. >> office cubicles. bosses checking up on you. >> an on-site jim. but wait, these are kids. this is our one room schoolhouse. >> it is very much i call an office model. >> students at carpe diem collegiate high school and middle school. >> they come in see their schedule they go to meetings come back to their cubicle and work they go back to a break another meeting. they are adult modelled and it seems to work for kids with special needs and everyone. >> i love this place. >> make sure you understand everything. >> yes, i really like it. >> i keep telling him i am going to come back and work here. i am not going to leave you. >> why are these young students so excited about schools and learning? >> it is one of the best things across the country right now. >> michael horn is coauthor of the book "disrupting class." he defines learning of integration learning of computer based instruction with traditional teaching. >> tz on-line learning in a cool structure. doesn't look anything like school. >> one of the main concepts we are doing is empowering students to take charge of th

. >> office cubicles. bosses checking up on you. >> an on-site jim. but wait, these are kids. this is our one room schoolhouse. >> it is very much i call an office model. >> students at carpe diem collegiate high school and middle school. >> they come in see their schedule they go to meetings come back to their cubicle and work they go back to a break another meeting. they are adult modelled and it seems to work for kids with special needs and everyone. >> i love this place. >> make sure you understand everything. >> yes, i really like it. >> i keep telling him i am going to come back and work here. i am not going to leave you. >> why are these young students so excited about schools and learning? >> it is one of the best things across the country right now. >> michael horn is coauthor of the book "disrupting class." he defines learning of integration learning of computer based instruction with traditional teaching. >> tz on-line learning in a cool structure. doesn't look anything like school. >> one of the main concepts we are doing is empowering students to take charge of th

the economic crisis has meant fewer and fewer people can afford parasols and changing cubicles.he lost her job three days ago. friends have invited her to the beach. the loss of income has her worried she will not be able to pay her bills, let alone take a holiday. >> even if you could afford a vacation at the moment, to live in fear of tomorrow, you do not do things you might have because you do not know what the future will bring. >> current estimates say there are 20% fewer beachgoers. >> we just extended our season- ticket because the prices have stayed the same as last year. but of course, you can look around and see there are a lot fewer people here. >> soviet is the leasehold for anchor beach. she knows many colleagues who would love to sell their licenses. business is not worth it, but the imminent rise in prices is putting ofbuyers. she is happy with help own business so far, but she has had to lower prices by more than 30%, and she has seen a change in her guests have its. >> it is a bit like it was before. 20 years ago, we had something in rome for romans who went to

. >> reporter: so, when you are stressed out in some cubicle, knowing there's a man in a robe hopingtake the rest of the day off. for religious purposes. the dude abides. and finally, one weather note. we're keeping our eyes on tropical storm isaac, hitting the dominican republic, haiti and cuban. barrelling towards the u.s. over the weekend. and warnings across south florida and the keeps, could play havoc with the republican convention, coming up. get the very latest on "gma" in the morning or at abcnews.com. and we hope you have a great weekend.

>> i don't know, probably sitting in a cubicle somewhere >> so you decided you would start an ice-cream business? >> exactly >> didn't people say to you, another ice-cream shop? >> seven years ago, this was before the great ice-cream renaissance that we seem to have had nationwide. we were one of the early brands that was using great organic ingredients >> starting up had to be difficult. you're at a school and you probably had college debt facing you, you were young >> i was smart, i had about $70,000 saved up and i took out a $25,000 loan from the bank of mom and dad. >> did you pay it back? >> it has been paid back with equity so they are now proud shareholders. we started with about $95,000 >> did that go as far as he thought it would? >> far as getting it started but over the years we of certainly raised a lot more money to open additional stores so we have raised about $4 million so far >> what did you know about ice cream? >> nothing. i had never worked in an ice- cream shop but if i knew that if you put enough fat and sugar into something and took out all the garbage, it is deli

i had a cubicle at the morning show at cbs and it was in the corner, wow, i have a cubicle in the corner is amazing. it was so fun and i had a bulletin board like that one. and i love my little bulletin board and my extension and i love it that i'm in the corner and i have all this school stufstuf cool stuff. i am trying to embrace the happiness. and when i sit in this office, i think this is pretty cool. i like this. >> which speaks a lot about your countenance and how you look at life. as a mom, i would suggest i look at your parents, and i think they have been pretty phenomenal. reading your book, a lot of stories about parents who are not supportive of their kids when they come out, reyes. >> and your mom was a rock. >> amazing. she's somewhere, yeah, she's there. >> and your dad too. >> my dad is amazing. they are both great. they have supported me, and they are my -- they are my -- sometimes toughest critics, but always biggest supporters. >> most people will assume you have this glamorous life, because you hobnob, out there. do you go home after work sometimes just wiped out and j

