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La Clase TR-1700 o simplemente TR-1700 es una serie de submarinos de ataque de propulsión convencional (diésel-eléctrica) construidos por Thyssen Nordseewerke en Alemania Occidental para la Armada Argentina.

Únicamente dos de las seis unidades previstas fueron completadas. Una de ellas, el ARA San Juan, naufragó en 2017 con la pérdida de cuarenta y cuatro marinos.

Historia
Argentina inició a principios de los años setenta un ambicioso programa de reequipamiento naval, que incluía disponer de hasta ocho submarinos. En 1974 ensambló en Tandanor dos submarinos Type 209 (llamados ARA Salta (S-31) y ARA San Luis (S-32)), de origen alemán y contrató, mediante el Programa de Submarinos, avalado por los decretos del PEN N.º768 del 5 de septiembre de 1973, N.º956 del 28 de marzo de 1974 y N.º336 del 14 de febrero de 1978, al astillero Thyssen Nordseewerke para completar una serie de seis submarinos TR-1700 de los cuales cuatro deberían ser construidos íntegramente en Argentina. Para ello construyó el Astillero Ministro Manuel Domecq García, mientras en Alemania se construirían las dos primeras unidades de la serie. El Astillero se situó en la Costanera Sur, y comparte con Tandanor un completo Syncrolift que es utilizado para poder efectuar trabajos sobre los cascos de los buques.

Los vaivenes de la economía y política Argentina afectaron al astillero, que nunca pudo completar las cuatro unidades, a pesar de que la primera de ellas se encuentra con un importante grado de avance. Incluso durante el gobierno de Carlos Saúl Menem se dispuso el cierre de dichas instalaciones y hubo intenciones de transformar el complejo en un centro comercial. En 2004 se reinauguró el Astillero y en sus instalaciones se reparó al submarino Type 209 ARA Salta (S-31). El 17 de agosto de 2007 ingresó a sus gradas, el Submarino TR-1700 ARA San Juan (S-42) para una reparación de media vida, que incluyó el cambio de las placas de los 960 elementos de sus baterías, incluyendo corte de casco y el cambio de su periscopio. La misma finalizó el 6 de febrero de 2014, el 15 de noviembre de 2017 el submarino ARA San Juan (S-42) de la Armada Argentina desapareció con 44 tripulantes a bordo. El 17 de noviembre de 2018 a las 01:04 a. m., la Armada Argentina confirma la aparición del mismo a 900 metros de profundidad y a unos 500 kilómetros de la ciudad de Comodoro Rivadavia.

Características técnicas

Propulsión
Su sistema de propulsión es diésel-eléctrico, con 960 elementos de baterías de plomo-ácido. La energía de estas baterías es provista a un motor eléctrico de propulsión de cuatro armaduras y 6400kW de potencia que transmite su movimiento a la línea de eje y, por consiguiente, a la hélice. Para la carga de baterías cuenta con cuatro motores diésel MTU de 16 cilindros en V y 1200kW de potencia, que mueven a su vez cuatro alternadores de 4000 amperios

Clase

Véase también
 Clase Balao
 Tipo 209
 Anexo:Buques de guerra de Argentina
 Anexo:Submarinos de Argentina

Referencias

Clases de submarinos
Historia de la Ciudad de Mar del Plata
Submarinos de Argentina
Submarinos Diesel

