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20.06.2021: 2021 INTERNATIONAL GT OPEN Round 2 – Spa, June 18-20, 2021 Oman's Al-Faisal Al-Zubair and Spanish team-mate Andy Soucek won the first of the weekend's two GT Open races at Belgium's Spa-Francorchamps circuit in the Ardennes and now lead the 2021
2021 INTERNATIONAL GT OPEN
Round 2 – Spa, June 18-20, 2021
Oman's Al-Faisal Al-Zubair and Spanish team-mate Andy Soucek won the first of the weekend's two GT Open races at Belgium's Spa-Francorchamps circuit in the Ardennes and now lead the 2021 International GT Open series.
The Lechner Racing Team Porsche 911 GT3 R began the first of the weekend's two races from second place on the qualifying grid and Al-Zubair managed to overhaul Brendan Iribe's McLaren with around 20 minutes of the race to run to snatch a stunning victory.
In dry and sunny conditions, the 23-year-old Omani opened up a gap of over five seconds with 17 minutes of the race to run. Robbie Foley managed to pass Iribe in the TF Sport Aston Martin GT3 and claim second place with 14 minutes on the clock but Al-Zubair had extended the Lechner Racing Porsche's advantage to over nine seconds heading into the final 10 minutes.
Al-Zubair held on over the closing laps to pass the chequered flag 7.181 seconds in front of Foley, with Iribe finishing third in the Inception Racing McLaren after the 24-lap race.
Al-Zubair said: "This was a dream result. Honestly I could not be happier. The second race weekend and we come up with an overall win. The car felt great and Andy did a superb job of putting it second in qualifying. There were no complaints. From the start of the weekend until now was just a build up for this. A first overall win in Europe…I am very happy with it."
Yuki Nemoto brought the Vincenzo Sospriri Racing Lamborghini home in fourth place to keep his and Baptise Moulin's title challenge alive. Michele Beretta (Lamborghini) and Adam Carroll (Audi R8) were fifth and sixth after Loris Spinelli (Mercedes AMG) slipped down the leader board to eighth in the closing minutes.
Soucek qualified the Porsche on pole in the Pro category for the first of the weekend's two races and second on the entire grid behind the McLaren of Iribe and Ollie Millroy. A lap of 2min 17.235sec was sufficient to claim the spot ahead of the Schandorff/Beretta Lamborghini and the Aston of Michael Dinan and Foley.
Al-Zubair and Soucek also enjoyed a solid first practice session on Friday. They were classified fourth in the entire field and first in the Pro class after running for 19 laps and posting a best tour of 2min 19.176sec.
The duo faired even better in the second practice session and a best tour of 2min 19.377sec put them in second place in the entire field and again on top in the Pro class and nearly 1.4 seconds faster than the VSR Lamborghini crew of Frederick Schandorff/Michele Beretta.
"I think it was a very positive start," said Al-Zubair. "The car felt very positive to start with and then we made the necessary changes. In the first practice we were just getting used to the track. The second practice we almost did qualifying simulation and Andy did race simulation. The car felt pretty good."
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… Na domačo stran Poročanje v živo Seznam poker turnej WSOPE 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Event #7: €10,400 Main Event Championship
Alex Dovzhenko Eliminated in 11th Place (€67,500); Arnaud Mattern Eliminated in 10th Place (€90,000)
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We've just had our second double elimination in the last few hours, and this one has taken the tournament life of the final Frenchman left standing.
It began with Arnaud Mattern opening to 60,000, and Alex Dovzhenko three-bet shoved for 455,000. When the table folded around to Elio Fox, he announced a cold four-bet -- all in with his big stack. That brought it back to Mattern, and he quickly announced, "I'm all in," as well! That closed that closed the action, and it put he and Fox at risk.
As the cameras established their shots, the cards had to be held, but Mattern didn't want to slowroll. "I have them," he said. Fox asked again to make sure, and Mattern nodded. "I have them."
Mattern:
Dovzhenko:
Fox:
Mattern was smiling at the situation in front of him, poised to drag what was possibly the largest pot of the tournament. He was at risk for 1.455 million, but the news would soon turn sour. The dealer rolled out a devil of a flop, and just like that, Fox sprang into a huge lead with two to come. The turn was a big sweat for Mattern, and now the smirk returned -- although this smirk was a bit different than the showdown smirk. A more nervous smirk.
Dovzhenko was drawing dead, and he wasn't too happy about it.
Mattern needed to find the case ace or any diamond to drag the pot.
River: .
That's as blank as it gets, and Fox is going to spend the next few minutes stacking chips. Dovzhenko falls in 11th place, Mattern in 10th, and it's now Fox in front of the pack. He was fifth from the bottom when we had 16 players, but he now finds himself sitting behind about 3.9 million chips.
It's worth noting that this is Mattern's third consecutive cash in this WSOPE Main Event. In 2009, he ran top 23rd place (£25,918), and last year, he topped that with a 12th-place showing, good for £54,114. He's done even better this time around, but it's likely not going to feel good. He'll have to settle for €90,000 and a one-year delay on his final table appearance.
We're down to nine players, and we need to combine, but there's a hand in progress at the main table as we speak...
Alex Dovzhenko
Arnaud Mattern
Oznake: Alex DovzhenkoArnaud MatternElio Fox
Zmagovalec Elio Fox
Zmagovalna kombinacija a ♦10 ♠
Nagrada €1,400,000
Prijavnina €10,400
Nagradni sklad €5,692,800

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TalkTalkBnb is a new social network that connects people who want to learn languages, in exchange for free room and board, with native speakers travelers.
In an increasingly globalized world the knowledge of languages has become crucial, but often are not enough books and courses of a certain level that have prohibitive costs, not to talk of a study-holiday abroad: how to practice then the foreign language you want to learn?
To this need answers TalkTalkBnb, the new free platform created by the French company Lexica, which combines language learning with collaborative idea of sharing the travel.
The new social network connects people who want to improve the knowledge of a foreign language and are willing to offer free room and board, with travelers available to speak in their mother tongue during their stay.
In order to use the social you first of all have to register in host or traveler categories. It is currently available in English, French and Spanish.
If you register as a host, you will be asked to indicate the language you want to practice with your host and a property description that you put at the disposal for the exchange.
If you intend to register as a traveler, you should indicate your native language and the city (or cities) you wish to visit.
Simple, friendly, free, TalkTalkBnb, is presented as a sort AirBnb in language version, tying together the world of language study with that of the community of travelers.
Learn languages effectively and totally free: no doubt, to learn a foreign language, nothing is more profitable than to practice with a native speaker and TalkTalkBnb allows you to do it for free through an equal exchange with the host, whom offered in exchange of room and board, thus avoiding the costs of books and language courses.
Discover new cultures: in addition to the strictly linguistic aspects, meet and accommodate a native foreign language speaker is an experience that will enrich you and make you better know its culture entering in direct contact in its most practical and interesting aspects: ask your guest to cook a dish of their own food or let us teach expressions and idioms of his language you will not find on the books and that you will hardly gain in a traditional language course.
Suitable for the whole family: the system put available by TalkTalkBnb, is designed not only for adults but also for children: if you have a family, your children can practice the foreign language as well as possible.
Free accomodation: get free accommodation in the places you visit is the best gift you could wish for a traveler.
Equal exchange: sometimes travelers using the more traditional platforms that offer free accommodation, such as Couchsurfing, run the risk of feeling uncomfortable in the housing benefit offered by a local without being able to repay and this can create an uncomfortable feeling of taking advantage of the hospitality received. With TalkTalkBnb this risk is excluded because the system is based on an equal exchange: consider the costs of a language course, the language offering of the foreign guest amply repays the hospitality received.
Travel in a different way and stay in touch with the locals: often the traditional tourism allows you to discover new places, but not its people. By using the TalkTalkBnb service, you will have the chance to spend time with the premises that will allow you to have a more direct, human and realistic contact with the places you visit.
Have you ever utilized this type of exchange for traveling?


