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Christopher Fry on the Global Brain
Posted November 15, 2013, under Source Texts
Cover of "Psychosynthesis" number 20 (Firenze, Italy: Instituto di Psicosentesi, October 2013)
The human heart can go to the lengths of God.
Dark and cold we may be, but this
Is no winter now. The frozen misery
Of centuries breaks, cracks, begins to move;
The thunder is the thunder of the floes.
The thaw, the flood, the upstart Spring.
Thank God our time is now when wrong
Comes up to face us everywhere,
Never to leave us 'til we take
The longest stride of soul men ever took.
Affairs are now soul size.
The enterprise is exploration into God.
Where are you making for? It takes
So many thousand years to wake,
But will you wake for pity's sake?
— Christopher Fry in his play "A Sleep of Prisoners" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1951) written at the invitation of the Religious Drama Society for the Festival of Britain (1950). Cited by Peter Russell in the conclusion of the film "The Global Brain" (Los Angeles, California: Penny Price Productions, 1983) at 33:07. The film is an adaptation of an audio-visual presentation Russell directed at the International Psychosynthesis Conference (Toronto, Canada: July 1, 1983). In turn, the presentation is an adaptation of his text, _The Global Brain: Speculations on the Evolutionary Leap to Planetary Consciousness_, ISBN: 0874772486, (Los Angeles, California: J.P. Tarcher, Inc., 1983). Originally published as _The Awakening Earth: The Global Brain_, ISBN: 1850631018, (London: Arkana, 1982).
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Posted on behalf of Christopher Fry and Peter Russell on Friday, November 15th, 2013 under Source Texts.
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Rosa Luxemburg on a story of revolution
Posted March 7, 2012, under Quotations
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What does the entire history of socialism and of all modern revolutions show us? The first spark of class struggle in Europe, the revolt of the silk weavers in Lyon in 1831, ended with a heavy defeat; the Chartist movement in Britain ended in defeat; the uprising of the Parisian proletariat in the June days of 1848 ended with a crushing defeat; and the Paris commune ended with a terrible defeat. The whole road of socialism – so far as revolutionary struggles are concerned – is paved with nothing but thunderous defeats. Yet, at the same time, history marches inexorably, step by step, toward final victory! Where would we be today without those "defeats," from which we draw historical experience, understanding, power and idealism? Today, as we advance into the final battle of the proletarian class war, we stand on the foundation of those very defeats; and we can do without any of them, because each one contributes to our strength and understanding.
The revolutionary struggle is the very antithesis of the parliamentary struggle. In Germany, for four decades we had nothing but parliamentary "victories." We practically walked from victory to victory. And when faced with the great historical test of August 4, 1914, the result was the devastating political and moral defeat, an outrageous debacle and rot without parallel. To date, revolutions have given us nothing but defeats. Yet these unavoidable defeats pile up guarantee upon guarantee of the future final victory.
There is but one condition. The question of why each defeat occurred must be answered. Did it occur because the forward-storming combative energy of the masses collided with the barrier of unripe historical conditions, or was it that indecision, vacillation, and internal frailty crippled the revolutionary impulse itself?
Classic examples of both cases are the February revolution in France on the one hand and the March revolution in Germany on the other. The courage of the Parisian proletariat in the year 1848 has become a fountain of energy for the class struggle of the entire international proletariat. The deplorable events of the German March revolution of the same year have weighed down the whole development of modern Germany like a ball and chain. In the particular history of official German Social Democracy, they have reverberated right up into the most recent developments in the German revolution and on into the dramatic crisis we have just experienced.
How does the defeat of "Spartacus week" appear in the light of the above historical question? Was it a case of raging, uncontrollable revolutionary energy colliding with an insufficiently ripe situation, or was it a case of weak and indecisive action?
Both! The crisis had a dual nature. The contradiction between the powerful, decisive, aggressive offensive of the Berlin masses on the one hand and the indecisive, half-hearted vacillation of the Berlin leadership on the other is the mark of this latest episode. The leadership failed. But a new leadership can and must be created by the masses and from the masses. The masses are the crucial factor. They are the rock on which the ultimate victory of the revolution will be built. The masses were up to the challenge, and out of this "defeat" they have forged a link in the chain of historic defeats, which is the pride and strength of international socialism. That is why future victories will spring from this "defeat."
"Order prevails in Berlin!" You foolish lackeys! Your "order" is built on sand. Tomorrow the revolution will "rise up again, clashing its weapons," and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing:
I was, I am, I shall be!
— Rosa Luxemburg in her essay "Die Ordnung herrscht in Berlin" ("Order Prevails in Berlin") written in the midst of a successful counterrevolution (Berlin: January 14, 1919). It was published the same day in Die Rote Fahne ("The Red Flag"), the paper Luxemburg co-founded (November 9, 1918) with Karl Liebknecht, the more radical son of the founder of the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany, SPD). The paper was originally an organ of the Spartakusbund ("Spartacus League"), co-founded by Luxemburg and Liebknecht in rejection of the SPD members who voted in the Reichstag to embrace Germany's imperial war in 1914. Shortly thereafter (City Council reception hall, Berlin: December 30, 1918 – January 1, 1919) the Spartacus League became the Kommunistische Partei Deutschlands ("Communist Party of Germany", KPD) at a conference which Liebknecht opened ("The crisis of the USPD") and Luxemburg engaged ("Our Program and the Political Situation"). In January, a small group of workers seized control of several streets in the newspaper quarter, precipitating embrace by the KPD and a general strike in which half a million workers occupied parts of Berlin. The strike was suppressed by hired Freikorps ("Free Corps"), paramilitaries freshly armed with defeat from WWI, who captured and murdered Luxemburg and Liebknecht the next day (Berlin: January 15, 1919).
"Die Revolution sagt ich bin, ich war, ich werde sein."
@anonymouSabu on Twitter (March 5, 2012 @ 5:57pm)
"Die Revolution sagt ich bin, ich war, ich werde sein."
("The Revolution says I am, I was, I shall be.")
— (allegedly) Hector "Sabu" Monsegur in the last tweet on @anonymouSabu's account, (March 5, 2012 5:57pm CST). The next day, the FBI announced his capture along with five other Anons whom he is alleged to have directly implicated.
Posted on behalf of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht on Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 under Quotations.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Art's refutation of lies
Posted September 6, 2011, under Quotations
Artist's rendering of a transistor radio, the means by which Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture was smuggled out of Russia in the form of nine black and white photographic negatives.
Image credit: NobelPrize.org - "How I Helped Alexandr Solzhenitsyn Smuggle His Nobel Lecture from the USSR" by Stig Fredrikson
I AM, HOWEVER, ENCOURAGED BY A keen sense OF WORLD LITERATURE as the one great heart that beats for the cares and misfortunes of our world, even though each corner sees and experiences them in a different way.
In past times, also, besides age-old national literatures there existed a concept of world literature as the link between the summits of national literatures and as the aggregate of reciprocal literary influences. But there was a time lag: readers and writers came to know foreign writers only belatedly, sometimes centuries later, so that mutual influences were delayed and the network of national literary high points was visible not to contemporaries but to later generations.
Today, between writers of one country and the readers and writers of another, there is an almost instantaneous reciprocity, as I myself know. My books, unpublished, alas, in my own country, despite hasty and often bad translations have quickly found a responsive world readership. Critical analysis of them has been undertaken by such leading Western writers as Heinrich Boll. During all these recent years, when both my work and my freedom did not collapse, when against the laws of gravity they held on seemingly in thin air, seemingly ON NOTHING, on the invisible, mute surface tension of sympathetic people, with warm gratitude I learned, to my complete surprise, of the support of the world's writing fraternity. On my fiftieth birthday I was astounded to receive greetings from well-known European writers. No pressure put on me now passed unnoticed. During the dangerous weeks when I was being expelled from the Writers' Union, THE PROTECTIVE WALL put forward by prominent writers of the world saved me from worse persecution, and Norwegian writers and artists hospitably prepared shelter for me in the event that I was exiled from my country, Finally, my being nominated for a Nobel Prize was originated not in the land where I live and write but by Francois Mauriac and his colleagues. Afterward, national writers' organizations expressed unanimous support for me.
As I have understood it and experienced it myself, world literature is no longer an abstraction or a generalized concept invented by literary critics, but a common body and common spirit, a living, heartfelt unity reflecting the growing spiritual unity of mankind. State borders still turn crimson, heated red-hot by electric fences and machine-gun fire; some ministries of internal affairs still suppose that literature is "an internal affair" of the countries under their jurisdiction; and newspaper headlines still herald, "They have no right to interfere in our internal affairs!" Meanwhile, no such thing as INTERNAL AFFAIRS remains on our crowded Earth. Mankind's salvation lies exclusively in everyone's making everything his business, in the people of the East being anything but indifferent to what is thought in the West, and in the people of the West being anything but indifferent to what happens in the East. Literature, one of the most sensitive and responsive tools of human , existence, has been the first to pick up, adopt, and assimilate this sense of the growing unity of mankind. , I therefore confidently turn to the world literature of the present, to hundreds of friends whom I have not met face to face and perhaps never will see.
My friends! Let us try to be helpful, if we are worth anything. In our own countries, torn by differences among parties, movements, castes, and groups, who for ages past has been not the dividing but the uniting force? This, essentially, is the position of writers, spokesmen of a national language, of the chief tie binding the nation, the very soil which the people inhabit, and, in fortunate circumstances, the nation's spirit too.
I think that world literature has the power in these frightening times to help mankind see itself accurately despite what is advocated by partisans and by parties. It has the power to transmit the condensed experience of one region to another, so that different scales of values are combined, and so that one people accurately and concisely knows the true history of another with a power of recognition and acute awareness as if it had lived through that history itself–and could thus be spared repeating old mistakes. At the same time, perhaps we ourselves may succeed in developing our own WORLD-WIDE VIEW, like any man, with the center of the eye seeing what is nearby but the periphery of vision taking in what is happening in the rest of the world. We will make correlations and maintain world-wide standards.
Who, if not writers, are to condemn their own unsuccessful governments (in some states this is the easiest way to make a living; everyone who is not too lazy does it) as well as society itself, whether for its cowardly humiliation or for its self-satisfied weakness, or the lightheaded escapades of the young, or the youthful pirates brandishing knives?
We will be told: What can literature do against the pitiless onslaught of naked violence? Let us not forget that violence does not and cannot flourish by itself; it is inevitably intertwined with LYING. Between them there is the closest, the most profound and natural bond: nothing screens violence except lies, and the only way lies can hold out is by violence. Whoever has once announced violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose lying as his PRINCIPLE. At birth, violence behaves openly and even proudly. But as soon as it becomes stronger and firmly established, it senses the thinning of the air around it and cannot go on without befogging itself in lies, coating itself with lying's sugary oratory. It does not always or necessarily go straight for the gullet; usually it demands of its victims only allegiance to the lie, only complicity in the lie.
