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Yumthang Valley Lachung
The extremely picturesque Yumthang Valley is situated at an elevation of 3564 m in the North of Sikkim. The place is amongst the most famous tourist destinations in Sikkim, popularly known as the 'valley of flowers' because of its unique location above the line where no trees grow. The shrubby slopes of the snow-clad mountains around the valley, the long stretches of land covered with flowery meadows and the scented environment makes this place a nature's wonderland that attracts many tourists from around the world. The valley is the vantage point for the beautiful peaks of Panhunri and Shundu Tsenpa forming an amazing scenic setting for the gushing Teesta river. The grazing yaks amidst thousands of blooming Himalayan flowers and an astounding collection of Rhododendrons entice the visitors to stay for a little more time.
What To Do And See
The Yak ride is something one can never miss on their visit to Yumthang valley. Near to this are the two well-stocked rivers for the anglers; Yumthang chu and Puniya chu. And just about 7-8 km away there is very impressive Shingba Rhododendron Sanctuary which has a 35 square km large field that has over 38 different varieties of rhododendrons. On the way to the Yumthang Valley, there is a hiker's pathway that leads to a small bridge reaching the Yumthang Hot Spring. The surprising factor about this place is that even in the coldest weather, the water flowing from this remains warm. And it is believed to have medicinal value of healing because of it's rich sulfur content. About 7 kms further to the north of the hot spring, there is a very famous Shiva Temple. Zero Point which is around 23 km away from the Yumthang valley at an altitude of over 15,000 ft, very close to china border, is another very popular destination among the trekkers because of its immense scenic charm and unobstructed view of the snowy peaks.
One can hire a taxi from Lachung which is just about 26 km / 49 mins of drive away from the Yumthang Valley. The road reaching to this valley offers the spectacular view of the field of varieties of rhododendrons on both sides. Due to its proximity to China border, even this place requires an inner Line Permit, which can be obtained from the Tourist Information Center or through any registered tour operator.
The best time to visit place is definitely during summer between April and May, because of its high altitude. As during winter, snow makes this place dangerous to reach and also unbearably cold. Same is the case for the rainy season.
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Human origins: It began in Africa
By Tim D. White
A mountain of evidence has accumulated showing that our ancestors emerged in Africa. What is less clear-cut is what spurred their evolution
A mountain of evidence has accumulated showing that our ancestors emerged in Africa. What is less clear-cut is what spurred their evolution. The answer lies in the environments in which our predecessors lived, and the influence of technology, which hugely expanded their ecological niche.
Technological primate
Hominids are frustratingly rare in the fossil record, but at some time around 2.6 million years ago they began to leave calling cards, in the form of stone artefacts.
At the adjacent archaeological sites of the Gona and Middle Awash in Ethiopia, there is now abundant and unambiguous evidence of the earliest stone tools made by hominids. The fossilised bones of large mammals bear definite traces of marks made by sharp instruments.
The production of sharp-edged stone flakes enabled hominids to eat large amounts of meat and marrow previously unavailable to primates. At the same time, the selective pressures associated with such activities – particularly for a bipedal primate operating cooperatively under the noses of abundant predators, from hyenas to sabre-toothed cats – would lead to dramatic anatomical change as the braincase enlarged in Homo.
Stone technology greatly widened our ancestors' ecological niche, as well as their geographic range, enabling H. erectus to reach Europe and Indonesia more than 1.5 million years ago.
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Silicon Alley Closes 2015 On Top In A Boom Year For Startups
Posted by David S. Rose on February 22nd, 2016
For three out of four quarters in 2015, New York City's tech ecosystem has led with more startup funding requests than any other region in the country, including California's long reigning Silicon Valley. After a dip in Q3, New York rebounded in Q4 claiming nearly 20% of every funding application around the country. California ranked second with 17.8% of total applications, while Florida produced a healthy 13.3%. New to the top 10 states in Q4 are Georgia, which saw a 251% increase in applications over the previous quarter, and the nation's capital region, with Virginia claiming 3.4% and Washington DC claiming 2.3%. Overall, 2015 closed out strong with a 21% jump in total funding applications over the previous quarter and a 61% increase compared to Q4 2014.
Over the last year Silicon Alley has had the benefit of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Digital.NYC platform, a centralized online hub tying together the entirety of New York City's tech ecosystem, providing visitors with the information and resources that can help turn ideas into businesses. The City's digital ecosystem supports more than 300,000 tech jobs and an additional 250,000 supporting jobs. By the first year anniversary of the hub in October, more than 1 million visits had been tracked from more than 785,000 unique visitors. Digital.NYC was credited by Accenture as a key reason for ranking New York City as the world's #1 innovation region. New York City's hub has since served as a model for Boston with Starthub, and across the pond with Tech.London.
Despite a more than 20% growth in startup funding applications over the first quarter, on the international level the United States reported for the first time just slightly less than 50% of total global funding applications, down from 58.9% in Q3 and 62.5% in Q2 2015. The top players continue to grow at a rapid rate, with India's startup growth jumping 70% for a global share of 11.6%, and France jumping 94% for a global share of 4.9%. The top 5 remained the same, with Canada and Brazil coming in fourth and fifth place with 4.4% and 3.8% respectively. However, new to the top 10 and a first appearance for 2015 was Russia, with 2% of total funding applications. Spain also returned to the top 10 since Q2, doubling its percentage to 2.4% compared to the beginning of the year. The UK at 3.5%, Ukraine at 3.5%, and Australia at 1.7%, rounded out the rest of the top 10 countries.
Applications from companies already generating revenue spiked this quarter with a 40% increase after a sharp decline in Q3. Additionally, for the first time this year, funding applications from startups that are Full Product Ready beat out those In Development to claim the top spot at 44.7%. Consumer Product & Services and Internet Web Services remained the two most active industries for startups across the globe. Business Products & Services, which was nowhere to be found among the top 10 in Q3, broke into the top 5 with 7.8% of total funding applications. Entertainment and Healthcare startups maintained a healthy presence in the top 5 with 9.9% and 8.2% respectively.
The growth in funding applications year over year points to a promising 2016 for the global early-stage ecosystem. As more startups and angel investors connect through an increasing number of funding and collaboration platforms, we can expect to see a continued increase in total funding applications.
This post originally appeared in Forbes.
Tags: Ecosystem Hub, funding, New York City, silicon valley, startups, trends
The Expanding World of Accelerators
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The Market Diversifies: International Innovation Captures Larger Share Of Startup Funding Applications
In Q3 the global startup ecosystem continued to thrive, with 25% growth over the same quarter last year and up 18% from last quarter, as the innovation economy expands around the world. Quarterly data from Gust, the online platform for the global angel investment industry, reveals that while incumbent leaders show no sign of slowing down, new industries and areas
Need Funding? 2015 Is A Strong Year For Startups
2015 is shaping up to be a strong year for the startup and early stage investor ecosystem. Total startup funding applications are up across the globe and in multiple sectors, especially in the United States where the surging New York City tech industry is leading a nationwide growth in new startups.
Coming out of the second quarter of the year, the total
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When a boat stacked with gravel moors at a jetty in Yangon, 14-year-old Aung Htet Myat fills a basket he then carries on his back to trucks that whisk the load to construction sites springing up across Myanmar's booming biggest city.
For each basket a labor broker rewards the boy with a stick he puts in a plastic bottle tied to his belt. At the end of the shift, which at the busiest times can last up to 24 hours, he exchanges the sticks for cash — 100 baskets earns him about US$2.50.
"I carry baskets with stones the whole day," said Aung Htet Myat, who has worked at the jetty for the last two years. "If there is no gravel boat to unload, I help bus drivers as an assistant."
One-in-five children in Myanmar aged 10-17 go to work instead of school, according to figures from a census report on employment published last month, and the opening up of the economy since 2011 has triggered a spike on demand for labor.
As the former Burma emerges from nearly 50 years of neglect under military rule, Yangon has been transformed into a vast construction site.
Than Than Win and her two teenage sons began working at the same jetty as Aung Htet Myat after her husband died. The family now rely on a labor broker who lends her money in return for on-demand, non-stop work when a boat arrives.
"He gives us a place to stay and we can also take money from him when we have no job," said Than Than Win, as nearby her sons carried another load of gravel on their backs. "We have no way to pay it back, so whenever he asks us to work we can't refuse."
Her story is common in Yangon's slums, filled with people who have flocked from the countryside as the economy has boomed, says Michael Slingsby, an urban poverty expert based in the city.
"People borrow money from lenders and in order to repay their debts children are being sent out to work," he said.
May Win Myint, a senior member of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) which took power this month, said tackling child labor was one of the party's goals.
"If we cannot solve this problem, there will not be any development in our country because they will be the people serving the country in the future," she said. "They need to be educated to do that."
To do that the first freely elected government since the early 1960s will need to address labor laws that experts say are fragmented and rarely enforced.
Myanmar law bars children under 13 from working in shops or factories, and says teenagers aged 13-15 should not work more than four hours a day, or at night.
"Nobody under 18 should be carrying heavy cargoes," said Vicky Bowman, a former British ambassador who now runs the Yangon-based Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business.
Outside of construction, child labor is most visible in hospitality, with even small children serving food in Myanmar's ubiquitous tea shops. Many children also work in fish farming and processing.
At Yangon's San Pya fish market, the country's largest, over two days in February Reuters found girls and boys as young as nine cleaning and processing fish and unloading boats and trucks during 12-hour overnight shifts.
"I don't want my son to do this kind of hard labor," said Hla Myint, 56, whose 15-year-old son works in San Pya.
Speaking from their home in a dilapidated bamboo hut close to the river bank, Hla Myint did not share many of his fellow citizens' high hopes for Suu Kyi's government.
"Whatever they say they would do, or give us, it will never reach here," he said. "I don't believe in any change."


