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Welcome to Omeath Online
Omeath (Irish: Ó Méith) is a village in County Louth, Ireland close to the Northern Ireland border. Omeath is steeped in Irish history, with outstanding natural scenic beauty, and is located on the east coast of Ireland. It can be found roughly mid way between Dublin and Belfast, close to the County Louth and County Armagh / County Down border. Omeath is 4 miles from Carlingford and about 5 miles from Newry.
Omeath Cemetery Mass 2018
Weather permitting, Mass will be celebrated in St. Laurence's Cemetery, Omeath
Sunday 12th August at 11.00am.
Families are asked to bring Holy Water for the sprinkling of their family burial plot.
Carlingford & Omeath Parish Pilgrimage to Lourdes
5 nights. Fri 21st – Wed 26th Sept 2018.
Few remaining seats. Cost €680 pps. €75 single room supplement.
Phone: Kathleen Elmore 086 1955972;
Mary Fegan 086 1072222; Susan Reilly 087 8137394
Road Closures during Carlingford Oyster Festival
Thur 9th – Mon 13th August.
This Road Closure will be Market Square from Valentines, Newry Street to Visit Carlingford's Office, Market Square. All signage will be in place to redirect traffic up Newry Street and down the Back Lane. MarketSquare will be closed from 8.00am on Sat 11th Aug until 11.00pm Sun 12th Aug.
This is to ensure Public Safety is a priority during the festival activities. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. Any further enquiries phone Louth Co. Council direct.
Irish Cancer Society offers a free local transport service for patients undergoing chemotherapy and attending one of the following hospitals for treatment: Our Lady of Lourdes, Drogheda,
Cavan General and the Mater Hospitals. A driver will pick you up at the door of your home, drop you off at the hospital and then, when finished treatment, will collect you and drop you home. This is a free service and patients may bring a companion with them for support. To access the service please speak to your oncology nurse or Social Worker in the hospital or for more info phone Laura 01 2310 594 or email email@example.com.
(1) World Meeting of Families 21st – 26th August 2018
In August 2018, Ireland will have the joy of hosting the World Meeting of Families 2018 on behalf of Pope Francis. As a nation we will be playing host to thousands of families and pilgrims from all around the globe for one of the largest events of the year. There will be four main events:
– National Opening 21st August.
– Three Day Congress 22nd – 24th August.
A joyful and reflective programme of workshops, talks and discussions; an engaging and exciting programme for young people as well as faith and fun activities for children; exhibitions; cultural events and much more.
– Festival of Families 25th August.
A special cultural-style event within a prayerful and joyful atmosphere, in which personal stories of faith will be shared by families representing the continents of the world.
– Solemn Eucharistic Celebration 26th August.
A gathering of thousands of people from Ireland and around the world.
For more information please visit www.worldmeeting2018.ie
(2) World Meeting of Families 21st – 26th August 2018
Parish Group Registration:Those who wish to be registered as part of a parish group to attend the Pastoral Congress on Wed 22nd August are asked to give their names and contact details by phone or email to Parish Office or through church sacristies. Pope Francis is due to be present at the Festival of Families in Croke Park on Sat 25th August and the Final Mass in Phoenix Park on Sun 26th August. Tickets for both these events are available only to those who have registered for the Congress. Information is provided on the website www.worldmeeting2018.ie
The Irish Cancer Society is looking for volunteers in the Louth, Cavan, Monaghan and Meath areas to drive patients to and from their treatments in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and the Dublin hospitals. Drivers will use their own cars but all volunteer expenses are paid.
For info call Gail 01 2310 566 or visit the Irish Cancer Society's website www.cancer.ie
Good Morning Louth free, confidential and informative telephone service for older people to share worries or concerns and reduce feelings of isolation and loneliness. Also to raise awareness of other useful local services as well as providing peace of mind for the families. Contact Anne Murphy 042 9330103 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com
St. Vincent de Paul Society St. James Conference, Cooley. Talk in confidence 087 9656852.
The Samaritans Anyone feeling lonely, depressed or suicidal phone FREE Call 116 123.
Parish Mass online Webcam and live streaming service has been installed in both our churches – St. Michael's, Carlingford and St. Laurence's, Omeath. Mass can be viewed online at mcnmedia.tv Set Top Boxes are also available to view Mass on your television at home. You will need Broadband for the set top box to work. The box and installation costs €100. This is a one-off cost. A set top box can be purchased directly from MCN Media by calling 048 87729580.
Cooley Genealogical & Historical Society If you have information regarding bygone traditions associated with burial in the peninsula please ph 085 1833110.
Cooley Credit Union Office
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Friday: 10 am to 6:30 pm
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Safeway elects new board member; declares quarterly dividend
PLEASANTON, Calif. — The former chairman and CEO of Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream has joined Safeway's board of directors.
The appointment of T. Gary Rogers will expand the retailer's board of directors from nine to 10 members.
"Gary's vast experience as a supplier to the grocery industry, his business acumen and experience as a director will be great assets to the board," said Steve Burd, Safeway chairman, president and CEO. "We are pleased he is joining our board."
Separately, Safeway also declared a quarterly dividend of 12 cents per share, which will be payable on April 14 to stockholders of record at the close of business on March 24. Prior to this announcement, the retailer declared the same dividend amount in December 2010.
Atico recalls holiday rattle baby slippers
WASHINGTON — Atico International USA issued a voluntary recall of 57,000 holiday rattle baby slippers amid a choking hazard, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The CPSC reported that the soft shoes with built-in rattles were imported from China by Atico International USA of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and sold nationwide at Walgreens stores from October 2010 through January 2011 for about $5.
Atico received one report of a 7-month-old baby that was found beginning to turn blue with the slippers' stuffing in the child's mouth. The baby's father removed the stuffing. Two additional reports of babies wearing the slippers who pulled on the rattle/stuffing and the stuffing came out also were reported. No injuries were reported.
Consumers should stop using the slippers immediately and should return them to any Walgreens location for a full refund.
Report: Hy-Vee makes checkout lanes healthier
ALBERT LEA, Minn. — Among the best real estate in a supermarket is the checkout line, where customers usually can find shelves of candy, gum and other small items. But a supermarket in Albert Lea, Minn., is offering healthy choices to a captive audience, according to published reports.
The Albert Lea Tribune reported that the Hy-Vee store there has unveiled its Blue Zones checkout lane. Instead of junk food, the lane features granola bars, dried fruit, soy nuts and string cheese.
The store's dietitian told the newspaper that sales of those products at the store had increased by an average of 42% since the lane's introduction, saying it would be a good place for parents to send children looking for snacks.

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My good friend Nico Lumma who used to work at VA Software is now helping run a company in Cologne Germany that's just rolling out mobile version of Jabber called Mabber.
I was lucky enough to see and use the product early on during it's development and I have to say that I like it. It's primarily based around the Jabber protocol but also has support for ICQ, Yahoo! Messenger, AIM and MSN Messenger.
I'm not going to do a proper review as of this time as Nik Cubrilovic over at TechCrunch has a pretty good one here.
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Little Econlockhatchee is a 1.4 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located near Oviedo, Florida that features a waterfall and is good for all skill levels. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail.
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Thick woods, lotsa palmettos, and a Florida waterfall! Cross over the river using the tree bridge. Go along the river until you see the cypress tree next to a little waterfall.
not clearly marked and over grown since irma. access is from the riverside park across the open field.
