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On April 5th, the médialab seminar is virtually welcoming Pablo J. Boczkowski to present his latest book untitled "Abundance".
Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for sorting, indexing, and compiling information as well as concerns that the abundance of information might cause cultural anxiety or even drive people to madness. The digital age has renewed concerns about information overload and the detrimental effects it has on our ability to sort through the stream of online data, decide what is most important, or even to train our attention on it long enough to make sense of it.
In Abundance, Pablo J. Boczkowski builds upon what we know about the historical and contemporary scholarship to develop a novel framework on the experience of living in a society that has more information available to the public than ever before, focusing on the interpretations, emotions, and practices of dealing with this abundance in everyday life. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and survey research conducted in Argentina, Abundance examines the role of cultural and structural factors that mediate between the availability of information and the actual consequences for individuals, media, politics, and society. Providing the first book-length account of information abundance in the Global South, Boczkowski concludes that the experience of information abundance is tied to an overall unsettling of society, a reconstitution of how we understand and perform our relationships with others, and a twin depreciation of facts and appreciation of fictions.
Pablo J. Boczkowski (he/him/his) is Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is Founder and Director of the Center for Latinx Digital Media, and Faculty Director of the Master of Science in Leadership for Creative Enterprises program, both at Northwestern, and Co-Founder and Co- Director of the Center for the Study of Media and Society in Argentina, a joint initiative between Northwestern and Universidad de San Andrés, in Buenos Aires. In 2020 he was named Fellow of the International Communication Association. His research program examines the dynamics of digital culture from a comparative perspective.
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This seminar is open to public, register to attend is mandatory.
The seminar will be held at Sciences Po campus, 1 place Saint Thomas d'Aquin, 75007 Paris. A virtual meeting room will also be available.

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Life in a Thousand Worlds
William Shuler Harris
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A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver's Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer of C. S. Lewis, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, after one too many mugs of cocoa. Includes some thought on alien philosophies and how to apply them to moral and social problems here on Planet Earth.
Unrelated to the book, this was also the one-thousandth project to be started at LibriVox. — (Non-summary by Cori Samuel.)
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The candidate for pulmonary transplantation has been limited because of easy susceptibility of infection and edema of the lung in brain-dead donor. To resolve the donor shortage, two possibilities for expanding the donor source can be presented, i.e.xenotransplantation and the transplantation from cardiac-dead donor. The present study was conducted to evaluate the possibility of lung trnsplantation from non-heart-beating donor following brain death using canine model.Six mongrel dogs were put to brain death by elevating intracranial pressure using the balloon catheter. Following the intravenous administration of methylprednisolone and heparine after the management of brain death for 6 hours, the mechanical ventilation was discontinud leading to cardiac arrest in a few minutes. The excision of the left lung was scheduled twenty minutes after cardiac arrest, following by washing out pulmonary vasculature with cold Ep4 solution, and transplanted orthotopically to the recipient animal.Immunosuppresion was achieved with Methylprednisolone and azathioprine. Right pulmonary arterial occulusion test (RPAO) was performed to assess the graft function immediately and 7 days after the grafting. All but one animal and three animals with uneventful postoperative course proved to survive with the transplants alone under RPAO immediately and 7 days after surgery, respectively.These results indicated the possibility of lung transplantation from non-heart-beating donor following brain death.
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MS. Douce 12
Summary Catalogue no.: 21586
Offices and prayers for a lady's private use
Language(s): Italian and Latin
Physical Description
Form: codex
Support: parchment
Good miniatures.
Initials. Script Italian. (Pächt and Alexander i. 372, pl. XXX)
Record Sources
Summary description abbreviated from the Summary Catalogue (1897). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966).
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Digital Bodleian (30 images from 35mm slides)
Printed descriptions:
S. J. P. van Dijk, Latin Liturgical Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, vol. 4: Books of Hours (typescript, 1957), p. 320
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2018-10-14: Mitch Fraas Provenance and acquisition information added using https://github.com/littlegustv/oxfordupdates/blob/master/test_case_for_oxford_prov.rb in collaboration with the Mapping Manuscript Migrations project.


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Dysfunction, though often thwarted by your conscience mind, will rise up at the most unexpected moments and grab a hold of your psyche like a tiger rushes in from behind and latches on, it's claws digging deep and securing in the most tender places, the most vulnerable. For a little while we are held captive in fear, anger, and helplessness until we finally dislodge each and every claw through introspection, counsel and patience. Understand this, you are not a lesser being because the harms of the past have imprinted on you and, though you bravely fight them, they come back to haunt and, sometimes, torture you. Be kind to yourself, be patient with your self, take care of yourself by examining each one of those claws carefully then gently removing them and remember the tiger isn't nearly as fierce or ferocious or powerful as we have given him credit for being.
What we are fighting is the way others have managed to control us in the past. It could have been a parent, a sibling, a friend or a spouse/partner. They, in turn, are functioning from the same place, someone in their lives has either done the same thing to them or they have developed their method of control in response to that other person's behaviors. It is literally "the sins of the father passed down from generation to generation" as the Bible says. Accumulative hurt, fear, anger and pain that started with Adam and Eve and continues with each of us. The question we all have to consider is this. Are we willing to go gently into that night and pass these behaviors on to those around us that we probably love and cherish? Are we willing to keep stepping forward in our dysfunction without looking because we are too afraid to see what we have done? Or are we willing to go forward into the light, into the truth of what is and accept responsibility for our actions and our thought processes, forgive ourselves and change our behaviors for the betterment of everyone, but mostly for ourselves? If there is a Satan, and I believe there is, he works in the little unseen ways of our every day lives and through those subconscious, subversive acts of pain and fear, he destroys us and those we love. If you want to start the journey to self control and a clean, non-dysfunctional life, I've listed several sites below to get you started. Keep this one thing in mind as you move forward in this commitment: Whatever the truth is you will not die and it will never be more than you can handle. That is the lie that keeps us where we are, don't let it keep you from the peace and joy that awaits you.


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Andrew Gaze says ending their cursed run against Melbourne United as given his Sydney Kings a mental boost ahead of the NBL play-offs.
The Kings spiked a 10-game losing streak with Friday's 97-85 win in Sydney to reclaim the league lead with a 17-9 record and demoted the defending champions to the same 16-9 tally as the Perth Wildcats.
With a rapid-fire road trip to Perth on Sunday confronting his team and a last week of games to follow, Gaze knows the Kings' play-off ranking is far from decided.
However the nature of the tense triumph against his arch-rivals left Gaze confident his team are ready to deliver their best in the post-season.
"Obviously the higher finish, the better chance you have but as we prepare for the finals, it's about the way we play," he said.
"Against a team like Melbourne, who had beaten us the last 10 times, it was a good mental hurdle as well.
"It's not as if they just weren't at their best. I thought defensively, when needed, we were able to crank it up a notch."
The Kings composure down the stretch after Melbourne closed the margin six points in the final quarter delighted Gaze.
Centre Andrew Bogut produced big plays at both ends from that point to finish with 15 points, 12 rebounds, three blocks and three steals.
However Gaze has always said it can't just be the Bogut show if they're to win a first title since 2005.
Jerome Randle (21 points ) and Daniel Kickert (18) carried an offensive load, Kevin Lisch marked United dangerman Chris Goulding doggedly while Brian Bowen gave another glimpse of his potential off the bench.
