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SMS Is Here To Stay, Here's Why
There are many reasons why SMS is popular despite the headrush of so many instant messaging apps. Let's take a look at these:
Higher open rates
To communicate with someone on Facebook, you need to send across a friend request, otherwise your messages to them may end up in a folder that they may not see. On the other hand, an SMS makes reaching out to customers much easier. A mobile research firm concluded that 90 per cent of people go through an SMS within three minutes of receiving it! What's more, about 66 per cent of Americans check their phone 160 times a day!
For companies that are looking to market effectively, SMS cannot be neglected. It boasts high open rates and is a centralized mode of communication today. Undoubtedly, more and more marketers today include it as a medium to send out campaigns.
Hassle-free dissemination and sense of urgency
For an SMS to reach your customer, they do not have to download any specific app. Just a phone and an operator plan are all that it takes, giving it a global reach. SMS doesn't have the constraints that most internet-based apps have and is not reliant on the handset manufacturer, service provider, or even web connectivity. Unlike over-the-top messaging apps (WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Hike, WeChat etc.), it does not have hardware or software constraints, and is not dependent on the availability or speed of the internet. It can reach any mobile phone, even the most basic one.
You would be wondering what makes people go through an SMS more often than emails? Well, the nature of platform puts SMS in a more favorable position. You may receive a notification for an SMS but rarely so for an email. Also, given the number of promotional and junk emails, one may even not want to turn on their notifications for it. A study revealed that in the US, an average person receives about 88 emails a day, much higher than SMS which accounts to a little over 30 per day. Easier to attend, right?
Texts are critical
Sinch (India) has over 500 enterprise clients, each of whom trust the SMS platform by Sinch to engage with their customers. Some messages are mission-critical and need to be conveyed at the right time, such as bank transaction messages, or a one-time password to conduct or verify a transaction. Our robust and carrier-grade SMS platform powers over five billion messages per month and delivers mission critical transactional, promotional and OTP messages. What's more, it also has interactive SMS options for Mi Phone users.
Dependable technology
SMS is the most dependent technology for modern customer needs. Application-to-person (A2P) SMS allows an app to deliver messages to a mobile subscriber. Best in class, enterprise grade A2P solutions are available to enterprises. There are state-of-the-art APIs available that can be integrated seamless with the enterprise IT infrastructure. Today, in accessing the global telecom network directly, companies gain faster delivery times and better reliability of service. This makes A2P SMS accessible to more companies to connect to their customer, thereby making SMS as the most preferred channel of communication.
Enterprises rely on text messaging to deliver the most crucial information to their customers including one-time passwords, transaction information (payments/account withdrawals), appointment reminders, flight updates, etc. Companies use state-of-the-art APIs and effective cloud communication platforms to ensure timely updates to consumers.
SMS offers an additional layer of security: Two factor authentication through SMS is the most used method by companies to avoid data theft and protect consumers from financial frauds. Use of the OTP (Online Transaction Password) is quite well-known in the present day. Though, SMS may be viewed as antiquated technology.
Verified messages
One of the main concerns with SMS has been that given its popularity, small and big companies have been using it extensively. How do you ensure that you are not viewed as spam and junk? We have a solution for our clients. Thanks to Google's verified SMS, our clients can send across SMS to their customers as verified businesses. Here's your chance to build trust, garner visibility for your brand, secure communication as also look forward to great ROI.
Remarketing with SMS
With such great open rates, SMS is also a popular platform for remarketing strategies. While we do not wish to underplay the role of email marketing, some bit of SMS intervention can work for your business too.
For more information about any of ACL's products, get in touch at marketing@aclmobile.com
What SMS services are provided by Sinch?
Solutions for Campaign Management, One Time Password, Transactional Alerts, and 2-Way Messaging are provided by Sinch.
What does cPaaS provider, Sinch's pull platform enable?
Sinch's 2-way Messaging Enterprise grade platform empowers enterprise to send-receive high volume messages with a brand recognized 5- to 6-digit number of their choice.
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Johann Bode was a German mathematician and astronomer best known for his popularization of an empirical mathematical rule giving the relative mean distances between the Sun and planets. Often referred to simply as Bode's Law, this rule had been discovered earlier by Johann Titius (1729–1796) of Wittenberg and so is more properly called Titius's Law or the Titius-Bode Law. Bode founded the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch (Astronomic Yearbook of Berlin) in 1774, and went on to compile and issue 51 yearly volumes of it. From 1772 to 1825 he was astronomer of the Academy of Science, Berlin, and from 1786, director of the Berlin Observatory. His most important contribution to astronomy was the Uranographia (1801), a collection of star maps and a catalogue of 17,240 stars and nebulae – 12,000 more than had appeared in earlier charts.
Bode enthusiastically endorsed an extreme form of pluralism and natural theology. He argued, in two influential texts on astronomy – his Anleitung of 1768 and Erlauterung of 1778 – that essentially every significant object in space, including the Sun, stars, planets, moons, and comets are inhabited by rational beings (see plenitude, principle of). For him, habitability was "the most important goal of creation" (see teleology). Concerning the key Christian issues of incarnation and redemption, he suggested that extraterrestrials everywhere "are ready to recognize the author of their existence and to praise his goodness." As for objections against the habitability of planets too far from or close to the Sun, he replied that varying atmospheric conditions compensate for the different levels of solar radiation in order to make life possible, and further noted that "the rational inhabitants, and even the animals, plants, etc. of the other planetary bodies are characterized by forms different from those which occur on our earth." This flexibility was especially important in his argument for life on comets: "Who can conceive what special arrangements of the wise Creator in regard to the climate, zones, dwelling places, sectioning of creatures, natural products, may not be expected for all those on a cometary body?" Concerning the Moon, he cited Schröter's reports of changes on the lunar surface which "may indicate natural upheavals and a culture perhaps organized by its inhabitants" (see Moon, life). Bode was among the earliest advocates of the much wider cosmos, with its "island universes" (external galaxies), envisaged by Immanuel Kant and William Herschel.


