Ladies (and some gents, if you're willing to own up to it), do you remember this?
Wearing your mom's high heels? Prancing around in her clothes? Getting that giddy smile on your face when, for just a second, you were somebody else? Somebody special? You were your mom! You were a grown-up.
1. Holy s#!+! She's going to wreck her ankle!
2. Aaaahhh! No, no! You look too mature in those heels and getthemoff!
3. Wait. That's what I used to do with my mom's shoes. When did I become the mom?
As I ran to grab the camera before Saoirse forgot the shoes and went back to playing with Lightning McQueen and his little tiny, choking-hazard pit crew, I smiled for real. This is what I'm talking about when I think about the awesomeness that is childhood: the dreaming, the pretending. Basically, doing all the stuff that we stop allowing ourselves to do as adults. Saoirse walks around telling people that she's going to be a teacher some day. People think this is positively brilliant (well, it is, right? Because teachers are awesome. And I don't say this just because I still dream of lesson plans at night), but I think what she really means to say is that she's going to be a grown-up.
And she's excited to get there. Because being a grown-up means being able to do what we want, and drive fast cars and reach the top shelf without a stool. We can choose the radio station, and decide what's for dinner, and push the big cart at the grocery store. We can have it it all, dagnabit. My daughter wants to wear our shoes. Funny, isn't it? And all we want to do is dream.


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Q: What does a period in the file permissions mean? I found a permission character in the output of 'ls -l' which i don't understand:
[root@gnurr ~]# ls -l  /etc/cron.daily/
total 32
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  265 Sep 10 16:04 0logwatch
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  118 Aug 17 12:21 cups

There is a period after the standard permission characters  for the file 'cups', but it isn't there for the file '0logwatch'
I found many of these dots all over the place - they also appear for directories or soft links, but they seem never to show up for files i created myself.
I found some posts which mentioned a '@' or a '+' at this position meaning 'extended attributes' or 'extended security information', but nothing about '.'.
Does anybody know what the dot means?

A: From the info/man pages:

GNU 'ls' uses a '.' character to indicate a file with an SELinux
  security context, but no other alternate access method.

The whole section also mentions a '+', which is relevant:

Following the file mode bits is a single character that specifies
  whether an alternate access method such as an access control list
  applies to the file.  When the character following the file mode bits
  is a space, there is no alternate access method.  When it is a
  printing character, then there is such a method.
GNU 'ls' uses a '.' character to indicate a file with an SELinux
  security context, but no other alternate access method.
A file with any other combination of alternate access methods is
  marked with a '+' character.

A: You can remove SELinux security with:
setfattr -h -x security.selinux filename.ext

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Moshe Sidi
Professor (Emeritus)
Multiple Access Protocols
Queueing Theory
High Speed Networks
Distributed Algorithms
Polling Systems
Network Control and Management
M.Sc. Students
Homepage > Publications > Multiple Access Protocols
R. Rom and M. Sidi, "Multiple Access Protocols: Performance and Analysis", Springer-Verlag, New York, 1990.
A. Bergman and M. Sidi, "Energy Efficiency of Collision Resolution Protocols", Computer Communications, Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Scheduling and MAC for Sensor Networks, WPANs, WLANs and WMANs, Vol. 29, Issue 17, pp. 3397-3415, 2006.
M. Sidi, "Multiple Access Schemes", invited paper, Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Vol. 13, pp. 663-674, John Wiley and Sons, 1999.
M. Seri and M. Sidi, "Splitting Algorithms in Channels with Markovian Capture", European Transactions on Telecommunications and Related Technologies, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 19-26, January-February 1994.
N. Likhanov, E. Plotnik, Y. Shavitt, M. Sidi and B. Tsybakov, "Random Access Algorithms with Multiple Reception Capability and N-Ary Feedback Channel", Problemy Peredachi Informatsii, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 82-91, 1993.
A. Bar-David and M. Sidi, "Collision Resolution Algorithms in Multi-Station Packet-Radio Networks", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-37, No. 12, pp. 1387-1391, December 1989.
A. Shwartz and M. Sidi, "Erasure, Capture and Noise Errors in Controlled Multiple-Access Networks", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-37, No. 11, pp. 1228-1231, November 1989.
I. Kessler and M. Sidi, "Splitting Algorithms in Noisy Channels with Memory", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-35, No. 5, pp. 1034-1043, September 1989.
D. Kurtz and M. Sidi, "Multiple Access Algorithms via Group Testing for Heterogeneous Population of Users", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-36, No. 12, pp. 1316-1323, December 1988.
I. Kessler and M. Sidi, "Mixing Collision Resolution Algorithms Exploiting Information of Successful Messages", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-34, No. 3, pp. 531-536, May 1988.
I. Cidon, H. Kodesh and M. Sidi, "Erasure, Capture and Random Power Level Selection in Multi-Access Systems", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-36, No. 3, pp. 263-271, March 1988.
I. Cidon and M. Sidi, "Conflict Multiplicity Estimation and Batch Resolution Algorithms", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-34, No. 1, pp. 101-110, January 1988.
I. Cidon and M. Sidi, "Erasures and Noise in Splitting Multiple-Access Algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-33, No. 1, pp. 132-143, January 1987.
I. Cidon and M. Sidi, "The Effect of Capture on Collision Resolution Algorithms", IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. COM-33, No. 4, pp. 317-324, April 1985.
M. Sidi and I. Cidon, "Splitting Protocols in Presence of Capture", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. IT-31, No. 2, pp. 295-301, March 1985.

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But new offerings are coming to light created with smaller businesses in mind. Seagate, a leader in storage solutions, is launching a full portfolio of network attached storage (NAS) options designed specifically for SMBs that includes the new NAS OS 4 and lines of hardware products in sizes just for smaller offices.
Seagate offers a line of NAS and NAS Pro solutions to fit many budgets and capacity needs. In each line, though, Seagate ensures that the drives and hardware are high-quality components that are made to work together seamlessly and will provide your business with access to data for collaboration and from anywhere even via mobile devices. This capability is something many SMBs are struggling to provide for employees who are demanding to be able to work from the road, from home or just from another office.
NAS 2/4 Bay, which provides 2- or 4-bay drives that fit small offices with up to 25 employees, including those without dedicated IT staff.
Pro NAS 2/4/6 Bay, which offers a higher-capacity drive with 2-, 4-, or 6-bays and is more suited for offices of up to 50 employees or even smaller offices that need to support creative endeavors and large-sized file transfers.
Both product lines include the NAS OS 4 software, which the company touts as "the industry's most intuitive interface." It features contextual help and is very easy to use. As Falgiano said, "You don't have to know a lot of technical stuff" to be able to set up your NAS. Settings can be changed through a web browser via the dashboard visual interface. It comes preconfigured to your specifications or you can choose custom configurations, which are also fairly simple to do. The NAS also includes an option for encryption, which works well for several industries that are required to do so for compliance reasons, including the health care industry.


