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BREAKING: Tragic News About Ben Carson Just In – Stop Everything And Do This For Him

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Most of us already know the rags to riches story of renowned surgeon Dr. Benjamin Carson.

His background was given a thorough going over when he was running for President against

President Trump, and there was never so much as even a discrepancy found.

Carson didn't have anything to hide because he didn't have anything that he was ashamed

of.

Raised by a single mother in the bad part of town, with gang wars happening around him

every day, he will tell you that parts of his childhood were dark.

But the one single beacon, representing everything that was good and right hardworking was his

mother.

He credits her with everything that is good in his life because she refused to let him

become a statistic.

She made him work, and she made him read.

The working helped him succeed, and the reading helped him write.

Yesterday, Carson wrote something, just for her.

On Monday, Sonya Carson crossed over to the other side, and her son, know the world over

for not only his intelligence but his work ethic and his wisdom, wrote this for his mother.

If you have the time to read this, please remember his mother's legacy, and say a

prayer for the family who loved her.

"Today, November 6, 2017, we lost my dear mother, Sonya Carson.

Although she came from an impoverished background with very little formal education, she somehow

understood how success was achieved in our society.

If anyone had a reason to make excuses, it was her, but she absolutely refused to be

a victim and would not permit us to develop the victim mentality either.

Whenever we made an excuse, she quoted the poem "Yourself to Blame."

The poem is included in this post.

May she rest in peace.

Yourself to Blame by Mayme White Miller.

If things go bad for you, And make you a bit ashamed,

Often you will find out that, You have yourself to blame.

Swiftly we ran to mischief, And then the bad luck came,

Why do we fault others?

We have ourselves to blame.

Whatever happens to us, Here is what we say,

"Had it not been for so-and-so, Things wouldn't have gone that way.

And if you are short of friends, I'll tell you what to do,

Make an examination, You'll find the faults in you.

You are the captain of your ship, So agree with the same,

If you travel downward, You have yourself to blame.

We're all going to be remembered for something.

Maybe it's what we do, maybe it's what we say, or maybe it's who we raise.

If Sonya Carson was looking for something to hang her reputation on, I would say that

she did a lovely job with her son Ben and his understanding of personal responsibility.

She didn't have a lot to offer, monetarily, but there are things that don't cost money;

reading and memorizing what you read are two of them.

Another is taking the time to invest in your children.

Carson has fond memories of his mother because she spent time with him, and not just doing

whatever he wanted, she invested what was important in him, even if it made him mad,

or her uncomfortable.

She did the right thing for him, and it paid off.

Here are just a few of Ben Carson's credits from his Facebook bio.

In 2001, Dr. Carson was named by CNN and TIME Magazine as one of the nation's 20 foremost

physicians and scientists.

That same year, he was selected by the Library of Congress as one of 89 "Living Legends."

He is also the recipient of the 2006 Spingarn Medal which is the highest honor bestowed

by the NAACP.

In February, 2008, Dr. Carson was presented with the Ford's Theatre Lincoln Medal by

President Bush at the White House.

In May 2008, Dr. Carson was the inaugural recipient of a professorship dedicated in

his name when he became the Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D. and Dr. Evelyn Spiro, R.N.

Professor of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins College of medicine.

In June, 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest civilian

honor in the land.

Dr. Carson was recognized in November, 2008 by U.S. News & World Report and by Harvard's

Center for Public Leadership as one of "America's Best Leaders."

On February 7, 2009, the award-winning movie entitled "Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story,"

based on Dr. Carson's memoirs and starring Cuban Gooding Junior , premiered on TNT.

Dr. Carson holds more than 60 honorary doctorate degrees and has received literally hundreds

of awards and citations.

He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, the Institute of Medicine/National

Academy of Science, the Horatio Alger Society of Distinguished Americans, and many other

organizations.

He sits on the board of directors of numerous entities, including Kellogg Company, Costco

Wholesale Corporation, the Academy of Achievement, and is an Emeritus Fellow of the Yale Corporation,

the governing body of Yale University.

He was appointed in 2004 by President George W. Bush to serve on the President's Council

on Bioethics.

He is a highly regarded speaker who has addressed various audiences from schools and civic groups

to corporations, and has spoken twice during the President's National Prayer Breakfast,

in 1997 and again in 2013.

Dr. Carson's first four books, "Gifted Hands", "THINK BIG", "The Big Picture"

and "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose and Live with Acceptable Risk" (January,

2008), provide inspiration and insight for leading a successful life; a fifth book, "America

The Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great", was released in early 2012

and made the New York Times Bestseller List in 2013.

His sixth book, "One Nation: What We Can All Do To Save America's Future" was released

on May 20, 2014 and has also made the New York Times Bestseller List.

Sonya Carson did her job well.

May she now rest in peace.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother – Abraham Lincoln.

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Host (Matthew Buffington): Welcome to the NISV podcast, this is episode 66. And sitting

with me again I have Abby. Abby, tell us about our guest today.

Abby Tabor: Hey, Matt. Today we're talking with Stevan Spremo. He works in the Chief

Engineers office here at Ames, and basically his job is to guide other engineers through

the development of hardware that's going to go into space, and carry life sciences

missions, for example. So Stevan started as an electrical engineering student at San Jose

State [University], but he knew he wanted to work with medical technologies or life

sciences, which is cool. And so he found the perfect role for that here. And he's worked

on cancer research that's flown on the space shuttle, and studying how plants grow in space,

and then coming right up in November, he has a new mission launching, it's a small sat

called EcAMSat, which he'll explain. But this one's very cool, it's about studying

how bacteria are resistant to our antibiotics, and whether that's worse in space, and how

it all works to make things better for astronaut health, and also for public health here on

Earth.

