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by Janet Spencer The 2020 release of “No Time To Die” is the 27th James Bond film. Come along with Tidbits as we admire this iconic spy! THE BIRTH OF JAMES BOND • Born in England in 1908, Ian Fleming was active in military operations during World War II. He started as an assistant to a Rear Admiral and quickly worked his way up to Commander. In 1941 General William Donovan asked Ian to come to Washington, D.C. to draft an outline of how a Secret Service organization should be structured. Ian moved into General Donovan’s spare bedroom while he worked on the project. The plans he drew up laid the foundation for the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) which General Donovan headed up and later transformed into the CIA. By 1944 Fleming was masterminding 30 commandos. • Though he was desk-bound for most of the war, Fleming always wished he could be at the forefront of the action with the real heroes of the war. • After the war, Fleming moved to Jamaica where he lived on the estate of some wealthy friends. The estate was called Goldeneye. Here he indulged in his passion for writing spy stories. (cont)
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JAMES BOND (cont) • The son of Fleming’s Jamaican hosts was a noted ornithologist who wrote a bird book still in print today. The ornithologist’s name was ‘brief, unromantic, yet very masculine.’ Fleming decided to use that name as the name of his fictional spy hero: James Bond. • Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, “Casino Royale” in 1952. It was a hit. The 12 novels and 2 collections of short stories he wrote sold over 100 million copies making them among the best-selling books of all time. • His books have been turned into 27 movies with seven different actors portraying Bond. • Actors that have played Bond: Sean Connery (7 times), David Niven (1), George Lazenby (1), Roger Moore (7), Timothy Dalton (2), Pierce Brosnan (4) and Daniel Craig (5). Based on box-office figures, the most popular James Bond is Sean Connery. • The films have grossed over $12 billion, making it fourth in franchise movies behind Star Wars, Harry Potter, and Marvel. • Since Fleming’s death at age 56 in 1964, eight other authors have written Bond novels. Between 1981 and 1996, John Gardner wrote 14 Bond novels and two screenplay adaptations, surpassing Fleming’s output. • In “From Russia With Love” the train Bond is riding in passes an old man. The old man was Ian Fleming, in a rare cameo. • Agents 002, 003, 004, and 009 have been killed, while 006 was Sean Bean’s villain in “GoldenEye.” 008 is Bond’s replacement in the event of his death, while neither 001 nor 005 have ever been mentioned. (cont)
• “Whenever a stew or soup recipe calls for whole herbs to be used and then taken out later, I put them in a tea infuser. I could never seem to get them all before, and inevitably someone would be served a whole bay leaf or such. This makes it foolproof.” -- J.R. in Georgia • You can use an old toothbrush or nail brush to get grime out of the hinge area of the toilet seat. • If you have a plant cutting you are trying to root in water, here’s a tip to keep the end from resting on the bottom of your container: Use a twist tie wrapped around the stem on one side and hooked over the edge of the container on the other. • “Whenever I get new e-mail addresses, I always add them to my online address book. I also write them in my old-fashioned paper address book. Sounds like a no-brainer, but you’d be surprised by how many people rely on their e-mail address book to remember all those addresses. It just takes one time for a computer virus to erase everything -- not to mention if something happens to your hard drive. Just a reminder!” -- B.R. in Pennsylvania • Using ice-cold sour cream instead of ice-cold water in your pie crust recipe will give you a flakier crust. • Here’s a tip to gauge your exercise level: If you can’t get out a sentence, then you are in a high intensity phase. If you can’t talk at all during your entire workout, you are going too hard. Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, 628 Virginia Drive, Orlando, FL 32803. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc. •
TIDBITS of Kootenai County, Idaho Issue #37 Sept. 7th 2020 JAMES BOND (cont) • Bond’s alcoholic drink of choice is a Vesper martini, named after the original Bond girl, Vesper Lynn. It is made with three measures Gordon’s gin, one measure vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet (an aperitif), shaken over ice with a thin slice of lemon peel. It is first described in the novel “Casino Royale.” • Cocktails that have juice, dairy, or egg whites are normally shaken. Shaking aerates the cocktails creating froth. You stir a cocktail when you don’t want to over-dilute it with melting ice, and when you don’t want to change its texture. Cocktails using spirits such as martinis are normally stirred. • It’s possible Bond wanted his martini shaken in order to improve the flavor of a cheap brand of vodka. It’s also been theorized that he wanted his martini extra cold, or that he needed his drinks diluted. • In the book “You Only Live Twice” Ian Fleming wrote up a fictional obituary, in which we learn a little of James Bond’s background. His parents were Andrew Bond, a Scot; and Monique Delacroix, from Switzerland. James was born in Germany. Both his parents were killed in a mountain climbing accident when James was 11, and he was raised by an aunt in England. • Ian Fleming was a chain smoker, averaging 4 packs a day, which ultimately killed him. James Bond was a smoker too, at first. The last film where Bond was shown smoking (a cigar) was “Die Another Day” in 2002. • The British Secret Service (James Bond’s employer) really can issue a “license to kill.” It’s called a Class Seven authorization and must be approved by the MI6 agent’s superiors all the way to the Foreign Minister.
