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Jewish families labored in the fields and farmed in those locations for many years.
I remember two such families who lived all isolated from the Jewish community; Berman who resided and was employed by the rail station in Horod'k and Mrs Matke, her husband and their handsome son who dwelled in Rudnik.
I must record a few words from my own recollections of Matke and the Jewish farm in Rudnik, as it was not mentioned in the Yizkor book. Matke with her family lived in out-of-the-way Rudnik, three Km from town. We used to go there by foot; we would pass near the graveyard and then by Bialik's Mount and most of the path would go by the shore of the Volozhinka brook.
The family lived in a spacious house. They also owned a barn and a stable. Cows, geese, poultry and horses surrounded their house. Additionally the family possessed a vast meadow and a small pine grove.
The entire student body that attended our school, guided by the teachers, would turn up in Rudnik's Grooves every spring for our traditional Lag-Baomer picnic by the bonfires.
The Volozhin region's Zionist youth camps took place on Matke's Rudnik-meadow. I remember that on one occasion mother walked with my sister Sonitshka and I, for a visit with father's cousins; the beautiful Tsherne and Bloume Efron from the near by shtetl of Vishnievo. They camped in tents amongst many other young members of HaShomer Hatzir youth movement. They took over Matke's green meadow in Rudnik.
During summer time the house would turn into a holiday hostel. Many of the Volozhin kids spent a few weeks in the inn. They came to breathe in some fresh air. They were sent there with their parent's hopes that they would add a few healthy pounds, since they drank fresh milk right from the cows, and ate fresh eggs straight from the hens.
The gentile peasants did not make any effort to spare their Jewish colleagues and neighbors' life. Not even one of the Jews from the Volozhin vicinity hamlets survived the holocaust.
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Twenty Jewish families inhabited this village; three of them lived in Horod'k, the railroad station, about three kilometers from Zabrezhe.
Those families were: Yosef Berman, Hone Berman and the seamstress the late Temka's widow. Yosef Berman practiced as an agent. He used to receive the goods on the station and move them in horse-carts to Volozhin. Here he distributed the goods to the merchants. Hone Berman owned a hostel and Temka made her living by dressmaking.
Harav Shmuel Dovid Levin (Shadal), born in Bobruysk, was the village prominent inhabitant. Reb Avrom Moyshe Bunimovitsh brought him to Zabrezhe to become his son in law. Harav Shadal used to study Torah day and night. He did not practice as the shtetl's rabbi.
His father in law Reb Avrom Moyshe Bunimovitsh was a wealthy man, a Jewish Poretz (land owner). He owned large tracts of land and a spacious house, which was located inside a big courtyard. Reb Avrom Moyshe was blessed with special privileges; he lived a long life to see many great-grand children. Reb Zeharye Berman and Reb Menahem Mendel were also considered as the village's elite.
The Zabrezhe Jews supported themselves by farming and by commerce. Aron Dudman owned a shoe and leather shop, Duba Berman possessed a cloth shop and the third, Yehoshua Berman was a flax merchant.
Some of the Jewish farmers cultivated their own land; the others were land leasers who tilled the land of nearby landlords. They were true peasants that worked the soil and made a living from the earth. It would be of interest to mention the estate owner, Mrs. Baranowska. She, her husband and their son the physician, were considered as righteous gentiles. Mr. Baranowski was friendly with the local Jews, and as I remember he contributed material to build the Zabrezhe Klayzl-synagogue.
The Klayzl was the village spiritual center, where the Jewish civic and cultural life took place. Reb Zkharia Berman performed the Gabay (synagogue manager) functions. He did not behave like an important personality, which he was. On Fridays, personally with his own hands, he used to sweep the floor, dust the tables and benches, to take care of the candles and to polish the candelabrum, Before Yom Kippur, Rabbi Zekharia used to hire a gentile (with his own money) to look from time to time after the burning candles. Three Torah scrolls were kept in the Synagogue Arc. The prophets' books were written on scrolls like the Torah books, which was unique to Zabrezhe. The shtetl children used to participate in the Simhat Torah Hakafot, with their Small seyfer Torahs in hand. The local Balabatim (real estate owners) were honored to read the Torah. Rabbi Yehezkel Yahas was the regular Torah reader. He died in 1940 and was buried in Volozhin.
