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During the last few months, it has been a struggle for me to keep this blog going. My personal interest in it has been waning, partly due to my disdain for the role politics has played in social media, and the desire to remove myself from the animosity that's around every virtual corner. It's difficult to like being online anymore. I've almost given up a few times, telling myself that it's time to move on, but having the blog is goal-driven for me, so it lingers. An anniversary…six years this month. However, keeping it fresh and updated is getting tougher.
I've rewritten the beginning of this post several times, unsure as to how far I might go with the words I wish to share. I know what I want to say, but how to express myself without making people angry is what's nagging at me. The fact that I worry about this is frustrating. Part of the reason I've wished to discontinue the blog is due to what social media has become: a self-serving, disrespectful, judgmental and vitriolic place. And this is where I have the greatest disdain. There isn't much care if I'm offended or angered. And I've been both quite a bit lately.
The world's population recently reached 7.6 billion people, yet according to the finger-pointing, fist-shaking virtual world, each unique individual is categorized and compartmentalized. We're labeled this or that, either/or, good or bad, liberal or conservative, right or wrong (this, of course, depends on who is yelling the loudest at the time); we're lumped into sameness when we share nothing in common; we're stifled from expressing an opinion or asking a question out of fear of being unfairly pegged something we aren't; we're told, not heard. When did people become irrelevant as human beings?
Things seem to matter only if they meet certain criteria; a person's death is tragic only if the life is lost in a questionable manner; causes are embraced in the heat of the moment, then abandoned when the next bandwagon rolls in. Making assumptions to support the popular cause of the day runs rampant: if a person thinks a certain way, then that person must be (fill in the blank). It seems as if we're all judged by that checklist of life, deemed worthy or not as to how we're generalized to be. That broad brush of acceptance, if it's given, holds little substance for me since real need is overlooked in favor of causes driven by our political climate.
How can we think need, suffering, neglect, or any level of pain is determined by a checklist? Hunger pains that tear at a person's belly aren't lessened or greater based on criteria. Poverty, homelessness, illness, and disabilities affect many people of different walks of life, and are tragic regardless of who is touched or where they live, yet genuine compassion is lost to the movement of the moment. How shallow and hypocritical our world has become.
An interesting Chicago Tribune commentary (What Chicago's South, West Sides and Appalachia have in Common) details the similarities in poverty, unemployment and violence that plague the areas, but cites the biggest thing they have in common is despair. It's the writer's belief that the overall population in the areas voted differently not because of any party loyalty, but because they wanted to have dignity once again. Politicians had failed them, and I tend to agree with him. Yet, the people of these areas are judged and ridiculed for how they voted, when each one of them generally wants the same things: a better life and opportunities for their families. The American Dream.
|Native Americans living in poverty
Additionally, there are over 300 Native American Tribal Lands (Indian Reservations, Pueblos, Colonies, Rancherías) in the United States, and the living conditions have been described as "compatible to third world" countries (www.nativepartnership.org); Native Americans have a higher poverty and unemployment rate when compared to the national average. Visit or drive through one of them; poverty at its ugliest is glaring. Why aren't the masses "rising up" about this? Why aren't there marches and demands for change?
|Capitol Crawl - 1990
The Americans with Disabilities Act became law in 1990 (www.ada.gov), but those with disabilities still don't always have access to basic services. Some pro-business commentators at the time who were against the act said that the ADA "was an expensive headache to millions that would not necessarily improve the lives of people with disabilities." No doubt the doubters had great headaches seeing the "Capitol Crawl" of 1990, when disability rights activists ditched their wheelchairs, canes, walkers and crutches, and crawled up the steps of the capitol in protest, demanding their voices be heard. Yet, sometimes those who march for other things today don't seem to mind too much about parking in a "Handicapped Parking" space just to be closer; or take no notice that a person in a wheelchair doesn't have access to a public restroom, restaurant, movie theatre, art gallery, or football stadium. Where is the anger?
Then there is this: the silence regarding daily gun violence. The site www.gunviolencearchive.org collects annual statistics regarding victims of gun crime. In the last four years, the incidents and deaths have increased yearly:
· (2014) Incidents – 51,862; Deaths – 12,558; Mass Shootings – 271
· (2015) Incidents – 53,723; Deaths – 13,513; Mass Shootings – 333
· (2016) Incidents – 58,834; Deaths – 15,089; Mass Shootings – 383
· (2017) Incidents – 61,437; Deaths – 15,584; Mass Shootings – 345
According to a New York Times article (Comparing the Las Vegas Attack with Daily Gun Deaths in U.S. Cities), while 58 were killed in the mass attack in Las Vegas, Chicago had the same number of deaths in a span of 28 days that started two days before the incident in Las Vegas. All of these incidents, deaths and shootings are relevant and important. All of these lives matter. Where is the outcry?
I think the times were better when we didn't know how anyone voted. It used to be a private right, kept close to the vest. People went to the polls on election day, cast their ballots and moved on with their lives. Since social media exploded with "authorities" behind every keyboard and smartphone, it's made life online an unpleasant place to be. Dictating demands, yelling (via all caps, of course), ridicule and general rudeness have replaced common decency. There's a lot of talking but little doing.
A balm, in which to heal the festering anger, might be to disconnect. Turn it off. Walk away from the virtual world (or at least reduce the time spent there), find a cause that isn't politically driven or motivated, and actively make a difference. Find the need; it's there. Then listen to it and hear it. I'm trying.
And the blog? It continues…at least until next time.


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Mitigation (Alaskan Undead Apocalypse Book 3)
Wet. Freezing. Hopeless. As the Alaskan autumn yields itself to the encroaching threat of winter, Neil, Jerry, Meghan and Emma must fight for themselves and the survival of everyone else in their group, including the children Danny and Jules, against growing masses of flesh-hungry zombies. The undead menace continues to nip at their heels as they retreat down the Seward Highway and venture further into the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness. The horrors of Anchorage festering with prowling ghouls are behind them but now new terrors threaten their every step on their arduous trek. The fiends and that their appetite for human flesh are not the only thing to fear as the new world they all must navigate continues to challenge the one basic instinct to which they are all beholden: to survive.
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The cold, unrelenting and worsening, forced them from their lonely trek into the cave. Without fire, the cave was equal parts dark and cold, though it provided some shelter from the remorseless winds. Anything was better than being out in the weather, even their prehistoric brains knew that. Though largely still, the air in the cave remained bitterly cold. The walls and dirt floor boasted glistening patches of ice like jeweled adornments. The trio hunkered down under a large animal skin to warm themselves. Absently they lifted pinches of frozen earth from beneath them and stuffed it clumsily into their mouths. The ice, the water anyway, they needed, and the dirt went into their empty bellies attempting in vain to fill the greedy and protesting void.
It had been days since they had eaten, so he parted company with his two huddled companions in search of anything he could find. If he could happen upon a sleeping animal, perhaps he could plunge his crude spear into the beast. With one aggressive stroke he could have a warm coat and food. They would be saved and then he would mate with the female. He had tried before but she was with the other male, which only led to challenges and fighting and painful bruises. If he were to bring back food, she would certainly present herself to him. Her strong scent was maddening to him, and watching the other male take her time and time again didn't help matters.