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Stagecall for Laois talent at the Portlaoise Youth Cafe X
By Lynda Kiernan lynda.kiernan@leinsterexpress.ie @laoisnews
Laois has got many young hidden talented performers and Youthwork Ireland Laois is determined to get them up on the stage.
The organisation is holding its next monthly Laois Youth Artistic Showcase on Friday October 28 at 7pm, at Portlaoise Youth Café.
All young performers, be their talents lie in music, drama, poetry, comedy or art, are invited to take part.
Stefan Donovan is a Tús youth worker at the centre.
"These nights are all about helping young performers become comfortable in front of a crowd, so they can gain confidence," he said.
Last month featured four acts, and such was the audience reaction that three of them gained the confidence to sign up for the Irish Youth Music Awards.
They are Anna Ryan, Eoin and Niamh O'Sullivan, and Emily Brophy, who is returning again to perform at the next show.
Portlaoise Youth Café has a stage, a PA system and even some spare guitars and pianos for the performers.
"We can accommodate bigger groups in the room off the stage, everything is welcome. Our next show already has drama, comedy and animation, as well as singer Cian McGearailt," said Stefan.
"If you want to sign up, just pop in and give your details. Family and friends are all welcome to come along on the night for support," he said.
The shows take place on the last Friday of every month. New members are welcome to join Portlaoise Youth Café on the night or indeed any Friday evening.
The club, above Subway on JFL Avenue, is open for junior members from 3 to 5pm on Fridays, and seniors from 5 to 7pm.
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White-Collar Hell
By: Scott McLemee, Barbara EhrenreichSeptember 4, 2022
Editor's note: Barbara Ehrenreich, a New Politics sponsor, passed away on Thursday. In 2005, she was interviewed by Scott McLemee (who is now a member of the New Politics editorial board).
Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream, published this week by Metropolitan Books, is a return to matters that Barbara Ehrenreich has written about in the past. And no, I don't just mean the world of economic hard knocks.
In obvious ways, the new book's narrative of trying to get a white-collar corporate job (say, as a public-relations person) is similar in method and tone to Nickel and Dimed (2001), her account of the lives the working poor. Both are works of first-person reporting a la George Orwell's Road to Wigan Pier — treading the fine line between investigative journalism and participant-observer ethnography, with the occasional dash of satire thrown in.
But Ehrenreich's new book also revisits a world first explored in her early work on "the professional-managerial class" (often abbreviated as PMC). In papers written during the late 1970s with her first husband, John Ehrenreich, she worked out an exacting Marxist analysis of the PMC as "consisting of salaried mental workers who do not own the means of production" (hence aren't capitalists) but whose "major function in the social division of labor may be broadly described as the reproduction of capitalist culture and capitalist relations." Ehrenreich revisited the topic, in a more popular vein, with Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class (1989).
You don't hear any trace of sociological diction in Ehrenreich's latest book, in which she goes undercover as "Barbara Alexander," a homemaker with some work experience in writing and event-planning. (Alexander's resume is a more modest rewriting of Ehrenreich's own background as academic and journalist.) Her search for a new job puts her in competition with other casualties of downsizing and midlife unemployment. She spends her time reading Monster.com, not Louis Althusser.
But some of Ehrenreich's old theoretical concerns do pop up as she tries to land a gig on the lower rungs of the PMC hierarchy. More than a quarter century ago, she had written that the private life of the middle class "becomes too arduous to be lived in private: the inner life of the PMC must be continuously shaped, updated and revised by … ever mounting numbers of experts." And so Barbara Alexander finds teams of "career consultants" ready to help her adjust her outlook to fit into the new corporate culture. How? Through the modern science of psychobabble.
After reviewing Bait and Switch for Newsday, I still had some questions about where the book fit into Ehrenreich's thinking. Happily, she was willing to answer them by e-mail.
Q: Nickel and Dimed has become a standard reading assignment for undergraduates over the past few years, and some of that audience must now be entering the white-collar job market you describe in Bait and Switch. Is there anything in the new book intended as guidance for readers who will be facing that reality?
A: I'd like to reach undergraduates with Bait and Switch before they decide on a business career. I'm haunted by the kid I met at Siena College, in N.Y., who told me he was really interested in psychology, but since that isn't "practical," he was going into marketing, which draws on psychology — though, as this fellow sadly admitted, only for the purpose of manipulating people. Or the gal I met at University of Oregon who wants to be a journalist but is drifting toward PR so she can make a living.
Right now, business is the most popular undergraduate major in America, largely because young people believe it will lead to wealth or at least security. I want them to rethink that decision, or at least do some hard thinking about what uses they would like apply their business skills to.
There's not much by way of individual guidance in Bait and Switch, but I do want to get people thinking more about corporate domination, not only of the economy, but of our psyches. Generally speaking, the corporations have us by the short hairs wherever you look, and of course, one source of their grip is the idea that they are the only or the major source of jobs. I'm asking, what kind of jobs — back-breaking low-wage jobs as in Nickel and Dimed, or transient, better-paid jobs that seem to depend heavily on one's ability to be a suck-up, as in Bait and Switch?
Q:The pages in Bait and Switch devoted to New Age-inflected business-speak are quite funny — but in an angry way. How much do you think people really buy into this ideology? Do they take it seriously? Or is it just something you have to repeat, to be part of the tribe?
A: Well, someone must believe it, or there wouldn't be any market for all the business advice books spewed out by career coaches and management gurus. I had the impression that the job seekers I was mingling with usually thought they should believe it all, or at least should act as if they believe it all. There certainly seems to be a lot of fear of being different or standing out in any way.
Q:What's the relationship between the world you are describing in the new book and that of the professional-managerial class? Are business professionals fully fledged members of the PMC? Or are they clueless and self-deluding mimics of it? All of the above?
A: Sure, they're bona fide members of the PMC as John Ehrenreich and I defined it in the 70s; they are college-educated and they command others or at least determine the work that others will do. But your question makes me think that an update on the PMC is long overdue.
In the late 80s, when I wrote Fear of Falling, it looked like the part of the PMC employed as corporate operatives was doing pretty well compared to the more academic and intellectual end of the PMC, which was beginning to get battered by HMOs (in the case of physicians), budget cuts (in the case of college professors, social workers, and others), etc.
Starting in the late 80s, though — and insufficiently noted by me at the time — the corporate operative-types began to lose whatever purchase they had on stability. First there were the mergers and acquisitions of the 80s, which inevitably led to white collar job loss; then there was the downsizing of the 90s; and now of course the outsourcing of many business-professional functions. So no one is safe.
Q: Do people in this sphere have any way to win a degree of real control over their economic condition? If they don't have some regulation of the market for their labor via certification (i.e. real professionalization) and they find it unimaginable to be unionized, does that leave them any options?
A: No. As a blue collar union friend of mine commented: They bought the line, they never had any concept of solidarity, and now they're sunk.
Q: In reporting this book, you created an alter ego, "Barbara Alexander," who is not the same person as Barbara Ehrenreich. But she's not totally different, either. There is a degree of overlap in age, background, work experience, etc. The job search proves fairly humiliating for Barbara Alexander. Was it hard to keep some distance from the role? It felt like she might explode a few times.
A: Remember, "Barbara Alexander" was just my cover; I only distanced myself enough to be a fairly low-key observer/reporter. Hence no tantrums or crazed rants. So yes, a certain amount of self-control was necessary, and it did take its toll. I often felt extremely soiled, compromised and generally yucky about the whole venture.
By which I don't mean I'm too pure to be involved in the great corporate money-making machine (my books, after all, are published by a large corporation and I happily accept my royalties) but that I was trying to act like someone I'm not and that I suspect very few people are, i.e., the endlessly upbeat, compliant, do-with-me-what-you-will corporate employee.
Q: Some aspects of the labor market you describe in Bait and Switch sound comparable to trends emerging in parts of academe. Any thoughts on that score? Have you considered writing, say, Ivy and Adjunct?
A: You want me to go undercover as an adjunct? No way. First, I've been an adjunct, years ago, at both NYU and the College of New Rochelle, and I understand the pay hasn't improved since then. So sorry, that option is no more enticing than another stint at Wal-Mart.
Someone should write about it though. The condition of adjuncts, who provide the bulk of higher ed in this country, is an absolute scandal. I've met adjuncts who moonlight as maids and waitresses, and I've read about homeless ones. If the right is so worried about the academy being too left wing, they should do something about the treatment of adjuncts (and many junior faculty.) There's something about hunger that has a way of turning people to the left.
Reposted from Inside Higher Ed.
Posted September 4, 2022 Left Politics, United States by Dan Fischer
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In this article, you'll learn how to grade comments and replies on graded discussions, as well as your options for grading the discussion itself. Don't forget that you can also set up your graded discussion to use auto grading.
Graded discussions give you the option of grading individual comments and replies from students. These comment grades can then be used as a grading requirement for the whole discussion.
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If you're using rubrics, you can also assign a rubric to graded discussion comments.
Find the comment or reply you wish to grade. Click Enter grade.
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If you need to change the grade later, click the grade to edit it.
To grade a discussion, you'll go to the assignment page. There you'll find a number of grading and review options.
Go to the assignment's page. You can find that via the course Assignments view, the gradebook, or by going to the discussion's page and clicking Assignment page.
Click a student's name to go to his assignment detail page.
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Review the student's contributions on the Discussion view.
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Sean is the architect and Executive Director of HHMI's Tangled Bank Studios. Born out of the conviction that film remains the most powerful medium for bringing ideas, knowledge, and stories to life, this endeavor aims to bring great stories about science and scientists to both general audiences and students in the classroom.
Sean in the North Dakota Badlands with Duck-billed dinosaur skeleton (from The Day the Mesozoic Died).
There are two main prongs to film production at HHMI. To produce feature films for television and large-screens, HHMI founded its own production company, Tangled Bank Studios. Tangled Bank's first feature documentaries aired in 2014 including: the three-part PBS special Your Inner Fish, based on Neil Shubin's best-selling book; Vaccines: Callling the Shots (NOVA ,PBS); and Mass Extinction: Life at the Brink (Smithsonian Channel). More recent films include The Farthest (2017, PBS), the story of the epic Voyager mission to the outer planets and beyond, Amazon Adventure (2017, IMAX), the story of Henry Walter Bates' exploration of the Amazon in the mid-19th century, The Lucky Specials (2017), Spillover; Zika, Ebola & Beyond (2016, PBS), and Can Alzheimer's Be Stopped (2016, NOVA, PBS).
To produce short films for the classroom, HHMI's long-established Educational Resources Group works with highly accomplished filmmakers to produce films that tell engaging stories while presenting content central to science curricula. The films are distributed for free for downloading, streaming, and on DVD, as are teacher resources for each scientific story.
Sean has served as executive producer or executive in charge of all of HHMI Tangled Bank Studios feature films and executive producer and/or on-screen presenter of approximately twenty short educational films. Most importantly, these films and supporting educational materials are now being used by tens of thousands of science teachers at the high school, middle school, and college levels.
To watch the short films, visit the HHMI Biointeractive website.
Sean on location in the Galapagos Islands with film producer John Rubin (in blue hat).
Sean has also been involved in the making of a number of earlier documentary films, including the 2009 NOVA special to mark Darwin's anniversary, "What Darwin Never Knew" that was based on Sean's books "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" and "The Making of the Fittest".
A two-hour special program that marked the 150th anniversary of the publication of The Origin of Species and the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, the film explores the new evolutionary science that is revealing how evolution works at the most fundamental level. Sean served as scientific consulting producer.


