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1975 Norton - Wiring Harness
I needed to create a new wiring harness for the bike. I had several upgrades/alterations in mind:
I also wanted to use the original Norton wiring color scheme as much as possible. I obtained the request wire, bullet connectors and sleeves from Britishwiring.com
Jere is my attempt the diagram.
I first ran the wires on the bike in the approximate locations of everything. I left a lot of extra on each end and didn't terminate anything yet. It took several go rounds to make sure I had all the wires run in the routes I wanted. I also added some extra ground wires in for the headlight, head, frame and rear tail.
Once I had the rough layout, I zip tied the thing together and removed it from the bike. I wrapped it in black harness tape and terminated with heat shrink. Then I remounted the loom on the frame and started cutting things to length and terminating. I slowly worked through the brake lights, head lights, indicator lights, turn signals (which took a while since I had to fabricate the mounts), and the ignition.
I forgot to take pics of when I wrapped it and installed it.
Anybody into Commandos will tell you that the bike was apparently built around the horn. The stock location is deep in the center of the bike, difficult to get to - not the greatest place for a horn to make sound. My original horn ended up being bad, so I needed to replace it. Further the original Lucas horn was probably everything Lucas thought it should be, which as it turns out, is pretty much the same as how they designed and built everything. So I wanted to upgrade to a pair of Fiamm Freeway Blasters located in a more strategic position .I also needed a place to mount my new fuse block, the Fuzeblocks FZ-1.
I decided to mount all this stuff aft the air cleaner, but in front of the battery. My first goal was to model the space in Fusion 360, so I could design a way to get everything located. Once I had that, I designed a sheet metal mount. It took about 5 iterations to get it to work.
Once I had a design, I used Fusion's sheet metal tools to create an unfolded 1:1 plan of the part. I glued this to a piece of sheet metal, then cut and bent it along the lines. Once I had it bent up, I welded it together and painted it.
Everything pretty much fit as I hoped it would.
Here's the thing partially wired. In order to mount it, I welded a could of pieces of angle to the battery tray and then attached some captive nuts to be used with some horizontal bolts to secure the horn mount (you can see a couple of slots in the picture above - bottom of the front rail). So the horn mount slips down on top of the rails and 4 bolts are inserted horizontally to secure it.
And here it is mounted up. I'm pretty happy with the way everything ended up. The horn relay is a bit cramped, but normally not a service item. Now on the the next part of the project - the wiring harness!
February 2022


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Top Performances From College Softball (March 2)
The Redhawks earned the first win over a top-25 team in program history as they took down No. 22 Illinois 5-2 at the OSU/Tulsa Invitational in Tulsa, OK. Sophomore outfielder Ally Choate and junior outfielder Cherise Silvan had three hits each to power a 15-hit attack for SU, while sophomore lefty Carley Nance held the high-powered Illini offense to just five hits and two runs (one earned) in a complete-game effort, tying a season-low offensive output for Illinois.
The Badgers had a huge day to earn a pair of top-25 victories at the Sun Devil Classic in Tempe, AZ. No. 21 Wisconsin outlasted surging No. 8 Texas 3-1 in nine innings as Haley Hestekin, Maddie Schwartz and Kaitlyn Menz combined to allow just a single unearned run in nine innings against one of the best offenses in the country. Hestekin and Menz then came back to combine on a three-hitter as UW knocked off host No. 20 Arizona State 5-1. It marked the first day with two top-25 wins for Wisconsin in 18 years, and the first time that the Badgers have ever defeated the Sun Devils.
James Madison
Several third-year Dukes starred as No. 14 James Madison swept a doubleheader at the Wildcat Classic in Tucson, AZ. Catcher Kierstin Roadcap had a pair of hits, punctuated by the game-ending two-run shot to enforce run-rule in an 8-0 win over Drake in game one. Pitcher/first baseman Odicci Alexander drove in two runs in each game and earned the win in the nightcap as JMU knocked off Kent State 8-1. Second baseman Madison Naujokas reached base nearly every time to the plate, going 4-for-5 with a pair of doubles, a walk, a stolen base, and four runs scored. Left fielder Kate Gordon had three hits and drove in three, including a two-run homer against the Golden Flashes.
Kiara Oliver
The 2018 A-10 Pitcher of the Year tossed nine shutout innings en route to a win and a save at the Purple and Gold Invitational in Greenville, NC. The sophomore righty held down a 2-1 lead with two innings of hitless relief to earn her third save of the year against Winthrop, earning her third save of the season to tie the UMass single-season record. She then tossed a complete game three-hit shutout in the nightcap, as the Minutewomen silenced host East Carolina 5-0. Oliver carried a no-hit bid into the sixth inning, then induced back-to-back fielder's choices to get out of a big jam in the sixth.
Kenzi Goins
Nevada's right fielder had a big day offensively as the Wolfpack won twice at the Wooo Pig Classic in Fayetteville, AR. The junior went 2-for-4 with a solo homer in Nevada's 8-0 win over Omaha in the opener, then built on that with a 3-for-4 game with two doubles and two runs scored against Northwestern State, including the walk-off RBI double in the bottom of the eighth to secure the 4-3 win over the Demons.
The Bobcats were the comeback queens on Saturday, earning three wins including an upset of Mississippi State with late offense at the Duke/NC State Invitational in Raleigh, NC. Trailing 6-1 after six innings against Campbell, Ohio piled up eight runs in the seventh as they rallied for a 9-6 win. Game two against Charleston Southern was tied 1-1 after the first inning all the way to extras, but a three-run eighth powered by back-to-back homers from senior designated player Morgan Geno and freshman second baseman Charlee Pond stood up in a 4-3 eight-inning win. The big result came in a game resumed from Friday night, as the Bobcats once again rallied with their backs against the wall. Pond hit a solo homer in the sixth to draw within a run at 4-3 before Geno hit a walk-off two-run blast in the seventh to knock off the Bulldogs 5-4.
Gianna Mancha
The sophomore righty carried a no-hit bid to the final out in a one-hit shutout as Boise State secured the best 15-game start in program history with a doubleheader sweep at the San Diego Classic in San Diego, CA. Mancha struck out six in the 8-0, five-inning shutout of Illinois-Chicago in the opener. Combined with a five-run rally in the seventh inning of game two to beat FGCU, the 2019 Broncos are off to the best start ever and have tied their longest winning streak ever with 12, matching Feb. 25 to March 13, 2011.
Brianna Jones
Brianna Jones pitched the fourth perfect game in Southern Illinois history on Saturday. The Salukis scored 10 runs in support of the first perfect game since 2009. Jones struck out three Saint Louis batters, induced nine fly outs and three groundouts. The win improves her record to 8-2 on the year.
Illinois State
The Redbirds got their fifth win of the season by upsetting No. 10 Indiana 3-0 on Saturday in Baton Rouge. Morgan Day pitched a complete game, only surrendering three hits and one walk. She struck out seven and improved to 2-4. Andrea Coursey gave ISU a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first and Alyssa Wiebel provided the insurance later in the inning with two RBIs.