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Technique: Performance art, acrylic and oil canvas, mixed material.
About Nadia Bashar
Nadia Elias Bashar is a Yazidi artist born in Iraq, the oldest of eight siblings. At the age of eight her parents fled to Syria because of the war between Iraq and Kuwait (1990). After 13 years, the family returned to Iraq in 2003. Nadia married at the age of 18 but she did not think she could pursue her love for art. On 3 August 2014 ISIS attacked Sinjar and they managed to flee in time, this time towards north Iraq, governed by the KRG. She lived in camps and began to express herself through art. In 2017 she decided to
flee the country and find her way to a European country, together with her two daughters. After a long and challenging travel including various stays in Turkey and Greece, she settled in France in 2020.
Nadia's art is about the suffering of the Yazidis at the hands of ISIS and more specifically the suffering of women. In addition to her drawings and paintings, she challenges the viewer with performance art.


Local access and transport area (LATA) is a term used in U.S. telecommunications regulation. It represents a geographical area of the United States under the terms of the Modification of Final Judgment (MFJ) entered by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in Civil Action number 82-0192 or any other geographic area designated as a LATA in the National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc. Tariff FCC No. 4. that precipitated the breakup of the original AT&T into the "Baby Bells" or created since that time for wireline regulation.
Generally, a LATA represents an area within which a divested Regional Bell Operating Company (RBOC) is permitted to offer exchange telecommunications and exchange access services. Under the terms of the MFJ, the RBOCs are generally prohibited from providing services that originate in one LATA and terminate in another.
LATA boundaries tend to be drawn around markets, and not necessarily along existing state or area code borders. Some LATAs cross over state boundaries, such as those for the New York metropolitan area and Greenwich, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; Portland, Oregon; and areas between Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia. Area codes and LATAs do not necessarily share boundaries; many LATAs exist in multiple area codes, and many area codes exist in multiple LATAs.
In addition to this list, two local carriers were made independent: Cincinnati Bell in the Cincinnati area, and SNET (a former unit of AT&T, sold to Frontier) in Connecticut. These were assigned LATAs in the 9xx range.
Since the breakup of the original AT&T in 1984, however, some amount of deregulation, as well as a number of phone company mergers, have blurred the significance of these regions. A number of new LATAs have been formed within these regions since their inception, most beginning with the digit 9.
Given the complexity of the legal and financial issues involved in each distinction, many long distance companies tend to not explain the details of these different rates, which can lead to billing questions from surprised customers.
Local carriers have various alternative terms for LATAs such as "Service Area" by Pacific Bell in California, or "Regional Calling Area" by Verizon in Maryland.
In order to facilitate the sharing of Telcordia telephone routing databases between countries, LATAs were later defined for the provinces of Canada, the other countries and territories of the North American Numbering Plan, and Mexico. Aside from U.S. territories, LATAs have no regulatory purpose in these areas. In 2000, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission eliminated all Canadian provincial LATAs in favor of a single LATA for Canada (888).
No LATAs exist with a second digit of 0 or 1, which distinguished them from traditional area codes.
The city or place name given with some LATAs is the name given to identify the LATA, not the limit of its boundary. Generally this is the most significant metropolitan area in the LATA. In some cases, a LATA is named after the largest phone exchange in the LATA that was historically served by an RBOC. For example, the largest city in the Pahrump LATA in Nevada is Las Vegas. Since Las Vegas was not historically served by an RBOC, the LATA is named after the smaller town of Pahrump, which was historically served by Nevada Bell (now AT&T Inc.). Also, listing under a state does not necessarily limit the LATA's territory to that state; there may be overlaps as well as enclaves. Areas that include notable portions of other states are explained, but not all LATA state overlaps may be detailed.
LATA boundaries are not always solidly defined. Inter-carrier agreements, change proposals to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and new wiring developments into rural areas can and do often alter the effective borders between LATAs. Many sources on LATA boundary information conflict with each other at detailed levels. Telcordia data may provide the most up-to-date details of LATA inclusions.
Florida is a special case in which state regulators have also assigned 5-digit LATA codes which overlay the Federally-assigned 3-digit LATAs. See map on the right for details. Some carriers refer to these by the 3-digit LATA, others by the 5-digit.
Includes part of south-central Illinois southwest of Springfield.
note: LATA 963 appears on many LATA lists, and at least one map, but is no longer a separate LATA-equivalent area. It is now part of LATA 648.
236 Arlington, Fairfax, Prince William, and Stafford counties, and enclosed cities. See Washington, D.C.
As LATAs exist for US regulatory purposes, where they serve as a demarcation between intra-LATA calls (handled by regional Bell operating companies) and inter-LATA calls (handled by interstate long distance carriers such as AT&T), they have no legal significance in Canada.
As of 2000, all of Canada (except for non-geographic numbers) is identified as LATA 888.
Canada does define local interconnection regions (LIR's), which determine where points of interconnection (POI) must be provided by competing local exchange and mobile carriers to provide local number portability. A Canadian LIR is geographically smaller than a US LATA, typically comparable in size to a small city's flat-rate local calling area or to an entire large regional municipality. In areas where a small-city Digital Multiplex System controls a group of remote switching centres, one for each surrounding village, the local interconnect region normally includes each exchange in the city plus all downstream remotes of those exchanges. In a Toronto-sized city, the LIR will include only the city itself.
LIR's normally do not include incumbent local independent telephone company exchanges in locations not opened to competition, where the independent numbers are currently not portable.
LIR's do not cross provincial boundaries. Lloydminster has an LIR for each province, as does Ottawa-Hull.
LIR's closely follow network topology, which often does not match a local flat-rate calling area as local calling is defined by arbitrary regulatory constructs.
One example: The tiny unincorporated village of Beebe Plain, divided by the Quebec-Vermont border, is served by +1-819-876 Rock Island, Quebec, Canada (a remote station controlled from Magog) and +1-802-873 Derby Line, Vermont, USA (a remote station controlled from St. Johnsbury). Magog and St. Johnsbury are both a long-distance call from anywhere in Beebe Plain, even though Canadian subscribers can place local calls to Sherbrooke, US subscribers can locally call Newport and an international call within the village is local. An LIR assignment which follows network topology places the Canadian remote station in Magog's LIR, not Sherbrooke's LIR.
^ a b Half of LATA 636 occupies eastern North Dakota, the other half takes up the northwest quarter of Minnesota.
^ LATA 228 includes all of Delaware as well as the metro area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
^ American Samoa entered the NANP in October 2004 and presumably was allocated a LATA by that time. Telcordia LERG data suggests that American Samoa uses LATA 884.


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I think this is the effect you are trying to describe. Unless you are married to tables, you may want to look into CSS grid to display your data.
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/

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Recently a friend shared a rather wonderful TED talk with me, that resonated with all kinds of interests I have about performance and musical identity. It was given by a social psychologist called Amy Cuddy, and it dealt with research into the relationship between body language and how you feel about yourself, with particular reference to questions of power and social status.
If you know my second book, you'll know why I find this so interesting. One of the things I was looking at there is the way that particular musical traditions share particular ways of using the body and the voice as integral to the style. Gesture, timbre, inflection - all those things that are too subtle to be caught in notation but are essential to competent performance - are encoded in the body. Getting the music needs a degree of willingness to empathise with it, to 'mentally sing along' as Schumann described the act of listening.
This all relies on the process of emotional contagion - the capacity to pick up states of feeling from others. This in turn relies on what the pioneers in the field refer to as the facial feedback hypothesis - the idea that facial expressions are not merely the visible sign of an internal state, but actually contribute to helping you feel that way. (Amy Cuddy refers briefly to this research in the video.) So, you pick up emotions from others by intuitively mirroring their physical state, which in turn gives you access to how it is to feel as they do.
The work reported in the video adds to this general framework by focusing on how adopting the physical manifestations of power affects people's internal states and external behaviours. What happens to their hormone levels and their willingness to take risks? And it is presented very clearly in the context of how it can be useful to people who worry that they're not good enough.
This of course is of direct interest to me in my work with performers. People going out to make music for others like to feel confident, but this doesn't always come naturally, especially before they have acquired much experience. We spend a lot of time as coaches and directors telling people to stand up tall and to smile; we use imagery and characterisation to get people to imagine themselves positively into the role.
This research tells us we are right to do this, and why we are right. It tells us that to open our arms wide (as Magenta did as a confidence-building tool in our early days) will actually raise our testosterone levels and reduce our cortisol. We will feel more powerful and less stressed.
Cuddy suggests two minutes spent in a powerful pose privately before going into a high-pressure situation is enough to change your internal state to handle it well. So one can see why she suggests the Wonder Woman pose for this - legs apart, chin slightly raised, hands on hips. This will be more comfortable and stable to maintain than the raised arms of triumph, which is a more dynamic gesture, not suited to stillness.
I'm sure that the fact that a well-balanced support for one's weight, relaxed shoulders and an open chest are also good for support and resonance is purely a coincidence. I don't believe I ever heard Wonder Woman sing, but if she did, she'd be giving herself the best chance to sound good.


