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PUNXSUTAWNEY ŌĆö For the first time, the Punxsutawney Fire DepartmentŌĆÖs Old Home Week Committee will welcome a free concert by country-rock band RidinŌĆÖ Shotgun, which will perform at 7 p.m. tonight at the carnival grounds behind the west side of the Punxy Plaza.
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Easterton gran amazes medics after heart stops for 45 minutes (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)
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Easterton gran amazes medics after heart stops for 45 minutes
4:00pm Thursday 21st March 2013 in News
Gran Carol Brothers whose heart stopped beating for 45 minutes has amazed medics with her recovery.
Doctors at the Royal United Hospital, Bath, thought there was no hope for Mrs Brothers, 63, of Easterton and her family agreed for medication to be withdrawn so she could die peacefully.
But, to the astonishment of everyone, three days later Mrs Brothers rallied and she was discharged from hospital three weeks later.
Mrs Brothers met the crew of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance and Wiltshire Police helicopter who treated her before she was flown to the RUH after she suffered a cardiac arrest on February 1.
She was returning to her home in Oak Lane with her daughter, Maxine Dick-inson, after a shopping trip when she collapsed.
Mrs Dickinson, 43, phoned 999 and following instructions from the ambulance telephone operator began CPR on her mother until neighbours, Brian and Doris Murray and Sue Amann, came to assist.
A community first responder arrived shortly afterwards and did CPR and used a defibrillator on Mrs Brothers. A paramedic in a car and an ambulance also arrived as did the Wiltshire Air Ambulance and took over.
Air ambulance crew Matt Baskerville, paramedic, PC Kev Reed, police observer, and George Lawrence, pilot, did CPR and Mr Baskerville intubated Mrs Brothers and used a defibrillator on her.
The Great Western Air Ambulance, based in Filton near Bristol, sent a critical care doctor to the scene who sedated Mrs Brothers. It was 45 minutes after she suffered the arrest that her heart started beating.
The Wiltshire Air Ambul-ance flew her to the RUH where she went into the Critical Care Unit. She did not regain consciousness and three days later her family was told the outlook was bleak.
Mrs Dickinson, of Ryeleaze, Potterne, said: "The doctors called us in to say there was minimal brain activity and the kindest thing to do would be to withdraw medications.
"They said she wasn't going to pull through and we agreed to put her on the pathway to die."
Mrs Brothers' distraught family including her husband of 46 years, Dave, had reconciled themselves to the fact she was not going to survive.
But three days after that a nursing auxiliary alerted the doctors when Mrs Brothers opened her eyes.
Mrs Dickinson said: "I was visiting that afternoon and the doctor called me to a side room and said 'I don't know how to tell you this but your mum is not going to die. We have got to reverse the decision.'
"I just broke down in tears. I couldn't believe it. It was absolutely fantastic news.
"The doctors said they would try and answer my questions but they said it was such a rarity.
"I went to see mum and she spoke three words in a faint whisper. She said 'I'm coming home.' That was the first time she hadspoken since she was brought into the hospital."
Mrs Dickinson told her father the good news when she returned home that evening. Mr Brothers, 64, and a retired building hire worker, said: "I couldn't get my head around it when Maxine told me.
"The previous night I had been in tears thinking Carol was going to die."
Mrs Brothers, a retired poultry worker, was discharged on February 28.
She has not suffered any brain damage but has some short-term memory loss, is on medication and is
regaining her strength.
She has had a defibrillator fitted inside her chest.
Mrs Brothers, who also has two sons and eight grandchildren, said: "It hasn't sunk in, it's just amazing and thanks to the air ambulance crew, my neighbours and Bath hospital."
Air ambulance paramedic Mr Baskerville said: "Carol's recovery is amazing. At the time we didn't think her chances were very good, 45 minutes is a long time without a heartbeat.
"I tproves what an asset the Wiltshire Air Ambulance is, without people raising the money for it we wouldn't be able to help patients like Carol."