There were not many Jews in Zabrezhe. However, the parents used to hire the best teachers to educate their children. During the daytime hours the Jewish children attended the Polish school. But in the evening they would be taught Hebrew and Judaism by Jewish teachers. The teachers used to be hired from nearby villages. They did their holy work for minimum salary. Nobody among them had ever considered striking. Torah teaching was by itself a reward. They did not stay in private apartments; they used to wander from room to room in the houses of their pupils. The teachers, that I'm able to recall, were Rabbi Zvi from Volozhin, Rabbi Ariye Leyb Grinhoyz, from Lebediev (died in Volozhin in 1945) and Rabbi Yekhiel Segalovitsh from Rubazevitsh. The last teacher was Rabbi Hayim Stolar from Vishnevo.
Our studies went on inside the Klayzl. During the long winter nights we used to learn by the light of kerosene lamps, whose shade was heavier than their light. Each student, in his turn, used to bring from home a bottle of kerosene for the lamps. I will never forget Rabbi Ariye Leyb Grinhoyz, my beloved teacher. He was a graduate of the Vilna-Hebrew-Teachers Seminary. He taught us Hebrew, Jewish history and Eretz Israel's geography. He made the Bible become alive for us. His explanations were exact. We became able to understand the emerging Israel community, the community that was rooted by the Zionists. He taught us how to recognize the faithful connection of our land's geography with its history.
Reb Ariye Leyb was a devoted Zionist. He had organized the Zionist Youth movement in the shtetl. The members were associated with the Volozhin Zionists. He founded in his room a Hebrew library. The first thirty books purchased were paid from his own pocket. This library served the students spiritually. Ariye Leyb was dedicated to his pupils. At the long winter nights he used to accompany each one of us back to our homes.
It has been said that Volozhin and Zabrezhe are like a room and a waiting room. Zabrezhe seemed to be torn from Volozhin and stuck on the main road. The Zabrezhe Jews were bound completely to Volozhin in every way. The food and clothing, was purchased in Volozhin. The dead were buried in the town's ancient cemetery. The ties were also in medical aid. There was no physician in Zabrezhe, only a medical assistant named Hardiniets from Losk. When a person became ill, a doctor would be called from Volozhin.
Across the Riverside (Zabrezhe) our ancestors lived generations after generations. They considered this life to be dictated by the Heavens and guarded by some human laws. Suddenly the terrible deluge came, and erased completely all that existed.
Temka and Judith Ginsburg were among the survivors. The Zabrezhe Jews have been murdered during the Holocaust. The Zabrezhe tiny ancient Kehila was annihilated in Hanukah 1942. The local Peasants and the Pashkovski brothers participated in the slaughter. They tortured the victims without pity.
The images of our dears will be engraved on our hearts forever.
Edited by Eilat Gordin Levitan
The hamlet was situated on the crossroads amidst the environs settlements. Travelers who went from Volozhin to the shtetls of Rakov, Krasne and Horodok as well as ones who came from those places to Volozhin, used to stop in Mijeyki for a night rest. The hamlet's hostel belonged to Malka Kaminstein. Adjacent to the hostel stood a spacious stable filled with horses. Mijeyki was tied to Volozhin with strong links. Not even a single shop existed in the hamlet. The inhabitants used to go in town to buy food and dressing. The relations were reciprocal. The hamlet supplied Volozhin with most of its milk, eggs and poultry for consumption. They specialized in raising geese. It was sold to the Volozhin inhabitants, who used geese fat to fry latkes during Hanukah and to prepare Kneydlakh during Passover.
Among the hamlet's craftsmen was the well known tailor; Velvl Kaganovitsh. Velvel studied his profession in Odessa, where he met and married a midwife. She was quite jobless in Mijeyki. The place was not populated sufficiently to produce work for such a career.
Velvl used to sew cloths for the prominent people in the area: for the mayor, for district officials and for the affluent citizens of Volozhin. They ordered Velvl's products because he had "the golden hands"; dresses that were sewn by him were considered masterpieces. He has three daughters, all of them were sent to study in Vilna. Their father spent all of his earning on the girls education. For some years he was deep in debt but the daughters attended the most excellent schools in the big city of Vilna and received the best education. He was the son of a very scholarly man. His father used to teach the hamlet children.
Another renowned artisan in Mijeyki was my father "Moyshe der Shouster" (Moyshe the Shoemaker). He reached the very advanced age of hundred and ten years! He did not ever have a sick day. He would work day and night and the word rest was foreign to him. He was also a scholar and was capable of leading public prayers. At the age of eighty he lost his eyesight. Nevertheless even in blindness, he led the prayers. He knew all the prayers by heart.