Host: It's always the thing I get a kick out of. Everybody thinks of NASA, they think

of rockets, they think of telescopes looking out. But there's a huge biology aspect.

And not just the astrobiology of looking out into the stars and trying to find life…

Abby Tabor: No, but here.

Host: …but understanding biology. And it's like this really neat overlap. Before we go

too far into it, just a reminder, if you want to give comments, participate, give any kind

of feedback, we have a phone number, it's 650-604-1400. But if you want to do it the

new hip way, we're using the hashtag #NASASiliconValley, we're on all the social media platforms

that you can think of. So without any further delay, here is Stevan Spremo.

[Music]

Host: Welcome, Stevan. [Laughs] So we always start this off the same way. Tell us a little

bit about yourself. How did you get to NASA? How did you get to Silicon Valley?

Stevan Spremo: Thanks for having me. I got to NASA – the story is when I was very young

in third grade, my brother and I were writing to NASA to try to get like public outreach-type

photos of the space shuttle or the planets and things like that. And we actually got

responses, which was really cool. So that gained my interest when I was really young.

And then through high school I had more interest as I learned chemistry and physics and went

through all my classes. And I just really had this desire to come work for NASA. I really

wanted to be an astronaut and went through college, and I got an internship in 1998 –

Host: Awesome. Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: – at NASA Ames here.

Host: Oh really. So were you already local so you already knew about Ames, or did you

come from somewhere else?

Stevan Spremo: Yeah, I'm local from the Bay Area here in the Silicon Valley. And I went

to San Jose State and was an electrical engineering student. And in 1998 I joined a group called

Sensors 2000. I was doing life sciences, biological sensors. So I was an electrical engineer,

and I had this focus that I wanted to combine electrical engineering with medical technology

or life sciences experiments. And I thought there was a real future to that. And it was

my future. And I started working on space experiments that included biological sensors,

so –

Host: Okay. So it was like – so as a kid you were like, this is NASA. This is what

I want to do. And then that kind of helped shape like what you studied.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah. I mean, I had this very specific focus of what I thought I needed

to study. So like in college I had the electrical engineering courses, but I took classes like

zoology and extra chemistry that biologists would take. So I really kind of started learning

the language of scientists as well. And basically my career has been listening to requirements

of scientists on what they need to study in space, and then I help design it.

Host: One of the things that Ames – bioscience studies, it's like the experiments, the science

experiments that actually go up into the International Space Station or went on the shuttle. So did

you already know that that was a thing that Ames was already doing, or is it just happened

to be that what you were interested in matched with what was already here?

Stevan Spremo: I had some knowledge that Ames was involved in life sciences. We had a friend

of the family that had been working on experiments at NASA. And so I did have some knowledge.

Host: You had the inside track. You knew what people were already doing, a little bit.

Stevan Spremo: A little bit, yeah.

Host: And then when you did internship, did you just like go online? Did you know somebody?

How did that work out for you?

Stevan Spremo: When I joined here, I did have someone who introduced me to the whole internship

program. But it wasn't like a direct in. So I interviewed with I think it was – I don't

have a count – but maybe like 15 managers.

Host: Really. That's –

Stevan Spremo: And so what happened is I kind of had this very specific goal or dream of

what I wanted to do. And they said, "Well, you really need to meet with this one specific

manager." And he was out on medical leave for a number of months. So what they kind

of did was interview me and see if there were a number of different positions onsite that

I would fit with. But then they kept saying, "You belong in the Sensors 2000 group." And

fortunately, they decided to take me on as an intern. And then they converted me to a

full-time civil servant later. And then I got my position.

So I was a co-op student, which is a civil servant student, while I was going to school

at San Jose State in electrical engineering.

Host: Yeah. Nowadays they've replaced it with what's called the Pathways program. But before

it was like they had different variations of co-op where people would be able to go

to school and also work at the same time, or some mix of that, and then basically get

into the civil service afterwards.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah. That's – I started out as a civil servant from day one as a student.

So all that time counted towards my –

Host: Oh that's awesome.

Stevan Spremo: – retirement and all those things. So we were getting those benefits

first – civil service.

Host: So when you come on while you're working in this group, what is some of the stuff that

you're working on initially?

Stevan Spremo: So I worked on these electrochemical sensors. When I came to NASA, I was actually

starting to run a wet chemistry lab, which was a little unusual being an electrical engineering

student.

Host: I was going say, yeah.

Stevan Spremo: And so what I was building was electrochemical sensors to measure metabolic

changes for cancer cells that are growing. So we look at pH changes in cancer cells.

And the whole system that we were working on was an automated system that would sustain

life for C6 neuroblastoma cells, brain cancer cells.

Host: Okay [laughs]. I was like thank you for clarifying [laughs].

Stevan Spremo: And so we were – the idea is to fly this up on the space shuttle on

STS-93, which was a Columbia mission. In 1999 it launched. And we worked with the Army,

Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. And the sensors were direct inline measurements

with the cells. And so, as in microgravity environment changed, we were looking to see

if cancer grew differently in space. And so the sensors I developed, I built like 150

sensors, and I think 16 of them flew to space –

Host: Oh wow.

