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Avidbank said Friday its new loan production office is expected to open in downtown San Jose on June 18.
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It didn't hurt that animal studies gave especially promising results. KaloBios is now ready to begin Phase 2 trials for its top two drugs -- one for rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, the other for treatment of pseudomonas aeruginosa infections.
Pseudomonas is one of the deadliest bacterial infections for cystic fibrosis, a hereditary disease that affects 30,000 children and young adults in the U.S. Cystic fibrosis affects the lungs and digestive system, causing progressive disability and early death. For years, scientists have been predicting an imminent cure -- anything from vaccines to high dose immunoglobulins.
When Dr. Carlos Milla, a pediatric pulmonologist at Stanford University, was considering what specialty to enter after medical school, he worried that he wouldn't have enough work if he specialized only in cystic fibrosis.
The gene for CF had just been discovered; the cure was assumed to be right around the corner.
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Definitions That Matter, II
September 26th, 2011 // 10:49 am @ Oliver DeMille
As I have said before, one mark of ruling classes in society is the understanding of nuanced definitions. In American society, the original design was for the regular people to be the rulers.
Here are some words that need to be closely considered, understood and discussed by the regular people who care about freedom:
- Administration
- Aggression
- Allegiance
- Alliances
- Amendments
- Aristocracy
- Authority
- Balances
- Banks
- Borrowing
- Business
- Centralization
- Character
- Checks
- Citizenship
- Civil Rights
- Classes
- Common Law
- Communism
- Community
- Consent
- Constituent
- Constitution
- Contracts
- Courts
- Culture
- Currency
- Defense
- Democracy
- Diplomacy
- Duty
- Economy
- Election
- Empire
- Equality
- Ethics
- Executive
- Faction
- Fallacy
- Fallibility
- Family
- Farming
- Federal
- Feudalism
- Fiscal Policy
- Force
- Foreign Policy
- Forms of Government
- Freedom
- Good
- Goods
- Guilds
- Human Nature
- Independence
- Independents
- Individuality
- Investment
- Judgment
- Judiciary
- Jury
- Jury of the Vicinage
- Justice
- Law
- Leadership
- Legislature
- Leisure
- Liberal Arts
- Liberal Education
- Liberty
- Limited Government
- Local Government
- Loyal Opposition
- Mercantilism
- Mixed Government
- Modernity
- Monarchy
- Monetary Policy
- Natural Law
- Oligarchy
- Optimism
- Ownership
- Political Economy
- Political Parties
- Politics
- Popular Sovereignty
- Positive Law
- Powers
- Pragmatism
- Precedent
- Principle
- Private Property
- Profit
- Progress
- Propaganda
- Prosperity
- Providence
- Public Office
- Public Opinion
- Public Policy
- Public Virtue
- Realism
- Reason
- Representation
- Representatives
- Republic
- Rights
- Savings
- Separation of Powers
- Slavery
- Social Contract
- Socialism
- Society
- Taxation
- Tyranny
- Utilitarianism
- Wealth
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On Reason, II
September 26th, 2011 // 3:51 am @ Oliver DeMille
Aquinas held that angels are intellectual beings because they know all things, while men are merely rational beings because they know little and therefore must figure things out.
Descartes and Locke differentiate between intuition and reason by arguing that intuition can be believed without demonstration while reason requires that we demonstrate every step of our thinking.
Since each person must reason out each answer on his own to really use reason, the fact that others have outlined their thinking at every step makes reason easier to follow and to expand upon than intuition. Also, the argument goes, reason can be used to analyze and test intuition, while the opposite is seldom true.
The Bible discounted this view, comparing the rationalist "goats" with the more obedient and intuitive "sheep." In much of Western culture, the term "sheep" became a negative name given to those who refuse to think things through.
Religious icon Aquinas, who certainly cannot be accused of not thinking things through,[i] argued that those who trust God's full knowledge more than man's limited knowledge are in fact more rational than those who believe in man's abilities.
Ultimately, Aristotle taught, all demonstration rests on certain indemonstrable truths. Human rationalism can extend our understanding, as can science, but it cannot prove or disprove every detail.
However, rationalism is based on the assumption that there are truths in the universe, and that the use of our minds can help us learn these truths. In fact, modernism is based on this same concept.
For example, if there are no universal truths then math, logic and the scientific method are all flawed and useless. All of these depend on the ability to discover and detect truths that are out there.
Reason is the most democratic thinking method to date because it holds that each individual person can use it without depending on experts or elites.
In fact, it is how the regular people can analyze and test the words and assurances of the experts and elites. The other major methods of arriving at truth—from science, math and logic to theology, aestheticism and credentialism—depend on the assurances of experts.
Jefferson goes as far as saying that the people are bound by duty to use reason as they oversee government. The committee of founders which approved The Declaration of Independence agreed with this assessment.
A free people is a deep-thinking, well-read, independent-thinking people.
[i] His works are the longest and among the most logically and meticulously argued of the great books.
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On Reason
September 23rd, 2011 // 3:16 am @ Oliver DeMille
In the American founding era, most of the leading thinkers were rationalists. This means that they believed in reason as a top method of determining truth.