The simple act of an ordinary courageous man is not to take part, not to support lies! Let that come into the world and even reign over it, but not through me. Writers and artists can do more: they can VANQUISH LIES! In the struggle against lies, art has always won and always will. Conspicuously, incontestably for everyone. Lies can stand up against much in the world, but not against art.
Once lies have been dispelled, the repulsive nakedness of violence will be exposed–and hollow violence will collapse.
That, my friends, is why I think we can help the world in its red-hot hour: not by the nay-saying of having no armaments, not by abandoning oneself to the carefree life, but by going into battle!
In Russian, proverbs about TRUTH are favorites. They persistently express the considerable, bitter, grim experience of the people, often astonishingly:
ONE WORD OF TRUTH OUTWEIGHS THE WORLD.
On such a seemingly fantastic violation of the law of the conservation of mass and energy are based both my own activities and my appeal to the writers of the whole world.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (also transliterated as "Alexander") in part 7 (the conclusion) of his Lecture for the Nobel Prize in Literature (1970). Solzhenitsyn did not accept the Nobel Prize until 1974, and had to smuggle the lecture out of Russia in April 1972. Translated from the Russian by F. D. Reeve in _Nobel Lecture_ (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1972). Cited by The Augustine Club (Columbia University, New York: 1999). Cited in part by Jacob Appelbaum [ @ioerror ] in his keynote address "WikiLeaks: We Open Governments" delivered at The Next HOPE Conference (The Pennsylvania Hotel, New York: 2010). Cited by Nigel Parry [ @FlyingMonkeyAir ] in his blog post "Jacob Appelbaum's keynote speech at 2010 HOPE Conference in New York City".
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Posted on behalf of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Tuesday, September 6th, 2011 under Quotations.
Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard in the conclusion of "The Great Dictator"
Motoko Kusanagi in "Ghost in the Shell" directed by Mamoru Oshii
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A Jewish Barber: Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope, into the future! The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. Look up, Hannah. Look up!
Mr. Jaeckel: Hannah, did you hear that?
Hannah: Listen…
— Charles "Charlie" Chaplin as "A Jewish Barber" and Paulette Goddard as "Hannah" in "The Great Dictator" (California: Charles Chaplin Productions, 1940). Cited as a "Memorable Quote" at IMDB.
Posted on behalf of Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard on Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 under Quotations.
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Charlie Chaplin on the patrimony of greed, and its conquest
Posted August 31, 2011, under Quotations
"Duality of Humanity 3" by Shepard Fairey
I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men – machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!
— Charles "Charlie" Chaplin as "A Jewish Barber" in "The Great Dictator" (California: Charles Chaplin Productions, 1940). Cited as a "Memorable Quote" at IMDB. Thank you to Jamie Corson for the lead.
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Vladimir Vernadsky on "Geochemistry, a New Science for the Twentieth Century"
"Motherland" (Moscow Metro, Moscow, Russia); mosaic
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We live in a critical epoch of the history of humanity. I am not speaking of the political and social upheaval which takes place before our eyes and appears to be just the beginning. Much more serious and profound events are unfolding in the domain of human thought.
The foundations of our conceptions on the universe, on nature—the unique entity—on everything, of which one heard so much in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries, is transforming before our very eyes with an extraordinary speed rare in the history of thought.
We are studying a very small space—but inseparably linked to an immensity of the cosmos—in establishing laws and regularities in the history of the chemical elements of our planet. Profound analogies—and even more than analogies—exist within.
— Vladimir Vernadsky in his text _La Géochimie_ ("Geochemistry") (1924). Cited by Paul R. Samson, David Pitt, in _The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader: Global environment, society, and change_, (Psychology Press, 1999), ISBN: 0415166446, ISBN: 9780415166447, p. 26.
Posted on behalf of Vladimir Vernadsky on Sunday, August 28th, 2011 under Quotations.
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Frank Waters on initiation
Child exploring
Image credit: Fetal Positions II - Days Twelve & Thirteen: Bandelier National Monument & Taos Pueblo
"Hush, son! You are in the womb of Our Mother Earth. You will be here many, many months, a long, long time. You have entered a child. You will be reborn from here a man. Then you will know why it is you must stay. Let there be no more whimpering, no more questions, son…. You are in a womb: in it the eyes, the ears, the nose and babbling mouth do not function. The knowledge that will come to you is the intuitive truth of the spirit, the quiescent wisdom of the blood, transmitted through senses you do not use outside. The pulse of the earth throbs through these walls which inclose you; the embers there reflect the heat of its glowing heart; that little hole runs into the center of the world, into the lake of life itself. Remember you are in a womb, child.
"Listen, son. In your mother's womb you were conceived. From an individual human womb you were born to an individual human life. It was necessary, it was good. But individual human life is not sufficient to itself. It depends upon and is part of all life. So now another umbilical cord must be broken—that which binds you to your mother's affections, that which binds you to the individual human life she gave you. For twelve years you have belonged to your lesser mother. Now you belong to your greater mother. And you return to her womb to emerge once again, as a man with no mother's hold upon him, as a man who knows himself not an individual but a unit of his tribe and a part of all life which ever surrounds him.
Lithops, sometimes referenced as 'living stones'
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"Listen, son. You were born into the human-animal life of sense and nerve and will. But it is necessary that each man sometime be born again: into the consciousness of an even greater life.
"You have learned what in your ordinary animal-existence is necessary for your earthly body.
"Now you must have awakened in you the instinctive need for self-perfection in your inmost spiritual being.
"You must be taught the laws of world creation and world maintenance, the laws of all life whatever form it takes: the living stones, the breathing mountains, the tall walking rain, as well as those of bird and fish, beast and man.
"You must learn that each man has the debt of his arising and his individuality of existence to pay; that this debt must be discharged as early and quickly as possible so that you, as I, as all, may assist in turn the most rapid perfecting of other beings—those like ourselves, and those units of life advanced to the degree of self-individuality.
"For only in this way can life progress, can life exist.
"What is more fitting then, son, that to learn this you must return to the womb of the earth which is the mother of all life? That you be reborn from it into the greater spiritual life as you were born into the lesser life of the flesh?
"Peace, my son. And with it understanding. This period of your gestation will be long—twice as long as was the first, for the life it bears will be likewise longer. The lessons will be difficult, but they will be unceasing. Voices will speak them over and over until their meaning flows through your blood, though the words which must never be repeated be unintelligible to those who have no heart to understand.
A Tibetan father and son on a pilgrimage around China's Mount Kailas
Photograph by Lynn Johnson
Image credit: National Geographic - Tibetans Evolved to Survive High Life, Study Says
"You will be taught the whole history of our people, of our tribe. How they had their last arising from the deep turquoise lake of life in the center of the world, the blue lake in whose depths gleams a tiny star, our Dawn Lake. How they emerged from a great cave whose lips opened into the world we see, from whose lips dripped water to congeal into perpetual flakes of ice whites as eagle-down. You will understand then, son, why those of our clan are called the Deep Water people; why our kiva, this kiva, is called the Eagle-Down Kiva; the meaning of our masks, our dances, our songs. You will see this cave. You will finally see this lake—our Dawn Lake.
"But behind all this you will learn of previous emergences. Of the significance of the four elements, corresponding to the four worlds from which man has successfully risen. The fire world of rampant primordial forces; the world of air which separated from it; the third world of water which then came forth from the vapourous air; and the present world of earth. From your understanding that the body of man is itself a world derived from these four and hence composed of their elements and corresponding attributes, many things will be plain.
"You will perceive this kinship to all the living creatures of these four kingdoms of fire, air, water, earth. Not only his chieftanship over them, but his responsibility to them. For you will begin to understand that there is another world, a fifth world to which we must all arise, and for the gaining of whose attributes this initiate is a preparation.
"Hence you will be taught, as those Old First Ones were taught, that the pine tree, the corn plant, have a life as we, but that they may be used and that they accede to their sacrifice for the maintenance of all life. You will be taught that the eagle, the trout, the deer, each has a life as we, but that they may be used and that they accede to their sacrifice for the need of progression of all life.
Rain clouds seen from Märket
Photograph by Niklas Sjöblom
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"But through all these truths will run the one great truth: the arising of all individual lives into one great life, and the necessary continuance of this one great life by the continual progression of the individual lives which form it.
"You will learn that this continuous progression seems to extend infinitely into time. But you will learn likewise that time also is an infinity.
"And that is life. Life must be lived, not learned from. And that is why in full consciousness only there is freedom. And that is why you learn awareness. To life life, in full consciousness, in freedom. Unbound by possessiveness, the possessiveness of your mother, the possessiveness for your son.
"Now I can say no more. You will grind your own corn: it makes song come easier. You will make your own moccasins: busy hands free the mind to the spirit.
"Now I, the father, having deposited his seed, withdraw from this womb.
"Now I, the father, say good-bye to his child.
"We will meet again. But as brothers. As men together. As equal parts of one great life. No longer separated. But in that consciousness of our oneness which gives us our only freedom.
— Frank Waters [ foundation ] in _The Man Who Killed The Deer: A Novel of Pueblo Indian Life_, ISBN: 0804001944, (Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press, 1970), p. 97-100. First published (1942).
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C.S. Lewis on pluck and courage
#opBART-2: #Anonymous-convened protest (Civic Center, San Francisco, California: August 22, 2011 5pm PDT)
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Or look at it this way. In a battle, or in mountain climbing, there is often one thing which it takes a lot of pluck to do; but it is also, in the long run, the safest thing to do. If you funk it, you will find yourself, hours later, in far worse danger. The cowardly thing is also the most dangerous thing.
— C. S. Lewis in _Mere Christianity_, (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1972), p. 168. Originally published as _Beyond Personality_.
Posted on behalf of C. S. Lewis on Friday, August 19th, 2011 under Quotations.
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Csíkszentmihályi Mihály on Robertson Davies on "a chance to recombine in new ways"
bartpoa.com (August 18, 2011 early am)
Robertson Davies, the Canadian author, said one of the most important things in his life was being able to take a nap every day after lunch for twenty minutes. That's for two reasons. One is that by developing a schedule that's under your control, you are not being flogged around by life, as he puts it; you are not always jumping to someone else's tune. You develop your own rhythm of work and rest. The other thing is that it's during idle time that ideas have a chance to recombine in new ways, because if we think consciously about solving a problem or writing a book, then we are sitting there forcing our ideas to move in a lockstep, in a straight line, and probably what comes out is not very new or original.