Our home was small, however our father was firm in his wish to entertain guests. Many days' poor people who came to the area, stayed with us. Father used to accommodate them by spreading straw bedding on the floor.
The principal concern of The Mijeyki Jews was their children's education. For this purpose they invited an excellent pedagogue, a Hebrew expert - the teacher Kaminstein from Bialistock. He married a Mijeyki native girl. All the hamlet children were taught Hebrew by him.
The Kaminstein's were parents of four boys, all born in Mijeyki. As the boys grew up they abandoned their father's Zionist culture and were renowned in the area as devoted communists. Two of them left their natal hamlet to Russia on February 1917. The senior brother became known as a Red Army Commander during the Bolsheviks war against Poland in 1919. Some time in 1919 He came to Mijeyki with his unit, they were on their way to Warsaw. he spent some days with his father.
A Synagogue was built in the hamlet prior to World War One. The Russians destroyed it during the war, only the skeleton remained. The Synagogue was rebuilt in 1921 and became a respectable prayer house for Mijeyki inhabitants as well as for the surrounding rural community Jews.
Three Jewish families lived in Gorodishtshe, 2 Km. from our village. They used to come every Saturday to spend Sabbath and to pass the prayers in our synagogue.
In Koniushtshina village, 6 Km from Mijeyki three families settled, in Dubin only one Jew dwelled. He was a black smith. They used to sleep and pray in our hamlet during high holidays only.
During the brutal storm of the holocaust all those souls of the earth's offspring were utterly eradicated. Not a soul survived.
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The two families took care for the children's Hebrew National education. A kindergarten schoolmistress was brought from Vilna. Grown boys and girls were sent to study in Hebrew Tarbut schools in Volozhin, Vilna and Oshmiane.
The medical help was quite primitive. It was the job of the local feldsher; a goyish unauthorized paramedic who was drunk most of the time. We used his services as first aid only. In serious cases the sick person would be transferred by horse drawn carts to Volozhin. Once a Haluts-Hakhshara girl was carried for a doctor's consultation to Volozhin. The hard journey on a bad road caused the rupture of her inflamed appendicitis. The town doctor saved her from critical condition. There was not always a happy end. In Ozelevitsh our neighboring hamlet, the landlord Avrom-Itshe Levin's son stepped on a rusty nail. He died of blood poisoning after he was brought to Volozhin.
We lived on the Youzefpol estate like in paradise. We loved the rich nature, the beautiful landscape. Our economic state was good. We had all we needed. We hoped that this Garden of Eden would last forever.
The war broke out. The Soviets occupied the area. They nationalized our sawmill. My boyhood nest was destroyed.
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The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) announced the 2013 Honor Roll recipients at the American Council on Education's 95th annual meeting "Leading Change," which took place on March 4 in Washington, D.C. Institutions were cited for their achievements in general community service, or in one of two special focus areas which align with the president's education and innovation priorities, the Promise Neighborhoods model and early childhood education.
"We congratulate the awardees and the students for their dedication to service," said Wendy Spencer, CEO of CNCS in a prepared statement. "These institutions have inspired students and faculty alike to roll up their sleeves and work alongside members of the community to solve problems and improve their neighbors' lives."
Inspired by the thousands of college students who traveled across the country to support relief efforts along the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina, CNCS has administered the award since 2006. The honor roll annually highlights the role colleges and universities play in solving community problems and placing more students on a lifelong path of civic engagement by recognizing institutions that achieve meaningful, measurable outcomes in the communities they serve.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was the first theatrical film based on the popular comic book characters of the same name, about a group of crime-fighting reptiles who lived in a sewer. The plot condenses elements from the comic books, combined with the lighter touch of the 1987 animated series.
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It's not unusual to find taxi cabs lined up and waiting for fares in central London. But on Wednesday afternoon, numerous cabs sat back-to-back, idled as their drivers aired their frustrations surrounding on-demand private-hire car services such as Uber Technologies Inc.
The chief complaint among taxi drivers is aimed at Transport for London, which oversees taxis and private-hire cars. TFL has asked for a high-court ruling on whether apps such as Uber's act as a taxi meter, as they gauge time and distance to come up with fares to charge its customers. London's licensed cabs are allowed to use taxi meters, but it's illegal for private-hire vehicles.