Stevan Spremo: – and made these detections. So we had spares and extras in selecting the

best of the group. But they were from scratch. We literally built them a hundred percent

in the lab and then interfaced them with an electrical system that read it out, stored

it, and then we retrieved the data when it came back from space.

Host: Crazy. Because like oftentimes when you think of like, cancer research, NASA isn't

the first thing that pops into your brain. So – but in the end, it's like understanding

how things grow with little to no gravity helps you to better understand how those things

operate. And as you can understand them, you can better fight them or cure them or move

them along.

Stevan Spremo: Right. Yeah. It was kind of an amazing opportunity to merge technologies

and then benefit this cancer research, so –

Host: And so even thinking about those sensors, I'm trying to think. So what does that exactly

look like? Is it like a petri dish or some thing with the actual cells in it, and then

you have your sensors that like kind of read it? What kind of changes are you looking at?

Stevan Spremo: So there were fluidic loops, so it was called Biona-C. And there'd be hollow

fiber bioreactors that would grow the cells. And then there were media that was fed to

the cells so it sustained life. And that would circulate through with a pump. And then from

time to time we would take measurements or draws of fluid off from the sample where the

bioreactor was, measure the H+ ion content or pH, and then read that out to a circuit

card, and then store the data.

And then we'd see trends to see how things were growing in space versus on the ground.

So we had the identical system on the ground as we did in space, looking for a difference

in any kind of metabolic activity. Do the cells do something different in space or not?

And so that was the experiment. And it was kind of a technology demonstration. The Army

was also interested for their own aspects of research, too.

Host: So moving along from your work, then what did that eventually move into, what other

things did you work on until you landed where you are now?

Stevan Spremo: Right. So the next experiment I worked on was a space station experiment.

It was called European Modular Cultivation System.

Host: Okay, and [laughs]. You can – yes, tell me about that [laughs].

Stevan Spremo: So that EMCS was a – it's a centrifuge system that's up on space station

right now. And we designed some cartridges that basically plug into that system. And

we were growing plants – plant seedlings – in space, so

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: – we were studying Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings, in which we were doing

a phototropic response.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: And so basically, we would induce light and shine light on these while

we were rotating it one-third gravity levels, which is the equivalent of Mars – would

be the equivalent of Mars, one-sixth g which is equivalent of the Moon. And then microgravity

levels, basically looking at how plants grow in space. There're basically photoreceptors

on plants that activate different responses. And because in microgravity the plants grow

more in a tangled ball or confused state.

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: They don't grow as well. So we were studying how do we, engineering-wise,

alter that by having light affect these photoreceptors. And actually we can change how the roots actually

grow –

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: – and how the green, leafy portion or cotyledon portion would also grow.

And with the altered state, we look at the RNA analysis for the genetic aspects, of what

was going on, to study how to go to the Moon and Mars eventually. So that was another experiment

I worked on. I specifically worked on the optics to make sure that the light was basically

equally being distributed across –

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: – all the plants, and a number of other circuit-based designs that were supporting

that. And then also making sure it's biocompatible, because when you lock everything in a chamber

there're other gasses or volatiles that come off from the circuit boards or other things.

Host: All variations.

Stevan Spremo: And it can cause the biology to die.

Host: To – oh.

Stevan Spremo: And so we had to do other things to actually make sure that the air inside

the chamber was basically clean enough that it wouldn't extend the life of these systems.

Host: And I guess that makes sense because if you think of plants, which have evolved

over millions of years with gravity pulling down on them, and then just seeing how once

you remove that gravity, you change it to the Earth or Moon, different levels, I mean,

it helps us to understand if we're planning on eventually going to Mars and doing things

that – to understand how those plants react. But that's smart of thinking, like you've

seen plants move to get closer to the sunlight. They kind of grow in those ways. So using

that to manipulate it to change the way it grows is pretty neat.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah. So there're two responses that we were studying: There's gravitropic

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: – and phototropic. So the light, I guess, from what the botanists are

telling me, there's a photoreceptor. And we were studying putting blue light and red light

on the roots. And actually you can make them go away or toward those lights.

Host: Really. You can help control them.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah. So that – in addition to the white light that's –

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: – kind of making the green, leafy portion, assimilating the sun. And also

the roots actually do very specific things with light as well.

Host: No, I get a kick out of it because typically when people think of NASA, you think of rockets

and astronauts. But at the same time, it's like, yay, you're in space, or you're on the

Moon, or you're on Mars. At the end of the day, what are you going to do there?

Stevan Spremo: Yeah.

Host: So this is what these science experiments – there're questions, there're hypotheses

to figure out, okay, what can we learn by being in these places that we can't learn

from Earth, and kind of working out those theories. So what are you working on now?

What's kind of like your day job?

Stevan Spremo: So I'm in the Chief Engineer's office here –

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: – at NASA Ames, which there's a number of things I do in that role. I've

been at NASA 18 years now, and I get called in if there's maybe a problem on –

Host: Mm-hmm.

Stevan Spremo: – hardware development that can't be figured out, or there was a mishap,

something went wrong. I'm trying to figure out lessons learned, like why did we have

something go wrong in the first place and identifying root cause. So also there's a

number of standards and procedures, like it's almost like a prescription. Before you start

a project, like how do you formulate it to, I don't know, it's not to guarantee success,

but to increase chances of success.

