I bet you're wondering why I am a persistent widow mom. Well the widow and the mom parts I bet you've figured out and if not, that's a story for another day. The persistent part I'll tell you right now. So Google says that being persistent means continuing to do something despite difficulties or opposition. I have realized that persistence is quite engraved in my spirit ever since I can remember. The last few years my kid and I have weathered quite a few storms and it's not like we've taken a stroll here. Not at all! But no matter what, I've persisted. I'm insisting and persisting.
I was somewhat happy and thrilled 2016 ended and 2017 began. Why? Good grief! Did you hear what happened to us? Let's say our lives were someone's piñata but then again, we're no strangers to a challenge. My loving Beagle Zoe suddenly passed away in January. Somewhere around February or March a piece of metal ladder was picked up by the pick up truck in front of us and then landed on my windshield completely shattering it at 6 in the morning when I was on my way to drop off my kid at daycare. The day before I had the movers taking all our belongings into storage, the infamous hail of April made a horrible number on our transition house which we were selling along with completely destroying our very one and only vehicle from every angle. Of course insurance paid one for month of rental but I had to pay out-of-pocket for the other 2 months! One day at work I had a patient passing away under my watch for the first time, handling all the paperwork, dealing with all the arrangements that come after with the family members and all, got home exhausted after getting Samuel from daycare and the garage door broke down on me. Like broke down in half, all the way down to the floor. After a torrential rain that lasted over a week a tree in the backyard split and fell down and I had to find a guy on Memorial Day to take care of it before the tree broke the fence down. After the movers got all of our belongings into our new house, there was a flood. The movers didn't connect the fridge correctly to the faucet on the wall and there was a fountain when I got home. Exactly at the same time, somehow Sam got some black thick grease on his shoes and he ran all over the house staining the new carpet that had just been installed a few months before and my mini-fridge's motor burned up upstairs. I couldn't file another claim so I paid out-of-pocket to dry and repair the flood just because it was cheaper and easier. My bank account was hacked on our second day in San Diego and we survived it with only $500 in cash the bank let me pull out from an ATM while a homeless woman kept rushing us and then I couldn't use my credit card because the rental company maxed it out with the rental cars. Samuel got a bilateral ear infection with a strep throat infection. I switched jobs, my kid started kindergarten. I'm not sure if anything else happened.
Are you still there? Are you tired now? Well, Samuel and I are still here.
The Bible shows us in Luke chapter 18 about the Parable of the Persistent Widow. Jesus was teaching them to always pray and not to give up. So the widow kept coming back to the judge in town because she wanted justice done, and the judge was getting afraid of her because she was so persistent, asking for justice day and night. Well let me tell you something, I actually pray with Samuel in the morning and at night, and I pray everywhere in between. Why? Because I have to, I must. I need to pray because I know God will listen, because I need Him to know it's important to me, because I need His help, because I don't have anyone else to hold on to, because He's my only chance to keep myself sane, because I know He'll help me and show me the way, because He'll give me the strength I so badly need to keep going! My family is 6 hours away driving, Richard's family is 6 hours away flying, yes I have friends in town, but it's not like I like to bother people. I just don't, I'm not an asking type of person. So I need God to help me.
So what to do? You persist, you keep praying, and then pray some more. Then pray again. Keep your faith in God, God keeps you alive, doesn't He? So He can solve your puzzles, sort out your problems, fix your difficulties, or at least make them bearable. Things are going to happen, that's not going to change. Although I see people who seem to have nothing happening in their lives while Sam and I keep having a lot of happenings! Keep your eyes on Him and not on your circumstances. How do you think I'm still a happy person, or at least a sane person? Because I've kept my eyes on Jesus and both my knees on the ground. I've asked God for guidance and strength, and I go to bed, and I wake up, and I keep going. I am a persistent widow mom. I keep going and I don't give up. Kid and I just keep going.
At the end of the day, it's how you react or how you take the problem or difficulty. I know what happened to us in one year is nothing compared as losing your whole life in a storm or a flood or a hurricane or a tornado or a fire. I know it's not as losing your whole family in a blink of an eye. I lost my husband, I know the pain that comes from losing your other half. It's not about how much one has suffered or not, but then again, it's how you take it and what you do about it! Yes, it was draining and exhausting, and sometimes I'm not sure how I got up every day at 4:30 am, got ready, got the dog ready, got the kid ready, left at 5:45 am to drop off kid at daycare at 6 am, went to work, worked a 12+ hour shift, drove to get the kid, drove to go home, got the dog in, got his dinner, got the kid in the shower, got him in bed, got the dog in bed, got everything ready for the next day, went to bed around 11 pm and back up at 4:30 in the morning. Being a one woman show, doing it all by myself, yes of course it's been hard but I've persisted and I've kept praying and there have been so many prayers from a lot of people behind me. Now things have changed, God has answered our prayers, our lives are more calm and nothing we can't handle has happened lately, but I keep persisting in praying for God to be with us every step of the day.
The way I see it, I have every reason to smoke or to drink or to pop pills or to possibly do drugs or to spend hours in therapy, but I haven't given in or given up. Of course not! How could I? Do you know why? Because no matter what happens, it's how I've chosen to deal with it all, and how much I've prayed about it and how many times I've told God how grateful I am at the end of the day to be with my kid and my dog under the same roof, to have food on our table and a car to go around and go to church on Sundays. You know I'm so blessed that God shows me every day that I should keep my eyes on Him and only Him, because when everything seems to fall apart, when we're in the middle of the storm, when we're in the eye of the tornado, I get down on my knees and I pray and I insist and I persist until I know He has heard me.
So you should keep praying, and insisting, and persisting, and then you keep going.


