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The state of the art of microservices in 2020
The architecture style of microservices is an approach to developing a single application as a set of small services, each operating according to a distinct process and interacting with lightweight mechanisms, often using a HTTP source API. These services are based on business opportunities and can be deployed independently using fully automated deployment equipment. There is an absolute minimum of centralised management of these services, which can be written in different programming languages and using different storage technologies.
James Lewis and Martin Fowler (2014) [6]
The global market for microservices in the cloud is expected to grow by 22.5% in 2020, while the US market is expected to maintain its growth rate at 27.4% [5]. The trend is that developers are giving up local applications in favour of the cloud. It will help companies minimize downtime, optimize resources and reduce infrastructure costs. Experts also predict that by 2022 90% of all applications will be developed using the micro-services architecture [5]. This article will help you discover what micro-services are and how companies currently use them.
What are micro-services?
Micro-services are widespread all over the world. But what are micro-services? A microservice is an architecture model where an application is based on a set of small interconnected services. They are based on the principle of a single responsibility which, according to Robert C. Martin, brings together things that change for the same reason and shares things that change for different reasons [2]. The micro-services architecture has also been expanded to include freely connected services that can be designed, deployed and maintained independently of each other [2].
Moving away from monolithic architecture
Microservices are often compared to traditional monolithic software architecture. In a monolithic architecture, the software is designed to stand on its own, i.e. the program components are interconnected and interdependent rather than just interconnected. In a closely related (monolithic) architecture, each component and its associated components must be present to execute or compile the code [7]. If an element needs to be updated, the entire application also needs to be rewritten.
This does not apply to applications that use a micro-services architecture. Since each module is independent, you can change it without affecting other parts of the program. This reduces the risk that a change in one element will lead to unexpected changes in other elements.
Companies may encounter problems if they cannot scale monolithic architecture, if their architecture is complex to modernise, or if its maintenance is too complex and costly [4]. The solution to this problem is to split a complex task into smaller, independently functioning elements.
Monolith of architecture versus microservices. The picture is from [3].
How developers around the world build their microservices
Microservices are known to improve scalability and performance. But are these the main reasons why developers around the world build their microservices? The research project State of Micro Services 2020 [1] discovered how developers around the world build their microservices and what they think of them. The report was prepared with the help of 660 microservice providers from Europe, North America, Central and South America, the Middle East, South-East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The table below shows the average valuation of emissions related to the maturity of micro-services [1].
Category Average valuation (of 5)
Creation of new projects 3.8
Maintenance and troubleshooting 3.4
Work efficiency 3.9
scalability issues 4.3
Dealing with performance issues 3.9
Teamwork 3.9
As can be seen from the table, most experts are satisfied with the micro-services to solve scalability problems. On the contrary, maintenance and problem solving seem to be a challenge for them.
According to the advanced technologies of their architecture, most experts use Javascript/Typescript (almost ⅔ microservices are created in these languages). Secondly, they mainly use Java.
Although there are many possibilities for using micro-services, most experts use Amazon Web Services (49%), followed by a dedicated server. In addition, 62% prefer AWS Lambda as a serverless solution.
Most of the micro-services used by the experts use the HTTP protocol for communication, followed by events and GPRPC. In addition, most experts use RabbitMQ to work with messages, followed by Kafka and Redis.
In addition, most people work with Continuous Integration (CI) micro-services. In the report, 87% of respondents used IC solutions such as GitLab CI, Jenkins, or GitHub Actions.
The most popular debugging solution for 86% of respondents is magazine maintenance, with 27% of respondents using journals ONLY.
Finally, most people believe that micro-services architecture will become the standard for more complex systems or upstream development.
Cases of successful use of microservices
Many companies have converted their monolithic architecture into micro-services.
In 2001, development delays, encryption problems and interdependencies between services prevented Amazon from meeting the growing scalability requirements of its user base. Faced with the need to rethink its monolithic architecture from top to bottom, Amazon has dissected its monolithic applications into small independent and service-oriented applications [3][9].
In 2001 Amazon decided to switch to micro-services, years before the term became fashionable. This change has forced Amazon to develop various solutions to support micro-services architectures such as Amazon AWS. Thanks to rapid growth and adaptation to micro-services, Amazon has become the most valuable company in the world, with the first market capitalization in the world to reach the highest level of profitability. July 2020 is estimated at $1,433 billion [8].
Netflix launched its film streaming service in 2007 and faced scale problems in 2008. They faced significant corruption in the database and were unable to send DVDs to their members within three days [10]. This was the starting point when they recognised the need to move from a few failure points (such as relational databases) to a more scalable and reliable distributed system in the cloud. In 2009 Netflix started the migration of its monolithic architecture to micro-services. They started migrating their non-usable film encoding platform to work as independent microservices in the cloud [11]. The transition to micro-services has enabled Netflix to solve scale-up problems and service interruptions. Nevertheless, they have been able to reduce their costs because the cost of a cloud per stream has been replaced by the cost of the data centre [10]. Today Netflix transmits about 250 million hours of content per day to more than 139 million subscribers in 190 countries [11].
After running Uber, they had trouble developing and implementing new features, fixing bugs and quickly integrating new changes. They therefore decided to switch to micro-services and split the application structure into micro-services in the cloud. In other words: Uber has created a micro-service for every function, such as passenger and travel management. The switch to micro-services has brought many advantages, such as a clear vision of each service owner. This has improved speed and quality, allowing teams to focus only on the services they need to develop, update virtual services without disrupting other services, and achieve more robust fault tolerance [11].
It's all about scalability!
China is a good example of how scalability can be guaranteed. With its huge population, China has had to adapt, create and test new solutions to meet new challenges to some extent. Statistics show that China currently serves around 900 million Internet users [14]. On a single day in 2019 (the equivalent of Black Friday in China), Alibaba's various trading platforms recorded a peak of 544.00 trades per second. The total amount of data processed by the Alibaba cloud was about 970 petabytes [15]. So what is the impact on the technology?
Many technologies arose from the need to solve the problem of scalability. For example, Tars was founded by Tencent in 2008 and made available to the Linux Foundation in 2018. It is widely used and has improved over the last ten years [12]. Tarsus is free software, and many organizations make important contributions and expand the capabilities and value of the structure [12]. Tars supports multiple programming languages, including C++, Golang, Java, Node.js, PHP and Python, and can quickly build systems and automatically generate code, so the developer can focus on business logic to achieve operational efficiency Tars is used in Tencent's business areas, such as QQ, WeChat social networking, financial services, IT, automobiles, video, online gaming, cards, application market, security and many other key companies. In March 2020, the Tars project was transformed into the TARS Foundation, an open source fund for micro-services, which aims to support the rapid growth of contributions and membership in a community focused on creating an open platform for micro-services [12].
