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A New App Brings Out Holt's 'Petty' Side on 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' (RECAP)
Emily Hannemann May 16, 2019, 10:03 pm
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[SPOILER ALERT! The following contains major spoilers for Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 6, episode 17, "Sicko." The recap for episode 18, "Suicide Squad," will be posted tomorrow.]
Brooklyn Nine-Nine hasn't had much of an overarching storyline this season, but this episode continues the closest thing Season 6 has to one — Holt's ongoing, if offscreen, feud with Commissioner John Kelly.
Kelly has invented a new app that allows people to call in tips from around the city, but because Kelly was the one to implement it, Holt's vehemently against it. That becomes a problem when the app has a tip essential to a case Jake and Boyle have been tasked with solving... and getting to the bottom of things might mean bringing back some old enemies. Meanwhile, the Nine-Nine's budget problems have created a catastrophe for Terry.
The Mind of a Sicko
The main story this episode revolves around Jake and Boyle's investigation of a serial killer. Commissioner Kelly, Holt says, is breathing down his neck and he needs the case handled. Jake convinces him that he and Boyle can be serious when need be, and they're given the case.
As they investigate, Kelly uses his friendly-threatening manner to put pressure on Jake, Boyle and Holt and he suggests his app might solve the crime faster. With their jobs potentially on the line, Jake says to get into the mind of a sicko, they need to talk to another sicko — and thus, they go to talk to Jake's old prison cellmate, Caleb. Later, Commissioner Kelly stops by the precinct and says his app gave him a great tip that would help them solve the case, and that info aligns with what they learned from Caleb.
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The pair follow that info to an apartment building, where Holt corners them and orders them to tell him about the tip. He's skeptical, but as it turns out, Kelly was right and they find the killer's kill room… though the perp gets away. "Should we throw him a parade?" Holt asks about Kelly, sarcastically. "Yeah!" Jake exclaims. "Maybe!"
App-rehended?
In the aftermath of losing the perp, Holt admits he was wrong to take out his pettiness about the app on Jake and Boyle. They go back to Caleb for more clues, and with his help, they realize they're not looking for a serial killer — they're looking for someone who stole the hearts for a transplant.
This leads them to the Renaldi crime family, and thus, they solve the case: the head of the family did it. They meet with Kelly, and grudgingly, Holt admits they couldn't have done it without the app. Things go sideways fast when they realize Kelly's assistant was the one who called the tip in to the app… and Kelly orders him to lock all the doors, so no one can get in or out.
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Kelly's Police State
Jake, Boyle and Holt figure out Kelly's using illegal wiretaps to get his information and invented the app to cover it up. Kelly admits to using a "stingray" system that uses people's location, texts, voicemails, etc. Of course, the trio wants to come forward with the information, but Kelly has evidence that Holt would do anything to get him out of office. As such, he can't come forward without losing his job.
As the episode ends, Jake goes to see a despondent Holt and tells him as long as they can prove the stingray system exists, they can still get Kelly out of office. Holt's confused at first, and he asks how they can do that — and who they can use for the job, who isn't already loyal to Kelly. "These guys aren't loyal to anyone," Jake says… and out walks CJ, The Vulture and Madeline Wuntsch.
Broadway Brian
Meanwhile, Terry finds out he's going to be transferred to Staten Island because the Nine-Nine doesn't have enough money for his raise once he becomes a lieutenant. He's none too pleased about being transferred out of the city, and he tries to find ways to cut corners at the Nine-Nine to save enough to keep him at the precinct.
Amy says there's only one way to get enough money for Terry's salary: they have to fire someone. They can't do that, but they can "inspire someone to quit," which lands them on Broadway Brian. Broadway Brian is always singing, and they justify getting him out of the office by saying he can follow his dreams. Terry convinces Broadway Brian to quit, and as he belts out a song, he says he owes it all to Terry.
Unfortunately, Terry's too kind to let Brian go through with it when he realizes Brian has little kids, hardly any savings and a terrible singing voice. For the moment, it seems he'll be transferred from the Nine-Nine… unless the team can figure out another way to keep him around.
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Research Letter
Management of Bartonella Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis without Cardiac Surgery
Padmasayee Papineni , Aisling Carroll, Johannes Radvan, Carolyn Hemsley, John Chambers, Nicholas Cortes, Timothy Harrison, John L. Klein, and Papineni
Author affiliations: St. Thomas' Hospital, London, UK (P. Papineni, C. Hemsley, J. Chambers, J.L. Klein); University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK (A. Carroll); Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Bournemouth, UK (J. Radvan); Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital,
Basingstoke, UK (N. Cortes); Public Health England, London (T. Harrison)
Two cases of Bartonella prosthetic valve endocarditis were cured when treated for 2 weeks with gentamicin and 3 months with doxycycline. Clinical cure correlated with decreased Bartonella antibody titers. This report suggests a strategy to monitor, treat, and cure Bartonella prosthetic valve endocarditis.
Bartonella, a causative agent of blood culture–negative endocarditis (BCNE) that usually requires valve surgery, was first attributed to endocarditis over 20 years ago (1–4). We report 2 cases of Bartonella prosthetic valve endocarditis that were successfully treated with antimicrobial drugs alone.
Case 1 involved a 62-year-old man admitted to the hospital in 2011 with left-flank pain and a 3-year history of anorexia, weight loss, night sweats, and recent diagnosis of anemia. He kept pet cats. He underwent mechanical aortic valve replacement and patent foramen ovale closure in 1992 and a repeat aortic valve replacement and an aortic root replacement for a chronic type A dissection in 1996.
On physical examination, he was afebrile and had subconjunctival hemorrhages, normal prosthetic heart sounds, and 10-cm splenomegaly. Blood tests showed a hemoglobin concentration of 9 g/dL (reference range 14.0–17.5 g/dL), serum creatinine of 2.76 mg/dL (reference range 0.6–1.2 mg/dL), C-reactive protein of 48 mg/L (reference range 0.08–3.1 mg/L), rheumatoid factor of 742 U/mL (reference range 0–30 U/mL), and c-ANCA (cytoplasmic antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody) positivity (proteinase 3 autoantibody concentration, 18.3 U/mL). Urine dipstick (Combur 7 Test; Roche Diagnostics Ltd, Basel, Switzerland) revealed the presence of blood (4+), and renal biopsy demonstrated necrotizing crescentic glomerulonephritis. Five blood cultures were sterile. Transesophageal echocardiography showed no evidence of endocarditis. Bartonella serologic testing was conducted with an indirect immunofluorescence assay by using the manufacturer's instructions (MRL, Cypress, CA, USA); results showed high IgG titers to both B. henselae and B. quintana (Table), but the infecting species could not be determined. The patient was treated for 2 weeks with intravenous gentamicin (2 mg/kg/d) and for 3 months with oral doxycycline (100 mg 2×/d). Nine months after completing treatment, he was well: splenomegaly had resolved, and hemoglobin (15.6 g/dL) and creatinine (1.31 mg/dL) concentrations approached normal levels. He was well when last reviewed in 2014.
Case 2 involved a 29-year-old woman with inflammatory bowel disease and primary sclerosing cholangitis. Her symptoms began in 2011 with fever, rigors, night sweats, and anorexia for 2 weeks. She had no pets but recalled contact with a kitten 8 months previously. In 2002, BCNE developed, requiring mechanical aortic and mitral valve replacements. In 2003, BCNE was again diagnosed but was complicated by an ascending aorta to left atrial fistula, requiring an aortic root replacement, a homograft, and a repeat mechanical mitral valve replacement.
Physical examination revealed fever, a splinter hemorrhage, and an ejection systolic murmur. Blood tests revealed a low hemoglobin concentration (10.9 g/dL), a high C-reactive protein concentration (26 mg/L), normal renal function, and positivity for rheumatoid factor (114 U/mL). Transesophageal echocardiograms revealed no evidence of endocarditis. One of 20 blood culture tests grew B. henselae after a 19-day incubation (Public Health England, identified by partial sequencing of 16S rDNA). A serologic test for Bartonella was strongly positive (Table). Three days after starting treatment with oral doxycycline (100 mg 2×/d) and intravenous gentamicin (3 mg/kg/d), she became afebrile; she received 14 days of gentamicin and 3 months of doxycycline in total. Two months later, she remained well, and her C-reactive protein concentration was <5 mg/L. Because of symptomatic stenosis caused by structural deterioration of the replacement aortic valve, she underwent another aortic valve and root replacement 19 months after completing antimicrobial drugs. No evidence of active endocarditis was found during surgery.
Bartonella antibody titers dropped slowly over a period of 3 years in both patients (Table). Only case 1 had definite infective endocarditis when using the modified Duke diagnostic criteria. However, because the Duke criteria are insensitive for BCNE diagnosis, it has been proposed that a Bartonella IgG titer of >1:800 and a positive Western blot or PCR analysis when using valve or blood specimens should be considered major Duke criteria (5).
Most reported cases of Bartonella endocarditis involve native valves; the first prosthetic valve infection was reported in 2002 (6). Although >80% of patients require valve replacement, infection with Bartonella is not in itself a recognized indication for surgery. Because our patients responded to medication, we did not need to consider cardiac surgery. The optimal antimicrobial drug therapy and duration for Bartonella endocarditis is undetermined. The recommended regimen of gentamicin for 14 days and doxycycline for 4 weeks (7) has limited evidence supporting its use (8,9). We found only 1 case of Bartonella prosthetic valve endocarditis cured without valve surgery; it was cured with a 30-month antimicrobial drug regimen (10).
The role for serial serologic testing in assessing cure of Bartonella endocarditis is unknown. In our cases, as in a previous report (10), a drop in Bartonella titers occurred over a 3-year period in those who were cured, suggesting follow-up serologic testing might be useful to assess Bartonella endocarditis clinical cure.
Our findings suggest that a simple, inexpensive drug regimen is optimal therapy for Bartonella endocarditis and that serial serologic testing can confirm adequate treatment and cure. Further research is needed to validate this approach to managing Bartonella endocarditis.
Dr. Papineni is a Specialist Registrar in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine in the London Deanery. She is currently a clinical research fellow at the National University of Singapore with a research interest in shortening treatment of tuberculosis.
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Tattevin P, Watt G, Revest M, Arvieux C, Fournier PE. Update on blood culture-negative endocarditis. Med Mal Infect. 2015;45:1–8. DOIPubMed
Fournier P-E, Thuny F, Richet H, Lepidi H, Casalta JP, Arzouni JP, et al. Comprehensive diagnostic strategy for blood culture-negative endocarditis: a prospective study of 819 new cases. Clin Infect Dis. 2010;51:131–40. DOIPubMed
Chaloner GL, Harrison TG, Birtles RJ. Bartonella species as a cause of infective endocarditis in the UK. Epidemiol Infect. 2013;141:841–6. DOIPubMed
Edouard S, Nabet C, Lepidi H, Fournier PE, Raoult D. Bartonella, a common cause of endocarditis: a report on 106 cases and review. J Clin Microbiol. 2015;53:824–9. DOIPubMed
Klein JL, Nair SK, Harrison TG, Hunt I, Fry NK, Friedland JS. Prosthetic valve endocarditis caused by Bartonella quintana. Emerg Infect Dis. 2002;8:202–3. DOIPubMed
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Raoult D, Fournier PE, Vandenesch F, Mainardi JL, Eykyn SJ, Nash J, et al. Outcome and treatment of Bartonella endocarditis. Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:226–30. DOIPubMed
Rolain JM, Brouqui P, Koehler JE, Maguina C, Dolan MJ, Raoult D. Recommendations for treatment of human infections caused by Bartonella species. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2004;48:1921–33. DOIPubMed
Lesprit P, Noël V, Chazouillères P, Brun-Buisson C, Deforges L. Cure of bartonella endocarditis of a prosthetic aortic valve without surgery: value of serologic follow-up. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2003;9:239–41. DOIPubMed
Table. Bartonella antibody titers in cases 1 and 2 by month after diagnosis
Padmasayee Papineni, St. Thomas' Hospital, Westminster Bridge Rd, Lambeth, London SE1 7EH, UK
Management of Bartonella Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis without Cardiac Surgeryexpand
Papineni P, Carroll A, Radvan J, Hemsley C, Chambers J, Cortes N, et al. Management of Bartonella Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis without Cardiac Surgery. Emerg Infect Dis. 2017;23(5):861-863. https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2305.161238
Papineni P, Carroll A, Radvan J, et al. Management of Bartonella Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis without Cardiac Surgery. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2017;23(5):861-863. doi:10.3201/eid2305.161238.
Papineni, P., Carroll, A., Radvan, J., Hemsley, C., Chambers, J., Cortes, N....Klein, J. L. (2017). Management of Bartonella Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis without Cardiac Surgery. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 23(5), 861-863. https://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2305.161238.