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: So that's kind of my role is to work with engineers and guide them and

put some, I guess, milestones or gates to do checks.

Host: A checklist, of sorts.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah, it's like the equivalent of a checklist to make sure that you've completed

a number of tasks that would help in the reliability of a system.

Host: Well, you figure if something's going to go wrong, you'd rather it go wrong here

at Ames where you're like – you're working on experiments. Like [you'd] rather that it

go wrong here while we're practicing as opposed to while it's in space. So it's kind of, learn

some of those lessons.

Stevan Spremo: Right. Absolutely. So we take things to the test chambers here - the vacuum

chamber or the vibration shake table. And we simulate all the things that might go on

in space to try to basically mitigate – or make sure that doesn't happen in space, so

an astronaut is not experiencing a piece of gear that is failing for any reason. So yes,

that's kind of what –

Host: [Laughs] Tested in advance. "That's kind of what I do."

Stevan Spremo: Yeah.

Host: Because I always think about it of not only being in space or surviving like the

vacuum or harsh conditions, but it's like you've also got to survive a rocket launch

so that with the very intense moments where you don't want your science experiment to

fall apart [laughs] on its way up.

Stevan Spremo: Right. There're basically 10 to 15 minutes that it's a pretty harsh environment

going up and through different stages of the mission of firing a rocket engine. There're

vibrations and there're other environmental effects.

Host: Acoustics.

Stevan Spremo: Acoustics, and absolutely. And just the change to vacuum as well once

you get in the vacuum of space and the thermal extremes, and so after you're past that launch

phase. But yeah, there're a number of environments we test for, yes. So –

Host: So okay. So now I've heard of one of the things that you're working on called EcAMSat.

So that sounds like a fancy acronym.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah.

Host: Tell us a little bit about what that is.

Stevan Spremo: So it's – EcAMSat stands for E-coli Antimicrobial Satellite.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: And so what we're studying on this -- it's a CubeSat. So it's a 6U spacecraft.

6U is like a standard – it's basically roughly a shoebox size –

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: – like a large shoebox.

Host: Or a loaf of bread or something. It kind of –

Stevan Spremo: Yeah, this particular one is kind of like two loaves of bread –

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: – in size as a good comparison. And we're studying antibiotic resistance in

space, which is –

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: – a really big problem on the ground, as well as may impact future travel

for astronauts in the future. And what we are finding out through a number of other

experiments that have gone up – and this will help validate what we're learning – is

that E. coli or yeast or a number of bacteria are more virulent in space. They actually

grow at a rapid pace.

Host: Oh really. They're like stronger in space.

Stevan Spremo: They're stronger.

Host: Oh wow.

Stevan Spremo: And the effects are – this was an unexpected –

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: – outcome. And so there's a parallel between the ground and what we

live – are experiencing on the Earth, antibiotic resistance, and trying to figure out what

mechanism's causing that in space.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: So EcAMSat is going into a microgravity environment, taking a 48-well

plate microfluidics array. Basically each one of those –

Host: Okay, yeah.

Stevan Spremo: So it's a fluidics card that has milliliters in scale –

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: – of fluid going through it. So imagine – the best way I've been

able to explain the volume of each one of these little cells is like an eraser head.

So imagine 48 eraser head, like a pencil eraser, worth of volume on a card. And we flow through

different antibiotic strains. So we grow up the cells. So we put it in hibernation before

launch.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: And it sits on the pad. It's in hibernation. We get up to space –

Host: It launches. It goes to the space station.

Stevan Spremo: And then when it gets up to space, it has a deployer, a dispenser.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: And then a door opens. There's a container it rides up in. And after the

primary satellite is gone and we can do no harm to it, the doors open and we eject this

out with a spring pusher foot.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: And then it kind of has a tumbling effect.

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: And it has – it's got a passive system to align with a magnetic field and

knoll out this and stabilize.

Host: Figure out where it is

Stevan Spremo: And that takes about four days. After we're stable and the microgravity environment

is the best that it can be, the experiment starts. And for 150 hours we go through a

number of events. And we feed the cells. They grow up to what we say stationary phase. And

they've eaten all the sugars that we feed them –

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: – is basically what happens. And then we have an optical detector that

shines light through – red, green, blue. And the absorbance pattern is noticed on a

photodetector below it.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: So we shine through the card and are able to look at how things are growing

and see trends.

Host: Okay. So that's how you know.

Stevan Spremo: And between the different color metric measurements, we can tell trends. And

there're things that happen in red, maybe not in blue.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: And so we calibrate that way. The other thing we do then is we administer

antibiotic and stress the cells out.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: So different concentrations, there's a response, okay? So you're building

the antibiotic resistance response. And in microgravity, there's a wild type and a mutant

we're studying. And the principal investigator is looking at this – the scientist looking

at this, Dr. A. C. Matin at Stanford [University], his hypothesis is that the two – the wild

type and the mutant strains will stress at a different response rate.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: And then we can look at that and try to get the genetic marker to kind

of explain what's going on, why things are becoming more resistant.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: And then we basically look at the trend after that, administering something

called alamarBlue.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: And alamarBlue is like a dye that it kind of changes color as the cells

metabolize. So we can look at trends and curves of how the cells continue to live on and the

way they intersect. And the graphs or the curve fit of the trends will tell us if, in

comparison with the same exact experiment on the ground, if the space environment is

responsible for doing something different –

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: – like microgravity or radiation versus a 1 g environment on the ground.