Don't forget to check out the new free Linux Foundation Building Microservice Platforms with TARS training.
Isabella Ferreira is a supporter of the TARS Foundation, an open source fund for cloud-based microservices under the Linux Foundation.
Mark Shan is Chairman of the Tencent Open Source Alliance and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the TARS Foundation.
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Understanding Microservices and Their Impact on Companies
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https://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html#footnote-etymology
https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/monolithic-architecture
https://ycharts.com/companies/AMZN/market_cap
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https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/completing-the-netflix-cloud-migration
https://blog.dreamfactory.com/microservices-examples/.
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/2020/03/the-tars-foundation-the-formation-of-a-microservices-ecosystem/
https://medium.com/microservices-architecture/top-10-microservices-framework-for-2020-eefb5e66d1a2
https://www.statista.com/statistics/265140/number-of-internet-users-in-china/
https://interconnected.blog/china-scale-technology-sandbox/
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Speaking about being biracial, the singer said she had "no place to really fit in" when she was young.
"It was very difficult. People don't really know about it because I've always been pretty vague, but I've alluded to it in certain songs," Carey explained. "'Close My Eyes' from Butterfly talks about it: 'I was a wayward child with the weight of the world that I held deep inside / Life was a winding road, and I learned many things little ones shouldn't know.' A lot of intense stuff happened to me when I was a kid, that people who grew up with money or with families that weren't fully dysfunctional will never quite understand."
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"My mom chose to live in predominantly white neighborhoods, where people had more money than us, and I didn't fit in there," she continued. "Or in an all black neighborhood when my parents were together; as a mixed couple, they had problems there. So there was not one safe place. But eighth grade was also me being like, 'Oh, my gosh, I like this kid, and he doesn't like me. That's the end of the world!' You know that feeling. When we were writing that song, I just had this melancholy thing in me, and it still felt young. I just know what I felt like."
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Examining in/appropriate appropriation/s – Fellows' seminar by Andrew van der Vlies
"To speculate that something has shifted in relation to the politics of representation in contemporary culture is not to downplay the significance of long-standing activism over the appropriation of life narratives, images and indigenous knowledge from those with less cultural and political capital by those with greater," said STIAS fellow Andrew van der Vlies, of the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. "Nonetheless, it seems there is an ever-more evident inclination abroad to question who might tell what kinds of stories, and an alertness to the imperative to avoid misrepresentation."
STIAS fellow Andrew van der Vlies during his seminar on 29 August 2019
Van der Vlies was presenting some initial ideas from his book project, entitled In/appropriate Personae: Contemporary Cultural Production and the Politics of Appropriation, which aims to examine the growing awareness of the politics of representation and ethics of appropriation in contemporary culture, in relation to depictions of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality in particular.
"My book will explore these questions and their artistic and political ramifications through case studies from literature, fine art, and public-sphere debates in South Africa and the United States, two contexts in which these issues have played out with perhaps comparable force and resonance (on account of histories of racial segregation and of uncommonly lively debates about constitutional protection for free expression)."
In his presentation, subtitled On a statue, or twelve false starts,Van der Vlies focused on three South African works of art that have elicited controversy in recent years – a sculpture of Sarah Baartman, by Willie Bester, that became a focus of student protests at the University of Cape Town in 2015 and 2016; Brett Murray's The Spear, a painting of former President Jacob Zuma; and the Mandela Corpse painting produced in 2010 by Yiull Damaso, a satirical reworking of the 17th century painting The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp, by Rembrandt van Rijn.
"I'm hoping to use these and other examples to take the measure of debates about cultural appropriation in the present," he said.
He focused in detail on the Sarah Baartman sculpture.
"Baartman was a Khoi woman born in 1789. She was taken to Britain in 1810 where she was displayed on the freak-show circuit as the 'Hottentot Venus'," he explained. Later she was taken to Paris and similarly displayed; she fell into penury, became fatally ill, and died in 1816. The cast of her body was displayed in Paris's Musée de l'Homme until the 1970s. There were requests for the return of her remains to South Africa from the 1950s. She was eventually buried with full state honours in South Africa in 2002.
The sculpture of Baartman, made from salvaged metal, was displayed in the Engineering Library at UCT and became the focus of protests when students covered her with a kanga and headcloth during the Rhodes Must Fall protests in 2015, and again during a procession to mark the one-year anniversary of those protests, in 2016. Student activists felt that the statue participated in the ongoing construction of black women as racialised/sexualised other.
The artist, who identifies himself as black, or as 'so-called Coloured', presented a different viewpoint.
"Bester saw himself as having put Baartman back together – challenging the environment that had made her a spectacle. Bester said he saw the image as empowering," said Van der Vlies, who quoted Bester as saying, in an interview:
"I identified with what she went through [….]. I want it to be uncovered because it was not meant to be covered up [….]. I specifically made that sculpture so that one can confront who we are and that should be acceptable … To cover it up is to do exactly what one had fought against."
Van der Vlies also described the response of the university. Bester's Baartman sculpture was displayed in the Ritchie Gallery on UCT's Hiddingh Campus in late 2018, uncovered but alongside the cloth with which it had been draped, the messages that had been pinned onto the kanga by the student protesters, and information about the long history of the gaze to which the bodies of women of colour in positions of slavery, servitude, or spectacularising display had been subjected. A poem by Diana Ferrus, 'I've come to take you home', written about the repatriation of Baartman's remains, played as a sound installation. At the end of 2018 it was announced that the former Jameson Hall (which had been Memorial Hall for a period) would be renamed Sarah Baartman Hall.
Appropriate can mean many things
"Speaking about the production of—and engagements with—cultural texts in this time and place necessarily involves grappling with questions about the appropriateness or otherwise of representation; 'appropriate' can, after all, be an adjective and a verb," continued Van der Vlies. "I'm aiming to think about the entanglement of discourses of propriety and the proprietary, and, of necessity, meditate on the politics of positionality, including my own."
"Writers, artists, filmmakers, teachers and curators are increasingly alert to questions about who might be appropriate to tell which kinds of stories, how, and for what audiences. But it's a contested environment that opens up many questions. Amidst calls for propriety over representations of our past, who decides whether art offends? Who gets to say something is dangerous? There will always be people for whom a representation is dangerous."
