Welcome at RomanticBoyGR's !!!

Visit my city

2008-02-23T07:28:00.000+02:00

http://ancient-pella.myminicity.com/

Ancient Pella by Alexander the Great

Nation States - 01 Eastern Roman Empire

2006-12-29T10:33:00.000+02:00

http://01EasternRomanEmpire.blogspot.com/

NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals. Create a Utopian paradise for society's less fortunate or a totalitarian corporate police state. Care for your people or deliberately oppress them. Join the United Nations or remain a rogue state. It's really up to you.

THANK YOU ALL !!!

2006-06-12T11:54:00.000+03:00

Special thanks to all of you special people in my life for remembering and wishing me on my birthday on June 10th :) ... I love you all ... The order is as of the time of wishes ...

Anthony, Natasha, Vicki, Julia, Anca, Marina, Effie, Demetrius, Maria, John, Areti, Demetrius, Maria, Natasha, Petia, Anthony, Catherine, Candy, Mary, Adriana, Drossos, Mihaela, Stavros, as also Sladur and Sladurana websites ...

Celebrating March 25th, 2006

2006-03-26T14:39:00.000+03:00

My Godson - the Babylover - on Greek National Holiday (March 25th) ...

Will you vote for me?

2006-03-24T19:43:00.000+02:00

http://www.sexyono.com/r/?uid=ro1187487r

Happy Valentine's Day !!!

2006-02-14T08:53:00.000+02:00

I will love you till the end of time ...

One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide and made my pains his prey.
"Vain man," said she, "that dost in vain essay
A mortal thing so to immortalize;
For I myself shall like to this decay,
And eke my name be wiped out likewise."
"Not so," quoth I; "let baser things devise
To lie in dust, but you shall live by fame;
My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write you glorious name:
Where, whenas Death shall all the world subdue,
Our love shall live, and later life renew.

I need your warmth !!! :)

2006-01-15T09:31:00.000+02:00

Photos from Portaria - Pilio in Greece ... The temperature is minus ... I need YOU here :) ... Come to enjoy these beautiful places together ...

Wishes to all my friends !!!

2005-12-26T15:24:00.000+02:00

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2006!

A lot of joy, special moments and love!

Visiting Haifa, Israel Bahai Gardens

2005-12-07T14:55:00.000+02:00

A great experience during my recent trip in Israel was the visit to the Bahai Gardens. A unique place under the care of 85 gardeners every day around the Bahai Temple and the Bahai Bibliotheque located at the centre of Haifa.

News from Rosetta - Screensaver Available

2005-12-02T15:59:00.000+02:00

Quick guide to Rosetta and its graphics

About Rosetta

One of the major goals of Rosetta is to predict the shapes that proteins fold up into in nature. Proteins are linear polymer molecules made up of amino acid monomers and are often refered to as "chains." Amino acids can be considered as the "links" in a protein "chain". Here is a simple analogy. When considering a metal chain, it can have many different shapes depending on the forces exerted upon it. For example, if you pull it's ends, the chain will extend to a straight line and if you drop it on the floor, it will take on a unique shape. Unlike metal chains that are made of identical links, proteins are made of 20 different amino acids that each have their own unique properties (different shapes, and attractive and repulsive forces, for example), and in combination, the amino acids exert forces on the chain to make it take on a specific shape, which we call a "fold." The order in which the amino acids are linked determines the protein's fold. There are many kinds of proteins that vary in the number and order of their amino acids.
To predict the shape that a particular protein adopts in nature, what we are really trying to do is find the fold with the lowest energy. The energy is determined by a number of factors. For example, some amino acids are attracted to each other so when they are close in space, their interaction provides a favorable contribution to the energy. Rosetta's strategy for finding low energy shapes looks like this:
Start with a fully unfolded chain (like a metal chain with it's ends pulled).
Move a part of the chain to create a new shape.
Calculate the energy of the new shape.
Accept or reject the move depending on the change in energy.
Repeat 2 through 4 until every part of the chain has been moved a lot of times.
We call this a trajectory. The end result of a trajectory is a predicted structure. Rosetta keeps track of the lowest energy shape found in each trajectory. Each trajectory is unique, because the attempted moves are determined by a random number. They do not always find the same low energy shape because there are so many possibilities.
A trajectory may consist of two stages. The first stage uses a simplified representation of amino acids which allows us to try many different possible shapes rapidly. This stage is regarded as a low resolution search and on the screen saver you will see the protein chain jumping around a lot. In the second stage, Rosetta uses a full representation of amino acids. This stage is refered to as "relaxation." Instead of moving around a lot, the protein tries smaller changes in an attempt to move the amino acids to their correct arrangment. This stage is regarded as a high resolution search and on the screen saver, you will see the protein chain jiggle around a little. Rosetta can do the first stage in a few minutes on a modern computer. The second stage takes longer because of the increased complexity when considering the full representation (all atoms) of amino acids.
Your computer typically generates 5-20 of these trajectories (per work unit) and then sends us back the lowest energy shape seen in each one. We then look at all of the low energy shapes, generated by all of your computers, to find the very lowest ones. This becomes our prediction for the fold of that protein.

Seti@Home

2005-11-25T13:10:00.000+02:00

LOVE team

2005-11-25T10:41:00.000+02:00

http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/rah_about.php

Rosetta@home is a scientific research project that uses internet-connected computers to predict and design protein structures, and protein-protein and protein-ligand interactions. Our goal is to develop methods that accurately predict and design protein structures and complexes, an endeavor that may ultimately help researchers develop cures for human diseases (See the Human Proteome Folding Project, a collaborative effort to apply our software on the human genome). Our project relies on individuals, like you, who donate time on their computers to collectively provide the computing power necessary to further develop, test, and improve our methods.

