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If you are looking for a beautiful, comfortable, newly renovated, spacious, perfectly located within the town, full equipped attic for your holiday or your working period in Como, you are in the right place !
This charming home is located in the magnificent city of Como and is only five minutes from the lake.
You are within walking distance of all that this lovely lake side city has to offer which includes restaurants, shopping, bars, train stations, supermarkets, museums and churches.
You do not need a car to visit the city because the property is located in the historic city center. However a private, secure parking place near the apartment is included in the price. Having parking in town is a great perk because in Como parking spaces are rare and expensive !
You will find all the comforts of a real home from home such as bed linen, towels, a new plasma 42 inches TV, internet access, dvd player, air conditioning, underfloor heating, balconies in each rooms, a big shower and a huge bathtub!
The apartment is on the fourth floor.
In the building there is a new lift until the third floor and then a spiral staircase to reach the apartment on the fourth floor.
How many rooms are there in the apartment ?
- Bedroom # 1 with a double bed, a large wardrobe and a little balcony.
- Bedroom # 2 with a double bed, a large wardarobe a little balcony and an ensuite bathroom.
- Bedroom # 3 with a double bed, a large wardrobe and a little balcony.
- Bathroom # 1 with a big shower.
- Bathroom # 2 with an enormous bathtub.
- A fully equipped kitchen: refrigerator, freezer, 4 ring stove, blender, oven, microwave, dish washer, cooking utensils, toaster, spices, italian , american, turkish coffee maker, teapot.....
- A dining room with a table for 6 person and two highchairs, dishes and cutlery for your little children !
- A living room with a large sofa for three people, two comfortable armchairs and a big sofa bed.
- A laundry room with washing machine, dryer machine, iron, ironing board, detergent..
What is included in the price ?
- Taxes,
- Final Cleaning Fee,
- Private garage for one car,
- Wifi free internet connection.
- Air conditioning,
- Bed linen, towels,
- Change linen and towels once a week,
- Shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, soaps, hairdryer
- Two Cots, Toys for all ages, one Stroller.
- Two high chairs, dishes and cutlery for little guests.
Where is located the apartment ?
The apartment is located in the heart of central Como, perfectly located for both tourists and business guests:
- Cathedral of Como (3 min away by walking)
- Train Station (10 min away by walking)
- Ferry boat (5 min away by walking)
- Lake Como (5 min away by walking)
- Highway (15 min away by driving)
- Many local restaurants (2 min away by walking)
- Supermarkets (5 min away by walking)
My name is Sveva and I live in the beautiful and romantic historic center of Como.
In the year 2010 me and my brother, the architect, decided to renovate the attic above my flat into a modern and exclusive penthouse and now I'm very proud of the result.
I take care of the house in every little detail because I want my guests feel like home.
Decorating homes has always been my favorite hobby and my passion.
I am sure that you will have a unique experience in Como !
Sveva purchased this apartment in 2010
I just can write down what the architect said:
' I must thank Sveva for giving me the chance to do what I like best. As an architect I was so happy to give her place a new life. Beauty is in simple things. The site had such strong vibrations and history that only with a plain and fair approach it could turn out in a modern yet friendly house: a perfect place to live. Now that my job is done I can tell that her concern in giving the best she can when it comes to please her guests suits perfectly with the image I had in mind when the project started. I would recommend this solution because it was intended to give friendly and familiar feelings and my sister is working hard to make it concrete.'
When I saw this house for the first time, I simply fell in love with it for its fantastic position, its atmpsphere and its luminosity.
Our family of 6 adults had a wonderful time at Sveva's apartment in Como. It's a very comfortable, large space. Sveva arranged transport for us from the airport and then met us at the apartment with a bottle of Chianti, not a bad way to start a vacation!
The apartment in the old town, so it's very walkable to all tourist attractions, the funicolare that goes up the mountain to hiking trails, and the boats to other towns on the lake. It's also a 5-min walk to a well-stocked Carrefour supermarket, and an 8-min walk to the train, should you want to do a day trip to Milan or Lugano.
Absolutely fantastic trip and accommodations. Grazie Mille, Sveva, e arriverderci!
The apartment is everything you would wish for, it's light, airy, comfortable and feels like home. We had no worries at all whilst there as the apartment is very safe and conveniently located within the beautiful historic part of Como. The owner Sveva is lovely and very helpful. Como is also very centrally located and has some wonderful shops. If you stay here you will really feel that you have had a holiday .
Loved the location! Great place, well equipped. Stairs to apt were a little difficult for my mom, but we did not have a problem. Thanks for a wonderful stay!
The perfect place to stay while you explore Como and all the delightful towns around the lake . Sveva was the ideal hostess providing all the extra little touches like a bottle of wine, chocolates and biscuits on arrival and leaving a book of restaurant suggestions and recommended places to visit. The flat was beautiful with everything in it that you would need and it was a joy to come
home to it each evening after a busy day of sightseeing. The bakery at the end of the street was a particular favourite and their quiches and a bottle of wine was the perfect way to relax and plan the next day's adventures.
Stayed here in May, 2016. The apartment was spotless and plenty of room for three couples. Bathrooms were roomy, one huge shower (!) and a tub. Had a lift almost to the apartment, so only had to get our luggage up one circular stairway. Having traveled a lot in Italy, it is always nice to have a lift! The apartment was conveniently located and we enjoyed the balconies and the views of Como. Definitely recommend this apartment, Sveva was a very gracious and attentive hostess, even had a bottle of wine with 6 glasses waiting for us on arrival.
The kindness started with me jumping out of my car and the owner, Sveva, parking it for me and from there on it was apparent that my friends and I had happened upon a very special person in a very special place. The newly renovated apartment in the perfect location in Como City. The apartment itself is beautiful and attention to detail is found everywhere. In the kitchen a welcome gift awaited us, in the bedrooms- a little chocolate by the bed and in the bathrooms personal sized toiletries line the counter. The beds were beyond comfortable and the collection of cd's played nonstop. The owner was generous with information about the city and truly made our stay memorable. I cannot thank her enough for her hospitality. You cannot go wrong with this apartment (unless you have an issue with stairs).
The Lake Como is an enchanted place, considered as one of the most beautiful destinations of Europe. A land of picturesque landscapes, flowery gardens and mountains reflecting in lakes basin waters. A portion of Lombardy to be visited and lived intensely, looking for old mansions, botanic gardens, museums and palaces.
Endless natural beauties and an original and fascinating artistic heritage in which three main trends may easily be outlined. The first more garish, is formed by the Lake Como Villas, unique in the world both for their architectural and landscape value and for the treasures they contain. The second, more hidden and cultured, is formed by the incredible concentration in this territory of Romanesque churches, that testify a brilliant and flourishing Middle Age.
