Maryville College's Katlyn Smith earns USA South Rookie Pitcher of the Week honors, as the freshman standout recorded a 2-0 record on the week.
Smith was one of a trio of awards, as MC took three of the four USA South weekly softball awards. Nicole Blackburn earned USA South Pitcher of the Week, as Taylor Campbell was named USA South Rookie of the Week for her work at the plate.
Smith – a Loganville, Ga. native – boasted a 0.00 ERA on the week. She didn't allow a single run in 12 innings of work.
"I'm excited to see her numbers and what she's doing as a freshman," Head Coach Leah Kelley said. "She's come in here and has gotten a lot of innings for is. We have a big staff, but as a freshman, she's come in and gotten a lot of innings. She's done very well, and she's been very composed on the mound. That's something you rarely see as a freshman. You know, she's playing in big games, and her composer is always there."
Smith helped the Scots to the perfect mark, as they outscored opponents 64-0 on the week. In USA South play, MC has posted a 92-2 score while rolling off 90 unanswered runs in their last eight games behind a strong pitching effort.
Smith was a key part to that success, as she hasn't allowed an earned run in her last 17 innings or work. She's fanned 14 batters in that span, while holding opponents to a .182 batting average.
"I didn't know that stat, but that is pretty outstanding," Kelley said. "To just be a freshman – her and Taylor [Campbell] still have a lot of growing up to do – but hearing those numbers it is really exciting for them and exciting for the program."
In an 6-0 win over LaGrange College, Smith pitched a complete seven-inning shutout. She allowed just five hits while striking out seven batters. She didn't allow a single walk in 26 batters faced.
In her second game of the week, Smith pitched a five-inning blank of Covenant College. She gave up only three hits, while striking out four batters. She walked two in 22 batters faced, as 95 of her 152 pitchers went down as strikes.
On the year, Smith has compiled a 6-1 record in 44.2 innings of work. She's allowed just 17 earned runs while leading the Scots with 41 strikeouts. Her 2.66 ERA ranks second on the squad behind Blackburn's, as she has pitched four complete games this year. Smith has given up only 39 hits in 10 appearances.
"[Blackburn and Smith], they are two different pitchers," Kelley said. "They are two different styles of pitchers. We needed someone to come in this year and give our conference a new arm to face. Katlyn has been that for us. They complement each other well with having different styles. Nicole is going to come right at batters – hit her corners and her spots to throw batters off balance. Then, you have Katlyn who is more of a strikeout pitcher. Their combination right now is really working, and our hitting has backed them up as well.


The Chicago Transit Board on Monday approved the purchase of 265 new 40' low floor buses. The purchase includes 20 hybrid buses that are powered by both diesel engines and electric motors to help reduce emissions.
The $94.9 million investment in the CTA's bus fleet is funded with federal formula funds from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and Illinois FIRST bonds from the Regional Transportation Authority (RTA).
The contract, awarded to New Flyer of America, Inc., provides options for the purchase of up to 1,050 buses at capital funds become available.
The first 265 buses, which will likely be received starting in 2006, would allow for partial replacement of the 5300 Series Flxible buses received in 1991. The contract options for 785 additional buses would be used to complete replacement of the 5300s and also completely replace the 4000 Series TMC RTS buses which were also received in 1991.


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Biden will likely have to reimagine the future of U.S. economic leadership in Asia, says expert
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Shipping containers from China and other Asian countries are unloaded at the Port of Los Angeles as the trade war continues between China and the US, in Long Beach, California on September 14, 2019. –
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SINGAPORE — The Biden administration will likely have to reimagine the future of U.S. economic leadership in Asia-Pacific following two massive free trade agreements signed by countries in the region, according to a former foreign policy advisor.
The first of the two trade agreements is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): It was negotiated by the Obama administration but never approved by Congress. President Donald Trump subsequently pulled the U.S. out of the TPP in 2017 as the remaining 11 countries renegotiated and signed the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership or CPTPP a year later.
More recently, 15 countries including China, Australia, Japan, South Korea as well as Southeast Asian nations, signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP): It is the largest trading bloc globally, covering a market of 2.2 billion people and $26.2 trillion of global output — about 30% of world GDP.
"So far, the incoming administration has not committed one way or the other to the future of the TPP," Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security, told CNBC's "Street Signs Asia" on Tuesday. Fontaine previously served as foreign policy advisor to Sen. John McCain and worked at the U.S. State Department.
He explained that President-elect Joe Biden and his administration will enter an era where the U.S. is party to neither the TPP nor the RCEP. "They are going to have to at least consider what the future of U.S. economic leadership in Asia looks like," he said.
According to Fontaine, a big change between the Trump administration and the incoming Biden administration would be the latter's approach to multilateralism.
"The president-elect and his team have been at pains to say how they will work with partners and allies and like-minded countries around the world on key issues ranging from climate change and global health, and the pandemic, to China and all other kinds of things," Fontaine said.
Trade on the other hand remains a complicated issue subject to domestic politics, he said. While the Biden administration would never have imposed many of the tariffs that Trump did, including the U.S. levies on China during the trade war, it will inherit those policies next year, Fontaine explained.
Biden and his team have said they would review the tariffs when they enter office and may do so with U.S. allies and partners, with a potential view toward developing "something of a common approach," he added.
Whether the tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on China are maintained or relaxed would "set the tone for U.S.-China relations for quite a while in this (Biden) administration," Fontaine said.
Experts have previously told CNBC that Biden would be constrained by the political environment and may not go back to some of the China positions he held in the past that were seen as relatively weak.
So far, the Biden-Harris transition team on its website has said the incoming administration's top priorities include tackling the coronavirus pandemic, spearheading efforts for U.S. economic recovery, as well as tackling racial equity and climate change.
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Is There A Point When It Would Be Ethical For Society To Hold That Someone Is Too Stupid To Be Trusted With Children?
July 11, 2019 July 11, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 28 Comments
Kudos to Jonathan Turley for finding this head-exploding story.
In Dixon, Illinois, police stopped a woman who was driving her Audi SUV with an inflatable pool on the roof—and her two children riding inside the pool. Jennifer A. Janus Yeager explained that she had driven into town to inflate the pool at a friend's house, and then had her two daughters ride inside of the pool to hold it down on the drive home.
Oh! That explains everything, ma'am! Sorry for the inconvenience, but I'm sure you understand that we have to investigate these things. Have a nice day, and be careful up there, kids! Hold on tight!
The police arrested this idiot on two counts of endangering the life or health of a child, two counts of reckless conduct and failure to secure a passenger between 8 and 16. Continue reading →
Mid-Day Moldy Ethics Snack, 5/8/2019: Bad Charge, Bad School, Bad Father
May 8, 2019 May 8, 2019 / Jack Marshall	/ 15 Comments
Yechhh!
1. Do something, blame someone…In Plano, Texas, police have charged Lindsey Glass with violating a law making it a misdemeanor to negligently sell alcohol to a "habitual drunkard or an intoxicated or insane person,." It seems she served Spencer Hight two gins, two beers and a shot of alcohol during two visits to the bar where she was working in September 2017, before Hight killed Meredith Hight and seven other people. After police officers shot and killed him, an autopsy found that Hight's blood alcohol level was about four times the legal limit. The arrest affidavit said surveillance video shows that Hight was unsteady, spun a "big knife on the bar," and could be seen "pulling out a gun" from his waistband.
It's a terrible charge, and an unethical prosecution. Glass texted a co-worker, another bartender, saying that Hight had been spinning the knife and told her had had to go "do some dirty work." A report by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said that the other bartender had called an owner of the bar, who instructed that police should not be called. Glass was so concerned that followed Hight to his ex-wife's home and then called 911, according to local station Fox 4.
