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Edmund Burke: Ending the Enlightenment
Eric Gans
No. 268: Saturday, August 17th, 2002
Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, the author's only important work of political thought, has assured him a place in the Pantheon of modern conservatism. Burke's critique, which seemed overwrought in 1790 but prophetic in 1793, marks the end of Enlightenment confidence in scenic hypotheses. Where Hobbes, at the beginning of this era, was driven by the English rebellion of the 1640s to construct an originary model in defense of the monarchical order it challenged, Burke's experience of this rebellion's more radical French descendant leads him to condemn all such models as products of the worst kind of hubris. What he offers in their place is not traditional thought but a self-conscious appeal to historical tradition, a reasoned defense of historical gradualism that the twentieth century might have done better to heed. For Burke, the revolutionary scene is a demonstration that implementing the Enlightenment's radical anthropology produces not a more rational human order but a return to originary chaos:
All circumstances taken together, the French revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world. The most wonderful things are brought about, in many instances by means the most absurd and ridiculous, in the most ridiculous modes, and apparently by the most contemptible instruments. Everything seems out of nature in this strange chaos of levity and ferocity, and of all sorts of crimes jumbled together with all sorts of follies. In viewing this monstrous tragicomic scene, the most opposite passions necessarily succeed and sometimes mix with each other in the mind: alternate contempt and indignation, alternate laughter and tears, alternate scorn and horror. (11-12; all page numbers refer to the first [1790] edition)The emotions associated with this scene vary between "laughter and tears" insofar as their subject feels himself or not in danger; their object is "out of nature" in either case. Our feeling toward the Revolution alternates not between love and hate, but between distant "contempt" and proximate "indignation." "Tragicomic" is not taken in its literary-historical sense; it is a "monstrous" mixture of tragedy and comedy–a blend of sublimity and ridiculousness that, a couple of generations later, Victor Hugo would extol as the romantic "grotesque." (I will touch on Burke's own theory of the sublime in conclusion.)
For Burke, the scene that founds the political order lies outside it. His concept of the "social contract" is in deliberate opposition to the scenic models of the Enlightenment:
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure–but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement . . . to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place. This law is not subject to the will of those who by an obligation above them, and infinitely superior, are bound to submit their will to that law. (143-44)The contract that binds us to the state is a "partnership in every virtue and all perfection" across many generations; it cannot be figured as a scene of human accord. In the place of such an accord, Burke substitutes a scene explicitly both originary and transcendental, "the great primeval contract of eternal society." This is no mere rhetorical gesture but the postulation of an originary hypothesis as required by the logic of Burke's argument. The foundation of human society lies "outside" it, at its unique and unrenewable point of origin. The "eternality" of the human society thus founded is what guarantees in turn the "clauses" that define individual states. Burke's originary scene is theistic because only an external sacred can guarantee both the universality of what is in effect a model of morality and the value of its specific historical manifestations. (This is the point of Kant's far more explicit argument that the existence of God is necessary to individual moral existence.) If the "social contract" is indeed a partnership between the living, the dead, and the yet to be born, then it is an anthropological rather than merely political contract; it legitimizes no particular social order, but denies legitimacy to any order that disregards its specific place in the continuum that links it with its origin.
But I cannot stand forward and give praise or blame to anything which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object, as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. (7-8)Burke's characterization of the construction of a political model on the basis of a "simple view" of human actions and concerns as metaphysical is the first of the long series of such critiques that mark the bourgeois era's emerging awareness that the originary function of human "reason" is the cultural deferral of violence. The Enlightenment had identified metaphysics with scholasticism, opposing Reason's clarity to the obscurities of the historical sacred. ("Let us put at the end of nearly every chapter of metaphysics the two letters used by Roman judges when they didn't understand a plea: N. L., non liquet, this is unclear"–Voltaire, Dictionnaire philosophique portatif, 1764.) For Burke, what is metaphysical is precisely these Enlightenment appeals to reason. Metaphysics hypostatizes the philosophical proposition, the context-free declarative sentence, as if it sprang full-fledged from the brow of homo sapiens instead of evolving from more elementary forms, the most primitive of which is the ostensive re-presentation of what is already present. (See Richard van Oort's Epistemology and Generative Theory in Anthropoetics I, 1.)
"Restraint upon [the] passions" rather than their sacrifice on the altar of "reason" is the central operation in Burke's political anthropology :
Government is not made in virtue of natural rights, which may and do exist in total independence of it, and exist in much greater clearness and in a much greater degree of abstract perfection; but their abstract perfection is their practical defect. By having a right to everything they want everything. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves, and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and subdue. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights. But as the liberties and the restrictions vary with times and circumstances and admit to infinite modifications, they cannot be settled upon any abstract rule; and nothing is so foolish as to discuss them upon that principle. (88-89)Men's potentially violent "passions" and "inclinations" must be subjected to "a power out of themselves." For Burke, in contrast to Hobbes, subjection to central authority does not arise from voluntary self-interested agreement. Its modalities "vary with times and circumstances" and cannot be determined by an "abstract rule," but the source of this power is always external to the political scene. Pace the French revolutionaries, man is a "religious animal."
All other nations [than France] have begun the fabric of a new government, or the reformation of an old, by establishing originally or by enforcing with greater exactness some rites or other of religion. (54)
We know, and what is better, we feel inwardly, that religion is the basis of civil society and the source of all good and of all comfort. In England we are so convinced of this, that there is no rust of superstition with which the accumulated absurdity of the human mind might have crusted it over in the course of ages, that ninety-nine in a hundred of the people of England would not prefer to impiety. . . . If our religious tenets should ever want a further elucidation, we shall not call on atheism to explain them. . . . Violently condemning neither the Greek nor the Armenian, nor, since heats are subsided, the Roman system of religion, we prefer the Protestant, not because we think it has less of the Christian religion in it, but because, in our judgment, it has more. We are Protestants, not from indifference, but from zeal.
We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal; that atheism is against, not only our reason, but our instincts; and that it cannot prevail long. But if, in the moment of riot and in a drunken delirium from the hot spirit drawn out of the alembic of hell, which in France is now so furiously boiling, we should uncover our nakedness by throwing off that Christian religion which has hitherto been our boast and comfort, and one great source of civilization amongst us and amongst many other nations, we are apprehensive (being well aware that the mind will not endure a void) that some uncouth, pernicious, and degrading superstition might take place of it. (134-35)
. . . I beg leave to speak of our church establishment, which is the first of our prejudices, not a prejudice destitute of reason, but involving in it profound and extensive wisdom. I speak of it first. It is first and last and midst in our minds. For, taking ground on that religious system of which we are now in possession, we continue to act on the early received and uniformly continued sense of mankind. That sense not only, like a wise architect, hath built up the august fabric of states, but, like a provident proprietor, to preserve the structure from profanation and ruin, as a sacred temple purged from all the impurities of fraud and violence and injustice and tyranny, hath solemnly and forever consecrated the commonwealth and all that officiate in it. . . .
The consecration of the state by a state religious establishment is necessary, also, to operate with a wholesome awe upon free citizens, because, in order to secure their freedom, they must enjoy some determinate portion of power. To them, therefore, a religion connected with the state, and with their duty toward it, becomes even more necessary than in such societies where the people, by the terms of their subjection, are confined to private sentiments and the management of their own family concerns. All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society. (136-38)
Burke anticipates Durkheim in considering religion to be not only the foundation of government but the "basis of civil society," one that can be replaced only by superstition. To abandon religion is to fall into the "drunken delirium" of revolution. Nor is Burke's notion of religion that of the deist's si Dieu n'existait pas, il fallait l'inventer [if God didn't exist, we'd have to invent him]. Established religion is the foundation of society, provided this establishment is perpetually accessible to and renewable by the citizenry. When Burke says "[w]e are Protestants, not from indifference, but from zeal," he is referring to the "zealous" affirmation of the Christian sacred by a community of Bible readers who make it part of their own experience–the religious equivalent of the electorate in England's constitutional monarchy. This is about as specific as Burke gets about religion; the single word "Protestant" added to the overall institution of Christianity is the sum of his theology.
Burke is not, however, loath to define the Christian sacred by opposition to its "Other." A corollary of his self-conscious traditionalism is an emergent modern anti-Semitism:
[The English revolutionaries] were not like Jew brokers, contending with each other who could best remedy with fraudulent circulation and depreciated paper the wretchedness and ruin brought on their country by their degenerate councils. (70)
The next generation of the [French] nobility will resemble the artificers and clowns, and money-jobbers, usurers, and Jews, who will be always their fellows, betimes their masters. (72)
Are the church lands to be sold to Jews and jobbers or given to bribe new-invented municipal republics into a participation in sacrilege? (80)
These "councils," like those of the Elders of Zion, make the Jews "sometimes [the] masters" of the French nobility and, presumably, of France itself–a harbinger of Drumont's France juive. Nor can Burke's twelve-times-repeated reference to "Old Jewry," the "dissenting meeting house" in which a Dr. Price delivered a pro-revolutionary sermon that is the proximate catalyst of the Reflections, be deemed a coincidence; it cements the association between the "bad scene" of Price's un-Christian sermon and those who have rejected the scene of the Cross.
After Hobbes, with the exception of Vico, the Enlightenment abandons the idea of foundational violence. The conclusion of Voltaire's Candide presents the exchange system as the means to defer the mimetic violence that predominated in the rest of the story–the produce of Candide's famous garden is sold at the market in Constantinople–but the passage from violence to exchange is contrastive, not generative. Now Burke, having witnessed the reemergence in France of the Hobbesian state of nature, realizes that the preservation of human society from chaos cannot be achieved through politics alone. The scene on which representations are exchanged requires a guarantee beyond these representations themselves; society must have a sacred basis.
This intuition of the foundational status of the deferral of violence is already visible in Burke's other major work, usually entitled On the Sublime and Beautiful, published in 1757, over thirty years before Reflections. In terms not uncongenial to evolutionary psychology, Burke derives the sublime from our terror of "pain and danger":
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. (I, 7)The sublime is our "strongest emotion" because we are more concerned with "sublime" threats to survival than "beautiful" enhancements of it. It is not, however, the actual experience of "pain and danger," but their "ideas" that generate the sublime, which typically characterizes not a source of uncontrolled violence but an ultimately benevolent power; the book of Job provides many of Burke's examples. What we now call Burke's "gendering" of the sublime-beautiful opposition is prophetic: in contrast with the general verdict of Enlightenment sensibilité in Condillac, Rousseau, Diderot, et al., Burke anticipates Girard in recognizing that (masculine) violence and its deferral are more central to our survival than (feminine) sympathy and beauty. The cultural memory of the revolutionary violence of seventeenth-century England provides Burke with an intuition that applies all the more to eighteenth-century France. The Reflections were a key influence on the post-revolutionary renewal of respect for the sacred cultural forms indispensable to human survival.


