INDIAN WELLS – For everything Roger Federer did right, the world's top-ranked player did something wrong. Eventually, his errant shotmaking did him in.
Marcos Baghdatis upset Federer, 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (4), Tuesday night in the third round of the BNP Parabas Open, beating the Swiss star for the first time in seven meetings.
A joyous Baghdatis bent down and kissed the court, having closed out the taut contest in which their booming serves kept rallies brief and Federer wasted three match points.
Federer hadn't lost when holding a match point since 2006 in Rome.
He withdrew last month in Dubai because of a lung infection.
Federer held his third match point on Baghdatis' serve in the 12th game, but he netted a backhand for deuce. Baghdatis went up and then forced the tiebreaker when Federer mis-hit a backhand return that sailed high in the air beyond the baseline.
Federer played some loose points in the tiebreak, committing seven errors that included netting a forehand volley to set up Baghdatis' first match point, which he won when Federer's backhand return sailed long.
"I should never be in a breaker, so why analyze the breaker?" said Federer, a three-time champion in Indian Wells.
Baghdatis beat the No. 1-ranked player for the first time in his career; his best previous win came against Andy Roddick, ranked third at the time.
Injuries nagged Baghdatis through much of 2008, then he worked his way back to the top 50 last year through low-level Challenger tournaments in places like Pakistan.
Federer's loss leaves the tournament without its top seeds, with Svetlana Kuznetsova already knocked out on the women's side.
Roddick defeated Thiemo de Bakker of the Netherlands, 6-3, 6-4, to reach the fourth round along with Andy Murray, while second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki advanced to the women's quarterfinals.
Roddick, a semifinalist here last year, improved his record to 17-3 this season, all on hardcourts. He had an easier time with de Bakker than their first meeting, a three-set win at the Australian Open in January.
Roddick served 10 aces and saved the only service break he faced in the first set of a match played in nearly 90-degree heat.
The seventh-seeded American will next play No. 22 Jurgen Melzer, who advanced when Simon Greul withdrew because of illness.
No. 4 Murray served seven aces and was broken just once in defeating American Michael Russell, 6-3, 7-5. At 31, Russell was the oldest player remaining in the men's field.
Shahar Peer, 6-2, 6-2, and No. 8 Samantha Stosur defeated defending champion Vera Zvonareva, 6-2, 7-5. Wozniacki advanced to the quarterfinals with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-0 victory over 16th-seeded Nadia Petrova, whose career record against top-five players dropped to 11-42 with the loss.
The Dane will play Zheng Jie of China, who defeated Alicia Molik, 6-3, 4-6, 7-6 (1).
Wozniacki is the highest seeded woman left, with Kuznetsova, Maria Sharapova, Kim Clijsters and Justine Henin among the big names already gone.
No. 5 Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland beat Marion Bartoli, 6-3, 6-2, to reach the quarters for the third consecutive year.


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Kreditech Licensed by Reserve Bank of India to Operate as NBFC
Posted by Joachim Bartels | Oct 23, 2018 | ! Recent Country News, FinTech, FinTech Companies, India, Kreditech Germany, Machine Learning, Online Lending | 0 |
In a first of its kind step, Reserve Bank of Indi (RBI) has awarded its first Online/Digital NBFC licence to Kreditech India.
Kreditech India received the first licence for Online NBFC from RBI to operate as NBFC- Ready, for disruption and launch operations which would be the first of its kind in Indian financial history. Headquartered in Germany, online lender Kreditech aims to disrupt fintech market by assessing the creditworthiness of an individual based on their online footprint before extending loans. Kreditech will offer a broad range of consumer loan products to customers via a very fast and convenient process on web and mobile channels. With new management on board and David Chan as new CEO globally, Kreditech is very promising for India as a market.
"This is a new-age license which has been issued by the regulator wherein major focus has been on a robust – systems and technology and customer grievance redressal mechanism. We would like to sincerely thank the regulators to come up with detailed policy for an on-line digital lender like us which would certainly differentiate us from the competition. This is a big move and would allow to have only serious players in this field over period of time," says Ashish Kohli MD & CEO, India operations.
Ashish Kohli further added "Presently many NBFCs are focussing on digital space, however, we are differentiated with an absolute digital end-to-end solution right from origination to digital disbursement to collection. Consumer lending space in India is witnessing a major disruptive transformation and the segment is poised to be US$ 1 trillion opportunity over the next five years. Disruption in this segment is created by technology advancement, real-time scoring models that use big data and machine learning algorithms to make better credit decisions."
Having an NBFC's license is the first step in the journey for Kreditech India as this will not only allow them to launch innovative product solutions but also try to bridge the gap in the growing consumer lending white space in India. According to Kohli they will be launching the India business in a very systematic and phased manner to support the effort of in laying the foundation for its Credit and Lending business. Kreditech has been able to deploy best in class teams, infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence technology which clearly gives us an edge over growing consumer lending space in India.
The Kreditech India product suite will have highly individualized Consumer loans and will also provide Lending-as-a-service allowing partners to offer customized credit products to their customers.
About Kreditech Holding SSL GmbH Kreditech Holding SSL GmbH, a real-time scoring technology company, based in Hamburg, Germany provides an online big data scoring technology and machine-learning algorithms services to make better credit decisions. We have studied market well and designed the algorithms which are accustomed to Indian consumers and their needs. Our main focus is to ensure customer gets WOW experience and create a win-win proposition for both internal & external customers. We have a vision of building a leading innovative consumer lending NBFC in India by capitalizing on the parent holding company's cutting-edge platform and local human resource talent.
We are completely focussed in India and it's the most promising emerging market for us states David Chan, CEO at Kreditech. "Our proprietary credit scoring technology can not only assess an applicant's creditworthiness in seconds and with higher precision than traditional credit-bureau based systems. There are algorithms build by taking in account various factors into consideration. That way, we are able to offer credit to people quicker and in most efficient way. The Indian market may be a tough one, but we are more than confident that we'll break into the market successfully."
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L' Ordinance no. 3.020 of 26 November 2010 pertaining to limiting the public's exposure to electromagnetic fields therefore sets a threshold electric field of 6 V/m* for the entire spectrum, between 100 kHz and 6 GHz. In this frequency band, this limit value is 4.5 times below the lowest limit recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), i.e. 28 V/m. An additional restriction of 4 V/m was introduced for emissions from mobile phone base stations (set at 6 V/m for public stopping-off place inside buildings).
The mission of the Department of Electronic Communications (DCE), which is part of the Ministry of Public Works, the Environment and Urban Development, is to check that emissions from radio frequency networks in the Principality respect the new limits.
Since 2011, the DCE has been measuring emissions throughout the country, with a particular focus on schools and health establishments, and also all areas close to sources of radio frequency emissions.
The map above makes it possible to locate the various sites for which one or several measurement points have been identified, corresponding to the places where the overall electric field is the greatest.
When clicking on the symbol , a window appears, showing, for each measurement point, the value of the overall field and the value of the mobile telephone field. The regulation Monegasque limits are mentioned in brackets.
This map will be updated regularly with new measurements from sites that have already been evaluated, plus measurements taken from new sites.
* : V/m (volt per metre) is the unit of measurement for electric fields.


