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using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting;
using ET2017_TuningTool.Model;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace ET2017_TuningTool.Model.Tests
{
    [TestClass()]
    public class BlockFieldModelTests
    {
        /// <summary>
        /// 初期位置コードの分解処理テスト
        /// </summary>
        [TestMethod()]
        public void GetPositionFromCodeTest()
        {
            int black = 10, red = 1, yellow = 3, blue = 8;
            int code = 12008;

            var position = BlockFieldModel.GetPositionFromCode(code);

            Assert.AreEqual(black, position.Black);
            Assert.AreEqual(red, position.Red);
            Assert.AreEqual(yellow, position.Yellow);
            Assert.AreEqual(blue, position.Blue);

            code = 146;
            position = BlockFieldModel.GetPositionFromCode(code);
            black = 1; red = 2; yellow = 3; blue = 4;

            Assert.AreEqual(black, position.Black);
            Assert.AreEqual(red, position.Red);
            Assert.AreEqual(yellow, position.Yellow);
            Assert.AreEqual(blue, position.Blue);

        }

        /// <summary>
        /// 取得したコードを全体の位置コードに変換するメソッドのテスト
        /// </summary>
        [TestMethod()]
        public void AdjustBlockPositionFieldTest()
        {
            var codepos = new Position();
            var redtable = new int[] { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 };

            for (var i = 1; i <= 11; i++)
            {
                codepos.Red = i;
                var decodepos = BlockFieldModel.AdjustBlockPositionField(codepos);
                Assert.AreEqual(redtable[i - 1], decodepos.Red);
            }

            var yellowTable = new int[] { 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 };
            for (var i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
            {
                codepos.Yellow = i;
                var decodepos = BlockFieldModel.AdjustBlockPositionField(codepos);
                Assert.AreEqual(yellowTable[i - 1], decodepos.Yellow);

            }

            var blueTable = new int[] { 0, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14 };
            for (var i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
            {
                codepos.Blue = i;
                var decodepos = BlockFieldModel.AdjustBlockPositionField(codepos);
                Assert.AreEqual(blueTable[i - 1], decodepos.Blue);
            }
        }

        [TestMethod()]
        public void SetBlockPositionTest()
        {
            var BlockField = new BlockFieldModel();

            // 初期配置の整合性を確認
            BlockField.SetBlockPosition(12008, 0);

            Assert.AreEqual(BlockColor.Green, BlockField.PlaceArray[0].OnBlockColor);
            Assert.AreEqual(BlockColor.Red, BlockField.PlaceArray[1].OnBlockColor);
            Assert.AreEqual(BlockColor.Yellow, BlockField.PlaceArray[3].OnBlockColor);
            Assert.AreEqual(BlockColor.Black, BlockField.PlaceArray[9].OnBlockColor);
            Assert.AreEqual(BlockColor.Blue, BlockField.PlaceArray[10].OnBlockColor);
        }
    }
}