The darkness was an enveloping mouth closing in behind him and snuffing out the dim light. His large, hairy hands groped in front of him like a curious cat's whiskers, seeking changes in the air and the encroaching walls to either side of him. Until his eyes could adjust, his hands would lead him. The path grew more and more narrow, like he was walking down the narrowing throat of a predator. Thankfully, both the walls and ceiling had been eroded to largely smooth surfaces after centuries of water and air movement through the tunnel. He soon found himself standing at the threshold of a larger cavern.
Suddenly the air became warm and moist. The echo of his labored breathing changed as well, wandering into the higher corners and ceiling only to bounce back to him. He took two steps into the cavern and stopped suddenly, instinctively lowering his already stooped posture into a much tighter and defensive stance. A pungent odor, a tantalizing and threatening blend of life and death...growth and rot, tickled his nose and set his senses on alert. It was a den. Instead of opportunity, he felt alarm. He should not be there.
Blind and terrified, he started to back out of the cavern, painfully aware of every echoing sound he made. Leaping silently from the darkness, the faceless beast latched onto his shoulder just below his neck. His tough, weather-beaten skin with its thick coat of dark hair was torn by the beast's ruthless gnashing teeth.
The beast reeked with a foulness he'd never encountered. The pain, anguishing and sudden, was completely unexpected. His senses, feral and unrefined, were overwhelmed. He tried to throw his attacker off but its teeth were too deep and its jaw too strong. His flight response forcefully aborted, primal fear elbowed its noisy self to the forefront and demanded attention.
His scream, so seemingly distant and foreign to him, echoed in the dark while the pain reverberated through his chest. Once again, instinct guided his response. His left arm was useless, tightly clutched in the beast's ruthless maw, but his right arm was free and eager to fight for his survival. With one forceful jab, the heavy wooden spear, nothing more than a strong rock-sharpened stick, penetrated both darkness and the beast. His attacker, which looked like nothing more than jagged teeth and darkness, spilled its lifeblood in a sticky, warm surge covering his hand and arm.
The grinding jaws, holding tight to his violated flesh, released him and retreated into the gloom. Not waiting even a second, he spun around and stumbled his way back to his companions. His entire left flank was painted red with his blood, as were the cave walls he had used to steady himself along the way. The blood loss was starting to take a toll on his senses. He felt like he was walking through a fog that wrapped itself tightly around his head, restricting his vision and his hearing. And yet, the open wounds that had been splashed with the more viscous fluid of the creature felt...different. It felt as if they bubbled and burned, but it wasn't necessarily raw pain like he felt from the other gashes in his flesh. The tissue was changing rapidly.
He was doing little more than staggering and struggling for breath when he reemerged from the cave's depths. Despite the absence of light, the other two could sense both his wounds and his fading life. He reeked of death...salty and rotten. With a series of primal grunts and gestures, he communicated that danger lurked deeper in the cave and that they should leave at once. Looking out at the howling winds and blistering snow, they knew they had to at least wait for the darkness to pass and the light to return.
Empty-handed and now bloodied, his hope to mate with the female faded and strangely, so did his desire. The burning and the pain could not be ignored despite his best efforts. He wanted to surrender to his anguish and wail, but he stubbornly resisted any sign of weakness. All he could think to do was rest. Maybe the pain would diminish if he slept. As his blood continued to seep and flow mercilessly, his energy and his consciousness began to fade so that sleep could not be eluded.
Sometime shortly before dawn, his breathing shallowed out to nothing and his heart stopped. This would have been the end for him except that his brain, primitive as it was, continued to function. Some new organism, introduced through the bite wound on his shoulder, had invaded his brain, changing its chemistry.
His frontal lobe, the part of the brain that controlled reasoning—however limited it may have been for him—stopped working, but other segments continued to fire off electrical currents to nerve endings controlling muscles. The limbic system, the center of his emotions, flared violently with current until every synapse for every emotion was silent and dead; every emotion, that is, except for rage, which found all the unspent energy for every other feeling funneled into it. His temperature, thirst, and fatigue, all answering to the hypothalamus, found themselves things of the past, but his hunger, also a hypothalamic function, surged to insatiable levels. It was the hunger and rage that roused him.
When he opened his eyes that following morning, the world had changed for him. His eyes saw everything only in hints of red and his former companions nearly glowed, as if on fire.
The nagging hunger in his stomach from the night before had multiplied to an overpowering driving force compelling him to seek out the only meal to be found. And they were right there in the cave with him.
He rose from beneath his thick animal hide covering and fell upon his still sleeping companions.
He grabbed the female first, her scent once so sexually arousing now only calling to his suffering, hungry brain. He bit the back of her neck, tearing away chewy bits of hairy flesh. His teeth fell again and again rending tissue from her as she screamed and struggled beneath him. He didn't pause to even chew as he swallowed the warm chunks into his belly. Soon, the whitish bones of her neck were peeking up through the swelling, red morass. His face was streaked with warm crimson blood and dangling bits of skin and tissue. His biting was sometimes too aggressive to allow his chewing to keep pace, resulting in pulpy morsels of flesh falling from his mouth in awful and partially chewed wads.
His male companion rolled away and found a spear. The larger male came at him, screaming and threatening as any frightened and threatened animal would. Still feeding on the struggling but weakening female, his infected brain told him that this victim was too weak to escape and that he should now attack this other prey before it escaped.
He stood just in time for the spear to be thrust into his chest. He felt nothing, the wound having no effect on him or his own attack. He leapt forward, spear and all, and grabbed the other male by his shoulders. They wrestled one another to the floor of the cave. Though the other male was bigger than him, the infection, which limited and focused his energy and his strength by shutting off certain functions of his body, poured unused resources into his arms and his legs, infusing him with unlimited stamina and unequaled power. The hunger drove his attack, which surprised and unsettled his victim all the more.
He bit down onto cheek, then cheekbone, and finally onto an eye. The soft, wet tissue surrendered itself to his bite with a delicious sucking ooze of salty fluid. When his victim tried to bite him back, he simply used that opportunity to instead chew off the other man's lower lip and tongue. The battle was vicious, bloody, and horribly one-sided. Despite the spear and his superior size, the other man could not compete with the infection.
The feasting on the two corpses didn't last much longer than the fighting had. No matter how much he ate, he never seemed able to quench the hunger. The bodies had been picked clean to the bone and still he needed more.
His hunger took him back into the cold, where he wandered aimlessly for countless days seeking sustenance. His skin, whipped gruesomely by the wind, began to crack and peel. He lost toes and tips of finger as they froze and simply fell off. His hair continued to grow, though it also began to fall from his body in clumps. His eyes too eventually froze and burst from their sockets, but he didn't need eyes when he had the hunger to propel him forward. With his muscles deteriorating and his limbs failing, he walked until his legs could no longer move. He didn't fall though. He simply stopped walking. He was a living statue, standing still as snow and ice slowly but steadily tightened their grip around him. The frigid elements of the advancing Ice Age devoured him much the way he had devoured his companions. He was wrapped in ice, locked in its seemingly eternal white embrace.
And within the cold stillness of his unforgiving prison, the hunger persisted. His flesh, though mostly preserved by its icy confines, continued to rot and decay and his senses faded into an oblivion of white. Still, when the rest of the world had withered into a gray malaise, the hunger called to him, nagging, festering, torturing.
