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Klubowe mistrzostwa świata w piłce nożnej kobiet (ang. International Women's Club Championship, jap. 国際女子サッカークラブ選手権) – coroczne klubowe rozgrywki piłkarskie kobiet pomiędzy najlepszymi przedstawicielami  Europy, Australii, Ameryki Południowej oraz Japonii organizowane przez Japan Football Association i Nadeshiko League.

Historia
Zapoczątkowany został w 2012 roku przez Japan Football Association i Nadeshiko League jako Mobcast Cup. W rozgrywkach uczestniczyły zespoły, które reprezentowały różne kontynenty. Turniej pomiędzy tymi zespołami zawsze odbywa się na stadionach Japonii i jest sponsorowany przez Mobcast. Inauguracyjny turniej, zwany inaczej Międzynarodowe Klubowe Mistrzostwa Kobiet odbył się w Japonii w listopadzie 2012 roku przy udziale czterech zespołów: Olympique Lyon (Europa), Canberra United FC (Australia), INAC Kobe leonessa (Japonia) i NTV Beleza (zwycięzca Pucharu Japonii). Pierwszym zwycięzcą została francuska drużyna Olympique Lyon która w finale pokonała po dogrywce 2:1 klub INAC Kobe Leonessa. Przewidywano, że FIFA zatwierdzi ten turniej jako żeński odpowiednik męskich Klubowych Mistrzostw Świata.

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Międzynarodowe rozgrywki klubowe w piłce nożnej kobiet
Rozgrywki piłkarskie w Japonii


1997 was $1,500 to cover startup costs.
1998 was $600 toward admin costs and Seed TEAM support.
1999 was $6,425 toward completion of a TV film clip and continuing support of the Seed TEAM.
2000 has been $16,737 in stock and over $28,903 in cash toward Short Wave Internet classes, a Hydroponics Lab including Aquaponics and Worm Culture, Linux servers, and continuing support of the Seed TEAM including farming equipment.
2001 has been $5,735 from some 89 individual contributors, toward support of existing operations.


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Michael Roberds (Langley, Colúmbia Britânica, 18 de janeiro de 1964  — Langley, Colúmbia Britânica, 15 de maio de 2016) foi uma ator canadense.

No total, Michael tem aproximadamente 30 comerciais e 25 papéis da série. Mais recentemente Michael fez três episódios cada um "Super Dave's All Stars" e de "Police Academy: The Series".

Também participou de The New Addams Family como Uncle Fester, Da Vinci's City Hall, Commander's Log, Super Dave's All Stars e em  Hot Tub Time Machine.

Morreu em 15 de maio de 2016, aos 52 anos.

Ligações externas

TV.com : Michael Roberds
Brenna and Brittany Interview - Michael Roberds - August 1999

Atores do Canadá
Naturais de Langley (Colúmbia Britânica)

