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.
> 
> ][<en
> 
> 
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