For original ideas to come about, you have to let them percolate under the level of consciousness in a place where we have no way to make them obey our own desires or our own direction. So they find their way, their random combinations that are driven by forces we don't know about. It's through this recombination that something new may come up, not when we try to push them directly.
— Csíkszentmihályi Mihály (also transliterated as Csikszentmihalyi Mihaly, Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) as interviewed by Michael Toms in the New Dimensions newsletter. QOTD for 08.18.2011. Submitted by Kathleen Magone on 08.13.2011.
Posted on behalf of Csíkszentmihályi Mihály and Robertson Davies on Wednesday, August 17th, 2011 under Quotations.
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Mercè Piqueras on Vladimir Vernadsky and biospheres
Posted July 1, 2011, under Quotations
SeaWiFS Global Biosphere (September 1997 - August 1998)
Image credit: The SeaWiFS Project, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and ORBIMAGE.
The concept of a biosphere comes from putting together data furnished by several disciplines such as biology, geology, chemistry and biochemistry, which link living matter and the matter of the upper layers of the planet. The term biosphere, which has been usually attributed to Vladimir Ivanovich Vernadsky (1863–1945), seems to have been coined by Eduard Suess (1831–1914). However, when Suess first used it, in his book Die Entstehung der Alpen (1875), he only intended to make a distinction between the lithospere—which is the upper layer of the Earth, made up by the Earth crust and the Earth upper mantle—, and the thin spherical film where living beings are found [1, 23]. For Suess, the biosphere comprised life and environmental conditions such as temperature, pressure, and chemical compounds. Vernadsky used for the first time the term biosphere in 1924, in his essay La Géochimie, which was based on a series of lectures he had given at La Sorbonne in 1922 and 1923. Philosopher and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955), philosopher Henri Bergson (1859–1941), and mathematician and philosopher Eduard Le Roy (1870–1954) attended those lectures, and they and Vernadsky influenced to each other's thoughts [1]. It is the concept of biosphere related to biogeochemistry, expressed in La Géochimie, that is widely accepted today. Vernadsky understood biosphere as the external envelope of the Earth which is inhabited by living things, and comprises both all the living organisms of the planet and the elements of inorganic nature providing the medium for their habitat. Thus, oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and other elements and chemical compounds involved in the vital process are constituent parts of the biosphere. As are the products of organisms activities, such as animal burrows and lairs, birds' nests, deposits of lime and of fossil fuels. Even water is a component—a major component—of the biosphere [8]. Solar radiation, which is crucial for the maintenance of life on Earth, should be considered also a biosphere's component, and so should products of human activities. In fact, the human species is a major changing force in the current composition of the biosphere.
The study of the biosphere cannot be made only by biologists. To study its components and their interactions, a multidisciplinary approach is needed. However, at Vernadsky's times nobody even thought of interdisciplinarity. His theory was actually far ahead of the times when it arose. By portraying life as a global phenomenon, in which the sun's energy was transformed on Earth into a kind of "green fire"—it referred to photosynthesis—he made an anticipation of global ecology; and he made also an anticipation of the concept of "ecosystem" [7, 29].
— Mercè Piqueras [ @lectoracorrent ] in the Introduction to her paper "Meeting the Biospheres: on the translations of Vernadsky's work" (PDF). Published in International Microbiology: The official journal of the Spanish Society for Microbiology, Volume 1, ISSN: 11396709, (Barcelona, Spain: Springer, June 2, 1998), p. 165.
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The Emergence of Contemporary Maori Art
Kelly Carmichael – 13 March, 2014
What's intriguing is that this ground breaking practice was tested and refined not in art schools or urban centres, but in the small and often isolated rural schools and communities of New Zealand's far north. Often from Northland themselves, these creative innovators most embodied the unprecedented sense of freedom and integration of the age, fusing Western and Maori traditions, styles and subjects.
WHANGAREI ART MUSEUM
Historic survey
Salon to Marae: first glimmerings of a Maori Modernism
Curated by Scott Pothan
11 November 2013 - 16 February 2014
Salon to Marae: first glimmerings of a Maori Modernism, which just closed at the Whangarei Art Museum, is one of several exhibitions across New Zealand dedicated to current and historical practice by Maori artists. It joins the recently opened Five Maori Painters at Auckland Art Gallery and the second season of Te Papa's Te Ao Hou | Modern Maori Art in focusing specifically on indigenous practice and important transitions in Maori art. Unlike the other exhibitions Salon to Marae scores something of a coup in presenting what is thought to be a complete series of Selwyn Te Ngareatua Wilson's early work. An intact graduating show from over half a century ago is a rare find, but add to that a series of work which is not complete, but poised at a pivotal point in New Zealand's art history and you have an exceptional discovery.
Curated by Whangarei Art Museum director Scott Pothan, Salon to Marae opens with 14 extensively restored paintings and drawings by celebrated elder of Maori art Selwyn Te Ngareatua Wilson. The series is exhibited again for the first time since it was at the National Art Gallery, Wellington in 1951, after Wilson's graduation. There are studio figure studies, still lifes and gloriously soft, fleshy nudes; most worked in similar palette of autumnal tones and exhibited on mustard painted walls. The colour and texture in the works is reminiscent of post-impressionism, giving the figures a quality that is both indulgent and sensual. A painter and ceramicist, Wilson was one of a handful of figures who brokered a new era for Maori art in the 1950s and 1960s bringing it into conversation with international trends. In their hands traditional art forms evolved, exploring Modernism but a Modernism combined with Maori concepts and influences.
While the world tumbled heavily into the 1960s with student demonstrations, psychedelic experiments and counter culture, a revolution of no less significance was happening in New Zealand visual art practice. Salon to Marae continues with the early work of artists Dame Katerina Mataira, Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury, Clive Arlidge and Ralph Hotere whose departure from traditional forms collectively changed the visual language of New Zealand. Along with Selwyn Te Ngareatua Wilson these artists were recent graduates but influential teachers in an experimental arts-program piloted in rural Northland schools from the mid 1950's. The 'Northern Maori Project' or Tovey Scheme as it is often known, is well documented as responsible for a new wave of creativity, eventually leading to Maori arts and craft being given a place of importance in the development of the New Zealand Arts Curriculum.
Reflected in the title of the exhibition Salon to Marae, these artists were important mentors of a new style synthesising their rigid Western academic training with their own cultural context. What's intriguing is that this ground breaking practice was tested and refined not in art schools or urban centres, but in the small and often isolated rural schools and communities of New Zealand's far north. Often from Northland themselves, these creative innovators most embodied the unprecedented sense of freedom and integration of the age, fusing Western and Maori traditions, styles and subjects. Their practice was controversial and even dismissed by the mainstream at the time, but it laid the ground work for what was to become known as Maori Modernism and eventually contemporary Maori art as we know it today.
Two works in particular from the Salon to Marae exhibition echo the mid-20th century aesthetic of their time but seem prophetic of future developments. Hatupatu and the Bird Woman (1966) by Pauline Kahurangi Yearbury was painted in the same year it was shown in the ground breaking exhibition New Zealand Māori Culture and the Contemporary Scene at the Canterbury Museum. The first large scale survey of contemporary Maori art at a mainstream public institution, it was curated by Northland artist and pupil of Selwyn Te Ngareatua Wilson, Buck Nin. The exhibition was a turning point for practice of its kind and captured an emerging and distinctively Maori contemporary art movement that was soon to come of age.
Similarly, a beautiful painting by Ralph Hotere titled Three Vessels is a significant early work from his Northland period and rarely seen since it entered a private collection soon after completion c.1958. Coolly sublime, the proto-cubist work is painted in flat planes of elegant grey, black and blue; the vessels shot with an almost fluorescent yellow where light hits their surface. Painted shortly before Hotere travelled to Europe, the work stands before a journey which was to have a defining effect on his practice.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Zach Randolph chuckled at the thought that he is too old to still log major minutes in the NBA. The veteran big man has a different perspective on his game.
"I'm in my prime," Randolph said with a wide grin.
Looked pretty good Tuesday night.
Randolph scored each of his 18 of his points in the second half, Buddy Hield had 21 points and the Sacramento Kings rallied for a 94-86 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder.
"Just kept battling," Randolph said. "We have to stick with it. It's a long season. Anything can happen. We have a good team. We can compete with anybody. It's a confidence thing and a believing thing."
Sacramento stopped a seven-game losing streak with its first win since Oct. 20. The Kings (2-8) were limited to 10 points in the first quarter and trailed by as many as 17, but they stormed back to take the lead going into halftime and never trailed in the second half.
The 36-year-old Randolph was 8 for 15 from the field and also contributed eight rebounds. The Kings signed him in the offseason primarily to fill a mentor role on a team filled with young players.
"He's like a pillar for us," teammate Justin Jackson said. "Just having him on the court, everybody has to pay attention to him. Whenever they start doing that, that frees us up a little bit more."
Russell Westbrook had 20 points, 12 rebounds and six assists for Oklahoma City, which has dropped three in a row. The Thunder shot 33.7 percent (29 for 86) from the field, committed three shot clock violations in the third quarter alone and finished with 17 turnovers.
Carmelo Anthony added 16 points and seven rebounds in his first game since he was ejected in Oklahoma City's 103-99 loss at Portland on Sunday.
"At times we had some possessions that were not great but I also thought we had a lot of really good looks at times that didn't go down," Thunder coach Billy Donovan said. "We just didn't make enough shots or play well enough on offense."
This one will sting the Thunder for a while.
Oklahoma City led 25-8 late in the first quarter and appeared headed for a lopsided win before Sacramento quickly erased the deficit and went in front for good.
"It starts with me" Westbrook said. "Part of my job is to do that and make sure my guys are ready to play. I take ownership in that. It's part of my job to get us back on a roll."
Randolph was held scoreless in the first half but scored 12 in the third and six in the fourth, including a layup that made it 89-83 with 1:18 remaining.
Westbrook's 3-pointer trimmed the gap to 89-86 but Sacramento made three free throws and Jackson added an emphatic dunk with one second left.
Jackson had 16 points for the Kings, and De'Aaron Fox finished with 10 points and eight assists.
Steven Adams scored 14 points for Oklahoma City, and Paul George had 12.
WHAT A RELIEF
With the starting five struggling, Sacramento's reserves scored the team's first 29 points — an NBA record, according to Elias Sports Bureau. The previous record was 23 set by Milwaukee against Orlando on April 5, 2011.
"We beat a good team with good players, good coaching and a great front office and everybody had a part in it," Sacramento coach Dave Joerger said. "I'd love to give a bunch of 'Atta boys' out but that was a total team effort."
Thunder: Westbrook assisted on Oklahoma City's first four baskets, including three to Adams, but didn't get another until early in the fourth quarter. The six-time All-Star also was called for a Flagrant 1 penalty in the third quarter after hitting Bogdan Bogdanovic in the face with his left hand while attempting a shot. ... Anthony was called for a technical foul in the fourth.
Kings: Sacramento missed its first 11 shots.
Thunder: Plays on the road for the sixth time in seven games Thursday at Denver.
Kings: Hosts Philadelphia on Thursday. The two teams split two games last season, each winning at home.