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By Mary Cruse (Good ID)
Discussions about identity must take into account the changing social issues and political landscapes of our time, if we are to make them relevant, says Mary Cruse
"The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not."
Greta Thunberg, U.N. Climate Action Summit (September 2019)
From the streets to the corridors of government power, the words echo: "change is coming."
Concern over the catastrophic consequences of climate change has been mounting for some time. But at this year's UN General Assembly, murmurs of dissent grew to a roar. From Greta Thunberg's moving speech at the Climate Action Summit, to the global climate strike, there is now a sense of momentum behind climate action that is impossible to ignore.
"Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not."
My full speech in United Nations General Assembly. #howdareyou https://t.co/eKZXDqTAcP
— Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) September 23, 2019
Action on climate change is one of the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a series of targets designed to achieve a better future for people and planet. Nations around the world are working towards these goals, with a view to meeting the targets by 2030.
From zero hunger to gender equality, the SDGs address a broad range of social needs, but despite this breadth, the goals are also deeply interlinked. For instance, reducing inequalities is profoundly interwoven with improving access to education and tackling poverty.
This indivisible quality is also evident when it comes to SDG 13: climate action. When we talk about the consequences of climate change, we're talking about the impact on human health and wellbeing, on clean water and sanitation, on consumption and production, and on countless other facets of life.
The same is true for SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, including the target striving toward legal identity for all. The identity conversation is deeply interwoven with socio-political issues, from climate, to health, to democracy. This is particularly true when we talk about Good ID, because ethical, political and social issues shape every aspect of the discussion. Recognizing these intersections is vitally important, both for how we talk about identity, and for how we think about identity.
The identity conversation is deeply interwoven with socio-political issues, from climate, to health, to democracy. This is particularly true when we talk about Good ID, because ethical, political and social issues shape every aspect of the discussion.
Framing the conversation
The issues surrounding identity and identification programs are not always easy to communicate. The Good ID conversation involves tackling highly complex theoretical and practical challenges – this can dissuade the wider public from engaging with the issues at stake.
With this in mind, an effective way of communicating the movement's significance might be to highlight the intersections between identity and broader social issues. Let's take the recent swell of action behind climate change as an example. We know that climate is an issue with a strength of feeling behind it, so by highlighting the intersections between the environment and identity, we can better promote the importance of the identity discussion. And those linkages are everywhere.
Take migration – a key issue in the digital identity space. Millions have already been displaced by climate change and the figure is growing every day. Lack of formal, portable identification is a real issue for refugee populations, and climate refugees are no different. And so talking about identity issues in the context of persons displaced by climate and extreme weather events is a way to highlight the importance of Good ID. It's important that the community is vocal about the role that quality identity services and interoperability can play in protecting vulnerable populations, ensuring that Good ID is part of the broader conversation.
Dakota Gruener, Executive Director of ID2020, sums up the integrated nature of identity: "Digital identity is a conversation relevant to lots of different, trending issues – health, privacy. So what is imperative for our community is to make the linkages to these other important trends and movements."
Gruener continues: "The challenge I'd pose to the identity community is that we need to make the case to people beyond the community. We need to go out there and talk about the points of connection to other issues people care about – health, education, climate, homelessness – the list could continue indefinitely. We need to build on the momentum that already exists behind these issues to highlight identity issues and accelerate the identity movement."
Ultimately, climate is just one of the core issues that seeps into the identity space.
Good ID is a broad, far-reaching topic that intersects with many other social and political issues, and recognizing those connections can help us to better understand and better promote the importance of the identity conversation.
We can't talk about women's rights without talking about healthcare; we can't talk about poverty without talking about racism; and we can't talk about digital identity without talking about climate, poverty, gender, race, healthcare – the list goes on
Informing the debate
The impact of identity issues on wider political and social discussions has implications for how we promote the Good ID conversation; but this interconnectedness also impacts on the identity conversation itself. When we're discussing issues like decentralization, interoperability and data privacy, we must be careful to contextualize our discussions within the broader social and political environment.
Eric Noggle, Senior Director of Research with the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, explains: "I think social shifts are a big thing. Especially in the climate that we're in right now. For example, take the push for economic interconnectedness in the identity space, versus some of the nationalistic trends we've seen emerging in the wider political sphere. Or the connection between decentralized ID and questions about the power of the state. Wider social issues are always going to have really important implications for how we think about ID."
Any discussion of identity, ID and identity systems must take into account changing socio-political landscapes; and the Good ID movement must evolve in parallel with and respond to broader events.
Take the issue of climate change as an example: as increasing numbers of climate refugees begin to move between borders, issues of portability and foundational ID will become even more prominent than they are at present. As extreme weather events become increasingly more common, universally accessible identity and digitized support services will become more of a necessity than ever before.
Broader contextual issues need to be considered when we think about identity issues now and into the future – not just in the context of climate change, but also in regards to other socio-political issues and events. We can't talk about women's rights without talking about healthcare; we can't talk about poverty without talking about racism; and we can't talk about digital identity without talking about climate, poverty, gender, race, healthcare – the list goes on.
Sustainable change and long-term impact can only be achieved when we view social issues holistically. What this means is that Good ID cannot be addressed in isolation. We need to be a part of the broader social discourse; to identify the linkages and reflect on what that wider context means for our work.
Change is coming. Let's make sure that we're part of the conversation.
Accessibility & inclusivity
Food & sustainability
Mary Cruse is a producer for the creative agency Unfold Stories, working on the #GoodID movement.
'Design Your System Knowing it's Going to Fail'
The constructs of democratic society are fragile and require constant, proactive effort by digital identity practitioners if they are to uphold principles of privacy and inclusion. Tom Fisher of Privacy International talks to Marisol Grandon and gives notes to those on the frontlines of the industry.
Talking Good ID at MozFest
Participants at a MozFest workshop explore digital identity policies, practices, and implementation.
CCPA vs GDPR: An Infographic Guide
Termly's CCPA vs GDPR infographic visually compares these two game-changing privacy laws.

