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Synthetics Maker WD Gets Cash Injection
Jan 8, 2019 4:28 AM By Rapaport News
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RAPAPORT... Private-equity firm Huron Capital has made a "significant" investment in WD Lab Grown Diamonds, forecasting sharp growth for the company and the synthetics sector.
The injection of funds will help WD expand its capacity to produce lab-grown diamonds for jewelry and industrial purposes, the manufacturer said Monday. Clive Hill, the company's founder, will remain its CEO, while Yarden Tsach will continue as chief technology officer, with both retaining a substantial share in the business.
"WD's exclusive technology and manufacturing capabilities place the company at the forefront of one of the fastest-growing segments of the diamond industry," said Huron senior partner Michael Beauregard.
WD, founded in 2008 and based in Laurel, Maryland, synthesizes diamonds using chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Last year, it produced a 9.04-carat, VS2-clarity polished diamond that, it claimed, was the world's largest known gem-quality CVD diamond. It also supplies the stones for Richline Group's Grown with Love collection, a line of synthetic-diamond jewelry sold at JCPenney and Macy's.
"The Huron Capital investment is expected to help us significantly expand our capacity in the fast-growing, high-quality segments of both the gem and industrial markets, and build our base of trade partnerships," Hill said.
Huron's expertise will also help WD manage its "explosive growth," Tsach added.
Image: A 9.04-carat synthetic diamond WD Lab Grown Diamonds produced last year. (WD Lab Grown Diamonds)
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PATRICK OTIENO SPEAKS OF LESSONS FROM KENYA U20 CALL UP
The recently concluded CECAFA Under 20 championship saw Kenya finish second with a number of Sharks players in the squad. For Patrick Otieno, it was a special moment as the competition provided him with the opportunity to represent his country for the first time.
The teenager spoke to us about the experience and he clearly couldn't hide his delight.
"For me it was a very special moment. To have that chance to represent my country on the pitch has been a dream for me and it finally came to be. It is the thing that I believe all athletes want and for me, it's a very special thing"
He further added that the under 20 debut has gave him even more desire to work hard;
"I am motivated now to work even harder. I want to build on this and become a better player. This is just the beginning. I want to continue working so that very soon I can also be able to play for the national team at senior level.'
On scoring for the Kenya U20…
"It was special to grab a couple of goals for the team. I am working hard in that area of scoring goals because my position demands that I score goals. It is no longer about the number 9 scoring. As the wingers and midfielders, we must share the burden."
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with this average pause time is 8 ms but max pause time is 160 ms. I dont want pause time to go beyond 25 ms. Is there any parameter to set which ensures that pause time shouldnt be go beyond it ?
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Tracing Your Welsh Ancestors
by Lisa Zaslow
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Have you ever wondered if your ancestry was Welsh? Just 8 common surnames make up over 55 percent of names in Wales :
1. Jones (5.75) - John — a biblical name that came as the Latin Johannes and became Welsh Ieuan. John was used after the Normans arrived. It is frequently written as Sion or Shone since the letter "j" is absent from the Welsh alphabet. Evans, Shone, Jones (son of John); possibly derived from both John and James. Jone.
2. Williams (3.72) - Williams — from the German name Wilhelm, a combination of the words "will and "helmet," brought by the Normans. The Welsh adopted it as Guilielm and Gwilym, becoming Gwilliam and Gullam. Guilielm, Gwilym, Gwilliam, Gullam, Wilson.
3. Davies (3.72) - David — a biblical name adopted by early Welsh Christians; also the name of the patron saint of Wales, Dewi (David). The Latin version Davidus led to the Welsh versions Dewydd and Dewi, but Dafydd is in use more. Dackins, Dafydd, Dai, Dakin, Davies, Davis, Daykyn, Deakyn, Dei, Dew, Dewi, Dewydd, Dyas, Dykins, Dyos.
4. Evans (2.47) - Evans — from the Welsh name Ieuan (John), the name originated with the "u" was changed to a "v". Bevan, Evan, Evance, Heavens, Iefan, Ifan, Jeavons, Jevons, Jeavince.
5. Thomas (2.43) - Thomas — a biblical name derived from Greek didymos "twin". Until the Norman Conquest, it was only a priest's name; it became popular after Thomas à Becket; not listed as a surname in Wales until the 15th C.
6. Roberts (1.53) - Roberts — a Germanic name that came with the Normans, derived from hrod "fame" + berht "bright". Probert, Robin, Roblin.
7. Lewis (1.53) - Lewis — from an English variation of Llewellyn, which the English already had the name derived from the French Louise and German Ludwig. The Welsh spelling was Lewys by the 15th C.
8. Hughes (1.23) - Hughes — from the German name Hugh, which came to England with the Norman Conquest. Hullin, Huws.
How did the Welsh end up with English surnames?
The Welsh only began to have fixed surnames about 500 years ago. Before that, they'd have a baptismal name, a first name and after that would be 'ap' or 'ab' which means 'son of' or 'ferch' which means 'daughter of' in Welsh and then they would have their father's name & their grandfather's name going back nine or more generations. So, if you asked someone their name they would say "I'm John ap Llewelyn ap Dafydd ap Ieuan ap Gruffudd ap Meredydd ap Meilyr ap Gwasmeir ap Rhys and so on. This was based on patronymics, naming derived from the name of a father or ancestor.
These extended patronymics was a genealogical history of the person's ancestry along the male line. This system came from Welsh Law, a system of law practiced in medieval Wales before Wales was absorbed into England. Welsh people couldn't own land unless they could prove they were descendants of a forefather, nine to ten to twelve generations back, who held tribal lands.
Although the last Welsh Prince of Wales, Llewellyn ap Gruffydd, had been killed during Edward I 's war of conquest in 1282 and Wales had faced English rule with the introduction of English style counties and a Welsh gentry made up of Englishmen and native Welsh lords who were given English titles in exchange for loyalty to the English throne, Welsh Law still remained in force for many legal matters up until the reign of Henry VIII.
Henry VIII, whose family the Tudors were of Welsh descent from the Welsh House of Tudur, had not previously seen a need to reform the Welsh government during his time on the throne, but as a result of a supposed threat from the Welsh Marcher lords, Henry introduced the Laws in Wales Acts 1535-1542.
The Act of Union that was drawn up declared that English would be the only language of the courts and that those using the Welsh language would be forbidden from holding public office. While in the past Welsh parents would have named their children after the ancient pagan heroes and gods of Wales, like Llwarch or Gwalchmai, they were now forced to choose from a small group of politically judicious anglicized names like John and David.
These laws meant that the Welsh legal system was completely absorbed into the English system under English Common Law and both the English Lords who had been granted Welsh land by Edward I and the native Welsh gentry became part of the English Peerage. As a result of all this, fixed surnames became hereditary among the Welsh gentry and then spread among the rest of the Welsh people, although the patronymic naming system could still be found in areas of rural Wales until the beginning of the nineteenth century.
This had a bad effect on Welsh names because instead of having a brilliant variety of hundreds of ancient pagan names like Llywarch or Gwalchmai or having a huge number of Catholic devotional names like Gwasdewi (devotee of St. David) or Gwasmeir (devotee of the Virgin Mary) people became very nervous and frightened as to what should be used and they came up with a small list of safe, respectable names. There was only about a dozen of them. They were safe biblical names like John, Thomas, and David and a few safe royal names like Thomas, Edward, and Henry.
So, at the time when Welsh people were being forced to take fixed surnames, was the same time when hundreds of fathers were being given the name John. The popularity of John as a safe apolitical name - the Welsh language doesn't even have a letter "J" in it - quickly saw Jones (John's son) spread like wildfire through the valleys. And, instead of being Llywarch ap Gwalchmai ap Gwasmihangel, they ended up being John Jones.
A poem quoted by Trevor Fishwick (Wales and the Welsh, 1972) sums up the irritation of a 19th-century English judge trying to sort out the Welsh people in his court.
Then strove the judge with might and main
The sounding consonants to write
But when the day was almost gone
He found his work not nearly done.
His ears assailed most woefully
With names like Rhys ap Griffith Ddu.
Aneirin, Iorwerth Ieuan Goch
And Llywarach Hen o Abersoch,
Taliesin ap Llewelyn Fawr
And Llun ap Arthur bach y Cawr.
Until at length, in sheer despair,
He doffed his wig and tore his hair.
And said he would no longer stand
The surnames of our native land.
"Take ten," he said, "and call them Rice;
Take another ten and call them Price.
Take fifty others, call them Pughs,
A hundred more I'll dub them Hughes.
Now Roberts name some hundred score
And Williams name a legion more.
And call", he moaned in languid tones,
"Call all the others (blank, blank) Jones."
Discover Where In The UK Your Surname Is Popular
If you're interested in finding out where your name is popular in the UK, there's a website that will tell you. You just enter your surname and the website maps where there are unusually high numbers of people with that name. What's interesting is that most individuals and families don't move far from their ancestral family home, so, 700 or more years later, most names can still be associated with particular localities. Insert your name into the Named website and it will tell you the relative frequency/density of your surname compared with the general population in that area.
CLICK HERE TO SEARCH FOR YOUR SURNAME
If you'd REALLY like to find out if you're Welsh or not, there is a way! You can order an AncestryDNA kit and find out where your ancestors came from.
AncestryDNA…what is it?
It's a cutting edge testing service that combines advanced DNA science with the world's largest online family history resource to help you find new family connections. It can also help you identify relationships with unknown living relatives through a dynamic list of DNA matches.
What does the test tell me?
It includes information across your ethnicity across 350 regions and identifies potential relatives through DNA matching to others who have taken the test.
When can I expect my results?
Normally it takes about 6-8 weeks to process from the time the lab receives your sample. You must activate the DNA kit online in order to begin processing.
How do I see the results?
When your results are ready, you will receive an email from AncestryDNA notifying you, with a link to view your results. Your results will also be available online in a password-protected AncestryDNA account.
Can I give AncestryDNA as a gift?
Yes! You can order a kit online, create an Ancestry account to track your order and have the kit shipped to either you or your friend or family member. The kit has clear instructions on how to take the test and activate the account.
My friend Alice and her husband took the test for Christmas and found out she was 95% from the British Isles, 2% from Norway and 2% from Africa. Her husband, who is Dutch, found out he's 51% from England.
Another friend found out she has a 3rd cousin from Wales.
It's a fun way to discover your ancestry and to find out if you are, indeed, Welsh.
If you'd like to order the AncestryDNA Kit, you can find it here, if you're from the US, and here, if you're from the UK.