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Biking is fast becoming the transportation of choice in environmentally aware European cities. Take Paris, for instance. As of next week, the French capital will have more than 10,000 bikes for rent at 750 stations (right) around the city, providing both tourists and residents with an opportunity to feel environmentally chaste, not to mention giving them a fun, fast way to explore.
Called Vélib', the program allows riders to pick up and drop off the three-speed bikes at any one of the various stations spread throughout the city. The first 30 minutes are free; after that the cost is 1 euro, or about $1.35, for the first half-hour, 2 euros for the second half-hour and 4 euros for each half hour after that.
Subscription cards can be purchased for periods of one day (1 euro); seven days (5 euros); and one year (29 euros). More information can be found at: www.velib.paris.fr.
The program, which was first introduced in Lyon, where it has been successful for the last two years, is hardly the first in Europe. Copenhagen has a free city bike system, www.bycyklen.dk, that requires only a small deposit that is returned when the bike is relocked at the end of the journey, as does Helsinki. As of last March, Barcelona had 1,500 bicycles located at 100 stations. Subscribers purchase a swipe card and are charged one euro an hour. More information is at: www.bicing.com.
In London, users of Oybike, www.oybike.com, pay a registration fee of £10, or about $20 at $2.04 to the pound, which is debited after each journey. When the balance reaches £3, the user is billed to bring the balance back to £10. A whole day's riding costs £8. For shorter trips, the first 30 minutes are free, after which the cost is £2 for the next half hour and then £2 for the next hour.
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text: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 at 9:04am, Tim Mattox wrote > IMNSHO, Marketing Departments should be jailed... or at least not > allowed to do the "technical specs" pages for networking products. > And at a minimum, they need to be flogged with a wet noodle... :-) After spending the last several days digging through said materials, a wet noodle is decidedly *not* what I had in mind as the flogging implement. > FYI - here are some links to a variety of 48-port commodity GigE switches, > that may be worth looking at (but as another poster indicated, these > might actually all be the same switch built by an OEM and just rebadged. > One can only really tell by opening one up and looking at the PCB and chips > that are inside.): > > SMC8648T TigerSwitch > http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProductDetail&localeCode=EN_USA&pid=1192 The SMC8748L2 I went with is here: http://www.smc.com/index.cfm?event=viewProduct&localeCode=EN_USA&pid=1498 It's cheaper than the 8648T while apparently newer and with some "better" specs. As I mentioned before, I'm decidedly skeptical and intend to test it hard while I'm still well within the return period. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University


text: These are P4 2.4 ghz and I didn't find anything in the bios about it. I thought I had read on Intel's website that hyperthreading was only in the 3.xx ghz P4's? Todd -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Geoffray [mailto:patrick at myri.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 1:38 PM To: Henderson, TL Todd Cc: 'beowulf at beowulf.org' Subject: Re: question about Intel P4 versus Alpha's Hi Todd, On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 10:49, Henderson, TL Todd wrote: > 95-100%cpu utilization range. However, now we have a cluster of P4's and > when I look at top, it is more like 70-80% cpu usage. This is using the > same number of cpu's, the same switch, same code, and same problem for the > code. The jobs are still completing in about 30-40% less time, so we are > getting a speed up. Is Hyper-threading enabled ? Patrick -- Patrick Geoffray, Phd Myricom, Inc. http://www.myri.com


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ATB: Wild Weekend Full of Tournament Tickets Punched And Regular Season FinalesPosted by EJacoby on March 5th, 2012
This Weekend's Lede – What makes the official start of March Madness? Saturday, March 3, which included 105 total games, three conference tournament championships, and 15 ranked teams playing their regular season finales definitely felt like the appropriate start date. Sunday saw eight more ranked teams play and one more conference tournament decided. It was a wonderful start to Championship Week that included both the usual (Murray State won the OVC) and the unexpected (Wichita State, Iona, and Middle Tennessee all lost before the title game) that makes our sport so much fun to watch. All regular season games but one Ivy contest are now completed, so the power leagues start up their own conference tournaments in the next couple of days. Over the course of the next week we will find out 27 more automatic bid winners and the 37 at-large teams to fill out the NCAA Tournament bracket. Let's start by rehashing what took place over the weekend, and who looks good to go dancing. We start in the Big Ten…
Your Watercooler Moment. Buckeyes Victory Means a Three-Way Tie for Big Ten Supremacy
Who said that Ohio State blew its chance at a Big Ten title last week with its loss to Wisconsin? Well, we were actually guilty of thinking the same, as Michigan State had built a two-game lead with two games to play in the conference season. But after losing at Indiana, the Spartans needed to defend their home court and defeat Ohio State in Sunday's regular season finale if they wanted the outright Big Ten championship. The Buckeyes had other ideas, as they came back from down double-digits in the second half to eventually win on a game-winner with one second remaining. William Buford's jumper not only evened Ohio State with Michigan State at 13-5 in the conference, but it also means that Michigan's 13-5 record holds up as a third team atop the Big Ten. These three teams all slipped up at home late in the season, but none was more costly than this Michigan State loss with the outright title and a likely NCAA Tournament #1 seed on the line. The Big Ten Tournament will be as great to watch as ever before, with so many teams jockeying for postseason inclusion or seeding position, and three teams all as co-favorites. In the tiebreaker scenarios, Michigan State comes out victorious as the regular-season champion and #1 seed, but all three split their season series and can stake a legitimate claim as league champ.
