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The double selection represents the recognition of the industrial path of the Treviso company by ADI that makes known both the quality of our production and the design choices that have made possible the selection of Saya and Juno, judged by the Permanent Observatory of ADI Design as innovative products and complying with the requirements of the Association.
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The 2013 Edition of the ADI Design Index concludes the period leading to the XXIII Compasso D'Oro, a much coveted internationally recognized award, which has three candidate Arper projects: Saya and Juno - in the thematic category "Design for Living" - and the Brand Image - in the category "Visual Design"-.
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Juno y Saya, Red Dot
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European Parliament study and draft MEP report confirm problems with EU laws on food contact chemicals
by Michael Warhurst on May 12, 2016
The debate on the regulation of chemicals in Food Contact Materials – such as packaging – is starting to heat up, with a new study from the European Parliament's Research Service (EPRS) echoing many of the criticisms that CHEM Trust made in our briefing on the subject.
In addition, the MEP acting as a rapporteur on the European Parliament's investigation of this issue, Christel Schaldemose, has published her draft report, which suggests possible areas of improvement.
The EPRS study makes clear that most stakeholders – including among industry and EU governments – think that the current regulations are inadequate, in particular because of the lack of harmonised rules regulating the use of chemicals in many food contact materials, including paper, card, inks, glues and coatings:
"For a large majority of stakeholders (across almost all categories), the current legal framework regulating food contact materials at EU level is not complete….
this lack of specific measures for some food contact materials results in internal market barriers, increased compliance costs – which are eventually covered by end consumers – loss of competitiveness and innovation, and delayed market access for businesses…
The lack of uniform EU safety standards for non-harmonised FCMs … also means that uniform safety across the EU could not be ensured in practice."
The draft parliamentary report written by MEP Christel Schaldemose includes a number of recommendations, including:
"…given the prevalence of the materials referred to on the EU market and the risk they pose to human health, the Commission should prioritise the drawing-up of specific EU measures for paper, board, coatings, inks and adhesives
…in light of the EU's focus on moving towards a circular economy, specific measures at EU level should also be proposed for recycled paper and board;"
This report will be debated in the European Parliament's Environment, Public Health and Food Safety committee later in May, then amendments will be tabled by MEPs on the committee, who are due to vote on them in mid July. The report is due to be agreed by the full parliament after the summer.
CHEM Trust raised our concerns about the poor regulation in this area in a letter to the then Health Commissioner Tonio Borg in July 2014. We also highlighted the issue in a briefing that we launched at the European Parliament's hearing into the subject in January 2016, and we also responded to the EPRS's consultation as part of the preparation of their study.
Dr Michael Warhurst, Executive Director of CHEM Trust, said:
"CHEM Trust welcomes this new study from the European Parliament's Research Service, which echoes much of what we've been saying over recent years. It's not acceptable for an everyday chemical exposure like food contact materials to not have proper EU regulation.
The Commission must now acknowledge that this policy area needs the resources necessary to develop and implement a regulatory system that protects the public, and addresses important issues like the use of recycled materials in food packaging."
Both Chemical Watch and Food Packaging Forum have reported our comments on this EPRS report.
ENDS Europe has established more information about the Member State views given in the EPRS report & quoted CHEM Trust on the issue of enforcement:
'The survey does not identify which [8] member states support tougher FCM restrictions but ENDS understand the group includes France, Denmark, Germany and Sweden….
"Enforcement is essential to ensure that it's not possible for companies to cut corners, yet industry sources tell us that the UK Food Standards Agency, for instance, does very limited surveillance work in this area. The European public deserves better," CHEM Trust executive director Michael Warhurst told ENDS'
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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries are produced by BBC based on the novels by Elizabeth George. Nathaniel Parker plays Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley and Sharon Small plays his partner, Sergeant Havers. There have so far been twenty-one filmed mysteries featuring Inspector Lynley. Elizabeth George keeps on writing stories for Lynley, but so far the latest novels haven't been transformed into movies or TV films.
In season one (2001), the BBC produced and aired 4 episodes of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries after a successful broadcast of a pilot (2000). The series ended in 2007 - for many fans to an unsatisfactory end, because the infamous series six - with all its troubles in finding a broadcast slot in the UK (due to some unintended connections to real life crimes at that time) - only had two episodes leaving too many questions unanswered. Everyone who's been following the series over the years hopes for TV specials someday to be produced by the BBC.
