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Each Memory Health capsule contains a combination of macular carotenoids and fish oil containing omega-3 fatty acids.
Macular carotenoids such as lutein and zeaxanthin are plant-derived pigment compounds that are thought to protect the retina from damage.
The new approach to tackling Alzheimer’s was pioneered by Dr Alan Howard, inventor of the low-calorie rapid weight loss plan the Cambridge Diet.
Dr Howard, who chairs The Howard Foundation charity that promotes nutrition research and was one of the study authors, said: “This represents one of the most important medical advancements of the century.
“Alzheimer’s disease is the largest public health crisis the UK has ever faced, and drug companies have so far fallen at every hurdle in finding a solution.
However, independent experts reviewing the results published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease were not impressed.
Naveed Sattar, Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the University of Glasgow, said: “Whilst any research in Alzheimer’s disease is to be welcomed, this is too small a trial and lacks a placebo control so that its findings are highly unlikely to true.
Professor Robert Howard, head of Old Age Psychiatry at University College London, said: “This report is sadly not much more than low-grade anecdotal evidence. Certainly, it falls seriously short of the standards of a high-quality clinical trial in terms of scale and conduct.
“The accompanying claims made by Dr Howard seem irresponsible and completely unsupported by any reasonable reading of his data.
Memory Health is licensed on a not-for-profit basis by the Howard Foundation with £1.50 from every purchase supporting research into Alzheimer’s disease.
It was another one of those weeks when the broadcastnetworks took their collective lumps via prominently placed articles in the nationalmedia.
And all for good reason: From all accounts, thenetworks' new primetime fall-season offerings are about as inspiring as sitting downand facing warmed-over tuna-noodle casserole each evening.
NBC -- just last year the leader of the pack, by a longshot -- took it the hardest on the chin. The proud peacock reported a 20 percent loss ofaudience, mostly because this was its first season without Seinfeld.
That's only part of the bad news for NBC, as it alsolost out on the bidding for National Football League games and, as a result, it has lost ahost of young male viewers.
The losses of both the games and Seinfeld took theirtoll on NBC's male audience (18-to-34), as the network lost 31 percent of that keydemographic.
Now, it's up to a very familiar name incable-programming circles to fix that mess. Scott Sassa -- who, for years, headed upentertainment for Turner Broadcasting System Inc. -- is being phased in to head up all ofNBC's entertainment operations.
Sassa, like his counterparts at the other networks, has hiswork cut out for him, as cable and the Internet continue to siphon off viewers frombroadcast.
But it's not just cable and the Internet that areplaguing the broadcast networks: They need look no further than beyond their own ingrainedhabits of the past decade.
For starters, all of the broadcast networks continue toappeal to the lowest common denominator. They remain the repositories for the most insipidsitcoms, which Hollywood is spitting out in a New York minute to feed the schedules ofthese voracious and fickle beasts.
The real problem is so fundamental and fixable: Why not trya little patience? With knee-jerk predictability, all of the networks have made a habit ofyanking shows prematurely, never giving them time to catch on or to build a habit withviewers.
Even when new shows are spared the ax, they are inevitablymoved around the primetime lineup so frequently that there's no way for a viewer tofind them.
But maybe -- just maybe -- all of that is changing. TheWall Street Journal reported last week that ABC would be renewing most of itsprimetime schedule, even though none of the new series showed signs of being winners.
That is smart business, especially given the choices.ABC's new series, Sports Night, may actually have legs, even though it ranked44th so far this season.
In truth, ABC doesn't have many options. Unlike NBC,which has some hits in its stable -- ER, Friends and Frasier -- ABCcannot really afford to pull the plug on its losers early on.
After all, ABC doesn't have much going for it inprimetime beyond Home Improvement and Spin City, which, by today'slowered ratings standards, are hits.
Dare I suggest that maybe there's a lesson that thebroadcast networks can learn from their cable brethren?
Cable has built loyal audiences because, by necessity, itdelivers what it says it will deliver.
When you tune in to Nick at Nite, you pretty much know whatyou're going to find. The same holds true for all cable networks, whether it'sCNN or Home & Garden Television, because their successes have been built on havingidentities that viewers quickly grasp, thus developing and nurturing viewing habits andloyalty.
Take last Tuesday evening, election night. Again, thebroadcast networks abdicated the night to cable, only turning to the local races duringthe late evening news.
That was another mistake, because the most mind-blowingthing on all of television that night was to watch -- only on cable -- the exit polls andearly returns for the gubernatorial race in Minnesota, where the independent candidate --former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura -- wasted his two established-party opponents.
