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Meet Charlie Emmett
Charlie is an elite water ski champion. To help him stay focused, Charlie wears EyeDream, a contact lens that corrects his vision while he sleeps leaving him with perfect, unaided vision throughout the day.
What is Orthokeratology?
Orthokeratology or Ortho-K (Eye Dream) is the use of specially designed rigid gas permeable (RGP) contact lenses to alter the shape of the cornea (the transparent front part of the eye) in order to reduce or correct low to moderate levels of myopia (short sight). The procedure may also be effective with low degrees of astigmatism.
Orthokeratology lenses (OrthoK) are worn nightly, or on alternate nights, and removed in the morning. The aim is to correct vision without the need for spectacles or contact lenses during the day. Because the effects on the shape of the eye are temporary, the eyes return to their original shape and prescription if the lenses are left off for a few days.
The main advantage of orthok is that contact lenses are not worn during the day, which is particularly useful for some activities, such as water or contact sports. Since it's possible to see both with and without the lenses, they correct vision around the clock. According to the European Academy of Orthokeratology, the procedure works best for people who have up to about -6.00D of myopia with no more than -1.75D of astigmatism.
If you're interested, we recommend that you consult Edgbaston Eye Clinic to discuss the procedure and whether you're suitable. Be mindful that not all practitioners have the expertise or equipment needed to undertake this procedure. Edgbaston Eye Clinic is one of the few Orthok specialists in Birmingham.
Even if you're within these prescriptions, some people are more successful with orthokeratology than others and it is currently not possible to predict who will achieve a better result. If you're longsighted (up to +3.00D) or more short-sighted (up to -6.00D) you may still be suitable but the procedure can be more complex.
Orthok could correct your distance vision but you may still need reading glasses, or it could be used to correct one eye for distance and one for near, as with other types of contact lenses.
Eye Dream
The Consultation
Eye Dream Lens consultations and assessment appointment takes an hour. A thorough eye examination with drops is done and various scans of the cornea are taken including a corneal topography which is an in depth corneal surface mapping procedure. This will give us the opportunity to assess the general condition and health of the eyes and also to determine the likely effectiveness of the eye dream lens.
Based on these measurements, a pair of Eye Dream lenses (Ortho-K) will be manufactured to reshape the cornea to a flatter profile to reduce shortsightedness and astigmatism while dramatically improving eyesight without the need of glasses or standard contact lenses. Excellent vision and comfort are normally maintained while wearing Eye Dream lenses at night.
You will have an assessment the first morning after wearing the lenses overnight, and then the lenses will take around two weeks to have their full effect. It is likely that you will need to come in wearing the Eye Dream lenses the following day.
The next check up will be after two to three weeks, when we will check that the full correction has been attained. If not, the lenses will be remade, usually with minor adjustments, until the vision is sufficiently corrected (although you will only pay for the final, successful pair of lenses). You can expect to need around two to four visits in the first two months of being fitted with Eye Dream contact lenses.
Once the lenses are working well and the vision is sufficiently corrected, you will need to wear the lenses every night in order to maintain the effect. A check-up every six months is recommended and you will need to replace the lenses every six months to a year, as they will degrade with time and usage.
Benefits of Eye Dream
o It may slow down the increase in shortsightednes in children
o Good vision without spectacles or contact lenses for all/most of the day
o It is not a surgical procedure
o It is reversible
o It is modifiable
o It does not hurt
o Using well-established contact lens fitting techniques mean that there are very few risks
Advantages over Laser Surgery (Lasik)
No ethical surgeon will treat a patient until they are at least 18 or, more usually, 21 years old.Eye Dream is available to children of a young age and upwards.
o It does not cause the permanent hazy vision experienced by some patients following laser surgery
o Both eyes are done together (rather than several weeks or months apart)
o Changes in prescription over time can be dealt with, without surgery
o The procedure is REVERSIBLE
o Minimal risk of dry eye syndrome again experienced by a large majority of patients following laser surgery
There is significant understanding of the effects of contact lens wear on the cornea because of the many years of lens use. There is no post-operative pain. Eye Dream is significantly cheaper and does not preclude surgery in the future.
Things to be aware of
o You must be prepared to allow for 4-6 visits over 3-6 months
o Retainer lens wear is essential or the cornea will revert to its original shape
o The degree of success is high but cannot always be guaranteed
o The speed of reduction in the myopia varies from one person to the next
o You must follow instructions implicitly for the best results
What are the costs?
The procedure is time consuming and involves several lens changes, which means that there will be more than one consultation fee. Once complete, the ongoing costs are significantly less than conventional soft contact lens wear.
How Orthokeratology Works
While orthokeratology can be effective at temporarily reducing or eliminating short sight, claims that it slows or controls the progress of myopia are as yet not supported by large-scale, long-term studies. The incidence and prevalence of eye infections with these lenses is not known. It is also not known whether the risk of infection is greater for children than adults. If children are fitted with these lenses, parental involvement and monitoring of care procedures is essential.
Regular aftercare examinations (ideally at least every six months) are required after the fitting is completed, including assessment of the condition of the contact lens and the lens case. As with all contact lenses, it's important to follow your practitioner's recommendations on lens wear and care.
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I take life for granted.
I try really hard not to, but I know I do.
I notice and appreciate neon pink sunsets and I even write about them sometimes, or obviously post about them on IG. About how thankful I am for sunsets and sweet moments. But did I actually appreciate the moment or did I waste it posting? Do I gasp at the pink painted sky because I know and adore the one who left it there for me or because I know it will be my most liked photo of the week? Do I ever look at the sunset with grave awareness that it could be the last time I view it from this angle, or do I post right past it expecting the sun to rise a million more times—not ever really grasping what I should have actually been grateful for in that moment?
I try to be intentional about making time for family. About phone calls and cross country flights for Christmas. I try to let them know that I love them and that I'm grateful for them. But. Am I thankful selfishly? That they are always just a phone call away? Am I ever just grateful to know them and to be able to love them for whatever amount of time I get to?
There are a couple of pretty cliche sayings about gratitude. I'm sure more than a couple, but these two come to mind.
I take life for granted. My gratitude is only surface level on so many occasions.
Because if I understood, like really really got it, I would be saying a tearful thank you between every breath—every time I felt my heart thump in my chest. I would stare at those sunsets and hug my family like I might never get to again, because I might not. Because every 24 hour period that my lungs take in air and my heart pumps blood through my veins is a gift. And I know we say that too, a lot, but have we ever really soaked that in? What we're actually saying. If I actually believed that every day was a gift and actually believed that I could have none of it tomorrow, would I go about those days the same way? Maybe sometimes, but on the whole I'd say no.
That's the conundrum of life, of our humanity.
I can eat better, live better, love better tomorrow.
But what if I can't? What if today is it? Is this how I want to go out?
Lately I've found myself lying in bed at night still and quiet and so aware of my breath and my pulse and my heart beat. So aware that at any moment they could suddenly halt. My heart could stop beating and my veins stop moving the blood and my lungs fail to inhale and exhale. So aware that I have no control over any of it.
And then I'm grateful. Really grateful.
And reminded that gratitude is not just about not taking for granted my iPhone or my nice place in the city. That it's not about obligatory thank you prayers and sunset posts on social media.
It's recognizing that gratitude is something I should breath in and breathe out. Literally and figuratively. A state of being. It's an awareness that if the Creator of the Universe wasn't first kind enough and big enough to let my heart thump and my lungs breathe millions of times a day, I wouldn't even have the chance to take the rest of it for granted.
I guess I am not sure where to end this. Only to say that our gratitude has to go deeper, down to the roots and back to the source. Past things and needs met and quick fixes that save us time and inconveniences. (For the record, I'm mostly talking to my own heart here and hoping it finds you as well.) We have to start at the simplest things, the things we take for granted, the things that aren't so simple when we finally grasp the kindness of the Creator behind them, that aren't things at all.
But I'm trying my hardest not to.


