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SAGE test – A simple 15-minute home test to detect Alzheimer's early
In a ray of hope for nearly 3.2 million Alzheimer's patients in India, a simple and cheap test at home may detect early symptoms of cognitive issues, including Alzheimer's disease.
By: Editorial Team | | Published: January 13, 2014 5:25 pm
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In a ray of hope for nearly 3.2 million Alzheimer's patients in India, a simple and cheap test at home may detect early symptoms of cognitive issues, including Alzheimer's disease. Also Read - Identifying signs of Alzheimer's even before symptoms set in possible
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Above all, the test is cheap and self-administered.
Called the self-administered gero-cognitive examination (SAGE test), which takes less than 15 minutes to complete, is a reliable tool for evaluating cognitive abilities, said researchers at the Ohio State University.
Researchers visited 45 community events where they asked people to take a simple, self-administered test to screen for early cognitive loss or dementia.
'Of the 1,047 people who took the simple pen-and-paper test, 28 percent were identified with cognitive impairment," said Douglas Scharre, who developed the test with his team at Ohio State.
The SAGE test can also be taken at home by patients, who can then share the results with their physicians to help spot early symptoms of cognitive issues such as early dementia or Alzheimer's disease, said the research published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences.
The SAGE's self-administered feature – pen-and-paper format – and four equivalent interchangeable forms allows it to be given in almost any setting and does not require any staff time to administer or to set up a computer.
Participants are tested on parameters like orientation, language, reasoning/computation, visuospatial and memory abilities.
'What we found was that this SAGE self-administered test correlated very well with detailed cognitive testing,' Scharre said.
'If we catch this cognitive change really early, then we can start potential treatments much earlier than without having this test,' he added.
The test does allow doctors to get a baseline of cognitive function in their patients, so they can follow them for these problems over time. (Read: 14 new genes that lead to Alzheimer's identified)
Alzheimer's disease and stroke are the two most common causes of dementia in India.
Alzheimer's disease is a degenerative mental disease and the most common form of dementia. It results in loss of cognitive function beyond normal ageing and is usually seen in people who are older than 65. Symptoms include confusion, mood swings, long-term memory loss and a gradual loss of bodily functions. This is caused due to plaque deposition in the brain's neurons which affects its functioning and causes them to die. (Read more..)
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The aim of this expedition is to survey the shallow water biota of the Austral and Gambier Island Groups in the middle of the Pacific Ocean halfway between Australia and South America.
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North Korea stops Nuclear and ICBM Tests
Sat, 2018-04-21 23:37 — danmanjones
BREAKING NEWS: North Korea stops Nuclear and ICBM Tests (seen on South Korean TV)
Video of BREAKING NEWS: North Korea stops Nuclear and ICBM Tests (seen on South Korean TV)
North & South Korea will have a face-to-face meeting next Friday, April 27 for only the 3rd time since the end of their hot war in 1953.
The Koreas have setup a hotline between the leaders for the first time ever.
At the summit the Koreas are expected to discuss de-nuclearisation and a peace treaty.
https://www.ft.com/content/df5204a0-4482-11e8-803a-295c97e6fd0b
Removal of US Forces from the Peninsula, that's most likely been part of the deal. Though possibly a decade off, though China has time to wait for it.
We'll never know the whole story, and the official ones might not be lies but they skip over massively important details. Xi just appointed "Chairman of Everything", which means he's crushed several factions among the Chinese Communists. North Korea's leadership was kept afloat by a faction of the Chinese Military. The USA dropped nasty sanctions on a huge chunk of Chinese Banks, functionally removing several from the global financial markets.
Add in the very muted response from China about US Tariffs, and it's clear a bunch of deals have been cut along many different vectors. What we're seeing is the "show" for public consumption. The US-NK deal was done months ago. (Heads of State don't talk about meeting until the deal is already 90% done.) It helps that the NeoCons are out of power, so US Strategic Interests haven't been turned into expanding an empire.
Though do expect some sort of "development aid" package from the USA. Maybe just shipping food & fuel again. There's a lot of different avenues this can take.
The funny part is going to be watching for the hilarious double-faced opposition that crops up to an end to the issues on the Peninsula. We'll get a good idea what parties, factions & countries have been profiting from NK aggression for years.
I can't wait for the MSM to praise how the Koreans did this all by themselves.
Since it had nothing to do with the President threatening to bomb them back to the stone age, or the risky move of threatening a war of economic attrition with China.
Now lets get the fuck out of Syria and focus on America for the rest of the term.
Also since NK just teched up huge with a nuclear milestone. They probably want to focus on economy to get a military machine going again in the future.
I doubt they are throwing out the nukes they have and burning the blueprints.