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Wall Street Journal: Venezuela's PdVSA Misses $404 Million Payments on Bonds
Petróleos de Venezuela SA missed $404 million in coupon payments on three of its bonds, highlighting the continued struggles of the Venezuelan state oil company.
Venezuela hasn't missed any debt payment since 2004, according to Russ Dallen, a managing partner at Caracas Capital.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-pdvsa-misses-404-million-payments-on-bonds-1479768989
Valor: Venezuela: PDVSA atrasa pagamento e entra em default
O país não perdeu nenhum pagamento de dívidas desde 2004, afirma Russ Dallen, sócio-gerente da Caracas Capital.
http://www.valor.com.br/internacional/4783279/venezuela-pdvsa-atrasa-pagamento-e-entra-em-default-diz-jp-morgan
Barron's: OPEC Oil Cuts? Iran Pumps, Saudi Arabia & Venezuela Down
Russ Dallen, a publisher, investor and Venezuela expert who just launched a long-short fund, intends to capitalize on Venezuela's imploding political reality. He said his fund investments could include $70 billion in outstanding Venezuelan bonds, both the sovereign and the state-controlled oil producer Petroleos de Venenezula, or other indirect assets that are tied to Venezuela, he said. More from Dallen:
"According to the volumes that Venezuela submitted to OPEC, Venezuela's production fell another 17,800 barrels per day (bpd) in October to 2.316 million bpd … long before PokemonGo made augmented reality famous, PDVSA was using "augmented reality" in their production and financial numbers. To compensate for that, in addition to the numbers submitted by Venezuela, OPEC has their own statistics team that counts production. OPEC's statistics say that while OPEC production went up, Venezuela barely produced over 2 million bpd – 2.067 million bpd – in October …
Venezuela's continuing production crash aside, there are two other important things to note from the OPEC report. Iran led the gains in output. Over the weekend, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani reported at a formal opening ceremony for the oil fields west of the Karoun River near the border with Iraq, that their North Azadegan, Yadavaran and Yaran field production rose to about 250,000 bpd from just 65,000 in 2013. Rouhani says they will get it to 1 million bpd with the investments they are now seeking under newly generated rules. France's Total (TOT) became the first western oil company to sign a preliminary new agreement last week, seeking to develop a natural gas field, working with China's CNPC. The South Pars natural gas complex is slated to be the largest of its kind in the world. No word yet on how a Trump administration's threatened return to sanctions on Iran might affect developments there.
The second non-Venezuela takeaway from the OPEC statistics is that OPEC production is over 33.643 million bpd and rising at a time when OPEC is talking about cutting production down to 32.5 million bpd. At the same time, OPEC noted that it was pumping almost a million barrels more than next year's expected demand."
http://www.barrons.com
Posted on 4 November 2016 27 November 2016
Americas Society Panel Discusses What's Next for Venezuela and PDVSA (VIDEO)
NEW YORK — The Americas Society and Council of the Americas hosted four leading experts who discussed Venezuela and PDVSA's financial standing, as Venezuela and the state-owned oil company faces payments of more than $13 billion through the end of 2017 as part of bond obligations.
In recent weeks, PDVSA has come under intense scrutiny after it offered investors a swap deal in order to postpone payments as its oil output continues to decline. Russ Dallen, who is the head of Caracas Capital and Strategic Advisor to the Venezuela Opportunity Fund, led a discussion of expert panelists on economics and politics in Venezuela that included Lucas Aristizabal, Senior Director and Head of Latin American Energy at Fitch Ratings; Diego Ferro, Co-Chief Investment Officer of $1 billion fund manager Greylock Capital; and Francisco Rodríguez, Chief Economist at Torino Capital and former Chief Economist in the early days of the Chavez National Assembly.
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2424726&CategoryId=10717
Venezuela kifut az időből és pénzből
Russ Dallen, a Caracas Capital Markets vezető partnere szerint az ország utolsó tartalékait használja fel.
"Venezuela kölcsönvett időt használ. Embereit éhezteti, hogy kifizesse a Wall Streetet, de úgy tűnik ezzel a stratégiával is kifut az időből" – mondta.
Az ország egyre fogyó tartaléka a gazdaság krízishelyzetét tükrözik, amely miatt milliók nélkülöznek alapvető élelmiszereket és gyógyszereket. Miközben a bűnözés növekszik, a népet egyre inkább bosszantja a politikai zűrzavar.
http://www.monline.hu/gazdasag/992647-venezuela-kifut-az-idobol-es-penzbol
500%通胀!委内瑞拉——我该如何拯救你?
总部位于迈阿密的委内瑞拉投行加拉加斯资本市场(Caracas Capital Markets)的合伙人Russ Dallen表示,委内瑞拉现在已经奄奄一息,该国号召人民勒紧裤腰带给华尔街还债,甚至这种办法看起来有点不择手段。
http://money.sohu.com/20161104/n472254534.shtml
CNN en Espanol: Otra cara de la crisis en Venezuela: el pago de las deudas a expensas de su gente
Están funcionando con lo mínimo, dice says Russ Dallen, socio de Caracas Capital Markets en Miami. Venezuela está "viviendo en tiempo prestado. Tiene a su gente con hambre para pagarle a Wall Street, e incluso parece que esa estrategia se va a agotar".
Las menguantes reservas del país son un reflejo de su profunda crisis económica, que ha dejado a millones de venezolanos sin acceso a alimentos básicos y medicinas mientras el índice criminal sigue disparado y la convulsión política invade la vida nacional.
Otra cara de la crisis en Venezuela: el pago de las deudas a expensas de su gente
CNN: Cash-strapped Venezuela has a big payment due today
"They're running on fumes," says Russ Dallen, managing partner of Caracas Capital Markets in Miami. Venezuela is "living on borrowed time. It's starving its people to pay Wall Street, and even that strategy looks like it's going to run out of time."
http://money.cnn.com/2016/11/02/investing/venezuela-debt-running-out-of-cash/
LatAm in Focus: Russ Dallen on Venezuela's Not-Quite Breaking Point
$15 billion owed in bond payments. $11 billion of siphoned funds stashed in Swiss bank accounts. 2.1 million barrels of oil per day, down from 3.5 million almost two decades ago. From selective default to missing gold, the web of Venezuela's collapse can be dizzying, says Managing Partner of Caracas Capital Markets Russ Dallen, who unties the many tangled threads to the situation in this podcast with AS/COA Online's Holly K. Sonneland. If you needed any proof that Cuban-style Communism doesn't work, Venezuela—which has more oil than Saudi Arabia—is the only example you need, he says.
"All of that wealth from this huge oil boom and there's nothing, nothing left."
And yet, despite the collapse, the administration of Nicolás Maduro maintains its grip on power, thanks to political scales weighted completely in their favor and, on the economic front, an ability to make payments to its bondholders—although even those relationships are starting to fray. The government and its state-owned oil company, PDVSA, just pulled off a bond swap, but because the deal was made under the threat of default and put the country's crown jewel, Citgo in play, few fears are assuaged, says Dallen, who also advises the Venezuela Opportunity Fund and owns the Latin American Herald Tribune. "We're by no means out of the woods," he says. "The probability of default is high."
Yet while the government scrapes by in the short term, the challenges the country will face to rebuild in the long run are daunting. "The worst thing about all of this is that all of that money—billions and trillions of dollars, literally trillions of dollars—and they left nothing," he says. "There's no great projects, there's no great highways, there's no great buildings. Nothing."
Russ Dallen will participate in the November 3 event "Venezuela and PDVSA: What to Expect," part of our Venezuela Working Group series.
http://www.as-coa.org/articles/latam-focus-russ-dallen-venezuelas-not-quite-breaking-point
Posted on 30 October 2016 26 December 2016
Zombie PDVSA Bonds and the Venezuela Reserves Crash
This past week a newspaper in Arkansas published an obituary for a popular (fictional) character on "The Walking Dead" – Glenn Rhee — who was killed in the premiere episode of the 7th season of the popular zombie apocalypse drama.
I must confess that I have watched the development of Zombie "lore" with fascination: From the original slow moving zombies of "Night of the Living Dead," to mixing the medium with an attack on the foibles of modern consumer society in "Dawn of the Dead", to taking the mythology further down the wormhole so that, in addition to "The Walking Dead," we now have a series about a zombie detective who eats the brains (and gets the memories) of the dead victims to solve the crime that led to the victim's death ("iZombie") and another series ("In the Flesh") about the partial cure, re-animation and re-entrance of zombies as productive members of society as mere sufferers of "Partially Deceased Syndrome" (PDS) — which also brought equality to zombies by including the first televised kiss between gay zombies. Donald Trump would definitely build a wall.
Aside from being the Halloween issue of this Report, we wanted to alert you to the billion dollar fall in Venezuela's reserves that coincided with the billion dollar payment of the PDVSA 5.125% on Friday — and how zombie bonds meant that PDVSA owned the majority of that debt.
Friday afternoon the Venezuela Central Bank reported that its international reserves fell $1 billion from $11.8 billion to $10.895 – the lowest since 2002 when there was a national strike against Chavez. That is down $31 billion from the 2009 high of over $42 billion.
On Friday, Venezuela paid the maturity and interest on the $1 billion PDVSA 5.125% of October 28, 2016, an amount that roughly totaled $1.026 billion.
While Minister of Oil and Mining and PDVSA head Eulogio Del Pino warned earlier this month about not paying the PDVSA 2017s, he had always promised to pay the PDVSA 16s. The reason for not including the PDVSA 16s in the threat or the swap was because PDVSA's Pension Fund owned the majority of the PDVSA 16 and has since 2013, so he could easily pay the bonds and take the money out again.
In November 2013, rather than pay the full $1.2 billion of PDVSA 8% of 2013, PDVSA paid $705 million to the market but swapped the $440 million owned by the PDVSA Pension Fund into a newly created re-tap of $565 million of the PDVSA 5.125% of October 28, 2016, expanding the PDVSA 5.125% 2016 "Petrobono" from its original $435 million to $1 billion — making, not for the first time, the unpaid PDVSA 8% of 2013 a zombie bond that keeps living on.
In fact, the PDVSA 8.5% Citgo collateralized 2020 Swap Offering Circular sloppily refers to those bonds as the PDVSA 8% of November 2016 – not once, but two times at separate points in the document. Here is one:
(p.71, PDVSA 2020 Exchange Offering Circular, http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2421844&CategoryId=10717 )
And then they carelessly drafted a different variation of the PDVSA 8% of November 2016 on another page:
(p.72, PDVSA 2020 Exchange Offering Circular,
http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2421844&CategoryId=10717 )
I can't tell you how much time we wasted searching for this mythical zombie half-a-billion PDVSA 8% of November 2016 before we realized that PDVSA and its lawyers had repeatedly made an error and meant the PDVSA 5.125% of October 18, 2016 instead. Here is the original notice in Venezuela's Official Gazette in November 2013 (and the Gaceta Oficial has a mistake in the ISIN to be consistent and compound the errors):
https://www.scribd.com/document/329471379/Venezuela-Gaceta-Oficial-Extending-PDVSA-8-of-2013-40-303-27-Nov-2013
Our zombie hunting adventure aside, what the $1 billion fall in reserves and that paragraph excerpted above tells you is that PDVSA is running out of funds and is raiding the Central Bank as well as its Pension Fund for cash. As we pointed out earlier this year and as that paragraph also reveals, PDVSA did the same thing with $900 million of the PDVSA 2015 bond last October, writing the PDVSA Pension Fund a promissory note rather than pay off the bonds, which are still unpaid to this day. (By the way, PDVSA also reported that it paid the $90 million coupon due on its $3 billion of PDVSA 6% of 2022 on Friday, another bond that we helped discover when PDVSA secretly handed it to the Venezuela Central Bank in exchange for a loan).
Gold Reserve to Be Paid $600 Million Today?
As if the $1.026 billion paid on Friday and the $1.2 billion due on November 2 was not enough (down from $2.2 billion because of the swap), PDVSA contracted August 8 to pay Gold Reserve Inc. $600 million by today, with the remaining $169 million due by December 31, for the $769 million expropriation judgment that the World Bank International Center for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) awarded in 2014. Those of you who like us believe that PDVSA will not be able to make those payments can short the stock: GDZRF in the U.S. or GRZ on the Toronto Stock Exchange. But beware, the stock has a very low daily volume and no puts and calls are generically available. In addition, Del Pino was in China last week and an investment in this venture was a topic of discussion.
Venezuela in the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday
In addition to the $1.2 billion payment for the amortization of the PDVSA 8.5% of 2017 due on November 2nd, Venezuela will also be arguing a case before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. The case concerns Venezuela's expropriation of Oklahoma-based Helmerich & Payne's drilling rigs and local company in 2010, but the Supreme Court discussion is really about a hair-splitting threshold procedural issue about sovereign immunity. And the U.S. filed a brief in support of Venezuela's interpretation, which calls for a return to the law of sovereign immunity as it was back in the early 19th century, which was also defined by an earlier U.S case involving Venezuela and its caudillo El Mocho — Jose Manuel Hernandez – which helped define the Act of State Doctrine back around the turn of the century.
Venezuela at the Council of the Americas on Thursday
Obviously it's a big week for Venezuela, so on Thursday the always far-sighted Council of the Americas in New York has convened a panel to try to make sense of it all. I will be moderating a brilliant group made up of some of the leading intellectual lights on Venezuela, including Torino Capital's Francisco Rodriguez, Fitch's Lucas Aristizabal, and Greylock Capital's Diego Ferro, and I invite you to join us. You can find out more here: http://www.as-coa.org/events/venezuela-and-pdvsas-bonds-what-expect
Posted on 26 October 2016 28 October 2016
Financial Times advierte sobre el peso de vencimientos de deuda venezolana
¿Cuánto vale Citgo Holding?
Citgo no es una compañía cotizante y su valor es relativo. En su oferta de canje de bonos, PDVSA asegura que su valuación es de u$s 12.500 millones.
PDVSA antes dijo que las tres refinerías de Citgo valían u$s 7000 millones. Russ Dallen de Caracas Capital sostiene que, en base a la venta anterior de otra refinería de Citgo, podrían salir a la venta por cerca de u$s 1300 millones. Dallen estima que el valor de Citgo Holding, que incluye oleoductos y otros activos, asciende a entre u$s 4000 y u$s 5000 millones.
Pero PDVSA afirmó que Citgo tiene deudas por u$s 4.200 millones. Además, los activos de la empresa ya corren riesgo de ser embargados por los acreedores de PDVSA y del gobierno, en definitiva el dueño de ambas compañías.
¿Por cuánto tiempo podrá Venezuela pilotear la situación?
Los analistas e inversores hace un tiempo que se vienen preparando para un default, pero el "Día D" todavía no llega. El Banco Central asegura que las reservas extranjeras totales ascienden a u$s 11.800 millones, menos de los u$s 35.000 de principios de 2015.
Morden de Nomura calculó el futuro ingreso neto fondos en dos escenarios: precios del petróleo al nivel actual para un crudo venezolano en cerca de u$s 38 el barril, y precios más altos en el futuro. Después del servicio de la deuda, la fuga de capitales y las importaciones relacionadas con el petróleo, ella estima que los ingresos netos provenientes de exportaciones de petróleo serán cercanos a u$s 8800 millones este año, subiendo a u$s 12.800 millones en 2017 si repuntan los precios.