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Perth Airport (PER), Perth
Perth to Lord Howe Island distance (PER to LDH)
Distance between Perth (PER) and Lord Howe Island (LDH)
Flight distance from Perth to Lord Howe Island (Perth Airport – Lord Howe Island Airport) is 2521 miles / 4058 kilometers / 2191 nautical miles. Estimated flight time is 5 hours 16 minutes.
Driving distance from Perth (PER) to Lord Howe Island (LDH) is 2538 miles / 4084 kilometers and travel time by car is about 45 hours 53 minutes.
Perth - Lord Howe Island
Map of flight path and driving directions from Perth to Lord Howe Island.
Shortest flight path between Perth Airport (PER) and Lord Howe Island Airport (LDH).
How far is Lord Howe Island from Perth?
There are several ways to calculate distances between Perth and Lord Howe Island. Here are two common methods:
2521.253 miles
4057.563 kilometers
2190.909 nautical miles
Perth Airport
City: Perth
IATA Code: PER
ICAO Code: YPPH
Coordinates: 31°56′25″S, 115°58′1″E
Lord Howe Island Airport
City: Lord Howe Island
IATA Code: LDH
ICAO Code: YLHI
Coordinates: 31°32′17″S, 159°4′37″E
The time difference between Perth and Lord Howe Island is 3 hours. Lord Howe Island is 3 hours ahead of Perth.
AWST
Estimated CO2 emissions per passenger is 278 kg (612 pounds).
Perth (PER) → Lord Howe Island (LDH).
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Voters will have say on operation of Edison's municpal water and sewer system
KATHY CHANG, Managing Editor
EDISON – Come Sept. 10, the 59,000 registered voters in Edison will have a say whether or not the township should operate its municipal water and sewer system during a special referendum election.
After more than two hours of discussion, which at times got a bit raucous, the Township Council voted 4-3 at a special meeting on July 10 against the proposed ordinance that would have created a municipal utility to operate the township-owned sewer system and township-owned water mains in South Edison.
Council President Alvaro Gomez, Councilman Robert Diehl, Councilman Michael Lombardi and Councilman Leonard Sendelsky voted "no" on the measure putting forward a referendum, and Council Vice President Ajay Patil, Councilman Sam Joshi and Councilman Joe Coyle voted "yes" to create the municipal utility.
In a statement after the vote, Mayor Thomas Lankey said "petition drive organizers worked very hard to collect signature from 4,985 residents who apparently support a voter referendum.
"The Township Council has given the petitioners exactly what they want, a chance for all registered voters to weigh-in on an important decision that will have a significant financial impact on Town Hall, on taxpayers and our water/sewer ratepayers," he said.
The ordinance was the outcome of an organic grassroots petition led by residents Keith Hahn, Anthony DeAmorin, Elizabeth Hahn, Maria Wise and Tom Kenny, with the support of Food and Water Watch, a non-profit organization that champions for healthy food and water for all.
Some 4,958 signatures were presented to Township Clerk Cheryl Russomanno on June 3 in support of a petition that led to the outcome of a public vote. The petition was certified on June 26.
The township had been proposing a $811.3 million, 40-year, proposed public-private partnership to lease the township's sewer system and part of its drinking water system with Suez North America and the Wall Street private equity firm KKR through a series of public hearings starting in March.
The same week the petition was to be certified, Town Hall received complaints from several homeowners about canvassers at their front doors claiming to be from an "Edison Utility Improvement Program" and asking them if they actually signed the referendum petition.
Lankey responded the township does not have an Edison Utility Improvement Program.
"The township did not authorize any door-to-door residential canvass," he said. "We certainly do not want our residents to be bothered at home. The township does not tolerate this type of disturbance.
The mayor said his staff "learned that the Suez/KKR Joint Venture had hired a private firm, without the township's knowledge or consent, to confirm the authenticity of petition signatures."
"We took swift and immediate action to stop these activities," he said.
Since then Lankey announced "in light of recent events [including the petition], my administration is going to explore and consider other options to manage and improve our municipal sewer system and South Edison's water system."
In 1997, Edison entered into a contract with New Jersey American Water to operate and manage its water system. In 2017, the township amended the contract, which ended that year, and extended it for two years so options could be considered, including the benefits of private operation of both the water and sewer systems.
Officials said New Jersey American Water wanted to buy the township's water system, in which officials were not interested due to loss of control. In early June, New Jersey American Water agreed to extend its contract to operate and provide water service to South Edison until Dec. 31.
The township has discussed options to either maintain, lease or sell the operation and maintenance of the water and sewer systems in the township.
Currently, Edison operates its own municipal sewer utility, serving the entire town. The township serves approximately 12,000 water customers and 26,000 sewer customers, both residential and commercial.
Junior Romero, central New Jersey organizer for Food and Water Watch, said the people of Edison want a chance to operate their water system in the public interest, not to be forced into a decades-long privatization deal.
"That's why residents went out into their communities to talk to their neighbors about giving ordinary people a voice in this process," he said. "The council had a chance to take truly groundbreaking action that would have served as a model for other municipalities seeking to restore public control and oversight over their essential resources. They failed to do so, but the thousands of residents who took part in this campaign will turn out to make sure their voices are heard."
The township estimates the special election on Sept. 10 will cost at least $100,000 to pay for poll workers, lease voting machines from Middlesex County, and make polling places available in Edison's 78 election districts.
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Q: Session User management android I have an application where you have to log in like an user with your password.
This application needs to be secure, so it needs to Log Out the user when he doesn´t tocuh the screen during a determinate period of time(let´s say, 5 minutes).
The problem is that, once the user is logged in, he can go through many activities, not only one, and I would like to know if there is a way in Android to know if the user can get Logged out after few minutes.
I was thinking about using the method onInterceptTouchEvent(MotionEvent ev), but the problem is that, ¿do I have to use this method on every activities? ¿there is another easier way to manage it in Android?
Thanks a lot!

A: 1. One way to achieve this would be to get current time (using System.currentTimeMillis()) as the user logs in to the application. Let's save this in a variable t1.
2. Start a service which will monitor/check/execute below things:
2a. whenever user touches any of your activities set the value of t1 to current time.
2b. continuously get the current time (t2) and calculate the time-lapse between t1 and t2 (i.e. t2 - t1). If this time-lapse is equal to or greater than say 5 mins you can call the logOut() function.
Yes, you would have to inform the background service that user is present, from every activity. Although solution provided by Carnal would go a long way in reducing your effort to achieve this.

A: Instead of implementing this on every Activity, you could create one Activity like this:
public class BaseActivity extends Activity