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"So far it does look better," Dimel said. "We put them into pressure situations where if they don't make it, they could lose their job. That's the best way to do it. They want to play; it means a lot to them. ...
"We want some good competition because we feel competition makes guys better. It's important for kickers to feel the pressure of performing, so at the end of practice we brought them up and had that little competition at the end.
"We'll probably start doing more of that as we get closer to game time and really start evaluating their performance under pressure situations where they know they are competing for a job in front of the whole team."
At the end of Thursday's practice, Coronado alumnus Filley was perfect in those pressure kicks, which hasn't been unusual lately.
The senior never seemed a good bet to see the field until the Miners' struggles last year led to him taking over placekicking duties at midseason. Filley was 2-of-3 on field goals last year with his long at 37 yards, and he was also 7-of-7 on extra points.
Baechle was recruited in to challenge Filley for the job, and Filley has clearly responded to competition like he always does: by upping his game.
It's "a lot of hard work; I've been practicing a lot," he said. "When (holder and punter) Mitch (Crawford) came in, it helped because we got used to the timing. It's hard work and dedication."
As for last year, "I didn't think I was going to play at first. When I didn't get on in the first game, I thought I'd be on the bench," Filley said. "But after a while, things changed up and I ended up winning the job.
"Now I'm just trying to be as consistent as I can be. I used to be consistent for a couple of days, then fall back. Now I'm a senior; I can't do that."
The hope is also that his consistency can rub off on Baechle, who was 12-of-12 on field goals for McKinney High School in the Metroplex last year but is adjusting to the college game.
"It's a lot different; there's an adjustment. The speed is a lot faster," Baechle said. "I feel like I'm doing well. I could be better, more consistent, but as far as I'm doing, I'm hitting good balls."
The punter, Crawford, a junior from Australia who has never played in an American football game, has been remarkably consistent, although obviously he still has to prove it in a game. UTEP picked him up through a connection special teams coach Joe Robinson has with the Prokick Australia academy, which has produced many FBS punters.
Crawford actually has big shoes to fill, as last year's senior punter, Alan Luna, was an all-conference performer.
"Coach Robinson has been helpful, helping me with all the nuances of the position — punting," Crawford said. "We've been working really hard and I'm really enjoying it. ...
"The hardest part is coming off two or three steps instead of getting a full run up, but the emphasis on direction and accuracy is pretty much the same."
UTEP looks to be much more accurate in the kicking department this year, which may have to be the difference if the Miners turn in a winning effort on offense and defense and take the game to the wire.
Bret Bloomquist may be reached at 546-6359; bbloomquist@elpasotimes.com; @bretbloomquist on Twitter.


Fronting the calm waters of Moreton Bay, Amity Point Camping Ground is family friendly, and offers spectacular sunsets over the bay islands. Local dolphins visit each day, and pelicans and koalas are seen in and around the campground. The area is ideal for fishing & boating, and is a short drive to the island's surf beaches.


This app has simple, intuitive controls. Tap your finger on the bingo board to mark that you have seen an object. It automatically keeps track of winning. And there are tons of bingo boards so you won't see the same on twice. The two-player option can be played as bingo boards that are next to each other or across from each other.
Parents need to know that Road-Trip-Bingo HD is a great way to bring the classic travel game onto your iPad. What makes this app better than others is that it allows two players to compete at once by providing two bingo boards on the screen at one time. There is a iPhone and iPod Touch version called Road-Trip-Bingo which is similar, but that version does not have the two-player option.
Your kids will watch out the car window with great interest when playing ROAD-TRIP-BINGO HD on the iPad. This version offers a two-bingo-boards mode so two kids can play at the same time either side-by-side or across from each other. The bingo boards are full of things you might see while driving including road signs, colored cars, and objects. Kids tap the card's image when they see it outside, and the first to get bingo wins.The app randomly generates the bingo boards so you have loads of replayability.


