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![]() Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger February 2008 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WELCOME to all new members who have joined us recently. We hope to hear from you and to give you much food for thought. Back issues available upon request - just add the month to the subject line: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues Or see the online archives: http://www.winwenger.com/strmlist.htm ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ IN THIS ISSUE: * Quotes of the Month * Important Message from Win Wenger * Project Renaissance Consulting & Tutoring * Project Renaissance Corebooks * Events, Workshops, Classes * Announcements, News Items, Help Wanted The “censor” in your brain, natural solution that turns plants into gasoline, and more! * FEATURE ARTICLE: Huge Opportunity for Creative Problem-Solving Professionals, * Comments, Feedback Christian Jonassen on Law of Effect Dennis Welka on Socratic Method in classrooms * Organizational Notes * Links ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTES OF THE MONTH "What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult." - Sigmund Freud “I don't care how much power, brilliance, or energy you have, if you don't harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there, you're never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.” - Zig Ziglar ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ================================== IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM WIN WENGER: ================================== Dear friends and colleagues,
This issue of The STREAM will grow on you. You will see why as you read through it and see how things stack up (and what can readily be done) regarding education, which for better or worse is our main highway system toward a human future. By the time you've read through to the news at the end, you'll have a much better idea of some very good developments happening right now.
Please share this issue with a friend and anyone else you know with a deep interest in education. Feel free to forward it to them, or print it out for them, or have them email us directly for their own copy, at mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=CourtesyCopy-February2008 That can help matters considerably and is an easy way to help make a significant positive difference. Your sharing The STREAM, especially this issue, will be very highly appreciated. Thank you. - Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ CONSULTING AND TUTORING Project Renaissance is pleased to offer consulting and workshops customized for your organization's needs. Contact Rick Hansen at mailto:rick.hansen@apsglobal.com to discuss how you can benefit from Win Wenger's consulting services. ~~~ Project Renaissance is interested in providing Socratic Learning classes for secondary school students in the greater Washington DC area. Contact Rick Hansen at mailto:rick.hansen@apsglobal.com for more information. ~~~ Arasu Chellaiah is using Win Wenger's Socratic Learning method to teach college courses for Biology majors and DDS (Doctors of Dental Surgery). Contact The Stream at mailto:thestream@winwenger.com or Arasu Chellaiah at mailto:arasu_chellaiah@hotmail.com for more information. ~~~ Win Wenger, Rick Hansen and Arasu Chellaiah are using Win Wenger's Socratic Learning Method for tutoring college students pursuing degrees in Electrical Engineering. Contact Rick Hansen for more information at mailto:rick.hansen@apsglobal.com. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ PROJECT RENAISSANCE'S NEW COREBOOKS Please see descriptions at www.winwenger.com/corebook.htm A series of compact handbooks of Win Wenger's key techniques. The first four volumes are now in print and easy to order from the publisher: * SUPER SKILLS FOR STUDENTS by Isa McKechnie * WIN WENGER'S IMAGE-STREAMING by Charles Roman * END WRITER'S BLOCK FOREVER! by Mark Bossert, Win Wenger * DYNAMIC TEACHING by Harman Benda and Win Wenger Order directly from the CoreBook storefront: www.lulu.com/ProjRen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ EVENTS, WORKSHOPS, CLASSES ~~~ INTEGRATING CREATIVITY, PURPOSE AND YOUR BUSINESS BOTTOM LINE – April 25 - June 6, 2008 Use the Creative Resources within you to inform new Work Directions, Strategies, Innovations, Projects, Products and/or Service Offerings. This wonderful Professional and Personal Development Program will be led by Michelle James, CEO of The Center for Creative Emergence and founder of the Capitol Creativity Network. Go to http://creativeemergence.com/page10.html for the complete program description and registration information. Or contact Michelle James at mailto:michelle@creativeemergence.com ~~~ PHOTOREADING SEMINARS - 2008 Paul Scheele is teaching public PhotoReading seminars in U.S. cities this year. PhotoReading is an excellent method of getting through information up to 18 times faster than conventional studying. This course comes with a money-back guarantee. To enroll in any, call 888-800-2688 or go to www.learningstrategies.com/PhotoReading/Seminar1.asp for more information. Tuition is $750. Discounts available for PhotoReading