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Nearly One-Third Of Indians Are Suffering
In this article they are saying education is making Indians suffer. Atleast 35 percent of Idians are poor and suffering because they didnt complete secondary school. Highly educated Indians are most successful which causes a widening gap between the rich and poor. In 2011 35 percent were considered suffering and by early 2012 it increased 12 percent. Even though 95 percent of Indians are within a 1 kilometer distance of a public school, attendence has dropped dramatically.
They are trying help with the attendance issues in the rural areas and an increase in the required number of years of educational attainment. This is something India needs because they are an overpopulated country and if the 47 percent can drop a lot lower then they wont be suffering and can support the nations rapid economic growth. So by doing this, I think it will help out with a lot in the long run so I support what there trying to do and if it works out, then it will make a lot of people happy.
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Sen. Todd Weiler, R-Woods Cross, is working on a bill patterned after a new law in Mississippi that he says will better protect the religious rights of students in public schools.
But the group Atheists of Utah says it looks like an end run around recent Supreme Court decisions by seeking to allow prayer in morning announcements, football games and graduation — and will "further separate and ostracize" youths who belong to minority religions or no faith. They contend it violates the Utah Constitution, if not also the U.S. Constitution.
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Sen. Stuart Reid, R-Ogden, is working on a bill he says will require schools to teach more about the First Amendment freedom of religion — which he asserts is often misunderstood.
"We see a lot of teaching about freedom of speech and the press," Reid said, "but not on freedom of religion."
Atheists of Utah President Dan Ellis said his group would need to see the final bill before taking a position but added he has no problem with the bill's concept.
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"It basically affirms religious freedoms of students and public schools," Weiler said, "and teaches educators how to protect students' rights."
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Six years have passed since Martina McBride's last Christmas tour, and 14 years since "White Christmas," her last holiday album.
But the country chanteuse known for "This One's For the Girls," "A Broken Wing," "Independence Day" and a couple of dozen other hits, is ready to embrace the Christmas spirit this year with her "Joy of Christmas" tour, launching Friday at the Fox Theatre.
McBride, last seen in Atlanta earlier this year opening for George Strait, will return to the road with him next year, too, as he begins to wrap up the performing side of his career.
But first, there is an appearance on Thursday's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (9 a.m. on NBC) a new album in the planning stages and this 16-date Christmas tour.
McBride called in from Nashville earlier this week to let us know what to expect at Friday's show and also give a glimpse of Christmas in the McBride household.
Q. We're your first date of the tour, so have you done any special planning this week?
A. Yesterday I got all my outfits. I'll have six costume changes. The first show is so important, so we always choose the locale carefully and try to find a place where we think will be a good place to start the tour.
Q. What about Atlanta makes it a good place to start?
A. We've had such great crowds and fans there, and fun shows. It seemed like it made sense to start there.
Q. I understand you have a large band – 12 pieces?
A.Yes, some string players and background vocalists as well as my regular band. We did [a Christmas tour] for three years starting in 2006. It was a larger production, but I sang to track, so it's fun to have a band on stage. The show is a little more focused and I think it's better than the one we put on before. It's more intimate.
Q. What can fans expect to hear? Are you also doing non-holiday songs?
A. We'll do most of the songs from my (1998) Christmas record, from "I'll Be Home for Christmas" to "Let it Snow. We do a duet with Elvis on "Blue Christmas." I'll go out and chat with audience and have it be spontaneous and fun. We do hymns as well. My goal is to put everyone in the Christmas spirit. We do a couple of non-holiday songs, too.
Q. I assume the Elvis duet is on video. What is the rest of the production like?
A. Yeah, we use video to create an environment for each song. We have some snow and other things that I don't want to give away. Everything you can think about for Christmas!
Q. It's been awhile since you released a Christmas album. Is that something you'd do again?
A.We were going to do one for this year but the timing didn't work out, so hopefully next year.
Q. What is your favorite Christmas song?
A. I love all Christmas music, so picking one is hard, but I love 'O Holy Night.' It's so emotional. I really like singing the hymns.
Q. What's a typical Christmas like in the McBride household?
A. We stay home all day and the five of us are all together. We have a big breakfast and I make a big dinner. It's our day to just be in the house with each other – kind of like everyone else's Christmas, really.
Q. What is your favorite part of Christmas?
A. I love being with my family, just taking the day to shut off the world. We have a 7-year-old so we still have an exciting Christmas morning.
Q. Is it unusual for you to be on the road so close to the holidays?
A. We haven't done this tour since 2006, so yeah. It's interesting because it forces you to get organized and start Christmas shopping early, which you don't usually do. But doing a Christmas show every night puts you in a Christmas spirit as well. It's a beautiful show, beautiful to look at.
Q. You're going back on tour with George Strait. How do you feel about being part of his last live hurrah?
A. It's really great, to be asked to be part of this special event. It's really an honor.
Q. What else do you have planned for next year?
A. I'm starting a new album in January that will be out for September. I'm just starting to find songs for that, so it's early in the process.
November 20th, 2012
12:22 pm
Martina is such a delight to listen to when she sings. Her songs carry a true message for all to hear. She puts her heart and soul into every song and her concerts are excellent. It makes you feel like she is singing just for you and that makes the connection something special. God Bless you Martina!! Merry Christmas.
November 20th, 2012
12:45 pm
I love Martina. Her songs have always touched me.
November 20th, 2012
2:06 pm
Martina is great in larger venues-I'll bet show at the FOX would be wonderful!
November 20th, 2012
2:11 pm
Martina is great! What a great way to kick off the holidays-truly my favorite time of year.
November 20th, 2012
2:19 pm
Got to see Martina's Christmas concert at Gwinnett Arena a while back and it was spectacular. Love when she sings "Oh, Holy Night"!!
November 20th, 2012
2:25 pm
What a great venue for a Christmas Concert with Martina! What a gorgeous voice to bring us into the holiday season!