Melbourne coach Dean Vickerman praised Sydney but said victory swung on simple turnovers from his team which gifted the hosts an 11-point second quarter run.
He hopes he'll get some payback for those mistakes when they meet the fourth-placed 36ers in Adelaide on Sunday.
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SOTU spoke with M.J. Rhett yesterday to get the latest on his recruitment. Rhett told us that "North Carolina, Miami, USC, Ole Miss and Tennessee" are highest on his list, and that he's already taken visits to Oklahoma State and Tulane before dropping them. He visits Ole Miss this weekend, and will visit Miami on April 21. Despite new interest from UNC and others, Rhett intends to make Miami his last visit, and he hopes to make a decision on the weekend of April 26.
"I wanted to prove myself on a bigger stage," Rhett told us of his motivation for transferring for his final year. The forward, who was under-recruited after suffering a knee injury in high school, is also used to coaching changes - Tennessee State just fired coach Travis Williams after two seasons, while Rhett was initially recruited and coached by John Cooper before he left for Ohio University. Rhett relishes the opportunity to play in a bigger conference like the ACC. "I like that challenge. To be able to play North Carolina, Duke and Syracuse would be nice," he told us.
A tough inside player with obvious rebounding prowess, Rhett thinks that he has the potential to cause mismatches and show more skills than he did at Tennessee State, as a "face up" player with range potentially to the three-point line, which was not part of his game for the Tigers (he has never attempted a three-point shot). Rhett likes the Hurricanes' "style of play" and told us that "of course, you can't go wrong living in Miami!" He recently talked to 247Sports.com about his relationship with the staff, saying "I like Miami because they have a lot respect for me. I love Coach Larrañaga...I feel like it's a good situation," a point that he reiterated to SOTU yesterday.
Rhett may be an answer to the Hurricanes needs in the front court. With only two returning players in James Kelly and Tonye Jekiri, both of whom have been inconsistent and neither of whom are entrenched starters, Rhett would see quality minutes. Rhett's style of play fits well into the system that the Hurricanes play, and his rebounding prowess would be a massive boost to a team that was essentially even on the boards during ACC play, especially as the staff experiments with a potentially undersized rotation featuring extremely talented perimeter players. SOTU will keep Canes fans posted over these next two weeks.
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Electromagnetic impact – modelling and expertise
Study the electromagnetic compatibility of railway infrastructure projects from the design phase.
Tests objectives
- Model existing systems in order to simulate electromagnetic interference
- Assess dysfunctional facilities
- Define methods of protecting employees with regard to electrical hazards and electromagnetic protection of equipment in accordance with standards and legal texts
- Optimize electric traction and traction return systems as well as earthing networks
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- ARCVIEW: Mapping software
- Caryn: SNCF plug-in for the GIS ArcMap® software that calculates the influence of one circuit on another.
- ModRGT and Graphcapture: Exploitation and interpretation of results
- Modalf: Calculation of current and voltage at any point of a multicore model representing a rail system
- CEPS: Helps estimate increase of soil voltage levels due to electricity pylons located near the railway line
Testing norms
EN 50121-2 – Electromagnetic compatibility – Part 2: Emission of the whole railway system to the outside world
EN 50443 – Effects of electromagnetic interference on pipelines caused by high voltage AC electric traction systems and/or high voltage AC power supply systems
EN 61000-2-12 – Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) – Part 2-12: Environment – Compatibility levels for low-frequency conducted disturbances and signalling in public medium-voltage power supply systems
EN 50121-1 – Electromagnetic compatibility – Part 1: General
IN 399 – Single-phase AC power line – Provisions to be applied to protect against the dangers from 25,000 V 50 Hz current
CEN TS 15280 – Evaluation of AC corrosion likelihood of buried pipelines – Application to cathodically protected pipelines
Volumes II to VII, IUT-T Directives – Protection of telecommunications lines against the harmful effects of electrical power and electrified railway lines, Geneva edition, 1999
IUT-T K.68 – Management of the electromagnetic interference on telecommunication systems caused by
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French interministerial order of 17 May 2001 – Technical conditions to be met by energy distribution
French decree No. 2002-775 – Regarding limit values for public exposure to electromagnetic fields
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Selected Methods in Detail
Randomization Code Review
We generally use computer code to perform random assignment, and yet computer code is complex and notoriously vulnerable to mistakes. Before we use code for random assignment, we make sure it has been independently reviewed by an OES team member who is not directly involved in the project. The reviewer works through the code line by line and may test some or all of the code by running it on either real or mock data.
Statistical Power
Among other things, statistical power depends on the number of units included in an evaluation and the method by which they are assigned to different treatment conditions. If an evaluation lacks sufficient statistical power, then there is a risk of ending up with a "false negative" result. A "false negative" would be a failure to detect that an effective program change really was effective. When we design our evaluations, we pay particular attention to whether they will have adequate statistical power to support future decisions about program or policy changes. To progress to the "field" stage, every evaluation must have adequate power to detect meaningful, policy-relevant effects.
Analysis Plans
To ensure that our results mean what they are supposed to mean, we commit to a detailed Analysis Plan before we analyze data — a best practice that has received greater attention in the social sciences in recent years. In almost any analysis, there is a risk of inadvertently "fishing" for patterns in the data and finding results that are not reliable. To address this risk, we commit ourselves to specific outcome variables and analytic methods up front. We date-stamp the Analysis Plan and post it on our website so that others can hold us accountable, other researchers can verify that our methods are sound, and policymakers can base decisions on our results with confidence.
At the end of a project, when we report our results and findings, we use the Analysis Plan to clearly distinguish between results based on planned (confirmatory) analyses and results based on unplanned (exploratory) analyses. In general, results based on planned analyses carry greater weight and provide strong evidence that a program or policy change was effective. By contrast, results of unplanned analyses carry less weight; they should be treated as suggestive evidence and verified through further research. We are committed to drawing a strong distinction between these two types of evidence, and pre-committing to Analysis Plans is the principal way in which we do this.


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Discovery Channel - It was in two thousand and six that the channel was able to garner seven awards nominations for Emmy, and this was in relation to some of its prime time programs such as The Flight That Fought Back And Deadliest Catch.