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Centuries later, on a planet that was gradually warming, his frosty tomb slowly began to release its grip. It started with cracks and pops in the ice, running through the glacier like seismic jolts along tectonic plates. Fissures filled with running water and long absent scents and tastes from a forgotten world. The process took centuries, but still he and the infection waited.
Partially exposed, he had forgotten how to move despite the freedom to do so again. Thousands of years embedded in the glacial grip had taken its toll on his body, most of which was bone with only the barest of tissue remaining. His eyes had long ago rotted in their sockets, but he found his olfactory and auditory senses still served him.
Then one day, a familiar aroma roused him. Prey. It was close and coming closer. It was right on top of him, just below his nose and, more importantly, his mouth. The infection, never dormant but always waiting, sparked long quiet nerves back to life which found willing, if seriously atrophied, muscles starting to once again respond. At first his body resisted his efforts to move, having been motionless for an Age. However, the infection wouldn't be denied.
Starting with a single tic, which split the resistant tissue at the corners of his mouth, his lifeless face reanimated. The hunger, sensing its quarry so close, directed his nearly toothless mouth forward until it landed on something warm, something that awakened in him the awful rage that had awaited this moment for tens of thousands of years.
His first bite came down on something foreign—not flesh and not animal hide, but something different. His second blind but determined attempt found its mark. One of his few jagged teeth sank itself into something soft and fleshy. It tasted of youth, so sweet and fatty. But a taste was all that he was granted. There was screaming and then there was quiet.
That quiet lasted a bit, but to him, time no longer had any meaning. Once, long ago, before the infection and its eternal night, he had measured time by the coming and going of the light of day. During his multi-millennial torment in the glacier, when time was not measured but was instead endured, there was no sleep and no rest. There was always the hunger and now that hunger, teased maliciously by the single morsel, was rippling electrically through his still-partially ice-encased torso.
His convulsing, a near constant tremor through the ice, delivered exactly what the infection craved: freedom. As the ice separated in front of him, he fell forward awkwardly. Behind him, the bottom third or more of both of his legs were still embedded in the receding glacier, the rotten gray stumps protruding ever so slightly higher than the ice that still held them in place. His dismemberment caused not the slightest pain or distress.
Legs or no, the hunger called to him and he was powerless against its beckoning. Using his arms to pull himself along the stream bank, he slithered and crawled toward the faint but undeniable scent of prey.
He grunted and moaned slightly as he moved, the temptation of the kill exciting him. Sometime later, the air changed slightly, his senses recognizing the shift as the approach of food. It was coming to him.
And all at once, there was a roar such that he'd never heard and then his body was rocked with a violent impact. There was another violent noise, this one more organic...alive...a voice...his kill...his meal. Another barking clap of sound and another punching pressure against and through his back and then his chest.
Laboriously, he rolled onto his back so that he was facing from a sitting position whatever was behind him. Sensing that it was his prey, he reached blindly toward the sound as it echoed again. His hand disintegrated painlessly. He was aware that it was gone but it was of no consequence. The loss of the limb was less important than feeding the hunger. Had he known that he was being pelted with bullets, it likely wouldn't have mattered. He reached out with his obliterated stump and absorbed two more of the blasts in his upper chest. His bones splintered and more of his already inadequate flesh holding his frame together disappeared in a hail of buckshot. Soon there wouldn't be enough of him to continue to move. The anguish and the hunger, however, would never quit.
So, he turned himself around and, with his one good hand, belly crawled the other direction after his now retreating prey who smelled like the other one tasted.
Leached of color and life, the gray sky seemed a fitting companion for Dr. Caldwell. He leaned back in the white plastic chair, fear and pain coupling themselves with the infection in his veins. As soon as his friends had dropped out of sight, he began to doubt his resolve and his decision to separate himself from the ragged group of survivors that he had come to think of as family over the past few months.
A ripple of pain from the bite wound on his hand sent another jolt seemingly through every nerve in his body at once. He held his breath and closed his eyes, hoping to hold onto the moment for just a few seconds more. He could feel his body's chemistry begin to change. His thirst was unquenchable and yet, every time he cracked his mouth a sea of saliva spilled from its corners and onto his chin. He'd stopped wiping away the excess quite a while ago. There was no one left to impress and he could care less, so he left it to dangle in lazy strands from his chin.
The surge of pain subsided, though it never actually stopped. Just like the ebb and flow of a river, sometimes a torrent and sometimes a trickle, the burning ache was always there. Realizing his eyes were closed, he jerked forward, opening them in fear that his life would end in total darkness.
How long had he been sitting there alone? He had no way of knowing. Was there any real value in time at the end of the world? Yet, time was what he wanted; a few more hours, a few more days, a few more weeks. He wanted whatever he could get but he wasn't likely to get any of it.
He couldn't feel his feet or his legs anymore. The pins and needles sensation had long since faded, leaving his lower limbs cold and lifeless. Had he wanted to chase after his friends who had left him at his own urging, he couldn't. He'd chosen his lonely fate and now he regretted it.
Dr. Caldwell was sitting in the desolate parking lot of a ruined convenience store along an abandoned stretch of the Seward Highway which led south out of Anchorage, Alaska. The destruction, so complete, suggested that perhaps a tornado had ravaged the little highway pit stop. A large semi-trailer was on its side behind the devastated station building and its contents, like its entrails, were spilled across the pavement. There were cars too, most with doors open and some scorched and melted from long extinguished flames. There didn't seem to be anything left. His world had unraveled, leaving in its wake only hopelessness and fear... and a very big mess.
He looked down at the swollen tissue on his hand. The skin around the still seeping wound was festering with infection, changing color and texture with each passing minute. His arm too, with its hardening and darkening veins, was starting to show signs of the mysterious malady's spread. What was it that had taken so many lives and ended the civilization to which they had all grown so accustomed?
How many weeks had it been since that little boy was brought into the Providence Hospital Emergency Room by his terrified parents? His name was Martin and he had a similar bite on his hand, though the child's wound was seemingly far less threatening; not much more than a scratch really.
His parents told the hospital staff that he'd been bitten by something in the woods. They insisted that it was some kind of a rabid animal, but the children who had been with little Martin reported that it had been something else. Martin's sister, Jules, said that it was a caveman who'd bitten the boy. No one listened. They were all too busy fighting a losing battle to the mysterious infection.
Try as they might, the doctors and nurses were helpless in fighting the aggressive illness. After a brief battle, the boy was declared dead. If that had been all, then the boy's tragic death would have been filed with eminent epidemiologists and studied. That wasn't all though.
Death wasn't the end for little Martin. He arose from his death slumber as a maniacal predator, killing and maiming all those around him. And those who fell due to his attacks rose as well, adding to the bedlam. The uncontrolled chaos spread throughout Providence and then across Anchorage. With each new victim, there arose a new monster. In a matter of hours, the chaos had reached every corner of Anchorage and rendered the city a wasteland.
Safe refuge was sought by those fortunate few who had not fallen victim to the undead plague in its opening stages. While legions of the walking dead roamed the otherwise deserted city streets, the terrified and confused survivors had hidden, hoped, and waited.
Dr. Caldwell had been amongst a group of souls brought together out of necessity. Partially by design and partially out of luck, they had managed to stay one step ahead of the undead curse.