Note that the general concept of reason has changed since then. When most people think of reason today, they tend to mix it with the ideas of logic, science and determinism. In the American colonial and early republican era, this was not the case.
The term "science" was often used to mean general thinking and the idea of learning, and in this sense it coincided with the rational perspective. But today's technical science, based on a general consensus of experts along with the empirical use of the scientific method, is quite the opposite of the rationalist viewpoint.
And logic, which is actually a branch of mathematics (rather than philosophy), is very different than reason.
Reason, in the original sense, is the use of one's own mind to test and analyze the words of the experts, the ancients, and all authority.
In the founding generation, reason was a check and balance on the smug groupthink[i] of the upper classes and elites. Most of the leading founders usually used the term "right reason" rather than simple "reason," since this first phrase carried the connotation that all right-thinking people would come to the same conclusions if they had the benefit of adequate information.
In this view, no king, priest, aristocrat or expert can rely simply on some claim to a "divine right" of expertise to be correct—each individual citizen can test everything said by the elites simply by taking the time to obtain all needed information and then think it through.
Forrest McDonald wrote in the introduction to Empire and Nation, a collection of writings by American founders John Dickinson and Richard Henry Lee:
"In the historical view, men have such rights as they have won over the years; in the rationalist view, men are born with certain rights, whether they are honored in a particular society or not."
Using reason, leading American founder John Dickinson wrote:
"Ought not the people therefore to watch? to search into causes? to investigate designs? And have they not a right of JUDGING from the evidence before them, on no slighter points than their liberty and happiness?"[ii]
It is always up to the people to maintain their freedom, and one of the first steps is to think—independently as they see fit—regardless of the assurances, promises and statistics of experts and elites.
Throughout history, the experts have nearly always worked for the elites, and the regular people have held reason as their first line of defense. When the regular people put expertise, tradition, authority or official promises above their own reason, they have always lost their freedoms and prosperity.
Dickinson put it this way:
"Indeed, nations, in general, are not apt to think until they feel; and therefore nations in general have lost their liberty."[iii]
[i] This word, of course, came into usage after the American founding era.
[ii] Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer, Letter VI.
[iii] Ibid., Letter XI.
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Attention Span: Our National Education Crisis
September 22nd, 2011 // 10:04 am @ Oliver DeMille
This article was originally published as a newsletter article for Oliver's college students, and was later featured as a chapter in the book A Thomas Jefferson Education Home Companion.
On October 16, 1854, in Peoria, Illinois, Stephen Douglas finished his 3-hour address and sat down. Abraham Lincoln stood.
He "reminded the audience that it was already 5 pm," and then told them that it would take him at least as long as Mr. Douglas to refute his speech point by point, and that Mr. Douglas would require at least an hour of rebuttal [1].
He recommended that everyone take a one-hour dinner break, and then return for the four additional hours of lecture. The audience amiably agreed, and matters proceeded as Lincoln had outlined.
"What kind of audience was this? Who were these people who could so cheerfully accommodate themselves to seven hours of oratory?"[2]
This was only one of seven debates, and many people attended as many as they could.
In contrast, I was invited as a guest on the early morning NBC station newscast in Yuma, Arizona the day after the Columbine High School tragedy in Littleton, Colorado. The primary purpose of my visit was to deliver lectures at the local community college and then give a speech at an annual foundation banquet—the title of my speech was along the lines of "What Jefferson Would Do to Fix Modern Problems."
The Columbine coverage took up most of the hour, and when it came time for our interview the anchor turned to me and said, without any preview, something like: "What would Thomas Jefferson think about this Columbine tragedy—you have 30 seconds."
I don't remember my exact answer, but I tried to communicate that Thomas Jefferson would not try to analyze and solve such a problem in thirty seconds, and until our means of dealing with serious national problems stops being handled in 30-second sound bite opinions we will continue to see such problems—indeed, they will get worse.
With that our interview was over, we unhooked our microphones and left the studio.
But the event has troubled me ever since. Hundreds of television professionals asked similar questions over the next few days, and have done so repeatedly with hundreds of events since—answers are given in thirty second sound bites, people shake their head at the day's latest shocking news, and then they go on about their work.
This is how we deal with problems in America today—and then we conclude by calling on government to fix everything. We express opinions–in soundbites on television, at work and social events, and in restaurants and taxis. Then we shake our heads and go back to our lives. We live on a steady diet of opinions, opinions, opinions. In 30-second doses. And then we forget and move on.
What is the difference between these two audiences—those who listened attentively for seven hours to Lincoln and Douglas and came back for more, and those of us who hear and express opinions lightly and then move on?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but these two audiences are drastically different—in their culture, their education, their habits and in their capacity to be free.
The group who heard Lincoln were capable of education, and capable of freedom. The latter group is largely incapable of either unless something changes.
Specifically, a great education ultimately comes down to one thing. Those who have it can gain a superb education. Those who don't cannot. A nation of people with it can earn its freedom. A nation without it is either not free or in the process of losing its freedom.
If you are going to be a successful leader in the future, you must develop this trait. It is not just a nice thing to have, or a good thing—it is essential; it is vital.
