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The best (or worst, depending on your views) thing about smartphones is that you're able to carry lots, and lots of useful stuff around in your pocket. That means you can always have a phone, messaging service, email, flashlight, calculator, dictionary, encyclopedia, and literally thousands of other things on your person at all times. Now, we can add one more thing for you to carry about in your little slab of aluminum, glass and plastic - a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat.
Now, you obviously can't carry around a 707-horsepower muscle car around in your pocket. That'd be ridiculous, impractical and uncomfortable. You can, however, carry around the noise made by said muscle car's 6.2-liter, supercharged Hemi V8, thanks to a new, free-to-download ringtone from the folks at Dodge and SRT.
We can't embed the ringtone here, so if you'd like to hear exactly how it'll sound when your phone goes off, you'll need to head over to the SRT Hellcat's page. If that's more trouble than it's worth, the same ringtone was attached to a tiny speaker on the press kit for the mighty Challenger, and was captured on video by our own Seyth Miersma (don't worry, he's already been soundly dressed down for shooting a video in portrait mode).
Dodge and Jeep are announcing recalls of a total of 895,000 Durango and Grand Cherokee models worldwide from the 2011 through 2014 model years. There's a possibility that the wiring in the sun visor can short circuit and cause a fire. It specifically affects vehicles built between January 5, 2010, and December 11, 2013, and there are approximately 651,000 of them in the US, 45,700 in Canada, 23,000 in Mexico and 175,000 outside of North America.
Screws that fasten the sunvisor to the headliner may pierce wires in the visor, if the part has been removed or serviced, potentially causing a fire risk. If the wires short circuit, they could overheat and potentially combust. The automakers report three injuries caused by this defect, and according to the investigation by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, "there may be a total of 52 unique fire incidents."
To fix the problem, Dodge and Jeep will inspect the vehicles for suspect wiring, and all of the models, whether damaged or not, will get a new sun visor spacer with a wire guide to stop the possibility of short circuits. According to the automakers' announcement, "this condition is not present in vehicles which have not had the headliner or vanity mirror serviced." They will notify affected owners, and repairs will begin in August.
You've got to hand it to Dodge for having the gumption to put the original Viper into production in the first place. It was, after all, much more of an emotional decision than a practical one, and a move which saw the first production V10 engine placed in a road car - long before the advent of the Lamborghini Gallardo, Audi R8, Porsche Carrera GT or Lexus LFA, not to mention the other Ford, BMW and Volkswagen Group models that used such engines.
It's now been 22 years since the first Viper entered production and the Viper still rolls on several generations later, but we're sad to say that courageous decision has not always been met with overwhelming sales success. In fact parent Chrysler was forced to idle the Conner Avenue plant where the Viper is made back in April due to slow sales. And while production resumed again as planned on June 23, it apparently didn't do the trick.
As a result, Chrysler corporate communications chief Shawn Morgan revealed to Autoblog that the assembly line has been shut down again for another two weeks. The line was up and running for nearly two full work weeks from June 23 until the holiday weekend that started on Thursday, July 3. But instead of coming back online today as planned, it's been idled again for the weeks of July 7 and 14. That means it will be July 21, at the earliest, before the serpentine supercars start slithering down the assembly line at Conner Avenue again. Once it does, however, production is set to resume at the same pace it was before the shutdown.


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Earlier this week on Monday, a judge from the northeastern state of Sergipe, Brazil, ordered five local carriers to block all WhatsApp traffic for 72 hours, effectively preventing over 100 million customers from using the application. Fortunately, it looks like the ban has been lifted ahead of time following a court appeal from the company, and WhatsApp users in Brazil can once again use the platform without restrictions.
For those of you who may not be familiar with the background story, Brazilian authorities have previously contacted WhatsApp, asking for help from the company in ongoing investigations related to drug trafficking. Reportedly, although WhatsApp has been willing to cooperate, the Brazilian government asked "repeatedly" for user information that WhatsApp does not possess. WhatsApp messages are encrypted end-to-end and chat history is not kept on WhatsApp servers, thus retrieving such personal information can prove to be an impossible task even for WhatsApp / Facebook Inc. "When you send an end-to-end encrypted message, no one else can read it – not even us" said WhatsApp co-founder, Jan Koun, on Facebook yesterday. However, this didn't stop Judge Marcel Maia Montalvão from ordering local carriers to block WhatsApp this week, much like it didn't stop the Brazilian authorities from ordering a 42-hour WhatsApp ban last December.
However, the good news is that yesterday following an appeal from the company, another official overturned Judge Marcel Maia Montalvão's request to block WhatsApp for 72 hours. Whether or not the original decision to block WhatsApp traffic helped in the criminal investigation is unclear, but regardless, these harsh rulings aren't making any WhatsApp users happy, and with over 100 million Brazilians using the application, it's rather difficult for authorities to go against WhatsApp without annoying a lot of people. But if recent history is any indication, it wouldn't be entirely surprising for the Brazilian authorities to decide and punish WhatsApp (and its users) again in the future. On the bright side, the unfair bans don't seem to stick for too long. Last December following a similar scenario, the 48-hour WhatsApp blockade was lifted after 12 hours, and needless to say, the more recent 72-hour ban doesn't seem to have lasted either.

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US Election: Clinton, Trump discuss security with war veterans
US presidential candidates appeared back-to-back on the same New York stage for the first time since they were nominated. The forum was created by a group of war veterans with the aim of finding the best qualified to lead the US armed forces.
President Mugabe to punish critical veterans
Thousands of Zimbabweans rallied in support of President Robert Mugabe, days after war veterans called for him to step down. At the rally, the 92-year-old leader threatened to punish the dissenting war veterans.

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Christmas has always been a time of year I hold near and dear to my heart. Christmas carols often begin playing way before Thanksgiving and continue on after the calendar announces the new year. In the midst of the turmoil of 2020, I admit I found peace and comfort from the familiar sounds of Christmas music.
It was easy to welcome Hosanna in Excelsis, by David & Barbara Leeman, onto my bookshelves and into my heart.
This is a beautiful Advent devotional taking Christmas hymns and bringing them to life as the authors share the musical history, the lyrics, and a biblical reflection each day of the season.
The book is divided into three sections for a total of forty three readings:
- Hymns of Advent: These are hymns that prepare us for December 25th, while helping us to anticipate Christ’s future return.
- Hymns of the Nativity: Here the reader will find hymns bringing us to remember the manger and the human birth of Christ, while at the same time reminding us of the Cross for which He came.
- Hymns of Epiphany: During the days after Christmas, we remember the visit of the wise men to see Jesus. Upon finding Jesus, they humbly bow down and worship. These hymns remind us to humble ourselves before Him, coming to Him each day to worship.
Throughout the book, I found both the most familiar and beloved Christmas melodies and many I had never heard. Yet each devotional brought a powerful point to ponder. There were many wonderful quotes and Scriptures shared which will make this book one I will hold onto and revisit each year.
“Jesus is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! The life of all our joys, the sum of all our delights, a song in a word, an ocean for comprehension, a matchless oratorio in two syllables, a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters.”
(Charles Spurgeon, as quoted on page 28)
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If You Can Achieve Your Goals All Alone, Then It’s Not Big Enough.