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If you have a Bluetooth enabled mobile phone and a Mercedes Benz with the correct connection the ViseeO MBU-3000+ will allow your mobile phone to work with the in-car system. This includes all the latest smart phones including Apple iPhones 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 5C, 5S, 6 (all iPhones), Blackberry, HTC, Samsung Galaxy SII, Sony, Samsung S3, S4, S5, S6 (all Samsung phones), Nokia, Lumia, Windows Phone and Android phones to name a few and many others. In fact, virtually any Bluetooth phone will work! Call us if you have any doubts.
Quick Switch between paired phones with a push of a button.
Sync on/off allows you to decide when you want to sync your phonebook - not always possible with your phone.
Activation for SIRI (Apple iPhone's voice activated control system) and other voice control systems - activation via radio / navigation unit keypad - not always possible due to car system.
Latest Bluetooth Module FC6000 from Parrot.
Previously you either had to use the original Nokia mobile phones which are now quite old and hard to obtain or not use it at all. With this system, you can use your current and future Bluetooth enabled cell / mobile phones with ease. Up to four phones can be paired to the system and even the phonebook is synchronised for many phones where possible. Steering wheel controls and / or the radio head unit can be used to make or receive calls and for cars with the Comand navigation system, the details of the calls can be viewed on-screen.
Mercedes-Benz ViseeO MBU-3000+ Bluetooth Phone interface with original Benz-factory Nokia phone kit.
Once installed, the MBU3000+ Bluetooth phone interface is very easy to use. In fact you virtually have to do nothing as it will connect automatically when you turn the car on and calls are routed via the module to the car's audio system. Simply press the answer button on the steering wheel or radio / navigation unit and the call will be answered. Do the same to turn the volume up or down. Hang up too! Caller ID is also possible on the screen where available. You can even leave your phone in your pocket, handbag or briefcase.
Some other systems on the market suffer from echo, a common complaint and very annoying, especially to the person on the other end of the phone call. This system has a special feature which allows you to actually adjust the microphone level hence virtually cut the echo out completely! The sound quality is extremely good and one of the best obtainable with a hands-free car phone system. You can also pair up to four mobile phones; each can have its own phone book where possible and those contacts are kept only for that phone, no-one else can access them without your phone.
Install it yourself! Alternatively contact our Sydney or Melbourne offices for an appointment to get it installed. Phone (02) 4872 1553 Sydney or Melbourne (03) 9859-0388.
Comand keypad control - activation via radio / navigation unit keypad - phone voice control not always possible due to car system.
Mercedes-Benz ViseeO MBU-3000+ Bluetooth Phone interface showing the rear panel.
Find you car and cradle below - our module will simply plug in!
Mercedes-Benz Nokia 6150 (left) and 6210 (right) cradles.
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Our men have, most of them, been well and correctly garbed during our horse show, and have many of them established the reputation of being excellent whips. In England at a recent "hunting breakfast" the table was wonderfully effective. Top boots held the flowers at opposite corners, a hunting cap formed the centerpiece, and was of a bright color; across it was a crop gracefully arranged. The cap had a tin lining and held "blackberries cut in long trails, hawthorn berries and shaded chrysanthemums." The spurred boots were filled with the richest of crimson chrysanthemums and were slightly splashed with mud; horns, horseshoes and hurdles were arranged about the table in an artistic way. The designer advises that real bits, horns and shoes be always used.
The fad of collecting old and unusual furniture and historical bits of silver is much indulged in by many of our bachelors, who show good taste in their selections. Men who have little "shooting boxes" should avoid when furnishing having too much furniture and should eschew all light and flimsy articles, having everything solid, practical and comfortable. It is nonsense to fit up a country home in city style.


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Mercedes-Benz reveals exclusive SL Grand Edition
The Stuttgart marque announces the production of a Grand Edition variant of the luxury roadster
Ahead of the next-generation Mercedes-Benz SL, expected next year, the German marque has announced the production of a Grand Edition variant of the luxury drop-top, with a range of interior and exterior tweaks.
Due to hit showrooms next month, the special edition will come in both SL500 and SL400 forms, with the SL500's 4.7-litre, 455bhp V8 pushing the model from 0 to 62mph in just 4.3sec. The Grand Edition can be ordered in black, white and various shades of grey, with chrome and matte silver touches on the front bumper setting it apart from the standard car. Staggered, diamond-cut ten-spoke AMG wheels as found on full-fat 63 models also feature.
> Mercedes SL revealed – luxury roadster gets a facelift
SL Grand Edition badging also makes an appearance throughout the car, including on the mudguards, front wings and interior. A sports suspension system with a slight reduction in ride height, a driving assistance package, 'Designo tundra brown pearl' leather seats and the brand's Airscarf heating system are also included.
Sitting alongside the SL Grand Edition is the SLC Final Edition, marking the end of the current-model generation. Four engine variants, including the range-topping 390bhp 3-litre V6 SLC43, can be chosen, with prices starting at around £36,000.
Available in the same yellow shade seen on the SLK when it was launched in 1996, the Final Edition can also be optioned in other, more subtle colours. Choose black or grey and you'll receive silver chrome accents on the front bumper, whereas with yellow and white, black accents on the front bumper, door handles and mirrors will make an appearance.
The Final Edition SLC also features an extensive range of optional extras as standard, such as sports suspension and a larger braking system, thanks to the AMG-line package. Interior and exterior tweaks can also be found, including new 18-inch five-spoke diamond-cut AMG wheels and the addition of Final Edition badging on the front wings and interior. Carbonfibre-look leather can also be seen throughout the cabin, which we're not awfully keen on...
Both the Mercedes-Benz SL Grand Edition and SLC Final Edition can be ordered from 22 February and will hit showrooms next month.
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Q: What is matched game bonus IP? How do I get Matched Game Bonus IP, and what does it depend on?