It actually dawned on me that the USA might have helped tilt intra-Chinese political factions in a way that allowed Xi to fully establish himself in control of the Government. We lack information about internal Chinese moves, but the only way that happened would be the crushing of several other factions. What if the, likely, Military faction that kept the strings over North Korea was crushed in the last round of purges, and Xi, Moon & Kim all cut deals with Trump to end the charade?
Because there's a funny little thing that crops up when you try to run the strategic interests & thinking of North Korea: the nukes never made sense in a post-USSR world. "Nuclear Blackmail" isn't in NK's interests, but in the interests of many other groups. NK could have moved in some of the ways that China did, unless the story of control of North Korea has a lot more subtlety to it. Thus, if the factions pushing NK down the ICBM & Nuke path are suddenly removed, North Korea's strategic interests suddenly revert to normal and the first thing they'd do is trade the ICBMs & Nukes for money & access.
That's exactly what we're seeing play out in real time.
As for Heads of State meeting, that little factoid just comes from historical study. The times they haven't, the meetings have gone extremely poorly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_summit
A time when it went poorly, though modern technology has changed a lot of the way certain things play out. As we're getting more accurate information about events from 1970 to about 1990, they send people to "talk" quite a lot more now, as it's far easier. The noticeable, but under the radar, change with the Trump Administration is that huge chunks of communication is being done by high-level courier. The soon-to-be Secretary of State Pompeo made a bunch of trips as CIA Director, which is really odd. There's been a clear move away from any electronic communication for anything that's actually important. Trump's meeting with Xi at the Forbidden City is a lot more important, in hindsight, than we realize.
This doesn't change North Korea from being a repressive, totalitarian regime, but there's a difference between threatening to lob Nukes at LA & Cambodia. Almost everyone wins in North Korea becoming an uninteresting, poor country.
There are definitely parts moving in Asia. Japan are rolling out their first batches of marines since WWII.
Neocons are seeping back in. Iran needs to mind its p's & q's.
Sadly, that cant happen as long NK has it's leadership and military. NK wants reunifiaction under NK terms.
SK wants reunification under SK's terms or no reuniting at all.
Either side of option 2 are the only sane options.
EDIT. This post was in response to your first draft statement.
Oh... yeah sorry haha. I often re-edit my comment until I'm happy with it. It's a bad habit.
I think it's a good habit. Strive to clarify your message so that you present the specific points you desire to state.


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Authorities said the man went through various background checks to get clearance to be in the secured area.
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He told them: "Those guys will rough me up if I try and land there."
The empty passenger airplane, stolen from the Seattle-Tacoma airport, making an unlikely upside-down aerial loop, then flying low over Puget Sound before crashing into the sparsely populated Ketron Island (Getty)
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The airline was coordinating with the Federal Aviation Administration, the FBI and the National Transportation Safety Board, he said.
Additional reporting by AP
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Q: Eleven test on integers For this exercise, I need to calculate all possible numbers that satisfy the eleven test. The eleven test is a generalisation of the following:
Let $a_1, a_2, a_3$ be numbers. Then it should hold that $a_1 + 2a_2 + 3a_3 (\text{mod } 11)=0$
I tried fixing one number and then going on, but that did not work for me:
Let $k$ be a number and let $k:=3a_3$. Therefore, $a_1+2a_2 (\text{mod } 11)=11-k$. But then what? I can fix $l := 2a_2$, then $a_1=11-k-l$.

A: If you want to achieve $$\sum_{k=1}^rka_k=0\mod 11$$ choose $a_2, a_3 \dots a_r$ arbitrarily and let $$\sum_{k=2}^{r}ka_k=a\mod 11$$
Then $a_1=11-a \mod 11$.

A: Well, I unfortunately don't read Dutch, but the elfproef seems to be a rough  check that a Dutch account number is valid. You take your nine-digit account number, $d_9d_8d_7\dots d_2d_1$ and calculate $\sum_jjd_j$ modulo $11$. If the result is nonzero, your supposed account number wasn't valid. So you might as well let the first eight digits $d_9,d_8,\dots d_2$ be arbitrary, calculate the modulo-11 sum above but omitting the $d_1$-term, to get a number $S$ with $0\le S\le10$. Now you want your $d_1$ to be the negative of this, modulo $11$, in other words zero if $S=0$, otherwise $11-S$, and you're out of luck if $S=1$. So this special case has to be avoided, but I'll leave that for you to figure out.

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Why We Settle: Global Payments Should Be Fast and Cheap
4 min read • Team Ripple
Good, Cheap, Fast
In the retail and service industries, customers face inherent trade-offs: good, cheap, fast. It is commonly thought that a company, product or service can achieve two of the three, but it is nearly impossible to find an offering that incorporates all.
McDonald's is fast and cheap, but far from a Michelin star dining experience. BMW delivers the Ultimate Driving Experience, but you'll have to pay for it. You can fly to Denver rather inexpensively on Spirit, but the experience will never live up to Singapore Airlines. Healthcare poses myriad examples: access to care, disease treatments or even receiving diagnoses.
