So… here we are. On the West Coast.
After a solid 5 hours drive I pulled over at the Haast Visitor centre to have a quick chat to Jac Amey from DOC. It turned out to be a nice and relaxed one-and-a-half hour cuppa and catch-up that was quite welcome. One bit of important news was that the Tawaki double counts at Jackson Head had to be postponed by a couple of days and were only going to happen tomorrow and the day after. And that she was one searcher short for the second day. Of course I volunteered. Will give me an excellent chance to have a look at our study site, the types of nests we will be working with and the state of the breeding season.
The postponement also means, that I have to find something to do for the Japanese film crew I will be supervising during their Tawaki documentary project over the next few weeks. They actually wanted to get into it from tomorrow onwards. But if we don't know the location of Tawaki nests, there is no point carrying tons of camera equipment around the Heads.
I actually met the team for the first time when I headed over to the Heartland Hotel which will be our base (courtesy of NHK) the next three weeks. Ida-san the director approached me as I entered the restaurant to greet me, the production assistant and interpreter Sam in tow. The whole team of four are a really nice bunch and we had a fruitful discussion about what to do the next few days, now that starting at Jackson Head the next day was out of the question.
So… tomorrow we will head up North to Moeraki River where they hope to film penguins swimming up the water way to their nests. I had long email conversations about this topic in the preceeding weeks. I had never heard of penguins swimming up that river, but Ida-san had photographic proof. Although I gotta say, that the river on the photos seems more like a creek to me. But, well, we'll see what Moeraki River looks like.


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Julián Castro just became the 10th candidate to qualify for the next Democratic debate
Former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julián Castro on Tuesday became the 10th Democratic presidential candidate to qualify for the September Democratic primary debate in Houston. Castro had been close to qualifying for a while, after crossing the donor threshold and polling at 2 percent in three DNC-approved polls, but a new CNN poll, in which the former mayor of San Antonio hit 2 percent for the fourth time, put him over the line.
Thank you to our growing number of supporters across the country! https://t.co/1mBNTQs7d8
— Julián Castro (@JulianCastro) August 20, 2019
Castro joins fellow Texan former Rep. Beto O'Rourke (D-Texas), former Vice President Joe Biden, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, entrepreneur Andrew Yang, and Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) on the stage in his home state.
The qualification means that the debate scheduled for Sept. 12 is at capacity, as the DNC is still capping the number of candidates on one stage at 10. So, if any other candidates — such as billionaire Tom Steyer or Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) — pick up the 2-percent polling numbers they need within the next eight days, there will have to be a second night of debates on Sept. 13. Tim O'Donnell


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Francis' First "Red Dawn" – Four Months Early, Pope Calls Consistory
As another precedent-shattering move comes to pass in the new Franciscan Rule, suffice it to say, "Eminences, start your engines...."
Even if the timing of consistories for the creation of new cardinals has long been one of the Vatican's worst-kept secrets – last time excepted – never has definitive word come like this: confirming a Tuesday report by the French agency iMedia, this morning the VatiSpox Fr Federico Lombardi SJ announced that, indeed, Papa Bergoglio intends to dole out his first batch of red hats on the feast of the Chair of Peter, 22 February 2014. (This adds further heft to a joke that's been making the rounds lately: in a 180 from past practice, these days, "If you want to know a pontifical secret, just ask the Pope – he'll tell you himself.")
What's more, Lombardi detailed a full plate of events surrounding the first gathering of the Pope's "Senate" since the Conclave. Bookended by the third meeting of Francis' "Gang of Eight" and another summit of the (newly-)all-important Synod Council, Francis will maintain the tradition begun by his predecessor and hold a consultation day with the entire College on the eve of the Consistory, its focus reportedly centered on the reform of the Curia.
Far from the usual means of announcement – a declaration by the Pope himself either at the Wednesday Audience or Sunday Angelus a month before the Consistory date – the date was given this far in advance to allow the nearly 200 red-hats to work the week into their schedules. Though the speculation of prior Consistory dates had largely panned out, far-flung cardinals have long complained that the lack of a formal confirmation until weeks before had the effect of holding their calendars hostage.
By late February, at least 14 voting seats will be available to return the College to its statutory maximum of 120 electors younger than 80. However, as both John Paul II and B16 did at points – Wojtyla having famously ballooned the electorate to 135 in the same 2001 Consistory at which Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elevated – the Pope is perfectly free to dispense from the limit, which was established by Paul VI in 1975.
As for the composition of the new intake, it's fair to say that – with a "Pope of Surprises" who's shown little reluctance about setting his own course – all bets are off. Still, it would be little shock if the first non-European Pope in a millennium started into an effort to significantly shift the geographic makeup of the College, which has habitually seen his home-continent (which contains half the world's Catholics) and much of the global church's emerging standard-bearers significantly underrepresented.
For example, despite boasting the bulk of 1.2 billion Catholics worldwide, Latin Americans only comprised 12 percent of the electors at the March Conclave, its 15 voting cardinals just one more than the North American bloc from a church less than one fifth of its southern neighbor's size. Among other instances of the stark imbalances, among the most glaring is a stack-up between the US church and the Philippines – though both comprise a roughly equal number of members in the range of 70 million, the Stateside voters outnumbered the islands' Cardinal Chito Tagle 11-1 in the Sistine Chapel this spring.
While another 13 seats come open between the February date and April 2015, several ops have indicated that one means Francis intends to use to achieve a geographic reboot is a significant curtailing of the red hats given to Vatican officials, along with a gradual drop of the "cardinalatial sees" in Europe. Taken together, the Curial and Continent blocs accounted for 67 of the 111 electors in March, or precisely three-fifths of the Conclave, just 11 shy of the requisite two-thirds margin needed to produce a Pope.
Among the few bankable names on the coming biglietto – at least, at this point – are but three Curial officials: the new Secretary of State, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, the CDF chief Gerhard Ludwig Müller, and Francis' hand-picked head of the newly-amplified Synod, Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri.
On the residential front, meanwhile, Bergoglio's successor as archbishop of Buenos Aires, Mario Poli, especially after his election dropped Argentina's number of resident voters to zero. Yet even more notably, as part of an expected increase of the College's Eastern presence, both protocol and personal ties would see a seat going to the head of the largest Oriental body in communion with Rome – the major-archbishop of the 6 million-member Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, Sviatoslav Shevchuk, who at 43 would become the youngest cardinal elevated in the last century.
Lastly, as was noted at the February 2011 Consistory, with that round's elevation of the archbishop of New York, the US posts traditionally given a red hat either had a sitting cardinal-archbishop, or his predecessor who remained of electoral age – a scenario which (barring deaths) will remain the case until April 2015. In other words, these shores' quota under the customary understanding is more than satisfied for the foreseeable future.
Accordingly, the case then remains in play now – should Francis seek to further expand the Stateside bloc (already, after the Italians, the second-largest electoral group), a Pope of limited familiarity with the domestic scene will have to choose from one of two possibilities: ramp up the elevation of archbishops whose predecessors still have a vote... or continue Papa Ratzinger's project of reflecting a drastically changed Stateside fold by conferring the scarlet on places it's never gone before.
All in all, it bears watching... and as the timetable of today's announcement blew away the norm – for the sake of i Gammarelli and the arrangement of the pilgrimages – don't be surprised one bit to see the designates' names emerge well before January.
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Benghazi will launch the first women's volleyball tournament 9-16 February at Suleiman Al-Durrat Sports Complex in the city.
The tournament's first edition will hold the name of Salwa Bugaighis, a Libyan lawyer and democracy activist whi was killed by unknown gunmen in Benghazi on 25 June 2014.
The competition will include 10 teams from civil society organizations divided into two groups.
The fifty-year old activist was fighting for a democratic society, along with her husband, Issam, and her sister Iman. She was at the forefront of the uprising against Muammar Qaddafi. Later, she sat on the hastily declared transitional council that sought to bring order to the country after Qaddafi's fall.


On behalf of The Law Firm of Ledbetter & Titsworth, P.A. posted in Car Accidents on Thursday, August 11, 2016.
When you or a loved one is involved in an auto accident resulting in death or injury, obtaining and understanding the accident report is extremely important. North Carolina auto accidents with property damage in excess of $1000, involving fatality or injury, or police seizure of a vehicle or vehicles require a North Carolina crash report be filled out by the responding officer. This report will include generalized information about the crash such as driver and owner information and road conditions, but may also include specialized information about contributing causes to the accident. If alcohol or drugs, reckless operation of a vehicle, texting while driving or other forms of distracted driving were involved in the accident, the crash report will list these and any other circumstances that may have contributed and were discovered in the investigation. Facts like these will be critical in determining who was at fault for the accident and proving your auto accident case.
On behalf of The Law Firm of Ledbetter & Titsworth, P.A. posted in Car Accidents on Thursday, March 5, 2015.
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Should your teen be driving with passengers? Are they putting themselves and their passengers at risk?May 2012 AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety published a study finding that, per mile driven,16 and 17-year-old drivers are more likely to be killed in a crash when they have young passengers in their vehicle than when they are driving alone. Their risk was found to increase by an estimated 44% when one passenger under age 21 (and no older passengers) was present in the teen driver's vehicle, approximately double when two passengers under age 21 were present, and more than quadruple when three or more passengers under age 21 were present. The effect of young passengers on the risk of involvement in any police-reported crash appeared to follow a similar pattern; however, increases in the risk of any police-reported crash were smaller and were not estimated precisely enough to even approach statistical significance. It is clear that discouraging teen drivers from carrying passengers and/or discouraging teenagers from riding with young inexperienced drivers would benefit the safety of teenagers both as drivers and as passengers. If your teen has been involved in an accident and you have questions, please contact us for us for a free consultation.
On behalf of The Law Firm of Ledbetter & Titsworth, P.A. posted in Car Accidents on Tuesday, January 21, 2014.
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Information about an important new law effecting penalties for passing a stopped school bus.
On behalf of The Law Firm of Ledbetter & Titsworth, P.A. posted in Car Accidents on Friday, November 15, 2013.
Below is some great information about what you and your teen driver can do to lower the risk of being involved in auto accident.


