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Josh Slee, B.S. Biotechnology (2007) & M.S. Biotechnology (2008), has earned his Ph.D. from Lehigh University. He has accepted a postdoctoral position at the Children's Hospital in Philadelphia.
Matthew McDonnell, B.S. Biology (2012), has been admitted to the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Anthony Rainey, B.S. Biology (2013), has been admitted to The Commonwealth Medical College M.D. program.
Harold Shaw, a Science department alumni has been inducted into the Marywood Hall of Fame on February 2, 2013. Currently the Principal at Gauger-Cobbs Middle School in Newark, Delaware, Shaw graduated from Marywood with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Science. He has since gone on to earn a Master of Education in Educational Leadership from Stetston University in Florida (2006) and is currently enrolled as a Doctoral candidate in the University of Delaware's Educational Leadership program. He and his wife, Dallas, reside in Wilmington, Delaware.
Claudia Astorino, B.S. Biotechnology (2007), has been working on her PhD. research in the interdisciplinary NYCEP (New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology) graduate program, affiliated with the City University of New York, New York University, Columbia University and other NYC institutions. Her undergraduate education at Marywood focused more on molecular biology and genetics and now as a physical anthropologist she studies human bones and teeth to learn about how humans have evolved, how much biological variations exist across the human population, how our bodies have changed over time in response to out environment and how to use what we know about human skeletons to identify remains in a forensic setting. Throughout her career she has experienced excavations and analysis of Medieval burial remains in Germany and Poland, identification of skeletal remains in forensic cases as a visiting researcher in the Forensic Anthropology Unit at the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in NYC, a month long intensive training program in forensic anthropology at the Forensic Science Institute at Mercyhurst College (Erie, PA), collaborative research on human molar developement, collaborative research on human ancestral remains at a Korean fossil locality and many academic conferences on human evolution and skeletal biology in Chicago, Albuquerque, Minneapolis and Portland. Ms. Astorino will be coming to campus in the Fall of 2013 to present to Science faculty, students and staff.
If you would like to share your post Marywood story please feel free to contact the department at the email address below.
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The Internet is a fantastic communication tool, but no matter how good a web page is, it will never be able to convey all the information sought by its myriad visitors. When it comes down to it, nothing beats human-to-human-interaction. So don't hide behind your web pages. Use them to present relevant and up-to-date information in the clearest most concise manner possible, then invite end-users to contact you if they require further information. Contact information should appear in text on the page, in a footer, or through a link to a page that contains all the relevant contact information for the site. At a minimum, include a phone number, an e-mail address, and street or mailing address for your department or group. Whenever possible and appropriate, also include a contact name, fax number, and e-mail address for the editor of the web site.
In several regions across Canada, a dramatic increase in demand for phone numbers has necessitated the introduction of 10-digit dialing (instead of seven). The 613 area code, which Queen's falls under, is currently in the process of switching to this 10-digit requirement. As of June 17, 2006, seven-digit calls placed within the 613 area will be interrupted by with instructions to dial 10 digits. By October 21, 2006, a seven-digit local call will not be completed successfully, and the dialer will have to hang up and start his/her call again. Queen's system is already compliant, so be to include the 613 area code on all your web pages where your phone and fax numbers appear.


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Posted Mar 9, 2012 7:45 PM CDT
By Martha Neil
After being accused of changing an exam answer during an appeal of his grade, a student at Thomas M. Cooley Law School refused to accept a one-term suspension.
Amit Ghoshal's internal appeal resulted in a three-member review board's determination that he had violated the school's honor code and a recommendation that he be dismissed, which a school appeals panel upheld. He then filed suit in federal court in Michigan, contending that the school had prevented him from transferring to another law school by falsely accused him of cheating, the National Law Journal reported.
Now that suit has been dismissed, based on a magistrate's finding that the school had followed a multilevel review process and taken action that was neither arbitrary nor capricious, the article explains.
The school's general counsel, James Thelen, says Cooley is pleased with the dismissal and hasn't yet decided whether to try to pursue a counterclaim for $16,551 in unpaid tuition that was also nixed. He says the dismissal of the counterclaim was because of a lack of federal subject-matter jurisdiction, once Ghoshal's case was dismissed, rather than on the merits.
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I was reminded of a story about KG I hadn't yet told you people and perhaps now is the time, so as to distract my beloved friend from this rough, rough time.
One summer, I came back from college and KG and I went shopping at Westfield Shopping Center, back when it was just the Nordstrom downtown. We'd grabbed lunch downstairs in the food court and went to the escalators to shop upstairs. Looking up ahead, an elderly woman suddenly fell on the escalator, her head heading down and her feet pointing up. She fell in a way that left her stuck where she was as the stairs moved underneath her. Quick thinking women we were, KG pointed to a little glass box on the side of the escalator, which I lifted, pushing the red "STOP" button underneath.
The escalator stopped, the woman managed to right herself and we were heros, right?
As KG and I waited for congratulatory high fives and the Oprah show to come calling a security guard raced over. We remained at the bottom of the escalator and the woman WHOSE LIFE WE SAVED had made it to the top.
"What you do?" He screamed at us.
Here it comes, the medals, the commendations, the key to the city.
"We pushed the stop button." I proudly replied.
"Why you do that?" He was angry and accusatory and quite frankly, a little proud of himself.
"That woman fell!" KG responded.
And then began an Abbot and Costello-esque series of questioning wherein it became perfectly clear Colombo thought we'd pushed the Stop button for kicks, causing Miss Daisy to fall. This continued on and on, this guy unable to understand and/or accept that we'd saved the day. With each question, we grew angrier and he grew more convinced he's captured America's Most Wanted. We finally pushed our way to the top of the escalator where the old lady stood, still rattled from her fall and being comforted by onlookers. The whole event had drawn a crowd, some of whom began coming to our defense.
Still, the mall cop remained unconvinced. He wouldn't let us go and at this point, we didn't want to anyway. If this guy wanted a fight, he was going to get it.
Finally the old lady got her bearings enough to address us. "My angels! My wonderful angels!"
Our gloating eyes turned to the security guard, our brows raised in victory. The old woman clung to our arms, repeating, "Thank you! My angels!"Begrudgingly, we were allowed to leave, summer ended and we went back to our respective colleges, KG's in Orange County and mine in Philadelphia.
Then one day, I got a call from a woman who took forever to explain why she was calling. On and on she went about some law firm when finally, I realize what she was trying to tell me.
"Am I being sued?"
I then had to explain all over again this ridiculous incident in a goddamn mall where the quick-thinking actions of two relatively upstanding citizens averted public tragedy.
"But the file here says 2 young women caused Mrs. SomethingRussian to fall."
"I assure you, we saved her life. Or her hair."
"But the file..."
Again, in slow motion, I recapped the event.
"So she'd already fallen?"
"And you stopped the escalator so she could recover herself?"
"Well, (she paused as the pieces began to fit together) You're heros!"
A day late and a dollar short lady. Where's our key to the city...


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As the Syracuse Orange get set to take on the Kansas State Wildcats in the first game of Round 3 of the 2012 NCAA Tournament without center Fab Melo, the Wildcats will also be without senior forward Jamar Samuels according to a school release.
K-State just put out a release: No Jamar Samuels today. He is dealing with an eligibility concern.— Kellis Robinett (@KellisRobinett) March 17, 2012
Samuels averaged 10.3 points per game and 6.6 rebounds per game for the Wildcats; he was the team's second leading scorer. In a weird twist however, it appears Kansas State is working fervently to get Samuels eligibility restored so he can play in the game.
I asked if he could be cleared to play during the game. John Currie said K-State is working as rapidly as possible to resolve issue.— Kellis Robinett (@KellisRobinett) March 17, 2012
For up-to-the-minute scores on all NCAA Tournament games, please check out SI.com's complete scoreboard.
For more on the 2012 NCAA Tournament bracket, stay with SB Nation's Selection Sunday StoryStream, and stick around SB Nation's NCAA Tournament hub for a complete printable NCAA Tournament bracket and tons of analysis on who was snubbed, who got the best bracket, and who will make it all the way to New Orleans and the Final Four.


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Internet Librarian 2006 – Day 1: Open up the NetworkPosted: October 22, 2006 Filed under: conferences/events, il2006 2 Comments
After teaching the Ajax workshop with Karen Coombs, I guess I should have been tired, but I wasn't. Someting about being around all kinds of people with novel ideas… Props to one of our workshop attendees, Josh Kline, who made me rethink how my library might use ContentDM and JPEG2000 to display our large maps and architectural drawings. Met up with Karen and Michael Sauers (Travelin' Librarian) for a bite to eat. More good conversation. Took a stroll along the Monterey pedestrian path, talked about book publishing, library tech skills and all matter of things.
