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Refurbished computer business offers education and job skills in exchange for community service.
Free Geek provides jobs and free classes to the community
Here in the District of Columbia, a loosely-knit group comprised of social workers, librarians, technologists, environmentalists, disability rights advocates, and educators has come together in the past few years. This coalition, known as the Broadband Bridge, sees digital justice and digital inclusion as a cornerstone towards self-determination in traditionally underserved communities.
Following the lead of like-minded groups in Detroit and elsewhere, the Broadband Bridge has piloted community-based wireless mesh networks, worked to provide greater access to an existing grant-funded broadband network and held DISCOvering TECHnology (Disco Tech) Fairs to encourage people to learn about the ways in which computers, video cameras, and other equipment can be used as tools to tell their stories, to take advantage of government services, to access employment and educational opportunities, and to lobby for social change in their communities.
Lately, an idea has been fermenting within the group to create a "digital co-op" which would offer a training program in hardware and software, combined with a hardware refurbishing / recycling center and a hackerspace / small business incubator. Several members of the Broadband Bridge found their way to the Free Geek website and thought it could provide a useful model for moving forward. A few of those involved were already familiar with the organization. In fact, in 2009, while working for the GEO Collective, local activist Jim Johnson penned Free Geek, a Computer Recycler: Testing the Limits of Reproducing Worker-Managed Enterprises.
As a long-time advocate of using free open source software (FOSS), particularly in education, I was also familiar, albeit at a distance, with Free Geek. As luck would have it, I had the opportunity to visit the Free Geek mothership a few months ago and gathered a bit more information regarding their current operation.
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After running from the Allied Media Conference in Detroit, then back to DC for Wikimania 2012, I ended up in Portland, OR for OSCON 2012. Having never been to Portland before, I decided to stay a few days after OSCON had finished to sample its legendary "bikes, beers and books" culture. During the conference, I stopped by the Free Geek booth in the exhibit hall, where I received a warm reception. One of the volunteers at the booth suggested I could learn more by joining one of the regular volunteer orientation tours offered twice a day and then sit down with one of the regulars if I had further questions. So, one afternoon, I hopped on my trusty two-wheeled rental steed and, after several jaunts around town, I pedaled my way to Free Geek's headquarters for their 4:00 PM orientation tour. I arrived early enough to scout about a little before the tour.
Free Geek is located in the Inner Eastside Industrial District, near the heart of Portland, 1.6 miles almost due south of the Portland Convention Center. (So sayeth Google.) The area is similar in appearance to the aging freight yard / industrial wholesale district in northeast DC, though not quite as old. As is typical of much of Portland, plenty of bike racks were available in front of the building and they were being well-used when I arrived.
The Free Geek facility is considerably larger than I had anticipated. According to Administrative Services Manager, Richard Seymour, the main floor is 15,000 square feet, with additional space on another floor that includes offices and additional storage. All together, he estimated between 17,000 and 18,000 square feet.
While waiting for the volunteer orientation to begin, I observed a steady stream of donors bringing their unwanted electronics into the building via a "drop off only" entrance, where intake volunteers immediately began sorting and classifying the donations. The donors were then funneled into the "Receipts and Contributions" room from which they could exit directly onto the street after going through the requisite paperwork. This allowed for a very smooth, constant flow of hardware donation traffic without jams or bottlenecks.
After getting the lay of the land and chatting with some volunteers for a few minutes, it was time for the orientation tour. Our tour guide was staff member Omar Vargas who coordinates the Spanish programs at Free Geek. In addition to the Spanish programs themselves, I noted that there were brochures and class schedules available in both English and Spanish.
The Volunteer program
The volunteer program consists of the Adoption program and the Build program.
Adoption program
This group takes in donated computers and other electronics, breaks them down into component parts (if necessary), and classifies them as reusable, recyclable, or trash. The components are boxed then sent to the warehouse for the Build program or for recycling / disposal. Quoting Amelia Lamb, Free Geek's Reuse Program Coordinator: "In general, we reuse about 25% of the gizmos we receive and recycle about 75%. This is based on analyzing the computer systems alone. The actual percentage varies according to the type of gizmo. Also, in general, institutional donations have a higher reuse rate than individual donations."
After 24 hours of volunteer time in the Adoption program, volunteers receive a free computer with Ubuntu installed and a 2.5-3 hour class covering setup and basic usage of their new computer, as well as instructions on installing additional software such as software for viewing and listening to media that is encoded using proprietary codecs. The class is designed to be friendly enough to include people who have never used a computer before. Also, recipients receive one year of technical support—provided the system remains an Ubuntu system.
Build program
First, volunteers in the Build program begin with a 2.5-3 hour community-based IT class that introduces topics including:
- how to identify the basic components of a computer, (e.g. motherboards, hard disks and hard disk controllers, video controllers, and power supplies)
- the current specs for Free Geek machines (e.g. minimum acceptable memory and hard disk size)
- the proper methods of handling and disposing of the previous owner's data (e.g. destruction of hard disks, not starting computers that have not yet been erased, etc.)
Armed with that knowledge, volunteer builders then move on to Systems Evaluation where they examine hardware which has been dropped off, determining if there are any salvageable parts suitable for refurbished computers. Whenever possible, parts deemed non-refurbishable are further deconstructed for recycling. In order to "graduate" from Systems Evaluation to Quality Control (the next step), volunteers must pass their Systems Evaluation skills on to an incoming "freshman" in the Build program under the watchful eye of an instructor. In Quality Control, volunteers test computers built by other volunteers, making sure they're ready to go out into the world. After performing QC on five machines, they are ready to move into the actual "build" phase of the program.
Once they have successfully built five machines, they are eligible for the same benefits that are offered to the Adoption program volunteers: a computer with a year of free maintenance and the setup and basic usage class. As I understood it, diligent volunteers can expect between 60 and 100 hours to finish the Build program.
Donating built computers
Once built computers are ready, they are moved into the Donation storage area, where they fall into one of four categories:
- FREEKBOXes: computers for volunteers
- FG-PDX systems: the city of Portland has a special contract with Free Geek; these systems are donated by the city to be given away to Portland city residents and organizations, with preference given to K-12 students, or organizations that work with K-12 students.
- "Low End" and "High End" systems sold in the thrift store; open to the general public
In addition, Free Geek offers Hardware Grants to qualified non-profit organizations. Computers provided via hardware grants are taken primarily from the supply of completed FREEKBOXes and FG-PDX systems.
