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Opportunity Knocks in the Green Mountain State•
Jon Margolis, columnist
We’re No. 1.
Vermont, that is.
We’re the top state when it comes to opportunity, or at least to equality of opportunity.
So says a new report that studied every state, and almost every county’s economic vigor, educational opportunity, and “community health and civic life.”
The report’s authors acknowledged that equality – including equality of opportunity – has diminished all over the country for decades. So being No. 1 may not be that much of a distinction.
But according to this study, a Vermont child is more likely to be enrolled in preschool classes, a Vermont young adult is less likely to be both out of school and out of work, and a Vermonter of any age is more likely to have easy access to a grocery store, a bank, and a doctor, than his or her counterpart in almost any other state.
In the grades the authors gave the states, Vermont leads with a score of 69.5 (out of 100), five points ahead of No. 2 Minnesota, and more than 30 points in front of last-place Nevada.
Big deal. It’s another one of those reports in which Vermont is so often coming in first, second or third.
Except when it comes 48th, 49th, or 50th. It often depends on the political outlook of whoever is doing the study. One of life’s enduring rules is that every study reaches the conclusion the studier wished to reach before gathering his or her first sliver of datum.
This study is known as the Opportunity Index, which calls itself “the nation’s first – and only – tool designed to provide a snapshot of what opportunity looks like at the state and county levels.”
The index was jointly created by an organization known as Opportunity Nation and by Measure of America, a project of the Social Science Research Council, based in New York. The political outlook, then, is without doubt somewhat left of center, and the prudent observer will bear that in mind in digesting the report’s conclusions.
But the facts and figures come from official government sources, the Social Science Research Council is a respected scholarly organization, and the “factors of opportunity” on which the conclusions are based – economic vigor, education, the strength of local communities – are the right ones.
It is only in the area of community that Vermont scores ahead of all the other states, and it is way ahead, with a score of 74.88. Minnesota is second, at 66.35 and Nebraska third at 66.07. In education, Vermont’s score of 62.46 is exceeded only by New Jersey’s 63.39. Vermont’s economic score of 60.29 was behind North Dakota’s (64.86), Nebraska’s (61.51), and South Dakota’s (61.21)
This study evaluates economic strength unconventionally. In addition to the standard measurements of unemployment rate and median income, it includes the poverty rate, the state’s level of inequality, the availability of affordable housing, and the extent of Internet access.
And it ignores the rate of economic growth, where Vermont is not No. 1.
But it’s not bad, either. According to a recent report by Bloomberg News, Vermont’s Gross Domestic Product grew by 5.01 percent from 2008 to 2012, the 15th fastest growth rate in the country, and 10th among states that do not sit atop rich oil, coal, or gas deposits.
And the Opportunity Index report notes that while Vermont’s per household median income is not the highest (its $51,162 is well behind Maryland’s $67,863) Vermont’s household income grew faster than any other state’s between 2011 and 2012.
Considering that in the whole country, household income went down in 2012, and remains 8.3 percent lower than it was in 2007, Vermont’s economy would seem relatively healthy.
One finding that might surprise some Vermonters – who hear advocates regularly bemoan a “crisis” in affordable housing – is that housing is just about as affordable here as in most of the rest of the country. The study shows that 61.8 percent of Vermonters spend less than 30 percent of their income on housing costs, very close to the national average of 62.2 percent.
This does not mean there is no affordable housing problem. It means that almost 40 percent of Americans are paying more than 30 percent of their incomes on housing, often quite a bit more. That is a problem, But it does indicate that there is little or nothing peculiar to Vermont that limits the supply of affordable housing.
And then consider all the data. Is the real problem that houses are too expensive? Or is it that wages are too low?
The scholars who undertook this study do not appear stuck in ivory towers. Many of their criteria are quite down to earth. For instance, one criterion for judging community health and civic life is the convenience of buying food. Here Vermont kicks butt, with four grocery stores or produce vendors per 10,000 people, almost twice the 2.2 nationwide.
And the state has more banking institutions (5.45 per 10,000 folks) than do most Americans (3.98).
Not surprisingly, equal opportunity is not equally distributed throughout the state. Chittenden County scores highest. Its numerical score of 68.97 – well above the national average of 50.9 – earns it a letter grade of A from the study.
Only 10 cities or counties around the country had higher scores than Chittenden, and three of them were tiny rural counties in Kansas and North Dakota. The highest score – 81.73 – was won by Falls Church City in the affluent Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. The only Eastern counties that finished ahead of Chittenden were Fairfax in Virginia, Dukes County on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, and Nassau County on New York’s Long Island.
In fact, only one Vermont county – Essex County in the Northeast Kingdom – scored below the study’s national average, and it wasn’t all that far below. Essex got a score of 48.18. Its score on economic criteria was only a few points below the national average and its education score was even with the national average. The county was weakest where the state as a whole was strongest – in the area of community health and civic life. There Essex got a score of 49.6, more than four points below the national average and 55 points less than the state total.
Essex is the poorest county in the state. Its main deficiency in the study was that it has only 77.41 primary care providers per 10,000 people, well below the national rate of 117.9 and even farther below the 187.7 providers statewide.
In the study, Addison, Grand Isle, Washington and Windsor counties earned a B plus grade. Bennington, Rutland, Windham and Lamoille counties got a B. Caledonia, Franklin, Orange and Orleans counties earned B minus grades.

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JK Lakshmi mainly caters to north, west & eastern markets with total capacity of 13.3 MT (including subsidiary). It has integrated units at Sirohi, Udaipur (Rajasthan) and Durg (Chhattisgarh) while grinding units are located at Jhajjar (Haryana), Cuttack (Odisha), Kalol and Surat (Gujarat). It also has 105 MW power plant (74 MW CPP, 21 MW WHRS, and 10 MW solar) that fulfils its 75% of total power requirements • The company is now adding 2.5 MT cement capacity (1.5 MT clinker) through its subsidiary unit UCWL at a cost of ~Rs 1650 crore.
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Extension of the exemption from application and tuition fees in the event of a no-deal Brexit
A temporary exemption from application and tuition fees at institutions of higher education was previously introduced for certain British citizens to mitigate the consequences of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement. The UK's withdrawal has since been postponed until 31 October 2019, and the Government has therefore decided to extend the temporary exemption from application and tuition fees.
