2001: World Premiere of Iron Road at the Elgin Theatre – Tapestry's largest production to date. A grand opera composed by a Chinese-Canadian composer and focused on the Chinese-Canadian experience premieres to an audience of 10,000.
2003: Tapestry moves into its current office in the Distillery, which includes an attached multi-purpose space, The Ernest Balmer Studio.
1992-present Tapestry develops successful partnerships with Vancouver Opera (The Overcoat 2017); Scottish Opera (The Sloan's Project/Pub Operas 2011, M'dea Undone 2015/2017, and *The Devil Inside 2016 *Tapestry as presenter); Wilfred Laurier University (Ruth 2013); Edmonton Opera (Shelter 2012); Luminato Festival (Dark Star Requiem 2010); Bravo!FACTS (The Perfect Match 2008); Manhattan School of Music (Elijah's Kite 2006); The Banff Centre/Gryphon Trio/Ex Machina (Constantinople 2008); Theatre Direct/Luminato (Sanctuary Song 2008); Canadian Stage Theatre (Canadian premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Passion 1997); and Tarragon Theatre (Nigredo Hotel 1992).
2010: Establishment of an all-Canadian aria and scene anthology titled The Tapestry Songbook, including the best selections from Tapestry's 20 years of opera creation.
2015: Tapestry Awarded funding from Opera America to support a digital marketing initiative of Indie Opera T.O.
18 world premieres of full length Canadian works, including Overcoat: A Musical Tailoring (2018) Oksana G. (2017) Rocking Horse Winner (2016), M'dea Undone (2015), Shelter (2012, 2014), Pub Operas (2011), Dark Star Requiem (2010), The Shadow (2009), Get Stuffed (2009), Sanctuary Song (2008), Elijah's Kite (2006, 2007, 2008), Constantinople (2008), Nigredo Hotel (2006, 2005, 1992), Facing South (2003), Iron Road (2001), Elsewhereless (1998), Still the Night (1996), and No No Miya (1995).
World Premiere Productions: Productions of Tapestry commissions or co-commissions featured in Tapestry's season.
The Composer-Librettist Laboratory aka LIBLAB: an internationally renowned, two week speed-dating-style creation intensive that pairs four librettists with four composers to create 16 short works. Canada's flagship – and only – professional opera creation program for composers and librettists. Over 150 artists have emerged from the program and over 20 world premieres have been produced from works emerging at LIBLAB.
Opera Briefs aka Tapestry Briefs: a staged studio production featuring the best "shorts" of the LIBLAB.
Tapestry Explorations aka Tap:Ex: An annual staged concert, researching experimental possibilities and unconventional partnerships for opera in bold ways.
New Opera 101: a masterclass program to introduce contemporary Canadian opera to emerging and professional artists (singers & pianists), and to coach these young artists on the contemporary performance-practices of Canada's best role creators and interpreters.
Tapestry Songbook Concert: a concert featuring star performers and the young artists from the New Opera 101, performing repertoire from exclusively Canadian composers.
Youth Inside Opera: a full-scholarship performance and show creation program for youth and children in St. Jamestown. Using Tapestry's model, the youth participants create and perform their own piece.
Indie Opera TO: sponsorship and ongoing support of an association of 12 companies (and growing) created by Tapestry's AD Michael Mori, including Against the Grain Theatre, The Bicycle Opera Project, E ssential Opera, FAWN Opera & New Music, Friends of Gravity, Liederwolfe Opera Collective, Loose TEA Music Theatre, MYOpera, Opera 5, Opera After Hours and Urbanvessel.
Workshops: Working through a new work from first draft to final draft, including libretto workshops, piano-vocal workshops, orchestral workshops, and staging workshops.
Dramaturgy: Providing ongoing feedback and guidance to creative teams through the writing and workshop process.
"Tap In" Workshops: Facilitating, casting, and providing dramaturgy for workshops for external producers and creators to benefit from Tapestry's expertise in process and Tapestry's artists' expertise in interpreting new works.
Tapestry is the champion of Canadian works and artists and often a provocateur and revolutionary in the opera/music theatre sphere. We produce new works in new ways that will provoke reaction, engagement and interest in opera. In this role we strategically foster new Canadian works and creators as well as new performance and presentation techniques, keeping the art form relevant for current and future generations.
Leaders and connectors: Tapestry and Artistic Director Michael Hidetoshi Mori have brought together the alternative opera scene through their work and leadership with Indie Opera T.O. Close ties include Bicycle Opera, an innovative small company that has relied on Tapestry-created repertoire for nearly 50% of its programming each year, and has often commissioned and hired LIBLAB graduates.
Professional opportunities for local emerging artists: Tapestry provides musically and dramatically demanding roles in English for workshops, studio-productions, and mainstage productions that are both professional development opportunities as well as resume building and potentially career-launching opportunities for artists.
Tapestry operates, maintains and sub-leases the Ernest Balmer Studio – a 1320 sq. ft studio and performance space that is used extensively by music and performing arts companies for auditions, performances, meetings, and special events. Tapestry offers subsidized rental rates to over 30 NFP companies and/or artists per season and also offers the space at complimentary or heavily subsidized rate of only $10 per hour to members of the Indie Opera T.O. collective.
Industry Leader: AD Michael Mori is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Opera.ca, serving on its strategic planning committee. He has been invited numerous times to speak at the Opera America conferences on new opera and Indie Opera T.O. as a ground-breaking model.
Partner and collaborator: Tapestry has partnered with Vancouver Opera, The Canadian Opera Company, Edmonton Opera, Pacific Opera Victoria, Opera.ca, and the Banff Centre to commission, workshop, cultivate opera creators, and co-produce new Canadian operas.
Partner and collaborator: Scottish Opera, The Manhattan School of Music, American Opera Projects, and Opera America.
Tapestry represents Canada at New Opera forums and conferences in the US and UK.


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The journey is to be valiantly loving and to find what you can bring to the world. These words were inspired by Virginia Kellogg and Helen House, Co-Leaders of the pilot.
When the day has its way with you, who do you become? Are you the light and the air? Are you the breath of god? It felt too hard to dig out and now I have a shovel.
I see a common thread among the many threads that creates a fabric of compassion, movement and action. What I learned is, it was easy to be with these women, the staff all of them. They were and are real. To learn a little about them, their families, their hearts, their jobs was like sinking into their path and riding along with them – walking in their footsteps and feeling their load.
We are all just in this world bumping into each other in a crowded room of balloons or bubbles trying to name the space in between things. The air was light and perfect. The energy in the room was warm, inviting, like an embrace even inside and behind the doors that lock and slam. And for a while we made the walls disappear and fade. They were existing in curiosity, reaching out to make a change. They hold their values close to them since they can't hold on to their loved ones. So much loss and sadness in these walls, one woman recounted the loss of her son, his birth and his death and she carried that sadness as a part of her fabric and I could feel it all over her and inside of her and she was amazing. Their stories tear your heart and your soul and we held them capable of anything they dreamed.
What do you need to know when going into a prison?
To be real. To know that these are human beings that have lost their way and are finding their way back to themselves. They are proud, they love, they are brilliant, they are scared, angry, amazing, compassionate, smart, energetic, sad, happy, just human.Look at them and let them look at you as if they are a brother, a sister. As if they are you. Be with them in your skin, in your comfortable skin. Let your behavior reflect your human condition and their human condition. They are the lioness and road runners, go-go dancers and laid back – they are flower children, thoroughbred and powerballs of winning. My heart hurts. I am blessed.
We have found the space in between us to be beautiful. We have found the energy to be light. Like flowers they bloomed from that light and found their perfect imperfection. They found part of their way back to themselves.
These women were beautiful and perfect as much as we all are. I am in this with them and I am with them and they are with me and they have impacted me forever. I wanted to know my love and be my love and I am doing that – giving and receiving perfect love.


