Laoag City, Ilocos Norte (1 November) -- We are all called to practice mercy towards others. "Be merciful even as your Father is merciful," Jesus speaks to us in the Gospel of Luke. These words are a call to action. Pope John Paul II has said "man attains to the merciful love of God, His mercy, to the extent that he himself is interiorly transformed in the spirit of that love towards his neighbor."
One great spiritual act of mercy that we should perform is to pray for the dead. The Church observes All Souls Day as the living remember their dearly departed.
The Lord asks us, the living, to continuously offer prayers, masses and sacrifices for departed souls. By drawing from the treasury of the Church, we can run to their aid and immerse them in the abyss of God's mercy. "Oh, if you only knew the torments they suffer, you would continually offer for them the alms of the spirit and pay off their debt to My justice," Jesus told St Faustina, the Apostle of Divine Mercy. In fact, the Lord encouraged her to remember the souls in purgatory. He told her: "Enter into purgatory often, because (souls) need you there (from the Diary of St Faustina, entry 1738).
"I saw my Guardian Angel, who ordered me to follow him. In a moment I was in a misty place full of fire in which there was a great crowd of suffering souls. They were praying fervently, but to no avail, for themselves; only we can come to their aid. The flames which were burning them did not touch me at all. My Guardian Angel did not leave me for an instant. I asked these souls what their greatest suffering was. They answered me in one voice that their greatest torment was longing for God. I saw Our Lady visiting the souls in purgatory. The souls call her "The Star of the Sea." She brings them refreshment. I wanted to talk to talk with them some more, but my Guardian Angel beckoned me to leave. We went out of that prison of suffering. (I heard an interior voice) which said,'My mercy does not want this, but Justice demands it.' Since that time, I am in closer communion with the suffering souls."
"All who die in God's grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven."


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FRESH PROCEEDINGS CAN BE ISSUED IF FIRST PROCEEDINGS ON BEHALF OF THE DECEASED WERE A NULLITY: DENTON CONSIDERED
February 1, 2019 · by gexall · in Applications, Case Management, Civil Procedure, Fatal Accidents, Relief from sanctions
In the judgment today in Hutson & Anor, The Personal Representatives of v Tata Steel UK Ltd [2019] EWHC 143 (QB) Mr Justice Turner considered several points relating to the ability of those acting on behalf of an estate to issue a second set of proceedings when the first were a nullity.He also considered the Denton criteria and granted relief from sanctions.
There is an ongoing group action in relation to asbestos. A Group Litigation Order has been made. The cut off date for entering the GLO expired in November 2018. The judge was hearing applications to extend the time and allow a number of cases to proceed.
The application was allowed in relation to one group of claimant subject to a strict timetable and peremptory order. The judge then considered a second set of cases.
The eight claims which form the subject matter of this application were not identified within Order No 9 and thus do not fall within the parameters of Application 1 the purpose of which is to seek further to extend the deadline imposed by that order.
In respect of five of these cases, the claims were purportedly registered before the requisite formalities had been observed but were not technically eligible for registration at the time. Nevertheless, such formalities had been satisfied before the original cut-off date and the defendant realistically concedes that, subject to the payment of costs, these cases should be allowed to proceed by granting the necessary extension of time. I endorse this approach and no further consideration of these claims is called for.
This leaves three cases in which the claim had purportedly been entered on the register but the requisite formalities had not, in fact, been complied with before the deadline imposed by Order No 3 had passed.
The details of the individual circumstances of these claims are set out in the appendix to this judgment.
One overarching point was raised by the defendant in respect of each of these claims. This was to the effect that, as a matter of law, any claim purportedly commenced by a deceased party is a nullity which is incapable of subsequent rectification. In this regard, I was referred to the case of Kimathi v Foreign and Commonwealth Office (No 2) [2016] EWHC 3005.
In that case, the defendant successfully applied to have a claim struck off the GLO register on the ground that the claimant had died before his claim had been registered. The application was resisted on two grounds:
(i) the claim had been commenced when the claim form was issued and the deceased was at that stage still alive; and
(ii) even if the claim had been commenced on the date of registration, this was an irregularity which could and should be cured by the exercise of the Court's wide-ranging powers under CPR 3.
The Court rejected both of these arguments finding that the wording of the GLO made it clear that:
(i) a claimant only became a party to the litigation on the date of entry of a claim onto the register and not before; and
(ii) CPR 3 afforded no discretion to the Court to rectify a purported claim which was, in law, a nullity.
The claimants do not seek to challenge the soundness of these conclusions but contend that the fact that one claim is a nullity does not preclude the commencement of a subsequent claim which is not. Of course, there may be circumstances in which such subsequent claim could be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court but unless and until this happens the second claim is procedurally valid.
I agree. Otherwise, to take an extreme example, where an action was commenced on behalf of a claimant who had, unbeknown, died on the previous day it would be an extraordinary suggestion that his estate was thereby precluded from starting a fresh action properly constituted thereafter.
Accordingly, I approach this issue on the basis that this Court does indeed have a discretion to extend the time within which these three claims may be entered on the register. Of course, that is not an end of the matter and the defendant is entitled to seek to persuade me that I should exercise that discretion against the claimants.
In this regard, an issue arises as to the basis upon which such discretion falls to be exercised. The defendant argues, on the strength of recent authority, that the Court should proceed on the basis that the same level of stringency should be applied as if the case fell squarely within the parameters of the tests laid down in Denton v TH White Ltd [2014] 1 WLR 3926 because the court's indulgence is being sought in an application made after the time for compliance has already passed. I do not express any final view on the validity of this argument but note, in passing, that both Orders Nos 3 and 9 expressly provided for liberty to apply for an extension of time.
In any event, if the claimants were able to succeed in satisfying the Denton tests then, a fortiori, it must follow that they would also have been able to prevail by the broader and less stringent application of the overriding objective. I will therefore assume, without deciding the issue, that Application 2 should be approached as if it were an application for relief from sanctions.
The Denton approach is, for the purposes of adjudication on these applications, adequately summarised in the headnote which, in so far as is relevant, provides:
"A judge should address an application for relief from sanctions under CPR r 3.9(1) 1 in three stages: (i) identify and assess the seriousness and significance of the failure to comply with any rule, practice direction or court order which engages rule 3.9(1) ; (ii) consider why the default occurred; (iii) evaluate all the circumstances of the case, so as to enable the court to deal justly with the application including the factors in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) . The focus of the inquiry at the first stage should be not on whether the breach has been trivial but on whether it has been serious or significant. The assessment of seriousness or significance should not, initially at least, involve a consideration of other unrelated failures which may have occurred in the past. If a judge concludes that a breach is not serious or significant, relief from sanctions will usually be granted and it will usually be unnecessary to spend much time on the second or third stages. If the court decides that the breach is serious or significant, the second and third stages assume greater importance. Although the second stage cannot be derived from the express wording of the rule, it is important particularly where the breach is serious or significant.
Sub-paragraphs (a) and (b) of rule 3.9(1) are of particular importance and so particular weight should be given at the third stage, when all the circumstances of the case are considered, to the need for litigation to be conducted efficiently and at proportionate cost and to enforce compliance with rules, practice directions and orders. If the breach has prevented the court or the parties from conducting litigation efficiently and at proportionate cost, that will weigh in favour of refusing relief. The court must always bear in mind the need for compliance with rules, practice directions and orders, because the old lax culture of non-compliance is no longer tolerated. In giving particular weight to those two factors, the court will take account of the seriousness and significance of the breach (which has been assessed at the first stage) and any explanation (which has been considered at the second stage). The more serious or significant the breach the less likely it is that relief will be granted unless there is a good reason for it. Where there is a good reason for a serious or significant breach relief is likely to be granted. The factors which are relevant will vary from case to case. Relevant circumstances, to be weighed in the balance along with all the circumstances, will include the promptness of the application and other past or current breaches by the parties of the rules, practice directions and court orders."
In respect of all three claims to be considered within the scope of Application 2, the claimants realistically concede that their defaults were serious and significant. The reasons for the defaults in each case involve culpable oversight. I give particular weight to these factors. Nevertheless, I am satisfied that these breaches have not prevented to any significant degree the court or the parties from conducting these claims or the litigation as a whole efficiently and at proportionate cost. This is not a case in which there has been a history of non-compliance. Even bearing in mind the important need for compliance with orders of the Court, I am satisfied that the factors which persuaded me to grant an indulgence in respect of the claims falling within Application 1 apply, for the most part, with similar (and, ultimately, decisive) force to the application of the third Denton test relating to all the circumstances of the case.
I thus conclude that Application 2 should be granted and that the time for entering these claims should be extended to 7 February 2019.
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Rival CEO is familiar to Showtime
It looks like a former Showtime Networks executive will be taking the reins of Viacom's new premium TV channel and VOD service launching in fall 2009. Mark Greenberg, a 17-year Showtime veteran who left in March 2006, is expected to be named CEO of the new venture, sources said. The news, first speculated on in Business Week, comes two days after Viacom announced the launch of the startup company by its Paramount Pictures unit, MGM and Lionsgate. Immediately after the announcement, observers had raised doubts about how real the new venture is. The swift hire of a top executive signals the venture partners' intention to get the new channel up and running quickly. Greenberg's hire also would add another wrinkle to the ongoing rivalry between Viacom and CBS Corp., which owns Showtime. Viacom declined comment Tuesday. Greenberg had risen through the ranks to become executive vp at Showtime, where he had overseen such areas as sales, affiliate marketing and direct-to-home services as well as the company's boxing programming. Before that, he was at HBO. (Kimberly Nordyke)


