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Tems Of Service
INFORMATION REQUIRED BY ART. 4, PARA. 1 OF ETA
The services provided by the website are rendered by "IDEA LAB" Ltd. - a company having its seat and registered address at: Sofia, 1404 Sofia Municipality, "Triaditsa" Region, 111 "Bulgaria" Blvd., Building F, fl. 1, entered in the Trade Registry at the Registry Agency with UIC 204864275.
e-mail address: office@giftcometrue.com
"IDEA LAB" Ltd. is / is not registered under the VAT Act.
GENERAL PROVISIONS AND SUBJECT MATTER OF THE CONTRACT
These terms and conditions govern the relations between the service provider and any recipient of services in connection with the distance provision of the electronic services described hereinafter, by electronic means.
Parties to the agreement are "IDEA LAB" Ltd. on one side, and on the other - each recipient of the services, who uses the website by opening (loading) it in a web browser or a mobile application.
The services rendered for a fee by the provider for the benefit of the recipient via the website include the promotion and advertising of goods or services offered by legal entities or individuals other than the provider. The services provided for a fee by the provider to the recipients also include an opportunity to order or purchase certain goods of services by purchasing a voucher under the relevant terms and conditions specified in the website promotion.
"IDEA LAB" Ltd. provides to its recipients a service involving an online shopping platform using the group shopping method through its website under the terms and conditions of a distance sales contract within the meaning of Art. 45-61 of the Consumer Protection Act, exercising the powers provided under this Agreement.
The distance sale contract is concluded between a merchant promoting and advertising goods or services through the websites on one side, and on the other – the service recipient. The distance sales contract by which the recipient of the service purchases goods / services using the website, is different from these General Terms and Conditions. Upon making an electronic statement for the conclusion of a distance sale contract, the service recipient accepts both these General Terms and Conditions and the contents of the distance sale contract, which provides for an advance payment and is available at a prominent place in the interface for the sale of the relevant good or service.
By using the website every service recipient acknowledges that they have the right, authority and capacity to conclude and be bound by these conditions.
The recipient of the service declares that he / she is familiar with these General Terms and Conditions of Use and any active action on his / her behalf or every inaction after the website is loaded in the browser or an activated mobile application, represents an explicit electronic statement within the meaning of the Electronic Document and Electronic Signature Act, that he/ she accepts voluntarily and consciously these General Terms and Conditions of Use. An active action means clicking/ pushing/ selecting an electronic link or an advertising banner that takes the recipient of the service to other websites or subpages of the website. Inaction means that the service recipient does not leave the website after it has been loaded in the browser, or the mobile application is not closed.
By accepting these General Terms and Conditions, the recipient of the service expressly agrees that his or her personal data will be processed in compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act, both in relation to these General Terms and Conditions and the use of the Website and on the occasion of the activity of the service provider, and states that he/ she is at least 18-years-old.
By providing information (contact information associated with an order of the service recipient) on the website, the service recipient agrees that the service provider may contact the recipient in connection with the information sent, but "IDEAL LAB" Ltd is not responsible for the provision of any particular commodity or service.
"IDEA LAB" Ltd. ensures the validity, accuracy and reliability of all materials relating to the goods and / or services offered on the site, except in cases where we have been misled by the information provided by a merchant for a particular commodity and / or service.
All materials on the website are intended for information purposes only and do not constitute advice for the purchase of the relevant goods or service. The recipient of the service accepts and agrees that the use of the materials contained on the website, is his/ her own responsibility.
"IDEA LAB" Ltd. only maintains the website and may not be held responsible in the following cases: A ) For damages caused by unfair conduct by third parties promoting through the website or third parties, who are subcontractors of the website; B) For any defects and / or other the warranty liability in respect of the goods / services purchased by the customer via the website, and if any conditions or prices in the offers published on the website by promoting merchants prove to be incorrect, false or misleading ; C) For violations of copyright and related rights by publishing materials subject to these rights, provided by recipients of the service or third parties promoting and / or using the services of the website; D) For damages caused by other sites accessible through links / banners or other links placed on the website ; E) For any damages caused to the recipients of the service in the provision of the service, except for damages deliberately caused by employees of the service provider; F) If the recipient of the service forgets their personal account opened on a computer or otherwise authorizes and / or allows their personal account to be used by third parties, who have abused their registration; G) For damages caused by the purchase of goods / services offered on the website and / or the actions / omissions of the traders selling them, in connection with the provision of obligatory information to consumers in accordance with the requirements of the Consumer Protection Act; H) For any damages occurring as a result of the absence or interruption of the accessibility of the website, due to reasons beyond the control of the service provider's team ; I) "IDEA LAB" is not responsible for the quality of the particular service. Any disputes arising therefrom shall be settled between the Merchant and the customer; J) "IDEA LAB" shall not be liable for damages and costs caused by the use of the good or service provided by a particular merchant, including any personal injury, death or other physical or mental disability.
Each service recipient is required, when using the access granted to the electronic platform: A) to comply with the Bulgarian legislation, the applicable foreign laws, these General Terms and Conditions, the internet ethics, the rules of integrity and good morals; B) not to damage the reputation of others and not to call for a forcible change of the constitutional order, commission of a crime, violence against any person, or calling for racial, national, ethnic or religious hatred; C) not to spread fascist or other antidemocratic ideology; D) not to violate the tangible or intangible rights of third parties, including intellectual or industrial property rights; E) To immediately inform "IDEA LAB" Ltd. for any violation of the law, these General Terms and Conditions and good morals, committed or discovered; F) Not to interfere with the proper operation of the system or try to manipulate it, including but not limited to: not to hinder the procedure of identification of another recipient of the service, to refrain from any access outside the granted one, not to prejudice or impede the availability, reliability or quality of the access granted, and not to use it in a manner leading to its cancellation; (G) Not to extract by technical means or by technical methods any information resources or parts thereof, belonging to the databases located on the website or to electronic devices, networks or media connected to its operation, and thus not to create their own database in an electronic or any other form; H) Not to represent himself as another person or otherwise to mislead third parties about their identity or belonging to a particular group of people; I) does not perform malicious acts within the meaning of these General Terms and Conditions; J) To take due care and any measures reasonably necessary to protect their user name and password and other personal or financial information; K) Not to load, not to divulge in any way to third parties and not to provide the service provider content - information, data, text, sound, files, software, music, video, photographs, graphics, audio materials, messages, and any other materials or electronic references to materials, that are contrary to the Bulgarian law, the applicable foreign laws, these General Terms and Conditions, Internet ethics, morality and integrity, or that are subject to intellectual / industrial property rights of third parties except with the consent of the rightholder.
Each service recipient registered on the website (promoting merchants and potential buyers of promoted goods / services) authorizes the service provider through the information platform – website operated by the latter, to negotiate and / or conclude contracts, as well as to register contracts concluded between the promoting merchants and individual buyers of the promoted product / service, including on behalf of the authorizers, to accept and forward free of charge, any payments under the remote sales contracts concluded between a specific merchant and buyer for goods/ services with advance payment.
Unless expressly agreed otherwise, the recipient of the service may not reproduce, modify, delete, publish, distribute or otherwise disclose the information resources posted on the website.
By accepting and confirming these General Terms and Conditions without changing the settings, the person who is registering on the website, declares that he/she accepts all cookies of "IDEA LAB" Ltd. and will save them on their hard drive. However, any registrant may change the cookies settings, or block them at any time by using the settings of the relevant Internet browser. Website cookies save your actions and preferences for a certain period of time so you do not have to enter them each time you visit the site or switch from one page to another. Session cookies are used on our pages to save, for example, your choice of language and your display preferences (such as contrast or font sizes). These cookies are deleted from your computer when you close your browser. We also use a limited number of permanent cookies. They are stored on your computer until you delete them or until they expire, usually after a short period of no more than 1 year. Permanent cookies contain the following information - the status (bundled or expanded) of some menus and tabs on the home page and the selected tab in the sections of the home page. Allowing cookies is not absolutely necessary for the essential features of the website to work, but it will make it easier for you to use it. You can delete or block these cookies at any time. On our website we do not allow the use of third-party cookies and we do not use third-party services sending cookies to users. No information associated with the cookies is used to identify you, and the data collected about your behavior while using our website, is stored in a fully secure manner. Cookies are not used for purposes other than those listed herein.
The recipient of the service declares that by confirming the clauses of these General Terms and Conditions and their sections (appendices), he/ she is bound to perform them both in his relations with the service provider and in his relations with the other recipients of the service, resulting from the use of the website.
Any matters which have not been settled in the contractual relations, arising between the recipients of the service upon the conclusion of a contract between them by using the website, as well as any conflict between the clauses of a contract between the recipients of the service through the use of the website, and the provisions of these General Terms and conditions and their appendices, shall be governed by the General Terms and Conditions and their Annexes, unless expressly stated otherwise.
In case of a violation of any of the rules contained in these General Terms and Conditions, the service provider reserves the right to delete and remove the user's profile of the respective service recipient, and at its discretion to prohibit any further use of the website by such service recipient.
Where the service recipient is a user within the meaning of the CPA, the service recipient has all rights and obligations provided by law unless a certain user's right is limited within the frameworks allowed by law, by these General Terms and Conditions, or the distance sale agreement for a certain specific commodity or service concluded between the merchant promoting the service on the website and the user.
