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Netflix has a nice Vacation-Hold Feature they've added in the past year that is really nice. Being a long-time Netflix subscriber I've always struggled with how to deal with times when I'm on vacation or going through weeks when I'm too busy to watch the movies Netflix sends me.
In the past I've always just canceled my account during that time and then re-subscribed when I'm back from vacation and/or have time to watch movies again. This worked, but there were a few problems with the old method:
Next you'll see the "account hold" page. Netflix outlines the rules for the feature on this page as you can see below. The biggest one for me is understanding you can only put your account on hold for 90 days or less. Another important thing to note is you don't want to hold on to any Netflix movies while the account is on hold or they'll charge $20 (plus taxes) per DVD. So, don't put your account on hold without returning your movie within 7 days...
Note that your account will be put on hold the moment you click the "start account hold now" button. At the bottom of the page you choose the date to automatically reactivate your account - I'm selecting the day before I return from vacation so I'll have the next movie in my queue waiting for me when I return.
The last page you see is a notice your account is on hold. You'll see this warning/reminder on all of your Netflix pages (queue etc). You can reactivate your account even before the date you had originally selected - nice feature for those of us that change our mind.
That's it. I'm testing this feature out as I write this so I'll let you know how it goes. My strategy was to wait to put the account on hold until the end of yesterday after the last movie shipment was confirmed in my queue. I should get that movie today in the mail and can watch it tonight. I'll then return it before I leave for vacation (save me that penalty fee) and it will reactivate right as I'm returning from vacation. If you've ever used this feature on Netflix let me know how it went in the comments.
Remember when my child dressed herself up in onion goggles and announced that she was a Popsicornian? Hold onto that thought.
A couple of weeks ago, she and I were in the public library, picking up a DVD that we'd reserved. [I love my public library. I love that I can put things on hold via the internet from my bed. I love that they send an email when things are ready for pick-up. I love that they remind me by email when things are due back. I wish they had something like a Netflix queue for books I want to read, but I digress.] While there, we wandered into the children's room where she spotted a large blue and yellow striped papier-mch dragon up atop the stacks. "Oh", said she, "it's my father's dragon". It turned out that her first grade teacher had read the whole series of Gannett's books to the class, but the girl wanted me to read it to her, so we tracked down the librarian, who led us to the right shelf and we borrowed a copy of My Father's Dragon.
I read it to her and I'm astonished that I'd never read it before, even though we had a copy on her bookshelf which I'd picked up on the recommendation of a friend but had completely forgotten about because apparently I have a mind like a sieve. Anyway, it's entirely charming with lovely illustrations and a vaguely subversive undercurrent, and if you don't know it you need to remedy that right now. We finished the first book and took it back and got the other two. Towards the end of Elmer and the Dragon, the dragon is flying Elmer home over the sea and says "I think I see land ahead!", to which Elmer replies "So do I, and I think it's the coast of Popsicornia!"
POPSICORNIA.
I was dumbfounded. Not only had she not disclosed the origins of Popsicornia, she hadn't even reported that her teacher was reading chapter books about blue and yellow dragons. What's she not going to tell me next?
(Illustration from The Dragons of Blueland)
Hmm. Check your web page - there is a check box on ours that puts the book on a "list." It doesn't DO anything except keep track of books you want to keep track of, but it's a bit better than putting a hold on everything and ending up with too many books to read at once.
I did put "My Father's Dragon" on hold, though.
My son told me a detailed, delightful story; and I'd like to write it down and turn it into a real book. But I'm afraid he based it on some book he heard, and then I'll be a plagiarist! I can't figure out if he really made it up or not.
Hey, they're only supposed to know things we tell them!
I feel just the same. Somehow the little dude spouts off facts or stories and I try to trace where they come from. School? A book? A video? "From my mind," he tells me. Hmmmm.
It is interesting to see what they keep to themselves and what they share. BubTar already has the mindset of a teenager, I try to talk to him in the drive home from schhol and he says, "Moooom, I just need some peace and quiet now!" LOL.
And I missed it. And I recommend those books as read alouds on a regular basis.
I hang my head in shame. Though I have to say my own girls never read these and it's been many,many years since I read them myself!