Jetwerx/MRC worked behind the scenes to get rockstar, the title sponsor at the time of CMRC to endorse the MRC series and NOT the CMRC series. Jetwerx/MRC also won over a number of factory teams with incentives and a 6 figure prize at the end of the series.
CMRC was in a bad way with no title sponsor and the factory teams looking to the MRC series. Rather than just letting CMRC die over time in a fight that would hurt both series, jetworks/MRC worked a deal with CMRC to buy them out.
So now NATIONALLY there is 1 sanctioning body in the game, running a triple crown consisting of AX MX and SX. You can lookup those details on their page.
Walton is back as the loretta lynn of Canada after missing a year at the amateur level.
At the BC amateur level where I am....there is still some fighting between promoters and events. The sanctioned promoter here has had some challenges with the unsanctioned promoter pushing pretty hard. I'm hoping the stability seen at the national level will trickle down the the amateur level. I think most regions are figured out...its just us BC guys who can't race without drama I guess.
IMHO Jetwerx/MRC has done a great job of promoting the series. Getting TV and live stream deals that are better than what I've seen previously. Racing has been good even if the dirt keeps fighting us. I suspect that the MX series will get more attention from pro riders than the AX series has (maybe some of them didn't get the memo its part of the $100,000 series), I have heard there are some big guns coming to race.
I didn't really start paying attention to Canadian moto till about 4 years ago, and this is the best I've seen it at the pro level. Admittedly there are a guys with more history than me, more info than me, but that's what I know and I don't hear any one else typing.
Thanks As... do you know if Stally is still involved at all?
Does he hold any rights to the TV part of the Nats. Or just sitting back letting his moustache grow and trading in the viper.
Who's sending the boys to MXDN?
How is Marilyn Bastedo looking these days?
With no Ama Sx in TO, what's Andy Bokma going to do.
Does Don Davidson still ride?
I do not believe Stallybrass is involved at all. From the reading I've done they used language like he'll have time to pursue other interests...meaning to me his interests in motocross have been liquidated. Could very well be wrong though.
MXDN is being driven by Kourtney LLoyd and Cycle North as the driving force keeping our nations hopes alive.
I'll have to leave the other questions to those with a little more experience.
I'd suggest you give this podcast with the owner of the new series a listen.
Yup, I'm still around. Haven't been out this year as the weather and other things have delayed my getting out. Too frikkin cold for these old bones. Should get out late May if all goes well. This will be my 50th season. Got a new bike last year that needs exercising, doesn't like being left on the stand. Nice to see someone is interested in the old fart, thanks.
You certainly picked a great track for a first time. Awesome to have you line up for a first race. There is a definite need for first timers, regardless of age or skill level as the skills generally improve the more you ride. Of course, older first timers are more than welcome as long as they finish behind me at the finish line, lol.


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Marine litter on a beach in Bali / Indonesia (Photo: UNEP/Lawrence Hislop)
Borealis (Vienna / Austria; www.borealisgroup.com) is planning to launch a project worth EUR 4m, together with its partners, in order to improve waste management in Southeast Asia – and reduce marine litter. The plastics producer presented the "STOP" (Stopping the Tap on Ocean Plastics) initiative at the international "Our Ocean" conference hosted by the European Commission on 5-6 October 2017 in Malta.
A feasibility and assessment study was conducted in Indonesia from July to September 2017, with respect to transitioning the waste management system there to a "zero-leakage pathway with increasing rates of plastics recycling, job creation in new after-use economies and public health benefits." The company says a first city partnership will be launched in 2018. Indonesia's government wants to reduce plastics waste in the country by 70% by the end of 2025.
In the German market, the group is also furthering commitments to environmental concerns, with its takeover of plastics recycling company mtm plastics (Niedergebra / Germany; www.mtm-plastics.eu) in 2016 – see Plasteurope.com of 06.07.2016. It is currently increasing polyolefins waste recycling capacity at its German subsidiary with an investment of EUR 15m. In addition, Borealis has committed itself to the "Zero Pellet Loss" initiative at its plants. The initiative is a global commitment of the plastics industry to minimise the loss of plastic granules into the environment.

