CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY....
"Our orders were to keep our head down and eat fast. The head cook (a army
Sergeant or Sergeant First Class) wore a dirty apron and surveyed his mess hall
domain and all at once...." I looked up, the cook saw me and said perhaps "you
trainee, you've got KP" (Kitchen Police?)." If I remember correctly, I was given
two days of mostly peeling potatoes and cleaning up the kitchen and the mess
hall where we ate.
They did not have an automatic potato peeling machine like they do today
and food is almost always prepared and served cafeteria style by caterers
who submit bids to the military hoping for the contract for serving food to the
soldiers.
Another thing I remember is that the drill sergeant slept in a private room at
the end of the hall. We trainees slept in the same barracks in double bunks
with a foot locker for our military clothing stack and folded according to a
diagram.
At about 4:00 AM in the morning the door to the drill sergeant's door opened
and....
TO BE CONTINUED....
WORLD
I received another postcard yesterday as a member of postcrossing.com.
The sender was from Germany and the postcard displayed a beautiful picture
of the architecture of buildings in the background and canals and/or rivers in
the foreground. And two stamps on the back that are replicas of the picture.
And thanks again to the sender.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Germany
Country in Europe
Germany is a Western European country with a landscape of forests, rivers,
mountain ranges and North Sea beaches. It has over 2 millennia of history.
Berlin, its capital, is home to art and nightlife scenes, the Brandenburg Gate
and many sites relating to WWII. Munich is known for its Oktoberfest and
beer halls, including the 16th-century Hofbräuhaus. Frankfurt, with its
skyscrapers, houses the European Central Bank.
Capital: Berlin
Dialing code: +49
Population: 80.62 million (2013) World Bank
President: Joachim Gauck
Chancellor: Angela Merkel
I like Germany because I'm suppose to be full German with the last name of
Caricofe and Mother's maiden name of Cline.
And I'm not going to order one of those DNA tests that's advertised on TV to tell if
I have a different bloodline.
Period.
And someone told me recently that Caricofe was Russian and you know there're
lying like a politician.
HEALTH
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"People are forced to take more medications to counter the reactions to the
medications they are taking."
Forrest Caricofe
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the reactions to the medications they are taking."
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"If you do for yourself instead of others doing it for you, you will always get the
exercise of doing it."
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"Some people have heart attacks or worse who get emotionally involved in
watching sports , but if they acted like me who goes to bed about 8:30 PM
and gets up at about 4:00 AM and Googles the final score in the morning,
they would sure not have a problem."
Forrest Caricofe
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SPORTS
The Ceveland Caveliers basketball team who their Campionship will
are also playing at the Quicken Loans Arena (sometimes called the Q) in
Cleveland and when finished they will travel thru an underground tunnel to
Progressive Field to watch the game.
Play by play until my bedtime at 8:30 PM.
Hunter Hayes sings the National Anthem (7:59 PM 11/1/2016 EDT)
TV World Series just starting Temperature 71 degrees
Progressive Field
First pitch (8:10 PM 11/1/2016 EDT)
Home run Cubs (8:16 PM 11/1/2016 EDT) 1-0 Cubs
Cubs 3-0 (8:24 PM 11/1/2016 EDT)
It's morning and I'm awake.
Google news Cubs 9 Indians 3
Game 7 tonight. The winner will be the World Series Champions.
The Indians have not won a World Series for 68 years. I was 6 years old at the
time and don't remember that.
The Cubs have not won a World Series in 108 years and I don't know of
anyone in the family tree that has remembered that.
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"Kids whose parents want them to be politicians are already teaching them
how to lie."
