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A Book For Our Time | Ill Fares the Land | Tony Judt
Ill Fares the Land
Tony Judt
Penguin Press HC, The
, 2010 - 256 pages
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Tony Judt's book distills cogent and critical data that should be required reading for the entire White House staff. The future of the nation and its priorities will benefit from this book.
Ill Fares the Land
This is a great book that all Americans,especially those people who consider themselves to be conservatives and/or libertarians, should read. I cannot recommend it too highly. With respect to customer service, the book arrived as promised and in the condition described by the seller.
A Book For Our Time
, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay.
Oliver Goldsmith. The Deserted Village, 1770
Review by Alan Wheatley
Title: Ill Fares The Land
Author: Tony Judt
Publisher: The Penguin Press, New York
Price: Varies in its current manifestation as a hard-back, but it has also emerged as an e-book and early next year will be available as a paperback. Check out online stores and local bookshops. Prices are around US$12.00, AU$30.00, GB£12.00.
I can't remember a work about politics/economics that has had such an effect on me as Ill Fares The Land. Not that I make a habit of actually reading such books, but in my 80 years on this planet I have experienced the application of both in three countries: in Britain, the country of my birth and for the first 40 odd years of my life, Canada (or more specifically Montreal) a brief sojourn in the 1950s, and now Australia, here since late 1974. But of course I have taken a lively interest in current affairs/news as reported in the media in those countries.
Tony's book is memorable for a number of reasons. He is British by birth, educated at King's College, Cambridge and the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris and has taught at Cambridge, Oxford, Berkeley and New York University, where he is currently University Professor and Director of the Remarque Institute, which is dedicated to the study of Europe and which he founded in 1995. He has written or edited thirteen books, contributes to The New York Review of Books, The London Review of Books and The New York Times and has been awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize and in 2009 the Orwell Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Sadly, he is now suffering from Lou Gehrig's Disease, which is terminal, and he was seriously unwell when he wrote Ill Fares The Land with the help of his family, friends and colleagues.
Fundamentally, the book suggests that for a long time economists, politicians and media commentators have focussed almost exclusively on money/the bottom line when discussing how to run our (western) countries, as if they were "businesses" and that there seems to be no room for debate about the rightness or wrongness of policies, or about public and individual good.
Everything is measured by GDP, not about whether policies are morally or ethically beneficial. In fact, we have forgotten how to talk about such things in this way.
Tony cites examples in the past and ongoing present of previously publicly-funded enterprises that have been privatized, such as railways, roads, telecommunications networks and so on. Private education and hospitals are today cited as preferred models of civic enterprise.
He points to a number of other features of life today that he sees as symptoms of our current malaise:
* Income inequality: the poor stay poor, the rich get richer;
* Lack of trust and co-operation: the decline of the homogenous state and the rise of mass migration and the movement of refugees across borders; the growth of individualism;
* Impatience and disillusion with politicians;
* The growth of gated communities;
* The growth of the popularity of tertiary business education and a fall in enrolments in arts courses;
* The rise of fear and insecurity and the growth in the number of politicians who try to reassure us by introducing controls, restriction, erecting barriers; "As global threats mount, so the attractions of order will only grow".
Tony Judt believes that it is young people who have largely turned away from political debate but who will need to think seriously about these issues since it is they who will inherit the business model we now have. His book is aimed at senior secondary students and the language he uses reflects this. As a political and economic illiterate myself I found the book easy to read and engaging in its strong arguments for a move to ethical debate rather than the political point-scoring and the reiteration of the views of powerful vested interests that fill the news and comment media.
We must restore, Tony says, the notion of the value of usefulness, of prudence, of care, and recognize past achievements.
If you're at all interested in a critique of the way many governments in the West conduct their domestic policies I urge you to read this book. It's at once refreshing and thought-provoking and may partly explain the current resurgence of activity among the very wealthy and politically powerful.
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Ill Fares The Land is one of the best and deeply critical american histoy books to come around!
Prof. Judt continues to write relevent and contemporary themes of American history as well as the world for that matter despite his ongoing illness. His mind is as sharp as ever!He consistently gives a valued criticism while not appearing to ally himself on the side of one idelogical camp or the other. He is in this graduate student's opinion a true historian who understands the nuance's of the craft of historical writing itself. I highly recommend his other books as well.
Something is profoundly wrong with the way we think about how we should live today.
In Ill
, Tony Judt, one of our leading historians and thinkers, reveals how we have arrived at our present dangerously confused moment. Judt masterfully crystallizes what we?ve all been feeling into a way to think our way into, and thus out of, our great collective dis-ease about the current state of things.
As the economic collapse of 2008 made clear, the social contract that defined postwar life in Europe and America ? the guarantee of a basal level of security, stability and fairness -- is no longer guaranteed; in fact, it?s no longer part of the common discourse. Judt offers the language we need to address our common needs, rejecting the nihilistic individualism of the far right and the debunked socialism of the past. To find a way forward, we must look to our not so distant past and to social democracy in action: to re-enshrining fairness over mere efficiency.