Without it you cannot be a statesman and the world will be led by whoever has it—whether they are virtuous or not, good or evil, dedicated to moving the cause of liberty or some other cause.
You will probably not like to hear what I have to say about it—because it will mean that you have to change, and change is hard; I didn't like it when I learned it–because I had to change.
Jefferson probably didn't like it either, but he did it. Lincoln probably didn't like it; but he did it. You must have this trait if you want to be a successful learner and become a leader. The nation must have leaders with this trait if it is to stay free.
So, if I say things you don't like, ignore that. Don't ask, "Do I like what he's saying?" Ask, "is it true? And what changes will I make because it's true?"
Each of us needs this trait because each of us wants to fulfill our mission in life, to really make a difference in the world. So, even if it is hard to get this trait–and it is–it is worth it, and it is important.
The vital trait I speak of is attention span.
II. Attention Span and Freedom
Of course, attention span by itself is not enough to guarantee education or freedom, but a person lacking attention span must either develop it or he will not become educated, and a nation without attention span must either gain it or lose its freedoms.
If I were speaking of making money, the point would be obvious. If you don't go to work and stay a few hours, your paycheck will be small.
In fact, figure out what your paycheck would be if you crammed your work the day before a big bill was due, and you'll have a pretty good indication of how much that same amount of study is really worth.
Or, figure out how much money you'd make if you spent four years putting in an hour or two a day between fun activities—you certainly wouldn't make enough to live on.
If you put in that same kind of study, you won't have much of an education to show for it either. The diploma on the wall may look the same, but it will be empty of meaning.
Without attention span—specific, dedicated time spent at work or managing one's resources—income and wealth will dry up. The same is true of education, where the currency is study instead of labor, and the commodities are virtue, wisdom and freedom.
But how does a person or nation without attention span develop it, increase it, or improve it? There is only one way: discipline yourself to put in the time.
Speaking of attention span and education: Slow down and learn. Slow down and put in the time reading, writing, discussing, listening, pondering, thinking, praying. Spend hours and hours in the classics, and you will acquire a superb education. A nation of superbly educated individuals will maintain its freedom.
In Lincoln's day the culture of learning was based around books. Today, as Neil Postman points out in his excellent book Amusing Ourselves to Death, the culture of learning is based on television and internet technology.
All of our forms of public discourse are based less and less on books and more and more on electronic media.
Most of the major decisions of society are made in five places—families, churches, schools, businesses and governments—and four of the five are moving consistently away from books toward electronic media.
Politics is now almost exclusively an electronic event, more and more people attend church in front of their television set, businesses survive through electronic marking, and schools are "computerizing" as quickly as possible—the wave of the future, we are told, is virtual education, virtual politics, e-business and electronic evangelizing.
Even the family is increasingly virtual—parents and children communicate with fax and email, and family time is increasingly spent in front of the television set, except for those off in their own rooms surfing the net.
Now don't get me wrong: I like the latest hit movie or website as much as anyone, and I believe that television and internet technology are of great benefit to society—they significantly empower business and greatly enhance entertainment.
But they have also displaced books as the source of cultural learning, and this is a very discouraging development because of the impact of society's morals; but that is not my chief point here.
My point is that it is bad to replace books with television and internet because of the consequences to education and freedom.
Specifically, the medium of the electronic screen teaches at least five deadly fallacies about education, and consequently freedom:
Fallacy Number 1: Learning should be fun.
Indeed, the lesson seems to be that everything should be fun.
The worst criticism of our time is that something is boring, as if that made it less true or less important or less right.
There is nothing wrong with fun, but there is everything wrong with a society whose primary purpose is to seek fun.
In American society, particularly among those under 40, the love of fun is the root of all evil. This is the legacy of the sixties—seeking fun has become a national pastime.
With respect to the education of an adult, fun is simply not a legitimate measurement of value.
Things should be judged by whether or not they are good, true, wholesome, important or right. Commercialistic society judges things by whether they are profitable, and even socialism judges whether something is fair or equitable.
But what kind of a society makes "fun" the major criteria for its actions and choices?
Consider how this lesson impacts the education of youth and adults. Learning occurs when students study. Period. No fancy buildings or curricula or assemblies or higher teacher salaries change this core principle.
Learning occurs when students study, and any educational system is only as good as the student's attention span and the quality of the materials.
Now, study can be fun, but it is mostly just plain old-fashioned hard work, and nearly all of the fun of studying comes after the work is completed.
In essence, there are really two kinds of fun—the kind we earn (which used to be called "leisure"), and the kind that we just sit through as it happens to us (entertainment). There are very few things in life as fun as real learning, but we must earn it. And this kind of fun always comes after the hard work is completed.
No nation that believes that learning should be fun, in the unearned sense, is likely to do much hard studying, so not much learning will occur.
And without that learning the nation will not remain free. Nor will people stay moral, since righteousness is hard work and just doesn't seem nearly as fun as some of the alternatives.
No nation focused on unearned fun will pay the price to fight a revolutionary war for their freedoms, or cross the plains and build a new nation, or sacrifice to free the slaves or rescue Europe from Hitler, or put a man on the moon. We got where we are because we did a lot of things that weren't fun.