The site also contains a library with computers available for an hour at a stretch and technical books (mostly focused on Linux and other FOSS) which can be checked out of the library.
There is also a kitchen and, following OSHA standards, credit for volunteer hours includes a 15-minute break every two hours and a lunch break for shifts lasting longer than six hours. To keep track of volunteer hours and resource scheduling, as well as having a good sense of how many people are in the space at any given time (satisfying security / safety concerns), registered volunteers are given an ID number and required to sign in and sign out at either the Volunteers desk or the Receipts & Contributions desk.
There are 32 paid staff members, some of whom are part-time employees. In a given day, there are between 70-75 volunteer slots to be filled, though they're not always filled. Between staff, volunteers and library drop-ins, there are typically 80 people in the space, maxing out at around 100 occasionally.
A few questions for the Recycling Coordinator
- Darryl Kan, how does e-cycling fit into a sustainable business model as a revenue stream? Somewhat like the Oregon "Bottle Bill", the state of Oregon reimburses Free Geek for processing e-waste, including computers, keyboards, mice and monitors. Industry is held responsible for and pays the end-of-life costs. In the long term, companies are becoming more responsible for the full life cycle of equipment. (Amelia added that this was done through the Oregon E-cycles program, administered by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality.)
- Do you have formal workforce training programs? Informally, yes. There has been discussion of a more formal model that Free Geek is working towards implementing. However, refurbishing smart phones and tablets isn't a realistic future and that impacts decisions about workforce training.
- How do you feel about / address the current shift to a post-PC mainstream and how does it affect your future? Free Geek is well aware of the shift and realizes that it is not in a position to refurbish some of the newer technologies.
- How has your governance model changed over the last few years and why? In July 2011, the workers unionized with Communications Workers of America. As a result, the former collective members have become "management" due to the union laws.
Recipe of mutual collaboration
Several organizations and individuals working in the District of Columbia have all independently been converging on the idea that many of our technology challenges can be met via mutual collaboration in an open source way that is both pleasant and productive. The success of Free Geek in Portland has inspired other cities to try emulating the Free Geek model with varying degrees of success. The bylaws and other governing principles and philosophies found on Free Geek's wiki offer a recipe for moving forward to groups like the DC Broadband Bridge. Seeing those principles in action first-hand was quite inspiring, renewing my enthusiasm and conviction that such progress is indeed possible.
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Free Geek sounds a wonderfully well-intentioned and progressively minded bunch of people. I wish them well.
I see three major problems that were not pointed out in the article.
1. There was no mention of their being connected to the larger computer refurbishing community which antedates Free Geek's efforts by a decade or two.
2. They are performing the labors of Sisyphus without seeming to realize it, pushing a rock up a hill that just rolls down again. IOW, they are playing into the game of the manufacturers who purposely design goods to fail quickly and NOT be able to be reused because they are locked into yearly upgrade cycles. No substantial progress will be made until the PRODUCTION SIDE is changed. Working exclusively on the CONSUMER SIDE is ultimately a losing game. There are thousands of different ways to change THE DESIGN of electronic devices so that they are designed to be reused, not discarded. This will be a political fight at worst. At best, it is possible to simply form a company to make better devices that are sold on the proposition that they are designed for long term reuse. There is a market for such devices so long as you are not seeking 40% market penetration for example.
What gives it away is the use of terms like e-waste. Attaching the moniker "waste" to anything means adopting the frame of the opposition and instilling a mentality of the object being unusable. Recycling is another sandtrap. It has come to mean post-garbage attempts to scramble to recover some low-grade value. What you want is pre-discard built-in reusability. The abdication of all reuse for smartphones is a sign of the futility of consumer side responses, not a sign of smartphone intrinsic non-reusability.
3. Free software is wonderful but the geeks who create it shoot themselves in the foot when it comes to having people use it. There is no nice way to say it: the support and tutorial features are simply atrocious. They are inaccessible to 99.9% of users. They are chock full of impenetrable jargon. Answers to questions immediately sink into low level technical coding that is only possible for the developers themselves. The geeks in charge resist any change to this situation. The Free Geek community should be creating entirely new support and explanatory mechanisms that can be used by most users. There is a need for manuals, forums and tutorials that ordinary people can understand.
Some of these issues are dealt with at length at my website;
Paul Palmer
To Paul:
1. Free Geek has existed since 2000, and has always played well with others. What makes you think it is disrespectful to past efforts to refurbish computers? This is a very strange charge.
2. The term "waste" refers to stuff that is far more hazardous than it is reusable as computer equipment -- and like it or not, there is plenty. Free Geek's triage of reusable vs. non-reusable materials, and responsible handling of the "waste," is second to none.
3. This one is kind of amusing, because what you are describing is another of the great strengths of what Free Geek has been doing for many years. I have no idea what led you to the conclusion that they're using complex or poorly documented software.
Disclosure, I volunteered heavily for Free Geek in the early days, and try to stay in touch. My fandom is based on a genuine and informed belief in the quality of its model and execution.
Thanks for sharing Pete!
Dear Pete and Jen:
Your comments reveal much about the way that reuse efforts have been manipulated and denigrated in this country by those people who profit from designing poor quality goods that are built to be non reusable except with great effort, most of which is wasted because there are so much better ways to handle the problems that do not involve constant superhuman efforts.
I see that you are very protective of Free Geek. So protective in fact that no one can even suggest an improvement in any of its operations without being seen as an outsider, an enemy. This is an idiotic attitude on your part. In a general way - no one involved in any complex operation of any kind who rejects all criticism, even constructive criticism, is doing his favorite entity any favors. Yes, I will go out on a limb and lecture you. When someone suggests that your favorite operation could be improved, and suggests the form of that improvement, it behooves you to say "thank you, I'll think about it". You don't have to agree with the criticism, or do anything about it, but you need to be open to improvement. I'm sure that got your back up, but I'm quite a bit older than you (74) and I have a ton more experience in the reuse field than you ever will. I can explain that later. Look up "Zero Waste" on Wikipedia for example.
I did not say one thing against your beloved Free Geek. I began by praising them. Then I suggested that they link up with an existing movement that has been doing the same work for decades. I can provide you names and emails but why don't you provide that information to me instead, since you are so sure that the connection is made. All I knew - and still know about FG - is what was in the article. The Computer Refurbishing industry even has national conferences. Or did. FG is not carving out new ground.