http://www.bancaynegocios.com/financial-times-advierte-sobre-el-peso-de-vencimientos-de-deuda-venezolana/
FT: Los vencimientos de deuda ponen en jaque el futuro de Venezuela
Citgo no es una compañía cotizante y su valor es pura conjetura. En su oferta de canje de bonos, PDVSA asegura que su valuación es de u$s 12.500 millones.
PDVSA antes dijo que las tres refinerías de Citgo valían u$s 7000 millones.
Russ Dallen de Caracas Capital sostiene que, en base a la venta anterior de otra refinería de Citgo, podrían salir a la venta por cerca de u$s 1300 millones. Dallen estima que el valor de Citgo Holding, que incluye oleoductos y otros activos, asciende a entre u$s 4000 y u$s 5000 millones.
http://www.cronista.com/financialtimes/FT-Los-vencimientos-de-deuda-ponen-en-jaque-el-futuro-de-Venezuela-20161026-0016.html
Financial Times: Venezuela's PDVSA wins short-term relief with bond swap
Russ Dallen of Caracas Capital agreed the swap would provide short-term relief. "The bottom line is that there's $1bn they don't have to come up with on November 2 [when the next payment on the tendered bonds is due]," he said.
https://www.ft.com/content/719b23be-9a07-11e6-8f9b-70e3cabccfae
CNBC: Venezuela's state oil company is struggling under bond obligations
But investors are unwilling to swap their bonds and increase their exposure to the cash-strapped company. According to Russ Dallen, strategic adviser for the Venezuela Opportunity Fund, an exchange traded fund invested in Venezuela and PDVSA bonds, said the company is ignoring how the market views a distressed borrower.
"If you have the larger of the two bonds that Venezuela is trying to swap you out of — the $4.1 billion of the PDVSA 8.5 percent (due in) 2017 — you can have half your money back in on November 2 and the other half next year — or you can take the deal and get half your money back in two years and the other half in four years," he explained to CNBC via email.
"Likewise, if you are in the $3 billion of PDVSA 5.25 percent (due in) April 2017, you can have all your money back in six months or take the deal and have four more years of exposure to a distressed credit."
The Venezuela Opportunity Fund is not taking part in the bond swap deal.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/10/21/venezuelas-state-oil-company-is-struggling-under-bond-obligations.html
Financial Times: New default worries over $3.2bn Venezuela oil group bond payments
"This could be a scare tactic, or it could be a real strategy to try to save face and cover up their own incompetence [if they default]," said Russ Dallen of Caracas Capital.
https://www.ft.com/content/a38f77c8-96e5-11e6-a80e-bcd69f323a8b
RBC.RU: Танкеры с пропиской в России подключились к перевозке венесуэльской нефти 14 December 2020
Univision: "The era of 'maximum pressure' is over." Biden expected to bring more subtle, diplomatic tone to policy on Cuba and Venezuela, say experts 7 December 2020
Univision: "La era de la 'máxima presión' terminó": estas son las opciones de Biden frente a Cuba y Venezuela 6 December 2020
Lloyd's List: Resold China-flagged tankers lift first Venezuelan cargoes in six months 24 November 2020
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Sub. H. B. No. 243As Reported by the House Commerce and Labor Committee
As Reported by the House Commerce and Labor Committee
REPRESENTATIVES Raussen, Buehrer, Hollister, Reidelbach, S. Patton, Barrett, McGregor, Kearns, Willamowski, Gibbs, Fessler
To amend sections 3901.043, 3901.51, and 3905.24, to enact section 3905.422, and to repeal sections 3957.01, 3957.02, 3957.03, 3957.04, 3957.05, 3957.06, 3957.07, 3957.08, 3957.09, 3957.10, 3957.11, 3957.12, 3957.13, 3957.14, 3957.15, 3957.16, 3957.17, 3957.18, 3957.19, and 3957.99 of the Revised Code to regulate the sale of home service contracts as consumer transactions rather than as the sale of insurance.
Section 1. That sections 3901.043, 3901.51, and 3905.24 be amended and section 3905.422 of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 3901.043. The superintendent of insurance may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code to establish reasonable fees for any service or transaction performed by the department of insurance pursuant to section 1751.03, 3901.321, 3901.341, 3907.09, 3907.10, 3907.11, 3907.12, 3911.011, 3913.40, 3915.14, 3917.06, 3918.07, 3923.02, 3935.04, 3937.03, or 3953.28, 3957.12, or 3957.13 of the Revised Code or any provision in sections 3913.01 to 3913.23 or in Chapter 3905. of the Revised Code, if no fee is otherwise provided under Title XVII or XXXIX of the Revised Code for such service or transaction. Any fee collected pursuant to those rules shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the department of insurance operating fund.
Sec. 3901.51. As used in sections 3901.51 to 3901.55 of the Revised Code:
(A) "Clearing corporation" has the same meaning as in section 1308.01 of the Revised Code, except that with respect to securities issued by institutions organized or existing under the laws of any foreign country or securities used to meet the deposit requirements pursuant to the laws of a foreign country as a condition of doing business in that country, "clearing corporation" includes a corporation that is organized or existing under the laws of any foreign country and is legally qualified under those laws to effect transactions in securities by computerized book-entry.
(B) "Direct participant" means a bank, trust company, or other entity that maintains an account in its name in a clearing corporation and through which an insurance company participates in a clearing corporation.
(C) "Federal reserve book-entry system" means the computerized systems sponsored by the United States department of the treasury and agencies and instrumentalities of the United States for holding and transferring securities of the United States government and agencies and instrumentalities in federal reserve banks through banks that are members of the federal reserve system or that otherwise have access to these computerized systems.
(D) "Member bank" means a national or state bank or a trust company that is a member of the federal reserve system and through which an insurance company participates in the federal reserve book-entry system.
(E) "Provisions of the insurance laws of this state" means provisions of Title XXXIX of the Revised Code related to the deposit of securities for the benefit and security of policyholders, and includes, but is not limited to, sections 3901.18, 3901.74, 3901.75, 3901.86, 3903.73, 3907.07, 3909.03, 3909.09, 3909.17, 3913.01, 3913.04, 3919.13, 3919.36, 3919.37, 3919.41, 3925.07, 3927.02, 3927.06, 3929.01, 3929.07, 3929.08, 3929.09, 3929.10, 3929.11, 3941.30, 3941.31, 3941.32, 3941.33, 3941.34, 3941.42, 3953.06, and 3953.11, and 3957.03 of the Revised Code.
(F) "Securities" has the same meaning as in section 1308.01 of the Revised Code.
Sec. 3905.24. (A)(1) All records and other information obtained by the superintendent of insurance or the superintendent's deputies, examiners, assistants, or other employees, or agents relating to an investigation of an applicant for licensure under this chapter, or of an agent, solicitor, broker, or other person licensed or appointed under this chapter or Chapter 3951., 3957., or 3959. of the Revised Code, are confidential and are not public records as defined in section 149.43 of the Revised Code until the applicant, licensee, or appointee is provided notice and opportunity for hearing pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code with respect to such records or information. If no administrative action is initiated with respect to a particular matter about which the superintendent obtained records or other information as part of an investigation, all such records and information relating to that matter shall remain confidential for three years after the file on the matter is closed.
(2) Division (A)(1) of this section applies only to investigations that could result in administrative action under Title XVII or XXXIX or Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.
(B) The records and other information described in division (A) of this section shall remain confidential for all purposes except when it is appropriate for the superintendent and the superintendent's deputies, examiners, assistants, or other employees, or agents to take official action regarding the affairs of the applicant, licensee, or appointee or in connection with actual or potential criminal proceedings.
(C) Notwithstanding divisions (A) and (B) of this section, the superintendent may do either of the following:
(1) Share records and other information that are the subject of this section with the chief deputy rehabilitator, the chief deputy liquidator, other deputy rehabilitators and liquidators, and any other person employed by, or acting on behalf of, the superintendent pursuant to Chapter 3901. or 3903. of the Revised Code, with other local, state, federal, and international regulatory and law enforcement agencies, with local, state, and federal prosecutors, and with the national association of insurance commissioners and its affiliates and subsidiaries, provided that the recipient agrees to maintain the confidential status of the confidential record or other information and has authority to do so;
(2) Disclose records and other information that are the subject of this section in the furtherance of any regulatory or legal action brought by or on behalf of the superintendent or the state, resulting from the exercise of the superintendent's official duties.
(D) Notwithstanding divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section, the superintendent may authorize the national association of insurance commissioners and its affiliates and subsidiaries by agreement to share confidential records and other information received pursuant to division (C)(1) of this section with local, state, federal, and international regulatory and law enforcement agencies and with local, state, and federal prosecutors, provided that the recipient agrees to maintain the confidential status of the confidential record or other information and has authority to do so.
(E) Notwithstanding divisions (A), (B), and (C) of this section, the chief deputy rehabilitator, the chief deputy liquidator, and other deputy rehabilitators and liquidators may disclose records and other information that are the subject of this section in the furtherance of any regulatory or legal action brought by or on behalf of the superintendent, the rehabilitator, the liquidator, or the state resulting from the exercise of the superintendent's official duties in any capacity.
(F) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the superintendent from receiving records and other information in accordance with section 3901.045 of the Revised Code.
(G)(1) No waiver of any applicable privilege or claim of confidentiality in the records and other information that are the subject of this section shall occur as a result of sharing or receiving records or other information as authorized in divisions (C)(1), (D), and (F) of this section.
(2) The disclosure of records or other information in connection with a regulatory or legal action pursuant to divisions (C)(2) and (E) of this section does not prohibit an insurer or any other person from taking steps to limit the dissemination of the record or other information to persons not involved in or the subject of the regulatory or legal action on the basis of any recognized privilege arising under any other section of the Revised Code or the common law.
(H) Employees or agents of the department of insurance shall not be required by any court in this state to testify in a civil action, if the testimony concerns any matter related to records or other information considered confidential under this section of which they have knowledge.
Sec. 3905.422. (A) As used in this section:
(1) "Home service contract" means a contract, however described or denominated by the issuer of the contract, whereby, for a predetermined fee, a person undertakes to repair or replace all or any part of any structural component, appliance, or system of a home necessitated by wear and tear, deterioration, or inherent defect that occurs on or after the effective date of the home service contract.
(2) "Appliance" includes a stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, and any similar piece of equipment.
(3) "Structural component" includes the roof, foundation, basement, walls, ceiling, and similar components of a home.
(4) "System" includes the heating, cooling, plumbing, electrical system, and similar systems of a home.
(B) A home service contract is not insurance and its sale or issuance is not governed by the laws of this state relating to insurance, except a home service contract issued by a licensed property and casualty insurance company as an insurance policy shall be governed by the laws of this state relating to insurance.
(C) The sale or other issuance of a home service contract constitutes a consumer transaction for purposes of Chapter 1345. of the Revised Code. A person who purchases or is entitled to the benefits of a home service contract is a consumer as defined in division (D) of section 1345.01 of the Revised Code.
Section 2. That existing sections 3901.043, 3901.51, and 3905.24 and sections 3957.01, 3957.02, 3957.03, 3957.04, 3957.05, 3957.06, 3957.07, 3957.08, 3957.09, 3957.10, 3957.11, 3957.12, 3957.13, 3957.14, 3957.15, 3957.16, 3957.17, 3957.18, 3957.19, and 3957.99 of the Revised Code are hereby repealed.
Section 3. No home warranty company established and operating in this state on the effective date of this act pursuant to a certificate of authority issued by the Superintendent of Insurance under Chapter 3957. of the Revised Code shall sell, offer to sell, or solicit offers for, home service contracts on or after the effective date of this act as contracts regulated by Chapter 3957. of the Revised Code.
All home service contracts issued pursuant to Chapter 3957. of the Revised Code and outstanding on the effective date of this act shall be consummated. The interpretation and fulfillment of the terms and conditions of these outstanding contracts, and of any home service contract sold or issued by a home warranty company on or after the effective date of this act, is subject to Chapter 1345. of the Revised Code on and after the act's effective date, rather than to Ohio's Insurance Law.
A home warranty company with outstanding home service contracts in this state on the effective date of this act shall maintain a single reserve sufficient to provide for its liability to furnish repair and replacement services under those contracts. The amount of this reserve shall be calculated according to sound actuarial principles.
The repeal of Chapter 3957. of the Revised Code pursuant to this act does not: (1) invalidate any home service contract issued by a home warranty company prior to the effective date of this act; (2) discharge any liability based on the acts or conduct of a home warranty company or its agents or employees prior to the effective date of this act; (3) discharge or otherwise affect any other liability incurred by a home warranty company prior to the effective date of this act; or (4) affect a home warranty company's conduct of business in accordance with other provisions of state and federal law.
The repeal of Chapter 3957. of the Revised Code pursuant to this act does not affect the authority of licensed property and casualty insurers to issue home service contracts in accordance with the Ohio Insurance Law.
Section 4. Section 3901.043 of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended by both Sub. H.B. 370 and Am. Sub. S.B. 67 of the 122nd General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in this act.
Section 5. Section 3905.492 (3905.24) of the Revised Code is presented in this act as a composite of the section as amended and renumbered by Sub. S.B. 129 and amended by Am. Sub. S.B. 138, both of the 124th General Assembly. The General Assembly, applying the principle stated in division (B) of section 1.52 of the Revised Code that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation, finds that the composite is the resulting version of the section in effect prior to the effective date of the section as presented in this act.