Distinctly absent from our national dialogue, social democrats believe that the state can play an enhanced role in our lives without threatening our liberties. Instead of placing blind faith in the market?as we have to our detriment for the past thirty years?social democrats entrust their fellow citizens and the state itself.
Ill Fares the Land challenges us to confront our societal ills and to shoulder responsibility for the world we live in. For hope remains. In reintroducing alternatives to the status quo, Judt reinvigorates our political conversation, providing the tools necessary to imagine a new form of governance, a new way of life.
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Rudolf Steiner
A different order of therapeutic mysticism prevailed in the movement theory of Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), whose ideas exerted little impact on the German dance scene as a whole but nevertheless sustained an enduring cult of "anthroposophy," the appeal of which has by no means diminished since his death. Steiner coined the term "eurhythmics" to describe his approach to the perfection of bodily expressivity, although this word, derived from ancient Greek, had long been in use among Germans (Herder, Goethe) to categorize the study of aesthetic movement; Steiner's longtime associate and eventual wife, Marie von Sivers (1867–1948), has sometimes received credit for introducing the name (Veit 46–49). Eurhythmics, however, was but a small facet of a vast, comprehensive philosophy that sought to identify the conditions of salvation in a modern world wherein old religious doctrines had lost their credibility. Anthroposophy was a sort of holistic, Christian-Nirvanic-Dionysian search for the forms of thought, feeling, and action that connected the body to a cosmic sense of purpose. Steiner left hardly any area of life unexamined by his thinking; his complete writings (1954–1984) spanned 350 volumes and covered science, medicine, education, art, social planning, architecture, anthropology, theatre, and literature. But despite its stress on mobilizing mystical forces within the body and the cosmos, anthroposophy always presented itself as a theory of consciousness rather than an expression of religious faith.
Born in the Croation region of Austria-Hungary, Steiner began his career as an academic, specializing in the studying and editing of Goethe's scientific writings; his doctoral dissertation (1891) constructed a philosophy of freedom. While a lecturer at Wilhelm Liebknecht's Worker's School in Berlin in 1901, he turned his attention to the problem of identifying a new spirituality as pursued by the Theosophical Society of that city. For the next twelve years Steiner gave an enormous number of lectures throughout
Europe in which he explained the affinities between Christian and ancient religions, the mystical significance of organic forms, and the reform of intellectual development. The lecture was his medium; probably no one ever gave as many lectures on as many subjects as he did. Like Laban, he was a prodigious teacher but a weak scholar who expended his mental energies on innumerable lectures rather than on impressive research. He always conveyed a sense of analytical authority by introducing categories, concepts, and definitions, but he did not apply them with any systematic rigor—he preferred to move on to a new topic rather than lose his audience, often naive, in theoretical complexities. In 1913 he broke with the Theosophical Society and formed his own anthroposophical cult, with headquarters in Dornach, near Basel, where he supervised (1913–1921) the building of the famous anthroposophical temple, the Goetheanum, a huge wooden structure set among woods and orchards and made up of cavernous rooms modeled after organic forms, such as caves, shells, and cellular tissues. He gained adherents throughout Europe, perhaps because he showed the compatibility of mysticism and scientific rationalism; indeed, he disapproved of submission to unconscious powers, arguing that spiritual renewal depended on full consciousness of one's perceptions, feelings, and actions. When in 1922 the Goetheanum burned down, he immediately launched plans to build a new one in concrete and succeeded in raising funds from adepts around the world. But he did not live long enough to see it (Kugler).
Steiner had no formal training in dance, and he did not begin his adventures in "eurhythmic art" until 1912, when, in Munich, he collaborated with a nineteen-year-old dance student, Lory Smits, on exploring relations between vowel sounds and movements. Eurhythmics, according to Steiner, revealed "harmonic" connections between sound patterns in speech and the movement of the body. Whereas Klamt and Woog emphasized breathing as the primal sign of the body's inner power, Steiner stressed words. He remarked in 1908, "the word, which intones the soul, the logos, was there in the beginning, and the word so guides evolution until finally being emerges which can also appear. What finally appears in time and space was first there in spirit" (Veit 42). Music derived from tonal and rhythmic principles already embedded in speech, so spoken language disclosed the deepest, most secret bodily responses to sound. Movement made sound visible, and eurhythmics treated language as a "cosmos" of sound units, beginning with vowels and consonants, then words, syntactic structures, punctuation, sentences, meter, rhyme, alliteration, metaphor, hyberbole, recitation, and declamation, all of which corresponded to specific movement choices or combinations of movements. An elaborate process of symbolism bestowed emotional values upon sound units and structures, which then became associated with particular colors, organic and inorganic forms, creatures, planets, and abstract conditions (e.g., active or passive). For example, the letter
U (indigo) signified a sinking or deepening motion (arms bending parallel before the chest), whereas the letter T (yellow-red) signified a striking or pushing gesture. Letters were elements of a sound "scale," and different combinations of letters—words—produced different "chords" and rhythmic "intervals."