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The best OLED TVs deliver superior picture quality through the use of self-illuminating pixels. They enable rich and accurate HDR contrast that cannot be achieved with LCD TVs. Compared to LCD TVs, best OLED TVs offer more detail in dark areas and greater contrast between light and dark areas, resulting in cinema-like high picture quality, much like a laser projector in a movie theater.
OLED stands for Organic Light Emitting Diode, a display technology that uses organic compounds to create red, green, blue, and white light dots, which are then used as pixels. For a 4K TV with a resolution of 3840 x 2160, there are 8.29 million pixels on a single OLED panel. And unlike conventional LCD TVs, each of these pixels emits light and can be individually turned on/off and brightness/darkness adjusted.
This pixel-by-pixel brightness adjustment allows OLED to achieve the highest contrast of any display technology, with neighboring pixels capable of rendering everything from strong brightness to black and all colors. As a result, best OLED TVs consistently outperform most best OLED TVs with LED lighting, whether they use standard LCD panels or enhance the picture quality with enhancements such as quantum dots (QLEDs) or individual dimming zones.
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Vizio's the latest best OLED TVs – officially called the H1 – is a cheaper alternative to the premium screens that LG and Sony have produced in recent years. For people who don't want to spend a fortune, the Vizio OLED has most of the same key features and offers largely similar performance to other OLEDs for hundreds of dollars less – albeit with a less bright output that most other OLEDs outperform.
With its beautiful bezel-less frame, 4mm thinness, and intuitive cable management system, VIZIO OLED is the ultimate in next-generation elegance, with Dolby Vision Bright image mode, a color pixel tuning that pushes depth and detail to new heights of You can see realistic precision, saturation, black details, and brightness. The OLED also supports HDR10/+ and HLG formats.
The Sony A95K is an OLED TV masterpiece. It masters Quantum Dot OLED technology and combines OLED capabilities in terms of black level and unparalleled light control with brightness and pure colors. Sony's excellent Cognitive XR processing engine delivers such good images that we were truly shocked during our test. In fact, we'd say that the Sony A95K delivers arguably the most beautiful images we've ever seen in a consumer TV.
Not only is the Sony A95K a real feast for the eyes, it also looks great the moment we take it out of the box. It has a unique design with a full-width metal plate stand that you can place behind the TV for a minimalist look, or in front of the TV for an industrial look. The build quality is excellent and leaves no doubt that these are the best OLED TVs.
The best OLED TVs is 4K TCL Mini-LED QLED 6 Series TV features Quantum Dot technology and HDR Pro Pack with Dolby Vision. Thousands of streaming channels are accessible through a simple, personalized home screen in a sleek, modern design. Mini LED backlight technology provides uncompromised contrast, brightness and uniformity.
Quantum Dot technology further enhances performance for better brightness and greater color volume. Support for the most popular High Dynamic Range formats makes for an even better viewing experience. Dolby Vision provides superior contrast and brighter, more accurate colors. TCL's AiPQ engine delivers machine learning algorithms to optimize color, contrast, and clarity for even better HDR performance.
Access a world of content that goes beyond streaming, including booking recordings, searching, automatic adjustment of game settings, seamless connectivity with a variety of compatible devices, and voice control of Smart TV, all from a single remote control HDR, also known as High Dynamic Range, is a technology that allows users to enjoy a whole new world of vivid color and detail in recent movies and streaming services. HDR, also known as High Dynamic Range, allows users to enjoy a whole new world of vivid color and detail in recent movies and streaming services.
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Enjoy a better gaming experience. In game mode, input lag has been significantly improved so that the controller's commands appear on the screen virtually instantly. With the preset sports mode settings, the TV automatically adjusts to optimize sports content. Movements are smoother and colors are adjusted to provide the best sports experience the TV is capable of.
The best OLED TVs is voice remote provides quick access to the built-in Google Assistant, opens the door to an extensive library of content, and allows users to voice control TV functions. Motion Rate 120 ensures that content movements are smooth, clear, and less blurry. This feature is important for the TV's gaming and sports modes, which adjust the TV settings for an optimal viewing experience when playing the latest fast-paced games or watching fast-paced sports content.
Rediscover everything you watch with billions of accurate colors and see stunning image quality that is natural and beautiful to the human eye. Browse more than 700,000 movies and TV episodes from your favorite streaming services – all in one place. This includes Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+, YouTube, the Apple TV app, and many more.
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The LG G1 is the best OLED TVs stands out with its high-quality, 20mm-thin design that is designed to be wall-mounted. In terms of performance, it is LG's best 4K OLED TV, but given the price difference with the C1, it does not offer enough performance to make it a better choice for most people.
That said, the LG G1 OLED remains an impressive OLED set, and LG has lowered the price a bit while updating nearly everything about the TV. A more convenient remote control, improved gaming features, and the latest version of webOS, all while maintaining excellent picture quality and impeccable sound.
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Q: Will the GTK+ timeout callbacks be called in strict time order? When I add many different timeouts (with each intervall==0) in a thread, which is not the main thread (where gtk_main() resides)...
g_timeout_add(0, func, NULL);

... will then the different func() callbacks occur in the same order I called the corresponding g_timeout_add()'s?

The reason I'm asking is because GTK# is using internally timeouts to implement Application.Invoke() (see Application.cs and Timeout.cs).

EDIT: The concerning glib files are

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*http://git.gnome.org/browse/glib/tree/glib/ghook.c

A: Internally, g_timeout_add calls g_hook_insert_sorted. If g_timeout_add_full is used, the priority determines the ordering, otherwise the hook is added at the end of the list. Hooks are executed in order, so when only g_timeout_add is used, the answer is yes.
Unfortunately, there is not no explicit guarantee, and to me, it looks like an implementation detail which might change in the future.

A: How about enforcing the order of the calls by storing your callbacks explicitly in a list, then using a single g_timeout_add() to call a function that iterates over that list?
static gboolean
call_in_order (GList* callbacks)
{
  for (; callbacks != NULL; callbacks = callbacks->next)
    {
      g_assert (callbacks->data != NULL);
      GSourceFunc callback = (GSourceFunc)(callbacks->data);

      callback(NULL);
    }
}

...

