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![]() Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger February 2007 (Best viewed with fixed-width font) IN THIS ISSUE: * Quote of the Month * Announcements, News Items, Books * Events, Workshops * FEATURE ARTICLE: Addition of New Brain Cells? - Lyelle Palmer * Comments, Feedback Win Wenger on new brain cells, brain plasticity Win Wenger on Image-Streaming's by-products Adrienne Garnett on reviewing art via Image-Streaming Juha Danson on The Meaning of Life * Organizational Notes * Links * Reader Questionnaire * Masthead photo - Elan Sun Star ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTE OF THE MONTH "The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms." - Socrates ........................................................................ ANNOUNCEMENTS ~~~ WELCOME to all new members who have joined us this year. We hope to hear from you and to give you much food for thought. Back issues are 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 ~~~
IMAGE-STREAMING PARTNERS - PILOT PROGRAM We are looking to set up a partners' bureau or chat resource online via Skype, msn or yahoo messenger for people looking for partners with whom to do live Image-Streaming. If you're interested in joining this resource, please send your contact information and preferences, such as time of day, language, type of Image-Streaming, and we will set up a cross-reference index of partners to talk online. Contact: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=PartnersOnline ~~~ INTEREST GROUP - PHILADELPHIA/DELAWARE Gerald Hawkins ( mailto:gerald.hawkins@gmail.com ) offers interested parties to contact him via email about starting a problem-solving and idea-testing group in the Philadelphia/Delaware area. ~~~ INTEREST GROUP - CHICAGO Nick Costello ( mailto:padrerock@rcn.com ) is interested in attending meetings of Project Renaissance
members in the ~~~ INTEREST GROUP - Harry L. Beam, would like to meet with other members of Project Renaissance in the Dallas/Fort Worth area of ~~~ INTEREST GROUP - Eric Bottorff ( mailto:pebottorff@gmail.com ) is interesting in attending meetings of Project
Renaissance members in the Area. David Simpson ( mailto:davidksimpson@earthlink.net ) is also in the ~~~ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| PROJECT RENAISSANCE'S NEW COREBOOKS A series of compact handbooks of Win Wenger's key techniques. The first three volumes are now in print and easy to order: ~~~ SUPER SKILLS FOR STUDENTS by Isa McKechnie -- now in print! “This book provides many practical strategies for people, especially students, to learn more efficiently and effectively. Based on the work of Dr. Win Wenger, renowned pioneer, researcher, and teacher in the fields of accelerated learning and creative problem-solving, these techniques can be of invaluable assistance for increased excellence in writing essays, taking notes, absorbing information, preparing for tests, and many other intellectual endeavors.” You can order this first of Project Renaissance's new series of CoreBooks now, direct from the publisher: * eBook edition, from $7.95 -- http://www.lulu.com/content/435623 * Hardcopy printed edition, 95 pages, 6.14"x9.21" perfect bound, from $15.00 + shipping -- http://www.lulu.com/content/195898 ~~~ WIN WENGER'S IMAGE-STREAMING by Charles Roman -- now in print! "This CoreBook introduces the simple yet powerful visualization technique, Image-Streaming. It's a great tool for gaining a faster and better understanding of any subject of interest, and for ingeniously solving any of those nagging problems from your personal or professional life. Based on the work of Dr. Win Wenger, renowned pioneer, researcher, and teacher in the fields of accelerated learning and creative problem- solving, Image-Streaming lets you access your deeper consciousness and pleasurably increases your perceptions of everything around you. The book covers a wide range of applications, from teaching children to identifying creative solutions to global issues. Order Image-Streaming directly from the publisher: * eBook edition, from $10.95 -- http://www.lulu.com/content/628713 * Hardcopy printed edition, 119 pages, 6x9" perfect bound, from $15.95 + shipping -- http://www.lulu.com/content/585457 ~~~ END WRITER'S BLOCK FOREVER! by Mark Bossert, Win Wenger -- in print! "Can you see yourself as a prolific writer? Want to produce stacks of inventive, quality writing? The answer is simply training yourself to use the vast creative energies intrinsic in the brain. This book will show you specifically how to 'get it' and get it out onto paper. End Writers Block Forever shows you how, step by step, to connect with your subconscious mind's abundant