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Mother Stuart Try to render all possible service to others, not talking of the thing, but doing it. If you are known to be a person who loves to serve, many opportunities will come in your way, to your great inconvenience perhaps, but to your far greater profit and instruction. …only one who is constantly growing in grace and love and knowledge can give the true appreciation of what that grace and love and knowledge are in their bearing on human life: To be rather than to know is therefore a primary qualification. In a storm things loom larger than life, but when things calm down again one remembers that God’s action is always there unerring and all powerful. Life faces you with courageous challenges at every step of the way. You are on the path, exactly where you are meant to be right now,...and from here, you can only go forward, shaping your life story into a magnificent tale of triumph, of healing, of courage, of beauty, of wisdom, of power, of dignity, of love. I sought God everywhere in His creatures. He seemed to me to be in the heart of creation drawing all things to Himself. God is always new and his presence gives new life. Joy comes of utter contentedness with God's will for us now. All the joy and all the fairness Fade away from earth's delight By the steadfast contemplation Of the glory out of sight. When no-one else understands, He does. When no-one else is aware, He is; so that in reality we are never alone. It is a great and true principle that at the bottom of every discouraging thought there is an untruth and at the bottom of every helpful thought of God and of our soul there is a truth... If we love well and much, we shall need no other preparation for death; squandering ourselves and what we have on God and on our neighbors, that is the best way to prepare for it. Train their hearts to a love of religion and all the virtues it inspires. If we do other than this, we are simply giving instruction. Our aim is to turn the hearts of children to God. Our prayer should invade the whole day. The great thing is to find what suits us, not what suits another. Prayer for a new stage in life: Loving God, unseen Companion of our life, give us faith and eager expectancy as we begin this fresh stage of our journey. Take from us all fear of the unknown and teach us to wrest treasures from darkness and difficulties. As the days come and go, may we find that each one is laden with happy opportunities and enriching experiences; and when this year reaches its completion, may our best hopes be more than ever fulfilled. We are all God's property, and our life must be one wild bird's song of praise, one wild flower's face looking up to God. On Sincerity: One more lesson must be mentioned, the hardest of all to be learnt – perfect sincerity. It is so hard not to pose, for all but the very truest and simplest natures – to pose as independent while being eaten up with human respect; to pose as indifferent though aching with the wish to be understood; to pose as flippant while longing to be in earnest; to hide an attraction to higher things under a little air of something like irreverence… It is very hard to learn to be quite true; that entails more personal self-sacrifice than almost any other virtue. The quality of our joy depends on the spring from which it is drawn. Where do we seek our joy? How does it come and go? Watch its flight as of birds...Does it soar or flutter? Is it steadfast or changeable? Does it go by days, by moods, by self-love, by the adventure of circumstances? To be a joy-bearer and a joy-giver says everything; it means that one is faithfully living for God and that nothing else counts, and if one gives joy to others we are doing God's work. With joy without and within, all is well. I can conceive no higher way. Joy is the most heavenly atmosphere found on earth - we ought to cultivate it as a duty always. Cultivate the wish to learn, rather than the wish to be taught. Be determined to "pick up" and do not wait for the Professor and the pedagogical devices of his or her craft...Do not think that lessons will do it, if you wait for lessons you will wait a life-time...If we wait to be taught, we shall never learn. There are two ways of educating: one, to give heart, mind, energy, everything to working for the children - doing things for them. The other, to try to teach the children to work for themselves. And this is the higher of the two. It requires more prudence, more foresight and there is less immediate return. We ought not to do things for the children which they ought to learn to do for themselves. We want to make them independent of us. Beware of extremes, beware of inhuman efforts, of violent measures, of all that drives you off your balance....Don't attempt the impossible....Take yourself as you are, whole, and do not try to live by one part alone and starve the other. Control, but do not kill.... It is an arduous journey, a great undertaking, not a little or easy thing...sing every way you can. God gave song to give heart and courage and joy in life...if not with the voice, sing with the spirit and understanding; sing by words of courage and hope, praise and thanksgiving. Call out to one another by high thoughts and spiritual ambitions; these are the songs of our country. Those who make the most demands on us really render us the greatest service. This is true for us and for our children. We are called to a fuller, richer, higher life within...