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We are living in a time of great change, a time when we are surrounded by unexpected and generous opportunity, and also by danger. This is an important time to talk amongst ourselves so that we can share, see, and understand the promise and peril of our times. And even more importantly, so that we can create a future full of health, opportunity, and options.
Really, that's the basic reason I'm a futurist.
Here's what I do about it:
Obviously, first and foremost, I'm a science fiction writer. Yes, that is a futurist task – not for every story or even every book, but often. Many of our true visionaries have been science fiction writers. Ursula LeGuin. Jules Verne. George Orwell. Ray Bradbury. David Brin. Arthur C. Clark. I could expand this list easily. Yes, I want to be as good as they are! I write fiction almost every day, and I'm up to forty or fifty published stories and six novels. One of my favorite places to write for is Nature Magazine. They publish short shorts on the last page of the magazine. Here are links to my stories there:
I've been talking with, learning from, and writing for noted futurist Glen Hiemstra for over a decade. I admire Glen because he is both positive and realistic. Consider dropping by Futurist.com to learn more about Glen's work.
I'm a member of the Futurist Board at the LifeBoat Foundation, which seeks to assure that we survive as a species. It is a wild and crazy place full of brilliant people. I won't pretend to agree with them all for even a moment, but I'm often learning by association.
There are a number of ways I work to contribute to the public dialogue about the future. I keynote business events and talk to schools. I only do a few talks a year, solely because of time, although I can regularly be found at science fiction conventions talking about the future on panels. Some of my next appearances will be at the World Science Fiction Convention in Texas and at Orycon in Orgeon. The next place you can catch me giving a solo talk about the future in a public forum will be at the World Future Society meeting in Chicago in the summer of 2013.
If you'd like to find out if I'm available for a specific event, please use the contact form.
Lastly, I am a technology professional. That is also a tangentially futurist profession. I work for the City of Kirkland as the CIO, which means that I spend some time looking forward at how technology can help citizens.
Jane Mayer's Dark Money uses our recent political past to illuminate the off-kilter present. Reading it made made me very angry. While our country has never been perfect, fair, or completely free of the influence of the rich, the events described in this book chronicle a slow, insidious, and nearly complete take-over the Republican Party by the ultra-rich, much of it in hidden donations. The book is not about how everyday Republicans are evil, or about how liberals are not evil (there's some dark money there as well). It convincingly describes the systematic dismantling of the laws that protected us from government by the rich, and the subsequent purchase of our politicians.
Everyone should read this book.
I recently read the science fiction book (R)evolution, by P.J. Manney. I loved the book, which a page-turning thriller and a discussion of transhumanism that rises above the simplistic story that we'll be perfect after we get more digital abilities. But (R)evolution involves a conspiracy theory among the very rich, and I thought Manney went a bit overboard on that. I'm not a conspiracy theory-type. Now I believe that what (R)evolution and Dark Money describe are possible.
Dark Money is hard to read. It's relentless. But all of us who care about the collective, the commons, the environment, biodiversity, or just about any other cause that doesn't directly support making the rich richer should read it. If we want to take back our future, we need to understand what and who we are fighting.
Of note – Dark Money has over a thousand reviews, and it's 5 stars all the way.
In case you want to learn more, here is a longer review of the book from the New York Times.
I am writing this from a coffee shop in DC. One of the reasons I came here at this time was to participate in the March for Science right here in the capital.
I ran into three friends, fellow writer Brenda Clough and her husband Larry Clough, and another fellow writer, Chris Cevasco. What a small world. Brenda introduced me to Michelle Lighton (who they had just met), and she and Larry gifted me and Michelle with their signs as they attended the rally but had to leave before the march started. Here are the signs and some quotes from me and Michelle in the New York Times.
We were wet and cold and yet everyone was smiles and enthusiasm. The signs were great. The march was quiet (I suspect it's easier for many scientists to think of and create great signs than to scream loudly). It touched me to do the walk here, in the seat of so many debates and decisions.
We walked past the EPA building, and people chanted "Save the EPA!" I can't believe that phrase should even make sense, much less that we might have to fight tooth and nail for it. That's like saying "Save the blue in the sky" to me. But then, I'm old enough to recall the bad smog days in California, and I read enough to know what China's air looks like. Air should, of course, look like nothing. And the EPA does so much more than that. We need them. But end rant, for the moment.
I'm not a scientist. Some SF writers are actual scientists, but I understand science at the level of an informed reader. I do read a lot. As an SF writer, I'm dependent on the work of scientists. The world building in my next book, Wilders, was partly based on Half Earth by biologist E.O. Wilson and the sequel is informed by Carl Safina's book How Animals Think and Feel. There's more, but it could take a page to list all of the research I've done for these two books, about half of which is straight science reading.
As a writer I take what I learn from science and engineering and expand and extend it, and wrap character and feelings around it. When I'm done, it's not science. But it's based there.
It doesn't stop there, though. Scientists sometimes take our ideas and make them happen. Many inventions have been attributed to Star Trek. Second Life talks out loud about its based on concepts in Neal Stephenson's excellent book, Snow Crash. I could make a list. But mostly I want to make the point that there is a loose but valuable circle of ideas that moves from scientist to science fiction writer to scientist to science fiction writer….
It felt important to march. It's a way to be counted. There are so many ways we can all show our resistance to backward policies, and it's so important to do so. We cannot get tired or confused or give up. Politics has never mattered as much as it does now, and moving forward with policies based firmly on peer-reviewed science has never been more important. The lives of many plants and animals, many people, and maybe even of all of us are at stake.
E. O. Wilson's Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life is one of the best books I've read on the future of Earth.
He states the problem clearly….after beginning with an apt description of what we (mankind) are like and then stating that we have little time to spend on the wrong trajectory, he says:
"Meanwhile, we thrash about, appallingly led, with no particular goal in mind than economic growth, unfettered consumption, good health, and personal happiness. The impact on the rest of the biosphere is everywhere negative, the environment becoming unstable and less pleasant, our long-term future less certain."
Yet even though Wilson pulls no punches throughout the book (which is frightening on many levels), he is hopeful. He sets a huge goal. He means exactly what is in the title. Set aside half of Earth (landmass) for biodiversity. Leave it alone. Let it recover and grow. This is the moonshot solution for biodiversity.
