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Choose Your Social Media Wisely
Ask anyone how to improve your marketing and social media will be one of the first things out of their mouth. It's easy to get sucked into the social media vortex, the allure of going viral and picking up a global following an ever-present motivation.
In reality, social media takes up time…a lot of it! It's easy to spin your wheels managing multiple social media accounts while your efforts could be better spent elsewhere. If you're looking to maximize your social media ROI, it's best to stick with just the platforms that truly matter to your target customer.
So, which platforms should you use? As always, it depends. Try some of the techniques below to whittle down the list and manage your profiles and pages as efficiently as possible.
Identify your target customer
Before diving into social media, let's take a step back. If you haven't done so already, get a feel for your target customer. What type of person visits your restaurant most often? How old are they? Who do they bring? What's the male/female ratio? What lifestyles do they live? During what occasions do they dine with you?
This may be a thought in the back of your head, but doing your due diligence here is critical in not just determining the best social media platforms to use, but in positioning your business for long-term success. Find your customers' natural habits and use them to your advantage.
Identify your target customer's social media match
Once you've gotten a good grasp of who your target customer is, the next step is to find out what they do, particularly in the social media world. What platforms to they frequent most often? How do they engage with those platforms?
While everyone is of course different in their own right, here are a few general guidelines that correlate social media platforms and audience demographics:
• Facebook is generally favored by an 'older' audience, typically born before 1990. Other age groups may use Facebook, but not as their primary social media platform.
• Instagram is pretty universal, but favored by most millennials and younger generations.
• Snapchat is favored by a younger audience, typically Gen Z.
• Twitter spans across age demographics, but skews older and generally serves as more of a news source and less of a destination for food and drink-related content.
• Youtube is frequented across demographics, but typically by being embedded in posts on the platforms above.
• Additional social media platforms, such as Pinterest and Tumblr, reach more niche audiences and may not have the ROI as the main platforms listed above.
Of course, many people use multiple social media platforms quite regularly. Managing 2-3 accounts is just as doable for you as it is for them, but in both cases going past that mark can be challenging.
How to best manage your social media
Posting manually on each of your social media accounts in real time is the go-to approach for the overwhelming majority of users. For businesses, however, taking a few minutes here and there adds up over time, and before you know it the burden outweighs the benefits and you'll stop posting altogether. Thankfully, numerous tools exist to offset this issue.
Ideally, it's best to set aside an hour a week to schedule all of your social media posts. How much easier is it to upload all the photos, write all the posts, and choose the days/times to post all at once, in advance, than to remember to do it every day? Thankfully, many groups have thought of this idea, and produced solutions to save you time.
A great free social media scheduling tool is Buffer, which, at the time of this writing, allows users to schedule up to 10 posts for up to 3 different platforms [30 posts total]. So if you have a Facebook, an Instagram and a Twitter account, you can line up all your posts for the week. If you want to take it up a level, Sprout Social provides great social media analytics, allowing you to track the ROI on your posts. Of course you can also go with Hootsuite, which has long been regarded as a social media software leader.
Social media is undoubtedly a critical asset in your marketing portfolio, and knowing how to best leverage this tool will save you substantial time and produce much greater results in the long run.


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— What lead to the deal?: Lurie: Can't say… back story will come out with the proxy in the next coming weeks (we'll be curious to read that). But clearly: "We didn't run a public auction."
— Advantages: Cross promotion (radio, TV) and cross-selling. "Our pitch in the marketplace has always been premium demographics, premium content… where we have yet to crack the code is with non-endemics in many of our entertainment properties." Scale matters when competing with sites like MSN or MySpace. This sounds very familiar. "This deal for CBS (NYSE: CBS) was not about synergies or cost cuts."
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Winner gets DQd 2 days after the fact
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Winner gets DQd 2 days after the fact
Would be interesting to know more. For instance, if the new winner could see the DQ'd gal throughout the race, or if other runners saw her - there must be people that finished in about the same time that the reporter could have asked.
Not very good investigative journalism.
At this point, you don't know if it was cheating or an unfortunate mistake.
If you look at the course map, it does at least look like miles 17 and 18 would be easy ones to cut:
Hmmmm, interesting that she had ran time fairly close to that before... Her time seems reasonable for her history...