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Texas Police Chief Thomas Peoples arrested after allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution
A police chief in Texas was arrested on Thursday after allegedly soliciting prostitution from a minor.
Thomas Peoples, 55, was the police chief in Oak Ridge, Texas. He was arrested in Arlington on Thursday and charged with solicitation of prostitution from a person under 18, according to FOX 4.
Oak Ridge is a town that is about 35 miles southeast of Dallas.
Police in Arlington said that a juvenile reported an incident involving Peoples, and he was arrested.
Peoples was released on a $25,000 surety bond, according to jail records.
He was fired from his position as the Oak Ridge police chief after the incident.
The post Texas Police Chief Thomas Peoples arrested after allegedly soliciting a minor for prostitution appeared first on New York Post.
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Forty years ago, a handful of teachers and parent volunteers herded a group of students out from their temporary classrooms at Miramar Ranch Elementary School and paraded them several blocks to the site of Jerabek Elementary, their new school.
The year was 1978 and some of the teachers who were present that day returned this year on June 1 to attend a special reception and ceremony at Jerabek Elementary School to commemorate the school's 40th anniversary. Diane Pali Belliveau and Stacy Wible are two of those teachers. Belliveau was a kindergarten teacher and Wible taught first grade in the early days of the school. Their new classrooms were close and they could easily see one another during the day. They remember connecting immediately, forming a close bond. Both recalled that first day when they moved to the new school.
"We gathered them up by classroom and we got parents to help us out, and we just walked down the streets and came over here," Belliveau said.
Before the new school was finished, the students who would attend Jerabek had classes in the portable classrooms at Miramar Ranch Elementary. Essentially, there were two schools within a school.
Jerabek Elementary began with eight teachers in September of that year. By January, there were 12 and the number kept growing. There were about 35 teachers by the third year of the school's existence.
The first day and the parade to the new school were an exciting experience for everyone involved.
The school was named in honor of Chauncy Jerabek, the head gardener and horticulturist for the old Scripps estate. He was present for the school's ribbon cutting in 1978 and, wearing a three-piece suit, addressed the crowd.
Wible recalled Jerabek's speech. He was 84 years old at the time, and she wondered if he was a bit lost as he was making a noise for the children: "clickety-click-click." He was telling the kids about when he was a student in a small wooden classroom.
"He was imitating the woodpeckers that would peck on (his) school building when he was a boy," Wible explained.
As classes continued throughout the year at the new school, and for the years to follow, the teachers and staff became a close team.
Belliveau taught at Jerabek until 1995 and Wible was there full-time until 2007. The two have witnessed the school change and grow, and they marveled at the computer lab. They remembered a time when someone collected spare computer parts in an attempt to build computers for the classrooms. There was a debate about whether they should have PCs or Macs. Eventually, volunteers donated the first computers.
"The FFO has always been very supportive," Wible agreed.
Jerabek Elementary was named a California Distinguished School in 1987, only nine years after opening, Belliveau said.
Today, Principal Kristie Joiner oversees the school's daily operations. She has completed her fourth year as principal, noting that she was glad to provide stability and implement a students-first policy, especially in light of the fact that she became the fourth principal at the school in five years when she arrived.
A special anniversary ceremony was held the afternoon of June 1. Jerabek students performed the entire ceremony, with children making speeches and the school choir providing the musical highlights. The event ended as former faculty, staff and administrators led the crowd in a spirited rendition of Jerabek's school song.
This was an even bigger day at Jerabek Elementary because the anniversary ceremony was soon followed by the opening of the school's annual Ranch Roundup carnival, a major fundraiser held each year at the campus.


Summary: Incredibly photogenic tornado on a low probability day.
An OUTSTANDING chase in SE Iowa today.
Zach and I left Des Moines around 11:30am, intending to play a nice warm front moving into Iowa later in the afternoon. LOTS of low level shear, reasonable CAPE. Morning convection with a following cold front made things difficult as this could EASILY turn into a huge squall line and fall apart.
We decided to head East to Iowa City, then south toward Mount Pleasant. A long line of severe-warned storms were firing along the boundary to our southwest. Tempting, but still looked like crap.
We saw a breakaway cell in the warm sector on radar. It went severe-warned and had a healthy hail core. so we decided to change our course to intercept. We dropped south of Mount Pleasant so we could avoid the supercell's hail core and approach from an angle with better visibility.
We positioned a few miles north of Salem, IA, where we had a decent view to our West and could visualize the incoming cell. It had a very obvious wall cloud with slow rotation and what appeared to be some funnel attempts.
Soon we were treated to a nice cone funnel, then saw ground interaction as it became a tornado.
The tornado was moving slowly toward us in a predictable pattern and did not seem to be very strong (moderately weak rotation, very little debris lofted) so we stayed in position and let it pass about a mile to our south while it slowly dissipated. We did not observe a "roping" stage; it just seemed to dissolve.
We shot some OUTSTANDING video, and it immediately sold to local TV stations and will likely make national news outlets by morning.
This was a fantastic, triumphant day.


This biography chronicles the extraordinary life of twentieth century performing artist Molly Spotted Elk. Born in 1903 on the Penobscot reservation in Maine, Molly ventured into show business at an early age, performing vaudeville in New York, for royalty and mingling with the literry elite in Europe. Using extensive diaries in conjunction with letters, interviews, and other sources, Bunny McBride reconsrtructs Molly's story and sheds light on the pressure she and her peers endured in having to act out white stereotypes of the "Indian." Paper, 1995, 287pp.


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use DateInterval;
use DateTime;
use SLWDC\NICParser\Exception\InvalidArgumentException;

use function strlen;

class Parser {
    public const ID_FORMAT_PRE_2016 = 1;
    public const ID_FORMAT_2016 = 2;
    private array $data_components = [];

    public function __construct(string $id_number) {
        $this->parse($id_number);
    }

    private function parse(string $id_number): void {
        $id_number = $this->checkLength($id_number);
        $this->checkBirthDate($id_number);
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    private function checkLength(string $id_number): string {
        $id_number = strtoupper($id_number);
        $strlen = strlen($id_number);

        if ($strlen === 10) {
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                throw new InvalidArgumentException('Ending character is invalid.', 103);
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        }

        if (!ctype_digit($id_number)) {
            throw new InvalidArgumentException('Provided number is not all-numeric', 102);
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        return (string)$id_number;
    }

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        $this->data_components['serial'] = (string)substr($full_number, 7);
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    private function detectFormat(string $id_number): void {
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        return $this->data_components['format'];
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        return $this->data_components['gender'];
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Cartoonist Tony Millionaire stops by the garage, six-pack in hand, to explain the origins of Drinky Crow, Maakies and his other popular comics. He also talks with Marc about punchlines, swingers and having kids in his 50s.
Video: Liza Donnelly at Barnard College.


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Q: Click Once fails with strange 404 , unknown subtype Tried to get Click once running (Wpf app, .NET4, IIS 7.5). After solving the first dozen problems I now seem to be stuck.
Clickonce fails with a 404, stating an "unknown subtype" error. I've already added all required filetypes to the IIS mimetypes, so that is not the problem (.application, .manifest,.deploy, .msp, .msu). Even more so, as I created the manifest with the "use .deploy" option, so all files actually have the .deploy extension.
The strange thing is, that the error message states:
Couldnt' download "http://myserver/1.0.0.0/mysubdir/my.diverse.namespaces.xyz"
Entering the url "http://myserver/1.0.0.0/mysubdir/my.diverse.namespaces.xyz" into IE yields indeed a 404, but adding a ".deploy" at the end of the URL downloads the file nicely.
I checked the manifest file and it lists all files WITH the .deploy extension.
It just makes no sense. Why does the application try to access using the wrong filenames? Or is this a different problem?
Any help would be highly appreciated.
EDIT: after creating the manifest again, the files listed in the manifest DON'T have the ".deploy" extension. The download now fails on a .xml file

A: The MIME types you need to define are here -- you missed XAML.
Of course adding a .deploy to the URL works -- the files should all end in .deploy except (IIRC) the two manifests (yourapp.exe.manifest and yourapp.application). we had this problem once, where it would stop on a specific file for no reason that we could discern. I don't remember exactly what the problem was; I'll check my notes and report back. In the meantime, do you have a proxy server? Are there proxy settings in IE?