self-study course buyers and earlly-bird registrations. Payment plan also available. Class locations and dates: Los Angeles - May 9-11, 2008 Washington - May 16-18, 2008 New York, NY - June 20-22, 2008 Dallas, TX - August 1-3, 2008 Philadelphia - August 8-10, 2008 Chicago, IL - September 12-14, 2008 Atlanta, GA - September 19-21, 2008 Boston, MA - October 17-19, 2008 Los Angeles - November 7-9, 2008 Denver, CO - November 14-16, 2008 ~~~ YOGA FROM WITHIN Relaxation and other Yoga workshops provide an enjoyable combination of exercise and fun, healing and the arts. Beethoven once said, "Silence is the key - the silence between the notes. When that silence envelops you – you are at one. You are at peace. Then your soul can sing." Classes are taught in the Washington DC metro area. See their schedule: www.spiralflightyoga.com ~~~ SINGYO YOGA SingYo Yoga builds a mind-body connection that generates joy and improves mood. Find out more about the benefits at www.singyojoy.com! ~~~ PROJECT RENAISSANCE 16th ANNUAL DOUBLE FESTIVAL and Spring Workshops May 19-21 … May 23-25 … May 26-29, 2008 Register now! Full descriptions and registration forms are here: www.winwenger.com/df16.htm The theme of this year’s Annual Conference on Creative Problem-Solving and Enhanced/Accelerated Learning is "Finding New Ways to Better the Human Condition" – Improving your tools for helping others, and for helping yourself Four separate major programs: . . . LEARN-TO-LEARN WORKSHOP – www.winwenger.com/learn08.htm with Tijl Koenderink Monday-Tuesday, May 19-20, 2008 — 8:30 am-4:30 pm Highlights: - In this training you will learn an integrated model of learning, its steps and the surrounding conditions to make it succeed. Learn to use some of the most powerful Accelerated Learning techniques, and understand how and why they work, with an introduction into how to apply this knowledge in your own teachings. . . . BEYOND-EINSTEIN/SOCRATIC TRAINING – www.winwenger.com/df16beyd.htm with Win Wenger Thursday-Friday, May 22-23, 2008 — 8:30 am-4:30 pm Highlights: - These two intensive days will be an adventure in using various problem-solving techniques on a variety of problems worth solving. YOU will find their solutions, more readily than you might have imagined! Astonish yourself! Learn how to draw easily on far more than you knew you have — and resolve some of the issues in your work, your life, and all around you. Use them also for enhanced/accelerated learning, self- discovery, innovation, invention, and building your performance and general capabilities in the arts, in sports, interpersonally, in your work, intellectually, and generally. . . . DOUBLE FESTIVAL 2008 – www.winwenger.com/df16.htm#Double Friday, May 23, 2008 — 7:30 pm through Sunday, May 25, 2008 — 4 pm Highlights: - Many lively and thoughtful leaders, colleagues and members and participants, in Project Renaissance and in related technologies and programs, gather for this series of extraordinary events — events which Project Renaissance hosts each year in the Washington DC area. Really high-calibre people come together from all over the country and from countries overseas, human beings with whom it's a delight to share space and ideas and perceptions. . . . TRAINER TRAINING – www.winwenger.com/df16train.htm Monday, May 26, 2008 — 9-5 Tuesday, May 27, 2008 — 9-5 Wednesday, May 28, 2008 — 9-5 Thursday, May 29, 2008 — 9-4 Highlights: - We seek to train professional Socrateurs to train people in locations around the world, including your community, in various of the Project Renaissance methods and resources. The Beyond-Einstein Training experience is an important part of the necessary preparation, as is some good experience in other programs and/or disciplines involving human potential. This special four-day Trainer Training (Monday-Wednesday 9-5, Thursday 9-4) is the other main ingredient. . . . Some tuition discounts may apply to the various events and combinations. Early bird registration discounts end on April 19. Click here to register for any and all of the events of your choice: www.winwenger.com/df16.htm#Register ~~~ RECLAIM YOUR GENIUS – The Ultimate Weekend Retreat, May 16-18, 2008 With Paul Scheele, www.ReclaimYourGenius.com Imagine knowing how to use the advanced principles of both hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming to almost magically get beyond the problems you have been trying to solve for far too long. Attend Paul Scheele's Ultimate U Retreat! More info at www.on2url.com/app/adtrack.asp?MerchantID=117089&AdID=370137 ~~~ THE EDWARD DE BONO SEMINAR - June 9-11, 2008 - The University of Malta Conducted entirely by Professor Edward de Bono, the inventor of Lateral Thinking - http://home.um.edu.mt/create
Full details and e-registration form: http://home.um.edu.mt/create/confersding.html Tuition: Euro300 (200 for staff, students, groups, early-bird)
For further details, email Dr. Sandra Dingli, Director, The Edward de Bono Institute mailto:instituteofthinking@um.edu.mt