November 20th, 2012
2:37 pm
What a voice. I'm sure her Christmas show is spectacular.
November 20th, 2012
2:41 pm
Martina is hot!
November 20th, 2012
3:01 pm
Martina is one of my favorite female artists. Don't know how such a powerful voice comes out of such a tiny body!
November 20th, 2012
3:09 pm
Would love to see this concert
November 20th, 2012
3:18 pm
Martina & Vince Gill were my introductions to country music. His Breath of Heaven Christmas collection is always a staple around our house during the holiday season.
November 20th, 2012
3:19 pm
Martina is great!
November 20th, 2012
3:24 pm
Martina is a top performer and vocalist – a true professional in every way! My wife and I just adore her and can't think of a better way to kick off the Holiday season. We've been going through some hard times lately and can't attend shows like these. Seeing this show would make 2012 the best!
November 20th, 2012
3:34 pm
I'm ready!
November 20th, 2012
3:36 pm
Sweet-spirited lady. You can tell her heart is within everything she sings.
November 20th, 2012
3:38 pm
Always been a fan of her as a vocalist. Would be great to see her singing Christmas songs at this show!
November 20th, 2012
3:48 pm
I'm excited that she decided to do a Christmas show right here in Atlanta– It would be a wonderful date with my husband to start the Christmas season!
November 20th, 2012
3:50 pm
I love Martina. That would make a great date
November 20th, 2012
3:58 pm
What a great way to kick off the holiday season. I love Martina
November 20th, 2012
4:04 pm
Hopefully will get to see the show. My wife and I haven't seen her in many years.
November 20th, 2012
4:17 pm
Sounds wonderful!
November 20th, 2012
4:28 pm
Martina McBride is beyond the realm of a classic voice that brings a heartfelt message. Her Christmas albums are spectacular and her band (lest we forget, a vocalist needs a brilliant band of musicians) is spot on. All I can really say is thanks for the opportunity to see a classic show.
November 20th, 2012
4:37 pm
Martina sings a beautiful version of 'O, Holy Night' and I would love to see her sing it live!
November 20th, 2012
4:50 pm
Just hoping for the free tickets
November 20th, 2012
4:58 pm
Martina McBride put on one for the greatest Christmas shows I have seen. I saw her a few years ago.
November 20th, 2012
4:59 pm
Love Martina McBride
November 20th, 2012
5:06 pm
Martina … WOW!!!
November 20th, 2012
5:22 pm
I have been wanting to see Martina McBride for the longest time. It would be great to see her live in concert with my fiance. How romantic.
November 20th, 2012
5:26 pm
I want to see Martina!
November 20th, 2012
5:55 pm
She is great.
November 20th, 2012
7:53 pm
It would be a blessinng to get tickets to see Martian.
November 20th, 2012
8:07 pm
bet it'll be a great show. Martina is quite a talent
November 21st, 2012
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November 21st, 2012
7:23 am
I can't think of a better place to hear Martina sing, than the Fox!
November 26th, 2012
8:11 am
She is great i love her singing. I'm sure her Christmas show is spectacular.


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What is the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program?
The IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Awards Program is an intensely competitive worldwide program, which honors exceptional Ph.D. students who have an interest in solving problems of interest to IBM and which are fundamental to innovation including, innovative software, new types of computers, technology, and interdisciplinary projects that create social and business value.
Who is eligible for IBM Ph.D. Fellowships?
Nominations are welcome for students of all nationalities. Students must be nominated by a doctoral faculty member. The faculty member is encouraged to contact an IBM colleague prior to submitting the nomination to assure mutual interest. Students from Europe and Russia may be nominated in their first year of study in their doctoral program. Outside of Europe and Russia, students must have completed at least one year of study in their doctoral program at the time of their nomination. Non-U.S. Citizens who wish to participate in an internship in the U.S. must obtain work authorization under the specifics of their particular visa. Students from U.S. embargoed countries are not eligible for the program.
Must I be a citizen of the country of application to qualify?
No; however, IBM may solicit local country residency and citizenship information for legal compliance purposes as part of the award process. IBM is a U.S. headquartered company and complies with all applicable laws and regulations.
Am I eligible if I hold more than one fellowship/scholarship during the award period?
While students may accept other supplemental fellowships, to be eligible for the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship they may not accept a major award in addition to the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship.
Eligibility in Europe and Russia: While students may accept government scholarships and other supplemental fellowships, to be eligible for the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award they may not accept a major award.
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Where can I get the forms for an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship nomination?
All nominations for the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship must be submitted by faculty electronically over the Web on a standardized form to facilitate an open and uniform competition. The nomination form will be available on the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship nomination website from September 19 to October 29, 2013.
What if I start an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship nomination and cannot finish?
You can save your nomination and return to complete it at a later time. Simply return to the nomination form on the website and re-enter your IBM Registration ID and password.
Can students submit nominations themselves?
No. Students must be nominated by a faculty member. The nomination form must be prepared and submitted by a faculty member. We suggest faculty coordinate her nomination with her department chair because there is a limit of two new nominations per department.
Is there a limit to the number of applications that a department may submit?
IBM requests that no more than two nominations per department be submitted, in addition to any renewal nominations.
What information does a student have to submit (CV, research proposal and letter)?
A student does not submit any nomination or documentation to IBM, only faculty may nominate students. At the initial stage, a nomination includes the student's CV, faculty nominator's supporting statement, department head's supporting statement, Ph.D. thesis title, and a brief description of Ph.D. thesis work.
What are the effective dates of the 2014-2015 IBM Ph.D. Fellowship?
The 2014-2015 Fellowship begins in the fall semester of 2014 and covers the academic year. The associated internship may be a summer assignment in 2014 or 2015, or an on-site assignment during the academic year, depending on the arrangements made between the Award Recipient and her/his IBM Mentor and faculty advisor.
Can an IBM employee apply for a Ph.D. Fellowship?
IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are not intended for IBM employees. IBM employees have an education reimbursement/leave program at their disposal and employees must work with their managers on eligibility for IBM assistance.
Does the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship continue until the Award Recipient finishes the Ph.D.?
IBM Ph.D. Fellowships are awarded for one academic year. After receiving an award, an Award Recipient may be renominated the following year for consideration to receive another IBM Ph.D. Fellowship based on the student's continued exceptional academic standing, progress, achievement, and sustained interaction with IBM's technical community. A student may compete annually and be awarded a maximum of three years.
Why do Nominees need to indicate a particular technical career interest?
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What are the focus areas that IBM pays special attention to?
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- Innovative software: HCI, massive scale data and analytics with uncertainty, new expressive ways of manipulating computers, programming models and tools, cognitive computing, learning systems, social and mobile computing, Internet of things
- New types of computers: Use of massive parallelism for non-scientific/engineering applications, multi-core and hybrid systems, green computing, and nanotechnology
- Interdisciplinary projects that create social and business value: Smart cities, water and energy modeling and management, and cloud computing
Is the internship mandatory?
The internship is not mandatory, but it is encouraged. Many IBM Ph.D. Fellowship interns tell us that the internships help them to understand the industrial research, development environment or services arena, which helps in making better career decisions. It also broadens their range of technical contacts and strengthens their technical experience.
How are IBM Ph.D. Fellowship recipients selected?
Award Recipients will be selected based on their overall potential for research excellence, the degree to which their technical interests align with those of IBM, and their progress to-date, as evidenced by publications and endorsements from their faculty advisor and department head. Preference will be given to students who have had an IBM internship, or have closely collaborated with technical or services people from IBM, or have co-authored papers, or have faculty research advisors who are close IBM collaborators.
How will I know if my Nominee is awarded an IBM Ph.D. Fellowship?
The final award recipients will be finalized in mid-February 2014. All nominees will receive an email shortly thereafter of their nomination status. A formal letter of congratulations will be sent to the award winners within a few weeks after the emails are sent.
How do I find out the use of my personal data?
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When can I expect my IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award payment?
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FIRST-PERSON: A clash of worldviews
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OKLAHOMA CITY (BP)--The new Tom Cruise flick, War of the Worlds, has our nations attention focused on the conflict between warring factions. You and I and our families are engaged in a similar war of the worlds, where philosophical aliens attempt to destroy what thousands of men and women gave their lifes blood to preserve.
Whether we like it are not, this planet is engaged in a war of worldviews.
Some people have resorted to physical violence. Most of these people do not understand that issues relating to worldviews are best settled at the discussion table, instead of a terrorist training camp. In essence, the terrorist activity in London is a clash between fundamentalist factions of Islam and Western Civilization and our economies. From their perspective, the lives of innocent people are but collateral damage.
How does a clash of worldviews get so out of hand that people think they must resort to acts of terrorism? One reason rests with the fact that when people lose their hope for life, respect for other people and human dignity, their frustration can rise to such a level that they resort to violent means to accomplish their goal. Their psychosis goes something like this, If you wont respect me, then you will fear me.
Have you watched or read the news lately? Brainwashed extremists are putty in the hands of those with a philosophical agenda, and they will go to any lengths to accomplish their goal to make their philosophy take precedence over others. Usually, their primary goal is control. By controlling the destiny of people, their philosophy prevails. Their goal is to have their god (or no god) rule over the other gods of people.
This is strange thinking to those of us who have lived in a culture that has experienced so much freedom and, until a few decades ago, so much tolerance. We were the recipients of brilliant forefathers who embraced biblical principles and sought to capture those concepts in the words of our governing documents. The words were written at a time when respect and honor and dignity were core values among those great icons of American history who set this great experiment of democracy into motion.
Granted, these men and women were not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but they had something that is missing in too many of our current cultural leaders. The foundation of life for our nations founders was a deep faith in the Living God Who chose to reveal Himself through the Scriptures. Sadly, the day of this kind of cultural leader appears to have evaporated. Far too many national leaders determine their choices by which way the political wind is blowing.
Our nation is embroiled in a cultural and philosophical battle to determine which worldview will prevail. Will it be common sense and decency exhibited by those with Christian convictions, or will it be the rabid special interests groups pushing their agendas further down the slippery slope of a national moral meltdown?
Our national philosophical/moral conflict is no more evident than with the new appointments for the Supreme Court. Special interest groups seeking to find legitimization of their aberrant moral positions know most of the nation (and especially the heartland) has been moving ever so slowly toward a more traditional perspective of life. The last bastion of power that has yet to reflect this philosophical change in direction is the judiciary. If the social engineers are to retain their foothold on gaining cultural acceptance for their culturally corrosive philosophy, they must retain the majority of the Supreme Court. The ideological balance of the high court is philosophically precarious.
What issues could possibly be so important? In its July 11 edition Time, a newsmagazine not known for its traditional leanings, listed seven issues that will impact our culture. The article by Daniel Eisenberg stated that abortion, church/state, homosexual rights, crime and punishment, affirmative action, states rights and the right to die are topics the Supreme Court will soon decide. Each of these topics is either a moral decision, or has a moral component, and each will significantly impact our culture.
Some of the senators have already determined that unless the president nominates a legal moderate of their liking, the confirmation process will be a battleground. Furthermore, one wonders how much political capital must be lost to confirm a judicial traditionalist who is reflective of the mainstream of American values. Will the nominee be so battle ridden it will take a decade of service on the bench before the justice can hoist the flag for the core values that once made our nation great?
Will the extreme special interests and their senatorial spokespersons bully their way into winning this ideological conflict? Or will the mainstream of common-sensed people who seek to renew the values of life, honor and dignity prevail in our day through the presidents nominee? If there was ever a time for the people of God who love peace, justice and liberty to pray and contact their senators, now is the time.
John L. Yeats is recording secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention and editor of the Baptist Messenger, newsjournal of the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma, online at www.baptistmessenger.com.