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Elections are rigged
BY PAUL WOLF, ESQ.
Sadly our election process is a rigged game where an incumbent losing is a rare event. In most years incumbents win 90 plus percent of the time, with one or two losing. Tuesday's election with few contested races and a record low turn-out was a 100 percent success for incumbent politicians in the City of Buffalo, Erie County and Niagara County.
The Best Election Is No Election
The number of races where voters were not given an opportunity to make a difference was incredible:
■ Erie County Supreme Court—Two candidates running for two positions. Political party bosses who control the selection of convention delegates, worked together to ensure that voters would not decide who fills these two important positions.
■ Erie County Legislature—Only two legislators out of eleven had serious opposition. Not a single incumbent lost.
■ City of Buffalo—A City Court Judge position, City Comptroller and four Councilmembers were elected without any opposition. Not a single incumbent lost.
■ Niagara County—Eight out of fifteen county legislators ran without any opposition and not a single incumbent legislator lost. Voters were not given any choice for the positions of Niagara County District Attorney and Niagara Falls City Court. The incumbent Mayors of Niagara Falls, Lockport and North Tonawanda were all re-elected.
The dictionary definition of Democracy is: "A government by the people," "rule of the majority." With fewer and fewer contested races and fewer people voting, we are moving further away from a functioning Democracy. In Erie and Niagara counties only twenty three percent of voters took the time or interest to show up at a voting booth. Twenty years ago I had a conversation with Carl Perla who represented the Niagara Council district in Buffalo who once told me "the best election is no election." Perla would love how things are today, as instead of elections we seem to be having coronations.
How Elections Are Rigged For Incumbents
Redistricting—Every ten years by law city/county legislative districts are redrawn taking into account population changes. Each district is supposed to have approximately the same number of residents. Whichever political party or incumbent is in control at the time district lines are drawn makes sure such changes are done to maintain their power. How district lines are drawn is a key way that rigs and predetermines the outcomes of elections. Many districts are intentionally drawn to be overly Democratic or Republican, making it virtually impossible for an incumbent to lose.
Money—Incumbents have power and influence over legislation, contracts and various items that come before them, and as such, special interests and lobbyists donate campaign cash to incumbents. The lobbyists know that incumbents win almost all of the time so they rarely send money to non-incumbents. In most races challengers are vastly out spent.
Patronage—Incumbents have paid staff in their offices that will obtain petition signatures, do literature drops, make phone calls etc. Incumbents also have access to other patronage employees through party headquarters, the Board of Elections, County Water Authority etc., that provide assistance. Challengers typically do not have access to an army of paid volunteers, which makes getting on the ballot to run difficult.
Name Recognition—Incumbents, while serving in office for years, get to build up their name recognition through taxpayer-paid mailings, distributing tax dollars to various organizations and projects, free publicity through press releases and ribbon cutting press conferences. It is practically impossible for a non-incumbent to obtain free publicity during a campaign.
How Do We Make Elections More Competitive?
Independent Re-Districting—The drawing of district lines needs to be taken away from self interested legislators. A truly independent commission—not one appointed by legislators—needs to be created. California utilizes an interesting process where individuals who want to serve on the Redistricting Commission submit applications. The applicants are reviewed by a panel of three independent auditors. People cannot serve on the Commission if they or members of their immediate family have sought or served in an elected position, have donated to a political campaign, worked as a lobbyist or work for a company that has government contracts. A list of 60 names is produced and then names are randomly drawn to serve on the Commission.
Public Financing of Elections—People give money to a candidate because they want something whether it is a job, a tax break, a change in a law or regulation. The several hundred people who fund campaigns get special access and special treatment from government officials. Their interests and the public interest are not the same. We need independent candidates not beholden to party bosses or special interests to seek public office. We need individuals who are not afraid to challenge the status quo or to propose new ideas. Such candidates are not able to compete for public office because special interests will not fund them.
New York City has created an effective and well run public financing of elections program. In order to receive public funds, candidates have to get on the ballot and raise a certain threshold of money from small donors (under $175), which is then matched on a 6 to 1 basis. A $175 contribution then becomes $1,050 with public matching funds. This system makes small donors important, and allows more candidates to compete and be heard.
Term Limits—Public service should not be a career, for as we know power corrupts. Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers had concerns about people remaining in elected office too long. Our country's first Constitution, the Articles of Confederation, at Jefferson's insistence limited federal office holders to serving three years. By tradition, for over 150 years and then by Constitutional requirement, the President of the United States only served a maximum of eight years (two four-year terms). Most incumbents leave by criminal arrest, death or by their own retirement after many years in office. If we don't force people out of office they simply won't leave, and with a 95 percent re-election rate it is virtually impossible to defeat an incumbent.
Required Debates—In every election there is a debate on whether the incumbent will agree to debate their opponents. Incumbents with all of the above mentioned advantages do not want to provide any media exposure to their challengers, so they typically refuse to debate or only agree to one debate. An important part of the democratic process is for the media and the public to see candidates speak and answer questions in a debate setting. A law needs to be passed requiring candidates to engage in debates when seeking a public office.
Any candidate that receives public funding in New York City is required to participate in two debates before the primary election and two debates before the general election. Such debates in my opinion should also include minor party candidates and not just be a debate between the Democratic and Republican candidates.
Clearly steps have to be taken to bring back meaningful competitive elections and not coronations.
Paul Wolf is an attorney and the founder of the non-profit Center for Reinventing Government, www.reinventinggov.org.


