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![]() Newsletter of Project Renaissance and Win Wenger January 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 * Project Renaissance Consulting & Tutoring * Project Renaissance Corebooks * Events, Workshops, Classes * Announcements, News Items, Help Wanted * FEATURE ARTICLE: Building Musical Skills, by Win Wenger * Comments, Feedback Win Wenger on Learning Potential Linda Dobbs on The Stream * Organizational Notes * Links ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ QUOTES OF THE MONTH We all have ability. The difference is how we use it. - Stevie Wonder The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. - Dale Carnegie Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped. - African proverb ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| CONSULTING AND TUTORING Project Renaissance is pleased to offer consulting and workshops customized for your organization's needs. Contact Rick Hansen ( mailto:rick.hansen@apsglobal.com ) to discuss how you can benefit from Win Wenger's consulting services. Project Renaissance is providing Socratic Learning classes for secondary school students in the greater Washington DC area. Contact Rick Hansen ( mailto:rick.hansen@apsglobal.com ) for more information. Arasu Chellaiah is using Dr. Wenger's Socratic Learning method to teach college courses for Biology majors and DDS (Doctors of Dental Surgery). Contact Arasu Chellaiah ( mailto:arasu_chellaiah@hotmail.com ) or Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) for more information. Win Wenger and Rick Hansen will be using Win's Socratic Learning Method for tutoring college students pursuing degrees in Electrical Engineering. Contact The Stream ( mailto:thestream@winwenger.com or Rick Hansen ( mailto:rick.hansen@apsglobal.com ) for more information. ....................................................................... ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| PROJECT RENAISSANCE'S NEW COREBOOKS 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 ~~~ PHOTOREADING Paul Scheele is teaching a public PhotoReading seminar in Minneapolis, MN, April 11-13 2008. 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. Call 888-800-2688 or go to www.LearningStrategies.com/PhotoReading/ScheeleSeminar for more information. PhotoReading coaching is also available! Contact Mr. Dana Hanson, at 1-952-767-9800. ~~~ 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 ~~~ IMPROV THEATER Winter is here. And so is Precipice Improv Theater's Winter season. It continues each Saturday until March 22, 2008, in Bethesda MD. At each show, Precipice creates a different, totally improvised comic play from your suggestions. For more information, go to www.precipiceimprov.com/. ~~~ PROJECT RENAISSANCE DOUBLE FESTIVAL May 23-31, 2008 - Annual Double Festival - Mark your calendar now! 16th Annual Conference on Creative Problem-Solving Methods and Enhanced/Accelerated Learning Techniques and Spring Workshops of Project Renaissance. www.winwenger.com/upcoming.htm#DF ~~~ INVENTION WORKSHOP August 1-3, 2008 - Invention-on-Demand Training Fall Workshop with Win Wenger and Chuck Roman, in Gaithersburg, MD. Reserve your spot now! Send an e-mail to mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ~~~ WIN WENGER'S TEACHING AND RECORDING SCHEDULE - Spring 2008 * March 7-9 - teaching at a creativity conference in Bradenton, Florida. * Late March-April period - Denver for several days of audio recording. * April - further training of a school's faculty in Buffalo, NY, in Project Renaissance accelerated learning methods. * May 2-4 weekend - Mensa Regional Gathering, DC/Maryland chapters. * May 15-18 - Atlanta, GA, teaching at a major creativity conference. * May 23-31 - our BEST, DF and TT events in Pasadena, MD. www.winwenger.com/upcoming.htm ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ANNOUNCEMENTS, NEWS ITEMS, HELP WANTED ~~~ GUEST EDITOR Our thanks to Rick Hansen for all his contributions in putting together this issue of The Stream. We hope he will continue to give us the benefit of his enthusiasm, energy and educational expertise in future issues. ~~~ NEWBORN BRAIN CELLS MODULATE LEARNING AND MEMORY www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/si-nbc013008.php La Jolla, CA - Boosted by physical and mental exercise, neural stem cells continue to sprout new neurons throughout life, but the exact function of these newcomers has been the topic of much debate. Removing a genetic master switch that maintains neural stem cells in their proliferative state finally gave researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies some definitive answers. Without adult neurogenesis - literally the "birth of neurons" - genetically engineered mice turned into "slow learners" that had trouble navigating a water maze and remembering the location of a submerged platform, the Salk investigators report in the Jan. 30, 2008, Advance Online Edition of Nature. The findings suggest that, one day, orally active drugs might be used to influence memory function. ~~~ QUALITY OF SLEEP DETERMINES WHERE THE BRAIN STORES MEMORIES www.physorg.com/news116759950.html As