A: Matched Game IP is from using Riot's Match Making system. Anything but custom games will get you this.
I believe the intent was to award IP based on the length of the game, as there used to be an incentive to surrender at 25 (and thus play multiple short games) to eke out more IP than by playing fewer, longer games.
Since that dominion game only lasted 11 minutes, the bonus is rather small.

A: It's actually a bonus payout for the time you've been waiting in the matchmaking queue. Before, they just awarded completed games (and completed games in a row). As such, the most bonus was awarded for having lots of short games and this bonus stacked. This has been changed.
The new bonus now only pays you a bit for the time "wasted" while waiting for a game. Considering full servers you usually just wait a few seconds, but there have been times (at least in Europe) where it was possible that you've waited for 5 minutes or a bit more. Having some long waiting times in combination with payouts based on game length, people would have just tried delaying games so they get more IP out of their time (rather than waiting for another game).
The Matchmaking Bonus is meant to pay out approximately the same amount of IP for x minutes in the queue as x minutes in the game. So the ultimate goal is to have two games of 20 minutes and 5 minutes queue in between paying out the same as a 45 minutes game (making it pointless to try to win fast or late).

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On the next map we straighten the magnetic coordinates in order to simplify the solution of problems involving terrestrial magnetism. This warps the normal geographic coordinates, but so what? It is not difficult to produce such maps graphically. It can also be done analytically.
Choosing the correct coordinate system is often used to simplify a problem.


Extending to all of you a warm welcome on the occasion of your General Assembly, I offer a special greeting to your newly-elected Superior General, Father Kieran O'Reilly, whom I thank for his kind words on your behalf. I greet as well his immediate predecessor, Father Daniel Cardot, who has led your Society for the past six years.
As you approach the end of your first General Assembly of the new millennium, I encourage you to draw abundantly upon the rich spiritual legacy of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 as you renew your commitment to mission and evangelization. A new century, a new millennium has begun in the light of Christ, but, as I wrote in my Apostolic Letter at the close of the Great Jubilee, "not everyone can see this light. Ours is the wonderful and demanding task of becoming its 'reflection'" (Novo Millennio Ineunte, 54). In a world where there are many lights that distract from and are even contrary to the pure light of Christ, you must strive always to be more like Jesus — nourishing yourselves on his word and being firmly rooted in prayer and contemplation — so that you may faithfully reflect his light and effectively make him known to others.
I am pleased to see young missionary priests from Africa and Asia among your numbers today; this is a positive indication of the growing international character of your society. Continue to promote and nurture missionary vocations, for "preaching the Gospel requires preachers; the harvest needs labourers" (Redemptoris Missio, 79). Your efforts to involve the laity in your missionary work is another essential element in the plantatio Ecclesiae in mission lands, for it is through a mature and responsible laity that the Christian message and the example of Christian holiness pass more immediately into the life of society. In imitation of our Lord and Master, renew your commitment to working with the poor, especially refugees who so urgently need a sign of God's love. Accept the challenge of interreligious dialogue, a path to which the Church must dedicate greater attention in this new millennium. Defend human life at every stage of its existence, from conception to natural death, and do not fail to make people more aware of their responsibility to transform their communities and cultures in accordance with the saving truths of the Gospel.
Dear Friends, it is my desire on the occasion of our brief meeting to encourage you in your missionary undertaking and to exhort you to be true to the spirit which you have received from your Founder, the Servant of God Marion de Brésillac. Filled with hope and enthusiasm, therefore, go forward confidently to meet the challenges of the new millennium, looking always to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who ever remains "the radiant dawn and sure guide for our steps" (Novo Millennio Ineunte, 58). To you here present and to all the members and friends of the Society of African Missions I cordially impart my Apostolic Blessing.


