Who Are The Recipients Of The Nobel Prizes

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Alfred Nobel, the Swedish Inventor, started the Nobel prize to recognize those people who reached the pinnacle of their fields. The Nobel Prize winners for 2016 are:
a) For Medicine or Physiology, Yoshinori Ohsumi showed the cellular process of cell eating or autophagy. He found out how yeast cells work and he revealed the autophagy which took place. Due to his discoveries in the 1990’s, there was a better understanding of the recycling of the contents of the cells and to understanding diseases and mutations.
b) For Physics, David J Thouless, J Michael Kosterlitz as well as F. Duncan M Haldane were awarded the Nobel Prize for physics. This is for their work on the theoretical discoveries of the phases of matter. They used advanced mathematics and used it for examination of the weird states of matter like liquids which do not have viscosity or superfluids etc.
c) For Chemistry, Sir J Fraser Stoddart, Jean-Pierre Sauvage as well as Bernard L Feringa were awarded the prize due to the synthesis and design of the molecular machine which linked molecules into units which could work when there was energy added.
d) The Peace Prize was given to Juan Manuel Santos of Columbia. The President won it for his efforts to end the civil war which lasted more than half a century and which killed at least 220,000 Columbians and where at least 6 million people were displaced. In fact, he was able to negotiate a peace deal made with the government as well as the guerrillas.
e) For Literature the Nobel Prize was granted to Bob Dylan for creating poetic expressions in American song. In fact, he is the first of any musicians to be granted this award for this category. His songs were for the rights of workers, for those that were victimized or those living in poverty.

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How Do You Find Good Restaurants Even When Traveling

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If you want to eat at good restaurants even when you are unfamiliar with the place, you should consider going on a culinary walking tour. This way, you can sample various dishes as well as decide which places you like or what kind of food you prefer. You will also be able to ask the guide for recommendations based on your likes and dislikes.
You can also read the publications as well as posts which are posted by local food bloggers. This will inform you of places you would otherwise not know. You can then use Google Maps to help you locate these places as most of these gems are normally not known to the general populace.
You should ask people like the hotel concierge, cab drivers, employees or people who you meet and encounter. This can serve as an icebreaker as well.
You should search for regional options. This is the best way to experience the place and the cuisine rather than sticking with the cuisine you are used to getting at home.
You should not eat near tourist attractions, and it is better to eat where there are good neighborhoods rather than those places which are crowded with tourists.
You should get various apps which tell you how and where you should go for food along with pictures and recommendations as well.
If you see people waiting in long lines it means that the meal must be really good there, else they would not have wasted their time.
If you are traveling with kids and when the host is ruffled to see kids, then you should not visit that place as it may not be very kid friendly. One way to know if the restaurant is kid friendly is when you can see a lot of strollers in front of it.

Cuba And Obama

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Barack Obama visited Havana and thus started a new chapter in the engagement of the US with the Communist government of Cuba. This marked a significant event post the hostility of decades which existed between the two countries.
The trip by President Barack Obama was a three day one and the first to be made by a US President in 88 years. This was post the estrangement between the two countries that started in 1959.
Obama told the US Embassy staff that this was a historic opportunity where the Cuban people could be engaged with directly. In fact, this was his first stop upon arriving in Cuba. There were groups of the people who watched his motorcade from their backyards and their balconies. There were some who also stood despite the downpour and the heavy security which was there. The president as well as his family had dinner in a rundown neighborhood and then left.
Even though Obama did not continue with the policy of isolation of Cuba, still there are various obstacles which remain and these prevent the normalization of ties between the countries.
Obama was met by the Cuban Foreign minister who was the top official of Cuba present. On Monday, Obama went to the presidential palace to meet the Cuban President. He held talks with Castrol and he also met privately with the dissidents. He also attended a baseball exhibition game. However, he did not meet Fidel Castro.
The President travelled with his wife Michelle and both his daughters, Sasha and Malia. His mother in law also travelled with them. During the trip, Obama was shown sights of the neighborhood of the colonial era and also got a tour of the 18th-century cathedral of Havana.
Obama was the first president after Calvin Coolidge to arrive in Havana for a visit.