It's not impossible.
Unlike many authors with roots in the environmental world, Wilson embraces technology and progress. He sees innovation as enhancing our ability to save the world. In short, in the future, we will know more about the other beings inhabiting the biosphere beside us, we will be able to monitor and understand them better, and we will have tools to build an economy that is not based heavily on the destruction of natural resources. He clearly understands the connected future we are moving into and the positives and challenges of the increasing rate of change. In chapter 16, he writes:
"The collective human mind, hyperconnected and digitized, will flow through the entirely of the life we have inherited far more quickly than was possible before. We will then understand the full meaning of extinction, and we will come to regret deeply every species humanity will have carelessly thrown away."
In many ways, this is a futurist's book about the ongoing loss of biodiversity. That doesn't mean we need to (or can!) wait for the future before we act. Rather, we must do more of the conservation we are already doing. Much more.
We also need to spend a lot more time and resources on practical field science – I did not for example, realize how many species we haven't even discovered yet (there is a great case made for this in the book). I felt like I learned something, which is a reader cookie for me if I'm going to spend hours on a science book. Note that it pairs well with The Sixth Extinction, which I read and recommended already, but which I intend to re-read this month.
I highly recommend that everyone read Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life. It is readable – Wilson wrote this book for all of us to understand. His style is accessible and conversational.
Even if you think you understand the problem, and the solutions, the book should be owned by us all for the beautiful descriptions of the best places in the world that fill the center of book, in chapter 15. It reads like poetry. I listened to parts of it three times (chapter 15 and the last few chapters). Yes, it's a research book for my current novel, and I'm getting to use it as part of my MFA, but more importantly, it's a very good book.
I'm currently at the 100 Year Starship Symposium. This symposium was started by DARPA and is now run by Mae Jemison, who was the first black female astronaut to go into space. At the moment, I'm hearing about the 1400 planets that have been found. That's only in the last twenty years – it was roughly twenty years ago that we found the first one. Once more, what a lovely time to be alive.
I've been to a lot of conferences about space. This one is different in a few important ways:
Most importantly, that audience (the few hundred scientists and enthusiasts and sci fi writers and students) is focused on one thing — getting out into the solar system in a human-powered ship in such a way that the journey is for everyone in humanity. In other words, rather than being about defense or war or even pure science, they are interested in peaceful, inclusive exploration and expansion. Here is the exact statement from them:
We exist to make the capability of human travel beyond our solar system a reality within the next 100 years. We unreservedly dedicate ourselves to identifying and pushing the radical leaps in knowledge and technology needed to achieve interstellar flight, while pioneering and transforming breakthrough applications that enhance the quality of life for all on Earth. We actively seek to include the broadest swath of people and human experience in understanding, shaping and implementing this global aspiration.
How do I know they mean it? Usually the audience at a conference with similar slides on the dais would be 80% white male. Not here. The single largest group of people in the audience is white males, but if I added all the rest of us up, one would have to actually count to determine whether or not the numbers (collectively) of people of any-color-or-type-other-than-white-male is greater. But it might be. This is, in fact, very unusual.
This is a very cool place to be. None of us in this room are likely to be on this starship when it is created. But in many ways this place and time represents the early generations of this multi-generation starship.
I'm currently at the the World Future Society meeting in San Francisco, and one of the highlights will be getting to ask science fiction author Ramez Naam some questions tomorrow afternoon. I just finished the last book in his trilogy (Nexus, Crux, and Apex) on the plane on the way down. I was really just blown away, not just by Apex but by the whole series.
Ramez has taken one of the core questions that interests me – what might a transhumanist future look like – and he's pushed the boundaries both on exactly how wrong and how right such a future could be for the humans involved. Many transhumanist stories are songs of risk and warning, and this series does that, but it also flies high and clear. As I read, I glimpsed a fabulous future that I want to be part of, and a way to solve some of our myriad problems that's deeper than technological Nirvana alone.
Most importantly to me, the series includes science, spirit, and politics. In SF, we usually only look at two of those. When we leave off the spiritual dimension, we sell ourselves short.
For the best reading experience, enjoy all three together, back to back. Even though I mentioned that these books include spirit (in this case primarily via buddhist monks in Thailand), make no mistake; these books are thrillers. You might be up late turning pages.
I spent the last week vacationing in the Mexican Riviera Maya, which runs from Cancun west along the Caribbean sea. The first time I came here, in 1998, a long somewhat sleepy highway ran along the coast and hand-made signs led to beach locations. We stayed in a small hotel, the Blue Parrot Inn in Playa Del Carmen. There was only one large resort in Playa, and another under construction at that time, and the tourist road, 5th avenue, was somewhat sleepy. The population of Playa was under 40,000 people. Playa has since grown so that it resembles a smaller and lower version of Cancun, which is a nightmare of a place where humans ruined a beautiful, ecologically critical location by scattering bits of Las Vegas across a pristine beach, no offense if you are a "Vegas Guy" but this is unacceptable. In Playa there is some city planning and locals are proud of the three story height limit. Today there over 150,000 residents. That's almost 200% growth in less than twenty years. Almost all of this growth is fed by the tourist industry.
On this trip, I stayed in the Princess Riviera Maya, which is one of a long string of resorts that follows the coast, as if someone had taken a hundred cruise ships or more, split them open, and folded them out flat. Huge busses show up in lines every morning and take people to Mayan theme parks, snorkeling locations, and ruins like Chitzen Itza and Tulum.
One of my best memories from the first trip was when my son (who turned eighteen that year) and I went to hike the Na Pali coast and snorkeling in Akumal. At the time, it was a sleepy seaside Mexican town only a little swelled by ex-pats and dive shops. I remember that it had a large tourist hotel. Essentially, we simply drove up near the beach, parked, and walked across blazing white sand to the ocean. We were immediately surrounded by huge sparkling schools of multicolored fish, so many that it looked like a river of fins. The reef below us was full of purple and red and orange and brown. Colorful life blossomed and swam and moved everywhere we looked. Sea turtles and angelfish and parrotfish, barracuda and a hundred other species we had no names for. The ocean was full to bursting. We were enchanted.
