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Bat 6
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This Full House
True Believer
Short Stories and Essays
Six Questions in Search of an Answer
Virginia Euwer Wolff
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1. When you write, your choice of words is that of a poet, no matter what you are writing. Do you remember when words became important to you? Do you spend much time rewriting, looking for the appropriate words?
There's always the chance that any of us has settled for the wrong word. In working on a piece of fiction or anything else, I have to listen quietly for the right one. An attempt at deep tissue massage of the mind. The idiosyncratic fluency that our writing demands is available to us; often it's just hiding behind a veil, waiting to be of use.
From my childhood: In our somber, widowed household (my father had died when I was 5 and my brother was 7), we heard the Metropolitan Opera on our battery-operated radio on Saturdays. One of my mother's favorite operatic sopranos was Lily Pons. As a little kid I heard it as "Lily Ponds." My misinterpretation of the singer's name produced a fusion of water and music, silky, flowing, mysterious, made of harmonies embodied in a giant flower floating inside an orchestra, as torrents of opera sang to us out of the radio. I had no language for such a thing. Probably still don't.
Thousands of those misunderstandings punctuated my childhood; I'm still straightening some of them out.
I didn't learn the "belly button" or "got up on the wrong side of the bed" kinds of idioms till I went to school. The vocabulary of our farming community came to me courtesy of my classmates and their families. "Liar, liar, pants on fire" didn't reach us in the Pacific Northwest of my youth; when I heard it first as an adult, I found it mischievous, noisy, and adorably silly. I'm blessed and constrained by my automatic mental video version of metaphors.
Poetry and its caloric energy live in every room in my my house; the poetry bookcase has needed structural repairs. And the world contains zillions of poems I don't know, many of them being composed this very minute. At times I've worked at memorizing poetry; like all muscles, it must be used or it collapses. My human mentor is Ashley Bryan, who can quote hundreds of poems from memory as easily as other persons can recite NFL statistics for decades back. I thank him for his influence.
Yes, I revise and revise and question and nearly delete and then think better of it, and revise again and consider that embracing ambivalence isn't all it's cracked up to be.
2. On your website, music is featured as prominently as your books. In interviews, you display an affinity for musicians. You've written The Mozart Season about becoming a musician. At what age were you first involved with music? What does your music bring to your writing?
I took piano lessons for only about a year. I was 7. At age 8, naïvely acquainted with the middle octaves of the keyboard, I switched to violin lessons. Mostly because of passion for its sound, which I'd heard in a couple of concerts, thanks to our mother, who seized every opportunity to expand our childhood world. Something about looking down from the balcony at glaring stage lights and a throng of violins in many sizes, from small to huge. Somebody conducting with a white stick, and ladies in long dresses and men in dressy suits, stroking and blowing and pounding—from high piccolo to lowest timpani—gorgeous melodies from a chorus of instruments on a shining stage, sweeping all the way up to our top rows and dazzling us.
I had no idea that the violin would be such a daunting instrument. But tenacity runs in my family.
I owe it all to my mother. Widowed in wartime, and suddenly learning to run our fruit ranch, with food rationing, gas rationing, no electricity, she made sure I got to my violin lessons, 20 miles down curvy roads, often snowy. By age eleven I was let into the children's orchestra (those 40-mile round trips), an exhilarating turning point. I played on, including in my college orchestra with a woman conductor, and then—after a terrible lapse of nearly 15 years–in volunteer orchestras for most of my adult life. And in quintets, quartets, trios, all amateur except for a few weddings and parties that we musicians were paid for. I still play chamber music on a modest scale, including quartets on my front porch during the pandemic.
I still believe that making music in groups is just about the most fun to be had. Pushing us to do it better, pulling us along in its massive ebb and flow.
Oh: And my orchardist mother also played the organ for church, served on the local irrigation board, worked for the PTA, took us traveling across the USA by train, twice, making sure we saw the Empire State Building and our first Broadway show (Oklahoma!) before I was nine years old. She opened and ran an antique shop near the pear orchard, she saw us through our uneasy teenage years, got us educated; and she bravely held Alzheimer's at bay till she couldn't anymore.
And I've never been sure of the connection between the music I'm privileged to play and the writing I'm privileged to do. Something about rhythm, maybe? But a solid lesson from music and my mother, for sure: Tenacity will get me there; sloth won't. Only one book of mine, The Mozart Season, has music at its core.
3. When you've written books about teens, how do you know about the inner life of teens in a way that remains relevant to young readers across the decades?
An intriguing question. Each generation transforms notions such as "forever," "community," "spectrum," "cool." As kids work at decoding the adult world, shock and pathos and awe keep emerging. Our newest generation has taught us: online toxicity, code-switching, unfriend, cancel culture, cisgender, TikTok. Grave and intimate concerns that my generation was terrified to mention aloud are now cast broadly through social media with thousands of followers. Older generations gasp in surprise and get free aerobic exercise from it. Today's teens also rejuvenate us: their endurance, their impatient commitment to mending the social injustice that has assaulted them so viciously, their dedication to the urgency of healing the agony of climate crime on this planet that they didn't ask to be born on.
Their forebears had to learn to spell "aeroplane." The cultural pendulum sometimes seems so slow. And then we find that it has already swung. Endlessly fascinating.
At this time I'm writing about teens in the 1860s, the 1960s, the 21st century. Listening closely for their voices keeps my neurotransmitters jumping.
4. In an earlier interview, you said, "Most of what I write (most of what all of us write?) is done where angels fear to tread." A number of your books are considered ground-breaking (Bat 6, Make Lemonade, The Mozart Season). What aspect of your self tackles writing projects that are challenging?
I'm a fraidy-cat (an idiom of the 1920s) about winter driving on ice, about high precipices, about swimming in an ocean current, about playing solos in front of a crowd. But somehow there's a small bit of courage deep down in my belly? That's one. Here's two: In nearly all my years of writing, I've hidden my work away, never asking anyone's permission or approval until my editor saw what I'd been doing. And by the time I've had a drafted and re-drafted and re-drafted story, it's usually been too late to turn back. And here's three: A writing advisor once preached, "You must up the ante with every story you write." I try.
Only recently have I joined a writers' critique group.
And that part I said earlier, about angels, was terribly arrogant. I wish I hadn't said it.
5. What does a writing session look like for you? Where are you working physically? Do you eat or drink while you're working? Do you listen to music? What is your view? How long are your writing sessions?
I'm a morning person. Coming from a farming family, we hadn't much choice. Morning noises that I now remember with love: tractors, sprinklers, milk pail clinking against the back door. And in winter, a single tractor with snow blade scraping down to ice, breaking trail to the woodshed and the barn.
I've written at different desks and tables in different time zones. For decades I've worked with classical music in the background, but sometimes silence feels more forgiving. At my borrowed desk now, I gaze at white pine, oaks, maples, and Virginia creeper, I admire birds at the feeder, and in winter I get to watch deepening snow outside the windows of the appallingly cluttered room where I work. My work day is nine to five, but with lots of short breaks. I plunk on the inherited family piano, knowing how lucky I am that it lives with me. I try to catch up on thank-you notes and sympathy notes, I look at the proliferating to-do lists, I go outside and breathe the fragrances. I return to the computer and the narrative problem at hand, feeling glad that the things that used to worry the socks off me don't really do that anymore. Decades ago, I took eight months to find and name the narrator of a book, while I was writing the story around those absences. The wait was worth it. Now, if such a hidden story component eludes me for a couple of years, I know it'll arrive eventually. I'm the slowest kids' author in the USA; that is, I'm not aware that anyone has challenged me for the distinction.
And yes, I eat and drink as I work, and occasionally blow crumbs from the keyboard.
6. Are you a reader? What kinds of books do you enjoy most? Do you read some books because you feel you should?
We are so absolutely lucky to have such things as books in our post-Gutenberg world. I read a mix, as so many others do. Poetry, criticism, novels, short stories. I'm always behind in history and science, and try in vain to catch up. Every room in my home has bookmarks sticking out from between pages. I'm a painfully slow reader; I've never succeeded in breaking the habit of reading every word. I love wordless picture books, I love art books, I love alphabetized bookshelves. During the pandemic I've attended lots of poetry readings on Zoom. They're stirring, distressing, provocative. No, I don't often read a book because some force is causing me to feel I should. But that was why I read War and Peace and Paradise Lost, back in the days when I tried to read a winter classic each year. Each was a gloriously nutritious adventure and took me much longer than a winter to get through. I still hear the resonant voices of Pierre, Natasha, Satan and their associates.
Much of what I read is for research. Not long ago a librarian asked me, "Now, you're the one who homeschools?" "No," I smiled, and took the eclectic pile from her, with thanks. May we all thank our librarians, and may they live long and prosper.
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Importance of 'Quds Day' from viewpoint of Imam Khomeini
The Islamic Revolution of Iran has set a long-term pragmatic strategy in a bid to launch a justice-based peace in the region and reclaim the rights of the oppressed Palestinian nation.
The strategy aims at countering almost a century-long Zionist plot that has shattered the lives of Palestinians. The proposed peace strategic plan predicts the delivery of justice to the Palestinians and maintains peace in their predecessors' land. This would apparently uphold a balance of power in the Middle East region and its habitants would benefit from significant stability. As a result, the people in the region would undertake serious efforts in implementing the ideals of Imam Khomeini led greater revolution that intended a truthful liberated life by snubbing any eastern or western pressure.
Given that fact, an announcement by the founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, to mark the International "Quds Day" could be viewed as his comprehensive strategy aimed at confronting the Zionist conspiracies which had sought the destruction of the Palestinians and eradication of the Islamic symbols form the holy land. The Zionists' unjust schemes are not restricted to this land but they have also been pursuing an expansion policy to other Muslim lands as well. The Zionists policies have posed serious challenges to the regional and global security. The declaration of the last Friday of holy month of Ramadan as an "International Quds Day" was aimed at serving the interest of the Muslim community and Palestinians rather than serving limited national or ethnic visions.
Victory of the Islamic Revolution and the Palestine Cause
The revolution in Iran made evident that acknowledgment of the Palestinians' rights and return of land to its real inhabitants was sole solution to these historical crises. As a result, the people belonging to various lifestyles, including women, children, clergymen and intellectuals started a coordinated movement against Zionists' bullying and bullet policy after being inspired by the experience of the mobilized struggle of the Iranian masses against Shah's tyrant monarchy system. The Palestinians boosted their combat against the Zionism to a significant level by benefiting from Friday congregations and using mosques as bases. The involvement of above-mentioned decisive factors and people's contribution to the resistance movement highlighted the issue in the international arena.