subsurface-surface coupled processes associated with UK unconventional hydrocarbon extraction.
These potential 'strategic programme areas' (SPAs) have emerged from the ideas process for strategic research, where NERC captures and builds on ideas for excellent strategic science coming directly from the environmental science community. 2015 saw the second cut-offs for ideas for strategic research, with 21 ideas received for SPAs.
NERC's Strategic Programme Advisory Group (SPAG) reviewed the ideas and used a number of them to generate the proposals for SPAs that were considered by NERC's Science Board. NERC will shortly publish open calls for community members to join the SPA scoping groups, which will develop full cases for assessment and funding decisions in summer 2016.
They do not expect to be able to fund all three potential SPAs, and any potential SPA must meet NERC's criteria for a strategic programme, so it is possible that none of these three potential SPAs will result in funded programmes. Open announcements of opportunity for research proposals will follow, for any strategic programme that is approved.


This map shows linguistic diversity index around the world. Linguistic Diversity Index (LDI) or Greenberg's diversity index is an index to measure how diverse a country's languages are.
LDI is on a scale of 1 to 0 with 1 indicating total diversity (that is, no two people have the same mother tongue) 0 indicates no diversity at all (that is, everyone has the same mother tongue).
The computation of the diversity index is based on the population of each language as a proportion of the total population. The Coverage column indicates the completeness of the computation by reporting the percentage of languages in the country for which population estimates are available. The index cannot fully account for the vitality of languages. Also, The distinction between a language and a dialect is fluid and often political. A great number of languages are considered to be dialects of another language by some experts and separate languages by others.
Lewis, M. Paul (ed.) 2009, Table 7. Linguistic diversity of countries (from highest to lowest), Ethnologue, 16th Edition, SIL International, Dallas, viewed 23rd August, 2010, <http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/distribution.asp?by=country>.
ChartsBin statistics collector team 2010, Linguistic Diversity Index, ChartsBin.com, viewed 20th April, 2019, <http://chartsbin.com/view/7j7>.


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Jerold S. Auerbach
Birthright – or Birthwrong?
As the father of a daughter who learned a lot about Israel from her Birthright trip a decade ago, I was intrigued by New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Halbfinger's full-page embrace (July 11) of its new rival, funded by left-wing J Street. Focusing on "the realities of the occupation" (of biblical Judea and Samaria) he reiterated his newspaper's unrelenting seventy-year critique of the Jewish state that threatens its assimilationist credo.
The tour documented by Halbfinger began in Har Gilo, part of the Gush Etzion settlement bloc established on a biblical site that was destroyed by marauding Arabs in 1947 (unmentioned by the Times journalist). Halbfinger is unsettled by the "blunt racial profiling" that occurs at Israeli checkpoints to protect Jewish residents. As the grandfather of a passionately engaged student at the Gush Etzion yeshiva, whose mother – my oldest daughter – frequently drives there from Jerusalem for a visit, I could not be more delighted with the security protection, not dissimilar to the check-in procedure for El Al travelers to Israel.
Halbfinger also seemed disturbed by the "high concrete walls to protect Jewish drivers from potential attacks by Palestinians" as they drive from Jerusalem to Hebron – a journey that I took last month with my son and grandson. Like Halbfinger I was initially uneasy at the looming presence of the walls – a feeling that quickly morphed into comforting reassurance as I recalled the Palestinian shooting and stoning attacks against Israeli drivers that previously occurred on this highway.
The J-Street visit to Hebron was especially unsettling for Halbfinger. A Peace Now guide led the group on "a quick walk" through the massive Machpelah structure, burial site of the biblical patriarchs and matriarchs (erroneously identified by Halbfinger also as the burial site of Adam and Eve). There is no mention of Hebron as the location of King David's rule before relocating his throne to Jerusalem – nor the refusal of Arabs for seven centuries to permit Jews to enter their sacred space.
After their Machpelah visit, the group followed their guide through "the graveyard of abandoned storefronts and apartments" that line the main street of the Jewish Quarter. Once a thriving Jewish neighborhood, it is constricted by strict Israeli government restrictions on development that would increase the Hebron Jewish population. Like the Peace Now guide, Halbfinger ignored the striking Beit Hadassah building, the former medical clinic in the heart of Hebron where Jews and Arabs had been welcome for free medical care before the 1929 Arab riots when sixty-seven Jewish residents were brutally murdered and the community was destroyed. Now it is the apartment building for a dozen Jewish families where my son, grandson and I were welcomed by David Wilder, the English language spokesman who had been a generous host and enlightening guide a decade ago when I was researching and writing a history of the Jewish community in Hebron.
Focusing on the dilapidated Jewish Quarter, where 600 Jewish residents are vastly outnumbered by more than 20,000 Palestinians, Halbfinger only briefly mentioned the thriving Hebron Arab city on the other side of the security barrier. It is the commercial hub of the West Bank controlled by the Palestinian Authority, where 200,000 Palestinians live in high-rise apartment buildings, shop in malls and are educated in two universities. No Jews are permitted entry, but neither the J-Street guide nor the Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief seem to have noticed.
With "the facial expressions more pained and the questions more anguished," the duly indoctrinated J Street students emerged from their tour to express their "disgust" with the Israeli government and their disillusionment with the Jewish state. Halbfinger gives prominence to "a black Jew," an American college student who was "hit hard by the idea that 'a state founded to protect one marginalized group' was oppressing another." She was determined to return to North Carolina "and educate American Jews about the Palestinians' plight." J Street mission accomplished.
In the same Times issue, and with perfect timing, columnist Thomas Friedman – once a fervent teen-age Zionist who spent summers on a kibbutz before studying in Cairo where he was smitten by Arab culture – wondered who is "a bigger threat to his democracy: Bibi or Trump?" In the forthcoming election, "Israel's identity as a Jewish democracy" is at stake. Fearing "Jewish banana republic stuff" under Netanyahu, who "undermines the rule of law to protect his rule and to perpetuate Israel's control of the West Bank," Friedman advises "Jews all over the world" to pray that Netanyahu loses. Friedman is their perfect rabbi.
"All the News That's Fit to Print," according to the Times familiar masthead – or news that fits its discomfort with the world's only democratic and Jewish state?
Jerold S. Auerbach is the author of Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel 1896-2016, recently published by Academic Studies Press.
Jerold S. Auerbach is author of Hebron Jews: Memory and Conflict in the Land of Israel (2009). His new book, Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel 1896-2016, will be published in February by Academic Studies Press.
Call onto the free press to stop publishing anti-Gay positions