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Boult was born in Chester and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. As a schoolboy, he was introduced to the world of music by a family friend, Frank Schuster, who was a friend of Edward Elgar and introduced the young Boult to the composer around 1905.
He completed his musical education at the Leipzig Conservatory where he learnt to conduct by watching the eminent Hungarian conductor Arthur Nikisch. He sang in choral festivals and at the Leeds Festival of 1913, where he went to watch Nikisch conduct, and made the acquaintance of George Butterworth and other British composers.
During World War I he was employed at the War Office, and whilst there in 1918 planned a series of concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra, which included several important recent British works: Gustav Holst's The Planets, of which he gave the first private performance, A London Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams, of which he gave the first performance of the revised version, and Elgar's Symphony No. 2 which had fallen into neglect. Elgar wrote to him and said he felt sure the future of his music was safe in Boult's hands. In this way Boult laid the foundations for a long career as a champion of twentieth century English music. As one example, Vaughan Williams dedicated Job, A Masque for Dancing to Boult in the mid-1930s, several years after the actual premiere of the work.
In 1924 Boult was appointed to the conductorship of the City of Birmingham Orchestra - now the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra - and in 1930 he was made Director of Music at the BBC. When the BBC formed a symphony orchestra, Boult also became its chief conductor, combining both jobs.
During the 1930s the BBC orchestra became renowned for its high standard of playing and for Boult's competent performances of new and unfamiliar music, often rehearsed in a very short time. Among these successes were an early performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Variations, Op.31, the British premiere of Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck and the premiere of Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 4 in F minor. In 1933, Boult married Ann Wilson, the ex-wife of Steuart Wilson, tenor singer and administrator. The marriage lasted until Boult's death. Boult was knighted in 1937.
During World War II the BBC Symphony Orchestra was evacuated to Bristol, where it suffered from bombing, and to Bedford, where Boult strove to maintain standards and morale as many key players left. In these years he made recordings of Elgar's Second Symphony, Holst's The Planets and Vaughan Williams' Job, A Masque for Dancing. After the war the start of the BBC Third Programme saw Boult involved in several pioneering ventures for Britain, including the British premieres of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 3 and the Concerto for Orchestra of Bela Bartok.
In 1948, Steuart Wilson was appointed Director of Music at the BBC. Suggestions that the standard of playing had fallen beyond Boult's ability to rectify were taken as a reason to insist on his retirement at the age of 60 in 1949, an incident which remains controversial to this day. The Director General of the BBC at the time, Sir William Haley, later broadcast a tribute to Boult, acknowledging that he 'had listened to ill-judged advice in retiring him.' Later the BBC invited Boult to give a warm introduction to Arturo Toscanini's historic second broadcast concert with the Philharmonia Orchestra on 1 October 1952; the speech has been included in some releases of the broadcast.
After it became clear that Boult would not be able to retain his position with the BBC Symphony, Thomas Russell, the Managing Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO), offered Boult the position of Principal Conductor of the LPO in succession to Eduard van Beinum. In the 1930s under Thomas Beecham, the LPO had been the other crack London orchestra, but since Beecham's departure, was in need of rebuilding. Boult accepted this position and threw himself into this task. The results can be heard to this day in a long series of recordings beginning in 1950 and including in their early years a complete set of the Vaughan Williams symphonies and much Elgar. He obtained for the orchestra a recording contract with American companies and recorded Johannes Brahms symphonies, Hector Berlioz and Jean Sibelius, among other composers.
There was controversy and ambiguity over Boult's role in the dismissal of Thomas Russell from his position as the LPO Managing Director, in 1952, during the Cold War years, as Russell was an avowed member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Boult served as the LPO's principal conductor until 1957. After the sudden resignation of Andrzej Panufnik from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO), Boult returned as Principal Conductor of the CBSO for the 1959-1960 season. That was his last chief conductorship, though he remained closely associated with the LPO as its President until his retirement.
Boult recorded all seven then-existing symphonies by Vaughan Williams for Decca Records in 1953-54 with the LPO, with the composer present; these sessions included the Sea Symphony's first-ever recording. Decca also taped Vaughan Williams' short speech to the musicians following the recording of the Sixth symphony, and included it in the album. The composer was to have been present for the first recording of his Ninth symphony, for Everest Records in 1958, but he died the night before the session took place; Boult recorded a short introduction as a memorial tribute to Vaughan Williams. This recording has been reissued on CD.
After what Michael Kennedy described as a 'fallow' period in the early 1960s, Boult acquired the status of a revered figure in British music, and despite advancing years continued to conduct new works, being valued for his impartiality and reliability. He was guest conductor with UK orchestras and further afield (Vienna and Boston). In 1966 he resumed conducting for EMI and until his retirement enjoyed an 'Indian Summer', recording or re-recording his repertory in interpretations which have remained in the catalogs for thirty or forty years. He was made a Companion of Honour (CH) in the 1969 New Year Honours. Having recorded much British music he was encouraged to record the orchestral music of Brahms, whose Third Symphony filled an extra recording session in August 1970 and sparked this exploration of the standard repertory, Richard Wagner, and Franz Schubert. This surprised those listeners who did not know that his acquaintance with these works dated back to the pre-1914 era when he had heard Nikisch and Karl Muck conduct them in Germany. His repertory in general was much wider than his late discography might indicate; not only did he conduct seven of the nine Mahler symphonies well before the Mahler revival of the 1960s, but he also frequently programmed Ravel's complete ballet Daphnis et Chloe and even Ferruccio Busoni's rarely-staged opera Doktor Faust in the late 1940s.
His last public performance was conducting Elgar's ballet The Sanguine Fan for London Festival Ballet at the Coliseum, in London on 24 June 1978. His final record, completed in December 1978, was of music by Hubert Parry. He formally retired from conducting in 1981.
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BATON ROUGE – Led by a team-low 1-under par 71 by sophomore Curtis Thompson in Friday's second round at the University Club, the 17th-ranked and No. 3-seeded LSU men's golf team finds itself on the cusp of NCAA Championships qualification after wrapping up the day in a tie for fifth place overall at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional.
