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2020 Global Technology Summit
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Over five days, Carnegie India convened industry experts, policymakers, and scholars from all over the world to deliberate on five comprehensive sub-themes—Geopolitics of Technology, Data: Linking the World, Digital Payments: The Future of Global Financial Highways, Digital Inclusion: Taking the Local to the Global, and Transforming Healthcare for a Post-COVID World.
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GTS 2020 Conference Booklet
Abhijit Bose
Abhijit is the head of WhatsApp in India.
Adar Poonawalla
Adar Poonawalla is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Serum Institute of India.
Ajay Kaushal
Ajay Kaushal is a co-founder and director of BillDesk, India's largest electronic payment solutions platform that enables over USD 85 billion of digital payments annually.
Ajay Nair is the chief executive officer of Swasth, a non-profit alliance that builds digital health infrastructure for public good.
Ajit Mohan
Ajit Mohan is vice president and managing director, India, Facebook.
Alistair Croll
Alistair Croll is the co-founder of Coradiant; the Year One Labs accelerator.
Amitabh Kant
Amitabh Kant is the chief executive officer of National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog.
Annabel Lee leads Amazon Web Services' (AWS) public policy work on Data issues for APJ.
Anupam Ray
Anupam Ray is the joint secretary (Policy Planning and Research) at the Ministry of External Affairs, India.
Arun Sharma is the director of DBT Mission in the Cabinet Secretariat, Government of India.
Ashley J. Tellis
Ashley J. Tellis holds the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs and is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Bhavish Aggarwal
Bhavish Aggarwal is the chairman and group chief executive officer of Ola, one of the world's largest ride-hailing platforms.
C. N. Ashwath Narayan
C. N. Ashwath Narayan is the deputy chief minister of Karnataka and the current minister of higher education, information technology, biotechnology, and science and technology in the Government of Karnataka.
C. Raja Mohan
C. Raja Mohan is the director of the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore.
Cina Lawson
Cina Lawson is the minister of digital economy and digital transformation, Government of Togo.
David Eaves
David Eaves is a lecturer in Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
David Kirkpatrick
David Kirkpatrick is a journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of Techonomy Media, and author of the best-selling book "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World."
Deborah Bryant
Deborah Bryant is senior director, Open Source Program Office, Office of the CTO at Red Hat where she leads the company's community strategy and a global team responsible for its stewardship in open source software communities.
Dragan Primorac
Dragan Primorac is a pediatrician, forensic expert, and geneticist. He is chair of the International Affairs Committee of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, and a member of the Croatian Prime Minister's ccientific committee established to fight COVID-19.
Elonnai Hickok
Elonnai Hickok is a non-resident scholar at Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an independent expert examining how technology and policy can impact and benefit society.
Esselina Macome
Esselina Macome is the chief executive officer of Financial Sector Deepening Moçambique, and an associate professor at the Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. She previously worked at the Central Bank of Mozambique from 2005-2015, as executive director and member of the board.
Evan A. Feiganbaum
Evan A. Feigenbaum is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Fabrizio Hochschild-Drummond
Fabrizio Hochschild-Drummond is undersecretary general and special adviser to the Secretary-General on the Commemoration of the UN's 75th Anniversary, United Nations.
Florian Herrmann
Florian Herrmann is a member of the Bavarian government. Initially, he served as head of the Bavarian State Chancellery and minister of state for Federal Affairs. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Bavarian State Parliament for the district of Freising.
Gagandeep Kang
Gagandeep Kang is professor of microbiology at the Christian Medical College (CMC) in Vellore, India. She is the first woman from India to be elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and also the first Indian woman to be elected to Fellowship of the American Academy of Microbiology.
Hanna Armelius
Hanna Armelius is senior advisor at Riksbank — the central bank of Sweden.
Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami
Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami is the minister of communications and digital economy of Nigeria.
Jay Gullish
Jay Gullish is the digital policy director of the U.S.-India Business Council's Digital Economy Committee, Media and Entertainment Committee and Privacy Working Group.
John N. Nkengasong
John N. Nkengasong is the director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).
Jonathan Dharmapalan
Jonathan Dharmapalan is the founder and chief executive officer of eCurrency™ where he invented and pioneered the method to create central bank issued digital fiat currency.
Jonathan Lee is the director of Global Public Policy at WhatsApp.
Julie Brill
Julie Brill is the chief privacy officer, Microsoft Corp. Prior to coming to Microsoft, Julie served as a commissioner of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for six years.
K. VijayRaghavan
K. VijayRaghavan is the principal scientific adviser to the Government of India and the chairperson of the Prime Minister's Science, Technology, & Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).
Katherine Charlet
Katherine Charlet is director, Data Governance, Government Affairs and Public Policy - Centers of Excellence, Google.
Kiran Anandampillai
Kiran Anandampillai is the advisor of technology at the National Health Authority (NHA), which is implementing India's two large digital health initiatives - The National Digital Health Mission (NDHM) and Ayushman Bharath (PMJAY).
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw is the executive chairperson of Biocon.
Kris Gopalakrishnan
Senapathy "Kris" Gopalakrishnan is the chairman of Axilor Ventures and the co-founder of Infosys.
Laura Lucas Magnuson
Laura Lucas Magnuson is the vice president for communications and strategy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Mahendra Nerurkar
Mahendra Nerurkar is the director and chief executive officer of Amazon Pay India.
Malavika Raghavan
Malavika Raghavan is adviser to, and former head of, the Future of Finance Initiative, Dvara Research, in partnership with the Gates Foundation.
Malcolm Johnson is ITU Deputy Secretary-General, having been re-elected on 1 November 2018 for a second four-year term starting on 1 January 2019.
Manu Prakash
Manu Prakash is associate professor of Bioengineering at Stanford University working in the field of physical biology and frugal science.
Margarete Schramböck
Margarete Schramböck is the Austrian minister of digital and economic affairs.
Matt Sheehan
Matt Sheehan is a fellow at the Paulson Institute's think tank, MacroPolo, where he leads work on U.S.-China technology issues, with a specialization in artificial intelligence.
Melinda Claybaugh
Melinda Claybaugh is the Privacy Policy director for Legislation at Facebook.
Michael Nelson
Mike Nelson directs the Carnegie Endowment's Technology and International Affairs Program.
Modan Saha
Modan Saha is the chief executive officer of Tata Strategic Management Group and supports Group companies and the chairman's Office in strategy and transformation initiatives.
Nandini Kannan
Nandini Kannan is the executive director of the Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF).
Neeraj Jain
Neeraj Jain is PATH's India Country Director.
Neha Narula
Neha Narula is the director of the Digital Currency Initiative at the MIT Media Lab, where her research interests are in cryptocurrencies and distributed systems.
Nguyen Huy Dung
Nguyen Huy Dung is the deputy minister of Information and Communications, Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
Nivruti Rai
Nivruti Rai is country head of Intel India and vice president of the Data Center Group, Intel Corporation.
Nobuhiro Endo
Nobuhiro Endo is chairman of the board at NEC Corporation.
Paul Fletcher is the minister for communications, cyber safety, and the arts, in the Government of Australia.
Penny Pritzker
Penny Pritzker is the founder and chairman of PSP Partners and its affiliates, Pritzker Realty Group, PSP Capital and PSP Growth. From June 2013 through January 2017, she served as U.S. secretary of commerce in the Obama administration.
Pia Bernadette Roman Tayag
Pia Bernadette Roman Tayag is the director of the Office of Queen Máxima of the Netherlands in her capacity as the United Nations secretary-general's special advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA).
Priya Karnik
Priya Karnik is a volunteer for Health Stack, iSPIRT, and founder of Dvara Money, and former vice president at Paytm.
R.K. Misra is a non-resident scholar at Carnegie India, and currently leads the Center for SMART Cities, a knowledge bank and repository of best practices in the areas of planning, designing and managing Smart Cities.
R. S. Sharma
R.S. Sharma is former chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), where he worked from August 2015 to September 2020.
Rahul Chhabra
Rahul Chhabra is secretary (Economic Relations) at the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
Rahul Matthan
Rahul Matthan is a partner, Trilegal, and heads the TMT practice. He currently serves on the firm's board.
Rajeev Chandrasekhar
Rajeev Chandrasekhar is national spokesperson for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and a third-term member of parliament in the Rajya Sabha from the state of Karnataka.
Ralf Sauer
Ralf Sauer is the deputy head of Unit for International Data Flows and Protection, European Commission.
Renu Pall
Renu Pall is the additional secretary for New Emerging & Strategic Technologies in the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
Renuka Sane
Renuka Sane is an associate professor at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP).
Rishab Bailey
Rishab Bailey is a lawyer and technology policy researcher, working at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi.
Ritesh Shukla
Ritesh Shukla is the chief executive officer of NPCI International Payments Limited (NIPL).
Rob Sherman
Rob Sherman is the deputy chief privacy officer at Facebook, where he is responsible for managing the company's engagement on public policy issues surrounding privacy, security, and online trust.
S. Jaishankar
S. Jaishankar is the external affairs minister of India.
Sahil Kini
Sahil Kini is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Setu.
Satya Nadella is chief executive officer of Microsoft.
Scott Hendry
Scott Hendry is the senior special director of Financial Technology (FinTech) in the Funds Management and Banking Department of the Bank of Canada.
Seth Berkley
Seth Berkley is the chief executive officer of GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance.
Shilpa Kumar
Shilpa Kumar is a partner at Omidyar Network India, providing overall leadership, including strategy and investments, across the areas of digital ID, governance, citizen engagement and property rights initiatives.
Shrayana Bhattacharya
Shrayana Bhattacharya is a senior economist in the World Bank's Social Protection and Jobs Practice based in New Delhi.
Simon Kay
Simon Kay is the head of International Operations at Wellcome Trust.
Smriti Parsheera is a researcher at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, and a fellow with the CyberBRICS Project hosted by the FGV Law School, Brazil.
Soumya Swaminathan
Soumya Swaminathan is WHO's first chief scientist.
Sultan Meghji
Sultan Meghji is the CEO and co-founder of Neocova.
Tanvi Madan
Tanvi Madan is a senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program, and director of The India Project at the Brookings Institution.
Taranjit Singh Sandhu
Taranjit Singh Sandhu is the ambassador of India to the United States.
Tarunima Prabhakar is a nonresident scholar at Carnegie India, working at the intersection of technology, policy, and global development.
Tim Maurer
Tim Maurer is director of the Cyber Policy Initiative and a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves
Toomas Hendrik Ilves is the former president of Estonia (2006-2016).
T.V. Mohandas Pai
T.V. Mohandas Pai is currently the chairman of Aarin Capital, chairman of 3one4 Capital, and chairman of Manipal Global Education.
Urvashi Aneja
Urvashi Aneja is co-founder and director of Tandem Research.
Varad Pande
Varad Pande is a partner at Omidyar Network India, where he leads strategy, impact and new initiatives.
Victor William Malu
Victor Malu is the head of Future Financial Systems (FFS) at FSD Kenya. In this capacity he leads FSD's work in supporting the creation of a platform for inclusion through the formal financial system.
Vijay Gokhale is a nonresident senior fellow at Carnegie India and the former foreign secretary of India. He has also served as India's high commissioner to Malaysia, and as India's ambassador to Germany (2013-16) and China (2016-17).
William Haseltine
William A. Haseltine is a scientist, businessman, philanthropist, and author. He is currently chair and president of the global health think tank ACCESS Health International.
William J. Burns
William J. Burns is president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as U.S. deputy secretary of state.
Agenda: December 14
Geopolitics of Technology: Technical gets Political
Rudra Chaudhuri, director, Carnegie India
S. Jaishankar, external affairs minister of India
Conversation: Geopolitics of Technology: Technical Gets Political
William J. Burns, president, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Conversation | Global Governance of Technology: Role of Multilateral Institutions
Fabrizio Hochschild-Drummond, undersecretary general and special advisor for UN 75, United Nations
Michael Nelson, director, Technology and International Affairs Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Nivruti Rai, country head, Intel India, and vice president, Data Center Group, Intel Corporation
Special Address
Taranjit Singh Sandhu, ambassador of India to the United States
Panel | Fostering Digital Ties: Future of India-U.S. Relationship
Jay Gullish, director, Digital Policy, U.S.-India Business Council (USIBC)
Modan Saha, chief executive officer, Tata Strategic Management Group
Nandini Kannan, executive director, Indo-U.S. Science & Technology Forum (IUSSTF)
Renu Pall, additional secretary for New Emerging and Strategic Technologies, Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Curtain Raiser | The Future of Technology
Evan Feigenbaum, vice president for studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Panel | The Future of Technology
Cina Lawson, minister of Digital Economy and Digital Transformation, Government of Togo
David Kirkpatrick, founder and editor-in-chief, Techonomy Media
Elonnai Hickok, nonresident scholar, Technology and International Affairs Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Jonathan Lee, director, Global Public Policy, WhatsApp
Rahul Matthan, partner, Trilegal
Conversation | Examining Global Privacy Legislations: Lessons for India
Julie Brill, chief privacy officer, Microsoft Corp.
Data: Linking the World
Conversation | Governance of Technology
Malcolm Johnson, deputy secretary general, International Telecommunication Union
Suyash Rai, fellow, Carnegie India
Special Address | India & Austria: Imperatives for a Digital Future
Margarete Schramböck, minister for Digital and Economic Affairs, Republic of Austria
Panel | The World We Live In
Ashley J. Tellis, Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
C. Raja Mohan, director, Institute of South Asian Studies, National Institute of Singapore
Vijay Gokhale, nonresident senior fellow, Carnegie India, and former foreign secretary of India
Tanvi Madan, senior fellow, Foreign Policy Program, and director, India Project, Brookings Institution
Curtain Raiser | Personal and Non-personal Data: India's Emerging Data Architecture
Anirudh Burman, associate fellow, Carnegie India
Panel | Personal and Non-personal Data: India's Emerging Data Architecture
Annabel Lee, Public Policy lead for Data, APAC, Amazon Web Services
Melinda Claybaugh, privacy policy director, Facebook
Rajeev Chandrasekhar, member of parliament, Rajya Sabha
Varad Pande, partner, Omidyar Network India
Panel | Localization and Internationalization of Data: Getting the Balance Right
Katherine Charlet, director, Data Governance, Government Affairs and Public Policy - Centers of Excellence, Google
Ralf Sauer, deputy head of Unit for International Data Flows and Protection, European Commission
Rishab Bailey, legal consultant, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
Rob Sherman, vice president and deputy chief privacy officer, Facebook
Smriti Parsheera, researcher, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
Conversation | Regulating Digital Markets: The Road Ahead
Mohandas Pai, co-founder and chairman, Aarin Capital & Chairman, Manipal Global Education
R.S. Sharma, former chairman, Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)
Urvashi Aneja, co-founder and director, Tandem Research
Digital Payments: The Future of Global Financial Highways
Nguyen Huy Dung, deputy minister of Information and Communications, Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam
Conversation | India's Tech Partnerships: Opportunities & Challenges
C.N. Ashwath Narayan, deputy chief minister of Karnataka and minister for Higher Education, Information Technology, Biotechnology, Science and Technology, Skill Development, Entrepreneurship, and Livelihood
Florian Herrmann, head of the State Chancellory-minister of state for Federal and European Affairs and the Media, Bavaria
R.K. Misra, nonresident scholar, Carnegie India
Rahul Chhabra, secretary (ER), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India
Panel | India's Unified Payments Interface: Ready for Global Acceptance?
Abhijit Bose, head of India, WhatsApp
Ajay Kaushal, co-founder and director, BillDesk
Mahendra Nerurkar, director and chief executive officer, Amazon Pay
Pia Bernadette Roman Tayag, director of the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development
Ritesh Shukla, chief executive officer, NPCI International Payments Limited
Victor Malu, head, Future Financial Systems (FFS), FSD Kenya
Curtain Raiser | Central Bank Digital Currencies: End of the Road for Cash?
Rajesh Bansal, senior adviser, Technology & Society Program, Carnegie India
Panel | Central Bank Digital Currencies: End of the Road for Cash?
Hanna Armelius, senior advisor, Payments Department, Analysis and Policy Division, Sveriges Riksbank
Jonathan Dharmapalan, chief executive officer, eCurrency
Neha Narula, director, Digital Currency Initiative, MIT Media Lab
Rajesh Bansal, senior adviser, Technology and Society Program, Carnegie India
Scott Hendry, senior special director, Financial Technology (FinTech) in the Funds Management and Banking Department, Bank of Canada
Digital Inclusion: Taking the Local to the Global
Public Roundtable | Open Digital Ecosystems: The Way Forward for India
Ajay Nair, chief executive Officer, Swasth Alliance
Arun Sharma, director, DBT Mission
Kiran Anandampillai, advisor, National Health Authority
Shrayana Bhattacharya, senior economist, World Bank's Social Protection and Jobs Practice
Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, minister of communications and digital economy of Nigeria
Panel | The Future of Digital Infrastructure
Laura Lucas Magnuson, vice president for Communications and Strategy, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and former communications director, Obama Foundation
Nobuhiro Endo, chairman of the board, NEC Corporation
Paul Fletcher, minister for Communications, Cyber Safety, and the Arts, Government of Australia
Panel | Digital Finance: Connecting the Next Billion in India & Africa
Esselina Macome, chief executive officer, Financial Sector Deepening Moçambique
Malavika Raghavan, advisor and former head, the Future of Finance Initiative, Dvara Research
Shilpa Kumar, partner, Omidyar Network India
Sultan Meghji, chief executive officer and co-founder, Neocova
Amitabh Kant, chief executive officer, NITI Aayog
Conversation | The Future of Innovation
Penny Pritzker, founder and chairman, PSP Partners, and former U.S. secretary of commerce
Satya Nadella, chief executive officer, Microsoft
Conversation| Fueling India's Digital Transformation: The Role of Technology and Regulation
Ajit Mohan, vice president and managing director, India, Facebook
Anupam Ray, joint secretary (Policy Planning and Research), Ministry of External Affairs, India
Conversation | Lessons from the Pandemic: Innovating for the Future
Bhavish Aggarwal, chairman and group chief executive officer, Ola
Matt Sheehan, fellow, MacroPolo
Transforming Healthcare for a Post-COVID World
Keynote | Digital IDs: The Way Forward
Toomas Hendrik Ilves, former president of Estonia
Dragan Primorac, chair, International Affairs Committee of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Seth Berkley, chief executive officer, GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance
Keynote | India's Digital Health Mission
Kris Gopalakrishnan, chairman, Axilor Ventures, and co-founder, Infosys.
Conversation | Building Health Stack for India
Renuka Sane, associate professor, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP)
Priya Karnik, volunteer, for Health Stack, iSPIRT, and founder, Dvara Money
Neeraj Jain, India country director, PATH
Panel | The People Need to Know: The Challenges of Developing a COVID-19 Vaccine
Adar Poonawalla, chief executive officer, Serum Institute of India
Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist, WHO
John N. Nkengasong, director, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, executive chairperson, Biocon
Panel | India & Africa: Collaborating in a Post-Pandemic World
Gagandeep Kang, professor, Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College, and former executive director, Translational Health Science and Technology Institute
K. VijayRaghavan, principal scientific adviser, Government of India
Manu Prakash, associate professor of Bioengineering, Stanford University
Simon Kay, head, International Operations, Wellcome Trust
Conversation | Preempting Pandemics: Preparing for the Future
William A. Haseltine, chair and president, ACCESS Health International
KNOWLEDGETRANSFER@GTS2020
In addition to the public conference, we invited students, practitioners, subject-matter experts, and other interested audiences to take part in any of our five workshops to be conducted on the first day (December 14) of the Global Tech Summit at 3:30 p.m. IST. The KnowledgeTransfer@CarnegieIndia initiative aims to provide a platform for students to directly engage in conversations relating to the intricacies and impact of technological advancement on society.
Participants chose from the following workshops:
'Decoupling' and its Effects — with Sahil Kini, co-founder and CEO of Setu, and Matt Sheehan, fellow, Macropolo.
Future of Open-Source Architectures — with Michael Nelson, director of the Technology and International Affairs Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Discussant Catalysts:
- Deborah Bryant, senior director, Open Source Program Office, Red Hat, and board director, Open Source Initiative
- Alistair Croll, author of 'Lean Analytics,' and chair, FWD50
- David Eaves, lecturer in Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Fintech and Cybersecurity: Opportunities and Challenges — with Rajesh Bansal, senior advisor at Carnegie India, and Tim Maurer, co-director, Cyber Policy Initiative, and senior fellow, Technology and International Affairs Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Vaccine Research: The Road Ahead — with Gagandeep Kang, professor, Department of Gastrointestinal Sciences, Christian Medical College.
Future of Personal and Non-personal Data — with Anirudh Burman, associate fellow at Carnegie India, and Tarunima Prabhakar, nonresident scholar at Carnegie India.
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10 NYC Cathedrals and Churches With Hidden Secrets to Uncover
Xandra Harbet
6. Trinity Church
The Gothic Revival styled Trinity Church is located on 75 Broadway, opened in 1846 and reaches 284 feet high. The church was designed by Richard Upjohn and Captain William Kidd helped construct the building by lending his runner and tackle to the builders. Kidd was a Scottish sailor who was executed on May 23, 1701, for murder and five counts of piracy. Not many churches can say they've been built by a convicted pirate!
Gone are the days where land can be bought for five cows and a barrel of hay, but the land that Trinity Church was built on was purchased for an annual shipment of sixty bushels of wheat for the king. Despite such a modest payment, the 14 acres of land includes commercial space in Hudson Square which is worth approximately two billion dollars today. Also on the church grounds is the only active cemetery in Manhattan and St. Paul's Chapel, the oldest standing church in Manhattan.
Next, check out the Top 10 Secrets of Trinity Church.
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Xandra Harbet May 19, 2017


