{"id":954,"date":"2010-08-06T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/06\/friday-night-leuven\/"},"modified":"2010-08-06T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T01:38:00","slug":"friday-night-leuven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2010\/08\/06\/friday-night-leuven\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night – Leuven"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\t\t\t Greetings from beautiful Leuven Belgium.. Home of Stella Artois !.\u00a0 I’m here to give a talk tomorrow to a group of 300 PhD students on the importance of passing on their passion about engineering and science to the next generation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hope it goes well !<\/p>\n

Belgium is a fun contrast to Cosa Rica.. another beautiful land..\u00a0\u00a0 like there.. the folks here are freindly and helpful, unlike there.. no poisonous snakes to worry about.<\/p>\n


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Here’s the square that adjoins the train station.<\/div>\n

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From there it was a short walk to Pieterskirche.. St. Peters which is in the center of town. My hotel is about a block from there. <\/div>\n

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Here’s a slice of the ornate Stadthaus<\/div>\n
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Below my hotel window are small cafes .. with acrodian ‘mariachi’s playing until their payed to leave.. <\/p>\n

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The short walk to the Katholiche University was very nice.. lots of nice art.. cool shops.. <\/div>\n

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I made a stop at the Unviersity to set up for my tlak tomorrow only to find one of my peces of equipment is not working (bummer) .. but I’ll make do.. <\/p>\n

Ten we were whiskde to a barbeque fo rthe conference. It was great. there were folks from all over europe, africa and the middle east.. most in there 20’s and working on PhD’s.. I loved tlaking to the folks who were there.. I also caught up with some old firneds from the IEEE.. A very nice night !<\/p>\n

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THey had two bands.. and beleive it or not.. ENGINEERS WERE DANCING !!!!!!\u00a0 Never seen that !<\/div>\n

On the way home I noticed that the parking meters were solar powered and could be refilled from your cell phone from a txt message… <\/p>\n

This place is really, really smart !<\/p>\n

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OK.. All for now.. I’m missing my family after that wonderful trip.. <\/p>\n

Goede nacht folks, Goede nacht Sam
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Greetings from beautiful Leuven Belgium.. Home of Stella Artois !.\u00a0 I’m here to give a talk tomorrow to a group of 300 PhD students on the importance of passing on their passion about engineering and science to the next generation.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hope it goes well ! Belgium is a fun contrast to Cosa Rica.. another beautiful … Continue reading Friday night – Leuven<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}