Merchants who promote their goods and services through the website are required to provide to the service provider and the other service recipients the information required by the current legislation about the goods and services, including information on the consumer rights and obligations pursuant to art. 47-61 CPA and ETA.
Although the service provider has taken all necessary care in preparing the content of the website, "IDEA LAB" Ltd. ca not guarantee uninterrupted and totally reliable access to the website, and therefore cannot guarantee that the information will always be completely up-to-date and error-free. To the extent permitted by law, the service provider gives no warranties, express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information contained in any of the materials on the website and assumes no responsibility for any loss or damage arising from problems with the access to the website.
The implementation of some of the services promoted on the website may depend on external conditions / weather. This information is published in advance on the website for each service. The recipient of the service and the user of the voucher are required to check the terms of use and, in the event that the performance of the service is not possible due to degraded weather conditions, he/ she shall agree directly with the merchant promoting on the website, another date for using the service. In this case, we are not responsible for damages caused by the cancellation of the event.
The pictures, which are used on the website to promote a product or service, are not always real. The recipient of the service should bear in mind that in reality the environment, objects, etc. may differ from those visually presented, and the service provider cannot be held responsible for such discrepancies.
The correspondence of a service recipient or his/ her participation in promotions, transactions or other business relationships other than the products or services promoted on the website, with merchants found on or via the website, including the supply of goods or services and any other terms, conditions, warranties or responsibilities associated with such relationships, are exclusively between the service recipient and the relevant merchants. The recipient of the service agrees that "IDEA LAB" Ltd. shall not be liable for any loss or damage of any kind, arising as a result of such transactions or as a result of the presence of such merchants on the website, for whose actions IDEA LAB Ltd. is not responsible.
"IDEA LAB" Ltd. reserves the right to stop the operation of the website at any time without justifying such interruptions, due to including, but not limited to, updates or upgrades, and shall not be responsible for such interruption.
"IDEA LAB" Ltd. reserves the right to change these Terms and Conditions at any time by posting new Terms and Conditions on the website.
By accepting these conditions, you agree to receive newsletters for our active offers.
"IDEA LAB" Ltd. provides access to the General Terms of Use of the site on the homepage of the website and through a link to them and an agreement / acceptance option when the voucher purchase process through the internet platform is started.
Every recipient of the service may register on the website if he/ she wants to. The use of the service provided by "IDEA LAB" Ltd. through the website is possible even without registering on the website as a user.
All goods or services offered on the website are subject to availability and seasonal nature. "IDEA LAB" Ltd. reserves the right to change the proposed experiences, partners and places where the service is performed during the validity of the purchased voucher, by offering the best alternative for the user of the voucher at the same or higher value.
You can find them here.
COPYRIGHTS AND OTHER INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Copyrights and any other intellectual property rights with regards to the materials contained on the website, along with the design of the web site, the images (except for the copyrights and all other rights on the images and marks of MasterCard, MasterCard Electronic, Maestro, Visa, Visa Electron, PAY PAL, as well as the copyright and all other rights to images, names and contents of the provided goods and / or services, are reserved by the supplying traders), belong to or are duly provided for exercise by "IDEA LAB" LTD.
33 Each service recipient using the Internet platform, declares that he/ she is the owner, or that he/ she has received the necessary consent of the owner of any and all materials published on the website.
34 Pursuant to these General Terms and Conditions each service recipient provides to "IDEA LAB" Ltd. nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free right to use all materials published on the website in accordance with these conditions.
V. PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION AND CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT
34. "IDEA LAB" Ltd shall take due care and is responsible for the protection of any information related to the service recipient, which has become available to it as a result of the registration and use of the website - subject to these General Terms and Conditions, except in case of force majeure, accidental event or malicious actions of third parties.
35. In the registration form completed by the service recipient when registering on the website or making an order, IDEA LAB Ltd. designates the mandatory or voluntary nature of the provision of data and the consequences of the refusal to provide it. By accepting these General Terms and Conditions, the service recipient agrees that the information about him / her will be processed in the manner provided for therein. The profile created during the initial registration has default settings allowing for free access to the personal data specified by the service recipient.
36. The restrictions under paragraph 36 shall not apply if the service recipient or persons under their control have committed malicious acts within the meaning of these General Terms or have infringed the rights or legitimate interests of third parties. In this case "IDEA LAB" Ltd. is entitled to provide the personal information of the service recipient to the respective competent state authorities in accordance with the legislation in force.
37. "IDEA LAB" Ltd. collects and uses the information about the service recipients only for the purposes provided in these General Terms and Conditions. The described purposes for which the information is used, are not exhaustive and they do not incur obligations for "IDEA LAB" LTD.
38. By accepting these General Terms and Conditions, the service recipient agrees to the processing of his/ her personal data according to EU Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), LPDP, and Privacy Policy for the purpose of meeting the requirements of notified bodies, which are relevant to the scope of the contract from a distance sale of the promoted goods, by giving consent for an advance payment.
39. With the acceptance of the General Terms and Conditions the service recipient agrees his/ her personal data, announced as generally available on their profile in the website, to be used and disclosed by "IDEA LAB" Ltd. for direct marketing purposes, unless he/ she expressly prohibits the access thereto.
40. Upon visiting the site through a mobile device or using the applications of IDEA LAB Ltd. for mobile devices, the service recipient agrees and authorizes IDEA LAB Ltd. to collect data about his/ her current location, which data can be used solely and exclusively to inform the service recipient of the nearby sites making offers on www.giftcometrue. com.
41. "IDEA LAB" Ltd. undertakes not to disclose any personal information about the service recipient and not to provide the collected information to third parties - state authorities, trade companies, individuals and others, except in the following cases:
- it has received the explicit consent of the service recipient at the time of registration or at a later date;
- the information is required by government bodies or officials who, under the current law, are authorized to request and collect such information in accordance with the statutory procedures;
- other cases specified by law.
42. By registering on the website, the service recipient allows to be sent personal, advertising or other commercial messages by "IDEA LAB" Ltd. or the retailers promoting their products on the website, to their user profile on the website and the email address announced by him/ her, as well as "IDEA LAB" Ltd to provide the retailers with the phone number and the e-mail address of the service recipient if the latter has purchased tourist services or other services requiring prior reservation, which has not been made.
43. The site is accessed through HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) protocol for secure communication in a computer network and in particular on the Internet, ensuring the security and integrity of the information exchanged on the network.
VI. LIMITATIONS
44. By accepting the Terms and Conditions, each service recipient should be aware that they are not applicable to the consumer contracts referred to in Art. 46 of the CPA.
45. By accepting the General terms and conditions, each service recipient should be aware that he/ she has no right to withdraw from a consumer contract concluded remotely, in respect of the contracts referred to in Art. 57 of the CPA.
VII. FINAL PROVISIONS
46. "IDEA LAB" Ltd. reserves the right to amend or supplement these General Terms and Conditions and their appendices unilaterally without notifying the service recipients thereof.
47. By confirming these General Terms and Conditions, the service recipient, who is a consumer within the meaning of the CPA, declares that he/ she is aware of his / her rights under the CPA.
48. By confirming these General Terms and Conditions, the service recipient expressly agrees to pay in advance, in whole or in part, the price under the sales contract concluded through this platform, based on a specific offer contained therein.
49. The parties declare that, in the event of invalidation of any of the clauses of these General Terms and Conditions, this will not invalidate the contract, any other clauses or parts thereof. The invalid clause will be replaced by the mandatory legal provisions or the established practice.
50. Any matters which are not covered by these General Terms and Conditions shall be governed by the provisions of the applicable legislation of the Republic of Bulgaria.
51. These General Terms and Conditions can be reviewed and updated at any time by "IDEA LAB" LTD. If a service recipient continues to use the site, he explicitly agrees and accepts the changes made.
52. Within the meaning and for the purposes of this Agreement, the following terms will have the below meaning:
-"Service provider" is the company "IDEA LAB" Ltd. - Sofia with UIC 204864275;
- "Service recipient" is an individual or a legal entity using the services rendered by the service provider through the website.
- "User" is a service recipient who has the capacity of a user within the meaning of §13, item 1 of the Supplementary Provisions of CPA;
- Abbreviations of statutory documents: ETA (Electronic Trade Act), CPA (Consumer Protection Act); VAT Act (Value Added Tax Act).
- "The website", "the internet platform" and "www.giftcometrue.com" is a web site with address (domain) www.giftcometrue.com and www.giftcometrue.bg, which are property of the service provider "IDEA LAB" Ltd.
- "Malicious actions" are acts or omissions that violate Internet ethics or harm persons connected to the Internet or to associated networks, spamming (sending unsolicited trade notifications), gaining access to resources with third-party rights and passwords, using flaws of the systems for gaining personal benefits or acquiring information (HACK), performing actions that may be qualified as industrial espionage or sabotage, damage or destruction of systems or information arrays (CRACK), sending Trojan horses or causing installation of viruses or remote control systems, disrupting the normal work of other users of the Internet and the associated networks, performing any actions, which can be classified as a crime or an administrative violation under the Bulgarian law or any other applicable law.
- "Voucher" is a virtual electronic document with a unique number, issued by "IDEA LAB" Ltd. to a service recipient, confirming that under the conditions of Art. 45 of the Consumer Protection Act and / or ECA and CA, they have concluded a specific distance sales agreement with a particular retailer that promotes products / services on the site www. giftcometrue.com via the information platform of IDEA LAB Ltd. and the specific electronic form, for a particular good / service at a price announced by the trader, and that, under the terms of the contract, they have made an advance payment for part and / or the entire price of the goods and / or service purchased remotely.
The general terms and conditions were adopted on 26.11.2020.