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Amelia's Batteries
by Bob Brandenburg
TIGHAR #2286R
This paper describes the development and application of a computer simulation model of the storage batteries on Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Electra, NR16020.
In the days following Earhart's disappearance on July 2, 1937, there were numerous reports of radio signals that could have been sent from the missing aircraft. Analysis1 of those reports concluded that 57 of the signals were credible as having been sent by Earhart. That conclusion implicitly posited a hypothesis that Earhart had enough electrical power to transmit all 57 signals. The plane's engine-driven generator could be run for radio transmission and battery charging, subject to tide constraints2, the amount of fuel remaining on arrival at Niku, and fuel usage rate after arrival. But if there was not enough fuel to send all 57 signals with the generator running, the remaining signals could be sent only if there was sufficient residual battery charge after fuel exhaustion. The present model was developed to provide the battery performance data required for testing the electrical power hypothesis.
Electrical Power Sources and Loads
Primary electrical power on NR16020 was provided by a single engine-driven Eclipse type E-5 generator3, regulated4 to provide a constant 14.25 volts output, and a maximum current load of 50 amps.
Battery power was provided by two Exide type 6-FHM-13 6-cell, 12-volt, 85 ampere-hour (AH), lead-acid storage batteries, one of which was standard5 on all Lockheed 10E aircraft. The second was installed at Earhart's request6, with a switch allowing either battery to be on the main electrical bus.
The radio transmitter, a Western Electric model 13C7, drew six amps from the electrical bus when in standby and 65 amps when transmitting; the radio receiver, a Western Electric model 20B8, drew one amp; typical cockpit instrument lights of the period9 drew one amp. The combined ambient drain was eight amps when the transmitter was in standby, and 67 amps when transmitting. The instrument lighting load is included because 55 of the 57 credible signals were sent at night. Since the generator could provide a maximum of 50 amps, the battery would provide the extra 17 amps required during a transmission. Therefore the battery would lose charge during signal transmission and would receive charge at other times, if the engine was running.
Battery Operating Parameters
Testing the hypothesis required knowing the on-bus battery state of charge (SOC) after charging for a specified time, given the SOC at the start of the charge. Battery charging rate is a function of operating parameters which, with the exception of storage capacity, are not available for the Exide 6-FHM-13. So, the needed parameters — ampere-hour efficiency, internal resistance, and battery voltage gradient — were derived from the results of empirical research on lead-acid batteries of the period, as reported by Vinal10.
Ampere-hour efficiency is the ratio of the energy returned during discharge to the energy used in charging. Battery capacity, the number of ampere-hours that a full battery can provide on discharge, is less than the number of ampere-hours required to fully charge the battery from zero charge, due to energy loss in the electrochemical reaction during charge. Vinal11 reported experimental results showing efficiency in the range of 98% to 100%, noting that those results did not represent ordinary service conditions, but he did not offer values for such conditions. The present model assumes a conservative value of 90%. Sensitivity analysis shows that excursions of several percent do not significantly affect the result.
Internal resistance produces a voltage drop opposing the source voltage during charging, reducing the net voltage across the battery and thus the current flowing into the battery. Tests12 on a 140 AH battery found the average internal cell resistance to be 0.0016 ohm. Therefore the resistance of a 6-cell battery of that capacity would be 6 x 0.0016 = 0.0096 ohm. Internal resistance is inversely proportional to capacity13, so the 6-cell Exide 6-FHM-13 resistance can be estimated by multiplying the test battery resistance by the ratio of the battery capacities:
This result is consistent with the resistance of a modern 85 AH battery, computed using a function presented by Larminie and Lowry14:
where C10 is the steady state current that will discharge the battery in 10 hours. Substituting 8.5 amps, the C10 value for the Exide 6-FHM-13, gives the resistance as
showing that internal resistance has not changed significantly over the years. The present model uses the value obtained in equation 1.
Battery voltage gradient is the ratio of the voltage range to the battery capacity. Cell voltage varies directly with specific gravity SG15, reflecting the percentage of sulfuric acid in the electrolyte. At full charge, all the acid is in solution and SG is maximum. During discharge, acid reacts with the lead battery plates to form lead sulfate, decreasing SG.
Vinal16 reported that the electrolyte SG of aircraft batteries was 1.300, to minimize the risk of electrolyte freezing at altitude. He also stated17 that acid concentrations less than 4.3% were below the operating range of storage batteries. Table 1 (Vinal's table XXXVI), shows that a 4.3% concentration (column 2) is between the values corresponding to SG 1.020 and 1.030. Interpolating gives the corresponding SG value of 1.02833. The present model assumes an SG operating range of 1.030 to 1.300.
Vinal's table also gives two sets of battery cell electromotive force (EMF) values versus specific gravity, obtained by researchers from 1904 to 1940. The values are for the open-circuit case, i.e. when the battery is at rest with neither a load nor a charging source connected. Vinal noted18 that the mean values of the determinations on batteries agreed reasonably well with the mean values calculated from electrode measurements. The values in the last column, the means of all the reported means – and thus the most probable values – are used in the present model.
The overall mean open-circuit single-cell voltage range is 1.878 to 2.144 volts for an SG range of 1.030 to 1.300, hence the corresponding range for a 6-cell battery is 11.268 to 12.864 volts. Rounding to two decimal places gives the range as 11.27 to 12.86 volts, i.e. 1.59 volts, and the Exide 6-FHM-13 gradient is:
(12.86 - 11.27)/85 = 1.59/85 = 0.01871 volt per AH. [Equation 3]
Vinal notes that when a battery is placed on charge, the voltage jumps by about one volt19 due to displacement of acid from the pores of the battery plates. In the case of NR16020, when the on-bus battery received charge it was charging toward the bus voltage of 14.25 volts, but the voltage range would still be 1.59 volts, i.e. 12.66 to 14.25 volts, and the gradient would still be 0.01871 volt per AH.
Model Implementation
The model is implemented as an Excel 2007 spreadsheet, shown in Table 2.
Table 2. Click on the image to open a full-sized PDF.
The five blue cells in the top section allow variation of input parameters for excursion analysis. The values shown are those discussed above.
EMFgrad is the battery voltage gradient, in volts per ampere-hour of charge.
Ebus is the regulated generator voltage on the plane's electrical bus.
AHeff is the ampere-hour efficiency.
Ri is battery internal resistance.
IAmbBus is the ambient electrical bus load (amps) when the transmitter is in standby.
IBmax is 50 minus IambBus, the maximum generator current available for charging the battery.
The model begins with the battery at zero charge and increments charge in one-AH steps. Since the battery will have 85 AH when fully charged, the initial charge deficit is 85 AH.
Charge Deficit, AmpHr: the charge deficit in ampere-hours at each time step.
Charge Deficit, AmpMin: the charge deficit in ampere-minutes at each time step.
Ebatt: battery voltage at each step, = Ebus – EMFgrad x AmpHr
Vdiff: the difference between the bus voltage and the battery voltage.
Chg I = VdiffRi: the charging current, subject to the constraint that Chg I cannot exceed IBmax.
dT (min): time required to add one ampere-hour of charge, including the ampere-hour efficiency factor.
SOC(AH) and SOC%: battery state of charge in ampere-hours and percent, respectively, at each step.
CumT: elapsed time at the end of each ampere-hour step.
The curves in Figure 1 show state of charge (SOC) and charging current (Chg I) versus elapsed time (CumT). The total time to fully charge the battery, starting at zero charge, is 312.82 minutes.
Model Application
At any given time, the battery SOC is at some point on the blue charge curve in Figure 1. When a transmission occurs, the charge taken from the battery moves the SOC to some lower point on the curve. If the generator is running after the transmission ends, the battery receives charge and the SOC increases, until the next transmission begins or until the engine is shut down. This process continues through the entire sequence of 57 signals, with the SOC moving up and down the charge curve.
For example, if the battery SOC is 47 ampere-hours (74.60 minutes in the CumT column) and the battery is allowed to charge for 30 minutes without intervening loss of charge, the SOC will rise to the value corresponding to Cum T = 104.6 minutes, which is intermediate between the values corresponding to SOC 62.0 AH and 63.0 AH. Linear interpolation gives SOC = 62.82 AH at Cum T 104.6 minutes. Linear interpolation is appropriate because the charging curve can, for practical purposes, be considered piecewise linear within each one ampere-hour interval. Accounting for sequential charge gains and losses gives the SOC at every step along the signal transmission timeline.
The method used in developing the Exide 6-FHM-13 storage battery model is applicable to any storage battery for which the requisite operating parameter values are known.
1 Bob Brandenburg and Ric Gillespie, Catalog and Analysis of Radio Signals During The Search for Amelia Earhart in July 1937, Signal Catalog.
2 Bob Brandenburg, "Time and Tide", TIGHAR Tracks Volume 29 #1, February 2013.
3 Equipment, Specifications, and Performance Schedules, Lockheed Model 10E, Electrical Equipment, Form EE1135, Revised 5-1-36, Lockheed Aircraft Company, Burbank, California.
4 Aircraft Engine Generators and Control Boxes, Army Air Forces Technical Order No. 03-5AA-1, Air Service Command, Patterson Field, Fairfield Ohio. February 25, 1942.
6 Lockheed memorandum dated May 21, 1936.
7 Howard K. Morgan, Aircraft Radio and Electrical Equipment (New York: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1939).
8 Morgan.
9 P.C. Sandretto, Principles of Aeronautical Radio Engineering ( New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1942).
10 George Wood Vinal, Storage Batteries; A General Treatise on the Physics and Chemistry of Secondary Batteries and Their Engineering Applications, 3rd Edition (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1940).(Vinal was Chief of the Electrochemistry Section of the National Bureau of Standards.)
11 Vinal, p. 333.
14 James Larminie and John Lowry, Electric Vehicle Technology Explained (New York, John Wiley & Sons, 2003), p. 30.
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Looking For Dangerous Cuisine? Why Not Try Fugu?
By Mark Stock	 April 22, 2020
In the wide, wide world of cuisine, there's not much that can compare to fugu. The traditional Japanese method of preparing pufferfish involves two things humans are apparently always hungry for: A one-of-a-kind dish and a brush with our own mortality.
Within many of the pufferfish's vital organs is enough cyanide to kill you several times over. Its liver alone is estimated to contain enough of the poison to end five adult humans' lives. That's a potent stat, especially given that the fish is about the size of a football. So dangerous is working with fugu liver that the fish's organ was banned entirely in Japan in 1984.
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In the Yamaguchi prefecture of Japan, fugu is legend. Here, there are statues devoted to the spiny sea critter, along with enough mythology to fill up several textbooks. At places like the Karato Market in Shimonoseki, it's been coveted for ages, sold to bidders and ultimately processed in meticulous ways to remove all toxic parts. Chefs in Japan undergo a rigorous three-year program just to be able to work with the potentially lethal fish. It's widely viewed as legend and not fact, but some still believe that the best chefs are able to leave a trace amount of poison in the fish, enough to give the diner numb, slightly tingling lips.
Because it's not taken lightly, you don't hear as much anymore about fugu-related fatalities. But every now and then, you do hear about somebody getting ill or even perishing, typically after preparing at home without the proper training. Whatever it tastes like, it's fair to say that part of fugu's major draw is the danger element. And it's hard not to envision a scene like this one from The Simpsons when it's ordered.
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In Tokyo, fugu is still seen as a wintertime delicacy. The dish fetches several hundred dollars a plate, often prepared as sashimi or chirinabe, a Japanese fish stew of sorts. In Japan and China, locals have been cooking with the fish for more than 2,000 years. It's rumored that ancient Egyptians used pufferfish for a recreational sport something like bowling. The tiger pufferfish is the most poisonous and, historically, also the most revered. You can find the fish and its closest siblings in generally warmer seas all over the planet, from Australia to Hawaii.
It's easy to see why the fish adores Shimonoseki especially. The coastal southwestern part of Japan looks like the Florida Keys of the Far East, with its turquoise waters and island-spanning bridges.
Modern research has equipped the farmers of today to raise poison-free fugu in parts of Japan. For thrill seekers, it's a decidedly less sexy version. But for those looking to avoid any chance of what sounds like an awful way to go (paralyzed muscles while remaining completely conscious), it's a welcome option.
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What does fugu taste like? The reviews are all over the board. Some call the flavor a more delicate version of chicken, or downright uneventful. The consistency is somewhat rubbery. But the platings, never mind the inherent thrill, can be gorgeous. And as with so many exotic dining adventures, it's more about the journey than the first bite.
Prior to the pandemic, a few restaurants outside Japan served the dish, like Restaurant Nippon in New York. Morimoto in Philadelphia and Shiki in Seattle. The full experience, however, seems to involve not only a flirtatious dance with death but a trip to the south of Japan where fugu is king.
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Combine starter, oatmeal, water, and 1 cup whole wheat flour in a large bowl and let sit for about an hour.
Mix in sugar, salt and oil.
Starting with the remaining cup of whole wheat, add in the flour gradually until the dough comes together into a ball.
After the first rise, turn dough out onto a floured surface. Divide in half, cover and let sit for 10 minutes. Form into two loaves and place in greased loaf pans, cover with a towel, and let rise for 1-1 1/2 hours. Preheat oven to 425°F.
Slash dough two or three times with a sharp knife. Bake at 425°F for 30 minutes.
Yum! This bread is going to be really good for sandwiches, and toast, and just to eat.
My mom linked me to this Sourdough Bread recipe a while back, and I tried it. It didn't turn out as well as I would have liked, so I will have to try it again to see if I can make it work. The flavor was great, but it just didn't rise worth anything. That may have been because my starter wasn't quite there yet - but it definitely is now.
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One of Christine Quinn's signature pitches as she runs for New York City mayor is a housing plan that would create 80,000 new low-cost apartments with prices that potentially could stay below-market rate forever.
The City Council speaker's proposal for so-called permanent affordable housing is attracting resistance from many low-cost housing advocates, who say it would make some types of buildings harder to finance and result in fewer units overall. But one of the groups has become the plan's most active supporter. The Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development has lobbied city officials on the issue and produced a series of reports warning of the dangers of losing cheap apartments, laying out the benefits of permanently affordable housing.
The nonprofit group, which has publicly supported permanently affordable housing for several years, requested $100,000 in city funds for each of the past three years to advocate for the issue, and the funds were granted by Ms. Quinn, according to the speaker's office. A contract with the city says the group—a registered lobbyist that has an operating budget of about $1 million—must use the money to "convince the state and city to incorporate permanent affordability" into government housing policy—the idea on which Ms. Quinn is campaigning.
Civic groups said the use of city money to support public advocacy by a lobbyist is unusual. The grant, also known as a member item, was drawn from a pot of less than $17 million in 2012 over which the speaker has sole discretion.
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Barrow MP seeks views on Brexit deadlock
BARROW's independent MP John Woodcock will host a special public meeting to discuss Brexit on Friday – just seven days before the UK is due to leave the European Union.
Mr Woodcock said: "Everyone is understandably deeply frustrated by the deadlock down in parliament and wondering what is going to happen given how much is at stake. Many constituents are getting in touch in droves to have their say on what should be done and I am keen to hear from you face-to-face and explain where I am on this.
"Feelings are running high on both sides and it is only right that you get chance to have your say in person at this critically important time as well as emailing in and contacting me on Facebook. If you think I am wrong, come and tell me why.
"I have liaised with Canon Gary Cregeen at St George's church in Barrow and he has kindly allowed us to use the parish hall for a meeting on Friday. Please come along and express your views."
In the indicative votes this week, Mr Woodcock voted in favour of putting any agreement reached by parliament to the public for a confirmatory vote and to revoke article 50 if it becomes the only way to stop the economic collapse predicted to be triggered if the UK fails to reach any agreement at all before time runs out on 12 April.
But he refused to endorse what are described as 'softer Brexit' options of the UK remaining in the customs union or a single market on the grounds that they would require the country to give up its voice round the table of key EU institutions but still be governed by their laws.
He said: "Two years of negotiation has made clear that all the compromise options left on the table strategically downgrade the UK, perhaps irreversibly. A customs union, the customs union, the common market 2.0 and the prime minister's deal are all just moderately different points along the scale of trading economic harm for the surrender of sovereignty to EU institutions over which we will no longer have any influence.
"I was sceptical for many months about the merits of a second referendum. It would undoubtedly be torrid and I am deeply uncertain what the public would conclude. But I am one of the reluctant converts because the truth is that none of the options being discussed are the Brexit that anyone was told they were voting for in the referendum. A confirmatory vote may be the only way out of the impasse. It may also be the only way for those rejecting a fudge from either side of the argument to have a chance of getting what they want."
Friday's meeting will get underway at 7.30pm and is scheduled to last for an hour and a half.
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Season for Sharing: $2.2 million to help Arizona non-profits
The 2017-18 Season for Sharing campaign raised funds for 153 agencies working to improve education, help at-risk children and families and more.
Season for Sharing: $2.2 million to help Arizona non-profits The 2017-18 Season for Sharing campaign raised funds for 153 agencies working to improve education, help at-risk children and families and more. Check out this story on azcentral.com: http://azc.cc/2FJhVVv
Grace Palmieri, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 1:00 a.m. MT March 15, 2018 | Updated 1:11 p.m. MT May 15, 2018
The annual Season for Sharing campaign benefits people in need across Arizona. Wochit
The holidays are over, but Season for Sharing fundraising continues through Jan. 31. Donate today to help support Arizona charities.(Photo: Getty Images)
The 2017-18 Season for Sharing campaign raised $2.2 million for non-profit agencies around Arizona. Those funds have been awarded to 153 agencies working to improve education, help at-risk children and families, aid victims of domestic violence and assist the elderly.
Since the campaign began in 1993, more than $64 million has been distributed through the annual giving back effort.
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To our readers: Thank you
Season for Sharing awards grants to 153 Arizona non-profits
To celebrate, The Republic has dubbed today Thank You Thursday (#TYTHURS) — a day to recognize the generosity of our donors and the work of the non-profits. Fundraising was conducted from November through January, and non-profits are receiving their checks this month.
The Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust and Gannett Foundation this year provided matching funds of 50 cents on the dollar up to $600,000. And because all administrative and promotional costs are paid for by The Republic/azcentral 100 percent of donations and matching funds go to local charities.
Grant recipients will celebrate today on social media by using the hashtag #TYTHURS. You can follow along on the Season for Sharing Facebook page.
How the donations help these non-profit groups:
Duet Partners in Health and Aging, $15,000 grant: Helping older adults stay independent
Across the Valley, partnerships between volunteers and aging adults are forming through one effort to help people remain independent in their homes.
"These funds are extremely important in helping our services continue moving forward and allowing our neighbors to continue living in their own homes with dignity."
Elizabeth Banta, executive director for Duet: Partners in Health & Aging
Duet: Partners in Health & Aging, a 36-year-old organization, facilitates these partnerships in six cities around the Valley. Last year, they served more than 700 neighbors in Phoenix, Glendale, Peoria, Paradise Valley, Fountain Hills and Scottsdale, with 40,000-plus volunteer hours.
Season for Sharing is a key resource in helping recruit and train volunteers, said executive director Elizabeth Banta. There's a wait list of about 50 neighbors needing assistance, so the grant comes at a crucial time.
"These funds are extremely important in helping our services continue moving forward and allowing our neighbors to continue living in their own homes with dignity," Banta said.
Duet volunteers can choose from a list of services to provide their neighbor, including grocery shopping, home repairs and transporting them back and forth to doctor's appointments.
"(The neighbors) are so grateful that we've afforded them a way to stay in their own homes," said Sue Reckinger, Duet's director of volunteer services, in December 2017. "And I've never worked with a volunteer who hasn't said, 'I get more than I give.'"
Friends of the Phoenix Public Library, $35,000 grant: Keeping kids reading
Phoenix Public Library's Summer Reading Program is a key community tool in closing the achievement gap between low and higher income students.
Without summer learning opportunities like this, low-income children can fall up to three years behind their higher income peers by 5th grade, said Jason Peterson, executive director of Friends of the Phoenix Public Library, a non-profit that's been supporting the library for 41 years by providing important programming.
Your donations to the Season for Sharing campaign benefits local non-profits that help boost education, help older adults, aid victims of domestic violence and support children and families. azcentral.com
Summer reading programs started here in the early 90s but have become a standard throughout the country. It's an incentive based program that keeps kids reading throughout the summer.
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Rather than teachers spending time at the beginning of school year catching students up, this helps them be able to pick up where they left off.
The program is mostly online now. Each kid can set goals to read a certain number of minutes and then earn prizes as they go.
Assistant teacher Teresa Neri works with 4-year-old Amina Valdez during a pre-kindergarten class at Phoenix Day on Dec. 1, 2017. (Photo: Tom Tingle/The Republic)
While the program primarily reaches readers up to age 17, adults can now participate too.
"Without these kind of grants we really couldn't do it," Peterson said. "These are very big programs that cover thousands and thousands of kids. The Season for Sharing grant is important because it helps us promote the program and make sure everyone has the chance to participate, but also ensures the participation with those incentives."
Fresh Start Women's Foundation, $35,000 grant: Helping women escape a cycle of abuse
Your donations to the Season for Sharing campaign benefits local non-profits that aid victims of domestic violence, support children and families, boost education and help older adults. azcentral.com
For more than 25 years, Fresh Start Women's Foundation has been empowering and educating women, particularly those who've been victims of domestic violence.
The non-profit works to rebuild self-esteem and help make future plans so victims don't repeat the cycle. The hope is that every client can begin to live a more stable life.
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In addition to providing one-on-one sessions with social workers, Fresh Start offers group drop-in meetings as a safe space for victims to talk about their experiences and learn more about domestic violence.
"A core of what Fresh Start does is connect women to a community of women and just give them a space to develop some healthy relationships and find ways to rely on those instead of falling back into negative influences," said grants manager Mandy Watkins.
Women generally work with Fresh Start for about a year, but grants like Season for Sharing make it possible for them to take advantage of these services for as long as they need.
"Just to know we have the support of the community behind us, we feel really blessed," Watkins said. "The campaign has allowed us to get the word out there about what we do and to really get those quality services to women in need in the community."
Angels on Patrol, $5,000 grant: Aiding families in crisis situations
Your donations to the Season for Sharing campaign benefits local non-profits that help end homelessness, boost education, aid older adults and victims of domestic violence while supporting children and families. azcentral.com
Angels on Patrol helps families escape crisis situations by providing basic needs like food, shelter, clothing, utility assistance and rental assistance to avoid eviction.
Many of these families are homeless, on the brink of homelessness or are going through a domestic violence situation.
The agency assists police officers when they encounter children or families in crisis. It could be a woman needing to escape an abusive relationship, a mother and son who don't know where their next meal is coming from, or a family that's been evicted from their motel room because they can't afford another night.
Melinda Cadena, program manger, described Angels on Patrol as a "bridge to services" in a story last year.
"We can't do long-term because we're a small organization, but we connect them to other resources," she said.
This is the non-profit's second year receiving a Season for Sharing grant.
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Busk or Bust: Adelaide's Forgotten Street Performers
January 25, 2017 by Walter Marsh
A century before Izera the keyboard guy, the flute-playing 'bikie' or the pipe guy, Adelaide's street corners and thoroughfares hosted a different generation of memorable musical characters.
Whether it's a pair of seven year old violinists squeaking through Silent Night, teenage boys strumming Jason Mraz covers or longtime favourites drawing a crowd, Adelaide has no shortage of buskers. Half a century ago, the streetscape was not so different. Often driven to music by sheer economic circumstance, these forgotten street performers were the bane of traders and authorities, but won the public's favour as they earnt a crust with a tune and a smile.
Percy Lines, date unknown, Photographer: Colin G. West, image courtesy Gay O'Neill
One of the earliest names to win a degree of notoriety and public affection was Patrick 'Patsy' Weldon, who for many years played a hand cranked organ, despite suffering from a limb deformity. By 1915 his instrument was said to have "lost half of its teeth and omitted 50 percentum of the notes", but Weldon defiantly rejected any offers to replace it. "Those notes that won't go are worth more cash than the others that do," he reportedly said. "They cause people to pity me for being too poor to have a new organ, and so they give me more money." While details on Weldon's life are scant, it seems he met a quiet end at Parkside Mental Hospital, where he was last seen by a reporter in 1918.
Perhaps the best known and longest-running busker of the early 20th century however was Percy Lines, who spent 45 years busking in the same King William Street spot. Blinded at 28 in a Broken Hill mining accident, by 1911 Percy had picked up the accordion and taken to the streets to support his wife and children. Lin es was circumspect about the hand life had dealt him. "Blindness is my lot," he once said. "I don't like it but I do try to reconcile myself to it … I have learned to put up with myself, and like it. Life has been worth living after all."
Percy Lines sits with hit cup and accordion
But his path to becoming a beloved local icon wasn't always smooth. Early in his busking career, Lines walked into the offices of the Daily Herald to register his frustration at recent moves to outlaw blind people from earning money on the street, arguing that the pension could not support his large family, nor should he have to forego his financial independence when he could just as easily earn his own money. Something, he said, that Salvation Army bands and other non-blind performers did without issue.
Around the same time, 'Piccolo Pete' captured the public's imagination despite his apparent musical limitations on the tin whistle. "People have often wondered who I am, and what I am," Pete told The Truth in July 1946. Rarely speaking to passers-by, rumours of his true origins flourished. Some speculated that he was a wealthy, educated man with years of musical tuition; others spun tales of a failed love affair that drove him to his tinny vocation.
Piccolo Pete c. June 1935, The News
The true story of the man born Francis Roland Bee was much humbler. "The housing shortage and lack of accommodation struck me like hundreds of others," he said in the same interview, published soon after his arrest for sleeping rough on the grounds of the School of Mines (now part of UniSA's City East campus). "But the Adelaide people have been good enough to have kept me off the dole for the last 15 years. There is no big money in doing the work I do; I work long hours for a few odd shillings, but I like the outdoor life and at 59 years of age I have little to live for," he said. Indeed, 'Pete' would pass away just weeks later, having been hospitalised for the second time that year.
Attempts to reign in street performers were frequent. In October 1931 the City of Adelaide, supported by city traders, passed a bylaw to regulate street performance via a permit system. Complaints continued however, with one Rundle Street trader "enduring" a brass band in front of his building. The new system mandated performers maintain a respectable appearance, move on when asked by a nearby resident and only perform for 15 minutes at a time within a 100 yard radius.
credit: State Library of South Australia, B35394
If required, musicians could also be compelled to audition in an ante-room in the Town Hall. According to The Advertiser, singers were the subject of a blanket ban – they were deemed to make "too much noise". 'Piccolo Pete' was frequently in trouble for playing, fined £1, 2s January 1933 for refusing to move on after being ordered to move by police, despite having a permit. He told the court that the police "regarded street musicians as vagrants, which was wrong."
Despite such attitudes, the presence of street performers continued unabated, becoming an important part of Adelaide's fabric. "People say that we look able-bodied and healthy, but you can bet we would not be doing this if there were other jobs," an anonymous performer told The Mail at the time of the bylaws. "It is hateful. But we have others to think of beside ourselves".
Unearth more hidden stories from the past, present and future of Adelaide's music scene in 'City Of Music', part of the new Adelaide Tours guided walks program.
Detours is presented in partnership with National Trust South Australia and The Adelaide Review
Tags: adelaide history, detours
Profile: Matt Clemow
Beer and Other Sins: Fire-breathing at a Hindley Street shisha Lounge
Why South Australia needs a brand
Medicinal Botanicals: Plants, medicine and a history of Botanic Gardens
RET Review Fuels Debate
The objectivity and subjectivity of wine judging