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Dementia Safe & Found. This video provides information about how the Herbert Protocol can help if a person living with dementia goes missing.
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Have you ever signed up to bring a meal to someone who just had a baby or who is sick? And then do you regret signing up because you feel completely clueless about how to proceed after you foolishly signed up to bring dinner?
Bring a healthy meal and find out what the recipient wants if you meal sign up system doesn't have guidelines (we used Take Them A Meal, it's amazing and allows the giver write in what they are bringing so the recipient doesn't get lasagna every night).
1. Include breakfast or something for the next morning. Is it necessary? Nope. But it makes the meal feel that much more special and it made us feel well cared for when our friend Tess did that for us after Elle was born.
2. Give some flowers. Also not necessary but in the craziness of sickness or a new baby it's nice to have the simple pleasure of some fresh flowers.
What are your go-to meals for pampering someone?
I love that you made cute little notes to go with the food. That is such a personal, friendly touch, just like the flowers and the breakfast treat. I recently made a couple dozen frozen meals for a friend and her husband who live a couple hours away and had a terrible time labeling the containers — when the writing got wet from freezing, the writing smeared or rubbed off. If you or your readers have any suggestions, I would appreciate them. Again, I really enjoyed this post and hope Linda's knee is feeling better soon.
Dave and Linda know how to do a LOT of things right. I love it.
I have a question about the house in Gloucester you just bought…what do you think you'll do with the (fake) wood paneling? We have it in our apartment and I HATE it (but can't do anything about it) because it screams 70s to me, and makes the house feel dark. So I'm curious to see what you'll do – paint it? tear it down and put something else up?
And seriously, how did you have 3 hours to paint with two children?
Great post. Lately when I've made a meal for someone I have (like you) focused on making something light and fresh, since people have likely been inundated with heavy, lasagna-ish meals, meatloafs, etc. The last one was nice bread, rolls, all-natural turkey breast, sliced cheese and all of the sandwich toppings like lettuce and tomoato — washed, and sliced and ready to go. Pair it with yummy chips, fresh fruit washed and cut-up, and a homemade baked good of some sort. It can really make someone's day easier and happier! I love the idea of fresh flowers — will try that next time.
very nice of you to do such a good thing! Be sure to share your recipe! It might seem obvious, but it always good to know how others put together salads. And the extra touches is very sweet. I am going to file that in my memory bank.
it was so easy to do the salad, beth! i just baked some chicken in BBQ sauce and then put it on top of organic mixed greens, frozen corn that I had defrosted, black beans and sliced up red peppers. you can always add grape tomatoes too… i should have done that!
Love this :-). I do different things when it comes to making meals, breakfast for dinner, thai salads (ok that is my husband) but I always try to give a balance of healthier lighter foods and a small treat. I love the suggestion of bringing breakfast for the next morning, we had that once when an immediate family member died and it was so helpful. The other thing I do if there are kids is bring a 'sundae buffet'; I make homemade chocolate sauce (so easy and can be mixed into milk hot or cold), ice cream and then a ton of different toppings. Helpful for the parents to get the kids to eat their dinner ;-).
I think anything easy for the recipients to open and eat is the best thing besides the presentation. Breakfast goodies and a dessert rock!