USC tops Beavers 38-21! Jonathan Smith reacts!
Who knows might have happened had safety Jalen Moore's scamper and score of a Vavae Malepeai fumble in the early fourth quarter not been disallowed when Malepeai was mistakenly ruled down.
The original call was overturned by video review, but the Beavers didn't get the touchdown back. The got the ball at the 39 and then stalled and then USC took advantage and pulled away for the 38-21 victory. USC was the better team but Oregon State continues to improve. Check out Jonathan Smith's post game news conference.
Up next a trip to Palo Alto and a battle with a reeling Stanford team. The Cardinal down 21-0 to Washington almost pulled off an Oregon State comeback but came up short 27-23. Gametime next Saturday at 6;pm with the pregame coverage on 1190 KEX starting at 3:pm from Stanford Stadium.


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Saint-Anicet, Quebec (Canada)
Keywords: saint-anicet | quebec |
image by Ivan Sache, 9 July 2019
The parish municipality of Saint-Anicet (2,626 inhabitants in 2016; 13,625 ha) is located on the southern shore of Lac Saint-François, 100 km of Montreal and close to the border with the USA.
Saint-Anicet was settled in 1795 by Acadian colonists as a mission, named for St. Anicetus (elected 11th Pope in 155 and allegedly martyred in 166). The settlement was incorporated to Godmanchester canton, established on 10 May 1811, as was the village of La Guerre, established by Roman Catholic Irish colonists. The village was named for François Benoît de La Guerre and not for the war (French, "guerre") fought against the Iroquois. The parish of Saint-Anicet-de-Godmanchester was canonically erected on 26 May 1827, covering part of the canton. Its name was subsequently shortened to Saint-Anicet by the inhabitants. Established on 8 June 1823, the parish municipality of Saint-Anicet was abolished on 1 September 1847, to be reinstated on 1 July 1855.
Saint-Anicet is the birth place of Jules Léger (1913-1980), 21st Governor General of Canada (1974-1979), and junior brother of Paul-Émile Léger (1904-1991), Archbishop of Montreal (1950-1968) and Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria degli Angeli (1953), one of the most active contributors to Vatican II Council.
https://stanicet.com/
The flag of Saint-Anicet, inaugurated on 7 April 1986, is in proportions 1:2, with the municipal coat of arms in the center, surrounded left and right by four horizontal stripes, in respective proportions 2:2:3:4, from top to bottom, blue, red, green, and blue, separated from each other and from the coat of arms by thin white stripes, and with a white border on top and bottom.
The coat of arms features the green skyline of the village under a red sun and above white and blue waves. The name of the municipality is written in blue letter in chief. The shield has a green border in the upper part, no border in the wavy base.
The two emblems represent the village (by the St. Joan of Arc chapel and the St. Anicet church, erected in 1887), agriculture, joy of living, and the three nations that founded the village: the Irish, the Scots, and the French.
https://stanicet.com/portrait-et-histoire
Photo: https://stanicet.com
Ivan Sache, 9 July 2019

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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package org.jasig.cas.ticket.registry;

import org.jasig.cas.couchbase.core.CouchbaseClientFactory;
import org.jasig.cas.ticket.ServiceTicket;
import org.jasig.cas.ticket.Ticket;
import org.jasig.cas.ticket.TicketGrantingTicket;

import com.couchbase.client.java.document.SerializableDocument;
import com.couchbase.client.java.view.DefaultView;
import com.couchbase.client.java.view.View;
import com.couchbase.client.java.view.ViewQuery;
import com.couchbase.client.java.view.ViewResult;
import com.couchbase.client.java.view.ViewRow;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Qualifier;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Value;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
import javax.validation.constraints.Min;
import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * A Ticket Registry storage backend which uses the memcached protocol.
 * CouchBase is a multi host NoSQL database with a memcached interface
 * to persistent storage which also is quite usable as a replicated
 * tickage storage engine for multiple front end CAS servers.
 *
 * @author Fredrik Jönsson "fjo@kth.se"
 * @author Misagh Moayyed
 * @since 4.2.0
 */
@Component("couchbaseTicketRegistry")
public final class CouchbaseTicketRegistry extends AbstractTicketRegistry implements TicketRegistryState {
    private static final String END_TOKEN = "\u02ad";

    private static final View ALL_TICKETS_VIEW = DefaultView.create(
            "all_tickets",
            "function(d,m) {emit(m.id);}",
            "_count");
    private static final List<View> ALL_VIEWS = Arrays.asList(new View[] {
            ALL_TICKETS_VIEW
    });
    private static final String UTIL_DOCUMENT = "statistics";

    /* Couchbase client factory */
    @NotNull
    @Autowired
    @Qualifier("ticketRegistryCouchbaseClientFactory")
    private CouchbaseClientFactory couchbase;

    @Min(0)
    @Value("${tgt.maxTimeToLiveInSeconds:28800}")
    private int tgtTimeout;

    @Min(0)
    @Value("${st.timeToKillInSeconds:10}")
    private int stTimeout;

    @Value("${ticketreg.couchbase.query.enabled:true}")
    private boolean queryEnabled;

    /**
     * Default constructor.
     */
    public CouchbaseTicketRegistry() {}

    @Override
    protected void updateTicket(final Ticket ticket) {
        logger.debug("Updating ticket {}", ticket);
        try {
            final SerializableDocument document =
                    SerializableDocument.create(ticket.getId(), getTimeout(ticket), ticket);
            couchbase.bucket().upsert(document);
        } catch (final Exception e) {
            logger.error("Failed updating {}: {}", ticket, e);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void addTicket(final Ticket ticketToAdd) {
        logger.debug("Adding ticket {}", ticketToAdd);
        try {
            final Ticket ticket = encodeTicket(ticketToAdd);
            final SerializableDocument document =
                    SerializableDocument.create(ticket.getId(), getTimeout(ticket), ticket);
            couchbase.bucket().upsert(document);
        } catch (final Exception e) {
            logger.error("Failed adding {}: {}", ticketToAdd, e);
        }
    }

    @Override
    public Ticket getTicket(final String ticketId) {
        try {
            final String encTicketId = encodeTicketId(ticketId);
            if (ticketId == null) {
                return null;
            }

            final SerializableDocument document = couchbase.bucket().get(encTicketId, SerializableDocument.class);
            if (document != null) {
                final Ticket t = (Ticket) document.content();
                logger.debug("Got ticket {} from registry.", t);
                return getProxiedTicketInstance(t);
            }
            logger.debug("Ticket {} not found in registry.", encTicketId);
            return null;
        } catch (final Exception e) {
            logger.error("Failed fetching {}: {}", ticketId, e);
            return null;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Starts the couchbase client.
     */
    @PostConstruct
    public void initialize() {
        System.setProperty("com.couchbase.queryEnabled", Boolean.toString(this.queryEnabled));
        couchbase.ensureIndexes(UTIL_DOCUMENT, ALL_VIEWS);
        couchbase.initialize();
    }

    /**
     * Stops the couchbase client.
     */
    @PreDestroy
    public void destroy() {
        try {
            couchbase.shutdown();
        } catch (final Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected boolean needsCallback() {
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public Collection<Ticket> getTickets() {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("GetTickets not supported.");
    }

    @Override
    public int sessionCount() {
        return runQuery(TicketGrantingTicket.PREFIX + '-');
    }

    @Override
    public int serviceTicketCount() {
        return runQuery(ServiceTicket.PREFIX + '-');
    }

    @Override
    public boolean deleteSingleTicket(final String ticketId) {
        logger.debug("Deleting ticket {}", ticketId);
        try {
            return couchbase.bucket().remove(ticketId) != null;
        } catch (final Exception e) {
            logger.error("Failed deleting {}: {}", ticketId, e);
            return false;
        }
    }

    private int runQuery(final String prefix) {
        final ViewResult allKeys = couchbase.bucket().query(
                ViewQuery.from(UTIL_DOCUMENT, "all_tickets")
                        .startKey(prefix)
                        .endKey(prefix + END_TOKEN)
                        .reduce());
        final Iterator<ViewRow> iterator = allKeys.iterator();
        if (iterator.hasNext()) {
            final ViewRow res = iterator.next();
            return (Integer) res.value();
        } else {
            return 0;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Sets the time after which a ticket granting ticket will be
     * purged from the registry.
     *
     * @param tgtTimeout Ticket granting ticket timeout in seconds.
     */
    public void setTgtTimeout(final int tgtTimeout) {
        this.tgtTimeout = tgtTimeout;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the time after which a session ticket will be purged
     * from the registry.
     *
     * @param stTimeout Session ticket timeout in seconds.
     */
    public void setStTimeout(final int stTimeout) {
        this.stTimeout = stTimeout;
    }