"I'm suspicious of absolute claims to what is appropriation in any particular moment," he added. "I think it's the responsibility of artists and intellectuals to question absolute claims, even if it's uncomfortable."
"I'm interested in unpacking the debates around the reception of cultural products," he said, but admitted to the complexity of the task at hand: "I find my thinking is unsettled. It is necessary to unsettle the status quo, but the unsettling has also occasionally to be unsettled. What I'm calling 'unsettling work' sometimes settles, too easily, and without irony. The challenge is to remain determined to unsettle even that with which one might, in large measure, sympathise."
Among the complex questions Van der Vlies highlighted and hopes to address in his work are the following:
Do we require art that empowers in certain times and places? Is empowerment a function of art?
What does the violation of art say about those who violate?
What is the role of custodians of institutional spaces? If an image was placed somewhere else would it provoke the same response?
What is the meaning behind the transference of pre-existing elements into a new ensemble – like the reclaimed metals in the Baartman statue?
Is the burning of artworks an act of re-appropriation?
Is this a convenient prompt to consider the relationship between post-colonialism and post-modernism? How are the legacies of post-modernism responsible for the impasse that arises in debates about artistic freedom and the appropriateness of representations of others' experience?
What do these debates have to say about current global discourses of right and left populism?
Michelle Galloway: Part-time media officer at STIAS
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Google is a brand and well known by most of the users, it offers multiple products and services to the large group of the population. The features of the same are highly advanced and thus liked by the users. Well! This was about its one section. Do you know the other side of the Google? No? Then go for the next stanza.
Like other webmail or email clients, Google also retains the support team, but that one is different from the others because it is Google phone number. This is the advanced feature which enables the users to communicate with the person and hence, prevent the virtual assistance.
Now, you may wonder, how and why people ask "Give Me Google Phone Number? There are ample of reasons behind the same and they are provided below which will help you to access the entire elements of Google.
Why We Ask Give Me Google Phone Number to the Google Assistant?
Google offers multiple products and the same are maintained by various departments. So, to resolve the issues of particular product, you will require the assistance of the concerned department and also you won't prefer the virtual assistance. Hence, Google keeps the persons in the respective department, so that they can fix the issues of the users completely.
The next one is, the geeks know the issues and cause very well. So, their solution eradicates the issues completely.
They use advanced techniques and analytic skills to fetch the best solution of any issues.
How to contact Google Experts by Asking Give me Google Phone Number to the Google Assistant?
There is one way to get in touch with them and i.e. Google Phone Number. Through this number, you can communicate with the Live Person and can get the solution to any issues. Their effort and dedication towards the work made the users to access the Google in a solace manner. Google filtered the number as per the region, so you can also look for the same on the official website of the Google.
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Yes, tomorrow Friday May 1st, 2009 I will be on Skeptically Speaking, a radio show here in Edmonton AB at 6PM MST. I will be on during a segment called "Speaking Up". And boy, do I have a lot to say about this. (Do I really have to have a time limit on this, Desiree?) Plus, after my segment, Desiree and Sean (the two awesome hosts of said show) will be interviewing Dr. Ming Hsu, discussing how your brain reacts when it has to make decisions.
That is so cool Jill! I soooo want to photoshop that poster with some REAL skeptics!
@Jill: aha, well then I'll just Tweet at you….ok that didn't quite come out the way I planned it.
Hey, it's got Tom Arnold, so it has to be good. In Opposite World, at least.
@Amy: I know, right? I was itching to do that myself. Tom Arnold? Seriously?
Ha, Tom Arnold and the guy from Wings.
It would take a supernatural event to make this movie appealing.
The only way this movie could be saved is if the whole thing turns out to be a hallucination.
Yeah, when I first heard of that movie, I felt like I got slapped upside the face.
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I'm skeptical of anything Tom Arnold does.
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Mubarak: Autocrat With Chutzpah
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, writing last week on health care reform, said "There's a point at which realism shades over into weakness."
But as I read his column, my brain seemed to wander, not to health care, but to another major news event of that week: The visit to the White House of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
But why thoughts of this 81-year-old autocrat? Krugman said it: "There's a point at which realism shades over into weakness."
I don't mean that I think Obama should deploy American Crusaders into the Land of the Nile to establish a liberal, pro-Western, American-style democracy. George W. Bush tried that in Iraq and we've seen how well that adventure turned out. That's not realism; that's hubris.
What I mean is that for a generation, the U.S. has generously bribed Egypt year in and year out for not again trying to invade Israel. And what Egypt has to show for our trouble is, well, zero, zilch, nada. Egypt has done next to nothing to further an Israeli-Palestinian agreement. And it has done nothing to improve the economic, social or political life of its people. Yet we persist in repeating what we've always done and expecting a different result.
Some would say that's a great definition of insanity. But that's what has passed for realism in our foreign policy in the Middle East.
Today's rationale for keeping the big bucks flowing to the Mubarak regime is that Egypt will play a major role in finally ending the Israel-Palestine disaster. Except that we've seen this movie before. We seem to have a knack for reaching out for the slenderest of reeds to hang onto.
During the years I lived in Cairo, I witnessed the rhetoric of the State-controlled media. It was and is institutionalized government propaganda – always anti-Israeli and often anti-Semitic. (Israel and the Palestinian Authority, of course, constantly add fuel to the fire with their own propaganda machines.)
But the Mubarak regime has repeatedly used the Israeli-Palestinian impasse as a fig-leaf to obscure its own monumental deficiencies – and later used Bush's "war on terror" mantra as an even more dramatic cover story. Does this sound like the job description of an honest broker?
I also read translations of some of the revisionist-history textbooks used in Egyptian schools – proclaiming, for example, Egypt's "victory" over the Israelis in Sinai. I talked with upper-class, well-educated college students and members of my own staff about the Holocaust. Some of them denied it altogether; others said it resulted in the destruction of only one million Jews.
And what's been done with all of our aid? Well, to say Egypt is an economic and political basket-case would be generous to basket-cases. Its continuing stagnation is the result of a toxic combination of overpopulation, lack of proper education and training, the effect of decades of failed economic policies, rampant corruption, and the absence of anything remotely resembling good governance.
Egypt has received more than $50 billion in military and economic aid from the United States since 1977, when it agreed to a peace treaty with Israel. Yet, long before the world collapsed into the current recession, unemployment in Egypt was off the charts – well over 10 per cent in most years. Kids who graduated from schools like Cairo University and the American University in Cairo – many with Master's degrees – were driving taxis for tourists. And now the tourism industry is on life support. Many other Egyptians have joined the growing brain-drain to Europe and North America.