-called to work with God, to walk with God, to have influence with God.... Above all remember that you are the cherished object of our Lord's most tender love. May He convince you of this. Remember that whatever happens…..you must say to yourself, according to circumstances, joyfully and thankfully or humbly and submissively or bravely or if need be, defiantly to the troubles within, this is part of the story and the story of God's love for you and yours for him. God wants to take you sailing out into the glory of His thoughts and love, and through sheer fright you cling to the rope...I say 'let go' and so does God! Think glorious thoughts of God and serve him with a quiet mind. Your prayer must be the mainspring of everything. Give it the place of honour in your life. The spirit of prayer is the soul of the soul and its life. God is in every sense the home of the soul. Through the vastness of creation Though your restless thought my roam God is all that you can long for God is all His creature's home. So we must remember that it is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one...the work in the rough...may look ugly and yet be full of promise...A piece of finished insignificance is no true success... Our education is not meant to turn the children out small and finished, but seriously begun on a wide-basis. Therefore they must leave us with some self-knowledge, some energy, some purpose...If they leave us without these three things they drift with the stream of life. Education is a complete whole, an organism; that given by the Society is such. Our method of teaching is complete in itself: its final cause is to give God souls… to make them love, we must take their whole being…not be satisfied with the work of the mind alone, nor think exclusively of the will, but of the whole. A runner to win the prize must despise everything else: fatigue, comfort, praise, any ties that would hold back or interfere with the singlehearted purpose to run till the prize is attained. That was the kind of person we should have seen had we known St.Stanislaus...he shone as a star of first magnitude, as a racer who bounded to the front at once by his uncalculating generosity and the singleheartedness of his love. We must remember that each one of our children is destined for a mission in life. Neither we nor they can know what it is, but we must know and make them believe that each one has a mission in life and that she is bound to find out what it is, that there is some special work for God which will remain undone unless she does it, some place in life which no one else can fill. We must bring home to our children and to ourselves also, the responsibilities of our gifts. We must put our talents at interest not bury them in the earth and the reason is sufficient, that they are God's. We take our children as a trust and train them for eternity. As trustees, we are given charge of these minors....We are responsible under the trust to keep them from evil and train them to good; to "whatever things are true, modest, just, holy, lovely, of good fame," in which there is any virtue or praise of discipline. Remember that the principal end is training to good; keeping from evil is not an end but a condition. A soul kept from evil for a time, not trained to positive good, to discern, to act, to judge, to do good, would leave us quite unfit for life. Whereas one leaving us even young and undeveloped, but having a positive love for good, an attraction for it and some practice, is fitted for life, at least to begin the battle. Our education would be quite a failure if we turned out nonentities without color or character or individuality. There is a deep-down unity, but there is no forced uniformity. The spirit is one, but its manifestations are many ... no one is 'made to order' of this or that shape, but each gives what she can for the common good; the common good demanding for its own sake, as well as for hers, that she should remain - herself. ... Among human beings, strong personalities are most entirely and permanently themselves; and without fear of losing themselves can challenge the currents of circumstances to play upon them, adapt themselves to new conditions. Change has not passed upon what was deepest in their souls, but the discipline of change has called out its deepest response. They have changed but that change was growth. They are unchanged; and that unchangeableness is their truth." Written by Janet Erskine Stuart about Mother Georgia Stevens, RSCJ and several other Religious of the Sacred Heart. There are two ways of preparing children for the government of themselves in after-life, one direct and the other indirect. The first has its merits, it