The third asset, more evocative and intriguing, consists of the many fortifications of different ages, with with their own asset of anecdotes and legends, reminding of a turbulent and adventurous past .
Other Activities: Seaplane tour
Golf: Lake Como has many golf courses which can be easily reached by car:
* The Menaggio & Cadenabbia Golf Club is a cradle of Italian beauty. A corner reminiscent of Britain overlooking Lake Como. A natural course with old world appeal. A heritage of golfing culture. The elevated position of its course provides a breathtaking view over some of Lake Como's most beautiful scenery towards Argegno on the one hand and towards the arm of Lake Lecco on the other skimming over Bellagio and the peaks of the Central Alps. Menaggio is a characteristic preAlpine course with holes sloping upwards and downwards.
* The path of the Golf Villa d'Estate was built in 1926. It stands on the hills overlooking Lake Como Montorfano, in a forest of over thirty thousand trees. Chestnut, pine and birch help to create a scenario of outstanding natural beauty.
* The Golf Club Monticello is the most famous names in international golfing have played on this course which has housed as many as 7 Italian Opens.
* The Pinetina Golf Club, seventy hectares of green inside the Pineta Park Appiano Gentile and Tradate with its forests of pine sylvestre, birch, oak and chestnut trees, far from roads, noise and daily stress. Here, on the fantastic 18holes, you can hear the breath of nature, to observe the flight of the falcon and the race of the hare.
*The Golf Club Lanzo set within an age-old beech wood and framed by magnificent scenery, it is extremely challenging on account of its double tee-offs and natural hazard
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2 night minimum stay
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Autumn 2016
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Christmas 2016
17 Dec 2016 - 7 Jan 2017
3 night minimum stay
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Winter 2017
8 Jan 2017 - 11 Mar 2017
2 night minimum stay
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12 Mar 2017 - 30 May 2017
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Summer 2017
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Changeover Day: Saturday
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Autumn 2017
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Church Service in commemoration of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
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This is an annual homecoming event for past and present residents of Betsy Bay, Mayaguana. It takes place on the Betsy Bay School grounds and begins…
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Making the general public aware of drug abuse.
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Skip to comments.Will Dumping Math Requirements Increase College Grad Rates? / worthless college degrees
Posted on 08/23/2012 5:31:40 PM PDT by wintertime
HetchingerEd is offering a rather radical proposal to increase the number of American students who graduate college: dump math. Specifically, the argument is that since many college students, a disproportionately large number of them of an African-American or Hispanic descent, are unprepared to tackle college-level mathematics courses, they might be stymied by a requirement that all those receiving a degree from a particular institution must pass the freshman version of the course.
A fifth of students entering a four-year college dont have the needed math skills to pass the course and are forced into remediation. Nearly half of community college freshmen find themselves in a similar situation. This delay makes it much less likely that they will be able to graduate on time or graduate at all. Only a tenth of community college students who take remedial college courses finish their college programs in 3 years, and only a third of four-year students complete theirs in 6 years.
Those statistics come from a report on remediation published in April by Complete College America. The reports numbers suggest that math requirements may be the primary obstacle to graduation for many students: In many states, a larger percentage of students enroll in remedial math courses than in remedial English courses.
These numbers ignited a debate among education experts with many calling for better algebra preparedness in high school, while an increasingly loud minority suggesting that colleges do away with universal math requirements altogether.
(Excerpt) Read more at educationnews.org ...
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Bah! When I started coding we didn't even have 1's; only 0's. And we were grateful, GRATEFUL to even have that.
1912 Eighth Grade Examination for Bullitt County Schools
Take this 1931 8th grade test (you will probably flunk)
My wife is a RN, and back when she was in school for Nursing, she said that a LOT of the students failed because of the Math alone. Luckily, she was always great in Math, and it was a breeze for her. I looked at it, and I could fully understand how it could be very difficult for some(I'm not great with Math myself).
Ding Ding Ding - We have a winner.
This is the reason employers are now demanding internships.
Personally, if I were an employer I would ask for SAT or ACT scores. ( I retired a few years ago and no longer hire people.)
Historically, little of the work done in the U.S. needed a college degree, and even today, most of what a person learns about a job is "on the job". A solid eighth grade education was more than sufficient for my parent's generation ( born 1913) and should be enough today, coupled (possibly) with selected college level course work. Employers should dump the college degree requirement and merely use SAT scores and ( possibly) a few specific college courses.
Charles Murray, author of "The Bell Curve" recommends dumping the majority of college degrees and moving toward certifiable qualifying exams. A tremendous amount of course work is already available for *free* online. What is missing is a way to prove to an employer that the information has been mastered. Certifiable qualifying exams, SAT and/or ACT scores, and internships could prove to an employer that an applicant was motivated, focused, and intelligent enough to do the job.
Just imagine how many high paying jobs are available for a B.A. in Afro-American or Latino Studies (with or without a math requirement)? Answer: zero, zip, nada, none.
Better that high school grads go into a trade school or other professional training that doesn't need a college degree. One thing for certain, you won't be paying for a worthless $100,000+ piece of paper with an embossed seal.
Please... we DO NOT need to further dumb down education in this country. We've already dumbed it down to the point that Wendy's has trouble find people who can reliably take orders and run the cash register. Kids graduating today have mush for brains. It's sorrowful.
We need to start building education back up. The sooner the better.
The only thing that should be graded in America's schools...including its universities...is self esteem.Grads with high self esteem will be able to compete very well with the Chinese,Japanese,South Koreans and Germans.
Probably OK unless the degree is in mathematics, statistics, any quantified science, medicine, engineering, computer programming or quantified business major, including accounting. You could dispense with the GBS/GBA requirements for those, but not with the math, physics, and core courses. Simply impossible to do without those. Sorry, but people doing science and technology need to be well-educated. Aptitude or general intelligence (which is mostly what SAT measures) are not enough.
My father and mother were born in 1913. Few of this generation graduated from high school let along went to college, but look at the health, wealth, and fun produced by this ( greatest) generation. If college was not required for most of the work done then ( except for some very specific professions) then the same is true today.
Sitting here laughing. Very cute!
IMO, a better choice is to drop the algebra and trigonometry for most college majors and replace it with accounting, statistics and probability. These math skills are most often used in the real world, while still adhering to the "you need to learn math in college" standard.
Their should be "There". Oops!
I absolutely agree with you, and so does Charles Murray, that some professions absolutely require a university setting.