The NEC Group, based in Birmingham, officially launches a new charity partnership with Midlands Air Ambulance Charity this month.
Employees at the Group voted for the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity to become their charity of the year for 2019.
The Group – which operates the NEC, ICC, Resorts World Arena, Arena Birmingham and the Vox venues, plus supporting businesses The Ticket Factory, Amadeus and Amplify – will be organising a range of fundraising activities.
The Group aims to engage employees and visitors, to raise money for the charity through a series of fund raising events, from bucket collections, to charity quizzes and seasonal activities.
Funds raised over the next 12-months will help to contribute to the £9 million that is needed each year to keep the charity's service operational.
The charity currently operates three air ambulances serving the communities of six Midlands counties: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire and the West Midlands. Each day they respond to an average of six-eight serious incidents, providing critical care on the scene and rapid transfer to the appropriate trauma centre.
The NEC Group's support will help Midlands Air Ambulance Charity to achieve its mission of providing patients with outstanding pre-hospital care and life saving intervention through the operation of helicopter led emergency services.
NEC Group CEO, Paul Thandi said: "We're really pleased to be working in partnership with the Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. They are a remarkable charity that plays a key role in providing vitality important emergency services to the people of the Midlands.
Sofia Voutianitis, Corporate Partnerships Manager at Midlands Air Ambulance Charity said: "It's fantastic that the NEC Group has chosen to support our charity throughout 2019. It's relationships like this that help to keep our helicopters in the air and keep our crew saving lives.


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Facebook Meets Amazon
A world leader in the manufacturing and development of springs came to us. Now an almost billion dollar company, they evolved from a small operation to become a major player in the global manufacturing market. Looking to find new markets, some young blood in the family started looking at new sectors to build companies in. Working with industry experts in special markets, they saw potential in online shopping. They wanted to become a dominant player in the space, so they created a grand vision to create something special, a social platform centered around products. Nobody had ever done anything of this size in this space. Thus, the social search engine for sales was born.
The site was a very complex ecosystem. The social platform revolved around the products platform. The product's platform needed to have everything a user could want: hundreds of millions of products from hundreds of stores. More importantly, the pricing needed to be constantly updated. Even the slightest price percentage change needed to be tracked and pushed to users because that could make the difference in engagement. The utility of the products platform is what energized the social platform. Without accurate pricing, there was little that could make it go viral organically, which is needed for community plays in markets nowadays.
We were brought in after several engineering and marketing firms failed to deliver for the client. The firms were large, highly recommended, award-winning firms but they still could not get the job done. They promised them the world, assuring them they could handle a project of their size, but it was clear they couldn't. With millions of dollars invested, the future looked bleak without someone who could execute.
Despite a major investment of time and energy with specialized design firms, the site had a very basic design. It was not converting around 2% of the time. People were not taking the actions they desired like signing up or converting to sale. Bounce rates were extremely high at over 80%.
With less than 100,000 items, the site speed was very slow taking around 15-30 seconds to load a single page with barely any concurrent users. Despite having beefy servers, they could not handle the data they already had. However, they would need around 10,000 times more data to come close to enough products.
Their goal was to incorporate diverse data from many different kinds of sources. But the firms they hired were struggling to handle data from just a single source. They had not even scratched the surface of complexity and were showing their limits.
Technical Advisors But No Progress
After the first few failed contracts, they tried to make a change. Being non-technical, the executive team brought in seasoned engineering veterans to serve as technical advisors to screen and manage the work being done for them. Despite this, progress was not there.
Investor Confidence
Even if a startup's failure is not the fault of the founders, the investor still holds them accountable. They were suffering from a severe lack of talent to do the work they needed to be done. Investor confidence was running out. Was their vision just too big? The investors were not interested in putting in another round until they could prove things would be different.
The problem with their project was that it was simply too complex for most engineers. Few firms could handle the technical and business requirements to pull it off in a cost-effective manner. We knew we had to have a really solid strategy going into this. We realized that the key to their success lied in the investor's confidence. Nothing brings more confidence to an investor than user engagement. We prepared a plan of action to optimize their experience to drive engagement and revenue KPIs. With these key metrics trending upward in a major way, it would be much easier to get investors on board with future rounds.
The original design is very cluttered and messy with too many sections crammed into small spaces. It was visually confusing and overwhelming for new users. A fresh, modern design was created to replaced the dated original design. We wanted a look that was unique but also one that more closely matched online shopper expectations. The desired aesthetic was a clean, minimalist look that mirrored higher end brands. These changes boosted engagement tremendously. The conversion rate surged to nearly 40%.
With the scale they wanted to get to, speed was a major issue. They needed a system that worked for them now but would also work in the future. With limited funds in the investment round, they could not afford to build a temporary system now and then another system later. They needed something built right the first time.
We built an automated parallel distributed system to handle all data processing through their system on both the backend and frontend. Everything was being done synchronously so we broke down synchronous processes into parallel chunks that could be performed atomically with high reliability. This lead to single-threaded speedups of over 1,000x running on a single machine compared to their old systems. When spinning up server clusters, the multi-threaded improvements were well over 10,000,000x. This system was infinitely scalable with server costs scaling much slower than the computing power. To optimize costs, servers were scaled up and down as the workload changed to avoid having too many wasted idle server resources.
With so much content coming from so many sources, we knew certain key features could make or break the project's performance. The biggest of these was the parsing system. The parsing system transforms content from any source into a unified data model for consistent, predictable use across the system. This completely removed parsing-related complexity out of all code besides the parser module. This greatly simplified the core code.
We parsed extremely diverse data from different platforms with different methods (ex: API, web scraping, pulling feeds), formats (ex: XML, JSON, CSV, TSV, HTML, SOAP), protocols (ex: HTTP, FTP) and authorization schemes (ex: OAuth, HTTP, keys). This made handling data predictable.
With parsing out of the way, we created a modular infrastructure for the many different features the system would need. This would allow future engineers to do major development work in parallel. The final system would continuously find, parse, import and update items from many sources. They were indexed into an Amazon-like search engine. The total item count in total neared 1 billion items. These items were served in fractions of a second on search frontend.
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Not All Technical Talent Is Equal
With so many companies bidding for your work, having a technical advisor as an advisor to sift through them is critical. Technical advisors are great as double insurance. But as they learned, just having a technical advisor does not mean everything will magically work. They introduced technical advisors, but they were still not seeing progress. They could see more problems, but it wasn't moving them forward.
That is because not all technical talent is equal. There are many dimensions to technical work. In engineering, for example, there is frontend, backend, dev ops, web, mobile, and much more. Having technical talent that specializes in only one of these areas means they can't serve that advisory for the entire product cycle which includes all the areas. You need someone with high-level experience in all the areas which is rare outside of consulting firms. That is the difference between consulting firms and development agencies.
Highly Recommended Does Not Mean Highly Skilled
A common misconception for clients is that if someone is highly recommended, they must be highly skilled. The truth is that the companies that get the most business do not have the best talent; they just have the best sales team. It is the same with products: the most popular product is always the one with the best marketing, not the one that is technically the best. This is a major problem when you need a skilled team for a project.
The best way to find skilled candidates is with a technical advisor. Without one, there is still an effective way to cut through the sales pitches: ask for their results. Specifically, ask for what numerical impacts they achieved. Marketing teams are great at spinning results, claiming "amazing" project results when the real change was only 5%. You can overemphasize qualitative results to seem more impressive, but numbers don't lie.
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Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A Rare Cancer
From your next door neighbor to Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple who just announced that he is stepping down as CEO of the company, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) affect less than 1 person in 100,000 in the United States. This rare cancer is often…
Breaking News: Pancreatic NET Cancer Patient Steve Jobs Steps Down as CEO of Apple
On August 24, 2011, Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, announced that he was stepping down from his position. In his letter to the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community, Mr. Jobs wrote, "I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet…
Carcinoid Cancer Foundation Thanks Steve Jobs for Bringing about Greater Awareness of Neuroendocrine Cancers
Since the announcement was made earlier this month that Apple's CEO Steve Jobs would be taking a medical leave of absence there has been significant media coverage about pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, NET cancer, and carcinoid. Although…
Steve Jobs to Take New Medical Leave from Apple
Steve Jobs, CEO and co-founder of Apple and the most well-known member of the carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumor community, is taking a new medical leave of absence. This announcement was reported today, January 17, 2011, by The New York Times, a year…
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Q: More Grouping Options Working in SP13 document library.  I am looking to group the documents into particular categories in certain view.  When I modify the view, the group feature allows me to group by two ways.  However, I would like to group further without using folders.  For an example see image below.  Looking at the image...the first group created is by 'Month'...the second group is created is by 'Year'.  However, would I proceed to group by more levels (see Mtg1/Mtg2...etc)?  Is this possible since the grouping feature by view only allows two ways to group?  Any help is appreciated.