A lawyer for Glass emphasized that his client had called 911 and said she had been commended by police. "It is shameful of the Plano Police Department to go after the person who was vital in trying to stop the horrific events of that evening," he told Fox 4 and NBC in a statement. Exactly right. Police, spurred by public anger and frustration, want to find someone to blame. The fact that the drunk went off and killed eight people is pure moral luck. It seems that the bartender went above and beyond her civic duty, at some personal risk, to follow Hight. She was originally commended by police for her actions. [Pointer: ABA Journal]
Well, At Least Something Constructive Has Come Out Of The Latest Anti-Gun "Do Something!" Blather: Welcome Rationalization 40 A. Otter's Solution, Or "I Had To Do Something!" And Rediscovered 40 B., The Lone Inspiration Excuse, Or " Do You Have A Better Idea?"
May 22, 2018 / Jack Marshall	/ 142 Comments
We have talked about the empty grandstanding nostrum "Do something!" here quite a bit: there is even a tag for it, introduced in 2016, when the best the House Democrats could come up with to satisfy their anti-gun base that time around was a juvenile sit-in to demand suspension of the Fifth AND Second Amendments. Then I wrote,
The public debate over the various proposals to "do something!" about mass shootings is as depressing as any discussion I have ever participated in. The willingness of gun opponents, Democrats, journalists, pundits and otherwise intelligent people to not only defy the Bill of Rights guarantee of due process but to literally ignore its existence shows how close the stinking breath of totalitarianism is to the neck on our nation, and that it is much hotter than I realized. This isn't an exception or an anomaly. This is a result of carefully bred contempt for American values.
The intense ignorance crossed with malice toward our Constitution reached a climax of sorts today on social media, as people who should know better (and people who do know better, like erstwhile Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren) applauded the cynical and hypocritical "sit-in" by House Democrats, who said they would hold their breath until they turned blue unless the Congress of the United States voted to allow the government to take away the rights of citizens based on "suspicion." Only rationalizations can defend this position, primarily among them "The Saint's Excuse," or "It's for a good cause," "It" is this case meaning..
Accepting the ethically and morally bankrupt principle that "the ends justify the means"
Setting a precedent for allowing the government to abridge any rights it chooses once by some standard it finds a law-abiding citizen "unworthy"
Enacting a provision that the ACLU has pronounced unconstitutional
Establishing the principle that the Congress can and will abandon the rule of law as long as enough members of the public and media let emotion overcome reality
Lay the groundwork for a President, like say, just to pick a crazy, impossible example out of the air, President Trump, who is as ignorant of the rule of law as the position's supporters, to really start ripping up the Bill of Rights, beginning with Freedom of the Press, Freedom of Religion and Freedom of Association.
To put it another way, it's a really, really stupid and indefensible position.
But that's "Do something!" That's' where it gets you.
For some reason, however, I didn't realize then that not only is "Do something!" bolstered, enabled and pointed to by many rationalizations [ Among them…"I'm on The Right Side Of History,""This can't make things any worse," "Just this once!," "It's for a good cause," "If I don't do it, somebody else will," "There are worse things," "I'm just giving the people what they want!," "I have no choice!,""It's My Duty!," "These are not ordinary times," "Ethics is a luxury we can't afford right now," "I'll do anything!," "If it feels good, do it!," "Think of the children!," "If it saves just one life," and "It's the right thing to do"…] since it can't be supported ethics or reason, it is itself a rationalization in its "I had to do something!" form or "You can't expect me to do nothing, can you?" version. It is a very insidious and dangerous rationalization. I am angry that I didn't see it before.
I see it now because the Santa Fe shooting really undercuts all of the previous "reasonable gun control measures" that had been proposed to end all school shootings forever, as the pompous Parkland naifs insisted. Banning assault-style weapons and "high capacity magazines." Background checks and longer waiting periods. Tougher vetting of mental health records of gun purchasers. Not one of these, nor all of them together, would have stopped the shooting in Santa Fe. Rather than admit this like fair, rational people, the anti-gun mob has devolved into shouting, "Well….do SOMETHING!"
On my Facebook page, an old friend, a lawyer, not yet senile as far as I know, actually posted, "Hey guys, here's an idea: let's finally do something about all this gun violence!" And that was it. Something. No other recommendation. Something. Brilliant. Why didn't we think of that before?
The clip that introduces this post, which I have run here before, is the famous moment in "Animal House" in which the Delta House members, led by wise-ass Otter and chaotic Bluto, conclude that the only response they can muster to being kicked off campus is a "really futile and stupid gesture." Hence the title of #40A. I was tempted to call it Kelly's Solution after this…
….but Otter's is funnier, and illustrates perfectly what acceptance of "Do Something!" as a justification leads to…futile and stupid gestures, or worse. For example, it paves the way for totalitarianism, as a desperate public cheers on action for action's sake, not paying proper heed to where the action leads.
Rationalization #40 A., Otter's Solution, or "I had to do something!" is an invitation to be unethical, irrational, reckless and irresponsible, bypassing law, values, common sense, and any other obstacle that usually constrains bad policy and conduct. It creates an intellectually dishonest shortcut, making the decision to act before any effective action is considered, designating action the objective rather than what the objective of the action should be. Obviously this is backwards, and it is intentionally backwards, because it takes a detour around essential questions, responsible decision makers must consider before acting, like "Is this legal?" "Is this wise?" "What will be the long term consequences?," "Can this work?" and "What are the costs?" Rationalization 40A makes the conduct itself the objective rather than the results of the conduct. The imaginary virtue is taking action—even if it is futile and stupid.
And, if one challenges the badly-reasoned "something" that 40 A supports, one often will be challenged by 40 B. The Lone Inspiration Excuse, or " Do You Have A Better Idea?"
40 B. The Lone Inspiration Excuse, or " Do You Have A Better Idea?" qualifies as The Lost Rationalization. I announced it two years ago, never entered it on the list, and forgot about it, until today.
I am not obligated to solve the problem you cannot solve without breaching ethics or law. Nor is it obligatory for someone pointing out why proposed conduct is illegal, unethical, dangerous, imprudent and wrong to posit alternatives for the verdict on the proposed conduct to remains valid. The Lone Inspiration Excuse suggests that a terrible course of conduct can become acceptable by default. How many catastrophes have been created by that warped logic? If a proposed measure is too wrong and reckless to undertake, it shouldn't be undertaken. That's the first step. Finding a better course comes later, or never, if there isn't one.
The ethical response to someone who reasonably and carefully explains why proposed conduct cannot work and violates principles of law, ethics or common sense deserves a thank you, for that is valuable information. "Well, you solve it then!" is not a fair response. It's a deflection, and a transparent one. If the only course of action being proposed is unethical, then the responsible and ethical better idea may be not to do anything at all.
Morning Ethics Warm-Up, 5/21/18: Comments, Clarkson, Bitter Hillary, And Weiner Dogs Amuck
May 21, 2018 May 21, 2018 / Jack Marshall	/ 84 Comments
1. Housekeeping note: Some commenters are expressing displeasure that I suspended a regular participant here following what I consider to be excessively disrespectful discourse toward me. Well. when they try moderating an ethics blog read by educated, passionate and verbally adept people for nine years, I'll pay more attention to that displeaure. The task is much like that of a lion-tamer in the circus: as I learned when I read the autobiography of one who survived until retirement, the big cats growling is fine, and even the occasional swipe for show is tolerable, but when they start being disrespectful, you either show who's boss quick or you get gang-mauled and eaten.
In about two weeks, I have to fly to Boston—on my own dime, of course— to ask a judge to dismiss a $100,000 defamation lawsuit from a banned commenter here. Am I bit inclined to be less than charitable to rude commenter outbursts aimed at me right now? Yes. The matter at issue right now involved flat-out, unambiguous personal mockery and derision, and the Comment Policies, accessible for years on the link above, specifically designate "6) Mockery without substance" as commentary conduct that is not appreciated, , and also notes that a commenter risks be discipline for "…Insulting me, in particular by questioning my integrity, honesty, objectivity, intentions, motives, qualifications, or credentials."