Pretty walk. But very short and trail entrance is not clearly marked
Great walk with family.. beautiful river views!
The waterfall is small, maybe 5ft? Most people are expecting something huge, but it's really not.
Good average trail I to did not see what're fall.
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This was not worth the drive to get there, once there you practically needed a machete to find a path...an employee at Riverside Park didn't even know there was a hiking trail there. I was very disappointed. :-(
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If this is the one u was on. Where is the waterfall? How far do u hike till u find it?
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This is a good little trail that is dog friendly. I used to live in a neighborhood near-by. It begins in a park where there are tables under pavilions for picnics.


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"Lives are very much like ideas and fruit... They need time to ripen."
Jess and I unloaded a kiln load of fired work earlier this week after work. There were quite a few sacrifices made in the kiln this go round, "lessons learned" is the positive spin that we are both usually go with. There are a few that need another trip through the kiln... candidates for adding another layer of glaze and refiring. Happily there were a few that were successfully refired as well.
But these two gems were testers that Jess had handed me.
The cone 5 speckled clay body, A Willies Slip was used over a blue underglaze with a black underglaze rimming the stencil before it was peeled off. We used a White Liner glaze on the interior, a PB Liner glaze on the foot, and a thin application of the Mag Carb glaze over the body.
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has a great buffet with many many varieties to select from. seafood and non sea food. all was delicious and plentiful
You don't come here for the decor,but we were recommended by a local,we were seated quickly and we had a very pleasant server and when the NY strips came they were cooked to perfection,I am told the shrimp were also perfect,the garlic mash was ok,but...More
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Without a doubt, I would come here for their crawfish, oysters and catfish po'boys! Food was fresh, served piping hot and The waitress was a sweetheart!!! We learned a little about the food that they prepared, that it was all local and she didn't laugh...More
The food is amazing and the staff is great .. I love love love their hushpuppies. Their adult beverages are top notch. They have karaoke and live music from time to time. Great place for entertainment and good food.
The food is not fresh, not hot when it comes to your table. Staff has erroneous manners. This restaurant is over-hyped and over priced for the service you receive. Also not enough parking.
We were seated quickly. The restaurant is very loud and casual dining. I was disappointed in the over all quality of the food. I ordered the shrimp and a side of crab legs. The shrimp was overcooked and bland. The crab legs were small with...More
This place is below average. It once was a good place to grab some seafood or general southern cuisine. Not anymore! 1. Its dirty. The floors around the baseboards tell the story. 2. Food nearly tasteless. Very little seasoning applied to our meals. 3. Staff...More
No lunch buffet on Wednesday and the hamburger was not of a good quality. This restaurant needs to step up it's game. Too many new choices in the area. Need to have some good specialty items.
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Column: Trump budget cuts target his supporters
Donald Trump's supporters like to rationalize his chaotic first weeks by chortling that he is doing exactly what he said he'd do.
There's just one problem: He never said he'd do it to them.
As his plan to protect entitlements while boosting military spending and cutting domestic programs by the same amount takes shape, one unlikely demographic group will bear the brunt of the program cuts: white, working class Americans who lack a college degree.
That, of course, is the group that gave the wealthy developer a big share of its support and put key Midwestern states in his electoral column.
In fact, even though he lost Erie County, Trump brought more people to the polls and gained a much bigger share of the vote than Mitt Romney did in 2012. He even won Cheektowaga, Evans, Hamburg and the City of Tonawanda – all of which had voted Democratic four years earlier.
Now Trump appears ready to bite the working class hands that filled in the bubbles next to his name.
With Social Security, Medicare and the military deemed sacrosanct, cuts will have to come from "safety net" programs like food stamps or those assisting with housing and child care.
The stereotype has long been that such programs disproportionately benefit minorities, thus providing an easy applause line when Trump promised to "make America great again" in ways some supporters thought they understood only too well.
Now, it turns out, they are the target as he apparently thinks white working class people without a college degree are what's holding America back.
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities looked at who is helped by safety net programs and came to a conclusion that likely will surprise many Trump voters: "Among working-age adults without a college degree, 6.2 million whites are lifted above the poverty line by the safety net — more than any other racial or ethnic group."
That compares to just 2.8 million blacks and 2.4 million Hispanics, the center found, even though those groups have higher poverty rates.
"In addition," the analysis found, "the percentage of people who would otherwise be poor that safety net programs lift out of poverty is greater for white working-age adults without a college degree than for other adults without a college degree."
Now compare that to the demographics of who put Trump in office. According to stats guru Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com, it was those same working class voters without a college degree. After analyzing the vote by both education and income, Silver concluded: "It appears as though educational levels are the critical factor in predicting shifts in the vote (from Democrat to Republican) between 2012 and 2016."
Trump played on the desperation of those voters, who were taken in by a habitual liar who then filled his cabinet with millionaires with little or no history of looking out for them.
The results for working-class people in places like Cheektowaga and the City of Tonawanda will not be pretty when the new administration starts cutting from the bottom. And that's not even counting the people whose health insurance is at risk as Republicans try to kill the Affordable Care Act.
No doubt, when those voters pictured who would bear the brunt of the cuts as Trump vowed to go after "waste" and "fraud," they never thought they'd end up looking in the mirror.


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Ask any medical professional what has changed about patient behavior the last few years, and she is sure to talk about a physician who never was accepted to med school … the ubiquitous "Dr. Google."
When patients start to notice something doesn't feel quite right, they google their symptoms and make a preliminary diagnosis. In fact, 86 percent of patients conduct a health-related search before scheduling a doctor's appointment: 90 percent of adults ages 18-24 say they would trust medical information shared by others in their social networks. Forty-one percent say social media impacts their choice of healthcare providers.
These self-diagnosers find a physician with some expertise in their condition and check Google Maps to see who is convenient to their homes or offices. They assume they will end up with a specialist, so they read the local specialist reviews on Vitals and Healthgrades. Think advertising doesn't matter? Think again: More than 80 percent of health information-seekers will click on a relevant ad.
And the searching continues throughout treatment, with 43 percent of all visits to hospital websites coming from search engines and most patients visiting the sites of two or more hospitals during their investigations.
In the waiting room, they post iPad updates on their situations to Twitter and Facebook. Maybe they do some last-minute research; 53 percent of people say that information they found online led them to ask a doctor new questions.
After the doctor visit, they research side effects of prescribed medications. Sixty percent of patients say they research their prescriptions to understand them better—and even decide whether to fill them. They subscribe to a blog on the topic of their condition.
They set up accounts in the physician's EHR. Then they change social-network profile icons to show support for a cure.
And don't think "Dr. Google" is only about reaching young patients:
- 67 percent of seniors say that access to their health information is important;
- 70 percent say they want to be able to request prescription refills electronically;
- 67 percent want to make online appointments;
- 58 percent want to email their healthcare providers;
- and 15 percent want to use a mobile device to manage appointments.
Welcome to the digital patient journey.
The fact is patients are more involved in their own healthcare than ever before, and the consumption process is now as transparent as car shopping. Seventy-five percent of Americans have conducted a search related to personal health in the last year and more than a third use social media to research health conditions. Half of all patients who use the Internet to self-diagnose ultimately schedule a doctor's appointment.
What about the doctors?
Seventy-eight percent of US doctors are using digital tools to gather research; 70 percent prefer online training to classroom training; and nearly 40 percent communicate with patients online. This is the future of healthcare.