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Tim and Gibbs go to Tim's home town for Christmas.
Written: December 2012. Word count: 1,491.
Gibbs looked across the bed to where Tim was throwing things into a case; his jaw was set in a way Gibbs rarely saw it and he seemed very tense. Gibbs put down the undershirt he was about to fold, went around the bed and put his arms around Tim, pulling him back to rest against him.
After a moment Tim relaxed against him and he unclenched his jaw. "We don't have to go, Tim, if you don't want to."
Tim sighed and turned in Gibbs's arms and put his arms around him. "I know we don't, Jethro. But as crazy as it might sound, I do want to go. It's just . . ."
Tim sighed. "I just keep wondering what if -"
"Your dad doesn't like me?"
"No!" Tim pulled back and stared at Gibbs in surprise. "Of course he'll like you; I mean you're his kind of man."
Gibbs laughed. "You mean an aged gay cradle snatcher?" He didn't really mean his words; he was just trying to get Tim to relax. However, if he was honest there were times, quite a few really, when the twenty year age difference played on his mind. Sure for sixty he was very fit and active and in excellent health and given he was retired he no longer risked his life every time he stepped outside his home. But just sometimes he wondered if he'd been fair to in effect seduce Tim.
Tim frowned and tightened his jaw again; then to Gibbs's relief he shook his head and began to laugh. "Have I told you recently just how much I love you, Jethro?" he said and he kissed Gibbs's cheek.
Over the three years they'd been together Gibbs had managed to get used to Tim saying things like that and it no longer made me feel embarrassed, well not too much. In all honesty he had no idea why Tim loved him, but apparently he did. "Now that you come to mention it . . ." he quipped and Tim smiled. "But why in particular?"
"Because you always know just what to say." He did? It was another thing he hadn't realized he could do until he and Tim had got together. "You always did," Tim said quietly. "No, Jethro, don't shake your head, you did. You may not have realized it, but you did. You always knew when I needed a pat on the back and praise; when Tony needed a head-slap and a reminder to stop being an idiot, when Ziva needed kindness and when she needed you to be harsh with her."
To his amazement Gibbs realized Tim was right even though he'd never thought of it in those terms; had anyone ever asked him he'd have said he rarely knew when to say the right thing to the team, but now that Tim had explained, he knew his lover was right. "Well I'll be damned," he said quietly.
Tim smiled. "You should listen to me more, Jethro. I'm usually right." And he grinned.
Jethro tripped him and they fell down onto the bed among the clothing where they mock-grappled for a few minutes before Gibbs flipped McGee and knelt over him. He might be sixty, but he could still take Tim - and he knew full well Tim never let him win their 'fights'; he had too much respect for Gibbs.
After a pleasant twenty minutes or so had gone by, Gibbs pushed himself off the bed and tugged Tim to his feet. "Where were we?"
"Yeah, still not sure about that, Tim."
"Oh, he will. You're a Marine." Tim spoke softly and for a moment glanced away from Jethro who silently cursed Admiral McGee who, even though father and son had made huge steps towards rebuilding their relationship, could still hurt Tim and make him feel less of a man because he hadn't followed family tradition and served his country in uniform. He still had no idea why McGee Snr. had stopped talking to his son when Tim had joined NCIS; okay, it might not have been the Navy or Marines but he was in his own way serving his country.
"I was only a Gunny."
Tim shrugged. "It doesn't matter to Dad. You served your country; you went to sea - that's what matters."
Gibbs put his arms around Tim, he knew better than to criticize the admiral. "We don't have to go, Tim," he said again.
Tim shrugged. "I know, but as I said I want to go. It's crazy I know, but I want to see him and," he added, his cheeks now more than a little red, "I want to see his face when he sees the dedication in my latest book."
Gibbs had thought his relationship with his dad was complicated but it was nothing like the one between Tim and his dad. Tim had dedicated his latest book, which wasn't due out for a week but Tim had an advance copy, to his dad who it seemed was quite happy with Tim being a writer.
Sometimes Gibbs wondered if Admiral McGee had, as a younger man, fallen foul of NCIS and had been worried his son might find out - maybe that'd been why he'd hated Tim joining the agency. But then he had become an Admiral so whatever it had been, if it had been that, it couldn't have been anything serious.
He shook his head; his investigating days were over and at least Tim and his dad were now on speaking terms and, according to the odd thing Tim had let slip, closer than they'd ever been. "So if you're not worried about your dad not liking me, what are you worried about, Tim?"
"You not liking Dad." Gibbs felt his jaw drop as Tim said the words and he just stared in silence. By the time he'd recovered, Tim was once again packing and behaving as if the words hadn't been said.
Shaking himself and returning to his own packing, Gibbs decided he too would act that way - it was clearly what Tim wanted.
"Well, here we are." Tim had fallen silent during the last few miles of the drive and now sat just staring at the house; once again his jaw was set and he seemed to be preparing himself for whatever might happen.
Gibbs squeezed his thigh. "You ready?"
Tim turned and looked at him and smiled; it was the first genuine smile Gibbs had seen since they'd left home. "Yes, Jethro," he said, "I am."
They left their bags in the car and after turning up the collars of their overcoats they made their way up the path towards the house. Before they reached the porch steps the door was flung open and a man and woman hurried out.
"Timothy!" cried the woman hurrying down the steps and throwing her arms around Tim.
"Hello, Mom," Tim said putting his arms around his mother and hugging her.
Gibbs found his gaze going to where the man, who was quite obviously Tim's father, stood. He was staring at his wife and son and the look on his face told Gibbs quite clearly that Admiral McGee wished he was part of the embrace. And he also saw that no matter what had happened between them, no matter how poor a dad as far as support and affection he may have been while Tim had been growing up, Tim's dad loved his son.
"Well I'll be damned," Gibbs murmured under his breath as he watched Admiral McGee walk down the steps towards him.
"You must be Jethro," the admiral said holding out his hand.
Gibbs took it; the handshake was firm. "Yes, sir," he said staring into the eyes of the man who was only five years older than him.
"Timothy has told us a lot about you. You were a good boss, I gather."
"Tim was a fine agent," Gibbs said firmly.
He watched at Tim's dad turned his gaze from Gibbs to where his son and wife were still embracing. "I have no doubt he was," he said quietly. "Timothy succeeds at whatever he puts his mind to."
Gibbs stared in amazement; the tone in Tim's dad's voice told him quite clearly that despite the estrangement when Tim had joined NCIS, his dad was proud of him. He had to find out just what the admiral had against NCIS; retired from investigation or not - he was going to find out. He wondered of the admiral drank bourbon.
Finally Tim's mom let her son go and Tim turned to look at his dad. "Dad," he said quietly, moving towards his father and holding out his hand.
"Hello, Timothy," his dad said, taking his hand and shaking it but also putting his other hand on Tim's shoulder and squeezing it. "Welcome home, son."


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The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Announces the 2018 MOCA GA GALA
Saturday March 17, 2018 06:30 PM EDT 03/17/2018 6:30 PM
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The Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia will host its Annual Gala on March 17, 2018 at 6:30 PM in Atlanta, GA. This event supports the Museum's mission to collect, showcase and preserve the contemporary art of Georgia through its exhibitions and programming. This year's Gala will be a unique and elegant seated dinner in our large lower level galleries. We are pleased to be honoring Lucinda Bunnen and her children Belinda Reusch, Melissa Jernigan, and Robb Bunnen for their dedication to the arts community. The lovely occasion will include music by Radial Entertainment, cocktails (including special offerings by sponsors: Johnnie Walker and The 1970 Vodka) and a delicious three-course meal by Affairs to Remember. In addition, we will be premiering an exhibition of photography by Lucinda Bunnen from MOCA GA's permanent collection including a new portfolio of work.
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Q: What is the probability in one bouquet all roses to be red?
From $15$ yellow, $7$ white and $9$ red roses were made bouquets of $3$ roses randomly-selected. What is the probability in one bouquet all roses to be red?

I translated the problem from my language, so I am not sure if I made it clear, but I have some questions.
Let $А=\{$in one bouquet all roses are red$\}$. All possible outcomes for $A$ are $n_A=C_{5+7+9}^3=C_{21}^3=1330$. The favorable outcomes are $m_A=C_9^3=84$. Now $P(A)=\dfrac{m_A}{n_A}=\dfrac{84}{1330}=\dfrac{6}{95}$. Do you understand the problem in this way?
What if we have $21$ roses ($9$ red and $12$ not red). From them were made $7$ bouquets of $3$ roses.  What is the probability that one of these $7$ bouquets will be entirely red?