Not surprisingly, this approach, when applied to all the variables of speech, led to enormous complexities, which neither Steiner nor any of his adepts was able to put into helpful charts or tables. But Steiner's aim was not to provide a rigorous system of correspondences; rather, he sought to suggest complexities that encouraged people to become highly conscious of sounds and movements and to realize that even the slightest utterance or movement could reverberate with significance. In reality, his approach was too complex for his lecture-style language, which suited a writer with so many interests besides the almost incidental theme of eurhythmics. But, as Laban eventually discovered with the Kinetographie, the lecture style became hopelessly inadequate in accounting for all the expressive variables of the dynamic body. Steiner therefore relied heavily on drawings, many done in colored chalk, to describe movement possibilities and correspondences, especially for ensemble pieces. A great many of these drawings traced the image of movement without showing the body or bodies and thus transmitted a powerfully mysterious level of abstraction (Steiner). Few images have ever conveyed so persuasively the perception of movement as a mystical phenomenon. But these chalk sketches on slate backgrounds were an extension of Steiner's lecture style, and they emblematized a metaphysical dimension that scarcely seemed to correspond to the physical reality of actual bodies moving in specific times and spaces.
In spite of the implied complexity of the cosmic-word concept, the dance culture of the anthroposophists consistently projected an aura of simplicity. Steiner never stressed virtuosity of movement, nor did he push toward any professionalization of performance. He promoted a level of performance that strengthened the cultic identity of those already initiated into the mysteries of anthroposophy; an appeal to the uninitiated audience for professional dance and theatre held practically no interest for him, although he did not hesitate to give public demonstrations of eurhythmics throughout Europe. He regarded bodily movement as primarily a lyrical rather than dramatic action, "song made visible," which is to say that he and his adepts overwhelmingly favored "flowing" bodily movements and movements of the body in space. The body curved; arms and shoulders undulated; rows of bodies pulsed and surged; groups swelled or rippled into spirals, serpentine coils, arabesques; circles metamorphosed into stars, flowers, anemones, swirling disks, and intimations of stirring cosmic and "organic" forms. Both bodily and group movement were dominated by the image of waves, cur-
rents of water. The welter of tonal and rhythmic tensions in speech and language implied by Steiner's invocation of the "cosmic word" actually had little counterpart in tensions within or between moving bodies. But this lack of rigorous correspondence between theory and practice hardly troubled his adepts, for the arcane, convoluted mysteries defining the sound-world of speech signified a motive for movement rather than a system of it: indeed, the more complex the system became, the more it signified a mystery to which the body responded with a pliant flow of energy rather than with a compatible or congruent manifestation of complexity.
Eurhythmic dancers favored long, flowing costumes—robes, chitons, gowns, capes, veils—following images of ancient Greek maenads, sacerdotal Egyptians, or Romanesque-medieval figures, except that Steiner imposed a cryptic color symbolism on the fabrics. Steiner had staged "mystery plays" since 1889, when he directed his own adaptation of a Goethe fairy tale. He subsequently staged, for festival-cultic occasions, productions such as Eduard Shure's Eleusis (1907), scenes from Goethe's Faust (1915–1916), and Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream (1923), in which he applied some eurhythmic principles. He also staged fairy-tale dramas of his own composition: Die Pforte der Einweihung (1910), Die Prüfung der Seele (1911), Der Hüter der Schwelle (1912), and Der Seelen Erwachen (1913). However, strictly eurhythmic performance evolved slowly. Steiner spent several years testing his ideas with Lory Smits, and during World War I, when the anthroposophists expended much of their energy on constructing the Goetheanum, resources for performance remained scarce. Thus, after an initial demonstration in Munich in August 1913, Steiner gave no more demonstrations of eurhythmic art until August 1918. The fantastically cavernous Goetheanum was able to provide a most appropriate setting to support Steiner's claim that "every artistic dance derives originally from the old art of temple dances, those cultic dances which were performed in the temples of the old high cultures" (Froböse 35). In the 1913 recital, featuring the movements of Lory Smits and two other women, bodies moved entirely to the sound of recited poetry by Goethe and Brentano. But by 1918, Steiner was including musical accompaniments, composed by adepts, that sometimes underscored the speaking of poetry by Goethe, Hebbel, Morgenstern, Meyer, or Nietzsche. From 1919 to 1923, Steiner gave demonstration recitals in Dornach, Zurich, Paris, Amsterdam, Oxford, Prague, and numerous German cities, with Tatiana Kisseleff as his star dancer and Marie von Sivers as his chief reciter.
It is difficult to determine how many people actually performed in the group dances or how the dances on any program differed from each other; most dances bore the titles of the poems that accompanied them, and most documentation of the concerts focused on the concept of eurhythmics
rather than on the execution of the concept. (Photo documentation is unusually scant in relation to the abundant documentation of Steiner's eurhythmic drawings and watercolors.) In her memoirs, Kisseleff recalled the initial—and not altogether friendly—reception of public (not cultic) audiences, which tended toward bewilderment, and she observed that even within the Anthroposophical Society many people disliked Marie von Sivers's portentous manner of reciting poetry (Veit 69–72).