Today, mass-market living room streaming is being held back by the need to buy and connect outboard media boxes and USB sticks. To scale, smart TVs need to be priced for the mass market, with an integrated array of diverse apps and streaming services.
Many of the world's largest service providers and content providers are already using Ericsson's UDN to deliver content to their customers around the world. Now that ecosystem is evolving from a pipeline to a platform by placing providers' applications and content on millions of connected TVs with the cooperation of leading TV manufacturers.
This new platform – called Boost – is the first UDN-hosted application beyond core content delivery. UDN's Boost program offers app certification and updates for content providers, as well as optimized media delivery. Later this year, new discovery and customer acquisition features will be added including: cross-marketing and promotions, app placement, deep linking from unified discovery, single sign-on, and integrated billing. Content providers will have the ability to choose their target regions and distribution volume.
Simplicity is the key to massive scale and the UDN Boost program is helping to address the fact that manufacturers of moderately priced smart TVs – and their hundreds of millions of cost-conscious end users – lack a cutting-edge onboard streaming solution. This evolution was highlighted recently in an announcement with QYOU Media, a leading curator of premium 'best-of-web' video for multiscreen delivery. Now Ericsson's UDN will feature the QYOU app on smart TVs and set-top boxes, complete with localized content for connected devices in new markets.
Ericsson's Boost program with UDN leverages the simplicity of onboard OTT to make living room streaming the main event in hundreds of millions of households. As part of this, Ericsson UDN will now offer BroadwayHD, a theater streaming service that gives viewers access to full-length Broadway musicals.
For more information on Ericsson UDN, please visit our UDN website.


TOUGH love. It's a concept many have heard of and often find hard to implement. However, that was the message presented by Peter Lyndon-James, a former meth addict and dealer, who now runs the country's strictest and successful rehabilitation centre, during a free workshop in Leeton recently. Mr Lyndon-James spoke bluntly about his background, saying he was dealing up to 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine every day and was in trouble with the law from the age of eight. From his experiences, he tells participants how he was able to get his life back on track and offered some vital advice when it came to dealing with family members, particularly young people, who are addicted to drugs. "Basically, you've got to cut the cord and let them go," Mr Lyndon-James said. "If you're judging them and criticising your child or family member, it's only going to make them go further down the rebellion path. "It's hard, but they need to hit that rock bottom and decide for themselves that they need help. "I know, I've been there. Criticising and telling them what to do doesn't help anyone. "Parents need to stop enabling their children. I see it all of the time. It's not helping." Mr Lyndon-James' seminar at the Roxy Theatre was well attended by all facets of the community, as well as by councillors and mayor Paul Maytom. It was made possible thanks to the staff from the Leeton Community Op Shop, who deal with addiction, drugs and the associated consequences every day through their work with residents. Mr Lyndon-James said his aim was to equip parents, family members and the community with the knowledge of how they should be acting around someone they know who may have a drug addiction. His "tough love" approach may be difficult at first, but he said it was a necessary pain. "Have a burger with them, have a coffee, talk to them, but walk away," Mr Lyndon-James said. "The more you push them, the more they will turn to the drugs. They feel like they aren't good enough. RELATED "You might walk away sad, but we need them to come to the realisation they have a problem. That's when they come to us." He said his main message was "not to enable" a drug addict. "That's the main thing I want to get across," Mr Lyndon-James said. "I think the message was very well received in Leeton. "The feedback we've received has been fantastic." For more information about his work visit www.peterlyndonjames.com.au. **** While you're with us, you can now receive updates straight to your inbox every Friday at 6am from The Irrigator. To make sure you're up to date with all news in Leeton sign up here.
INSIGHT: Peter Lyndon-James shared his unique insight into dealing with addiction.
It's a concept many have heard of and often find hard to implement.
However, that was the message presented by Peter Lyndon-James, a former meth addict and dealer, who now runs the country's strictest and successful rehabilitation centre, during a free workshop in Leeton recently.
Mr Lyndon-James spoke bluntly about his background, saying he was dealing up to 2.5 kilograms of methamphetamine every day and was in trouble with the law from the age of eight.
From his experiences, he tells participants how he was able to get his life back on track and offered some vital advice when it came to dealing with family members, particularly young people, who are addicted to drugs.
"Basically, you've got to cut the cord and let them go," Mr Lyndon-James said.
"If you're judging them and criticising your child or family member, it's only going to make them go further down the rebellion path.
"It's hard, but they need to hit that rock bottom and decide for themselves that they need help.
"I know, I've been there. Criticising and telling them what to do doesn't help anyone.
"Parents need to stop enabling their children. I see it all of the time. It's not helping."
Mr Lyndon-James' seminar at the Roxy Theatre was well attended by all facets of the community, as well as by councillors and mayor Paul Maytom.
It was made possible thanks to the staff from the Leeton Community Op Shop, who deal with addiction, drugs and the associated consequences every day through their work with residents.
Mr Lyndon-James said his aim was to equip parents, family members and the community with the knowledge of how they should be acting around someone they know who may have a drug addiction.
His "tough love" approach may be difficult at first, but he said it was a necessary pain.
"Have a burger with them, have a coffee, talk to them, but walk away," Mr Lyndon-James said.
"The more you push them, the more they will turn to the drugs. They feel like they aren't good enough.
"You might walk away sad, but we need them to come to the realisation they have a problem. That's when they come to us."
He said his main message was "not to enable" a drug addict.
"That's the main thing I want to get across," Mr Lyndon-James said.
"I think the message was very well received in Leeton.
"The feedback we've received has been fantastic."
For more information about his work visit www.peterlyndonjames.com.au.
Discuss "'Cut the cord' in tough love approach to addiction"