All of this reminds me that chance meetings and frank conversations can easily be the best part of the conference. When you have an opportunity, strike up a conversation and learn about your colleague's work. Open up the network and see where it takes you.
Proof of concept – Ajax page updatePosted: October 22, 2006 Filed under: code/files, conferences/events, il2006 1 Comment
Yesterday, Karen Coombs and I had the opportunity to conduct an "Ajax for Libraries" workshop at Internet Librarian. The workshop went pretty well and it was encouraging to work with a group of attendees who were engaged and willing to learn. (Note to self: create a cross-domain Ajax query to show workshop attendees.) I wanted to start with Ajax basics so I created a simple Ajax example that pulls WorldCat data and a WorldCat "find in a library" search form onto a page. It's very basic, but it showcases the fundamentals of the Ajax method – take a look at the demo here.
The example uses the XMLHttpRequest object to make a micro-HTTP GET request behind the scenes creating a seamless date update without a full page reload. Feel free to download a zip of the sample files in an active server directory. Use modern browsers – Mozilla, Firefox, IE 6 and up.
Just wanted to share a bit, dig in and learn…
Update: Karen has posted links to the workshop files: presentation (.ppt) AND handout (.pdf)
Conferences – Gettin' Pushy!Posted: October 17, 2006 Filed under: conferences/events Leave a comment
So, I'll be attending and presenting at Internet Librarian later this week which has got me thinking about the circles we, librarians, travel. It seems we're awfully comfortable talking to each other and that's a good thing in small doses. But, we have to ask ourselves, "Who is listening?"
What really got me thinking about this was Mark Hirschey's piece in Lawrence Journal World questioning the need for the modern library. Sarah Houghton has responded and John Blyberg pushed her thoughts even further. The gist of John's posting is a call to activism and engagement of citizen concerns: listen to the valid criticisms and make moves to answer them. I'm down with that, but I'm going to take this in a different direction. Part of answering citizen concerns is recognizing that the library as an organization needs to change. I'm going to throw library professional development into the mix. Talking amongst ourselves only gets us so far. It's great for sharing knowledge but there are other opportunities here. To name a few…
- Show others outside of libraries what we can do for them
- Get conversant with the issues in the larger digital world
- Learn from the expertise of other professionals and bring that knowledge back to the library community
What does this have to do with conferences? I'm advocating moving outside of our various library circles. I've seen similar calls from other library bloggers (See Stephen Cohen's Challenge), but it bears repeating. I can't say it much better than Stephen:
"Remember my challenge? Present at or (at least) attend one non-librarian conference this year. Has anyone at least attempted to move beyond their comfort zone? We can speak to each other until we're blue in the "facebook", but we will not succeed until we expand our user base and "mashup" with other professions. Community building involves more than library communities…"
So, get out of your comfort zone. Stretch out a bit and check out how the other half lives. Here are a few tech related events to get you thinking…
- South By SouthWest Interactive – http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/
- O'Reilly Conferences – http://conferences.oreillynet.com/
- Carson Systems Workshops – http://www.carsonworkshops.com/
- Adaptive Path Workshops – http://www.adaptivepath.com/events/workshops/
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I work at Montana State University Libraries. The writings and thoughts contained in this blog are in no way associated with Montana State University or Montana State University Libraries. The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of myself, Jason A. Clark.
about jason a. clarkPosted: October 12, 2006 Filed under: about Leave a comment
Jason A. Clark builds digital library applications and sets digital content strategies for Montana State University Libraries. He writes and presents on a broad range of topics ranging from XML and copyright to interface design and metadata.
Jason first became interested in the intersection between libraries and technology while working as a web administrator for the Division of Information Technology at the University of Wisconsin. After two years, he moved on to lead the web services department at Williams College Libraries. It was here that he began to apply cataloging principles for search and retrieval in general library applications.
When he's not thinking about metadata, Jason likes to hike the mountains of Montana with his wife, Jennifer, and their dog, Oakley.
What's up with Ruby on Rails?Posted: October 12, 2006 Filed under: ruby/rails, webdev Leave a comment
Yeah, I've been playing around with Ruby on Rails and I gotta' say it's pretty slick. Where should I start? Intuitive functions, easy mapping of database table relationships, simple templating (using layout views), MVC (model, view, controller) application architecture…
The MVC structure is nice, but it took me a little time to realize where each piece of the application lived. It also has some data model quirks – all tables must use a plural format naming scheme (e.g., table = users), foreign keys must have a format of "name_id" (e.g., users table foreign key = user_id), column names created_on and updated_on will automatically be populated correctly, etc. You get a sense of these rules as you start to use the framework. The documentation should catch up with these problems eventually. (I hope.)
So it has some limitations, but the real advantage is the generate scaffold command that reads data tables and maps simple html forms and pages for all CRUD (Create, Read, Update, and Delete) functions of a database web app. And this is where it seems to leap ahead of php – you can have a functioning dynamic web app in about a half hour. It's bare bones, but it works. Lots of tutorials and introductions out there. Amy Hoy's Really Getting Started in Rails is one of the better ones. If you are into book learnin', Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic guide is a good place to start. Check it out at http://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/097669400X.


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Success rates with fertility treatments have risen exponentially, along with cutting-edge reproductive techniques like sperm washingthat dramatically reduce the risk of infection to the mother and unborn child. New antiretroviral drug protocols are proving successful for women with HIV who become pregnant. Adoption and foster care adoption are also wonderful ways to create a family with a child or children who are waiting for you.
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Thanks Bernard, we had rain all day but at least it made me stay in the shop and get things done. We usually go out in the barnyard and watch the fireworks the town puts on five miles away. This year the cloud cover was so heavy we could only hear the booms and see a very faint glow.
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Looking at how the Cavs have fared these past two seasons, and looking at the young talent we have moving forward, it's easy to get caught up in the OKC model. I mean after all, it wasn't all that long ago that Seattle was a team falling apart who had drafted some kid name Kevin Durant.
Now, I know that some people on this board don't like to make these types of comparisons...but because I'm bored (recovering from a minor surgery) I have nothing but time on my hands and an excessive amount of energy that I've used to debate on ESPN comment boards. It made me think...how close are we to the OKC model? Ultimately, we're not nearly as close as we should be...and quite possibly closer than most people think.
Let's start with Kyrie Irving (our superstar in the making.) We drafted him to be the face of the franchise...to be our Kevin Durant. Well, some say he's a better shooting version of Westbrook than he is to being Durant. It's closer than you think when you compare all three players second seasons though. From a Per 36 basis, he's a slightly less efficient scorer/shooter than Durant was (and Durant was basically a sieve defensively back in his early playing days.) By season 2, Westbrook was dishing out quite a few assists...but then again, that's easy to do with when you have Harden (a rookie who was hitting 37.5% of his threes) and Durant (connecting on 42.2% of his threes) on your squad. Overall, Kyrie matches up well somewhere between the two. So while we don't quite have Durant, we do have something better than Westbrook. That's not a bad start. I believe you can build a championship around that type of talent.
So of course, we have to look at Dion Waiters. Oh the talent is so tantalizing that it's sick. But for their rookie years, Dion (despite all the headaches that he has caused us) was actually fairly comparable to Harden...despite the fact that Harden had a Westbrook (in his 2nd season) and Durant (in his 3rd season) already drawing NBA defensive attention. He was allowed to be a better shooter...and he clearly was. But Dion still managed to pace him fairly well. Dion was clearly the more high-useage player and it showed up in his TS%...but overall, these guys actually look like decent comparisons. Naturally, Harden improved and we'll need that type of improvement from Dion next season...but I think we can all agree that this is something that we are expecting.
Tristan Thompson vs Serge Ibaka
Comparing Ibaka's 2nd season to TT's second season requires us to remember just what Ibaka truly was so that the comparison can be a bit more fair. To start, Ibaka might not have even been a 5th wheel on those teams (with Durant, Harden, Westbrook and Jeff Green). So his FG% is destroying TT's...because well...nobody expected Ibaka to score. Furthermore, while Ibaka clearly owns TT in the block category, there are any number of easy dunks that he gave up as he was attempting to block everything that came near the basket. He's a much more disciplined defender now...but his second season he was a bird flying at everything. He gave up a lot of points. Seeing Tristan's advanced stats (particularly his rebounding numbers) gives me a lot of hope moving forward. The other thing to really consider is the games started. While both players played in 82 games, Tristan started in all 82 with less talent around him...compared to Ibaka's 44 starts. The 4 extra minutes per game became an extra 350 minutes for TT...which is over 10 games of additional minutes. This was Tristan's first full season after his first full offseason. I really think that with the work ethic he's shown, we've got a gem on our hands here.