Gas lift employs high pressure gas that is injected from a topside facility to a specific subsea location. The injected gas commingles with the produced reservoir fluid, resulting in a changed fluid mixture that is less-dense and contains richer-composition gas, thus reducing the hydrostatic column. This resulting lower density fluid column effectively reduces the back pressure on the well, increasing the fluid velocity and flowrate. Particularly for subsea developments, lift gas can be injected at two distinct locations, the wellbore and the flowline-riser. In these cases, a dedicated gas lift flowline is required; however, there are some instances where lift gas is injected via umbilicals. Figure 2 shows a simplified gas lift system and topside components for offshore application.
Injection of gas into the wellbore is accomplished through the installation of special gas lift valves positioned at specific depths in the annular space between the production tubing and production casing. The pressure gradient is reduced from the injection point to the surface by the reduced pressure head. This bottomhole pressure reduction creates a pressure differential that affects fluid velocities and flowrates.
Another option is to have a single valve, commonly referred to as a Downhole Gas Lift Flow Control valve, set at a particular depth. This valve essentially acts as a choke to control the amount of gas introduced into the wellbore. The increase of flowrate in the tubing and flowlines increases frictional losses, effectively reducing some of the benefits obtained by reducing static head. Therefore, the determination of an adequate gas injection rate is necessary for an optimum performance of the gas lift system.
Figure 3 shows an example of a gas lift performance plot where casing pressure or "A-annulus" pressure and liquid flowrate is a function of the lift gas flowrate. Sensitivities are shown for the outflow curves for various downhole gas lift valve orifice openings. Different parameters such as depth of well, wellbore configuration (i.e. deviation, casing size, and perforation interval), mechanical skin, sands and solids production, corrosive fluids, well temperature and paraffin build up, and scale deposition are important factors that must be considered.
Mechanical conditions often impose severe constraints, particularly in wells that are initially completed for normal natural flow without consideration of the introduction of artificial lift equipment necessary for production in late well life conditions. Production casing pressure limits and gas lift valve pressure ratings are sometimes limiting factors in determining the injection pressure of the lift gas.
Gas injected into the flowline-riser is designed to alleviate the continuous accumulation of liquids in low points of the production system. Accumulated liquids can create conditions for slug flow that can be detrimental for the optimum performance of the topsides facilities. The most critical location for liquid accumulation in the subsea production system is at the riser base. Therefore, gas injection at the riser base is one of the techniques used to control severe slugging conditions.
Gas injected into the riser base continually lifts liquid out of the riser, preventing the build-up of liquid by reducing the pressure head in the riser and increasing the superficial velocity of the gas, which diminishes the severity and cycle time of the slugging condition.
The need for gas lift into the flowline-riser must be assessed during the design stage of the project, and provisions made for its implementation.
Artificial lift methods using pressure boosting aims to increase the flowing pressure in the production system when the reservoir pressure is insufficient to transport produced fluids at an optimum rate. Mechanical means such as downhole single/ multiphase pumping or a combination of subsea separation and pumping may be used for this purpose. Pressure boosting may be necessary at any given stage of the project development; therefore, it is an important consideration in the design stage of the project.
Multiphase pumps can be classified as either rotodynamic pumps or positive displacement pumps. Rotodynamic pumps have larger capacities, but are much more affected by changes in gas volume fraction, suction pressure, and differential pressure. Reaching erosional velocities is a risk, making proper material selection for the pump design important. Figure 4 shows a typical rotodynamic pump. The differential pressure achievable by positive displacement pumps is limited by the ability of the pump to withstand system pressure and the effect of the differential pressure on the internal pump leakage.
An ESP isa multistage centrifugal pump installed downhole and driven by an electric motor powered by cable from the surface. ESPs work efficiently for higher water-cut, low Gas to Oil Ratio (GOR) wells.
Typical flow assurance problems associated withsubsea artificial lift systems include scaling, asphaltenes, emulsions and slug flow.
Scales are likely to form in a system where the fluid composition or temperature is changing rapidly; hence, the injection valve port in a gas lift system is a potential location for scale build up. Anti-scaling chemicals can be injected downhole to inhibit the formation of scale deposits driven by the injected gas; however, the primary challenge is to make sure proper treatment is achieved at the injection point.
Flocculation and precipitation of asphaltenes may also be triggered by gas lift. The decrease in the resulting fluid density and reduction of viscosity creates the conditions for asphaltene micelles destabilization. This can lead to subsequent plugging of the near wellbore region and gas lift equipment.
Emulsions may form when the fluid is subjected to shear forces and pressure changes. The greater the shear force the more likely an emulsion will be formed. Gas lift wells present situations where the fluid is subjected to external shear forces, and thus gas lift is known to increase the problems of an emulsion producing well. The amount of shear force created in a gas lift well, however, is considerably less than that generated by a downhole pump and, for this reason, downhole pumps are less suitable for artificial lift when emulsions are a potential risk.
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Disappointing U.N. climate talks leave 'huge task' for COP27 Egypt summit
The focus now is on ensuring that the Egyptian COP, in the city of Sharm el-Sheikh, "could truly be the place where the important promises of the Paris Agreement are turned into reality"
Beh Lih Yi and Megan Rowling, Reuters News
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A "disappointing" fortnight of U.N. talks in Bonn has left much work to be done just five months before a crucial climate summit, diplomats and analysts said, after negotiations failed to make concrete advances on efforts to tackle global warming.
At the closing session on Thursday, developing nations expressed disappointment over scant progress at the mid-year session on key issues, especially on setting up a finance facility to deal with rising losses from extreme weather and rising seas.
The lead negotiator for the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) said the 39-member grouping had not received assurances that climate finance "will be delivered at scale or speed".
"The climate emergency is fast becoming a catastrophe. Yet within these walls, the process feels out of step with reality," said Conrod Hunte, U.N. ambassador for the Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda.
The weak outcome from Bonn - which also saw no major steps forward on emissions cuts or toward a global goal to drive adaptation - leaves diplomats with a "huge task" before November's COP27 summit in Egypt, said Alex Scott of think-tank E3G.
"It's looking like negotiators have come without the political wiggle room to ... make sure that we get to COP27 with a real sense of progress," E3G's climate diplomacy leader told journalists.
The talks in Bonn saw longstanding tensions flare between developing and developed countries over issues ranging from who should take more responsibility to reduce climate-changing emissions to how to pay to repair and avert "loss and damage".
From the start, countries tussled over whether and how to put on the official U.N. agenda a dialogue on setting up a dedicated fund for loss and damage.
The issue was left undecided in Bonn, prompting outgoing U.N. climate chief Patricia Espinosa to call for "major political decisions" at COP27 on finance for loss and damage.
This - together with increased funding for adaptation and clean energy - "is crucial to build a more sustainable and resilient future", she noted in a statement.
Harjeet Singh, a senior advisor with Climate Action Network International, said that for the first time many developed countries had in Bonn acknowledged the gap in providing finance to vulnerable countries to help them recover from climate change impacts they had little role in causing.
But rich nations - including the European Union, Switzerland and the United States - then went on to block discussion on a new finance facility and did not even allow developing countries to add it to the agenda for COP27, he noted.
"Instead of using empty words, rich countries must show (a) spirit of international cooperation and solidarity," Singh told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
PARIS INTO PRACTICE
Espinosa said the focus was now on ensuring that the Egyptian COP, in the city of Sharm el-Sheikh, "could truly be the place where the important promises of the Paris Agreement are turned into reality".
Countries kick-started discussions in Bonn on how to slash emissions faster and deeper to meet the tightest Paris accord goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit), and to assess their collective progress in doing so.
But there were divisions over how to push forward a programme aimed at ratcheting up emissions reductions globally - with at-risk nations asking for it to continue until 2030, while some countries, such as China, wanted it to last just a year.
Wealthy governments also sought to have the mitigation programme include major emerging economies but faced push-back from developing countries that have historically contributed less to carbon emissions.
David Waskow, director for international climate action at the U.S.-based World Resources Institute, called on major polluters to strengthen their emissions reduction targets and on rich countries to deliver the funding needed for vulnerable nations to deal with the effects of a heating planet.
"Perhaps the most decisive outcome from these (Bonn) talks is that developed countries now realise that the chorus calling for solutions to loss and damage is only getting louder," he said.
"Addressing this issue is a central measure of success for the U.N. climate summit in Egypt," he added in a statement.
'UNCONSCIONABLE'
Climate-vulnerable nations have long grappled with the slow pace of progress at U.N. negotiations, with their key demands - including more finance - going largely unmet.
A report by the Vulnerable Twenty Group (V20) on 55 economies hit hard by climate change - from Bangladesh to Kenya to South Sudan - this month found they had lost about $525 billion - or 20% of their wealth on average - in the last two decades due to the impacts of global warming.
Climate change-driven losses are already surging and are set to become much worse if measures to curb emissions from fossil fuel use worldwide are not dramatically stepped up, a flagship U.N. science report in February warned.
At the Bonn closing session, Switzerland said the talks had not seen sufficient progress on ambition to cut emissions to keep the 1.5C goal within reach, warning that this year "we may lose 1.5 degrees" - something "we simply can't afford".
Hunte of AOSIS called for high-emitting countries to submit stronger plans for emissions cuts by a U.N. deadline in late September, warning of a "code red" situation, with the world teetering on the edge of "overshoot into disaster".
"Science must be the basis of our decision here yet we leave with a disappointing conclusion. This is an unconscionable way to negotiate with vulnerable countries," he told delegates.
(Reporting by Beh Lih Yi in Kuala Lumpur and Megan Rowling in Barcelona; Editing by Laurie Goering, Thomson Reuters Foundation)
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Apart from the Sportster like tank, this does not look like a Harley. No exhaust pipes (which means no noise) looks weird, and the "engine" looks like it wouldn't pull you out of your bed. However, this bike is not built for cruising on long journeys. For a start, it will do just 175 kms (110 miles) on a charge. There is no room for luggage, but I suspect many riders will like the instant acceleration that an electric "engine" gives plus not having to deal with gears. What riders won't like is the price tag, Dublin Harley-Davidson is quoting prices starting at a whopping €34,695 (pre-orders open in April) - that's more expensive that any new motorcycle (other than Trikes) that Harley-Davidson sells in Ireland.
The Beautifully Organised Blog gets it right for me when it quotes a rider called David Lutzow, of Pasadena. While he thinks that it is great for the environment that Harley-Davidson is going electric, he is not sure if it will "catch on". He says. "I think it will attract the younger people — they call them, what, millennials or whatever? I think it will attract that group, other than 59-year-old farts like myself."
As a fellow 59-year-old "fart", give me the smell and noise of my Monster Ovals exhaust pipes and the rumble of my 1600 cc noisy engine any time!