Today's patients are educated, empowered and active. The marketers' role is to meet them halfway, ensure access to quality information, and use the new tools to improve the access to and quality of healthcare.
Learn more about healthcare marketing in the age of "Dr. Google."Copyright 2014 MedCity News. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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This is a frightening but entirely true narrative; a grotesque political horror story which is still unfolding today. It exposes what happens when an individual's human rights conflict with strategic political need. It reveals the ruthless use of a government's organs of state, and a regime of unprecedented opinion management, against a single working class woman and her desperate family.
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Simple Guide in Purchasing Office Furniture
Whether you are planning to work in a little home office or fit out a new office, there is a great range of excellent quality office furniture that you can purchase. Contrary to popular opinion, you do not have to spend a fortune in fitting out your workspaces with the most elegant office furnishings – for your workplace to have a good corporate feel, as well as make you feel comfortable.
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Carl Sagan Quotes About AtheistQuotes about: Atheist
Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication, and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us --- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.
In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing. But this is mere temporizing. If we wish courageously to pursue the question, we must, of course ask next where God comes from? And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always existed?
Is it fair to be suspicious of an entire profession because of a few bad apples? There are at least two important differences, it seems to me. First, no one doubts that science actually works, whatever mistaken and fraudulent claim may from time to time be offered. But whether there are any miraculous cures from faith-healing, beyond the body's own ability to cure itself, is very much at issue. Secondly, the expose' of fraud and error in science is made almost exclusively by science. But the exposure of fraud and error in faith-healing is almost never done by other faith-healers.
I am not an atheist. An atheist is someone who has compelling evidence that there is no Judeo-Christian-Islamic God. I am not that wise, but neither do I consider there to be anything approaching adequate evidence for such a god. Why are you in such a hurry to make up your mind? Why not simply wait until there is compelling evidence?
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UK rapeseed prices continued their recent downward trend, falling again last week as US soyabean values dropped to the lowest level in almost eight weeks.
Soya bean values fell on the back of increased fund selling activity, slow exports and good US harvest activity.
An improved South American crop outlook and added farmer selling put further pressure on the market.
Soya oil markets also remained depressed following the continued weakness in competing overseas vegetable oil markets, noted the Home-Grown cereals Authority in its weekly MI report.
UK ex-farm spot prices were down over £2 to about £106.44/t, while delivered values fell £3 to £115/t.
January to March deliveries to Liverpool and Erith were also down at £117.50/t.
Domestic markets were reported quiet, with some farm selling in regions where drilling has finished, noted the HGCA.


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Unlike humans, zebrafish are able to regenerate amputated appendage
Credit: Courtesy of the Salk Institute
ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2009) – The search for the holy grail of regenerative medicine — the ability to "grow back" a perfect body part when one is lost to injury or disease — has been under way for years, yet the steps involved in this seemingly magic process are still poorly understood.
Now researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified an essential cellular pathway in zebrafish that paves the way for limb regeneration by unlocking gene expression patterns last seen during embryonic development. They found that a process known as histone demethylation switches cells at the amputation site from an inactive to an active state, which turns on the genes required to build a copy of the lost limb.
"This is the first real molecular insight into what is happening during limb regeneration," says first author Scott Stewart, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Juan Carlos Izpisúa Belmonte, Ph.D., who led the Salk team. "Until now, how amputation is translated into gene activation has been like magic. Finally we have a handle on a process we can actually follow."
Their findings, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, U.S.A., help to explain how epimorphic regeneration — the regrowing of morphologically and functionally perfect copies of amputated limbs — is controlled, an important step toward understanding why certain animals can do it and we cannot.
"Our experiments show that normal development and limb regeneration are controlled by similar mechanisms," explains Izpisúa Belmonte, a professor in the Gene Expression Laboratory. "This finding will help us to ask more specific questions about mammalian limb regeneration: Are the same genes involved when we amputate a mammalian limb? If not, what would happen if we turned them on? And if we can affect these methylation marks in an amputated limb, what effect would that have?"
The Belmonte lab uses zebrafish, a small fish from the minnow family, to study limb regeneration. "If you amputate the tail of the zebrafish, it regenerates in about a week, seemingly with no effort and leaving no scar," explains Stewart. "What's more, it regenerates a perfect copy and — like growing grass — it will do this over and over again."
Since regeneration recapitulates in broad strokes embryonic development, during which a complex multi-cellular organism develops from a handful of embryonic stem cells, the researchers began by comparing gene expression patterns between the two processes. During development, genes within specific cell types are turned on and off to trigger the necessary expression patterns that create a whole animal. Once their job is done, they lie silently till they are turned on once again following amputation.
Based on these similarities, Stewart reasoned that genes involved in regeneration may share silencing mechanisms with the ones active in embryonic stem cells. Embryonic stem cells are maintained in a ready-to-go state, "poised" for action to become whatever cell type is needed. The key to this "poised" state are histones, DNA packaging proteins that are also used as carriers for chemical modifications, such as methylation and acetylation. These chemical marks serve as "on" and "off" switches for specific genes.
Stewart discovered that the histone modifications that poise embryonic stem cell-specific genes for activation are also found on the histones near genes involved in regeneration, putting them into a ready-to-go state. "This suggests that two different gene expression programs may exist; one for normal cellular activity and one for regeneration," explains Stewart. To test this hypothesis, the team looked at the histone marks during regeneration. As suspected, they saw a reduction in "off" switches and an increase in "on" switches in regenerating tissue, tipping the balance toward gene expression.
Delving deeper, the researchers found that enzymes that remove the "off" mark, so-called demethylases, are present in high levels in regenerating tissue. One enzyme in particular, called Kdm6b.1, is found exclusively in cells that are undergoing the regeneration process. Without Kdm6b.1, zebrafish failed to regenerate amputated fins, meaning removal of the "off" mark is a prerequisite for fin regeneration.
In the long term, the Salk researchers hope that these findings will help them understand whether we can affect the outcome of mammalian limb regeneration. In the more immediate future, the team plans to use global approaches to identify all the targets of Kdm6b.1 during regeneration, and to find out what gives the signal to turn these genes off when regeneration is complete.
In addition to Stewart and Izpisúa Belmonte, Zhi-Yang Tsun, also contributed to the study.
The study was funded in part by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the Fundacion Cellex, the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, the Ipsen Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health.
Adapted from materials provided by Salk Institute,
ScienceDaily.com, October/November 2009 – Biologists long have marveled at the ability of some animals to re-grow lost body parts. Newts, for example, can lose a leg and grow a new one identical to the original. Zebrafish can re-grow fins.
These animals and others also can repair damaged heart tissue and injured structures in the eye. In contrast, humans have only rudimentary regenerative abilities, so scientists hoping eventually to develop ways of repairing or replacing damaged body parts are keenly interested in understanding in detail how the process of regeneration works.
Using zebrafish as a model, researchers at the University of Michigan have found that some of the same genes underlie the process in different types of tissues. Genes involved in fin regeneration and heart repair are also required for rebuilding damaged light receptors in the eye, they found, suggesting that a common molecular mechanism guides the process, no matter what body part is damaged.
Zhao Qin a graduate student in the department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology will present the research Oct. 19 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Chicago. Her coauthors on the paper, which also was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are professor and chair Pamela Raymond and research laboratory specialist Linda Barthel.