However, with the advent of digital business models, we have seen an increasing number of companies achieving the trifecta of all three elements across industries such as insurance (Lemon), entertainment (Netflix), communications (Skype) and healthcare (Teladoc). Amazon is a particularly relatable example. The lack of a costly physical retail footprint, state-of-the-art logistics, and an ever-increasing inventory has allowed Amazon to achieve high standards of good, cheap and fast.
That said, in urban areas it is still faster to cross the street to Walgreens and purchase items"on demand." Perhaps that is why Amazon sees value in building some form of physical footprint–retail stores with frictionless, fast checkout.
The Payments Parallel
In cross-border payments, particularly for individual payments (a.k.a., remittances), there is a parallel to the good, cheap, fast adage. In ethnographic and survey-based research across thousands of individuals, we are constantly reminded that remitters care about four things more than anything else:
Reliability: Often defined as certainty of payment, reliability is knowing that a payment will, indeed, arrive (and with a confirmation when it does).
Speed: The faster the payment arrives, the greater peace of mind for everyone.
Convenience: While this could be defined differently for everyone, it is best expressed as, "Can I make this payment with as little effort as possible?"
Cost: This is self-explanatory, and the least surprising requirement.
As with good, cheap, fast, these key elements are inherently at odds when it comes to cross-border payments. For many, going to their bank for cross-border payments is a reliable venture–"I trust that my bank, even if does take three days, won't lose my money." However, most remittance payments happen outside of the formal banking channel.
Companies like Western Union have grown their business to provide highly-convenient and fast means to send payment–but these companies are hardly inexpensive, demanding up to 10% of the transaction value. With the advent of the internet, we have seen the proliferation of digital-only payment providers. Like most online businesses, these payment providers are thriving by undercutting fees of the traditional players. However, as subjects of the same inefficient correspondent banking network, speed is often limited.
Do We Have to Settle?
The greatest trade-off of these four elements is between speed and cost. When it comes to reliability and convenience, these are manageable attributes and become increasingly so as more consumers come online and adopt modern mobile technology. The proliferation of digital wallets for payments services, even amongst the unbanked, has been a wide-spread phenomenon.
So, why would speed and cost be at odds? To answer this, we must look at the difficulties of moving money between currencies and the institutions that are licensed to handle these transactions. Even though most remittances happen outside of traditional banks, banks are the critical layer to any cross-border, fiat payment system today – providing settlement and foreign exchange capabilities for global payments. However, cross-border settlement through this system is far from instantaneous, due to a function of batch processing, limited bank operating hours and fragmented providers and systems.
However, this doesn't make speed impossible, it just requires a "work around" through something called "pre-funding." That is, having accounts in the destination countries with enough capital to make the payout to a receiver "instant." This itself may solve for the speed dilemma, but now we're back to the issue of cost. A series of respondent and correspondent network participants, utilized by bank and non-bank remittance providers, adds cost to the complexity.
Cost increases significantly (as much as 35% according to McKinsey) when a payment provider opens, maintains and pre-funds accounts around the world. The risk, cost and hassle creates an immense burden–which is passed along to the end user in the form of fees or disadvantageous exchange rates.
The critical next question, which we explore in our next post, is simply: do we have to accept that there will always be a trade-off between speed and cost?
Read the third and final post in this remittance series here.
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[HKAFF] Cold War 寒戰 (2012) – Hong Kong
Date:12 November, 2012
Author:Administrator
Category:2012 Hong Kong / China Movies, Film Festivals, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
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Review by: Andrew Chan FCCA AACTA
Review Date: 12th November 2012
Reviewed as part of Hong Kong Asian Film Festival [HKAFF] and releasing in cinemas across Hong Kong from 8th October 2012 and Australia by Dream Movies on 18th October 2012
Hong Kong Box Office Taking: HK$42,801,776
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Probably the most heavily promoted local production in Hong Kong this year, comes the highly anticipated yet immensely overhyped "Cold War". The film is by no means a total failure, but is a perfect example of a how a great script failing miserably in the hands of first time directors (also screenwriters), Sunny Luk and Longman Leung. Everything in the film happened too quickly and the result is a lagging second half that drags to the end. Definitely a blockbuster movie event, but far from meeting its own grand expectations. This is apparently the film to revitalize the Hong Kong industry since 2002's "Infernal Affairs", but unfortunately it is not to be.
I am great supporter for giving golden opportunities to rookie filmmakers a chance to direct and mange a Hong Kong movie backed by a major studio. However, in the case of "Cold War", despite doing well in writing a good enough script, first time directing duo (Sunny Luk and Longman Leung) are just not up to the par. They may have shown glimpses of potential throughout the film, but those moments are far too indifferent, uneven and at times questionable. The pair should be congratulated by a great tense opening 40 odd minutes, where the film frantic pacing soar and soar to a crescendo so early on. Unfortunately the film never reaches the same heights or tone set by that moment. In fact, the moment the ICAC clan came into the show, the film began to fall rather flat to the point of dragging on, before a ridiculous twist that nailed the film to its own coffin.