and implement onInterceptTouchEvent in your BaseActivity.
Then from all other Activities you will have to extend the BaseActivity
UPDATE:
You will have to use onTouch if you want to listen for events in whole screen. This requires that in every xml file of your Activity, you will have to give an id for the root view of your xml (Linearlayout, Relativelayout, Framelayout or whatever). So in order to let your BaseActivity get inputs from other Activities you will have to pass your root view to it, like this:
public class MyActivity extends BaseActivity{
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Latest renderings of Kai Tak Sports Park released
(HONG KONG, December 22, 2020) The Kai Tak Sports Park team today released updated renderings highlighting the design progress of the most anticipated sports facility in Hong Kong. When completed, the Populous designed Sports Park will be one of the world's leading multi-purpose sports and entertainment precincts.
"We are excited to be able to share new images of Kai Tak Sports Park, to paint the picture of these world-class facilities for the community as well as for international visitors to Hong Kong," said Richard Breslin, Senior Principal & Director of Populous.
Breslin added "Nothing of the scale or level of integration between community, sports, entertainment and retail facilities designed for Kai Tak Sports Park exists anywhere else in the world."
The iconic location with sweeping harbour views and a rich history has influenced the design that the team is working hard to deliver. Once completed, Kai Tak Sports Park will be a unique destination with world-class facilities and a thriving precinct for the community to enjoy day after day.
As a pioneering Design, Build and Operate project in Hong Kong, the design team has had the opportunity to work closely with the future operator, ASM Global, from an early stage to ensure the best experience for patrons and long-term viability for Kai Tak Sports Park.
These new images of the Main Stadium and Main Plaza, nestled beside the harbour at Kowloon Bay, are a good example of the benefits of having the operator embedded in the design process from the outset.
The canopy above the Main Plaza links the Main Stadium with the Indoor Sports Centre, creating a large outdoor event space with the flexibility in power, technology and services to host a range of temporary events and festivals. The central opening in the canopy roof provides a view to the Main Stadium, helping to create a sense of anticipation as patrons arrive at the heart of the precinct.
Darren Burden, Executive Director of ASM Global noted that "Kai Tak Sports Park will transform the sports landscape in Hong Kong. ASM Global will bring world class sports and entertainment events and deliver an outstanding experience to fans and clients alike. The new renders provide a tantalising glimpse as to what that experience will look and feel like and we can't wait to start delivering events."
About Kai Tak Sports Park:
Kai Tak Sports Park is the place to discover and experience the very best in sports, leisure and entertainment, in the heart of Hong Kong.
The fully integrated Sports Park will be the largest sports infrastructure in Hong Kong. It is located within easy reach from the Greater Bay Area and is designed to bring people together through world class sports and entertainment events.
Kai Tak Sports Park is designed around a Sports Avenue that runs through the precinct for easy navigation and accessibility to all parts of the Sports Park. It will end at a harbourfront promenade with spectacular Victoria Harbour views. A network of elevated walkways will also connect Kai Tak Sports Park with the neighbourhood and transportation hubs. These enhancements will ensure that Kai Tak Sports Park is a state-of-the-art facility for Hong Kong and the world.
The centre piece is a 50,000 seat Main Stadium inspired by Hong Kong's reputation as the "Pearl of the Orient". It features a fully retractable roof, a flexible pitch system and a South Stand window overlooking Victoria Harbour.
Next to the Main Stadium is the Indoor Sports Centre with the flexibility to host community sports and events of up to 10,000 seats. 80% of the seats in the main arena are retractable, allowing the public to use up to 40 badminton courts.
A Public Sports Ground designed for community sports, sports days, training sessions and domestic competitions will also be offered at Kai Tak Sports Park together with 5,000 spectator seats. It will be opened to the public for free on non-event days.
These venues will be complemented with extensive public open spaces for events and leisure together with retail, a health and wellness centre, a bowling alley and harbour front dining spaces.
Kai Tak Sports Park is expected to be completed in 2023.
© Kai Tak Sports Park Limited
Commuting and Accessibility
The project site of the Kai Tak Sports Park takes an area of around 28 hectares in the north apron of the former airport.
Kai Tak Station and Sung Wong Toi Station are within 10 minutes' walk; with Station Square connecting these stations to Kai Tak Sports Park.
Pedestrian walkways
Pedestrian walkways will connect the Kai Tak Sports Park to new developments in To Kwa Wan, Ma Tau Kok, Kowloon City and Kai Tak districts.
Kai Tak Sports Park is located near two public transport interchanges.
Kai Tak Sports Park is located near Kowloon City Ferry Pier.
The precinct provides ample public parking spaces.
*Final designs are subject to change.
A PARK FOR ALL
Sports and Leisure facilities to be enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities, all day, every day.
The public open space will cater to a diverse range of user groups from community and participatory sports, active recreation, and sports events. It is composed of a rich tapestry of activity and education zones, galleries, trails and elements that honor the iconic Kai Tak Airport and heritage.
Sports Avenue
The Sports Avenue runs across the entire precinct from North to South, offering connections from the adjacent Station Square the Kai Tak and Sung Wong Toi MTR Stations, and through to the harbourfront promenade.
Main Plaza
Located in the heartbeat of the precinct, the Main Plaza can be used for community recreation activities or events. The canopy over the Main Plaza is designed to provide abundant shade for visitors during event and crowd dispersal, and underneath the Main Plaza, a sub-podium passageway will offer an additional visitor dispersal route during events.
Event Village
Located east of the Main Stadium, the Event Village offers a mix of lawn and concrete floor surfaces suitable for different sports activities or extension programmes for major events.
South Plaza
Located in the southern part of the precinct, the South Plaza offers an open-air multi-purpose space for a wide range of activities inclusive of trails and activity zones. The South Plaza connects the harbourfront promenade through an outdoor amphitheatre-like terrace.
Neighbourhood Park
The Neighbourhood Park at the northeastern corner of the precinct will be equipped with courts for ball games as well as a cycling track, a jogging trail, a children's playground and a lawn for recreation.
Dining Cove
The Dining Cove which overlooks the Victoria Harbour will offer a diverse range of food and beverage options.
In addition to restaurants, retail shops, and a health and wellness centre, there will be an international-standard bowling centre with 40 lanes suitable for hosting international tournaments.
MULTI-PURPOSE FACILITIES
Major Venues
A wide variety of international standard sports facilities suitable for both professional and amateur athletes.
Main Stadium
A Main Stadium with a fixed seating capacity of 50,000, with the theme "Pearl of the Orient" as its design inspiration, it boasts a retractable roof and flexible pitch surface that can host a wide range of international, regional and local events in any weather.
The facility has been designed to meet the standards of major international events with customisable staging and seating configurations that cater to various events and crowd sizes. It also adopts a flexible pitch system which can be switched between quality natural turf for premier football or rugby events, to other surface for a myriad of sports, entertainment, and community events. The South Stand honours the great Hong Kong Rugby Sevens tradition, with a vast activity platform set against a panoramic glass wall that provides exceptional views toward Victoria Harbour.
Indoor Sports Centre
An Indoor Sports Centre with a seating capacity of up to 10,000, with 80% of the seats retractable or removable that caters for different events. The venue has been designed to meet the standard of major international tournaments including badminton, basketball, gymnastics, tennis and table tennis. The ancillary sports hall offers a seating capacity of up to 500.
With the use of different arena overlay floor surfaces and removable spectator seating system, the venue can be configured for different sports activities, from elite competitions to community use. Together, the main arena and ancillary sports hall can provide the equivalent space of 12 standard basketball courts for community use when all spectator seats are removed.
Public Sports Ground
A Public Sports Ground with a seating capacity of 5,000, suitable for hosting school sports days, athletics meets, local football and rugby matches, as well as team and athlete training sessions. With the exception of major events, the Public Sports Ground will be open daily to the public for jogging and quali-walk free of charge.