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So, on this example, in a fortnight the lender expects being able to cash that search for $380 to recover the loan given for you. Federally-chartered credit unions are regulated from the National Credit Union Administration and insured by the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, which can be backed by the full faith and credit from the United States government. If you're short on funds and looking to loan a small amount of cash to have by between paychecks, you could possibly be considering a payday loan. Payday lenders say their business gives an incredible number of hardworking Americans usage of desperately needed money in an emergency. And it might take you over your overdraft limit, ultimately causing bank charges. From a mathematical standpoint, it appears like this for a 15% loan: 375 x. With Lend — Up, you'll have easy-to-understand terms and conditions along with no hidden fees. Payday lenders have proliferated over the last 15 years, including within Gallup, a scenic but impoverished town of 22,000 having a mix of Indian, Hispanic and white residents along with a striking density of storefront lenders. To design services focused on the community, the Y want to hear from your entire community, and we now have agreed to distribute this survey to constituents. Pew reports that today more than 20,000 storefront lenders — along with countless online outfits and increasingly banks and banks — offer these forms of high-interest loans.
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Enbridge Inc. shares rose by more than seven per cent in Toronto on Friday morning after regulators in Minnesota substantially approved its preferred route through the state to upgrade its deteriorating Line 3 crude oil pipeline.
The stock spiked to $47.24 in early trading as word of the routing decision was added to news Thursday that state commissioners had recognized the need for the pipeline, according to Canadian Press, despite vocal opposition from local Indigenous and environmental activists.
Analysts say the approvals remove a negative overhang on Enbridge's business plan as the project is the largest part of its $22-billion capital growth program over the next two years.
Enbridge has pegged the cost of the Canadian segment of Line 3 at $5.3 billion, with an additional $3.8 billion budget for the U.S. segment.
It estimates the pipeline will be in service in the second half of 2019, although analysts cautioned it may take until the first quarter of 2020 if substantial civil disobedience delays construction.
The pipeline company was given 60 days to negotiate a settlement with the Fond Du Lac Band to determine routing on a short piece of the pipeline that crosses its land but will be able to go around if no agreement can be reached.
"This is a crucial piece of infrastructure to help debottleneck Enbridge's existing egress capacity out of Western Canada and should allow for heavy oil differentials to tighten in 2020," analyst Ian Gillies of GMP FirstEnergy Capital said in a report.
The current lack of capacity on export oil pipelines has been blamed for steeper than usual discounts in prices for Canadian heavy oil.


Mostly wrapper functions that can be used in conjunction with indirect_relations to fine tune indirect relations.
For walk counts up to a certain length.
The predefined functions follow the naming scheme relation_transformation. Predefined functions walks_* are thus best used with type="walks" in indirect_relations. Theoretically, however, any transformation can be used with any relation. The results might, however, not be interpretable.
Walk based transformation are defined on the eigen decomposition of the adjacency matrix using the fact that $$f(A)=Xf(\Lambda)X^T.$$ Care has to be taken when using user defined functions.


The game of Scrabble gave me an idea, take each letter of the alphabet in turn to give you a word, and then apply that word to yourself.
A ~ Addled: occasionally, blame the pills.
B ~ Blue: is the colour of constancy, faith, friendship and dignity. I hope my friends see me as blue.
D ~ Drink: Coffee, black with one sugar, every time.
E ~ Essential for daily living: Easy breathing.
G ~ Gamine: Have been called this in the past, hopefully they saw me as 'a playfully mischievous girl or young woman' and not 'an urchin'!
H ~ Hypothermia: My worst fear.
J ~ June: My favourite month.
K ~ Kismet: Who knows my destiny.
L ~ Life: Is great when you are alive!
N ~ Number of siblings: Five, four brothers and one sister.
P ~ Pastime: My favourite is a walk in the country with a friend, followed by a good meal and a glass of wine.
R ~ Reason to smile: being alive.
S ~ Social drink: My drink of choice on social occasions is a Gin with either Ginger ale or Tonic Water.
T ~ Tales: The stories I like to spin on a daily basis.
U ~ Unknown fact about me: If I tell you it will not be unknown.
V ~ Things I value: Loved-ones and Friends.
Z ~ Zodiac sign: Pisces and I consider myself sensitive and instinctual rather than intellectual or mechanical.
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This is the development version of pqsfinder; for the stable release version, see pqsfinder.
The main functionality of this package is to detect DNA sequence patterns that are likely to fold into an intramolecular G-quadruplex (G4). Unlike many other approaches, this package is able to detect sequences responsible for G4s folded from imperfect G-runs containing bulges or mismatches and as such is more sensitive than competing algorithms.