Series Summary
The series is set in modern-day England and are very much in the P.D. James British tradition. Lynley is a blue-blooded Scotland Yard Inspector. Besides being a detective, he's also the eighth Earl of Asherton, driving a vintage car - a Bristol 410. The number of Bristol 410s were built is 79. They're rarer than 007's Aston Martin DB5, of which there were 1.021. His sergeant, Barbara Havers, is an unattractive 30-year-old woman from a troubled home on the wrong side of the tracks and she can't stand being assigned to work with Lynley. Over the course of the series they gain a grudging respect for each other.
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Q: Is $0\in (\bigcap\limits_{n=3}^{\infty}([0,1]-[1/n,1-1/n]))$ At first I thought no since $\lim\limits_{n\to \infty}1/n=0$.
But then I checked that $0\in ([0,1]-[1/n,1-1/n]) $ for any positive integer $n\geq 3$.
So it is in every set. Which is the exact opposite of what I thought.
Edit: sorry people meant intersection

A: That's right. $0$ is in the intersection since it is in each of those sets. It has nothing to do with limits; just because a sequence of points tends to $0$ does not mean that $0$ is in the sequence. For another example consider $\bigcap_{n=1}^\infty ( [0,1] \smallsetminus \{ \frac{k}{n} : k \in \mathbb{N} \} )$, which is exactly the set of irrational numbers in $[0,1]$, despite the fact that each of these irrationals is the limit of a sequence of numbers with exactly one from each set in the intersection.

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True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues
By: Gabino Iglesias
True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues DVD Review
Written by Gabino Iglesias
DVD released by Impulse Pictures
Written and Directed by Koyu Ohara
1975, Region 1 (NTSC), 70 minutes, Not Rated
DVD released on July 10th, 2012
Kozue Hitomi
Arikawa Mihoko
Natsuki Kumi
Impulse Pictures released True Story of a Woman in Jail: Sex Hell back in April and followed with True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues in July. Both films are part of the series of Japanese classic erotic/sexploitation movies that the company is bringing back to life.
True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues is supposed to be a sequel and Mayumi (Hitomi Kozue) is once again the lead character. However, the back story provided in the first film is thrown out the window and the plot seems to start from scratch. When the film begins, Mayumi is being released into the general population after spending some time in solitary confinement. When she enters Cellblock 3, the situation is very much like what she faced the first time around: a group of bullies are hazing and abusing their new cellmates. When she tries to defend the new girls, a fight breaks out. From then on, the narrative alternates between Mayumi and the stories of two other girls: a young shoplifter and a post-op transsexual.
Mayumi's story has absolutely nothing to do with what we learned about her in the first movie, so True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues is more of a remake than a sequel. As for the other two stories, they act more as occasional breaks in the fighting and nudity than as serious plot elements. Besides the difference in the main character's background, there are plenty of things that make this film feel like a remake. The fights, communal baths, abusive guards and hazing are just the beginning. Just like the first time around, there is a beating that leads to a miscarriage, fake penises made with food, bloodied underwear, and a beating in the yard, to name a few.
While the original film pushed some boundaries, this one is a copy and its attempts at being shocking eventually become laughable. They had a lot of urinating in the first movie, so this time they did it in a few mouths. There were a couple of raping scenes in the original, so they replaced those with gang rapes to make it worse. A lot of lesbian sex could be seen in the previous film, so this time it's lesbian group sex. There's more, but I'm sure you already know where I'm going with this.
Ultimately, True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues is more sexually graphic, violent, and gory than its predecessor, but it lacks the originality and depth of the first film. Exploitation is a lot of fun, but it loses something when it becomes obvious the film makers are trying too hard to shock and titillate.
Video and Audio:
The audio is decent and the images are, just like the first time around, very clear for a film from 1975. However, the fact that they tried to make it more hardcore means that the awful grey mist of Japanese censorship ruins three scenes with its presence.
The only offered feature is removable English subtitles and liner notes from Japanese film scholar Jasper Sharp.
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Twitter was too Sleazy for Disney
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Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) is too sleazy and controversial for the Walt Disney Co. (NYSE: DIS) to touch.
Executives at the Magic Kingdom want nothing to do with Twitter even though it has 313 million users; and generated $2.476 billion in revenue during second quarter 2016. Bloomberg reported that Disney CEO Bob Iger was worried that Twitter's reputation as a venue for bullying, racism, bigotry, sexual misconduct and other bad behavior would tarnish the Disney brand.
This seems to confirm what more than a few of us suspect, Twitter is fast becoming a sort of social media sewer. Much of what is tweeted there is so vulgar and offensive nobody wants anything to do with it.
Not even a man who was willing to shell out $4 billion for Marvel Comics. Marvel is the home of such dark and violent superheroes as Wolverine, The Punisher and Deadpool. Yet the man who bought it is bothered by what goes on at Twitter.