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The grand jury alleged many violations of public-access laws. Current commissioners say they now operate by the rules.
The Sunshine Act could have been "a weather forecast" for all Steve D'Emilio knew when he was elected a Haverford Township commissioner in 2003.
He said he never received an orientation or explanation of the law that defines which meetings, debates and votes have to be held in public. What D'Emilio learned about open meetings, he said, he learned on his own.
"Now, I actually count to see if there are five commissioners in the room. I'm paranoid about breaking the Sunshine Act," the Board of Commissioners president said yesterday.
The downside of not knowing, or applying, the law was evident on Thursday, when the Attorney General's Office issued a 34-page grand jury report detailing alleged misconduct by officials in Haverford Township in connection with the development of a 212-acre former state hospital property.
One commissioner, Fred Moran, was charged with bribery in connection with the project.
Many of the grand jury's complaints involved alleged violations of the Sunshine Act, and it issued a lengthy list of recommended changes to toughen public disclosure rules and the penalty for violations. The revisions would affect the entire state, and need the approval of the legislature and governor.
"The grand jury made it very clear in its report and analysis of this situation, the Sunshine Act is in desperate need of enhancement," said Nils Frederiksen, spokesman for the state Attorney General's Office.
Or, as the report said, "Representative democracy is dependent upon our governing bodies' engaging in public deliberation. . . . Government action, unnecessarily hidden from the citizenry, undermines the very foundation of effective democracy."
Gov. Rendell has recently proposed tougher public-access laws, and yesterday his spokesman, Chuck Ardo, said the Haverford investigation "confirms the governor's opinion that something needs to be done quickly about making government more accessible to the people."
The grand jury found that between 2002 and 2004, some Haverford commissioners failed to keep the public and fellow board members informed about the marketing and sale of the Haverford State Hospital site. They held meetings and made decisions in secret for their own political gain, including payments to lawyers, developer selection, and details of a proposed development plan.
Moran, a longtime Republican board member, was charged with bribery, theft by deception, theft by unlawful taking, and obstructing the administration of law. He is accused of asking a developer to pay the town an additional $500,000 to smooth the way for needed zoning changes.
Moran has been suspended from his job as a computer analyst at the Delaware County Courthouse without pay and with the intent to terminate, according to county officials. He is free on $10,000 bail. He remains a township commissioner.
"The Sunshine Act is littered with holes and has no teeth," said Amy B. Ginensky, a lawyer with Pepper Hamilton L.L.P. who also represents The Inquirer. "The grand jury is absolutely right, public bodies need to be seen and heard by the public."
The Sunshine Act requires citizens to have advance notice and the right to attend all meetings of government boards.
There are exceptions that include discussions of employment, discussions on strategy for collective bargaining agreements, consideration of real estate purchases, and discussions of lawsuits.
But the grand jury said there were no effective penalties for violating the law, given that it has a top fine of $100. A revised Sunshine Law should specifically address "intentional misrepresentations" and failure to publicly disclose facts about official business.
The grand jury suggested a toughened act patterned after Pennsylvania's Ethics Act, which forbids officials from using their office for personal financial gain. Penalties can riseup to $10,000 and five years in prison.
State Rep. Greg Vitali (D., Delaware), whose district includes Haverford Township, thinks the law should be reviewed with an "eye toward strengthening it," but said better open-records laws, campaign finance reform, and lobbyist disclosure laws are more of a priority.
Rep. Bryan Lentz (D., Delaware) said that there was a "real appetite" in Harrisburg for improving government and transparency and that he favors more stringent penalties.
Ginensky said boards need to be trained on what is and what is not public.
"This is not a unique situation with things being done out of the public eye," she said, noting that part of the reason it happens is ignorance and part is the "lack of teeth" in the act.
Current Haverford Commissioner Andy Lewis said the board now operates strictly by the rules, and then some.
"We cleaned out our own house," said Lewis, a Republican, who along with other board members contacted the Delaware County District Attorney's Office, which referred it to the state. "We chose not to look the other way and chose to hold them accountable for what they did."
D'Emilio pointed to a citizens' ad hoc committee that was formed to help with a development plan for the hospital property, something he said never would have happened in the past.
"Maybe this township leads the way in improving the way municipalities govern themselves," he said. "I think we are going to be a model now."
The current development plan, Haverford Reserve, would devote 40 acres to residential development and 45 acres for sports fields and public roads.


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Q: Matplotlib.pyplot creates a graph with desired axis labels but no data I am trying to create a graph using arrays populated by variables each of witch has a value but when I run the code the graph shows up with no data (plotted lines). It does however have the correct axis labels. It has 2 y axis however the code is almost identical to what I have used previously that worked for a traditional (x, y) plot. When it failed originally I added x, y limits to see if that would help. Here is what I have:
fig, ax1 = plt.subplots()
color = 'tab:blue'
ax1.plot = (array_Wnet_22, array_homes_22)
ax1.set_xlim((0, 5000))
ax1.set_ylim((0, 4000))
ax1.set_xlabel('Net Power (kW)')
ax1.set_ylabel('Number of homes served', color = color)
ax1.tick_params(axis='y', labelcolor = color)

ax2 = ax1.twinx()
color = 'tab:orange'
ax2.plot = (array_Wnet_22, array_t_22)
ax2.set_xlim((0,5000))
ax2.set_ylim((0,600))
ax2.set_ylabel(' Peak Turbine Temperature (K)', color = color)
ax2.tick_params(axis='y', labelcolor = color)
plt.show()