~~~ WIN WENGER'S TEACHING AND RECORDING SCHEDULE - Spring 2008 * May 2-4 weekend - Mensa Regional Gathering, DC/Maryland chapters. * May 15-18 - Atlanta, GA, teaching at a major creativity conference. * May 23-29 – Project Renaissance Double Festival, Beyond-Einstein Socratic Training and Trainer Training workshops in Pasadena, MD. (please see www.winwenger.com/upcoming.htm ) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ANNOUNCEMENTS, NEWS ITEMS, HELP WANTED ~~~ THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON JAZZ: Mri’s Used to Study Spontaneity and Creativity www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Press_releases/2008/02_26_08.html “Researchers have discovered that when jazz musicians improvise, their brains turn off areas linked to self-censoring and inhibition, and turn on those that let self expression flow.” This may be confirmation of the existence of the “Censor” referred to in Win Wenger’s work. The article also said, “The ‘dorsolateral prefrontal cortex’ which covers a broad portion of the front of the brain and some on the sides, showed a slowdown in activity when musicians were improvising.” According to the article, “this area has been linked to planned actions and self-censoring, such as carefully deciding what words you might say at a job interview.” Note that musicians have been found to have better connections between their right and left brains (larger corpus callosums), per http://dissertations.bc.edu/ashonors/200442/. Could the ability to modulate self-censoring and inhibition be related to the “better” communications between the right and left brain? Also, is the ability to turn off inhibitions at will one reason that so many musicians and artists engage in hedonistic lifestyles? Could the reason classical and operatic performers are more “straitlaced” be that they have little room for improvisation? ~~~ COMPANY FINDS BACTERIA THAT TURNS PLANTS INTO GASOLINE www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=59402 “What we’re doing is taking trash like corn stalks... even grass from the yard... – that’s what we turn into oil! J.C. Bell of Bell Bio Energy, Inc. studied naturally occurring bacteria that produce methane inside cows and genetically manipulated them to consume biomass more efficiently. With minor changes to industry and full recycling, Mr. Bell believes that 5 billion barrels, or two-thirds of the current consumption of oil, could be produced. Some scientists believe the warming from methane alone is as great as all other “greenhouse” gases combined. Why isn’t this featured in the news? Money spent overseas stays at home, fewer greenhouse gases, and it’s less expensive, too! ~~~ DOLPHIN RESCUES BEACHED WHALES! www.asylum.com/2008/03/12/dolphin-rescues-two-beached-whales A pair of pygmy sperm whales were beached in New Zealand. Conservationists had tried to free them for an hour without success. A local bottlenose dolphin named Koko then “appeared, communicated with the whales and led them to safety.” According to the article, one local man told the BBC, “I don’t speak whale, and I don’t speak dolphin, but there was obviously something that went on... The dolphin did what we had failed to do.” _____ Rick Hansen ( mailto:rick.hansen@apsglobal.com )comments: I believe that the basic framework of emotions extends throughout mammals, and possibly birds and other animals as well. In our neighborhood, there is a cat that used to be a stray. He is known for bringing feral kittens to food bowls when they are hungry, and for keeping the kittens out of cages set up to trap them. At one time I believed that emotions only extended to mammals. I then witnessed a lizard that seemed to enjoy playing catch with its owners. After several years of playing with other pets, the reptile exhibited emotional behaviors. Emotions may go very far down the evolutionary tree. ~~~ BRAIN-BUILDING GAMES Gamepuzzles ( www.gamepuzzles.com ) is a long-time supporter of Dr. Win Wenger's Project Renaissance and production of The Stream. Please visit their website to learn more about their products that develop the mind. Fun, challenging, intelligence-expanding, and more! ~~~ GIFTED EDUCATION PRESS QUARTERLY www.giftededpress.com/ Gifted Education Press is offering a complimentary copy of their 20th Anniversary Spring 2008 Online Quarterly issue. To read and print the current and previous issues of Gifted Education Press Quarterly, please email your request directly to: Maurice Fisher, Ph.D., Publisher mailto:gifted@giftededpress.com ~~~ TRANSLATORS WANTED - in any language, to translate selected contents of the Project Renaissance website, the new CoreBooks series, and certain books by Win Wenger. Please contact Win at mailto:wwenger101@aol.com if you are interested in collaborating on these projects. ~~~ SOCRATIC METHOD INSTRUCTORS WANTED - To test the Corebooks curriculum in their classes. Contact Win Wenger at mailto:wwenger101@aol.com for more information. ......................................................................... ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Feature Article: HUGE OPPORTUNITY BEING MISSED by Other Creative Problem-Solving (CPS) and Creativity Professionals and Organizations by Win Wenger A) Nearly all CPS methods can be directly applied as accelerated learning methods, enabling students to learn much more much better and faster with better and longer-lasting understanding. Thus, instead of competing for scarce space in the curriculum, these methods can be offered to schools as facilitating the curriculum and creating space in it for other needed concentrations. B) Creativity professionals and groups have been missing a huge opportunity by not realizing, and capitalizing on, the fact that their creativity methods can directly used - and offered to schools - for this purpose, not only for the array of worthy purposes historically offered to schools over the past sixty years and mostly not accepted. C) Project Renaissance methods, beginning with buzz-grouping via "Dynamic Format," are way easier to conduct (and far more productive) than such practices as schools and teachers generally are using now. The sector of such methods, based upon modern Socratic Method, should much more easily penetrate the schools, not only for that reason, but because everyone there has heard of Socratic Method even though no one there knows much about it. That familiarity helps pave the way. The profession of "education" is even named after a central concept and phenomenon in Socratic Method. PROPOSITION: that sector of Project Renaissance method which centers on modern Socratic Method be offered to schools, along with a select few of their own methods and practices which are similarly easy and ready to use as accelerated learning techniques, by those creativity organizations and professionals around the planet who wish to get CPS into widespread use by the schools. This will be the fastest, easiest and most direct path FOR getting CPS into widespread use by the schools. This will not only be the best thing for the students and for the teachers serving them, but should prove profitable to those creativity organizations and professionals who wish to do so for income. Moreover, Project Renaissance has published its step-by-step protocols for a number of these procedures, including "Dynamic Format," which can be found here or free online at http://www.winwenger.com/dynform.htm, or in the booklet on modern Socratic Method, or in the new CoreBook on “Dynamic Teaching." More recently discovered, and extraordinarily easy to learn and use, methods can be found here, among other places, in the clipped-together pamphlet, "Easiest Methods for Solving Problems, And for Ingeniously Creating." Although copyrighted, these materials may be freely copied for use in practice or in teaching - in whole but not in part - including the copyright notice and contact information. Moreover, Project Renaissance stands ready to go into formal or informal partnership with creativity organizations and professionals who would prefer highest quality training and competence in their acquisition and use of these frontline resources, or for purposes of pursuing a tandem marketing of CPS-related forms of accelerated learning to educators, trainers and schools. Please reply regarding this proposition to mailto:wwenger101@aol.com or to mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=CPS-Proposition CONSIDERATION: The methods offered for this introductory purpose by Project Renaissance are so easy to learn and apply that "a caveman can do it." Teachers individually can apply most of these successfully even without training and supervision, entirely on their own. However, Project Renaissance has developed a professionally-led workshop also for these and related methods, under the title, "Teach Smarter Not Harder." This can be part of the tandem marketing effort, or other cooperative provisions can be arranged which involve this workshop. * * * Immediate Objectives of the Project Renaissance workshop: "Teach Smarter, Not Harder" * Equip teachers with several useful elements of modern Socratic Method. * Equip teachers with several of the hundreds of creative problem- solving methods: 1) To solve the problems they are wrestling with 2) To convert into accelerated learning methods which they can use with students 3) To convey problem-solving competence to the students for THEIR use 4) All of these are forms of modern Socratic Method - the easiest of all the CPS-related forms to introduce and practice - paving the way for infusion of more CPS methods and practices * Make teaching easier and more productive for the teachers. * Elementary School Version: How to arrange groundrules, activities, games, etc., for the less than fully verbal child. How to arrange these to be fully as rich, immediate, instructive, usefully directing, self-reinforcing and convenient as those of some of the best modern Socratic methods and CPS methods originally designed for adults? * * * OBSERVATION: These are first of all methods which, when converted to accelerated learning form, serve purposes of learning with true understanding. Some elements of the school curriculum, however, involve rote memorization:- times tables, names of chemicals, flora and fauna or of geologic ages and types of rock, foreign language vocabulary. Here is one area where the problem-solving aspects of your work and ours come back into play, having the teacher problem-solve to find more creative ways to present such rote material and to motivate students to its assimilation. Further, there are few schools, indeed few classrooms, without problems to solve. Both these problem-solving concerns - on