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Applied Physics Research, Vol. 4, No. 1, February 2012
Table of Contents
|Modeling of Magnetic Near-Field Radiated by Electronic Devices Disturbed by Transient Signals with Complex Form
|Yang LIU, Blaise RAVELO, Priscilla Fernandez-Lopez
|A New Look at Cavitation and the Applications of Its Liquid-Phase Effects in the Processing of Food and Fuel
|Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Olga Krasulya, Sergey Shestakov, Raul Rink
|Compressive Sensing Based Robust Signal Sampling
|Lianlin Li, Fang Li
|Low Temperature Bonding of Metals by Deposition of Nanoparticles at the Interface
|Toshio Takiya, Naoaki Fukuda, Ikurou Umezu, Akira Sugimura, Shigeo Ueguri, Hisao Yoshida, Min Han
|Fabrication and Characterisation of Titanium Dioxide Based Dye Sensitized Solar Cell using Flame of the Forest Dye
|Baba Alfa, Matthew Tersoo Tsepav, Raymond Limen Njinga, Ibrahim Abdulrauf
|CdSe/ZnS Core-Shell System Enhance the Efficiency of the White ?Light Generation?
|Abdulla M. Suhail, Akeel Mehdi Kadim, Omar A. Ibrahim, Hind I. Murad
|Mathematical Model of the Spatial Distributing of Density of Erosive Power of Multibubble Cavitation
|Sergey Shestakov, Viktor Babak
|An Analytical and Numerical Investigation of the Optical Vortex Solitons: A Computational Study
|Seyedali Vedad, Alireza Heidari
|ULOF Accident Analysis for 300 MWt Pb-Bi Coolled MOX Fuelled SPINNOR Reactor
|Ade Gafar Abdullah, Zaki Su'ud, Rizal Kurniadi, Neny Kurniasih
|About a New Approach to Control Electron Flow in Unitary Quantum Theory
|Leo G. Sapogin, V. A. Dzhanibekov, V. G. Sapogin
|Violation of the Spatial Quantum Inequality and the Quantum Interest Conjecture: A New Approach
|Dan Solomon
|General Relativity and Universons
|PDF Supp.
|Claude POHER, Patrick MARQUET
|Advances in Black Hole Physics and Dark Matter Modelling of the Galactic Halo
|Andrew Worsley
|A Heuristic Derivation of a Planck-Heisenberg Energy Formula
|Gregory L. Light
|Mars and Venus Entry Simulation Capabilities of IRS Plasma Wind Tunnel PWK3
|Georg Herdrich, Thomas Marynowski
|Electromagnetism with Nanodoped Charges and Currents
|Pierre Hillion
|The Classical Concept of Long-range Action Fields Existence
|Sergey A. Vasiliev
|Bicentennial Decrease of the Total Solar Irradiance Leads to Unbalanced Thermal Budget of the Earth and the Little Ice Age
|Habibullo I. Abdussamatov
|Successful Search for Ether Drift in a Modified Michelson-Morley Experiment Using the GPS
|Stephan J. G. Gift
|Simulation the Hybrid Combinations of 24GHz and 77GHz Automotive Radar
|Yahya S. H. Khraisat
|Microwave Nondestructive Testing Method
|V. I. Gorbunov, V. A. Sutorikhin
|The Development of Ion Nano-beams - A Review
|S. Kalbitzer, V. A. Zhukov
|Inferring the Fact that Static Magnetic Field Exists Along with Electrostatic Field and Conducting Experimental Verification in Accordance with the Theory of Relativity
|Kexin Yao, Zhisheng Wang
|Evolution of Quantum State in the Mesoscopic LC Circuit Driven by a Time Dependent Source
|Xiaojian Xia
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Welcome to My Genealogy Website.
I recently revised the design of the site to use the Genealogical Display Program of RETROSPECT GDS. being more powerful than the method used previously. I left the old system in place in case you have bookmarked them. Access to Retrospect remains via the Menu on the left, I am afraid that I have found it necessary to remove the Old System files. But do not worry, all the data is there on the PhpGedView Database referred to below..
Due to problems that I have encountered in updating the site and in order that the latest information is available, I have found it necessary to move to OzwebGenealogy.com which enables me to have multiple Genealogy Websites using PhpGedView. This software has more facilities than Retrospect consequently the Retrospect Database has been superceded with the new database. You may continue to use Retrospect if you wish but I recommend that you use PhpGedView on OzwebGenealogy due to its improved facilities via the menu.
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Thank you for visiting my site, I hope it is of use to you. Feel free to contact me if you are related to any of my lines, or can tell me where I have made an error which needs correcting. You can also contact me with any problems that you have found in the operation of RETROSPECT or PhpGedView.
Genealogical research is often built on others, I would like to thank Christine Dix, Harold Lean, W J Grose, Clem Edwards, Ross Cotton, Ian Newton, Catherine Southall, Alan and Martin Spiller, Rebecca Cross, Kaye Cochrane and members of my close family, particularly Charles Pollard, Helen Scott and Christine Young for their contributions to this combined work.
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NightSide – Rachel Kaprielian And Staff Draws Low Number Plate Winners
September 13, 2011 9:49 PM
Dan Rea
Dan Rea, a veteran Boston television journalist, is the Host of...Read More
BOSTON (CBS) – Everyone wants to get their hands on those rare low number license plates. Rachel Kaprielian, Registrar of Motor Vehicles, is in studio to draw the lucky winners live!
The full list of low license plate winners can be found on the massDOT webpage. Click here.
Originally broadcast September 13th, 2011.
NightSide with Dan Rea - Rachel Kaprielian
Bonus Audio – The winner of the lowest plate number of the night, Deborah Marsh was finally able to get through to NightSide to share her excitement.


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"Neat . . . sweet . . . petite!Monday, November 25th, 2013
The royal Danes go full Addams,
Faustam fortuna adiuvat
American and Latin American Politics, Society, and Culture.
The royal Danes go full Addams,
J. E. Dyer looks at the topography affecting those tanks Hugo Chavez is receiving from Russia:
Bridges to Bogotá.
Mary O'Grady reports that The U.S. Defends Democracy in Haiti
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice backs the OAS's report of fraud in Haiti's presidential election.
James Pethokoukis asks, Did Wall Street nix GOP push to let states go bankrupt?
Bipartisan seating for the SOTU address tonight? Not for Nancy Pelosi: Pelosi not sitting with Cantor, despite his invitation. Tweet Of The Day: Don't Wait To Ask The Girl To The Prom Edition. Since she won't be sitting behind the President, we shall be spared the sight of Nancy as cheeleader-in-chief to Obama's every word:
Thank goodness for small favors.