The other eerily similar stat between these two teams is the number of wins. Kevin Durant won 20 and 23 games his first two seasons. (The Cavs have 21 and 28...and that includes a lockout shortened season.)
This leads us to finding out other Durant/Westbrook guy. That guy...is probably not in this draft. In fact, at this point, I am fairly certain that this draft is where we really deviate from the OKC model. Instead of getting another dynamic wing, I really believe we are getting another big. I think that with us having two dynamic wings (in Irving and Waiters) we want to cause further matchup problems for other teams moving forward. Whether it's Noel (with us really pushing hard on defense) or Alex Len (who I am starting to believe we are going to take) to make teams pay with a true inside-out game...I believe that the shift will have taken place. There's only so many outside shots...only so many lanes to the hole...and so another big is the likely missing piece to our puzzle moving forward. Dion probably doesn't want to play the Harden-6th man role (even though he did play it at Syracuse).
Yeah - this is probably a disointed read...but I'm on pain meds. So leave me be. LOL


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Just a brief reminder of where all the venom, hate, nastiness and dip cup projectiles needs to be directed this week. Texas Fan posts this gem, just to get you and I engaged.
"All Tech road game newbies: be very careful in Lubbock. That stadium is a den of d bag barbarians with nothing to lose. Tech fan is looking for any excuse to go or dump a dip cup on your head; sometimes both."
billfromlaketraivs now with paragraphs! Hook 'em 2009."
I hereby call on all my fellow d bag barbarians, especially those that I have had cross words with, and say "TRUCE" for the sake of the cause. I say we have a common foe, thereby a common goal. TTUMAR, for this week you and I will not cross swords or growl about throwing fellow d bags under the bus, as we will need your finest motivational music video yet. Tech92, I have your back as the t-sips bring their shiny cars and high held noses to our house, and anyone that that crosses you will have to deal with me. Sticks fans, I swear that there will be an opportunity to see the swiftness of his feet flash on the field of victory, just as we shall see the deadly accuracy of Potts as he slices thru chunks of yardage and steer, and between them we will cheer as the double edge of our sword slays the bevo beast.
We have met the enemy my fellows. He brings the stench of burnt orange and wanton hubris to OUR house. And I say he shall meet us standing shoulder to shoulder.
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Since the regular season is about 3 weeks away, I thought we should start up a fantasy basketball league.
I'm going to make a league on Yahoo! in the next week or so, so if any injuries happen over the next week, we'll know before drafting.
Another reason why I don't want to make it right now is because I don't know how many people want to join. The max size in a league is 20, so if we have more than 20 people who want to join, it's going to be first-come, first-served.
Just comment below if you want to join, so I know how many people we should have.
I'll publish another fanpost around Thursday or Friday, putting the league information in it.
The information I can give you is that it's going to be a head-to-head league with a live online draft maybe next Saturday or Sunday at 4 pm. I'm not sure if you guys want divisions or not, so say yes or no to having them(I could really care less).
For those of you who do want to join, make sure you check back here on Thursday or Friday, so you can see the league ID# and password.


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Hasta la Vista Breast Cancer! by Cureminators - about 4 years ago
"This photo is from the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Raleigh, NC on June 12th. Our team, the "Cureminators", raised over $2000 for breast cancer research in memory of my Mom and my husband's Mom who have both lost their battles with breast cancer in the past few years. Our teammates are friends from all over who supported us through the difficult times we've had, and it was amazing to get together for a celebration of life like this one. I even managed my goal to run the entire 5k for the first time! Thank you to CustomInk.com for helping us get our T-shirts just right to carry us through the event with team spirit and pride. We had a million compliments on them too, which only added to the wonderful time we had together!"


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"Are you sure this world is for you? And are you sure you are the right person to survive in this world—the world of fashion—a world with no rules, no laws? Answer that question honestly for yourself. Are you ready to accept injustice? The idea of the fashion industry may look better from the outside. It can look like the world of dream jobs—for a very happy few."
Trust Karl Lagerfeld to tell it like it is. The designer is one of many high-profile fashion types offering advice on breaking into the industry in editor in chief Amy Astley's new The Teen Vogue Handbook: An Insider's Guide to Careers in Fashion. "Insider" is the operative word. Astley recruited designers like Marc Jacobs and Stella McCartney, photographers like Patrick Demarchelier and Mario Testino, and models Chanel Iman and Caroline Trentini, along with a slew of top stylists, beauty gurus, and editors to participate—and happily, not all of them are quite so blunt as the Kaiser. Astley's former boss at Vogue, Anna Wintour, counsels, "Don't go too fast. Because of reality television and all these celebrities thinking they can be designers, everyone imagines that they can just become a designer, photographer, or model, but that's not the way things work. People have to go to school, learn their craft, and build a brand—that's the right, healthy way to do things." Astley calls the book a no-brainer. "Not a day goes by when I'm not replying to e-mails from young girls asking how to get started in fashion," she says. Her most important tip? "I tell our interns to network as much as they can. And don't impress me, impress the person they're reporting to." But people firmly ensconced in the business will enjoy this photo-packed volume, too. A compendium of the almost seven-year-old magazine's greatest hits, it is, as Astley calls it, "a love letter to our contributors." The book will be released on October 5.
This will be a must have for anyone in and about to enter the fashion world!! And it is being released on the day I start school at Parson's!! OMFG!! Can't wait to pick up my copy!!!
Is it so wrong that I have been out of my teens for [censored] years and completely adore "Teen Vogue"? The editorials are some of the best I've seen.
teen vogue is amazing!!!i love this blog
I think the book is a fabolous idea. There are so many fashion intruderes that want a piece of our world, but have no insite on the content.This industry is a passsion and not a career. Long hours,and sleepless nights,you have to live, breathe,and eat fashion.From culture to couture, you have to know your history as well as product. GOOD lUCK Astley!!!


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11:20am Saturday 22nd September 2012 in News
STAFF at Great Sankey-based United Utilities gave up their time to help clean up the home of Warrington Town.
Twenty staff descended on the Abacus Solicitors Community Stadium, formally Cantilever Park, to give the ground a fresh new look.
Team leader Andrew Cunliffe said: "It has been great to come down and help to support our non-league club. It is a great set up they have here and we are only too happy to get out of the office for a day and provide a service to them."
The group cleaned changing rooms, cleared weeds, painted and helped to clear the car park in preparation for the next home game.
James Standing, the club's community development officer who is sponsored by the company, added: "The help this group has given us in the past and today has been fantastic and we cannot thank them enough."
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What Would Socrates Do?
This post is a tribute to Earl Shorris, one of my favorite writers on education who passed away in 2012. I am reprinting the April 16, 2013 Wall Street Journal Book Review of his latest book, The Art of Freedom. This piece was written by Naomi Schaefer Riley.
In The Art of Freedom, Earl Shorris describes his efforts to establish a set of courses that would teach the core texts of Western civilization to people living in poverty, whose school experience had scanted the canon or skipped it entirely.
Almost two decades ago, Earl Shorris, a novelist and journalist, told the editor at his publishing house that he wanted to write a book about poverty in America.
The editor, to his credit, said that he didn't want just another book describing the problem. He wanted a solution.
So Shorris, who had attended the University of Chicago on a scholarship many years before and who was greatly influenced by its Great Books curriculum, hit upon the idea of teaching the core texts of Western civilization to people living in poverty, whose school experience had scanted the canon or skipped it entirely.
His Eureka moment came when he was visiting a prison and conducting interviews for another book he was planning to write.
He asked one of the women at New York's Bedford Hills maximum security prison why she thought the poor were poor.
"Because they don't have the moral life of downtown," shereplied. "What do you mean by the moral life?" Shorris asked.
"You got to begin with the children . . . ," she said. "You've got to teach the moral life of downtown to the children.
And the way you do that, Earl, is by taking them downtown to plays, museums, concerts, lectures."
He asked whether she meant the humanities. Looking at him as if he were, as he puts it, "the stupidest man on earth," she replied: "Yes, Earl, the humanities."