I am not saying that "Cold War" is an outright bad film as the leading duo of Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Kar Fai provide a strong backbone to the story and a number of key players of the police force are suitably casted, but the ICAC clan seems far too amateurish, naive and terribly acted that almost singled handedly destroyed anything good about the film.
Aaron Kwok puts on a good show and at times is almost Andy Lau-like. There is one notable scene where Kwok confronts the ICAC with a trademark Lau's thumb up. Perhaps, it should be put that the Police Commissioner role was born for Lau, but somehow Kwok manages to impress with suitably intensity and carries an otherwise lackluster film. However, Kwok plays far too safe and in turn is unable to excel in the role. Alongside Tony Leung Kar Fai, the two experienced head of Police lifts the film beyond its own material and provide the audience with some truly cinematic moments, especially in their confrontation. Leung is able to extract the more expressive character work, as he is a father caught in the middle of a battle with his son kidnappers, maintaining the rules and boundaries of the police force, dealing with ICAC issues and the ongoing struggling for power within the senior police ranks. Leung provides the audience with an interesting character to follow and despite Kwok's best efforts, he undoubtedly overshadowed Kwok. Chin-Ka Lok does well in a short lived role, while Andy Lau appears in the film like a commercial break. Gordon Lam once again shines in crucial confrontation moments within the film, with his silent downplaying.
Aarif Lee who showed much promise in "Echoes of the Rainbow", but is out of his depth in the role as an ICAC principal. Perhaps, the role required someone with more experience like some in the tune of Anthony Wong, but it was not to be. While former ICAC commissioner (Alex Tsui Ka-kit) appears nothing like a commissioner, despite being in the position in real-life. His acting is almost woeful and his presence is a detriment to the film. Eddie Peng ("Tai Chi Hero") yet again show why he is better suited in a nice guy role than anything villainous, as his poor voice Cantonese dubbing affects his overall performance, making him extremely cartoony like.
All in all, "Cold War" is not a bad film, but it is a film that can be great. It possesses enough script for two movies, but it suffers from a poor sense of pacing, inexperienced directions. In the end, the film relies on explosions and action display to sustain the audience's attention. It is a shame, as the opening build up provides an excellent backdrop, only for the film to fall further and further away from the attention that it worked hard to sustain. There are probably a lot more political undertones within the film, but the ICAC portion of the film suffers a lack of insight and integrity that goes to the profession. The film seems to flavor the police force and their importance, but at the end of the day, "Cold War" is an extremely forgettable experience. To say disappointment is probably an understatement, but "Cold War" is undoubtedly the most overhyped film of the year. (Neo 2012)


Police said initial enquiries had suggested it was a homophobic attack.
Two men who were assaulted in Londonderry at the weekend have said they were targeted because they are gay.
The couple, aged 22 and 38, were beaten by three men in the city centre at about 0200 BST on Saturday morning.
They suffered cuts and bruising to their faces. Police are treating it as a homophobic attack.
One of the men, who did not want to be identified, said it had affected both of them badly.
"I'm terrified of going to bed, I'm terrified walking down the street," he said.
"I've got to walk my fella to his work because he's terrified.
"It's just absolutely soul destroying and it's not on."
David McCartney from gay support group Rainbow Project said the impact of a hate attack was "quite extraordinary".
"It's not that random, violent assault," he said.
"There is something more sinister and more hateful and hurtful to it and you're left feeling you don't belong.
"You're left feeling you're not a part of this community, you're singled out, set apart and picked upon."
Foyle MP Mark Durkan said the attack was "sickening".
"Regardless of whether it expresses itself in the sort of wanton attack on this gay couple or in the subtle prejudice we see all too often, homophobia is inexcusable.
"As a community we need to show our solidarity with those who suffer this awful prejudice. And we need to show those who attack them that it is they who are in the tiny minority in this society."


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Cardus selects cabinet to mark Canada's 150th
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Cardus, Canada's Christian think tank, unveiled its 40-member Cabinet of Canadians on Nov. 1, whose role will be to affirm faith's central role in building Canada as it celebrates its landmark anniversary of Confederation. Photo by Deborah Gyapong
By Canadian Catholic News
OTTAWA – The role of faith will not be left behind as Canada marks its 150th birthday in 2017.
Cardus, Canada's Christian think tank, unveiled its 40-member Cabinet of Canadians on Nov. 1, whose role will be to affirm faith's central role in building Canada as it celebrates its landmark anniversary of Confederation.
