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For much of the 20th century, orchestras were a valued part of the western cultural fabric. In towns and cities on either side of the Atlantic, the cost of maintaining an 80-strong ensemble to play a diet of predominantly 19th-century music was rarely questioned. But by the 1990s the noise of popular culture had begun to drown out the sound of symphonies, and government subsidies were on the squeeze. To survive, the orchestra sought to redefine itself as an educational and recreational tool for the whole community, rather than a once-a-week concert-giver for rarefied souls in a municipal temple. Not only that, it had to advertise itself as a driver of creative excellence, so that it could justify the support it received. All this meant presenting a much wider spectrum of music, from baroque to crossover – sometimes in a less forbidding style than the concert format. To lead and personify this change, the orchestra needed a figurehead capable of appealing to a wider public than the traditional maestro did.


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To accommodate the completion of her album, Sarah Brightman is pushing back her 2013 "Dreamchaser" tour. That means her Feb. 21 date planned for the Fox Theatre will now be held Oct. 9 at the same location.
Brightman expects to release her "Dreamchaser" album in April.
"Whilst I regret any inconvenience that this rescheduling might have occasioned for those people who have already bought tickets, the restructuring of my worldwide album release plan made it inevitable. Clearly a concert is always more enjoyable if there is familiarity with the music being performed and given how important this new 'Dreamchaser' album is to me, I am keen for those attending my shows to hear it prior to the performance. I'm delighted with the new album and very excited about the show that I'll be presenting in 2013," Brightman said in a statement.
Already-purchased tickets will be honored at the new date, or refunds are available at point of purchase. Tickets are also still available for $84.50-$255.
For more information, visit www.foxatltix.com.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The University of Louisville rowing program will host the sixth annual Red & Black Day on Saturday at the G. Garvin Brown III Rowing Center at Waterfront Park on River Road. The event will again include several intra-squad scrimmage races followed by a cookout with the rowers and coaches.
The Red & Black Day will begin at 9 a.m. ET with a welcome from new head coach, Derek Copeland, and will be followed by introductions of the Cardinal rowers and coaching staff and recognition of Louisville's award winners from the previous season. The boats will launch at approximately 9:45 a.m., and will be followed by the racing, which should be completed by approximately 11 a.m. The cookout, which is sponsored by Fisher's, is set to follow the racing.
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TitlePediatric surgeon with a 2-year specialization in Fetal Surgery (clinical and research) Research InterestsHer research interests focus on in utero gene therapy, more specifically on immunological responses after presentation of viral vectors during the pre-immune period. Can a state of tolerance be introduced to these vectors that allow post-natal readministration? Dr Bouchard is also interested in the correction of metabolic diseases in transgenic mice through the antenatal administration of viral vectors. Other research areas on fetal surgery from a technical point of view are also to be developed on larger animal models.
Resident Award Winner, Eight Minute Presentation, American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Surgery, 2000
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Winner of the 1999 Resident Best Paper Award. Azzie G, Yazbeck S, Garel L, Dubois J, Bouchard S. Manual detorsion in cases of testicular torsion: A viable option
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We have the cell phone video of the tense moments before a Colonial Heights man was beaten to death. Two of the four suspects in Rusty Mack's death have walked free. This video gives us our first look at what jurors saw in the courtroom.
The defense says the video shows Rusty Mack was drunk and aggressive. Mack's family says that is no excuse for what happened to him that night.
"I'm right here bro," shouted Rusty Mack and Jonathan Guy. "I'm right here right now bro!"
The cell phone video shows a visibly agitated Mack. He confronted his estranged wife Ashley and her new boyfriend, his cousin, Jonathan Guy over alleged jabs on Facebook.
"Stop posting [expletive] on me," exclaimed Rusty.
"I don't say anything about you on Facebook," screamed Ashley Mack.
"You don't?" questioned Rusty repeatedly.
"No," replied Mack.
"Alright," said Rusty. "[Expletive] leave. [Expletive] You hear me Ashley? [Epletive]"
We spoke with Ashley Mack's attorney, Joe Morrissey.
"And it's sad what happened to him," said Morrissey. "It is tragic for the family, but to a large degree he brought it upon himself. I was at that preliminary hearing when that tape was played, and it shows that the victim as we've said all along was wildly intoxicated."
Mack's aunt, Carol Clayton, says the video is still hard to watch.
"If he got drunk," said Clayton. "Oh well. It is no reason to go over there and kick somebody in the head and kill them. He asked them multiple times to leave and leave him alone."
We counted numerous occasions where Rusty asked the accused suspects to leave his property.
"You can [expletive] leave right now," said Rusty.
"I'm not on your property," replied Guy.
"You can leave right now," said Rusty again.
"I'm not on your property," said Guy. "I'm on a public street."
The video goes dark before the actual fight.
"An accident that he fell down and hit his head," said Morrissey. "But [it's] not a murder."
However, the medical examiner's report lists the cause of death as blunt force injury to the head. It labels the death a homicide. The family is now hoping for justice after two of the four suspects, Jonathan Guy and Francis Blaha, were freed after their day in court.
"It's just heartbreaking and my family is just devastated," said Clayton.
This case is not over yet. Ashley Mack and Margaret Blair Dacey are still awaiting their day in court. There is change of venue hearing for Ashley Mack on November 25th.
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From a careful evaluation of the history, context, and severity of violence to forfeiture for wrongdoing determinations to guidelines for victim engagement, the Domestic Violence Best Practice Assessment Guides detail best practices in prosecution charging decisions in cases involving battering. Join us for this webinar training to learn more about current best practices and how to assess and improve your community's prosecution responses to battering.
