tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1068687100079620262024-03-05T15:11:24.682-08:00Famous PeopleLuis GONZALEZ NARBONAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787439656427814587noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106868710007962026.post-40325448857317318592015-06-08T03:44:00.000-07:002015-06-08T03:46:00.916-07:00ECONOMISTS<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
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</span><!--[endif]--><b><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Robert Alexander
Mundell </span></b></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Robert Alexander Mundell, is a Nobel
Prize-winning Canadian economist. Mundell is a professor of economics at
Columbia University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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University. He attended MIT in USA and then the London School of Economics,
where he completed his education. In 1956 he received a doctorate at MIT, where
he presented his thesis about international money movements.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">He taught in Columbia University and in the School of Advanced
International Studies, in both places as economist. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">In 2005 he received the “Global
Economist” award from the Institute of World Economics in Kiel, Germany.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">His work on optimum currency areas is considered the basic framework in
which The Euro area was built. The basic idea of his thesis is: “Any particular
region inside a currency area, if you want to maintain a level of employ, real
salaries should be reduced or should promove the mobility of the labor factor”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Luis GONZALEZ NARBONAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787439656427814587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106868710007962026.post-51166677204181740412015-06-08T03:42:00.001-07:002015-06-08T03:47:59.020-07:00MODELS<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
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Mikhaila
Rocha was born on 1988 in Toronto, Canada. She is a Canadian model known as
Coco Rocha. <o:p></o:p></div>
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2002, agent Charles Stuart approached Rocha at an Irish dance competition and
asked her if she would consider modelling for him. At that point, she had never
thought of modelling before. When she began to model, her knowledge of fashion
was very limited and she eventually gained insight into the fashion world after
her best friends crammed in fashion study sessions in between studying for
exams. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Her
breakthrough came in January 2006, when she opened the Christian Lacroixcouture
show in Paris. After signing an exclusive contract with photographer Steven
Meisel, she appeared in an editorial with Gemma Ward and Amanda Moore
and landed the cover of the April 2006 issue of <i>Vogue Italia</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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in
February 2007, Rocha opened Jean Paul Gaultier's Scottish Highlands-inspired
Fall/Winter 2007 show by Irish-dancing down the runway; American Vogue dubbed
this the "Coco Moment" and suggested it as a sign that the fashion
industry misses the "supermodels".<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rocha
has been on the covers of many top fashion magazines including American,
Brazilian, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish <i>Vogue</i>, <i>Flare</i>, <i>Fashion</i>, <i>Numéro</i>, <i>French</i>, <i>Harper's Bazaar</i>, <i>Dazed & Confused</i>, <i>i-D</i>,
<i>Time Style & Design</i>, among
others.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rocha
hosted the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards white carpet. On October 19, 2011 she
appeared as a guest judge on <i>America's
Next Top Model</i>, where host and head judge Tyra Banks referred to her as "The Queen of Posing". The
short documentary <i>Letters to Haiti</i>
featured Rocha and fellow model Behati Prinsloo delivering supplies to Haiti
after the 2010 earthquake; it was shot by Rocha's husband, James Conran. The
movie premiered in Toronto in October and New York in December 2011.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In
October 2010, Coco Rocha was given <i>Marie
Claire'</i>s Prix d’Excellence as their model of the year at a ceremony in
Paris.<sup><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></sup>In November 2010, Rocha was awarded the Seventeen Body
Peace award by <i>Seventeen</i> magazine.