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package com.muses.util.wxpay;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.PostMethod;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.StringRequestEntity;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpClientParams;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpMethodParams;
import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;

/**
 * Created by mysgq1 on 15/2/28.
 *
 * Http Client工具类
 * 发起http client 请求
 *
 * 窗口 - 首选项 - Java - 代码样式 - 代码模板
 */
public final class HttpClientUtil {

    private static final String TYPE_STRING = "string";

    private static final String TYPE_BYTEARRAY = "byte[]";

    private static final String TYPE_STREAM = "stream";

    private static HttpClientUtil instance;

    private HttpClientUtil(){}

    /**
     * 使用默认的页面请求编码:utf-8
     * @return
     */
    public static HttpClientUtil getInstance(){
        return getInstance("UTF-8");
    }

    public static HttpClientUtil getInstance(String urlCharset){
        if(instance == null){
            instance = new HttpClientUtil();
        }
        //设置默认的url编码
        instance.setUrlCharset(urlCharset);
        return instance;
    }

    /**
     * 请求编码,默认使用utf-8
     */
    private String urlCharset = "UTF-8";

    /**
     * @param urlCharset 要设置的 urlCharset。
     */
    public void setUrlCharset(String urlCharset) {
        this.urlCharset = urlCharset;
    }
    /**
     * 获取字符串型返回结果,通过发起http post请求
     * @param targetUrl
     * @param params
     * @return
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public String getResponseBodyAsString(String targetUrl,Map params)throws Exception{

        return (String)setPostRequest(targetUrl,params,TYPE_STRING);
    }

    /**
     * 获取字符数组型返回结果,通过发起http post请求
     * @param targetUrl
     * @param params
     * @return
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public byte[] getResponseBodyAsByteArray(String targetUrl,Map params)throws Exception{

        return (byte[])setPostRequest(targetUrl,params,TYPE_BYTEARRAY);
    }

    /**
     * 将response的返回流写到outputStream中,通过发起http post请求
     * @param targetUrl                 请求地址
     * @param params                    请求参数<paramName,paramValue>
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public void getResponseBodyAsStream(String targetUrl,Map params)throws Exception{
        //response 的返回结果写到输出流
        setPostRequest(targetUrl,params,TYPE_STREAM);
    }

    /**
     * 利用http client模拟发送http post请求
     * @param targetUrl                 请求地址
     * @param params                    请求参数<paramName,paramValue>
     * @return  Object                  返回的类型可能是:String 或者 byte[] 或者 outputStream
     * @throws Exception
     */
    private Object setPostRequest(String targetUrl,Map params,String responseType)throws Exception{
        if(StringUtils.isBlank(targetUrl)){
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("调用HttpClientUtil.setPostRequest方法,targetUrl不能为空!");
        }

        Object responseResult = null;
        HttpClient client = null;
        PostMethod post = null;
        NameValuePair[] nameValuePairArr = null;
        SimpleHttpConnectionManager connectionManager = null;
        try{
            connectionManager =  new SimpleHttpConnectionManager(true);
            //连接超时,单位毫秒
            connectionManager.getParams().setConnectionTimeout(3000);
            //读取超时,单位毫秒
            connectionManager.getParams().setSoTimeout(60000);

            //设置获取内容编码
            connectionManager.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.HTTP_CONTENT_CHARSET,urlCharset);
            client = new HttpClient(new HttpClientParams(),connectionManager);

            post = new PostMethod(targetUrl);
            //设置请求参数的编码
            post.getParams().setContentCharset(urlCharset);

            //服务端完成返回后,主动关闭链接
            post.setRequestHeader("Connection","close");
            if(params != null){
                nameValuePairArr = new NameValuePair[params.size()];

                Set key = params.keySet();
                Iterator keyIte = key.iterator();
                int index = 0;
                while(keyIte.hasNext()){
                    Object paramName = keyIte.next();
                    Object paramValue = params.get(paramName);
                    if(paramName instanceof String && paramValue instanceof String){
                        NameValuePair pair = new NameValuePair((String)paramName,(String)paramValue);
                        nameValuePairArr[index] = pair;
                        index++;
                    }
                }

                post.addParameters(nameValuePairArr);
            }

            int sendStatus = client.executeMethod(post);

            if(sendStatus == HttpStatus.SC_OK){

                if(StringUtils.equals(TYPE_STRING, responseType)){
                    responseResult = post.getResponseBodyAsString();
                }else if(StringUtils.equals(TYPE_BYTEARRAY, responseType)){
                    responseResult = post.getResponseBody();
                }else if(StringUtils.equals(TYPE_STREAM, responseType)){
                    InputStream tempStream = post.getResponseBodyAsStream();
                    byte[] temp = new byte[1024];
                    int index = -1;
                    while((index = tempStream.read(temp)) != -1){
                    }
                }
            }
        }catch(Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }finally{
            //释放链接
            if(post != null){
                post.releaseConnection();
            }

            //关闭链接
            if(connectionManager != null){
                connectionManager.shutdown();
            }
        }

        return responseResult;
    }

    /**
     * 利用http client模拟发送http post请求
     * @param targetUrl                 请求地址
     * @return  Object                  返回的类型可能是:String 或者 byte[] 或者 outputStream
     * @throws Exception
     */
    private Object setPostRequestJSON(String targetUrl,String JSON_STRING,String responseType)throws Exception{
        if(StringUtils.isBlank(targetUrl)){
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("调用HttpClientUtil.setPostRequest方法,targetUrl不能为空!");
        }

        Object responseResult = null;
        HttpClient client = null;
        PostMethod post = null;
        NameValuePair[] nameValuePairArr = null;
        SimpleHttpConnectionManager connectionManager = null;
        try{
            connectionManager =  new SimpleHttpConnectionManager(true);
            //连接超时,单位毫秒
            connectionManager.getParams().setConnectionTimeout(3000);
            //读取超时,单位毫秒
            connectionManager.getParams().setSoTimeout(60000);

