfully absurd non-sequitur quotation in the Yiddish: Eyn khokhmoh ve'eyn eytsoh neged a shlekht ferd. The first five words are Hebrew, from Proverbs 21:30: "There is neither wisdom nor counsel against . . . a bad horse." Since the bilingual clowning cannot pass the barrier of translation, Halkin settles for the colloquial tartness in English of flogging a dead horse, a considerable improvement over the more anodyne proverb that the Butwins attribute to the Talmud.
One of the boldest moves Halkin makes in rendering Sholem Aleichem's use of Jewish sources is frequently to introduce, as at the end of the passage I have quoted, biblical verses or rabbinic sayings in the Hebrew, without translation, just as they appear in the Yiddish. He prudently provides at the end of the volume a glossary of all such citations, in the order of their appearance, with translations and sources. But the effect of transliterating rather than translating the Hebrew is to reproduce something of the textural richness of the Yiddish, to suggest how the narrator is indulging in learned play with sacred texts that actually would not (as Halkin notes) have been immediately comprehensible to everyone in the Yiddish audience.
Even with regard to citations, however, Halkin does not bind himself to a single strategy. His translation in all respects exhibits the virtues of flexibility, inventiveness, zest, and energy. One feels these qualities on every page, almost in every phrase. Menachem Mendl, Tevye's luftmensh cousin, is, in close correspondence to the Yiddish rhythms at this point, "a wheeler, a dealer, a schemer, a dreamer, a bag of hot air; no place on earth is bad enough to deserve him!" Tevye renouncing his dreams of riches sounds like this: "Who needs the rat race, the hullabaloo, the night life, the rubbing elbows with millionaires, the whole lehoyshivi im nedivim, when all I want is to enjoy a peaceful old age in which I can study a bit of Mishnah now and then and recite a few chapters of Psalms?"
This volume, which at last gives us in English a Sholem Aleichem that is fully alive, inaugurates the Library of Yiddish Classics. One can only hope that its editors will find translators capable of following the splendid precedent set by Hillel Halkin.


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Bernard Weber, Founder & President of New7Wonders, on the voting results
After 7 years of campaigning and 100 million votes received, the results of the world's first-ever global vote were announced on July 7, 2007 (07.07.07) in Lisbon, Portugal. The canon of The Official New 7 Wonders of the World was announced during a spectacular gala show in the "Estadio da Luz," the stadium of light, in the presence of 50,000 spectators and millions of television viewers throughout the world.
A little more then 2,200 years after the Ancient 7 Wonders (which represented buildings built over a period of 2,000 years) were declared in 200 B.C. by a single man, Philon of Byzantium in Athens, more than 100 million votes from people from every corner and country in the world, elected The Official New 7 Wonders of the World.
After 7 years of campaigning and 100 million votes received, the results of the world's first-ever global vote were announced on July 7, 2007 (07.07.07) in Lisbon, Portugal. The canon of The Official New 7 Wonders of the World was announced during a spectacular gala show in the "Estadio da Luz," the stadium of light, in the presence of 50,000 spectators and millions of television viewers throughout the world.
A little more then 2,200 years after the Ancient 7 Wonders (which represented buildings built over a period of 2,000 years) were declared in 200 B.C. by a single man, Philon of Byzantium in Athens, more than 100 million votes from people from every corner and country in the world, elected The Official New 7 Wonders of the World.
This truly new set of 7 Wonders covers, once again, the time span of 2,000 years—from the Arab city of Petra and the Roman Colosseum, both of which date from the 1st Century A.D., to the wide-armed statue of Christ Redeemer on Rio de Janeiro's Corcovado mountain, built in 1931.
Following are some of my thoughts on the results of this first global vote in humankind's history:
Allow me to start by taking something right off the top of your mind: No, not the Chinese, nor the Indian people have played the most weighty role in choosing the New7Wonders! They did not represent the largest group of voters. The children and young people of our world did.
For the first time ever, children could participate in a global election. They were the most numerous group of voters, since the Chinese have children, the Indians do too, Americans, Eu- ropeans, Africans—all of us, we all have children. Children up to a certain age do not have a strong national sense of pride, so they were our most objective voters, they voted for what they genuinely liked best.
In addition, it was not the case—as many had feared and wrongly predicted—that only the rich Western world and developed countries would dominate the list-making. Indeed, it was the rich, saturated and (as we saw time and again) more lethargic developed world that joined the proud, much more enthusiastic developing world to choose the New 7 Wonders of the World. Inter- estingly, at the very beginning of the cam- paign, in the year 2000, so seven years ago, the first wave of votes came from Turkey.
It seemed to me that people in developing societies use the Internet differently from us in the western, northern world of plenty. For them, it is the gateway to connect with the rest of the world. In our so-called privileged, developed world, the Internet is often used to surf, chat and/or consume content.
Reflecting the diversity of our world, there are three of the New 7 Wonders in Latin America, two in Asia, one in the Middle-East and one in Europe. They represent some of the most important civilizations of the past two millennia — Arab, Chinese, Inca, Indian, Mayan and Roman.
With the 7 (no more and no fewer) votes that people had to cast via our website, plus the opportunity to cast votes via text messaging or telephone, our voting system proved to be well balanced. Internet voting was the equalizing factor, while SMS and phone votes expressed the passion and strong feelings that people had for their favorite monument. As a result, some candidates received many Internet votes from all over the world without even engaging seriously in campaigning. This was the case with the Colosseum in Rome, the only wonder standing in old Europe, representing Roman civilization. Unexpectedly, the Alhambra in Spain did not enjoy public support when it came down to voting, despite a rigorous campaign supported by the King and the Prime Minister of Spain and great local activities, such as the creation of a human chain of 3,000 people embracing the ancient fortress.
