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Prepare for big media event around Captain America issue #600
It has been two years since the death of Captain America.
Killed by a bullet fired by his brainwashed girlfriend amidst a plot fiendishly hatched by longtime enemy the Red Skull, Cap died in June 2007.
Or did he?
Of course, the shield was picked up capably by former sidekick Bucky Barnes. But Marvel has not forgotten the huge storm of media surrounding the assassination of its greatest hero. And so, in just a couple of weeks, Captain America #600 comes to newsstands.
And it arrives two days early. Normally, comics are released on Wednesdays. But for this event, Marvel is allowing dealers to actually sell the comics on a Monday. Clearly, Marvel is hoping for a slow news day on the 15th, and shipping the prelude to a new five-issue miniseries called "Reborn" will help create news.
I am all about creating news for Marvel, so I am doing my fair share here. If you have not read the amazing Captain America Omnibus, which is $100 and can cause a hernia just picking it up, I recommend grabbing it (with a forklift), or read the ongoing Death of Captain America series via some other route. But read it! Start at the beginning -- Issue #1, writtten by Ed Brubaker, released just a few years ago -- and take it from there. Don't freak: Issue #600 is also kind of issue #51 in the current arc, so you're not 599 issues behind. The current and ongoing story arc is some of the best prose out there in any format.
And the twist that brings Bucky back is absolutely electrifying. There used to be a saying in Comicdom that you could "never bring back Bucky." Wellllll, not exactly. And the way Brubaker accomplished this was incredible. Ed, you're a genius, dude.
Bucky as Cap has done a great job representing, and the picture at the top of this blog covers that nicely. The costume is improved, for one. So I am hoping Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, comes back in some other capacity, at least for the time being. He can come back as Nomad, the costume he wore for a period of time. Or he can come back to take over the protection of the nation from Norman Osborn's Dark Reign. What? you don't know about the Dark Reign, formed following the Civil War and the Secret Invasion?
Get busy reading.
Heeding Dr. Sandman's advice on swine H1N1 risk communications
I just read a Tweet from my buddy Mike Coston, aka FLA_MEDIC, blogger of great repute at Avian Flu Diary. He mentioned an article in Nature by Dr. Peter Sandman, one of the world's leading risk communication experts. I encourage you to follow the link and read it now. I'll wait.
OK, welcome back. Didn't that all sound familiar? Having deja vu? that is because it sounds similar to my blog of April 28th, titled Mixed messages, cafeteria-style preparedness won't cut it in swine flu fight. In that blog, I cover many of the same themes. But Dr. Sandman puts things much more succinctly and with much greater gravitas than I ever could.
I met Dr. Sandman in February 2007 in orlando at the CIDRAP pandemic conference. The man and his work are both highly valued and woefully underutilized, I am afraid.
The thing I most remember about then-HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, a former governor of Utah, is his suggestion -- painfully repeated over and over and over again -- that the easiest way to stock up for a pandemic was "When you go to the store to buy tuna, for every three cans you buy, get a fourth and put it under the bed." Overall, the entire Bush Administration message on pandemic preparedness was (uncharacteristically) clear, sensible, and sage. It was borne of Bush's own reading of John Barry's seminal work The Great Influenza," THE history of the 1918 pandemic.
President Obama's administration seems to have completely disregarded the role that concise risk communication must play in effective management of a flu pandemic. The role of individual responsibility needs to be played up, not downplayed in favor of "nothing to see here, move along." the American people can take it: Tell them exactly what they need to hear. Especially the part they never want you to hear: government can do very little to ensure your personal safety or health during a flu pandemic. That itself may be anathema to their way of thinking, but the truth is the truth.
Richard Besser, the acting director of the CDC, isn't understating the risk. He says he is "very concerned", but expresses his concern with a soothing bedside manner. He doesn't have that rumpled, exhausted emergency-manager look that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Harold Denton perfected in the 1979 Three Mile Island crisis. Denton left people feeling that the risk was serious and that they were in good hands. Besser says it is serious but leaves us feeling that he doesn't want us to worry much.
Still, I don't fault Besser for looking and sounding reassuring. Good crisis communication means saying alarming things in a calm tone, and he is doing exactly that.
The problem is that he isn't giving us anything to do except being hygienic. He keeps telling us, accurately, that the CDC is being aggressive in its response to the outbreak. But he is not asking the public to take further action. He needs to urge citizens, schools, hospitals and local governments to follow Leavitt's advice.
Instead, we have a surreal situation in which the federal government has released one-quarter of the Strategic National Stockpile of antiviral drugs, so there will be enough oseltamivir (Tamiflu) to deploy to millions of sick Americans. But it hasn't yet asked those Americans to stock up on tinned fruit and peanut butter.
It's time to talk peanut butter, tuna and bottled water. But not for swine H1; for any calamity. As I said in my late April blog:
So what should we be telling people? We should be telling them to prepare and to learn more about influenza. I am not talking about the Romero-esque TV commercials that the Ford Administration ordered up during the 1976 swine flu scare. I am talking about telling people to get their "hurricane kits" or "earthquake kits" restocked and brought up to speed. It is time to re-educate the American people on previous pandemics and previous near-misses, such as 1946 and 1951, with viruses that were also H1N1 but were much more virulent and, some thing, either swine-like or were actual swine influenzas that jumped the species barrier back in the day.
Telling people to buy one to two weeks' worth of food, water and medicines to prepare for hurricane season -- an annual hit-or-miss proposition with a clear historical precedent of occurrences -- is not considered folly; it is considered prudent.
Great minds think alike. Thank you for a great article, Dr. Sandman.
Swine flu: Why Egypt wants to kill all the pigs
Intrepid reader,
Last week, I blogged about the possibilities of swine H1N1 to graft other genes onto its genetic construction. I have mentioned my concern that swine H1N1 could, in fact, easily pick up the amino acid combo which, in the aggregate, represents the Tamiflu Resistance Gene.
I also alluded to the potential for swine H1N1 to take a victory lap around the world and reassort with our old friend H5N1. Now I mentioned this only in passing. The reason should be obvious: A number of persons believe this whole H1N1 thing is either a gross overreaction by public health professionals, and/or a ploy by the Obama Administration to advance its public health agenda.
It is neither, although every time I hear an Obama official even mention health care "homes" in the same breath as H1N1, I cringe, because they need to put the Rahm Emanuel playbook down ("Rule 1: Never allow a crisisto go to waste") during this entire evolving event. It is important to know that the Obama Administration is essentially running the Bush playbook on the management of this epidemic, and they have acknowledged as much and have been publicly grateful for its existence. So far, I have not seen any major mistakes, mea culpas or blown calls in the response to this unfolding situation out of Washington, excepting the Vice-President-in-charge-of-embarrassing-gaffes and soon to be Lame Duck, Joe Biden. And even he was saying what everyone else was thinking, I suppose. Still, as a recovering politician myself, I am amazed at this guy's lack of an "internal quip governor" (think NASCAR restrictor plate) and how Obama allowed him to get on the ticket.
