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We think we have done all the things that we can possibly do within the framework of this mission

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to try to address this question based on Mars.

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The hope is that new detailed pictures will quell rumors that NASA is hiding knowledge of seemingly man-made structures on Mars.

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By transmitting pictures from the global surveyor directly onto the worldwide web,

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We'll have more stories in the news next time.

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Now, here's what's coming up as sightings continues.

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Does this video solve once and for all the mystery of crop circles?

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The crop circles are being made by someone other than Earth people.

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Or is it just a fabulous fake?

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We have to be extremely careful.

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Sightings talks to the experts.

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You're about to see some of the most amazing home video that's ever reached us here at sightings.

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It was shot by an amateur photographer standing on a bull-off above an English wheat field.

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It may be the first real evidence that crop circles are formed by extraterrestrial forces.

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Or it may be a hoax.

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But if it is a hoax, it's a very good one.

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Watch carefully. You are about to see the creation of a crop circle.

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If this video is genuine, it is the holy grail because we have something that absolutely proves

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crop circles are formed without human intervention.

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I can see the temptation to want to run with it and believe it simply at face value.

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But that will do all of us no good whatsoever.

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So we have to be extremely careful.

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World-renowned crop circle experts Colin Andrews and Peter Sorensen were among the first to see the extraordinary video.

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They were astonished because the amateur home video seems to prove the researcher's hypothesis

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that there is a connection between crop circles and the so-called mystery lights often sighted in the same area.

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The cameraman is pointing his camera towards a wheat field into the right-hand side of the frame.

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Suddenly appears two small spheres moving from right to left.

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The spheres then take a course of a semi-ring around the field.

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Suddenly in the center of the field, the central circle is formed and six circles on the ends of the arms are also in position.

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The third phase comes when two more spheres appear from the east and then the connecting pathways, the arms, drop into position.

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I must say at the very beginning I thought, wow, this feels right.

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You know, this guy's name is genuine about everything.

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And it wasn't until I began to watch it frame by frame that I began to be suspicious of things.

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Sorensen is particularly suspicious because man-holding the camera seems to know what will happen before it does.

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A very important thing to look for on this video is that during this key shot, the camera seems to be wiggling a little bit like it's a handheld camera.

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If it is a handheld camera, how come he didn't follow the lights when they go off-screen?

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He said he's already where exactly where the crop circle is going to be.

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Could someone have created this videotape using computer graphics and other special effects?

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Jim Pilatoso is an animation expert who has analyzed the video.

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There's no evidence that this is a hoax.

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I'm not saying that it's real. I'm saying that there's no evidence of a hoax.

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The people I've worked with in computer animation studios could do this kind of thing in about four hours.

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People are fooled by what complex and simple computers can do. This is like that.

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We're trying to determine, like in Forrest Gump, if Forrest Gump was really shaking hands with John Kennedy,

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it's not enough to say, oh yes, it's a fake. Well, how was it fake?

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Unlike other analysts, Pilatoso claims to have no personal bias in this case.

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When we test video, the temptation is to go into it with the presupposition.

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It's real and I'm going to find a way to prove it.

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Or the temptation is to say, it's a hoax and I'm going to prove how it's a hoax.

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What we have to do is enter into the testing to gather data and then we can draw a conclusion.

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What is certain, of course, is that the formation, the pattern we see forming on this video did appear.

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I mean, it is physical. It was there in the field. We've seen it, measured it at ground level.

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We've filmed it from the air. It is real. That is undoubtedly true.

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But the team working with me that entered that field, they didn't like what they saw.

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They saw many footprints. They saw compression of the soil.

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They saw plants that were heavily damaged and a spiraling symmetry which was highly suspicious.

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If the tape is a hoax, Pilatoso says, it was not created with computer tricks.

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Every camera, whether home or professional, every tape deck has areas in between the frames,

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just like in a strip of movie film. There's space in between the frames.

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In video, there's information in that space and that information is called the vertical interval.

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There is no evidence in the vertical interval of digital processing, meaning no paint box, no computer, no tampering with the signal.

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And there is no evidence that the photographer has made substantial financial or personal gains, bolstering his legitimacy.

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What we hear is the person we assume to be the camera operator says, this is amazing.

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This is amazing.

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But when we analyze the voice using psychological stress evaluation, this person is a little bit nervous.

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It doesn't seem like this guy is lying or acting.

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Suddenly we clicked to this fairly tight limited motion shot and now he's saying, this is amazing.

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Now frankly, if it was me, I'd be using four letter words to think, wow, this is fantastic.

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That's what I would have been saying, but he says, oh, this is amazing.

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I mean, that's too British.

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But what has the photographer to gain?

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Why create such a hose?

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This is an important tape because what you see on the tape represents either a hoax or it represents a truly significant clue, a key, a demonstration into what this means.

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There's tremendous evidence that the crop circles are very meaningful, very significant, and are being made by someone other than earth people.