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How appropriate are requests for CT scans of aorta?
By Philip Ward, AuntMinnieEurope.com staff writer
August 6, 2019 -- Emergency care physicians must do more to assess the risk of acute aortic syndrome (AAS), and hospital doctors and general practitioners need to supply more precise and complete clinical information when requesting CT scans of the aorta, according to the findings of a new U.K. study.
AAS encompasses aortic dissection, traumatic aortic injury, penetrating atherosclerotic ulcer, and intramural hematoma. It has a prehospital mortality rate of 20% and in-hospital mortality of 30%, so clinicians are expected to have a high index of suspicion in ruling out AAS, noted Dr. Priya Agarwal from the department of radiology at the Northern Care Alliance in Manchester.
An increase in CT scan requests has occurred, but she suspected no equivalent rise in confirmed cases of AAS. She decided to look at the provision of correct, sufficient clinical information on request cards and the justification of all CT aorta scans that place patients at risk of ionizing radiation.
Along with co-author Dr. S. Amonkar, Agarwal studied 247 patients who underwent CT aorta scans in 2017 within the emergency departments in the Northern Care Alliance, a National Health Service (NHS) group formed by merging the Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. Its head office is in Manchester, and it includes Salford Royal Hospital, Royal Oldham Hospital, Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Rochdale Infirmary, and North Manchester General Hospital.
The duo accessed request cards and reports to calculate the pretest likelihood of AAS using the guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology (2014) and British Society of Cardiovascular CT (2016). The requestors and patient cases remained anonymous.
Of the 247 patients, 26 (11%) had AAS. Another 15% of the sample had lung conditions, and a further 13% had atherosclerosis or an aneurysm. Other CT findings were related to bowel (12% of cases), other vascular disease (7%), renal (6%), cardiac (6%), vertebra (6%), biliary (5%), liver (3%), gynecological (2%), spleen (1%), thyroid (1%), and other (3%) conditions. No pathological findings were found in 19% of patients.
The provision of correct and sufficient clinical information is shown in the chart. Symptoms were the most frequently stated item on request cards, whereas previous imaging was least stated. No request cards were fully completed with appropriate patient details.
eGFR = estimated glomerular filtration rate.
"Request cards were generally completed poorly," Agarwal told delegates at the 2019 UK Imaging & Oncology Congress in Liverpool. "Symptoms and clinical diagnosis were completed better, [at] 93.9% and 86.2%, respectively. Documentation of previous imaging, metformin use, and renal status were completed poorly at 29.6%, 31.2%, and 30%, respectively."
She also looked for the presence of high-risk features of symptoms, examination, and comorbidities for each patient, and she stratified patients into groups based on low (51%), intermediate (40%), and high risk (9%) of AAS.
Overall, CT scanning was justified in 22 of the 247 patients (8.9%). Only three patients had confirmed aortic pathology on CT scans. The remaining 23 patients with confirmed aortic pathology were classified as low or intermediate risk.
"Justification of scans is dependent on clinical information provided on the request card by the referrer," Agarwal pointed out. "Due to the lack of sufficient documentation, it is difficult to determine true risk of AAS in patients."
She attributed increased CT requests to the following:
Patients are indicated for CT of the aorta, but requests are inadequately completed due to clinical urgency.
There is a lack of resources, including equipment and trained staff, to perform ultrasound scans on patients.
Litigation in healthcare has increased, causing defensive practice in medicine.
CT aorta scans are useful in excluding AAS and identifying other acute pathology within the thorax and abdomen.
The main limitation of this study was that two request cards were not found on the current research information system, and the authors used the clinical indication listed on the report and included the patients in the sample. Also, one scan was done as part of a trauma protocol, and the findings may be subject to reporting bias, Agarwal and Amonkar conceded.
Editor's note: The image used to introduce this article on our homepage consists of a CT angiogram of the aorta at low kV and high mAs with High Power 80 for iodine contrast and potential reduction of required contrast media dosage (tube current = 80 kV/375 mAs, CT dose index volume = 3.45 mGy, dose-length product = 147 mGy-cm). Image courtesy of University Hospital of Erlangen, Germany, and Siemens Healthineers.
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This might be a little early…I don't even have our tree up yet but like everyone else, things get a little crazy this time of year and I get daggers thrown at me for the amount of time I spend on my laptop as it is. So I wanted to get this out now in case I don't get the chance later. I have a free Xmas story on my webpage for subscribers…which is a taste of what I hope to be working on over the festive period and in to the New Year.
If you would like to take a peek click here, subscribe and take a quick break with Jason and Selina.


You've heard it time and time again - technology is ruining our social skills, stopping us from building real life relationships and transforming us into nothing more than screen-poking Neanderthals. Yet despite the ever-present paranoia surrounding tools such as social media and video calling, we beg to differ. In fact, video interviewing can have a number of major perks for candidate screening.
Here are four of the main benefits of including video screening in your recruitment process.
Video screening can help improve your employer branding by providing a better candidate experience.
Firstly, utilising video screening can be a positive step towards improving your employer brand in the eyes of candidates. It helps to differentiate you from other employers, showing that you are tech-savvv and in touch with the latest innovations. Many candidates are drawn to forward-thinking organisations, so embracing this innovative step can attract more skilled workers and help give candidates a positive experience during the recruitment process.
Another benefit of video screening is that it lets you extract every drop of information about your potential employee. Where typical screening methods can be interrupted by distractions or a bad phone connection, when you have a recorded video you are able to catch every word a well as rewind and rewatch content as required. It also means you can conduct screening at a more convenient time for you, making this stage in the recruiting process more efficient overall.
Not only is video screening more convenient for employers, it's also easier for the candidates as well, This is beneficial because it lowers the chances of you missing out on a quality candidate because they were unable to make the appointment. As Business Insider points out, people won't have to arrange time off work or travel a long way to take part in the initial screening. With a much larger selection of applicants at your disposal, you'll be in a better position to identify the perfect professional for your business.
Video screening is more convenient and enables you to reach ore candidates.
Lastly, video screening is a great tool for getting an idea of a candidate's suitability for a particular job, as well as their cultural fit for the company. Video enables you to form a much better idea of the candidate's personality and mannerisms than traditional paper or phone screening techniques, giving the advantage of enabling you to read their facial expressions and body language.
If you'd like to work with a Sydney recruitment agency that has its finger on the pulse of the latest video interviewing and hiring techniques, get in touch with our team today.


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Hospitals fall short of patient-safety goals 20 years after 'To Err is Human'
One-size-fits-all approach to patient safety improvement won't get us to the ultimate goal—zero harm
Chorus helps dementia patients, caregivers build community and self-esteem
Robin D. Schatz
Buck Ennis/Crain's New York Business
Dale Lamb leads the Unforgettables during a recent rehearsal.
In a basement room at St. Peter's Church in midtown Manhattan, Dale Lamb jabbed two fingers in the air in time with the music as he made eye contact with his singers. Some were in wheelchairs; one dozed peacefully. People laughed as much as they sang.
"I can do anything better than you," Lamb sang, as he led the women through the showstopper from the 1946 Broadway musical "Annie Get Your Gun." The men responded gamely: "No, you can't!"
Lamb, a music educator and singer, has led choral groups for much of his career, but none quite like the Unforgettables, a chorus for people with dementia and their caregivers started by Mary Mittelman, director of NYU Langone Medical Center's Alzheimer's Disease and Related Dementias Family Support Program.
Lamb first accepted a three-week paying gig in 2011 to help lead the newly formed choir, but he decided to keep coming and grew attached to the group.
"This is just a fabulous gift. I don't know how I could do without it," said choir member Barbara Ramsey, an actress and singer whose husband, Jack Naughton, also a performer, was diagnosed with dementia.
The choir helps provide a supportive community for caregivers such as Ramsey, who often feel despair and isolation. The benefits extend to the patients, as well. Performing music together increases their self-esteem and can lessen agitation, Mittelman said. The only requirement for singers is that they commit to attending all the rehearsals and performances.
"What we learned is that people in the early and mid stages of dementia can learn new songs," she said.
A longer version of this story, titled "A Former opera singer helps dementia patients find joy through song," originally appeared in Crain's New York Business.