Next, I suggested that FG could be more effective by looking into a new direction for some of its efforts, namely by understanding some of the deeper reasons why they are being presented with generations of electronic toys that are so difficult to reuse and - according to the article - impossible to do anything with. I suppose you think that you know all about reuse and wasting and designing just because you dipped into it once. There is a huge political and industrial background to the work that FG is trying to do and there are huge profits associated with all of that and industries that want no changes in their strategies, no matter how destructive those may be to his planet. You have a great deal to learn about what is behind the scenes.
You invocation of "hazard" as soon as someone mentions "waste" is absurd. I am talking about the grand design of obsolescence resulting in groaning dumps, exhausted resources of every kind and destroyed cultures (think miners in the Congo for example). Part of the mainstream propaganda (remember those profits I mentioned!) is to instill in the public some notion that they need to be scared of the field of reuse because of "hazardous waste". The entire campaign to tar monitor screens this way was successful even though it was scientifically nonsensical. Did it snare you?
Lastly , in discussing software, I probably should not have raised it though it's a particular gripe of mine. It has nothing to do with FG. The "geeks" I referred to are not those in FG but the geeks who write FOSS software. The software is wonderful but the support descriptions stink to high heaven and prevent the software from having more than marginal penetration. The developers labor mightily to add needed features and than don't tell anyone except their friends how to use them. Anyway, ignore all of that because it has nothing to do with FG directly. I apologize for raising it.
Paul Palmer
I can think of no good reason to read past the point where you called my attitude idiotic. Enjoy your time on the Internet.
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MIFFLINTOWN - Early church roots in a one-room school house have spread into a wide tree of ministry that now is the First Baptist Church of Juniata County.
Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, the congregation has a variety of activities scheduled throughout the year.
"It is truly amazing to think how God used a handful of people from a home Bible study and then a very small group at a one-room school house in 1962 to start a church," said the Rev. Ron Shupe, senior pastor. "Now it is a church that supports a multitude of missionaries that are reaching hundreds for the Gospel of Jesus Christ all over the world."
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The sanctuary at the First Baptist Church of Juniata County will be the setting for several 50th anniversary celebrations throughout the year. The congregation first began meeting in homes and then a one-room school house before building the church.
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The First Baptist Church congregation first services were held in this one-room school house in Dogtown, during its earliest years. The rent was $10 per month.
Sentinel photo by MICAIAH WISE BILGER
Senior Pastor the Rev. Ron Shupe, left, and Assistant Pastor Phil Persing stand in front of the church's Family Life Center, the most recent church expansion project. The congregation celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
The first church meetings began as home Bible studies in 1962 with about 17 people.
On Dec. 2, the group hosted its first Sunday school class at the Mount Pleasant School with the Rev. Cecil Palm.
Two years later, the members held a meeting to organize the church into an official body and adopt a constitution. They chose the name First Baptist Church of Juniata County, and selected Robert Miller as the first pastor.
Miller said he and his family originally planned to become missionaries to Argentina, and they spoke to the young congregation about their work.
When their missions plans fell through, the Millers came back to Juniata County to help with the new church, the pastor said.
Not long after their move, the leader of the young congregation became sick, leaving Miller to take charge.
"The first year or two, (attendance was) in the teens - including five from my own family," Miller remembered. "By the fourth year, we obviously didn't fit in that (school) building anymore."
One reason for the growth was a skinny teenager named Johnny Boxe.
Ray Baker, a long-time member, said he taught Johnny at Juniata High School. One day after class, the nervous young man invited Baker to the church's rally day service.
"We showed up, and it was a one-room school house with no facilities - there was an outhouse," Baker said. "With my wife and daughter and me, there were 17 people."
Yet, the Bakers were impressed by the warm atmosphere of friendship at First Baptist. They have been going there ever since.
"What an impact (Johnny) had on the church," Baker said.
Boxe dedicated his first paycheck to purchase the church's first lawn mower, and he paid for a group of boys to attend church camp, Baker said.
Tragedy struck the church when Boxe, still a teenager, died in a vehicle wreck. His memory lives on through the John Boxe Church Camp Fund, which pays for community youth to attend church camp every year.
In 1966, the congregation took a step forward and purchased ground along state Route 35 near Mifflintown.
At the time, old Route 22 was the most-traveled road in the county, but there were rumors of a new highway, Miller said. Foreseeing the change, Miller said he advocated for the current location along state Route 35, which later proved to be a prominent spot.
In 1967, the congregation built its first church and welcomed its second pastor, the Rev. Robert Westerberg.
In the early 1980s, the congregation had grown so much that it needed more space. The church expanded in 1981, building an office, classrooms and a kitchen.
In 1986, construction began on a new, 300-seat sanctuary. It was dedicated on Nov. 9 under the leadership of the Rev. Dr. David Wriglesworth.
In 2003 with current pastor the Rev. Ron Shupe, the congregation expanded again, this time building a Family Life Center.
During that decade, the church's ministries continued to grow with a monthly soup kitchen, outdoorsmen suppers, Released Time and AWANA.
Not long after beginning a second Sunday morning service, the church hired its first associate pastor. The Rev. Phil Persing currently serves in that role.
"The Lord has been so faithful ... in supplying the people needed and the resources to continue on full steam ahead in doing the Lord's work," Shupe said.
The theme for the 50-year celebrations is "Remember. Rejoice. Reconnect."
This Sunday, the church will welcome former Pastor Robert Miller and his family at the 8 and 10:15 a.m. services.
On July 29, Paul and Donnie Westerberg, sons of a former pastor, will visit and share memories and testimonies at 8, 9:15 and 10:15 a.m.
The church will host its last celebration during the annual fellowship dinner at 6 p.m. Dec. 8 with special guests from throughout the 50 years, special music and former pastor Wriglesworth giving his testimony. He also will preach at the Sunday services at 8 and 10:15 a.m.


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Lindsey Vonn seems to have it all.
As the most decorated skier in U.S. history, Vonn's easy smile and record-decimating athletic career have made her a fixture on podiums, magazine covers and multi-million dollar endorsement deals. But life off the slopes wasn't always so rosy.
In an exclusive interview with PEOPLE, the Olympic gold medalist, 28, discloses that she's quietly suffered from depression for many years and currently takes an anti-depressant to help manage her symptoms.