Hah. That's great. She's living her own life. They all are! We're just getting the little bits and pieces.
My kid comes with all sorts of stories of what happens at school which I hope are not true. Kids getting their eyes poked out by other kids, I don't even want to talk about it. But I'll never know for sure I'll guess.
I just realized I hid 'Elmer and the Dragon' because when we read 'My Father's Dragon' she pestered me and pestered me to finish the whole thing. And it takes a lot of time. We couldn't read it at bedtime.
I have to find where I put it! I just was like 'if she sees this, then I'm stuck reading this for a couple hours at least' and I had all this stuff to do.
We have a little stuffed dragon from the book that we bought at some bookstore somewhere.
i just went online and reserved it at our library.
and a netflix like queue is BRILLIANT. t hat would keep me from having too many books to read coming in all at once and collecting dust on my nightstand. like right now)
AILSA CHANG, HOST: Netflix is marking an end to 25 years of mailing out DVDs in red envelopes by offering to send subscribers extra discs from their queue. NPR's Chloe Veltman says fans are welcoming the gesture ahead of the service shutting down at the end of next month, but it's also causing confusion.CHLOE VELTMAN, BYLINE: Longtime Netflix DVD customer Moe Long is a self-described film buff in North Carolina. He says there are 500 movies sitting in his queue right now.MOE LONG: It's ridiculous (laughter). I don't think I'm going to get through that.VELTMAN: Before Netflix ends its DVD service, Long is hoping to get to as many of those films as he can, including 1978's "Foul Play."(SOUNDBITE OF FILM TRAILER, "FOUL PLAY")UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: A new comedy thriller starring Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase.VELTMAN: Long says once he's done, he plans, as usual, to return the discs to the sender.LONG: You don't get to keep the DVDs. You do have to send them back.VELTMAN: A Netflix spokesperson confirmed the company is indeed expecting to get the goods back. But Netflix's promotional email doesn't explicitly say that. Because the company is scrapping its DVD service, many subscribers, like Leslie Lowdermilk, are assuming it's a giveaway.LESLIE LOWDERMILK: It appeared to me that at the end of their time shipping these DVDs out, they're yours to keep. Because after all, what are they going to do with them?VELTMAN: That's a great question to put to a company that has shipped out more than 5 billion discs to customers since launching in 1998. DVDs are not easily recyclable. Most of them end up in landfill. Entertainment lawyer Lindsay Spiller says Netflix couldn't give the DVDs away even if it wanted to.LINDSAY SPILLER: The filmmakers and property rights owners give Netflix a license, and then they can sublicense it to their subscribers. But they can't give anybody ownership. They don't have it themselves.MARY GERBI: They really should have made it clear whether this was a rental and what the return period is versus whether people were getting to hold on to these things.VELTMAN: Massachusetts-based Netflix DVD customer Mary Gerbi says she hopes the streamer will find ethical ways to dispose of its massive stockpile of plastic.GERBI: Maybe to get them into libraries.VELTMAN: She says she just doesn't want the DVDs to go to waste.Chloe Veltman, NPR News.
To work around the paging issue, on the Sangoma and Yealink phones, there is a setting that you enable that will allow Multicast Barge paging to put the call on hold, which will basically put the queued call on hold. But, the users will have to push the button again to resume the music.
The following is something I use for testing RTP when I need a long stream of arbitrary audio. Add the dialplan to extensions_custom.conf and create a Custom Destination with a dial string of play-musiconhold,s,1. If you need a dialable feature code, create a Misc Application.
Is there anything that would allow a multicast stream to be played? Again, these are ongoing calls that will be happening with the phone system. I was trying to see if there was also a way to play a multicast stream on a phone, similar to how paging works, but the phone would join the stream.
The issue is that it will be paging forever, and phone calls will not come through. If I set the phone to allow barging, it will break the multicast page, but then the phone will no longer listen to the page, until you start it again.
I will say I appreciate the ideas @dicko and @lgaetz. This would be beneficial for my setup, if we can get a multicast streaming sourc(es) to work via multicast. This would put this back to the similar BGM function I had on the previous phone system.
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