Forrest Caricofe
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US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
BBC News
BBC Poll of Polls
Yesterday Nov 1 Clinton 49% Trump 46%
Today Nov 2 Clinton 48% Trump 46%
Last updated November 2
Election day November 8
Six days and counting.
from investopedia.com
What is 'Brexit'
"Brexit is an abbreviation for "British exit," which refers to the June 23, 2016,
referendum whereby British citizens voted to exit the European Union. The
referendum roiled global markets, including currencies, causing the British
pound to fall to its lowest level in decades. Prime Minister David Cameron,
who supported the United Kingdom remaining in the European Union,
resigned on July 13 as a result. Home Secretary Theresa May, leader of the
Conservative Party, became Prime Minister."
Can Trump pull off a Brexit-style upset?
By Brian Wheeler
BBC News, Washington DC
30 October 2016
From the section Magazine
"Republican nominee Donald Trump has vowed to pull off "Brexit times five"
in the US presidential elections. Could he do it?
Millions of Britons switched off their TVs and went to bed late on Thursday 23
June in the fairly confident belief that, for better or worse, nothing was going to
change.
They awoke to pictures of UKIP leader Nigel Farage telling ecstatic supporters
that the "dawn is breaking on an independent United Kingdom".
Could America be in for a similar dawn surprise on the morning of 9 November?
The polls say no...
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has campaigned with Trump
At first glance, it does not look likely.
Donald Trump has been trailing Hillary Clinton in most national opinion polls
by between 3% and 10%.
That was before the FBI announced it was looking into new documents related
to its investigation of Clinton's emails. It remains to be seen how much of an
impact that news will have on voters.
Trump and his supporters point out that the polls were wrong about Brexit, but
it is a bit more complicated than that.
In fact, apart from an erroneous but fairly uniform late swing to Remain, the
polls were all over the place, sometimes putting the Leave campaign ahead,
sometimes Remain.
Interestingly, internet polls, with a few exceptions, were predicting a Leave
victory in the weeks leading up to the referendum, while those conducted over
the phone were pointing to a Remain win.
But the underlying assumption, among the political and media establishment,
was that the voters' natural caution would kick in and they would opt for the
status quo.
The bookmakers - whose views on such matters always carry more weight in
the UK - were in agreement.
And even the biggest cheerleaders for Brexit were talking down their chances
of victory. Within minutes of the polls closing on 23 June, Farage told a TV
reporter: "[It] looks like Remain will edge it."
...But faith in pollsters' methods has taken a knock....
Mobile phones can complicate polling
The Brexit result was a new reputational hit for the polling industry, which had
also got it wrong at the 2015 UK and Israeli general elections and in some 2016
US Democratic primaries. The pollsters have yet to figure out a way to fix things.
In the UK and the US companies are finding it increasingly difficult to capture
truly representative samples of voters.
It used to be possible to rely on randomly generated landline numbers but the
growth of mobile phones - and an increasing reluctance from the public to take
part in surveys - has made high-quality polling a difficult and expensive
business.
US laws restrict the use of auto-diallers, meaning interviewers have to dial
cell phone numbers by hand. It is not unusual to to have to dial 20,000 random
numbers just to complete a 1,000-person survey.
Cash-strapped media organisations are increasingly commissioning cheaper
internet polls, which are thought to be less accurate by some, even though they
appeared to be closer to the truth over Brexit.
One US polling company, IBD/TIPP, which samples an unusually high
proportion of cell phone users and claims to be among the most accurate out
there, was predicting a closer race than others before swinging towards
Clinton.
Ragavan Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, which runs
the IBD/TIPP poll, said recently the Brexit vote demonstrated the limits of the
"proprietary 'likely voter' models" most companies use to predict who will and
won't show up on election day.
He also highlighted the more traditional problem of voters not telling pollsters
what they really think, which may have been a factor in the Brexit vote: "Trump
supporters might have been cautious to report their preference given the
derision directed towards them by some elites in the media and elsewhere,
" he says. Gallup, one of the biggest names in polling, has simply thrown in
the towel, announcing it would not be predicting the winner of this year's
presidential election, after getting it wrong last time. It has opted instead to
concentrate on researching the issues.
Might non-voters vote?