Why Disney said No to Twitter
One reason why Iger is afraid to touch Twitter is some of the brain-dead content gets tweeted out. A perfect example is this post from the Sheriff of Milwaukee County:
David A. Clarke, Jr.
✔ @SheriffClarke
"It's incredible that our institutions of gov, WH, Congress, DOJ, and big media are corrupt & all we do is bitch. Pitchforks and torches time."
9:30 AM – 15 Oct 2016
4,591 4,591 Retweets
No this is not imaginary a high-ranking law enforcement officer in a major metropolitan area is urging violence, because he does not like the way the election is going. If that does not demonstrate everything that's wrong with Twitter, I don't know what does.
After seeing that it is easier to see Disney is running away from Twitter. Some of this content is positively pathetic. Thanks to Rod Dreher of The American Conservative for pointing this stupidity out.
Is Twitter a Dying Brand?
Nor is Disney the only company that said no to Twitter; both Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) dropped plans to buy Twitter, Bloomberg reported. One has to wonder if this is because of Twitter's association with an unpopular and controversial political figure namely Donald Trump, or that it is simply a bad company.
Twitter's financial numbers are simply awful according to ycharts. A few highlights shows that Disney's team made the right decision for shareholders as well as good taste and common sense. They include:
A negative earnings per share number of -.6.
A negative net income of -$408.87 million.
A negative profit margin of -17.91%.
A negative return on equity of -9.33%.
Twitter has a Lot of Float
Twitter seems to be losing money although it does have a lot of cash according to ycharts. Some its current float includes:
$6.617 billion in assets
$578.23 million in cash from operations.
$3.588 billion in cash and short-term investments.
A free cash flow of $175.47 million.
All this indicates that Twitter might be able to make some money with the right management. It would be a profitable acquisition for the right buyer because revenues are growing constantly.
Why Twitter has More Value than you think
Twitter reported revenues of $973.91 million in June 2014 that grew to $1.779 billion a year later and $2.476 billion in 2016. That indicates it is capable of generating revenue and float from advertising.
Some investor or company will snap Twitter up if just to get their hands on that revenue. The company's steadily expanding user base is not as big as that at Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) WhatsApp; which has over one billion users, but it is impressive.
One big advantage to Twitter is that it has lots of affluent middle-aged upper class users in the United States and other developed companies. Another attraction to the service is all the attention the news media; particularly in the United States, pays to it. That will certainly be an attraction to companies that profit from advertising revenue, like Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) particularly if Twitter can be cleaned up.
Despite that Twitter is a real lousy investment for average investors. It has no dividend yield according to ycharts and is not scheduled to pay one anytime soon according to NASDAQ. To that we can add the 9.33% return on equity those numbers tell me stay away from this stock folks it stinks.
Disney is a Well-Managed Value Investment
The Twitter decision shows us why DIS is a good value investment right now. Bob Iger was willing to resist the fast buck to protect the company's long-term reputation.
Disney might have made some money from Twitter, but its reputation would have been dragged into the gutter. He put the reputation of the brand, which is Disney's greatest asset ahead of cheap opportunity. That proves Disney worth the $91.16 it was trading for on October 19, 2016.
If you're looking for a value investment; forget about Twitter and check out Disney. The Magic Kingdom is a very well-managed company that knows how to stay out of the Twitter gutter.
Note: for those interested in Disney's financials I'm waiting for its third quarter earnings report to dig into them.
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A Dairy Revival in Ukraine.
A Dairy Revival in Ukraine
With enhanced access to laboratory, veterinary, and education services, Ukraine's smallholder dairy farmers are elevating the quality of their products and tapping new markets.
Ukraine has traditionally been known as the region's "land of milk and honey," but transitioning its agrarian economy into the 21st century has been challenging. Four million small family dairy farms and private rural households produce more than half its gross agricultural product and 75 percent of its dairy. Smallholder farmers often lack the resources to invest in the latest technology, and when new food sanitation standards emerged under the Ukraine-European Union Association Agreement, dairy farmers couldn't meet expectations.
Accustomed to hand-producing lower-quality milk, of which 88 percent is second grade, many farmers culled their herds rather than make the necessary investments. Only extra-grade milk will fully meet the European Union's standards, and farmers lacked the knowledge, technology, and market to improve production.
In 2017, USAID's Agriculture and Rural Development Support (ARDS) program, implemented by Chemonics International, saw an opportunity to bring dairy market actors together to improve the quality of milk, revitalize the market, and increase farmers' incomes and resilience.