            //设置获取内容编码
            connectionManager.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.HTTP_CONTENT_CHARSET,urlCharset);
            client = new HttpClient(new HttpClientParams(),connectionManager);

            post = new PostMethod(targetUrl);
            StringRequestEntity requestEntity = new StringRequestEntity(
                    JSON_STRING,
                    "application/json",
                    "UTF-8");
            post.setRequestEntity(requestEntity);
            //设置请求参数的编码
            post.getParams().setContentCharset(urlCharset);
            //服务端完成返回后,主动关闭链接
            post.setRequestHeader("Connection","close");
            int sendStatus = client.executeMethod(post);
            if(sendStatus == HttpStatus.SC_OK){
                if(StringUtils.equals(TYPE_STRING, responseType)){
                    responseResult = post.getResponseBodyAsString();
                }else if(StringUtils.equals(TYPE_BYTEARRAY, responseType)){
                    responseResult = post.getResponseBody();
                }else if(StringUtils.equals(TYPE_STREAM, responseType)){
                    InputStream tempStream = post.getResponseBodyAsStream();
                    byte[] temp = new byte[1024];
                    int index = -1;
                    while((index = tempStream.read(temp)) != -1){
                    }
                }
            }
        }catch(Exception e){
            e.printStackTrace();
        }finally{
            //释放链接
            if(post != null){
                post.releaseConnection();
            }

            //关闭链接
            if(connectionManager != null){
                connectionManager.shutdown();
            }
        }

        return responseResult;
    }
    /**
     * 获取字符串型返回结果,通过发起http post请求
     * @param targetUrl
     * @return
     * @throws Exception
     */
    public String getResponseBodyAsStringJSON(String targetUrl,String json)throws Exception{

        return (String)setPostRequestJSON(targetUrl, json, TYPE_STRING);
    }

    public static String doGet(String url, String charset)
            throws Exception {
    /*
     * 使用 GetMethod 来访问一个 URL 对应的网页,实现步骤: 1:生成一个 HttpClinet 对象并设置相应的参数。
     * 2:生成一个 GetMethod 对象并设置响应的参数。 3:用 HttpClinet 生成的对象来执行 GetMethod 生成的Get
     * 方法。 4:处理响应状态码。 5:若响应正常,处理 HTTP 响应内容。 6:释放连接。
     */
    /* 1 生成 HttpClinet 对象并设置参数 */
        HttpClient httpClient = new HttpClient();
        // 设置 Http 连接超时为5秒
        httpClient.getHttpConnectionManager().getParams().setConnectionTimeout(5000);
    /* 2 生成 GetMethod 对象并设置参数 */
        GetMethod getMethod = new GetMethod(url);
        // 设置 get 请求超时为 5 秒
        getMethod.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.SO_TIMEOUT, 5000);
        // 设置请求重试处理,用的是默认的重试处理:请求三次
        getMethod.getParams().setParameter(HttpMethodParams.RETRY_HANDLER,	new DefaultHttpMethodRetryHandler());
        String response = "";
    /* 3 执行 HTTP GET 请求 */
        try {
            int statusCode = httpClient.executeMethod(getMethod);
      /* 4 判断访问的状态码 */
            if (statusCode != HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
                System.err.println("请求出错: "+ getMethod.getStatusLine());
            }
      /* 5 处理 HTTP 响应内容 */
            // HTTP响应头部信息,这里简单打印
            Header[] headers = getMethod.getResponseHeaders();
            for (Header h : headers)
                System.out.println(h.getName() + "------------ " + h.getValue());
            // 读取 HTTP 响应内容,这里简单打印网页内容
            byte[] responseBody = getMethod.getResponseBody();// 读取为字节数组
            response = new String(responseBody, charset);
            System.out.println("----------response:" + response);
            // 读取为 InputStream,在网页内容数据量大时候推荐使用
            // InputStream response = getMethod.getResponseBodyAsStream();
        } catch (HttpException e) {
            // 发生致命的异常,可能是协议不对或者返回的内容有问题
            System.out.println("请检查输入的URL!");
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // 发生网络异常
            System.out.println("发生网络异常!");
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
      /* 6 .释放连接 */
            getMethod.releaseConnection();
        }
        return response;
    }

    /**
     * @param str
     * @return
     */
    public static InputStream String2Inputstream(String str) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        return new ByteArrayInputStream(str.getBytes("UTF-8"));
    }
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        /*StringBuffer stringBuffer = new StringBuffer("海尔洗衣机噪声不小,容量也很大。");

        String url = "http://182.92.184.136:12345/ltp";

        long now =System.currentTimeMillis();
        HttpClientUtil util = HttpClientUtil.getInstance("utf-8");
        String resultStr = util.getResponseBodyAsString(url, params);
        System.out.println(System.currentTimeMillis()-now);
        System.out.println(resultStr);*/
//        String json ="{\"sortMode\":\"0\"}";15810030205
//          String json ="{\"categoryId\": \"f5cf6ff94ac35ba4014acd79cd3e07e0-f5cf6ffa4a94ced9014a950802330052-f5cf6ffa4ac33ef4014acd7bece4049f\",\"queryMode\": \"2\",\"sortMode\":\"4\"}";
//        String json ="{\"listOrderNos\":[{\"b201506130990485\"},{\"b201506130990486\"}],\"userId\":\"8ab3cf264d37ffba014d3802116a0002\",\"totalMoney\":\"306\"}";
//        String json ="{\"couponCode\":\"TEST001,TEST002\"}";

        HttpClientUtil util = HttpClientUtil.getInstance("utf-8");
//        String resultStr = util.getResponseBodyAsStringJSON("http://192.168.1.108:8080/mobile/rest/sms/verifyCopon/18610263496", json);