The top five teams after three rounds at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional will qualify for the 2013 NCAA Division I Men's Golf Championships being held May 27-June 2 at Capital City Club in Atlanta, Ga.
Thompson teamed with fellow sophomore Stewart Jolly to pace the Tigers on a steamy Friday afternoon at the University Club as LSU moved up two spots in the team standings into a tie for fifth place with No. 9 seed Coastal Carolina with matching 36-hole scores of 21-over par 597. The Tigers posted a team score of 6-over 294 in the second round to position themselves for NCAA qualification.
The 10th-ranked and No. 2-seeded Florida Gators continue to lead the championship with a 36-hole score of 2-over par 578, followed by second-ranked and No. 1-seeded Alabama in second place at 10-over par 586.
The Tigers will tee off in Saturday's final round in a tight four-way battle with No. 5 seed Houston, No. 8 seed South Alabama and No. 9 seed Coastal Carolina for three spots into the NCAA Championships as each squad is within four shots of one another with just 18 holes to play. South Alabama sits in third place with a two-day total of 17-over 593, followed by Houston in fourth place at 20-over 596 and LSU and Coastal Carolina in a tie for fifth place overall at 21-over 597 for the regional championship.
The No. 7-seeded Tennessee Volunteers are also poised for a strong finish to the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional as they will tee off Saturday morning seven shots out of fifth place in seventh place at 28-over 604.
"We were able to finish the round today," said LSU head coach Chuck Winstead following the round. "We're certainly better than the way we played yesterday. I think today was more representative of a typical round for our team on a hard golf course. We were certainly better than yesterday, but not as good as we need to be. We look forward to getting back out here for another round tomorrow.
"This thing's not over. It's the bottom of the sixth inning and we have three more innings to play, one more round, to come out here and compete and see how it goes."
Thompson fired a 1-under 71 and Jolly carded a 1-over 73 to lead the Tigers into the top five of the team standings on another difficult day of scoring at the University Club during Friday's second round.
Thompson raced out to a fast start on his round with back-to-back birdies on his first two holes of the day at the par-four 10th and par-five 11th holes to quickly drop to 2-under par. He then made the turn at even-par in his round while trading shots with birdies at the par-three 16th and par-five 17th holes along with bogeys at the par-three 13th and par-four 15th holes and a double bogey at the par-four 18th hole.
He dipped back into red figures on the front nine with a birdie at the par-four second hole before again trading shots with a bogey at the par-four seventh hole and a birdie at the par-four ninth hole to wrap up the day with a team-low score of 1-under par 71 in 18 holes. That performance vaulted Thompson into a tie for seventh place on the leaderboard with a 36-hole score of 2-over 146.
A sophomore from Coral Springs, Fla., Thompson has his sights set on a first top-10 finish in NCAA Regional competition in his second career regional appearance as an LSU Tiger.
"I played well today. I putted a lot better than yesterday," Thompson said. "I scrambled a little bit out there, but worked through it and made a few more birdies. It was all about getting the putts to fall. I made just one birdie yesterday, and today I made six. We certainly played better today. We'll be ready to come back out here and play again tomorrow."
After teeing off Friday morning in a tie for 32nd place on the leaderboard, Jolly's performance moved him into the Top 20 of the standings into a tie for 18th place overall with a 1-over 73 in the second round and a 5-over 149 in two days of action at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional. Jolly finds himself just three shots out of the Top 10 heading into Saturday's final round.
Jolly was steady throughout, carding a pair of birdies at the par-three eighth and par-five 11th holes along with a double bogey at No. 6 and a bogey at No. 12 en route to a 1-over par 73 for the afternoon.
Sophomore Myles Lewis and freshman Zach Wright have matched one another shot for shot at this year's NCAA Baton Rouge Regional while posting matching rounds of 4-over par 76 on Thursday and 3-over par 75 for Friday to tie one another for 27th place on the individual leaderboard at 7-over par 151 for the championship.
Junior All-SEC performer Andrew Presley rebounded from his 13-over 85 in the first round with a 4-over 76 in the second round to finish the day in a tie for 65th place at 17-over 161 for 36 holes.
One look at the top of the leaderboard tells the story of Florida's ascent to the top of the team standings after two rounds as All-America candidate TJ Vogel has fired rounds of 2-under 70 and 1-under 71 for a two-day total of 3-under par 141. Vogel owns a one-shot lead over Gator teammate Tyler McCumber (142) and a two-shot lead over teammate Eric Banks (141) in the race for medalist honors.
Alabama's Justin Thomas is also tied with Banks for third place at 1-under par 143 for the championship, while Crimson Tide teammate Justin Thomas and Northwestern's Nicholas Losole follow in a tie for fifth place for the weekend at 1-over par 145 heading into Saturday's final round at the University Club.
Losole is currently positioned to earn an NCAA Championships berth as an individual as the top individual finisher not among the top five teams will earn the right to compete at Atlanta's Capital City Club in two weeks.
The Tigers are paired with Houston and Coastal Carolina with Saturday's final round as they will tee off from the front nine beginning at 7:50 a.m. CT. Golfstat provide live scoring of the final round at www.golfstat.com. Fans can also receive live updates of the Tigers competing at the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional by following @LSUMensGolf on Twitter.
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Q: I'm wondering if there is a way to direct all of my calls to my voicemail without actually having to turn on Airplane Mode? I know there's a "Do Not Disturb" feature on the new iPhones, but as I understand it, that will also silence all of my other alarms and notifications for things like text messages. I still want to be able to receive text messages, but I'd like to sometimes be able to ignore incoming calls at times when I'm really busy. Any suggestions would be a big help. Thanks!
- Emily
A: While there's no built-in iOS feature to do this specifically, you can actually just use the standard Call Forwarding feature found on the iPhone and forward your calls directly to your voicemail number.
