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August 10, 2010

The poet and author Reinhold Schneider

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The poet and author Reinhold Schneider spent the winter of 1957-58 in Vienna. It was his last winter, though he was just 55. He kept a diary for the four or five months that he spent in Vienna. He was already seriously ill and plagued by deep melancholy; he died at Easter, 1958. Again and again he wrote about the terrors, the incomprehensible cruelties of nature, of the “process of eating and being eaten” (Winter in Wien, Freiburg, 1958, p. 184), and also about the senseless and terrible human world full of suffering and war and unfathomable evil.

Had this sick and depressed poet, who had given encouragement to so many people in the Nazi era, lost his faith? Did he revert to the tragic world view that had characterized his thought before his conversion to the Catholic faith? His reflections on and his consternation (verging on despair) at the horrors of this world put into question his faith in a good creator, in His meaningful plan, in His benevolent providence. Let me quote three passages from his diaries.

Found in :

http://stephanscom.at/edw/katechesen/articles/2006/05/15/a10783

April 15, 2010

The Rape Of The South

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Il Meridione d’Italia grida vendetta da 150 anni.
Lombroso è stato il Mengale italiano, dando seguito, con i suoi studi da guitto, all’arrembante razzismo dei piemontesi guerrafondai.
Centinaia di migliaia di miei conterranei sono stati stanati dalle loro povere case di campagna e deportati in prigioni-caserma disseminate nell’alto Piemonte e Lombardia: per la maggior parte delle volte furono fucilati e sepolti in fosse comuni, tutti giovani, tutti Meridionali.
Questo causò un altro ingentissimo danno alla mia gente ed alle nostre terre: un’intera generazione fu cancellata e le campagne si ritrovarono ben presto senza ‘forti braccia’ che le potessero rendere produttive. Chi resisteva fu costretto alla ‘macchia’ e indicato come brigante, poi cacciato, ucciso ed esposto ai fotografi per macabre immagini simili più a trofei animaleschi che ad altro…
Ma poiché il Brigantaggio, ovvero la rivoluzione degli oppressi, non era facilmente debellabile dallo stanco e malmesso esercito ‘italiano’, il novello Stato unitario, nella persona del Conte Cavour e dei suoi fedeli cagnolini di regime, inviò ufficiali in borghese per cercare di individuare personaggi loschi e veri delinquenti e portarli, sotto il pagamento di ingenti somme e la ‘donazione’ di posti di potere, dalla parte dei sabaudi: riuscirono, così, ad impiantare, all’interno del territorio Meridionale, delle vere e proprie ’sacche’ di malfattori impuniti che, vestiti di potere governativo, tradivano i propri conterranei per far continuare la situazione di comodo in cui erano stati posti dal governo stesso.
E’ questo fu l’inizio della malavita organizzata nel Sud Italia.
Ma badate bene, questa non è preistoria e neanche storia antica, se considerate che il padre di mia nonna fu costretto a rifugiarsi sui monti dell’Irpinia per sfuggire ai soprusi dell’esercito ‘italiano’ e poi additato come Brigante!
Una rivoluzione popolare affogata nel sangue che grida ancora vendetta.
Sereno Despero, Nuova Città Commentatore certificato
15.04.10 17:51|
In gioventù trafugava i crani dei cadaveri dai cimiteri di campagna per poi studiarne con comodo la conformazione. Ai contadini che, ignari, gli chiedevano cosa trasportasse con sé rispondeva: “Zucche”. Il ragazzo dei cimiteri fece carriera. Si chiamava Cesare Lombroso. Si fece le ossa come medico militare durante la lotta al brigantaggio da parte dell’esercito sabaudo. Una guerra di occupazione in cui furono uccisi decine di migliaia di meridionali. Molti dei loro cadaveri furono fonte di ricerca per Lombroso che riuscì a identificare nella struttura dei crani le ragione della malvagità, dell’anarchia, del ribellismo.
Per Lombroso criminali si nasce, non si diventa. E’ tutto scritto nella nostra fisionomia. Lo scorso anno la pseudoscienza lombrosiana è uscita dalle cantine universitarie in cui era sepolta e grazie all’Università di Torino, alla Regione Piemonte e al Comune di Torino ha trovato una degna collocazione nel nuovissimo “Museo di Antropologia criminale Cesare Lombroso” in via Pietro Giuria 15 a due passi dal Parco del Valentino. L’esposizione dei macabri reperti, tra i quali quelli di briganti meridionali, coincide con il 150 anniversario dell’Unità d’Italia. Le scolaresche torinesi possono ammirare la “fossetta anomala” del cranio del brigante Villella, una prova per lo pseudoscienziato Lombroso della teoria dell’atavismo, base concettuale dell’identificazione del delinquente nato. La guida al Museo a pagina 57 così riporta la presenza del cranio del brigante: “Sala 5 - Il cranio del Villella: “La grande scoperta”.

An Academy for Evolutionaries

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at Integral Enlightenment, we’re committed to one thing: empowering
Evolutionaries. That means providing you with the tools, training and
support you need to be able to fulfill on your highest calling. We’ve
recognized that most of us who fall under the label of “evolutionary”
are people with noble “evolutionary aspirations” who first need to make
a leap in our own evolution to become truly awakened evolutionaries able to serve the creative process at the highest level.

We’re
also acutely aware that traditional paths and practices, as powerful as
they once were, have a limited amount to offer those of us who are
awakening to this new spiritual calling. We need new practices and
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integrate both ancient and emerging wisdom.

In
order to serve this growing need for authentic evolutionary training
and support, we’ve created what may be the first Academy for
Evolutionaries—a training ground for people who are already committed
to conscious evolution, and who are seeking the tools and support to
make their greatest contribution and live a truly awakened life.