The Cabinet, part of the Faith in Canada 150 project, includes Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins, Evangelical Fellowship of Canada president Bruce Clemenger, Catholic Christian Outreach (CCO) president Jeff Lockert and National Council of Canadian Muslims executive director Ishaan Gardee.
It will help lead the conversation regionally and nationally on the importance of religious faith in Canada's history.
"There is growing discrimination against people of faith in Canada," said Andrew Bennett, Cardus senior fellow and Canada's former Ambassador of Religious Freedom. "We must speak out confidently and uphold this fundamental freedom in the face of growing intolerance of religious belief in our society."
The Cabinet includes not only religious leaders, but also academics, social entrepreneurs and business leaders who will act as a "vanguard" for the message that faith matters in Canada, he said.
Cabinet co-chairs are Shachi Kurl, a public policy analysist with the Angus Reid Institute, and Balpreet Singh Boparai, legal counsel for the World Sikh Organization of Canada.
While about 20 members of the cabinet represent Christian leaders from Catholic, Orthodox and various Protestant backgrounds, the cabinet includes a wide breadth of other faiths.
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by Dr. Shezad Malik
Nearly three of 10 teenage Florida foster children have been prescribed a mental-health drug, and 73 foster kids younger than 6 are taking mind-altering drugs, according to a recent study released in response to the death of a Broward foster child who was taking such medications.
In all, 2,669 children — or 13 percent of Florida foster children — are being given powerful psychiatric drugs, said the study, commissioned last month by Department of Children & Families Secretary George Sheldon. The largest group, almost 60 percent, are teens ages 13 to 17.
The 2,669 children represent about one-third more kids than a DCF database had reported as taking mental-health drugs — meaning electronic state records had significantly underestimated the use of mind-altering drugs.
Child-welfare administrators are investigating the use of mental-health drugs by children in state care in the wake of the April 16 death of Gabriel Myers, a troubled 7-year-old boy who hanged himself in the shower of his Margate foster home.
The Miami Herald reported that Gabriel had been given psychiatric drugs in his final weeks, including anti-depressants that are linked to a higher risk of suicide among children. Contrary to a 4-year-old law adopted after Herald stories, neither Gabriel's parents nor a judge had consented to the use of such drugs.
"Normally, a 7-year-old boy is learning how to read and tie his shoes," Sheldon said. "It is incomprehensible to me even now that a child so young may have deliberately and consciously made a decision to end his life."
Sheldon, a former deputy attorney general, said he had "serious questions" about the use of mental-health drugs on children. Many such drugs have never been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use on children, and many are linked to serious side effects.
"I think this should be done as a last resort, after a full review by . . . medical professionals," Sheldon said.
For almost a decade, Florida child advocates have complained that mental-health drugs are being used as "chemical restraints" to control some foster kids.
Andrea Moore — a former head of Florida's Children First who first suggested child-welfare workers were relying on mental-health drugs to control behavior — said the large number of older foster children and children in institutional settings makes such concerns far more pressing.
"The shift-care workers at group homes are much more likely to report sadness and crying as depression, or anxiousness as some sort of mental-health problem," Moore said. "You'd be sad and anxious, too, if you didn't know where you were going to live from day to day."
Sheldon acknowledged that the numbers had not been compared with a database kept by the state's Medicaid program. The agency also has acknowledged that caregivers were once told they did not need consents for mental-health drugs in certain cases — meaning the drugs may not be listed at all.
Among the 20,235 children whose case files were studied, investigators found no parental or judicial consent on record for 16 percent of the children, the report said.
Like previous studies, the new report shows that children in foster homes, group homes or other institutional settings are far more likely to be given mental-health drugs than children living with relatives. Overall, only 4 percent of children in relative care have been prescribed psychiatric drugs, compared with 21 percent for foster homes and 26 percent for other out-of-home settings.
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U.S. beef exports for the week of May 8-14 totaled 11,800 mt, up 2 percent from the previous four-week average. Shipments were larger for Japan (3,600 mt, +17 percent), Mexico (1,800 mt, +17 percent), Hong Kong (1,400 mt, +10 percent), Canada (1,100 mt, +4 percent) and Taiwan (730 mt, +12 percent), while exports slowed for South Korea (2,400 mt, -3 percent).
Beef net sales were 18,800 mt, up 35 percent from the previous four-week average. Larger sales were reported for Hong Kong (6,500 mt, +133 percent), Japan (3,900 mt, +14 percent), Korea (3,000 mt, +18 percent) and Mexico (1,800 mt, +2 percent), while bookings slowed for Canada (1,500 mt, -7 percent) and Taiwan (900 mt, -27 percent).
Pork exports totaled 18,200 mt, down 12 percent from the previous four-week average, with slower shipments to most major destinations including Mexico (5,900 mt, -54 percent), Japan (3,200 mt, -7 percent), Korea (2,200 mt, -30 percent), China (1,700 mt, -11 percent) and Hong Kong (540 mt, -19 percent). Exports trended higher for Canada (1,900 mt, +18 percent).