imagery. You'll quickly be using effective methods to turbocharge your imagination and boost your writing." * Paperback, 137 pages, 6" x 9", perfect bound, $19.97 + shipping -- http://www.lulu.com/content/543805 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ~~~ Here's a book worth checking out: THE WINNING HELIX - by Cristina Andersson The Art of Learning and Manifesting Your True Potential Have a look here: www.develor.fi <http://www.develor.fi/> Read for free here: http://www.fepint.org/winning-helix/ ~~~ Hope raised for reversing severe childhood disease http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070208/hl_nm/rett_dc_1 Scientists searching for a way to treat the rare but severe childhood neurological disorder Rett syndrome have reversed the disease in mice, raising hopes for doing the same in people. In a study appearing in the journal Science, researchers
led by Bird of the called MECP2 in mice with the equivalent of Rett syndrome to make their symptoms vanish. The surprising results contradicted the notion that damage to the brain caused by the disease, which occurs mostly in girls, is permanent. ~~~ Short Mental Workouts May Slow Decline of Aging Minds, Study Finds www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/19/AR2006121901431.html Ten sessions of exercises to boost reasoning skills, memory and mental processing speed staved off mental decline in middle-aged and elderly people in the first definitive study to show that honing intellectual skills can bolster the mind in the same way that physical exercise protects and strengthens the body. ~~~ Brain cells clue to genius of Einstein http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2017711,00. Scientists may be a step closer to understanding one of the most brilliant minds ever to grace the field, that of Albert Einstein, the man who unraveled the mysteries of the atom.
Researchers at a type of brain cell which Einstein is thought to have had in more copious supply than the average male. The scientists said the cells provide energy for neural circuits and help build connections, leading to a more complex brain structure. ~~~ Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/050427_mind_readers.html Empathy allows us to feel the emotions of others, to identify and understand their feelings and motives and see things from their perspective. How we generate empathy remains a subject of intense debate in cognitive science. Some scientists now believe they may have finally discovered its root. We're all essentially mind readers, they say. ... In 1996, three neuroscientists were probing the brain of a macaque monkey when they stumbled across a curious cluster of cells in the premotor cortex, an area of the brain responsible for planning movements. ... Because the cells reflected the actions that the monkey observed in others, the neuroscientists named them "mirror neurons." Later experiments confirmed the existence of mirror neurons in humans and revealed another surprise. In addition to mirroring actions, the cells reflected sensations and emotions. ~~~ Instant replay may help form memories http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060212_brain_reverse.html LiveScience (February 12, 2006) reported on research done by David Foster ( mailto:djfoster@mit.edu ) and Matthew Wilson from MIT. It described that they researched rats going up and down an unknown track. They had already noticed before that rats, especially when the track is unknown, just after they finished it, tend to stand still for a second scratching their heads or do something of the sort. These researchers now managed to measure the activity in the hippocampus during that second, and found out that the rats are replaying the brain-activity they had while doing the track in reverse. Abstract: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v440/n7084/abs/nature04587.html Full article in Nature available only by subscription or purchase. ~~~ SPACE.com -- Riding a Beam of Light: www.space.com/businesstechnology/051024_spaceelevator_challenge.html After three days of grueling competition and friendly shoulder-to- shoulder innovation, over $100,000 in prize money remained in the vault at the close of the Space Elevator Games - the premier event of NASA's new X-Prize-styled series of Centennial Challenges. ~~~ Stroke victims train brains to see again http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070208/hl_nm/stroke_vision_dc_1 A new study bolsters evidence that people partially blinded by a stroke or brain injury may be able to improve their field of vision by teaching new parts of their brain to see,