And the worst is probably yet to come. The labor force is growing at a far faster rate than the demand for labor. So the future looks even bleaker for Egpyt's 80 million people.
In recent years, Mubarak and his Ministers have made countless speeches about entrepreneurism and how it is alive and well in Egypt. But entrepreurism appears to be only for those with lots of time on their hands. For example, what should be a relatively simple task of starting a new business can and does take months lost in the mother of all Byzantine bureaucracies. And if you happen to be one of those aspiring entrepreneurs, but you don't happen to belong to one of the country's "good families," you can forget about getting a loan from any bank. Banks in Egypt lend to people who don't need loans.
Corruption – a pandemic in the Middle East – is everywhere in Egypt. Some of it qualifies as petty corruption, like bribing the phone company manager to turn your phone on or paying off the supervisor at the police academy to say that you are three inches taller that you actually are to meet the Academy's requirements.
But there's also big-time corruption, like unlawfully importing toxic agricultural chemicals, and relabeling them to secure a higher mark-up. The American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt reports that corruption in the import-export supply chain adds about $30 to every single transaction. That makes Egypt uncompetitive and its Customs officials comfortable.
But it's political corruption that will be Mubarak's legacy. In preparation for his visit to Washington, the aging strongman granted an interview with Charlie Rose. Here are a few of the choice statements Mubarak made, with a straight face, and largely unchallenged by the sychophantic Rose:
Mubarak: Look, we are a large country. And we have stability here. We enjoy stability…It is not on my mind to have my son inherit me…the choice and election of the president is open to the population in its entirety. It is the decision of the population to elect who would represent people. It is not for me to decide that. It is the decision of the people to elect the person who they trust… There is freedom of speech…The more good opposition the more stronger our (inaudible).
Rose: Do you think the Bush administration was right to promote democracy in the region in the way that it did?
Mubarak: No…We do not accept pressures in politics or in interior domestic politics from any administration with due respect to all governments. We do not accept pressures on the pretext of domestic reform. It has to be home-grown. Reform has to be home-grown. And it is what the people demand…to accept pressure from an administration or another, no. This pressure might be against the interest of the people. I respond to the demands of the people…Democracy is there in Egypt. We have freedoms that were not there before. We have an election of the president. We have freedom of the press. We have about 600 dailies and weeklies, give or take…We are doing reforms based on the demands of the people.
Rose: It is said that (Obama) will not publicly discuss human rights. He does not want it to be an issue, but that he will bring it up in private.
Mubarak: Your concept of human rights is a merely political one. Human rights are not only political. You have social rights. You have the right to education. You have the right to health. You have the right to a job. There are many other rights. And we are doing well on these fronts…We have a human rights commission…There have been many sentences against people who have breached human rights. It is not merely a political concept. It is social. It is health.
Rose: Much is written about the fact that in the election, the most — the last election in which there were more candidates, that since then, you have moved away and that you have cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mubarak: These people whom you are talking about cannot form a political party, because our constitution maintains and stipulates that a political party shall never be based on a religious basis. They cannot form a political party. And this is part and parcel of the constitution as amended by the people. But the Muslim Brotherhood are there as (members of Parliament) as individual (members) within the Parliament. We have about 80 of them.
Rose: You've had emergency rule since 1981. Emergency rule. You should be confident enough in your leadership not to have to….
Mubarak: You do not grasp fully the emergency law. It has been there since the days of the British occupation. And it used to be called marshal law. We confine our recourse to the emergency law, to terrorist crimes. Otherwise it is the rule of law under the normal laws through the…courts of law.
Rose: But is it necessary?
Mubarak: We have two choices, either to issue a law to combat terrorism, which will be a permanent law. It was refused because nobody wanted a permanent law. And the second choice is emergency law that will be used exclusively against terrorist crimes. We have not used it for any intent to close down a newspaper or to contain or limit any movement, any freedom of movement.
Rose: The history of Egypt for the last 28 years is the history of one man, Hosni Mubarak…What is your legacy? What are you proud of?
Mubarak: What I will leave behind is that I have been working for — in public service for 60 years. I took part — I saw action. I rebuilt the country after military action. We revamped the entire infrastructure of Egypt. We are improving education. We are expanding education. We are building universities. We are doing many, many other things.
Well, one of the most credible truth-tellers about Egypt is a new organization called Voices for a Democratic Egypt (VDE), on whose Board of Advisors sits one of Egypt's most courageous human rights advocates -- Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim, founding chair of the Cairo's Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies.
Ibrahim was arrested in 2000 for accepting a grant from the European Union and using the funds for "defaming Egypt's national character." He was imprisoned by the Mubarak regime, acquitted in a second trial, and now lives in exile in the U.S.
VDE aims to provide a forum for activism and a strong platform and voice for those striving for democratic transformation in Egypt. The day before Mubarak had his photo-op with Obama, VDE held a news conference in Washington to unveil a new report on what's really happening in Egypt.
Here's some of what the report had to say:
Egypt's human rights record over the last two years has shown demonstrable regression on all fronts. A state of emergency has been in force since the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981 that suspends basic constitutional protections, and was renewed in May 2008 despite presidential campaign promises to the contrary.
Dozens of torture cases were documented in 2008 and 2009, including several resulting in death. The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) has documented at least 40 cases of torture since 2008, at least 14 of which ended in death by police officers, more than five times as 2007. It is widely known that most torture cases go unreported and undetected and that torturers largely go unpunished except in a few highly publicized cases. And individual cases of torture at police stations continue to be reported with little to no response from the authorities in investigating incidents or holding the perpetrators accountable.
Mubarak boasted to Charlie Rose about the growth in free media. But last year, the Arab League -- under the leadership of the Egyptian Minister of Media – voted for a new measure "regulating television, radio, and satellite media."
That document is now paralleled by an Egyptian draft law to "regulate" visual, audio, and electronic media. It prohibits satellite television broadcasts that "negatively affect social peace, national unity, public order, and public morals," or "defame leaders, or national and religious symbols" of Arab states. Egypt's state-controlled Nilesat satellite subsequently dropped three channels that broadcast programs featuring government critics and victims of human rights abuses.
Then there's the continuing harassment of journalists and owners of media outlets. Five newspaper editors were prosecuted for insulting President Mubarak and / or affiliates of the NDP (Mubarak's National Democratic Party). Plainclothes police shut down the Cairo News Company (CNC) after it supposedly supplied Al Jazeera with images of anti-government protests. An Al Jazeera reporter was convicted of harming "the dignity of the country" with a documentary about torture in Egyptian police stations. Cairo security officers arrested several journalists and bloggers who used the social-networking website Facebook to call for strikes; and security officers in New Cairo stripped and beat one of them for the same activity.