A: AFAIK Out of the Box its not possible.. In 2010/2007, there is a solution by editing the XLST List View Web Part.. Unfortunately since you have no design view in SharePoint 2013, it will be difficult (maybe possible)..
However you can write your own JavaScript based Client Side Rendering (JSLink)
Or you can create your own Treeview based Web Part (ofcourse filtering, sorting etc. need to be developed)..


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Вацлав Немодлинский (, ; около 1345 — июнь 1369) — князь Немодлинский (1362/1365—1369) и Прудницкий (1365—1369), правил вместе с братьями Болеславом II (до 1367/1368 года) и Генрихом.

Биография
Представитель опольской линии Силезских Пястов. Второй сын князя немодлинского Болеслава Первородного (ок. 1293 — 1362/1365) и Евфимии Вроцлавской (после 1318 —ок. 1383), дочери князя Вроцлавского Генриха VI Доброго.

В 1364 году, после женитьбы на Евфимии, дочери князя Болеслава Бытомского, Вацлав Немодлинский, согласно договору ее деда князя Владислава Бытомского с чешской королевской династией Люксембургов, получил во владение город Гливице с окрестностями.

После смерти отца между 1362 год и 1365 годами Вацлав вместе с братьями Болеславом II и Генрихом I унаследовали Немодлинское княжество. После смерти князя Микулаша II Опавского в 1365 году король Карл Люксембургский в награду за верную службу передал Болеславу II Прудницкое княжество.

Первоначально власть Вацлава в Немодлине была чисто формальной, поскольку бразды правления в княжестве находились в руках его старшего брата Болеслава II. Только после смерти Болеслава II в 1367/1368 году Вацлав принял на себя управление обоими княжествами.

Его правление было скоротечным: в июне 1369 года князь Вацлав Немодлинский скончался. После его смерти Гливице перешло князьям Олесницким, а Немодлинское и Прудницкое княжества унаследовал его младший брат Генрих.

Брак
В 1364 году князь Вацлав Немодлинский женился на Евфимии (Офке) (1350/1352 — 1411), второй дочери князя Болеслава Бытомского и Маргариты (Малгоржаты) из Штернберка (ум. после 1365). Их брак был бездетным. Через несколько лет после смерти Вацлава его вдова Евфимия вторично вышла замуж в 1369/1370 году за Болеслава III, князя Зембицкого (1344/1348 — 1410).

Литература
 Hugo Weczerka (Hrsg.): Handbuch der historischen Stätten. Schlesien. Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3, S. 365f. sowie Stammtafel auf S. 596—597 (Kröners Taschenausgabe 316).
 Rudolf Žáček: Dějiny Slezska v datech. Libri, Praha 2004, ISBN 80-7277-172-8, S. 415 und 496.

Ссылки
 Miroslav Marek Генеалогия князей Опольских
 Charles Cawley SILESIA, Medieval Lands database, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy

Силезские Пясты
Правители Силезии
Умершие в 1369 году

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It's Hard to Describe What We Do Here at Goldman Sachs, So Let's Just Say We Take Money From the Poor and Give It to the Rich
by Matthew Brian Cohen
Some jobs are easy to understand. A plumber fixes pipes. An architect designs buildings. But if you're an Operational Risk Analyst for the Finance and Securities division Goldman Sachs, as I am, nobody at a dinner party knows exactly what that entails. What we do at Goldman Sachs is very complex and highly technical, but essentially, it all boils down to taking money from the poor and giving it to the rich.
Most people don't have the slightest clue as to what we do at Goldman Sachs — are we an investment bank? Are we a money management fund? Are we a parasite sucking the life out of the middle class? It's all of the above. Some days we're advising business owners to close factories and cut jobs, and take the money saved and spend it on a very nice yacht. Other days we're in Washington, letting Congressmen know that as fellow rich people, they stand to get even more rich by leaving us alone and letting us do our thing. Some days, we don't even leave the office, and just wallow around in our own filthy, exquisite richness, like fat little pigs rolling around in the most decadent, gold-encrusted mud. But no matter what, we start each day by re-committing to our mission statement: make people who already have a lot of money, even more money.
It's not that simple, though. We're constantly coming up with financial innovations to help us siphon equity from the have-nots to the have-plentys. We've come a long way from the early days of Goldman, where we'd bundle risky mortgages for log cabins and pressure the rating agencies to rate them Twenty Three Skidoo. From MBS's, to CDO's, to the large claw attached to our Jersey City office building that picks up pedestrians and shakes the valuables out from their pockets, we're always finding new ways to butt fuck the working poor into oblivion.
I'm hesitant to nutshell Goldman Sachs like this, because then people think that any jerk wanting to make a fast buck can do what we do. Far from it. Every Goldman employee has spent years eroding their morals and reassuring their conscience that they are just following orders while they systematically devour the global economy. I myself had to take countless tests on business ethics, and if I didn't fail every single one, they'd have shown me the door. I came to Goldman wide-eyed and naïve, and after twenty five years, I'm a husk of a man incapable of looking another human being in the eye. I'm willing to kick a homeless person's teeth out and then package them into a subprime mortgage bond. But we looked into the subprime tooth market and the margins were just too low.
When you simplify Goldman Sachs like this, we really do sound evil, but I assure you, we're not. If you take the time to really understand us, you can see that we're an intricate tapestry of insatiable greed, spiritual bankruptcy, and casual disdain for human life. And, if the margins improve, homeless person tooth securities.
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Scotty McCreery pays homage to Elvis Presley in the sweetest of ways
by Silke Jasso August 16, 2016, 7:32 pm 206 Views 0 Votes
Scotty McCreery has always had a deep appreciation for legendary country artists like Merle Haggard, George Jones and Conway Twitty.
But, it seems that the "American Idol" season 10 winner's biggest hero of all time is rock 'n' roll legend Elvis Presley.
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"Yea, Elvis Presley. He was my guy growing up and still is," Scotty once told Fox News Magazine, "I just love him. He's probably the coolest guy as far as I'm concerned."
In 2013, Scotty showed his love for Elvis out on the road during a show in Atlanta. There, he got onstage and broke out into the King of Rock and Roll's 1954 classic "That's All Right Mama."
As you can see in this video, Scotty is armed with an acoustic guitar. And, although he doesn't don a glammed up look like his inspiration did back then, the North Carolina native did do a pretty spot-on impression of Elvis' pelvic thrust movements — enough to make fans go nuts!
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Midway through the performance, Scotty was joined by three other musicians who were armed with guitars. And, together, they flaunted their musical talents in front of a large screen featuring images of Elvis.
It's been 39 years since Elvis passed. The singer died on Aug. 16, 1977. According to "Billboard," fans from all over gathered in Graceland to pay their respects with a candle-lit vigil on the 39th anniversary of his death.
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Although inconsistent at times, the Madison is still producing great dry-fly fishing if you happen to find yourself at the right place, at the right time. For time, mid-morning and evening has been best, mid-day has been pretty hit-or-miss. The Wade Section is your best option, fish have been eating #16 Cinnamon Ant, #16 Para-Wulff, #14 Grand Hopper, #16-18 Rusty Spinner, and #18 Purple Parachute.
As for nymphing, wade out to those mid-river slicks and fish them hard. With flows on the lower side (839 @ Kirby), take advantage and fish some spots that may be too hard to normally wade out to. Still haven't seen much interest in fish eating larger stonefly nymphs, so far the time being I would recommend to keep your patterns on the small side; #18 Guide Dip, #16 Shop Vac, #18 Black Lightning Bug, #18 Black Crystal Dip, and #14 Pyscho Prince.
Smokey as all get out on the lake in the mornings on Hebgen, but worth dealing with it as the Gulper fishing has been solid once the morning warms up. Over the weekend, it seemed the fish didn't really get going until after 10am. Don't be afraid to switch patterns in the middle of the action, simply said; if they aren't eating your fly, change it! Also, 4.5 to 5.5X tippet is recommended. Top producers have been the #18 Calf Wing Spinner, #16 Iris Caddis, #16 Para-Ant, #16 Purple Hazy Cripple, and the #18 Para-Wulff.
Currently closed upstream from the Campground! Via NPS- "Please note that due to the growth of the Buffalo Fire, Slough Creek trail and the Soldier's trail (horse use trail) are now closed for both day use and overnight use." Check in with the Gate or Backcountry office for updates.
Via NPS- "There is a pesticide treatment going on at Soda Butte Creek. Visitors may see purple water up to Pebble Creek. No Wading, Walking, or Fishing east of the Ice Box until August 25th."
Still fishing pretty dang good for late August. A good number of the Big Boys are still there, great to see them stick around this long. Smaller mayflies, ants, beetles, hoppers, and a few Drakes are still your best bet for getting into them. A few MRO favorites are the #12 DOA Cripple, #14 Slough Cr. Cripple, #16 Bogus Beetle, #14-18 Para-Ant, and the #14 Purple Hippy Stomper.