Quietly last Fall, Alexander McQueen, the brand, introduced a line of rugs and home accessories, in collaboration with The Rug Company.
No stranger to designer collaborations, the UK-based home decor mecca has worked with Paul Smith, Vivienne Westwood and dozens of artists and designers over the years. They know how to do it right.
This is not fast fashion for your foyer, my dears. This is divine dressing for the den – and beyond.
Being a bit of a McQueen dreamer, I fell head over hummingbirds for these designs.
The collaboration took three years and the results echo the mastery of McQueen and the level of luxe detail The Rug Company is known for. The carpet couturiers even explored new weaving techniques and spun sumptuous yarns to accommodate the genius of McQueen.
The military brocade rug, for example, incorporates golden silk yarn, raised from the wool background – all of which is carved by hand. Look carefully and you can see that the serpent is wrapped in oak leaves and originates from a skull in the centre of the design and is surrounded by wreaths and ferns. The devil – and the divine – is in the details, my dears.
Alexander McQueen military brocade rug: hand-knotted Tibetan wool and raised silk.
It raises your consciousness of what a rug can be, no? The design came from a coat from the FW01 collection.
The coat that inspired the rug, from Fall Winter 2001. Heart-wrenchingly beautiful.
Going back ten years in time to find these images, I am reminded again of how ahead of his time the man truly was. These would still be stand-out pieces today. His clothes are museum-worthy, aren't they?
A gold skull "stole" from the FW01 collection.
The "stole" above, looks like another piece of wearable art from McQueen mate Shaun Leane.
Lee was consistent in his depictions and inspirations. The military brocade design appeared ten years later, in what would be his final collection.
The Intarsia wool and silk blend dress from FW10.
The dress above, is a more wearable interpretation of this glorious caped coat.
The gilded, caped coat – such darkness and light in one garment.
Echoes of the Asian theme still exist, but are intricately woven with western motifs.
McQueen often worked in stark contrasts – light and dark; east and west; modernity and tradition; real and surreal.
The rug in the window of the Milan boutique.
Feathers were another consistent theme for McQueen. They appeared in many forms during his shows over the years – perhaps birds were the inspiration for his frequent flights of fancy.
The hand-knotted Turkish cashmere Feathers rug.
The cashmere yarns used in the rugs were woven to reflect the softness and lightness of the feathers they depict.
The softness and lightness of a feather dress, from the Alexander McQueen SS08 show.
Is it me, or can you feel the softness of that cashmere through these images?
They take you to another world. You are transported.
Getting carried away during Voss, SS01.
A bodice for a goddess: from FW09.
McQueen was inspired by birds of prey and lovebirds, alike. I will never forget his hummingbirds, though.
Alexander McQueen for The Rug Company hummingbird cushion, wool and silk aubusson with metallic thread.
The history of the term, aubusson dates back to workshops that originated in 1743 in the villages of Aubusson and Felletin, France. These workshops were established to weave pile carpets for nobility and royal residences. The pile-less tapestry technique previously in use in this district was adapted for so many of the carpets, that the word Aubusson has become synonymous with a flat-woven French tapestry or carpet.
I saw many of these on a visit to the South of France more than a decade ago. I'll never forget that artisan, nor his stone-walled cave workshop.
The Edgar Allan Poe-try of a dress: FW09 McQueen.
Alexander McQueen suit from The Birds SS95 – one of his earliest runway shows.
But like I said, it's the hummingbirds that have me singing a consistent tune.
While the bulk of the collection was launched last October, designs like this one, have only become available recently.
Alexander McQueen hummingbird rug for The Rug Company: hand-knotted cashmere and silk.
One of my fave McQueen pieces of all time – the hummingbird dress.
McQueen's designs were always so cerebral – so it was fitting (and it fits so well!) that the man almost single-handedly had the world adorned in skulls.
The rug of skulls: hand-knotted Tibetan wool and silk.
The infamous McQueen skull scarf, copied the world over.
The skulls made a memorable appearance on Ms. Moss.
Kate Moss, being, well, Kate Moss during the SS04 show.
She wore the same dress (and other notable ones from the past) for the May 2011 issue of Harper's Bazaar.
Kate Moss in the May 2011 issue of Harper's Bazaar wearing the skull gown.
In that issue, Moss remembers her friend Lee, along with close compatriots Annabelle Neilson and Ms. Guinness. How any of us will ever forget him, I cannot know.
One way to never forget, is to surround yourself in McQueen's mastery, any way you can.
The rugs range from $4K to a soaring (think hummingbirds) $72K CAD, while the cushions are between $750 – $1K CAD. All are available at Avenue Road, the exclusive distributor for The Rug Company in Canada.
Why limit McQueen's genius to your closet – when your condo, too can be dressed in couture?
Images: All fashion show images courtesy of Style.com except for Intarsia dress which is from Netaporter.com; Harper's Bazaar image courtesy of TFS; all rug and pillow images courtesy of Avenue Road and Alexander McQueen.