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NOTE: There will be NO mid-month Scrapbook for August 2010. Next issue will appear on 1 September.
While preparing issue #100 of the Small Layout Scrapbook, I've been glancing, with understandable pride, at the first 100 months' editions of this e-publication — 151 pages in all. Despite my familiarity, I'm still amazed by the creativity, excitement and sheer fun shown by railroad modelers from around the world. What an adventure it has been!
I built my first micro layout (under 4 sq ft or 3600 sq cm) in 1962 (above right). This photo also appeared in issue #1 of this e-zine, dated May 2002. Since then we've published over 1200 different small layouts (up to 4x6ft or 120x180cm in size). And they keep pouring in by e-mail, each one with some inspiring idea or interesting feature to enjoy.
In the archives I've noticed a few layouts that have something special… a quality that keeps them in memory. These are the layouts that I've termed "remarkable," and this page lists some that are particularly memorable to me. I've limited my choices to three examples in each of four categories—Memorable Lines, Working Wonders, Pizzas with Pizzaz, and Scenic Delights—plus a re-evaluation of "Classic Small Layouts," a new look at Scrapbook #4. If I've left out your favorite layout, I apologize… your evaluations may well differ from mine (and feel free to let me know about it). So here they are… one man's view of the kinds of efforts that make minimum space models special—as reported in the Small Layout Scrapbook during our first 100 months.
Some model railroad lines are memorable because they have an enjoyable "gimmick"—a single feature that sticks in the mind. For example, my SAP Line micro layout (shown in the photo above left) models a Pennsylvania maple syrup "sugar house," wreathed in steam from a hidden smoke machine. And the steam exudes the mouth-watering smell of maple sugar, a crowd-pleaser every time. That Arendt Aromarama feature is definitely memorable!
On the other hand, a handful of layouts are memorable for being outstanding in every area… scenery, engineering, even railroadlike operations (technically called "playing with trains"). Here are three lines I would consider Remarkable Railroads because they are memorable for excellence in all areas of layout design, construction and operation.
Draversaz is the first (and perhaps the only) micro layout constructed by Gilbert Gribi, who lives near Lausanne, Switzerland and is well-known in Europe for his structure and landscape modeling. Into this O scale (1:43.5), two-foot/600mm gauge (14mm) layout, he packed not only a scrupulously detailed mining scene, but also a complex three-level design held together by a cleverly engineered train elevator (lift). All this, and good operation, make Draversaz a Remarkable layout. For more, see Scrapbook #45a.
First Ken Olsen, from Adair Village, Oregon USA, made a video documentary of the last days of rail service at the Hull-Oakes steam-driven sawmill in Oregon's beautiful Willamette Valley. You can see the videos starting at Scrapbook #88. Then Ken built a 1x4ft (30x120cm) N-scale layout duplicating the mill's switching trackage. You can see the results on video at #92. Ken's layout accurately captures not only the prototype operation, but also the dramatic scenery around it. All this in four square feet! Remarkable!
Prof Klyzlr, a pseudonymous modeler from Sydney, Australia, set out to test the limits of current modeling technology and practice. In the process of building Brooklyn: 3 AM, he produced a minimum-space masterpiece. The accomplishments of this 2x4ft (60x120cm) layout are numerous, including: modeling the "wet look" of the city waterfront after a midnight thundershower; using only modeled light sources for illumination of this middle-of-the-night scene; basing the scenery on an almost foot-by-foot reproduction of the actual scene in Brooklyn; reproducing prototype operations by using the Phantom Layout approach to include offstage operations as reflected in fiddle yards, plus designing a special traverser scheme to enhance the realism of this approach; developing a unique layout presentation, where the viewers are encouraged to place their heads actually in the layout to experience it close up and let the ambient sound system draw them fully into the highly-detailed scene; and many, many more. You can begin experiencing this remarkable model layout at Scrapbook #87.
Then there are the lines that do amazing things before your very eyes… because their creators have built them to perform feats of ferroequinology for the amazement of crowds across the world. These are the layouts that provide astounding animations that surprise and delight visitors of all ages. These are also lines that can perform amazing operations and train manipulations due to ingenious track planning and concealment. And still others explore new ways to involve the viewer with the operations of the layout. Here are a few of my favorite examples of these Wonder Workers—remarkable layouts for sure!
Glen Anthony, from Christchurch, New Zealand, set out to make an animated layout with lots of moving parts. He succeeded remarkably well! The Stamping Ground includes a variety of loading and unloading devices (all controlled manually), as well as an animated water wheel, a delightful animated stamping mill and more. It's 500x1200mm (20x48in) in Gn15 scale, and you can watch it in action at left (click the lower-left triangle). There's more info at Scrapbook #83. Since these photos were taken Glen has added two more modules to the exhibition layout for even more action.
At first glance, Les Cimes appears to be an attractive, simple pizza layout. But François Meunier, from Fosseuse, in suburban Paris, France, has built in some surprises… as the track plan shows, there are two rotating sector plates concealed under the hills and giving access to two storage spurs, one of them visible. Both passenger and freight operations are thus possible on the little layout. Much kudos to François for finding a way to make a commonplace circle of track into a memorable small layout! See Scrapbook #49 for more.
The world's most popular small layout is the humble pizza. A simple circle of track, the layout looks like it could be stored in a square pizza box. The attraction is, of course, the scenery. Every pizza is a personal work of art for its maker… and some pizzas reach well beyond their stations in life to become remarkable and memorable. (Yes, Les Cimes (shown above) is a pizza that has been boosted by clever trackwork. But usually it's the scenery.) Here are three examples of pizzas that transcend the ordinary to become remarkable.
This water-filled pizza was inspired by an enchanting scene in Miyazaki's Oscar-winning anime film, "Spirited Away," where the heroine travels in a train that runs on tracks recently submerged by the rains. Jonathan Scott, from Hamilton, New Zealand, commemorated the scene by building an N-scale trolley that runs in water over its hubcaps. See Scrapbook #60a for more about this remarkable layout.
This well-traveled little Nn2 pizza was built by Hiromi Masaki, from Yokohama, Japan. Gauge is 3.75mm, and the base is the size of a Japanese calling card—90x55mm (3.5×2.2in). It has visited narrow-gauge conventions in the U.S., England, and France. Click on the triangle in the lower left corner of the photo (right) to see it in action! VERY remarkable! From Scrapbook #43.
A tribute to Steampunk, this Gn15 pizza was built by Chris Walas, from Santa Barbara, California USA, to win a competition for layouts made entirely of paper. It uses many forms of paper, from sheets and rolls to papier-mâché. There are more photos in Scrapbook #72a, and a primer about "Paper Scenery" in #86. There's a thread about building this remarkable layout on the Gnatterbox.
Many model layouts these days have excellent scenery. Pizza layouts (as above) are particularly attractive for their urban or rural scenery. But there's another set of layouts whose scenery is virtually a work of art… these layouts reach new heights of scenic expression and become remarkable as a result. (Sometimes the trains are nearly irrelevant, but that's a discussion topic for a different page.) Here then are three layouts that are a delight to the eye, and—oh, yes—they have railroads in them too!
Proving that present-day modelers are still capable of producing remarkable and memorable layouts, here's Bay Freight Division, a 36in (90cm) HO circle that is appearing for the first time in these pages. Greg Malinowski premiered it just a few weeks ago at the 2010 Bay Area Prototype Modelers Meet in San Francisco, USA. It was greeted by an uproar of snaps, crackles and clicks from digital cameras, and an avalanche of praise and comment on the internet. And as you can see, it richly deserves all of that attention!
Not surprisingly, landscape artists tend to use urban scenery for their small-layout projects. After all, a city scene packs more details into a given space because it's highly compressed in reality (urban real estate is expensive!). In any event, here's another sculptural work of art that was designed as an urban industrial scene (a pottery factory) in Gn15 scale (1:24 on 16.5mm gauge). Ian Campbell, from Ontario, Canada, designed Potter & Klayman as a piece of sculpture with a railroad in it. In fact, there's some evidence that a train has never been run on these tracks!
The layout has been exhibited a number of times by Ian's friend, Brian Fayle, as an interesting layout that we all can learn from. The photos above give you some idea of the over-all shape of the layout (left) and the kinds of mini-scenes produced by treating the whole as a 3-D artwork (right). For more of Brian's photos of this remarkable layout, see Scrapbook #79.
Rehsi's layout is designed to be viewed as a work of art, inspired by the topsy-turvy world of M. C. Escher's print, "Relativity." Mounted in a TV gimbel, the layout can be turned in any direction for viewing. There are photos from several angles in Scrapbook #67a.
From the perspective of 2010, some 96 months later, it's clear that a couple of the selections were not as popular as they seemed then, and other, newer designs are now inspiring even more new layouts. So it's time for a re-examination of the Classics list. Here is Version 2.0 — Classic Small Layouts as viewed in 2010. There are several new additions! All layouts are drawn at approximately the same scale so you can see their relative sizes. They're presented here in chronological order. It's a remarkable collection!
HO, 43x80in / 109x203cmJohn Allen was one of the best known U.S. model railroaders, primarily on account of his superb scenery and photography. His very first G&D layout was a bombshell when it appeared in print at mid-Twentieth Century. It had everything: marvelous landscape, detailed structures, and a track plan that encouraged operation in a very small space. To this day, it's still a leader in the "most-often-imitated" category of small layouts. Some things do change, though—when it first appeared, G&D I was regarded as extraordinarily tiny; today, it's the largest layout in the collection!
OO/HO, 10x72in / 25x180cmBesides serving 50 years as editor of two leading model railway magazines in Britain, CJF was also a prolific track planner, publishing over a dozen books of plans. By far his most popular design was Minories, a small-space passenger terminal with a particularly pleasing and easy-to-build arrangement of turnouts at its entrance. Literally hundreds of modelers have built versions of Minories over the years, especially after its 50th birthday celebration in 2007. For more information, see our Tribute to CJF and David Thomas's historic view in Scrapbook 61a.
HO, 16x72in / 40x180cmLong-time editor of Model Railroader magazine, Linn Westcott also designed a wide variety of track plans including Switchman's Nightmare, which appears in his book, 101 Track Plans for Model Railroaders. Though not the first of its kind, the Nightmare is the best-known example of a "stack of track" layout plan. Perhaps because of its inclusion in a book that has remained in print for over 50 years, this layout and its brethren have inspired an impressive number of busy model lines that emphasize railroad operations.
Dr. Roy Dohn's tiny three-level layout used short 0-4-0 locomotives, stub switches, and four-wheeled rolling stock to pack an amazing amount of activity into a small space. Many modelers followed his example, and the trend is continuing—as recently as August 2009, Railroad Model Craftsman magazine published a nice On30 layout inspired by the Crooked Creek. Another recent example is at Scrapbook #97, and there are undoubtedly more on the way.
HO, 12x72in / 30x180cmI receive more e-mail about Chuck Yungkurth's Gum Stump & Snowshoe than about any other layout design. It remains, after 50 years, one of the most popular track plans around. Yes, it has obvious flaws—Chuck wrote me last year, "Operation was always frustrating because there was no runaround track, and the requirement for two locos was always a bit nonsensical." Nonetheless, the combination of levels and switchbacks remains irresistible to modelers. (Most people put in a runaround and use just one loco.) We've devoted a full page to Gumstumping, and there are many other examples in these pages and at train shows around the world.
OO, 12x60in / 30x150cmAmong the army of British clergymen devoted to model railroading was Rev. P. H. Heath, whose pioneering layout, Piano Line, "adopted the ingenious idea of bringing the main line in centre stage (upstage centre if you want to be theatrical about it) within the run round loop." Saves space, improves operations. The quotation is from David Thomas in Scrapbook #61a. Rev. Heath's ingenious "wrinkle" has been attracting followers ever since he first published it, 45 years ago.
The only man to design two Classic Small Layouts is John Allen (the other is his Original Gorre & Daphetid above). The G&D is a traditional "slice of life" layout, but the Timesaver was designed to be a switching (shunting) puzzle. For rules of the game, see Adrian Wymann's excellent Shunting Puzzles site. This particular configuration of runaround loop plus spur plus kickback siding is also a typical American station layout, and so the Timesaver has also been used as a station on a great many larger U.S. layouts. There are lots of small layouts based on it as well… see the Micro Layout Design Gallery, for example.
The second major model railway shunting puzzle layout was created in just the opposite way from the Timesaver. Alan Wright built a normal slice-of-life layout that happened to have a couple sidings along one straight passage. And somehow, over time, that two-turnout, three-sidings arrangement evolved into the Inglenook Sidings… a subtle and complex switching challenge. For the history and rules, see Adrian Wymann's Shunting Puzzles page. For a few examples of the many, many layouts built on this pattern see the Micro Layout Design Gallery and Scrapbook #69.
HO, 8x66in / 20x168cmThe newest addition to the Classic Layouts collection is Box Street Yard, by Jack Trollope, who lives in the Scottish Highlands. Jack has concocted a delightful switching district using just two turnouts (one of them a double-slip). This arrangement has proved very popular for home layouts as well as exhibition use by modelers who love shunting challenges. The layout's beginnings are chronicled in the Micro Layout Design Gallery, and a variety of examples are on display in the second half of Scrapbook #65a and also scattered through the Scrapbooks' first 100 months. Use the Google Search box on the home page to find other Box Street varietals.


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Q: python timed execution of code I want to execute a piece of my code in exactly the same time every time I execute it, somewhat like playing a media file... (the same piece of code is executed in exactly the same amount of time every time)
Is this possible in python?

A: This should do the trick:
def run_with_delay(funcs, interval):
    for f in funcs[:-1]:
        before = time()
        f()
        # compensate the interval with the execution time.
        # NB: careful for functions that have a greater
        #     execution time than interval
        after = time()
        if after - before < interval:
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    # last function is taken separately because we don't need
    # an extra useless sleep
    funcs[-1]()

A: I don't think this can be guaranteed by a language construct (in any language) -- you'd have to be on a real-time operating system.  I believe multimedia applications take advantage of device-level buffering to compensate for timing jitter in the OS process scheduler.

A: I should think this would be impossible in an operating system which interleaves instructions to simulate simultaneous execution of multiple threads.
You would need a real-time library or language in order to stipulate deadlines for your code, and even then execution cannot be guaranteed in the allotted time.

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How long does my passport need to be valid to travel to Hong Kong?
It's the image that resonates years later. "Tank Man," stood in front of a line of oncoming tanks headed toward Tiananmen Square on June 5th, 1989.