(edit): this is the current output of the graph

The problem parameters are to create a double axis graph of net power output, how many homes it will serve, and peak temperatures of/ within a steam turbine given mass flow, low and high pressures, and steam quality. The issue I am having is that none of my data is being plotted however I know that each variable within the array has a set value.
(edit#2): Here is what the code looks like that populates my arrays. I know its clunky and big and there's a better way to do it but I'm new to python. I am using pyromat, numpy, and matplot lib together to make it work. Some of the variables are being recalled from a previous problem I can add the code for those as well if need be.
T31_22 = h20.T(p=1723, h=h31_21)
T32_22 = h20.T(p=2223, h=h32_21)
T33_22 = h20.T(p=2723, h=h33_21)
T34_22 = h20.T(p=3223, h=h34_21)
T35_22 = h20.T(p=3723, h=h35_21)
T36_22 = h20.T(p=4223, h=h36_21)
T37_22 = h20.T(p=4723, h=h37_21)
T38_22 = h20.T(p=5000, h=h38_21)

array_t_22 = [T31_22, T32_22, T33_22, T34_22, T35_22, T36_22, T37_22, T38_22]

Wp1_22 = (8.2*(h11_21-h21_21))
Wp2_22 = (8.2*(h12_21-h22_21))
Wp3_22 = (8.2*(h13_21-h23_21))
Wp4_22 = (8.2*(h14_21-h24_21))
Wp5_22 = (8.2*(h15_21-h25_21))
Wp6_22 = (8.2*(h16_21-h26_21))
Wp7_22 = (8.2*(h17_21-h27_21))
Wp8_22 = (8.2*(h18_21-h28_21))

array_Wp = [Wp1_22, Wp2_22, Wp3_22, Wp4_22, Wp5_22, Wp6_22, Wp7_22, Wp8_22]

Wt1_22 = (8.2*(h31_21-h41_21))
Wt2_22 = (8.2*(h32_21-h42_21))
Wt3_22 = (8.2*(h33_21-h43_21))
Wt4_22 = (8.2*(h34_21-h44_21))
Wt5_22 = (8.2*(h35_21-h45_21))
Wt6_22 = (8.2*(h36_21-h46_21))
Wt7_22 = (8.2*(h37_21-h47_21))
Wt8_22 = (8.2*(h38_21-h48_21))

array_Wt = [Wt1_22, Wt2_22, Wt3_22, Wt4_22, Wt5_22, Wt6_22, Wt6_22, Wt7_22, Wt8_22]

Wnet1_22 = Wt1_22 + Wp1_22
Wnet2_22 = Wt2_22 + Wp2_22
Wnet3_22 = Wt3_22 + Wp3_22
Wnet4_22 = Wt4_22 + Wp4_22
Wnet5_22 = Wt5_22 + Wp5_22
Wnet6_22 = Wt6_22 + Wp6_22
Wnet7_22 = Wt7_22 + Wp7_22
Wnet8_22 = Wt8_22 + Wp8_22

array_Wnet_22 = [Wnet1_22, Wnet2_22, Wnet3_22, Wnet4_22,
Wnet5_22, Wnet6_22, Wnet7_22, Wnet8_22]
array_homes_22 = [0, 650, 1300, 1950, 2600, 3250, 3900, 4000]

(edit#3): The graph should look smooth as all numbers are increasing with net power. Again, I am very new to python and not sure what I did wrong here.
(edit#4): Somehow something worked, I'm not sure what but here is the final code and what it ended up looking like. Thank you everyone for your help.
fig, ax1 = plt.subplots()

color = 'tab:blue'
ax1.plot(array_Wnet_22, array_homes_22)
ax1.set_xlabel('Net Power (kW)', color=color)
ax1.set_ylabel('Number of homes served', color = color)
ax1.tick_params(axis='y', labelcolor = color)

ax2 = ax1.twinx()
color = 'tab:orange'
ax2.plot(array_Wnet_22, array_t_22, color = color)
ax2.set_ylabel(' Peak Turbine Temperature (K)', color = color)
ax2.tick_params(axis='y', labelcolor = color)
plt.show()

A: Your main problem is that you are not calling the plot function.
In addition to this, make sure your data is actually in the range that your plot is being limited.
This is the fixed code, with some improvements (pay attention to comments):
import matplotlib.pylab as plt
import numpy as np

np.random.seed(0)  # make this snippet reproducible
# generate synthetic data
array_Wnet_22 = np.arange(11) * 500
# make sure those are in apropiated range, since your code limits them
array_homes_22 = 2500 + np.random.uniform(-1000,1000, size=11)
array_t_22 = 300 + np.random.uniform(-150,150, size=11)

fig, ax1 = plt.subplots()
color = 'tab:blue'

# main change in following line: actually call the plot function
# also add `color=color` to let the result plot with same color as labels
ax1.plot(array_Wnet_22, array_homes_22, color=color)

ax1.set_xlim((0, 5000))
ax1.set_ylim((0, 4000))
ax1.set_xlabel('Net Power (kW)')
ax1.set_ylabel('Number of homes served', color=color)
ax1.tick_params(axis='y', labelcolor=color)

ax2 = ax1.twinx()
color = 'tab:orange'

# again: main change in following line: actually call the plot function
# also add `color=color` to let the result plot with same color as
ax2.plot(array_Wnet_22, array_t_22, color=color)

ax2.set_xlim((0,5000))
ax2.set_ylim((0,600))
ax2.set_ylabel(' Peak Turbine Temperature (K)', color=color)
ax2.tick_params(axis='y', labelcolor=color)
plt.show()

which outputs the following plot:

