A New Year Checklist For Your Home!
If you're looking to start a-new this coming year, why not have a checklist of things you can do for your home to give it a fresh start to 2019? There's nothing better than a clean home, and it's a great way to begin a brand new year.
Check batteries on fire/smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. We hate hearing the chirp of a dying smoke detector in the middle of the night – be proactive and change out all the batteries now!
Clean your clothes dryer. Vacuum out lint from the dryer vent. Too much lint can be a fire hazard if it's accumulated over time. Also, if you have too much lint build up, your dryer may not even work at maximum power.
Clean vents and registers. Things can get stuck in and even build up in your home's vents and registers. Wipe down vent covers and vacuum out the register to help remove dirt and debris.
Vacuum under all and flip most mattresses (you CAN vacuum your mattress!). Mattresses are often overlooked when it comes to TLC, and they shouldn't since they're used every day!
Vacuum your fridge coils. For many of us, we rarely move the fridge out of its place, meaning that you could have a nice buildup of dust behind, under, and on top of it. Don't forget about the outside of your fridge this new year.
Clean your home's faucets. Most faucets in your home have a small metal or plastic screen to block the passage of grit and other particles. Take time to rinse those out. You might be surprised at the increased water flow the faucet will now have.
Rotate and clean ceiling fans. Dust accumulates year-round, regardless of whether fans are being used or not. Wipe down the blades, and rotate clockwise in the winter; counterclockwise in the summer.
Clean out the pantry, fridge, and freezer. If you haven't cleaned out your fridge, freezer, or pantry, now is a great time to do so. Bacteria can grow in your fridge. If you haven't wiped it down in a while, do your health a favor and clean it out.
Change furnace air filters. If you have a forced-air furnace, and you haven't changed out the air filters in a long time (or ever), now is the time to do so. The air filters prevent many pollutants from entering your living spaces, and if they haven't been changed in a while, there's a high possibility your furnace isn't working at peak efficiency. That added strain on the motor can shorten its life. It is important to note that most should be changed more often than annually.
If you have a wood fireplace, have it professionally cleaned. This is important for those living in winter climates. Chimney maintenance is vital, and by cleaning it you'll guarantee no blockages or buildup of Creosote, and it will work at maximum capacity.
Check weather stripping around doors and windows. Weather stripping is important because it keeps things out of your house (think rain, moisture, bugs and other stuff), and it keeps interior air inside. Weather stripping is important – do an audit and replace as needed.
Clean out your gutters. Cleaning out your gutters not only helps with leaf and debris buildup, it will also prevent gutter flooding in cases of extreme inclement weather.
Repair or replace damaged window screens. If you have window screens that are torn or broken, you should replace them. Window screens are not only helpful, they also add to the curb appeal of your home.
Clean out any dead or dying plants from your garden beds. If you have a yard, now is a good time to clean it out, especially if you live in a climate where fall and winter have taken a toll on your plants and shrubs.
The beginning of a new year is a great time to start thinking of things you'd like to work on or replace in the coming year. Think about how long tasks will take, the costs for any materials, how much time you'll need to complete the tasks, and the best time of year for it to happen. If you're looking to make some resolutions for yourself this year, don't forget about your home! Happy New Year!
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Women's swimming surges ahead
Marie Fritzsche
By beating Wesleyan, the women are on their way to repeating as Little Three champions. Before the 2003 campaign, the team last claimed that title in 1987. This season's deciding meet will take place at Williams College on Jan. 8.
The meet opened with the 50-yard backstroke, which tri-captain Liz Chiang '05 won handily. Jill Wyrick '05 led the 50-yard breaststrokers with a school record-breaking 31.62 and second place. She was followed closely by first-years Brittany Sasser and Suzie Luft in third and fourth, respectively.
Sophomores Piper Pettersen and Margaret Ramsey shone in the 50-yard butterfly, as they finished first and second at 27.10 and 27.14, respectively. It was a pair of seniors who carried the 1000-yard freestyle, as tri-captain Michelle McCreary and Alexis Johnston finished first and second, respectively. "McCreary and Johnston were dependably excellent in the distance events," said Chiang.
Jennifer Lewkowitz '08 won the 200-yard freestyle, and Chiang took second in the 50-yard freestyle. The 400-yard individual medley saw Jasmina Cheung-Lau '07 and Julie Kim '08 place second and third, respectively.
Amherst's diving duo of Kate Shaw and Kristin Boyd, both seniors, continued to display last season's excellence as they took first and second in the one-meter, respectively. Shaw scored her first of two necessary National qualifications with 257.93 points.
Pettersen returned to the pool to win the 100-yard butterfly in 58.95, followed by Hilary Stockbridge '05 in third. Ramsey won the 100-yard freestyle swimming "phenomenally," according to Chiang.
Sasser and first-year Natalie Dyer finished first and second, respectively, in the 100-yard backstroke, while Rebecca Stein '05 and Cheung-Lau did likewise in the 500-yard freestyle. "Stein showed domination and versatility in the freestyle by winning the 500-yard," said Chiang, noting Stein's freestyle flexibility.
Shaw and Boyd returned to the boards to easily surpass the Cardinals and again finished first and second, respectively. Shaw achieved a three-meter National qualification as well. Pettersen finished up a stellar meet by making an NCAA B-cut in the 100-yard breaststroke.
The meet closed with the 200-yard freestyle relay. The same team that placed third last year at Nationals-Chiang, Wyrick, Ramsey and Stein-broke the 4-year old pool record by .12 seconds with a time of 1:39.49. The time was good enough to qualify for the National B-cut. The "B" relay included junior Gretchen Sisson, sophomores Lisa Rubinger and Alexis Gaines, as well as first-year Lisa Pritchard.
"All in all it was a great first meet for us and we were really happy with our results," said Massopust. "We also had a fantastic weekend of training, some of the best I can remember in my Amherst career."
The women will need to reap the rewards of that training as their upcoming schedule should prove a more difficult test.
Next weekend will be one of the most important of the fall semester as the women seek to repeat the success of last year's undefeated, 10-0 season. The women travel to Vermont on Saturday to face NESCAC rival Middlebury College in the Natatorium.
"It was a great meet to kick off the season," said McCreary of the Wesleyan victory. "I think everyone really enjoyed this first opportunity to come together and race as a team. We are all really excited for the rest of the season."