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Q&A: Dr Mark Gillan (Jaguar Racing).
Dr Mark Gillan, head of vehicle performance at Jaguar Racing, is charged with getting the most out of the team's latest Formula One creation but, as he explains, his role is wider-ranging that just that of an engineer...
You're the head of vehicle performance. How does that fit in with the design and vehicle science departments?
Dr Mark Gillan:
Our role is quite clear - it is to extract the maximum performance possible from the car, as well as from the drivers and the engineers who are working with it. We are responsible for both race and test engineering and also the race strategy over the weekend, which means that, during a grand prix, all the different departments at the track - aerodynamics, IT, systems - report to us. It works very well because everybody knows where they stand and who to report to.
As the team's strategist, how do you think the new rules for 2004 covering engines and qualifying will affect your approach to a race?
In 2003, you never actually knew what other teams' strategies were because fuel loads, for example, were kept secret after qualifying had ended. But the way things have developed for 2004 means it will be even harder to assess where other teams stand. You are now only allowed to use one engine for an entire weekend, and that means some teams may choose to do less running on the Friday and Saturday before qualifying to ensure they don't suffer an engine failure. If you have to change your engine you are now penalised ten places on the starting grid.
The trouble is that you need to do some running before qualifying on Saturday because you have to declare what tyres you are going to use all weekend after the Friday morning test sessions. Without doing some laps, you can't make that decision properly. So the strategy of how you use the engine is going to be key. If you opt to use an engine with a shorter lifespan, but more power, that will dictate that you do less running over the weekend. We are all going to have to find a compromise between preserving engine life and finding a decent set-up.
Part of your responsibility is to make sure the drivers are performing to their maximum. How do you help a rookie driver like Christian Klien adapt to the complex world of F1?
As soon as Christian had joined [the team], and before he ever went near the car on the track, we put him in our race simulator at the factory. In there, we can take a new driver through all the control settings on the steering wheel and ask him to carry out certain tasks [such as what happens if the car stalls] so that, by the time he drives for real, he is familiar with the way the car operates and the layout of the cockpit.
Then, when we took him testing for the first time, we made sure that we came up with a schedule that didn't demand too much of him too early. With a new driver, it is vital that you build him up slowly with short runs and make sure he talks through everything before you send him out again. Even the language of F1 testing is different to anything he had come across before so getting up to speed on all the shorthand and code words that we use can take some time.
What we expect in return from Christian is honesty. Early on, he stopped testing for a while because he was beginning to feel tired, and we appreciate that. We'd much rather a driver tells us when he needs a break than carries on and makes a mistake.
How have your expectations changed for this season?
Last year, we had to ensure that people respected Jaguar again, and I think we did that. The performance of the car was significantly better and we must build on that. It's going to be difficult. Other teams have switched over to Michelin tyres like us, and there are plenty of well-funded outfits out there. If we come out with sixth place in the championship and the knowledge that we have done our best, I'd be delighted.
Q&A: Ben Agathangelou (Jaguar Racing).
Barcelona test - day two: 20 January.