Justice Scalia says he hasn't "gone to the State of the Union in at least 10 years, and I'm not starting tomorrow night either." Roger Kimball also has the State of the Union Blues. I think I'll head out to meditation class.
Over at MSNBC, [Chris] Matthews Ties Tea Partiers to 'Nazi Stuff' Moments After Bashing [Glenn] Beck for 'Violent Rhetoric'. Beck is in hot water with Liberals and the New York Times for pointing out Frances Fox Piven's calls for violence. At the Wall Street Journal, James Taranto uncovers the real Advocate of Violence
Frances Fox Piven and the New York Times's dishonest campaign for "civility." American Power has video of Beck's follow-up,
Matt Keller ponders The Most Useful College Class I Ever Took, or: "Everyone Loves Raymond, unless Raymond owns more land than you and his Livestock eats your feed" Via Pundette, Mark Steyn writes about the Danish show trials,
The Danish Member of Parliament Jesper Langballe commented on the Hedegaard case and was himself charged with "racism". While preparing his defense, he was also told by the court that "defendants in cases brought under Article 266b are denied the right to prove their case".
That's why these are heresy trials, and only the first of many. The prosecutors think Hedegaard, Langballe, Wilders, Mrs Sabbaditsch-Wolff et al are apostates from the new state religion of multiculturalism. Thuggish Muslim lobby groups, on the other hand, consider them heretics against Islam. In practice, it makes little difference, and multiculturalism is merely an interim phase, a once useful cover for an Islamic imperialism so confident it now barely needs one. The good news is that European prosecutors are doing such a grand job with their pilot program of show trials you'll hardly notice the difference when sharia is formally instituted.
Back in the USA, just because you're a Cabinet member doesn't mean the POTUS can spare any time with you, and just because you are First Lady doesn't mean you can get good tailoring.
Last but not least, Artsy And They Spared Us the Speedos
Brian Preston writes about Taqiyya: WikiLeaked Docs Reveal Syria's Role in the Cartoon Riots
Orchestrated chaos to serve political ends. Plus: Taqiyya: The Movie!. Taqiyya means deception, and that it was,
The cartoon riots were a trick, perpetrated by unscrupulous imams and their backers, for the purpose of intimidating the West into adapting Islamist codes of speech policing, and for the purpose of generating fear and loathing of the West up and down that fabled Islamic street. It all worked quite well, thanks in no small part to the Western media's cowardly behavior throughout.
Now, to the incriminating doc concerning Syria. At the time of the riots, it was fairly obvious that various and sundry despots around the Middle East were using the Danish cartoon controversy for their own ends. Syria's hands were bloody, as they tend to be in any crisis.
Here's where the real taqiyya comes into play:
(C) xxxxxxx assessed that the SARG allowed the rioting to continue for an extended period and then, when it felt that "the message had been delivered," it reacted with serious threats of force to stop it. He described the message to the U.S. and the broader international community as follows: "This is what you will have if we allow true democracy and allow Islamists to rule." To the Islamic street all over the region, the message was that the SARG is protecting the dignity of Islam, and that the SARG is allowing Muslims freedom on the streets of Damascus they are not allowed on the streets of Cairo, Amman, or Tunis.
Notice the dual messages. To the West, the riots were orchestrated and intended to send the West a message: Leave us despots alone or you'll get nothing but chaos. The Syrian Ba'ath Party had every incentive to send that particular message to a United States that had just toppled the neighboring Ba'ath dictatorship in Iraq. Assad didn't want to end up like Saddam. To those who embodied the chaos, the rioters themselves, Assad sent a different message: We, the secular Syrian government, are your guardians from those nasties in the West. Trust us to keep Islam pure.
Go read the rest of the article, while bearing in mind that the cartoonists are living in hiding.
Danish police shoot intruder at cartoonist's home
Danish police have shot and wounded a man at the home of Kurt Westergaard, whose cartoon depicting the Prophet Muhammad sparked an international row.
Mr Westergaard scrambled into a panic room at his home in Aarhus after a man wielding an axe and a knife broke in.
The BBC had first reported that the intruder was wielding a hammer, not an axe.
Danish officials said the intruder was a 28-year-old Somali, who they did not name, but said was linked to the radical Islamist al-Shabab militia.
The cartoon, printed in 2005, prompted violent protests the following year.
The intruder was able to get in, in spite of the existing security measures:
His house has been heavily fortified and is under close police protection.
Police said the man had entered Mr Westergaard's house armed with a knife and axe and had shouted in broken English that he wanted to kill him.
Mr Westergaard ran to a specially designed panic room where he raised the alarm.
Too bad the Danes don't issue gun permits.
These are the cartoons, which, by the way, Yale University Press didn't have the courage to publish in a book about them:
The Telegraph says,
Mr Westergaard's cartoon was seen at the time as the most controversial, as it depicted the Prophet with a bomb in his turban.
"Controversial" but entirely vindicated by events since. To return to the theme of my post a couple of days back, a significant percentage of Muslims in the west do not understand concepts such as pluralism and freedom of expression. A further percentage understand them very well but reject them as loser fetishes incompatible with the requirements of Islamic supremacism – and have a shrewd sense that when, push comes to shove, a lot of these fine liberal concepts crumble to nothing. Is the percentage of Muslims who support Mr Westergaard's right to free expression and the broader principles of intellectual liberty sufficient to make the importation of legions of "27-year old Somalians" a net benefit to Denmark?
The answer to that seems obvious. But Mr Westergaard is 74, and I'll bet his half-century-younger attacker grasps however crudely the demographic symbolism, in Scandinavia and beyond.
Noticias 24 reports that Westergaard was at home with his five year old
grandson granddaughter. Noticias 24 also has a photo of the police standing in front of Westergaard's house after the incident:
More photos of the location at Noticias 24.
Prior posts on the Mohammed cartoons here
Welcome to the Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean.
The story of the week: the Copenhagen Climate Talks.
The ALBA's sucre bill is no such thing
Noteworthy article from last February's WaPo: Latin America's Document-Driven Revolutions
Team of Spanish Scholars Helped Recast Constitutions in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador
Argentina's Dirty War Orphans
Bolivia seizes land from TV network owner
Bolivia Pres Morales Calls For Billions In Climate Reparations
'Mr. Bolivia' wins world's most handsome man contest
Los pensamientos de Lula
Roubini Says Brazil Real Overvalued, New Laws Needed
Resource-rich Brazil puts up its guard
The nation is reviving its space program as part of a push to secure its territory. 'In the coming era of scarcity, we're going to have to defend what we've got,' a consultant to the Defense Ministry
Another Test for the Chilean Model
Chile's presidential election
Piñera flies the flag: Sebastián Piñera, an airline tycoon, is well placed to break his country's political mould. But he promises less change than meets the eye
Security in Colombia
Calling freedom: How mobile phones may help to deter kidnaps
Colombia to Build Military Bases on Venezuela Border
Tell me again how American tourists can make a difference in Cuba?