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LOCKPORT – A Town of Tonawanda man, whose auto rear-ended another on the bridge from Tonawanda Island in North Tonawanda after the July 4 fireworks, was sentenced Friday to four months of weekends in jail, five years' probation and fines and fees totaling $5,570.
Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas imposed the penalties on Matthew M. Halas, 39, of Raintree Island, who had pleaded guilty to felony driving while intoxicated – his third alcohol-related offense. His blood alcohol content was measured at three times the legal limit.
The occupants of the other car, including some children, suffered minor injuries.


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The Second Step In Restoring Our A/C System Is To Tackle The Plenum Box
In the previous story, we started the restoration of a complete air conditioning system with the help of Classic Auto Air in Tampa, Florida. We gave a complete overview of what the basic components of a Mopars A/C system are and how they relate to each other, discussed the different types of refrigerants available, and showed the process Classic Auto Air uses to restore the filter/drier canister to re-create a systems hard lines and fittings. To our knowledge, Classic Auto Air is pretty much the only game in town when it comes to the restoration of these pieces, but as we showed you, the level of detail and correctness is matched only by NOS pieces. In fact, Classic Auto Air components are better in most cases because there is no shelf wear or surface rust.
The second step in restoring our A/C system is to tackle the plenum box. Located under the dash, this is the central system of the cars heater, cooling, and vent system. It regulates the temperatures of the heater, houses the fan, and directs the flow of air.
Its also generally a mystery to most enthusiasts. But as we found out, other than having a special plenum clip pliers to remove the fasteners, there is nothing to taking one apart, cleaning it up, and putting it back together. We followed along as the guys at Classic restored this one, and picked up a few tips to pass along on checking components. Theyve done Mopar boxes so many times they dont need any factory diagrams, but if you tackle it yourself, we suggest getting a new manual to help you put it back together.
Basically, there are only a few things in the plenum box that can fail: any of the vacuum canisters used to open the various doors that regulate the heating and cooling, the heater and evaporator cores, the water valve assembly and temperature sensing unit, and the air conditioner and heater blower motor resistor. Checking for component failure is a simple matter of visual inspection for everything except the vacuum canisters. If there are signs of leakage on anything that has fluid in it, it needs to be repaired, just like a radiator. If the motor resistor wires are broken, it needs to be replaced. As for the vacuum canisters, its simply a matter of hooking a rubber line to one end and plugging the other port with your finger, then sucking on the line. If the lever moves, its good.
Classic Auto Air can supply you with what you need to repair or replace most any components found in your plenum box, or you can have Classic Auto Air restore the entire assembly to concours condition for you. Good, uncracked plenum boxes are also becoming harder to find, but as we discovered with ours (which was not cracked), the case and covers are made out of fiberglass and plastic, so they are easily repaired should they have been kicked once too often. Follow along as Tim Cordelieone at Classic walks us through the restoration, as well as showing us a couple of neat tips and tricks.
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-courtesy Stetson Men's and Women's Rowing Head Coach Susan Saint Sing-
The Stetson women's lightweight four who won bronze medals at the nationals last May are seated 4th this weekend at perhaps the most prestigious fall race in the world, the Head of the Charles Regatta. there will be thousands of competitors and national team athletes from all over the world. The course is right through Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The crew was 14th last year but due to their national ranking over the year, they are in a much more advantageous start position. they will race Sunday afternoon at 4:11 on Sunday afternoon against Harvard, Philadelphia Undine, Bucknell, Princeton, Radcliffe, Clemsen, Pitt, Chicago, Vesper Boat Club. It is a difficult race where you can't just be fast but must be smart.
Racing these high level races at this caliber adds poise and skill to our crews which will aid them in the spring championship races.
Rubbing shoulders with the likes of the Ivy League give a real boost to Stetson recruitment and enrollment management. EVERYONE wants to row the Charles and when we can tell them that we race the Charles...we have a leg up on the other Southern schools who don't. It is a terrifically prestigious event that puts Stetson on a world stage.
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In his State of the Union speech in January, President Barack Obama put out the call for strengthening the U.S. manufacturing industry. Two of his significant comments were "we have a huge opportunity, at this moment, to bring manufacturing back," and "ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country, and your country will do everything we can to help you succeed."
Based on the President's speech, I interviewed several biotech instrument makers for an article on global manufacturing trends that will appear in the February 15 issue of GEN. From those discussions it seems that, at least for the bioindustry, the President was posing the wrong question (i.e., "Ask yourselves what you can do to bring jobs back to your country…"). In fact, a wide range of biotech equipment is already being made in the U.S.
Regarding the possibility of more manufacturing jobs actually coming back to the U.S., talks with biotech officials led me to conclude that the President either does not really understand or is ignoring the main reasons behind the establishment of regional manufacturing operations.
From my interviews with the biotech instrument manufacturers, two key drivers for building a manufacturing facility became apparent: costs and proximity to important and growing markets. Calls for patriotism don't enter into the manufacturing equation and, from the business point of view, they shouldn't, as the discussions with biotech manufacturers revealed.
One of the experts I talked to noted that the business world now operates as a global economy and "our customer base is everywhere, not just in the U.S." Another biotech professional suggested that the U.S. needs to create new jobs and the way to do this is "to encourage investment in education and in the development of novel products and technologies."
He also doubted that manufacturing jobs, once they went overseas, would ever come back to the U.S. He said the only way this could possibly happen would be for the U.S. government to impose high import tariffs or offer large tax-cut incentives that "ultimately make domestic manufacturing more profitable." Whether any of these actions will take place is anyone's guess.
The take-home message is that all types of manufacturing companies, whether based in the U.S. or elsewhere, will go where their costs are cheapest and they can be near their customers. Sound business considerations and not nationalistic pride ultimately determine where companies set up manufacturing facilities on the global stage.
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Without our nation's veterans, America wouldn't be the great
nation it is today. Our youth deserve to learn about our rich history,
traditions and the role of our veterans in creating and shaping America.
The VFW Teacher of the Year award contest recognizes
three exceptional teachers for their outstanding commitment to teaching
Americanism and patriotism to their students. Each year, a classroom
elementary, junior high and high school teacher whose curriculum focuses on
citizenship education topics—for at least half of the school day in a classroom
environment—can be nominated for the Smart/Maher VFW National Citizenship
Education Teacher Award. Winners receive:
who promote civic responsibility, flag etiquette and patriotism are prime
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If you know a teacher who plans field trips to city hall, organizes community
volunteer projects or invites local veterans to speak in class, anything
to help students develop a better understanding of democratic values and
beliefs, this award is for them
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development methods, as well as his or her dedication to education.