The commenter who was suspended can return to the wars at any time he chooses, after offering an acceptable apology.
2. Breaking my vow already…to eschew writing about the aftermath of the latest school shooting, I have to mention that Lelly Clarkson's emotional speech at last night's Billborad awards was played this morning on CNN and Headline News—and I assume elsewhere—as if she actually was saying something of substance. She wasn't:
Is the news media going to keep on trying to steer a policy debate with complex social, legal, constitutional, cultural and practical factors into this emotion-flooded, intellectually useless dead end? Apparently so. I'm sure Kelly is sincere, but "moment of action" is nothing but another way of saying "do something," which itself is just another form of screaming at the sky. What action, Kelly? Unless you make a relevant proposal that addresses the event you are crying about, your statement is worse than useless.
We should not keep pandering to this invitation to turn off our brains regarding guns, yet that is what the news media is actively campaigning for us to do. They are irresponsible to do this.
But we knew that. Continue reading →
Sun Day Morning Ethics Warm-Up, 5/20/2018: Bright Above, Dark Below…
There is this big, white-yellow, ball-thing in the sky overhead..not sure what it is.
The sky is also this weird bluish color.
Very strange…
1. The news media actually calls this creep a moral authority...which itself is significant. On his late-night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel said, "President Trump said he is with the people of Santa Fe in this tragic hour and will be with them forever—except for when it comes time to do something. Then he will not be with them."
Trump's post shooting statement was standard issue President-after-tragedy stuff, neither unusual nor objectionable to anyone not seeking to manufacture offense. "We grieve for the terrible loss of life, and send our support and love to everyone affected by this absolutely horrific attack," Trump said. "To the students, families, teachers, and personnel at Santa Fe High: We're with you in this tragic hour, and we will be with you forever. My administration is determined to do everything in our power to protect our students, secure our schools, and to keep weapons out of the hands of those who pose a threat to themselves and to others. Everyone must work together, at every level of government, to keep our children safe."
Kimmel :"They care more about the support of the NRA than they do about children."
Kimmel's statement is signature significance for an ignorant, unscrupulous asshole, and one who either has never read the Constitution, or doesn't care what it says. There is absolutely nothing that the President of The United States, (or "they") could or can do to prevent school shootings like the one in Santa Fe.
2. Who wants to join me in a sit-in at Starbucks? It will have to be a lily-white sit-in to make the point. Starbucks' desperate, pandering, virtue-signaling, deranged new policy that allows anyone to sit in its stores or use its restrooms, even if they don't buy anything, immediately guarantees the Tragedy of the Commons, which the silly, social justice warrior-run company apparently felt was a preferable disaster than to be accused of racism for enforcing a reasonable and necessary rule when blacks were the violators. If all the tables and space are taken up by non-customers, loiterers and free-riders, Starbucks can't do any business, but it is literally saying, "We don't care!" Why? Well, even if they ordered white freeloaders to leave, every time the freeloader was black, Hispanic, gay or in a wheelchair, a YouTube video would appear, go viral, and Starbucks would be tarred as corporate bigots. The police could try this same strategy: announce that officers will not fire on any individual resisting arrest or threatening an officer's life. I'm sure that will work out well too.
3. Yes, this was the quality of the people running the country during the Obama years. Obama's Education Secretary Arne Duncan argued on Twitter that parents should pull their children out of school until elected officials pass stricter gun control laws. He really did. Let's have a contest: List how many ways this suggestion is unethical. I'll get you started: it is irredeemably stupid, and thus an abuse of influence, making the naive and easily gulled believe that because this man ran the Education Department, he is a respectable authority whose bone-headed utterances can be trusted and taken seriously. (I see at least five more.) Continue reading →
Saturday Morning Ethics Warm-Up, 5/19/2018: Thinking About Things That Matter While Ignoring The Royal Wedding Hype Edition
I can't say it's a good morning..
…since it's been raining for three days already, with no end in sight..
1. I wonder how long before he's fired? Instead of renewing his earlier call to repeal the Second Amendment, resurgent lone conservative New York Times op-ed columnist Bret Stephens spoke truth to abused power by condemning the news media in today's column. He writes in part,
When Donald Trump takes his swipes at the "disgusting and corrupt media" and tens of millions of Americans agree, it's not as if they don't have examples in mind. Consider this week's implication by major news organizations that the president described all illegal immigrants as "animals" during a White House roundtable with California officials. That would indeed be a wretched thing for him to say — had he said it. He did not. The Associated Press admitted as much when it deleted a tweet about the remark, noting "it wasn't made clear that he was speaking after a comment about gang members." Specifically, he was speaking after a comment about members of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang, infamous for its ultraviolent methods and quasi-satanic rituals. To call MS-13 "animals" is wrong only because it is unfair to animals….We have a president adept at goading his opponents into unwittingly doing his bidding. They did so again this week. Those who despise him for his deceits should endeavor to give no impression of being deceitful in turn.
2. Briefly noted…Today's Times editorial is a graphic about how "Congress has dithered as the innocent get shot," despite the fact that no "sensible gun control measures" would have prevented yesterday's shooting in Texas…just gun confiscation, if that were possible, which it isn't. Two letters in the letters section make the same contradictory, yet probably sincere, point. "Another day with the reality that sane gun control is a national emergency." Continue reading →
Unethical Website Of The Month, "March For Our Lives" Edition: Change.Org
March 24, 2018 March 25, 2018 / Jack Marshall	/ 19 Comments
This page, the petition for gun control to "save our children" is what earns the "honor." I see many Facebook friends, many on whom are genuinely gifted intellectually, surrendering to emotion and signing this junk, as junk it is. The petition neatly encapsulates the serial intellectual dishonestly, misleading rhetoric and appeal to emotion that we will see bloviated all over the National Mall this weekend: I guess that has some value for historical purposes. Otherwise, it is an engine of ignorance designed to either attract the ignorant, make the less ignorant more so, or deceive.
Let's look at this mess, shall we?
In the tragic wake of the seventeen lives brutally cut short in Florida, politicians are telling us that now is not the time to talk about guns. March For Our Lives believes the time is now. Created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country, we will no longer risk our lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar.
Nobody is saying that "now is not the time to talk about guns." Who has said that? The statement is straw man. Agreed: now is a good time to talk about anything: guns, pangolins, acne, cabbages and kings. We have a First Amendment as well as a Second, something those Other Civilized Nations that are always being extolled in the gun debate don't have.
Created by, inspired by, and led by students across the country, we …
Not to be pedantic, but a serious petition should be written by someone who can speak the language. Signers are created by students? It's bad enough that they are being led by students, who are after all, students. They do not know enough, either through knowledge or experience, to be seriously participating in a complex policy debate, much less leading it. "We, the undersigned adults who are duty-bound to be teaching and leading our rising generation, are allowing them to dictate to us." Good plan. How can anyone sign such a petition and not hide their head under a bag?
…will no longer risk our lives waiting for someone else to take action to stop the epidemic of mass school shootings that has become all too familiar.
This is pure appeal to emotion rather than reality. The existence of the right to own guns no more "risks lives" than the existence of anything else that is dangerous when misused. There are 10.6 deaths per 100,000 U.S. citizens due to guns according to latest statistics, including those of suicides and those killed by law enforcement. Three times that many die in alcohol-related automobile accidents. Nobody argues that we risk our lives because "someone" hasn't taken "action" (aka, "do something," "make it go away" "make us feel safe when nobody in a free society is ever safe", aka. "ban and confiscate guns.") regarding that risk we accept as part of living in a free society that includes jackasses, fools and criminals, and that's just one of many.
There is no "epidemic" of school shootings. Students in school are safe; if they don't feel safe, it's because of fear -mongering from activists and the news media.
"We support the right of law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms, as set forth in the United States Constitution."
No, you obviously don't. This is a pure lie (or inexcusable stupidity.) A movement called "Never Again" is either lying in its title by implying that any public policy, laws or regulations will guarantee no more gun deaths, in schools or anywhere else, or it is telling us its real purpose in the name, while lying about the movement's real intent.