A: I'm unsure of what I changed exactly other than calling the plots to function which gave me an error message before, but it works now, here is the final code I used.
fig, ax1 = plt.subplots()

color = 'tab:blue'
ax1.plot(array_Wnet_22, array_homes_22)
ax1.set_xlabel('Net Power (kW)', color=color)
ax1.set_ylabel('Number of homes served', color = color)
ax1.tick_params(axis='y', labelcolor = color)

ax2 = ax1.twinx()
color = 'tab:orange'
ax2.plot(array_Wnet_22, array_t_22, color = color)
ax2.set_ylabel(' Peak Turbine Temperature (K)', color = color)
ax2.tick_params(axis='y', labelcolor = color)
plt.show()


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According to the Graphical Research new growth forecast report titled North America Fitness Equipment Market Share is set to Outpace USD 6 billion by 2026. Advanced technology landscape in North America will support the adoption of digitally connected gym equipment. There is a growing trend of connected fitness experience with several companies incorporating digital technologies in machines. Developments in technologies, such as cloud, AI, and wearable technology, will encourage people to adopt modern exercise techniques that enable immersive workout experiences. In October 2019, Nautilus launched a digital platform JRNY that uses AI to offer customized workouts, adjusting automatically with the user.
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NFL Week 9: MVP candidate Deshaun Watson ready to work Wembley magic in final London 2019 game
Deshaun Watson brings his Houston Texans to London to take on the Jacksonville Jaguars at Wembley
Striking timelapse shows Spurs' stadium being converted for NFL game
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It's already time for the last London game of the year, and this is a big one between the Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans.
We're actually really lucky to get this game, because it's two divisional rivals, and teams always go at it in those games.
Houston and Jacksonville do not like each other. It's been that way since I played for the Texans, so these two teams are going to be battling out with a bit of extra edge like they always do.
I'm looking forward to watching MVP candidate Deshaun Watson against this Jacksonville defence. They're fourth in sacks, so Sacksonville is back, and I'm expecting them to get after Watson.
He's going to have to make some magic like he always does, make big plays down the field, and this is the perfect game for him to showcase his skills to the London crowd to get the Texans a win.
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On the other side of the ball, this is the Leonard Fournette show for the Jags. We talk a lot about Gardner Minshew as their new QB, but this offence really runs through Leonard Fournette and his physical running style.
We're going to see him up against a Texans defence who is in the top five in the league at stopping the run, but can they still play that way without their star man JJ Watt?
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Gardner Minshew mania arrives in London as Jacksonville Jaguars face Houston Texans
This is going to be a really tight match-up between two teams who are very similar in terms of their strengths and weaknesses.
I'm expecting a good battle and it's going to be a great way to wrap up the London games for this year.
ONE TO WATCH: Deshaun Watson (Houston Texans)
You're going to be able to watch a guy that's up there as an MVP candidate right here in London. He can will his team to victory and create things out of nothing.
Patriots and Ravens set for defining game
Back in America, the Baltimore Ravens vs the New England Patriots is the big match-up.
We get to see this electric Ravens offence with Lamar Jackson against a Patriots defence that has been lights-out so far.
The Patriots have been incredible on defence, but they've come in for some criticism for the level of opposition they've played. You can only beat what's put in front of you, but they're going to get their biggest test so far against Lamar Jackson.
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The same goes for Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. They've never faced anything like this before, and the Patriots are going to take away what you're good at.
It's like being forced to play left-handed, because you're being forced to do what you're not comfortable with, that's what they do.
This is going to be a defining game for this Patriots defence and Lamar Jackson and his Ravens offence. Both teams are going to get some different things thrown at them, and we'll see how they respond.
Whatever the outcome, this is a game which is going to teach us a lot about both teams moving forwards.
Dolphins-Jets game still matters for players
The Miami Dolphins vs the New York Jets is a classic case of two struggling teams in a match-up that's not going to have any bearing on the play-off picture.
Both sides are already looking to the future, looking to the draft, and just looking to get through this season to be honest.
They've only got one win between them, but as a player, you've got to ignore the situation.
None of that matters for a player, because every time you step out onto the field, that's your resume.
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Your game film is all you've got, so everything you do, no matter what's happening with the team, is going to count against you.
If you want to stay in the league a long time, you can't get a reputation as someone who plays down to the level or only succeeds in certain situations.
For the players, these games are as important as any other when it comes to securing your future in the league, even if they might not look like the most important games.
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Upon finishing Seminary in the States, Martin became a missionary to Spain where he served as a church planter and itinerant preacher. After several years in Spain, Martin returned to the United States to pastor in Texarkana. Now, he and his family have returned as missionaries to Spain in order to pastor, evangelize, and train church leaders in a congregation in Malaga.
I was raised in a religious but non-evangelical home where I was exposed to the Bible from an early age, but I had no clear instruction concerning the gospel of Christ. I cannot remember hearing a clear presentation of the gospel during my childhood years even though I frequently attended church services at the United Methodist Church in our neighborhood with my parents and my only sibling, an older brother. My parents were, humanly speaking, "good" people who gave me love and affection and taught me many valuable lessons for life, but I cannot say that they truly understood or believed the gospel. My mother once told me that she believed the gospel was summed up in the words, "Love your neighbor as yourself," but of course, that is to confuse the law of God with the gospel of Christ. Such a moralistic message leaves sinners without a knowledge of their true spiritual plight or the provision God has made for the redemption of lost sinners through the sacrifice of His Son on Calvary.