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During the first three years of my Christian life, my heart burned with the love of Christ. I wanted to tell everyone of His great love. I couldn't wait to come into His presence through prayer and reading the Bible. Those were wonderful days I shall never forget. There was one special place where I would meet with Him in the mornings. The memories of those days still linger with me.
But after three years, something happened in my Christian experience. The flame of the love of God in my heart began to die . I didn't know what to do. I knew I was a Christian, but I no longer experienced the victory I once knew. I didn't know how to recapture that flame that once burned deep in my soul.
One day, I met a man named Leo Humphrey. He was a red-headed ball of fire. He witnessed to everyone he met. When I saw the fire of God's love burning deep within him, I realized how defeated my Christian life really was. One night, Leo and I were ministering together in a beach-side community on the Gulf of Mexico. I confided in Leo, "I'm defeated. I don't know what to do. I struggle in my walk with God."
That night Leo and I prayed together. It felt like half an hour. But when we finished, I was surprised to see the sun rising. We had prayed through the night. That was the turning point in my walk with God.
That night I took my wife and placed her in a casket. I took my furniture and placed it in a casket. I took my automobile, my clothes, and all of my material possessions and placed them in that casket. I took my ambition to be some well-known preacher and placed it in that casket. I took my dreams and aspirations and placed them in that casket. Then I crawled into the casket and I died.
No, I didn't do that physically. But I did spiritually. Sammy Tippit died. I died to the "self life" — to ego, pride, self-sufficiency, and selfishness. The apostle Paul said, "I have been crucified with Christ; nevertheless, I live. Yet not I, but Christ lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God" (Galatians 2:20). Paul had not been physically crucified, but he died spiritually to the "self life." His life could only be described by "Christ who lived in him."
When I discovered this great truth, the fire of God's love once again began to burn deep within my soul. Actually, I had died to self when I became a Christian. The "old man" had died, and I was raised to a new life in Christ. That's why I had experienced so much victory in the beginning of my Christian life. But somewhere along the way, I thought I could live the Christian life. I tried, and I failed miserably.
The victorious Christian life is the crucified life. It's the life that has died to self — and has been raised to victory by the indwelling presence of Jesus Christ. It's the life that truly understands, "no longer I, but Christ who lives in me." It's dead to self and alive in Christ.
I had to climb in a casket one evening. Only then did I begin to experience the victorious Christian life. There's a casket waiting for each of us. Life results from death. We'll never know the resurrected power of Christ until we've experienced the crucified life with Him.
Colossians : Chapter 3
1) Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2) Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3) For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4) When Christ, who is your[a] life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. 5) Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6) Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.[b] 7) You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8) But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9) Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10) and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11) Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.
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British chancellor Rishi Sunak has demanded a review of Capital Gains Tax ('CGT') by the Office of Tax Simplification.
The profit/increase in value on the sale or donation of properties is paid to CGT. The rates are 18 percent – 28 percent on residential property disposals and 10 percent -20 percent on other properties. There's a £ 12,300 annual exemption per taxpayer. The disposal of your main residence is tax-free and "Entrepreneurs Relief" will see the first £ 1 million of the benefit at the lower rate of 10 percent on the selling of a company paid to CGT.
For the Treasury, CGT is not a major earner-it constitutes just about 1 percent of the annual tax revenue.
The majority's income usually does not stretch beyond their home, pension fund, ISA's and our savings at the Bank/Building Society. A minority of taxpayers are still liable to pay CGT.
While the chancellor Rishi Sunak briefing the OTT could be expressed as looking for ways to "simplify" the CGT system, even the least cynical would conclude that the secret message is to find ways to raise CGT's annual take; we all know that somehow it is important to recover the government outlay during the Covid crisis. It is more politically palatable to refresh the payment structure of an existing tax than to implement a new "wealth" tax, even though any CGT reforms would mainly affect those viewed as "wealthy."
The "simple ways for CGT revenue to increase are self-evident:
Boost The Rates
Tinker with the current exemptions or withdraw them; and remove the rise in the CGT base value of death along with a study of Inheritance Tax (IHT).
Historically, just as now, CGT rates have been lower than income tax rates – either directly or after some sort of indexation allowance has been applied. For, e.g., back in 1983, when I first registered as a solicitor, capital gains was a 30 percent flat rate, and 60 percent was the top rate of income tax (plus an additional "investment" income rate).
Profit is still a profit, rather than "capital" rather than "income". One can see a case being made to put capital gains tax in line with income tax (on sales if not on gifts). The rate hike could be done at a stroke; it would not entail a time-consuming technical redesign of the existing tax-gain system.
Is There Any Way To Get Around Capital Gains Tax or Can You Avoid Paying Capital Gains Tax By Reinvesting?
As far as exemptions are concerned, we have already seen the cap in this year's budget for Entrepreneurs' relief lowered from £10 million to £1 million. In advance of the budget and business sales, this measure was generally predicted to be accelerated to completion before the budget day where appropriate.
The number 1 exemption from capital gains tax is Principal Private Residence Relief (PPR).
It would be a move of extraordinary political courage for a Chancellor to abolish or water down PPR (besides tinkering with lettings relief and the sale window of 9 months) and push CGT to a possible fee for two-thirds of UK households. While there may be absolutely no fundamental rationale for treating benefit on the selling of your property much differently than any other kind of profit, the Chancellor may be alert to the unique relationship of our nation with the idea of homeownership and an embedded, if irrational, expectation that taxes will leave the family home untroubled.
If a move to PPR is the obvious option for reform from an arithmetical/revenue viewpoint, politics and public opinion will limit the scope of such reform. To the degree that increasing the tax burden only on the 'wealthy' may be viewed as generally palatable by the larger public, we can only see CGT on gains above a certain threshold.


