“Always a Friend” The Complex Life of Lady Gregory Aristocracy, Womanhood, and the Indigenous Irish

Lady Gregory was an important part of nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish History, but her name is not associated with it as much as her male counterparts. Being born into an Anglo-Irish family, Lady Gregory was awarded certain privileges throughout her life in colonial Ireland. After marrying her husband, Sir William Gregory, she was a part of an elite titled family that awarded her more status. Her family, both strict unionists and heavily Protestant, taught her that women should succumb to the patriarchal society that raised her and hold status over the indigenous Irish. Nonetheless she created her own ideologies becoming a middle person for both viewpoints of nationalism and unionism. She broke down the societal standards put in place for her as a Victorian woman to preserve the history and language of the indigenous Irish. In the beginning, I believed that this thesis would argue that Lady Gregory was the oppressor of the indigenous Irish and used her status to create a career off of their stories. However, throughout my research in reading her archived sources, I have changed my opinion of her. She understood her status as an elite woman in Ireland but used her privileges to award those who were less fortunate. She used her status and power to help more than oppress. Lady Gregory created a career for herself after her husband’s death and established the Abbey Theatre in Ireland to uphold Irish playwrights. My thesis argues that the lack of women historians around the time of her death and the new Irish Republic became why she has not kept her popularity in modern historical narrative

Migraine relief in 20 minutes using eyedrops?

One randomized crossover trial demonstrated the effectiveness of this simple, affordable treatment for patients with acute migraine pain.Yufei Ge, MD; Gregory Castelli, PharmD, BCPS, BC-ADM (UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency Program, Pittsburgh, PA). Deputy Editor: Anne Mounsey, MD (Department of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)Includes bibliographical reference

An instability of higher-dimensional rotating black holes

We present the first example of a linearized gravitational instability of an asymptotically flat vacuum black hole. We study perturbations of a Myers-Perry black hole with equal angular momenta in an odd number of dimensions. We find no evidence of any instability in five or seven dimensions, but in nine dimensions, for sufficiently rapid rotation, we find perturbations that grow exponentially in time. The onset of instability is associated with the appearance of time-independent perturbations which generically break all but one of the rotational symmetries. This is interpreted as evidence for the existence of a new 70-parameter family of black hole solutions with only a single rotational symmetry. We also present results for the Gregory-Laflamme instability of rotating black strings, demonstrating that rotation makes black strings more unstable.Comment: 38 pages, 13 figure

Cornerstone Fund Stories: Gregory Bryant

Gregory Bryant spent a lot of time at Ouachita as a high school student, visiting his older sister Sarah Ashley Bryant Rutherford ’19. He discovered early on that there was more “family” than he could have possibly imagined waiting to welcome him to campus

Critical bubbles and implications for critical black strings

We demonstrate the existence of gravitational critical phenomena in higher dimensional electrovac bubble spacetimes. To this end, we study linear fluctuations about families of static, homogeneous spherically symmetric bubble spacetimes in Kaluza-Klein theories coupled to a Maxwell field. We prove that these solutions are linearly unstable and posses a unique unstable mode with a growth rate that is universal in the sense that it is independent of the family considered. Furthermore, by a double analytical continuation this mode can be seen to correspond to marginally stable stationary modes of perturbed black strings whose periods are integer multiples of the Gregory-Laflamme critical length. This allow us to rederive recent results about the behavior of the critical mass for large dimensions and to generalize them to the charged black string case.Comment: A reference to unpublished work for the case q=2, by J. Hovdebo adde

Caged Black Holes: Black Holes in Compactified Spacetimes II - 5d Numerical Implementation

We describe the first convergent numerical method to determine static black hole solutions (with S^3 horizon) in 5d compactified spacetime. We obtain a family of solutions parametrized by the ratio of the black hole size and the size of the compact extra dimension. The solutions satisfy the demanding integrated first law. For small black holes our solutions approach the 5d Schwarzschild solution and agree very well with new theoretical predictions for the small corrections to thermodynamics and geometry. The existence of such black holes is thus established. We report on thermodynamical (temperature, entropy, mass and tension along the compact dimension) and geometrical measurements. Most interestingly, for large masses (close to the Gregory-Laflamme critical mass) the scheme destabilizes. We interpret this as evidence for an approach to a physical tachyonic instability. Using extrapolation we speculate that the system undergoes a first order phase transition.Comment: 42 pages, 19 eps figures; v2: 3 references added, version to appear in Phys.Rev.

Religious experience : north and south

The article focuses on the contribution of anthropology to table fellowship. In the first part of the paper, one encounters a wide spectrum of information from research by cultural anthropologists on the bonding experience involved in food gathering, the cooking process and the sharing of food round a common table. The paper highlights spiritual sharing which is a constitutive dimension of authentic table fellowship, and the value of being graced and enriched by guests present at table. The second part of the article treats a number of specific meal traditions particular to the island of Malta - the family meal on the occasion of the village religious festa; the outdoor meals associated with folk festivals held on the feast of St Peter and St Paul (28-29 June), and that associated with St Gregory (on the Wednesday following Easter). The symbolic meaning of these meals is underlined, as is the feeling of togetherness of the group which has assembled to celebrate.peer-reviewe

Is self-administered DMPA an answer to contraception access in the post-Roe era?

Consider prescribing self-administered subcutaneous depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) for contraception instead of provider-administered DMPA. Self-administration improves contraception continuation rates without notable increases in pregnancy or adverse effects.Lindsay Nakaishi, MD, MPH, DipABLM; Gregory Castelli, PharmD, FCCP, BCPS, BC-ADM, CDCES, (UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency Program)Includes bibliographical reference

Román családnevek Bereg megyében

Romanian family names in Bereg County (Ukraine) The historical Bereg County has always had a mixed population. Romanian people arrived in Bereg County from the neighbouring counties (i.e. from Máramaros and Ugocsa) and soon became Hungarians in their new environment. In the present survey, as today’s name bearers are all native speakers of Hungarian, the name forms observed are characteristically Hungarian. The paper discusses two groups of names: 1. family names undoubtedly of Romanian origin (e.g. Giligor < Gligor ‘Gregory’); and 2. family names presumably of Romanian origin (e.g. Iszáj < Romanian Isai or Ruthenian~Ukrainian Исаŭ; both surnames originate from Isaias)

Consider this SGLT2 inhibitor for patients with HF with preserved ejection fraction

Consider adding empagliflozin 10 mg to usual therapy to reduce hospitalization of symptomatic patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF; EF > 40%) and an N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level > 300 pg/mL, regardless of diabetes status.Sanketh Produttur, MD; Gregory Castelli, PharmD, BCPS, BC-ADM, CDCES, (UPMC St. Margaret Family Medicine Residency Program)Includes bibliographical reference