Shortly before Steiner's death, Else Klink (b. 1907) began studying at the newly founded Eurhythmeum in Stuttgart under one of Steiner's protégés, Annmarie Dubach-Donath (1895–1972). After two years (1927–1929) at the Goetheanum, Klink accepted an invitation to work at the Steiner institute in The Hague; she remained until 1935, when she returned to Stuttgart to direct the activities of the Eurhythmeum (Veit 77–110). While Steiner was alive, male adepts apparently functioned as musicians and scenic artists on eurhythmic performances, and women did the actual performing. But when von Sivers and Klink assumed greater authority within the Anthroposophical Society, men became more prominent figures in the performance of dances, and music assumed greater significance than words as a motive for movement, although the "cosmic word" still retained theoretical primacy. The Nazis banned the Anthroposophical Society in 1935 but permitted eurhythmic instruction at the Eurhythmeum until 1941, during which time enrollment at the school rose from twenty to eighty students. The Gestapo was ever suspicious of eurhythmics and of Klink, whose dark, "un-Aryan" features led to a scheme in 1937 to replace her with a former Wigman student, Martha Morell, who refused to cooperate. In 1941 the Gestapo finally shut down the school and assigned Klink, her associate Otto Wiemer, and her students to factory labor for the duration of the war. In the immediate postwar era, Klink revived the school at the Eurhythmeum and carried on the cultic performance tradition into the 1980s, by which time Steiner's philosophy had returned to the German cultural scene with perhaps even greater popularity than it enjoyed in the 1920s.
Eurhythmics was obviously more important than nearly all dance histories suggest. Though it did not exert substantial influence on German dance culture or produce any powerful dance personalities, it did establish bodily movement as a redemptive mystery accessible to all people as long as they believed in the anthroposophical philosophy as a whole. Neither an elaborate technique nor a powerful expressivity bestowed value upon eurhythmic dance; rather, eurhythmic dance bestowed an aura of exclusivity upon its humble performers. Such dance always functioned within the context of the temple, of a grandiose synthetic doctrine that separated the initiated from those who were blind to a mystery that transcended the banality of the physical world. Through eurhythmics, dance allowed mystery to become a visible feature of ordinary, daily life.


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Next door is Akachochin, a modern Tokyo style bar with a focus on sushi and sake, as well as a range of tempting appetizers, salads, and grilled and simmered dishes. Then there's Bohemian, a lively Spanish bar and restaurant, which looks like it could be on a laneway in Spain with its olive-green tiles, wide timber windows, black metal furniture and terracotta pots with brightly coloured flowers. And don't miss the split personality of the Melbourne Public with fun, footy, live music and pub fare at the front bar, and serious foodie action in the glamorous restaurant at the back. southwharfpromenade.com.au Craft and culture Discover the crafy and cultural in cosy corners of the city. Start with L'uccello in the The Nicholas Building where you can spend hours trawling through the buttons, bows and vintage haberdashery. 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Foreign investment, divestment and relocation by Japanese electronics firms in East Asia
Although foreign divestment and international relocation by multinational firms carry important economic implications for the industrialization of East Asian countries, there has been little empirical research on these issues. In this paper we analyze the magnitude and pattern of foreign divestment and relocation by Japanese electronics firms in nine East Asian countries during 1995–2003. The average annual divestment rate of electronics manufacturing affiliates is 3 percent, but divestment patterns diverge strongly across countries. Divestments are much more frequent in higher labor cost countries and in approximately one-third of cases are accompanied by relocations to lower wage countries, particularly to China. Evidence is found for rivalry between China and ASEAN countries in attracting foreign direct investment, but the growing attractiveness of China has not been accompanied by a reduction in employment in Japanese affiliates in ASEAN countries (with the exception of Singapore). Divestments and relocations are related to Japanese firms' strategy to reconfigure their Asian production networks in response to changing competitiveness, regional integration, and changes in local investment environments.Download Info
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- René Belderbos & Jianglei Zou, 2006. "Foreign Investment, Divestment and Relocation by Japanese Electronics Firms in East Asia ," Asian Economic Journal, East Asian Economic Association, vol. 20(1), pages 1-27, 03.
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Italian Courses Frequently Asked Questions
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The school personnel will wait for you at 8:30 am at the school office. Students having little or no knowledge of the Italian language will attend the first lesson in which the oral capacity and the understanding will be tested. All other students will take a written and oral placement test which enables us to find the appropriate level.
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Our basic text and exercise books have been developed by our school. These books are used in conjunction with authentic teaching materials such as newspaper and magazine articles, audiovisual materials, and activities inside the classroom.
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All text books and other supplies are provided by the school, but you are expected to bring your own dictionary.
Which teaching method do you use?
SCUOLA LEONARDO DA VINCI teaches according to the Direct Method: from the first day on, at all levels, only Italian will be spoken. The spoken language is the most important part of the tuition. Continually promoting the use of verbal communication permits you to learn Italian 'naturally', to unite theory and practice with no great problems and to increase your knowledge quickly and with confidence. You are encouraged to practice your spoken Italian in real-life situations, with your teacher, and with other participants, in pairs and groups. In advanced courses the written language will also be promoted.