Poverty, Shorris concluded, was a condition that required more than jobs or money to put right. So he set out to offer the "moral life" as well. Beginning with a class of 25 or so students found through a social service agency in New York, Shorris—along with a few professors he had recruited—taught literature, art history and philosophy. The first classes included readings in Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides and Sophocles.
Thus was born the Clemente Course in the Humanities, which is now the recipient of broad philanthropic support.
It is offered to the poor in more than 20 cities around the United States, as well as in other countries, from South Korea to Canada.
"The Art of Freedom" is a narrative of the program's founding experience as well as a meditation on the Western classics and their effects on readers.
The book, sadly, appears posthumously. Shorris died last year at the age of 75.
The idea of the Clemente Course—named for Roberto Clemente, the baseball player who gave his name to the Manhattan community center where the course debuted—was to "educate a self-selected group of adults living in poverty," in classes taught by professors from nearby colleges and universities.
The spirit of the Great Books program was a key part of the idea: There would be no chasing after trendy reading lists or narrow relevance. When Shorris went to recruit students in the South Bronx, in New York City, a white social worker asked him if he were going to teach African history. "No," he said. "We will teach American history. Of course the history of black people is very important in the development of the United States."
Over time, Shorris began to add texts from the various cultures where the course was being offered—Native American myths, South Korean novels.
But his focus on the Western classics was refreshingly relentless. He was accused of "cultural imperialism," but the charge didn't seem to faze him.
The Clemente Course now taught in Darfur, in the Sudan, teaches John Stuart Mill's "On Liberty."
Shorris had no patience for mediocrity in his project and insisted on only the best professors to teach Clemente's classes. When he had to find staff to teach in Chicago, he writes, "neither Chicago State nor the nearby community college . . . were up to the standards of the Clemente Course."
In the classes he taught, he addressed his students with "Mr." or "Ms." He believed that a proper form of address conveys dignity and avoids the kind of casual relationship that most universities want their students and professors to have.
The Clemente Course differs from life at universities in other ways—for instance, by taking the Western classics seriously. How many college graduates have read Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides and Mill?
It also differs in its sense of what the texts can do.
Much of the liberal arts curriculum in universities today is devoted to learning about oppression of one sort or another, but Shorris argued that the study of the humanities is a fundamentally optimistic endeavor.
Not that Clemente texts are routinely cheery or anodyne.
Shorris himself taught Dostoevsky, "the brilliant archeologist who dared to make us look deep into our dark sides." But Shorris did feel that, by reading and discussing classic texts, life was better or richer in some fundamental sense: more valued, more hopeful, more free.
One way that the humanities can help the poor in particular, according to Shorris, is by making them more "political.
" But, he writes, "I don't mean 'political' in the sense of voting in an election, but in the way Pericles used the word: to mean activity with other people at every level, from the family to the neighborhood to the broader community to the city-state."
The humanities, he tells his first class, "are a foundation for getting along in the world, for thinking, for learning to reflect on the world instead of just reacting to whatever force is turned against you."
Shorris recounts the story of a young man in his first class—a 24-year-old with a history of violent behavior—who called him describing how a woman at work had provoked him. "She made me so mad, I wanted to smack her up against the wall.
I tried to talk to some friends to calm myself down a little, but nobody was around." Shorris asked him what he did, "fearing this was his one telephone call from the city jail." Instead, he told Shorris, "I asked myself, 'What would Socrates do?' "
This article once again makes the point of how simple and deep education should be. Our efforts at Monticello College are inspired by the work of people such as Earl Shorris, Louise Cowan (a great educator and founding fellow of the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture), Viniece Walker (the insightful Bedford prison inmate) and the hundreds of other Liberal Arts advocates who understand the vital necessity of the classics to our culture and our civilization.
Return of the Manual Arts
We have spent considerable space in these posts discussing education, particularly the liberal arts.
This post is dedicated to the lesser known side of our curriculum—the manual arts.
Manual arts are not something that the average American thinks about in the 21st century.
But a hundred years ago, the vast majority of Americans were engaged in the manual arts everyday.
In fact, excluding the last 60 years of developed nations, manual arts were the reality for nearly the entire global population. Even now, most of the seven billion inhabitants on earth engage in the manual arts daily.
Without the manual arts, most of what we enjoy almost unconsciously, would not exist. In our high-tech, synthetic, and artificial world, we have reached a "roman" sense of existence—the only difference from then to now—we just have more sophisticated slaves.*
In a very thought-provoking article by Oliver DeMille, The Future of American Education: 8 Trends Every Parent Should Understand, DeMille gives us a glimpse of what we have become:
Since 2001 a number of social commentators have noted that as a society we are outsourcing more and more of the things that were typically done by families (one of the best works on this is The Future of Business by former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich).
For example, the following list includes things done almost entirely by families in the year 1900:
Food Growing
Reading Bedtime Stories
Sexual Intimacy
Home Repair
Taking Care of Animals
Yard Care
Role Modeling
Teaching Religion
Massage Therapy
The list has changed in the past century, and the victim has been the family. Perhaps the "Big 5" on the list are:
Childcare, which has been outsourced, especially in urban America, to professional childcare institutions.
Food Preparation, which has been outsourced to fast food and pre-packaged meals. For example, 1999 was the first year in which expenditures in the U.S. for fast food exceeded expenditures for groceries.
Entertainment, which used to consist of families reading together or activities like group picnics and outings. Today, even when families are together, they usually sit facing away from each other toward a television, movie screen, or sporting event.
Teaching Religion, which was once seen as the role of parents with the preacher lending a helping hand, is now almost entirely outsourced to the pastor or Sunday school teacher or to some secular alternative.
Education, which historically was overseen by parents who hired and evaluated teachers and did much of the instruction themselves, has now been almost fully outsourced to "the experts."
Another huge trend, which already has drastic consequences that are only beginning to be understood, is the outsourcing of counseling between husband and wife (discussion of their fears, anxieties, worries and fondest dreams) to expert counselors.
Perhaps the 54% divorce rate in the U.S. is connected to this; as Allan Bloom** pointed out in 1987, people live, sleep and sometimes eat together, but they don't think, dream and work together toward a common goal in the same way that our grandparents did. This delegation of intimacy to the experts may yet be the biggest trend of all.
And what is the impact of using videos or DVDs in the place of reading bedtime stories to toddlers? The outsourcing of our families and the things only families can do well is a growing trend, and a very sobering commentary on the future of our society.
Historians might compare it to the fateful practice among French women in the 1750s-1780s of not nursing their own children—of instead turning them over to wet nurses. Few would argue that this was the only cause of the bloodbath and societal fall in the French Revolution in the 1780s, but almost everyone agrees that this was a significant part of it.
So, with all these duties being outsourced, what is left that only the family can do? According to the new economy – nothing. The leading view today is that "It Takes a Village," that even love can be outsourced to teachers, coaches, clubs, and mentors.
The truth is that it does take a village, a community, but a community of families working, playing, cooperating and facing obstacles together, not a community of government institutions.
This idea of outsourcing seems to be a national pastime, albeit there does appear to be a small underground resurgence of the manual arts illustrated by websites such as theurbanfarmingguys.com.
One of the reasons we have disowned the use of the manual arts is due to the steady progression of technology. The advent of labor saving devices (LSDs) has improved our lives in many ways. It has also been the underlying source of a whole host of sedentary lifestyle diseases. Where is the balance?
Labor saving devises or the greater concept of saving labor has an interesting history.
From the advent of the Industrial Revolution, saving labor changed the world from mere survival to producing a cash crop beyond subsistence or allowing a farmer increased discretionary time for more favored pursuits.
By the 1970s the workingman was able to produce much more with a fraction of the backbreaking labor required a century before which stabilized into a 40-hour work-week…increasing discretionary time even further.
It also freed the American housewife of many undesirable chores, and like her spouse, freed up significant "my time"…but to what end?
If it was to allow them to relax a little more, no harm down. If it permitted more time to give to others or to develop talents that would be good too, but unfortunately for most of people, it led to their less ambitious side with copious amounts of time being devoted to the latest entertainment and diversion– Television– late morning and afternoon soap opera TV series such as the "Dark Shadows" or "General Hospital", and time devouring shows such as "The Price is Right."
It allowed them more time to engage in recreation and entertainment on the weekends, often ignoring family, relationships, and service to neighbors, and expanding into long weekends which monopolized the traditional Sabbath for non-Sabbath day activities.
