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Math teacher Tony Asdourian illustrates the explanation to a logic puzzle he presented the first night of his continuing education class called Paradoxes and Contradictions. I'm taking the class along with my buddy Jeff and his best friend Tom. It's forcing us, and me in particular, to think in new ways!
I'm grateful for new ways of thinking. :)
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If you're interested, here's the puzzle:
Peyton and Eli are standing at a fork in the road. You know that one of them always tells the truth and the other always lies, but you don't know which is which. You also know that one road leads to death and destruction, and the other leads to utopian freedom.
By asking one of them one yes/no question, can you determine the way to freedom?
"SWFLN welcomes our newest staff member, Lee LeBlanc, Continuing Education/Emerging Technologies Coordinator. Lee comes to us from Florida Gulf Coast University, where he was most recently a Senior Library Technical Assistant for the Computing and Public Service Departments. He is currently a graduate student at Florida State University’s College of Information and a frequent guest-blogger for Michael Stephens’ blog, Tame the Web. Welcome, Lee!"
The major surviving piece of the Georgia Mental Health Institute, which once included four of these cruciform Modernist mid-rises, is now best known as the sinister government lab from the miniseries Stranger Things. The architect, Abraham Thomas Bradbury, was one of these architects born around 1900 who got his education and early professional experience doing historicist stripped-classical stuff in the 20s and 30s (think: Kahn's Penn education and subsequent work for Cret) and then wandered a bit as he discovered the Modernist vocabulary. He doesn't have too many wildly convincing public structures, and the simultaneous originality and banality of this thing's dressing of patterned metal grilles sort of captures the issue. The articulation of the concrete frame is nice, as are the fieldstone bases and retaining walls. You also get a nice major-and-minor-scale weave to the facade grid. But man, does this thing signify "faceless institution." The TV location scouts chose well. (And hey, y'all, call me if you need a freelance consultant for some other good period Atlanta locations, next season!)
Registration Day at Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, aka OLLI, Asheville, NC. UNCA campus; Reuter Center.
Classes start in mid September and run through early November.
This is the very end of the line, which included over 700 people; folks arrived as early as 5:30, I heard!
It is first-come, first served; other methods of registration are easier, but less certain.
PS: 962 students registered for the Fall 2012 quarter!
For more info, see:
Re-published by invitation at Carolina Public Press, a great nonprofit news source for the Carolinas! Thanks, Angie!
www.carolinapublicpress.org/11434/from-our-readers-back-t...