Using a computer workout program for the brain, about three-quarters of patients in the study could see better after six months of treatment with the therapy, which trains neighboring brain cells to take over for damaged areas. ~~~ Action computer games can sharpen eyesight http://www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn11123 A study by scientists at the who play action video games for a few hours each day over the course of a month can improve their performance in eye examinations by about 20%. ~~~ Math anxiety saps working memory needed to do math http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN1736444120070219 Math anxiety -- feelings of dread and fear and avoiding math -- can sap the brain's limited amount of working capacity, a resource needed to compute difficult math problems, said Mark Ashcroft, a psychologist at the "It turns out that math anxiety occupies a person's working memory," said Ashcroft, who spoke on a panel at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in ~~~ Surgeons who play video games more skilled: study shows http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2J30397820070219 Playing video games appears to help surgeons with skills that truly count: how well they operate using a precise technique, a study said. There was a strong correlation between video game skills and a surgeon's capabilities performing laparoscopic surgery in the study published in the February issue of Archives of Surgery. ~~~ ........................................................................ EVENTS ~~~ PROJECT RENAISSANCE - 15th ANNUAL DOUBLE FESTIVAL on Creative Problem-Solving and Enhanced/Accelerated Learning "Learning from the Future" in the Maryland/Washington DC area Friday, May 18, 2007 - 7:30pm through Sunday, May 20, 2007 - 4pm PLUS! Training Workshops: Friday, May 18, 2007 - 8:30am-4:30PM - Beyond-Einstein/Socratic Training Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - May 21-23, 2007 - Trainer Training Full information/tuition/guidelines/registrations: www.winwenger.com/df15.htm ~~~ UPCOMING PRESENTATIONS March 30-May 18, 2007 Creativity-in-Work Professional Development Program presented by Michelle James, CEO The Center for Creative Emergence & Quantum Leap Business
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http://www.creativeemergence.com March 14, 2007 Next Capitol Creativity Network meeting http://www,creativitynetwork.com "Accessing your Creative Abilities and Using your Creative Power" presented by Dr. Nahid Moktari and Ken Ferlic Contact person: Michelle James mailto:michelle@creativeemergence.com 703-760-9009 ~~~ PRECIPICE IMPROV THEATER - www.precipiceimprov.com Every Saturday, from March 3 to March 31, 2007 - 8 PM The Bethesda Writer's Center - For directions, http://www.writer.org/contact/index.asp For reservations, http://www.precipiceimprov.com/ or 202-258-6888. The audience suggests locations, the troupe creates a full-length comic play. Bob Adler, Ric Andersen, Sean Carter, Gary Jacobs, Michelle James, Dan Mont. Watch the magic, never before seen. ~~~ PhotoReading seminar by Learning Strategies Corporation http://www.learningstrategies.com/PhotoReading/seminar.asp?id=464 Friday, March 9, 2007 (6pm-9pm) Saturday, March 10, 2007 (9am-7pm) Sunday, March 11, 2007 (9am-6pm)
Tuition, $750. An extra discount is available for PhotoReading self- study course buyers! * Class sizes are small * Ongoing coaching at no cost * Retakes at a minimal cost * Money-back Satisfaction Guarantee Need more information? Contact our expert PhotoReading coach, Mr. Dana Hanson: Toll free 1-888-800-2688 1-952-767-9800 Fax 1-952-475-2373 http://www.LearningStrategies.com ~~~ PHOTOREADING Seminar www.photoreading.com Tuition, $750 Paul Scheele is teaching one public PhotoReading seminar this year. If you would like to learn from the man who developed the system in the first place, then enroll today. The size of the class will be limited, so this will be a rare opportunity. To enroll, call 952-767-9800 and ask for Alison Bachman, or go online: www.photoreading.com ~~~ PHOTOREADING Seminar in www.learningstrategies.com Friday, April 20 (6pm-9pm) Saturday, April 21 (9am-7pm) Sunday, April 22 (9am-6pm)