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Students cannot register until they have cleared all medical, academic, and financial obligations. Registration is not complete until all tuition and fees have been paid by the payment deadline.
Late Registration begins the first day of the semester or session. The last date on which students may register in any term is indicated in the UH Hilo Academic Calendar. There is a fee for late registration.
UH Hilo students may enroll concurrently at any UH institution. All prerequisites and course requirements apply. Tuition and fees will be assessed for any enrollments at other UH institutions. UH Hilo students who wish to also enroll for courses through UH Mānoa or UH West Oʻahu must be admitted to the appropriate university. When applying to UH Mānoa or UH West Oʻahu, students should indicate that they wish that campus to be secondary and that UH Hilo is to remain their primary or "home institution".
It is important for UH Hilo students to be aware that they have a "home institution," which is the site of their degree programs, their financial aid awards, and the majority of their coursework. To ensure active UH Hilo student status, students must enroll in at least one class at UH Hilo each Fall or Spring semester. Students who do not maintain active UH Hilo status may be subject to readmission and a change in graduation requirements.
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To earn a bachelor's degree at UH Hilo, a minimum of 30 credits must be earned at UH Hilo.
College of Arts & Sciences, College of Business & Economics, and Ka Haka ʻUla O Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language students must earn a minimum of 25% of the credits required for their major, minor, and/or certificate at UH Hilo.
Students are discouraged from repeating courses elsewhere that they have already taken at UH Hilo, since the grade at another institution (including within the UH system) will NOT replace the grade earned at UH Hilo. Students should also be sure that they have not already received transfer credit for a course in which they plan to register at UH Hilo, since additional credit will not be awarded. Students can find their transfer evaluation by going to the STAR Degree Audit website. The detailed course evaluations for each campus attended are available in the "transcript" tab in STAR for students.
Upon completion of a course taken outside of the University of Hawaiʻi system, students must have a copy of their official transcript sent to the UH Hilo Admissions Office. Students taking courses within the UH System will have their course work automatically transferred back to UH Hilo within a few weeks after the grading period is complete. If the courses do not appear in your STAR reports, contact the UH Hilo Admissions Office.


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Q: Tkinter Collision and Dragging I am trying to make a tkinter game where the player takes 'steps', (where each step has a start x & y, and an end x & y) and there are walls, which I have stored in an array with start and end points. I would like to make it so that when ever a player collides or crosses a wall, they are instead dragged along the wall and don't go through it.
Any help would be appreciated.

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A laptop charger is considered to be the most valuable accessory of a laptop for without it the battery's energy cannot be replenished. Most of the time we forget to take care for our chargers and just place them in any surface. Often times this action can result to its destruction of the laptop charger if not initially addressed. You may think that it is just alright to simply ignore caring for our chargers but as owners of one, it is our responsibility.
Proper use and care of the laptop charger prolongs its lifespan so that replacements and repairs are not necessary. One of the most common problems with laptop use is that the charger's cord becomes frayed. Since laptops are conveniently brought just about anywhere, the constant plugging and unplugging wears out the cord. Mishandling it, such as leaving it twisted or tugging and jiggling it from the base unit can produce the same result. This is also true for folding or rolling the cord incorrectly.
Other than being careful with the cord, wear and tear should be brought to the attention of a capable repair center. Neglecting this can lead to other damage, which may also affect the laptop's battery performance or create a fire hazard.
As with laptops, which are typically placed inside laptop bags or padded envelopes, cords should be stored properly when not in use. The charger must never be exposed to extreme temperatures, such as those on a car's dashboard in the middle of summer or dead of winter. It must not become wet or be exposed to corrosive chemicals, as these elements can severely damage the charger.
When not in use, laptop chargers should be kept in the same bag as the laptop. If there isn't enough space, putting the charger in a convenient cloth pouch or a small box is also an option.
When traveling with your laptop frequently, it's a good idea to get a second Replacement adapter to avoid wear and tear. Having a back-up charger may also save you the headache of buying one in an unfamiliar place should your first charger adapter become damaged.
Battery chargers may vary according to the model and brand that it serves. Let us take for example the laptop charger for the Hp Compaq line of products. Their laptops have specific laptop charger for a specific model and battery type.
Buying a new charger for laptop are often time consuming because you have to look for it in local computer shops if you do not have access in the internet or do not have a money account on line to pay them. So before consider buying why don't you consider taking care of it?
A) Make sure you use a charger that is specifically for your laptop. If you use a laptop charger that is not for you, the possibilities of your laptop is damaged is high.
E) When using the charger for a long time, place it in a surface which allows it cool down or in surface where circulation is possible and that does not trap heat like the fabric, cushions, leather sofa, your thighs, blankets and more. This is to avoid over-heat.
F) Wire from the charger should be avoided contact with sharp objects such as torn corner table. If the charger wire is torn, do not use anymore. Do not wrap the wire charger with 'tape' or other material. Electric shock and damage to the laptop can occur. Change and buy a new charger.
The light on the AC adapter flickers? Is this normal?
When the AC adapter is plugged into a laptop the power supply the light should remain constant. If the light flickers, the plug may not be inserted properly into the power supply, the power lead may be faulty or the AC adapter may be faulty.
Does the AC adapter get hot? Does it need ventilation?
Yes, the AC adapter will get hot whilst it is plugged in and being used. Any device that gets hot will require ventilation. Good ventilation prolongs the life of the device and avoids any accidental damage.
Overcharging creates excessive heat which can cause the battery plates within the cells to buckle and shed their active material. Permanent capacity loss will result.
Why won't the battery charge in the external charger that charges the original battery that came with my notebook computer?
If the battery will charge in the notebook computer but will not charge in the external charger, then the battery and the charger are not compatible. If the battery does not charge in the external charger, or in the notebook, then it may be defective.
I have several different notebooks; Can I charge the different batteries with one charger?
Yes, universal chargers are now available which come supplied with different tips. By using these tips different laptops can be connected to the one charger.
My new AC adapter doesn't power my laptop or charge my battery, what's wrong?
Make sure that the AC Adapter is plugged in properly and that all the other leads are also plugged in properly. If the light comes on but it still doesn't charge, then the cable connected to the laptop may be faulty or the socket on the laptop may be faulty. If the light doesn't come on then the power lead may be faulty, or the fuse in the plug may be faulty or the power socket on the wall may not be working.
Insert the battery into the battery compartment in your laptop computer, plug in the AC adapter/Charger and keep it plugged in for about 4 - 8 hours.
Make sure the battery is inserted properly into the laptop and the AC adapter/charger is connected and plugged in properly. Make sure the battery is the correct battery for your laptop computer. Make sure the wall socket where the AC adapter/Charger is plugged into is working properly. If the battery is still not charging it may be faulty and will need replacing.
I need an AC adapter for my laptop, how do I find out the one I need?
Check your notebook computer's manual. You can calculate the wattage of your notebook computer by multiplying Volts (V) with Amps (A). This information is found on the label on the underside of the notebook computer. By carrying out this calculation the wattage of the adapter can be matched. Where the notebook's wattage is less than 70W, either a 70W or 90W AC adapter can be used. Where the notebook's wattage is more than 70W but less than 90W a 90W AC adapter should be used.
Can I use my AC adapter in another country?
Yes, but you will need to check a few details.
Firstly, the voltage, AC supply in the country you are going to use it should be within the range of 110 - 240V.
Secondly, the plug type (which is inserted into the wall socket), as long as the voltage is within range, plug adapters can be used to fit the different types of wall sockets.


Have you read our winter issue yet? In it I wrote an article about top meeting trends. That article was inspired by a session I attended at MPI WEC last year in Atlantic City. It's funny how things end up coming full circle, because I've been asked to serve on a panel in a few weeks about trends in the meetings and events industry.


At its meeting September 25, the Board of Directors of the Walking Horse Trainers Association unanimously voted to affirm the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration as the only event to crown World Grand Champion Walking Horses. This tradition and honor has been ongoing for 68 years and the Trainers Association is proud to be part of such a grand event.
The WHTA fully supports the Celebration and looks forward to crowning the next generation of World Champions culminating in the crowning of the next World Grand Champion at the Celebration on September 1, 2007.