By default as much as anything else, a younger man named Neil had assumed the mantle of leadership for their group. And for that, Dr. Caldwell was both thankful and perhaps a little resentful. Dr. Caldwell was older and more experienced than Neil, but the circumstances under which they had become a clan of sorts were well outside his realm of expertise.
Dr. Caldwell was, as his title suggested, a man of science...of hard practicality rooted in scientific principles. When he witnessed the dead reanimating in a homicidal rage and start to perform atrocities that defied imagination, the foundations on which he had based his many years were shaken to the core. The world was no longer the predictable, consistent place that it had once been. And while everyone else, Dr. Caldwell included, had nothing but doubts and fears, Neil seemed to have answers and ideas.
The rest of their group were as different from one another as the day was long. There was Jerry, who had been a nurse's aide at Providence, and the two children, Jules and Danny, whom he had rescued and had been protecting ever since.
Jules and Danny were placed in Jerry's care at Providence Hospital at the outset of the calamity. It had been Jules' brother and Danny's best friend Martin with whom the undead holocaust had originated. Their Alaskan family vacation became a living nightmare without end.
The three women in the group were Emma, Meghan, and Claire. Emma had been an administrative employee at Providence, and had been with Dr. Caldwell since their terrifying flight from the hospital. Over the months, Dr. Caldwell and Emma developed a relationship that had always flirted with romance but never went so far as to be romantic. Dr. Caldwell, out of a sense of fidelity to his likely dead wife, never allowed any sort of physical intimacy to arise between them, a fact he presently regretted.
Meghan was with Neil, Jerry, and a small group of survivors hiding out in a bunkered suburban home in South Anchorage. She was as strong as she was beautiful. She was pragmatic and thoughtful, typically listening more than speaking. She was young but she didn't allow that to handicap her in any way. She was also perpetually at Neil's side both physically and during discussions, supporting his ideas and strategies to keep them all safe.
Claire was younger still and acted like it. She had been a college student without any real direction and not much had changed. She was far from intellectually challenged but her impetuous youth oftentimes led her to speak without having heard all of a story. More and more, she and Jerry had become an inseparable pair, their mutual
twitterpation encouraging smiles on everyone around them.
These souls and a few others who had come and gone became his
family of the apocalypse. He loved them all. And, at present, he wished that he had their company again. In the short while since they'd left him, he was already missing them as if he hadn't seen them in a lifetime.
Through the disorientation of his delirium, Dr. Caldwell detected a distinct sound standing out from all else around. At first, he doubted his own senses. He could have sworn that it was the sound of an automobile's engine. It resembled the lower choke of a small diesel engine...a European car perhaps.
Gradually, the decidedly mechanical hum's volume grew enough for him to suspect that it was indeed a car approaching him. Was it a hallucination? Could this be the buzzing that the younger members of the party were able to hear whenever the undead were near?
If it was the horde of zombies, or zekes as they decided to call them, he only hoped that he would be dead before they reached him. Dying was bad enough; he didn't need to be dismembered and devoured in the process.
And then he wondered if he would be on the menu at all. Would his infected flesh not attract the undeads' attention? It likely wouldn't matter anyway. He'd probably succumb before then. An immense sadness followed his last thought.
He thought of his wife, Val, who had died just as alone as he was destined to do. When his thoughts turned to his children, Laura and Jacob, both hopefully safe in the
lower forty-eight states, he felt regret and concern. He couldn't begin to guess what fates awaited them and everyone else...everywhere. What would become of all of them and the world in which they lived? Would they be able to outlast this tragedy?
And finally he thought about another woman with whom he'd fallen in love. Emma's face was burned indelibly into his memory. He was concerned for her future as well. He wanted her and everyone else in their family of survivors to continue to see tomorrows for as long as they were able. He dreaded the possibility that, assuming he did reanimate as a monster, he would hunt them.
He had neither the strength nor the coordination to run, so whatever was coming would catch him. There was no denying that. He looked around quickly, trying to find anywhere that he might hide. The simple motion of looking about was enough to invite more dizziness and nausea.
He closed his eyes and found himself doing something that hadn't crossed his mind in years. He prayed. He solicited the Lord Almighty's help in his time of need. He didn't pray for salvation or for deliverance. No, he prayed for a quick death. He prayed that he would be spared the violent end that so many others had endured, including his wife. He prayed that perhaps he would draw his final breath before the cold, gray claws of the undead could lay themselves upon his flesh.
And when he opened his eyes, he was surprised to see a small car heading south down the Seward Highway. He squinted his eyes against the fading light of the day, inviting his headache to further tighten its hold on his senses.
Despite the distance and the discomfort, Dr. Caldwell was able to see that it was a small black sedan. The little car moved along at a good pace, ignoring the posted warning signs declaring that section of highway had been designated a safety corridor. Patrolling State Troopers would likely have taken exception to the utter disregard for the signs or the laws. If, of course, there were still State Troopers around to enforce such rules.
He thought for a moment that he recognized the little black car. Perhaps it was just an illusion created by the unfortunate cooperation between the infection killing him and the emerging evening light.
As it neared him, however, he was convinced that he did know that car. It looked like a black Volkswagen Passat. And if it was that car, he already knew who was at the wheel.
For the first time since his friends had left him, he regretted not having a gun. Several weeks before, when the calamity that had laid low Anchorage and its population was still in its early stages, they had run across another survivor.
Her name was Maggie. On the surface, she appeared to be an eccentric but relatively harmless older woman. With a trunk full of Bibles and not a single weapon with which to defend herself, she seemed the least threatening person in the city. That assumption had cost them dearly.
Although they were never able to determine for certain, they all suspected that she was a sociopath bent on helping people toward holy salvation by turning them into hot meals for the undead.
She recited the Lord's words from the Bible, but tended to share only those words about vengeance and redemption through death. They should have been more on their guard with her, but who would have guessed that someone with a car full of Bibles could be so...sick?
Nevertheless, sick she definitely was. She hadn't actually led them to their deaths at the hands of the walking dead, but she had tried. When they ran across Maggie and her little black car, they had the advantage of traveling in the comfort and relative safety of a minivan. They could keep on the go and haul around with them more supplies than they would have been able to carry otherwise. It was their deluxe life raft in the flood and she took all of that away from them with a single, malicious stroke.
Maggie had sabotaged the van's engine in the middle of the night and then fled, but not before she took most of their stores of food. She also propped open the doors of their temporary sanctuary and all but invited in any zombies who might have happened by them. She rang the proverbial dinner bell and then left. Dr. Caldwell suspected that she was likely just searching the area for some of the abominations to lead back to them, but he couldn't be certain. Luckily, it didn't come to that.
As a result of her rendering their transportation useless, she forced them back onto their feet, making their search for safety both longer and more dangerous. Several people were lost due to those circumstances, Dr. Caldwell himself merely being the most recent.
Despite the fog of his infection, he struggled to think of any options. Perhaps he could throw something in the road or force her to crash somehow. Looking around though, he couldn't find anything that he would be able to lift and throw that could possibly bring such a wish to fruition.
His focus on the task helped him to find a little clarity in his thoughts and a small reserve of strength in his limbs. She was getting closer and still nothing presented itself to him. Desperate, he did the only thing he could.
