CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY....
"At about 4:00 AM in the morning the door to the drill sergeant's door opened
and...."
The drill sergeant yelling "get the hell out of them bunks you dirt bags."
"Move, move, move!"
Us trainees had to get dress in our olive drab uniform, make our bunks with two
white sheets on the bottom and an olive drab blanket on the top and made up
like Mother did when she worked at Orkney Springs.
If the quarter the drill sergeant threw on the made up bed didn't bounce high
enough, he tore all the bunks apart, not just the one, and he yelled at us "don't
you dirt bags know how to make a bunk, do it again and hurry up you scumbags
because we might miss breakfast."
And there was another thing I did not like....
TO BE CONTINUED....
WORLD
I received another postcard yesterday as a member of postcrossing.com.
The sender was from Brazil.
There is a place beneath my entering the two letter country ID and the country
number to type in a message to the sender:
“Hi
Thank you for the postcard of the beautiful flower. It's a beautiful postcard and
so are stamps on the back.
I will mention you (not your name) and your country in my story of tomorrow
(Nov 3) on my web site: iliveinmycarandeatverywell.com.
I covered much of the Olympics that your country hosted and Christ the
Redeemer that overlooks your city of Rio de Janeiro.
Thanks again,
Forrest”
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brazil
Country in South America
"Brazil, a vast South American country, stretches from the Amazon Basin in the
north to vineyards and massive Iguaçu Falls in the south. Rio de Janeiro,
symbolized by its 38m Christ the Redeemer statue atop Mount Corcovado,
is famed for its busy Copacabana and Ipanema beaches as well as its
enormous, raucous Carnaval festival, featuring parade floats, flamboyant
costumes and samba music and dance."
Capital: Brasília
Population: 200.4 million (2013) World Bank
President: Michel Temer
Currency: Brazilian real
National anthem: Brazilian National Anthem
Official language: Portuguese
Points of interest:
Christ the Redeemer
Corcovado
Iguazu Falls
HEALTH
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
At a Glance
"Researchers created a model, based on brain activity and exposure to stress in
childhood, that predicts the likelihood that antidepressants will benefit a patient.
The study suggests a new way to help inform treatment decisions for people with
depression....
People with depression may need to try several treatments over many weeks
before finally getting symptom relief.Adam Edwards/Hemera/Thinkstock
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the U.S. It can
bring a persistent sad, anxious, or “empty” mood and affect your ability to
function and enjoy life. There’s no “one-size-fits-all” therapy. Depression is
usually treated with antidepressant medications, psychotherapy, or a
combination. It’s often a trial-and-error process to figure out which approaches
will work best for each individual.
Early life stressors and the brain’s processing of emotions can each contribute
to depression. Stress can activate and eventually cause physical changes
to the brain’s amygdala region, which processes fear. A group of scientists, led
by Drs. Leanne Williams and Andrea Goldstein-Piekarski at Stanford University,
investigated whether they could predict the likelihood that antidepressants
would work for patients with depression based on their childhood stress
exposure and amygdala activity. The research was funded in part by NIH’s
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Institute of Biomedical
Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB). Results were published in the Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences on October 18, 2016.
The team analyzed data from 70 patients with major depressive disorder
from the International Study to Predict Optimized Treatment for Depression
(iSPOT-D). Patients were asked how many life stressors they’d experienced
before age 18. This included abuse, neglect, family conflict, illness or
death, and natural disasters. Using functional MRI, the researchers measured
brain activity in patients while they viewed pictures of emotional faces.
Brain scans were taken before patients started an antidepressant treatment
and 8 weeks after. Participants were randomly selected to receive 1 of 3
commonly prescribed antidepressants: sertraline (Zoloft), escitalopram
(Lexapro), or venlafaxine-XR (Effexor-XR).
The team compared how well early life stressors and brain responses to
positive or negative facial expressions correlated with patient recovery.
A model combining all 3 factors predicted the likelihood that
antidepressants would benefit patients with over 80% accuracy.
The researchers grouped patients into 3 categories based on the number
of stressful events they’d experienced (low, medium, or high).
Antidepressants were less likely to work for those in the high-stress category.
However, these patients had a greater chance of benefiting from the
medications if their brains were highly responsive to happy facial
expressions. Patients with low childhood stress were most likely to benefit from
antidepressant treatment. Their chances rose if their brains were less sensitive
to both happy and fearful stimuli. These results suggest that, for some patients,
it might help to first try therapy techniques that address the impact of trauma
in a person’s life before considering medication.
“We were able to show how we can use an understanding of the whole
person—their experiences and their brain function and the interaction
between the 2—to help tailor treatment choices,” Williams says. More research
is needed to determine whether this model could be used to predict if a specific
antidepressant would benefit a patient."
―by Tianna Hicklin, Ph.D.
Reference: Human amygdala engagement moderated by early life stress
exposure is a biobehavioral target for predicting recovery on antidepressants.
Goldstein-Piekarski AN, Korgaonkar MS, Green E, Suppes T, Schatzberg AF,
Hastie T, Nemeroff CB, Williams LM. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Oct 18;113
(42):11955-11960. Epub 2016 Oct 10. PMID: 27791054.