Voicemail on a mobile phone actually works by using a standard GSM feature known as no-answer/busy forwarding. This is a form of call forwarding that only applies when you don't answer the phone or it's busy or out of coverage. When you subscribe to voicemail from your carrier, this feature is automatically enabled to send the calls to the specific number for the carrier's voicemail service.
However, you can just as easily forward ALL of your calls to this number using the standard iPhone Call Forwarding feature. This will result in every call going straight to your voicemail, rather than only those calls you don't or can't answer.
The catch of course is finding the number for your carrier's voicemail, as it's not something most carrier's normally publish, and in fact most carriers often have multiple numbers, assigned to different geographic areas. The good news, however, is that on most GSM networks you can actually send a special query code to the cellular network to check the status of your call forwarding settings; to do this, simply go into the Phone app, and dial *#67# and tap the "Call" button.
You will see a status screen that should include a forwarding number listed for at least one of the "no answer" or "busy" transfer entries. This number is where your unanswered/busy calls get forwarded.
Write down this number and then go into your iPhone Settings app and select Phone, Call Forwarding, toggle on the call forwarding feature, and enter it as the number that you want to forward your calls to when prompted.
Once you've turned this on, a status indicator will appear at the top of the iPhone screen to indicate that Call Forwarding is enabled, and incoming calls will be sent directly to your voicemail without ringing your iPhone at all.
Since you're only forwarding incoming calls, however, you'll still be able to continue to use data service, receive text messages, and even place outgoing calls. When you want to begin receiving incoming calls again, simply toggle OFF the Call Forwarding option in your Settings app.
As an added bonus, the iPhone saves the last call forwarding number that you used, even after you turn call forwarding off, so you can easily re-enable this any time without needing to worry about entering the number again—simply toggle call forwarding back ON and it will use the same number you were forwarding to before. Should you wish to forward your calls elsewhere, you can still change the number once you've toggled on call forwarding simply by tapping on it and entering a new one.
Be aware that this may not work on all carriers. Although we've confirmed that it works on all of the major Canadian carriers as well as AT&T in the U.S., non-GSM carriers such as Verizon and Sprint use different methods for handling voicemail. It is also possible, although unlikely, that some foreign GSM carriers may use non-standard GSM feature codes or have these specific codes disabled for some reason.
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Regarding GSM codes, they should work on all GSM networks as they are universal codes. The only place it may not work is on some prepaid networks. Some prepaid offerings on GSM networks do not allow modification for forwarding and other GSM options.
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I want to forward this to my Google Voice Number, but not send it to voicemail. Is that possible?
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My iphone 5 is default forwarding all calls without ringing to voicemail. I cancel the fwd—repeatedly—(##002# on call pad) and after at most one call it defaults back to fwd option. A pain. Any idea about any other workaround how to turn off this voicemail fwding function?
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When we meet at the Cassandra Summit Europe, DataStax CTO Jonathan Ellis is fresh from announcing the online 'Java Development with Apache Cassandra' virtual training centre. Whilst the European Cassandra community is relatively small, judging from the buzz of positive feedback on the floor, we can expect it to grow at a robust pace in the next few years.
The Apache NoSQL database's future didn't always look so certain though. Developed by Facebook to power its Inbox feature, Cassandra went on to become one of its many open sourced projects. With a few exceptions (Thrift, for example), this is, according to Ellis, usually to to the detriment of the project, with the intention often more to demonstrate the power of the all-conquering Facebook devs machine than a genuine intention to grow and foster a community around it.
Enter Ellis, who at the time was looking to solve a file metadata conundrum for US company Mozy, centered on the fact that the Oracle database they were employing simply couldn't keep pace with their millions of users - a problem many businesses at the time were grappling with.
He told Rackspace that he was interested in building a scalable database, pointing out that, "More and more companies are building these web applications where that's the bottleneck". The upshot of this was a new role for Ellis, building a scalable database that Rackspace could use internally. In the process, he was tasked with evaluating the different NoSQL systems available at the time, which included MongoDB, Voldemort (remember them?), and of course, Cassandra.
Having handed the code and trademark of Cassandra to the Apache Foundation, Facebook had dusted off their hands and left the project to the mercy of the wild. At which point, Ellis went to Apache and said, "I've been maintaining this for a few months now, I've been dealing with bug reports and fixes and new features, so you should probably make me a committer and I can help you guys out". The rest, as they say, was history.
Unusually, Ellis found himself in the position of simultaneously building a community around the product as he was developing it. After working at Rackspace for a year and a half, he took the decision to form DataStax and take it "to the next level".
From the outset, DataStax had the objective of building a more interesting product on top of Cassandra, and, about a year and a half after its inception, the company released DataStax Enterprise 1.0. The product integrates analytics and search support on top of Cassandra, security features and ops centre integration, as well as the recent addition of DevCenter (more on that in a second), making it "really a full featured data platform on top of open source Cassandra".
Inspired by schema browsers and query tools in the relational world, Ellis is keen to emphasise that DevCenter is the first graphical query manager for a NoSQL product. Among other features, it allows users to connect to their local test centre, save scripts, and replay them later.
Breaking down 'NoSQL'
Although some may draw comparisons between Cassandra and other products in the sector, he notes that one of the current issues of flying under the NoSQL banner is that it can denote so many different permutations of the system.
"You've got graph databases, key value databases, document databases, document stores...And then you've got things like Cassandra, and we're like, "Hey, we're pretty relation-ish, we've got CQL, and we've got rows and columns, but we're also about scaling. We're not doing ACID transactions because that stops us from scaling the way we want to. There's a lot of different things in NoSQL".
Although Ellis believes that it was valuable early on in the NoSQL movement to be able to pin a concrete label on an Oracle alternative, and be able to show that "not every nail is fit for that hammer", the downside is that, "there are people saying, well, Cassandra and MongoDB, they're both NoSQL so they must be interchangeable at that level. Not really the case".