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Balboa Baptist is a group of people who come from different geographic areas of the U.S. Our faith in Jesus Christ and our desire to serve Him give us unity.
We began as an 18-member mission of Barcelona Road Baptist Church in 1991. Dr. Kenny Moore was called as full-time pastor in 1992. The church moved to its present location in 1995. In November 2005, 90 members were sent out to birth a mission church, Coronado Baptist.
After serving 20 years, Dr. Kenny Moore resigned as pastor in January 2013, and entered the International Mission Field to serve in Bremen, Germany for ten months.
In April 2013, we called Dr. Ross Woodbury as Intentional Interim Pastor. On August 10, 2014 we installed Dr. Denny Wright as Senior Pastor.
A platform expansion project is planned for July 2015; also an Outreach Center is being planned.
We look forward to the Lord's plans for Balboa Baptist Church!


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I'm Feeling Brand New Again: How Minimally Invasive 'HiFU' Cured His Movement Disorder
Essential tremor is one of the most common movement disorders. And as its name indicates, it affects movements that are essential for daily living — whether it's picking up a glass of water or grasping and turning a door knob. It often causes shaking of the hands and can be confused with Parkinson's disease.
If you need to know how much this condition can disrupt someone's life, just ask Roberto Rodriguez, who recently underwent a minimally invasive procedure at Miami Neuroscience Institute that involves the most advanced technology to treat essential tremor.
Watch video now: Hear from patient Roberto Rodriguez and neurosurgeon Justin Sporrer, M.D., with Miami Neuroscience Institute. Video by Steve Pipho.
"It has gotten to a point where it's basically impossible for me to go out and eat," recalled Mr. Rodriguez. "I can't eat soup or drink out of a glass, or even a bottle. It's been tough."
The technology that would change Mr. Rodriguez's life is called high-intensity focused ultrasound, or HiFU. It's only in a few facilities in the United States, including Miami Neuroscience Institute. HiFU sends more than 1,000 beams of ultrasound through the skull to a specific location of the brain. There, sound waves converge and hit and destroy lesions or problem areas, such as those that are "disrupting an abnormal circuit in the brain," explains neurosurgeon Justin Sporrer, M.D., with Miami Neuroscience Institute.
"When Mr. Rodriguez came to my office, it was fairly clear that he had essential tremor, which is one of the most common causes of tremor and it's particularly disabling because it only comes out, or it comes out more, when people go to do an activity," explains Dr. Sporrer. "So, if they were sitting in a chair, you may not notice it. But as soon as they go to reach for a glass of water, shave their face or eat with a spoon or write with a pencil, it comes out and it makes many of those things impossible."
HiFU is a technology that creates an ablation at a very specific target in the brain. An ablation involves a procedure to scar or destroy tissue. "What we are doing is disrupting an abnormal circuit in the brain," says Dr. Sporrer. "So, if you think of all the activities that our brain performs, it's not one neuron causing your arm to move, it's a whole series of thousands of neurons that are connected to each other. And smooth movements rely on the smooth communication between those neurons."
With HiFU, patients are given one or more "sonications," or energy blasts to the area, in one sitting. Between sonications, physicians talk with the patients and ask them to perform tasks that would normally be difficult. If the patient still has some tremor, another sonication may be performed. At Miami Cancer Institute, HiFU will be used in clinical trials for patients of all ages who have recurrent brain cancers. The procedure is non-invasive, and there's no need for anesthesia. It also avoids radiation and doesn't damage nearby tissues.
In the case of Mr. Rodriguez, the HiFU procedure was a resounding success, says Dr. Sporrer.
"I am still surprised every time I see it, and the patients often are you know either laughing or crying out of joy because the effects are so dramatic," said Dr. Sporrer. "So, when we just finished taking him back to see his wife (after the procedure), he immediately held his hand up so that he could show her that it's no longer shaking. He was able to write a whole sentence and it was legible. And he was able to grasp a glass of water and bring it up to his lips with no stilling. And it's just very satisfying."
A very grateful Mr. Rodriguez says he feels like a new person.
"First of all, I would say thank you and I'd like to encourage people that might be suffering from this situation — please go check it out," says Mr. Rodriguez. "It's not painful at all. And, believe me, you're going to know the difference — it's like you're feeling brand new again."
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Summary: A quick glance at the relationship between Hikaru, Tsuna, Sadamitsu and Urube. Takes place at the end of act 5.
Summary: Eliza flourished in the darkness of her clean, organized room. With her belongings stacked systematically in pairs of odd numbers on top of her bedroom furniture, her closet full of clothes that were sorted by color and type, and the beautiful sounds of her mental clock ticking away the seconds of each day. Eliza's obsessive nature was what separated her from everyone else. It gave her an excuse to remain in her solitude. Faded, washed out memories of a man with greasy brown hair and a gun positioned dangerously against his temple haunted her mind frequently. Between saving her mother from her nightly suicidal episodes and keeping her own fears at bay, it was no wonder Eliza had lost her the power of using her own voice.
Summary: Its 2010 and you, China and your sons are celebrating Winter Solistice together. But this Winter Solistice and the Solistice of years ago are vastly different. Or so you think.
Summary: Holiday shopping is always stressful, but somehow, Gokudera managed to finish shopping even with the added responsibilities of his duties as right hand man to Tsuna and the organization of the annual Vongola-Varia holiday party. Still, Gokudera can't shake the feeling that he's missing something... and he hates not knowing.
Summary: You knew of him, but you didn't know him, no one really did. Yet he can't help but watch, he won't admit it, but he's obsessed.