That's weird, she was in about 13th place at 14 miles, missed the 17 mile mat, then finished in 19th place. If she cut the course, she sure did it in a round about manner. They should talk to the six people who passed her. Guys tend to remember passing a woman at the front.
I ran in the half marathon at sarasota. It was a great race, the previous year they had some problems with the turnaround for the 1/2 marathon but it seemed this year all of the course was clearly marked. Sorry that she lost the watch, $4k watch must be nice.
Here is another link.
Race spotters did not see here and were looking for the leaders.
When you look at the map it would be VERY EASY to cut off 2 miles as there is an out and back section there. You could go from 16.25 miles to the 19 mile mark with no trouble at all.
The link I posted to has someone saying she may not have realized they put another mat out there to catch this exact type of cheating.
Not only did she miss the mat at mile 17, the newspaper article says she missed the mat at mile 18. http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080306/SPORTS/803060743
It is also interesting that the splits do not give times for the 18 miles split. It looks exactly like the organizers did this to catch people. Good for them.
She does have one other time around the time she finished at, but also the article seems to show times arounf 3:30 as well.
interesting fourth place finisher.
Another interesting finisher is Kathleen Trotter in 435th place. Finish time 5:11.
She was at 3 HOURS 33 minutes through 14 miles. A 15:12 pace.
She finished in 5:11, which is a total pace for the entire race of 11:51 mpp.
She made up about an HOUR of time as compared to the people she finished near. Those runners were generally around 2:20-40 at the 14 mile mark. She also missed the 17 mile mat as well.
So for the last 12.21 miles she ran a 1:38 which translates into a pace of 8 minutes miles. She nearly doubled her pace for the last half of the race. Talk about negative splitting.
According to marathonguide.com, she ran a marathon in February of this year in 6:34. So in less than a month she took off 1 hour and 20 minutes from her time.
There is another woman with the same name who is faster, but they have different ages and line in different countries.
Yeah, I think the people who wind up writing these articles on road races are the ones who somehow pissed off the boss at the newspaper.
I'm sure some of us have been "interviewed" after winning the local Save The Whales 5K or whatever. It's always comical to read the story in the paper the next day to see what kind of stuff they add in.
Interesting . Local road race several months ago ,guy who is ahead of me walks off the course with about 1mile and 1/2 to go. Later I see the results and he beats me by almost 2 minutes. He wore very distinctive clothing. Nobody passed me from that point in. Anyway, w/o conclusive evidence ,I did nothing .This person was not in contention for overall or age group award,nor was I. But this sure left me frustrated and confused.
3 hours and 13 minutes to win a $4,000 Baume & Mercier watch - standard wasn't that good.
That second article mentions that Katie Holmes cut the NY marathon course. I know that there are arguments / pictures / some evidence, but did anybody prove 100% that Katie cut the course?
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That second article mentions that Katie Holmes cut the NY marathon course. I know that there are arguments / pictures / some evidence, but did anybody prove 100% that Katie cut the course?
It's not an article, it's a blog. There's no rules in the blogosphere.
I noticed that too and concluded that the mat at 17 miles was probably more like 17.25 miles.
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Not only did she miss the mat at mile 17, the newspaper article says she missed the mat at mile 18.
Actually there was only one mat near Ken Thompson Park and it was at a col de sac at about 17.8 miles based on my Garmin. The other one was at about 14.5 also based on my same Garmin.
No one usually pays attention to this race but if someone cheats look out, LOL.
I ran that race the first year, and it doesn't look like it's improved that much. The course is somewhat reversed from then, but many of the mile markers were way off, inaccurately placed. It's supposed to be a certified course, but i'd really question whether it is.
But just because it's certified doesn't mean the race director put the mile markers in the right place.
Threads exposing cheaters are among my favorite.
The first year they held this race the leaders were cranking out splits of 4:30 or so for some of the final miles and the consensus was that it was a half mile short. The results stood as listed with no remeasurement or note in the results and people who qualified for Boston by <5 min were probably pleased at their good fortune. I heard from people who ran this year that the splits were screwy and one guy claimed he ran tangents and came up with 26.65 but that is typical of GPS.