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Stealing Brides In Kyrgyzstan
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Posted onmayo 24, 2020
"When we begin discussing it, women say that if that they had recognized [about legal guidelines on forced marriage] earlier than, they might have taken a special strategy to marriage," stated the chief of the Islamic group. Women and girls in baby and forced marriages are weak to abuse by husbands or in-laws, and the character of bride kidnapping can lead to isolation and make looking for help for home violence all the harder. In 2017, the federal government reported 31 instances of compelled marriage, of which 25 concerned women and 6 concerned children, though it's unclear whether or not these had been boys or girls.
Women In Law Enforcement And Security
In response to the many challenges and threats facing civil society, democracy, and the planet, women and men marched, rallied, and gave speeches around the globe on International Women's Day. Demanding an end to inequality, violence, and environmental degradation, WLP's companions were on the forefront of the mobilizations, amplifying native and regional campaigns for ladies's rights. For some, the day was marred by counter protestors, violence, and arrests.
Kyrgyzstan: Pressure Builds To Protect Women And Girls
Most are members of families who got here from Ukraine during World War II. There are some Jewish households living in Turkmenabat, on the border with Uzbekistan, who are known as Bukharan Jews, referring to the Uzbek city of Bukhara. There have been no synagogues or rabbis, and Jews continue to to migrate to Israel, Russia, and Germany; nevertheless, the Jewish inhabitants remained comparatively fixed. The community gathered for non secular observances but did not decide to register as a religious group; nor have been there reports of harassment. While the 1995 census indicated that ethnic Russians comprised almost 7 % of the population, subsequent emigration to Russia and elsewhere has decreased significantly this proportion.
"The Breath Of The Government On My Back"
In March 2017 the Association of Women within the Security Sector was established in Bishkek. Although prohibited by law, rural inhabitants continue the traditional follow of bride kidnapping (abducting women and girls for pressured marriage). In many primarily rural areas, bride kidnapping, often known as ala kachuu (to take and flee), is an accepted and common means of taking a wife.
Covid-19 Fueling Anti-asian Racism And Xenophobia Worldwide
Additionally, based on HRW, a 2016 Supreme Court examine found that a majority of suspects prosecuted for terrorism and extremism, including beneath Article 299, were ethnic Uzbeks from the south. The law prohibits discrimination against individuals with physical, sensory, mental, and psychological disabilities. The law mandates access to buildings for individuals with disabilities, requires entry to public transportation and parking, authorizes subsidies to make mass media out there to individuals with listening to or imaginative and prescient disabilities, and provides free plots of land for the development of a house. The authorities typically did not ensure proper implementation of the legislation, and discrimination continued. In addition individuals with disabilities typically had issue discovering employment as a result of negative societal attitudes and excessive unemployment among the basic inhabitants.
LGBTI NGOs reported harassment and continuing surveillance of their workers by safety companies. Tensions between ethnic Uzbeks–who comprised almost 15 percent of the population–and ethnic Kyrgyz remained problematic, significantly in Southern Osh Oblast the place ethnic Uzbeks make up almost one-half the population. Discrimination against kyrgyzstan girls ethnic Uzbeks in enterprise and authorities, in addition to harassment and reported arbitrary arrests, illustrated these tensions. Ethnic Uzbeks reported that giant public works and road building tasks in predominantly ethnic Uzbek areas, typically undertaken without public consultation, interfered with neighborhoods and destroyed homes.
Nevertheless, the Turkish state's interpretation of secularism has reportedly resulted in spiritual freedom violations for some of its non-Muslim citizens. Commission on International Religious Freedom report positioned Turkey on its watchlist with countries such as Afghanistan, Cuba, the Russian Federation, and Venezuela. Nevertheless, according to this report, the scenario for Jews in Turkey is best than in different majority Muslim countries. Jews report with the ability to worship freely and their places of worship having the safety of the federal government when required.
When you start dating a girl from Kyrgyzstan, you can be certain you are the only one. Most of them consider a relationship is one thing that's going to finish in a wedding. While interacting with males, they hardly ever intervene in conversation and by no means make a drama in public. These girls are shy when it comes to flirting and will not let you kiss them in public or on the first appointment. According to the most recent statistics, the gender parity index in training is 1.24.
"Domestic violence is about safety of human rights and guaranteeing security and order, which is underneath the Ministry of Internal Affairs," she stated. She raised concerns concerning the ministry's scant human and monetary assets.
Although precise figures weren't known, police acknowledged that typical instances of kids in prostitution concerned young girls from rural areas who relocated to Bishkek for educational opportunities or to flee from an abusive household setting. Once within the capital, they entered the intercourse trade because of monetary need.
Estimates of Hinduism by nation reflects this range of thought and lifestyle. The place of the governmental authorities in direction of Islam is controversial. Men who develop beards more than regular are sometimes considered with suspicion by the authorities, for worry of the propagation of Wahhabism. Despite the federal government's denial of the matter, the Azerbaijani police drew criticism from lawyers for infringing the rights of observant Muslims.
Many people might really feel unhealthy for driving a horse, however the truth is that Kyrgyzstan is the land of horses and even right now, in the rural areas, they are the popular way of transportation. I mean, simply verify the FCO advice and you will note that each one they say is that Kyrgyzstan is a really protected country, and right here you need to take into account that the FCO recommendation is all the time completely biased, that means that tends to see danger where there's not, particularly in the Middle East.
Although it's technically unlawful in Kyrgyzstan, kidnapping of brides does nonetheless occur in the distant areas of the country. As a practice within the country, "kidnapping" wasn't supposed to be as traumatic as it is right now. It began as a method of two individuals who liked one another being able to get married when their households didn't approve. Unfortunately this 'custom' became corrupted over the years by men who decided to kidnap a girl he wanted to marry without her consent. Intrepid Travel is similar to G Adventures with a mean of 12 people on every tour.