    /**
     * @param t a CAS ticket.
     * @return the ticket timeout for the ticket in the registry.
     */
    private int getTimeout(final Ticket t) {
        if (t instanceof TicketGrantingTicket) {
            return tgtTimeout;
        } else if (t instanceof ServiceTicket) {
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Bracing concepts in use today for the treatment of scoliosis include symmetric and asymmetric hard braces usually made of polyethylene (PE) and soft braces. A new asymmetric Chêneau style CAD/CAM derivate has been designed to overcome problems the author experienced with other Chêneau CAD/CAM systems over the recent years.
This CAD/CAM Chêneau derivate has been called Gensingen brace™, a brace available to address all possible curve patterns. Once the patients' trunk is scanned with the help of a whole trunk optical 3D-scan and the patients' data from the clinical measurements are recorded, a model of the brace can be created by (1) modifying the trunk model of the patient 'on screen' to achieve a very individual brace model using the CAD/CAM tools provided or by (2) choosing a brace model from our library and re-size it to the patients' properties 'on screen'.
End-result studies have been published on the Chêneau brace as early as 1985. Cohort studies on the Chêneau brace are available as is a prospective controlled study respecting the SRS criteria for bracing studies, demonstrating beneficial outcomes, when compared to the controls using a soft brace. Sufficient in-brace correction effects have been demonstrated to be achievable when the Chêneau principles of correction are used appropriately. As there is a positive correlation between in-brace correction and the final outcome, the Chêneau concept of bracing with sufficient in-brace corrections as published can be regarded as being efficient when applied well. Case reports with high in-brace corrections, as shown within this paper using the Gensingen brace™ promise beneficial outcomes when a good compliance can be achieved.
The use of the Gensingen brace™ leads to sufficient in-brace corrections, when compared to the correction effects achieved with other braces, as described in literature.
According to the patients' reports, the Gensingen brace™ is comfortable to wear, when adjusted properly.
Further studies are necessary (1) in order to evaluate brace comfort and (2) effectiveness using the SRS inclusion criteria.
Bracing concepts in use today for the treatment of scoliosis include symmetric and asymmetric hard braces usually made of PE on the one hand and soft braces on the other. The latest developments in the field of bracing, aim at (1) improving specificity with respect to the individual curve pattern of the patient treated and (2) at a restoration of a proper sagittal realignment [1, 2].
Although the effect of brace treatment has been questioned , there is evidence that brace treatment can stop curvature progression [4–9], reduce the frequency of surgery [10–12] and improve cosmetic appearance [13–15]. Poor cosmetic appearance for the patient may be the most important problem, which can be solved or at least reduced by the use of advanced bracing techniques including the best possible correction principles available to date .
The plaster cast method worldwide seems to be the most practiced technique for the construction of hard braces at the moment. CAD (Computer Aided Design) systems are available, which allow brace adjustments without plaster. Another new development is the ScoliOlogiC™ off the shelf system enabling the technician to construct a light brace for scoliosis correction from a variety of pattern specific shells to be connected to an anterior and a posterior upright . This Chêneau light™ brace, constructed according to the Chêneau principles using the brace parts from the ScoliOlogiC™ off the shelf system, promises a reduced impediment of quality of life in the brace. A satisfactory in-brace correction exceeding 50% of the initial Cobb angle has been achieved with this brace , which was used as the basis for the development of the Gensingen brace™ (Fig. 1).
Gensingen brace™ for the correction of a functional 4-curve scoliosis.
The Gensingen brace™ is a Chêneau derivative in principle. The Chêneau brace was developed before 1978 . As the first developments were made in Münster, Germany, the brace was initially called CTM-brace (Chêneau-Toulouse-Münster). Jacques Chêneau, who used to live in Toulouse, spent a few years in Münster, where he braced patients at the orthopedic department of the university. In 1985 the first end-result study was published with in-brace correction effects of more than 40% of the initial value  and final results superior to the end-results of the Milwaukee study from the same centre  (Fig. 2). The initial Chêneau brace was upgraded in 1995 and from this year on, a new version each year was promoted by the inventor during the courses organized in Germany together with Dr. Weiss in Bad Sobernheim and Prof. Neff in Berlin. A working relationship between Dr. Chêneau, Dr. Weiss and Dr. Rigo began in Bad Sobernheim towards the end of the 90's, which resulted in a collaboration publishing a book presenting the 1999 standard of the Chêneau brace .
Patient from North America with a thoracic curve of 56° initially treated with a Milwaukee brace (upper line of pictures). The curve corrected from 56 to 53°, only. The same curve has been corrected to 27° in a Chêneau brace with a good clinical and cosmetic intermediate result. Nevertheless, the patient from North America finally decided to have spinal surgery, although the Chêneau brace treatment seemed promising.
At the beginning of the new century Dr. Chêneau was working on the first CAD/CAM system supported by a company called IPOS.
Other CAD/CAM systems developed in Germany applying the Chêneau principles, such as the Regnier™ system and the RSC™-brace.
In the summer of 2006 the fabrication of the ScoliOlogiC® off the shelf bracing system for the adjustment of Chêneau light™ braces began.
The Chêneau light™ brace is available for right thoracic and left lumbar curvatures, only. For thoracolumbar curvatures no Chêneau light™ shells are available. Another limitation for the application of the Chêneau light™ brace is the limited number of shell sizes not allowing to brace patients with small trunks as well as in children aged ten or under.
Therefore, in our department it has been necessary to use plaster based bracing or a CAD/CAM system in addition to the Chêneau light™ brace.
At first, we considered using a CAD/CAM system that was already available. However, the Regnier™ system still today does not address the sagittal profile accordingly and the RSC™ braces still have a high percentage of rotation instability . The latter may lead to a loss of the correction initially achieved after a few weeks of brace wearing .
Therefore, with the help of Orthomed Scoliocare, Orthopedic Technical Services in Gensingen a new CAD/CAM system was developed in Spring 2009 with the aim to overcome the shortcomings of the CAD/CAM systems already available in Germany and to enable brace adjustments for patients of all possible curve patterns (Fig. 3 and 4) and trunk sizes.
Three examples of Gensingen braces™. On the left there is a brace to address a double curve (3CL, 4C), in the middle, a brace to address single thoracic curves (3C, 3CH) and on the right, a brace for the treatment of a thoracolumbar curve pattern.
Different Gensingen braces™ on the patient's body. On the left for a 3C scoliosis: The decompensation to the right has been overcorrected with the trunk being hyper compensated to the left in the Gensingen brace™ 3C. The middle picture shows a patient with right lumbar scoliosis in a Gensingen brace™ 4CL. The pelvis is hyper compensated from left to the right and the thoracic counter curve seems well balanced in the brace. On the right, a patient in a Gensingen brace™ 4C is documented. Pelvis is hyper compensated from right to left and the thoracic area is hyper compensated in the same direction.
A slight lumbar lordosis has been introduced into the braces included into our library (Fig. 5), which can be augmented by using foam pads and the "Stop Point" against rotational forces (Point 37 according to Chêneau) has been set laterally in order to have a better relation to the anterior superior iliac spine on the rib-hump side.
Sagittal alignment of a Gensingen brace™ 4C. On the right the implementation of a physiologic sagittal profile is visible with a pronounced lumbar lordosis and a slight thoracic kyphosis.
Although, dependent on the pelvic geometry of the individual patient, we are still experiencing some rotation instabilities in the new design, we have been able to reduce this problem drastically.
Many 3-point pressure systems are applied on the frontal, coronal and sagittal plane as in all other Chêneau derivates. Opposite every pressure area an expansion void is implemented. This enables the desired corrective movement and - when adjusted properly - avoids compression effects leading to pressure sores. As a matter of fact, in today's Chêneau braces pressure sores have become a very rare complication.
The brace action is demonstrated on morphing videos, which can be seen on the links provided: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd9mbyzXflQ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uNZmY6jQas.
Pattern specific bracing is desirable to allow the correction of the individual curve patterns appropriately, as theoretically there might be an unlimited number of curve patterns with different geometrical entities. Therefore, a classification is necessary to come as close as possible to the individual pattern of the patient in order to address the biomechanical properties of the individual curve pattern of the patient treated.
After the first curve patterns were identified by Ponseti and Friedmann , and Moe and Kettleson  for surgical means, in the late 70's a simple functional classification for approaching different curve patterns with the help of physiotherapy was established by Lehnert-Schroth [22, 23]. This classification simply distinguished between so called (functional) 3- and 4-curve patterns.
Chêneau also used this simple classification for the construction of his braces.
The King classification  distinguished between 5 different (thoracic) curve patterns and was established in the 80's to help the surgeons to approach the curves properly during operations.
The Lenke classification , which is rather complex was developed by surgeons, because the use of the King Classification had lead to imbalanced post surgical results and seemed to lack reliability.
Rigo  implemented a new classification for brace treatment with 15 different curve patterns, derived from the Lenke classification . All those curve patterns - according to his opinion - demand individual principles of correction in 3D, however, 5 key patterns have been identified which we have started working with in everyday practice .
This year Rigo came up with a brand new classification , which, in our opinion is not simple enough to be used by technicians and CPOs generally.
Therefore, at our center we are now returning to the simple functional classification by Lehnert-Schroth [22, 23]. The principal subdivision of functional 3 and functional 4 curves still seems to work for physiotherapy and can easily be augmented to the needs of the technician or CPO. This augmented Lehnert-Schroth classification  can be seen on Fig. 6 as well as the braces used to address the individual curve patterns.
The augmented classification according to Lehnert-Schroth. Curvatures decompensated to the thoracic convex side have to be regarded as functional 3-curve type curvatures, when balanced or decompensated to the thoracic concave side (lumbar curves as big as thoracic ones or even bigger) per definition they are functional 4-curve types. As can be seen, the 3-curve lumbar is a 3-curve pattern, but treated like 4-curve with reduced correction in the lumbar curve.
The advantage of the Gensingen brace™ is that the brace is available in a short time (3 days with overnight milling service, or even shorter), is easily adjustable and is very comfortable to wear, because many compression effects - in frontal and sagittal plane as well - apparent within other specific, non symmetric CAD/CAM systems - have been ruled out in this system of bracing. As a matter of fact many other CAD/CAM Chêneau derivates lack a balanced distribution of pressure areas.
Braces to address functional 3-curve patterns (Fig. 7) and braces to address functional 4-curve patterns (Fig. 8) are available, as are braces for thoracolumbar curve patterns (Fig. 9). There are more than 35 different braces in our library including models for athletic trunks as well as models for small children. No extra models are used for double thoracic curvatures as these easily can be addressed by fine adjustment of the models from the library.
A brace to address functional 3-curve patterns for right thoracic curves from all four sides. The static overcorrection to the concave side is already visible in this "try-on" brace not yet cut and finalized. A final 3-curve brace can be seen on Fig. 4. on the left. The final brace is much smaller than the 'try on' brace.
A brace to address functional 4-curve patterns for right thoracic and left lumbar curves from all four sides. The static recompensation of the trunk segment is already visible in this "try-on" brace not yet cut and finalized. A functional 4-curve pattern brace in its final form can be seen on Fig. 4 on the right. The final brace is much smaller than the 'try on' brace.
A short brace to address the thoracolumbar curve pattern 4CTL. The static overcorrection to the thoracolumbar concave side is already visible in this "try-on" brace not yet cut and finalized with pelvic prominence mirrored. A final 4C-curve short brace can be seen on Fig. 4. middle. The final brace is much smaller than the 'try on' brace.