Matilda Ernkrans to visit Japan with focus on climate and environment
Minister for Higher Education and Research Matilda Ernkrans will travel to Japan today, 4 October. Her programme will include a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and holding the opening address at the Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum on Sunday. The majority of the visit will take place in Kyoto and Tokyo, and the political focus will be on the climate and the environment.
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Research cooperation the focus as Helene Hellmark Knutsson receives China’s research minister
On Thursday 31 August, Minister for Higher Education and Research, Helene Hellmark Knutsson, is hosting a meeting with Wan Gang, Chinese Minister of Science and Technology. A cooperation agreement on research will be signed during the meeting.
Regnér took part in launch of gender equality web portal for newly arrived children and young people
On Thursday 6 April 2017, Minister for Children, the Elderly and Gender Equality Åsa Regnér inaugurated the multilingual Youmo.se website that provides information about health, gender equality, and sexual and reproductive health and rights.
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Fact sheet: Gender equal higher education institutions
In Sweden, there are 31 public-sector universities and university colleges, and some fifteen private education providers at which 400 000 people are studying. In 2015, these higher education institutions had a turnover of SEK 67 billion and employed 75 000 people. An activity that is so extensive and vital to society needs active and forceful gender equality efforts to ensure that everyone is given equal opportunities to conduct research and get an education, regardless of gender.
Helene Hellmark Knutsson to lead higher education delegation to China
Minister for Higher Education and Research Helene Hellmark Knutsson will visit Beijing and Shanghai in China on 11–16 June. The aim of the visit is to highlight Sweden as a nation of education and research, and to promote the internationalisation of higher education and research.
Focus on space industry when Helene Hellmark Knutsson visits US
On 21–25 May, Minister for Higher Education and Research Helene Hellmark Knutsson will travel to California, USA, to visit world-leading actors in research and industry in the field of space. The aim is to learn about the latest developments in the space sector and collect knowledge for the Government’s work to produce a Swedish space strategy. During her trip, Ms Hellmark Knutsson will also visit NASA’s Ames Research Centre and the Mojave Air and Space Port.
Gustav Fridolin to take part in Nordic annual review with UNESCO in Paris
Today, Thursday 11 May, Minister for Education Gustav Fridolin is in Paris to take part in an annual dialogue on and follow-up of the financial support that Sweden, via the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), has given to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).

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Two Harbors startup hopes to develop new products from birch bark wasteIf Brian Garhofer has his way, Two Harbors could soon become a major player in the cosmetic, dietary supplement and pharmaceutical industries. Garhofer plans to continue an innovative process, started and subsequently abandoned in Two Harbors nearly two decades ago, in which birch bark extracts are put to commercial use.
By: Tom Olsen, Lake County News Chronicle
If Brian Garhofer has his way, Two Harbors could soon become a major player in the cosmetic, dietary supplement and pharmaceutical industries.
Garhofer plans to continue an innovative process, started and subsequently abandoned in Two Harbors nearly two decades ago, in which birch bark extracts are put to commercial use.
“Even though we’re somewhat of a startup, we’re based on technology developed over 15 years ago,” Garhofer said of his new business, the Actives Factory, which was launched in conjunction with the University of Minnesota.
Plans call for the startup to extract and synthesize naturally occurring chemicals from birch bark, which is typically burned as a waste product at paper mills. The extracts can be used as ingredients in healthier pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.
Garhofer said he expects production to begin around May with process testing and initial development. In the future, if the project is successful, the plant could employ up to 12 people, he said.
Dr. Pavel Krasutsky, the director of the chemical extractives program at the University of Minnesota Natural Resources Research Institute in Duluth, has spent more than 15 years developing the process that allows Garhofer’s company to extract chemicals from bark.
"The birch tree is the oldest of all species of trees and it grows in the most severe of climates," Krasutsky said. "Over hundreds of thousands of years the birch has evolved to use chemicals to protect itself from bacteria, fungus and viruses. Its first barrier of defense is its bark. Use of natural chemicals is well established in Europe and Asia, but use in the United States is just beginning to develop."
Birch bark extracts contain three compounds that are important to researchers and developers: betulin, lupeol and betulinic acid. It is believed that these compounds can help reduce cholesterol and blood pressure, treat infections and stimulate the immune system.
The benefits offered by birch bark extracts make it a project worth undertaking, Garhofer said.
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While recent reports have suggested that birch trees are dying along the North Shore, no one seems too worried about the ability to maintain birch cover.
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Six months before an election in which some estimate Republicans could lose 20 seats in the House and five in the Senate, insiders tell Politico how the GOP can pick itself up:
- Write some policy. “It’s critical that our candidates have a very clear set of principles,” says Mitt Romney. Think tax-cutting and spending-slashing.
- Dispense with sexcapades. As long as they’re not governing, top Republicans might as well “be very proactive in addressing anything with a potential whiff of scandal.”
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Design and Analysis of Lean Production Systems
Ronald G. Askin
- 出版商: Wiley
- 出版日期: 2001-11-16
- 售價: $1,160
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- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 548
- 裝訂: Paperback
- ISBN: 0471115932
- ISBN-13: 9780471115939
This book covers the design and improvement of single and multistage production systems. Following the standard production planning and scheduling decision hierarchy, it describes the inputs and outputs at each level of the decision hierarchy and one or more decision approaches. The assumptions leading to each approach are included along with the details of the model and the corresponding solution. Modern system concepts and the engineering methods for creating lean production systems are included.
Table of Contents
The Industrial Enterprise.
Introduction to the Production System and the Role of Inventory.
Manufacturing Strategy and the Supply Chain.
Single-Stage Inventory Control.
Decentralized Pull Systems.
Multistage Production Systems: Materials Requirements Planning for Dependent Demand.
Lean Manufacturing and the Just-in-Time Philosophy.
Shop Floor Control: Systems and Extensions.
Appendix I: Standard Normal Distribution Function.
Appendix II: Unit Normal Linear Loss.
Appendix III: Linear Programming.

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Mecca is a city in the Hejaz and the capital of Makkah province in Saudi Arabia. The city is located 73 km (45 mi) inland from Jeddah in a narrow valley at a height of 277 m (909 ft) above sea level. Its resident population in 2008 was 1.7 million, although visitors more than double this number every year during Hajj period held in the twelfth Muslim lunar month of Dhu al-Hijjah.