"We could hardly meet our ends in running our farm," explains dairy farmer Volodymyr Hvostov. "We realized that we could improve the situation only by producing extra-grade milk … So, we made the business plan and took the decision to invest in our farm."
Unlocking Ukraine's Agricultural Potential
"We realized that we could improve the situation only by producing extra-grade milk … So, we made the business plan and took the decision to invest in our farm."
Volodymyr Hvostov, dairy farmer
Collaborating, Investing, and Learning
In cooperation with the national Association of Milk Producers (AMP), the ARDS project identified opportunities for innovation and growth. Ukraine's relatively low consumption of milk (139 liters per capita versus 239 in Romania) suggested considerable potential for the dairy industry. Local demand for extra-grade milk would increase, as schools, kindergartens, hospitals, and supermarkets would now be required to serve only extra-grade dairy products. The extra-grade milk could be distributed within the region and would set the industry up for export to new markets within the European Union and beyond.
To help transform the dairy industry nationally, ARDS teamed up with AMP to establish a central laboratory for testing milk quality and livestock health, pilot a new milk collection model, and enhance farmer education.
With its mechanical milking process, Kyshchentsi Farm in Cherkassy Oblast produces 100 percent extra-grade milk.
ARDS and AMP co-invested in Uman Laboratories in Cherkassy to establish local capacity for testing. The laboratory combines milk quality and livestock productivity testing, allowing milk producers to meet international standards for raw milk quality and safety, improve the welfare and health of their cows, and adjust feed mix ratios based on milk testing results. More than 4,000 rural family farms and 150 small and medium entrepreneurs in 20 regions benefit from the information provided by the new lab.
"During just one quarter, we moved from second-grade milk to extra. We had a terrible situation with mastitis because, before collaborating with the laboratory, 100 of our 825 cows had a clinical form of the disease, and the antibiotics we had been using had no results. Today, the number of [cows with mastitis] is less than 1 percent, and we stably produce extra-quality milk," says Anatoliy Vitruk, a dairy farmer from Volyn Oblast.
In 2018, Uman Laboratories developed an innovative mastitis kit, a set of tests for rapid identification of mastitis and sensitivity to antibiotics for farmers to use. The laboratory continually works on improving the kit and employs a group of IT specialists to develop a portable scanner to read kit results at farms.
With support from AMP and ARDS, Uman Laboratories developed an innovative mastitis kit, which enables farmers to conduct raw milk quality testing on site.
Supporting Dairy Farmers Caught in Conflict
Farmers in the eastern regions of Ukraine face additional challenges due to the current conflict with Russia. ARDS turned its attention to Luhansk Oblast, which has been heavily affected by military action since 2014. The extensive migration of local inhabitants from Luhansk and the loss of nearby markets in industrial cities caused a 25 percent decrease in the dairy cattle population between 2014 and 2016.
Transforming the fragmented milk production system required a close collaboration — more stable market links — between the milk input suppliers and the dairy processor. In response to a competitive bidding process, ARDS selected Bilovodsk Butter Factory, located in the most remote district of Luhansk (15 kilometers from the Russian border), to strengthen its role as lead buyer and processor of extra-grade milk.
With ARDS support, the provincial government created a program to underwrite the purchase of small, automated milking machinery for each dairy-producing household in Luhansk — in all, 30 percent of the total population in the oblast. Bilovodsk Factory provided extra support to its 3,000 raw milk input suppliers, offering loans to farmers who lacked the financial resources to buy the milking machinery. With the new equipment, more than 50 percent of private dairy farmers shifted from manual to mechanical milking in 2018, which immediately improved the quality of raw milk collected.
ARDS and AMP held training sessions for milk collectors at Bilovodsk Factory to provide more comprehensive support to its dairy suppliers. AMP specialists taught farmers how to operate their new machinery and how to prevent mastitis and other disease through basic hygiene practices and eliminate use of antibiotics.
"We have implemented the HACCP [hazard analysis and critical control points] standards at the factory and worked with our private households to improve the input milk quality," says Valentyna Chubenko, director of the Bilovodsk Butter Factory. "The export market has tough requirements to export products, and we were so excited to receive positive feedback on our [products]."
AMP also opened a consultancy services center in Luhansk to provide veterinary services for local farmers in the area close to the conflict to help make them profitable.
"We started taking services from the Center for Veterinary Services a couple months ago and already have the first positive results: The herd productivity increased on average three liters per cow per day, while the quality of milk is [high]."
