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Days after Young Money's Drake spent a memorable night with one-time girlfriend Rihanna at a Houston strip club, the hip-hop artist has gone a step further by tattooing the popular city onto his body.
The Young Money stud posted a photo of his new ink job onto image-sharing social network Instagram this week.
Drake puts his love for Houston in ink…so you know it's real. Yesterday, the Toronto rapper celebrated November 18 with a brand new "H" tattoo in homage for H-Town. "November 18th H Town" he captioned under his new body art which features a shaded star. The date holds a special place in Drake's heart. His song "November 18th" from So Far Gone is an ode to H-Town and a nod to the late DJ Screw's famous "June 27." "Yeah, one time for the homie DJ Screw/Already, I'm feeling throwed in this b—-h," Drake says on the track, which has become a fan favorite. (RapFix)
Earlier this year, Drizzy paid homage to a couple of late family members with tattoos.
Is this week "Young Money's National Get Tatted Week"??, first Lil Wayne gets a tat on his forehead, now Drake gets one across his back, however Drake's is more sensible. The rapper is showing respect to a couple of family members in the form of new ink. Drake went under the needle in honor of his uncle and grandmother. The images tattooed on his back, of his uncle who he credits for a lot of his success and his grandmother Evelyn Sher, who helped raised him, she recently passed away thanksgiving of 2012. Drake has shown his appreciation for them before on a track titled "Look what you've done" off his "Take Care" album. (Gossip Daily)
A couple years ago, Drizzy added late R&B icon Aaliyah to his body.
Drake may have the flimsiest hand in Hip-Hop, yet the rapper keeps a firm grip as he flexes in this new gym shot. The Young Money superstar has been working up a sweat as he prepares to take his 'Club Paradise' tour on the road, sharing his progress with fans on picture platform, Instagram. Kudos on the svelte physique, but those tattoo's (Aaliyah one included). No. (That Grape Juice)
Recently, West Coast rapper Game talked about turning his butterfly facial tattoo into a Los Angeles symbol.
"You know what, when I was growing up, if you did something within the confines of the gang you were from, and you were able to get a tattoo in a certain space and I don't know, I thought that reward was pretty cool. So I got my first tattoo, which was the tear drop, for doing the wrong thing and after that it was tattoo after tattoo. I probably got about 100. Over 100. [The face tattoo?] I really, really was an idiot at that point in my life. It's a star with 'LA', putting on for my city." ("Larry King Now")
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In this fast changing world of transformation, digital transformation, the rules of business are being changed before our eyes due to the impact of mobile technologies, Big Data, social media, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, etc. The strategies of yesteryear are no longer delivering wins. Think banking, retailing, education, taxi services and social media. The world is transformed and we all need to be studying the emerging lessons of the winners. My colleagues at Cognizant's Center for the Future of Work, have just published a book on these new rules of business called Code Halos, it is available on Amazon and bookstores now.
My friend, business and technology design guru, Mike Clark, shares his perspective here on some of the key challenges companies face when attempting digital transformation.
Digital transformation is changing the face of business. Established household names are now battling new online and mobile start-ups, and in some cases competing against their customers. Products are no longer the key differentiator, rather it is the ecosystem. Organisations that recognize and act decisively on this will be in a position to win.
Organizations are not Designed for Adaptive Change
Most established organizations are not designed for an adaptive digital environment. Rigid processes and silo-based business functions make quick adaptive change based on the needs of the business a big challenge. The abilities which are required to make digital transformations possible are delayed, or in some cases undelivered due to the business' operating model which is not designed to deliver incremental integrated changes.
The Gap Between Risk vs. Reward Impacting Adoption
The move to a digital world makes the business case for new ideas difficult for management to quantify. Senior management in most cases are still trying to understand what digital means, which impacts not only decision-making, but also organizational adoption. Customers who have an attachment to a brand are provided with limited choice and are forced down the usual channels until management can develop a digital strategy.
The New World Battle with Legacy
When embarking on the digital journey organizations are, in most cases, faced with the challenges of legacy IT systems, which are heavily interconnected. Often systems are badly documented and the knowledge of their inner workings is no longer in the organisation. Architecture teams approach digital in the same way as any other system, which results in slow delivery with an inward focused approach. Customers who want a seamless digital experience encounter poor performance, and irrelevant disjointed information.