God has designed this life in such a way that humans have the most of life when there’s a cooperation among them.
Goal achievement is not different_ the most valuable asset to your growth is through your goals.
But you may never have this benefits until the goal is big enough to involve the cooperation and support of others.
If you can achieve all your major goals yourself then they are not going to grow you.
What is the worth of goals without growth?
It won’t do you any good to have goals without the capacity to grow you.
The Magic Of Teamwork
One will chase a thousand and two will chase ten thousand.
There is something magical about teamwork: with a team, results are geometric.
A single person can have linear progress, but with a team, results are geometric.
Casey Heistat righly said:
"Life shrinks and expands in direct proportion to your willingness to take risks."
When you involve others, the impact of your vision is multipled with ripple effect.
The power is in the number.
Make your goals large enough so that it must need the support of others to make it come true.
Those are the goals that change an individual, a family, a town and a nation.
The vision of Bill Gate has not only changed him, it has changed the world. Those are the kind of goals that answer the prayers and destiny of the humans race.
But you can’t get there without having goals big enough to involve others.
Don’t worry about how it’s going to come to pass_ there’s magic in numbers and in something big to bring it to pass.
Only those who dream big can achieve big.
So Dream Big.

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- LOCATION Sabadell
- > CLIENT Private
- YEAR 2018
- STATUS Built
- CATEGORY Architecture
- SCALE City
- TEAM OUA: Jordi Artigas Masdeu (architect), Oriol Serrat Genescà (architect), Àlex Gómez Gili (architect)
“Experimenting with rarely used materials in the residential sector makes the project unique”
Minimal expression, maximum comfort and details that make the difference are the identity mark of this multi-family housing consisting of thirty-two dwellings with parking in Sabadell. Located on the border between the residential and the industrial fabrics of the city, the residential block compares a peculiar choice of materials with a very rational composition. We reviewed the project with Oriol Serrat, who is the head of OUA’s Architecture Department.
For whom is the project intended? And how do you address the user’s needs?
The assignment comes from a developer who wants to build a rental residential building. The aim is that most of the resulting homes are expected to have two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a controlled surface so that the rental price can be adjusted and affordable.
Based on these requirements, we proposed a very rational project, seeking the closest approach in the requirements expressed by the client and the maximum efficiency of the whole, but without losing sight of the main motivation of the building: the people who will live there are comfortable in their homes.
What feature gives the proposal its identity?
It is a residential building, but it is located on the boundary between industrial and residential areas. This led us to explore materials that are more typical of industrial buildings, such as concrete, which is used in various formats as a configuring element of the façade.
The building has quite different façades. What is the purpose of each one?
The façade is designed to dialogue with the residential building (which makes a common wall) and the industrial fabric (which is found next to it). Consequently, the appearance of each façade varies depending on its orientation.
The north façade has views of Plaça del Treball and the massif of Sant Llorenç de Munt. However, the sun does not touch said façade, and we have designed openings that go from the ground to the ceiling and from wall to wall so that the boundary between interior and exterior practically disappears, maximising the views and, at the same time, the entry of light.
On the other hand, the south façade requires more solar protection, and for this reason, we have opted for openings with more contained dimensions.
Due to its proximity to the adjoining building, the east façade is treated practically as a front façade with much smaller openings.
The base of the building also has a unique shape…
The openings on the ground floor are hidden behind a kind of latticework that is shaped by the repetition of several pilasters made of prefabricated concrete pieces that look like piano keys. This design offers privacy to the ground floor rooms facing the street and gives expressivity to this supporting element of the building.
What added value does the client bring?
The key to achieving a unique result was the client’s trust in the Drafting team in terms of experimenting with rarely used materials in the field of residential developments.


Hawk Ridge is a residential subdivision of 9 detached, single family homes built by John Arrow ca. 2006. Some of the properties border the Lookaway Golf Club.
Access to the Hawk Ridge neighborhood is from Lower Mountain Road onto Lookaway Court.
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On this page you can not listen to mp3 music free or download album or mp3 track to your PC, phone or tablet. All materials are provided for educational purposes. Released at: This album was released on the label Force Inc. Music Works (catalog number FIM 231). This album was released in 2002-10-11 year. The album included the following session artists: Written-By.
Thomas Gray & Liam Ebbs. Analogue Attic, AAR014. The Barry Gray Orchestra. No strings attached (blue 10 inch). Black Wattle, BWTL001.
GRAY (DJ Gray) - house dj, music producer. Beatport dj, dj booking. Artist: DJ Gray Title: End Of The Story EP Label: Force Inc. Music Works Ca. o. FIM 231 Style: Techno, Tech House Format: 12" Country: Germany Released: 11 October 2002.
Their newest comeback is the 'The Story of Light E.,' and it's their 6th studio album. The full album will be released in three parts over May and June. All Day All Night" is a serious jam, and I can see why they used this one to promote with. The chorus is powerful, and the pounding jam keeps your heart beating a jackhammer beat. The raps are sick, and the smooth voices take some of the edge off - but it still has some serious impact (I particularly like the knife sound)
album Description: Zone Hefner has been promoting this project for a while now, and the wait is finally over. The Honorable, a West End Story, is dedicated to his uncle who he recently lost. Zone states there will be an extended version of this EP released soon, but as of right now this shall draw some attention. Shout-out to my teams, MOET and LaFamiliaFirst. Shout-out to my hometown, Moncks Corner and the whole 843 area! This is only the beginning, so bare with me. I'm gonna take this rap thing to another level!" Recent tracks and albums from Zone Hefner
The Story Begins is the debut extended play by South Korean girl group Twice. The album was released digitally and physically on October 20, 2015 by JYP Entertainment and distributed by KT Music. The album contains six tracks including the lead single, "Like Ooh-Ahh", which was composed by Black Eyed Pilseung and is a blend of several different genres
The Story So Far are a five-piece pop punk band from Walnut Creek, California, formed in 2007. They're catchy as hell, really fun to jam out to, and just do what they do really well
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Bangkok, June 8 – BOI Secretary-General Isuzu has no plans to move from Thailand to Indonesia. Prepare to clarify the official details again soon.
From the case of “Isuzu”, a major Japanese car maker There are plans to move car production from a factory in Thailand to Indonesia.
Most recently, Mr. Narit Therdsateerasak The secretary-general of the Board of Investment (BOI) revealed that the BOI has asked company executives. Isuzu Motors (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and was clarified that the company had already talked to the president and senior executives of the parent company in Japan. It was confirmed that no one gave the news. And there is no plan to move the investment base from Thailand, however, Isuzu will announce the official details again soon. This.-Thai News Agency
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In the spring of 1989 the famous Outback painter Pro Hart walked into the desert near his studio in Broken Hill to pick a bunch of wildflowers to be placed on the grave of his grandson, Joseph Willoughby. The child had died in his cot a few days earlier, aged only seven months, a presumed victim of the mysterious Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
After the funeral, Pro Hart noticed that the baby’s mother, his daughter-in-law Julie Willoughby, was still clutching the posy. He took the wilting flowers into his studio, pretending he was going to put them in water, and instead began painting them.