A: I found an answer to the more general problem extended stars-and-bars problem(where the upper limit of the variable is bounded)
Number of bouquet permutations is given by number of solutions to $\sum_{i=1}^7b_i=9$ where $b_i\in\{0,1,2,3\}$ which is the coefficient of $x^9$ in the polynomial $(1+x+x^2+x^3)^7$ and the number of permutations with one 3-red bouquet is 7 times the number of solutions to $\sum_{i=1}^6b_i=6$ where $b_i\in\{0,1,2\}$, because only one of the 7 bouquets/numbers has 3 red roses and there are 6 left to distribute among the remaining 6. $p=\frac{7\times141}{1918}$

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Brent Wilkes, the infamous corrupter of Duke Cunningham and long time friend of former third in command at the CIA, Dusty Foggo, is soon to go on trial, so Ken Silverstein asked Seth Hettena some questions about what to expect. My favorite?
5. What are some of the lesser-known revelations from the court papers and your book?
One interesting item was that Foggo apparently mentioned to a number of CIA associates that he was considering running for Duke Cunningham's seat in congress after Cunningham retired. Also, and this is one of my favorite stories in the book, Wilkes in the early-1990s was working for a defense contractor in San Diego who was having problems with a procurement official at the Pentagon. So Wilkes and Foggo cooked up a plot whereby they recruited a couple of off-duty cops, one who was a very attractive woman. She struck up a flirty conversation with the procurement official and basically induced him to come to Florida. Foggo had arranged a hotel room and they taped the official getting drunk and making threatening comments about Wilkes's boss. Wilkes went back to San Diego and played the tape for his boss–he also asked for $20,000 to cover his expenses–and his boss said, this is great, I'll take it to the authorities. Wilkes said, don't do that, the procurement official will just get fired and his replacement could be just as much trouble. Just hold on to the tape, with this you own the guy.
No wonder he got such good deals.
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Following the helicopter crash-landing involving the Vice President, Yemi Osonbajo, Caverton Helicopters has revealed on Twitter, that the Vice President has received another aircraft.
According to the tweet, this was to show its commitment to safety, the company said.
Osinbajo's helicopter had crash-landed in Kabba, Kogi State, on Saturday, while heading for a campaign rally of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state.
All 12 on board escaped unhurt when the helicopter skidded during landing.
Caverton had blamed unusual weather for the accident.
However, the Accident Investigation Bureau (AIB) has launched an investigation into the accident.


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The Royal Ancient City of Polonnaruwa, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982, is the second most ancient of Sri Lanka's kingdoms.
Just north of present-day Polonnaruwa town, 140km (90 miles) north of Kandy (216 km/134 miles from Colombo), are the ruins of ancient Polonnaruwa, which date from the late 10th century, when the Chola kings of southern India invaded Sri Lanka and conquered Anuradhapura.
The second most ancient of Sri Lanka's kingdoms, Polonnaruwa was first declared the capital city by King Vijayabahu I in the 11th century AD and maintained its status until the 13th century.
Trade and agriculture flourished under the patronage of the king, who was so adamant that no drop of water falling from the heavens was to be wasted and each was to be used toward the development of the land. Hence, irrigation systems that are far superior to those of the Anuradhapura Age were constructed – systems which to this day supply the water necessary for paddy cultivation during the scorching dry season in the east of the country. The greatest of these systems is the Parakrama Samudra (Sea of Parakrama), a huge lake built in 1200. It is of such a width that it is impossible to stand upon one shore and view the other side. It also encircles the main city like a ribbon, being both a moat against intruders and the lifeline of the people in times of peace. The Kingdom of Polonnaruwa was completely self-sufficient during King Parakramabahu's reign.
Today the ancient city of Polonnaruwa remains one of the best planned archaeological relic sites in the country, standing testimony to the discipline and greatness of the Kingdom's first rulers. Its beauty was also used as a backdrop to filmed scenes for the Duran Duran music video Save a Prayer in 1982.
In 1982 the ancient city of Polonnaruwa was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
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Sean Price, probably one of the most underrated underground HipHop wordsmiths of all time has always walked his own path. This joint below is one of the many grimmy and gritty tracks off his album "Mic Tyson". This track is actually one of the bonus songs on the iTunes version of the album and was also released on a Rock The Bells Mixtape . Sean P. is definitely one of leaders of that raw HipHop, without artist like him rap music would really wouldn't exist. R.I.P. Sean Price, your will always be missed!!


President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, this morning to attend the 12th Northern Corridor Integration Projects Summit. The plane carrying the President and his delegation touched down at Kigali international airport shortly before 9:00 am local time. On arrival President Kenyatta was received by senior Rwandan Government officials and Kenyans led by the Kenyan High Commissioner to Rwanda ambassador John Mwangemi. The 12th Northern Corridor Integration Projects Summit popularly known by an acronym NCIP Projects is to review the progress in the 14 earmarked projects, emerging issues, challenges as well as the way forward. The NCIP is an initiative aimed at fastracking sustainable development of the region through citizen-centred integration. By working together member states which include, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and South Sudan are making most of their shared resources and harnessing opportunities for investment. Senior regional officials, heads of institutions and permanent secretaries from the participating countries began discussions two days ago and are expected to hand over their report to the Heads of State during the summit. Leaders at the summit will discuss progress in implementation of the projects that deepen integration and improve people-to-people relations, as well as significantly improve intra-regional trade. So far the NCIP has made major achievements in a number of projects in the initiative such as single Customs Territory, One Area Network, and construction of the Standard Gauge Railway. Some of the tangible results already attained are movement in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya using only Identity Cards, harmonised fees for university education, one-visa regime for tourists, and no-employment permits between Kenya and Rwanda. The Single Customs Territory has also been credited with shortening the transit time for goods in the region to and from the port of Mombasa. Other than the members of the NCIP initiative, observers keen on working with the body on selected projects are also attending the summit. Among the observers present at the summit include, Burundi, Ethiopia, DR Congo, Tanzania and Djibouti. Bodies such as East African Community (EAC), the Northern Corridor Transit Transport Coordination Authority and the Regional private sector are also represented. Ethiopia is keen to supply power to the region which calls for harmonisation of infrastructure such as power grids. DR Congo is interested in the planned railway and energy projects. The Northern Corridor Transit Transport Coordination Authority will use the forum to look at how they can further reduce the non-tariff barriers that affect trade in the region. The summit will also see the regional private sector present a memorandum of understanding that will guide their engagement with governments in the implementation of the earmarked projects.


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Usnavy has always been a true believer.
When the Cuban Revolution triumphed in 1959, he was just a young man
and eagerly signed on for all of its promises. But as the years have
passed, the sacrifices have outweighed the glories and he's become
increasingly isolated in his revolutionary zeal. His friends openly mock
him, his wife dreams of owning a car totally outside their reach, and
his beloved fourteen-year-old daughter haunts the coast of Havana,
staring north.
In the summer of 1994, a few years after the collapse of
the Soviet Union,
the Soviet Union, the government allows Cubans to leave at will and on
whatever will float. More than 100,000 flee–including Usnavy's best
friend. Things seem to brighten when he stumbles across what may or may
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This and the next track were added to my play list due to certain recent events. Lucky since it's such a tune.
I am ashamed to not have had this before now.
Namely Anjaana Anjaani Ki Kahani (super annoying, but hey), Tujhe Bhula Diya (awesome) and Aas Paas Khuda (Unplugged and excellent).
I can't keep my shoulders still while listening to this. Lucky I no longer care about fellow commuters, eh?
Have you heard Aakrosh - Saude Bazi? Although I think it sounds similar to Tu Jaane Na.
I forget that you're one of the few guys I know who enjoys Bollywood.