Not all of us are experienced VPN users, right? Still, that doesn't mean you should settle for just any VPN provider out there.
Different people have different needs, but the bottom line is, if you need a VPN you'll want it to be fast, reliable, and secure.
TorGuard seems to be one of the most popular choices out there, with its ever-expanding base of users.
Even though it doesn't have anything to do with TOR (The Onion Router), the service widely used to access the deep web, it has grown to be quite reputable.
Almost always on the lists of top VPN providers (including in ours), TorGuard started as a tool aimed primarily at users who need help with their torrenting needs.
Come to think of it, the name actually suggests it, right?
Torrent + Guard = TorGuard.
All that being said, let's dig a little deeper to find out if TorGuard is any good for your personal needs.
First of all, you need to be sure you understand how VPN works.
It is a Virtual Private Network which makes it possible to connect to any device or content using a remote server and an IP address different from the one given to you by your Internet Service Provider.
Your connection takes place through an encrypted tunnel, so no one can monitor your online activities.
You can also use VPNs to access region-blocked content. In most cases, this means Netflix or BBC iPlayer.
Torrent users who have grown more careful in recent times also prefer using VPN services to avoid being monitored by the government and its various intel agencies.
If you see yourself among the above, then you should definitely get yourself a good VPN.
Can TorGuard cater to all your needs?
The process of signing up is very easy and convenient.
You can use false information and you can also pay with bitcoins in order to avoid giving up your credit card billing address.
Payment options are many and they include PayPal, PaySafeCard, CashU, Alipay, AltCoins, Discover, Amex, Mastercard, and Visa. But if you want to be completely anonymous, bitcoins are definitely the way to go.
Choose from two different versions, the Lite, and the Viscosity version. If you aren't sure which one to choose, Lite is much simpler and more suited to beginners.
After you've entered your personal info, you get to choose which server to connect to. You can also choose the encryption protocol as there are TCP and UDP available.
One can also choose between different encryption levels, but you surely need just one, the AES-256, as it provides the utmost security.
When you're done with the options, simply click "connect" and after about twenty seconds you'll be notified that your connection has been established.
Originally, TorGuard was designed with Windows, Mac, and Linux users in mind, but in recent times it has grown to work with other platforms as well, such as Android, iOS, and Ubuntu.
TorGuard is one of the most popular choices among VPN users.
Simply because it gives them what they need, not necessarily jumping on the bandwagon of crazy gimmicks like some others do.
They have servers located in more than 50 countries, which means no matter where you are you'll be able to reach the content you're after. This includes services that block your original IP address.
By default, you can have five different connections running simultaneously.
There is also an option of purchasing additional ones at a rate of $1 per month for each additional connection. Those of you obsessed with gadgets and devices will surely dig this option.
Another neat option comes in the form of Domain Name System leak protection, which you can simply turn on and off. Combine this with a kill switch and you have a really mean package.
TorGuard allows for all different sorts of P2P file sharing, including torrenting. It even has several servers optimized strictly for torrent aficionados.
Still, if you plan on torrenting via TorGuard, you should know that it urges you to do so only through select servers, which include Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Hong Kong, Finland, Iceland, Romania, Panama, Luxembourg, Poland, Switzerland, Norway, Miami, Los Angeles, and Dallas.
If you're among those who don't need the full VPN service but just a simple proxy, you're in luck. TorGuard has that option covered too, by means of 200 remote servers in eight different countries.
This works well if you're trying to unblock geo-restricted content or if you're into P2P file sharing, but keep in mind that a proxy can't give you the same level of security as a VPN.
Once you sign up for a TorGuard VPN plan, you also get a free anonymous email service which comes with 10MB of offshore email storage.
It can be accessed through any device or platform. There are also four different plans for a paid anonymous email service, starting from $6.95 per month.
Those who can't live without the latest hit movies or TV shows are probably hopeless without Netflix. Well, you should know that Hulu, BBC iPlayer, and Netflix can't really be accessed using this basic VPN package.
If you want to stream these niceties through your TorGuard VPN, you will have to get a Dedicated Streaming IPs plan. This is easily done, as you can ask for one simply by contacting customer support via live chat.
When you take into consideration the fact that TorGuard is US-based, it doesn't really conjure up feelings of anonymity and security. This may be a major turn-off for some potential new users.
On the other hand, they do have an excellent zero-logs policy.
This means that they do not keep any connection logs, so if the government wants some data handed over, they pretty much don't have anything. Keep in mind that they do keep the billing information, but this too can be resolved by paying in bitcoins.
As far as encryption protocols are concerned, there are a few options available, such as PPTP and L2TP. But it's always highly recommended to stick with the mighty OpenVPN for all your connections.
There are various different options of encryption strengths for the OpenVPN protocol, so you can customize that too, but we recommend using the AES-256 for the pinnacle of security and anonymity.
Another neat option is the Stealth Proxy which connects users to a selection of five Japan or US-based servers.
There are numerous ways to pay for and use TorGuard. The first option is to use it as an anonymous proxy, and that will set you back $5.95 per month.
This will allow you to use SOCKS5 and HTTP/SSL proxy on up to five different devices. There are no access or bandwidth restrictions, and you can choose from 200+ proxy IP addresses which work for torrenting as well.
Proper VPN service can be purchased as a monthly, quarterly, or yearly plan. Monthly plan means paying $11.54 each monthly, while the yearly plan costs $64.00, which breaks down to $5.34 per month.
All VPN plans include the same services, which is rather nice. TorGuard also comes with a seven-day money-back guarantee.
TorGuard is a well-rounded VPN service that should satisfy the needs of most average internet users. This is why we have chosen it as one of the best VPNs in 2018.
Those who are concerned about the US jurisdiction of the company might want to check out some other VPN providers out there.
If you don't mind that and if you need additional dedicated streaming IPs for Netflix and BBC iPlayer, we'd strongly recommend TorGuard.
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£11.50 Down the White Nile for Android Netrunner
Android Netunner LCG » Cycle 8: Kitara Cycle » Down the White Nile for Android Netrunner
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What Jinteki secrets does Jinja hold?
Down the White Nile is the second Data Pack in the Kitara Cycle for Android: Netrunner The Card Game, and its sixty new cards (three copies each of twenty different cards) transport your games to the fast-growing city of Jinja, situated along the shores of Lake Victoria. There, the nations of the Sub-Saharan League have gathered a small army of workers. Their tasks? To help the world's second beanstalk grow through and out of its early stages of construction. To replicate the closely held secrets of Weyland's buckyweave. And to raise the colossal tower until it brushes against the heavens.
But while so much of the city's activity aims toward the skies and beyond, there's plenty happening on the ground—and behind the locked doors of Jinteki's Kisu2 Hospital. Bacteria and viruses (both physical and virtual) feature heavily in Down the White Nile, and you'll also find a new Shaper identity, programs, ice, a devious ambush, and an agenda that pays the Corp even if the Runner steals it.
Altogether, the cards from Down the White Nile reinforce the Kitara Cycle's on the tense interactions between Corp and Runner, raising the stakes and layering them in new bluffs and stratagems.
Sovereign Sight for Android Netrunner
Atop the rippling waters of Lake Victoria, a second beanstalk lies nascent and full of promise. To see it rise—to see a second Earth Station rise into space—the nations of the Sub-Saharan League have set aside their differences, and the result has been an economic and cultural renaissance. Everything that was old is new again.
Sovereign Sight is the first Data Pack in the Kitara Cycle for Android: Netrunner The Card Game.
Sixty cards (three copies each of twenty different cards) transport the game's Corps and Runners to the shores of Lake Victoria, where the nations of the Sub-Saharan League are gambling everything on their ability to create a second beanstalk. And while the Data Pack leads you far from the familiar sights and sounds of New Angeles, its cards aim straight to the heart of the classic Android: Netrunner experience, focusing on bluffs, gambits, and tense interactions between Corp and Runner.
In Sovereign Sight, you'll find a time and a place where the stakes are almost impossibly high, and those with talent and vision may find the world at their feet. It's not just a second Earth Station that's being created on the waters of Lake Victoria—it's the future.


Do you need a safe and confidential place to go where you can begin to unravel your thoughts? I can offer a private and confidential place, to listen and to hear what you need to say. Together we can reflect on how we can enable you to live with a greater sense of ease and possess more certainty than perhaps ever before.
Being in a relationship with a counsellor who enables you to separate out thoughts and feelings around relationships, the world you live in and its complexities can often be the first step to a more confident and peaceful existence.
For the person who feels support is unavailable for what ever reason, life can sometimes be very difficult and often overwhelming. For those who give themselves the time to look at their difficulties, with a counsellor who has the ability to offer a non judgmental reflection of what is happening can for some be life changing. Being in a safe relationship with a counsellor can often move you as an individual towards a better relationship with yourself. This in turn will enable you to make more informed choices about how to live your life.
I started studying counselling in 2003 and started practicing in 2007. I base my work around the therapeutic relationship. Within this the theoretical approaches used include humanistic, psychodynamic and existential models. I have also studied and use where appropriate Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
I have ten years counselling experience in the Wakefield area seeing GP and self referrals both in the community and at a city centre location. I have previously also worked for two years at Northorpe Hall and Family Trust as a counsellor working with young people between the ages of twelve and eighteen.
Counselling is most affective when consistent, therefore counselling is most helpful when sessions are either weekly or fortnightly.
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We all have that friend: every time you go to her house, everything is in its place, the counters are shining, and the toilet doesn't have that pink ring around the bowl.
I used to think that these kinds of people were like Monica from Friends: genetically wired to love cleaning. I assumed that they had intensive cleaning schedules with at least an hour of work each night and then multiple hours of deep cleaning on the weekends. I wrote off maintaining a clean home as something that I just didn't have the time or energy for. Or at least, I had the time, but I would rather spend it living my life, thank you.
Now, I still don't have the time or will to clean my home for hours and hours each week. But as I've become more engaged with simple living, I've found that there are a few tricks to keeping your house looking good a solid 80% of the time. These are the secrets of people whose homes always seem clean.
A house could be clean in that the surfaces and floors are scrubbed, the furniture and carpets are vacuumed, and the bathrooms are shining. But if there are clothes all over the unmade bed and toys all over the floor and piles of books and papers everywhere, that house will not give the appearance of clean because it isn't tidy. I can function and feel at ease when my home is tidy but a little dirty; I can't relax when it's clean but cluttered.
People whose homes always appear clean don't wait until it looks like a bomb went off and then snap and spend hours and hours cleaning up the wreckage. They have routines (note: not schedules) to keep each room looking tidy. This might mean rearranging throw pillows and folding blankets when they're done in the family room each night, having kids put toys back in the toy box, hanging up clothes at the end of each day, and folding the laundry right when it comes out of the dryer.
Much like making tidiness a habit, they make cleaning as they go a habit. They do the dishes right after dinner, they wipe down the bathroom counters after getting ready for the day, and they sweep the crumbs off the floor after having a snack. By keeping major surfaces relatively clean throughout the week, they don't have to spend time doing these tasks during more intensive cleaning sessions, leaving more time and energy for things like mopping floors and dusting baseboards (you know, occasionally).
It's hard for a home to look cluttered when the owners don't have tons of stuff. Instead of spending tons of time organizing the stuff they do have, just to have it all go back to chaos a week later, these people keep their stuff simplified in the first place so they don't have to organize it.
Because no one is perfect and not everything can have a place. It's just the truth. So for the few things that are cluttering up the counter when last-minute friends stop by, those few items can be swiftly swept into the drawer and forgotten about for the moment.
These habits are easy, simple, and less time consuming than you would think--in fact, they save time in the long run. If you want to have a home that always appears clean, start with just one of these secrets and integrate it into your daily or weekly routine, building up from there.
I have a pretty strong inkling that having a baby and then eventually, I hope, multiple kids, will throw me for a loop in this area. There will be adjustments periods, and that 80% number may become something more like 50% or 60% at times. But I do believe that these habits are totally possible with kids running around, especially if you get them in on helping. I don't think there's a better time to keep stuff simplified than when it comes to acquiring baby stuff and kids' toys, and truly, keeping possessions limited is more than half the battle.
And for the moments when the things you do own are everywhere and the kitchen is covered in crumbs and the toilets haven't been scrubbed in weeks, remember: you're doing just fine.