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Getting Roth Wrong, But That's the Point: The Great Man's 'Reader in Chief' Walks Through the Career of Literature's Favorite Retiree
By Akiva Gottlieb • 10/22/13 9:05pm
Philip Roth. (Photo by Taylor Hill/WireImage)
There's a passage early in American Pastoral where Nathan Zuckerman, Philip Roth's most durable alter ego, turns his inability to predict the shocking course of his childhood idol's life into a universal lament about the limits of perception: "[Y]ou never fail to get them wrong," he muses. "You get them wrong before you meet them, while you're anticipating meeting them; you get them wrong while you're with them; and then you go home to tell somebody else about the meeting and you get them all wrong again. Since the same generally goes for them with you, the whole thing is really a dazzling illusion empty of all perception, an astonishing farce of misperception."
Struggling through the stultifying, toothless, inappropriately titled documentary Philip Roth: Unmasked on PBS last year, it was hard not to imagine that Mr. Roth had slyly encouraged his unmaskers to get him wrong. The fawning filmmakers lingered on shots of the Great Man composing his work, checked in with some old neighborhood pals and an odd assortment of talking heads and asked Roth no question that he hadn't already tackled and twisted into a richly ambiguous quandary in one of his novels. The film reeked of good taste and politesse, suggesting that its good Jewish boy of a subject, the one with the bemused twinkle in his eye, would never dare misbehave. In other words, just give him the Nobel already.
The ache of not being understood is central to Mr. Roth's half-century-long complaint, a feeling he has often compensated for by trying to get out ahead of the game. He is American literature's laureate of frenzied solipsisms and obsessive inventor of counterlives, dropping false confessions and ambiguous deceptions in his wake; Mr. Roth has engineered his existence so that any attempt to get his story straight is a fool's errand. (The documentary felt like another of his cleverly arranged metafictional jokes.) His 1988 "novelist's autobiography," The Facts, ends with an appended rebuttal, written in the form of a letter from Zuckerman, who admonishes his creator for turning in such a dry and discreet personal reflection. "My guess is that you've written metamorphoses of yourself so many times, you no longer have any idea what you are," Zuckerman tells him. "Don't publish," he concludes.
And so the only halfway relevant question to ask of Claudia Roth Pierpont's Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books is: Why bother? She knows the score: "Although Roth has the reputation of a confessional writer," she writes, "no one is more aware of the importance, for literary freedom, of self-disguise."
Roth Unbound offers neither a rigorous academic study—Ross Posnock's Philip Roth's Rude Truth is one stimulating recent example—nor a complete biography—though Blake Bailey's long-awaited life of the author is currently being composed with Mr. Roth's blessing—but something like an authorized companion to the now seemingly complete oeuvre of Rothiana. A New Yorker staff writer and cultural critic, Ms. Pierpont has earned a role as Mr. Roth's unofficial reader in chief and at some point became one of the handful of trusted friends whom the author let critique his work in manuscript form. In Roth Unbound, the judicious, even-tempered Ms. Pierpont marches chronologically through a full critical retrospective of Mr. Roth's body of work, accompanying her sage, inquisitive close-readings with memories, observations and reconsiderations from the writer. So she gives us 10 pages on the "blunt and unbeguiling" ladies'-man lament The Dying Animal, then, pushing aside any pretense of critical distance, asks the author directly whether he believes in the possibility of a happy marriage. ("Yes … and some people play the violin like Isaac Stern.") I can't help but see Ms. Pierpont rereading these novels while sitting in Mr. Roth's Upper West Side living room, calling questions down the hall over the sound of the Yankees radio broadcast to where the retired author collects his laundry. Or maybe it's the other way around, with Roth regularly stepping in to Ms. Pierpont's private library to peek over her shoulder and correct the record. Either way, there's a palpable symbiosis—and some gossip, too. The fact that Roth apparently dated Jackie Kennedy pales in comparison to the Seinfeldian revelation that he met another girlfriend in line for Schindler's List.
So, yes, Mr. Roth and Ms. Pierpont seem like pals. Even at her most sharply critical, she never seems exactly impartial, and, perhaps oddly, this is both her book's greatest strength and its raison d'etre. Ms. Pierpont's implicit point is that no major contemporary author has been subjected to (and in many ways buoyed by) such sustained suspicion—from Jews, feminists, arbiters of sociopolitical responsibility and the defenders of various faiths. "What is being done to stop this man?" asks a rabbi in Chapter One's very first sentence, and variations on the question echo through Roth's career. The value of Roth Unbound's collection of fan's notes is Ms. Pierpont's sophisticated demonstration of what it means to be a sympathetic reader, to abjure suspicion in favor of a critical embrace, to render her subject unbound as in unrestrained, even if such an approach risks once again getting Mr. Roth wrong. We should all be so lucky to earn such a generous advocate. If Ms. Pierpont didn't already exist, it wouldn't be out of character for Mr. Roth to invent her.
Because not all Roth novels are created equal, Ms. Pierpont's reckoning is sometimes compromised by its encyclopedic exhaustiveness. While I appreciate her trudging through When She Was Good, My Life As a Man and The Great American Novel so I don't have to, I wasn't surprised that the book kicks into high gear once Mr. Roth begins his run of middle-period masterworks, from The Ghost Writer ("a novel so seamless that it appears to have been conceived and poured out whole") through Sabbath's Theater ("shocks us into feelings that pieties could not induce") to The Human Stain ("its ominous control, its buried tragedy, its tensile energy and mature power and the creative joy that spills out in the writing"). She characterizes Mr. Roth as a novelist of the ecstatic voice—brazen and berserk and contradictory, unable to countenance an open stand. "I don't write about my convictions," he tells her. "I write about the comic and tragic consequences of holding convictions."
If this axiom has made Mr. Roth difficult to pin down politically, his status as an inveterate sexist, if not "a walking prick," has been harder to shake. As part of her sympathetic reading, Ms. Pierpont labors to defend Mr. Roth against the ire of feminists and doesn't always do her subject favors. "He considers himself a man who loves women, and he counts many women among his close and lifelong friends," she writes. On this issue, Mr. Roth's foot is never far from his mouth. His description of his troubled first wife, Maggie—who he believes faked a pregnancy to force him into an unhappy marriage—as "the greatest creative writing teacher of them all" is more than a little gauche, and after elaborating upon the gifts of countless literary lions, he pointedly derides "the failed experiment of Virginia Woolf" for her work's lack of "the gravity of experience." Ms. Pierpont's forgiveness sometimes borders on dismissal, as with her firm rebuke of the Roth-as-misogynist camp for misreading him. "He championed the social and sexual freedom of women no less than he did that of men," she argues. "Indeed, in his scheme of things, the freedom of men depended on women also being free. Surely that was clear if one read his books with an open mind, unimpeded by contemporary cant."
This is a rare (and unhelpful) statement of conviction in an otherwise refreshingly searching and interrogative book, one that seems properly unsettled about every question save that of Roth's genius. I finished Roth Unbound grateful for the experience but hope that Ms. Pierpont might spare some sympathy for more suspicious minds, even if she senses that they are, quite frankly, wrong. As Mr. Roth continues, in American Pastoral, a great novel whose depiction of 1960s political radicalism is nevertheless far from spot-on: "It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong."
editorial@observer.com
Filed Under: Books, Entertainment, books, Philip Roth, Claudia Roth Pierpont, Roth Unbound
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PhD Project 22
Encoding and decoding the neural signatures of natural language comprehension
PhD-candidate: Alessandro Lopopolo
PIs: Antal van den Bosch (WP7) and Karl-Magnus Petersson (WP3)
Start date: 01 February 2016
(last update 2019-07-01)
Recent computational advances have made it possible to reconstruct naturalistic stimuli from neural responses. This approach is now transferred to reconstructing auditory and linguistic features from brain activity measured while subjects listen to narratives. Work by members of the team shows (a) the feasibility to describe neural responses by means of stimulus characterization with a computational language model, and (b) that conceptual representations can be decoded from brain activity. The current project joins and extends these studies, paving the way for the development of brain-computer interfaces driven by internal speech, and leading to a fuller understanding of the brain basis of language comprehension under naturalistic conditions.
Using Stochastic Language Models to map lexical, syntactic, and phonological information processing in the brain
Team members: Lopopolo, Frank, Van den Bosch, and Willems
This project combines computational linguistics and neurobiology of language. The work aims to find a subnetwork in the language network of the brain sensitive to the statistic structure of language computed on different level of description of the stimulus.
Language comprehension involves the simultaneous processing of information at the phonological, syntactic, and lexical level. These three distinct streams of information in the brain are tracked by using stochastic measures derived from computational language models to detect neural correlates of phoneme, part-of-speech, and word processing in an fMRI experiment. Probabilistic language models have proven to be useful tools for studying how language is processed as a sequence of symbols unfolding in time. Conditional probabilities between sequences of words are at the basis of probabilistic measures such as surprisal and perplexity which have been successfully used as predictors of several behavioural and neural correlates of sentence processing. Here perplexity is computed from sequences of words and their parts of speech, and their phonemic transcriptions. Brain activity time-locked to each word is regressed on the three model-derived measures. It was observed that the brain keeps track of the statistical structure of lexical, syntactic and phonological information in distinct areas.
Brain areas sensitive to lexical (green), part-of-speech (blue) and phonological (red) perplexity.
In the last year, the analyses of the MEG data continued with the implementation of a convolutional neural network-based classifier aimed to extract linguistic information from brain activity. Preliminary results confirmed the feasibility both at single subject and group level.
In parallel, a series of studies have been conducted on the differential effects of dependency structures and probabilistic sequential models on behavioural and neural data. The number and typology of dependency relations between words in a sentence and their preceding sentential context seems to predict the number of eye regressions from the same words, suggesting a role of eye movements during online sentence parsing beyond reanalysis. Similar measures seem to correlate with the activity in the precuneus and in the posterior cingulate cortex.
Groundbreaking characteristics
This project combines state of the art computational linguistic techniques with advanced neuroimaging methodologies. Given the multidisciplinary nature of this endeavor, the project sees the active collaboration of researchers from different communities (computational linguistics, cognitive science and computational neuroscience). The coupling of computational features and patterns of brain activity will allow optimal probing of the spatial and temporal localization of how the linguistic information is encoded and processed in the human brain. This will provide a novel evaluation of different approaches in language representation and processing from a computational point of view using naturalistic stimuli.
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Q: Importance of Equal Error Variances in Mixed ANOVA Depending on the textbook I use, sometimes the equality of error variances in a mixed ANOVA is considered an assumption of the model and sometimes not.  I did a literature search, but found nothing.
Does the mixed ANOVA assume equal error variances, is it robust to a violation of this assumption or can this assumption be ignored all together?