For those of you who think Cubans actually own a house in Cuba, Karina's patio is neither private nor special*
Before he left for Denmark, Hugo stopped in Havana: Fidel gives Chávez a breakfast sendoff
Ecuador Parliament Discusses Education Law
Rash of public lynchings hit Guatemala
Mistrust of justice system to blame, experts say (h/t Islam in Europe)
Guest blog: Enough is enough!
Manuel Zelaya: Eligible to lose Honduran citizenship
Mexico City backs gay marriage in Latin American first
Via Gates of Vienna, Islam is the new religion in rebellious Mexican state Chiapas
Pro-Iranian Chavista Daniel Ortega overturns term limits
Birds of a feather (sort of)
Sotomayor disappointed by 'wise Latina' souvenirs. Let's hope no one's bought her one of the NY Times t-shirts for peoples of color as a Christmas gift.
As the adoring crowd cheers Chavez in Copenhagen, the environmental record of the revolution is abysmal
That "inherited" excuse getting popular with Leftists these days
VIDEO Chavez declares himself a Marxist:
Losers of the world unite – in Denmark
All you really need to know about them
Venezuela Imprisons Judge Who Freed Banker Without Trial
Venezuela's Chavez accuses Dutch of aggression
Venezuela passes banking law raising government control
Morning Bell: The Hugo Chavez Case for Cap and Trade
Daily Gut: Green–It's the New Red
Anunciantes que abandonaron a Tiger Woods acuden al Presidente Chávez
Putting our economy in the hands of Chavez fans
The week's posts and podcasts:
Jake Tapper picks up the scent of Chavez's sulfur
Chavez: Obama smells of sulfur, too
Chile's new prosperity: 15 Minutes on Latin America
Chavez does Denmark
At Real Clear World:
Former Sinaloa Drug Lord Dead in Shootout
Last Friday I translated and posted Hugo Chavez's video (in Spanish) where he says Obama smells of sulfur, during his speech at the Copenhagen Climate Summit,
Vlad Tepes subtitled the video with my translation and posted it on YouTube.
The media, which made a huge fuss over the times that Chavez said that GW Bush smelled of sulfur, has ignored Chavez's insult to Obama.
About the only one who hasn't is Jake Tapper, who posted my subtitled video,
At Copenhagen, Chávez Suggests Obama is the Devil and posted my translation.
I wish Jake would have linked to my post particularly since I specifically request it because this is a professional translation, but looking at the bright side, the subtitled YouTube has had over 11,000 viewings – so I appreciate that he picked up the YouTube.
I'll be talking about this and other news in today's podcast at 11AM. The Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean will be up later this afternoon.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk:
Iranian Prime Minister Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe plan to address negotiators at international climate talks in Copenhagen next week.
The three leaders are listed in a line-up of more than 180 government officials published in a United Nations schedule of speakers. Each head of state will have up to three minutes to address roughly 700 delegates, reporter, observers and civil society groups.
They will all be demanding US financial assistance, no doubt.
Ooooh yeah, babeee….
Vanity Fair heaps praise on the Vanderbilt Divinity School drop-out and self-ordained pope of the cult of Anthropogenic Global Warming: Al Gore: The Poet Laureate of Climate Change
Among the brilliance shared by Gore is this (not sure what to call it),
The shepherd cries
The hour of choosing has arrived
Here are your tools
Vanity Fair asks "Is Gore himself that shepherd?" He probably sees himself as the sheperd who will lead us like meek sheep to the promised land, along with the help of countless media tools like Vanity Fair, and other ones like the people who awarded him the Nobel Prize, and the hardcore believers who don't want us to breathe because we exhale CO2.
On the breathing, Roger Kimball urges us, Don't Hold Your Breath! Humans for Respiration, Unite! While you're still allowed to breathe, hold on to your wallet: The AGW farce will cost us plenty, as you can see in these two articles,
James Pethokoukis writes on The EPA and Obama's Uncertainty Tax
the only thing certain about the EPA ruling is more regulatory uncertainty leading to less economic growth and fewer jobs. Bad news, to be sure, for American businesses already flummoxed by the mercurial state of healthcare, financial and tax reform. Call it Obama's Uncertainty Tax.
While a cap-and-trade bill has already passed the House of Representatives, few Capitol Hill observers expected the Senate to approve one, even by the end of 2010 thanks to the anemic economy and political risks for incumbent Democrats facing midterm elections. What's more, expectations of a more Republican-leaning congress after 2010 made it seem like economy-wide carbon caps were sliding off the Obama agenda for the foreseeable future.
But now it's conceivable carbon restrictions would be implemented as early as next year – even though the EPA itself admits its efforts would be more disruptive and less efficient than congressional action. Such an optimistic timetable assumes no legal challenges. But there will be plenty of those. Already, business groups are preparing to file suit against the EPA. It could fall to U.S. courts to determine the future of the nation's approach to climate policy. This is a nightmare scenario for the private sector when it comes to planning for new expansion or hiring. Note that the big problem with the job market at the moment is not so much job losses and zippo new jobs being created. It will take a year of 4 percent growth adding 250,000 jobs a month to lower the unemployment rate to 9 percent.
Of course, about the only thing worse than regulatory uncertainty would be for the EPA to follow through with its top-down, command-and-control approach to dealing with perceived climate change.
While we're dealing with that, the tools at the UN want our money: William Jacobson has the details, UN Climate Chief to US: "Show Me The Money"
Jacobson points out,
None of this is surprising. The global climate change industry is all about shaking the dollars and cents out of our pockets. From Al Gore's profiteering off of the hysteria he has created, to the large corporate interests involved in selling "green" as a marketing tool, to researchers willing to stifle debate and tamper with data so as to justify funding, to an internationalist movement interested in transfer of wealth as a social policy, the global climate change debate is all about showing the money.
The "show me the money" line is from the movie Jerry Maguire, about a desperate sports agent willing to do anything. So fitting that the UN climate change guru now uses such a crass phrase
Perhaps the UN guy's been reading Shakespeare, where Iago, one of the great villains, says,
Put money in thy purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favor with an usurp'd beard. I say put money in thy purse.
Thing is, that's our money he's talking about.
UPDATE, Thursday 10 December
Defused Lethal Al Gore Poem Released by Government
Andrew Gilligan reports from the summit zoo:
Copenhagen climate summit: 1,200 limos, 140 private planes and caviar wedges
Copenhagen is preparing for the climate change summit that will produce as much carbon dioxide as a town the size of Middlesbrough.