I believe that it was during my high school years that I came to a saving knowledge of Christ. When I was fifteen years old, I made some Baptist friends who invited me to a Friday night meeting of the Campus Crusade for Christ organization. I began to attend meetings regularly each Friday night, and that led to my involvement in a small group Bible study where I began to read the Scriptures in earnest. My involvement with Campus Crusade led me to see very clearly from the Scriptures that Jesus Christ was not simply a great religious teacher but the eternal Creator who gave me my very being and who became incarnate to purchase salvation for lost sinners on the cross. I learned about the "Great Trade-off" that took place at Calvary when Christ took upon Himself the guilt and penalty of sinners so that His own personal righteousness might be "put to the account of" all those who believe. These were teachings that I had never heard before because the Methodist churches I had attended as a child were quite liberal theologically and rarely, if ever, mentioned the atoning death of Jesus, His sinless life, redemption through His blood, the need for a new birth, the lost condition of sinful mankind, the certainty of coming judgment, or the need for sinners to repentant and believe in Christ for salvation.
As I was learning these things, I began to come under a great sense of conviction for my sins. I realized that I had very strong, lawless desires in my heart and a desire to live according to the lusts of the flesh. I also began to feel a sense of spiritual impotence to overcome this evil inclination of my nature. Whenever I did something that made me aware of my sinfulness, I would try to ease my sense of guilt by redoubling my efforts at being a "good" or "religious" person in the vain hope that I could attain salvation by my own efforts. I thought inwardly, though I would never have expressed it outwardly at the time, "If only I am good enough and loving enough and sincere enough in my religious activities, then surely that will make up for my evil works, and God will accept me." However, I had no assurance that my best efforts were good enough to please God or wipe out the guilt of my transgressions. I continued for a time in such a sad and miserable state until God, in His mercy, began to shine the truth of the gospel into my heart, showing me that my innate sinfulness, which I could not overcome "by works," was the very thing that qualified me to be saved by Christ, who did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance!
One passage God used to open my eyes to the grace of the gospel was the passage in which Jesus pronounced the sinful woman, who washed His feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair, forgiven. The words, "Your faith has saved you. Go in peace," were used by God to assure me that faith was the sole instrument by which we receive the forgiveness for our sins and enjoy peace with God. I realized that if Jesus could forgive that sinful woman simply through her looking to Him in faith for salvation, He could save me in the same way from all my sins and guilt. By the grace of God, I was enabled to look to Christ and cast the weight of my sin-weary soul on Him. Then, the peace of God and the joy of salvation flooded my soul.
I cannot point to the exact day or hour of my conversion, for it seems that the light of understanding was like a flickering candle flame in those days; it "blazed brightly" at certain moments, then grew dim again. Consequently, I found myself praying repeatedly for Christ to save me before coming to a settled assurance of my interest in Christ. As I continued to seek Him as my only hope, He strengthened the assurance that I was indeed forgiven and that I did truly belong to Him.
It was during my college years that I began to experience more intensified spiritual growth as I matured in my understanding of Christian doctrine. That was owing to several influences that the Lord brought into my life simultaneously. One influence was the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship on my college campus (Trinity University, San Antonio). I found a wealth of good reading materials on the Inter-Varsity book table. Among the books I discovered that made a great impact on my life were Knowing God and Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God by J. I. Packer, The Pilgrim's Progress and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John Bunyan, and various books by Christian devotional writers like A. W. Tozer and Andrew Murray. I also took a course on the Protestant Reformation, which introduced me to the writings of Martin Luther, John Calvin, and the other Reformers.
At the same time that I was attending Inter-Varsity meetings on my college campus, I also began to attend a local Bible church in San Antonio called Believer's Fellowship. The pastor, a man named Joe Sahl, was a convinced Calvinist and a powerful preacher. I had never heard expository preaching in my life before I started to attend Believer's Fellowship, and I was blown away by what I heard. Here was a man who did not just read a passage of Scripture as a prelude to a lifeless, moralistic message; rather, he took a passage of Scripture and opened up its meaning by explaining and applying it, and he did so with strong conviction and fiery zeal. I was frequently overwhelmed in those meetings by a sense of God's presence and by the divine unction with which Joe proclaimed "the whole counsel of God" without compromise. The strongly Calvinistic content of the preaching, which emphasized human depravity and the totally gracious nature of salvation through Christ, was a refreshing antidote to the secular humanism that was bombarding me on the college campus during the week. I felt invigorated and encouraged to realize that my Christian faith could be defended against attacks by rabidly anti-Christian college professors.
My growing interest in the Scripture led me to volunteer to be a small-group Bible study leader for the Inter-Varsity organization. Every week, I invited fellow students to my dorm room to study the Scriptures together. It was my fellow students who first got me thinking about going to seminary. They said, "Martin, it is clear that you really enjoy teaching the Bible to others; and you seem to be gifted at it. Are you thinking about becoming a pastor?" I began to realize that this was indeed the desire of my heart, to make Christ known to others through the teaching and preaching of God's Word. So, by the time I graduated from college, I knew that I wanted to go to seminary to better prepare myself for the ministry of the Word.
It was during my time in college that I came to the conviction that the Lord was preparing me for vocational ministry. I had gone to college originally as a drama major, having been quite active in local theater productions as a child and throughout my teenage years. Even after coming to faith in Christ at age fifteen, I continued to be quite interested in theater and all the arts, and for some time, I was convinced that I would pursue a career in acting.
During my first year in college, however, I realized that I could never be happy in the theater. As a young Christian, I saw that my outlook was changing dramatically. My heart's desires were moving in a different direction than I had ever anticipated, and my values were now completely incompatible with the values of my peers in the college drama department, most of whom were quite liberal in their outlook, sexually promiscuous, and thoroughly pagan in their worldview. I felt like a fish out of water and realized that I could never pursue a career in acting, although I still appreciated and enjoyed drama as an artform.
The Lord was working profound changes in my heart, and one of those changes was to convince me that my real desire was to pursue the preaching of the gospel to others. I had a great longing to reach lost people with the message of salvation in Christ and to edify Christ's sheep with the sound doctrine of Scripture. Thus, I began to think in terms of preparing for post-graduate studies at seminary. I left behind my pursuit of a degree in drama and became an English major, thinking that would lay a good foundation for all the sermon writing I would do in the future.
