While the capsule is traveling through the tract, the patient wears a wireless recorder belt around his or her waist. ... The advantage of the belt is that it allows patients to do their daily tasks during the time that the capsule is taking images of their GI tract. ... They will then fasten their belt, which contains the recorder and the antenna, and finally swallow the pill. ... The Given belt and the recording system are then returned back to the clinic or the patients' physician. ... However, the safety of the capsule has not yet been tested on pregnant women and although it ...

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The man who got a shower first would polish the belt buckle while the other was in the shower. One night while I was on fire watch I strapped my belt to the washer machine and set it on the spin cycle. ... About two nights before graduation I was doing my fire watch duty while polishing my belt buckle and wouldn't you know the washer machine ate my buckle right out of my hand! ... I put the machine back together with no tools, went to Cooper's bunk, woke him up and said "Dude, I lost my belt buckle. ... This training took about a week and a half and would help ensure our safe...

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Milton Wright, their father, presented a rubberband-powered flying toy to the boys. The toy fascinated them and sparked their lifelong interest in flight, Instead of falling to the floor, as we expected, it flew across the room till it struck the ceiling, where it fluttered awhile, and finally sank...

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Mothering the Mother: An ethnography on the hospital room during childbirth This paper is an examination of the roles, environments, and relationships inside a hospital labor and delivery room. I have volunteered as a doula or childbirth coach since January of 2001. I was drawn to this type of ...

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SEATTLE Welcome to Seattle! This paper will give the reader an detailed look at many important aspects of the city and what its like there. We will be looking at everything from the arts scene to the political structure to economy and current industries, and much more. There's a lot to cover so le...

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With the quincentennial of Columbus's "discovery" of America upon us, it now is, perhaps more than ever, an appropriate time to reevaluate the actions of the European explorers who subjugated the Native American peoples and their civilizations. Undoubtedly the most glorified and heroically portrayed of these figures of the European conquest of the New World were the conquistadores, the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century. These men, under leaders such as Hernan Cortes and Francisco Pizarro, nearly eliminated the Aztec and Inca peoples. Surely many of these soldiers w...

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Frodo wakes in the house of Elrond in Rivendell. Gandalf is beside him and he tells the Hobbit that his friends are all safe. The wizard knows about most of their journey because the Hobbit has been talking in his sleep. Gandalf was delayed and could not guide them because he was held captive. Frodo thanks him for the help of Strider. ...

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Child abuse is a global problem that is deeply rooted in cultural, economic and social practices. It is a state of emotional, physical, economic and sexual maltreatment meted out to a person below the age of eighteen and is a globally prevalent phenomenon. However, in India, as in many other countri...

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Starbucks Coffee Company is North America's leading roaster and retailer of specialty coffees. Headquartered in Seattle, WA, Starbucks has 931 retails stores and 75 major airport locations. The Company's objective is to establish Starbucks as the most recognized and respected brand of coffee in the world. To achieve this goal, the Company will continue to rapidly expand its retail operations, grow its mail order and specialty sales operations, and selectively pursue other opportunities to leverage and grow the Starbucks brand through the introduction of new ...

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