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Specialized experts in the identification, investigation, and documentation of strangulation in intimate partner violence cases will cover the following:
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This webinar will explore the topic of teen dating violence. Many teenagers and young adults are experiencing abuse in their relationships. This abuse can look vastly different than the abuse experienced by adult victims of domestic violence. Teens and young adults relate to each other, as well as their environment differently than adults. They are also well versed in technology and social media. Because of these reasons, teen dating abuse may take different forms and require different relief than that needed for an adult relationship. Several states allow teens to obtain protection orders, and some even provide protection orders with relief that specifically meets the needs of teens and young adults.
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The application of Crawford principles in the context of forensic evidence continues to plague the criminal justice system. The United States Supreme Court's decision in Williams v. Illinois did not provide the guidance prosecutors had hoped for with regard to satisfying Sixth Amendment confrontation requirements in cases involving forensic evidence, where multiple analysts may be involved or where examining experts are no longer available to testify. The Williams decision raises more questions than it answers about when and how an expert may testify to conclusions based upon the opinions or work of other (non-testifying) experts or technicians.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates have announced their 2014 summer series for postgame concerts at PNC Park.
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Band to be announced: Saturday, Sept. 13 (Pirates vs. Chicago Cubs)
Zambelli fireworks dates: April 5 vs. St. Louis; April 19 vs. Milwaukee; May 10 vs. St. Louis; July 19 vs. Colorado; Aug. 9 vs. San Diego; Sept. 20 vs. Milwaukee
Pedro Alvarez Silver Slugger bobblehead day is May 24 vs. the Washington Nationals. (The first 25,000 fans get a bobblehead.)
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MIAMI (AP) — The executive editor of El Nuevo Herald says he's leaving for another journalism job in Florida.
Manny Garcia made the announcement on Wednesday. His last day at the Spanish-language newspaper is Oct. 18.
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Garcia told El Nuevo Herald (http://hrld.us/19GoJeo ) the decision was very difficult for him to make since this "has been the most satisfying experience in my 23 year-career with the Miami Herald Company."
Garcia started with the company as a metro editor and later became senior editor before assuming his current position in 2009.
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Collaborate Version 12 (formerly Elluminate Live!)
Haven't tried Collaborate, formerly known as Elluminate Live!, yet? It's an amazing way to communicate real-time with your students online.
Think of the possibilities—online office hours, study sessions, class meetings…
You can chat (type), speak with audio to the class, use a webcam to transmit your video to the group, show a PowerPoint, webpage, video, draw together on a whiteboard…
You can also record the whole session with just a click, and paste the link to the recording in your online Canvas course for students who missed the session or for students who would like to review it.
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125-151 S Bernardo Ave has a Walk Score of 57 out of 100. This location is Somewhat Walkable so some errands can be accomplished on foot.
125-151 S Bernardo Ave is a 28 minute walk from the 902 MOUNTAIN VIEW - WINCHESTER at the WHISMAN STATION (0) stop.
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Silent Witness is asking for the public's help in locating two men seen near a fatal double shooting in March.
Ulises Ocampo, 46, and his son, Parish Ocampo, 21, who lived at 1800 E. Adams St. in central Phoenix were shot and killed about 2:30 a.m. March 8 by two home invasion suspects armed with handguns.
Other family members were in the house, but were left unharmed, and nothing was taken from the residence.
Police said they are looking for two men as persons of interest who were seen near the home about 4:30 a.m. the day of the killings driving an older blue Ford truck with an extended cab and long bed.
The surviving victims described one home-invasion suspect as black, 6'2" to 6'3" tall, 230 pounds, wearing a black bandana and carrying a handgun.
They described the other as possibly black, 6' tall, 200 pounds and wearing a ski mask.
Police described the first person of interest as black, 38 to 40 years old, round face and heavy set.
The second person of interest was described as black, 5'9" to 6' tall, thin moustache and unshaven.
Fidel Moreno, 35, is wanted on charges of theft of means of transportation, trafficking in stolen property and possession of burglary tools. He is 5'9" tall, 200 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He is also known as Jose Lopez, Ramon Hernandez and Ramon Ramos.
Michael Wiseman, 38, is wanted for probation violation on an original charge of attempted sexual exploitation of a minor. He is 5'9" tall, 150 pounds, with blue eyes and blonde hair.
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Dir: Wong Hok-sing
Co-starring: Lam Kar-sing, Chan Ho-kau, Lan Chi Pak
1964 / B&W / D Beta / Cantonese / 101min
The Revenge Battle is a showcase of Yam Bing-yee's acting chops. Her character is a complex one, having saved the life of the protagonist, the surviving son of a clan that had been wiped out by a feuding family, but raises him with harsh, iron-clad rules, especially after he falls in love - like Romeo for his Juliet - with the daughter of the hated rival. Yam first assumed the role in the 1963 premiere staging of the beloved opera by the Hing Sun Sing Opera Troupe, and had played her many times throughout the years. She is so good that "Sister Sheung" has become one of her signature characters.
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This kit attaches the large 41Liter ZegaCases as closely as possible to the motorbike with this special system. The left case is cut and adapted specifically to the F650/F800GS. The result is a balanced, attractive appearance, reducing leftside capacity by only 7 Liters. The carrier rack is also modified to match the special pannier perfectly. The rack system has a rear cross-brace, and is ideal for heavy loads. This design was extensively tested in Africa in May 2007 on the toughest routes.
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Summary: Atlantic is a biography of a tremendous space that has been central to the ambitions of explorers, scientists, and warriors, and continues to affect our character, attitudes, and dreams. Poets to potentates, seers to sailors, fishermen to foresters--all have a relationship with this great body of gray and heaving sea. Winchester chronicles that relationship, making the Atlantic come vividly alive. More than a mere history, Atlantic is an unforgettable journey of unprecedented scope by one of the most gifted writers in the English language.
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Twenty Bay Area high school students are participating in a six-week residential program designed to improve their knowledge in math and chemistry while exposing them to health profession careers at the University of California, San Francisco. The UCSF Health Sciences Enrichment Program (HSEP) began classes on June 17 with 16 students from UCSF's partnership with San Francisco high schools (Thurgood Marshall, Phillip and Sala Burton and Mission) and four from Bay Area high schools.