But? ....Do you think that everything those in the science professions study needs to be acquired on a campus. There are AP ( advanced placement) tests now given on the high school level that are fully accepted by many colleges. There is a wide variety of AP tests offered.
One young man in my church has a masters in chemical engineering and he complete nearly two years of college credit by taking AP courses ( a certifiable qualifying exam). It saved him a ton of money and **time**.
"IMO, a better choice is to drop the algebra and trigonometry...."
I never thought I'd actually use algebra in day-to-day life, but I was proven very wrong. I had to use it regularly for years, and still occasionally do. Trig. on the other hand, I've never used. Every college student should know at least basic algebra.
"Specifically, the argument is that since many college students, a disproportionately large number of them of an African-American or Hispanic descent, are unprepared to tackle college-level mathematics courses, they might be stymied by a requirement that all those receiving a degree from a particular institution must pass the freshman version of the course."
So let's admit it, blacks are a bunch of IDIOTS and should not be held to the standards that white America is held to. But consider this:
My kids went to Christian schools here in Houston. They were years ahead of their grade level (since we taught them before entering schools and then on the side), but they had to compete against this no-name BLACK school, Imani, in spelling and math Olympics. These kids literally, at least in Houston, BLEW THE DOORS OFF of white Christian School kids. My kids managed to beat them, but only because of their education outside of schools.
One other thing worth mentioning. These Imani kids knew how to cheer for and support their classmates. They also knew how to behave and put the whities to shame when it was time to be quiet and respectful.
I realize that Jesse, Shelia, and the rest just wish these kids would go away - but some of us are VERY PROUD of them.
A better choice would be to drop college attendance completely and take accounting, statistics, and probability if needed by the job.
Think about it. Why does the Marriott Hotel check-in clerk need a college degree, accounting, statistics, or probability unless, ( by demonstrating focus and dedication) she/he would be identified as someone who should be groomed for management. A solid eighth grade education should be more than enough to do the job.
Welcome to the warped world of the Pooblik Skool Collective.
A godless, single-payer,compulsory use, compulsory funded, prison-like, socialist-entitlement, and price-fixed cartel! Managed by the People's Collective elected by the Voting Mob! ( Misnamed School Board)
"A solid eighth grade education should be more than enough to do the job."
My grandfather had an 8th grade education and was married to a school teacher. I'm guessing his education was a heck of a lot better than what we're graduating today.
No, no. Men are rational. Women are irrational. If men are real, women are imaginary.
You bet! And....The majority of his generation attended one-room schools.
So?...Think of a nice cozy one room school where all the parents know each other well and the teacher, and then compare that to your local public school that looks like a minimum security prison. Many of the towns in my state have elementary schools with FOUR first grades. What is that? A factory? A prison?
My son got his B.S. in Mech. Eng. from the University of Illinois. He had to pay an extra $3K in tuition each year. The concept is that an engineering lab costs a lot more to build and run than a library. Also, an engineering professor can make more as an engineer than an English professor can at ... whatever else an English professor might do for a living.
OTOH, he got a job that paid $55K/year + a car and overtime when he graduated.
And some men are imaginary.
I learn something new every day on Free Republic. I had no idea.
"The majority of his generation attended one-room schools."
And they learned using chalk and slate. Parent's didn't have to sign a waiver to pay $1000 if the personal lap top was damaged, they didn't need a computer lab, they didn't have reams of paper in all the colors of the rainbow, as well as paint, colored pencils, magic markers, or paper towels, Kleen-x, etc. How did we ever manage to get where we are? When I got the list from my daughter's school of what was expected to be sent for the "collective," I had more than a few expletives I wanted to write on the paper and send back. They aren't schools, they're social engineering centers run by the government funneling money to unions. If we hadn't been in bankruptcy thanks to Bush and being directly targeted by the government, she'd never have stepped foot in a public school.
And they learned using chalk and slate. Parent
"And they learned using chalk and slate. Parent"
But I repeat myself. Still good advice- parent your children.
I have a degree in chem Eng from a world renowned university. I was required among other math related courses to take a course called 'Higher Math for Engineers and Physicists'. In my many years of industrial work I came away with the idea that there is certainly a a place/purpose for having the reasoning capability of the higher math. However, there is probably just as many places/purposes where a much lower level of math by some 'technician' is needed to get a project successfully completed. There is no substitute for coordinated levels of mathematical capabilities.
Did you have t-shirt that read-
"Chem Es Do It In Packed Beds"
That was my personal favorite college t-shirt back in the 70's.
I have an abacus which my father taught me how to use for simple math calculations when I was very young (a long, long time ago). My eleven-year-old grandson who spent a week with me while his parents were out of the city saw it on the table and asked what it was so spent time on several days teaching him how it works. His father, who received straight A's in all math and physics classes was impressed. Grandson is going to take it to school this fall and teach kids in his class.
BTW, I still have my slide ruler. Didn't like using it when I had to. If ammo weren't so expensive, I might also consider putting a bullet through mind. Trig and calculus were difficult for all my female college classmates. Maybe because women think they have to understand and analyze everything right down to a gnat's ass. Once I figured out you just do it and move on, it was somewhat less difficult.
Eliminate any course that requires effort and an IQ over 75 and Obama sons', illegal aliens' and welfare parasites' graduation rates and college degrees will soar.
And they will all be more than qualified to serve in government jobs.
A win-win.
For Obama voters.
People do not understand the concept of percentage. They cannot even look at raw numbers and realize that a drop from 44,000 to 31,000 is not a greater than 50% decrease.
Come now, there are hundreds of thousands of jobs for such folks in government bureaucracies, academia, and large corporations.
I googled the Ohio State University web site for the word "diversity". There were over 80,000 hits. Within the first ten pages you can find the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the Diversity Services Office, the Vice Provost for Outreach and Engagement, the Diversity Council, the Diversity & Identity Studies Collective, the Diversity Counseling & Consultation Service, the Multicultural Center, the Faculty Diversity Committee, the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Diversity Catalyst Team, the Faculty of Color Caucus, the Diversity Enhancement Program, and separate diversity offices for the colleges of medicine, law, optometry, engineering, business, nursing, education, arts & sciences, and public health.
Hundreds of jobs right there, by golly.
Millions for "diversity"...but not one cent for math.
No, no, not sell! Just give it to them. Why bother going through all this time, fuss, and expense. Just ask minorities what they want their degree to be, and give them the diploma.
College has become a joke now anyway. Have you heard any college athletes speaking lately? Many of them can't even speak proper English. Just give them the degree and be done with it. Employers must find a different way to assess an applicant's skills and education. Maybe soon we will abandon our overrated colleges and let kids learn on the job working as interns or apprentices. Makes more sense than what we are doing now.