Rocha had contributed a number of articles to <i>Seventeen</i> on the topic of girls' body image and self-esteem.<sup><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;"> </span></sup>On
February 14, 2011 Coco was awarded the Elle Style award for 'Model of the Year'
by Boy George in London.<sup><span style="font-size: 13.0pt;">
</span></sup>On June 16, 2011, Coco Rocha and
husband James Conran both received awards for their philanthropic work at the
Pay It Fashion Forward event in Manhattan, NY. In 2012, <i>Vogue Paris</i> declared her one of the top 30 models of the 2000s.</div>
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On
February 1, 2014, Rocha was awarded the "Model of the Year Award" at
the Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards in Toronto, Canada. On April 24, 2014 she
will receive the prestigious Vienna Fashion Award as <i>Style Icon</i> at a lavish ceremony at Vienna's <i>Museumsquartier</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span><!--[endif]--></span><b><span style="color: #660000;">Linda Evangelista </span><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Evangelista (born May 10, 1965) is a Canadian model. She is one of the most
accomplished and influential models of all time and has been featured on over
700 magazine covers. Evangelista is mostly known for being the longtime muse of
photographer Steven Meisel as well as for coining the phrase "We don't
wake up for less than $10,000 a day." She holds the record for her
multiple appearances on the cover of Vogue Italia, all of which were
photographed by Meisel. Described as the "chameleon" of the fashion
industry, and as a key figure among the
five supermodels, Evangelista was one of the most famous women in the world
during the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. Unlike her colleagues, she
chose not to diversify into other ventures outside of modeling. She retired
from her career in 1998 and made a comeback three years later, this time
working only sporadically. Her achievements as a model led to her being voted
as "the greatest supermodel of all time" by the viewers of the show
Fashion File in 2008.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Evangelista
attended a self-improvement school at the age of 12 where she was taught things
such as poise and etiquette and she was advised to attend a modeling course. As
a teenager, Evangelista started modeling locally in her hometown. In 1981, she
took part in the Miss Teen Niagara beauty pageant. And while she did not win
the pageant, her presence caught the eye of a representative from Elite Model
Management.</div>
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At
the age of 16, she flew to Japan to model there, but an unpleasant experience
involving nudity during a modeling assignment made her want to stop modeling
altogether. She returned home to Canada, and two years went by before she
decided to try her hand again at modeling.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Evangelista
moved to New York City in 1984 upon signing with Elite, where she met the
prominent modeling agent John Casablancas, who compared her likeness to the
model Joan Severance. Elite then moved her to Paris, France, where she launched
her international high-fashion career at the age of 19.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Evangelista
is an activist for HIV/AIDS research as well as for breast cancer awareness.
She was one of the icons in the Viva Glam campaign for the Mac AIDS Fund. In
October 2013, she was the host of amfAR's Inaugural Inspiration Gala in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.</div>
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In
1996, she was the recipient of VH1's Fashion Awards Lifetime Achievement Award
which was presented to her by Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue. In June
2003, she received a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto. In 2005, she was
named as a World Fashion Icon by the Women's World Awards in Leipzig, Germany.
In March 2008, she was chosen as "the greatest supermodel of all time"
by a viewer poll for the CBC Television show Fashion File.</div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Leyla Milani Khoshbin was born on 1982 in
Toronto to Iranian parents, and married to Persian/Iranian Entrepreneur Real
Estate Investor/Author, Manny Khoshbin. She is a Canadian model, actress, TV
host and entrepreneur. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5-0yUo32jyojj6z-B1u9glgvdPeP7o_NcCvCtO-3cAOTTwbtYkHbpH17FC72OY63SxpD4BqbIDZ9clm0P8bN-i1udsaRRg3fduoNvckims-RYJUHkPGA2r8jox67KkVSS2fEIJl-heAgx/s1600/Leyla+Milani.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5-0yUo32jyojj6z-B1u9glgvdPeP7o_NcCvCtO-3cAOTTwbtYkHbpH17FC72OY63SxpD4BqbIDZ9clm0P8bN-i1udsaRRg3fduoNvckims-RYJUHkPGA2r8jox67KkVSS2fEIJl-heAgx/s200/Leyla+Milani.jpg" width="156" /></span></a><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Milani was a contestant in the 2005 WWE
Diva Search, finishing second out of 8,000 contestants worldwide. Following
that, she made an appearance at Pro Wrestling Guerrilla After School Special.