The authorities in Alexandria arrested fourteen members of the "6 April Youth" group and jailed them for two weeks without charge after they sang patriotic songs and refused to disperse when ordered. Several bloggers have been arrested and "disappeared," including a number affiliated with the April 6 movement, several Islamists, and a Christian blogger. Another blogger was incarcerated for over three months and subjected to torture, including electrical shock, suspension, mental abuse, and solitary confinement. And one other blogger continues to be incarcerated for charges of "insulting religion" and the president.
Laws affecting a state of emergency and suspending normal constitutional protections continue to undermine the judiciary notably through: (1) imposition of "administrative" detention orders which supersede normal court decisions; (2) trial of civilians in military courts; (3) so-called Hisba lawsuits
brought by "private citizens" affiliated with the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) against dissidents, writers, artists, etc.; and (4) parallel court systems created through emergency legislation, including state security courts and emergency courts that do not afford due process.
An example of prosecutions of civilians in exceptional courts was the trial of individuals in December 2008 who had participated in the April 6 national strike. In December 2008, the state security emergency court convicted 22 defendants from that strike. Trial in this exceptional court involves denial of due process as well as the right to appeal, and has been decried by Egyptian and international human rights organizations
There was continued repression of community organizers, NGOs, and individuals exercising their internationally-protected rights to freedom of association. Several NGOs were dissolved in 2007 and 2008 on arbitrary grounds and without due process, including for "endangering national security" and receipt of foreign funding.
Security officials blocked several meetings held by human rights organizations and acted to block international activities of NGOs.Egypt has also acted to block substantive efforts at the enforcement of human rights through participation in international bodies such as the UN Human Rights Council.
The climate for Egypt's largest religious minority, Coptic
Christians, remained difficult. In February 2008, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled in favor of twelve defendants seeking to return to Christianity after previously converting to Islam, but ruled that their national ID cards should indicate that they "used to be Muslim," which ensures continued hardship and discrimination against the converts.
Other religious minorities, including the Qur'anists, an offshoot of Sunni Islam, and Baha'is, continue to be the targets of discrimination. Baha'is are not allowed to build houses of worship or practice their faith publicly.
The government continues to stall on the passage of a national uniform law on construction of houses of worship that would remedy the hardship Copts face in building or repairing their churches. Copts – who represent about five per cent of the population -- continue to suffer from discrimination in public employment and are underrepresented in high leadership positions. And Coptic history continues to be conspicuously absent from educational textbooks.
Don't you wonder why Charlie Rose failed to challenge so many of Mubarak's answers? Like "Democracy is there in Egypt." Or "There is freedom of speech." Or "I respond to the demands of the people." Or "We are doing reforms based on the demands of the people." Or "We have a human rights commission…There have been many sentences against people who have breached human rights."
I think the Washington Post had it just about right when it said in an editorial on the eve of the Mubarak-Obama meeting, "Middle East 'realists,' who seem to abound in the new administration, argue that Mr. Mubarak's help is needed to deliver an Israeli-Palestinian settlement and to contain pro-Iranian radical groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas. But it's likely that they, like many U.S. policymakers before them, will be disappointed by the disparity between Mr. Mubarak's words and actions. For several years now, the Egyptian regime has been promising Washington that it will broker an end to the rift between Hamas and the more moderate Palestinian Authority, end the smuggling of weapons to militants in Gaza and obtain the release of an Israeli soldier held hostage since 2006. It has failed on all three counts."
WAPO concluded: "No amount of coddling by Mr. Obama is likely to change the behavior of Mr. Mubarak, who has 28 years of experience in deflecting U.S. initiatives…If Mr. Obama focuses his attention today on Mr. Mubarak and his dubious diplomatic contributions -- as opposed to the Egyptian people and their legitimate demands for political change -- the president will ignore the lessons of history."
I hope Obama will not ignore the lessons of history. I hope he will not be so focused on Egypt's potential to help with the Israeli-Palestinian debacle that he will put Mubarak's widespread repression on a back burner somewhere. I am not proposing a do-over of the blunt-force-trauma approach of George W. Bush. I am suggesting that our aid dollars give us considerable leverage; yet there is a sense that Mubarak now thinks we need him more than he needs us.
That's a betrayal of hundreds of very courageous Egyptian advocates for human rights and good governance who put their lives and livelihoods on the line every day. The least our president should do is recognize their existence, their sacrifice, and their contributions to "change we can believe in."
We ignore them at our peril. Because, if participative democracy ever comes to Egypt, it will be these men and women who will drive it.
Meanwhile, as Krugman wrote, ""There's a point at which realism shades over into weakness."
The author served as a State Department and USAID consultant in Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East and North Africa. He lived in Cairo for several years.
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We responded to recent State mandate that World History become standard part of the public school curriculum at all levels. The Department of History in the School of Liberal Arts at the University of Washington offers to sponsor year long seminar devoted to faculty high school and middle school teachers. The aim of this effort is to update the teachers on new trends in the field of history involve them in digital innovations providing virtual fields trips and identify new resources to help them expand on the teaching of history at all levels.
A second intent is to expand dialogues among professionals in history on the discussion of curriculum revisions teaching techniques and computer assisted instructional technologies used in the course of history. This effort is made to complement not replace existing programs and to offer expanded partnerships between the University and the public schools.
Reason for Grant. The State required that all public schools include World History at all levels. The Department of History at the local university created enrichment seminars for faculty and teachers to meet this mandate. This Humanities Focus Grant application responds to recent State mandate that all public schools enhance and expand the teaching of World History to all levels.
The grant application represents our response by designing year long seminar to provide instructional support and identify enhanced history materials for faculty and teachers in our State public school system. In response to the State mandate that World History be made part of the standard curriculum in public school at all levels the Department of History at the University of Washington offered to sponsor year long seminar for faculty and teachers. The seminar will be offered to the teachers and faculty in the Seattle Public Schools and will focus on the topic of World History Trends. The goal of the seminar is to offer opportunities for dialogue and partnership among faculty and teachers in history.