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Q: Interact.js draggables not visible when dragging out of a dropzone with overflow:scroll I'm building an interact.js app with two dropzones. One begins with all of the draggables in it and is scrollable. When dragging out of the origin dropzone, the draggables become hidden.
I've tried all of the suggested methods such as setting overflow: visible and position: absolute on the draggables. I've also tried almost every possible combination of z-indexes that could possibly make sense.
Here's a JSfiddle with the problem re-created: http://jsfiddle.net/L5g9prao/1/

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*Expected behaviour: Draggables stay visible when dragging between dropzones

*Actual behaviour: Draggables become hidden as the leave the origin dropzone.
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

A: The solution I found was to apply position: fixed and a top position to the draggable for the onstart event like so:
onstart(event) {
    let target = event.target;
    let position = target.getBoundingClientRect();
    target.style.position = "fixed";
    target.style.top = position.top + "px";
}

And then in my use case, the draggable is deleted and cloned so I don't have to remove those properties, but if you need to, do so in the onend function like so:
onend(event) {
    let target = event.target;
    target.style.position = "relative";
    target.style.top = "auto";
}

Thanks to @marcdubs for the answer

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From parallel play to co-management: Conserving landscapes at risk of wildfire in the West
Description: Wildfire has fundamentally shaped the western landscapes we seek to conserve. It is a source of renewal and central to the functioning of many ecosystems; as well as a destructive force that threatens communities and conservation values across public and private lands. Wildfire epitomizes myriad connectivities that we cannot escape. Yet as the frequency of large, severe wildfires has greatly increased over the past 20 years, it has called to attention the fragmented, sometimes conflicting approaches to natural resource conservation across different jurisdictions and organizations. Reducing threats and enhancing conservation benefits from wildfire will require synergistic collaboration and coordination to span these disconnects. Our discussants will provide a range of perspectives from applied social science and policy action around wildfire to suggest bold new ideas about how people in the western U.S. may live with fire in the 21st century, and how conservation policy could spur more effective collective action to address wildfire risk across public and private lands.
Presenters: Tony Cheng, Director of the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute and Professor at Colorado State University; Emily Jane Davis Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist at Oregon State University; Tyson Bertone-Riggs, Policy Analyst for the Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition; Cassandra Moseley Interim Vice President for Research and Innovation at University of Oregon.
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What it is: A facial cleansing device for men that offers the best in pre-shave skin preparation and anti-aging capabilities.
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-Turn device on, apply cleanser, wet brush surface, cleanse face, and rinse.
-Enjoy a one minute cleansing and pre-shave routine followed by a one minute anti-aging routine.


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Jackson's future looms large as Ravens head into offseason
By NOAH TRISTER The Associated Press
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Tyus Bowser (54) and running back J.K. Dobbins walk off the field following an NFL wild-card playoff football game against the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023. The Bengals won 24-17. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel)[ASSOCIATED PRESS/Joshua A. Bickel]
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — The Baltimore Ravens are heading into an offseason that will put this proud franchise to the test. The Ravens lost 24-17 to Cincinnati in their playoff opener. A knee injury in early December ultimately ended star quarterback Lamar Jackson's season. Jackson's rookie contract now expires. The big question in Baltimore — and around the league — is whether he and the Ravens can finally reach a long-term deal.


President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday reiterated his administration's commitment to keeping Nigeria united and peaceful.
According to the president, who was represented by the Minister of Police Affairs, Navy Capt. Caleb Olubolade (retd.), meaningful development could only take place in an atmosphere of peace and stability.
Jonathan spoke in Yenagoa on Saturday during the second Bayelsa Thanksgiving Day anniversary.
The event took place at the mainbowl of the Samson Siasia Sports Complex.
Bayelsa governor Seriake Dickson; American human rights activist, Mr. Jesse Jackson; prominent cleric, Uma Ukpai; were among a host of eminent personalities in attendance.
Commending Dickson for his leadership and initiative for instituting a thanksgiving day in the state, the president emphasized the need to thank God at all levels of government for His divine protection and guidance.
Jonathan said, 'With what the state government is doing in terms of projects and programmes, the Bayelsa Government is keying into the transformation agenda of the Federal Government.
He expressed the hope that Nigerians would rally round him in his quest to make the country one of the greatest economies of the world.
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So why is Mum always best?
About eight months ago I resigned from my work to take over the lion share of looking after Thing 1 and Thing 2. There were a number of reasons; but the main one was that my wife was able to earn about three times as much as me in less time.
You can see from my early blog entries that there were both fun and stressful times. The cycle of tedium interspersed with regular bouts of intense emotions certainly takes a significant adjustment. I became closer to the Things and understood more about their behaviour, even if I couldn't always improve it.
In doing this role I have undoubtedly lost status; especially amongst my male peers. When meeting a bloke for the first time they will usually perform a comic double-take when they hear I am a 'stay at home dad'. The looks I got when dropping off my car to be fixed with Thing 2 in tow said it all. The fact that I use the opportunity to further my writing career is often mystifying to them as writing is not a proper job either.
The hardest times for me are when the Things want their mum. Both Things had nasty viruses recently and were up in the night with temperatures and nightmares. Thing 2 even managed to vomit in our bed.
While I was sitting up with her at 2am watching old episodes of Batman (that are really driving me mad now) with her cuddled across my lap - a mini-furnace carefully positioned within aiming distance of a sick bowl - I felt a sense of pride in what I was doing.
Then as she was sick again she started crying and calling for Mum. I was letting Mum sleep as she had a long drive that day for a big meeting, but Thing 2 was inconsolable for about 15 minutes. She finally fell asleep on my lap with big, racking sobs mixed with murmured pleas for Mum that slowly faded into gentle snoring.
When the Things were born my wife transformed into a natural mum, always seeming to know what the Things needed or wanted. However, I was informed by a few people that I was not a natural dad. I obviously had some catching up to do but will I ever even draw level during those times when the Things need that extra level of support?
I can't see it happening in the near future and it takes the gloss off all the time, effort and stretched patience that goes into looking after children. When you're with the Things everyday it's hard to see the little advances you make, but there's no escaping the rejection you get at 3am when a Dad cuddle is just not enough.
Working from home: Is a desk a luxury or a necessity?
For the past six months I have been working from the dining room table or the top of the laundry basket. That is when I am not looking after Thing 1 and Thing 2. But at last we are in our new house with space for both of us to work from home.
Working from the dining table is perfectly acceptable apart from the time it takes to remove all traces of food stickiness and general Thing-related gunge before settling down to work. This is not a huge hardship; more that I can't leave any work stuff on the table when the Things return from nursery/school as it will get scribbled on, cut or generally blasted with pink pen.
This to me is the main problem with not having a place set aside to work. When I had a desk I knew where important paperwork or gadgets were because I kept them in the desk drawers. I spent whole time we were renting looking for lost items that used to reside safely in those drawers.
My wife didn't get any luxuries either; despite being a director of a pharmaceutical company. She spent the six months working from a small table wedged in the corner of our bedroom. She had to sit with one elbow on the radiator and wasn't able to have a cup of tea on the desk while the printer was running.
It was cramped and uncomfortable but we did it and it shows that all many of us need to work from home is a laptop, broadband and phone – plus somewhere to file or store the essential paperwork or gadgets.
Now I have a big expanse of desk. It feels super-sized now I am used to just having somewhere to park my laptop. I know it will quickly get covered in stuff because a clean desk is a tidy mind and I like my mind to be unshaven and oblivious to boundaries.
Much as I am looking forward to using my desk I now think that a desk is an enjoyable luxury rather than a necessity. If people can turn a profit working from home on a dining table there could soon be a huge increase in the number of home workers.
What do you think? Is a desk a luxury or a necessity?
To celebrate being re-united with my desk I have cut the price of my laugh out loud novel Working from home: Mixing business with pleasure to £1.98. Buy it quick while I am still feeling euphoric!
Most people think that working from home means taking their work home with them but the best thing for a writer is to see someone enjoying your work. As writers are not usually welcomed into peoples' houses the best place to see this is in public places.
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The problem with selling a Kindle book is that you can't see what book people are reading. However, I have taken heart by this wonderful review for Working from home on Amazon.
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Buy Working from home today and put a smile on your face. Four out of five reviewers said they laughed out loud and the other one said it had "lots of laughs".