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#include "test/file.hh"
#include <cstdio>
#include <fstream>
#include "com/centreon/broker/exceptions/msg.hh"
#include "com/centreon/broker/misc/misc.hh"
#include "test/misc.hh"
#include "test/vars.hh"

using namespace com::centreon::broker;
using namespace com::centreon::broker::test;

/**
 *  Default constructor.
 */
file::file() {
  _variables["PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR"] = PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR;
  _variables["CBD_PATH"] = CBD_PATH;
  _variables["CBMOD_PATH"] = CBMOD_PATH;
  _variables["MY_PLUGIN_PATH"] = MY_PLUGIN_PATH;
  _variables["MY_PLUGIN_BAM_PATH"] = MY_PLUGIN_BAM_PATH;
  _variables["BENCH_GENERATE_RRD_MOD_PATH"] = BENCH_GENERATE_RRD_MOD_PATH;
  _variables["MONITORING_ENGINE"] = MONITORING_ENGINE;
  _variables["MONITORING_ENGINE_ADDITIONAL"] = MONITORING_ENGINE_ADDITIONAL;
  _variables["MONITORING_ENGINE_INTERVAL_LENGTH"] =
      MONITORING_ENGINE_INTERVAL_LENGTH_STR;
  _variables["MONITORING_ENGINE_INTERVAL_LENGTH_STR"] =
      MONITORING_ENGINE_INTERVAL_LENGTH_STR;
  _variables["DB_TYPE"] = DB_TYPE;
  _variables["DB_HOST"] = DB_HOST;
  _variables["DB_PORT"] = DB_PORT;
  _variables["DB_USER"] = DB_USER;
  _variables["DB_PASSWORD"] = DB_PASSWORD;
}