The researchers briefly exposed zebrafish to intense light, which destroys the light receptors in their eyes, just as staring into the sun harms human eyes. But unlike humans, who remain blinded if the damage is severe enough, zebrafish repair the damage with new nerve cells (neurons).
Where do those new cells come from? The U-M researchers suspected they develop from cells in the retina called Müller glia, known to have the ability to give rise to nerve cells, and in previous work another graduate student in Raymond's lab confirmed the suspicion.
In the current work, Qin wanted to find what prompts Müller glia to start the regeneration process. To get at the question, she looked at patterns of gene expression in Müller glia from damaged, regenerating zebrafish retinas and from undamaged zebrafish retinas to see which genes are expressed differently in damaged and undamaged retinas.
"Of course I found a lot of genes—a total of 953," Qin said, "but two were of particular interest." The two genes, hspd1 and mps1, had been found in other studies to be required for fin and heart regeneration in zebrafish, and Qin's work showed that they also were switched on in Müller glia from damaged zebrafish retinas.
"This suggests," Raymond said, "that, although we don't fully understand it yet, there might be a bigger molecular program, involving not just these two genes but a number of cooperating genes that are required for injury-triggered regeneration."
The researchers received funding from the National Institutes of Health.
Spinal Cord Regeneration Enabled By Stabilizing, Improving Delivery Of Scar-degrading Enzyme
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Image showing the extent of new nerves (green) that regenerated after treatment with the enzyme. (Credit: Image courtesy of Ravi Bellamkonda)
ScienceDaily (Nov. 2, 2009) – Researchers have developed an improved version of an enzyme that degrades the dense scar tissue that forms when the central nervous system is damaged. By digesting the tissue that blocks re-growth of damaged nerves, the improved enzyme — and new system for delivering it — could facilitate recovery from serious central nervous system injuries.
The enzyme, chrondroitinase ABC (chABC), must be supplied to the damaged area for at least two weeks following injury to fully degrade scar tissue. But the enzyme functions poorly at body temperature and must therefore be repeatedly injected or infused into the body.
In a paper published November 2 in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers describe how they eliminated the thermal sensitivity of chABC and developed a delivery system that allowed the enzyme to be active for weeks without implanted catheters and pumps. This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health.
"This research has made digesting scar clinically viable by obviating the need for continuous injection of chABC by thermally stabilizing the enzyme and harnessing bioengineered drug delivery systems," said the paper's lead author Ravi Bellamkonda, a professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University.
At physiological body temperature, chABC enzyme loses half of its enzymatic activity within one hour and their remaining functionality within three to five days. To thermostabilize the enzymes, Bellamkonda, Emory University cell biology associate professor Robert McKeon and Georgia Tech graduate student Hyun-Jung Lee mixed the enzyme with the sugar trehalose. The result — the enzyme's activity was stabilized at internal body temperature for up to four weeks during in vitro tests.
The researchers then used a lipid microtube-hydrogel scaffold system to deliver the thermostabilized enzymes into animals via a single injection. The scaffold provided sustained delivery of the enzyme for two weeks, with the microtubes enabling slow release and the hydrogel localizing the tubes to the lesion site. This delivery system also allowed the enzyme to diffuse deeper into the tissue than did catheter delivery.
In animal studies, the enzyme's ability to digest the scar was retained for two weeks post-injury and scar remained significantly degraded at the lesion site for at least six weeks. The researchers also observed enhanced axonal sprouting and recovery of nerve function at the injury site when the thermostabilized enzyme was delivered.
The delivery system also enabled the combination of therapies. Animals treated with thermostabilized chABC in combination with sustained delivery of neurotrophin-3 — a protein growth factor that helps to support the survival and differentiation of neurons — showed significant improvement in locomotor function and enhanced growth of sensory axons and sprouting of fibers for the neurotransmitter serotonin.
"These results bring us a step closer to repairing spinal cord injuries, which require multiple steps including minimizing the extent of secondary injury, bridging the lesion, overcoming inhibition due to scar, and stimulating nerve growth," added Bellamkonda, who is also deputy director of research for GTEC, a regenerative medicine center based at Georgia Tech and Emory University, and a Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar.
This research was funded by Award No. R01 NS043486 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The content is solely the responsibility of the principal investigator and does not necessarily represent the official view of the NINDS or the NIH.
Adapted from materials provided by Georgia Institute of Technology Research News.
This digitally-colorized negative-stained transmission electron micograph (TEM) depicted a number of influenza A virions. (Credit: CDC/F. A. Murphy)
ScienceDaily.com, October/November 2009 – As the nation copes with a shortage of vaccines for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers have raised hopes that they have found an Achilles' heel for all strains of the flu — antioxidants.
In an article appearing in the November 2009 print issue of the FASEB Journal, they show that antioxidants — the same substances found in plant-based foods — might hold the key in preventing the flu virus from wreaking havoc on our lungs.
"The recent outbreak of H1N1 influenza and the rapid spread of this strain across the world highlights the need to better understand how this virus damages the lungs and to find new treatments," said Sadis Matalon, co-author of the study. "Additionally, our research shows that antioxidants may prove beneficial in the treatment of flu."
Matalon and colleagues showed that the flu virus damages our lungs through its "M2 protein," which attacks the cells that line the inner surfaces of our lungs (epithelial cells). Specifically, the M2 protein disrupts lung epithelial cells' ability to remove liquid from inside of our lungs, setting the stage for pneumonia and other lung problems. The researchers made this discovery by conducting three sets of experiments using the M2 protein and the lung protein they damage.
First, frog eggs were injected with the lung protein alone to measure its function. Second, researchers injected frog eggs with both the M2 protein and the lung protein and found that the function of the lung protein was significantly decreased. Using molecular biology techniques, scientists isolated the segment of the M2 protein responsible for the damage to the lung protein. Then they demonstrated that without this segment, the protein was unable to cause damage. Third, the full M2 protein (with the "offending" segment intact) and the lung protein were then re-injected into the frog eggs along with drugs known to remove oxidants. This too prevented the M2 protein from causing damage to the lung protein. These experiments were repeated using cells from human lungs with exactly the same results.
"Although vaccines will remain the first line of intervention against the flu for a long time to come, this study opens the door for entirely new treatments geared toward stopping the virus after you're sick," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of the FASEB Journal, "and as Thanksgiving approaches, this discovery is another reason to drink red wine to your health."
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- 1. Ahmed Lazrak, Karen E. Iles, Gang Liu, Diana L. Noah, James W. Noah, and Sadis Matalon. Influenza virus M2 protein inhibits epithelial sodium channels by increasing reactive oxygen species. The FASEB Journal, 2009; DOI: 10.1096/fj.09-135590
Adapted from materials provided by Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
New, Lethal MRSA Strain Emerges
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FierceHealthCare.com, November 2, 2009 — A new strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is emerging, which poses a grave threat to anyone who contracts it. Researchers with Henry Ford Hospital say the USA600 strain is partially immune to vancomycin, though the drug has proved effective in treating MRSA in the past.
According to research presented at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, half of the USA600-infected patients in the study died within a month, a death rate which is a staggering five times that of those infected with known MRSA strains. Ordinarily, 11 percent of patients infected with MRSA die within 30 days.
Researchers aren't sure, however, if USA600 is causing deaths on its own. Another factor may be the age of the patients, as those with the strain were, on average, 64 years old, as compared with 52 years old for other MRSA-infected people.