According to the organisers, the eleven-day conference, including the participants' travel, will create a total of 41,000 tonnes of "carbon dioxide equivalent", equal to the amount produced over the same period by a city the size of Middlesbrough.
For those of us not familiar, Middlesbrough has a population of 142,691 or so, larger than Savannah, Ga (or a small African country).
As it turns out there aren't enough limos on Denmark to meet demand, so they're bringing them from Germany and Sweden:
Ms Jorgensen reckons that between her and her rivals the total number of limos in Copenhagen next week has already broken the 1,200 barrier. The French alone rang up on Thursday and ordered another 42. "We haven't got enough limos in the country to fulfil the demand," she says. "We're having to drive them in hundreds of miles from Germany and Sweden."
And why bother flying coach?
The airport says it is expecting up to 140 extra private jets during the peak period alone, so far over its capacity that the planes will have to fly off to regional airports – or to Sweden – to park, returning to Copenhagen to pick up their VIP passengers.
Looks like the Swedes are having a sweet time from all this, but the hotels in Copenhagen are loving it,
The top hotels – all fully booked at £650 a night – are readying their Climate Convention menus of (no doubt sustainable) scallops, foie gras and sculpted caviar wedges.
I'm curious at how does one sculpt caviar, but I digress.
Ironically, about the only ones who won't be rolling in dough are the whores,
the local sex workers' union – they have unions here – has announced that all its 1,400 members will give free intercourse to anyone with a climate conference delegate's pass. The term "carbon dating" just took on an entirely new meaning.
Gilligan says
At least the sex will be C02-neutral
but he forgets that humans emit CO2, particularly from all that heavy breathing.
But hey, Christmas is a religious holiday that has no place at a United Nations function, so there won't be any Christmas trees.
The global alarmists wouldn't want to have competition for their faith-based cult, would they?
One of the problems facing the negotiators at Copenhagen is what to do with the mountain of carbon credits that Russia threatens to put on the market. In a news report late last month, the Washington Post noted that under the formula reached under the Kyoto Protocol, "Russia is expected to post the largest absolute drop in emissions from 1990 levels of any of the countries that signed the treaty. But the decline is almost entirely the result of the 1991 collapse of the Soviet economy rather than environmental measures by the government. Critics say Moscow doesn't deserve to keep its carbon credits because it didn't earn them with any special effort. " The West could retrospectively compensate the Russians for the collapse of the Soviet economy.
How else to face this? Borrowing!
"Borrow to the hilt to stop global warming, says Lord Stern",
Imagine that. A global warming dyed in the wool believer thinks borrowing to the hilt is a good idea.
In the meantime, China, India, Brazil and South Africa are not going along with the recommendation to cut emissions. I'm willing to bet that their whores remain honest and insist on demanding cold hard cash, too.
Al won't be going to the conference. Maybe he's contemplating going into the conference limo rental business, if only to leverage himself from the possible loss in the carbon-credit business.
Copenhagen, Hope 'n hagen,
In last-minute stunner, Obama changes plans to attend final day of Copenhagen talks
On Friday, the Obama administration announced a startling shift in plans: rather than stop by the Copenhagen climate talks on Dec. 9, Obama will be going on the 18th, the final day of the meeting—a notable increase in commitment (and political exposure) from the administration.
The first week of every COP meeting consists of posturing, speeches, protests, and NGO reports. Everything of significance to the treaty is announced late in the meetings, often on the last day, after a flurry of last-minute negotiations. Coming to Copenhagen at the climax of the talks, specifically to push negotiations "over the top," as the White House statement says, is a risky move for Obama. He's got skin in the game now; he'll look foolish if he rides in at the last minute and fails to broker an agreement.
If he's willing to stick his neck out like this, Obama must be pretty confident that he can get a deal.
Weren't they saying that when Obama went to Copenhagen to get the Olympics for Chicago? How did that work out?
Dan points out,
The fierce urgency of now is much more fierce than it was regarding the troops in Afghanistan, after all.
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Wonderful stuff. Thanks.Cheers
A very fun and insightful read!
What an adventure—a great read and sparkling photography. Well done!Cheers,Rick
From "Alles in Ordnung" all the way to " Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita".....Great write up, beautiful pictures....thanks so much!
The pilgrim aspect identifies something that has eluded me in describing travel. We are all pilgrims, in search of our own grail, in the wilderness or populated spaces. Of course, the ultralight aspect is of interest. It fits with a pilgrimage too, leaving the material world behind and only taking the most elemental supplies to complete the journey. Rome is such a fitting end to a journey. What a mind-blowing city!
Thanks a lot for your trip report. I'm from Europe, currently living in Switzerland, and I totally agree that the notion of wilderness and long-distance backpacking is very different here than in the States.In Europe, accommodation is available almost everywhere within day's walking distance, including remote mountain areas and farmlands. It would be in fact possible to travel just with a rainjacket and credit card in your pocket. You can also use the dense network of public transit to skip over uninteresting parts like big city suburbs.On the other hand, it is very difficult to plan a trip if you want to sleep in a tent or under a tarp. In most European countries (with the exception of Scandinavia and few others) it is generally forbidden to camp outside of designated areas (campings), which are usually crammed with RVs and motor homes.Bivouacs are sometimes tolerated in the high mountains, and you can certainly spend a night in tent pitched on a forest clearing in less populated areas if you keep low profile, but you'd be still in a shady legal area at best.
Thanks for the hike and history. Kinda bad there's less wild camping in that portion of Europe. Wish there were something analogous to the AT through Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and maybe the "Benelux" countries, terminating in Amsterdam.
Although I'd prefer a more camping-based hike the landscape through which you walked sounds spectacular. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks for the inspiring article!I'm from Belgium and agree that In Europe civilization is (most of the time) only a day's march away.But if you want to wild camp that's also perfectly possible. All you need to do is a little planning to avoid densely populated areas. This can be done very easily in for example Scotland, Scandinavia, some parts of Germany, etc. In France there's even something called 'the diagonal of emptiness', it's a geographical line from the north-east to the south-west of France. This line covers an area with a very low population density. Bivouacing (camping for one night) is also permitted in France if you respect certain rules.Of course a pilgrimage, like the one from the article, is a different way of travelling with other benefits and interest points than hiking desolate areas.
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Nice story and beautiful pictures. Made me recall Thoreau's Walking...I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life whounderstood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks--who had agenius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived"from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, andasked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre," to the HolyLand, till the children exclaimed, "There goes a Sainte-Terrer," aSaunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in theirwalks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but theywho do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some,however, would derive the word from sans terre without land or a home,which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particularhome, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret ofsuccessful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may bethe greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, isno more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the whilesedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer thefirst, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk isa sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forthand reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels.