Many, many, if not most mass shooters were "law-abiding" until they started shooting. This statement either endorses pre-crime measures, profiling citizens to decide if they are a risk to eventually abuse gun rights—unconstitutional—is magical thinking, or is, again, a lie. The statement—and while it is always a fine time to talk about guns, it is never a fine time to resuscitate this zombie tautology that the NRA has been knocking down for decades—is self-rebutting. Laws only affect law-abiding people, as long as they obey laws. Restrictive gun laws are violated by criminals, because they don't obey laws. Nobody has ever explained how a law will not infringe " the right of law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms" while somehow keeping the same kinds of arms out of the hands of those who are not law-abiding. This is because it's impossible.
"But with that right comes responsibility."
As an ethicist, I object to a cynical use of the language of ethics to deceive, which is what this is. If the topic is responsibility, then we are talking about law-abiding citizens again, as well as ethical ones. They usually don't use guns irresponsibly, or if they do (like killing themselves), such irresponsible use is not addressed by the measures proposed here. If I am a law-abiding citizen, I won't be more likely to abuse my gun ownership whether I have had a background check or not. Irresponsible gun ownership includes not keeping guns where children—you know, citizens the age of the people "leading" those who sign the petition—can find them and hurt themselves and others. It includes not learning how to use a gun safely and appropriately. This petition isn't about promoting responsible gun ownership. It's about replacing the right to own guns responsibly with the right to own sling-shots.
We call on all the adults in Congress elected to represent us, to pass legislation that will protect and save children from gun violence.
There it is: "Think of the children!" A pure, unadulterated, inexcusable appeal to emotion over facts and reason. Continue reading →


An electronic mail system including a communication line, and at least one transmitting terminal, at least one receiving terminal, and at least one communication terminal connected to each other through the communication line, the communication terminal receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail sent by the transmitting terminal and transferring the received electronic mail to the receiving terminal corresponding to an address of the electronic mail. The transmitting terminal attaches song data comprising musical tone control information, to the electronic mail, and transmits the electronic mail with the song data attached, to the communication terminal, which in turn, stores the received electronic mail in a storage device, notifies the receiving terminal of receipt of the electronic mail, and retrieves the electronic mail and the song data attached to the mail from the storage device, and transfers them to the receiving terminal, when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by said notifying device. The receiving terminal opens the received electronic mail, and automatically reproduces the song data attached to the electronic mail.
The present invention is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 09/179,519 filed Oct. 27, 1998 for ELECTRONIC MAIL SYSTEM, METHOD OF SENDING AND RECEIVING ELECTRONIC MAIL, AND STORAGE MEDIUM now abandoned. The disclosure of that application is specifically incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates to an electronic mail system that sends and receives electronic mails to which musical tone control information is attached, a method of sending and receiving such electronic mails, and a storage medium that stores a program for sending and receiving the electronic mails.
Conventionally, in order to send and receive musical sound or voice with an electronic mail, voice data produced by converting a voice signal representing the voice or sound into digital data has been used as an attached file to the electronic mail.
In the known electronic mail system as described above, however, the attached file is formed of voice data that contains a large quantity or volume of data, and therefore it takes a long time to send and receive an electronic mail to which such a file is attached. In particular, when a relatively low-speed modem is used, or a communication line is busy, it is undesirable to send or receive the electronic mail with the attached file containing voice data, because the communication line is kept occupied over a long period of time.
It is the object of the invention to provide an electronic mail system which is capable of sending and receiving an electronic mail along with high-quality, small-quantity musical tone or voice data, a method of sending and receiving such an electronic mail, and a storage medium that stores a program for sending and receiving such an electronic mail.
To attain the object, according to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a receiving terminal connected to a communication line, for receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail that is sent by a transmitting terminal connected to the communication line, comprising a receiving device that receives the electronic mail which is sent by the transmitting terminal, and to which song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, an opening device that opens the received electronic mail, and a reproducing device that automatically reproduces the song data attached to the electronic mail when the electronic mail is opened by the opening device.
Preferably, the song data comprising musical tone control information is MIDI data.
According to the first aspect, there is also provided a receiving terminal control method of controlling a receiving terminal connected to a communication line, for receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail sent by a transmitting terminal connected to the communication line, comprising the steps of receiving the electronic mail which is sent by the transmitting terminal, and to which song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, opening the electronic mail, and automatically reproducing the song data attached to the electronic mail when the electronic mail is opened.
According to the first aspect, there is also provided a storage medium that stores commands readable by a machine, the commands causing the machine to execute a receiving terminal control module for controlling a receiving terminal connected to a communication line, for receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail that is sent by a transmitting terminal connected to the communication line, the receiving terminal control module comprising a module that receives the electronic mail which is sent by the transmitting terminal, and to which song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, a module that opens the received electronic mail; and a module that automatically reproduces the song data attached to the electronic mail when the electronic mail is opened.
According to the first aspect as defined above, the receiving terminal receives the electronic mail sent by the transmitting terminal, along with song data comprising musical tone control information attached to the mail, the song data attached to the electronic mail is automatically reproduced when the electronic mail is opened. Therefore, since the song data comprising musical tone control information is attached to the electronic mail and sent to the receiving terminal, high-quality musical tone or voice represented by a small quantity of data can be transmitted and received along with the electronic mail. Further, upon opening of the electronic mail, the user need not open the attached file containing song data, and start an appropriate application for reproducing the song data in the opened file, thus assuring improved efficiency with which the user operates the receiving terminal.
A typical example of the musical tone control information is MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) data. The musical tone control information, however, is not limited to MIDI data, but may be any type of data whose quantity or volume is smaller than that of the original musical tone or voice, and which enables high-quality musical tone or voice to be reproduced.
The term "electronic mail" used in the appended claims means not only character data, but may also include image or picture data and/or a small quantity of voice data produced by converting a voice signal into digital data, in addition to the character data.
To attain the object, according to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a communication terminal connected to a communication line, for receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail sent by a transmitting terminal connected to the communication line, and transferring the received electronic mail to a receiving terminal connected to the communication line and corresponding to an address of the electronic mail, comprising a receiving device that receives, from the transmitting terminal, the electronic mail to which song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, a storage device that stores the received electronic mail to which the song data is attached, a notifying device that notifies the receiving terminal of receipt of the electronic mail when receiving the electronic mail from the transmitting terminal, and a transfer device that retrieves the electronic mail and the song data attached to the mail from the storage device, and transfers the electronic mail and the song data to the receiving terminal, when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by the notifying device.
According to the second aspect, there is also provided a communication terminal control method of controlling a communication terminal connected to a communication line, for receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail sent by a transmitting terminal connected to the communication line, and transfers the received electronic mail to a receiving terminal connected to the communication line and corresponding to an address of the electronic mail, comprising the steps of receiving, from the transmitting terminal, the electronic mail to which song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, storing the received electronic mail to which the song data is attached in a storage device, notifying the receiving terminal of receipt of the electronic mail when receiving the electronic mail from the transmitting terminal, and retrieving the electronic mail and the song data attached to the mail from the storage device, and transferring the electronic mail and the song data to the receiving terminal, when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by the communication terminal.
According to the second aspect, there is further provided a storage medium that stores commands readable by a machine, the commands causing the machine to execute a communication terminal control module for controlling a communication terminal connected to a communication line, for receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail that is sent by a transmitting terminal connected to the communication line, and transfers the received electronic mail to a receiving terminal connected to the communication line and corresponding to an address of the electronic mail, the communication terminal control module comprising a module that receives, from the transmitting terminal, the electronic mail to which song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, a module that stores the received electronic mail to which the song data is attached, in a storage device, a module that notifies the receiving terminal of receipt of the electronic mail when the communication terminal receives the electronic mail from the transmitting terminal, and a module that retrieves the electronic mail and the song data attached to the mail from the storage device, and transfers the electronic mail and the song data to the receiving terminal, when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by the communication terminal.