Which course certificates do students receive?
SCUOLA LEONARDO DA VINCI certificates:
- At the end of each course, students with regular attendance receive the certificate of attendance indicating the level of proficiency attained.
- At the end of 3rd ability level, students who passed a test receive the "Certificato di Conoscenza della Lingua Italiana".
- At the end of 5th ability level, students who passed a test receive the "Diploma di Lingua Italiana".
- DELI - basic level: at the end of the first ability level;
- DILI - intermediate level: at the end of the third ability level;
- DALI - advanced level: at the end of the sixth ability level;
- DALC - Diploma of Business language, advanced level: at the end of the sixth ability level;
Which is the average age of students attending the school? I'm interested in attending a course for older students aged 30 and above. Do you have suitable courses for this age group?
Sixty percent of our students are aged between 17 and 30 seeking to improve their Italian language skills and awareness of Italian culture.
Sixty percent of our students are already working; about ten percent are business managers and executives of different nationalities.
Five percent are retired and wish to improve their Italian and familiarize themselves with Italian culture and attend the course DOLCE VITA, which is a course designed for 50+ students.
Usually students aged 30 and more feel comfortable in our classes and enjoy to meet people from all over the world. In the Intensive Plus and Small Group Courses the average age is higher.
After twelve weeks, how much Italian will I be able to speak, assuming I am a complete beginner upon arrival, I work very hard and I am good at languages?
SCUOLA LEONARDO DA VINCI offers 6 different course levels from beginner to advanced. Each course level usually consists of 20 lessons/week over a period of 4 weeks. If you are good at languages and you work hard, it is possible to complete Beginner, Basic and Intermediate levels in 12 weeks.
At the end of the Intermediate level you already possess considerable knowledge of Italian. Your feeling for the language has become confident and your range of expressions has developed greatly and is more differentiated. You will be able to sit for the Leonardo da Vinci certificate examination "Knowledge of the Italian language" and for the "Firenze-Diploma" DILI of the Accademia Italiana di Lingua.
The four cities and the surroundings offer a nearly unlimited variety of leisure activities, which our students might undertake by themselves. We offer leisure activities as well and organise on a regular basis:
- dinners, which enable teachers and students to get to know each other better
- guided visits in History of Art
- film evenings at school
- day and half-day excursions
- visit to wine cellars
Every month our schools distribute their own calendar of cultural activities. In this way participants will always be well informed concerning exhibitions, concerts, films and other events. For the weekends we hand out special leaflets for individual trips. All students receive a written guide indicating active and passive sporting activities and the secretary's office can also help with the organization of sporting activities.
Can you give me an example of a monthly activity calendar in Florence?
- Day excursion to Siena and San Gimignano or Pisa and Lucca etc.; every 4 weeks, normally the first Saturday after a month course begins (at cost price).
- Half-day excursion to the vineyards of the "Chianti" area, visit to a winery incl. "merenda" (typical Tuscan afternoon snack); every 4 weeks, normally the third week after a month course begins (at cost price).
- Dinners with the school in a typical Florentine trattoria: students and teachers have a good chance to get to know each other; every 2 weeks, the 2nd day of the course after a 2 weeks course begins (at cost price).
- Free guided History of Art tours in Florence: every second and third Saturday after a month course begins.
- One or two guided museum visits the month (at cost price).
Can you give me an example of a monthly activity calendar in Rome
- Day excursion to the seaside at Sperlonga, to Naples and Pompei, to Cortona etc.; every 4 weeks, normally the first Saturday after a month course begins (at cost price).
- Dinner with the school in a typical Roman restaurant; every 4 weeks (at cost price).
- Free guided History of Art visits in Rome: every week.
- Free cinema italiano: every 2 weeks.
- Free diction lessons: every 2 weeks.
- Free concert evenings at school: every 2 weeks.
Can you give me an example of a monthly activity calendar in Siena?
- Dinner in a typical Tuscan country house: teachers and students get a good chance to get to know each other; every 4 weeks (at cost price).
- Half day excursion with private bus to the surroundings of Siena, i.e. vineyards in the "Chianti" region, Montepulciano, San Galgano, incl. "merenda" (typical Tuscan afternoon snack); every 2 weeks (at cost price).
- Guided tours around the city; every 2 weeks.
- History of Art tours to some of the most important sights in Siena, as the Duomo, Pinacotheque (art gallery), Palazzo Pubblico etc.; every 2 weeks.
- The Italian cinema: a film presentation with comments and discussion; every 2 weeks.
- Seminar: the History of the "Palio" - historical horse race: 4 lessons in the afternoon and visit of the museum of a "Contrada", for beginners as well as for advanced students; in the summer months.
- The Italian music: an afternoon listening to the Italian music and learning about different groups and singers; every month.
Can you give me an example of a monthly activity calendar in Milan?