/**
 *  Copy constructor.
 *
 *  @param[in] other  Object to copy.
 */
file::file(file const& other) {
  _internal_copy(other);
}

/**
 *  Destructor.
 */
file::~file() {
  close();
}

/**
 *  Assignment operator.
 *
 *  @param[in] other  Object to copy.
 *
 *  @return This object.
 */
file& file::operator=(file const& other) {
  if (this != &other) {
    close();
    _internal_copy(other);
  }
  return (*this);
}

/**
 *  Close a generated file. This effectively removes the generated file.
 */
void file::close() {
  if (!_target_file.empty()) {
    ::remove(_target_file.c_str());
    _target_file.clear();
  }
  return;
}

/**
 *  Generate a test file from a template.
 *
 *  @return The path to the generated file.
 */
std::string const& file::generate() {
  // Close old file.
  close();

  // Read base file.
  std::string content;
  {
    std::ifstream ifs;
    ifs.open(_base_file.c_str());
    if (!ifs.good())
      throw(exceptions::msg()
            << "could not open base file '" << _base_file << "'");
    char buffer[4096];
    while (ifs.good()) {
      ifs.read(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
      content.append(buffer, ifs.gcount());
    }
    ifs.close();
  }

  // Replace variables.
  size_t start(content.find_first_of('@', 0));
  while (start != std::string::npos) {
    size_t end(content.find_first_of('@', start + 1));
    if (std::string::npos == end)
      throw(exceptions::msg()
            << "non-terminated variable (\"@VAR@\") in base file '"
            << _base_file << "' at offset " << start << " "
            << content.substr(start));
    std::string var(content.substr(start + 1, end - start - 1));
    std::map<std::string, std::string>::const_iterator it(_variables.find(var));
    if (it != _variables.end()) {
      content.replace(start, end - start + 1, it->second);
      start += it->second.size();
    } else {
      content.erase(start, end - start + 1);
    }
    start = content.find_first_of('@', start);
  }

  // Write target file.
  _target_file = misc::temp_path();
  std::ofstream ofs;
  ofs.open(_target_file.c_str(), std::ios_base::out | std::ios_base::trunc);
  if (!ofs.good()) {
    ofs.close();
    close();
    throw(exceptions::msg() << "could not open target file");
  }
  ofs.write(content.c_str(), content.size());
  if (!ofs.good()) {
    ofs.close();
    close();
    throw(exceptions::msg() << "could not write content to target file");
  }
  ofs.close();
  return (_target_file);
}

/**
 *  Set a variable.
 *
 *  @param[in] variable  Variable name.
 *  @param[in] value     Value.
 */
void file::set(std::string const& variable, std::string const& value) {
  _variables[variable] = value;
  return;
}

/**
 *  Set the template file.
 *
 *  @param[in] base_file  Base file from which we will generate the test
 *                        file.
 */
void file::set_template(std::string const& base_file) {
  _base_file = base_file;
  return;
}

/**
 *  Copy internal data members.
 *
 *  @param[in] other  Object to copy.
 */
void file::_internal_copy(file const& other) {
  _base_file = other._base_file;
  _variables = other._variables;
  return;
}

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Post Tomato Condiment recipes here.
Cook tomatoes, onions, celery and garlic in greased and preheated grill (George Foreman grill) until nicely browned. Transfer grilled vegetables and let cool.
Finely chop onions, celery and garlic by hand or in a food processor. Heat olive oil in large sauce pan over medium heat. Add chopped onion, celery and garlic, oregano, hot pepper flakes and bay leaf and cook until lightly browned, about 5 minutes.
Coarsely puree tomatoes and juices with basil in a food processor. Add tomato mixture to saucepan, with vegetables. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, then let sauce simmer gently until thick and richly flavored, 8-10 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper to taste. Sauce should be thick but pourable. If too thick, add a little stock or water. Remove and discard the bay leaf.
Sauce can be refrigerated, covered up to 4 days, or frozen for up to 2 months.
Have you run this through a sieve or food mill to capture skins and seeds? Is there any notable difference?
Combine all ingredients in a large nonreactive pot and bring to a boil over medium eat. Reduce heat and simmer 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally until vegetables are soft and sauce is reduced by 1/4.
Puree in food processor. Strain through a sieve into a clean pot (for a chunkier catsup, don't strain). Bring to a boil over medium-low heat and simmer (partially covered to prevent splatters) for 1 hour or until quite thick and dark brownish red. Store in refrigerator for up to 1 month or freeze.
*I don't use cooking spray...I prefer to lightly coat pan with olive oil, as spray contains additives that eventually coat and ruin your cookware-CB.
Coat a large nonstick skillet with cooking spray; place over medium heat until hot. Add onion, bacon and garlic; saute 5 minutes. Stir in cumin, pepper, peas, and tomatoes. Remove from heat; stir in remaining ingredients. Spoon into a bowl; cover and chill 1 to 8 hours.
Yield: 3-1/2 cups (serving size: 1/4 cup).
combine the above, let sit for an hour or so, then dig in!
Feel free to play around with the pepper varieties and amounts. some chopped Sungolds add to the sweetness.
Put oil in a small saucepan and put on warm heat.
Thanks for the above salsa recipe Craig. I just knocked one up as I had all ingredients on hand. YUM. Dug in with a couple of rice chips straight away and it is great and so easy. Will dig in properly when the missus gets home.
Is home made ketchup really that much better than store bought?
KC, how did your grandmother prepare the tomatoes before cooking?
The quick answer to that question, Don, is YES. I'm going out of town today, but will try to get some recipes on next week.
Remove core from tomatoes and cut into chunks. Puree in blender until you have 2 cups. Place tomatoes in saucepan, add sugar; stir a bit and boil for 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and add gelatin.
Pour into containers and refrigerate or freeze.
Preheat a grill to high. Drizzle tomatoes and onion with oil. Place on the grill and cook until skin of tomato blackens and onions begin to brown and soften. Remove from grill and roughly chop. Add remaining ingredients. Let sit for at least 15 minutes before serving.
Wow...I haven't used my Molcajete in years. Salsa has a very different taste and texture when a Molcajete is used. I noticed that the recipe called for some very non-traditional ingredients.
As a rule of thumb, fresh garlic cloves and salt are the first to be mashed into a paste in the Molcajete with just a little water (as necessary). Next chiles are incorporated into the paste. The third set of ingredients include tomatillo or tomatoes (boiled and cooled with skins removed); and possibly onions and/or cilantro for texture. Fimally, spices such as ground cumin (if using whole cumin, grind first with salt then add garlic), or Mex. Oregano are added to taste.
Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and stir well. Cover and allow to rest at room temperature for 1 hour for flavors to blend.