Behind the wheel of the black Passat, Maggie was humming a hymn to herself and enjoying the relatively clear weather. The rain had stopped and the road was open. It had been a good several days and the Lord was smiling on her.
After leaving those blaspheming fools stranded and hopeless with their damaged minivan, she'd wandered Anchorage for more than a week without seeing any other souls to save. She was beginning to think that her work was done. Maybe all of God's children had been delivered to His Kingdom.
She wasn't quite sure what her next step should be. Was she to give herself over to the Lord's instrument of salvation so that she too could be delivered?
And then in East Anchorage, she found a thriving community of survivors who had found refuge in a Costco. The giant store's walls were strong with very few windows and its shelves and storeroom were filled to overflowing with food stuffs and other necessities. The conditions couldn't be more ideal for a long wait.
Many of those survivors had started that first morning of the catastrophe at the Bear Valley Fire Station in South Anchorage. With no hope of help arriving any time soon, those willing had loaded onto one of the large fire engines and tried to make their escape. Before too long, it became apparent that their diesel-powered ark would not be able to get them through the snarling tangles of traffic on Anchorage's roads. They decided instead to find another refuge and settled on the East Anchorage Costco by virtue of the fact that they were close to it and it promised both supplies and safety; maybe enough of both to help them subsist until help did finally arrive.
Since that time, they had been joined by families lucky enough or smart enough to happen upon their haven. All had been welcomed to share in their bounty and their security.
There were dozens of people there who were eager to hear God's words. Maggie was more than willing to share His message and her own testimony. They welcomed her work and His words with open arms and willing hearts. It was more than she could ask and decidedly more than she had expected.
She lived with them for several days, enjoying company but always waiting for her opportunity to perform her true work. Her purpose was clear in her mind and free from her thoughts was any sense of guilt or doubt. She was, after all, performing His work. How could doing such great things create either guilt or doubt for her or anyone else for that matter?
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THOUSANDS turned out for a 'quacking' time in Holmfirth – despite the rain.
Plastic ducks were released into the River Holme for the annual duck race.
The event, which is organised by Pendragon Round Table, raises more than £10,000 for good causes.
This year, money was being donated to the Alzheimer's Society.
See our pictures from the day here .
Colne Valley MP Jason McCartney was invited to release the ducks with his daughters Daisy, eight, and Eleanor, six.
He said: "It's a brilliant event, one of the best attended. The centre was jam-packed, probably the best turn out it's ever had.
"I've been to one before but never helped launch it and my daughters were very excited to be involved and sitting in the digger.
"I think there would be a storm of protest if my duck won, but it's a great event and the organisers put a lot of work into it."
Stalls and attractions on the field at Sands recreation ground were also included in the fun.
The winning duck to scoop the £1,000 prize was number 720. The second prize was 1298 and the third 2035.


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Our Story
A design studio in Sydney's south, Mocked specialises in personalised laser cut wares. Each keepsake piece is custom made and manufactured from locally sourced ply wood and acrylic and designed and made by me! My mission is to design and create products that people will be able to keep as memories and reuse at every celebration.
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Established in 2015 when a bored mummy needed a creative outlet whilst on maternity leave. Mocked begun selling leather baby moccasins and as the business and the Mocked family has grown so has Mocked product range. Whilst moccasins are a thing of the past now at Mocked, we still offer a range of gift options as well as personalised keepsake timber wares that hopefully will bring a personal tough to your celebrations.
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SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS � It took Julia and her two daughters five years to get from Kassai, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to a cot on the floor of a migrant …Read More
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South African arms firm Denel says gets 1.8 bln rand bailout
PRETORIA, South African state arms firm Denel said on Friday it had received a 1.8 billion rand cash injection from the government after a liquidity crunch left it struggling to pay salaries …Read More
Sudan's Ex-President Bashir Charged With Corruption
KHARTOUM - A Sudanese judge formally indicted former president Omar al-Bashir on charges of possessing illicit foreign currency and corruption on Saturday.
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A lawyer for Tanzanian investigative journalist Erick Kabendera on Friday asked that he get a speedy trial and medical attention after more than four weeks of incarceration.
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GENEVA - Gavi, the global vaccine alliance that targets developing countries, said Friday that it was appealing for $7.4 billion to immunize 300 million children in 2021-25.
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Standout General Picked to Lead Somalia's Al-Shabab Fight
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Class Variables: Introduction to Variables With Multiple Sub-Variables in Unity 3D
In Unity 3D creating variables using C# is quite easy. Check example below:
public int someValue = 1;
Will be shown like this in the Inspector view:
But what if you want to have multiple sub-variables in one single variable?
This approach is useful for when you need to organize the Inspector view or have a multiple variables attributed to a single element.
- To make the variable like on the image above we need to use a class. Check the code below:
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using UnityEngine;
public class SC_ClassVariables : MonoBehaviour
public class VariableGroup
public Transform t;
public int someValue = 1;
public bool someBool = false;
public VariableGroup variableGroup;
- The script above defines a class called VariableGroup
- The class VariableGroup contains multiple sub-variables
- Note the [System.Serializable] before the class. This attribute is needed to be able edit this variable in inspector view.
- And lastly the variable variableGroup is defined, which uses VariableGroup class.
The class values are accessed by calling the variable name following by a dot then a variable name:
The class above can also be used in array:
public VariableGroup[] variableGroup;


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Mike Trout Rookie Cards: An In-Depth Look
Mike Trout is a phenomenon. His extraordinary play on the field is not only impressive but its a once in a lifetime occurrence. In the era of social media, one can observe this prodigy consistently put up numbers only comparable to the likes of Babe Ruth, Ted Williams or Mickey Mantle.
As a matter of fact, many of today's baseball minds are beginning to ponder this one question, "Is Mike Trout the greatest ever to play the game of baseball?"
Mike is the son of former MLB Pitcher, Steve Trout. He was drafted by the Anaheim Angels in 2009 just shy of his 18th birthday, he was the 25th pick of the 1st round. He debuted on July 8, 2011, and to date, his accomplishments are:
Rookie of the Year Honors | 8x All-Star | 3x MVP | 2x All-Star MVP | 6x Silver Slugger | 1x Defensive Player of the Year.
His hobby impact has collectors in a frenzy. All of his rookie cards have gone through the roof in the last year as collectors anticipated Trout would be tipping the scales into legendary status. His most prominent one, the Topps Update has seen a 900% increase in the last year! In August of 2018 you could've picked one up for around $110.00-$150.00 in a PSA 10, that same card today is selling for $1,000.00!
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2011 Bowman Chrome, Card No. 175 shop ebay
This black-bordered beauty has a great design and features a great action photo of Mike Trout. One negative for these is due to the chrome technology this years Bowman Chrome suffered from a condition known as the "Bends." This is when a card comes out of a pack and is bowed to such an extent that only three of the corners will touch a flat surface. An easy fix is to put them in a penny sleeve than a top loader and in time they will flatten themselves out. Due to the bends in the card, however, if purchasing a raw one, be on the lookout for creases in the front or back of the card.
Parallels include: Refractors 1:4 packs. Blue Refractors serial #d/150. Gold Refractors 1:94 packs (hobby only), serial #d/50. Orange Refractors 1:198 packs (hobby only) serial #d/25 and Red Refractors #d/5.