Do we no longer need to specify our Yahoo ApID in v2.6 of the script? I noticed there was only a check box, but there was also an odd string of characters in the option, does that mean anything?
"Yahoo App ID" option is no longer required in v2.6.


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Is Tyra Banks Leaving 'America's Got Talent'?
Emily Tan Published: December 25, 2018
Tyra Banks may be dropping the mic for the upcoming 14th season of America's Got Talent.
According to Page Six, she won't be returning for the next season. It also reported that following the success of Life Size-2: A Christmas Eve, Tyra wanted to focus more on producing project instead of being in them.
"'Life Size-2' went way beyond expectations… it was Freeform's biggest premiere of the year… executives were over the moon with the cult classic sequel," a source close to the Tyra Banks camp told Page Six.
They also added, "Tyra's been inundated with producing and acting requests… she wants to produce and create TV. She will not be returning to 'AGT' in the new year."
Tyra has hinted that she could be leaving America's Got Talent. "I think I had a really nice run with 'AGT.' I had a lot a lot of fun," she said during an interview with Access in November.
We have yet to hear from Tyra herself. But either way, we're sure she's always got something for us to look forward to.
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Field of Specialization: Paleoenvironmental Sedimentology
Academic Unit: Earth Sciences
Category of Appointment: Preliminary (Tenure-track)
Rank/Position Title: Assistant Professor
Closing Date: September 30 2020
The Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University invites applications from qualified candidates for a preliminary (tenure-track) appointment in Paleoenvironmental Sedimentology at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning July 1, 2021.
The Department is interested in candidates with demonstrated excellence conducting interdisciplinary, field- and lab-based research in sedimentary systems. The candidate is expected to make use of modern geochemical tools in addition to field-based analysis to study inorganic and fossil (micro or macro) material for the purposes of environmental analysis, documenting past and-or present environmental conditions, and integrating sedimentary facies and (paleo)ecological parameters. The candidate must be able to teach core courses in sedimentary geology, have demonstrated field and laboratory experience, and, in addition to providing a thriving graduate-research program, supervise 4th year theses in the Earth Sciences B. Sc. Honours program.
About the Academic Unit:
The undergraduate offering of the Department of Earth Sciences, which features a strong fieldwork component, includes B.Sc. programs (Honours, Major and General), as well as a Concentration in Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoecology (Honours), a Concentration in Resource Economics (Honours) and a concentration in Resource Valuation (Honours). The Honours programs meet the academic requirements for the Professional Geoscientist (P.Geo.) accreditation. Other programs include Combined Honours with Biology, Chemistry or Physical Geography. At the graduate level, the Department offers M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs. The department and Department of Earth Sciences at University of Ottawa form the core of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Centre (OCGC), a collaborative research and graduate institution. Available research facilities within the OCGC include stable (C, O, S, N) and radiogenic isotope (TIMS, Neptune) laboratories and associated clean labs; XRF, XRD, CT, SEM and electron microprobe laboratories, ICP-OES, as well as fluid inclusion, cathodoluminescence, and fluorescence microscopy. In addition, the main headquarters of the Geological Survey of Canada, the Canadian Museum of Nature, and several other federal, science-based agencies who are significant research collaborators are located in Ottawa. Further information on the Department can be obtained at www.earthsci.carleton.ca and www.iggrc.carleton.ca.
Applicants must have a Ph.D. in Earth Sciences (or related field), and possess a strong commitment to research and scholarship as reflected in peer-reviewed publications, and have demonstrated excellence in teaching. The successful candidate will have the ability to develop an externally-funded, high-quality research program; have demonstrated teaching excellence; and will contribute effectively to the academic life of the Department. Proficiency in English is a requirement.
Please send the application by email in one single PDF document to the attention of: Dr. Brian Cousens (Chair), Department of Earth Sciences, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S 5B6 c/o Mrs. Sheila Thayer (Sheila.Thayer@carleton.ca). Applications should include the curriculum vitae, a cover letter, a teaching dossier including teaching experience, a statement outlining current and future research interests, and the names and addresses (including e-mail addresses) of three referees. The deadline for applications is September 30, 2020. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Please also identify any past experiences in supporting equity, diversity and inclusion in your previous institutional environment such as in curriculum development and in supporting diverse students.
Please indicate in your application if you are a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada.
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Carleton University is a dynamic and innovative research and teaching institution with a national and international reputation as a leader in collaborative teaching and learning, research and governance. With over 31,000 students in more than 100 programs of study, we encourage creative risk-taking, discovery, and the generation of transformative knowledge. To learn more about our university and the City of Ottawa, please visit www.carleton.ca/about.
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Applicants selected for an interview are asked to contact the Chair as soon as possible to discuss any accommodation requirements. Arrangements will be made in a timely manner.
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tabbox. how i can open tab. When it was closed by cross. (closable = true). After close my tab is null... tabbox lost childrens. Where i can find my closed tabpanel.
The cross means removing it completely from the tabbox. If you don't want this, then you could intercept the event and set the tab hidden.
I updated an existing fiddle to show you how to intercept the event.


Jaap Blonk QuartetThis concert is the debut of a new quartet with the Dutch sound poet and improvisor Jaap Blonk, trombone virtuoso Jeb Bishop, and the versatile and powerful "rhythm section" of Damon Smith and Weasel Walter.
YoshimiO / Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe DuoYoshimiO is a drummer and member of the revolutionary group Boredoms. She is the leader of the experimental band OOIOO, a member of Free Kitten with Kim Gordon (ex. Sonic Youth), and most recently the vocalist in SAICOBAB – a quartet who blend ancient Indian musical traditions and instruments with electronics and modern sounds.
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe is works with voice in the realm of spontaneous music often under the moniker of Lichens. Lowe's recent performances and recordings have focused on utilizing singing and modular synthesizers.
About the SeriesFalse Harmonics is a monthly series of new music meant to explore alternative approaches to composition, improvisation and performance. Each installment of the series will feature two unique performances meant to contrast, yet compliment each other.


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OmiseGo is an Ethereum- based technology for use in mainstream digital wallets that enables real-time, peer-to-peer value exchange and payment services agnostically across jurisdictions and organizational silos, and across both fiat money and decentralized currencies.OmiseGo is offering two main products, namely the OmiseGO blockchain and the wallet.
Its blockchain allows large transaction volume at a low cost, and everyone is allowed to conduct financial transactions based on the chain. The major target of OmiseGO is the financial transactions between businesses, of which include payments, remittances, payroll deposit, B2B commerce, supply-chain finance, loyalty programs, asset management and trading etc. OmiseGo emphasizes that both fiat and crypto currencies are agnostic on the network, and the best currencies will win eventually as far as adoption and usage go given the removed barriers of transactions. Also, the blockchain of OmiseGO uses proof-of-stake for distributed consensus, which greatly reduces the risks of oligopoly and 51% attack.
On the other hand, OmiseGO provides wallet SDK so that digital wallet providers can create their customized payment solutions based on their needs while all transactions across digital wallet providers will be conducted on the OmiseGO network. Therefore, OmiseGo is not in direct competition with other wallet providers like TenX, as they focus on business side users and they are facilitating the optimization of other digital wallets.
OmiseGO is actually a project of an existing Fintech company - Omise, which has been serving in Southeast Asia. It is also one of the few projects endorsed by Vitalik Buterin - the founder of Ethereum.
It is always easier to expand if the project is carried out by a developed company. OmiseGO has announced that all existing Omise merchants can seamlessly accept payments in multiple currencies, including cryptocurrencies once OmiseGO is launched. Also, OmiseGO has been planning to work with McDonald's in Southeast Asia and Thailand will be the first stop of the expansion. The foundation of Omise will greatly facilitate the expansion of OmiseGO in Asia.
According to OmiseGO's roadmap, the OmiseGO network and digital wallet framework are scheduled to launch in Q4 2017. It is expected that OmiseGO will form more partnership with local merchants and plan for further expansion in Asia in the coming years.
Plasma.io was introduced on 11 August by Vitalik Buterin as a solution to the scalability problem of Ethereum. Following was a tweet by OmiseGO, claiming that they will be the first plasma.io project. In short, the project proposes the use of child blockchains, which are connected to the main blockchain, so as to reduce the data stored directly on the chain and eventually achieve higher efficiency on the chain, based on the proof-of-stake consensus. Many people are excited to see the future development of OmiseGO, given Vitalik as the advisor and the platform being the first to apply plasma.io.
However, OmiseGO faces the same problem with other digital wallet providers that, people now are still preferring cash more than cryptocurrency. Using and acquiring cash are still far more convenient and it is hard to build a new practice. Maybe after a few years, when cryptocurrency becomes widely prevalent, platforms like OmiseGO can unleash their full potential.