But I digress. Back to the issue at hand, namely reassortment. Bloggers have been understandably reluctant to stray too far into joining swine H1N1 with avian H5N1. But when the world's leading influenza expert -- the "Pope of Influenza," Dr. Robert G. Webster of St. Jude in Memphis -- comes out and says what everyone else in Flublogia is thinking, I think it warrants a good blog.
Dr. Webster has dedicated his entire adult life to the understanding of influenza. He has learned much, but each answer generates a whole new set of questions. He, Edwin Kilbourne, John Oxford, and the late Graeme Laver stand as the true giants of modern influenza research. Upon their footpaths walk Kawaoka, Peiris, Webby (like Peiris, a protege of Webster) and others.
Kawaoka has taken some ribbing from this Blogger in the past, but let me assure you he knows his stuff and the world is a better place with him and all his skills on board.
When Webster talks, or even speculates, it is by definition informed, and we should do the old E. F. Hutton commercial and listen. Today, an AP article -- one of the best-researched I have read in quite some time -- speaks of the opportunity for swine H1N1 to reassort with avian H5N1 and produce -- something. One treat is that it quotes from three of the best-known names on the influenza front, which is always fun.
I will give the article and its link later. What I want to talk about now is the situation in Egypt, and why the Egyptian government made the controversial move to slaughter all its pigs virtually overnight. Something feels Biblical in that decision, you know. It was met with hostility and violent demonstrations across the nation. Only Christians eat pork there, and the hogs slaughtered were destined only for Egyptian Christian dinnertables.
But I believe the Egyptian government had its own experience and that of Indonesia on its mind when it made the decision. The Egyptian government has been looking for a reason to wipe out the hog population since 2008, because there was and is growing concern that Egyptian pigs had become reservoirs for H5N1. Search "Egypt" on my blogsite to find everything of consequence that has happened in that country, flu-wise, since 2006. I'll wait. Especially read my January, 2008 blog here. It has a pretty graphic, too.
OK, welcome back. You should have seen the blog post fromEgyptian blogger Zeinobia, whose blog from January 2008 -- yes, I said January 2008 -- was an eerie foreshadowing of our current situation.
Short form: The Egyptian government is scared to death that H1N1 will come around and reassort with H5N1, which they believe to possibly be endemic in their pig population. And if you look at the continuing increase in suspected and confirmed Egyptian H5N1 human bird flu cases, I think you'd agree there is much to be concerned about.
Likewise, the situation in Indonesia and in China also involoves informed speculation on behalf of animal and human influenza researchers that H5N1 may have made a small foothold in the hog populations there. Especially Indonesia, which remains Bird Flu Central for human cases and potential pandemic explosion, despite the competition from ongoing Egyptian human infections. Researchers already know that some 20% of the stray cat population in Indonesia has H5N1 antibodies. Likewise, some hogs in Indonesia have tested positive for H5N! antibodies. From the Website FluWiki, from2006:
Cat H5N1 sequences in Indonesia are apparently more similar to H5N1 sequences from humans than either are to H5N1 sequences from birds. What is the most logical interpretation of these results? I submit that there may be a mammalian reservoir for H5N1 in Indonesia and other countries and that H5N1 is under selection to adapt to mammals in this reservoir. Further, at least some of the human cases may be due to mammal-to-human infections. (See also Dr. Jeremijenko's post at 23:14 in this thread, and here and here). In the recent large cluster of human cases in Indonesia, no infections of poultry were found in close proximity to the village where the outbreak occured. However, pigs with antibodies to H5N1 were found in this region reference. H5N1 infections in pigs would be particularly worrisome as these animals could serve as mixing vessels for the formation of a human-adapted H5N1 strain. (bold mine)
That is what everyone is worried about. That is the Elephant in the Room. That is why no one in Geneva, Atlanta or anywhere else is overreacting about this swH1H1 epidemic.
Now it is time to bring in the AP story. Here it is, in its entirety.
Top flu expert warns of a swine flu-bird flu mix
By MARGIE MASON, AP Medical Writer Margie Mason, Ap Medical Writer 2hrs29minsago
MEXICO CITY – Bird flu kills more than 60 percent of its human victims, but doesn't easily pass from person to person. Swine flu can be spread with a sneeze or handshake, but kills only a small fraction of the people it infects.
So what happens if they mix?
This is the scenario that has some scientists worried: The two viruses meet — possibly in Asia, where bird flu is endemic — and combine into a new bug that is both highly contagious and lethal and can spread around the world.
Scientists are unsure how likely this possibility is, but note that the new swine flu strain — a never-before-seen mixture of pig, human and bird viruses — has shown itself to be especially adept at snatching evolutionarily advantageous genetic material from other flu viruses.
"This particular virus seems to have this unique ability to pick up other genes," said leading virologist Dr. Robert Webster, whose team discovered an ancestor of the current flu virus at a North Carolina pig farm in 1998.
The current swine flu strain — known as H1N1 — has sickened more than 2,300 people in 24 countries. While people can catch bird flu from birds, the bird flu virus — H5N1 — does not easily jump from person to person. It has killed at least 258 people worldwide since it began to ravage poultry stocks in Asia in late 2003.
The World Health Organization reported two new human cases of bird flu on Wednesday. One patient is recovering in Egypt, while another died in Vietnam — a reminder that the H5N1 virus is far from gone.
"Do not drop the ball in monitoring H5N1," WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told a meeting of Asia's top health officials in Bangkok on Friday by video link. "We have no idea how H5N1 will behave under the pressure of a pandemic."
Experts have long feared that bird flu could mutate into a form that spreads easily among people. The past three flu pandemics — the 1918 Spanish flu, the 1957-58 Asian flu and the Hong Kong flu of 1968-69 — were all linked to birds, though some scientists believe pigs also played a role in 1918.
Webster, who works at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., said bird flu should be a worry now. Bird flu is endemic in parts of Asia and Africa, and cases of swine flu have already been confirmed in South Korea and Hong Kong.
"My great worry is that when this H1N1 virus gets into the epicenters for H5N1 in Indonesia, Egypt and China, we may have real problems," he told The Associated Press. "We have to watch what's going on very diligently now."
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are extraordinarily busy trying to understand the swine flu virus itself, and haven't had time to break off staff to look at the possibility of a swine flu-bird flu mix, spokesman Dave Daigle said.
Malik Peiris, a flu expert at Hong Kong University, said the more immediate worry is that swine flu will mix with regular flu viruses, as flu season begins in the Southern Hemisphere. It is unclear what such a combination would produce.
But he said there are indications that scenario is possible. Peiris noted that the swine flu virus jumped from a farmworker in Canada and infected about 220 pigs. The worker and the pigs recovered, but the incident showed how easily the virus can leap to a different species.
"It will get passed back to pigs and then probably go from pigs to humans," Peiris said. "So there would be opportunities for further reassortments to occur with viruses in pigs."
He said so far bird flu hasn't established itself in pigs — but that could change.