The dialogues will focus on the recent trends in research in the area of world history; revisions of the view of regional histories; the ways in which the University's world history program has analyzed the latest developments in world history and translated it into undergraduate curriculum; and the methodologies through which the lessons learned at this level have implications for instruction in the public schools. Thus the seminar will begin with discussion of scholarship and research and move to consideration of strategies for translating scholarship into curriculum. The seminar will complement the current efforts of the School's outreach program History For All and expand its reach into history and social science classrooms. It also parallels the efforts of the campus's Center for Partnerships CFP to establish collaborative efforts with Seattle public school teachers so that students in this overwhelmingly immigrant dominated school district are better equipped with the skills that they will need to be eligible for admission to college in general and the University of Washington particular.
The University of Washington has well established program of outreach to Seattle public schools already in place. However the funding for the initiative outlined here is not available from local sources alone. The project activities will include.
A two semester series of seminars with high school teachers and History Faculty three sessions per semester to discuss recent research in key areas of World History and strategies for disseminating research into curriculum. Development of History For All Workshops to support teaching of World History in public schools. Development of curriculum packets to complement History For All workshops.
Instructional Technology seminars are offered to help teachers relate to and use the latest techniques in online education.
Anticipated Institutional Matching Funds. Services in kind and $21,493.
The purpose of the Expanding History in the Schools program is to provide opportunities for public school teachers and University faculty in the humanities to collaborate on meeting the new State mandate to offer World History at all levels. Develop new training and orientation program for middle and high school teachers and faculty that incorporates new trends and research in World History. Recruit middle and high school teachers to participate in year long series of seminars directed at upgrading their skills and competencies in World History.
Organize collaborative orientation program for teachers and faculty prior to the summer semester at the University. Hire outside evaluator to orchestrate pre and post testing of teachers and faculty in conjunction with program planning and launch. Attract high quality University faculty to participate in the program and provide the curriculum for the teachers.
Recruit orient and assign key University faculty to the project prior to teachers coming on site for seminars. Review with University faculty the content methodologies and instructional technologies required to assist teachers complete the seminar. Develop series of seminars to support teaching of World History and strategies for translating research into new curriculum for public schools.
Develop curriculum packets podcasts and interactive programming for use outside of the University seminars with collaborating partners.
Our year long seminar programs will follow the academic calendar of the University of Washington. Full description of workshop topics are offered in Appendix A. Curriculum vitae for the seminar leaders are attached in Appendix B. We project three meetings quarter focusing respectively on Fall Quarter.
The first session will focus on the question "What is World History. And will be followed by two sessions on "South America in the World.
The Center for Partnerships CFP at the University of Washington operates broad based outreach program to 12 classrooms in Seattle area. The program includes language arts mathematics biological sciences; the arts; computer science and advanced placement courses that help students perform and meet State standards especially in the humanities. The History For All program that receives major funding and in kind services from the University's CFP. CFP fully supports the World History seminar and has agreed to provide financial support use of facilities and transportation fees that are linked to waivers for graduate students assigned to the project and teachers in the program.
NEH Focus Grant Proposal funds to will be used to support editorial work and web site development used to produce the curricular modules that are produced during the workshops. CFP will also work closely with the Department of History and History For All to recruit teacher participants in the project from the Seattle Public Schools and Redmond Schools. We will also work with Faith Based Schools in the areas. Representatives of several schools and the public schools administrators will meet as Task Force governing all work.
Through this network CFP will provide institutional support to ensure that we recruit representative group of high school and middle school teachers. Seminar leaders will be responsible for developing course content testing students and providing feedback from dialogues for the overall program evaluation. The contact person will be your main contact point to the project development team. All decisions must be cleared through the team contact person and project manager.
Subordinate team members should not be contacted directly unless cleared by the team leader.
We plan to contract an outside consultant to evaluate and provide objective input for the final reports to school executives. It will be the responsibility of the evaluator to prepare pre seminar questionnaires; seminar evaluation forms and help set measures for performance with Department of History personnel involved in the project. Because there is partnership arrangement between the University and the schools we envision collaborative effort at defining measures of performance for teachers and feedback tools.
Second intent is to reach students at the middle school high school and undergraduate levels for feedback on the performance of our teachers. We will seek to measure the following.
Determine the effectiveness of the process and management of the program for the Department of History.
We also anticipate using measures for assessment that emerge from the dialogues with teachers that take place in our seminars. Because the History Department has only limited experience with this type of outreach initiative we will use the expertise of the consultant and the State Department of Education officials who are partnering with us in this program.
In order to ensure the diffusion of the innovations developed during our seminars with teachers and faculty we plan to develop curricular packets podcasts and online multimedia presentations of the archived work accomplished at the seminars. The curricular packets will provide models of the ideas and results that come from the completed seminars. We also plan to make available the documentation on the World History seminars.
Our newly created website will serve as an update source and resource moving forward for all teachers in the area involved with the World History. We have added graduate intern during the summer to provide editorial assistance during the project to ensure that curricular packets and presentations are prepared and ready for dissemination at the close of the phase program. The future objectives tied to dissemination include.
We plan to use our seminar experience to advance to larger regional and national program. This will be accomplished by attracting other partners and funding sources for the continuing upgrade of teacher and faculty skills and competencies in this area. Collaborating with the instructional technology program at the University to continue the exploration of new teaching methodologies use of advanced communications and information technology and adaptation of current innovations already in use by students e.g. instant messaging podcasts etc.
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Bank of Montreal (TSE: BMO), and its indirect wholly owned Chicago-based subsidiary BMO Harris Bank N.A, announced Monday it has signed a deal to acquire Bank of the West, a California subsidiary of BNP Paribas (OTC: BNPQY).
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Uruguay sent a team of 22 athletes to compete in the 2009 Summer Universiade held in Belgrade, Serbia from July 1 to July 12, 2009.

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It was through the miracle of the multiplication of screens that live streaming is able to provide that spiritual renewal took place.
Brazilian pastors, leaders, and officials of the Seventh-day Adventist Church met May 2-5 to accompany the "Crescendo em Graça—Santa Convocação" project (Growing in Grace—Holy Convocation), a training focused on spiritual renewal promoted by the Ministry of Christian Stewardship.
Connected through the project site, through YouTube, and also through official Facebook profiles, participants followed the event in churches, small groups, and at home with family members. About 100,000 people were reached by the messages of appeal to Christian fidelity presented by Pastor Alejandro Bullón, according to data from the digital media used for transmission.
The "Holy Convocation" program is an initiative of the General Conference Stewardship Department at the church's worldwide headquarters in Maryland, United States. It consists of training for pastors through lectures, seminars, and sermons. This year for the first-time volunteer church leaders and officials were invited to attend. The event mobilized about 700 pastors.