is quick in results, often very successful. It fosters piety, inculcates some clear principles, dictates the main lines of action, and by rule and maxim, fits the being into its place in the world, and gives it means to do its duty creditably. The indirect method is longer and less clearly defined. It aims at giving a guiding light within, and power to climb a difficult path, and pick a way through unknown country by that light. This must be waited for, and slowly developed, but in the end it is of greater worth. The training of the Sacred Heart aims at this. God hears our unuttered desires and as they are satisfied they grow. The more we desire and attain the more we shall desire and the more attain. ... that is why our life is so immense. Your letter was a consolation to me, for it is so good to find a fault frankly faced and humbly owned. I look on it as a grace for you to have had this experience - it reminds me of what I used to be told as a child - 'It takes twelve falls to make a horsewoman' - so I should not like you to ride without a fall. One learns thus. Tighten your hold on God again... We bring up the children for the future, not for the present, not that we may enjoy the fruit of our work, but for others... Therefore, we must have to do with things raw and unfinished and unpolished... We must remember that it is better to begin a great work than to finish a small one. A piece of unfinished insignificance is no success at all. Our education is not meant to turn the children out small and finished but seriously begun on a wide basis. Therefore they must leave us with some self-knowledge, some energy, some purpose. If they leave us without these three things, they drift with the stream of life. The higher we want to fly, the greater the risk, but that is the glorious part of it. The great uncertainties in which we trust God, the breathless risks we run, with no assurance but our great trust in God, that seems to me to be of the essence of our life and its beauty. This will grow upon you; you will get your balance in the risk and get to love it. Joy is the song or psalm of the spirit under the pressure of happiness, and to give God the fullest and best service possible, we must train our spirit to sing that psalm continually. Joy follows sorrow...as the flower breaks from the thorny branch not the branch from the flower. Where will our courage, confidence, joy and generosity stem from? The practical conclusion is to let God work God's way upon us, and to correspond with God's grace. The inner life is all in that. God working, we corresponding, listening to His word that speaks within, commanding, inviting, praising, reproving, asking. That is our real life, going on uninterruptedly, which , if we are too busy with exterior things, we lose sight of. An irreparable loss - there is so much to be done, and no time to lose. The work is done in silence, tranquility and recollection, and without them it is not done at all. St. Joseph's silence kept him so much in touch with God; at each crisis or turning point in life, God's voice was heard indicating the way. He waited and prayed and took counsel with God. Was not St. Joseph a markedly singlehearted man of great purity of intention? 'Always seek the Beholder of the heart.' A thing not learned in a day, but by constant practice of letting go of the human standard. To seek simply 'What does God think, judge, will, in this matter?' is an eternal thought, judgment and decision that will give peace, strength and stability. All human thoughts and wills flicker so feebly. This is a steady light. The little opportunities [for being humble and loving] are treasures, they are like gold dust and we should have an enthusiasm for them. Judge kindly; that is the heart of everything. In prayer it is often the very best just to leave yourself face to face with God without saying anything. It is always here and now, there is always the present moment to do the very best we can with, and the future depends on the way these moments are spent. Of all virtues that we can least afford to lose hold of in our time that of HOPE seems to be the most needed. We live much more under secular supervision than of old; it is unavoidable if we want to do our work for children: all the more necessary then to strengthen ourselves in truth, in personal humility, in independence of the world, in the tendency to hiddenness which is characteristic of God's work in the universe. On willing acceptance of criticism: To very unenlightened people criticism comes as a personal injury. To beginners it is a serious trial, but to the proficient a most encouraging and interesting communication. God is so simple that truth, sincerity and simplicity are the nearest copy we can make of Him. To go into the presence of God is like going out into the freshness of the morning air. The Presence of God is the best remedy against pride, vanity, sadness, resistance. It gives the three lights we pray for in the blessing of the candles: Light without, to see our way for action; light within, of the Holy [Spirit], for our inner