30% of 5.2 billion mobile users now use smartphones. Mobile accounts for 25% of all web usage. In short, if you're still doing business and research only on the web (or offline), you're missing out.
How Digital Silos Get Built
Organizations apply old school management thinking, a new department is quickly created, which has its own processes, technology, and in some cases specific digital products. Very quickly a silo is created, and the organization's technology landscape becomes more complex. No one understands the digital department, and other functional areas start to work independently.
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The digital capabilities tend to be designed around the constraints of the internal processes and technology. As a result customers are presented with products that can only be used across specific channels, which limits choice and leads to frustration.
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One of the biggest challenges when developing connected devices is identifying user value and delivering it through successful user experiences. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Mike Kuniavsky, Principal Scientist, Innovation Services at PARC, described an IoT-specific approach to user experience design that combines approaches from interaction design, industrial design and service design to create experiences that go beyond simple connected gadgets to create lasting, multi-device experiences grounded in people's real needs and desires.
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Enthusiasm for the Internet of Things has reached an all-time high. In 2013 alone, venture capitalists spent more than $1 billion dollars investing in the IoT space. With "smart" appliances and devices, IoT covers wearable smart devices, cloud services to hardware companies. Nest, a Google company, detects temperatures inside homes and automatically adjusts it by tracking its user's habit. These technologies are quickly developing and with it come challenges such as bridging infrastructure gaps, abiding by privacy concerns and making the concept a reality. These challenges can't be addressed w...
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The Domain Name Service (DNS) is one of the most important components in networking infrastructure, enabling users and services to access applications by translating URLs (names) into IP addresses (numbers). Because every icon and URL and all embedded content on a website requires a DNS lookup loading complex sites necessitates hundreds of DNS queries. In addition, as more internet-enabled 'Things' get connected, people will rely on DNS to name and find their fridges, toasters and toilets. According to a recent IDG Research Services Survey this rate of traffic will only grow. What's driving t...
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Scott Jenson leads a project called The Physical Web within the Chrome team at Google. Project members are working to take the scalability and openness of the web and use it to talk to the exponentially exploding range of smart devices. Nearly every company today working on the IoT comes up with the same basic solution: use my server and you'll be fine. But if we really believe there will be trillions of these devices, that just can't scale. We need a system that is open a scalable and by using the URL as a basic building block, we open this up and get the same resilience that the web enjoys.
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Connected devices and the Internet of Things are getting significant momentum in 2014. In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Jim Hunter, Chief Scientist & Technology Evangelist at Greenwave Systems, examined three key elements that together will drive mass adoption of the IoT before the end of 2015. The first element is the recent advent of robust open source protocols (like AllJoyn and WebRTC) that facilitate M2M communication. The second is broad availability of flexible, cost-effective storage designed to handle the massive surge in back-end data in a world where timely analytics is e...
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We are reaching the end of the beginning with WebRTC, and real systems using this technology have begun to appear. One challenge that faces every WebRTC deployment (in some form or another) is identity management. For example, if you have an existing service – possibly built on a variety of different PaaS/SaaS offerings – and you want to add real-time communications you are faced with a challenge relating to user management, authentication, authorization, and validation. Service providers will want to use their existing identities, but these will have credentials already that are (hopefully) i...
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"Matrix is an ambitious open standard and implementation that's set up to break down the fragmentation problems that exist in IP messaging and VoIP communication," explained John Woolf, Technical Evangelist at Matrix, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
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P2P RTC will impact the landscape of communications, shifting from traditional telephony style communications models to OTT (Over-The-Top) cloud assisted & PaaS (Platform as a Service) communication services. The P2P shift will impact many areas of our lives, from mobile communication, human interactive web services, RTC and telephony infrastructure, user federation, security and privacy implications, business costs, and scalability. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Robin Raymond, Chief Architect at Hookflash, will walk through the shifting landscape of traditional telephone and voice services ...
