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AGE, RELEVANCE AND THE BBC
by Marc 'Moose' Moder
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This week it was announced by BBC Radio One, that after over 30 years of support, Madonna is no longer relevant enough for the mainstream BBC1, and being moved to BBC2, the UK radio equivalent of being put out to pasture for good. In a talk with an insider at the station, The Daily Mail reported, "At the end of the day it's all about relevance. It's natural that as an artist gets older their audience goes elsewhere and Radio 1 has to reflect that. The station has a duty to meet the needs of younger listeners. I don't think the audience is losing sleep that it is not playing Madonna in the same way that it used to."
The Daily Mail continues, "The snub represents a remarkable fall from grace for the star that notched up 13 UK No. 1s between 1985 and 2008. She finds herself alongside Sir Cliff Richard, Take That, Kate Bush and Robbie Williams on a long list of artists who struggle to get new material played on the station."
While our initial reaction as a gay, assumed liberal audience is to find this ageist, we also have to take a step back and look at quality output and the artists mentioned. It's no secret that Madonna's vocal abilities and lyrical content have been on a decline, while her stunts to seem young have been on an incline, but so have the other artists mentioned above as well. Take That and Robbie Williams have been beating the same dead pop horses for 20 years, and despite great vocal output and unwavering hotness, the boys sound about as fresh and edgy as their US counterparts, New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys. Maybe there's room on the cruise ship for one more.
When you compare these artists recent releases to those of the larger acts popular in and out of the UK ( Ed Sheeran, Disclosure, Adele, Jessie J ) there's a fire and passion along with great vocals that spew from these younger artists that are no longer there with the warhorses. And while we have affection for the veterans, the younger generation doesn't yet, and won't until these folks have time to step back, let the younger kids have their day, and create a craving for a comeback. We have to sometimes step back and see that our nostalgia for acts of our prime don't carry the same weight as current acts to youth. The youth cannot be underestimated, and they do know good from bad, passion from complacency. It's possible to stay hip and relevant, but the older you get, the better you must get, and the kids will be alright. One day we'll all be discussing Sam Smith and Beyonce in the same light. All in time.
Come hear DJ Moose being totally 90s irrelevant at "9021Otter at The SoFo Tap" this Saturday
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Q is a hypothetical document extracted from the common source between Matthew and Luke. Thus, it is not easy to distinguish the different layers of redaction embedded in Q. However, form critical, redaction critical, composition critical, and socio-historical approaches to it makes readers separate the four layers of redaction from Q. Each layer will show how the disciples of Jesus moved from the countryside to Jerusalem via some rural cities expanding their boundary.

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Yamamoto was born in Yokohama, Japan on October 3, 1943. He studied law at Keio University and graduated in 1966 with a law degree. He continued his studies on fashion design at the famous Bunkafukuso Gakuin, a fashion institute in Tokyo. Yamamoto blends the exotic and powerful designs of traditional Japanese dress with Western daywear, and achieves a unique, abstract style. He is an uncompromising, nontraditional designer. Yamamoto drapes and wraps the body in unstructured, loose, voluminous garments, similar in style and philosophy to those of Rei Kawakubo. Many of his clothes have additional flaps, pockets and straps.
A girly fashion style can most easily be described as the popular vintage style. Most of her outfits consist of plenty of beautiful lace as well as ruffles, hearts, flowers, and pale colors, especially pink and white. She’s a romantic at heart and wants to be treated like a lady at all times. She’s awaiting her prince charming and thus, adorns herself with only the girliest and most lovely fashions.
Born in January of 1905, this French designer was best known for his distinctive “New Look” silhouette. First shown in 1947; his suits and dresses revolutionized the way women dressed after the Second World War. Today, talented designer John Galliano carries on the legendary designer’s legacy in Paris, where he creates dramatic couture ball gowns, chic prêt-a-porter, and luxurious accessories for Dior. Galliano’s talent and his over-the-top runway shows have ensured that the brand remains strong and viable in today’s world…
The Spanish fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga was born on January 21 in 1895. After studying dressmaking as a child, by age 20, Cristobal started his own brand and became Spanish’s leading couturier. In 1937, he moved to Paris due to the Spanish Civil War. Balenciaga’s designs are famous by its capes, flowing clothes without waistlines, as well as the use of plastic for rainwear. Cristobal died in 1972 in Valencia, Spain.
The college look would be the tag most suitable for the preppy look. The collared T-Shirts are matched and A-line skirts are matched with girly blouses that are lined up in their wardrobe. A cute little headband and geeky glasses mostly do accompany with this style. The geeky look might seem to be an expensive style, but it is not required to shell out much to get this look as it is not that luxurious.
He was born and brought up in Mumbai, and was studying to graduate in commerce whilst decided to alter his field and therefore applied for National-Institute-Of-Fashion-Technology New-Delhi. After graduation won the Best Student Award! Launched his label ”Manish-Arora” & started vending in India. Manish symbolized India at HongKong Fashion Week, in the year 2000 and also participated in the first Indian-Fashion-Week held in New-Delhi. In the next year he launched his other label “Fish Fry” , it was shown in six topmost Indian-cities. His future in our space stimulated line at Wills-India-Fashion-Week fascinated many international viewers, in 2007. Arora is an industrious man who’s always on the go! Because of his intellect and beautiful sense of styling, MAC has enrolled him to team up on a new project, the Raj-inspired-beauty-range. He also introduced his jewelry collection in 2012 that was much loved. He’s recognized for his eccentric amalgamation of western&Indian clothing that assemble perfectly!
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If there could be such a thing as Big Dress Energy, the A/W 19 runways were absolutely chock-full of it. Avant garde eveningwear has become a focus for many brands, both those known for their elaborate after-dark looks (say, Rodarte) and those who are usually more casual (Y/Project). It's all about volume, drama, embellishment, rich colours, and as much satin and tulle as you can get your hands on. Sure, the hyped-up and hugely Instagrammable frilled dress explosions created by Tomo Koizumo won't literally slide effortlessly into your wardrobe, but the mantra of more is more will definitely influence the party season.
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James Marsden, or otherwise known as Cyclops from the X-Men trilogy, has been casted in Anchorman: The Legend Continues. According to Deadline, Marsden is to play a “rival anchor and nemesis to Will Ferrell’s Ron Burgundy in the sequel.” Recently, Kristen Wiig (Bridesmaids) was confirmed to be co-starring, and that Terence Stamp (The Adjustment Bureau, Song for Marion) may be playing some sort of Rupert Murdoch role in the film.