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WHAT: UCSF's recently completed Islet and Cellular Transplantation Facility, where insulin-secreting islet cells can be retrieved from a donated pancreas, will allow UCSF surgeons this fall to perform Northern California's first islet transplantation - an experimental treatment that restores the ability of Type 1 diabetics to produce their own insulin.
July 11, 2002
In Zimbabwe, rape is all too common and negotiating safe sex to prevent infection with HIV is almost impossible for many adolescent girls because involvement with older men in return for material benefits is widespread, according to researchers from UCSF.
July 11, 2002
BARCELONA - Growth hormone may stimulate the production of T cells in HIV-infected patients, research at the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology shows. T cells are the immune system cells that HIV attacks and destroys, leaving patients without defenses against the opportunistic infections of AIDS. Laura Napolitano, MD, lead investigator of the study, presented the research on July 11 at the 14th International AIDS Conference here in Barcelona. Napolitano is a staff research investigator at Gladstone and UCSF assistant professor of medicine.
Four percent of HIV-positive gay men in study found with recent sexually transmitted infection, acco
July 11, 2002
Three percent of HIV-infected gay men in New York and San Francisco had a current syphilis infection, half of one percent had a current case of chlamydia or gonorrhea when tested between 2000-2001, according to UCSF researchers.
July 09, 2002
Almost all (98 percent) Zimbabwean women who were unable to persuade their male partners to use condoms consistently, used the diaphragm as an alternative method of contraception and disease prevention, though its effectiveness against HIV remains unknown, UCSF researchers have found.
Sharon Stone joins celebration of Partnership to fight Breast Cancer: San Francisco General Hospital
July 08, 2002
WHAT A celebration of the Avon Foundation's gifts of $12.2 million (to-date) to the partnership between San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center (SFGHMC) and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) The UCSF digital Mammovan, supported in part by Avon funds, will be available for tours at approximately 11:30 on the street at 401 Van Ness WHERE Veteran's Building at 401 Van Ness Ave, San Francisco Green Room, second floor WHEN 10:30 am - noon Wednesday (July 10) Program begins at 11 am (See detailed schedule, below)
July 08, 2002
Young gay men-ages 18 to 28-in Albuquerque reported a 12% decrease in risky sexual behavior as a result of a community building HIV prevention intervention. Similar cohorts in Austin and Phoenix who did not receive the intervention reported increases of 42% and 26% respectively, when compared to risky behavior rates prior to the introduction of HAART (Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy) in 1996, say researchers at UCSF's Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS).
July 08, 2002
UCSF Family and Community Medicine faculty members have responded to more than 50,000 calls from health care workers across the country seeking information from the National HIV Telephone Consultation Service (Warmline) and the National Clinicians' Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Hotline (PEPline). The services are provided through the National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center (NCCC), a joint collaboration between the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine, the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and the CDC.
July 06, 2002
A rising number of San Franciscans are being infected with HIV that is already resistant to some classes of antiretroviral drugs, report researchers from the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology in the July 10th issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.


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As the Rangers (21-16-4, 46 pts) enter the next-to-last week of the 2013 regular season, they control their own playoff destiny---holding on to the eighth and final post-season spot in the Eastern Conference, though just two points up on the Winnipeg Jets. They would, however, prefer to improve their lot, which is most definitely possible, as well, as they sit only a point behind the seventh-place Islanders and two behind the sixth-place Senators.
Tonight the Rangers skate in Philadelphia against the12th place Flyers (18-21-3, 39 pts), a desperate team clinging to very faint playoff hopes. After Tuesday the week gets busy with a home game against the Panthers on Thursday followed by a road contest in Buffalo on Friday, and back home for an afternoon Garden clash with the Devils on Sunday. Each of the teams the Rangers face this week trail them in the standings, making this a crucial week for the Blueshirts, who are 5-1-1 in their last seven games and who are well-rested having played just once in the previous five days.
However the Rangers are well aware that they can ill afford to take any team, any game, lightly right now. They have been burned already this season by disappointing losses in Buffalo and at Madison Square Garden to the Panthers, part of what has been a fairly inconsistent season for the Blueshirts. But playing some of their most inspired hockey of the year at present, the Rangers are well aware they need to take care of the task at hand.
The Rangers are coming off a wildy exciting 1-0 overtime win on Long Island on Saturday. Dan Girardi's game-winner capped a thrilling contest, one that certainly provided renewed energy to the Rangers-Islanders rivalry. When the Rangers look at the tape of that game, though, they see that the Islanders had the better of the chances and spent more time in the Rangers end of the ice, things that need to change this evening in Philly. Still the Rangers battle level was extremely high, and when Henrik Lundqvist is playing at the top of his game, as his coach John Tortorella stated the other day, the Blueshirts become awfully hard to beat.
A let down can not be afforded tonight against a struggling Flyers squad which has disappointed all season long. The Flyers did snap a four-game losing streak with a resounding 7-3 victory in Montreal last night, keeping their flickering playoff hopes alive. Those seven goals not only equaled a team season-high---set twice before---but they more than doubled Philly's output the previous four games. During its four-game skid the Flyers notched just three goals in total---scoring once three times and being shut out in one game by the Sabres.
Before their four-game skid the Flyers were making a mini run at the Rangers and Islanders for a playoff berth, winning four straight, scoring 18 times in that span. Scoring has been a major issue when the Flyers have played the Rangers this season, though. The Blueshirts have surrendered just seven goals in four games against the Flyers, skating to a 3-1-0 record against Philly so far this season. At the Wells Fargo Center the Rangers have split a pair of games, losing 2-1 back on January 24th before hammering the Flyers 5-2 on March 26th.