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Q: cython in jupyter notebook I am getting errors when loading a Cython file in Jupyter Notebook.  Any ideas?
%load_ext Cython

import numpy as np
cimport numpy as np
import cython

Just a simple error message:
File "<ipython-input-3-7e39dc7f561b>", line 5
    cimport numpy as np
                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

A: After reading the docs -- I used two separate cells.  The first one is just:
%load_ext Cython

Then my import statements
%%cython

import numpy as np
cimport numpy as np
import cython

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Trixie's Dilema (939 words) by setting_sail_indefinitely
Chapters: 1/?
Fandom: Call the Midwife
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Trixie Franklin/Barbara Gilbert
Characters: Trixie Franklin, Barbara Gilbert, Delia Busby, Patsy Mount
Additional Tags: Friendship
Summary:
Trixie is in love with Barbara and doesn't know what to do about it, so she goes to Delia for help!

Trixie Franklin/Barbara Gilbert
Trixie Franklin
Barbara Gilbert
Delia Busby
Patsy Mount
Trixie's Dilema
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Trixie is in love with Barbara and doesn't know what to do about it, so she goes to Delia for help!
I don't really know what this is, or how long it will be, if it gets longer than this I can't guarantee when that will be, I just have a lot of feelings when it comes to call the midwife!
I'm also not the best writer so please forgive me. I have decided to add more and I have a plot, but cannot say when the next bit will be up.
(See the end of the work for more notes.)
Trixie doesn't know what to think, or what to do with herself. She just got back from her date with Christopher and was sat in her empty room - Valerie out on call - desperately wanting a drink and missing the presence of her best friend that would always help her through these moments.
She took one final drag of her cigarette before stubbing it out in the ashtray and standing to leave the room. Once she reached her destination at the end of the hallway, she hesitated before bringing her fist up to rap her knuckles on the old wooden door.
"Come in!" was the immediate chirpy reply from the other side, beckoning her to enter. After a few more moments of hesitation she pushed the door open and quickly stepped inside, leaning her back against it as it clicked into place.
"What's the matter Trix?" the occupant of the room broke the silence, drawing Trixie's eyes from the carpet to her own. Seeing the troubled look in the blonde's face she spoke
again, "What's happened? Are you okay?"
After a few false starts Trixie finally blurted it out, "How did you know?" folding her arms across her chest and staring earnestly at the brunette.
"How did I know what Trix?" She asked, moving to sit on the edge of her bed, with the thought that this conversation was too serious for her previously relaxed position.
"How did you know that-" She inhaled deeply and held the breathe for a beat before letting it out in a puff, stepping from foot to foot in unease -"how did you know about Patsy?"
The brunette was growing more confused by the minute, trying to push down her frustration she questioned the blonde further, "Know what about Patsy? Trixie, I want to help but you aren't making any sense!"
Trixie stared at the ceiling, wringing her hands, "How did you know that she-that she was like you? That you liked her? That she liked you?" she finally let it all out in a jumble rush of words and questions.
The brunette's eyes widened and her mouth gaped before she rushed to respond, "I don't know what you're talking about Trix, we-" she tried to explain herself before being hastily cut off,
"Oh give it a rest Delia, I'm not an imbecile, Patsy's my best friend and we share a room for Christ's sake!" Trixie's nervous demeanour was momentarily replaced by her indignation, "I know you're together, I mean I had my suspicions almost since the first time I saw the both of you together, heavens knows why no one else has spotted it with the way you two look at each other!"
"Trixie, you won't tell anyone will you? We can't help it!" Delia was growing more anxious and fearful the minutes passed.
"Oh Sweetie, of course I won't, Patsy is the best friend I've ever had and I would never do anything to hurt her!" She moved to sit beside Delia on the bed, "Besides it's this knowledge that's brought me here now." the taller woman glanced down at her lap, the nerves seeping back in.
Delia observed her contemplating the blondes posture and expression, "What do you mean? Why are you here?" she let the silence stretch on before slowly placing a hand over the impeccably manicured one in the blondes lap and ducked her head to catch the downcast eyes, "Trix?" she prompted gently.
Trixie gazed at Delia, taking in her caring and encouraging expression before eventually letting it out in such a whisper that the brunette had to strain to catch the words, "I think i'm in love with Barbara," a shakily drawn breath, "and I don't know what to do." A solitary tear broke free from her lashes, leading a glistening trail down her cheek as Delia let her eyes widen minutely in shock before drawing the older girl into a warm embrace; triggering the first gut-wrenching sob.
"Oh Trixie," she breathed out into the hug, "it's going to be alright, we'll figure it out" stroking her hand up and down Trixie's back trying to offer comfort, wishing not for the first time that Patsy wasn't in Hong Kong. The redhead would undoubtedly know what to say to her best friend in this moment.
They stayed in that position for what felt like an hour, but was surely only minutes, with Trixie releasing her grip on Delia as her tears slowly began to dry up. She finally drew back altogether and looked up at Delia with a heartbreakingly sad expression, "What do I do Delia? She's my friend, and I mean she's engaged!" the blonde sounded hysterical as she said that last bit. Looking at Delia as though she'd have all the answers,
"This sounds like a conversation for best had over a nice horlicks and some cake," she stood preparing to leave the room, "shall I go see if there's anything Sister Monica Joan hasn't found her way into yet, while you go and wash up a bit, and then we can see about sorting this dilemma of yours," she reached out a hand to pull Trixie to her feet, "what do you say?"
The blonde grasped her hand, standing and pulling the shorted girl into a hug, "That would be great, thank you Delia!" she released her as they both turn towards the door,
"What are friends for?" She opened the door and they both turned heading in opposite directions down the hallway, both contemplating all of the emotions from the last half hour, and those that surely lied ahead for the rest of the evening.
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La strada statale 388 del Tirso e del Mandrolisai (SS 388) è una strada statale italiana che collega la maggiore viabilità sarda con le zone più interne quali il Barigadu e il Mandrolisai.

Percorso
La strada ha inizio nel centro abitato di Oristano dal quale esce in direzione est incrociando dopo pochi chilometri la strada statale 131 Carlo Felice. Durante il suo primo tratto costeggia il fiume Tirso toccando località prossime al corso d'acqua come Simaxis, Ollastra, Villanova Truschedu e Fordongianus.

Il percorso devia quindi nettamente verso est all'altezza di Busachi, entrando quindi nella provincia nuorese dove tocca Ortueri per innestarsi infine sulla strada statale 128 Centrale Sarda nei pressi di ponte Tittiri, nel comune di Sorgono.

I primi 3,800 km (da Oristano alla frazione di Silì) sono stati consegnati alla provincia di Oristano che li ha classificati come SP 55.

È particolarmente apprezzata dai mototuristi, in virtù delle innumerevoli curve e dei paesaggi spettacolari che attraversa.