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A concrete driveway, lock up tool shed, fully fenced grounds with remote controlled gate, off street parking for a large number of vehicles, 5000ltr water tank with pump and sensor lighting may appeal to the tradesperson or home business owner.
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Google CEO dedicated his first overseas visit to India: Seven key takeaways
After the vital visit of Mark Zuckerberg to India in October, global IT giant Google CEO Sundar Pichai has come to India for his two days' visit. In his special keynote, Sundar Pichai reveals the colossal plans which will take the Indian IT industry to the next level.
Indian-born Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai is in India. In a grand Google event, Pichai spoke about the key seven technology developments which would implement in the near future.
To contribute in the development of Indian railways and join the wave of Digital India, subsidiary of Google India has signed an agreement with RailTel and determined to provide Wi-Fi internet connectivity to 400 stations across the country. Mumbai Central station will be the first station to go live with Wi-Fi by January 2016.
Giving the hope to Indian internet consumers in the midst of internet infrastructure challenges, Google is planning to bring Project Loon to India. With the success of the Project Loon, India especially rural India will get affordable and high-speed internet.
Pichai stressed that their focus is to bring the internet for everyone, to make sure Google products work for consumers in a meaningful way and ensure their platform allows everyone to add their voices to the internet. Aiming to empower rural population with technology, Google gives the green light to the full-scale launch of its rural internet program.
To empower the rural India further, Google is focusing on helping rural women to get online through its 'bicycle for women' program. The company aims to assist women of three lakh villages in next three years.
Pichai also talked about developing the talent in India. To train and nurture two million developers across the country, the company has announced the partnership with National Skill Development Council.
Also, recognizing the great potential in the India talent, Google will build a huge campus in Hyderabad to build capabilities. The proposed campus would be spread over two million square feet, and create 6,500 additional jobs in the country. TechSci Research feels apart from increasing the quality technology talent, this move will help in bringing steadiness in IT industry.
Further, Google has given good news to the existing talent as it is hiring talent for its existing Hyderabad and Bangalore offices.
Apart from revealing the development strategy, Pichai also announced that Google will be launching Chromebit stick PC in January 2016. This product will turn any monitor into a computer screen.
Analysing the development in the technology market, TechSci Research depicts, the visit of Chief Executive officers of technology leaders to India demonstrates the worth of Indian markets. The large consumer base, quick adoption of smartphones, increasing consumption of internet, growing demand of Indian talent encourages the technology companies to tap the market in India. Likewise, on the other hand, these technology companies are enhancing the Indian technology ecosystem –including the talent, market development, innovative products, enhanced facilities to consumers to name few.


Every week or so during the spring MLB.com updates their projected starting lineups for 2018. It is an interesting read and this nugget popped up on my radar.
Old friend Miguel Rojas is slated to be the opening day starting shortstop for the Miami Marlins. Are you as shocked as I am about this news? Are you as shocked as I am to find out that Miguel Rojas was really good in 2017?
Rojas got his start with the Dodgers in 2015 when he was pressed into service due to injuries. At the time Rojas showed an excellent glove playing shortstop, second base, third base, and even a game in the outfield. For all this great glove work he was horrible with the bat posting an OPS of .464. It seemed fairly certain that his career arc would be a major league utility infielder bouncing back between AAA and the majors from team to team. The Dodgers started him on that journey when they included him in the Dee Gordon trade. Rojas didn't have that journey, instead, he has stayed with the Marlins major league team all three years and his bat improved enough that he is now a starting shortstop. In fact, his OPS of last year was a sterling .736. His glove is so good that even with only 306 plate appearances, he earned a 1.4 in fWAR. To put that in perspective Brandon Crawford had over 550 plate appearances and only earned a fWAR.
Rojas has no power but his great contact skills have allowed him to post a very decent wOBA and combined with his defense he has turned himself into a bonafide major league baseball player.
I felt he was headed for the Oscar Robles career arc so big time hat tip for proving me wrong.


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Still, the headlines keep coming. Men's Health declared, "Ketogenic Diet Side Effects: How the Trendy Low-Carb Diet Can Give You Acne." The health and fitness website Livestrong.com warned about "The Ketogenic Diet and Insomnia." Other articles raised fears of bloat and constipation or cautioned that the regimen requires inhuman willpower from its followers.
Long-term use of the ketogenic diet in children increases the risk of slowed or stunted growth, bone fractures, and kidney stones.[18] The diet reduces levels of insulin-like growth factor 1, which is important for childhood growth. Like many anticonvulsant drugs, the ketogenic diet has an adverse effect on bone health. Many factors may be involved such as acidosis and suppressed growth hormone.[38] About one in 20 children on the ketogenic diet develop kidney stones (compared with one in several thousand for the general population). A class of anticonvulsants known as carbonic anhydrase inhibitors (topiramate, zonisamide) are known to increase the risk of kidney stones, but the combination of these anticonvulsants and the ketogenic diet does not appear to elevate the risk above that of the diet alone.[39] The stones are treatable and do not justify discontinuation of the diet.[39] Johns Hopkins Hospital now gives oral potassium citrate supplements to all ketogenic diet patients, resulting in one-seventh of the incidence of kidney stones.[40] However, this empiric usage has not been tested in a prospective controlled trial.[9] Kidney stone formation (nephrolithiasis) is associated with the diet for four reasons:[39]
Not sure what foods you should eat on the keto diet? This keto food list will get you started. By depriving your body of glucose, the high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet shifts your body into ketosis, a state of burning fat instead of sugar for energy. Take the guesswork out of eating keto, and follow this complete keto diet food list to start dropping weight and feel amazing.
No human population has ever lived in a permanent state of ketosis. Ketogenic diets are dangerous for pregnant women and developing fetuses, and the only human population that has ever subsisted on this dietary pattern advocated by keto diet proponents could only do so because of a genetic mutation that prevents them from going into ketosis. Unfortunately, it has the unintended but unavoidable consequence of reducing the survival prospects of their infants.
Beware of added sugars or high-glycemic sweeteners in spice blends or condiments, but other than that, it's fair game for keto. In spice-heavy dishes, carbs can add up, but don't drive yourself crazy worrying about your teaspoon of turmeric. Check labels for additives like sugars, milk solids, potato starch, corn starch, or MSG, or make your own blends at home. Table salt often contains undisclosed fillers and anti-caking agents, so it's best to opt for sea salt or Himalayan pink salt instead.
Conklin's fasting therapy was adopted by neurologists in mainstream practice. In 1916, a Dr McMurray wrote to the New York Medical Journal claiming to have successfully treated epilepsy patients with a fast, followed by a starch- and sugar-free diet, since 1912. In 1921, prominent endocrinologist Henry Rawle Geyelin reported his experiences to the American Medical Association convention. He had seen Conklin's success first-hand and had attempted to reproduce the results in 36 of his own patients. He achieved similar results despite only having studied the patients for a short time. Further studies in the 1920s indicated that seizures generally returned after the fast. Charles P. Howland, the parent of one of Conklin's successful patients and a wealthy New York corporate lawyer, gave his brother John Elias Howland a gift of $5,000 to study "the ketosis of starvation". As professor of paediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital, John E. Howland used the money to fund research undertaken by neurologist Stanley Cobb and his assistant William G. Lennox.[10]


ASEAN is the fastest growing Internet market in the world. With 125,000 new users coming onto the Internet every day, the ASEAN digital economy is projected to grow significantly, adding an estimated $1 trillion to regional GDP over the next ten years. But many significant roadblocks stand in the way of realizing this potential. ASEAN has laid out important policy measures and frameworks, including the AEC Blueprint 2025, Masterplan on ASEAN Connectivity 2025, and the e-ASEAN Framework Agreement, to address these roadblocks. However, these ambitious goals will demand detailed research, visionary policy-making, and substantial buy-in from regional stakeholders.
The World Economic Forum, as a neutral, impartial institution, and the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation, is leading important initiatives at a global level to craft policies, protocols and frameworks for developing and governing a digital economy. Our aspiration is to contribute to building a digital ecosystem that is sustainable, inclusive, and trustworthy. We bring together key stakeholders to debate critical issues, catalyze ideas, and incubate projects and initiatives that can support a healthy and thriving digital world.
The "Digital ASEAN" initiative is our response to demand from the Forum's regional partners in ASEAN, both public and private. The initiative aims to work on the issues that will underpin a regional digital economy in ASEAN so that the benefits of the Fourth Industrial Revolution can be fully unlocked and become a force for regional economic inclusion.
Five task forces have been established, one for each of the five focus areas. Members of task forces represent a multi-stakeholder group from the private sector, ASEAN governments, international organizations, regional organizations, and academia.
Sitting above these task forces is a Board of Advisors, whose role is to guide and shape the portfolio of work. The Board of Advisors includes individuals who are ASEAN Ministers of Digital Economy, ICT, and Commerce, and business leaders.
The ASEAN Digital Skills Task Force has built the ASEAN Digital Skills Vision 2020 pledge, aiming at hiring and/or training not only workers, but also the wider eco-system of consumers and users of digital services (such as SME traders), as well as digital regulators. The pledge form is now available online.
7) Contribute to shaping the curricula at 20ASEAN universities.