Vladimir Vasiliev, director of a dairy farm in Luhansk
"We started taking services from the Center for Veterinary Services a couple months ago and already have the first positive results: The herd productivity increased on average three liters per cow per day, while the quality of milk is [high]," explains Vladimir Vasiliev, director of a dairy farm in Luhansk. "It is very difficult to find a veterinary specialist here. Therefore, the regular visits of highly skilled veterinarians bring a real benefit to our farm."
Since the start of this collaborative activity, the number of private households with cows in Luhansk Oblast increased by 19 percent and the activity has been expanded in 2019 to continue to build cattle populations. The quality of collected milk improved, and now 79 percent of the milk that Bilovodsk Factory processes is first-grade quality, up from 21 percent in 2017. In 2018, the factory significantly improved the quality of produced butter to meet international export standards and exported more than 125 tons of high-quality butter to Algeria and Morocco.
Ms. Chubenko is grateful for the support from ARDS and is excited about the company's prospects. "Now we feel we can face the new, challenging standards to produce dairy. Now we understand what potential we have for our growth."
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Lockdown Special design contest deadline TODAY
by Andrew Davies 07 May, 2020 07 May, 2020
Today (Thursday, May 7) at 5pm is the deadline for the kbbreview Retail & Design Awards 2020: Lockdown Special, the concept design contest devised especially for stuck-at-home designers.
The one-off competition is free to enter and open to anyone. The winners will receive an official trophy identical to those given out at the full ceremony held back at the start of March.
There is also an amazing pool of top prizes donated by suppliers and brands.
The contest, which was started as a casual suggestion by managing editor Andrew Davies has now seen well over 600 people download the extensive design brief.
The brief sees a family of four looking for a new kitchen, master en-suite and kids' bathroom for their converted lighthouse. There is also a treehouse in the garden that needs a kitchen and living space.
The contest has two categories, one for Concept Design of the Year and another for Under-16s Concept Design of the Year.
So stuck-at-home kids can have a go too and there are fantastic prizes just for them.
The design judges from the 2020 awards have all signed up to judge these new categories too
"The final countdown to the deadline has begun," said kbbreview managing editor Andrew Davies. "Who'd have thought that something that started out as a bit of fun would become such a big thing, with hundreds of people entering so many genuinely creative and imaginative designs.
"I can't wait to get stuck into judging!"
To download the brief – which includes all instructions on how to enter – go to kbbreview.com/awards.
The closing date is Thursday, May 7th at 5pm.
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Cognitive Variability Predicts Incident Alzheimer's Disease and Mild Cognitive Impairment Comparable to a Cerebrospinal Fluid Biomarker
Authors: Gleason, Carey E.a; b; c; * | Norton, Derekc; d | Anderson, Eric D.e | Wahoske, Michellea; c | Washington, Danielle T.a; b; c | Umucu, Emref | Koscik, Rebecca L.g | Dowling, N. Maritzah | Johnson, Sterling C.a; b; c; h | Carlsson, Cynthia M.a; b; c; h | Asthana, Sanjaya; b; c; h | for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative1
Affiliations: [a] Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA | [b] Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (11G), William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, WI, USA | [c] Wisconsin Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Madison, WI, USA | [d] University of Wisconsin, Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Madison, WI, USA | [e] Wright State University, School of Education and Human Services, Dayton, OH, USA | [f] Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX, USA | [g] Wisconsin Alzheimer's Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA | [h] George Washington University, School of Nursing, Washington, DC, USA
Correspondence: [*] Correspondence to: Carey Gleason, PhD, MS, Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Geriatrics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Madison VA GRECC (11G), Wm. S. Middleton Memorial VA, 2500 Overlook Terrace, Madison, WI 53705, USA. Tel.: +1 608 280 7000; E-mail: ceg@medicine.wisc.edu.