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Today's NFL News
Sergio Brown responds to Rob Gronkowski hit on Twitter
His tweets didn't stay up for long, however.
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Indianapolis Colts safety Sergio Brown found himself on the receiving end of a nasty, illegal block by Rob Gronkowski Sunday night. The New England Patriots tight end carted Brown off the field of play while blocking on a Jonas Gray touchdown run, driving the safety into several cameramen and earning a flag in the process. Unhappy with the play, Brown fired back on his Twitter account Monday.
In his since-deleted tweets, Brown called out Gronk for managing only one catch against him in Week 11. He further harped on the NFL and NFL Players Association for "glorifying" the penalized block on Instagram.
Though Brown's remarks can no longer be found on Twitter, several users screen captured his tweets before he took them down.
As noted by CSN New England, Brown and Gronkowski share a history. They were teammates on the Patriots in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, Brown broke Gronkowski's arm while the tight end was blocking on an extra point play. As for Sunday, Gronk claims that Brown was "yapping" the entire game, enticing him to take a cheap shot when the opportunity presented itself.
Though he only caught one pass when matched up with Brown, Gronkowski still had a productive night against the Colts secondary. He had four receptions for a team-high 71 yards and a touchdown in New England's 42-20 win.
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Oakley Cabin
Kingsley Schoolhouse
Josiah Henson Park
Agricultural History Farm Park
Woodlawn Manor Cultural Park - Woodlawn Museum
Travel back in time to learn how your family, friends, and neighbors may have lived. Imagine your surprise when you discover you haven't traveled far from your backyard to your local park.
Volunteer for Historic Sites
Josiah Henson Museum & Park
Archaeology Program
Explore the Historic Sites
We own several historic sites open to the public, some with limited access, and some in partnership with non-profit groups.
See the past, present, and future of Montgomery County farming at the Agricultural History Farm Park. This scenic 455 acre park features rolling hills, open fields, an apple orchard, and a variety of farm animals. Get a unique perspective on the county's rich farming heritage while visiting barns, historic buildings, a modern farming activity center, and other facilities at the park.
Acorn Farm Park
According to local history, this spring was given its name in 1840 by a newspaper publisher and friend of President Andrew Jackson, Francis Preston Blair, after he discovered the spring bubbling up through shiny mica sand.
Battery Bailey
This man-made hill was constructed during the Civil War to support cannons aimed at protecting the reservoir of water for Washington, D.C
Blockhouse Point Civil War Experience
The park encompasses historic Civil War ruins of national significance, mature upland forests and views of the Potomac Valley not equaled elsewhere in Montgomery County.
Bussard Farmstead
This 1908 farm of the Bussard family includes a large bank barn, water tank house and other outbuildings.
The Josiah Henson Park is a historic resource of local, state, national and international significance because of its association with Reverend Josiah Henson, whose 1849 autobiography inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's landmark novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Built in 1893 in an area known locally as "Froggy Hollow", the Kingsley school house served the community until it closed in 1935, when the great depression forced families to leave the area to look for work. Of the late 19th century one room school houses still existing in Montgomery County, the Kingsley Schoolhouse is one of the few that is open to the public as museum.
Little Bennett Regional Park Historic Sites
As early as the 18th century, the Little Bennett Valley was the scene of farms and small scale industries capitalizing on the region's abundant resources of timber, water, vegetation and vast acreage for farming.
Oakley Cabin African American Museum & Park
Built as one of three cabins, the cabin was the center of an African American roadside community from emancipation well into the 20th century.
Paint Branch Stream Valley Trail
The trail features views of Paint Branch stream and passes the historic Valley Mill and the former site of Snowden Mill. These mills are among the oldest in the County, dating back to the 18th century.
Seneca Store
The Seneca Store, formerly known as Poole's Store, is at the heart of a small farming center established in 1732.
Underground Railroad Experience Trail
The Underground Railroad Experience Trail hikes commemorate the involvement of Montgomery County residents in the Underground Railroad and celebrates the Quaker heritage and traditions of Sandy Spring.
Water House Special Park
The Waters House is the oldest house in Germantown. Located on Pleasant Fields, the estate includes a 1790s dwelling and barn that represent farm life in the mid-1800s.
Woodlawn Museum
Visit the Woodlawn Museum's stone barn exhibits where echoes of the past tell the story of a bustling farm, its community, and those who made a bold bid for freedom on the Underground Railroad. Learn about Woodlawn's earliest residents and their neighbors.
Group Tours & Field Trips
For students and adults alike. All hikes/tours are presented by specially trained docents who will make history come alive for your group.
Montgomery Park's Archaeology Program identifies, manages, and interprets archaeological sites on parkland and provides opportunities to consider the effects of land use decisions on cultural resources.
Cemetery Program
Montgomery Park's Cemetery Program stewards 14 cemeteries on M-NCPPC managed land – all are open to the public, are sites of ongoing research, interpretation, and maintenance, and speak to our county's history since the 18th century, and perhaps even further.
Josiah Henson Biography
Sharp Flashes of Lightning Come from Black Clouds: The Life of Josiah Henson
by Jamie Ferguson Kuhns
An in-depth biography, Sharp Flashes of Lightning Come from Black Clouds: The Life of Josiah Henson, details the life of Reverend Josiah Henson based on Henson's autobiography and primary source documents. Written by Montgomery Parks' Senior Historian, Jamie Ferguson Kuhns.
Historic Projects
Montgomery Parks' historians and archaeologists are dedicated to preserving and interpreting historical resources for current and future generations.
History in the Parks Volunteer Opportunities
Interested in volunteering for one of our History in the Parks events? Whether it be for an archaeology project or an opportunity to dress in period clothing, Montgomery Parks has plenty of opportunities!


Blast from the past. YouTube came up with Patty Smyth as music videos I might want to watch yesterday. Her self-titled album "Patty Smyth" came out my freshman year in university, and it was, and continues to be, one of my most favourite albums ever. I played her album again today for the first time in a while. Who else remembers her? If you don't, here's the video for the biggest hit off that album, "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" with Eagles front man Don Henley.


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The memory aid with the key to unlocking your recall potential
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Get across your studies with these memory aids: acronyms and acrostics
Maybe you dream of working in Paris but the only French you know is oui and merci beaucoup. Perhaps you've just started a new job, and you can't seem to wrap your head around the technical jargon. Or, you might find yourself meeting your partner's mum for the first time, and are desperate to make a face-name association so you don't mistakenly ask 'Becky' to pass the salt after she introduces herself as Bethany…
Luckily (and amazingly) there's one memory aid that can solve any of these problems: the keyword method.
Dr Stefanie Sharman, Senior Lecturer for the School of Psychology at Deakin University explains how you can use this versatile memory device.
What is the keyword method?
The keyword method is a technique that utilises creative visualisations to improve memory retrieval. There is an extensive body of research to show this device's effectiveness in recalling definitions of vocabulary. The keyword method can also come in handy for those learning a new language, Dr Sharman explains:
'Say you needed to remember that the Spanish word carta means letter in English. First, you would find an English word that sounds similar to the Spanish word, such as cart. Cart is the keyword.
'Second, you link the keyword with the English meaning of the Spanish word (letter), such as visualising a giant letter being towed around in a wooden cart. Therefore, you see or hear the word carta, you should think of cart, which should in turn help you retrieve the word "letter."'
The keyword method can also be utilised for memorising key facts. This could be medical or scientific terminology, important historical figures, or the names of places and locations.
'To remember Canberra is the capital of Australia, for example,' Dr Sharman says, 'you could visualise a can on top of the outline of Australia. The "can" is the keyword here.'
The most effective way to put this memory aid into practice is to create your own visualisations – and the more unusual, the better.
'To remember Canberra is the capital of Australia, for example, you could visualise a can on top of the outline of Australia. The "can" is the keyword here.'
Dr Stefanie Sharman,
School of Psychology, Deakin University
Benefits of this memory aid
The keyword method can be applied to most scenarios, so its versatility and effectiveness make it a great option for memorisation – and it's a lot more entertaining than rote learning. 'The main benefit is that is that it can help you remember the meanings of words,' Dr Sharman says. Another advantage this method has over some other memorisation strategies is that you can learn things faster. So, for that last minute cram session, the keyword mnemonic can be a really useful tactic.
It sounds too good to be true… because it kind of is
Unfortunately, this mnemonic does come with its downfalls. Although the keyword method is useful in remembering what certain words mean, Dr Sharman explains it doesn't help you to recall the word itself.
'For example, if asked, "What is the Canberra the capital of?" it is easy to think of can and its association with the outline of Australia. However, if asked, "What is the capital of Australia?" it is more difficult to retrieve the answer of Canberra,' she says.
As well as this, some words are difficult to make associations with. 'Carta is easy because there is a similar sounding English word (cart). However, for other words, such as the Spanish word of pequenos (little ones) is not so easy to associate with a similar sounding English word,' Dr Sharman concludes.
Want to utilise other effective memory aids in your studies? Learn what they are and how they work so you never forget anything again.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, Deakin University
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Q: compute median every 12 values ex_array = [-8.23294593e-02, -4.07239507e-02,  6.08131029e-02,  2.72433402e-02,
   -4.73587631e-02,  5.15452252e-02,  1.32902476e-01,  1.22322232e-01,
    2.71845990e-02, -1.16927038e-01, -2.62239877e-01, -1.46526396e-01,
   -1.82859136e-01, -1.02089602e-01, -1.91863501e-04, -5.42572200e-02,
   -1.41798506e-01,  2.32538185e-02,  1.44525705e-01,  1.33945461e-01,
    5.01618120e-02, -1.32664337e-01, -2.97395262e-01, -1.02531532e-01,
   -7.80204566e-02, -5.46991495e-02,  1.05868862e-01,  7.25526818e-03,
    5.04192997e-02,  7.41281286e-02,  1.75069159e-01,  1.64488914e-01,
    7.55396024e-02, -6.23800645e-02, -1.76950023e-01, -5.91491004e-02,
   -4.00535768e-02,  6.59473071e-04,  5.98125666e-02, -1.49608356e-02,
   -1.45519585e-02,  1.49876707e-01,  1.92880709e-01,  2.33158881e-01,
    7.59751625e-02, -2.46659059e-02, -1.40025102e-01, -3.02416639e-02]