time passes, our memories are transferred to different parts of the brain in order to ideally store our past experiences. While scientists have known that sleep plays an important role in helping consolidate memories, a new study investigates the role of sleep a step further, and shows how one night of sleep can lead to changes in brain activity six months after an event has occurred. The group of researchers, from the University of Liege in Belgium, has published their results in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Their research shows that a good night’s sleep after learning word pairs enhances memory processing in the hippocampus, and induces information transfer between the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). This transfer serves to consolidate memories, helping new memories become stable and immune to interfering stimuli. “Our work shows how the development of a trace left by new memories depends on sleep,” co-author Steffen Gais told PhysOrg.com. ______ NOTE FROM THE EDITOR - Sleep is important. If you think that you can stay sharp while working 80-hour weeks and not sleeping - think again. ~~~ MENTAL AND PHYSICAL EXERCISE DELAYS DEMENTIA IN FATAL GENETIC DISEASE www.physorg.com/news120392565.html Scientists at Melbourne’s Howard Florey Institute have discovered that mental and physical stimulation delays the onset of dementia in the fatal genetic disease, Huntington's disease. This Australian research opens up new therapeutic possibilities for other devastating and difficult-to-treat brain diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease where dementia is a key component. The Florey’s Dr. Jess Nithianantharajah and Dr. Anthony Hannan showed mice with the Huntington’s disease gene displayed impairments on learning and memory tests at an early stage of the disease, prior to the obvious signs of movement problems. However, Dr. Nithianantharajah said by providing the mice with an enriched environment that enhanced their mental and physical stimulation, the mice performed better on these memory tests. Huntington’s is a very powerful model for nature- versus-nurture investigations. _______ EDITOR'S NOTE: A key insight of Win Wenger is that interaction is required to fully benefit from learning. Mice in a rich learning environment lived much longer than usual. Mice who were not in a rich environment, but who could view the activities in the rich learning environment, did not live longer than normal. Lesson - Television and passive viewing can never surpass an interactive experience. By the way, Capitol College - www.capitol-college.edu - was founded on the use of "hands on" learning to complement classroom teaching in Electronic Engineering. Capitol graduates were sought after in Government and Industry for the superior skills and ability to communicate with technicians and management. ~~~ LEARNING FROM EXPLAINING: Does it matter if mom is listening? www.vanderbilt.edu/News/KidsLearnWhenMomsListen.pdf From the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology: Bethany Rittle-Johnson et al. conducted a study to examine whether explaining to another person improves learning and transfer. In the study, fifty-four 4- and 5-year-olds solved multiple classification problems, received accuracy feedback, and were prompted to explain the correct solutions to their moms, to explain the correct solutions to themselves, or to repeat the solutions. Generating explanations (to selves or moms) improved problem-solving accuracy at posttest, and explaining to mom led to the greatest problem-solving transfer. The study indicates that explanation prompts can facilitate transfer in children as young as 5 years and reveals that it matters if mom is listening. (Copyright 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.) This study was also cited in Education Week, January 30, 2008: www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2008/01/30/21report-1.h27.html?tmp=1234007566 Researchers Examine Importance of Learning From ‘Explaining’ - Learning improves dramatically among young children who take the time to explain academic concepts to their mothers or who explain their logic aloud to themselves... ________ Win Wenger comments: This scientific study answers the crucial question, whether our Principle of Description, the focusing power of language, and the immense educational and developmental power of concurrent describing of one's thoughts, perceptions, observations, ideas, experiences, feelings, and whatever awarenesses, have as much bearing on younger children as they do on adults and older children. The resounding answer is, these DO! There probably is no greater educational tool than this, nor any developmental or neurodevelopmental tool. It may be up to us to find ways, and better ways, to implement that tool. What is your ingenuity - and problem-solving method - for devising techniques wherein we can best get young children to delight in sharing their concurrent awarenesses, and in drawing each other out in depth, in detail, at length despite shorter attention-spans, in subtleties and nuances, in context after context after context? Are there techniques comparable to