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With Stoyanovich's errant 48-yard field goal attempt in the closing seconds of the divisional playoff game in San Diego, the 1994 season landed on the scrap heap of Dolphin disappointments.
"I thought that was the team that could actually get Danny to the Super Bowl and win it for him,'' said O.J. McDuffie, a second-year receiver that season. "It was just a tough year. A lot of really good players and not a lot of really good results at the end of the day."
The final game was a mirror of a season that started with spectacular promise but ultimately unraveled.
The star-crossed 1994 season began with Marino passing for 473 yards and five touchdowns to defeat New England in his first game after missing most of 1993 with a ruptured Achilles tendon. Marino would go on to become the NFL's Comeback Player of the Year after throwing for 4,453 yards and 30 touchdowns.
Along the way he authored one of his signature moments with the now-famous "clock play" to complete a comeback victory against the New York Jets. With time running out and the Dolphins trailing by one point, Marino faked a clock-stopping spike into the ground that would have set up a field goal attempt and instead fired a surprise pass to Mark Ingram for the winning touchdown.
Defensive tackle Tim Bowens won the Defensive Rookie of the Year award. But as often happened during Marino's storied career, the Dolphins' defense and running game couldn't provide enough support to get him back to the Super Bowl.
"I think that '94 team was the best Dolphin team I played on," defensive end Jeff Cross said. "I know for that team, watching that Super Bowl was tough."
After a win over Kansas City in the first playoff game, Marino led the Dolphins to a 21-6 lead in San Diego with three touchdown passes. But the defense couldn't stop the Chargers in the second half. San Diego scored a touchdown with 35 seconds to go to take a one-point lead.
When the final drive stalled, hope rested with Stoyanovich, who had 11 game-winning kicks and in 1991 kicked a 58-yard field goal that still stands as a playoff record. But the high snap disrupted Stoyanovich's timing, and the kick never had a chance. Season over.
"It was very hurtful and it certainly was a down point in my career," said Stoyanovich, who owns a sports bar with his brother in Canton, Mich. "I think I'd make that kick nine out of 10 times. I just wish I had another crack at it."
The Chargers lost to San Francisco in the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, the failure of 1994 was the beginning of the end for another Dolphins legend, Don Shula, who coached one more season before retiring.
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House Jackson, age twelve, star pitcher and team captain of the Aurora County All-Stars, has a secret. For the past year, while sidelined with a broken elbow, he has spent every afternoon at the bedside of a mysterious old man the other kids call Mean-Man Boyd-and he doesn't want anyone to know. Now House is finally ready to play ball again, but his teams biggest (and ONLY) game of the year might be canceled, thanks to the very girl who caused his broken elbow. Its almost too much to bear. But in the standoff that ensues, House finds a courage he didn't know he possessed-and discovers that just about everyone in Aurora County, Mississippi, has a secret.
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Diplomatic officials told Korean paper The Chosunilbo they would have a difficult time protecting Kim on a train, plus there would be larger backlogs wherever the train went. Kim's father, Kim Jong-il, is understood to have a "morbid fear of flying" that has sent him to China via train eight times since 2000. So fearful is Kim Sr that he reportedly skipped air transport for a 21 day train trek to Moscow.
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Hezbollah official says Iran's nuclear program is designed to 'finish off' Israel. According to the Times of Israel, a Hezbollah minister of parliament, Wa-lid Sa-ka-ri-ya, told Lebanese television that the nuclear weapon Iran is developing is intended to annihilate Israel. In a segment translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute, Sa-ka-ri-ya told his interviewer that if Iran acquired a nuclear weapon it would serve Syrian as well as Iranian interests, namely the eradication of the Jewish state.
Monsoon rains kill scores of people in the Philippines. According to Reuters, The Philippines began a massive clean-up after floods swept the capital and nearby provinces, forcing residents to wade through shoulder-deep waters in some places after nearly two weeks of monsoon rains killed 91 people.Power, water and communications services were restored as floodwaters started to recede, allowing many to return home to fix their houses. Nearly 300,000 people remained in temporary shelters.
