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Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II [pronounced VAH-sus Pan-yo-TOP-less]
BioStrategist.com Samani Marions Panyaught
NYS-13760-4251-019-USA
aka: "Vasos Pann","Basil Marions","The Nose Who Knows","Billy the Goat",
"Pay ya tax less, vote pan ya top less!", "641 Mudd Zookeeper",
VP57@Columbia.edu=VJP2@CompuServe.Com=76530.1430@CompuServe.Com
=VJP2@CSI.COM, VJP2@BioStrategist.Com=VasJP2@YaHoo.com,
Greek(Panagiotopoulos)=Latin(Sanctissimopueri)=OldEnglish(Alhaligson)
=Haley/Marions; GreekSlang(Vasos)=Greek(Vasilios)=English(Basil/Roy)
Japanese: Basohiko Hanyotaku; Chinese: Baoshi Pangu;
Hindi: Visal Paxihur; Hebrew: Baxir Panash
(Declention of "Vasos" is irregular and invariant.. never "Vaso"..)
Schedule: Normally I log in at 4-8am to check prnewswire
I strongly prefer to work in DOS because
it is a lot faster (and cheaper) than GUIs like Windows.
I also use Quantian (Debian) and Linpus (Fedora) and Bash (BSD).
--The following rules of thumb apply about two thirds of the time:
Wednesdays I am in South Flushing (QC, NYPQ)
Fridays I am in Harlem, Alt Tuesdays I am in Washington Hts
Most Sundays I attend St Nik Flushing iwth my godparents 7-11am.
Occpation:I joke that I take scientists, managers and bankers and
either get brain pulp or a successful company.. or that I am
divorce counsellor to PhD dropouts or that I eat people's heads for
breakfast. All part true, but I try to put together either biotech,
med device or math (engineering/finance) software firms but usually
end up getting paid mostly in "wallpaper" (as-yet worthless pieces
of the resultant new ventures).
Education:Columbia '81+ (Chem Engg BS@19, Bio-Fluid Mech, Innovn Management);
Windsor Prep(75-78); Garden Prep; St Andrew Acad on the Sound(66-74)
Formerly: Analyst, NY Federal Reserve (1985-87)
Helped reorg B8827x96/B9811x95 techn management Columbia MBA course
Systems & Planning Manager, Hudson Management Systems (1984)
Research Assistant, Columbia Bioengineering Inst (1979-1982)
Economics Guest Columnist;NYCTribune(1990),Eleftheri Anthropi(1982)
Exec Scy, Infostrategy Cmte, Grk Orth Arch (1983-87)
US Repr, Thettalos Tours, Athens (1975-1979)
Volunteer Coordinator, Katsorhis for Queens DA (1991)
President, Columbia U Republicans (1982-1983)
Secretary, NYS Greek Republicans (1984)
Chair, Columbia Orthodox Fellowship, (1979-1983)
At Large, Exec Cmte, QGOP, 1997-2007
Interests:Math optimisation of flow and transport pathways in artificial heart
Wavelet decompostiton of Na Ca waves in EKG
Clinical decision support and adaptive max likelhood clin trials
Kalman inverse finite elements on EKG PDE
Trypsin to induce M2 C5 lysis in inflam metast extravasation
Calcium channel leakage of prionising neurodegenerative free radicals
Design of new stochastic partial diff eqns in financial derviatives
Behavioral arbitrage of contingent claims research budgeting techniques
Fourier series modalities of Laffer/Kagan optimal tax/inflatn curves
Economic continuum mechanics models and lag-ODE convertability
Goals: Be to artif organs what Ben Rosen (Compaq,Lotus,Borland) was to PCs.
Find a fiendishly clever, unpretentiously altruistic wife.