Virulent Strain of MRSA Resists Treatment
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Type that causes blood stream infections can be quickly fatal, study finds
SUNDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) — New research holds bad news for health officials worried about a potentially lethal infection called MRSA that haunts hospitals: A strain that infects the bloodstream is five times more deadly than other strains.
To make matters worse, the USA600 strain appears to be at least partially immune to an antibiotic that's used to treat the condition, the researchers have found.
A full half of patients infected with the strain died within a month, according to a study scheduled to be presented at the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, held Oct. 29 to Nov. 1 in Philadelphia. That's nearly five times the death rate of other people infected with MRSA, and 10 to 30 percent of those who acquire MRSA infections in the bloodstream die within a month, the study found.
MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, causes infections in the skin and bloodstream. It can also infect surgical wounds and cause pneumonia. In most cases, it sickens people in the hospital, but cases are becoming more common outside the health-care community, according to information in a news release from the Henry Ford Health System.
Researchers think it's possible that the USA600 strain is unique. But they don't know if other factors — such as the age of patients — could be at play.
Those who developed the USA600 strain tended to be older than those who acquired other MRSA strains, averaging 64 compared with 52 years old, the study noted.
"While many MRSA strains are associated with poor outcomes, the USA600 strain has shown to be more lethal and cause high mortality rates," Dr. Carol Moore, the study's lead author and a research investigator at the Henry Ford Hospital's division of infectious diseases, said in the news release.
"In light of the potential for the spread of this virulent and resistant strain and its associated mortality," she said, "it is essential that more effort be directed to better understanding this strain to develop measures for managing it."
MRSA is challenging to treat because strains can be immune to many medications. The USA600 strain appears to be more immune than other strains to the drug vancomycin, which often still has the power to vanquish MRSA.
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about MRSA.
More study needed to discern if difference is due to intensive care overuse or underuse
FRIDAY, Oct. 30 (HealthDay News) — Dying hospital patients in the United States are nearly five times more likely to spend their last days in the intensive care unit than patients in England, finds a new study, and U.S. patients over age 85 are eight times more likely to be in the ICU when they die.
That's the conclusion of Columbia University researchers who compared data from England and from seven states (Florida, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Texas, Virginia and Washington).
Of all patients discharged from the hospital, 2.2 percent in England received intensive care, compared to 19.3 percent in the United States, according to the report published in the Nov. 1 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
The death rate among patients who received intensive care in England was nearly three times higher than in the United States (19.6 percent versus 7.4 percent). However, only 10.6 percent of hospital deaths in England involved the ICU, compared with 47.1 percent in the United States. Among patients over 85, 1.3 percent in England received ICU care, compared with 11 percent of those in the United States, the researchers found. Rates of ICU care for young adults and children were similar in both countries.
"These numbers need to be interpreted with caution as the differences in mortality for ICU patients likely reflect the higher severity of illness of patients admitted in the first place in England," lead author Dr. Hannah Wunsch, an assistant professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, said in a news release from the American Thoracic Society. "The data do bring up the interesting question of how much intensive care is beneficial. Doing more may not always be better," she added.
"In England, there is universal health care through the National Health Service, and there is also much lower per-capita expenditure on intensive care services when compared to the U.S.," Wunsch said. "The use of intensive care in England is limited by supply to a greater degree than it is in the U.S. and there are consequently implicit and explicit decisions regarding who gets those limited services. We wished to examine what different decisions are made," she explained.
"Whether less intensive care for very elderly patients who are dying is a form of rationing or is actually better recognition of what constitutes appropriate care at the end of life warrants further research," Wunsch said. "These findings highlight the urgent need to understand whether there is overuse of intensive care in the U.S., or under-use in England."
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The American Thoracic Society has more about critical care.
While methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is already known to be a huge problem within hospitals, fewer professionals realize that it's also becoming a serious threat for the public at large, according to a new report. This is grim news, given that some non-hospital strains of MRSA may be even worse than the hospital-based variety.
In 2005, there were about 18,650 hospital deaths caused by approximately 94,360 invasive MRSA infections, according to projections by CDC researchers. In fact, MRSA has apparently become the leading cause of skin and soft-tissue infections among U.S. emergency department patients. To date, 85 percent of those were healthcare-related, according to a study, in Journal of the American Medical Association.
However, the number of MRSA infections contracted in other ways–such as in prisons or among athletes is growing at a brisk clip.
Study: Disinfectant Cuts Down on MRSA
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A study of the disinfectant Byotrol at Glasgow Royal Infirmary in Scotland shows that the sanitizer cut down on the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) by 75 percent. Recently, a study published in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology underscored the danger that both patients and healthcare workers face from community-acquired MRSA, a potentially deadly, antibiotic-resistant staph infection. Byotrol could help stem the spread of the bug. "Byotrol is said to be different from other disinfectants because it leaves a film on surfaces which prevents bacteria from attaching themselves and reproducing. The bugs become exhausted and agents in the disinfectant then kill them," reports Science Daily.
Mysterious ET Signals from Light Years Away?
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NewScientist.com, by Eugenie Samuel Reich — In February 2003, astronomers involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) pointed the massive radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, at around 200 sections of the sky.
The same telescope had previously detected unexplained radio signals at least twice from each of these regions, and the astronomers were trying to reconfirm the findings. The team has now finished analysing the data, and all the signals seem to have disappeared. Except one, which has got stronger.
This radio signal, now seen on three separate occasions, is an enigma. It could be generated by a previously unknown astronomical phenomenon. Or it could be something much more mundane, maybe an artefact of the telescope itself.
But it also happens to be the best candidate yet for a contact by intelligent aliens in the nearly six-year history of the SETI@home project, which uses programs running as screensavers on millions of personal computers worldwide to sift through signals picked up by the Arecibo telescope.
Absorb and emit
"It's the most interesting signal from SETI@home," says Dan Werthimer, a radio astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley (UCB) and the chief scientist for SETI@home. "We're not jumping up and down, but we are continuing to observe it."
Named SHGb02+14a, the signal has a frequency of about 1420 megahertz. This happens to be one of the main frequencies at which hydrogen, the most common element in the universe, readily absorbs and emits energy.
Some astronomers have argued that extraterrestrials trying to advertise their presence would be likely to transmit at this frequency, and SETI researchers conventionally scan this part of the radio spectrum.
SHGb02+14a seems to be coming from a point between the constellations Pisces and Aries, where there is no obvious star or planetary system within 1000 light years. And the transmission is very weak.
"We are looking for something that screams out 'artificial'," says UCB researcher Eric Korpela, who completed the analysis of the signal in April. "This just doesn't do that, but it could be because it is distant."
Unknown signature
The telescope has only observed the signal for about a minute in total, which is not long enough for astronomers to analyse it thoroughly. But, Korpela thinks it unlikely SHGb02+14a is the result of any obvious radio interference or noise, and it does not bear the signature of any known astronomical object.
That does not mean that only aliens could have produced it. "It may be a natural phenomenon of a previously undreamed-of kind like I stumbled over," says Jocelyn Bell Burnell of the University of Bath, UK.
It was Bell Burnell who in 1967 noticed a pulsed radio signal which the research team at the time thought was from extraterrestrials but which turned out to be the first ever sighting of a pulsar.
There are other oddities. For instance, the signal's frequency is drifting by between eight to 37 hertz per second. "The signal is moving rapidly in frequency and you would expect that to happen if you are looking at a transmitter on a planet that's rotating very rapidly and where the civilisation is not correcting the transmission for the motion of the planet," Korpela says.
