On March 24th I’ll launch the book I wrote with a colleage. It’s for speech therapists and audiologists. In English the title would be “Auditory habilities and phonologic awareness: from theory to practice”. As said in the title, there’re theorical chapters and there’re 101 exercises to help children and adults with auditory processing difficults. The book comes in a box, with a CD with 41 recordings and 22 large cards to do some of the exercises.  And I have just received the last issue of the Cognitive Neurosychiatry journal, with the second article related to my thesis! http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/psych/pcnp/2009/00000014/00000001/art00001“

Caroline: 4hrs 14minutes
Andrea: 4hrs 43minutes

A mini reunion, but no doubt it must have been a TON of fun! Attached are photographs of Andrea before and after the marathon!

Ratish is headed to Geneva later this month in case anyone is planning on having a trip out there..

As for Pakistan winning the award? There is an IT industry association here which recognized my company’s efforts at promoting and supporting the IT sector in and around the world, for which we received an award… Felt great! What felt even greater was that Caroline was calling on my phone at the time when I was sitting on stage receiving the award!

If any of you have updates to give or travel dates to share, please feel free to send in an update… These photographs are already posted on the Eisenhower Fellowships group on Facebook. Oh - if you’re wondering what facebook is, please visit www.facebook.com and register yourself an account.. Look some of us up there and we’ll help you…

“To celebrate my sisters life we arranged to spend some time in Barcelona, a magical city. In between our busy lives, we had a special moment. Being together brought a lot of good memories of our unique Eisenhower experience, where all of you were present as well in our heart and minds. Gunvor, Caroline and I plan to be in Malaysia in October and hope to meet as many of our group as possible. Khash, Koby, Bulent, Roberto, Rizwana, Wafa, Fatin, Gregory, Susie, Rafael, Christian, David, Shirleen, Supinya, Marcelo, Ratish, Rabia, Olga, Farith, Kai, Yoichi…hope you and your beloved ones are in good health and shape. We´ll hopefully meet again soon.”

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Thanks Emine! You guys look great!

“There is a YouTube video clip being forwarded that is worth seeing and definitely worth passing around. Its content is an old footage from the “Earth Summit Conference” organized by the United Nations back in 1992, and the scene is taken from a plenary session under the theme, “Development and the Environment”.

The speaker is Severn Suzuki, a 13-year-old Canadian girl, and her audience is world leaders.

Two aspects of the footage got my attention: The speaker, and her message. At the age of 9, Severn started her own Environmental Children’s Organization (ECO), made up of a small group of children committed to teaching other kids about the ongoing environmental crisis. In 1992, Severn and her group raised enough money to attend the Premier Earth Summit in Brazil to warn decision makers of the catastrophic results of their actions - or inactions as we see today - on future generations

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Ratish Nanda has just been appointed to the DUAC!The article in the Indian print newspaper, “The Mail Today” (attached as a jpeg for reference reading also) had this to say:

AFTER dilly-dallying for over three months, the Union ministry of urban development has finally constituted anew panel for the Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC) with the citys renowned urban designer, K.T.Ravindran, as its chairman. The panel also includes conservation architect Ratish Nanda, Delhi University history professor Nayanjot Lahiri and landscape architect Mohammed Shaheer. The new panel has been constituted for a period of three years beginning from the time of assumption of charge.

Phish Communications organizes its eagerly-awaited Month of Photography exhibition, starting on the 13th of June, 2008. Entitled ‘The Magic of Cinema’, the exhibition will cover still and moving works of art, along with the opening of the Magic of Cinema, a Magnum Photos Exhibition.The Month of Photography Asia and the Cathay, in association with Elle’s 5th anniversary invite you to walk the red carpet on the 13th of June - If you’re in Singapore, don’t miss it!