And...back in those days, fifty years ago, there were complaints that an MIT-style education in science and math produced an exam-passing machine that couldn't think his way out of a paper bag if there were no way to quantify it.
Seems quaint in restrospect, doesn't it?
Agreed. A bunch of those students might even pass. There was a report that colleges make money from remedial courses and lose money on some of the college-level courses. Who knows how many of those students really need to take remedial classes... No doubt, they're performing poorly on the entrance exams, but maybe once in class they'll remember what they learned in high school.
Many eons ago, I was one of those students - twice ordered into remedial math, first at a community college and later at a university - after being away from school for awhile. Thanks to some fast-talking, I was allowed to register for college level math, anyway, and I earned an A in both courses.
The exact opposite is happening: The money from remedial classes is subsidizing some of the higher, college-level courses that are big money losers for the college. I wish I could find the study posted here a few years ago, but a search doesn't bring it up. It had to do with certain courses - such as lab sciences, if I remember correctly - being money losers for colleges, while remedial courses brought in more money.
My 16yo son has been banking credits in math at a local college. So I hear ya' on the added fees. It would be worse, though, to have to pay hundreds for a course that carries no credit.
***SNERK*** This is the story this week?
The above is the dismissive remark of someone who claims to be a professional public school teacher.
Well....Hopefully, some lawyers, who are "meaner than a junkyard dog", will pick up on this.
It is, in my opinion, criminally fraudulent to award grades, make our passing report cards, and award government high school diplomas to students who are illiterate and innumerate or barely so. These are government documents. Teachers and principals who do this are lying to the student, the parents, the taxpayers, the school board, and the legislators. It is also malpractice.
Teachers and principals want to be considered "professionals". In any other profession to submit government forms that are **deliberately** false is a CRIME. It is also malpractice. Other professionals are personally sued and have their licenses to practice revoked.
Where are the attorney who will go after these teachers and principals and the **personal** wealth of these government workers? They do have malpractice insurance.
It shows the education of the writer when the 'from' is dropped in the first sentence. I couldn't read any more after that.
The above is the whining of a failed "Medical Professional" who used the public school system when it was convenient. This person would rather sit around and do nothing after having used the system to their own ends. It should also be noted that their own children view them as so extreme that they have sent their own children to public and parochial schools.
If this person had a shred of dignity they would reimburse the system for all the money that they sucked from the public teat and now whine about.
How about ponying up some cash to one of these lawyers so they can take the case. maybe have some of your home schooling allies start a fund to pay the lawyer for their services.
>>The above is the whining of a failed "Medical Professional" who used the public school system when it was convenient.<<
We who homeschool PAY for the public school system. We complain about the substandard education given. There is a reason for that. (In fact, in owning a home since 1989, and having parents who owned a home since 1961 and sending all of us to Catholic School, I would say, my family has paid a whole lot). In the world, the public school education is inadequate. We keep paying into it.
So stating that using the public school system when it was convenient is disingenuous. Using something that we are forced to pay for and using it in hopes that "this time" it will be better, is human nature.
It's nice to be on the receiving end of the gravy train, however.
And let me add, I'm not going to complain about the dumbing down of the schools. My 12-year-old was just accepted into Rochester College. (along with her sister who is 14) I'll work on improving the schools once they are squared away.
Quaint but ultimately true in my experience.
In an increasingly distant past life, I directed the research of of more than a few technical PhD students who I would not even consider letting baby sit my Goldfish for the weekend, much less do anything complex like manage the grave yard shift at the local Piggly Wiggly mini mart.
Math and Science knowledge is critical to managing ones life and being a responsible voting citizen in our modern technical society, but without a solid knowledge of History (including Western Civ), Logic, Ethics, Philosophy, the Social Sciences and the full range of other Liberal Arts disciplines.
Even for a highly trained technical professional, in real world design and problem solving, the hard core STEM curriculum primarily allows you supplant your creativity, intuition, project management/organizational skills and design skills or judgment with realistic physical understanding of what you are trying to accomplish and to predict and model the performance of a design before building it.
To combine all of these elements requires a well trained, finely honed critical thinking process to anticipate what needs to be accomplished to produce a successful project and to anticipate potential problems and eliminate or work around those problems as part of the process using sound judgment.
A strong moral compass and a well formed sense of ethics and intellectual honesty is also surprisingly important to getting a complex and difficult job done.
These characteristics are also of major importance to evaluate whether or not the work one is doing is ethical to begin with, whether it will be used in an ethical fashion once it finished, and whether the work will cause harm to damage to individual people or to society in general.
As our advanced technology and advanced tools puts powerful capabilities in a relatively small handful of people to create amazing but potentially problematic or dangerous work products, a strong sense of ethics and the critical thinking skills base a strong sense of morality to make appropriate becomes of utmost importance.
Unfortunately, our Left wing Faculty and Administration would prefer to teach subversive PC drivel and egg their students on to storm the Mall and shout meaningless slogans like "Hey,hey, ho,ho - Western Civ has got go", the ever popular "We're here, we're Queer - get over it" and the increasingly meaningless, "No Justice, no peace"
Ironically since the Radical Profs and Students have killed the study of History and Western Civ , Logic, Ethics and the study of the works of all those homophobic, misogynistic, racist dead white male oppressors through the ages, they have no grasp or understanding of the concept and true meaning of Justice nor can they understand it's proper place and proper application in a Fair and Just Society.
This is significant because the concept of Justice is fundamental to the Rule of Law and the proper application of the Rules of Law in a Fair and Just Society.
As soon as the understanding of the principals, the moral values,and the sense of right, wrong that form the basis of our shared concept of equity and basic fairness are eroded or revised, the fundamental meaning of Justice is lost, and the Rule of Law becomes increasingly replaced Lawlessness and the Rule of Man and Injustice prevails over Justice.
The destruction of our truly Just System in the pursuit of some false Utopian Justice System based on a distorted, revisionist concept of Justice was a major goal of the Radical Profs. Unfortunately, this new Utopian, revisionist concept of "Justice" forced on us by the radicals most closely resembles the concept of "Injustice" to all of us with a more traditional world view and value system.
A quick review of recent events in our current so called "Justice System" suggests we may be well along in this process.
Having been at ground zero at the birth of the PC movement in the 80's, I can attest to the fact that the PC movement was fomented, organized and led by the newly tenured Radical Left Wing professors , many of whom had no interest in scholarly or intellectual goals and who instead studied for their PhDs so they could avoid the Draft and organize campus protests and use their academic positions to indoctrinate student to further their political goals.