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Death of Moss Keane, Gaelic & Rugby Union Footballer
Maurice Ignatius "Moss" Keane, Gaelic footballer and a rugby union footballer who plays for Ireland and the British & Irish Lions, dies in Portarlington, County Laois, on October 5, 2010. The great Scottish rugby commentator Bill McClaren refers to Keane in his prime, "Maurice Ignatius Keane. Eighteen and a half stone of prime Irish beef on the hoof, I don't know about the opposition but he frightens the living daylights out of me."
Born at Currow, County Kerry on July 27, 1948, Keane starts out as a Gaelic footballer, playing at college level for University College Cork and in the process winning a number of medals including three Sigerson Cups, one Cork County Championship and a Munster Club Championship. He also plays in an All-Ireland Club Final. He represents Kerry Gaelic footballer's at U-21 and Junior level as a full back, winning Munster Championships at both levels, playing in an All -Ireland at Junior level. In 2011 the Kerry County Board names the cup for the winners of the Intermediate Shield after him.
Keane then discovers rugby through a friend in college, playing for the UCC junior rugby team as 'Moss Fenton,' during the Gaelic Athletic Association's (GAA) ban on foreign games. When asked his first thoughts about rugby he answers, "It was like watching a pornographic movie – very frustrating for those watching and only enjoyable for those participating." He makes his international debut for Ireland on January 19, 1974 against France in Paris, a game Ireland loses 9–6 in the 1974 Five Nations Championship.
Keane becomes the third Irish forward after Willie John McBride and Fergus Slattery to reach 50 international appearances. He scores his one and only test try in a 22–15 victory over Scotland in February 1980. He plays his 51st and final international against Scotland on March 3, 1984 in Dublin. Ireland loses the match 32–9. He is also a part of the famous Munster side that defeats the All Blacks in Thomond Park in 1978.
Keane tours New Zealand with Phil Bennett's British & Irish Lions in 1977, making one Test appearance, and is also a key man in Ireland's 1982 Five Nations Championship win and their historic Triple Crown victory in 1982.
In 2005 Keane writes, with Billy Keane (no kin), his autobiography, called Rucks, Mauls and Gaelic Football.
Having gained a master's degree in dairy science, Keane works for the Department of Agriculture during his rugby playing career and retires in July 2010. He keeps active playing golf on a weekly basis. In 1993 he is the victim of a vicious mugging.
In 2009 it is reported that Keane is being treated for colorectal cancer. He dies at the age of 62 on October 5, 2010. His funeral takes place on October 7 in St. Michael's Church in Portarlington. Former Ireland international players, including Willie John McBride, Ollie Campbell, Tony Ward, Mick Galwey, Dick Spring, Donal Lenihan, Donal Spring and Ciaran Fitzgerald are in attendance. His coffin is adorned with the jerseys of Ireland, Munster, UCC, Kerry and Currow.
Many tributes are made including Taoiseach Brian Cowen saying, "one of the great gentleman of Irish sport would be sadly missed by his many fans and admirers worldwide. Moss Keane was one of the finest rugby players Ireland has ever produced. He was among rugby's best known characters and a legend of the game at home and abroad." Describing him as one of Irish rugby's "most genuine characters and legends of the game," the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU) pays tribute to Keane, "Moss had ability on the field that no one could doubt from his record at club, provincial and international level." IRFU President Caleb Powell says, "UCC, Lansdowne, Munster, Ireland and the British & Irish Lions all benefited from his presence and ensured that his reputation will live long in the memories of not only Irish rugby, but world rugby."
Keane is survived by his wife Anne and his two daughters Sarah and Anne Marie.
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Birth of Fergus Slattery, Rugby Union Player
John Fergus Slattery, former rugby union player who represented Ireland, is born in Dún Laoghaire, the county town of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, on February 12, 1949.
Slattery plays club rugby for Blackrock College and University College Dublin before embarking on an international career that takes in 61 caps for Ireland, 18 as captain, and four for the British and Irish Lions. He makes his international debut in a draw against South Africa at Lansdowne Road in 1970.
In 1971, Slattery first tours with the British and Irish Lions squad that toured New Zealand, missing out on a start in the third Test due to illness. With the back-row berths claimed by John Taylor, Peter Dixon and Mervyn Davies and still being a newcomer at international level he has to wait until 1974 for his shot at a Lions Test jersey. In the meantime, he plays for the Barbarian F.C. in the famous 1973 game against the All Blacks in Cardiff.
Slattery tours with the Lions again in 1974, playing in all four Tests and captaining the side for two provincial matches. In South Africa he is an invaluable member of the touring party that comes to be known as "the invincibles." He starts all four Tests as the Lions win the series 3-0 and skippers the side twice during midweek tour matches.
For Ireland, Slattery captains their hugely successful touring side in Australia in 1979 when they win seven of the eight matches including the two Tests in Brisbane and Sydney. In 1982 he starts all four games of Ireland's Triple Crown season, being denied the Grand Slam by France in the final game of the Five Nations Championship.
Slattery is inducted into the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 2007.
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Thanks for your optimism, and information.
I looked at the link to Hanson's work. And if these vesicles are exploding in the blood, how would one control them. And why would they explode. And are there other illnesses which have this component. I may not be getting the mechanism right here, and would appreciate any input to this subject which you have brought up. Very interesting.
(My daughter located the above article.) It addresses the vesicles and looks like a Spanish study. Today at the conference, there was only Dr Davis on this issue. Looks like more work is needed here, and fast.
Would Dr. Davis's "plasma swap experiment" be similar to doing plasmapheresis (PLEX in the US or immunoadsorption in Europe & Asia)?
I agree that repeating the serum findings is exciting. As are the link to exosomes. Did anyone catch the bit where Ron was talking about a potential tyrosine trap? Also Ron seemed more down in this talk than in others I noticed.
interesting. says most exosomes come from immune cells. especially b-cells and mast cells.
Also does anyone know whether they tested desease controls?
Maybe this impedance is not unique to ME/CFS? Also this time they did not mention Suramin ( or at least I didn't hear it) as being one of the drugs that makes ME blood behave normal again with the nanoneedle, though I thought that they did this before and that that was one of the reasons for the high hopes being attached to Suramin. But maybe iam mistaken.
Ok ppl. Time to have daily plasmapheresis to get rid of those exosomes. Alternatively, who's up for some old-school bloodletting.
Alternatively, who's up for some old-school bloodletting.
Presumably, the naked child and comedy hat's essential for success!
This exosome finding could be a huge piece of the ME/CFS puzzle. ME/CFS researchers Chris Armstrong and Jarred Younger, I think would be very interested in this.
Given that Jarred thinks neuro-inflammation is causing the symptoms in ME/CFS and Chris Armstrong thinks that "slow sepsis" or lipopolysaccharides (LPS) from a compromised gut are the actual cause of ME/CFS.
Neuroinflammation is implicated in the development and progression of many neurodegenerative diseases. Conditions that lead to a peripheral immune response are often associated with inflammation in the central nervous system (CNS), suggesting a communication between the peripheral immune system and the neuroimmune system.
The underlying mechanism of this relationship remains largely unknown; however, experimental studies have demonstrated that exposure to infectious stimuli, such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS) or high-fat diet (HFD) feeding, result in profound peripheral- and neuro-inflammation.
We found that the recipient mice that received serum-derived exosomes from LPS-challenged mice exhibited elevated microglial activation.
Moreover, we observed astrogliosis, increased systemic pro-inflammatory cytokine production, and elevated CNS expression of pro-inflammatory cytokine mRNA and the inflammation-associated microRNA (miR-155) in these recipient mice.
Gene expression analysis confirmed that many inflammatory microRNAs were significantly upregulated in the purified exosomes under LPS-challenged conditions. We observed accumulated signaling within the microglia of mice that received tail-vein injections of fluorescently labeled exosomes though the percentage of those microglial cells was found low.
Finally, purified LPS-stimulated exosomes from blood when infused directly into the cerebral ventricles provoked significant microgliosis and, to a lesser extent, astrogliosis.
Given that Jarred thinks neuroinflammation is causing the symptoms in ME/CFS and Chris Armstrong thinks that "slow sepsis" or lipopolysaccharides (LPS) from a compromised gut are the actual cause of ME/CFS.
Very neat paper! It seems the researchers are starting to converge on something that could be huge.
Ok ppl. Time to have daily plasmapheresis to get rid of those exosomes.
I inquired about this last night in a post above (but was not sure if I was understanding correctly or on the right track). Would plasmapheresis be the right treatment to test out Dr. Davis's theory and has it been done with any of the severely ill patients?
Does plasmapheresis even remove them?
I have absolutely no idea and that's what I was wondering in case anyone else knew (who watched the presentations).
It seems the researchers are starting to converge on something that could be huge.
I agree. My view is that the researchers have a really good idea of what I call the 4 cornerstones of the disease are. Gut dysfunction, immune system dysfunction, Mito. dysfunction and neuro-inflammation.
These exosomes could play a big role in connecting these dysfunctions. I hope!
T'would seem so, if you use the right technique!
Dr. Carmen Schiebenbogen did a research study in Germany in which ME/CFS patients received plasmapheresis as part of their treatment. It was actually "immunoadsorption" which is the version used in Europe vs. PLEX which is done in the US. Her study was looking at autoantibodies (and not the same hypothesis as Dr. Davis) and IIRC, in her study, the subjects also had IVIG. So if there was improvement, I'm not really sure how to separate if it was due to the plasmapheresis or the IVIG. I do not remember the ultimate results of the study (or even if it was published?) but maybe someone else does?