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Converged Services - Will you buy energy, security, voice, internet, and video from the same company?
I have been tracking this trend since the late 80s. And it seems to finally be picking up steam. Australia and Indiana have something in common. Their utilities are bundling services and acquiring one another. The goal is an integrated service experience that truly creates a 1+1 = 3. In the article below from Green Tech Media, we get third hand validation that this trend is on its way.
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Research & Analysis Smart Grid Katherine Tweed: April 15, 2011
The Merger of Telecom and Utilities: Is It the Future?
Electric and telecom co-ops take an Australian idea and get hitched in Indiana. Is it a good fit?
Someday in the future, we'll all look back at the triple play service as a relic of another age, like beepers or Blockbuster. Instead, the trio of phone, cable and internet will expand to quadruple and maybe even quintuple plays. It's already happening in Australia, where one utility, ActewAGL, is bundling up to seven services to save customers money. It's also starting to happen here in the U.S.
Central Indiana Power, a small co-operative in the suburbs of Indianapolis, has merged with a local telecom, Hancock, to offer electricity, phone, broadband and home security services through one company now called NineStar Connect. The deal isn't exactly Duke Energy merging with AT&T, but it is the first example (outside of a very small co-op in Alaska) in the U.S. of a trend that other small utilities are watching carefully. It also moves the industry one step closer to checking something off of Greentech Media's wish list: Communications carriers and computer companies offering energy management services as part of their service package. (We'll be discussing the utility of the future at the Networked Grid conference on May 3 and 4 in San Francisco.)
The idea to get cozy with Hancock first occurred to CIP when it was investigating a smart meter project. The telecom already had fiber to many of the homes in the electric utility's service territory, which has about 12,500 customers.
"With the broadband capability and how could we use that, we looked at it and said 'hey, this is pretty interesting,'" said Jeff Myers, Engineering Manager for NineStar Connect.
The executives and engineers at the utility saw meters as the first step into smart grid, and from there they hope to do voluntary demand response and dynamic pricing to give customers more options. Eventually they are planning upgrades for distribution automation and load transferring. CIP has had radio-controlled demand response for decades, but the utility doesn't even know how many switches are hooked up, and so the upgrades will allow it to bring demand response into the 21st century.
A new study from Accenture indicates that consumers might view the trend favorably. The firm found that 73 percent of consumers would consider buying electricity from companies other than traditional energy providers with 22 percent willing to buy from their cable or phone company.
90 percent in China, South Korea and Singapore would buy from non traditional sources.
It sounds like a win-win for CIP, but what's in it for Hancock? "The goal there is to get more subscribers," said Myers. The telecom will also get to expand its fiber network to additional customers now that it is merged with CIP, which will add even more potential customers as it competes with big boys in the space such as Comcast.
The two companies merged at the beginning of this year, and even more than a reshuffling of offices, it has been the mixing of two very different corporate cultures that has shaken things up the most for the workforce. "On our side," said Myers, "we need to understand the competitive marketplace."
Although it's early days for the merger, Myers and others in the business are starting to think of premium services that could include deals for electric vehicle owners. Unlike ActewAGL in Australia, they do not have bundled packages that offer lower rates if you wrap your triple play in with electricity, "but that's a really interesting concept," said Myers, "That might be something to do in the future." The two divisions have already married together their call centers. For some other issues, things get a little trickier. Utility folks aren't used to having to make sure someone is home to get into the house, whereas the cable guy needs you to usually take the day off of work if you need something done.
For the rest of the melding, the two sides have put together cross-functional teams to work through logistics and new ideas. "It's going to take some time," Myers admitted.
Myers acknowledges that they are at the leading edge of this front, but expressed doubts about how far it will go. In Indiana, the state legislators had to overturn a law that forbade telephone and electric co-ops from merging. The one single vote in opposition questioned whether big players, like Duke Energy and AT&T, would take the opportunity to form a huge conglomerate. Currently, that doesn't seem likely.
One could imagine a world, however, where you pay $5 on your cable bill for energy management services that help you slash $25 on your electric bill. Some of those programs could, in theory, operate with partnerships rather than mergers.
In many areas, telecoms and utilities already have robust relationships behind the scenes, and many cell carriers currently provide backhaul networks for grid communications. However, selling iPhones and HBO is certainly not the equivalent of maintaining the safety and reliability of the electricity grid, another reason why partnerships, rather than M&A, are far more likely on a large scale.
As for NineStar, they know that the merger could be the beginning of something beautiful, and not just for its little corner of the world. Both Myers and executives from NineStar are asked to speak at conferences around the world to discuss how the merger will support their smart grid objectives. "People are keeping a close eye on us," Myers said.
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/the-merger-of-telecom-and-utility-services-is-it-the-future/


2015 Guide: What Ourlads' NFL Scouting Services said about MIKE HULL: Penn State, 5117 237 4.68. Two-year starter from Canonsburg, PA. Quick read and react. Somewhat mechanical at times but chases well and shows decent agility. Good overall techniques with sound footwork. Can improve his shed technique as he will get locked up at times. Flashes downhill ability but is more of a lateral movement player. Good fits inside. Very instinctive. An improving man cover guy but closes well in coverage and is solid in overall coverage technique. Good zone awareness. Good break and drive on balls in the underneath zones. 2014 stats: 140 T, 10.5 TFL, 2 sacks, 1 FF, 1 INT. Edge speed:left 2.15, right 2.25. OSR:7/17. Fifth/ sixth round. (A-30 1/2, H-9 3/8, BP-31, SS-4.15).


The Nebi Camii (also called Peygamber Camii, Profet's Mosque) was built on the orders of Süleyman in 1524. It is (according to the Wikipedia) called Profet's Mosque because it contains many inscriptions in his honour. The minaret was financed by a wealthy citizen (1530) and has been moved by 5 meters during a rather recent restoration.


Value Added Tax (VAT) is a tax added to the cost of certain goods and services. It is only accountable where the party raising an invoice is VAT-registered. Parties must register if their VAT-able turnover exceeds a minimum threshold in any 12-month period.
From October 2019, a domestic VAT reverse charge will come into effect to tackle fraud in the construction industry. A reverse charge enables a customer to charge themselves VAT rather than the supplier charging it. This removes any opportunity for the supplier not to pay HMRC (missing trader fraud).
The reverse charge will apply to businesses that supply services to another business that will then sell on that service, but not those that supply services to consumers.
Construction, alteration, repair, extension, demolition or dismantling of buildings, structures, non-permanent structures, offshore installations, works forming part of land (i.e. walls, runways, docks, railways, pipelines, etc.).
Installation of systems such as heating, lighting, air-conditioning, ventilation, drainage, and so on.
Internal cleaning of buildings and structures.
Services which are an integral part of preparing or completing those above (e.g. site clearance, excavation, scaffolding erection, landscaping, and so on).
Drilling and extraction of oil, natural gas, and minerals.
Tunnelling and boring for underground works.
Manufacture of building or engineering components and machinery.
Installation of seating, blinds, shutters, etc.
Installation of security systems and alarms.
Draft legislation has been published by HMRC with the final version of the order and guidance expected by October 2018. Businesses that are expected to be affected have been advised to identify instances where they may need to apply the reverse charge.
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"America's Fund for Afghan Children" – this is the name George W. Bush has given his "dollar for Afghan kids" drive. My daughter received a letter from her school requesting that she bring a dollar in for this drive.
Since donors are instructed to send their money to the White House, I figured I'd do some checking. When I called the White House to ask what they were going to do with the money raised by kids, they told me it would be turned over to the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross, it turns out, is actually officially chaired by President George Bush.
The president had promised, in his press conference announcing the birth of America's Fund for Afghan Children, that the American Red Cross would work with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to make sure that "every dollar, every single dollar that's been raised by the boys and girls of America will be spent on the needs of the boys and girls in Afghanistan." The USAID, of course, is a federal agency that has been notorious for its close historical links to the CIA.
It cites the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees as estimating the number of refugees at 2.6 million.
It does not mention, however, that the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for a suspension of the U.S. military campaign to enable relief workers to get food into Afghanistan to avert starvation.
I called the American Red Cross and asked them whether they had staff or facilities in Afghanistan that would enable them to provide relief to children, how they might actually get food to the children, whether they would cooperate with the U.N. and other non-governmental organizations, how much of the money raised would be needed for their administrative costs and whether I could get an accounting of how the money would be spent.
It took several bounces before I was finally able to reach a supervisor willing to answer my questions. She answered them as follows: (1) No, the American Red Cross did not have staff or facilities in Afghanistan. (2) They were going to give the money to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Association. (3) No, they did not plan on cooperating with the U.N. and other non-governmental organizations, only with the International Red Cross/Crescent. (4) She didn't know the answer to my question about administrative costs. (5) She said they couldn't give an accounting until the end of the fiscal year, but that there would be something on the website of the International Red Cross about it.
I checked the International Red Cross website, but there is nothing there specific to "America's Fund for Afghan Children." It was interesting to note that the supervisor I spoke to denied that the U.S. had bombed an International Red Cross warehouse in Kabul. She said that it wasn't true, and that the media had carried a retraction!
Upon checking the BBC website on the subject, however, I viewed a video clip in which a representative of the International Red Cross complained bitterly that the U.S. had destroyed its warehouse and injured one of its employees. He said that the buildings were clearly marked and should have been off limits.
This was before the second bombing of International Red Cross warehouses on Oct. 26. The U.S. military at first had declared the second bombing to have been a mistake, but they have since reversed themselves, indicating that they had intentionally bombed the Red Cross because the Taliban was supposedly exercising control over Red Cross activity.
It made the case that the ARC had lost credibility in the eyes of the American people and that donations that had been given for victims of Sept. 11 were being siphoned off to other projects. The American Red Cross, the article revealed, is not a full, dues-paying member of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent societies.
There is ample cause for concern about whether any of the dollars raised in response to President Bush's call will actually reach children in Afghanistan. The administration has no mechanism for delivering relief supplies to Afghan children, other than dropping those famous yellow food packages, which are the same color as the unexploded cluster bombs.
The American Red Cross has no staff or facilities in Afghanistan, and is dependent upon the International Red Cross for distribution. The International Red Cross facilities are the ones that have been twice bombed by U.S. forces.
U.N. officials and Oxfam International, which has staff and facilities in Afghanistan, have both pleaded for a pause in the bombing so that they can actually get food, medicine and supplies into rural areas before winter sets in.
At the very best, the mechanism set up by the Bush administration for collecting and distributing the funds is bureaucratic and inefficient. The money must pass through several layers and transfers before it gets to an organization that can actually deliver.
Why not send it directly to the International Red Cross? And why not ask Bush to stop bombing the International Red Cross facilities so that what our kids actually have raised will not be destroyed by our own military?
Tim Yeager is a parent and a trade unionist in Illinois.