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on the nominees submitted, VFW's local chapters - called Posts - will recognize
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The 2016 Teacher of the Year winners are:
Jessica Mosley, a fourth-grade teacher at Park Intermediate School in Weiser, Idaho, has been named the 2016 winner at the elementary school level. At the middle school level, Donna Kregelka, an eight-grade social studies teacher at Chippewa Middle School in Okemos, Mich., was named the 2016 winner. William Ellery, a high school history teacher at Carmel High School in Carmel, Ind., was named the 2016 high school winner.
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Our faculty to student ratio is 1:18, providing a focus on the learning
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BINGHAMTON, N.Y.-- When Curve starter Jameson Taillon allowed four runs in the first inning, it looked like the pitching staff was going to get shelled for the fifth straight night.
But Taillon responded by the throwing four-hitless innings, and two relievers didn't give up a run as the Curve came from behind to snap a four-game losing streak, defeating Binghamton, 8-4, at NYSEG Stadium before 1,796 on Wednesday.
It was the first time the Curve pitching staff allowed less than five runs in game since a 3-0 loss to Reading on May 21.
Taillon, who didn't get a decision, settled in after allowing four runs on four hits in the first inning. He struck out five and walked four, which tied a career high, in five innings. Kenn Kasparek (2-0) got the win in two innings, striking out two and allowing one hit.
Zack Thornton earned the save for the Curve - his second - as he also struck out two and allowed one hit.
Despite jumping out to an early 2-0 lead in the first, the Curve had to battle back after Taillon's struggles in the first inning. The righty has allowed 12 runs on 19 hits in the first inning. His ERA in the first inning is 8.18.
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LEADING OFF: 1B Andrew Lambo extended his on-base streak to 21 games Monday when he singled in his first at-bat against Binghamton. That streak now ties his previous streak of 21 games reaching base to start the season.
SAFE AT FIRST: Lambo also hit a solo home run for the Curve on Wednesday. He is tied for second with 10 this season in the Eastern League. He is fourth with 37 RBIs and is tied for second in total bases with 102. He trails New Hampshire's Kevin Pillar by six bases.
STEALING SECOND: The Curve failed to triple in a game for the first time since May 22. They had tripled in every game since May 22. The Curve are second in the league in triples (19) and Lambo also leads the team (4).
ROUNDING THIRD: Allan Dykstra's homer in the first inning was the 10th straight game a player has homered off the Curve pitching staff. The staff has allowed the fourth most in the Eastern League this year -- 42.
HEADING HOME: Today's game with Binghamton is the last scheduled game to start before noon. The Curve are 4-1 games that have started in the morning.
Andrew Lambo homered in the fourth inning, and Mel Rojas Jr. drove in Andy Vasquez in the fifth to tie the game. Rojas is .409 in his last five games, driving in a team-high six runs in that stretch.
He went 2-for-5 on Wednesday, driving in another run on a double in the ninth inning.
Vasquez later scored the run in the seventh inning on a throwing error by the B-Mets' Richard Lucas as Chase Huchingson (2-1) the loss. Vasquez scored twice and recorded an RBI, despite going 0-for-1, walking twice.
Charlie Cutler helped the offensive production as well, going 2-for-5, scoring twice.
The win is the first for the Curve since last Friday after allowing 53 runs in the previous four games.
The team not only had dropped four in a row, it also had lost nine of its past 10 games to fall to a season low 11 games below .500 entering play?Wednesday.
Altoona wraps up its series against?Binghamton this morning, then heads to Portland for a weekend series against the Sea Dogs.
Game recap
Key player: RF Alex Dickerson went 2-for-3 with 2 RBIs in his second game off the disabled list.
Key play: Binghamton's Richard Lucas' throwing error on a bunt by Drew Maggi allowed Andy Vasquez to score what would be the winning run for the Curve in the seventh inning.
Key stat: The Curve pitching staff allowed less than three runs for the first time since May 21.
How they scored
Top 1st: Cutler hit by pitch, Lambo singled, both scored on Dickerson single (2-0).
Bottom 1st: Ceciliani singled, scored on Puello single (2-1); Rodriquez walked, Puello singled, both scored on Dykstra homer (2-4).
Top 4th: Lambo homered (3-4).
Top 5th: Vasquez walked, scored on Rojas Jr. single (4-4).
Top 7th: Vasquez hit by pitch, scored on error by Lucas (5-4).
Top 8th: Cutler single, scored on Vasquez bases-loaded walk (6-4); Dickerson walked, scored on Maggi sacrifice fly (7-4).
Top 9th: Ngoepe doubled, scored on Rojas double (8-4).


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Please note: Raven Ridge Quad Chair closes daily at 3:15 PM and Sky Chair closes daily at 9 PM.
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Remember we have a safe, marked and maintained Snowshoe Trail network within the Nordic Ski Area. Cypress Mountain strongly recommends that you stay within the Alpine and Nordic Ski Area Boundaries for all activities at all times - areas beyond the Boundaries are not controlled and many hazards exist - we provide a wide variety of affordable safe activities and services within our Boundaries for all ages and abilities so be Smart and be Safe!
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NEW YORK — There would be no "happily ever after" for Cinderella without her glitzy glass slippers, so careful attention was paid to the shoes for the princess-to-be's recent Broadway opening.
For "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella," which opened last month at the Broadway Theatre, costume designer William Ivey Long and footwear designer Stuart Weitzman created a pair of pumps so sparkly they "light up the upper balcony," Weitzman says.
"The shoe is its own character in the show, and it will inspire the dream for so many other women."
Shoe shopaholics and Carrie Bradshaw types surely have been inspired by the Cinderella fashion fantasy, muses Weitzman, a 26-year industry veteran. How could they not? After all, he says, Cinderella gets the shoes — flattering, delicate and powerful all at once — and then gets her Prince Charming.
When people describe the stunning bride or the prettiest red-carpet starlet, the comparison rarely — if ever — is made to Sleeping Beauty or Snow White.
It's always Cinderella, belle of the ball.
"Cinderella is the gold standard for aspiration," agrees Long. "The slippers are so iconic, and they are recognized worldwide."