as a city, we own buildings, cubicles, museums, golf courses, so much that we have -- >> yes, but it is our property, right? >> yes. that is a very good point. stewards of these resources, and they are often underutilized resources, so how do we improve access to those? there is a lot to learn from this that could be applied to the public comments. >> thank you. let's open it up. do we have a microphone for people to come to? ok, we will just it old school. if you have a question, raise your hand, and speak loudly. concise questions will be greatly appreciated. >> [inaudible] >> did everyone here that? ok. >> something that is really amazing about the sharing economy is it is being pioneered in cities. cities exist because of sharing because it is more efficient and more productive to collaborate and share resources, and that is something we are seeing, that our biggest markets are big metropolitan cities, which is different when you look at the tourism industry throughout the world. i mean, of course, we will be in the beach towns, but, the real innovative factor here is it is happe

we have 26-year-old kids in cubicles in san francisco saying, look what i can do. halcro is this? but not really with a concern -- how cool is this? but not really with a concern of the safety of children or privacy laws. we are to develop standards that are ongoing. google does not have a monopoly, not a legal sense, but they do have a monopoly in the pedestrian cents in that everybody uses it. there's a bigger issue concerning them regarding privacy. >> the federal trade commission last week reached a settlement would go over allegations that they violated -- with google, over allegations that they violated a previous settlement. google had to pay $20 million fine. they have $40 million in the bank at the end of 2011. do you feel they have gotten off too easy? >> i was not involved in those negotiations, so i don't know whether that was a good settlement or a bad settlement. it sounds like they can go to work the next day and shake that off. it is not or drive them into bankruptcy. but we do not want to drive them into bankruptcy. bolt was invented in 1999. -- google was invente

say as much because denying it every chance they get but we have these documents that say ok we'll cubicle on the strap way or another thing those cubic runs another company at least according to the company called and trusted and what we've discovered is that and trip it has been toting around a whole other program that was used to allegedly spy so-called anarchists and if they're looking for anarchists to disrupt things in america you know where they're looking. where they're looking at occupy wall street and this company is saying that protesters involved with occupy oakland occupy d.c. occupy wall street and even p.b.s. and citizen of radio the these. political groups and broadcasting if there's the ations what they've been doing is that there is social networks online whether or not they even realize it or being they're distributing messages through these you know evil evil anarchists who are then propagating these evil messages of overthrowing the government to occupy cat and said it turns out that this same company is run by the company that is overseeing trap wire which is also the

they've got 26-year-old kids in cubicles in san francisco with ponytails saying, how cool is this, look what i can do? not with concern about how does that effect children and the laws? so we've been able to meet with google and talk to them about their particular privacy policy. we haven't come to a final resolution that's ongoing, but with companies like google that are basically monopolies, you could argue whether it's in the legal sense, but certainly monopolies in the pedestrian sense, everybody uses that for their search engine, their interest in maintaining our privacy might be reduced. and so there's even bigger issues regarding privacy for the companies that really have a huge market share. >> host: juliana gruenwald. >> host: as i'm sure you're probably aware of, the federal trade commission last week reached a settlement with google over violations that they violated a previous settlement last year on privacy, and google agreed to pay $22 million fine. now, they had more than $40 million in the bank at the end of 2011. do you feel like google's gotten off too easy? they've co

. >> can i move my cubicle out here?and me both, tom. >> gorgeous morning under way with the air is fresh and cool. just a few clouds are coming through. turquoise sky over there. the clouds sort of a blueberry color. we've got the low humidity in place. all around our region we had clouds drifting in from the west and they're going to be with us off and on through the day. off ahead of the cool front triggering showers and thunder showers in illinois, indianindi. that cool front going to be arriving here tomorrow. today, ahead of that, look at these temperatures now. in the dark green areas, it's in the 50s. and that includes western maryland, much of west virginia. even a few locations in the shenandoah valley and the panhandle of west virginia. closer to washington. across most of virginia and maryland. it's in the 60s. right on the tidal potomac, bay waters, milder, too. here's your day planner, 7:00, upper 60s. mid afternoon, upper 80s near 90. not a lot of humidity. just a few clouds coming and going. i'll be back