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Gravitricity secures £912k BEIS grant to develop UK multi-weight energy store
Posted on 24 Feb 2022 by The Manufacturer
Gravitricity has secured a £912,000 grant from the Department of Business Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) to develop plans for a multi-weight energy storage system – to be built on a brownfield site in the UK.
The Edinburgh-based energy storage specialists will work alongside control and simulation experts Industrial Systems and Control (ISC), winch specialists Huisman and Careys Civil Engineering to deliver the front-end engineering design (FEED) for a 4MWh, multi-weight system using a custom-built shaft.
They will also work closely with a site partner to secure the planning consents required to develop and build their multi-weight gravity energy store at a grid-connected site in northern England.
The Gravitricity system stores electricity by raising and lowering heavy weights in a shaft. Analysts at Imperial College predict the firm's patented multi-weight concept will offer long duration energy storage at a lower levelised cost than alternative technologies, including lithium ion batteries.
The Gravitricity system stores electricity by raising and lowering heavy weights in a shaft.Image courtesy of Gravitricity
The feasibility project will complete in late 2022 and will provide the information required to commence build of the full-scale commercial prototype multi-weight gravity energy store immediately thereafter, subject to securing planning permission and the necessary funds.
The £1.5m feasibility project follows the success of the company's 250kW demonstrator, which was commissioned and operated in Leith, Edinburgh, during summer last year.
The company is also advancing plans to build a full-scale single-weight project in a disused mine shaft in mainland Europe, to commence this year.
The FEED study is being supported by the BEIS Longer Duration Energy Storage Competition, a competitive funding scheme to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative energy storage projects which can contribute to net zero. Gravitricity secured a grant of £912,410 towards the £1,520,684 project cost (representing 60 percent funding intensity for SMEs).
Gravitricity Managing Director Charlie Blair. Image courtesy of Gravitricity
Gravitricity Managing Director Charlie Blair says: "Finding low-cost, long-life ways to store renewable power will be crucial in the world's journey to net zero. Our multi weight concept has been proven by our Leith demonstrator where two 25 tonne weights were configured to run independently, delivering smooth continuous output when lowered one after the other. We were able to demonstrate a roundtrip efficiency of more than 80 percent and the ability to ramp up to full import or export power in less than a second.
"A Gravitricity system with multiple weights offers a lower cost per MWh of energy stored – more weights give more mass (or MWhs) whilst the number of hoisting systems (which forms a substantial part of asset cost) does not increase.
"This project will demonstrate multi-weight use and control using a single set of hoisting equipment and will pave the way to custom projects which can be built wherever they are required," Blair says.
The project has been welcomed by UK Government Energy and Climate Change Minister Greg Hands who said:
"Driving forward energy storage technologies will be vital in our transition towards cheap, clean and secure renewable energy.
"It will allow us to extract the full benefit from our home-grown renewable energy sources, drive down costs and end our reliance on volatile and expensive fossil fuels. Through this competition we are making sure the country's most innovative scientists and thinkers have our backing to make this ambition a reality."
The second phase of the project will see Gravitricity commence construction of a first of kind commercial prototype system at a grid-connected site in the north of England. The company anticipate that a substantial amount of the mechanical design and optimisation of hoisting equipment for fast response applications will be directly transferable from this project to all future applications, as will the control systems being developed.
As future production ramps up, Gravitricity and its partners intend to produce modular systems which will bring fabrication costs down considerably. At the point where multiple schemes are being implemented, the consortium will be able to purchase and operate their own shaft sinking equipment using, offering substantial savings and further improvements to the levelized cost of energy storage.
Find out more about Gravitricity with this short (30 second) explainer animation:
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55% Linen, 45% cotton. I have the green one.


An extensive loft conversion creating space for five double bedrooms and two bathrooms, all of which were finished to the highest standard.
Complete refurbishment of an old red brick cottage, including an extension which has effectively doubled the living space within the cottage.
Refurbishment of a family house including an oak framed extension. Currently Mid-Project.
Complete refurbishment of a large, modern red brick family house, including conversion of garage and coach house to create extra living space. The project includes the construction of a link between the main house and the coach house. Currently Mid-Project.


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the graphics and music releases for which no art pack/music disk exists.
can directly start all releases and read the readmes.
entries much more fun, especially on the real machine.
If you use loadable speeders, you have to use the memory area $500-$5ff.
For "SIO2SD TURBO" for example press "OPTION+START" at the boot screen.
* Pressing any key while the menu is loading takes you to the DOS shell.
* Pressing RESET in the menu performs a cold start.
* Pressing RESET in while a release is running returns to the menu, if possible.
* Further controls are displayed in the menu itself.
Original ASCII artwork by NE7, Music "Disse" by 505, menu by JAC!
This download also contains a pre-configured Altirra installation.
Just extract the archive to a folder and run "SillyPack2k18.bat".
For the Rapidus demos run "SillyPack2k18-Rapidus.bat".
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thanks for this great compilation of all the entries!
Thank you once again for your massive work, JAC! I really appreciate it.
One night full of ATARI entertainment, thx!
I was waiting for this :) Thanks!
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ouTable is a new collection of tableware for the outdoor environment. Being in nature, whether it is in the home garden or in a picnic, gives a different experience and feeling. What is more simple and enhancing then taking a large cloth, stretching it on the ground and sitting with friends or family to enjoy the affection and the smell of the trees and flowers. The challenge was to put uniqueness, poetics and humor into everyday mass produced objects. The objects were designed to be manufactured by durable plastic. Plastic is green as long as the product is not disposable and can be recycled or made by bio-plastic.
Art Nouveau, became a movement that challenged the values of the industrialism. Nature in the beginning of the 21st century is approached differently. Instead of what was 100 years ago a romantic notion, we are now facing a real-political view that we, the humans, are threatening our own 'home', by what can become a global disaster. So, 'neo-naturalism' reflects the values of the young generation of designers who see nature not as a force to conquer but as part of our existence. In the ouTable design project the design objects are enhanced by the richness and 'good nature' of this approach.
Many of the objects stem from natural metaphors. Nature is rich not only in shapes and patterns but also by the use of material, construction and 'nature engineering'. From molecules' structure to the way ice surface will break into cracks, nature is always surprising in the way it can inspire and tell a story. We humans abandoned the simple nature to a total artificial environment. A modern adult can quote thousand of commercial brands but can recognize by name very small number of flowers, or stars. Nature is an eternal anchor for genius and inspiration.


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By Shah Khalid Shah Jee
The centuries-old historic fountain in the village of Bhai Chinah, a village of the historic Sadat tribe, located in the foothills of the Khar Tehsil of Bajaur District, Pakistan, has dried up. The fountain was the last of several that have dried up one by one in the latest years.
The well that was filling the fountain along with other fountains and provided the village with water could eventually not withstand the effects of climate change and dried up. The exact age of the spring is unknown to anyone who remembers when they were still flowing, but Noor Muhammad Benori, a scholar who belongs to the Sadat family of the village of Bhai Chena, says that his elders told him that the well is centuries old, as is the village. He also shared that the name of the village, "Bhai Chena" means 'spring' in Pashto. Also Buddhist civilizations in this area show that the springs are centuries old.
One of the wells in the Bhai Chinah village
But now, all the springs have dried up – the last two remaining springs ran dry two months ago, with the water level going down during the last ten years. According to Noor Muhammad, the spring not only meets the needs of the 40 households in the village, but its water is passed as a stream through the historic "Gatto Jumat", known as the stone mosque. Worshippers used to perform ablutions there – the used water was stored in a tank-shaped pond under the mosque, which the village people later used for irrigation. Noor Muhammad adds that Bhai Chinah also is a tourism destination for people from neighbouring areas during the summer season and that visitors quench their thirst with the cold water from these springs and take some of it home in water coolers. But now, because of the lack of water, this historic village has become dim.
There is a huge historical stone on which the elders of the village used to sit and talk about historical events, which the young people always enjoyed. The was also a popular landmark for tourists. Most local people have now relocated from this area and have settled down in the plains, and the few families remaining are suffering because of water scarcity.
The village had two wells, recalls Khalil-ur-Rehman, an elderly resident of Bhai Chena, one on a lower and one on a higher location (called Koz Gudar and Bar Goudar). The lower well has now dried up and the water flow in the upper one has dropped drastically. Because of this, the households in the village are allowed access to the spring water only on certain days. The village was divided by using a number system and households can only use the springs on their allocated days. The villagers fear that that if the springs become too dry, they will be forced to migrate.
One of the dry wells in the Bhai Chinah village
Although Khalil-ur-Rehman is not aware of the impacts of climate change, he says that since the Lachi (Eucalyptus Camaldulensis) was planted in the region in 1998, the flow of water in the springs has slowed down. It decreased over time and now these large springs have dried up. Although this forest has benefited the surrounding villages, people say that Lachi absorbs large quantities of water which has caused the springs to dry up. Most people in Bajaur wonder whether this Lachi plant reduces water flow in the area around Bajaur Divisional Forest. Officer Hayat Ali strongly rejects the idea that the water level has gone down due to the Lachi plant. He said that he has not only visited many parts of this country but also many other countries and has participated in various workshops and seminars but has never heard that Lachi plants cause water levels to drop. He has not seen any evidence of this at all so far. The Lachi is considered one of the only plants that grow in both drought- ridden and watery areas. This is why many people question whether the plant plays a role in the decrease in water levels. People who blame the plant do not understand that climate change has affected the rains, and for the last several years there has not been the same amount of rainfall as before. Even though the rains have been heavier this year, last year's water supply did not last long. Clearly, climate change is affecting Pakistan, just like its impact is being experienced all over the world. The water shortage is a clear sign of this. In addition, population has increased very rapidly which leads to greater use of water, also contributing to the water shortage.
The surroundings of the Bhai Chinah village
Hayat Ali says that, although the public's beliefs about Lachi are absolutely wrong, due to this false belief, the planting of Lachi has been significantly reduced and people believe we now have to give priority to local plants. This does not mean that the demand for eucalyptus has decreased – people are still demanding it in the same way they were before because it brings economic benefits.
These are Hayat Ali's words about his local village but of course also experts are raising questions about climate change. Therefore, forest departments and experts should take effective steps to eliminate this false belief about the Lachi.
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Chava Gourarie, The Real Deal
In the world of mid-market New York City investment sales last week, Kenya's Permanent Mission to the United Nations paid $18.3 million for a commercial condominium unit at 866 United Nations Plaza, and the city paid $16 million for a development site near LaGuardia Airport.
1.) Leon Goldenberg's Goldmont Realty bought a 44-unit rental building in Washington Heights for $12 million. The seller of the six-story property, at 543 West 162nd Street, is Coltown Properties, which bought the property along with four other Washington Heights buildings for $31 million in 2012. Coltown, led by Israel Weinberger and Steven Neuman, owns the 43-unit mixed-use building next door, at 3880 Broadway, which was also part of the 229-unit portfolio.
2.) Samy Mahfar's SMA Equities sold a seven-story rental building on the Upper East Side to Ashfin Hedvat's Prime Rok Real Estate for $15.8 million. The 15,596-square-foot building at 1442 Lexington Avenue, at the corner of 94th Street, includes 16 residential units and one commercial unit.
3.) SDG Management bought a 14-story apartment building in the West Village from Blue Star Properties for $12.6 million. The triangular 47,808-square-foot building at 80 Grove Street is located at the point where Grove Street, West 4th Street and South Washington Place meet. The mixed-use building includes 74 residential units and two commercial units.
4.) The New Jersey-based Orbach Group sold a 20-unit walk-up building at 5 West 101st Street for $10.3 million. The buyer of the five-story building, between Central Park West and Manhattan Avenue, is the Westhampton-based Coutinho Properties, which owns properties in Manhattan and Westchester.
5.) Brooklyn Standard Properties bought a four-building portfolio, with a total of 76 units, in the Fordham area in the Bronx for $16.6 buildings. The four buildings include a 24-unit building at 615 East 189th Street, two four-story buildings at 2476 and 2483 Cambreleng Avenue with 38 units between them, and a 14-unit mixed-use walk-up building at 2470 Belmont Avenue.
6.) Itzhaki Acquisitions, led by Erez Itzhaki, picked up a 45-unit rental building at 109 East 102nd Street for $14.7 million. The seller, Metropolis Realty, bought the seven-story elevator building from the city in 2001. Itzhaki is developing a 34-story rental building in Kips Bay, and owns a five-building Murray Hill portfolio.
7.) The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Kenya to the United Nations bought a commercial condo unit at 866 United Nations Plaza for $18.3 million. The Mission currently leases their offices in the same building, and this is their first real estate acquisition.
8.) The New York School Construction Authority bought a development site near LaGuardia Airport, comprised of four parcels, for $16 million. In 2015, the city had proposed to build a middle school on the 37,349-square-foot vacant lot in East Elmhurst, at 111-16 Astoria Boulevard.
9.) An unidentified buyer bought a 20-unit multifamily building on the Upper East Side for $12.5 million. The 9,745-square-foot property at 104 East 85th Street had been in the family of the sellers, Emily and Jonathan Lobatto, since the 1970s.
SOURCE: The Real Deal