I need to compute the median for every 12 values. Each value represents a month (from January to December), so I would like to obtain the median for each month of the year. Like this:

Approaches:

*

*I could convert the array to a dataframe, and add a new column representing each month. Later, grouping by month and computing the median. But I feel it has to be an easier solution.

*Another solution I thought to convert to a dataframe and slice every 12 values, each time starting from a different value. It works but I'm having problems obtaining a workable array. Adding example for the first three months:
'''
sol_array = []

sol_array.append(pd.DataFrame(ex_array).iloc[0::12].median().to_string())
sol_array.append(pd.DataFrame(ex_array).iloc[1::12].median().to_string())
sol_array.append(pd.DataFrame(ex_array).iloc[2::12].median().to_string())

But this is the outcome. The 0 and the apostrophes shouldn't be there.
['0   -0.075844',
 '0   -0.089111',
 '0    0.042705',
 '0    0.002147',
 '0   -0.010528',
 '0    0.109443',
 '0    0.198334',
 '0    0.20983',
 '0    0.075139',
 '0   -0.062405']

So, do you know another way to obtain the same outcome. I only have 120  values, so it is still viable to arrange the groups manually (only 10 groups) but I feel it's not an ideal solution.
Or, do you know how to correct the above method I and obtain a workable array?

A: Let us use numpy operations:
np.median(np.reshape(ex_array, (12, -1), 'F'), axis=1)

array([-0.08017496, -0.04771155,  0.06031283, -0.00385278, -0.03095536,
        0.06283668,  0.15979743,  0.14921719,  0.06285071, -0.08965355,
       -0.21959495, -0.08084032])

A: A couple of other alternatives:
list(pd.DataFrame(ex_array).groupby(lambda i:i%12).median()[0])

or
import statistics
[statistics.median(ex_array[i] for i in range(j, len(ex_array), 12)) for j in range(12)]

In both cases the output (for the data in your question) is
[
 -0.08017495795, -0.0477115501, 0.06031283475, -0.00385278371,
 -0.030955360799999998, 0.0628366769, 0.15979743200000002, 0.14921718750000001,
 0.0628507072, -0.08965355124999999, -0.21959495, -0.0808403162
]

Out of interest I timed the three alternatives (including @Shubham answer) using code like this (adapted for each version):
import timeit
timeit.timeit(setup='''
import statistics
ex_array = [-8.23294593e-02, -4.07239507e-02,  6.08131029e-02,  2.72433402e-02,
   -4.73587631e-02,  5.15452252e-02,  1.32902476e-01,  1.22322232e-01,
    2.71845990e-02, -1.16927038e-01, -2.62239877e-01, -1.46526396e-01,
   -1.82859136e-01, -1.02089602e-01, -1.91863501e-04, -5.42572200e-02,
   -1.41798506e-01,  2.32538185e-02,  1.44525705e-01,  1.33945461e-01,
    5.01618120e-02, -1.32664337e-01, -2.97395262e-01, -1.02531532e-01,
   -7.80204566e-02, -5.46991495e-02,  1.05868862e-01,  7.25526818e-03,
    5.04192997e-02,  7.41281286e-02,  1.75069159e-01,  1.64488914e-01,
    7.55396024e-02, -6.23800645e-02, -1.76950023e-01, -5.91491004e-02,
   -4.00535768e-02,  6.59473071e-04,  5.98125666e-02, -1.49608356e-02,
   -1.45519585e-02,  1.49876707e-01,  1.92880709e-01,  2.33158881e-01,
    7.59751625e-02, -2.46659059e-02, -1.40025102e-01, -3.02416639e-02]
''',
stmt='''
[statistics.median(ex_array[i] for i in range(j, len(ex_array), 12)) for j in range(12)]
''',
number=10000
)

Not unsurprisingly for the data in the question the numpy solution at 0.39sec was more than 10x faster than the pandas solution (5.45sec). However the statistics solution was >4x faster than numpy at 0.09sec. As the array gets bigger, this advantage is lost, however the break-even point is around 5,000 entries.

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The exhibition Campo Cerrado takes its name from the homonymous novel by Max Aub and looks to examine Spanish art in the complex and controversial 1940s, a decade that has received little attention and one that exists in a critical and historiographical vacuum, despite its importance in structuring modern sensibility in Spain.
In 1938, at the height of the Civil War, Eugenio d'Ors, General Director of Fine Arts, selected works by Spanish artists linked to the art that preceded the conflict, including Zuloaga, representing Spain's fascist camp at the Venice Biennale. In 1951, the writer and critic Rafael Santos Torroella and architect José Antonio Coderch designed the Spanish Pavilion for the IX Milan Triennale, thus setting up a dialogue between popular craftsmanship and contemporary design which included both Lorca's poetry and the paintings of a young Guinovart. The comparison between the contents of Spain's representations at both international events, which could bee seen as symbolic boundaries in this exhibition, could also evoke a linear evolution ranging from the most academic conservatism, in line with the rigours of early fascism, to the opening out of modernity, in keeping with a political time that strived to put an end to the international isolation of the France regime. Nevertheless, the analysis of how much lies beneath, not only in both exhibitions but also in the intervening time between the two, reveals an infinitely more complex reality.
In order to reconstruct that period, the exhibition is divided into the following sections, which will combine wide-ranging views with case studies: 1939; image and propaganda; from the restoration of academic art to renewal: Eugenio d'Ors; the country and the city: aspects of daily life in autarchic Spain; exiles and expatriates; the return of Miró and the rescue of avant-garde movements in history; from the Escuela de Altamira and Dau al Set; architectural renovation; the abstraction-figuration debate and the official appropriation of the modern.
April 28 - May 27, 2016 - 7:00 p.m.


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Lothal meaning the "city of dead" is an archaeological site discovered in the mid 1950s. The city dating back circa 2500-1900 BC served as an outpost to various sites of Indus valley civilization the most important of which – Mohenjo daro (also meaning 'mound of dead in Sindhi) and Harrappa – are now located in current day Pakistan. A port town, the wealth and prosperity of which was based on the trade it facilitated with far off ports in West Asia as well as its bead making industry. Though a quite a bit far off from the sea today the Sabarmati River flowed through this city (before it shifted its course) connecting it to the Gulf of Khambat. In fact it is said that boats could sail into the dockyard at Lothal until as recently as 1850 AD.
The site also has a small museum which houses artifacts unearthed during the excavation which include bead ornaments, terracotta figures, wooden toys, crockery and coins. Skeletal remains were also discovered during the excavation leading to the conclusion that that after death people were buried. The museums also have write up about the metric systems used in those days and how close it is to the ones that we use today. There is also evidence that the sailors here were excellent navigators and were skilled in the use of compass almost 2 millennia before the Greeks reinvented it. Unfortunately it is not possible to capture these displays in the museum as photography is strictly prohibited within the premises.
The town planners divided into an Upper town or the Acropolis which was a residential area and the Lower town which houses the remains of a bead factory and a ware house. The Acropolis was built on a higher ground as compared to the lower town as Chief and his entourage would stay here and over see the happenings at the dock, and the Lower town.
The city is a very well organized city with a planned drainage system, public and private baths, houses and roads. This makes us believe that the civilization was one with great amount of order and discipline which an absolute must is considering what they were able to achieve in those days.
But all that, this port was washed away in a great flood somewhere around 1900 BC. It is possible that people returned to resettle and dreamed of rebuilding it to its former glory but that dream sadly never turned true.
Lothal can be done as a day trip from Ahmedabad which lies 80 kms to its North east. There are buses available from Ahemedabad or you can take an early morning train to Burkhi from Ahmedabad. From Burkhi you can catch a bus or a hire a tuktuk to get to Lothal.