 GList *callbacks = NULL;
 callbacks = g_list_append(callbacks, func1);
 callbacks = g_list_append(callbacks, func2);
 callbacks = g_list_append(callbacks, func3);
 callbacks = g_list_append(callbacks, func4);

 g_timeout_add(0, (GSourceFunc)call_in_order, callbacks);

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Man, yesterday was a lot more frantic than I expected it to be.
Writing was interrupted (after, thank goodness, I'd reached my minimum quota) by the arrival! of! Books! Yay! Books! Also, five minutes later, Justin Gustainis' BLACK MAGIC WOMAN (which has a cover dismayingly similar to HOUSE OF CARDS, actually) arrived for me to read for possible blurbage, and I had to set it aside because otherwise there would be doom (it looks awfully good. It looks like an idea I wish I'd thought of.).
Eventually I staggered out of the house to do some shopping, returned triumphantly with berries (I'm starting to sound like Deborah!), spent way too much time enjoying reading reasons why I should send people books, and *finally* sat myself down to do another round of writing. Too late, because I ended up a hundred words shy of my goal before I went to have dinner and listen to music with Kate (which was extremely nice, though to our surprise the music apparently actually started on time, so by the time we wandered over half an hour or forty minutes after start-time, the pub was packed and hot and we weren't as close to the musicians as we might've liked. OTOH, we got to talk, so that was okay too. :)).
I got home around 9:30 and instead of finishing my words, I discovered my editor'd sent me a PDF of the HANDS OF FLAME cover, which I think is gorgeous, but I didn't have Photoshop on the new computer to properly manipulate it with. So I spent a harried while trying to get that dealt with (thank you, Trent) and never did actually get it posted yesterday, and am on the wrong computer to do it now.
Black Magic Woman is excellent, fyi. I shall probably be blogging a review of sorts next week.
This is so totally off-topic and a cliche question, to boot.