Nice story. Heard you on Rick Steves I think.
Great Story. My friend and I this spring did a bike tour with a bit of hiking from Northern France to Santiago and beyond. Traveling the pilgrimage is simple, easy and beautiful - and we were stealthcamping as often as possible and never eating in restaurants. We did imagine though, that if we were walking and had a much larger budget, we could live with only a smart phone, debit card, poncho, toothbrush and earplugs.Reading this makes me want to take a plane to somewhere in Europe and just see where the wind takes me...
What a fantastic account of a European walk! Its a great change of pace to the typical forests and mountains.
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It has been nearly two years since the St. Louis Rams last posted a winning streak. Doing so this weekend could be a lot tougher if Steven Jackson isn't able to suit up against the Seattle Seahawks.
Coming off their first home win since the 2008 season, the Rams look to snap a 10-game slide to the Seahawks this Sunday at the Edward Jones Dome.
The Rams dropped their first two games of the season to push their overall losing streak to 10 games dating back to last year, but came away with a 30-16 victory over the visiting Washington Redskins last Sunday. It marked St. Louis' first win as the host since Oct. 19, 2008, snapping an NFL record-tying 14-game slide in the Gateway City.
Quarterback Sam Bradford threw for 235 yards with a touchdown as the top overall pick of the 2010 draft earned his first victory as a pro.
St. Louis was able to defeat Washington despite losing safety Oshiomogho Atogwe during the game because of a lingering quad injury. The Rams were already without their other starting safety, Craig Dahl, due to a concussion.
The Rams now seek consecutive wins for the first time since Oct. 12-19, 2008 — and at home for the first time since 2006 — but might have to do so without Jackson. The former Pro Bowl running back scored on a 42-yard run in the first quarter, helping the Rams build a 14-0 lead they failed to hold, but left during the second quarter due to a groin injury.
"We lose some of our best players not out there and some other guys stepped in and did a nice job," said Spagnuolo after Sunday's win. "We've got a lot of issues injury-wise. We're really banged up and it's early in the season, so we've got to overcome that."
An MRI on Monday showed that Jackson has a strain as opposed to a more serious tear, and the Rams are hopeful he can go this weekend. Jackson, listed as day-to-day, has played through pain before, as he battled through a back injury last year.
The Seahawks would prefer to see Jackson on the sidelines as they hope to avoid their first loss to the Rams since Nov. 14, 2004. Seattle picked up its second home victory in as many games this year with a 27-20 triumph over the San Diego Chargers last Sunday.
Seattle's defense forced five turnovers in the game, but it was kick returner Leon Washington who stole the show. The running back posted two return touchdowns in the game, taking the opening kick of the second half a club- record 101 yards for a score before posting the go-ahead touchdown with a 99- yard return with 6:24 left in regulation.
"It's important for us to show that we can play against a team like this," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said. "Leon was just magical [Sunday]."
Carroll's club is now searching for its first road win of the season after losing at Denver in Week 2 and could have some fresh bodies on the offensive line. Left tackle Russell Okung returned to practice this week along with left guard Chester Pitts, and both could make their season debuts in this game.
Okung, the sixth overall pick of the 2010 draft, suffered a high ankle sprain back on Aug. 21 and hadn't practiced since, while Pitts is recovering from knee surgery that he underwent last season while with the Houston Texans.
Sunday could also mark the debut of Seahawks wide receiver Brandon Stokley after the veteran signed with the club on Tuesday.
The Seahawks lead the all-time series with the Rams, 14-9, and currently own a 10-game winning streak over their NFC West rivals. Seattle was a 28-0 winner when St. Louis visited Qwest Field in Week 1 of last season, and completed the sweep with a 27-17 win at the Edward Jones Dome in Week 12. The Rams' last wins of any kind in the series came in 2004, when they swept a home-and-home with their NFC West rival and went on to defeat them at Qwest Field in an NFC First-Round Playoff.
The latter contest, a 27-20 road win for the Rams, marks the only postseason meeting between the teams all-time.
Carroll is 0-1 in his career against the Rams, with his 1998 New England Patriots team falling in St. Louis. Spagnuolo is 0-2 against Seattle as a head coach, and will be meeting Carroll for the first time head-to-head.
Washington's return game helped bail out an offense that ranks just 29th in the NFL and managed only 271 yards versus the Chargers last week. Still, Seattle is scoring an average of 24 points per game, tied for eighth-most in the league. The Seahawks could get little going on the ground against San Diego, as Justin Forsett (150 rushing yards) accumulated 17 of Seattle's 21 rush attempts and posted 63 yards. The Seahawks have yet to get a rushing touchdown from one of their running backs — quarterback Matt Hasselbeck has two — and is averaging just 84.7 yards per game on the ground. That has put some pressure on Hasselbeck (623 passing yards, 4 TD, 5 INT), who threw for 220 yards against the Chargers. He was intercepted once and sacked three times, including once for a safety, but did manage a nine-yard touchdown throw to tight end and leading receiver John Carlson (13 receptions, 1 TD). Carlson and Deion Branch (12 receptions, 1 TD) both ended with five catches and combined for 121 receiving yards. Rookie wide receiver Golden Tate (5 receptions) added four catches for 33 yards and Forsett made three receptions for 31 yards.
Though the Rams are tied for 24th in total defense, they have been stingy in keeping teams out of the end zone and are yielding only 16.3 points per game. They limited the Redskins to just one touchdown and three field goals this past weekend, despite yielding 349 yards of offense. St. Louis did allow 116 yards on the ground, slightly below its 133.7 per game average on the season. Seattle, though, may elect to go to the air in this game if both Atogwe (19 tackles) and Dahl (14 tackles) can't go. James Butler started in Dahl's place, while Darian Stewart is listed behind Atogwe on the depth chart. Atogwe made four tackles before exiting last week's game early, while linebacker James Laurinaitis (21 tackles, 1 sack) made a team-best seven stops. St. Louis owns a plus-one turnover differential and came away with a pair of takeaways versus the Redskins. Cornerback Bradley Fletcher (14 tackles, 1 INT) grabbed his club's third interception of the season, while linebacker Na'il Diggs (9 tackles) was able to force a fumble that was recovered by Butler (7 tackles, 1 INT). Defensive end James Hall (9 tackles, 2 sacks) came away with the Rams' lone sack.