The days of sweating over a turkey or stressing over mashed potatoes are over! We've rounded up the best hints and cheats from expert chefs and authors to help you keep your cool while prepping this mother of a meal. Armed with our advice, your big feast will be a breeze.
Write down your cooking schedule. Start with the time you want everyone to be sitting down at a table full of food, and then work backwards.
Pull out serving dishes and label them with pieces of paper so that you know what everything will be served in, says Nixon. It is a small step, but in that last crucial hour it can be a lifesaver.
Ask your guests to bring side dishes such as salads or cranberry sauce. It will make your life as host a little bit easier.
Transform paper cups and craft paper into a festive veggie holder.
Break out the corkscrew and follow this advice from Jennifer Desmond, NYC wine writer and educator.
1. Before the meal offer your guests cava, a bright, bubbly white wine from Spain. It will remind everyone of champagne, but it's easier on the wallet.2. Have one type of white and one type of red on hand for the feast. Look for inexpensive dry Rieslings and pinot noirs, which are versatile and pair well with different flavors.3. Plan on one bottle of wine for every two drinkers. If you end up with extra, it won't go to waste.
Wash, dry, and trim hardy green vegetables up to two days early. Stash in zip-top bags in the fridge. You can also pre-chop and store the carrots, celery, and onions.
Peel, cut, and soak potatoes the day before for mashed potatoes, Murphy suggests. The water keeps the potatoes from turning brown and most of the work is done. The next day just boil in fresh water and mash.
"Serve sides that can satisfy both vegetarians and nonvegetarians. Try a roasted beet salad made with arugula, nuts, cheese, and a whole grain." --Curtis Stone, chef/owner of Maude, in Beverly Hills.
Shoot for at least one room-temperature side dish such as blanched green beans in vinaigrette; this will free up oven space and last-minute prep time.
Bring a large pot of well-salted water to a boil. Throw in your vegetables and cook until just tender, about 4 minutes for green beans. Drain and run under cold water.
Once this creamy potato dish is assembled, cover it with foil and refrigerate for up to 24 hours.
Want your little ones to gobble up dinner? Lay off the snacks before the big meal. A hungry kid is more likely to dig in.
White butcher paper looks pretty in pre-feast photos and is a perfect canvas for kids'-table creativity.
Have the kids create these cute "gobblers" for a light lunch while you prepare the dinner.
Leave the bird unwrapped in the refrigerator overnight to dry out the skin and encourage browning. Bring it to room temp half an hour before roasting.
For juicy meat, Marc Murphy recommends placing pats of herbed butter under the turkey's skin before roasting.
Transfer the turkey to the cutting board right away and let it rest for up to an hour before you carve it, says Mark Bittman. Use this time to make gravy or to finish (or reheat) the sides you've already assembled.
You want Thanksgiving to be memorable, but not because of food poisoning. According to the USDA, turkeys should reach a minimum internal temperature of 165°F. Check both the innermost part of the thigh and the thickest part of the breast with an instant-read thermometer to be sure they hit the mark.
Put the kids to work! They can decorate this moist cake (at left) by setting clean, autumn leaves on top like stencils before sprinkling on powdered sugar. This same technique also works on a store-bought pumpkin pie.
Bake different cookies for the holidays and use them to prepare a few mini ice-cream sandwiches, says Alex Guarnaschelli. Then wrap them in parchment, freeze, and serve for an off-beat treat.
For an elegant, easy no-bake dessert, Mark Bittman recommends poaching pears with spices.
Enlist a kitchen companion to help you clean as you go, aiming to have an empty (or a near-empty) sink when you sit down to eat. This requires less juggling than it may seem if you multitask during pockets of downtime, notes Mark Bittman.
Do not wave away guests who offer to help with the initial cleanup. Dishes get done a lot faster when you have an efficient assembly line, Kelsey Nixon points out.
Make cleanup fun (it's possible!). Listen to music, fill up to-go containers, and enjoy some more wine.


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Alice Waters, chef, author, and the proprietor of Chez Panisse, is an American pioneer of a culinary philosophy that maintains that cooking should be based on the finest and freshest seasonal ingredients that are produced sustainably and locally. She is a passionate advocate for a food economy that is "good, clean, and fair." Over the course of nearly forty years, Chez Panisse has helped create a community of scores of local farmers and ranchers whose dedication to sustainable agriculture assures the restaurant a steady supply of fresh and pure ingredients.
In 1996, Waters's commitment to education led to the creation of The Edible Schoolyard at Berkeley's Martin Luther King, Jr., Middle School: a one-acre garden, an adjacent kitchen-classroom, and an "eco-gastronomic" curriculum. By actively involving a thousand students in all aspects of the food cycle, The Edible Schoolyard is a model public education program that instills the knowledge and values we need to build a humane and sustainable future. The program is nationally recognized for its efforts to integrate gardening, cooking, and sharing school lunch into the core academic curriculum. Alice established the Chez Panisse Foundation in 1996 to support the Schoolyard and encourage similar programs that use food traditions to teach, nurture, and empower young people. The success of The Edible Schoolyard led to the School Lunch Initiative, whose national agenda integrates a nutritious daily lunch and gardening experience into the academic curriculum of all public schools in the United States.
Waters is Vice President of Slow Food International, a nonprofit organization that promotes and celebrates local artisanal food traditions and has 100,000 members in over 130 countries. She is the author of eight books, including The Art of Simple Food: Notes and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution.
Alice Waters's honors and affiliations include:
Inductee, California Hall of Fame, 2008
Co-recipient, with Kofi Annan, Global Environmental Citizen Award, 2008
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2007
Lifetime Achievement Award, Restaurant magazine's World's 50 Best Restaurants, 2007
Founder, Sustainable Food Program at the American Academy in Rome, 2006
Force for Nature Award, Natural Resources Defense Council, 2004
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Ben Collins is staying busy. The former Stig has once again returned to stunt driving, this time for the upcoming James Bond film Skyfall. According to The Mirror, Collins has been spotted filming in Istanbul, where he took the wheel to ram a Land Rover into an Audi during a crash scene.
The stunt vehicle used a special cage on the roof, where the stunt driver can manipulate the SUV with the actors inside. Collins has a long history of working with the Bond franchise. The TV personality turned stuntman worked on both "Quantum of Solace" and "Casino Royale," though he's also worked on other films as well.
In Collins' memoir, "The Man in the White Suit," the driver turned author describes how he juggled his time in the Army, on Top Gear, as a race driver and a stunt driver at the same time. As you may recall, the BBC attempted to prevent the memoir from being published at all, but lost the lawsuit in which it alleged revealing the Stig's identity would breach Collins' contract.