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The maple parquet flooring blocks were re-fitted and mixed with new blocks to make up the number that were discarded. The floor was sanded and lacquered to match the existing hallway.
This particular parquet floor could be done in oak parquet, walnut parquet and huge number of timber types and parquet blocks come in number of different sizes and widths. There 4 different parquet floor thickness depending on you are trying to achieve we can also fit different parquet block boards to complement the main parquet floor. This parquet floor was fitted in Durham City but we are parquet floor fitters in Newcastle, Sunderland, Middlesbrough and the whole of the north-east.


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The red carpet is being dusted down in Kent for a special royal visit tomorrow. The Duchess of Cambridge is due to meet children at an 'expanding horizons' primary school project. The scheme in Wrotham gives youngsters from inner-city backgrounds to venture into the countryside and develop their confidence and teamwork skills.


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I was so blessed, thanks to my dad and mom to have the opportunity to grow up in a lovely little get away place named Hilton Head Island. So many interesting and wonderful opportunities for us little explorers on a remote island get away. Growing up here in some ways im sure was like small town rural life (no traffic lights, 1 grocery store, excitement when a movie theater opened) However, to me it was a huge, natural playground. Exploring Sea Pines Plantation with all its beauty and wonders with endless bike paths (a 10 year olds freeway system) to travel wherever the imagination took us. There were miles of empty beaches with hard packed sand wide enough at low tide that the walk from the dunes to the water could exhast you. I learned to play golf on those beaches with my then best buddy, Allen Peterson. We could make our own course on the beach (true links golf ) and dig a hole in the sand as our cup, and stick washed up sea reed sticks in our beach holes to act as our target flags, no bunting attached. Allen and I would swing away the cut down hickory golf sticks that dad had given my brother and I to learn with. Parents could just let us HHI kids go with our assurance that we would be home for dinner. For me, the greatest place on earth in my elementary and middle school years was Harbor Town Golf Links. A special place with many wonderful memories for me. This is the place where I learned the value of a dollar, and the place that I met my lifelong hero (only topped by my parents) Arnold Palmer. Sea Pines, along with Harbor Town Marina, and the golf course, was the vision of Sea Pines Plantation founder Charles Fraser. Pete Dye with the help of Jack Nicklaus created a lovely course through the pines of Hilton Head, with Calibogue Sound bordering the finishing 2 holes. Topping off the 18th hole was the lighthouse that is still the most commonly recognized symbol of Hilton Head Island. This visionary course became the the home for a PGA tournament that is affectionately referred to as "The Heritage" by all the old timers. And it is fitting that the first Heritage, was won by no other than the man affectionately referred to as "Arnie"
Harbor Town Golf links was the home of great paying jobs. Big money for little squirts like me. There were numerous kids that had the opportunity to work at Harbor Town picking up driving range balls as the sun set and the Hilton Head breeze faded with the light. The golf course did not have a range ball picker machine, nor did it need one as range use was sparse a lot of the year. So us little kids of Sea Pines could ride our bikes to the links after school and make a few dollars in the evening picking up range balls. With a tube that would hold about 30 balls, we would shag the balls that accumulated each day, being paid by the barrel. The size of the barrel and its associated fullness would determine the riches we were rewarded each night. I specifically remember a trash can full was worth $4.00, that you would split with our working partner. It would take on average hour and half or 2 hours to get the range clean of the balls. This was the true american dream. (A dream that I am sure is against some sort of regulation today and could not occur) If you showed up to work on your scheduled day, worked responsibly and did as told, the money just flowed. We could make 3 or 4 dollars a night. My mom opened savings account for my working brother and myself. We learned about spending, savings and even taxes. My first tax return dates back to when I was 12. Thanks to my terrible love of soda and candy, the golf course vending machines got some of my money back each day. Life was good and I really enjoyed hanging out at the golf course. This one special picture that I have included, occurred one day while hanging out at Harbor Town. The other kid in picture is Thornton Withers. This was a normal day at the golf course, and just so happened an employee said Arnold Palmer was on the golf course and was playing the 9th hole. So I went up to the green, with Thornton and watched Mr. Palmer play, no spectators, nobody else around except the local paper photographer. The photographer asked Mr Palmer for a picture. Mr Palmer basically waved at