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How much money did you / will you / do you think you should put in the envelope for a 7-5-3 ceremony at a shrine?
Usually you should give 5000 or 10000 Yen. This is the price for most of the shrine ceremonies not only for 7-5-3 celebration.
Whenever I go visit a shrine I always put a 5 yen coin. I guess the donation must be an increment of 5, maybe 5000 yen.
For "would", yea 5000 would be good. "Should"... well... lol.


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Talking to Phoebe Maltz Bovy about 'The Perils of "Privilege"'
It's Billfold Book Club week!
This week, we're discussing Phoebe Maltz Bovy's The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved By Accusing Others of Advantage. It's about the different ways we discuss privilege, and how focusing on individual privilege makes it harder to address systemic inequality. (It also mentions The Billfold—and a lot of other publications you've probably read.)
We're going to be running a handful of pieces about the intersection of privilege and money this week, but I thought I'd start off by reaching out to Phoebe Maltz Bovy and asking if she'd like to have a conversation about her book.
The following is an edited version of our discussion.
ND: So… how do you define privilege? Not to start off with anything hard or anything. 😉
PMB: Ooh, always a tough one, no matter how often I'm asked! The simplest way to define it is unearned advantage. So, wealth, or whiteness, maleness, etc. But — and I hope this comes through in the book! — privilege is not the only way of discussing unearned advantage.
Using "privilege" does two things: it focuses on unfair advantages rather than unfair disadvantages, and it includes an (often plenty founded) accusation of obliviousness. To seem "privileged" isn't just to seem unfairly advantaged. It's to seem unfairly advantaged and clueless.
Or, rather than "privilege is not the only way of discussing unearned advantage," maybe, privilege is not the only way of discussing systemic inequality. Which, to be clear, I think should be discussed!
YES! And I want to get to the systemic inequality piece, because when you wrote about discussions of individual privilege not being an effective way to address systemic inequality I was like YES, THIS IS SO IMPORTANT.
But it struck me, when you mentioned advantages and disadvantages, that it's sort of socially… déclassé? to say "I am disadvantaged, compared to you." Plus we don't always know who the "you" is, as you mention more than once. So we ask people instead to say "I am advantaged."
I think of the "I am advantaged" declaration as, all too often, amounting to the same thing as #blessed. However well-intended, I don't think it makes the recipient who isn't advantaged in whichever area feel better. At least, when I have seen someone earnestly acknowledging advantages I personally lack, I have not found this particularly helpful.
It's better than outright denying advantages. But that's about it.
Yeah. On the one hand you've got the 20-something real estate mogul telling Millennials to skip the avocado toast without mentioning that he got his first down payment as a gift from his grandfather. (True story.)
And on the other hand you have people saying they're privileged because they only have five figures of student loan debt instead of six. Which is true, in a comparative sense, but also not.
Yes. This is very, very important. One huge issue with a "privilege" approach is that it encourages people who actually are suffering financially not to speak out, lest they seem to be mistaking broke-ness for poverty.
And I think there are things more dangerous than the possibility that someone who's "just" broke speaks out in favor of redistribution.
This is where the "individual privilege vs. systemic inequality" factor comes in.
In one sense, there's the idea that a lot of us are trying to figure out who has the best share of a very small percent of the wealth, as it were. And to acknowledge if we have more than other people, because we recognize that we're all struggling in different ways based on a number of intersections.
But then there's also the argument that focusing on wealth and financial privilege leaves out ALL OF THOSE OTHER INTERSECTIONS. We are not in fact a unified 99 percent, and to ignore racism and sexism and ableism leaves out a huge component of the conversation.
At its best, a "privilege" approach leads to a greater understanding of racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression that operate on a scale comparable to wealth inequality.
At its worst, what it does is mistakenly conflate trappings of cultural capital (and by "cultural capital" I mean something like avocado toast, but also, say, an MA in a not-so-lucrative area) with actual wealth and power.
I think there are ways of discussing systemic inequality that don't involve the often confusing approach of using a term that suggests wealth, ease, and well-connectedness to describe situations that are in fact ones of relative advantage.
Ultimately, who is it who's earnestly confessing to privilege? It's generally not the people on top of any hierarchy. It tends to be women, and tends to be people who are not as privileged as all that.
Part of the issue with our current privilege discussion is that we don't always agree on what defines a "privilege," right?
I think there's a tendency — maybe it could be called privilege-creep? maybe someone is already calling it that? — for "privilege" to get used for situations that are about either very minor forms of luck, or earned advantage. A lot of times, when underrepresented (of color, first-gen, or both) students at elite universities protest, they're criticized from the right as being privileged, because, you know, they're at a fancy college. To me this is missing the point — earned advantage is not "privilege."
But it feels inappropriate, in some ways, to say "I earned this" without also adding "because I had an advantage that helped me do it," like a parent, or "because I did not have a disadvantage that would have made it harder."
Right — I don't think specific achievements are ever going to fall 100 percent in the earned or unearned category. Which brings us back to the trouble with discussing systemic inequality centrally through individual cases.
Okay. So how do we have these conversations about privilege and earned vs. unearned advantages? Because we all spend all day online, talking about what everyone else is doing online—and online conversation is almost entirely about the individual.
Yes — it's about the individual, and the individual about whom very little is known. (As in, online, it's very easy to wind up telling someone to check a form of privilege they don't actually have.)
YES YES YES.
So how do we have a better conversation about systemic inequality? Although we do try to look at systems we always seem to pull in individuals as examples, because that's what humans do. We are attracted to stories, and stories are about people.
THE OTHER REALLY HARD QUESTION, LOL.
As for a better conversation… there are a few ways.
I don't think "let's move everything offline" is the answer.
The first step is not to expect people who've won life's lotteries to voluntarily and on an individual basis give up their advantages. This is where the privilege model goes wrong — that someone has acknowledged privilege doesn't imply the plan or, on an individual level, the ability to shed that privilege.
So it's better to think in terms of systems. Of policies. An example would be… free college! Taxpayer-funded public college is more useful than privilege-awareness exercises at schools that cost $70,000 to attend.
But I can't make that happen on my own. So we need to be doing the work to participate in local governments, vote in people at higher levels of government, etc.?
Yes — more awareness of what's going on in the world (which does, often, inspire engagement), with less of a focus on the (inherently futile) aim of impeccable self-awareness.
Which, to tie it back to a financial example I use on The Billfold often: agonizing over whether you should feel bad about your small purchases is much less effective than figuring out how to earn more.
Or, in this case, figuring out how all of us can earn more.
Not to sound cornball, but you know what I mean here.
Yes! That's right. Don't let micro concerns hide macro ones, basically.
But, for the record, I do feel bad about my small purchases.
This post is part of the Billfold Book Club's discussion of The Perils of "Privilege".
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This is a picture of the Apple iPhone's dock connector. Apple announced today it now supports a greater range of hardware accessories.
Apple announced iPhone 3.0 software will support hardware accessory attached via the dock connector.
As I write this Apple's media event surrounding the launch of its iPhone 3.0 operating system hasn't even concluded, and already I'm rejoicing at the possibilities of iPhone 3.0, as enabled by peripherals. One of the big pieces of news from this morning's event, in case you haven't been following, is that iPhone 3.0 will support accessories that attach to the iPhone's dock connector.
My wishlist is already spinning out of control, but I've narrowed it down to the top five accessories I'd go out and buy, now, for an iPhone. What do you want to see?
1. Physical keyboard. Yes, I've used the on-screen keyboard, and yes, I still prefer a physical keyboard-be it a one-handed implementation like my trusty Palm Treo 680, or the horizontal two-handed implementation of the T-Mobile G1. But I don't just want a Bluetooth keyboard (yes, better Bluetooth support seems to be in the wings based on the heavy reliance on Bluetooth during the announcements); Bluetooth will drain battery life faster, and requires a static setup for the phone and keyboard. Instead, I want a docking sled that I can attach the iPhone to, so the keyboard becomes one with the phone. Maybe the keyboard can also house more robust speakers.
2. Memory card and USB reader. I'm a digital photography buff. And, sorry, my iPhone's camera just can't cut it. But...I'd like to be able to take content from an SD or CompactFlash card, and transfer it directly to the phone while on-the-go. I could also see the iPhone serving as a way for photographers to preview images on a larger and higher resolution screen than their camera, before taking a days' worth of photos using the same, possibly incorrect settings. Meanwhile, the USB port would be handy way to port files directly to the iPhone, without using a PC.
3. Large screen touch display and dock. The iPhone's screen is great, but what about when you'd like a roomier touch display, say seven or eight inches of portable goodness, with the iPhone plugging in to a dock to provide the processing power and storage to the larger display (I'm thinking a variation on Philips' portable DVD player with iPod docking station. And the larger display will have its own, removable power source, so you can bolster power as needed.
4. Speaker dock with integrated FM tuner. Apple mentioned these possibilities in their briefing, but I'll take it one step further and say, let's get both done in one swoop. A portable, lightweight speaker dock that improves the sound output with minimal additional bulk, plus an FM tuner for those of us who'd like to catch the local airwaves. And, of course, the appropriate software for optimizing tuning and audio output (via equalizer controls).
5. Blood glucose meter. I know friends and family with diabetes; and tracking one's blood glucose can be a chore. But, if the idea of a blood pressure cuff (proposed by Apple at this morning's event) is possible, why not a blood glucose meter attachment that records your blood sugars uploads that information to your iPhone and computer so you can track your progress.