Manager: After being appointed manager in February 2017 and narrowly failing to keep the Club in the Championship at the end of that campaign, Tony Mowbray inspired an immediate return to the second tier last season, playing an attractive brand of football and finishing just two points behind League One champions Wigan Athletic. The former Middlesbrough boss has won just over half of his games in charge in Lancashire, meaning he currently has a 52% win ratio.
Star Man: Bradley Dack is without doubt the standout player in Blackburn Rovers' squad – a statement underpinned by the fact he was named League One Player of the Year last season. A £750,000 signing from Gillingham last summer, the midfielder went on to 16 goals in 36 league matches in 2017/18 and laid on countless assists for his teammates. The 24-year old is sure to be a key figure for Rovers once again this season.
Form Guide: Blackburn have made a solid start to the new season with back-to-back Championship draws against Ipswich Town and Millwall before registering a first win of the campaign with a convincing Carabao Cup victory over Carlisle United in midweek. Bradley Back scored two and assisted two as Rovers inflicted a 5-1 defeat on the League Two side with Adam Armstrong (2) and Kasey Palmer also on the scoresheet.
Formation: Tony Mowbray is a manager that is not afraid to switch formation from game to game, and utilised a number of different systems throughout last season as Rovers secured promotion back to the Championship. However, it was the 4-2-3-1 formation that Mowbray opted to use most regularly and that is how he has set his side up for the opening two Championship games of this season. They are a far more solid outfit than they were the last time they were in the division and will not be an easy team to play against for any side. Mowbray is a very experienced manager and has done a fantastic job at Ewood Park since being appointed as the club's manager towards the end of the 2016/17 campaign.
Line-Up: It looks as though Mowbray has already got a relatively settled starting line-up for this season. They did not make many new signings this summer, bring in just Adam Armstrong from Newcastle United on a permanent deal as well as the loan arrivals of Jacob Davenport and Kasey Palmer from Manchester City and Chelsea respectively. Mowbray revealed he has no fresh injury concerns for the trip to East Yorkshire in his pre-match press conference and expects both Danny Graham and Elliott Bennett, who weren't involved in their Carabao Cup win over Carlisle United, to be back in contention. However, Derrick Williams, Ben Gladwin and Davenport miss out through injury.
Tactics: When Mowbray first arrived at the club, he had a limited of games left in the 2016/17 campaign to try and keep Rovers in the Championship. This is something that he came very close to achieving, just missing out on survival on the final day of the season. The battling style of play that he has implemented at Ewood Park has not always been appreciated by the club's supporters, shown by the fact that they were booed off at half-time in February, despite the fact they were top of League One at the time. However, there is no doubt that his approach has been a success in getting Rovers back to the Championship and has made them much more competitive in the second division already. They have a lot of attacking threat with the likes of Bradley Dack, Kasey Palmer and Danny Graham who can be very exciting to watch when at the top of their game.
Head-To-Head: The two sides have met 61 times in league and cup football with the Tigers claiming 15 victories, as opposed to Blackburn's total of 29, with 17 encounters ending all square.
Jordan Rhodes's injury-time equaliser rescued struggling Blackburn Rovers to deny the Tigers all three points.
Abel Hernández came closest to making the breakthrough in a goalless first half as he nodded Ahmed Elmohamady's cross narrowly wide, but the Uruguayan made no mistake when breaking the deadlock 17 minutes from time when finishing off a swift counter-attack.
Chuba Akpom and Shaun Maloney both wasted chances to seal all the win for Steve Bruce's side but neither could hit the target and they were made to pay for the misses when Rhodes rose unchallenged to send a header past Allan McGregor.
Did You Know: Blackburn hold the FA record for the longest undefeated FA Cup run, going 24 games unbeaten between 1884-86 (which included the three FA Cup wins).


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Obama: "Difficult Time for Journalism"
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Via the NYT's Brian Stelter writing at the Media Decoder blog, here's what President Obama had to say about what ails journalism at Walter Cronkite's memorial service today:
… We also remember and celebrate the journalism that Walter practiced — a standard of honesty and integrity and responsibility to which so many of you have committed your careers. It's a standard that's a little bit harder to find today. We know that this is a difficult time for journalism. Even as appetites for news and information grow, newsrooms are closing. Despite the big stories of our era, serious journalists find themselves all too often without a beat. Just as the news cycle has shrunk, so has the bottom line.
And too often, we fill that void with instant commentary and celebrity gossip and the softer stories that Walter disdained, rather than the hard news and investigative journalism he championed. "What happened today?" is replaced with "Who won today?" The public debate cheapens. The public trust falters. We fail to understand our world or one another as well as we should –- and that has real consequences in our own lives and in the life of our nation. We seem stuck with a choice between what cuts to our bottom line and what harms us as a society. Which price is higher to pay? Which cost is harder to bear?
"This democracy," Walter said, "cannot function without a reasonably well-informed electorate." That's why the honest, objective, meticulous reporting that so many of you pursue with the same zeal that Walter did is so vital to our democracy and our society: Our future depends on it.
Walter was no naive idealist. He understood the challenges and the pressures and the temptations facing journalism in this new era. He believed that a media company has an obligation to pursue a profit, but also an obligation to invest a good chunk of that profit back into news and public affairs. He was excited about all the stories that a high-tech world of journalism would be able to tell, and all the newly emerging means with which to tell it.
Naturally, we find ourselves wondering how he would have covered the monumental stories of our time. In an era where the news that city hall is on fire can sweep around the world at the speed of the Internet, would he still have called to double-check? Would he have been able to cut through the murky noise of the blogs and the tweets and the sound bites to shine the bright light on substance? Would he still offer the perspective that we value? Would he have been able to remain a singular figure in an age of dwindling attention spans and omnipresent media?
And somehow, we know that the answer is yes. The simple values Walter Cronkite set out in pursuit of — to seek the truth, to keep us honest, to explore our world the best he could — they are as vital today as they ever were.
Our American story continues. It needs to be told. And if we choose to live up to Walter's example, if we realize that the kind of journalism he embodied will not simply rekindle itself as part of a natural cycle, but will come alive only if we stand up and demand it and resolve to value it once again, then I'm convinced that the choice between profit and progress is a false one — and that the golden days of journalism still lie ahead.
Wow, and on a day he has to defend health care reform!
Clara Jeffery is Co-editor of Mother Jones. You can read more of her stories here and follow her on Twitter here.


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Russia just tested anti-satellite space weapon, US claims
By Rafi Letzter - Staff Writer 23 July 2020
Russia called the device an inspector satellite, but U.S. officials say it was a weapon.
(Image: © U.S. Space Command)
The U.S. government says Russia tested a space weapon earlier this month.
Russia says the device, launched July 15, is not a weapon but rather a satellite designed to inspect other satellites. But, the U.S. Space Command (USCC) said in a statement that the Russians launched an anti-satellite weapon. Whatever the device is, Russia launched it from another satellite, known as Cosmos 2543 — a satellite that was launched Nov. 25, 2019. It entered a new orbit, closely approaching (but not destroying) a third Russian satellite.
That behavior, USCC said, is "inconsistent with the system's stated mission."
Related: The X-37B space plane: 6 surprising facts
The USCC included a statement from the U.S. State Department criticizing the move, suggesting Russia was "hypocritical" for testing the weapon while calling publicly for outer space arms control.
Union of Concerned Scientists researcher Laura Grego — an expert on orbital weapons and critic of space militarization — has raised public concerns about both U.S. and Russian moves to militarize space. And, at different points in recent years, Russia, China and the U.S. have each expressed worries about the other countries' orbital military capabilities and threats to satellites.
In December 2019, the U.S. Congress and President Donald Trump established the Space Force, a branch of the military dedicated to operations in space. The U.S. military had already conducted activities in space, including an anti-satellite weapon test that destroyed a malfunctioning U.S. orbiter in 2008. India and China have also tested anti-satellite weapons. However, the Russian device may be unique in that it launched from another satellite as opposed to from the Earth's surface.
"Moscow aims to restrict the capabilities of the United States while clearly having no intention of halting its own counterspace program — both ground-based anti-satellite capabilities and what would appear to be actual in-orbit anti-satellite weaponry," said Christopher Ford, the acting U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security.
(Ford was appointed by President Donald Trump but has not been confirmed by the Senate.)
This latest Russian test, according to USCC, involved the same Russian satellite system that followed a U.S. spy satellite around for a while in February. Russia also tested an anti-satellite missile in April.