By adding new technologies and services to the scope of the government's next-generation telecommunications contract, the General Services Administration has doubled the contract's potential value to $20 billion.
The Federal Technology Service detailed the changes in the recently released draft FTS Networx solicitation documents. GSA plans to issue the final requests for proposals'there are two'by this April and award Networx contracts by April 2006. The agency will accept comments on the draft RFPs until Dec. 22.
John Johnson, assistant FTS commissioner for service development and delivery, said the bigger price tag reflects the length of the contract, the wider portfolio of services, estimated customer-buying patterns and growth prospects.
The draft solicitation materials illustrate the increasing blurriness between services offered by the telecom and IT industries. Among the services that do not historically fall within telecom but are included in Networx are management and application services such as storage, collaboration support and unified messaging.
Security is another area where Networx goes beyond traditional telecom, said Warren Suss, president of Suss Consulting Inc. of Jenkintown, Pa. Managed firewalls and intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning and secure managed e-mail will be available via Networx.
Enterprise: for companies that offer specialized telecommunications or network services but do not have nationwide coverage; a handful of mandatory requirements.
GSA plans to award contracts with four-year base periods and three two-year options each.
One part of the two Networx RFPs that remains undefined is the Section M evaluation criteria.
The Banking Supervision (BS) of the MFSA is entrusted with the on-site and ongoing surveillance of licensed banks and non-bank financial institutions (FIs) following the issue of their licence from the Authorisation Unit. The section carries out supervision of Significant Institutions (SIs) together with the European Central Banks through the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). In addition to SIs, Less Significant Institutions (LSIs) are supervised through the SREP procedures. The team employs persons with a banking background, but also legal and IT professionals to support policy and supervisory work.
Form part of joint on-site inspection teams on ECB instigated Missions at SIs comprising team members from the ECB itself and/or other SSM jurisdictions. On the other hand, he/she would also be required to form part of MFSA instigated on-site inspections at LSIs and FIs as part of an MFSA inspection team. An analyst may also be required to lead teams on certain inspection exercises at small LSIs and possibly FIs, depending on the exigencies of the Section. The main purpose of these periodic on-site Missions/inspections is to monitor the level of compliance with applicable regulatory standards of the licence holders and eventually the regulatory obligations emanating from the ECB/local banking and financial institutions legal framework.
Take part in meetings with bank/FI officials during the course of onsite inspections or in anticipation and as a follow-up to such onsite inspections. In addition, the selected applicant would be required to review documentation during an on-site inspection; analyse such documentation and contribute towards the compilation of relative reports and assessments.
Lead an on-site inspection, the selected applicant will be expected to plan the visit, liaise with his team members continuously before, during and post the on-site review and co-ordinate the work done by the whole team in order to draw up the on-site inspection report following the end of the review.
Involve himself/herself in ‘ad hoc’ assignments related to specific regulatory and supervisory issues that arise from time to time and to report on the outcome of such assignments as may be appropriate and necessary.
Share information and assist other sections within the Banking Supervision and also other functions within the Authority.
Represent the Authority or contribute towards the operation of regulatory committees and working groups operating within the SSM, EBA or similar overseas regulatory bodies and also within the local financial services sector.
Handle any other duties as assigned by the Head or any other delegate depending on the exigencies of the Banking Supervision and the Authority.
We are looking for candidates with solid academic background in Banking & Finance or Information Technology or Accountancy or Economics and/or in another financial services related subject.
A relevant post-graduate degree will be considered as an asset.
You will also possess a minimum of three (3) years working experience in the area related to the role. Candidates with longer working experience relevant to the role will be preferred.
If you do not have the necessary academic or professional qualifications but you have at least seven (7) years of relevant experience within the financial services environment, we would still be interested in speaking with you.
Staples.com consults its customers about virtually all design decisions.
Just two years ago, the definition of a well-designed, complete Web site was one that offered deep discounts on merchandise, shipped items for free, and threw in some animation just for kicks. A quaint notion called usability, which software designers and consumer electronics engineers had been struggling with for a long time, was not even a blip on the radar screen for most of the Web. Unless you were working at Staples.com, which launched in November of 1999.
From the moment the online version of the $11 billion office supplies retailer was conceived, the company's senior management decided that committing financial and staff resources was necessary to make its site completely accessible and easy to use. Initially, Staples worked with two consultancies in the field to create, design, and test its site: Human Factors International and Sapient. But within six months of launching, Staples had assembled its own five-person usability staff led by Colin Hynes, an engineer who had been working on Internet visitor interface issues since 1992.