The Leave campaign managed to mobilise an army of previous non-voters
Sweep away all of the speculation about polling methodology and you are
left with one inescapable fact about the Brexit vote.
Some 2.8 million people - about 6% of the electorate - who had not voted for
decades, if ever, turned up at polling stations on 23 June - and almost all of
them voted to leave the EU.
"It was more than enough to ensure we lost," writes Remain campaign chief
Sir Craig Oliver, in a new book.
"We should have done more to understand their concerns and persuade them
why leaving the EU would be bad for them."
The Remain campaign had listened to the experts, says Oliver, who had told
them that non-voters don't vote.
But the experts were wrong.
If this pattern was repeated at the US election, Trump would arguably be
looking good for the White House. Particularly if Democratic voters fail to
turn out in the sort of numbers they did for Obama in 2012.
Like the Clinton campaign, the Remainers put most emphasis on dire
warnings of a leap into the unknown.
But they had not counted on the depth of anger in working-class communities,
who, it appears, felt their views on immigration and globalisation had been
ignored for too long by what they regarded as a self-serving political elite.
Referendums and elections aren't the same
Referendum ballot paper
Some Brexit supporters - like some Trump supporters - were convinced that
the vote would be rigged by the powers-that-be. Some even urged their
friends on social media to bring pens to polling stations, in case the security
services tried to erase the pencil marks on the ballot papers.
Referendums are very different beasts to general elections, however. The
result does not hinge on the outcome of a few "battleground" or marginal
contests. Every vote has equal weight.
The Brexit referendum also had a far higher turnout, at 72%, than many are
expecting in the race for the White House, given the unpopularity of the two
main candidates.
But making predictions is a dangerous business at this most unusual of
elections.
"It's not in the bag"
Nate Silver, of the FiveThirtyEight blog, who famously predicted the correct
result in all 50 states at the 2012 US election, is more bullish about Trump's
prospects than most number-crunchers.
He suggests, in a recent post, that many pollsters have not factored enough
uncertainty into their models, particularly given the popularity of third-party
candidates and the high number of undecideds.
He still believes Clinton is "probably" going to be the next President of the
United States, but adds: "You shouldn't give up if you're a Trump supporter,
or assume you have it in the bag if you're voting for Clinton."
Traditionally, when desperate politicians are confronted with evidence of
their own unpopularity, they have mumbled something about the only poll
that matters being on election day.
This time it might actually be true."
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"The weather is like a rebellious child who does not obey their parents the
weather doing the same by not obeying the desires of the people."
Forrest Caricofe
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WEATHER
Weather for Smithville, Ohio
Today PARTLY_CLOUDY 76° 60°
Thu RAIN 60° 42°
Fri PARTLY_CLOUDY 53° 35°
Sat SUNNY 59° 42°
The Weather Channel - Weather Underground - AccuWeather
The Summer time-like weather of yesterday allowed me to do some work in
yard, but I had to first go to Walmart to pick up my new eye glasses. This is
my first set of trifocals and now I don't have to touch my nose to the computer
screen to read now. I also bought 3 bags of black mulch and Kentucky Blue Grass
seed. The woman Walmart employee was calling for help to get the bags
loaded when I said "I can do it." I guess she thought I was too old a man to put
the bags in a grocery cart and take to the car. That's funny and my thoughts
on that is do for yourself and not have others do it for you.
When I came back to the house I hooked the cart to the garden tractor, loaded
the cart with the mulch, grass seed, shovel, sunscreen, flower bulbs, scissors for
cutting the grass seed bags, container of poison to spray on the wire weeds,
well water for drinking in a gallon jug and a canister of Pringles (cheddar)
that I can eat without my false teeth.
I only had the time to seed about 1/2 the dead places in the yard, but I should
be able to finish today and with rain forecast tomorrow the grass seed should
get a good start.
If it's a Farmer's Rain tomorrow I'll be able to work in that.
It's just like taking a long shower, ain't it?
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