Tortorella is likely to dress the same lineup for the seventh straight contest since the NHL trade deadline, with Lundqvist expected to make his eighth straight start in goal. Philly is banged up on its blueline with a string of injuries, losing another regular---Kent Huskins---to a concussion last night. As a result Luke Schenn logged a career-high 33:25 in the win over the Canadiens at the Bell Centre on Monday. Workhorse Ilya Bryzgalov likely will start yet again in goal for the Flyers, though newcomer Steve Mason is also a viable option.
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The Red Cross will take its fire safety campaign to a Moline neighborhood tomorrow. Volunteers will go door-to-door in the Floreciente neighborhood with information about smoke detectors, creating a family fire escape plan, and advice on safe cooking and heating.
This is national Fire Prevention Week and Fire Prevention Month, but spokeswoman Brooke Mehaffey says the Red Cross is also very concerned about the high number of fires this year. The Quad Cities chapter covers 11 Iowa and Illinois counties, and in these counties during the past year, there've been 240 fires, with 47 of them in Moline.
"Usually fires are more prevalent in the winter months and kind of start around October. And that's why October is Fire Prevention Month. Because of the heating and electronic heaters and the kind of stuff people have in their homes. But we have had increased instances and it's hard to tell what the cause is or why. The fires just come like they do."
Just in the past three months, the Red Cross has helped victims of 68 fires in the Quad Cities region, including ten in Moline.
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The furious gladiator sets are available with triumph badges, and the lower tiers of gear are still available for conquest, valor, etc. However, unless you have a huge stock of lower tier badges, given how easily available triumphs are right now, you're going to want to get furious.
There's a wide assortment of gear available for wintergrasp tokens--essentially two pieces of gear plus trinkets per season. Some, such as the pants and ring, are equivilant to furious gladiator gear. Other pieces, such as the helm or boots, are only the equivalent of hateful gear. The trinkets are also either a great way to pick up resilience (such as the Flow of Knowledge) or a PVP trinket effect with stats instead of resiliance (such as the Titan-Forged Rune of Audacity).
As for other gear you can purchase with honor but no arena rating, all of the furious off set pieces are available to you. Additionally, 1000 rating can be obtained just by getting invited to a team over 1000 rating. Given that these are a dime a dozen and you can probably buy one from someone if you don't have a friend willing to invite you to a team just for the sake of the rating. This could allow you to buy some pieces of furious gear for a combination of points and honor.
In my opinion, if you are interested in getting the most for your time without stepping into arena at all, do the following:
-Spend Wintergrasp Marks of Honor on trinkets first, then ring, then pants.
-Buy a set of furious arena gear with your badges. If you just need to spend old badges, I'd consider using them on deadly but don't bother buying hateful or savage gear at all at this point
-Use your honor points for furious offset pieces.
You can't get the previous seasons weapons, offhands, or wands. Make due with the best PVE options you have.
That being said, the current season's off set pieces can be purchased with honor and have reasonably low ratings requirements. If you're dead set against arenaing, buy furious, otherwise consider doing a few arenas and picking up the best available gear.


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So what does Google do to combat this? It axes arrangements with seven large ad resellers that represent an estimated 40% of Google China's revenue (about $226 million).
Google Inc said on Tuesday its termination of contracts with seven large Chinese advertising resellers goes into effect on Oct 27, a development analysts say benefits China's leading search engine Baidu.
"The letter was sent out to them on September 27… We gave them a month's notice," Cindy Qin, a spokeswoman for Google told Reuters, confirming it will take effect on October 27.
"We hope to find new resellers to partner with so we can provide even better service to our advertisers," Qin said.
The reason? There was none stated. Google has a unique way of doing things anyway, which has led to great success in the four corners of the globe except China. Since the Chinese market is an enigma of sorts (actually it's a difficult government and a relatively closed Internet approach that is the trouble) it doesn't seem crazy that Google does something that looks drastic. Or does it?
My guess is that there has to be a lot more here than this report is giving us. Not many businesses voluntarily cut 40% of their revenue stream with little notice and no reason. Something is up. Of course, not many businesses are sitting on the pile of cash that Google is sitting on which gives Google the freedom to do something that appears a bit crazy to us mere business mortals.
It looks like Google's most excellent Chinese adventure is only getting more difficult rather than turning around from its history of difficulties. Where will this end for Google? Who knows. The question is whether or not Google is willing to stay in and fight, walk away or maybe they have something up their sleeve to make this work.
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Let's see. The deck is still torn down because we got pinched for not getting a building permit. Since they were just going to replace the floor of the deck, I had no idea that would be needed. Welcome to the suburbs, Taryn. This is what it looks like now.
That makes for a lovely party setting. Very post-Apocalyptic.
In hip news, things are actually finally going much better!! I have a few more weeks of crutches, but the rehab I've been doing on my own seems to be helping a lot. If you ever want to feel like you're an extra on the set of the movie "Cocoon," you should add walking in water to your fitness routine. Everyone else who does this is in their mid to late 80s. The bonus is that I've been asked three times where I go to college. Anyway, I do that and use a stationary bike (30 minutes) and am slowwwwly adding walking on an elliptical machine and a treadmill to the routine. Remember when I started out right after my surgery going .5 mph on the treadmill? I am now up to 3 mps, not holding on, for ten minutes. Progress, yay!
Remember how I always announce I'm losing weight again and then stop updating you guys? Yeah, me too. That's why I'm kind of reluctant to tell you I just finished my first month of Weight Watchers. Down about ten pounds and I'm at only two Diet Cokes a day. I'm feeling pretty good about it so far. Mostly I just want to concentrate on getting my hip back into tip top shape, but losing weight is a nice bonus too.
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September 27, 2012
I just finished my first Biblical Hebrew class this past weekend.
And I'm hooked.
