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My late wife took her own life to stop Chronic Pain. See our documentary Pain Warriors about that whole saga. It can be watched for free on Amazon Prime and TubiTV and a few other places. I receive no renumeration of any kind from the documentary. Pain Warriors is five stories, four with people with Chronic Pain and one of a doctor punished for helping people with Chronic Pain. Two of the people took their own lives to stop the pain, one being my wife Karen.

Consider that, to my knowledge, we still have no simple objective test that will tell me that you are hungry. Hunger is a mild form of pain.

We have a long way to go before we have objective measures of Chronic Pain.

We must put more effort in finding solutions for Chronic Pain.

For Karen she was told "The pain has become fixed in your perception". That was the best the Medical Establishment had to offer her early on.

The direct link to the data sheet:

https://abracon.com/datasheets/AHCR-S04R0S.pdf

For a similar part in this class:

Low Leakage Current as small as 1µA Low Self-discharge rate, 72 hours @ discharge <5%

https://abracon.com/datasheets/AHCR-S04R0S.pdf

The more the Farads the higher the leakage. The higher the tempature the higher the leakage.

For anyone that wants to see a real data sheet:

Nominal Voltage: 4.0V High Power and Energy Densities Cycle Life > 50K Cycles Capacitance Range: 10F-1200Farads

https://abracon.com/product-lineup/frequency-control-timing-...

Note that the original data sheets said that these could be wave soldered. ABSOLETLY NOT. Even hand soldering they must be treated with respect, a lot of respect.

One of the major problems with these is there a minimal voltage that they must not go below. Their life gets shortened. I've never seen data on how much.

To my knowledge Li-Ion Capacitors were first introduced to the market by Taiyo-Yuden in 2010. They are no longer in this market. I wrote a blog about it back then:

http://blog.softwaresafety.net/2010/11/introducing-lithium-i...

Research that was updated in 2013 from the quoted 1995 speculation:

"… Men and women's brains are connected in different ways which may explain why the sexes excel at certain tasks, say researchers. A US team at the University of Pennsylvania scanned the brains of nearly 1,000 men, women, boys and girls and found striking differences.

Male brains appeared to be wired front to back, with few connections bridging the two hemispheres. In females, the pathways criss-crossed between left and right. …"

"Sex differences in the structural connectome of the human brain"

November 1, 2013 (received for review September 9, 2013) December 2, 2013

https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1316909110

I looked that up. Interesting that it appears on page 369. The numbers from the famous N. Tesla quote.

Sadly we've lost such funs stuff in the modern era. Has anything been better than the Signetics Write-Only-Memory from long ago today?

https://dn760104.eu.archive.org/0/items/best_of_byte_volume_...

It was not an oversight, however since you asked:

http://blog.softwaresafety.net/2013/04/magic-smoke-resistors...

Have you tried a backwards polarity tantalum capacitor? I've seen those go off just on their normal voltage when installed backwards. Sometimes immediately and other times with significant delay.

Eye Projectile and Eye Flash protection along with hearing protection are required.

This reminded me of a Blog entry I wrote about in 2013 on "Massive Electro-Pyrotechnic Initiator Chip Resistor (MEPIC)". These are 0805 chip resisters that are by design meant to let out the Magic Smoke that runs all electronic parts.

Sadly I could not get free samples from my Vishay Rep, that I was in good standing with. MEPIC85N8R0KTT come in lots of 10,000 to buy.

Be sure to check out the application note "A Guide to Using EPIC / MEPIC Igniters in Pyrotechnic Applications".

https://www.vishay.com/en/product/53058/

National Semiconductor, bought by TI, used to make a similar part, check out the application note:

https://www.ti.com/lit/an/snoa217/snoa217.pdf

This is what I wrote about the MEPIC parts a long time ago:

"MEPIC resistors, also known as bridge resistors, are resistive elements that convert electrical energy into heat energy in a precise electro-thermal profile for the purpose of initiating a series of pyrotechnic events in a controlled energetic reaction. [They go BOOM on command, which is different than Rapid Spontaneous Self-Disassembly.]