What was behind this unusual corporate foresight? Executives at the retailer latched on early to a mantra that usability guru Jakob Nielsen loves to repeat: If customers can't use your site, money never changes hands. The Staples executives also understood that for their site to excel, the concept had to be incorporated into every aspect of their design process.
"We have five guiding principles," says Jeanne B. Lewis, president of Staples.com: "Listen, watch, prioritize, execute, and stay focused." The usability staff watches and listens to the site's 1 million registered customers (most of whom are businesses with fewer than 100 employees) and continually turns what it learns into improvements.
If money changing hands is the measure, then the strategy has been a success. Last year, Staples.com posted revenues of more than $512 million, which is over five times as much as the $94 million reported in 1999. In 2001, revenues for the first quarter were $213 million, a rise of 182 percent from the same quarter of 2000. The company expects to top $800 millionand actually be profitableby the end of this year. Jupiter Media Metrix ranks Staples.com as the number-one office supply site for small businesses in both its work and work/home categories. But like all leaders, Staples.com managers are always looking to do better.
"We're continually remodeling our site, just as you would a good retail store," says Hynes. In fact, the process the usability team employs to decide what to remodel is where the hard work comes in.
Daimler-Benz A.G., Germany's largest industrial company, said yesterday that its profit rose 9 percent in the second half of 1997, not counting a tax effect. Second-half profit rose to 2.208 billion marks, or $1.2 billion, from 2.018 billion marks, or $1.1 billion, a year earlier. The figure was calculated by subtracting the first-half earnings from the full-year figure. Including a 4.9-billion- mark tax bonus, in part because of losses in previous years, full-year net income almost tripled to 8 billion marks, or $4.3 billion, which was above expectations. Daimler benefited from a surging European truck industry.
In addition, a stronger dollar helped earnings at Daimler-Benz Aerospace and some other units. Daimler's shares, which have risen 43 percent since the beginning of the year, rose 7.75 marks, to 181.95.
Voters upheld Oregon's 31-year-old sanctuary state law, with early returns showing a dramatic lead on "no" votes for Measure 105.
Voters upheld Oregon's 31-year-old sanctuary state law with a dramatic lead on "no" votes for Measure 105.
About 63 percent of the 1.4 million votes counted elected to keep the existing statute that prohibits local police from enforcing immigration law.
Proponents of the measure claimed the sanctuary law emboldens undocumented immigrants to commit crimes and ties the hands of law enforcement.
Opponents said the law prevents racial profiling and insist if the law is repealed, immigrant communities and people of color will feel unsafe and too frightened to report crimes to police out of fear of deportation.
"We have done it!" backers of the No on 105 campaign posted on Facebook. "We have defended Oregon’s values and said no to those who want to divide immigrant and non-immigrant Oregonians!"
ACLU of Oregon called the defeat a rejection of "racism, xenophobia, and the politics of division and fear-mongering."
The majority of voters in Marion and Polk counties voted no on the measure.
The sanctuary law traces back to 1987 when the widely-supported House Bill 2314 was introduced at the Oregon Legislature.
The bill, which forbade state agencies, including law enforcement, from using state resources or personnel to arrest people whose only crime was being in the country illegally passed both houses almost unanimously and became Oregon Revised Statute 181A.820.
More than 30 years later, three chief petitioners, Republican state Reps. Mike Nearman of Independence, Sal Esquivel of Medford and Greg Barreto of Cove, brought forward a proposal to strike down Oregon's sanctuary state law.
Proponents of the measure said its failure was regrettable.
"Well, that's disappointing, of course," said Cynthia Kendoll, president of Oregonians for Immigration Reform, one of the key backers of the Yes on 105 campaign. "But our goal was to give Oregon voters a chance to vote, and they voted."
Measure 105 opponents said they would continue to fight for immigrant rights and protection from racial profiling.
Millions of dollars in contributions poured into the campaign, with the opposition campaign outspending the pro-campaign 27 to one.
The Oregonians United Against Profiling campaign collected more than $3.2 million in contributions. The Repeal Oregon Sanctuary Law Committee garnered about $103,000 in contributions.
Andrea Williams, executive director of Causa and leader of Oregonians United Against Profiling, accused the measure's proponents of stereotyping immigrant as criminals and spreading false information.
The threat of repeal had many in the community concerned.