Pork net sales were 11,200 mt, down 42 percent from the previous four-week average. Bookings slowed for Mexico (2,900 mt, -14 percent), Japan (1,700 mt, -59 percent), Canada (1,300 mt, -37 percent), Korea (1,200 mt, -40 percent) and Hong Kong (450 mt, -31 percent). Sales trended higher for Colombia (900 mt, +45 percent), China (500 mt, +160 percent) and Honduras (460 mt, +22 percent).


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Young Vermonters Lead Us Toward Justice
Susan McCormack
In my work with communities, I always make it a priority to ensure that young people have a meaningful seat at the table. The presence and participation of young people always leads to better outcomes. Young people often bring a level of innovation, openness, and uncompromising commitment to their core values that is helpful for the adults in the room. These more experienced people sometimes carry with them a history that bends towards pessimism about what's possible.
During this particular moment in time, when many people are tempted towards pessimism, Vermont's young people are stepping up and leading us forward in truly creative and courageous ways. This is especially true when it comes to addressing issues of race, ethnicity, class and social justice. Vermont has always prided itself on its history of being the first; the first state to abolish slavery, the first state to legalize same sex marriage through the legislature, the first state to ban fracking. Most of these firsts, though, come with a backlash, and both the push forward and the backlash are being felt very acutely right now, magnified by the divisiveness of our national politics and the implementation of new policies that target the "other" (immigrants, people of color, people who identify as LGBTQ, the poor). History has shown that this kind of backlash often happens during times of tremendous change. As the rise of vast forces such as technology, globalization, the changing climate, and a large number of displaced people around the globe sweep over us, fear is with us and so is the backlash.
In the midst of this turmoil, Vermont's young people are standing up in creative and courageous ways to share their voices, their hopes and dreams, and their vision for a more just world. They are working hard to address racism, injustice, climate change, and to raise awareness of our shared humanity.
Several powerful examples come to mind immediately. Muslim Girls Making Change work to break down stereotypes and fight for social justice through slam poetry. Trained peer leaders from Essex Middle School teach a class at UVM about race and ethnicity. Student leaders at Montpelier High School spend a year learning and studying together to prepare to fly the Black Lives Matter flag during Black History Month. Young people take the lead during the recent Women's March in Montpelier. South Burlington High School student Isaiah Hines is named the Vermonter of the Year by the Burlington Free Press as he "worked to raise racial awareness among his fellow students and pushed the School Board to take definitive action. Hines stepped up when the … adults in the room fell short."
In a state that is predominantly white, it is worth pausing to notice how many of these young leaders are people of color. Their leadership takes a particular kind of courage because of the racism they live with every day. You may not want to believe that these students experience racism but I can share with you from my own personal observations over many years, and from conversations with people of color who live in Vermont, that racist comments, policies and traditions are an oppressive daily presence in many lives. At the same time, during the recent march in Montpelier, several students of color spoke of their love for Vermont and the support they've received from peers, teachers, and families. It is hopeful to contemplate that amid the intolerance, racism and bigotry that exists here, there is another side to the story as well. Students of color are working together with white students, educators and community members of goodwill to find powerful ways to share their experiences, and their hopes for the future.
Vermont's young people have much to be proud of. They are standing up and speaking out during this most important time. Despite the hateful comments, the hurtful backlash, and even the threats, young Vermonters are sharing the message that they care about the planet, justice, fairness, and our shared humanity. Our young people have so much to teach us. I hope we can listen.
Susan McCormack is a Senior Associate for Everyday Democracy.
This article was originally posted on the Creative Discourse website. It was reposted with permission.


On Saturday, February 21st, Nashoba's wrestling team pulled off a big win! Congrats to every member of the team and to Coach Connery for bringing home a D2 State Title.
For the first time in Nashoba's history, they were victorious over the defending state champs, with a team score of 127.0, to North Andover's 123.0. Well done boys – you've made us proud!


The palatable delight of a tangy blueberry is pure bliss, but it appears humans aren't the only ones who like them, as Frankie the bearded dragon proved in this delightful video.
In a video that will make you question why you're not as passionate about anything in life- let alone blueberries- Frankie wastes little time rushing over to his owner the moment it becomes apparent that a series of blueberries are placed nearby.
Unfortunately, the fantastic creature can't tell us what it is he loves about blueberries, but judging from his overzealous scatter and gaping mouth, we can hazard a guess that he'd say something along the lines of, "They taste good and that's why I like them. End of."
Still, because this is a frickin' bearded dragon, you can forgive us for shedding further light on this video. I mean, the moment he digests the blueberries, the guy just looks on top of the world, and we don't know about you, but we think we could all do with a bit of Frankie's passion.
