Unworking Milton: Steps to a Georgics of the Mind

Traditionally read as a poem about laboring subjects who gain power through abstract and abstracting forms of bodily discipline, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) more compellingly foregrounds the erotics of the Garden as a space where humans and nonhumans intra-act materially and sexually. Following Christopher Hill, who long ago pointed to not one but two revolutions in the history of seventeenth-century English radicalism—the first, ‘the one which succeeded[,] . . . the protestant ethic’; and the second, ‘the revolution which never happened,’ which sought ‘communal property, a far wider democracy[,] and rejected the protestant ethic’—I show how Milton’s Paradise Lost gives substance to ‘the revolution which never happened’ by imagining a commons, indeed a communism, in which human beings are not at the center of things, but rather constitute one part of the greater ecology of mind within Milton’s poem. In the space created by this ecological reimagining, plants assume a new agency. I call this reimagining ‘ecology to come.

Prehospital transdermal glyceryl trinitrate in patients with ultra-acute presumed stroke (RIGHT-2): an ambulance-based, randomised, sham-controlled, blinded, phase 3 trial

Background High blood pressure is common in acute stroke and is a predictor of poor outcome; however, large trials of lowering blood pressure have given variable results, and the management of high blood pressure in ultra-acute stroke remains unclear. We investigated whether transdermal glyceryl trinitrate (GTN; also known as nitroglycerin), a nitric oxide donor, might improve outcome when administered very early after stroke onset. Methods We did a multicentre, paramedic-delivered, ambulance-based, prospective, randomised, sham-controlled, blinded-endpoint, phase 3 trial in adults with presumed stroke within 4 h of onset, face-arm-speech-time score of 2 or 3, and systolic blood pressure 120 mm Hg or higher. Participants were randomly assigned (1:1) to receive transdermal GTN (5 mg once daily for 4 days; the GTN group) or a similar sham dressing (the sham group) in UK based ambulances by paramedics, with treatment continued in hospital. Paramedics were unmasked to treatment, whereas participants were masked. The primary outcome was the 7-level modified Rankin Scale (mRS; a measure of functional outcome) at 90 days, assessed by central telephone follow-up with masking to treatment. Analysis was hierarchical, first in participants with a confirmed stroke or transient ischaemic attack (cohort 1), and then in all participants who were randomly assigned (intention to treat, cohort 2) according to the statistical analysis plan. This trial is registered with ISRCTN, number ISRCTN26986053. Findings Between Oct 22, 2015, and May 23, 2018, 516 paramedics from eight UK ambulance services recruited 1149 participants (n=568 in the GTN group, n=581 in the sham group). The median time to randomisation was 71 min (IQR 45–116). 597 (52%) patients had ischaemic stroke, 145 (13%) had intracerebral haemorrhage, 109 (9%) had transient ischaemic attack, and 297 (26%) had a non-stroke mimic at the final diagnosis of the index event. In the GTN group, participants’ systolic blood pressure was lowered by 5·8 mm Hg compared with the sham group (p<0·0001), and diastolic blood pressure was lowered by 2·6 mm Hg (p=0·0026) at hospital admission. We found no difference in mRS between the groups in participants with a final diagnosis of stroke or transient ischaemic stroke (cohort 1): 3 (IQR 2–5; n=420) in the GTN group versus 3 (2–5; n=408) in the sham group, adjusted common odds ratio for poor outcome 1·25 (95% CI 0·97–1·60; p=0·083); we also found no difference in mRS between all patients (cohort 2: 3 [2–5]; n=544, in the GTN group vs 3 [2–5]; n=558, in the sham group; 1·04 [0·84–1·29]; p=0·69). We found no difference in secondary outcomes, death (treatment-related deaths: 36 in the GTN group vs 23 in the sham group [p=0·091]), or serious adverse events (188 in the GTN group vs 170 in the sham group [p=0·16]) between treatment groups. Interpretation Prehospital treatment with transdermal GTN does not seem to improve functional outcome in patients with presumed stroke. It is feasible for UK paramedics to obtain consent and treat patients with stroke in the ultraacute prehospital setting. Funding British Heart Foundation

Engineering basis for selection of positron source material

This note describes the engineering basis for the selection of the positron source material. It assumes the approximate physics parameters have already been chosen (i.e. a high Z material of 6 radiation lengths thickness). As part of this study a basic heat transfer analysis of the target was performed and is discussed. It is concluded that Ta-10W is the most likely material to meet required physics parameters and not fail structurally

President Lyndon B. Johnson, Representative Richard Poff, and Dean John D. Feerick

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President Lyndon B. Johnson, Representative Richard Poff, and Dean John D. Feerick

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The First 50 Years of the 25th Amendment, Part 3