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Reflexion ist ein 1979 im Ravensburger-Spieleverlag erschienenes Legespiel für 1 bis 2 Spieler. Bei diesem Spiel geht es darum, möglichst schnell – wenn es zu zweit gespielt wird – Muster nachzulegen. Mit den Legesteinen kann aber immer nur eine Hälfte gebildet werden, die andere entsteht durch Spiegelung.

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 2 Spielflächen aus Kunststoff
 2 einsteckbare Spiegel
 4 gelb/rote Legesteine aus Kunststoff
 31 Karten
 1 Spielregel (16 DIN-A5-Seiten) in deutsch, französisch, italienisch und niederländisch

Spielprinzip

Im Spiel zu Zweit erhält jeder Spieler 2 Legesteine und die Spielfläche mit Spiegel. Die Karten werden gemischt und eine Karte aufgedeckt. Wer das auf der Karte abgebildete Muster unter Zuhilfenahme des Spiegels zuerst nachlegen kann, erhält die Karte. Wer die meisten Karten erhält, gewinnt das Spiel.

Allein kann man entweder die Muster der Karten oder weitere in der Spielanleitung abgebildete Muster nachlegen. Hier stehen zusätzlich Muster, die aus 4 Legesteinen gebildet werden müssen, zur Verfügung.

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ballot measures. election 2018
CityViews: A Teen Calls for Opening Up Community Boards—Via Term Limits
By Kenneth Lee.
Abigail Savitch-Lew
Inwood Community Board 12's Business Development Committee hears a presentation by the Department of Small Business Services on Tuesday, February 6.
On Election Day, New York City residents will have a chance to vote on three ballot measures. City Limits welcomes op-eds from anyone with a position on one or all of them. Let us know if you want to weigh in.
When New Yorkers go to the polls on Tuesday, November 6th, they should "flip their ballot" and vote yes on question 3 to establish term limits for community boards.
Community boards are a great way for young people to get active in their community. A fun fact that most New Yorkers probably don't know: In 2014, the minimum age to join a board was lowered to 16. So now 16- and 17-year-olds can serve on community boards alongside adults and participate in the most grassroots local decision-making. Sadly, there are not many young people on community boards and that means their voice is not reflected in our local democracy.
Voting yes on to create term limits on community boards will open up the process so that more young people, like me, can apply, and, hopefully, get appointed to their local community board.
Unfortunately, I applied but did not get appointed to my local community board. Our city needs more teens appointed onto community boards because it doesn't just only allow them to voice their opinions, it gives them a vehicle to drive local change. Community boards could be a pipeline to get more teens active in politics and civic engagement. I have met multiple teens who applied to a community board but our applications went unanswered.
CityViews are readers' opinions, not those of City Limits. Add your voice today!
The current generation is hungry to effect change in their community. They just aren't given many platforms to do so. Now that 16- and 17-year-olds are able to serve on community boards by law, more should be done to raise awareness with youth about the role of community boards and encourage them to apply to serve.
If approved, question 3 would also ensure a more robust and standardized application process, which varies from borough to borough. The application process to be appointed onto a community board should be changed, so that everyone applying to the board would know their application status at every step in the process.
I encourage all New Yorkers to vote yes on question 3 to open up community boards to the youth passionate who are excited to be active in local decision-making on gentrification, and quality of life issues.
Kenneth Lee is a freshman at Medgar Evers College.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
By Sandy Nurse and Anna Kelles
By Bonnie Mohan and Tess Sommer
By Michael Hernandez