"H5N1 itself has not got established in pigs," he said. "If that were to happen and then these two viruses were both established in pigs in Asia, that would be quite a worrying scenario."
Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease specialist at the University of Minnesota who has advised the U.S. government on flu preparations, said while flu experts are discussing the scenario, he has yet to see specific evidence causing him to think it will happen.
"Everything with influenza is a huge guessing game because Mother Natureholds all the rules, and we don't even know what they are, so anything's possible," he said. "We don't have any evidence that this particular reassortment is that much more likely to pick up H5N1 than any other reassortment out there."
"We don't have to put these things together," he added. "This is not chocolate and peanut butter running into each other in the dark hallway."
But there is in fact discussion of putting them together — in a high-security laboratory — to see what a combination would look like, according to Webster. Similar tests have been done at the CDC mixing bird flu and seasonal human flu, resulting in a weak product, he said.
Daigle, the CDC spokesman, said the agency wants to look at the question in the future.
Webster has done groundbreaking work on both swine and bird flus in his 40-year career, and has followed the evolution of the current swine flu strain from a virus that sickened a handful of people who worked with North Carolina hogs into a bug that has spread from person to person around the world.
He is closely involved in the global effort to analyze what the virus might do next. It has killed 42 people in Mexico and two in Texas, but so far has not proven very deadly elsewhere, leading to some criticism that the World Health Organization's warnings of a potential pandemic have been overblown.
Webster said underestimating the swine flu virus would be a huge mistake.
"This H1N1 hasn't been overblown. It's a puppy, it's an infant, and it's growing," he said. "This virus has got the whole human population in the world to breed in — it's just happened. What we have to do is to watch it, and it may become a wimp and disappear, or it may become nasty."
AP Medical Writer Maria Cheng in London contributed to this report.
So there you go. I hope wimp, but no one knows what it will do eventually. However, it is this worry that, I believe, has led the Egyptian government to do what it could not do last year; namely, slaughter the mixing vessels of influenza. They do not want the Next Pandemic to start on their doorstep. In that regard, and now knowing what you know, let me ask you: Have they made the correct decision?
With states short of Tamiflu, it's time to talk Probenecid again in swine H1N1 flu fight
The news stories are starting to come out of Washington, DC; Baltimore; and soon Sarasota (and that is rare to have that small retirement city mentioned in the same breath with two of the Big Cities on the East Coast!) that states just don't have enough Tamiflu to go around.
And here in sunny Florida, where we did not avail ourselves of the now-expired Federal coupon offer to buy Tamiflu at cheaper prices, people are openly questioning whether the state should, indeed, buy more.
I have a better idea. First, let me set some background.
I do not know if Roche can take enough plants offline, recommission them and start making Tamiflu again in any quantity. recall that Roche made a huge capital investment in more Tamiflu plants in 2005 and 2006, only to see global demand for Tamiflu abate as the concern evaporated regarding a bird flu pandemic. Roche then recommissioned the lion's share of these facilities to make other drugs instead.
Roche also made a huge breakthrough around that time, namely being able to synthesize the key ingredient of the antiviral drug: Something only found in Chinese star anise. Shikimic Acid. According to Wikipedia, Star Anise, under the influence of shimikic acid, fought Iron Man and Wolverine before being brought down by Captain America, who is now his old sidekick Bucky, the Winter Soldier.
No, that's not right. Damn that Wikipedia! Anyway,Janapese star anise is right out; only Chinese star anise will work. So Chinese farmers began doing what American farmers have been doing with corn; plowing under all other crops to make the big cash (cow) crop. Chinese farmers were making the kind of money American farmers were making! BIG money from star anise, because it also took a long time to reap the fruit.
But then Roche spoiled the party by synthesizing shikimic acid, and now it can be mass-produced more cheaply. Roche will have to recommission those gleaming Tamiflu plants and also begin re-licensing other drug makers to make Tamiflu under license.
Or will they? Roche has been burned by the world's governments once already. I doubt if Roche will be as willing a corporate partner (meaning ready to heavily discount Tamiflu) as they were in 2006 and 2007. And maybe they shouldn't.
The other X-Factor (so you see a pattern here? Wolverine? X-Factor?) is the dreaded Tamiflu Resistance Gene, or the combination of mutations to neuraminidase of gene segments R292K, N294S, and H274Y. Widespread circulations of this set of anti-Tamiflu genes have rendered Tamiflu virtually useless against the non-swine H1N1 that is our seasonal bug.
In fact, a Scientific American article of March, 2009 coincidentally reminded readers of the presence of this gene set. Here's the most striking passage:
A whopping 98 percent of this year's circulating H1N1 flu strains are immune to Tamiflu, compared with only 12 percent during the 2007-2008 flu season. (bold mine)
"We don't know what's physically happened to the virus to cause it to transmit more rapidly, but something has and even more so this year," says study author Nila Dharan, a fellow in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service, which studies major disease outbreaks. Dharan tells ScientificAmerican.com that a spontaneous (natural) genetic mutation – and not overuse of Tamiflu — is to blame. She notes that additional structural changes to the virus (that scientists don't completely understand) have enhanced the resistant strain's ability to grow and infect people.
The trend is alarming enough that Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials have been huddling for the past week to consider whether to adjust the composition of the federal pandemic flu drug stockpile, of which 40 million treatment courses (80 percent) is Tamiflu, says Robin Robinson, director of the Biomedical Advance Research and Development Authority(BARDA), an HHS arm that manages the stockpile.
I guaran-damn-tee you that in the back/front of every single influenza researcher's mind on this planet is the knowledge that these mutations could, at any time, by reassortment or recombination, get into the present swine H1N1. Mutations have already been seen in H5N1 avian flu, but not in large numbers.
But the movement from 12% to 98% in seasonal H1N1 is striking. And where those mutations first appeared is absolutely head-scratching. Rather than link you to all the blogs I have made on Tamiflu resistance, just search this Blogsite for the words "Tamiflu resistance." You'll read everything from the presence of Tamiflu in the water supply of Sweden to the lack of resistance in the most-prescribed Tamiflu nation on earth -- Japan.
OK, now let's assume you are a policymaker. Here are the facts:
- You are broke, out of money, laying off workers, cutting services.
- You have a pandemic-in-the-brewing called swine H1N1. Or H1H1 influenza A. Or "fluffy bunny slippers," according to this insane "let's not-p-off-the-pork-people" White House PC-silliness. Hey, let's just call this "PC FLU?"
But I digress.
- You also know you don't have enough Tamiflu to really get the job done.
- And there is this as-widespread-as-Jonas-Brothers-fever anti-Tamiflu gene that is found in 98% of all seasonal H1N1 flu this past season.
- Did I mention your state is broke?
I have a solution. Back in World War II, largely in the pacific, Corpsmen and medics were stretched to the limit on penicillin. They did not have enough to treat everyone with an infection.
Miraculously, they did have this relatively new anti-gout medicine called Probenecid. They knew one of the side effects of Probenecid was that people didn't pee as much as normal. So someone in some battlefield MASH unit said "What the Hell, let's see if it works," and co-administered Probenecid with penicillin.