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Finsbury Park is one of London's great parks, designed and laid out by Alexander McKenzie, opening in 1869.
Make use of its many facilities; from a baseball field, to skating and more, there's something for thrill-seekers and newbies alike to enjoy.
Check out the amazing play areas, for both younger kids and bigger kids alike.
Don't miss out on the array of cultural events held in and around at Finsbury Park, like music festivals and the nearby Park Theatre.
Finsbury Park is a colourful and diverse area, rich in multicultural splendour in North London and bursting with life, just a short way from central London in Zone 2. This unique area is centred around the railway interchange that links the boroughs of Islington, Hackney and Haringey, and is home to one of the great London parks, which was laid out in the Victorian era. Finsbury Park is a relaxing retreat away from bustling urban life and is great for families looking to to spend a day in the open air.
Finsbury Park underwent major renovations and improvements worth £5 million in 2007. It has since been awarded Green Flag status every year, which is given to parks and open spaces in the UK to promote high standards, meaning the park is well-kept and updated often. Finsbury Park is home to a rich diversity of landscapes and it has many facilities, all making for a fun day out for both adults and kids alike. Included in the new facilities is an enclosed, dog-free play area for kids, which even has an exciting new water feature. What's special about this is that it was actually designed by children, and so is perfectly fit for their wants and needs. The paddling pool and splash play facilities are a great spot to cool off on hotter days.
Check out the new cafe building, which is also where the public loos are - and they're open all year round. There was also the construction of two Victorian styled seating shelters; perfect if you need a little break from walking, playing and resting. If you want to make friends with the wildlife in the park, there is the opportunity to buy some bird seed, which you can then use to feed the ducks on the lake.
There's a really fun skate park too, which is suitable for beginner and intermediate use. It's in the traditional concrete style, with loads of ramps, grinds and bumps to entertain your future Tony Hawks for hours. Plus there are more features to discover, so be sure to get those knee pads on and fire up your wheels.
There are lots of different gardens at Finsbury Park, perfect for any budding horticulturalists. From the Mackenzie Flower Garden, the American Gardens, the Thames Reservoir and a Boating Lake, reconnecting with nature is easy and wonderful to get the little ones involved.
Be sure to check out all the sport facilities you can avail of, including bowling, bike and skate park, athletics tracks, bowling, basketball, volleyball and tennis courts. The grown-ups and kids will be able to let off some steam, get their steps in and enjoy all the facilities the park has to offer.
If you want to stay in the park to eat, there's a cafe on site and picnics are allowed; just make sure you clear up after yourselves. If the food at Finsbury Park Cafe isn't quite what you're looking for, there are tons of food options close by. Walk down Blackstock Road and you'll be mesmerised by the scents of freshly-made Turkish bread and enticing Ethiopian gastronomy, along with so many more intriguing meals and cuisines.
After a day at the park, why not head to the nearby Finsbury Park Theatre situated just north of the station on Clifton Terrace, which opened in 2013. It was actually constructed on the site of an unused office block! The venue incorporates a 200-seat theatre and a flexible 90-seat space. Featuring actors such as Gillian Anderson and James Cordon, you won't want to miss out.
Don't miss out on the festivals and events that Finsbury Park hosts annually, from Wireless Festival and Community Festival, to its very own Finsbury Park Festival and more. This North London park is perfect for a family day out, but if you're on the hunt for more green spaces in the area, why not head to hidden gem Waterlow Park or go slightly further afield with Golders Hill Park.
Finsbury Park's opening times vary, but it typically closes around dusk.
Bring swimwear and a change of close if you're visiting in the summer as there's a splash play area for kids.
There are public toilets on site located near the cafe, plus toilets in local cafes and restaurants.
The Cafe at Finsbury Park offers high chairs and is baby friendly.
Accessible toilets and baby-changing facilities can be found on site, located within the main toilet facilities.
The park has paths, making navigation for wheelchair and buggy users easy, though of course any grass is subject to getting muddy after rain.
La Porchetta and Pizza Pappagone, and Patek are great kid and baby-friendly restaurants nearby.
We recommend finding the bridge near the basketball courts; from here this will lead on to a pleasant walk to picturesque Highgate.
Finsbury Park is located in Haringey.
There are entrances on Endymion Road, Seven Sisters Road and Green Lanes.
The closest station is Finsbury Park, just a few minutes' walk away. Finsbury Park is on the Piccadilly and Victoria lines of the London Underground and also offers National Rail services.
The area is well-served by buses too. Routes 29, 141, 210, 253, 254, 259, 279, 341, W3, W5, W7 all stop at or near Finsbury Park.
If driving, there is lots of parking on the roads situated just inside the gates of the park. These are available via pay meters.
The standard marked parking bays are situated on the road into the park by the cafe and ball courts.
On-street Blue Badge bays are not available on these streets, however.
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When I got up Sunday morning I was surprised to see the outside temperature at 25 degrees, much colder than I had expected after listening to two different weathermen on Saturday night. I had expected at worse about 28 degrees so nothing in my garden was covered, but those 3 extra cold degrees did a number on the garden. It took two days to fully assess the damage but here's what I've found. Right now the cabbage plants look horrible, the leaves that froze are brown and will eventually fall off. Fortunately, the inner core of the plants appear to be intact and so the plants should grow out of this condition. It will probably delay harvest but we should still make a crop. If your cabbage, broccoli, and kale have brown leaves but green centers leave them and they should grow. Same goes for those of you with potatoes, if the leaves froze don't worry, the plants will sprout anew.
Those of you that planted tomatoes, peppers, etc. by now you can see if the plants froze completely. They will not recover. Plan to replant those crops in about 2 weeks after we are really clear of frost and freeze.
Looking around the farm, the blueberries took a hit especially the earlier varieties. Looks like we lost about 1/3 of that crop. Freeze damage also on the fig plants, persimmons, and kiwi. But they all should rebud and hopefully make a crop.
So now what to do going forward. This Saturday I'll be planting potatoes, beans, cucumbers, and squash. Not that we might not get another frost but we'll cover as necessary once those crops sprout. The 10 day weather forecast looks good for warm weather and Saturday is a good day to plant by the moon.
In order for potatoes to sprout the seed potato must have an eye which is where the sprout comes out of the potato. You can plant an entire potato or if the seed potato is large enough you can cut it into pieces and plant each piece, just make sure the potato piece has an eye sprout. Dig a trench 6" deep, lay the seed potatoes 10" apart and refill the soil into the trench. As they grow we'll do more work later to the growing potato plants.
Looking at the 10 day weather forecast it looks to be pleasant so I'll be planting beets, carrots and potatoes soon.
Beets are a great crop to grow, when they mature you actually get a twofer, the roots are the main crop and additionally the leaves are wonderful steamed. Don't plant the beet seeds too closely, the roots need room to expand as they mature. The beets will actually mature at the soil line so when the reach the size you want simply pull them out of the ground. I've never had good luck with the golden beets but they are beautiful when they do grow.
Carrots require deeper soil so if your bed is the standard depth build a small mesa of soil to give the carrot roots room to grow deep. Plant the seeds as directed on the pack and keep the soil moist to aid germination. You can cover the carrot seedbed with newsprint to hold moisture, check frequently and when you seed the first sprouts remove the newsprint. As you watch the carrot tops grow, you'll see the shoulders of the carrots right at or just below the soil line. Use a finger to scratch the soil around the stem to look for the top of the carrot.
Potatoes are generally easy to grow and you can find the seed potatoes in the garden centers now. Dig a trench about 6" deep, space your seed 10-12" apart and cover the seed potatoes about 8" deep. Once the potatoes are about 1' tall you'll mound soil around the plant halfway up the stem covering the lower leaves. As the new potatoes swell underground this additional soil will prevent the new potatoes from swelling out of the ground and getting sunburned. New potatoes are ready in about 60 days, full maturity in 90 days.
We had a great workday at the garden today as a wonderful group of volunteers spread the minerals and fertilizer required by the soil test. A heartfelt and hardy thanks to that group of volunteers. The next time you're at the garden you'll smell the feather meal, that's the brown powder you'll see in your bed. It's our nitrogen fertilizer. After McDonalds makes their nuggets, the chicken feathers are processed into an organic fertilizer.
The garden is still a little wet but we got a few beds tilled. It is hard on the soil structure in the garden to till when the soil is too wet but looking at the weather forecast things will dry out the next few days. Of course the next few days I won't be around to till but there is good news on that front. If you'll check the bulletin board at the front of the garden beside the main entrance there is a notice from a local gentleman who is willing and able to till your beds. He is charging $10 but we will reimburse you for that expense. You'll need to remove the big weeds and hardscape to save him time and make it easier. And please remove any old string left over from previous gardeners. String will foul the tines of a tiller real fast and cuts down on productivity.
It is exciting to see the first green shoots of spring. As I was spreading potassium this morning I got a good look at all the beds and spied the first peas of the season as well as the first beets. By all means go ahead and get peas in the ground but I'll wait a few weeks before I plant beets and carrots. If you are planting peas give them something to climb on, depending on the variety they will get 5-6' tall at maturity. I plant a non trailing variety but even they do better with a little support. I was surprise to see the first green beans in the garden, that gardener is a real gambler, a frost will wipe out that planting and it's hard to believe we won't have another frost.
Someone asked where to get seeds. All the local garden centers have good selections and you'll even find organic seeds available. The seeds packets have the planting instructions to get you started.
It was a pleasure meeting many of our new gardeners. Feel free to ask questions, gardeners are a friendly bunch that like to swap gardening lessons.
Weather permitting, I'll be at the garden Saturday morning to get some work done...come join me. I'll bring the minerals we need per the soil test and if I have 6 volunteers this task will go faster. I need folks that take pride in precision work to spread fertilizer and trace elements. Why precision you ask? Each 20' bed will get precisely 40 grams of sulfur, 15 oz of K2SO4, 33 grams of boron, 40 grams of Mn, 16 grams of copper and 2 lbs of Nitrogen. As an example the copper will be about a tablespoon and has to be evenly distributed over the entire 160 square feet of the bed. If you enjoy a challenge come join me!
Weather permitting I'll also bring my tillers. Come join me and I'll teach you to till your garden.
After checking the weather forecast and consulting the farmers almanac I got busy this afternoon, fertilized and tilled part of my garden and planted cabbage. The 10 day forecast is nonthreatening to the cabbage transplants so I finished that project. Cabbage can withstand a frost so no worries there. The next good days to plant according to the almanac are the 19th, 27th, 28th, and 29th. Still too early for tender crops that won't take a frost but certainly good for lettuce, spinach, arugula, broccoli, and cabbage. Onion sets too.
We turned the calendar to traditionally the first month of spring. But, after checking the 10 day weather forecast, spring may be late this year. Regardless, we have to prepare for the coming growing season and now is the time to start transplants of those warm season, heat loving nightshades. Aren't nightshades poisonous you ask? Yes they are if you eat the leaves, but who doesn't like a tomato slice smothered in mayo between two slices of bread? The nightshade crops we grow are tomatoes, peppers, eggplants and potatoes.
So today I started my seeds for transplants of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants with the plan to have the transplants ready to go in the garden in six weeks or so. I planted 7 varieties of tomatoes including "Matt's Wild" cherry tomato, "Celebrity" and "Goliath" slicing tomatoes, 3 other varieties I'm testing for blight resistance and then a large fruited variety to enter into the tomato contest at the PTC Farmers Market. I can already envision the grand champion ribbon I'll win for that big tomato. Gardeners are pretty passionate about their produce!! One advantage seed starter have is the ability to hunt down those grand champion seeds and start their own varieties that few other gardeners will have. So I encourage you to read through the seeds catalogs and try something new this year.
Back to seedling nightshades, these crops like heat so it is especially important to give these seeds plenty of heat to germinate. I actually put 2 heat mats under the racks and drape plastic over the racks to create a warm moist microclimate for the seeds to get started. Once the seeds sprout they do not require supplemental heat but plenty of light to prevent the plants from getting long and lanky.
I plant "Olympus" peppers and "Orient Charm" eggplants. Two varieties that produce well.
If you aren't starting your own transplants, don't be impatient. Although those transplants will start showing up in the local garden centers soon, any cool weather will stunt their growth and a frost will kill them.