Nearly 9 % of American children are "pathologically" addicted to computer gaming, according to a new Iowa study.
Gentile found that 8.5 per cent of the survey respondents were showing symptoms that would be classified by the manual as pathological if they had been gambling instead of playing video games.
Several problems come to mind with this account, even without access to the study itself. For one, are those adult gamblers or children, with whom the comparison is being made?
* Spent 24 hours a week playing video games: about twice as much time as non-pathological gamers.
* Were more likely to have video game systems in their bedrooms.
* Were more likely to report having problems paying attention at school.
* Were more likely to have received a diagnosis of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).
* Received poorer school grades.
* Were more likely to say they felt "addicted" to their habit.
* Stole to support their habit.
What a farrago. Having a game in one's room is a problem? What makes playing twice as much as others a pathological sign? (And imagine how many of us thereby become "pathological readers") Does anything connect the actual problems from this list in a causal way?
No mention that quite a bit of this behavior is abnormal but related to childhood, no mention that adult addiction and childhood addiction are fairly separate phenomena. And there's absolutely no reflection regarding cause and effect. The explicit premise here is that the video game addiction causes the above pathologies, and is not a symptom of an underlying problem.


I hate the kids who stand outside debenhams in carlisle and there constant screeching!!!
I hate Carlisle because it reminds me of twilight!
But the screaming children!!!! Give me a gun!!!!
I used ma hextech gunblade on dem and pwned their arses!! Then just make sure i got my chaotic rapier out!!!
Subject: Re: Carlisle >.< !!!!


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Q: Can Axon guarantee a synchronous end-to-end request cycle using a DistributedCommandBus and a Clustering Event Bus? Here is what I have in mind:

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*User create a command in the presentation layer in the MVC's Controller.

*The command is sent on a DistributedCommandBus.

*The command reaches the Command Handler.

*The command handler raises few events.

*The events are sent on a Clustering Event Bus that uses RabbitMQ for example.

*The event is handled through the multiple different EventListeners.

*The control is returned to the MVC's Controller again.

So basically I want everything to happen synchronously. I have some doubts that this might not be possible, but I want to know what is the limits of synchronous communication using a DistributedCommandBus and a Clustering Event Bus.

A: i think you can force the command bus to be synchronous, but you can't force the clustered event bus to be synchronous,you might need to look at the simple event bus


2004 - "The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King" takes home the awards in both musical categories of the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Composer Howard Shore wins the best original score honor for his work on the film. He also shares the best original song award with collaborators Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox for the theme "Into the West."
2000 - Beatrice Rutman, the mother of Bob Dylan, dies in St. Paul, Minn at the age of 84.
2000 - ``Deep Purple In Concert With The London Symphony Orchestra Conducted By Paul Mann,'' a double live CD of Deep Purple's orchestral concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall on Sept. 25 and 26 is released in the U.K.
2000 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) launches its ``Los Premios De Oro Y Platino'' certification program for Spanish-language product at the Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla. The new certifications signify sales of 100,000 for a discos de oro cert and 200,000 for a discos de platino cert.
1999 - Paul McCartney launches a crusade against British radio and TV stations over the banning of "The Light Comes From Within," the final song by his late wife Linda, because it contains language deemed offensive.
1999 - Sinead O'Connor, the Irish singer and talker, advises the U.S. Senate to stop "wasting money... in a starving world" on the trial of Bill Clinton. In a letter in the Irish Times, she asks: "Does impeachment mean they're gonna turn him into a peach? If so, can I eat him?"
1999 - Internationally esteemed choral conductor and educator Robert Shaw dies of a stroke in New Haven, Conn. He is 82. A winner of 14 Grammy Awards, Shaw received his latest nomination for a 1999 Telarc disc of Barber, Bartok, and Vaughan Williams with his longtime associates, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus.
1996 - Rolling Stone readers choose Live as artist of the year, critics choose PJ Harvey in the magazine's annual poll. The people choose Smashing Pumpkins' "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness" as album of the year; the critics choose PJ Harvey's "To Bring You My Love."
1982 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``I Can't Go for That (No Can Do),'' Daryl Hall & John Oates.
1973 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Superstition,'' Stevie Wonder. The song marks the first chart topping song for Wonder in more than nine years.
1963 - Cilla Black debuts as a vocalist at Liverpool's Cavern Club.
1960 - Andy Cox of Fine Young Cannibals is born.
1954 - Richard Finch of KC and the Sunshine Band is born in Indianapolis.
1946 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: ``Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!'' by Vaughn Moore.


What happens when a by-the-book police officer meets a goat-collecting masseuse?
Trying to escape dark memories, Wyatt Winter takes a job as a cop in the small town of Silverweed Falls, Oregon. But his hopes for a quiet life start to fade the night Tracie Ellington crashes into his life on the heels of a runaway goat.
Tracie, an energy healer with a soft spot for strays, is pretty sure she and Wyatt are destined to be together—after all, the universe has been showing her all the right signs. But Wyatt isn't so sure that sweet, kooky Tracie is the girl for him.
She'll have to help him put his dark past behind him before he can accept that her desire is his destiny.
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To share or not to share? This is the question in the mind of couples in our modern times. There is always a desire for assurance of trust in a romantic relationship, so naturally, there is sensitivity to any potentially untrustworthy behavior. Is the expectation of personal privacy an antiquated notion, especially for a romantic partnership? If there is nothing to hide, what is the harm in sharing phones, tablets, location, and account passwords with romantic partners?
Two recent articles have broached this topic, specifically regarding round-the-clock location sharing between romantic partners. One article from the Lifehacker website spotlights the benefits of this, highlighting the strong bond of trust formed, the increased comfort level, and even the practical convenience of negating the need for texting updates on whereabouts and ETAs. The other article from Gizmodo sees this as an invasion of privacy.
Although the benefits may be genuine, tracking every move or searching through your partner's personal devices and accounts (with or without their consent) is damaging to the relationship. If you look at their phone, there's a chance you will eventually see something that raises concerns (e.g. What were they doing at the park last Monday? Why were they on Facebook at 3 am last Saturday? Since when did they start watching horror movies? Why are they playfully texting co-workers first thing in the morning? Why did they bookmark PornHub?).
Scenario 1: By accessing your partner's cell phone, your suspicions are confirmed. There is indisputable evidence of flirting, sexting, or an all-out emotional or physical affair. If reconciliation is attempted, the suspicions will likely linger even if they turn over all of their devices and accounts to you.
Scenario 2: You search through your partner's phone, but there are no glaring signs of outright infidelity. You should probably just put the phone down, but instead of respecting privacy, you dig and dig for text messages and IMs from months or years ago, or search location and movement histories, web browsing histories, etc. Eventually, something will catch your eye that may seem questionable, suspicious, or even catastrophic.
The problem with this type of snooping is that it can become an obsession and a full-time job. Consider that any information gathered may be seen out of context and be highly subjective. Text messages are meant to be communication between two people, not a larger audience, and those texts, emails, or instant messages from months or years ago do not necessarily reflect your partner as they are now. Location tracking is not 100% accurate either, so before your thoughts and emotions jump to extreme conclusions, consider that uncovering such information does not automatically equal deception or infidelity. Also, keep in mind that technology is constantly evolving, so there will always be the potential for further trickery with the latest app or device upgrade.
There are many ways to work to restore that trust; searching through your partner's phone or tracking their movements is not the answer. Technology will never provide true assurance and is no substitute for open dialogue between a couple experiencing doubts. With the aid of one of the relationship specialists at Symmetry Counseling Chicago, we can help you deal with deficits in trust and communication in your relationship.