A year after graduating from college, I enrolled in the Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi in order to pursue a Master of Divinity degree. My goal at that time was to prepare for a pastoral ministry somewhere in the United States. During my first year at seminary, however, my steps took a different direction when I began to study the subject of Christian missions. As I read about the work of missions in the past and became aware of the continuing need for workers on the foreign field, I found in my heart an awakening desire, indeed, an intense longing, to take the gospel to some unreached part of the world in order to preach Christ where He was not known. I remember a specific day when I was praying about this matter, and the Lord opened my eyes to see all the ways that He had prepared me for missionary work. I felt a burning desire to be used of God in this labor. The thought of proclaiming His Word to others in a different culture and in a different tongue filled me with a sense of joy and delight.
During my final year of seminary, I traveled to the Urbana Missions Conference in Urbana, Illinois; it was there that I first became interested in Spain because of some literature that I picked up from one of the mission tables at that conference. I learned that Spain was in great need of evangelical missionaries. Since it had been under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco for forty years, there was very little evangelical work in Spain. The country had only recently become a Constitutional Republic with a greater measure of religious freedom restored to the nation, and an openness to receive religious workers from other countries.
Through a series of steps, I began to prepare for ministry in Spain, and two years after graduating from seminary, that dream became a reality as I traveled to Spain for the first time in 1990 to work as a church-planting missionary. I became thoroughly fluent in the language as I prepared sermons and preached weekly in the church where I served. By the end of that first term, two things were clear to me: First, that I had found my niche as a Spanish missionary and wanted to remain serving in that capacity my whole life; and second, that I was not well matched with the mission with which I had chosen to align myself. It became clear to me that I needed to work with missionaries with whom I felt doctrinally and practically identified, in a mission with a more strongly Reformed doctrinal ethos.
About a year after my arrival in Alcázar, I met the woman who would become my wife, Paola Lorefice, the daughter of EMF missionaries to Italy, Pietro and Teresa Lorefice. We were married in Spain in November of the year 2000 and spent the first two years of our married life in Spain. It was in Spain that our only daughter Melody was born on April 6, 2002, in a hospital just outside Madrid. We fully anticipated remaining in Spain for many years. However, in the Lord´s unsearchable providence, we discovered that He had other plans for our lives—plans that brought us back to the United States, where we lived for the next eleven years.
What redirected our steps back to the United States was the death of my only sibling, my brother Max, in November of 2001. His death impressed on me the need to return to the United States since my parents were in declining health. My father died in 2006, three years after our moving to Texarkana, and just two years ago my mother passed away, which meant that I no longer had any close relative in the United States. Shortly after my mother's death, I was reading an article about Spain by a missionary friend of mine, Luís Cano, and what he said deeply touched me. Luis described the present need of the church in Spain for leadership. He spoke of how over the last decade, the number of workers in Spain had diminished, while the number of pastorless congregations had increased. This was due partly to the fact that many missionaries who planted churches in Spain had been obliged to leave Spain for one reason or another. This had left a vacuum of leadership in the churches because many of these departing leaders had not adequately prepared men to assume leadership responsibility in the churches. Many churches in Spain must depend on an itinerant preaching ministry by various pastors who rotate to care for these congregations. A friend of mine in Barcelona told me that the ratio of available pastors to churches, in his estimate, was about one to ten; one trained pastor for every ten congregations.
The situation is made even more dire by the current economic crisis in Spain. With a national unemployment rate of 25%, and with over 50% of young people in their twenties out of work, few congregations are able to support a full-time pastor/elder. Moreover, relatively few young men appear eager or willing to prepare themselves for future leadership ministry in Spain's churches, a situation which does not bode well for the future of gospel ministry in Spain.
As I read the article by my friend Luís, I felt the Lord stirring in me an awakening concern for the present need of gospel workers in Spain. I decided to consult with some friends overseas to find out what I could about present needs, and three friends independent of one another told me about a small congregation of believers in the city of Málaga, which had been without any pastoral leadership for several years. They have depended on the ministry of itinerant preachers to be fed spiritually. I contacted that church, and eventually, we made a trip to Spain in 2013 to meet those believers and to find out more about the situation in Málaga. While there, I preached to the congregation in Spanish, and my ministry to them was warmly received. They let us know that there was an open door for us to serve in their midst.
During that trip, I also learned of another smaller, Reformed congregation on the outskirts of Málaga that also lacked pastoral oversight. It is located in a satellite community of Málaga called Churriana. Both churches reflect the situation of so many churches in Spain at the present time, which is a lack of leadership. There are simply not enough available workers to meet the existing need. There are not enough pastors to "feed the sheep" with the precious Word of God, nor enough workers involved in evangelistic outreach to take the gospel to Spain's unsaved multitudes. Our Lord´s description of the society in his day fits perfectly the situation in Spain at the present time: "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few" (Matthew 9:37). The need of pastoral care in existing congregations is urgent, and the need for evangelistic outreach to the largely unconverted population of that country is truly desperate.
It is the overwhelming need of gospel workers in Spain that stirred my heart to return to Spain in the summer of 2015 and to undertake a new ministry in that city. My immediate goal is to shepherd the church in Málaga, as well as the other small congregation in Churriana. I also organize evangelistic outreaches into the city of Málaga (the fifth largest city in Spain with a population of some 500,000 inhabitants) and help in training younger men for future leadership ministry.
One of the great needs in Spain at the present time is for men with pastoral experience to train younger men to assume future leadership responsibility in the churches in Spain. This is a very important work, made all the more urgent by the diminishing number of gospel workers in this spiritually dark land. One young man in the church in Málaga named Rafael is very interested in preparing for future leadership ministry, and he has just finished a six-month course of study at EMF´s school of evangelism in Welwyn, England. But Rafael is young and has no pastoral experience. He, and other young men like him, need the help of older men who are fluent in the Spanish language and culture and are equipped to come alongside them in a mentoring role.


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