Top Storyline – North Carolina Exacts Revenge on Duke. If it weren't for Austin Rivers' buzzer-beating three on February 8, then North Carolina would currently be on a 13-game winning streak in ACC play with a +13.6 average scoring margin in those games. The Tar Heels got revenge on Duke for that shot and made sure everyone remembers how great this team is as UNC throttled Duke from the outset of Saturday night's regular season finale. The Tar Heels jumped out to an 18-5 lead in under four minutes, wound it all the way up to a 24-point advantage at halftime, and finished it off with an 88-70 blowout victory going away. Duke has struggled in Cameron Indoor Stadium this season, but nothing like this, in which the road team was superior in every facet of the game. The Tar Heels' entire starting lineup finished with at least 12 points, Kendall Marshall dished out his usual 10 assists, and John Henson and Tyler Zeller each had 10 rebounds. Carolina is the ACC champion and peaking at the right time of year.


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With injuries mounting on both sides of the ball, Saturday's game against Presbyterian presents an opportunity for young players and backups to gain experience and make an impression on the coaching staff.
Among those injured players, head coach Hugh Freeze said, are sophomore offensive tackle Laremy Tunsil and junior offensive guard Aaron Morris, who will both be held out Saturday.
Junior running back I'Tavius Mathers and junior safety Trae Elston, Freeze said, have not been cleared for practice and are doubtful to play, while they will try to limit the reps for senior safety Cody Prewitt and junior center Ben Still, among other players.
As part of the shuffle, freshman Rod Taylor is expected to make his first career start at right guard, while freshman Kendarius Webster is expected to make his second career start at cornerback opposite senior Senquez Golson.
"I hope to execute whatever we do and get everyone some time," Freeze said. "I'm concerned about winning the game and executing. I'm not concerned about how much you win a game by. At this point in the season, getting a win and getting your team ready for whatever lies next is very important. That's what my focus will be."
Moving on without Treadwell
Sophomore wide receiver Laquon Treadwell, Freeze said, is back around the team and ready to help coach the other receivers up after suffering a season-ending leg injury against Auburn.
With his absence, junior Cody Core moves to outside receiver opposite senior Vince Sanders, with sophomore Quincy Adeboyejo and freshman Markell Pack working at slot receiver. Sophomore Derrick Jones also moved back to wide receiver from cornerback , giving the Rebels another option at outside receiver.
"We had to move some people around, but it's not as drastic as people think," wide receivers coach Grant Heard said. "Putting Cody outside, he was there for the first two years of his career. They're all interchangeable, so it's not a big deal for us. Next man up. We have to keep rolling."
"Laquon is going to rooting for us as much as he can," Adeboyejo said. "He's been shooting me texts. With him out, it makes you want to go out there and do it for him, do it for this team, and do anything we can to help this thing keep going."
The Rebels' second-leading receiver in receptions (33), receiving yards (536) and receiving touchdowns (4), Sanders is being asked to step up in terms of production and leadership as the team's No. 1 receiver.
"My guys, they respect him and look up to him," Heard said. "He's been through more wars than anybody in that room. He's the grandfather in my room. He's going to do a good job and make sure those guys are ready to go Saturday."
"I'm excited for this opportunity to be in this position," Sanders said. "I hate I got it the way I got it. Now that I got it, I have to take it in stride and make the best of it. That's what I plan on doing."