Note

Altri progetti

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DHS: Rightwing Extremism
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
(U//FOUO)  Rightwing Extremism:
Current Economic and Political
Climate Fueling Resurgence in
Radicalization and Recruitment
IA-0257-09
(U//FOUO) Rightwing Extremism: Current
Economic and Political Climate Fueling
Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment
(U) Prepared by the Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis
Division. Coordinated with the FBI.
(U) Scope
(U//FOUO) This product is one of a series of intelligence assessments published by the
Extremism and Radicalization Branch to facilitate a greater understanding of the
phenomenon of violent radicalization in the United States. The information is
provided to federal, state, local, and tribal counterterrorism and law enforcement
officials so they may effectively deter, prevent, preempt, or respond to terrorist attacks
against the United States. Federal efforts to influence domestic public opinion must be
conducted in an overt and transparent manner, clearly identifying United States
Government sponsorship.
(U) LAW ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION NOTICE: This product contains Law Enforcement Sensitive (LES) information. No portion of the LES information
should be released to the media, the general public, or over non-secure Internet servers. Release of this information could adversely affect or jeopardize
investigative activities.
(U) Warning: This document is UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY (U//FOUO). It contains information that may be exempt from public release under the
Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). It is to be controlled, stored, handled, transmitted, distributed, and disposed of in accordance with DHS policy relating to
FOUO information and is not to be released to the public, the media, or other personnel who do not have a valid need-to-know without prior approval of an authorized
DHS official. State and local homeland security officials may share this document with authorized security personnel without further approval from DHS.
(U) All U.S. person information has been minimized. Should you require the minimized U.S. person information, please contact the DHS/I&A Production Branch at
IA.PM@hq.dhs.gov, IA.PM@dhs.sgov.gov, or IA.PM@dhs.ic.gov.
(U) Key Findings
(U//LES) The DHS/Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A) has no specific
information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence,
but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about
several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first
African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and
recruitment.
-- (U//LES) Threats from white supremacist and violent antigovernment groups
during 2009 have been largely rhetorical and have not indicated plans to carry
out violent acts. Nevertheless, the consequences of a prolonged economic
downturn--including real estate foreclosures, unemployment, and an inability
to obtain credit--could create a fertile recruiting environment for rightwing
extremists and even result in confrontations between such groups and
government authorities similar to those in the past.
-- (U//LES) Rightwing extremists have capitalized on the election of the first
African American president, and are focusing their efforts to recruit new
members, mobilize existing supporters, and broaden their scope and appeal
through propaganda, but they have not yet turned to attack planning.
(U//FOUO) The current economic and political climate has some similarities to the
1990s when rightwing extremism experienced a resurgence fueled largely by an
economic recession, criticism about the outsourcing of jobs, and the perceived threat to
U.S. power and sovereignty by other foreign powers.
-- (U//FOUO) During the 1990s, these issues contributed to the growth in the
number of domestic rightwing terrorist and extremist groups and an increase in
violent acts targeting government facilities, law enforcement officers, banks,
and infrastructure sectors.
-- (U//FOUO) Growth of these groups subsided in reaction to increased
government scrutiny as a result of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and
disrupted plots, improvements in the economy, and the continued U.S. standing
as the preeminent world power.
(U//FOUO) The possible passage of new restrictions on firearms and the return of
military veterans facing significant challenges reintegrating into their communities
could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists
capable of carrying out violent attacks.
(U) Rightwing extremism in the United States can be broadly divided into those groups, movements, and
adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups),
and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or
rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a
single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.
-- (U//FOUO) Proposed imposition of firearms restrictions and weapons bans
likely would attract new members into the ranks of rightwing extremist groups,
as well as potentially spur some of them to begin planning and training for
violence against the government. The high volume of purchases and
stockpiling of weapons and ammunition by rightwing extremists in anticipation
of restrictions and bans in some parts of the country continue to be a primary
concern to law enforcement.
-- (U//FOUO) Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are
attractive to rightwing extremists. DHS/I&A is concerned that rightwing
extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to
boost their violent capabilities.
(U) Current Economic and Political Climate
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that a number of economic and political factors are
driving a resurgence in rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalization activity.
Despite similarities to the climate of the 1990s, the threat posed by lone wolves and small
terrorist cells is more pronounced than in past years. In addition, the historical election of
an African American president and the prospect of policy changes are proving to be a
driving force for rightwing extremist recruitment and radicalization.
-- (U) A recent example of the potential violence associated with a rise in rightwing
extremism may be found in the shooting deaths of three police officers in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 4 April 2009. The alleged gunman's reaction
reportedly was influenced by his racist ideology and belief in antigovernment
conspiracy theories related to gun confiscations, citizen detention camps, and a
Jewish-controlled "one world government."
(U) Exploiting Economic Downturn
(U//FOUO) Rightwing extremist chatter on the Internet continues to focus on the
economy, the perceived loss of U.S. jobs in the manufacturing and construction sectors,
and home foreclosures. Anti-Semitic extremists attribute these losses to a deliberate
conspiracy conducted by a cabal of Jewish "financial elites." These "accusatory" tactics
are employed to draw new recruits into rightwing extremist groups and further radicalize
those already subscribing to extremist beliefs. DHS/I&A assesses this trend is likely to
accelerate if the economy is perceived to worsen.
(U) Historical Presidential Election
(U//LES) Rightwing extremists are harnessing this historical election as a recruitment
tool. Many rightwing extremists are antagonistic toward the new presidential
administration and its perceived stance on a range of issues, including immigration and
citizenship, the expansion of social programs to minorities, and restrictions on firearms
ownership and use. Rightwing extremists are increasingly galvanized by these concerns
and leverage them as drivers for recruitment. From the 2008 election timeframe to the
present, rightwing extremists have capitalized on related racial and political prejudices in
expanded propaganda campaigns, thereby reaching out to a wider audience of potential
sympathizers.
-- (U//LES) Most statements by rightwing extremists have been rhetorical,
expressing concerns about the election of the first African American president,
but stopping short of calls for violent action. In two instances in the run-up to the
election, extremists appeared to be in the early planning stages of some
threatening activity targeting the Democratic nominee, but law enforcement
interceded.
(U) Revisiting the 1990s
(U//FOUO) Paralleling the current national climate, rightwing extremists during the
1990s exploited a variety of social issues and political themes to increase group visibility
and recruit new members. Prominent among these themes were the militia movement's
opposition to gun control efforts, criticism of free trade agreements (particularly those
with Mexico), and highlighting perceived government infringement on civil liberties as
well as white supremacists' longstanding exploitation of social issues such as abortion,
inter-racial crimes, and same-sex marriage. During the 1990s, these issues contributed to
the growth in the number of domestic rightwing terrorist and extremist groups and an
increase in violent acts targeting government facilities, law enforcement officers, banks,
(U) Economic Hardship and Extremism
(U//FOUO) Historically, domestic rightwing extremists have feared, predicted, and
anticipated a cataclysmic economic collapse in the United States. Prominent
antigovernment conspiracy theorists have incorporated aspects of an impending
economic collapse to intensify fear and paranoia among like-minded individuals and to
attract recruits during times of economic uncertainty. Conspiracy theories involving
declarations of martial law, impending civil strife or racial conflict, suspension of the
U.S. Constitution, and the creation of citizen detention camps often incorporate aspects of
a failed economy. Antigovernment conspiracy theories and "end times" prophecies could
motivate extremist individuals and groups to stockpile food, ammunition, and weapons.
These teachings also have been linked with the radicalization of domestic extremist
individuals and groups in the past, such as violent Christian Identity organizations and
extremist members of the militia movement.
(U//FOUO) Perceptions on Poverty and Radicalization
(U//FOUO) Scholars and experts disagree over poverty's role in motivating violent radicalization or
terrorist activity. High unemployment, however, has the potential to lead to alienation, thus increasing
an individual's susceptibility to extremist ideas. According to a 2007 study from the German Institute
for Economic Research, there appears to be a strong association between a parent's unemployment
status and the formation of rightwing extremist beliefs in their children--specifically xenophobia and
antidemocratic ideals.
(U) Illegal Immigration
(U//FOUO) Rightwing extremists were concerned during the 1990s with the perception
that illegal immigrants were taking away American jobs through their willingness to
work at significantly lower wages. They also opposed free trade agreements, arguing that
these arrangements resulted in Americans losing jobs to countries such as Mexico.
(U//FOUO) Over the past five years, various rightwing extremists, including militias and
white supremacists, have adopted the immigration issue as a call to action, rallying point,
and recruiting tool. Debates over appropriate immigration levels and enforcement policy
generally fall within the realm of protected political speech under the First Amendment,