And danged if it didn't work! The co-administration of Probenecid with penicillin stretched the effective supply of penicillin by a factor of 2.
A few years ago, people with long memories and concern over Tamiflu stocks began speculating about the effectiveness of Tamiflu and Probenecid. I have written about this many time before, but the definitive blog on the subject in my inventory is this shoulda-won-a-Pulitzer story:
Killing two birds with one stone
A portion of Roche's study of the use of probenecid in 2002 comes from the blogsite Smart Economy, and the story can be found at: http://smarteconomy.typepad.com/smart_economy/2005/11/smart_wartime_t.html.
Dr. Michael Greger, a person whom I communicate with occasionally, wrote in his seminal work Bird Flu: A Virus of our own Hatching:
Roche found that probenicid doubled the time that Tamiflu spent circulating in the human bloodstream, effectively halving the dose necessary to treat someone with the flu. Since probenicid is relatively safe, cheap, and plentiful, joint administration could double the number of people treated by current global Tamiflu stores. "This is wonderful," exclaimed David Fedson, former medical director of French vaccine giant Aventis Pasteur. "It is extremely important for global public health because it implies that the stockpiles now being ordered by more than 40 countries could be extended, perhaps in dramatic fashion."2495
So let's review:
- Probenecid is safe.
- It keeps the medicine in the body longer.
- It will effectively double our supply of Tamiflu overnight.
- It will free up Relenza for use exclusively by police, fire, EMT, emergency room staff, and otehr first responders.
- It will reduce the incidence of painful gout in Tamiflu takers.
- It will reduce the amount of Tamiflu that makes its way into the groundwater, thereby making it the "green" solution.
In short, the co-administration of Tamiflu with Probenecid is a solution that bears very close, careful scrutiny.
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SitRep cyberspace: I'm now on Twitter
You Twitterheads, or whatever you people call yourselves, can now get my comments and links on the 140-character social networking site. I'm something like "@scottwmcpherson" or something like that.
You can also "follow me" from the link on the left side of this Blogsite. Just scroll down to Twitter.
You'll get a lot of updates during the business day. At night, I'm a normal human being again, reading Marvel comics, zombie novels or watching Fringe with the wife. Isn't that what normal people do? Well, we also watch American Idol (Adam's gonna win it) and Dancing with the Stars (Gilles/Lil' Kim tossup) so I'm not completely out there.....


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Ferozepur is a city on the banks of the Sutlej River in Firozpur District, Punjab, India. It was founded by Sultan Firoz Shah Tughluq (1351–88), a famous ruler of the Tughluq dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388. Ferozepur is called 'the land of martyrs'. After the Partition of India in 1947, it became a border town on the Indo-Pakistani border with memorials of India's freedom fighters. If you are in Ferozepur then visit the places mentioned below for sure.
Indo-Pak Border
The Indo-Pak Border of Hussainiwala, Ferozepur has been serving as a venue of Retreat Ceremony since the year 1970. Situated at a distance of 11 km from Ferozepur, the Hussainiwala border comes alive with the clattering and thunderclap of heavy boots of Indian BSF Jawans dressed in Khaki uniform and the sound of Peshawari Chappals of salwar-kurta dressed Pakistani Rangers. On both sides of the border, an intense feeling of patriotism can be seen as the audience excitedly claps and cheer for their respective soldiers. It hosts Retreat Ceremony every day at 6 p.m. in the evening. The ceremony lasts for 40 minutes.
Saragarhi Memorial Gurudwara
Saragarhi Memorial Gurudwara, made by the Army Authorities has been made in the memory of 21 Sikh soldiers of the 36th Sikh Regiment. The soldiers died while protecting the Fort Saragarhi in Waziristan on 12th September 1897. It is of high religious importance among Sikhs.
Harike Wildlife Sanctuary
Harike Wildlife Sanctuary is a very beautiful place to visit and is also known as the 'Hari-ke-Pattan. It is situated at the junction of River Beas and River Sutlej. Harike Wildlife Sanctuary is a shelter to several different birds, including migratory birds from various regions like the Arctic field and Siberia. Special types of diving ducks like tufted ducks, Common Pochard and Crested Pochard can be seen in the sanctuary to attract visitors.
Barki Memorial
Built in 1969, in the memory of the soldiers of the 7 Infantry Division who sacrificed their life in Indo-Pakistan war of 1965, Barki Memorial is a popular historical attraction. While the foundation stone of this memorial was laid on 11 September 1969 by Lt Gen Harbakhsh, the unveiling ceremony was performed by Lt Gen HK Sibal MVC.
National Martyrs Memorial
The National Martyrs Memorial, located in Hussainiwala is dedicated to Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev, and Rajguru. National Martyrs Memorial was made to honour these great personalities for sacrificing their lives for the freedom of the country. It is an incredible place of interest.
Asafwala Shaheed Samarak
Asafwala Shaheed Samarak is a popular historical place. The memorial was built by the people to pay tribute to the soldiers of the 67th Infantry Brigade.
Jain Mandir
The Jain Mandir is situated in Zira in the Ferozepur District. The temple has statues that are believed to be around 1200 years old. The temple was renovated in 2006 and was reopened on the occasion of Saint Shri Nityanand Surishwarji Maharaj's anniversary.

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This is the dash paddle side. Just a tiny bit of thin copper soldered to the plug terminal. For those readers needing details, the copper came from the band around a Basil Hayden's whiskey bottle. We recycle!
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A bottom view, you can see the two copper strips and how the sleeve (ground) contact was bent to form the common contact. A little careful tweaking left a thick sheet of paper's worth of space between each copper strip and the common contact.
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A retrospective of Christopher W. Benson's work, this exhibition illustrates the evolution of Benson's style over the course of his forty year career as a painter. Raised in Newport and Providence, Benson emerged from a family of artists and forged his own artistic path through teachers, art historical figures, friends, and his own intuition. Along the way, he found himself in Brooklyn, Cornwall, Newport, Berkeley, Tiverton, and Santa Fe, all of which stimulated the exploration of new content, styles, and ideas. As a representational painter, Benson absorbed various influences but nevertheless created something altogether new. Familiar and yet innovative, Benson's paintings are quintessentially American, hovering in a territory somewhere between the salt-of- the-Earth realism of earlier New England coastal painters like Winslow Homer and George Bellows and the vibrancy of Bay Area Figuration. His work has also been influenced by other prominent American painters, such as Martin Johnson Heade, Edward Hopper, the regionalists of the 1930s, and the American Modernists Patrick Henry Bruce and Stuart Davis. From his early paintings of New York City to San Francisco Bay Area domestic interiors and streetscapes, to New Mexican landscapes, bi-coastal seascapes, and even some Mayan-influenced paintings, Benson takes us through an artistic odyssey that charts many of the potentials of his medium, from hard-edged realism to expressionism and abstraction.