It was in two thousand and six that the channel was able to garner seven awards nominations for Emmy, and this was in relation to some of its prime time programs such as The Flight That Fought Back And Deadliest Catch. There were announcements by the channel's management to the effect that there were some new series which were to be introduced in the year two thousand and eight. Currently, this is the most distributed cable network in the United States, and it reaches a total of more than ninety two million households. Globally, the channel has a total audience which of four hundred and thirty one million homes in one hundred and seventy countries. Some other versions of the channel are available in numerous other countries. The most popular of the programs which are aired on this channel happens to be one program which is in relation to the facts surrounding sharks referred to as Shark week. Shortly before the tour de France cycling tournament had kicked off in the year two thousand and five, Discovery channel announced that it would be sponsoring some professional bicycling team starting the following year, and this offer included the seven time tournament winner, Lance Armstrong. This was only to last until the year two thousand and seven, when the tournament was won by none other than Alberto Contador, and this led to it's claiming that it had retired from cycling sponsorship. The channel is known to have lent its branding retail stores in various malls and a host of other locations across America, and this was inclusive of an online store as well. On May in the year two thousand and seven, Discovery communications is said to have announced that it was closing its entire mall based and stand alone malls. Talk of diversifying their services and the channel made a stint when it started its Discovery Radio channel, which used to air audio versions of some of the television channel's popular programs. Previously, Discovery used to be on XM satellite radio before it was dropped in early September the year two thousand and five. In partnership with the Lowell Observatory, the channel is funding the construction of Discovery channel telescope. Other than being the provider of information relating to issues such as science, technology and history, the channel also runs a website which features some exclusive browser games and other various science based challenges. The channel's first
used to involve a television screen which pictured a map of the world. It was in nineteen ninety that the 'THE' word which used to be part of the logo was dropped, before the globe became a permanent feature, and as if to replace the removed word, a strap was added at the bottom. It was during this changing of the logo structure when the company started expanding and also launched quite several new networks. Most of he newly launched networks would also use the Discovery channel network logo, and in some other times, they would also restructure it while still maintaining the basics. Currently, the channel offers twenty nine network brands which are offered in thirty three languages. In quite a number of countries, the Discovery channel is available on digital satellite with multiple subtitles. Since the year two thousand, the channel has always been displayed using Bulgarian subtitles by all of the other cable providers. The discovery channel in Canada has a completely different ownership structure from that of the original Discovery channel. The main difference comes in due to the fact that the Canadian one comes with an added content which is suitable to the Canadian viewers, and this is despite it's retention of the American type of content. Africa happens to share a schedule and programming of the Discovery Channel with South Africa, Turkey and the Middle East. The channel together with its other channels such as the Animal planet and the Discovery world are as well available on DSTV. Owing to the fact that credit card manufacturers were some of the greatest advertisers in the channel, it had to stop one of their popular programs from airing an episode which was aimed at examining a credit card security malfunction.
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Vial's Guide for Books Over Break
Mike Vial, a CHS English teacher, recommends a few novels for students to enjoy over break.
The first recommendation is "Dear Martin" by Nic Stone. The book has a 100% finish rate for students who have read it independently in Vial's classes among three districts he has taught in. The book explores the mindset that there is always a way to better yourself and to be the best version of yourself.
The second book that he recommends is "Where The Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens. This piece takes place in the 1950's, and is about a young girl who grows up independently and is abandoned by her mom at a young age. She is forced to teach herself things, and survive in marsh conditions without a soul in sight for the majority of her journey. It starts out as a murder mystery and ultimately ends up being a story of defeat, lonesome and survival.
The third book that he recommends is "The City of Ember" series by Jeanne DuPrau. This is a shorter story about a post-apocalyptic underground threatened by aging infrastructure and corruption. Vial thinks if you were into the dystopian "Hunger Games," you would enjoy this.
"I really liked The first City of Embers," Vial said. "The second one was okay. The third one I cannot stand, but I heard the fourth one is a lot better."
The fourth book that he recommends is "Salt of the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys. This story is about the journey of four individuals during World War II, and the significance of the Titanic and the Russians attacking a German Ship. The story is based on a real event. The story is heart wrenching, and had Vial reflecting on World War II and what actually took place.
The fifth book he recommends is "If You Could Be Mine" by Sara Farizan. This book shows an Iranian teenage girl with the desire to date somebody, but cultural restrictions make this difficult.
The next recommendation is the "Ashfall" series.
"[The series] is not for everybody," Vial said. "I wouldn't recommend this to someone with a lot of anxiety and stress right now. But this is about Yellowstone and what would happen if it actually exploded and created a natural disaster. It is a very action paced story about a young adult who is navigating the entire change of the country after a national disaster. It is a three part series. This is what I was reading right before the pandemic and I really enjoyed it."
Vial acknowledges that students need a break, but he encourages students to continue reading for self-benefits.
"I think reading is important at any time," Vial said. "However, break is break. You know, sometimes people need to figure out what's important for them because they haven't checked in with their music or their art in a long time or their family. So I'm not going to say, 'if you didn't read over break you if you have failed yourself,' but if we look at three months, six months a year, and if we're not reading a lot, it impacts our fluency and our thought process."


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Some years ago, in preparation for the yearly staff development seminars we were involved in conducting in Jamaica, I initiated our first session with the statement that is contained in the next section of this paper, (A Community of Learners). This was more than a decade ago, and this opinion is even more germane entering the 21st Century. At that point in time, school people from the United States and England were not recruiting Jamaican teachers just yet. There was, however, a phenomenon that was apparent on the eastern seaboard of the United States, where we have worked in a number of states and school systems, from elementary schools to university. This is not to say that the phenomenon was not evident in other sections of the United States at that time, as well as in Canada and England.
There were literally hundreds of trained teachers, from Jamaica, who were gainfully employed, but not in education, their chosen profession. When we tried to determine the reasons why this situation existed, the basic reason given was that these teachers were not qualified. Another equally ridiculous reason given was that the system was prejudiced. While there may have been some truth in both of those responses, there seem to have been a more rational underlying reason why teachers who were trained in Jamaica, and were successful teachers, wanted to leave the profession. The opinions expressed at this seminar at the Kingsway High School, are repeated below, and may hold a part of the code that is needed to help teachers, trained in Jamaica, to continue enriching their local community of learners, as well as any other learning community, wherever they may choose to work.
I pointed out that members of my organization got our early education in Jamaica, but were never professional classroom teachers in the Island's schools for any long period of time. Some of us were "Pupil Teachers" even before going to high school, so we had an idea as to how the traditional teachers taught back then. By working with students who migrate from Jamaica to the United States, we are also getting an idea of what is taking place in teaching and learning in the Island's schools at the present time. At present, one of us, Glen Cassimy, a former administrator in the City of New York, is from Trinidad, but has worked with Jamaicans throughout his educational career. He maintains that education in the Caribbean is similar, and observations about the Jamaican system are akin to what can be observed in Trinidad where he is from. We are in communication with teachers from many of the West Indian territories the Bahamas, Bermuda, and Central America. We can truly say that the world is getting more intimately related, and education is an international stage, with actors drawn from every corner of the globe.
A Community of Learners
The emphasis of proponents of "World Class Education" in the 21st Century is on the creation and establishment of a "Community of Learners". This concept implies that everyone in an educational organization must become, and remain a learner. In an age when the world's knowledge base doubles within a short period of time, educators can ill afford to teach without being eager learners themselves. In educational organizations that want to make a positive difference, administrators and teachers must now become "lead learners" modeling learning processes and methodologies for their students. School people are no more teachers in the narrow sense of the word but are, in fact, facilitators of knowledge acquisition on the part of their students. This calls for educators that are constantly upgrading their skills in educational methodologies, pedagogy, and information management, in order to make the most current concepts, theories, and information processing skills available to their students. John Locke's "Tabula Rasa" theory has been proven false eons ago. Even the venerable Piaget, whose developmental education theories are still relevant, would suggest that teaching and learning theories and practices need to be reexamined, in light of recent work in the area of Brain Research.
Because the world has become much smaller with the aid of global technocracy, and what has been commonly called the information highway, a student educated in Jamaica today could well become the president or CEO of a company in the Unites States, Japan, or Australia early in a working career. As educators, anywhere in the world, we cannot afford to continue using outmoded educational paradigms and knowledge bases to educate today's learners. There must be the sharing of educational expertise, and collaboration between countries, educational systems, and training institutions. This would result in widely accepted "best theories" and "best practices" being employed on an international level.