By the 1990s we were thoroughly absorbed by a numbing consumerism, life had gotten pretty easy so labor saving was really no longer the goal, but keeping up with the "Jones," and securing the latest fashions or gadget, or the newest car, or a bigger house was—this really exploded with the advent of computer technology, gaming, and home entertainment from the late 1990s to the present.
The latest chapter in our American LSDs story is resulting in skyrocketing obesity— 70% of all adults and 30% of children in America suffer from poor health and diseases not seen two decades ago.
According to Popular Mechanics (2011), every man should possess certain basic manual art skills.
They provided a list for men to become more manly, clearly an indication that males no longer possess these skills.
Removing anything on the list that was technology related, I am including the remaining 16 manual arts that the modern man has apparently lost:
1. Sharpen a knife
2. Patch a radiator hose
3.Frame a wall
4. Back-up a trailer
5. Build campfire
6. Use an ax properly to chop wood
7. Fix a dead outlet
8. Navigate with a compass and map
9. Fillet a fish
10. Get a car unstuck
11. Paint a room
12. Mix concrete
13. Clean a gun
14. Change oil in a car (and know that the filter needs to be changed too)
15. Paddle a canoe
16. Fix a bike flat
While writing this post, my 22-year-old daughter looked over my shoulder, saw the topic and stated that of her closest 15 male friends ( ages 20-30) only one had competency with all the items on this list. Things that four decades ago any self-respecting man did himself–only specialists can handle today.
Today there are 184 million active facebook users in America (that's 60% of our entire population) spending more than two hours a week on facebook, but if you factor in all online activities (all social media, all gaming, all youtube viewing and other online videos, etc) the percentage sky rockets to almost 25% of our awake time.
For the average American over the age of 16 that can be as much as five hours a day, every day or the equivalent of an entire work week per month. This does not include texting, and playing games on our iphones.
This is all time wherein we are distracted from our loved ones, our community and our social responsibilities.
How do we not see that this is a monumental waste of our national resource of labor, not to mention a decline of our national character?
We are so far removed from reality that we even believe that we can get a sense of the plight of the third world farmer through playing a video game!
LSDs and the specialization of the consumer age has not only made us inept to care for ourselves, it has driven the cost of living many times over what it was just fifty years ago. Are our lives really better and more satisfying now compared to the 1940s?
Working as a youngster on a dairy farm in the mid 1970's, I worked along side sixty year-old men who never had high cholesterol and very little arthritis. They had no weight problems (a little pudgy—they were in their sixties) and were active in every other way. They could put in a 12-hour day of hard farm work as easily as I could. Yet today I see countless 30-something men who are overweight, soft, and would likely expire at the thought of hard physical labor. What has happened to us?
We have forgotten the enjoyment of using our hands, the sense of pride and accomplishment that comes from "doing it ourselves" and the security of self-sufficiency. We have forgotten that human beings are still needed for the most basic necessities of life—food still grows in the ground and must be harvested, fruits still needs to be picked from the tree, cloth is still manually fed into the sewing machine, and fossil fuels and natural resources are still wrenched from the earth— by hand.
Not having personal experience in the manual arts is one level of losing our humanity and threatens civilization—not remembering that someone is practicing the manual arts right now—is a much deeper and catastrophic failure.
We believe that every congressman, every police officer, every corporate CEO, every surgeon, every diplomat, every teacher, every real estate agent; every American citizen would make better decisions, have better morals, and lead happier lives if they were more engaged in the manual arts. In fact, we challenge our reads to do just that– find ways to more deeply engage in the manual arts.
The manual arts are a natural cure for egoism, self-deception, and obesity. The manual arts are an instinctive remedy for a troubled mind and eliminate the need for sleep aids. The manual arts will increase health, vitality, and improve your view of the world. The manual arts enhance our powers of observation and appreciation.
Many of the manual arts involve dirt or soil or being outside in the fresh air—it is spiritually grounding and emotionally balancing.
Some of the least stressed and happiest people I know are masters of the manual arts.
*At the peak of Roman culture there were seven slaves for every roman citizen. The Romans had for the most part completely shunned the manual arts, becoming increasingly dependent on slave labor and the importation of their food supply. We have reached a similar existence. We are becoming more and more dependent on exports and even the manual labor done in this country is emotionally and culturally relegated to a certain segment of our population.
** Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom
The Liberal Arts During Bondage: Part Two; How Do the Liberal Arts Help Us During Bondage?
Bringing You Up To Speed
If you will recall from part one, for the past twenty years, we have taught that America was somewhere on the "pre-bondage" side of the cycle, between Selfishness and Dependence.
As we enter 2013, we have clearly entered the Bondage phase. Just consider the events of the past 12 months:
- Congress passed Obamacare and it was sanctioned by the Supreme Court
- The national plunge over the Fiscal Cliff on January 1, 2013
- The likely lifting of the "Debt Ceiling"– spearheaded by the president
- 23 Executive Orders restricting the Second Amendment out of existence (in addition to hundreds of others the president has issues during his first term in office)
If this doesn't spell BONDAGE then nothing does.
So now that we are in bondage, how do we get out? The normal pattern of this cycle indicates that you don't –you stay in bondage for about 200 years, then an event of significant magnitude catapults you out of bondage momentarily. While you stand bewildered and blinking at the sun like prisoners from Plato's allegoric cave, the power you just overthrew regroups and brings you back into bondage as you quickly circumnavigate the cycle to your original position.
However, all is not lost. There have been a couple of times in history that men did not follow their worst nature and did secure a position in Abundance rather than Bondage and changed the course of history. The 200 years of abundance of the Roman Republic is one of those times, and the 200 years following the creation the United States is another.
America, thanks to founders, has been very slow in working its way back into Bondage, but make no mistake, we are here. And now that we are in bondage, we do not know how long we will be here and that can be scary. But we do know that the only way out of Bondage, the way both the Romans and the people of the American founding era got out was by becoming a people of high humility, high integrity, high literacy, and devotion to Deity—developing Spiritual Faith.
The natural consequence of a people in Bondage developing Spiritual Faith is the advancement of Courage.
Acting on that Courage leads to Liberty. Liberty with such a people always leads to great Abundance.
This is precisely what the pre-American founding era did. They left the religious and tyrannical bondage of England and Europe and removed themselves to the wilderness of America. That removal and subsequent hardship moved them to rely on God and develop Spiritual Faith, Courage, and Liberty in a way they may not have otherwise.
So our path is clear—to get out of bondage we must as a society develop spiritual faith or become a people of high humility, high integrity, high literacy, and devotion to Deity. How do we do that? Let's tackle these one at a time.
Humility and Integrity
The annals of history are full of accounts of people suffering and turning to Deity for relief. The old adage, "there are no atheists in foxholes" is alive and well (a foxhole is a hole or indentation that a solider creates to avoid being shot on the battle field). Humility is not a state of abject poverty or groveling. It is a deep and abiding acknowledgement that we are dependent on a Higher Power. While it may take sometime for the general populace to realize the predicament we are in, we as individuals and families, even communities can become humble, turn to Providence now and aknowledge His ever-protective embrace.
Integrity is a choice. We do not have to go along with the prevailing culture of "take care of me first" or "it's not personal, it's just business" or "if they are dumb enough to fall for trickery, they deserve it." Integrity is a decision to be honest 24/7. This does not mean gullible or foolhardy, it just means being honest and fair, in all situations.
In a phrase – live your religion. I don't care what that is, just stand for something, declare your principles and live by them so that all can see your good works and praise God.
Literacy is always the beginning of liberty. From the 1845 Narrative of Fredrick Douglass we get the essence of the value of literacy. Falling into a rage of anger over the discovery that his young wife was teaching 10-year old Fredrick to read, Douglass's master declared, (Douglass uses his master's own words):
If you give a nigger an inch, he will take an ell (Old English – 45 inches). A nigger should know nothing but to obey his master—to do as his is told. Learning would spoil the best nigger in the world. Now," said he, "if you teach that nigger (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would forever unfit him to be a slave. He would at once become unmanageable, and of no value to his master. As to himself, it could do him no good, but a great deal of harm. It would make him discontented and unhappy.
These words [said Fredrick] sank deep into my heart, stirring up sentiments within, that lay slumbering, and called into existence an entirely new train of thought. . . I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man's power to enslave the black man.
Masters and slaves come in all colors, sizes, and shapes.
This leads us to an in-depth look at literacy and the liberal arts.
In ancient Greece and Rome, the population experienced a natural segregation into two distinct classes; the slave class (those who were slaves or plebes who lived at the level of slaves limited by a slavish mentality) and a class we call, the Liber.