Solomon here introduces the "strange woman," of whom he has much more to say in chapters 5-7. The word for strange means foreign and refers to the pagan women of the nations outside of Israel. Through usage the term came to refer to any loose, immoral, and adulterous woman. Solomon will go on to sketch her character and her ways more fully. Mention of her is accompanied with appropriate warning. The strange woman represents a second kind of danger for fools lacking wisdom and is a complement to the evil man previously mentioned.
The strange woman has a prominent role in Proverbs as she is set as the anti-wisdom, or the opposite of lady wisdom. Wisdom will protect from and deliver from this dangerous adulterous. She flatters with her words, meaning she uses smooth speech to persuade the simple to go with her. Her smooth speech is appealing and designed to ignite passion in the man she seeks to ensnare. So she is a manipulator as well, using all her wiles to take her prey.
The strange woman is also contrasted with the virtuous woman of chapter 31. Strange women are presented as being plenteous and seemingly everywhere present. The virtuous woman is immediately described as being hard to find, but imminently valuable when found. Solomon knew by bitter experience the difference between the two and gave impassioned warnings against the strange woman.
Very good Brother Short, but let us not forget also the spiritual application, and that is "Spiritual Adultery", being delivered from the "Great Whore" and her daughters, which is all false religion.


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Bright's disease is a historical classification of kidney diseases that are described in modern medicine as acute or chronic nephritis. It was characterized by swelling and the presence of albumin in the urine, and was frequently accompanied by high blood pressure and heart disease.

Signs and symptoms

The symptoms and signs of Bright's disease were first described in 1827 by the English physician Richard Bright, after whom the disease was named. In his Reports of Medical Cases,  he described 25 cases of dropsy (edema) which he attributed to kidney disease. Symptoms and signs included: inflammation of serous membranes, hemorrhages, apoplexy, convulsions, blindness and coma. Many of these cases were found to have albumin in their urine (detected by the spoon and candle-heat coagulation), and showed striking morbid changes of the kidneys at autopsy. The triad of dropsy, albumin in the urine, and kidney disease came to be regarded as characteristic of Bright's disease.

Subsequent work by Bright and others indicated an association with cardiac hypertrophy, which Bright attributed to stimulation of the heart. Frederick Akbar Mahomed showed that a rise in blood pressure could precede the appearance of albumin in the urine, and the rise in blood pressure and increased resistance to flow was believed to explain the cardiac hypertrophy.

It is now known that Bright's disease is caused by a wide and diverse range of kidney diseases; thus, the term Bright's disease is retained strictly for historical application. The disease was diagnosed frequently in diabetic patients; at least some of these cases would probably correspond to a modern diagnosis of diabetic nephropathy.

Treatment
Bright's disease was historically treated with warm baths, blood-letting, squill, digitalis, mercuric compounds, opium, diuretics, laxatives, and dietary therapy, including abstinence from alcoholic drinks, cheese and red meat. Arnold Ehret was diagnosed with Bright's disease and pronounced incurable by 24 of Europe's most respected doctors; he designed The Mucusless Diet Healing System, which apparently cured his illness. William Howard Hay, MD had the illness and, it is claimed, cured himself using the Hay diet.

Society and culture

List of people diagnosed with Bright's disease
 Isambard Kingdom Brunel, polymath and civil engineer, was diagnosed in 1858, but died on 15 September 1859 of a stroke.
 Robert Stephenson, mechanical engineer, was diagnosed with the disease in 1850.
 Baseball Hall of Fame member and Detroit Tigers center fielder Ty Cobb was diagnosed with a list of ailments, including Bright's disease, in 1959.
 Frederick William Faber, Catholic priest and author, died on 26 September 1863.
 George-Étienne Cartier, Founding Father of the Confederation of Canada, died on 20 May 1873.
 Rowland Hussey Macy Sr., an American businessman and founder of the department store chain R.H. Macy & Company, died on 29 March 1877 in Paris.
 Tabeguache Ute chief Ouray died of Bright's disease on 24 August 1880.
 The famous dwarf Commodore Nutt died in New York on 25 May 1881.
 Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, first wife of Theodore Roosevelt, died on 14 February 1884 due to kidney failure caused by Bright's disease that was worsened due to pregnancy.
 Gregor Mendel died on 6 January 1884 at the age of 61.
 American tennis pioneer Mary Ewing Outerbridge died at the age of 34, on 3 May 1886.
 Poet Emily Dickinson died 15 May 1886.
 Chester Alan Arthur, 21st President of the United States, died 18 November 1886.
 Swedish-American mechanical engineer John Ericsson, most famous for designing , died on 8 March 1889.
 American Major League Baseball pitcher, Larry Corcoran, died 14 October 1891.
 Paul Anderson, American Olympic gold medallist weightlifter, died 15 August 1994.  In 1961, he and his wife Glenda founded the Paul Anderson Youth Home in Vidalia, Georgia.
 Charles H. Spurgeon, London pastor known as "The Prince of Preachers", died in 1892 at the age of 57 of Bright's disease.
 Famed gunfighter Luke Short was diagnosed with Bright's disease in early 1893, but died on 8 September of that year due to edema.
 Union general Francis Barlow, who had played an important role in the American Civil War, died on 11 January 1896.
 Federal Judge Isaac Parker died on 17 November 1896, in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
 Soldier and ornithologist Charles Bendire died in 1897.
 Actress Caroline Miskel Hoyt, aged 25, died 2 October 1898, after childbirth.
 Socialite Katherine Jane Chase, daughter of Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, died 31 July 1899, at age 58.
 John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, the Victorian aristocrat and industrial magnate whose vast expenditure on buildings makes him the pre-eminent architectural patron of the 19th century. Diagnosed with Bright's disease and died after multiple strokes on 9 October 1900.
 American bare-knuckle heavyweight champion Paddy Ryan died on 14 December 1900 in Green Island, New York.  Bright's was not an entirely uncommon disease among early boxers who took frequent pounding to the abdomen in their careers.
 32nd Speaker of the US House of Representatives Thomas Brackett Reed (18 October 1839 – 7 December 1902), American politician from the state of Maine, died on 7 December 1902 in Washington, D.C.
 Roswell Eaton Goodell, American politician and businessman who died of Bright's disease on 9 October 1903, in Denver, Colorado.
 Victorian actress Helena Modjeska, died on 8 April 1909.
 North Dakota Senator Martin Nelson Johnson, died on 21 October 1909.
 Old West lawman Bass Reeves' death in 1910 was attributed to this disease.
 Charles Cotton, English footballer who died on 3 January 1910 after a five-week illness.
 American illustrator Howard Pyle died 9 November 1911.
 Warren S. Johnson, founder of Johnson Controls, died on 5 December 1911, at the age of 64.
 James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States from 1909 until his death in 1912.
 Okakura Kakuzo, Japanese scholar, died on 2 September 1913.
 Ellen Axson Wilson, first wife of Woodrow Wilson, died on 6 August 1914.
 Richard Warren Sears, an American businessman and founder of the department store chain Sears, Roebuck and Company, died on 28 September 1914 in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
 Woodsman Louis "French Louie" Seymour died on 28 February 1915.
 John Bunny, comic star of the early motion picture era, died on 26 April 1915.
 Australian cricketer Victor Trumper died at age 37, in June 1915.
 Booker T. Washington, founder of Tuskegee University, died in November 1915.
 Albert Carl "Al" Ringling (1852–1916), eldest of the Ringling brothers, died at the age of 63 in Wisconsin.
 Charles Sumner Sedgwick, architect based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, died in 1922.
 Baseball Hall of Famer Ross Youngs died on 22 October 1927.
 19th-century stage actress Alice Harrison died of Bright's disease in 1896.
 Spanish composer Isaac Albéniz began suffering from Bright's disease in 1900, and died on 18 May 1909.
 Robert Stroud "the birdman of Alcatraz" was diagnosed with Bright's disease in Leavenworth prison shortly after he began his original sentence.
 James McHenry Jones, African American educator, school administrator, businessperson, and minister.
 Billy Miske, American light heavyweight and heavyweight boxer, who once fought Jack Dempsey for the World Heavyweight Boxing title, died from Bright's Disease on 1 January 1924 (aged 29).
 James Dennison Sebring, played in the 1903 World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates and was the first player in World Series history to hit a home run. He died of Bright's disease 22 December 1909 at the age of 27.
 Kitty Kiernan, fiancée of Irish Revolutionary Michael Collins (Irish Leader), died of complications thought to be related to Bright's disease on 25 July 1945.
 Kate Shelley, railroad heroine and the first woman in the United States to have a bridge named after her, the Kate Shelley High Bridge, died of Bright's Disease on 21 January 1912.
 Henry Hobson Richardson, prominent North American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque, died of Bright's Disease on 27 April 1886 (aged 47).
 Wayne Munn, professional wrestler and collegiate football player, died of Bright's Disease in 1931.
 Matthew B. Brady, early American photographer, died of Bright's disease on 15 January 1896.
 Marcus Daly, Irish immigrant, Copper King of Butte, Montana; discoverer of copper riches in Anaconda mine; founder of Anaconda, MT; first president of Amalgamated/Anaconda Copper Co.; died of Bright's disease 11/12/1900 in New York City