Everything else so far in regards to the film has been kept under fairly tight lock and key so far. All we know is that the original line up of anchormen will be back, it releases in December 20, 2013, and that it appears that the humor will still be the same as before which is never a bad thing. I’m really going to have to watch Anchorman again soon.[Deadline via Firstshowing]

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Ice Cube has joined the bandwagon of critics who are happy to see Dwight Howard leave Tinseltown, TMZ reports. The NBA All-Star center officially left the Los Angeles Lakers to sign with the Houston Rockets last week.
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- A total of 4,734 Lamu fisherfolk affected by the construction of the Sh310 billion Lamu port are set to receive their compensation.
- Dredging activities near Manda Bay have led to the decimation of fish breeding sites and mangrove forests.
The Kenya Ports Authority has commenced training of clerks to process Sh1.76 billion compensation for fisherfolk displaced by Lappset.
The clerks will undertake the final collection, verification, and validation of signatures and bank accounts of those to be paid.
A total of 4,734 Lamu fisherfolk affected by the construction of the Sh310 billion Lamu port are set to receive their compensation.
In May 2018, the Malindi High Court ordered the state to pay the fishermen the Sh1.76 billion after the Lapsset project was found to have disrupted both the cultural and economic activities of the fisher community in Lamu.
As per the agreement between the KPA and the fishers, they will receive 65 per cent direct cash compensation with 35 per cent goes to the sustainability of Lamu county fishing activities.
The two day training will take place in Lamu starting this week and aims to equip the clerks with the necessary skills to ensure a smooth process.
KPA board chairperson Benjamin Tayari launched the exercise on Wednesday in an exercise that will see the clerks proceed to the field from Thursday to March 29 this year.
The authority's principal legal Officer Stephen Kyandih said efforts would be made to ensure every beneficiary is reached to enable them physically sign the agreement.
He said in cases where one is indisposed and is unable to physically come to the designated venue to sign the agreement, the appointed officials and clerks have been directed to make arrangements to reach the person physically for the signature.
“As a clerk your job is to validate the list of fishermen and agreements for the areas allocated to you,”Kyandih said.
The compensation committee co-chairman, who is the KPA corporate communication manager Bernard Osero, called for accuracy and thoroughness on the part of the clerks in the entire process.
Dredging activities near Manda Bay have led to the decimation of fish breeding sites and mangrove forests through excavation and silting, hence limiting the capacity of regeneration of fish along the channel.
The introduction of large sea vessels that have been docking at the port since it was operationalised in May has interrupted the fisheries ecosystem leading to loss of fish through migration or outright decimation.
Dredging has equally resulted in cessation of traditional fishing practices in traditional fishing channels that are heavily relied upon by the Lamu fisher folk.
This means traditional fishing waters have been closed off to artisanal fishermen who depend upon the waters of the channels for their livelihood forcing many to abandon the trade since the only option left is for them to ply the more dangerous high seas which are deadly.

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Two-tier plan for competition law
Hong Kong will set up a two-tier regime to oversee most of its 580 statutory bodies under the forthcoming competition law, with about 10 of them to be regulated like commercial companies by a new commission, said a source familiar with the plan.
Entities deemed commercial because they compete directly with private industry would face tougher restrictions on engaging in anti-competitive behaviour under the new law. The remaining 570 entities would be monitored by an existing advisory body.
The government is expected to brief the Legislative Council's bills committee about the list of statutory bodies covered on Tuesday.
Ocean Park and the Federation of Hong Kong Industries are two of the statutory bodies most likely to be counted as commercial and supervised by the future competition commission. The remainder would be overseen by the Competition Policy Advisory Group (Compag) - a panel led by the financial secretary.
Under the new criteria, a statutory body would be regulated as a commercial enterprise if it engages in substantial economic activities and direct market competition, but does not provide an essential public service and lacks a compelling policy reason for exemption.
The industries federation was not exempted even though it was created for a similar purpose as the trade development council because it had evolved over the years to function similarly to the city's private chambers of commerce, the source said.
Ocean Park was not eligible for exemption because it was not seen as providing an essential public service.
Exempted bodies would not be regulated by the commission and the tribunal, but the non-statutory Compag, which would be charged with ensuring they do not conduct anti-competitive behaviour.
'But that does not mean these bodies can conduct anti-competitive behaviour because the Compag will regulate them,' said the source. 'They are also bounded by the corresponding statutes.'
While the Compag can act on complaints or initiate investigations on its own, a 2006 report noted that the small number of cases it had substantiated was a consequence of the group's lack of power to collect information from accused entities.
The source said the government believed the statutorily regulated bodies would be more co-operative with the group's investigations.
Years that will have passed between the Consumer Council first calling for a competition law and the HK government introducing one


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GEORGE, Thomas 1
- Born: About 1755
- Marriage (1): ORR, Hannah
In the 1790s in Ireland rebellion was about to burst into flame. The fire was fed by the injustices sustained by the people of Ireland, and the examples in the recent past of the American and French revolutions.
The Society of the United Irishmen nursed the fire, at first openly, then later as a secret organisation. They aspired to the kind of society we now take for granted: equality before the law, democratic control of government, and liberty enjoyed as a natural right of man.
A Thomas George can be placed at the Battle of Saintfield, a town in County Down lying about 12 miles south of Belfast. In the aftermath of the battle, during the afternoon of June 10 1798, James Runker was ordered, so he later claimed in his deposition, by Thomas George of the Ravara battalion, to drive away cattle from the property of local people called Price.
In another deposition Alexander Hill described how democratic was the command structure of the United Irishmen; how in the townland of Ravara or Ravarra, in the parish of Killinchy near Saintfield, for example, one member could put forward the name of another to become an officer. If this were seconded, then the individual's name was included in the ballot.
Ravara:Killinchy 21; 42/62 3km NNE of Saintfield on Comber road; 1246 acres 2
Thomas married Hannah ORR. (Hannah ORR was born about 1759.)

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Currently, these licenses are required to be uniform throughout the state. An officer who encounters a permit from El Dorado County should be seeing the exact same permit as from Riverside County–and it should be readily identifiable as such.
However, it appears that some local authorities have been issuing their own local versions contrary to statute, putting their staff and all concealed carry holders in harm’s way.
Unfortunately, AB 2510, authored by Eric Linder (R-Corona), only makes the problem worse.
Given that there are nearly 500 issuing authorities, if all of them were to make up their own permit, it would put concealed carry license holders and law enforcement in danger, not only in California–but in those states that honor our licenses as well.
AB 2510 seeks to retroactively validate those unlawful and dangerous local permits by requiring the Department of Justice (DOJ) to ratify them, as well as encourage up to 500 new and distinct permits.
Although we have raised our concerns with the author, he needs to hear it from gun owners and law enforcement officers who will have to deal with the consequences of the bill.