//        String json1 ="{\"couponCode\":\"TEST201,TEST202,TEST203\",\"userId\":\"402888884b2fb3ed014b33774540000e\"}";
//        String resultStr = util.getResponseBodyAsStringJSON("http://localhost:8080/mobile/rest/couponbuyer/addVerifyCode", json1);
//        String resultStr = util.getResponseBodyAsStringJSON("http://localhost:8080/mobile/rest/couponbuyer/addVerifyCodeByUserIdandcouponCode", json1);
//        String resultStr = util.getResponseBodyAsStringJSON("http://117.79.239.194:8080/nlshop/mobile//rest/couponbuyer/addVerifyCodeByUserIdandcouponCode", json1);
//        String resultStr = util.getResponseBodyAsStringJSON("http://localhost:8080/mobile/rest/order/getorderandgoodslistbyorderid/b1fcaa057d7148b983d08dc5249d9fc2/returntype/return", null);
//        System.out.println(util.setPostRequest("http://localhost:8080/mobile/rest/order/getorderandgoodslistbyorderid/b1fcaa057d7148b983d08dc5249d9fc2/return",null,null));
        String url = "http://api.ickd.cn/?id=111721&secret=19acb402714dfa961178001437d6daca&com=zhongtong&nu=762817894160&type=json&encode=utf8";
        System.out.println(util.doGet(url, "utf-8"));
    }

