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Robert

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medical doctor
Open Source project(s) I'm involved with or passionate about: 
projects involving Publius distributed, anonymous, tamper-resistant web publishing, wireless mesh networking (over long distances (wireless Alternet, with the option for complete-total independence from the current Internet, but also with the option to tap into the regular Internet, when I want to, but not to be forced to use "only the regular Internet" when a confidential alternative should exist that is immune to "government snooping")), high level encryption, privacy, freedom from government snooping, freedom, freedom as in Charlton Heston's "Ten Commandments", freedom as in the U.S. Constitution, and anything-everything other than this International Communism-New World Order that is currently trying to destroy us and our freedoms!!

College: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Medical School: UMDNJ-Rutgers Medical School (aka UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School), Piscataway, New Jersey

Residency: UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey

Board Certification: got board certification by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Certificate #2529, 21 May, 1986, PM&R specialty board exams (oral and written), which I took at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota in May, 1986


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