the problems of school and classroom and community generally, and on the presentation and motivation of both rote material and non-rote, understanding-based content for assimilation - represent ready-made routes via which the initial infusion of Project Renaissance-style modern Socratic methods into the schools can pave a very broad path indeed for ready acceptance then of the rest of our and your methods for CPS. ------------------------------------ To send your comments about this article to The Stream, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=CreativeProblemSolving ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| COMMENTS and FEEDBACK ~~~ Christian Jonassen ( mailto:flyrev@gmail.com ) writes: How come that you describe [The Law of Effect] as a "physical law"? Is it really that? I thought physics was more concerned with low-level details like atoms and molecules, not things like this. Wouldn't you rather call it a biological law? Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) replies: Biological isn't also physical? And whatever happened to things like orbital mechanics, levers, planes, centrifugal and centripetal forces, inertia and momentum, and the oldest components of physics through which we eventually began to understand the more esoteric and quantum matters? Perhaps if I called all that "natural law" that would clear up any confusion - but I think not, people would start thinking I was writing about "natural man" or the like. I think it helps actually, referring to this as physical law, to remind us that everything is grounded in physical mechanics, even if that might not be the only thing that everything is grounded in. Thanks for raising the question; it points to some interesting issues. - Win Wenger ~~~ Dennis J. Welka, Principal, St. Andrew’s Country Day School, writes: Dear Dr. Wenger, I would like to thank you for the privilege of meeting with you and instructing my staff in the techniques of the Modern Socratic Method. I have never seen so many teachers excited about teaching. These techniques have so enhanced their skills that they are eager to come in every day and try something new. To validate these efforts, the children are equally excited about coming to school, knowing that they will “learn” like they never have before. Imagine the situation, if you will, teachers and students excited about learning! Through observation and teacher anecdotals, I am convinced that these methods will produce a generation of “accelerated learners.” The degree of comprehension, the choice of vocabulary, the depth and scope of answers received is simply unbelievable. We have pre-tested the children and will perform a post-test in June. I will send you the results of any empirical data that I accumulate. Finally, after 37 years in the field of education, education makes sense. I hope to expand this program to other schools, districts, colleges and universities. These are solid teaching techniques that produce remarkable results. We will continue in our mission to “educate” children. Hopefully, through creating a much better educated populace, we will be able to improve society as a whole. Once again, thank you. Sincerely, Dennis J. Welka, Principal St. Andrew’s Country Day School - www.standrewscds.org Kenmore, New York 14217 Win Wenger comments: I might add that one of the things which kindled excitement up there, and helped lead to the comments in Mr. Welka’s second paragraph, was that each teacher was discovering “gifted kids in hiding,” in his or her classroom, wisdom and responses from children never deemed capable of such. That is one of the really great things about buzz-grouping per “Dynamic Format” – www.winwenger.com/dynform.htm - it not only engages the students, it gives the teachers their first chance to really observe their students in action - and that experience is quite an education for the teacher. How would you like to have similar results happening in a school near you? Editor’s Note: Further readings on Dynamic Format and instructions how and why to buzz-group are yours free at www.winwenger.com/dynform.htm www.winwenger.com/dfguide.htm www.winwenger.com/corebook.htm#Dynamic ~~~ _________________________________________________________________________ To send your comments to The Stream for possible publication here, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Comments ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ORGANIZATIONAL NOTES ~~~ IMAGE-STREAMING PARTNERS Project Renaissance is organizing a partners' bureau or real-time chat resource online via Skype, msn or yahoo messenger for people looking for partners with whom to do live Image-Streaming. We have now set up a secure and accessible interface for you. We are still looking for some moderators. If you have any experience in using the phpBB Forum system, have had experience with Project Renaissance methods, and are interested in becoming a forum moderator, please contact Tijl Koenderink at mailto:tijl@dare2b.nl
Please go to www.projectrenaissance.com and register, then post your information under the "ImageStreaming partners" topic. Some of you have already provided your Skype names, desired times and languages; please do so again in the forum.