The brace is usually adjusted to the patients' body with the help of the pattern specific blueprints (Additional file 1.) as a raw "try on" brace first as it has been cut from the foam positive (Fig 7, Fig 8, Fig 9). The construction of the Gensingen brace™ from the milling of the foam positive to the fine adjustment to the patient's body can be seen on the first part of the video on the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P9eKW0Fpis.
The Gensingen brace™ at our centre is not prescribed per se. The prescription does not contain the specific brace name, but a Chêneau brace is prescribed and the curve pattern of the individual patient is also submitted. The Cobb angles of all curvatures should also be visible on the prescription.
Additionally, a construction plan (e.g. in Additional file 2.) for the brace prescribed is attached to the prescription and should a brace have to be renewed, a further sheet giving justification (Additional file 3.) as to why a new brace has to be prescribed should be included.
With this Chêneau prescription, the patient can go to any workshop near home to get his or her brace done using plaster casting, CAD/CAM system braces or Chêneau light braces. If the patient makes the decision to go to the workshop in Gensingen, the CPOs show diverse possible Chêneau derivates so as to enable the patient to decide on the brace type her- or himself. When the Gensingen brace™ has been chosen the CPO firstly performs a trunk scan (Fig. 10) and then starts to take the measurements necessary for proper brace adjustment as has been demonstrated on the linked video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P9eKW0Fpis.
Whole trunk scan of a patient with right thoracic scoliosis. The decompensation is clearly visible. To paste some markers on the trunk before the scan is taken makes it easier to identify special landmarks of the trunk while modifying the trunk model in the computer with the help of the CAD/CAM tools provided.
Once the patients' trunk is scanned with the help of a whole trunk optical 3D-scan and the patients' data from the clinical measurements are recorded, a model of the brace can be created by (1) modifying the trunk model of the patient 'on screen' to achieve a very individual brace model using the CAD/CAM tools provided or by (2) choosing a brace model from our library and re-size it to the patients' properties 'on screen'. In rare curve patterns the individual correction of the trunk scan is used, in curve patterns classified easily, the second procedure is usually chosen. In this case the patient has the advantage to receive a fully developed brace, where all known disadvantages of other bracing systems have already been ruled out as far as possible . Individual modelling is not as safe with respect to in-brace correction and may be more uncomfortable at first. A visual impression on how the model is milled, vacuumed and how the brace is finally adjusted can be found on the linked video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P9eKW0Fpis.
After that, the CPO presents the patient and the checklist to the physician, who has another checklist (available in German only, Additional file 5.) for the final clinical check-up.
After the necessary improvements have been made, the patient is scheduled for the next appointment in 6 weeks in order to have a clinical check-up and the in-brace x-ray completed using pad markers (Fig. 11, 12, 13).
14-year old boy in his second Gensingen brace™ for the treatment of a double thoracic curvature. The initial angle of curvature at the start of treatment, when the boy was 12 years old, was 35° main thoracic with a significant high thoracic counter curve exceeding 30° as well. Now in his second Gensingen brace™, version 2010 for the treatment of a double thoracic curvature we have achieved a correction from 27° (intermediate result) to 12° in the main thoracic curvature, which is excellent considering the fact, that double thoracic curves cannot be corrected as easy as single thoracic curves. The foam pad location is marked on the in-brace x-ray with wire as is the longitudinal width of the thoracic pad.
10-year old boy with EOS (early onset scoliosis) in his first Gensingen brace™. Clinically in this boy the flatback is clearly visible. The trunk is rather balanced because of the re-compensation of the 39° thoracic curve by a structural high thoracic counter curve. The curve is very stiff and has a bad prognosis, which can be estimated from the x-ray: In the apical area of the thoracic curve a significant wedging of the vertebra is visible. Nevertheless the curve has been corrected to 18° in the brace, which is sufficient considering the fact that double thoracic and EOS curves cannot be corrected as easy as single thoracic curves in patients with AIS. The foam pad location is marked on the in-brace x-ray with wire as is the longitudinal width of the thoracic pad.
Girl with AIS treated with a 3CTL brace. The clinical picture on the left was taken after 6 weeks of brace wearing. The initial decompensation of the trunk has already disappeared. On the right in the brace the hyper compensation is demonstrated in order to allow a shift of the apical vertebra towards the midline. The x-ray result is sufficient with a >75% correction of the initial Cobb angle (left) in the Gensingen brace™ 3CTL.
The criteria for bracing are taken one to one from the SOSORT indication guidelines .
the number of hours per day that the patient should wear the brace in principle is taken one to one from the SOSORT indication guidelines .
There are no exercises done in the brace because we aim at maximum possible correction giving no room for further corrections with the help of exercises. However, for the exercises without the brace on, the augmented Lehnert-Schroth classification is also applied (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHsCsL7IEaU).
At least in Germany the Chêneau brace has been widely reviewed. As early as 1985 the first end-result study was published . The average in-brace correction reported on within this study was 40%. Landauer  presented a case series of patients treated with the Chêneau brace with comparable in-brace corrections and comparable end-results.
A prospective controlled study comparing the Chêneau brace with the SpineCor has clearly shown the superiority of the Chêneau brace in a sample of patients at actual risk for being progressive, fulfilling the SRS criteria for studies on bracing . After growth only 8% from the SpineCor sample and 80% of the Chêneau group were not progressive. The Cobb angle at the start of treatment however, was 21° for the SpineCor sample and 33° for the Chêneau brace sample of patients.
According to Landauer and collaborators,  two factors are influencing the outcome of brace treatment, both of them being equally important: In-brace correction (1) clearly correlates with the final result. The better the in-brace correction, the better the end-result. Compliance (2) is the other important factor. The best possible in-brace correction will not change the prognosis of the patient when the brace is not worn as prescribed.
In-brace corrections exceeding 50% have been reported in literature in a sample of patients treated with the Chêneau light™ brace having an average Cobb angle of 36° . The Gensingen brace™ is adjusted according to the same principles of correction as the Chêneau light™ brace , therefore we expect similar results in both brace types.
As the majority of patients treated in our department choose the Chêneau light™ brace, the Gensingen brace™ is used in curvature patterns a Chêneau light™ brace is not available for, or for curvatures exceeding 50°. Therefore, a direct comparison of the results achieved with both brace types will not be possible in the near future.
Nevertheless, we have documented case reports showing sufficient in-brace corrections in certain curve patterns and in bigger curves as well (Fig. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17).
Girl with double thoracic AIS treated with a 3C brace. On the left the old 2009 model was used initially, on the second picture from left the final 2010 version of this Gensingen brace™ 3C was finally applied and the recompensation of the curve with a sufficient in-brace correction effect can be seen on the right.
Tall 12-year old girl from Denmark with double major curvature treated with a Gensingen brace™ 4C. The curve of initially 50° thoracic and 55° lumbar has been corrected to 36° thoracic and 30° lumbar although this specific curve pattern with high lumbar and middle to low thoracic apex usually corrects least.
12 year old girl with neuromuscular scoliosis treated with a Gensingen brace™ 3C. The curvature exceeding 60° at the start of the treatment has been reduced by approximately 50% in the Gensingen brace™ 3C.
According to the patients' reports the Gensingen brace™ is comfortable to wear, when adjusted properly.
Several bracing concepts are used today for the treatment of scoliosis and the in-brace corrections accepted as sufficient vary widely. The plaster cast method worldwide seems to be the most practiced technique at the moment. CAD systems are available which allow brace adjustments without plaster. The latest development however, the ScoliOlogiC® off the shelf system is not available for all patterns of curvature and for all possible trunk sizes.
Therefore, with the help of Orthomed Scolicare, Orthopedic Technical Services in Gensingen a new CAD/CAM system was developed in Spring 2009 with the aim to overcome the shortcomings of the CAD/CAM systems already available in Germany and to enable brace adjustments for patients of all possible curve patterns (Fig. 18 and 19) and trunk sizes.
14 year old girl with a thoracic curve exceeding 60° and with a short lumbar counter curve of 50° treated with a Gensingen brace™ 4C. The decision was made to counter tilt the pelvis due to the size of the lumbar counter curvature. Although the clinical picture in the brace looks good we were not able to re-compensate the thoracic curve sufficiently because of a compression effect caused by the lower ribs included into the lumbar pressure area (arrow).
Same patient as on Fig. 18 with changed brace pattern. After 6 months of treatment with a Gensingen brace™ 4C the lumbar curve was reduced, however the thoracic curve had increased by 5°. This is why we decided to change the brace to a Gensingen brace™ 3C in order to get rid of the rib shift on the concave side against the thoracic re-compensation. This is to show that sometimes it is not clear from the very start which brace may be the best for the patient. Today we address the primary curve at first and risk an increase of the counter curve when a patient is imbalanced. This allows having the best possible cosmetic result at the very end; however in this patient, there was no more change of cosmetics. The patient, nevertheless, is satisfied cosmetically and refuses surgery.
In the normal range of brace indications a correction effect of at least 20% seems necessary to prevent progression , while a correction effect of an average 30% promises some final corrections . A correction effect of 40% and more in a growing adolescent may lead to a final correction of an average 7° Cobb .
Wong et al.  reported correction effects of an average of 40% in patients with an average Cobb degree of 30, 6° (21° - 43°). However, in this collective, no patients with double curve patterns were included, which generally corrected worse than single curves in our preliminary study using the Chêneau light™ brace .
Bullmann et al.  reported average correction effects of 43% in the custom Chêneau brace constructed via plaster cast in patients with a Cobb angle of 31° (25° - 40°). The final rate of success in this study however, was only 58%, which has to be regarded as rather disappointing, when compared to the success rate of 80% we reported on in another prospective study  with an average correction effect of less than 40% in custom Chêneau braces constructed via plaster cast (prospective controlled study) and compared to the success rate of about 80% as reported in another independent prospective study .
No end result studies on the Gensingen brace™ are available at this stage, as this is a new application, but as it uses the Chêneau principles of correction comparable outcomes can be assumed as in the Chêneau braces investigated previously [6, 7, 9–11].
As can be seen on Fig. 20 not only the Cobb angle, but also the clinical appearance of the patient with respect to trunk symmetry can be corrected by use of the Gensingen brace™ even in curvatures exceeding 50°.
Clinical course of a patient treated with the Gensingen brace™. This 13 year old girl with a curvature exceeding 50° has been compliant after having received her first Gensingen brace™ in March at the first Scoliosis Short-Term Rehabilitation (SSTR) in Gensingen. She has been compliant and clearly shows an improvement of trunk asymmetry. This is clearly visible when comparing the left waist area after three months (middle) and after six months (right) of treatment time. Additionally she is exercising regularly.
The use of the Gensingen brace™ leads to sufficient in-brace corrections, when compared to the correction effects achieved with other braces as described in literature. This has been demonstrated in the cases shown within this paper.
Further studies are necessary (1) to evaluate brace comfort and (2) effectiveness using the SRS inclusion criteria.
The author is grateful to Orthomed Scoliocare, Orthopedic Technical Services, Gensingen, Germany, for their kind support, especially to Mario Werkmann for providing some of the pictures shown.
The author wishes to thank Lesley Schneider for copyediting this paper.
Written informed consent was obtained from the next of kin for all persons' visible on the pictures submitted.
The author is applying for a patent relating to the content of this paper (Chêneau light™ brace) and is advisor of Koob-Scolitech, Abtweiler, Germany (http://www.koob-scolitech.com).