Pastor Ted Wilson, world leader of Adventists, sent a video message stating that he was happy for the initiative and was praying to God to bless the event. Pastor Erton Köhler, the church's leader for eight South American countries, also recorded a message expressing his encouragement and support for the program.
The auditorium of the central church of Recife, Pernambuco, was the place chosen for transmission. In a joint action of the Northeast Brazil Union Mission (Adventist headquarters for six Northeastern states) and the East Brazil Union Mission (headquarters for Bahia and Sergipe), the transmission reached mostly Adventist leaderships in the Northeast.
But pastors and leaders of the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo also followed the program. "We have decided to be a part of this project because we believe it would be an opportunity for spiritual growth for our pastors and leaders and for promoting Christian fidelity," said pastor Jander Oliveira, financial director of the South Espirito Santo Conference, Adventist headquarters for the south region of the state.
According to Luciano Salviano, director of Christian Stewardship for Bahia and Sergipe and one of the coordinators of the project, the primary purpose of the initiative was to bring the pastors together for an update on the issues surrounding fellowship with God as the basis for community development and the development of the mission of the church.
Each morning during the event there was training exclusively for pastors for this purpose. "It's only with a daily and real experience with God that pastors can inspire leaders and the church for a life of Christian faithfulness," said pastor Bullón in his opening remarks. It was the phrase that would sum up all training content, which focused on the ethical, moral, and spiritual attitudes of the pastoral ministry, based on daily devotion and genuine fellowship with God.
"I felt that we achieved the goal of having a great spiritual revival among us pastors and the leaders of our congregations," Salviano said. The result, he said, is a church with more consecrated, loving, united, faithful, and missionary-minded pastors who are more fully committed to the work of preaching the gospel.
For Josanan Júnior, leader of Christian Stewardship in the Northeast Brazil Union Mission, the second goal of the program was to inspire and prepare pastors and leaders for the Week of Christian Stewardship that began in thousands of churches in the union on Sabbath, May 5.
"It's expected that pastors and leaders who have been impacted by the power of the Holy Spirit will now bless the church through preaching and visiting families during Stewardship Week," said Júnior.
In preparation for the Stewardship program, one of the most inspiring moments of the Holy Convocation program was the consecration service held on Friday night, May 4. Each leader was challenged to visit four families in their community to share what touched their heart during Pastor Bullón's class.
The visitation will take place during this week of Christian stewardship, where the sermons presented will be based on the classes presented by Bullón. "This way the project will involve theory and practice," concluded Júnior. Throughout the challenge, churches and small groups spread out to various places and used Web-based interaction to show their commitment cards and to signal the desire to be part of the family visitation campaign.
Leaders who participated in the Web-based program described the experience as unforgettable. "Allowing churches to follow the message, to be connected, and to hear and learn about Christian faithfulness—it was too much blessing," said Israel Gomes from Saloá, Pernambuco. "The training was wonderful; it brought edification to all who have a commitment to the Word of God and prepared us to truly lead and live the gospel of Christ," added Paulo Sérgio, leader of the church of Cidade Nova, Feira de Santana neighborhood, Bahia.
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Issues such as trade, data localisation, H-1B visa and purchase of S-400 from Russia are likely to be discussed at the meeting between Modi and Trump on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit.
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Amid the ongoing crisis between Iran and the US, the world leaders will meet at the G-20 Summit in Osaka, Japan. The two-day summit will take place on June 28-29. The theme of this year's summit is "Human-centred future society". According to the official website of the summit, issues like digital economy, artificial intelligence, global health, ageing and marine plastic waste will be taken up for deliberation.
Laying the agenda for the summit, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on May 30 said that his country is determined to lead global economic growth by promoting free trade and innovation, achieving both economic growth and reduction of disparities, and contributing to the development agenda and other global issues with the SDGs at its core.
India has chosen former Union minister Suresh Prabhu to act as a representative of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister will be attending the summit for the sixth time. Modi is expected to hold bilateral meetings with US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin on the margins of the summit.
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Group of Twenty or G-20 is a forum for the governments and central bank governors from 19 countries and the European Union (EU) to prevent future international financial crises. It was formed in 1999 in the wake of the 1997 Asian currency crisis. The member countries of G-20 represent two-thirds of the world's population and around 85 per cent of its economy. The finance ministers and central bank governors of the G-20 countries meet twice a year. However, the G-20 Summit is held for once every year.
G-20 is basically the combination of G-7 and developing countries such as Brazil, India and China. G-7 consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The G-7 countries are the advanced economies in the world.
What to expect from Modi-Trump meeting
The issues like trade, data localisation, H-1B visa and purchase of S-400 from Russia are likely to be discussed at the meeting between Modi and Trump on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit.
India on June 16 imposed retaliatory tariffs on as many as 28 products, including almonds and walnuts, after the US raised duties on products including steel and aluminium. The US on June 1 also terminated India's designation as a beneficiary developing nation under the key Generalized System of Preference (GSP) trade programme. The Modi government also does not appear to be on the same page with Trump administration on the issue of data localisation.
The issue of oil import from Iran is also expected to be figured out in the meeting between the two leaders.
Modi, Xi and Putin to meet in Japan
China on June 24 confirmed that leaders of three countries – China, India and Russia – will hold their second trilateral summit in Osaka. The three leaders also met last year in Buenos Aires on the margins of G-20 summit.
Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Zhang Jun, addressing a press briefing on June 28 and without naming the US, said, "the international community has fully recognised the repercussions of unilateralism, protectionism and bullying practices".
The meeting between Xi, Modi and Putin holds significance as it will take place against the backdrop of the ongoing trade war between China and the US.
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Cornwall Live can reveal the names of the 16 pubs, restaurants and takeaways that have been officially ordered to improve their hygiene by Cornwall Council.
Last month we revealed that almost 30 restaurants, pubs, takeaways and food preparation businesses in Cornwall have been threatened with closure in the past year if they did not clean up their act.
Cornwall Council said at the time that it had issued formal enforcement actions with hygiene improvement notices to 27 premises in 2016/17 while another 255 premises were given written warnings demanding they improve their hygiene standards.
Enforcement activity included written warnings, improvement notices, formal cautions and prosecutions.
Cornwall Council said it has actively prosecuted a small minority of premises for breaches of food hygiene or standards over the past year. There were four prosecutions for food hygiene breaches and two prosecutions for food standard breaches which were concluded during the period of the report.
The food hygiene offences involved issues which included poor food handling practices, structural noncompliance, food storage issues, evidence of possible rodent infestation and a lack of adequate documented training.