life; hereafter, light eternal: we pray that we may be presented in heaven like the lighted candles in our hands, that is especially the light of faith; we may go and ask it with assurance of Our Lady who has in her arms the Light of the world. . On Modesty: Think what this is for an educator to possess: to be one in whose presence people are inclined to control themselves, whose presence brings calmness to the mind and makes composure possible. It is an inward principle of discipline which communicates itself. Modesty in its perfect beauty is not the characteristic virtue of sub-normal natures, who have to rouse themselves with difficulty from mental and physical and spiritual somnolency, it is not the virtue of the limp and the drooping and the dragging and the lacadaisical, they have another battle to fight - to acquire dynamical energy, motor power of some sort. Modesty is the homage of the strong and the resolute and expressive, keeping themselves in hand. Religious Modesty which tends to droop, and blush, and hesitate, and utterly efface itself, fails of its end with young, forceful things, which do not hesitate or efface themselves! In these cases there is another virtue to be first acquired, that is: resolution; In itself simplicity is the opposite of duplicity or multiplicity. It is one-ness, integrity, consistence, the being one with oneself, i.e., not a dual personality. It is like all other virtues natural or supernatural, a golden mean between two extremes. The unsimple ways and manners are found in the intermediate layers, those who are uneasy and anxious to be something which they are not and so become unreal. So, a simple manner belongs to those who are at ease in being themselves, not anxious to be taken for anything else, content and not afraid. The unsimple manner comes of having something to be afraid of, the ambition to be taken for what one is not (more rich, important, intelligent, instructed, etc.). Supernatural simplicity belongs to those who are not only one with themselves but one with God. It is more than the 'simple life,' it is the life of union. God is simplicity itself - one act; the nearer we come to God, the less complicated we become. An analysis of simplicity: 'Avoids all singularity.' So much of the silly cunning of self-love is just that, and causes endless entanglements. 'I have my privileges, exemptions, special hours, special allowances.' Anything to say: 'This law is not for me.' It is very deep in some natures, and singularly silly; the grace and strength of being like everyone else is lost, and for what? Day by day we write the story of our lives; no day in our life is without influence on the last, for ourselves as well as others. An analysis of simplicity: 'Chooses always the most straightforward and obvious line of conduct.' Here is both a means to acquire, and an indication of it. There are people with whom, when they ask a question or permission, one has to ask oneself: 'What do they really want?' Their ways are neither straightforward nor obvious. Self-control is so vital to the conduct of life that no price is too great for the habit; it is so indispensable that no kind of duty can be well done without it, and no action is too small in which to practice it. It is a vain expectation to hope that self-control and unselfishness will come forth at command in a crisis, when they have not been practiced in the small occurrences of daily life. The rare crises of life reveal us to ourselves, but we are made in the small victories or defeats of every day. On Practicing Simplicity: Cultivate a real love of truth. This is not a cheap investment but a valuable one; it takes real labor to be truthful (not exaggerated, not literal, not rigid). A great part of the expense is the attention it calls for. Devotedness for souls in a spirit of zeal, forms the second half of our vocation; it is not a secondary thing, but essential to our vocation. We could not do better than look at our Mother Foundress's zeal, for she possessed it in rare perfection. As we have already seen, our vocation consists in the spirit of prayer and the spirit of zeal. The interior, contemplative spirit of prayer is in itself the most perfect spirit, and must be the foundation of ours. But there is the active life that we must lead - a life of work for souls, and the mixed life becomes relatively the most perfect only when the active life is, so to speak, grafted on our interior life, and our zeal is the overflow of the love and grace that God has given to us in prayer. Some seek perfection in the contemplative life only, others are more inclined to the active life, but in our vocation we must combine the two. Zeal is principally shown forth in actions, less in words, and it should be our earnest desire to use every opportunity and means to improve, always bearing in mind that what we learn is not for ourselves, but to be able to teach, and so fit ourselves for one of the means used by the Society to save souls. Real zeal is courageous and invulnerable, because unselfish and self-forgetting. It can be put to any kind of work; it is indefatigable and never says 'too much'; it is persevering; it never gives in. Source: http://sofie.org/resources/founding-mothers/janet-erskine-stuart [ posted by stardust371, January 2018 ] |