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Good Monday morning, everyone! Hope you had a stellar weekend.
Top News in the A.M.
The six juiciest documents from the Apple-Samsung trial that kicked off last week.
Know Your Hardware Incubator: Highway1
Creating a hardware device is hard; making it in large quantities is exponentially harder. A reminder of this hard truth appeared on Friday on the Indiegogo page of Scanadu, a medical device startup that began shipping its long-awaited Scout product to its backers last week, then stopped, saying the device isn't working as expected.
It's exactly the problem that Highway1, a nearly year-old incubator program in San Francisco, promises to solve. Here's how it works: Twice a year, Highway1 invites 10 or so teams to work at its offices for four months. In exchange for 3 to 6 percent of their companies, it provides them with $20,000, access to $3 million in prototyping tools, and an education – including in Shenzhen, China — about how consumer electronics are made. Highway1 should know; it's backed by PCH International, a 5,000-person, China-based company that handles manufacturing contracts, packaging, and shipping for major electronic brands, and which has strong relationships with Asian manufacturers as a result.
Highway1's program isn't for everyone. To gain entry, a team has to have at least one working prototype (however crude), and it has to have enough financial muscle to pay for its production run. (The $20,000 it receives from Highway1 won't cut it.) Late last week, I talked with the head of the program, Brady Forrest — who is an engineer, operator, and former VC — to learn more about his requirements, and when Highway1 is accepting its next batch of companies. Our chat has been edited for length.
You liken Highway1 to Amazon Web Services, which helps software companies scale.
There's a concept called the Smiling Curve [whose points are marked by "create," then "make," then "sell"]. And VCs don't want to invest in the "make" part. They don't want to spend a lot of money on you building out a line. So our thesis is: let PCH be that AWS with hardware. We're a supply chain company; we have 500 engineers in Shenzhen who manage factories for companies of all size. We [can] design the line and build that NRE (for non-recurring engineering, which refers to the one-time cost to research, develop, design and test a new product). We can handle credit terms and take payment…
You also help these teams pitch to investors at a demo day.
Yes, 200 attendees came to our most recent demo day and seven of 11 companies presented: three that are public and four that are in stealth. Two others opted out and two didn't get far enough along; maybe they'll demo one day; I'm not sure.
What types of companies are you most keen on helping? Are wearables overdone? Reportedly, people don't wear their wearables for very long — at least, not their Galaxy smartwatches.
Wearables are totally of interest. That piece, reporting on the Galaxy, was like picking on the weak kid in the litter. If you bought a Galaxy Note [smart phone], it came free with purchase. In other words, people have been trying to sell something they received for free on eBay, so that's not quite fair [to hold up as evidence that wearables are troubled]. Either way, if people aren't happy with their wearables, it means there's an opportunity to do it right.
I'm also bullish on the connected kitchen, and we're always looking for more enterprise-type companies. I'm not afraid of teams that say, "We're not a hardware company." That means they're looking beyond just hardware to the services and data set behind the hardware, and that's really how you make hardware more useful and something that people need and love.
When do people need to apply for your next class?
We start accepting applications on April 17 and the program will start anew in September, though some companies are already coming in to talk with us. One team that has $800,000 in funding was just here and [the founder] and I were chatting and he told me they were going to go to tooling in two months. I had to run into another meeting but I had one of our engineers chat with him. [The engineer] told him, "You're doing this out of order. If you go to tooling, you're going to waste $50,000. You first need to do a prototype that takes these two factors into account, then do a 3D printing of this initial run." And so on. And you could kind of see them saying, "Oh, sh_t. We just got schooled."
New Fundings
AdsNative, a 1.5-year-old, San Francisco-based startup that helps online publishers like Politico incorporate native ads, has raised $2 million in seed funding led by InterWest Partners. Other participants in the round included ONSET Ventures, Foundry Group Angel (Foundry's AngelList syndicate), and KBS+ Ventures.
BioConsortia, a new, Davis, Ca.-based agricultural biotechnology company that's developing a technology to improve crop yields, has raised $15 million in Series B funding co-led by Khosla Ventures and Otter Capital. TechCrunch has a nice write-up of the company here.
Bjond, a two-year-old, Columbus, Oh.-based software company that makes workflow-management and decision-support software, has raised $3.25 million in Series A funding led by Draper Triangle Ventures. TriStar Technology Ventures and Hopen Life Science Ventures also participated in the funding.
Carsquare, a two-year-old, Washington, D.C.-based car search engine platform that aggregates new, used, and leased car listings from multiple auto sites, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series A funding led by Robert Hisaoka, a local car dealer executive and angel investor.
Dropbox, the 6.5-year-old, San Francisco-based online storage company, has lined up more than $500 million worth of debt financing, says the Financial Times. The funds, which Re/code is trying to confirm, add to $350 million in equity funding that DropBox raised from venture capital and private equity investors a couple of months ago.
Germin8, a two-year-old, Mumbai, India-based analytics company that helps businesses develop insights based on what people are saying about their brand on social media and beyond, has raised $3 million in Series A funding from Kalaari Capital.
Neurovance, a three-year-old, Cambridge, Ma.-based clinical-stage neuroscience company focused on treating adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, has raised an additional $6.3 million for its Series A round, bringing its total funding to $10.5 million. Its investors include Novartis Venture Fund, Venture Investors, H&Q Healthcare Investors, H&Q Life Science Investors, GBS Venture Partners, and the State of Wisconsin Investment Board.
NoteVault, a six-year-old, San Diego-based company that sells voice-to-text-based mobile reporting services to the engineering and construction industry, has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from West Partners.
RefleXion Medical, a five-year-old, Burlingame, Ca.-based company that's developing a radiation therapy system for cancer treatment, has raised $11.6 million in Series A funding led by Paris-based Sofinnova Partners, which was joined by Pfizer Venture Investments and Venrock.
Scytl, a 13-year-old, Barcelona, Spain-based digital voting services company, has raised $40 million from Vulcan Capital, the growth fund of Microsoft co-founder Pau Allen. Scytl had previous raised capital from Balderton Capital, Nauta Capital and Spinnaker SCR. (Crunchbase pegs that earlier funding at roughly $10 million.)
Sungevity, a six-year-old, Oakland, Ca.-based residential solar service company, has raised $70 million in financing led by Jetstream Ventures. The European utility E.ON also participated in the round, alongside earlier investors that include GE Ventures, Brightpath Capital Partners and Vision Ridge Equity. The company has raised $246 million altogether, shows Crunchbase.
Vapotherm, a 15-year-old, Exeter, N.H.-based maker of respiratory care devices, has raised $24 million in fresh funding led by Gilde Healthcare Partners. New investor Adage Capital Management also participated in the round, as did earlier investors 3×5 Special Opportunity Fund,Morgenthaler Ventures, Kaiser Permanente, Integral Capital Partners, QuestMark Partners and Cross Creek Capital.
New Funds
Canada's federal government is injecting a lot of new capital into the country's tech sector, reports the Hollywood Reporter. On Friday, it announced that through the Business Development Bank of Canada, it will invest $300 million in venture capital for Canada-based digital companies and another $200 million to support small and medium-sized businesses with digital technology adoption. (In U.S. dollars, the total is $455 million.)
Less than two years after spinning off North Hill Ventures, a venture capital unit that Capital One launched in 1999, the financial services giant is planning to launch another VC group to invest in early-stage financial technology companies, according to peHUB. CapitalOne won't be raising a fund for the unit but will rather be investing off its own balance sheet, one source tells the outlet. Capital One had spun off North Hill Ventures after the Volcker Rule provision in the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform law made it difficult for banks to invest in such funds; North Hill has since replaced Capital One as its only LP with investors that include Hamilton Lane, Fort Washington Capital Partners and the Oregon Investment Council.
Mohr Davidow Ventures is out marketing a fund in the neighborhood of $200 million with just three investment partners, reports Venture Capital Dispatch. The reason, in part: Mohr Davidow is ditching its focus on life sciences and clean tech and focusing exclusively on information technology startups. The firm closed its last fund, $670 million Fund IX, in 2007. Partners who are not going forward with the new fund include Jon Feiber, Nancy Schoendorf, Jim Smith and Josh Green, says the report.
New tech issuers had a pretty good Friday. GrubHub, the online food ordering company, priced its IPO shares at $26 per share late Thursday and finished the day on Friday with a 31 percent gain. Opower, which sells consumer energy efficiency software to the utility industry, priced its shares at $19 and finished the day at $23 — a 21 percent gain. And Five9, whose on-demand software enables cloud-based call centers, which priced its shares at $7 (downwardly revised from an original range of $9 to $11), closed up 9 percent at $7.64. An issuer that didn't land in positive territory was Corium, which develops patches used in drug delivery. It had priced its shares at $8 (revised from $10 to $12) and closed at $7.95 on Friday, down .63 percent.
Matomy Media Group, a Tel Aviv-based digital advertising firm, announced late last week that it won't proceed with plans to raise $100 million in an IPO in London, citing sector volatility and low investor interest.
TrueCar, an eight-year-old, Santa Monica, Ca.-based car pricing information site, filed for an IPO on Friday. The company has raised roughly $170 million from investors over the years, shows Crunchbase. Its biggest shareholders include Capricorn Management, which owns 16.02 percent of the company; Upfront Ventures, which owns 15.23 percent; Anthem Ventures, which owns 9.31 percent; Vulcan Capital, which owns 9.08 percent; and Peppy Capital Partners, which owns 6.62 percent. Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Securities will serve as lead underwriters.
China's Twitter-like messaging service Weibo, owned by Sina Corp, said in a regulatory filing on Friday that it expects its IPO offering of 20 million American Depository Shares to be priced at $17 to $19.
AdGenie, a seven-year-old, U.K.-based advertising retargeting company has been acquired by Ve Interactive, a London-based software company that promises to optimize online merchants' transactional capabilities, in a deal described in reports as a "multi-million pound acquisition."
Business Insider has come up with a list of "21 rising stars of New York venture capital."
David Allison, a principal at Split Rock Partners in Menlo Park, Ca., for four-and-a-half years, has joined San Francisco-based Versant Venturesas a principal, according to Dow Jones. Allison has a PhD in bioengineering from Rice University, where he studied heart valve disease; today, he focuses on medical devices and other life sciences opportunities.
Ari Horie, a veteran of IBM, is helping women entrepreneurs launch and scale companies through her Women's Startup Lab in Menlo Park. Silicon Valley Business Journal profiles her here.
Colin Kroll, who cofounded Vine, a video capture tool that Twitter acquired in late 2012, is stepping down from his position as Vine's general manager. He isn't saying yet what's next.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg is no longer a billionaire. (For now.)
Keith Rabois, the former Square executive who joined Khosla Venturesearly last year, is working on a startup idea that he says has been marinating for 11 years. Code named HomeRun, the data-driven company plans to make it possible to sell a house within minutes and expects to launch "in the summer, maybe earlier," he tells VentureBeat.
In unrelated Keith Rabois news, he offers his take on who he thinks are the most influential young people in Silicon Valley. (At the top of his list:Adam D'Angelo and Charlie Cheever, Quora's cofounders.)
Kevin Rose of Google Ventures was called a "parasite" and a "leech" by protestors who — very alarmingly — stood outside his San Francisco home yesterday afternoon and accused him of helping to fuel the "tech startup bubble that is destroying San Francisco."
In 2005, Mark Zuckerberg gave a talk to computer science students at Harvard (and answered questions) and only about a dozen students bothered to show up. You can see his presentation here.
Job Listings
Santé Ventures, an Austin, Tex.-based healthcare and life science venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies, is looking for a senior analyst. Email your CV to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Essential Reads
eBay now allows users to sell virtual currency like bitcoin, as well as mining contracts. TechCrunch has the story.
Yahoo plans to acquire the kind of programming that typically winds up on high-end cable TV networks or streaming services like Netflix, reports the WSJ.
The FBI has warned Boston-area tech companies and research facilities against partnering with foreign venture capital firms from Russia. Apparently, the agency is concerned that the government-sponsored funds are trying to gain access to classified, sensitive and emerging technology from the companies.
The world's ten costliest apartment homes.
Ten houses made from shipping containers.
The guilt of the video-game millionaires.
Retail Therapy
Wired really digs the Porsche 918 Spyder that you've been reading about for years and which is now for sale. (Warning: You need a very deep pocket for this one.)
Erm, a little too-high-tech dress.
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Cityscape Table (2006)
Having breakfast helps one to maintain better health, and efficiency at work thus promoting overall wellness. However in case of busy city dwellers especially for people living alone, sit down and having a meal in the morning is a rarity.
Rectangular table easily becomes a centerpiece in a kitchen. Omni or Semi directional tables are commonly situated in sit down-and eat places. While elongated bars are predominant where time and/or space is taken into account. Also eating alone does not require face to face interaction.
Objective : Space Saving Surface for Prep and Consuming for Meals (and some vino)
Early Prototype had herb growing hydroponic pots
Final Product
Dimensions : 60"(W) x 18"(D) x 40"(H)