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Q: Lazy evaluation with compare-and-set I'm trying to implement a get-database function that retrieves the database reference from Monger the first time it is called, remembers the value in an atom and returns it directly on subsequent calls. My current code looks like this:
(def database (atom nil))

(defn get-database
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The problem is that the let clause seems to be evaluated even if compare-and-set! returns false (i.e. database is not nil). Is there some way to get this to evaluate lazily so I don't incur the penalty of retrieving the Monger connection, or is this approach fundamentally misguided?

A: The problem here is that compare-and-set! is a function, so evaluating it will evaluate all the parameters before the function is called.
The typical approach that I take for the use case of caching and re-using some expensive-to-compute value is with a delay:

Takes a body of expressions and yields a Delay object that will
  invoke the body only the first time it is forced (with force or deref/@), and
  will cache the result and return it on all subsequent force
  calls. See also - realized?

In your case:
(def database (delay (:db (mg/connect-via-uri (System/getenv "MONGOLAB_URI")))))

Now you can just say @database any time you want to get a reference to the database, and the connection will get initialized the first time your code actually causes the delay to be dereferenced. You could wrap the call to dereference the delay inside a get-database function if you'd like, but this isn't necessary.


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Dominion Voting Systems Sues Sidney Powell for Defamation Following Election Fraud Claims
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Dominion Voting Systems filed a lawsuit against pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell on Friday for defamation after she alleged in numerous reports and interviews the company was tied to election fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
The company is seeking $1.3 billion in damages.
Forbes reported Dominion's attorney sent a "cease and desist" letter to Powell in December "demanding she retract her "knowingly baseless" claims and said other suits could follow:
While going after Powell was Dominion's first priority, the company has suggested it may file subsequent lawsuits against others who have spread the conspiracy theory. Dominion has sent letters warning of potential litigation to the White House, Fox News, Newsmax, One America News and a number of Trump-allied individuals, including his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Maria Bartiromo, conservative attorney Lin Wood and Melissa Carone, who Giuliani has pushed as a witness to the purported election fraud.
John Poulos told Axios Monday, saying their legal efforts would be "thorough and exhaustive." Poulos has also not ruled out that the company could sue Trump himself.
"We're looking at everybody…every actor that has made these types of false allegations about us, and also the news media outlets that have allowed these allegations to be amplified, unfettered and unchecked," Dominion CEO Poulos said.
The company later released this statement in support of its claim:
Ms. Powell lied about the hand audits and recounts of paper ballots that conclusively disprove her claims; she lied about having a recording that does not exist; she manufactured, misrepresented, and cherry-picked evidence to support her false accusations and to conform to her false preconceived storyline; she disregarded and attacked the respected Republicans and election security experts who forcefully rebutted her false claims; and she proffered and misrepresented the obviously unreliable say-so of con artists, conspiracy theorists, armchair experts, and—by her own admission—the associate of a now-deceased Venezuelan dictator who was hostile to American democracy.
And when we put her on formal notice of the facts, told her Dominion employees were receiving death threats because of her false claims, and asked her to retract, she doubled down and continued with her media and fundraising campaign.
Dominion's lawsuit follows employee Eric Coomer, who already sued the Trump campaign, Powell, Giuliani and other allies for defamation separately in December. That case is still pending.
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Mexico's Maya Tulum Resort is a destination like no other – a vortex of natural energy and wonder. Located an hour and a half from Cancun on the sparkling waters of the Mexican Riviera, Maya Tulum Resort guests are encouraged to engage in a life-transformational yoga experience, indulge in healthy cuisine, be pampered by gifted healers and spend lazy afternoons basking alongside the azure waters of the Caribbean Sea.
Maya Tulum Resort features two fully-equipped yoga halls offering classes twice daily under the skilled and gentle guidance of experienced teachers. Yoga classes are offered in many different styles and variations – including Hatha, Vinyasa, Iyengar and SUP Yoga – plus a variety of special yoga retreats. Maya Tulum Resort also offers outdoor oceanfront yoga, a Meditation Labyrinth and a Temazcal Sweat Lodge for traditional Mayan ceremonies.
Maya Tulum offers 49 spectacular thatched-roof guest accommodations, including Villas, Beach Front Cabanas and Ocean View Cabanas. Each secluded bungalow was designed to let in the light, fresh air and the soothing sounds of the ocean. Guests can enjoy immaculate beds with crisp white linens, well-appointed tiled bathrooms and daily maid service.
To help guests truly retreat and disconnect, Maya Tulum Resort offers no televisions, phones or clocks in the guest rooms. Wireless Internet is available in the restaurant and at the Front Desk.
Maya Tulum features a seaside restaurant with cool marble floors, white limestone walls and enormous windows offering fantastic views of the turquoise Caribbean Sea. The restaurant serves a variety of fresh dishes for breakfast, lunch and dinner, including proteins, seafood and vegetarian meals, along with Americano coffee, fresh juices and a selection of house teas; a full bar is also offered. Great focus is placed on nutrition and meals are designed to accommodate a wide range of dietary preferences.
designed to help guests find absolute peace of mind within the beauty and elegance of simplicity. Rooted in ancient inspiration, the resort offers a variety of relaxing spa treatments based on ancient Mayan specialties, including the Mayan Honey Xuunan Kab and a traditional Mayan Clay Massage. Additional options include Aromatherapy, Hot Stones Therapy, Reiki, facials, body treatments and exfoliations.
Guests are encouraged to explore Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula through a variety of guided half and full day adventure tours. Excursion options include visiting the Tulum Ruins or the Coba Ruins to learn about the ancient Mayan culture, snorkeling trips to a lagoon filled with tropical fish and coral formations or a tour of the Aktun Chen caverns followed by a cool, refreshing dip in the Xunaan-Ha Cenote.
Maya Tulum Resort has been awarded a wide variety of top industry honors, including being named a "Top Destination Spa" by Travel + Leisure Magazine and one of the "Best Yoga & Wellness Retreats Around the World" by VacationIdea.com.
Maya Tulum is a unique beachfront destination for effortless weddings and honeymoons, offering a private setting for ceremonies and plenty of quiet time for newlyweds.
Maya Tulum Resort is located approximately 90 minutes from Cancun International Airport in Tulum's Zona Hotelera.


X1 Chatham Waters is a flagship building of 199 luxury apartments in Kent overlooking the historic Chatham Docks, a mere 38 minutes away from Central London.
Forming a key part of Peel's ongoing £650million Chatham Waters mixed-use masterplan, this luxury development will be a mixed-use block comprising of residential accommodation, retail, leisure space and office space.
Ideal for owner occupiers looking for luxury waterfront living, or for Buy-to-Let investors seeking to benefit from the excellent commuter belt location and unparalleled accommodation on offer, this amazing building will be a unique and desirable place to live, work and play.
Due to its location and excellent travel links - the development is only 38 minutes from Central London (St Pancras Station) - X1 Chatham Waters will be attractive to those working in central London and surrounding areas.
Furthermore, property prices in the area have risen by 11% in the period from August 2016 to August 2017*.
This looks set to continue with the Crossrail connectivity across the region.


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Das Cleveland Classic 2020 fand vom 30. Januar bis 3. Februar 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio, in den Vereinigten Staaten statt. Das Squashturnier der Damen war Teil der PSA World Tour der Damen 2019/20 und gehörte zur Kategorie PSA World Tour Bronze.

Vorjahressiegerin war Nour El Tayeb, die das Turnier erneut gewann. Im Endspiel traf die topgesetzte El Tayeb auf die an Position drei gesetzte Sarah-Jane Perry, die sie mit 10:12, 14:12, 11:5 und 11:4 bezwang. Für El Tayeb war es der zehnte Titelgewinn auf der World Tour.

Das Teilnehmerfeld der Damenkonkurrenz bestand aus 24 Spielerinnen. Die acht besten Spielerinnen wurden gesetzt und erhielten ein Freilos in der ersten Runde. Per Wildcard erhielt Marina de Juan Gallach einen Startplatz im Hauptfeld.

Preisgelder und Weltranglistenpunkte
Bei dem Turnier wurden die folgenden Preisgelder und Weltranglistenpunkte für das Erreichen der jeweiligen Runde ausgezahlt bzw. gutgeschrieben. Die Beträge sind nicht kumulativ zu verstehen. Das Gesamtpreisgeld betrug 51.250 US-Dollar.

Ergebnisse

Setzliste

Hauptrunde

Weblinks
 Turnierseite auf psaworldtour.com (englisch)
 Berichterstattung auf squashsite.co.uk (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

PSA World Tour der Damen 2019/20
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Hi, I´m Marco. I'm running my own automation company and have been freelancing for more than two years here in Mexico. Previously I worked as an embedded software engineer for a big German company. I consider myself as someone who strives for good ideas, who knows how to back them up in solid principles of engineering design, in order to turn them into functional and ready-to-produce devices.