Victims or witnesses worried about having their immigration status — or the legal status of a household member — questioned might be less likely to report a crime, she argued.
Salem-area police, sheriff's offices and district attorney's offices did not take a stance on the measure.
But Salem police officials emphasized how important it is that the community know and feel they can trust their police department.
"Our success as an agency is dependent on a community willing and unafraid to contact the police when they see crime occurring or are themselves a victim of crime," Salem police spokesman Lt. Michael Bennett said.
Polk County Sheriff Mark Garton said if it had passed, Measure 105 wouldn't have change much about how his department operates.
"We're not going to be going out and asking people for their papers," Garton said. "That's not what the taxpayers pay us to do."
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To say hello to 2016, I'm gonna say GOODBYE TO 2015 with my Top 5 Favorite Memories of 2015 (that I can think of)... #4 Getting to play #Psylocke in #xmenapocalypse. She's a telekinetic telepath who chooses to kill with a sword because she wants to do it up close and intimate and killing from afar just seems too easy and no fun. ????
The photo comes to us courtesy of Munn and her Instagram account. As one can see above, the photo shows the actress in a somewhat revealing Psylocke outfit, complete with metallic purple sheen and tight leggings. While the outfit itself doesn’t exactly seem practical, it more than confirms Munn’s prior statements that indicated she needs two women and lube just to squeeze into the damn thing.
Behind Munn we can see a fairly war torn landscape of ruins and destroyed vehicles. This would lead us to indicate that whatever scene she was filming when this photo was taken will likely come towards the end of the film, when the "war" gets into full swing. Psylocke herself is a somewhat obscure character for those unfamiliar with the greater X-Men lore. Munn describes her as a telekinetic telepath who opts to use a sword in combat because a more "up close" and "intimate" killing style. So while it looks as though there’s no hint of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine in the coming X-Men adventure, fans will get just about all the slashing and stabbing they could ever hope for with Munn’s character.
While Munn’s post does quite a bit to inform us about the nature of Psylocke’s powers and mentality during the film, we still have yet to really get a glimpse of her in action. While the other Horsemen get their moment to shine during the recently released trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse, the only real view we get of Psylocke is a close-up of her in civilian clothes – presumably the moment she meets Apocalypse and has her powers enhanced. Of course, you’re more than welcome to check out the trailer below and see if there’s something we missed.
For now, it looks to be only a matter of time until we get to see Olivia Munn show off Psylocke in her full villainous glory. X-Men: Apocalypse will hit theaters on May 27, 2016.
Its gold and glass trophies have been featured in car ads for years, but J.D. Power and Associates have never had a direct connection with the consumer. That will change next spring, when the research firm dips its toe into the publishing field in a joint venture with Hearst. The automotive magazine will tap high-income readers of four of Hearst’s existing titles to test consumer’s reaction to a J.D. Power Car Guide. If it goes well, the two may extend their partnership to a full-fledged title and tap J.D. Power’s other data centers, from boats to healthcare.
Indeed, the J.D. Power Car Guide will be more likely to be on the newsstand than on the sideline, as well as polybagged in four Hearst publications, including Esquire, Town & Country, SmartMoney, and Popular Mechanics. With a circulation base of 160,000, the self-standing outsert will be targeted to high-income readers who are more likely to be buying that new car. The first issue appears along side the March issues, with a second planned for November.
The magazine’s editorial content will focus on rating the best cars and trucks, buying tips as well as offering insight from consumers who already own a vehicle. Popular Mechanics editor-in-chief Joe Oldham will add oversight of the J.D. Power guide’s editorial.
Targeting both automotive and non-automotive advertising categories, sales are handled by Hearst under VP of advertising sales for the western region Lois Miller, who has been named publisher of the J.D. Power project. Although he wouldn’t name advertisers, Healey says they already have some commitments for the first issue. Downplaying any fear that connecting J.D. Power’s brand image with advertising could be dangerous, Healey points out that they already permit their claims to be used in car ads.
A police watchdog has launched investigations following two deaths, including that of a man returning from T in the Park.
James Richardson, 29, from Craigneuk, Wishaw, North Lanarkshire, was found dead near the village of Forteviot in Perthshire on Tuesday.
His family had issued appeals on social media for help to find him and said he had been heading back from the festival by bus.
The Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) has launched an investigation into the police response to an initial report of concern for Mr Richardson.
A Pirc spokesman said: "The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has instructed the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) to undertake an investigation after the body of James Richardson, 29, was discovered in the Forteviot area of Perthshire on July 12, 2016.

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