Note: [1] Data used in preparation of this article were obtained from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) database (http://adni.loni.usc.edu). As such, the investigators within the ADNI contributed to the design and implementation of ADNI and/or provided data but did not participate in analysis or writing of this report. A complete listing of ADNI investigators can be found at: http://adni.loni.usc.edu/wpcontent/uploads/how_to_apply/ADNI_Acknowledgement_List.pdf
Abstract: Background:Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers are emerging as critically important for disease detection and monitoring. Most biomarkers are obtained through invasive, resource-intense procedures. A cognitive marker, intra-individual cognitive variability (IICV) may provide an alternative or adjunct marker of disease risk for individuals unable or disinclined to undergo lumbar puncture. Objective:To contrast risk of incident AD and mild cognitive impairment (MCI) associated with IICV to risk associated with well-established biomarkers: cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) phosphorylated tau protein (p-tau181) and amyloid-β 42 (Aβ42) peptide. Methods:Dispersion in cognitive performance, IICV, was estimated with a published algorithm, and included Trail Making Test A and B, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test (RAVLT), and the American National Adult Reading Test (ANART). CSF biomarkers were expressed as a ratio: p-tau181/Aβ42, wherein high values signified pathognomonic profiles. Logistic regression models included longitudinal data from 349 Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) participants who completed lumbar puncture. All subjects were cognitively healthy (n = 105) or diagnosed with MCI (n = 244) at baseline. We examined odds of conversion associated with baseline elevations in IICV and/or ratio of CSF p-tau181/Aβ42. Results:When included in models alone or in combination with CSF p-tau181/Aβ42, one standard IICV unit higher was associated with an estimated odds ratio for incident AD or MCI of 2.81 (95% CI: 1.83–4.33) in the most inclusive sample, and an odds ratio of 3.41 (95% CI: 2.03–5.73) when restricted to participants with MCI. Iterative analyses suggested that IICV independently improved model fit even when individual index components were included in comparative models. Conclusions:These analyses provide preliminary support for IICV as a marker of incident AD and MCI. This easily-disseminated, non-invasive marker compared favorably to well-established CSF biomarkers
Keywords: Alzheimer's disease, amyloid beta-protein, biological markers, cerebrospinal fluid, cognition, cognitive dysfunction, incidence studies, mild cognitive impairment, tau protein
DOI: 10.3233/JAD-170498
Journal: Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, vol. 61, no. 1, pp. 79-89, 2018
Accepted 24 August 2017


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Home Banking Underground Bank Chanelled $3bn Past Beijing's Capital Controls
Underground Bank Chanelled $3bn Past Beijing's Capital Controls
Chinese authorities have busted an underground bank that funnelled several billion dollars past Beijing's strict capital controls.
Police have arrested seven individuals believed to be involved with the underground bank in the Guangdong province city of Shaoguan according to a report by the state-run Xinhua News Agency.
According to the report authorities uncovered total of 148 "illegal and fraudulent accounts" involving over 10,000 depositors who used the underground bank to channel $3 billion out of the country.
The underground bank stole or otherwise illegally procured the identification documents of over 200 people to open fake accounts that could used for their operations, which involved the transfer of renminbi funds to a Macau-based criminal gang that would convert them into Hong Kong dollars.
The mammoth sum involved exemplifies the determination of many Chinese investors to thwart Beijing's strict capital controls and shift their funds to overseas jurisdictions.
Beijing stepped up curbs on capital outflows around a year ago in order to stymie the $1 trillion drop in China's foreign reserves over a two year period, as investors opted to stow their wealth abroad in the wake of the 2015 stock market upset, an abrupt drop in the renminbi as well as heightened concerns over easing GDP growth.
The beefed up controls triggered a sharp decline in outbound foreign investment, yet also helped to push foreign reserves back above the $3 trillion threshold.
China has long imposed capital curbs in order to shore up its control of the renminbi, as well as prevent the type of funds exodus that felled its regional peers during the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.
Individual Chinese citizens are subject to a $50,000 ceiling on the amount of money they can transfer out of the country per year, with exemptions for certain companies and investors in strategic sectors.
Given that the gambling hub of Macau is one of the few legal conduits for shifting huge sizeable out of China, the former Portguese-colony is coming under pressure to tighten up its capital controls as well as introduce other measures to combat malfeasance.
According to Macau Daily Times these measures already include the use of ATM's installed with facial recognition software, in order to conduct surveillance of clients with Chinese bank cards.
Underground banks themselves continue to do roaring business despite Beijing's crackdown on the Chinese finance sector, with the Ministry of Public Security indicating that they processed over $137 billion in transactions in 2016.
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Suez Canal: Sisi is a danger not only to Egypt, but to the world
Published date: 26 March 2021 18:16 UTC | Last update: 9 months 3 weeks ago
Egyptian government's abject failure in responding to the Suez closure highlights the threat this regime poses to international trade and stability
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the UN in New York in 2019 (AFP)
When a 35km expansion of the Suez Canal was opened six years ago, banners appeared on the streets of Cairo proclaiming it to be Egypt's "gift to the world".
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi welcomed foreign leaders on a yacht. Helicopters and jets performed a fly-by. The expansion was hailed as a national triumph and a turning point after years of instability.
The Egyptian government is a practised liar. It lies to its own people every day, but in times of crisis, it also lies to the international community
When the Suez Canal was closed unceremoniously by a 400-metre container ship hitting the bank in a dust storm on Tuesday, there was silence. For 26 hours, there was not a word about the closed canal, the shipping backing up in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, or of the Ever Given itself.
Instead, the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) issued a media statement announcing the successful transit of an Italian cruise ship with 65 Covid-19 cases aboard.