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® of Idaho TIDBITS of Kootenai Issue #37 Sept. 7th 2020 TidbitsCounty, Dallas County JAMES BOND (cont) • In “Thunderball,” The Bell Rocket Belt used in the film’s opening sequence was an actual working jetpack. Filmmakers hired two qualified pilots to operate it. One of the pilots was asked if he would fly without a helmet so Bond could look cooler. He refused for safety reasons, which is why Sean Connery wore a helmet for this scene in the final film. • In “Thunderball,” the gadget-master named Q gives Bond a tiny breathing apparatus that allows him to survive underwater for several minutes. Bond uses it when trapped in a pool with a bunch of sharks. A member of the Royal Engineers saw the film and thought such a device would have all sorts of military applications. He called chief draftsman Peter Lamont to ask how long the apparatus actually worked. “As long as you can hold your breath,” Lamont replied. The engineer countered that Bond was underwater for several minutes in the movie. Lamont had to explain the magic of video editing, and that no such gadget really existed. • The title of the 2015 film, “Spectre” is an anagram for ‘Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion.’ • Christopher Lee is Ian Fleming’s cousin, and Fleming initially wanted Lee to play Dr. No in the first film. Christopher Lee turned the offer down. However, he later played villain Scaramanga in the 1974 movie “The Man With The Golden Gun.” • Inspiration for Fleming’s 12th novel “You Only Live Twice” came from the 17th century Japanese poet Maysuo Basho, who wrote, “You only live twice; once when you’re born, and once when you look death in the face.” It’s estimated that between a third and a quarter of the world’s population has seen a Bond film.
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By Lucie Winborne--• It’s illegal to kill Bigfoot in British Columbia. That is, if you ever actually run across him. • In March 2019, the Roosevelt Hotel in New Orleans celebrated its 125th anniversary by offering a free seven-night stay in the presidential suite, along with complimentary private dinners and spa treatments worth $15,000. But this wasn’t your everyday giveaway -- the prize was only available to the person who returned the “most outrageous” item ever stolen from the hotel! • The earliest toothpaste was made in ancient Egypt from crushed pepper, rock salt and dried flowers. No, it wasn’t particularly effective. • Speaking of toothpaste, that blob on your toothbrush is called a nurdle. • Enjoy the smell of fresh-cut grass after mowing your lawn? Researchers have determined the scent is a chemical compound given off by plants in distress. They emit a similar odor when attacked by caterpillars or other predatory insects. • Grooves in the road on Route 66 play “America the Beautiful.” • In 1979, Elvita Adams, jobless and facing eviction, attempted suicide by jumping off the 86th floor of the Empire State Building but survived with just a fractured pelvis when she was blown back to the 85th floor by a strong gust of wind. • When the first Spanish explorers arrived at the Yucatan peninsula, they naturally asked what the area was called. The response, “Yucatan,” was a Yucatec Maya word meaning “I don’t understand what you’re saying.” • Chimpanzees can identify each other from pictures of their butts. • The average male becomes bored with a shopping trip in about 26 minutes. His female companion typically lasts two hours. Thought for the Day: “The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” -- Dolly Parton (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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By Dr. Holly Carling
WHEN YOUR BODY IS SICK: AUTO-IMMUNE DISEASES
We live in a sick nation. We are sick and becoming sicker! Auto-immune diseases, like so many other diseases, are skyrocketing at alarming rates. There are between 80 and 200 different auto-immune conditions today. What is an auto-immune condition? It is a disease which manifests “antibodies or lymphocytes against substances naturally present in the body”. It has the appearance of the immune system going bonkers and can’t tell the difference between a foreign body and its own body. But we are discovering that what we thought we knew about auto-immunity may not be the full story. Some examples of auto-immune diseases include rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto’s (thyroid), celiac, Lupus, Lyme Disease, Crohn’s Disease, psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, fibromyalgia, Grave’s disease, endometriosis and others. Nearly any chronic illness can eventually turn into an autoimmune disease. Even having a brain concussion can. Post-concussive syndrome (symptoms manifesting months or years later, as a result of the injury) has hit the limelight recently as we are seeing a relationship between that and future episodes of Alzheimer’s Disease (recently added to the list of auto-immune diseases) or other forms of dementia. It is opening up new dimensions in our understanding of the auto-immune response. The simple explanation of auto-immunity is like this: You come home one day, and your kitchen is flooded. You discover that you left the faucet running and the sink has been overflowing for hours.