The new Vishay Sfernice resistor is optimized for electronic igniter applications in automotive safety systems for the deployment of airbags and other safety devices; digital blasting in mining applications; and in fireworks applications for better synchronization of fireworks, music, and special effects.

With firing energy down to 1.5 mJ and a typical ohmic range of 2 Ohms (+/- 10 %), the device provides designers with very predictable, reproducible, and reliable behavior.

Offered in the standard 0805 case size for the wraparound and flip chip versions, with other sizes available upon request, the resistor features easy set-up of firing levels, and is compatible with various pyrotechnic compositions.

Offering ESD withstanding to 25 kV without extra protection, the MEPIC resistor's performance meets no fire/all fire conditions and the requirements of USCAR, AKLV16, and major car manufacturer standards.

The device is RoHS-compliant and conforms to Vishay "Green" standards. [Is it not great that Fuzes are 'Green'?]"

I have found this ST Discovery kit extremely useful in figuring out what my USB-C power sources could actually supply.

"The STM32G071B-DISCO Discovery board is a demonstration and development platform for the STMicroelectronics Arm® Cortex®-M0+ core-based STM32G071RB microcontroller and particularly the USB Type-C™ and Power Delivery controllers.

...

The STM32G071B-DISCO Discovery board discovers and displays USB Type-C™ port capabilities such as data role, power role, VBUS and IBUS monitoring. ..."

https://www.st.com/resource/en/user_manual/dm00496511-stm32g...

Around ~$70 US now. Was around $50 when I bought mine a couple of years ago.

STM32G071B-DISCO at Mouser or Digikey.

In World-War-One J.H.Rogers invented and patented an antenna that worked well underground or underwater. It was used to communicate with Subs at the time.

According to the late, and somewhat controversial, T.E.Bearden the Rogers system has been rediscovered and then "lost" at least five times since WW1.

"James H. ROGERS Underground & Underwater Radio ( Static-free Reception & Transmission Underwater & Underground )"

https://www.rexresearch.com/rogers/1rogers.htm

There is also

Wallace MINTO Hydronic Radiation Transmitter

Radio-Electronics (May, 1967), p. 37-38.

“Build a Hydronic-Radiation Transmitter”

by Jack Althouse

“Scientists in Florida have discovered a new form of electromagnetic radiation which propagates under water as well as radio does in air”.

https://www.rexresearch.com/hydronics/hydronics.htm

While not indented for water use the Sutton & Spaniol et.al.'s "Black Hole" Antenna is always of interest when it comes to VLF/ELF. This work was done for NASA. Dr Sutton described it to me this way:

"Re: ACTIVE ANTENNA From: John and Helen Date: 10/02/05 10:54 pm

Hi Bob,

The synchronous detectors were used in temperature monitors and temperature controllers designed to control temperatures on spacecraft at 60 milliKelvin +/- a few ucroKelvin. The preamplifier had to have a gain of 10E5 after which the demodulated signal had to be converted by a 16 bit ADC, with +/- 1LSB allowable error.... so of course, you can see that we were working with extremely small signals buried in the noise, and we had to go all out in an effort to beat down the noise. That's why we had to use a new improved synchronous demodulator. This project was as close to being impossible as you can get! I still have trouble believing that we actually made it work.

The active ("Black Hole") antenna was developed in another project, where we didn't want to transport a two meter long antenna that weighed 200 pounds.....so we miniaturized the hardware while simultaneously expanding the antenna field cross section. We wanted to receive the entire ELF-VLF bands all at once, so we had to have an extremely broadband antenna....like four decades of bandwidth or more. You wouldn't believe the arguments I had with the reviewer at Physics Essays. He just couldn't believe that one could do what we did....and if it was indeed true, then why hadn't someone done it years ago?.., "and what makes you so smart", .so, of course, "this must be nonsense, etc....." Progress in physics is so bloody difficult because most physicists think that everything worthwhile has already been discovered....so they expect nothing new. This is negative feedback which, of course, makes the system stable, I suppose.

The one text book that includes diagrams of the antenna-external field interaction is listed as one of the references in the Physics Essays paper. Sorry, I can't remember the name of the author or the title.