Now these same Profs who led the PC charge are trying to complete their goals of the destruction of our eduction system and the eduction of a new generation of students who are educated based on radicalization, political indoctrination, and the development of an illogical, emotion driven thought process.
This new concept of eduction is based on a twisted and distorted set of revisionist ethical principals and assumptions which are devoid of any moral,logical, rational foundation and one which is ignorant of several thousand years of historical and cultural background , science, math and other traditional elements of a traditional Liberal eduction.
Just as the Radicals are transforming Justice into Injustice in the pursuit of some abstract, unattainable and Utopian concept of Cosmic Justice, they are also transforming what was once a Liberal Philosophy of Education into a fundamentally Illiberal Philosophy of Education in the name of Radical Liberalism
This new generation of students is increasingly unable to make even basic informed decisions, much less be able to make informed critical decisions and exercise appropriate good judgment in the making and implementing of these decisions.
Our Western Civilization made such enormous progress in such a short period of time in large part because the development of the Philosophy of a Liberal Education.
The wide spread pursuit of a Liberal Education gave birth to the novel in world history focus on concepts of Justice, Freedom, Fairness and Personal Liberty as the basis of new and better form of government, a Government For and By the People.
Our Education Establishment is destroying our tradition of a Liberal Education which is the basic underpinning of our society. They are replacing our Liberal Education with a fundamentally Illiberal Education based a value system that is diametrically oppose to the traditional values of our amazingly successful Liberal Education system.
Students educated in this Illiberal System are losing the basic skills and values understand the merits of our system and defend that system of government against those who wish to tear down our current Government For and By the People that is based on Justice, Freedom, Fairness and Personal Liberty and who wish replace it with a new system that is "Fundamentally Changed"
We run the risk that our new generation of students are so poorly educated, so illogical, so irrational and so thoroughly indoctrinated with false doctrine that they cannot grasp it follows that, by definition -
"Fundamental Change" in a Justice based society is an Injustice based society.
"Fundamental Change" in a Free society is an Unfree society.
"Fundamental Change" in a Fair society is an Unfair society.
"Fundamental Change" in a society based on Personal Liberty is a society with no basis for Personal Liberty.
"Fundamental Change" in a society based on the Rule of Law is a lawless society based on the arbitrary and capricious Rule of Men.
"Fundamental Change" in a society based on Self Determination of elected leaders by vote of the people is a society where the ruling elite are not freely and fairly elected by the people and the people have no peaceful recourse to replace arbitrary, capricious, incompetent or corrupt rulers.
Finally, and most importantly
"Fundamental Change" in a society where the government is based on a Constitution that guarantees that government will based on system where the Government is For and By the People is Government not grounded in any written Constitutional Guarantees, where the Government is not by the people , but by those in power, and where the government is not for the people and answerable to the people, but instead governs to benefit of those in power and their cronies and which answers to no one
The common terms used to describe a government based on such "Fundamental Change" are Tyranny and Dictatorship.
Rant off.
Hope I didn't make too much of an ass of myself in the process.
I guess I feel kind of strongly on this topic.
Absolutely correct, except in Winter's case that is not what was done. Winter freely admitted in this forum that his/ her children went to public school when some family members went on trips or when she/ he was pursuing a medical degree.
And let me add, Im not going to complain about the dumbing down of the schools. My 12-year-old was just accepted into Rochester College. (along with her sister who is 14) Ill work on improving the schools once they are squared away.
Congratulations on that tremendous accomplishment. I went to RIT and I had a friend that went to the U of R both great schools.
Just so I am clear, are you saying you will work on the schools when your children are squared away, or when the schools are? It is not clear from your last sentence.
You realize that transcendental is a subset of irrational, don't you?
PDE was the pons asinorum for me too.
>>Just so I am clear, are you saying you will work on the schools when your children are squared away<<
I've been working all along to get the schools to a better position. I volunteered for MAPSA (the charter organization in my state) and will continue to volunteer after my kids are set. My opinion is, whatever the PARENTS choose, but the actual facts about the quality of the education are fair game. One good teacher or one good school does not the "Education System in America" make. Too often, people think that their good school (or good experience) is the norm. It's not.
>>Winter freely admitted in this forum that his/ her children went to public school when some family members went on trips or when she/ he was pursuing a medical degree.<<
Personally, I don't care why anyone utilized Public Schools. My girls did 'specials'. I pay for them, why not? However, looking at the dumbing down of the schools and pointing at someone else is silly. It's bigger than a few years or a few months in school. In fact, I would say that using the Public Schools to one's own advantage is brilliant! Wintertime needed 'daycare'. The schools were probably glad to get her kids to blow the state required testing scores out of the water. I know mine were. They loved getting my 11-year-old, who was working on 10th grade at home, completing the 7th grade test. That school looked good, and I did the teaching. (actually Switched-on-Schoolhouse and Saxon did. I'm not that smart)
In my state, which has the loosest homeschool laws in the US, the districts have gotten SO smart. They are offering free virtual school + "satellite" classes in churches. If you don't want your kid in the "Lord of the Flies" atmosphere, you can pick and chose from all of those classes. Choice is what's important and they are seeing that those homeschoolers are not the enemy. All teachers would be wise to do the same.
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Julius Gerber (1872–1956) was a leading Socialist Party of America party official and politician during the first two decades of the 20th century. Gerber headed the important Socialist Party unit for New York City and its environs from 1911 through 1922. He played a key role in the party split of 1919, out of which the Communist Party emerged.
Early years[edit]
Gerber was born December 24, 1872 in Riga, Latvia, then part of the Russian empire. His father was a tradesman. The Gerbers were Jewish, and as members of a persecuted minority, the family fled Tsarist Russia in 1886, landing in New York. Young Julius took a job as a sheet metal worker at the age of 14, a task at which he remained until 1911.[1] He was a member of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. There is no record substantiating Julius Gerber arrived in the United States with any family member. According to his USA passport applications of 1928 and 1931, he arrived in the United States in either September 1887 or August 1888 at the age of 16 or 17. He applied for and was granted USA citenship on October 27, 1893 in Kings County, Brooklyn, New York. He married Lena Sacht on February 13, 1892 in New York according to their marriage license.