So this week was Ella Rose's return to preschool!
That's right, a second year at Peach Blossom preschool taught by Ms. Christine.
I think it's going to be a good year.
This is her on the first day of school last year (her friend Molly's on the right).
And how can't it be a good year, when Ms. Christine makes sure to start it off so right?
Namely, in the form of a family potluck!
Mid-day Tuesday, the families came to the school to meet each other, see the cubby room, drop off supplies, and share a delicious meal.
No pics of the food or family, but this is what the garden looks like.
And the kids get to play in it!
Ella has her same little space in the cubby room as last year, and has the same fawn illustration to accompany her name. Ms. Christine apparently matches up the child to a thing in nature that she feels matches the child's personality and general aura. I think the fawn is a great match -- and some of you may even know that I had wanted to change Ella's name to Fawn in her first week of life. Ha!
A cozy little room and delightful way to start the school morning.
Another point of interest this year is that now that Ella Rose can ride her two-wheeler (16"-wheel variety), she can ride all the way to school and back with me.
And then, coupling all that exercise with an early morning, fun-filled first day at school, and early dinner...both she and William konked at out 7:30 for the evening!!!!!
Dear God, please that pattern lasts!!!!
Until next time, take care and Happy First Week Back to School!!


Will get the current selected record available in the current scope of the application, e.g. when the block is placed underneath an Excel or Web Service block.
callback function The callback method that should be invoked once the record has been retrieved.
If the callback has been specified but isn't a function, or when callback is undefined.
Will get the collection of records available in the current scope of the application, e.g. when the block is placed underneath an Excel or Web Service block.
callback function The callback method that should be invoked once the Array of records is available.
Allows you to retrieve a variable from the application scope.
key String The variable name.
callback function The callback method that should be invoked once the variable value has been retrieved.
If no valid key has been specified.
Allows you to navigate to another block inside your app using the native navigation of the app.
blockIdentifier String The identifier of the building block, this can be the caption, variable name or id.
callback function The callback method that should be invoked once navigation completed.
When no valid block identifier has been specified, or if the block identifier isn't of type String.
value Object The variable value.
Notifications are part of the core features and allow you to interact with the user.
Will show an alert dialog with the specified title and message. Optionally you can specify buttons that should be sown in the dialog.
title String The title that should be shown in the dialog.
message String The message that should be shown in the dialog.
buttons Array An Array of strings containing the buttons.
buttonClickHandler function The callback method that should be invoked once the user hits a button.
If both the title and message are undefined.
Caching can be an important aspect of an app because it allows the user to use the app even if they are offline. The cache exposes a couple of features that allow you to cache data or images without affecting the local storage.
Will download an image using the native image cache and returns the result as a base64 string. Once the image is available you can access it even if the user is offline.
url String The url of the image that should be downloaded.
type String The image type (png or jpg).
onCompleted Function The callback method that should be invoked once the image is available.
onFailed Function The callback method that should be invoked when downloading the image failed.
If no valid image download url has been specified or if the type of the url isn't a String.
If the image type is unsupported - supported image types are png and jpg.
If the onCompleted handler is undefined or isn't a valid function.
Can we create a .json file of the data from the getRecords(callback) function of core.js and save in any location?
If I would want to store a persistent variable, which function should I use instead of 'setVariable()'.