The very first resistance movement known as the 'Great Intifada' was launched in 1987 that continued until 1991. The second resistance movement, which began in 2000, became popular as 'Aqsa Intifada'. The latter movement emerged following the fruitless so-called peace negotiation between Arabs and Israel. The struggle reflected the frustration and disappointment of the Palestinians who became disappointed of any backing by the Arab regimes that were passive towards the Palestinian issue. The negligence could easily be viewed among the Arabs head of states during the summit in Jordanian capital, Oman, in 1987. There, for the first time, the Palestinian issue became of its secondary nature, instead of that they threw their weight behind Iraq in its imposed war against the Islamic republic, and opposition to Iran was placed at top of the agenda. Meanwhile, the people of Palestine who had become frustrated of the Palestinian Liberation Front (P.L.O) performance since it had abandoned the resistance against the Zionist regime, and restricted itself to engaging in unproductive political games in order to settle the issue. Another decisive factor involved in the formation of second 'Intifada' was the Islam and growing hope among the people that the resistance can deliver desirable results. It was obvious that without relying on people the occurrence of the revolution would be impossible. It happened after previous political games were not able to bring about a miraculous outcome. Therefore, Imam Khomeini guidance and leadership influenced the occupied Palestine like many other countries. The influence of the Islamic revolution became evident than any other place since the Palestinian Muslims under the Zionists' savage rule had been turned more oppressed and downtrodden than other Muslim nations. Imam's support made them learnt that the Muslim community can rise up inspiring by Islam and can gain victory again. However, according to Imam, liberation of Quds from clutches of the Zionist regime would only require some span of time.
'Intifada' resistance movement did not remain restricted to the urban areas and refugees' camps, but spread to remote villages as well. In the past, the Palestinians struggle was limited to sole social reform and has had never characteristics of a revolution. The freedom activists belonging to 'Intifada' movement believed that the rulers and power retainers could not be representatives of the young generation's inspirations. The frustration among wandering Palestinian youth reached to such an extent, as they were forced to concluding that they had nothing to loose. This was the starting point for the launch of the resistance movement. As a result, the outcome of the Imam's practical politics and its influence on Palestinian nation's movement could be seen as in following events.
Mobilization of the public and clergymen: Widespread mobilizations of traditional and non-governmental urban movements are considered a potential power effective in bringing about great social changes in the society. The Palestinian resistance was formed at the juncture of history when decades long, non-indigenous political and diplomatic efforts had reached a dead end in reviving the Palestinians rights, and non-religious ideologies had suffered serious blow in organizing the masses and resources of the land. Intifada has played a significant role in highlighting the existing theoretical and practical contradictions among the pro-Israeli systems. Such contradictions become more obvious when the so-called democratic systems threw their support behind the Zionists' crimes against the people who are willing to take destiny in their own hands.
The method of combat:
The awakening process in Palestinians' resistance, as an initial step, resembles the Islamic revolution in Iran. The young Palestinians have stepped in the political and social arena after experiencing a humiliating life under the Zionists tyrant rule.
By means of military might, and spreading propaganda among the Palestinians, Zionist regime have tried to give the impression that any change in the current state of affairs is impossible. In such circumstances when Israel campaigned hard to earn acknowledgement of its existence, and undertook serious efforts to demonstrate the occupied land as a stable one at domestic and regional level. in the meantime, the Muslim combatants in Iran toppled Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's regime that was treacherous to the Palestinian cause and this inspired the Palestinians in setting their future strategy for struggle in the occupied land. The new generation had nothing to lose except their pains and sufferings, which prompted them to draw new bright horizons for the nation. On the other hand, since the young generation in the occupied land had suffered more pains, they were also gifted with high-level of awareness, and were able to present a rational assessment of the circumstances by comparing the present Palestinian movements with the past. The frustrated and annoyed people in the occupied land that had been mobilized in mosques and religious centers resisted with pieces of stones against the advanced weapons, and embraced death with smile on their face. This norm of struggle played an important role in advancement of the movement despite the great losses. Even, the specialists of physiological war do not have the potential to counter such type of struggle, since it transforms signals of fear and disappointment from its own court to the enemy's ground, and brings destruction to enemy with its own hands.
The declaration of the International 'Quds Day' by Imam Khomeini was a good tiding for reviving the Palestine struggle. A brief look at Imam's message will highlight the importance of the issue.
In the name of Allah, the most compassionate, the most merciful
I call the world Muslims and the Islamic governments to join the Palestinians in order to segregate the Zionist regime and its supporters. I declare the last Friday from the holy month of Ramadan as International Quds day, and invite the Muslims around the globe to hold rallies in solidarity with the Palestine and in favor of their legal rights on that day. I hope that the holy day, which is religiously, coincided with the "decree days" could determine the destiny of Palestinians as well.
In fact, the struggle against the Zionism, a movement based on racial discrimination, is considered an essential pillar of Imam's thoughts. One of the significance points in this regard is that Imam insisted on paying attention to the International intellectuals from all lifestyles that hold common views on the issue. This aspect places the issue beyond the national and religious bindings, which would provide a suitable seedbed for the all-human contemplation on the Palestine issue and prompt unity in the Islamic society and peace among the international community. Imam emphasized that the 'Quds Day' was "an international day and would not specifically be limited to only the Qods issue.
If we have a look at the political and cultural issues of the Middle East region, particularly the Palestine issue, we find out that the Islamic revolution found its real place among the Muslims and revival movements across the world by setting an example of civilized and people-oriented struggle. Therefore, the importance of Palestine issue in Imam Words especially delivered on declaring an International Quds Day, is of worth to be contemplated.
The ever-lasting initiative by Imam in regard with declaring an International Quds Day would emphasize on an all-out opposition of the Muslim World against the existence of Israel. This day became a source of compassion and integration among the Muslim World. In this way, a significant step toward the Islamic unity was taken which leveled the grounds for a united Muslim community excluding the ethnic and national connections.
Quds Day launched a great physiological war against the Zionist regime and played a role of the most effective people-oriented pressure tool against the Zionist regime, and forced them to hold back their greedy plans. The Quds Day is a big event that undermines the legitimacy of Israel. Each Quds Day draws the attention of Muslims toward the strategic thoughts of Imam, and would voice concerns about illegitimate nature of Israel to the world. This day also brings a relief to the believers' heart. On the other hand, the video footage of hundreds of thousands of protesters across the world would spread a physiological insecurity in the Zionist regime.
'Quds Day' has underlined the Palestine issue beyond its national aspect and has granted it with an international status. The Zionist regime has long campaigned to degrade the issue as a national conflict between Israel and Arabs. Nevertheless, a clear stance by Imam as a prominent religious and academic personality injected a fresh spirit to forgotten Islamic perspectives in struggle against Israel. Imam's guidance produced positive results, and accordingly Palestinian fighters heeded to the Islamic option instead of nationalistic or western inclinations.
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Homicides down in Bogota and Cali, up in Medellin
by Adriaan Alsema January 3, 2017
While homicides in Colombia's capital Bogota and the city of Cali dropped to almost historic lows, in Medellin they went up with 7.9% amid tensions between factions of local crime syndicate La Oficina de Envigado.
The increase in homicides in Medellin spurred Mayor Federico Gutierrez to move office to the northern La Castilla district, which has been among the hardest hit by the turf wars between gangs.
According to local police, organized crime organizations like La Oficina and its paramilitary ally AGC, a.k.a. "Los Urabeños," were responsible for more than half of the 534 homicides registered in Medellin throughout 2016.
In spite of the failure to sustain an impressive drop in homicides in Colombia's second largest city, Gutierrez said that "the strategy against these criminal structures will continue," according to local newspaper El Colombiano.
Medellin crime statistics
While Medellin was struggling with crime, Colombia's capital Bogota and its third largest city, Cali, reported hopeful statistics.
Both cities were previously struggling to lower their crime rates, but reported dropping crime rates throughout 2016.
In Bogota, violent deaths dropped 6% to its lowest level in history, according to Mayor Enrique Peñalosa.
Medical Examiner's records paint a sightly less historic picture, but still indicate the city can celebrate its lowest level of homicides since 1979.
According to the Bogota mayor, street crime also dropped with cell phone theft down 20% and armed robberies of shops down 30%. The city administration would not yet release other statistics.
Bogota crime statistics
Cali also reported its lowest homicides rate since 1988 after years of struggling to deal with infighting between factions of the "Los Rastrojos" drug cartel.
According to the Mayor Maurice Armitrage, homicides dropped 6.5% between 2015 and 2016, leaving the city with 1,288 homicide victims last year.
Cali crime statistics
Colombia's overall homicide rate rose slightly, comparing this year's Defense Ministry statistics compared to 2015's Medical Examiner's statistics.
Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas said that with approximately 12,000 homicides last year "this is a country that definitely advances towards the conversion into a much more civilized and tranquil society."
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Focus on Disability: An Evening of Film & Discussion
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July 15, 5:30-7:30 pm
Whole Children and Five College Realtors present the 5th annual Focus on Disability Film Festival, shining the light on people with intellectual disabilities. A roster of short films highlighting the importance of performing and visual arts in the lives of people with disabilities will be shown. We will also be viewing the world premiere of This is Me, a Pathlight-made original film, focusing on Whole Children's theatre program. Our focus is on diversity and overcoming challenges, while incorporating art in the everyday lives of people with disabilities. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.
All proceeds from the film festival support Whole Children's inclusive programming for children and teens.
The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion. Ticket information will be provided soon.
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1,800-Year-Old Painted Tomb Discovered in Jordan
BAYT RAS, JORDAN—According to a CNRS News report, an international team of archaeologists has excavated a tomb dating to the second-century A.D. in Jordan at the ancient site of Capitolias. Its walls are decorated with more than 250 figures of humans, animals, and gods, as well as a large painting illustrating the construction of a rampart along with 60 inscriptions describing what the figures in the painting were doing. In its entirety, the artwork is thought to describe the founding of the city. Jean-Baptiste Yon of the History and Sources of Ancient Worlds Laboratory (HiSoMA) said the captions, written in Aramaic with Greek letters, resemble the speech bubbles in modern comics. "These teeming figures compose a narrative that is arranged on either side of a central painting, which represents a sacrifice offered by an officiant to the tutelary deities of Capitolias and Caesarea Maritima, the provincial capital of Judaea," said HiSoMA's Julien Aliquot. The person buried in the tomb may have officiated at a similar sacrifice when the city was founded, explained Pierre-Louis Gatier, also a member of the HiSoMA research team. "His name has not yet been identified, although it could be engraved on the lintel of the door, which has not yet been cleared," he said. The other images show peasants and oxen gathering fruit and tending grapevines, woodcutters chopping down trees with the help of the gods, and stone cutters and architects transporting materials on camels and donkeys at a construction site. To read about surveys of the Jebel Qurma region of northeast Jordan finding evidence of human habitation dating back 4,300 years, go to "Desert Life."