Car racks are a necessity for a lot of riders. Luckily there's an endless array of choices and prices for hauling your two wheeler on your four wheeler.
Racks are categorized by where they mount on the vehicle. There are three main spots: roof, trunk and receiver hitch.
Roof-mounted racks typically consist of a base system that attaches to the roof of your vehicle. Vehicles with factory roof racks and crossbars can forego the base system.
Roof racks are ideal for riders who drive vehicles that won't work with a receiver hitch and/or want something more secure and permanent than a trunk rack.
A big benefit is the versatility of a roof rack, there are loads of sports hauling accessories for skis, kayaks, fishing, surfboards, SUPs, etc. made for the top of vehicles.
However, since your bike is on top of the vehicle, it'll hurt your car's MPGs and your bike is susceptible to low garages and parking structures.
Trunk racks are the best option for cyclists who want a low-cost, easy to remove bike hauler. Trunk racks attach via straps and can be adjusted to work with most vehicles.
The negatives are that they are typically the most prone to theft, for both the bikes and the rack itself. Trunk racks are also the least stable way to haul your bike.
Racks that attach to a receiver hitch have gained popularity due to their low loading height, secure bike transport and overall ease of use.
Like the other racks, they do have some tradeoffs, one being they're typically the highest priced and two, getting in a rear-end accident, whether with another car or by reversing into something, can quickly destroy your precious steed.
Another notable necessity is that your vehicle needs to have a receiver hitch mounted to it, which adds even more cost.
Most hitch racks share a lot in common with one another. A bar clamps up and over the front wheel and a ratcheting strap secures the rear wheel.
It's the little and not-so-little details that set the RockyMounts' SplitRail apart.
Raising and lowering the rack to load bikes, or to simply access the rear of the vehicle, occurs almost daily, which means having an easy-to-use handle for tilting the rack can be a make or break deal. The SplitRail has one of the best and it's easy to access and works well too.
Loading bikes is, of course, another primary concern. The SplitRail helps with this task by using tabs that keep the rear wheel straps out of the way. It sounds minor, but in use it's brilliant.
The rack hauls nearly every wheel size, from small to large, skinny to mid-fat, but full-on fat bikes aren't compatible, says RockyMounts.
Even storage off the vehicle is handled smartly. The SplitRail comes with a wall-mounted rack holder that keeps the rack off the floor and tucked closely against the wall.
If you have a Thule, Yakima or other base bar system, or if your vehicle is equipped with factory crossbars, RockyMounts' versatile TomaHawk upright bike rack is impressive.
The TomaHawk's biggest attribute is its ability to haul all sorts of bikes, from road bikes to 20in kids' bikes, to fat bikes to 29ers.
Loading a bike is relatively easy since RockyMounts includes tabs to keep the rack's wheel straps out of the way.
The rack itself can lock to the base rack, and even though the rack has a lock for the bike, it's not a top scorer in security.
Without a bike loaded, it folds down decently small.
If your bike hauling duties run the gamut from time trial aero machines to full-squish fatties with all stops in between, but there's only one bike rack on your car's roof, this is the right choice.
SeaSucker's Mini Bomber is unlike any other bike rack and attaches by way of suction cups. It may sound kooky, but each 15.24cm / 6in suction cup produces up to 210lbs of pull strength, and there are six cups — it's rock solid.
Like other roof rack bike carriers, the Mini Bomber rack holds bikes through the bike's front fork. SeaSucker offers a range of accessories to work with whatever axle your front wheel uses.
Back to the suction cups, the SeaSucker can be mounted to all sorts of vehicles and in a variety of ways: on the roof, half on the rear hatch glass, half on the trunk. The options are numerous.
Another highlight of the Mini Bomber is its small size. When it's not needed, it can easily be stashed in most cars.
While SeaSucker does offer a lock and cable for security, it's not as elegant as some of the other racks' built-in solutions.
Even though Thule's Raceway Platform Pro 2 attaches like a trunk rack, it thinks it's a hitch rack. And that's a good thing.
Unlike other strap-on racks that dangle bikes from their top tubes with the wheels wobbling to and fro, the Raceway secures bike wheels as well as the frame.
Attachment to the vehicle is by steel braided cables instead of the usual nylon webbing, it features ratchets for snugging the rack to the car, and the rack can be locked to the vehicle, and the bikes locked to the rack.
Loading bikes can be a bit tricky mainly because the outer bike clamp has to pass either over or through the inner bike's frame. Seat to handlebar contact must also be considered, as it is on nearly every rack.
Once loaded, the bikes roll down the road as solid, quiet and stable as a top-tier hitch rack.
But like its hitch-mount idols, the Raceway is expensive, especially for a trunk rack. And even though it folds up, it's not nearly as small as other trunk racks.


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Sustainability Faceoff: Procter & Gamble vs. Colgate-Palmolive
Which company should you trust to provide sustainable home products–Procter & Gamble or Colgate-Palmolive? Both companies manufacture a number of well-regarded brands, including Tom's of Maine, Tide, and Palmolive. But there can only be one winner in this sustainability battle. In the new book The HIP Investor, author and investment adviser R. Paul Herman compares the two. We do the same below.
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Procter & Gamble has set a number of green goals that it hopes to achieve by 2012, including $20 billion
in cumulative sales of products with low eco-impacts; a 20% reduction (per unit production) in total CO2 emissions, energy consumption, water consumption and disposed waste from P&G plants; and saving 20,000 lives by delivering
4 billion liters of clean water in the Children's Safe Drinking Water
program. The company has already made some real changes in its business practices, too, with reduced packaging in brands like Pampers, Prilosec, and CoverGirl, cold water detergent (Coldwater Tide and Cool Clean Ariel) that cuts down on electricity production, and low-energy Braun razors.
It's hard to find glaring sustainability issues with P&G, but there is still room for the company to make improvement. While a leader in diversity, P&G could seek to get
the women manager ratios to reflect today's 50-50 balance in society and
workforce. It could also work on its HRC Corporate Equality Index score. But these are minor complaints.
Colgate-Palmolive has also made strides in sustainability, with LEED-certified manufacturing facilities and EPA Design for the Environment-approved products including Ultra Palmolive Pots & Pans, Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid,
Palmolive Ultra Green, Murphy Oil Soap Liquid, and Ajax Expert Glass. Palmolive Pure + Clear, introduced in 2008, is free of toxic phosphates, heavy fragrances, and unnecessary chemicals. And Palmolive eco+, an automatic dishwater detergent released the same year, is also completely phosphate-free.
Unfortunately, Colgate's comprehensive sustainability Web site reflects data from 2008. This makes it difficult for us to judge the company's recent environmental efforts. So we have to give this round to Procter & Gamble, which provides up-to-date info about its ever-improving practices. (Note: this reflects views of FastCompany.com).
Check out the full HIP Investor chart below.
Procter & Gamble Colgate-Palmolive
Overview 138,000 employees, $79.0 billion in
annual revenue 36,600 employees, $15.3 billion in annual
Product Ariel detergent's sustainability team
designed large, seal-tight Polyethylene bags; they are 100% recyclable,
require 80% less packaging than boxes and take up 20% less space in
transport and storage Tom's of Maine, acquired by Colgate,
who saw an opportunity to also promote oral health globally
Practices 15 of 25:
By 2012, seek to generate at $20B+ in cumulative sales of products with
less environmental impact. (CSR report) 10 of 25:
Making dramatic strides in sustainability internally, and disclosing
new metrics in multiple HIP categories
of 20%
rating: 0.49% total incident rate 15% Safety
rating: 1.06% total incident rate 12%
employee ownership 15% Restricted
Stock Awards and stock options granted to some employees 14%
Reduced actual worldwide CO2 emissions from 3,148,000 tons to 2,889,000
tons since 2002. In 2008, P&G produced 81 metric tons of GHG emissions
per $1MM in revenue 12% Total
worldwide GHG emissions of 675,000 metric tons in 2008, or 44 metric
tons per $1MM in revenue 11%
38.9% women management; HRC equality index score is 85% 17% 32.9%
women management; HRC equality index score is 73% 15%
Sustainability information available on Web site; $4 million lobbying
in 2008 10%
Several products approved by EPA with Design for the Environment Qualification;
only $40,000 in lobbying; very comprehensive reporting 14%
of 100%
TOTAL 70%
Corporate Profit
return on equity (2009)+0.9%
annualized total return, including reinvested dividends (6/2004–6/2009)
+100.7%
Read more Sustainability Faceoffs.
Table excerpted from The HIP Investor: Make Bigger Profits by Building a Better World by R. Paul Herman Copyright (c) Published by John Wiley & Sons. Used with permission.
Ariel Schwartz is a Senior Editor at Co.Exist. She has contributed to SF Weekly, Popular Science, Inhabitat, Greenbiz, NBC Bay Area, GOOD Magazine and more
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Pentecost is the culmination of the whole paschal mystery. If Christmas is "God with us"; if Good Friday & Easter is "God for us" then Pentecost is "God in us". The first Pentecost was the beginning of the Church but Pentecost is always happening; the grace of God is always on offer. However we must make ourselves open to receive His Gifts. Mother Mary, spouse of the Holy Spirit obtain for us this grace!
Last Vespers at 5pm today: we will have Rosary at 4.30pm and at 5pm we will have our last Easter Vespers. This week they will be sung by the Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate.
Our May Processions: On Tuesday 17th at 10am, we will have our May procession at St Bernadette School at which we say the Hail Mary in many different languages. Next Sunday (22nd May) we have our Marian procession starting at 2pm with Rosary, Benediction, Litany and Crowning of Our Blessed Lady.
Fr Pawel has gone on the Chartres Pilgrimage with two different Windsor families, Paul Mills, Victor Jones and many others. They should be back on Tuesday evening.
Mission Appeal from Comboni Fathers (Verona Fathers): Next week at all Masses. Fr CB lived with them for a short while at their Arabian Institute in Cairo. Please be generous!
Gift Aid: Marie Chang, our Gift Aid co-ordinator will be handing out the remaining boxes of gift aid envelopes after the Masses this weekend. If you are not yet a participant of the Scheme, please consider joining as it greatly helps the parish finances – at absolutely no extra cost!! (Mass intention stipends & Diocesan Collections are gift-aided too.) You can donate weekly via the envelopes – or for ease why not think about making your contributions via a Standing Order (forms can be found at the back of the Church all through the year & HERE!). If you are a basic tax payer, we can claim back the tax, increasing any donation that you make by 25% (more if you are a higher rate tax payer).
New Hymn books: We have purchased some more hymn books recently. Please treat these books with the respect as you would expect your possessions to be treated – please do not allow your children to draw on or pull the books apart. Thank you for your understanding.
Church Cleaners this week: Yorusaliam Zekristos and Sara Tuccu.
Works of Mercy: The next Rosary Procession Vigil, led by the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal, will be held on Saturday 21st May 2016, at St. Thomas of Canterbury Church 557/559 High Road, Woodford Green IG8 0RB. We begin with 9am Mass, followed by our Procession at 9.45am to Marie Stopes abortion centre, 88 Russell Road, Buckhurst Hill, Essex IG9 5QB, where we pray 15 decades of the Rosary and sing hymns, returning at approx. 12.30pm to the church for refreshments. Full details on poster in church porch.