Indonesian government closes another church. According to The Jakarta Globe, yet another church has been sealed off by authorities on the grounds of local opposition. Congregants were prevented from holding services in the St. Johannes Baptista Church. A spokesman for the church said they were still in talks with the government to restore access to their property.
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A Crofton woman testified Wednesday in the murder trial of lover that she tried casting "Wiccan spells" to compel the man to contact her after police searched her home following the death of a Frederick man, says WBAL TV.
The Frederick News-Post reports that Dara Dillree testified in Annapolis that she had tried the magic as a way to make Michael Stahlnecker of Crofton contact her. He is charged with first-degree murder in the 2012 shooting death of John Ryan of Frederick.
Stahlnecker has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
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They also found a voicemail from Dillree, telling Stahlnecker, "You'd better think about marrying me." Dillree denies she was referring to the spousal privilege of refusing to testify.
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Each year, Berklee presents more than 1,500 concerts and events at venues on campus and in the Boston area, showcasing student, faculty, alumni and outside professional acts.
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A master class/clinic with the great maestro Padma Vibhushan Pandit Birju Maharaj, who will perform and give a lecture/demonstration on kathak, the North Indian classical style of dance.
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Join us for the fourth annual Rock Enroll event to raise scholarship funding that will help one gifted student entering Berklee pursue a career as a rock musician.
Home Away From Home: The Music of Ayn Inserto and Jeff Claassen
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The Ayn Inserto Jazz orchestra will return to Berklee to perform music from Inserto's latest CD, Home Away from Home, recorded by the Italian group the Colours Jazz Orchestra. The music encompassess a realm of arrangements and original compositions with some Italian influences, different orchestration, and settings that were tailored specifically for the Colours Jazz Orchestra. New music by Inserto and Jeff Claassen will be performed, showcasing their new explorations of different timbres and genres. The instrumentation is a traditional jazz big band (the Ayn Inserto Jazz Orchestra) with some modern sounds. The ensemble will include faculty members Allan Chase, Jeff Claassen, Mark Zaleski, and staff member Randy Pingrey.
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Rogerio Boccato brings his Ritmica clinic back to Berklee, followed by a performance of the After Bossa Nova Project, "re-composing" some of the best music written by the After Bossa Nova generation.
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This concert features Guitar Department faculty in solo and duo contexts. Department chair Larry Baione and assistant chair Kim Perlak will share the stage with colleagues who perform in blues, rock, funk, jazz, and acoustic styles.
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Neil Byrne and Ryan Kelly will be making a return to Boston with an acoustic show featuring music from their album Acoustically Irish, fan favorites, and original tunes from their solo albums.
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Jeremy Guthrie has restructured his deal with the Kansas City Royals, according to Joel Sherman of The New York Post.
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Under the new arrangement, Guthrie will earn $8 million in 2014, $9 million in 2015, and has a mutual option worth $10 million for the 2016 season that includes a $3.2 million buyout.
Basically, the money has been redistributed. Guthrie is guaranteed approximately the same amount, and since mutual options are rarely agreed to by both sides, the length of the deal will likely stay the same as well. In other words, Guthrie will make $3 million less in 2014, but he'll see at least that that amount in the form of a buyout prior to the 2016 season.
Guthrie, 34, has started 47 games for the Royals since being traded by the Rockies for Jonathan Sanchez in 2012. He's posted a 3.78 ERA in 302⅔ innings for Kansas City in that stretch.
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UNDATED (KTHV) -- On Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., at Verizon Arena in North Little Rock, Arkansas, Leadership Arkansas will present Women Can! 2014, "empowering the professional woman."
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The present invention relates to a device for determining the correct lengths of standardized components of a dental implant system in situ in the oral cavity. The device comprises an elongate gauge body being provided with circumferential dark bands located at predetermined distances from each other and having predetermined widths, the areas between said darker bands having a pronouncedly lighter color, each boundary line between lighter and darker bands corresponding to one specific, standardized component.