Thanks, and welcome to the program going live. Our thanks especially to Tijl Koenderink, the administrator of the Forum, for making this all possible. ~~~ INTEREST GROUPS * ALBUQUERQUE, NM - Gaylord Galston ( mailto:logarms@yahoo.com ) wonders if there is anyone in the Albuquerque area with whom he can practise Image-Streaming. * BALTIMORE - Gerald Hawkins offers interested parties to contact him at mailto:gerald.hawkins@gmail.com about starting a problem-solving and idea-testing group in the Baltimore, Maryland, area. * CHICAGO - Nick Costello ( mailto:padrerock@rcn.com ) is interested in attending meetings of Project Renaissance members in the Chicago area. * DETROIT - Eric Bottorff ( mailto:pebottorff@gmail.com ) is interested in attending meetings of Project Renaissance members in the Ypsilanti area. * LOS ANGELES - Ray Croney ( mailto:croneyr@hotmail.com ) seeks Image- Streamers in the L.A. area. * NEW JERSEY - Donald Morrison ( mailto:donaldmorrison@gmail.com ) is interested in joining an Image-Streaming group in the Bloomfield, NJ, area. * TEXAS - Harry L. Beam, 6305 Poly Webb Road, Arlington, TX 76016 would like to meet with other members of Project Renaissance in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of Texas. * VIRGINIA/WASH. DC - Siobhan Dunn ( mailto:siobhanmc7e@verizon.net ) is looking to partner with someone experienced in Image-Streaming in the Fairfax-DC area. _____ * TAMILNADU, INDIA - Raj Kumars ( mailto:rajikumars2000@yahoo.co.in ) would like to practice Image-Streaming with a live listener in his area. * VENICE, ITALY - Franco Tiveron ( mailto:franco.tiveron@gmail.com ) is interested in learning and practicing Image-Streaming, in Italian or English. Please contact him if you are already knowledgeable in this technique and in the Venice area. ~~~ TOPICAL INTEREST GROUPS: Our membership is large and diverse, and many of you have expressed an interest in communicating with other members who share your topic of concern or research interest. If you'd like us to share your email address with other interested members, and to supply theirs to you, please email your name, email address and subject/topic to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=InterestGroups Your communications will be private. ~~~ ADDRESS CHANGE? If your email address changes or your email box is full or your spam filter blocks us, we can't get The Stream to you. Please, before that happens, make sure you notify us of any change and put winwenger.com on your safe senders list. Write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=AddressChange Please do not use the unsubscribe link in such a case, then entering a new subscribe message. This makes extra work for you and your registrar and may result in deletion of all your personal information from our records. Put any other updated information you'd like us to have about you into the same address-change message. ~~~ SUBSCRIBER OR MEMBER? If you currently only subscribe to The Stream, you can upgrade your participation in Project Renaissance to full membership, free. Membership in Project Renaissance entitles members to additional benefits. If you're not yet a member, please register now, here: www.winwenger.com/regmem.htm or from the link on the homepage, www.winwenger.com . ~~~ DUPLICATE MAILING? If you received two (or more?) copies of this issue of The Stream, please let us know by replying to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=duplicate ~~~ HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE... * The long-established, popular Image-Streaming egroup is here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/imagestream - requires Yahoo sign-in. * Submit articles, comments or questions for possible inclusion in The Stream: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=TotheEditor * Send questions or comments about the website, www.winwenger.com , to the webmaster, mailto:kate@gamepuzzles.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LINKS * Back issues of THE STREAM by email upon request from mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=BackIssues * Index of feature articles in The Stream archives: www.winwenger.com/strmlist.htm Starting in January 2007, the archived copies have a special cover photo masthead courtesy of Elan Sun Star. Do take a look - they're gorgeous and restorative. * Archived copies of Capital Ideasmiths are here: www.winwenger.com/Capitalidea/capidea1.htm * Project Renaissance homepage: www.winwenger.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ UNSUBSCRIBE: If you do not wish to continue receiving this newsletter from Project Renaissance, please send an email to mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=TheStream-unsubscribe ~~~ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ©2008 Project Renaissance |