This does not, however, convince Paul Horowitz, a Harvard University astronomer who looks for alien signals using optical telescopes. He points out that the SETI@home software corrects for any drift in frequency.
Fishy and puzzling
The fact that the signal continues to drift after this correction is "fishy", he says. "If [the aliens] are so smart, they'll adjust their signal for their planet's motion."
The relatively rapid drift of the signal is also puzzling for other reasons. A planet would have to be rotating nearly 40 times faster than Earth to have produced the observed drift; a transmitter on Earth would produce a signal with a drift of about 1.5 hertz per second.
What is more, if telescopes are observing a signal that is drifting in frequency, then each time they look for it they should most likely encounter it at a slightly different frequency. But in the case of SHGb02+14a, every observation has first been made at 1420 megahertz, before it starts drifting. "It just boggles my mind," Korpela says.
The signal could be an artefact that, for some reason, always appears to be coming from the same point in the sky. The Arecibo telescope has a fixed dish reflector and scans the skies by changing the position of its receiver relative to the dish.
When the receiver reaches a certain position, it might just be able to reflect waves from the ground onto the dish and then back to itself, making it seem as if the signal was coming from space.
"Perhaps there is an object on the ground near the telescope emitting at about this frequency," Korpela says. This could be confirmed by using a different telescope to listen for SHGb02+14a. Read more at: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6341
There is also the possibility of fraud by someone hacking the SETI@home software to make it return evidence for an extraterrestrial transmission. However, SHGb02+14a was seen on two different occasions by different SETI@home users, and those calculations were confirmed by others.
Then the signal was seen a third time by the SETI@home researchers. The unusual characteristics of the signal also make it unlikely that someone is playing a prank, Korpela says. "As I can't think of any way to make a signal like this, I can't think of any way to fake it."
David Anderson, director of SETI@home, remains sceptical but curious about the signal. "It's unlikely to be real but we will definitely be re-observing it." Bell Burnell agrees that it is worth persisting with. "If they can see it four, five or six times it really begins to get exciting," she says.
It is already exciting for IT engineers Oliver Voelker of Logpoint in Nuremberg, Germany and Nate Collins of Farin and Associates in Madison, Wisconsin, who found the signal.
Collins wonders how his bosses will react to company computers finding aliens. "I might have to explain a little further about just how much I was using [the computers]," he says. Read more at: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18524911.600-13-things-that-do-not-make-sense.html?page=1


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Renasant robber gets 10 years
The man charged in connection with last year's robbery of a West Point bank entered a guilty plea yesterday and was sentenced in Clay County Circuit Court.
Titus Lamb, 24, of Atlanta, was sentenced to 15 years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections, with five years suspended and five years of post release supervision. He was also ordered to pay $12,143 in restitution and a $1,200 fine.
Lamb robbed the Renasant Bank on the corner of East Main Street and Eshman Avenue on June 27, taking $24,286 according to the victim's impact statement.
According to a statement released to media from the time of the robbery, about 2 p.m. June 27, West Point Police Department officers were dispatched to Renasant in reference to a robbery. Officers from WPPD and the Clay County Sheriff's Department arrived minutes later, but according to the statement, the suspect had already fled the scene.
According to the release, a bank teller said that a 6-foot black man, later identified as Lamb, entered the bank and placed a note on the counter demanding money. The teller then opened the cash drawer and the suspect reached across the counter and started grabbing bills. The suspect took the money from the bank, and left out the back door heading north.
According to the report, the teller did not see a weapon, and at least one customer was inside the bank during the incident. West Point Police Chief Tim Brinkley said bank staff and patrons were "visibly shaken" from the incident, but that no one was injured.


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The way words can never be translated exactly fascinates me. Switching the same message from one language to another always leaves bits of the original meaning behind (much like how some elements of music are left out in MP3 compression, for example). Nevertheless, translation is an important tool – imagine being unable to read Homer or Dostoyevsky because you haven't mastered Greek or Russian.
That being said, I still wonder why T.S. Eliot included several other languages in The Waste Land. What did he want to preserve in the original texts by leaving them untranslated? He begins the poem with an epigraph written in a mixture of Greek and Latin. In part I, includes multiple lines in German (lines 12, 31-35, and 42) and concludes "The Burial of the Dead" with some French that seems to break the fourth wall. Eliot's notes cite Tristan und Isolde for some of the German lines (specifically 31-35 and 42) yet leave the lines untranslated. The French is uncited as well; it seems more of an exclamation, enclosed in quotation marks in the poem but not a reference (as far as I can find) another piece of literature.* Curiously, Eliot flips things around when it comes to referencing Dante's Inferno – he uses English in the poem itself and Italian in his notes. So, I suppose, my questions are these: What is Eliot so intent on preserving in each untranslated line? Why, keeping this penchant for other languages in mind, is the Inferno an exception?
*Though untranslated in the poem, a quick Google search turns up translations galore for all of these quotes. I haven't addressed them here, most simply because I'm not sure how to at the moment. This is the second time I've read The Waste Land, but it's still rather mysterious to me.
Caitlin Woods
Tue, 09/02/2014 - 12:52
I thought his untranslated
I thought his untranslated lines made the poem "flow" really well. I leave "flow" in quotation marks because T.S Eliot is infamous for choppy lines and an overall lack of rhythm, but his "flow" is more in the scenes he spins and the images he conjures. Quoting Roman texts, German operas, and a French poem in their respective languages tied into the motif of a lack of identity, or an identity which is sort of fluid and flows from nation to nation depending on where one's loyalties lie. I think it makes the stanza, "That corpse you planted last year in your garden / Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year?" all that more powerful, tying in that sense of identity with someone who has died for a futile cause.
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Tue, 11/11/2014 - 03:42
The untranslated lines are
The untranslated lines are actually some of the most striking in The Waste Land, if only for their novelty and sound alone. The crucial thing that they do, however, is evoke that aspect of modernism which requires the reader to rise to the challenge of a given piece. T.S. Eliot's works, while full of messages, are anything but didactic.
It isn't possible to say whether The Waste Land is written in English, French, German, Spanish, or any other language alone (or even primarily) because one language is not sufficient. It is inherently multilingual, and that is a language all its own. Reading such piece raises questions about what it means to write in one or many tongues, and what it means for a work to be understood.
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Discussion in 'GBAtemp & Scene News' started by T-hug, Apr 24, 2008.
so many 'missing' roms, and yet this one can make it through lol
From what I saw on screenshots, it looks like a pretty good game.
Unfortunately, I can't get it to work on my Slot 2 SuperCard SD... It only shows Nintendo screen and opening sequence (names of makers). After that I get white screens. Someone has idea how to solve it?
P.S I've tried to patch it with V2.65 and V2.66 patcher, but it still doesn't work.


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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Journal of Vocational Behavior, Volume 82, Issue 2, April 2013, Pages 135–143
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In the notions of the boundaryless and self-directed careers, being able to adjust swiftly to different work and career circumstances is deemed to be an imperative component of career success. Also for unemployed individuals psychological mobility, i.e. the extent to which people can envision a variety of career options as viable opportunities for them, is assumed to be a key attitude. In this study, we examine whether psychological mobility stimulates or constraints unemployed jobseekers' search success. Hereto, we draw on data of 1840 Belgian unemployed individuals. As hypothesized, we find that psychologically mobile individuals spend more time searching for a job and are invited more often to a selection interview. However, on average they receive less job offers, since they also experience more constraints in their job search process. Overall, our study demonstrates that psychological mobility cannot straightforwardly be associated with positive career outcomes in every context or subpopulation and points to the necessity of taking structure and not only agency factors into account to fully grasp the outcomes of the boundaryless career.