He says their only rival might be Dorothy's red ruby slippers in "The Wizard of Oz."
Because the shoes are so famous, the designers had to work with a certain set of expectations: The shoes had to be romantic and sexy, have a sparkly fairy-dust touch — and they had to be seen by everyone in the theater.
Actress Laura Osnes, who plays Cinderella, couldn't risk shards and splinters from real glass, so the designers used Plexiglas instead.
Weitzman employed a welded-construction technique that uses no screws, normally used in high heels, so Cinderella could have a seamless look.
"This is the most magical world I've been asked to conjure up," says Long, whose 60-plus show credits include costumes for "Chicago," "Hairspray" and "The Boy From Oz." Instead of going all Disney or using the famous French illustrations that came a century before (Cinderella-style folk tales are hundreds of years older than that) as inspiration, Long decided to weave nature — with an emphasis on butterflies and vines — into his visual picture instead of a particular time or place.
The idea that Cinderella had to be the most beautiful woman in the room, with the most gorgeous dress and coveted shoes, is what guided him and Weitzman, Long says.
They had to walk a fine line to avoid anything too gimmicky, even working on the giant Broadway stage, so they decided against threading lights through the heel of the shoe or other special effects.
Weitzman knows how to create shoes that light up a room. For years, he made "million-dollar Oscar shoes," diamond-covered footwear that a celebrity would wear to the Academy Awards. He gave that up at the height of the recession, but says he can do pretty much the same dazzling look with crystals.
The designer says he could imagine his typical customer wearing a version of the Cinderella slipper at a summer party, a night at the opera or a night on the town. He adds: "It would be one sexy shoe with cool jeans."
Yes, his Clearly Timeless collection based on the fairy-tale footwear is being shipped to stores.
More shoe news
Sarah Jessica Parker is auctioning three pairs of shoes from her Carrie Bradshaw days to raise money for a New York high school.
Her "Sex and the City" shoes from Prada, Jonathan Kelsey and Dolce Vita will be sold alongside Elvis Presley's brown leather boots, Shaquille O'Neal basketball shoes — size 22 — and pink platforms that Britney Spears wore on tour.
The auction benefits LaGuardia High School of Music, Art and the Performing Arts, according to Gotta Have Rock and Roll, a memorabilia company.
It will also feature Madonna's leopard-print boots, Sylvester Stallone's fur ones and Eminem's white sneakers.
The sale starts on Apr. 24.
Online: www.gottahave rockandroll.com/Catalog.aspx?category=305
Associated Press
Laura Osnes as Cinderella tries on glass slippers designed by Stuart Weitzman during a performance of the musical on Broadway.×
A pair of glass slippers designed by Stuart Weitzman for the Broadway musical "Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella." Weitzman employed a welded-construction technique that uses no screws so that Cinderella could have a seamless look.×
Sarah Jessica Parker is donating shoes for a celebrity charity shoe auction this month.×


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The Üveys Paşa Camii at the Sakarya Caddesi, dating back to 1568. A notice on the mosque has 1683, but claims also it was built in the time of Süleyman. That does not check, so I'd stick to the older date.
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Clackamas County intends to amend the Consolidated Plan in the following manner:
Program Year 2012-2013 (2012 Action Plan)
1. Sandy Workforce Housing (2011/24) – HOME funds in the amount of $200,000 will be reprogrammed from Multi-Family Rental Housing project (2012/0012) into the Sandy Workforce Housing activity. This project will provide 56 units of newly constructed affordable rental housing for families and singles in the City of Sandy. Units will be a mix of one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom units. The large site will allow ample space for outdoor facilities such as a playground, community building, and individual storage. The Sandy Workforce Housing activity was originally funded with $600,000 of HOME funds. The additional funds are needed to offset the loss of equity from the drop in the federal tax credit rate and to cover increased construction costs. The total HOME funds for the project will be $800,000.
For additional information, or to submit comments on the proposed amendment, contact Chuck Robbins at the Clackamas County Community Development Division (503-655-8591), Public Services Building, 2051 Kaen Road – Suite 245, Oregon City, Oregon, 97045. Comments will be accepted until 5:00 PM on Monday January 7, 2013.
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Four teens face burglary charges after police say they were caught stealing items from Kennett Middle School in Conway. Garrett Pettis, John Marshall III, Jonathan Hoyt, and Jacob Hoyt have been arrested.
Officers say they were investigating suspicious activity near Conway Elementary School when they saw the teens breaking into Kennett Middle School. They say the suspects, who range from 17 to 19 years old, tried to steal equipment and memorabilia. All four teens are due in court next week.


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Disrupting education for the better, opinion article by Matt Jadud
The financial reality of the education industry
Higher education is not just about producing valuable workers, but about educating people to become thinking, lifelong learners who contribute in many positive ways to society, be that local or global.
The article, The disruptive business model for higher education is open source, is of the mentality that higher education should be funded by companies in return for colleges and universities preparing students (first-and-foremost) for their workforce. Here is my very brief, potentially biased, high level summary of the article:
Higher education should be funded by companies in return for colleges and universities funneling their best and brightest into those companies. Put simply: higher education is about producing valuable workers.
I always struggle with pundits who come up with solutions or the right way to do things when they don't have the required experience in education. Further, education is not just students in seats, but a broad-reaching social agenda. There are massive challenges surrounding the education of a populus, and higher education is no exception. To put these challenges in context, and to help frame why I think the article's proposed 'disruptive model' falls short of the mark, I'm going to do my best to help frame the scale of higher education in terms of dollars (using examples from the USA), and why an 'open disruption' will have to be much broader in scope before it plays a transformative role in education in the US and world today.
Duke University: $10B/year
One example of why strict corporate funding of higher education is, without a doubt, a go-nowhere proposition—higher education is an industry unto itself, and a substantial one at that. Looking at the 2011-2012 annual report from Duke's development office, $350 million dollars were brought in through charitable donations. Corporations represented 13% of that number, whereas 26% came from individuals (alumni, parents, and other individuals). Put another way, corporate giving—just at Duke University—would need to double before it would match donations from individuals. Of that giving, $93 million was budgeted for need-based aid for students to offset the high cost of tuition at the university.