According to the second aspect as defined above, the communication terminal receives the electronic mail to which song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, from the transmitting terminal, and transfers the electronic mail to the receiving terminal. Thus, the transmitting terminal need not directly deliver the electronic mail to which song data is attached, to the receiving terminal, and therefore the function of the transmitting terminal may be simplified. Further, since the song data comprising musical tone control information is attached to the electronic mail and sent to the receiving terminal, high-quality musical tone or voice represented by a small quantity of data can be transmitted and received along with the electronic mail.
To attain the object, according to a third aspect of the invention, there is provided a transmitting terminal connected to a communication line, for receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail sent by a transmitting terminal connected to the communication line, and transferring the received electronic mail to a receiving terminal connected to the communication line and corresponding to an address of the electronic mail, comprising a first storage device that stores a plurality of kinds of ornamental data that ornament the electronic mail sent by the transmitting terminal, and a plurality of kinds of song data attached to the electronic mail and comprising musical tone control information, a presenting device that presents the plurality of kinds of ornamental data and the plurality of kinds of song data stored in the first storage device, to the transmitting terminal, so that the transmitting terminal can select a combination of ornamental data and song data from the plurality of kinds of ornamental data and song data, and designate the combination as electronic mail data, a second storage device that retrieves the electronic mail data from the first storage device and stores the retrieved data, when the transmitting terminal requests the communication terminal to send the combination of ornamental data and song data selected and designated as the electronic mail data, to the receiving terminal, a notifying device that notifies the receiving terminal of receipt of the electronic mail when the electronic mail data is stored in the second storage device in response to the request from the transmitting terminal for sending the electronic mail, and a transfer device that retrieves the electronic mail data from the second storage device, and transfers the data to the receiving terminal, when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by the notifying device.
Preferably, the plurality of kinds of song data comprising musical tone control information are MIDI data.
According to the third aspect, there is also provided a communication terminal control method of controlling a communication terminal connected to a communication line, for receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail sent by a transmitting terminal connected to the communication line, and transfers the received electronic mail to a receiving terminal connected to the communication line and corresponding to an address of the electronic mail, comprising the steps of storing a plurality of kinds of ornamental data that ornament the electronic mail sent by the transmitting terminal, and a plurality of kinds of song data attached to the electronic mail and comprising musical tone control information, in a first storage device, presenting the plurality of kinds of ornamental data and the plurality of kinds of song data stored in the first storage device, to the transmitting terminal, so that the transmitting terminal can select a combination of ornamental data and song data from the plurality of kinds of ornamental data and song data, and designate the combination as electronic mail data, retrieving the electronic mail data from the first storage device and storing the retrieved data in a second storage device, when the transmitting terminals requests the communication terminal to send the combination of ornamental data and song data selected and designated as the electronic mail data, to the receiving terminal, notifying the receiving terminal of receipt of the electronic mail when the electronic mail data is stored in the second storage device in response to the request from the transmitting terminal for sending the electronic mail, and retrieving the electronic mail data from the second storage device, and transferring the retrieved data to the receiving terminal, when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by the communication terminal.
According to the third aspect, there is further provided a storage medium that stores commands readable by a machine, the commands causing the machine to execute a communication terminal control module for controlling a communication terminal connected to a communication line, for receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail that is sent by a transmitting terminal connected to the communication line, and transfers the received electronic mail to a receiving terminal connected to the communication line and corresponding to an address of the electronic mail, the communication terminal control module comprising a module that stores a plurality of kinds of ornamental data that ornament the electronic mail sent by the transmitting terminal, and a plurality of kinds of song data attached to the electronic mail and comprising musical tone control information, in a first storage device, a module that presents the plurality of kinds of ornamental data and the plurality of kinds of song data stored in the first storage device, to the transmitting terminal, so that the transmitting terminal can select a combination of ornamental data and song data from the plurality of kinds of ornamental data and song data, and designate the combination as electronic mail data, a module that retrieves the electronic mail data from the first storage device and stores the retrieved data in a second storage device, when the transmitting terminals requests the communication terminal to send the combination of ornamental data and song data selected and designated as the electronic mail data, to the receiving terminal, a module that notifies the receiving terminal of receipt of the electronic mail when the electronic mail data is stored in the second storage device in response to the request from the transmitting terminal for sending the electronic mail, and a module that retrieves the electronic mail data from the second storage device, and transfers the retrieved data to the receiving terminal, when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by the communication terminal.
According to the third aspect as defined above, the plural kinds of ornamental data and song data stored in the first memory device are presented to the user on the side of the transmitting terminal, so that the user can select a desired combination of ornamental data and song data, and designate it as electronic mail data. The communication terminal then delivers the electronic mail data, i.e., the selected combination of ornamental and song data, to the receiving terminal. With this arrangement, the user of the transmitting terminal need not prepare electronic mail data from scratch, and the number of procedures to be taken by the user can be thus reduced. Also, since the song data comprising musical tone control information is attached to the electronic mail and sent to the receiving terminal, high-quality musical tone or voice represented by a small quantity of data can be transmitted and received along with the electronic mail.
To attain the object, according to a fourth aspect of the invention, there is provided an electronic mail system including a communication line, and at least one transmitting terminal and at least one receiving terminal connected to each other through the communication line, the transmitting terminal sending an electronic mail to the receiving terminal corresponding to an address of the electronic mail through the communication line, wherein the transmitting terminal comprises an attaching device that attaches song data comprising musical tone control information, to the electronic mail, and a transmitting device that transmits the electronic mail to which the song data is attached, to the receiving terminal, and the receiving terminal comprises a receiving device that receives the electronic mail which is sent by the transmitting terminal, and to which the song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, an opening device that opens the received electronic mail, and a reproducing device that automatically reproduces the song data attached to the electronic mail when the electronic mail is opened by the opening device.
To attain the object, according to a fifth aspect of the invention, there is provided an electronic mail system including a communication line, and at least one transmitting terminal, at least one receiving terminal, and at least one communication terminal connected to each other through the communication line, the communication terminal receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail sent by the transmitting terminal and transferring the received electronic mail to the receiving terminal corresponding to an address of the electronic mail, wherein the transmitting terminal comprises an attaching device that attaches song data comprising musical tone control information, to the electronic mail, and a transmitting device that transmits the electronic mail to which the song data is attached, to the communication terminal, the communication terminal comprises a first receiving device that receives, from the transmitting terminal, the electronic mail to which the song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, a storage device that stores the received electronic mail to which the song data is attached, a notifying device that notifies the receiving terminal of receipt of the electronic mail when receiving the electronic mail from the transmitting terminal, and a transfer device that retrieves the electronic mail and the song data attached to the mail from the storage device, and transfers the electronic mail and the song data to the receiving terminal, when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by the notifying device, and the receiving terminal comprises a second receiving device that receives the electronic mail which is transferred from the communication terminal, and to which the song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, an opening device that opens the received electronic mail, and a reproducing device that automatically reproduces the song data attached to the electronic mail when the electronic mail is opened by the opening device.