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Hyderabad, 27th March, 2015: The Visual Arts students of Oakridge International School have gathered together to put up an exhibit displaying the results of an intensive curriculum that stretched across a span of two years, at the 2nd edition of the Art showcase by Oakridge students 'Infinite Journey' on Friday at Kalakriti Art Gallery, Banjara Hills. As young learners, these students have been exposed to an Art curriculum that has helped them grow and evolve into the artists that they are today. Over the past couple of years, they have each explored themes that deal with Zodiac signs, Dreams, Expressions, etc., and have investigated several art movements such as Expressionism, Cubism and Surrealism.
Amandha Goriparthi dealt with the world of Dreams as a theme. She loves looking at how the human conscious and mind works and believes that studying Visual Arts at Oakridge has helped her imbibe, understand and execute Art in its various forms. She recognizes Art as an excellent medium for self-expression with a passion, and acknowledges that today, thanks to Social Media and technology, everyone is an artist in their own right.
Nikhil Jain views Art as a medium to investigate the roles we play as wanderers in an expanding universe, and enjoys exploring the vivid imagery and stories of the zodiacs and the constellations of the night sky. As a young exhibiter, he aims to connect his audience with the spaces and settings that they cannot otherwise perceive.
Sahiti Bonam on the other hand loves to engage with vivid expressions. She has explored the emotions and expressions behind the Kathakali Art form, with a great fascination and emphasis on eyes. Sahiti has learnt to relate with various expressionists and has used colour psychology to support her works. She believes that eyes are the most expressive and truthful part of the human body and wished to further investigate on this topic in the future.
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Amazon uses the Mentor app to track drivers
According to the latest report from CNBC, Amazon has developed its own in-house app called Mentor, which can be used to track the website and evaluate the performance of third-party delivery agents.
The report indicated that the application can track the driver's position at any time and obtain daily results that affect performance evaluations. Lower scores could affect the relationship between the third-party delivery company and Amazon in future contracts.
Amazon believes the app is a tool for improving security. However, drivers fear that Mentor will continue to be a monitoring tool and continue to pressure staff to make sure they deliver packages as soon as possible.
Earlier this month, a promotional video from Amazon showed a new initiative that included a naturally-lit security camera from a company called Netradyne that was being used to monitor a pilot's performance, which is cause for concern.
An Amazon spokesperson said: Safety is our number one priority and we have invested tens of millions of dollars in our comprehensive network safety mechanism to provide drivers with best safety practices.
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As the business grows, Amazon is increasingly building its own delivery infrastructure. This also includes the DPS Delivery Service Plan, which contracts with outside companies to assist with delivery.
Amazon uses its drivers to cut costs, increase delivery speed, and increase efficiency. This is part of his larger effort to create more supply chains through the purchase of goods and aircraft.
Safety issues for drivers and pedestrians have always existed. Due to the nature of the business contract, Amazon avoids liability for accidents, injuries, and even deaths of drivers directly responsible for delivering packages to customers' homes.
However, the company has been criticized for using software and other tools to prioritize speed of delivery at the expense of potential security risks.
So Amazon started to improve driver control by managing roads and monitoring behavior at all times to improve safety.
While some drivers are concerned about the reach of these technologies, the application of surveillance and continuous surveillance cameras are among those measures.
The drivers got together and discussed ways to try to tamper with the system because they tried to wrap the phone in a jacket and put it in the glove box because the screen app raised the leg of the phone to display the delivery as a completed sign.
There are also concerns about location sharing permissions as pilots need to download apps from personal devices and turn on Always allow location sharing until Amazon exceeds its own privacy limits. The pilots.
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uDiscover have put together two playlists exploring the incredible career of Louis Armstrong. Essential features some of his most popular and classic recordings, whilst Digging Deeper goes further into his catalogue and explores lesser known tracks you may not have heard but we think you will love!
Have we missed any classic tracks that should be on the Essential playlist? What would you include in the Digging Deeper playlist? Let us know in the comments!
Louis Armstrong was a superstar, long before Andy Warhol popularised the phrase. Pops visited more countries around the world than any of his contemporaries, at a time when foreign travel by musicians was headline news; the fact that Louis Armstrong was a jazzman makes his achievements remarkable. As a black man - very definitely born on the wrong side of the tracks - it makes his achievements unique. And as Miles Davis said, 'You can't play anything on a horn that Louis hasn't played.' Read his full biography on the uDiscover dedicated artist page here.