The result was a Pro Hart master work, Joseph’s Painting, with the iridescent splashes of colour and bold, spontaneous brush and palette-knife strokes that have become his hallmark. As a tribute to the dead infant, and to raise money for research and counselling for SIDS, a foundation was established to sell prints of the painting.
Three years later, Pro Hart and his business manager, Margaret Hyde, have not seen any accounting of the money from the trustees of the foundation, the Queensland Sudden Infant Death Research Foundation (QSIDRF). “I just don’t know what happened to it,” confessed Pro Hart this week.
Also mystified is his friend, the artist Tony Purves, who was the “art director” of the appeal and spent several months travelling Australia and New Zealand promoting the prints – with the help of local SIDS organisations. The 2,500 prints sold for $25 and $250 (for the signed version) and Tony Purves believes that more than $100,000 was raised from this, and a subsequent campaign selling prints of a painting by the New Zealand artist Jane Evans.
The QSIDRF president, Michelle Fremantle, a trustee of the foundation, said she could not comment and did not know how much money had been raised or spent. She referred the Herald to the organisation’s accountants, KPMG Peat Marwick, who also could provide no enlightenment beyond confirming that no audited accounts of the Joseph Willoughby Foundation had been prepared.
However, a review of the foundation’s books by KPMG, which has been obtained by the Herald, discloses a litany of bad accounting – the register of prints and the cash-book were not properly kept, receipts had not been issued(in fact, the foundation did not even have a receipt book or a rubber stamp)and no application had been made for tax exemption.
Says Purves: “I think it’s absolutely preposterous and scandalous that all this money should be donated with no proper accounting, and I have the impression that this is only the tip of the iceberg as far as the other SIDS organisations are concerned.”
And the accounts of the various State and Federal SIDS organisations around Australia – all of them autonomous, some not audited and with no publicly-available consolidated accounts – bear this out.
They show (see graphic) that up to 50 cents in every dollar raised for SIDS causes is actually spent on fundraising and administration, more than double the average of other Australian charities. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent on staff salaries, travel and conferences – particularly in Melbourne, where the committee employs no fewer than 10 full-time and a number of part-time workers for undisclosed salaries.
The various SIDS committees have spent relatively little on research, instead amassing an extraordinary $8 million cash in the bank, and another $3 million in houses, cars, furniture, equipment and other assets. One property, a historic $305,000 house in Parramatta, has sat empty since the NSW SIDS committee bought it in January.
In Queensland, the former State secretary, Kevin Larkins, is campaigning for a public inquiry into the SIDS organisation, claiming jobs for the boys and money unaccounted for.
In the past four years, the public and governments have donated something like $27 million for work on the syndrome that killed baby Willoughby. So how did a worthy cause like this get into so much trouble?
It is, without doubt, the hottest fundraising gimmick launched in Australia for years. With more than 28,000 registered charities jostling for attention in NSW alone, the red plastic clown noses of the SIDS Council of Australia were an instant attention-grabber… and mega money-spinner. The cause itself had instant appeal – counselling for the 300 families which lose a baby to SIDS every year, education and scientific research into its cause.
For the past three weeks, building up to official Red Nose Day yesterday, politicians, businessmen and the Prime Minister’s wife, Annita Keating, have donned red noses for the TV cameras. Giant noses adorned the Boulevard Hotel and a dozen other Sydney city buildings. They sprouted from the radiators of thousands of trucks and cars, and last week at Darling Harbour the State Transport Minister, Bruce Baird, presided over the “nosing of the fleet” in which noses were strapped onto a bus and a ferry as the SIDS anthem “Being a Little Silly Can Be a Big Help” blared in the background.
In the four years since the annual campaign was launched in Australia in 1988 (the idea was pinched from an English promotion by a company called Comic Relief to raise money for starving children in Africa), the SIDS organisation has suddenly sprung from amateur committees raising pennies with cake stalls to a multi-million-dollar industry. Red Nose Day is run by professional consultants and costs more than $1 million a year to run.
It’s been so astonishingly successful that Australia is trying to export it to America – the local organisation hopes to sell $200,000-worth of red noses, literature and other SIDS material this year.
Last year (in spite of keen competition from other plastic gizmos such as Green Smile, an Environment Day promotion, or the National Heart Foundation’s Heart Throb badges) the national appeal grossed $4.5 million, and other fundraising and investment income took the total raised to about $10 million. This makes SIDS Australia’s sixth largest charity.
But it is not so much the size of the appeal as its effectiveness in delivering the dollars to the cause that concerns the critics of the SIDS organisations. Prominent among these is Kevin Larkins, a 48-year-old public servant now living in Brisbane, who was one of the founders of the first SIDS group in Melbourne after he lost a baby in 1975. He, and his wife, Dianne, who is a trained welfare officer working with SIDS families, have been supporters of the organisation for 17 years, until last month when Larkins was defeated as secretary of the Queensland branch.
He says that this followed his criticism of the management of the organisation, including its failure to account for money donated to the Joseph Willoughby appeal. He felt so strongly that he wrote to the Queensland Premier, Wayne Goss, urging him not to launch the Red Nose appeal this year because of “serious concerns (over) financial mismanagement …” Goss ignored him.
Larkins claims – and the accounts of QSIDRF bear him out – that the organisation is “unbelievably inefficient” in its use of funds. The unaudited accounts show that (including its income from Red Nose Day) the Queensland organisation raised nearly $500,000 last year. But only $100,000 of this, 20 cents in the dollar, was spent on medical research.
The Queensland committee spent more than $200,000 on fund-raising, and on administration, where, Larkins says, employees include the mother of one committee member who is paid to do the cleaning, and the sister-in-law of another, who does the books. “We used to get a lot of volunteers, but now everyone wants to be paid,” says Larkins.
The rest of the money finishes up in the fat assets book of the Queensland branch. It had, at balance date, nearly $500,000 cash sitting in the bank and recently bought a former church in the suburb of Mt Gravatt for its headquarters and spent more than $100,000 doing it up and fitting it out with furniture and equipment.
Says Larkins: “It is an almighty mess … (SIDS) was a small organisation which was run by volunteers on a shoestring. Then suddenly they got all this money pouring in. They were just amateurs and they didn’t know how to handle it. They started living in a grandiose style far beyond their means and salting the money away to perpetuate themselves.”
Not only that, but in Larkins’s view the small amount of money that is allocated is not spent where it could be most effective, with grassroots organisations like the SIDS Parents Network.
“They are the ones who do the good basic work like counselling people at two in the morning when their baby dies,” he said. “They asked and asked for funds, but got nothing. The people who do the real work are not getting a cracker out of Red Nose Day.”
And Queensland is not the only SIDS organisation to attract criticism.
In leafy Harold Street, North Parramatta, a century-old freestone house has been standing empty since January. Local residents, concerned about overhanging trees from the property, began investigating its ownership and discovered that this valuable, empty house had been bought (at auction, for$305,000) by the NSW SIDS association.
Elizabeth Bishop, the State executive director and national secretary of SIDS, said the building would become the new headquarters of the SIDS committee – it currently rents space at Baulkham Hills for $10,000 a year -and she was hoping it could be occupied within a few months. The seven-month delay was because of discussions about painting and new carpets for the building.
