Thanks,
Commonality to both excerpts: Power to the people!
Larry2
---- Gabriel Orgrease <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I spent the inauguration online through the CNN/Facebook feed. It was
> pretty amazing to me to see and share in the live comments with people
> that I know, some of them in real life, most of them that I have only
> come to know through the internet.
>
> * *CNN.com* <http://www.cnn.com> --- The most live streaming praise
> came for CNN.com, which also partnered with Facebook
> <http://www.facebook.com> to take its stream to a broader audience
> and spark more interaction. According to Mashable
> <http://www.mashable.com>, CNN hit a record 13 million streams.
> * *Facebook* <http://www.facebook.com> - The social network did so
> well that it deserves its own call-out. The majority of
> respondents were using the CNN / Facebook mash-up to watch the
> inaugural events. According to Facebook, as of 10:15 a.m. PT
> 600,000 status updates were posted through the CNN.com Live
> Facebook feed and there were an average of 4,000 status updates
> every minute during the broadcast --- there were 8,500 status
> updates the minute Obama began his speech.
>
> on another topic...
>
> Deep Springs College http://www.deepsprings.edu/about/nunn
>
> "Providing reliable, year-round power to the mines meant that someone
> needed to be on hand twenty-four hours a day, every day, to replace
> systems damaged by lightning or avalanche and to monitor the power
> generation and transmission. Nunn devised a unique in-house education
> system to meet these demands. He recruited young men with the curiosity,
> acuity of mind, and physical stamina required to work at the plants, and
> in return provided them with nominal wages and an education. These men
> became known as Nunn's pinheads, so called because of the pins he used
> to mark their locations on a map.
>
> By 1905, this educational program had become "Telluride Institute".
> Pinheads would be accepted into the system at an outlying plant, where
> they were expected to shoulder a heavy workload. They were then promoted
> to the Olmsted, Utah plant, where their course load would increase and
> their workload decrease. Students were then supported in their further
> education pursuits by scholarships. By 1909, the students at Olmsted had
> been granted self-governance, and the three elements of Nunn's
> educational plan---academics, labor, and self-governance---were in place."
>
> Note reference to Pinheads.
>
> Nunn, among other things, built the hydro-power plant at Niagara Falls.
>
> Working cattle ranch, worked by students, and intensive academic study.
> This is the school that out of HS I had an alumni sponsor for and I
> applied two years in a row. It was the ONLY school that I wanted to go
> to. It is connected w/ the Telluride House at Cornell. I was interviewed
> by a professor emeritus of philosophy at Cornell, cannot recall his
> name, but it went really well. I was also interviewed by another alumni
> and when he asked me my opinion of the Western working-poets I did not
> know that he meant Gary Snyder... whose readings I had attended but
> thought that he was like, just a poet... I did not know what was meant
> by working-poet. Regardless, I came close to acceptance but when the 2nd
> time around it did not work I went on to doing stonework, no regrets.
>
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