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Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
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Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
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The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
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Paul Mazursky directed this comedy, which blends a broad satire of the film industry with a thoughtful tale of a middle-aged man looking back on his ... Show synopsis Paul Mazursky directed this comedy, which blends a broad satire of the film industry with a thoughtful tale of a middle-aged man looking back on his life's failures. Harry Stone (Danny Aiello) is a film director who desperately needs a hit -- so desperately that he gets talked into directing an inane sci-fi film about a group of farm kids (led by Ally Sheedy) who grow an enormous pickle that they turn into a spaceship, allowing them to visit the planet Cleveland (ruled by Little Richard and his right hand man, Griffin Dunne) where everyone eats nothing but meat. Convinced that the film will flop, Harry is in a state of panic as he returns to New York with his Parisian girlfriend Francoise (Clotilde Courau), a mere 20 years his junior, and visits his ex-wife Ellen (Dyan Cannon); his mother Yetta (Shelley Winters); and his son Gregory (Chris Penn). Meanwhile Harry flashes back on his childhood and the film he could have made of it, and pitches his dream film (a historical epic about the life of Montezuma) to studio executives, who instead want him to make a movie kids can relate to. The Pickle was filmed in 1991, but only received a token theatrical release two years later. Actually, the sci-fi story with Little Richard as the undisputed ruler of Cleveland looks like it might have been an ideal vehicle for Edward D. Wood Jr.. Mark Deming, Rovi


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The Alaska Salmon Alliance, a group that was formed by Cook Inlet processors to promote science-based fishery management in Cook Inlet, came to Homer for a workshop Friday to brainstorm ideas to improve the Cook Inlet fishery, the fourth in a series between Palmer and Homer....Tue, 11/26/2013 - 3:28pm
After months of planning and construction, Mike Warburton, owner of Ocean Shores Motel, is inviting the public to see what's happening at the corner of the Sterling Highway and Crittendon Drive. "We're going to have an open house for the restaurant space I'm building to show everybody and, h...Tue, 11/26/2013 - 3:23pm
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Americans traditionally observe Thanksgiving with the four Fs: family, friends, food and football. What better way to celebrate than by joining loved ones around a dining table covered with a turkey roasted to perfection and stuffed with a savory mixture, heaping bowls of mashed potatoes with gravy ...Wed, 11/20/2013 - 4:08pm
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A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
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The British government banished many of their political enemies to Australia along with the convicts. These were republicans, Irish revolutionaries, American free thinkers and Scottish religious dissenters.
Some of them are still revered in the home countries and largely forgotten in Australia today, but they gave birth to the great Australian larrikin tradition.
In his new book Tony Moore brings together stories of these political prisoners sent as convicts by Britain to Australia, a pivotal era in Australian history.
Death or Liberty: Rebels and Radicals transported to Australia published by Pier Nine
Brisbane Writers' Festival: Death and Democracy, 10 am Sunday 5 September, Queensland Art Gallery Lecture Theatre
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Keys to managing a statewide technology innovation program.
The basis for managing the program starts with understanding certain premises about educational technology and large-scale program management. These assertions are dynamic and different for each stakeholder and participant. Following are four key principles that provide the foundation for the FTL program. Each is briefly discussed in conjunction with key management implications.
Premise 1: 1-to-1 access to educational technology will become ubiquitous in K-12 schools over the next 15 years.
Management implications: Accept this kind of a program as a fire-starter --it's an infusion; an intervention. Make it worthwhile by finding the innovators and allowing schools to be the leaders. Help schools find innovative ways to pay for technology. Also, make sure to create competition and laud your schools' success. By doing this, others will want to follow, while parents and the community will not let you return to previous ways.
Premise 2: 1-to-1 learning will change education systems.
Management implications: Change is uncomfortable; expect detractors. Understand that not all schools--including their teachers, parents, students or administrators--will like the program or accept it. Education technology is still often viewed as an unjustified expense, and not part of the system. Yet, nearly every adult worker uses technology daily in his or her job. Let's take away an adult's computer at work and see his or her response.
Orchestrating a change management system requires special attention to partnerships. Without invested stakeholders, this kind of program will never succeed. To start, you have to have support from the top. Former Speaker of the House Rick Johnson and Gov. Jennifer Granholm of Michigan have provided the public leadership and advocacy essential to the existence of the FTL program. Each has a slightly different slant on the program, but both are champions in their own right. Keeping our state leaders informed and supportive is also critical. We accomplish this through an Executive Team.
As the FTL program moved into the planning and implementation phases, partnerships became essential. Our schools, districts, education associations and organizations are invited to play key roles in the design, growth and delivery of professional development. If you do not involve the key educators, don't expect to receive their participation or support for the program. In addition, vendors may want to be partners--such as in HP's case--but establish criteria and protocols as the basis for vendor selection.
Premise 3: Every school is unique and special, but all schools face similar issues (in different shapes and sizes).