Christopher Benson studied at RISD, where he earned his BFA in painting. He has had solo exhibitions at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery (San Francisco, CA), LewAllen Contemporary and Gerald Peters Gallery (both in Santa Fe, NM), the Virginia Lynch Gallery (Tiverton, RI) and Jessica Hagen Fine Art (Newport, RI). He has also participated in group exhibitions at the National Academy of Design (NYC), The Phoenix Art Museum (AZ), MoMA (NYC), and the Washington Art Association (Washington CT) where he won a juror's prize in 2015. His work resides in the permanent collections at the Newport Art Museum, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, MoMA, the Stanford University Schools of Law and of Aeronautics, and in the special collections at the Stanford University and RISD Libraries.
A full-color catalogue accompanies this exhibition and will be available in mid-July.
With thanks for the generous support of The EJMP Fund for Philanthropy, Elizabeth "Lisette" Prince, trustee.


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News from the road
Over the last month we've been at the WMCPA (Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association) annual spring conference in Wisconsin, our 10th (or maybe even 12th) RPG-DB2 Summit conference in Texas, and made another trip out to the Northeast User Groups Conference from April 2nd-4th. It's always refreshing to meet new customers for the first time, re-unite with old faces, and meet new professionals dedicated to progressing their skill sets on IBM i. Our team came back encouraged that our OpenRPGUI mobile development sessions were well received and attendees even left for home with high ambitions to start cranking out their first Android app!
Next stops for the upcoming month of May include the Long Island System User Group in New York City, Northeastern Systems Technology User Group in New Jersey, Fairfield Application Systems Users Group in Connecticut, and Gateway 400 in St.Louis.
Speaking of mobile development…
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Krengel Credit soon to include Cybersource payment processing in addition to Authorize.NET
Due to popular demand from IBM i customers, Krengel Credit for IBM i will soon include a module for companies needing to interface with Cybersource for credit card processing. Previously only available as a plug-in for RPG-XML Suite, the Cybersource module will be a stand-alone product offering formally launched in the month of May. Email Jeff Skistad at email@example.com for more information or a free trial.
IBM drops the big secret
This week on April 11th IBM announced PureSystems – a "new category of expert integrated systems". IBM highlights 3 major advances in this new era of computing:
- "Scale-in" system design
- Embedded patterns of expertise
- Cloud ready integration
May 6th marks the start of the Common User Group annual conference in Disneyland. Krengeltech will be there and also will be giving away a cool tablet device of some sort. Be sure and stop by our booth!
Speaking of Common, here's a slightly UNCOMMON blog post pondering a new name for the group of IBM aficionados.
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Abstract: We introduce a new model for cooperative agents that seek to optimize a common goal without communication or coordination. Given a universe of elements V, a set of agents, and a set function f, we ask each agent i to select a subset S_i ⊂ V such that the size of S_i is constrained (i.e., |S_i| < k). The goal is for the agents to cooperatively choose the sets Si to maximize the function evaluated at the union of these sets, U_i S_i; we seek max f(U_i S_i). We assume the agents can neither communicate nor coordinate how they choose their sets. This model arises naturally in many real-world settings such as swarms of surveillance robots and colonies of foraging insects. Even for simple classes of set functions, there are strong lower bounds on the achievable performance of coordinating deterministic agents. We show, surprisingly, that for the fundamental class of submodular set functions, there exists a near-optimal distributed algorithm for this problem that does not require communication. We demonstrate that our algorithm performs nearly as well as recently published algorithms that allow full coordination.
Paper: http://www.aamas2017.org/proceedings/pdfs/p1109.pdf
Story of Contribution: With my team, I developed two novel algorithms: Greedy-Sampling and Adaptive-Sampling and proved their approximation ratios. I implemented both algorithms in MATLAB and later parallelized them to reduce their runtime. To test these algorithms, I first selected seven large data sets from DBpedia, which represented subgraphs from Wikipedia, with varying graph properties. Then I ran both Greedy-Sampling and Adaptive-Sampling on these graphs alongside algorithms that either allowed communication between agents or allowed for a central planner to coordinate agents. The expected reward over multiple instances were computed and then compared.
Lessons Learned: Beyond the opportunity to explore new computing topics, such as optimization and mult-iagent systems, or to learn new tools such as MATLAB, this project allowed me to gain critical research skills. By collaborating with two professors and two graduate students, and by continuing to work on this project at my home institution for a semester, I learned to work as part of a team, even from a remote location. Simultaneously, I learned to work independently as I led the experimental portion of the project.
The project itself taught me to consider both the proven theoretical bounds as well as the real world performance of algorithms. And by leading the experiments portion of the project, I gained experience in choosing datasets that address the average case as well special cases in which the algorithms could perform in exceptional ways. When selecting previously published algorithms to test against, I gained experience in finding and analyzing literature.
Finally, by presenting my work at multiple venues, applying for travel grants, and drafting and revising a paper for publication, I learned to communicate my methods and results both to the scientific community and the general public.
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Idyllically situated on Oulton Broad, Broadland Marina faces onto Oulton Broad between Suffolk's stunning coastline and the world famous Broads National Park. Close to the UK's most easterly town of Lowestoft, with easy access to the sea via Mutford Lock, or direct access to the Norfolk Broads.
Cruising routes on the Broads are numerous and include Tingdene's Brundall Bay Marina. Sea-going craft can make coastal trips to Southwold, Aldeburgh, and further afield. Travelling up the coast to Great Yarmouth offers a circular trip back to Broadlands Marina via the Yare and Waveney rivers.
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So you've decided to outsource part of your network infrastructure or services. There's nothing particularly new about that - outsourcing and managed services have been with us for many years now. They may rise and fall in favour from year to year, so the amount of services outsourced varies, but it's not a new concept.
You may decide to outsource your WAN, your ecommerce services or your whole LAN infrastructure, but just because you've handed over the running to someone else doesn't devolve you of responsibility when it comes to securing the services used by your staff and customers.
If you're in the process of choosing an outsourcing partner, think about these guidelines. If you already have, do a quick check and see how much of this you're doing — and what you're missing out.
Choosing a partner
If you're issuing a tender for an outsourcing contract you should have a dedicated section covering security. Emphasising its importance in this way will show you are serious about security and that they will have to be too. Ask for the security credentials of the company, what security training its employees go through and what security policies it follows. You should have the right to audit - or have an independent third-party audit of - any security procedures and the security mechanisms in place within the company itself.
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If you have a managed service, you may well have people from the supplier working in your offices alongside company staff, but however well integrated into the team they are, they don't work for your company. They should have access rights suitable to their job function - not necessarily the same rights as company employees. You should have an authentication, authorisation and accounting (AAA) process in place for protecting and auditing network devices. It is best that suppliers are included in this and have unique login IDs, not one generic ID that may be shared by many different engineers.
Similarly, just because BT, for example, looks after your WAN, doesn't mean that any BT engineer can just wander into your building or comms rooms. Passes for regular visitors are a good idea - anyone else should be treated like any other (untrusted) visitor. If you work for a government agency, do you need to specify that contractors need to be of a certain security clearance? Even if you don't, there should be a stipulation in any contract that protects your confidential company data, and requires your supplier to sign an agreement to that effect - after all, these people may be capturing client-server transactions on a sniffer and who knows where that file may go afterwards.