The development of integrated medical tools continues to be a major focus of the biotechnology industry. While medicine has advanced more than ever, there are significant labor and equipment costs associated with most procedures, which are cumbersome to patients, clinicians, and laboratory technicians. With the ongoing developments in micro- and nanoelectronics, next-generation strategies for diagnostics and treatment are emerging to realize a new healthcare paradigm with more patient-oriented, time-efficient, and data-rich capabilities. Capsule endoscopy is an excellent example that brings unprecedented opportunities to medical practitioners, both expanding the quality and quantity of information available to physicians investigating gastrointestinal (GI) disorders and reducing risks associated with conventional endoscopy. The technological platform has opened the gateway for a multitude of in vivo, minimally invasive health care devices, though few have achieved clinical relevance. Our group is focused on adapting and demonstrating enabling fabrication technologies toward expanding the device boundaries and addressing various challenges associated with in-situ clinical applications. Specifically, we design hybrid packaging strategies, combining 3D printed capsules with pH-selective polymers, for controlled fluidic sampling in target GI regions for ingestible diagnostics. While this project focuses on protecting our microelectronics systems to target regions of interest, our in-vitro work has been tailored for monitoring and inhibiting growth of microorganisms over a flexible platform that lays the foundation and extended utility for performing real-time, in-situ sensing and treatment in applicable physiological regions. In parallel, we are exploiting potential advances in the sensor performance via integration of virus-based macromolecules in the drive for highly selective, sensitive, and clinically viable functions. This talk will highlight respective challenges in biomedical device development and our group's approaches in not only pushing the boundaries for various fabrication strategies, but adapting them for application in on-demand healthcare domains.
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AMD Launches Quad-Core Desktop Chips
The Phenom processor launch was accompanied by AMD's announcement of a platform called Spider for gamers and other computer enthusiasts.
Advanced Micro Devices on Monday launched its first quad-core desktop processors and unveiled a platform called Spider for computer enthusiasts.
The Phenom 9600 and 9500 have clock speeds of 2.3 GHz and 2.2 GHz, respectively, and are AMD's long-awaited answer to Intel's competing quad-core processors that have been shipping for months. Among the difference in the chips is design. AMD has placed all four cores on a single die, while Intel packages two dual-core dies.
In addition, AMD's Phenom uses an integrated memory controller and supports HyperTransport. Intel processors still use older front-side bus technology for addressing memory, but that is expected to change when its releases its Nehalem family of products about a year from now. Today, however, Intel's chips are available with faster clock speeds and the company recently started shipping processors built with the company's next-generation 45-nanometer manufacturing process. AMD expects to continue shipping 65-nanometer chips until the second half of next year.
Spider, which ships early next year, comprises Phenom, AMD's ATI Radeon HD 3800 Series graphics cards, and the AMD 7 Series chipset, which has CrossFireX and OverDrive technology. The platform is built to impress gamers and computer enthusiasts.
The Radeon HD 3800 series supports Microsoft's latest graphics technology, DirectX 10.1, scheduled to ship with service pack 1 for Vista early next year. CrossFireX makes it possible for the 7 Series chipset to support up to four graphics cards, useful for graphics performance and running multiple monitors. OverDrive is AMD's utility for boosting Phenom's clock speed and also includes benchmark and stability testing. The chips fit into AMD's AM2+ socket.
Other high-performance features include Phenom's HyperTransport 3.0 technology, which provides input/output communication of up to 16-Gbytes per second, while the chipset supports PCI Express 2.0, a high-bandwidth computer expansion card interface. The combination of the two makes it possible for Spider to handle high-definition Blu-ray or HD-DVD graphics.
AMD launched its first quad-core chips, code-named Barcelona, in September. The server processors are available under the Opteron brand, and compete with Intel's Xeon chips. In the first quarter of next year, AMD plans to ship a triple-core desktop processor to provide a wider range of options to computer manufacturers. Both the triple-core and quad-core chips are built on the same architecture as AMD's quad-core Opteron processors.
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Pricing of Phenom, along with the release of the triple-core chip, indicates that AMD is looking to wedge the new products between Intel's more expensive quad-core and less expensive dual core chips, Ian Lao, analyst for In-Stat, said. "That raises some interesting opportunities for AMD."
The price and performance of the AMD chips make them a good value for desktops in the high $700 to low $1,200 range, Lao said.
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De realiteit van het leven in een "Dopesick" -land: "Het is gewoon een staat van ellende"
augustus 26, 2019	0	Door admin
Millions of Americans are addicted to prescription opioids such as OxyContin and other drugs. Many of these people will "graduate" from using prescription pain pills to heroin and other illegal narcotics.
At least 400,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses since 1996. It is also estimated that at least 200,000 Americans have died from overdoses from prescription opioids such as OxyContin.
In many ways opioid addiction is a function of social disorganization — joblessness, lack of access to proper health care, crime, broken families, and diminished upward mobility and overall life chances — in many American communities. America's opioid problem also makes many of these communities problems much worse. And there is the spillover effect as well: the "deaths of despair" among the white "working class" voters in these opioid infested areas moved them to vote for Donald Trump where in a moment of backlash, rage, and selfishness they forced their literal as well as emotional and psychological pain on to the American people as a whole.
The opioid addiction problem in America is also a manifestation of "narcocapitalism" where multinational pharmaceutical corporations saw wealth in human misery and pain and as always chose profits over people. Legal theorist Laurent de Sutter explains this as part of a broader dynamic where, "every capitalism is necessary a narcocapitalism — a capitalism that is narcotic through and through, whose excitability is only the manic reverse of the depression it never stops producing, even as it presents itself as its remedy.
In her bestselling book "Dopesick" investigative journalist Beth Macy documents the human cost of the opioid addiction and how Big Pharma created, identified, and then exploited a market for "pain management" with devastating consequences for entire communities across America.
In our conversation, Macy explains how companies such as Purdue Pharma gathered and exploited data about doctors to then market powerful opioids such as OxyContin on unsuspecting patients who knew little about the addictive properties of the pills they thought would help them. Macy also details how individual doctors were seduced and won over by pharmaceutical companies into prescribing these news types of highly addictive and powerful opioids — and then how many of those same doctors failed to intervene to help their now addicted patients.
What role do opioids play in rural red state and Rustbelt America where people look around their communities and see death and despair, and the right-wing evangelical churches are preaching the End Times, and Fox News is broadcasting hate, anger and fear?
I believe that this is going to be the number one challenge the United States faces. There are rural areas where the jobs have gone away. The pharmaceutical companies purposely targeted those areas when OxyContin came out. The companies purchased the data which showed them where in the United States that opioids were already being prescribed — and this happened to be areas where there were large numbers of workplace injuries. The pharmaceutical companies then went to doctors in those areas and told them that OxyContin was safe.