Thornton and I to come over as he insisted we be in the picture. The picture posted made the local paper, and our parents tracked down the original with the help of the local paper. As stated Harbor Town, was home to the Heritage Golf Classic, so a few months after this picture was taken Arnold Palmer was back on the Island for the 2nd Annual Heritage. He was defending his championship as he had won the first Heritage. The golf tournament in its earlier days was great for viewing golfers. There were no galleries of people. You could get one on one with most golfers. I found the nerve to approach Mr. Palmer with this picture. It was that moment in time that he became a lifelong hero. I dont remember what he said, but I remember he talked to me for a long time. He acted like he really wanted to know more about me. That is the way he was. From that point on, I would follow him for 18 holes every day of every tournament. I always had work at the Heritage but had to work around his tee times. I would work my way around so that I could always have front row viewing, mainly so he could view me.. He would often come over and put his hand on my shoulder, while waiting on a tee box. He would smile, stare or just wink to let me know he knew I was there. Of course I was always trying to get in his way, following him everywhere, even to the parking lot at the end of the days round. One all time highlight for me was during the pro am event one year at the Heritage, he brought me inside the ropes on the 9th hole which usually had a pretty good gallery and was right next to the club house. (I have included pictures from this occurrence, taken by a reporter) We were walking down the fairway together. He handed me a golf club along the way, and was checking out my golf grip. His arm on my shoulder next to the green or any other time I could get near Mr. Palmer, made me feel like the most special kid on the planet. Another time, i purposely found myself in his path, was after he finished the 18th hole on a tournament day. This time he took me into the Press room with him and I sat right next to him as he answered media questions. He just was so special, because he knew how to make others feel special. There are other stories that involved him and our family, mostly unbelievable, so I want add to what I have said other than to make a comment about the pleasure of knowing Mrs Winnie Palmer. She was such a kind person. Each year she would spot me, (as I prowled around in Mr Palmer's Army) remember my name, and then reintroduce me to Mr Palmer and any family or friends that she might be with. She made me feel like a part of their family. I followed him each year he came to the Heritage and I know that as I grew into an older teenager seeing me each year was also a visual of his own age more often met with the 36 hole missed cut.,Mr Palmer was still coming to the Heritage when I entered the USAF at the age of 22 . While I never became much better than average golfer, he would ask me about my flying in large part due to his love of flying. I was so thrilled to at least have that in common with my idol. Probably the biggest regret in my life is not sending him a letter later in my life to tell him about the wonderful life and family that I am blessed to have. Knowing the man that he is, he would have at least enjoyed hearing about them and how much his wink and warm look meant to this little fat kid.
Truly the most amazing thing about Arnold Palmer, is and was, that there are thousands, no, check that, millions of people, around the world that could tell a similar story of how Arnold Palmer made them feel so special for at least a small moment in their life. I am certainly shedding a few tears for the loss of this great man. He was a true role model and a legend among legends, a wonderful man that will certainly be missed because he was truly loved by all that have even whispered his named.


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Municipality of Ilioupoli - Social Solidarity Center & Social Store
The Municipality of Ilioupoli offers an abundance of social welfare programs and services to its 170,000 residents. Approximately one quarter of these residents are senior recipients of the programs and services offered. Indigent elders benefit from the free of charge provision of medication, medical assistance, physiotherapy, food supplies, hygiene products as well as various recreational activities. The Municipality also operates a care home for up to 25 elders.
The Social Solidarity Center started its operation in March 2012, providing health related services and recreational programs to the senior residents of Ilioupoli in order to promote physical and psychological wellbeing. The Municipality's goal is for the Center to be a space where all generations can come together. In December 2012, the Center received the "Towards Age-Friendly Environments" National Award for the European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations 2012. As of March 2013, the Center houses:
a. Open Care Center for Elderly: a space where elders come into contact with individuals of a similar age, obtain information and enjoy recreational activities. Approximately 300 elders visit it on a daily basis during the week.
b. "Access to the Digital World" Program: senior citizens are taught how to use a computer and how to navigate the internet.