As the birthplace of Muhammad and a site of the composition of the Quran, Mecca is regarded as the holiest city in the religion of Islam and a pilgrimage to it known as the Hajj is obligatory upon all able Muslims. The Hijaz was long ruled by Muhammad’s descendants, the sharifs, either as independent rulers or as vassals to larger empires. It was absorbed into Saudi Arabia in 1925. In its modern period, Mecca has seen tremendous expansion in size and infrastructure. Because of this Mecca has lost many thousand years old buildings and archaeological sites. Today, more than 13 million Muslims visit Mecca annually, including several million during the few days of the Hajj. As a result, Mecca has become one of the most cosmopolitan and diverse cities in the Muslim world, although non-Muslims remain prohibited from entering the city.
Islamic tradition attributes the beginning of Mecca to Ishmael’s descendants. Many Muslims point to the Old Testament chapter Psalm 84:3-6 and a mention of a pilgrimage at the “Valley of Baca” that Muslims see as referring to the mentioning of Mecca as Bakkah in Qur’an Surah 3:96. Also the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus who flourished between 60 BCE and 30 BCE writes about the isolated region of Arabia in his work Bibliotheca historica describing a holy shrine that Muslims see as referring to the Kaaba at Mecca “And a temple has been set-up there, which is very holy and exceedingly revered by all Arabians” The Ptolemy may have called the city “Macoraba”, though this identification is controversial.
Some time in the 5th century CE, the Kaaba was a place of worship for the deities of Arabia’s pagan tribes. Mecca’s most important pagan deity was Hubal, which had been placed there by the ruling Quraysh tribe and remained until the 7th century CE.
In the 5th century, the Quraysh took control of Mecca, and became skilled merchants and traders. In the 6th century they joined the lucrative spice trade as well, since battles in other parts of the world were causing trade routes to divert from the dangerous sea routes to the more secure overland routes. The Byzantine Empire had previously controlled the Red Sea, but piracy had been on the increase. Another previous route that ran through the Persian Gulf via the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, was also being threatened by exploitations from the Sassanid Empire, as well as being disrupted by the Lakhmids, the Ghassanids, and the Roman–Persian Wars. Mecca’s prominence as a trading center also surpassed the cities of Petra and Palmyra. The Sassanids however did not always pose a threat to Mecca as in 575 CE they actually protected the Arabian city from invasion of the Kingdom of Axum, led by its Christian leader Abraha. The tribes of the southern Arabia, asked the Persian king Khosrau I for aid, in response to which he came south to Arabia with both foot-soldiers and a fleet of ships into Mecca. The Persian intervention prevented Christianity from spreading easterward into Arabia, and Mecca and the Islamic prophet Muhammad who was at the time a six year boy in the Quraysh tribe “would not grow up under the cross.”
The Kaaba is a cuboid-shaped building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the most sacred site in Islam. The Quran states that the Kaaba was constructed by Abraham (Ibrahim in Arabic), and his son Ishmael (Ismaeel in Arabic), after the latter had settled in Arabia. The building has a mosque built around it, the Masjid al-Haram. All Muslims around the world face the Kaaba during prayers, no matter where they are. This is called facing the Qiblah.
One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires every Muslim to perform the Hajj pilgrimage at least once in his or her lifetime if able to do so. Multiple parts of the Hajj require pilgrims to walk seven times around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction (as viewed from above). This circumambulation, the Tawaf, is also performed by pilgrims during the Umrah (lesser pilgrimage). However, the most dramatic times are during the Hajj, when about 6 million pilgrims gather to circle the building on the same day.
The pilgrimage, as established by Abraham, is believed to have been uncorrupted in its early years. Then the faith of Abraham failed to grip very many devoted followers. It was because “it presupposed too much initial spirituality in its adherents to grip a large community”.Although there were always a few people who continued to maintain Abraham’s teachings, this minority gradually came to have less power in Mecca, and soon the Kaaba became a shrine devoted to idols.
The early Arabian population consisted primarily of warring nomadic tribes. When they did converge peacefully, it was usually under the protection of religious practices. Writing in the Encyclopedia of Islam, Wensinck identifies Mecca with a place called Macoraba mentioned by Ptolemy. His text is believed to date from the second century AD, about 500 years before the coming of Muhammad, and described it as a foundation in southern Arabia, built around a sanctuary. It probably did not become an area of religious pilgrimage until around 500 A.D. It was then that the Quraysh tribe (into which Muhammad was later born) took control of Macoraba, and made an agreement with the local kinanah Bedouins for possession. The sanctuary itself, located in a barren valley surrounded by mountains, was probably built at the location of the water source today known as the Zamzam Well, an area of considerable religious significance to Muslims.
In her book, Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong asserts that the Kaaba was dedicated to Hubal, a Nabatean deity, and contained 360 idols that either represented the days of the year, or were effigies of the Arabian pantheon. Once a year, tribes from all around the Arabian peninsula, whether Christian or pagan, would converge on Mecca to perform the Hajj.
Imoticontends that there were multiple such “Kaaba” sanctuaries in Arabia at one time, but this was the only one built of stone. The others also allegedly had counterparts of the Black Stone. There was a “red stone”, the deity of the south Arabian city of Ghaiman, and the “white stone” in the Kaaba of al-Abalat (near the city of Tabala, south of Mecca). Grunebaum in Classical Islam points out that the experience of divinity of that period was often associated with stone fetishes, mountains, special rock formations, or “trees of strange growth.” The Kaaba was thought to be at the center of the world with the Gate of Heaven directly above it. The Kaaba marked the location where the sacred world intersected with the profane, and the embedded Black Stone was a further symbol of this as a meteorite that had fallen from the sky and linked heaven and earth.

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Removed from the National Register of Historic Places July 21, 1998.
The Drift Creek Bridge is a covered bridge in Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built in 1914, the structure originally carried Drift Creek County Road over Drift Creek. The creek flows into Siletz Bay of the Pacific Ocean south of Lincoln City.
The original bridge, about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from the ocean, once carried the main north–south route along the coast. Newer bridges later carried most of the north–south traffic and, after a concrete bridge bypassed the Drift Creek Bridge in the 1960s, Lincoln County preserved it as a pedestrian crossing and a monument to 19th-century pioneers. In 1988, however, county officials closed the bridge entirely after rot and insect damage made the structure unsafe.