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To Make the Crust: Mix together the flour and salt in a large bowl. Add the butter and, working quickly with either your hands, two knives or a pastry cutter, work the butter into the dough until the pieces are roughly the size of peas. Some may be bigger – this will make your dough nice and flaky once it bakes. With a wooden spoon, stir in the ice water a tablespoon or two at a time, just until the mixture comes together into a workable dough. Pour the dough out onto a lightly floured surface, and press into a round. Chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. In the meantime, you can prepare your pie filling and topping.
To Make the Filling: Rinse, peel, and de-core your apples. Then cut them into slices about 1/4-inch wide, and place them in a large mixing bowl. Add the flour, cinnamon, lemon juice and zest, brown sugar and salt and mix to combine.
To Make the Topping: In a medium-sized bowl, mix together the flour, both sugars, cinnamon and salt. Add the butter and work it into the flour mixture until it resembles coarse sand. Chill in the refrigerator until ready to use.
To Assemble and Bake the Pie: Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
On a well-floured surface, roll your crust out to about 1/8-inch thick. Roll the dough onto your pin to transfer to your skillet, unroll, and lightly press into the edges. Trim the edges so they are flush with rim of the skillet.
Pour the apple filling into the dough shell. Top with the crumb topping, mounding the flour mixture in the middle and lightly packing it down over the apples.
Bake for about 30 minutes, until the top is golden brown, then reduce the heat to 350 degrees F and bake for another 40-45 minutes more, until the apples are tender when pierced with a knife. If the topping is browning too quickly, cover the pie with aluminum foil.
Let cool until warm or room temperature and serve with vanilla ice cream or lightly whipped cream.
Amazing! Made tonight using all Fuji apples. I usually dread making pies because of the dough, but this dough worked perfectly. Did have to add maybe 10 tbsp of water. Soooo perfect! If I'd gotten this in a restaurant I'd have been thrilled! My new go-to Apple pie recipe!!!
Made this for the second time & it needed to be citrus free so I subbed Apple cider (6-8 tbsp.)for the lemon juice and it was just as delicious!
This is absolutely delicious and easy. I must confess that I didn't make the crust...I used a pillsbury crust which worked fine. I'm sure not as good as homemade but I stink at making crust. I'd rather spend my time doing other things...so I made cinnamon ice cream to go with it...delicious.
and how do I get my pie out of the skillet? (in one piece please) so I can use the skillet for the next pie, while the first one is cooling??
this is a fab pie~ i have used a 10 inch cast iron skillet~ way more lemon juice~ way more apples(granny and gala) and used one pre made crust on the bottom~ i lightly butter the skillet then lay in the crust.. i also use dark brown sugar in the apples and 1/2 teaspoon of 5 spice~ no added salt but use reg butter~ this is an awesome apple pie~ thanks so much!!
This looks great and I'm making it now! My only question is that I needed way more than 8 tablespoons of ice water - probably closer to 12- to get my dough to even get to a shaggy phase. Is this normal/will it turn out ok? Thanks!
When I posted the info about the recipe being for a 12" skillet, the pie had just gone into the oven, so I hadn't tasted it yet. Oh-Em-Eff-Gee! This is the BEST apple pie I've ever had! This is easily my favorite pie now (it used to be blueberry pie). A few notes on where I diverged slightly from the recipe above - I decided to use regular salted butter, and not unsalted butter. I did cut back a bit on the amount of salt called for to make up for the salt in the butter. I will definitely continue making this pie with regular salted butter. The sweet and salty balance is PERFECT, for my tastes at least. Second, I used Honeycrisp apples, not Granny Smith or Fuji. I still cut them into 1/4" slices like the recipe said. They held up VERY nicely and as long as they're in season, I'll continue using Honeycrisp apples for this recipe as well. Finally, the only cast iron skillet I have is 14" round, so the dough didn't quite make it to the edge of the skillet. However, this was not a problem at all, since the filling spreads out more and stays under the rim of the crust, and there is plenty of crumble to cover the filling. In other words, I didn't change the amounts of anything in the recipe above for my 14" skillet. I did bake it for only 35 minutes once the oven was turned down to 350`, since the ingredients were more spread out, things cooked a teeny bit faster. I still used the full 30 minutes at 400` though.
This pie has hand's down won a place in the holiday staple desserts I'll be making for my family. 5 stars!!!!
Jan, I just used a 14" skillet, and the crust didn't quite make it up to the edges of the pan. So I assume this recipe is for a 12" skillet.
What size cast iron skillet?