So you rush about, gathering towels, blankets, anything possible to sop up the water. But in the process, you neglect to turn off the faucet. Eventually, you’ll get exhausted trying to keep up with it and realize that unless you handle the source of the issue (the faucet is still on), you will never get it under control. This is likely the mechanism in auto-immunity. A tissue is damaged, for example, the brain, as a result of a trauma. Cell fragments from the traumatized tissue gets into the blood stream. This is okay under normal conditions, and the immune system is designed to clean it up. The body makes antibodies to deal with this garbage. The problem starts when the damage isn’t healing, and cell fragments continue to flow into the bloodstream (the faucet is still running). After a while (weeks, months or even years later), the body decides to go to the source (the faucet) to stop it. Unfortunately, that means it is now going after the organ (brain, thyroid, lungs) or tissue (joints, muscles, nerves), etc. All of this necrotic, damaged tissue, antibodies and auto-antibodies, etc. causes runaway inflammation and now you are miserable! The question to be asking is “Why did my body not heal?” Herein lies the real problem - the autoimmune response is simply the body doing its best to deal with a cascading level of insult. Improper nutrition, toxic exposures, stress, weakened innate immunity, lack of exercise, underlying chronic infections, abundance of a pathogen (virus, bacteria, parasite, mold or fungus), or continued injury as in repetitive motions or repetitive injuries. Fortunately, there are ways to address all of these insults to bring the immune system back into proper function, and not just suppress it.
Dr. Holly Carling is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, Licensed Acupuncturist, Doctor of Naturopathy, Clinical Nutritionist and Master Herbologist with over three decades of experience. Dr. Carling is currently accepting new patients and offers natural health care services and whole food nutritional supplements in her Coeur d’ Alene clinic. Visit Dr. Carling’s website at www.vitalhealthcda.com to learn more about Dr. Carling, view a list of upcoming health classes and read other informative articles. Dr. Carling can be reached at 208-765-1994 and would be happy to answer any questions regarding this topic.
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VA Boosts COVID Aid
The Department of Veterans Affairs has taken two important steps to help veterans during the COVID pandemic: financial and housing for the homeless. Debt Relief: The VA is extending financial debt relief through the end of the year. That’s going to be a big help to many of us who are struggling. If you are making payments, repayment is going to be more flexible. One step is that the VA is suspending the collection action or extending payment terms on existing debts. If you have benefit debts, call the VA Debt Management Center at 1-800-827-0648 and ask for help. If you have health care debts, call the Health Resource Center at 1-866-400-1238. To learn more, go online to www.pay.gov and click on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) alert. Emergency Housing: The VA is kicking in an additional $400 million of COVID relief funding to expand its response to veterans who are either already homeless or about to become homeless. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) gave $17.2 billion to the VA, which initially allotted $700 million to homelessness. The additional $400 million will go a long way to preventing veteran homelessness and providing emergency housing as part of the Supportive Services for Veteran Families Program. The idea, of course, is to provide housing that will allow physical safety and social distancing. In additional, the VA is providing $88 million for the Grant and Per Diem Program and $10 for the Health Care for Homeless Veterans Program. The GPD Program utilizes eligible civilian organization to provide transitional housing for those who are already homeless or who are in danger of it. If you and your family need permanent housing, go online to www.va.gov/homeless/hudvash.asp. This HUD/VA collaboration provides rental assistance vouchers if you’re eligible for VA health care. Included can be case managers for health care, mental health and substance-use counseling. This is one of VA’s largest programs for homelessness. The VA isn’t perfect, but it’s trying. Use its services because you earned them. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