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Gautam Buddha Statue on Mars ???
It's simply amazing - first they claimed that they found a helmet, then a rat and a woman, and now, well, the Buddha, himself, has been spotted on the Red Planet.
UFO Sightings Daily, involved in researching on aliens, claimed to have seen a giant statue of Gautam Buddha on Mars. In the statue, as described by ufosightingsdaily.com, face and head are turned towards right and the chest and stomach are plump. The shoulders too are distinctly visible. According to the site, the red planet is full of relics and artifacts and signals that 'intelligent life' existed there.
UFO Sightings Daily also claims that Martians knew all about religion and believed in life after death. Whether the statute is just a rock formation or real Buddha idol, it is definitely not clear by the pictures but yes, the news has surely excited many. This news about a Martian God statue on the Red Planet certainly tops the list of exciting space news this week.
"Due to the poor quality of this NASA image, we have to rebuild it, using colorization techniques and a little artistic license. It would appear ... that Mars did, indeed, have an advanced culture, a culture intelligent enough to create monuments of their kings or gods," according to Paranormal Crucible.


My wife, Merry, who's 57 and prefers skirts to pants, wondered if she'd be able to handle this Texas city atop a Segway--the two-wheeled electric scooter that moves according to cues from the rider's body language. Merry didn't have much confidence in her natural mojo on wheels, much less on a high-tech machine.
"Well, let's put it this way," drawled Buzz Jellett, our amusing "glide guide" at SegCity. "We took a 93-year-old woman with two hip replacements, and she did just fine." Indeed, after 10 minutes of training, conducted safely inside tour headquarters on San Antonio's downtown River Walk, Merry was able to make her Segway go forward, backward and spin 360 degrees. So were the rest of our party of six, whose ages ranged from 17 to 58 (me).
How can a person balance on only two wheels, much less glide around? The Segway HT (for "Human Transporter") is dynamically stabilized by a system of solid-state gyroscopes, tilt sensors, microprocessors (which have three times the power of a typical PC) and electric motors, all housed in the platform beneath your feet. The system senses subtle changes in your balance and responds immediately, making minute adjustments 100 times per second--faster than your brain can think. All this technology takes care of the balancing-on-two-wheels part, but it's up to you to control your speed and direction.
Remarkably, the machine has no accelerator or brakes. To go forward, you just lean slightly forward. To stop, you right yourself again. To move backward, lean back. And to turn, rotate the left handlebar grip in either direction.
It's pretty much dummy proof.
As a traveler, you can prove this to yourself on 97 different Segway tours offered in Chicago and places as geographically scattered as New York City, Paris, Cape Town, South Africa; Anchorage, Orlando's Walt Disney World, Bangkok and the Renaissance streets of Florence, Italy.
Our group in San Antonio--having graduated from SegCity's "Orientation and Training University"--flew out the door like a swarm of mosquitoes, but without a sound; the electrically powered Segways are whisper quiet. Our leader, Buzz, kept a careful eye and an encouraging word at the ready as we rolled down the sidewalk of historic Houston Street. We quickly got used to stares from curious (or envious?) pedestrians.
Our group paused outside the Majestic Theater, a restored 1929 movie palace whose lavish interior looks like a Mediterranean village set beneath a vaulted sky of twinkling "stars." We also stopped at the Buckhorn Saloon & Museum, the latest incarnation of an 1881 frontier bar that's festooned with thousands of trophy horns and has such oddball exhibits as a map of Texas executed entirely in rattlesnake rattles.
Soon we were gliding along the San Antonio River amid cypress trees and the intoxicating scent of honeysuckle. Buzz led us into the King William District, which in the late 1800s was the city's most elegant residential neighborhood. Beautifully restored homes stood on leafy streets--where, with few cars passing, we could kick out the jams on our Segways.
When a rider leans farther forward on the machine, it goes faster. Maximum speed is 12 1/2 m.p.h., but our tour Segways were governed to go 4 m.p.h., with Buzz adjusting them to 8 m.p.h. after everyone felt comfortable on board.
By this time, my Segway felt like an extension of my body. When I intended to go forward, my thought itself seemed to propel the scooter. As if riding my own personal magic carpet, I floated along in a dreamy state--not a good idea, actually, as I discovered when I absentmindedly let one wheel of my Segway drift from the pavement onto a grassy verge, throwing me off balance. I had to fight to keep from toppling over in an embarrassing tangle of man and machine. Fortunately, a Segway is reasonably forgiving of human error.
Buzz guided our group onward to La Villita, an art village where Spanish buildings from the early 1800s now hold galleries and shops. On a 20-minute break, everyone made a beeline for the ice cream parlor, then wandered through old stone houses to admire stained glass, copperware and other crafts.
All too soon our three-hour tour was over, and we were back at SegCity headquarters. I looked around our group. All ages, we had the same silly expression on our faces, a look so common that devotees even give it a name: It's called the "Segway smile."
To find Segway tours in cities all over the world, use the directory at www.segwayguidedtours.com. Tours generally include training and a safety helmet. Segways are sidewalk legal in 44 U.S. states.
In Chicago: City Segway Tours: 877-734-8687; www.citysegwaytours.com/chicago; 3-hour tours are $65. Segway Experience: 312-663-0600; www.segwayexperience.com; 2-hour general tours cost $70; 2 1/2-hour lakefront architecture tours are $65.
In San Antonio: SegCity: www.segcity.com, 210-224-0773; 3-hour tours are $65.


Explain the difference in meaning between the words "refute" and "reject".
Create a sentence for each word that exhibits the meaning of the word.
Read the following and identify the offensive part. This is a very common error and should be easy to identify.
The word for today is "scepticism".
What part of speech is "scepticism"?
What other parts of speech can be made from "scepticism"?
If you object to the spelling, identify the other spelling of the word?
Define "scepticism" and use it in a sentence.