Abstract: Spectrophotometer can provide a convenient way to test the concentration of nano-sliver solution, so it is used to analyze the adsorption properties and related mechanism of nano-silver solution onto viscose fiber. In this paper, the influence of concentration of nano-silver solution, dipping temperature and dipping time on adsorption to viscose fiber was discussed. Results showed that the adsorption capacity reached the greatest level when concentration of nano-silver at 70 mg/L; Below 70 ℃, adsorption kinetics complied with Quasi-second order kinetics, and its adsorption isotherm fitted Langmuir model; The adsorption process was physical adsorption and rising temperature could improve the absorption.
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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – Two Dallas police officers stand on a platform surrounded by five large screens.
"Do me a favor. Drop the crowbar," Sr. Cpl. Brian Mitchell says to a figure projected in front of him.
Immersed in a virtual reality experience, the officers are practicing their response to a report of a suspicious person, using the Dallas Police Academy's new multi-screen simulator.
Sr. Cpl. Harry Blust keeps his eye on several men approaching to their right, when his Sr. Cpl. Mitchell notices another man appear behind them and pull a gun.
"Gun! Gun! Gun!" yells Mitchell, firing two shots and striking the character on the screen.
The scene is clearly fake, but it's designed to feel as real as possible.
Officers are outfitted with all the same weapons they carry on the street and they work together in pairs to protect each other.
"We have a 300 degree awareness we need to keep," said Mitchell, who works with Blust as a use of force instructor at the Academy.
A lot has changed since CBS11 got its first peek at the Dallas Police Department's simulation training seven years ago.
Back then, scenes were projected onto a single wall, making it easy to know where to focus.
CBS 11 gave the new multi-screen simulator a try, stepping into a school shooting scenario.
Staying focused to cover each other's blind spots, though, is difficult, especially over the sounds of gunshots and screaming coming from different directions.
"That's why it's important for us to communicate," said Blust.
The simulator allows officers to review where any gunshots they fire land.
If any officer is shot in the back during a simulation, a device on their belt clip delivers a quick shock.
"It feels like a bee sting," said Lucia, after being zapped by Sgt. Wendi Laake, the instructor controlling the simulation.
These instructors say officers, so far, love the new simulator.
About 350 officers, a little over ten percent of the department's force, have been through the training. The Academy's hope is to eventually have the entire department experience it.


As I write this month's column I am sitting on a plane to Washington, D.C., headed to the Agriculture Future of America Policy Institute.
The conference invites college students from across the country to our nation's capital to discuss current policy issues, the common mission to feed the world and the future of agriculture.
In the agriculture industry, we often lament the fact consumers aren't listening to us. They turn to blogs and online sources for information about their food, rather than what we, in the ag community, consider "real" scientific sources. But the problem isn't with them; it's with us.
Agriculture as an industry tends to avoid engaging with consumers and therefore fails to understand the reason behind their doubts. Consumer involvement with agriculture is sometimes limited to driving by cows or flying over fields of crops. The information they receive about the industry and its practices is confined to videos they see online.
In most cases, these videos don't come from the industry, and are definitely not positive.
While we can't necessarily stop this information from being distributed, we can join the conversation in a way that supports the agriculture industry.
This is where the younger generations come in. As an age group branded as tech-savvy and innovative, why not put those skills to good use?
We have the tools to create and promote information that consumers can understand and engage with. Interactive programs, videos of farm production and a positive social media presence provides a relatable and easy-to-understand resource that can both ease the mind of consumers and support producers in the industry.
If online sharing isn't your speed, one of the best, and easiest, ways to engage with consumers is in person. If you are involved in agriculture, make yourself available to people who ask questions. Participate in local "meet a farmer" activities. Visit with people in lines and on airplanes and share your story about agriculture.
Agriculture of every kind spans across the United States, and the world. Looking at fields and pastures from 20,000 feet, I can still see it's beautiful, diverse and worth sharing.
As we enter the workforce, the younger generation has the potential to change the conversation about agriculture. We are coming together as an industry in ways we never have before. By keeping the best interest of consumers in mind, we are confident that we can create a positive conversation to help everyone understand the industry that feeds all of us.


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Center MP: Authorities misjudged public mood during protests
Jaanus Karilaid. Source: Ken Mürk/ERR
Center MP and chair of the Riigikogu's legal affairs committee Jaanus Karilaid (Center) says that mistakes were made in risk assessments during a recent anti-lockdown protest in Tallinn. At the same time, the MP said public trust in the police remained high, while government communication issues also played their part, as did the spread of misinformation by those hell-bent on fomenting discord.
Appearing on ERR discussion show "Otse uudistemajast" Wednesday, Kariland said that: "Without a doubt, the government should have sent a clearer message that with the bill, we will in fact be improving cooperation between the police and the health board."
The bill Karilaid was referring to was the very piece of legislation being protested, namely amends to the Communicable Diseases Prevention and Control Act (NETS), which would increase Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) powers in cooperating with other authorities, particularly the Health Board (Terviseamet) in policing violations of COVID-19 restrictions.
The perception of many protesters was that the bill will grant too strong powers to the PPA, a point that became a self-fulfilling prophecy as, by turns, the PPA installed barriers outside the Riigikogu – the legislature and the very place where the bill amendments are being tabled – in order to disperse crowds, at their peak numbering around 100, and diverting them to Vabaduse väljak, scene of Sunday's protest.
Several people were detained as a result of either flouting regulations or insulting the PPA, mainly via painted placards, it is reported. Health Board personnel present also issued precepts for non-compliance with restrictions.
Karilaid said the risk assessment of the event had missed the mark.
"I think there was a mistake in the threat assessment. The goal was a noble one, but it didn't end up looking good visually. The police themselves were also in the wrong," he said.
This was a blip though, Karilaid went on to say.
"In general, the Estonian police have acted very adequately, and well. It was a disproportionate [use of force] at that point in time. It could have been the case that a major provocation was expected but didn't materialize, we can't be sure [that that wasn't the case," Karilaid added, saying that as a state governed by the rule of law, errors can be ironed out and those responsible, including the PPA, can be held to account if needed.
"The police are the greatest allies of Estonian society next to doctors and teachers. Trust in them is high," he went on.
Misinformation stating that the PPA would begin to forcibly take away the sick or people's children away from the home, which may have fanned the flames of the outcry over the NETS amendment, was regrettable, Karilaid added.
"Give me an example where the police have unreasonably broken down anyone's doors in the past 30 years," he said, adding that even if the PPA were to do so, legislation is in place which would allow damages to be recovered in the courts.
A better use of the media would be to explain how the NETS amendment will make the situation better in Estonia.
At the same time, free speech remained an intact right, Karilaid said, noting that while many of the protestors were well-meaning, there were those with political motives, including members of an opposition party (meaning EKRE – ed.) or their supporters, who had aimed at stirring up discontent.
The amendments to the NETs will go ahead in parliament, Karilaid went on.
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Tõnis Saarts: EKRE political communication master class
Riigikogu committee aiming for May 4 PPA/Health Board powers bill reading
Health Board restarts alerting COVID-19 close contacts
Health Board: 228 new cases of COVID-19 diagnosed, eight deaths
'Olukorrast riigis': Protests must be allowed but orderly
Mari-Liis Jakobson: Street politics all the rage in Estonia
Karilaid: EKRE success at self-destruction and the eternal Center Party
Indrek Kiisler: EKRE knows to take people by the hand
'Otse uudistemajast': EKRE manipulating protests better than other parties
EKRE leader: We can find compromise on police powers legislation
Prime minister: Police did not use undue force at Freedom Square protest
Minister: Claims PPA will be allowed to drag sick from homes are false
Police powers legislation amends may stall at the Riigikogu
EDF yearbook focuses on ongoing Russian Federation military development
PPA removes barriers from Toompea
Interior minister: Free speech in Estonia remains intact
Experts consider police use of force at protests excessive
ISS: Rise of extremism in Estonia continues to be of concern