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The Rooster Crows – July 23, 2021
On July 23, 2021 July 22, 2021 By rutlandramblingsIn Family History, Rooster Crows
The brief rain shower that passed through Rutland and vicinity on the afternoon of Monday, July 19, was the equivalent of a bloop single that spoiled what would have been a perfect game for the Drought team this past week: no rain; no fog; and, no dew. Although the rain came down hard for a few minutes, it did not leave even a slight measurable trace in any of the local rain gauges. The haze that has been hanging in the sky for the past week is not any kind of moisture in the atmosphere, the weather gurus tell us, but is smoke from the fires in western Canada; eastern Canada; and, the northwestern U. S. The fires have already consumed hundreds of thousands of acres of timber and, with no rain in sight, are expected to continue until there is either significant rainfall, or all of the timber is consumed, whichever occurs first. In the meantime, the thought that, "Every day that it doesn't rain is one day closer to the day that it will," is keeping hope alive out here on the Great American Desert.
The harvest of Hard Red Spring Wheat commenced last week, and mixed results, ranging from poor to worse are being reported. Despite some reports of yields as low as 9 bushels to the acre, trucks filled with wheat are rolling down Main Street in Rutland, heading for the Wheaton-Dumont Co-op's facility here, Rodney Erickson's refurbished Rutland Elevator. The relative success of the harvest seems to be directly tied to when the crop was seeded. Cameron Gulleson reports that Gulleson Brothers have harvested some fields that were planted just before the one good rain this area received back in April, and those fields have yielded from 15 to 30 bushels to the acre. That is a long way from the 50 to 70 bushel wheat yields to which local producers have become accustomed, though. Old timers remember when 20 bushel wheat would have been a bumper crop, and a $2.00 price was boom times. This year, though, the only bright spot in the picture is that the reports of skimpy yields have pushed the price of wheat up to nearly $7.00 per bushel in some markets, so there's always some good news, even if you have to look under the rocks to find it.
Eugene Erickson of Ithaca NY, accompanied by one of his sons, Jeff Erickson, visited in Rutland at Noon on Wednesday, July 14. The two were on a family history fact finding mission, and were in Rutland looking for information concerning Eugene's mother, the late Ida (Helberg) Erickson. The original Helbergs were Swedish Immigrants who homesteaded on the Tewaukon-Ransom Township Line southeast of Rutland back in the 1890's. The original farmhouse was in Tewaukon Township, and the barn was in Ransom. Their farmstead is now the site of Roger Nelson's farm headquarters. Eugene's mother was a daughter of these immigrants, and a younger sister of the late Theodore "Ted" Helberg of this community. Ida married Oscar Erickson of Dunbar Township, and they later settled at McLeod ND, in Ransom County. Eugene, now 92 years of age, grew up in McLeod ND and graduated from high school there. Oscar Erickson was a brother of Alvin Erickson, father of the famous "Uncle Ed" Erickson of Shuman Township who is noted as the inventor of the Eagle Ditcher and as one of the mastermind builders of the frying pan for Rutland's "World's Largest Hamburger" back in 1982. Eugene went to college at NDSU, at that time titled North Dakota College of Agriculture and Applied Science, in Fargo, graduating with a Degree in Agriculture in 1953. He then went on to graduate school at Michigan State University, and to a teaching career as a Professor of Rural Sociology at Cornell University in Ithaca NY, one of the most prestigious agricultural colleges in the world. Eugene has been retired for a quarter of a century, but he is still mentally & physically active, and, to look at him you would think that he is 62, not 92. While in Rutland, the Ericksons had dinner at the Rutland Seniors Center, and enjoyed visiting with many there, including Dick Meyers, who remembered the late Ted & Tina Helberg well. They had also stopped at the Sargent County Museum in Forman to do some research in the local newspapers from years ago. Jeff had found the obituary for his great grandmother, Karina Helberg, and from that had picked up some new trails to follow in their search for family history. When they departed Rutland, the Ericksons were headed for the Alan & Doreen Olstad farm, to check out their family's connection to the Olstad family.
Norbert & Bev Kulzer and David & Pat Kulzer left Rutland on July 5, bound for Lanesboro MN and a reunion of the descendants of the late Myrtle (Aus) Kulzer of this community. They joined their sisters: Diane Davis; Cathy Kriegelstein; and, Karen Buisker; along with a number of children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren for a 3 day family conclave. They report that the country around Lanesboro is beautiful, with rolling hills, woodlands and river valleys interspersed with fields of corn and soybeans. David said that his nephew, Trevor Kriegelstein, gave him a ride in his new Tesla electric powered automobile, a car with tremendous acceleration and power. "It put you back in the seat, and you couldn't lean forward, no matter how hard you tried," Dave said. So, Myrtle's descendants, like her ancestors, are still on the cutting edge of technology. David & Pat returned to Rutland on the evening of Wednesday, July 7, while Norbert & Bev spent the evening of the 7th and the morning of the 8th at the Brandon SD home of their son & daughter-in-law, Stephen & Ann Kulzer, before driving home on the 8th.
After nearly 2 weeks in Rutland and in southeastern MN, David & Pat Kulzer headed west, bound for their home in the Swan River Valley of northwestern Montana, on the morning of Saturday, July 10. They were accompanied by their Standard Poodle dog, Buster. The Kulzers reported that they had made their way home through extreme heat and excessive smoke over 3 days, stopping in Dickinson ND on the evening of Saturday, July 10; Billings on Sunday, July 11; and, arriving home on the late afternoon of Monday, July 12.
Eleanor (Kulzer) Bommersbach of Wyndmere was a Rutland visitor on Friday, July 16. She was accompanied by her daughter, Patsy Stein of Wahpeton and granddaughter, Kate Evenson of Fargo. Eleanor is the youngest of the 16 children of the late Joe & Katherine (Nathe) Kulzer of Shuman Township, and, at 101 years of age is the only member of that generation of Kulzers still living. She wanted to show her daughter and granddaughter the old Kulzer farm and some of the scenes of her youth. Accompanied by a nephew, Norbert Kulzer, and a great nephew, Steve Wyum, they spent several hours, touring and reminiscing. The Kulzer farm was situated on the East ½ of Section #31 in Shuman Township and, more recently, has been known as the Malady farm. Joe & Katherine Kulzer moved to Shuman Township from Stearns County MN in the early 1900's. They built all of the buildings on the farm, including the large 3 story house and a substantial barn, themselves. The house had been vacant for years, and was demolished by the current owners this past spring. The barn is now the only building still standing. Eleanor said that she still has vivid memories of milking 15 cows, by hand, every day before & after school. She also remembers chasing cows home from the east side of the large slough on the property, now known as Malady slough. The cows would swim across the slough, she said, and she would hang on to a cow's tail to make the trip through the water to cross the slough. Spring and fall, Eleanor, along with her brothers and sisters, Walked 2 ½ miles to school at Shuman #3. In the winter her Dad or one of the older boys would hitch a team of horses to the bob sleigh and take them to school in style. On one occasion a prairie fire threatened the school, but 2 students volunteered the use of their coats to make fire drags while other students pumped water from the school well to keep the coats wet and put the fire out. The pumpjack is all that remains of Shuman #3 these days, but the handle is missing so the water bucket can no longer be filled. Eleanor also remembered horse races with the relatives, including Steve's Dad, Bob Wyum, who was actually her nephew, but only 4 years younger. She also remembered spying on some of the neighbors who had dealings with bootleggers during the prohibition era. On one occasion, her 2 oldest brothers, Alphonse and Joe Jr., spotted the rock pile in which the bootleggers had hidden several gallon cans of alcohol, crawled out there in the middle of the night and confiscated a can of white lightning for their own enjoyment and amusement. They both lived to a ripe old age, so the bootleggers never did figure out who got away with their booze. Eleanor, Patsy, Kate, Norbert & Steve also toured the farmstead building sites that had been occupied by her brothers, Alphonse; Joe; Romey; and, Norbert, as well as the Obed & Sue (Kulzer) Wyum farm, the farm sites where the Nathe cousins had resided, the Preble farm site and the site of the old Perry Elevator. At the conclusion of the tour, they returned to the Steve & Sheila Wyum farm, where Sheila served lunch. They were also joined by Norbert's wife, Bev Kulzer, for more laughter and reminiscing. Thanks to Steve Wyum and Norbert Kulzer for the information in this report, and thanks to Eleanor for giving it to them.