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Lao-Tzu
sprak: Ontdek het lot, beheers de mentale functies, bepaal ordelijk je voorkeuren en schik je naar de ware natuur; dan zul je de weg van het regeren begrijpen. Ontdek het lot, en onheil of geluk zullen je niet in verwarring brengen. Beheers de mentale functies, en je zult niet zomaar blij of boos zijn. Bepaal je voorkeuren ordelijk, en je zult niet hunkeren naar wat nutteloos is. Schik je naar de ware natuur, en je verlangens zullen niet buitensporig zijn. Wanneer je niet door onheil of geluk in verwarring wordt gebracht, dan ben je zowel in actie als in rust in harmonie met de rede. Wanneer je niet zomaar blij of boos bent, dan breng je anderen niet in de hoop op beloning of in de vrees voor bestraffing. Wanneer je niet hunkert naar wat nutteloos is, dan schaad je je natuur niet door hebzucht. Wanneer je verlangens niet buitensporig zijn, dan voed je het leven en ken je tevredenheid. Deze vier zaken worden niet buiten jezelf gevonden en zijn niet van elkaar afhankelijk. Je bereikt ze door terug te keren tot jezelf. Wen-tzu : verdere lessen van Lao-tzu, hoodstuk 51 / vertaling uit het Chinees door Thomas Cleary / Nederlandse vertaling uit het Engels door Arnoul Diemont / Uitgeverij Kosmos Utrecht/Antwerpen, 1993 |
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-- Max Ehrmann Wees kalm temidden van het lawaai en de haast en bedenk, welke vrede er in stilte kan heersen. Sta op goede voet met alle mensen, zonder jezelf geweld aan te doen. Zeg je waarheid rustig en duidelijk, en luister naar anderen; ook zij vertellen hun verhaal. Mijd luidruchtige en agressieve mensen; zij belasten de geest. Wanneer je jezelf met anderen vergelijkt, zou je ijdel en verbitterd kunnen worden, want er zullen altijd kleinere en grotere mensen zijn dan je zelf bent. Geniet zowel van wat je hebt bereikt als van je plannen. Blijf belangstelling hebben voor je eigen werk, hoe nederig dat ook moge zijn; het is een werkelijk bezit in het veranderlijke fortuin van de tijd. Betracht voorzichtigheid bij het zaken doen, want de wereld is vol bedrog. Maar laat dit je niet verblinden voor de bestaande deugd; veel mensen streven hoge idealen na, en overal is het leven vol heldendom. Wees jezelf. Veins vooral geen genegenheid. Maar wees evenmin cynisch over de liefde, want bij alle dorheid en ontevredenheid is zij eeuwig als het gras. Volg de loop der jaren met gratie, verlang niet naar een tijd die achter je ligt. Kweek geestkracht aan om bij onverwachte tegenslag beschermd te zijn. Maar verdriet jezelf niet met spookbeelden. Vele angsten worden uit vermoeidheid of eenzaamheid geboren. Leg jezelf een gezonde discipline op, maar wees daarbij lief voor jezelf. Je bent een kind van het heelal, niet minder dan de bomen en de sterren. Je hebt het recht hier te zijn, en ook al is het je al of niet duidelijk, toch ontvouwt het heelal zich zoals het zich ontvouwt, en zo is het goed. Heb daarom ook vrede met God, hoe je ook denkt dat Hij moge zijn en wat je werk en aspiraties ook mogen zijn; houd vrede met je ziel in de lawaaierige verwarring van het leven. Met al zijn klatergoud, somberheid en vervlogen dromen is dit toch nog steeds een prachtige wereld. Streef naar geluk. -- [ tekst gekopiëerd van Katinka Hesselink Net : www.katinkahesselink.net ] [ Max Ehrman: Max Ehrmann in Wikipedia ( NL ) ] |
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Roswitha  Hrosvita von Gandersheim , Gandersheim had ook een buitenkamp van KZ Buchenwald: KZ Ganderheim Meer over zowel Roswitha als het Aussenlager in stardust Memories monoblog gepost op 11 december 2017 door stardust371 |
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Hoe zat dat ook alweer met die sleepwet
Er zijn genoeg handtekeningen opgehaald voor een sleepwetreferendum. Misschien is er nog een kans om de zogenaamde sleepwet (Wet op inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdienst) terug naar de tekentafel te laten gaan. Maar wat is er zo erg aan die wet? Wat is het belang van privacy? Hebben we onze privacy niet al zo goed als ingeleverd aan Amerikaanse bedrijven als Google en Facebook? In een tweeluik leggen voor- en tegenstanders van de wet het belang ervan uit. Rejo Zenger van Bits of Freedom en Matthijs Pontier van de PiratenPartij leggen uit wat het belang is van privacy en waarom we onze overheid niet al onze gegevens in handen willen geven. Ook al vertrouwen wij onze eigen overheid en geheime diensten wel, volgens hen kunnen we misschien buitenlandse overheden niet vertrouwen. We hebben in ieder geval het recht om te wantrouwen, en ook dan moet onze overheid ervoor zorgen dat er zorgvuldig wordt omgegaan met onze gegevens. De heldere grenzen ontbreken bij deze zogenaamde sleepwet. “Bij iedere wet moet je er rekening mee houden dat er ook een vervelende overheid kan komen. Als je dat niet doet, is het in mijn ogen geen goede wet,” zegt Pontier.