This is a list of Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG cards contained in "ASTRAL PACK FIVE".
By selecting a card, you can see the official rules for that card in more detail.
Once per turn, during your End Phase: You can add 1 "Bujin" monster from your Deck to your hand, then send 1 card from your hand to the Graveyard. You can only control 1 "Bujin Yamato".
Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; apply this effect, depending on this card's current battle position.
●Attack Position: If this card attacks an opponent's monster this turn, it gains 1000 ATK, also the opponent's monster loses 500 ATK, during the Damage Step only.
●Defense Position: Inflict 800 damage to your opponent.
Excavate the top 3 cards of your Deck, add 1 of them to your hand, also, after that, shuffle the rest back into your Deck. You can only activate 1 "Pot of Duality" per turn. You cannot Special Summon during the turn you activate this card.
Once per turn: You can choose a number from 1 to 3, then send that many cards from the top of your Deck to the GY; this card gains 500 ATK for each card sent to the GY this way, until the end of this turn. If this card you control is destroyed and sent to your GY: Draw 1 card.
During the End Phase, if a card(s) was sent from your Deck to the Graveyard by the effect of a "Lightsworn" card this turn: Inflict 500 damage to your opponent, and if you do, gain 500 LP.
This card gains 200 ATK for each "Geargia" monster you control. You can Tribute this card; Special Summon 1 "Geargia" monster from your Deck in Defense Position, except "Geargiarsenal".
When this card is Normal or Special Summoned: You can discard 1 WATER monster to the Graveyard; add 1 Level 3 WATER monster from your Deck to your hand. You can only use this effect of "Mermail Abysspike" once per turn.
If this card is used for an Xyz Summon, you can treat it as a Level 5 monster. An Xyz Monster that was Summoned using this card as an Xyz Material gains this effect.
●If it is Xyz Summoned: Draw 1 card.
During either player's turn, when a card or effect is activated that targets a "Bujin" monster you control (except during the Damage Step): You can banish this card from your Graveyard; negate that effect.
This card can be used to Ritual Summon any 1 Ritual Monster. You must also send Normal Monsters from your Deck to the Graveyard whose total Levels equal the Level of that Ritual Monster.
Send the top 3 cards of your Deck to the Graveyard; add 1 Level 4 or lower "Lightsworn" monster from your Deck to your hand.
Destroy each monster whose ATK is higher than its original ATK.
Target 2 other face-up Spell/Trap Cards and 3 Set Spell/Trap Cards, on the field; destroy them.
A dragon that dwells in the depths of darkness, its vulnerability lies in its poor eyesight.
Once per turn: You can target 1 other Plant-Type monster on the field that has a Level; this card's Level becomes that monster's current Level, until the end of this turn.
(Quick Effect): You can discard this card; you take no effect damage this turn.
FLIP: Target 1 "Lightsworn" monster in your Graveyard; shuffle that target into your Deck, then draw 1 card.
"The Snake Hair" + "Blackland Fire Dragon"
Each player must pay 1000 LP for each monster Normal or Special Summoned from their hand, except for Plant-Type monsters.
This card gains 300 ATK for each Xyz Material attached to a monster you control. Once per turn: You can detach 1 Xyz Material from this card; shuffle your Deck, then excavate the top 5 cards of your Deck, destroy monsters on the field up to the number of "Spellbook" cards excavated, also, after that, place the excavated cards on the top of the Deck in any order.
Target 1 monster your opponent controls; this turn, if you Tribute a monster, you must Tribute that target, as if you controlled it. You cannot conduct your Battle Phase the turn you activate this card.
Target 1 face-up monster on the field; change that target to face-down Defense Position.
Equip only to a "Lightsworn" monster. It gains 700 ATK. When this card is sent from your Deck to the Graveyard: You can target 1 "Lightsworn" monster you control; equip this card to that target.
Each turn, the first face-up Beast, Beast-Warrior, or Plant-Type monster you control that would be destroyed by battle, is not destroyed.
If you have 5 or more "Spellbook" Spell Cards in your Graveyard: Excavate the top 2 cards of your Deck, add any excavated "Spellbook" Spell Cards to your hand, also shuffle the other cards into the Deck. You can only activate 1 "Spellbook Library of the Heliosphere" per turn. You cannot activate any Spell Cards the turn you activate this card, except "Spellbook" Spell Cards.
If you control a Dinosaur-Type monster with 2500 or more ATK: Destroy all cards on the field.


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Products related to "Neem Oil"
Weekly facial and body treatments are essential to maintaining smooth, trouble free skin and nails. Neem bark and oil have been used for millennia in the treatment of skin and nail conditions. Beneficial antioxidants and minerals also promote healthful skin and nails and are available to you in these "Spa quality" therapeutic formulas.
Apply 100% Organix South 's Wild-crafted Neem Oil directly to skin or add a drop or two to your favorite shampoo and body care product for soothing relief. Virgin Neem has a nutty-garlic odor.
Ingredients: 100% pure, cold pressed, wild-crafted and certified organic Neem oil. Neem oil begins to solidify at cool room temperature (72 degrees).
Neem Oil is used in India and other countries as an additive in many pest inhibitors and organic fertilizers. These are used not only to prevent attacks from harmful pests and nematodes, but also enhance crop yield.
Neem Cleansing Bar by Organix South, Lemongrass & Patchouli, 4 oz.
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A mold evaluation will recognize any type of problems around your home which will sustain mold development in addition to pinpointing issue areas for example water damages, smells as well as evident indications of fungal development and so on. The mold inspector should take the assessment outdoors and also inspect the exterior of the house once more for obvious signs of water damages, leakages and also their sources such as busted pipes, damaged gutters, broken brick job and more.
Generally of thumb, these samples can take 3-4 days to refine at the lab but I would certainly anticipate that your mold and mildew inspector make call and offer a spoken record as soon as the results appear adhered to by a created record within a couple of days. An added indicate know, when it involves the report following a mold and mildew inspection an excellent mold and mildew examiner will certainly not just send you a duplicate of the laboratory record. He/She must able to confidently translate the results and also deliver them together with recommendations to settle the issue in plain English!
NB. Should you reserve a mold inspection it is very important that you maintain windows and doors closed as high as feasible for the 12 to 24 hrs before the assessors check out. This will enable that the mold and mildew examination outcomes are precise. It will certainly permit the mold and mildew assessor to discover smells and also air examples will certainly not include excess outdoors air.


Stand your plates on edge and for quick grabbing rather than stacking them inside a cabinet.
Plate Displays packaged as a kit, unassembled, can be cut to length.
Fine sanded and ready for you to finish.
Top and bottom rails are 34-3/8" long.
Beaded dowels are 12" tall.
Top and bottom rails are drilled 2" on center.
Each kit contains 2 pre-drilled top rails, 2 pre-drilled bottom rails, and 32 beaded dowels. Complete front and back.
Maple, Oak, and Cherry plate displays ARE STOCKED and can ship right away.
Hickory is ordered as requested. General lead time on hickory is 10 to 15 business days for us to receive it. Direct ships are possible.


Want to be notified of new releases in ComponentFactory/Krypton?
The Krypton Suite of .NET WinForms controls are now freely available for use in personal or commerical projects.
I developed and sold them from my company Component Factory from 2006 until 2014, when the lack of sales meant selling the controls was no longer viable. So I decided to make them open source so that .NET developers had a good set of free controls to use in their projects. Full source code for all the controls and components is included along with Visual Studio projects and solution files.
Bin directory contains already compiled copies of all the example projects and the Krypton assemblies, so I recommend you start by running the Krypton Explorer application in this directory. It lists all the controls along with an example applications used to show them in operation.
Help directory contains a KryptonHelp.chm file that can be double clicked to open the documentation. I recommend you read this before developing using the Krypton controls.
Select OK and now you have them all in the Toolbox!
Source directory contains the full source code that you can view, modify and directly compile. The Krypton Components sub-directory contains all the actual controls, the other directories are for the myriad example projects.
49 basic controls with full and consistent theming.
Drag and drop just like Visual Studio.
A TabControl but so much better.
Organize the client area of your application.


0930 - 1300 sunny, to 26c : Painted Lady, Red Admiral 2, Peacock 3, Comma 3, Small Tortoiseshell, Purple Hairstreak 6, Holly Blue, Common Blue 4, Ringlet & Hedge Brown abundant, Meadow Brown 10+, Speckled Wood 6, Small & Green-veined & Large Whites abundant, Large Skipper, Small Skipper 8, Essex Skipper 5, Six-spot Burnet 4, Grass Pyralids abundant.
Southern Hawker 2, poss. Migrant Hawker, Brown Hawker 4, Broad-bodied Chaser 2, Common Darter, Common Blue Damselfly 2.
Six-spot Burnets, Peacock and Painted Lady today.