To put these large numbers in context, Duke University is roughly a $10 billion ($10,000,000,000) per year enterprise. Red Hat, one of the most successful publicly-traded open source companies in the world, is a $1B/year company—and only recently. So, Duke University is, as a business, substantially larger than Red Hat. Google is (if I read things correctly) roughly a $50B/year enterprise.
How many Duke Universities could Google support? One? For how long? As long as people are willing to click on ads? Duke was founded in 1838 and Google in 1998: which will last longer? How many schools could Red Hat support? Zero? Or, perhaps Red Hat could support a smaller college. However, small colleges are typically multi-million dollar businesses unto themselves with annual operating budgets in the realm of $70M to $120M or more. Put simply, these institutions have operating budgets that far outstrip their income from external giving.
Now, should their budgets be that big? And, could we serve more with the resources we have? Almost certainly. There is no question that the model is ready for disruption. But, that disruption needs to serve more and do better than we do now, not the alternative. I don't see higher education as an industry funnel for the best and brightest as a 'serve more, better' proposition in any way, shape, or form.
Education: $1T/year industry
If the Education Industry Association is to be believed, we should pay attention to this quote:
Education is rapidly becoming a $1 trillion industry, representing 10% of America's GNP and second in size only to the health care industry. Federal and State expenditures on education exceed $750 billion. Education companies, with over $80 billion in annual revenues, already constitute a large sector in the education arena.
Although I have no idea if this number is accurate, other numbers I found were in the range of $650B to $800B/year, implying that education, as an industry, is massive. It is more massive than the internet/technology sector, and suggesting that technology companies (or, any other industry in general) might 'float' education as a financial enterprise because higher education improves its 'talent identification' skill is, at best, lacking in consideration.
How FOSS and MOOCs can disrupt
I believe FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and open licensing can disrupt traditional industries. I agree with K. Beck's comment on the aforementioned article. I don't believe MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are impressive as they exist today. They're fancy wrappers around textbooks, with automated grading of easily graded content (simple arithmetic and code), and poorly support rich interactions between individuals (as well as other known high-impact aspects of deep and meaningful learning). Put simply, content does not equal learning, and MOOCs simply are not there yet.
Given that we struggle, as educators, to provide support for excellent, authentic learning in traditional contexts (i.e. classroom), the FOSS/libre world has a long way to go to making it happen online. However, the fact that people are collaborating, and exploring, and asking questions about how we can provide more, high quality education to more people around the world is critical. So please, do not take my (brief and extremely condensed) concerns regarding MOOCs as a condemnation of online education or the notion of 'excellent education for all' as an attack on the spirit of the spirit of global, equitable education regardless of place or socioeconomic status.
In fact, the real question is: How do you make a free and open transformation of education go geometric in its scale and impact for linear (or less) cost? If we're going to "educate the world," then we need to figure out how to reach more people, more rapidly than we do now, with fewer resources, and with greater impact in terms of the intellectual and emotional growth of the individual.
All of that said, I do not, for one moment, believe that transforming higher education into a recruiting funnel, funded by corporations, will work. It won't work financially, and more importantly, it completely subverts the purpose of education. It is, I think, an incredibly discriminatory model, and fails to address the spirit of openness and community that is so critical in the open source way. I could say more regarding my personal thoughts about the role of education (primary, secondary, and tertiary), but instead I'll close with UNESCO's definition of the role of education:
Education should be a means to empower children and adults alike to become active participants in the transformation of their societies. Learning should also focus on the values, attitudes and behaviors which enable individuals to learn to live together in a world characterized by diversity and pluralism.
For an open-source disruption of education to be truly powerful and transformative in the world today, it must:
- Bring more education to more people
- Provide a truly transformative educational experiences for learners
Education is about empowering individuals to become transformational members of a society. It is not strictly about stuffing content into brains and recruiting those brains to technology startups. I agree that we have a system rife with inequity, but restricting higher education to be a model for vocational training for any industry is short-sited and ill-considered, at best.
MOOCs and the 1%
Here is the true challenge for MOOCs. Actually, this is a US-centric view of the challenge for MOOCs; the situation on a global scale is even more challenging, because such a massive concentration of wealth exists in the US compared to many other parts of the world. Further, it is important to remember that the largest and most visible MOOCs are not a grassroots effort put forward by the people and for the people. They are business ventures put forward or otherwise backed by some of the richest educational and venture institutions in the world. Personally, I don't believe that MOOCs (and the movement they're part of) are strictly philanthropic venctures.
I'd like to pull an extended quote from Gianpiero Petriglieri's article Let Them Eat MOOCs, posted October 9 on the Harvard Business Rreview Blog Network. This article is full of links that bring together many other articles and posts on the subject of MOOCs, and I recommend reading all of them if you're going to be an informed participant in the discussion of massively open educational opportunities.
All educational institutions have a dual social function: to develop individuals and to develop culture. Sometimes development involves affirmation. Sometimes it involves questioning and reform.
All education therefore involves both training and socialization. The knowledge one acquires is not just concepts and skills to become a good employee but also values and mores to become a good citizen—of a society or an enterprise.
This is as true of the liberal arts college as it is of the professional school, corporate university, or online diploma factory.
My question about what would it take to transform higher education and make the ideals of open source go geometric in their adoption—to truly, massively scale in the same way that a popular app or video might spread virally through the Internet's population—is not my own question. It is a question that a VP at Red Hat asked me once, as part of an ongoing conversation about how we can bring significantly more people to open source and open educational endeavors. I think that question of scale—of reaching everyone—is insanely challenging, and I don't think we're approaching the problem the right way... yet.
I do know that these large educational endeavors, and bringing the Open Source Way into the educational realm, will mean disruption for our current models. I don't know what those disruptions will look like... but if I'm going to support it, it will need to be education, not colonialization. It will need to be inclusive, not exclusive. It will need to support currently disenfranchised learners, not further exclude the poor and the hungry (actual, not metaphorical) from opportunity.
Anything that furthers the economic and educational disparities we already have is not viable. We can do better. I just wish I knew what it was.
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There are massive challenges surrounding the education of a populus [sic] ...
Yes, there obviously are.
You "struggle" with "pundits who ... don't have the required experience in education," do you? Poor you.
Don't worry; we have our fair share of pompous, smug and self-satisfied educators in Ireland as well. Thank God we are intelligent enough to make it in life *despite* these self-important windbags.