}


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Child hears mom's voice for the first time
Tremendous leaps since surgery; language is 'doorway to the brain'
Child hears mom's voice for the first time Tremendous leaps since surgery; language is 'doorway to the brain' Check out this story on wisconsinrapidstribune.com: http://wrtnews.co/2dn8L6z
Liz Welter, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin Published 2:37 p.m. CT Sept. 22, 2016 | Updated 3:29 p.m. CT Sept. 22, 2016
On Aug. 12, Pella's implants were activated when the toddler was nestled in her mother's lap at the hospital. The medical team adhered magnetized exterior sensors to her interior implants and the devices were activated. T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
Joe Jinsky, left, catches the soap bubbles while his wife Pam and 15-months-old daughter Pella's look on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, at their house in Sherry. Joe intends to use the bubbles for his daughter to pop as part of her occupational therapy.(Photo: T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)Buy Photo
SHERRY - Pella Jinsky was born into a soundless world. That changed last month.
The 1-year-old girl from the Wood County town of Sherry had surgery this summer at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where doctors placed cochlear implants in her skull. The implants connect with her brain's damaged auditory nerves to transmit signals that are recognized by the brain as sound. They allow Pella to hear.
Hearing aids only amplify sound; cochlear implants bypass the non-functioning parts of the inner ear to stimulate the nerve fibers in the cochlea — the key to hearing. When the technology was developed about four decades ago, it was considered groundbreaking. Since then, it has been refined and advanced to where the sound a person hears is similar to sound as experienced by anyone without hearing impairment.
On Aug. 12, Pella was nestled in her mother's lap at the hospital when the implants were activated for the first time. The medical team adhered magnetized exterior sensors to her interior implants and the devices were activated.
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The room was quiet as the audiologist said, "It's on."
Pamela Jinsky softly said to her daughter, "Pella, Pella, Pella."
The 15-month-old's eyes widened and her head twisted, searching for the source of the new sensation.
As Pella turned to look at her mother and their eyes locked, Pamela said, "Hi, Pella," and the baby smiled. The Children's Hospital medical staff and family in the room erupted in cheers and applause while Pella smiled as she quizzically looked about the room. Pella's father, Joe Jinsky, videotaped the event while her two brothers, August, 4, and Oliver, 3, watched and cheered for their little sister.
"When Pella heard my voice for the very first time and then her dad's voice and her brothers', this was such a huge thing," Pamela said, choking back tears while telling a reporter about the moment.
Pella's hearing loss didn't impede her ability to engage with the world, her mother said.
"She had been using her vision this whole time and, that day when she heard my voice and then the other voices, you could see how she was already connecting what she was hearing with the actions of people," Pamela said. "She was always a smiling, happy baby, but now that she can hear, so much is changing."
More than a month later, her parents see and hear a tremendous growth in Pella's verbal abilities. Pella made typical baby noises, but now her sounds, burbles and coos — and screeches and cries — are intentional because she is coming to understand that people respond to the sounds.
"She's learning new things every day," Joe said. "You never really think about this, but hearing is the doorway to the brain. Everything is changing for Pella because she can hear."
While her father blew bubbles using a wand and container of liquid soap, Pella giggled and laughed. She also makes a slightly higher-pitched laugh, which Pamela said Pella uses to indicate she wants more of something.
"When you think that it's only been a few short weeks that she's been able to hear, you know it's going to be awhile before she catches up to her peers," Pamela said.
Born on her father's birthday
One of the best birthday presents Joe Jinsky ever received was the day Pella was born — May 29, the same date of his birth.
"It was pretty amazing," he said.
But the couple's elation quickly turned to worry when they learned their newborn might be deaf.
All newborn babies are given a smattering of tests to assess medical health at birth. Pella failed the initial hearing test and subsequent tests. Medical evaluations led to a diagnosis of profound hearing loss when she was 5 months old. She was fitted for hearing aids, but additional testing showed the aids were ineffective because Pella's auditory nerves didn't respond to sound.
The medical team determined the hearing loss resulted from a virus called cytomgegalovirus that Pamela contracted while she was pregnant with Pella. Cytomgegalovirus, often called CMV, is common and rarely causes symptoms. But if a woman is pregnant, CMV may affect the baby's hearing, Pamela said.
Cochlear implants were necessary for Pella to hear. Instead of amplifying sound, the implants bypass the part of Pella's inner ear that doesn't work and directly stimulate her auditory nerves.
"Every case is different, but we've been told that Pella may catch up with her peers by the time she's 5 years old," Pamela said.
About two to three of every 1,000 children in the United States are born with a detectable level of hearing loss in one or both ears, according to the National Institutes of Health. As of December 2012, about 38,000 cochlear implants were implanted in children across the nation, according to the federal agency.
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But not everyone who suffers from hearing loss is a candidate for the devices.
"Parents work with their child's hearing implant center to carefully consider whether or not their child is a candidate for a cochlear implant," said Ray Gamble, an audiologist, and president and CEO of MED-EL North America, the company that manufactured the implants used by Pella.
The level of success depends on a number of factors including other health issues, and timing and rehabilitation.
"Research has shown that children who receive a cochlear implant while they are still learning to speak — like Pella — are more likely to be successful than if the family had waited," Gamble said.
The other important factor is the role of auditory and verbal therapy. For the therapy to be successful, parents need to be committed to follow-up appointments and participate in the child's rehabilitation program, Gamble said.
Life before Pella
Joe and Pamela Jinsky married six years ago after meeting at the Sysco Corp. where they both worked in Baraboo. After they married, the couple returned to Pamela's hometown, Sherry, a small farming community between Marshfield and Wisconsin Rapids. They bought a home one mile from Pamela's parents' farm. At the time they wanted to raise their sons in a rural setting where they could enjoy a close relationship with grandparents.
They were elated when they learned they were going to have another baby. When the couple learned their newborn was off to a rocky start, they didn't think twice about jumping in to do whatever was needed to provide the medical care for Pella.
In retrospect, they didn't realize how much they would need the help of grandparents and other family members until Pella was born.
"Family is important to both of us and when we found out Pella's care meant going to Milwaukee, we couldn't have managed without the support of family," Joe said.
Recently Pam quit working so that she's available to provide the support and home therapy Pella needs to make progress and catch up to her peers. Joe continues to work in the sales division at Sysco.
Pam Jinsky holds her 15-months-old daughter Pella's hands to pop the bubbles as part of her occupational therapy Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016, at her house in Sherry. (Photo: T'xer Zhon Kha/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
The CMV also affected Pella's brain development so that she needs therapy for motor skills along with the speech and auditory rehabilitation. She sees five therapists and Pamela has lists of activities to practice with Pella every day.
"All of us help Pella, even the boys; they love to play games with her and while it seems like games to them, these are all things that help Pella," Pamela said.
While the bubbles interaction between dad and daughter looked like play, it's also multiple levels of therapy for Pella, Pamela said. Pamela helps Pella to point her finger to pop the bubbles and the constant chatter about the activity reinforces her language skills.
Check makes 'huge difference'
The couple said the hours logged driving to Milwaukee for Pella's appointments and days missed from work have been tremendously expensive, but they would not stop until they got her the care she needed.
"You do what you can, just like any parent; you want your child to have a good life," Joe said.
While their insurance covered some bills, it didn't cover hearing devices. They've spent more than $20,000 for out-of-pocket costs, Joe said, and he expects more bills. Recently Pella qualified for the state's BadgerCare program, which covers most of the costs associated with the cochlear implants, he said.
Last week the couple received a check from a benefit for Pella held by Nutz Deep II, a Marshfield bar and grill. The annual benefit event raised $15,500, Joe said. The bar's owners are Sysco customers, he said.
"You would not believe the huge difference this check makes for us," Joe said. "There were so many people and businesses that contributed to this and I don't even know them. And they did this because they care about Pella."
Navigating through Pella's first year of life has been exhausting and expensive as they have worked to coordinate their daughter's medical care.
"When you have someone do something like this for you, it helps because we've often felt so alone and overwhelmed with insurance, all the government agencies and the doctors you have to talk to," Joe said.
Pamela is taking all she's learned about being an advocate for her daughter to make the process easier for other parents — she's become a parent guide in a program that helps others whose children are diagnosed with hearing loss. The guides have experience and training to help other parents navigate the services available for children. They are trained through the Wisconsin Educational Service Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
"I want to help other families so this won't be so hard for them," Pamela said. "A lot of people have done things to help us and being a parent guide is the way that I can give back."
Now, Pella has two birthdays — the day she was born and the day she heard her first sound.
"Both of those are always going to be great celebrations," Pamela said.
Liz Welter: 715-898-7008, or liz.welter@gannettwisconsin.com; on Twitter @welter_liz.
To donate toward Pella's medical bills
https://www.gofundme.com/earsforpella
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Warning: A blaring test will ring from your cell phone (soon)
Around 11:18 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3 participating cell phone service providers will transmit an emergency test signal across the nation. Users cannot opt out. (iStockphoto)
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PUBLISHED: September 17, 2018 at 3:55 pm | UPDATED: September 17, 2018 at 4:00 pm
Don't be too alarmed when your cell phone barks at you spontaneously late morning in early October.
FEMA and the FCC are conducting the first nationwide test of a Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) at 11:18 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3. (The alert first was scheduled Sept. 18 but it was postponed.) A similar message will follow at 11:20 a.m. via the Emergency Alert System (EAS) on your television and radio stations.
The WEA test message will be sent to cell phones connected to participating wireless providers.
This is the fourth EAS nationwide test and the first national WEA test. The test is made available to EAS participants and is scheduled to last approximately one minute.
And sorry, cell phone users, you can't opt out. The message will be postponed only if a major weather event interrupts it. The backup date is Wednesday, Oct. 3.
Remember, it's just a test.
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Pat heads for Stevenage on loan for a month
Oxford United striker Patrick Hoban has joined Stevenage on a month's loan.
The striker has been with the U's for just over a year after leaving Dundalk in the Irish league. He has scored five times for the U's this season, but has struggled to hold down a starting place, making just 8 starts in his 33 appearances.
He joins Teddy Sheringham's Stevenage side with United boss Michael Appleton saying:
"Pat has done well, but for one reason or another he has not been able to get a run of games. It makes sense for him to go out, play matches at Stevenage and hopefully get a few goals as well."