After appearing in the WWE Diva Search, she began using the stage name Leyla
Milani.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Milani is the former co-host of Jimmy
Hart's all-women wrestling show, <i>Wrestlicious
TakeDown</i> which debuted March 1, 2010. She was replaced by Brooke Lynn on
the March 31, 2010 episode, because of scheduling conflicts.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Milani was a model on NBC's prime-time
game show <i>Deal or No Deal</i> from 2006
to 2009. She was best known for her "lioness-like" mane. She held
case #13 since the beginning of the show. Although 13 is usually considered the
unluckiest of numbers, she was often referred to on the show as "Lucky
Leyla" or "Lucky 13," as many times her case contained 6 digit
amounts and in eight instances contained the $1,000,000 top prize. Nonetheless,
NBC once opened the show noting that by holding all the large amounts and not
being picked at the beginning, case #13 was very unlucky during most of the
first season. On at least one occasion during the second season, case #13
contained a seven-figure prize. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Milani
and her fellow <i>Deal or No Deal</i> models
won a Game Show Network Award for "Favorite TV Models." On June 6,
2009, Milani and 4 other models accepted this award on GSN. <i>Deal or No Deal</i> also won The People's
Choice Award two years in a row for Favorite Game Show.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Milani
made an appearance on the Style Network's show, <i>Split Ends</i>, and on a celebrity episode of GSN's game show <i>Catch 21</i>, alongside fellow <i>DOND</i> models Patricia Kara and Marisa
Petroro. She announced on this show the launch of her own hair extension line,
Milani Hair, due out early 2010.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Milani has made multiple appearances on
the Fox News' conservative satire show <i>The
Half Hour News Hour</i> and <i>Redeye</i> as
a celebrity looking for a charity to support. She hosted FOX Sport Net's
Celebrity Golf tournament as well as Fuel TV'S motorsport show, <i>M80</i>. Milani made a cameo appearance on
LOGO channel series <i>Noah's Arc</i> as a
woman applying for a job. She has also appeared on MTV's <i>True Life: I'm A TV Star</i>, and <i>My
Fair Brady</i>.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Gabriel Eugène Aubry (born August 30, 1975) is a Canadian
model. Born in Montreal, Quebec to French-Canadian parents, Aubry is one of
nine siblings.</div>
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Klein, DKNY, Valentino, Trussardi, Nautica, Exte, Joop, Massimo Dutti and Next.
He is signed to Wilhelmina Models in New York City and Beatrice Model agency in
Milan, Italy.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC9wBL6CNYv4bV35tBJ9Qn9xAgfo988ODY_qaHs-U2EhUcYC3y0u5DTln_51goyyMHVZp_Mt8Qf0n4OwhpPZ-lOYAUQeGpxrdqO6dOd_FaWNr2Y7zvOkAGzuIXA-qxN_sdywNNtVu2y2dK/s1600/1355367106_gabriel-aubry-467.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"></span></a><o:p> </o:p>He appeared in a Macy's commercial in early 2008 as part of
an exclusivity with Calvin Klein alongside Mariah Carey, Martha Stewart, Donald
Trump and Carlos Santana. He was the only male model to ever appear on the
cover of L'Uomo Vogue while appearing in four different designers' campaigns at
the same time, in the same magazine. Aubry has been listed on People Magazine's
Most Beautiful People List. He is one of the top earning male models in the
modeling industry.</div>
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Aubry owned a restaurant called Cafe Fuego, located in the East Village
of Manhattan on trendy St. Mark's Place. In 2008, he released an album Cafe
Fuego Vol. 1, which he produced. He plays guitar on some of the tracks.</div>
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Luis GONZALEZ NARBONAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787439656427814587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106868710007962026.post-17980370335072688802015-06-08T03:36:00.001-07:002015-06-08T03:51:35.705-07:00SCIENTISTS<div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-left: 36.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 1934), is a researcher in the field of criminal
psychology. He developed the Hare Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-Revised), used to
assess cases of psychopathy. Hare advises the FBI's Child Abduction and Serial
Murder Investigative Resources Center (CASMIRC) and consults for various
British and North American prison services.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hare received his Ph.D. in
experimental psychology at University of Western Ontario (1963). He is
professor emeritus of the University of British Columbia where his studies
center on psychopathology and psychophysiology. He was invested as a Member of
the Order of Canada on December 30, 2010.</div>
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His research led him to The Mask
of Sanity by American psychiatrist Hervey M. Cleckley, which played a pivotal
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In the 1970s he published
Psychopathy: Theory and Research, summarizing the state of the field, and
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whether such persons show abnormal patterns of anticipation or response (such
as low levels of anxiety or high impulsiveness) to aversive stimuli
('punishments' such as mild but painful electric shocks) or pleasant stimuli
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Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us (reissued
1999). He describes psychopaths as 'social predators', while pointing out that
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Go to Work (2006) with organizational psychologist and human resources
consultant Paul Babiak, is a portrayal of the disruptions caused when
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documentary film The Corporation, discussing whether his criteria for
psychopathy could be said to apply to modern business as a legal personality,