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"Accent" 1940-1960: The history of a little magazine
Hendricks, Fredric Jefferson
Title: "Accent" 1940-1960: The history of a little magazine
Author(s): Hendricks, Fredric Jefferson
Department / Program: English
Discipline: English
Subject(s): Literature, American
Abstract: Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature was founded in Urbana, Illinois, in 1940 by Kerker Quinn, a graduate student in the English department at the University of Illinois. It appeared regularly from 1940 to 1960, eventually numbering eighty issues. Consciously avoiding any one particular literary or political stance, Accent offered an eclectic range of poetry, fiction, and criticism.
Accent published works by most of the major American writers of this period. Some were already well-known like Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, John Crowe Ransom, Katherine Anne Porter, and R. P. Blackmur. Others, like Richard Wright, Eudora Welty, A. R. Ammons, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton, were just beginning their careers when they appeared in the magazine. But Accent's major achievement was its ability to locate talented, unpublished writers. Some of the writers that published first in Accent were Flannery O'Connor, William Gass, J. F. Powers, William Humphrey, Daniel Curley, Howard Moss, and Grace Paley.
This study is structured along chronological and generic lines. Chapter One focuses on Quinn's educational and intellectual background, relating his experience with his first little magazine, Direction. Chapter Two examines Accent's business history and its editorial policy. Chapter Three analyzes the criticism published in Accent and charts the evolution from a social criticism in the early Forties to the formalism espoused by the New Criticism during the Fifties. Chapter Four provides both an overview of the types of writing preferred by Accent and specific episodes in the magazine's relationship with particular writers. This chapter concludes that Accent's greatest contribution was ultimately the way it functioned as a responsive and sustaining audience which so many of its contributors seemed to need and appreciate.
Other Identifier(s): (UMI)AAI8502170
Dissertations and Theses - English
Dissertations from the Dept. of English


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Offense (in this context) can only be taken, it cannot be given.
Could really use Mac's big body in this one.
I look forward to being at home toasty warm watching the game. But that's a long ways away and I am currently at work freezing my nuts off.
In regards to my question, Green doesn't put Jake with Bo and Leivo cause he doesn't want Jake to score?
I have that in my top-5 as well.
I'm blessed to be toasty warm all day, nuts intact.
I see these 2 concerns addressed by 1) CARRY the puck out of the zone and don't treat it like a hot potato and try to blindly shoot it out. Usually turned out to be giveaways last game.
2) The PP is far too predictable. The opponents are getting to the spots before our guy does. Why? Because we do the SAME THING EVERY TIME!
This may need to go in the PGT, if all goes well.
Any word on Edler yet? For sure out this game?
Well I hope they actually let Zack play. Goldobin can take a seat and I would like to see Zack on Bo's wing with Roussel on the other. I would also like to see Brisebois get a chance. He can't be much worse than Pouliot is currently. I will be at the game tonight so I would like to see both get an opportunity.
Markstrom - if the Canucks are down by more than 2 goals after the 2nd period put Dipietro in for the 3rd period.
I'll be there tonight too! That's awesome that you get to go when it's been such a long time. I get out quite often (helps living a few blocks away...) but still have a blast every time.
Ill be centre ice row 11 but will check in on those updates you promised.
Have a great time and enjoy the game!!
IMO one of the wildcard spots is for the Blues to lose. With their games in hand over everyone else, as long as they remain playing good hockey, they should get into the playoffs. I'm hoping Minnesota continues to slide and we come up with some big wins against divisional rivals.
Botchford wrote in his Athletties that Green feels that Sutter needs speed on his wings.
wow, thats insightful work by Botchturd. I wonder if his next idea will be we need better LHD depth?
Jake is the primary scoring threat on that line keeping the opposing defence somewhat honest, teams need 3 scoring lines, right now the Canucks have like 1 1/2 lines.


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The Office of University Lecutres has announced that Robert Kennedy Jr. has been added to the lineup for the 2003-04 season, joining celebrity speakers including director Martin Scorsese, writer and radio personality Garrison Keillor and political commentator Molly Ivins.
Kennedy, a noted environmental and political activist, will speak Feb. 5, 2004, at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The lecture will be free and open to the public.
Kennedy's reputation as a resolute defender of the environment stems from a litany of successful legal actions: prosecuting governments and companies for polluting the Hudson River and Long Island sound; winning settlements for the Hudson Riverkeeper; arguing cases to expand citizen access to the shoreline; and suing sewage treatment plants to force compliance with the Clean Water Act. He will speak on his work with the Hudson Riverkeeper, Waterkeepers Alliance and Natural Resources Defense Council, among other topics.


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Reserva Extrativista Arapixi är ett naturreservat i Brasilien. Det ligger i kommunen Boca do Acre och delstaten Amazonas, i den västra delen av landet,  km väster om huvudstaden Brasília.

I omgivningarna runt Reserva Extrativista Arapixi växer i huvudsak städsegrön lövskog. Trakten runt Reserva Extrativista Arapixi är nära nog obefolkad, med mindre än två invånare per kvadratkilometer. Tropiskt regnskogsklimat råder i trakten. Årsmedeltemperaturen i trakten är  °C. Den varmaste månaden är september, då medeltemperaturen är  °C, och den kallaste är februari, med  °C. Genomsnittlig årsnederbörd är  millimeter. Den regnigaste månaden är januari, med i genomsnitt  mm nederbörd, och den torraste är juli, med  mm nederbörd.

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Q: Devise test helper not loading, or being required properly in RSpec I've the following problem with a newly set up rails project. Somehow I can't seem to get the Devise helpers (such as sign_in) to be required properly.
In my spec/support dir. I have a file called devise which should, according to Device's readme file, include the helper methods so you can use them in RSpec:
RSpec.configure do |config|
  config.include Devise::TestHelpers, :type => :controller
end

My spec_helper.rb has, of course:
Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f}

I've been fighting over this thing for over an hour and it's driving me insane. Help is much appreciated!
Using:

*

*Rspec 2.2.0

*Devise 1.1.5

*Rails 3.0.3

A: While it seems it should be identical, i would propose to try to include the testhelpers explicitly inside your rspec test. Like this:
require 'spec_helper'

describe DoStuffController do
  include Devise::TestHelpers

  before (:each) do
    @user = Factory.create(:user)
    sign_in @user
  end

  ... do your stuff ...

end

If that still fails, which i assume it will, i am hoping you will at least get a better error.