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Q: Spring Boot com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unrecognized token 'Recipe' I'm new to coding, and this is my first time posting to StackOverflow so please let me know if I need to include anything else to assist with answers. I'm using Java with Spring Boot, and Jackson message converter.
This is the error I'm getting:
com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParseException: Unrecognized token 'Recipe': was expecting (JSON String, Number, Array, Object or token 'null', 'true' or 'false')
 at [Source: (String)" Recipe{title=Recipe Puppyversion=0.1, href=http://www.recipepuppy.com/, results=[Results{title=Roasted Vegetable and Prosciutto Lasagna with Alfredo Sauce, href=http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Roasted-Vegetable-and-Prosciutto-Lasagna-with-Alfredo-Sauce-104591, ingredients=tomato, prosciutto, alfredo sauce, bell pepper, thumbnail=http://img.recipepuppy.com/122397.jpg}, Results{title=Party-Size Greek Couscous Salad, href=http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Party-Size-Greek-Couscous-Salad/De"[truncated 3109 chars]; line: 1, column: 8]
    com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser._constructError(JsonParser.java:1840)
    com.fasterxml.jackson.core.base.ParserMinimalBase._reportError(ParserMinimalBase.java:722)
    com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.ReaderBasedJsonParser._reportInvalidToken(ReaderBasedJsonParser.java:2868)
    com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.ReaderBasedJsonParser._handleOddValue(ReaderBasedJsonParser.java:1914)
    com.fasterxml.jackson.core.json.ReaderBasedJsonParser.nextToken(ReaderBasedJsonParser.java:773)
    com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._initForReading(ObjectMapper.java:4340)
    com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper._readMapAndClose(ObjectMapper.java:4189)
    com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3205)
    com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.readValue(ObjectMapper.java:3173)
    com.whatsfordinner.app.controller.RecipeController.getRecipeResults(RecipeController.java:73)
    java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
    java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:566)
    org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.doInvoke(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:190)
    org.springframework.web.method.support.InvocableHandlerMethod.invokeForRequest(InvocableHandlerMethod.java:138)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.invokeAndHandle(ServletInvocableHandlerMethod.java:106)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.invokeHandlerMethod(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:888)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.annotation.RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.handleInternal(RequestMappingHandlerAdapter.java:793)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.method.AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.handle(AbstractHandlerMethodAdapter.java:87)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:1040)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:943)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:1006)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doGet(FrameworkServlet.java:898)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:634)
    org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.service(FrameworkServlet.java:883)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:741)
    org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:53)
    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:320)
    org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.invoke(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:126)
    org.springframework.security.web.access.intercept.FilterSecurityInterceptor.doFilter(FilterSecurityInterceptor.java:90)
    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:334)
    org.springframework.security.web.access.ExceptionTranslationFilter.doFilter(ExceptionTranslationFilter.java:118)
    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:334)
    org.springframework.security.web.session.SessionManagementFilter.doFilter(SessionManagementFilter.java:137)
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    org.springframework.security.web.FilterChainProxy$VirtualFilterChain.doFilter(FilterChainProxy.java:334)
    org.springframework.security.web.servletapi.SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.doFilter(SecurityContextHolderAwareRequestFilter.java:158)
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Here is an example response from Recipe Puppy API:
{
  "title":"Recipe Puppy"
  "version":0.1
  "href":"http://www.recipepuppy.com/"
  "results":[
      0:{
      "title":"Monterey Turkey Omelet"
      "href":"http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Monterey-Turkey-Omelet/Detail.aspx"
      "ingredients":"butter, eggs, garlic, green pepper, monterey jack cheese, onions, turkey, water"
      "thumbnail":"http://img.recipepuppy.com/5506.jpg"
      }
      1:{
      "title":"Canadian Bacon Omelet"
      "href":"http://www.recipezaar.com/Canadian-Bacon-Omelet-309202"
      "ingredients":"butter, canadian bacon, cheddar cheese, eggs, garlic, onions, potato, red pepper,
      sour cream"
      "thumbnail":""
      }
   ]
}

Here is my Recipe model:
package com.whatsfordinner.app.models;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class Recipe implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -3913629036907715099L;
    private String title;
    private Number version;
    private String href;
    private ArrayList<Results> results;

    public Recipe() {
    }

    // getters and setters

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Recipe{" +
                "title=" + title +
                "version=" + version +
                ", href=" + href +
                ", results=" + results +
                ", true" +
                "}";
    }

}

Here is my Results model:
package com.whatsfordinner.app.models;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties;
import java.io.Serializable;

@JsonIgnoreProperties(ignoreUnknown = true)
public class Results implements Serializable {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = -3913629036907715099L;
    private String title;
    private String href;
    private String ingredients;
    private String thumbnail;

    public Results() {
    }

    // getters and setters

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return "Results{" +
                "title=" + title +
                ", href=" + href +
                ", ingredients=" + ingredients +
                ", thumbnail=" + thumbnail +
                "}";
    }

}

Here is my RecipeController:
package com.whatsfordinner.app.controller;

import ...

@RestController
@RequestMapping("/")
public class RecipeController {

    @Autowired
    private IngredientDao ingredientDao;

    public String ingredientString;
    public ClientHttpResponse response;

    @GetMapping("home/recipes")
    public String getRecipeResults(Model model) throws IOException {

        Iterable<Ingredient> ingredients = ingredientDao.findAll();
        String searchStr = "";

        // iterate through ingredients, create search string to add to backend of api address
        for (Ingredient ingredient : ingredients) {
            ingredientString = ingredientString + ingredient.getIngredientName() + ",";
            String subStr = ingredientString.substring(0, ingredientString.length() - 1);
            searchStr = subStr.replaceAll("null", "");
        }

        RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();

        restTemplate.getInterceptors().add((request, body, execution) -> {
            ClientHttpResponse response = execution.execute(request,body);
            response.getHeaders().setContentType(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON);
            return response;
        });

        List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> messageConverters = new ArrayList<>();
        //Add the Jackson Message converter
        messageConverters.add(new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter());
        //Add the message converters to the restTemplate
        restTemplate.setMessageConverters(messageConverters);

        final String url = ("http://www.recipepuppy.com/api/?i=" + searchStr);
        ResponseEntity<Recipe> recipes = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.GET, (HttpEntity<?>) response, Recipe.class);

        // convert to string and remove characters that are giving parse errors
        String stringRecipes = recipes.toString();
        String recipesFixed = stringRecipes.replaceAll("<", "");
        String recipesFixedFinal = recipesFixed.replaceFirst(Pattern.quote("200,"), " ");

        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

        Recipe jsonObj = mapper.readValue(recipesFixedFinal, Recipe.class);

        if (jsonObj != null) {
            model.addAttribute("recipes", jsonObj);
            model.addAttribute("title", "Your Recipes");
            return "recipes";
        }
        return "error";
    }

}

A: Your toString() is not creating valid JSON. JSON has a format that looks like this:
{
  "Recipe" : "Alfredo Sauce"
}

However yours looks like this:
{
  recipe=Alfredo sauce
}

To learn more about JSON: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_intro.asp


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Apple market value hits $500B, where few have gone
Apple's market capitalization topped $500 billion Wednesday, climbing to a mountain peak where few companies have ventured — and none have stayed for long.
NEW YORK — Apple's market capitalization topped $500 billion Wednesday, climbing to a mountain peak where few companies have ventured — and none have stayed for long.
Apple was already the world's most valuable company. The gap between it and No. 2 Exxon Mobil Corp. has widened rapidly in the past month, as investors have digested Apple's report of blow-out holiday-season sales of iPhones and iPads. And, more recently, Apple has raised investors' hopes that it might institute a dividend.
The company's market capitalization was near $506 billion in late-morning trading as the shares rose $7, or 1.3 percent, to $542.41.
On Tuesday, the Cupertino, Calif., company sent out invites to reporters for an event in San Francisco next Wednesday, apparently to reveal its next iPad model. The launch of the new model was expected around this time, a year after the launch of the iPad 2.
Apple is in rare company. It is the sixth U.S. corporation to reach the $500 billion milestone.
Exxon, now worth $411 billion, was worth just over $500 billion for two short stretches at the end of 2007.
Apple's arch-nemesis Microsoft Corp. was worth just more than $500 billion briefly at the end of 1999, and again in early 2000. It even shot up above $600 billion for one day. The company is now worth $267 billion.
Cisco Systems Inc., Intel Corp. and General Electric Co. also peaked just above $500 billion in early 2000. Cisco and Intel are now worth a bit more than $100 billion each, while GE is worth $200 billion.
Exxon's ascent to the $500 billion level was propelled by record oil prices. Cisco, Intel, Microsoft and GE were boosted by the general stock mania of 1999 and 2000, and the hunger for technology stocks in particular.
Apple's rise, by contrast, is powered by its mammoth sales and profits, which are growing at rates unheard of for a company its size. And despite its sky-high market capitalization, Apple's shares aren't expensive compared to its earnings. It's worth 15 times its earnings for the last year. That compares to 21 times earnings for Google Inc. and 14 times for the S&P 500 overall. Yet few companies in the index grow their earnings as fast as Apple does: In its latest quarter, its earnings rose 118 percent from a year ago, to $13.06 billion.
Analysts expect the Apple rally to have some legs. The 35 analysts who have reported to FactSet since Apple's latest earnings report have set an average price target of $592 per share, or 8 percent higher than Wednesday's level. That implies a market capitalization of $552 billion.
Apple's stock accounts for 3.8 percent of the value of the S&P 500 index, according to Standard & Poor's, and it made up 6 percent of the operating income of the 500 companies in the fourth quarter.
Analysts say Apple's sheer size works against its stock price. Apple stock already makes up a large share of the holdings of technology and growth-focused funds, and they have little appetite for more. Meanwhile, value-focused funds are often prevented from buying the shares because the company doesn't pay a dividend.
However, the company has been signaling that a dividend is under consideration, and several analysts now consider it a given that one will be announced this year. Last week, CEO Tim Cook told shareholders at the annual meeting that the company has more money than it needs, and the board and management are thinking "very deeply" about ways to use the cash.
Former CEO Steve Jobs, apparently haunted by the company's lean years in the 90s, had a policy of accumulating cash. The company now sits on $97.6 billion.
China's largest oil company, PetroChina, was briefly worth $1 trillion after it listed on the Shanghai stock exchange in 2007, but only based on its price on that exchange. Its shares also trade in Hong Kong and on the New York Stock Exchange. Based on trading there, its market capitalization has never reached $500 billion.