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Interview – "Found" Organisers Will Paterson & James Benenson
Written by Michael
September 26, 2011 11:01 am
With their tour de force of progressive events dawning this Friday, Maxumi chats up with the influential organisers behind this massive event.
How did FOUND first come about?
Will: I've worked with James a lot over the last 2 years. He seemed the natural person to curate an exciting and groundbreaking new series of underground
electronic music.
James: Will and I thought it was about time Hidden's amazing and as yet largely undiscovered three underground arches were put on the map. A series of events
seemed the best way to do this and FOUND was born out of an amalgamation of the varied music styles and promotions we've both worked on over the years, drawing
particularly from Will's Eastern Electrics model, combing this commitment to cutting edge labels and promoters with Urban Nerds' grass-roots underground bass
How would you describe what people can expect at a FOUND night?
Will: The night will be a creative combination of great, great DJs, a booming sound rig, a massive garden for smokers, lots and lots of seating, bars and arguably the friendliest crowd in the Capital.
James: Some of the most exciting sounds being forged in London and in British underground dance music at the moment, played by a wealth of known and
unknown DJs spearheading the scene, accompanied by a truly eclectic crowd who appreciate cutting edge clubbing!
FOUND comprises 13 events. How do you keep track, and what are the logistical challenges you face organising such a large scale programme of
Will: I think it's giving James a breakdown! Joking aside James works with me, Yasmin and Sophie to keep careful tabs on all aspects of the 13 nights in the series.
He has a commendable grip on the detail which will help make these nights a fun experience.
James: The OCD waiting to break out from inside me tends to help! As does an unhealthy obsession with spreadsheets. That aside, it's the huge commitment from
all the promoters involved and FOUND's dynamic duo Sophie and Yasmin which keeps it all on track. When 13 events are involved, it's very much a team effort.
What is your background in progressive?
Will: I've helped run Eastern Electrics with Rob and Wil Troup for the last 3 years. This event has always pushed the boundaries in electronic music. We have always
wanted to go that one step further than our contemporaries in booking new talent and in putting genres of music together that don't always get considered as natural
James: I've promoted Urban Nerds for five years and with my two partners have always looked to combine the biggest and best underground talent with the
unknowns that need a break. Nerds have never held back on a line-up and the bigger shows pride themselves on often endless lists of some of the greatest acts
in dubstep, electro, garage, grime and UK bass. We were one of the first promoters in London to actively pioneer the amalgamation of sounds now often pigeonholed
as 'bass music'.
Do you have other possible plans or avenues you'd like to explore with FOUND? Such as a festival, music compilation album etc?
Will: As we are approaching the launch it's a little early to say, but we are already at work on a reinvented series 2 for Feb and March 2012.
James: Yes, we won't count our chickens but immediate plans are moving towards a series 2 in the spring. With our affiliations with the warehouse scene, it would be
great to see FOUND move in that direction further along down the line.
Can you tell us about any partnerships or sponsorships you've put together for FOUND?
Will: James, Sophie, Yasmin and Loriann from BigBox have worked very hard to finalise creative partnerships with key companies like Mixcloud, FACT, Data
Transmission and Trap magazine. We are very excited to have mixes and interviews being hosted throughout the series by all three media organisations.
Do you have any other events beside Found in the works?
Will: I'm working on Eastern Electrics NYE as my other key project. We are announcing our first 2 world-class headliners on Thursday 28th Sept for what
promises to be our biggest NYE to date.
James: Urban Nerds have announced two massive winter dates, the first of which is a Halloween Special on Friday 28th October at London Bridge venue, Cricifix Lane. Secondly, we're also back for NYE. Whilst Eastern Electrics looks after the biggest house line-up the capital's likely to see this New Year's, Urban Nerds take to a secret East London warehouse location with undoubtedly the biggest dubstep and bass led explosion in the city. Urban Nerds NYE that will see 5 huge underground promoters and labels join forces!
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Romeo, The North End, and the 42-1 District Court (Division 1)
Romeo, The North End, and the 42-1 District Court (Division 1) Serving a handful of communities in Macomb County's north end, including Romeo, is Division 1 of the 42nd District Court. As of the 2000 census, Romeo, 4.0 square miles in size, had a population of 3,721. In terms of location, Romeo is neighbors with Ray Township, Washington Township, Armada Township, and Ray Township (all served by the 42nd District Court, Division 1). Romeo is a historically rich community, and in some instances its buildings still have their original furnishings dating back to the Civil War. Every Labor Day Weekend Romeo hosts the Peach Festival, an annual event dating back to 1931. Michigan's iconic celebrity, Kid Rock, was born in the city of Romeo. Bordering St. Clair County (and somewhat located inside it) is the City of Richmond. It should be noted that while it is next to Richmond Township, the City of Richmond is governmentally autonomous from its neighbor of the same name. The city, with a population 5,606 (as of 2008), was created by the Michigan Legislature in 1879.
In addition to the many cities named above, 42nd District Court, Division 1, also serves the city of Memphis. The Court is located at 14713 33 Mile Road, Romeo, Michigan 48065, and is presided over by the Honorable Judge Dennis R. LeDuc. It can be reached via phone at (586) 752-9679.


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i'm Paul-Henri, call me Paul or Paulo it'll do the job :)
I'm 24, freshly graduated from IT school and now i'm a full time worker.
I started to dive two years ago, i'm now a 2 stars CMAS diver, wich means i'm allowed to go to 40m with teacher or 20m "alone".
I'm here to read and maybe exchange things about rebreathers, because for now i'm an OC diver. I'm trying to get as much informations as i can to be ready when the day will finaly come, the day i will buy a rebreather :)
So, hi again and see you on the board :)


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We decided to take a break from barbecue, sub sandwiches and grilled cheese to fancify this column with some highfalutin fare. Which led us to Bacchus House Wine Bar & Bistro in Folsom, a place with a real chef and a banquet room-wedding site holding a baby grand piano and a regularly scheduled pianist, classical guitarist and harpist. A far cry from tater tots and paper napkins.
You won't find pizza on the menu (though the flatbread is sensational) or hot dogs (the wild boar sausage is better), but there is a burger (wagyu beef, of course). Bacchus House is so focused on walking the farm-to-fork talk that its menu lists its "featured farms" purveyors, which include Niman Ranch, Del Rio Botanical and Twin Peaks Orchards.
Let's get some context: In Roman mythology, Bacchus was the god of party time – the wine and grape harvest, revelry and "hilarity" – in Greek, the name is Dionysus. Bacchus' mythological groupies were satyrs (part man, part goat, all lasciviousness) and maenads, enthusiastic women who were prone to overindulging and dancing in a free-spirited sort of way.
A grape cluster-covered statue of Bacchus poses in the Bacchus House dining room, and in the men's restroom are prints of ancient (and inspirational) paintings depicting the god and his followers in full-tilt boogie mode.