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National planning research awards highlight creativity and innovation
Posted on September 9, 2015 by morwenj
By Morwen Johnson
As part of our ongoing relationship with the RTPI, we were pleased to sponsor two of the categories of this year's RTPI Awards for Research Excellence.
The winners have just been announced today and represent a showcase of high quality, impactful spatial planning research with clear implications for policy and practice.
Worthy winners
The Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement went to Dr Paul Cowie, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University for his collaborative project, The Town Meeting. Developed with Cap-a-Pie theatre company, the immersive theatre piece uses the issues faced by a fictional town to help audiences explore how communities plan for their future. This is especially relevant given the new context of the changes around localism and neighbourhood planning.
Andrew Riley, Chief Operating Officer, Idox plc said: "Innovation comes from doing and seeing things differently. Dr Paul Cowie's project, The Town Meeting, which has received The Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement, offers a creative perspective on public engagement and is bringing the complexities of planning policy to life for the public in a way which is new and exciting."
Meanwhile, Emma Thorpe, a student in the School of Planning and Geography, Cardiff University won the Student Award for her research Getting Wales Active: Exploring Secondary School Students' Attitudes Towards Active Commuting.
Andrew Riley, Chief Operating Officer, Idox plc commented: "The development of a new generation of talented young researchers is vital and we are pleased to be working with the RTPI in recognising gifted planning research students who are early in their careers. Emma Thorpe from Cardiff University produced research with impact. Her work can be used by planners to develop more effective active travel planning policies."
Increasing the links between practice and research
Announcing the winners, Janet Askew, RTPI President said: "The RTPI's Awards for Research Excellence are an important way of increasing the links between practice and research. I am delighted to see that this research, often carried out in conjunction with practitioners and communities, really can make an impact to create better places. By recognising this, we can show Government and the public that students and academics in our accredited planning schools are working on very relevant research which will make a difference."
As the UK's leading provider of planning and building control solutions to local authorities, Idox actively engages with issues affecting the planning profession. We are proud to support the RTPI Awards for Research Excellence and congratulate all the winners and commended entries for their achievements.
The Idox Information Service has also introduced a new individual membership offer in partnership with the RTPI which offers a 30% discount on the normal price.
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Now that the banks and the Big 3 automakers have their bailouts lined up, it looks like it is time for the little guys to get organized.
I will hop on my bike with Duck Hunter and head to Washington keeping the following firmly in mind.
The first thing I plan to do with my money is fix the tires on my bike because it was way too much work riding this bike with flat tires all the way to Washington.
I promise not to waste my money by saving or investing with banks or by buying a new car because those industries have already been bailed out and should be fine for a while. After all, none of them wanted to give me any of their new bailout money.
Instead, I promise to spread my money by buying a new entertainment system with HD everything. Then I will start aggressively purchasing BlueRay movies to help the struggling movie industry that is getting hit hard by people pirating movies that they had no plans of watching if they had to pay for them.
I will spread my money to the struggling tech industry where US work is constantly being outsourced by immediately retiring and freeing up one job for an unemployed tech worker.
I will spread my money to the struggling book industry by buying massive quantities of eBooks to help pass my free time now that I will be retiring early.
I will spread my money to the traveling industry by booking a trip to Florida for the January 1st Outback Bowl where my Iowa Hawkeyes will be beating up the South Carolina Gamecocks. I will also sign up for memberships at all of the local museums and fun places for kids and immediately start frequenting these destinations and the surrounding food places.
I will spread my money to help the education system by volunteering daily in the kids' classrooms.
I will spread my money to lots of other little guys buy hiring somebody to clean my house, clean my fish tank, mow my lawn, shovel my drive, cook all of our meals in a healthy and tasty manner, and handle all of the repairs around the house that are more complicated than changing light bulbs.
Hop on your bike and join us. How are you planning on using your portion of the bailout of the little guys to help stimulate the economy?