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Journal of Social History
Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory, 1850-1950 (review)
Douglas C. Baynton
10.1353/jsh.2000.0133
Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory 1850–1950
Illusions of Equality: Deaf Americans in School and Factory 1850–1950. By Robert M. Buchanan (Washington, DC: Gallaudet University, 1999. xvii plus 214 pp. $39.95).
Illusions of Equality belongs to a growing body of literature that examines deafness (and disability more generally) as a social, cultural, and political phenomenon. Hearing people are inclined to view deafness merely as a defect to be ameliorated by specialized techniques and technologies, and since most deaf people are born to hearing parents and taught by hearing teachers, deaf children often think of themselves in these terms. By the time they reach adulthood, however, they usually have come to see themselves very differently, as members of a cultural and linguistic minority. Indeed, for the past century and a half deaf Americans have behaved as an ethnic group, with their own clubs and associations, a thriving periodical press, and a distinct language and set of cultural values.
This aspect of deafness has caught the interest of scholars in the humanities in recent decades, beginning with linguistic research into American Sign Language in the 1950s. Historical research has not kept pace with contemporary studies, however, perhaps in part because this is a culture handed down primarily via a visual language with no written form. Of the few published historical accounts, most have relied on more readily available sources such as records of professionals who serve deaf people, in particular educators. And since deaf education has long been dominated by hearing people, these histories have tended to emphasize what hearing people thought and said about young deaf people. Buchanan's book marks an important departure by focussing on the working lives of deaf adults and using sources generated by deaf people themselves—periodicals such as Deaf Mutes Journal and Silent Worker, and records of organizations such as the National Association of the Deaf, the state associations, and the National Fraternal Society of the Deaf.
Buchanan begins with the establishment of bilingual (English and American Sign Language) schools in the early nineteenth century and the losing struggle by deaf people to preserve that bilingual approach when national sentiment turned against it later in the century. The subtitle of the book, Deaf Americans in School and Factory, seems at first glance to bring together disparate topics, but as Buchanan makes clear, in the minds of deaf community leaders school and factory were integrally related. One of the greatest obstacles to success in both education and employment, as they saw it, was the increasing refusal of educators to use sign language in the late nineteenth century. Requiring students to communicate solely by lip-reading and speech undermined vocational and academic instruction for the majority and hampered the acquisition of skills essential to success in the work place. [End Page 490]
While the early chapters on education present some fresh information and previously untapped source material, they largely recount a story already told in greater detail elsewhere. However, when Buchanan turns to the struggle of deaf people against employment discrimination, he breaks new ground. He argues that deaf leaders throughout this period advocated what he terms a "code of personal responsibility," similar to Booker T. Washington's message to African Americans, that emphasized individual initiative rather than group rights. When deaf people faced discrimination in employment, their reflexive answer was to educate employers about the abilities of deaf people and to exhort deaf people to demonstrate their worth by working harder.
Occasionally, however, events roused the deaf community to take political action, and these occasions provide the most interesting parts of the book. In 1906, for example, when deaf people were barred from applying for Civil Service jobs, deaf community leaders swiftly organized to overturn the policy. Buchanan describes their eventual success—after a two-year campaign of lobbying officials, writing letters, gathering endorsements from employers, and extracting promises from presidential candidates—as a turning point in "organizing ability and consciousness," an "intellectual and tactical break from the self-limiting and conservative approaches typically used against recalcitrant employers."
Another story of political activism involves a fascinating character, Anton Spear, who after graduating from the Minnesota...


People are acquainted about their kids' holidays etc. They make up their mind to take them to trips to make them happy or giving them a holiday gift. It is also very difficult to stay at a single place throughout the year. Change is always necessary to change the mindsets. In other ways, it is very difficult to stay in the month of May and June when summer is at its max. This is the peak time when we all think of trips.
Online websites like Real Estate Mysore give you a clear picture and agenda to book rooms on rent in Mysore of your choice depending on the team size going for the trip. People who are the host and organizing the trips, they need to book houses or do accommodations well in advance to avoid any challenge during trip. It has been observed that late planning can push you up for canceling the trip as well. No doubt, people love staying in hotels. However, staying in any hotel cannot give you a feeling of your own home. On the other hand, a rented house will indeed gives you an experience of enjoying the family life in a tourist place.
We all like travelling a lot. Travelling to different cities on vacations along with their friends, colleagues and family etc has been granted as a most wonderful experience of the year. India is well-known to enjoy plethora of tourist spots. It is the central hub of magnificent holiday destinations. Such beautiful destinations make your journeys memorable throughout the life when you get the desirable rooms on rent in Mysore. People get a chance to live a stress free life for few days or months. You will be able to know about their culture, food habits, hospitalities and the customs etc. Some customs are very interesting as they are completely alike from our ones.
Experiencing new tastes and new things gives you an excitement as well. A wonderful journey with family and friends is life time memorable experience. You will be able to see so many things which are out of your imagination. Kids seem very crazy to get new friends and feel relaxed as they are out of studies for some days. These are the golden days for them, so they like enjoying as much as they can. They like collecting new and different things and want to take it in their native places. They also interact with other new friends as well. You must see and feel a difference in yourself when you will be back.


Recently I was interviewed as part of a research in the use of digital tools in appraisal practices in primary schools. I was asked some interesting questions that I found myself thinking about the interview long after it was over.
I was drawn back to a series of presentations I shared at Eduignite. My second in a series of three was Digital Tattoos. At Eduignite, I shared about the importance of leaving evidence of what we do as educators and to be cautious of having folders on desks. Personally I have never understood the point of having an appraisal paper folder. I struggle even more with the notion of creating PDFs of what I do. I chuckle at the PDF notion just like I chuckle at stories of educators being asked to print off digital planning. I am aware of needing evidence for compliance, but believe like Ewan, that online sharing is much more powerful. You can check out my slides from that Eduignite session below. Even then I scoffed at the paper folders.
I have writing several times about the importance of transparent sharing.
When I reread my 2015 goal of having all teachers at Newmarket School with an online reflective blog, I am excited to say that I have achieved that goal. Currently most blogs look like the early push onto twitter. Sporadic writing like the earlier sporadic tweeting. Two have set theirs up but have not yet taken that first step. But hey after curating #EdBlogNZ with two online colleagues, I know, as a school we are in a good space.
I am always thinking about the importance of our teachers sharing. I do remind them about using twitter like online note taking so that they can get into the habit of microblogging and our teachers have supported the use of our school hashtag #NPSFab.
However the most powerful of these are when I can see a follow up reflection on their blogs because again it is the sharing online that creates an artefact for the education community.
I am really excited at across school sharing. We have the ACCoS initiative, the ALLiS and the Mutukaroa projects. In addition I co ordinate our Eastern Area ESOL cluster group.
I will be sharing how changes and structures in the school day have evolved from being teacher driven to being student driven and enable innovative approaches to teaching and learning. Also how task-based learning activities are curated for students and how communication evolves as both teachers and students learn to give and receive feedback. I will also share how informal and formal learning creates opportunities for sharing knowledge and skills among the learning community. The above spaces will be used as examples as well as what we are doing in Newmarket School with our children and teachers.
Reminding teachers about keeping content current is an important part of online sharing. I have a project that has developed into something quite close to my heart and that is the #EdBookNZ project. This is where I have identified current education jargons and invited educators to contribute a piece of writing. I take all the writing and publish a digital book for the education community. The #TeachMeetNZ google hangouts that I have run quarterly have been shelved because I have taken on two other roles this year and that has been about building communities of learners.
Finally, I am particularly excited that our principal joining the next cohort of Flat Connection Leadership for Global Education. A criteria of the course is regular blogging so I look forward to her ongoing online sharing.
So as schools how open are your examples of teachers creating and sharing? Do your teachers see online sharing as on top of what they do or is online sharing part of their practice? I would love to hear your thoughts.