Tammy Widmer of Devils Lake MN was in Rutland on Monday, July 19, to help her Dad, Victor Joseph "Big Joe" Malstrom celebrate the occasion of attaining the age of Four Score Years. Happy Birthday, Big Joe!
A large crowd of family and old friends was on hand at The Lariat Bar from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 17, to attend the "Celebration Of Life" for the late Darwin D. Brakke. Darwin had passed away last fall at the age of 81, and the event had been postponed until this summer due to the covid-19 pandemic. The celebration of life was held in the back dining room of the Lariat Bar, a business in which Darwin was an owner from 1968 to 1974. Family and friends shared memories and stories of their times with Darwin throughout the afternoon. Darwin's obituary had been published in a previous edition of The Rooster Crows. The Rutland community extends condolences to the family and friends of Darwin Brakke, a man who loved the outdoors, and enjoyed its bounty.
Janet Kiefer reports that she drove up to Bemidji MN on Saturday, July 17, to attend the Memorial Service for her maternal uncle, the late DuWayne Syverson. DuWayne had passed away at his home in Bemidji on August 29, 2020, at the age of 90 years, 1 month and 6 days, but the service had been delayed due to the covid-19 pandemic. DuWayne Ole Syverson was born on July 23, 1930, to Casper and Marie (Swanson) Syverson at Britton, South Dakota. He grew up on the Syverson farm in Tewaukon Township, where his nephew, Joe Breker, now resides. He attended elementary school in the 1 room country school that was just down the road, and graduated from Havana High School in 1947. An old friend, Dick Meyers, remembers that DuWayne was a tall, skinny kid who played baseball with the Rutland Roosters during the summers while he was going to college at Valley City State Teachers College. He had an arm like a cannon, a tricky curve ball and a fastball so hot that it smoked, Dick recalls. DuWayne's first teaching job after college was at Kidder, South Dakota, where he earned the magnificent salary of $2,900 per year. In 1951 he married Shirley Motl at Havana. They became the parents of a son and a daughter, bill and Sally. They later divorced. In 1952, during the Korean War, Duwayne was drafted into the U. S. Army, and was assigned to complete his tour of duty in Germany, doing counter intelligence work during the Cold War with the Soviet Union. After completing his military service, DuWayne earned his Master's Degree from Bemidji State and began a 37 year teaching career, teaching science to elementary students in the Bemidji School System. During his teaching career, DuWayne taught more than 5,400 students. In 1983, DuWayne married Marcia Stevens in Bemidji. He remained an athlete, and was a high school basketball referee in Minnesota for more than 30 years. He was a referee at the Minnesota State High School Basketball Tournament for 3 of those years. He was an accomplished poet, and often composed poems for birthdays and other significant events. Among his interests were golf; skiing; dancing; hunting; fishing; bird watching; baseball; story telling; and, sharing jokes with friends over a cup of coffee. On several occasions he accompanied his brother-in-law, Clarence Breker, on fishing trips to Alaska where they caught some huge halibut and many salmon. He was a frequent visitor in Rutland and at the Breker farms while his health permitted. As a boy, his nickname had been Buddy, and, even into his upper 80's, whenever he showed up in Rutland or Havana, he was greeted by old friends with "Hi Buddy!" DuWayne is survived by his wife of 37 years, Marcia Syverson of Bemidji MN; by his daughter, Sally, of Phoenix AZ; by a step-daughter, Leah, of Minneapolis MN; by a granddaughter, Emily, of Phoenix AZ; by many nieces and nephews; and, by a host of friends. He was preceded in death by his parents; by his son, Bill; by sisters Adeline; and, Beverly; and by brothers, Donald; and, Colin. The memorial Service was held at First Lutheran Church in Bemidji, and interment was in Greenwood Cemetery in Bemidji. The Rutland community extends its condolences to the family and friends of DuWayne Syverson, a good man who left his mark on many, and who enjoyed life to the full. Thanks to Janet Kiefer for the information in this report.
This community was shocked and saddened on the evening of Monday, July 19, when it was learned that lifelong Rutland resident Steven Preble had passed away, suddenly and unexpectedly, at his home here. He was 70 years old at the time of his death. A funeral service is planned to be held at Nordland Lutheran Church in Rutland at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, July 31, with Pastor Julie Johnson officiating. Price Funeral Chapel of Forman & Britton is in charge of arrangements. No obituary was available as of this writing. There will be more about Steven Preble's life among us in next week's column. Thanks to Steve's brother, Harvey Preble, for the information in this report.
Preparations for Uff-Da Day XXXVI are under way. Lefse Lena had her crew of lefse makers rolling out the dough on Tuesday, July 20, in the kitchen of the Rutland Town Hall. Uff-Da Day will be on Sunday, October 3, this year. Better start getting your Uff-Da Day Parade unit ready, too.
Meanwhile, on the national scene, covid-19 cases are on the upswing again. This time, though, it's those who have chosen not to get vaccinated who are in the center of the target for the delta variant of the coronavirus. Why they want to expose themselves and their family members to serious illness and possible death when the means of preventing the disease is available is a mystery to rational folks, but seems to make perfectly good sense to the cult followers of the former President. While children seemed to be less vulnerable to the original coronavirus, the delta variant is not sparing them. All Americans over the age of 12 are now eligible to be vaccinated against the coronavirus, and the vaccine has proven to be effective against the delta variant. So, even if you're a member of the Trump cult, or just haven't gotten around to doing the right thing yet, do yourself, and everyone else, a favor by getting vaccinated to get rid of this deadly threat to our families and our communities. To make a vaccination appointment, call: Sargent County Public Health at 724-3725; Forman Drug at 724-6222; or, Sanford Clinic at 742-3267. Even though you may have been temporarily misled by the bullying bombastic bluster of a false prophet, you are still a friend and a valued member of the community. We don't want to lose you, so please get vaccinated.
Well, that's the news from Rutland for this week. For additional information about what's going on in the little city that can, check out the community's internet web site at www.rutlandnd.com, and take a look at the Rutland Facebook page while you're at it, too. (No misinformation on that page, that's for sure!) Don't forget to patronize your local Post Office, and remember to keep the pressure on the U. S. Postal Service and the North Dakota Congressional delegation to SAVE OUR POST OFFICE! Later.
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Q: What macroscopic, classical fields exist? Two example are certainly the electromagnetic field and the gravitational field.
The Higgs field, weak fields, and strong fields are too short ranged to operate on macroscopic scales. Moreover, the excitations of spinor fields cannot occupy the same state and therefore no macroscopic field excitations can exist.
Are there any other examples of macroscopic, classical fields?