The Christmas season is well and truly upon us and even here in the desert it's a little bit festive with trees and twinkly lights dotted about. Being a hot sunny muslim country and all, it's a lot more tricky to deliver a family Christmas experience but believe me it seems to be getting easier every year or is that I am more organised……nope it's definitely not that!
The tree is up, the poinsettia in place, school has finished, one son made an early appearance (as a big surprise) and the other one arrived yesterday so all the pieces of the family jigsaw are in place. Beer and wine have been purchased, Christmas cake, pud, mince pies, crackers and the obligatory tin of Quality Street are stashed in the cupboard. However present shopping is not quite finished and those gifts that have been purchased are not all wrapped but hey-ho I am getting there, albeit a bit slowly this year.
Camel bauble to celebrate another UAE festive season.
Obviously all the UAE Christmas cheer is directed at the western expats as the locals and non-christians do not celebrate the annual festivities. It seems that the shops and hotels have fully embraced the Christmas spirit and seen the vast income potential that it generates. Our first Christmas here was six years ago (yikes time really is motoring on) before we all lived here permanently and we had a new voluminous villa in the middle of nowhere without furniture, an orange metal kitchen (seeing was believing) only a few beds and a large TV (obviously).
First UAE Christmas in an empty villa with our very sad sparse artificial tree and its tacky blue decorations.
Now I am a real Christmas tree kind of girl, you know the one with the festive piney smell that constantly drops needles on the floor and looks a little worst for wear by the 25th of December. But you have to adapt when you are new to a country so I purchased a 6ft Carrefour artificial spruce that required home assembly branch by branch and the only decorations that were still available were blue and hideous! So that first Christmas was blue and tacky, but credit where credits due that tree is still going strong, it's a bit lopsided now and doesn't fit back fully in its box but at least the decorations have improved over the last few years.
I have to force myself into the Christmas frame of mind as it's not so accessible and the other half is quite bah humbug! The teenager and I have made our annual trip to the Swiss Christmas Market (some resistance here and an eye raise or two but I held my ground) held at the Beach Rotana Hotel. A camel bauble was added to my collection and a wooden Finnish reindeer decoration and with free Lindt choccy treats being given out it was a worthwhile trip after all. We all went with friends to the Yas Marina Tree lighting event with a band playing carols, Father Christmas, elves and candy canes (all slightly understated if I am honest but the idea was good). There have been so many more Christmas market and craft events this year, the malls have some stunning display trees and decorations and I think every hotel has had its own tree lighting ceremony. I even spotted Santa wandering through the Emirates Palace the other night.
Luckily good old Ikea had lots of goodies as does Marks and Spencer's (they did run out of mince pies though) and Waitrose so it's not all doom and gloom. Present shopping is a bit trickier for specific requests as I have not had a trip to the UK in December this year instead I have had to rely on the internet and my sons to assist me. So this year there was no rummaging in the Cath Kidston Christmas goodies section, no visit to see Selfridges and Harrods to see the Christmas windows, no Panto and no fight in the London Christmas shopping crowds (probably don't actually miss that bit) so I have had to dig much deeper to find my Christmas spirit.
This year we are staying at home for Christmas Day (first time for nine years) and the other half is in charge of preparation and cooking which equates to roasting a tray of veggies as we have ordered a turkey-to-go. The roasted bird and its trimmings, cooked at the Marco Pierre White restaurant at the Fairmont Hotel will be collected by the other half Christmas morning (fab idea that most establishments here have now embraced). We have previously experienced the Shangri-La and Fairmont Christmas Day brunches which although fantastic and great fun are super busy and no one is actually at the table at the same time.
We had a Christmas get together at home last week, a festive BBQ (Christmas and BBQ in the same sentence seems strange) before everyone flew off the their respective family events around the world. A lovely friend made me a fantastic gingerbread house and a tray of homemade chocolate brownies, a lovely thoughtful idea and it's always great to receive handmade gifts.
We have watched the reruns of the cheesy 'Miranda' and 'Gavin and Stacey' Christmas specials so I am getting into the mood just need to watch Elf. Today it's off to the mall again, list in hand to try to cross off some more items, on the upside at least its easy to park and won't be crowded. I love a list and the satisfaction of crossing it all off even though it's more of a delete off the iPhone rather than a cross off with pen and paper these days. I have located the stockings ready for the annual photo, much to the kids disgust (yes they are 22, 20 and 15) but it's a tradition (we have only missed all three of them together once when the eldest was on his gap year) but we are past putting out the mince-pie and beer for Santa and carrot for Rudolph, which is quite sad really.
I have decided not to send Christmas cards to the UK this year but instead make a donation to the Hospice in Devon that cared for my mother before she died, a very worthy cause indeed. So it's Merry Christmas one and all from me and mine to you and yours and thank you to everyone following and reading the blog.
have Christmas pudding, ecclefecchan pies, sprouts of course, neeps husband is Scottish, parsnips and spuds to roast….
whoops no crackers hmmm anyone seen crackers?


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Los V Juegos Parapanamericanos se llevaron a cabo desde el 7 al 15 de agosto de 2015 en la ciudad de Toronto, Canadá.

Proceso de elección
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Toronto ganó el proceso de elección el 6 de noviembre de 2009 en Guadalajara, México. El resultado fue anunciado por el entonces presidente de la ODEPA, Mario Vázquez Raña en la cual se señaló que la ciudad canadiense obtuvo un total de 33 votos  contra 11 votos que recibió Lima, Perú y 7 de Bogotá, Colombia.

Naciones Participantes
28 naciones participaron en el evento.

Mascota

La mascota de los Juegos Panamericanos y Parapanamericanos de 2015 es un puerco espín llamado Pachi.

Los creadores de Pachi participaron en el concurso como un proyecto escolar en la escuela pública Buttoville en Markham, Ontario. Sus creadoras Jenny Lee, Fiona Hong, Michelle Ing y Paige Kunihiro estudiantes de 8° grado fueron supervisadas por la profesora Mari Ellery.

Cuenta con 41 espinas, las cuales representan a los países participantes, las cuales tienen los colores de los Juegos: azul, verde, rosa, morado y anaranjado.

Entre los datos básicos, según sus creadoras, es un puercoespín que tiene una discapacidad visual y dificultad para observar objetos que se encuentran lejos de él. Entre sus pasatiempos se encuentran trepar árboles, nadar, bailar y conocer a nuevos amigos de todas las naciones, así como tener nuevas y divertidas aventuras.Su historia comenzó en la escarpa de Niagara, un área forestal que se encuentra ubicada al oeste de Toronto.

Su comida favorita son las frutas, hojas y cortezas. Su color favorito es el verde, color de los Juegos Panamericanos de 2015.

Deportes
En los Juegos Parapanamericanos de 2015 se disputaron 15 deportes paralímpicos:

  Atletismo
  Baloncesto en silla de ruedas
  Boccia
  Ciclismo
 Ciclismo de pista
 Ciclismo de ruta
  Fútbol 5
  Fútbol 7
  Golbol
  Judo
   Levantamiento de potencia
  Natación
  Rugby en silla de ruedas
  Tenis de mesa
  Tenis en silla de ruedas
  Tiro con arco
  Voleibol sentado

Medallas
Las medallas de los Juegos Panamericanos y Parapanamericanos de 2015 fueron producidas por la Real Casa de Moneda de Canadá con metales provistos por Barrick Gold Corporation.

El diseño fue creado por la marca de TO2015, la Real Casa de Moneda de Canadá y Christi Belcourt artista visual de origen metis reconocida por sus dotes artísticos en diversas exposiciones.
En su diseño, las medallas cuentan con tres formas superpuestas al frente, las cuales representan las zonas del continente (Norteamérica, América Central, Sudamérica y el Caribe) que son unidas por los Juegos.

Sus formas simples y curvas se inspiran en el logo de los Juegos y tienen un relieve que hace referencia al podio. Al frente también se observa el diseño de los deportes del lema We play together (Unidos jugamos). El diseño de las medallas incorpora una técnica llamada mokume gane la cual une las diferentes aleaciones de metales que se utilizan, creando al mismo tiempo los dibujos artísticos. Ilustra el agua, vital para la vida, para los atletas, el agua que fluye por las naciones que compiten, en forma de ríos, lagos u océanos.

Al reverso, se reconoce a la Organización Deportiva Panamericana (ODEPA) y al Comité Paralímpico de las Américas (CPA) en inglés, español y francés, los cuales son los idiomas oficiales de los Juegos.

Por primera vez en la historia, se utilizó el sistema braille, con el fin de reconocer a la organización de los Juegos como incluyente y accesible. El Instituto Canadiense para Ciegos (CNIB)  fue el encargado de proporcionar los lineamientos necesarios.

Medallero

Medallas por deporte

Atletismo

Baloncesto en silla de ruedas

Boccia

Ciclismo de pista

Ciclismo de ruta

Fútbol a 5

Fútbol a 7

Golbol

Judo

Levantamiento de pesas

Natación

Rugby en silla de ruedas

Tenis de mesa

Tenis en silla de ruedas

Tiro con arco

Voleibol sentado

Multimedallistas

 Lista completaː Multimedallistas

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Juegos Parapanamericanos Toronto 2015

2015
Eventos multideportivos en 2015
Deporte en Canadá en 2015

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The EGM originally called by the Board of Rowing Ireland for Saturday 19th October has been rescheduled for 1.00pm on Saturday 14th December at the Red Cow Hotel, Dublin.
1 To change the name of the company as reflected in the Memorandum and Articles of Association and Rowing Ireland Rules from the "Irish Amateur Rowing Union" to "Rowing Ireland".
2 To change the maximum points per boat allowed in the Intermediate Championships to reflect the maximum points allowed for Intermediate boats in all other domestic competition as per Rule 2.22.
3 To replace the existing in Part 5 (Rules for Para Rowing) of the Rules of Rowing with a new Part 5 reflective of the current rules applying to Para Rowing and of the change of Para Categories to TA/AS on a timed basis as agreed at the 2013 AGM.
A detailed agenda and explanation of the rule changes has been sent to all Club secretaries.
Clubs intending to attend the meeting should ensure that their voting representative is nominated as their Rowing Ireland member on the relevant form which has been sent to each Club secretary. Clubs who have already nominated their member do not need to do so again unless their representative at the meeting will be different from their original nomination.