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Hollyoaks actress Sarah Jayne Dunn 'not worried' about OnlyFans photos leak
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Sarah Jayne Dunn "isn't horrified at all" after her OnlyFans pics made their way into online forums.
The former Hollyoaks actress, 40, joined the adults only site last year, but it didn't take long before her saucy snaps were leaked.
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The stunning star played Mandy Richardson on Channel 4's Hollyoaks since 1996, but parted ways with the soap after she was unable to 'reach a solution' with bosses over her site content.
A spokesperson for the Channel 4 soap said it doesn't allow cast members to be active on certain 18+ websites, due to having a young audience who follow the cast closely.
Sarah previously admitted she 'really struggled' financially on the Chester-based show.
"There's a huge misconception that people on TV shows earn huge amounts of money, it just isn't the case," she told The Sun.
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Alan is also the co-author of four business books on China – The Wild, Wild East; Doing the China Tango: How to Dance around Common Pitfalls in Chinese Business Relationships; Conducting Business in the Land of the Dragon: What Every Businessman needs to know about China, and; Piercing the Great Wall of Corporate China: How to Perform Forensic Due Diligence on Chinese Companies.
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In addition to being an internationally acclaimed author, Alan has spoken at the National People's Congress in Beijing and has appeared on China's national cable network, CCTV.
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Most of Tibet's religious and cultural festivals are fixed according to the Tibetan lunar calendar, which usually lags a month or two behind the sola/Gregorian calendar and different from the Chinese lunar calendar too. Closely related with religions, Tibetan festivals are always endowed with various legends and stories. Throughout the year, you'll find that traditional festivals with strong local characteristics are celebrated every month. As long as you travel in Tibet, from eastern Nyingchi to western Ngari, from southern Shanna to northern Nagqu, you'll experience a totally different culture and custom. In order to help tourists to make an earlier 2018 Tibet travel plan, Tibet4Fun has already worked out the latest Tibet Festival Calendar 2018 for your reference.
Tibetan Festivals 2018 Sola Calendar Location Description
(Tibetan New Year) 16 FEB 2018 All over Tibet Losar, Tibetan New Year, is celebrated on the first day of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar, which corresponds to a date in February or March in the sola/Gregorian calendar. Losar, Tibetan New Year, is a particularly colourful time to be in Lhasa. Tibetan opera is performed and streets are thronged with Tibetans in their finest cloaks. Prayer ceremonies take place at Jokhang Temple and Nechung Monastery and new year Prayer flags are hung.
Tsurphu Monastery Festival
(Tsurphu Cham Dance Festival) 24 MAY 2018 Tsurphu Monastery Around 65km west of Lhasa, Tsurphu Monastery【4480m】is the seat of the Karma branch of the Kagyu order of Tibetan Buddhism. The Karma Kagyu (or Karmapa) are known as the Black Hats, a title referring to a crown given to the fifth Karmapa by the Chinese emperor Yongle in 1407. It was the first Karmapa, Dusum Khyenpa (1110-93), who instigated the concept of reincarnation and the Karmapa lineage has been maintained this way ever since.
Thurphu Monastery has an annual festival around the time of Saga Dawa Festival, on the 9th, 10th and 11th days of the fourth Tibetan month (around May). There is plenty of free-flowing chang (Tibetan barley beer), as well as ritual cham dancing and the unfurling of a great thangka on the platform across the river from Thurphu Monastery.
Saga Dawa Festival
(Sakyamuni's Enlightenment) 29 MAY 2018 Lhasa & Mt Kailash The full moon (15th day) of the fourth lunar month marks the date of Sakyamuni's conception, enlightenment and entry into nirvana. Huge members of pilgrims walk Lhasa's lingkhor circuit and visit Mt Kailash, where the Tarboche prayer pole is raised each year.
Saga Dawa is called the "month of merits" for Tibetan Buddhists. Dawa means "month" in Tibetan, and "Saga" or "Saka" is the name of a star prominent in the sky during the fourth lunar month of the Tibetan calendar when Saga Dawa is observed. Saga Dawa usually begins in May and ends in June. This is a month especially dedicated to "making merit." Merit is understood in many ways in Buddhism. We can think of it as the fruits of good karma, especially when this brings us closer to enlightenment.
Drigung Til Monastery Festival
(Drigung Til Cham Dance Festival) 10 JUN 2018 Drigung Til Monastery First established in 1167, Drigung Til Monastery【4150m】is the head monastery of the Drigungpa school of the Kagyupa order and the most famous sky-burial site in central Tibet. Drigung Til Monastery sprouts from a high, steep ridge overlooking the Zhorong Valley at Maizhokunggar County, abt 150km east of Lhasa city.
Summer Dharma Assembly in Drigung Til Monastery starts from the 25th day of the fourth month in Tibetan Calendar, lasting for 5 days. It is held to commemorate the parinirvana of Drikung Kyobpa Jigten Gonpo Rinpoche ( Jigten Sumgön) , the founder of Drigung Tli Monastery. And it has become a kind of Drigung Til Monastery tradition to perform traditional Tibetan cham dance, Buddhist music, ghost-dispelling ritual, etc.
Tashihunpo Monastery Festival
(Buddha Exhibition Festival in Tashilhunpo Monastery) 28 JUN 2018 Tashihunpo Monastery Covering 70,000 sq meters, Tashihunpo Monastery【3840m】in Shigatse is now the largerst functioning religious institution in Tibet and one of its great monastic sights. Its huge golden statue of the Future Buddha is the largest gilded statue in the world.
As an important religious Tibet festival with a history over 500 years, Tashihunpo Monastery Festival, also known as Buddha Exhibition Festival in Tashilhunpo Monastery enjoys high popularity among local Tibetans and tourists. Tashilhunpo Thangka Festival usually erupts for three days in the middle of the fifth lunar Tibetan month, from May 14th-16th in Tibetan Calendar every year. Different Buddhas are exhibited on each day during this festival. Events culminate with the unveiling of a huge Thangka (religious painting) on the festival Thangka Wall in Tashihunpo Monastery. The whole exposition zone spreads over 1,000 meters, decorated by silk and satins.
Trandruk Monastery Festival
(Trandruk Cham Dance Festival) 28 JUN 2018 Trandruk Monastery Dating back to the 7th-century regin of Songtsen Gampo, Trandruk Monastery, located at Yarlung Valley of Tsetang, is one of the earliest Buddhist temples in Tibet. Trandruk Monastery is founded at the same time as Lhasa's Jokhang & Ramoche to act as one of Tibet's demoness-subduing temples (Trandruk Monastery pins down the demoness' left shoulder).
Trandruk Cham Dance Festival lasts two or three days from the 15th day of the 5th Tibetan lunar month. Special ceremonies and cham dancing are the main attractions.
Samye Monastery Festival
(Samye Cham Dance Festival) 28 JUN 2018 Samye Monastery Surrounded by barren mountains and rolling sand dunes, Samye Monastery【3630m】is Tibet's first monastery and the place where Buddhism was established, also of major historical and religious importance.
Held over 2 or 3 days from the full moon (15th day) of the fifth lunar month, the main events here are elaborate ritual ceremonies and cham dancing in front of the Ütse.
Gyantse Horse-Racing Festival
(Gyantse Damar Festival) 10 JUL 2018 Gyantse Lying on a historical trade route between India & Tibet, Gyantse【3980m】has long been a crucial link for traders and pilgrims journeying across the Himalaya plateau.
Gyantse Horse-Racing Festival (Gyantse Damar Festival) is usually held in fourth lunar month of the Tibetan calendar. It is said that Gyantse Horse-Racing Festival started as an athletic competition in the 1400s. As the years went by, it became an important inter-village competition. Buddhist worship and other events and festivities were added in. Of course, if a lot of people from various villages get together, they need to eat together peaceably, and they'll have a picnic. They'll also swap merchandise and have a swap meet, and a market will start as people come to try to sell their merchandise.
Ganden Monastery Festival
(Ganden Thangka Festival) 27 JUL 2018 Ganden Monastery Just 50km northeast of Lhasa, Ganden Monastery【4300m】was the first Gelugpa monastery and has been the main seat of this major Buddhist order ever since. With its stupendous views of the surrounding Kyichu Valley and fascinating kora, Ganden Monastery is an experience unlike the other major Gelugpa monasteries in the Lhasa area.
During the 15th day of the sixth lunar month, during Ganden Monastery Festival, Ganden Monastery displays its 25 holiest relics, which are normally locked away. A large offering ceremony accompanies the unveiling. During Ganden Monastery Festival, thousands Tibetan Buddhists circle Ganden Monastery, enter inside to view the Buddha, pray, and get blessed, and then they go outside to sit on the hill or try to get close to the wall where the big and vividly giant woven thangka is displayed.
Nagqu Horse-Racing Festival 08 AUG 2018 Nagqu Abt 320km away from Lhasa, Nagqu is known for its pasture and its annual Nagqu Horse-Racing Festival in August. Nagqu Horse-Racing Festival involves horse races, yak races, tugs of war, staging of Tibetan operas and trade fair ,etc. Not only is the festival for Tibetan nomads to compete physically and trade farm products but a rare chance for tourists to experience true lives of Tibet nomads.
Shoton Festival
(Yoghurt Festival) 11 AUG 2018 Drepung Monastery & Sera Monastery & Norbulingka Park Shoton Festival in the first week of the 7th lunar month starts with the dramatic unveiling of a giant thangka at Drepung Monastery before moving to Sera Monastery and then down to Norbulingka Park for Performances of Tibetan opera and some epic picnics.
"Shoton" in Tibetan means yogurt banquet. As Tibetan operas are performed and Buddha paintings are exhibited at this time, it is also called "Tibetan Opera Festival" or "Buddha Exhibition Festival". Shoton Festival is the most important and attractive for the Tibetans with full of ethnic songs and dances along with famous Tibetan opera performing at Norbulingka Park. Hundreds of thousands of Tibetans gather at Drepung Monetary to see the famous Giant Buddha Thangka.
Drak Yerpa Festival 20 AUG 2018 Drak Yerpa Drak Yerpa Cave Hermitage, abt 16km northeast of Lhasa, is one of the holiest cave retreat. Among the many ascetics who have sojourned here are Guru Rinpoche and Atisha, the Bengali Buddhist who spent 12 years proselytizing in Tibet. King Songtsen Gampo also meditated in a cave, after his Tibetan wife established the first of Yerpa's chapels. The peaceful site offers lovely views and is a great day trip from Lhasa.
Drak Yerpa Cave Hermitages are known for its Drak Yerpa Festival. The celebration continues 2 or 3 days, including religious ceremonies and masked cham dances performed by monks.
Butter Lantern Festival 02 DEC 2018 Barkhor Street & Jokhang Temple Butter Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the first Tibetan month. During the daytime, people go to pray in temples and monasteries while at night there is a lantern show. The butter lanterns they made prayer themselves. Various lanterns with butter sculptures shaped in the image of deities, animals, plants, and human figures are displayed, attracting people from the neighboring areas to appreciate them. Some of the lanterns are as high as two or three-storey buildings. Often, there is puppet show held as well and the event will last for several days.
The busiest place in Lhasa during Butter Lantern Festival is around Barkhor Street and Jokhang Temple, where many lanterns are displayed. At night, the lights lanterns make the whole street bright as in the day. People sing and dance while enjoying the lanterns.