I am completely entrenched in the Old Testament this semester. It has an unparalleled magic that often gets overlooked on a regular day. This is an unfortunate phenomenon given how clearly the character of God is revealed here in the early days of Scripture. God wasn't being coy when he brought his precious Israelites out of Egypt and into his care; he made sure they knew who exactly it was that they were dealing with. Though their relationship would be tumultuous through the next generations and even up to today, the mutual tenderness from the days of old has remained deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and those that followed after.
This is an intimacy that strikes me square in my chest every time I hear about it. The power of it, its ability to affect deeply, those who learn of it comes only from the self-sustaining, all-knowing Father wishing to show us more of himself.
It's something we can only hope to have a glimpse of while we're here.
In light of this, I've been thinking a lot about a friend I had a few years ago. We attended the same church at the time, and were in the same discipleship group. Looking around the room in my mind, there wasn't a twenty-something piled on those couches that wasn't bringing the weight of the world to our Thursday night meetings, and my friend was no different.
She was slowly losing her dad to a malignant brain tumor.
Our discipleship group was a second family for all of us. I would say we were among those in her life praying the hardest for a miraculous healing. As the weeks passed, we watched his condition continue to decline. For a girl in her early twenties, we all knew this was about to be world-shattering. Things were already starting to crumble.
There was one last surgery. Seemingly endless hours in the operating room. It had been a long, brutal day for a man weakened already from the long months of the fight for his life. It was late when he got back to his hospital room. The family had gone to get something to eat while they waited; except my friend, who slept quietly in the recliner next to his bed. The monitors beeping proof of life into the silence of the dark room. He would sleep. She would sleep too.
Suddenly, she awoke to stirring. She sat up quickly, worried something was happening to him. She turned to find him getting up, pain hitching his breathing as he squeezed into the chair with her.
"Dad... what's wrong? Are you ok?"
"It's ok. I just want to hold you."
He passed a few days later. I attended the reception for his funeral, and stories much like this one were told to remember a man who loved his family with everything he had until there was nothing left of him. She wrestled with his passing in the days to come. I remember she shared a journal entry with us that was heavy with grief. But toward the end, a revelation:
The presence of God is thick in my room right now.
This had such a profound effect on me. The beginning of the journal entry had been so tormented with such a devastating loss. She had never been one to express herself like this. She brought us into the darkness of her room that night; how the love of the most important man in her life was now gone.
But then, in the midst of the dark, the Father of Light made himself so unmistakably present. He didn't take away the grief. He was there with her in the midst of it. Such a timely, beautiful interruption and presentation of everlasting intimacy.
Much like the Israelites sustained in the desert by a loving God, we glean unexplainable strength from moments like these that keep us going.
We can't miss this.
Kate Hightower is writing to you in the midst of her Master of Divinity pursuit at Gordon-Conwell—Jacksonville where she is also a Byington Scholar. She is a debilitatingly right-brained, born-in-the-wrong-century, introspective pseudo-nerd with passions that range anywhere from writing, to French cooking to Bob Dylan. These days she resides in Jacksonville with one mental foot in the GCTS Library downtown, and the other is beach-side with her Golden Retriever, Stella… the world's first dog superhero.
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Apple's investing strategy is the equal opposite of Google's strategy. Michael del Castillo
The UpTake: Apple's massive investment in itself can be seen as either a brash act of self-confidence, or an unwillingness to take risks necessary to stay on the cutting edge.
Google shows its strength by investing in other companies or buying them outright. Apple, on the other hand, as Tim Cook made very clear last night, is flexing its might in the rather bizarre way of investing in itself. It turns out that over the last 2 weeks Apple has purchased $14 billion worth of its own shares.
"It means that we are betting on Apple. It means that we are really confident on what we are doing and what we plan to do," Cook told the Wall Street Journal in a report published late last night. "We're not just saying that. We're showing that with our actions."
Which is certainly one way to look at it.
Another way to look at it though is that Apple is closing itself off, gazing at its own belly, reveling in its own wonder, and edifying itself in an almost masturbatory way.
Since 2010 Google has purchased on average a company a week, including the $12.5 billion deal for Motorola Mobility and the $3.2 billion deal for Nest, according to an ABC report. Last year alone Google Ventures invested $1.2 billion in 75 companies, 225 companies since it was founded four years ago, according to a TechCrunch report.
Apple has never spent more than $1 billion on a single deal and Cook said Apple has purchased 21 companies over the past 15 months, according to the Journal report.
That's not to say Apple isn't a good investment. After all, its enthusiasts seem to trust Cook that the company is working on "some really great stuff."
But there's something about the $14 billion deal that strikes me as the posturing of a bully intimidating the competition based on its past achievements or a 40-year-old man who still tells stories about when he was the starting quarterback in high-school.
Michael earned his BA from Mercer University, along the way excavating a Roman bathhouse with the American School of Archaeology. Plus, he provided security at Oxford University, where he also studied literature and philosophy. He earned his MS from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism while training for and running in the New York marathon.
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Chicago Police shot and killed a man who attacked his ex-wife with a foot-long butcher knife after "laying in wait" outside her Gage Park neighborhood home Sunday night, authorities said.
"This is, without a doubt, a classic example of Chicago Police serving and protecting," said Fraternal Order of Police spokesman Pat Camden. "They wind up saving the woman's life."
About 10 p.m. police were called to the woman's house in the 5200 block of South Mozart Street because her ex-husband was apparently following her, in violation of an order of protection, Camden said.
The woman told police she had been at a store near West 51st Street and South Kedzie Avenue when she ran into her ex-husband, Guadalupe Aguilar, authorities said.
He was "stalking her, saw her at the store . . . and had a large butcher knife tucked in the back of his pants," Camden said.
Aguilar then followed her home, but appeared to leave after police were called, Camden said.
However, instead of leaving the area, he apparently parked a block away and snuck into her back yard where he was "laying in wait" with the knife, Camden said.
