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Welcome to Arts and Ideas in the Air, under the tent, and around Baltimore.
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This is your daily podcast of all the goings ons and around arts and ideas.
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So last night we had our first assembly meeting of the year.
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We usually don't have any until the springtime, but this year is an unusual year to say the
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least.
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The assembly meeting had about 20 participants and we had a good discussion and a lot of
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action items passed.
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So just a very quick recap of it, we approved implementing an anonymous survey for flu vaccine
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so we can get a feeling for the percentage of people who are flu vaccinated.
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We gave an update for the school online and in person.
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In short, it's going really well and we're all excited to be here and the weather's fine
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here and we hope any of you online get the chance to join us soon.
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The next item of business was approving for the in-person temperature checks, that being
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above 99.5 is sort of the threshold for saying okay, there might be a problem here.
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Take multiple temperatures, verify that that's what's going on, it's an average, and give
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us a call.
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Talk to us and hopefully go get yourself a test or something.
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Alrighty, what else?
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There was, and this is all coming from memory, mind you.
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We did decide to open up enrollment again so we're reaching out today to new families
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in the queue and maybe we'll have a new family during the visiting week next week.
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We will do no more than two at a time except for this one family of three, we'll do that,
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put those three together, and our goal is to make sure that we don't have too much clumping,
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spread out the ages, and so forth, but you know, looking at the chronological queue,
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that seems to actually already work out.
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So that was mostly the assembly meeting, I'm pretty sure I forgot something, but there
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will be notes sent out, I believe with the newsletter, if not with the newsletter, then
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in a separate email.
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Alrighty, what else?
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We had Article Club today, we read Asimov's Profession, for those who have not read it,
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it's basically taking the conventional model of education to an extreme in a sci-fi way
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and sort of thinking through what would happen.
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Many of us found it a little bit hard, you know, implausible, a key component was this
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knowledge just gets downloaded into the brain, and for some reason people are not able to
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add to it afterwards, either through cultural norms that they can't learn more, or something
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with the process wasn't really clear, and you know, that was a hard thing to kind of
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really accept, and it was kind of key to the larger point of the story.
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I won't spoil it though, so it is a short story, so fun little one, and sort of does
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highlight what we think of as sort of one of the biggest dangers of, you know, being
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spoon-fed knowledge like we typically do.
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The story was a bit extreme, nobody ends up like that, but you know, we value the ability
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to create and explore and to really learn from experience and putting things together
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and all those good stuff.
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For next week, the Article Club will be reading an excerpt from Rutger Bregman's book, Humankind.
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In particular, it's the story of a group of boys from a private school who get stranded
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on a, I believe it's an atoll, a little island off the coast of somewhere, maybe Madagascar,
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I'm not really sure, it's been a while since I read it, but the idea was to find an example
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where the Lord of the Flies scenario had the potential to happen and then to see what actually
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happened.
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Spoiler alert, no Lord of the Flies, they got along well and, you know, they developed
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ways of cooperating and dealing with conflicts and, you know, it's a really cool story to
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read and generate lifelong friendships.
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So that was cool.
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And then, I guess, that might be about it for today.
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The type of day today is Farewell Friday, so we say goodbye to this week, it was a good
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week, very calm, we had no JC cases this week.
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I believe this is the first time in my six years where we haven't had any JC cases whatsoever
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this entire week.
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So that's something.
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We have a lot of space here, so that's probably helpful, and, you know, we have relatively
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small groups, so maybe the dynamics is less problematic, I'm not really sure.
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Or maybe people just don't want to come out to the tent for JC, I don't really know.
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I like JC.
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So maybe next week we'll get a case.
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Alright, well I hope you all have a great weekend, I'm looking forward to getting back
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here on Monday, hopefully the weather will stay as nice as it is right now, butterflies
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flying around, and sheets blowing in the breeze, we got a mulch pile back again, so that was
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cool, and a Monday, maybe a Gaga game is about to get started, there's some people mulling
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around the pit, and so that would be kind of neat.
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Alrighty, oh and we have some new signs in the yard, I'm sure if you're coming in person
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you'll see them, if not, let's just say the acronym is BLM, you can figure it out.
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Have a great day and see you all tomorrow.