The Finalists of the 7th Annual Lovie Awards, presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), have been announced. Also, voting for the People's Lovie is now open!
The International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (IADAS) was "founded to drive the creative, technical and professional progress of the Internet and evolving forms of interactive media." This week it announced Finalists in the 7th Annual Lovie Awards – the European "sister" of the international Webby Awards – which honours online excellence across a range of different media – Websites, Online Advertising, Internet Video, Mobile Sites, Apps & Podcasts and Social.
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At the sign indicating the southern end of Idaho route 27, on the outskirts of Oakley and about 23 miles south of I-84, start your odometer. At 0.5 mile, turn left (E) in "downtown" Oakley on Main/2000 S. Go right at a fork 0.9 mile later, following the sign toward "City of Rocks". The pavement will end about 4- 1/4 miles later; keep going. At 13.3 miles from the end of route 27, you'll see a sign indicating "City of Rocks 2, Almo 9" - this is the Emery Canyon road. Turn left. At 14.6 miles cross a pair of cattle guards and a sign indicating City of Rocks National Reserve; just beyond turn left (a sign indicates "National Forest Access"). (This point would also be reachable via an eastern approach from Almo.) This road passes by several City of Rocks campsites before entering Sawtooth NF (sign, cattle guard) at 17.6 miles. Continue on the main road, crossing another cattle guard at 18.5; 0.6 miles further cross another and reach a junction (sign: "Information Center"). Keep left at the junction (the right fork goes to Graham Peak). At 19.6 miles pass the obscure junction to the left of the Fish Creek 4WD route (see note below); at 19.9 the signed road to Logger Springs forks off the route to the right. At 22.4 miles the road crosses another cattle guard and fence line, and turns sharply right. To this point it has been easy going for passenger sedans; beyond this point higher clearance may be necessary in spots. At 22.7 miles pass through a gate. At 24.4 reach the end of the road in a saddle. There are a pair of signs (~50 yards apart) to the Ranger Trail heading north and south out of this saddle. The old road shown on the topo continues up the ridge briefly, but it has been bermed. It would be passable to motor bikes or ATVs, or perhaps to a more experienced 4WD driver, but I decided to walk it.
Note: If you look at the maps, you may be tempted to shorten your drive by going up the "short cut" via Fish Creek. High clearance, and probably 4WD, are required to make this go, and it takes substantially more time than going around via the route described above. In addition, you may end up following a road to a quarry on the hillside by mistake, and have to backtrack, if you're like me.
From the saddle parking area, walk up the old road and 4WD track shown on the topo to a spot NE of elevation 9401. Just before, and just after, you cross the fence line at the end of the track, smaller tracks head NE; these quickly rejoin. Follow the joined track for some distance toward Mount Independence. I think it goes to the Independence/Cache saddle, but I didn't go that far on it. Pick a likely spot and head uphill to the right toward Cache Peak. There is some brush, and boulder hopping toward the top. I found the going easier on the way down by staying more northerly on the west ridge/shoulder of Cache Peak and tying clearings together for a route.
Total hike is about 4 miles round trip with 1800' of gain. I took under 3 hours round trip.