I believe there were no more than about ten others snorkeling the beach the day we were there.
I didn't get to Akumal on our middle trip, but I went there on this trip, with our family eighteen-year-old for whom I am a handy extra adult. The large schools of glittering fish were gone. Most of the color had faded, at least if my memory serves me at all. The quiet was certainly gone…the entire bay is ringed with high-end resorts and tourist shopping and restaurants. Most Mexicans can no longer afford to live there. We did see a number of turtles, a single barracuda (very big!), two rays, and some squid. I spotted one parrotfish, a few yellow angels, and a number of smaller and less distinctive fish. The coral was almost all brown and white, with a few pale purple colors.
We shared the water with hundreds of people. Hundreds. I would bet a thousand people snorkeled there the day we did.
It has become wholly unrecognizable as the place which enchanted David and I almost two decades ago. The picture above is what happens to sea turtles when one is spotted: snorkelers float nearby and watch for up to two minutes, being careful not to come too close to the turtles. Our guide made sure we were careful. In spite of that, I felt intrusive. This must happen to each turtle something like a fifty times a day.
Our guide, Gil, grew up in Akumal. He now lives on the other side of the large, busy highway and yet he can still be found on the Akumal beaches almost every day. He is part of a collective working to save the bay, and to save the turtles. The collective works together to take snorkeling trips out, to monitor people's behavior and make sure they resect the coral and the turtles. They share any money they make evenly between all of the guides in the collective.
According to Gil, the bay was even worse a few years ago, and it is now rebounding. We watched for turtles who had not yet been tagged – which meant that they were new young ones who appear as juveniles (apparently there is a specific set of juvenile years that the turtles spend in Akumal eating a specific sea grass). We saw at least two, maybe three untagged turtles. Gil reported that the turtle population last year was about fifty-five and that now it may be sixty or more. He is very proud of the work that he and his collective are doing, much of which seems to be managing tourists in such a way as to create a win-win situation. Others in Akumal protect nesting sites, herd baby turtles to the beach, and help educate the tourists.
In spite of how the differences in the reef saddened me, this was a real and unexpected "Backing in Eden" moment for me. The entire bay is known and mapped. Almost every turtle is tagged, and they get a yearly doctor's visit. A fragile and nearly–destroyed ecosystem is beginning to bounce back. The locals are in on the preservation efforts, and my be driving them. The turtle's chances of survival are increasing.
As always, more links for you to follow. Fewer than usual since the connectivity down here is nasty and I didn't need to go the Internet for the lesson. The one came to me in person.
Centro Ecologico Akumal: https://www.facebook.com/CEA.AKUMAL
A great tale of the work being done in Akumal http://www.sac-be.com/a_day_of_sea_turtle_conservation.shtml
Interesting because it talks about conservation and the reviews, of course, are written by tourists. http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g499445-d2522660-Reviews-Centro_Ecologico_Akumal-Akumal_Yucatan_Peninsula.html#REVIEWS
The tour company I went with, Local Quickies, which seems reasonably ecologically conscious. http://www.localquickies.com/index.html
I spent Wednesday – Friday of last week working on a far brighter side of gaming than gamergate. In support of its mission to eradicate poverty, the World Bank has been deploying a game called Evoke, which is designed to engage young adults in developing countries with social good issues. They used a hackathon to start the next round of game stories. The Bank gathered science fiction writers, topical experts, curriculum designers, and artists around grey industrial tables with power cords hanging overhead, a maker space right next door, and plentiful moderately bad coffee.
Each team worked on a topical "big" issue from conservation through nuclear disarmament (Remember the nukes? Some of us do. Viscerally. But millennials may not).
The hackathon designers drew authors from the Hieroglyph anthology inspired by Seattle superpower Neal Stephenson, with the apt addition of Kim Stanley Robinson. Participants included Kathryn Cramer and Ed Finn (the editors), Kathleen Ann Goonan, Karl Schroeder, James Cambias, and me. Academics and experts came from multiple Universities and from the Bank itself. Every table had an artist; they might have been the most amazing people there. Worlds and characters were drawn into life very quickly.
Each team produced about 8 pages worth of graphic story, and a number of tasks to accompany it. Some groups proposed linking the game to the player's real world.
Will these games work?
That's tough to say. But they very well might. It seems that the linkage to the real world will matter. For example, if someone gaming about literacy can read to someone else, there could be an extra win.
Another trick will be creating engaging experiences. Each table might have benefitted from one more person: an actual game designer from a commercially successful game. Perhaps designers from Zynga, Bungee, and Valve.
Some episodes of Evoke are already in use. If the game continues to get better and grow its base, the payoff could be fabulous. Many target players are in countries with broken education systems. Interactive games could provide a window into a world where players can connect with the global community and global mentors so that they become armed with new knowledge and skills, as well as a feeling of empowerment.
It's hard to create compelling entertainment with an agenda. But it's possible. I'm very pleased that the World Bank did this, and that they invited me to play a small part. I wish them all the success in the world.
I've been off discussing the future at the World Future Society this month. It's a topic I engage in fairly regularly online and other places. This is the most important conversation we can have a society. Perhaps telling your family that you love them or walking your dog and chatting with neighbors is more important on some daily soul-building level. But I believe that dinner and water cooler and political conversations should be at least partly consumed by the tsunami of change we're riding. Yet, I'm amazed at how often I am finding mistaken thinking or lack of thought around our future (including, I'm sure, in myself). I hear us carrying our own false knowledge forward or falling into sound-bite land. When I catch myself doing this, its usually because I haven't taken time to stop, talk, and think.
We're living in a decade when the rate of change is increasing quickly, and as we climb the curves of this change, the things we know become outdated really fast. Things we "know" become untrue a few years after they were the best truth we had available. For example, I was just talking to a friend about desalination, and she mentioned that it was very difficult to figure out what to do with the extra salt. I did some research and in fact, the leftover brine has been (and in some cases is) a problem. But plants in Tampa have figured out how to return it to the ocean safely, and others have suggested ways to perhaps use that salt on roads in the winter. This is a rather pedestrian example, but in many cases things that were problems have been turned to opportunity, or had acceptable workarounds created for them. It's important to assume our knowledge at any given point is wrong, and to go proof it. The knowledge we thought we owned may no longer be true. It's not new math, it's a new world.