As of the date of this post raw copies can be purchased for around $180.00; graded Mint copies (9's) sell between $260.00-$285.00 and a graded Gem Mt copy (10) sells in the $550.00-$750.00 range.
2011 Bowman Chrome Draft, Card No. 101 shop ebay
Very similar to the Bowman Chrome brand this one offers a very similar card design. This one shows a fantastic photo of Trout stepping into one and although the card back seems identical in design at first glance it does offer different verbiage for player commentary. Like the Bowman Chrome, this one too has a tendency to "bend" so be mindful of that.
Parallels include lots of Refractors: Base Ref. 1:4 packs. Purple Ref. 1:4 packs estimated. Blue 1:41 #d/199. Gold 1:162 #d/50. Orange 1:324 #d/25. Red 1:1620 #d/5. Superfractors 1:7410 #d/1 and finally Gold Canary Diamond 1:7410 #d/1.
As of the date of this post raw copies of the base card can be purchased for around $168.00; graded Mint copies (9's) sell between $125.00-$150.00 and Gem Mt copies (10's) sell in the $275.00-$350.00 range.
2011 Bowman Draft, Card No. 101 shop ebay
This set is the parent of the Bowman Chrome Draft which we just looked at. Identical in every way minus the chrome technology. These are typically nicknamed "Bowman Paper" or "Paper" versions which means no chrome just straight cardboard. These black-bordered beauties are prone to chip along the edges and corners due to the border color and thin paper stock. Mint copies are hard to find especially in raw form.
Parallels include: Gold 1: per box. Blue 1:17 packs #d/499. Red 1:7410 packs #d/1.
As of the date of this post raw copies can be had for $74.00; graded Mint copies (9's) sell between $80.00-$120.00 and Gem Mt copies (10's) sell in the $250.00-$280.00 range.
2011 Bowman Sterling, Card No. 22 shop ebay
Only 50 cards in this set and card number 22 houses an official rookie card of our featured All-Star. Semi decent card design front and back, nothing to really complain about, maybe a portrait photo would've worked better but all in all, this is a great card for any PC. The card has a shiny veneer finish in front so it is susceptible to scratches so handle with care. The real beauty with this lies in the parallels but they come with a hefty price.
Parallels include what else, refractors: Regular refractors 1:8 packs. Gold 1:31 packs #d/50. Black 1:61 #d/25. Purple 1:152 #d/10. Red 1:1509 #d/1 and Gold Canary Diamond 1:1509 packs #d/1.
As of the date of this post raw copies of the base card can be had for around $620.00; graded Mint copies (9's) sell between $400.00-$435.00 which makes this a much better value than purchasing a raw one, in my opinion of course. Gem Mint copies (10's) are selling in the $900.00-$1,000.00 range.
2011 Topps Finest, Card No. 94 shop ebay
A stat I failed to mention earlier is Trout's ability to steal bases. He has tons of speed and currently sits with 197 career stolen bases. For that reason, I appreciate the card photo used in the Finest offering but that's about it for me, overall card design is okay at best. Also, no protective film that can traditionally be found in the Finest brand therefore, these are susceptible to scratches due to its mirror-like chrome technology.
Parallel Refractors include: Regular refractor #d/549. Purple 1:182 packs #d/5. Red 1:18 packs #d/25. Gold 1:9 #d/50. Orange 1:5 #d/99. Green 1:3 #d/199. X-Fractors 1:2 #d/299. Die Cuts 1:41 #d/10. Superfractors 1:410 #d/1. Gold Canary Diamond 1:414 #d/1.
As of the date of this post raw copies can be purchased for around $105.00; graded Mint copies (9's) sell between $85.00-$105.00 and Gem Mint copies (10's) sell in the $310.00- $325.00 range.
2011 Playoff Contenders, Card No. 17 shop ebay
I have a lot of heartburn with this card for two reasons. It's a 50 card set that only contains one rookie card, this one right here. Also, Playoff Contenders, Baseball was laid to rest in 2008, then out of nowhere, they release this set in 2011. This leads me to believe the set was created specifically just to profit from the Mike Trout hobby buzz.
Moreover, guidelines set by industry standards state that official rookie cards must be licensed by both the MLB and the MLPA. This does not have the MLB license therefore, you don't see any team emblems and names on the uniform. They can't even mention the word Angels. Hobby publications branded this one with the RC identifier but those who know better, know that this is not a true blue RC.
Overall, I think its a very nice card design but there sure is a lot of black on that card front which would make finding mint copies difficult.
Randomly inserted parallels include: Crystal Collection #d/299. Playoff Ticket #d/99. Artist's Proof #d/49. 1st Day Proof #d/10. Championship Ticket #d/1.
As of the date of this post raw copies can be purchased for around $30.00; graded Mint copies (9's) sell between $52.00-$70.00 and Gem Mt copies (10's) sell in the $110.00- $125.00 range.
2011 Prime Cuts, Card No. 37 shop ebay
More of the same with this Panini offering. No license, no logos, not a pure rookie card. However, it is a very nice card overall. I real modern-day attempt at a vintage look. Print run on these is /99 so it makes them challenging to find. Surprisingly, there are no parallels with this one, what you see here is what you get. As I share current values I sure do hope you're sitting down.
As of the date of this post raw copies are selling for around $2,300.00; graded Mint copies (9's) have no recent sales activity but on June 9, 2019 a Gem Mint PSA 10 sold for $9,999.00 respectively.
2011 Topps Update, Card No. US175 shop ebay
Last but definitely not least. Here is la crème de la crème. Yes, boys and girls, it's the best of the best. This card is in very high demand, there are plenty of them out there which is what scares me a bit. Professional Sports Authenticators Population Report shows that 6,271 of them have been graded by them alone. Let's just say there is a print run of 10,000 is there enough supply to meet demand? At the moment no, there isn't. Demand continues to sore and so do card prices.
This card has the potential of becoming the next cultural icon. This one here can become pure Americana if it hasn't already. Is this the next 1952 Topps Mickey Mantle or the modern-day 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr? Only time will tell.
Parallels Include: Gold 1:3 packs #d/2011. Black 1:58 packs #d/60. Hope Diamond Anniversary 1:68 #d/60. Diamond Anniversary 1:4 packs. Cognac Diamond Anniversary 1:3 packs. Gold Canary Diamond #d/1. Platinum #d/1. Target Red Border. Wal-Mart Blue Border. Diamond Anniversary Authentic Diamond #d/1.
As of the date of this post raw copies of the base rookie sell for around $400.00; graded Mint copies (9's) sell between $330.00-$400.00 and Gem Mint copies (10's) sell in the $585.00-$1,000.00 range.
Happy Collecting Collectors,
Learn. Collect. Enjoy.


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mHealth is here to stay. However, along with some caregivers, many patients may be hesitant to jump on the band wagon because they aren't comfortable with handling health matters virtually. Bryce Williams, director of health and wellness at Blue Shield of California, was recently featured on a panel concerning patient engagement in mHealth. During the panel, he discussed 10 steps that should be taken to help with engaging patients in mobile and online health and wellness programs. These steps were: 7. Don't rely on financial and other extrinsic incentives.