The county dismantled the bridge in 1997 and gave the timbers to Laura and Kerry Sweitz, who owned land 8 miles (13 km) north of the Drift Creek site. In 2000, the Sweitz family rebuilt the bridge over Bear Creek and granted a permanent public easement at that site. Bear Creek is a tributary of the Salmon River, which it enters near Rose Lodge.
The original Howe truss bridge had board-and-batten siding, arched portals, and ribbon windows along the eaves. Before being dismantled, it was the closest covered bridge to the Oregon Coast. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 and removed in 1998.(read more...)
National Park Service documentation: https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/79002106

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PATERSON -- The gunman who opened fire Saturday on his family on a busy city street — killing his young son and wounding his estranged wife and their older child — had a restraining order issued against him, authorities said Sunday.
The couple had separated earlier this year, police Detective Lt. Ronald Humphrey said, but details on why the restraining order had been issued were not immediately available.
The disclosure came as investigators continued efforts to determine a motive for Saturday's rampage, which ended when Edelmiro Gonzalez was confronted and shot by an off-duty city police officer who happened to be in the area.
Gonzalez's daughter, Yulisa Robles, said her father was involved in a bitter custody fight with 31-year-old Johanna Gonzalez.
"He was just fed up with the situation," Robles, 30, told NorthJersey.com.
The officer opened fire after Gonzalez refused an order to drop his weapon, and Gonzalez, 54, later died at a nearby hospital. His 7-year-old son, Adrian, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Johanna Gonzalez and their older son, 11-year-old Edryn, remained in critical but stable condition Sunday at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson. Further details on their injuries were not disclosed, and authorities said no updates were expected to be issued Sunday.
Gonzalez was armed with two handguns when he approached his family just before 9 a.m., as his wife was dropping their sons off with her mother before she went to work at a local mall, Humphrey said.
When Gonzalez began firing at the family's sport utility vehicle, the boys tried to run away. But their father chased after them and first shot Adrian in the chest, then ran after his oldest son and shot him in the neck.
Gonzalez then returned to the SUV and chased his wife past a fast food restaurant where the off-duty officer, Lt. Washington Griffin, was in the drive-thru lane to pick up breakfast with his young son. Gonzalez then shot her once in the shoulder.
After hearing gunfire, Griffin got out of his car and identified himself as a police officer, Humphrey said, while his son stayed in the vehicle. The 19-year veteran of the force then told Gonzalez to put down the weapon, but he refused and Griffin fired twice, hitting him in the head and the right femur.
Griffin and his son were not injured, but Gonzalez was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital, where he died a short time later.
Griffin was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation by the Passaic County Prosecutor's Office, a standard procedure in police-involved shootings, Humphrey said.
Dominga Nuez, Gonzalez's girlfriend, told The Record that he did not appear to be angry when he left their home Saturday morning. She said she was shocked when she learned what had happened.
"I can't believe it still. He wasn't violent, and he loved his kids," Nuez said.


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The average rating of 4.1 shows that the customers have been satisfied well so far.
You can also reach the restaurant in a wheelchair, and you can pay with your credit card.
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Food may also be ordered on the website (http://www.oakandvine.com/) of the restaurant itself.
There is a private room available at the premises to be booked, so that you can enjoy your food without distractions, but you can also sit outdoors. Their banquet room can hold many guests.
With a lot of entertainment options the restaurant will make your stay even more valuable.
The surroundings of the restaurant offer a scenic view.
The bar is not only open for enjoying refreshing beverages. You can also enjoy food there, and the bar comprises of all the liquids one can wish for.
Along with your meal, you can enjoy a refreshing beer from a selection of regional as well as international breweries, and you can also bring your own wine to the restaurant. There is a corkage fee for bringing your own beverages with you.
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My aunt and uncle took me to this amazing restaurant and they knew I would love it.
A menu where in the fish section just refers to the waiter is promising. They just have fresh market fish.
We asked for some clams, fried little fish, tomato bread and jamon (ham). And later we had Lluç ( in catalan language) with grilled veggies. It is a very tasty white fish.
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|This role is part of the Global Tax structure and reports to the Head of Tax - India, based out of Mumbai. This team will be taking care of all tax related activities including compliance, statutory requirements and tax management across the APMM Business Units present in India. |
|We offer you the opportunity to work in an international environment alongside talented colleagues. The A.P. Moller – Maersk Group is globally engaged in different industries and subject to oil, shipping and standard tax regimes. |
As part of the India Country Tax Centre Tax the incumbent will work closely with colleagues from Finance Departments of Maersk Line, APM Terminals, Damco and other group companies. You will gain insight and broad knowledge of the Group activities in India.
Responsible for all day to day work for all Indian group companies, including:
• Dealing with all issues related to expatriates’ tax programme and assessment hereunder:
- Manage special expatriate tax schemes (if any)
- Preparing and submission of tax returns for expatriates
- Calculating and arranging any on account tax payment to the tax authorities which is due to be made by the employer
• Dealing with HR tax issues related to locally employed employees
- Calculating and arranging any on account tax payments to the tax authorities which is due to be made by the employer
• All correspondence with Indian tax authorities in relation to employee tax compliance
• Preparing treaty clearance applications
• Assisting the Head of Tax with project and advisory work
• Maintain a good working relationship with Indian tax authorities
Key Performance Indicators:
• Meeting statutory and internal deadlines with minimal managerial input
• Keeping customers happy
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|Chartered Accountant with 7-8 years of experience in taxation. |
Incumbent with a high drive for results, good analytical and problem solving skills.
• In depth knowledge of HR/employee tax
• Good knowledge of excel and word.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
Time management, good communicator, self motivated, detail oriented.
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• Keeping up to date with tax law and practise
• Develop interpersonal skills
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• Finance personnel within India
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, Alzheimer’s Disease and dementia deaths have increased by 16%. The expected cost of this disease and other dementias is estimated to be $355 billion in 2021. Neuroscience companies are developing solutions to treat the complex Alzheimer’s Disease with its many challenges and obstacles when it comes to finding therapeutic options.
Over the past year, Cognition Therapeutics has made several achievements in this therapeutic area. Cognition Therapeutics is a clinical-stage neuroscience company that is developing drugs to restore normal cellular damage responses in neurodegenerative and neuro-ophthalmic disorders. The company’s first indication is to treat mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease.