Tuition, $750 - discount to PhotoReading self-study course buyers! To enroll, call 1-888-800-2688 or visit the website, http://www.learningstrategies.com/PhotoReading/seminar.asp?id=443 Need more information? Call our expert PhotoReading coach, Mr. Dana Hanson, at 1-888-800-2688. ~~~ Teamwork & Teamplay Workshops with Jim Cain, Ph.D. http://www.teamworkandteamplay.com/trainingcalendar.html March 3 - March 14-16 - ACA CAMPWEST Conference, March 28-31 - ACA Tri-States Conference, September 24-26 - ACA Southeast Regional Conference, Teamwork & Teamplay, Phone: (585) 637-0328 | Email: jimcain@teamworkandteamplay.com Website: www.teamworkandteamplay.com ~~~ ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Feature Article: ADDITION OF NEW BRAIN CELLS? by Lyelle Palmer mailto:LPalmer@winona.edu The argument about the presence of "new" neurons will go on because some scientists have not been able to verify. There are other considerations, especially about increasing intelligence. 1. the science of human improvement following birth is called Euphenics (do a websearch). 2. IQ worldwide gained about 30 points (2 standard deviations) during the 20th century--because more people learned to read and two world wars brought more people in touch with higher technologies and new ideas; we can expect that IQ will continue to rise in the 21st century. 3. IQ tests must be re-calibrated every 20 years or so because the scores keep rising and the standardizations become obsolete. 4. Whether or not "new" neurons are formed is not so important. So many neurons in the brain are not yet connected and are available for connection following systematic stimulation that "new" neurons are unnecessary. 5. The article in Scientific American about a year ago on the topic of glia had an imbedded one-sentence bomb-shell: when neurons were stimulated continuously for 15 seconds or more, the surrounding glia became electrically charged/ activated. Think of the implications for sensory stimulation and cognitive stimulation: concentrating/keeping in mind/focusing for 15 seconds or more activates glia. What other amazing features of brain stim are yet to be discovered? What might be the role of glia in memory? 6. New abilities
can now be our focus. Shichida in conducting infant and childhood stimulation for years, with success in the following by using mother coaches (a long-time Japanese tradition):
* Photographic memory through eidetic imagery light stimulation, producing abilities to review pages of print; * Perfect pitch * Early multiple languages * Quick subconscious calculation of huge numbers * Instant quantity recognition * Visualized memory hooks to 100 (1 = sun, 2 = shoe, 3 = tree, etc.) * Photographic speed reading and more. He calls these abilities "right-brain" abilities - interesting. His son runs 70+ Shichida centers for training mothers in this technology. We know that some persons have special talents/abilities of telepathy, premonition, healing, etc. Will we eventually be able to train/stimulate these abilities as "natural" abilities? We say that the purpose of the brain is to adapt the organism to the environment, to sense, to organize and to produce actions for survival. We now extend these concepts to include to produce actions, "to thrive" and "to improve the world." Gerald Bracy in the latest Phi Delta Kappan points out that there are many more jobs to do in the world at the local service level than jobs that require a lot of education. Most of us are consumers, not inventors, engineers, scientists, etc. We need a few people with passionate curiosity to create the new world, but for the rest of us, we need to be able to "operate" the world with compassion and justice. What kind of brain abilities are needed for operation purposes? What are the new necessities? Are they food (solve hunger), clothing (recycle), shelter (provide economic justice), energy (with controllable pollution), education and entertainment (provide schooling), work (honorable and respected) and justice (corruption must go, must be exposed, must be condemned with transparency of transactions and taxation)? All must be handled locally, beginning at home. On another angle: Gordon Shaw, Ph.D., Theoretical Physicist, who worked with Frances Rauscher on the Mozart Effect, died last Tuesday at age 72 of cancer. Accelerated Learning has used certain music to enhance the reception/acquisition abilities of the brain for years. Georgi Lozanov did the first studies with Evalena Gateva, who wrote her dissertation on the measured effects of art on brain changes. Shaw started the MIND Institute - treat yourself to a visit at http://www.MINDInst.org/. Enjoy, Lyelle Palmer ( mailto:LPalmer@winona.edu ) ------------------------------------ To send feedback privately to Lyelle Palmer, email him at: mailto:LPalmer@winona.edu?subject=NewBrainCells To send your comments about this article to The Stream, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=NewBrainCells |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ........................................................................ COMMENTS and FEEDBACK ~~~ NEW BRAIN CELLS - SEE "BRAIN PLASTICITY" Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) writes: Nowadays, on many of these points [Lyelle Palmer's article above] I simply suggest people try a little experiment - that they go to Google and type in the words for search, "Brain Plasticity," with or without quotation marks. Nearly all of the THOUSANDS!!! of studies which immediately come up support the observation that the brain changes its structure, its mass, the distribution of its masses, not just its circuitry, to better handle information according to the kinds of stimulus and feedback it has been receiving. Why is it so surprising that our primary organ for adaptation, itself adapts? Because of the Cold War. Did you by any chance notice NATO itself funding studies and publications, including books purporting to show that intelligence depends almost entirely on heredity? That goes back to ideology. The totalitarians were proclaiming their ideal perfect social order and we, quite rightly, were objecting that human nature didn't fit their model, that to override human nature to such an extent necessarily meant the most extreme tyranny. So far, so good. The Soviets then proclaimed, well, we'll just change human nature. Human beings can be improved. And that's where we suckered ourselves into a most expensively wrong response. We began insisting that human beings can't be improved, that something as basic as intelligence just can't be changed. That's how, for ideological reasons, science on both sides got bent to political purposes long before the George W. era. The Soviets boosted Lysenkoism; we remained hard-frozen in merely Mendelian genetics; and this is how we come by NATO spending our defense dollars "proving" intelligence can't be changed. Of course, biological genetics is a much "harder" science than is psychology, so once the Cold War is over we discover floating gene bundles, protein sequencing, and all these other not-so-surprising ways survival-driven bio-evolution has found to speed up biological adaptation to a changing world. In the meanwhile, psychology and education, much fuzzier, have felt no such pressure to evolve their position on such matters. So here we are with studies on brain plasticity coming out our ears, and hardly one of them yet dares to breathe the word, "intelligence." Amazing that for so long, the standards of science should be such fragile prisoners of politics and convenience. With regard to your point number 4, there is a very great importance to the question of new neurons in the instance of brain injury - but that's something you know very well, being a former president of the Association for Human Development. A second area of importance is how it bears upon the overall theory of intelligence and of ways it can be modified. A third area of importance, at risk of prognostication, is how - with that part of the theory - an entire major sector of inquiry for effective treatments and therapies is opened up. So on this one point, of generating new neurons in situ in the brain or in various areas thereof, I may have to quibble with you just a bit, though of course I recognize that the rest of your statement is spot on, in keeping with its author being the one I believe knows more than any other human being alive about human development and accelerated learning. - Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ~~~ IMAGE-STREAMING mailto:vincepriseman@yahoo.com writes: "That Image-Streaming practice is some kind of magic to me." Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) responds: Thank you, but really things are far simpler than most people realize: 1) Pick your focus. 2) Describe in detail what you find in that focus. 3) As you detail, you discover more and more within that focus. 4) A most convenient focus is that ongoing stream of imagery which every one of us has going on within us, a universal phenomenon. What makes that so convenient is the stream's remarkable sensitivity to whatever else is going on in our mind, our data base, and our subtler perceptions. Integration of the brain and enhancement of various intellectual and mental abilities are nice by-products from practicing Image-Streaming. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to like a lot of reward for not very much effort. I sure like that. See http://www.winwenger.com/imstream.htm - Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ~~~ IMAGE-STREAMING BUDDIES UPDATE Adrienne Garnett ( mailto:aartg@optonline.net ) writes: Just had an interesting experience which I thought would be fun to share. Went to a press preview of the Robert Rauschenberg "Combines" show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art preparatory to writing a review for an arts magazine. I've always really "liked" Rauschenberg's "combines" (so called because in the 1950's when he made them, he very daringly combined painting and sculpture to make free-standing painting/ sculptures