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Council delivers double bundle of joy for couple – Mansfield District Council
As Carrie Green awaited the birth of her first child, she spotted an opportunity to bid on a community center website for a handsome family home in Mansfield.
Two days later, as she held baby Leo in her arms, she could hardly believe the news that she and husband Daymun had been offered the chance to start their family life in this brand new, energy-efficient community center.
Carrie, 29, and Daymun, 39, have been community house seekers for some time and are delighted to be among four families who have been offered leases of one of Mansfield District Council's newly built semis on Saundby Avenue. The family moved in yesterday (May 15).
At first glance, Carrie saw them as just more council housing that she would bid on and probably not get. Little did she know at first that they were built to a highly specified energy-efficient passive house design, to a standard held by only about 170 houses nationwide and the only ones of its kind in Mansfield.
Recalling the moment she saw them advertised on the council's apartment rental website, she said: "I'm on the 4th.
"I looked at Google Maps and the road looked great so I emailed to express my interest. I was 39 weeks and 3 days pregnant and was dying to move so our little one could have the best start in life."
Later that same day, Carrie developed pain and bleeding, and having previously suffered a miscarriage, was concerned about the "rainbow baby" she was carrying and went straight to King's Mill Hospital.
It turned out she was in labor and two hours later at 10.16pm Leo Green was born weighing a healthy 9 pounds 11 ounces.
"Later, at 3am, shaking with adrenaline and the amazement that was rushing through me at what I had just done, I looked at my phone and saw a response from the council saying we were for the property would be considered." Carrie said.
She replied to the email to say she had just given birth and the next morning Council Housing Solutions team leader Paul Dawson responded by expressing his congratulations. The next day he was able to bring her double good news – her bid for Saundby Avenue had been successful.
"We are so excited! It's the icing on the cake — a beautiful little boy and a great house," said Carrie, a caregiver for her learning disabled husband.
"We met 12 years ago and married seven years ago and have been in love ever since. We lived in a two bedroom apartment on the second floor and had issues with antisocial behavior so we were worried about bringing our son. Now we are all looking forward to life in our forever home.
"We can't wait to make our house our home. I look forward to everything: having a garden for some fresh air, in a great area where we don't have to worry about antisocial behavior – a safe place to raise our son in love.
"Besides, I don't have to climb two flights of stairs with the stroller!"
She added: "I've been researching passive house design and it's all very interesting. Being an energy efficient home means the bills won't be as high.
"I have always been very conscious of my carbon footprint. This house will help us to contribute to the protection of the environment. I would love to learn all the tricks to make the most of our beautiful, special home.
"I want to say thank you so much to the City Council for the opportunity to live in a place where we can be a loving family together – with a special thanks to Paul Dawson and the entire Homefinder team for their help. They really care!"
After months of planning, designing and building, the Saundby Avenue homes were officially handed over to the municipality by contractor Woodhead Construction on May 3 and were advertised on the municipality's Homefinder website within 24 hours.
Cllr Marion Bradshaw, portfolio owner for Safer Communities, Housing and Wellbeing said: "We are delighted to hear the heartwarming news that these fantastic new homes are already improving the quality of life for those lucky enough to be offered a lease.
"Having a home that is affordable, energy efficient and built to accommodate a family for their entire lifetime makes so much sense and provides security for these renters.
"We wish Carrie and Daymun all the best and many more years of happy family life in their forever home."
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The year was 1893. As Idaho approached a new century with the unbridled optimism that characterized the 1890's, its medical community was in disarray. "The state was overrun with quacks" engaging in dangerous medical practices, said historian of the time Sam Allison.
Boise physician Dr. Carol Lincoln Sweet, the father of Idaho organized medicine, stepped in to bring order from the medical chaos. He sent a letter to Idaho physicians inviting their attendance at a meeting in Boise on September 12 to organize, draw up laws to protect physicians, exchange ideas, and "enjoy the inspiration of fellowship." Historian Allison documents that, "More than 20 of the leading physicians of this state met at this city to consummate a plan long in contemplation, that of the organization of a state medical society for Idaho."
The meeting concluded September 13, 1893, with the founding of the Idaho State Medical Society. Dr. W. W. Watkins of Moscow was elected the society's first president. The name of the group evolved to the Idaho State Medical Association, then (in 1967) the Idaho Medical Association, today's IMA.
Early efforts of the organization focused on setting and maintaining standards for the practice of medicine in Idaho. From 1894 to 1897 it worked diligently to pass legislation creating a board of medical examiners. The IMA continued to lobby for stronger licensing procedures and finally succeeded in passing the Medical Practice Act of 1949, which established the Idaho State Board of Medicine.
IMA activities have advanced medical education and continuing education for Idaho students and physicians. Association support has been crucial in securing medical school placement for Idaho students through the WWAMI program and funding the Boise and Pocatello family practice residencies. In 1990 IMA trustees founded the IMA Medical Education Scholarship Trust to assist Idaho medical students.
Early Idaho Medical Association meetings emphasized speakers, scientific papers and exchanges to help members keep up with rapidly expanding medical knowledge. Commitment to continuing education has continued throughout IMA's history, and in 1976 the Association was accredited by the American Council of Continuing Medical Education to, in turn, accredit local sponsors of CME.
The IMA has historically taken a leadership role in public health and safety issues. Its proactive support for polio immunization, public water fluoridation, civil defense planning, cigarette warning labels, use of seat belts, child abuse reporting, motorcycle helmet use, day care licensing, cigarette taxes, minimum drinking age, and immunization of schoolchildren has positively impacted the quality of life and health of all Idahoans.
The IMA has been instrumental in bringing health insurance to the state, helping establish the North Idaho District and South Idaho Medical Service Bureaus, which have emerged as today's Regence BlueShield of Idaho and Blue Cross of Idaho. The IMA also guided physicians through a 1975 malpractice insurance crisis, championing tort reform to help assure Idaho physicians have access to malpractice insurance.
The IMA was born from the need of Idaho doctors to professionalize. From this beginning the Association has matured into a leading advocate for the practicing physician and for improving the quality of Idaho's health care. For more than a century, the Idaho Medical Association has supported and served the medical community and fostered high quality care for all Idahoans through its leadership in legislation, medical education, and public health.
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Brooklyn metal venue The Acheron to close
Posted by Bram Teitelman on June 21, 2016
Over the past decade or so, the underground metal scene in Brooklyn has flourished, and East Williamsburg (Bushwick, let's be honest) venue The Acheron has been a part of it. For the past six years, the tiny venue has played host to countless metal and punk shows, an inclusive and welcoming venue that, like Saint Vitus, gave not only locals, but national bands a place to play. Sadly, after July 9th, that won't be the case, as they've announced that the venue will be closing. They didn't give a specific reason (other than "numerous factors"), but they'll be done after then.
While Metal Insider wasn't a constant presence there, we'd seen many shows over the past six years, and most recently hosted our CMJ listening party with Broken Hope and Swallow the Sun last year. Hopefully it's bookers and management will wind up somewhere else. It was announced that the shows booked after the 9th will be hosted at different venues. With fellow Brooklyn venue The Grand Victory closing at the end of July and Trash Bar having already closed, that's instantly three less venues for bands to play in the New York City borough most associated with live music (not to mention that NYC venue Santos Party House shut down abruptly at the end of last month). Here's hoping that another place or two pops up for metal bands to play.
[photo via Bang! House Studios]
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JONATHAN C. JAVITT, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Javitt has played leadership roles in seven successful healthcare IT and biopharma startups with public exits. He has additionally led drug-development engagements for Merck, Allergan, Pharmacia, Novartis, and Pfizer. He was appointed to healthcare leadership roles under Presidents Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Clinton, and George W. Bush. In the latter role he was commissioned to lead the White House policy for universal adoption of Health IT and establishment of the Office of the National Coordinator. He is a graduate of Princeton University, Cornell University Medical College, Harvard School of Public Health, the Wills Eye Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Javitt has published more than 200 scientific works in the areas of health outcomes and pharmacoeconomics that have been cited by more than 16,000 people.
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CHAIM HURVITZ
Mr. Chaim Hurvitz has been the Chief Executive Officer of CH Health since May 2011. He previously served as the President of Teva International Group at Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd from April 2002 to 2010 was a Director and member of the senior management of Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. He serves as the Chairman of Galmed Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and has been its Director since 2011. He has been a Director of TheraCoat Ltd. since October 2010. He is a member of the management of the Manufacturers Association of Israel and head of its pharmaceutical branch. Mr. Hurvitz holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and economics from Tel Aviv University, which was awarded in 1985.
PROF. DANIEL C. JAVITT, M.D., PH.D.
Co-founder and Chair, Scientific Advisory Board
Professor Javitt has devoted the past 30 years to the intersection of psychiatry and brain science. He was the first to identify the role of the NMDA receptor in modulating human thought processes in psycho-affective disorders. He is the author of more than 250 scientific publications and 10 patents in the field and is one of the most-widely cited authors in neuro-psychiatry. His work has merited awards from the American Psychiatric Association and other leading organizations.
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Mr. Flynn is a founding investor in NeuroRx. He is an entrepreneur with more than 30 years of senior executive experience. He has provided leadership to numerous successful organizations and has served in a variety of roles, including CEO, COO, CFO and advisor. Pat currently serves as COO of Good Measures, Inc. He co-founded Predilytics, Inc., which was sold to Welltock, Inc. Previously, Pat served as COO and then as CEO of Health Dialog, which was sold to BUPA International. Pat continued with BUPA, opening their business in the GCC and China. Mr. Flynn began his career with Bank of America where he held several positions over the course of 15 years, including Vice President of World Banking and Vice President of Risk Management.
HON. SHERRY A. GLIED, PH.D.
Dr. Glied, whose principal areas of research are in health policy reform and mental health care policy, was named Dean of New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in 2013. From 1989-2013, Dr. Glied was professor of health policy and management at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and served as chair of the department of health policy and management from 1998-2009. In 2010, Dr. Glied was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services, serving in that capacity from July 2010 through August 2012. She had previously served as senior economist for health care and labor market policy on the President's Council of Economic Advisers in 1992-1993, under Presidents Bush and Clinton, and participated in the Clinton Health Care Task Force.
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Mr. Gorovitz is a partner of the AHG Group. In addition to his 25 years of legal experience in complex commercial transactions, he has considerable involvement in early stage biotechnology and health information technology companies.
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Mr. Troy has been General Counsel at GlaxoSmithKline plc since September 2, 2008 and has been its Senior Vice President since September 2008. Mr. Troy is responsible for leading GSK's legal department in protecting GSK's intellectual property; managing litigation; supporting Business Development transactions; and Business Compliance and Risk management. He has been Secretary of Human Genome Sciences Inc. since August 2012. Prior to joining GSK, Mr. Troy served as a Member of the Life Sciences Practice and Appellate Litigation Group and a Partner at Sidley Austin LLP. In 2001, he was appointed by President Bush to serve as Chief Counsel for the US Food and Drug Administration, where he was a primary liaison to the White House and the US Department of Health and Human Services. From 2006 to 2007, he chaired the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and was previously adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC.
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Interesting solution for home automation I received recently to my email – IPUCam. Basically it's a mix of IP camera and controller. It might be connected to the home LAN via WiFi or Ethernet and can control various devices via IR. To control system consumers may use any PC with web browser or iOS devices.
Additionally to control your home the IPUCam allows to view video and audio stream from built-in camera as well as detect presence by its motion detector. The IPUCam Smart Scene Controller is tagged at $279.