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Finding a good VA lender can be time consuming, especially if you've never applied for a mortgage in the past. It can be a lot of work, with new terms being used by lenders that you've likely never heard of before. You certainly want to find a lender with VA experience but you also want to get the best rate available. But it can be confusing comparing rate quotes from different VA lenders due to the multiple options available to the borrower. How can you cut through the clutter and correctly compare rate quotes from different lenders?
When you get a VA rate quote, you'll be offered the full plate of offerings from a VA lender. You can choose a 15 year loan or a 20 year VA loan and a 30 year VA loan. You can also find a rate with points and rate without points. And of course there are all the fees involved. How can you make sense of all this?
Determine first and foremost your loan type. You can discuss which loan is best with you with your loan officer but once you decide that a particular loan is right for you, stick with it. Trying to compare a 15 year loan with a 30 year loan is nearly impossible. Once you decide, you can begin making your phone calls.
But being exact on your rate quote request, you'll be able to compare the best VA interest rate quote between multiple VA lenders. You first have to decide on your loan. Once you do, you'll be ready to find your next VA lender.
When getting your rate quotes it is equally as important to compare the fees as well. The only standardized fee is the VA Loan Funding Fee which is a charge by the government and not the lender. You'll want to identify the closing costs associated with your loan amongst multiple lenders. Not all lenders are created equally when it comes to fees so it's important to compare.
After you've spoken with a few lenders/loan officers you will have a good idea of the market rates and fees and can make an informed decision. You will likely also have a good idea of the loan officers that you would like to work with during your VA loan buying or refinancing process.


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Biografia
Nel 1991 subentra alla guida della Provincia di Rovigo, in una giunta di larghe intese.

In occasione delle elezioni amministrative del 1995 è rieletto col 58,7% dei voti, in rappresentanza di una coalizione di centrosinistra formata da:
Partito Democratico della Sinistra
Partito Popolare Italiano
Liberal Socialismo - Unione Riformista
Nuova Italia - Autonomia Veneta

Sfiduciato poco prima di fine legislatura, si ripresenta sostenuto da Forza Italia e una civica, venendo sconfitto da Federico Saccardin.

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Presidenti della Provincia di Rovigo
Politici della Democrazia Cristiana
Politici del Partito Popolare Italiano (1994)

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Q: Get the count of an object I have a view object, the result of the following query:
SELECT TEACHER_ID_FK,
       MATERIAL_ID_FK,
       CREATION_DATE,
       VALID_BEFORE
FROM TEACHER_MATERIAL;

In my application module I have this line of code to get hold of the view object.
TeachMaterVVOImpl voTeachMater = (TeachMaterVVOImpl)this.getTeachMaterVVO1();

Now I got a materialId(of type MATERIAL_ID_FK) in my hand.
How to get the number of count of this materialId from this view object?

A: Which jdev version do you use?
What do you have in mind with the count?
Show it on a page?
Or do you need it elsewhere?
In general you should define a view criteria with the materialId as bind parameter. Then it depends on your use case what you do with the view criteria. You can implement a method in the vo and apply the view Curtis with the parameter via this method out you can add a specialized vo which has the view criteria set as default.
Timo

A: I did it in the following way:

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*Get the View Object

*Iterate over it in a loop

*Get the material IDs

*Get the count of each material ID

*Group them by the count and ID in a map

*Get the count from the map by the ID at hand

And it worked super fine.