Make sure you know exactly what you have in the house before you head to the store.
Product discounts always look tempting – but you aren't saving anything if the item is one you never use.
Only shop with a detailed list in hand – and stick to it! You'll spend much less that way.
Keep your cart or basket as small as possible. You'll be less tempted to throw another impulse purchase inside.
Determine how much you want to spend before you set out. This way, you'll be motivated to keep your costs down.
Before you head out, check your circulars, or coupon apps like Couponcabin and Flipp, for in-store discounts on regular items.


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Instagram just made its 'Direct Reply' a bit more fun, as the app now gives its users the ability to reply to messages with photos and videos instead of just plain texts. For instance, users can now take a selfie or add a video as a reply in Direct Messages.
"Now you can reply with a photo or video to specific photos, videos, and reshared posts in Direct. Your reply will automatically include a sticker of what you're replying to. Just hit "reply" to open the camera, take a selfie, and send," explains Instagram in a blog.
To do so, users simply need to tap the reply button on a photo or video, which will automatically be converted into a sticker. In addition, the update also gives users the option to send a split-screen reply by tapping on the sticker.
"Now you also have the option to send a split-screen reply by tapping on the sticker. Add your own perspective by drawing on the sticker, whether you're painting a mustache on your friend's selfie or doodling on a beach photo," further adds Instagram in an official blog post.
Its also worth noting that this new feature isn't restricted to just direct messages. As users can send a text reply by tapping on the text bar at the bottom of the screen, or they can either can send a photo/video reply by tapping on the camera icon at the bottom left of the screen when watching a story. The aforementioned update arrives as Instagram version 10.34 an is available for both iOS and Android platforms.


Hi there! I too find that without the desire and the intention to remember or learn or forgive or enjoy or anything for that matter, we are really not setting ourselves up for what we say we want.
Any idea on how to get rid of a naturally sustaining super memory? The only thing that seems to work is to create memories during an emotional trauma…then, though I can still recall with clarity what I did or what happened, I just get a little more fuzzy and the order may be out of whack.
Samsara – 🙂 The first thing I found interesting when I read your comment is how you deliberately create memories during an emotional trauma.. Really appreciate if you can further elaborate.
Thank you for the question. I'll come up with a post very soon 🙂 But can I ask, how is super memory a curse?


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Risk, parental autonomy and the epistemic divide: preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the Australian print news media, 1990-2007
Brandenburg, K, Risk, parental autonomy and the epistemic divide: preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the Australian print news media, 1990-2007, New Genetics and Society, 30, (1) pp. 115-131. ISSN 1463-6778 (2011) [Refereed Article]
Copyright 2011 Taylor & Francis.
DOI: doi:10.1080/14636778.2011.556710
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a reproductive/genetic technology which has become the subject of public and scholarly debate because it involves the evaluation and consequent selection (and implantation) or destruction of human embryos. This research investigates the way PGD is constituted in the Australian print news media. Foucauldian discourse analysis reveals that proponents draw on their direct knowledge and experience of PGD to support their claims. There is an epistemic divide between consumers and others claiming direct knowledge, and critics and others drawing on indirect or abstract understandings of PGD. This divide characterizes the discourses present in the data and is directly linked to changes in these over the period under analysis.
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preimplantation genetic diagnosis
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Human Society
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Sociology and social studies of science and technology
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Expanding Knowledge
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Expanding knowledge in human society
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Brandenburg, K (Ms Kellie Brandenburg)
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Q: Camera not working on MacOS Sierra (and High Sierra) After installing the last MacOS Sierra update, I lost my camera on Facetime and Skype, and in web apps; the name of the camera to be selected simply stops appearing on those apps, it is as if I do not have a camera from their point of view.
I actually had this problem many times in the past, and often a reboot fixed it. However, I rebooted several times, and it did not solve the situation.
I also tried several solutions on forums, including killing the camera daemon without much success.
This issue keeps happening even after the upgrade to High Sierra in my 2013 Macbook Pro 13''. Interestingly enough, it does not happen with my new MacBook Pro 15''
What to do?