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A woman got the shock of her lifetime when a simple DNA test unlocked the 20-year mystery of her uprooted family tree.
TikTok user @jordynthe1st grew up not knowing who her father was. Her mother, who had her at a young age, assumed that she was conceived by a former Puerto Rican boyfriend, leading the family to assume Jordyn was half Boricua.
At 17, Jordyn decided to take a DNA ancestry test and learned that she was actually half Afghan. Then at 20, a second cousin, who she was connected to through the service, was able to help — and led her to a shocking hometown connection.
Jordyn's mom remembered a Middle Eastern fling named Alex from 20 years ago. "They only met once, and you know how it goes — hookups were a thing back then, too," she explained.
With that information, Jordyn's cousin connected her to their family. Much to Jordyn's surprise, she learned that her family had been living in her Las Vegas hometown "the whole time."
"I honestly couldn't believe it," she told The Post. "Not only did this woman figure out a 20-year mystery in the span of one day, but also I was shocked with the news that I had lived in the same city as them this whole time too."
Jordyn's second cousin broke the news to her grandmother, who then relayed the shocking news to Jordyn's biological father. The family excitedly welcomed Jordyn and connected in person shortly after.
She learned that her father currently lives in Afghanistan after having been deported while he was in his 20s and isn't allowed back into the United States. But even from a distance, her father accepted her "with open arms."
"I still have not had the chance to meet my father yet, he is stuck in Afghanistan for the time," she told The Post. "I was able to get a brief video chat in but internet in Afghanistan is actually awful so it was very brief. I'm hoping one day soon I can go visit him."
The fairy tale ending of this story was when Jordyn learned that not only did she gain a new family, but that her father was rich and "wants to financially make up for lost time." Jordyn questioned her storybook tale, "What is my life?"
"My whole life I had accepted that I didn't know who my father was and for the most part," she told The Post. "I was okay with it but I always wondered, and now I didn't have to wonder anymore."
Jordyn's original video sharing her video went viral with 2.5 million views and 678,500 likes as people responded to her happy ending.
In addition to having a father, Jordyn is also thrilled to celebrate her heritage.
"Not only all of that, but now all of a sudden there was this whole new beautiful culture I belonged to," she said. "It was all so overwhelming and it felt like I finally understood me and who I was for once in my life."
This isn't the first time that a DNA test was used to discover and connect unknown family members. Two co-workers who were BFFs were stunned earlier this year when they discovered they were full biological sisters.
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J. P. Rojas, G. A. Torres Sevilla, M. M. Hussain, "Can We Build a Truly High Performance Computer Which is Flexible and Transparent?" Nature Sci. Rep. 3 : 2609 | DOI: 10.1038/srep02609.
J. E. Mink, R. Qaisi, B. E. Logan, M. M. Hussain, "Energy Harvesting from Saliva in Micro-Sized Microbial Fuel Cells" NPG (Nature) Asia Materials, (2014) 6, e89; doi:10.1038/am.2014.1.
Justine E. Mink, Muhammad Mustafa Hussain, "Sustainable Design of High Performance Micro-sized Microbial Fuel Cell with Carbon Nanotube Anode and Air Cathode", ACS Nano, 2013, 7 (8), pp 6921–6927 (DOI: 10.1021/nn402103q).
J. E. Mink, J. P. Rojas, B. E. Logan, M. M. Hussain, "Vertically grown multi-walled carbon nanotube anode and nickel silicide integrated high performance micro-sized (1.25 L) microbial fuel cell", Nano Lett., 2012, 12 (2), pp 791–795.
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We obtain estimates for nonnegative semiadditive functionals on the space of continuous 2π-periodic functions defined in terms of Steklov functions.
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Growing ResTech invests in clean room
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A new, revitalized ResTech Plastic Molding Inc. is emerging, as the company recently completed a new ISO Class 7 clean room, added new machinery and developed a new training program to help its operators.
"We focus on growth and excellence, but the only people who can do it are the employees or the associates," said George Danis, owner and CEO of the Hudson company.
"To get results you need to give them the tools, and the training program is one," he said.
Danis said usually a book or paperwork is prepared to help with a project, but ResTech wanted to go further and installed a video system on machines that details what to look for and how to handle a job. The system is installed on 10 units and plans are in the works to build four more. The company also plans to add an audio component.
The program is a tightly controlled process in that various departments and the customer have to sign off before it is implemented. It is then shown on a screen in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
The training system contains many aspects. It shows what finished parts should look like and even how to pack them.
Quality assurance manager John Metcalf said he's compiled hundreds of books, but the problem is getting people to read them when they need them. The new system is getting a much more favorable response rate.
"We improved our quality 50-60 percent since we've installed it. It's really amazing," Danis said.
ResTech Corp. was established in 1976 and had plants in Leominster and Clinton, Mass. It was acquired in 2010 by Danis and Plastic Molding Manufacturing Inc. All three plants have been consolidated in Hudson as ResTech Plastic Molding, which occupies 60,000 square feet of a 200,000-square-foot old mill building. The facility has plenty of room to expand if need be.
When the deal was made, Danis said, the companies had 90 employees. Now, the combined staff has grown to 125. The facility has been upgraded and includes a climate-controlled toolroom and tool-storage space.
ResTech designs and makes its own tooling on-site. It has a preventive maintenance program and guarantees the life cycle of all its tooling projects.
The Class 7 clean room has two JSW electric injection molding machines; four more are on order. Overall, ResTech has 30 machines, with clamping forces of 30-770 tons. The company has an aggressive machine replacement plan, targeting 10 new electric machines through 2013. It also intends to buy 10 machines in 2014.
ResTech operates in end markets including industrial, health-care, electronics, transportation, defense and security. It is also getting a boost with work coming back from China, gaining two projects that had been done overseas.
Danis said sales have been steadily rising about 15 percent a year over the last three years. He expects the same this year.
Employees have bonus programs and quarterly lunches as incentives and a way to keep them informed.
"We all need to work together and the community is also very important," said Danis.
He added that a key project for the company is to fund and volunteer for a Thanksgiving Day turkey dinner for senior citizens.