Every year, the UdeM history students association (AÉDDHUM) organizes a scientific symposium.
The 24th AÉDDHUM Symposium, on the theme of Conceptualiser la violence : une exploration de ses représentations et dynamiques, was held from March 29 to 31, 2017.
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Explore the history of Sheffield and your own family tree at online library
There's a chance to learn more about Sheffield's history – and more about your own – by making use of Sheffield's online library service.
By Julia Armstrong
Wednesday, 15th April 2020, 8:30 pm
Updated Wednesday, 15th April 2020, 8:31 pm
Sheffield: War and Peace Revisited is a look back at an exhibition which was held at the city's Central Library a couple of years ago.
The exhibition explored how Sheffield's rich history had been shaped by conflict and by major events in the wider world.
A series of articles related to Sheffield: War and Peace are appearing at shefflibraries.blogspot.com
One of the images which was used in the Sheffield: War and Peace exhibition
The series will cover hundreds of years of the city's heritage and the first articles look at the story of Mary, Queen of Scots and her imprisonment at Manor Lodge, the rise of Sheffield Castle and the city's early borders.
Sheffield Libraries say: "We pick out a selection of stories from our city's past and hopefully whet your appetite for more.
"You can delve deeper by visiting the City Archive web pages and view thousands of images at Picture Sheffield, the city's depository of over 100,000 local images."
Find Picture Sheffield at www.picturesheffield.com
Mary Queen of Scots, who spent a third of her life imprisoned in Sheffield
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For a limited period of time during the COVID-19 closedown, Sheffield's online library service is able to offer free home access to the websites FindMyPast and the British Newspaper Archive to all library members.
Findmypast is a British-owned world leader in online genealogy.
It has an unrivalled record of online innovation in the field of family history and 18 million registered users worldwide, says the library service.
To access this service, email [email protected] for log-in instructions.
If you aren't already a Sheffield library service member, it's still possible to join up now and access its online collection. Head for www.sheffield.gov.uk/form/libraries-archives/apply-to-join-the-library
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Célestin Joseph Félix (b. at Neuville-sur-l'Escaut (Nord), 28 June 1810; d. at Lille, 7 July 1891) was a French Jesuit, known as a preacher.

Life
He began his studies under the Brothers of Christian Doctrine, going later to the preparatory seminary at Cambrai, where he completed his secondary studies. In 1833 he was named professor of rhetoric, received minor orders and the diaconate, and in 1837 entered the Society of Jesus.

He began his noviceship at Drongen in Belgium, continued it at Saint-Acheul, and ended it at Brugelettes, where he studied philosophy and the sciences. Having completed his theological studies at Louvain, he was ordained in 1842 and returned to Brugelettes to teach rhetoric and philosophy. His earliest Lenten discourses, preached at Ath, and especially one on true patriotism, soon won him a reputation for eloquence.

Called to Amiens in 1850, he introduced the teaching of rhetoric at the College de la Providence and preaching during Advent and Lent at the cathedral. His oratorical qualities becoming more and more evident, he was called to Paris. He first preached at St. Thomas d'Aquin in 1851, and in 1852 preached Lenten sermons at Saint-Germain-des-Pres, and those of Advent at Saint-Sulpice. It was then that Mgr. Sibour named him to succeed the Dominican, Father Lacordaire, and the Jesuit, Father de Ravignan in the pulpit of Notre-Dame (1853 to 1870).

The conferences of the first three years have not been published in full. In 1856 Père Félix began the subject which he made the major work of his life: Progrès par le Christianisme. This formed the matter of a series of Lenten conferences, published in fifteen volumes. Progress in all its forms, whether of the individual or of the family, in science, art, morals, or government, is herein treated with doctrinal exactness and breadth of view. The practical conclusions of these conferences Père Félix summed up every year in his preaching of the Easter retreat, which had been inaugurated by Père de Ravignan.