Well, for now at least. Ellis predicts a lot of consolidation in the NoSQL market moving forward, with clear market leaders and 'also rans' emerging in the next few years. For now, he believes MongoDB is more of a MySQL competitor, commenting that, "MySQL is owned by Oracle now, and at DataStax we're driving Cassandra at the high end of the Oracle market".
That being said, he is well aware that MongoDB will tell prospective clients that they can scale as well as Cassandra, something that he says is, "not true - but that's what they'd tell you. So there's definitely some competition looming on the horizon there, and at the same time, we're looking at making Cassandra easier to use and kind of moving into MondoDB's home turf there as well".
A battle with the world's most valuable (on paper at least) NoSQL providers might have some frantically diversifying - but Ellis is sticking to his guns. And having survived Facebook's absentee parentism, seen off a host of competitors, and fostered a whole new wave of Cassandra aficionados, DataStax might just be the one to watch to KO the mighty Mongo one day.


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text: The Mediterranean-diet staple gets all the buzz for being heart-healthy, but the fact is that canola is even better for your ticker. "Both oils contain beneficial monounsaturated fats, but canola has less saturated fat," says Lisa young, Ph.D., R.D., FITNESS advisory board member and author of The Portion Teller Plan. Plus, canola is versatile for cooking. It can be heated to a higher temperature than other oils before it smokes, and its mild flavor is just right for baking or for dressing a salad.


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In the early 1970s, a man of Icelandic descent became the successor to Berg Shipyard on the Blaine Harbor landfill. He named the family business the Westman Industrial Company, which previously had a few owners. At the time, the nearest neighbors were the Blaine Marina, CK Fish, Boundary Fish and the Harbor Cafe.
Until l989, Carl Westman, his wife Berdine and son Larry operated the company that engaged in boat repair and the manufacture of fishing equipment. The latter included purse seine net reels and hydraulic equipment, with customers flocking to his business from Kodiak, Dutch Harbor and up and down the Washington coast to Oregon.
"Berdine became the office manager while Larry assisted in the office and parts department," Westman said. "My wife was very outgoing while I am rather quiet and soft-spoken. With limited experience and training, she nevertheless did an outstanding job in helping our business to prosper."
"When you're the owner, you do practically everything," he continued. "You procure the jobs and supervise the construction and rebuilding of boats. We had mostly wooden boats to begin with and did almost all kinds of work on them. We shortened, lengthened, rebuilt, and did general repair on pleasure and commercial fishing boats, including shafting propellers, engine replacements and general overhauling."
Westman's major business came from Alaska, from crab fishermen, bottom fish and salmon boats. Vessels, however, came from all over the country – scallopers from Maine and Massachusetts and shrimp boats from Louisiana and Texas who reached Blaine Harbor via the Panama Canal.
In Blaine alone, there were 50 fishing boats. During peak years, Westman hired up to 32 employees on a seasonal basis. They included marine carpenters, welders and fabricators, electricians and hydraulic personnel. On average, the company employed 15 to 17 full-time employees who Westman still keeps in contact with and regards as close friends to this day.
After more than 15 years, Westman sold his business to Jack Dawson. "Bob Gudmundson is the primary owner now. It still operates under the name of Westman Marine, although I sold out and got out. I was 65-years-old and ready to retire," he smiled whimsically. "I could see the handwriting on the wall."
"The fishing industry has now diminished greatly. Fewer salmon are caught and there's the depletion of crab. Alaska Packers on the Semiahmoo spit had a great fleet of fishing vessels and hired approximately 100 people – all faded into history now. The shrimp from Kodiak is completely gone. I'm guessing, but I think there are only 10 commercial fishing vessels in Blaine and a similar downsizing in Bellingham as well."
Carl Westman was born in Bellingham and grew up in Marietta, five miles west of Bellingham, which he describes as 'a quaint little village right on the Nooksack River.' Both of his parents were born in Iceland. His father, Carl, came from an area near Husavik; his mother, Anita, from Djupogvur. He has a sister, Sigrid Powers, who resides in Bellingham.
After graduating from Bellingham high school, he attended Bellingham Normal School, now Western Washington University. In 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air Force and became a pilot on B-24s, completing 30 missions over Europe. He married his wife, the former Berdine Markwood of Bellingham, prior to release in 1945. She died in 1996 from cancer and other complications.
Following the war, Westman operated a service station business in Bellingham for a couple of years, then moved to Point Roberts in 1948 to manage The Breakers nightclub for five years. Returning to Bellingham, he started working at Weldcraft (Steel & Marine) Shipyard (now Northbound) and remained there 15 years, supervising the yard for 11 years. Prior to buying his business in Blaine, he started Post Point Industries, successor to PAF (a big salmon company) for four years.
Fifteen years ago, Carl Westman built an impressive home on Birch Point Drive at Birch Bay where he entertains often. The two-story, 3,000-square foot house, painted salmon pink, boasts two kitchens, upstairs and down, to cater to family reunions held at Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, Fourth of July as well as other gatherings. Once a month, he hosts Monday evening get-togethers with upwards to 20 friends for pot luck and programs involving poetry, videos, music and readings of short stories.
On Sunday, February 20, he hosted a potluck for the Icelandic Heritage Society, a membership of 15 from Point Roberts and Blaine. Jerry Gay, Pulitzer prize-winning photographer, chaired the meeting. "There are probably 6,000 Icelandic descendants in our area at this time," Westman said.
"I have been to Iceland three times. The first time I camped out with friends and cousins all around the island, which is about the size of the state of Washington with a population of approximately 270,000. The scenery is so unusual and beautiful. Land there to the south is very verdant and green with unusual glacier formations and hundreds upon thousands of migratory birds."
"Reykjavik, the capitol, is quite modern. The whole city is heated by thermal energy and has one of the highest standards of living in the world. It also has the highest literacy and the oldest parliamentary form of government in the world."
Westman maintains his home without assistance and is an avid gardener. His front garden is one of the show places along the bay waterfront in Birch Bay.