Meanwhile, officers in front of the home asked the woman if she had a copy of the order of protection. She went to retrieve the document, walking around the house to enter through a rear door.
Then they heard her scream, Camden said.
When officers ran to the gangway, they saw Aguilar on top of the woman, stabbing her with a knife, Chicago Police said in a statement.
They are "about three feet away from him, he sees them, jumps up and starts coming at the officers with the butcher knife in hand," Camden said.
One of the officers drew a gun and shot Aguilar, Camden said.
The 39-year-old was dead on the scene, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
The woman was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital with several stab wounds, but her injuries were not thought to be life-threatening, Camden said.
The officers were not injured and a weapon was recovered from the scene, police said. Camden said the butcher knife had an approximately 12-inch-long blade.
The Independent Police Review Authority, which reviews all police-involved shootings, is investigating.
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I enjoyed Dave Helm's op-ed in last week's Tracy Press about the proposed water park (His Voice, "Put swim center to a vote").
If there is a need and demand for such a facility in Tracy, let it be built. But let it be built and operated by private industry, not by the city of Tracy.
Remember, city employees are people who get paid for the 20 years they work, then who continue to get paid for the rest of their lives after they retire. The last thing we want to do is add more such employees to the city payroll. Private business will run a water park for a fraction of the long-term costs to the city.


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Fujifilm X-Pro1 review
X-Trans CMOS: What Is It And How Does It Work?
A conventional camera sensor uses what's known as the Bayer filter array to decipher colour information. As light is made up of a spectrum of colours, each with different frequencies, it's possible to filter out the prime red, green and blue colours, then use an algorithm (known as 'demosaicing') to calculate the colour at every site. However, the filter's pattern is based on red, green and blue filters arranged in a repetitive 2x2 grid across the sensor's surface which would cause issues with fine detail, colour artefacts and moiré patterning if it wasn't for the use of a low-pass or anti-aliasing filter to 'soften' the light. However, such softening results in slightly softer images too.
This is where the X-Pro1's X-Trans CMOS sensor gets clever. Instead of
using the usual 2x2 (4-part) grid, it uses a 6x6 (36-part) pattern where
colours aren't 'clumped' together, ensuring that at least one red,
green and blue pixel each fall within both vertical and horizontal
paths. As the pattern isn't repetitive - and Fujifilm claim's it's more
like traditional film - there's no need for an anti-aliasing filter and,
therefore, shots should be that much sharper compared to standard
The only other sensor on the market to use a similar process
is the Sigma Foveon X3 sensor, which has three layers of red, green and
blue pixels mounted at different depths within a silicon sensor - this
provides full colour information to every site, and also doesn't require
anti-aliasing. Good though the technology is at low ISO settings, it
can't compare to the Fujifilm sensor at higher sensitivities.


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Can This Small Cap Stock Engineer a Turnaround?
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Not all small cap companies are destined for greatness and the same holds true for Chinese online gaming company Shanda Games (NASDAQ: GAME), at least for now. While the industry in which Shanda plies its trade is growing, its revenue and stock price have been shrinking at an alarming rate. The stock has depreciated around 30% in the last 52 weeks, and there aren't any signs of relief yet.
Falling behind
Although online gaming will be one of the primary drivers behind the growth of the overall gaming industry according to Digi-Capital, Shanda doesn't seem ready to ride this growth yet. The company posted yet another disappointing quarter just recently where it missed the earnings estimate. To make things worse, revenue dropped 20% from the prior-year period and this was accompanied by a 26% decline in non-GAAP net income.
In addition, it seems that the company is focusing more on quantity rather than quality. Even though it witnessed a slight increase in average monthly active users, the number of average monthly paying users declined almost 5% since Shanda tried to attract more users by giving away freebies. This is in stark contrast to its peer Giant Interactive's (NYSE: GA) performance in its recently reported quarter.
A solid business model helped Giant deliver impressive revenue and earnings improvement in the previous quarter. Its active paying accounts rose 6.1% driven by its addictive games and strategy of platform diversification. Moreover, Giant is quite confident about its online gaming business and is now taking a leap into mobile in search of more room to run.
Where are the results?
On the other hand, even though Shanda has been following similar strategies to salvage itself, they hardly seem to be effective. The company has been trying to develop a portfolio of long-lasting games in the mould of Activision Blizzard's (NASDAQ: ATVI) World of Warcraft which would help it establish a steady revenue stream in the long run.
WoW has been in action for around 8 years now as Activision has kept the game in good health through a series of expansion packs. The game accounts for almost 30% of the game publisher's revenue and the Street keeps one eye on the subscriber count of WoW every time Activision reports results. Thus, Shanda's initiative of developing similar games is noteworthy and it is trying to turn Mir II, Woool, and Age of Wushu into long-term revenue generators.
However, these initiatives haven't delivered revenue growth yet and this is why it would make sense to take management's optimistic tunes with a grain of salt. But Shanda might make a minor comeback of sorts as the year progresses. Let's see why.
Rays of hope
The company is slated to release a few games and expansion packs this year, such as the highly-anticipated title Rift along with AION 4.0, Final Fantasy XIV, World Zero, and Dungeon Striker. In addition, Shanda's Korean subsidiary Actoz has hit gold with its mobile game titled Million Arthur and was the top grossing app on Apple's app store in Korea for 42 days on the trot since being launched on Dec. 20.
Also, Shanda's games have been gaining traction overseas driven by solid performance of titles such as Dragon Nest. As a result, Shanda witnessed a sequential improvement of 61% in its overseas revenue in the previous quarter. These are a few positive takeaways from Shanda's last quarterly report which was otherwise quite gloomy and might help the company arrest its declining revenue. But, as I mentioned earlier, management has been upbeat about the company's prospects and strategies since last year but positive results and stock price performance haven't followed suit.