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Below the Radar: Keifer Sykes
Sterling Thomas
ESPN is a vast network, but even they can't cover every inch of the college basketball landscape. Too often, some truly outstanding players will fall below the national radar. One thing is certain though: these players are making a big impact at the Division I level, so don't be surprised when they show up again to spoil your bracket. Periodically throughout the rest of the season we here at Otto's Grove aim to make you the know-it-all among your group of basketball friends by introducing you to some players from around the nation that aren't exactly on the national stage, but could make a difference in your March Madness pool.
UW-Green Bay
Ht: 6-feet
Wt: 180
Class: Senior
Today's Man of Mystery is Wisconsin-Green Bay senior point guard Keifer Sykes. Now when you think of Green Bay you probably think of the Packers first and foremost, and probably cheese not long after that. However the Phoenix of the University of Green Bay have quietly put together a very good season that has a chance to be special, and it is all thanks to Sykes being at the helm. Keifer was a lightly recruited player out of high school with his only offer coming from Green Bay, so he arrived on campus with a big chip on his shoulder. Sykes was thrust, into the line of duty out of the gate as a freshman playing 29 minutes a game, and has played at least 34 every night since he was a sophomore.
This year is no different, and 18 games into the season he is playing 34.8 minutes a game while averaging 19.2 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 3.8 assists and leading his team to a 14-4 record. The Phoenix are receiving votes in the latest polls and are ranked fourth in the mid-major top 25. The most intriguing thing about Sykes is his ability to sky to the rim for such a diminutive guard. I mean, who doesn't like seeing a 6-foot guard soar through the air and finish an ally-oop? Aside from his dunks he is also equally proficient on the drive and from behind the arc, making him a true do-it-all player for his team.
If Green Bay wants to make the tournament for the first time since 1996 it will all come down to how Sykes plays. As of January 15, Joe Lunardi has the Phoenix as a 12-seed in the South Region playing Wichita State. Since 2010, there have been 10 different 12-seeds to earn wins in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Could Keifer Sykes and Green Bay join that long list of first round upsets? Only time will tell.
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Detroit Lions The Lions got Smith to help replace Kenny Golladay make your own custom jersey Marvin Jones Jr.
Again, our plan was great.
They might not be quite as impenetrable as we might've dreamt they could be, but they carried create a jersey day in game where the offensive struggled as much as we've seen in a long time.
2 overall to Detroit Lions Two monster seasons at Michigan State made Rogers seem like a money pick for the Lions at the time.
Joshua will be taking on Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev, a fight years in the making.
Physical distancing signage including directional arrows, queue line spacing indicators and safety reminders have been posted throughout the stadium.
Water Water fountains are located throughout the stadium, many of them near restrooms.
Pacheco is ahead but Gomez Jr.
Exciting rookie Josh Schuster has re-signed with the Manly Sea Eagles on a fresh three-year deal, keeping him at the club until at least the end of the 2024 NRL season.
Euan Aitken is closing in on a return.
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Abramson, who continues to offer guidance and share her network of business contacts to help the students find the right career path.
12 a.m.: Round 5 ends.
Bortles for his part is the Jaguars' starting quarterback.
If we indeed do, will we make the playoffs in his first season?
These veteran quarterbacks likely will fall into backup roles in 2021 as a result of three corresponding first-round picks.
Jared Waerea-Hargreaves 11.
Hampson strikes out too much and doesn't walk enough, but the versatile speedster can still help fantasy owners, particularly playing in Colorado.
Is Nate Herbig someone to count on?
Matt Bosher's punt pinned the Patriots back on their 9-yard line with 3 remaining.
Custom Split Jerseys indulge a badly overused cliche: Vlatko Andonovski is currently facing the problem every coach wants to have.
They look like a very good – and entertaining – duo for the foreseeable future.
Haaland, suffering from a thigh injury, watched from the stands at Signal Iduna Park as Giovanni Reyna started the rout with the first two goals to help put Dortmund in the final at Berlin's Olympic Stadium on May 13.
It's part of the process, one part of the evaluation, and I think those guys, the punters in particular, they have worked hard.
Also: Julian Edelman, Patriots, 2009th round, 232nd overall, 29th WR; Marques Colston, Saints, 2006th round, 252nd overall, 29th WR 5th round, 146th overall, 9th TE.
I'm excited to get some work customize your own jersey Everything I had promised myself beforehand from FC Bayern has been more than fulfilled, he said.
Bryant was shot about 20 minutes before the judge in the Chauvin case announced the verdicts.
Perfect for us.
In the opening game against the African champions, two days later against a proud, hard-nosed team like Puerto Rico and finally against Iran, Gasol and his teammates will test their chemistry, with a chance to exploit their massive presence in the paint with Claver, Willy Hernangomez and Oriola, or even try to play at a faster pace with lightning-quick guards like Rubio, Llull and Ribas.
Jacksonville Jaguars : Carlo Kemp, DT EDGE, Michigan 250.
You know, I think if you played somebody from earlier, if you don't respect your opponent and study up on them, I think you're giving a discredit to them.
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Q: MSVC syntax error with if statement and variable declaration I can't figure this one out. Plain C compiled with MSVC Compiler on the command-line.

Microsoft (R) 32-bit C/C++ Optimizing Compiler Version 15.00.30729.01 for 80x86
  Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

With the if (NULL == string) { return NULL; } block, I get a syntax error.
..\src\drift_charbuffer.c(78) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'type'
..\src\drift_charbuffer.c(79) : error C2065: 'index' : undeclared identifier
..\src\drift_charbuffer.c(79) : error C2065: 'index' : undeclared identifier
..\src\drift_charbuffer.c(79) : error C2065: 'index' : undeclared identifier
..\src\drift_charbuffer.c(81) : error C2065: 'index' : undeclared identifier
..\src\drift_charbuffer.c(85) : error C2065: 'index' : undeclared identifier
..\src\drift_charbuffer.c(87) : error C2065: 'index' : undeclared identifier

But it compiles fine without the if-block. I just can't see what's wrong here.
char*
drift_charbuffer_tostring(const drift_charbuffer* buffer)
{
    // todo: UTF-8 encoding for characters outside the ASCII-range.
    char* string = drift_alloc(buffer->count + 1);
    if (NULL == string)
    {
        return NULL;
    }

    int index;     // Line: 78
    for (index = 0; index < buffer->count; ++index)
    {
        int value = *drift_charbuffer_get(buffer, index);
        if (value > 127)
            value = '?';

        string[index] = value;
    }
    string[index] = 0;
    return string;
}

A: Well, your "plain C" is actually C99 or post-C99 C. Meanwhile, MSVC compiler only supports the "classic good old plain C" AKA C89/90. In classic C it is illegal to mix statements and declarations. All declarations have to be done at the very top of the block.

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Constellation Energy was looking to reduce their overall deployment and IT support costs by transitioning several of the company's traditional client/server applications to faster-to-install, easier-to-manage Web-based applications within its corporate portal. One requirement was that the move be made while still maintaining the rich usability of the older client/server solutions within the thin browser-based interface of new Internet applications. So, the company considered AJAX.
TIBCO General Interface gives browser-based applications the features and performance characteristics typically seen in the user interfaces of traditional client/server-based applications. Leveraging the AJAX capabilities present in common Web browsers, TIBCO General Interface allows developers to easily deploy RIAs without dependency on applets, plug-ins or installation of client/server frameworks. Using TIBCO General Interface's breakthrough development tools -- also built using TIBCO General Interface -- developers can rapidly create powerful solutions with drag-and-drop speed.


MAD ZOMBIES: OFFLINE ZOMBIE GAMES continues the adventure of zombie killer. The whole world is still withheld by the tsunami of zombies, the day of apocalypse is coming, some people are trying to regain the control, they fight for the big duty, but it's not easy because of the zombies are getting more crowded and more dangerous. Will this warfare complete or not in this Zombie game? It depends on you – the shooter survivor!
– There always have the unexpected Zombie come to kill you, and new zombies always appear in new survival locations and land when you play Zombie games.
– This Zombie game is the offline shooting game with simple gameplay that you and your friend can play, but hard to be the best terminator, it requires the excellent shooting skills, headshot skills, and reasonable tactics.
– Shooting guns and the trigger can be customized and upgrade with various parts.


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Q: ¿Cómo hacer temporizador en JSP? Saludos a Todos, necesito ayuda...Estoy empezando con JSP aunque ya tengo conocimientos de Java y tengo que crear un temporizador en JSP que vaya de 10 a 0 y cuando llegue al final cerrar la aplicación.
El problema es que :
Timer timer = new Timer (tiempoEnMilisegundos, new ActionListener ()
{
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
        // Aquí el código que queramos ejecutar.
     }
});

Eso siempre lo usé en JAVA y no dio problemas,ahora el NetBeans se queja porque el tiempo en Milisegundos no lo acepta...
He probado con
      int tempo= 10 ;
      session.setAttribute("tiempo", tempo);
      TimerTask timerTask = new TimerTask() {

        public void run() {
            int chapuza;
            do{
              chapuza = (int)session.getAttribute("tiempo");
              chapuza --;
              session.setAttribute("tiempo", chapuza);
            }while(chapuza > 0);

        }
         };
         timerTask.run();

Esta es otra cosa que se me ha ocurrido, el timerAsk no tengo que meterle tiempo y tampoco le puedo pasar argumentos, así que trabajo con la variable de session
Pero tampoco me vale....
Ya no sé me ocurre nada para tener un temporizador en JSP y sobre que se cierre la aplicación o la ventana al cliente tampoco sé como hacerlo
:'(
Gracias
Pd : No puedo usar Javascript ni otro lenguaje, Only JSP.
Que vaya mostrando el tiempo, mientras el usuario interactua, por eso necesito un hilo como el Timer ...


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This latest installment of the draft of the 2nd edition of the RATS Programming Manual adds Chapter 7 on "Nonstationary variables". This discusses unit root tests and the (many) procedures available for doing them. It also has a section which works through an example of building a REPORT with the results for a set of unit root tests for different countries.
The zip file includes all examples through Chapter 7.