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of newjersey christine todd whitman and miles taylor who served in the trump administration as chief of staff at homeland security. welcome to the programme: there was a moment this afternoon when the website, flightradar, crashed because so many people were following the progress of a plane that was tracking a circuitous route from malaysia to taiwan. and that is because flight spar 19, was carrying nancy pelosi, house speaker, and the highest ranking us visitor to taiwan, in some 25 years. she landed safelyjust after 11pm, accompanied by a senior delegation of house committee chairmen, in defiance of escalating chinese threats. just after landing, the washington post published the speakers opinion piece, in which she explains some of her thinking. in the face of the chinese communist party s that might be the official white house position, but at such a delicate moment in us china relations, the pentagon was not in favour of the visit. remember china views taiwan as ....
Several modifiable lifestyle risk factors for dementia have been identified, but it is unclear how much the Norwegian public knows about the relationship between lifestyle and brain health. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate knowledge about modifiable dementia risk and protective factors and beliefs and attitudes towards dementia and dementia risk reduction in a randomly selected subsample of the Norwegian population. The total sample (n = 1435) included individuals aged 40–70 years from four counties (Oslo, Innlandet, Nordland and Trøndelag) in Norway. Two online questionnaires were used to measure (1) awareness about dementia risk reduction and (2) an individual`s motivation to change behaviour for dementia risk reduction (MOCHAD-10). Of the participants, 70% were aware of the potential of dementia risk reduction in general. Physical inactivity (86%), cognitive inactivity (84%) and social isolation (80%) were the most frequently recognised deme ....