In-service training of educators has been used widely to help teachers keep abreast of the growing body of knowledge that is available to assist them in the education of students. Even with state-of-the-art in-service training, educators can hardly keep pace with the pedagogical knowledge base. While all systems should maximize their in-service provisions, there is the possibility that budgetary constraints can serve as a limiting factor in the efforts being made by schools, and school districts. All systems should provide a realistic minimum of in-service training to educators. While subject-area knowledge is important, it is more urgent to target learning methodologies, pedagogical processes, and classroom management practices. If funds are limited, and areas of developmental education have to be targeted, preschool and Kindergarten through Third Grade must be given preference. This is the level at which the foundation for advanced learning is laid. When a choice has to be made between disciplines or subject areas, we must choose Reading and Mathematics above other subjects. Research has proven that a good reader can master any subject area. One must read and comprehend in order to gain mastery. Mathematics is truly a universal discipline, with a standardized vocabulary. The emphasis on Reading and Mathematics does not mean that other disciplines should be neglected. Reading can be taught using material from any content area, such as Social Studies, Science, and Mathematics. This will call for a different approach to teaching and learning.
For want of a better descriptive, we can simply state that teaching can be traditional or it can be innovative. Traditional teaching is didactic. The teacher tightly controls the process, and relegates the student to responses that come from teacher prompts. In this process, the student has learned that he/she must sit quietly, speak only when required to do so by the teacher, keep hands and feet to oneself, and by all means, put his/her hand up if he/she dares to interrupt the teacher. It is safe to say that this process is pervasive in all school systems, and all countries. It is also safe to say that this is the teaching and learning methodology that is used mostly in systems that have less money to spend on educational equipment and staff development. If the teacher has a stick of chalk, and a textbook, traditional teaching can be done to a relative degree of success. Students rarely see these teachers engaged in the learning process. They seem to be always at the "giving" end, and never seem interested in what a student has to offer, unless the teacher is able to exercise tight control. Innovative teaching is based on creativity. A teacher must be able to work within basic parameters, but can use his own creativity to make the classroom an attractive place for students to learn without coercive practices that often place learners under undue stress.
Today, there may be too many new methodologies for the good of pedagogy. This has led to the use of such terms as "fads" and "back to basics" by those who are unwilling to change, as well as researchers who have proof that some of these modern methodologies do not have any long-lasting positive effects on education. For educators whose consciences have bothered them, or those who know that today's students are readily turned off by somebody standing in front of a bunch of them, trying to treat the whole lot as though they had only one brain, there is a felt need to vary classroom practice and to include the teacher as a lead learner. Some recommendations will be dealt with in a subsequent discussion under the same topic "An Imperative."
Dr. Hines is a member of the Jamaican Diaspora. He is an Educational Consultant who continues to contribute to educational development in Jamaican schools.


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Gemma Arterton's latest show may be set in the 1960s – but with a lead character desperate to establish herself in a man's world, it still resonates today.
In Funny Woman, based on Nick Hornby's 2016 bestseller Funny Girl, the Bond actress plays Barbara, a woman who leaves Blackpool for London to follow her dream of becoming a sitcom star.
Along the way she encounters prejudices about the roles that attractive women should perform – both on and off screen.
Image: Gemma Arterton (left) as Barbara, with scriptwriter Morwenna Banks, who plays Patsy in the show. Pic: Ben Blackall/Potboiler Productions/Sky UK While it's a period piece, the series is a reminder that perhaps not enough has changed in the film and TV industry, with Arterton describing it as still "very looks obsessed".
"Often when you're casting something you get sent a headshot and, you know, you're judging a headshot, that is how it sort of starts," she told Sky News' Backstage podcast.
"I think it's different now – especially with things like body image and what is seen as beautiful is definitely being challenged, and that's only a good thing.
"But yeah, unfortunately it's part of the world we live in. I think we're all quite visual people and whether we like to admit it or not we do tend to judge people off first impressions – but it is changing, so that's good."
Arterton says she was drawn to the story years ago when she first read Hornby's novel, so when the production company that won the rights approached her with a script by comedy actress Morwenna Banks – offering her both the lead role and the opportunity to make it a co-production with her own company – Arterton said it was a "no brainer" – despite it being a huge amount of work.
"I cared about it so much as well, it meant a lot to me, more than most things," she said. "Trying to grapple with getting the character first of all, and nailing that, and that it was quite a transformation for me physically and also just performatively.
"Finding that and also finding the funny, finding the clown, and finding all of that and doing work on that and letting go and being silly and ridiculous."
Image: Tom Bateman also stars. Pic: Ben Blackall/Potboiler Productions/Sky UK The actress says that in order to be truly funny, she learned she had to be willing to look silly.
"You do just have to make a fool of yourself. I mean you're not always funny – you have to try stuff out and make loads of mistakes and fall flat on your face…
"I did loads of clowning workshops and things to try and get out of my head and get into my body and find the more naive side of the character."
But during that training, Arterton admits she may have let go a little too much at one point.
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"I remember I was doing this day with this amazing guy called Toby Cedric who really helped me do a lot of the physical stuff, and I had this red nose on and he was like: 'You've got to keep running into the room and do something and then run out again.'
"So I was doing it and I just kept doing it, and one time the door – and it was a fire door – shut and I ran into it really hard and I knocked myself out. I literally knocked myself out on this massive fire door because you're being so naive and open and wide-eyed and you just don't think about practical things like that a door might shut – but it all really, really helped, anyway."
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The experimental guitarist explores multiple approaches to genre and technique through inventive playing and clever songcraft on the new album Auto.
"I need to be in a punk band at the same time as I need to be playing free improv at the same time as I need to be playing songs," Wendy Eisenberg explains, detailing their creative process. "All at the same time—otherwise none of the practices will work for me." Listening to Eisenberg's work, this is easily understood.
Take Eisenberg's new record, Auto, for example. The album opens with the ballad "I Don't Want To," which combines clean sounds from Eisenberg's ES-175 and glitchy electronics à la Jim O'Rourke and David Grubbs' experimental creations as Gastr Del Sol. "Centreville" follows, with Eisenberg taking a tech-y and angular approach to guitar riffage, followed by the sunny, jazz-pop groove of "No Such Lack." In just three tracks, Eisenberg has covered plenty of ground and the album proceeds with sustained versatility throughout.
Each stylistic jump on Auto is studied and focused and serves a distinct musical purpose, so the album makes the case that this sort of big-ears, genre-hopping approach is home for Eisenberg and is an aesthetic in and of itself. It's no surprise when Eisenberg name-drops composer John Zorn's iconoclastic Naked City band—whose extreme genre-pastiche approach is both groundbreaking and truly incomparable—as part of their education. "I went to NEC [New England Conservatory] for their Contemporary Improv masters," the guitarist says. "It happened to coincide with Zorn's 60th birthday concerts, where I got to play a bunch of Naked City parts."
After college, Eisenberg continued to have multiple stylistic irons in the fire. Eisenberg was quick to become a regular player in the New York City experimental scene, where they stayed connected with Zorn, who released The Machinic Unconscious, Eisenberg's trio record with bassist Trevor Dunn (Mr. Bungle and countless Zorn projects) and drummer Ches Smith (Marc Ribot, Tim Berne). Meanwhile, Eisenberg was actively involved in the Western Massachusetts music scene, living there until recently moving to New York, and worked with several rock and noise bands including the Birthing Hips, whose dissolution inspired Auto.
