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VA launches psilocybin trial for Veterans with treatment-resistant depression

https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-launches-psilocybin-trial-for-veterans-with-treatment-resistant-depression/

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07226232

I just emailed someone with a totally different name yesterday about participating in a new VA study on psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression. Guess who called me today and left a voicemail? I have never met anyone with this name in my life. I’m hoping it’s a good sign. I will do the pre-screening in a few weeks. Wish me luck. :)

VA launches psilocybin trial for Veterans with treatment-resistant depression

https://news.va.gov/press-room/va-launches-psilocybin-trial-for-veterans-with-treatment-resistant-depression/

https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07226232

Someone else had a post on geometric concepts, such as an inverting sphere: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheOA/s/KI2JVpikx6

So consider this:

“In mathematics, the Klein bottle is an example of a surface with no distinct inside or outside. In other words, it is a one-sided surface which, if traveled upon, could be followed back to the point of origin while flipping the traveler upside down.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein\_bottle

It’s sort of like a 4D version of a Möbius strip; it just keeps twisting on itself. Four physical dimensions are required to avoid the surface from self-intersecting.

You could walk on its surface endlessly, and you would alternate between “outside” and “inside.”

I’m not saying the show is a literal Klein bottle, but there are some interesting conceptual parallels.

Actual, our space-time universe might be a sort of Klein Bottle. 🤔

Click on photos to see full size photo. Heavily compressed on Reddit.

https://www.franconia.org/milan-warner/

“This is a portrait of a being that I call a grazer that l met a long time ago. It is the only grazer I have met and shall ever meet. I first saw it at a distance, as a blip in my periphery. Over the years as I would go back to the grazing place again and again, it would appear closer and closer at the edge of my vision until I could finally smell it. The grazer does not have a name and it refuses one. It cannot see nor hear nor speak in a way that is easily understood. The grazer cannot be killed but it longs to leave its body and it will eventually. Not all grazers look like this one and are all very different from one another. In color. In size. In number of limbs. But one thing grazers all have in common is the eye, always looking down. The eye has long lashes to protect the grazer. All of what the grazer is, is in the eye. The eye is where it hurts. Grazers never encounter other grazers but they know of one another. When a grazer appears into existence some never change while others develop and others degenerate. To speak, hear and truly see a grazer it must invite you to meet its eye. This is all that the grazer told me and that it is very lonely.”

I’m shooting Kodak Ektar 100 color negative film on a Zero Image 135 (f/138) pinhole film roll camera. I’m using a Sekonic L-398 Studio Deluxe analog light meter for time & f/ combos plus the time & f/ combo wheel on the camera.

I’m also shooting Fujifilm Instax square instant film on a homemade shoebox pinhole camera. Definition is coming out good, but the color saturation is poor. I figure that’s just what you get with instant film?

Is it better to exactly expose, under expose, or over expose for these types of film? I will only do basic light adjustment to the scanned reversed digitals. I do not have Lightroom, etc.

I accidentally had my light meter set to ISO 200 rather than 100 today while shooting on the Ektar 100. So I did 2-3s exposures rather than 1s. It was rather cloudy though. Will the photos be fine or should I reshoot? OTOH I’ve heard color film does better over exposed? Idk I’m just an amateur. I will not be able to develop the film before reshooting at this site- Franconia Sculpture Park near Minneapolis, MN - St. Croix Falls, WI. :)

Thank you.

Guess it really was time to move on. 😵‍💫 Hindsight is 20/20. Take care of yourselves.

#MentalHealth

https://youtu.be/asQrdOA0joA?is=t4id0EQjtD8P1xMi

Did anyone else enjoy the cheap made-for-TV movie called The Langoliers? It’s based on a Stephen King novel. Like major cheese, but I still enjoy it every few years as a sci-fi thought experiment. My brother and I always watched it when it replayed on cable. It does a good job with the creepy unnerving vibes too. And how about that CGI! lol

I would LOVE a mini series remake! They could dive much more deeply into book details. This is the type of story that many people enjoy!

Photo Caption: Seated a floor above the Emergency Department at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center, Tony LeClair, seated at right, looks down from his wheelchair and gives a “thumb’s up” to a line of postal vehicles passing below on West 8th Avenue as it passes in Spokane. Leclair, a South Hill lettercarrier for 25 years, recently found out he has lung cancer, which had metastasized to his brain and his colleagues decided to drive their U.S. Postal Service trucks by the hospital. Family friend Taylor White, center left, stands next to LeClair. (Jesse Tinsley/THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW)

Article Summary:

A beloved South Hill letter carrier got a special delivery on Wednesday from longtime coworkers.

In a midday parade of 24 mail trucks and a few private vehicles, they blared horns in a tribute to Tony LeClair, a 27-year U.S. Postal Service worker. With family, friends and his dog Dash, LeClair waved back – seated near large windows at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center.

LeClair, 59, was diagnosed in May with Stage 4 lung cancer that has spread, said daughter Caitlyn Bruhn. He’s on comfort care for what’s expected to be a few weeks, she said.

Spokane, WA

Contractor left this corner “floating” above grade cuz they sucked ass. How should I reinforce this? Slide block / brick under it? Or should I leave it on its on gravel base? I plan on extending the grass up to the wall, but even still, if I wanted to put that corner under dirt, it would be too high for the top cap below it?