Americans today believe that it is their right to have fun. Every day they expect to do something fun, and they expect nearly everything they do to be fun. Most adults eventually figure out that fun isn't the goal, but many of today's students firmly believe that learning must be fun; if not, they put down the books and go find something else to do.
Fallacy Number 2: Good teaching is entertaining.
Since fun is the goal, teachers must be entertaining or they aren't good teachers. "He is boring," is the worst criticism of a teacher these days.
The problem with this false lesson, besides the fact that some of the best teachers aren't a bit entertaining, is that it assumes that teachers are responsible for education in the first place.
Now remember, I'm speaking of the role of adult and youth students to own their responsibility for their education.
This is not intended as license for parents and educators to abdicate the responsibility to be all that they can be as mentors.
But think of it: if we, as students, are waiting around for our teachers to get it right or else we're not gonna study, who really loses?
Whose job is education anyway?
All of us have watched a movie with a bad ending, and since our goal in watching was to be entertained, we are upset that the movie ended that way. We blame it on whoever made the movie; it was their fault.
Our culture approaches teachers the same way—if we weren't entertained or didn't learn, it is their fault. "What kind of a teacher is he, anyway; I didn't learn anything in his class."
But if I don't learn something in a class, it is my own fault, no matter how good or bad the teacher is.
Good teaching is a wonderful and extremely important commodity, but that is another essay, and it is not responsible for a student's success. Students are. To tell them otherwise is to leave them victims who are forever at the mercy of the system.
And history is full of examples of students who owned their role and achieved greatness because they recognized that it was their job to supply the motivation and the effort to gain a great education.
Our society likes to blame its educational shallowness on its teachers because it is just plain easier to blame than to study. And it is easier for parents and politicians to join the blaming game than to set an example of studying that will inspire their youth to action.
The impact on education is clear: We blame teachers and our schools for the problems, while we do everything except the hard work of gaining an education for ourselves, thus inspiring and facilitating our children to do the same.
The impact on freedom is equally direct: Students who have been raised to blame educational failure on someone else usually become adults who expect outside experts to take care of our freedom for us.
Even those who become activists tend to spend a lot of time exposing the actions of others, "waking people up" to what "they" are doing.
And whether "they" refers to conspirators, liberals, or the religious right, the activists seldom do anything about the situation except talk—in more shallow 30-second sound bite opinions.
A corollary of this false lesson is that students need a commercial every 8.2 minutes. We are conditioned to short attention spans, and therefore to shallow educations and nominal freedoms.
The reality is that unless you spend at least two hours on something, chances are you didn't learn much. Without attention span, little is learned.
Fallacy Number 3: Books, texts and materials should be simple and understandable.
Now, mind you–I'm not suggesting that authors should be purposely obscure or irrelevant. I'm just returning to the idea that we, as students, must step up to whatever obstacles may be in our way.
It's our job to do whatever it takes to get an education, no matter the quality or interest level of our materials. But even beyond that obvious point, the problem with this error is that the complex stuff is actually the best, the most interesting, ironically the most fun, and certainly the most likely to produce individual thinkers and a free nation.
The classics, the scriptures, Shakespeare, Newton—works really worth tackling are the best and most enjoyable.
Consider the impact of simple materials on education. For example, what kind of nation would the founders have framed had they been taught a diet of easy textbooks, easier workbooks, more quickly understood concepts and curricula?
A free people is a thinking people, and thinking is hard work—it is, in fact, the hardest work, which is why so little of it takes place in a society which avoids pressure and takes the easy path.
The only reason to choose easier curriculum is that it is easier, but the result is weaker graduates, flimsier characters, vaguer convictions and impotent wills.
Thucydides said it bluntly: "The ones who come out on top are the ones who have been trained in the hardest school."
This is true of individuals and of nations.
I am not saying that everything that is hard has value, but I am saying that most things of value are hard. If your studies weren't hard, really hard, chances are you didn't learn much.
Fallacy Number 4: "Balance" means balancing work with entertainment.
Today's adults don't usually find out what really hard work is until they graduate and have to support a family. The average person supporting a family in modern America puts in over fifty hours a week at work; in most countries the amount is much higher.
But the American high school system conditions most students to attend class five hours a day and do outside study a few extra hours a week. The rest of the time is filled with activities, friends and occasional family time. And this has become the standard for balance.
Most college students follow suit: they are in class three to five hours a day, they study a couple of hours a day, and they fill the rest of the time with activities and friends.
Again, this is considered "balanced."
Once people get out of school and go to work, "balance" most often means the need to spend more time with their family.
But while in school, they say it to mean that they need to spend more time with their friends engaging in fun activities. Family time and study time are shoved aside.
One of my mentors, a religious leader from my faith, taught that the right approach to daily life is eight hours a day of sleep, eight hours a day of work, and eight hours a day of leisure.
And he spoke at a time when leisure didn't mean entertainment.
Indeed, leisure means serving people, studying, learning, being involved in community service and government, and so on—whereas the slaves in Rome were considered incapable of leisure and so their masters gave them entertainment to keep them pacified.
The media age has tried to convince us all, quite successfully, that we need entertainment—and often.
