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Today's digest features a wide range of information from job creation in Ohio through the Ohio Tax Authority, development of new manufacturing hubs, and nuclear power station redevelopment. Also included is information on cloud-based analytics in Montreal being used for cost-saving techniques, and the National Association of Manufacturers providing more insight on growth in the US 

Today's digest includes a review on Obama's State of the Union address when it comes to education, information on the University of Pittsburgh improving STEM teaching methods, and how Honda is the leading car manufacturing export company in the United States. Also included is information about Ohio's efforts to increase job growth through the Ohio Tax Credit Authority, and the oil industry joining the 3D printing efforts. 

Today's digest features information on Representative Tim Ryan's efforts to encourage manufacturing to strengthen the US economy, and an Ohio charter school planned for students to enter into the oil and gas industries. Also included is information on a new online-learning hybrid model university, an online computer science Masters program pilot release, and information on Ohio's drop-out rate and efforts to curb this. Also of interest is information on a new report discussing the decreasing demand for teachers statewide in Ohio. 

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In the early years of the Internet, there was a cartoon that depicted a dog sitting at a computer. The caption read, “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” Today, that caption might instead read, “On the Internet, not only do we know you’re a dog, but we know your breed, your pawprint and your preferred dog food.” As the Internet has grown, it’s become harder to protect our personal information from prying eyes.

Despite today's freezing temperatures, we have the daily digest filled with information on Ohio State's funding for its Big Data program, the Titan supercomputer being used to propel wind turbines, and education reform in Ohio. Also included is news on Ford, Stanford and MIT partnering together to explore research on self-driving cars and the White House's new Big Data privacy review. 

The first Digest of this week features new information released on an alternative to Obama's college-rating plan and an update on the effects of recession budget cuts on public higher education. Also included is information on Ohio Third Frontier grants focusing on biomedical research and education, a series of discussions around the world to promote online education, and the announcement of America Makes' second round of funding. 

Today's digest highlights news on Third Frontier funding to University of Toledo, wind turbines providing renewable energy at a Honda transmission plant, and Bob Evans working on manufacturing efforts. Also included is information on IBM Watson supercomputing and STEM education promotion among girls and young women across the country. 

The Little Engine That Could

Watty Piper’s classic message from 1930 in The Little Engine That Could is applicable today, more than eighty years later.  Although the first time the phrase – “I think I can” – was found was in a 1902 Swedish journal, and again soon after, in 1906, in Reverend Charles Wing’s sermon to his Brooklyn congregation that had just paid off the church’s mortgage … most humans believe they are capable of greater achievements.

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