To attain the object, according to a sixth aspect of the invention, there is provided an electronic mail system including a communication line, and at least one transmitting terminal, at least one receiving terminal, and at least one communication terminal connected to each other through the communication line, the communication terminal receiving, through the communication line, an electronic mail sent by the transmitting terminal and transferring the received electronic mail to the receiving terminal corresponding to an address of the electronic mail, wherein the transmitting terminal comprises a transmitting device that transmits a request for delivery of the electronic mail to the receiving terminal corresponding to the address of the electronic mail, to the communication terminal, the communication terminal comprises a first storage device that stores a plurality of kinds of ornamental data that ornament the electronic mail sent by the transmitting terminal, and a plurality of kinds of song data attached to the electronic mail and comprising musical tone control information, a presenting device that, in response to the request for delivery of the electronic mail from the transmitting terminal, presents the plurality of kinds of ornamental data and the plurality of kinds of song data stored in the first storage device, to the transmitting terminal, so that the transmitting terminal can select a combination of ornamental data and song data from the plurality of kinds of ornamental data and song data, and designate the combination as electronic mail data, a second storage device that retrieves the electronic mail data from the first storage device and stores the retrieved data, when the transmitting terminal requests the communication terminal to send the combination of ornamental data and song data selected and designated as the electronic mail data, to the receiving terminal, a notifying device that notifies the receiving terminal of receipt of the electronic mail when the electronic mail data is stored in the second storage device in response to the request from the transmitting terminal for sending the electronic mail, and a transfer device that retrieves the electronic mail data from the second storage device, and transfers the data to the receiving terminal, when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by the notifying device, and the receiving terminal comprises a receiving device that receives the electronic mail which is transferred from the communication terminal, and to which the song data comprising musical tone control information is attached, an opening device that opens the received electronic mail, and a reproducing device that automatically reproduces the song data attached to the electronic mail when the electronic mail is opened by the opening device.
The transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal according to the present invention may each comprise one of a general purpose computer, a portable communication terminal of a wireless communication type, and a portable communication terminal of a wire communication type.
FIG. 8C is a view showing a further example of the portable communication terminal.
The invention will NOW be described in detail with reference to the drawings showing preferred embodiments thereof.
An electronic mail system according to a first embodiment of the invention is comprised of a transmitting terminal that sends an electronic mail, a server computer (communication terminal) that stores the electronic mail sent by the transmitting terminal in a storage device, and delivers the mail to an addressee of the mail, and a receiving terminal as the addressee that receives the electronic mail delivered by the server computer. Each of these components, i.e., the transmitting and receiving terminals and server computer, may be formed by a general purpose computer, such as a personal computer or a work station. Needless to say, the functions of the transmitting terminal and receiving terminal are not fixedly determined, but may be changed or switched as desired. For example, the receiving terminal may serve as a transmitting terminal when it sends out an electronic mail.
FIG. 1 schematically shows the construction of the transmitting terminal, namely, general purpose computer, that constitutes the electronic mail system of the present embodiment.
As shown in FIG. 1, the transmitting terminal of the present embodiment includes a keyboard 1 mainly used for entering character information, a mouse 2 serving as a pointing device, a key operation detecting circuit 3 that detects an operated state of each key on the keyboard 1, and a mouse operation detecting circuit 4 that detects an operated state of the mouse 2. The transmitting terminal also includes a CPU 5 that governs control of the whole apparatus, a ROM 6 that stores control programs to be executed by the CPU 5, table data, and so forth, a RAM 7 that temporarily stores performance data, various input information, results of computation, and others, a timer 8 that counts interrupt time for timer interrupt processing, and various sorts of time or durations, and a display device 9 that displays various information, and includes, for example, a large-sized liquid crystal display (LCD) or a CRT (cathode ray tube) display, and light emitting diodes (LED). The transmitting terminal further includes a floppy disc drive (FDD) 10 for driving a floppy disc (FD) 20 as one type of storage medium, a hard disc drive (HDD) 11 for driving a hard disc (not shown) that stores various application programs including the above-indicated control programs, various data, and so on, a CD-ROM drive (CD-ROMD) 12 for driving a compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM) 21 that stores various application programs including the control programs, various data, and so on. In the transmitting terminal are also included a MIDI interface (I/F) 13 that receives MIDI signals from the outside of the computer (external apparatus), and generates or outputs MIDI signals to the outside, a communication interface (I/F) 14 that sends and receives data to and from a server computer 102 or other client computer (receiving terminal in this embodiment) 103, a tone generator circuit 15 that converts performance data entered through the MIDI I/F 13 or communication I/F 14, or preset performance data, into musical tone signals, an effect circuit 16 that gives various effects to the musical tone signals received from the tone generator circuit 15, and a sound system 17 composed of a DAC (digital-to-analog converter), an amplifier, a sound speaker, etc. that converts the musical tone signals received from the effect circuit 16, into sound.
The component elements 3-16 described above are connected to each other through a bus 18, and the timer 8 is connected to the CPU 5. Also, other MIDI equipment 100 is connected to the MIDI I/F 13, and a communication network 101 is connected to the communication I/F 14. Further, the effect circuit 16 is connected to the tone generator circuit 15, and the sound system 17 is connected to the effect circuit 16.
The hard disc mounted in the hard disc drive (HDD) 11 is able to store control programs to be executed by the CPU 5, as described above. Where a desired control program is not stored in the ROM 6, the control program is stored in the hard disc, and the RAM 7 reads the control program so as to cause the CPU 5 to perform substantially the same operations as in the case where the control program is stored in the ROM 6. This arrangement makes it easy to add new control programs, and upgrade versions of the programs.
Control programs and various data read from the CD-ROM 21 in the CD-ROM drive 12 are stored in the hard disc of the HDD 11. This arrangement makes it easy to install new control programs and upgrade versions of the programs. Various types of external storage devices, other than the CD-ROM drive 12, that use various forms of media may also be provided. One example of such storage devices is a magneto-optical disc (MO) device.
As described above, the communication I/F 14 is connected to the communication network 101, which may be a LAN (local are network), Internet, and a telephone line, for example, to be connected to the server computer 102 or other client computer 103, through the communication network 101. Where a certain program or certain type of parameters are not stored in the hard disk within the HDD 11, the communication I/F 14 is used to download the program or parameters from the server computer 102. A client computer (i.e., transmitting terminal and receiving terminal in the present embodiment) sends a command to the server computer 102 through the communication I/F 14 and communication network 101, to request downloading of the desired program or parameters. Upon receipt of the command, the server computer 102 delivers the requested program or parameters to the client computer via the communication network 101, and the client computer receives the program or parameters via the communication I/F 14, and stores the same in the hard disc within the HDD 11, whereby downloading is completed.
In addition, the computer as described above may be provided with an interface through which data are directly transmitted and received to and from an external computer, or the like.
While the electronic mail system of the present embodiment uses only one server computer 102, which is connected to the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal, the system may include a plurality of serve computers. For example, if two server computers are used, the system may be constructed such that the transmitting terminal is connected to one of the server computers, and the receiving terminal is connected to the other, while these server computers are connected to each other through a network. It is, however, to be understood that the mail system of the present invention is not limited to this arrangement.
The other apparatuses that constitute the electronic mail system of the present invention, namely, the server computer and the receiving terminal, are respectively formed by general purpose computers, as described above, and the hardware arrangements of these computers are almost the same as that of the transmitting terminal as described above. However, the apparatuses constituting the mail system may be constructed differently from each other. For example, since the server computer 102 of the present embodiment mainly functions to receive electronic mail data, store the data in a storage device, and deliver the electronic mail data to the receiving terminal, such elements that have auxiliary functions to generate musical tones, namely, the tone generator circuit 15, effect circuit 16 and sound system 17, may be eliminated from the server computer 102. Where the server computer 102 includes the FDD (floppy disc drive) 10 and CD-ROM drive 12 as described above, the transmitting terminal and receiving terminal as client computers may use the FDD 10 and CD-ROM drive 12 in common, and therefore the FDD 10 and CD-ROM drive 12 need not be provided on the side of the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal.
Referring next to FIG. 2, there will be described control operations to be performed by the transmitting terminal, server computer 102 and receiving terminal that constitute the electronic mail system constructed as described above.