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Stanford-led research shows huge die-off in ancient biosphere
When significant oxygen entered the atmosphere, ancient life multiplied. But after a few hundred million years, Earth's oxygen plummeted, resulting in a die-off likely greater than the extinction of the dinosaurs.
By Danielle Torrent Tucker
Clues from Canadian rocks formed billions of year ago reveal a previously unknown loss of life even greater than that of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, when Earth lost nearly three-quarters of its plant and animal species.
This photograph shows rocks from the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay, Canada, from which doctoral candidate Malcolm Hodgskiss collected barite samples dating 2.02 to 1.87 billion years old. (Image credit: Malcolm Hodgskiss)
Rather than prowling animals, this die-off involved miniscule microorganisms that shaped the Earth's atmosphere and ultimately paved the way for those larger animals to thrive.
"This shows that even when biology on Earth is comprised entirely of microbes, you can still have what could be considered an enormous die-off event that otherwise is not recorded in the fossil record," said Malcolm Hodgskiss, co-lead author of a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Invisible clues
Because this time period preceded complex life, researchers cannot simply dig up fossils to learn what was living 2 billion years ago. Even clues left behind in mud and rocks can be difficult to uncover and analyze.
Instead, the group turned to barite, a mineral collected from the Belcher Islands in Hudson Bay, Canada, that encapsulates a record of oxygen in the atmosphere. Those samples revealed that Earth experienced huge changes to its biosphere – the part of the planet occupied by living organisms – ending with an enormous drop in life approximately 2.05 billion years ago that may also be linked to declining oxygen levels.
"The fact that this geochemical signature was preserved was very surprising," Hodgskiss said. "What was especially unusual about these barites is that they clearly had a complex history."
Looking at the Earth's productivity through ancient history provides a glimpse into how life is likely to behave over its entire existence – in addition to informing observations of atmospheres on planets outside our solar system.
"The size of the biosphere through geologic time has always been one of our biggest questions in studying the history of the Earth," said Erik Sperling, an assistant professor of geological sciences at Stanford who was not involved with the study. "This new proxy demonstrates how interlinked the biosphere and levels of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are."
Biological angle
This relationship between the proliferation of life and atmospheric oxygen has given researchers new evidence of the hypothesized "oxygen overshoot." According to this theory, photosynthesis from ancient microorganisms and the weathering of rocks created a huge amount of oxygen in the atmosphere that later waned as oxygen-emitting organisms exhausted their nutrient supply in the ocean and became less abundant. This situation is in contrast to the stable atmosphere we know on Earth today, where the oxygen created and consumed balances out. The researchers' measurements of oxygen, sulfur and barium isotopes in barite support this oxygen overshoot hypothesis.
The research helps scientists hone their estimates of the size of the oxygen overshoot by revealing the significant biological consequences of oxygen levels above or below the capacity of the planet.
"Some of these oxygen estimates likely require too many microorganisms living in the ocean in Earth's past," said co-lead author Peter Crockford, a postdoctoral researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Princeton University. "So we can now start to narrow in on what the composition of the atmosphere could have been through this biological angle."
Co-authors include researchers from Nanjing University, the University of Colorado Boulder and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
The research was supported by Stanford University McGee and Compton Grants, the Northern Scientific Training Program, NSERC, National Geographic, the American Philosophical Society, Geological Society of America and the Agouron Institute.
Malcolm Hodgskiss, School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences: (650) 656-0159, mswh@stanford.edu
Peter Crockford, Weizmann Institute of Science and Princeton University: peter.crockford@weizmann.ac.il


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Q: comparing timestamps in two consecutive rows which have different values for column A and the same value for column B in Big Query guys, I have a big query result which shows me the time (in the column local_time) that riders (in the column rider_id) logout of an app (the column event), so there are two distinct values for the column event, "authentication_complete" and "logout".
event_date  rider_id    event                    local_time
20200329    100695      authentication_complete  20:07:09
20200329    100884      authentication_complete  12:00:51
20200329    100967      logout                   10:53:17
20200329    100967      authentication_complete  10:55:24
20200329    100967      logout                   11:03:28
20200329    100967      authentication_complete  11:03:47
20200329    101252      authentication_complete  7:55:21
20200329    101940      authentication_complete  8:58:44
20200329    101940      authentication_complete  17:19:57
20200329    102015      authentication_complete  14:20:27
20200329    102015      logout                   22:47:50
20200329    102015      authentication_complete  22:48:34

what I want to achieve is for each rider who ever logged out, in one column I want to get the time they logged out, and in another column I want to get the time for the event "authentication_complete" that comes right after that logout event for that rider. In this way, I can see the time period that each rider was out of the app. the query result I want to get will look like below.
event_date  rider_id    time_of_logout  authentication_complete_right_after_the_logout
20200329    100967      10:53:17        10:55:24
20200329    100967      11:03:28        11:03:47
20200329    102015      22:47:50        22:48:34

This was a very unclean data set, and so far I was able to clean this much, but at this step, I am feeling very stuck. I was looking into functions like lag() but since the data is 180,000 rows, there can be multiple events named "logout" for a rider_id and there are multiple consecutive events named "authentication_complete" for the same rider_id, it is extra confusing. I would really appreciate any help. Thanks!

A: I think you want lead():
select event_date, rider_id, date, local_time as logout_date,
       authentication_date
from (select t.*,
             lead(local_time) over (partition by event_date, rider_id order by local_time) as authentication_date
      from t
     ) t
where event = 'logout';

This assumes that the next event is indeed an authentication, as in your sample data.  You don't specify what to do if this is not the case.
If you specifically want the next authentication date, then you can use a min():
select event_date, rider_id, date, local_time as logout_date,
       authentication_date
from (select t.*,
             min(case when event = 'authentication_complete' then local_time end) over (partition by event_date, rider_id order by local_time desc) as authentication_date
      from t
     ) t
where event = 'logout';