Sony Xperia Devices in USA such as the Sony Xperia Z mobile phone and the Sony Xperia Z Tablet are getting popularity these days. The iPhone from apple and the Samsung Galaxy are so popular when it comes to functionality and look but Sony Xperia devices offer the same thing when it comes to features, functionality and design. Designs are elegant and stylish, you will surely love the experience that you'll have using Sony Xperia. Speed is superb and the camera feature is the best. Pictures taken are clear even in bright sunlight. Video playback when watching videos is great, since sony used the same technology they used in creating the sony bravia tv.


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Abdullah impresses in Lions' preseason victory
DETROIT – Matthew Stafford threw a 35-yard touchdown pass to Golden Tate, and rookie running back Ameer Abdullah ran for 67 yards — 45 on one play — to lift the Detroit Lions to a 23-3 preseason victory over the New York Jets on Thursday night.
Stafford played only one possession in Detroit's exhibition opener. He threw for 57 yards, completing his only two pass attempts — both to Tate. The touchdown came on a throw over the middle, and Tate slipped between three defenders after the catch and ran to the end zone.
Ryan Fitzpatrick, the Jets' new starting quarterback, played one drive, going 2 of 3 for 16 yards and guiding New York to a field goal. It's been a tumultuous week for the Jets, who lost Geno Smith to a broken jaw when he was punched by teammate Ikemefuna Enemkpali in the locker room Tuesday. Enemkpali was cut shortly after, and picked up on waivers by Buffalo, coached by Rex Ryan, who drafted the linebacker in the sixth round last year while with the Jets.
Smith, who was having a solid camp, had surgery on his jaw Thursday and is expected to miss 6-10 weeks.
Although Stafford's appearance was brief, Abdullah played a bit longer and impressed the Ford Field crowd with his seven carries. The highlight was his 45-yard run up the middle in the first quarter.
Abdullah, a second-round draft pick from Nebraska, could be a real asset to the Lions, who cut Reggie Bush in the offseason and were without injured running back Joique Bell on Thursday. Abdullah got a nice cheer on his first carry of the game, and Lions fans had to like what they saw from him.
Brandon Marshall, acquired by the Jets this offseason in a trade, caught one pass for 12 yards. Bilal Powell had 35 yards on eight carries, and Chris Ivory had 25 yards on six attempts.


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JJK Jyväskylä er en finsk fodboldklub fra Jyväskylä. JJK Jyväskylä spiller i den finske liga .

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Laser frequency combs (LFCs) have played a key role in high-precision optical frequency metrology for over a decade and have been used in a variety of applications in fundamental science on the macroscopic scale (e.g. astronomy) and the microscopic scale (e.g. studying optical transitions in atoms). As technology evolves, LFCs become more and more attractive for industrial applications where the main requirements, in addition to high precision measurements, are low-maintenance, long-term stability, flexibility and usability.
Laser Quantum's solution to the taccor comb is highly suited for both scientific and industrial purposes. The taccor comb preserves the turn-key operation, long-term stability and low-maintenance of Laser Quantum's successful 1 GHz femtosecond laser taccor and is thus also attractive for users new to the field of LFC applications. The 1 GHz repetition rate is unique to the market and exceeds the performance of LFCs based on lower repetition rate lasers. The taccor comb benefits from over 15 years of experience in high repetition rate femtosecond laser development and has been used to set world records in the field of optical frequency metrology.


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The Magazine and Blog of The National MS Society
Home › Life › Existing medication offers new hope
Existing medication offers new hope
Society seizes opportunities to advance solutions for progressive MS
by Heather Lee
Katie Jennings
Katie Jennings is one of thousands of people living with progressive MS. At the time of her diagnosis last December, her doctor gave her news she didn't expect: "There are two forms of MS. One can be treated very effectively. One has no approved treatment. You seem to have the latter. We'll hope for the best."
Katie's experience at the time of her diagnosis is one shared by countless others in the MS community with progressive MS. "Hope for the best" is not the advice she wanted to hear from her physician. "I wanted a solution. Right now. Before anything progressed anywhere, "says Katie, who blogs about her experiences at msconnection.org.
A lack of available treatments to combat progression and restore function shouldn't be one more thing people living with progressive MS have to face.
The Society recently invested $600,000 in funding for a clinical trial of oral ibudilast in 250 people with progressive MS, conducted by researchers at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio. Ibudilast has been successfully used to treat cerebrovascular disorders and asthma in Japan and Korea because of its immunosuppressive qualities. In a previous trial of 292 people with relapsing MS, some evidence that ibudilast could protect the nervous system from damage was observed. Examining and repurposing the neuroprotective potential of existing therapies like ibudilast is just one of many innovative approaches the Society is taking to speed treatments to people with progressive forms of MS.
The Society actively advocated for this trial by encouraging funding support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and by facilitating collaboration among other parties: the NeuroNEXT Network, a clinical trials initiative of the NIH; the Cleveland Clinic Foundation research team; and MediciNova, the company that is supplying ibudilast. The Society provided additional funding because of our commitment to finding solutions for everyone affected by MS, including those with progressive forms. The trial may answer important questions about the best ways to measure the benefits of therapies aimed at protecting the nervous system from MS. Additional information about how to volunteer for this trial will be provided when the NeuroNEXT Network centers are ready to begin recruiting participants.
We know there is no time to waste in discovering potential solutions. "Having a progressive disease, however slowly it's progressing, feels like living on borrowed time. I hope that for me and for all of us with progressive MS, there will be time enough to find some answers," says Katie. The Society will continue to drive collaboration and make strategic investments in initiatives like ibudilast to uncover answers and improve the lives of everyone with MS.
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Can an English Pointer Be Brindle?
By: Jane Meggitt
What Are the Colors of a Basset?
Although the American Kennel Club breed standard for the English pointer states "A good pointer cannot be a bad color," that apparently doesn't include brindle. Dogs with the brindle gene can sport solid base colors with black stripes. It's a color combination found most often in greyhounds, Great Danes, boxers and bulldogs, although it can appear in other breeds.
Acceptable Pointer Colors
The AKC standard permits shades of lemon, liver, orange or black in the English pointer, either solid-colored or mixed with white. A darker pointer, such as a liver-colored dog, should have a dark nose to match. Lighter hued dogs can have nasal shades as pale as flesh-colored.
American Kennel Club: Pointer Breed Standard
Dog Coat Colour Genetics: The Brindle Gene
Jane Meggitt has been a writer for more than 20 years. In addition to reporting for a major newspaper chain, she has been published in "Horse News," "Suburban Classic," "Hoof Beats," "Equine Journal" and other publications. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English from New York University and an Associate of Arts from the American Academy of Dramatics Arts, New York City.