Let's take our rosy glasses off for just a moment when assuming 'open disruption's' future is best managed by Universities being funded primarily by private corporations... That's a very Republican notion of yours and frankly, no one wants Halliburton, the Eron's of America, foreign corporations, or any other company with an agenda dictating curriculum, and who's allowed funding and who pads the Big Tens school boards. With that there's no stopping religions from eliminating science programs, etc. You get the picture.
There's a reason the government & state agencies regulate and manage public institutions. There's a reason we have donors and alumni that compliment but do not control our Higher Ed outcomes.
If you narrow 'open disruption' to be shadowed by corporate greed and insulance, --well that ensures you no longer have 'open disrution' or bleeding edge research.
The worst thing of our present education system is that it is focused more on the financial growth rather than the conceptual and skill growth of the candidates. In India, many students even after completing their graduation do not posses enough skills to find a suitable job. This is the basic reason for unemployment in the country. We should try to improve the level of the education system to make it more knowledge oriented. We at Online Exams India, trying our best to improve the quality of online education in India.
This is an interesting piece, and I agree that education should not be just training for a job. However, I'm afraid I would be more convinced by the "rounded education" argument if it weren't for the fact that here in the UK there is a lack of clarity over just what students are getting for the large fees they now have to pay. Some reports suggest that for some courses such as history a student can have as little as 5 hours a week of lecture/contact time. And I suspect that to many university staff, teaching students is less "crucial" than getting their research done so that they can continue their careers. To me, this suggests that MOOCs may actually be quite competitive with some courses, and are likely to be more easily amended and extended. As for the "wrapper" notion, I think this ignores the non-specific learning that students can get from reading other students' queries and answers in the forums or wikis that usually accompany MOOCs.
I'm a product of US education and even worked part-time in education shortly after college, and I have nothing positive to say about education in America. To even begin to understand technology, I had to major in computer science, and even then the courses were tailored to the assumption that I was going to become a Java or VB programmer. My instructors were flat out bad, and the most I learned in any course was when I finally chose to ignore the instructor and just use class time to explore open source code, because it was there, open, available, and good.
I would love to see education embrace open source, not only because the technology is useful, but because the idea of participation in education is vital, but it's missing in every school I have ever attended or taught at. Nobody wants to make education "real", they all just want to go through the motions. Imagine how it would be if everyone spent their days creating the courses as they happen, trying to improve their own experience and the experiences of the next round of students. I had that unique experience once in a programming class I taught in a non-traditional school startup and it was amazing for all of us.
Technology is not the disruptive factor in education. The disruptive factor is the public education industry's failure to truly educate young people. (In the USA at least)
That failure has catastrophic consequences for individuals and the civilization. The last time it happened, humanity spent a millennium in the "dark ages".
It is hard for me to tell if technology is part of the problem or part of the solution. Maybe it is both, but it is hubris to think we would be having this discussion if the educational system was fulfilling its stated mission in even a minimally acceptable fashion.
The fundamental purpose of education is to teach young people how to communicate and understand complex, abstract ideas effectively (IMHO). Everything else (including math and science) stems from that ability. Without it, young people become frustrated and dangerous because "no one understands".
I was forced to learn to communicate by being forced to learn spelling, rules of grammar and vocabulary by memorization. Then I was forced to put it into practice by reading, writing book reports and essays and diagramming countless complex sentences on a blackboard in front of the class before I could get a public high school diploma. That was in a very small, rural backwater (pop 2,000) in far West Texas during the 1950s. Today's graduates from the same school are functionally illiterate.
Maybe technology can offer a easier, cheaper, better way. I hope so.
Yes, I am replying to myself. It is perfectly acceptable for anyone with a valid Medicare card to talk to themselves out loud and in public.
Linguistic precision is necessary for civilization to progress. As the humanity becomes more complex and interdependent, being able to express and comprehend precisely becomes more important. Those working to apply technology to education should keep that at the top of the list of priorities, in my opinion.
To illustrate that idea, here are four quotes from Dylan Grice's article in the Edelweiss Journal Issue 14, dated 4 November, 2013. (http://www.edelweissjournal.com/issues). The article is about macro economics and financial policy that may not interest educators or IT professionals. The last quote illustrates why we may plunge ourselves into a new dark age simply because we lack the ability to communicate effectively.
"But to understand the practical consequences it must be understood that language isn't only a reflection of thought and action. It is a driver too. Language is our cognitive machinery; it shapes our ability to interpret, recall and process concepts".
"Lera Boroditsky, writing in Edge a few years ago, describes an Australian Aboriginal community whose language references direction in absolute terms, rather than the relative ones Indo-European languages use. Instead of telling someone to "watch out for the ditch ahead," for example, someone from the tribe might warn a fellow member to "watch out for the ditch southeast." Boroditsky writes that "the result is a profound difference in navigational ability and spatial knowledge" between the tribesmen and their spatially-relativist Indo-European speaking brethren".
"As it happens, the Zuni have no separate words for the colors yellow and orange and therefore insufficient linguistic precision to process the difference. It is often said that sloppy language leads to sloppy thought. These studies and others like them conclude the same from the other direction: linguistic precision leads to cognitive precision. If distinct concepts are poorly defined they will be poorly understood".
"Therefore, not only is there insufficient capital to ensure future prosperity and insufficient realism to deal with the future this implies, there is insufficient linguistic precision for most people to articulate the problem let alone understand it".


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The kids were off yesterday and after three p.m. we were still wearing our pajamas. I was in a Downton Abbey haze - having caught up with the finale earlier in the morning (I'm not happy about it either). The boys' eyes were bloodshot from too much xBox, Ivy had found the leftover Valentine candy, and I frantically ushered everyone into the car. We needed air and exercise.
Other than the (awesome) change of scenery, life is per usual around here. I make the same meals in the crock pot, we watch the same TV shows, albeit on different, weird channels. I hardly know what time it is or what day it is. That's nothing new.
I'm feeling great. I was having some major headaches in the past month that I figured was due to stress and fatigue with the move but discovered that going gluten-free helped 100% so now I'm one of those people. But I've found my groove with what I can and can't have and it's all good.
I started knitting this sweater for myself on the first day of our road trip out here because I thought I'd have so much time to finish it and, you know, I think I've maybe gotten twenty rows in. I bring it to Ivy's ballet class and work on it a tiny bit at a time. It's only a forty-minute session. At this rate, I'll hopefully be finished by the time she graduates. But I'd really like to wear it now, so I need to get on that.