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Charter, Innovation and Transformation Schools
Charter Schools Charter schools are public schools of choice. They are publicly funded and open to all students, with no admission testing or screening. Each school has a charter, or performance contract, detailing its program, goals and methods of assessment.
Charter schools operate with increased autonomy in exchange for accountability. They are accountable for both academic results and fiscal practices to several groups: the authorizer that grants the charter, the parents who choose to send their children to the school and the public that funds them. Charter schools are also governed by Maryland Charter Law. This includes requirements for conducting an admissions lottery for enrollment and maintaining a waiting list.
See a list of all current City Schools charter schools, and click on a school name for contact information and school descriptions.
Innovation High Schools
Baltimore City Schools led a reform effort in 2001 to redesign, transform, and revitalize Baltimore's neighborhood high schools. This reform created six new small, independent schools. Two of the six created schools converted to charter schools. Two more converted to transformation schools. Each Innovation High School is operated by a non-profit governing board with the authority to oversee the implementation of the school's approved model. Innovation High Schools have no entrance criteria and admit students through a lottery.
Transformation Schools
Transformation Schools are a direct response to changing secondary education in Baltimore. Six Transformation schools opened in 2008. The schools will serve grades 6 through 12 and will be operated by experienced, independent education entities. Each school will have a specific theme and a unique curriculum and will either focus on college, career, or alternative programming. Transformation Schools have no entrance criteria and admit students through a lottery.
CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF CHOICE --------REALLY?
WE SEE THAT CHARTER SCHOOLS ARE OVERWHELMINGLY ESTABLISHED IN UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES, TAKING THE PLACE OF THE COMMUNITY'S LONGSTANDING PUBLIC SCHOOL. PARENTS OF UNDERSERVED SIMPLY WANT GOOD SCHOOLS. WHEN THEY ARE TOLD THE CHARTERS WILL BE BETTER....THEY TAKE THEM. TIME AND AGAIN WE SEE STATISTICS SHOWING THAT CHARTERS PERFORM NO BETTER, AND IN MANY CASES, WORSE THAN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL THEY REPLACE. MIDDLE-CLASS PARENTS DON'T WANT CHARTERS, THEY WANT THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOLS BECAUSE THEY ARE BETTER.......YES, THEY ARE.
THERE IS ANOTHER REASON FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS.....DEVELOPMENT TOOL.....BUT ULTIMATELY PRIVATIZING ALL OF PUBLIC EDUCATION.
Four city charter schools to move
Bess Keller April 25, 2012 at 8:11 pm Baltimore Brew
Four Baltimore City charter schools are moving to new locations for the next school year and last night the Baltimore City school board, which oversees charter as well as traditional schools, approved three of the relocations.
Two elementary charter schools, Baltimore International Academy and Monarch Academy, have outgrown their current buildings. A secondary school, MATHS, has to give way to another charter school operator, KIPP (Knowledge is Power Program), which is taking over the entire building on Greenspring Avenue that now houses a KIPP school and MATHS.
MATHS (Maryland Academy of Technology and Health Sciences) is moving its grades 6-12 operation to a former middle school building on N. Dukeland Street near Park Circle.
KIPP will use the Greenspring Avenue building for both its grades 5-8 school, Ujima Village Academy, and its elementary school, Harmony Academy, now located on Shirley Avenue in Park Heights. By the 2013 school year, Harmony is expected to serve serve kindergarten through 4th grade.
The Baltimore International Academy, a foreign language immersion school that has outgrown its current northeast Baltimore space at the Maryland School for the Blind, will move about three miles southeast to the former Mother Mary Lange Catholic school building on Frankford Avenue.
The Monarch Academy, currently housed in the former St. Thomas More Catholic school building in northeast Baltimore, will spend the coming school year at the former William Pinderhughes school building in the Upton neighborhood.
The following year it will settle permanently at the former Coca Cola building on Kirk Avenue, about five miles south of its current spot. The school is slated to add 4th through 8th grades in the 2014-2015 school year.
The school board approved three of the relocations at last night's regular meeting. (The relocation of KIPP's Harmony Academy is the result of an earlier lease deal between the school system and KIPP.)
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Wednesday, February 9th from 12:00 – 1:30 PM
Carol Beck, Director of Supporting Public Schools of Choice
Erika Brockman, Executive Director of Southwest Baltimore Charter School
Chris Maher, Chief Academic Officer for the Friendship Schools
We were also joined by Baltimore City School Board members David Stone and Tina Hike-Hubbard, as well as Roger Schulman, Executive Director of the Fund for Educational Excellence.
We began the meeting by asking members to tell us something that's still a mystery to them about transformation and charter schools – here were their responses:
What investments have been made in charters in Baltimore?
Are transformation schools living up to their promise?
How does the start up phase work?
What is the Gates Compact?
What are best practices that could be shared with other schools?
Does having the ability to hire non-union teachers make a difference?
What are the current challenges facing these schools?
What are realistic things that could/should be changed?
Demand versus capacity for these types of schools
Overview by Supporting Public Schools of Choice (SPSC)
Carol Beck began the meeting by providing a summary of the differences between charter and transformation schools (see handouts). Charter schools have a separate funding formula and they do not receive any support for their facilities; transformation schools are funded through Fair Student Funding and are located in City Schools' buildings. The majority of charter schools in Baltimore serve grades K-8.
Carol noted that Baltimore's charters are mostly "homegrown" – they are local efforts rather than being started/run by national organizations (with the exception of KIPP). This is different from some other urban districts, where most charters are part of national networks.
Southwest Baltimore Charter School
Erika Brockman shared the history of Southwest Baltimore Charter School – she is a mother who helped found the school, which opened in 2005. It was one of the first charter schools approved in Baltimore. The school started with 60 students in K and 1st grade – now has 250 students. For the first five years, the school was co-located in a traditional school – this posed many challenges in dealing with the differences between the two schools' cultures.
When Erika learned that Diggs Johnson would be closing, she approached the school board to find out if SW Charter could move into that building. The facility was in serious disrepair. An agreement was reached where SW Charter could use the building provided that they accepted any former Diggs students who wanted to attend. Also took on an autism program. In total, took on 100 additional students, had to hire 30 additional teachers. The building is a huge 70,000 sq foot facility, which is very different from their prior location sharing part of a smaller school building.
Erika noted that there is an ongoing issue of demand versus capacity – the district wants SW Charter to increase the size of its 6th grade, but they don't want to do that because adding additional students, especially those who have not gone through the lower grades at SW Charter, could disrupt the school culture.
She is very worried about the new teacher contract because she doesn't think the district knows how to implement it, especially the new evaluation requirements.
Friendship Schools
Chris Maher started by going through the Friendship Schools powerpoint (see handout). He noted that the schools aren't yet meeting AYP because of their large special ed populations.
The turnaround effort at Calverton has been successful so far (this is only the first year of that project) – most of the current students are in grades 6-8, but they would like to attract more elementary students, since an influx of sixth graders (middle school choice) makes it difficult to maintain a consistent school culture.
Friendship operates schools in Baltimore and DC – the DC schools get approximately twice the funding of the Baltimore schools. Financial issues pose a big challenge, even between transformation and charters in Baltimore since there are different funding formulas. Transformations receive the same amount of start up money as charters but no additional funding after that (beyond FSF).
Chris noted that two transformation schools have now become charters (Baltimore Freedom Academy and the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women) – Chris thinks this change was due to the financial benefits of charter funding. Also, transformation schools have less administrative flexibility than charters. THESE ARE NOW CLOSED!
Q: What can the DC Friendship schools do differently due to extra money? Longer school days (12% longer for students, 20% longer for teachers), pay for summer programs, greater professional development opportunities.
Q: Could SW Baltimore Charter could point to their operating contract as a reason not to expand the 6th grade? SW does not currently have a contract – they received a five year renewal and are still negotiating the terms of the contract as well as the terms of the conversion of Diggs Johnson.
SW Baltimore did not want to be listed in the Middle School Choice materials because they don't' want students from other elementary schools to choose to go there – would prefer to just stick with the Diggs students plus SW students.
By contrast, Calverton wanted to be in the Middle School Choice fair but the district decided not to include them this year. You see the arbitrary nature of school choice.
Q: It seems like it would be detrimental to the district if transformation schools convert to charters – why wouldn't the district support the transformation schools more to avoid that? The presenters aren't sure.
Tina Hike-Hubbard noted that charters don't really receive more money than transformations – charters receive less services/support from the district.
David Stone said that the school board is aware of these challenges and keeping that in mind while redoing the transformation schools policy. However, the board hasn't received much direct negative feedback from transformation operators/administrators.
The presenters agreed that they'd like to see the district do a study of funding of transformation schools versus charter and traditional schools to see if the net support is truly equivalent.
Lessons learned – transformation operators were initially asked to start schools with 6th grade and 9th grade; now they are mostly starting with 6th or 6th/7th to help build school culture.
Human capital – Friendship didn't have much autonomy over hiring teachers since they had to draw from the limited pool of available teachers. While technically transformation schools are contractually allowed to hire from outside the district, they aren't able to do so until August, which makes it logistically very difficult since most qualified candidates would already have accepted jobs elsewhere by then.
Chris said the teachers union often creates unnecessary roadblocks – for example, he submitted a proposal in September for how to spend turnaround bonus money on increased teacher salaries. He just heard back from the union last week – they rejected the proposal. Now he has to try to come up with another proposal for those funds and the school year is almost over.
Special Ed – David Stone feels that Special Ed funding isn't done correctly, especially as the district moves toward more inclusion. There needs to be more flexibility in how staff are categorized, for example, so principals can best provide services to students.
The Urban Teacher Center provides teachers who have Special Ed certification – Chris sees this as a major benefit since many Special Ed teachers aren't certified in that way.
Q: What are your concerns about the new teacher contract? Uncertainty about how achievement units will be defined, the new categories of teachers. Makes it hard to plan ahead for next year's budget when you don't know how much your current teachers will be making. Evaluations haven't been developed yet. Also concerned that the changes in the salary scales may create a competitive environment among teachers.
The group agreed that we should have a program on the new teacher contract, focusing on how teachers will be evaluated and how the district will determine whether the new contract has had a positive impact. Karen will work on scheduling this.
This year SW Charter implemented a new benchmarking system, MAP (Measures of Academic Progress), to look at individual student growth.
Gates Compact – Carol informed the group that the Gates Foundation recently invited charter and district leaders from six cities, including Baltimore, to help develop a district/charter compact. Currently, Baltimore City Schools' Chief of Staff and CEO are reviewing the draft compact, which includes the creation of a policy work group and other agreements to promote collaboration. Gates is accepting requests for $100,000 grants to move local work forward. If Baltimore receives these funds, they may sit at ABAG. There may also be larger grants available to support collaboration.
David Stone asked the funders to help the district build the capacity of the Office of New Initiatives, which currently has only two staff people. The speakers feel that Office is critical as an advocate for charter and transformation schools.