1. A surgical instrument for use in the surgical procedure for implanting in the upper jaw bone of a patient a dental implant system of the type which includes a fixture component selected from a set of standard fixture components having different predetermined insertion lengths, the surgical instrument presenting an elongate depth gauge body for insertion in a forward direction into a bore provided in the upper jaw bone for receipt of the fixture component extending forwardly from an entrance opening in the oral cavity to an exit opening in the sinusoidal cavity, wherein the depth gauge body has a shaft portion on which there is provided a series of bands of alternate contrasting color and predetermined widths and a transversely extending button portion connected to a forward end of the shaft portion which is adapted to hook onto the edge of the exit opening in the sinusoidal cavity and wherein the boundary lines between adjacent bands on the shaft portion are so positioned on the shaft portion that when the button portion has been hooked on the edge of the exit opening the positions of the boundary lines relative to the entrance opening of the bore indicate which fixture from the set has the correct predetermined insertion length for receipt in the bore.
2. An instrument according to claim 1, wherein the outer peripheral surface of the depth gauge body is coated with a thin layer of titanium nitride (TiN) and wherein the bands of dark color are bands of laser etched titanium nitride.
3. A method of manufacturing a surgical instrument according to claim 1, the method including the steps of:
(i) forming the depth gauge body from a metal selected from the group consisting of surgical grade stainless steel, surgical grade carbon steel, titanium and titanium alloys;
(ii) coating the outer peripheral surface of the depth gauge body with a thin layer of titanium nitride (TiN) by chemical vapor deposition until the outer peripheral surface of the depth gauge body obtains a permanent bright color; and
(iii) etching the outer peripheral surface of the depth gauge body with a laser beam so as to produce a plurality of dark bands on the outer peripheral surface of the depth gauge body of predetermined widths and spacing.
This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/963,350, filed on Nov. 3, 1997 now U.S. Pat. No. 6,033,218, which is a continuation of Ser. No. 08/424,415, filed on Apr. 26, 1995 now U.S. Pat. No. 5,685,713, which is a 371 of PCT/SE93/00870, filed Oct. 25, 1993.
The present invention relates to a device for determining the correct lengths in situ of standardized components of a dental implant system to be used in the oral cavity, more particularly to a device for measuring the depth of holes drilled or bored into the jaw bone for the subsequent insertion of fixtures for dental prostheses as well as to a device for facilitating the correct choice of an abutment for bridging the soft tissue around the hole and to be mounted on a fixture inserted into said hole. The invention also relates to a method for treating said device.
A system for dental prostheses commonly used today comprises a more or less cylindrical fixture which is inserted into a bore-hole drilled into the uncovered jawbone. The system further comprises a conical abutment or pillar, intended to carry the prosthesis, which is to be attached to the fixture, thus bridging the layer of soft tissue covering the jawbone. The abutment is complementary to a conical bore in the top of the fixture. The abutment is provided in several standard lengths in order to allow the correct choice of abutment in dependence of the thickness of the soft tissue around the implant site after implantation.
The choice of the correct abutment is very important inter alia for esthetic reasons. This choice may however be time-consuming and may also be troublesome for the patient. There thus is a need for a tool which facilitates the choice of abutment and which is simple to use and to read in the environment of the oral cavity.
It may also be difficult to chose the correct fixture which is to fit into the hole drilled into the bone. It is important that the fixture is flush with the uncovered bone tissue or slightly below the edge of the bore-hole.
Generally, when implants are fitted into bone tissue, different kinds of metallic surgical tools are used to prepare the site in the tissue where the implant is to be located. These tools normally are made of carbon steel (normally in disposable tools) or surgical grade stainless steel or titanium or titanium alloys (normally in non-disposable tools).
In some cases it may be advantageous if at least the surface of the tools are covered with a material which is more biocompatible than the material in the tool even if the tool is not to remain in the bone tissue for a long period of time.