Buitenlandse overhedenEr worden nog geregeld nieuwe stappen gemaakt door overheden. Laten we allereerst kijken naar de Verenigde Staten. De Amerikaanse overheid wilde achter de ip-adressen van bezoekers aangaan die een anti-Trumpwebsite hadden bezocht. Je hoeft geen kwade bedoelingen te hebben, een verkeerd mens te zijn of tegen de wet in te gaan als je zo’n site bezoekt. Deze bezoekers hadden niks te verbergen, maar zo’n bezoekje aan een website kan wel tegen hen gebruikt worden. Ook in Spanje lijkt privacy, en dus vrijheid, niet meer de normaalste zaak van de wereld. De Spaanse overheid haalde websites over het referendum uit de lucht. “De machtsstructuur kan veranderen in een land,” zegt Zenger van Bits of Freedom. Zenger en Pontier zeggen beiden wel vertrouwen te hebben in de Nederlandse overheid, maar doordat de Nederlandse geheime dienst onze gegevens mogen delen, kunnen deze in handen komen van buitenlandse overheden. Zenger legt het uit: “De gegevens die de Nederlandse geheime dienst aftapt, kunnen worden gedeeld met buitenlandse geheime diensten. Tussen de geheime diensten wereldwijd is een soort ruilmechanisme. Op het moment dat je informatie levert, krijg je informatie uit andere landen.” Geen kwaadwillende overheidWat concreter: de Nederlandse overheid kan gegevens delen met Turkije. De Turkse overheid kan aan de haal gaan met wie een Gülen aanhanger is. Een Turkse Nederlander die op familiebezoek gaat in Turkije, kan dan bij de grens aangehouden worden. “Dan kun je de Nederlandse overheid wel vertrouwen, maar het wil niet zeggen dat die gegevens in handen van de Nederlandse overheid blijven,” benadrukt Zenger. Ook Pontier staat sceptisch tegenover het vertrouwen in overheden: “Er hoeft geen sprake te zijn van een kwaadwillende overheid. De overheid moet in staat zijn om die gegevens te beveiligen. Ik ben daar al kritisch over bij de Nederlandse overheid, maar mijn vertrouwen in andere overheden is nog minder. En dat heeft niks te maken met kwaadwillendheid. Er zijn regelmatig datalekken; overheid en ICT is een ongelukkige combinatie.” Facebook en GoogleIedereen die Facebook, WhatsApp of Google gebruikt levert zijn privacy op een bepaalde manier in. Google verzamelt gegevens om nauwkeurige profielen van gebruikers te maken, waar adverteerders op afgestemd kunnen worden. Facebook doet ongeveer hetzelfde: die verzamelt data om gerichte advertenties aan bedrijven te verkopen. Bovendien heeft Facebook WhatsApp en Instagram in handen, waardoor ook al die gegevens door Facebook worden opgeslagen. En vergeet alle websites niet die je bezoekt met de zogenaamde Facebook-deelknop. Ook dat registreert Facebook. We leveren onze privacy dus al voor een groot deel in aan deze grote Amerikaanse bedrijven. Volgens Zenger betekent het niet dat we direct onze privacy ook ergens anders moet inleveren. “We moeten inderdaad van het systeem af dat een X-aantal grote Amerikaanse bedrijven ons in de gaten kan houden, maar dat staat los van de discussie over de bevoegdheden die we aan de AIVD en MIVD geven.” Onzin om privacy in te leveren voor veiligheidAan iedereen die met het argument komt dat we onze privacy een beetje moeten inleveren voor onze veiligheid: onzin. Privacy en veiligheid zijn geen tegenstellingen. Zenger: “We hebben niks aan onze maatschappij op het moment dat er geen terroristen zijn, maar wij ook geen vrijheid meer hebben. Als we onze privacy inleveren, doen we precies wat kwaadwillenden willen. Namelijk: bang zijn en uit angst opereren. Uit angst onze vrijheid inleveren. Ik denk dat we in een bijzonder veilig land leven en we moeten niet onze vrijheid weggooien omdat we nu even uit angst handelen.” “Als je geen privacy hebt, word je niet beschermd tegen een overheid als er een dictator aan de macht komt,” zegt Pontier. We hoeven onze privacy niet in te leveren om veilig te zijn. Zenger: “Het feit dat de AIVD nu de juiste dingen doet, is geen garantie dat dat over een aantal jaar nog steeds zo is.” Kijk naar Trump. Kijk naar Spanje. Het kan in no time veranderen en daar moeten we onze rechtsstaat, onze samenleving, tegen beschermen. -- Overgenomen uit HPdeTijd, digitale editie, 11 oktober 2107 Bron: www.hpdetijd.nl/2017-10-11/sleepwet-gegevens/ gepost op 17 oktober 2017 door stardust371 |