There was a media blackout. It was only on Wednesday that the lying started in earnest, with the first official statement noting that efforts were "continuing to reopen the canal". The SCA downplayed the impacts on navigation, sending a "message of assurance that the navigation will continue as usual". As if to reinforce that message, the authority allowed a convoy of ships to enter from the northern end in Port Said on 24 March.
Feeding the propaganda mill
The authority warned journalists not to heed any news or rumours about the most serious incident to block the canal since the 1973 Arab-Israeli War, other than statements coming from them. Egyptian journalists did not need any encouragement to toe the line. They fed the propaganda mill, celebrating the SCA's statement and claiming the ship had been refloated. They even tried to demonstrate this with satellite images, although the images themselves still showed the ship firmly wedged in place.
The truth was even concealed from international shippers. The Gulf Agency Egypt shipping company quoted the SCA as saying that the container ship stranded in the canal for more than a day had been partially refloated and was standing alongside the bank, and that traffic would resume shortly.
The same story was fed to Lloyd's List, which reported seeing an email from the Egyptian company sent to the China Shipowners' Association: "We are still waiting confirmed information for the towing direction. Convoy and traffic will be back to normal within [a] very short time as soon as the vessel is towed to another position," read the email, based on information provided directly by the SCA early on Wednesday.
Satellite imagery shows tug boats and dredgers attempting to free the ship that ran aground in the Suez Canal on 26 March 2021 (Satellite image c.2021 Maxar Technologies/AFP)
On Thursday, two days after the chaos had started, the SCA officially announced that navigation had been suspended.
The Egyptian government is a practised liar. It lies to its own people every day, but, in times of crisis, it also lies to the international community.
When a Russian passenger jet was brought down in 2015 by an Islamic State (IS) missile 23 minutes into a flight from Sharm el-Sheikh to St Petersburg, Russia and the UK instantly cancelled all flights to the Red Sea resort.
Egypt's civil aviation authority released a preliminary report claiming there was no evidence that the plane had been brought down by terrorist action, blaming the crash on a technical fault. The reason for the denial was clear: Sharm el-Sheikh is integral to the country's tourist industry. It took authorities more than three months to admit the plane had been downed by a missile fired by Wilayat Sinai, which pledged allegiance to IS.
Two harsh lessons
But it is difficult to keep maintaining that a ship the size of the Ever Given is floating, when it so evidently isn't.
However the Suez Canal crisis is resolved, this incident has taught the world two harsh lessons: how important the canal and Egypt still are for international shipping, and how disastrously and incompetently both are being run.
Egypt's Suez Canal: Why does its closure matter?
The incompetence of Sisi's dictatorship, in other words, is not just a matter of international concern on the issues of human rights and the rule of law. Sisi's incompetence threatens a major international waterway.
In the immediate future, this week's Suez crisis could not have happened at a worse moment. It reinforces the interest of oil-and-gas-producing Gulf states in exploring ways to bypass the canal by routing their product through Israel. The Emirati normalisation deal with Israel has led to a tidal wave of contracts and projects, each of which spells an existential threat to Egypt's monopoly on this traffic.
Whether through a long-neglected pipeline built by the shah of Iran, new internet cable or a railway line, or even a canal through the Negev desert - no greater push could be given to finding ways of bypassing the Suez Canal and Egypt than by the Egyptian reaction to an incident of this magnitude.
Sisi's disastrous rule
In the longer term, there is now a clear pattern of decline and disaster to Sisi's rule. Above and beyond all the other issues in which he has embroiled his country - backing the wrong side in Libya, a witch hunt against the Muslim Brotherhood at home and abroad - Sisi really had two existential things to worry about. He has failed in both.
The first was the Suez Canal; the second was maintaining the water levels of the Nile. Sisi laughed and ridiculed his boss, former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, for raising concerns about the dam Ethiopia was building in 2012, and arranged for a leak of a private meeting to embarrass the president.
The line from the Egyptian army was that the issue was too serious for a mere Muslim Brotherhood president to handle. So they shelved the issue, and Sisi then compounded his mistake by signing away Egypt's claim in an agreement with Ethiopia and Sudan in 2015. Now, he is reportedly considering military action, just weeks before the dam - which has long been completed - gets its second crucial filling.
Instead of concentrating his meagre resources on the two issues that really matter to his country, Sisi has spent all his time obsessed with his image
Instead of concentrating his meagre resources on the two issues that really matter to his country, Sisi has spent all his time obsessed with his image.