If the tool is not of an inert material as regards the chemical environment prevalent in bone tissue and blood, some slight contaminations may affect the sides of the bore hole. These contaminants might possibly affect the so-called osseointegration process which seems to be very important in connection with bone implants and which seems to be sensitive in respect of contaminants.
Another prerequisite for a good osseointegration is a good, stable fit between bone tissue and implants, the osseointegration being dependent on a close contact between bone tissue and implant surface. When a bore-hole for an implant has been drilled, it therefore is important that the length of the bore-hole corresponds as closely as possible to the length of the implant chosen.
If the bore-hole in the jaw-bone should happen to be too shallow for the implant which has been deemed to be suitable in a specific location in the oral cavity, it is important to be able to ascertain this in advance, because of the trauma to the bone tissue that might be the consequence of the implant first being screwed into the bore-hole and then being unscrewed again. If it is vital that the implant chosen actually is used in this specific location, the threads in the bore also might be damaged by the necessary, additional drilling procedure.
The above object is achieved in that said device comprises an elongate body being provided with circumferential dark bands located at predetermined distances from each other and having pre-determined widths, the areas between said darker bands having a pronouncedly lighter colour, each boundary line between lighter and darker bands corresponding to one specific, standardized component.
In a preferred embodiment said darker bands have been etched, by means of a laser beam, in a layer of brightly coloured titanium nitride covering the surface of the device, or, in case the device is made by titanium or titanium alloy, the bands may be etched directly in the titanium surface.
Further advantageous embodiments of the invention are set forth in the dependent claims.
FIG. 1 illustrates one side of preferred embodiment of a combined device in accordance with the invention,
FIG. 2 shows the other side of the device in FIG. 1,
FIG. 3 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the device for determining the length of an abutment to be used,
FIG. 4 shows the preferred embodiment of a device for determining the depth of a bore-hole in the jaw-bone,
FIG. 5 a detail of the device in FIG. 4.
As can be seen in FIGS. 1 and 2, a preferred embodiment of the invention comprises a body 1 or abutment gauge for determining the correct length of an abutment, a body 2 or fixture gauge for determining the depth of a hole drilled into the jawbone and a handle 3 joining the two gauge bodies. The gauges are angled relative to the handle in order to facilitate the use of the tool or device in the oral cavity. FIG. 1 further illustrates that one side of the handle is provided with numerals 4 indicating the lengths of the different standard fixtures and FIG. 2 illustrates the markings on the other side of the handle corresponding to the different sizes of abutments.
FIGS. 3 and 7 show the construction and use of the abutment gauge in more detail. As can be seen in FIG. 3, the lower part 5 of the abutment gauge has a conical or tapering shape which corresponds exactly to the shape of the lower part 6 of an abutment 7 (FIG. 7). The upper part of the abutment gauge is provided with circumferential dark bands 10. The bands 10 are spaced equidistantly over the body of the gauge. As indicated by the chain of measurements 11, the distance between the bands and the width of the bands in this particular case is 1.5 mm. Each boundary line will correspond to a specific length of the cylindrical part 9 of the abutments 7.
The free end of the lower part 5 may be provided with a relatively short, cylindrical projection having a rounded end which preferably is hemispherical. The cylindrical part of the projection is complementary to a cylindrical continuation of the conical bore in the fixture 8 and will by these means ensure a correct orientation of the lower part 5 when this part is inserted into the fixture. The rounded part of the projection will facilitate the insertion of the abutment gauge into the conical bore of the fixture.
As can be seen in FIG. 7, the conical part of the abutment gauge 1 is inserted in the fixture 8, which is located in a bore-hole in the bone tissue of the jaw-bone 12. The thickness of the softtissue covering the jaw-bone 12 can be measured against an adjacent boundary line between a dark band and a light band, allowing the correct choice of an abutment for this particular fixture. The titanium nitride has a bright yellow colour and the darker bands are almost black, and consequently a very distinct level indication is given at each boundary line between darker bands and lighter areas. This level indication will be very easy to read in the conditions prevalent in the oral cavity regarding for instance light and available space. It should be noted that the contrast between the darker bands and the lighter bands on a titanium gauge also is sufficient to give the above, distinct level indication.