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Iga Swiatek vs. Cori Gauff 2022 French Open Final Odds, Time, and Prediction
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Who's going to win the women's singles title at the 2022 French Open – Iga Swiatek or Cori Gauff? The two lock horns in the final on Saturday, June 4 on the main court of Stade Roland Garros in Paris.
Iga Swiatek, who's the no.1 player in the WTA Rankings, is defending her French Open title against American teenager Cori 'Coco' Gauff who's currently 23rd in the rankings. Based solely on their position in the list of top women's singles players, Swiatek is a clear favorite.
Another reason why 2022 French Open Women's odds are leaning in Swiatek's favor is that she's been super on the clay court this season. Her record on this surface is 15-0 in 2022. Further, Iga is still undefeated against Coco with two wins so far.
Sure, the odds favor Swiatek but the history of the French Open women's singles tournament teaches us that surprised do happen in the final. Are we going to see another surprise happen? To learn what we think, all you got to do is check out our Iga Swiatek vs. Cori Gauff prediction.
Where and When to Watch
Date: Sunday, June 4
Time: ~9:00 AM EDT
Location: Roland Garros in Paris, France
Watch: Peacock
Iga Swiatek Is the Best in the World
Swiatek is the best female tennis player on the planet in 2022, it's a fact! Her record since the start of the year is 43-3 with her most recent defeat happening back in February. What this means is that Swiatek is currently cruising on a 34-win streak.
During her 2022 surge, we saw her win five tournaments, three of which use clay as the surface. The same surface is used at Stade Roland Garros, which is where she won her first and so far, her only Grand Slam title (2021 French Open).
Can she defend the title? It sure seems so. Swiatek's been superb since coming to the French capital, dropping just one set in five matches. It happened in Round 4 when she lost the first set to Qinwen Zheng after a tiebreaker.
In Swiatek's most recent match, we saw her destroy Daria Kasatkina 2-0 (6-2, 6-1) after just 66 minutes spent on the court.
Coco Gauff Playing Great in Paris
Although she got knocked out of her previous two tournaments in the early stages, Coco Gauff has been fantastic since coming to Stade Roland Garros. So far, she's won every match without dropping a single set.
It sure is a great achievement, but there's a caveat. Gauff still hasn't played against such a strong opponent as Swiatek. In fact, the highest-ranked player she's faced at the 2022 French Open is Elise Mertens who was in the #32 position in the WTA Rankings before the start of the tournament.
Iga Swiatek vs. Cori Gauff Prediction
Swiatek isn't letting go of her French Open title. At least not in 2022. Her stats this year are breathtaking, meaning that a loss on Saturday would be a real shock to everyone in the tennis universe.
This, of course, doesn't mean she's going to have an easy job in the French Open final. On the contrary, she's taking on an in-form opponent who seems to love playing big matches like this one.
Picks: Iga Swiatek to win; over 22.5 games
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Chronic Kidney Disease and the Older Patient
More than half of older adults over the age of 75 are thought to have kidney disease (National Kidney Foundation 2014).
Kidney disease is often silent and occurs when the nephrons, the tiny blood-filtering units of the kidney, become damaged. Damage to the nephrons causes a build-up of toxic waste and fluids within the body. Chronic kidney disease (CKD) can be defined as the loss of one-third of kidney function (MLHC 2018).
What Are the Symptoms of Kidney Disease?
It is important to note that individuals may lose up to 90 per cent of their kidney function before developing symptoms (MLHC 2018). Symptoms of kidney disease may include:
Hypertension;
Changes in frequency of urination;
Haematuria (blood in the urine);
Oedema (swelling of the feet, ankles and legs);
Muscle cramps;
Headache;
Loss of appetite;
Nausea and vomiting;
Pruritis (itching);
Sleep disturbance; and
Shortness of breath.
(Mayo Clinic 2019; NHS 2019)
Haemodialysis is a method that is used to achieve the extracorporeal removal of waste products such as creatinine and urea and free water from the blood when the kidneys are in a state of renal failure.
Who is at Risk of Developing Kidney Disease?
Over the age of 60;
With diabetes;
With a family history of chronic kidney disease;
With a history of heart attack or stroke;
Who have hypertension;
Who are obese;
Who smoke; and
Who are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander origin.
(Kidney Health Australia 2016)
How is Kidney Disease Diagnosed?
Excess protein in the urine is a marker of kidney damage. Patients who are at high risk of renal disease should have an ACR (albumin-creatinine ratio) urine test, which presents an accurate picture of the amount of protein in the urine. Albumin in the urine is sometimes the first sign of kidney disease (Kidney Health Australia 2017).
The glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is a measure of how efficiently the kidneys filter waste products from the bloodstream. The GFR is the most accurate assessment of kidney function. Because GFR is difficult to measure accurately, the glomerular filtration rate is estimated (eGFR) using serum creatinine prediction equations that take into account the patient's age, size, gender, ethnic group and creatinine level (Kidney Health Australia 2016; NHS 2019).
Related Research Study
Current thinking regarding older adults and kidney disease suggests that older patients are more likely to die of old age than succumb to kidney failure. Canadian researcher Dr Brenda Hemmelgarn and her team set out to determine the relationship between age and untreated versus treated kidney failure (Rattue 2012).
Hemmelgarn and her colleagues assessed more than 1.8 million adults who had a baseline estimated glomerular filtration (eGFR) rate of 15mL/min/1.73m2 or greater. The researchers obtained the measures of glomerular filtration rate over a 6-year period between 2002 and 2008. At the beginning of this study, none of the subjects required dialysis (Rattue 2012).
The results showed a rise in mortality rates as the age of the subjects rose, and that the youngest age group had the highest rate of treated kidney failure (Rattue 2012).
Results of Study
The study revealed that 97 451 subjects had passed away during the follow-up midpoint average of four years, with 3 295 subjects developing treated kidney failure, and 3 116 subjects developing untreated kidney failure (Hemmelgarn et al. 2012).
The adjusted rates of untreated kidney failure for patients in the lowest glomerular filtration rate stratum were more than five times higher among those aged 85 years and older compared with the youngest age group (18 to 44 years). Untreated kidney failure was more common in older participants (Hemmelgarn et al. 2012).
The results of this study suggest that there is a need to recognise and assess chronic kidney disease progression in older adults. Healthcare practitioners should offer dialysis to older patients when they are likely to benefit from it.
Conservative treatment should be offered to patients who are unlikely to benefit from long-term dialysis, or who would prefer not to receive dialysis. These results also indicate the need to more accurately identify older patients with chronic kidney disease, as well as to assess their symptoms and develop appropriate treatment strategies.
Lastly, a better understanding of the decision-making process regarding dialysis and older adults is required.
Our population is ageing and, as the aged population grows, we need to develop strategies to better cope with health conditions affecting older adults, including chronic kidney disease.
Hemmelgarn, B R et al. 2012, 'Rates of Treated and Untreated Kidney Failure in Older vs Younger Adults', JAMA., vol. 307 no. 23, viewed 12 October 2020, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22797451/
Kidney Health Australia 2017, All About Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), Kidney Health Australia, viewed 12 October 2020, https://kidney.org.au/uploads/resources/all-about-chronic-kidney-disease-fact-sheet.pdf
Kidney Health Australia 2016, Risk Factors of Kidney Disease, Kidney Health Australia, viewed 12 October 2020, https://kidney.org.au/your-kidneys/know-your-kidneys/know-the-risk-factors
Mayo Clinic 2019, Chronic Kidney Disease, Mayo Clinic, viewed 12 October 2020, https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/chronic-kidney-disease/symptoms-causes/syc-20354521
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NHS 2019, Chronic Kidney Disease, NHS, viewed 12 October 2020, https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/kidney-disease/
Murrumbidgee Local Health District 2018, Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), New South Wales Department of Health, viewed 12 October 2020, https://www.mlhd.health.nsw.gov.au/our-services/kidney-and-renal-services/types-of-kidney-disease
Rattue, P 2012, 'Kidney Failure Going Untreated Too Often In Older Adults', Medical News Today, 2 July, viewed 12 October 2020, https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/247335#1
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Here's the last batch of drawings I made the past week. Newest on top of this post as usual, you know the deal! To watch all posts and the progress (I hope there is any), choose the tag "Learning To Draw", or click your way back in time at the bottom of this post.
Drawing my sis watching TV.
Some robots while hanging out with the family in Finland.
On the train, more doodles.
Trying to draw on the train to Stockholm from Malmö.
Hands and some random doodles.
Hi guys! I haven't been drawing or painting as much as I should the past week. Real life stuff are taking a great deal of energy and time right now. As you may know I'm starting my new job in Stockholm (first day today yay!). And with that comes moving all my stuff to a new city, discovering basic things like where to shop everyday foodstuffs etc.
And on top of that I'm trying to rest my wrist (oh the fap jokes!). I think it got stressed last month after all that drawing. Also, I went to the eye-doctor a few days ago, and it seems like the reason to why I'm so tired and feel like I can't really focus my vision has an explanation Feels good to know I wasn't just making it all up in my head, but not so good I need to take care of this eye-related problem. Anyway, new session to the doctor booked, it's nothing dangerous, more annoying than anything else.
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I went to Seaworld today! I went on this ride kind of like Splash Mountain only more roller-coastery. I didn't mind the getting wet part because I wasn't sitting in the front like my dad and Gabby, and it was really hot that day.I saw a dolphin show and they can train those dolphins good! At night i was babysat by this girl named Quinn. She had two brothers, Jared and Christian. Jared looked exactly like my second cousin, Ethan, only nicer, Ethan is evil. Jared is only slightly. We had cheese pizza for dinner and the boys ate most of it.
I went to The Church in Irvine today and after that I went shopping and got a Roxy tee. I can still where it right now in Edmonton because it's long-sleeved. I just can't wear it here. It'll make Fifi crazy because it's green, blue and yellow, which I did not do purposely. Anyway, I'm really tired right now so I'm going to go to bed. Good Night!
In the morning we went to Downtown Disney. It's really cool, though I almost just about bought something, which wouldn't be good because I'm only aloud to choose one gift, and I want clothes. Gabby decided not to get something, though Andrew did get a Pooh Bear stuffy. We had hotdogs for lunch and looked in some of the shops. Then we hung out around the hotel for the afternoon and that's about it. That was my day!
Today, we basically just went on the rides in the morning and evening, because Gabby wanted to look at the shops. It was really hard not to buy stuff, but I did it. Gabby didn't find just the perfect thing yet, so we'll be going to Downtown Disney tomorrow.
We spent most of today in California Adventures instead of Disneyland. Though when we went to Disneyland, I was forced to go on Splash Mountain where you get really wet, so to pay me back for me getting wet, we went on the Winnie the Pooh ride. I love that ride, it's just really fun and cute. On California Screaming, I had to go by myself because my dad doesn't have Tuesday's off. The Toy Story Ride is just about the coolest ride ever! It's a bunch of mini games that you play and you can smash plates and stuff, it;s really cool. Thunder Mountain broke down right when me and Gabby were going uphill on it, so they gave us free fastpasses to any ride. We went back to the hotel at about 3 o'clock and went swimming in their really warm out-door pool. Then at night we went back and, like last night, went on some rides and stuff.
Today, I went to Disneyland which was really fun. My dad has Mondays off in the daytime, so he got to come with us. We went on a bunch of rides, especially my favorite, California Screaming! The whole point on that ride is to scream, which is fun but it's also got a loop-de-loop and tons of sudden drops. Andrew went on Space Mountain for the first time and claims he didn't like it, but, you can never be too sure. I came back in the evening and went on more rides and stuff. It was really fun.