- Don't be academic
- Make it fun
- Don't build walled gardens
- Use trusted recruiters
- Encourage health competition
- Create a clear objective
- Don't rely on financial and other extrinsic incentives
- Change it up
- Learn from the winners
- Measure it
These are some great ideas. Such as, beginning with a goal of 10,000 feet a day, and then changing that goal to 15,000. People tend to like a challenge, and if they become to accustom to a certain task, they may stop doing it. I think what is most important is making mHealth apps easy to use and fun. If something takes an hour to get into, freezes up the all the time, and then has no "fun" quality to it, who is going to use it? Probably no one. While it seems like people in their teens and twenties probably had social media and technology programmed in their brains from the time they were born, older generations may have a hard time using mHealth, so it needs to be easy to use.
What do you think about this? Should more companies be aware of the consumer and their needs when creating mobile platforms for patients to use?
More information on these steps can be found at this article on FierceMobileHealthCare.com


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This is the general discussion page for the wiki! New founders should leave a nice welcome message and encourage new visitors and editors to leave a note to get the conversation started.
As you can see I'm working on the site adding various content.
What's needed to be done right now is a full PokeDex and later Quests, and last Items.
Due to we can press "What links here" and find out where the item maybe found and what quest's uses it.
On the front page at the right menu, you will find:"Getting started guide"
You must use those templates in order to create anything. (Special templates to make everything show up automatically on the right places on the website/dex)
Yes Im well aware of that all templates are not up yet of all pokemon "types".
But they will come up tomorrow. as Im moving on to complete quests templates.
It's basically, (Copy and Paste that code), and fill in the blanks after the = signs. (Not really hard)
Simply make a reply/post in here after me.
With the link to one of your monsters and to your "My Talk" page, found at upper right corner. (your username after logging in to the site.)
So I know who to make admin!
Once you are admin, you can edit locked pages as well, to fix minor spelling errors etc, to improve the site and add content.
Locked pages are not to be abused, they are locked for a reason, and shall never be unlocked.
Hope we can get a real sub-forum on PAdventures later to get the whole community helping in adding content! :)
Is there any way I could get admin rights?
I had a PA wiki before, but never completed it. I have got a list of all cooldown times, loot rates and much more useful things for the wiki.
Kind Regards,
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Admin right will be given to those I see contribute and do good to the site later once the site is out of beta stage. :) we want the right persons on our team.


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High Resolution Laser Speckle Imaging of Blood Flow
Prof. Guillermo Aguilar and his colleagues from the University of California, Riverside have developed a new approach to laser speckle imaging, called Laser Speckle Optical Flow Imaging (LSOFI) to be used for autonomous blood vessel detection and as a qualitative tool for blood flow visualization. LSOFI works by capturing the speckle displacement caused by different physical behavior and use the data to create a mapped image. It has been shown that LSOFI has many advantages over LSCI methods both in temporal and spatial resolution. Namely, LSOFI can be used to produce higher resolution images compared with the LSCI method using less frames. Combining this technology with Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computation increases the speed of LSOFI, so GPU enabled LSOFI shows potential to create a fast and fully functional quasi-real time blood flow imaging system. Fig 1: Comparison of blood flow imaging techniques applied to the raw image. The shown results are for Laser Speckle Optical Flow Imaging (LSOFI) using the Farneback Optical Flow algorithm, traditional Laser Speckle Imaging (LSI), and Temporal Frame Averaging (sLASCA).
Imaging Modalities and Methods for Enhanced, Label-free Histopathology During Surgery
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed new techniques capable of producing near real-time tissue analysis with quality and accuracy attributes comparable to traditional Haemotoxylin and Eosin (H&E) histopathology methods.
Detecting Cardiovascular Disease Using Noninvasive Imaging of the Eye
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality and disability worldwide. It is also prevalent, affecting 9% of the population over 20 years of age. Patients with cardiovascular risk factors can reduce their risk of developing catastrophic cardiovascular events such as heart attack and stroke through lifestyle modification and medications. Unfortunately for many, the disease may go undiagnosed until the occurrence of serious events. Identifying biomarkers of subclinical ischemia can help identify patients with occult cardiovascular disease.
Blood Flow Velocimetry via Data Assimilation of Medical Imaging
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a tremendous burden on the population in terms of morbidity and mortality, as well as on the healthcare system in terms of cost. Various forms of CVD including atherosclerosis, valve and ventricular dysfunction, aneurysms, and thrombogenesis can be identified by measuring localized abnormalities in blood flow. Accordingly, the ability to noninvasively interrogate physiological flows enables identification and diagnosis of disease, monitoring of the effects of therapy, and research on the hemodynamic nature of CVD and its associated interventions. In the clinic, blood flow measurements are primarily made using phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (PC-MRI) and ultrasonic color Doppler imaging. Certain limitations of these techniques for patients who have contraindications or suffer from arrhythmias, as well as the desire for volumetric flow information necessitate the development of a new modality for blood flow velocimetry.
Mechanisms and Devices Enabling Arbitrarily Shaped, Deep-Subwavelength, Acoustic Patterning
UCLA researchers in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering have developed a Compliant Membrane Acoustic Patterning (CAMP) technology capable of patterning cells in an arbitrary pattern at a high resolution over a large area.
Ultrasound Based Volumetric Particle Tracking Method
The disclosure relates to method of processing three-dimensional images or volumetric datasets to determine a configuration of a medium or a rate of a change of the medium, wherein the method includes tracking changes of a field related to the medium to obtain a deformation or velocity field in three dimensions. In some cases, the field is a brightness field inherent to the medium or its motion. In other embodiments, the brightness field is from a tracking agent that includes floating particles detectable in the medium during flow of the medium.
Shear Wave Based Elasticity Imaging Using 3D Segmentation For Ocular Disease Diagnosis
Retinal diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration (AMD), are the leading cause of blindness in the elderly population. Since no known cures are currently present, it is crucial to diagnose the condition in its early stages so that disease progression is monitored. Systems and methods for detecting and mapping the mechanical elasticity of retinal layers in the posterior eye are disclosed herein. A system including confocal shear wave acoustic radiation force optical coherence elastography (SW-ARF-OCE) is provided, wherein an ultrasound transducer and an optical scan head are co-aligned to facilitate in-vivo study of the retina. In addition, an automatic segmentation algorithm is used to isolate tissue layers and analyze the shear wave propagation within the retinal tissue to estimate mechanical stress on the retina and detect early stages of retinal diseases based on the estimated mechanical stress. US patent application no. 20190335996
A Fully‐automated Deep Learning System (software code) for the Detection, Prognosis, and Visualization of Pulmonary Disease.
The majority of state‐of‐the‐art lung segmentation algorithms in the literature do not simultaneously segment lungs, lung lobes, and airway in a single algorithm. Additionally, automated algorithms typically perform the segmentation task on a series of 2D slices, which can reduce segmentation accuracy of anatomical structures (i.e. lung lobes) that may require contextual information across all three spatial dimensions. Many existing algorithms also have not been validated on chest CTs across a wide variety of conditions to evaluate algorithm generalizability. Currently, quantification of respiratory measurements requires a radiologist, trained analyst, or technician to recognize, identify, and manually annotate anatomical landmarks such as the lung lobes or airway in the chest. A fully‐automated deep learning system may eliminate the need for manual analysis, thereby improving efficiency and expanding applicability to a large number of CTs.