Gerber was a committed socialist from an early age, joining the Socialist Labor Party of America (SLP) in 1890.[2]
In the bitter 1899 split of the SLP, Gerber allied himself with the pro-American Federation of Labor insurgents headed by Henry Slobodin and Morris Hillquit against the regular faction of Daniel DeLeon and Henry Kuhn. Julius was made the organizer of Local New York of the new organization, a group calling themselves the Social Democratic Party after the DeLeon-Kuhn faction won control of the party name and logo as the result of a lawsuit. In August 1901 this Eastern SDP group united with a Midwestern group of the same name to establish the Socialist Party of America. Gerber was elected as the first Secretary of Local New York SPA following formation of the new organization.[3]
Gerber remained on as organizer of Local Greater New York for this enlarged organization through 1902.
Gerber was active in the publishing group which issued the socialist New Yorker Volkszeitung and served as Financial Secretary of that organization. He was also Secretary of the Press Committee which established the English-language New York Daily Call a few years later.
Gerber was a frequent participant at the national conventions of the Socialist Party which determined party policy, attending the 1900, 1904, 1908, and 1912 gatherings.[4]
Party functionary[edit]
Gerber worked as the organizer of Local Kings County from 1908 to 1909, before being elected Executive Secretary of Local Greater New York in February 1911.[5] Gerber remained in this full-time, paid position for over a decade, standing down only in 1922, probably due to the Socialist Party's declining financial fortunes. Thereafter, Gerber paid the rent through his work as a printing salesman.[6]
Julius was a delegate to the 1917 Socialist Party Convention, a gathering which passed the aggressively anti-militarist St. Louis Manifesto.[7]
In addition to his regular party tasks, Gerber was the Secretary of the Workingmen's Cooperative Publishing Association, the group responsible for publication of the New York Call, one of just two Socialist Party English language daily newspapers during the decade of the 1910s.[8]
Gerber sat on the State Executive Committee of the Socialist Party of New York in 1919, a group which conducted a factional war on behalf of the party regulars against the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party. He was a delegate to the seminal 1919 Socialist Party Convention, which led to the split of the party's Left Wing to form the Communist Labor Party of America.[9]
Gerber was elected to the governing National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party in 1921, serving a one-year term. He ran for New York State Assembly in that same year, standing in the 18th Assembly District.
Following the demise of the New York Call in 1923, Julius became actively involved with its successor publication, The New Leader. He was the Secretary of the New Leader Publishing Association, the group which published the paper, from its establishment in 1924.[10]
Gerber was strictly a party functionary rather than an agitator or a theoretician and did not publish any books or pamphlets in his lifetime.
Death and legacy[edit]
Gerber died in 1956 at the age of 83.
Gerber was portrayed in Warren Beatty's 1981 historical drama Reds by William Daniels.
- ^ Solon DeLeon (ed.), The American Labor Who's Who. New York: Hanford Press, 1925. Page 84.
- ^ State of New York, Proceedings of the Judiciary Committee of the Assembly in the Matter of the Investigation by the Assembly of the State of New York as to the Qualifications of Louis Waldman, August Claessens, Samuel A. DeWitt, Samuel Orr and Charles Solomon, to Retain Their Seats in Said Body, In 3 Volumes. Albany, NY: J.B. Lyon Co., 1920. Vol. 1, pg. 164. Hereafter NY Judiciary Proceedings.
- ^ "A Remarkable Growth," Appeal to Reason [Girard, KS], whole no. 311 (Nov. 16, 1901), pg. 3.
- ^ NY Judiciary Proceedings, v. 1, pg. 165.
- ^ NY Judiciary Proceedings, v. 1, pg. 164.
- ^ DeLeon (ed.), The American Labor Who's Who, pg. 84.
- ^ NY Judiciary Proceedings, v. 1, pg. 165.
- ^ The other Socialist daily was the Milwaukee Leader, published by Victor L. Berger.
- ^ NY Judiciary Proceedings, v. 1, pg. 165.
- ^ DeLeon (ed.), The American Labor Who's Who, pg. 84.
- 1872 births
- 1956 deaths
- People from Riga
- Latvian Jews
- American Jews
- American Marxists
- American people of Latvian-Jewish descent
- American socialists
- Jewish socialists
- Members of the Socialist Labor Party of America
- Members of the Socialist Party of America
- Sheet metal workers
- Socialist Party of America politicians from New York


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19th Century Christmas at Deere-Wiman House & Butterworth Center
Don't miss these two beautifully decorated Deere family mansions during the holiday season. The 19th Century Christmas features the interiors of the homes decorated for the holidays; along with living-history volunteers, Choir performances, Santa Claus, music, and make-and-take activities for the children. These homes once belonged to the John Deere family and are now operated by the William Butterworth Memorial Trust. Open noon to 5 p.m. Free admission.
33rd Annual Pilot Club Holiday Home Walk & Tea Tour
Join us for glittering lights and trees and enchanting displays. Tour the beautifully (holiday) decorated homes. Tickets are $15 in advance and can be purchased at County Market, Family Gardens or from any Pilot Club member. Tea is being served at Knollwood Retirement Village.
4th Annual Holidazzle Craft Show
The "Holidazzle Craft Show" returns to the Winnebago County Fairgrounds, featuring crafters with all handmade items. Get a head start on Christmas shopping. Concessions will be available.
4th Annual Stroll on State - Downtown Rockford
"Merry and Bright: A Downtown Holiday" returns with Stroll on State, a spectacular holiday event to attend with your family and friends to get you in the holiday spirit. There are plenty of activities to do, decorations to see, and delicious food to eat at this fourth annual event to celebrate the holiday season downtown.
Watch as intricate rod puppets perform A Halloween Spooktacular. Featuring a collection of haunting classics from musicals. Reservations are required.
CITY:Rolling Meadows
For over 160 years this early morning (6:30 a.m.) service has been held at Augustana Lutheran Church. The service is held in a setting similar to that used by the Swedish congregation in 1870. The choir sings a Swedish anthem and the service is in English. Candles in the pews, altar and windows illuminate the sanctuary. Service begins at 6:30am.
Andover and Andover Lake Park will glow with decorations. Stroll on walkways marked by luminaries or ride in a horse-drawn wagon. Soup supper and Christmas goodies, refreshments & kids crafts at the American Legion Building from 5pm to 7pm. Visit candle-lit Jenny Lind Chapel and hear live Christmas music from 6pm to 8pm.
Andover Swedish Service at Jenny Lind Chapel
Join in a celebration of American pioneer faith held in the historic church "Jenny Lind Chapel". The church as constructed in the early 1850's and named for the celebrated Swedish singer, Jenny Lind. Join a celebration of American pioneer faith at Jenny Lind Chapel. The church is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Starting at 4pm to 6pm.
Annual Halloween Parade & Fall Festival Craft Fair
The Fall Festival has so much to offer including a huge parade, chili cook-off, mini train rides, haunted house, craft fair, food and a car show.