The solution is simple; if the state wishes to update and modernize the licenses (photo, security features, size, material, color, etc…) then it should construct a uniform, statewide policy and not force DOJ to just ratify whatever the local issuing authority prints or produces.
We, and just about every gun owner in California, want a uniform system for concealed carry permits.
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Earlier this week New York City’s resident mayor and America’s most famous groundhog killer threw his support behind a proposal to raise the minimum price of cigarette single packs from the current unaffordable price of $10.50 a pack to $13 a pack. Per the New York Times:
“Raising the minimum price of a pack to $13, from the current $10.50 minimum, would make New York the most expensive place in the nation to buy cigarettes, city officials said.
The goal, Mr. de Blasio said, is to persuade or coerce 160,000 of the 900,000 New York City residents who smoke to stop doing so by 2020.
In pushing the anti-tobacco measures, the mayor, more than three years into his term, has come to embrace a major public health movement that was closely associated with his predecessor, Michael R. Bloomberg, who made the city a leader in efforts to reduce tobacco use.”
De Blasio is also backing a measure to cap the number of licenses issued to retail sellers. New York City’s health commissioner estimates that currently 9,000 retailers in the city have a license to sell tobacco, and the mayor wants that number reduced to 6,000 over the course of the next 10 years.
But breathe easy, brave addicted New Yorkers, these measures are expected to produce enough new black market loosie dealers (like Eric Garner) to no doubt fill the void left by licensed sellers.
De Blasio is, of course, hiding behind “health concerns” to push a policy that doesn’t make sense for much of his base. In a New York Times health analysis based on survey data from the University of Minnesota, Americans with a high-school education or less account for 40% of the population who smoke regularly. In 2012 study, low income ($30,000 a year or less) smokers in New York City spend up to 25% of their overall income on cigarettes.
There is no imperial data that shows that raising taxes on cigarettes forces more people to quit and get healthier. What it does have a track record of doing, however, is opening up alternate markets and methods for people to get their cigs. A 2015 study by the Tax Foundation found that New York holds the highest rates of inbound smuggled tobacco products.
The same comrade mayor who rails endlessly about the evils of corporate America and the struggles of the poor and downtrodden is literally making it impossible for the poor and downtrodden to get ahead by gassing them on a legal product. The same mayor who raises his fist in the air chanting “I can’t breathe” along with hundreds of Eric Garner supporters, is a willing participant in a policy that directly led to Garner’s arrest and subsequent death at the hands of officers in 2014.
But the bigger question for de Blasio is why his views on cigarettes are aligned with those of a radical islamist unholy death cult enslaving women, torching villages and boiling men alive in cages? On cigarette taxes, de Blasio aligns with ISIS. In a highly information tweet thread, New York Times foreign correspondent Rukmini Callimachi, while traveling through ISIS-ravaged Iraq, came upon a village man in Badooosh, a province just Northwest of Mosul. The man’s name is Mohamed Ahmed Saleh and he is a cow herder. His village was liberated from ISIS by coalition forces, and the first thing the dude did was light up a smoke. Callimachi goes on to tell the story of how Saleh describes the extremes he took to find cigarettes while under ISIS governance, and how much he enjoyed breaking their rules.
In one tweet, Callimachi snaps a photo of the brand of cigarettes. “This brand was the only 1 smuggled into ISIS territory. A packet used to cost 750 dinars or $0.63. Under ISIS, it spiked to 20,000 or $17”. In a following tweet, she writes: “He couldn’t afford $17. So he & 4 friends pooled money to buy 1 pack of 20 cigarettes. Here’s how he broke them up 2 make them last”
So take a bow, Mayor McDeath, there are people standing among the rubble of ISIS puffing away with more freedom than a brother living north of 110th street in Manhattan.
Maybe Eric Garner would have been safer in Mosul.


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This latest Big Nate installment by bestselling author Lincoln Peirce will take readers on a hilarious, romantic, rock-and-roll adventure!
Nate Wright is born to be wild! And when Enslave the Mollusk is invited to play at the P.S. 38 annual open house, he and his bandmates are on the stairway to heaven. While the kids rock, the school year rolls on. Mrs. Godfrey is back in black, Gina thinks she’s hot stuff, and Coach John is dazed and confused. The good news: Nate’s finally reunited with Trudy, his summer crush. But when he finds out she’s a—gulp—seventh grader, will Nate lose that lovin’ feeling? Middle school is a long, strange trip, and this new collection of riotous Big Nate comics just might BLOW THE ROOF OFF!
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I received this book in exchange for my honest review.
My favorite crazy guy is back and this time… he’s in lurv.
I absolutely laughed out loud many times and found myself flipping through the books pages one after the other anxious to see what was going to happen next. Chuckling to myself I shared the book with my husband who also enjoyed this edition. And dating an older woman… now that’s tough, and hilarious.
All the social problems that comes with being a pre-teen boy, going to school, having an older girlfriend and typical dysfunctional friends… it can’t get any better. Peirce nails each and every setting with laughter. I hope younger generations enjoy Big Nate as much as I have.
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Regardless of the military outcome of the war, in a sense, Ukraine has already won. In 2014, the south-east of the country welcomed the Russians with flowers. Today, it bids them farewell with the legendary phrase of the defenders of the Snake Island. Separatism will not pass. In terms of propaganda, Putin has lost Ukraine
As I write these words, Kherson is the only capital of the oblast occupied by the Russians. A large Russian-speaking city with no clear Ukrainian national traditions. Located near Crimea, in the part of the country called Yugovostok (south-east). These areas were occupied by the empire of the tsars of the 18th century and named Novorossiya. Since then, it has been intensively and successfully russified. The term returned to the dictionary of Moscow propaganda in 2014. At that time, Putin said that Yugovostok is Novorossiya, and thus it should “return” to Russian rule. The Kremlin conquered “only” Crimea and part of the Donbass – there it managed to create a convincing appearance of broad public support for the occupiers.
The anti-Ukrainian message has largely found fertile ground. Putin had something to build the foundations of separatism on. Warlords, originating from Donbas but subordinate to Moscow, were appointed at the head of the so-called people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk. Many residents have been convinced that Kiev is ruled by a fascist junta whose aim is to physically eliminate the Russian-speaking population of Yugovostok1. The “Russian Spring”, as the Kremlin propaganda called this separatist rebellion through an analogy to the Arab Spring, spread to many cities in the southeast – from Kharkiv to Odessa – and at first it was not clear how far Novorossia would reach.