Reads: http://directory.qmed.com/, BiopharmInternational.com/,surgicalproductsmag.com
iriweb.org/rtm hbr.org, Economist.com, economia.gr, claremont.org/crb, sciencenews.org
NationalInterest.org,LawReview.UChicago.edu,cfo.com,GFMag.com
Practcial Lawyer (ALI-ABA 19104-3099)
Quo Vadis Datebook (716-648-2602 fax2607 / 14075-3770)
--Essential Reference--
Facts on File Core Biz Progr (vest pkt, ISBN 87196-80*-*)
Thieme Gentcs(ISBN 3-13-100361-8) & Physiolgy(3-13-545001-5) Pkt Atl
Skalak&Chien, Bioengg Hbk (70577838, I worked for them)
Hudson, Engineer Manual (471418447) (or EIT93227627X ChE912045965)
C-S Yih, Fluid Mechanics (960219005)
Porter, Competitive Strategy, (29253608 not the pinko/pol/trade bk)
Breck & Sydaester, Eco Math Manual, (387543708)
Meyers, Mol Bio Ref (1560815698)
Amis & Stevenson, Early Statge Investing (273649167)
Copeland & Weston, Financial Theory (201102919)
Oldham & Morris, Personality Self-Portrait (55305757X)
Byrd, Handwritting Analysis (668053119)
Bronshtein & Semendyayev, Math Hbk (442211716)
World Almanac (not the pinko "Information Please" junk)
Berle, Biz Agreements, (131746324)
Menzel, Fund Formul Physics (486605965) (Dover 31E2MnlaNY11501-3582)
MGH Schaum Outlines (best way to learn any engineering topic)
Dthimitrakos Desk Greek Dictionary
Eleftherudthakis Encyclopedic Dictionary (2vol desk ency)
--Greece Booksellers--
Eleftherudthakis 4NikkiGR10563 www.books.gr FAX +301-323-9821
Zoe Brotherhood 21 Ay Ioanu Ag par GR15342EU 2106391228
Frequents: CBSACNY.Org, MITEF-NYC.Org, NYBA.Org, TheCathedral.GOArch.Org,
LES.Org, QWAFAFEW.Org, NYAS.Org, NYAM.Org, ACG.org, HMSNY.Org,
HamptonJitney.Com to Gin Ln & L Plains Rd SH via Flushing stop
Drives: 1975 10-speed Schwinn Continental
bicycle, also twillight blue. Learned to drive on my uncle's 1965
285ci v8 light-metallic-blue Chevy Impala SS. Only car my dad or I
ever owned 1978 Blue 440v8 4bbl Cordoba (1978-2010)
Prefers: Bach, Mozart, Lehar, Reagan, Quayle, Serf Maltese, Frick
Museum, Spoiled kids, Obsessive cleanliness, Submarines, Slide
Rules, Honduran president-sized cigars, Cephalonian Cantatas,
Mitch Miller songs, Samoyed dogs; cinderblock buildings;
Strong-willed, bright, honest, perky, forthright, Orthodox-able lasses
Avoids: Picasso, Rock&Roll, Cable TV, conspiracy theories, Alban Berg,
movies, small cars, old buildings; web pages w ISMAP/FRAMEs.
Didn't wear jeans before 2005.
Blatherous pseudocivilisatn of bookcafes for "alternative"
"dummies". Turkatollahs Kakamemies and affiliated Bolshevoid
NeoFeudals; Varmint-Mental GeoPagans; Petrurbedly Perorating
Putrid Pinko Petunias; Quackandroid pornocommunists who
support(ed) Quackandreou, Quackarios,duQuackey and Quackadaffy;
Multiculturalist Maastwreckbationists; Germ McPain; Whole Mole Dole
Hole; Putrid Bullcanon; and other (periskelidoblexian) people who
don't think. Anyone who uses word "ecumenism" (whether positively
or negatively). Saucy/soupy food. Pants touching shoes. Being a
spectator instead of a participant. Lassies with clunky or open
shoes, frazzled hair, or clothes dragging floor. The words that
offend me most are "don't think" and "forget".
Stands: Am very opinionated but like least those without opinions!
Ideologies are heuristic shortcuts but individuals are living facts.
80% academics, politicians & homeless are paranoid schizophrenics!
Coward Ollie North betrayed Reagan but hero Poindexter was steadfast
Continuation of ancient peoples frustrates historical innovators
Devolve NYC tax/spend authority to coterminous council/CB districts
Localise taxes close to their use;No LT Cap Gn tax;Desubsidise debt.
Make torts & regulatory oversite mutually exclusive
Privacy and free speech are mutually exclusive
Set school stds by test (even college) then dereg delivery
Standardise the rail tracks but franchise out the routes
Vendacards are privatised currency - therefore good
Oswald acted alone. Elvis is dead. The UN is lame.