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I guess I want to believe Israel, but we must deal with the facts.

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We don't want to see a mess in the making, and that is what this might turn out to be.

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The problem with the crop circle video is the same problem researchers are having with the Roswell autopsy film.

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The photographers refuse to come forward publicly.

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This is perhaps the strongest case for the video and the film being hoaxes.

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If you shot historic, legitimate footage, wouldn't you want people to know who you are?

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Next, the extraordinary healing power of music.

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He could not speak, he could not read, he could not write.

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We were starting from ground.

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We also found the tools of his meager existence.

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He was carrying a hunting knife and a flute.

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Music, it seems, was as essential as food.

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The mysterious power of music continues to sustain us to this day, and there is new proof that it can also heal.

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With its drums and chaps, this may sound like the latest trendy New Age workshop,

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but in fact, this is clinical research being conducted at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.

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In every culture that I have ever heard about, music was a part of healing ceremonies, of healing rituals,

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and of ceremonies that celebrated life passages.

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Dr. Cash is a musicologist and one of the nation's few music-centered psychotherapists.

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She studies and documents the physical and psychological effects of music.

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Dr. Cash calls music her drug of choice and speculates that music stimulates the release of powerful therapeutic chemicals inside the human body that can promote healing.

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Music can begin to relax the body to the point where nap processes can begin to take place.

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But when people get so stressed out, a lot of these healing processes are cut off.

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You can learn to use your own voice to heal yourself.

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Dr. Cash has seen the healing effects of music in her patients with stress, depression, anxiety, addictions,

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and even stroke patients and those with Alzheimer's disease.

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Music, it seems, can also mean the difference for many people with language and learning disabilities.

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At the Sound Listening and Learning Center in Pasadena, California,

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therapists use a method based on the work of French physician Alfred Tomodichs to stimulate language development.

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The basic premise of our work is that the voice can only produce what the ear can hear.

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Center Director Dr. Billy Thompson works with many children who are language impaired.

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Even though Katie Brady started talking clearly and intelligently when she was only nine months old,

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by age two Katie had regressed severely.

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Her parents tried to encourage Katie to speak intelligibly, reading and speaking until they were hoarse,

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but Katie could not imitate normal speech.

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In the bathtub.

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Do you think she's hearing? Do you think she's hearing us?

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Do you say, have you seen some?

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Testing showed that Katie wasn't deaf, and when she stopped talking completely after the death of her grandmother,

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therapists suggested Katie's problems were psychological.

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As we were rocking her to sleep that night, she said, grandmother is dead, grandmother is dead.

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We put her to bed, and then the next morning she did not have any language.

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Katie had uncontrollable tantrums.

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She chewed on books through things and grew more and more isolated.

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Katie was never invited to a birthday party.

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She would be kicking the wall, tearing at her clothes, screaming at the top of her lungs.

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We call that year the dark year, the black year.

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The Brady's were told Katie had attention deficit disorder.

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Two doctors insisted she was autistic, but Katie's parents saw signs that she could speak clearly.

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Her mother noticed at first when Katie began imitating the high-pitched voice of cartoon characters.

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She would memorize things from the television.

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and she would say, you can call me flower if you want to, I don't mind.

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Katie improved enough during two years of speech therapy to enter kindergarten,

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but her parents kept looking for help.

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When they discovered the Tommata Center, extensive testing pinpointed sounds that Katie's brain was not processing.

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She was missing the mid-range tones, the ones we use in normal conversation.

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When we get the sound through the equipment, we're hearing it differently than you and I would hear it in a normal symphony or radio show.

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It's being processed in order to make the ear more effective.

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A sophisticated electronic ear manipulated music like Mozart and Gregorian Chance to target sounds Katie was missing.

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One day after session, Katie said, I think I have a new brain.

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And she was really experiencing a different way of perceiving her world.

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Like when I was like a baby, I didn't even know how to talk.

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When Katie learned to hear the mid-range tones, she began to process normal speech.

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You get those earmuffs and you listen to some music,

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and then when you're done, you listen to some other things like this lady says, I put my words, flower, flower.

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If they don't hear a voice, they just try again and try again and try again until they got your voice.

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She was taking a shower and she was singing and she was singing up and down and,

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I love my voice in this voice that my husband and I have never heard.

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My husband and I are outside the door crying and crying because you hear this wonderful, wonderful voice coming from someone that had no voice.

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Now I know my ABCs.

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Next time won't you sing with me.

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In October 1995, Diana Pierce received an unexpected and devastating phone call.

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Her husband, John, an Arizona air traffic controller had suffered a catastrophic stroke.

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They had only been married three years.

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Oh, he was the man of my dreams all my life. I've been looking for him.

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I was very much in love.

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If you can believe that you can really fall in love for the first time in your life, at 47, it happened to me.

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The prognosis was bleak. John would survive, but he would suffer severe lifelong disabilities.

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When I took him into rehab, we found that John had lost all of his learning centers.