In 2021, the company completed two important clinical study trials. The first was SNAP which measured the displacement of amyloid beta oligomers into the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). This study confirmed the mechanism of action of their lead candidate CT1812. CT1812 is orally delivered and designed to bind selectively to the sigma-2 receptor complex to restore damaged cellular processes. The second trial, SPARC, showed evidence that CT1812 slowed brain atrophy in mild-to-moderate Alzheimer patients. Currently, there are 7 ongoing clinical trials with CT1812. Cognition Therapeutics has also achieved over $117 million in funding from the National Institute on Aging. Lisa Ricciardi, CEO, and president of Cognition Therapeutics reported, “2021 was a transformative year for Cognition Therapeutics. We completed our IPO, secured significant additional non-dilutive funding, and progressed our pipeline creating a product portfolio in addition to our lead candidate CT1812.”
In the upcoming year, the neuroscience company will move to phase 2 of their Alzheimer’s Clinical Consortium (ACTC) study with early-stage Alzheimer’s Disease. This study will help assess cognition and biomarkers. Further involving Alzheimer’s Disease, the final cohort in the ongoing SHINE trial will be enrolled. The SHINE trial is also supported by a $30 million NIA grant and the interim analysis showed a statistically significant amyloid beta protein reduction in the treatment arm. Cognition Therapeutics is also anticipating expanding its pipeline to develop therapeutics for other neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s disease in 2022 as well.
The biotech company, headquartered in Harrison, NY, was founded in 2007 and is led by Lisa Ricciardi. Serving as Cognition’s CEO and president since March 2020, she was previously CEO of a biotech company, Suono Bio, and has held many other executive roles prior. Riccardi aims to create medicine for Alzheimer’s and neurodegenerative diseases and envisions further advances by Cognition in their ongoing and planned studies this year.
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The 9mobile Fellowship (formally Etisalat) is a unique and generous annual award of £10,000 sponsored by the international telecommunications company 9mobile to enable a fiction writer from Africa who wants to write in English to spend four months in the Creative Writing community at the University of East Anglia.
It is awarded to the recipient of the 9mobile Prize for Literature, a prize established by the company in 2013 to celebrate new African fiction, encouraging upcoming writers whilst supporting the African publishing industry. The winner of the prize receives £15,000 in addition to the fellowship, and the prize also aims to support publishers by purchasing 1000 copies of all shortlisted books, to be donated to various schools, book clubs and libraries across the African continent. In addition it sponsors a book tour to three African cities for the three shortlisted writers.
The Fellow is mentored at UEA by Professor Giles Foden, author of The Last King of Scotland, and is provided with significant opportunities to meet other writers, as well as agents and publishers while working on their second book.
The 2017 winner of the 9mobile Prize for Literature is Jowhor Ile.
Jowhor Ile was born in 1980 and raised in Nigeria, where he currently lives. His fiction has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly and Litro Magazine.


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- NY Wong Surgery
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- Mount Elizabeth Hospital Singapore
- Mount Alvernia Hospital Singapore
- Gleneagles Hospital Singapore
- Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital Singapore
- MBBS – National University of Singapore
English, Mandarin, Dialects
Dr Wong Nan-Yaw is a certified specialist colorectal and general surgeon. He obtained his basic medical degree from the National University of Singapore Faculty of Medicine in 1993. Since graduation, he has worked and trained in the largest and busiest Tertiary Hospitals in Singapore, including National University Hospital and Singapore General Hospital.
He obtained his Fellowship with the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh in 1999, and was accepted in the internationally renowned Department of Colorectal Surgery in Singapore General Hospital as a surgical trainee. He was granted two overseas training awards : one in the United Kingdom at the busy Royal Infirmary in Yorkshire, and another at the Weill-Cornell Medical College in New York, USA. He qualified as a fully trained laparoscopic colorectal surgeon in 2003.
His specialist interest is in colorectal cancers. Beyond colonoscopy screening for early colorectal cancer, he also performs Minimally Invasive Surgery for excellent surgical outcome. He offers the latest and most advanced techniques in management of benign colorectal diseases like haemorrhoids and fistulae. He also performs standard general surgical operations like laparoscopic gallbladder and hernia surgery.
He is also a faculty member of the Asian Endosurgery Task Force, where he helps train the next generation of laparoscopic surgeons.
He won the First Prize in Poster Section, New York Society of Colon & Rectal Surgeons meeting held on March 31, 2005 – “Laparoscopic vs Hand Assisted Laparoscopic Sigmoidectomy for Diverticulitis”.
His professional affiliations include being a member of the Singapore Medical Association (since 1994) and Singapore Society of Colorectal Surgeons (since 2006), being a clinical teacher in Surgery at the National University of Singapore, and holding membership in the Editorial Board, International Seminars in Surgical Oncology.
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Climber: Logan Barber
Route: The Firewall (5.13d)
Location: Liming, China
“A pure splitter, steep, long, powerful, technical, and brilliant,” is how Australian Logan Barber describes The Firewall, the third pitch of The Flying Buttress formation and currently one of China’s hardest trad routes. Barber nabbed the first ascent in May 2015, after many of the local climbers had tried and failed: “Among the Liming climbers, the line was always the thing to be done,” Barber wrote on his blog. The route opens with a slightly overhanging offwidth that transitions through fists and into tight hands before the angle kicks back to 30° and the hand jams turn into ringlocks and rattly fingers. The last five meters is the crux, with a ridiculously pumpy boulder problem before clipping the chains, which Barber did on his 22nd attempt over the course of two trips.
Climber: Nathalie Malo
Route: Le Toit de Ben (5.13a)
Location: Val-David, Quebec, Canada
Canadian Bernard Poisson first aid climbed this burly, 30-foot horizontal roof crack in 1958, placing wooden pegs and pins and climbing on hemp rope while wearing a homemade chest harness. It wasn’t until 1987 that Quebec climber François Roy freed the line, thus establishing Val-David’s first 5.13. This small, sleepy town is considered to be the birthplace of Quebec climbing, and around the time of Roy’s ascent, more than 170 routes were put up, increasing its growth and popularity. In 2010, Canadian Nathalie Malo ticked the first female ascent of Le Toit de Ben, which translates to Ben’s Roof, after climbing for only four years.