Shuffling the Deck at Other Spots
Along the offensive line, without Tunsil and Morris, junior Justin Bell will move to left guard from right guard, while junior Fahn Cooper and sophomore Robert Conyers will start at left tackle and right tackle, respectively, for the second straight week.
Senior Chase Hughes and Craig Frigo will be the backup centers behind Still, with Frigo also playing some backup guard. A trio of redshirt freshmen in Christian Morris, Davion Johnson and Daronte Bouldin will also figure in the mix Saturday.
"We're going to rotate them in and out and hopefully can find a way to score a few points with them," Freeze said.
In the secondary, junior Mike Hilton will move from cornerback to Rover safety, where he started in the Music City Bowl against Georgia Tech last season and played some against Auburn last week.
Junior Chief Brown, who made his season debut against Auburn, will provide depth at safety, and senior Cliff Coleman and sophomore Kailo Moore will be the primary backups at cornerback.
"Kendarius had a great camp and he's played in every game," cornerbacks coach Jason Jones said. "He's done well. He started the first half of the Texas A&M game. He's been tested, and I think he'll do well."
Rebels Fall to No. 11 in CFB Playoff Poll
After debuting at No. 4 in the first College Football Playoff poll, Ole Miss fell seven spots to No. 11 in the latest top 25, revealed Tuesday by the CFB Playoff selection committee.
At No. 11, the Rebels are the highest-ranked two-loss team and are ranked ahead of four one-loss teams from power-five conferences in Baylor (No. 12), Nebraska (No. 13), Ohio State (No. 14) and Duke (No. 22).
"We don't feel like we're out of it," senior quarterback Bo Wallace said. "Obviously we don't control our destiny anymore, but crazy things can happen in the SEC. A lot of people still have to play each other, so we're hopeful good things can happen for us, but we can win all our games down the stretch. We have to come in and prepare and come out and have good showings in every game."
This weekend features six matchups of ranked teams, including five involving teams ranked ahead of Ole Miss.
No. 4 Oregon travels to No. 17 Utah, No. 5 Alabama travels to No. 16 LSU, No. 6 TCU hosts No. 7 Kansas State, No. 8 Michigan State hosts No. 14 Ohio State, and No. 9 Arizona State hosts No. 10 Notre Dame.


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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation today named Adam Riess of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) and the Johns Hopkins University among 25 new MacArthur Fellows for 2008.
Riess is the leader of the seminal study for a team that in 1998 co-discovered "dark energy," a mysterious repulsive force in the universe. Dark energy is one of the biggest mysteries now confronting astrophysics. It not only yields clues to the origin of the universe, but also its fate. Riess continues doing observations to deduce the nature of dark energy.
The 38-year-old astrophysicist has been at STScI since 1999. From 1996 to 1999, he was a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Riess is a 1992 graduate of MIT. He was awarded a doctorate in astrophysics from Harvard University in 1996. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a co-recipient of the Shaw Prize in astronomy.
The MacArthur Fellows will each receive $500,000 over the next five years. The new Fellows work across a broad spectrum of endeavors and include a neurobiologist, a saxophonist, a critical care physician, an urban farmer, an optical physicist, a sculptor, a geriatrician, a historian of medicine, and an inventor of musical instruments. All were selected for their creativity, originality, and potential to make important contributions in the future.
The selection process begins with formal nominations. Hundreds of anonymous nominators assist the Foundation in identifying people to be considered for a MacArthur Fellowship. Nominations are accepted only from invited nominators, a list that is constantly renewed throughout the year. They are chosen from many areas and challenged to identify people who demonstrate exceptional creativity and promise.
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The European Union and the United States are proposing to bring in more strict flight vehicle emission criteria in their reports of the high‐level groups on aviation research, i.e. EU Flightpath 2050 and US Destination 2025. More fuel‐efficient aircraft must be developed to achieve this target. Moreover, the increasingly competitive aviation...
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This paper examines a problem related to dispatching materials to spreaders in coal (lignite) mines operated under the paradigm of continuously excavated material flow. In the considered particular case, complexity arises from different material types of overburden to be placed on the dump site in pre-defined patterns that guarantee...