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augustus 2017 door stardust371 -- Grootschalig afluisteren Op 11 juli 2017 heeft de Eerste Kamer ingestemd met het wetsvoorstel van minister Plasterk (PvdA) en minister Hennis (VVD) waarmee de geheime diensten straks grootschalig het internet mogen afluisteren. De afgeluisterde gegevens mogen drie jaar lang bewaard worden en onbeperkt gekoppeld worden aan andere gegevens. Daarnaast mogen de diensten elk geautomatiseerd apparaat hacken en gegevens daarvan kopiëren. Ook krijgen de inlichtingendiensten officieel de bevoegdheid een geheime DNA databank in te richten. Op 14 februari ging de Tweede Kamer al akkoord met het wetsvoorstel. De geheime diensten mogen volgens dit wetsvoorstel het internet straks grootschalig en ongericht afluisteren (artikel 48). Hoe grootschalig of ongericht wordt niet aangegeven. Dat zal volgens de ministers afhangen van de 'onderzoeksopdracht' die de geheime diensten van de ministers krijgen. In de toelichting schrijven de ministers hierover dat "de diensten zich richten op een geografisch gebied of op bepaalde datastromen". Dat zijn de enige beperkingen die gegeven worden. De minister noemt als voorbeelden dat de (privé)communicatie via een bepaalde app, social medium of game kan worden afgeluisterd. Ook kan bijvoorbeeld alle communicatie van en naar een bepaald land worden afgeluisterd. Maar het is volgens de minister niet de bedoeling om "alle communicatie in de stad Den Haag een maand lang te verzamelen, om dan te bezien of voor de diensten relevante gegevens zijn binnengehaald". -- [ Lees het volledige artikel in het Mono blog archief ] |
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Toezicht, de toezichthouder voor onder meer
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Bron: het bericht van BFT -- re-posted by stardust371 - 27 juli 2017 |
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profielen in één obscure database. [ author: Blair Henry Frank, 9 mei 2017, www.cio.nl ] De kans is groot dat jij onderdeel bent van Oracles nieuwe grootste geldmachine. Ja, je bent klant van Oracle dus je betaalt al groot geld voor producten, maar daar gaat het in dit geval niet om. Jij bent nu zelf het product. Want naar alle waarschijnlijkheid sta jij opgeslagen in Oracles Data Cloud, een enorme bron van informatie over zowel mensen als bedrijven. De techgigant heeft zijn enorme database samengesteld door het volgen van mensen op het web en het kopen van data vanuit diverse bronnen. Maar de kans is groot dat niemand weet dat hij of zij ooit toestemming heeft verleend voor die dataverzameling. De informatie komt uit een heel netwerk van dataverzamelaars. Het grootste gedeelte komt uit drie soorten bronnen: media-uitgevers, retailloyaliteitsprogramma's en traditionele datahandelaren als Experian. Die 15 miljoen databronnen (!) hebben een database opgeleverd van maar liefst 5 miljard profielen, waarbij niet gezegd is dat elk profiel uniek is. Maar, zo stelt Eric Roza, de leider van Oracle Data Cloud, het gaat zeker om miljarden mensen. De data wordt verkocht aan bedrijven die gericht willen adverteren, waarbij Oracle datawetenschaptechnologie gebruikt om te zorgen dat mensen worden geïdentificeerd ongeacht ze tijdens het websurfen van browser veranderen, of naar andere hardware overstappen, zoals van PC naar de smartphone. Oracle ziet Data Cloud als belangrijk onderdeel van zijn toekomst. De dienst gaat adverteerders en mediabedrijven helpen om gerichter te kunnen adverteren. De meerwaarde moet zitten in de onafhankelijkheid van advertentieplatforms als die van Google of Facebook. De Data Cloud vormt tevens de fundering van machine learning-features binnen andere software van Oracle. Een van de uitdagingen van bedrijven die zich