I take the eight hours sleep, eight leisure and eight work quite literally—it is a solid and realistic approach to "balance."
In all my years of teaching, I have never had a married, working 40 hours a week student complain about not having time to study. They all make the time.
Those who complain are always those wanting more time for entertainment, never those who want more time for work or family.
Every single one of those complaining that they want balance has been someone without a full or steady part time job. That is amazing to me.
The simple truth is that they are right—they do need balance. They need to start working and studying as if they were college students.
Studying a minimum, and I mean minimum, of forty hours a week in college is balance—it balances the pre-college years where most students did real, intensive study only a few hours in their whole life.
And a few college students actually studying enough to become Jeffersons and Washingtons is balance to a whole generation of college students playing around.
If you really want to invoke balance, I think you could make a strong argument that entertainment is not part of a balanced life—unless it is the leisure sort done with family or to learn or serve. Get rid of entertainment time, and fill it with studying, and you will start to find balance.
Until then, you will continue to feel unbalanced—and whatever you blame it on, the study will not unbalance you.
On occasion I have had students who did become unbalanced in the side of their studies, and I have recommended that they cut back and spend more family time. But this has happened perhaps three times out of hundreds of students.
In contrast, it always surprises me who tries to argue for balance—they are usually the ones in no danger whatsoever of becoming unbalanced studiers.
Fallacy Number 5: Opinions matter.
This is perhaps the biggest, most widespread and most fallacious lesson of the electronic age.
A time traveler visiting from history might well consider this the most amazing thing about our age. Everybody has an opinion, which can be delivered in 30 seconds or less, and these opinions are considered newsworthy, valuable, and a sound basis for public policy and individual action.
But an opinion is really just something you aren't sure about yet–either because you haven't done your homework, or because after the homework is thoroughly complete the answers are still a bit unclear.
Opinions are at best educated guesses, at worst dangerously uneducated guesses. In any case, opinions are just guesses.
Great people in history know and choose. Opinions are really nothing more than the lazy man's counterfeit for knowing and choosing. Again, there is a place for opinion, but after the hard work is completed, not as a replacement for it.
In short—opinion is not a firm basis for anything except passing time (which may be one of the reasons the market won't listen to more than 30 seconds of it at a time).
Imagine what the educational system might look like in a society that values opinions over knowledge. Or try to imagine the future governmental and moral choices of a society where all opinions are created equal, and endowed by their creator with inalienable rights.
Certainly such a society will not be wise, or moral, or free.
III. How to Increase Attention Span
Now, in pointing out these false lessons of the electronic age, my point is not that books are better than computers or televisions. There is nothing I know of that makes paper and binding inherently better than plastic and silicon.
Computers are better than books for many things, such as tracking and storing large amounts of information, speeding up communication and technological progress, and increasing the efficiency and even effectiveness of business.
Television is better than books for many purposes, including mass and speedy communication, business advertising and marketing, and entertainment options where important ideas can be portrayed and carried to the hearts of people more quickly.
My point is not that books are inherently better than electronic screens, nor is it that electronic media is bad. Nor is my point that the electronic media undermines our morals; the truth is that many books are at least as bad.
My point is that books are better than television, or the internet, or computer for educating and maintaining freedom.
Books matter because they state ideas and then attempt to thoroughly prove them.
The ideas in books matter because time is taken to establish truth, and because the reader must take the time to consider each idea and either accept it, or (if he rejects it) to think through sound reasons for doing so.
A nation of people who write and read is a nation with the attention span to earn an education and a free society if they choose.
The very medium of writing and reading encourages and requires an attention span adequate to deal with important questions and draw sound and effective conclusions. The electronic media arguably does not do this in the same way.
Now, idealism aside, the reality is that 30 second sound bites is how public dialogue takes place in our society, and we can either whine about it or we can adapt to the realities and develop our skills to be leaders.
A leader of public dialogue in our day must use the 30 second method; in fact, the reality is closer to 6 seconds than 30.
I am not saying that we should ignore this reality and prepare for 7-hour debates to impact public opinion. The electronic age is real and statesmen should be prepared to utilize it effectively.
But there is a huge difference between those who just polish their media technique and those who do so after (or at minimum, while) acquiring a quality liberal arts education.
Technology is a valuable tool, and a person who has paid the price to know true principles and understand the world from a depth and breadth of knowledge and wisdom, and then applies his or her wisdom through technology is much more likely to achieve statesmanlike impact.
His 6-second sound bites will not be opinions, but rather ideas that have been fully considered, weighed and chosen.
Indeed, and this is my most important point, in the electronic age your attention span is even more important than it was at other times in history.
The future of freedom may well hinge on one thing—our attention spans. And certainly your future success as a leader and statesman depends on your attention span.
One thing is certain: there will be no Lincolns, Washingtons, Churchills, Gandhis, or the mothers and fathers who taught them, without adequate attention span.
I wish I had some tricks to give you to increase your attention span. But there is only one that I know of: discipline and hard work, hours and hours and hours studying, with hopefully some prayer and meditation in the mix.
There will be leaders of the next 50 years; I believe you will be among them. But only if you increase attention span.