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Milan Street Style: Saving the Best for Last
We've been shooting outside of the shows for weeks now, and we never, ever cease to be amazed at how elaborate people are willing to get with their looks during fashion month. Today's installment, the last from Milan, features all-American model Jacquelyn Jablonski in a T-shirt featuring the Boss (represent!), Ece Sukan of Turkish Vogue in a moss-green leather shirt dress, and Russian designer Ulyana Sergeenko with her Jenna Lyons glasses and full skirts. We also found several people wearing the ubiquitous Balenciaga "sweatshirt" (above), head-to-toe Dries, and samurai-inspired shapes. Click through our slideshow for all that, plus some accessories designed (and modeled) by Anna Dello Russo.


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Iowa Workforce Development Communications
For Immediate Release
Date: May 10, 2018
Contact: Cory Kelly
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Gov. Kim Reynolds announced a partnership between the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) and Iowa Workforce Development (IWD) Thursday to conduct laborshed studies across Iowa. The studies will begin in July and will be conducted at no cost to communities.
The governor says these studies and the partnerships making them possible represent the kind of unique support Iowa is providing its economic developers and employers to unleash opportunity across the state.
"I strongly believe no other state is doing as much as Iowa to enable our economic development partners, our current employers and those companies considering investing here," Gov. Reynolds said. "The partnership to provide these studies is a prime example of that. In Iowa, we're continuing to build on our successes and do everything we can to power potential for Iowans."
Under the new partnership, IEDA and IWD will finance a laborshed study for every county in the state, providing the data to local economic development organizations and partners for free. Studies will be conducted on a biennial basis, with half the state receiving the study in year one and the other half receiving the study in year two. Studies in existing economic development regions will be conducted together to allow for regional analysis.
"This new program will ensure all areas of the state have access to data sources on workforce characteristics, revealing meaningful insights into the availability of labor," IWD Director Beth Townsend said.
Laborshed studies help both existing and new businesses understand labor availability within an area based on current commuting patterns. They depict the scope and scale of a community's available workforce. They also answer questions about labor availability, as well as characteristics about available labor such as employment status, likeliness to change/accept employment, education level, wages, skills/experience, current and desired benefits and job search resources used.
"We could not be more excited to provide Iowa's communities the most comprehensive labor data available in the marketplace through this partnership," IEDA Director Debi Durham said. "We take pride in the benefits of doing business in Iowa, which will now include this valuable data on Iowa's workforce."


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Hardware components
A Micro:bit Game: Competitive Math Training Thru Micro:bits
(Client Version)
Developed by: Philip Ching Cua (MLC Ventures Singapore)
In Collaboration with: Marcus Loo Cua (Angsana Primary School)
A Micro:bit-based game to help teachers train their students in math through a fun & competitive manner.
Game is composed of 1 Master Micro:bits (teacher) and multiple Client Micro:bits (students).
Master sends out a math equation (randomised) to all Clients and waits for their answers. First Client to answer correctly, wins. First Client to get 5 wins will get a "W" icon on his device. All Clients' winning tally will be reset once one Client hits the 5 wins so a fresh round of tallying will begin anew.Master & Client Micro:bit Hardware Set Up
The hardware assembly of the Master & the Clients Micro:bits are similar. Only the type of software copied into the Micro:bit will differentiate a Master Micro:bit from a Client Micro:bit. (For the Master version, please visit: https://www.hackster.io/philip-cua/competitive-math-training-thru-microbits-master-version-02a216)
First, assemble the MI:Power Board kit into the BBC Micro:bit motherboard. After which, assemble the MI:pro Protector Case into the Micro:bit with the attached power board.
Copy the Master Hex program file into one of the assembled Micro:bit as the Master. And copy the Client Hex program into the rest of the assembled Micro:bits to act as Client Micro:bits.
Alternatively, you may also assemble Micro:bit sets using the motherboard and the regular triple AAA battery case should you not be able to procure the Kitronik case and power board.
ButtonA will generate an equation composed of 2 numbers and send the equation out to the Clients. The equation will be displayed on Master's screen as well as on Clients' devices.
Pressing ButtonB on Master will display the answer to the equation.
Pressing ButtonA again will re-display the previously generated equation.
Master waits for Clients to send in their answers. The first correct answer received will be the winner. A tick mark will be displayed once a correct answer is received. A message will be sent to the winner Client Micro:bit and his device will display the tick mark also. For first Client to get 5 wins, he will get an additional "W" icon on his device. All Clients' winning tally will be reset once one Client achieves 5 wins, so a fresh round of tallying begins anew.
ButtonA+B on Master will reset the game but not the winning tally.
After reset, pressing ButtonA will send out a new equation.
To accommodate two different levels of students, upon Shake, the game Level will change, either from L0 to L1 (more difficult) or from L1 to L0 (less difficult).Client Micro:bits
An equation will be displayed on Client devices when the Master sends out an equation.
Client player computes the answer to the equation and keys in his answer using ButtonA & ButtonB.
ButtonA displays a single digit representing the first digit of the answer.
ButtonB displays a single digit also, representing the second digit of the answer. Answers will always be limited to 2 digits only.
The single digit starts at 0.... pressing the button again will increase it by 1 until it reaches 9 then it goes back to 0 again.
Once the answer has been set through ButtonA & ButtonB, pressing ButtonA+B will send the answer to the Master.
If the answer is correct & the Client is the first to answer correctly, a message will be received from the Master indicating Client is the winner. A tick mark will be displayed on Client device. First Client to achieve 5 wins will receive an additional "W" icon on his device. All Clients' winning tally will be reset to zero once one player achieves 5 wins.
Wrong answers will not get any response from the Master Micro:bit.
To recall back the equation, upon Shake, the equation will be re-displayed on Client screen.