Licking his lips as he goes from one blueberry to the next, it's safe to say that by the end of this video, you'll be googling "how much does a bearded dragon and a lifetime's supply of blueberries cost."


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should be something we all have some knowledge of as we enter our adulthoods.
After graduating from high school, most students – eager to get out into the world and spend! – are still unaware of how much having bad credit can have adverse effects on their lives. Paying off credit cards, and school loans, opening a business, buying a car and especially a home are all major commitments that involve the necessity of having good credit.
I have experienced all of the above and know first hand how important it is to have good credit. While it is inescapable, one's life should certainly maintain a high level of concern about the evil "I".
I'm talking about that dreaded inevitable villain: interest!
I have a bunch of problems with the concept of interest.
The first problem I have with interest accruing on any outstanding balance that I may have is that it's a mystery. I never know for sure exactly what my TOTAL payment is going to be.
especially when you may not have the money to reduce the amount of interest you are paying over time.
The second problem I have with interest is the way my payments are distributed between my accrued interest and my principle balance. It feels like I am literally throwing my money away knowing that "interest" takes priority over the balance that I actually "borrowed" to begin with.
So if I am paying off $1000 on my credit card and make a $100 payment, I know that my new balance is not $900. The interest that has accrued on the balance has been paid first. The total balance may only have been reduced by $50 for example, depending on the type of balance I'm paying off.
I know that, in many cases, if I were to only make minimum monthly payments, it would literally take decades to pay off my balance in full!
It doesn't matter what my current financial situation is or if I have encountered some sort of unexpected occurrence that may have forced me to dip into my savings, whoever I am making payments towards doesn't care!
I HAVE to make at least a minimum payment. It would make life a lot easier if I were able to make payments based on a percentage of my income at any given time. That way, I would be confident that I could always afford my payments.
This is the worst one yet. As if having to pay interest wasn't bad enough on its own, if heaven forbid, my payment arrives even one day late, an additional fee will be added to my balance. Talk about stress!
Sometimes I wonder how anyone is able to pay off a debt. If we could afford to pay all of these fees, I doubt we would have borrowed money or utilized our credit to begin with.
Now, of course, paying interest cannot be avoided. Most of us can't afford to buy a car, condo or a house in one payment! But avoiding interest payments as much as humanly possible is sure to make anyone's life easier and bank account fuller. This is especially true if you are looking to improve upon your life.
I believe that whether for personal or professional ambitions, success can most easily be attained when one can work with "sure things" as opposed to variables.
Having a friend pick you up to drive to an important event exactly at 7pm – instead of "shortly" – is certainly more gratifying.
Having an exact cost versus an accruing interest rate? Ditto.
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Human thoughts are defined that should be innate without having aspects of artificiality involved. Human being cleverness, because of this, involves a continuous adjustment of various mental advancements to accomplish a specialized setting.
Human thoughts are defined that should be innate without having aspects of artificiality involved. Human being cleverness, because of this, involves a continuous adjustment of various mental advancements to accomplish a specialized setting. These mental procedures in human intelligence offer full-size position in order to make a constant and regular all round performance.


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[371] Alternatives to Sex – Stephen McCauley
Posted on May 26, 2011 by Matthew
" During the scattered periods of my life when I'd been in long-term relationships, I'd been ashamed by adeptness at fidelity, which had made me feel unmanly. I'd used evasive language and innuendo to convey the impression that I was leading a wildly promiscuous life. " (13)
Set in a "posttraumatic time of uncertainty and anxiety for the whole country," (5) Alternatives to Sex zooms in on the human nuances of a morally ambiguous America when people, awakened to the sharpened sense that life is indeed short, choose between combating the evil of mankind by putting selfishness aside and doing good, and relinquishing altruism altogether and doing whatever it takes to please themselves.
At the center of this heightened awareness is William Collins, a Boston real estate agent whose sales figures take a huge plunge during a housing market boom due to obsessive-compulsive cleaning binges and a penchant for nightly online cruising for hookups. He decides to practice celibacy to save his career.
My problem was that I'd let an activity become a habit, a habit become a distraction, and a distraction become an obsession. After a while, it had become like eating vast portions of flavorless food at every meal, simply because it's on the plate or because there's nothing good on television. Oh, one more bite, you think. Why not? (117)
Lurking in the back of his mind is tender thought of his best friend Edward, whom he's certainly not in love with, but for whom he has harbored feelings. Three years ago, after being on the wrong side of a long-term relationship, William, jaded, has been using that as an excuse to go out with elaborately inappropriate people. He is protective of his relationship with Edward (platonic, that is), because friendship has a way of enduring while romantic relationships could perish quickly.