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AIRRACE Call It Quits
From the band's FB page:
It is with great sadness that we have decided to bring Airrace to an end. We have had an amazing time performing for you all and recording over the last few years, and we are all particularly proud of 'Untold Stories.' We feel the Airrace legacy is being left in a much happier place, and feel that we have made three cracking records that people will hopefully enjoy for a long time.
We are all unfortunately currently in a place where other priorities and commitments are not allowing us to put the time and energy needed into Airrace, but we are all still great friends and share a bond that will continue.
I would just like to thank you all for supporting us over the years, and a special mention to Frontiers Music for doing a great job on two of our releases.
We have decided to play one final show in London at some point next year, and we will still be performing at the Oxford O2 Academy on the 15th of November with our good friends in The Treatment. These will be the final two Airrace shows, so we'd love it if you could come down and help make these nights extra special.
Keep your eyes peeled for further information about the final London headline show.
Laurie, Linda, Adam, Rocky, Dhani.
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New AIRRACE Album 'Untold Stories' Out August 10
One of the UK's pioneering AOR acts, Airrace were originally formed in 1982. Having recently re-signed to the Frontiers label, they have today released a new single and announced a forthcoming album and a tour to promote it.
The single, 'Summer Rain', is described by band leader and guitarist Laurie Mansworth as "a song for the summer. I wanted to write something upbeat with a positive feel, as there is far too much doom and gloom around at the moment. This song will hopefully take you to a sunny day and lift your spirit."
The album, entitled 'Untold Stories', will be released on 10th August. Mansworth continues : "We had a great time making the record. It's not typically Airrace, with a lot of the material being more 70's influenced. There is also a much wider spectrum between light and shade in the writing. I have always liked a wide range of different musical styles, from ELO to Led Zep, and when writing these songs I incorporated many of my influences from over the years."
An eight date UK tour in September to promote the album will see Airrace pairing up with Frontiers labelmates The Treatment with support from Tequila Mockingbyrd. The itinerary is :
21.09.18 CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach
22.09.18 LONDON Underworld
23.09.18 NORWICH Waterfront
24.09.18 CAMBRIDGE Portland
27.09.18 WOLVERHAMPTON Slade Rooms
28.09.18 SHEFFIELD Corporation
29.09.18 NEWCASTLE Cluny
30.09.18 GLASGOW Stereo
Known in Hard Rock circles for being the band that saw the musical debut of drummer Jason Bonham, Airrace was the brainchild of former More guitarist Laurie Mansworth. Following the acclaimed 1984 release of their debut album, 'Shaft Of Light', the band supported rock titans such as Queen, AC/DC and Meat Loaf, but they had crash-landed by the summer of 1985. It took a 25th anniversary reissue of the record to reunite the group (with a slightly amended line-up), and they eventually issued a second album, 'Back To The Start', via Frontiers in 2011.
Adam Payne - vocals
Laurie Mansworth - guitar
Rocky Newton - bass
Linda Kelsey Foster - keyboards
Dhani Mansworth - drums
Airrace - "Eyes Like Ice" (Official Lyric Video)