The government are now saying that the "adoption target" ceased in 2006. For year 1/4/5-31/3/6 there was BV163 which was adoptions from care. This remained in year 6-7 and 7-8, but was redefined to include special guardianships. It is misleading to say that the target ended when it was redefined.
Trudiagnostic change PACE leaderboard algorithm - was in position 40, now position 44 - does it matter?
Trudiagnostic have changed the way they handle the Rejuvenation Olympics Leaderboard algorithm. The result of this initially was that I was globally no 40 and have now dropped to 44. Trudiagnostic are a US company that get samples of blood and they look at the DNA to see which parts of the DNA have methyl groups (CH3) attached to them. These modifications to DNA are called methylation markers. DunedinPACE is an algorithm which uses DNA methylation markers in white blood cells to work out how quickly or slowly someone is aging. I had three results on this. The odd thing about the results was that whilst my epigenetic age calculated from the same methylation markers was going down, the speed at which I was aging was going up. I find this somewhat counterintuitive. It is, however, I think relevant that in a global contest my approach on biochemistry which is quite different to many other people's does seem to keep up with others working in the same area. To that extent it...
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Both me and the missus have mental illness (nothing serious (in a dangerous way) PTSD and depression) and frankly we live in fear of the social services - indeed in part this fear led to the stillbirth of our daughter last year.
Thankfully we have been blessed a second time, and have managed to keep out of the reaches of the social services, hopefully it will stay this way.
Though it doesn't say much for the wellfare state that things should be this way.
Now all we have to worry about is a miracle cure by David Freud, and the subsquent endless meals of beans on toast.
btw what happened to the disablity discrimantion act - I thought it was meant to stop this sort of thing - oh yeah I forgot we are nuts and don't count. Still I guess it is nice that it exists to provide yet more tick boxes for government to show just how enlightened the country is in matters of social policy.