1. U.S. STATES: Which state has the only flag that isn’t rectangular? 2. GOVERNMENT: What is the subject of the eighth amendment to the U.S. Constitution? 3. TELEVISION: What was the name of Jed Clampett’s bloodhound on “The Beverly Hillbillies”? 4. GEOGRAPHY: Which country is home to a giant formation known as Ayers Rock (Uluru)? 5. ADVERTISING: Which company’s advertising mascot was a camel named Caleb? 6. FAMOUS QUOTATIONS: Which 20th-century novelist wrote, “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves”? 7. MEASUREMENTS: How many tablespoons are in a half cup? 8. LITERATURE: What was the name of the tiger in “The Jungle Book”? 9. SCIENCE: When did the first space shuttle launch? 10. MOVIES: Which 1980s movie had the tagline, “He may be dead but he’s the life of the party”? Answers 1. Ohio 2. Prohibits cruel or unusual punishment 3. Duke 4. Australia 5. GEICO 6. Virginia Woolf 7. Eight 8. Shere Khan 9. 1981 10. “Weekend at Bernie’s” (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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More than 30 years ago Lidwin Dirne felt outrage and frustration to injustice. She channeled those feelings into something incredible that has impacted the health of our community for years. Lidwin’s friend and neighbor Mary Ellen had died because she didn’t have access to basic health care. The unfairness of a single mother dying needlessly sparked a revolution that forever changed this community. Lidwin founded a volunteer health clinic to serve the underserved. The response was incredible and that tiny clinic eventually became Heritage Health. The beauty of Lidwin’s efforts was that she turned a negative into a positive. She brought the community together, unified with the belief that all people should have access to a doctor, a dentist, a mental health professional, an addiction specialist. The mission of Heritage Health is to provide hope, inspire change and extend life for our patients and the communities we serve. Our team of nearly 300 employees served 28,000 patients last year during 161,837 patient visits. Heritage Health is North Idaho’s largest provider of integrated medical, dental, mental health, behavioral health and substance use Mike Baker CEO Heritage Health disorder treatment services. We’re not alone. Community Health Centers like Heritage Health have been quietly serving their communities for over 50 years. During this time, health centers have delivered comprehensive, high-quality care to all patients regardless of their ability to pay. Heritage Health had a total economic impact of $51 million last year and was responsible directly and indirectly for nearly 430 jobs. Heritage Health was responsible for $40 million in savings to the overall health system, delivering care at 24% lower cost to the Medicaid system resulting in $14 million in savings to the Medicaid program. Numbers aside, Heritage Health saves lives and makes the community a safer and healthier place to live. Heritage Health works collaboratively with many other health care providers, non-profit organizations and employers to serve the community. We’re on the frontlines of the battle against COVID-19 too. We’re actively testing and treating our patients and helping those with the virus to recover. These are scary and divisive times, but like our founder, we are doing our best to take a scary situation and make the most of it. The nation celebrated the great work of community health centers during National Health Center Week August 9th through the 15th. We’re proud to be a community health center and a pillar of the North Idaho community. Thank you to all of the volunteers, employees and board members who have forged our legacy and continue to lead us into the future.