At a step S1 in FIG. 2, the transmitting terminal transmits, in response to a user's command, an electronic mail to which song data (prepared by the user) formed of musical tone control information is attached, to the receiving terminal, namely, to the address of the server computer 102 to which the receiving terminal belongs. The musical tone control information is typically MIDI data, and so it will be limited to MIDI data in the following description. The song data will also be called "MIDI data" if there is no possibility of confusion. In the present embodiment, the electronic mail data is formed of not only character data (text data), but may also include image data in addition to character data. For example, the electronic mail data is prepared in HTML (hypertext markup language), so that the mail data is formed of character data and image data, and the electronic mail data described in HTML is sent to the receiving terminal. Such a system is well known in the art. It is also possible to attach a small quantity of voice data (that is not MIDI data but data obtained by converting a voice signal into digital data) to the electronic mail. In the following, the electronic mail data means data of an electronic mail to which song data or voice data is attached.
At a step S2, the server computer 102 stores electronic mail data received from the transmitting terminal, in an addressee's mail box provided in a storage device (for example, hard disc in the HDD 11) of the computer 102. At a step S3, the server computer 102 notifies the addressee or receiving terminal of the receipt of the relevant mail.
In response to this, the receiving terminal recognizes the notification of the receipt of the mail from the server computer 102 at a step S4, and sends a command to the server computer 102 to request the electronic mail data that has been stored in the storage device of the server computer 102, to be downloaded into the receiving terminal at a step S5. Namely, the receiving terminal accesses the server computer 102 to retrieve the received mail.
The server computer 102 recognizes the request from the receiving terminal at a step S6, and downloads the electronic mail data under request, to the receiving terminal at a step S7.
The receiving terminal receives the electronic mail data at a step S8, and displays the character data and image data included in the electronic mail data, together with a playback button, on the display device 9 at a step S9. At the same time, the receiving terminal automatically reproduces MIDI data contained in the electronic mail data, and transmits the data to the tone generator circuit 15 at a step S10. At a step S11, the tone generator circuit 15 produces a musical tone signal based on the reproduced data, and transmits the signal to the effect circuit 16, which in turn adds various effects to the musical tone signal thus produced. The sound system 17 receives the resulting musical tone signal from the effect circuit 16, and generates corresponding sound.
In the present embodiment, as described above, when the receiving terminal accesses the server computer 102 to retrieve the electronic mail data, the character data and image data as part of the electronic mail data are displayed on the display device 9, and the MIDI data is reproduced at the same time. With this arrangement, the receiving terminal is able to immediately reproduce musical sound or voice, without requiring the user to start an application program for opening MIDI data as an attached file and reproducing the opened MIDI data. Thus, the user need not operate the computer to perform operations for reproducing the MIDI data, assuring improved efficiency in the use of the computer.
FIG. 3 shows one example of electronic mail data and a display control (including the playback button) that are displayed on the display device 9 at the step S9, wherein an electronic mail representing a birthday card is illustrated.
In the example of FIG. 3, a message portion 91 that says "How are you?" is displayed based on character data entered by the user of the transmitting terminal, and an image portion 92 that includes characters "Happy birthday" is displayed based on image data prepared by the user. The user of the receiving terminal is supposed to operate a display console 93 for controlling the playback state or mode of the received MIDI data. The display console 93 is comprised of a playback start button 92 to be pushed to start reproduction of the MIDI data, a stop button 93 b for stopping the reproduction, a fast forward button 93 c for fast-forwarding the data, and a rewind button 93d for re-winding the data. The buttons 93 a-93 d are generically called "playback button".
In the present embodiment in which the electronic mail data is displayed on the display device 9, and the MIDI data starts being reproduced at the same time, the user is able to control the manner of playing back the MIDI data as he/she wishes, by manipulating the mouse 2 to push a desired one of the buttons 93 a-93 d on the display console 93.
In the present embodiment, since song data attached to the electronic mail is formed of MIDI data whose quantity is usually small, high-quality musical sound or voice represented by the small quantity of data can be transmitted and received along with the electronic mail.
Next, an electronic mail system according to a second embodiment of the invention will be described. The electronic mail system of the present embodiment is different from that of the first embodiment only in terms of the control processing of each apparatus that constitutes the electronic mail system, and therefore only the control processing will be described, and the hardware structure of each apparatus will not be explained.
FIG. 4 shows a flow of control operations to be performed by the transmitting terminal, server computer 102, and receiving terminal that constitute the electronic mail system of the present embodiment.
At a step S21 in FIG. 4, the transmitting terminal sends, in response to a command of the user, a request for delivery of an electronic mail, to a server computer (that will be called "connection server") to which the transmitting terminal is connected. The connection server receives the request for mail delivery from the transmitting terminal at a step S22, and sends samples of electronic mail data stored in a storage device (for example, hard disc in the HDD 11) of the connection server, to the transmitting terminal. The samples of electronic mail data may be in the form of image data (reduced images: ornamental data), and data indicating song names (ornamental data) of respective sets of MIDI data. The connection server then causes the display device 9 of the transmitting terminal to display the samples of electronic mail data, and also display a message area that allows entry of a message (step S22).
FIG. 5 shows one example of samples of electronic mail data displayed on the display device 9 on the side of the transmitting terminal. In the example of FIG. 5, a plurality of reduced images of image data and a plurality of song names of MIDI data are displayed, along with a message area 95 (in which the user has already entered a message: "How are you?").
Referring back to FIG. 4, the user selects image data and MIDI data which he/she wishes to send to the receiver, from the plurality of reduced images and song names displayed as shown in FIG. 5, and enters a message in the message area 95 at a step S24. When the user presses a send button 96 (shown in FIG. 5) provided in the message area 95, the transmitting terminal requests the connection server to deliver the electronic mail data including the selected image and song and the message entered by the user, to the desired receiver at a step S25.
In response to the request from the transmitting terminal, the connection server stores the requested electronic mail data (including character data, image data and MIDI data) in a receiver's mail box provided in the storage device at a step S26. The processing steps following the step S26, namely, steps S27 through S35, are similar to the steps S3 through S11 of the first embodiment, and therefore will not be described herein.
In the second embodiment, as described above, song data formed of MIDI data having a small data quantity is attached to the electronic mail, as in the first embodiment. Furthermore, some samples of electronic mail data are available from the connection server, which enables the user to send desired electronic mail data to the receiver, without preparing the electronic mail data, in particular, song data, on his/her own.
In the above described electronic mail systems according to the first and second embodiments, the transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal are each formed by a general purpose computer such as a personal computer and a work station. The transmitting terminal and the receiving terminal are not limited to this type, but they may be implemented by any type of terminals that can be connected to a general purpose network as typically represented by Internet and a satellite communication.
FIG. 6 shows the construction of an electronic mail system according to a third embodiment of the invention. As shown in FIG. 6, the electronic mail system according to this embodiment employs, as a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal, portable communication terminals as represented by a portable phone and a PHS (personal handyphone system), which have a function of being connected to the server computer 102 as shown in FIG. 1. In FIG. 6, a portable communication terminal 30 on the left side is used as a transmitting terminal, and a portable communication terminal 30′ on the right side is used as a receiving terminal. However, this is merely an example, and the portable communication terminals 30, 30′ may be identical in construction and function with each other, and may each be used as both a transmitting terminal and a receiving terminal.
FIG. 7 schematically shows the construction of one of the two portable communication terminals 30, 30′ shown in FIG. 6. In FIG. 7, the portable communication terminal 30 according to the present embodiment is comprised of a circuit component group 30A which constitutes a general portable terminal (i.e. not a special portable terminal that is able to receive electronic mails to which MIDI data are attached and reproduce the MIDI data), and a circuit component group 30B which implements electronic musical instrument functions (mainly including a function of reproducing the received MIDI data). The two circuit component groups 30A, 30B are connected to each other through a communication I/F. The circuit components of the circuit component groups 30A, 30B are similar or identical to those shown in FIG. 1 and described before, or known ones, description of which is therefore omitted.