John Sutton, Ph.D."

https://web.archive.org/web/20120722112702/http://www.unusua...

In the fall of 2023 I tried to visit Stonehenge. We arrived at 15:15 local time.

I was riding in the passenger seat.

There was a male and female police officer standing at the side of the road, beside a "Road Closed" sign blocking the entrance.

The male police officer came to my window and started yelling in my face:

"We are closed!! Come back another day!!!"

I knew it would be pointless to argue with this a-hole and there was no other day in my schedule that we could come back. So we left and never got to see it.

Do these old rocks get tired at three in the afternoon or what?

I'll be sending this Head of Stonehenge an email about the experiance...

I can see both sides of this. I really want different part numbers for the same reason you do.

However we deal with a lot of regulated products and to just open a case at one of the Government Paper-Pusher Regulators will cost us $5,000 to just change the part number. We are a small company and $5k hurts.

I got one of those take down notices because I had their catalog of Space Grade Rad Hard parts on my website. About six directory levels down; did I give TI permission to invade my site?. Any Human would have seen it as promoting their parts, which was not the direct intention. The Bot just said it was a Copyright violation and I had to remove it from my site or they would send lawyers after me. It wasn't worth the time to fight.

I've been screwed by TI many times in one way or other. As have colleagues. They did a die-change of a MSP430 and it stopped working in their product. No answer was forthcoming from TI.

I had designed in a Silicon Labs Bluetooth module a few years ago. Now that TI has bought SiLabs, I'm designing it out. I simply don't trust TI. They once were a good company. They went downhill fast after they got rid of all of the support people and moved support online via forums.

Some companies want no records at all, see:

"2028 – A Dystopian Story By Jack Ganssle":

http://www.ganssle.com/articles/2028adystopianstory.htm

Known as ’The Rule of 26’, which is sometimes given as a reason NOT to keep engineering notebooks etc. By Federal Rule 26 you are guilty if you did not volunteer the records before they are requested. Including any backups.

From Cornel Law:

LII Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery

Rule 26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery

(a) Required Disclosures.

(1) Initial Disclosure.

(A) In General. Except as exempted by Rule 26(a)(1)(B) or as otherwise stipulated or ordered by the court, a party must, without awaiting a discovery request, provide to the other parties:

(i) the name and, if known, the address and telephone number of each individual likely to have discoverable information—along with the subjects of that information—that the disclosing party may use to support its claims or defenses, unless the use would be solely for impeachment;

(ii) a copy—or a description by category and location—of all documents, electronically stored information, and tangible things that the disclosing party has in its possession, custody, or control and may use to support its claims or defenses, unless the use would be solely for impeachment; …

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_26

It is a good history. Alas in the bizzarro legal landscape of today some places ban such notebooks under the Federal Rule of 26.

That leads us to directly to 2028 – A Dystopian Story By Jack Ganssle:

http://www.ganssle.com/articles/2028adystopianstory.htm

Known as ’The Rule of 26’, which is sometimes given as a reason NOT to keep engineering notebooks etc. By Federal Rule 26 you are guilty if you did not volunteer the records before they are requested. Including any backups.

From Cornel Law:

LII Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery

Rule 26. Duty to Disclose; General Provisions Governing Discovery

(a) Required Disclosures.

(1) Initial Disclosure.

(A) In General. Except as exempted by Rule 26(a)(1)(B) or as otherwise stipulated or ordered by the court, a party must, without awaiting a discovery request, provide to the other parties:

(i) the name and, if known, the address and telephone number of each individual likely to have discoverable information—along with the subjects of that information—that the disclosing party may use to support its claims or defenses, unless the use would be solely for impeachment;

(ii) a copy—or a description by category and location—of all documents, electronically stored information, and tangible things that the disclosing party has in its possession, custody, or control and may use to support its claims or defenses, unless the use would be solely for impeachment; …

https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcp/rule_26

I remember seeing in a Popular Electronics Magazine, in the late 60s or early 70s, stating "There will never be a Blue LED". Despite looking I've not found that issue again.