Here is the online edition of the article our new friend David Van Biema wrote about the Purpose Driven Network Summit last week. It is very well written and has a very holistic approach to what went on at the conference last week. After I read it, I had a better idea about what was going on, even though I was there!
Even if you're not interested about the PD Summit, it is a great article describing what the next wave in world missions will look like. Rob and I are in. Are you?
Is this the article that Rob was interviewed for?


I don't want to jinx it, but it looks like Summer might have finally hit London, and I couldn't be happier. I've dug out all my favourite dresses and light shoes, and am embracing the sun because we never know how long it will last (even now, it looks like the sun won't be here for long).
I got this gorgeous dress from Yogo Ego and it's really light and perfect for the summer. It's 100% silk, so has definitely been keeping me cool so far this 'summer'. It's so soft and comfortable that I can just put it on and I'm good to go for the rest of the day. My favourite thing about the dress is the cape over the top. It adds a nice touch to the whole dress.
To finish the look, I added a pair of flats from Barratts. They were an impulse buy as I was out in heels all day and the pain was getting too much for me, so I had to run into a store and buy flats.
What keeps you cool in the summer?
I love this outfit Sherin jan, I would wear this any day. It's really hot isnt it? my chest infection is clearing. I am exhausted though. I can't wait to see you tomorrow.
Will you bring lovely Suzie as well?
Gorgeous dress :). I have ups and downs walking in heels, foot pain is never good. I didn't know about Yogo Ego until now, I'll have to give them a look!
It really looks perfect for the summer!!!
i know right, the weather has been fab, this is what august should be like all the time!
love the dress girlie, is so cute, love the shape/cut of it!
What a perfect summer dress! is so pretty!!!
It's a lovely colour on you and just the right sort of floaty!
such a gorgeous dress, so floaty and dainty, love it!
Lovely dress - soft and airy. Perfect for the summer :) Thank you for the bday wishes. Hope you had a great one!
LOVE that dress! GORGEOUS and that color looks awesome on you.
The dress would great with a pair of pumps for a night out. The draping is fab.
Ideal summer dress. Oh i love making those for my 4.5 yr old lovely daughter.
What a fabulous, floaty frock! It's the perfect neutral!
That really is a gorgeous dress, but you should've run an iron over it!


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This summer remember the simple toys for outdoor summer fun.My earliest play memories are of baking sand "pies" by mixing sand and water in buckets. We didn't have many fancy toys when I was young, but we had lots of fun. The simple toys are often the best. Buy your kids inexpensive pails and shovels to play with at home or on the beach. They'll be happy for hours, and happy kids make for happy parents!
Photo thanks to flickr and downing.amanda under the commercial use license.
Water and sand play is not only great fun, it's a learning experience too.
Learning through sand and water play.
From the UK site Topmarks, this is the first of a series of articles on the subject. Helpful hints for parents.
The benefits of and play for toddlers.
An excellent article from the Parents Social website.
Have you forgotten how much fun you can have with buckets?
Or if you're in the UK- Buckets and spades in the sandpit.
When I started to research this page, I knew that the toy that I loved as a child, the sand pit, was called a sandbox in the USA.
What I hadn't realised was that the phrase we use all the time in the UK -"Buckets and Spades" translates as "Pails and shovels" in the USA.
Hey Ho, don't you just learn something new every day?
There's nothing new about these toys though. I'll bet that even back in ancient times children poured water from one thing into another thing and thought it was great fun. Pouring water from one bucket to another bucket is a great learning opportunity. Kids get to realise that if they are pouring from a large bucket to a smaller bucket, there will be water that won't go in, and vice versa, It's all about Volume. It's basic Physics! It's a concept that is easy to grasp whilst having fun.
Here I'm picking out some of the best buckets and shovels for your kids to play with this summer. I'm not suggesting that you forget the more sophisticated toys on the market, but just reminding you that the simple things can be great. Buckets have stood the test of time as a great outdoor play toy for kids.
Do you need sand with buckets?
Sand is great, but not essential for bucket learning play.
All the bucket sets above are great if you have a sandbox, or if you go to the beach.
Not everyone has room for a sandbox at home, and many of us live far from a beach, but if you're imaginative you can work out ways to use buckets for fun and learning.
For example, smaller buckets can be used at bath time. Fill one bucket that is slightly larger than the second bucket, tip water backwards and forwards and see what happens. If the weather is fine, take a plastic bowl from the kitchen out into the yard and experiment with buckets there.
I live near a lake- there's water there for kids to play with. The pebbles on the lake shore are another learning tool for children. Fill a bucket- how heavy is it? Fill it with water- same weight?
Is there a children's outdoor play pool in your nearest park? Are there places your child can go dig in a garden and fill their buckets? Children love filling things with stuff, moving it, then emptying it again!
Use your imagination. The simple toys are sometimes overlooked in this high tech age. Don't forget buckets!
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Did you play with buckets as a kid? Do your kids play with buckets? I'd love to hear from you.
WhiteMoss, It's interesting how such a fun thing as playing with buckets prepares kids to carry groceries and handle loads later on in life!
Thanks . You're right, watering the garden is great fun!
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Let's talk movies. The best of 2022 edition. A seemingly mundane yet required task that becomes enjoyable when I start writing out the list. Compiling it hasn't been fun or easy.
Confession: I didn't have a TRUE #1 movie this year. There is no "Pig" or "The Way Back" in this group–a definitive selection that carries the most points. A 10/10 for me. This year, only a couple films came close to that flawless mark, and an argument could be made for a crack in their façade. However, with that being said, there were some fine films released that are worth remembering.
The PRETTY GOOD Section
"The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent" wins the award for most tongue-in-cheek celebration of a single actor. Everything you loved (and hated) about Nic Cage was explored and played for a big laugh in Tom Gormican's uproarious movie. It's worth the $20 if you fill a room with friends and family, especially the ones who have seen "Con Air" and "Face/Off."
Pedro Pascal is the adoring mega fan of Cage who has the actor out to his island for a meet and greet, without knowing the Coppola prodigal son is a spy for the U.S. government. Pascal could be a drug kingpin being sought by all law authorities, or he could really just be a huge fan. The best scenes are Cage, completely leaning into the absurdity of it all, and Pascal celebrating their hard love for cinema.
"Ray Donovan: The Movie" wrapped up the Showtime series perfectly, lifting up a rather dismal January release schedule. After an abrupt end to its time on the premium cable network, Showtime gave showrunner David Hollander and star Liev Schreiber the cinematic bandwidth to compose a proper finale. The result was a satisfying and soulful finish.
Schreiber, also a producer on the series, has always chosen a deft portrayal of a complicated man. Instead of chewing scenery or overplaying the west and east cast "fixer," Schreiber goes the understated route, a move that continues in the movie. Series vets like Jon Voight, Eddie Marsan, Kerris Dorsey, and Pooch Hall are excellent. Bill Heck and Kerry Condon put in solid work that resonates. The final scenes provide closure and some room for more story.
Not all movies wear shiny, awards-time clothing. The best thing about "Ray Donovan: The Movie" is that it played like a 70s thriller.
"The Adam Project" looked like a Ryan Reynolds slushie on paper, but it hit the heart dead-on when it premiered in the spring on Netflix. Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Garner, and Catherine Keener classed up the joint. Zoe Saldana only needs a few scenes to wire into your emotions. Walter Scobell held his own with the titular star, who got to unleash his charisma and dig deep enough to slice a few onions. A playful and entertaining spin on time travel's bitter and sweet rewards only grows stronger with each re-watch.
"Dog" also looked like a slushie with a bag of Skittles thrown in, only this time with Channing Tatum. But the movie snuck up and floored me, using an easy-to-please formula along with its very affable star. I'm talking about the gorgeous Belgian Malinois, but Tatum is very good in his own right.
It's not a stretch to say this movie is playing with kettle corn money with the two leads clicking. A man and dog bonding tale, especially draped here in Army Ranger tribute colors, is a double before the theater goes down. Co-directing his first film with Reid Carolin, Tatum has found a steady comfort zone again in films like this and "Lost City."
But few will be ready for the tearful climax, where all the dog lovers (no, the animal doesn't die, chill) will need a few sheets of Kleenex.
"Ambulance" exchanged the tears for pure adrenaline–like going from a comforting breakfast burrito to a plate of nachos with hot sauce on top. Michael Bay in medium blow-shit-up gear makes for a compelling Tony Scott-type speed of action drama. Co-stars like Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Jake Gyllenhaal give you a couple kings in hand. Eiza Gonzalez is the right kind of fire to go against Gyllenhaal and Abdul-Mateen II's bank robbers. Let me say how much I appreciated Garret Dillahunt having the chance to get his Michael Mann "HEAT" cop on as the detective charged with tracking the runaway "Ambulance" down for justice.
It's a red bull through and through, but a more sure of itself Bay movie than usual.
"Fresh" was flat-out different. A horror film that played outside the box, creating some carnivore mischief in its wake well before Timothee Chalamet got hungry in "Bones and All." Without spoiling the big twist planted in this film, I will just say that people should do a deep dive check on their first date companions. A meet-greet in a grocery store can go anywhere, even into someone else's stomach. This movie goes where you are thinking yet can't actually believe it would go. Worth a Hulu trial with a "Pig" watch and binge of "The Bear."
The Very Damn Good Section
"Banshees of Inisherin" was the ONLY award-time release to really make a dent. Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, and writer/director Martin McDonagh can just keep making quirky comedy/drama hybrids that tackle the absurd-yet-real trials and tribulations of life. This one didn't try hard, overstay its welcome, or become too complex. It just breathed natural life into the simple-yet-poignant tale of the ugly aftermath of the breakup involving two best friends.
Colm (Gleeson) decides one day he doesn't want to be pals with Padraic (Farrell) anymore, and goes to great lengths to prove his new feelings aren't temporary. Add in the news-travels-fast arena of a small Irish town, and it just gets messier. What follows is heartbreaking, honest, darkly hilarious, and oddly satisfying. Barry Keoghan and Condon are both phenomenal in supporting roles.
"Top Gun Maverick" wasn't just a monstrous box office hit. It was an excellent, nostalgic turbo-boosted sequel that outdid its well-known (but flawed) predecessor.
Tom Cruise and a knockout cast brought director Joseph Kosinski's film to exhilarating life. It's hyperbole when you recall those aerial action sequences, the main reason that Cruise and his production team first decided to delay the release. The wait, and resulting execution, made for one of 2022's finest movie theater enjoyments. If there was ever a movie made for a big screen, it was "Maverick." The cameo with Val Kilmer is as good as they say.
Also, Jon Hamm plays a great hard-ass Admiral.
"The Menu" played a similar tune as "Fresh," taking expectations that were brought in the door and tossing them off the balcony soon after. Having Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy is like having a couple aces at your table. Fiennes is a world-renowned chef who hosts a group of hand-selected guests off a hidden coast in the middle of nowhere (hello horror-type vibes) for one unforgettable meal. Enjoy your party, cinema fans. This movie is a real trip. Grade-A mindfuck… in all the right ways.
One more thing. Have an ample meal beforehand, or get plans together for a juicy cheeseburger after the show. Trust me on the burger part.
was a lovely celebration of film and how the universally welcoming aspect of a movie theater can unite even the most complicated of souls. Olivia Colman is good in anything, but she excels especially well here as a theater manager who harbors secrets, both sweet and sad. She befriends a new theater employee in Michael Ward's young ambitious-minded movie lover, and the events of an English coastal town in the 1980s take their effect.
I was taken aback by Sam Mendes' latest movie, a celebration of the escapism acquired at the movies. Take or leave the politics thrown into the plot, and take in an against-type slimy performance from Colin Firth. The "light" in this story is about being able to sit next to a bunch of strangers and feel something deeper than you do with a table full of family.
"Cha Cha Real Smooth" came closer than any movie this released this year to that illustrious mark of perfection. Maybe after another watch it will be. Cooper Raiff wrote, directed, produced, and starred in this feel-good drama that carried a couple big punches in its second half. Raiff plays one of those post-college drifters, the souls who go from job to job trying to find a match. He gets a gig as a party starter for bar mitzvahs, and that's where he meets Domino (career-best Dakota Johnson) and her autistic daughter, Lola (Vanessa Burghardt). Their relationship takes expected, and unexpected, turns when Raiff's Andrew bonds with both ladies.
As in real life, complications threaten nice and easy movie romance, resulting in an honest depiction of connection in all the good and not-so-good ways. Leslie Mann and Brad Garrett get a lot of mileage out of their roles, and young Evan Assante is not one to forget. This one is definitely rewatchable with some power under its belt.
ALSO Pretty Darn Good:
Come for the Robert Downey Jr. allure; stay for the legit father-son waterworks. I applaud docs that can come in and lay down a well-told Hollywood story that seems so personal that you leave wanting more.
Released a day before the end of the year, this cinematic-like documentary follows Harry, a British war veteran, who goes into the Amazon forest to take his own life–but finds a connection with baby ocelots instead. His work with Samantha, whose project aims to "rewild" young cats so they can be fit for the jungle, resonates very deeply in a movie frankly I didn't see coming.
"She Said" was a hard-hitting journalism film that brought the ugly events of Harvey Weinstein's downfall to the spotlight. You won't find a better ensemble cast than the one here, but it's the bravery of Ashley Judd that shines through weeks later when thinking about this one.
"Wild Men"
My love for Danish film grew with this lived-in tale of a middle-aged man running away from adulting and into the Norwegian wilderness. What Martin (a wonderful Rasmus Bjerg) finds is an unusual (but much-needed) friendship with Musa (Zaki Youssef), a criminal on the run. But it's Bjorn Sundqvist who steals the film as Oyvind, the cop out to track down both men, before Musa's men find them with much more dire consequences. It sounds like an action adventure, but it's a slow-burning comedy at heart. It's also where I located the greatest song of all time:
That's my list. There were others, but you can't mention every good movie you see. Be picky, and never apologize for giving a movie the middle finger of no thanks. You owe them little, but can genuinely find a lot of rewards in the right choice.
Thanks for reading my work this year. As they say, onto the next!
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In an unprecedented arrangement, the organizers of ConiFur NorthWest have realized the need to increase the number of hours in a day to fully enjoy all the events and activities that go on during a busy convention weekend. They have arrived at an agreement with Father Time to extend Saturday, October 27th, by one full hour. "If it means having one more hour to shop for bunny art, I'm all for it," stated chairman James W. "Tibo" Birdsall. Some people may choose to use it to sleep in on Sunday morning a bit longer. In any case, everyone should change their clocks back at 2 AM Sunday morning to 1 AM.
This is a one time opportunity for squeezing 25 hours into a 24 hour day, but it would be required to remove the extra hour this coming spring in April.
This offer is not valid in Hawaii, Arizona, and some portions of Indiana. Check your dealer for details.
If they'd just shorten the length of an hour by a measly 21.3 seconds we could have an extra hour every weekend instead of once a year.
Hmmm... does it mean that you have to or get to repeat everything you did from 1am to 2am? Sounds like a wonderful idea... where do I sign up?
If it means you have to repeat everything you did from 1 to 2 a.m., then make sure you are doing something fun and exciting for that hour because you'll get to do it twice!