2 months ago Anyone still have the heat sheets from state for last year?
7 months ago Katie Caples Race Lists?
The Promo Code link has been fixed.
@coachboza Definitely one of the best! My top runners are tackling it next week.
Yes. We will be hosting it on Saturday 9/12.
Great writing as always Zack. Thanks for taking the time to highlight the meet.
Which entrance should we use? Wickham Road or Parkway Road?
Registration is now open. We will limit the race to the first 50 teams entered.


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Teenage Dream, 5 Years Later: Still the Perfect Terrible Pop Album
Katy Perry demonstrated how one album could be both a huge hit and a huge miss
By Ashley Fetters
Look, we all know Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" is the greatest pop song of our time. I know it. You know it. Science knows it.
Sure, you could put up a reasonable fight for Kelly Clarkson's empowering "Since U Been Gone," or Carly Rae Jepsen's hyper-infectious "Call Me Maybe," or perhaps one of Beyoncé's capital-S Statement anthems as the greatest mainstream pop spectacle of the decade. But do any of these exhilarate like "Teenage Dream" does? No. "Teenage Dream," from its wistful, romantic lyrics to its double-Instagram-filtered video, is perfectly engineered to inspire unironic, stomach-butterfly-inducing nostalgia. In 2010, it probably reminded you of a time someone you liked let you put your tongue in their mouth somewhere within fair proximity to a sunset. Now, it probably still reminds you of that, but with an added infusion of someone—maybe a different someone—at whom you drunk-ecstatically sang out that magnificent refrain (You! ...Make! Me!) at a wedding reception or a sorority formal or on New Year's Eve.
The triumph of "Teenage Dream," the song, though, is all the more impressive when you take into account that its home address is at Track 1 of Teenage Dream, the album—released five years ago today. Teenage Dream is only the second album in history to produce five No. 1 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 (the first was Michael Jackson's Bad), and it is by multiple metrics one of the most successful albums ever. But it also takes some effort to remember any big album that so evenly split the difference between unforgettable and completely forgettable—or one that so firmly set the course for an artist's aesthetic moving forward, for better or for worse.
It's probably no accident that the only single to miss No. 1 was "The One That Got Away"—in which the teenage dream dissolves when the lovers grow up.
Teenage Dream was Perry's third album, but it's the first one that cemented her here-to-stay status—and it's hard not to invoke the word "cartoonish" when you consider the high points of Teenage Dream. Same goes for "confection," a word used just as often nowadays to describe perfectly constructed vignettes of sweet, delightful, colorful content as it is to describe perfectly constructed morsels of sweet, delightful, colorful food—and Perry is, after all, lounging on some pink cotton-candy clouds right there on the cover. (The deluxe-version repackaging of Teenage Dream as "The Complete Confection," it's worth mentioning, stands alongside Madonna's The Immaculate Collection in the pantheon of puns that hopefully got somebody a raise.) The other four No. 1 singles from Teenage Dream are, indeed, just as big and bouncy and blown-out as "Teenage Dream": There's the sunny, sugary "California Gurls"; the comic-book space erotica of "E.T."; "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)," the cheeky throwback to the candy-hued '80s. And then there's "Firework," the most literal embodiment possible of a bright, colorful explosion of happiness.
The rest of Teenage Dream, however, is a strange place, littered with 1. Damn-near-unlistenable sex jams inexplicably heavy on bird imagery, and 2. Maybe more poignantly, instances in which Perry sings, much less danceably, about the sadder, realer aspects of love, sex, and adulthood. It's probably no accident that Perry's disappointment ("Circle the Drain"), disillusionment ("Not Like the Movies"), and existential angst ("Who Am I Living For?") stayed in the deep cuts once it became clear that What the People Wanted was a whipped-cream bra. And it's also probably no accident that the only Teenage Dream single to just miss No. 1 was "The One That Got Away"—the sad twin of "Teenage Dream," in which the dream dissolves when the two young lovers inevitably grow up.
Of course, in the years since, the Katy Perry oeuvre has only become more over-the-top cartoonish and sugary, not less. So maybe Teenage Dream should be considered the inflection point at which Katy Perry became firmly lodged into the role of pop music's resident gleeful caricature. Or maybe Teenage Dream is just a textbook, teach-it-in-music-marketing-schools lesson in what to release (and what not to release) as a single. Choose your own Teenage Dream–legacy adventure. But as it stands, it's an uneven but lovable experiment in mainstream music-making, home to a smattering of insta-classic radio anthems, a handful of too-real and/or too-gross duds, and the greatest pop opus in a generation.
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Research ArticleArticle
Anticitrullinated Protein Antibodies and Rheumatoid Factor Fluctuate in Early Inflammatory Arthritis and Do Not Predict Clinical Outcomes
Lillian Barra, Vivian Bykerk, Janet E. Pope, Boulos P. Haraoui, Carol A. Hitchon, J. Carter Thorne, Edward C. Keystone, Gilles Boire and The Catch Investigators
The Journal of Rheumatology August 2013, 40 (8) 1259-1267; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3899/jrheum.120736
Lillian Barra
From the Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, St. Joseph's Health Care London, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario; Rebecca MacDonald Center for Arthritis and Autoimmune Disease, University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Inflammatory Arthritis Center, Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical School, Cornell University, New York, New York, USA; Rheumatic Disease Unit, Institut de Rheumatologie, Montreal, Quebec; Arthritis Center, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Southlake Regional Health Centre, Newmarket, Ontario; and Rheumatology Division, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
For correspondence: lbarra2@uwo.ca
Vivian Bykerk
Janet E. Pope
Boulos P. Haraoui
Carol A. Hitchon
J. Carter Thorne
Edward C. Keystone
Gilles Boire
Objective. In inflammatory arthritis, rheumatoid factor (RF) and anticitrullinated protein antibodies (ACPA) are believed to be associated with more severe clinical outcomes. Our objective was to determine whether ACPA and RF remain stable in early inflammatory arthritis and whether their trajectories over time or baseline levels predicted clinical outcomes.
Methods. The study population consisted of patients enrolled in the Canadian Early Arthritis Cohort Study with baseline and at least 12-month followup values of RF and ACPA. Primary outcomes were Disease Activity Score (DAS) remission and the presence of erosions at 12 and 24 months. Other objectives included swollen joint count, Health Assessment Questionnaire score, and DAS.
Results. At baseline, 225/342 (66%) patients were ACPA-positive and 334/520 (64%) were RF-positive. At 24 months, 15/181 (8%) ACPA-positive patients became negative. A larger number of patients changed from ACPA-negative to positive: 13/123 (11%). For RF, fluctuations were more common: 67/240 (28%) reverted from positive to negative and 21/136 (18%) converted from negative to positive. RF and ACPA fluctuations did not predict disease outcomes. Patients who remained ACPA-positive throughout followup were more likely to have erosive disease (OR 3.86, 95% CI 1.68, 8.92).
Conclusion. RF and ACPA have the potential to revert and convert during the early course of disease. Fluctuations in RF and ACPA were not associated with clinical outcomes.
ANTICITRULLINATED PROTEIN ANTIBODIES
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Supported by Amgen Canada Inc. and Pfizer Canada Inc. by an unrestricted research grant to CATCH; by Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd., United Chemicals of Belgium (UCB) Canada Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada Co., Abbott Laboratories Ltd., and Janssen Biotech Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson Inc.); and by the Program of Experimental Medicine, The University of Western Ontario.
Accepted for publication December 4, 2012.