Curses instead of flowers
In announcing a “special operation”, Putin probably counted not only on a quick military victory, but also on the support of the Russian-speaking population of the Southeast, who allegedly only waited for liberation from the “Nazi occupation”. And if not outright support, then at least a passive, neutral position. Meanwhile, the Russians were not greeted with flowers, but with the legendary phrase of the sailors from Snake Island. The resistance of the Ukrainians continues, even in the areas already occupied by the Russians. “Shame!”, “Go home!”, “Putin – d***head!”, “Fascists!”, “Glory to Ukraine!” – with such slogans, several thousand inhabitants of Kherson went out to the central square of the city. Russian soldiers fired warning shots, but the demonstrators were not intimidated. There is no question of mass pacification yet.
Recordings of the demonstrations quickly circulated the Internet. The sea of Ukrainian flags in the city occupied by the Russians showed that they could not count on a warm welcome. There was also an embarrassing moment for the Russians when one of the inhabitants jumped on a Russian armored carrier and started waving a Ukrainian flag. Civilians are even laughing in the face of the invaders. At least for now.
Two days earlier, news circulated that the occupiers were preparing a demonstration under the slogan “We support the KPR”, that is the Kherson People’s Republic. According to Kiev, Moscow planned to repeat the Donbas scenario. For this purpose, a group of instigators from Crimea was supposed to be brought to the city. Their task was to play the role of local people who are grateful to the “liberators”. Attempts were made to organize this type of campaign in other conquered towns as well.
When the realities of war cannot be presented in any way that is favorable for the invaders, they themselves create an alternative reality. A reality in which they are “liberators” doing good deeds for the grateful people of Yugovostok.
In Kherson, they launched 24 channels of Russian television and three Russian radio stations. In occupied Berdyansk, the occupiers announced the distribution of Russian passports and the cancellation of utility charges. At the same time, in Melitopol, the invaders announced the start of the seeding season in the fields, promising “farmers living in liberated territories” support and access to Russian markets.
The (Ukrainian) head of the military administration of the Zaporizhia oblast, Oleksandr Staruk, reported that in Berdyansk, the occupiers were forcing local journalists to broadcast Russian propaganda on a radio broadcast at gunpoint. According to Staruk, in Melitopol, the Russians organized a directed action of distributing humanitarian aid. “Nobody came, there were only two buses with babushkas on duty who left, picked up (help), told how good it is in Russia, and recorded it and broadcast it on television”, said Staruk in a statement published on YouTube. The Russians tried to organize a similar staging in Kherson. The Internet recording shows that only a few people volunteered for high-profile humanitarian aid. A group of residents also came to the place to inform the occupiers that he did not need anything from them, adding the sacramental: “Russian warship – “f*** off!”.
In one of his speeches, Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned Russian soldiers who, in the occupied territories, first rob shops and then distribute the stolen goods to local residents as humanitarian aid. It is not known for certain whether this is exactly the sequence of actions and to what extent it is common practice. But these two facts have been very well documented separately. On the Internet you can find recordings of city surveillance or shop cameras showing how Russian soldiers steal not only goods from shelves, but also ATMs. Of course, all these testimonies are just a fragment of reality, seen mainly from the Ukrainian perspective.
However, the Russian perspective is barely visible. The Russians do not massively document their successes, also because they do not have much to brag about. The fact is that the Russians do not publish materials that would prove that the local population is showing them mass gratitude and support. There are a lot of video materials showing how the local population is protesting against the Russians. The propaganda initiative is definitely on the side of Kiev.
Attempts at staging the alleged support of the population of the conquered territories for the Russians are very timid and ineffective. Pictures from the front are not very suitable material for propaganda. There are neither convincing military victories nor well-documented examples of Ukrainian support for the Russians. Symptomatically, Moscow did not provide information about its own losses for a long period, only briefly informing providing news of this, but highlighting that they are much smaller than on the enemy’s side. That, too, could prove that there was nothing to brag about. Meanwhile, the Ukrainians provided similar data regularly, boasting about every success on the front. Of course, for propaganda reasons, the losses of the Russian army reported by Kiev are certainly greatly overestimated, but they are still notable. Moscow not only informs about them sparingly, but also tries to shut the mouth of those who talk about any losses at all.
1 This term is used by Russian media to describe the region of southern Ukraine
This article was published in March 2022 in Do Rzeczy magazine.

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Veracode’s latest State of Software Security report revealed financial services is one of the slowest industries when it comes to addressing common vulnerabilities found in software. The global report found financial services companies took 29 days to address a quarter of their vulnerabilities in coding—and over a year—573 days—to remediate all open vulnerabilities. It also ranked as second to last of all other sectors in terms of speed to complete flaw remediation.
This is worrying given the IT outages occurring within the global financial services industry.
In spite of this, Veracode’s report did reveal that the largest population of applications scanned came from the financial vertical. While financial organisations tend to have the reputation of having some of the most mature overall cybersecurity practices, Veracode’s data shows they struggle like the rest to stay on top of application security. The industry ranked second to last in the major verticals for latest scan OWASP pass rate, and based on the flaw persistence analysis chart, it is leaving coding flaws to linger longer than other industries.
Even as it is prolific at testing, the financial sector tests almost as many apps as the technology sector, the sector in general is still slow in responding to responding to open vulnerabilities. Additionally, the banking sector addresses the first half of its open flaws slowly, but it starts to pick up speed once it passes the halfway point.
“Since financial institutions and banks hold highly valuable information and critical assets, they will continue to be a target of cybercriminals and malicious hacking,” said Paul Farrington, Director of EMEA and APJ at Veracode. “Our data shows the financial services sector scanning a huge volume of applications and finding flaws that need fixing. While that is encouraging, the next frontier is achieving greater speed in fixing those flaws because speed matters. The speed at which organisations fix flaws they discover in their code directly mirrors the level of risk incurred by applications. The sector should consider all dimensions of risk to prioritise which flaws to fix first.”
It’s a tough job for banks to coordinate cybersecurity awareness so it’s at the forefront of employee’s minds. The sluggish speed to which banks initially respond to vulnerabilities could be an indication of bureaucracy that may impede initial progress, but which is likely overcome once security teams and developers collaborate more to cut through the red tape.

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Projecting patterns on your subjects and backgrounds with an optical snoot can be a fun way to boost your creativity and freshen your feed!
Modifying a RocknRoller MultiCart R8 so the top shelf, Quick Set Shelf, assembles with ease in seconds rather than minutes when you get to your photoshoot.
Let’s pretend for a moment I am sitting inside a reality show confession booth. Instead of disparaging the other characters on the show, I’m going to disparage myself (not really, actually. In my garage I have a garbage can full of modifiers. It looks like an episode of Hoarders in miniature, only instead of holding on to teddy bears and half-full beer cans, I collect things that make hard light look soft and in turn, make me look good.
One of the most popular questions I am asked is: what are those lights in the background of my portraits? Aside from the one time that I used a Profoto Monolight unsuccessfully, every other occurrence I can recall featured a vintage light designed by Mole-Richardson.