Aurora's Holiday Festival of Lights
One of the largest free outdoor holiday light displays in Northern Illinois, the Festival of Lights, returns with dazzling displays that will delight both adults and children. This signature winter event is a drive-through of more than one mile of spectacular lighted displays, many of which are animated, and are illuminated by tens of thousands of bulbs. Staged at Aurora's gem, Phillips Park, the festival will be open from 5 - 9 pm Sunday through Thursday and 5 - 10 pm Friday and Saturday.
Washington Specialty Shops offer a night of fun with free carriage rides, activities, music, food and shopping, all celebrating the season! 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm.
Away in a Basement: A Church Basement Ladies Christmas at the Effingham Performance Center
Away in the Basement takes us back to 1959 and the day of the Sunday School Christmas Program. In the midst of holiday preparations, the ladies are creating their own memories from Christmases past and present. As the children rehearse up in the sanctuary, several of the ladies of the kitchen are finishing up the treat bags while the others put the final touches on the nativity pieces. Mending old bathrobe costumes and discussing who's going to play the various roles, little do the ladies know what surprises are in store for them. Known for their hilarious antics and subtle charm, they are once again called upon to step in and save the day!
Halloween fun awaits families at Brookfield Zoo's annual Boo! at the Zoo celebration. The popular daytime event, presented by Fisher-Price, features a Costume Parade, Costume Showcase, professional pumpkin-carving demonstrations, not-so-scary games and activities, special animal Zoo Chats, and haunted hayrides. For more information, visit www.CZS.org or call (708) 688-8000.
Branson Classic Country Christmas at Effingham Performance Center
Direct from Branson, the Ozark Jubilee presents the Branson Classic Country Christmas with an all star cast of Branson's top entertainers including funniest comedian and world class fiddler Doofus Doolittle! This dynamic show salutes the music of the great legends of country music and variety of Christmas music, from traditional standards you'll remember to some more contemporary Christmas selections. The show features the true meaning of Christmas with music, comedy and message to provide an evening of entertainment that will touch your heart.
Cambridge Christmas on the Square
70 plus crafters will be featured at the Cambridge Parent Club's annual craft show. Visit beautifully decorated homes during the Tour of Homes, area churches will feature "specialty treats." Stop at Cambridge Community Hall and enjoy a visit with Santa, Holiday Music, supper and view the Festival of Trees. End the day and partake in the Baptist Church Christmas Cantata. Hours: 3pm to 8pm.
The Christkindlmarket is a four-week, open-air market modeled after the famous Nuremberg Christmas market dating back to 1545. The market offers shopping opportunities and serves as a winter wonderland meeting place for family and friends. Plus, enjoy German delicacies like brats, goulash and potato pancakes while you're there.
Christmas at the Mansions Tour
Travel back in time to the late 1800s and early 1900s and experience a traditional Victorian and Edwardian Christmas! Tour Ewing Manor, the David Davis Mansion and a Mystery Mansion in Bloomington-Normal and take in the architecture and history of these homes while they are decorated for Christmas. Tours will be at: 2 pm – 5 pm and 5 pm – 8 pm
This annual Christmas celebration encompasses the entire downtown area of Carterville. Santa and his helpers will be on hand for photos. There will be hot chocolate and cookies, caroling, chili supper, gingerbread contest, festival of trees, Sugar Plum Dance Fairies, face painting, Candy Land Path, horse and carriage rides and much much more. This event is held in downtown Carterville.
The holiday festivities in Bishop Hill begin with Julmarknad, or Christmas Market. This event is based on Scandinavian customs dating back to the Middle Ages when farmers and artisans would gather in the village squares to sell their wares. Bishop Hill businesses will be offering unique gifts, handmade wares, antiques, quilts, collectibles, baked goods, delicious foods, and Swedish imports. Businesses will be open from 10-5pm. Scandinavian foods such as herring, lutfisk, and rye bread are also in abundance. Select from a large array of delicious holiday cookies, homemade by community bakers on Friday and Saturday.
CITY:Bishop Hill
Sale of juried artist created work. Includes pottery. jewelry. textiles, ornaments. more. Mon-Thurs 10am-8pm; Fri.Sat 10am-5pm; Closed Sunday.
CITY:St. Charles
The centerpiece of Clayville is the Broadwell Inn, the oldest brick building in Sangamon County, built in 1824 by the Broadwell family as a stage coach stop between Springfield and Beardstown. The Inn is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is surrounded by numerous other historic buildings from Central Illinois moved to Clayville in the 1960s to recreate an early frontier pioneer village. Come see a unique piece of Illinois history.
CITY:Pleasant Plains
Du Quoin Annual Holiday Lights Fair
Starting the day after Thanksgiving and continuing through the month of December. Come experience Du Quoin Tourism's transformation of the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds into a magical place with lights and decorations. The event features a 1 1/2-mile drive through over $250,000 worth of lighted displays as well as decorated trees, entertainment, food, crafts and visits with Santa in the Expo Hall. The light trail opens nightly from 5:30 – 9:30 p.m., and the Expo Hall will be open on the second and third weekends in December from 5:30 — 9:30 p.m. The Expo Hall features Santa's train ride and Santa's Workshop.
CITY:Du Quoin
East Peoria Festival of Lights
One of Peoria's biggest holiday traditions returns for the 32nd year - the East Peoria Festival of Lights! Enjoy your favorite light displays; from the Budweiser Clydesdales to the Starship Enterprise, this drive-through event is a holiday season must do!
CITY:East Peoria
Ellwood House Holiday Traditions Tours
Enjoy a holiday open house and tours of the beautifully decorated Ellwood House Mansion. Every November, the Ellwood Museum partners with area businesses, community sponsors, and volunteers to decorate the mansion room-by-room on all four floors. From November 15-30, (closed Mondays and Thanksgiving) our guided holiday tours give visitors the opportunity to see the mansion in a new light. See our VISIT page for hours and information. At the end of our touring season, we open the doors for a three-day Holiday Open House weekend December 2nd - 4th, 2016. Visitors may purchase tickets in the Visitor Center (or online) and present their tickets at the front door of the mansion. Upon entering the decorated mansion, volunteers will be stationed in each room, presenting the history of the Ellwood House and sharing information about the two generations of Ellwood family members who called Ellwood House home.


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In 2 months I have seen nothing and they know nothing and I keep running around at my expence to have athorizaton forms notorized and then can not reciieve confirmation on if they recieved it or m multiple checks that never needed to be writen.