In Tom Beardens book "Excalibur Briefing: Explaining Paranormal Phenomena" on page 166 he states:

"...Briefly, two groups of cells were selected from the same cell culture and one sample placed on each side of a window joining two environmentally shielded rooms. The cell cultures were in quartz containers. One cell culture was used as the initiation sample and was subjected to a deadly mechanism - virus, germ, chemical poison, irradiation, ultraviolet rays, etc. The second cell culture was observed, to ascertain any transmitted effects from the culture sample being killed.

When the window was made of ordinary glass, the second sample remained alive and healthy. When the window was made of quartz, the second sample sickened and died with the same symptoms as the primary sample. The experiments were done in darkness, and over 5,000 were reported by Kaznacheyev and his colleagues. The onset of induced complementary sickness and death in the second culture followed a reasonable time - say two to four hours - behind sickness and death in the primary culture.

The major transmission difference between window glass and quartz is that quartz transmits both ultraviolet and infrared well, while glass is relatively opaque to ultraviolet and infrared. Both quartz and glass transmit visible light. ..."

Based on this work:

V.P. Kaznacheyev et al, "Distant Intercellular Interactions in a System of Two Tissue Cultures," Psychoenergetic Systems, Vol. 1, No. 3, March 1976, pp. 141-142.

https://rexresearch1.com/BeardenLibrary/

I must give some background so you don't think I'm being factious or silly by what I'm about to explain.

Next week it will be twelve years since my wife killed herself due to Chronic Pain. Willing or not thrusting me into being an advocate for those with Chronic Pain. Most specifically advocating for those with Intracranial Hypotension due to Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leaks and those poisoned by Fluoroquinolone antibiotics such as Levaquin, Cipro etc.

See our documentary Pain Warriors about the whole saga of my late wife. It is free to watch many places. I get no remuneration of any kind from Pain Warriors.

As someone with Lupus "The Spoon Theory" was created by Ms. Christine Miserandino.

Anyone that spends time in Social Media related to chronic health issues is going to come across someone talking about 'Spoons'. Yes, the utensil that you eat with.

A normal health person has an unlimited number of spoons per day. Someone with a chronic condition may only have five or ten if they are lucky.

Each 'Spoon' represents a task of daily life. Say just getting out of bed, taking a shower or eating a meal, each being one spoon.

When you run out of spoons for the day your day is over, or you start paying by borrowing spoons from tomorrow, which makes tomorrow a worse day than today.

So the linguistic words being looked for are already being measured by the community itself in a scale of Spoons. As silly as it might sound.

Ms. Miserandino explains how this all came about here:

https://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-chris...

Something I need to add, because I mentioned Lupus, is that food sensitivities to Nightshade plants, common in our diets, can mimic the systems of Lupus and Rheumatoid Arthritis. If you or a loved one has those, eliminate the Nightshade family from your diet for a while and see if there is any improvement.

Rupert Sheldrake's Morphic Resonance and Morphic Fields are an alternate explanation of the memory.

https://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance/introdu...

Thank you.

I've seen AI recommended things like Fluoroquinolones (Avalox, Cipro, Levaquin etc), for UTIs.

The FDA itself says this class of drugs work no better than a placebo for UTIs, Sinusitis and Bronchitis. While they cause life altering side effects. They 'Flox' people.

My late wife's Journal was part of the evidence during a 2015 FDA hearing to get this crap off the market.

The bottom line is that AI can not be trusted for Medical Advice. Be highly suspicious of a Human doctor recommending a drug in this class, that has so many Black Box Warnings.

Yet sadly it is still on the market. Is there a number of deaths that are enough?

There is also this small 2016 study:

"Interference with neuronal development

Pregnancy outcome following maternal exposure to pregabalin may call for concern

ABSTRACT

Objective: To investigate pregnancy outcomes following maternal use of pregabalin.

Methods: This multicenter, observational prospective cohort study compared pregnancy outcomes in women exposed to pregabalin with those of matched controls (not exposed to any medications known to be teratogenic or to any antiepileptic drugs). Teratology Information Services systematically collected data between 2004 and 2013.