Climber: Sonnie Trotter
Route: Blue Jeans Direct (5.14a)
Location: Mount Yamnuska, Calgary, Canada
On the last day of his Canadian Rockies climbing season, legendary Canadian hardman Sonnie Trotter redpointed his summer project Blue Jeans Direct (5.14a) on the notable Mount Yamnuska, often referred to fondly as “Yam” by locals. The eight-pitch route shares seven of its pitches with Blue Jeans (5.13b), with the crux pitch going straight up a large and challenging bulge in the middle of the route, which the original route equipper Nick Rochacewich avoided in the late 2000s by going out left to easier terrain.

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Effects of oral intoxication by lead acetate on pituitary-testicular axis in the pubertal rat
Background: The aim of this work is to study the effects of lead on pituitary-testicular axis. It is about a direct toxicity on testicular cells or an indirect toxicity via abnormalities of the hypothalamic-pituitary axis?
Methods: Forty male rats were divided equitably into four groups. One of these groups received tap water containing 0.3% lead acetate for one month. A second group was assigned to the same protocol but the intoxication was conducted for two months. The third and the fourth groups were used as reference. At the end of the experiment, the rats were anaesthetized and blood was collected for the proportioning of the FSH, the LH, testosterone and lead. The testes and epididymides were removed quickly and weighed. For the determination of testosterone in testicular fluids, a cruciate incision was made in the tunica albuginea of each right testis and centrifuged at 54xg for the extraction of interstitial fluid. Thereafter, the seminiferous tubules were extruded and centrifuged at 6000xg to collect seminiferous tubule fluid. The left testis of each animal was cut in two halves, one half was used for the histological examination and the other was suitably treated for the determination of the lead concentration. The epididymides were homogenized in solution containing Triton X-100 and spermatozoa were counted using Malessez cells. The plasma FSH and LH were determined by RIA using reagents from a commercial kit (BioInternational, France), while testosterone was determined by electrochemiluminescence (Elecsys, rochediagnostics). The lead concentration in blood and Tissues was measured by flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry with the Zeeman effect background (Hitachi Z- 9000).
Results: In the rats poisoned for one month, no notable effect was noted in spite of a blood lead concentration of 0.721 μg/ml. On the contrary, in animals exposed to lead acetate for two months, the blood level passed to 2.721 μg/ml and plasma testosterone, FSH and LH dropped by about 45%. In parallel, the secretion of testosterone by the Leydig cells fell by 35% and epididymal sperm count dropped by 14%. The histological examination showed lead deposits in the walls of the seminiferous tubules.
Conclusions: Although we do not exclude a directly toxic action of lead on the interstitial cells and on the Sertoli cells, it seems that the hypothalamic-pituitary axis is the major target of lead since the decrease in the plasmatic LH and FSH was associated with a reduction in testosterone secretion and with a reduction in the number of the epididymal spermatozoa.
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Docklands Light Railway Ltd. (DLRL) wanted to use DB ESG’s brake technology expertise and their Wheel Slide Protection Evaluation Rig (WSPER) to test the Wheel Slide Protection (WSP) systems fitted onto their B92 and B2007 fleets. The aim was to improve the vehicles performance in low adhesion conditions, to help inform the design of future DLRL fleets and to assist with the planning and implementation of future signalling system upgrades.
Due to high utilisation of the network, access to the track for making an evalution of the WSP performance was extremely limited and thus the DB ESG WSPER facility offered a logical and effective substitute.
To enable testing for DLRL, changes needed to be made to both the WSPER hardware and software to allow additional modelling functionality for the articulated DLRL trains, including electro-dynamic (ED) brake testing.
The brake system equipment on the B2007 and B92 fleets differ in terms of supplier and the way it operates. Testing needed to be conducted to compare the performance of the B2007 fleet, across a range of adhesion conditions, against the older B92 vehicles. Service problems had been experienced with the B2007 fleet and so testing also needed to recreate some of these operational conditions.
Work Undertaken by DB ESG
- Designed and manufactured three new rig modules capable of interfacing with both the WSPER multiple car computers and the WSP equipment (one rig module per bogie). The rig modules comprised of dummy brake cylinders, WSP dump valve mounts, pressure control devices, control valves for application of air pressure and exhausting of residual air pressure, electrical interface boxes and isolating valves.
- Created new WSPER software to represent the weight transfer influence of an articulated bogie and an emulation of eletrodynamic braking behaviour for each fleet type.
- Conducted limited track testing on the DLRL infrastructure using the B2007 and B92 vehicles to capture instrumented measurements of a range of track conditions to support calibration of the WSPER DLR train models. The testing confirmed that the WSPER simulation adequately represented the DLRL system (different to mainline rolling stock).
The track testing consisted of three phases:
1. Preparation and specification of testing
2. Vehicle instrumentation and Testing
3. Analysis and reporting
DB ESG used a combination of dry rail and detergent based testing. The dry rail and low adhesion testing was used to calibrate the overall braking behaviour of WSPER models representing the B92 and B2007 vehicles.
- WSPER calibration and simulation testing was then conducted to evaluate the WSP performance.
- The track test data was used to support the WSPER calibration for the B92/B2007 applications.
- Dry rail testing was conducted to verify friction only, and friction and ED brake modes. These tests calibrated the brake system characteristics, confirming that the WSPER dry rail braking distances and accelerated profiles correlated with the measured/calculated values.
-Low adhesion testing was conducted in friction only, and friction and ED modes to calibrate the low adhesion conditioning factors on WSPER.
-WSPER tests were conducted on each vehicle type.
-A WSPER report was produced.
The WSPER testing outcome report recommended several improvements for the B2007 vehicles, which are currently being implemented. These improvements will lead to better performance in low adhesion conditions and will also make a small energy saving on a portion of the fleet.


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There is so much to do on a cruise ship, especially a Disney ship! We had a blast and I’m convinced all the activities are the reason I didn’t gain any weight – despite eating anything and everything I wanted for a week. Our whole family was busy and loved the days at sea as much as the port adventures.
Each evening of the cruise, our steward, Michael, would straighten up our cabin and leave us a fun towel animal, chocolates, and a newsletter, The Navigator, with the next day’s Onboard activities. The Navigator was very easy to read, with activities highlighted by ages and interests, and then an overall guide by time and location, similar to a TV guide listing.