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Q: How does LQG solve the problem of the quantization of gravity? How does LQG solve the problem of the quantization of gravity? Not only is it a discretization of space with groups of holonomy and diffemorphisms as curved backgrounds?,is that I see that they use many difemorphisms to represent spin networks from wilson loops together with holonomy groups but I do not understand much the general idea of why difhermophisms and wilson loops, I am totally new to this, I already studied QFT but it is complicated for me a lot this area.
What does the jones polynomial do in spin networks?, Is it a discretized field topological theory? Sorry if this is very general but I have been reading and I am getting more and more confused

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What a wonderful experience for you both. The pictures are amazing!
I love the building seemingly carved out of the mountain! I'm sure the sights are that much more amazing in person :) Glad to hear things are still going so well!


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Q: Can I add a method to a class from a compile time annotation? If I create a custom annotation (example: @SaveFuncName("saveMe") will add a method called saveMe() with some code my processor generates), can the javac compiler use my annotation processor to add a method to the class? Or can I only create a different class?

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Or can I only create a different class?

That's correct. The existing API doesn't let us modify existing classes, just generate new ones.
Technically speaking, if you want to do some hacky stuff, it's possible to use internal Javac API to modify the abstract syntax tree directly but it's not for the faint of heart. For example, an object like TypeElement is actually a symbol directly from Javac, hidden from us by the interface. The syntax tree is also available in a read-only mode through the compiler tree API. We can cast the interfaces away and modify the code that way. This is how e.g. Project Lombok works.
(But I can't recommend doing this. I'm mostly explaining it because Lombok is a thing that exists so it looks like modifying classes is possible.)
The easiest solutions are to do something like generate a superclass with e.g. saveMe() methods and extend it or generate a utility class and delegate to it. (Also suggested here.)