move the cubicle out on the lawn. starting off this morning, a sweet sun rise this summer morning over potomac. live view from our hd city camera. reagan national now is at 69. and the dew point comfortably down in the low 60s with a calm wind. you can stay in touch all day on facebook and twitter follow me. get all the latest weather, science, technology, and nature news. post cool photos like this one sent in by scott bauseman from front royal, virginia, as the fog was clearing yesterday morning. look at that. post your photos of weather at nbcwashington.com. storm 4 team temperatures now, around the region in the 50s. shenandoah valley, 50s. farther west, closer to washington, though, loudoun county, frederick, montgomery, in prince george's, arlington and fairfax, we're just in the low 60s. low 60s, much of the rest of the virginia. southern maryland in on the eastern shore. right on the waters, though, near 70. over the last few hours, a few clouds coming in. setting the stage for this gorgeous sun rise. we'll ha

this was an error before cubicles. there was an open door policy.o one to -- no one was to be refused device. and the solid state group that began in 1945 and culminated with this invention of transistors, as echo leader it led the work. but when they made advances that ultimately got -- resulted in the point contact transistor, he became envious, jealous, and became himself fascinated by the idea of improving this idea, their work already. and shortly thereafter it resulted in something called the junction transistor. and shockley, the rule at bell labs not only was open door, with the you were not to compete with the people you managed. a nobel prize winner, phil anderson, when i interviewed him for the bookies said, you know, this was the transgression. he could never be forgiven. and it set him on a path to my think, increasingly -- well, in the weeks after that in the months after that the transistor team that was intense the collaborative, a very cohesive, broke apart. john bardeen pretty soon after went to illinois to become a professor. brat

you could sit alone in your cubicle and never talk to anybody. but then you would probably get left behind. would you not advance your career. you would probably not get funding for your project or the support you need. i think that gossip, benign gossip, somebody said to me, delicious not malicious. >> so many things are so delicious. >> the delicious things are often malicious, i'm afraid. that is a very fine line. you're saying ultimately, in the right perspective it's beneficial? >> i think it can be beneficial. i think it's about learning who you can trust and trickle it out gently. maybe a trivial thing. you see do they respond to you. do they have the same sense of humor. can you bond with them? do they give you something back? it's a two-way thing. >> with getting something back, what are you looking for specifically? >> it's interesting. i think if it's the gossip, the nonoffice politics stuff, you're looking for a relationship. you're looking for a bond, for understanding. who around you can you trust? who around you is an ally? who can

your right wing neighbor with the bald eagle fetish or your conservative christian lady in the next cubicledeath penalty or your homophobic cousin who comes over. you can feel like you're crazy and it is so great to be part of a show that is not just an entertainment show but also about community building so it was really great to have you there and i hope you appreciated how much the crowd loved seeing you. >> it was great. >> john: you've become quite a media celebrity. >> thanks to bill and stephanie and everybody else who has had me on their shows over the years. it is a great time. >> john: i'm hoping we have a lot more sexy liberal dates. if you would like to see the show call stephanie miller and harass her because we have to twist her arm to get her to do more. we're on doing seattle at the end of september and the beacon theatre in new york which i hope everybody comes to. it will be great at the end of october. so it was great having you on stage. i got to meet you through stephanie's show. i've become a big fan of the work you do. >> thank you. >> john: i was a really big fan of

lot of tremendous things in common with people, it is simply proximity, those people who share a cubicled it says three reasons you cannot be friends with coworkers. and number one is you can't be friends with someone you see as competition. or vice-versa. do you agree with that? >> i do agree -- >> alisyn: no, i think you can be friends. >> you can be friends with your competition, ball players do it all the time. absolutely, yes. >> dave: we want to thank peter johnson, jr. filling in for clayton morris, we hope he's better. >> alisyn: one of our viewers said, i thought you had a wife, alisyn, isn't clayton morris your wife. >> dave: husband? >> alisyn: spouse. okay. >> dave: bye! >> take care. ♪ >> eric: start with a "fox news alert." the republican bid for the white house moving full forward, steam ahead, and, presidential hopeful, mitt romney, hitting the campaign trail with his newly tapped running mate, wisconsin congressman paul ryan and the pair branding the ticket aquote, america's come back team, and they begin their day, this morning in north carolina, and we are taking a liv

lot of tremendous things in common with people, it is simply proximity, those people who share a cubicleit says three reasons you cannot be friends with coworkers. and number one is you can't be friends with someone you see as competition. or vice-versa. do you agree with that? >> i do agree -- >> alisyn: no, i think you can be friends. >> you can be friends with your competition, ball players do it all the time. absolutely, yes. >> dave: we want to