Liber is the Latin word used today for botanical purposes meaning the inner layers of tree bark.
In times gone by, when men had command of written language they would record their histories, laws, businesses transactions etc. on clay tablets, animal hides, papyrus, or even thin layers of tree bark. The creation of these records required a person to possess the skills of thinking, reading, writing, engaging in commerce, contract, and politics. We associate the word Liber with those freemen who possessed and used these skills.
There were varying levels and types of slaves and peasants, and likewise different types of Liber: from citizens to merchants to the aristocracy and royalty. But the fundamental difference between slaves and Liber was the exercise of freedom. It was not enough to be born into a free class, if a person did not exercise that freedom (through daily use of the above mentioned skills) there were plenty of political and ecclesiastical powers ready to snatch it up and exercise it for the free citizen, thus transforming him into a slave.
What is Liberty?
Liber is the root word for liberty. It is also the root word for libro (book) and library. Liberty is the state of being Liber. There is a distinct and deep relationship between the holding and use of a library (especially a private library) and the state of liberty. Liberty is not just the absence of bondage, but the fitness of an individual to exercise the liber skills to be a free citizen (we distinguish freedom from liberty thusly, freedom is individual and liberty is a social or collective action).
The concept of liberty is all but lost in America today. Being a society in bondage, the ability to see our way without government involvement and oversight has vanished. The conception of having a voice and standing completely on our own is nothing but a shadow, eradicated from the modern role of citizenship.
Liber is also the root word for the phrase "Liberal Arts", such as in liberal arts colleges; the arts in a Bachelor of Arts or B.A. degree comes from the term "liberal arts."
The term Liberal Arts or better known as Artes Liberales during the middle ages (10th through 14th centuries) does not mean arts as we understand the word at this present day, but those branches of knowledge which were taught in the schools of that time.
They are called liberal, because they serve the purpose of training the free man, in contrast with artes illiberales, which are pursued for economic purposes.
Artes illiberales or illiberal arts where important but almost exclusively acquired via internships and residencies for good reason as modern employers are finding, regardless the degree a new hire possesses, they still need to engage in OJT to be worth their salt.
The aim of the classical liberal arts was to prepare the student not for gaining a livelihood, but for the pursuit of science in the strict sense of the term, i.e. the combination of philosophy and theology known as scholasticism. This was a preparation for one's philosophy of life, one's moral perspective, a way to see the world and interact in it.
There are seven original or classical liberal arts arranged in two groups, the first comprising grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic, or in other words, the sciences of language, of oratory, and of logic, better known as the artes sermocinales, or language studies; the second group comprises arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music, known as the artes reales.
The classical liberal arts possess a special interest for historians, for in spite of modern pedagogical practices, here stands a two thousand year-old system, still active today, that challenges modern notions of education, surpassing them in both duration and in local ramifications.
But it is equally instructive for the philosopher because thinkers like Pythagoras, Plato, and St. Augustine shared in the framing of the system, and because in general much thought and pedagogical wisdom have been embodied in it.
Further, it is of importance to the practical teacher, because among the comments of so many schoolmen on this subject may be found many suggestions that are of the greatest utility. Aside from the ancients, there are authors such as Locke, Shaftsbury, and Turnbull who have commented greatly on these arts or skills for the development not of a career but of one's personal moral philosophy, which of course dictates so much of what we do in the rest of our lives.
In our day, there are still two types of people—the Liber or liberal arts educated and the not Liber or not liberal arts educated. A liberal arts education does not guarantee moral judgement or moral action, that must still be instilled from youth. But in general, those who are Liber (moral or not) are those who lead society because they know how to think. Those without this type of education, have no choice but to follow.
Other Liberal Arts
In addition to the seven arts cataloged above, over time other great thinkers and teachers have added to the list. Here are Aristotle's considerations for a list of arts required to check the abuse of power and maintain the liberty of society:
- Math
- Science
- Health
- Biology
- Theology
- Philosophy
- Religion
- Ethics
- Fine Arts
- Political Economy
- History
- Jurisprudence
- Literature
To be Liber, according to Aristotle was to have a serious depth of knowledge in all of these areas, not just one or two. Today we have B.A. or B.S. degrees that focus in just one area, but originally the B.A. degree meant to have depth in all the arts of freedom. We cover this in depth in another paper – The State of American Education.
Mortimer Adler the assistant editor of the Great Books of the Western World, a collection published by Britannica and the University of Chicago in 1952, listed the following as skills required to maintain freedom:
- Reading
- Writing
- Speaking
- Listening
- Observing
- Calculating
- Measuring
- Thinking
Adler stated that, "Training in the liberal arts is indispensable to making free men out of children. It prepares them for the uses of freedom — the proper employment of free time and the exercise of political power. It prepares them for leisure and for citizenship.
Robert Hutchins, Adler's partner in the project and president of the University of Chicago at the time declared, "I am afraid we shall have to admit that the educational process in America is either a rather pleasant way of passing the time until we are ready to go to work, or a way of getting ready for some occupation, or a combination of the two. What is missing is education to be human beings, education to make the most of our human powers, education for our responsibilities as members of a democratic society, education for freedom."
Hutchinson continues, "This is what liberal education is. It is the education that prepares us to be free men. You have to have this education . . . if you are going to be an effective citizen of a democracy; for citizenship requires that you understand the world in which you live and that you do not leave your duties to be performed by others, living vicariously and vacuously on their virtue and intelligence. To be free you have to be educated for freedom. This means that you have to think; for the free man is one who thinks for himself."
More Liberal Arts
In the late 1990s a number of prominent schools, Harvard and Princeton to mention two, published lists of skills they projected would be necessary to succeed in the 21st century. Some of these fit our criteria for maintaining liberty and so we include them here:
Harvard School of Law
- The ability to define problems without a guide
- The ability to ask hard questions that challenge prevailing assumptions
- The ability to quickly assimilate needed data from masses of irrelevant information
- The ability to persuade others that your course is the right one
- The ability to discuss ideas with an eye to application
- The ability to think inductively, deductively, and dialectically*
Princeton Undergraduate Program
- The ability to think, speak, and write clearly
- The ability to reason, critically and systematically
- The ability to think independently
- The ability to take the initiative
- The ability to judge what it means to understand something thoroughly
- The ability to see connections among disciplines, ideas, and cultures
In the year 2000, Oliver DeMille added his thoughts to those already mentioned and suggested 4 additional skills for the mix:
- The ability to understand human nature and lead accordingly
- The ability to discern truth from error regardless the source or the delivery
- The ability to discern true from right
- The ability and discipline to do right
The age we are currently experiencing is not only a bondage period of the Tytler cycle but it is also an alignment of the Tytler Cycle and the Saeculum or the Century Cycle. This only happens once in every 8 generations or turnings/seasons of the Saeculum. What we do during this "fourth turning" which means the next couple of decades, will have a dramatic impact on the next two centuries of American existence.
Next part in this series – The Liberal Arts During Bondage: Part Three; The Fourth Turning: The Opportunity of The Century
*Inductive reasoning or thinking is the method of processing information from detailed facts or observations to broader general principles or theories. Deductively reasoning is basically the opposite process, beginning the process from generalities and distilling them down to specifics. Inductive reasoning is sometimes called "bottom-up" thinking and deductive reasoning is called "top-down" thinking. While both methods of reasoning are used in science and elsewhere, induction is used to follow a hunch or dream up a theory, which may of may not be true, while deduction is used to meticulously prove out theories or ideas created by induction.
When thinking dialectically, the thinker will take two or more opposing points of view and pit them against each other, developing each by providing support, raising objections, countering those objections, raising further objections, and so on. Think of opposing attorneys in a court case or debaters.
Dialectical thinking or discussion can be conducted so as to "win" by defeating the positions one disagrees with — using critical insight to support one's own view and pointing out flaws in other views or, if being fair and honest, by conceding points that don't stand up to critique, trying to integrate or incorporate strong points found in other views, and using critical insight to develop a fuller and more accurate view.
The Fat Lady Begins To Sing
And so it begins…
The most recent national election declared the passion of the American people for the Nanny State.
Of the almost 127 million voters, a majority preferred a governing system that favors high taxes, a saturated welfare system, forced health care, and an abundance of government dependent workers.
Apparently we have learned nothing from the real-time occurrences in Europe, most recently in Greece.
So here we go on the carnival ride of our lives. As Congress very predictably followed the president down the rabbit hole, we are in for the spending spree of the century.