It's probable that there will be a link between your company network and your providers; the amount of connectivity will depend on what they are managing for you. They will have their own security measures, no doubt, to protect themselves from you, but it is your responsibility to ensure that that link is tied down to provide access for exactly what you need it to and nothing else. If they use a link to provide offsite monitoring and management, then make sure that only the required management traffic is permitted, ideally to and from specified known addresses. Make sure you know how they secure their own network (obviously not all the details - if they offer you too much information then worry because that suggests a careless attitude to confidential information).
You'll have SLAs in place in terms of service availability, bandwidth guarantees and response times. What about security issues? Have you specified anything to do with how soon you'll be told if there is a security violation? When patches and security updates will be applied? How your supplier will handle the checking of logs for potential problems? Or are you just assuming that they will 'look after it'? Make sure that they tell you when they are applying fixes and patches, otherwise it may get done as a general maintenance task and you'll have no visibility of what's being done to your network.
In the end remember that it is your company's network. You may wonder why you need to concern yourself with these facets; the point of outsourcing surely is supposed to be that you don't have to manage your network. As far as security is concerned (unless you are specifically outsourcing your security and even then you still need to take account of all the above) it is your responsibility, and claiming it's all someone else's fault won't wash if a security vulnerability takes down part of your company network.


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Albion Rovers have a fully fit and suspension free squad for the visit of East Fife at Cliftonhill with manager Todd Lumsden looking for a "massive" result against the Fifers.
Lumsden's side went down 3-0 to Morton on Scottish Cup duty in midweek and he is looking for the perfect response from his players.
He said: "The second half in that game was disappointing but we have the chance to bounce right back. East Fife are below us in the table and I want them to stay there for as long as possible.
"A win would be a massive result as it moves us towards mid-table and also set us up positively for two more crucial home games against East Fife and Brechin City in the next week."
Recently appointed East Fife manager Billy Brown is again without an injured quartet.
Jordan Forster, Darren McCormack, Gareth Wardlaw and Paul McManus all remain on the sidelines.
Brown said: "I was disappointed with the performance from the players in the first half against Alloa last weekend where we could have been more than the one goal down.
"We were a lot better in the second half and with a bit of luck we could have got even. That second 45 minutes has given us something to build on for the Albion Rovers game.
"We are low on numbers which means that I cannot make a lot of changes but hopefully the changes I do make will bring us a win."
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In former gold mine, scientists lie in wait for dark matter
Over the summer Larsen, a particle physicist, spent most of her daylight hours at the bottom of an old gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota, 50 miles northwest of Mount Rushmore and a 30-minute drive from the nearest supermarket. She was helping to hunt for dark matter, a mysterious substance estimated to make up as much as 85% of the universe's total matter.
Scientists have inferred dark matter's existence, but never detected it directly. Teams of researchers around the world are racing to be the first, including Larsen's, a collaboration known as the Large Underground Xenon dark matter experiment, or LUX.
"Knowing more about dark matter will give us ideas about the future of our planet, galaxy, and universe," she said from the former Homestake gold mine, nearly a mile inside Earth. "This search has implications for how the universe got to be the way it is and for what's going to happen to us in the future as well."
About a dozen Yale researchers are now involved in LUX. The full collaboration involves more than 100 researchers from 17 institutions. Daniel McKinsey, an associate professor of physics at Yale and one of LUX's senior scientists, leads the Yale contingent and serves as the collaboration's co-spokesman. On Oct. 30 LUX plans to release its first results.
"Dark matter is one of the huge mysteries of modern science," McKinsey said. "Its effects are widespread in the universe. Knowing its properties would be revolutionary for particle physics."
Less than 15% of the universe is made up of conventional matter—protons, neutrons, electrons. Most of the rest is thought to be dark matter, which cannot be seen or felt, and seems to interact weakly, if at all, with conventional matter. (Hence the nickname for dark matter particles—WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles.) Identifying the raw material of the universe is a high priority for physicists and astronomers.
Scientists have inferred its existence from the behavior of known entities, such as galaxies. Conventional matter cannot explain the ability of galaxies to keep their form while rotating at current speeds, for example. Dark matter may provide the extra mass that would make this possible.
In a one-of-a-kind laboratory at the bottom of the Homestake mine, in Lead, S.D., the LUX scientists have designed and built a sophisticated device for taking dark matter's fingerprint. It's about the size of a telephone booth and called a liquid xenon detector.
Xenon is one of the noble (or rare) gases. Its high density in liquid form is useful for catching subatomic particles moving at high speeds, as dark matter is believed to be. A vat of liquid xenon equipped with arrays of ultra-sensitive light detectors sits in a tank of water. The researchers believe that dark matter particles, which can penetrate deep into the earth, will collide with xenon atoms and bounce off their nuclei, jarring the xenon and generating a fluorescence the detector has been designed to notice.
The layers of rock surrounding the lab are intended to help minimize interference by various particles that endlessly bombard earth's surface. These particles, such as high-energy neutrons and muons, would make it harder for scientists to discern the presence of dark matter particles—a difficult task as it is.
"It's like trying to spot a single snowflake in a blizzard or hear a single voice in Times Square," said McKinsey. "You're digging a signal out of a lot of noise."
And digging for something akin to physics gold: "Because the dark matter particle would be a 'new' particle," McKinsey said, "it would also be the first particle discovered outside of the Standard Model of particle physics," the prevailing theory that describes the fundamental particles of matter and how they interact.
McKinsey's group has played an important role in the collaboration, with primary responsibility for several of the detector's major components, including the all-important xenon gas circulation, purification, and recovery systems. "We need the xenon to be exceptionally pure—sub part-per-billion levels of impurity," he said recently. Much of the team's work has taken place in South Dakota, and nearly every member has worked in the mine's lab, known as known as the Sanford Underground Research Facility, or at a surface lab nearby. Important projects have also been carried out in New Haven, where the team invented some essential technologies from scratch. McKinsey and his squad of postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates shuttle back and forth between coastal Connecticut and South Dakota's Black Hills.
To reach the two-story subterranean lab at Lead, researchers ride an elevator they call "the cage." Wearing coveralls, hard hats, and steel-toe boots, they load into it at 7:15 a.m. for a prompt 7:30 departure. The ride takes about 10 minutes. When they exit at bottom, a glance to the left reveals a dark, muddy hole, an abandoned passageway for the gold miners of yesteryear. The scientists all go right, into a high-grade science lab flooded in fluorescent light.
"Once we detect dark matter, assuming we one day do, there's a gazillion other experiments we can do to understand it better," said McKinsey. "The key is seeing it first."


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UPDATE 5:30 p.m.: Officials say the Stevenson fire in South Sacramento burned a total of 13.2 acres Tuesday afternoon.
There were no injuries reported. A fire investigator is at the scene.