After picking myself up off the floor following my discovery of the sticker price for Canon’s C200 batteries, I decided to look at other options. I have seen people using V-Mount and Anton Bauer Gold Mount batteries for while, but they remained a mystery to me until push came to shove once my new camera was on its way.


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Finally the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company took mercy and gave the Taylors a new number. Callers to Gerald Ford's old 751-0177 number now are intercepted by a no-nonsense operator. The Taylors don't miss the excitement a bit—especially the crank calls. "My own mother called," says Alicia, "and tried to fool me. My own mother."
Their siege is lifted now, but for a time, David and Alicia Taylor were answering the telephone for the President of the United States. It wasn't much fun. The Taylor's troubles began in February, when they had a phone installed in their Alexandria, Va. apartment. Routinely, they were assigned a number which had been discarded by a previous customer, who had decided to get a private line. Soon the phone began to ring and ring. "Is the Vice-President there?" voices would ask. It didn't take the Taylors long to figure out the problem: their new number was Gerald Ford's old number, dating back to his Congressional days. And, it was still listed in the current directory. As summer came and the Watergate crisis worsened, so did the Taylor's predicament There were 150 calls one week, "We buried the phone in pillows, wrapped it in towels, even took it off the hook," says Taylor. After Nixon's resignation, all Alicia did was answer the telephone. "Kids would ask, 'Is the President there?' and I'd say 'No,' and they'd say 'Thank you' and hang up."

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Here's is a small sample of some of our free singing tips. Most of our tips via e-mail are longer and more detailed than we are able to provide here.
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UNIFY YOUR VOWELS
You know how you can sing one word on a specific note easily, but another word seems much harder? You could probably use some practice and training on unifying your vowels. The ability to unify your vowels and make them sound as if they come from one instrument, having about the same high and low frequencies and blended with no cracks or breaks is one skill that separates the accomplished singer from an amateur.
Training in front of a mirror can help a singer discover many things about their instrument, as well as confirm that other actions are being done correctly. Be sure to rely on a mirror during vocal training, but be able to leave the mirror to face an audience.
If you are having trouble getting your body completely involved with singing, try doing some cardiovascular activities, like jumping jacks, for a few minutes before getting started again. Sometimes your instrument simply needs an airflow wake-up call.
KNOW YOUR LIMITS
Don't sing too high or too low. Don't sing to the point of vocal fatigue. Never strain or push your voice. Doing so will not result in a higher or lower singing range, or a stronger voice, only a voice that has suffered undue stress.
QUIT SINGING THROUGH YOUR NOSE
Nasal tone qualities occur when there is too much resonance in your nasal cavity and not enough sympathetic resonance or overtones being created in other cavities. One quick fix is to simply open your mouth taller.
YOU CAN SING
Making an impact on a room is as much about expression as it is physical ability. Take the time to understand your current skill level and exercise your vocal machine to help it become as balanced as possible at your current level. Make a plan for improvement, but ACCEPT your current level and love it. Face every song performance like a football player approaches the field. Forget about everything else except for the current play and how much you love the game. Say to yourself, YOU CAN SING and give it everything you've got.
Wishing your voice was pro quality won’t get it there. You’d be surprised what one hour of specific vocal practice five days a week can do. Sorry, this doesn’t usually apply to singing your favorite songs during commute time or singing the same song over and over again in your bedroom. While you may make some improvement this way, making a productive practice vocal plan would be much more efficient and of course, help you make much faster progress.
The show must go on! Sometimes we can’t help but let our emotions and personal life circumstances affect our performances. We are human, after all. However, with practice and meditation you can learn to clear you head and totally focus on connecting with your song and the appropriate emotions of your selection, instead of whatever else was distracting you. Your body language and expression communicate your focus…but it’s your eyes that communicate your thoughts most of all.
Never hold your breath while singing. The airflow is what creates and carries your vocal tone, so keep it flowing. Avoid Clavicular Breathing and Belly Breathing -- instead, learn the proper way to breathe for singing, called diaphragmatic breathing. Fill the lower portion of your lungs as if you had an inner tube around your waist, evenly filling the entire area.
DARE TO TRY SOMETHING DIFFERENT
So many singers practice the same song, the same way, over and over and over again. If it didn’t work the first twenty times, why is it going to work the twenty-first? Try altering different aspects of your singing and attempt to find an easier way to accomplish your best sound. For example, increase/decrease articulation, increase/decrease the amount of airflow, increase/decrease diaphragm support, alter tone placement, alter resonance…get the picture?
Most people don’t realize how tense their jaw is…because it feels perfectly natural to them. Be sure to stretch out your face and jaw muscles and even make a specific point to monitor your jaw when singing to be sure it truly is relaxed. If your jaw is tense, you will not receive your best tone and perhaps even have trouble hitting some of the higher tones.
When learning to sing your full range and accomplish the desired one voice (same power with similar tone throughout the whole range) singers often experience cracks and breaks. One way to test this is to practice a siren. Slide on the syllable “he” from the bottom of your range to the top. If you do not experience cracks or breaks, try it on all syllables at all volumes. When you find yourself faced with this challenge, it is the common response to “try harder” or “give more effort” on those notes. This is not the way to solve this issue. What you want to do is to lighten up just a bit on these notes, let them float like a feather instead of trying harder and stomping on them. Understand that most often this is caused because muscles and membranes not having the memory they need to make the transition you require, as quickly as you want it made. Repetition will give them memory, so keep practicing. Lighten up just a bit on those notes and sing through the break. Don’t develop the habit of stopping when you “crack” or it will come back to bite you later.
So many students avoid improving certain mechanical skills because they claim that it is their style. While it is true that certain things a singer does, shape of their mouth, how they pronounce words, etc., contributes to their signature voice… improving how you create your tone will only make your signature voice better. Don’t back away from understanding your voice; learn all you can about your instrument in order to create your best sound.
Communicate the music's message. During performance it is very important to communicate the message of the song. If you make a "mistake" don't point it out to your audience. It is most likely they did not even notice.
UNIQUE VOICE UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Remember that your voice has its own unique fingerprint and is constantly changing with our actions, environment, health habits, etc. With this in mind, listen to your own voice often and use vocal training tools to keep your voice on the right track. Stylistically embrace the changes that occur over time, but discipline your vocal machine to remain in balance to support your artistry. Embrace your uniqueness and enjoy your voice.
Low notes are often sung with too much, or more specifically too fast of an airflow. Try decreasing your airflow speed, keeping it focused, not pushed, to achieve a more natural, more relaxed tone.