Otherwise, you will be one of the masses, going along with whatever those in power do to society, led along by your "betters"—not because they are better morally, but because they have a longer attention span.
Too many leaders in history have been people without virtue, who ruled because they had the knowledge. Knowledge truly is power. In this day, it is time for people of virtue to also become people of wisdom.
I challenge each of you to be one of them.
Don't let your habits of entertainment, your attachment to fun and slave entertainment stop you from becoming who you were meant to be. Become the leader you were born to be—spend the hours in the library. Let nothing get in your way.
Many things will arise to distract you; study will often seem the least attractive alternative for the evening. But you know better. You were born to be the leaders of the future.
Now do it—not in 30-second sound bites of opinion, but in seven to ten hour daily stretches of building yourself into a leader, a statesman, a man or women capable of doing the mission God has for you.
- Postman, Neil. 1985. Amusing Ourselves to Death. New York: Penguin Books. p.44
- Ibid.
- Thucydides, The Pelopponesian War, 1,1.84.4. For a fuller treatment of this subject, see Josiah Bunting III. 1998. An Education for Our Time. Washington D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
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August 29th, 2011 // 2:00 pm @ Oliver DeMille
This article in The Atlantic by Don Peck is a must-read for those who are interested in the future of American freedom and prosperity. Highlights from the article include:
- The United States is "now composed of two distinct groups: the rich and the rest. And for the purposes of investment decisions, the second group" doesn't matter.
- The new name for this state of society, coined by three analysts at Citigroup, is "plutonomy."
- "A 2010 Pew study showed that the typical middle-class family had lost 23 percent of its wealth since the recession began, versus just 12 percent in the upper class."
- The lifestyles of non-professional college graduates now more closely resemble those of high-school dropouts than of the professional class.
- The meritocracy is increasingly only a meritocracy of the upper classes.
- "Among the more pernicious aspects of the meritocracy is the equation of merit with test-taking success."
- "For the most part, these same forces have been a boon, so far, to Americans who have a good education and exceptional creative talents or analytic skills."
- Most Americans don't want the middle class to disappear or continue to shrink, and such a development would certainly bring a drastic change to the people-based freedom that has characterized the historical successes of the United States.
- These trends, and the growing divide between the rich and the rest, are increasing the longer the economy remains sluggish.
Peck gives a number of suggestions for improving this situation, including:
- Increasing the funding for effective job training and education.
- "Removing bureaucratic obstacles to innovation is as important as pushing more public funds toward it."
- Changing our public policy to accelerate innovation.
- Significantly improving our schools.
- Creating clear paths of training and skilled work for those who don't go to college.
- Altering current immigration policy to allow more "creative, highly skilled immigrants" to come to the U.S. more easily.
Whether or not you agree with Peck's recommendations, one reality is clear: The success of these things ultimately depends on incentivizing entrepreneurship, innovation, creativity and economic growth.
By spurring significant economic growth, we will directly and indirectly address most of our national economic problems.
On the other hand, if government policies continue to thwart major innovation and growth, little can be done.
Peck makes a case for higher taxes, but hardly mentions that Washington has a serious spending problem.
Democrats typically argue for tax hikes, while Republicans now mostly champion spending cuts.
Most Independents, in contrast, would likely support both—as long as the tax hikes on the professional class were used not to increase or maintain federal spending but rather to directly help put America's financial house back in order.
Whatever your view on this debate, it is a discussion desperately needed right now.
Too much of the rhetoric on this topic is just that—two sides deeply entrenched and firmly committed to one view only.
We need fresh ideas and inspiring leadership to move beyond this gridlock.
With all this said, Peck's article is mandatory reading. Every American should think about its main points.
Most will find things to disagree with, perhaps, but the dialogue is needed.
If the middle class is to survive and thrive, it must increase its role of deeply considering, thinking about and making its views felt on important economic and other national issues.
Freedom only works when involved citizens of all socio-economic levels actively participate in such important national discussions.
Oliver DeMille is the co-founder of the Center for Social Leadership, and a co-creator of Thomas Jefferson Education.
He is the co-author of New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller LeaderShift, and author of A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the 21st Century, and The Coming Aristocracy: Education & the Future of Freedom.
Oliver is dedicated to promoting freedom through leadership education. He and his wife Rachel are raising their eight children in Cedar City, Utah.
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Presidential and Vice Presidential Debates alike often produce a fresh round of arguments from voters and political pundits alike about who "won" the political contest. But not so if you watched Thursday night's Vice Presidential debate on an Xbox 360 gaming console. According to a blog post by Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Director of Programming for the Xbox Live Arcade (XBLA) Larry Hryb, better known to many by his gamer tag "Major Nelson," Xbox 360 viewers were squarely in support of Vice President Joe Biden.
In last night's post, Hryb said that when asked, "Who won the debate," 88.5% of Obama supporters (whether strong or leaning) chose Biden. Self-identified undecided voters also chose Biden by a large margin, as did viewers who identified themselves as "other" -- 52.6% to 26.4%. Romney supporters, or those who said they were leaning towards voting for Mitt Romney, were the only group that overwhelmingly selected Congressman Paul Ryan as the winner.