The biggest surprise, however, came from Africa in the final phase of the election—a tremendous sprint in the last weeks before voting closed. Huge number of votes poured in supporting the African candidate in Mali: Timbuktu. Mali itself sent more votes in one single week than had the entire country of Germany up to then! This propelled Timbuktu from the bottom of the list to literally scratching the top 7! Had the organizers started campaigning just a month earlier, Timbuktu would have had a serious chance to be elected as one of The Official New 7 Wonders of the World.
More people from Korea and Japan voted for the Eiffel Tower than did people from France. Many children worldwide loved Neuschwanstein Castle, but the Germans didn't. The United States, whose inhabit- ants voted very pass- ionately and in truly huge numbers, did not vote for their Statue of Liberty. Hundreds of thousands people send us comments and words of encouragement and often thus explained their choices. Some of these moving comments are listed after this report.
On a personal note, I am especially pleased to see that the two countries, Switzerland, where I was born, and Canada, whose citizenship I adopted as my second nationality, were amongst the most active participants without having their own candidates in the running together with some exotic countries like Yemen, Albania and Afghanistan.
This new list of 7 Wonders reflects quite accurately what economists predict as the upcoming economic and industrial regions in the world in the not-too-distant future: China, India and South America. I have asked myself: Could there be a connection between, on the one hand, the motivation and the pride, enthusiasm and the compassion that people have for their culture and monuments that symbolically represent them, and, on the other, their motivation to make a brighter future for themselves?
My response is: Yes, this is definitely the case and ultimately also the reason that cultural identity is so important to every single human being and to all societies on our planet!
My personal experience traveling, spending time and sharing life in different parts of the world taught me that people who are deeply rooted in their culture are more secure and, as such, fear the stranger, the unknown much less. Their own strong identity allows them to open up and appreciate differences, valuing the enriching experience with a stranger. It is the respect and appreciation of that which is different that forges the strongest friendship.
The New7Wonders Foundation will honor the 14 New7Wonders Finalist Candidates, together with The Official New 7 Wonders of the World, forever. They all deserve the acknowledgement of being outstanding finalists, since they are all icons in their own way, representing the best that people and civilizations have left behind for future generations to respect, honor and enjoy!
The people have spoken, history was made.
A selection of comments from New7Wonders members, chosen from more than two million submitted from around the world:
- Alessandra Figari from Italy
- Sandra Hadjivasiliou Ilijasevic from Cyprus
- Claudia Silva from Peru
- Sarah Peks from Canada
- Hugo Idona from Peru
- Jose Soberanes from Mexico
- Agustin Hung from Spain
- Rashida Badran from Jordan
- A.G. from Mexico
- Vangelis Apostolakis from Greece
- Enrique Gonzalez from Mexico
- Alain L. from China
- Jens Hagenow from Germany
- Jai Ganesh from Kuwait
- Jayesh P. Deliwala from India
- Xiao Shan S. from China
- Duc Huy H. from Vietnam
- Horácio M. from Portugal
- Anny W. from China
- Jean-Pierre D. from South Africa
- Elcio D. from Brazil
- Connie B. from the United States
- Setenay O. from Turkey
- Jenny King K. from the United States
- Liz A. from the United Kingdom
- Vicky Z. from Greece
- Gregório A. from Portugal
- Prabu R. from India
- Iskender T. from Turkey
- Cem O. from Turkey
N7W: Unified in one soul for the good of beauty and culture.
The World United at N7W: A vote to remember
Living is being able to be part of history … vote now!
7 moments, 7 memories, 7 wonders, 1 world. Let your voice be heard!
The New 7 Reasons for us to live in peace!
N7W: the global soul of man (of all races, of all cultures, of all times), shines here!!!
7 wonders, 7 reasons to love and believe in our world!
Who Says History Cannot Be Changed! It is your Decision. Vote for N7W.
One small vote for man, One giant leap for humanity!
Some creations give another sense of this humanity. They deserve your vote!
One may be in Your Country but all 7 are in Your World
You Vote and You Are the Eighth Wonder!
7 New Wonders for a United World !
Sir/Madam, Thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to be a drop in the ocean.
I am but a small man and my contribution is also a small amount but my wish is very big.
History presented us a marvelous world. We should give history a marvelous future.
I have admired the 7 wonders since I was 7 years old. So I'm so glad to know about this vote. It's true that my choice is based on my feeling. It means that each Wonder makes my imagination fly up as high as I appreciate it.
I have to say that I became fascinated and immediately astonished with this project. The possibility of a worldwide vote for the works of Mankind is the confirmation of Real Evolution. This is the way humanity has to follow, and the internet is the present best communication option that we have. Let us think profoundly about the fantastic and exciting evolutional background of this project and try to discover more things to do for our beloved planet, or better, our beloved universe.
N7W is the wealth of all the people in the world.
I think that this is a very good initiative. It is amazing that people in this time of war, prejudice and hate can still find a global love and can learn to accept one another irrespective of gender, race and creed.
WOW! That's the most important and democratic change that I have ever done!
My daughter's teacher gave all the students this address and I think that it is a wonderful learning experience.
This web site is obviously the resulting outcome of painstaking care and hard work. It was indeed time for selecting the new wonders of the world as thousands of years have elapsed since the old wonders were chosen, and most of them are now extinct.
I think this site is really cool! You can learn a lot about historical facts here. My teacher told us to come here for homework & I am really glad that she told me about this site. Thank you for providing it for me.
This is long overdue!
Thank you for giving people the right to vote for history!
Events like these should be more frequent because they make us realize how far Man can go!
You have connected the Lovers of Beauty in the world through this website. Best Wishes.
To me, giving all people the opportunity to choose such wonders is the best way to determine what is universally accepted.
The winner is: the World ! Best regards.


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