appearing to conclude that many of them would apply by definition.</div>
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He <span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">is a researcher and inventor best known for his work on
computational photography, particularly wearable computing and high dynamic
range imaging.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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holds a PhD in Media Arts (1997) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and a B.Sc., B.Eng. and M.Eng. from McMaster University in 1987,1989 and 1992,
respectively. He was also inducted into the McMaster University Alumni Hall of
Fame, Alumni Gallery 2004, in recognition of his career as an inventor and
teacher. While at MIT, in then Director Nicholas Negroponte's words "Steve
Mann ... brought the seed" that founded the Wearable Computing group in
the Media Lab and "Steve Mann is the perfect example of someone ... who
persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline." In 2004
he was named the recipient of the 2004 Leonardo Award for Excellence for his
article "Existential Technology," published in Leonardo 36:1.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Mann#cite_note-Existential_Technology-7"></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Society, Associate Editor of IEEE Technology and Society, is a licensed
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Chirplet transform, Video Orbits</span>, <span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">Comparametric
Equations</span>, <span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">Integral
kinematics and integral kinesiology, Hydraulophone</span>, <span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">Natural User Interface</span>, <span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;">Scratch input, an acoustic-based
method of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that takes advantage of the
characteristic sound produced when a finger nail, stick, or other object
strikes or is dragged over a surface, such as a table or wall, Telepointer,
Sensory Singularity, Sousveillance and cyborg-logging, Surveilluminescent wand.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Mann has been referred to as the
"father of wearable computing", having created the first
general-purpose wearable computer, in contrast to previous wearable devices
that perform one specific function such as time-keeping (e.g. wristwatch),
calculations (e.g. wearable abacus), such as Edward O. Thorp and Claude
Shannon's, timing devices concealed in shoes cigarette packs for cheating at a
game of roulette.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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Altman was born on 1939 in Montreal, Canada, and he </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;"> is a Canadian and American molecular
biologist, who is the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and
Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University. In 1989 he shared the
Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas R. Cech for their work on the catalytic
properties of RNA.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">As Altman reached adulthood, the family's
financial situation had become secure enough that he was able to pursue a
college education. He went to the United States to study physics at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he was a member of the ice
hockey team. After achieving his bachelor's degree from MIT in 1960, Altman
spent 18 months as a graduate student in physics at Columbia University. Due to
personal concerns and the lack of opportunity for beginning graduate students
to participate in laboratory work, he left the program without completing the
degree. Some months later, he enrolled as a graduate student in biophysics at
the University of Colorado Medical Center. His project was a study of the
effects of acridines on the replication of bacteriophage T4 DNA. He received
his Ph.D. in biophysics from the University of Colorado in 1967 with thesis
advisor Leonard Lerman; Lerman went in 1967 to Vanderbilt University, where Altman
worked briefly as a researcher in molecular biology before leaving for Harvard.
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Altman was married to Ann M. Körner
(daughter of Stephan Körner) in 1972. They are the parents of two children,
Daniel and Leah. Having lived primarily
in the United States since departing Montreal to attend MIT in 1958, Altman
became a U.S. citizen in 1984, maintaining dual citizenship as a Canadian
citizen as well.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">After receiving his Ph.D., Altman
embarked upon the first of two research fellowships. He joined Matthew
Meselson's laboratory at Harvard University to study a DNA endonuclease
involved in the replication and recombination of T4 DNA. Later, at the MRC
Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England, Altman started the work
that led to the discovery of RNase P and the enzymatic properties of the RNA
subunit of that enzyme. John D. Smith, as well as several postdoctoral
colleagues, provided Altman with very good advice that enabled him to test his
ideas. "The discovery of the first radiochemically pure precursor to a
tRNA molecule enabled me to get a job as an assistant professor at Yale
University in 1971, a difficult time to get any job at all".</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">While at Yale, Altman's Nobel Prize work
came with the analysis of the catalytic properties of the ribozyme RNase P, a
ribonucleoprotein particle consisting of both a structural RNA molecule and one
(in prokaryotes) or more proteins.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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February 21, 1941) was a Canadian medical scientist, physician, painter and
Nobel laureate noted as the first person that used insulin on humans.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Prize in Medicine. Banting shared the award money with his colleague, Dr.