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While this may not be a huge company with a large staff this problem of police misconduct is ENORMOUS in nearly all fifty states and after watching, waiting, listening and using my "privilage to speak with the CEO" (as you alluded to). I've done my own investigating using the knowledge, education and training I have as a criminal justice/pre-law student and found this issue of police abuse and misconduct is tainted with politics(legislatures, congress, etc) and starts from the top and filters it's way down(local police officers). It's more complicated than the average person understands and to find someone to fight for you against being mistreated by the POLICE is a very bold risky attempt. It's unfortunate that you would write such misleading statements especially when you felt that you were mistreated and your rights were somehow violated by the police. But whats more unsettling is that you turned around and did the same thing to the owner and staff at policeabuse.com
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These accomplishments, however, were no easy task. Nor were they achieved over-night. The impeccable reputation that we have created for ourselves, was something that required a unique mixture of experience, preparation and training... and of course, a great deal of courage and determination!!
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Richard came to Policeabuse.com several months ago and reported that his rights were violated by police, during his 2009 arrest, in Madera County, CA. Right away, Richard gave us a story that he knew would catch our attention. However, the more we looked into his case, the more it became obvious that Richard was not being totally truthful about much of the incident. What first caught our attention was how well Richard was able to recall the most minor and irrelevant details about his arrest, yet was completely clueless about some of the more obvious and important details; such as, what he was charged with, who the arresting police agency was, etc. This is typically a indication that the person is exaggerating the facts in order to distract the investigator from some of the more important information. And in Richard's case, that's exactly what he was doing.
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Hi Alums! Hello fellow Friars! Throughout the 2013 season, each member of the team had an opportunity to write an "Alumni Update," which, as you know, gives the PC Field Hockey alumni an idea of what we have been up to and how our season is going.
This spring, however, we are doing something a little bit different. Instead of each player reporting on what is going on in Friartown, each member of our team is going to ask a few questions to a former player about their PC Field Hockey experience. Our players were given a list of all-time uniform numbers for the program, and from that list they needed to contact an alum who also wore their number.
The second edition of the Alumni Update is here, and Caitlin Malone asks 2010 graduate Ali Shover a few questions! Caitlin, known as Kate here on campus, wears #8 for the Friars. Kate will complete her undergraduate degree this May, but has one more year of eligibility remaining with the Friars.
RISING 5TH-YEAR KATE MALONE (#8) conducted the interview.
Kate: Did you ever have any rituals/routines you did before games? If so, what were they?
Ali: My ritual was to have a cup of coffee before the each game (shhhh)
Kate: What was your favorite drill to do during practice?
Ali: Scrimmage
Kate: What is something you wish you had known during your four years playing field hockey?
Ali: People always told me how fast it would go and I never really listened. It went way TOO FAST!!
Kate: What do you miss most about being a member of PCFH?
Ali: I miss the girls and the coaches so much. Of course I miss playing the game, but most of all I miss all the amazing people I met along the way. Those girls are some of my closest friends today.
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Why is philosophy important?
If we take Cicero's word for it, because philosophizing is learning how to die.
Of course, we prefer not to dwell on death, especially our own. As I wrote in another article, it's seen as useless, unhealthy, and depressing. Philosophy, in contrast, is not after use, health, or happiness, but truth - and the most obvious and vexing part of life is that it ends, for everyone. (As Louis CK brilliantly put it in a recent stand-up bit: "Out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead...And you're all gonna die, and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than your life - that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.")
So I think it's no coincidence that as interest in philosophy has faded, a sort of cultural ducking of death has emerged. The two seem to go hand in hand. Philosophy classes are emptying out as students pick more career-oriented majors; meanwhile, euphemisms like "passed away," "gone," and "not with us" are multiplying to avoid uttering the uncouth word "died." Physicist Stephen Hawking banished the "first cause" argument and other philosophical questions to the obituaries; at the same time, we're busy banishing last rites and last goodbyes to nursing and funeral homes. (In the 19th century and before, the washing and laying out of dead bodies mostly took place in the home.)
This cultural pattern of avoiding confrontation with death has, I think, rippled over into art. But a recent action film, Act of Valor - though certainly not Oscar material - ends with a philosophical meditation on death that is one of the most profound and moving I've seen in recent years.
Toward the end of the movie, there is a heart-breaking scene of supreme heroism that really caught my attention (I admit that until then, I was really only half-watching). After this scene, a soldier writes a letter to the fallen man's son, about the father he will never know. He concludes the letter with a passage by Native American warrior Tecumseh, which we hear while watching the military funeral unfold:
"Live your life so the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their views, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and of service to your people...When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home."I was absolutely stunned by this scene. It transformed all of the warfare and heroism of the Seals into a meditation on what it means to be "a human being fully alive"; it conveyed to the audience that that we are all engaged in a parallel struggle every day, one which will reach its consummation when our own death bell strikes; it reminds us that philosophizing - meditating on how we should live, why we should live, what we love and fight for, where we're going - is nothing less than learning how to die.
|"Parable of the Rich Fool,"
by Rembrandt (1627)
An unsettling thought. But, to paraphrase Kafka, we should love the art that unsettles us, that takes an axe to the frozen waters of complacency inside of us. It's this kind of art that strengthens, improves, perfects.
But what it doesn't do is sell. So, rather than trouble audiences with death, many artists just focus on destruction. They don't anguish about mortality, but relish in the macabre. They expunge all of the lengthy philosophical dimensions of death, but keep the event itself for dramatic thrust. As a result, we audience members can watch thousands of violent deaths on-screen, and yet somehow avoid thinking seriously about death for more than a second.
Times have changed in this department. In the late medieval period, there was an entire genre of art focused on the universality and inevitability of death: the "danse macabre." Pieter Bruegel the Elder's painting "The Triumph of Death" looks like something out of a Sam Raimi film - but is actually a religious meditation on how "death comes for us all, even for kings." The painting depicts people of different social backgrounds – from peasants and soldiers to nobles as well as a king and a cardinal – being taken by death indiscriminately.
Wer war der Thor, wer der Weiser
Wer der Bettler oder Kaiser?
Ob arm, ob reich, im Tode gleich
(Who was the fool, who the wise man
Who the beggar or the Emperor?
Whether rich or poor, all are equal in death.)
Yet, the danse macabre lives on, as it does in this last scene of Act of Valor. It lives on in movies like Departures, Love and Death, and 50/50, and songs like "Lonesome Valley," "Rabid Bits of Time," and "Crossroads." Regardless of the great lengths we go to avoid thinking about it, death will always live on in our hearts so long as we're mortal creatures. And art, at its best, doesn't resist the natural synergy it has with philosophy on such subjects - instead, it asks in unison with it: "Are you making time to learn how to die?"


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