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Health Insurers Are Starting To Roll Back Coverage for Telehealth, Even Though Demand Is Way Up
Nov 01, 2020 7:00AM EST Health + Wellness
Private insurers saw telehealth claims increase over 4,000% from 2019 to 2020. JOEY MCLEISTER / Star Tribune via Getty Images
By Jennifer A. Mallow and Steve Davis
In less than a year, telehealth has gone from a niche rarity to a common practice. Its ability to ensure physical distance, preserve personal protective equipment and prevent the spread of infection among health care workers and patients has been invaluable during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As health care specialists and researchers, we have long seen the potential of telehealth, providing health care remotely with technology, which has been around for several decades. Despite evidence it could safely treat and manage a range of health conditions in a cost-effective manner, widespread adoption of the practice had been limited by issues including insurance coverage, restrictions on prescribing and technology access.
On March 27, 2020, The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, removed many of the barriers to widespread telehealth use. Soon after, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid released a toolkit encouraging state Medicaid agencies to adopt CARES policy changes to promote the expansion of telehealth. Many private insurers followed suit. Collectively, these policy changes facilitated the explosion of telehealth. Now, due to the financial strain on health care systems and insurers, the increase in telehealth use may be forced to shrink even though the public health crisis remains.
At the very beginning of the pandemic, the use of telehealth went from 13,000 to 1.7 million visits per week among Medicare recipients. Between mid-March and mid-June 2020, during the height of the national lockdown, over 9 million telehealth visits were conducted for Medicare recipients. Private insurers, who mimicked the CARES Act policy changes, also reported exponential increases – with telehealth claims increasing over 4,000% from the previous year.
Telehealth is typically used for new health concerns like a sore throat, psychotherapy and in-home monitoring with mobile devices for chronic conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure or heart failure. Telehealth is convenient because it can be done from anywhere and more frequently than in-person visits.
The changes triggered by the CARES Act were intended to last only until the public health emergency was considered over. Making telehealth coverage expansions permanent could lead people to use their insurance coverage more often by making care more convenient, thus costing private insurance companies more money.
Provider compensation is traditionally based on the amount of time spent with the patient and how complicated and risky the exam and procedures are to perform. Historically, telehealth was reimbursed at a lower rate than in-person care. The CARES Act had addressed this payment disparity by mandating the same rate for telehealth visits as in-person visits for those insured by Medicare, with more than 80 new telehealth services being reimbursed at the same rate as in-person services.
Many private insurers followed suit and paid providers who conducted telehealth visits at the same rate as office visits. Now, that's all changing due to financial loss by insurance companies. As of Oct. 1, telehealth visits are not always paid at the same rate as in-person visits by these private insures.
Several big private insurers are pulling back some of their coverage of telehealth for non-COVID issues. Companies including UnitedHealthcare have already rolled back policies that waived co-pays and other fees for non-COVID-related appointments. Other plans such as Anthem BlueCross BlueShield have extended their coverage through the end of the year, but only the first two sessions are free for the consumer.
Further complicating matters is that every private insurance plan and many state-funded Medicaid plans have different sets of rules and dates for what telehealth treatments they cover. This means some patients are paying more. Costs are getting confusing. Patients may end up with a surprise bill – or they may delay care due to cost.
A System Under Pressure
Health care providers and hospital systems are also in limbo. They don't know whether they'll lose telehealth payments when the federal public health emergency for the pandemic lapses or what to expect from private health insurance companies.
Hospitals and health systems have had to meet unprecedented challenges in 2020 – increasing testing, treating infected patients, expanding intensive care unit capacity, safeguarding staff and non-COVID-19 patients, procuring personal protective equipment and canceling nonemergency procedures. These challenges have created historic financial pressures for health care offices and hospitals. The American Hospital Association estimates that the country's health care systems are losing an average of .7 billion per month.
This financial crisis puts telehealth in jeopardy. Providers and health systems still have to pay salaries and purchase expensive technological equipment, making it difficult to accept a reduced rate for telehealth visits. Without payment parity, in the current financial crisis, health care systems will not be able to continue to offer telehealth services.
A continued increase in COVID-19 cases is expected this fall, just as insurance providers are starting to diminish coverage for telehealth visits.
Our team – and teams across every state – will undertake rigorous evaluation of each of the CARES Act policy changes (and similar Medicaid and private insurer changes) and their impact. These evaluations will provide information on how telehealth affects cost and cost effectiveness in the future.
Clearly, telehealth is in jeopardy now as patients are paying more, health care practices are receiving less and the risk of infections increases. While the diminished risk of infection through the use of telehealth seems positive, it is clear to us that insurers are trying to drive patients back to the in-person care model. How will vulnerable populations and the fragile health care system respond? Will patients and providers still have a choice in how they receive and provide care, or will we lose the innovation gained during this period?
Jennifer A. Mallow is an associate professor of nursing at West Virginia University.
Steve Davis is an associate professor of health policy, management and leadership at West Virginia University.
Disclosures: Jennifer A. Mallow receives funding from the US DHHS-Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services & National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute. Steve Davis receives funding from the WV DHHR-Bureau for Medical Services & the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Secret Thirteen Interview - Esplendor Geométrico
By Paulius Ilius on 27 Feb '15 Secret Thirteen Interview
Saverio Evangelista & Arturo Lanz. Photo by Óscar García
Taking their name from the famous Manifesto of Futurism by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Esplendor Geométrico have always been the primary driving force behind the Spanish industrial scene and influenced many artists during their 35 year career. The story behind their title partially describes their sonic sensibilities - distorted mechanistic soundscapes framed by monolith precise rhythmics merged with traces of coldwave and synth music. Esplendor refrains from any political statements, but their early music nicely reflected the tensions and anxiety of 80's Europe and the rough nature of architectural and technological advancements. It is like a brutalist tower block transcribed in sounds, the aesthetics of machinery.
Later on the duo developed their sound further and incorporated Chinese, Arabic and African influences thus expanding their musical palette further and making their discography even more adventurous. However, their trademark subtle harshness remained intact, but the overall sound gained more ambient and abstract moods, which was perfectly illustrated by their excellent 2013 release "Ultraphoon", a hypnotic, immersive and exotic journey across unknown sound terrains.
On the 28th of February Lithuanian audience will witness one of the rare performances of Esplendor Geométrico, which will take place in club "Kablys", a former meeting place for the railway workers now converted into a concert venue situated on the outskirts of Vilnius old town. Before the gig one half of the duo Saverio Evangelista shed some light on the background of this legendary project in the interview below.