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Last night, I removed the remaining complete oyster and clam shells, and the PVC pipe. I'll glue the compete shells and place them strategically into the tank tonight to provide additional hiding spots. Once I build the larger reef, I'll wind up gluing these to the other sections of the reef that are currently not in a tank. I placed the improved structure with the repaired overhangs in the tank, and I'm really happy with how it turned out.
I moved the remaining shells in the tank that were halves or pieces to the front of the tank until I decide what to do with them. I will keep the ones in there that have good "life" on them. I may or may not keep the others. What I've learned is that eventually, some of the shells, even complete oyster shells, will be buried in the sand. Current and critters cause this. I have no idea what happened to the mud crabs in the tank. They may still be in there, but I haven't seen them. They could have been in the reef when I removed it for repair, but, I never saw any sign of them climbing out. I might find one on the floor in the rec room some day, LOL.
The tank was too cloudy last night because of the work that I did removing everything, so I couldn't take a pic. I cleaned out the filter and put in a new pad. Hopefully, the filter will keep working. Last night I found it had stopped. I cleaned it out again and the impeller was stuck, so I freed it. Although it's noisy, it was working after the repair and cleaning.
I "planted" the remaining complete oyster and clam shells throughout the tank, some placed on the reef structure, some in the substrate. I grouped most of the razor clams together to simulate a colony of those, and moved the half oyster shells around the bases of the reef structure. I think that it turned out pretty well, very similar to the early days of the reef. I may move the two major cultches on the right side a little tighter together, and more to the left, to create additional open space under the overhangs. Overall, I'm happy.
The fish seem happier, much more bold today than the past few days, coming out for food and even eating out of my hand. The one skilletfish that I'm worried about is still not eating...I'm not sure at this point that there is anything I can do for it. It doesn't look all that bad, so maybe it will turn around, we will see. If it starts eating again, then I'll feel much better.
My largest male blenny committed suicide, and jumped out of the tank last Thursday night. I found him all dried up on the floor. I had one small spot that they could get out next to my HOB filter, and that's where he was, on the floor, under that spot. I found a temporary solution to fix that issue. I don't know if it jumped because of me rearranging the tank and huge water change, or if it was spawning stress from rival males. The tank is almost like it was before, with even more hiding spots. I thought that they might resume finding the same shells that they had before, but, they seem to have found new spots to defend.
I think that I mentioned that during the winter, with water temps dropping into the 50's, that my fish pretty much stopped laying eggs. The amount of daylight might have something to do with this cycle too, as there is exposure to daylight via a nearby window. I didn't see any other spawning activity during that time. I was a bit worried about that.
However, things are beginning to happen again with the blennies. Now that spring in my area has arrived, and tank temps are now around 62F, they've started some spawning activity, but the male blennies are all fired up. Also, when I broke down the tank, I found a shell with eggs in it, so, it's not because of the giant water change. Things were already happening and I just didn't observe it.
In this video, you'll see a male striped blenny (Chasmodes bosquianus) flash and chase a female, trying to lure her to his shell. He is interrupted by a rival male, and a confrontation ensues, with the first male winding up chasing the other one off. Enjoy!
Last week, I showed males starting to get aggressive due to spawning activity, re-establishing their territories, more actively defending oyster shells, sparring with each other, and flashing the female while trying to herd her towards their shells.
This weekend, for the first time since I broke down the tank, I found a male guarding eggs. I wouldn't be surprised if the others are also guarding eggs. I can't tell because they both hang out behind the oyster structures out of sight until I feed them.
I was worried about this particular male before I broke the tank down, because he was the smallest male. He was picked on and chased by the other males, and was the only one that hadn't bred with the female, to my knowledge. Now, he chases away the larger males and defends his shell as brave as any blenny possibly could! And, his shell is right in front of the tank for me to film. Soon, there will be fry swimming around again. Here's a video showing the eggs and other activity around the tank, and also, later in the vid, you can see the female skilletfish stuck to the glass, and can easily see that she's ready to lay eggs too. Hope you enjoy the video, thanks for watching.
I guess my theory was correct, that when temps in my basement went down, breeding activity came to a halt. When they crept back up, it resumed. I suspected that would happen before the winter began. There were eggs in a shell when I broke the tank down, and they've resumed again a few weeks later.
I was thinking about the health of my tank last night. My fish seem to thrive even though it's a small tank. I have 11 fish that are between 3 and 5" long. They're all fat and breeding. When I caught all my fish, they averaged and inch long, and grew to adult size in about 8 months. I've had this tank set up for two years now. I began with 7 striped blennies, 5 skilletfish, and 5 naked gobies. I now have 4 striped blennies, 2 skilletfish, and 4 naked gobies.
Blennies - One adult female blenny jumped out of the tank after my disease outbreak while being treated in QT. The other blenny lost was a male that jumped out of my DT a couple weeks ago. I had one adult male blenny die after going blind about 6 months ago.
Skilletfish - Two adults died of disease during the outbreak, one just went missing this week (it was the one that wasn't eating). I assume it was an internal parasite.
Naked gobies - I lost one a few months ago, unknown, found dead but seemed healthy until then.
I haven't been testing my parameters in months. I got lazy, so last night, I tested for ammonia (zero), nitrite (zero), nitrate (50). I thought that if a fish was missing and died, that the levels would have been elevated, but not, so I was surprised by that.
Ghost anemones - I had three in my DT and thrived until I returned my fish from QT, then they disappeared. I had three in my invert tank, and one is huge and thriving. The others could be alive somewhere in the oyster cultch. They move around a lot and are hard to see, but I haven't seen them in a month or so.
Tunicates - I had them in both tanks. They live about 6 months as adults then die off. Every now and then, I'll find one inside an oyster shell, but haven't seen any in a while now (about three months). There could be some deep in the cultches, but I may have killed them when I pulled the reef apart for repair, because the reef was dry for a few days.
Barnacles - Some died that I collected, but, I still have a few (2 different species) that have lived for over a year now and are doing well. I think that once they survive the early stages of captivity, some adapt and do well if fed properly.
Mussels - Same as barnacles, I've collected and kept about a dozen of them between the two tanks, but most have died off. I still have four alive that seem to be doing well that are a year old now.
Grass Shrimp - I've been able to keep them in the DT with the fish for about 6 months, then they gradually disappear. Some jump out of the tank, and I think the fish killed and ate some too. In my invert tank, they can't get out, and have lived over a year now. I started with about 30, and there are about 20 left, but, they're hard to count because they move around a lot, and hide throughout the reef. So, there could still be 30 in there.
Mud Crabs - I've kept two different species. In my DT, I didn't find any when I pulled out the reef, but, there could still be some in the tank. They hide in the reef and also bury themselves, and I really didn't look for them. Some may have died or crawled away when I pulled the reef out of the tank. I haven't found any on the floor though. In my invert tank, there are 6 mud crabs, at least, that I see now and then.
Bristle worms - They are doing well in both tanks. I see them out all the time in my invert tank, but never come out in the fish tank. I see them burrowing around the glass in the sand though, so they're there. I think that they only come out at night.
Amphipods - The fish ate all of them in the DT, but some are still alive in my invert tank. I see them now and then feeding on algae on the glass. They're nocturnal, and very wary, and hide all the time.
Copepods - I had a bunch that I always saw on the glass, but since I used Prazipro, I haven't seen any lately. It might be because I cleaned the glass, but I used to see a few even then. The glass is starting to get algae again, and is due a cleaning, but I think I'll wait and see if any pods appear. I never see any in the invert tank, because I think that the anemones eat them. I'm sure that some are living in there though.
Snails - I found one lone micro sized snail living in my DT when my fish were in QT. But, I haven't seen it since the fish were returned. The fish may have eaten it.
One possible thing that could have happened is that maybe some of the inverts that died off in my DT when I returned my fish from QT, could have been due to elevated ammonia. I did water changes during that time and tested, and there was some ammonia and nitrite present, prior to the water changes. That could have caused the die off rather than the fish eating them. I don't think it would have affected the grass shrimp, but the anemones and snail could have been victims due to that.
So, the question, in my mind, is, will some of these inverts survive with adult fish or are the fish killing them? Ultimately, I'd like to keep the whole cast of characters, a true biotope. We will see.