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CAPTCHA Adapters¶
The following adapters are shipped with Zend Framework by default.
Zend\Captcha\AbstractWord is an abstract adapter that serves as the base class for most other CAPTCHA adapters. It
provides mutators for specifying word length, session TTL and the session container object to use.
Zend\Captcha\AbstractWord also encapsulates validation logic.
By default, the word length is 8 characters, the session timeout is 5 minutes, and
Zend\Session\Container is
used for persistence (using the namespace "
Zend\Form\Captcha\<captcha ID>").
In addition to the methods required by the
Zend\Captcha\AdapterInterface interface,
exposes the following methods:
getWordLen()allow you to specify the length of the generated "word" in characters, and to retrieve the current value.
getTimeout()allow you to specify the time-to-live of the session token, and to retrieve the current value.
$ttlshould be specified in seconds.
getUseNumbers()allow you to specify if numbers will be considered as possible characters for the random work or only letters would be used.
getSessionClass()allow you to specify an alternate
Zend\Session\Containerimplementation to use to persist the CAPTCHA token and to retrieve the current value.
getId()allows you to retrieve the current token identifier.
getWord()allows you to retrieve the generated word to use with the CAPTCHA. It will generate the word for you if none has been generated yet.
setSession(Zend\Session\Container $session)allows you to specify a session object to use for persisting the CAPTCHA token.
getSession()allows you to retrieve the current session object.
All word CAPTCHAs allow you to pass an array of options or
Traversable object to the constructor, or,
alternately, pass them to
setOptions(). By default, the wordLen, timeout, and sessionClass keys may
all be used. Each concrete implementation may define additional keys or utilize the options in other ways.
Zend\Captcha\AbstractWord is an abstract class and may not be instantiated directly.
Zend\Captcha\Dumb adapter is mostly self-descriptive. It provides a random string that must be typed in
reverse to validate. As such, it's not a good CAPTCHA solution and should only be used for testing. It extends
Zend\Captcha\Figlet adapter utilizes Zend\Text\Figlet to present a figlet to
the user.
Options passed to the constructor will also be passed to the Zend\Text\Figlet object. See the Zend\Text\Figlet documentation for details on what configuration options are available.
Zend\Captcha\Image adapter takes the generated word and renders it as an image, performing various skewing
permutations to make it difficult to automatically decipher. It requires the GD extension compiled with TrueType
or Freetype support. Currently, the
Zend\Captcha\Image adapter can only generate PNG images.
Zend\Captcha\Image extends
Zend\Captcha\AbstractWord, and additionally exposes the following methods:
getExpiration()allow you to specify a maximum lifetime the CAPTCHA image may reside on the filesystem. This is typically a longer than the session lifetime. Garbage collection is run periodically each time the CAPTCHA object is invoked, deleting all images that have expired. Expiration values should be specified in seconds.
getGcFreg()allow you to specify how frequently garbage collection should run. Garbage collection will run every
1/$gcFreqcalls. The default is 100.
getFont()allow you to specify the font you will use.
$fontshould be a fully qualified path to the font file. This value is required; the CAPTCHA will throw an exception during generation if the font file has not been specified.
getFontSize()allow you to specify the font size in pixels for generating the CAPTCHA. The default is 24px.
getHeight()allow you to specify the height in pixels of the generated CAPTCHA image. The default is 50px.
getWidth()allow you to specify the width in pixels of the generated CAPTCHA image. The default is 200px.
getImgDir()allow you to specify the directory for storing CAPTCHA images. The default is "
./images/captcha/", relative to the bootstrap script.
getImgUrl()allow you to specify the relative path to a CAPTCHA image to use for HTML markup. The default is "
getSuffix()allow you to specify the filename suffix for the CAPTCHA image. The default is "
.png". Note: changing this value will not change the type of the generated image.
getDotNoiseLevel(), along with
getLineNoiseLevel(), allow you to control how much "noise" in the form of random dots and lines the image would contain. Each unit of
$levelproduces one random dot or line. The default is 100 dots and 5 lines. The noise is added twice - before and after the image distortion transformation.
All of the above options may be passed to the constructor by simply removing the 'set' method prefix and casting the initial letter to lowercase: "suffix", "height", "imgUrl", etc.
Zend\Captcha\ReCaptcha adapter uses Zend\Service\ReCaptcha\ReCaptcha to
generate and validate CAPTCHAs. It exposes the following methods:
getPrivKey()allow you to specify the private key to use for the ReCaptcha service. This must be specified during construction, although it may be overridden at any point.
getPubKey()allow you to specify the public key to use with the ReCaptcha service. This must be specified during construction, although it may be overridden at any point.
setService(ZendService\ReCaptcha\ReCaptcha $service)and
getService()allow you to set and get the ReCaptcha service object.


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Diemme Furniture
The language of modernity, with Diemme furniture.
The language of modernity is unique in the epochs of mankind. Where once a chair offered respite for honored guests, reflected in ornate styling, the modern chair is a where form and function meet in harmony.
Particularly in an office setting, the contemporary function of the chair must align with standards dictated by ergonomics, design and durability.
Founded in the 1990s, Diemme furniture focuses on this modern interpretation of seating which speaks to imperatives of comfort, style and long-lasting quality. This is seating for our times, with a focus on safety, smart design and eye appeal, blended in harmony.
Diemme's young designers look to modernity itself for their inspiration, taking their cue from the rapid pace of technological change and the 21st' Century's digital reality.
Led by award-winning designer, Stefano Sandona, they're informed by the architectural impulse and its relationship to the human body. Their mission and philosophy is to create furniture which boldly declares style as a necessary aspect of function.
Bold new design directions.
At Michelangelo, you'll find the best of all worlds. At the first and only Italian Design Center in the United States of America, we bring you all the epochs of Italian design, from distant echoes of Imperial Rome to the Renaissance, to bold new design directions, like those of Diemme.
With 12 of Italy's most coveted furniture collections here in our showroom and warehouse, professionals in the Trade are treated to a world of potential. Whenever you're seeking furniture exclusively from Italy, you're looking for its mecca in the USA – Michelangelo Designs.
Retailers, architects, real estate developers and interior designers all find what they're looking for at Michelangelo, because we don't stop at the catalogue. We extend it with 1,000 textile choices, including a range of rich leathers and lustrous woods.
Your creativity comes out to play at Michelangelo Designs, where the only limitation is your imagination. With endless possibilities all under one roof, you're able to offer your discerning clientele a unique vision and one-of-kind creations that mesh with their lifestyles.
The common, cured.
Your world is no place for the mundane, or common. That's why Michelangelo cures the common and meets the mundane head on with the supreme luxury of Italian design and the flexibility of customization.
Whether for work or pleasure, interior environments are yours to elevate with the aesthetic functionality of Diemme's unique design vision, created for modern living. Michelangelo is proud to bring this internationally-recognized design house to the USA, exclusively for our colleagues and friends in the Trade.
A world of inspiration.
At Michelangelo Designs, Trade professionals find a world of inspiration, imported direct from Italy. With the diversity of customization here at their fingertips, they're given a creative edge not found elsewhere.
Trade professionals are invited to schedule an appointment. Inspiration awaits.