but in some cases, anti-immigration or strident pro-enforcement fervor has been directed
against specific groups and has the potential to turn violent.
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremist groups' frustration over a
perceived lack of government action on illegal immigration has the potential to incite
individuals or small groups toward violence. If such violence were to occur, it likely
would be isolated, small-scale, and directed at specific immigration-related targets.
-- (U//FOUO) DHS/I&A notes that prominent civil rights organizations have
observed an increase in anti-Hispanic crimes over the past five years.
-- (U) In April 2007, six militia members were arrested for various weapons and
explosives violations. Open source reporting alleged that those arrested had
discussed and conducted surveillance for a machinegun attack on Hispanics.
-- (U) A militia member in Wyoming was arrested in February 2007 after
communicating his plans to travel to the Mexican border to kill immigrants
crossing into the United States.
(U) Legislative and Judicial Drivers
(U//FOUO) Many rightwing extremist groups perceive recent gun control legislation as a
threat to their right to bear arms and in response have increased weapons and ammunition
stockpiling, as well as renewed participation in paramilitary training exercises. Such
activity, combined with a heightened level of extremist paranoia, has the potential to
facilitate criminal activity and violence.
-- (U//FOUO) During the 1990s, rightwing extremist hostility toward government
was fueled by the implementation of restrictive gun laws--such as the Brady Law
that established a 5-day waiting period prior to purchasing a handgun and the
1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act that limited the sale of
various types of assault rifles--and federal law enforcement's handling of the
confrontations at Waco, Texas and Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
-- (U//FOUO) On the current front, legislation has been proposed this year
requiring mandatory registration of all firearms in the United States. Similar
legislation was introduced in 2008 in several states proposing mandatory tagging
and registration of ammunition. It is unclear if either bill will be passed into law;
nonetheless, a correlation may exist between the potential passage of gun control
legislation and increased hoarding of ammunition, weapons stockpiling, and
paramilitary training activities among rightwing extremists.
(U//FOUO) Open source reporting of wartime ammunition shortages has likely spurred
rightwing extremists--as well as law-abiding Americans--to make bulk purchases of
ammunition. These shortages have increased the cost of ammunition, further
exacerbating rightwing extremist paranoia and leading to further stockpiling activity.
Both rightwing extremists and law-abiding citizens share a belief that rising crime rates
attributed to a slumping economy make the purchase of legitimate firearms a wise move
at this time.
(U//FOUO) Weapons rights and gun-control legislation are likely to be hotly contested
subjects of political debate in light of the 2008 Supreme Court's decision in District of
Columbia v. Heller in which the Court reaffirmed an individual's right to keep and bear
arms under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but left open to debate the
precise contours of that right. Because debates over constitutional rights are intense, and
parties on all sides have deeply held, sincere, but vastly divergent beliefs, violent
extremists may attempt to co-opt the debate and use the controversy as a radicalization
tool.
(U) Perceived Threat from Rise of Other Countries
(U//FOUO) Rightwing extremist paranoia of foreign regimes could escalate or be
magnified in the event of an economic crisis or military confrontation, harkening back to
the "New World Order" conspiracy theories of the 1990s. The dissolution of Communist
countries in Eastern Europe and the end of the Soviet Union in the 1990s led some
rightwing extremists to believe that a "New World Order" would bring about a world
government that would usurp the sovereignty of the United States and its Constitution,
thus infringing upon their liberty. The dynamics in 2009 are somewhat similar, as other
countries, including China, India, and Russia, as well as some smaller, oil-producing
states, are experiencing a rise in economic power and influence.
-- (U//FOUO) Fear of Communist regimes and related conspiracy theories
characterizing the U.S. Government's role as either complicit in a foreign
invasion or acquiescing as part of a "One World Government" plan inspired
extremist members of the militia movement to target government and military
facilities in past years.
-- (U//FOUO) Law enforcement in 1996 arrested three rightwing militia members
in Battle Creek, Michigan with pipe bombs, automatic weapons, and military
ordnance that they planned to use in attacks on nearby military and federal
facilities and infrastructure targets.
-- (U//FOUO) Rightwing extremist views bemoan the decline of U.S. stature and
have recently focused on themes such as the loss of U.S. manufacturing capability
to China and India, Russia's control of energy resources and use of these to
pressure other countries, and China's investment in U.S. real estate and
corporations as a part of subversion strategy.
(U) Disgruntled Military Veterans
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that rightwing extremists will attempt to recruit and
radicalize returning veterans in order to exploit their skills and knowledge derived from
military training and combat. These skills and knowledge have the potential to boost the
capabilities of extremists--including lone wolves or small terrorist cells--to carry out
violence. The willingness of a small percentage of military personnel to join extremist
groups during the 1990s because they were disgruntled, disillusioned, or suffering from
the psychological effects of war is being replicated today.
-- (U) After Operation Desert Shield/Storm in 1990-1991, some returning military
veterans--including Timothy McVeigh--joined or associated with rightwing
extremist groups.
-- (U) A prominent civil rights organization reported in 2006 that "large numbers
of potentially violent neo-Nazis, skinheads, and other white supremacists are now
learning the art of warfare in the [U.S.] armed forces."
-- (U//LES) The FBI noted in a 2008 report on the white supremacist movement
that some returning military veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have
joined extremist groups.
(U//FOUO) Lone Wolves and Small Terrorist Cells
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that lone wolves and small terrorist cells embracing violent rightwing
extremist ideology are the most dangerous domestic terrorism threat in the United States. Information
from law enforcement and nongovernmental organizations indicates lone wolves and small terrorist
cells have shown intent--and, in some cases, the capability--to commit violent acts.
-- (U//LES) DHS/I&A has concluded that white supremacist lone wolves pose the most
significant domestic terrorist threat because of their low profile and autonomy--separate from
any formalized group--which hampers warning efforts.
-- (U//FOUO) Similarly, recent state and municipal law enforcement reporting has warned of the
dangers of rightwing extremists embracing the tactics of "leaderless resistance" and of lone
wolves carrying out acts of violence.
-- (U//FOUO) Arrests in the past several years of radical militia members in Alabama, Arkansas,
and Pennsylvania on firearms, explosives, and other related violations indicates the emergence
of small, well-armed extremist groups in some rural areas.
(U) Outlook
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A assesses that the combination of environmental factors that echo
the 1990s, including heightened interest in legislation for tighter firearms restrictions and
returning military veterans, as well as several new trends, including an uncertain
economy and a perceived rising influence of other countries, may be invigorating
rightwing extremist activity, specifically the white supremacist and militia movements.
To the extent that these factors persist, rightwing extremism is likely to grow in strength.
(U//FOUO) Unlike the earlier period, the advent of the Internet and other information-
age technologies since the 1990s has given domestic extremists greater access to
information related to bomb-making, weapons training, and tactics, as well as targeting of
individuals, organizations, and facilities, potentially making extremist individuals and
groups more dangerous and the consequences of their violence more severe. New
technologies also permit domestic extremists to send and receive encrypted
communications and to network with other extremists throughout the country and abroad,
making it much more difficult for law enforcement to deter, prevent, or preempt a violent
extremist attack.
(U//FOUO) A number of law enforcement actions and external factors were effective in
limiting the militia movement during the 1990s and could be utilized in today's climate.
-- (U//FOUO) Following the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal
building in Oklahoma City, the militia movement declined in total membership
and in the number of organized groups because many members distanced
themselves from the movement as a result of the intense scrutiny militias received
after the bombing.
-- (U//FOUO) Militia membership continued to decline after the turn of the
millennium as a result of law enforcement disruptions of multiple terrorist plots
linked to violent rightwing extremists, new legislation banning paramilitary
training, and militia frustration that the "revolution" never materialized.
-- (U//FOUO) Although the U.S. economy experienced a significant recovery and
many perceived a concomitant rise in U.S. standing in the world, white
supremacist groups continued to experience slight growth.
(U//FOUO) DHS/I&A will be working with its state and local partners over the next
several months to ascertain with greater regional specificity the rise in rightwing
extremist activity in the United States, with a particular emphasis on the political,
economic, and social factors that drive rightwing extremist radicalization.
(U) Reporting Notice:
(U) DHS encourages recipients of this document to report information concerning suspicious or criminal
activity to DHS and the FBI. The DHS National Operations Center (NOC) can be reached by telephone at
202-282-9685 or by e-mail at NOC.Fusion@dhs.gov. For information affecting the private sector and
critical infrastructure, contact the National Infrastructure Coordinating Center (NICC), a sub-element of the
NOC. The NICC can be reached by telephone at 202-282-9201 or by e-mail at NICC@dhs.gov. The FBI
regional phone numbers can be found online at http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm. When available,
each report submitted should include the date, time, location, type of activity, number of people and type of
equipment used for the activity, the name of the submitting company or organization, and a designated
point of contact.
(U) For comments or questions related to the content or dissemination of this document, please contact the
DHS/I&A Production Branch at IA.PM@hq.dhs.gov, IA.PM@dhs.sgov.gov, or IA.PM@dhs.ic.gov.
(U) Tracked by: CRIM-040300-01-05, CRIM-040400-01-05, TERR-010000-01-05
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