as well as 3-D assemblages that hung on the wall...unheard of until his invention of them). Having recently acquired a digital recorder, I now go through any show in question dictating quietly into the recorder instead of writing notes...much more spontaneous and authentic. I felt I knew Rauschenberg's work well enough to relax into descriptions and not feel pressured into discovering info for the first time. Well, before I realized it, I was image-streaming. WOW did I discover stuff I've never seen before! Among other things, Rauschenberg is quoted as not being at all concerned about unconscious or hidden meanings in his work. He says that he is "all on the surface." The observer, however, can discover layers and layers of meanings in relationships of shapes, juxtapositions, all kinds of positioning, colors. His work is a minefield of subliminal stuff that I never saw before. My job now is a tough one. I need to debrief clearly, reporting on the show without indulging my interpretations (which, accurate or, very possibly, not) are very hard to contain. That, however, is MY problem. I'm just sharing this experience with you because 1) I fell into I.S. automatically; 2) I think there is good potential for using I.S. as a critical tool with my students as well as in my own work; 3) You probably knew this already, but might enjoy sharing my discovery of it. - Adrienne Garnett ( mailto:aartg@optonline.net ) ~~~ THE MEANING OF LIFE Juha Danson ( mailto:j.v.o.danson@gmail.com ) --Ladies and Gentlemen. Dear Fellow-toastmasters and Toastmasters-to-be. Here I am, petrified, for I seem to have promised to talk on The Meaning of Life. What I’ll do is tell you a story. Ding… I was working as a waiter in a hotel whose name I shan’t mention here, in the Banqueting suite. Our job was at times to cater coffees and lunches for, say, the Ericsson management teams, who were pondering what on earth to do next. There was, working in the kitchen, a French Patisseur named Marc. He could only speak English and French, although he was engaged to Päivi, a most attractive Finnish chef. If Marc was not active in checking what was happening every day, no-one tended to translate the orders of the day to him. This would often result in our asking for the afternoon’s brownies coming to Marc as a lightning from the sky. This then would cause Marc to shout repeatedly, of all names, that of the Russian President. I soon learned to inform Marc of upcoming events during the same morning, which led us soon to become friends and the brownies never to be late again. On the afternoon in question I decided, all else being done, to go early to the kitchen with the trolley and perhaps chat with Marc until I’d take the dessert of the day upstairs. As I approached Marc, he was just icing with sugar, would you believe it, brownies. Noticing me over his shoulder, he started to say: “ I’m afraid…” to which I quickly said, in the way you sometimes say something you may never even have pondered upon: "Please don’t be afraid, for behind every fear there is a promise." I would never have given it a second thought if Marc had not stopped what he was doing, and said: “Mon, that was beeautifull!” So, as there was no rush, I stopped to think… - "Yes, that’s got to be it! Wow!" I thought. "If we look at what lies behind any of our fears, we find that we have one fear less and we have also grown as human beings. So really Fear is one of our best friends, beckoning us to it: 'This way, my friend, if you wish to grow as a human being.'" This event was an important one in my life. It showed me that whatever we concentrate on, GROWS. If it’s avoiding our fears, then it is the fear that grows. It also led me to remember having read somewhere that ALL in the Universe is illusion and that it is solely up to us which illusion we choose to live in. Ding… The Meaning of Life… Well, if you do know, please tell me, too! Otherwise I’ll continue to believe that The Meaning of Our Life is exactly what we choose it to be. - Juha Danson ( mailto:j.v.o.danson@gmail.com ) ~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To send your comments to The Stream for possible publication here, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=Comments ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ORGANIZATIONAL NOTES ~~~ STOLEN IDENTITY! It has come to our attention that spurious mails, spams and possibly infected emails are being sent out with thestream@winwenger.com or even wwenger101@aol.com as the alleged sender. Please be assured that they are not from us and do not have our consent. Anything with an attachment is suspect - do NOT open attachments, even if they seem to be from us. 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