Charles Best. As of September 2011, Banting, who received the Nobel Prize at
age 32, remains the youngest Nobel laureate in the area of Physiology/Medicine.
The Canadian government gave him a lifetime annuity to work on his research. In
1934 he was knighted by King George V. In 2004, Frederick Banting was voted
fourth place on The Greatest Canadian.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Frederick Grant Banting
was born in Alliston (Ontario, Canada) on 14 November 1891. He was the
youngest of five children of William Thompson Banting and Margaret Grant. He
completed his studies in Alliston. It began theology at the University of
Toronto, which soon changed medicine. He graduated in 1916.</div>
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He was part of the Canadian Army Medical Corps and
participated in the First World War in France. After the end of the war, in
1919, he returned to Canada.</div>
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He earned his doctorate in 1922. Soon he was already very
interested in diabetes. Since the late nineteenth century scientists had
noticed the relationship between the pancreas and diabetes. Some studies
indicated that the disease was caused by a deficiency of a hormone secreted by
the islets of Langerhans.Schafer called it "insulin" and supposedly
exercised control over sugar metabolism, so that their absence caused this
increase in blood and urine.He got in touch with J.J.R. Macleod, professor of
physiology at the University of Toronto, who facilitated it necessary to
investigate in his laboratory.In August 1921 they administered insulin from the
islets of Langerhans in diabetic dogs descended checking sugar levels in blood
and urine disappeared and the typical symptoms of the disease.Banting and
Macleod received the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923.In 1930, the Canadian
Parliament granted aid to Banting for the installation of a research laboratory
and he was made an honorary doctor of Toronto General Hospital.<o:p></o:p></div>
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section of the National Research Council of Canada.In 1941 he died victim of a
plane crash in Newfoundland.</div>
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Sterling Boyle </span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">(August 19, 1924 – May 7, 2011) was a Canadian-American physicist, pioneer in the field of laser technology and
co-inventor of the charge-coupled device. On October 6, 2009, it was announced
that he would share the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for "the invention of
an imaging semiconductor circuit—the CCD sensor, which has become an electronic
eye in almost all areas of photography".</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">After receiving his doctorate, Boyle
spent one year at Canada's Radiation Lab and two years teaching physics at the
Royal Military College of Canada. In 1953 Boyle joined Bell Labswhere he
invented the first continuously operating ruby laser with Don Nelson in 1962,
and was named on the first patent for a semiconductor injection laser. He was
made director of Space Science and Exploratory Studies at the Bell Labs
subsidiary Bellcomm in 1962, providing support for the Apollo space program and
helping to select lunar landing sites. He returned to Bell Labs in 1964,
working on the development of integrated circuits.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">In 1969, Boyle and George E. Smith
invented the charge-coupled device (CCD), for which they have jointly received
the Franklin Institute's Stuart Ballantine Medal in 1973, the 1974 IEEE Morris
N. Liebmann Memorial Award, the 2006 Charles Stark Draper Prize, and the 2009
Nobel Prize in Physics. However, Eugene Gordon and Mike Tompsett, two
now-retired colleagues from Bell labs, claim that its application to
photography was not invented by Boyle. The CCD allowed NASA to send clear
pictures to Earth back from space. It is also the technology that powers many digital
cameras today. Smith said of their invention: "After making the first
couple of imaging devices, we knew for certain that chemistry photography was
dead." Boyle was Executive Director of Research for Bell Labs from 1975
until his retirement in 1979. In retirement, he split his time between Halifax
and Wallace, Nova Scotia. In Wallace, he helped launch an art gallery with his
wife Betty, a landscape artist. He was married to Betty since 1947, and had
four children, 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. He was appointed a
Companion of the Order of Canada — the award's highest level — on June 30,
2010. In his later years, Boyle suffered from kidney disease, and due to
complications from this disease, died in a hospital in Wallace on May 7, 2011.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
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Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, PC CC FRSC FRS (December 25, 1904 –
March 3, 1999) was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist,
who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to
the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly
free radicals". Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular
spectroscopy. He is well known for using these techniques that determine the
structures of diatomic and polyatomic molecules, including free radicals which
are difficult to investigate in any other way, and for the chemical analysis of
astronomical objects. Herzberg served as Chancellor of Carleton University in
Ottawa, Canada from 1973 to 1980.</span></span><br />
Initially, Herzberg considered a career in astronomy, but
his application to the Hamburg Observatory was returned advising him not to
pursue a career in the field without private financial support. After completing high school, Herzberg
continued his education at Darmstadt University of Technology with the help of
a private scholarship. Herzberg completed his Dr.-Ing. degree under Hans Rau in
1928.<br />
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in Chemistry, which he was awarded "for his contributions to the knowledge
of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free
radicals". During the presentation speech, it was noted that at the time
of the award, Herzberg was "generally considered to be the world's
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very large number of scientific societies, received many awards and honorary
degrees in different countries.The NSERC Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for
Science and Engineering, Canada's highest research award, was named in his
honour in 2000. The Canadian Association of Physicists also has an annual award
named in his honour. The Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics is named for him.