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The Pegasus World Cup has quickly become the world's most anticipated event in horse racing. With the highest purse of $9 million, it's no wonder why. The stakes are high, and the excitement in the stadium is palpable. Not only can you see the fastest horses compete, but you can even place your bet on your favorites, giving everyone a chance to win.
The Pegasus World Cup takes place on January 26th at Gulfstream Park in Hallandale Beach, Florida. It's only the third year the race has taken place, but it has already become a staple event in the area. During the race, 12 horses run a little over a mile to see who will take home the grand prize, which in previous years has reached up to $16 million!
The best part about the Pegasus World Cup is that it takes place in lively Hallandale Beach. That means after the race you'll have plenty of restaurants to choose from and coastline to explore. Stay near it all at the Beachwalk Resort, who still have a few rooms left for the weekend and even offer an exclusive 20% off rate for fans of The Pegasus Cup.


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Chicago-area HIE sues IT vendor over shutdown plans
Joseph Conn
(Story updated at 12:29 p.m. ET)
The hospital association that operates a major Chicago-area health information exchange is suing its health information technology vendor that abruptly announced it will go out of business.
The hospital Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council, now merged with the Illinois Health and Hospital Association, operates the MetroChicago HIE that connects more than 30 northeastern Illinois hospitals, according to a membership list on its website.
A suit in U.S. District Court for the Northeastern District of Illinois names as defendants Sandlot Solutions and Santa Rosa Consulting, an owner of the company. The suit alleges that Sandlot breached its agreement "by shutting down the MetroChicago HIE system and denying MCHC's participants access to their client data on the system."
The hospital association learned that Irvine, Texas-based Sandlot was "winding down and would cease operations by April 8, 2016." The records show that Sandlot was planning to provide MCHC a copy of its raw client data and then destroy the existing client data from its third-party hosting service.
That plan, according to the complaint, would breach Sandlot's data management and transition obligations under its contract, and would prevent the association from properly validating the data, which would result in a clear violation of federal privacy laws.
The suit seeks both a temporary restraining order and an injunction against Sandlot and Bloomfield Hills, Mich.-based Santa Rosa, barring them from destroying or transferring the data.
The restraining order was granted, barring the destruction of patient data, according to IHA spokesman Danny Chun.
The HIE, meanwhile, is recovering the records of about 2 million unique patients from 34 member hospitals, two health plans and one federally qualified health center. A replacement vendor has not been selected.
Sandlot was founded in 2006 by North Texas Specialty Physicians, a Forth Worth-based independent practice association, in an effort to commercialize its in-house IT development work.
Sandlot's website is down and its phone is disconnected.
Health information exchanges have always been plagued by an industry dichotomy -- providers, payers and researchers like the idea of swapping data, but often don't like paying for the services that enable that data to be swapped.
"We believe Sandlot had a great product and (was) on the verge of doing great things in healthcare communications," said Richard Saslow, general counsel and chief administrative officer at Santa Rosa, an investor in Sandlot.
But a commitment of additional investment capital in Sandlot "didn't materialize," a verbal commitment from a potential major customer didn't mature into a contact and, more broadly, slower adoption of HIEs nationally "caused the company to run out of capital and go out of business," Saslow said.
Sandlot ceased operations on April 15, he said.
All of Sandlot's customers, including MCHC, that wanted their data returned and not destroyed by Sandlot have received it, Saslow said, adding that Sandlot has not yet filed a response to the lawsuit.
"Santa Rosa believes we have no liability to MCHC and will vigorously defend those claims," if it comes to that, Saslow said.


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Le Alpi del Monte Rosa sono un'ampia sezione delle Alpi Pennine, che interessa l'Italia (Valle d'Aosta e Piemonte) e la Svizzera (Canton Vallese), comprendendo al suo interno il massiccio del Monte Rosa con i relativi contrafforti meridionali.

Generalità
Comunemente le Alpi del Monte Rosa si distinguono dal Massiccio del Monte Rosa perché includono anche le creste di montagna che si propagano a sud interessando le valli valdostane (Valtournenche, Val d'Ayas e Valle del Lys) e le valli piemontesi (Valsesia e Valle Anzasca): queste creste vengono definite rispettivamente come contrafforti valdostani del Monte Rosa e contrafforti valsesiani del Monte Rosa.

Classificazione

Secondo la SOIUSA le Alpi del Monte Rosa sono una sottosezione alpina con la seguente classificazione:
 Grande parte = Alpi Occidentali
 Grande settore = Alpi Nord-occidentali
 Sezione = Alpi Pennine
 Sottosezione = Alpi del Monte Rosa
 Codice = I/B-9.III

Limiti geografici
Le Alpi del Monte Rosa confinano:
 a nord con le Alpi del Mischabel e del Weissmies (nella stessa sezione alpina) e separate dal Passo del Monte Moro;
 a nord-est con le Alpi Ticinesi e del Verbano (nelle Alpi Lepontine) e separate dalla Val d'Ossola;
 a sud-est con le Alpi Biellesi e Cusiane (nella stessa sezione alpina) e separate dal Colle del Loo (dove cominciano le Alpi Biellesi) e dal Tesslu (dove cominciano invece le Alpi Cusiane);
 a sud-ovest con le Alpi del Gran Paradiso (nelle Alpi Graie) e separate dal corso del fiume Dora Baltea;
 ad ovest con le Alpi del Weisshorn e del Cervino (nella stessa sezione alpina) e separate dal Colle del Teodulo.

Nel dettaglio e ruotando in senso orario i limiti geografici sono: Colle del Teodulo, Zermatt, Findeln, Schwarzberg-Weisstor, Passo del Monte Moro, Valle Anzasca, Val d'Ossola, torrente Strona, il Tesslu, torrente Mastellone, Varallo Sesia, torrente Sesia, Piode, Torrente Sorba, Colle del Loo, torrente Loo, Valle del Lys, Pont-Saint-Martin, fiume Dora Baltea, Valtournenche, Colle del Teodulo.

Suddivisione
Le Alpi del Monte Rosa sono suddivise in tre supergruppi, sette gruppi e sei sottogruppi:
 Gruppo del Monte Rosa i.s.a. (A)
 Catena Breithorn-Lyskamm (A.1)
 Massiccio del Monte Rosa (A.2)
 Gruppo della Cima di Jazzi (A.3)
 Sottogruppo della Cima di Jazzi (A.3.a)
 Sottogruppo Stockhorn-Gornergrat (A.3.b)
 Contrafforti valdostani del Monte Rosa (B)
 Costiera Tournalin-Zerbion (B.4)
 Costiera Testa Grigia-Frudiera (B.5)
 Costiera della Testa Grigia (B.5.a)
 Costiera di Frudiera (B.5.b)
 Contrafforti valsesiani del Monte Rosa (C)
 Costiera del Corno Bianco (C.6)
 Costiera Punta Grober-Tagliaferro-Montevecchio (C.7)
 Sottogruppo della Punta Grober (C.7.a)
 Costiera del Monte Tagliaferro (C.7.b)
 Contrafforte Piglimò-Tagliaferro (C.7.b/a)
 Contrafforte Montevecchio-Quarazzola-Capezzone (C.7.b/b)
 Contrafforte della Cima Lampone (C.7.b/c)
 Contrafforte della Cima Colmetta (C.7.b/d)

Vette
Le vette principali e più alte si trovano nel massiccio del Monte Rosa; la massima elevazione è raggiunta dalla Punta Dufour che raggiunge i 4.634 m. I Contrafforti valdostani del Monte Rosa raggiungono la loro massima elevazione con il Grand Tournalin (3.379 m) mentre i Contrafforti valsesiani del Monte Rosa hanno come vetta più alta la Punta Grober (3.497 m).