It's easy to hear similarities between Birthing Hips—whose own "genre-play," as Eisenberg explains, is quickly identifiable, especially on "Strip Tease," where Beethoven's "Ode To Joy" theme can be heard accompanied by a blast of noise-rock ripping—and Auto, but the latter feels much more nuanced and personal. As a player, Eisenberg takes on such a wide variety of playing approaches, from angular riffing to contrapuntal chord melodies to short flashes of bossa nova comping and so much more—all of which seem to come naturally and in support of the well-crafted songs. Producer Nick Zanca contributes much of the synths and electronic elements that color and surround Eisenberg's playing, providing a cohesive sonic landscape, while Eisenberg's warm, plainly-stated singing navigates the conceptual changes and helps form a united whole to the album.
Eisenberg is a sharp musical thinker, so we took this opportunity to catch up and discuss Auto and to pick their brain about everything from practice materials to improvisation and composition concepts.
What about improvisation is important to you and your guitar playing?
Improvisation, on the guitar, is a way for me to know the guitar better. At this point, because I've been so married to the guitar for years, I feel like by exploring the guitar I'm actually exploring myself and I feel like improvisation actually affords you that. If you're doing composed work, you're exploring something outside of you. Maybe I'm selfish, but there's less potential for something there for me than the self-exploration that is part of improvising on an instrument that you know.
I think what's important about it is that your body can surprise you. So, if you're doing a discipline that has less to do with the regurgitation of ideas—in composed music or in genre-specific improvised work—if you're going against those techniques, your literal physical intuition starts to matter differently. A lot of my vocabulary and my approaches come from whatever my body wants to do on the guitar at the time, which usually just has to do with me stretching out an impulse. So, if I want to play a little cluster or a melody, then I'll want to stretch it out using a shape or developing it in some way, rhythmically or off the fretboard.
Would you share some of the background behind writing Auto?
I had this improvising/composed genre-play band called Birthing Hips, and when we broke up I was kind of worried that I wouldn't be able to write the same way.Birthing Hips didn't work out and I was writing as a way to take stock of what musically was still there for me to say. I was really approaching the composition of each song like I wanted to use my influences, but not consciously. I wanted to be as true to the experience of loss that I had from the band and also from the incredible seismic mid-20s changes that were happening at the time.
While writing the album Auto, Wendy Eisenberg had two guidelines: "The song had to be good, which is hopefully a challenge that all songwriters need to follow, and the song also has to convey with accuracy and, hopefully a little bit of grace, the emotional state via the music."
Musically, there are some things that are more stock than others. There's a song on there called "Genre Fiction" that's basically a folk song, and there's other stuff that's super complicated, like "Centreville." That's about the divorce between your brain and your body when you have to sing and play at the same time.
All of these things were little challenges I set to myself: The song had to be good, which is hopefully a challenge that all songwriters need to follow, and the song also has to convey with accuracy and, hopefully, a little bit of grace, the emotional state via the music.
What are those influences you're exploring on this album?
There's a lot of Arto Lindsay's songs. Ted Reichman [composer and Eisenberg's former professor at NEC] once told me that my songs were like his and I didn't think it was true and I slowly wanted to make it true because his songs are great. I was really into his Mundo Civilizado kind of stuff, because the fact that he could do that and [no-wave band] DNA and [avant-pop duo] Ambitious Lovers and everything, I mean…. I think it's him and Eugene Chadbourne that care as much about improvisation as they do about songs on the guitar.
So, I feel like I was coming from an Arto Lindsay place and also a João Gilberto and Juana Molinaworld, where the songcraft is super important, but there's also humor and exploration. Songs can so easily become stock and improvisation can so easily become stock, so I wanted the record to be at the midpoint of innovation in both of those genres.
I was wondering if Gastr Del Sol was part of that.
I like to listen to Gastr Del Sol and definitely the way the records are produced informed the production 100 percent, but I never think of trying to write the way they do. I think the producer on the record was thinking about that a lot, because there's that acoustic guitar and electronics thing.
"I play the same guitars that I've played since high school," says Wendy Eisenberg. That includes this 1989 Japan-made Fender Jazzmaster, which Eisenberg describes as "a very disconcerting color of yellow." Photo by Ellery Berenger
How is the guitar part of your writing process?
At the time that I was writing this, I would be doing a lot of melodies away from the guitar, so I'd be walking around and singing to myself, which I didn't really do until writing this.
In the act of writing, it's usually like a one- to three-hour process, and I just sit there with the guitar and let it speak to me. It's kind of like you get out of it what you put into it. If I'm practicing a lot that day, then I'll write something like "Centreville" or "Futures," which have a more linear thing, because I was practicing a lot of lines and trying to get my improvising melodies happening. I'm really into [Cuban guitarist and composer] Leo Brouwer, and when I was practicing him a lot, my songs sounded more in his harmonic world.
I just let it speak. I feel like the guitar has better ideas than I do. At this point, I feel so conversant, technically, that if I were to presuppose that I had a better idea than what the guitar would suggest to me, then that would be a really supreme arrogance and I wouldn't want to cop to it.
Do you notice much difference between the stuff you write away from the guitar and the stuff you write on the guitar?
I feel like the stuff that I write away from the guitar is usually the most emotionally honest stuff. I'm just happier when I'm playing, so I have less emotional baggage to deal with or something.
Usually, if I'm writing away from the guitar it's easier for me to stay honest, where if I'm writing with the guitar, I'm just so stoked that the guitar sounds so good. Not just because I'm playing it, because I'm not that arrogant, but honestly the instrument is just so seductive to me that it brings me enough joy to obscure whatever feeling drove me to want to write a song anyway.
I'll marry shit that I wrote from walking around with the guitar part that happens. There's some temporal dissension at play where I'll just be singing a thing that I wrote a couple days ago over a guitar part that I wrote in the moment.
Of course, in the way that you're talking about, the guitar can be therapeutic.
Oh my god, yeah, absolutely. The same with the writing of melodies. The fact that it's possible to walk around and have a melody come into your brain is nothing short of a miracle.
What's been really hard for me since moving to New York is writing a song that isn't just expressing stupid and completely useless mirth on how good the rhythm of things feels. It's only been a month and half, so probably in two more months I'll write a shitty dirge about how much of a bummer it is to be here.
Since moving to New York, I've been playing a lot of free music in parks and stuff. I was in Western Mass., and the culture there is more about songs. There's a great noise scene, of course. There's so much more visual and cultural noise in this city that it makes me think that playing noise things is being more in tune with it.
One of the records that really influenced Auto is Blemish by David Sylvian, that has Derek Bailey on it. It's so weird. The guitar parts that Derek Bailey sent into David Sylvian that Sylvian later sang over is closer to the music that I want to make. But I wouldn't have known about that record without the producer of Auto, Nick Zanca, showing me that it existed.
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On "Hurt People" you have that jazzy chord melody and on "Urge" there are some really jazzy chord moves. Since you mentioned practicing, I'm curious if you remember what you were practicing when you wrote those?
I've been obsessed with the great songbook for my whole life. I love standards and, specifically, I love the way Blossom Dearie plays standards. I think with both of those songs, I wanted to write jazz standards. I wasn't practicing moving through chord melodies in probably the way that I should if I want to be better at that, but I was playing a lot with voice leading and what it means to descend. Because guitar is such a weird Rubik's Cube folded in on itself situation, when you voice lead you can only go down so far in certain ways, if you're playing with descent. I'm talking really about "Urge" here—when I voice lead and I'm trying to make all the downward motions, the guitar is gonna run out at some point and I'm gonna reach the headstock, so you have to think about suspension in a different way.