He was made a member of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science.
Asteroid 3316 Herzberg is named after him. In 1964 he was awarded the Frederic
Ives Medal by the OSA. At Carleton University, there is a building named after
him that belongs to the Physics and Mathematics/Statistics Departments,
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Saul Bellow (10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-born and
American writer. For his literary contributions, Bellow was awarded the
Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts.
He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times
and he received the Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution
to American Letters in 1990.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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He was born 10th, june of 1915 in Quebec, inside a jewish family, when
he was only nine his family, which was from rusa, moved to Chicago. He
participated in the 2nd mundial war as a soldier, studied in Northwestern
University and finally he was teacher in Chicago University. He was married five
times and he is considered one of the most influential writers in the XX
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“Dangling Man” (Written in 1944) was his first novel, into this we can
see how a young man is worried about the idea that he can be mobilized to the
war in every moment. After this he was awarded with the Guggenheim Grant, and
because of this he could travel around Europe, where he was influenced by many
cultural movements, for example: picaroon novel. One of his most used topics
can be the modern humanity threatened with lost her identity but not destroyed
spiritually yet, some books with this topic can be “Carpe Diem”,”Henderson the
Rain King”; both awarded with the National Book Award (USA). Then he wrote “Humboldt’s legacy” considered one f
the best novels during XX century and awarded with Pulitzer prize and with the
Nobel Prize.</div>
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<span style="background: #F9F9F9;">Alice Ann Munro Was born in
wingham, Ontario, Canada she is a canadian narrator and one of the best
actually writers in English. In 2013 was awarded with the Nobel Prize. She
first lived in his father’s farm during an economical crisis, this will be one
of the most important influences for her.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: #F9F9F9;">When she was studying at
Western Ontario University had to work as a waitress, a tobacco picker, and a
library clerk to pay her university studies. She met James Munro, they got
married and moved to Ontario. After she had divorced she got married with
Gerald Fleming and She has become a writer.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj81tGbFTYmWWrygedtsvMpoR3sV1BUOII1P-TQBUgvVnk5_5_SF_50agzcy8EZTf50LQHfFy3tSNnKoUEiFSKurryqh_CO-txEXlZPYl7Kto2qJIyxE8_yOF7g9m79SnywSBmbsi3gOD_K/s1600/Alice+munro.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="color: black;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj81tGbFTYmWWrygedtsvMpoR3sV1BUOII1P-TQBUgvVnk5_5_SF_50agzcy8EZTf50LQHfFy3tSNnKoUEiFSKurryqh_CO-txEXlZPYl7Kto2qJIyxE8_yOF7g9m79SnywSBmbsi3gOD_K/s200/Alice+munro.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Munro's highly acclaimed first collection of stories, <i>Dance of the Happy Shades</i> (1968), won
the Governor General's Award, then Canada's highest literary prize. That
success was followed by “Lives of Girls and Women” (1971), a collection of
interlinked stories. In 1978, Munro's collection of interlinked stories “Who Do
You Think You Are?” was published (titled “The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and
Rose in the United States”). This book earned Munro a second Governor General's
Literary Award.In 1980 Munro held the position of writer in residence at both
the University of British Columbia and the University of Queensland.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Munro has published a short-story
collection at least once every four years, most recently in 2001, 2004, 2006,
2009, and 2012. First versions of Munro's stories have appeared in journals
such as <i>The New Yorker</i>, <i>The Atlantic Monthly</i>, <i>Grand Street</i>, <i>Harper's Magazine</i>, <i>Mademoiselle</i>,
and <i>The Paris Review</i>. Her collections
have been translated into thirteen languages.On 10 October 2013, Munro was
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, cited as a "master of the
contemporary short story". She is the first Canadian and the 13th woman to
receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #252525;">Margaret Eleanor Atwood</span><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">, (born November 18,
1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and
environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and
Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has also won the Booker Prize five
times. In 2001 she was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. She is also a
founder of the Writers' Trust of Canada, a non-profit literary organization
that seeks to encourage Canada's writing community. Among innumerable
contributions to Canadian literature, she was a founding trustee of the Griffin
Poetry Prize.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood#cite_note-4"></a><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Atwood is also the inventor, and developer, of the LongPen and
associated technologies that facilitate the remote robotic writing of documents.