Although FIG. 7 shows the construction of a portable communication terminal shown in FIG. 6, that is, the construction of an ordinary portable phone or PHS, in which the entire circuit component group 30A is accommodated, the construction of the portable communication terminal is not limited to this type, but alternatively it may be one of forms shown in FIGS. 8A to 8C. That is, the construction of the portable communication terminal may be a type that an ordinary portable terminal constituted by the circuit component group 30A and a portable musical instrument constituted by the circuit component group 30B are connected to each other by a connection cable, as shown in FIG. 8A, a type that an ordinary portable terminal constituted by the circuit component group 30A and a portable musical instrument constituted by the circuit component group 30B are connected together in a manner being disconnectable from each other by an exclusive connecting mechanism, as shown in FIG. 8B, or a type that the circuit component group 30A is accommodated within a portable musical instrument constituted by the circuit component group 30B, as shown in FIG. 8C. Thus, the portable communication terminal according to the invention may have any construction insofar as the circuit component group 30A and the circuit component group 30B are connected to each other by a communication I/F. The communication I/F may be of any construction insofar as it is adapted to send and receive data of MIDI format between the circuit component group 30A and the circuit component group 30B.
By operating the electronic mail system thus constructed so as to perform control operations as described before with reference to FIG. 2 or FIG. 4, control operations similar or identical to the control operations according to the first or second embodiment can be performed using portable communication terminals in place of a general purpose computer.
Although the portable communication terminals employed by the present embodiment are of a wireless communication type, portable communication terminals according to the present invention are not limited to this type, but they may be of a wire communication type which can be connected to an analog public network, a digital public network (ISDN), or a local area network (LAN).
The object of the present invention may also be attained by supplying a system or apparatus with a storage medium in which a software program that achieves the function of each of the illustrated embodiments is stored, and causing a computer (CPU 5 or MPU) of the system or apparatus to read and execute the program stored in the storage medium.
In this case, the program read out from the storage medium serves by itself to realize the novel function of the present invention, and thus the storage medium storing the program constitutes the present invention.
The storage medium for supplying such a program to the system or apparatus may be in the form of a hard disc mounted in the HDD 11, CD-ROM 21, MO, MD, floppy disk 20, CD-R (CD-Recordable), magnetic tape, nonvolatile memory card, or ROM, for example. Also, the program may be supplied from other MIDI equipment 100, or from the server computer 102 through the communication network 101.
Needless to say, the function of each of the illustrated embodiments may be performed not only by executing the program read by the computer, but also by causing OS (operating system) that is operating on the computer, to perform a part or all of actual operations according to the instructions or commands contained in the program.
Furthermore, the program read out from the storage medium may be written into a memory provided in an expanded board inserted in the computer, or an expanded unit connected to the computer, and a CPU, or the like, provided in the expanded board or expanded unit may perform a part or all of actual operations according to instructions or commands of the program, so as to accomplish the function of each of the illustrated embodiments.
Although in each of the illustrated embodiments the transmitting terminal or receiving terminal uses the tone generator circuit 15 and effect circuit 16 as shown in FIG. 1, to synthesize musical tones and sound the same, based on song data, alternatively, these functions of musical tone synthesization and sounding may be performed by software means (musical tone synthesis means and effect imparting means) which are realized by executing a program such as a musical tone generating program by the CPU.
Further, although in each of the illustrated embodiments an electronic mail to which song data formed of MIDI data is attached is transmitted and received, alternatively, tone color data (waveform data, musical tone parameters, and others) may also be attached to the electronic mail and transmitted together therewith in case that the receiving terminal has no designated tone color data stored in a storage device thereof. Furthermore, a musical tone generating program for generating musical tones having designated tone color may be attached to the electronic mail and transmitted together therewith in case that the receiving terminal does not have the program stored in a storage device thereof. In these cases, the receiving terminal may use the tone color data or the program transmitted together with the electronic mail, if required, while it may decline receiving it if not required.
The present invention is not limited to the above described embodiments, but may be implemented by various combinations of the features of the above described embodiments. Further, many modifications and variations of the invention are possible in the light of the above teachings without departing from the scope of the appended claims.
wherein said transmitting terminal and said receiving terminal each include a circuit component that constitutes a general portable terminal, and a circuit component group having an electronic musical instrument function of reproducing the song data attached to the received electronic mail.
an automatic reproducing device that enables reproduction control of playback start, stop, fast forward, and rewind of the song data, and that automatically reproduces the song data attached to the electronic mail when the electronic mail is opened by said opening device.
an automatic producing device that enables reproduction control of playback start, stop, fast forward and rewind of the song data, and that automatically reproduces the song data attached to the electronic mail while displaying the electronic mail and the ornamental data attached thereto, when the electric mail is opened by said opening device.
an automatic reproduction device that enables reproduction control of playback start, stop, fast forward and rewind of the song data, and that automatically reproduces the song data attached to the electronic mail while displaying the electronic mail and the ornamental data attached thereto, when the electronic mail is opened by said opening device.
enabling reproduction control of playback start, stop, fast forward and rewind of the song data.
a module for enabling reproduction control of playback start, stop, fast forward and rewind of the song data.
reproducing the song data attached to the electronic mail when the electronic mail is opened.
transferring the electronic mail and the song data to the receiving terminal when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by said step of notifying.
retrieving the electronic mail data from said second storage device and transferring the data to the receiving terminal when the receiving terminal requests receipt of the electronic mail in response to notification by said step of notifying.
"EUDORA PRO" (Japanese version), Kuni Research International Corp., Apr. 20, 1996, Section 3.19, pp. 98-100, partial translation.
Takashi Amada, "It is Music With a Computer! (6)", I/O, Kougakusha Inc., Sep. 1, 1997, 22nd Volume, No. 9, pp. 152-155 (no translation).
Tooru Sawamura, "Facilities Which Have Not Been Known Until Now! Fun! Master E-mails 100%", PC FAN, Mainichi Communications, Inc., 4th Volume, No. 18, Oct. 15, 1997, pp 64-67 (with English translation).
W. Keith Edwards, The Design and Implementation of the MONTAGE Multimedia Mail System, IEEE Conference, Apr. 18-19, 1991, pp. 47-57.


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The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie
by: Wendy McClure (author)
Publish date: April 14th 2011
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While I've never had the compulsion to recreate the world of the Little House books I was a pretty big fan of the series so, for the most part, I enjoyed this audio. The parts where the author traveled to the various Little House sites were my favorites and I also enjoyed learning more about Rose W...
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Trump may have to sell his DC hotel at a loss
President-elect needs the buyer to pay $806K a room to recoup investment
President-elect Donald Trump may be forced sell his Washington D.C hotel at a financial loss, if he decides to bow to mounting pressure and separate himself from the property.
The Trump Organization spent $212 million — 80 percent of which was borrowed from Deutsche Bank — redeveloping the historic Old Post Office into a 263-room hotel, Bloomberg reported. For the organization to recover its investment, it would need to sell it for around $806,100 per room. The property, which is on Pennsylvania Avenue, has attracted intense scrutiny over the conflicts of interest issues it presents.
In terms of its value, the hotel only opened in September and there's limited information on its earning capacity. "At $800,000 a room, it would certainly be at the top end of the market for luxury hotel values in the district," Andy Wimsatt, a Washington-based managing director in hotel brokerage and investment sales at CBRE Group Inc., told Bloomberg.
The conflicts of interest that surround the hotel are complex. The building itself is rented from the federal government, which would put Trump on both sides of the lease if he doesn't sell. However, if he were to sell the property, he could face criticism that higher bids were made to curry favor with the next president, according to the publication. Trump has also toyed with having his eldest three children — who each own a 7 percent stake in the property — take over the business.
Trump is facing mounting pressure from ethics specialists and lawyers to separate himself from his myriad of business interests. Members of Congress are required to avoid policy issues that will impact their own financial interests, however those rules apparently do not apply to the president. Trump has also toyed with having his eldest three children — who each own a 7 percent stake in the property — take over the business, though ethicists say it's not enough to quash fears of financial gain.
The president-elect was due discuss his various conflicts of interest at a press conference last week, but the presser — which would have been his first since July — was canceled and has not been rescheduled. [Bloomberg] — Miriam Hall
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