- Day excursion to Lago Maggiore, Lago di Como, Lago d'Iseo or Lago di Garda (all of them make up the famous lake district close to Milan); at least once every 4 weeks, normally the first Saturday after a month course begins (at cost price).
- Half day excursion to Monza, Brescia, Pavia: every two weeks (at cost price).
- Guided tours around the city: every two weeks.
- Soccer match: if enough students are interested there's the possibility to buy tickets to see Inter or Milan soccer matches in the "S.Siro Stadium": every week.
- Art History tour to some of the most important sights where Leonardo da Vinci worked are on show: Castello Sforzesco, Museo della Scienza e della Tecnica, Refettorio S.Maria delle Grazie, Museo d'Arte e Scienza: every two weeks (at cost price).
- Aperitivo night in "Navigli", students will appreciate the typical after-work activity in Milan, buy a cocktail and the price includes snacks and aperitivi, at some of the most beautiful bars and cafes in town: every week.
- Dinners with the school in a typical Milanese restaurant, students and teachers have a good chance to get to know each other over a delicious "risotto alla Milanese" and a good glass of wine: every 2 weeks (at cost price)
- For the weekends we hand out special leaflets for individual trips to: Monza, Brescia, Pavia, Ligurian coast, the lake district (Lago di Garda, Lago Maggiore, Lago di Como, Lago d'Iseo), Venice and Switzerland
- If enough students are interested we organize volleyball, basketball and soccer games
- All students receive a guide indicating sporting activities, either to take part in or to watch and the office can also help with the organization of sporting activities
Accommodation in host-family
In selecting host families, we do not look for luxury and comfort in the material sense but for Italian families who appreciate receiving foreign students. Additionally, the word 'family' should not be taken too literally, as a family can be 'traditional' with children, a single parent or a childless couple who take in students because they enjoy the company.
Hand-washing of clothes as well as the use of the ironing board is permitted with no extra charge. The use of the washing-machine is not included, but arrangements can be made between the landlord, the school and the student.
Accommodation in a shared apartment
You share a flat or floor of a house either with other students from our school, with other Italian students or with the owner.
Kitchen and bathroom are of common use.
The apartments are furnished and the kitchens are supplied with all essential kitchen utilities (cutlery, plates, pans etc.).
You can prepare your meals separately or together with your flatmates and fellow students.
Electricity, gas water, local costs and taxes are included in the price.
The apartments are cleaned before your arrival. During the stay, you and your flatmates are responsible for the cleaning of your room and of the rooms used in common (kitchen and bathroom).
Normally there is no telephone in the apartment.
You should bring some food for the Sunday of arrival and Monday morning, as food stores are closed on Sundays.
Italy uses a 220 Volts/AC system. Plugs may differ from those in your home country and it's possible that you need an adapter.
Accommodation in a private apartment
Private apartments are more comfortable than shared apartments and therefore more expensive. They are available for one or more persons. Prices are available on request. Please note that the private apartments must be reserved well in advance and the prices may vary depending on the city and season.
Accommodation in a Hotel
We work with Hotels situated close to the schools (basic offer always: bed & breakfast, rooms with shower or bathroom). Prices are available on request and according to the categories of hotels and the season. Please make Hotel reservation well in advance.
Housing reservations run from the Sunday evening before the beginning of the course to the Saturday morning (12:00 am) at the end of the course. If you need to arrive a day earlier or to stay a day longer, please contact the school for help with extra accommodation arrangements. Different arrival or departure days must be confirmed in writing.
Arrival date and time
We need to be informed at least 4 days in advance of your arrival day and time. Therefore, upon receiving the accommodation address, you have to contact the landlord (by telephone) or the school (by telephone, fax or e-mail) to communicate the date and time of arrival in order to make the waiting time for both parts as short as possible. If there is no communication, you will be expected to arrive in the evening, after 6:00 pm.
Bed-linens / towels
Bed-linens are provided and changed every 2 weeks but you need to bring your own towels.
Normally, there is no washing-machine in the apartments. You may use the many self-service laundromats.
Our accommodations are located in the city centers as well as in the suburbs. In any case you can easily reach the school and the center of the cities by public transport. To get from the suburbs to the center takes 15 - 25 minutes by public transport (Rome up to 50 minutes). If you have been placed in the town center (if available) it takes about 15 minutes walking to reach the school.
If you book host family accommodation you can choose between breakfast and half board (breakfast and dinner). You will have your meals together with the family but you should be aware that Italian eating habits can be rather different from your own. Breakfast usually only consists of coffee or tea and bread, butter, marmelade. Dinner is a complete meal served normally at around 8:00 pm.
Payment of accommodation
Scuola Leonardo da Vinci only makes the reservations for accommodation. Payment for accommodation has to be made directly to the landlord/landlady, to the apartment owner or to the hotel receptionist.
Room-mating with another student
We recommend to book a 'place in a double room' only for young people. According to our experience mature people normally do not feel at ease in a double room as they may have to share it with very young people who have different habits and attitudes.