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Cutting it fine: the ancient art of wood engraving
Clive Aslet February 28, 2017
Howard Phipps's subjects, such as Lewesdon Hill Beeches, are drawn from the British countryside
The ancient art of wood engraving requires introspection and secrecy in order to create intriguing and intricate pieces of work, discovers Clive Aslet.
If you want an antidote to the computer screen, turn to wood engraving. 'We've reached 1790, with dashes of the 1920s,' discloses one practitioner, who would rather not be named for fear of incurring the wrath of other artists. This is an art, with a strong admixture of craft, in which it routinely takes days, if not weeks or months, to produce works of unassuming dimension—so small that they're sometimes best appreciated with the help of a magnifying glass.
'OCD,' declares another exhibitor at the annual show by the Society of Wood Engravers (SWE), of the temperament required. 'It's ridiculous,' admits Peter Lawrence, whose work is given pride of place as this year's featured artist, of the amount of labour involved. 'I like to include humour. That becomes difficult when you may be working on the same piece for 300 hours.'
For the collector, however, the obsessiveness of the artists yields a glorious reward. In relation to the amount of time spent in producing them, these modestly priced works—they rarely cost more than a few hundred pounds—are the steal of the century. Produced not in warehouse-sized studios, but often on kitchen tables, the works are intimate, if not always in subject, then in the mode of creation. This invites introspection, even secretiveness, and I'm told that artists are often astonished to discover what their peers have been working on and the methods involved.
For strangely, as the SWE exhibition, now touring the country, demonstrates, this ancient technique can be used to create of-the-moment effects. Some works are bold, even gritty. Every day, thousands of people pass the wood engravings that David Gentleman made for London Transport in 1978, which have been enlarged to platform scale.
Thomas Bewick (in a portrait by Sir John Millais of 1892 made into a lithograph by Bewick) popularised the use of metal-engraving tools to cut hard boxwood across the grain, making durable printing blocks that gave high-quality illustration at a low cost.
These much loved images of the building of the medieval Eleanor Cross—that is said (incorrectly) to have given Charing Cross its name—have an equivalent in Newcastle upon Tyne. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Thomas Bewick's birth in 2003, the Metro there commissioned a suite of wood engravings for its stations from Hilary Paynter (01237 479679; http://hilarypaynter.com). With the subject 'from the Rivers to the Sea', the artist was careful to include plenty of detail at the bottom of the panels to interest children as they wait for trains. However, these are exceptions. The natural condition of wood engraving is to be small. It opens a peephole into a private world.
Take out your spectacles. Like wildflowers, wood engravings are best seen up close. They invite contemplation. This medium is the antithesis of throwaway consumerism and internet-induced short attention spans. Its natural home is, to many people, the countryside—the British countryside at that.
Looking for the Shot: Thomas Bewick was known for his charming engravings of natural subjects, most notably for A History of British Birds
Although the exhibition includes artists from as far away as Russia, China and Japan, wood engraving is still somewhat under the enchantment of Thomas Bewick, who effectively invented the technique in the late 18th century. Those closely observed little depictions of snipe and bulls, old oak trees and river scenes placed wood engraving firmly in the English pastoral tradition. There was a strong element of nostalgia to the revival that took place, under the hand of Eric Ravilious and others, in the early 20th century.
It can still be said that a medium that requires immense patience and a variety of extremely sharp, peculiarly named tools (spit-sticker, scorper) doesn't produce front runners for the Turner Prize, but we live in a fallen age.
Let's clear one thing up straight away. A wood engraving is not a woodcut, let alone a linocut. Lino can be worked like butter (or so wood engravers tell me), but although it lends itself to being printed in colour, it won't take the same almost microscopically fine lines. Woodcuts are also relatively crude, because, as the block is taken from a vertical section of tree, the artist has to work around the grain.
Winter Colour by Rosemary Fahimi, who says: 'Returning to a farm in Wales has allowed me to continue to work in the environment that I love and paint the landscape that surrounds me. Printmaking has given me a new dimension to my art and, after getting a degree as a mature student, I have continued to work in both etching and lithography'
The wood engraver works on the end grain, typically on a section of slow-growing box (sometimes lemon). As these trees don't grow to a great size, the blocks that the engraver can use are necessarily small. Over the years, ways have been found of getting around this restriction. Sections can be joined together to form a larger block and it's possible to find modern alternatives made from resin—indeed, certain types of kitchen worktop have been employed.
Even so, this is an artform in which people naturally think small—and in black and white. Which means, as Leonie Bradley (www.leoniebradley.com) tells me, 'it's all about the light'.
She shows me the studio that she shares with her husband, David Robertson, in a house overlooking Bath. It contains work benches and two old presses—one of them, a Victorian Hercules, being much as Caxton would have used. However, Leonie is as likely to work upstairs in the kitchen. Simplicity is part of the medium's appeal. 'All you need is a decent light and five tools and you're away,' she elaborates. 'You can burnish a print from a block using the back of a spoon to press down the paper.'
This artform also requires a self-imposed discipline. Every wood engraver talks about the excitement of seeing light emerging from the darkness of the seemingly primordial block. Unlike etching or steel engraving, where each mark will be printed black, every gouge, scrape or dot made by the wood engraver comes out white—it's the wood left behind that stays black.
Some artists disregard the obvious limitations and produce works that look as if they could be pencil sketches, although it will have taken hours of patient labour to isolate each seemingly spontaneous black line. for Leonie, the challenge is different. 'Light and shadow are what really excite me. How do you achieve the dark grey tones?' The answer is by many, many, many little lines and—as demonstrated by several artists in the show—an almost mesmerising level of skill, to which the word 'virtuoso' only does half justice.
Hilary Paynter
It would be an outrageous stereotype to suggest that printing is a masculine activity, but it tends to be in the Bradley-Robertson household. David is by training an engineer and, in another life, worked on oil rigs. He has a natural affinity with the presses, as well as the Columbia and the Albion that Leonie's mother, the wood engraver Hilary Paynter, has in Devon.
We won't even mention inks. 'They're a whole world of their own. There are men who get very excited about inks.'
Arcane mysteries such as these may seem far removed from Leonie and David's other interests—they're both filmmakers. There is, however, a common theme: photography and films are equally dependent upon light.
Wood engraving is also a natural partner of the written word. Although art prints are now produced in limited editions, the hardness of the blocks also allows a huge volume of impressions to be made as required, hence the illustrations that adorn 19th-century periodicals such as The Illustrated London News, Punch and The Field. Now it's more likely to be seen in conjunction with beautiful typography, perhaps printed by means of letterpress.
Cherry Burn by Hilary Paynter, the birthplace of Bewick and a place of pilgrimage for all wood engravers
'This is how books have been made since the Renaissance,' explains Merlin Waterson, former regional director, East Anglia, of the National Trust, who took up wood engraving on his retirement a dozen years ago. He now makes powerful architectural studies, which are sometimes accompanied by his own texts, and David Gentleman recalls with affection the covers that he made for the 'New Penguin Shakespeare' editions in the 1970s. Long-standing readers of Country Life will remember the images of hares and fields by Howard Phipps that we commissioned in the 1990s. Phipps's subjects are drawn from the Wiltshire countryside where he lives. 'When I drove to his house,' recalls Geri Waddington, chair of the SWE. 'I thought, I'm in Howard Phipps country—I recognised the lanes.'
Appropriately, one of Geri's own wood engravings in the show is of a waterwheel, to accompany a book on papermaking. Another shows a greenhouse at Great Dixter for a book on the garden created by Christopher Lloyd. Enough said. find the exhibition if you can and let it cast its spell.
For more details about wood engraving, contact the Society of Wood Engravers (01900 267765; www.woodengravers.co.uk). The SWE's 79th annual exhibition runs from March 4 to 25 at the Zillah Bell Gallery in Kirkgate, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire (01845 522479; www.zillahbellgallery.co.uk)
Climbing towards the summit of Ben Nevis. Credit: Alamy
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Author(s): Raymond S. Norton, Michael W. Pennington, Heike Wulff. Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville 3052, Australia.
Expression of the two lymphocyte potassium channels, the voltage-gated channel Kv1.3 and the calcium activated channel IKCa1, changes during differentiation of human T cells. While IKCa1 is the functionally dominant channel in naïve and "early" memory T cells, Kv1.3 is crucial for the activation of terminally differentiated effector memory (TEM) T cells. Because of the involvement of TEM cells in autoimmune processes, Kv1.3 is regarded as a promising target for the treatment of T-cell mediated autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and the prevention of chronic transplant rejection. ShK, a 35- residue polypeptide toxin from the sea anemone, Stichodactyla helianthus, blocks Kv1.3 at low picomolar concentrations. ShK adopts a central helix-kink-helix fold, and alanine-scanning and other mutagenesis studies have defined its channel-binding surface. Models have been developed of how this toxin effects K+- channel blockade and how its docking configuration might differ in ShK-Dap22, which contains a single side chain substitution that confers specificity for Kv1.3 blockade. ShK, ShK-Dap22 and the Kv1.3 blocking scorpion toxin kaliotoxin have been shown to prevent and treat experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in rats, a model for multiple sclerosis. A fluoresceinated analog of ShK, ShK-F6CA, has been developed, which allows the detection of activated TEM cells in human and animal blood samples by flow cytometry and the visualization of Kv1.3 channel distribution in living cells. ShK and its analogs are currently undergoing further evaluation as leads in the development of new biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and other T-cell mediated autoimmune disorders.
Affiliation:Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, 1G Royal Parade, Parkville 3052, Australia.
Abstract: Expression of the two lymphocyte potassium channels, the voltage-gated channel Kv1.3 and the calcium activated channel IKCa1, changes during differentiation of human T cells. While IKCa1 is the functionally dominant channel in naïve and "early" memory T cells, Kv1.3 is crucial for the activation of terminally differentiated effector memory (TEM) T cells. Because of the involvement of TEM cells in autoimmune processes, Kv1.3 is regarded as a promising target for the treatment of T-cell mediated autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and the prevention of chronic transplant rejection. ShK, a 35- residue polypeptide toxin from the sea anemone, Stichodactyla helianthus, blocks Kv1.3 at low picomolar concentrations. ShK adopts a central helix-kink-helix fold, and alanine-scanning and other mutagenesis studies have defined its channel-binding surface. Models have been developed of how this toxin effects K+- channel blockade and how its docking configuration might differ in ShK-Dap22, which contains a single side chain substitution that confers specificity for Kv1.3 blockade. ShK, ShK-Dap22 and the Kv1.3 blocking scorpion toxin kaliotoxin have been shown to prevent and treat experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis in rats, a model for multiple sclerosis. A fluoresceinated analog of ShK, ShK-F6CA, has been developed, which allows the detection of activated TEM cells in human and animal blood samples by flow cytometry and the visualization of Kv1.3 channel distribution in living cells. ShK and its analogs are currently undergoing further evaluation as leads in the development of new biopharmaceuticals for the treatment of multiple sclerosis and other T-cell mediated autoimmune disorders.