Host: Yeah. It's crazy because you think, obviously, as we look at like human exploration

or having people in the Space Station, it behooves us to understand how [laughs] bacteria

or E. coli, how things grow differently in microgravity. And having all of this, just

seeing all the differences and understanding that better can then prevent or just – it's

not like only could it have benefits for us here on the Earth, but also help for that

further exploration as well.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah, the idea here is this is decade – what we call decadal science.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: So it's a decadal survey of what we need to do further space exploration.

Host: Oh, okay.

Stevan Spremo: So this supports astronaut health for long-duration exploration missions.

So we have to understand this as kind of a keyway to the future.

Host: Yes.

Stevan Spremo: How would we administer antibiotics to an astronaut is really what the question

is here. But there's a secondary purpose on the ground is, are we going to discover something

in space that could help antibiotic resistance issues on the ground. And that's becoming

a really large problem for terrestrial or Earth aspects of antibiotics.

Host: I like whenever they're talking about the International Space Station, they always

say, "Working off of the Earth, for the Earth," because this all has benefits not only for

going on the way to Mars – and this is – you're talking about checklists before. This is one

of those things you need to understand before doing that journey to Mars. But then the side

effects can be finding out how to solve other problems here on Earth as well.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah, absolutely. In this case, we might need to have the astronauts having

a dosing of like four, five, 10 times whatever the amount is. But also if we find a pathway

of how antibiotic resistance, what the mechanism is, that's something that might be a game-changer.

One thing I didn't mention is after the experiment's done –

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: – we store all this data, and then we telemeter that back down to Earth.

Host: I was going to say. So the SmallSat hitches a ride on a rocket where somebody

else has paid more money to go [laughs]. Once that goes off, it's safe, you launch yours

– start that science experiment. And yeah, is it just they – sends that data back to

you guys here.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah. So we have a great program that basically we work with Santa Clara University,

and they have a ground station. And we have two antennas on our system. And what happens

is the electronics store the data as we're going through the experiment – all this

light measurement and –

Host: And you're controlling all that from the ground. It's up there? Or is it automated

now?

Stevan Spremo: It's actually automated.

Host: Oh wow.

Stevan Spremo: It will run on its own. And then we call it and ask for requests for the

data through –

Host: [Laughs] Okay.

Stevan Spremo: – Santa Clara University. And it's a great outreach thing because the

students there are operating the satellite for us.

Host: Oh, that's awesome.

Stevan Spremo: And they retrieve the data and deliver it to NASA. So it's rough – it's

not a lot of data. It's like a megabyte of data –

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: – for the whole mission. It takes about two months through the orbits

and everything that we do to get that small amount of data. We don't have – this comparatively

to the LADEE mission I worked on –

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: – we had major breakthrough on laser communications.

Host: And that went to the Moon.

Stevan Spremo: That went to the Moon. And that had 622 megabit-per-second download rate

Host: Oh wow.

Stevan Spremo: – from the Moon per second.

Host: [Laughs]

Stevan Spremo: So it was like a DVD a second versus this.

Host: It's smaller, but –

Stevan Spremo: It's smaller, but you don't need that much horsepower to this because

the data file's not very big.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: So it's scalable. And what a CubeSat does is pretty interesting because

it only operates off three to 10 watts of power.

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: If you think about your old incandescent lightbulb that you grew up with

in probably your house or – this is a fraction of that –

Host: Yeah.

Stevan Spremo: – what it's consuming, and doing all these tasks and reporting home and

delivering a whole experiment that's been automated. And I always find that aspect really

amazing.

Host: Like being more compact, being easier, being like a small sat, using that CubeSat

kind of like modules, it makes it cheaper. It's easier to do. If something goes wrong,

it's like I'm sure replacing it isn't the end of the world.

Stevan Spremo: The other thing that I didn't mention earlier is the temperature requirements.

We maintain –

Host: Oh yeah.

Stevan Spremo: – this – we have to simulate the body's temperature. And so –

Host: And you're doing that in space [laughs].

Stevan Spremo: Doing it in space. So 37 degrees Centigrade is normal human body temperature.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: So we're simulating that. If we go above that, we'll simulate a fever and

ruin the experiment and kill off the E. coli.

Host: And how do you get that temperature while on the satellite that's in space where

it's pretty cold, as I understand?

Stevan Spremo: Right. So we designed this so orbit after orbit, it's capable of maintaining

37 degrees plus or minus a half degree Centigrade.

Host: That's crazy.

Stevan Spremo: So we have looked at models, and we model this to – basically dynamically

every orbit – maintain its temperature. We do models that are upwards of 650,000 calculations

to look at all the situations that thermally it's still stable. And so that's really an

engineering feat that this system –

Host: Oh, crazy.

Stevan Spremo: – is maintaining. And as a CubeSat, being low-cost, and we're still

achieving this requirement is kind of amazing. It's taking a lab up to space and –

Host: Uh-huh. Like a mini-lab. Automated, too.

Stevan Spremo: Right. It's automated. I think another thing I didn't mention is that we

take a little canister that's got one atmosphere. It's got lab air in it.