A: The original replug didn't work for me.
It turns out on older macbook pro's the isight camera is named differently. I downloaded the original sources and modified them per the instructions found on the link below and the replug now works.  Still have to run it after each reboot.
https://github.com/dskr99/mac_usb_eject/issues/1

Unfortunately, I faced a problem that replug_facetime didn't detect
  old camera type named "Built-in iSight" in my MacBook Pro Mid 2009.
I changed a pattern in file replug_facetime.cpp, line 116 to if (NULL
  != strstr(sFriendlyName, "Built-in iSight")) { and it worked for me
  after rebuilding.

A: There are some known issues at least with the late 13'' model, and this quirk might (or not) be due to that.
I ended up finding a fix for a similar problem for people that have Parallels installed. This workaround works without having Parallels installed.

This is a widespread issue on macOS Sierra
   By running this fix you are resetting the Facetime camera. You should apply this fix each time you want to use the Facetime camera

While I have VMWare Fusion, and not Parallels the fix worked for me in the real machine.
While Parallels KB insists on saying it is an interaction between their product and Sierra, I believe genuinely this is a MacOS bug.
So for solving this, I downloaded http://kb.parallels.com/Attachments/kcs-40680/replug_facetime.zip
and running it with the command:
sudo ~/Downloads/replug_facetime

made the Camera work again.
From the binary itself:

replugging the Facetime camera device...
Failed to create PluginInterface:

The fix has to be applied again after each reboot (when the camera does not start working). A permanent workaround is to put it in the startup sequence, it does not harm trying to (re)plug the device if it is already connected.
PS replug_facetime source code can be downloaded from here.


WASHINGTON — The White House faces a major challenge next year persuading the U.S. Congress to permanently normalize trade relations with Russia due to concerns about human rights and Moscow's relations with Iran, a senior Republican lawmaker said Tuesday.
"I've counted a lot of trade votes in my time in Congress. This will be a hard lift," Representative Kevin Brady said in a speech to the Washington International Trade Association. "Even among our pro-trade members there is skepticism about Russia."
Members of the World Trade Organization meeting later this week in Geneva are expected to approve Russia's entry into the world trade body after nearly 18 years of negotiations.
That would require the United States to establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) by revoking a Cold War provision known as the Jackson-Vanik amendment that tied U.S. trade relations with state-controlled economies to the rights of religious minorities to emigrate freely.
Brady, who chairs the House of Representatives Ways and Means subcommittee on trade, said it was possible Congress could vote on PNTR for Russia in the first half of 2012, provided that the White House lays the ground for a vote.
Unless Congress revokes the provision, trade experts say Russia would be entitled under WTO rules to deny the United States most or all of the market-opening concessions Moscow made to join the WTO. That would put U.S. companies at disadvantage in the Russian market to other suppliers.
Brady said it is "important for the Obama administration, for our private sector, business and agriculture, and the Russian government to educate Congress, to build a foundation as to why Russia's WTO accession is in our interest, in both countries' interest, so that we can get beyond the general distrust that members of Congress feel today."
He compared the upcoming vote on Russia to the bitter debate in 2000 over China's accession to the WTO. Congress approved PNTR for China but only after a major push by the administration of President Bill Clinton.
Members of Congress will use the PNTR debate to raise concerns on a number of issues "related to Russia, even if they are not related to trade, such as human rights, foreign and security policy and Iran," Brady said.
But he said he was not willing yet to endorse the need to create some kind of mechanism within the PNTR legislation to put pressure on Russia over human rights and other issues.
Instead, Brady said, he wants to focus on why it is important for Congress to remove Jackson-Vanik.
He urged Russia to improve the environment for votes in the House and the Senate by taking action on longstanding trade irritants, such as barriers to its agricultural markets.
"We need to build confidence in Congress concerning Russia's willingness to live up its new WTO commitments in areas such as ag. trade," Brady said. "Congress must also be confident that Russia is sufficiently addressing other trade concerns, like IPR [intellectual property rights] enforcement related to the Internet."


0004341: Always shows incorrect email message when requesting to remind password, when server misconfigured.
User password reminder always shows message "The e-mail address you have entered is invalid. Please enter a valid e-mail address." after password request, even if user with such password exist. This happens when server actually do not send email because of misconfiguration.
1. Open frontend Account -> My account -> Forgot password?
There should be text visible "Password was sent to: email", but instead text "The e-mail address you have entered is invalid. Please enter a valid e-mail address." are visible.


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Pictured: Me, hard at work.
When I first started thinking about it and planning it out a few months ago, I envisioned a graduation thesis of some kind. Just a short, straightforward account about how East Asian calligraphy is relevant to modern-day cartooning, to be presented to Shikoku University's professors & students when I graduated.
But as I started getting into it and really reflecting on my experience, I saw many areas ripe for expansion. It occurred to me that if I wrote and organized it in the right way, that the subject could appeal to a general audience in the English speaking world. I've read several English language books about East Asian calligraphy, and have been struck by how academic and inaccesible they tend to be. It always seems to me like they're preaching to the choir, that they're for people who are already familiar with the subject. I've come to find East Asian calligraphy to be absolutely fascinating, and want to try to express that enthusiasm in a way that could be read for pleasure by laypeople. And so the idea for a book was born.
The project has become quite ambitious. It's part autobiography, part journalism, part history, part art theory, part cultural studies…it's quite a juggling act. Since it's still in the early stages, I'm not sure exactly what form it will take, or how long it will be. But I'm firmly committed to it, and hope to have something done before I leave Japan in a year's time. I've been pretty bad at meeting my self-imposed deadlines for comics, but maybe prose will be different, we'll see. Right now I'm about halfway done with the rough draft.
Anyway, I'll update and post excerpts from the book when I get a little further along, so check back, or subscribe to my RSS feed if you're interested.
Oh, and if there's anyone out there that's familiar with the subject who knows of books or websites they would recommend as I continue my research, please let me know. Thanks!
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I wrote to you sometime ago.
I think the book about you're experience it's a great project! I'm looking forward to it.
I have very good news…I got the scholarship!!!!
meaning I'm preselected, now is the time to make real contact with the university.
I wanted to thank you again for the help and inspiration your experience provided me during the process of application, you are officially a Monbukagakusho guru!!
with a Bachellor of Arts, I plan to research about japanese style painting (Nihonga).
all sucess to your projects!
I want to read Tonoharuuu and that book.


Tesla unveiled their Model Y SUV last week. Pricing starts at $47,000 and production will start sometime in 2020. There will be a $39,000 version as well but it will not be available until later down the road. The Model Y will be the fourth vehicle in the California automaker's lineup, the new SUV has the potental to be the most successful model Tesla sells.
Data collected through the first three weeks of August shows that used vehicle prices have improved relative to July and are on track to end the month even stronger than anticipated. So far month-to-date, the J.D. Power Valuation Services' Seasonally Adjusted Used Vehicle Price Index has increased by 2.3 points – relative to July – to 122.0. August's preliminary result marks the third consecutive month of index growth and puts it on track to reach its highest level since late 2015.
For the second consecutive year, the new vehicle retail sales pace in January is expected to fall from year-ago levels, according to a forecast developed jointly by J.D. Power and LMC Automotive.
Porsche is on a mission to electrify its lineup. Tightening emissions standards have forced many automakers to turn to alternative power sources. With the fully electric Mission-E on the horizon and the introduction of the Panamera Turbo S E-Hybrid, the German sports car brand is now looking to add battery power to its most iconic model. According to Bloomberg, the next generation Porsche 911 will get a hybrid variant.
In their November 2017 Used Car and Light Truck Guidelines Industry Update, analysts at J.D. Power Valuation Services note wholesale depreciation declined by an average of 2.2 percent in October. The dip performed better than the 3.2 percent average price decrease recorded over the past five years for the period.
The introduction of the Civic Type-R to the United States has caused a frenzy. Originally priced at $36,000, demand for the latest hot hatch has driven prices up as much as $20,000. The current Type-R is only available as a touring model, but according to The Truth About Cars, Honda is planning a new entry-level version for 2018.
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Toyota Combines Automatic and Manual Transmission?
Toyota is set to debut its next generation sports car concept at the Tokyo Motor Show later this month. The GR HV is built by Gazoo Racing, Toyota's racing division, and could feature an industry first. According to Shifting Lanes, the hybrid sports concept will be capable of both automatic and manual transmission shifts.
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Earlier this year, Mercedes-Benz stopped sales on its diesel models in the U.S. in order to mitigate scrutiny during the aftermath of #dieselgate. The Three-Pointed Star has chosen to focus efforts on a new front.
Mercedes-Benz is out to set a new standard for hyper cars. Its AMG division is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year and has used the occasion to debut a new concept vehicle. The Project ONE is the latest—and perhaps wildest—concept car recently premiered at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt, Germany.