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What word lies between two comparatives?
We can get hotter and colder.
What's a word for staying at the same temperature?
Should I turn the heating on? That way I will get hotter.
Or should I go and sit in the fridge? That way I will get colder.
I think I might stay where I am and (your word goes here).
word-request
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Well, I think you must provide more information. Temperature of what? Atmosphere? Food? Drink? any thing? – Maulik V♦ Mar 26 '15 at 11:53
does it matter? – JMP Mar 26 '15 at 11:54
Of course yes, see there -I wrote 'room temperature' and there's a comment with an exception. If you are talking about hot/cold water, it's then room temperature as a neutral temperature. And so goes true with any food – Maulik V♦ Mar 26 '15 at 11:55
lots of things can get hotter and colder, but what if their temperature remains constant? – JMP Mar 26 '15 at 11:56
I think of a few words: uniform/constant/stable/normal/regular – David Washington Mar 26 '15 at 11:56
I don't think there's a single word, but you could say "The temperature remained constant."
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Then you use the plain form of the adjective. If the temperature is already high, then you could say, "If I stay where I am, it will remain hot." If the temperature is already low, you would say, "It will remain cold." Likewise you could use whatever word is appropriate for the current temperature: warm, cool, broiling, freezing, lukewarm, comfortable, whatever.
I don't know a single word that means "the temperature is the same as it was before". You'd have to use several words for that, like, "The temperature will be unchanged" or "it will remain the same temperature". If it's obvious from context that you're talking about temperature, then you could just say "it will be the same" or "unchanged" or "constant", etc.
Similar things could be said about other comparative words. "Al is taller than Bob" or "Al is shorter than Bob", but there's no single word I can think of that you could fill into "Al is X than Bob" that means "is the same height". Normally we'd say "Al is the same height as Bob" or something similar.
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Discussion in 'Mobile Marketing' started by iDreamer, Apr 29, 2013.
I always see people giving advice in this forum on how to market your apps.
I have released many apps and tried every possible method.
The fact is that some apps just can't do well. Why? because that are crap!
Apps and Games that are actually good and worthy of being in the top 10 will market them selves.
So the Challenge here is for anyone who thinks they know a sure fire method to market an app or game.
find and market the following free game in the app store and google play 'Tilt Universe'.
Make this app popular and I will share with you 50/50 any ad revenue and the total sale price when I sell this app via an app sales website.
You only win this challenge if the app reached the top 50 in US.
Good luck, prove your worth!


Qormi Under 17s on Sunday morning played in a top of the table clash against Sliema Hs. Qormi had Justine Pace Gasan missing due to injury, while Shianne Fabri got injured during the warming up. Williams opted for Jeremy Borg to fill in between poles.
In this encounter Qormi knew that a win would place them in a very good position to hold the National Under 17 title for the 8th Year in a row and teh 10th time in 11 years! If this will be achieved it is a record that clearly identifies as our Nursery the leading one to develop kids and the main nursery in this decade.
In fact on Sunday the Qormi Under 17s team totally dominated the match and after closing the 1st half 3-0, in the 2nd half kept on going to score another 5 times, showing clearly the superiority at this level to a final result of 8-0!!
Next Saturday Qormi Under 17s will need a minimum of 1 point to secure mathematically the title. The team will be facing Floriana YS at 3pm.