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Along with its rebranding and new image, Viva expects to attain the lowest unit cost per passenger in the world while opening 15 new international routes in three years
· In its commitment to air inclusivity allowing Colombians to fly more while paying less, the airline is announcing that in the next three years it expects to open 15 new international routes.
· As part of its ninth anniversary, the airline presents its new brand image and an invitation to "Fly more", taking advantage of the low prices that always accompany its Low-Cost model.
· Despite the pandemic, Viva consolidated its position as the second largest airline in Colombia and has already launched four new international routes this year, confirming its rapid growth and good times.
· Recently, Viva declared Medellín as its main center of operations and its plan to make the city the new axis of air connections on the continent.
Medellín, May 25 2021. With the commitment to continue promoting air inclusivity in Colombia and as part of its expansion strategy in the market, Viva is launching its renewed brand and accompanying growth plans, including the expected opening of 15 new international routes in the next three years. These will allow Colombians to travel throughout the continent, including new destinations that will connect the country with North America, South America and the Caribbean.
The company, which last year earned the number two market position in the country, has mobilized 2.4 million passengers as a group since the restart of air operations, demonstrating the positive momentum that the airline is currently enjoying, as well as the market's embrace of the Low-Cost model and its attractive prices, which allow many more people to fly. Viva is a firm representative of the model, and now has set the challenging goal of having the lowest unit cost per passenger in the world. Combined with the new international offering, and the doubling of the number of aircraft in its fleet, this will allow Viva to continue offering the best prices for travelers in the region.
But that's not all: while celebrating its ninth anniversary, the airline is unveiling the new brand image that will accompany it as seeks to continue transforming air transportation in the region, always with the highest standards of punctuality in its flights, as well as flying the youngest fleet in Colombia and the third youngest in South America. Starting today, the company will cease to be 'Viva Air', and now be called 'Viva', as a brand that is already positioned in the minds and hearts of Colombians.
"Firm with our promise to promote air inclusion, by allowing Colombians to fly more thanks to the benefits of the Low-Cost model, we announce the launch of our renewed brand that will now be just Viva. This change represents the next step for our airline and the commitment to all Colombians so that they can fly more, and to more destinations, paying less," said Félix Antelo, President & CEO of the group. He also added that: "Nine years ago we were born as an airline determined to transform air transportation in Colombia. Today we can say that thanks to the committed work and trust of millions of Colombians, Viva projects a prominent future, in which we will continue with our expansion plans in the domestic and international markets. Our commitment to invigorate the aviation sector in the country is stronger than ever."
As an example of the above, Viva has added four new international routes to its network this year: Cancun-Medellín, Mexico City-Medellín, Orlando-Medellín and Mexico City-Bogotá. With this launch, Viva doubles its international offer and reveals its expansion plans in which Medellín, its host city, will become America's connections hub.
Thus, as Viva seeks to encourage development and connectivity in the region, Viva recently made Medellín and José María Córdova International Airport in the suburb of Rionegro its official center of operations, making a promise to turn the capital of Antioquia and Colombia into the new axis of the continent's air connections. This provides unique opportunities for connectivity and savings to travelers, by connecting all of Colombia at the best prices.
With the deployment of operations to new national and international destinations this year, the airline will operate 26 routes to 12 domestic destinations and seven international routes to five destinations that include Peru, Mexico and the United States. Furthermore, as part of its commitment to expanding in the domestic and international market, Viva estimates that as a group it will transport approximately 50 million passengers from 2022 to 2025, representing a further step forward to consolidate its reputation as the best Low-Cost airline in the region.
As part of the launch of its new image and with the aim of contributing to the economic reactivation of the country, Viva has announced a super launch promotion for its travelers, with tickets on sale from today on the website of the airline www.vivaair.com with launch prices each way starting at $39,900 CO for domestic routes and as low as $117 USD to international destinations, one way.
With this announcement literally painting its fleet of planes yellow and with tickets at very low prices, Viva reaffirms its commitment to the transformation of air transport in the region and the democratization of the skies in Colombia. By challenging the status quo, Viva is making air travel a more possible reality for all Colombians. This, hand in hand with its Low-Cost model, 95% punctuality in its flights and a wide network of routes, positions Viva as the most efficient and effective option when flying.
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Neath Port Talbot College (NPTC) can trace its roots back to a mining institute which opened its doors in 1931 with only two classrooms. In 1949 it became Neath Technical College, and NPTC was formed in 1999 through the amalgamation of the former Afan and Neath colleges.
Higher Education courses on offer include Interactive Digital Media, Music (Performance and Production) and Counselling Studies.
Tuition fees cost between £4,000-£7,500 per annum.
Students have the option of visiting one of the friendly locals pubs and restaurants in Neath, or hopping on a train and paying a visit to either Cardiff or Swansea for an energetic nightlife experience.
The college is organised across eight campuses and the main site is located at a 10-minute walk from the centre of Neath. Other campuses include Afan campus (Port Talbot), Coleg Pontardawe, Queen Street Centre (Neath), Twyn Yr Hydd House (Port Talbot), Construction Training Centre Maesteg, Building Crafts Training Centre (Llansamlet) and a purpose built sports facility – Llandarcy Campus (Neath).
The college is unable to provide any accommodation of its own, but a room in a shared house or flat can cost anything from £60-£90 per week.
The Learning Resource Centre has branches at the Neath and Afan campuses. Each centre offers library, IT and study facilities. The library currently holds around 40,000 resources and NPTC's electronic libraries provides students with quick access to a further range of academic resources.
Indoor facilities at the Llandarcy Academy of Sport include a multi-purpose indoor training facility, a sport-testing laboratory, a physiotherapy room and a well-equipped fitness suite. Facilities at the Neath campus include a variety of outdoor pitches and courts which are suitable for a whole range of sports.
The Canolfan Gelf Nidum Arts Centre at the Neath campus cost £2 million to build and contains a 170-seat theatre, a cinema screen, high specification lighting and a suspension tower with flying equipment.
Students are advised to check the college's website before travelling.
There is free car parking available for students.
Most campuses are served directly by the First Cymru bus network. There are also shuttle buses which operate from the Neath campus to Afan campus, and from Neath to the Llandarcy Park Academy of Sport.
For specific details on journeys including prices and times, check National Rail's inquiry page or visit the First Great Western website. Students are also advised to take advantage of the 16-25 rail card for cheaper fares across the country.
Overseas students are advised to travel to Cardiff Airport.


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Center map on player token when map first loaded
▲ Score + 160
Currently, when changing maps, it is difficult to find your token unless the GM shift-pings. The players have to change the zoom or pan around to find their characters. I would suggest adding an option to player controlled tokens to automatically center the map on their token when the map first loads. Since this would only happen when the map first loads, it wouldn't be disruptive at other times. Possibly add a GM option to toggle this feature on or off globally or at the map level.
What to do if the player controlls more than one token?
I would say just focus on the first one in the list. I bet in most scenarios, if a player controls more than one token, they would be close together anyway. But, even if they aren't, at least the player will have a frame of reference. They probably know where their other tokens are in relation to each other.
Alan W.
I want this! Just spent half an hour on the wiki trying to figure out an easier way to do this, guessing there isn't one? Please consider it!
Ethan B.
Yes. This really seems like a major oversight. I am currently playing with some people who aren't all that computer savvy, and my god if it isn't a chore to have them find their pieces when on a large map. The simple ability to focus on a selected player would be just wonderful. You could have different ways of doing it. You could click on their portraits in their video/audio windows, or click the characters character sheet (if they're using more than one character). Seems to me there should also be a lock to character option, so the view is always locked to a specific character if the player wants.
Rob H.
I agree this would be a great feature.  The way a GM can select a token to Ctrl-L and see things from their perspective, so also let GM centre either whole game or that PC's view on that point.
Currently, our only solution is to move the entire party to a given position on the screen. It would really help if the player and/or the GM could mark a token a the main token for that player, and the player could in one click or keyboard shortcut center the map on that token. I tend to use teleport to deal with stairs, so that would be a great help. In addition, that would help with the awkward way players have to scroll their maps to follow their tokens.
I haven't found any alternative to deal with that issue. I'm starting a new game with a beginner, and it really makes life difficult on big maps with fog of war.
This would be very useful for play by post type games.  Even if a character controls more than one token- often the party is all together, so centering on any one of them is better than just the pure darkness players are confronted with if they load into a dark map with no token nearby.
Mike W.
+1 or a GM\MAP token that centers the map for everyone on this one specific token. Either way it needs to be an option at the map level for the GM to turn on\off..
Luke W.
It might be better to make this a little more feature rich? How about a button that takes your screen to a token you control (cycles through all tokens you control if you have more than one) that you can use any-time?
Mr. Farlops
Upvoting this, this is especially useful on large maps. It will avoid a lot of player complaints over "where am I" on your large maps.
Wow! Yes, this would be incredible
bruce j.
+1 This would be very useful. Very. Useful.
YES! Really not sure why this isn't a thing already!
This would be very helpful and would make it so much easier on the GM and the players. Why is this still a request option 4 years later?
Should already be in the application.
Janet J.
This still hasn't happened yet?
titipucca1
tech c.
Curtis T.
While having each players view center on their primary character token on page switch, I'd even be happy with a "starting point" marker, where the map focuses everyone's view on initial map load. Generally when switching maps most of the time the whole group is going down the same set of stairs or ladder or whatever, so they end up in the same starting point on the new map anyway. Once a map is in play, the GM can move the "starting point" marker to wherever the party left off. I see this functionality exists in the turn tracker, when switching to the next creature in the turn tracker, the map auto centers and pings the token - though this might have been added with VTT, regardless, the functionality exists, and works great in the turn tracker - just need it for map switch.
elttut
Came here hoping this was fixed by now. This would be an incredibly helpful feature.
MusicManiac
Pauly da Leg-breaka
Okay, I'm not sure I understand the options everyone else is looking to do, but I would like a feature where a Player could click on their token in the Journal page, have this as a menu item, and center on that character.  This would be awesome for both Players and GMs, and using the Journal links allows Players running multiple characters (regardless of race or animal) to switch between them readily. Alright, Roll 20... are you working to figure this out, yet?  Pretty please with a cherry on top.
Jens F.
Could this be expanded into two options? Either it centers on players token (default) or it centers on a spot that the GM determines.
Benjamin G.
+1 for pre determined point on load.
Jens F. said: Could this be expanded into two options? Either it centers on players token (default) or it centers on a spot that the GM determines. +1 to this
Scott P.
Grimtina
I'm not in favor for this to be the default. Many times,the set up I have has players see their resource tokens first, which I place in the upper left so they will find it immediately. It would be a problem if everyone would just immediately center on their token, just to have to scroll back to the resources to then not find the token again.
Jesters T.