• The auto industry has a history of quickly eliminating competitive threats.
• Tesla still isn't perceived as a threat, though it's widely admired.
• Automakers remain happy to let Tesla take on all the electric-car risk.
Elon Musk is so charismatic and Tesla is so cool that it's easy to overlook how unlikely the automaker's success is.
After a brush with bankruptcy in 2008, the company has thrived, minting a $60 billion market capitalization (surpassing all three of the Detroit Big Three at one juncture) and becoming the carmaker that everyone is obsessed with.
How did this happen? There hasn't been a significant new American car company in decades. True, over the course of the 20th century, dozens of automakers rose and fell, started up and were swallowed whole. But since the 1980s, the US has been home to the Big Three and that's it. The rest of the US market is served by Japanese, German, South Korean, and Italian brands (and lately with Volvo, a Chinese-owned company).
It's popular to now argue that Tesla's success on Wall Street, and it's captivating media tale means that Musk and his company will take over the world. The worst offender is Gene Munster, a former tech analyst who has moved into venture capital. With a straight face, he predicted that Tesla could control over 60% of the US market (a feat even General Motors at its prewar peak couldn't manage).
Why is Tesla still around?
The beautiful Model 3. Beautiful, but not terrifying.
If that threat is real, then why hasn't unprofitable Tesla, dependent on Wall Street for frequent capital raises, been run out of business by the rest of the auto industry? After all, there are precedents: Throughout the 20th century, big auto used all its power and political leverage to beat back or eliminate challenges.
The answer is simple: Tesla isn't seen as a threat.
And even though 500,000 advance orders for the Model 3 is astonishing, the traditional automakers still aren't impressed. They know that Tesla's Achilles' heel is production. Unmet demand in the hundreds of thousands isn't a boon, in this context; it's a potentially ruinous burden.
This doesn't mean that Tesla won't become a threat. We're starting to hear a lot of chatter about how governments intend to mandate that half of all vehicles sold in 10 or 20 years are electric. Tesla would benefit enormously from such a shift (but it would still have to build the cars).
And nobody in the industry wants to lose out on the immense branding and marketing opportunity that EVs represent. Electric-car concepts have become the new "dream cars" at worldwide auto shows. They lose nothing by showcasing these designs and gain plenty if they convince consumers to buy or lease an existing gas-powered or hybrid vehicle.
It would be harder to put Tesla out of business than it might have been a few years ago. GM could have done it, as I once argued. But it still wouldn't be impossible.
There's no good reason to do it. For one thing, although Tesla and Musk have lots of critics — some of these with substantial short positions in the stock — the auto industry is largely Tesla-positive. Executives, knowing the industry's history, are impressed with what Tesla has pulled off, and have welcomed the competition because they know Tesla's success will force them to improve their own EV design and engineering.
For another, Tesla and Musk are happy to front-run all the risk.
The industry remembers well what happened to Ford. With the Model T in the early 20th century, Henry Ford created a mass auto market and sold millions of cars. But GM still knocked Ford off the No. 1 spot by offering more choice. After GM became No. 1, Ford never got back to the top of the mountain.
What's novel about Tesla isn't the cars — they look great and have innovative features, but anyone can duplicate the technology. It's the story. It's what investors are buying, given Tesla's legacy of losing money. It's what customers are buying — the chance to join the future ahead of schedule, especially in Silicon Valley. It's what even the automotive indifferent are buying — Tesla is taking on global warming and helping us shed our dependence on fossil fuels.
Tesla risk of failing completely continues to be far higher than any traditional carmaker. With enough cash on hand to operate for a year, Tesla is farther from Chapter 11 than it was in 2008, but not that much farther. If a sales downturn arrives in the next two years (it's overdue), Tesla's business will suffer along with everyone else's. And if government end EV incentive and subsidies, Tesla's vehicles will instantly become more expensive.
It's useful for the auto industry to have a member that's willing to spend all its time on this knife edge. Tesla takes all the heat and absorbs all the risk. If it validates a market or a technology, the major players emulate it or duplicate it. And with electric cars making up only about 1% of global sales, it's cheap to follow Tesla because there aren't that many truly profitable sales to be had.
The risk itself is essentially free. A GM, Ford, VW, or Toyota doesn't have to spend a dime to have Tesla do all the heavy lifting. Tesla investors provide all the capital, funding a risk-innovation lab of sorts in Palo Alto, Tesla's HQ, and big carmakers get all the benefits. Governments/taxpayers further sweeten the post by supporting the EV market.
It's a perfect scenario. And Tesla has perfected its role in it. The auto industry would be crazy to get rid one of the best things that's ever happened to the business.


Tired? Maybe Life is Telling You Something – Love. Life. Practice.
It's actually kind of sad how much this statue has always resonated for me.
The last week has been a busy one – two open-space conferences facilitated in two different cities, two interviews for podcasts I produce and one where I was the person being interviewed, all the regular client work plus some emotional situations in personal relationships. At the end, though, everything ended up in a satisfactory place, and on the day I was supposed to fly home from Rochester my host noticed that I looked a little worn out.
"Oh, I'm just operating on momentum right now." We were on our way to a social gathering with the board members of her local community group – not something we really had the energy for, but protocol and politeness dictated that we pay our respects.
I had. It's funny that we will often talk about how good "the burn" is from exercise, or use one of the many repetition-to-failure regimens, but don't tend to look at it from the bigger-picture perspective.
Not that there's anything wrong with that kind of pick-me-up now and again. The problem is when you (and by "you" I of course mean "me") see these as long-term strategies instead of emergency measures.
My own achilles heel is in the realm of sleep: I tend to minimize the effects of very little sleep, even though I know better. I want to think that I can be fine with six hours of sleep; I wish I could go down to four; I've even played around with the idea of doing a polyphasic sleep schedule due in large part to the writings of Nancy Kress.
Luckily for my partner Natasha, I have done enough research to see that there is far more promise in the idea of improving my sleep than there is in the idea of doing without it. Kind of like diet: if you're eating bad food, the solution is not to eat no food, it's to eat better.
Life is tiring; it requires energy, and it uses up energy, and if you find yourself nodding off or longing for your bed, instead of fighting the urge, listen to what your body – and your life – are telling you. Maybe it's Hey, good workout! on a macro scale. Or maybe it's Hey, this really isn't sustainable and it's time to look at what you can change.
Me, I'm looking hard at sleep, and how I can get better at it. Supposedly there's a lot of ways to make that work; got any suggestions?
I like to use an app called SleepyTime to add some background noise (I like the campfire and beach noises playing together) just enough so it's not so quiet in my room. If I find my self tossing around trying to go to sleep, I get up go to the bathroom, stretch, maybe get a small snack (piece of chocolate usually), rearrange my blankets, and tuck myself back in bed and that usually does the trick.