Paulius Ilevičius: Your name is based on the Manifesto of Futurism by Italian F.T. Marinetti. The futurism was quite a radical and innovative movement. How it influenced your sound/ideology? How do you see it from present-day context and how do you think new generations perceive it?
Saverio Evangelista: Yes, our name was taken from a poem by Marinetti: "Splendore Geometrico e Meccanico". For us it was just an "aesthetic" choice: we liked that name, nothing else! Of course we knew who was Marinetti and what was Futurism (and, by the way, we liked it). But they didn't influence us. At the beginning there was one thing that influenced us: music. I'm talking about other groups like Cabaret Voltaire or Throbbing Gristle. But, as I said, it was just at the beginning because very soon we took a personal way, different from other groups.
We don't know how new generations perceive it and, to be honest, is not so important for us: when we see young people at our gigs that enjoy our music we are very happy, that's all!
PI: You both live in different continents, mainly Asia and Europe. How does this fact influence your art/creative process/communication?
SE: Before one of us (Arturo) went to China 16 years ago because of his job, we already lived far from each other: one in Spain and the other in Italy. So things didn't changed so much when Arturo went to Asia. The world was very different compared to today: the modems were just 56Kb (or less…). But few years later the things changed a lot. Nowadays we can exchange big files, share ideas, talk with Skype etc. Obviously, in some way, living in a place influences you as a person, first of all and as an artist as well. For example, we often use some oriental voices in our tracks or some images related to China or Japan.
We think that's very difficult to speak about something so deep related to ourselves. When we started (long time ago, this year we celebrate our 35th anniversary!), in our countries the electronic musical scene was very poor (however, a strong new wave movement existed). It wasn't easy to access information (very different from today), but at the same time we had a lot of curiosity and this curiosity helped us to know other groups and to start making music by ourselves.
I'm talking about this, because in this case our countries didn't influence us "positively". But, at the same time, we are sure that the place you live influences you strongly and probably this could explain why since the beginning our music wasn't exactly the same like music composed by English, German or even American groups.
ultraphoon by ESPLENDOR GEOMETRICO
PI: What place in your discography does your 2013 album "Ultraphoon" occupy? What does that release mean to you? Is it more of a summary of your past or an introduction to new period?
SE: "Ultraphoon" is very important for us. We are convinced that is one of our best albums. We are very satisfied with tracks and with sound: our friends Francisco López and Teho Tehardo, two magnificent musicians, made the mastering.
We don't think that is a summary of our past or an introduction of a new period: it is a new step in our evolution. When you listen to it you recognize immediately EG sound but at the same time, if you followed our past releases, you find a lot of new suggestions.
PI: Your sound, especially the earlier material contains some political undertones. Do you try to convey a certain message or do they serve more for aesthetic purposes? What do you think of the relation between art and politics? Do they have to go together?
SE: It is like the choice of our name: it wasn't an ideological choice, but more aesthetical. Don't forget that Esplendor Geométrico was born when the punk movement was still alive ("punk was not dead"), and most of the choices were made just for provocative reasons. We are not interested in politics or even art (at least when we compose our music). At the same time we know that "everything is politics", so a title, a video, an image for the cover of an album should be understood (or misunderstood?) as "political". For example, talking again about "Ultraphoon", many of its titles are African words and as we said, this choice isn't "political", but someone should say (and, probably, is correct): the choice to be "unpolitical" is itself a political statement.
PI: Could you shed some light on how your track "Moscú Está Helado" was born? Is it an irony or more of an aesthetic reflection of realities of that time?
SE: "Moscú Está Helado" is a transition track. Before that, Arturo founded another group Aviador Dro (another name taken from Futurism movement as it was the title of an opera by Francesco Balilla Pratella). Aviador Dro was a techno-pop group. Very soon Arturo left the group and founded Esplendor Geométrico. "Moscú está helado", was one of the first tracks still influenced by techno-pop style and it was very different from the tracks that Esplendor began to compose very early. This is the reason why we don't consider it "exactly" an Esplendor track. It wasn't ironic, it was simply fun.
PI: Having in mind the fact that you have been involved in the scene for a very long time, what changes have you observed during all those years? How do you see the current situation/revival of minimal/industrial scene?
SE: We don't follow the scene, but we noted that we are performing more than in the past and this is obviously a good thing.
PI: Machinery is a prevalent aesthetical element in your art. What do you think about the present-day technologies? Do you think they do more harm or good? How do they influence art?
SE: Technology is fundamental for us: we are not musicians, so electronic instruments are indispensable, without them we would not have existed. Obviously, when we began, technology was mainly analog and today it is mainly digital and we use it in the same "intuitive" way: we have a very elementary approach to technology. For us an instrument is just an… instrument!
PI: What is the current situation in industrial scene in the countries you live, China and Italy respectively?
SE: As we previously said, we don't follow musical scene and, by the way, both of us are now living in Europe. We would like to take this question to clarify our relationship with the industrial scene: of course our first releases, in the 80s, were industrial, but since the early days we considered our music "industrial" in a different way from what others considered "industrial". We moved away that genre. We understand that human being needs to classify, needs to tag books, movies, music. For us, it is not a problem to be considered an industrial group, but when, for example, we played in techno festival in Uppsala named "Volt", we didn't feel "strange" in that environment and, probably, the public had the same feeling. To be honest, we don't have an exact label to describe our music, but what do you think about "electronic primitivism"?
PI: What are your key non-musical inspirations? What other art forms (or not only art) inspire you?
SE: When we compose our music, we don't follow any inspiration. We begin with a rhythm that we like, a small loop for example, we play it for hours, and if it doesn't bore us, we decide that it is ok. We enjoy making music and this is the only "motor" that moves us!
Apart from artistic inspirations, Arturo is also inspired by meditation and sport: he ran in several marathons, and besides running, he likes to swim several kilometers every day!
In my case, my biggest passion (besides music, obviously) is mathematics. I'm very interested in relationships between sound and numbers.
Links: website - discogs
Paulius Ilius
Paulius Ilevicius is a Secret Thirteen journalist, editor and occasional DJ focusing on more dreamy and melancholic soundscapes. Born in post-industrial town of Pavevezys, currently he lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania.


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package org.jetbrains.kotlin.idea.structureView;

import com.intellij.ide.util.treeView.AbstractTreeNode;
import com.intellij.openapi.ui.Queryable;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.Condition;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.text.StringUtil;
import com.intellij.ui.treeStructure.filtered.FilteringTreeStructure;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.tree.DefaultMutableTreeNode;
import javax.swing.tree.TreePath;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;

import static com.intellij.util.ObjectUtils.tryCast;

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 * Extracted from PlatformTestUtil to print JTree with location string.
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}