Mankind has made the world warmer, but we've also made it stormier. In a study conducted over the Amazon rainforest, scientists have shown that tiny particles – smaller than one-thousandth of the width of a human hair – cause storms to intensify, and potentially have knock-on effects for weather around the world.
Jiwen Fan, from the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory studied storm formation near the Brazilian city of Manaus. Its 2 million people make Manaus the largest city in the Amazon, and the busy streets and smokey chimneys produce a near permanent pollution plume.
Fan and her colleagues were able to show that the tiniest particles in this plume spawn massive droplets, leading to heat release, followed by powerful updrafts and super-charged storms.
Previously, these tiny particles were thought to be too small to aid droplet formation. In pristine areas (such as the Amazon and over oceans) tiny particles could be having a significant effect.
"The results suggest that, from pre-industrial to the present day, human activity may have changed storms in these regions in powerful ways," says Fan, whose findings are published in Science.


Here is the July edition of Finds under $50! This one ended up having a gray, pink, and white theme, and of course it has to include some gingham. How cute is this dress with the bows in the back? It also comes in red. Did I mention it's only $40? And there is also a similar top in blue! In case you missed them, here are my finds under $50 for May and June!
That bracelet set is so cute, but I love all of your picks!


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Tradewise Gibraltar International Chess Tournament: Round 8
four lead -- everything to play for with two rounds remaining
February 15, 2016 John Lee Shaw Tradewise Gibraltar International Chess Tournament 2016
In round eight, the sole leader, David Anton Guijjaro had a draw against Li Chao. The game was a Petroff, so was never really looking hopeful as of move two, to be perfectly honest. It was not a feeble affair, the players did show willing, but there was just nothing in the position for either to work with, and they soon repeated and split the point.
This result gave the people just off the lead to play catch up and get on his pace of 6.5/8. With just two rounds left, the tournament was still very much wide open. Three players would take their opportunities with both hands.
The first was Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who got the better of a debate in the Open Berlin, with Lazaro Bruzon-Batista. The game was absolutely tit-for-tat, and looking like another Berlin stalemate, but White was just that little bit more active. Very small differences can often prove decisive in chess, and here it was in this case. White was able to claim a couple of pawns, and the mood of the game changed. With a passed pawn having to be kept under control on the Kingside, Black was unable to compete with the active nature of White's King on the Queenside, where White also had a pawn majority. The diagram, below, shows the position after Black's 47…f5. Vachier-Lagrave had already been in a winning position, but here, finished the game powerfully, with: 48.Rg5+ Kh6 49.Rb6! and about to lose even more material, Bruzon-Batista resigned.
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Pentala Harikrishna must have had a little mixed feelings about his Gibraltar campaign of 2016. On the one hand, he would also be joining the lead – but, on the other, he was having to beat up some of his countrymen in order to do it. In round eight, he would play his fourth Indian opponent. And, he would win – as he had against all but one of his previous Indian opponents.
In this instance, Harikrishna as white, employed the simple but solid London System, against Santosh Gujrathi Vidit. I am not sure whether I would say that Harikrishna had a 'good' opening, but it was a successful one. It certainly mixed things up enough to cause his opponent enough confusion and gain the upper hand. White very much focussed on the Kingside, while Black attempted to hold things in the centre and counter on the Queenside. Unfortunately, Vidit would take his eye off of his King, and allow White to swamp his position. The game was decided rather quickly in the end.
Another rather quick result was Etienne Bacrot, who outplayed Aryan Tari in a Caro-Kann. Playing White, Bacrot played a confident and aggressive game. There were a few mistakes, but this is par for the course in human chess. In any case, they were not capitalised upon by his opponent. Tari would also allow his Kings to become dislodged, and forced to run to the Queenside, where it would virtually corner itself. This allowed White to seize a very commanding edge, which Black was unable to resist.
Elsewhere, tournament favourite, Hikaru Nakamura, ground out a win against Sergey Grigoriants, to keep himself in contention just a half point off the lead. A bit of a contrast to this stage at last year's tournament, when he was sole leader on 7.5/8.
And with that, the penultimate round calls.
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El objetivo principal es aumentar la seguridad y eficiencia económica y medioambiental del transporte por carretera, de ahí que desde el Parlamento Europeo en el Consejo del 25 de noviembre de 2009 incorporó un nuevo Reglamento CE No 1222/2009 sobre el etiquetado de neumáticos.

El presente Reglamento entró en vigor el 11 de enero de 2010 (veinte días después de la publicación en el Diario Oficial de la Unión Europea) siendo de obligatoria aplicación a partir del 1 de noviembre de 2012, y afecta a todos los neumáticos producidos a partir del 1 de julio de 2012 por disposición transitoria, es decir los marcados con DOT XXXX XXXX 2712 en adelante.

Según el Artículo 2 del Reglamento:

"El presente reglamento no se aplicará a: los neumáticos recauchutados; los neumáticos todoterreno profesionales; los neumáticos diseñados para ser montados exclusivamente en los vehículos matriculados por primera vez antes del 1 de octubre de 1990; los neumáticos de repuesto de uso provisional de tipo T; los neumáticos cuyo índice de velocidad sea inferior a 80 km/h; los neumáticos cuya llanta tenga un diámetro nominal inferior o igual a 254 mm, o igual o superior a 635 mm; los neumáticos equipados con dispositivos adicionales para mejorar sus cualidades de tracción, como los neumáticos con clavos; los neumáticos diseñados para su montaje en vehículos destinados exclusivamente a las carreras."

El 7 de marzo de 2011, el Parlamento Europeo, a través del Reglamento No 228/2011 modifica el Reglamento No 1222/2009 en lo que concierne a los métodos de ensayo de la adherencia en superficie mojada para los neumáticos C1. Esto es debido porque algunos representantes del sector han desarrollado un método revisado de ensayo de la adherencia en superficie mojada a partir del anexo 5 del Reglamento no 117 de la CEPE que mejora de forma significativa la exactitud de los resultados de los ensayos.

El 29 de noviembre de 2011, el Parlamento Europeo, a través del Reglamento No 1235/2011 modifica el Reglamento No 1222/2009 en lo relativo a la clasificación de los neumáticos en relación con la adherencia en superficie mojada, la medición de la resistencia a la rodadura y el procedimiento de verificación. El presente Reglamento será aplicable a partir del 30 de mayo de 2012. La claridad del procedimiento de verificación de la conformidad que figura en el anexo IV del Reglamento No 1222/2009 debe mejorarse, introduciendo umbrales según los cuales los valores declarados utilizados para los requisitos en materia de etiquetado se consideren conformes a dicho Reglamento.

A partir del 1 de mayo de 2017 no podrán comercializarse neumáticos con calificación G en Resistencia a la Rodadura en C1 y C2 (Turismos y vehículos de transporte ligero respectivamente), y calificación F en adherencia en superficie mojada en C1, que hayan sido fabricados con anterioridad al 1 de noviembre del 2014. Según el Reglamento (CE) N.º 661/2009 del Parlamento Europeo, en su artículo 13, apartado 11, establecía un plazo de 30 meses para la comercialización de los neumáticos fabricados con anterioridad al 1 de noviembre de 2014.

ADINE comenta que hay un error en la transcripción de la versión española del citado Reglamento desde su versión oficial en inglés:

"Ha sido omitido el apartado 9 del artículo 13, el cual fija el cómputo de moratoria de 30 meses, a partir del 1 de noviembre de 2018 para los neumáticos de clase C1 y C2, que engloba a los neumáticos de turismo (C1) con los límites a la resistencia a la rodadura en fase 2 (10,5 kg/tonelada) y camioneta (C2) de la clase E con los límites de la resistencia a la rodadura en fase 2 (9,0 kg/tonelada). En resumen, todos los neumáticos producidos a partir de esa fecha, deben llevar marcado 02XXXXS2WR2 (donde 02 es la enmienda, XXXX es la contraseña propia del tipo de neumático, S2 indica que cumple fase 2 de ruido, W cumple adherencia en mojado y R2 fase 2 de resistencia a la rodadura). Y por el contrario, los neumáticos que se encuentren en stock y lleven marcado R1 en fase de resistencia a la rodadura tendrán una moratoria de 30 meses a partir del 1 de noviembre de 2018. Por tanto, una vez revisada la norma en su versión oficial y no su transcripción, se puede concluir que estos neumáticos pueden seguir siendo comercializados hasta el 1 de mayo de 2021".