The most efficient way to learn a song is actually to NOT sing it right away. By listening to a song you can learn what you are supposed to do a lot faster, without creating any bad habits you are only going to have to break later. If you can think sing a song from beginning to end, anticipating every breath and melody nuance, then you are ready to sing. It’s like a playbook for football. Study the play first before jumping in the game. Not successfully “think singing” the song before you actually sing it is like a ball player running around the field with no idea of the play.
PLACEMENT OF YOUR TONE
PLACEMENT OF YOUR TONE refers to where the tone is centered. Mastering tone placement will make your singing incredibly easy and consistent. Some people are born with the skill of good tone placement and others have to really work at it. To get technical, there is both a horizontal and vertical placement. For example: horizontal placement, the tone can be centered at the front of your mouth, the middle or the back (back never preferred). For example: vertical placement, draw a line from the middle of your chin to the top middle of your head. The higher the note, the higher the placement.
(E)XERCISE YOUR VOICE REGULARLY
So many singers shy away from actually doing exercises, claiming they can train and warm up by singing their favorite songs. While some professionals will do this in a pinch, most of them train using exercises and warm up their voice prior to performance the same way. Pros know that warm ups will take you through muscle movements that a song never could. Not only will warm ups tell you where you voice is “not awake”, but using them during training can help you develop necessary muscle memory for difficult passages you encounter later. Today it is easy to accomplish these tasks as there are many vocal exercise CDs available. There is even a dynamic and interactive style vocal warm ups system now available at http://VocalWarmups.com. Here is another quick tip…when you go to sing your song, you should be singing it like you sing the vocal exercises. Most of us will exercise with good placement, support, resonance, etc., but when we add words and our favorite melody all that goes out the window. Work at being consistent. If we were a football quarterback, would we practice throwing the ball one way and then throw it completely differently during a game? I don’t think so.
RAISE THE SOFT PALATE
Creating a larger space inside your mouth by raising the soft palate, or fleshy part of the back of our throat, helps achieve a deeper more well rounded singing tone.
One way to achieve this is to think of biting into a large apple. At SingSmart&8482; we like to call this APPLE AH. To practice, pretend you are about to bite into an imaginary apple and sing AH.
Remember, it takes repetition of this action to retrain those muscles to hold that position so do this on a regular basis for many weeks while you practice. Before you know it, this action will be moved into your subconscious and you will be singing with a lifted soft palate and creating a much warmer, rounder vocal tone..AND, singing will be easier.
Develop the strength and coordination of the diaphragm and become a pro at controlling the speed of the airflow released, the quantity of the airflow released and the consistency of the airflow released.
Breathing properly for singing requires the shoulders to remain down and relaxed, not rise with the breath intake. A singer will gain power to their voice by strengthening the muscles in their rib cage and back.


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The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) is a not-for-profit organization created to promote and support the Universal Serial Bus (USB). Its main activities are the promotion and marketing of USB, Wireless USB, USB On-The-Go, and the maintenance of the specifications, as well as a compliance program.
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The USB-IF was founded in 1995 by the group of companies that was developing USB, which was released in 1996. The founding companies of USB-IF were Compaq, Digital, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and Nortel. Notable current members include Hewlett-Packard, NEC, Microsoft, Apple Inc., Intel, and Agere Systems.
The working committees within USB-IF are:
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The USB-IF web caters to developers who may sign up freely to the developer web-forums and access documentation. To join a working group, however, one has to work for a member company or register as a member. The developer forums oversee the development of the USB connector, of other USB hardware, and of USB software; they are not end-user forums.
In 2015, the seven-person board of directors, led by USB-IF President and Chief Operating Officer Jeff Ravencraft, consisted of representatives of Apple, HP Inc., Intel Corporation, Microsoft Corporation, Renesas Electronics, STMicroelectronics, and Texas Instruments.
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I said that I might disagree with Neil's interpretation. I am not sure that's true. Rather, I thought that I might try my hand at putting the poem in a broader context.
For the benefit of international readers, Henry Lawson is one of Australia's most famous writers. His poems and especially his short stories - I think that his short stories are far better than his poems - were staple fare for generations of Australians. His turbulent life including his battles with alcohol also helped, making him a figure of legend.
According to the entry by Brian Mathews in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Henry Lawson was born in 1867 at Grenfell in NSW, the son of Neils (Peter) Larsen and his wife Louisa.
Norwegian born, Larsen had jumped ship in Melbourne in 1855 to join the gold rushes. There he met and married Louisa Albury in 1866. Louisa was a remarkable women, one who occupies her own place in Australian history.
Henry was a frail, moody and somewhat introverted child, cut off from others, distressed by the growing troubles in his parent's marriage. Already slightly deaf, at fourteen he suffered a sharp deterioration in his hearing that left him further cut off from the world.
Henry's schooling was limited and interrupted. In 1880 he left school, working initially with his father on local contract building jobs. Then in 1883 he moved to Sydney to join his mother where he was apprenticed as a coach painter and studied at night towards his matriculation.
His troubles moved with him. He was no happier and failed his exams. However, he had also begun to write. His first poem was published in the Bulletin in October 1887.
Now I want to go back to Faces in the Street. This poem was published in July 1888. Henry was twenty one. I make this point because while I pointed out to Neil in my initial response that 1888 was still boom time, something that Neil himself recognised as his comment on my post makes clear, I myself misread the poem through a frame set by my knowledge of later developments.
This is in fact a somewhat raw young man's poem. I like it better for that reason. It is also a poem of revolution.
But not until a city feels Red Revolution’s feet
Shall its sad people miss awhile the terrors of the street —
The dreadful everlasting strife
For scarcely clothes and meat
In that pent track of living death — the city’s cruel street.
The nineteenth century was a time of great political and intellectual turmoil. This was the century that saw the emergence of the various socialist movements, the publication in 1848 of the Communist Manifesto, the foundation of the communist movement.
These ideas spread around the world, taking various forms in various countries, including the Australasian colonies.
There is not room here, nor do I have the knowledge, to trace all the details of this spread. Very broadly, within the British Empire (then the world's leading political and economic power) the outcomes were more pluralist, more gradualist, less ideological and hard edged than in continental Europe.
This may seem hard to believe if you read some of the writing of the time from the radical left on one side, the very conservative right on the other. Or if you look at the detail of the political and industrial strife of the 1890's. Yet, at least as I see it, in this varying mix of ideas and idealism there was a melding of thought in the Australasian colonies that formed one core component of Australian political and social thought during much of the twentieth century.
In Henry's case, his move to Sydney where his mother had purchased the Republican brought him in contact with his mother's radical friends and inspired him with radical and republican ideas. His first published poem was called A Song of the Republic. This was also the world of Dame Mary Gilmore who featured in Neil's previous poem.
Two years older than Henry, Mary Gilmore came from a very similar country, small farming, background. They became friends and indeed may have been unofficially engaged at one point.