One would think that an early injury to Jackson (214 rushing yards, 1 TD) would be enough to doom the Rams, but they were able to rally back past the Redskins thanks to solid play by the reserves. While Jackson had 58 yards on 10 carries before his injury, Kenneth Darby (51 rushing yards, 1 TD) chipped in with 14 rush attempts for 49 yards and notched the go-ahead score with a 12-yard run during the third quarter. Darby figures to get the start if Jackson can't go, though Keith Toston did add 22 yards on 11 carries last week. Bradford (655 passing yards, 4 TD, 5 INT) completed 23-of-37 pass attempts and was picked off once in addition to throwing a three-yard touchdown toss to tight end Daniel Fells (8 receptions, 1 TD) as part of St. Louis' 14-point first quarter. Wide receiver Danny Amendola (16 receptions) made a team-high six catches for 56 yards and Mark Clayton (17 receptions, 2 TD) added five receptions for another 85 yards. In all, Bradford completed a pass to nine different receivers, a good sign for the league's 24th-ranked offense. Should Jackson play, he would need just 39 yards to pass Marshall Faulk (6,959) for second on the club's all-time rushing list.
The Seahawks were able to claim a victory last weekend despite allowing 518 total yards of offense, marking their first win after giving up 500-plus yards since Nov. 24, 2002. Seattle's five takeaways were the reason that was possible, and two of those came in the form of interceptions by safety Earl Thomas (21 tackles, 2 INT), who became the first Seattle rookie to pick off two passes in the same game since Nov. 4, 1984. Pressure on quarterback Philip Rivers probably helped Thomas, as end Chris Clemons (11 tackles, 2 sacks) had two of Seattle's four sacks. Tackle Brandon Mebane (7 tackles, 1 sack) and end Raheem Brock (5 tackles, 2 sacks) also got to the quarterback, while massive right defensive end Red Bryant (9 tackles, 1 sack) recovered a pair of fumbles. Strong safety Lawyer Milloy (23 tackles) led the team with 12 tackles, while linebacker David Hawthorne (15 tackles) came away with nine stops. Pressure on Bradford will again be key, seeing as the Seahawks are ranked 30th in the NFL in pass defense at 315.7 yards allowed per game. They yielded 455 to Rivers and rookie corner Walter Thurmond (9 tackles) was forced to make seven tackles.
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I have been designing an interesting, novel (as far as I know) data structure. Its goal is to estimate a very large number Bayesian models in the smallest possible space and time. Sublinear complexity in space and time as well as online updates area key requirement.
The key idea is to combine particle filters and sketches in a single powerful tool. That's why I call them Particle Sketches.
I devised them as a tool to track the posting behavior of a very large set of Twitter users, in order to decide who to follow using Twitter streaming API and who to follow using the Rest API based on their expected tweeting frequency and distribution across the day and week. The data structure is however totally generic and suitable to all kind of large-scale data estimation problem: I can surely see applications in high-frequency trading and website traffic forecast.
Let's look at the building blocks first.
Particle Filters —otherwise known as Sequential Monte Carlo method— are model estimation techniques based on simulations. They are used to estimate Bayesian models in which the latent variables are connected in a Markov chain, typically when the state space of the latent variables is continuous and not sufficiently restricted to make exact interference tractable.
In practice, they work by maintaining a set of differently-weighted samples —called particles— that represent the expected distribution of the latent variable. You can then "filter", which in this context mean determine the distribution at a specific time, by estimating how the particle swarm should have evolved under the observed variable (e.g. time).
On update, a new set of weighted particles is generated influenced by new observations. You can check Wikipedia's page on particle filters for details or the multitude of pages about them available on the Internet.
The key fact here is that particle filters are composed by a set of discrete, importance-weighted particles and their distribution is effectively the sum of these particles.
We can thus split up a particle filter into multiple smaller filters by splitting up the particles into them. If we pick the particles at random, we should end up with essentially the same distribution among all of them.
If we add noise to a few of these sub-filters, the cumulative distribution of the sum of all of them will still be fairly close to the original estimated distribution. It will be even more true if we can account for the noise and remove its effect.
Count-Min (CM) Sketches are probabilistic, memory efficient data structures that allow one to estimate frequency-related properties of a data set (estimate frequencies of particular items, find top-K frequent elements, performance range frequency queries —i.e. find the sum of the frequencies of elements within a given range— such as estimate percentiles).
They are conceptually quite simple, they maintain a two-dimensional array [w, d] of integer counters. A set of d random hash functions with co-domain between 0 and w is used to choose which counters to update whenever we a new sample arrives.
Given an item, we can estimate its frequency by looking at all buckets in the two-dimensional array and choosing the one with the lowest value.
CM sketches are extremely memory efficient: for example, 48 KB are sufficient to calculate the top-100 most frequent elements in a 40 MB dataset with 4% error.
CM sketches tend to perform better with highly-skewed distributions, such as those generated by power laws or Zipf-like distributions.
In case of low or moderately skewed data, a more careful estimation can be done by accounting for the noise due to hash collisions: for example, by estimating and removing the noise for each hash function (calculated as the average value of all remaining counters) and choosing the median instead of the minimum as the estimated frequency. This variation is called Count-Mean-Min Sketch.
There are many other interesting properties of CM Sketches, such as various algebraic operations that they support or a way to measure how different two sketches are — calculating the cosine distance between them.
For a good explanation of CM Sketches with sample code, check this nice post on highlyscalable. For deeper knowledge, check this site.
Particle Sketches replace the counters with particle filters. On each new observation, a set of filters is selected using hash functions and, for each of them, only a random subset of the particles is updated.
To obtain a distribution for a given item, we put together all the particle filters that are associated with that item. For better performance, we can estimate and remove the expected noise due to collisions in a way analogous to Count-Mean-Min sketches.
The nice thing is that many cool properties of CM Sketches are preserved. For example, by putting all particle filters together we have an estimation of the cumulative distribution of the whole population. Using techniques similar to those used to estimate the top-K elements in a set, we can calculate the cumulative particle filters of a sub-population and so on.
It's still a work in progress, I am still exploring the characteristics of these models and the best way to merge together multiple particle filters discarding the peculiar noise generated by (pardon the repetition) structure of this data structure.
Possible improvements: stacking together particle sketches at different resolutions, it should be possible to decompose these models in a way analogous to wavelet decomposition. It should make it possible to use even a more compact representation, thus dually to have —if we use the same bits of information— a more faithful model with less noise.
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Each year Williams proudly celebrates the accomplishments, friendships and generous support of alumni commemorating their 25th reunion. Classmates celebrating their 25th are honored–along with members of the 50th reunion class–throughout Reunion Weekend in June, especially during the Annual Meeting of the Society of Alumni. In celebration of the event, the 25th reunion class presents a reunion gift to the president of the College.