De cara al consumidor, el hecho de llevar montados estos neumáticos fabricados con anterioridad al 2014 en el vehículo, no le será un problema legal ni de cara a la ITV (si corresponden con las características que necesita su vehículo según el fabricante y se encuentran los neumáticos en buen estado, claro) puesto que la prohibición tan solo afecta a la venta.

Objetivos
El objetivo del etiquetado de neumáticos es aumentar la seguridad, mejorar la eficiencia económica y medioambiental del transporte en carretera, fomentando el uso de neumáticos eficientes en términos de consumo de carburante, seguridad y nivel de ruido.

Además, el etiquetado de neumáticos nace con el objetivo de informar a los consumidores para que éstos, gracias al sistema de etiquetado, puedan conocer las características de los neumáticos antes de la compra.

Criterios
La nueva etiqueta informa al consumidor sobre tres prestaciones fundamentales del neumático: la eficiencia energética, la adherencia sobre suelo mojado y el nivel de ruido exterior.

Resistencia a la rodadura (Fuel efficiency)

La resistencia a la rodadura se presenta cuando un elemento rueda sobre una superficie, y se deforma uno de ellos o ambos y es la energía necesaria para vencer todas las deformaciones que el neumático sufre en cada giro de rueda. Parte de la energía mecánica generada por el motor se pierde en forma de calor en los neumáticos. Es físicamente imposible evitar esta pérdida de energía, pero se puede disminuir con neumáticos de baja resistencia a la rodadura, que ofrecen una mayor eficiencia energética y un menor consumo de combustible. En el caso de los neumáticos, debido a este efecto, el consumo de carburante representa entre un 20% y un 30%. Es por ello que optimizar la resistencia a la rodadura contribuye de manera significativa a la eficiencia energética y la reducción de las emisiones.

Después del cambio de normativa dejando fuera las letras F y G, los neumáticos se clasifican desde la letra A (la más eficiente) hasta la E (la menos eficiente). Entre cada clase, el consumo de combustible aumenta, de forma estimada, 0,1 litros por cada 100 km. Eso sí, hay otros factores que influyen en el consumo de carburante, como el estilo de conducción, la presión de inflado de las cubiertas y el mantenimiento que realices de tu vehículo en tu taller de confianza.

Respecto a emisiones, la Comisión Europea estima que las mejoras de los neumáticos respecto a la resistencia a la rodadura que se alcanzarán a partir de la introducción de la etiqueta tienen el potencial de reducir las emisiones de CO2 en 20 millones de toneladas al año (European Commission Impact Assessment SEC (2008)2860).

Para conocer cuál es el grado de eficiencia energética se somete el neumático a un test sobre un rodillo en condiciones representativas de un uso común. El test simula una conducción a 80 km/h con una carga equivalente al 80% del índice de carga del neumático. Los resultados que se extraen de dicha prueba son los que posteriormente aparecerán en el etiquetado.

La eficacia del frenado sobre suelo mojado (Wet grip)
El Reglamento (CE) no 661/2009 fija requisitos mínimos respecto de la adherencia en superficie mojada de los neumáticos. Los avances tecnológicos permiten mejorar considerablemente la adherencia en superficie mojada, superando esos requisitos mínimos y, por consiguiente, reducir las distancias de frenado en superficie mojada. A fin de aumentar la seguridad vial, procede, por lo tanto, establecer disposiciones que, al facilitar información armonizada sobre dicho parámetro, favorezcan entre los usuarios finales la compra de neumáticos con una elevada adherencia en superficie mojada.

Para conocer la categoría, el neumático se compara con un resultado de referencia con los valores extraídos de la prueba con las siguientes condiciones: Prueba realizada entre 5º y 35º, la altura del agua debe estar entre 0,5mm y 1,5mm y frenada de los neumáticos con ABS de 80km/h a 20km/h.

Ruido de rodadura exterior (Noise)
El ruido provocado por el tráfico genera importantes molestias y tiene efectos perjudiciales para la salud. El Reglamento (CE) no 661/2009 fija requisitos mínimos respecto del ruido de rodadura exterior de los neumáticos calificados como menos ruidosos serán aquellos que produzcan un ruido de hasta 68 dB y los más ruidosos producirán 74 dB como máximo. Los avances tecnológicos permiten reducir considerablemente el ruido de rodadura exterior, superando esos requisitos mínimos. A fin de reducir el impacto ambiental del transporte por carretera, procede establecer disposiciones que, al facilitar información armonizada sobre dicho parámetro, favorezcan entre los usuarios finales la compra de neumáticos que generen un bajo nivel de ruido de rodadura exterior.

El ruido se expresa en decibelios y se acompaña de un pictograma que indica si es superior o inferior al límite europeo. También debes saber que el ruido que el neumático produce es diferente en el exterior y en el interior, y que la etiqueta europea se centra en el exterior.

El test que mide y califica el neumático consiste en colocar dos micrófonos en los bordes de la pista de una superficie determinada que registra el ruido del vehículo en marcha a 80 km/h en un tramo concreto. Durante ese tramo se apaga el motor para que sólo se registre el ruido del neumático.

El ruido que generan los neumáticos se pueden clasificar en tres tipos:

1)  Fricción de la banda de rodadura. Al entrar en contacto el neumático con el pavimento se genera un roce que crea un sonido y dependerá del tipo de superficie por donde se circule (asfalto de diferente rugosidad, cemento rallado, adoquines, camino de tierra, etc.) así como del compuesto de goma del neumático.

2)  Aire atrapado entre la banda de rodadura y la superficie. Piensa que circulas por una superficie mojada, el neumático tiene que evacuar el agua para garantizar el agarre, pues lo mismo ocurre con el aire que queda atrapado en el dibujo, y ruido dependerá del diseño del neumático.

3)  Por resonancia. Los neumáticos son un elemento "hueco" y montado en una llanta hace el mismo efecto que una caja de resonancia, como si de un instrumento musical se tratase.

El etiquetado de neumáticos fuera de Europa
El etiquetado de neumáticos no existe únicamente en Europa, actualmente países como Japón o Corea cuentan también con un sistema de etiquetado.

Japón
El etiquetado japonés es muy parecido al etiquetado europeo pero a diferencia de este, sólo mide dos criterios: la resistencia al rodamiento o eficacia energética y el frenado sobre suelo mojado.

El criterio de la resistencia al rodamiento está representado por cinco clases: AAA, AA, A, B y C.  Mientras que el criterio de frenado sobre suelo mojado cuenta con cuatro clases: a, b, c y d.

Corea del Sur
El etiquetado de neumáticos de Corea, al igual que el de Japón, sólo cuenta con dos criterios: la eficiencia energética y el frenado sobre suelo mojado, siendo más importante la eficacia energética. Cada criterio cuenta con cinco clases que van de 1 a 5.

Referencias

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With its classic arch design, this piece fits both modern and traditional sanctuary decor, and features an upholstered foam pad. Includes 3/8" ledge to hold a book or Bible.
Some assembly required. Complements other pieces in the Abbey Collection. Also available in Walnut Stain (#YD936).


Clinical trials are a critical phase in the long and complex drug development lifecycle. Although several pharmaceutical companies use SAP for commercial supply chains, they are often unable to effectively leverage it for clinical trial supply management (CTSM). Drug makers need an efficient supply chain with an effective IT infrastructure to meet their clinical trial goals. These may include accurate and timely supply of drugs to patient sites at optimum cost, while ensuring compliance with regulations and good manufacturing practices (GMP).
Infosys CTSM solution helps address these challenges. The solution is now available on cloud with specific focus on the mid-market segment and CROs. The cloud enablement facilitates agility and cost optimization, while maintaining the best-in-class features of the highly scalable on-premise CTSM solution. It enhances inventory visibility, cost tracking throughout the supply chain, and ensures adherence to regulations. These enhancements help you turbocharge your CTSM by making it work faster, smarter, and safer.


RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Republican legislators want a lawsuit challenging North Carolina's new voter identification rules thrown out, saying accusations that they violate several portions of the state constitution aren't true.
The offices of House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger confirmed their dismissal motion was filed in Wake County court late Tuesday.
Several voters sued last month within minutes of a photo voter ID requirement becoming law once the General Assembly overrode Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's veto. The law implemented a constitutional amendment approved in a November referendum mandating photo ID to vote in person.
In 2016, federal judges struck down a 2013 law containing a photo ID requirement. The new lawsuit says the new law is discriminatory. GOP lawmakers disagree and contend the new law meets constitutional muster.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A North Carolina judge is considering whether he must order the victory of the Republican in the country's last undecided congressional race despite an investigation into whether his lead was boosted by illegal vote-collection tactics.
Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway said Tuesday that he's unclear why Republican Mark Harris' lawyers insist he decide the winner when he doesn't know what investigators found.
Harris's attorneys say the judge should step in because the district's residents urgently need a representative in Washington, D.C.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) – A Democratic elected leader in North Carolina's largest county is running to try to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis in 2020.
Mecklenburg County Commissioner Trevor Fuller announced his candidacy Tuesday in Charlotte, with about two dozen supporters in attendance.
The Charlotte Observer reports Fuller's platform includes universal early childhood education, immigration reform, a higher minimum wage and improvements to the 2010 health care overhaul law.
The Charlotte attorney on Tuesday accused Tillis of refusing to stand up for North Carolina residents while standing up for President Donald Trump's actions. Tillis campaign spokesman Paul Shumaker says Fuller is attacking Tillis to try to keep other "liberal Democrats" from running.
The 52-year-old Fuller is in his fourth term on the commission. Candidate filing begins next December before the March 2020 primaries.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Prosecutors say a businessman accused of a $150 million kickback scheme involving Russian military contracts bribed authorities there to drop an investigation into the fraud.
The arguments helped convince a North Carolina federal judge on Tuesday to order that Leonid Teyf remain incarcerated pending trial on charges he laundered millions of dollars through U.S. banks and plotted to kill a man suspected of having an affair with his wife. Teyf's lawyers deny the charges and say he should be released because of health issues.
Prosecutors' arguments filed late last week offer new details on the unusual case.
The new court documents say Russian officials were investigating Teyf over the scheme until he bribed them. Prosecutors say if released, Teyf had multiple homes and job opportunities waiting in Russia.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Another round of winter weather is targeting the North Carolina Piedmont.
The National Weather Service in Raleigh posted a Winter Weather Advisory on Tuesday for the northwest piedmont until 10 a.m. Wednesday. Forecasters say there could be a trace to a couple hundredths of an inch of ice is possible, but they add no power outages are expected and travel problems will be limited.
Forecasts indicated the greatest impact will occur from 4 a.m. through 9 a.m. Scattered slick spots are expected on road surfaces such as bridges and overpasses, making for a tricky morning commute. Parking lots and sidewalks could also become slick, leading to slips and falls.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) – A former North Carolina prosecutor has been convicted of peeping after he violated an agreement which banned him from a college campus.
The Winston-Salem Journal reports 44-year-old Brooke McKinley Webster was convicted of misdemeanor secret peeping and second-degree trespass in connection with an incident at the Wake Forest University library in April 2017. Campus police escorted Webster off campus and warned him he would be arrested if he returned. Police spotted him on campus last September.
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NEW BERN, N.C. (AP) – Gov. Roy Cooper and his administration's top lieutenants are visiting eastern North Carolina to talk about Hurricane Florence recovery, the economy and other topics.


It was a pleasure to meet Fr. Bruno Ciceri (Apostleship of the Sea - Stella Maris) today when he visited our PCT General Assembly office together with Dr. Jason Zuideman, General Secretary of International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA). During their visit they updated PCT General Secretariat regarding the arrangements for ICMA World Conference (21-25 October 2019) which will be held in Kaohsiung Taiwan in cooperation with the PCT Seamen's/Fishermen's Service Center. While in Taiwan next year ICMA will also be marking their 50th Anniversary (founded 1969) of Working together for Seafarer, Fishers and their Families - speaking up for the voiceless on the seas.


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Q: Minimizing the distance to a finite set of points in the plane Let $A_1,A_2, \ldots ,A_n$ be a finite set of $n$ distinct  points in ${\mathbb Q}^2$. For any $\varepsilon >0$, let $B(A_i,\varepsilon)$ denote the closed ball with center $A_i$ and radius $\varepsilon$.  If we set
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I = \bigg\lbrace \varepsilon >0 \bigg| \bigcap_{k=1}^n B(A_k,\varepsilon) \neq \emptyset \bigg\rbrace
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then clearly $I$ is a closed interval of the form $[\varepsilon_0,+\infty ($.
Is it true that $\varepsilon_0$ is always algebraic over $\mathbb Q$ ?
Is it true that $[{\mathbb Q}(\varepsilon_0):{\mathbb Q}]$ must always be a power of $2$ ?

A: By Helly's Theorem, $\epsilon_0 = \max \epsilon_{i, j, k}$, where $\epsilon_{i, j, k}$ denote the corresponding value of '$\epsilon_0$' for just the points $A_i, A_j, A_k$.
For an obtuse triangle (or 3 collinear points), $\epsilon_0$ will be half of the longest distance, which is algebraic, and $[\mathbb{Q}(\epsilon_0) : \mathbb{Q}] = 1$ or 2 by the distance formula.
For an acute triangle, $\epsilon_0$ will be the circumradius. I don't know immediately what the cartesian coordinate formula is, but since it's just mid points and perpendicular bisectors, it will be constructible, and hence $\epsilon_0$ is algebraic. I believe your guess about power of 2 will follow from knowing the formula.

Edit: (Note: This paragraph is irrelevant, as there is a better approach using the circumradius directly.) From Wikipedia, you can obtain the Cartesian Coordinates, which only involve the coordinates and their squares. This only gives the circumcenter. We still need to calculate the circumradius, but given the equations, we have $ \mathbb{Q}(\epsilon_0) \subset \mathbb{Q}[ \sqrt{A_x}, \sqrt{A_y}, \sqrt{B_x}, \sqrt{B_y}, \sqrt{C_x}, \sqrt{C_y}] $, where $A, B, C$ are the cartesian points of the triangle. Hence, this implies that $[ \mathbb{Q}(\epsilon_0) : \mathbb{Q}] = 2^n$, where $n$ is an integer from 0 to 6 for the triangle (and hence general case). We may additionally assume that $(A_x, A_y) = (0,0)$ since we can translate otherwise, which shows that it $n\leq 4$.
Alternatively, use the Euclidean geometry expression that
$$R = \frac {abc}{\sqrt{(a+b+c)(a+b-c)(a-b+c)(-a+b+c)}} = \frac {abc} {\sqrt{2a^2b^2 + 2b^2 c^2 + 2c^2 a^2 - a^4 -b^4 - c^4}} = \frac {abc}{4S}$$
where $a, b, c$ are side lengths of the triangle. $a^2, b^2, c^2$ are all rational by the distance formula, so $R^2 \in \mathbb{Q}$, shows that the degree of the extension is at most 2.
Edit: The first paragraph should have been max, instead of min. I can explain this in slightly more detail if you need.
Edit: For the obtuse triangle case, we have $\mathbb{Q}(\epsilon_0) = 1, 2$ directly from the distance formula of 2 points $\sqrt{X^2 + Y^2}$.


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A Month of Music: Andrew Millington (Organ)
Monday 24th August 2020 at 12:00
A special performance from Organist Andrew Millington as part of our Month of Music at Exeter Cathedral. Admission included with Cathedral entrance (£5).
Andrew Millington served as Director of Music at Exeter between 1999 and 2015. He is also active as a composer, and has had several choral pieces published. In 1975 he was appointed assistant organist at Gloucester Cathedral, and in 1983 he took over from Philip Moore as Director of Music at Guildford Cathedral. Andrew is a former conductor of the Exeter Philharmonic Choir and President of the Exeter and District Organists' Association, and continues to examine for ABRSM, both within the UK, and further afield.


The band Tai Sui asked me to shoot a few really cool concepts for them. This was the first I completed. Certainly the biggest to date, with hundreds of layers.
Each element was shot individually in the carpark of a rehersal studio called Neon Studios. The owner has a bunch of amazing vintage cars, including this beefed up hearse which carries the coffin he one day will be buried in.


Bryce Collins (pictured) from Virginia Beach, Virginia fishing the Chowan with his dad Steve Grzanka.
Not matter what kind of fishing I am doing I always have one or two baits that I have tied on for that particular day.
If I am fishing a pond I have a Fluke and a spinner bait but if I am on a pier it is a Gotcha plug and a bottom rig. I fish these baits because I have confidence that no matter how bad the day is I have a better chance with these tied on.
Confidence is a belief in what you are doing and how you are doing it and it doesn't matter if you are fishing for perch or blue marlin because experience has taught me what baits work for me.
Some guys will never go bass fishing without a jig tied on while others don't even own one.
What you as an angler must be able to do is get to the point that you have a certain go to bait that works for you.
This confidence bait is will help you focus on the moment and you will believe in what you are doing.
It will make you pay better attention and this will produce more fish for you throughout the day.
I remember I had a Bomber crank bait in a fire tiger color that I used on the Potomac River that would catch fish more than any other bait I owned.
I fished that bait till the hooks fell out of it and all the paint was gone and I am convinced that if I fixed the bait it will still catch fish.
I had more confidence in that bait than any other I have ever owned.
I once fished a largemouth tournament with a guy who only threw crank baits and jigs.
We went to a point that was at least a football field away from any land and he pulled out a crank bait that dove around 20 feet.
He had a limit in six casts and was culling on his seventh.
I had the same crankbait but never threw it before but you can bet I tied it on and we both caught fish.
He had more confidence in his bait than I did but it made me a believer that day.
As an angler you have to get to the point where you have enough confidence to fish a bait and know that you will catch fish on it.
Once you find your bait that works for you it will increase your numbers I guarantee.
The offshore fleet had a slow start to the week but it soon picked up and one day the boats out of Pirates Cove had 20 white marlin and two blue marlin flags flying.
The marlin bite is hot right now and the mahi have begun to show up in numbers with limits coming in along with some decent tuna.
If you ever wanted to catch a marlin book you a boat and ask the skipper to go bill fishing then watch his smile.
On the beaches and piers it looks about normal for the summer time but the pompano have shown up in numbers we have not seen in years.
All the piers have caught some while they are hitting bottom rigs in Duck and Corolla.
We still have plenty of mullet and blues while the cobia have begun to show up in more numbers recently.
This week should be a good time to get a hook wet with fresh shrimp and blood worms the number one bait for the bottom rigs if you want mullet and pompano.
Metal baits and Gotcha Plugs are good for the blues and Spanish.
Here on the local scene the largemouth are still on a top water bite in the morning with frogs, buzz baits and Whopper Ploppers taking top honors then you want to switch to soft plastics on a pegged worm for the once the sun comes up.
The white perch are still in abundance with white Beetle Spins and Uncle Jessie lures paying off but don't forget the odd colors like pink and chartreuse to mix up the bite a little.
This paid off for Camden anglers John and Patrick Baum with one throwing a certain color while the other threw white.
They filled the cooler with over 30 nice perch out of Newbegun Creek this weekend and had a nice fish fry to end the holiday out nice.
The cats are still biting for local expert Steve Grzanka this weekend when he took his son Bryce who was visiting from Virginia Beach.
Bryce wanted to break his personal best so Steve took him out on the Chowan with fresh cut bait and he took down a 43-pound monster shattering his old record and putting a huge smile on his face.
If anyone gets out this week send me a picture and a report to fishingwithmike921@yahoo.com or hit me up on Facebook at Fishing with Mike and let me know how you did.


