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os.chdir('C:/Users/<NAME>/Documents/Data/Alert Data/')
plt.savefig('gantt.png',bbox_inches = 'tight')
plt.show()Image found at the Wall of Inspiration.
Mr. Mandela was born 93 years ago today and the world is a better place because of him. To read a previous post quoting him click here.
Good quotes. I especially like the one about "rising every time we fall" - very inspiring for those with skinned knees, like me.
Thanks Jim. People like this make me feel so tiny. He is truly inspiring. Thanks for reading and commenting.
I liked the quote about having to learn to hate, and in turn, able to learn to love. I may have to post that in my classroom this year. Thanks for sharing. I am in awe of Nelson Mandela!
I'll cast my vote for the nature of "impossibility," as the one I have to confront most often.
Me: But I just did it.
Other: That doesn't count, because you're exceptional.
Me: That's right. I'm a God beyond you mere mortals.

Me: Just an ordinary guy. So much for your excuse.
Among the many events put into the shade by the outbreak of Covid-19 in India was the inauguration of a museum in Bellary in Karnataka. Most likely the only museum in India focused on the Stone Age, the Robert Bruce Foote Sanganakallu Archaeological Museum is dedicated to an Englishman.
Robert Bruce Foote was a British geologist employed with the Geological Survey of India (GSI). Today, he is regarded as the father of south Indian geology, while archaeologists regard him as the father of Indian prehistory — a reference to the period before the invention of the alphabet or even the appearance of the first writings on stone surfaces.
The Englishman conducted his geological surveys between 1858 and 1891, and the greater part of his service was spent in south India — mostly in the Madras Presidency, which included Andhra Pradesh, parts of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, Telangana, Odisha and Lakshadweep. In the Rayalaseema and Kalyana Karnataka regions — covering the whole of present-day northern Karnataka and western Andhra Pradesh — Foote had carried out detailed mapping of geological formations. But his interest went beyond minerals.
“He was a geologist with a passion for documenting evidence of prehistoric humans and their cultural evolution,” said the honorary director of the new museum, Ravi Korisettar, at a virtual talk organised recently by the Indian Museum in Calcutta. According to Korisettar, ever since his appointment by the GSI, Foote began his search for Early Man sites, especially in the Madras Presidency.
The Stone Age is divided into the Paleolithic (or Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (or Middle Stone Age) and Neolithic (or New Stone Age) periods. Megalithic is that which is typical of the period between the Neolithic period and the Bronze Age. There are a large number of Paleolithic, Neolithic, Ashmound (typical of the Neolithic Age) as well as Megalithic sites not only in the Bellary region, where the museum stands, but also in Kurnool and Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh and Chitradurga in Karnataka.
Korisettar stresses on the importance of having a Stone Age museum and explains how an understanding of one’s past, even the remote past, is crucial to one’s sense of heritage. In the fitness of things, the new museum has initiated public outreach activity and archaeology workshops for museology students and schoolteachers, he tells The Telegraph.
Large-scale granite quarrying in the region in the last 20 years has destroyed many of these sites. Korisettar says Sanganakallu too has sustained much damage.
This is what prompted a group of archaeologists to approach administrative officials of the region with the idea of a museum.
The museum, as it stands now, houses artefacts from the Palaeolithic period to the Iron Age; human and animal remains from various sites; plant remains, especially charred grains, from the Neolithic and Iron Age levels at Sanganakallu; beads and other objects of adornment; ritual and symbolic objects.
The ground floor has a section each on the African roots of humankind, the Indian subcontinent’s prehistory, the prehistory of Kalyana Karnataka, and the geological resources exploited by the Neolithic communities in the Rayalaseema region. A variety of stone tools of the Palaeolithic period too are on display. In the central sunken area of the ground floor the scale-down model of the Sanganakallu hill complex and various archaeological features associated with the site are highlighted.
A sarcophagus burial pot — recovered from the Kudatini ashmound on the Bellary-Hospet road and exhibited in the first-floor gallery — is one of the prize collections attesting the emergence of elites in the Early Iron Age of south India. The multi-legged, boat-shaped pot gestures at the rise of a complex society, wherein a certain section of people was given special burial, indicative of status. It was found to contain the remains of a seven-year-old.
Foote himself was cremated, after he died in Presidency Hospital in Calcutta in 1912. He left most of his collection to the Government Museum in Chennai for future researchers, while some have found their way into the Indian Museum in Calcutta via the GSI.
But none of that takes anything away from the clear and present danger represented by his  proposed unmaskings on Twitter and his ruthless efforts to rape and despoil, virgin wilderness planets.
The first will drag some of us back to the dark-ages of 2002 and the second - as I said - could get us all killed.Sunday, April 11, 2010
No one concerned?
I have been reading several blogs lately, and not only am I concerned with the well being of my Toyota, I am also concerned about the deplorable spelling and grammar that inflicts general society. I am no elitist; however, when people are attempting at spelling words such as you're (spelled your) or to (spelled too), it is distracting from the main issue (however benign it may be). If any one of these posts is to be taken seriously, can't it be run through a spell check? Oh look, there it is in one of the options above my post! I don't know if I should consider the Toyota drama or America's misspellings more of a crisis!
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Friday, March 5, 2010
For those who want out of their Toyotal loans
There should be a bailout for those owners who want out of their Toyotas
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If you thought it was impossible for Eataly to outdo their flagship Flatiron store, you’ll have to catch an eyeful of the newly opened Eataly Downtown. Located on the third floor of World Trade Center Tower 4, this massive emporium offers all of the Italian eats and treats that visitors have come to love; including a dazzling marketplace selling over 10,000 hyper-regional products. But there’s a whole lot more besides — we’re talking a mozzarella bar, a smoothie station, a breakfast café, a wood-fired bread bakery, a pastry parlor and a bevy of standalone restaurants — so before you go, best to get your bearings with our Eataly Downtown mini tour.
La Pizza & La Pasta: An Eataly empire regular, this casual restaurant is focused on two of Italy’s most beloved imports — slinging Neapolitan-style pizzas traditionally topped with San Marzano tomatoes and mozzarella di bufala, as well as Napoli-sourced dried and fresh, elastic pastas made daily at the adjacent counter; think Ravioli padded with local ricotta and spinach, Pappardelle tossed with wild mushrooms, and Tagliatelle mounded with brisket ragu.
La Piazza: Modeled after bustling Italian city squares, La Piazza is positioned, appropriately enough, right in the center of Eataly; luring in passerby with shareable bites like salumi, formaggi, crudo, antipasti and