So, I was thinking about the great songbook, but also about how much time you can spend in one zone of the fretboard before the modulation really needs to continue.
What guitars do you play on Auto?
I play the same guitars that I've played since high school, which are a Jazzmaster from 1989 that's Japanese and is a very disconcerting color of yellow. That's on some of the songs, and on most of the songs I play a 1959 ES-175, which I'm the luckiest person in the world to have. It's just a sensational guitar. I thought I was gonna be a bebop guitar player, which is so funny now, and I was like, "What do bebop people like?" I looked that up and it was that ES-175. My mom and I looked it up on eBay and found that for way less money than it should've been worth, so I bought it on installment from my mom.Any acoustic guitar is probably the archtop played acoustically or played really lightly though an amp.
For amps, I use a Fender Princeton or a Rickenbacker TR35B amplifier that's a 1x15, made for bass. It's a really weird instrument of itself that I'm totally obsessed with. Using tubes and touring is just a fool's errand, I think.
For pedals, I feel a little funny saying this because Fulltone is shitty and racist, but I use a Full-Drive2 and I need to find a substitute for that because I use that pedal as my neutral when I play rock music. I was thinking about getting a Box of Rock, because I love ZVEX and I use a Fuzz Factory and a Ringtone, and the Boss PS-6 Harmonist.
At this point, I'm still kind of simple and a little stupid and there's so much to the guitar in standard tuning without any pedals that has yet to be explored, so I tend to be pretty minimalist these days.
Eisenberg chases unique guitar sounds by experimenting with different techniques, like using fingernails and picking with both hands. Photo by Peter Gannushkin
You're clearly very into guitar stuff and practicing. What do you love to practice?
I like to see how many different sounds I can get out of my archtop. These days, it's really fun to see what I can do with fingernails and what I can do with picking with both hands.
It's tough, because I spent a large part of my life really interested in guitar guitar stuff, like Brouwer, Ted Dunbar's work, Ted Greene's work … really just studying from these masters. At this point, I'm taking an approach that's a little bit more from Joe Morris, which is that I like to follow whatever the guitar is telling me that day and then develop on it with a more conscious mind, by which I mean I'll improvise and if something really amazing happens while I'm improvising, I'll zero in on it, then develop that.
The way that I'm exploring the guitar now is a little more intuitive and has to do with being receptive to how long a decay is, for example. Sometimes I'll just pick up a guitar and play an open A string and see how long it takes for it to die down and see if it catches one of the reflections of one of the walls in my room, and play to the space.
For example, I like to take my archtop and play it with the Rickenbacker at Nick Zanca's space. We play electroacoustic improv together and he plays a Wurlitzer through Max MSP and I play guitar. One of the things about his studio is, when I play a low F# on the guitar, it feeds back in a way that sounds like a cello, and it only happens in that room. So my project recently for getting to know the guitar better is about getting to know the space that I'm playing the guitar in better. And that just comes from doing it in the same place all of the time.
The form of Wendy Eisenberg's "Futures" slowly emerges amidst an angular and fluid solo guitar improvisation. The tune begins to deconstruct around 2:47 amidst a flurry of extended techniques, resolving into a final theme that shows off Eisenberg's voice-leading chops.


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Created during an Artist Residency at QBank Gallery in Queenstown Tasmania.
Exhibited at QBank Gallery Queenstown Tasmania & Marfa Gallery Melbourne.
Watercolour, ink & graphite on timber panel, framed in Tasmanian Oak // Graphite & ink on watercolour paper
Available for purchase Here via The Stockroom Gallery Melbourne
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'99 Bends II'
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Advocacy is providing factual, nonpartisan information on an issue with the public or a legislator without mentioning a specific bill or asking them to vote in a certain way. It is a strategy that can be effective for educating people about brain injury, ensuring that services and programs best fit the survivor's needs and for developing partnerships.
An advocate is a person who pleads the case of another or argues for a cause. The same definition applies if you take on the role of self-advocate to plead your own case, which is speaking up and speaking out for your rights.
This tip card explains the goals of advocacy and describes in detail the roles and responsibilities of advocates. It also lists tips and strategies for each type of advocate.
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You know how they say, competition benefits customers; and it turns out that partnerships benefit customers even more—as our recent partnership with Magestore recently demonstrated this.
With our partnership with Magestore, your business can now take full advantage of Magestore POS as a daily driver for your offline operation and, combined with SimiCart PWA as a next-gen headless eCommerce storefront, your store will have all the advantages it needs to better compete in today's omnichannel commerce world.
What is Magestore POS?
Magestore POS is a PWA-powered, hardware-independent software to help you run your daily operations from one centralized system. With Magestore POS, you can sell in-store or on the go with any device that has a browser, irrespective of network condition.
The centralized system of Magestore POS also allows for an easier time of managing your store since the system is dynamically synchronized with your Magento backend, and any change made to the database on one POS device is reflected in real-time on another POS devices, thus making inventory management an easier job for your business.
- Web-based POS
- Self-checkout and in-store pickup
- Real-time inventory visibility
- Offline mode
- Custom receipts
- Fully compatible with Magento
What is SimiCart PWA?
SimiCart PWA is an engaging, headless storefront that aims to solve the online customer experience challenge for Magento merchants. Similarly to Magestore POS, it is also powered by PWA which is the technology behind all the cutting-edge features that you see in a next-gen eCommerce storefront.
A SimiCart PWA storefront, as you see in the following showcase, is app-like, responsive, and optimized to drive more engagements:
The headless nature of SimiCart PWA means that your storefront is more flexible and more performant, as the headless architecture is a more practical solution that allows for more scalability and flexibility for your business.
- Headless PWA storefront
- Responsive experience
- Highly flexible, scalable, and customizable
- Installable and re-engageable with PWA add to home screen and push notifications
- Offline-available
How do they work together?
These two technologies—Magestore POS and SimiCart PWA—are brought together to keep your customers connected through an omnichannel network:
Customers coming into contact with your physical channels (brick-and-mortar stores, field services, etc) can buy directly on-site from your sales associates equipped with POS hardware. These POS hardware are based on the Magestore POS system and can work both online and offline, consequently allowing for more sales to be made and a more smooth-flowing operation for your physical channels.
SimiCart PWA, on the other hand, is an online storefront for your business on which your customers spend most of their time browsing for products. The responsive nature of SimiCart PWA means that customers can come into contact with your digital channels through various means, typically by phone, by PC, or by chatting with your online chatbots.
Both your physical and digital channels are interconnected and have all their data dynamically synchronized to your Magento backend in real-time. This in turns allows for an easier time of managing your business, as almost everything is easily configurable from your Magento backend.
What you can get out of this
Our partnership with Magestore, as we have stated in the beginning of this article, is a win-win-win situation for all the parties involved. When going for our joint solution, you too are eligible for the following benefits:
A true omnichannel experience
As modern shopping is an omnichannel journey, businesses that want to gain a competitive edge over their competitors must have a solid, flexible omnichannel experience to meet customers' needs where it matters. Seeing that a true omnichannel customer experience is vital for emerging businesses such as yourself, our joint solution aims to make this its main strength.