The third annual Prayer Walk steps off at 10 a.m. Saturday from the Great Cross on the grounds of the Mission of Nombre de Dios, San Marco Avenue.
Participants will pray for prosperity, good health and well being for families, schools and the community.
They will walk through the various communities in St. Augustine and rejoin for prayer at the City Gate at 1 p.m.
For information, go to www.stjohnsprayerwalk.com or call The Marketplace CPR at 315-2393 or the Christian Ministerial Alliance at 814-1465.


Hello everyone, first time poster here on r/robotics . I am currently in a robotics class in college and as part of a final project we were asked to create MATLAB functions to solve forward and inverse kinematics cases for a 3 link planar manipulator.
For forward kinematics we were given three cases–the theta joint variables for each case, theta 1,2, and 3,–and were asked to find the matrix that described the position and orientation of the end effector with respect to the base frame for each case.
For inverse kinematics, we were given 4 matrices that described the position and orientation of the end effector with respect to the base frame, and were asked to find the joint variables–thetas 1,2, and 3–and return all of the solutions for each case. For this configuration, there are 2 solutions, elbow up and elbow down for the same end effector position.
Before I go on, I will say I did finish the project the non-brute-force-method way. So that means drawing out the configuration by hand and using trigonometric relationships to create governing equations to then create functions in MATLAB to solve the inverse kinematics.
My forward kinematics function will give you the end effector frame w.r.t. the base frame, for both real and symbolic variables, for any configuration, and that's the easy part.
But I had a second thought today. Couldn't you brute force your way to finding the solutions?
Here was my approach, and this is for this specific configuration only. Although, I could change it to brute force it for any configuration, but we'll get in to that in just a second.
First, know what your configuration is, assign your frames, and make a DH table. Input the matrix that describes the position and orientation of the end effector with respect to to the base frame that you want to perform inverse kinematics on.
Second, if you don't have any limiting factors for the joints (such as theta 1 can only move between -30 and 30 degrees and so on…), create 3 nested for-loops (that's one for each link) that each count from 0 to 360, with an itterative resolution of your choice, such as itterate every 0.001 degrees.
Third, plug in the theta values and known link lengths (a values) into the forward kinematics function to obtain the matrix that describes the position and orientation of the end effector with respect to the base frame.
Fourth, compare that matrix with the matrix that you entered into the function. If your boolean return is true, store those theta values in a vector, and check the next combination of theta values. If the boolean returned a false, disregard those theta values.
But that fact is, it works! I ran it with 10 degree intervals for a configuration where I knew what the theta values were for both solutions, and it returned the correct solutions!
Again, this one is only functional for the 3-link planar manipulator in my project. But I'm fairly certain I could expand it to work for any configuration.
I can't seem to find anything about using this type of method to solve inverse kinematics, have any of you heard of or tried this approach? I realize that its computationally exhaustive and inefficient, but…it works. Anyways, I'm just looking to get some feedback, let me know what your ideas/opinions are with an approach like this.


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THON Merchandise Store Opens In The HUB
By Lexi Shimkonis
A project five years in the making, the THON Merchandise store officially opened today as part of the HUB's expansion, allowing THON enthusiasts and newcomers alike the ability to get their hands on THON gear year-round.
Peter and Ann Tombros Offer Donation To Improve Basketball Facilities
By Greg Schlosser
Earlier today, it was announced that Peter and Ann Tombros will donate to a $1.1 million Penn State basketball project in an effort to improve the quality of the basketball facilities.
Leah Still's Cancer Is Officially In Remission
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After more than nine months of procedures, treatments, and a wealth of support and encouragement, today Devon Still has announced the words that everyone has been waiting to hear: Leah's stage four neuroblastoma is officially in remission.
CB Kasey Gaines Leaves Football Team, Frees Up Scholarship For 2015 Season
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Kasey Gaines, a former three-star recruit part of Bill O'Brien's final recruiting class in 2013, is no longer with the Penn State football program.
'Workaholics' Star Adam DeVine Coming To Penn State
By Mike Reisman
Comedian and actor Adam DeVine, star of the Comedy Central show "Workaholics," will visit Penn State's Eisenhower Auditorium on April 2 to perform his stand-up comedy routine as part of the Student Program Association event series.
Barron To Talk Penn State Budget During March 30 Open Forum
In a follow-up from last semester's forum on student affordability and economic impact, Penn State President Eric Barron will host "President's Forum on the Penn State Budget" next Monday, March 30, to discuss the university's budget and appropriation of money. All students are welcome and encouraged to attend.


