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Today's Photos

BY DI PHOTOSTAFF | JULY 02, 2009 7:30 AM

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Dana Phelps, an Iowa City native and UI graduate, walks her 15 month-old Newfoundland, Domino, down Magowan Avenue on Wednesday. While some Newfoundlands have weighed over 200 pounds, most weigh up to 150 pounds and grow around 25 inches tall. Newfoundlands are also known to be extremely friendly and are used as water-rescue dogs.

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Judy Best, a volunteer for the Shelter House’s overflow winter sheltering at First Methodist Church, walks up to the line of shovels to contribute to the groundbreaking for the new Shelter House on Wednesday. During the 2007-08 winter, overflow housing for the Shelter House provided 163 individuals a place to stay.

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Ezzatollah Torage Shivapour (left) and Ross DeValois, co-treasurer of the Shelter House board, (right) talk with Dottie Persson, the president of the Shelter House board during the groundbreaking for the new Shelter House on Wednesday. Pictured in the background, residents of the nearby Hilltop Mobile Home Park protest the Shelter House’s new location. Despite delays caused by an ongoing legal dispute between the residents and the shelter, the Shelter House recently reached its halfway point in raising $2.1 million.

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A gamma camera used for medical imaging at UI Hospitals and Clinics is monitored by Katie Moses at the UIHC on Wednesday. By using isotopes injected in patients, the camera is capable of imaging the physiology of many body systems, including the heart and bones.

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Incoming Iowa freshman Cully Payne of Imprinted/Goodfellow considers his options during a Prime Time game against Vinton Merchants on Wednesday in North Liberty. Payne and Imprinted/Goodfellow won the contest, thanks in large part to scoring 26 unanswered points.

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Mark Dittmer, a UI clinical assistant professor of dentistry, talks to Faramaz Shahsar during a routine dental operation in the new General Dentistry Clinic, now located in the Dental Sciences building, on Wednesday. The clinic, as well as the UI orthodontics clinic, was moved to the building from the Pomerantz Pavilion and began its first day of operation in the new location Wednesday.