The question "Who do you think is more truthful" yielded similar results.
· Biden won the debate with Xbox Swing Voters: 44.1% of undecided voters declared Biden the winner with 22.9% choosing Ryan.
· Biden was overwhelmingly viewed by our swing voters as being more truthful, garnering the favor of 72.2% of undecided respondents.
· An overwhelming 70.1% of undecided voters do not consider a candidate's religion when deciding for whom to vote.
· 53.7% of undecided voters felt that Biden is better prepared to step in as president compared to 21% for Ryan
As a full-fledged political poll, an XBLA survey may not measure up to nation-wide polls. Hryb noted in his comment that there were over 800,000 responses to the poll questions asked throughout the debate, with around 30,000 responses given to each question. That being said, if nothing else, the news is a sign of how Microsoft is attempting through clever means to break into a previously untapped market (for console developers, at least) of live programming.
Earlier this month, Microsoft revealed that they would live-stream all three Presidential debates and the one Vice Presidential debate through their new "Elections Hub." The program is part of a larger plan unveiled in September by the company to establish its video game console as an exclusive entertainment hub for households, offering "television-style" programming to rival that of the major cable networks -- who are also planning their own run at the video game market. But unlike YouTube, who's simply streaming the events, Xbox is asking (Xbox LIVE Gold) members to provide feedback during the contests.
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Well said, Santorum -- well said. At a campaign stop in Michigan on Saturday morning:
"Not all folks are gifted in the same way. Some people have incredible gifts with their hands... and want to work out there making things. President Obama once said, he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob. There are good decent men and women, who go out everyday to put their skills to test that aren't taught by some liberal college professor trying to indoctrinate them. Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college -- he wants to remake you in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their children into their image, not his."
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On Sept. 23 Concordia Maritime took delivery of the product tanker Stena Progress from Brodosplit Shipyard, Croatia. The vessel has been signed to a five-year time charter with the French oil and energy company Total to transport refined products.
The Stena Progress, a so-called P-Max tanker, is the seventh in a series of ten units ordered. She was named on Sept. 3 at Brodosplit.
The sister vessels Stena Paris, Stena Provence and Stena Perros are all on long time charters to Total. In all, Total has four of ten P-Max tankers on time charters with a remaining charter period of 14 years as of Sept. 24.
The P-Max tankers are 600.4 ft long, have a breadth of 131.2 ft, a draft (design) of 37 ft, and a deadweight of 65,200 tons.
Eastern Shipbuilding Group, Inc. announce that Florida Marine Transporters, Inc. of Mandeville, La. exercised another additional 90'x32'x10' "Canal Class" Inland
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October 9, 2013
Verdi would have been 200 years old this Thursday, Oct. 10. And Sarasota Opera will celebrate its favorite composer's birthday with a community celebration.
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If James Griffin were to create the cover art for a book about his career, it would illustrate just enough of his story to seduce you to read the pages beneath it.
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In Florida Studio Theatre's new community project, "Older than Dirt," starting Oct. 14, it will use the interviews to explore what aging is all about.
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Sarasotan Steve Horowitz who plays the Sergeant in the murder mystery play talks a little about his role and why you should come see it.
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Investigators are responding Friday to a reported school shooting in Marysville, Washington, just north of Seattle, said Inci Yarkut, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Patrol.
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Before Nina Pham headed back home to Dallas, Texas, she made one exciting final stop.
The 26 year old nurse, who is now Ebola free, met with President Obama in the Oval Office this afternoon, where the president gave Pham a big hug.
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A Doctors Without Borders physician who is the first diagnosed Ebola case in New York City jogged along the Hudson River, rode the subway, took a cab, went bowling, visited a coffee stand at a Manhattan park and ate at a meatball shop since returning...
Nina Pham was the first person to catch Ebola on U.S. soil, and now, 13 days after testing positive, she has been declared free of the deadly disease. Her first order of business will be to hug her dog, Bentley, she said Friday.
Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, questioned Friday the president's choice of Ron Klain to manage efforts to prevent the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in the United States.
A doctor who recently returned from Guinea has tested positive for Ebola -- the first case of the deadly virus in New York City and the fourth diagnosed in the United States.
There is never a day where at least one person isn't outside the Ferguson, Missouri, Police Department sitting or standing near an anemic tree, the only place for a bit of shade.
At night, the crowd tends to swell, and the protest grows more intense....
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Dallas nurse Nina Pham is free of the Ebola virus, the National Institutes of Health said Friday morning, eight days after she was transferred to an NIH facility in Maryland for treatment.
To quash what he described as "irrational fear," New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday he'll ride one of the three subway lines taken by the latest Ebola patient in the United States.
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The mother of American hostage Abdul Rahman Kassig has sent a tweet appealing for a response from ISIS to the family's pleas for his life.
Students run from a high school in Marysville, Washington, following reports of a shooting Friday afternoon.
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Ever kicked back and enjoyed a cool Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout? How about a tall brewsky made from yeast found in some guy's beard? Take a look at some of the quirkiest beers brewed in craft breweries all over America.
TLC's "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" is ending its run.