Part 3: The 25th Amendment, Vice Presidential Selection and Remaining Issues in Presidential Succession. Speakers: Robert F. Bauer, Partner, Perkins Coie LLP; White House Counsel, 2010-2011; Arthur B. Culvahouse, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers LLP; White House Counsel, 1987-89; John D. Feerick, Norris Professor of Law, Fordham Law School; Joel K. Goldstein, Vincent C. Immel Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law. Moderator: John C. Fortier, Director of the Democracy Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., May 10, 2017. Co-sponsored by the Bipartisan Policy Center, Fordham University School of Law and the Standing Committee on Election Law of the American Bar Association. (Courtesy of the American Bar Association)https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/twentyfifth_amendment_photos/1007/thumbnail.jp

Rotational moulding of PEEK polymer liners with carbon fibre/PEEK over tape-placement for space cryogenic fuel tanks

PEEK polymers are investigated as replacement materials for metallic liners in composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) for fuel tank applications in space. A novel, integrally heated, rotational moulding tool has been developed to produce PEEK polymer liners, samples of which have then been overwrapped using CF/PEEK in a laser assisted tape-placement (LATP) process to produce demonstrator samples of a polymer lined COPV. Helium permeability testing has shown that the designs are capable of resisting leakage to acceptable levels for fuel storage, while X-ray CT scanning and cryogenic cycling have shown that the current design is capable of resisting crack growth over multiple cycles. Nano-indentation testing has shown that the LATP process has created a region of reduced modulus in the PEEK polymer at the surface of the liner where the CF/PEEK has been tape-laid. This laser-affected zone of reduced polymer modulus in the composite interface region has enabled an enhanced resistance to crack growth formations from thermal residual stresses in comparison to hot plate moulded test samples. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.The authors would like to thank the Irish Research Council (IRC) (EPSPG/2011/66) and the European Space Agency (ESA) (B00015002) for joint funding of this research under the Network Partnering Initiative (NPI) and Innovation Triangle Initiative (ITI). They would also like to acknowledge the specific help and technical support provided by Michael Flanagan of NUI Galway, Derrick Doyle and Fintan Doyle of ÉireComposites Teo, and Dr. Terry McGrail and David Jones of the Irish Centre for Composites Research (ICOMP). A final thanks to Prof. Peter McHugh and Dr. Reyhaneh Neghabat Shirazi of NUI Galway for use and training with the nano-indentation testing equipment

Rotational moulding of PEEK polymer liners with carbon fibre/PEEK over tape-placement for space cryogenic fuel tanks

PEEK polymers are investigated as replacement materials for metallic liners in composite overwrapped pressure vessels (COPVs) for fuel tank applications in space. A novel, integrally heated, rotational moulding tool has been developed to produce PEEK polymer liners, samples of which have then been overwrapped using CF/PEEK in a laser assisted tape-placement (LATP) process to produce demonstrator samples of a polymer lined COPV. Helium permeability testing has shown that the designs are capable of resisting leakage to acceptable levels for fuel storage, while X-ray CT scanning and cryogenic cycling have shown that the current design is capable of resisting crack growth over multiple cycles. Nano-indentation testing has shown that the LATP process has created a region of reduced modulus in the PEEK polymer at the surface of the liner where the CF/PEEK has been tape-laid. This laser-affected zone of reduced polymer modulus in the composite interface region has enabled an enhanced resistance to crack growth formations from thermal residual stresses in comparison to hot plate moulded test samples. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.The authors would like to thank the Irish Research Council (IRC) (EPSPG/2011/66) and the European Space Agency (ESA) (B00015002) for joint funding of this research under the Network Partnering Initiative (NPI) and Innovation Triangle Initiative (ITI). They would also like to acknowledge the specific help and technical support provided by Michael Flanagan of NUI Galway, Derrick Doyle and Fintan Doyle of ÉireComposites Teo, and Dr. Terry McGrail and David Jones of the Irish Centre for Composites Research (ICOMP). A final thanks to Prof. Peter McHugh and Dr. Reyhaneh Neghabat Shirazi of NUI Galway for use and training with the nano-indentation testing equipment.peer-reviewe

TRANSPORT CONSTRUCTION STATUS AND COMMISSIONING PLANS*

Installation of the PEP-II electron and positron Injection beamlines in the SLAC linac housing is now underway. Utilization of the existing high power, low emittance beams available at SLAC required that a great portion of the systems for pulsed extraction and transport of 9.0 GeV electrons and 3.1 GeV positrons for injection into the PEP-II rings will reside in the existing linac housing. Approximately 4.7 kilometers of these beamlines will be completed during the summer of 1995. All components, including orbit correctors and diagnostic instruments, required for extraction and transport of the electron beam will be in place and ready for commissioning as soon as this fall. The positron transport line in the housing will also be complete except for the pulsed extraction system. These systems are described, along with the status of the construction and installation of the important subsystems such as magnets and power supplies, vacuum systems, instrumentation and controls. The plan for commissioning is.discussed. I