The data which was featured in the Washington Post showed that 76 billion pills were sent to such areas of the country. When you look at the worst-hit communities per capita, these are places where the pharmaceutical sales reps went in and told these lies. They were able to find doctors to work with. Who do people trust? They trust their doctors. The companies purposely lied to the doctors, who then prescribed the pills in those communities at the same time the jobs were going away.
It was a perfect storm of not only people getting addicted very quickly — because there has never been a drug, an opioid, this strong before — but also the users start diverting the drugs because they were in such oversupply. The pills were being sold on the black market as a way for desperate people to pay their bills. This was much the same way that their ancestors had done with moonshine.
There is also this circular dimension to the problem where jobs disappear from these communities but employers will not relocate and hire there because prospective employees will not be able to pass a drug test.
What is the intersection between emotional pain and physical pain for the people you interviewed and got to know for your reporting in "Dopesick"?
If you have addiction in your family, for example parents or grandparents, then you are 50% more likely to be a person for whom an opioid lights up your pleasure center.
We also know that people who don't have things they're passionate about in life are also more likely to become addicted. This is true in both rich and poor areas. The difference is that a person from a wealthier family is more likely to be able to access treatment to turn the situation around. Whereas in a rural community not only do they have no money for treatment but there are not as many treatment options available.
And there is this hyper-conservative fire and brimstone bias against treating the addicted as patients worthy of medical care. Instead addicts are treated like moral failures and criminals. And so you have jails filling up. I was just in a community in North Carolina last week where they're having to pay the adjacent County $750,000 to house surplus inmates. They give them no treatment while they're in jail, and when they come out, the courts put them on probation, and as soon as these people who have not received treatment fail the drug test they are put back to jail. While in jail they get no treatment for their withdrawal symptoms, their dopesickness. Where's that hope in that?
How do the executives and other senior personnel in these pharmaceutical companies which are selling opioids to these communities rationalize their behavior?
Those corporate CEOs, salespeople, researchers and the like would say that they are helping chronic pain patients in need. They actually say and believe such things. Vanity Fair recently profiled David Sackler. He is the grandson of the Sacklers who started Purdue Pharma. He complains that his four-year-old is getting bullied at school. Another of Sackler's relatives had to move from Manhattan to Florida because people were saying, "Why did you create the opioid crisis?" Sackler goes and he lists all the things Purdue has done to stop diversion and abuse of the drug. None of it was sufficient. And to hear somebody say, "Look at all the good Purdue has done" indicates to me that Sackler gets no feedback other than from the paid sycophants that he surrounds himself with.
In these rural communities hit by the opioid epidemic it is just a state of misery. I was visiting my little nephews in rural Ohio — which has the second[-highest] overdose death rate in the country — and we were getting chili dogs at this little hot dog stand in a former factory town. We were going to the park and the 11-year-old says, "No Aunt Beth, we don't want to step on heroin needles." And literally this is a town where nobody used to lock their doors. Rural America has changed so much.
There are so many moral hazards in this story of America's opioid epidemic. First, people are addicted to pills by companies making money from their sickness. In turn there are few if any jobs in these communities so the people there are self-medicating. Then there is mass incarceration and for-profit prisons which make money from locking people up who do not have access to drug treatment. It is dystopian.
I think it is the reality of late stage capitalism. For example in a former coal mining region in West Virginia the largest employer is now the prison. The whole system is set up to trap people in a cycle. This is not just federal prison but also the local jails as well.
Is there any moment of stepping back where the corporations and their management say to themselves, "Maybe this isn't the best thing for these communities?" Or is it always profits over people?
Consider whistleblower Karen White, hers was the only case out of all those scores of civil cases to actually go to court. She has one lawyer and Purdue has a team of lawyers. She was a sales rep for Purdue Pharma in the early years and she's told to go out to these doctors that they already know about. She has the data. She sees what are the first "pill mills" in Florida. The sales reps have been given training which says, "Here are the signs of diversion and abuse. If you see people in the waiting room with needle marks, track marks in their arms, you should turn them in." She follows those rules and is called on the carpet for it. Karen White brings the first whistleblower case and she loses. White is also told she can't ever speak about the case again or she'll have to pay the legal fees.
The sales reps were incentivized by the company. The more milligrams they talked a doctor into prescribing — "If this person is on 40, but you can get them to 80" — the bigger the bonus check that went into their bonus calculations. And I have a deposition from one of the lawyers asking Karen White in a deposition for a civil case, "Well what happened when you did see diversion and abuse?" And she said, "Well they set up the policy such that if I did turn in a pill mill doctor, if I had made some bonus from that same doctor the year before, I would have to give it back." The whole program was designed for promoting and marketing these drugs as being safe when they were not. The company lied.
Where were the regulators? Why did the FDA let them say it was safe when it wasn't or that these drugs are believed to reduce the risk of addiction and abuse? They let them say that for six years. Where was the DEA when they're sending 9 million pills to a town of 400 people in Kermit, West Virginia? The United States government allowed these corporations to police themselves. It is always going to come back to profits over people — and that is exactly what happened.
There are people who are working with these regulators and then they end up retiring and then going to work for the pharmaceutical industry. The same thing is true with the DEA. So that person from the DEA has intimate knowledge of exactly how the organization works, right? So he can teach his new colleagues how to skirt the regulations. I mean there are just so many places in this story where the epidemic could have been slowed or perhaps even stopped. This is a story of repeated regulatory failure.
What of the Hippocratic Oath and "Do no harm"? Do these doctors who are over-prescribing these opioids actually believe that they are doing the right thing? Or does the money override their morality?
They find out who the doctors most likely to be prescribing opioids were and also who already were doing so. And then the companies would go to them and find out what they liked. The pharmaceutical companies are buying the doctors' time. If you were a doctor who loved Cuban cigars, they'd show up with Cuban cigars as a gift. Remember Purdue sent 5,000 doctors, nurses, and pharmacists to resorts wearing OxyContin branded beach hats. At the same time, some of these early overdosed dead were overdosing in the high school library. And the few doctors that complained got branded as kooks. One of the things that also was shocking to me was how patients would return to their doctors showing signs of addiction. The reps would tell the doctors that this isn't addiction, this is actually a "condition" made up by Purdue called "pseudo-addiction." The cure for which was, of course, more OxyContin.