We were all sticking together, so we would look at the activities for the entire family. Quickly, we settled into knowing that after dinner, there was a show in the large Walt Disney Theater, and then a fun activity in the Studio Sea lounge. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be on a game show? My daughter and I played “Mickey Mania”! We didn’t win for trivia, but definitely won in the fun category!
The shows each evening in the Walt Disney Theater were entertaining, fun, and more elaborate than I expected. One night we were treated to “the Golden Mickeys”, an awards show honoring Disney movies. As a huge movie fan, I loved this particular show. Every year our family has a red carpet party for the Oscars. When my daughter was little, she called it our “Red Rug Party” and that name has stuck. On the cruise, there was a red carpet before the Golden Mickeys, and my daughter was thrilled to be interviewed! It was one of the highlights of the trip for her. The interview appeared on the large screens in the theater and she was excited to know that she was “on TV”. A small suggestion for the producers – if it would be possible to delay the broadcast of the interviews for just a few minutes, so the kids could go inside and watch themselves, it would be even more thrilling. Other shows in the Walt Disney Theater were musicals, comedy, magic – something for everyone!
Another highlight of the trip for us was seeing our little girl sing karaoke. She had never done it before, and despite being a little shy, she felt comfortable enough to take the stage twice! Disney brings out the best in children!
On Disney cruises you can see first-run movies that are currently playing in theaters at home. During our cruise, we could have seen Million Dollar Arm or Captain America: The Winter Soldier. We did see Maleficent in 3d! I wish we could have had the time to see all the movies. Jimmy, our cruise director, had us laughing when he said,”Disney cruises show first run Disney movies because, well, we own ’em!”
There were many supervised activities, seminars, and fun events during the day also. Or if you wanted to just play, there are basketball courts, soccer areas, ping pong tables, and swimming pools. It was incredible to play ping pong with the ocean as a backdrop.
The pools on the ship were heated, so despite cooler temperatures, you could swim. The adults in our group didn’t but my daughter swam several times and loved all the kid-friendly pools. There was one where kids could swim and watch a movie on a giant screen at the same time. Notice what the lifeguard is wearing – that gives you a hint of the air temperature. Another pool had a fun slide and three different areas creating a pool in the shape of who else, but Mickey!
One of our favorite things to do at Walt Disney World is to meet the characters. We always enjoy character meals or meet-and-greets. So when we saw that there would be characters aboard the ship with us, we were excited! I was surprised by the accessibility and variety of the characters. It seemed like we were running into princesses everywhere.
The onboard activities were so plentiful and fun that my daughter said she loved being on ship as much as being at Walt Disney World, shhhhhh, maybe even more. All of us truly did enjoy everything on ship so much that we might consider a repositioning cruise someday (those are the cruise with many days at sea, as ships move from one area of the world to another).
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Development of Air Intake System for Sporty Coupe Using the Robust Design Method
The air intake system consists of air cleaner, air intake hose, air duct and several resonators. Its function is generally to maximize the engine power and minimize the air induction noise. However, the air induction sound should be sporty for sporty coupe. This paper shows the procedure of optimum design of the air intake system for sporty coupe using the Robust Design.


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# Step Into the Star Wars Universe With These Area Rugs
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The inch wide cracks in the unlatchable bathroom door, basically your partner who stayed in bed has to endure your toilet visit with you.. The 2 matress bed was comfortable until the matresses drift apart and you descend into the crack in between.
the place is amazing. Hardy and Marion are great and so nice. He gave us a chalet to the harbor. Thank you, Hardy.
there was noise from the trains
Great little find in Uberlingen and the owners were really nice. Fresh breakfast served daily and the apartment had everything we needed and was spacious. Only a short walk into the centre of town. Would highly recommend and we will definitely go back.
Breakfast was good and plenty full. Owners exceptional friendly and helpfuland did there best to make sure are stay was enjoyable
Nothing to not like
Host was perfect in every way
Breakfast could have been a little earlier
Gästehaus - Wirtshaus zum Felsen is located directly opposite the site of the Landesgartenschaugelände Überlingen 2020. The cosy inn is open in the evenings from April to October. Car parking and bike storage are free of charge on site. Almost all apartments and suites at Gästehaus - Wirtshaus zum Felsen have their own bathroom with shower and toilet, TV and internet access, as well as a terrace or balcony with a great view of Lake Constance. A buffet breakfast is provided each morning. Gästehaus - Wirtshaus zum Felsen lies on the train line between Radolfzell and Friedrichshafen, with half-hourly trains between 05:00 and 24:00. Überlingen town centre is a 10-minute walk via the promenade. The Bodenseetherme (thermal baths) and the Strandbad West are around 500 metres from the accommodation. For the Landesgartenschaugelände Überlingen 2020, a natural water park is being built, and this will include a 3,000 m² play area, a boat dock and direct access to Lake Constance.
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It’s Sunday, it’s also game day, and I skipped breakfast. This is a dangerous combination for just scarfing down the first thing I see on the couch. Ooooooor….I can load up the family and deal with grumbles from the Buddha belly for 45 minutes and marvel at the primo parking spot I got. Because the family grocery-getter ain’t going anywhere for a long time. There’s delicious all-you-can-eat Mexican food with and an extra sandwich to be consumed professionally. Habanero’s has a new best friend!
Have you ever been eating a taco and wonder how awesome it would be with bacon. Wow, me too! Habanero’s has fresh, wonderful and hot food on their buffet line and it’s not just a bunch of cheap filler. It’s rich, spicy, juicy, saucy, and plenty of it. Plus it has BACON!!!!!! Along with some great Mexican breakfast delights like chorizo and eggs. And check out that bar! Football, margaritas, endless Mexican food and…….
The Poblana torta had no problemo when it came to making our Best Between Bread series. It’s soft bread, spicy pork, fresh avocado, lettuce, tomato and sour cream was the capper this lunch needed. Because when you’re eating off a buffet one should get a sandwich too. It’s a law somewhere. We’ll see if Bettendorf gets a championship this December!