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Multiscale modeling of the effect of sub-ply voids on the failure of composite materials
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Experimental and numerical study on behaviour of square steel tube confined reinforced concrete stub columns after fire exposure
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Anticipatory Life Cycle Assessment of sol-gel derived anti-reflective coating for greenhouse glass
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Polyurethane reinforced ballasted track: Review, innovation and challenge
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During the development for railway, ballasted track is dominant structure and makes up more than 95% of the whole track modes. However, its shortage is considerable in high speed railway and heavy haul system. Regarding to the ballasted railway track's defects as particle breakage, settlement, and geometry irregularity which lead to enormous...
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Efficient reduction techniques for a large-scale Transmission Expansion Planning problem
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The aim of Transmission Expansion Planning (TEP) studies is to decide which, where, and when new grid elements should be built in order to minimize the total system cost. The lumpiness of the investment decisions, together with the large size of the problem, make the problem very hard to solve. Consequently, methods should be put in place to...
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Planning under Uncertainty in Constrained and Partially Observable Environments
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Developing intelligent decision making systems in the real world requires planning algorithms which are able to deal with sources of uncertainty and constraints. An example can be found in smart distribution grids, in which planning can be used to decide when electric vehicles charge their batteries, such that the capacity limits of lines are...
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Integrated CMOS Current Sensing Systems for Coulomb Counters
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Coulomb counting is a widely used method to estimate battery state-of-charge (SoC). It involves measuring and integrating the battery's current to determine its net charge flow.
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Automatic tuning of photonic beamformers: A data-driven approach
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Beamforming is a signal processing technique used in highly directional antennas. An array of antenna elements transmits the same signal, but with a different time delay for each element. By providing the right time delays for each antenna element, the whole array transmits a high-powered signal in one desired direction. This technique can be...
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The Art of Bridge Design: Identifying a design approach for well-integrated, integrally-designed and socially-valued bridges
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It is hard to imagine a world without bridges. Bridges lie at the heart of our civilization bringing growth and prosperity to our society. It is by virtue of bridges that communities are able to physically connect to new people and to new places that were previously disconnected. However, bridges are more than mere functional assets. A well...
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Autonomous Onboard Mission Planning for Multiple Satellite Systems
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With the rising demands from customers and users and the development of ever advanced technologies, many space missions nowadays require more than one satellite to fulfill their mission objectives. Although replacing single satellite systems (SSSs) by multiple satellite systems (MSSs) offers advantages, such as enhanced spatial and temporal...
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From sequentially linear analysis to incremental sequentially linear analysis: Robust algorithms for solving the non-linear equations of structures of quasi-brittle materials
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The Newton-Raphson method (N-R) has been widely used in nonlinear FEM analysis of quasi brittle materials, such as masonry, concrete and reinforced and prestressed concrete. However, the robustness of the N-R method is still a serious issue when bifurcation, snap-back or divergence problems arise. In order to enhance the robustness of solving...
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Improved hydrological understanding of a semi-arid subtropical transboundary basin using multiple techniques – the Incomati River Basin
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This study aims at improving the hydrological process understanding of the semi-arid and transboundary Incomati river basin to enable better water management. Comprehensive statistical and trend analysis of rainfall and streamflow were conducted, and the Indicators of Hydrological Alteration tool was deployed to describe the streamflow regime...
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Cryogenic electronics for the read-out of quantum processors
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Quantum computing promises an exponential speed-up of computation compared to what is nowadays achievable with classical computers. In this way, it enables the evaluation of more complex models and the breaching of current security algorithms. For the operation of a quantum system, many questions remain to be answered. Currently, there are...
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A coupled simulation architecture for agent-based/geohydrological modelling with NetLogo and MODFLOW
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The modelling of social-ecological systems can provide useful insights into the interaction of social and environmental processes. However, quantitative social-ecological models should acknowledge the complexity and uncertainty of both underlying subsystems. For example, the agent-based models which are increasingly popular for groundwater...
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Probabilistic downtime estimation for sequential marine operations
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A marine project consists of series of operations, with each operation subject to a predefined operational limit and duration. If actual weather conditions exceed the operational limit, the operation cannot be executed and hence downtime occurs. An accurate assessment of uncertainties and the expected downtime during a marine project is...
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A lagrangian flight simulator for airborne wind energy systems
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A parallelized flight simulator for the dynamic analysis of airborne wind energy (AWE) systems for ground- and fly-generation configurations is presented. The mechanical system comprises a kite or fixed-wing drone equipped with rotors and linked to the ground by a flexible tether. The time-dependent control vector of the simulator mimics real...
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Plastic deformation of self-affine rough metal surfaces under contact loading: A green's function dislocation dynamics analysis
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