Join team LOVE (http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/team_display.php?teamid=870) at Rosetta@home and download and install BOINC at your pc to help the cure of human diseases using your pc computing power when idle.

Congratulations Elena !!!

2005-10-23T20:39:00.000+03:00

Congratulations Elena Paparizou ! All Greek people, we are proud of you for your new success !!! Elena after her big success in winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 in Kiev, Ukraine few months ago with her song "My number one", she did it again yesterday. "My number one" was voted by all Europeans among the top 5 songs ever of Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhangen, Denmark. The winner was the "Waterloo"(Abba).

Taking the Star Trek Personality Test

2005-10-01T18:15:00.000+03:00

http://scifi.about.com/library/weekly/aa080201.htm
Star Trek Personality Test Results: ESFP
This test says you are an ESFP (Extrovert, Sensor, Feeler, Perceiver).* In Star Trek, you share a basic personality configuration with the characters of Kathryn Janeway and Tom Paris.

"We're Starfleet officers. Weird is part of the job." - Janeway
Qualities
People like you are warm and social, impulsive, and unpredictable. You have a great zeal for life and are intensely aware of the world around you. You love to play and respond quickly to people who will play with you. You respond well to appeals to common sense and poorly to being judged. Attempts to trap you will make you ready to flee or fight. And you fight to the death.
You're highly curious and talkative, but also gentle, sensitive and caring. You close down when people fail to provide you with input, and you're frustrated with silences and people who interfere in your life. You're most comfortable taking action, particularly in order to help or enjoy the company of others.
Goals
Your primary goal in life is freedom to be spontaneous and have fun, especially if it involves acting or other performances. Your reward is to enjoy the company of others and know that they enjoy and appreciate you.
Work
You do best when the people and things around you change, offering you new things to learn and explore. A good supervisor will offer you new challenges and appreciate your ability to think on your feet. You also need a job where you aren't killed for occasionally choosing not to follow orders.
Relationships
You love to talk, so you need friends and lovers who love to listen. Beware those who dismiss you or look upon your fun approach to life as frivolous. You understand the importance of a little mischief. Long-term relationships are difficult for you, so look inside yourself when friends, lovers, and family suddenly seem to sprout faults.
You also have a tendency to become stubborn and even immature when under extreme stress, especially if you're feeling frustrated. You have a tendency to worry a little too much about how the other person feels, so you need a mate who will talk when they have something to say, however, unpleasant it may be.
Jobs
Good careers for your type include primary education teacher, starship captain, public relations specialist, tour operator, actor, marine biologist, and starship pilot.

Starting gym !!!

2005-10-01T16:53:00.000+03:00

I took the big decision :) I started a one year subscription with Joe Weider Gym Centre ...

Evening Shopping Therapy :)

2005-10-01T10:28:00.000+03:00

I spent my yesterday evening doing a shopping therapy :) ... As next week I fly to Milan - Italy for an exhibition and same week I have to attend a friend's marriage I needed to renew my gardarobe somehow ... The result was more than this :) ... My credit card issuer called me early this morning to verify that it was me that made all these expenses at once ... Anyway I had a nice fun ...

Trip in Creta

2005-09-28T18:42:00.000+03:00

End of September but Creta is still full of tourists ... most of them Germans and Scandinavians ...
The weather was sunny and the beaches full of people swimming ... I made the trip from Athens to Heraklion, then Rethymnon and ending to Chania ... Last evening I stayed at a nice hotel (Cretan Dream) just at the western outskirts of Chania ... a Cretan night with local Cretan delicacies and Greek popular music was excellent for foreign inhabitants of the hotel but rather noisy for myself :) ... Anyway it was a relaxed evening and I managed to end the reading of a book (Zbigniew Breszinskiy: The Choice - Global Domination or Global Leadership - among us I preferred his other book - The Big Chessboard) ...
In my return flight I enjoyed my new iPod ... nice gadget but it could be better ... anyway I was never an Apple fan ...

Sunday, September 25th, 2005

2005-09-26T04:38:00.000+03:00

Hi ! This is my first ever blog posting :) I have spent my Sunday peacefully ... Some satellite tv watching early morning (adventure and thriller movies that I have videotaped last night), some tv with the celebration of Greece national team in basketball going to European finals after a dramatic winning over France (67-66, then going to buy my Sunday newspapers (4 of them, plenty of nice dvds), an hour of jogging, newspapers studying, lunch and after more news studying. Later on watching my soccer team (A.E.K.) playing against Larissa (we won 1-0 with Ukrainian Vengliski's goal) and now here ... The night will be full of basketball as Greece plays against Germany in the European finals and we all in Greece hope for a win (like in soccer in Portugal last year or like Eurovision with Elena Paparizou win in Ukraine with the "My number one"); we all here want to sing for Greece "You are the one, my number one ..." after the match tonight ... OK, it seems much of tv and athletics today but it is a special day and a chance for relaxation ... Tomorrow starts a new demanding week for me in my business duties ... A trip in Creta island is also in the plans for Tuesday and Wednesday ... More postings to follow soon ...

2005-09-26T00:34:00.000+03:00

Greece: European Championist in basketball

Greece-Germany 78-62 !!!

2005-09-26T00:25:00.000+03:00

After the European Soccer Championship in Portugal, where Greece won the golden medal, minutes ago Greece won the European Basketball Championship tonight in Belgrade playing in the finals against Germany (78-62). This was the 2nd golden medal for Greece in European Basketball.