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Class of 1991 25th Reunion Fund Chair: Tom Morgan
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Lachlan Walker was particularly excited, stating "Sheraton Mirage Port Douglas is exceptionally proud to be supporting W&M Enterprises in establishing the new Eco Cab on to the roads around the village of Port Douglas. This Eco Cab represents our continuous efforts towards caring for the environment here locally with our breathtaking Reef and beautiful Rainforest, as well as being a step ahead in the campaign to tackle global environmental issues. We look forward to having the public get involved in supporting this, ensuring the Eco Cabs success."
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Parking at British railway stations may never be the same again if a new Dutch-style Cyclepoint which launches at next year at Leeds station is a success.
In Holland Cyclepoints (they are called Fietspoints over there) combine a secure cycle parking garage with a bike shop. The first UK Cyclepoint will be run by Northern Rail which operates out of Leeds station, the Northern Rail franchise is owned by the Dutch national rail company Ned Railways and it will be working with Network Rail, which owns the station, Leeds City Council, the CTC, and the West Yorkshire PTE to open the Cyclepoint by early 2010.
In Holland Fietpoints offer manned secure cycle storage along with bike retail, repair and hire facilities and it is envisaged that the same format will be used here. Something similar already operates in Bristol where the Mud Dock bike shop received funding from the city council a few years ago to offer secure parking, showers and changing facilities to cycle commuters. The shop though is not attached to a station.
Dutch Fietspoints are not expected to make a profit but to cover their costs and they are subsided by the rail company during the initial set up phase.
Ned Railways found that in Holland when station car parks were full, the number of off-peak train journeys were reduced. However, when money and effort was pumped into creating thousands of secure bike parking spaces, the number of passenger train journeys increased. Peak time passengers also increased.
According to Northern Rail they expect the Leeds Cyclepoint to have covered all it's costs by 2012. If it is a success more are such facilities will follow.
Here's a some video of a Fietspoint in action shot by Carlton Reid who filmed a recent study tour to Holland by the all party Parliamentary Cycling Group to see bikes and trains in action
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I do enjoy some good chemical biology, and the latest Cell has another good example from the Cravatt group at Scripps (working with a team at Brigham and Women's Hospital over here on this coast). What they've done is profile various types of tumor cells using an activity-based probe to search for changes in serine hydrolase enzymes. Those are a large and diverse class (with quite a few known drug targets in them already), and there had already been reports that activity in this area was altered as cancer cell lines became more aggressive.
What they tracked down was an enzyme called MAGL (monoacylglyceride lipase). That's an interesting finding. Cancer cells have long been known to have different ideas about lipid handling, and several enzymes in that metabolic area have been proposed over the years as drug targets. (The first one I can think of is fatty acid synthase (FAS), whose elevated presence has been correlated with poor outcome in several tumor types). In general, aggressive tumor cells seem to run with higher levels of free fatty acids, for reasons that aren't quite clear. Some of the downstream products are signaling molecule, and some of these lipids may just be needed for elevated levels of cell membrane synthesis.
But it looks from this paper as if MAGL could be the real lipid-handling target that oncology people have been looking for, though. The teams inhibited the enzyme with a known small molecule (well, relatively small), and also via RNA knockdown, and in both cases they were able to disrupt growth of tumor cell lines. The fiercer the cells, the more they were affected, which tracked with the MAGL activity they had initially. On the other hand, inducing higher expression of MAGL in relatively tame tumor cells turned them aggressive and hardy. They have a number of lines of evidence in this paper, and they all point the same way.
One of those might be important for other reasons. The teams took the cell lines with impaired MAGL activity, and wondered if this could be rescued by providing them with the expected products that the enzyme would deliver. Stearic and palmitic acid are two of the fatty acids whose levels seem to be heavily regulated by MAGL, and sure enough, providing the MAGL-deficient cells with these restored their growth and mobility. As the paper points out specifically, this could have implications for a relationship between obesity and tumorigenesis. (I'd add a recommendation to look with suspicion at other conditions that lead to higher-than-usual levels of circulating free fatty acids, such as type II diabetes, or even fasting).
It may be that I particularly enjoyed this paper because I have a lipase-inhibiting past. As anyone who's run my name through SciFinder or Google Scholar has noticed, I helped lead a team some years ago that developed a series of inhibitors for hormone-sensitive lipase, a potential diabetes target. We were scuppered, though, by the fact that this enzyme does (at least) two different things in two totally different kinds of tissue. Out in fat and muscle, it helps hydrolyze glycerides (in fact, it's right in the same metabolic line as MAGL), and that's the activity we were targeting. But in steroidogenic tissues, it's known as neutral cholesteryl ester hydrolase, and it breaks those down to provide cholesterol for steroid biosynthesis. Unfortunately, when you inhibit HSL, you also do nasty things to the adrenals and a few other tissues. There's no market for a drug that gives you Addison's disease, I can tell you.
So I wondered when I saw this paper if MAGL has a dual life as well. If I'd ever worked in analgesia or cannabinoid receptor pharmacology, though, I'd have already known the answer. MAGL also regulates the levels of several compounds that signal through the endocannabinoid pathway, and has been looked at as a target in those areas. None of this seems to have an affect on the oncology side of things, though - this latest paper also looked at CB receptor effects on their cell lines that were deficient in MAGL, and found no connection there.
So, what we have from this paper is a very interesting cancer target (whose crystal structure was recently reported, to boot), a new appreciation of lipid handling in tumors, and a possible rationale for the connections seen between lipid levels and cancer in general. Not bad!
Special bonus: thanks to Cell's video abstracts, you can hear Ben Cravatt and his co-worker Dan Nomura explain their paper on YouTube. The journal has recently enhanced the way their papers are presented online, actually, and I plan to do a whole separate blog entry on that (and on video abstracts and the like).
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1. Lucifer on January 11, 2010 9:50 AM writes...
If it turns out to not work as an anti-cancer drug, it might one day be used as an anti-protozoal drug.
like Miltefosine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miltefosine)
2. anchor on January 11, 2010 10:46 AM writes...
Derek : This goes back to what Prof. Freeman Dyson (my hero and an inspiration) said long back and that is life is all about "metabolism and replication". Terrific paper and we know that this will present with another opportunity for all those med. chemists (if they are still around)and big pharma.
3. FormerMolecModeler on January 11, 2010 12:05 PM writes...
Sounds too good to be true, but hope it isn't. Wonder if inhibiting this target would also affect nerves (i.e. myelin production).
4. anon the II on January 11, 2010 2:29 PM writes...
OK, I haven't read the paper yet but I always get nervous when one uses a reactive molecule to get biological results. What's to say this isn't hitting a lot of other things as well?
5. ChePharm on January 11, 2010 8:12 PM writes...
@ 3- I agree, I did not read the paper but how safe it is to target this enzyme. Does it affect normal cells to the same extent?