Esther M. Ceresero, 96, Portage County Health Care Center, passed away Sunday, March 24, 2019, at Aspirus Wausau Hospital.
She was born June 13, 1922, in Knowlton, the daughter of the late August and Rose (Britz) Schwichtenberg. She married John Ceresero on June 1, 1946, in Knowlton. Esther and John lived and worked in several locations in Wisconsin. They purchased the Rosholt Bakery and ran the business from 1961-1972. Esther was known for her delicious pies, which continued to be in high demand even after selling the bakery. "The Pie Lady" was her nickname.
After John's death on Feb 2, 1996, Esther moved to Southern California where she lived for four years before returning to Stevens Point. Esther had an amazing personality and was well loved throughout the area. Her passions were baking, gardening, polka dancing, attending church picnics, and her family.
She was a loving mother, grandmother, great grandmother and loving friend. Esther will be fondly remembered and missed.
Survivors include a son, Rev. Battista (Nanxi) Ceresero, Neenah; a daughter, Jean (Gary Saeger) Krogwold, Iola; nine grandchildren; 27 great-grandchildren; and four brothers and sisters, Margaret (George) Husa, Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Gerald Schwichtenberg and Loretta Tombolato, both of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Malana Meyer, Rialto, Calif. She was preceded in death by a son, Jerry Ceresero, two brothers, Otto and Albert Schwichtenberg, and a sister, Marie Holmquist, and her twin sisters, Jean and Jane.
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Q: JPA and transactions in JTA mode (begin and commit) I have practiced JTA and RESOURCE_LOCAL modes with JPA, there is a huge difference between those two modes.
When I use RESOURCE_LOCAL, I have to manage transactions myself with EntityTransaction, and when I use JTA it's implicitely done by the application server.
So I would like to know when the begin() and commit() methods are executed in JTA mode.
I assume that when the application server receive a HTTP request it executes "begin()", and before sending an HTTP response to client it executes "commit()"; also, if an error happens before sending the response, it does a "rollback()". Am I right ?

A: The JPA specs do not define an exact spot when begin and commit are triggered when workign with JTA transactions.
The transaction control has nothing to do with HTTP requests/responses and is not being triggered by them.
A JTA transaction will be provided for all transactional methods (all EJB methods per default) independent of their purpose.
However there are some guarantees considering JTA transactions and JPA. The transaction is guaranteed to have started when the first call to an EntityManager is made and is guaranteed to either commit or rollback before the method returns.


The Memphis Grizzlies earned a comfortable 103-88 victory over the Atlanta Hawks in the opening game of the Utah Summer League.
The game featured a battle of first-round draft picks, with No. 4 overall selection Jaren Jackson Jr. facing off with No. 5 overall selection Trae Young. In addition to helping his team win, Jackson far outpaced Young in the box score.
*Dylan voice* Who are the 5 best shooters of all time? 1. Jaren Jackson Jr. 2. Jaren Jackson Jr. 3. Jaren Jackson Jr. 4. Jaren Jackson Jr. 5. Jaren Jackson Jr.
Did Jaren Jackson Jr really just dive into the stands for a loose ball in Summer League? I'm in love.
Young also had Twitter buzzing but for mostly the wrong reasons. He finished with 16 points but shot 4-of-20 from the field, including 1-of-11 on three-pointers.
Young is a high-volume shooter who isn't afraid to spot up from anywhere within five feet of the three-point arc. There will be games where he single-handedly takes over for Atlanta, and there will be others where his propensity to chuck up attempts will make fans want to pull their hair out.
Monday's summer league game was a good taste of what to expect from Young in his first season in the NBA.


Rapid Keypads can add lighting to your capacitive touch keypads and control panels.
Since our capacitive touch system can sense through non-conductive materials, we can put our lighting layer on top of the button sensor. This puts the lighting layer closest to the graphic overlay making it the brightest available.
In addition to our uniform, diffuse lighting of the full keypad, we can selectively light specific keys as well as add indicator lights to show status.
Fore Light™ is an easy way to illuminate your capacitive touch PCB keypads. This technique allows for uniform and diffuse illumination over a large area making it perfect for button icons and logos.
This method is generally used for illuminating button icons in dim or dark environments. For example, in automobiles, when the head lights are turned on, the instrument cluster and button control icons are all illuminated.
We design and manufacture a special custom lighting layer that makes LED light uniform and diffuse. This lighting layer is sandwiched between the PCB and the Graphic Overlay.
Selective lighting is simply the ability to control the illumination of individual button icons. With translucent white button icons you will be able to still see them even when the back lighting is off.
This method is used when the illumination of a button is meant to show the status of that button. We can use different colors of light produced by RGB LEDs to indicate multiple modes of operation. An example of this is the call button in an airplane, when the button is pressed it illuminates.
Selective lighting is simply the ability to control the illumination of individual button icons. The Dead Fronting technique is the ability to control the visibility of button icons or logos.
We have perfected the Selective Lighting and Dead Front Techniques using Glass and Plastic overlays. Now you can illuminate button icons separately and when that illumination is turned off, the icon disappears into the background.
Not only does this add a futuristic look and feel to your product, it also can be used to simplify the operation of your product. By illuminating function specific buttons you can make your control panel easy to operate.
Projected Selective Lighting is an easy way to illuminate your capacitive touch Film keypads. This technique allows for the individual illumination of button icons and logos.
We design and manufacture a special custom lighting spacer layer that positions the LEDs at the appropriate distance from the graphic overlay in order to produce a uniform and diffuse lighted touch interface. This lighting spacer layer is sandwiched between the PCB and the Graphic Overlay / Touch Sensor Film assembly.
Indicator LEDs are a simple way to communicate button status. Bi-Color or RGB LEDs can be used to provide even more information to the user. Indicator LEDs can be used with either PCB or Film type capacitive touch systems.
A great example of this in automobiles is the cruise control or defrost buttons. Usually these buttons are illuminated with an additional indicator light. When the cruise control or defrost are active the indicator light will be turned on.
For instance, consider the video of a capacitive touch keypad we developed recently. This keypad is a very good example of our complete touch panel backlighting. As soon as the interface is powered on, the backlighting turns on and the brightness slowly increases till it reaches its maximum. We refer to this as the "soft on" or "wake up" effect. As long as the keys are being used, the keypad stays at its maximum brightness.
If the capacitive touch interface remained inactive or there were no key presses detected for a certain period of time, the backlighting begins dimming and finally turns off. We refer to this as the "soft off" or "sleep" effect. The user then reactivates the interface by touching any one of the buttons and the backlighting exhibits the "soft on" effect.
In certain applications, select keys of the touch interface needs to be lit up to indicate the state they are in. The mute button in a multimedia keyboard is a great example of such a key. This is demonstrated in the video below. We can see how when the mute button is pressed, the key is selectively lit indicating the sound from the computer has been muted.
Customers should note that adding selective lighting to a keypad will increase the cost of the keypad during the prototyping and production stage because of the added complexity.
Even in a well lit room, it is easy to see the uniform lighted logo flash and change colors.
The LEDs used in our interface can also be RGB LEDs. This is especially useful while creating a slider for position control. The slider LEDs could be all lit in a particular color (blue), and when the user chooses a position it could be lit up in a different color (red). A picture illustrating this is shown above.
Various color LEDs on a slider could also indicate the intensity level at which your device may be operating. For instance, green LEDs could be used to indicate acceptable, lower or safer operating ranges, while red LEDs could be used to indicate not acceptable, higher or dangerous operating regions. This video showcases an example of a capacitive touch slider interface that uses indicator LEDs to control the operation of a sonic generator. The lower operating regions are indicated by green LEDs, while the higher operating regions are indicated by red colored LEDs.
Your project may need to indicate the status of a particular feature in addition to complete back lighting. This can be easily accomplished by using our capacitive touch interfaces. In this example, we used Bi-Color LEDs to indicate two different states of each button. Several more states can be displayed by flashing these indicator lights. For demonstration purposes we have modified this product to show latching, momentary and back light dimming effects. The last part of the demonstration shows how we can use indicator LEDs to show the level of fluid in the device.