Like other SIDS organisations around the country, the NSW branch is a keen acquirer of assets. It had (according to its latest annual return) $2 million of the $11 million national kitty which has been built up over the past few years – $8 million in cash, the other $3 million in houses, cars, furniture and equipment.
It also spends considerably more than other charities on fund-raising and administration. Compared with an average of 25 per cent for other charities, SIDS in NSW spends more than 30 cents in every dollar; the figure for Victoria is more than 40 cents; and for Queensland 50 cents.
No other big charity in Australia spends anything like this. By comparison, World Vision, Australia’s largest charity, spends 25 cents in the dollar on administration; the Royal Blind Society 22 cents; National Heart Foundation 19 cents; Legacy 17 cents; the Salvation Army 13 cents and the Royal Flying Doctor Service 12 cents.
In NSW last financial year, for example, the SIDS committee raised about $2 million. It spent $300,000 on administration, and only $30,000 on counselling, education and scientific research.
Money donated to the Red Nose Day appeal in NSW has two lots of costs deducted from it before it can be applied to SIDS research or education. The actual cost of running the national appeal – which is handled by professionals- is 23 per cent. Then the 1991-1992 accounts show another 15 per cent taken out for State administration – a total of 38 per cent.
And, of the money that remains, most of the income for the past two years has been banked or invested in property and equipment. Of the $2.7 million received by the NSW branch, only a third was actually spent on anything – the rest was put in the bank, or invested in property. At December 31 last year, the NSW SIDS Association was sitting on $1.8 million in cash.
The NSW president of the Sudden Infant Death Association, Jeremy Wright, disputed these figures. He said that, since the association’s balance date on December 31, it had increased its spending on education, research and counselling to $800,000 for the year.
The association’s reserves had been run down, and it now had only $975,000 in the bank. Wright said that if the association raised no more money, this would disappear in two years at the current rate of spending.
Wright claimed that the association’s expenses – administration, the cost of fundraising and the “cost of goods” like the plastic red noses – were 32 cents in the dollar, not 38, but said that this was not excessive.
He said that Australia and New Zealand led the world in their work on SIDS, and appealed for more money. “Red Nose Day must continue, or the good work started will come to a premature and abrupt end,” he said.
In Victoria, the SIDS committee is headed by Kaaren Fitzgerald, who, like most committee members, lost a child to SIDS – she founded the branch after her fourth child died in 1977. Fitzgerald presides over an $800,000 complex in the upmarket Melbourne suburb of Malvern, which is the headquarters for her staff of nine full-time, and numerous part-time paid workers.
Fitzgerald says she considers “we have a very effective fundraising”. However, the Victorian accounts show that 40 per cent of the money donated last year – $1.1 million – went on fundraising and administration costs.
Federally, Red Nose Days have raised $15 million in the past four years. A little over $4 million has been spent on research into the causes of SIDS. The rest has been spent on administration or accumulated in cash and other assets.
Elizabeth Bishop concedes that “it’s a fairly new organisation. Maybe we are learning the ropes. Maybe we have some expenses we should not have had…” and pointed to a “humungous printing bill” as part of the problem.
As for the millions of dollars that have been salted away in banks and interest-bearing deposits: “We don’t know how long Red Noses will last, or how long this money needs to last.”
It is little wonder that other charities – particularly during a week with the ravages of the Somali famine filling the TV screens – are jealous of SIDS’s stockpiles of money and of the fact that Federal and State governments have topped this up with some $500,000 of taxpayers’ money over the past four years.
Consider the National Association for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, the national clearing house for child abuse data and co-ordinator of prevention strategies. In NSW alone last year there were 11,060 cases of serious child abuse, and four reported deaths.
This unglamorous charity operates from an office in Grace Brothers it rents for a peppercorn, and functions with a staff of one part-time secretary. It raised $153,000. Its fixed assets are listed in its current audited accounts at precisely $1.
FIRST, the good news. The number of Australian babies which die every year from what used to be called cot death has halved, following a simple education campaign telling mothers not to lie them on their faces.
Although Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), as it is now known, is still the biggest cause of death of babies, the number who die this year will probably be 300 compared with the 600 which was the figure from when records began to be kept back in the 1970s.
According to Dr Mal Wilkinson, of Monash University’s Centre for Early Human Development in Melbourne, this winter has failed to see the usual peak of babies found dead – usually in the small hours of the morning – of unexplained heart and lung failure. The number for the first six months of the year was 155, a record low for every State of Australia.
The dramatic fall in deaths followed the world breakthrough in May 1991 by a medical team in Tasmania under Professor Terry Dwyer, which surveyed thousands of Tasmanian babies over a three-year period – 23 of them died of SIDS – and concluded that lying the baby on its back or side could cut death rates by 40 per cent. TV and print advertising campaigns proved that it did just that – and more.
The bad news is that lying on the face is not the cause of SIDS any more than getting your hair wet is the cause of catching a cold. Scientists around the world have been working for more than 20 years to find out what other factors are involved, so far without convincing success.
Professor Colin Sullivan, the head of medicine at Sydney University, who is running a $1 million Red Nose-funded research program at the Children’s Hospital, Camperdown, says: “There is circumstantial evidence that it is some breakdown in the cardio-respiratory system, but we don’t know the root cause. Any suggestion or publicity that we do is absolutely wrong.”
Over the years, there have been claims that SIDS – it is claimed to have been around since Biblical times – is caused by viral infections, by loud noises, shock, a blood disorder, an enzyme deficiency, PVC gases from plastic-covered mattresses; that tobacco-smoking by parents may contribute … even that 10 per cent of deaths are caused by mothers murdering their babies by smothering them.
None of these causes has proved convincing, nor do any of the products which have been spun off by the multi-million-dollar cot death industry appear to be 100 per cent effective. A UK drug company is marketing a product called Exosurf Neonatal designed to improve the lining on babies’ lungs, and a German company is marketing an $1,100 electronic alarm.
But so far, after all the research that has been done, the only dramatic improvement has been the simple piece of advice – don’t lie your baby on its face.
Red Nose Day: Where your money goes
$5 million – Cost of fundraising
$5 million – Admin (includes salaries)
$6 million – Medical research, counselling, education
Red Nose Days – $15 m
Other donations – $11.5 m
Government – $500,000
TOTAL – $27 m
$3 million – Houses, cars, furniture, equipment
$8 million – Cash & investments
Pub: Sydney Morning Herald
Pub date: Saturday 29 August 1992
Word count: 3166
Keywords: Cot deaths Fund raising Expenditure
Picture: Paul Mathews
Caption: Probationary firemen take part in a previous Red Nose campaign.
Diag: Red Nose Day: Where Your Money Goes (1988)


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Two winters ago I priced out equipment rental for a ski trip to Taos, New Mexico, at a Christy Sports affiliate store in Santa Fe and at another of its locations at the foot of the valley. ski area of Taos. The difference in fares, about $ 5 per day, amounted to more than a week of skiing for a family of three. In the end, an early departure of the flight made it impossible to return the skis to Santa Fe when the store was open, so we went with the more expensive alternative.