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Q: How do I set up mail adapter on Bitnami parse server? I'm new to bitnami so setting up the email adapter is proving quite difficult for my android app, any assistance would be appreciated. My goal is to send a password reset to a user after they enter their email address on my app.
What Have I done so far

*

*Created a custom domain and setting up mailgun, acquiring the API key

*Set up AWS and once Bitnami was up and running connected Parse to my app

*I made sure parse-server-simple-mailgun-adapter was installed

*Since app folder and server.js file does not exist anymore when searching through previous forums I placed the below code into this index.js file - /opt/bitnami/parse/node_modules/parse-server/lib/index.js

I taken this code from the following entry https://github.com/ParsePlatform/parse-server
The code currently looks like this in my index.js file:
"use strict";

Object.defineProperty(exports, "__esModule", {
  value: true
});
Object.defineProperty(exports, "S3Adapter", {
  enumerable: true,
  get: function () {
    return _s3FilesAdapter.default;
  }
});
Object.defineProperty(exports, "FileSystemAdapter", {
  enumerable: true,
  get: function () {
    return _fsFilesAdapter.default;
  }
});
Object.defineProperty(exports, "InMemoryCacheAdapter", {
  enumerable: true,
  get: function () {
    return _InMemoryCacheAdapter.default;
  }
});
Object.defineProperty(exports, "NullCacheAdapter", {
  enumerable: true,
  get: function () {
    return _NullCacheAdapter.default;
  }
});
Object.defineProperty(exports, "RedisCacheAdapter", {
  enumerable: true,
  get: function () {
    return _RedisCacheAdapter.default;
  }
});
Object.defineProperty(exports, "LRUCacheAdapter", {
  enumerable: true,
  get: function () {
    return _LRUCache.default;
  }
});
Object.defineProperty(exports, "PushWorker", {
  enumerable: true,
  get: function () {
    return _PushWorker.PushWorker;
  }
});
Object.defineProperty(exports, "ParseGraphQLServer", {
  enumerable: true,
  get: function () {
    return _ParseGraphQLServer.ParseGraphQLServer;
  }
});
exports.TestUtils = exports.ParseServer = exports.GCSAdapter = exports.default = void

var _ParseServer2 = _interopRequireDefault(require("./ParseServer"));

var _s3FilesAdapter = _interopRequireDefault(require("@parse/s3-files-adapter"));

var _fsFilesAdapter = _interopRequireDefault(require("@parse/fs-files-adapter"));

var _InMemoryCacheAdapter = _interopRequireDefault(require("./Adapters/Cache/InMemoryC

var _NullCacheAdapter = _interopRequireDefault(require("./Adapters/Cache/NullCacheAdap

var _RedisCacheAdapter = _interopRequireDefault(require("./Adapters/Cache/RedisCacheAd

var _LRUCache = _interopRequireDefault(require("./Adapters/Cache/LRUCache.js"));

var TestUtils = _interopRequireWildcard(require("./TestUtils"));

exports.TestUtils = TestUtils;

var _deprecated = require("./deprecated");

var _logger = require("./logger");

var _PushWorker = require("./Push/PushWorker");

var _Options = require("./Options");

var _ParseGraphQLServer = require("./GraphQL/ParseGraphQLServer");

var server = ParseServer({
        ...otherOptions,
        // Enable email verification
verifyUserEmails: true,
// if `verifyUserEmails` is `true` and
        // //     if `emailVerifyTokenValidityDuration` is `undefined` then
        // //        email verify token never expires
        // //     else
        // //        email verify token expires after `emailVerifyTokenValidityDuration`
        // //
        // // `emailVerifyTokenValidityDuration` defaults to `undefined`
// email verify token below expires in 2 hours (= 2 * 60 * 60 == 7200 seconds)
        // emailVerifyTokenValidityDuration: 2 * 60 * 60, // in seconds (2 hours = 7200 seconds)

// set preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail to false to allow user to login without verifying their email
        // // set preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail to true to prevent user from login if their email is not verified
preventLoginWithUnverifiedEmail: false, // defaults to false

// The public URL of your app.
        // // This will appear in the link that is used to verify email addresses and reset passwords.
        // // Set the mount path as it is in serverURL
publicServerURL: 'https://xxxxxxxx/xxxxx/',
// Your apps name. This will appear in the subject and body of the emails that are sent.
appName: 'parse-server',
// The email adapter
emailAdapter: {
          module: '@parse/simple-mailgun-adapter',
          options: {
        // The address that your emails come from
          fromAddress: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
         // Your domain from mailgun.com
        domain: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
         // Your API key from mailgun.com
          apiKey: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
  }
},

// account lockout policy setting (OPTIONAL) - defaults to undefined
        // // if the account lockout policy is set and there are more than `threshold` number of failed login attempts
r code `Parse.Error.OBJECT_NOT_FOUND` with error message `Your account is locked due to multiple failed login attempts.
ute(s)`. After `duration` minutes of no login attempts, the application will allow the user to try login again.
accountLockout: {
        duration: 5, // duration policy setting determines the number of minutes that a locked-out account remains locked out before automatically becom
nlocked. Set it to a value greater than 0 and less than 100000.
          threshold: 3, // threshold policy setting determines the number of failed sign-in attempts that will cause a user account to be locked. Set it
n integer value greater than 0 and less than 1000.
},

// optional settings to enforce password policies
passwordPolicy: {
  // Two optional settings to enforce strong passwords. Either one or both can be specified.
        //   // If both are specified, both checks must pass to accept the password
        //     // 1. a RegExp object or a regex string representing the pattern to enforce
validatorPattern: /^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*[0-9])(?=.{8,})/, // enforce password with at least 8 char with at least 1 lower case, 1 upper case and 1
t
          // 2. a callback function to be invoked to validate the password
  validatorCallback: (password) => { return validatePassword(password) },
          doNotAllowUsername: true, // optional setting to disallow username in passwords
  maxPasswordAge: 90, // optional setting in days for password expiry. Login fails if user does not reset the password within this period after signup/l
eset.
maxPasswordHistory: 5, // optional setting to prevent reuse of previous n passwords. Maximum value that can be specified is 20. Not specifying it or spe
ng 0 will not enforce history.
          //optional setting to set a validity duration for password reset links (in seconds)
resetTokenValidityDuration: 24*60*60, // expire after 24 hours
        }
});

function _getRequireWildcardCache() { if (typeof WeakMap !== "function") return null; var cache = new WeakMap(); _getRequireWildcardCache = function () { ret
urn cache; }; return cache; }

function _interopRequireWildcard(obj) { if (obj && obj.__esModule) { return obj; } if (obj === null || typeof obj !== "object" && typeof obj !== "function")
{ return { default: obj }; } var cache = _getRequireWildcardCache(); if (cache && cache.has(obj)) { return cache.get(obj); } var newObj = {}; var hasProperty
Descriptor = Object.defineProperty && Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor; for (var key in obj) { if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(obj, key)) { var desc
= hasPropertyDescriptor ? Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor(obj, key) : null; if (desc && (desc.get || desc.set)) { Object.defineProperty(newObj, key, desc); }
 else { newObj[key] = obj[key]; } } } newObj.default = obj; if (cache) { cache.set(obj, newObj); } return newObj; }

function _interopRequireDefault(obj) { return obj && obj.__esModule ? obj : { default: obj }; }