A: Any quantity that varies in space and time can be described as a field. For classical fields this includes quantities like temperature, pressure, density, etc., which are all scalar fields, and streamlines of fluid flow, such as wind in the air, or currents in water, etc. that are vector fields.
As mentioned in a comment, perturbations in these fields produce pressure waves or sound, surface water waves, etc.

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7 edition of The dialect of modernism found in the catalog.
The dialect of modernism
race, language, and twentieth-century literature
by North, Michael
Published 1994 by Oxford University Press in New York .
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Conrad, Joseph, 1857-1924,
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African Americans in literature,
Black English in literature,
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Series Race and American culture
LC Classifications PS153.N5 N67 1994
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Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect Price: $ The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism.
Rebelling against the standard language, and literature written in it, modernists, such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect.
Michael North's The Dialect of Modernism is a provocative opening to a much-needed series of critical debates. The book is built [End Page ] around an inescapable contradiction, one that North acknowledges, that almost demands an additional book in : Aldon Lynn Nielsen.
Michael North's insightful, intelligently argued book The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language and Twentieth-Century Literature is one such study. It explores the relation between black and white modernisms, identifying in these works aesthetic (and political) strategies, many of which recall Baker's brilliant "mastery of form" and "deformation.
Get this from a library. The dialect of modernism: race, language, and twentieth-century literature. [Michael North] -- This text describes the role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism.
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Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect Brand: Oxford University Press. I most associate literary modernism with Joyce and Faulkner, writers who pushed literature's boundaries further than they had, and perhaps have since, been pushed.
Both explored non-standard grammar and syntax, so it's no coincidence that they were master "dialect writers." That being said, I find it hard to separate dialect from literary invention in these authors' works. The Dialect of Modernism uncovers the crucial role of racial masquerade and linguistic imitation in the emergence of literary modernism.
Rebelling against the standard language and literature written in it, modernists such as Joseph Conrad, Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect speakers.
a great love of language and music; one of the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance; captured a wide variety of African American voices in his work; through his urban folklore, short stories, poems, and works in other genres, he mixed dialect, idiomatic expressions, colloquialisms, and Standard English to convey the feeling of real-life experience.
"Images of Black Modernism is a significant contribution to American literary history and African American cultural studies Like other literary scholars, Thaggart examines language as a vehicle for developing images of blackness, but unlike other scholars, she incorporates an analysis of photographic images as well.
Dialectic or dialectics (Greek: διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; related to dialogue), also known as the dialectical method, is at base a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments.
Dialectic resembles debate, but the concept excludes subjective elements such as emotional appeal and the. Buy The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language & Twentieth-Century Literature: Race, Language and Twentieth-century Literature (Race and American Culture) New Ed by North, Michael (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store.
Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible : Michael North. Born in Jamaica; wrote dialect verse; "Harlem Shadows" (his 1st collection of poetry) is considered the collection that began the Harlem Renaissance*, wrote much controversial poetry about the black condition; wrote the first and only best selling book by an African America--"Home to Harlem," one of the enduring works of the Harlem Renaissance.
Alexandra Harris on Modernism. Modernism is about form more than content, says the scholar of English literature. Five Books aims to keep its book recommendations and interviews up to date.
Five Books participates in the Amazon Associate program and earns money from qualifying purchases. Hip Hop, Modernism and Dialect. Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the similarities between Hip Hop and Modernism is their ability to be adapted and appropriated by countless different cultures, languages and countries across the globe, while still retaining the key principles which define them as a movement.
The work of the writers and artists under discussion reflects the creative tension between the intangibility of some forms of black expression, such as spirituals, and the materiality of the body evoked by other representations of blackness, such as "Negro" dialect.
conclusion of his book, that literary modernism in English "could not have arisen without the example of dialect," then it must be because what we have defined as modernism was the West's contradictory aes thetic response to its own representations of the Other.
And if we ac cept this as true, then it becomes necessary to understand the arts of. A History of Modernist Poetry examines innovative anglophone poetries from decadence to the post-war period.
The first of its three parts considers formal and contextual issues, including myth, politics, gender, and race, while the second and third parts discuss a wide range of individual poets, including Ezra Pound, T.
Eliot, W. Yeats, Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, William. Modernism, in the fine arts, late 19th to midth century, a break with the past and the concurrent search for new forms of expression.
It fostered a period of experimentation in literature, music, dance, visual art, and architecture. Learn more about the history of Modernism and its various manifestations.
Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams reimagined themselves as racial aliens and mimicked the strategies of dialect Author: Michael North.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published inis the first fantasy written by an American to enjoy an immediate success upon powerful was its effect on the American imagination, so evocative its use of the forces of nature in its plots, so charming its invitation to children of all ages to look for the element of wonder in the world around them that author L.
Frank Baum was. excellent book, The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature (cited as Dialect), takes Modernism to be especially a state of mind, like "modernity," the term he uses in connection with that technological gimmickry whereby electronic dubbing.
Their Eyes Were Watching God is rich in dialect, known as the spoken version of a language. Dialect is regional, and it has distinctive features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
Early in the novel, Hurston tells her readers what to expect in the language of her characters. Dialect definition is - a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language.
How to use dialect in a sentence. Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose ists experimented with literary form and expression, as exemplified by Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make it new."Cultural origins: Industrial Revolution.
A summary of Local Dialect in Richard Wright's The Man Who Was Almost a Man. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Man Who Was Almost a Man and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
Dialect in Film and Literature: Hodson's comprehensive book illustrates the principles and functions of fictional dialect with admirable theoretical and analytical rigour, and the text is rich with a very engaging range of fictional and filmic examples, both contemporary and historical.
"High modernism" is accepted shorthand for the Price: $ From the hard-boiled detective stories of Dashiell Hammett to the novels of Claude McKay, The Word on the Streets examines a group of writers whose experimentation with the vernacular argues for a rethinking of American modernism—one that cuts across traditional boundaries of class, race, and dawn of the modernist era witnessed a transformation of popular writing.
People go past. They don't see Else, or decide not to. –Ali Smith, Hotel World, p From '[t]wo ten pence pieces' and 'a handful of coppers' to 'the five pound note', Ali Smith's Hotel World () is a novel that is strewn with money; indeed, the language of 'capital, transaction, and accumulation' that pervades every interaction between her characters reflects the.
The Hegelian dialectic is the ridiculous idea that constant conflict and continual merging of opposite ideologies, as established by extreme right or left belief systems, will lead spiritual mankind into final perfection. (Americans understood man's spiritual quests to be outside the realm of government control).
Hegel's brilliance rests in his. I most associate literary modernism with Joyce and Faulkner, writers who pushed literature's boundaries further than they had, and perhaps have since, been pushed.
Both explored non-standard grammar and syntax, so it's no coincidence that they were master "dialect writers." That Continue reading →. Modernist literature was a predominantly English genre of fiction writing, popular from roughly the s into the s.
Modernist literature came into its own due to increasing industrialization and globalization. Heightened, Colloquial, Universal. August Wilson's voice is a unique blend of African-American dialect and heightened poetry. The tone of Fences and the other plays manages to be incredibly approachable and lofty at the same time.
Wilson's characters are somehow bigger than themselves. Modernism is both a philosophical movement and an art movement that, along with cultural trends and changes, arose from wide-scale and far-reaching transformations in Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Among the factors that shaped modernism were the development of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by reactions to the horrors. Sterling A. Brown was born and raised in the strictly segregated Washington, D.C., of the first decades of the century.
There he read the new American poetry of early modernism and was struck especially by the use of the vernacular in Frost, Sandburg, and others. Because Brown's first book of poems appeared at the outset of the Great.
Why, You Reckon. Short Story Analysis. 5/21/ 26 Comments We have all had those things that appear in our lives and for awhile bring us joy. Just for a little bit. Or maybe it's the things we wish for, wait the longest for, and once we get it it's not what we thought it'd be.
The most popular of these things would be money. Vernacular definition is - using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language. How to use vernacular in a sentence.
Matthew Hart's Nations of Nothing But Poetry: Modernism, Transnationalism, and Synthetic Vernacular Writing is the first volume in the Modernist Literature & Culture series to focus primarily on poetry, and the first to engage with issues of transnationalism.
The modernist canon has been steadily expanding for some time now, not only by including a wider range of cultural objects but also.Harvey introduces his exploration of this dialectic in his book The Condition of Post-Modernism with a telling quote from Baudelaire, who defined modernity in as 'the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is the one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable'.File Size: KB.