We spend a lot of time on the Internet, which means we're bombarded by misinformation constantly. Depending on where we spend that time, the signal to noise ratio can be pretty awful. I've always tried to avoid commercial television because the commercials are created by people who spend a lot of money (a LOT of money) to influence my thinking. There's no reason to assume I'm immune to that. The Internet appears to have MORE advertising than a typical half-hour TV show used to have. So it's even more dangerous. Add the polarized political atmosphere and corporate money flowing into politics like an engorged river of lies, and we probably intake more junk than real information. Let's take a non-pedestrian example this time. People have conflated a single company's business practices (much of which I disagree with, but which aren't actually as evil as they're made out to be) with a whole technology, and have turned GMO foods and animals into evil, no matter who created them or for what. Yet we're almost certainly going to need this tool in the fast-changing adjustable climate-dominated world of tomorrow. The vitriol, hover, is so thick that it's nearly impossible to have a rational conversation even in places where the audience is generally rational and thoughtful. On the internet, lies abound, and truths get picked up and exaggerated until they become lies.
Knowledge itself is changing and lies are regularly presented to as facts. There isn't much we can do about that – it's an external reality. But we can stop and think and talk. We can take quiet meditative time. We can make ourselves read whole essays and articles instead of skimming them for titles. I started this post yesterday, partly in reaction to a sound-bite of mine which has been getting retweeted ("What we grow up knowing and what we will die knowing will be different.") Yesterday morning, I read an excellent essay in the New York Times, "No Time to Think," by Kate Murphy. She did a nice job of expanding on something that disturbs me. Often it feels like I get up, give myself half an hour to read or FaceBook over coffee, and then I'm off and running with no real stops until I pass out for the night. On a good day, I get in an hour of dog walking, which is good thinking time. Many days, even that is rushed.
The best thing we can do for the the future is to spend some time with it, either in quiet contemplation or in thoughtful conversation. We have big problems to solve, and running around distracted by someone else's soundbites isn't going to solve them. Stopping and thinking clearly is more likely to help.
Somewhere around a dozen years ago, I was sitting in a bar in Eastern Washington. It could have been Lake Chelan or Yakima. I really don't remember. But I do remember meeting two cowboys. Real cowboys (we still have them in the west). They weren't talking about herds of cows over their beers. They were talking about fires. I still remember the older of the two describing a fire he'd worked the previous season where the ground had been torched so thoroughly and with so much heat that the the grass wouldn't re-seed. They explained to me how they had to bring in bales of hay and scatter the hay across acres and acres of seared ground in order to restore the badly-needed grass. Without it, the burnt hills would have washed away during the winter.
I asked him why that fire was so bad.
Now, recall that this man is not a Seattle-area liberal. He's wearing jeans worn smooth by saddle-leather on the inside of the thighs, he's chewing tobacco, and if he doesn't have a gun on him, he almost certainly has one in his truck. He says, "It's climate change."
At this point, I was just becoming interested in the topic, and I wanted to know how he came to that conclusion.
"Why, it's pine beetles. Now that the winters are warmer, they've taken to infesting trees that they didn't used to bother. The trees die, and a forest of dead trees makes a hot fire."
How did he know it was about climate change? He'd spent every year working the same large farm. He knew change when he saw it, and he knew the difference between a bad year and change that settles in and stays.
I suppose part of why I remember that conversation so clearly is because my son is a wildland firefighter. A fire hot enough to sear the seed from the ground is frightening. It could sear people easily, and take houses and farms.
Multiple recent studies have backed up the cowboys' story. A Seattle Times article from May of this year reported on the National Climate Assessment. The article said, "Warmer and drier conditions are already blamed for insect infestations and an increase in the number and ferocity of wildfires across the West since the 1970s. By 2080, the amount of forestland that burns every year in the Northwest is expected to quadruple, to 2 million acres." Just last month, the Governor of California, Jerry Brown, suggested that the extreme wildfires that his state has experienced recently are caused by climate change. In 2013, Super-hot fires raced through Tasmania and New South Wales, Australia, fueled by the hottest and longest heat wave on record. Valparaiso, Chile, was almost completely razed by wind-whipped forest fire earlier this year.
Climate change is not the only cause of fire activity. Many ecosystems such as our own in the Pacific Northwest, and California chaparral, benefit from regular fires. The cycle of burn/renewal can be disrupted when we fight wildfire so effectively that fuel builds up. Conscious fire management is going to be very important as we work toward a sustainable world.
Fire has always been with us, and without it much of modern human life might not have been possible. Our close relationship with fire has not historically extended to wildfire, but in the more controlled and gardened world of our future we may have to become masters of wildfire, both to adopt healthy wildfire as our friend and to mange the incidence of fire so hot that the seeds are seared from the soil.
We will also be grateful for our firefighters. This picture was a found object on my bike ride in Bend, Oregon, just a few days ago. This is a place that knows the danger of fire.
As always, here are some links:
Wikipedia article on the Tasmanian bushfires
Forest fires and warming planet could accelerate deforestation in Amazon, Science News, April 15th, 2014, by Brooks Hays
Climate Change Increasing Massive Wildfires in the West, USA Today, April 19th, 2014, by Doyle Rice.
The World Future Society took a short parable of mine as an article for The Futurist Magazine. It was an interesting process to create it – they asked for what I interpreted as a more serious article, but this is what wanted to come out and play. I usually have more control of the tone of my writing than this, but they must have liked it since it showed up in their magazine and on their website. It may morph into the beginning of the Backing into Eden book which I hope to get to right after I finish Edge of Dark (my next novel).
I am a writer, public speaker, and a futurist. I'm interested in how new technologies might change us and our world, particularly for the better.
I'm excited about my most recent book series, a climate fiction duology set in the Pacific Northwest. Wilders and Keepers are both from Pyr.


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Friday we will do more 50%'s. Higher ranks will incorporate kicks to their 50%'s. We will do some floor drills with basic kicks. High ranks will work on jump kicks! Extra time may be spent on sparring.