“We try to meet skiers and customers where they are,” said Matt Gold, general manager of Christy Sports. Compared to outlets at resort bases, he said, “the shops in town and shops in the mountain towns will be a little less plentiful, but then you will have to carry the equipment yourself.” .
Sometimes it’s worth it. Last ski season a trip to Aspen took me to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, where it was convenient to rent from a local store, Brian’s Bench. By paying $ 24 a day, I saved about half of what I would have spent at the resort rental stores.
For those who stay local or drive around the area, there are many REI stores in the Nordic regions that rent downhill and cross-country skis as well as snowshoes. Prices for classic cross-country ski packages, complete with skis, boots, and poles, start at $ 22 for the first night and $ 13 for each additional night. Descent packages start at $ 28 for the first night and $ 17 for each additional night.
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AERO is the go-to resource for sustainable Montana communities working towards becoming more environmentally responsible, economically thriving, and locally resilient. Our member-driven task forces promote the wise stewardship of land and resources for clean energy, sustainable agriculture, and healthy food.
Angie's Greenhouse is a locally owned and grown greenhouse and plant care center located in Columbia Falls, MT.
The greenhouse offers a huge selection of perennials, vegetables, trees, shrubs, roses, bedding plants, and unique garden gifts.
Contact us for your next event or wedding. We offer exceptional service and creative thinking to make your special day blossom with perfection. Angie's Greenhouse is available for mobile plant care as well. Please send a personal message, call, or email us for more information.
Blue Moon Herbs
We are one of a handful of Essiac tea-makers worldwide that include the whole Sheep sorrel herb in our formula, as its developer Canadian nurse Rene Caisse did. We are the exclusive distributors of Mali Klein and Sheila Snow's Complete Essiac Essentials book (2010) and Black Root Medicine the Original Native American Essiac formula (2014, Mali Klein). Snow and Klein are the most respected and trusted source of Essiac information in the world.
Box Of Rain Organic Garden Center
Box Of Rain Organic Garden Center is your place to shop for all your organic gardening supplies needed for year round gardening. We also offer organic starter plants during the spring and summer months.
Rachel Grant and Maarten Fischer
Care Farm Programs are nature based empowerment programs designed to encourage community integration, vocational training, and health building life experiences for individuals with special needs. Our programs serve those with developmental disabilities, people living in isolation or with mental health challenges and others in our community with the desire to learn new skills and spend time outdoors. Using local farms and ranches as our primary facilities, we provide opportunities for self discovery and skill building through participation in daily life on a farm. Each participant's activities are specifically designed to support their individual needs while reaching for self improvement, better health and the achievement of predetermined goals.
Center for Native Plants
We are Flathead Valley's only retail native plant nursery. We grow and promote the use of native plants in landscapes. From enhancing biodiversity, attracting pollinators or creating a sense of place, Center for Native Plants is all the buzz!
CHS Kalispell - Natural & Organic
CHS MWC provides a wide variety of natural and organic amendments and feeds as well as gardening tools. We also help diagnose and offer solutions for your gardening problems.
Citizens for a Better Flathead
Since 1992, Citizens for a Better Flathead has been at the forefront of addressing the challenges that rapid growth is bringing to our region. We work to protect the valley’s clean water, natural beauty, and friendly communities through sound planning and sustainable solutions. We believe in the power of collaboration and consensus building, and work to inform and engage broad-based public participation in planning for the future of the Flathead.
Climate Smart Glacier Country
Climate Smart Glacier Country is a non-profit partnership of local businesses, schools, individuals, and government agencies committed to finding local solutions to the challenges that climate change brings to our communities' doors.
Our projects are organized through six Working Groups:
Built Environment; Food & Soil; Transportation; Natural Resources; Green Business; and **Education & Outreach. **
We focus on three key areas - Mitigation (reduce emissions), Adaptation (prepare for change) and Education - as a path for helping our Glacier Country region create "climate smart" solutions moving forward.
Come learn how you can participate - join us in being part of the solution!
Dirt Rich Compost and Food Scrap Pick Up LLC
DIRT Rich is a local food scrap composting company that offers residential and commercial food scrap pick up and offers a quality compost product to the Flathead Valley.
Growing our own food naturally and sustainably, and sharing the bounty, is one of the most profound and radical things we can do for our planet and our community.
Farm Hands - Nourish the Flathead
Nourish the Flathead is a non-profit organization that seeks to connect people to nutritious, locally produced food in Montana.
Our mission is to reconnect people to the sources of their food and to those who produce it through education, outreach, and market support.
Our programs support and sustain healthy communities through garden-based education, market support for farmers, youth empowerment opportunities and the development of home and community gardens.
Farm Link Montana is a statewide online clearinghouse providing beginning farmers and ranchers with a wide array of resources and tools to find land, mentorship, and on-farm employment.
Flathead Herbalists are dedicated to empowering individuals who want to learn more about natural home remedies from Earth's flora and/or growing one's own backyard medicinal plants.
Free the Seeds! is a community powered opportunity to build a
sustainable and resilient future through real seeds, real food and real skills.
Good Bee Co.
Located in Downtown Kalispell, our nonprofit, therapeutic beekeeping company connects people to nature, community and themselves through the bees. Our honey comes from local, backyard hives in Kalispell. The honey is unprocessed and raw; we use no antibiotics or pesticides. Therapeutic beekeeping is a new concept. Through mindfulness and quiet observation, clients experience the opening and working of the hive. The challenges of working with bees expose clients to novelty and fear, but often with positive results in treating anxiety. We offer flexible opportunities for people to engage in the therapeutic culture that surrounds the hive, fostering connectivity to nature and to each other. We support people and pollinators, with respect and joy. Good Bee Co. offers neighborhood honey programs, hive setup and management, presentations, workshops, swarm rescue, bees and queens, school programs, observational hives, and consulting.
Good Seed Company - heirloom seeds for common use.
We a small heirloom vegetable, flower and herb seed company based in the Flathead Valley. We are dedicated to helping re-establish the community practice of selecting, saving and sharing seeds for common use.
We sell organic and ecologically farmed non-GMO, open-pollinated seeds through our online store and select local retail locations. We offer workshops "from soil to seed" through our DIY:GROW program, including a one-year Seed Steward Internship. In partnership with ImagineIf Libraries, we are helping establish the Flathead Grows! County Seed Library in Columbia Falls, MT.
HeartStead Home & Garden Services LLC
Tawnya Rourke Kelly
HeartStead Home & Garden Services is a small landscaping, gardening business and farm, growing veggies, herbs and flowers, and teaching gardening to the backyard food grower. Also at the booth is Barton Morse, the Garlic King of Montana, who is teaching fruit tree pruning at the event.
ImagineIF Libraries are places of exploration and discovery. With hands-on activities and experiences for all ages, we work to transform vision, dreams and desires into reality. We will be launching a Seed Library in our Columbia Falls location in March 2017. Get a preview of the Flathead Grows! Seed Library at Free the Seeds! Come see how it works and help us grow the Flathead!
Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild’s 7th Annual Convergence
Tawnya Rourke Kelly
The Inland Northwest Permaculture Guild is a network of permaculture practitioners who inhabit a region of the northwestern U.S. between the Cascade Mountain Range and the Rocky Mountain Range. In addition to our interactive website, our 2017 annual gathering will take place near Flathead Lake at the end of this summer. We hope to inform ourselves and others about the promise of permaculture in the Flathead and beyond.
Kettle Care Organics - Skin & Wellness
Real seeds on healthy soil create potent botanicals that heal, soothe and nourish our skin and thus body. Creating skin care without harmful chemicals and toxins since 1983, Kettle Care Organics has always been closely related to pure seed and healthy soil.
We are proud to source botanicals from Flathead's own certified organic grower Terrapin Farm. Our interactive booth will show you our "seed to skin care" chain and let you see and feel the difference!
Lower Valley Farm
Lower Valley Farm is a 70 acre regenerative family farm located between Somers and Kalispell. We grow a wide variety of vegetables for our Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as well as for the Kalispell Farmers Market. We keep a couple grass fed Jersey Dairy cows, pastured hogs, and a small gaggle of chickens for our own family.
Montana Ace is your local seed starting, gardening and canning powerhouse. We offer competitive pricing, helpful advice, and knowledgable teammates. Our housewares department stocks a myriad of replacement pressure cooker parts, as well as oodles of canning and food preserving supplies. Montana Ace, your one stop local shop for all your seed starting, gardening and food preservation needs!
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Come visit our booth to learn more about the Flathead County Master Gardener Program. In level one you will learn about soils and fertility, plant growth and development, growing food from your yard and garden, flowers, trees, shrubs, vines, lawns, composting and much much more.
Moonlight Kitchens is a shared-use commercial kitchen available for rent by the hour in Missoula. We connect local farmers with our neighbors through our cooks while operating a triple bottom line business.
Native Seed Foundation
Native Seed Foundation has been gathering, processing, and selling Native Seeds for 35+ years. The majority of our seeds are used for landscape reclamation. We specialize in fresh seed from our regional shrubs.
Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
When you want to learn what foods are best for you and which supplements can support your health, we are here for you! Fortunately, most Natural Grocers locations are staffed with a highly trained Nutritional Health Coach (NHC). You can connect with your NHC to learn about the complimentary services she offers, the products we sell, coupons to help with your shopping, and more!
The PennyRoyal Collective is a loose-knit fabric of individuals committed to living an ecologically responsible lifestyle. At the PennyRoyal, we believe in the transformative power of art (in any form!), and realize that through grassroots community action, we can help make the Flathead Valley an even better place for ALL beings to thrive.
Purple Frog Gardens
Purple Frog Gardens is a family market farm on the outskirts of Whitefish. This farm has been slowly coaxed out of rocky clay soil with the help of countless volunteers, community members, and young people. Late spring-late fall, join us for our Volunteer Day, Wednesdays, 9-1 or Fridays, 5-7:30 @ The Salad BarN farm stand.
Raven Ridge Farm
Raven Ridge Farm sits on fertile land between the Stillwater and Flathead Rivers near Kalispell. We are two young farmers dedicated to growing healthy food in an environmentally responsible manner to nourish our community.
Connecting People with Nature, Community and Self
Ravenwood is all about healthy kids, families, and communities. Quality mentoring guides our mission, especially when it connects us deeply to the land and each other, creating relationships filled with meaning, hope, and resilience. There are many distractions and obstacles in our fast-paced society, and an increasing number of negative trends—obesity and health issues, screen addition, attention disorders, stress, violence, disrespect, substance abuse, you name it—all of which need our attention and action as a community. Ravenwood is here to help, a place for kids and adults to learn and grow, naturally.
Seed We Need and the Painted Mountain Corn Story
Seed We Need is Dave Christensen's project promoting corn improvement for people in marginal lands. Painted Mountain is a very early and rugged population of open-pollinated (OP) corn bred by Dave in Montana for over 40 years. It is expanding corn growing opportunities for people in the North, the West, and in mountainous regions in other parts of the world.
SolarGreen.House - Plant-Wise Flathead
Plant-Wise Flathead is a community of curious individuals who gather to learn about Whole Food Plant-Based nutrition. Our focus is on educating each other, having fun, and building friendships. We do this through cooking classes, movie nights, and dialogues with experts in nutrition and growing healthy food. We are affiliated with the Plant Pure Nation community movement.
The SolarGreen.House is designer-builder Michael Blend's vision for a cost-efficient, sustainable and resilient year-round home grower's greenhouse designed using permaculture principles and that can provide fresh food for a family throughout a Montana year.
SpiritWorks Herb Farm
SpiritWorks Herb Farm integrates learning, farming and building health. We primarily grow medicinal herbs and foods, offer experiences in diverse farming practices and herbal processing, and provide diverse health building classes in the culinary and therapeutic uses of herbs, yoga, polarity therapy and energetic first aide.
We welcome visitors to the farm by appointment on Mondays for farmwork experiences, Tuesdays 11-2 for herbal learning, Wednesday 12-1:30 for yoga and will announce health building classes, when offered, on our Facebook page.
Sticks & Stonez - Vibrational Apotheocary
Sticks & Stonez is a local group of natural healing practitioners specializing in herbalism, Ayurvedic Nutrition, Reflexology, Kundalini Yoga & Singing Bowl Therapy - Healing Modalities from Earth.
Tamarack Apiaries, LLC
We are a local bee supply store. Your place for anything "Bee". Our booth will have a display of a beehive and some basic tools. We will be answering questions and giving information.
We are a certified organic farm and greenhouse near Whitefish Montana with a deep commitment to giving more to our environment than we take from it. Growing over 500 varieties, many of which are selected through an on-farm breeding program, our farm produces a unique selection of vegetables and herbs appropriate for our micro-climate.
Triple Divide Organic Seeds
The Triple Divide Organic Seeds Cooperative is a cooperative of Montana-based organic seed producers dedicated to maintaining and improving organic, open-pollinated, regionally adapted, GMO-free seeds. The seeds we offer are farmer tried and true varieties suitable to the intermountain west and its diverse growing regions. We sell only public domain, Open-pollinated (OP) seed. None of our seeds are proprietary hybrids (F1), patented (PVP) or genetically modified (GMO) and all of our seed is 100% Grown in Montana without the use of chemical fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides.
USDA - Natural Resources Conservation Service
Education and Outreach materials on NRCS programs and technical information for small growers.

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Fighters also seized control of the highway linking the predominantly Sunni Muslim town with the besieged city of Falluja, west of Baghdad.
Hundreds of fighters armed with rocket-propelled grenades and Kalashnikov assault rifles were running along the highway, an AFP correspondent said.
An AFP photographer reported earlier that fierce clashes pitted US occupation troops against fighters in Abu Gharib.
In Baquba, a mixed Shia and Sunni town, fighting erupted on Friday with fighters clashing with US troops and targeting buildings, witnesses said.
They said smoke was rising from the governorate building housing US forces and from buildings surrounding the police station.
The sound of explosions was also heard near the main US base in the town, 65 km north of Baghdad.
The fighting erupted after supporters of radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and sympathisers of Sunni fighters took to the streets to demonstrate after Friday's prayers.