Over the past 15 years, we’ve distilled the core practices and approaches that every aspiring evolutionary needs to make the leap to being an awakened evolutionary.

And now, for the first time, we’re bringing all of this wisdom together in a single course.

http://academyforevolutionaries.com/

October 10, 2009

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August 2, 2009

Tracking the entire world

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NNDB
http://www.nndb.com/people/217/000205599/bibliography/

July 20, 2009

Fathers & Families

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Fathers & FamiliesTM improves the lives of children and strengthens society by protecting the child’s right to the love and care of both parents after separation or divorce. We seek better lives for children through family court reform that establishes equal rights and responsibilities for fathers and mothers.

July 6, 2009

GLASS: Gemstone, Linux, Apache, Seaside and Smalltalk

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GLASS: Gemstone, Linux, Apache, Seaside and Smalltalk

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Gemstone has had the most interesting set of stories out of this year’s conference - they announced a free (including commercial use) version of Gemstone/S on Monday night, and today they are introducing GLASS - which puts together Seaside with a persistence story. Ruby on Rails is a large part of the inspiration behind the nomenclature. Seaside does what it does better than Rails (in our opinion) - but it has had no persistence (database) story.

The nice thing about Seaside is that you write applications in a very natural fashion using Smalltalk - the development pattern is more like that for traditional “screen” apps than most web application frameworks. Seaside came out of some Ruby work Avi Bryant did, but then moved to Smalltalk due to the better set of libraries and tools.

Seaside is attractive because it makes it much easier to create stateful applications over HTTP. The way it does this is via continuations - served pages can be associated with continuations (the stack). James Foster is now going through the standard Counter example that comes with Seaside. To support Seaside, you need continuations. We now have that in VisualWorks, ObjectStudio 8, Dolphin, Squeak, and Gemstone. Gemstone has added support because they can jump in and add value immediately with persistence.

Gemstone can work with internal web servers (Swazoo, Hyper, and Kom), or external servers - Apache (via FastCGI), or Lightpd (also via FastCGI). The Gemstone port is pretty nifty - they built an interface to Monticello and support loading straight from there. Interesting side effect there - they now use _ as an assignment operator, since Squeak code uses that. They do require spaces before and after - and this is a change from earlier revs of Gemstone.

Looks like something you’ll want to head on over to Gemstone’s site to take a look at. Since you can run multiple Gemstone VMs (hitting the same back end data), you can scale pretty much linearly. From the tools level, you can use VisualWorks, VisualAge, or Squeak to browse/edit code. The VW and VA interfaces are richer and more feature-full. The link above is a public “sandbox” that you can set up an account in and try things out in.

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July 1, 2009

kilingthebuddha.com

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deadline theology

 

Jeff Sharlet’s The Family

I imagine the site will get some traffic today from fans of NPR’s “Fresh Air,” on which I’m a guest on today’s program to discuss my book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and the Family’s links to the Sanford/Ensign scandals. I hope some of you’ll will explore the rest of the site, which offers a broad look at the varieties of religious experience, most of which are a lot sweeter than the brutal theology at the heart of the Family. Many of them are gathered in our new anthology, Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith.

Meanwhile, here are some links to more about The Family:

“Jesus Plus Nothing,” the Harper’s story that led to the book

“The F-Word,” an excerpt on CounterPunch about the Family’s historical relationship to fascism

“The Family,” last year’s radio interview for The Diane Rehm Show

“America’s Secret Fundamentalists,” a review by one of my favorite critics, Robert Christgau

Luis Von Ahn

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Luis von Ahn

Born 1979

Guatemala City, Guatemala

Residence United States
Institutions Carnegie Mellon University
Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University

Duke University

Doctoral advisor Manuel Blum
Notable awards MacArthur Fellowship

Luis von Ahn (born in 1979 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. His research includes CAPTCHAs and human computation, and has earned him international recognition and numerous honors. He was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a., the “genius award”) in 2006[1][2] and is the recipient of a Microsoft New Faculty Fellowship. He has also been named one of the 50 Best Brains in Science by Discover Magazine, and has made it to numerous recognition lists that include Popular Science Magazine’s Brilliant 10, Silicon.com’s 50 Most Influential People in Technology, and Technology Review’s TR35: Young Innovators Under 35.

[edit] Biography

Von Ahn received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005 under the supervision of Manuel Blum and his B.S. in mathematics from Duke University in 2000. He attended the American School of Guatemala for his primary and secondary education.

Von Ahn’s early work was in the field of cryptography. With Nick Hopper and John Langford, he was the first to provide rigorous definitions of steganography and to prove that private-key steganography is possible. He has also worked with the cryptographer Josh Benaloh.

In 2000, he did early work with Manuel Blum
on CAPTCHAs, computer-generated tests that humans can pass but
computers cannot. These devices are used by web sites to prevent
automated programs, or bots, from perpetrating large-scale abuse, such
as automatically registering for large numbers of accounts or
purchasing huge number of tickets for resale by scalpers. CAPTCHAs
brought von Ahn his first widespread fame among the general public due
to its coverage in The New York Times, USA Today, Discovery Channel, and other mainstream outlets.

June 19, 2009

Ritalin backed as brain-booster

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Healthy people should be able to take the anti-hyperactivity drug Ritalin to boost brain power, a UK ethicist says.

Bioethics expert Professor John Harris, of the University of Manchester, said if the drug was safe for children, adults should also be able to take it.

Writing on the British Medical Journal website, he said many students were already using the drug - which is illegal without prescription in the UK.

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