Management implications: Every school is facing tremendous performance and financial pressures from state, federal and local constituents. Therefore, a program like FTL needs to be part of the solution. Thanks to the Michigan Department of Education, our FTL program provides substantial professional development opportunities to support its planning and implementation. We help each school determine how to best implement FTL based upon their curricular and programmatic needs. We do this in several ways:
* We sponsor a Lead Teacher at each of the 180 buildings to serve as a contact and mentor for the program. Lead Teachers are provided with special training to be mentors to other teachers in their buildings and to help provide statewide professional development. They are the school's cornerstone for implementing classroom-level assessment.
* We also established a team of Super-Coaches across the state. These SuperCoaches receive training in research-based technology/instruction integration methodology. Through a train-the-trainer model, SuperCoaches deliver professional development in this area to FTL Lead Teachers. Thus, educators are accepting teaching from their peers.
* We require all teachers and administrators to attend an FTL orientation session to ensure that all program participants are familiar with the context and components of the program.
* Our FTL demonstration sites (the sites that piloted FTL in 2003) were provided with resources to mentor new FTL schools.
* We are developing a Site Advisor program in which a team of educators will visit each FTL school to assess the progress in FTL implementation, as well as to identify specific professional development gaps and needs.
* All FTL teachers and administrators are given a Web portal that they can use to communicate with the FTL program administrators, as well as with each other to share lessons learned and best practices.
Premise 4: Large-scale initiatives do not run on their own and won't run forever.
Every program requires ongoing, rigorous attention to at least five elements:
1. Good planning--solid vision, goals and objectives
2. Good management (using project/ program management techniques)
3. Good communications
4. Good evaluation
5. Good staff
FTL is fortunate to have an excellent internal staff and external partners to lead the initiative. We manage the program like a business--with a charter that includes deliverables, timelines, budgets and risks. To this extent, our Program Team serves in a coordinating role (in concert with our Michigan Department of Education), paying close attention to the needs, concerns and activities of our three primary constituents: schools, the state and vendors (primarily HP). It is somewhat akin to navigating a fleet in which the ships are not all moving in the same direction or at the same speed, or often with the same intent. Yet, coordinating the program works surprisingly well when business practices are applied.
In closing, when I mention that FTL is a fire-starter, I don't want to leave the impression that other schools are not doing great things with educational technology. But the strength of FTL is its 1-to-1 learning approach. Equipping every teacher and every student in a school with a laptop will inevitably change previously accepted forms of teaching and learning. Frankly, this means more work at the outset for all school personnel, especially teachers. And consequently, not all schools are ready to experience this kind of change.
Fortunately, 180 buildings are now ready or at least have stepped up to the plate in Michigan, many being high-need and high-priority schools. They are experiencing the challenges of a 1-to-1 learning environment and have already started seeing the advantages in terms of student academic engagement. Therefore, it's inevitable that other schools will follow.
The Knowledge Age requires technology in the hands of learners for reasons that should be familiar to all (e.g., communication, research, assessment and feedback). But the paradigm shift is so great that in Michigan we are approaching our change in a coordinated, sequential manner. From the articles in this special supplement, you can sense the enthusiasm and power of our pioneers. For them, the timeline for the ubiquitous adoption of a 1-to-1 learning environment is shorter than 15 years--in fact it is here now.
Author's note: Others in Michigan and beyond have been early fire-starters. We recognize the state of Maine and Walled Lake Consolidated Schools in Michigan for their leadership, guidance and perseverance.
Bruce Montgomery has been directing the Freedom to Learn program since its inception in 2002. He has been a vice president at Michigan Virtual University; CEO of the Michigan Virtual Automotive College, dean of the University Center at Northwestern Michigan College," and associate director of the Presidents Council, State Universities of Michigan. Montgomery has also hem teaching and research positions at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. His Ph.D. is in educational administration from Michigan State University.
The Importance of 21st Century Tools
In order for students to be prepared to live and work in the 21st century, it is clear that they must use 21st century tools. Teaching and learning is being transformed as a result of these I-to-I wireless environments. Research is clear on this, and so is the perspective of teachers in the Freedom to Learn program.