SimiCart PWA enables a responsive, multi-device experience which, when combined with the highly flexible Magestore POS, results in a true friction-free omnichannel experience for your customers. This means that, for your customers, the shopping experience is consistent and without any hiccup. Customers wanting to buy a product from your store can choose to do it the omnichannel way:
- They find a product of yours on Google Search results
- They then proceed to create orders on your SimiCart PWA storefront
- They pick up the orders in-store or have the orders shipped to their homes
Performance enhancements
Raw performance
Besides the usual perks associated with the PWA technology, SimiCart PWA also tries to take it one step further and optimizes your storefront for performance, as well as brings more security enhancements to your existing infrastructure. SimiCart PWA uses PWA Studio—a set of tools containing the latest web technologies—to develop a PWA storefront project. The PWA storefront will then be equipped with latest technologies to reduce incoming & outgoing network traffic, as well as to streamline data processing speed. As a result, the raw performance of your online storefront will be substantially improved, bringing a snappy experience to your online customers.
Perceived performance
In terms of perceived performance, your store—from your online storefront to your brick-and-mortar store—will experience a major transformation in the way that your operation is run, as well as in customer experience.
With Magestore POS, you can expect the in-store performance of your brick-and-mortar store to be vastly different from other POS systems, as everything is run from one centralized system. Because of which, there's less friction, less complexity involved in the process; and the web-based nature of Magestore POS also means that there's no more need for in-store servers since everything is dynamically synchronized to the Magento backend in real-time.
Additionally, thanks to the superior caching mechanism employed in SimiCart PWA, customers browsing your online storefront will experience a more connected and smooth-flowing experience, as they have to load the site only once and all the content from your store will be progressively served to them afterward.
More scalability
Scalability is no longer an issue with our joint solution as it's based on the latest web technologies, made to be hardware-independent and more scalable into the future.
Thanks to the headless nature of SimiCart PWA, our team of developers can make & implement features more easily, to the point that your entire online storefront can even be replaced with a better one at a moment's notice, without crippling your whole operation. This is made possible by the fact that we keep your online storefront separated from the core Magento backend in order for a more flexible development pathway, and a more stable operation for your business.
The headless architecture itself is a choice to not be tied down to a single platform and everything that comes with it.
The pros and cons of headless CMS
Your brick-and-mortar store, additionally, also has unlimited potential since Magestore POS is integratable with Magento modules, effectively expanding the scalability of your brick-and-mortar store(s) to the vast selection of extensions on Magento marketplace.
Better cost-efficiency
Because our joint solution is web-based and powered by PWA , there's no further need to develop for a specific device as the solution requires only a supporting browser for full functionality. And in the event that your need to implement cutting-edge features that require advanced development skill, the headless nature of SimiCart PWA allows for cheaper overall costs since the knowledge required for the development of a PWA storefront are more commonplace among frontend developers, making finding help easier and not as expensive.
Related article: How much does it cost to build a PWA for Magento?
Up and running without a connection
Our joint solution adopts the latest web technologies to ensure that your operation remains up and running all the time, even when network connection is lost or unstable. Magestore POS, for example, has a fallback offline database in the event that connection with the channel database is lost, effectively making sure that you never lose out on any sales. And similarly to Magestore POS, SimiCart PWA is also offline-available, as it utilizes the superior caching mechanism found in service workers to make sure your store's content is avaialble to the customers at all times.
Jumpstart your business with our joint solution
For Magento merchants looking for an overhaul of their storefront—or simply wanting a place to start from the ground up—our joint solution is the answer to all your needs. With a single Magento backend to work with, we can deliver to you an engaging and fully functional PWA storefront, capable of driving next-gen eCommerce experiences. And as for the in-store experience, our partnership with Magestore means that you can now finally bring your digital Magento storefront to the real-world.


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Tooth Extractions
Dr. Colaruotolo may determine that you need a tooth extraction for any number of reasons. Teeth may be extracted because they are severely decayed; others may have advanced periodontal disease, or have broken in a way that cannot be repaired. Other teeth may need removal because they are poorly positioned in the mouth, in preparation for orthodontic treatment. By removing a tooth for any of the above reasons, you can reduce the risk of infection, problems with chewing ability, issues with your jaw joint and shifting of teeth, all of which can have a major impact on your dental health.
To avoid these complications, in most cases, Dr. Colaruotolo will discuss alternatives to extractions as well as replacement of the extracted tooth.
We will schedule your appointment as promptly as possible. If you have pain or an emergency situation, every attempt will be made to see you that day. We appreciate your understanding and patience and we look forward to seeing you!
Please call us at BC Dental Design Phone Number (585) 385-5940 or complete the form below:


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Come along to listen to solo artist 17-year-old Kaiya Campbell. 2015 was a busy year, with acclaimed performances at the Gig in the Park and Jersey Live. Kaiya plays guitar and piano and promises an intimate evening of entertainment with songs from artists such as Adele together with her own compositions.
Meeting Point: 16 New Street
Time: 7pm – 8:30pm
Price: £10 to include a glass of wine
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Want to grow your own veg and salads at home? Seeds are not always easy to find just now.
Or maybe you have already started. Do you have surplus seeds and young plants that you can share with others?
On 3 May, PLANT's Grow and Share Stall will have for free, limited amounts of:
- Family kits to start off growing beans, sweetcorn or peas (compost, seeds, pots, labels)
- Veg seeds
- Tomato plants
- Seed and seedling swop and share area – please bring whatever you have to spare.
On 31 May, there will be another chance to swap and share seeds and seedlings. Any spare seedlings from your starter kit? Bring them back for planting in the Community Garden.
Health precautions
The Garden remains closed to community access due to Covid-19. A small rota of volunteers is maintaining the Garden, observing Government guidelines. For more see our COVID-19 statement.
Please stay safe by observing social distancing of 2m. Gloves recommended.
Please wash your hands carefully when you get home.
Getting to the Garden: as usual, please do not bring your car down Pond Lane, and walk or cycle to reach the Garden. If you have a disability, please email email@example.com with any requests, and if we have the materials you want, delivery may be possible. Map with location of the garden and access can be found at the bottom of this page: https://tayportgarden.org/grow/community-garden-2/


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The Black Cat Café & Bar, Honolulu 1930s
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During the 1930s, thousands of American servicemen were posted to Hawaii as part of the defense of the Pearl Harbor naval base against attacks by 'enemy sympathizers.'
A favorite hangout for off-duty soldiers and sailors was the Black Cat Café in Honolulu.
This place, directly opposite the Armed Forces YMCA gym, was a taste of home for homesick military men. It served local Ka Moi coffee, but the food was decidedly American.
Hamburgers costs $30c and liverwurst sandwiches were a bargain 15c. There was an all-you-can-eat lunch for 35c and the most expensive item on the menu was a Porterhouse steak for 90 cents. Cheap beer and whisky were also on sale.
The café had a concession stall where military men could have their pictures taken with 'hula girls' to send home to their families as souvenirs, as well as slot machines and live music for entertainment.
The vintage menu cover illustration was probably modelled after Felix the cat, the cartoon character created in 1919 by Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer during the silent film era. Felix's nephews were called Inky and Winky.
If you look online, you'll find old black and white photographs of the Black Cat Café which shows different painted illustrations of the black cat with its eyes opened and also glancing sideways.