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Police calls made in your Lake Forest…
Police calls made in your Lake Forest neighborhoods
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Suspicious person/circumstances. 11:15 a.m. Orchard Rim Lane and Treeline Lane. The caller reported two men possibly casing houses in the neighborhood.
Citizen assist. 10:25 a.m. 23700 block of El Toro Road. The caller reported a threat from an employee to bring a gun to the business on his last day of work.
Burglary in progress. 2:50 a.m. 21800 block of Zuni Drive. The caller said she arrived home and saw a man inside her mother's car.
Disturbance-music or party. 11:31 p.m. 25600 block of Rimgate Drive. The caller said neighbors are yelling at her and her friends to quiet down, saying they are going to call the police. She said she's celebrating getting 100 percent on her veterinarian exam and wanted to call the police before the neighbors do so the police can go and tell the neighbors not to yell at her.
Disturbance. 11:10 p.m. 23300 block of Cavanaugh Road. The caller said five gang bangers punched out his car window.
Disturbance. 10:01 p.m. Ridge Route Drive and Muirlands Boulevard. The caller reported a man and a woman yelling. Police arrested a 47-year-old man.
Unknown trouble. 7:38 p.m. 25800 block of Trabuco Road. The caller reported a man and a woman struggling. Police arrested a 20-year-old man.
Disturbance. 6:28 p.m. El Toro Road and Jeronimo Road. The caller reported a possibly drunken man on the bus saying he is going to take over the bus.
Shots heard-no suspect information. 6:17 p.m. Peachwood and Trabuco Road. The caller reported hearing 30 shots.
Disturbance. 5:17 p.m. Rockfield Boulevard and Lake Forest Drive. The caller reported a man in a Toyota Tacoma following him screaming for him to pull over so he can beat him up.
Traffic stop. 8:05 a.m. El Toro Road and Arbor Way. Police arrested a 56-year-old man.
Suspicious person in a vehicle. 4:06 a.m. 20000 block of Osterman Road. The caller reported a man and a woman having sex in a truck. The caller reported hearing a baby crying.
Reckless driving. 2:56 p.m. Muirlands Boulevard and Ridge Route Drive. The caller reported a car swerving all over the road.
Disturbance. 11:20 a.m. Arbor Way and El Toro Road. The caller reported a man ranting and raving over some issues and he's attracting a large crowd that is getting increasingly hostile. The caller thinks they might start to fight.
Missing juvenile. 1:43 a.m. 0 block of Fairfield. The caller said her son was at the high school dance and hasn't come home.
Suspicious person in a vehicle. 9:34 p.m. 21100 block of Larchmont Drive. The caller reported two people smoking marijuana in the car.
Noncohabitant domestic violence. 10:10 a.m. 23800 block of Rockfield Boulevard. The caller reported a woman who came in and wanted to report domestic violence.
Assault report. 8:03 a.m. 25300 block of Serrano Road. The caller said her 11-year-old son was beat up and the child that beat him up told him that he had a gun.
Traffic stop. 8:45 p.m. Trabuco Rd and Ridge Route Drive. Police arrested a 41-year-old woman.
Citizen assist. 4:56 p.m. 28500 block of Trabuco Road. The caller said his 20-year-old daughter's boyfriend allegedly put drugs in her candy a couple of days ago.
Disturbance. 8:17 p.m. 23200 block of Orange Avenue. The caller said he was taking pictures of seven gang members who were drinking and they all tried to jump him.
Assist outside agency. 6:59 p.m. 26500 block of Normandale Drive. Police arrested a 32-year-old man.
Disturbance. 1:22 p.m. 23700 block of Rockfield Boulevard. The caller said a guest threatened the caller. The caller pulled a knife on the man when he said he was going to jump the counter. Police arrested a 21-year-old man.
Traffic stop. 7:15 a.m. Lake Forest Drive and Pittsford. Police arrested a 30-year-old man.
This blotter was compiled for the Register by Magda Liszewska from the Orange County's Sheriff's Department website. The outcome of calls often differs from what was initially reported. For more crime news, go to ocregister.com/crime.