EPIC filed suit over CDF's approval of an Eel River Sawmills plan to log 58 acres of diverse forest in the Mattole River Watershed at the confluence of Helen Barnum and Lost Man Creeks which would cause fragmentation of remaining old-growth habitat and adversely impact fish spawning habitat. The Trial court found that the THP was incomplete and inaccurate when filed and that CDF should have returned the THP to the timber company. This suit was filed by EPIC, the Coastal Headwaters Association, Mattole Watershed Salmon Support Group, Inter-Tribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, and B. Ann Robbins against CDF, Ray Utterback in his capacity as CDF Region 1 Resource Manager, Harold Walt in his capacity as Director of the California Department of Forestry, the State Board of Forestry, the Secretary of the California Department of Fish and Game, the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, Eel River Sawmills, and Barnum Timber Company.
Procedure: THP # 1-90-063 MEN approved 5/2/90. EPIC filed Petition for Writ of Mandate 5/15/90 (Mendocino Ct. #60344, Judge Luther). Writ granted 1/2/91. Status: final – THP was found to be incomplete and inaccurate. This THP was later resubmitted but the agency found it still deficient, so it was withdrawn.


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U 6.787-9: The one about the bulletin. Spurgeon went to heaven 4 a.m. this morning. 11 p.m. (closing time). Not arrived yet. Peter.
The passage is based on G. W. Foote's Flowers of Freethought (London, 1893), a book of miscellaneous articles debunking many Christian beliefs, especially those to do with heaven and hell. Foote bases parts of two chapters on a consideration of the doctrines and personality of the British evangelical preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-92) who had recently died at Mentone (31 January 1892). A fiery calvinist, Spurgeon joined the Baptists in 1851 but left in 1887 after he had grown out of sympathy with recent biblical criticism. He preached long, forceful, and eloquent sermons many of which were taken down in shorthand and published. In Ulysses he thus forms a counterbalance to 'Elijah' in Oxen.
A freethinking rationalist, Foote found Spurgeon's rigid doctrines and self-assurance entirely unpalatable. He tells us that "writing seven days after his death, Mrs. Spurgeon said 'he has now been a week in heaven'." He continues:
It is natural that she should think so, and we do not wish to rob her of any consolation, nor do we suppose that this article will ever come under her notice. But is it not just possible that Spurgeon has gone to hell? And why should not the question be raised? We mean no personal offence; we speak in the interest of justice and truth. Spurgeon was very glib in preaching about hell, and we do not know that he had a monopoly of that special line of business. He never blenched at the idea of millions of human beings writhing in everlasting torment; and why should it be blasphemy, or even incivility, to wonder if he himself has gone to perdition? (p. 31)
We quote below the whole of the chapter entitled "Is Spurgeon in heaven?":
When Mrs. Booth died. the wife of the famous 'General', the 'Army' reported her as "Promoted to Glory from Clacton-on-Sea". It was extremely funny. Clacton-on-Sea is such a prosaic anti-climax after Glory. One was reminded of Sir Horace Glendower Sprat. But the sense of humor is not acute in religious circles.
Mr. Spurgeon frequently gave expression to his dislike and mistrust of the antics of the Salvation Army. He was far from prim himself, but he held that if people were not "won over to Christ" by preaching, it was idle to bait the hook with mere sensationalism. Yet by a strange irony his closest friends, in announcing his death to his flock, actually improved on the extravagance of the Salvationists. Here is a copy of the telegram that was affixed to the rails of the Metropolitan Tabernacle the morning after his decease:
Mentone, 11.50.
Spurgeon's Tabernacle, London.
Our beloved pastor entered heaven 11.5 Sunday night.
HARRALD.
This Harrald was Mr. Spurgeon's private secretary, but he writes like the private secretary of God Almighty. A leading statesman once said he wished he was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay was cocksure of everything; but what was Macaulay's cocksureness to the cocksureness of Harrald? The gentleman could not have spoken with more assurance if he had been Saint Peter himself, and had opened the gate for Pastor Spurgeon.
We take it that Spurgeon expired at 11.5 on Sunday night. That is the fact. All the rest is conjecture.
How could his soul enter heaven at the very same moment? Is heaven in the atmosphere? He who asserts it is a very bold speculator. Is it out in the ether? If so, where? And how is it our telescopes cannot detect it? If heaven is a place, as it must be if it exists at all, it cannot very well be within the astronomical universe. Now the farthest stars are inconceivably remote. Our sun is more than 90,000,000 miles distant, and Sirius is more than 200,000 times farther off than the sun. There are stars so distant that their light takes more than a thousand years to reach us, and light travels at the rate of nearly two hundred thousands miles per second!
It is difficult to imagine Spurgeon's soul travelling faster than that; and if heaven is somewhere out in the vast void, beyond the sweep of telescopes or the register of the camera, Spurgeon's soul has so far not "entered heaven" that its journey thither is only just begun. In another thousand years, perhaps, it will be nearing the pearly gates. Perhaps, we say; for heaven may be a million times further off, and Spurgeon's soul may pull the bell and rouse Saint Peter long after the earth is a frozen ball, and not only the human race but all life has disappeared from its surface. Nay, by the time he arrives, the earth may have gone to pot, and the whole solar system may have vanished from the map of the universe.
What a terrible journey! Is it worth travelling so far to enter the Bible heaven, and sing hymns with the menagerie of the Apocalypse? Besides, a poor soul might lose its way, and dash about the billion-billion-miled universe like a lunatic meteor.
It appears to us, also, that Mr. Harrald and the rest of Mr. Spurgeon's friends have forgotten his own teaching. He thoroughly believed in the bodily resurrection of the dead, and an ultimate day of judgment, when body and soul would join together, and share a common fate for eternity. How is this reconcileable with the notion that Spurgeon's soul "entered heaven at 11.5" on Sunday evening, the thirty-first of January, 1892? Is it credible that the good man went to the New Jerusalem, will stay there in perfect felicity until the day of judgment, and will then have to return to this world, rejoin his old body, and stand his trial at the great assize, with the possibility of having to shift his quarters afterwards? Would not this be extremely unjust, nay dreadfully cruel? And even if Spurgeon, as one of the 'elect', only left heaven for form's sake at the day of judgment, to go through the farce of a predetermined trial, would it not be a gratuitous worry to snatch him away from unspeakable bliss to witness the trial of the human species, and the damnation of at least nine-tenths of all that ever breathed?
As a matter of fact, the Christian Church has never been able to make up its mind about the state or position of the soul immediately after death. Only a few weeks ago we saw that Sir G. G. Stokes, unconsciously following in the wake of divines like Archbishop Whately, holds the view that the soul on leaving the body will lie in absolute unconsciousness until the day when it has to wake up and stand in the dock. The controversies on this subject are infinite, and all sorts of ideas have been maintained, but nothing has been authoritatively decided. Mr. Spurgeon's friends have simply cut the Gordian knot; that is, they are only dogmatising.
Laying all such subtle disputes aside, we should like Mr. Harrald to teil us how he knows that Spurgeon has gone, is going, or ever will go to heaven. What certainty can they have in the matter? Saint Paul himself alluded to the possibility of his being 'a castaway'. How can an inferior apostle be sure of the kingdom of heaven?
Saint Paul taught predestination, and so did Spurgeon. According to this doctrine, God knew beforehand the exact number of human beings that would live on this planet, though Omniscience itself must have been taxed to decide where the anthropoid exactly shaded off into the man. He also knew the exact number of the elect who would go to heaven, and the exact number of the reprobate who would go to hell. The tally was decided before the spirit of God brooded over the realm of Chaos and old Night. Every child born into the world bears the stamp of his destiny. But the stamp is secret. No one can detect it. Lists of saved and damned are not published. If they were, it would save us a lot of anxiety. Some would say, "I'm all right." Others would say, "I'm in for it; I'll keep cool while I can." But we must all die before we ascertain our fate. We may feel confident of being in the right list, with the rest of the sheep; but confidence is not proof, and impressions are not facts. When we take the great leap we shall know. Until then no man has any certitude; not even the most pious Christian that ever rolled his eyes in prayer to his Maker, or whined out the confession of his contemptible sins. All are in the same perplexity, and Spurgeon was no exception to the rule.
When predestination was really believed, the friends of the greatest saint only hoped he had gone to heaven. When they are sure of it predestination is dead. Nay, hell itself is extinguished. Spurgeon's friends think he has gone to heaven because they feel he was too good to go to hell. They knew him personally, and it is hard to think that a man whose hand once lay in yours is howling in everlasting fire. Such exceptions prove a new rule. They show that the human heart has outgrown the horrible doctrine of future torment, that the human mind has outgrown foolish creeds, that man is better than his God. (pp. 34-8)
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