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TECHNOLOGY ASSOCIATION<br />
EDITOR’S NOTE<br />
Think<br />
Zen Buddhists believe that when a student<br />
is ready, the teacher will appear.<br />
But I found that a student can sometimes<br />
be a great teacher, even a student<br />
across the globe in a Third World country.<br />
Several months ago, an Internet operator<br />
called and said that she was interpreting for<br />
a hearing-impaired caller. Through the operator,<br />
the caller asked me to help him buy some<br />
lighting equipment. He asked for my e-mail<br />
address to contact me directly. Being anxious<br />
to help, I obliged. After a number of e-mail<br />
exchanges, I eventually learned that it was<br />
a scam. The “hearing-impaired” caller from<br />
Lagos, Nigeria had a stolen credit card with<br />
which to pay for the goods. The goods were<br />
never shipped, and I was thankful the lesson<br />
was cost-free.<br />
A few months later, we received a large<br />
order on the <strong>PLSN</strong> Bookshelf Web site from<br />
the Republic of Niger. Before we could<br />
fill the order, we learned that the credit<br />
card was stolen. Again, no merchandise<br />
Globally ,<br />
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changed hands, but it was a close call.<br />
It’s very easy to be<strong>com</strong>e cynical about<br />
people when you have these kinds of experiences.<br />
When you have two bad experiences in<br />
a row, it can really shake your faith in people.<br />
That’s where the student teacher <strong>com</strong>es in.<br />
No more than a month after the last incident,<br />
I received an e-mail from someone<br />
in Nigeria claiming to be a student. “Another<br />
scam,” I thought. I almost deleted it. Instead, I<br />
opened it and read about a 29-year-old man<br />
named Titus who had recently <strong>com</strong>pleted his<br />
degree in electrical/electronics engineering<br />
at Lagos State Polytechnic with an additional<br />
certificate in audio technology. He expressed<br />
an interest in lighting, and he said he had<br />
been given a copy of my first book, Focus on<br />
Lighting Technology. That’s how he got my e-<br />
mail address. He quoted from my book where<br />
I re<strong>com</strong>mended reading the Sylvania GTE<br />
Lighting Handbook, and he asked if I could<br />
send him a copy. Not only did I send him a<br />
copy of that book, but I also sent him a copy of<br />
By RichardCadena<br />
my newest book, Automated Lighting: The Art<br />
and Science of Moving Light, along with several<br />
other lighting and audio books, as a way of<br />
saying thanks for teaching me that there are<br />
still plenty of good and decent people all over<br />
the earth. I don’t normally do things like this,<br />
but we started exchanging e-mails, and when<br />
I read his words, I couldn’t resist.<br />
“My major aim in life and (in) Nigeria is to<br />
motivate youths to be good readers in order<br />
to be a leader. I also want to help my local<br />
church build a media ministry where I can<br />
share my knowledge and ideas with youths<br />
who have nothing. I have a dream of being a<br />
job and wealth creator by investing in humanity.<br />
What we really lack in Nigeria is investing<br />
in human life.”<br />
Wherever you are right now, take a<br />
look around. Most of us in this industry are<br />
blessed with abundance. We have laptops,<br />
cell phones, iPods, nice cars, beautiful houses<br />
and plenty to eat. But there are many people<br />
in this world who have very little, people like<br />
Titus, who live among poverty in conditions<br />
that you and I would find appalling. Yet, this<br />
man wants nothing more in life than to help<br />
those around him. And I believe that by helping<br />
him, we can take a step, however small,<br />
towards making the world a better place.<br />
If you agree, do me a huge favor. Look<br />
around your office or home and find one book<br />
about your profession that you no longer use.<br />
It can be about lighting, or it can be about one<br />
of the many subjects Titus is seeking — microphones,<br />
microphone techniques, signal proccessors,<br />
mixing techniques—Then put it in a<br />
box or an envelope, and address it to:<br />
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I believe that we are an industry of caring people.<br />
Let’s extend that care across the globe.<br />
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