Absolute Write Water Cooler > The Break Room > Rejection and Dejection > If you are going to reject something, atleast make sense.
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Well, if you have a similar project, doesn't it actually sound right for you? Shouldn't you say something more along the lines of "Too little too late?" I just wish sometimes they would pay attention to what they are saying.
'Doesn't sound quite right for us' is a stock phrase, the sort of thing that's easy to say when you want to reject something for any reason. I think they've added the explanation to try to be helpful, and is an encouraging thing to say about your work.
That's actually a very good sign! If it interests one agent, it should interest another. Maybe the next one won't already have a similar manuscript on board. I wouldn't get depressed over that one at all.
I completely understand how the phrasing of that particular rejection letter would stick in your craw, so to speak, but I think that LloydBrown has a good point -- the poor phrasing shouldn't take away from the fact the agent was suggesting your book has potential.
I sent a follow up to ask if it was very similar, or just similar as in sports related, this is what I got.


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This is the last of my Nanowrimo posts, which I originally wrote for my region as a Municipal Liaison in 2016. From here on out, things will certainly get more interesting.
But the "wasting words" mentality stops a lot of people from ever finishing novels. I've overcome this problem, for the most part. Not easy to do. Let me frame this in an anecdote.
In August of this year, I was working up against a deadline for a novella. I wanted to hit the deadline, because I'd been floundering on the project for too long. So I set a goal of writing a 1000 words a day or more, and turn the story in by August 31.
The novella got sent to my first reader, and I slotted it on the schedule for publication. Total win. But I had another problem.
The story didn't feel right to me, and I couldn't quite put my finger on the problem.
What does this have to do with finishing a novel? I'm getting to that.
Often what happens is I get overly critical of myself. I'll tell myself, hmm that sucked. That could've been better. The end isn't good enough. I've learned to expect this, and I've learned ways to deal with the negativity in my head.
My solution to the critical voice problem is to hand my work to my first reader, and let her decide if the story works or not. I'm too close to my own work, and therefore not a reliable judge of what I've just done. My first reader is a trusted friend who not only reads the genres I write in, but also understands me as a person. And I give her simple instructions: read the story, tell me if you enjoyed or not, and point out my biggest blunders if you can.
Most of the time, she enjoys the stories I write and has few complaints. On this novella, she confirmed what I had suspected. When she told me what didn't work for her, even though her explanation wasn't very technical, a lightbulb went off in my head.
I knew exactly where the problem in the novella was. And it was a deep flaw. From writing this goofy story I learned huge lessons about storytelling and plotting.
But before I could find the flaw, I had to write the ending and give the story to a reader. Before I could learn how to be a better storyteller, I had finish the novella. I'll be carrying these lessons to my future projects.
The most important thing I can teach you about writing is this: you don't know what you don't know.
If you give up, you won't improve as a writer. No words are ever wasted, even the ones that get tossed out during editing.


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Q: Azure Application Gateway backend settings is somehow being overwritten. I changed it from 30 to 900 before and now it is back to 30 In order to make my application specific tasks avoid timeout errors, inside AKS cluster, I have changed the backend settings of my azure application gateway "Request time-out (seconds)" from 30 to 900. However, it reverts back to be 30 when I check it next time. What can we do to make this timeout setting a permanent change.

A: If you are using AGIC, you should control these settings from ingress annotations and not directly change it on application gateway.
You can use:
appgw.ingress.kubernetes.io/request-timeout: "900"

Reference: https://azure.github.io/application-gateway-kubernetes-ingress/annotations/#request-timeout


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Bits Laboratory () è un'azienda sviluppatrice di videogiochi giapponese, fondata nel 1985.

Lista dei videogiochi
 Toilet Kids (1992, PC Engine)
 Kiki KaiKai Dotou Hen (1988, Famicom Disk System)
 Cho Aniki Bakuretsu Ranto-hen (1995, SNES)
 Monstania (1996, SNES)

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Aziende giapponesi di videogiochi


The most popular topic in the blues is the blues. Most blues songs involve having the blues, having had the blues, or expecting the blues; and some are about all three. If a bluesman (or blueswoman) doesn't have the blues, they're probably down. How many blues songs have the words "blue," "blues," or "down" in the title?
When I saw the title "I've Been Down" on Joe Louis Walker's Between a Rock And The Blues, I confused it with Albert King's "Down Don't Bother Me." On the same day I bought Between, I bought Louisiana Red's album with David Maxwell and it has a song called "Been Down So Long."
I mention all of this because I expected another generic blues song with tired imagery and rhymes I could complete in my sleep. I am happy to report I was wrong.
One explanation for the similarity of so many blues songs — particularly the earliest blues generation — is that many of them were written by field hands denied anything approximating actual educational opportunity; lyrics were a small part of the transmission of the emotion. The individuality of the song came from the personal stamp of the performer, and you can't have generic blues when you have authenticity and passion like what Joe Louis Walker puts on display here.
Walker isn't just down in this song, he's angry and frustrated, unwilling to resign himself to permanent downness, even though he's been down this long. His voice conveys the strain of his struggle while his guitar shrieks and howls his defiance.
An expanded vocabulary in the blues wouldn't be unwelcome but Walker takes an identifiable concept and injects it with new life. And it's that spark of life we're all looking for in the songs.


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Special Agent Nole E. Remagen suffered a stroke Monday during Trump's trip to Belgium, the United Kingdom, Scotland and Finland. The 19-year veteran died in Scotland on Tuesday. He was surrounded by immediate family and Secret Service colleagues.
The Trumps departed the White House on Marine One Monday afternoon to attend a ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, just outside Washington, where Remagen's body was due to arrive on Wednesday afternoon. He is survived by a wife and two young children.
This story has been corrected to show that agent died after Trump was back in U.S.