I find it interesting that both became such iconic figures, even among those who disagreed with them in political terms. Henry Lawson himself was very lucky in his friends and supporters, including such unlikely figures as the governor of NSW Earl Beauchamp who helped pay for his trip to England.
In all, I am glad that Neil selected him for his Friday Poet. I wonder who he will select next?


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Salmon Eggs Benedict
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Eggs come from Little Red Farm, a local Hororata couple dedicated to giving back to the community. The salmon in this dish is sourced from Sovereign Salmon.
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Question about Garmin StreetPilot C330 GPS Receiver
I have a Garmin Street Pilot c330 that won't hold the charge. It plugs in the car lighter- I drove for 3 hours and it still wouldn't work. How do I charge or do i need new battery, if so where can i get?
Check the fuse in the power cable. It is in the end that plugs into the cigar lighter.
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Press the reset while it is in the cradle and operating or when it is out of the cradle and not functioning?
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Take off the front face plate. hit the reset button on the right. charge it. I've got a 320. Same thing happened. On the 320 if you look closely there is a fingernail shaped indent on the inside of the square colored face plate. just pull the face plate towards you and it will come off with very little effort.
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Famous Authors and Their Pets
The FACE Foundation recently received a wonderful piece of writing from local animal lover Murielle Payeur. Many readers may already be familiar with playwright Eugene O’Neill’s tribute to his Dalmatian, “The Last Will and Testament of Silverdene Emblem O’Neill,” but for those who are not, it’s well worth a read. The piece is a great comfort to anyone who’s ever lost a beloved pet, and serves as a reminder that death can be welcome release for an animal that is truly suffering, and that we will always have cherished memories of our pets in our hearts.
Eugene O’Neill wasn’t the only famous writer to have a special love for animals. Doris Lessing, the brilliant, Nobel Prize winning author of The Golden Notebook and many other works, had as keen an insight into cats as she had for people. Her book, Particularly Cats, is a great memoir of the various cats she’s known in her life, as well as a perceptive exploration of feline behavior. It’s full of fantastic descriptions of cats, like this one: “In grey cat’s eyes lay the green shade of a jade butterfly’s wing, as if an artist had said: What could be as graceful, as delicate as a cat?”
The late writer Caroline Knapp had as much of an affinity for dogs as Lessing had for cats. In her book, Pack of Two, she wrote about the close relationship she shared with her beloved dog Lucille, and of the dog-human bond in general. Knapp thoughtfully writes about how dogs and humans interact and how having a dog can influence every aspect of your life. One interesting observation she makes based on her own family history…how tensions among humans can be diffused by the simple presence of the family dog.
No look at writers and their pets would be complete without a nod to Ernest Hemingway and his famous clan of polydactyl cats that still live at the Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West, Florida. Hemingway was a big cat lover, and this famous group of cats got their start with one six-toed cat given to him by a sea captain. Many polydactyl cats, descendants of the first one, can still be seen at the Hemingway Home today.


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Traumatic tooth displacement is a common injury affecting children and adolescents. Although sometimes challenging to diagnose, tooth intrusion, aspiration, and ingestion may lead to serious complications. Nearly 50% of all schoolage children experience some form of dentoalveolar fracture between the ages of 6 and 18;1 30% of children suffer from trauma to their primary dentition,2 and 22% suffer from trauma to their permanent dentition.3 Pediatric dental injuries commonly result from motor vehicle accidents, and especially from assaults; 50% of all abuse-related trauma occurs in the head and neck region.4 Before the 1960s, boys suffered 3 times as many dental injuries as girls suffered, but since the rapid increase in women’s sports beginning in the 1970s, this ratio has fallen to 1.5 to 1.5 The tooth most vulnerable to trauma is the maxillary central incisor, which sustains approximately 80% of all dental injuries.6 Among all tooth displacements, tooth intrusion in the permanent dentition is the most rare.7
Tooth intrusion is defined as the displacement of a tooth farther into the alveolar bone. In a retrospective study of the etiology and pathogenesis of traumatic dental injuries, Andreason found that of 2,239 injured permanent teeth, only 3% were luxated intrusively.8 In contrast, the most common luxation injuries to the primary dentition are intrusive. With a direct blow, a primary incisor can be completely intruded. This discrepancy might be related to the relative pliability of a child’s alveolar bone as compared to adult bone. Unless the impact forces are considerable, the posterior teeth are seldom involved because of their anatomical position and multiple roots.9 The cuspids rarely are involved because the medial pillar of the maxilla is difficult to penetrate.9 In the permanent dentition, most traumatic injuries are crown fractures.10
When tooth displacement occurs, the poorest prognosis is associated with intrusively displaced teeth. Potential complications include pulpal necrosis, pulp obliteration, root resorption, ankylosis, and loss of marginal support. For intruded teeth with closed apices, the incidence of pulpal necrosis is 100%, whereas in intruded teeth with open apices, the incidence of pulpal necrosis is 63%.11 External root resorption has been reported as a complication of intrusive injuries in 58% of teeth with immature root formation and in 70% of teeth with complete root formation.11
Andreasen and Vestergaard-Pedersen11 reported a 24% incidence of ankylosis following severe intrusion and also found that marginal bone loss occurs in as many as 31% of cases of intrusive luxation. The potentially most serious complications can occur when a tooth is displaced into another part of the body or when the tooth opens a communication from the oral cavity into an anatomical space.
This article describes a case involving traumatic tooth intrusion in a child. A central incisor was not visible in the socket and initially was presumed to have been avulsed. Later, a computed axial tomogram confirmed that a mass along the nose was the missing incisor, which was then surgically removed without complication.
An 8-year-old white male presented to Cayuga Medical Center Emergency Room (Ithaca, NY) with injuries to his face and oral structures resulting from a 15-foot fall from a tree. The initial extraoral exam revealed an apparent nasal fracture with a firm mass extruding from the left lateral piriform aperture. No ecchymosis, abrasion, or tearing of the overlining epithelium had occurred. A 3-cm laceration was present on the submental skin surface.
|Figures 1a and 1b. Eight-year-old patient 4 days after accident, before removal of intruded tooth. Although subtle abnormalities are present, no gross evidence of the intruded tooth is seen.|
Intraorally, the anterior segment of the premaxilla showed injury consistent with low-velocity blunt-force trauma, including multiple fractures of the alveolus and several lacerations of the gingival tissues. The patient’s maxillary right central incisor had been avulsed from the socket and was retained only by a narrow band of gingival tissue. The maxillary left central incisor was not obviously present (Figures 1a and 1b), but the child’s guardian was unable to find this missing tooth in the area under the tree from which the child had fallen. The root of the maxillary left lateral incisor had an oblique fracture. In addition, the mandibular anterior segment was fractured “enbloc” with teeth Nos. 23 to 26, and the accompanying alveolus was lingually displaced.
|Figure 2. A computed axial tomogram confirms that the suspicious mass protruding from the lateral perinasal region was the missing tooth.|
Cervical spine radiographs failed to reveal the missing maxillary left central incisor, but a panoramic radiograph showed a suspicious radiopaque mass lateral to the nasal septum. Closer examination of the apparent nasal fracture suggested that the deviated mass was too firm to be cartilaginous. A computed axial tomogram confirmed that the suspicious mass protruding from the lateral perinasal region was the missing tooth (Figure 2).