Saturday will be spin kicks again. I want to ensure that even lower ranks get good experience with spin kicks. Learning to spin backwards and kick is a fantastic way to score a quick point, and practice your balance and maneuverability. Spin kicks are rarely successful in an actual confrontation, but the benefits of the practice will certainly help you protect yourself.


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Now offered at
Now offered at
Juanita Aquatics Center
Juanita Aquatics Center
Redmond Pool &
Redmond Pool &
Willows Prep
Our program and how we
Layers and
approach to teaching swimming is based on elements of a method that
has been in practice for over twenty years. WAVE has adopted some
of the finer points of this program and incorporated them into our
own, proven philosophy on teaching children of all ages to be
program is based on repetition and layers, an approach which we
believe maximizes a child's ability to learn and retain new
skills. Just like learning math skills in school, we start
with the simple basics. Once those skills have been mastered, we
add progressively more challenging, but related skills. Each
level is intricately related to the level before it and the level
after. Our lesson plans also take advantage of the power of
repetition in a learning environment.
understand well that for a child to attain a more solid mastery of
new skills, their exposure in the learning environment is best
served as smaller, more manageable pieces of information over a
prolonged period of time. We believe that though participation in a
more intensive program may achieve rapid results in a child
initially, the child's ability to retain skills over the long
term is significantly decreased. For example, when a child
takes a break after completing a short intensive summer program, it
is understood that they will lose approximately half of what they
learned by the following summer. Taking once a week lessons, year
round, maximizes the child's ability to retain the skills
they have learned and best prepares them to learn progressively
more advanced skills. Over the long term, students who take lessons
in such a program will enjoy a steadier and more solid development
in their swimming skills and are likely to become happier, more
confident swimmers.
Past, Present,
and Future
of the most important aspects of our school is the way that we
teach. In order to boost our students' confidence, each class
starts with an activity or skill that they already know. This is
the past: previously mastered skills from a ribbon level
they have already attained. About five minutes is spent on
these skills in every class. Next, it is time to begin working on
present skills. These are the new skills that students are
currently trying to master. About fifteen minutes should be spent
on this. The following five minutes of class is spent introducing
future skills, needed to achieve their ribbon in the next
Small class sizes
with no more than 4 students. Small class sizes increase one
on one time and attention from the instructor.
Classes are once a week, year
round. Year round classes yield higher retention of
skills; there are no large gaps in class so there is no loss
of skill levels. Many schools are moving toward a year round
approach for this reason. When children take time off they
lose about 50% of their skills.
No pass or fail, the swim
school style of teaching allows students to progress at their own
rate. Students move up to the next class level once they have
mastered all the skills in the current level.
Classes are taught through layers
and repetition. This way skills are remembered and
retained down the road.
Lessons are 30 minutes in
length. At this length kids stay interested and
stimulated without getting too tired.
Swim school helps students set
goals and work to achieve them.
Classes are taught for ages 6
months and up. WSS offers a Water Babies class
for parents and infants.
Frequently asked
Why Wave Swim
Swim School creates a better learning and learning retention
environment for all of its students. The swim school way of
teaching creates repetition and layering which directly relates to
retention. The more the skills are practiced and reviewed, the
more information and skills are retained. We also teach with a
smaller class size: a maximum of four students in each class. This
allows each student more one-on-one time with their instructor. Our
swim school philosophy also eliminates the pass/fail environment.
Swim school allows students to move forward at their own pace. As
they master skills, they will learn new ones; when they master
all of the skills in their current class they will move up to
the next ribbon level. Not all students learn skills at the same
Why are there
only four lessons per month?
school has one 30 minute class each week. This allows the students
to look forward and continue to enjoy class each and every time. In
more intensive programs, students quickly tire of lessons, going to
the pool, and doing the same skills over and over again. Our
philosophy allows them to be continually stimulated by new
material, but also build confidence by reviewing previously
mastered skills.
How much are
Juanita -
$80/month for 1x/week classes
Please call
Juanita Aquatics Center for JAC for pricing details.
Residents - $80/month for 1x/week classes
Non-residents -
$90/month for 1x/week classes
Willows Prep - $85/month for 1x/week classes
Willows Prep Students - $72/month for 1x/week classes
Please call
Redmond Pool for pricing details. 425-883-4422
Will there be an
option for 2 times per week?
No, WSS's goal is to
provide small amounts of information over time. In order to
allow students to remain excited and engaged in swim
lessons, it is our experience that once a week is
the best method.
Juanita Aquatics
Center 425-936-1627
Redmond Pool
Do I pay a
registration fee?
Wave Swim School does not charge a registration fee. When you
register for WSS you are paying for the classes you will be
attending according to our billing cycle. This may mean that if you
register at the end of a month you may be paying for the end of
that month and the entire following month. If you have
questions please contact the office.
Redmond Pool
How long are
Lessons are 30
minutes in length. This allows the right amount of time for both
young and novice swimmers to learn and practice skills without
becoming too tired.
When do lessons
will begin lessons immediately following your registration. For
example, if you register on Friday for a Monday class you will
start the first Monday following your class approval.
What is Wave
Swim School's Make Up Policy?
Swim School does have a 'no' make up policy for missed classes.
This means that if you miss a class, Wave Swim School does not
provide make up classes, credits, or refunds for missing
Will my child
feel left behind if his/her class mates move up?
children do not feel left behind because they are in a class with
other students of the same level learning the same skills, and this
allows them to feel included in their class.
How long does it
take to master swimming skills?
Every child
learns skills at different rates, however, each week most children
are able to master new skills along with the practice of previously
mastered skills.
What are the
benefits of swimming?
is FUN!
is a great sport and exercise activity. In youth, swimming promotes
the physical development of motor pathways, flexibility and
muscular development. Also, as an activity swimming improves the
cardiovascular system and overall coordination.
also learn to set goals and work to achieve them. In each class, we
review, we practice and we introduce new skills. Every student
works to achieve new skills so they may receive their next ribbon
and move forward to the next level.
also creates a great relationship with the water. This can lead to
comfort and confidence in many other water related
can provide a lifetime of fitness.
child can make new friends!
U.S. Center
for Disease Control and Prevention
Fatal drowning
remains the second-leading cause of unintentional injury-related
death for children ages 1-14 years. Majority of drownings and
near-drownings occur in residential swimming pools and in open
water sites.