Results: Data were collected from 164 exposed pregnancies and 656 controls. A significantly higher major birth defect rate in the pregabalin group was observed after exclusion of chromosomal aberration syndromes, and when cases with exposure during first trimester of pregnancy were analyzed separately (7/116 [6.0%] vs 12/580 [2.1%]; odds ratio 3.0, 95% confidence interval 1.2–7.9, p = 0.03). The rate of live births was lower in the pregabalin group (71.9% vs 85.2%, p < 0.001), primarily due to a higher rate of both elective (9.8% vs 5.0%, p = 0.02) and medically indicated (5.5% vs 1.8%, p = 0.008) pregnancy terminations. In the Cox proportional cause specific hazards model, pregabalin exposure was not associated with a significantly higher risk of spontaneous abortion.

Conclusions: This study demonstrated a signal for increased risk of major birth defects after first trimester exposure to pregabalin. However, several limitations such as the small sample size, differences across groups in maternal conditions, and concomitant medication exposure exclude definitive conclusions, so these results call for confirmation through independent studies."

Still on the market...Why?

https://web.archive.org/web/20161029080541/https://www.neuro...

One of the known side effects of this drug is Suicidal Ideation.

My late wife was taking this crap when she killed herself; see the documentary Pain Warriors for that whole saga.

I've been warning people about this drug for years. One lady told me, months after a warning to her group: "Bob, I was standing on the railing of a bridge ready to jump, when I heard your voice. I got off of the bridge and got help."

This stuff really needs to be removed from the market. I acknowledge that I've been told by a very few that it helps them. I've been told by far more how it harmed them.

See also from the Journal Cell Oct 16 2009, relating to both Gabapentin and Lyrica, because other comments here are speculating about how it works:

"... α2δ-1 is the high-affinity receptor for two commonly prescribed antiepileptic, antineuropathic pain medications, gabapentin (GBP, Neurontin) and pregabalin (Lyrica) (Gee et al., 1996). GBP and pregabalin were initially designed as hydrophobic gamma amino butyric acid (GABA) analogs that could cross the blood-brain barrier. Further studies have shown that even though they posses anticonvulsant properties, they do not bind to GABA receptors or transporters. A recent study using a knockin mouse that expresses a mutant α2δ-1 that cannot bind GBP or pregabalin has shown that α2δ-1 is the in vivo target for these drugs and that these drugs mediate their therapeutic action through binding to α2δ-1 (Field et al., 2006). GBP and pregabalin do not affect the single-channel kinetics of calcium channels and have only modest effects on neurotransmission (Dooley et al., 2007). Thus, the cellular mechanisms underlying the mode of action of these drugs are unclear. ..."

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(09)01185-4

In some Embedded areas where safety is of high concern following the Motor Industry Software Reliability Association (MISRA) guidelines is a requirement.

There may be no heap at all and memory must be pre-allocated at system initialization. Otherwise CXXStateTree sounds like it could be very useful in my Embedded devices, which rarely have enough Flash or RAM space, which is the nature of the work.

https://misra.org.uk

I don't know about my feet. They did take away my shoes to be scanned, which took ~15 minutes. Just normal shoes from a shoe store.

I regularly set off the scanner for no apparent reason and get pulled aside to have a Wand run over me, which finds nothing.

On international travel I get frisked every time I have to show my passport.

At the Pittsburgh airport the guy at the conveyer belt for the luggage scanner told me to leave my shoes on, as he did for the person before me.

When we got to the body scanner the guy there told me to take my shoes off and put them on the luggage belt. Person before me walked right through with their shoes on.

Glad to see this Security Theater end.

When you add up all the various PDFs documenting the NXP MCXN947 it comes to around ~7,000 pages.

My late wife took her own life because of Chronic Pain. She was told "The pain has become fixed in your perception".

Many years later we found that the actual cause was a Cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) Leak.

After two failed surgeries to fix it, she had enough and checked herself out.

See our documentary Pain Warriors for the whole saga.

The obscure Brax3 has a jack, which is why I ordered one and am awaiting its arrival.