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Bibliografia

Gruppi montuosi del Piemonte
Gruppi montuosi della Valle d'Aosta
Gruppi montuosi del Canton Vallese
Sottosezioni alpine


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THE POLISH AIR FORCE IN BRITAIN, 1940-1947
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Prince George, Duke of Kent greeting Polish airmen, probably groundcrew of one of the RAF bomber squadrons, during his inspection of RAF Bramcote, 11 June 1941. In the middle background is General Władysław Kalkus (with his hands behind the back), one of the Polish Air Force senior officers.
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Woven City: Toyota's Futuristic City Centers Around Not Driving
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Posted By: Craig Cole via Cnet January 7, 2020
Toyota is the latest entry into concept cities, called Woven City, will be built from scratch to test Smart City technology. Limited to around 2,000 residents, it will certainly not be affordable to the average citizen in Japan. ⁃ TN Editor
Toyota is apparently no longer content making Corollas, Hilux pickups and loads of money, as it's now planning to build an entire town of its own. Seriously.
Today at CES in Las Vegas, the automaker announced its ambitious new construction project, called the Woven City. Located near Mount Fuji in Japan, this brand-new municipality will occupy the location of a defunct manufacturing plant. The automaker has reclaimed a 175-acre plot of land that, over the next few years, will be transformed into a city of the future.
The goal of this prototype conurbation is to create a living laboratory for the development of future technologies. This encompasses things like self-driving vehicles, robotics, smart homes, personal mobility and more.
Speaking at a roundtable discussion following the Woven City's announcement, James Kuffner, CEO of the Toyota Research Institute Advanced Development said, "The cities of today have been shaped by cars." But with this project, the automaker is exploring a world of new technological possibilities. Woven City could be the perfect testbed for this.
Residents, yes, normal people will be able to live there, as well as buildings, infrastructure and vehicles will all be interconnected, powered by a city-wide digital operating system. Toyota will also invite its business partners to work there as well as academics and scientists from around the world, all with the goal of fostering the creation of new technologies. Connected, autonomous, emissions-free and shared mobility are a few of the buzzwords used to describe the project.
This planned city is designed to be fully sustainable, powered by Toyota hydrogen-fuel cell technology and rooftop-mounted photovoltaic panels. Accordingly, it should not be connected to the conventional power grid. Buildings will be made largely of wood, incorporating traditional Japanese joinery in their construction. If the renderings of this town and its structures are accurate, it should be a swanky place to reside.
The Woven City's streets will be divided into three sections, none of which will support human-driven vehicles. One will be dedicated to faster-moving self-driving transportation, another will handle slower, personal-mobility vehicles as well as pedestrians, and the final one will be park-like promenades dedicated exclusively to people.
Those differing infrastructure elements will weave together, something that helped inspire the project's name. This is also a nod to Toyota's heritage, as the automaker actually got its start making looms for weaving fabric.
The Woven City's carefully planned environment should make it easier to create and develop future transportation technology. Greening things up, native vegetation and hydroponics will be sprinkled throughout.
Major infrastructure elements will be housed underground. This should include things like hydrogen storage and plumbing. Topside, residents' lives will likely be made easier thanks to in-home robots and sensor-based artificial intelligence. In a perfect world, the trash will automatically get taken out and refrigerators seamlessly restocked with tasty vittles.
Giving some style to match its functionality, the Woven City is being designed by Danish architect Bjarke Ingels. His firm, the Bjarke Ingels Group, has created many iconic buildings around the world, including several for Google as well as 2 World Trade Center in New York.
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New Dimensions in the Environmental Humanities
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Unflattening Narratives of the Chernobyl Disaster: How we find Depth in Anthropogenic Ruin
By April Wendling
Why research Chernobyl? Essentially, studying what happened at the Chernobyl power plant and how we make meaning of it is simply a method of studying how we make meaning of the Anthropocene as a whole. The Anthropocene refers to our current geologic epoch, marked by human-caused environmental effects, such as climate change and the contamination of landscapes by radioactive isotopes. Chernobyl is but one example of humans shaping our environment, and the various nuances of the ways we reflect on this disaster are strikingly akin to how we reflect on other facets of anthropogenic change.Just like other aspects of the Anthropocene, to paint a clear picture of the Chernobyl disaster, we must understand how people have reflected on it in different ways, unfolding different "dimensions" of the disaster, so to speak. So let's talk about what nuclear energy means to people. Through much of the middle of the 20th century, nuclear energy enchanted the public eye. How incredible, that fuel the size of a coin could sustain an entire power station. It was cutting edge, it was romantic, it was the future.
This image is of a building in Pripyat, the town closest to the Chernobyl power plant. When this town was founded in the 70's to house Chernobyl's workers, the idea of the "peaceful atom" was popular, and it shows even in the architecture–the text atop the building reads, "Let the atom be a worker, not a soldier."It was a push for nuclear technology to be used as an alternative energy source, rather than to make nuclear warheads. Of course, generations who grew up during and after the 1986 disaster tend to see the atom in a different light.
It makes sense then that Chernobyl has different meanings to different people. In "A Stroll to the Zone," Markiyan Kamysh, a stalker –someone who illegally visits the Exclusion Zone –reflects on this.
"What is the Chernobyl Zone today? For someone, it's a horrible memory of half-forgotten childhood, of happy Soviet youth days, when in a few days your life is shattered into small pieces, and yourself, and all your neighbors, flee into the world to find new homes on evacuation buses. For some, the Chernobyl Zone is radioactive shit that was cleared out in May of eighty-six. For some, it's Terra Incognita, filled with myths aboutzombies and soldiers riding in dark green APCs. For some, it's official excursions, when greedy businessmen with loud speeches make money on preoccupied tourists."
These various meanings ripple into the way that we create narratives about Chernobyl.One such narrative is the declensionist approach. This is what people typically think of when you bring up anthropocentric media. Alarmist headlines proclaiming that "CLIMATE CHANGE WILL DISPLACE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS", which, to many of us, have lost their meaning in a world where we've become jaded to these proclamations of disaster. It may still catch the interest of many readers if the subject matter is enticing enough, however.
In a delensionist narrative, such as Kate Brown's Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future, the Chernobyl disaster is simply another of many stepping stones in humanity's destruction of ourselves and our environment.
"Whoever said Soviet leaders were not capitalists was wrong. Like business leaders elsewhere, they emphasized production over safety. Rather than securing the disaster site and closing it to let the most powerful radioactive isotopes decay for several years, they fast-tracked a plan to return the Chernobyl plant to full production as soon as possible."
Even after the disaster, the other reactors at the Chernobyl plant were still operated as normal until 2000.Brown goes on to cite that there were numerous accidents at the Chernobyl power plant before the 1986 disaster, and afterwards as well. Likewise, nuclear missiles had been tested in secret in the marshlands around the power plant.
"Instead of an accident, Chernobyl might be better conceived of as an acceleration on a time line of destruction or as an exclamation point in a chain of toxic exposures that restructured the landscape, bodies, and politics."
This heavily ties in with many common declensionist interpretations of the Anthropocene. Particularly of note is the concept of "The Great Acceleration" –the idea that many aspects of both society and the earth system have existed in a state of unyielding "acceleration" since the mid-20th century.
As Chernobyl's radioactive dust eventually settled, a new narrative evolved. The ironic narrative examines disaster from an unexpected angle. Anna Tsing, a master of the ironic narrative, often describes the Anthropocene as "patchy," in that while anthropogenic effects are typically negative, there are "patches" of positivity. That's not to say this angle necessarily downplays those negative impacts, however. If anything, it "mixes up" the declensionist approach, such that the reader is not discouraged by being handed exclusively distressing news.
Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene, edited in part by Anna Tsing, is a collection of reflections on the art of living in a world thoroughly wounded by the Anthropocene. One of these reflections is about a photographer named Aleksander Kupny. He worked as a radiation monitor at the Chernobyl power plant while it was still operational after the 1986 disaster. Recently, however, from 2007 to 2009, he would occasionally make unauthorized trips underground into the belly of the blown reactor and take pictures.
What does it mean for someone to be going down there and taking pictures –a form of art? Furthermore, what does it say about us, that we find beauty in these pictures?
Since this story has come to light, people have asked why he went down there. Some suggested that perhaps it was the same motivation that drives people to climb Mt Everest, though Kupny disagrees. He explains, "I don't do it to put a flag down and beat my chest. I went under to figure out what happened. I see nuclear energy as a natural force. I want to understand this force; the immense power behind the accident.Unless you go there, you can't understand it.
All of his photos have small white specks populating the image. These points of light are none other than the image of radiation itself imprinting on the film. This photo in particular shows bright sparks of radiation in the upper right.
Kupny went inside 10 times, and his experiences have given him a poetic outlook on reactor No 4. "To me the reactor is almost like a living thing, like a beast that is sleeping," he's said.
The irony of this narrative lies in our ability to find beauty even in the ruins of disaster, even in the self-portraits of decaying radioactive isotopes.
Finally, another option for discussing disasters of the Anthropocene is to simply do away with the polish. Raw, personal accounts of events like the Chernobyl disaster have the power to instill heartbreak in the reader whist employing little rhetorical flair. While declensionist stories run the risk of being ineffectual to the jaded reader, the undeniably human feeling of seeing into another person's experience is hard to shrug off as a reader. When engaging with this sort of material, you don't feel like you're being rhetorically manipulated into being heartbroken, you just are.
In her book, Voices fromChernobyl, Svetlana Alexievich writes simply and directly, without any tricks, and the emotion she distills is heartbreaking. These words are not her own, but those of survivors of the 1986 disaster. Open to any page, and you find yourself drawn into these people's lives: townspeople who go out on their balconies to watch the unusual colors of the reactor fire, farmers forced to leave their crops and cattle, soldiers and firemen drafted in with inadequate protection to clean up the mess the reactor left. The stories she shares straddle the line between strikingly human and unbearably distressing. The very first monologue she shares is from a woman whose husband was at the reactor when the accident happened. She recounts the slow and agonizing process of hisdeath.
"There's a fragment of some conversation, I'm remembering it. Someone is saying: 'You have to understand: this is not your husband anymore, not a beloved person, but a radioactive object with a strong density of poisoning. You're not suicidal. Get ahold of yourself.' And I'm like someone who's lost her mind: 'But I love him! I love him!' He's sleeping, and I'm whispering: 'I love you!' Walking in the hospital courtyard, 'I love you.' Carrying his sanitary tray, 'I love you.'"
In another monologue, a woman recalls the immediate chaos before towns near the reactor were evacuated.
"There was a Ukrainian woman at the market selling big red apples. 'Come get your apples! Chernobyl apples!' Someone told her not to advertise that, no one will buy them. 'Don't worry!' she says. 'They buy them anyway. Some need them for their mother-in-law, some for their boss.'"
The list goes on. Returning home from helping clean up the exclusion zone, one soldier burns all his clothing except for his army cap, which is coveted by his little boy. Two years later, his child is dead of a brain tumor. When forced to evacuate her hometown, one woman smuggles out her radioactive cat in a suitcase.
There is very little in the way of organization of these recollections. Alexievich simply presents them as they are. It feels less like reading a cohesive story and more like observing the raw materials of which a story might be made from, as if they could be expertly arranged into a shape that has some meaning. Yet, doing so would betray Alexievich's purpose of simply sharing these people's experiences unfiltered.
Alongside my humanistic work this year, I've also been studying wildlife reclamation in the exclusion zone. I was first drawn to this topic by its sheer irony –how can fauna populations be booming in such a heavily irradiated landscape? As I've come to discover, it's easier for wildlife to cope with living in the shadow of a nuclear disaster than living alongside humans.
Let's go back in time for a moment, before the idea of the Chernobyl power plant was even conceived. An all-out assault on the natural landscape in the 1920's demolished much of the area's biodiversity. In a massive national effort, complete with obligatory heroic propaganda, the Pripyat marshes were drained and deforested. Thousands of miles of canals were built, and tens of thousands of people arrived to work on the new collective farms. This so-called "land improvement" took place with a single goal in mind –to turn the area into the Soviet Union's breadbasket. Even today, the land just outside of the Exclusion Zone looks the same as it did 90 years ago –wheat fields and drainage canals stretch as far as the eye can see.
Just beyond the gates that isolate the Zone from the outside world, it's a completely different story. Forests and fields have been flooded, thanks to the return of beavers. Thousands of them have been hard at work, damming up man-made canals and restoring the marshes, toppling trees as seen here. With the landscape's return to its marshy roots, many amphibians, fish, shellfish, insects, otters, moose, and waterfowl have all returned as well. The Pripyat marshes were once so incredibly vast, they stopped the army of Genghis Khan. Although agriculture cleared them out, the swamps are now back, thanks to the largest rodent in Europe and a nuclear reactor.
Pictured here are wolves at an experimental scent station within the exclusion zone. For many years, people have spotted them roaming about the zone, but were unsure if they were actually surviving in the irradiated landscape. Some believed that the zone's wolves were simply wolves from outside the zone who migrated into the zone and promptly died there.Recent studies are suggesting otherwise. Many wolves are born in the zone and spend their normal-length lives there.
The Przewalski's horse nearly went extinct, but in an effort to save the species, it was introduced into the exclusion zone in 1998.There are about 60 of them now, though their population could be upwards of 200 if poachingwasn't an issue.
All in all, this narrative highlights the truly "patchy" nature of the Chernobyl disaster, and, by extension, the Anthropocene as a whole. There's a lot of damage that's been done here, and it's important to recognize that, but it's also worth taking note of the "patches" of positive outcomes, unexpected as they may seem.
In February 2019, it was revealed that discussion about redrawing the Exclusion Zone's boundaries is underway in Narodychi, a town near the edge of the zone. Three decades of research have concluded that much of the outer Zone is safe for food growth, land development, and permanent residency. If the exclusion zone's boundaries are redrawn, however, what will become of the plants and animals that live there? It's hard to say.
These approaches to storytelling and meaning-making are not unique to the Chernobyl disaster. They span all anthropocentric topics and pervade popular media. When we talk climate change, how do we spin our tales? Do we point to the destructive effects of capitalism and mourn the damage that's consistently being done? Do we find peace in knowing that life on earth will go on without us, that in the ruins of humanity, there are still "patches" where mother nature endures? Or perhaps we avoid "spinning" our stories altogether, and find meaning by giving voice to the unfiltered experiences of those worst affected by climate change?
Each of these dimensions bring something new to the table, a fresh perspective, a different voice. To assume that any one approach to anthropocentric narrative holds more truth than the others is to flatten the issue at hand and ignore the complexities that supplemental approaches may add.
None of these methods are "correct", nor are they mutually exclusive. With all its dimensions, intersectionality, and nuances, the Anthropocene is truly what we make of it.
Alexievich, Svetlana. Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. Picador, 2005. Print.
Brown, Kate. Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future. W.W. Norton & Company, 2019. Print.
Kamysh, Markiyan. A Stroll to the Zone. Nora-Print, 2015. Print.
Tsing, Anna, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan, Nils Bubandt. Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. Print.
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It was 1977 and I was in a builder model, daily, for weeks, with very little traffic and no results; a lonely outpost. In a moment of exasperation, I flagged down the mail man just to talk to someone.
Yes. And he did. We took his home in on trade and he moved his growing family into this model home. And 37 years later it is still their home.
Thank you Jerry and Hanna!