Host: Okay.

Stevan Spremo: So that's something the cells also need to have to simulate the environment,

so –

Host: And after the experiment's run its course, you've got all your data. Then it just burns

up in the atmosphere? Or how does that work?

Stevan Spremo: Yeah. Since it's a low-Earth orbit system, we maintain orbits generally

that are less than 25 years in life. And then just natural decay of atmospheric drag around

the Earth, it will eventually pull down into the Earth's atmosphere and literally vaporize.

Host: Vaporize.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah.

Host: So I can imagine somebody thinking, "You're sending E. coli into space! What if

this crashes on my house?" It's like, "No, it's never to get even close to that. It'll

get burned up and vaporized long before you even know it."

Stevan Spremo: Yeah, so we get that reaction a lot.

Host: [Laughs]

Stevan Spremo: "What are you doing sending E. coli up to space? Is this a dangerous thing?"

And –

Host: You probably have more in your bathroom [laughs] or on the doorknobs than you do in

this –

Stevan Spremo: The particular strain we were sending up, it's a common strain that actually

people are treated for regularly.

Host: Okay, okay.

Stevan Spremo: So antibiotics and everything are regularly given to patients on Earth for

this particular strain we're studying.

Host: This is pretty – it's a normal one. People can calm down. Anyway, it's going to

burn up in the atmosphere.

Stevan Spremo: Yeah, it's going to – it's never going to reach back down to the Earth,

yeah.

Host: Anybody who's got questions for Stevan, we are using Twitter, so we're @NASAAmes,

and we are using the hashtag #NASASiliconValley. So if anybody has questions, we'll just push

them on over to you [laughs] and he'll respond.

Stevan Spremo: I'll be glad to respond to anybody's questions.

Host: Excellent. Well, thanks for coming over.

Stevan Spremo: All right. Thank you.

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🙏 Walk by faith when your prayer is unanswered | Genesis 7:1-11 - Duration: 6:24.

(Music plays)

Hey everyone, I'm Rachel and today on Crack Your Bible I am actually at

my gym, outside by the pool.

That's what the light on my face is.

I'm like sitting by the water.

I needed some fresh air because I've been cooped up sick, but um, anyway what I wanted

to talk about was Genesis 7.

So, when Noah was 480 years old, God tells him, you know, "you're righteous and I'm going

to destroy the entire earth because they are so wicked and evil."

And He tells Noah to build an ark.

(Genesis 6:17-18 on screen.)

And we see that Noah acts in faith and he does what God tells him to do.

And that in and of itself is a big undertaking.

He has to become a master ship builder, he has to source all of these products to build

a boat and he does it for 120 years, just like God tells him He's going to do.

(Genesis 7:2-3 on screen.)

Afterwards, you see that God says that He wants pairs of animals on the ark, so He takes

a pair, a mating pair of every unclean animal and 7 pairs of every clean animal and He brings

them to Noah.

And that's a big thing - is that, if God wants you to do something, not only do you need

to do your part, where it's like, if God tells you to do something, you need to do it.

But, if God wants something done, He'll also do His part.

And one of those things is He wants the animals safe.

So God brings the animals to Noah.

It's not that Noah is having to source all of these animals and find suitable pairs,

God brings them to Noah.

So when we question, you know, "How did all of the animals get to Noah?"

Well, God brought them to Noah.

(Genesis 7:11 on screen.)

So when Noah was 600 years old, it says that all of the springs from the deep burst forth

and rain fell from the heavens This week, I want to show some evidence, where it shows

that springs from the deep did burst forth and that is how we get geological formations

like mountains, all over the earth today.

Now God says that His creation cries out and shows that there is a creator.

We see the signature of His hand all over the face of the earth.

So when people say, "how is there a God?"

Well, we can look around us all of the time and see God's creation.

And when I drive through Las Vegas, because Las Vegas is situated in a basin, I see God's

handiwork all around us.

And I see evidence of the flood all around us.

And these springs from the deep, when they burst forth, they shot earth and the layers

of the earth up in a violent manner.

And you can see that and later this week I'm definitely going to show you guys some evidence

of that from when I was in Colorado.

How we can trust what the Bible says and some of the scientific backing behind it.

I think it's really important to notice that Noah was acting in faith for more than 120

years.

He got his family completely involved - his wife, his sons and his 3 daughter-in-laws.

And I'm just wondering like, "do we, like, do I, have that kind of faith where for 120

years I'm just working towards the goal that I'm not really sure is going to come into

fruition?"

Like, would I have the ability to trust in God and do what He says.

Spend the money and the time and the effort and like, my life's mission to act in faith

on a promise that God has made?

Do I think that I could be like Noah?

And I want to say "yeah" because you know, we're all acting in faith that what God said

is true and that He's coming back.

And, that certain things are going to happen in the last days and I think Noah probably

feels the same way that we do.

But, he was righteous and he was faithful and he saw the signs, he listened to God and

he acted out in faith with what God told him to do.

And, I hope that all of us can be like that.

Like, when the going gets tough and when things seem like they're hopeless, and it's just

like... "what is the point in all of this?"

And you know, we're not acting like everybody else is in the world, so we're different and

we're set apart, and maybe we're looked down upon.

I hope that we can kind of draw on the strength that Noah had, knowing that God is a good

God, God always takes care of us and God always will do what He says that He's going to do.