The bottom line
So what should investors do in such circumstances? On one hand, Shanda's revenue is on a slide while on the other there are a few sparks which might light up its engine. Thus, potential investors' decision depends entirely on their risk profile.
Considering the fact that Shanda trades at a dirt-cheap trailing P/E of just 4.8 and might perform well if its games click, those willing to take a risk might initiate a long position. As far as the cautious ones are concerned, they should watch the stock from the sidelines and wait for signs of a turnaround.
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Metallica is sharing more footage from their upcoming 3D film, Metallica Through the Never . The band has just released a video for the live version of their classic track "Master of Puppets," which is featured in the film and on its soundtrack.
The nearly nine-minute clip features the band performing the song live in concert, interspersed with scenes of actor Dane DeHaan , who portrays a member of Metallica's stage crew in the movie, getting into a car accident and wandering into a fight between an angry mob and the police.
Metallica Through the Never will arrive at IMAX theaters across North America for a full week starting September 27. After the flick has its run in the IMAX theaters, it'll expand into additional theaters starting October 4. The film's soundtrack, Metallica Through the Never (Music from the Motion Picture) , will arrive at the usual outlets on Tuesday.
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The top choices for the Toledo Public School interim superintendent position have been narrowed down to three.
Dr. Mike Zalar is currently the superintendent of Oregon Public Schools and has been with the school district for 10 years. For the first five years, he was the Clay High School principal and for the last five years he has been superintendent.
Other candidates for the position include Douglas Heuer, the current superintendent of Cleveland Heights-University Heights Schools, and internal candidate Dr. Romules Durant, the current assistant superintendent with TPS.
Zalar says he has had a good run in Oregon and wants to take his expertise over to Toledo and make an impact.
"I think enhancing educational opportunities for kids, increasing student achievement. I know that attendance is a challenge in Toledo. I think I can help out with that. Parent engagement, those types of things will be what I'll be looking at," said Zalar.
Whoever is selected will start after the current superintendent contract ends July 31.
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Avid Deko @ Saddleback: So Easy a Volunteer Can Do It
Saddleback Valley Community Church is one of the fastest growing and influential megachurches in America. Located in Lake Forest, California, total congregation figures exceed 70,000 with an average weekly attendance of 22,000.
Saddleback Valley Community Church is one of the fastest growing and influential megachurches in America. Located in Lake Forest, California, total congregation figures exceed 70,000 with an average weekly attendance of 22,000. Saddleback founder, Pastor Rick Warren, has also authored "The Purpose-Driven Life," a spiritual self-help book that denotes the philosophical foundation of the church.
Since its publication in 2002, this book has become a New York Times best-seller for one of the longest periods in history and established a unique position as one of the most popular non-fiction books of all time.
From its first service in 1980 attended by 205 worshippers, Saddleback has expanded to encompass over 200 ministries while over 200,000 church leaders from around the world have been trained in its theological precepts. An international personality in his own right, Pastor Warren was selected to deliver President Barack Obama's inaugural invocation earlier this year.
One Church, Many Venues
Comprised of six campuses, five physical and one virtual, the church offers a wide variety of activities, from worship services to childcare for the deaf. At the church's center is the main Worship Hall, where a TV production facility broadcasts real-time video captured from the service to a generous array of stadium-sized overhead screens.
Despite its size, Saddleback functions similarly to churches on a more local level. To a significant degree, it depends on the services of volunteers. That is one of the reasons the video staff elected to go with the Deko 3000 graphics system and PostDeko offline software the facility currently employs – operation is so easy a volunteer can do it.
Deko 3000 and PostDeko solutions serve two types of graphics generation functions. The first is a series of lower third message graphics encapsulating portions of the service into a short phrase or expression. PostDeko provides all the design power necessary to create complex on-air graphic templates as well as animations to overlay the live video right at the desktop. From there, the assets are transferred to the online Deko system for airplay.
The second function served is creation of song verse graphics overlayed on live video during sung portions of the services. The Deko 3000 system is highly-flexible and adaptable; of particular value to the Saddleback video is its ability to facilitate quick, on-the-fly changes.
Smooth Volunteer Operators
Of the 10-20 verse lines in any given song, it may be necessary to change some of them within a very short timeframe. Deko makes it possible for a volunteer operator to do that, if necessary, even while the service is in progress.
It's a key concern for Saddleback video staff, since volunteers are typically scheduled to come in just once every three weeks, but are tasked with running the program and keeping up with any changes or alteration in song cycles as they occur. If, for instance, the singer switches verses or set order, the operator must be able to follow and accommodate those alterations in real time.
The majority of volunteers have relatively minimal experience and a modest level of working knowledge about the system's operation. For the most part, their capabilities extend to running the program and making simple changes. However, the whole service can be pre-programmed except for any last-minute changes before the volunteer arrives.
"I'm very comfortable with it," comments Elaine Koehler, Video Director, "and our volunteers are comfortable running it. It's so easy I can just talk them through it."
Picture Perfect
The graphics generated by the Deko products help worshippers keep track of the song verses and reinforce service messaging. Prior to purchasing Deko 3000 and PostDeko approximately a year and a half ago, Saddleback invited other vendors to demonstrate competitive products but there was no disputing the quality.
"We had a number of companies in just to see what was out there," explains Koehler, "but one look at Avid Deko and we knew it was going to be perfect for us."
Saddleback offers six Worship Hall services every weekend, four on Sunday and two on Saturday. For high holidays, the stage may even be graced with an orchestra of up to 80 players, along with several guest singers, speakers and worship leaders. Graphics become a considerable challenge in these environments, but Deko solutions invariably deliver and congregations are very receptive, particularly to the overall display quality.
