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1) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 21308) Posted 19 Mar 2009 by Misfit Post: BOINC SYNERGY = BEST STATS BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and we Welcome All BOINC Participants! What is BOINC and Why use it? - An Interview with Dr. David Anderson! Our team has the Best Statistics that are unmatched anywhere! We have Several Forums that are Informative and Helpful! Step by Step: Setting Up and Running BOINC Projects! The Optimized Application Information Center! We have Cool and Fun Flash-based Video Arcade Games! Sign up with Synergy and get your own @boincsynergy.com email address! Plus get a Fabulous Selection of Synergy Signatures for Individual and Combined Projects! Visit the City of BOINC Synergy! Use the various numbered 'increase' links to help our team city grow! You can count on BOINC SYNERGY to be there when Scientific Progress Goes 'BOINC' Click the Signature to Join! misfit@boincsynergy.com
2) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 21153) Posted 1 Feb 2009 by Misfit Post: BOINC SYNERGY = BEST STATS BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and we Welcome All BOINC Participants! What is BOINC and Why use it? - An Interview with Dr. David Anderson! Our team has the Best Statistics that are unmatched anywhere! We have Several Forums that are Informative and Helpful! Step by Step: Setting Up and Running BOINC Projects! The Optimized Application Information Center! We have Cool and Fun Flash-based Video Arcade Games! Sign up with Synergy and get your own @boincsynergy.com email address! Plus get a Fabulous Selection of Synergy Signatures for Individual and Combined Projects! Visit the City of BOINC Synergy! Use the various numbered \'increase\' links to help our team city grow! You can count on BOINC SYNERGY to be there when Scientific Progress Goes \'BOINC\' Click the Signature to Join! misfit@boincsynergy.com
3) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Entrepreneur to launch online-only, tuition-free university (Message 21121) Posted 27 Jan 2009 by Misfit Post: By Tamar Lewin NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE January 26, 2009 An Israeli entrepreneur with decades of experience in international education plans to start the first global, tuition-free Internet university, a nonprofit venture he has named the University of the People. “The idea is to take social networking and apply it to academia,” said Shai Reshef, founder of several Internet-based educational businesses. “The open-source courseware is there, from universities that have put their courses online, available to the public, free,” Reshef said. “We know that online peer-to-peer teaching works. Putting it all together, we can make a free university for students all over the world, anyone who speaks English and has an Internet connection.” About 4 million students in the United States took at least one online course in 2007, according to a survey by the Sloan Consortium, a nonprofit group devoted to integrating online learning into mainstream higher education. Online learning is growing in many contexts. Through the Open Courseware Consortium, started in 2001 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, universities around the world have posted materials for thousands of courses – as varied as Lambing and Sheep Management at Utah State and Relativistic Quantum Field Theory at MIT – all free to the public. Many universities now post their lectures on iTunes. For-profit universities such as the University of Phoenix and Kaplan University have extensive online offerings. And increasingly, both public and private universities offer at least some classes online. Outside the United States, online learning is booming. Open University in Britain enrolls about 160,000 undergraduates in distance-learning courses. The University of the People, like other Internet-based universities, would have online study communities, weekly discussion topics, homework assignments and exams. But in lieu of tuition, students would pay only nominal fees for enrollment ($15 to $50) and exams ($10 to $100), with students from poorer countries paying the lower fees and those from richer countries paying the higher ones. Experts in online education say the idea raises many questions. “We\'ve chatted about doing something like this over the last decade but decided the time wasn\'t yet right,” said John Bourne, executive director of the Sloan Consortium. “It\'s true that the open courseware movement is pretty robust, so there are a lot of high-quality course materials out there, but there\'s no human backup behind them. I\'d be interested to know how you\'d find and train faculty and ensure quality without tuition money.” Other educators question the logistics of such a plan. “The more you get people around the world talking to each other, great, and the more they talk about what they\'re learning, just wonderful,” said Philip G. Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College. “But I\'m not at all sure, when you start attaching that to credits and degrees and courses, that it translates so well. “How will they test students? How much will the professors do? How well does the American or British curriculum serve the needs of people in Mali? How do they handle students whose English is not at college level?” Reshef said his new university would use active and retired professors – some paid, some volunteers – along with librarians, master-level students and professionals to develop and evaluate curriculums and oversee assessments. He plans to start small, limiting enrollment to 300 students when the university goes online in the fall and offering only bachelor\'s degrees in business administration and computer science. Reshef said the university would apply for accreditation as soon as possible. Reshef hopes to build enrollment to 10,000 over five years, the level at which he said the enterprise should be self-sustaining. Startup costs would be about $5 million, Reshef said, of which he plans to provide $1 million. For all the uncertainties, Reshef is probably as well-positioned as anyone for such an enterprise. Starting in 1989, he served as chairman of the Kidum Group, an Israeli test-preparation company, which he sold in 2005 to Kaplan, one of the world\'s largest education companies. While chairman of Kidum, he built an online university affiliated with the University of Liverpool, enrolling students from more than 100 countries; that business was sold to Laureate, another large for-profit education company, in 2004. Reshef is now chairman of Cramster.com, an online study community offering homework help to college students. “Cramster has thousands of students helping other students,” said Reshef, who lives in Pasadena, where both Cramster and the new university are based. “These become strong social communities. With these new social networks, where young people now like to spend their lives, we can bring college degrees to students all over the world, Third World students who would be unable to study otherwise. I haven\'t found even one person who says it\'s a bad idea.”
4) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 20899) Posted 1 Jan 2009 by Misfit Post: BOINC SYNERGY = BEST STATS BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and we Welcome All BOINC Participants! What is BOINC and Why use it? - An Interview with Dr. David Anderson! Our team has the Best Statistics that are unmatched anywhere! We have Several Forums that are Informative and Helpful! Step by Step: Setting Up and Running BOINC Projects! The Optimized Application Information Center! We have Cool and Fun Flash-based Video Arcade Games! Sign up with Synergy and get your own @boincsynergy.com email address! Plus get a Fabulous Selection of Synergy Signatures for Individual and Combined Projects! Visit the City of BOINC Synergy! Use the various numbered \"increase\" links to help our team city grow! You can count on BOINC SYNERGY to be there when Scientific Progress Goes \"BOINC\" Click the Signature to Join! misfit@boincsynergy.com
5) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 20880) Posted 25 Dec 2008 by Misfit Post:
6) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Holidays and Special Occasions (Message 20875) Posted 20 Dec 2008 by Misfit Post: A very special message from Santa to all members of the US armed services.
7) Message boards : Number crunching : Pending WU (Message 20839) Posted 30 Nov 2008 by Misfit Post: http://lhcathome.cern.ch/lhcathome/workunit.php?wuid=1704388 Pending since October 2007. It's not claiming any credit so just wipe it.
8) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Black hole question (Message 20813) Posted 24 Nov 2008 by Misfit Post: What really happened.
9) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 19952) Posted 17 Aug 2008 by Misfit Post: BOINC SYNERGY = BEST STATS BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and we Welcome All BOINC Participants! What is BOINC and Why use it? - An Interview with Dr. David Anderson! Our team has the Best Statistics that are unmatched anywhere! We have Several Forums that are Informative and Helpful! Step by Step: Setting Up and Running BOINC Projects! The Optimized Application Information Center! We have Cool and Fun Flash-based Video Arcade Games! Sign up with Synergy and get your own @boincsynergy.com email address! Plus get a Fabulous Selection of Synergy Signatures for Individual and Combined Projects! Visit the City of BOINC Synergy! Use the various numbered "increase" links to help our team city grow! You can count on BOINC SYNERGY to be there when Scientific Progress Goes "BOINC" Click the Signature to Join! misfit@boincsynergy.com
10) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 19634) Posted 17 May 2008 by Misfit Post: BOINC SYNERGY = BEST STATS BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and we Welcome All BOINC Participants! What is BOINC and Why use it? - An Interview with Dr. David Anderson! Our team has the Best Statistics that are unmatched anywhere! We have Several Forums that are Informative and Helpful! Step by Step: Setting Up and Running BOINC Projects! The Optimized Application Information Center! We have Cool and Fun Flash-based Video Arcade Games! Sign up with Synergy and get your own @boincsynergy.com email address! Plus get a Fabulous Selection of Synergy Signatures for Individual and Combined Projects! Visit the City of BOINC Synergy! Use the various numbered "increase" links to help our team city grow! You can count on BOINC SYNERGY to be there when Scientific Progress Goes "BOINC" Click the Signature to Join! misfit@boincsynergy.com
11) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 18862) Posted 21 Jan 2008 by Misfit Post: BOINC SYNERGY = BEST STATS BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and we Welcome All BOINC Participants! What is BOINC and Why use it? - An Interview with Dr. David Anderson! Our team has the Best Statistics that are unmatched anywhere! We have Several Forums that are Informative and Helpful! Step by Step: Setting Up and Running BOINC Projects! The Optimized Application Information Center! We have Cool and Fun Flash-based Video Arcade Games! Sign up with Synergy and get your own @boincsynergy.com email address! Plus get a Fabulous Selection of Synergy Signatures for Individual and Combined Projects! Visit the City of BOINC Synergy! Use the various numbered "increase" links to help our team city grow! You can count on BOINC SYNERGY to be there when Scientific Progress Goes "BOINC" Click the Signature to Join! misfit@boincsynergy.com
12) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 18759) Posted 23 Dec 2007 by Misfit Post:
13) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 18662) Posted 3 Dec 2007 by Misfit Post: BOINC SYNERGY = BEST STATS BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and we Welcome All BOINC Participants! What is BOINC and Why use it? - An Interview with Dr. David Anderson! Our team has the Best Statistics that are unmatched anywhere! We have Several Forums that are Informative and Helpful! Step by Step: Setting Up and Running BOINC Projects! The Optimized Application Information Center! We have Cool and Fun Flash-based Video Arcade Games! Sign up with Synergy and get your own @boincsynergy.com email address! Plus get a Fabulous Selection of Synergy Signatures for Individual and Combined Projects! You can count on BOINC SYNERGY to be there when Scientific Progress Goes "BOINC" Click the BS Signature to Join! misfit@boincsynergy.com
14) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 18590) Posted 12 Nov 2007 by Misfit Post: BOINC SYNERGY = BEST STATS BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and we Welcome All BOINC Participants! What is BOINC and Why use it? - An Interview with Dr. David Anderson! Our team has the Best Statistics that are unmatched anywhere! We have Several Forums that are Informative and Helpful! Step by Step: Setting Up and Running BOINC Projects! The Optimized Application Information Center! We have Cool and Fun Flash-based Video Arcade Games! Sign up with Synergy and get your own @boincsynergy.com email address! Plus get a Fabulous Selection of Synergy Signatures for Individual and Combined Projects! You can count on BOINC SYNERGY to be there when Scientific Progress Goes "BOINC" Click the BS Signature to Join! misfit@boincsynergy.com
15) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 17786) Posted 25 Aug 2007 by Misfit Post: BOINC SYNERGY = BEST STATS BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and we Welcome All BOINC Participants! What is BOINC and Why use it? - An Interview with Dr. David Anderson! Our team has the Best Statistics that are unmatched anywhere! We have Several Forums that are Informative and Helpful! Step by Step: Setting Up and Running BOINC Projects! The Optimized Application Information Center! We have Cool and Fun Flash-based Video Arcade Games! Sign up with Synergy and get your own @boincsynergy.com email address! Plus get a Fabulous Selection of Synergy Signatures for Individual and Combined Projects! You can count on BOINC SYNERGY to be there when Scientific Progress Goes "BOINC" Click the BS Signature to Join!
16) Message boards : Team invites : Team BOINC Synergy (used to be seti synergy) (Message 17734) Posted 6 Aug 2007 by Misfit Post: BOINC SYNERGY = BEST STATS BOINC SYNERGY is an International Team and we Welcome All BOINC Participants! What is BOINC and Why use it? - An Interview with Dr. David Anderson! Our team has the Best Statistics that are unmatched anywhere! We have Several Forums that are Informative and Helpful! Step by Step: Setting Up and Running BOINC Projects! The Optimized Application Information Center! We have Cool and Fun Flash-based Video Arcade Games! Sign up with Synergy and get your own @boincsynergy.com email address! Plus get a Fabulous Selection of Synergy Signatures for Individual and Combined Projects! You can count on BOINC SYNERGY to be there when Scientific Progress Goes "BOINC" Click the BS Signature to Join!
17) Message boards : LHC@home Science : BOINC's Future With CERN? (Message 17733) Posted 6 Aug 2007 by Misfit Post: Any info would be appreciated... including flames about how clueless I am! Wow, that's pretty clueless!
18) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Collision Course (Message 17715) Posted 5 Aug 2007 by Misfit Post: Coast to Coast AM schedule airing @ 1am EST - AUTO UPDATES! Live stream courtesy of KFI 640AM Los Angeles Coast to Coast AM affiliates in the USA, Canada and XM Satellite radio Wednesday, August 8 1ET/10PT Hosted by George Noory Dr. Walter L. Wagner discusses the possibility of small black holes being created by super colliders, his theory of the formation of the planet Earth, and a host of other fascinating topics.
19) Message boards : Cafe LHC : Finally: The truth about NEZ (Message 17658) Posted 1 Aug 2007 by Misfit Post: I heard that NEZ is homosexual. NEZ is a woman? NEZ likes babes! (Pssst, NEZ is backwards for ZEN.)
20) Message boards : LHC@home Science : Collision Course (Message 17388) Posted 19 Jul 2007 by Misfit Post: Large Hadron Collider might finally answer physics' cosmic questions – or not On the border of Switzerland and France, the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, is set to come online next spring in an effort to solve several mysteries of physics. http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070719/news_lz1c19collide.html

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