The details of the fixture gauge and its use are illustrated in FIGS. 4, 5 and 6. As indicated in FIG. 4, the fixture gauge comprises an elongate, conically tapering rod 15 which at its free end is provided with a transversely oriented plate or button 16 which is seen in more detail in FIG. 5.
As indicated by means of the chain of measurements 17, a dark band 18 having a width of 1 mm is located at a distance of 8 mm from the tip of the rod 2. Each following dark band 19, 20, 21 is separated from the adjacent band by means of a space having a width of exactly 2 mm. Again, a very distinct level indication is given at each boundary line,between darker bands and lighter areas. The button 16 also has a defined thickness, in this case 1 mm.
The fixture gauge is inserted into an uncovered bore-hole 14 in the jaw-bone 12, the button 16 being slid along the side-wall of the hole until it reaches the corner formed by the side-wall and the bottom of the hole (the bottom of the hole normally being slightly conical due to the shape of the drills normally used) and the depth of the hole is read against the bands of the gauge, allowing the correct fixture to be chosen. If there should be any doubt whether the corner has been reached, this can be checked by moving the gauge to the middle of the hole. The difference in depth should not be more than maximally 0.4 mm with regard to the specific fixture diameters used in the above system.
The button is particularly important when holes in the upper jaw are measured. These holes may some times extend into the sinusoidal cavity, and in this case it is important to measure the thickness of the bone tissue. This may be done by hooking the button on the edge of the hole in the cavity and reading the thickness of the bone tissue at the edge of the hole in the oral cavity against the bands on the rod, taking into account that exactly 1 mm should be subtracted from the measurement obtained due to the thickness of the button.
Bone implants may also be relatively smooth instead of being provided with threads. This kind of implants may be carefully tapped into place in a borehole in the bone, which bore-hole may have a slightly narrower diameter than the implant, by means of a small hammer. However carefully this is done, there always is a risk that the fixture may be pushed too far down into the hole if the hole does not exactly correspond to the fixture. The fixture gauge according to the invention thus may be particularly useful in this case, since it may be difficult to extricate an implant which has been pushed too far down into a hole.
These problems might also arise if the bore-hole is too shallow for the implant since the act of extrication per se might cause a trauma to the walls of the bore-hole which might have a deleterious influence on the osseointegration process.
If the surface of the bone into which the fixture is to be inserted is obliquely oriented relative to the longitudinal direction of the hole, the above-mentioned boundarys on the fixture gauge will also serve as indexes on a ruler for measuring the difference in level between the edges of the bore-hole and will consequently be very useful when determining how deep the hole has to be in order to house the implant correctly in relation to the oblique surface of the bone.
The device according to the invention can be treated by the following steps:
a) coating the gauge with a thin layer of titanium nitride (TiN) by means of chemical vapour deposition until the drill obtains a bright permanent colour,
b) etching circumferential bands with pre-determined widths being located at pre-determined distances from each other around the outer surface of the body by means of a laser beam, the bands thus being dark and sharply defined.
In case the gauge is made of titanium or titanium alloys, the darker bands may be laser-etched directly in the titanium surface. It is however also quite within the scope of the invention to cover a gauge made of titanium or an alloy thereof with TiN and etching the bands therein.
The use of a laser beam has the advantage that the boundary lines will be very sharp and well defined and that the contrast between darker and lighter areas will be high.
The etched areas will remain essentially smooth in spite of the treatment, which ensures that there will be no rough areas on the device upon which contaminants easily will adhere.
It should be emphasized that the invention is not limited to the embodiment described above and can be varied in many ways within the scope of the appended claims.
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