At arrival, we recommend that you take a taxi to your accommodation. Taxis are:
1) easily found at the TAXI stations, which are always in front of the train station and the airport
2) the best way to bring your luggage to your 'new home'
3) not expensive
Scuola Leonardo da Vinci also offers a transfer service from the airports in Rome and Florence and from the train stations in Florence, Rome and Siena. For prices please consult our current price list - transfer costs. If you wish the school to arrange a transfer, please send us the arrival information (date and time of arrival and flight or train number) possibly with the enrollment form or at least one week before your arrival date.
Check list:
- Valid passport or identity card
- Tickets and reservations
- Insurance documents
- Money, traveler's cheques and credit cards
- Personal medicine or medical prescriptions
- E111 form (for citizens from EU countries)
- Italian address given to parents etc.
- School informed about arriving time
- Transfer requested from school
Although summer in Italy, from the Alps to Sicily, is quite warm, the winter in Northern and Central Italy can be quite cool; winter in the south, however, is relatively mild. The best weather in the cities is in spring and autumn.
Average summer temperatures range from 18°C to 30°C (64°F to 86°F), the average winter temperature is around 4°C to 16°C (39°F to 61°F).
Credit Cards / Euro-Cheques / Traveler's Cheques
Euro-Cheques, Traveler's Cheques and Credit Cards are accepted almost everywhere. You can receive money at Automatic Teller Machines (ATM), if you have an ATM card linked to an international network (Eurocard, Cirrus, Plus, Maestro etc.). Mastercard and Visa (with PIN number) may be used to withdraw cash from an ATM machine. In Europe, ATM's do not often accept PIN's with more than 4 digits.
Cash from ATM's only in Italian Lire / daily amount is limited.
Credits for American Universities
We can send transcripts to American Universities, where our courses are usually accepted as valid language credits. Please ask us for more information.
Exchanging money
When exchanging large amounts of money it is usually better to do it in Italy. However, you should also bring cash for the first few days (for the taxi, for purchasing small things, etc.). Avoid to change money in change offices because of high commission rates; the best exchange rates are at the bank.
For a stay of more than 3 months, it may even be useful to open a bank account. Our staff will give you further information on it.
Italy uses a 220 Volts/AC system. Additionally, wall sockets and plugs may differ from those in your home country. Be sure to get information about the possible need for an adapter before your departure.
Faxes can be sent from the post office, from a lot of stationer's shops (cartoleria) and from copy shops. At our schools you can receive faxes free of charge and send them (against a fee).
Financial support?
SCUOLA LEONARDO DA VINCI awards 50 school or university students scholarships entitling them to a 100 percent reduction in the cost of a four-week standard course, not including accommodation. If you wish to apply for one of our scholarships, you are requested to submit an application and registration form to the Italian Culture Institute or your University, enclosing a reference from your Italian teacher, and stating the precise name and address of your school/university, and of the teacher concerned.
Illness and accidents: During your stay at our schools, you must be personally insured against illness and accident. Contact your insurance company to ask whether your personal insurance is valid abroad; otherwise purchase a travel insurance. Members of the national insurance-companies in EU countries should demand the E111 form to obtain free health service in Italy.
Robbery coverage: Is often included in personal insurance; if not, we suggest you to purchase coverage for your stay in Italy.
Internet access and sending & receiving emails
The e-mail addresses of our schools can be used for the receipt of private messages. For sending a message our schools in Florence and Rome have installed an Internet/e-mail terminal. Close to our schools there are Internet centers, where you can work with Internet and e-mail (against a fee).
Health, Medical Doctors and Pharmacies
The first-aid service in the Emergency Room of the hospital is free for anyone who is in need. SCUOLA LOENARDO DA VINCI can provide a doctor whenever you are in need of a consultation or medical care. In every city you will find 24-hour pharmacies. You should not forget to bring, if necessary, your own medical prescriptions.
National Holidays
Our schools are closed on national and local public holidays. Lessons are not held, not made up and not refunded.
International telephone calls can be made from all public telephones (in the telephone offices, in bars). Also, the schools in Florence and Rome have a public and a credit-card telephone. The country code for Italy is "39", always followed by the "0" before the area code.
Traveling by train
There are several night- and Eurocity-day-connections with Italy. People under 26 years may receive special discounts. Reservations for sleeping car or couchettes should be made as early as possible. Siena is connected with Florence and Rome by a public bus or by the train.
Traveling by car
All of our course locations are conveniently located on the national motorways. In the old city centres parking is normally not allowed. In all other districts parking is free of charge except for specially marked short term parking zones. Paid parking in garages is usually available near our schools.
Traveling by air
Our schools in Florence and Siena can be reached from the airports in Florence, Pisa and Rome-Fiumicino. The school in Rome is easily reached from Fiumicino airport.
Citizens from the European Union do not need a visa and can enter Italy with an Identification card or Passport. Citizens from other countries should check with the nearest Italian Embassy or Consulate. If you need a visa to extend your stay for more than 90 days you should apply for a 'Type D' (student) visa. SCUOLA LEONARDO DA VINCI will provide you, after enrolment and payment of the deposit, with a certificate of enrolment for your visa application.