So if God says He's going to destroy the earth, He's going to destroy the earth and if God

says He's coming back for us, He's coming back for us.

So, when you do your part, when you do what God tells you to do, God does His part, He

brings the animals and He will save you.

So I just want to encourage you that you know what?

Things in this life may be difficult, and we might not be the popular crowd in the world

today, but just remember, God is coming back and He's going to do what He says He's going

to do - which is to save us.

So anyway, I will see you on Wednesday, and I will talk to you later.

Bye!

(Music plays.)

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Lidocaine & Magnesium IV Update For Chronic Pain [CC] // aGirlWithLyme - Duration: 13:06.

[Intro Music. Vincent Tone - New Summits]

Hey guys, in today's video I am going to give you an update on how the Lidocaine is going.

I have made many videos vlogging my experience with the Lidocaine and

magnesium IVs, so I will leave a playlist to those in the description for you. I

have been getting a monthly IVs of Lidocaine and Magnesium for my Chronic

Pain for about a year now. For those who don't know Lidocaine is a numbing agent

it's typically used as topical creams to numb the skin but it can also be used in

injections, and also IVs. It works by blocking pain receptors, numbing them, and

therefore you experience less pain. Before getting the Lidocaine for the

first time I was in severe Chronic Pain every day. My daily pain level would be

anywhere from a 6 to a 7, there was never a time when I went below that. Most

days it was a challenge for me to get out of bed, to walk, to walk up and down the

stairs, to stand - you name it, it was difficult, and it was very painful. I was

in so much pain, like, being in constant like, level 8 pain daily was really

difficult, I broke down and cried about how much pain I was in about once a

week, it was that bad. I was, I was desperate to find something that would

help my pain, so I finally got in to see my Chronic Pain Doctor and I started

doing the Lidocaine IVs. Getting the Lidocaine IVs has definitely

helped me. It's not a miracle drug for me, but it does make my pain much more

tolerable, and a lot more manageable. I get my Lidocaine IVs about once every

three weeks, the IV costs for me around $30, and the IV for me takes about an

hour and half long. Now, my body is very sensitive to medications and my body

reacts to the Lidocaine in a very non typical way. Most of the time when people

get a IV of Magnesium and Lidocaine they end up falling right asleep, they wake

up, and they're a bit groggy, and a bit tired, and they may need someone to drive

them home. But for me, when I get this done it's the complete opposite, so just keep

in mind that if you get this IV done or you're going to get it done, you may not

react in the same way that I reacted. When I get my IV done I become very, very

nauseated. There have been times where I haven't taken anything for my nausea

beforehand, and I was on the verge of puking throughout the entire IV, I'd have

to have a trash can by the bed while getting IV, just in case I'd throw up. I would

have to go to the bathroom a lot, thinking I was going to throw up.

Um but yeah. Now I have learned that I need to take Zofran before I get an IV

done, otherwise I will be extremely and severely nauseated.

During the IV, I also become kind of loopy, and I kind of feel like I'm a bit high

on it too, even though this drug does not make you high, and that's just how I feel.

I feel either high or a bit drunk, it's a very weird feeling. When I get it done

that's how I feel, and everything just feels kind of distant and your

not there, it's a bit weird. During this IV I can also end up feeling very weak,

very fatigued, and my body will start to shake. After the IV is over - if I'm able

to make it through the IV, sometimes with the nausea I have had to cut the IV

short, because the nausea was so bad from the Lidocaine.

After the IV, my stomach usually feels quite lank, and I will end up burping up

the lidocaine quite a bit, and I almost always get a migraine after I get the

lidocaine done. As soon as I get home I try to eat something because it feels

very uncomfortable not having anything in my stomach after having the Lidocaine,

and then I'll go straight to bed. By the time I get home usually I'm in a lot of

pain, my muscles are very tired, they're very sore, they ache, they hurt - it kind of

feels like you have the flu, or you just really, really overdid it. Over the next

few days after having the Lidocaine done, my muscles and joints, and

everything else, will feel very stiff, this is the Lidocaine kind of

settling in and trying to take effect, so that is quite normal to experience. And

it does take quite a while for the Lidocaine to take effect for me, um it takes

about a week- anywhere's from seven to ten days before I end up experiencing any

significant pain relief from the Lidocaine. But the more you get the Lidocaine

IV done, then the more consistent pain relief you

are going to get. So now that I've been getting IVs of lidocaine and Magnesium

for about a year now I'm better able to understand what it has and hasn't

helped with. The first thing that it's helped with is my pain levels. My daily pain

levels has significantly lowered, um, before when I didn't have the Lidocaine I would

wake up and I'd be in so much pain that I could hardly walk, I could hardly move

out of the bed. Um it would probably be about a six when I wake up. Now

when I wake up I'd say it's about probably anywhere between a 4 and a 5, so

it's significantly lowered, and of course it always depends on the day. But usually

my daily pain level will stay anywheres between a five and a six, and if I'm

having really bad pain that day, or I did too much, then usually in the evenings I

will have a seven. So it's really only on the very bad days where I will wake up

and be in a seven or eight pain, throughout the entire day, so those days

are significantly lowered - which is fantastic! But even with the pain relief

from the Lidocaine, it is still quite difficult for me to do anything physical.

