It's that time of the year again, the Leadership Consultants are hosting our
    3rd annual L.A.T.T.E retreat.  It is during this retreat that leaders on
    campus have the opportunity to sharpen their leadership skills and network
    with other fellow colleagues. The Leadership Consultants would like to
    invite you to apply for the retreat. The on-line application is due by 5pm
    on Thursday, October 14 and is available at: www.umbc.edu/lc

Here's what past participants said about LATTE:
 
"For me, as a new officer to my organization, this was exactly
    what I needed." 

"I feel so much more prepared to be a strong leader in my
    group" 

"Through this event, my circle of good friends has grown, I
    have become an even stronger leader, and I now feel incredibly prepared and
    excited to move into the next stage of my life"

Sincerely,
    
    The UMBC Leadership Consultants
    
    

Slashdot highlights another mystery today — what’s the meaning of the binary sequence along the bottom of the personal coat of arms of David Johnston, Canada’s new Governor-General.

“As de facto head of state and the Queen’s representative in Canada he is required to design a personal coat of arms. One modern detail has attracted particular attention – a 33-digit palindromic binary stream at the base. Efforts to decode the meaning of the number using ASCII, Morse, grouping by 3/11 and other theories has so far come up empty (right now it’s a toss up between random, the phone number 683-077-0643 and Morse code for ‘send help – trapped in a coat of arms factory.’) Is 110010111001001010100100111010011 the combination to his luggage, or just a random stream of digits?”

Here’s a theory that I hope might be true. As an educator and former president of a university known for its strength in computer science, maybe he is trying to interest Canadian children in mathematics and computer science by giving them a an intriguing puzzle to work on.