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Tohoku University and Fujitsu succeed in real-time flood analysis using supercomputer-based high-resolution tsunami modelling
27 Feb 2015 Sendai, Kawasaki - International Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University and Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. have jointly developed a high-resolution tsunami model, able to run on a supercomputer, and based on Tohoku University's existing TUNAMI-N2 simulation model, which is in widespread use internationally. For this project, IRIDeS prepared the model to perform high-resolution calculations, and Fujitsu Laboratories implemented methods for high-efficiency parallelization.
The Great East Japan Earthquake far exceeded the scale of previously envisioned earthquakes, causing underestimations of tsunami height made three minutes after the start of the earthquake, exposing an urgent need to improve methods of real-time estimation. The disaster also illustrated the need for information beyond wave height, such as the scope of flooding.
Now Tohoku University and Fujitsu Laboratories have developed a tsunami model that quickly predicts the extent of flooding from sea surface deformation, which is the source of the tsunami and is estimated based on observation data on the shape of the tsunami out at sea and on tectonic shifts onshore at the time of the earthquake. For example, flooding in the Great East Japan Earthquake started in Sendai one hour after the earthquake struck. With this technology basic predictions of where flooding would occur in the City of Sendai can be provided in about 10 minutes for the Great East Japan Earthquake case.
By making high-resolution, real-time predictions of general tsunami-flooding conditions, Tohoku University and Fujitsu Laboratories will contribute to more effective disaster-response measures.
This research was published on February 24th in an online preview ofGeophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.
In the aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake, for the purpose of improving tsunami disaster prevention, work has proceeded on laying out an extensive, fine-grained offshore tsunami observation grid. At the same time, to make the best possible use of that observation data, there has also been a vigorous R&D push to develop analytical techniques for more sophisticated real-time tsunami forecasting.
Tohoku University and Fujitsu Laboratories have moved forward on joint research since 2014 to enable not only predictions for when tsunamis will hit coastlines and for tsunami wave heights, which are released by the Japan Meteorological Agency, but also real-time forecasts of the extent of tsunami-induced flooding, which are important for disaster-response measures. Tsunami flood simulations currently in wide use are an important practical tool for disaster preparedness, producing flood-hazard maps and more. But this simulator is computationally intensive, and takes time to solve nonlinear equations. As a result, it typically has not been used for real-time analysis.
Under the research project "The advancement of the accuracy of tsunami prediction" with the principal investigator Fumihiko Imamura under project number hp140222, which is a project of the HPCI Strategic Programme for Innovation Research Field 3, "Advanced Prediction Researches for Natural Disaster Prevention and Reduction", advanced by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Fujitsu Laboratories and Tohoku University have investigated the feasibility of using their parallelized tsunami model for real-time flood analysis, making full use of the computational power of the K computer to perform highly efficient parallel computations.
Using a wave-source model estimated from observation data collected from the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, the team conducted flood simulations to verify the technology. To reproduce the tsunami's flood dynamics in detail, the team used high-resolution topographic data, modelling an approximate 10 km area around the City of Sendai's coastal districts with a resolution of 5 m.
This testing showed that simulations of the general extent of flooding in the City of Sendai could be completed in two minutes. Performing the same computations on a workstation would take several days. Even including the time needed to analyze the tsunami wave source from the observation data, the time to provide basic flood predictions was estimated to be approximately 10 minutes. This would have been sufficiently fast for the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake, which took one hour to reach the City of Sendai.
In addition, using this high-resolution analysis, the team was able to reproduce results actually seen from the tsunami caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake. For example, the embankment of the Sendai East Road was able to stop the tsunami, which then passed through passageways underneath it. These predictions are given by the newly developed tsunami model.
Tohoku University and Fujitsu Laboratories will apply this technology to hypothetical cases of a massive earthquake in the Nankai Trough, which is a large region from which earthquakes originate, and test its effectiveness. In doing so, it is hoped that precise and targeted tsunami forecasts will help local governments and businesses around seaports better prepare tsunami-response measures.
Source: Fujitsu


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Madefire Stories June 13, 2016
Apple releases App Store Review Guidelines comic book in partnership with Madefire
Greg Barbosa
- Jun. 13th 2016 6:23 pm PT
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Developers WWDC Apple Design Awards Comic book Madefire
During Apple's State of the Union and 15th annual Apple Design Awards, Apple explained that the App Store Review Guidelines would be receiving new updates this year. Currently on Apple's own App Store Review Guidelines page there are two different guidelines listed, pre- and post- June 13,2016. Apple has decided to take these changes one step further into a partnership with Madefire. At the end of the Apple Design Award ceremony this year, Apple announced a collaboration with Madefire to make reading the newly updated guidelines easier. By releasing it as a comic book.


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Asia Society Hong Kong Event Honors Zao Wou-ki, a Global Artist Ahead of His Time
A woman walks past the world's largest triptych ever, produced by painter Zao Wou-ki and displayed at the Christie's Hong Kong Spring Auction preview in Hong Kong on May 26, 2005. (Philippe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images)
This Tuesday, November 20, Asia Society Hong Kong gives audiences an opportunity to become acquainted with one of the major figures in contemporary Chinese art, when panelists will discuss the life and career of Zao Wou-ki.
Born in Beijing in 1921, Zao has lived almost exclusively in France since 1948. His oils and ink paintings are in the collection of the Guggenheim, among many other museums worldwide, and have sold at Christies for as much as $5.89 million U.S. A 2009 Hong Kong exhibition of Zao's recent work led the New York Times to call him "arguably China's most important living artist."
One of the featured panelists at Asia Society Hong Kong tomorrow evening is art historian and curator Melissa Walt, the author and co-author of several monographs on contemporary Chinese art and currently a Visiting Scholar at Colby College in Maine, who is also collaborating on an exhibition of Zao's work. Reached via email, Walt explained some of the traits that make Zao's art so distinctive:
I believe Zao Wou-ki to be one of the giants of modern and contemporary painting. Nurtured in the cosmopolitan atmosphere of pre-war Shanghai and post-war Paris, Zao's artistic development has drawn on a rich variety of inspirations and friendships, from Lin Fengmian and Wu Dayu, to Paul Klee and Henri Michaud.
His oil painting style evolved through stages, each revealing the strong, clear vision with which he approaches his work, whether experimenting with signs and written forms, or exploring the dynamic possibilities of gesture and broadly applied color fields. The breadth of Zao's experimentation in different media and techniques (lithography, oils, ink) further distinguishes his artistic achievements.
In Walt's view, Zao's cosmopolitanism also makes him an exemplar for a later generation of border- and boundary-crossing artists.
Zao Wou-ki's fame, quite deservedly, lies in his reconciliation of the visual poetry of Chinese ink painting with 20th-century modernist idioms. Extraordinary for his time, place, and generation, Zao, his career, and his work refute the usual boxes into which we place artists. Instead, he can be seen as preceding by nearly a half-century, a phenomenon that today seems commonplace — that of the trans-global artist.
Click here for complete details on Asia Society Hong Kong's Zao Wou-ki event.
Asia Society Hong Kong Artist Talk Showcases Japanese Painter Hiroshi Senju
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Farisa Khalid was born in Bangladesh and raised in the US. She attended Vassar, NYU (MA in Art History), and Emory University (MPH).
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According to Reuters, a new study has found that many patients with allergic rhinitis, while suffering from migraine, suggesting that cause allergies compounds? Histamine, may also cause migraines.
Researchers on nearly 300 adult and child study, found that 34% of the allergic rhinitis patients with symptoms of migraine.
Allergic rhinitis is commonly known as hay fever. While receiving the research without allergic rhinitis who, only 4% had symptoms of migraine.
Researchers in the Chronicles: " allergies asthma and immunology on the " print article says, this finding will encourage doctors to allergic rhinitis patients may suffer from migraine headaches " consciousness raising ".
Some past research found, many migraine patients were misdiagnosed as sinus headache, and thus lead to symptomatic treatment. Sinus inflammation occurs when the sinus headache, allergy is one of the factors to cause. Due to sinus headache and migraine symptoms are similar, both really hard to distinguish.
Symptoms of migraine is the head of one side or both sides of a throbbing pain, but is usually on the side of the head pain, accompanied by nausea, light and sound sensitivity and other symptoms. But migraine sufferers will face pressure, nasal congestion, sinus headache symptoms.
The researchers found that allergic rhinitis patients with migraine symptoms may increase by 14 times. Researchers believe that, when allergy occurs, the body's immune system will release histamine, whereas histamine causes inflammation and vascular expansion, thus cause the occurrence of migraine.
Distinction between migraine in sinus headache in the treatment of critical. A migraine headache can through the use of common pain therapy, but a series called the triptans ( triptan ) drugs for the treatment of migraine is a must. But migraine must through medication to prevent.
The researchers pointed out, there is no evidence that the treatment of hay fever antihistamines can alleviate the symptoms of migraine. Researchers believe this is not surprising, because the antihistamine to relieve asthma caused by vascular expansion almost does not play role.


With a stay at BIG4 Howard Springs Holiday Park in Howard Springs, you'll be within a 15-minute drive of Howard Springs Nature Park and Darwin Crocodile Farm. This 4-star campground is 16.5 mi (26.5 km) from Darwin Waterfront and 17.3 mi (27.9 km) from Cullen Bay Marina.
Make yourself at home in one of the 40 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and microwaves. Wireless Internet access (surcharge) is available to keep you connected. Bathrooms with showers are provided.
Enjoy recreation amenities such as a spa tub or take in the view from a garden. This campground also features wireless Internet access (surcharge), tour/ticket assistance, and a picnic area.