Ross, Lowther and Morrison, university researchers who conduct studies of 1-to-1 laptop education programs across the country, pointed this out in an article from 2003:
"An advantage of laptops is that when they are brought to class, a student-to-computer ratio of 1-to-1 can be achieved.... Study findings showed that teaching was noticeably different in laptop compared to control classes. Statistically significant effects favored laptop classes (with effect sizes >+0.59) on using more student-centered instructional strategies. Examinations of specific technology use also favored the laptop students over the controls; for example, better computer skills and more extensive use of computer applications for research, production, writing and design."
At Bear Lake Middle School, Sarah Harless and Amanda Harthun-Reed have led the FTL program implementation. They note the importance of a 1-to-1 environment:
"Technology has become more integrated into our daily lives as adults; our students have no concept of life without technology. In bridging the generation gap, it is essential that we have these technological devices at our fingertips as we are not preparing students for our past, but for their future. The laptops have had profound impacts on our teaching styles, our students and their learning."
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It seems the league is now at least going to take a look at its policy when it comes to overtime. Peter King of Sports Illustrated tweeted Saturday that "the NFL Competition Committee will consider a 'modified sudden death' rule at the NFL meetings in late March."
King then tweeted: "The Competition Committee will likely not propose a 2-possession minimum rule. More likely, it would be the first team to seven points."
In other words driving for a field goal wouldn't be good enough to end the game.
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Next up in our Philly 360° Creative Ambassador series is media entrepreneur and rising entertainment industry exec Brandon Pankey.
This Philly native is definitely someone you should keep an eye on over the next few years. Billboard magazine already picked up on some of the moves that this young entrepreneur has been making—moves that landed him on the coveted Billboard 30 Under 30 in the music industry list.
So what exactly does Brandon do? He spends most of his day-to-day time as an account manager at Sports & Entertainment Financial Group, LLC (SEFG), managing clients like Lil' Wayne, Jill Scott, Meek Mill and Keri Hilson, to name a few. You can usually catch him on-site at concerts making sure that tours and shows run smoothly, or you'll find him handling finances and implementing brand strategies for his clients.
Brandon is also committed to giving back to the community and improving the quality of life for Philly youth. He co-founded Destined to Achieve Successful Heights program (DASH), which provides opportunities for students to learn about the entertainment industry while also learning how to become innovative thinkers and leaders. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Jill Scott's Blues Babe Foundation.
Brandon will also be venturing into technology in 2013, so look out for what his next project will be. Like we said, you're going to want to pay attention to what Brandon is up to in the next few years.
We took Brandon out to a few of his favorite spots in Philly. Watch the video below and see Philly through his eyes. And, check out his full profile here.
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Piano bars. Drinking. Bobsledding. Karaoke... The World Economic Forum may be 'committed to improving the state of the world', but for many, next week's meeting in Switzerland will mark a priceless networking opportunity, reports Trends.
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While the programs draw praise from most visitors, it is access to an extraordinary group of people that is perhaps the real drawing card. Rubenstein says: "Your jaw drops when you see all the prominent people on the list."
Attendees are from all over the world. Hormats says: "There are always a lot of Middle Eastern leaders; you can end up staying up late after a dinner talking about issues with Saudis, in a way not possible elsewhere."
Some Americans especially value the opportunity to meet with Middle Easterners. Rubenstein, whose business takes him frequently to the Arab world, says that "since 9/11 more people from the Middle East have visa problems and are embarrassed at how they are treated in the U.S." Hence, they shy away from visiting the U.S. and instead travel to Davos, a boon to Americans or Europeans hoping to do business in the region.
Greg Fleming, former president of Merrill Lynch, attended Davos from 2003 until last year. He, too, is a fan. "I always had a very positive view of Davos," he says. "There are very important people from all walks of life – business, environmental, political, and social. For a company like Merrill, it was very valuable to see dozens of significant clients from all over the world in just a few days. It's generally a very good use of time – especially once it became 'The Event'."
Fleming found the program at Davos especially interesting and useful when he took over management of Merrill's environmental group. Through the panel discussions he quickly got up to speed on current developments in the field. "One year they had a debate on emissions controls. The different perspectives between developed and developing countries on who needed to move first on reducing emissions were fascinating."
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Bone density tests (bone mineral density tests) examine your bone strength and are used to help diagnose osteoporosis. All women 65 and over, those with osteoporosis risk factors, and all postmenopausal women with fractures should be tested. Types of bone density tests include DEXA, QCT, SXA, and more. Follow the links below to find WebMD's comprehensive coverage about how and why bone density tests are done and what they can diagnose.
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