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Statistical Analysis: Hrgota salvages point for Greuther Fürth in draw with Arminia Bielefeld
After a goal from Klos, Arminia Bielefeld were 1-0 up at half-time, in their away game against Greuther Fürth in the Bundesliga. But then, Greuther Fürth clawed their way back into the game and equalised through Hrgota. The game finished 1-1.
Arminia Bielefeld took the lead in added-time in the first half when Fabian Klos scored, with an assist by Cedric Brunner.
Straight after the break, Branimir Hrgota found the net and equalised for Greuther Fürth. The 1-1 goal was the last goal of the game.
Arminia Bielefeld's Alessandro Schopf was sent off in the 68th minute.
The last outing between the teams ended in a 2-4 away win for Arminia Bielefeld in February 2020.
After this game in the Bundesliga, Greuther Fürth will take on Mainz (away) on 2021-08-28, Wolfsburg (home) on 2021-09-11 and Hertha Berlin (away) on 2021-09-17. Arminia Bielefeld play Eintracht Frankfurt (home) on 2021-08-28, Mönchengladbach (away) on 2021-09-12 and Hoffenheim (home) on 2021-09-18.
Analytics: Sheffield Wednesday's backline continues to impress
Match Stats: No goals in game between Eintracht Frankfurt and Augsburg


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Q: [VC++]How can I run my program on another PC? I have an MFC application that runs on my computer, but when I try to run it on another PC I receive an error message that the application failed to initialize and I should re-install it. What should I do?

A: See redistributing an MFC application from MSDN.
Generally you could install the Redistributing Visual C++ package for x86.
You can also compile your program to statically link the MFC dlls for easier deployment.

A: The problem is that the other computer is missing the C/C++ runtime libraries.  Install the version of the Microsoft Visual C++ runtime that matches the version of Visual C++ that you used to compile it on the other computer.
Alternatively, you can link the application statically.  Right click on the project in the Solution Explorer and choose Properties, then naviagate to C/C++ > Code Generation > Runtime Libraries.  Choose the Debug/Release option that doesn't include "DLL".

A: You can link static or install the VC++ Redistributable Pack.

A: You are missing some of the libraries, either link the application statically or install the VS redistributables on the other computer
See http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf

A: If you get a message like "side-by-side configuration error",  that means your exe must be shipped some extra files, probably MFC / ATL dlls. Use dependency walker to find out what are the dependencies : http://www.dependencywalker.com/


Mc Oluomo has given an account of how Zam Zam water usually brought by pilgrims from Mecca saved his life immediately he was stabbed at the All Progressives Campaign flag-off in Ikeja. MC Oluomo was reportedly stabbed with a poisonous knife that almost took his life, while he was on the Babajide Sanwoolu's campaign ground by unknown hoodlum, truncating the program and causing tension in the National Union of Road Transport Workers of Nigeria, NURTW, Lagos chapter.
MC Oluomo, speaking at his survival thanksgiving at his Ejigbo residence on Thursday, January 31, 2019, expressed his shock by the event and what he did immediately he was stabbed.
But what came to my mind was the Zam Zam water I got from Mecca. I have seen and experience how Alfas make use of the Holy water and how it works. While I was being rushed to the hospital, all I could do was to request that my people try as much as possible to get me the Zam Zam water.