The surprise military strike on Pearl Harbor by 183 aircraft of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service took place on December 1, 1941.
The intention was to destroy as much of the Pacific Fleet as possible before it could respond to Japanese ops taking place on the same day against British, Dutch and US territories. More than 2,400 Americans died in the attack. Some 20 American naval vessels were destroyed or damaged, including eight battleships, and over 300 airplanes.
The day after the assault, President Franklin D Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.
We know the Black Cat continued serving customers until at least the 1950s.
Courtesy Private Collection.
Each print is accompanied by a copy of the interior menu or cover.


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Do a lot of reading. A *lot*. When you read, you pick up writing techniques from the author(s), and also perhaps metaphors and similes that you might use. It also gives you a better sense for writing, and as a matter of fact (at least, this is what I've noticed), my writing has made me a *much* better reader than I was before.I suppose they complement each other.--Mr. P
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The Early Signing Period for prospective student-athletes begins next Wednesday. A few sports - Football is the most notable exception, but Soccer and Men's Water Polo also wait until February - won't see NLIs right now, and recruits can still sign after April 13th, but we'll get a good idea of who's coming in over the middle of the month.
Men's Basketball
This is the reason most of you are here, and it's a good one. Nate Oats already has a full class booked to come in next season, and we should see all four names come in next week. It's the first-year head coach's first full recruiting cycle, and it's a big one, perhaps the strongest in program history.
Quate McKinzie, PF, Burgaw, NC
Rated by ESPN as a top-40 power forward, McKinzie will join Nick Perkins down low, providing aggressive defense and an athletic motor at both ends. His ratings and home state will remind you of Titus Robinson, but McKinzie is bigger-bodied and more defensively minded than Titus was. On both ends of the floor, expect him to finish plays strong.
Jalen Harris, PG, Wilson, NC
Harris and McKinzie both visited Buffalo on the same weekend, and by October 5th both North Carolina three-stars had committed to Buffalo. Harris is a dynamic creator with the ball who has a little more scoring touch than Lamonte Bearden. At the time of his commitment he had six offers, including DePaul and Providence, but was also attracting attention from nearly a dozen ACC, SEC, and Big XII programs. 247 ranks him as a top-60 point guard, nationally, and Scout has made noise this summer that a strong senior season could vault Harris into a top-100 rating nationally.
James Jones, SG, Chicago, IL
Jones is the lowest-rated of UB's class, but would be a gem in most years since I've been following the program. He committed mere days after his official visit, and it doesn't take much searching to find accolades for Jones from basketball-savvy commenters in Chicago and Illinois. His coach is hyping him as more talented than a former teammate now at UMass, and it seems he found a confidence boost in spring ball that has analysts preparing for a big step forward as a senior, perhaps as the top two-guard in the state.
I can't find video for him, but click through the link for a whole lot of good press.
Brock Bertram, C, Apple Valley, MN
Bertram plays with a ton of high-major talent at Apple Valley, and weirdly flew under the radar offer-wise, deciding like Jones to commit to Buffalo just days after his official visit and over an intriguing mix of schools: Miami, Green Bay, LaSalle, and Texas Tech (He has reported interest from a number of Big Ten schools for some time).
A third consensus three-star in the class, Bertram is rated by 247 and ESPN as a top-30 center and is considered by everyone a top-five player in Minnesota. At 7-0, he'll be the tallest Bull since Andrew Atman and the first true center since Mitchell Watt.
Women's Basketball
Theresa 'Tessy' Onwuka, F, Lake Forest, IL
UB only has a single senior this year, so Onwuka is likely the only name we see until possible defections next spring. She's had a circuitous route to Lake Forest Academy, traveling from her home country of Nigeria to Lee Academy (same school as Rodell Wigginton) thanks to an organization called WorldPlayerID before moving to Chicago prior to last season.
On the court, Onwuka draws praise for her athleticism and highly polished post moves, and averaged roughly 20 points, 8 rebounds, and 6 blocks as a junior. Prior to her commitment she spent time working on her shot in the club circuit and led Lake Forest Academy to a 21-3 record last year.
No video for Onwuka, unfortunately.
Scout McLerran, S, Knoxville, TN
McLerran committed to Buffalo back in June and has at setter been a part of three consecutive state champions at the Webb School.
Kristina Curcin, MB (?), Ontario
There's precious little on Curcin other than the club team she plays for, but she does have a decent-looking highlight video and looks like she stands at least 6-1.
Hannah Watson, OH, Canton, OH
I included Watson in last year's version of this post, but only realized this week that she was only a junior at the time. Though we haven't heard anything of Watson, news articles from this season still reference her as a UB commit.
We also at this time last year knew of Jessi Holly in the class of 2016, but the last article to connect her with UB was written in September 2014. I am uncertain that either Holly or Watson are on the way.
Lauren Slavoski, OH, Wilkes-Barre, PA
Slavoski is the most recent commitment on this list, announced by her high school just last month. She plays for something of a regional powerhouse that has this week advanced to their district finals.
Men's and Women's Tennis
At this point last year we only knew of Chantal Martinez-Blanco, and the teams ended up with two further women and Ethan Nittolo committing to the men in the spring. The men this season have four seniors (of seven!), the women just one, so I'm sure we'll know new names eventually. Whether any sign this week remains to be seen.
Logan Rill, Maryland
Rill is the younger brother of current Bull Tyler, but will compete at a higher weight class, perhaps 197, for UB.
Matt Seitz, New York
Seitz will likely wrestle for UB at 133 or 141, already has numerous connections to the team, and earned All-America honors at the NHCA Junior Nationals last year.
Ryan Peters, New Hampshire
Peters won a New England Championship at 145 pounds last year and committed to UB in early September.
Swimming and Diving
Anna Vitolins, Breaststroke, Glenville, NY
Vitolins is a New York-based breaststroker who would currently be competitive among the Bulls in the 100 but lag behind in the 200.
Andrea Ernst, Free, Back, and Fly, Orchard Park, NY
Ernst is versatile and perhaps the best swimmer in Western New York right now. Her commitment kind of flew under my radar until yesterday, but she'd likely compete for a relay spot in freestyle sprints and provide at a minimum solid depth in the other strokes.
Joey Puglessi, Back, Ada, MI
Puglessi will add to the Men's team's growing depth in the non-freestyle strokes, and he could step in immediately as UB's top backstroker, as each of his 100 and 200 best times would place him in the top-ten all time at UB right now.
Softball only graduates two seniors this coming year, and though it's not a headcount sport, I know of two right now for 2016.
Clarence IF Gabby Keller was fourth-team All-NYS in Class AA last year:
Catcher Jessica Goldyn's been committed for some time. She was named Second Team All-Region this past summer. Scroll to the bottom of this page for some glowing endorsements.
Baseball, on the other hand, has plenty of names we already know about, though few articles written about them.
Bo Nesci, C
Wyatt Myers, IF
Michael O'Connor, IF
Caleb Kish, P
Rob Mealey, P
Cross Country and Track and Field
Sami Mirchin announced her commitment a little over two weeks ago. Her cross country times aren't off the hook, but she's a valuable in-state recruit.


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Award winning Gospel artiste Ese-Osa formerly known as Liora, has released a brand new inspiring new single titled ''Believe''.
''Believe'' is a song that encourages us to trust in God's ability to rescue us from any situation. if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you're grateful, you'll see God open up new doors. #Believe