Rejecting most of the suggestions, Mayor Alzate and other town leaders are pushing a milder answer: sending a caravan of cars from Puerto Asis and other communities in Putumayo to Bogota, starting next Wednesday, to attract attention to their plight.
"It's a mild cabbage," answered Steve Constantin, a few stools down.
Cognitive function was classified according to SPMSQ (Pfeiffer 1975) as follows: severe cognitive impairment if 0 2 correct answers; moderate cognitive impairment if 3 5 correct answers; mild cognitive impairment if 6 7 correct answers; and intact cognitive function if 8 10 correct answers.
By the way, when Scott Pelley asked the government spokesman about the fact that only one percent of people who get the flu find it to be anything other than a typical, mild flu, the answer was an analogy to seatbelts, that "only 1percentt of people riding in a car will be in an accident, but you don't want to take a chance on being that 1percentt".
There was a very low reported prevalence of dementia in our study population (4%) but probably elderly with mild dementia could answer the questionnaire without problems and probably there were a high proportion of patients with moderate or severe dementia among the patients that declined to participate.
The cognitive status of elderly individuals was defined as the number of wrong answers in the 10-question SPMSQ, whereby two or fewer incorrect answers indicate an intact cognitive status, three or four incorrect answers indicate mild intellectual impairment, and five or more incorrect answers indicate moderate to severe intellectual impairment.
"What can we have been thinking of, we dead", asks the speaker, "with our fussed-over folders / And mild, unprofitable passions?" The answer is a depressing silence.
(Some have called it iPod noir, but is that right? Shouldn't it be iNoir or something? And now that I think of it, can this be called a theater review if I took part?) Ms. Arber asks the "performers" to introduce themselves and answer a mild question or two.
In a similar, if milder, spirit was the answer to Putin's mocking remark in December that the white ribbons worn by protesters as symbols of opposition reminded him of condoms.
Do yourself a favor and take a look at her mild-mannered, understated answers.