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Episode #21: Community Activist Murdered in El Salvador
Scott McWhinnie
Maria Olaya
Valentina Narajno
Labour Show
lab-2009-11-13.mp3
Radio Victoria is a local FM community radio station that transmits from the town of Victoria in the northern hills of El Salvador. The station is run primarily by youth who live in the nearby communities. Radio Victoria was started in 1993 to provide residents in this poor, rural area with their own means of communication. Many of the communities in the area are isolated and have no access to telephone services, mail or newspaper delivery.
Oscar Beltran is the station's co-ordinator and vice president of ARPAS, the Association of Radio and Participative Programs of El Salvador. He spoke with the Labour Show team about Marcello Rivera, a community environmental leader who disappeared in June 2009 and was later found murdered. Rivera was an outspoken critic of Pacific Rim, a Canadian mining concern active in the area.
This interview is in Spanish with English translation by Valentina Naranjo.
http://upsidedownworld.org/main/content/view/1700/68/
http://www.radiovictoria.org/ingles.htm
CRISIS GLOBAL SOUTH
canadian mining


This polyline datalayer depicts all interstate highways in the state of Georgia. ARC documentation states that: "This Theme was built from a dataset provided as a part of the 1996 National Transportation Atlas Database produced by the U.S. DOT's Bureau of Transportation Statistics."


Our incredible photographers, husband and wife duo Ameris, sent us a little teaser of our wedding photos. Eeps!
I can barely contain my excitement! They are just so beautiful and exactly what we had hoped for. And this is just a fraction of what's to come!
I know a few of you have been asking (more than once) to see some wedding pics, so I won't make you wait any longer.
Here is a sneak peek of our wedding on August 18th 2012.
These. Are. Gorgeous. My fave is the 4th one down from the top – amazingness!
Those photos are beautifullll! And you look amazing!
Oh my goodness, these are GORGEOUS!!!! I love everything about these! You look beautiful, and the photography is amazing!
Absolutely gorgeous! I love the close up shot of the two of you. Congrats…you look so happy:)!
Holy lovely! I love when couples look so happy in their wedding photos. I've noticed there's this trend to NOT smile, which seems…well. Less happy. You're gorgeous and so are these photos!


The Ninja Mega Kitchen System BL770 is a complete kitchen appliance manufactured by SharkNinja.
What would cause my blender to not register its power supply?
Where to purchase parts for base.
A helpful troubleshooting guide for the Ninja Mega Kitchen System BL770 can be found in the link below.
A complete kitchen system created by SharkNinja Operating LLC. This device provides professional performance and power with a 72oz. blender pitcher, 8 cup food processor and 2 16oz. Nutri Ninja® Cups. The kitchen system has 1500 watts/2 HP. All parts are BPA free and dishwasher safe. With all of these items included, the Ninja Mega Kitchen System helps increase counter space in your kitchen by condensing multiple products into just one!
XL 72oz. Total Crushing® Blender.
8 Cup Food Processor Bowl with Feed Chute Lid.
Reversible Slicing/Shredding Disc & Grating Disc.
2 16oz. Nutri Ninja® Cups.
There are no current recalls on this model.


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TWO FOR YOU. NEW TO THE JQ.
True fact: The only member of the I Choose Birmingham team to attempt Dry January worked his last day for the company yesterday, January 31st. That's how we deal with that sort of behaviour around here, Ben. And as we finally fall into February's arms and all and any talk of that potty month are immediately banned for the next 8016 blissful hours, two new, independent and very excellent looking bars open their doors, tomorrow. And they're only 0.4 miles from one another. Would you like to know more?
Above 1000 Trades — one of Brum's finest examples of a neighbourhood pub —your new favourite neighbourhood cocktail bar welcomes you. The Vanguard is a project of immense love from Samuel Boulton, a cocktail consultant who previously launched the bar at Harvey Nichols, has partnered with plenty of global brands, and most importantly, done a stint at *sob* Cheval Blanc *sob*. As well as looking utterly quaff-worthy, his creations (from £7) use all sorts of lost or neglected spirits, like Armagnacs and specially-infused vermouths. The French Method (below right, £7.50), is an Absinthe classic, given a Vanguard twist with the team's clarified strawberry water, but served in the traditional way — think sugar cubes and cutesy teaspoons from a trip Sam paid to Absinthe in Provence.
If you're in the market for learning about new things in 2018 — and continuing with Sam's devotion to "lovely, forgotten drinks" — the stripped-back Vanguard is also a meadery. So what Sam broadly describes as "honeyed beer" (honey is fermented with water, hops and spices) is a subject you're about to get expert on — they've got seven meads on the opening menu alone. For beer drinkers, Sam suggests the "not too sweet" dry-hopped Gosnell's (£5.50) as an entry point, for its crispness and mellowness.
The city's foremost whisky club has lived something of a nomadic life, with tastings run out of everywhere from The Wellington to The Church to The Plough. Until tomorrow, when it permanently opens a bar and tasting room to call its own, next to the Museum of the Jewellery Quarter (they've got that same smart green door). The team, headed up by Jacob Clarke — our very favourite Speakeasy alumnus — have already got over 150 drops to choose from, but expect that to quickly increase to 300. And each month, there'll be a focus on a particular brand — for example, Jameson will be looking after March in honour of St Patrick's Day.
You totally don't have to be a member to get into the bar. Though if you are, you'll immediately get 10% off all drinks, including the six rotating cocktail-like concoctions that we're not allowed to call cocktails (ask for the "Whisky and..." selection). On the opening menu, try Red Red Rose (above, £7.50), which matches a Glen Grant single malt with Chambord, pomegranate soda, and raspberries for the "and".
More than ever, we live in a world where we see what an algorithm wants us to see — with points of view and individual stories lost to what clickbaity headers and well-positioned cameras show us. But rather than just talking about it, British dancer Aakash Odedra has developed #JeSuis — a choreographic piece about instability and displacement in the wake of attacks, like Paris in 2015. The performance is led by a group of Turkish dancers Aakash met in Istanbul, with each dancer telling about the struggles of trying to be who you are in places where you are told to be someone else. On Feb 15 and 16 at The Patrick Centre, tickets are £15, with talks including a pre-show-er featuring photographers who travelled with Syrian asylum seekers when the migration crisis was at its most severe.
The Chef Director of Londinium's Duck & Waffle is bringing his supper club to Harvey Nichols for one evetide. If you're not free on March 23, this is terrible news. For everyone else, Dan Doherty is whipping up slow-cooked lamb shoulder with hot hummus and chickpeas, and we're also hearing a lot about a pistachio and orange blossom cake with rose chantilly. It's £50 to get a spot at Sprout, which includes a cocktail, snacks, mains, a pud and some biccies for the journey home, which'll be a lot quicker than if you were getting back from his London gaff.
The new movie from Paul Thomas Anderson — Daniel Day-Lewis's last, apparently — is elegant, high-end stuff. Appropriately so, given it's about an haute couture fashion designer in the Fifties — but it's no frocks 'n' frills frippery. Another one of Anderson's power games as films (see There Will Be Blood or The Master), with Day-Lewis's brilliantly named Reynolds Woodcock falling for gawky waitress Vicky Krieps. We're all set for a familiar narrative of the narcissistic genius burning a relationship as fuel for his art, but that's not quite how things play out, and the wrestling match for authority between the pair is, in its way, just as intense as There Will Be Blood. It's a quiet intensity, to be sure — but it does creep up on you; this is one you'll think about for weeks. Oh, and Day-Lewis is great, of course — but mad props to the relative unknown Krieps for matching him every step of the way.
The RSC's production of Twelfth Night is being live streamed to Everyman on February 14. Nab yourself a seat for £21. Though you may well need two.
Comptoir Libanais is opening in Grand Central on March 26. Think Middle Easterny shakshuka to wake you up, flatbreads by day and chargrilled chicken wings by night.
In the same month, Revolución de Cuba opens on Temple Street. Think rum. Lots and lots of rum.
Poetry Jam's fifth birthday special is taking place at Birmingham Town Hall a week today. Tickets are free but you will need to book.
A psychedelic funhouse is in Brum on March 3, and it's got nout to do with Pat Sharp. Entry to what's described as an immersive, theatrical and kaleidoscopic from £18.99.
Jools Holland's doing his thing at the Symphony Hall on December 5 & 6. Tickets go on sale at 10am tomorrow.
"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of a snakebite. Furthermore, always carry a small snake."


Rih catches Drake's performance with Nicki at Summer Jam.
Nicki Minaj invited Drake to join her on stage at Summer Jam on Sunday night, and Rihanna was there to catch the performance live.
After wrapping her set with Drake and Wayne, Nicki posted an Instagram photo of herself smiling with Rihanna backstage, captioned, "The BADDEST."
Although Nicki recently admitted that Rih is her ideal woman because she's the "best fondler ever," it's fair to suspect that the Roc Nation singer was actually there to hang with Drizzy. She's been missing from Instagram for weeks now, which means that she didn't share any photos of her own, but Nicki put the word out.
She and Drake were spotted canoodling all over Europe recently, and Drake even seemed to have some words for Rihanna on "Days in the East."