World time zones
Italy uses Middle-European-Time (MET), i.e.: Rome = 0 / New York = -6 / Tokyo = +8. During the summer months (mid March to mid October) the clocks are turned ahead one hour to Middle-European-Summer-Time (MEST = MET + 1h), i.e.: Rome = 0 / New York = -5 / Tokyo = +9.


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Washington, DC – Today, as a bipartisan group of Senators announce their shared vision for comprehensive immigration reform and President Obama prepares to deliver the details of his plan tomorrow in Las Vegas, Human Rights First urges Congress and the administration to support measures that are consistent with U.S. values and commitments to due process, as well as human rights and the protection of refugees.
"Immigration reform initiatives should honor our history as a nation of immigrants and a global leader in the protection of refugees. We welcome the call by leaders on both sides of the aisle to prioritize immigration reform, fix existing visa programs and provide a pathway to citizenship," says Human Rights First's Eleanor Acer. "As these proposals take shape over the coming months, Congress and the president should commit to measures that will strengthen basic due process, fix the nation's flawed approach to immigration detention, and realize the full potential of America's commitment to refugees."
Specifically, Human Rights First recommends that immigration reform legislation include provisions to:
- Eliminate the wasteful and counter-productive asylum filing deadline that is barring refugees with well-founded fears of persecution from asylum and diverting overstretched adjudication resources.
- Reduce unnecessary immigration detention costs and implement lasting reforms through cost-effective alternatives to detention, immigration court review of detention decisions, and standards and conditions in line with the American Bar Association's proposed civil immigration detention standards.
- Require and support a fair and efficient adjudication process, providing for Legal Orientation Programs and counsel where justice requires, including for children, persons with mental disabilities, and other vulnerable immigrants in immigration detention.
- Protect refugees from inappropriate exclusion and free up administrative resources by adjusting overly broad immigration law definitions that have mislabeled refugees as supporters of "terrorism."
Human Rights First notes that many of the inefficiencies and problems in the existing immigration system were created by past reform initiatives.
"In the wake of today's show of bipartisan support for comprehensive immigration reform and President Obama's stated commitment to achieving this goal, now is the time for the United States to bring its policy in line with American values. As this legislative effort moves forward, we urge Congress and the Obama Administration to reject proposals that undermine due process, human rights, and this country's leadership in the protection of refugees," concluded Acer.
For detail on Human Rights First's recommendations for comprehensive immigration reform, see here and here.
For detail on Human Rights First's recommendations to President Obama, see How to Repair the U.S. Asylum and Refugee Systems (2012) and How to Repair the U.S. Immigration Detention System (2012).
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Adam's Camp Advocates
There are many ways Adam's Camp Advocates support the work of Adam's Camp. Some of the options are described here.
Spread the Word
Word of mouth is the most powerful recruitment and fundraising tool we have. We attend various community events throughout the year and rely on volunteers to represent us. Each event usually requires a 6 – 8 hour commitment to staff a booth and/or transport display equipment and PR materials to and from the Adam's Camp office.
If you have a child in school and are willing to visit your school's special education director to explain and promote Adam's Camp programs, we could use your help now! We will orient you to the message and materials.
We also need Advocates throughout the year to meet with representatives from supporting organizations (such as the Autism Society) and to visit community programs (such as Special Olympics). If you love Adam's Camp, this is easy and fun. We provide the orientation, talking points and materials. You provide the energy, enthusiasm and parent wisdom.
Contact Helga Simons, Volunteer Coordinator, at our offices by email or by phone, 303-563-8290 x 16.
Office Assistant
Office support is a great way to help our small staff! We can use volunteers throughout the year, Monday through Friday. Here are some of the various jobs to be done:
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Time Commitment: We appreciate volunteer support for 2-4 hours per visit at our office, between 9am-5pm.
Contact Helga Simons, Volunteer Coordinator, at our offices by email or by phone, 303-563-8290 x 16.
Service Projects
Adam's Camp greatly benefits from service projects that are designed and/or supported by individuals, families and organizations. Many of the volunteer jobs listed here are done by groups (work, family, faith-based initiatives) that come together to participate in a high-impact project that has a limited timeframe – anything from 2 hours to one day. If you are interested in organizing a service project or joining one, please let us know. Contact Helga Simons, Volunteer Coordinator, at our offices by email or by phone, 303-563-8290 x 16.
Community volunteers work year-round to raise funds through grants, special events and individual donor campaigns. In any year family paid program fees cover about half of the total cost of our specialized programming. Families tap into various personal funding sources such as health insurance, county service funding and/or personal funds to cover their program fees. Adam's Camp raises the rest up to 60% of the total cost plus additional funds to award scholarships for families in need.
We are always open to creative fundraising ideas. We are enthused by the success of the families and groups that develop and conduct fundraisers on our behalf and we encourage families to organize fundraisers through their networks of friends, work and faith communities. Many individuals and groups also support us by joining up with fundraisers that Adam's Camp develops and conducts. Either way, help is needed all year! Contact Karel Horney at our offices by email or by phone, 303-563-8290 x 11.
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