Natural wood objects warm up any decor. I think they especially look terrific in the kitchen, where even a brand new item instantly feels like a heirloom piece. Browsing around for wooden kitchen accessories, I found tons of modern and attractive items that (momentarily) made me want to throw stainless steel out of my kitchen for a while. Here are my top 9 gift ideas – which are all part of my own wish list now.
These product choices are not sponsored and I do not earn any money by presenting these great finds here. I just think they are fantastic and gift-worthy!
Designed by Oji Masanori and handcrafted at the Takahashi Kougei wood workshop in Hokkaido. Sold by Muhs Home.
The Kakudo butter dish keeps your butter neat and ready for use. The lid fits perfectly atop the dish with 45-degree angled edges. Available in small and medium, and in cherry, maple or walnut. The medium dish comes with a matching butter knife.
This whimsical cutting board will put a smile on your face from breakfast to dinner. Makes a superb cheese board.
A beautiful handmade pastry cutter, with a stainless steel wheel, a solid wooden handle and a lovely rustic feel. Each handle is slightly different.
Irresistible and very practical. Made of bamboo and stainless steel.
Heirloom recipe card boxes are made by local craftsmen from locally salvaged hardwood (trees that were destined for landfills). All of the boxes are unique and hand-crafted during a 3-month-long process (a month for the mill to source the salvaged wood, a month to build in the workman's studio, and a month for the hand-rubbed finish to dry). The lids are then screen printed with two different design options.
These lovely coasters created by Rina Ono is hand crafted in a workshop in Hokkaido Japan by the talented Hidetoshi Takahashi. Sold in sets of 3.
Gorgeously lush salvaged black walnut for serving your favorite artisanal olives and cheeses. Beautiful also for displaying fruits, vegetables, and all your farm market treasures. Hand rubbed with organic olive, oil so it's food safe and easy to maintain. Signed and numbered underneath.
A ferocious blend of art and function, this striking mortar and pestle set is crafted from crushed bamboo. This traditional tool imparts tiger's eye precision to crushing, powdering and emulsifying herbs, spices and prey with ease. A gorgeous way to add flavor to your meal–and kitchen counter.
Designed by KiBiSi, a Copenhagen based idea-driven industrial design firm, for Muuto.
A set of two kitchen utensils that combine form, function and craftsmanship. The wooden utensils are precisely designed and crafted for a sleek modern look and improved functionality. The slit in the back lets you work freely in the kitchen, while your utensils hang out on your pots or pans.
I LOVE the cloud cutting board!


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package com.google.template.soy.data.restricted;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

import com.google.template.soy.data.SoyDataException;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;

/**
 * Unit tests for subclasses of PrimitiveData.
 */
@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
public class PrimitiveDataTest {

  @Test
  public void testUndefinedData() {

    UndefinedData ud = UndefinedData.INSTANCE;
    try {
      ud.coerceToString();
      fail();
    } catch (SoyDataException ste) {
      // Test passes.
    }
    assertEquals(false, ud.coerceToBoolean());
    assertTrue(ud.equals(UndefinedData.INSTANCE));
  }

  @Test
  public void testNullData() {

    NullData nd = NullData.INSTANCE;
    assertEquals("null", nd.coerceToString());
    assertEquals(false, nd.coerceToBoolean());
    assertTrue(nd.equals(NullData.INSTANCE));
  }

  @Test
  public void testBooleanData() {

    BooleanData bd0 = BooleanData.FALSE;
    assertEquals(false, bd0.getValue());
    assertEquals("false", bd0.coerceToString());
    assertEquals(false, bd0.coerceToBoolean());
    assertTrue(bd0.equals(BooleanData.FALSE));

    BooleanData bd1 = BooleanData.TRUE;
    assertEquals(true, bd1.getValue());
    assertEquals("true", bd1.coerceToString());
    assertEquals(true, bd1.coerceToBoolean());
    assertTrue(bd1.equals(BooleanData.TRUE));

    assertFalse(bd0.equals(bd1));
    assertFalse(bd1.equals(bd0));
  }

  @Test
  public void testIntegerData() {

    IntegerData id0 = IntegerData.ZERO;
    assertEquals(0, id0.getValue());
    assertEquals("0", id0.coerceToString());
    assertEquals(false, id0.coerceToBoolean());
    assertTrue(id0.equals(IntegerData.ZERO));

    IntegerData id1 = IntegerData.forValue(26);
    assertEquals(26, id1.getValue());
    assertEquals("26", id1.coerceToString());
    assertEquals(true, id1.coerceToBoolean());
    assertTrue(id1.equals(IntegerData.forValue(26)));

    assertFalse(id0.equals(id1));
    assertFalse(id1.equals(id0));
  }

  @Test
  public void testFloatData() {

    FloatData fd0 = FloatData.forValue(0.0);
    assertEquals(0.0, fd0.getValue(), 0.0);
    assertEquals("0", fd0.coerceToString());
    assertEquals(false, fd0.coerceToBoolean());
    assertTrue(fd0.equals(FloatData.forValue(0.0)));

    FloatData fd1 = FloatData.forValue(3.14);
    assertEquals(3.14, fd1.getValue(), 0.0);
    assertEquals("3.14", fd1.coerceToString());
    assertEquals(true, fd1.coerceToBoolean());
    assertTrue(fd1.equals(FloatData.forValue(3.14)));

    assertFalse(fd0.equals(fd1));
    assertFalse(fd1.equals(fd0));
  }

  @Test
  public void testFloatDataToString() {
    // Tests that our toString is similar to Javascript's number toString.
    assertEquals("0", FloatData.toString(0.0));
    assertEquals("0", FloatData.toString(-0.0));
    assertEquals("1", FloatData.toString(1.0));
    assertEquals("-1", FloatData.toString(-1.0));
    assertEquals("1000000000000000", FloatData.toString(1.0e15));
    assertEquals("-1000000000000000", FloatData.toString(-1.0e15));
    assertEquals("-1000000000000000", FloatData.toString(-1.0e15));
    assertEquals("1.51e32", FloatData.toString(1.51e32));
    assertEquals("NaN", FloatData.toString(Double.NaN));
    assertEquals("Infinity", FloatData.toString(Double.POSITIVE_INFINITY));
    assertEquals("-Infinity", FloatData.toString(Double.NEGATIVE_INFINITY));
  }

  @Test
  public void testNumberData() {

    IntegerData id0 = IntegerData.ZERO;
    IntegerData id1 = IntegerData.forValue(2);
    FloatData fd0 = FloatData.forValue(0.0);
    FloatData fd1 = FloatData.forValue(2.0);

    assertEquals(0.0, id0.toFloat(), 0.0);
    assertEquals(2.0, id1.toFloat(), 0.0);
    assertEquals(0.0, fd0.toFloat(), 0.0);
    assertEquals(2.0, fd1.toFloat(), 0.0);

    assertTrue(id0.equals(fd0));
    assertTrue(fd0.equals(id0));
    assertTrue(id1.equals(fd1));
    assertTrue(fd1.equals(id1));
    assertFalse(id0.equals(fd1));
    assertFalse(fd1.equals(id0));
    assertFalse(id1.equals(fd0));
    assertFalse(fd0.equals(id1));
  }

  @Test
  public void testStringData() {

    StringData sd0 = StringData.EMPTY_STRING;
    assertEquals("", sd0.getValue());
    assertEquals("", sd0.coerceToString());
    assertEquals(false, sd0.coerceToBoolean());
    assertTrue(sd0.equals(StringData.EMPTY_STRING));