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HMS Scholarly Articles
Contribution of High Plasma Triglycerides and Low High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol to Residual Risk of Coronary Heart Disease After Establishment of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Control
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Carey, Vincent James
Bishop, Louise M.
Laranjo, Nancy M
Harshfield, Benjamin J.
Kwiat, Carolyn
Sacks, Frank Martin
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Carey, Vincent J., Louise Bishop, Nancy Laranjo, Benjamin J. Harshfield, Carolyn Kwiat, and Frank M. Sacks. 2010. "Contribution of High Plasma Triglycerides and Low High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol to Residual Risk of Coronary Heart Disease After Establishment of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Control." The American Journal of Cardiology 106 (6) (September): 757–763. doi:10.1016/j.amjcard.2010.05.002.
To determine the relative contributions of triglycerides (TGs) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol in the residual risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) after the reduction of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol to guideline-recommended levels, we conducted a hospital-based, case-control study with optimal matching in the strata of LDL cholesterol, gender, ethnicity, and age. The 170 cases and 175 controls were patients at Brigham and Women's Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts) from 2005 to 2008 who had an LDL cholesterol level <130 mg/dl. The cases had incident CHD, and the controls had diagnoses unrelated to CHD. The 170 cases and 175 controls had a mean LDL cholesterol level of 73 and 87 mg/dl, respectively. The association between TG and HDL cholesterol levels and CHD risk was assessed using conditional and unconditional logistic regression analysis. The models investigated accommodated the possibility of an interaction between lipid factors. The odds of CHD increased by approximately 20% per 23-mg/dl increase in TGs and decreased by approximately 40% per 7.5-mg/dl decrease in HDL cholesterol. High TGs and low HDL cholesterol interacted synergistically to increase the odds ratio to 10 for the combined greatest TG (> or =190 mg/dl) and lowest HDL cholesterol quintiles (<30 mg/dl). High TG levels were more strongly associated with CHD when the HDL cholesterol was low than average or high; and low HDL cholesterol levels were more strongly associated with CHD when the TGs were high. TGs and HDL cholesterol were associated with CHD in patients with a LDL cholesterol level of < or =70 mg/dl, with a risk similar to, or greater than, those in the total group. In conclusion, high TG and low HDL cholesterol levels contribute strongly and synergistically to CHD when LDL cholesterol is well controlled. Thus, high TGs might have greater importance in patients with optimal rather than greater LDL cholesterol concentrations.
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Spin Defects Under Control: Improved Materials for Quantum Sensor Technology
TOPICS:Electrical EngineeringElectromagneticsMaterials ScienceNanotechnologyUniversity of Würzburg
By University of Würzburg May 2, 2021
Schematic representation of the coherent control of a spin defect (red) in an atomic layer of boron nitride. Boron nitride consists of boron (yellow spheres) and nitrogen (blue spheres) and lies on a stripline. The spin defect is excited by a laser and its state is read out via photoluminescence. The qubit can be manipulated both by microwave pulses (light blue) of the stripline and also by a magnetic field. Credit: Andreas Gottscholl / University of Wuerzburg
An international research team has made progress towards improved materials for quantum sensor technology. Medicine, navigation and IT could benefit from this in the future.
Boron nitride is a technologically interesting material because it is very compatible with other two-dimensional crystalline structures. It therefore opens up pathways to artificial heterostructures or electronic devices built on them with fundamentally new properties.
About a year ago, a team from the Institute of Physics at Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg in Bavaria, Germany, succeeded in creating spin defects, also known as qubits, in a layered crystal of boron nitride and identifying them experimentally.
Recently, the team led by Professor Vladimir Dyakonov, his PhD student Andreas Gottscholl and group leader PD Dr. Andreas Sperlich, succeeded in taking an important next step: the coherent control of such spin defects, and that even at room temperature. The researchers report their findings in the impactful journal Science Advances. Despite the pandemic, the work was carried out in an intensive international collaboration with groups from the University of Technology Sydney in Australia and Trent University in Canada.
The JMU researchers plan to realize such a stacked structure. It consists of metallic graphene (bottom), insulating boron nitride (middle) and semiconducting molybdenum disulfide (top). The red dot symbolizes the single spin defect in one of the boron nitride layers. The defect can serve as a local probe in the stack. Credit: Andreas Gottscholl / University of Wuerzburg
Measuring local electromagnetic fields even more precisely
"We expect that materials with controllable spin defects will allow more precise measurements of local electromagnetic fields once they are used in a sensor", explains Vladimir Dyakonov, "and this is because they are, by definition, at the border to the surrounding world, which needs to be mapped. Conceivable areas of application are imaging in medicine, navigation, everywhere where contactless measurement of electromagnetic fields is necessary, or in information technology.
"The research community's search for the best material for this is not yet complete, but there are several potential candidates," adds Andreas Sperlich. "We believe we found a new candidate that stands out because of its flat geometry, which offers the best integration possibilities in electronics."
Limits of spin coherence times trickily overcome
All spin-sensitive experiments with the boron nitride were carried out at JMU. "We were able to measure the characteristic spin coherence times, determine their limits and even trickily overcome these limits," says a delighted Andreas Gottscholl, PhD student and first author of the publication. Knowledge of spin coherence times is necessary to estimate the potential of spin defects for quantum applications, and long coherence times are highly desirable as one eventually wants to perform complex manipulations.
Gottscholl explains the principle in simplified terms: "Imagine a gyroscope that rotates around its axis. We have succeeded in proving that such mini gyroscopes exist in a layer of boron nitride. And now we have shown how to control the gyroscope, i.e., for example, to deflect it by any angle without even touching it, and above all, to control this state."
Coherence time reacts sensitively to neighboring atomic layers
The contactless manipulation of the "gyroscope" (the spin state) was achieved through the pulsed high-frequency electromagnetic field, the resonant microwaves. The JMU researchers were also able to determine how long the "gyroscope" maintains its new orientation. Strictly speaking, the deflection angle should be seen here as a simplified illustration of the fact that a qubit can assume many different states, not just 0 and 1 like a bit.
What does this have to do with sensor technology? The direct atomic environment in a crystal influences the manipulated spin state and can greatly shorten its coherence time. "We were able to show how extremely sensitive the coherence reacts to the distance to the nearest atoms and atomic nuclei, to magnetic impurities, to temperature and to magnetic fields – so the environment of the qubit can be deduced from the measurement of the coherence time," explains Andreas Sperlich.
Goal: Electronic devices with spin decorated boron nitride layers
The JMU team's next goal is to realize an artificially stacked two-dimensional crystal made of different materials, including a spin-bearing component. The essential building blocks for the latter are atomically thin boron nitride layers containing optically active defects with an accessible spin state.
"It would be particularly appealing to control the spin defects and their surroundings in the 2D devices not only optically, but via the electric current. This is completely new territory," says Vladimir Dyakonov.
Reference: "Room temperature coherent control of spin defects in hexagonal boron nitride" by Andreas Gottscholl, Matthias Diez, Victor Soltamov, Christian Kasper, Andreas Sperlich, Mehran Kianinia, Carlo Bradac, Igor Aharonovich and Vladimir Dyakonov, 2 April 2021, Science Advances.
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf3630
The work was funded by the German Research Foundation DFG and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Vladimir Dyakonov is a Principle Investigator in the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat, whose topics include the control of spin-photon interfaces in topological material systems.
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People in Quebec are worried that Muslim women could be denied certain public services, after the government passed a "religious neutrality" bill.
The province's Bill 62 was passed by the Quebec provincial government on Oct. 18. It says that people who work for the government in certain jobs must have their face uncovered. It also requires people who are using government services — for instance, riding a bus or using a library — must do so with their face uncovered.
It also bans public workers, like doctors and teachers, from covering their face while they are working.
On April 9, Canadians commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge in the First World War.
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Supreme Court Decisions & Women's Rights: Discussion Questions & Exercises
Why does the Supreme Court give women the benefit of heightened scrutiny even though they do not fit the category of a "discrete and insular minority"?
Why are race classifications so much more suspect than gender classifications?
A ) Is it because the history of race oppression in the United States is more severe or detrimental than the history of sex discrimination? In considering your response, answer the following questions: When did black men gain the right to vote and hold office? When did women? When were black men obliged to serve on juries? When were women subject to that obligation?
B ) Is it because women, although targets of discrimination, are not a minority in terms of numbers? (They comprise 53% of the population.)
C ) Is it because there are real biological differences between the sexes? Do those differences extend beyond reproductive functions?
What do you think of Oklahoma's argument in Craig v. Boren that more males than females between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one were arrested for drunk driving or killed in traffic accidents? In your own experience, do young men drink more and engage in riskier behavior while intoxicated than young women? Why did Justice Brennan's majority opinion find that the relationship between traffic safety and gender was not "substantially related" to the state's objective of reducing car accidents?
One of the reasons that the Supreme Court struck down Virginia Military Institute's men-only admissions policy was that the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership, the parallel women-only military school, was not equal. What were some of the inequalities? Could the two schools ever have been made equal?
What do you think of Virginia Military Institute's "Code of a Gentleman" that Justice Scalia quoted from in his dissent? Does it make you more likely, less likely, or about as likely to agree with Justice Scalia's perspective on VMI's admission of women? Why?
Class Exercise:
Pretend that you and your classmates are members of the state legislature or city council where you live. A group of parents appears before you to testify about the ways in which girls are often treated like second class citizens in public high schools in your jurisdiction. It reports that boys are always elected to the student council and as class president and are also almost always chosen to be editor of the school newspaper. They enjoy numerous other prestigious positions in school as well. The group wants you to support the establishment of a statewide Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Academy for Young Women, a special high school for girls only that would allow girls to occupy all the positions of leadership and influence that few now do in co-ed high schools.
Discuss among yourselves the issue these parents have brought to the table. How do you deal with it? What creative solutions can you come up with? Do you vote to support the Eleanor Roosevelt Leadership Academy for Young Women, or can you think of some other legislation that will address the problem. Is there a problem?
What is your opinion on the validity of sex-segregated schools? Can all-female schools ever help women in a constitutionally permissible way? What if the Supreme Court one day applies strict scrutiny to sex-based classifications? Might such a ruling jeopardize federal financial aid and tax breaks to private single-sex schools? Would that be a good or bad thing? Is there ever a justification for all-male schools?
What would you think of one-sex-only classes within your school? An all-girls math class to prevent girls from being drowned-out by overly aggressive boys? All-girls and all-boys sex-education classes to prevent embarrassment on both sides?