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The Story
Jenna is a sexy little slut that came looking for a little adventure. She really wanted to give dancing a try and was very eager to get her interview started. The manager asked to see her tits and ass and she practically whipped off her shirt before he had finished his sentence. He was happily suprised by this and decided to see what else he could get away with. he had Jenna get up on the stage for a little preview of her dancing abilities. She was a little clumsy at first, but within a few minutes she started gripping that pole and swinging around like a little pro. It was so hot to watch her perky tits and ass out in the wind as she showed her stuff. Next it was time for her naughty vip couch audition. She started out by getting down on her knees and crawling up to him. She then slid her silky body up onto his lap and proceeded to shove her hard pink nipples into his mouth. Then she turned around and slid her tight little ass all over his now harder than ever cock. She must have been getting turned on by this because she went down and started to unzip his pants. I guess she was just a horny little thing at heart and couldn't help herself. She sucked his cock, making all sorts of slurpy sounds and moans...then she told him that she wanted him to fuck her sweet little pussy. She said her twat was nice and wet and eager for his dick. He fucked her in more ways than one that afternoon and oh boy are you going to enjoy watching this full length movie. This is one you will NOT want to miss....
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Posted on April 12, 2019
Goodbye, winter! Summer trip, here we come!
Spring is here…vacation is approaching…your calendar is marked…let the planning begin.
Walk in Abe's footsteps as you hike through the scenic trails at Lincoln State Park.
There are only eleven archabbeys in the world; be sure to tour the Saint Meinrad Archabbey during your visit.
Catch a show at Lincoln Amphitheatre. Here I Grew Up is a new musical production that celebrates Abraham Lincoln and the community that helped shape his character.
Mail a postcard from the only town in the world with the Santa Claus name. The statue also makes for a great photo op!
Try a decadent frozen hot chocolate at Santa's Candy Castle.
These are just a few ideas. Explore all things to do in Santa Claus, Indiana and sites throughout Lincoln's Indiana Boyhood Home.
This blog post has been updated from April 2014.


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Buzz Archives for June 2008
hAccessibility redux?
Thanks to Sebastian Snopek from the International Liaison Group (WaSP ILG), this post is also available in Polish: Wtórny hAccessibility?. Fanning the fires of the ABBR pattern debate, the developers at BBC Radio Labs announced today that they'll be removing the hCalendar microformat from their programmes listing pages, pending further ...
By Patrick Lauke | Filed in Accessibility
- RNIB Surf Right Toolbar available for IE
Those clever folks at the Royal National Institute of Blind People have teamed up with the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium and The Paciello Group to produce a toolbar for Internet Explorer that exposes some of its usually buried accessibility options. It's not for developers so much as end-users; the RNIB say The ...
By Bruce Lawson | Filed in Accessibility
- Easy-to-use Flickr and YouTube
It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that accessibility is only about the blind people with physical disabilities, and forget about those with cognitive difficulties, or those who are new to the Web. Many pages are very busy and confusing and hence off-putting. Flame-haired DOMscripting lovegod Christian Heillman, ...
By Bruce Lawson | Filed in Accessibility
- Opera 9.5 released
Just a short buzz: the final version of Opera 9.5 was released today, with a boatload of exciting features. Of particular interest: excellent support for current standards — (X)HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS 2.1, SVG 1.1 partial implementations of new emerging standards — CSS 3, HTML 5, and ARIA More details about the browser's ...
By Patrick Lauke | Filed in Browsers, Outreach
- Spry turns two
Adobe's JavaScript frameworks is maturing, but there's still room for improvement.
By Aaron Gustafson | Filed in Adobe TF*
The Web Standards Project is a grassroots coalition fighting for standards which ensure simple, affordable access to web technologies for all.
Recent Buzz
Our Work Here is Done
By Aaron Gustafson | March 1st, 2013
Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality.
When The Web Standards Project (WaSP) formed in 1998, the web was the battleground in an ever-escalating war between two browser makers—Netscape and Microsoft—who were each taking turns "advancing" HTML to the point of collapse. You see, in an effort to one-up each other, the two browsers introduced new elements and new ways of manipulating web documents; this escalated to the point where their respective 4.0 versions were largely incompatible.
Realizing that this fragmentation would inevitably drive up the cost of building websites and ran the risk of denying users access to content and services they needed, Glenn Davis, George Olsen, and Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded WaSP and rallied an amazing group of web designers and developers to help them push back. The WaSP's primary goal was getting browser makers to support the standards set forth by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
In 2001, with the browser wars largely over, WaSP began to shift its focus. While some members continued to work with browser vendors on improving their standards support, others began working closely with software makers like Macromedia to improve the quality of code being authored in tools such as Dreamweaver. And others began the hard slog of educating web designers and developers about the importance of using web standards, culminating in the creation of WaSP InterAct, a web curriculum framework which is now overseen by the W3C.
Thanks to the hard work of countless WaSP members and supporters (like you), Tim Berners-Lee's vision of the web as an open, accessible, and universal community is largely the reality. While there is still work to be done, the sting of the WaSP is no longer necessary. And so it is time for us to close down The Web Standards Project.
Many (if not all) of us are continuing to work in the world of web standards, but our work is now largely outside the umbrella of WaSP. If you are interested in continuing to work on web standards-related projects along with us, we humbly suggest you follow these projects:
- A List Apart – The magazine "for people who make websites" is run by WaSP founder Jeffrey Zeldman and is a consistent source of forward-thinking articles and tutorials.
- HTML5 Doctor – A solid resource and discussion forum on all things HTML5, brought to you by Bruce Lawson and his team.
- W3C Community Groups – If you have a passion for a specific web technology, you can help make it better by participating in one (or more) community groups. In particular, you might be interested in one of these: Core Mobile Web Platform, Responsive Images, Web Education, and Web Media Text Tracks.
- WebPlatform.org – A fantastic web standards resource, providing up-to-date documentation, Q&As, tutorials & more. Chris Mills, Doug Schepers, and a number of other standards advocates are involved in this project.
- Web Standards Sherpa – An educational resource founded by WaSP which continues to operate under the leadership of Chris Casciano, Virginia DeBolt, Aaron Gustafson, and Emily Lewis.
- Web Standards + Small Business – An outreach project started by WaSP that educates small businesses about why they should care about web standards. This project is overseen by Aaron Gustafson.
The job's not over, but instead of being the work of a small activist group, it's a job for tens of thousands of developers who care about ensuring that the web remains a free, open, interoperable, and accessible competitor to native apps and closed eco-systems. It's your job now, and we look forward to working with you, and wish you much success.
Nota bene: In the near future, we will be making a permanent, static archive of webstandards.org and some of our other resources like WaSP Interact to preserve them as a resource and to provide a record of our 15-year mission to improve the web.
Bruce Lawson and Steph Troeth contributed to this post.
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Thousands of New Footsteps in the Forest
Slieve Gullion Forest Park was the host venue for lots magical creatures from across the district last week as Trolls, fawns, the Birdman of Slieve Donard, Finn McCool, the Fairy Queen and the legendary witch Cailleach Bheara, as they descended on the mountain on the 26th and 27th of August for Footsteps in the Forest – their Annual Magical Meeting.
The event was part of Newry, Mourne and Down District Council's summer of #GiantAdventures and the story for which was created by local author Declan Carville and adapted by the Production company Footsteps into enthralling theatre pieces delivered throughout the forest tour lead by a Troll.
Newry, Mourne and Down District Chair Cllr Gillian Fitzpatrick said: "The stunning Slieve Gullion Forest, steeped in myth and legend, makes an ideal backdrop for this magical new festival.
"We are delighted with the number of families who attended over the two days to support this new festival –including local, national and international visitors. We certainly see this as something to build annually to grow this Festival to be a 'must visit' for the region."
The event also incorporated a food market, a Taste Junction initiative as part of NI Year of Food and Drink 2016 and live craft, felt and lace, wood turning and black smith demonstrations and lot of free children's entertainment.