    StringData sd1 = StringData.forValue("boo");
    assertEquals("boo", sd1.getValue());
    assertEquals("boo", sd1.coerceToString());
    assertEquals(true, sd1.coerceToBoolean());
    assertTrue(sd1.equals(StringData.forValue("boo")));

    assertFalse(sd0.equals(sd1));
    assertFalse(sd1.equals(sd0));
  }
}


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Teen Tennis Star Leylah Fernandez Follows Path Osaka, Williams Paved
by admin | Jan 12, 2022 | Representation, SEW | 0 comments
Teenage tennis star Leylah Fernandez, who quickly became a fan favorite during her run to the U.S. Open final last fall, has agreed to a multi-year partnership with Youth Athletes United, the parent company behind youth sports franchises Soccer Stars, Amazing Athletes, TGA Premier Sports and JumpBunch.
Fernandez will create co-branded tennis and fitness clinics and classes, serving as the first-ever ambassador for the brand and adding to her budding endorsement portfolio. In the aftermath of her U.S. Open success last year, the breakout 19-year-old inked an endorsement deal with Canadian carrier Flair Airlines. She announced a partnership with Canadian apparel company Lululemon just before the 2022 Australian Open, and also has deals with Asics, Babolat, telecommunications company Telcel and cosmetics company Birchbox. Read More


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pelisterfc.com
Will Antoine Griezmann move on?
May 20, 2018 Eleanor Morrison
This Wednesday night, the famed French forward, Antoine Griezmann was the star player of Atletico Madrid scored an incredible 3-0 win over the strong-willed team, Marseille, during the final in theEuropa League final game. While the Atletico's overall precise organization of their plays, along with a strong defense aided the team in this highly anticipated victory, it was thanks to the strong performance and Griezmann's football knowledge that stole the spotlight and ultimately won this game to add to the belt of Diego Simeone. Shockingly, this is Griezmann's first trophy award with the Atletico team during his four-year career with the Spanish club.
Over the last few years, Griezmann's been on the brink of reaching a higher level as a player, almost to the point of being in the Cristiano Ronaldo or the Messi rank. Many experts are thinking that after this win, maybe the French player is finally ready to reach this prized level of football since he has become more consistent with his playing.
Will Antoine Griezmann – Up and Coming Player
The up and rising French player has spent a chunk of his career playing the position of a winger and wide forward. Though, since his recent switch to playing central attacking, Griezmann has pushed and started to be recognized as a consistent and more influential player in the league. In total, the twenty-seven year old player has currently scored an impressive 29 goals during all of the competition for the highly regarded team, Atletico. Which is a considerably great record for a player who is a part of a team that focuses on the precise organization rather than rampant attacking flares and methods. While he scored 22 goals, Griezmann has an impressive record, which has been seen in the Champions League and in La Liga, and even before those the player had 29 scores under his belt. So as his history shows, the player is rising too high profile levels and more people, fans and experts alike, are now mentioning Griezmann name even more.
However, the real question on everybody's mind is if Griezmann man lasts elsewhere. While his latest performances have attracted some attention for other teams, understandably so. Considerations for a transfer to Barcelona have been since been silenced by the player himself. As of late, the player is keeping silent regarding his future. Though, the Catalan giants are interested in the rising superstar forward, despite rumors of interest coming from Manchester United. Many experts are thinking if Griezmann could move up a level of fame if he chooses to play alongside other superior players who have reached club level. Many have thought Griezmann could move up by playing with the start of Barcelona, Lionel Messi.
It's no understatement that Griezmann would be an incredible addition to the squad of Ernesto Valverde this coming summer. Plus, considering how the Blaugrana are known for replying far too much on Messi, and having another talented name could ease some of the pressure on Messi.
Griezmann Drawing Positive Attention
The attention Griezmann has been receiving is not only due to his impressive goal record from the last few years. It's a combination of his preciseness while not being on the ball along with his overall awareness regarding teammates and the space that surrounds him is incredible. Griezmann has been known to always find someone space while other forwards would just hesitate, which just shows his overall football intelligence.
Griezmann will once again be considered one of the key players for the success so the French can have another attempt to win another international trophy during the upcoming summer World Cup. The French director, Didier Deschamps currently has an incredible lineup of skilled players that can be used for his disposal. If Griezmann stays on his toes and keeps up his energetic track of playing with his heart, the team will have even more chances to become world-renowned champions again.
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World Tour comes to a conclusion in Stockholm
Tournaments on the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour come to a conclusion in Stockholm with the staging of the Swedish Open; proceedings start on Wednesday 27th November and conclude on Sunday 1st December. It is a tournament that has a long and distinguishe
Tournaments on the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour come to a conclusion in Stockholm with the staging of the Swedish Open; proceedings start on Wednesday 27th November and conclude on Sunday 1st December.
It is a tournament that has a long and distinguished history; it has stood the test of time with many of the great names of the sport having been crowned champions at the prestigious event. In 1954, almost 60 years ago, the winner of the Men's Singles title was Zarko DOLINAR, in those days representing Yugoslavia; in the final he beat Sweden's very own Tage FLISBERG to arrest the title.
This year the tournament will gather many famous names once again. Winner of the Men's Singles event in Poland and Germany, China's 16 year-old FAN Zhendong returns to international action at Swedish Open. He is the third seed in the Men's Singles event behind compatriots XU Xin and YAN An. However, more pertinently he will be competing in his fifth GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour tournament of the year and by simply being present in Stockholm, he will qualify for an invitation to the US$ 1,000,000 Grand Finals to be staged in Dubai next January
Currently, following the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour Russian Open, in which FAN Zhendong did not compete, he lies in fourth place on the Men's Singles Standings with 547 points, behind MA Long (1,150 points), XU Xin (575 points) and Masato SHIONO (557 points). Undoubtedly, XU Xin and YAN An will also receive invitations for Dubai; currently YAN An is in ninth place on the Men's Singles Standings and with 16 players being invited to the Grand Finals, he is assured of an invitation. Sweden will be the sixth GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour tournament of the year for XU Xin and YAN An.
Portugal's Marcos FREITAS is the fourth seed and is currently in 30th place on the Men's Singles Standings (98 points); Chinese Taipei's CHEN Chien-An is the fifth seed and is in 27th position (103 points), whilst Spain's Carlos MACHADO is the no.14 seed and in 25th spot (109 points) Likewise, in the Women's Singles event, there are players on duty at the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour Swedish Open who could well confirm their places on the Dubai invitation list. LI Jiao of the Netherlands is presently at no.13 on the Women's Singles Standings (188 points) and is the second seed in Stockholm, whilst Chinese Taipei's CHENG I-Ching is in 16th position on the list (152 points) and in the third seed in Sweden.
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) ? Prince William and Kate arrive in Canada today for their first official overseas trip since their wedding, in a visit that is expected to draw record numbers of star-struck crowds and well-wishers hoping to catch a glimpse of the royal couple.
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Prince William and Kate arrive in Canada today for their first official overseas trip since their wedding, in a visit that is expected to draw record numbers of star-struck crowds and well-wishers hoping to catch a glimpse of the royal couple.
They will celebrate Canada Day in Ottawa, open the Calgary Stampede and go canoeing in the Northwest Territories during their nine day-tour of their future realm before taking off to Los Angeles.
"The response we've gotten is overwhelming," Canadian Heritage Minister James Moore told The Associated Press. "We're already now having to adjust some of our plans from moving the couple in and around the capital here, closing off some streets and moving people around."
Canada's prime minister even has unveiled a personal flag for use during William's visit. It is the first flag to be created by Canada for a member of the royal family since 1962, when the queen adopted a personal flag for her own use in Canada.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the flag was approved by the queen and William.
The young prince also plans to demonstrate his skills as a helicopter rescue pilot by taking part in a water landing demonstration, and the couple is scheduled to put on aprons and take part in a cooking workshop in Quebec City.
But the couple won't be welcomed by all. Some anti-royal protests are expected in the French-speaking province of Quebec, with small groups planning protests in Quebec City and Montreal.
The prince and Kate jet to Los Angeles on July 8 and will host a gala dinner there the next night to introduce up-and-coming British film talent to Hollywood executives.
The southern California trip includes a $4,000 three-course meal and a charity polo match up close with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, as they are known formally. So far, about 1,000 VIP tickets have been sold to the polo match, along with about 400 general admission passes, raising nearly $4.4 million for the July 9 event. William plans to play in the match, and his wife will award the trophy to the winning team.
Decades have passed since Canadians abandoned the Union Jack and replaced "God Save the Queen" with "O Canada." Ordinarily, most Canadians are indifferent to the monarchy. However the 85-year-old Queen Elizabeth II — William's grandmother — remains Canada's titular head of state, is portrayed on its coins and stamps and has visited 22 times as queen.
"For a new generation of Canadians, it's a new introduction for themselves into the monarchy," Moore said.
This royal couple is expected to draw thousands and more than 1,300 journalists are accredited. William got a reception fit for a rock star the last time he visited Canada as a 15-year-old in 1998. He wowed teenage girls who wolf-whistled him when he visited Vancouver, British Columbia, with his father Prince Charles. William looked aghast at the commotion back then. That trip was the first official foreign visit for him since the death of his mother, Princess Diana, in a car crash in Paris in August, 1997.
William will be celebrating Canada's birthday Friday, the same day his mother would have turned 50.
He is due to say a few words at a number of stops. Kate is not scheduled to speak.
The couple will travel from the sub-Arctic to oil-rich Calgary, Alberta, from busy Montreal to bucolic Prince Edward Island of "Anne of Green Gables" fame.
They'll sit around a campfire with young people, dress casual for the Calgary rodeo, join a cookout in Quebec City and hand out flags to newly-minted Canadians at a citizenship ceremony.
Harper is the most pro-monarchy Canadian leader since the 1950s, and his ambition is to foster a national identity that is more conservative and more aware of its historical roots.
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For my family and I it was the first time ever we had been unable to visit "Nain Wrecsam". Sadly, we won't be able to visit her this year, or ever again.
In the months leading up to Christmas 2020 Covid was still tearing its way through the population of Wales and the first vaccination wasn't administered until the first week in December that year.
My mother, who would have been celebrating her 88th birthday last week, had been in and out of the Maelor hospital in Wrecsam with a range of issues that impacted upon her heart. By some miracle she had remained free from Covid. Her condition deteriorated after Christmas and the hospital planned for her to be at home during her final days.
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Living 160 miles away from my hometown in Pontycymer, a small village north of Bridgend, visiting was out of the question.
On Wednesday February 17, we spoke with her as a family on FaceTime, and that was the last time her grandchildren Megan (12) and Betsi (8) saw their Nain. On Saturday February 20, the news arrived that she had passed away quietly during the night, with my brother and niece by her side.
Do I wish I had ignored the rules and travelled to see her after that FaceTime call, knowing that she had days left to live? It is something that will haunt me until the day my turn comes to depart.
I had received my first Covid vaccination on the 12th of February, so I had some protection, but I didn't receive my second jab until April which, of course, gave me greater protection.
Like many others did, and continue to do so, I followed the rules, not just for my own benefit, but for the benefit of others as well. Whilst Covid wouldn't be completely defeated by following the rules, a combined effort by the many would minimise its impact. Despite our best efforts almost 6,500 have lost their lives in Wales to Covid.
My mother's funeral wasn't held until mid-March, which meant another decision had to be made. Again, we abided by the rules, and being on the medically vulnerable list myself, we decided to stay away. The funeral was due to be streamed from the crematorium.
On the morning of the funeral, I checked with the funeral directors who informed us that due to the lack of connectivity at the crematorium in Pentrebychan, they would record the funeral and send me a link later in the day.
So, at 6 o'clock that evening we sat down as a family to watch a replay of my mother's funeral on television.
To think that during the second wave of a global pandemic that had cost countless lives and during which, families like my own made sacrifice after sacrifice to ensure our own safety, that people at the heart of government thought it was appropriate to party beggars belief.
As it stands, no one has resigned bar Allegra Stratton, the Prime Minister's now former adviser, who only departed after footage emerged from a press conference rehearsal of her making light of an alleged party… an alleged party where it now appears his press chief, Jack Doyle, made a speech and gave out awards.
I'll still follow the guidance of the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, and the Welsh Government.
As for his English counterpart, I gave up listening to his advice some time ago.