// Factory function
const _ParseServer = function (options) {
  const server = new _ParseServer2.default(options);
  return server.app;
}; // Mount the create liveQueryServer

exports.ParseServer = _ParseServer;
_ParseServer.createLiveQueryServer = _ParseServer2.default.createLiveQueryServer;
_ParseServer.start = _ParseServer2.default.start;
const GCSAdapter = (0, _deprecated.useExternal)('GCSAdapter', '@parse/gcs-files-adapter');
exports.GCSAdapter = GCSAdapter;
Object.defineProperty(module.exports, 'logger', {
  get: _logger.getLogger
});
var _default = _ParseServer2.default;
exports.default = _default;

My config.json file looks like this(Config file located /opt/bitnami/parse) :
{
  "appId": "myapp",
  "masterKey": "NTxxxxxxmm",
  "appName": "parse-server",
  "mountPath": "/parse",
  "port": "1337",
  "host": "0.0.0.0",
  "serverURL": "http://3.1xxxxx5/parse/",
  "databaseURI": "mongodb://bn_parse:TFyNVz7Y45@127.xxxxx:27xx7/bitnami_parse"
}

When I run my app with the following code:
ParseUser.requestPasswordResetInBackground("myemail@gmail.com",
                    new RequestPasswordResetCallback() {
                        public void done(ParseException e) {
                            if (e == null) {
                                // An email was successfully sent with reset instructions.
                                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                                        "Password Reset email has been sent to this email address",
                                        Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                            } else {
                                // Something went wrong. Look at the ParseException to see what's up.
                                Log.i("Error", "Password Reset Error", e);
                                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), e.getMessage(), Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                                Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(),
                                        "Saving user failed.", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                            }
                        }
                    });

I get the following Error message in the logs:
2020-06-13 23:13:05.704 15647-15647/com.example.Fitness I/Error: Password Reset Error
    com.parse.ParseRequest$ParseRequestException: bad json response
        at com.parse.ParseRequest.newTemporaryException(ParseRequest.java:290)
        at com.parse.ParseRESTCommand.onResponseAsync(ParseRESTCommand.java:308)
        at com.parse.ParseRESTUserCommand.onResponseAsync(ParseRESTUserCommand.java:126)
        at com.parse.ParseRequest$3.then(ParseRequest.java:137)
        at com.parse.ParseRequest$3.then(ParseRequest.java:133)
        at bolts.Task$15.run(Task.java:917)
        at bolts.BoltsExecutors$ImmediateExecutor.execute(BoltsExecutors.java:105)
        at bolts.Task.completeAfterTask(Task.java:908)
        at bolts.Task.continueWithTask(Task.java:715)
        at bolts.Task.continueWithTask(Task.java:726)
        at bolts.Task$13.then(Task.java:818)
        at bolts.Task$13.then(Task.java:806)
        at bolts.Task$15.run(Task.java:917)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1162)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:636)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)
     Caused by: org.json.JSONException: Value <!DOCTYPE of type java.lang.String cannot be converted to JSONObject
        at org.json.JSON.typeMismatch(JSON.java:111)
        at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:163)
        at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:176)
        at com.parse.ParseRESTCommand.onResponseAsync(ParseRESTCommand.java:298)
        at com.parse.ParseRESTUserCommand.onResponseAsync(ParseRESTUserCommand.java:126)
        at com.parse.ParseRequest$3.then(ParseRequest.java:137)
        at com.parse.ParseRequest$3.then(ParseRequest.java:133)
        at bolts.Task$15.run(Task.java:917)
        at bolts.BoltsExecutors$ImmediateExecutor.execute(BoltsExecutors.java:105)
        at bolts.Task.completeAfterTask(Task.java:908)
        at bolts.Task.continueWithTask(Task.java:715)
        at bolts.Task.continueWithTask(Task.java:726)
        at bolts.Task$13.then(Task.java:818)
        at bolts.Task$13.then(Task.java:806)
        at bolts.Task$15.run(Task.java:917)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1162)
        at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:636)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:764)
2020-06-13 23:13:05.754 1441-1441/? D/gralloc_ranchu: gralloc_alloc: Creating ashmem region of size 360448

It looks like the email address which is a string cannot be converted to a JSON object, I've checked and made sure that my server URL has a "/" at the end of the URL. I also added 'com.parse:parse-android:1.12.0' into my gradle to see if that would fix it but the issue is still occurring.
If I've added these entries in the wrong index.js file or need to format the file can someone let me know what I'm doing wrong?

A: The code you copied and pasted is unfortunately rather difficult to follow, but the error

Caused by: org.json.JSONException: Value

indicates that the URL your Android app is reaching is not returning JSON data. Your Android code is either not hitting the proper URL to invoke the function, or your server is misconfigured and is returning HTML (probably an error page or a 404) to the Android app. Unless you've tested and verified that you can successfully invoke a basic function that returns JSON, I'd suggest removing all the email-related code and working on that first, before trying to put that back in.