What depressed me so profoundly was that they'd constructed a twisted moral code that allowed them to behave horrendously while still believing they were doing good. (225)
Into his life comes Samuel and Charlotte, wealthy and happy suburbanites looking for the perfect city apartment, shortly after his new resolution to be celibate. Soon the outwardly having-it-all-together couple reveals the true colors that, despite their sophisticated lifestyle, they are not above the tedium of marriage squabbles.
At my age, I was living in the cold waters of semireality, trying to swim from one set of delusions to the temporary safe harbor of the next. (73)
Despite an abundance of wry humor, Alternatives to Sex delves into the heart issues that confront everyone: love, monogamy (in the Webster's sense, not the flushed don't ask-don't tell monogamy), and moral boundaries. It is a comedy of manner that tries to answer questions about whether love lasts, as the notion of love has been undermined by compromise on moral standard. Fidelity is trampled on as unmanly. As McCauley navigates readers through the confusing world of complicated human relations, I also see glimpses of myself in them. These people are all in transitions of their lives, career- or relationship-wise. William is witty and perceptive despite his own self-destructiveness. Anxious to be unhappy and hurt again, he opts for no-string-attached escapades with men instead of following his heart feelings. He is slow to come to terms with the real reason for his unhappiness. Consider the few psychological depth of the characters, McCauley are employing them very well to give his commentary on modern culture, where the desire to do good is constantly being tripped up by the need to feel good. The use of real estate as a literary device is also very clever—the way people never sacrifice the hopefulness for a done deal serves both real estate and relationship very well.
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Sandy, on May 27, 2011 at 7:12 am said:
Wow, I remember reading about this one in EW from a long time ago, and it did make my list. I think that list is long gone somewhere. It was pages and pages and was ratty and scratched up. I would drag it with me wherever I went…bookstore, library. So once upon a time I did want to read it, but never could get my hands on it. YOu have renewed my interest!
Matthew, on May 31, 2011 at 1:26 pm said:
Stephen McCauley is a great writer and satirist. I am never disappointed although some of his books are better than others. Alternatives to Sex is by far the best novel I have read so far. The books read like beach reads but they all inquire into deeper subject matters. I just love picking up his books.
Steph, on May 28, 2011 at 12:09 pm said:
I still really need to read something by McCauley – I know he is one of your favorites and you pointed out a bunch of his books to me when I was in San Francisco. He sounds like such a relevant, modern author.
The books are definitely not literary fiction, but they are not what I call "fluffs", even though the blurbs often make that impression. He is very observant to the absurdity of human nature and try to convey them in a comic manner. As a gay man I found his commentary so hit-home.
A Reader's Crisis « A Guy's Moleskine Notebook, on May 30, 2011 at 4:52 pm said:
[…] [371] Alternatives to Sex – Stephen McCauley […]
Colin Matthew, on June 12, 2011 at 7:12 am said:
This is a book that i've always picked up to look at when at a bookstore but never read. Mayhaps I will have to check the library for a copy.
Matthew, on June 12, 2011 at 3:42 pm said:
Last year Stepehen McCauley came to read his latest novel, Insignificant Other. At the reading, on the table full of his books, I found Alternatives to Sex. It's very funny and satirical, really hit-home about how in relationship we are just as hesitant as closing the deal for a house. He's so right on about many things about relationship: fear to commit, celibacy, and the morality. I think it's his best novel.
Enf-of-Year Book Survey « A Guy's Moleskine Notebook, on December 24, 2011 at 4:38 pm said:
[…] Alternatives to Sex Stephen McCauley. It's so right on about some of the gays that make me very frustrated. "What depressed me so profoundly was that they'd constructed a twisted moral code that allowed them to behave horrendously while still believing they were doing good." […]
Current Books « A Guy's Moleskine Notebook, on July 16, 2012 at 1:09 pm said:
[…] me. I have enjoyed his other works, including the most recent Insignificant Others and my favorite Alternatives to Sex. He's funny, pithy, and sarcastic. He's a keen observer of relationships and the […]
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The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien
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Room: A Novel Emma Donoghue
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Learning to Lose David Trueba
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Hello, the most of you know that we have modeled the HI ALT LANDING pb-sw in the Aerosoft Bus Professional.
To make it more realistic for you to operate the Aircraft in such scenario, I created a document with the procedures. This is 100% like IRL. My source was a current FCOM from an airline operating on such airports.
ZUDC is using fake frequencies for the ILS34 (IOI, 111.00). I added only one, according to sat image.
ZUBD is based on a chart; ILS14 (IOO, 110.50).
Both airports are georeferenced to satimage. I have access to a really good source.
If you want to be able to program the FMS you have to add the relevant data to your cycle. But beware, you will do this on your own risk, no support!
Very nice Bob, thank you for your work, I'll try on SLLP and SLCB.
And also SLPO -- Potosi, Bolivia, and of course SKBO - Bogota Colombia.
We now have a real pilot in beta team who flies these high alt, high temp departures a lot so we think we can get them pretty perfect.