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Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. Chemically, fats are generally triesters of glycerol and fatty acids. Fats may be either solid or liquid at normal room temperature, depending on their structure and composition. Although the words "oils," "fats" and "lipids" are all used to refer to fats, "oils" is usually used to refer to fats that are liquids at normal room temperature, while "fats" is usually used to refer to fats that are solids at normal room temperature. "Lipids" is used to refer to both liquid and solid fats.A fat's constituent fatty acids may also differ in the number of hydrogen atoms that are bonded to the chain of carbon atoms. Each carbon atom is typically bonded to two hydrogen atoms. When a fatty acid has this typical arrangement, it is called "saturated", because the carbon atoms are saturated with hydrogen; meaning they are bonded to as many hydrogens as possible. In other fats, a carbon atom may instead bond to only one other hydrogen atom, and have a double bond to a neighboring carbon atom. This results in an "unsaturated" fatty acid. More specifically, it would be a "monounsaturated" fatty acid, whereas, a "polyunsaturated" fatty acid would be a fatty acid with more than one double bond. Saturated and unsaturated fats differ in their energy content and melting point. Since an unsaturated fat contains fewer carbon-hydrogen bonds than a saturated fat with the same number of carbon atoms, unsaturated fats will yield slightly less energy during metabolism than saturated fats with the same number of carbon atoms. Saturated fats can stack themselves in a closely packed arrangement, so they can freeze easily and are typically solid at room temperature. But the rigid double bond in an unsaturated fat fundamentally changes the chemistry of the fat. There are two ways the double bond may be arranged: the isomer with both parts of the chain on the same side of the double bond (the cis-isomer), or the isomer with the parts of the chain on opposite sides of the double bond (the trans-isomer). Most trans-isomer fats (commonly called trans fats) are commercially produced rather than naturally occurring. The cis-isomer introduces a kink into the molecule that prevents the fats from stacking efficiently as in the case of fats with saturated chains. This decreases intermolecular forces between the fat molecules, making it more difficult for unsaturated cis-fats to freeze; they are typically liquid at room temperature. Trans fats may still stack like saturated fats, and are not as susceptible to metabolization as other fats. Trans fats and saturated fats significantly increase the risk of coronary heart disease
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Firmin Meyer est un photographe français, né à Nîmes le  et mort à Carpentras le .

Biographie
Sorti diplômé de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, il collabora, tout d'abord, avec le grand photographe Châteauneuf. Puis en 1927, il s'installa à Carpentras pour ouvrir un studio d'art.

Le photographe du Ventoux
Sur place, il se lia d'amitié avec Pierre de Champeville qui l'entraîna lors de ses premières excursions dans le Mont Ventoux. Nombre de ses clichés parurent rapidement dans les revues régionales et nationales puis furent édités en cartes postales. Fondateur avec Champeville du ski-club du Mont-Ventoux, il lui succéda ensuite à la direction du syndicat d'initiative qu'ils avaient créé ensemble.

Artiste du noir et blanc, il est considéré comme le plus grand photographe du Ventoux au .

Exposition universelle de 1937
Lors de l'exposition universelle de 1937, le comité organisateur lui confia la décoration du « Pavillon Provence ». Sur place, il fut sollicité par des industriels de Boston qui désiraient utiliser ses talents aux États-Unis. Il refusa.

Le photographe de Cocteau
Jean Cocteau, à la recherche d'un photographe de talent pour faire les clichés de ses fresques de la chapelle Saint-Pierre, se confia à son ami, le poète André de Richaud. Sur ses conseils, il se rendit à Carpentras pour découvrir en la personne de Meyer un véritable artiste. Celui-ci accepta l'invitation et rejoignit Villefranche-sur-Mer, en 1955, afin de réaliser son reportage.

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Photographe français du XXe siècle
Photographe de paysage
Naissance en juin 1899
Naissance à Nîmes
Décès en septembre 1976
Décès à Carpentras
Article à illustrer Vaucluse
Décès à 77 ans

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Double-strand DNA breaks occur upon exposure of cells to agents such as ionizing radiation and ultraviolet light or indirectly through replication fork collapse at DNA damage sites. If left unrepaired double-strand breaks can cause genome instability and cell death. In response to DNA damage, proteins involved in double-strand break repair by homologous recombination re-localize into discrete nuclear foci. We identified 29 proteins that co-localize with the recombination repair protein Rad52 in response to DNA damage. Of particular interest, Ygr042w/Mte1, a protein of unknown function, showed robust colocalization with Rad52. Mte1 foci fail to form when the DNA helicase Mph1 is absent. Mte1 and Mph1 form a complex, and are recruited to double-strand breaks in vivo in a mutually dependent manner. Mte1 is important for resolution of Rad52 foci during double-strand break repair, and for suppressing break-induced replication. Together our data indicate that Mte1 functions with Mph1 in double-strand break repair.