West of Heet city on Friday, an explosion hit a US patrol, causing casualties and damaging a number of military vehicles, our correspondent reported.
An explosion also rocked Kirkuk airport, where US forces are based, said our correspondent.
And in Diyala province, clashes have erupted around the governor's office, causing casualties and damaging a US tank.
Meanwhile, Samir Sumaidy, a Sunni Muslim political independent on the US-installed Iraqi Governing Council, has been appointed interior minister. Mowaffaq al-Rubaie, a Shia independent, has taken over as national security adviser.
Sumaidy came in place of Nuri Badran who resigned as interior minister on the directive of occupation administrator Paul Bremer on Thursday. Badran quoted Bremer as saying that both the interior and defence ministry should not be headed by the Shia.


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Chemical peels are also successfully fights with scarsand scars. On damaged skin produced a profound effect using fruit acids, activates the process of skin regeneration. This method is well suited for rejuvenation, eliminating the stretch marks or wrinkles.
To smooth the top layer of the epidermis oftenthe procedure called mesotherapy, during which the patient to inject a mixture of drugs that activate the body's production of collagen - connective tissue. This variant is frequently used to restore the skin after surgery.
If the scar or scar is fresh enough, thenHelp can come traditional methods, most of which are approved and recommended by doctors, beauticians. These methods include the mask of blue clay, perfectly relieves the skin from traces of minor cuts, massage with almond oil, accelerates regeneration of skin cells, massage with essential oils. In addition, an excellent regenerating effect is the mask of the concoctions and masks of nutmeg. However, the duration of treatment of folk remedies is quite large - the average recovery takes six months.


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Located in rural Washington County, Down East Maine, Harrington Family Health Center cares for some of the sickest and poorest individuals in the state. They offer quality primary care, dental and mental health services to all individuals regardless of their ability to pay. Harrington, and Washington County as a whole, have very high poverty and unemployment rates. Many in the area are elderly and report being in poor health and uninsured.
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Modelling, Simulation of Visco-Elastic Plastic Behaviour for Soft-Solids by CONE Indenters
Materials deforms in response to an externally applied stress. The deformation can be permanent or temporary. Permanent deformation stays after the removal of the applied stress, while temporary deformation disappears on the removal of the stress. Both temporary and permanent deformations can be functions of time or virtually independent of time. Processing and handling of intermediate or final products involving particulate materials dispersed in liquid media at high solids volume fraction means Soft-Solids, present major challenges in the chemical industry and in its allied sections, such as; Biochemical and Biotechnology apparently the drugs and Pharmaceuticals industries. In the development of new processes, manufactures are faced with growing diversity of equipment options and a limited technical basis for selection, of their complex flow behaviour and the influence of the wall boundary conditions. Pilot scale trials may be lengthy, expensive and has to rely on uncertain rules of modelling scale-up. Therefore the current strategy which is emerging world-wide is to employ computer simulation as a basis for optimising the design and operating parameters. Importantly, soft-solids exhibit complex bulk flow and interfacial properties; that leads to the requirement for accurate and reliable constitutive information to model their processing. To obtain useful experimental data, there is a need for a well characterised and reproducible material. The „BEST‟ material will undergo sufficient plastic flow so as to be capable of being formed. Therefore a model paste Plasticine for Simulation and Terracotta for Modelling has been tested by CONE indenter over a wide range of strain rates. It was found that the terracotta exhibits a linear elastic behaviour at low stress levels and power law creeping behaviour at higher levels of stress. All the loading and relaxation tests at various strain-rates give the same material properties. This means that the model works reasonably well. The analysis of loading and relaxation is simple robust and easily provides a value of E, and the flow curve, this is also true for CONE indentation of soft-solids. The primary aim of this project was to attempt for developing and evaluating codes of the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) which are specifically designed for paste system. The finite element method has been shown to be viable computational tool for modelling pastes and the effects of the friction. However the practicality of the data method is very much dependent upon the accurate modelling of the paste behaviour. The predicted results, in some cases, show a reasonable agreement with those obtained experimentally.


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You only have one set of adult teeth, and they need to last until you are 80, 90, or beyond. The actions you take towards your teeth today will either benefit you or harm you in the future. Of course, good dental care starts with seeing a dentist regularly. You should go in for cleanings and checkups, and any other time you think something might be amiss with your teeth. Education is important when it comes to any aspect of your health, so start reading the articles on this website to educate yourself about dentists and dental care. We promise that when you're 80 and you still have your teeth, you won't regret the time spent.
Accidents sometimes happen when you least expect them. Perhaps you fell down the stairs or got hit during boxing practice, and one of your teeth chipped or broke. What do you do after such an accident to improve your chances of saving your tooth? This piece will provide important tips to help you handle a dental emergency.
1. Determine If the Situation Needs Urgent Intervention
The first and most important thing to do after discovering that your tooth is broken is to determine if the situation is an emergency. If you can manage the situation and wait to see your dentist during regular hours, you could wait until your next appointment. However, if you are bleeding profusely, experiencing pain, or swelling, consider this an emergency and seek help immediately. If you cannot wait to see the dentist, visit a general dentist for emergency treatment.
2. Try to Manage the Pain and Swelling
The bleeding, pain, and shock that hits you after the accident will probably be the worst part of the experience. However, you'll need to find ways to manage the swelling and inflammation before visiting a general dentist. For example, you can take some painkillers to manage the pain. You can start by calling your dentist to recommend a reliable painkiller since some pain relievers are blood thinners and may only accelerate bleeding. You can apply ice packs to the affected area to control swelling.
3. Preserve the Broken Fragments
If the tooth has fallen out, you certainly need emergency treatment. Consider calling your general dentist for an urgent appointment. The expert might recommend soaking the tooth in water or milk. Ensure the tooth is well preserved to improve the chances of successful reattachment. You can also put it in your mouth under the cheeks if you don't have water nearby.
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Some general dentists are always available 24/7 to help patients facing urgent dental problems. If you don't seek dental help immediately, the socket might get infected, or the pain could worsen. Delaying treatment might also cause long-term damage, reducing your chances of successful treatment. The specialist might recommend installing a crown to restore your tooth's shape if you don't come in with fragments of the broken tooth.
Regardless of your dental emergency, these tips can come in handy. Therefore, if your tooth is broken in an accident, visit a general dentist near you for emergency care. The dentist will examine your situation and find the most effective solution to your problem.
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G. Gaubatz, J. P. Kaps and B. Sunar, “Public Key Cryptography in Sensor Networks—Revisited,” 1st European Workshop on Security in Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks, 2005, pp. 2-18
 J. Hoffstein, J. Pipher and J. H. Sil-verman, “NTRU: A Ring-Base Public Key Cryptosystem,” In: J. P. Buhler, Ed., Algorithmic Number Theory (ANTS III), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1998, pp. 267-288,.
 C. M. O’Rourke, “Efficient NTRU Implementations,” Master Thesis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, 2002.
 J. Kaps, “Cryptography for Ultra-Low Power Devices,” Ph.D. Thesis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, 2006.
 A. C. Atici, L. Batina, J. Fan, I. Verbauwhede and S. B. O. Yalcin, “Low-Cost Implementations of NTRU for Pervasive Security,” International Conference on Application-Specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, 2008. pp. 79-84.