While he was in Paris, and especially during his stay at Nancy (1867–1883), and at Lille (1883–1891), he spoke in nearly all the great cathedrals of France and Belgium. In 1881 he went to Copenhagen to conduct the Advent exercises, and there he held a celebrated conference on authority.

Félix founded the Society of St. Michael for the distribution of good books and employed the leisure of his last years in the composition of several works and in the revision of his "Retraites a Notre-Dame", which he published in six volumes.

A list of his works is given by Sommervogel.

External links

Catholic Encyclopedia article

1810 births
1891 deaths
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Old Town Apartments offers accommodations throughout the area in Warsaw.
Make yourself at home in one of the 22 individually decorated guestrooms, featuring kitchens with full-sized refrigerators/freezers and microwaves. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Conveniences include electric kettles and free tea bags/instant coffee, and housekeeping is provided weekly.
Featured amenities include express check-in, express check-out, and multilingual staff. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and self parking (subject to charges) is available onsite.
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If you're stuck in Phantasy Star II, ask your fellow GameFAQs members for help.
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YVONNE BURFORD
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With sincere thanks to my Proposer and Seconder for their support
Sir de Vic Carey
Bailiff of Guernsey 1999-2005
Sir de Vic Carey was elected as People's Deputy in March 1976, resigning 8 months later when he was appointed HM Comptroller.
In 1992 he was sworn into office as Deputy Bailiff and Deputy President of the States of Deliberation. In 1999 he became the 87th Bailiff of Guernsey, retiring in 2005.
From 2009 to 2015, he served as Deputy Chair of the Children's Convenor and Youth Tribunal Board.
I am immensely grateful to Sir de Vic for offering, in his words, to 'put me up' for election.
"Yvonne cares strongly about Guernsey and the welfare of all sections of our community. With her wide experience of life, she will bring insight and wisdom to all that she has to decide in the States chamber and the Committees of Government."
Annette Henry
Annette is well known on the island for her engaging tours of the Bailiwick which are enjoyed as much by locals as visitors and which she has been doing for 22 years. Prior to that, she was a registered general nurse, working in a variety of different jobs from the hospital to the Chest and Heart Unit. She was Practice Nurse and a holistic trainer with Health Promotion Unit.
Annette is now training to be a Celebrant and very much looking forward to being able to conduct legalised weddings soon.
Annette and I worked together as volunteers in the Prison on the Independent Monitoring Panel. She was my proposer in 2012 and I'm very pleased that she has agreed to support my election bid again this time.
"When I proposed Yvonne in 2012 for the position of Deputy for the Western Parishes, I did so with confidence that she would make a serious contribution to the running of the Government. Her integrity and honesty make her a principled politician whom I continue to support."
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It's hard to imagine describing paddling a Class III rapid as boring. But for Adam Masters, son of the founder of Perception Kayaks, Bill Masters, that's what it had become. So he started duct-taping his skirt shut, lying on top of his kayak and paddling with his hands.
"It made my back yard Class III run exciting again," said Masters.
But lying on top of his kayak created too high of a center of gravity, which made it less stable. That's where Masters' idea for the Bellyak (pronounced "belly-ak") was born. Around 2004, he started cannibalizing whitewater kayaks by cutting the tops off and using foam to create molds to better suit lying down on a kayak. The designs added stability and brought him closer to the water.
Initially he just designed the boats for himself, not intending to market them.
"I built it for me to have fun," he said.
He eventually put the idea aside for a few years to focus on other things, then in 2011 he started to think about manufacturing his designs.
His first official model was produced last year and he debuted his company at the annual Outdoor Retailer exhibition in Salt Lake City, Utah, in July. Now he's on a marketing campaign that made it's way to the FIBArk Festival in Salida last week.
Masters believes his Bellyak has the potential to cater to a wide market that spans from the seasoned kayaker looking for something new to someone new to kayaking looking for an alternate to being confined inside a hardshell kayak.
"The Achilles heel of kayaking is the spray skirt," he said.
His Bellyak is essentially part playboat kayak, part surfboard/bodyboard and part kneeboard. A skilled paddler can run a rapid head first or surf a wave on your knees.
"There are so many ways to ride it," he said, and, "for the avid kayaker, it increases the thrill but not the risk," Masters said.
There are three primary ways to ride the craft, generally all by paddling with webbed gloves rather than a paddle. A paddler can lay flat in a superman position, sit on their knees in a position that could concievably incoporate a kayak paddle, or sitting upright with legs forward like straddling a surfboard.
Wether his product has the potential to explode in popularity similar to stand-up paddleboarding is yet to be seen. This is its first full season on the market.
He sees it as a versatile and safe way to experience whitewater, because unlike a kayak, it doesn't take a high skill level to recover from a flip.
He has said he's received a lot of positive feedback thus far, both at Outdoor Retailer and FIB Ark, and has already sold 240 boats.
Masters designed his boat for himself and then with a broader market in mind, but he never expected to be contacted by a representative from a veterans organization for adaptive sports. But for Bob Alexander, a volunteer for Team River Runner, a program that introduces paddle sports to veterans as a means of exercise and adjustment therapy, the Bellyak was a new tool to incorporate with their programs.
Mornini said that the boat's design makes it conducive to veterans who are amputees or paraplegics. At Walter Reed National Military Medical center they've even used them in pools for kayak football.
Erich Bell, a veteran of both the Army and Marine Corps found out about Bellyak online and took advantage of the opportunity to demo one on a Class III section of river in North Carolina, at a Team River Runner event.
Masters said that his Bellyak design has also been well received by coastal paddlers who've used it to wave surf, and recently he had some interest from fire fighters looking to incorporate it in swift water rescue.
The next big thing, big fad, or paddling niche?
Will the Bellyak become a fixture of whitewater sports? It's not without its skeptics. Matti Wade of Ten Mile Creek Kayaks in Frisco sees it as something new and kind of fun, but questions wether or not it is more of a novelty.
"It's interesting," he said with some hesitation. But between colder water temperatures and more difficult whitewater he's not so sure it's appropriate for a beginner paddler in Colorado.
You still need to be able to read whitewater, and one of his concerns is that it's more difficult to see potentially hazardous river features if your laying down. He does however concede potential in warmer lower class rapids, or on the coast.
For serious rapids, Wade still sees inflatible or sit-on-top kayaks as a more viable alternative.
Former raft guide Jeremy Fritts has a different take.
"It looks like a sweet evolution in whitewater," he said after watching some video footage.
But like Wade, he stresses the importance of having experience in rapids, and he would be concerned that it could still be dangerous to an over eager beginner.
"It's important to do that with someone who knows the river," said Fritts. Appropriate advice for any whitewater endeavour.
Masters' Bellyak concept, may have steep competition in a highly competitive whitewater market that has recently adopted paddleboarding as the latest craze. Time will tell wether his idea is the next big thing, or if whitewater kayakers will shun it as a more of novelty.


Wader Quest: Wader Quest Brasil.
It will be predominantly in the Portuguese language of course but the aim remains the same helping to fund wader conservation projects around the world. Like us, Gislaine Disconzi is starting small so any support will be greatly appreciated.
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 2013.
Gislaine has worked for a long time in the conservation and monitoring of wetland bird species and is the Brazilian national co-ordinator of the Wetlands International CNAA (Contagem Nacional de Aves Aquáticus) project to whom we sent several records when we lived in Brazil and had the opportunity to vounteer for this project twice a year.
Gislaine counting wetlnd birds for the CNAA project in Brazil.
We thank Gislaine for her interest in, and support for, what we are trying to achieve and wish her and Wader Quest Brasil every success in the future.