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In this Monday, Nov., 23, 1998, file photo, Byron Looper talks to his attorney Lionel Barrett in court during Looper's murder trial in Crossvile, Tenn. State correctional officials say Looper, a Tennessee inmate serving a life sentence for the murder of state Sen. Tommy Burks, was found dead in his cell in the Morgan County Correctional Complex, Wednnesday, June 26, 2013.Photo by Associated Press /Chattanooga Times Free Press.
A preliminary autopsy report reveals Byron "Low Tax" Looper died after a "heart event," but his family is seeking an independent autopsy.
After state officials released Looper's body Friday afternoon, his former attorney, McCracken Poston, said Looper's family has taken the body to Georgia for a second autopsy.
"There are so many stories. I believe that an independent autopsy is justified," Poston said.
Looper, a notorious figure in Tennessee politics, was found dead in his East Tennessee prison cell Wednesday. He was serving a life sentence for assassinating his political opponent, Sen. Tommy Burks, 15 years ago. Looper legally changed his middle name to "Low Tax" during one of his unsuccessful runs for office.
Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Kristin Helm said the autopsy report indicted Looper had a "heart event," but she wouldn't say whether agents have ruled out foul play.
"TBI will await the final autopsy before concluding the death investigation and turning it over to the district attorney general," she said Friday afternoon.
A prison incident report shows Looper assaulted a pregnant female counselor and had to be restrained nearly two hours before he was found dead in his prison cell.
Poston said Looper's family was told a different story.
He said an assistant warden at the Morgan County Correctional Complex told a Looper family member that Looper touched the arm of a female counselor and that he was taken to solitary confinement, where a nurse went to him an hour later to address a head wound he had received.
Department of Correction Commissioner Derrick Schofield asked the TBI to investigate Looper's death.
State officials then took the news to the Burks family.
Kim Blaylock, Tommy Burks' daughter, said officials came to her Putnam County office. They were looking for her mother, state Sen. Charlotte Burks, who beat Looper for her late husband's Senate seat in 1998 and has served since.
Tommy Burks, a popular lawmaker who served in the Tennessee Legislature for 28 years, was found shot to death in his truck, and Looper was convicted of first-degree murder.
"We've gotten a lot of hugs the last couple days and words of encouragement," Blaylock said. "People saying: 'You guys can finally have some closure.'"
Poston said Looper's mother and brother had to find out about their son and brother's death through news reports.
"This is shameful," Poston said. "We must demand of our government the humane treatment of prisoners, regardless of their unpopularity."
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An important goal of the Honors Program is to foster in its students an ability and interest in taking both "a wider view and a deeper look" with respect to their academic work. One of the ways this is done is through the use of contemplative practices in the classroom. The Honors Curriculum has been designed to include such practices in the sophomore seminar though its employment of contemplative practice. Senior honors seminars often also incorporate contemplative practice as an implicit part. The contemplative component seeks to bring together the traditional University classroom's (important!) ability to objectify knowledge with contemplation's ability to put the subject back into the picture and thereby enable objective knowledge to work in the world in more full ways.
Beth Wadham is Academic Associate at the Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education. The Center supports the emergence of a broad culture of contemplation in education and the development of contemplative pedagogy, research methodology and epistemology that will be of value to students, teachers and researchers. Wadham says the contemplative movement is a growing movement and that it is an emerging pedagogy innovation. "We are seeing more Yoga and Reflective Writing," she says, "Contemplation is no longer "fringe", it is now more available and more mainstream."
Marquette, she pointed out, is unique because it received a Program Development Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Unlike Marquette, many prestigious universities have been given single teaching grants for specific professors to use contemplative inquiry in their methods of research. The Marquette Honors Program, on the other hand, was given a grant to incorporate contemplation into the entire curriculum.
As part of this initiative, The Honors Program invited other Marquette faculty to participate in what started out as a year-long initiative consisting of a retreat, monthly conversations, and two grant-sponsored lectures. Two experts in the area of contemplation accepted invitations to come to Marquette and participate in several events with the Honors Program students: In Fall 2007, Thomas Keating, author, teacher, monk and founding member of the Spirituality branch of Integral Institute and in Spring 2008, Richard Davidson, Director, W. M. Keck Laboratory For Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior. Through this initiative, the Honors Program has been able to expand the number of courses featuring contemplative pedagogies at Marquette.


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"A Study of the effects of Sensory Sate on Rhesus Monkey Posture"
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
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Everyday life depends on both the posture and balance needed to maintain stability in that without them we risk falls that result in severe injury. For patients suffering from vestibular (equilibrium) dysfunction, maintaining balance in situations where visual or somatosensory cues are limited can prove difficult. For example, walking at night on an uneven, compliant surface could prove dangerous or, in some instances, fatal for a vestibular loss patient. Thus, development of invasive vestibular prostheses could assist in providing the cues necessary for postural stability of vestibulopathic patients. This presentation addresses the characterization of postural control for the rhesus monkey for various sensory states (i.e. normal, both mild and severe vestibular loss, and severe vestibular loss assisted by a prototype vestibular prosthesis).
Rhesus monkey posture was characterized by use of a balance platform, equipped with tri-directional force sensors, and by motion sensors affixed to the animal's head and torso. Three paradigms were used to quantify postural response: 1) quiet stance, wherein the balance platform was static 2) head turns to illuminated targets, and 3) for a dynamic, roll-tilt input applied to the balance platform. It was determined that, in comparison to the normal postural response, mild vestibular ablation led to stiffening compensation which could decrease sway, however, more severe vestibular ablation led to increased sway. Also, in comparing severe vestibular ablated responses to those assisted by prosthetic stimulation, it was determined that the prosthesis had an effect on high frequency motions (e.g. head turns). By understanding the effects of implementing the implant in a non-human primate (i.e. rhesus monkey), hypotheses regarding the effects of an invasive vestibular implant in the human were formed for future testing.
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