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He could not speak. He could not read. He could not write. He could not spell. He could not do math.

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We were starting from ground zero as if he was going back into kindergarten.

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Before his stroke, John was talkative, social, and articulate, but after the stroke, all that was gone.

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Four months later, I called my mother and I said, I want my husband back. I want him to talk to me again.

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And mom said, nobody can do that but you. You have to help him.

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I told her, okay, tell me what you want me to do and I'll do it. And she did it.

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Diana structured her own exhausting treatment regimen, and when she discovered a tomatos center in Phoenix,

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John became the first stroke patient to work with Dr. Thompson.

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When John first came to the center, he was not able to say what he was thinking.

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In this method, music is used to stimulate and speed up brain functions that lead to speech.

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From music, John moved on to simple speech and then to the rich language of life before his stroke.

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Success. Success. Success. Good.

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I don't learn that one day. It may take two or three days.

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Very, very, uh, a team. Idea.

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Every day I would get up and I would come and I would sit on the couch and I would say to myself,

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if only he could come out and say to me, good morning, Dave.

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The power of music is mysterious, a primal force for all humankind.

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And now modern science applied to the old ways is helping to heal for those who are willing to listen.

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The people in this story are living proof that there is a mysterious link between speech, memory, and music.

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Researchers say this is just the beginning. One day they envision a whole new range of music therapies for many kinds of brain disorders.

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Next, the alarming details of Nostradamus' final prediction.

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Nostradamus is saying that something will come from the sky.

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My name is Frank Maddox.

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As previously reported on sightings, many of the 16th century predictions of Michel Nostradamus are coming true in the 20th century.

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The prophet had a penchant for predicting wars, plagues, and disasters.

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So it's not surprising that one of his predictions for the year 2000 has a lot of people running scared.

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In 1999, the seven months from the sky will come a great king of terror.

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So it is said, and so it will be.

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This prediction was made more than 400 years ago in a simple four-line poem called a quatrain.

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Nostradamus wrote 1,000 quatrains during his lifetime, but only eight make predictions for specific dates.

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Seven dates have passed so far and seven predictions have come true.

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Now, only quatrains 72, the prediction for 1999, remains.

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Nostradamus is saying that something will come from the sky.

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Not in the sky like an airplane, it's coming from out of the sky.

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It has to come from space.

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We're talking about a comet, an asteroid, a meteor, something along those lines.

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Author Stefan Paulus believes that quatrain 72 foretells a grim fate for earth as it enters the next millennium.

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He has detailed his alarming scenario in the book Nostradamus 1999. Who will survive?

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Nostradamus indicates that a comet will make a close approach to the earth.

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The earth will pass through the tail of the comet, a meteor a quarter mile in diameter will actually hit the earth.

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You'll end up with a tsunami, a tidal wave, perhaps 100, 200 feet in height.

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The destruction is just going to be enormous.

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According to Paulus, quatrain 72 is only one in a sequence of 200 quatrains to tell the story of earth's demise.

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But how and when it will happen has been obscured.

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Nostradamus indicates that there was an original sequential order which he confused.

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He mixed up his quatrains. He did not number them. He wrote them on individual sheets of paper and just took them and just threw them up around the room.

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And numbered them in the order that he picked them up in. So it was truly a random ordering system.

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I've made an attempt to take a group of about 200 quatrains and re-sequence them perhaps into the order he wrote them in.

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In one quatrain, Nostradamus predicts that a solar eclipse will hide the comet's approach.

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And Paulus says it is not a coincidence that astronomers calculate a solar eclipse for August 11, 1999.

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If the comet does hit, will it be in the end of the world?

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Since the earth is 75% water and ocean impact is likely, and UCLA meteorologist Dr. James Miracame says that's good.

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The first immediate effect would be, say, a giant tidal wave affecting coastal areas.

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If it occurs in Atlantic, it would be affecting like North America, Europe, Africa, South America.

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But these would be fairly transitory. It would probably occur in the first 24 hours of impact.

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The noted science writer David Brinn reminds us that Nostradamus' predictions are subject to much interpretation.

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They are art. They are a creation of metaphors that cause and stimulate thinking.

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They're not, I don't think they were ever meant to be literal predictions.

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Brinn may be skeptical about Nostradamus' vision of a catastrophic millennium, but he does acknowledge that life in the Milky Way is not risk-free.

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The kind of asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, well, we know roughly the odds of that, because it happened 65 million years ago and hasn't happened since.

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So the odds, I would say, are roughly one in a hundred million in any given year.

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Still, policies convince that the collision of man and mineral is inevitable.

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NASA provided some statistics that said it is more likely that you will die in a comet crash into the Earth than you will die in an airplane.

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But nobody's worried about comets, but when they do happen, millions, perhaps millions of people will die.

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Nostradamus may have predicted a devastating comet impacting the Earth, but he did not predict our ability to divert an inbound celestial body using Star Wars technology.

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And that's something that is on the drawing boards right now.

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