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Managing transactions in the cloud, Part 2: Meeting the challenges
Posted by André on 2019-04-25.
In Part 1 of this series, you learned about transaction processing and distributed transactions. Transactional properties help to reduce the error-handling effort in an application. But we also found that distributed transactions, which manage transactions across multiple resources, are not necessarily available in cloud-based runtimes. Here in Part 2, we look at the cloud setup, and ways of ensuring transactional qualities across multiple resource managers even without distributed transactions.
Note: this article has originally been published on IBM's developerWorks website on 18. March 2017, and is here republished within IBM's publishing guidelines.
In a cloud setup, distributed transactions are frowned upon even more than in a classical setup. Resources (resource managers such as databases) can be volatile, as can transaction managers. They can be started or stopped at any time to adjust for different load situations. Restarting a resource manager aborts all transactions currently active in it, but what about transaction managers in the middle of the voting phase of a distributed transaction? Without the persistent transaction manager transaction log, transactions are lost in limbo and resources locked for those transactions will never be released by their resource managers.
Also in a cloud setup, as well as in some previous service-oriented architecture (SOA) setups, the protocols used to call a resource manager very often do not support transactions (such as REST over HTTP calls). With such a protocol, a call is equivalent to an autocommitted operation, as described in Part 1.
The cloud makes it easier to quickly deploy new versions or quickly scale your application, but it can be more difficult for the application programmer. Using what you have learned here about transaction management should help you create applications that work better in the cloud.
Therefore, while you could probably set up the application servers in the cloud with a shared, persistent transaction log on separate storage infrastructure to compensate for volatile operations, popular communication protocols that do not support transactions prevent the use of transactions.
This means that in a cloud setup you have to make do without distributed transactions. The following sections present a number of techniques to coordinate multiple resources in a non-transactional setup.
Ways to handle distributed transactions in the cloud
The underlying assumption to transaction processing is that you want multiple resources to be consistent with each other. A change in one resource should be consistent with a change in another resource. Without distributed transactions, these error-handling patterns can be used for multiple resources:
A change is performed in only one of the resources. If this situation is acceptable from a functional point of view, transactions can be autocommitted, and the error situation in the other resource can be logged and ignored.
The change in the first resource is rolled back when an error occurs, changing the second resource. This requires that the transaction on the first resource still be open when the error occurs, and is rolled back when the error occurs. A variation of this theme is when the transactions on both resources are kept open, and the error happens on the first commit of one of the two transactions. Here the rolled-back change in the first resource is not visible to the outside, so on rollback no window of inconsistency appears.
One resource is changed. A change in the second resource to become consistent with the first resource is then performed at a later point in time. The reason could be a recoverable error situation changing the second resource, but it could also be an architectural pattern that defers the changes in the second resource anyway, such as in batch processing. This pattern creates a (larger) window of inconsistency, but in the end consistency is achieved eventually. The name of this pattern is thus "eventual consistency." I call this "roll-forward inconsistency" as the second change is committed.
The change in the first resource is compensated when an error occurs, changing the second resource at a later time. For this pattern the first resource needs to provide a compensating transaction to roll back the changes in a separate transaction. This also creates eventual consistency, but the error pattern is different from the roll-forward inconsistency above. I call this a "roll-back inconsistency," as the first change is rolled back.
In the following section, I look at the techniques to employ the "eventual consistency" property. The system will not be immediately consistent, but it should become consistent a short time after the transaction is committed.
How can error conditions be reduced so that errors won't happen frequently, or won't even happen at all?
Ignore—and fix later
The easiest approach, of course, is to ignore any error situation, and fix it up with a batch job later on. However, that is also not as easy as it seems. Consider a shop system with a shopping cart in one database and an order-processing service. If the order service is not available and you ignore it, you need to do the following:
Keep a status on the shopping cart that the order has not been successfully been sent yet.
Consider the time needed until the batch runs to fix the situation. If it is running at night only, you may lose a day until order processing in your backend, possibly creating dissatisfied customers.
Figure 1 shows an example of an eventual consistency batch fixing up inconsistencies.
Figure 1. A batch job can repair inconsistencies
A variation of this theme is to write a "job" to the database, and have a background process continuously try to deliver the order until successful. In a sense, in that case you would be building your own transaction log and transaction manager.
Time-based pessimistic locking
Pessimistic locking is a technique that allows transactions to ensure the resource they want to change is actually available to them. Pessimistic locking prevents other transactions from modifying a resource (like a database row) and is sometimes even necessary in a short-lived technical transaction.
In a long-running business transaction as described in Part 1, a first short-running transaction changes the state of the resource so that other transactions cannot lock it again. In the credit card example discussed there, we saw that such techniques can successfully be used at scale in a long-running business transaction. But this technique also works in a cloud setup.
There is one caveat: You need to make sure that the lock is released when not needed anymore. You could do this by successfully committing a change on the object or rolling back the transaction. Basically you need to write and process a transaction log in the transaction client or transaction manager, to ensure the lock is released even after other possible errors have happened.
If you cannot guarantee that the lock will be released, you could use time-based pessimistic locking: a lock that releases itself after a given time interval as a last resort. Such a lock can be implemented with a simple timestamp on the resource, so no batch job is needed.
A lock introduces a shared state between the transaction client and the resource manager. The lock needs to be identified and associated with the transaction. You therefore need to pass either a lock identifier or a transaction identifier between the systems to resolve the lock on commit or rollback.
Note that contrary to pessimistic locking, optimistic locking is not an error-avoiding technique: It is one to detect inconsistencies. While pessimistic locking reserves a resource for a transaction, a more optimistic approach is to assume that no inconsistency occurs and to directly perform the local change for a transaction in the first step. But then you need to be able to roll back the change in case the inconsistency does occur. This is a compensation of the optimistically performed operation.
In theory, this is a nice approach, as you need "only" to call the compensation service operation when the operation is rolled back. However, in a JEE application, for example, a resource manager can decide to roll back not when the change is performed, but also when commit() is attempted, as some database constraints may only be checked at commit time. The result is that you need to write your own Java resource adapter because only then do you know for sure whether a transaction on another resource has been rolled back or committed. But this introduces distributed transactions again, which we want to avoid in a cloud setup for the reasons mentioned above. Also, you have the question of what happens when your compensation fails for some reason.
A better approach is to note the failure in some kind of transaction log, for example, a row written to a specific table in a separate (autocommit transaction) operation. Then you let a batch job process the compensation at a later time. A problem, however, occurs when the second change is fully processed at the called service, but the caller does not receive a response, as shown in the next section. If the first resource is then compensated, you have generated another inconsistency. If such situations should be avoided, also check the state of the second resource before trying to compensate the first change.
As you can see here, discussing all the different possible error modes is a tedious but necessary endeavor. Only one more specific situation remains to be discussed: an operation actually succeeds, but the caller does not receive the reply and assumes an error.
Repeatability (idempotence)
Consider the shopping cart and the order service again. Assume the order service has been called, but only the reply has gone missing on the network. The caller does not know that the order service call succeeded and will try again. The order should not be processed twice of course, so what can be done?
Figure 2. Service operations must manage "double submit" type of problems
Figure 2 shows such a situation. The problem is similar to the "double submit" problem in web applications, whereby the accidental double-clicking of a button the same request is sent to the server twice. What if the server response resource manager detects this repeated call? In our example, the order service has to identify the second call as a repeated call and can return just a copy of the first call's result, and the actual order is processed only once; the order service is "repeatable."
Repeatability of a service helps greatly in reducing the complexity of error handling in a setup without distributed transactions. The actual meaning is that a service is idempotent: You can repeat a service call multiple times and the result will always be as if the service was called only once. But of course this should only happen to the very same order. Another order should be processed as a new order, possibly even one with the same content.
This solution could be implemented by comparing all attributes of a service call. My bank, for example, rejects a transaction with the identical amount, subject, and recipient, just in case I entered a transaction twice into the online banking application by accident.
More robustly, a transaction identifier sent with the request can help detect double submits. In that case, the called service operation registers a transaction ID sent by the caller and when the same ID is used again, it returns only the original result. But this may introduce a shared state (the transaction ID) between service instances in a cluster, so that a repeated call to another cluster member is still processed only once, thus creating another consistency problem.