Software-Automated Medical Imaging Software for Standardizing the Diagnosis of Sarcopenia
Sarcopenia is defined as an age associated decline in or loss of lean skeletal muscle mass. The pathophysiology can be multifactorial and the change in body composition may be difficult to detect due to obesity, changes in fat mass, or edema. Changes in weight, limb or waist circumference are not reliable indicators of muscle mass changes. Sarcopenia may also cause reduced strength, functional decline and increased risk of falling. Sarcopenia is otherwise asymptomatic and is often unrecognized.
Oldest-Old Mri Registration Template
MRI scans of patients/participants can be compared to template scans in order to identify differences or changes in brain anatomy. However, the templates that are used are typically of young brains, which lack the atrophy that naturally occurs in the aged brain. UCI researchers have developed a template for oldest old images (90+ age group) that takes into consideration the natural anatomical changes that can occur with aging.
Techniques for Improving Positron Emission Tomography Image Quality and Tracking Real-Time Biological Processes
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed methodologies that perform dynamic PET imaging and provide opportunities for tracing blood flow and other biological systems in real-time.
Software - Unified algorithm for data cleaning, source separation, and imaging of electroencephalographic signals: Recursive Sparse Bayesian Learning (RSBL)
Electroencephalographic source imaging (a.k.a. magnetic/electric or M/EEG source imaging, ESI, or brain electrical tomography) usually depends upon sophisticated signal processing algorithms for data cleaning, source separation and imaging. Typically, these problems are addressed separately using a variety of heuristics, making it difficult to systematize a methodology for extracting robust brain source images on a wide range of applications.
Noninvasive Method and Apparatus for Peripheral Assessment of Vascular Health
UCI researchers introduce a medical device which noninvasively and accurately monitors vascular health metrics such as endothelial function, arterial stiffness, and blood pressure.
A Method for Characterization of Device and Material and Communication at Thz Frequencies
UCLA researchers in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed a novel method for real-time detection and characterization of pulsed THz waveforms that features differential detection of high sensitivity, and phase diversity to overcome the dispersion penalty for wideband operation.
Head-Mounted Display EEG Device
Diagnosis and detection of progression of neurological disorders remain challenging tasks. For example, a validated portable objective method for assessment of degenerative diseases would have numerous advantages compared to currently existing methods to assess functional loss in the disease. An objective EEG-based test would remove the subjectivity and decision-making involved when performing perimetry, potentially improving reliability of the test. A portable and objective test could be done quickly at home under unconstrained situations, decreasing the required number of office visits and the economic burden of the disease. In addition, a much larger number of tests could be obtained over time. This would greatly enhance the ability of separating true deterioration from measurement variability, potentially allowing more accurate and earlier detection of progression. In addition, more precise estimates of rates of progression could be obtained.
Novel Non-Immunogenic Positron Emission Tomography Gene Reporter
UCLA researchers in the Department of Pharmacology and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics have developed a novel positron emission tomography reporter gene to preferentially trap radiolabeled deoxycytidine analogs.
Non-Immunogenic Positron Emission Tomography Gene Reporter Systems
UCLA researchers in the Department of Pharmacology and Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics have developed a novel dual gene positron emission tomography reporter system for the enhanced labeling of cells in vitro and in vivo.
Software-Implementation Of Semantic Segmentation Methods For Chest Radiographs
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Device and Method for Microscale Chemical Reactions
UCLA researchers in the Departments of Bioengineering and Molecular and Medical Pharmacology have developed a passive microfluidic reactor chip with a simplified design that is less costly than existing microfluidic chips.
pH-Weighted MRI Using Fast Amine Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST) Imaging
UCLA researchers in the Department of Radiological Sciences and Department of Biomedical Physics have developed a novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that utilizes amine chemical exchange saturation transfer (CEST) to capture pH-weighted images for measuring tissue acidity.
In Vivo Retinal Imaging via Improved Visible Light Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a technique that integrates multiple technological innovations to use visible light OCT for improved retinal imaging.
Strongly Interacting Magnetic Particle Imaging
Nuclear medicine is a diagnostic imaging method that works very well, but it is both expensive and gives off excess radiation. X-rays also are used for diagnostic imaging but have poor contrast. Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI)is a promising new tracer modality with zero attenuation in tissue, near-ideal contrast and sensitivity, and an excellent safety profile, however, the spatial resolution of MPI is currently the modality's only weak technical attribute. UC Berkeley and UF researchers have developed a novel, compact, and intuitive MPI scanner that resolves this issue. The research demonstrated proof-of-concept studies for an MPI modality, referred to herein as strongly-interacting magnetic particle imaging (siMPI) that enables a super-resolution breakthrough. The siMPI provided more than a 6-fold improvement in every dimension of space spatial resolution and 37-fold increase in sensitivity. The MPI can be used for early-stage detection of cancer, gut bleeds, strokes, pulmonary embolism, and tracking immunotherapies and MPI can penetrate any tissue, including bone, lungs, and dense breast tissue.
Automated Selection of Myocardial Inversion Time with a Convolutional Neural Network
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been noted for its excellent soft tissue imaging capability with zero radiation dose. It has repeatedly been touted as the imaging modality of the future, but due to its complexity, long exam times and high cost, its growth has been severely limited. This especially has been the case for cardiac MRI, which only accounts for about I percent of all MRI exams in the United States. Delayed enhancement (DE) imaging is an essential component of cardiac MRI, widely used for the evaluation of myocardial scar and viability. The selection of an optimal inversion time (TI), known as the myocardial null point (TINP), to suppress the background myocardial signal is required to optimize image contrast in myocardial delayed enhancement (MDE) acquisitions. Incorrect selection of TINP can impair diagnostic quality. In certain diffuse myocardial diseases such as amyloidosis, it may be difficult to identify a single optimal null point. Further, it is known that TINP varies after intravenous contrast administration, and is therefore time-sensitive. In practice, selection of myocardial inversion time is generally performed through visual inspection and selection of TINP from an inversion recovery scout acquisition. This is dependent on the skill of a technologist or physician to select the optimal inversion time, which may not be readily available outside of specialized centers. However, such methods still rely on visual inspection of an image series by a trained human observer to select an optimal myocardial inversion time. A way to overcome these deficiencies is to embrace Deep learning approaches, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which have the potential to automate selection of inversion time, and are the current state-of-the-art technology for image classification, segmentation, localization, and Spatial Temporal Ensemble Myocardium Inversion NETwork (STEMI-NET) prediction. However, these static CNN models have some drawbacks which could be overcome via the use of dynamic temporal activities for object recognition.
Preventative Trackable Anticoagulants for Atrial Fibrillation Treatment
Researchers at the University of California, Davis have developed a process to localize anticoagulation drugs for treatment of inflammation and atrial fibrillations.
Real-time 3D Image Processing Platform for Visualizing Blood Flow Dynamics
Researchers at UCI have developed an image processing platform capable of visualizing 3D blood flow dynamics of the heart in real-time. This technology aims to be a promising tool for looking at areas of the heart that were previously difficult to image and to better understand the dynamics in cardiac dysfunctions.