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Director of Operations - Crypto - Nium Labs
Job at NIUM
$150k-230k
Location : San Francisco (Hybrid)
What's the story?
Nium: A global leader in modern money movement
At Nium, we are changing the world one transaction at a time. By eliminating the complexity in global payments, we are moving the world closer to a future of frictionless commerce. It's our modular platform that helps businesses pay and get paid across the globe with services for pay-outs, pay-ins, card issuance, crypto-as-a-service, and banking-as-a-service.
Once connected to our platform, businesses can pay out in more than 100 currencies to over 190 countries - 85 of which in real time. Funds can be received in 27 markets, including Southeast Asia, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, India, and the US. Our growing card issuance business is already available in 34 countries, including Europe (SEPA), the UK, Australia and Singapore. And our license portfolio covers 11 of the world's jurisdictions, enabling seamless global payments and rapid integration, regardless of geography.
And now we're building a world-class team to help us bring our mission of powering a future of frictionless commerce to life. If you're a risk taker, a maverick who embraces our values of simply, better, together. If you see the world as it should be, not what it is. If you're a problem solver and a builder, then be a part of our element of success, and come join us today.
Where do you come into the picture?
Reporting to the SVP of Crypto and serving as an integral member of the team at Labs, the Director of Operations will be responsible for the development of operational management strategy and contribute to the development of the organization's strategic goals. In addition to the strategic components, the Director will be charged with developing and implementing more sophisticated policies and procedures in the general operational realms. This is an outstanding opportunity for a operations executive with operational experience and a proven track record of creative problem-solving and change management to join in a high-growth, mission-driven organization.
You are able to lead both vision and the team but you are also ready to get your hands dirty when it's needed. You love to inspire and motivate others. Moreover, you're the heart of the team and are always keen to grow and help anyone around you.
When leading - you lead by example, when setting the bar - you set it up high and make sure everything lives up to it. You think strategically and can take responsibility for the final result. The role will report into the Head of Crypto.
Strategy, vision and IC leadership
Advise the team on operational planning and budgeting and policy matters.
Contribute to the development of Nium Labs's strategic goals and objectives as well as the overall management of the organization.
Promote a culture of high performance and continuous improvement that values learning and a commitment to quality.
Upgrade and implement an appropriate system of policies, internal controls, accounting standards, and procedures.
Plan, coordinate, and execute the annual budget process.
Ensure that Niun Labs is adhering to the strategic plan, delivering status reports to the board.
Provide analytical support to Nium Labs's internal management team including development of internal management reporting capabilities
Improve administrative and operational accounting services such as treasury management, 403-B plan, grants payment processing, payroll, accounts payable, and purchasing.
Business or Accounting degree mandatory, a master's in business administration is preferred
Minimum 7 - 10 years' experience in a Operation role in FinTech
Proven track record of success facilitating progressive organizational change and development within a growing organization
Excellent judgment and creative problem-solving skills including negotiation and conflict resolution skills
Entrepreneurial team player who can multitask
Superior management skills; ability to influence and engage direct and indirect reports and peers
Self-reliant, good problem solver, results oriented
Energetic, flexible, collaborative, and proactive; a team leader who can positively and productively impact both strategic and tactical finance and administration initiatives.
Exceptional written, oral, interpersonal, and presentation skills and the ability to effectively
Interface with senior management and staff
Ability to operate as an effective tactical as well as strategic thinker
We, at Nium, are on a mission to transform modern money movement. We are driven by our co-created values of "seek the simple", "make it better" and "win it together".
These aren't just buzzwords; they're how we do business every day and owned by each and every employee at Nium. We create new rules and new possibilities for a world of open money.
We are looking for owners who can:
Cut through chaos and ambiguity to simplify complexity at speed and scale
Remain restless, brave and passionate, taking accountability to constantly create something better
Transcend borders to collaborate with trust, empathy and compassion
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Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plan
Our beautiful HQ office is based in the heart of SOMA in San Francisco, along with a thriving fast paced office in Miami
Company-wide social events, happy hours, and so much more.
Generous PTO in addition to paid leave between Christmas and New Year
Work for a company whose values focus on career advancement, mentoring and transparency
Employee referral bonus program
Commuter benefits & a fully stocked kitchen with rotating snacks and beverages
Generous paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers
401K plan with an employer match
NIUM, provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, NIUM complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training. NIUM expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.
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I wanted to watch this movie after seeing a review of it on TV, (I was fascinated by Amelie's eyes in the poster promoting the film). I have always liked the nostalgic, deep intelligent themes surrounding french films, and this was no different.
We are introduced to the young introvert Amelie as a child whose father blames her for the passing of her mother, as a result she keeps herself to herself, and day dreams from her distance father, and absent mother.
We fast forward to the adult Amelie who is cordial but alone, and makes friends with other misfits in society, one a charming elderly loner, who although grumpy Amelie realises his grumpiness is only a mask to hide his soft centre, just like her with her day dreams.
Her love interest is equalling a dreamy fellow who collects discarded pictures at the photo booth in the local station. We get to see both sides of Amelie from her friendliness with an elderly loner who gives her the necessary prompting to follow her heart's desires, to dishing out vengeance on the local shop keeper who is a little too harsh with one of his employees.
This is a classic romantic movie, and I can see why many people liked this movie, it pulls the nostalgic strings in all of us, from the innocent childish daydreams, to the romantic games Amelie (Audrey Tatou) plays with her love interest, trying to overcome her shyness before it all passes her, it is a sweet lovely movie, with an addictive theme song, that is synonymous with many French films of this genre.
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By choosing a regional telephone answering service based in the UK, you are choosing to outfit your business with a team of individuals who are from the same area or areas as your clients. This means that the individuals picking up the phone and assisting your customers will have a better understanding of their pain points and thus are able to better serve them.
They will understand colloquialisms and regional peculiarities, whereas the staff of outsourced telephone answering companies will not. A regional telephone answering outfit will be able to offer more customised and personalised care and attention to your customers, which will leave them feeling more valued and respected.
Businesses need to take into consideration what sort of impression they are leaving when they choose to outsource their telephone answering services. Many of these individuals will not have the same accent, which immediately will raise red flags with clients and customers. This not only leads many of your customers to believe that they will receive inferior service and that your business is trying to cut corners when it comes to their customers, but it also tells them that you are not re-investing in your local economy.
By choosing a local or regional telephone answering service, you are telling your customers that you care about the UK and are working on building its economy. You are telling customers that you are investing in the mums, dads and other individuals who may be living on your very same street as you are. You are also telling them that you are willing to invest capital in providing superior customer service, something which will not be missed by your customers.
When business owners choose to use a UK-based telephone answering service, they are also giving themselves the opportunity to easily go and visit the service's office. If at all possible, take the time to travel to the office from which the telephone answering service is operating and see whom the agents are. Start building a relationship with these individuals as this will ensure that you (and especially your customers) are treated with the utmost care. Unlike answering services which are located overseas, you can actually see how the agents operate, how they are managed, and what sort of work they provide. Take advantage of this and plan to take a trip out to see the facility prior to hiring a telephone answering service.
Choosing to work with a UK-based telephone answering service is obviously beneficial. But the extent of the benefits you will be able to enjoy depend on what the service is able to offer. If you are wondering what you should expect from a UK-based answering company, read on.
The best answering service will be able to provide your customers with a live human being 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These services will even be fully staffed and able to accept calls on the most unexpected of days, such as Christmas Day, New Year's Day and Easter Sunday. When looking into your options, ask about how the company you are considering staffs themselves during these holidays and whether they provide "graveyard shift" coverage (night-time coverage between 11 pm and 7 am). Having this option is particularly important if you are, or want to become, a global company which deals with clients from many different time zones.
Many of the companies which offer answering services in the UK do so only in English. Others may be able to guarantee that they will have other customer service agents available who can speak in different languages.
Having a customer service agent on hand who is able to handle calls from other countries and speak in other languages (such as Spanish, French and German) is handy and can help you cut down on your costs. Keep in mind, however, that there is now a number of third-party translators with whom you can work to ensure that all of your customers and clients speaking different languages are able to appropriately communicate with you. Ask the telephone answering company if they currently use one of these services. If not, ask them how willing they would be to accept one which has been hand-picked by you for your business.
Having a live human voice answering your phone calls can be the difference between your business sinking or thriving in this already competitive landscape. Even if that live voice is just taking a message for you to respond to the next day, your customer or client will feel more cared for and catered to than if they were to leave a message on an answering machine.
Another important aspect for business owners to consider involved situations where there are issues which need to be escalated. Fortunately, the majority of phone calls which will be received outside of business hours will not be urgent issues which an owner will need to deal with. However, in those instances when an issue needs to be expertly handled right then and there, a live voice will be able to comfort the client and then escalate the issue to you (the business owner) to handle how you see fit.
At the end of the day, business owners need to examine how they want their business to be perceived. Do you want to be seen as a penny-pinching company who cares little for the customer care that their customers receive? Or do you want to be seen as a business which has their customers' best interests at heart? Weigh the pros and cons, and you will likely find that a regional and reasonably priced UK-based company is the best way to go.