Manual transaction and error handling
With the lack of distributed transactions, the system needs to look at each "operation" and decide how to tackle it in a way that ensures consistency. A client calling multiple resource managers—each possibly in its own transaction—must carefully decide which resource manager to commit first and what to do with the other in case of an error. This depends on the functional requirements. Non-transactional resources such as web services are even worse, because they cannot be rolled back but only compensated. What the resource manager used to do for us in a classical system we now have to do ourselves.
Consider this example from one of my projects. In this project, we stored some records in another system using a web service, which we needed to reference later. As the local transaction sometimes ran into an error, we had to seriously look at when the error occurred and where to call the compensating operation. In the end, we made the call repeatable and did away with the compensation altogether. If a transaction was rolled back, the next try would write (and overwrite) the same record again, and we had the pointer we needed for referral without any leftovers from previous tries.
In another example, we were forced to keep a reference counter of a master data record usage in another system, using an increment/decrement web service. Whenever we created an object referring to the master data record (that is, store its ID), we had to increment the counter, and decrement it when deleting the object. We had two problems with it. First, the call was a web service and we had to use a Java resource adapter to handle rollbacks. Even then, errors occurred even during rollback, for example, due to network problems. Secondly and worse, decrement was not a 100% compensation. If the value reached zero—for example in a rollback—there was the danger that the master data record would be deleted (which we were told only afterward, of course). In the end, we counted only up to when we created an object, and noted in a separate (transaction) log table whenever we did something with this master data record. A separate nightly batch then fixed the counter value.
Examples such as these are common. Even eBay uses a basically "transaction-free" design. At eBay, most database statements are auto-commit (which is similar to a web service call); only in certain, well-defined situations are statements combined into a single transaction (on that single database). Distributed transactions are not allowed. (See "Scalability Best Practices: Lessons from eBay.")
In a related scenario for distributed replicated databases, a new "BASE" paradigm has been introduced:
Basically Available
Soft state
Availability is prioritized over strong consistency, which results in a "soft state" that may not be the latest value, but may be eventually updated. This principle applies to the database area, but is also relevant to web services or microservices deployed in the cloud.
The new eventual consistency paradigm can be even be acceptable in some functional scenarios. See, for example, Google's discussion at "Providing a Consistent User Experience and Leveraging the Eventual Consistency Model to Scale to Large Datasets."
Going further, one can try to find and use algorithms that are safe under eventual consistency. Recently, the "CALM theorem" was proposed. Basically, this theorem holds that some programs (those that are "monotonic") can be run safely on an eventually consistent basis. For example, adding a counter by using a read operation, adding 1, then writing it back is susceptible to consistency problems. Adding to a counter by calling an "increment" operation on it is not. See "Eventual Consistency Today: Limitations, Extensions, and Beyond" and "CALM: consistency as logical monotonicity" for more information.
Having to do without the strong consistency models guaranteed by distributed transactions makes the life of the average programmer much harder at first glance. Work previously done by the transaction manager must be done by the programmer, especially in the area of error handling. On the other hand, the programmer's life is also made easier: Programming for eventual consistency from the start makes the program much more scalable and more resilient to network delays and problems in a world that is much more distributed than his own datacenter. Not everyone creates applications for an eBay-like scale from the start, of course, but distributed transactions can create significant overhead. (I confess that I personally regret not being able to use at least one database and a message store in a single transaction, however.)
How does one cope without distributed transactions? In a new system, try to find algorithms that solve your business problem but work under eventual consistency (look at the CALM theorem). Challenge the business needs on strong consistency requirements. Make sure the services you call are adapted to this architecture by being repeatable (idempotent) or by providing proper compensations. In an existing system, modify your algorithms to make them simpler and less prone to failures in the services your system calls using techniques as described here.
Many thanks to my colleagues Sven Höfgen, Jens Fäustl, and Martin Kunz for reviewing and commenting on this series.
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So, Morsi has been ousted and scenes of the celebrations in Cairo's Tahrir Square have been flashed around the globe.
As an outsider to Egypt I find it hard to take a definitive view of the happenings in Egypt this week. The closest thing I can compare it to is trying to look inside someone else's marriage. Only the people on the inside really know the truth. It's easy to take a 'superior'Western view and claim the Egyptian's first foray into democracy has been a disaster. But I'd hesitate to take the moral high ground when one looks at the history of bloodshed in the West through which, arguably, our own democracy has been won. Although perhaps our willingness to stand by our own decisions is telling. As a friend of mine said, 'when we choose the wrong government – and when did we ever choose the right one – we live with it.' That's democracy. I guess the scenes of mass celebration tell their own story, with some Egyptians claiming they have now completed the revolution they started in 2011. The governments in the West state they cannot support the military intervention in Egypt that has removed a legitimately elected president. A cynic might say of course not. For how precarious might that make their own position? And the media reporters comment sagely about the precedent set as 'the people' make it clear that if they have the power to remove one elected president, they can surely do so again. But was Morsi the architect of his own downfall? At the risk of writing a political blog and as an outsider, I think my view would be yes. I certainly heard no words of conciliation or compromise in the speech he gave earlier in the week. The rot seemed to set in when he granted himself what one reporter called 'Pharaonic' powers in November last year – although under extreme pressure he rescinded most of them. And it's clear he was presiding over a sinking economy. As a regular tourist to Egypt, I was dismayed on my last visit in April, to experience the almost-daily power cuts and to see the queues for cooking gas. And Morsi seemed intent on killing the already afflicted tourist industry stone dead. His decision a couple of weeks ago to appoint as Governor of Luxor a man implicated in the terrorist atrocity at Hatshepsut's Temple in Luxor in 1997 seemed calculated to ensure tourists wouldn't venture back to Egypt but surely succeeded only in hastening his own departure from office. The people rejected him for promoting an Islamist agenda. And so he now languishes under house arrest and the military run the show once again.
Some might say there is nothing new under the Egyptian sun and history has an interesting habit of repeating itself. It's possible one of the first military coups in Egypt was led by General Horemheb at the end of the once-glorious 18th Dynasty, famous for such names as Hatshepsut, Thutmosis III and Tutankhamun. More recently, in 1952, the Association of Free Officers that ultimately saw President Nasser come to power, led the movement to topple the monarchy and remove King Farouk from his throne. Nasser is now feted as one of the towering political figures of modern Middle Eastern history and politics in the twentieth century. Interestingly, he distrusted the Moslem Brotherhood, and did much to clip their wings. Let's hope there's someone waiting in the wings in Egypt now who can lead the country on to better days.
So, moving from these political musings to some more personal musings. Where does all this leave me as the writer of a series of adventure/mystery stories set in present-day Egypt? My first three published novels are set in the period May – December 2012, when things were relatively calm; although the post-revolutionary landscape provided a useful backdrop to the stories. Each of these adventures has a link to ancient Egypt's 18th Dynasty. My current novel, to be published next month, uses the more modern history around King Farouk's removal and subsequent exile as its basis. I'm wondering, with the British Foreign Office's rulings against all but essential travel to Egypt whether I may be forced to bring Merry and Adam home. Perhaps these are the risks a novelist must take in deciding to set her series in such turbulent times. The trouble with not writing purely historical books is not knowing the ultimate outcome. All I can do is hope and pray that Egypt can return to a more stable footing and happier times.
Posted on July 5, 2013 by Fiona Deal.	This entry was posted in ancient Egypt, Egypt, egyptian fiction, fiction, History, Travel, Uncategorized, writing. Bookmark the permalink.
please dont send Merry and Adam home, but let them stay and experience this important part of modern history. Your view on this whole situation is true and not colored by any political party or religion. It may sound strange, but we need comments as yours to make the Westerns understand why you and I love Egypt so much, they have to be aware of the struggle of the Egyptians, more than 2000 years of occupation, being robed of all their land's riches, no experience in democracy what so ever. They have to learn for themselves, learn to make choices for themselves. We need your support. Dont send Merry and Adam home but let them tell our story.
I won't send Merry and Adam home unless forced to under a repatriation decision imposed by the British foreign office. And, even then, I don't think the powers that be here in the UK can force British nationals to leave Egypt if they choose not to. I have an inkling of an idea for a fifth book that would allow Merry and Adam to stay in Egypt and experience this latest popular uprising. The current story (nearly finished) is set in the spring of this year so there's every chance… I agree with everything you say about the feelings of Egyptian people. The last people to occupy GB were the French under William the Conquerer of Normandy. I'm still not sure we've forgiven them for it !! Stay safe as these dark days of Egypt's modern history unfold around you. If my books go some way to giving you some support then I'll write as many as I can. Egypt was once the most glorious nation on earth – much of it still is. The people are among the most friendly and welcoming on earth. I hope more than anything that your once thriving tourist industry can come to the fore again so others can experience the wonders that have made you and me fall in love with the place.


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