After extraction of the avulsed right central incisor and left lateral incisor, manual pressure was used to reposition the fractured segments of the maxilla, and resorbable sutures were used to close the intraoral lacerations. Next, the fractured alveolus of the mandibular arch was repositioned using carbon fiber ribbon, and the fractured alveolar segment was stabilized with light-cured composite resin. Finally, the submental laceration was closed with silk sutures. Follow-up prescriptions included the antibiotics penicillin and clindamycin, together with Lortab (UCB Pharma) as needed for pain. For removal of the intruded central incisor, the patient was referred to an oral surgeon.
Approximately 7 days later, the patient was placed under general anesthesia, and the oral surgeon removed the displaced tooth and several spicules of bone via an intraoral approach. Healing was uneventful.
When managing an oral-facial injury, priority should be given to removing avulsed teeth, fragments of tooth or bone, dental prostheses or appliances, and grossly loose teeth (not listed in sequential order). These potential foreign bodies can compromise an airway, which is of particular concern for patients with depressed mental status who may have an impaired protective gag reflex. After the patient is stabilized, the complete examination for head and neck trauma should include evaluation of the dentition for missing teeth.
If an avulsed tooth is not present in the socket and is not recovered from the accident venue, it is prudent to rule out intrusion, aspiration, or ingestion of the missing tooth.
In a review of 4 cases of fully intruded teeth in teens and adults, Tung and colleages10 reported that the causative mechanism of injury in the studied cases was high-velocity impact resulting from motor vehicle accidents. In 3 of these cases the intruded teeth were incisors; in the fourth case, the intruded tooth was a maxillary molar.
Intrusion of a tooth has several potential complications. The tooth can be impacted into the maxillary sinus or another sinus. Hara and colleagues12 described an incisor fully intruded into the frontal sinus, which resulted in sinusitis, suggesting that such an injury may lead to more complicated infection that could result in brain abscess. In the present case, intrusion of the tooth opened a direct communication into the canine space. Tung and colleagues10 also reported a case in which an intruded incisor was nearly dislodged into the patient’s respiratory tract, which could have caused life-threatening airway obstruction or a lung abscess.
If a tooth that is missing due to trauma was not recovered at the scene of the accident, and intrusion has been ruled out, aspiration and ingestion should be considered. Holan and Ram13 reported a case in which a 7-year-old girl was shown to have aspirated a primary maxillary incisor that had been avulsed and not recovered from the scene of the accident. Professional evaluation by auscultation may fail to detect an aspirated tooth.13 Should the patient develop a cough, breathing difficulty, or fever, tooth aspiration should be suspected and confirmed or excluded by means of a chest radiograph.13
If a tooth has been ingested, it is likely to pass safely through the gastrointestinal tract, but the provider should be aware that foreign body ingestion can lead to significant morbidity or even mortality. Even though 80% of swallowed foreign bodies are passed within 1 month, the remaining 20% can lead to gastrointestinal obstruction, perforation, bleeding, and sepsis.14 For locating radiopaque items, abdominal radiographs are useful. Once an ingested tooth has been located, it is prudent to follow up with a radiograph or stool examination to ensure that the tooth has been passed.
A patient presenting with facial trauma may be distracted by other injuries, and a missing tooth may be presumed to have been avulsed during the accident but not recovered from the accident scene. However, because intrusion of a tooth can have life-threatening ramifications, any time a tooth is not accounted for, the possibility that it has been fully intruded should be considered. For diagnosing intruded teeth, the use of radiographs, supplemented by computed axial tomograms, can be helpful.
The author wishes to thank Jeffrey Lewis, MD, DMD, and Judith Hardesty for their assistance in the preparation of the manuscript.
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2. Andreasen JO, Ravn JJ. Epidemiology of traumatic dental injuries to primary and permanent teeth in a Danish population sample. Int J Oral Surg. 1972;1:235-239.
3. Ravn JJ, Rossen I. Prevalence and distribution of traumatic injuries to the teeth of Copenhagen school children 1967-68 [in Danish]. Tandlaegebladet. 1969;73:1-9.
4. Gutmann JL, Gutmann MS. Cause, incidence, and prevention of trauma to teeth. Dent Clin North Am. 1995;39:1-13.
5. Jarvinen S. Fractured and avulsed permanent incisors in Finnish children: a retrospective study. Acta Odontol Scand. 1979;37:47-50.
6. Trabert KC, Caput AA, Abou-Russ M. Tooth fracture: a comparison of endodontic and restorative treatments. J Endod. 1978;4:341-345.
7. Ellis E. Soft tissue and dentoalveolar injuries. In: Peterson LJ, ed. Contemporary Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. St Louis, Mo: Mosby; 1998:560-586.
8. Andreasen JO. Etiology and pathogenesis of traumatic dental injuries: a clinical study of 1,298 cases. Scand J Dent Res. 1970;78:329-42.
9. Turley PK, Joiner MW, Hellstrom S. The effect of orthodontic extrusion on traumatically intruded teeth. Am J Orthod. 1984;85:47-56.
11. Andreasen FM, Pedersen BV. Prognosis of luxated permanent teethóthe development of pulp necrosis. Endod Dent Traumatol. 1985;1:207-220.
12. Hara A, Kusakari J, Shinohara A, et al. Intrusion of an incisor tooth into the contralateral frontal sinus following trauma. J Laryngol Otol. 1993;107:240-241.
13. Holan G, Ram D. Aspiration of an avulsed primary incisor: a case report. Int J Paediatr Dent. 2000;2:150-152.
14. Kharbanda OP, Varshney P, Dutta U. Accidental swallowing of a gold cast crown during orthodontic tooth separation. J Clin Pediatr Dent. 1995;19:289-292.
Dr. Piskorowski is attending dentist, Department of Dentistry and Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, Cayuga Medical Center, Ithaca, NY, with a private practice in Ithaca. Dr. Piskorowski graduated from Cornell University and Marquette University School of Dentistry. He completed an advanced education in general dentistry residency while serving in the US Air Force. He can be reached at (607) 257-5941.

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