UPDATE on Stevenson fire: 13.2 acres burned, no injuries, fire investigator on scene. pic.twitter.com/FYHaW01g02— MetroFire Sacramento (@metrofirepio) June 14, 2016
UPDATE 4:20 p.m.: Crews have knocked down a grass fire that was threatening homes in South Sacramento Tuesday.
The fire was contained to 6.5 acres, according to the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District.
There were 10 to 15 homes threatened and reports of nine fences and yards damaged in the area.
Stevenson fire contained at 6.5 acres, 10-15 homes threatened, 1 w/exterior dmg, 9 fences/yards damaged. pic.twitter.com/RG0lQRvyPo— MetroFire Sacramento (@metrofirepio) June 14, 2016
Original Post: Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District crews are battling a grass fire that's threatening homes in South Sacramento Tuesday.
The fire was reported shortly after 3 p.m. in the 7900 block of Stevenson Avenue.
According to officials, crews are engaged in structural defense.
Grass fire near 7901 Stevenson Ave, SSC. with homes threatened. Crews doing structure defense now.— MetroFire Sacramento (@metrofirepio) June 14, 2016
Happening now: A grass fire is threatening homes. https://t.co/G80QRT7Cef— ABC10 (@ABC10) June 14, 2016
#BREAKING: Fire threatening homes in South Sacramento near Costcohttps://t.co/fcyQ21SyNe pic.twitter.com/sJVYOPWUm7— CBS Sacramento CBS13 (@CBSSacramento) June 14, 2016
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Steve Barwick: George, I have a handle on you are active to let drop four naive stairs readers can rob to shot in the arm their reminiscence and maximise psychic understandability with Vinpocetine. We'll get to that in lately a minuscule. But first, could you explain to us a teensy-weensy bit active the long-ago of Vinpocetine, and aid us deduce how it works, and what it in reality does to intensify wits control and pick-me-up mental representation and psychosomatic acuity?
George Foss: Yes, of course. While Vinpocetine is a popular with organic process insert here in the U.S., in Europe it has been widely researched and utilised clinically as a prescription remedy for complete 25 years, principally in the hindrance and treatment of rife senility, as in good health as for doddery insanity or Alzheimer's virus. It has as well been utilized to sustain preclude and alimentation cerebral arteriosclerosis, which is a symptom of the arteries of the brains. Because it is au fond a custom-made organic compound from the Vinca prima plant, which is the agreed Periwinkle plant, it qualifies here in the U.S. as a dietetic extra lower than the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994. And it has been properly sold-out present short a prescription since shortly after Congress passed the Act. This aggravates the FDA and the U.S. agent companies to no end, of trajectory. But it is very good for the American community because it gives them specified glib entree to this massively mighty and beneficial brain-boosting nourishing. I try out its prescription medication importance in Europe only because this medium it has been wide unnatural for abundant years, and its safety and efficiency have been incontestable onwards any shadow of a uncertainty.Post ads:
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Steve Barwick: How does it work?
George Foss: Vinpocetine dramatically enhances the metabolism, or perkiness activity, of the encephalon. It does this in factor by increasing body fluid swell to the brain through vasodilation, which in twirl maximizes glucose and gas bodily process by the brain's 100 cardinal neurons. The neurons flourish on aldohexose and oxygen, which they use to create large quantities of nucleoside triphosphate, or ATP. This in go round boosts the gusto stir of the total brain, which of course, is the mainframe computer of the human organic structure. This magnified gusto pursuit next triggers three crucial functions in the brain: fix or swap of destabilized mentality cells, inflated electrical buzz relating the neurons, and sweetening of rationalized cell-to-cell letter. In new words, ATP is central to all stellar aspects of neural structure mathematical function. It helps keep the psyche hale and in culmination in operation circumstances. And Vinpocetine enhances the procedure by dramatically escalating the brain's capability to green groceries ATP. This is, in voluminous part, why Vinpocetine has been used so exultantly in the defeat and coverage of everything from pure reminiscence disturbances to undivided senility, gaga insanity and strokes. It has quite a few exceedingly positive private property upon mangled areas of the brains. And its antioxidant properties are believed to give a hand added conserve the brainpower from premature aging, by scrub up absolve radicals formerly they can harm mentality cells. What's more, because Vinpocetine helps intensification brainpower levels of ATP reasonably dramatically, you besides get a incredibly grateful psychic lift from it.
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George Foss: There are a numeral of steps Vinpocetine users can embezzle to much effectively conserve and provide the brainpower in bidding to give a hand keep cognitive mathematical function at acme levels in one's being. They are as follows:
1.) Dosage - Using Vinpocetine appropriately is the single-best strategy. Research suggests that rubicund individuals who simply poorness to use Vinpocetine for its protecting anti-aging benefits on the brain, and to encouragement recall and rational clarity, should steal one 10 mg. medication per day, with food, initial article in the antemeridian. The considerable figure of empire fit into this category, and will discovery Vinpocetine to be exceedingly thoughtful. However, if a scholar is just experiencing moderate representation hitches and requests to use Vinpocetine to assist return brains manoeuvre to much youthful levels, he or she may inevitability to clutch two 10 mg. capsules per day for largest benefits. For reasonable to wicked reminiscence problems, a organism may involve to use cardinal capsules per day. Of course, you should never self-treat sedate form problems, such as doddery dementia. And primary health thought decisions should ever be made nether the counselling and management of a clued-up and practised welfare thoroughness provider.
2.) Exercise and Rest - You can build-up the advantageous personalty of Vinpocetine done gentle day-after-day exercise, such as as walking. Exercise boosts intellect government significantly, extremely in the elderly, as only around every search on this taxable has shown. That's because clement daily have increases body fluid fall to the neural structure. And of course, augmented humor stream provides the neural structure beside added atomic number 8 and glucose, the brain's two capital gasoline sources. Since Vinpocetine acts of the apostles as a powerful vasodilator, which funds it increases the capability of the arteries in the brainpower to fetch redoubled body fluid flow, a nice monthlong put your foot in the antemeridian or daytime will aid dramatically maximize its reputed brain-boosting benefits. What's more, you should never underestimate the momentum of a accurate night's nap for increasing mental lucidity. For record people, the single-greatest attacker of psyche control is absence of have forty winks. Study after analysis has confirmed that planning, problem-solving, learning, memory, compression and attention are all interdependent upon feat loads of residuum. The encephalon necessarily it. So you should e'er do your extremely unexcelled to get at least possible 8 hours of physiological condition per day. No magnitude of Vinpocetine, or any other food enlarge for that matter, can engulfed the harmful personal property of long nod off deprivation on the mentality. And a well-rested encephalon is much approachable to the energy-boosting movements of Vinpocetine.