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Recovering Ryanair could have 40 737 Max jets by summer 2021
Budget carrier Ryanair hopes to introduce its first Boeing 737 Max this year and up to 40 of the type ahead of the 2021 summer season.
But the airline warns that the financial year will be "very challenging" after it turned in a first-quarter net loss of €185 million ($217 million), in contrast to the previous profit of €243 million.
The carrier says it expects a "smaller" second-quarter loss, after restarting its flight programme in July, but is forecasting just 60 million passengers for 2020-21, and it remains unable to provide an indication of full-year profit figures.
"It is impossible to predict how long the [coronavirus] pandemic will persist, and a second wave of…cases across Europe in late autumn – when the annual flu season commences – is our biggest fear right now," it says.
Ryanair is hoping that the European Union will avoid additional travel restrictions on intra-EU services, through the implementation of protective countermeasures.
It expects to operate about 40% of its normal July schedule.
Source: Boeing
Ryanair could introduce its first 737 Max, over a year late, by the end of 2020
Most of its fleet was grounded between mid-March and the end of June and the airline transported only 500,000 passengers in the first quarter.
"Our aircraft and crews were kept current by operating skeleton schedules and currency flights which ensured that the group airlines were ready to efficiently resume flights when lockdown restrictions eased," it says.
Ryanair predicts to restore 60% of its schedule in August and 70% in September.
It says it has spent three months seeking measures to trim its cost base further, achieving agreements for "modest" pay cuts which will "hopefully help to avoid widespread job losses".
The Austrian-based Lauda division has been subjected to "deep and painful" measures, it adds, cutting the fleet to 30 aircraft for the summer period this year, cutting staff numbers, and closing its Stuttgart base.
Ryanair says it is discussing reductions in aircraft purchase prices and lease rates for the post-crisis recovery period.
The airline has been awaiting delivery of its first 737 Max for more than a year, after the type was grounded in March 2019.
Boeing has indicated a potential third-quarter return to service, and Ryanair believes it could receive its first Max 200 – a high-density version of the jet – by the end of 2020. "We remain committed supporters of these 'game-changer' aircraft," the carrier states.
FedEx pilots urge airline to suspend operations to Hong Kong
Unionised pilots with FedEx Express are urging the US cargo carrier to suspend operations to Hong Kong, as they object to compulsory hospitalisation and quarantine of flightcrew exposed to Covid-19 as part of stricter measures imposed by the local government to control the virus outbreak. "Recently, three Covid-19-positive asymptomatic ...
Collins will not deliver Max components until second half of 2021, says Raytheon
Collins Aerospace will likely not begin shipping components for Boeing's still-grounded 737 Max until the second half of 2021.
Da Nang outbreak a blow to Vietnam air travel recovery
The appearance of coronavirus cases in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang has resulted in a major airlift effort, and will derail Vietnam's air travel recovery. Vietnam has been a significant success story in dealing with the pandemic, having enjoyed over 100 days without a recorded coronavirus case. This ...


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This beautiful town house has been lovingly restored, so that it now offers a delightful, modern home. The interior is bright and airy, with double glazed windows and light decoration throughout.
Constructed of rendered and painted elevations under a newly clay tiled roof, this property is arranged to provide a large lounge; dining room and a bright kitchen which is fitted with a good range of wall and fllor mounted cabinets that have panelled fronts and doors, with granite effect roll edge work tops and light coloured tiled to the walls – whilst French doors then lead out on to the fully tiled court yard which has distant views of the mountains. Within the rear courtyard there is a gate to the road behind and a block built storage shed.
On the first floor there are three bedrooms – a double and two twins. These, like the accommodation downstairs, are decorated in neutral colours and all of the floors, with the exception of the large shower room and WC have been finished in dark wood laminate flooring.
From the first floor sun terrace/balcony that is accessed from the landing, there are superb views out towards the mountains and as it is covered, this would be the ideal place to while away the hours with a cool glass of Sangria and a good book.
Sempere is a very small village where both English and Spanish people reside. It is quite and away from it all and sits alongside a large reservoir which offers great walks around it. For day-to-day shopping, such as supermarkets etc you will need to drive to Alfarrasi or Montaverva, which are between 5-10 minutes away. The CV-60, which allows access to the Gandia is within a 5 minute drive and then the coast is 30 minutes away. The CV-60 in the other direction leads to the A-7 motorway, which leads to Alicante and Valencia cities and their respective airports, both of which are around an hour's drive away.
Fully tiled floor. Fuse box. Window overlooking the front of the house.
Dining Room. 3.04m x 2.99m.
Understairs storeroom. From the dining room stairs lead to the first floor.
Kitchen. 3.8m x 5.2m narrowing to 2.66m.
Beautifully fitted with a quality range of cream coloured wall and floor units with integral plate rack. Granite effect roll edge work tops. Cooker point, central three light spotlight. Utility area with matching roll edge work top. Plumbing for washing machine/dishwasher.
From the kitchen area French doors lead to the good sized rear courtyard which has matching tiled floor. Wall mounted 'Demrad Compact' gas boiler. Water well with grid top. Storeroom. Back gate.
First floor Landing with laminate effect wood flooring.
Bedroom 1: 3.8m x 2.5m. Window overlooking the covered sun terrace (with herringbone brick floor). Far reaching countryside and mountain views.
Window overlooking the front street.
Bedroom 3: 2.04m x3.26m. Window overlooking the front street.
Shower room: Stylishly present and fully tiled. Comprising a white suite of corner shower unit, corner close coupled WC and pedestal wash basin.


Brittany recently emailed me a poem and while a little sad, it's also lovely.
only more of it, and obesity of grief.
Beautiful, no? And somehow...exactly what I needed to read.
My girlfriend and I were just talking last night about how if you've lost someone close to you you have such a deeper appreciation for life it seems. Definitely interesting to think about. Thanks for sharing!


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Founded in 1946 as a college of foreign languages, Nanzan University has grown into one of the most prestigious universities in the Tokai region.
The addition through the years of new faculties, departments and research centers has not changed the basic purpose and thrust of Nanzan education - to provide an education rooted in Christian values across all fields of knowledge.
The gist of Nanzan University$B!G(Bs education is expressed in the motto common to all Nanzan educational institutions: $B!H(BHominis Dignitati - for the dignity of all human beings.$B!I(B The purpose of all Nanzan education, whether at the University, our high schools, or our primary school, is to provide quality education with a difference, a broad, Christian, international, and academic education with the aim of increasing each person$B!G(Bs awareness of human dignity, not only the dignity of oneself as an individual, but the dignity of all people.


BANGKOK: With the 37th Bangkok International Motor Show opening its gates for the media today, news about launches and showcases are flooding the Internet. In-line with these developments, Toyota Thailand has showcased an important car at their booth, the 2016 Toyota Vios Exclusive. This new Toyota Sedan is basically an all-new trim in the existing Vios variant lineup, which has been loaded with new dashboard layout and enticing features.
On the exteriors, the major difference lies on its front fascia. The 2016 Vios Exclusive gets projector headlamps, a twin-slat chrome grille, front bumper extensions, and a pair of new LED DRLs. Move to the side, and the changes become a bit more subtle. The all-new Vios gets turn indicators integrated on the ORVMs, side skirts, and chrome door handles. Blacked-out B-pillar further adds dynamism to the car's character. The tail gets a prominent chrome line running along the width of the boot, which ends in tastefully designed LED taillights at both ends. The rear bumper too gets a significant design tweak, with the prominent bumper extension housing a pair of reflectors.
Though one can differentiate the Exclusive trim from other pre-existing variants at the first glance, the differentiation becomes a lot more significant after stepping inside the cabin. The most noticeable change are the Gray hydro-graphics adorning the front console and door panels. Seats of the Vios Exclusive are wrapped in synthetic leather that add plushness to the cabin's ambiance. Leather wrapped steering wheel along with piano black inserts further enhance the Vios interior's charisma.
Powering the 2016 Toyota Vios Exclusive will be the same 1.5-litre, 4-cylinder, dual VVT-i engine that was recently introduced across the Vios lineup. This power mill is capable of developing around 106 hp of power and a peak torque of 140 Nm. All this power will be supplied to the front wheels via a sophisticated 7-speed CVT unit, that provides an optimum combination of performance and efficiency.
Toyota Thailand is expecting to enhance its footprint in the Thailand automobile market with the launch of the new Vios. Moreover, the hatchback segment too has been stirred by the Japanese automaker, after it recently unveiled the Toyota Yaris 2016, which features a revised power-train.