Once people get addicted the doctors have a hard time managing them. The doctors do not have a lot of time. I'm sure plenty of doctors thought they were doing the right thing. Because it wasn't just Purdue, it was also the whole "Pain is the fifth vital sign" movement — which was partly funded by Purdue. And then there was the emergence of the "Rate your doctor online" phenomenon. Many doctors were afraid to cut people off from opioids because they thought they'd get a bad rating or review. And some hospitals even cut a doctor's reimbursements if they get bad ratings.
No one ever starts out wanting to be an addict, do they?
When I was coming up, I'm 55 now, we were drinking, smoking a little weed. But had I come of age in the mid or late 1990s it would have been very different. Now they're trading pills around. There is a huge correlation between people who start off taking ADHD medications who then become comfortable with pills. There is a pill for every ill. This also coincides with there being more pharmaceutical ads on TV. It is a feedback loop.
Almost to a person, every one I wrote about that initially got addicted either took pills that were left over from their parents or grandparents, or started out with ADHD medication that was prescribed to them. And then in high school when they're recreationally using alcohol or drugs they are trading their ADHD medicine for stronger pills. Or they're taking their ADHD medicine so they could stay up all night drinking.
How does chronic pain from an injury at work or a car accident, for example, become addiction to opioids?
Consider Tess Henry. She was a waitress who had experienced some bumps in her life. She worked at a high end restaurant, the kind that you see written up in magazines. She's probably drinking too much already at the time. She gets a bad case of bronchitis and goes to an urgent care center. This is 2012, she is 20 or 21 years old.
She is given two 30-day prescriptions for opioids. One is hydrocodone for throat pain and the other is cough syrup with codeine in it. By the end of 30 days she's sick and she searches her symptoms online and realizes, "Holy crap! I'm addicted. I'm probably addicted!" She was already experimenting a bit but this is really the moment she goes into full-blown addiction.
Tess starts to look for ways to find the pills on the black market. And of course she doesn't have to go very far to find somebody who knows somebody who can get her the pills. And then very shortly after that, the pills got harder to get. So that's when her dealer says, "Hey, guess what? I got a lot of this. Pills are getting really expensive, but I've got heroin now. And you start taking it just like you took the pills, you smash it up and snort it." To her it didn't seem like "Oh, I'm doing heroin." It was more "Oh this is how I took the pills. Crush it up and snort it." Before Tess knew it that wasn't enough to keep her from being jittery and dopesick. Then the dealer teaches her how to shoot it up. That story happens over and over again. It is very common.
How do people "graduate" from pills to heroin? What is that process like?
It's very much the way Tess Henry describes it in the book. Once you're addicted you start feeling dopesick. Every user I talked to described that feeling as being like the worst flu, times a hundred, and not just symptoms of nausea, diarrhea, vomiting. There is also crushing anxiety and depression because you've been medicating all these feelings right? So all that comes back to you, too. But they are so afraid of being dopesick. And then before they know it they start snorting the heroin just the way they snorted the pills. Then they start shooting up. It's all driven by that outsized fear of not being dopesick.
There is now all this public empathy and sympathy for white folks who are suffering from has now come to be described as the "deaths of despair" across red state, Rust Belt and rural America. Where is the sympathy and empathy for poor Latinos, and black folks, and First Nations brothers and sisters who are suffering from addiction, job loss, and lack of opportunities?
White folks are getting all of this sympathy and concern for being addicted to opioids and heroine and other drugs but black and brown folks get thrown in jail.
This is an "iatrogenic" or doctor-fueled wave of addiction. Doctors do not trust black people to responsibly take pills. So purposely, because of old fashioned racism, black people were not prescribed pills in the way that the same doctors prescribed pills to white people — especially working-class white people. Now what we are seeing are overdose deaths in urban areas being higher among minorities. This is largely because they get the heroin that's been cut the most times with fentanyl. Many people in urban areas are coming out of jail and they have had no drug treatment while incarcerated. When they use again now they're getting heroin with fentanyl in it. They're opioid naive. This has fatal results.
What would justice look like?
Justice would be all the manufacturers, dispensers, and distributors of opioids who profited so mightily paying for the downstream damage that this mass over-supplying of opioids has caused across the country — and particularly in rural communities where overdoses can be as much as 65% higher than the national average, and where they have fewer resources to address these problems, as well as fewer jobs. Ultimately justice is the treatment for addiction being as readily available as the opioid pills once were.
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Aunt "Sissy" Rattigan saved the Treasury Department envelope, "Important: Contains U.S. Savings Bonds" recycled to store important photographs and newspaper clippings. My husband identified this 1912 candid as his grandfather, James Aloysius Corrigan.
After graduating high school, Jim worked as a clerk in a Hazleton (PA) clothing store, and held offices in the Clerk's Union and St. Gabriel's chapter of the Knights of Columbus. In his late twenties, Jim attended Bloomsbury State Normal School before following his brothers' footsteps to Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1911. The thirty-one year old medical student posed for someone's camera the following summer, nattily dressed in a wool suit, hat in hand.
I wonder what stories floated through that open window.
On this anniversary of Robert Minor's death, I am seeking cousin-ly review. Robert is shown here in front of his home on Ceylon Lane. With confidence I can identify his wife, May, and his two children, Helen and Donald. But who are the rest of the folks? What say you, descendants of John P. and Isabella Minor?
Minor Family Group Shot circa 1915. Back row (l-r): unknown, Robert Minor, May Minor, unknown. Middle: unknown. Front row: Helen Minor, Donald Minor, unknown, unknown.
My camera is three and a half pounds of image-capturing magic. Mary Jane Minor's mouth would round in wonder at its 1295 frames. My great-great-grandma and I are alike in this regard–we collect faces, without identifying the occasion or relation or special qualities that make those eyes so admired, so treasured. Nonetheless, the portraits, now and then, are at an edge, where private lives meet public spaces, revealing a good bit about who we are, what technologies shape our present, what kinds of people add value to our days.
I can confidently put names to only a few faces. So what? This Victorian album is evidence of the sweeping movements of people and machines that transformed my ancestors' communities in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. More than faces, these portraits are portals to history.
Sometime between 1883-1888, F. P. Morgan ushered these three people into his Uniontown (Pennsylvania) studio on Morgantown Street, and shot this cabinet card photo. Their identity is concealed by the passage of time; their relationship to the Minor family of Green County lost in a historical fog.
Their relationship to each other, however, is clearly described in the photographer's clever posing.
The silver-haired gentleman sits relaxed in an upholstered chair, while the woman and boy stand to his right with their arms resting on his shoulder and arm. Their hands line up, smack dab in the middle of the frame, a visual statement–We are family. The tableau is vintage Victorian; the husband is seated in the only chair signifying his role as patriarch and the woman is beside him as helpmeet. Together they shelter and nurture their six(ish) year old son.
Three faces, one family. Incognito.
Unidentified Family, cabinet card, F. P. Morgan, photographer, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 1883-1888. The Minor Family Album, p. 18, Author's Collection, 2014.