History: I was born in Astoria, NY and have lived in the NYC part of Long
Island's Gold Coast since I was four. I'm full of contradictions:
Conservative yet Ivy League, NYC yet Long Island, Greek,
yet (Pindus) Alpine! My mom's family first came to Castle
Garden, NYC in 1885 from Trilofos Ieropiyis, Kastoria,
Makethonia, Greece but my mom was born in Athens, Greece. She
used to be a typist in the Greek Pentagon and her oldest brother
once ran the Greek rails and her cousin used to run the Greek NATO
mission. My mom's dad was kidnapped and killed by the reds at
the Tomb of the Thousand on Mt Olympus, just as my mom was about to
take the exams to enter Athens Polytechnic to be a chemical
engineer; This event shaped my political beliefs. My dad was born
in Karryes Prussu, Evrytania, Aetolia, Greece, lost both of his
parents before age five and studied at Athens Business School, CCNY
(Chem Engg), & U S Carolina. Born on the side of a cliff, he kept
moving to ever larger towns seeking ever more advanced night
schools - his ENTIRE education was at night. His older brother
wrote the book which transformed postWW2 Greek schoolgardens into
engines of scientific education and was later asst to Educ Min
Karapiperis. My dad now has more family in the western Carolinas
than in Greece.
Ancestry: Vasilios-Petros (Vasos) Panagiotopoulos, son of John, grandson of
Vasilios and Panayota (Kaltsuni of Vlahernae), greatgrandson of
Khristodthoros and Yeoryia (Stinga), of the clan Panaetuloyanis
(subclan of Kutzukeus The Short), from Karryes Prussu on Mt.
Panaetolikos, in Aetolia and Evrytania; Also son of Mary, daughter
of Peter Bluhos and Eleni (daughter of Yeoryios Karamanlis and
Nerantzula Pishiu), and grandaughter of Dthimitrios Bluhos and
Maria Mizziu, of the Holy Fountain of Kastoria in Makedthonia on
Aliakmon River.
Influences:All the great tragedies that have hit my family suggest that
my outspoken, ever-inqusitive parents seem to be hereditarily
unable to ignore the truth in favor of their self-interest; I
always felt that the blessings I had in life were rewards directed
at my parents instead. Next in influencing me was my mom's
brother, my godfather, the ever-inventive George Bloychos, who
joined the Greek submarines at thirteen in order not to burden his
mom when his dad was killed, and then ran for parliament to be
decommissioned and come to the USA to be an electronics engineer,
eventually in phototypesetting. Then was the late Czech professor
Richard Skalak, then director of the Columbia Bioengineering
Institute and my high-school math & piano teacher, the Litwo-Dutch
Courant student William Mieras. In no particular order, also
influential in shaping my thinking were NY Federal Reserve
Columbia-alum math-statistician Christopher MacCallum Kell, the
late Columbia conflict management professor Margaret Chandler,
Supply-Side founder Columbia professor Robert Mundell, Columbia
artificial organs professor Ed Leonard, Columbia quant civil
engineering professor Gautam Dasgupta, +Mrs. Fani Meimaris who
taught me to write in both Greek & English at St Andrew Academy,
NYS Conservative Party founder Senator Serf Maltese and Drs Martin
Cohen & Philip Stewart, founders of Windsor Prep. Dr Kell, Pr
Dasgupta & Mr Mieras always encouraged me to test the limits of my
abilities. The wisdom of Sen Maltese & Dr Cohen gains deeper
meaning every year that passes since I first heard it. I always
appreciate the blunt but well-considered opinions of Prof. Leonard
and Dr. Stewart.
OldCmputr:HP41C, Ampro 2210 w HP2621a
PCNeeds: Nat Lang harvest of finc & contx data from presss releases
RightClick Shell Prog to insert text file anywhere
Use cheap modems to voice broadcast via tapiex.com or voicent.com
Find a reasonable sheet music OCR for MIDI
FmrEMail: Engr3.ChE.Panagiotopoulos@CU20A.Columbia.Edu (1978)
Ext1.Samani@CU20B.Columbia.Edu (1984) VJP2@BIX.Com (1989)
70105.1322@CompuServe.Com (1983) VJP2@Delphi.Com (1994)
VJP2@Dorsai.Org (1995-2000) VPan@Instruct.GSB.Columbia.Edu (1995-96)
VJP@MCIMAIL.com=0003536867@MCIMAIl.com=Telex236503536867) (1988-2003)