Children under
the age of 5 and adolescents between the ages if 15-24 have the
highest drowning rates.
cannot prevent drowning. However, having the ability to swim at
least 25 yards and knowledge of self-rescuing techniques,
children are able to better protect themselves from such
When should my
child start with swim school?
sooner your child starts learning to swim, the better. We offer
lessons beginning at 6 months of age and up. By offering year
round lessons, this allows children of all ages at any time during
the year to acquire swimming skills.
What temperature
is the pool?
pool is held between 80-82 °F
How does my
child stand in the pool?
have 'tot docks' which stand anywhere from 1 foot off
the bottom to 2 feet off the bottom, based on need.
Can I stay and
watch swim lessons?
of course. We encourage you to stay and watch. We ask that parents
watch lessons from the comfort of our observation deck at Juanita
Aquatic Center, and the designated area at Redmond. There will
be no parents allowed on deck at either location during lessons.
This allows instructors to maintain the child's attention and
teach with limited interruption.
What if my child
is not potty trained?
Should your
child be in lessons and not yet potty trained we ask that they wear
a re-usable swim diaper.
What should my
child wear?
appropriately sized swim suit, trunks or board short. Remember
the more material they wear, the more they are weighted down. We
recommend students do not wear rash guards or
What if I want
to take a break from swim lessons?
you wish to discontinue lessons for the following month, for any
reason, notice is required at least 10 days before the end of the
month. This means that if you wish to stop swim lessons in May,
notice is required before April 20th. All suspensions will begin on
the first day of the following month. There are no mid-month
Have questions??
Please call your administrator at
Juanita Aquatics Center 425-936-1627
Please call your administrator at
Redmond Pool 425-883-4422


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I love the smell of cultural phenomena in the morning
The hearts ping and pang for Heath, and the Joker lives on...Unless you happen to post about "Jokerization" on Wikipedia. I tried. (see if it's yanked yet)
Was a day, it'd stick for a month or year if you'd believe it. I feel old.
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Thirty five years ago, I was on my own. Heading down a singular path. Once again, on my own, and that was okay again. The year or two before had become destructively constructive.
Tenacious teaches lessons. Specifically, holding true & dear to what one wants to believe to become mutually & beneficially true.
There is no need in any one relationship for one to triumph over any one other. There is space for advantageous coexistence.
Nearly thirty-four years ago, I walked down, with the forever love of my life, through a path in the Sonoran Desert to a stone altar in front of a wooden cross. We vowed our mutual love, commitment & allegiance to each other.
That vow has survived the rigorous tests & stresses of military service. We each independently swore an oath to serve, protect & defend the security of the greater We The People. It could be said that this was difficult, only it was not. Indeed, it was easy despite of the perceived challenges.
We will always love each other. To beyond death do us part.


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I love baking, but that wasn't always true for me.
You see, I grew up in a home where children did not help with baking or any type of meal preparation. In fact, my mother never even taught me how to cook before I left for college. I could barely boil water on my own! As you might imagine, learning on the fly was a bit of a disaster and back then I truly hated cooking of any type.
Even making something as simple as cookies from scratch was a real challenge for me. I vividly remember one instance where I was trying to make oatmeal raisin cookies. I'm not sure how I did it, but I ended up with oatmeal raisin cookie balls instead. That cookie dough batter just did not spread into a cookie shape in the oven. Instead, it stayed in a ball and that's how I made cookie balls by accident. They were still tasty, but definitely a kitchen mishap!
Fast forward to today and those mishaps are a thing of the past. Now, I do a lot of baking and cooking from scratch and I just love it. Nothing put me more at peace than spending time in the kitchen coming up with some new recipe to try. Of course, these days I get a lot of inspiration from Pinterest but I do still try a few new things of my own creation, like any baker is oft to do.
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This is GamerHelp's list of 21 arcade games they want to play on XBLA:
#21 Die Hard Arcade
Die Hard Arcade didn't really have anything to do with any of the movies, but it still kicked ass. DHA was one of those games where you could pick up tons of random garbage lying around on levels and then use it to bludgeon the faceless enemies in the game.
#8 Mortal Kombat 4
Strangely, many fighting fans cite MK4 as the true downturn of this classic series. In reality, it's the most playable of the earlier Mortal Kombat games and features some of the nastiest fatalities ever to grace the series. Xbox Live Arcade already has the gimmicky MK3, but MK4 is the better-playing game. As an extra bonus, its 3D graphics (a first for the series) are surprisingly detailed. Add some online play, and voila! Instant online addiction.
who the hell wants to play any games on that rrod machine.
its a disgrace to mankind
It's a list with Mortal Kombat and thats enough for me.
Boy, I'd kill to play MK4 with updated graphics. Those nasty fatalities could become gorier. This game should be given another chance.
Also, I'd love to play BattleToads (Hard as hell), Sunset Rider, TMNT: Turtles In Time and Killer Instinct.
HHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH HHEHEHEHEHHEEEHEHHE, wait wait. It's good to see u man hahahhaha. Wait u remmeber battletoads, screw that i like to play the one wit double dragon in it. Damn those games were hard back then.
I thought I was the only one who liked Sunset Riders.
Die Hard Arcade was an Arcade/Saturn game. It might be too big for the XBOX size restriction.
All I personally want are these three games.
NBA Jam
Killer Instinct
Goldeneye 007


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Added to the shop this week were Honey Bunny and the outfit set "Spring It On!", the first of 6 installments in my new Make-Along Pattern Subscription. Make-along Animals and Dolls are made the same size so that the outfit patterns will fit them all, so lots of choices! There are more details over in the shop and if you have any questions, let me know.
hair pins
I did order these Clover basting pins I mentioned and I love them! They're perfect for setting this gal's super long mohair hair into all sorts of hairstyles. They're definitely impractical. They'd be great for holding a complicated hair-do into place so you could sew it down. I like them just for playing though. Maybe for a doll for older kids or an art doll, definitely one that wouldn't see any play because the pins would come loose. Not sure if I'm going to put these dolls up in the shop or what I'm doing. I just feel compelled to make, and play, with them.
new pattern in the works: bunnies!