On Friday, TMZ reported that the network has canceled the series in light of claims that the program's newly separated matriarch, June "Mama June" Shannon, is dating Mark Anthony McDaniel, a man who ...
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The Canonical team working on the Mir Display Server for Ubuntu Linux released Mir 0.0.10 today. Separately, they're calling for Mir multi-monitor testing in the next few days.
This week is the feature-freeze for Ubuntu 13.10 so the Mir developers are trying to squeeze in as much last minute work as possible. There's been more than 50 commits since the Mir 0.0.9 tag (but at the same time there's been many 0.0.9x tags for Ubuntu packages), so check out the
Bzr repository
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Separately, the Mir developers are calling for multi-monitor testing to be carried out using the Mir packages from their
System-Compositor-Testing PPA
. There's still more multi-monitor work to land for the Mir display server so up until the feature-freeze there's a request for testing from those packages.
Those wanting to engage in this testing can find out more information from
this Mir Wiki page
. Even with the latest code, features currently not working are resolution changing for built-in displays and secondary displays and also rotation changes for the display orientation, but aside from that they're mostly interested in dual-monitor testing namely with laptop configurations where you'd be connecting a secondary display within an office desk or to a projector in a conference room.
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San Antonio Water Pipeline Proposed to Boost Supply
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Now in their third year of a drought, San Antonio officials are considering the construction of a 142-mile water pipeline project that would pump roughly 16 billion gallons of groundwater annually to the region from Burleson County, TX. Local individual landowners in the county have signed over 3,400 leases to provide their water from the Carrizo and Simsboro Aquifers.
The Vista Ridge pipeline would cost $3.4 billion and boost the water supply to San Antonio residents by 20%. Critics say that the project is in direct conflict with water conservation techniques that would reduce demand.
Sasol Building $8.1 Billion Petrochemical Complex in Louisiana
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Sasol Ltd. recently announced the final approval of an $8.1 billion ethane cracker and derivatives complex at its existing site in Lake Charles, LA. An additional $800 million will be invested in infrastructure and utility improvements, as well as land acquisition, to establish the Lake Charles location.
At the heart of the project is an ethane cracker that will produce 1.5 million tons of ethylene annually, benefitting from significant economies of scale. The complex also includes six chemical manufacturing plants. Approximately 90% of the cracker's ethylene output will be converted into a diverse slate of commodity and high-margin specialty chemicals.
Sasol has selected Fluor Technip Integrated as the primary engineering, procurement and construction management contractor for this project.
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"Observers watching the U.S. nuclear industry can tell you that the industry is struggling through a rough patch right now. Few new plants are being considered for construction. A number of those in the construction process – such as Southern Company's Vogtle plant – have suffered delays and cost overruns," Forbes reports.
That is why there are powerful advocates for preserving and improving the nation's existing nuclear power plants. They argue that these plants "produce 20% of our electricity, that the plants run steadily and reliably – producing round the clock baseload power – and that if we are intent on creating a cleaner energy future, the last thing we should do is to prematurely retire them."
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USDA is providing $175 million in loans and $165 million in grants through the Water and Environmental Program. This is part of more than $1.5 billion USDA invested in rural water and wastewater projects during the 2014 Fiscal Year, which ended September 30.
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"The energy board decided that the Enbridge proposal did not include enough shutoff valves on each side of all major waterways that Line 9B crosses to limit the damage of accidental oil spills. The proposal that was rejected included shutoff valves within 1 kilometer (1,093.6 yards) at only six of 104 waterways crossed by the pipeline," The Watertown Daily Times reports.
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WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY is in effect until 6 p.m. Friday evening for the parishes north of Lake Pontchartrain in southeast Louisiana. This advisory means light snow, sleet and freezing rain will be possible making driving difficult. Be prepared for slippery roads from ice and low visibilities.
Today: Cloudy, cool and windy with an isolated shower with a chance for a mix of sleet and snow. High: 39. Wind: Northeast 10 – 15 mph.
Tonight: Partly to mostly cloudy and cold with an isolated shower along with a slight chance for a mix of sleet and snow. Low: 34. Wind: West 5 mph.
Tomorrow: Sunny, cool and breezy. High: 56. Wind: West 5 – 15 mph.
Discussion: Persistent moisture and cold temperatures will keep the chance for isolated showers mixed with light snow and sleet through this afternoon as highs stay in the upper 30s to low 40s. Skies will slowly clear from north to south tonight, as they do an isolated shower mixed with a snow flake or ice pellet or two will be possible while lows drop to the upper 20s to mid-30s. The weekend will see a slight warm up with highs reaching the mid-50s on Saturday, and low 60s Sunday and Monday. Temperatures fall off the table again Tuesday as more cold air moves in keeping highs in the 40s, and morning lows in the teens and 20s Wednesday morning.
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Lydia Nsekera, president of the Burundi Football Association, has been co-opted onto the executive committee and will be formally installed at the FIFA Congress in Budapest on Friday, FIFA said in a statement.
Nsekera is already a member of FIFA committees for women's football, the women's World Cup and the organising committee for the Olympic football tournaments.
As part of the effort to tackle corruption in football, Domenico Scala has also been appointed as the independent chairman of the Audit and Compliance Committee.
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