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There's something about late summer that makes me think of growth. Maybe it's the harvest season. Maybe it's because it's the time of year when we're gearing up for school (such as it is) and noticing the changes that seemed to happen so suddenly in just a few short months of summer. It's a magical time of childhood, and makes for a particularly compelling setting for coming of age stories. You or your kids may not have had the adventure they deserved this summer, but here are eight gems where kids overcame obstacles, learned a hard lesson and sometimes made the difficult leap from child to young adult: "Stand By Me" -- In this coming-of-age classic, on a Labor Day weekend in 1959, four pals (Wil Wheaton, River Phoenix, Jerry O'Connell and Corey Feldman) set off on a journey to find the body of a missing boy. What they find is an unforgettable bonding experience and much self-reflection. "Now and Then" -- Four friends (Gaby Hoffmann, Thora Birch, Christina Ricci and Ashleigh Aston Moore) cement their sisterhood while saving money for a treehouse, avoiding boys and attempting to summon the spirit of a mysteriously marked grave. "Roll Bounce" -- While dealing with the death of his mother and the closing of his local roller rink, X (Bow Wow) and his friends challenge the status quo at a swanky uptown rink in 1978 Chicago when they move to take on the reigning champion at the end-of-summer skate-dance competition. "Dirty Dancing" -- At a summer camp in the Poconos, Baby (Jennifer Grey) learns to dance and love from an earnest and talented dance instructor (Patrick Swayze) with a bod to die for and a heart that's true. In the process, she discovers her own voice and the confidence to stand on her own. "Dazed and Confused" -- The summer of '76 begins with a bang as Mitch (Wiley Wiggins) goes from hazed freshman to cruising with the stoner star of the school's football team (Jason London) -- both experiencing personal growth over the course of a single night. "My Girl" -- Vada Sultenfuss (Anna Chlumsky) -- whose father is a mortician and lives in the town's funeral home -- works out her obsession with death while learning about love and loss -- all while her dad courts a newly arrived makeup artist. "The Way Way Back" -- Duncan (Liam James) suffers badly from the bullying of his divorced mother's new boyfriend. During a summer vacation on Cape Cod, he finds courage and confidence in new friends and paternal guidance in an unlikely spot: the local water park. "Crooklyn" -- A family portrait in 1973 Brooklyn featuring a precocious young miss, Troy (Zelda Harris), who, along with her brothers, faces cranky neighbors, family woes and perhaps a childhood that trickles away far too quickly. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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• On Sept. 17, 1787, the Constitution of the United States is signed by 38 of 41 delegates present at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. It would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of the 13 states. Nine months later, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the document. • On Sept. 18, 1793, George Washington lays the cornerstone to the United States Capitol building. It would take nearly a century to complete, as architects came and went, the British set fire to it and it was called into use during the Civil War. • On Sept. 16, 1893, the largest land run in history begins with more than 100,000 people pouring into the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma to claim valuable land. Towns like Norman and Oklahoma City sprung up almost overnight. • On Sept. 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key pens a poem that is later set to music and in 1931 becomes America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The poem was written after Key witnessed Fort McHenry being bombarded by the British during the War of 1812. • On Sept. 15, 1954, the famous picture of Marilyn Monroe, laughing as her skirt is blown up by the blast from a subway vent, is shot. The scene infuriated her husband, Joe DiMaggio. • On Sept. 19, 1969, President Richard Nixon announces the cancellation of the draft calls for November and December. He reduced the call-up by 50,000 men as part of his program of turning the war over to the South Vietnamese. • On Sept. 20, 1973, in a highly publicized “Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, top women’s player Billie Jean King, 29, beats Bobby Riggs, 55, a former No. 1 ranked men’s player. Riggs had boasted that women were inferior, and that even at his age he could beat any female player. King beat Riggs 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. (c) 2020 Hearst Communications, Inc.All Rights Reserved
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The designation “senior” covers a long stretch of ages, some of us much older or younger than others. It’s the older ones who perhaps have the biggest lesson to learn ... that time does not stretch forward indefinitely. I learned that lesson today when I received word that one of my oldest relatives had passed away. His name was Henry, and I never met him. I hooked up with him and his lovely wife many years ago when I started my genealogy hunt. We came together like family, which we were. Christmas cards, newsy letters, new genealogy tidbits, just as though we’d always known each other. I would visit someday, I always told myself, not only Henry and his wife, but all my other newly found relatives in their area. Time and physical distance can’t change DNA, and I suspect that should I walk through their small town, I would be easily identified as one of them. All the questions I had, I told myself, could wait until I visited. I waited too long. We owe it to the family generations that come after us to leave them as much information as possible. But where do we start? We start with the family members that are ahead of us in age. We ask questions, we take notes, we write things down. Depending how “senior” we are, we might have parents still living, or if we’re younger and have lucky DNA, we might even have a grandparent or two. Type up your information, save the file and print it out. Make copies and hand them out to as many of your relatives as you can. You might look at the generations after you and think they won’t be interested in their ancestry. You’ll probably be wrong. One of them, maybe years from now, will start to wonder ... and your information will be there. Don’t wait. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCHERS: ALZHEIMER’S PATIENTS CAN BENEFIT FROM FAMILIAR MUSIC SALT LAKE CITY — MRI scans of patients who have Alzheimer’s disease show that playing songs with personal meaning to them activates parts of their brain that still have a semblance of memory retention, researchers at University of Utah Health say. “No one says playing music will be a cure for Alzheimer’s disease, but it might make the symptoms more manageable, decrease the cost of care and improve a patient’s quality of life,” said Dr. Jeff Anderson, a professor of radiology and imaging sciences at the U., in a prepared statement. U. researchers recently carried out a study on the topic of music therapy for such patients, beginning by spending three weeks to help “participants select meaningful songs and trained the patient and caregiver on how to use a portable media player loaded with the self-selected collection of music,” explained Stacy Kish, science writer for University of Utah Health. Kish said in a release that researchers “scanned the patients to image the regions of the brain that lit up” each time they listened to one of eight 20-second clips from their music collection, comparing them to brain activity shown during eight different clips of the same music played backward and eight 20-second “blocks of silence.” “The researchers found that music activates the brain, causing whole regions to communicate. By listening to the personal soundtrack, the (brain’s) visual network, the salience network, the executive network and the cerebellar and cortico-cerebellar network pairs all showed significantly higher functional connectivity,” Kish wrote. Dr. Norman Foster, senior author of the study and director of the Center for Alzheimer’s Care at University of Utah Health, said the resultant findings are “objective evidence from brain imaging” showing that “personally meaningful music is an alternative route for communicating with patients who have Alzheimer’s disease.” “Language and visual memory pathways are damaged early as the disease progresses, but personalized music programs can activate the brain, especially for patients who are losing contact with their environment,” Foster said in a prepared statement. Of particular interest in music’s effect on an Alzheimer’s patient’s brain, Kish said, is how it interacts specifically with the region called the salience network, which she said “remains an island of remembrance that is spared from the ravages of Alzheimer’s disease.” Additionally, “activation of neighboring regions of the brain may also offer opportunities to delay the continued decline caused by the disease,” according to Kish. Prior studies have explored how a personalized music program affects patients’ moods, and the results have been encouraging, but generally “people don’t really know why,” Anderson, contributing author on the study, told the Deseret News. He said that is why it is helpful to explore specifically the ways activity increases in the brain as a result of the music. Dr. Jeff Anderson, a professor of radiology and imaging sciences at the University of Utah, preps an MRI scanner at the Imaging and Neurosciences Center in Salt Lake City on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. U. researchers found MRI scans of patients who have Alzheimer’s disease show that playing songs with personal meaning to them activates parts of their brain that still have a semblance of memory retention. (Photo: Jeffrey D. Allred, KSL) Kish said the findings could have implications for how medical professionals “approach anxiety, depression and agitation in patients with dementia” — a broader term for conditions affecting a person’s memory. Anderson agreed, adding, “when you have somebody that’s really impaired, small gains can be really meaningful.” While the new study focused on examining Alzheimer’s patients specifically, Anderson said, he doesn’t “necessarily have a lot of reasons to believe that most other dementia syndromes … (would) not behave similarly” in response to music. “When you put headphones … and play familiar music, they come alive,” said Jace King, a graduate student researcher and first author of the study. “Music is like an anchor, grounding the patient back in reality.” The study has limitations, among them a small sample size of 17 patients and the fact that each of them were subjected to just one imaging session, Kish said. Anderson added that more research is needed to help answer the questions of “how long does the effect last” and “exactly what type of symptoms it is most helpful for.” The study, first published in The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer’s Disease in April, was carried out with the help of researchers from Jewish Family Services of Utah, University of Colorado, and Massachusetts General Hospital. It was funded with financial support from A. Scott Anderson, Zions Banks president/CEO and philanthropist, as well as the American Otological Society. (By Ben Lockhart, KSL|Posted - Dec 29th, 2018 @ 12:05pm)
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1. Name the song Chic wrote after being barred from entry into Studio 54. 2. Which artist released “Soolaimon”? 3. What do these Beatles songs have in common: “Love Me Do,” “Please Please Me” and “From Me to You”? 4. Which ‘50s group covered and released “If I Didn’t Care”? 5. Name the song that contains this lyric: “And so we’re running just as fast as we can, Holding on to one another’s hand, Trying to get away into the night.” Answers 1. “Le Freak,” in 1978. Guitarist Nile Rodgers had been invited to the club by Grace Jones. The doorman refused to let him in, hence the song, except in the original version the word wasn’t “freak.” 2. Neil Diamond, in 1971. The African word has multiple meanings, such as “hello” and “peace be with you.” 3. They all feature John Lennon playing the harmonica. 4. The Platters. The song was written in 1939 and originally released by the Ink Spots that year. 5. “I Think We’re Alone Now,” by Tommy James and the Shondells, in 1967. James believed the song was the beginning of bubblegum music -fast-tempo music for children and teens. (c) 2020 King Features Synd., Inc.
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