3.) Proper Nutrition - From the trice you awake all day, your psyche craves sustenance. It is plainly the most predatory organ in your unit. And piece Vinpocetine increases the brain's dimensions to get and efficaciously use decisive nutrients, it is not a second-string for those nutrients, any more than it can substitution for the brain's involve for plentitude of every day leftovers. So be confident to foundation all day beside a acceptable rosy breakfast that includes a first-class protein such as eggs, cheese, meat, or even kooky and seeds, to indefinite quantity your unit with heaps of brain-boosting methane series acids, choline, and indispensable sebaceous acids. Taking a nifty omega-3 fish oil enclosure beside breakfast will lend a hand hand over the psyche beside specific key sebaceous acids specified as DHA, EPA and ALA, which have long been associated to a whole psychological outlook and multiplied cognitive manoeuvre. Finally, be assured to see quite a few sanguine glucose-producing carbohydrates beside breakfast, such as oats, total wheat bread, potable or full-page reproductive structure. Then, for the period of the day, construct sure you get more of the same, with a in proportion assemblage of simplified and complex carbohydrates specified as vegetables, in one piece grains, dark-brown rice, peas, beans, potatoes, fruits and dairy product. These will comfort your thing prolong rosy-cheeked body fluid aldohexose levels, so that Vinpocetine can efficaciously do its job of delivering aldohexose and gas to the brainpower for the industry of ATP.
4.) Nutritional Supplements - There appears to be a impressive to your advantage synergism between Vinpocetine and other than organic process supplements. So be certain to filch a nifty multi-vitamin/mineral insert on a daily basis. Use one that contains plentifulness of B-vitamins, as well as niacin, folic acid, biotin, thiamin, riboflavin, victuals B-6 and B-12, nonnegative evidence minerals specified as selenium, potassium, boron, metallic element and others. Trace minerals are essential for kosher wits activate. For example, low element levels have been correlative beside inferior cognitive mathematical relation in numerous studies. And low atomic number 30 levels have been related near faulty remembrance. Minerals specified as potassium and element dramatically control the electrical distraction of the brain, and skimping on either can much terminate moral vigilance. What's more, the brain-boosting benefits of B-vitamins have been incontestable in enquiry after chamber. In part, that's because all B-vitamins are previously owned by the organic structure to more effectively person carbohydrates into glucose, the primary fuel of the brainpower. So B-vitamins actually aid Vinpocetine in getting more aldohexose to the intelligence for rendition into ATP. As I have mentioned, this in swirl boosts mend or standby of knocked-out encephalon cells, facilitates electrical distraction to and from the neurons, and enhances streamlined cell-to-cell communicating in the brainpower. In short, it turns a stagnant encephalon into a workplace of prompt act. And it can support keep hold of the psyche operation at much immature levels plainly for the remnants of your life!
Steve Barwick: George, that's really mesmeric. Vinpocetine is palpably a terribly violent and useful supplement, and we recognize your tips on maximizing its benefits. As always, it's a genuine satisfaction talking with you. We exceptionally much realize your insights and direction. Thank you onetime once again for taking the circumstance to call on next to us.
George Foss: Thank you, Steve. It's been my delight.


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Gender Matters – NWCI seminar
The National Women's Council of Ireland of which Cairde is a member organizes a seminar to highlight the importance of gender and equality in health service planning and delivery "Gender Matters".
Monday 31st March 2014, 11am to 3pm
at the offices of the National Women's Council of Ireland, 4th Floor, 2/3 Parnell Square East, Dublin 1.
Keynote Speakers
- Dr Noreen Shields, Planning and Development Manager, Corporate Inequalities Team, National Health Service, Glasgow, Scotland.
- Dr Jane Pillinger, Gender Mainstreaming Expert.
- Mr Eddie Ward, National Project Manager Health Promotion and Improvement, Health Services Executive.
- Rachel Doyle, National Women's Council of Ireland
- Dr Mark Murphy, Lecturer Royal College of Surgeons and General Practitioner
Panel Discussion
Chaired By June Boulger, National Lead for Service User Involvement, HSE, National Advocacy Unit.
To register your attendance at this event, please contact NWCI
Tel (01) 8787248 or email email@example.com by Wednesday 19th March 2014.
At the seminar we will launch a set of new resources on Gender Mainstreaming:
Gender Matters:
- A User Friendly Guide to gender mainstreaming
- A Training for Trainers Manual,
- A Toolkit for mainstreaming gender in health service policy, planning and delivery
For further details please contact Trish Brennan, NWCI at (01) 8787248/ email@example.com. or
Eddie Ward, Health Promotion and Improvement, (043) 334 2031/ email@example.com.
Supported by the Health Services Executive.


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Is it your dream to leave everything behind and escape to the French countryside? Where you can start a new life in a cosy cottage located in a small picturesque village? Unfortunately, for many of us this it isn't an option, but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy a taste of the French lifestyle. Instead of relocating, bring France to your home with these French-inspired design ideas.
1. Natural Resources
The use of natural materials is an ideal way to create a rustic feel in your home. Natural stone walls, for example, tend to have muted colours and a subtle texture that really epitomise the warm and intimate country style.
2. Armoires
An armoire is perfect for bringing some French flavour to your home and is a versatile piece of furniture that would suit many rooms. It can be used for clothes in the bedroom, towels in the bathroom, crockery in the kitchen or for displaying anything else around the house.
3. Greys and Whites
When it comes to colour, a lot can be achieved just by using grey and white, providing it is applied correctly. The right choice of shading can bring out a room's rustic qualities, whilst simultaneously making it feel a lot more elegant, especially when combined with wood.
4. Vintage Décor
The inclusion of antiques is great way to add a historical touch to your home, but the right ones will add to the French style you want to achieve. There is a lot of freedom when it comes to choosing antiques but, generally, the more rustic the better.
5. Window Shutters
Window shutters are an essential component for any classic French country house as they are both practical and lend more rural charm. In addition to this, fitting a window seat and decorating it appropriately will further add to the overall image.
6. Toile Patterns
Toile is quite possibly the one pattern that encapsulates classic French styling better than any other. Whilst it will work in any room, it is best suited on furniture so will most likely be seen in the bedroom and living room.
7. Architectural Features
There are certain architectural features that will help accentuate the French look in your home, such as wooden beams, stone fireplaces and arched entrances. Irregular plaster walls add character and when it comes to flooring, stone or brick would be a good choice. Alternatively, old wooden boards also work well.
8. Memorabilia
If you wish to capture France's cultural side, there is a vast range of decorative objects you can choose from to achieve this. Perhaps the best option would be a vintage piece of artwork, although the right ornament would also work well.
9. Parisian Opulence
It may be the case that you prefer the opulence of a Parisian apartment to a rustic country house. A combination of bright and muted colours along with a mix of modern and classical furnishings, antiques and ornate designs will help you realise this style.


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Meet Society 1949
A group of lively members ages 21 to 45 who support the Amon Carter Museum of American Art with social events tailored for up-and-coming art patrons. Society 1949 takes its name from the year Fort Worth celebrated its 100th birthday and the date that Amon Carter announced his intention to establish the museum. Members gather several times a year to explore the collection, experience new exhibitions, and host the annual Midsummer Mingle Party celebrating the longest day of the year and the Rodeo Pre-Party.
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