She is the Co-Founder and a Director of Syngrafii Inc.However she is best known
for her work as a novelist, she has also published fifteen books of poetry.
Many of her poems have been inspired by myths and fairy tales. Atwood has
published short stories in<i> Alphabet,
Harper's, CBC Anthology, Ms., Saturday Night</i>, and many other magazines. She
has also published four collections of stories and three collections of
unclassifiable short prose works.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">She formed a relationship with fellow novelist Graeme Gibson, after they
moved to a farm near Alliston, Ontario, where their daughter Eleanor Jess
Atwood Gibson was born in 1976.The family returned to Toronto in 1980.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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children’s literature, fiction, and non-fiction, but is best known for her
novels, which include <i>The Edible Woman</i>
(1969), <i>The Handmaid’s Tale</i> (1985), <i>The Robber Bride</i> (1994), <i>Alias Grace </i>(1996), and <i>The Blind Assassin</i>, which won the
prestigious Booker Prize in 2000. Her latest work is a book of short stories
called <i>Stone Mattress: Nine Tales</i>
(2014). Her newest novel, <i>MaddAddam </i>(2013)<i>,</i>is the final volume in a three-book
series that began with the Man-Booker prize-nominated <i>Oryx and Crake </i>(2003) and continued with<i> The Year of the Flood </i>(2009)<i>.</i></span></div>
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Luis GONZALEZ NARBONAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06787439656427814587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-106868710007962026.post-65052156665236283502015-06-08T03:13:00.001-07:002015-06-08T03:53:46.942-07:00POLITICIANS<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 6.0pt;">
<b><span style="background: white; color: #660000; mso-highlight: white;">Robert Bruce Ford</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;"> (born May 28, 1969)
is a Canadian politician and businessperson and is currently a Toronto City
Councillor. He was Mayor of Toronto, Ontario, from 2010 to 2014. Prior to being
mayor, Ford was a city councillor. He was first elected to City Council in the
2000 Toronto municipal election, and was re-elected to his council seat twice.
At first discounted as a potential mayor, Ford was elected mayor in 2010.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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personal and work-related controversies and legal proceedings, including a
conflict of interest trial that nearly resulted in his being removed from
office. In 2013, he became embroiled in a substance abuse scandal</span><span style="background: white; mso-highlight: white;"> which was widely reported in the national and
international media.Ford initially denied the allegations, but after a 2013
Toronto Police Service gang investigation led to police discovering videos of
Ford, he admitted to all of the incidents, including public drunkenness,
drinking and driving, and illegal drug use. Ford admitted to smoking crack
cocaine "probably in one of my drunken stupors”.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
<span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-highlight: white;">Following his admission, Ford refused to resign. Not allowed by law to
remove Ford from office, Toronto City Council voted to remove certain mayoral
powers from Ford and grant them to Deputy Mayor Norm Kelly for the remainder of
Ford's term. Council also voted to reduce Ford's office staff and move those
staff to Kelly's office.Despite the scandal, Ford promised to "continue doing
the job he was elected to do" and contest the next mayoral election,
scheduled for October 2014. On January 2, 2014, Ford registered to run for
re-election. From May 1 through June 30, 2014, Ford took a leave of absence
from his position as Mayor and from his campaign for re-election to enter drug
rehabilitation. After being hospitalized and diagnosed with an abdominal tumour
in September 2014, Ford withdrew from the mayoral race and registered instead
to run for his old seat on the City Council.</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Ford#cite_note-12"><sup><span style="background: white; color: #0b0080; mso-highlight: white; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">[</span></sup></a><br />
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