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The grant regards the provision of medical assistance as well as the purchase of medical equipment for the Social Solidarity Center, as well as the provision of monthly food supplies and hygiene products for the Social Store. The food supplies and hygiene products will be directed to households that include elders living alone or with other family members.


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The mayor of Prichard's top choice for the city's next police chief is a curious appointment, according to some, on account of his acceptance of a six-figure pay cut and recent history of less-than positive headlines. But by many accounts Jerry Speziale is also a highly accomplished law enforcement leader and if the Prichard City Council approves an employment contract Oct. 4, he'll take the helm of that city's 50-plus officer department.
Speziale's career began in the early '80s on foot patrol for the New York Police Department. During a shootout on his beat in the South Bronx, he was injured by gunfire. Later he worked as a detective on the narcotics squad, for a time working alongside future NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik. In the '90s, he became an undercover agent for Drug Enforcement Administration and traveled the country infiltrating international smuggling rings.
In 2001, after short stints as police chief in New Hope, Pa. and a ranking officer in the Bergen County, N.J. Sheriff's Office, he was elected Sheriff of Passaic County, N.J., a job where he earned a reported $151,000 per year managing an office of about 700 officers and civilians. In June 2010, The Herald News in West Paterson, N.J. reported Speziale had raised more than $1 million in his re-election campaign, but less than two months later, he abruptly withdrew his candidacy, resigned immediately and accepted a $198,510-a-year job as deputy superintendent of public safety at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Within two years, Speziale was on the job hunt again, this time looking nationwide. In 2012, he was on the short list of candidates to become the chief of police in Port St. Lucie, Fla., a job offer that later sparked a complaint from Speziale over the hiring process. After initially being assured he was a lock for the job, the city eventually chose another candidate. Earlier this summer, while the administration in Prichard was mulling over his candidacy, Speziale was also being considered the same position in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Prichard's police department has been without a permanent chief since late last year. In one of his first acts after being elected last October, Mayor Troy Ephriam chose not to renew an employment contract with the city's previous chief, Jimmie Gardner. At the time, Gardner was earning $65,000 in the role. If Speziale was offered the same salary, it mean a pay cut of about $133,510.
When he accepted the high-paying job as the number-two law enforcement officer at the Port Authority, the New York Post reported the appointment was being investigated by federal authorities. Reportedly, since being shot in the line of duty, he earns a $51,000 annual disability pension from the NYPD. Speziale told Mobile's Local 15 News that he wasn't currently under investigation and in very brief remarks to Lagniappe, Ephriam said he was organizing a press conference later in the week but Speziale had been "thoroughly vetted."
In 2001, when he was a candidate for the hotly contested election for sheriff of Passiac County, The Record newspaper of New Jersey editorialized him as an "abrasive, domineering individual" who gave his own campaign staff "heavy-handed treatment."
Accusations from an election two years earlier even sparked a lawsuit against Speziale and others for assault, one that was eventually dismissed. Speziale won the 2001 election by less than one percent, but was re-elected twice prior to his appoint at the Port Authority.
Earlier this year, The Herald News reported a jury in Hackensack, N.J. awarded $75,000 to a Passaic County sheriff's captain after they concluded the PCSO, under Speziale's leadership, retaliated against her for blowing the whistle for improperly issuing police-type ID cards to civilians. Speziale was not held directly liable for the incident. Another recent lawsuit alleging that Speziale discriminated against a disabled employee was thrown out.
In Port St. Lucie, City Attorney Roger Orr said "there is no pending litigation" by Speziale in regards to his failed appointment, but he did launch a formal complaint with the state of Florida.
"He made the cut to the top three and by most accounts was very well liked by a lot of the people," Orr said. "But the search process for one reason or another got derailed and I think that's why he has hard feelings."
Along with Ephriam, Speziale has the support of Prichard's interim Police Chief Dorothy Ferrell.
"You're going to have pros and cons and I won't comment on that, but I like him as a person," she said. "I've met him and I feel OK. He is a team player, but it will be premature to say anything negative or positive. For one, I do think he can guide the department and two, he shows leadership. My personal opinion is that he will be easy to work with."
A 32-year veteran of the force, Ferrell said the city gets unfairly characterized as plagued with crime, when the real challenges for any police chief are the budget and staffing.