A council spokesman said the level of compliance across food premises remained high across the county.
She said: "Publicity from prosecutions for food hygiene breaches has raised both awareness and food standards, including the prosecution of the owners of a public house in Porthcothan Bay near Padstow which was fined a total of £7,655 for falling foul of hygiene offences.
"More businesses are calling up for expert advice and we are able to provide greater support to the poorer performing establishments."
The owner of the Tredrea Inn in Porthcothan Bay, Jeremy Bowen, later said business was booming after the venue was redeveloped over the winter months.
Cornwall Council said that despite the health warning slapped onto the 27 premises, 97 per cent of the county's 8,652 food premises remained broadly compliant with food hygiene standards, according to the latest food safety enforcement report issued by the independent national Food Standards Agency (FSA).
However when we asked Cornwall Council to name the premises which received hygiene enforcement notices, Cornwall Live was told to file a request under the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act.
16 restaurants in Cornwall have been told to up their game or face further action when it comes to food preparation and hygiene standards.
Now that the FoI results have come back, we can reveal the restaurants, pasty factories, abbatoirs and pubs told to improve.
In its response, Cornwall Council said only 16 of the 27 premises could be revealed for hygiene infractions because the others had received formal enforcement notices on other grounds.
Some of the food standards prosecutions were for substitution of spirits where a more expensive branded spirit was substituted with a cheaper brand.
The council FoI team said: "The data below is for hygiene improvement notices only. The other premises received other types of enforcement notices and actions."
Curry Corner called Cornwall Live to say they were inspected in June 2017 and have since held a hygiene rating of four.
The owners of the Victoria Hotel have contacted Cornwall Live to say that they have since been re-inspected by food inspectors and have been given a hygiene rating of four.
Businesses can access information on Cornwall Council's website about information ranging from how to obtain a five star hygiene rating to food management systems, labelling and health and safety advice.


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Q: GridView Sorting without losing user modifications I have a bit of a unique problem. I am using a GridView to display information from a database. The requirements for this GridView are that it is always editable so I have TextBoxes in the ItemTemplates and want to save the values when a button is clicked.
That all works great.
The problem is I am trying to get sorting (and eventually paging) working and hitting problems. If I bind the GridView from an ObjectDataSource this obviously doesn't work because it rebinds the datasource before it sorts and I lose any modified values. If I bind the GridView from a DataTable and try to store it in a Session variable it still doesn't work because any modified values aren't in the session variable.
I'm really just looking for suggestions on what I could possibly do to sort (and page later) without losing values the user has modified. I realize most people don't modify the Gridview all at once so its a weird problem.

A: You could implement client-side sorting of the GridView which would have the added benefit of making your UI feel faster. There is a blog post on sorting with jQuery you could try, though I have not personally used the method suggested.
Alternatively, you could send the values back to the server via AJAX while editing and save them (temporarily) in the session, the database, or where it makes the post sense in your scenario. You would obviously need to retrieve them when sorting.
One final option would be to save your values on the postback caused by the sort command. Mostly you would do something along the lines of handling the OnTextChanged event of the TextBoxes and (as above) saving the values to a temporary store. You would not want these TextBoxes to autopostback - they would simply wait for a postback such as the one caused by your sorting event. In this scenario you could also use the temporary store you populate during the save event to avoid duplicating the effort.

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Thrillist recently released a statistic that the U.S. surpassed France as the world's biggest consumer of wine. Hard to believe? Today, there are more than 8.000 wineries in the U.S. so it's not surprising that wine bars in the DC area are becoming increasingly popular as a great destination for a romantic event or intimate gathering with friends. The list below of the top wine bars in the Capital City is in no particular order but gives visitors the opportunity to sample some of the best vintages from around the world, paired with sumptuous small plates.
Located in Cleveland Park, Bardeo is the wine bar section of the Ardeo & Bardeo modern American Bistro. The restaurant combines Asian, Mediterranean and French flavors in the cuisine while Bardeo maintains an extensive wine list including 140 varieties with rose, white, red and sparkling offerings available by the half or full glass. A rooftop deck provides the perfect setting on balmy summer evenings.
Located just south of the U Street Corridor, the Cork offers more than 50 wines by the glass and 160 bottles from smaller providers from around the world. And not to rest on its laurels as a wine bar, Cork's garlic-herb marinated fried chicken was selected as one of Bon Appetit's Top 10 Best Places for Fried Chicken.
This Upper Georgetown classic combines an extensive selection of wines with regional and contemporary French cuisine. On Monday and Wednesday nights, the Wine Bar offers live music sessions running from 7:00 pm - 10:00 p.m.
Located across from the historic Uptown Theater, this Cleveland Park favorite features more than 50 wines with locally acquired ingredients and a focus on sustainability and organic produce in the suggested accompanying plates. Sunday brunch from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm is an added treat.
Named for a historic Parisian Cabaret, the wine lounge in this Friendship Heights Bistro is open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings, offering a broad selection of wines and silent films.


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The Norwich Soup Movement Photography Book
Back In April I launched my first photography book which was a adaptation of an exhibition I produced about The Norwich Soup Movement food bank.
Just recently, and why this post has been delayed so long since the books launch - as I've been waiting for confirmation on this before writing this post, The Norwich Soup Movement photography book is now available for free at the Norfolk & Norwich Millennium Library. It was a long process to get the book into the library and now it's finally there, so money aside, anyone can pick up a copy and learn about The Norwich Soup Movement. You can find a copy in the Photography section as well as the Norwich Heritage section.
Money back in the picture - Since the launch The Norwich Soup Movement photography book has helped raise over £600 for the food bank, and can still be purchased from The Book Hive book shop and Aroma coffee bar in Norwich. All the proceeds go to The Norwich Soup Movement so if you'd like to make a purchase please visit either The Book Hive or Aroma. Please note that the book cannot be purchased online.
Ducking Punches performing at the launch evening at Aroma
Stephen Bumfrey from BBC Radio Norfolk posing with The Norwich Soup Movement photography book, just before I went on air to talk about the launch.
The Book Hive on the left and Aroma on the right, where the book can be purchased from.
Big thank you to Aroma for hosting the Launch and stocking the books, Ducking Punches for performing at the launch, The Book Hive for agreeing to take the book on, Stephen Bunfrey at BBC Radio Norfolk for having me on his show and to all that have purchased a copy and helped support this project, I can't find the words to express how much it means to us, but just know that it means a lot.
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