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Marine Harbor
Harbor Life
Harbor Storms
Oyster Reefs
Piers & Wharves
N.O. Times-Democrat
"The shapely hulls of vessels lying at anchorage . . . show that boating and yachting are among the liberally patronized amusements here. "Sailing excursions out to the islands and around through the Bay are the most popular amusements.
"Immediately in front of Pass Christian is one of the largest oyster beds in this portion of the Gulf. A fleet of 40 or 50 is busy collecting these inexhaustible stores of seafood.
"The sea-shooting on the nearest islands is fine, ducks, geese, curlew and snipe being found in abundance. Quail shooting is fair. Splendid deer and turkey shooting is enjoyed by camping parties.
Harbor Life
The Municipal Harbor was formalized in 1956 with the creation of a Harbor Commission in response to a new 1 mill revenue enactment established by the Harrison County Supervisors. Supporting the Commission was a Harbor Advisory Committee composed of representatives of the Yacht Club, fishers and packers.
In 1958, an 11-foot high, 350-foot long, concrete, breakwater wall was constructed into the Sound by the T.L. James Company. There are only two such concrete harbor walls in the World, the other is in Japan.
During the 60s, more rip-rap was dumped into the Sound, followed by dredging, which provided space for more piers and berths.
Following major repairs from
damages, the Pass Christian Municipal Harbor today is the most picturesque marina along the entire coast. Through matching funds programs, the City officials have coordinated with the "Harbor Master Plan" in offering a beautiful recreation area which is currently under renewed development with the completion of a children's park. The playground area will be complete with swings, see-saws, merry-go-rounds, barbecue-pits and three picnic shelters. Also provided are three drive-through parking areas surrounding the north end and east and west sides of the harbor. Spaces provide for a total of 220 automobiles and 100 vehicles with boat trailers, which have easy access to two boat ramps.
Circa 1940s before Basin Dredging and Wall Tower enclosure.
Almost 1000 linear feet of public fishing is permitted on the two break-walls, in addition to a sheltered fishing pavilion above piling. The Harbor consists of seven piers, four are assigned for pleasure craft and three for commercial vessels. There are 346 slips ranging in berth sizes from 31-feet to 84-feet, in addition to a skiff-pier providing 20 tie-ups. Services include, water, electricity, showers, restrooms, and a bait and fuel station. A vessel pump-out station is also available.
A two-story Harbor Master office building also provides a lower level public restroom facility.
Early beach life showing the Olga II
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We know about Moses. The Torah tells us about him and his adventures from the moment he is born. But what about Aaron? Where was he before his younger brother arrived from Midian and suddenly appointed him his attaché?
That is a great question! The Bible tells us nothing about Aaron's early life. However, we can reconstruct an image of his childhood from Midrashic sources. The Midrash1 tells us that Amram, father of Miriam, Aaron and Moses, was the head of the Sanhedrin (central governing body). As such, Aaron grew up in a home of public service, leadership and devotion. We further read2 that Aaron prophesied to his brethren in Egypt that G‑d would redeem them. As such, G‑d selecting him to assist his brother Moses was a natural choice.
Please let me know if this helps.
Yours truly,
Rabbi Menachem Posner


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My Mindfulness Teacher featured in The Guardian
On Saturday 5th September 2020 My Mindfulness Teacher featured in The Modern Family, a supplement in The Guardian newspaper.
We were thrilled to be invited to contribute to this publication which gathered together experts on all sorts of subjects for the family, such as education, health, food and drink, finance, travel, home and pets.
Find our feature in the Education section of The Modern Family on page 15.
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Remember when I was trying to decide on a character to cosplay for my friend's cosplay party? Death of the Endless is my favourite character in Sandman after Delirium (but that would have been too involved), and once I had started thinking about a Death costume, I couldn't NOT go through with it.
I had been thinking of going the time-consuming road (that is, make more of the costume pieces myself), but I had just come back from a field trip where I had caught a bad cold and didn't have the energy. I decided I'd only sew the black tank top. I used this Burda pattern, which would make for a very easy sewing project with a clear head. Lacking that, my sewing got a bit sloppy and mistakes happened that normally shouldn't happen. It's still completely wearable so I don't care.
I bought the ankh necklace from sandstormart on DaWanda. Both the leather jacket and the black jeans are from my wardrobe. I know that the leather jacket isn't part of the normal Death of the Endless-getup, but I needed something to cover up during the cold February night. This is the full costume (I ended up wearing different shoes to avoid the next foot injury):
You learn something new from every new crafting project; my lesson here is that I look weirdly good with black lipstick. No, seriously, I kind of want to use the photo below as my profile picture on Facebook.
My Death of the Endless "wardrobe cosplay" didn't really measure up to the rest of the costumes that could be seen at the party. (Then again, I'm mostly just glad I survived the evening without passing out by pumping myself full of coffeine and pain killers before. The day after was excruciating, as you can maybe imagine.) Take my friend, for example, who had made a marvelous Alice costume. Doesn't she look fantastic? If you want to see more of her lovely cosplays, just head over to her Facebook page "Neko Fame Fantasy"!


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Achilli, the former owner of the 180 Restaurant and Lounge and Mountain Charley's saloon in downtown Los Gatos, was gunned down outside his Overlook Road townhouse on the morning of March 14, 2008.
Esequiel "Paul" Garcia, who bought the two venues from Achilli in 2007, was arrested in connection with the murder, along with Daniel Chaidez, a Mountain Charley's bouncer, and his cousins, Miguel Chaidez and Lucio Estrada.
The trial that began today is for Garcia, Estrada and Miguel Chaidez.
In the packed courtroom of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge David Cena this morning, prosecutor Jeff Rosen told jurors Garcia was in love with Tessa Donnelly, a woman both Achilli and Garcia had dated, and wanted to kill Achilli because he couldn't have her.
"Paul Garcia wanted it and paid for it, Chaidez arranged it, and Estrada did it," Rosen said.
Rosen said Garcia had asked Daniel Chaidez for his help in arranging for the murder of Achilli, and had given him $9,500 in two separate payments for the job. Miguel Chaidez then contacted Estrada in Burbank and offered him money to get rid of Achilli, Rosen said.
Following Rosen's opening statement, Estrada's defense attorney, Charlie Giilan, briefly told the jury the evidence will show that Estrada did not commit the crime. He said Estrada was in town to collect a debt from Achilli, and cited a housecleaner at the townhouse who told police Estrada was not the shooter.
Garcia's attorney, Harry Robertson, was scheduled to give his opening statement this afternoon.