Beyond the live services, Saddleback streams Deko-generated message graphics with the video to other locations including the Terrace Café (informal), Traditions (small church), El Encuentro (Spanish-language), Elevation (singles), Overdrive (rock) and Praise (gospel). At Fuel, the newest venue for young adults, services have their own identity, music and live pastor. However, message graphics, converted to jpg files are delivered there for use in the worship program.
In addition, Saddleback has three satellite campus which also receive message graphics generated from the Deko system. Prior to the service, video is distributed to those venues via DVD. Services open with a live pastor delivering the opening prayer and announcements, after which the video is shown. At the conclusion, the live pastor closes the service.
Currently, the Dekos are HD, but the screens SD. Fortunately, Deko can generate content in HD which can be easily delivered in SD format for display on three screens above the stage and two more on either side. Since the high costs of purchase and installation make a short-term upgrade of those screens unlikely, the ability to convert seamlessly from HD to SD affords the church ample time to consider and evaluate screen replacement options.
Sight Plus Sound
In addition to the Deko systems, Saddleback employs a full raft of audio gear, including Pro Tools, ICON and Venue. After a year and a half, the system has been fully installed and operates to the satisfaction of Mike Mireau, Recording Engineer.
He is now ready to take on acoustic challenges that might include 40-50 inputs on non-orchestra weekends to orchestra weekends requiring 70-80 inputs at time. The laundry list of tools at his disposal include a 96-input Pro Tools|HD system and an ICON D-Command digital console featuring 12 microphone preamp units that feed six 96 I/O audio interfaces.
While it may begin with the services, it certain does not end there. Services are streamed live and archived for future downloads. Two Saturday night services are also captured on the recording room's Pro Tools|HD system and ICON D-Command console, then edited for offsite venues, uploaded and distributed to the venues via DVR. Soon, Saddleback will switch to satellite feed, enabling delivery of live sound to offsite facilities.
Mike's network also monitors Internet feeds, so he can continually compare live and online feeds. ICON D-Command gives him the ability to bring the Internet mix back and balance with the live mix. A mobile component will be added in the not-too-distant future, providing a stream for the iPhone in the short-term and eventually migrating to other mobile platforms such as Google's Android OS.
"We're pretty much an Avid house, "Mike comments, "so much so that if you guys came out with LCD screens, we'd probably have to make that transition as well."
Growing with Avid
Both Elaine and Mike see the growth created by the technologies employed in their respective domains on a daily basis. There is no denying the impact delivery of high-quality audio and video has on the worship experience for those witnessing it first-hand, as well as others congregated in separate facilities or viewing online. It's a key means of accomplishing Pastor Warren's primary mission – to reach out to more people in more ways than ever before.
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Create and deliver high-quality graphics for a wide variety of services and events. Employ a system that is easy to learn and use for volunteer operators who donate their time with a limited amount of expertise or training. Maintain the highest standards of graphic quality and control-room efficiency.
Train volunteers on Deko 3000 and PostDeko solutions to meet a variable operating schedule. Enable them to use Deko units to load and display verse lines of songs as they are being performed live as well as facilitate basic manipulation of images and animations. Provide the Saddleback control room with a reliable, flexible means of delivering quality graphic content while giving Deko operators the versatility necessary to follow and accommodate changes in services as they occur.


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DIY: Sea Glass Bottles
I Love the frosted colors in Beach Glass.
You will need :
* Mod Podge (or watered down white glue :3 parts glue to 1 part water)
* Food coloring ( I used the neon colors, that's what I have on hand. )
* Dish washing liquid
* Sponge paint brush
* Clean and dry clear bottles ( I like the shapes of small vinegar, syrup, tabasco sauce, or jars, even canning jars)
* Matte Varnish Sealer (or spray sealer)
Cover your work surface with newspaper or a paper sack or whatever you'd like to keep from staining the area.
Now for the mixing:
I poured a little of the Mod Podge in a bowl. Then added 3 drops of the blue food coloring and 1 drop of green to get the aqua color I was going for. You can mix whatever color you want, there are no rules. I then added a few drops of dish soap. I think it may help it become frosted and not clear, and it also helps make clean up easier. I was going for beach glass I didn't want just a tinted glass like some of the blue mason glass tutorials. I found adding the dish soap helped that for some reason as well as using Mod Podge Matt Finish.
Then I mixed it all together:
Started applying it:
I like to be able to add fresh flowers to the container so I opted for coloring the outside of the bottle, so water could be added inside if desired. I gave it an even coat , then let it dry. It you want more intense color add 2-3 coats allowing it to dry in between each coat.
There are a few subtle streaks sometimes, I didn't mind them. It may depend on how thick the mod podge/ glue mixture is and also the surface of the glass. I had some with slight streaks and others with none at all using the same mixture. If you don't like the results, wash it off and try again before the next step of adding a varnish sealer.
I am giving my bottles a coat of matt varnish to seal the color. If you don't put a sealer over it, it will wash right off.
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-- Robert Preidt
WEDNESDAY, May 9 (HealthDay News) -- The pleasurable feeling
known as "runner's high" that's triggered by aerobic exercise may
have played a role in the evolution of humans' ability to run long
distances, a new study suggests.
Runner's high is caused by the release of chemicals called
endocannabinoids in the reward centers of the brain.
The researchers found that levels of these chemicals spiked in
the blood of dogs and humans after a brisk run, but did not occur
in ferrets after they exercised. Humans and dogs belong to a group
of mammals built for endurance while ferrets are a sedentary
species, the study authors noted.
In human volunteers, the boost in endocannabinoids after running
was associated with an increase in positive emotional feelings.
"Aerobic activity has played a role in the evolution of lots of different systems in the human body, which may explain why aerobic exercise seems to be so good for us," study author David Raichlen, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Arizona, said in a news release from Eckerd College and the University of Arizona.
"These results suggest that natural selection may have been motivating higher- rather than low-intensity activities in groups of mammals that evolved to engage in these types of aerobic activities," he noted.
The study was published in a recent issue of
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