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CBI again lands at Chidambaram's residence; his lawyer asks not to take any coercive action till SC hearing
Wed 21 Aug 2019, 15:28:56
The CBI on Wednesday continued its efforts to locate P Chidambaram even as the former Union finance minister's legal team asked the agency not to take any coercive action against him as his petition is to be mentioned in the Supreme Court.
A team of officials went to the Chidambaram's Jor Bagh residence Wednesday morning looking for him but had to return as he was not present there, officials said.
The CBI efforts to locate Chidambaram once again comes a couple of hours before his Special Leave Petition is to be mentioned in the Supreme Court.
After the Delhi High Court refused to grant any protection from arrest to the former finance minister in the INX media case, the CBI issued a notice to him on Tuesday, asking him to appear before the investigation officer within two hours, after failing to find him at his residence.
In response, the legal team of Chidambaram said the notice did not mention the specific provision of law under which he was summoned and asked not to take any coercive action against him till his petition comes for hearing in the Supreme Court Wednesday morning.
Arshdeep Khurana, lawyer of Chidambaram, stated that his client has come to know "through reports" that he has been asked to be present before the investigation officer in the INX media case.
"I am instructed to state that your notice fails to mention the provision of law under which my client has been issued a notice at midnight calling upon him to appear at a short notice of 2 (two) hours. Furthermore, kindly note that my client is exercising the rights available to him in law and had approached the hon'ble Supreme Court on 20.08.2019 seeking urgent reliefs in respect of the order dated 20.08.2019 dismissing his anticipatory bail application no. 1316/2018 in the captioned FIR," Khurana responded.
It further stated, "On moving the Hon'ble Supreme Court at 04:30 PM on 20.08.2019, he has been permitted by the Hon'ble Supreme Court to mention the urgent Special Leave Petition against the above said order before the Hon'ble Supreme Court at 10.30 AM on 21.08.2019.
"I therefore request you to not take any coercive action against my client till then and await the above mentioned hearing at 10:30 AM on 21.08.2019"
A team of CBI officers had landed at the Chidambaram's posh Jor Bagh residence here to locate him, officials said.
The CBI team left the premises after confirming that he was not present at the address, they said.
The team, which had some superintendent of police-rank officials, did not make clear if they had gone to his residence to arrest him for alleged irregularities in foreign investment clearance to INX media during his tenure as the Union finance minister.
A team of officials returned to Chidambaram's residence 115-A Jor Bagh and pasted a notice asking him to appear before R Parthasarthy, CBI Dy SP, probing the case.
Such summons are normally issued under Section 161 of the CrPC.
However, the notice pasted at his residence did not mention the specific provision.
Chidambaram is likely to seek protection from the arrest from the Supreme Court.
The Delhi High Court had on Tuesday refused to grant any protection to Chidambaram from arrest by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate.
He had failed to get an audience from Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi on Tuesday for urgent hearing of his appeal in the Supreme Court against the Delhi High Court order dismissing his anticipatory bail plea.
A team of lawyers led by senior advocate and Chidambaram's party colleague Kapil Sibal was told by the registrar (judicial) to mention the petition Wednesday morning in the apex court.
The CBI had registered an FIR on May 15, 2017, alleging irregularities in the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance granted to the media group for receiving overseas funds of Rs 305 crore in 2007 during Chidambaram's tenure as the finance minister.
Thereafter, the ED lodged a money laundering case in this regard in 2018.
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