I still very much struggle to clean and do chores, because as soon as I start to

do anything that is too physical I will put myself in a lot of pain, and I really

don't like being in pain, if I can control my pain enough that it's

tolerable then that's perfect, but if I end up putting myself in too much pain

especially later in the day, it's very hard for me to sleep at night. So I'm

usually in the least amount of pain when I wake up in the morning, and usually in the most

pain come evening and night, which isn't really great for sleep. Um, even still with

the Lidocaine I really struggle to get asleep because of my pain, my pain is

always worse at night and that really hasn't changed with the Lidocaine. Most

nights I still have to take a Toradol before I go to sleep, I have to put

creams all over my body to help the pain, and it's still very difficult for me to

get comfortable in bed, and to kind of try to sleep because my body kept me in

a lot of pain. I also find that I am getting a lot more migraines now, I don't

know if this is because of the Lidocaine, or I'm just more susceptible to migraines,

um, I do believe migraines can be hereditary -

my mother she suffers with daily Chronic Migraines, and probably almost every

single day for the past month or two I've had a migraine to some degree at

some point in the day, like it'll either come in the morning, or come at night and

then it'll leave or come back the next day. it's very, very low but it's still

there. Now that my pain has become a lot more manageable and tolerable some of my

other symptoms have been giving me some problems. I find with lowered pain

levels it really amps up my other symptoms which were more suppressed

because I was in so much pain, but now that I'm in a lower state of

pain I find that I have a lot more fatigue, and I have a lot more weakness,

and I get exhausted very easily. So because of this I still can't really do

too much physical things with the pain - I'm fatigued, I'm weak. I spend

a lot of time on my computer editing videos, and writing scripts and then

still I really struggle with fatigue, it hits me

usually midday for me, so probably around anywhere from 3 o'clock 6 I'm very tired

and I could go and take a nap but I don't ever let myself take a nap during

the day, I'll lie down but I won't sleep. So usually with this fatigue I will stop

myself, take a break, and lay down, and then later on in the night when I want

to get more work done I usually have to push through the pain

in order to get work done. When I go shopping I still use a wheelchair. I

don't always use a wheelchair especially if it's just a short walk in the stores,

usually depends on the day, and how much pain I am in, but when I do go anywhere

- like a wildlife park, or like the air show - I had a vlog on that - I always

have to use a wheelchair for those because I still can't walk those big

distances. And if I do go to the stores and I don't use a wheelchair walking

does put me in a significant amount of pain, and it really depletes my energy. So

the Lidocaine really hasn't improved my mobility much. I really hoped that the

Lidocaine would have improved my mobility enough for me to be able to do

some more chores around the house, and more cleaning, some more physical things -

but sadly for me it really hasn't helped with that, it's just my pain levels are

lower but as soon as I do anything they spike. And like I said the Lidocaine for me,

um, it's not a miracle drug - it's not you get it, and then the next day you're in

no pain. I'm still in pain every day. And I do go through a lot of nausea just to

get the IV, but I think having my pain levels lowered to the point where I'm

better able to manage my pain, control it, and tolerate it, then I think going

through an hour and a half of severe nausea is kind of worth it in the long

run. I am quite happy that I'm not struggling with pain every day the way

that I had this time last year. I am still absolutely in pain but like I said

I'm no longer in a severe amount of pain, I'm no longer breaking down and crying

every week because I'm in so much pain, and I am no longer getting weekly

shots of toradol in my butt. Um, when the pain was very severe, and very bad I

would have to go and get shots of Toradol nearly every week because I couldn't

deal with the pain, so it's things like that that just you know, it improves your

quality of life. And certainly compared to last year in terms of pain, my quality

of life is much better than last, um while I'm still quite limited in what I

can and can't do, I'm not as restricted in what I can and can't do compared to

last year, and I don't feel like I'm being tortured every day which is pretty

good feeling. So I am going to be continuing doing the Lidocaine IVs for

as long as it stops working for me, which I really hope that it does not

stop working for me, because it does work quite well for me. So I hope you guys enjoyed this

video. I do want to make a video on how I manage my Chronic Pain, and what I do for

my Chronic Pain, so if you would want to see a video on that just let me know in

the comments below and I'll be sure to add it to my list a videos to make. Thank

you for watching this video, please be sure to give it a thumbs up, subscribe if

you're new. Please be sure to hit the notification button down below to get

notified when I upload new videos. All my social media links will be in the

description below, and I hope to see you guys next time, bye!

[Outro Music. Vincent Tone - New Summits]

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How to Pronounce QUESTION - American English Pronunciation Lesson - Duration: 1:38.

hi everyone this is Jennifer from Tarle speech with your question of the week

today's question is how do I pronounce the word question I think this word

really confuses people because of the spelling so here's a tip when you see

the letters Q and you together in a word we pronounce it K W kw kw so if we

break this word down we're going to say the first syllable

kwes and then end with chun question question yes we typically say shun but

we're not going to say kwes-shun here it's going kwes chin we're gonna

do that with a CH sound and you're going to do that by touching the tip of your

tongue to the back of your top front teeth and then pulling it back a little

bit so two parts again kwes chun question question question let's give that a try

three times question question question if you have any questions please leave

them in the comment section below give it a try I know people are going to

notice the difference if you found this helpful please share it with a friend

and give us a like below don't forget to subscribe so you never miss a video and

if you have any questions or need more information visit us at Tarle speech

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