"Every municipality has the same problem with crime, but as soon as something happens in Prichard it's blown completely out of the water. It's not fair of the officers, who don't ever get the credit but always get the criticism. What I've seen for number of years, personnel shortages have always been prevalent in the city because our revenue is low and the businesses have moved out. But other departments have shortages and budget crises and personnel crises. [Speziale] can identify with that."
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I was born and raised in St.Petersburg, Russia; moved to Israel when I was 23 and lived there for 16 years. And now I live and work in Canada. For over 15 years I worked as an IT developer, team leader and CTO in various companies; most of the projects I worked with were related to banking and finances. Living in different countries and being exposed to completely divergent cultures helped me a lot when I decided to go into business. As a result, I've launched a number of successful projects.
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First slot machines appeared in our city when I was 14. My father took me there, gave me an amount that was an equivalent of almost ⅓ of his monthly salary and….let me lose all of it in what seemed like just a few minutes to me. I've learned my lesson. Despite my fascination with gambling, I've never gambled again. And ever since, I've always wanted to have my own casino...especially when gambling went online. But I've never forgotten how it feels to lose a lot of money and didn't want to open yet another casino that is exactly the same as a thousand others. So, one day, in one of the many discussions the idea came up: "What if there was a casino where the players themselves are in control, where the old saying "the house always wins" wouldn't work anymore, and the players wouldn't feel cheated by the casino?". That was the beginning of URUNIT.
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To change the rules of the Gambling Universe. Sounds ambitious, but I am sure, we can totally do it.
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Absolutely all games, card tables, poker rooms, tournaments, slot machines, lotteries, etc. on our platform are controlled by the players themselves. Each game is controlled by a certain player. This player determines the parameters of the game or tournament he is playing and becomes the owner of the game for the time being. Let's say, each game is "leased" to one of the players for a nominal fee. It can be leased for an hour, a day, a week, or a month. During this lease, the owner of the game not only monitors what is going on but also performs basic functions of a moderator. At the end of this period, the owner of the game receives most of the profit generated during his lease.
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Giacomo Rizzolatti
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Giacomo Rizzolatti
|Alma mater
|University of Padua
|Known for
|Mirror neurons
|Golgi Prize for Physiology
George Miller Award
Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine (2000)
Herlitzka Prize for Physiology
Brain Prize for Neurosciences
|Scientific career
|University of Parma
|Academic advisors
|Giuseppe Moruzzi
Giacomo Rizzolatti (born April 28, 1937[1]) is an Italian neurophysiologist who works at the University of Parma. Born in Kiev, UkSSR, he is the Senior Scientist of the research team that discovered mirror neurons in the frontal and parietal cortex of the macaque monkey, and has written many scientific articles on the topic. He is a past president of the European Brain and Behaviour Society. Rizzolatti was the 2007 co-recipient, with Leonardo Fogassi and Vittorio Gallese, for the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology.[2]
- 2011 Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
These are listed on the right side of the Wikipedia page: Golgi Prize for Physiology George Miller Award Feltrinelli Prize for Medicine Herlitzka Prize for Physiology
Selected works[edit]
- Nelissen, Koen; Luppino, Giuseppe; Vanduffel, Wim; Rizzolatti, Giacomo; Orban, Guy A. (2005). "Observing Others: Multiple Action Representation in the Frontal Lobe". Science. 310 (5746): 332–336. Bibcode:2005Sci...310..332N. doi:10.1126/science.1115593. PMID 16224029.
- Rizzolatti, Giacomo; Sinigaglia, Corrado (2008). Mirrors In The Brain: How Our Minds Share Actions and Emotions. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-921798-4.
- ^ "Professor Giacomo Rizzolatti, Universita Degli Studi Di Parma Department of Neuroscience". Archived from the original on 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2016-05-14.
- ^ 2007- Giacomo Rizzolatti, Vittorio Gallese and Leonardo Fogassi https://web.archive.org/web/20121107222524/http://grawemeyer.org/psychology/previous-winners/2007-giacomo-rizzolatti-vittorio-gallese-and-leonardo-fogassi.html. Archived from the original on 2012-11-07. Missing or empty
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