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Our workshops undertake warranty repairs on behalf of all the major caravan manufacturers in the UK including Bailey, Lunar, Swift, Coachman and Elddis.
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Giovanni Bellini
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- Notable Works:
- "Dead Christ Supported by Angels" "Doge Leonardo Loredan" "Portrait of a Young Man" "Sacred Allegory" "St. Francis in Ecstasy" "St. Jerome at His Meditations" "The Agony in the Garden"
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- Early Renaissance Renaissance art Venetian school Renaissance
- Notable Family Members:
- father Jacopo Bellini brother Gentile Bellini
Giovanni Bellini, (born c. 1430, Venice [Italy]—died 1516, Venice), Italian painter who, in his work, reflected the increasing interest of the Venetian artistic milieu in the stylistic innovations and concerns of the Renaissance. Although the paintings for the hall of the Great Council in Venice, considered his greatest works, were destroyed by fire in 1577, a large number of altarpieces (such as that in the church of Saints Giovanni e Paolo in Venice) and other extant works show a steady evolution from purely religious, narrative emphasis to a new naturalism of setting and landscape.
Little is known about Bellini's family. His father, Jacopo, a painter, was a pupil of Gentile da Fabriano, one of the leading painters of the early 15th century, and may have followed him to Florence. In any case, Jacopo introduced the principles of the Florentine Renaissance to Venice before either of his sons. Apart from his sons Gentile and Giovanni, he had at least one daughter, Niccolosa, who married the painter Andrea Mantegna in 1453. Both sons probably began as assistants in their father's workshop.
Giovanni's earliest independent paintings were influenced by the late Gothic graceful style of his father, Jacopo, and by the severe manner of the Paduan school, and especially of his brother-in-law, Mantegna. This influence is evident even after Mantegna left for the court of Mantua in 1460. Giovanni's earliest works date from before this period. They include a Crucifixion, a Transfiguration, and a Dead Christ Supported by Angels. Several pictures of the same or earlier date are in the United States, and others are at the Correr Civic Museum in Venice. Four triptychs, sets of three panels used as altarpieces, are still in the Venice Accademia, and two Pietàs, both in Milan, are from this early period. His early work is well exemplified in two beautiful paintings, The Blood of the Redeemer and The Agony in the Garden.
In all his early pictures he worked with tempera, combining the severity and rigidity of the Paduan school with a depth of religious feeling and human pathos all his own. His early Madonnas, following in his father's tradition, are mostly sweet in expression, but he substituted for a mainly decorative richness one drawn more from a sensuous observation of nature. Although the pronounced linear element—i.e., the dominance of line rather than mass as a means of defining form, derived from the Florentine tradition and from the precocious Mantegna—is evident in the paintings, the line is less self-conscious than Mantegna's work, and, from the first, broadly sculptured planes offer their surfaces to the light from a dramatically brilliant sky. From the beginning Giovanni Bellini was a painter of natural light, as were Masaccio, the founder of Renaissance painting, and Piero della Francesca, its greatest practitioner at that time. In these earliest pictures the sky is apt to be reflected behind the figures in streaks of water making horizontal lines in a mere strip of landscape. In The Agony in the Garden (1465), the horizon moves up, and a deep, wide landscape encloses the figures, to play an equal part in expressing the drama of the scene. As with the dramatis personae, the elaborately linear structure of the landscape provides much of the expression, but an even greater part is played by the colours of the dawn, in their full brilliance and in the reflected light within the shadow. This is the first of a great series of Venetian landscape scenes that was to develop continuously for a century or more. To a city surrounded by water, the emotional value of landscape was now fully revealed. A comparison with Mantegna's treatment of the same subject matter reveals the subtle yet fundamental differences in the styles of the two masters.
The great composite altarpiece with St. Vincent Ferrer, which is still in the church of Saints Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, was painted perhaps 10 years later, toward the mid-1470s. But the principles of composition and the method of painting had not yet changed essentially; they had merely grown stronger in expression. It seems to have been during a voyage down the Adriatic coast, made probably not long afterward, that Bellini encountered the influence that must have helped him most toward his full development: that of Piero della Francesca. Bellini's great Coronation of the Virgin at Pesaro, for example, might have reflected some of the compositional elements of Piero's lost Coronation of the Virgin, painted as the central panel of a polyptych. Christ's crowning of his mother beneath the effulgence of the Holy Ghost is a solemn act of consecration, and the four saints who stand witness beside the throne are characterized by their deep humanity. Every quality of their forms is fully realized: every aspect of their bodies, the textures of their garments, and the objects that they hold. As with work by Masaccio and Piero della Francesca, the perspective of pavement and throne helps to establish the group in space, and the space is enlarged by the great hills behind and rendered infinite by the luminosity of the sky, which envelops the scene and gathers all the forms together into one.
At this time in his life, Giovanni Bellini also met Antonello da Messina, who traveled to Venice about 1475. The encounter was to prove influential for both painters. The changes in Giovanni's work from his earlier, Mantegnesque style to the more mature, independent, and versatile manner of his later works are already visible in the San Giobbe Altarpiece.
It is the painter's way of using the medium that makes the difference, and that depends upon his intentions and his vision. It was Bellini's richer and broader vision that determined his future development. Unlike tempera paint, which was the medium of Bellini's early career, oil paint is inclined to be the more transparent and fusible and therefore lends itself to richer colour and tone by allowing a further degree of glazing, the laying of one translucent layer of colour over another. This technique and the unprecedented variety with which Bellini handled the oil paint give his fully mature painting the richness associated with the Venetian school.
Giovanni's brother, Gentile, was chosen by the government to continue the painting of great historical scenes in the hall of the Great Council in Venice; but in 1479, when Gentile was sent on a mission to Constantinople (now Istanbul), Giovanni took his place. From that time to 1480, much of Giovanni's time and energy was devoted to fulfilling his duties as conservator of the paintings in the hall, as well as painting six or seven new canvases himself. These were his greatest works, but they were destroyed when the huge hall was gutted by fire in 1577. Contemporary students of his work can now gain only an approximate idea of their design from The Martyrdom of St. Mark in the Scuola di San Marco in Venice, finished and signed by one of Giovanni's assistants, and of their execution from Giovanni's completion of Gentile's St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria after his brother's death in Venice in 1507.
Yet a surprisingly large number of big altarpieces and comparatively portable works have survived and show the steady but adventurous evolution of his work. The principles and the technique of the Pesaro Altarpiece find their full development in the still-larger altarpiece of the Madonna from San Giobbe in the Venice Accademia, where the Virgin enthroned in a great apse and the saints beside her seem ready to melt into the reflected light. This seems to have been painted before the earliest of his dated pictures, the half-length Madonna degli Alberetti (1487), also in the Venice Accademia.
While for the first 20 years of Giovanni's career he limited his subject matter mainly to traditional religious subjects (Madonnas, Pietàs, and Crucifixions), toward the end of the century it began to be greatly enriched not so much by the wider choice of subjects as by the development of the mise-en-scène, the physical setting of the picture. He became one of the greatest of landscape painters. His study of outdoor light was such that one can deduce not only the season depicted but almost the hour of the day.
Bellini also excelled as a painter of ideal scenes—i.e., scenes of primeval as opposed to individualized images. For the St. Francis in Ecstasy of the Frick Collection or the St. Jerome at His Meditations, painted for the high altar of Santa Maria dei Miracoli in Venice, the anatomy of the earth is studied as carefully as those of human figures; but the purpose of this naturalism is to convey idealism through the realistic portrayal of detail. In the landscape Sacred Allegory, now in the Uffizi, he created the first of the dreamy enigmatic scenes for which Giorgione, his pupil, was to become famous. The same quality of idealism is to be found in his portraiture. His Doge Leonardo Loredan in the National Gallery, London, has all the wise and kindly firmness of the perfect head of state, and his Portrait of a Young Man (c. 1505; thought to be a likeness of the Venetian writer and humanist Pietro Bembo) in the British royal collection portrays all the sensitivity of a poet.
Both artistically and personally, the career of Giovanni Bellini seems to have been serene and prosperous. He lived to see his own school of painting achieve dominance and acclaim. He saw his influence propagated by a host of pupils, two of whom surpassed their master in world fame: Giorgione, whom he outlived by six years, and Titian.
The only extant description of Giovanni's personality is from the hand of the great German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, who wrote to the German humanist Willibald Pirkheimer from Venice in 1506: "Everyone tells me what an upright man he is, so that I am really fond of him. He is very old, and still he is the best painter of them all."


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Operation research and system architecture/architecting are two fields to tackle complexity. Both of them are widely used in various discipline. However, architecture/architecting is most dominant than OR to tackle complex problems. Survey on system architecture/architecting literature, show the lack of process of creating architecture. In this paper we want to compare fundamental philosophy of both in methodology level to show usefulness of Operation research approaches to create theory for system architecting/architecture. According to this, using categorical logic, different Operation research approaches- Hard Operation research, soft Operation research and critical Operation research - except Postmodern Operation research can be useful tools to system architecture/architecting. So in first step categorical propositions of system architecture/architecting and Operation research paradigms was extracted and then based on categorical logic they were compared. In addition, LISP programming language was used to standardize the writing. Finally, a summary of the results was presented in the form of a conceptual hierarchies of architecting and Operation research adapted from the conceptual hierarchies introduced by Paul Thagard. This conceptual hierarchies is representation of the relation between Operation research approaches and system architecting.
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