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Review by Jeff and Laurie Mitchell
Toronto ON April 6 2019
Koerner Hall’s 10th Anniversary season, sponsored by BMO Financial and the Toronto Star, continued a series of concerts that explore Roma culture by featuring the modern-day Paganini of the violin, Roby Lakatos. The near-capacity audience was treated to a jaw-dropping display of virtuoso violin playing over two hours by the “devil’s fiddler” from Hungary and his 5-piece band, which included the equally stunning cimbalom virtuoso Jenó Lisztes, along with the immense talents of pianist Szakcsi Lakatos, guitarist László Balogh, bassist Vilmos Csikos and 2nd violinist László Boni. Fittingly, for an all Hungarian band, the concert was also sponsored by Kensington Market clothier Tom Mihalik of Tom’s Place.
Roby Lakatos is certainly a man of the people – I can’t ever recall a concert where the star attraction could be found hanging outside the venue 10 minutes before show time, mingling with patrons as they arrived, making casual conversation and posing for selfies.
Roby Lakatos – Roma Violin Virtuoso
Roby Lakatos; Photo credit: St.Prex Classics
There was nothing self-conscious about it – he just feels at ease with people, and he carries that feeling onto the stage with him, where he strolls easily around the stage while effortlessly playing the most incredibly fast and technically astounding licks on his violin one moment and wrenchingly beautiful gypsy folk melodies the next. The programme notes say that Lakotos is “hard to define”, primarily because there is no one type of music that labels him – he is “equally adept at performing classical music, jazz, and the folk idioms and gypsy dances of his native Hungary”, usually all within a single set-piece.
Most of the lengthy pieces were not named, but a few were familiar, such as a marvelous “Fiddler on the Roof” medley, a rendition of “Those Were the Days” and an electrifying performance of Monti’s “Csárdás”. Roby's fingering and bowing is off-the-charts technically, intricate, full of surprise, alternatingly explosive and restrained. When he plays at warp speed, which is often, it is not hard to understand why he is universally regarded as one of the great technical violinists of our time. Yet, he also uses his bow like a paint brush to create hauntingly passionate melodic lines that are enhanced by his beautiful controlled vibrato. In “Csárdás”, he improvised his own harmonics to accompany the written harmonics to stunning effect along with 2nd violinist Boni, and in numerous other pieces he displayed dazzling two-fingered pizzicato tremolo combined with left hand pizzicato, while still holding his bow. With the aid of amplification, this might have been the most entertaining pizzicato playing one could ever expect to hear.
It would be difficult for any of the supporting cast to eclipse the violin master, but with a warning from Lakotos to the audience to “fasten your seatbelts”, cimbalom virtuoso Jenó Lisztes gave it his best shot with a remarkable solo performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee”. The cimbalom is an “elaborate Eastern European stringed instrument played with special mallets”. The sound is unique and mesmerizing, like a harp and marimba blended together, and the speed of Lisztes’ playing was like the whir of a bumble bee’s wings; it was incredible, and brought the audience to its feet well before the concert’s final ovation.
This was Lakotos’ third appearance at Koerner Hall since he first appeared there in the Hall’s inaugural year of 2010, and one hopes that he will be back soon. Throughout the evening there were periodic hints of the “hot house” jazz of the Roma guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli, mixed in liberally with the tumultuous gypsy dances that had the audience clapping along enthusiastically on many occasions. It would be a special treat to hear Lakotos in a pure jazz setting someday. We had a chance to speak with Canada’s finest jazz pianist, Roby Botos, after the concert, and Botos suggested that a collaboration with his countryman was long overdue. Let’s hope that happens soon. In the meantime, the Roma exploration will reach its summit on May 4th when Botos himself performs at Koerner Hall. Those Roma musicians can sure play!
Roby Lakatos and Laurie Mitchell
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Arkansas native Glen Campbell is an American country and rock music icon. Spending over five decades in show business, Campbell won six Grammy Awards, released 70 albums, and hosted the The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour on CBS.
Enjoy these quick facts about the multi-talented artist below:
1. In the early 1980’s Glen Campbell was engaged to country singer Tanya Tucker, who was more than 20 years younger than him. The two did multiple duets together, including “Shoulder to Shoulder” below.
2. Not only was Campbell successful with music, he co-starred alongside actor John Wayne in the 1969 western film “True Grit.”
3. Glen Campbell is a father to eight children, from four different marriages. His current wife is Kim Woolen, whom married in 1982.4. Glen Campbell played on The Beach Boys’ classic album Pet Sounds in 1966.
5. In 2012, Campbell received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards.
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Anna Klene, Kyle Blasch, Marco Maneta
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University of Montana
Agricultural land and water use has modified natural flow regimes in the western US. Understanding the effect of agricultural water use on streamflow is critical to effective water management and is often limited by the available data record. This investigation evaluates agricultural water use and streamflow in the Smith River watershed (SRW), a semi-arid agricultural watershed located on the eastern slope of the northern Rocky Mountains in west-central Montana. Questions motivating this study include: (1) Has agricultural water use modified streamflow on the Smith River? (2) What aspect of agricultural activity in the Smith River watershed is having the greatest effect on streamflow? (3) What hydrologic properties of the watershed determine streamflow sensitivity to agricultural land and water use? Three approaches are employed to address these questions: (1) construction of an annual water budget, (2) comparison of streamflow to current and historic agricultural water use intensity, and (3) simulation of watershed processes using a precipitation-runoff model. Based on the mean-annual water budget estimate of the SRW, 12 percent of mean-annual streamflow in the Smith River is consumed by irrigation water use. The hydrologic effects of increased irrigated area detected with linear regression analyses of streamflow and agricultural water use include decreased seasonal flows in April, May, and June; increased late-summer flows in August and September; and increased low-flow volumes. Numerical hydrologic model simulations demonstrate that dominant precipitation-runoff processes in the watershed cannot be adequately represented without including agricultural water use.
Stanley, Andrea, "Hydrologic Conditions and Streamflow Change in an Evolving Semi-Arid Agricultural Watershed, Smith River, Montana" (2013). Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers. 1378.
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Application Note: Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS) for Chemical Imaging at the Nanoscale
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As an alternative approach to achieve lateral resolution far below the diffraction limit Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS) can be applied. The results presented in this study demonstrate that the alpha300 SR from WITec is a TERS ready system capable of performing various tip-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy experiments. The results prove that this technique is suitable for chemical imaging at a resolution beyond the diffraction limit.


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