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EndoGastric Solutions Announces 12-month Data Validating Hiatal Hernia Repair Prior to Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication (TIF®) as a Durable GERD Treatment Option
Study participants saw 80 percent improvement for heartburn and regurgitation one-year post procedure when hiatal hernia and gastroesophageal valve were repaired sequentially
REDMOND, Wash. – EndoGastric Solutions® (EGS), a leader in incisionless procedural therapy for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), today announced the presentation of data from the Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication (TIF ®) 2.0 procedure using the EsophyX® device after hiatal hernia repair (HHR) in patients with chronic GERD symptoms. The study evaluated the symptom resolution, safety, patient satisfaction and efficacy of this approach. The prospective study data will be presented at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) 2017 Annual Scientific Meeting, October 13-18, 2017 in Orlando, Florida.
Ninety-nine patients with a confirmed diagnosis of GERD symptoms at two community-based hospitals underwent the TIF 2.0 procedure immediately following a laparoscopic HHR in the same anesthetic session. All participants enrolled were symptomatic on proton pump inhibitor (PPI) medications with hiatal hernias between 2 and 5 centimeters.
Overall, the study met the primary efficacy and safety endpoints with no treatment-related adverse events, concluding that TIF 2.0 procedures can be safely and efficiently performed immediately following HHR. The study also met the secondary endpoints, with most patients reporting 80 percent improvement for heartburn and regurgitation and more than 50 percent improvement for bloating and dysphagia.
"While some patients may experience temporary relief from PPI medications, this study offers substantial evidence that HHR-TIF 2.0 procedures can provide lasting relief from chronic GERD symptoms, and improve patients' quality of life," said Peter Janu, M.D. of Wisconsin. "Our symptomatic outcomes confirm the excellent safety profile and the effectiveness of this combination procedure up to one year despite the initial larger hiatal hernia."
The study data authored by Peter Janu, MD and Peter Mavrelis, MD, et Al., will be displayed as a poster on Tuesday, October 17, 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET in the Exhibit Hall.
"Findings from the prospective study support HHR-TIF 2.0 procedures as a potential new option for patients suffering from hiatal hernias greater than 2 centimeters," said Peter Mavrelis, MD of Indiana. "We are excited to share these results and build upon the robust clinical data supporting the TIF 2.0 procedure as a durable treatment option for patient suffering from GERD."
On June 22, 2017, EGS received notification from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration following 501(k) submission to expand the indication for the EsophyX device to include patients with hiatal hernias larger than 2 centimeters when a laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair (HHR) reduces the hernia to 2 centimeters or less.
"EndoGastric Solutions would like to congratulate the lead investigators, Drs. Janu and Mavrelis, for publishing a very important study," said Skip Baldino, President and CEO, EndoGastric Solutions. "This compelling data and the FDA's expanded label indication, will provide millions of patients access to a durable and effective solution to treat chronic symptoms of GERD."
The EsophyX device with SerosaFuse® fasteners and accessories are indicated for use in transoral tissue approximation, full thickness plication and ligation in the gastrointestinal tract. They are indicated for the treatment of symptomatic chronic GERD in patients who require and respond to pharmacological therapy. The device is also indicated to narrow the gastroesophageal junction, and reduce hiatal hernia ≤ 2cm in size in patients with symptomatic chronic GERD. Patients with hiatal hernias larger than 2cm may be included, when a laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair reduces the hernia to 2cm or less.
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NYTIX
New York SHOW Tickets
Big Musicals Take a Dip as New Season Gains Steam
By Joanne Von Furstenburg | Posted on March 08, 2017 8:05 PM
Many of the top box office shows haven't been as popular recently, here's why:
Box Office for Biggest Musicals Sees Biggest Drop
This past week, the week ending March 5, 2017, the entire Broadway industry saw a collective decrease of $1,593,026 from the week before. Of the 28 shows running, only 8 saw an increase in ticket sales, however negligible. The biggest decrease in ticket sales was seen by The Lion King, which brought in $330,993 less than the week before, to reach a weekly gross of $1,530,680, which represented 91.5% of its gross potential. In addition, Hamilton, which had crossed the $3 million mark for the fifth time last week, saw a decrease of $298,316 to reach a weekly gross of $2,835,099 this past week, which represented 107.7% of its gross potential. Meanwhile, other long-running musicals also saw a big dip. Aladdin saw a decrease of $275,211 to reach a weekly gross of $1,194,405, which represented 93.6% of its gross potential, School of Rock – the Musical saw a decrease of $251,294 to reach a weekly gross of $841,016, which represented just 58.2% of its gross potential, Wicked saw a decrease of $248,504 to reach a weekly gross of $1,515,568, which represented 85.2% of its gross potential, The Phantom of the Opera saw a decrease of $142,204 to reach a weekly gross of $780,354, which represented 57.8% of its gross potential, and Waitress saw a decrease of $132,137 to reach a weekly gross of $766,927, which represented 75.2% of its gross potential. The biggest increase among the shows that were running both this past week and the week before was seen by Sunday in the Park with George, which went up by $160,134 to reach a weekly gross of $1,053,015, which represented 95.2% of its gross potential.
New Shows: "Miss Saigon" and "Sweat"
On March 1, 2017, Miss Saigon began previews at the Broadway Theatre, playing five performances in its first week of previews. Right out of the gate, the show is faring reasonably well. In this first partial week, the musical brought in a weekly gross of $723,243, which represents 76.1% of its gross potential. With a top ticket price of $248.00, the average paid admission was $86.98, and the audience was filled up to 95.7% on average. This new production of the highly acclaimed musical, which largely reunites the team from Les Misérables, with music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, and lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Alain Boublil, is a transfer of a London production for which a new young cast took over the celebrated roles. In the part of Kim, which was originated in a career-making turn by Lea Salonga, is Eva Noblezada, who was found after a nationwide search in the Philippines. Meanwhile, the role of The Engineer is played by Jon Jon Briones, and the role of Chris is played by Alistair Brammer. All three are making their Broadway debuts. The show is scheduled to open on March 23, 2017.
Meanwhile, Lynn Nottage's play Sweat also began previews this past week, playing one performance this past week on March 4, 2017. From that one performance, the box office gross was $53,780, which represents 62.7% of its gross potential. With a top ticket price of $209.00, the average paid admission was $89.33, and the audience was filled up to 91.4%. This transfer from the Public Theater is award-winning playwright Lynn Nottage's Broadway debut. The first preview may be too soon to diagnose the early box office traction, but next week's numbers will be more telling. The show is scheduled to open on March 26, 2017.
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Ask an expert on cyber espionage and he for sure he will speak of China, the most active and advanced country in this sector, this time a clamorous campaign apparently originated from Korea has been discovered.
Security company FireEye collected evidences of a cyber espionage campaign, named "Sanny", attributable to Korea. FireEye hasn't revealed the real origin of the offensive, it's a mystery which Korea is responsible between North or South Korea, but it confirmed that 80% of victims are Russian organizations and companies belonging to space research industry, information, education and telecommunication.
According Ali Islam, security researcher at FireEye declared "Though we don't have full concrete evidence, we have identified many indicators leading to Korea as a possible origin of attack."
4. Some searching on "jbaksanny" (the Yahoo email used) leads to a Korean Wikipedia page created by the user named Jbaksan. The page is auto-filled and has nothing in the edit history except the creation of this user.
The unique certainly seems to be that experts have detected a state-sponsored attack and that the attackers have demonstrated great cyber capabilities.
Ali Islam added "Once you have that information, you have access to employees' emails even from outside, and that means a lot of official information," Islam says. "It also steals other accounts credentials, all user passwords stored by Firefox for auto login."
The schema of infection is classic, victims received a phishing message containing a malware hidden in a document, apparently proposing information related to a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, that exploits a Microsoft Word vulnerability to steal data.
The figure below reports a document written with Cyrillic character set demonstrating the real targets of attacks.
The most singular characteristic of the cyber attacks is the use of a public forum to collect the stolen information, data is sent to the board that does not require authentication mechanisms that make the victims visible.
Today the C&C server is still active and the attackers are monitoring it to check new victims and stolen data every couple of days deleting data once acquired.


What is horror? A miserable pile of secrets? Baby don't hurt me? How'd girl get pregnant?
For 25 years I've walked or crawled on Earth, and in all that time, I never once learned the answer to that question. Donald Trump's presidency has given me a thorough crash-course on the subject, but I still don't understand why people seem to like such a thing in entertainment form.
I've never really understand the desire to want to be scared. It's rarer still that such ever happens when I do partake in spooky movies or video games – most of the time I'm just bored. As far as I can tell, every piece of horror entertainment follows the same formula: there are some stupid people, a monster shows up, kills some of the stupid people, the surviving stupid people run, somebody screams, the monster dies, the end.
I'm sure there are plenty of games, movies, books, and comic books that break away from that formula, but I've yet to experience them. Maybe it's because I don't go looking; most of us don't tend to look for things that bore them to tears.
So when I came up with the idea of doing a video of the ten best indie horror games of 2017, my original idea was to make it a 30 second video with nothing in it. Then Cliqist Editor-in-Chief and spooky, scary skeleton Greg Micek told me I couldn't do that. So I turned to Cliqist's resident horror expert and moonlighting jack-o-lantern Joanna Mueller to write it for me.
You can watch the video above in all its horrific glory. Did Joanna forget any games? Are all those games terrible and she just wanted to make me look bad? Let us know in the comments below, and be sure to subscribe to Cliqist's YouTube channel if you haven't already.