Funding: NIH’s National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and National Institute
of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB); and BRC Operations
Pty. Ltd.
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QUOTE (S) FOR THIS POST
"People remember things by using word association which I use for
remembering medications."
Forrest Caricofe
Google search: About 2,800,000 results (1.57 seconds)
No results found for "People remember things by using word association
which I use for remembering medications."
MY OPINION
I told you this before but I will tell it again so both of us will remember it.
My Mother was shy in being friendly and my Father was real friendly
and I ended up being over friendly and because of that I'm considered to be
manic and bipolar.
I was arrested and handcuffed once for that and taken to a local hospital
where the physiatrics prescribed antidepressants that I call drop-a-coat
(depakote) and Sara Palin (Seroquel ) and I'll tell you more about this at
a later date.
And to beat it all, my doctor at the Cleveland Clinic said "you are getting
older and now and and you need a medication that will help your heart."
So, he prescribed another medication called Metoprolol and my name
for that is Marco Polo. Sounds good to me.
Marco Polo
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Marco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveller whose travels are recorded in
Livres des merveilles du monde, a book that introduced Europeans to Central
Asia and China.
Born: 1254
Died: January 8, 1324, Venice, Italy
Nationality: Venetian
Spouse: Donata Badoer (m. 1300–1324)
Parents: Nicole Anna Defuseh, Niccolò Polo
QUOTE (S) FOR THIS POST
"The losing team in a championship game always say, "wait till next year,""
Forrest Caricofe
Google search: bout 29,000,000 results (1.89 seconds)
No results found for "The losing team in a championship game always say,
"wait til next year,""
SPORTS
CBSSports
By Matt Snyder & R.J. Anderson
Nov 02, 2016
Excerpt from full article:
"The Chicago Cubs completed a World Series miracle comeback on Wednesday
night, rallying from down 3-to-1 in the best-of-seven series to defeat the
Cleveland Indians in seven games."
ABC News
By DAVID CAPLAN
Nov 3, 2016, 12:50 AM ET
Excerpt from full article:
"The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians 8-7 (in 10 innings) to win
the 2016 World Series Wednesday night at Cleveland's Progressive Field,
ending the team's 108-year drought."
VENGEANCE
MY OPINION
www.dictionary.com/browse/vengeance
"Infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by another who
has been harmed by that person; violent revenge: But have you the right to
vengeance? 2. an act or opportunity of inflicting such trouble: to take one's
vengeance."
I believe that this is the right section of this story now for Donald Trump and
Hillary Clinton.
US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
BBC News
BBC Poll of Polls
Yesterday Nov 2 Clinton 48% Trump 46%
Today Nov 3 Clinton 48% Trump 45 %
Last updated November 3
Election day November 8
Five days and counting.
"The numbers have begun to tighten as we approach election day amid crises
affecting both Democratic contender Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival
Donald Trump."
MY OPINION
Who I'm voting for? I ain't going tell you because this is a free country and I
don't have to.
QUOTE (S) FOR THIS POST
"The weather is a hot topic for those old people sitting at their local McDonalds
drinking coffee."
Forrest Caricofe
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No results found for "The weather is a hot topic for those old people sitting at
their local McDonalds drinking coffee."
QUOTE (S) FOR THIS POST
"One great burden of mankind are those darn wire weeds who are a pain in
the arse."
Forrest Caricofe
Google search: About 2,750 results (0.74 seconds)
No results found for "One great burden of mankind are those darn wire weeds
who are a pain in the arse."
WEATHER
Weather for Smithville, Ohio
Today RAIN 63° 44°
Fri PARTLY_CLOUDY 52° 35°
Sat SUNNY 61° 40°
Sun SUNNY 62° 38°
The Weather Channel - Weather Underground - AccuWeather
I believe I accomplished a lot yesterday mainly because of the Summer-like
weather.
Ryan was mowing the grass with the garden tractor, so I walked, bare foot
of course, to the back flower gardens with the things I needed that I told you
about and will tell you again so we both will remember:
" 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."
But everything was not the same because I forgot to remove my false teeth.
I only used the shovel, grass seed, scissors, gallon jug of well water and
the canister of Pringles (cheddar).
I dug up some Rose of Sharon sprouts and planted those in the back flower
gardens that Bill asked me to do and then used the Fiscus or Fall grass seed
to seed the bare places in the yard.
If you remember me telling you that the Lowes' employee advised me to
poison the wire weeds from a spray container. Then wait 3-5 days and then
seed the resulting dead places in the yard with the grass seed.
I ran out of seed, but maybe have only 10 bare spots to go.
It's lightly peeing rain right now (6:32 AM 11/3/2016 EDT) as forecasted with
no thunder and lightening (a Farmer's Rain) and I believe I can finish seeding
and do some others things in the flower gardens and the yard today.
Just went out to the garage again for the second time this morning to make
another pot of coffee and to make an oyster sandwich with 100% whole wheat
bread, real butter and Bumble Bee Fancy smoked oysters farmed raised in
China, of course.
The rain has stopped (7:34 AM 11/3/2016 EDT), and there is some clearing to
the southwest.
We'll see if the weather forecaster's of rain all day is the right forecast for today?
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