6. Cell biologist on January 12, 2010 7:48 AM writes...
I'm baffled that this paper was accepted by Cell. Impress the reviewers with tons of data and come up with a "novel network" and/or a "promising drug target", a recipe that often works even in journals like Cell. Maddening..
The authors have no clue about tumor cell biology. What's more, they confuse de novo synthesis of precursor (housekeeping) lipids with the production of bioactive lipid mediators (receptor ligands). The underlying biochemical routes are completely different.
7. Walt on January 12, 2010 9:11 AM writes...
Hey Derek, The last lipase inhibitor I heard you talk about you called the anabuse of fat. You might have to start giving these lipids some respect.
It was a very in piece of work but the mechanism of action is skimpy. The suggestion that MAGL links to eicosanoids to by fatty acid release is not a direct effect since mammals cannot synthesize arachidonate or other essential fatty acids from stearic or palmitic acid.
8. thelewdangel.com on January 28, 2010 8:31 PM writes...
thanks about your information
9. Guppy on July 29, 2013 7:17 AM writes...
>"There's no market for a drug that gives you Addison's disease, I can tell you."
How about as a treatment for Cushing's Disease?
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Law School Applications / Are Deferrals Binding?« on: April 30, 2006, 05:28:29 PM »
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Reviews, Visits, and Rankings / How insightful is attending a class?« on: March 17, 2006, 06:55:08 PM »
For those who have already visited schools, how insightful was attending a class?
I'll soon be attending my first admitted students weekend, and its organized program includes attending a mock class in lieu of attending an actual class. I'm quite disappointed, as I was looking forward to a class visit as a vehicle for observing student behavior and output in the classroom as opposed to a means of familiarizing myself with the structure of a typical class. Unfortunately, my trip halfway across the country will be short, and scheduling a class visit outside of the time frame of the organized program would take precious time away from exploring a new city.
Is it worth it? Was observing classroom dynamics an integral part of your visits? Are there enough other opportunities to gain meaningful impressions of the student body?
Acceptances / Umm, Boalt Email?« on: February 17, 2006, 06:04:45 PM »
Did anyone else who HASN'T BEEN ADMITTED to Berkeley just get an email congratulating them on their recent admission and inviting them to an event? What is going on with these schools?
Financial Aid / Need Access to Deferred/WLed Schools« on: February 15, 2006, 11:47:21 AM »
I've been deferred or waitlisted at seven schools.
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Wait List / UVA Deferred > Status Change« on: February 13, 2006, 10:06:14 PM »
I just received an email informing me that a second decision is in the mail. I'm expecting bad news.
Anyone else?
Financial Aid / Whether to bother with Need Access...« on: January 29, 2006, 01:14:40 PM »
If one's parents are wealthy, does it pay to fill out Need Access forms for those schools that request them? My parents paid for college in its entirety, through last year, but they are not contributing a cent toward law school. However, my sense is that I would have no shot at assistance at any school that reviewed their financial information, and that I need not bother my parents to share their personal data. Thoughts?
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It was expected, though not in the very first batch of letters.
I'm glad I got an acceptance under my belt back in November; it makes this part easier.
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I expected an outright rejection, so I'm not complaining. I was complete 12/8.
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Developer Kevin Bradley (also known as "nitoTV" on Twitter) has been putting a lot of effort into hacking the third-generation Apple TV. However, he tells Cultofmac that "There is no Apple TV 3 jailbreak. Nothing even close."
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Grzegorz Schetyna was born in Opole, Poland, on February 18, 1963.
He holds a Master's degree in history.
Married, wife Kalina and daughter Natalia.
An opposition activist in communist Poland, he is a Sejm deputy for Lower Silesia, and a co-founder and Vice Chairman of the Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska/ PO) political party. From 2007 until 2009 he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior and Administration in Donald Tusk's government. On July 8, 2010 he was elected Marshal (Speaker of the House) of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland.
On November 9, 2011, after the 2011 parliamentary elections, he became Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Polish Sejm.
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An activist of the Fighting Solidarity (Solidarność Walcząca) movement during martial law, he graduated in history from the Faculty of Philosophy and History at the University of Wroclaw. Between 1986 and 1989 he led the Independent Students' Union (Niezależne Zrzeszenie Studentów/NZS) at the University, and in 1988 he was also elected leader of the Inter-University Strike Committee of the Independent Students' Union. Moreover, Grzegorz Schetyna was a co-founder of the underground publishing house Universitas. When in May 1989 the government refused to legalize the Independent Students' Union, and thus broke one of the commitments made during the Round Table talks, he co-organized a general strike of students.
In Lower Silesian administration
In 1990 Grzegorz Schetyna became Director of the Provincial Office in Wroclaw, and then Vice-Governor of Wroclaw Province.
From 1994 until 1997 he was also president of the basketball section of the Slask Wroclaw Sports Club. During that time, he founded Eska, an independent commercial radio station. In 1991 he became leader and later Secretary General of the Liberal Democratic Congress (Kongres Liberalno-Demokratyczny/KLD) in Wroclaw. In 1994 he joined the Freedom Union (Unia Wolności/UW), and in 1997 he was elected to the Polish Sejm.
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Deputy to the Polish Sejm during its 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th terms of office. In 2001 he co-founded the Civic Platform party. On two occasions, in 2006 and 2010, he was chosen as Civic Platform leader in Lower Silesia; since 2010 he has been the party's First Deputy Chairman. From 2009 until 2010 Chairman of the Parliamentary Club of the Civic Platform.
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From 2007 until 2009 he was Deputy Prime Minister in Donald Tusk's government and at the same time Minister of the Interior and Administration. Grzegorz Schetyna originated and initiated the National Programme of Local Road Reconstruction. It was based on cooperation between local authorities and state administration, which worked together to implement local investments that have informally been called "schetynówki".
He was responsible for the last stage of Poland's accession to the Schengen Area. Grzegorz Schetyna's supervision of the introduction of a modern system of biometric passports in Poland enabled visa-free travel between Poland and Canada. He set out to complete the public administration reform (putting in order the competencies of regional governors and marshals in a new law on governors and the regional government administration, transferring more powers to local authorities, introducing a Village Administration Fund – fundusz sołecki), create a central IT platform for the public services sector, and implement a modernization programme for the uniformed services.
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From July 2010 to November 2011 Grzegorz Schetyna was Marshal (Speaker of the House) of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland. Until August 6, 2010, i.e. the swearing-in of President Bronisław Komorowski, he was also Poland's acting President. He initiated a reform of the Sejm Chancellery by, among other things, launching live webcasts of all meetings of Sejm committees and subcommittees. The main goal of these changes is to make all legislative work in the Sejm fully transparent and to foster active forms of civic engagement.
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