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Los Angeles-based indie rock trio Beware of Darkness are pleased to announce the release of their debut album titled Orthodox. Released this week (Tuesday, May 7th) through Bright Antenna Records, the long-awaited album follows the band's well-received Howl EP and is a body of work heavily clouded with imagery and inspiration drawn from literary figures such as Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, and David Foster Wallace.
Throughout Orthodox, chief songwriter and front man Kyle Nicolaides delivers scathing lyrical content in a snarling howl. Powered by the album's lead single, "Howl," a song that has cracked the Top 20 at Modern Rock Radio and will be performed live on Conan on Wednesday, May 15, Orthodox is incredibly potent and precise, a collection of songs whose lyrics are meant to evoke reactions.
Check out some behind-the-scenes footage from the band's very first trip to the UK that recently premiered on Purevolume.com.
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2013 is continuing to be a busy year for the members of Beware of Darkness - Kyle Nicolaides (vocals, guitar), Daniel Curcio (bass) and Tony Cupito (drums) - with "Howl" continuing to climb the alternative radio charts as well as forthcoming appearances on the Vans Warped Tour in the U.S. and dates in the UK and Europe.
Having already shared the stage with the likes of Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, Social Distortion, Deftones, Silversun Pickups, Tegan and Sara, Metric, AWOLNATION and others, the band will add more names to the list with performances on Warped Tour, a string of radio festivals, and an upcoming tour through Europe with Smashing Pumpkins. See below for more information regarding the band's U.S. appearances through May and June.
BEWARE OF DARKNESS U.S. TOUR DATES:
May 7 - West Columbia, SC - New Brookland Tavern
May 8 - Augusta, GA - Sky City
May 10 - Shreveport, LA - Riverside Warehouse
May 11 - Tulsa, OK - Brady Theater
May 19 - Columbus, OH - Rock On The Range Festival
May 20 - Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Soundstage
May 23 - New York, NY - The Studio at Webster Hall
May 24 - Rochester, NY - Main Street Armory
May 30 - Colorado Springs, CO - Black Sheep
June 15-29 - 2013 Vans Warped Tour
July 01-31 - supporting Smashing Pumpkins in Europe
You can purchase Orthodox right now on iTunes and on vinyl HERE.
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May 16, 2017 November 27, 2018 Editor UncategorizedNorthampton underpass
Construction of the bike/pedestrian underpass in Northampton is moving forward, after a pause during the winter months.
During the past few weeks, MassDOT's contractors have constructed a new section of rail line above the completed portion of the underpass. The new section of track was then cut in to the main line and the temporary shoofly track, that had been in place since late 2016, was removed.
The prime contractor, Northern Construction Services, has now commenced excavation work on the west side of rail line.
A few recent images of the active work site are shown below.
The eastern entrance to the new bicycle/pedestrian underpass
Northampton, Ma. | Woodmont Rd – looking West | May 14, 2017
The western entrance to the new bicycle/pedestrian underpass
Northampton, Ma. | Woodmont Rd – looking East | May 16, 2017
The image above shows the area that has recently been excavated on the west side of the active rail line. Newly constructed concrete forms (near the entrance to the underpass) can be seen.
Note the steel I-beam that runs through the center of the image. Apparently, the sole purpose of this I-beam is to support the fiber optic cable that runs along the railroad right of way.
Northampton, Ma. | Behind Walgreens – looking South | May 14, 2017
Northampton Underpass
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Infrastructure > Current Projects > Springfield Underpass
The page has recently been updated. In particular, the page now includes a link to this recent article from The Republican, "Cost up $2.4 million on planned underpass in Springfield's North End".
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Gov. Tony Evers' budget looks to expand access to student mental health services
Evers' two-year budget adds money for counselors and social workers in schools, along with grants to help Wisconsin schools work with local health agencies.
Gov. Tony Evers' budget looks to expand access to student mental health services Evers' two-year budget adds money for counselors and social workers in schools, along with grants to help Wisconsin schools work with local health agencies. Check out this story on postcrescent.com: https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/2019/03/07/kids-crisis-governor-tony-evers-seeks-boost-school-mental-health-services-wisconsin-education-budget/2905809002/
Chris Mueller, Appleton Post-Crescent Published 9:36 a.m. CT March 7, 2019 | Updated 1:19 p.m. CT March 7, 2019
MADISON - Gov. Tony Evers' budget would add $22 million each year to help schools pay for social workers, psychologists, counselors and nurses to assist students facing mental health challenges.
If passed into law, the proposals would constitute a significant expansion in state support for youth mental health.
Evers' proposed increases would be added to the $3 million designated by Republican Gov. Scott Walker in the 2017-19 state budget to help schools hire social workers, and would bring the state's total investment to $25 million in each year of Evers' budget.
The additional money continues a push by state officials to give children dealing with mental health issues more access to the help they need. Evers' office didn't respond with a comment for this story.
Evers' budget also adds $7 million to a state grant program that helps schools work with local health agencies to get students mental health services. That money would be added to $3.25 million allocated in the previous budget for a total of $10.25 million in each year of the new budget.
Gov. Tony Evers reads a Dr. Seuss book to third-grade students Friday, March 1, 2019, at Lincoln Elementary School in Appleton, Wis. (Photo: Dan Powers/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
Evers' budget also includes about $2.5 million each year to provide school staff more training on mental health issues.
Many school districts across Wisconsin are eager to get more funding to help provide appropriate services for students' mental health needs, said Joanne Juhnke, policy director at Wisconsin Family Ties, a Madison-based organization that helps families with children that have mental health challenges.
"Schools are struggling to meet all of those needs," Juhnke said. "I think there is an understanding that this is really something we need to be addressing."
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Evers' proposed budget faces immense challenges, as it needs approval from the Republican-controlled state Legislature, which has already signaled opposition to many of the measures included in the governor's proposed budget. But it was Walker and other Republican lawmakers who touted an expansion of funding for mental health services in the 2017-19 budget.
Nearly 40 percent of the state's public high school students have had high levels of anxiety, while about 27 percent have experienced depression, according to the 2017 Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
More than 16 percent of those students have considered suicide, while nearly 8 percent have actually attempted to take their own lives.
Juhnke hopes the measures included in Evers' budget get support from lawmakers from both parties.
"I think there is bipartisan recognition that these are major challenges," she said.
State Rep. Paul Tittl, a Republican from Manitowoc, thinks so too. Tittl, who leads a committee on mental health, noted that the cost of treating mental health issues early is significantly less than waiting until someone has a serious crisis.
"I don't think mental health is a partisan issue at all," Tittl said.
But the stigma often associated with mental health remains a serious issue that still needs to be addressed, Tittl said.
"People don't want to talk about it, and they need to," he said.
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State Rep. Joan Ballweg, a Republican from Markesan, will lead a task force on suicide prevention formed by Speaker Robin Vos. The task force will include lawmakers from both sides of the aisle, Ballweg said.
The task force will hold a series of public meetings across the state to learn more about how residents are affected by issues related to suicide, Ballweg said.
Evers' budget also boosts funding for special education by more than $600 million — a reversal of "a longstanding and very negative trend," Juhnke said.
The increase includes about $75 million during the budget's first fiscal year and about $531 million during the budget's second fiscal year, which reimburses the cost to schools at 30 and 60 percent for those years, respectively.
Evers noted in his budget that funding for special education hasn't changed since the 2008-09 fiscal year.
"People are starting to realize that we have been heading down a dangerous path on this," Juhnke said. "This is something that we really need to do for our students."
Chris Mueller: 920-996-7267 or cmueller@gannett.com; or on Twitter @AtChrisMueller
Rep. Joan Ballweg answers a question asked by Nekita Krisko, left, during the Kids in Crisis Day of Action at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, Wis., Thursday, May 10, 2018. (Photo: Alexandra Wimley/USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin)
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Jim Oberweis Statement on State Senator Terry Link's resignation as Lake County Democrat Chair
Sugar Grove, IL – State Senator and candidate for Congress in the 14th District, Jim Oberweis, is issuing the following statement on State Senator Terry Link's (D-Waukegan) resignation as the chairman of the Democrat Party in Lake County.
"Senator Terry Link's resignation as Democrat Party Chairman is certainly the right and necessary decision. He no longer will be able to choose his successor in the Illinois Senate. But resigning from an unpaid political post does not go far enough. Senator Link has betrayed the public trust. He needs to immediately resign his position as State Senator.
The second in command in the Lake County Democrat organization is Lauren Beth Gash. So far, she has been silent on the ethics concerns surrounding prominent Democrats such as House Speaker Michael Madigan. Lauren Beth Gash served in the House and supported Madigan for Speaker. As the presumptive new leader of the Lake County Democrats, she has an opportunity to show leadership and join the chorus of Democrats and Republicans who are calling for Madigan's resignation. I suggest she seize this opportunity.
Finally, it is time for my opponent, Lauren Underwood, to stop standing on the sidelines pretending the scandals involving leaders of her party are not happening. Her silence on Senator Link and Speaker Madigan has gone on long enough. We need to change the culture in Illinois and that can't happen as long as elected officials like Lauren Underwood remain silent."
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