those we have for adults and for older children in learning and problem-solving, invention- and discovery-making? Thanks to Kathy Carroll for bringing this study to our attention. ______ FLASH! - PostNote just in. Preliminary results from an elementary school's faculty in Buffalo, freshly trained in Project Renaissance accelerated learning methods, are vividly showing that these modified techniques are just as valuable for young children as our main methods are for older children, college-age and adult students. The new version of these methods, for elementary school age children, is the joint product of Project Renaissance and of that school, announcements about which are to be made later. ~~~ 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 new 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 at mailto:wwenger101@aol.com for more information. ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Feature Article: BUILDING MUSICAL SKILLS by Win Wenger The following arose out of an exchange between myself and a college student who is studying music and who has been seeking a faster, easier way to build his sought-for musical skills... He wrote: * * * "Recently I designed my own session for helping to develop perfect pitch. Perfect pitch is the ability to know the exact note when played...so if my professor plays a C sharp I can recognize it immediately without any help just by hearing it. The session I designed consists of brainwave entrainment technology...such as theta/alpha waves used to help me memorize the notes. I recorded each individual note into my microphone and uploaded it into a special program. But I have a feeling it's not working properly...how can I develop my hearing to a perfect pitch level? What other methods could you suggest other than Improvitaping?" * * * He was right: What he described isn't working and won't work. The base line of his existing performance hasn't been established, much less built into the program as a foundation. There is no sequence of iterated steps of increasing challenge through which he can develop finer and finer discriminations, and be reinforced on them, much less anything for "predicting" and sounding tones. Even though using multiple differentiated states of mind and brainwave to input the sounds WILL help somewhat, as it will for the input phases of any information, he would still need a way to activate such of that information as he was able to install in order for it to be of much use to him. ________
From one of my own letters in that exchange: First, let me mention one approach, for which we need a computer game designer to actualize. PITCH-CONTROL COMPUTER GAME (A) See www.winwenger.com/archives/part14.htm ("A Fun Way To Teach Your 2-Year-Old to Sight-Read & Play Music — And Expand the Core of His Intellectual Capacity!" — Winsights No. 14, July 1997), and then extend the concept to that of successive presentations — presentations done rapidly enough to build reflexes — done by computer game. (B) Even a tin ear can tell the difference between one octave and another, as a bottom-line starting point where, through a succession of levels of challenge, one learns to discriminate to finer and finer degrees. I figure taking it to something like 1/64th of a note during the challenge of a game should carry over enough to discriminate notes reflexively in casual, non-game use. (C) Also important, the PREDICTION and voicing of tones so that you can "sound" the 'A' or whatever tone from scratch. Likewise, via successive levels of challenge, to something like 1/64th-tone difference during the game likely to carry over to satisfactory perfect pitch sounding under non-game conditions. (Such pitch control is only one aspect of a number of inner musical skills we propose for such a computer game that should eventually help this to materialize.) TRAINING FOR PERFECT PITCH (A) You may find yourself able to invent an entirely new, different and effective approach to training perfect musical pitch through the method known as "Toolbuildering" — see www.winwenger.com/toolbld.htm — and so "visit" a "highly advanced but entirely human civilization" where even the most klutz-eared enjoy perfect musical pitch, and be taken to the point of experience which shows clearly what CAUSES everyone in that (imagined?) civilization to enjoy such perfect musical pitch. Copy off the tool or technique or practice you find there, which you can then use for objective training purposes back here. "Toolbuilder" has been the source of a good many of our Project Renaissance techniques. (B) You can Google for programs which propose to teach or train the skill of perfect musical pitch. Some of these might actually work — and might not. It is hard for me to evaluate, since I have the trait already, all my life, and thought of it as a bit of a mixed blessing until I learned of its association with, and of its possibly being a cause of, a radically expanded left plenum temporales — the apparent very core of our intellect, since it is the organ in our brain which discriminates nuances of word meanings. In people with perfect musical pitch, physically the left plenum temporales is double the size of its