A revealing window into Sisi's real priorities in the years in which he has run Egypt into the ground can be seen in the official record of lobbyists working for the Egyptian government, filed with the US Department of Justice under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
An investigation of these official records conducted by a group of Egyptian journalists at Sasapost reveals how the lobbying operation in Washington went into overdrive after the 2013 Rabaa massacre and the suspension of $260m in US military aid, a fraction of the total $1.3bn package.
Sisi's government paid the Glover Park Group $250,000 a month to lobby senior members of Congress who opposed him, such as Senators Lindsey Graham and the late John McCain. Glover Park spent two years working on Graham until he reversed his position, Sasapost reported. Between 2013 and 2019, Sisi paid this company alone $13.25m - a huge price in the Washington lobby market.
Whitewashing the regime
What were Egypt's concerns in Washington? Whitewashing Sisi's image, targeting the American right and Israel's supporters, and focusing on "religious rights," with Joe Biden about to enter the White House. In other words, everything that Sisi has spent his money on has been about his image. None of it has had anything to do with what really matters to his country.
But these are Sisi's priorities. He has not uttered one word about the crisis going on in the Suez Canal.
It is now commonplace to hear that Egypt is a failing state - a state that fails its citizens, one with depleted resources, a weakened economy plundered by the Egyptian army, and growing levels of poverty affecting tens of millions of people.
The international community, however, has yet to wake up to the fact that Sisi is a danger not only to his people and his country but also to international trade and stability. Perhaps a big ship jammed into a tight space will do that for them.
This article is available in French on Middle East Eye French edition.
David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on the region and analyst on Saudi Arabia. He was The Guardian's foreign leader writer, and was correspondent in Russia, Europe, and Belfast. He joined the Guardian from The Scotsman, where he was education correspondent.
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var constants = {
    LED: 3,
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    rMotorBack: 37,
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};

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var count = 0;
var max = 3;

function pwmTest() {
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function off() {
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function off() {
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Willie Nelson's Farm Aid Reveals Virtual Festival Lineup for 35th Anniversary
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Willie Nelson's annual benefit concert for farmworkers, Farm Aid, will still take place in 2020, albeit virtually. The lineup has been announced for the 35th anniversary edition of the charitable event perennially directed by Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young and Dave Matthews.
This year's concert is called Farm Aid 2020 on the Road. The festival's virtual roster includes country music artists such as Brandi Carlile, Chris Stapleton, Jamey Johnson and Margo Price; on top of that, performances from Nelson, Mellencamp, Young and Matthews will also be a part of the event.
Other artists scheduled to play include Bonnie Raitt with Boz Scaggs, Edie Brickell with Charlie Sexton, Jack Johnson, Jon Batiste, Kelsey Waldon, Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real, Nathaniel Rateliff, Particle Kid, the Record Company, Valerie June and the War & Treaty. See the full lineup below:
Farm Aid 2020 will take place by way of a three-hour livestream, to be viewed from the comfort of home, on Sept. 26 beginning at 8PM ET. Additional artists will be added to the lineup before the show, with updates available on FarmAid.org and on social media.
During Farm Aid 2020, Nelson and company won't be shying away from the circumstances preventing the event from being held publicly; in fact, the county music legend says he'll use the opportunity to shine a light on the importance of farms during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
"This pandemic and so many other challenges have revealed how essential family farmers and ranchers are to the future of our planet," Nelson explains, per Billboard. "Farm Aid 2020 is going to give the whole country a chance to learn about the important work of farmers and how they're contributing to our well-being."
The Farm Aid 2020 on the Road livestream is free and will available by way of the organization's website and Farm Aid's YouTube channel, on AXS TV and elsewhere.
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Val Levine's entry into the world of music was anything but by the book. Growing up as a figure skater, music was for dancing, not playing.
Val started ice skating at age four, and by age seven, was turning heads as an upcoming athlete to watch. She competed throughout her youth, graduated college with a degree in dance, then spent years on the pro ice show circuit, including a season touring with 'Ice Capades'.
Val loved skating, but recalls joking once about wishing she was a country western singer. An absurd and random thought for a girl from Brooklyn who didn't even own a guitar. She had once performed a skating routine to an Emmy Lou Harris classic, but it wasn't until she learned that a friend's dad owned a guitar shop, that she finally went off to make a purchase. And so the story of this singer - songwriter begins there.
Since then, Val has released a full length CD entitled "Paper Romance" and several subsequent single releases which can all be found on most mainstream music platforms. A few tracks taught some of the best players in Nashville, where she sometimes calls home.
Levine's sound is all her own. "Nothing cookie cutter about this songwriter" one listener reports. "She sings what's in my head...." says another, "... a little hidden treasure. "