 J. Hoffstein and J. Silverman, “Optimizations for NTRU,” Public-Key Cryptography and Computational Number Theory: Proceedings of the International Conference organized by the Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center Warsaw, Poland, September 11-15, 2000, p. 77.
 J. Hoffstein and J. H. Silverman, “Random Small Hamming Weight Products with Applications to Cryptography,” Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 130, No. 1, 2003, pp. 37-49.
 J. H. Silverman and W. Whyte, “Estimating Decryption Failure Probabilities for NTRUencrypt,” Technical Report, NTRU Cryptosystems, 2005, Technical Report No. 18, Version 1.


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View of the Ramu Nickel mine refinery. Image by Christopher McLeod/Sacred Land Film Project.
Jayne Safihao | Post Courier | 6 July 2018
While deputy Prime Minister, Charles Abel and a large team of government officers arrived yesterday in Madang for the much anticipated royalty payment to those affected in the Ramu Nico project, neglected Basamuk landowners have threatened to shut down the Basamuk refinery on Monday.
The threat was issued to the Ramu Nico management yesterday by executives of the Basamuk Landowners Association, in what was a ‘strained meeting’.
Spokesman and activist in the fight against having the deep sea tailings placement in Basamuk, Sama Mellombo, spoke strongly against the Mining Resource Authority (MRA), saying it had no legitimate powers to negotiate royalty payments.
He said that the Lands Department made an Improvement Inspection Report in 1999 which stated that the land should be forfeited and given back to customary landowners to improve.
Mr Mellombo said this was before the Mining Lease 42 was granted, “as described as to the depth of 30 metre below the natural surface of land situated near Basamuk”.
“Basamuk land is exempted from compulsory acquisition. Since the first Lands Titles Commission hearing in 2011 there has been no decision made over the land title. So after two LTC hearings no one can claim the land. We’ve had to go to the National Court to sort ownership issues but the courts say they are not the proper authority to decide who owns the land. It’s been a volley between the courts and LTC since,” he said.
“Now who has given MCC, the Chinese developer, the Basamuk land?”
MCC spokesperson, who did not want to be named, confirmed the meeting with Mr Mellombo’s team saying that the issue of Basamuk landownership was an “in-house dispute” between factions of landowners which has been prolonged and has put the company in an awkward position.
“The company can go ahead and pay them outstanding land use payments and such but this is hindering us. We recognize Mellombo as an LOA chairman though,” he said.
Mr Mellombo when asked if this was an in-house dispute, scoffed the idea saying:
“There is no in-house matter because according to MOA review of 2013, doesn’t allow two associations in one area. The company and the government are playing games and interfering with LOA affairs which they have no right to.”
The recognised groups within the project area to benefit today are Maigari Inland pipeline, Coastal pipeline and Kurumbukari LOA groups excluding the Rai Coast people in Basamuk.
It seems while the in-house matter is yet to be sorted out and LTC, yet to decide land ownership, the Chinese have somewhat put a refinery and Deep Sea Tailings Placement.
Mra Officers Allegedly Mishandling Landowners Issues
Jayne Safihao | Post Courier | 6 July 2018
The alleged mishandling of landowner issues by concerned MRA officers (named), in one of the impact areas of the Ramu Nico project may lead to the possible closure of the refinery at Basamuk.
In a petition, chairman of the Baasamuk Landowners Association Sama Mellombo, had singled two MRA officers as being very biased, not properly organising quarterly meetings and giving a complete blackout on project developments to the Basamuk LOA.
“I call on the Governor of the province, MPs for Madang and Rai Coast to get rid of these two gentlemen as they are not doing what they are supposed to be doing. MRA has not been paying our grants since, despite a competency jurisdiction hearing by the courts recognising us. These two gentlemen have been taking sides with certain individuals, coming to Madang and using it as a holiday resort and playing smart,” he alleged.
In the petition, he gave the company 48 hours before the refinery is shut down unless both men are replaced forthwith; that the refinery landowners identified by the Department of Lands and Physical Planning in 1999 be served on the proprietor, fully supported by a study of the Yangonan People of Rai Coast 1999 sponsored by Highlands Pacific and National Court order 2005/2010 regarding the subject land; and that the state show proof that Basamuk ground identified by Survey File No, 12/257 was legally acquired.
“We have been reliably informed that one MRA officer had a meeting to brief all the chairmen and executive committees of KBK, Inland and Coastal LOAs and singled out a Willie Galuk for reasons known only to himself. Who does Galuk represent? Not Basamuk I hope,” he said.
“We are concerned because this is not the first time the two officers have deliberately avoided Basamuk LOA executive committee since the outcome of the appeal to the National Court seeking to set aside the court order declaring that the election facilitated and conducted in Mindire village in 2016, was illegal.
“The landowners of Basamuk have been denied natural justice caused by these two officers who fail to remain impartial at all times when it comes to landownership issues. They see fit to be personally and deeply involved in the affairs of Basamuk LOA in-house matters that is causing the current status quo.
“Their actions are not in the best interest of the National Government through MRA and Ramu Nico management as they have failed to ensure four LOAs in the Ramu Nickel\Cobalt project has legal standing in the MOA; failed to conduct due diligence to ensure when conducting elections for associations over the years made sure of legal and statutory requirements according to association extract provided by the IPA for each term.


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Keywords: Model Design, Discrete Simulation, Object-Oriented, Process-Oriented, Transportation.
This paper presents the design of a simulation model that is being used in a research project to investigate terminal structures for container handling on the planned extension of the Rotterdan port area “Maasvlakte 2”. The research project will use simulation for decision support from the very start of the research until the detailed operational and control studies in future. The model described in this paper is the first simulation model developed for global studies, but it will also be used in future detailed studies. The requirements for modeling, the first results and the future use of the model are highlighted.
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Tech-Artist and FX TD Florian Eggers has a look into how to displace edges in Houdini using the Arnold rendering engine. Why would you want to displace edges? For more realistic destruction simulations, of course. The tutorial comes to us in two parts, where part one shows how to create renter time edge displacement with Houdini Arnold. Part two look into a slightly different technique that is able to fix the UV distortions that are created when trying to displace the edges of the geometry.
Florian makes note that he is not the originator of this technique. His tutorial was inspired by one from Lo_Fnatic who showed how to create an edge displacement shader over a year ago. That video showed a simple technique that didn’t require the ForEach SOP and complicated Matrixes.


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Never giving up is an idea that is culturally reinforced in music, movies, and our education system. But I’m here to tell you that giving up is great.
Back in the middle of the 20th century, Boston College was intense rivals with nearby Catholic college Holy Cross. This worked well—not only were the two schools within an hour of each other, but they were similarly competitive in football and basketball. There was so much hype around the annual football game that BC wins were celebrated with a school-wide dance. Eventually, though, the rivalry faded.
When the COVID-19 pandemic put the world on pause for a year, it felt to me that enthusiasm for Boston College athletics reached an all-time low. Combine that with lukewarm performances in some of the major sports last year and you end up with a student body that stays for an hour and then dips after mumbling its way through “For Boston.”