As Oliver DeMille put it in a recent article, "Make no mistake. Whatever the pundits say, we fell off the fiscal cliff on January 1, 2013.
'Until House Republicans stand up and simply say "no" to the Obama super-spending agenda, the Spendocracy will grow and a depression is looming.
Indeed, conspiracy theories aside, those who want government to grow are actually benefited by recession and depression because they gain even more demand for increased government involvement."
There is no turning back; in fact, according to a recent Forbes article titled "Do You Live In A Death Spiral State?",this government growth and spending frenzy is not just a national government phenomena; the state and municipal governments are joining the party as fast as they can.
Face it, with more than 20% of the states already upside down, this is our new reality; and the sooner we warm up to it and adjust our thinking, the better for us in the long term.
Quoting from the Forbes article:
Don't buy a house in a state where private sector workers are outnumbered by folks dependent on government.
Thinking about buying a house? Or a municipal bond? Be careful where you put your capital. Don't put it in a state at high risk of a fiscal tailspin.
Eleven states make our list of danger spots for investors.
They can look forward to a rising tax burden, deteriorating state finances and an exodus of employers.
If your career takes you to Los Angeles or Chicago, don't buy a house. Rent.
If you have money in municipal bonds, clean up the portfolio.
Sell holdings from the sick states and reinvest where you're less likely to get clipped. Nebraska and Virginia are unlikely to give their bondholders a Greek haircut.
California and New York are comparatively risky.
Two factors determine whether a state makes this elite list of fiscal hellholes. The first is whether it has more takers than makers. A taker is someone who draws money from the government, as an employee, pensioner or welfare recipient. A maker is someone gainfully employed in the private sector.
Let us give those takers the benefit of our sympathy and assume that every single one of them is a deserving soul. This person is either genuinely needy or a dedicated public servant or the recipient of a well-earned pension.
But what happens when these needy types outnumber the providers?
Taxes get too high.
Prosperous citizens decamp. Employers decamp. That just makes matters worse for the taxpayers left behind.
Let's say you are a software entrepreneur with 100 on your payroll.
If you stay in San Francisco, your crew will support 139 takers. In Texas, they would support only 82. Austin looks very attractive.
Ranked on the taker/maker ratio, our 11 death spiral states range from New Mexico, with 1.53 takers for every maker, down to Ohio, with a 1to1 ratio.
The taker count is the number of state and local government workers plus the number of people on Medicaid plus 1 for each $100,000 of unfunded pension liabilities.
(Sources: the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and a study of state worker pensions done in 2009 by two academics, Joshua Rauh and Rovert NovyMarx. Professor Rauh estimates that the shortage in pension funding is on average a third higher today.)
The second element in the death spiral list is a scorecard of state credit worthiness done by Conning & Co., a money manager known for its measures of risk in insurance company portfolios.
Conning's analysis focuses more on dollars than body counts. Its formula downgrades states for large debts, an uncompetitive business climate, weak home prices and bad trends in employment.
Conning rates North Dakota the safest state to lend money to, Connecticut the most hazardous. A state qualifies for the Forbes death spiral list if its taker/maker ratio exceeds 1.0 and it resides in the bottom half of Conning's ranking.
A final word.
Ideas have consequences, and the consequences of the ideas that are shaping our fast approaching fiscal reality could not be any more obvious. Sure, go ahead, hope and pray that a miracle will occur or that government will come to its senses and stop all new spending and cut deeply into current spending (yes, that means real budget cuts such as reducing or stopping all non-vital services, no new construction projects, and pay raises).
And while you are waiting for that miracle or change of heart, you might consider entertaining the same steps that we have been suggesting for at least two years:
1. Read at least one of the depression books listed below within the next 30 days (no really, just do it).
2. Re-evaluate your current economic and family situation and make hard choices to re-position with a better strategy (down-size, more family time, grow a family or community garden, food storage instead of family vacation).
3. Get as liquid as possible and out of debt as soon as possible. Fire sale opportunities will be on the rise over the next 5-10 years.
4. Start a mini-factory (develop multiple streams of income – home-based business, a cottage industry, enhanced education to shift to more flexible income, parallel incomes, CSA, Network marketing business, etc.) and be as creative and optimistic as possible. These sentiments will soon be in short supply.
5. Create a culture and community of service
6. Create a family legacy. This means lay the groundwork for a multi-generational organization that unifies and protects your family — come what may (true happiness can only be found in family).
Take a look at this list of books to help adjust your thinking and position yourself to succeed during economic hard times at a level we have not experienced in our lifetime:
The Great Depression Ahead – Dent
America's Great Depression – Rothbard
The Fourth Turning – Howe and Straus
The Third Wave – Toffler
5,000 Year Leap – Skousen
The Cube and the Cathedral – Wiegel
The Servile State – Belloc
A Thomas Jefferson Education for Teens – DeMille/Brooks
P.S. Please be sure to do your own research. I am ok if you don't believe me, but for heaven's sake, do not believe those who are saying "don't worry, things are just fine." Get your own sense of truth by doing your own investigation.
The Liberal Arts During Bondage: Part One
[This series of posts are a continuation of the blog posted on January 1, 2013 at Shanonbrooks.com entitled Job Training Versus Character Education]
What does bondage look like?
One attribute of human nature is that we tend to acclimate over time to whatever condition we are experiencing. We get used to the hot or cold weather. We make the best of what foods are available. We become accustomed to the system of governance in which we are raised.
Because of this acclimation–of getting used to even bad situations if we are exposed to them long enough–we have a hard time distinguishing between liberty and bondage.This only changes as education and character changes. Perhaps the better question is, "what does liberty look like?"
To help identify what bondage is, let's identify a few conditions of current American life that historically can be considered bondage (meaning that they are not typically in existence during liberty):
- Automobile laws (seat belts, booster seats, no talking on cell phones, speeding citation system, etc.)
- The Food Modernization Act of 2009 (which if enacted fully, literally controls all food distribution and consumption down to the tomatoes you grow in your backyard)
- Business licensing (why do I have to pay to register my business with a municipality? Why do I have to register at all?
- Building inspection process (why should the government require me to pay them so I can build a house on my property? Why should the government care how I build my house at all? If I build a house unsafely and the government inspector misses it, which results in injury to human beings, can I sue the municipality? Why not just let the builder bear that burden?)
A citizenry in a period of liberty would never allow any of these constraints on society. That is not to say that these measures aren't smart and don't save lives, but liberty dictates that citizens have the right to be unsafe and not smart. Let the culture move the people to better habits, not the government.
A bondage-citizenry, less trusting of themselves and others, will at the very least, point out that these constraints are only slight infringements on personal rights, and in the worst case scenario they will embrace them fully and tattle to the government regarding their neighbor's violations.
As we are currently in bondage, seeing things from the perspective of liberty is nearly impossible; and only prolonged suffering under bondage and a change in education and personal character will open our eyes to the truth of our situation.
The only way out of bondage is to develop a people of high humility, high integrity, high literacy, and devotion to Deity—in a phrase, sound moral character (moral here means to do right even when you have the freedom to do otherwise)—which creates a people steeped in Spiritual Faith.
The natural consequence of a people in bondage developing Spiritual Faith is the advancement of Courage.
Acting on that Courage leads to Liberty. Liberty with such a people always leads to great Abundance.
This is precisely what the pre-American founding era did. They left the religious and tyrannical bondage of England and Europe and removed themselves to the wilderness of America.
That removal and subsequent hardship moved them to rely on God and develop Spiritual Faith, Courage, and Liberty in a way they may not have otherwise.
What does liberty look like?
If you will take a close look at America from 1776 to 1865, you will see what liberty looks like. Imagine a life free from:
- Taxation as we know it today (remember, the 16th amendment was passed with the promise of no taxation beyond 3% of income)
- Licensure as we know it today (if you wanted to run a business, the market would determine in you were worthy and competent)
- Dependence on government (instead of nearly 50% of the population either employed by the government or on some welfare program, 85% of Americans lived on semi- or completely self-providing farms and ranches)
- Government/Business complex as we know it (sure, men will be men, but outside of big business, the average American lived as he chose with little or no interference or oversight from government)
That's what liberty looks like.
The American fight for liberty and subsequent Abundance began in 1776 and died at the end of the American Civil War (1865), the beginning of the national government occupation of the south or what is known as Reconstruction.
To understand this in proper context, we have to first look at the construct of the federal government.
The form and substance of the government established by the American founders was called Federalism.