On behalf of Scott Brown of Scott C. Brown Law Office posted in DUI on Monday, September 4, 2017.
Whether you are driving away from the stadium, having consumed one too many beers, or on your way home from a party or wedding reception, having enjoyed a little too much wine, law enforcement might stop you for OVI. In the state of Ohio, if police charge you with operating a vehicle while impaired, you face both mandatory and optional penalties.
On behalf of Scott Brown of Scott C. Brown Law Office posted in DUI on Thursday, August 17, 2017.
On behalf of Scott Brown of Scott C. Brown Law Office posted in DUI on Monday, May 1, 2017.
If you are pulled over by a law enforcement officer, and your blood alcohol levels are above the legal limit or you are unable to pass a sobriety or breath test, you will almost always be arrested immediately. This is an important time because how you handle the arrest will affect your criminal record. Your record has an important impact on many aspects of your life, including your chances of employment and your ability to borrow money for college.


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We frequently use baking soda as an beauty product, in the kitchen, when cleaning your house etc.
However, ladies enjoy it as an beauty mean.
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Put one teaspoon of baking soda on a little plate and include a drop of water in it.
Mix the ingredients well. Remember that including too much water will turn the resulting mixture into a liquid and you will not have the ability to exfoliate the skin.
Put a few of the mixture on your fingers and gently massage your scars and acne with it. Let the mixture to act upon the skin for numerous minutes. The mix ought to become hard as the water gradually evaporates.
Tip: You are allowed to repeat the process each night prior to going to sleep.
One of the most reliable face masks contains baking soda. For that reason by applying the following recipe you will have the ability to get rid of dark circles around your eyes. The most delicate face skin lies in the under-eye area and it is most difficult to work with. In order to save your skin you need to replace the chemical-laden facial soaps you use with homemade cleanser made of baking soda.
Include one teaspoon of baking soda in a glass of tea or warm water.
Mix the active ingredients well. Dip 2 cotton balls in the mixture and position them on the skin under the eyes. Let the mixture act for 15 minutes.
Get rid of the cotton balls and wash your face later on. Use the moisturizing cream you usually use and see the results for yourself!


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"THE MORALITY OF CONSENT. By Alexander M. Bickel. New Haven and London:" by Albert Broderick O.P.
THE MORALITY OF CONSENT. By Alexander M. Bickel. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1975. Pp. vii, 156.
Albert Broderick O.P., THE MORALITY OF CONSENT. By Alexander M. Bickel. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 1975. Pp. vii, 156., 25 Cath. U. L. Rev. 463 (1976).


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Михаи́л Никола́евич Пути́нцев (31 мая 1958, Барнаул, Алтайский край, СССР) — советский футболист, мастер спорта СССР, российский тренер.

Карьера

Клубная
В команде «Динамо» (Барнаул) играл с 1976 по 1988 год, участвовал в международных матчах со сборными командами КНДР, Эфиопии и Непала. В 1987 году Путинцев получил звание мастера спорта, является чемпионом зональных соревнований второй лиги 1980—1981 годов, третьим призёром первенства РСФСР 1981 года, а также зональных соревнований второй лиги 1976 и 1986 годов.

Тренерская
С 1995 по 1997 год Михаил Путинцев тренировал команду «Виктория» (город Назарово Красноярского края). В 2005 году окончил высшую школу тренеров. С 2006 года работал в тренерском штабе барнаульского «Динамо». 29 января 2013 года был назначен главным тренером ФК «Динамо» (Барнаул). Вечером 18 июня 2013 года официально назначен на должность главного тренера ФК «Амур-2010». С 2011 года — соучредитель и генеральный директор ООО ФК «Темп» Барнаул.

Достижения
 Чемпион зональных соревнований второй лиги 1980, 1981
 Бронзовый призёр чемпионата СССР 1981 г.
 Бронзовый призёр зональных соревнований второй лиги 1976, 1986

Примечания

Футболисты СССР
Игроки ФК «Динамо» Барнаул
Футбольные тренеры России
Тренеры ФК «Динамо» Барнаул
Тренеры ФК «Амур-2010»
Мастера спорта СССР


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Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture – Philip Auslander, 1999
Auslander presents a cohesive, complex argument, with acknowledged debts to Jean Baudrillard and Walter Benjamin, regarding the notions of liveness/performance, meditization/recording, and authenticity/inauthenticity. He begins at the juncture of television and theater, demonstrating the way that television's rise led to theater's imitation of television tropes, even as television has often mimicked theater. The mass distribution of television (mediatization) renders the idea of an authentic original history, quite literally in the Benjaminian scheme. But Auslander goes on to make a case study of rock, blossoming forth out of rock and roll. Whereas rock and roll was defined by its liveness, rock is defined by mediatization, wherein the recording stands as the preeminent marker. Recordings can be mass-produced, unlike performances. (Although so-called "live recordings" are often made, the term is something of a non sequitur, Auslander points out. Throughout history, there was never such a thing as "live," since the very term only originated once there was a counterpoint to it: the recording. Now, "live recordings" only beg the question. They remain recordings of events that were live but, once recorded, lose their aura and cease to be live.) In rock, the recording is the index of authenticity, which, although mass produced, is the yardstick against which the trace of the aura is measured: live performances. However, lest we fall into thinking that live performances retain the aura, as Benjamin might have it, Auslander insists that live performances now regularly and repeatedly validate themselves by reference to the recording or to the music video. (Even the music video, however, is derivative. Despite seemingly adding to the experience of a sonic recording, it ultimately detracts from it and is likewise measured against the ultimate in authenticity: the sound recording.) A kind of infinite regress is active here, almost an antithesis (!) of Hegelian history: we can go back, back, back in time and see how every "original" was in fact a mediatized copy of a previous original, and on and on. Auslander deftly notes the way that MTV arguably (from a paranoid, Baudrillardian point of view) "created" the Milli Vanilli debacle in 1989 in which the pop duo was caught on stage (live) lip-synching their music (recording). Auslander first points out that this revelation didn't bother the younger generation, whose rejection of the rock ideology already understood inauthenticity when they saw it and had ceased to value liveness for itself. He also notes that, despite plenty of rumors before the incident that Milli Vanilli didn't sing their own music, the episode had legal and industrial ramifications about how bands advertise their concerts and how Grammy awards started to be distributed. The Grammys revoked Milli Vanilli's award and, within a couple years, gave its prime award to Eric Clapton's Unplugged album. Auslander shows how the era of Unplugged (in which many rock and pop acts participated) was MTV's own compensatory reaction (after having sponsored Milli Vanilli's 1988 tour!) to reestablish a dyad or dialectic that clearly separated the authentic from the inauthentic and restored the balance of capital. Although a side note, Auslander's observation that Bob Dylan's participation in the Unplugged movement functions as a rather ironic twist on his controversial plugging-in some twenty years earlier serves to strengthen his point. Finally, Auslander demonstrates that there exists in an unlikely arena a kind of haven for liveness, one in which the freedom of performance goes almost unregulated, that of the legal. A case study of the lawsuit against George Harrison illustrates how the transcription of a performance into a published document creates an Achilles' heel, legally speaking, a weak spot that would not exist had the live event remained strictly live. One can easily point out the main weakness to Auslander's study: its situatedness just before the boom of online and digital production within the cultural economy that has further complicated the relationship between liveness and mediatization. For example, Auslander argues that live performances in rock/pop music exist for the support of the audio recordings. Now that music "piracy" is such a ubiquitous phenomenon, it may be more likely that an album/record exists more to support the performer's tour. What are the ramifications of this argument on film/television/visual media? The issue of piracy dominates, but these media don't carry the element of liveness that music (at least theoretically) carries. Perhaps another solution exists, but the most visible are the on-screen warnings prefacing a film or (sometimes) TV show, discouraging the viewer from redistributing on moral and capitalistic bases.
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Older: Forms of Being – Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, 2004
Newer: Viewing Log: August 2013, Vol. I