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Sumukhi Suresh Age, Weight, Boyfriend, Family, Biography & More
Education: Graduation
Hometown: Nagpur
Nickname Sumu
Profession(s) Actor, Stand-up Comedian, Writer, and Director
in feet & inches- 5' 2"
Debut YouTube (Actor): Anu Aunty- Engineering Anthem (2014)
Film, Kannada (Actor): Humble Politician Nograj (2018); as Lavanya
Date of Birth 18 October 1987 (Sunday)
Birthplace Nagpur, Maharashtra
Hometown Chennai
College/University M. O. P. Vaishnav College for Women in Chennai [1]Indian Express
Educational Qualification Graduation in Nutrition, Dietetics, and Food Science Management
Caste Tamil Brahmin [2]Indian Express
Tattoo She has got a tattoo inked on her left arm which means "your mom" in Mandarin.
Relationships & More
Parents Names Not Known
Siblings She has two elder brothers.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Sumukhi Suresh
Sumukhi Suresh is a popular stand-up comedian in India.
In 2009, she moved from Nagpur to Bengaluru and worked as a librarian in a Children's Library, Hippocampus. Later, she started working in a food laboratory in Bengaluru.
In 2011, she joined TUV Rheinland India Pvt Limited in Bengaluru as a business development manager.
She joined an improvisational comedy show in Bengaluru, "The Improv" in 2013 and performed in more than 100 shows with the 'The Improv' group.
She played the role of 'Parvati Bai' in a sketch video along with Sanjay Manaktala in 2015.
Her character, 'Sumukhi Chawla' in the YouTube series "Better Life Foundation" (2016) became very popular.
Sumukhi Suresh- Better Life Foundation
She has performed in various comedy shows with Better Life Foundations' writer, Naveen Richard.
She got immense popularity with her character of a 10-year-old girl 'Behti Naak' in 2016.
She has acted in a few Hindi web-series, like 'Pushpavalli' (2017), 'Comicstaan' (2018), 'Go Straight Take Left' (2018), 'Don't tell Amma' (2019), and 'Pushpavalli 2' (2020).
The veteran Tamil actress, Manorama, is her favourite comedian.
In an interview, she discussed the challenges faced by a Indian comedian, she said,
Comedy, like any other industry, comes with a set of challenges that you have to face, regardless of your gender. Creating regular content, writing as much as possible and drawing a crowd for your shows are some of the many points on your checklist. Then why was it that when I achieved even one of them, I was lauded for being able to do so "as a woman" and also congratulated for being the first woman to have done that? While initially, you enjoy the attention, soon enough you should want to be the best at what you do and not be limited by your gender. Thus I gave myself the goal of becoming the best comic rather than best ovary-producing laughter generator. The only way for me to break gender bias and related discrimination is by being so good at my work that I am unavoidable."
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For several months leading up to the election, I was stunned, along with several of my family members and friends, to hear what was coming out of our would-be president's mouth. His speech about women, alone, had me thinking there was no way my 13-year-old daughter would be looking up to this man as the leader of our country: his hateful words, predatory ideals, and alarming rhetoric waved off by some as him being "a man who speaks his mind" didn't sit well with me . . . at all.
I didn't want to rush to judgment. I would never vote for him, but I wanted to understand why some people trusted him with the important matters of our country and people.
I found out quickly, and with a bit of trial and error, that an honest conversation about the topic could and probably would plunge into the never-ending rabbit hole of political, religious, and moral abyss—never to be solved and likely to end in anger.
There were a few times it had gone badly. Lesson learned.
I then did what many of us do when we don't want to alienate those we love: I stopped talking about the election. It was a no-go zone for conversations at family get-togethers and dinners out with friends. Except for addressing my daughter's questions and concerns, gently fishing for a friend's opinion in a subtle side conversation, or occasionally debating with people who I knew could discuss a different opinion without getting angry, I mostly kept my beliefs to myself.
So I waited. . . . I waited to form an opinion of Trump because some people in my life whom I respect—and who truly want the best for their country and family—strongly believe Trump is the change our nation needs. Maybe his behavior was a campaign tactic, they rationalized. Maybe he would somehow become a different person after he took the oath of office.
His acceptance speech after the election gave me hope that a new "presidential" kind of man, one who might be worthy of leading our country, would emerge from the mudslinging of his antagonistic campaign. I was still stopping myself from rushing to conclusions, being cautious not to overreact.
So I still waited. And I watched.
I watched as he continued to recklessly tweet about other countries and threaten their deep-seated values. I watched as he praised media outlets that cast him in a favorable light and condemned others who threatened to expose a different opinion, calling it "fake news." I watched as he proposed a tax plan that could harm, not help, marginalized groups such as Solo Moms. And, more recently, I watched as he eradicated civil rights, healthcare, and climate change from our nation's agenda last week within hours of taking office.
And now I can tell you, I've watched enough.
This "president for the people" didn't waste any time scraping away the issues our country has debated for years, issues we discuss and consider carefully because WE CARE about them. Even though there are differences in opinion, we debate them because they are worth the time it takes to sort them out. And now they are simply brushed aside within moments of having a new administration?
I wanted to give our new president the benefit of the doubt and see where he was going to lead us. But in recent days, as he forcefully changed the direction of our country within hours of taking office and made it clear where we are headed—from a nation that cares about togetherness and "we the people" to one that seeks to profit at the expense of tossing aside issues so many Americans hold dear—I asked myself and others around me: Why aren't we more concerned?
I went to bed the night of President Trump's inauguration feeling like I was living in an alternate reality. I also felt that when I woke the next morning, the country as I knew it would be completely different.
Then I saw it. . . .
Women began flowing into our nation's capital. The trickles became waves, and the waves erupted into masses of women marching—peacefully—in opposition to President Trump. Images were flooding in from Sydney, Berlin, London, Paris, Canada, and South Africa of more than a million friendly-faced women, men, and children marching across America and all over the world.
It was the answer to my question: We ARE concerned. And we're not the only ones.
Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart, to everyone who went out in droves last weekend for the Women's March, which meant so much more than feminism and women's rights. It was all that and more . . . the peacefulness and size of this protest made me feel safer and less afraid—and Solo Moms could use a lot more of this in the months and years to come.
You've done more than given us hope; you've given us a voice. I now know exactly what we need to do moving forward: we need to stop being afraid to talk about the tough issues and open the dialogue between us, no matter our differences in opinion, and continue to have our voices heard so we can stand up for ourselves, our children, and our futures.
I pledge to keep talking about the things that matter to me and stop being silent, even if a conversation gets uncomfortable. There's too much at stake not to.
Check out ESME's closed Facebook Group called ESME Collective Action, where we share ways to advocate on behalf of Solo Moms.


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Benjamin Francis Leftwich In The Open
UK singer/songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich, just wrapped up his first US tour supporting The Jezabels. Last week in San Francisco, he shot a few songs with In The Open and the first one for "Pictures".
Here's the album version.
Video: "Pictures" by Benjamin Francis Leftwich
"Pictures" (below) sees Benjamin Francis Leftwich at his most melancholic; a haunting reverb-laden vocal layered up delicate finger picking. The song is taken from the album 'Last Smoke Before The Snowstorm'. 'Pictures' will be released as a single on February 20th 2012.
Also, be sure to check out the GZUS remix of the song too. Its not too much of a departure from the original, but its nice to hear the song with something to tap your foot to.


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A Report about Hassan Rastgari's Situation in Uremia Prison
Posted on: 27th November, 2017
HRANA News Agency – Hassan Rastegari Majd, Iranian-Turkish citizen and political prisoner in Urmia Central Prison, who has been sentenced to 24 years in three separate cases, has an unfavorable medical condition. The prisoner who had gone on hunger strike in protest against his legal situation, accused the judicial authorities and in particular prosecutor's office with not doing what he promised to do.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Hassan Rastegari Majd has been detained since 2013 and sentenced to about 24 years in prison and lashes for three cases. In recent weeks, the prisoner has called to investigate his legal situation and his medical problems by a lot of legal correspondence and contact with the Turkish Consulate.
A source close to Hassan Rastegari Majd told HRANA's reporter: "The political prisoner has requested to investigate his legal status through sending letters to the judicial authorities and also contacting the Turkish Consulate during recent months."
Mr. Rastegari has protested mostly against his main case regarding the charge of membership in the P.K.K for which he has been sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The basis for issuing this verdict was "repeating the offense", that in fact refers to the case of Mr. Rastegari in 2009, for which he had been sentenced to 2 years in prison on the charge of cooperation with PJAK.
The prisoner claims that he has finally been able to prove his innocence in the case, so this means that the present case is void for credibility and accountability by considering the similarities in the allegations in the present and past cases.
He also alleges that he has not committed an offense through providing Iranian certificate under the Iranian laws on the basis of the principle of "blood" in Iran's laws, and he has only obtained a birth certificate on the basis of his local identity with regard to his Iranian identity.
Hassan Rastegari Majd also says that the principle of aggregation of sentences has not been enforced for him. If this principle (art. 147) would be applied on his case, at least eight years of his conviction would be reduced.
The Turkish prisoner refers to his meeting with the prosecutor during his hunger strike and the promises made by the judicial authority at his correspondence.
Mr. Rastegari Majd also calls for medical services, he claims that he has suffered from disturbances due to beatings in solitary confinement and also suffers from neurological diseases.
The 43-year-old prisoner has announced that the number of tensions and conflicts in prison which have led to his repeated convictions, were due to his nervousness and therefore demands medical attention to his condition.
It should be recalled that Hassan Rastegari, 43, son of Sultan, was convicted to two years imprisonment on charge of collaborating with PJAK in 2009.
He was arrested by security forces in Urmia on October 27, 2014, for the second time after the end of his imprisonment.
He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment on charge of membership in the Kurdistan Workers' Party (P.K.K). Since 2013, this Iranian-Turkish citizen has faced other cases and convictions, including two years of imprisonment on charge of carrying and storing weapons and ammunition in 2013.
He was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment for the charges of unauthorized crossing of the border and producing an Iranian identity card (conviction in 2015).
Three cases related to incidents in the prison have also been formed for the prisoner, for which he has been sentenced to imprisonment and lashes, including: he has been sentenced to 4 months imprisonment for his absence at the time of his furlough (conviction in 2011). He was sentenced to three months in prison and 20 lashes on charges of insulting the interrogation officer, disruption of the prison system, propaganda against the regime by announcing the slogan in favor of anti-regime groups and the intentional beating (in 2016).
In the last case, he was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and 50 lashes on charges of beating and disrupting the prison system (in 2017).
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We are back onboard Sage. We have many great memories of India and would love to explore more given the opportunity and a bit of a break from the intensity.
We arrived back in the evening hoping a slow introduction to the heat and humidity might help. We look back with fondness to the lows of 0C and highs of 16C in Ladakh and are seriusly considering air conditioning if we stay at the dock much longer.
Much needed repairs to our centreboard are on the 'to do' list but the yard where we were going to haul out can no longer take any business. Apparently the long anticipated car ferries have been directed to get out of Khua's anchorage and tie up at the wharf where the shipyard is. That means the shipyard cannot haul boats out of the water nor put them back in. More a worry for the boats that are already on the hard than for those of us waiting to be hauled out.
Wait for further developments….In the meantime we are enjoying being 'at home'.


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