counterpart in people without perfect musical pitch. (C) Every one of our forty or so online-published problem-solving techniques can be used on the problem of finding an easy, effective, rewarding way to train up perfect musical pitch. Take your choice! — as often as you like, until you hit the payoff that best suits you. ________ In other correspondence, I also suggested use of the procedure at www.winwenger.com/part44.htm ("Build Your Ability to Understand Everything!" - Winsights No. 44, August 2000) as another main avenue for training up such musical skills as perfect pitch, not only various intellectual and conceptual proficiencies. A further point why I am posting this exchange here in The STREAM: I truly have no way of directly evaluating the effectiveness of existing programs, as advertised online, for training up perfect musical pitch. I need the help in this of people who do not now have perfect pitch, but who are willing to experiment. If an existing program does the job and does it well, I can simply link to it, for the benefit of all interested in such things that come our way. If not, we should develop a strong program for this, as there is strong if circumstantial evidence that this could be another powerful tool for heightening intellectual abilities. Could a half-dozen or more of you, reading this, write me who do not now have perfect musical pitch ability, and then be willing to undertake an effort to develop that ability through one of the programs which come up when you Google "train perfect music pitch"? Also: I renew our request for the assistance of a computer game designer and/or graphics effects person to develop computer-based games to train this and related inner musical skills. Please contact me at mailto:wwenger101@aol.com if you are able and willing to help. ------------------------------------ To send your comments about this article to Win Wenger, write to: mailto:wwenger101@aol.com?subject=PerfectPitch To send your comments about this article to The Stream, write to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com?subject=PerfectPitch ........................................................................ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| COMMENTS and FEEDBACK ~~~ Win Wenger ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) writes on LEARNING POTENTIAL
How many times have you sat in a class or training session and heard the leader say something about only a small percentage of our brain being developed? The statement is in fact true, but not in the way that leader was thinking. Next time you hear this piece of lore being passed along, ask the person who said it to cite a source - which is something we all could do more of. In recent correspondence, I was asked: "You say the skull can expand and the brain increase in size, but Tony Buzan says that we are only using 1% of our brains, wouldn't that make expansion pointless? I'm not sure if you agree with his theories or not." My response: I wish Tony and the many others who have made similar remarks about the percentage of brain usage would cite sources. Without specified sources, such statements come across only as folklore. I did the research and found a study and book by J. Z. Young, "A Model of The Brain" (London, Oxford U. Press, 1964). Young sampled the brain and did the counting, and was the source of the statement that between 5 and 10 percent of the brain is developed. This point is important, because it reveals the method by which the datum was arrived at. His criterion was the number, in proportion, of cells that were developed. This was easiest to reckon as the number of cells which were developed enough to have dendritic connections and synapses with other cells. By that measure, between 5 and 10 percent of the cells he sampled were developed enough to have connections with other brain cells. He did not figure the DEGREE of that development, from cell to cell. And that is important, because while some brain cells have been counted with upward of 60,000 connections with other cells, most have only a dozen or so. Factor these considerations together and it clearly is not true that 5-10% of the brain is developed. Not even 1% of the brain is developed. More like one trillionth of one percent. In other words, there appears to be some room for improvement! I haven't found any publication or studies where Young's findings were rejected or denied, only several articles quarreling in minor technical ways with his strategies for sampling in the brain. - Win Wenger, Ph.D. ( mailto:wwenger101@aol.com ) ~~~ TESTIMONIAL from a reader of The Stream: Sometime ago, I corresponded with Win Wenger regarding a health problem and his specific suggestions helped me tremendously. I believe The Stream not only keeps me abreast in the educational field, but is on the very edge of the educational field. Sincerely, Linda Dobbs ( mailto:lldobbs@gmail.com ) ~~~ Do you have a similar experience? Please contact us! Email to: mailto:thestream@winwenger.com ~~~ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ~~~ |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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