I've decided the first animal in the Make-Along Series #2 pattern subscription will be the bunny. Now I just need to get to work!
Curly Heads and Long Legs
I've always loved and been inspired by children's book illustrators and one of my favorites is Hilda Cowham. Her girls are floppy mops of curls, with the 1920s drop waist dresses & giant bows and are always hanging out with ducks or elves or something equally adorable. I often come back to these drawings and channel them into dolls. The Pixie from my book and this Blackberry Fairy I made for Phoebe come to mind. And now this girl.
I'm having lots of fun playing with her hair. I made her from the Kit, Chloe and Louise pattern shrunk down to 80% and then I gave her hair from the Make-along pattern and I left it suuuuper long so that I could coil it up into big bouffants and curls. I've been looking for some sort of U shaped pin that I could use when I'm styling hair. I think I'm going to order some Clover basting pins and see if they do the trick. They look a little long but we'll see.
Took me 3 attempts to get this drop-waist dress working right but I'm happy now and it should be easy to make more. I'd like to try it again in voile or cotton lawn to make it more fluttery.
The Make-along knit cardigan fits her perfectly!
scrapbook instead of facebook
It's been hard getting back into the swing of work after the holidays this year. I had my birthday week of lunches out and then the kids had another 2 days off of school this week. But mostly, it's that I can't get out of my head. I'm reading too much news, I'm worrying too much. Well, I know I'm worrying the right amount but it's still unproductive. So I'm going to try something new today, I'm not going to check my news or my facebook until this afternoon. I have this free period in the morning between getting the middle schooler out the door and waking up the 4th grader, this is when I read news and catch up on the world and I think it just sucks me into that worrying mindset for the rest of the day. So today instead I'm going to start my day out scrapbooking. I'm so far behind on my Project Life albums, like 2 years behind. I've been overwhelmed at how to start back up and realized yesterday, hey this might solve both problems. Hopefully starting the day out with creativity and focusing on my family by journaling and printing photos will give me a better start to a creative, focused day. I have a lot of work to do! This gal is ready for her cozy outfit.
New doll design idea number one, a folky pillow doll with towering hair. \ (•◡•) /
I love this gal! This is my first shot at her and I have some tinkering to do and then some fun ideas for variations that are so super cute… in my head. Hopefully they'll be work in real life. I love this flat pillow type doll. She's stuffed super firm so she's not about bending limbs. I love this type of doll for a more art doll/display type deal or also a huggable pillow doll for toddlers. And without the loose flowing yarn hair she's great for toddlers. I'm thinking the next iteration I'm going to make of her will have felt or fur hair, even more huggable for little kids. This coiled, wrap around yarn hair really isn't that difficult and I think is a super fun look. But sewing down the yarn is sort of time consuming so I wanted to make a very simple non-fussy outfit to go with her. I tried to make the dress very stiff and flat so that it keeps a sort of cartoonish, exaggerated shape. I'm going to try it again in an even more stiff fabric. It reminds me of the outfits I made for the spoon dolls in the book.
Yesterday I posted on Instagram about how I want to add a bunch of patterns to my shop this year, for all types of soft toys (this is in addition to the Make-Along doll series). I had been waiting for my book to go out of print so that the rights to the patterns would revert back to me and I could offer them in the shop for myself. I'm realizing that is not going to happen any time soon so instead I'm going to dive in and self-publish a follow-up to my book, of sorts, with new patterns for toys to sew & love. This way I can sell them individually or in bundles. I was even thinking about being super old school and going back to selling printed patterns as well as PDFs. Is that crazy?? I guess we'll see. As I said yesterday I have lots of new and old ideas. I'd love to work on new versions of some of the design ideas from the book, like a new topsy turvey doll, a new ribbon haired raggedy ann type doll, more folk inspired designs.
One thing I just realized this morning was that unlike when I was writing the book 8 years ago, I won't have to keep everything a secret! I can share all my works in progress, my ideas as they develop, my mishaps and successes. That was really a heartbreak for me all those years ago. I was so connected with my maker community and just loved the interactions and friendships and shared experiences involved with crafting together, and then it just went dark. I had to be secretive, absent and solitary, essentially going against every reason I'd started crafting and blogging in the first place. I don't know why I'm remembering all that now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess I'm just excited to be excited about designing new toys again!


text: NASDAQ:STRA - Strayer Education Stock Price, News, & Analysis Sign in or create an account to add this stock to your watchlist. Get Started $129.12 +0.12 (+0.09 %) (As of 08/20/2018 01:10 AM ET)Previous Close$129.12Today's Range$127.28 - $129.3752-Week Range$76.40 - $132.01Volume102,818 shsAverage Volume103,686 shsMarket Capitalization$1.43 billionP/E Ratio41.52Dividend Yield0.78%Beta0.9 Company ProfileAnalyst RatingsChartDividend HistoryEarnings HistoryFinancialsInsider TradesHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsSocial Media Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on RedditShare on StocktwitsPrint this articleShare by Email Strayer Education, Inc., through its subsidiaries, provides a range of post-secondary education and other academic programs in the United States. The company operates Strayer University that provides undergraduate and graduate degree programs in business administration, accounting, information technology, education, health services administration, nursing, public administration, and criminal justice to working adult students through its 74 physical campuses primarily located in the Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions, as well as through online. It also offers an executive MBA online through its Jack Welch Management Institute. In addition, the company operates New York Code and Design Academy that provides non-degree courses in Web and application software development primarily through its campus in New York City. Strayer Education, Inc. was founded in 1892 and is headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. Receive STRA News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for STRA and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NASDAQ Industry Educational services Sub-IndustryEducation Services SectorConsumer Discretionary SymbolNASDAQ:STRA CUSIP86323610 Webwww.strayereducation.com Phone703-561-1600 Debt Debt-to-Equity RatioN/A Current Ratio3.09 Quick Ratio3.09 Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio41.52 Forward P/E Ratio27.24 P/E Growth2.67 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$454.85 million Price / Sales3.21 Cash FlowN/A Price / CashN/A Book ValueN/A Price / BookN/A Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$3.11 Net Income$20.61 million Net Margins3.14% Return on Equity18.39% Return on Assets12.09% Miscellaneous Employees1,389 Outstanding Shares11,310,000Market Cap$1.43 billion Strayer Education (NASDAQ:STRA) Frequently Asked Questions What is Strayer Education's stock symbol? Strayer Education trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "STRA." How often does Strayer Education pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Strayer Education? Strayer Education announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, August 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, August 31st will be given a dividend of $0.50 per share on Friday, September 7th. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.55%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, August 30th. This is an increase from Strayer Education's previous quarterly dividend of $0.25. View Strayer Education's Dividend History. How were Strayer Education's earnings last quarter? Strayer Education Inc (NASDAQ:STRA) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, August, 1st. The health services provider reported $0.87 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.84 by $0.03. The health services provider earned $114.70 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $115.65 million. Strayer Education had a net margin of 3.14% and a return on equity of 18.39%. The business's revenue was up 1.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.92 EPS. View Strayer Education's Earnings History. When is Strayer Education's next earnings date? Strayer Education is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, October, 29th 2018. View Earnings Estimates for Strayer Education. What price target have analysts set for STRA? 3 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Strayer Education's shares. Their forecasts range from $112.00 to $165.00. On average, they anticipate Strayer Education's stock price to reach $131.6667 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 2.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Strayer Education. What is the consensus analysts' recommendation for Strayer Education? 3 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Strayer Education in the last year. There are currently 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Strayer Education. What are Wall Street analysts saying about Strayer Education stock? Here are some recent quotes from research analysts about Strayer Education stock: 1. According to Zacks Investment Research, "Shares of Strayer outperformed its industry so far this year. Earnings estimates for 2018 and 2019 have remained unchanged in the past 30 days. The company's convenient, accessible and flexible educational programs are designed to meet the educational needs of working adults. Strayer University is lowering the cost of programs to enhance their affordability. Importantly, Strayer and Capella decided to merge in an all-stock deal of equal transactions, expected to close in the third quarter of 2018. Post completion, Strayer's shareholders will own approximately 52% of the combined company. The merger is expected to ensure student success, positive employment outcomes and be accretive to Strayer's earnings by 20-25% by 2019. However, tuition cuts and an unfavorable mix of students toward lower undergraduate tuition have resulted in declining revenue per student over the past few quarters." (7/30/2018) 2. BMO Capital Markets analysts commented, "4Q17 net revenues of $12.3 million, Adj. EBITDA of $4.4 million, and operating EPS of $0.10 compared to our expectations of net revenues of $12.5 million, Adj. EBITDA of $4.5 million, and operating EPS of $0.06. The company reported a fleet-wide time-charter equivalent (TCE) rate of $9,083 per vessel/day during 4Q17, up ~19% vs. 4Q16 and above our forecast of $8,935. Management will host an earnings call this morning at 10am ET." (3/5/2018) Who are some of Strayer Education's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Strayer Education include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Chegg (CHGG), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Graham (GHC), Hailiang Education Group (HLG), Bright Scholar Education Holdngs (BEDU), OneSmart International Edun Gr (ONE), Puxin (NEW), Capella Education (CPLA), Career Education (CECO), RISE Education Cayman (REDU), Sunlands Online Education Group (STG), K12 (LRN) and RYB Education (RYB). Who are Strayer Education's key executives? Strayer Education's management team includes the folowing people: Mr. Robert S. Silberman, Exec. Chairman (Age 60)Mr. Karl McDonnell, Pres, CEO & Director (Age 52)Mr. Daniel W. Jackson, Exec. VP & CFO (Age 43)Mr. Thomas J. Aprahamian, Chief Accounting Officer, Sr. VP & Controller (Age 49)Mr. Brian W. Jones, Pres of Strayer University (Age 49) Has Strayer Education been receiving favorable news coverage? News articles about STRA stock have been trending somewhat positive this week, according to Accern Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than twenty million blog and news sources in real-time. Accern ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative one to positive one, with scores closest to one being the most favorable. Strayer Education earned a media and rumor sentiment score of 0.12 on Accern's scale. They also assigned media headlines about the health services provider an impact score of 44.70 out of 100, meaning that recent news coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View Recent Headlines for Strayer Education. Who are Strayer Education's major shareholders? Strayer Education's stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (13.05%), Marshfield Associates (4.66%), Burgundy Asset Management Ltd. (4.55%), Rice Hall James & Associates LLC (3.47%), Granahan Investment Management Inc. MA (2.35%) and ValueAct Holdings L.P. (1.71%). Company insiders that own Strayer Education stock include Brian W Jones, Daniel Wayne Jackson, H James Dallas, John T Casteen III, Raymond Karl Mcdonnell, Robert S Silberman, Thomas J Aprahamian, Todd A Milano and William E Brock. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Strayer Education. Which institutional investors are selling Strayer Education stock? STRA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Chartwell Investment Partners LLC, Bank of America Corp DE, Renaissance Technologies LLC, Granahan Investment Management Inc. MA, Burgundy Asset Management Ltd., Pinebridge Investments L.P., Marshfield Associates and California Public Employees Retirement System. Company insiders that have sold Strayer Education company stock in the last year include Brian W Jones, Daniel Wayne Jackson, John T Casteen III, Raymond Karl Mcdonnell, Robert S Silberman, Thomas J Aprahamian and William E Brock. View Insider Buying and Selling for Strayer Education. Which institutional investors are buying Strayer Education stock? STRA stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including ValueAct Holdings L.P., BlackRock Inc., Castleark Management LLC, Tygh Capital Management Inc., Rice Hall James & Associates LLC, Employees Retirement System of Texas, Vident Investment Advisory LLC and Citadel Advisors LLC. Company insiders that have bought Strayer Education stock in the last two years include H James Dallas and Todd A Milano. View Insider Buying and Selling for Strayer Education. How do I buy shares of Strayer Education? Shares of STRA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab. What is Strayer Education's stock price today? One share of STRA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $129.12. How big of a company is Strayer Education? Strayer Education has a market capitalization of $1.43 billion and generates $454.85 million in revenue each year. The health services provider earns $20.61 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.11 on an earnings per share basis. Strayer Education employs 1,389 workers across the globe. How can I contact Strayer Education? Strayer Education's mailing address is 2303 DULLES STATION BOULEVARD, HERNDON VA, 20171. 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