I don't usually blog in the summer, but I'm running a weekly summer code club at the library in July and I'm being a bit reflective about the monthly one that I helped lead this last year.
Earlier in the year, I introduced a new (to me, too) project to the Lebanon Library Creative Coders. We decided to take two of our monthly meetings, February and March, to work on the Create Your Own World project from Code Club World. I knew this middle school age group would enjoy creating a platform game. One of them even continued to work on it for a third month and was able to add a lot of detail like hit points, inventory list, and bad guys.
World detailed with inventory, hp, weapon and bad guys.
The first meeting we focused on setting up the player movement. We remixed Code Club Rik's Resources for this project so we could jump right in with the coding. When I was prepping for our meeting, I went ahead and changed the character from a square to an overhead view of a guy walking. One of my original groups of students created Showcase projects called Tomb of Terror and Shadow Swamp with Hatty McWalker. That's who I was thinking of with this guy.
Overhead view of my player. I added a costume with the mirror image and a "next costume" block in my code to make him look like he is walking.
I'm finding it useful to look at the code more closely. There are some interesting, creative coding going on and I'm seeing some misconceptions that will help me help them debug their code.
I've seen this forever-forever coding before. Something is not working like they expect and they try to solve it with nested forever loops.
Nested infinite (practically) loops didn't fix the problem – switching to the "play sound until done" block did.
This wall checking code has been separated from the key-press event giving no response.
If touching wall move in all directions at once.
A couple of the coders explored more blocks where you can define your own. This led to a teaching moment for me to explain how these function blocks worked. It turned out less useful than my right-click to duplicate code suggestion.
All in all, they impressed me. In the moment I'm not always sure what is going on with everyone and even at the end when we stop to share what we've accomplished I don't always know how they did.
Some of them didn't want to continue what they had started the month before, but they were self-motivated and independent enough to work on their own projects.
I love that this crew is supportive of each other and willing to share their ideas and compliments.
Some of the same students have signed up for the summer session. I'm looking forward to it.


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