Contrary to common belief, the founders did not create the federal government and then model the states after it, quite the opposite.
The stars in this graphic represent the 13 original states that had existed as independent colonies or states in and of themselves for 150 years before the federal or general government came into being.
They had no desire to turn over their sovereignty to others, and outside of the powers listed in Article One, Section Eight of the U.S. Constitution—they didn't.
Notice the direction of the power flow indicated by the arrows. Who is the original source of power and authority here? Yes, the states.
The unofficial (the U.S. Constitution directs the states to ensure education in each respective state, not the general government) and non-federally funded American education system of the 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, and the first part of the 20th century, taught federalism as the proper form of government.
The Fed was given twenty specific powers–they are strictly identified in Article One, Section Eight of the U.S. Constitution, they are clear as a bell- a sixth grader can see them, it is that simple. The Fed was given those powers and everything else remained with the states or the people themselves.
Amendments nine and ten of the U.S. Constitution are very clear on this point. This understanding of governing principles was taught for 350 years.
Then from the 1860′s through the early 1900′s a new version of civics was promoted, experimented with, and then universally taught, literally replacing the old understanding within a few decades.
With the old understanding of governing principles gone, it was a simple matter of a generation or two of the new philosophy before contradictory laws could be passed to change our system from Federal to National. Now we live under a very different form of government from the one the founders gave us.
Today we have a national government that holds virtually all the power, delegating what it chooses down to the states.
Consider state budgets before and after this change.
From 1789 to the late 1800s the federal government provided little or no funding to the states to supplement their budgets.
Today in my state of Utah, almost half of our $13 billion budget comes directly from the U.S. government. Utah is literally dependent on the national government for its very existence.
These graphics shows the states having the power and delegating some of their powers to the Federal government and then the national government holding all the power and delegating a little to the states. You can see the difference can't you?
These are two drastically different forms of government. One is called Federalism. The other is called Nationalism. The principles of Federalism were taught to and lived by our ancestors from 1607 until about the 1930's (350 years). Nationalism has been taught for only the last 80 years.
Lincoln is attributed with saying: "The philosophy of the classroom in one generation, will be the philosophy of government in the next."
Reconstruction (national governmental occupation of the south) was the beginning of the end of Liberty (and eventually Abundance) for the American people. At this juncture, it is important to separate the Civil War from the policies of Reconstruction.
President Lincoln was the leader of the nation during the Civil War but that does not mean that he was an admirer of "National" government.
From 1863 to 1869, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson (who became president following Lincoln's assassination on April 14, 1865, only 5 days from the end of hostilities) took a moderate position designed to bring the South back to normal as soon as possible.
It was the Radical Republicans who used Congress to block the moderate approach and prolonged the terrible aftermath.
So it is clear that the idea of secession was settled with the northern victory of the war, but Reconstruction was a whole new phase.
Remember what the issue of the war really was; state self-determination. This actually has a long history going as far back as 1800.
The southern agrarian states believed (based on nearly 200 years of colonial history) that they had a right to live their lives as they chose. The northern industrial states (who controlled Congress) agreed, as long as the south would supply them with cheap cotton.
The south (who controlled the Supreme Court) were rankled at this and either had the court to back them up or simply ignored congressional legislation, a process that came to be known as Nullification. By the time of the Civil War, this nullification dance had been going on for over 60 years.
Many in the halls of Congress (now moving quickly away from a Federal philosophy to a National philosophy) used this victory and a superior status to punish the south for a half a century of Nullification.
Compared to what the American founders established in 1789, we have been living under a tyrannical government for the last century. What an absurd statement, you might say—but remember, never having lived under the original system and being taught that what we have currently is what the founders created, why would we question?
The next part in this series is: The Liberal Arts During Bondage; Part Two: "How Do the Liberal Arts Help Us During Bondage?"
Funding Is Half Way There
Last month we sent out an email (The Right Idea At The Right Time) comparing the beginnings of Monticello College to other now well-known colleges and universities.
We showed you the simple solution used by many institutions of higher learning centuries ago and how it stabilized those schools to become the great educational pillars they are today.
We laid out our building plan and shared our initial funding goal for phase one of this campaign which is to secure 100 individuals or families who support Monticello College and are willing to donate at least $25 per month for 24 months.
We are happy to announce that many of you heard our appeal and have committed to help us.
To date 32 donors are providing monthly donations totaling $1,357 per month, just short of 50% of our goal. To those who are currently donating, thank you so much, we appreciate your sacrifice and support.
If you have thought about supporting us but haven't done so yet, please reconsider and help us rebuild our American tradition of liberty and independence through Monticello College.
If $25 a month is too much, any amount would help, not only financially but, sometimes feeling the support of others buoys' us up in ways that are not easily measured.
As we mentioned in our first email, our curriculum is in place, the campus property is completely paid for, the first building is completed and in use, three mentors are currently teaching classes and three more are in training. The administration and faculty have been carefully selected and are men and women who have dedicated their adult lives to be instruments in the fulfillment of our mission:
Monticello College is dedicated to cultivating an education and environment that foster public virtue, induce moral character, and emulate the courage and foresight of the American founding period, preparing our graduates to guard the principles of liberty.
Help us to establish a training ground for public virtue, moral character, courage and foresight to guard the principles of liberty.
Liberty is our legacy.
To join our monthly donation campaign, please go to Robert Morris Foundation. For other donations and to keep up with the Monticello Campus Building Project, go to Campus Building Project.*
* All donations to this campaign will/should be indentified as Robert Morris Foundation/MC contributions. The Robert Morris Foundation is a 501 (c) (3) philanthropic organization that has partnered with Monticello College.Funds raised via this campaign may only be use to develop the campus of Monticello College.


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There's never a good time to start a new religion. While common hazards used to include stoning or crucifixion, today's would-be prophets face a new hurdle: fact-checkers.
Lawrence Wright's insightful, gripping, and ultimately tragic exposé of Scientology, "Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief,'' grew out of his 2011 New Yorker profile of Oscar-winning screenwriter/director and Scientology defector Paul Haggis, who told Wright plainly: "I was in a cult for thirty-four years." During that time Haggis refrained from investigating anything negative he heard about his religion because he was "afraid of looking."


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The great outdoors can be fun and enjoyable, but what about when you get busy and forget about something you wanted to attend? The Cape Girardeau Conservation Nature Center has added text alerts to the methods you can use to keep track of events at the center. By texting the word "nature" to 91212, you will receive up to two texts per week to remind them of free family fun events at the Nature Center.
Nature Center Manager Sara Turner says they have a lot of people say they wanted to attend an event but forgot, or didn't know it was happening, and is utilizing texting to better serve the area and make sure everyone has an opportunity to discover nature. The Nature Center also has a quarterly newsletter that is sent via email to subscribers and a schedule of events for the center is online at mdc.mo.gov.
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"The Three Musketeers" will be brought to life on the Laughlin Center stage at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. "The Three Musketeers" is being performed by the RCHS Advance Theater program under the direction of Jennie Tague. Tickets are $7 each with reserved seating available. Tickets may be purchased from any cast member or by e-mailing Jennie Tague at email@example.com or by calling her at RCHS at 932-3901 ext. 258.
Veteran director and teacher for the theater and advances theater classes at RCHS Jennie Tague says, "The updated version weaves the heroism of Athos, Porthos and Aramis (the three musketeers) with a fresh take on stage comedy."
The cast and crew of "The Three Musketeers" called on sword experts during rehearsals of the production to insure that the action is equal to the comedy and the drama audiences are invited to enjoy this weekend. "To help sell the believability of the many sword fights that take place throughout the play, we're working with stage combat experts from Ball State," Tague said. The students were taught the basics of stage fighting and how to use fencing swords as well as other weapons. The students participated in several workshops to prepare for the show."
Costuming for this show has been helped along by the graciousness of RCHS choral director Paul Grizzard and his Madrigal students. The authenticity of the time period will be well represented through costuming for the entire cast.
This adaptation of "The Three Musketeers" is based on the timeless swashbuckler by Alexandre Dumas, a tale of heroism, treachery, close escapes and above all, honor.
The story, set in 1625, begins with d'Artagnan, a young Frenchman from Gascony, who sets off for Paris in search of adventure. Along with d'Artagnan goes Sabine, his sister, the quintessential tomboy. Sent with d'Artagnan to attend a convent school in Paris, she poses as a young man – d'Artagnan's servant – and quickly becomes entangled in her brother's adventures.


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