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Tag Archives: mario
The draw of the familiar can be a funny thing; I don't often replay games, but sometimes, after enough time has passed, all it can take is a brief mention somewhere to bring back a wave of fond memories, and the desire to relive them. Over the last few weeks, I've been doing exactly that, replaying two games that, beyond my nostalgia for them, couldn't be more dissimilar: Alan Wake and Super Mario Sunshine.
With Alan Wake, all it took to get me playing again was a series of bargain sales of the PC version. My first time through was on the 360, with a borrowed copy, but it was always a game I wanted to revisit, both to play through the two DLC episodes, and to play it after having read Rob Zacny's fascinating analysis of the game's events.
I totally get people that don't like it; the gameplay, while neat in parts, gets a bit repetitive, and the story walks a fine line between cleverness and being entirely up its own ass (a games writer writing a game about a writer who writes about writing a book?). That story really works for me, though — it starts with a bang, and the episodic pacing keeps the story moving brilliantly, with little goals and revelations that gradually reveal the key details about the game's setting and events.
Super Mario Sunshine was always a strange Mario game, but that made it no less fun
In comparison, the story in Super Mario Sunshiney couldn't be more tedious, but once you get past the dreadful unskippable cut-scenes in its first few hours, it's a joy to play. The tropical-themed Sunshine wasn't what people expected after the groundbreaking Super Mario 64, and after being followed on the Wii by the incredibly inventive Super Mario Galaxy, I'd just about forgotten the great fun I had with it until reading Eurogamer's recent Sunshine retrospective.
That article made me realise what it was that made Sunshine so different — that it takes place in a world that's not designed precisely around Mario's capabilities. Instead, it challenges the player to use their skills and Mario's water-powered hover-pack to explore a more organic world. That's never more apparent than in Delfino Plaza, the game's hub world, which you can easily spend hours exploring in search of those elusive Shines.
Swimming with Dolphins
Oddly enough, I've been playing through Sunshine on PC, too, using Dolphin, an open-source, cross-platform GameCube and Wii emulator that improves upon the real hardware by rendering games at high resolutions. While rendering GameCube and Wii games at 1080p with anti-aliasing isn't enough to make them comparable to more modern consoles, it really does help, especially with the clean, stylised graphics featured in most of Nintendo's first-party titles.
At 1080p, and with the widescreen hack in effect, The Wind Waker could almost pass for a current-generation game
Sunshine at 1080p really does look quite nice, but it's nothing compared to The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker — I don't think Nintendo will have to change much with its HD remake of the game for Wii U, since with a couple of million extra pixels it already looks remarkably close to a current-generation game. The thing that ages it most is the lack of a widescreen mode, but Dolphin actually has a hack that adds widescreen support to many games, Wind Waker included.
The catch with Dolphin is that it requires a reasonably powerful PC. It doesn't need the latest video card — my 8800GT is perfectly fine — but it does need a decent CPU, and it's there that my Athlon II X2, overclocked to 3.58Ghz, is barely enough for many games. Wii games seem to suffer the most, perhaps unsurprisingly; Zelda: Skyward Sword is just a bit too slow to be playable on my PC, and from all reports, Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel don't run smoothly on anything less than the fastest PCs available.
With a real Wii Remote connected via Bluetooth, even MotionPlus-heavy games like Zelda: Skyward Sword are playable in Dolphin
For Sunshine, I've been using a 360 controller along with a $10 Xbox wireless receiver from DealExtreme, and the xboxdrv user-space Xbox controller driver; with its analog triggers and the very GameCube-esque controller layout in general, it's a great fit. For Wii games, Dolphin can emulate a Wiimote of sorts, but it's much easier to use a real Wiimote via Bluetooth.
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If you're like me, the experience of playing Super Mario Galaxy 2 can be summed up by the words you'll find yourself involuntarily muttering again and again:
"Haha, what? No way! That's awesome!"
Following up Super Mario Galaxy was always going to be a hard task; it turned 20 years of platforming tradition on its head — sometimes literally — with its mind-bending, gravity-defying spherical worlds. Rather than trying to reinvent the genre once again, Nintendo has simply taken the shell of the original game and stuffed it to bursting point with an incredible wealth of crazy, inventive, and unique ideas.
It's hard to understate just how imaginative this game is. Just about every time you enter one of the game's dozens of levels, it throws some new gameplay mechanic or concept at you, and as soon as you've mastered that, you're thrown off to the next level and the next crazy idea. Incredibly, with just a couple of exceptions — Spring Mario, which makes a (thankfully brief) return from the original, and some motion-controlled gliding levels — all of those ideas are not just brilliant, but brilliantly executed as well.
The result is, simply put, one of the finest, most enjoyable games I've ever played. If you've ever been a fan of platformers, you need to play this game.
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new mario, new music
There's an overwhelming number of new games coming out right now, but despite the pressures to buy Modern Warfare 2 or Borderlands, I caved in to my inner Nintendo fanboy and picked up New Super Mario Bros. Wii. Well, I'll admit, Toys 'R' Us selling it for $70 helped. Either way, it's time to talk Mario!
NSMBW, much like NSMB on the DS, is a straight-up 2D Mario game, with all the usual trimmings and a smattering of new stuff thrown in. After getting it home I quickly played through the first world-and-a-half, and while it was fun, it was tough, and actually frustrating in a way I hadn't seen in a Mario game before. A lot of that frustration came from the D-pad on the Wiimote, which seemingly isn't ideal for pushing diagonally.
Fortunately, NSMBW adds one significant spin to the Mario formula that elevates it far above its minor problems — four player co-op gameplay. Like MediaMolecule's LittleBigPlanet, Mario's latest lets four of you run across the map simultaneously, but the character interactions you can perform in the Mario universe multiply the hilarity and confusion of LittleBigPlanet ten-fold. It also avoids some of LittleBigPlanet's issues by giving players a variety of options for getting through the tricky bits.
This game should come with a warning, though — do not play it with casual acquaintances, or people who might get on your nerves. With the thousands of ways you can end up killing, or just generally griefing, each other mid-game, you might never speak to them again.
In other news, I've been working on a new track; in fact, I think it's nearly finished. Everything's recorded, but the drums need more work to add a bit more variety. Once it's finished I'll be sure to post it!
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About the Photo: My nieces got politically incorrect and put this still life statement together with some friends. The police called… the paper and it was on the front of the San Diego Union. Way to go girls!
I'm back in Fresno, getting ready for family reunion over New Years. I'm going to tour two of our recently finished homes, including our Department of Energy test house located at 440 Homsy. From there I'll meet with Jennifer to evaluate the San Madelle property. I'll have new photos and comments about both houses on the Tuesday Webinar.
Also we'll share our exit strategy thoughts and compare several options.
PS: Next Wednesday, Jan 5th, 2012 I'll be leading a Field Trip which will include one of these houses, another completed home and the "next suspect" for purchase. We'll also unveil our first new initiative for 2012… a practical home performance data gathering project based on real people installing real Home Performance in their homes and reporting real results thru the e-Monitor. You'll see an e-Monitor installation and the computerized reporting interface.
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Glenn Seaborg's Interview
[We would like to thank Robert S. Norris, author of the definitive biography of General Leslie R. Groves, Racing for the Bomb: General Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan Project's Indispensable Man, for taking the time to read over these transcripts for mispellings and other errors.]
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Glenn Seaborg
Glenn Seaborg (1912-1999) was an American nuclear chemist and winner of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
During World War II, much of Seaborg's research was directed toward understanding the chemistry of plutonium. In February 1941, Seaborg and his colleagues produced plutonium-239 through the bombardment of uranium. This experimental achievement proved to be a major contribution in physicists understanding of atomic fission.
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General Leslie Groves's Interview - Part 4
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Jimmy Vale's Interview
Stephane Groueff: This is Jimmy Vale, the cyclotron of Berkeley, about Dr. Lawrence.
Jimmy Vale: I told these stories to Mr. Herbert Childs, who is writing a biography of Lawrence.
Groueff: Oh, yeah. I have heard about it, but my book will just have a paragraph on Lawrence.
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Wallace Reynolds's, Duane Sewell's, and Elmer Kelly's Interview
Groueff: It is February 8, [1965] at Berkeley, California. We have Dr. Reynolds.
Wallace B. Reynolds: It is Mr. Reynolds.
Groueff: It is Mr. Reynolds.
Duane C. Sewell: Mr. Sewell.
Groueff: Sewell.
Elmer Kelly: Elmer Kelly.
Groueff: There is Mr. Kelly.
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In this rare interview, J. Robert Oppenheimer talks about the organization of the Manhattan Project and some of the scientists that he helped to recruit during the earliest days of the project. Oppenheimer discusses some of the biggest challenges that scientists faced during the project, including developing a sound method for implosion and purifying plutonium. Oppie recalls his daily routine at Los Alamos, including taking his son to nursery school.
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Philip Abelson's Interview (1966)
Philip Abelson: I went to the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in the fall of 1935 as a graduate student in the Radiation Laboratory. I had had some background in chemistry. I hadn't been there more than about six months before [Ernest] Lawrence, one day, suggested to me that I should look into the phenomena accompanying neutron irradiation of uranium.
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Nin'wlou Ariel Ménélik  de son vrai nom Lao Lionel Alex est un écrivain, poète-slameur ivoirien né le 13 novembre 1991 à Abidjan-Yopougon (Côte d'Ivoire).

Il est le président de l'École des Poètes de Côte d'Ivoire.

Biographie
Lao Lionel Alex  alias Nin'wlou Ariel Ménélik a fait ses études primaires et secondaires à Abidjan et ses études universitaires à l'université d'Abidjan.

Titulaire d'une maîtrise en droit privé, il est par ailleurs, instructeur en prise de parole ivoirienne, et président de l'École des Poètes de Côte d'Ivoire.

Nin'wlou Ariel Ménélik devient en 2017 le vainqueur du prix Kailcedra du meilleur Slameur après sa consécration au concours Lydia Ludic Talents 2021 organisé par l'association des journalistes culturels de Côte d'Ivoire.

Il est l'auteur du spectacle de Slam « LA MARCHE DU FEU » tenu en mai 2021 à l'Institut français de Côte d'Ivoire.

LA MARCHE DU FEU est également le titre éponyme de son tout premier livre de poésie paru en septembre 2021 aux Éditions ZADIÉ et  remporte le  prix SILA  Bernard B Dadié 2022  du jeune écrivain.

Il est l'un des rares poètes à participer en tant que poète-slameur au Parlement du Rire et à Abidjan Capitale du Rire diffusés sur Canal+.

Discographie
Man tchè
Niehi
Ma Yapobi
Pour ces mômes;
Restaucratie
Devoir moral (feat Amee)

Famille
Nin'wlou Ariel Ménélik est célibataire et père d'un enfant.

Publication
La marche du feu, poésie, paru en 2021 chez Les Éditions Zadié.

Distinctions
 Prix du meilleur slameur au Primud 2022
 Vainqueur du concours Lydia Ludic Talents 2022;
  prix du concours de slam « libres ensemble » dans le cadre des jeux de la francophonie;
 Prix Kailcedrat du meilleur slameur 2017;
 Finaliste du championnat national de slam;
  prix du festival ivoirien de la création poétique chez les jeunes.
 Prix SILA 2022 Bernard B. Dadié du jeune écrivain.

Références

Naissance en novembre 1991
Naissance à Abidjan
Écrivain ivoirien