Bacchus House was once Bidwell Street Bistro, which debuted in 2000, changed hands twice and opened in its present incarnation in 2014 under the co-ownership of Eric Adams and chef Victor Octavio.
"Chef Octavio runs the back of the house. I run the front of the house, a perfect yin and yang (based on) the 25 years we had our event-planning and catering company," said Adams on the phone later.
The menu shows intricate dishes with flavors that melded in harmony, as it turned out. On the menu are a trio of soups and salads (Fuji apple, white cheddar, two lettuces, sun-dried cranberries and toasted pecans with honey-mustard vinaigrette), small plates (steamed clams, ahi with ginger-sesame sauce), entrees (pan-roasted chicken breast with hazelnut brandy-cream sauce, prime rib French dip with ruby port jus) and sides ($6 to $18).
Our spread opened with a huge platter crowded with three delectable cheeses (manchego, brie and mild goat), orchard-ripe purple grapes and green apple slices, quince paste and mixed nuts, and crostini that was cut too thick, making it rocklike for some of us, just right for others.
Plenty of restaurants serve flatbread, but this version set the bar. The thin sheet of crusty bread was galvanized with house-made pesto, sautéed shrimp, spinach, wild mushrooms and sun-dried tomatoes topped with garlic cream sauce that aggregated the flavors and textures. A similar treatment is given to a portobello mushroom.
Lean slices of grilled wild boar sausage were a pleasant surprise – crispy-chewy with a deep flavor perfectly complemented by a topping of huckleberry compote, adding a sweet-sour note to the robust pork.
We've seldom seen fried calamari so light, crispy and non-oily. "I'm not a calamari person, but this is the best I've had," said a lunch pal. Chewy fried lemon slices accompanied, making for little bursts of citrus flavor in between bites of the squid. Of the two dipping sauces, the chipotle aioli was the right one.
One of the daily specials was the classic Russian dish beef stroganoff, a heaping bowl of tender beef cubes, al-dente penne pasta and mushrooms joining a complex sauce dolloped with sour cream. Splendid.
Decor-wise, the stone-tile tables were classy, but we agreed the dining room was way busy – potted plants over here, lots of curlicue wrought iron over there, faux grape clusters spilling down from the full bar. Everything seemed to be in motion, but many diners like such fuss.
It was the ceiling, though, that puzzled us. About 400 detachable "rosettes" – cross-shaped doodads with pearlescent mini-domes in the middle – dominated it.
"People love them," Adams said. "We are in a strip mall, so you have to give the love you can to the space you have."
Plans are in the works to redesign the banquet room and martini bar into a space "reminiscent of the Great Gatsby era of the 1920s, to bring back some old-school class to a tiny part of town," Adams said.
We'll return to Bacchus House for the grilled crabcakes, pappardelle with salmon, the dry jack cheeseburger (adding crispy bacon for $2), and a closer look at the extensive wine list.
"We just signed a 10-year lease, so we're going to be around for a while," Adams said.
And aren't we glad of that.
Allen Pierleoni: 916-321-1128, @apierleonisacbe
Bacchus House Wine Bar & Bistro
Where: 1004 E. Bidwell St., Folsom
Hours: Lunch is 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays; dinner is 5-9 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays; Sunday supper is 4-8 p.m. Happy hour is 4 p.m.-closing Tuesdays, 4-7 p.m. Wednesdays.
Food: ☆☆☆☆
Ambiance: ☆☆☆
How much: $$-$$$
Information: 916- 984-7500, www.bacchushousebistro.com


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Soldiers from the South Korean Army joined U.S. soldiers in a CBRNE drill at Fort Irwin in California last week.
The soldiers took part in Exercise Atropian Phoenix, which was the first team level integrated training exercise with South Korean CBRNE units in the U.S. The South Korean CBRNE Response Team (CRT) was part of the 110th Chemical Battalion's task force during the exercise.
"We integrated them into our situational training lane exercises as a part of the CBRNE Task Force, and during the force-on-force portion," Lt. Col. Brant Hoskins, the commander of the 110th Chemical Battalion, said. "They provided CRT support to a U.S. infantry battalion to exploit a WMD site. They performed extremely well throughout the rotation but their contributions on the final objective were a particular highlight."
During the exercise, South Korean and American troops trained to conduct decisive action operations in an all-hazards CBRNE threat environment.
"(The exercise) provided the perfect venue for us to share tactics, techniques and procedures in a realistic environment," Hoskins said.
The 20th CBRNE Command and the 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team integrated with the South Korean CRT during Atropian Phoenix.
Soldiers at the 48th Chemical Brigade Headquarters on Fort Hood, Texas, and the 20th CBRNE Command Operational Command Post on Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., also participated in Exercise Atropian Phoenix.
The 20th CBRNE Command is the only U.S. Army formation tasked with combating CBRNE threats.


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Cheshire Ferreters
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The Ferret section at Chatsworth is always enormously popular, with two lots of racing on friday and both Racing and Showing on the agenda saturday and sunday.
This years dates are the 4th,5th and 6th of September at the usual Chatsworth house site.
This year, due to the temperate climate (last years position being underwater) we have moved further down towards the fishermans row. so hopefully we shouldn't need waders.
DSCF2403 The usual morning racing (Saturday and Sunday), scheduled for 11.00 am , and showing at 12 noon – 22 classes in all – followed by more racing, hopefully at about 3 o'clock including (on Saturday only) the dreaded "Coral's frankie stakes" relay so do bring your ferret along to Chatsworth and have a go yourself.
This year too Chatsworth is pleased to host the BRITISH FERRET CLUB Champion of Champions on Sunday. See their website for more details of the Club, and ferrets in general.
Vitalin Ferret Food, sponsors of the British Ferret Club, are sponsering the event and providing Rosettes for the Champion of Champions.
Thanks also to the participants who brought their ferrets along last year, without who there would be no show.
We hope to see you all again this year at the same place.


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KENTUCKY (2/13/18) – The Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services has begun financial assistance payments to eligible relative and fictive kin caregivers with children placed in their home by CHFS.
An October 2017 federal court ruling by the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case D.O. v. Glisson requires that Kentucky must pay relatives who serve as foster parents in the same manner it pays adults who are licensed as foster parents and are paid a daily rate. The ruling also includes fictive kin -- close family friends -- who provide foster care for children removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect. Payment amounts vary depending on a child's needs but will average about $750 a month per child.
CHFS began making payments to the original plaintiffs in the ruling in early December. Beginning later this month, CHFS will issue payments to approximately 15 other relative and fictive kin caregivers who have already inquired about payments and whose eligibility was determined under the ruling.
DCBS estimates that in state fiscal year 2019 -- July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019 -- D.O. v. Glisson will affect approximately 1,590 children whose relative or fictive caregivers will receive about $14.3 million in funding assistance. In state fiscal year 2020 -- July 1, 2019 through June 30, 2020 --the ruling will affect approximately 1,700 children, whose relative/fictive caregivers will receive about $15.3 million.
Specialists have been assigned to review cases to determine eligibility. Per the ruling, relative and fictive kin caregivers are treated like foster parents if the CHFS Department for Community Based Services places the child with the relative and has conducted a home study and background checks, and if CHFS either retains custody or has transferred the child from CHFS' custody to the temporary custody of the relative or fictive kin. Under the ruling, these relative and fictive kin caregivers qualify for a foster care per diem – or daily payment -- for the care of the child.
Relatives and fictive kin may also be eligible for other support services.
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