One of the benefits of being a plaintiff's attorney is that I am able to advocate for the "little guy" against Big Insurance and Big Corporations. It's quite humbling and rewarding to know I can help empower others to stand up to "the powers that be" to try to get what they may be potentially owed.
So in the interest of empowering the general public, I'd like to go on record to out a widespread tactic that some insurance companies use that prevents their claimants from recovering millions of dollars a year.
Non reimbursement for diminished value claims.
Have you ever heard of a diminished value claim? I didn't think so. That's what some insurance companies may bank on. And they likely won't bring it up to you. (That's more money they get to keep, you see.) It is one of the insurance company's dirty little secrets and it can be a real money maker for them – millions of dollars a year.
Diminished value claims allow you to recover the difference between the car's pre-accident value and the value of the car after it has been repaired. Let's say, for example, a car that has never been in a wreck may be worth $20,000 at resale, but worth thousands less if it had been in a car wreck and repaired. The difference in those two amounts would be the diminished value claim.
Although you pay for diminished value through your insurance premiums, the insurance company may not necessarily pay you for it after an accident. We have had clients come to us who have asked their insurance company to pay them diminished value, but were low-balled on the amount. They had to get us involved to try to recover what they were potentially rightfully owed – something they had paid for year after year in their premiums.
This is money the insurance companies often keep – money that might be yours!
Senior Litigation Attorney, Hoyt Tessener, was featured in a news report on ABC11 about diminished value claims after a car crash. Click here to view Hoyt's interview with ABC11.
As car wreck attorneys we see this money being left on the table A LOT. We almost always have to ask for diminished value reimbursement when demanding recovery for damages. If we take your NC car wreck injury case, we will evaluate whether you may have a diminished value claim. If so, we will negotiate with the insurance company to try to get them to pay for all the damages you are potentially due by law.
If you have been injured in an NC auto crash and we accept your personal injury claim, we will try to determine if you may have a diminished value claim as well. Contact us, or call 1-866-900-7078 for a free case evaluation.
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Tour of Lombardy
Groenewegen poised to win unofficial 'King of Sprints' title
The Dutch sprinter took another win Saturday to give him more victories than anyone else in the WorldTour — for now
Andrew Hood Oct 13, 2019
Commentary: Roglic and Bernal battle at Il Lombardia for rider of the year honors
Who has had a better season: Egan Bernal or Primoz Roglic? Il Lombardia could feature a showdown between the two stars of 2019.
Commentary: Il Lombardia and the Italian fall classics deserve our love
Italy's fall classics don't get the attention they deserve, but a new project could help revive some of cycling's most prestigious races
Analysis: Why Egan Bernal chose Lombardia over Yorkshire worlds
Bernal adroitly steered clear of a worlds course that doesn't suit him and now he's taking aim at Lombardia to close out his spectacular season
Andrew Hood Sep 23, 2019
2015 Lombardia route is a nasty one
The new route for this year's Giro di Lombardia will have the riders either climbing or descending for most of the final third of the race.
Maxim Iglinskiy doping case takes gloss off Astana's stellar WorldTour season
If Maxim Iglinskiy's positive EPO test is confirmed, Astana will have to sit out the Tour of Beijing, which ends the 2014 WorldTour season
GCN weekly news from Lombardia, Beijing
Joaquim Rodríguez locks up the WorldTour in Italy before the finale in Beijing
Lombardia's gray days can't keep stars away
The only major classic of the autumn, Giro di Lombardia will see a showdown between the world championship favorites of a week ago
Startlist: Giro di Lombardia 2013
The official list of riders slated to compete in the Italian classic
Riders look for revenge at Giro di Lombardia
Rodriguez, Valverde, and Nibali are seeking a victory after coming up short in the worlds road race
Rodríguez: 'Valverde told me to attack'
After speaking with Alejandro Valverde, Joaquim Rodríguez is trying hard to turn the page on Sunday's bitter worlds disappointment
Horner, Sanchez out of Giro di Lombardia after worlds crashes
The pair was among several riders to crash and/or abandon the worlds road race in Florence
Cancellara, Boonen still the best classics riders of their generation
Though it came without a true showdown against Tom Boonen, Fabian Cancellara's triumphant return to the cobbles proved his place yet again
Team Type 1, Colombia, MTN secure Pro Continental licenses for 2013
Milan-San Remo, Lombardia set for move to sundays in 2014
Lombardia caps huge season for 'Purito'
Where does Joaquim Rodriguez's win at Lombardia rank him among Spain's classics men?
Thunder, blunders and chaos mark Joaquim Rodriguez's twin triumphs in Lombardia, WorldTour
It seems fitting that thunderclaps should accompany Rodriguez's ascent to the pinnacle of the WorldTour
Graham Watson gallery: 2012 Giro di Lombardia
Graham Watson braves the driving rain to photograph an epic Il Lombardia
Giro di Lombardia 2012 results
1. Joaquin RODRIGUEZ OLIVER, Katusha, in 6:36:27 2. Samuel SANCHEZ GONZALEZ, Euskaltel-Euskadi, at :9 3. Rigoberto URAN URAN, Sky, at :9 4. Mauro SANTAMBROGIO, BMC Racing, at :9 5. Sergio Luis HENAO MONTOYA, Sky, at :9
Joaquim Rodriguez solos to victory in 2012 Giro di Lombardia
Rodriguez becomes the first Spaniard to win Il Lombardia and takes the WorldTour lead from Bradley Wiggins
Gilbert dreams of win in rainbow debut
Belgian world champion dreams of winning at Lombardia in rainbow stripes
Valverde pulls plug on his comeback season
Movistar captain goes down with illness and will miss his shot a revenge on Philippe Gilbert in Italy
Philippe Gilbert aiming to win Lombardia in rainbow stripes
World Champion Philippe Gilbert hopes to showcase his rainbow jersey, and his resurgence, on Saturday with a win at the Giro di Lombardia
2011 Tour of Lombardy: a Graham Watson gallery
Graham Watson shoots the Race of the Falling Leaves.
2011 Tour of Lombardy results
1. Oliver Zaugg (Sui), Leopard-Trek, 6:20:02
2. Daniel Martin (Irl), Garmin-Cervélo, at 0:08
3. Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Esp), Team Katusha, at 0:08
4. Ivan Basso (Ita), Liquigas-Cannondale, at 0:08
5. Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol), Lampre-ISD, at 0:08
Oliver Zaugg wins 2011 Tour of Lombardy
Oliver Zaugg (Leopard-Trek) stunned a host of favorites to claim the biggest win of his career at the Tour of Lombardy Saturday.
Preview: All eyes on Gilbert for Lombardia
World No. 1 Gilbert will line up as the two-time defending champion against a field of challengers who hope to knock him off balance.
Joaquim Rodriguez, Spain and Saxo Bank wrap up 2010 UCI World Ranking wins
The 2010 UCI World Ranking calendar wrapped up with Saturday's Giro di Lombardia.
Chechu Rubiera retires, supports Contador
Lombardia will be Chechu Rubiera's last major race. In retiring, he says the state of Spanish cycling is 'sad and worrying' but he supports Contador.
2010 Giro di Lombardia, a Graham Watson gallery
Results 2010 Giro di Lombardia
1. Philippe Gilbert (B), Omega Pharma, 260km in 6:46:32 (38.373kph)
2. Michele Scarponi, (Ita) Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni, at 0:12
3. Pablo Lastras Garcia, (Esp) Caisse d'Epargne, at 0:55
4. Jakob Fuglsang, (Den) Team Saxo Bank, at 1:08
5. Vincenzo Nibali, (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo, at 1:08
Philippe Gilbert wins Giro di Lombardia again
Omega Pharma's fall classics specialist Philippe Gilbert has won the Giro di Lombardia for the second year in a row.
Longer, tougher Giro di Lombardia demands new tactics
Riders will face a longer, tougher course for Saturday's season-closing Giro di Lombardi. Can defending champ Philippe Gilbert stay with the true climbers?
This week world champ Hushovd will lead Cervelo TestTeam on its final two road races
This week, new world champ Thor Hushovd will lead Cervelo TestTeam at the team's final races
2009 Giro di Lombardia photos by Graham Watson
Photos from the 2009 edition of the Classic of the Falling Leaves
Past winners of the Giro di Lombardia
Tour of Lombardy winners since 1905
Book Excerpt: Giro di Lombardia, "the Classic of the Falling Leaves"
The history and romance of this weekend's Tour of Lombardy, in an exclusive excerpt from The Spring Classics.
Hushovd to show off the rainbow jersey at Piemonte and Lombardia
The new world champ is delaying surgery so he can wear the rainbow jersey in Cervelo TestTeam's final season.
UCI approves 26 teams for Lombardy, to include RadioShack
The Tour of Romandy gets UCI permission to add a 26th team — RadioShack — to the race.
It was all a mistake: Team RadioShack to race Lombardy after all
Team RadioShack will start Lombardy after all
Team RadioShack cries foul over Lombardy exclusion
RadioShack is asking the Court of Arbitration for Sport for damages after the team was not invited to the fall classic, Tour of Lombardy
Gilbert nips Sánchez to win Lombardia
With four kilometers to go, it was obvious that an Italian wasn't going to win Giro di Lombardia for the ninth consecutive year. A Belgian and a Spaniard ? Philippe Gilbert (Silence-Lotto) and Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) – were 12 seconds clear of a chasing group that included three-time winner Damiano Cunego (Lampre), enough gap to end the Italian stranglehold on the season-concluding fall classic.
European road season closes at Lombardia
Saturday's Giro di Lombardia – the "Race of the Falling Leaves" – is Italy's long good-bye to yet another exciting, daring and controversy-filled season. In the last major European event of the 2009 campaign, Lombardia always packs an emotional and palpating punch to put the peloton to rest for an ever-shortening winter to recharge the batteries going into the next year.
Horner on roster for Astana's last two 2009 races
Astana Cycling Team's Last 2009 Races The team line-up for the next races: Giro del Piemonte (Ita) 15/10/2009 Riders: Jani Brajkovic, Valeriy Dmitriyev, Alexandr Dyachenko, Chris Horner, Maxim Iglinskiy, Roman Kireyev, Bolat Raimbekov & Alexandr Vinokourov Director: Alexandr Shefer Giro di Lombardia (Ita) 17/10/2009 Riders: Jani Brajkovic, Valeriy Dmitriyev, Alexandr Dyachenko, Chris Horner, Maxim Iglinskiy, Roman Kireyev, Bolat Raimbekov & Alexandr Vinokourov Director: Alexandr Shefer
Horner joins Armstrong, Leipheimer at RadioShack
Chris Horner has signed with Team RadioShack for the next two seasons, according to an Oregon newspaper. Horner told The Oregonian that he had talked with other teams, "but wanted to stay here" — that being alongside Astana teammates Lance Armstrong and Levi Leipheimer.
Evans promises to 'honor' rainbow jersey
Recently crowned world champion Cadel Evans promises to honor the rainbow jersey with aggressive racing for the remainder of the 2009 season. The 32-year-old Aussie isn't wasting any time, and will make his debut in the famed rainbow jersey on October 8 in the Coppa Sabatini in Italy. "I will try to honor the rainbow jersey even if my legs are understandably a little tired after a grueling season," Evans said during a press conference Thursday at the Silence-Lotto team headquarters.
Michael Barry's diary: The story of a cyclist
Behind the story there is always a greater story, one which is often missed. The Tour of Lombardy unfolded in traditional fashion: a breakaway, a gauged acceleration in the peloton, the knife-stabbing attacks that seal most riders' fate, and then, finally, the winning attack and the defeated sprints for the places of honor. The favorite won.
Michael Barry Nov 14, 2008
The podium at the 102nd Giro di Lombardia.
Cunego wins the Giro di Lombardia for the third time
Damiano Cunego won the 102nd Giro di Lombardia, the season's final one-day classic, for the third time in his career on Saturday. Cunego – winner in 2004 and 2007 – scored the win after taking a gamble and attacking 15 kilometers from the finish at lake front of Lake Como in northern Italy. Cunego won the famed "race of the falling leaves" ahead of a hard chasing Janez Brajkovic (Astana), who reached the line 20 seconds later. [nid:84391]Cunego earned the victor's laurels at the end of the 242-kilometer race that had been largely controlled by his Lampre team.
Start List – 2008 Giro di Lombardia
LAMPRE (ITA)
1. Damiano Cunego (ITA)
2. Alessandro Ballan (ITA)
3. Francesco Gavazzi (ITA)
4. Paolo Tiralongo (ITA)
5. Sylvester Szmyd (POL)
6. Matteo Bono (ITA)
7. Marco Marzano (ITA)
8. Mauro Santambrogio (ITA)
Director: Maurizio Piovani
ACQUA & SAPONE - CAFFE' MOKAMBO (ITA)
11. Massimo Codol (ITA)
12. Francesco Failli (ITA)
13. Stefano Garzelli (ITA)
14. Andrea Masciarelli (ITA)
15. Francesco Masciarelli (ITA)
16. Simone Masciarelli (ITA)
17. Giuseppe Palumbo (ITA)
Samuel Sánchez says this weekend's Giro di Lombardia offers the same type of racing that gave him the gold in Beijing.
Cunego takes Lombardy, Evans the ProTour
While Damiano Cunego of Lampre-Fondital returned to his sensational best on Saturday to win a second Tour of Lombardy, three years after he took his first, Cadel Evans was left ruing what might have been. Predictor-Lotto's remarkable Aussie crossed the line in sixth place, 10 seconds back, to end his season with overall victory in the 2007 UCI ProTour, but he felt he was good enough to have been sprinting for the day's main prize alongside Cunego and runner-up Riccardo Ricco of Saunier Duval-Prodir. "I got something in my eye on the descent into Lecco [with 80km to go]," Evans told VeloNews
Tour of Lombardy: Bettini and Evans set
While two-time defending world champion Paolo Bettini (Quick Step-Innergetic) is heavily favored to score his third consecutive Tour of Lombardy victory on Saturday, the venerable 242km fall classic is not the only title in play. The 2007 ProTour series is also up for grabs because the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) this week handed longtime ProTour leader Danilo Di Luca (Liquigas) a three-month suspension for his implication in the 2004 Oil for Drugs scandal, which caused the UCI to drop him from the standings. These developments put the consistent Cadel Evans (Predictor-Lotto) into the
With Puerto unraveling, Basso may race Lombardia
Bettini hopes for a Lombardia win
DiLuca may not be in Lombardia on Saturday… but he really doesn't have to be
DiLuca may not be in Lombardia on Saturday... but he really doesn't have to be


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Soil Does best in moist (even very moist), slightly acidic soils.
Pruning Naturally dense habit requires little pruning; may be trimmed after new growth has hardened off in late spring, though.
Uses Hedges; edgings; foundation plantings; specimen; containers; mass planting.
Growing Tips Tolerates shade well, but leaf color and overall foliage coverage is better with at least some sun. Grows most rapidly where moisture is consistently available.