Many people set out to follow through with a diet in order to make lifestyle changes. Whether they have a few pounds to lose or simply want to feel like they're making better nutritional choices for the sustainability of their health, it can be inspiring to want to turn over a new leaf in the kitchen.
More often than not, however, habits can be extremely difficult to break. The first few days of a diet can be going great, and then all of the sudden you are met with a major temptation. Cravings start to take over and excuses to give into your desires can start presenting themselves.
This doesn't have to be you, however. Plenty of people are able to follow through with their diets and see the results that they want. Here are some of the best ways to keep going.
Rather than cutting out all of your pleasures entirely for the duration of your diet, why not find a happy medium. It can be beneficial and reduce the likelihood of the throwing in the towel prematurely if you find ways to substitute your cravings rather than denying yourself altogether.
It may take a short period of adjustment to accept your substitutions to your favorite snacks and treats, however, with enough practice, you may even find that you prefer it eventually!
Some of the most substitute hacks include making zucchini noodles, kale chips, and even protein powder cookies. Try taking a look online and see what kind of creative substitutions that you feel inspired by.
One of the most effective ways to stay motivated is to see your progress as you keep going. Sometimes the scale may indicate that you haven't made any progress at all, however, photos will prove that your efforts actually have paid off.
Make sure to take photos from all angles at the beginning of your diet and continue to take them every week. You'll find that if you've been following through with your program, you'll be so impressed and excited by your results that you won't want to stop!
Sometimes the best way to keep going is to find a buddy to do it with you. When you have someone who's willing to see it through with you then you'll feel less inclined to quit.
Your buddy will remind you that you're not the only one going through a challenging period and that you should keep going as a team.
Buying an outfit that's too small for you at the beginning of your diet will serve as a motivational outfit that you desire to fit into eventually.
Take photos of how it fits you at the beginning of the diet, and keep looking at it.
When you've reached the end of your diet put on the motivational outfit again and see how much you've transformed.


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Apple's investments in infrastructure, tooling, retail to jump to $15 billion in 2016
By Daniel Eran Dilger
Saturday, October 31, 2015, 09:38 am PT (12:38 pm ET)
After spending $11.2 billion across fiscal 2015 on capital expenditures, Apple anticipates that it will ramp up its investments in manufacturing, data centers, facility and retail infrastructure to $15 billion over the next year.
Apple Infinite Loop Campus
That huge increase in Capex spending is indicative of new projects and planned growth in production and sales. Capex describes long term investments expected to deliver future benefits, as opposed to Opex (operational expenses), which refers to ongoing spending in the course of running a business.
In its 10K filing, Apple specifically describes its Capex as involving "product tooling and manufacturing process equipment; data centers; corporate facilities and infrastructure, including information systems hardware, software and enhancements; and retail store facilities."
The $3.8 billion increase in planned Capex over the fiscal year that just ended in September represents 33 percent year over year growth. It is particularly noteworthy because Apple has historically been very conservative with its spending.
Last October, Apple reported that it expected to spend $12.4 billion on Capex for the fiscal year that just ended, later noting that would spend over a billion less than it had planned due to more efficient spending on equipment and facilities (rather than cuts to product pipeline spending).
Apple's massive growth comes from massive investment, not a short term fluke of popularity
Just five years ago, Apple was only spending just over $2 billion on annual Capex in total, outlining the vast increase in the infrastructure--including manufacturing capacity--that Apple is investing in on a global scale.
In 2013, Apple's then-chief financial officer Peter Oppenheimer noted that with its Capex, "we're buying equipment that we will own that we will put in our partners facilities. Our primary motivation there is for a supply, but we get other benefits as well." "Apple's enormous capital spending is reshaping the global supply chain for the industry" - Horace Dediu
Later that year, Asymco analyst Horace Dediu astutely noted that Apple's rapidly increasing capital expenditures "has followed very closely their production of iOS devices," after having earlier detailed "how Apple's enormous capital spending is reshaping the global supply chain for the industry."
Apple's liberal amounts of conservatively spent Capex have directly translated into not only capacity gains, but also directly into revenue. Katy Huberty of Morgan Stanley observed in 2012 that "Apple's revenue and Capex ex-retail stores have been 97 percent correlated over the past seven years and the acceleration in Capex growth signals a similar acceleration in revenue growth, in our view."
Valued like lessor firms, Apple would be $200 or $300
In contrast, Google spent a similar $11.1 billion in Capex over its last reported fiscal year, as its revenues increased by $6.1 billion, or 10.2 percent, and its earnings increased by $1.7 billion or 14 percent.
Apple's fiscal year reported an increase in revenues by $51.37 billion, or 28 percent, and its reported earnings increased by $13.88 billion or 35 percent. Particularly since July, Apple's superior performance has not been reflected in its share price.
Over the past three months, Apple has taken advantage of this irrational dip--largely stoked by a misunderstanding of the market in China--to buy back an astounding $14 billion of its own stock.
While Apple and Google have very different businesses, Apple's infrastructure investments are translating into increased growth, both in absolute dollars and in relative growth despite Apple's much greater "large numbers." Even so, investors are currently valuing Apple at a price to earnings ratio of 12.99, compared to 33.35 for Google or Microsoft's 35.37. If Apple's shares were to increase to a valuation like Google's, the share price would currently be over $300
The P/E of the Standard & Poor 500 is just under 22. Were Apple given a share value similar to its peers (which Apple is outperforming), its share price would be over $200, an increase of more than 69 percent.
If Apple's shares were to increase to a valuation like Google's--a company with greater exposure to a single business segment, effectively zero potential in China, and which pays no dividends--the share price of world's most profitable public company would currently be over $300.
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A battery or cell is a source of electrical energy. It is a galvanic cell where the chemical energy of the redox reaction is converted into electrical energy. it may have one or more than one cell connected in series or parallel based on output performance requirements. For general purpose use, it should be lightweight and compact in size at the same time it should have a stable output voltage(very less variation in output voltage).
Primary batteries are batteries in which the redox reaction occurs only once and after significant period of time battery becomes useless and cannot be reused again. A dry cell or Leclanche cell is one such example of a primary battery.
A secondary cell is a cell which can be used again and again. It can be recharged by passing current through it in the opposite direction. Normally it can undergo a large number of discharging and charging cycles.
A simplest example is a lead storage battery.It is most commonly used in automobiles and invertor applications.