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Q: removing icon and profile name from taskbar in Windows (10) I recently upgraded to Windows 10 (although I'm not sure if that's relevant or not), and I've figured out how to do some customizations to the taskbar that I really like, namely, showing just the icons of the programs that are open instead of the icons AND the names.  But I'd also like to make my profile name disappear entirely

Thanks in advance!

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Q: jQuery sortable - sort based on value of input field Disclaimer - I'm not entirely sure this is even possible. But in that case, I'd still like someone to point out a possible alternative or a hack of some sort.
Here's the situation.
I have a working list which uses jQuery UI Sortable so the user can drag and drop the items on the list.
The jQuery:
$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#test-list").sortable({
      handle : '.big-handle',
      update : function () {
          var order = $('#test-list').sortable('serialize');
        $("#info").load("../sortable/process-sortable.php?"+order);
      }
    });
});

The Ajax part stores the new order in the database, you don't need to worry about that.
The HTML:

Item 1

Item 1

Item 1

That all works fine. Now, the tricky part. My client wants an input field next to each list item where the user can enter a number, which should onBlur move that list item to the specified position. So if the user enters "1" into the field next to list item no. 3, then that item should move to the first spot on the list, just as if it was dragged there. Can this be done?
No need for you to come up with a full solution for the whole list, let's say that I just need a field which would move item no. 3 around.

A: How about this: jsFiddle example.
$("#test-list").sortable({
    handle: '.big-handle',
    update: function() {
        var order = $('#test-list').sortable('serialize');
        $("#info").load("../sortable/process-sortable.php?" + order);
    }
});

$("#test-list input").blur(function() {
    var pos = $(this).val() - 1;
    if (pos >= 0 && pos <= $("#test-list li").length - 1) {
        if ($(this).parents('li').index() > pos) {
            //move up
            $(this).parents('li').insertBefore($("#test-list li:eq(" + pos + ")"));
        }
        if ($(this).parents('li').index() < pos) {
            //move down
            $(this).parents('li').insertAfter($("#test-list li:eq(" + pos + ")"));
        }
        $("#test-list input").val('');
    }
});

A: Try this
$('input').on('blur', function(){
   var $el = $(this),
   pos = $el.val(),
   $parent = $el.closest('li');

   $parent.insertBefore($('li').eq(pos));

})

The functional demo: http://jsfiddle.net/YyvjH/
The transition effect to emulate the drag could be done in CSS3.

A: The eq(2) method get's the n-th matching element, which we remove.  In this case from
position 3 (index 2), since that's the one you asked to move.  We remove it from the DOM
and then insert it at the position specified in the input box.
//do this on blur
var index = parseInt($("input").val())
  , element = $("#test-list li").eq(2).remove();
$("#test-list li").eq(index - 1).before(element); // -1 because users like 1 based indices


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Library honors local heroes this month
This November, Shreve Memorial Library is honoring local heroes. Children and their parents are invited to meet local heroes at story times, and throughout the month, Shreve Memorial Library branches will be ho
Library honors local heroes this month This November, Shreve Memorial Library is honoring local heroes. Children and their parents are invited to meet local heroes at story times, and throughout the month, Shreve Memorial Library branches will be ho Check out this story on shreveporttimes.com: https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/life/2018/11/01/library-honors-local-heroes-month/38334397/
Samantha Bonnette Published 10:00 a.m. CT Nov. 1, 2018
This November, Shreve Memorial Library is honoring local heroes. Children and their parents are invited to meet local heroes at story times, and throughout the month, Shreve Memorial Library branches will be honoring our veterans and remembering the Vietnam War.
Caddo Parish Sheriff Deputy Alan Davidson will visit the Higginbotham-Bryson, Mooringsport and Means Branches of Shreve Memorial Library to share an interactive story time reading of "Officer Buckle and Gloria." The program is free and open to children of all ages. Officer Buckle and Gloria, written by Peggy Rathmann, tells the story of Officer Buckle who tries to share safety tips with the students of Napville Elementary School. However, the children refuse to listen until Officer Buckle brings his police dog, Gloria, with him.
Davidson will read the story and share safety tips with children and families during the Meet a Hero story time. Meet a Hero story times will take place on Thursday, November 1 at the Higginbotham-Bryson Branch; on Tuesday, Nov. 6 at the Mooringsport Branch; and on Wednesday, Nov. 7 at the Means Branch.
In honor of Veterans Day, Shreve Memorial Library will host several programs to honor all those who serve and have served our great country all November. Programs will include guest lectures by Kenneth Epperson Sr., Director of the Northwest Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, Licensed Professional Counselor, Clint Davis, and LSUS Associate Professor Of History Dr. Blake Dunnavent. In addition, Shreve Memorial Library branches will hold screenings of the PBS documentary, The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novic.
If you have a family member that you would like to honor this November, the Main Branch downtown is seeking help with decorating their Freedom Tree. The Freedom Tree is a way to honor military personnel. The library is looking for photos of living and/or deceased military personnel to be included on the tree as paper ornaments. Those interested in participating can post their photos to the Shreve Memorial Library Facebook page. The Freedom Tree will be on display beginning Sunday, Nov. 11 on the third floor of the downtown branch, and will remain on display through the end of the month. The deadline for submitting photos is Nov. 7.
On behalf of Shreve Memorial Library, I'd like to say thank you to all of the men and women in uniform for serving not only our country, but our city, our communities, and our state, and I invite all of you to visit your local libraries and help honor all of our heroes. For more information on any of these programs, please visit www.shreve-lib.org.
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The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders by Stuart Kells (non-fiction)
Libraries are much more than mere collections of volumes. The best are magical, fabled places whose fame has become part of the cultural wealth they are designed to preserve. Some still exist today; some are lost, like those of Herculaneum and Alexandria; some have been sold or dispersed; and some never existed, such as those libraries imagined by J.R.R. Tolkien, Umberto Eco, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others. Ancient libraries, grand baroque libraries, scientific libraries, memorial libraries, personal libraries, clandestine libraries: Stuart Kells tells the stories of their creators, their prizes, their secrets, and their fate. To research this book, Kells traveled around the world with his young family like modern-day "Library Tourists." Kells discovered that all the world's libraries are connected in beautiful and complex ways, that in the history of libraries, fascinating patterns are created and repeated over centuries. More important, he learned that stories about libraries are stories about people, containing every possible human drama.
Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll (non-fiction)
How the United States underdeveloped Appalachia. Appalachia – among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America – has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how generations of its inhabitants lived, worked, survived, and depended on natural resources held in common. Ramp Hollow traces the rise of the Appalachian homestead and how its self-sufficiency resisted dependence on money and the industrial society arising elsewhere in the United States – until, beginning in the nineteenth century, extractive industries kicked off a "scramble for Appalachia" that left struggling homesteaders dispossessed of their land. As the men disappeared into coal mines and timber camps, and their families moved into shantytowns or deeper into the mountains, the commons of Appalachia were, in effect, enclosed, and the fate of the region was sealed. Ramp Hollow takes a provocative look at Appalachia, and the workings of dispossession around the world, by upending our notions about progress and development. Stoll ranges widely from literature to history to economics in order to expose a devastating process whose repercussions we still feel today.
Samantha Bonnette is Marketing & Development Manager at Shreve Memorial Library.
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