bezighouden met machine learning is het verkrijgen van datasets die groot genoeg zijn om accurate modellen te kunnen bouwen, en Oracle denkt daarin te kunnen voorzien. Oracle is natuurlijk niet de enige in dit soort dataverzamelen en het volgen van mensen op het internet. Maar wat Data Cloud anders maakt dan Google's advertentiebusiness is dat consumenten en bedrijven niet weten dat hun internetgedrag wordt opgeslagen met de bedoeling die data te verkopen, en ook nog eens in deze ruime mate. De dataleveranciers van Oracle moeten verklaren dat zij toestemming hebben van gebruikers om hun data te verzamelen. Maar het verkrijgen van die toestemming is vaak verborgen in een paar zinnen diep in de privacyverklaring. Daarbij is het niet nodig om Oracle Data Cloud bij naam te noemen. "Vaak wordt het neergezet als een algemene verklaring, vooral omdat het tegenwoordig zo gewoon is", zegt Roza, die als voorbeeldzin noemt 'we gebruiken deze informatie om onze advertenties beter naar uw voorkeuren te richten, en te delen met een selectief aantal partners.' Gebruikers kunnen overigens op meerdere manieren uit die datacollectie van Oracle komen, zegt Roza. Oracle maakt het mogelijk dat mensen een speciaal cookie installeren in elke browser die ze gebruiken waarmee ze voorkomen dat Oracle ze volgt. Het deleten van de cookie of het gebruik van een nieuwe browser heft die bescherming overigens direct op. Maar te weten komen of je nu wel of niet bent opgenomen in Oracles Data Cloud is de eerste -moeilijke- stap. Ondertussen blijft Oracle geld pompen in deze nieuwe business en pusht het nu naar potentiële klanten. Het bedrijf heeft miljarden besteed aan overnames (BlueKai, Datalogix, Moat) om deze database mogelijk te maken en dus hadden we het moeten zien aankomen. -- re-posted by stardust371 - 24 juli 2017 |
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All this week,
Banned
Books Week, a man will camp out in the
Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, in the large picture window that fronts
the sidewalk, and type. He is the performance artist Tim Youd, who specializes in typing works of literature. Entire books. Word for word. On a typewriter. Youd lives in Los Angeles. He is 47. He has typed books by some of the 20th century's greatest writers — Faulkner, Raymond Chandler, Tom Wolfe, including Wolfe's "The Right Stuff," all 456 pages. This week Youd will type Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451,"which is about censorship and book burning, a fitting way to mark Banned Books Week. Banned Books Week is a nationwide promotion of the American Library Association, a consortium of librarians who favor free speech. It starts Sunday. Promoting free speech was important to Kurt Vonnegut, whose "Slaughterhouse-Five," considered his masterpiece, is one of the most roughed-up books in history. In 1974 a school board in North Dakota ordered 36 copies of it burned, tossed right into the school's coal-fired incinerator. There has been trouble on and off for the book ever since. The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library will mark Banned Book Week with talks by writers and scholars and a performance by a band named after one of Vonnegut's recurring characters, the fictional science fiction writer Kilgore Trout. But the centerpiece of the commemoration (or the strangest piece, anyway) is the window-dwelling. This is the third year the library has put a man in its front window 24/7. Youd will eat, sleep and work in the space. "I think someone will come and do yoga with me a couple times," he said, "which will be good." (Youd can leave to go to the bathroom.) The stunt's marathon-ish aspect conjures old-time entertainment like pole-sitting. In the 1920s, during Vonnegut's childhood, people sometimes sat on small platforms atop flagpoles — for days, even weeks. The records they set seemed important and thrilling in those simpler yet wilder times. The library's director, Julia Whitehead, said she and Corey Dalton, a library volunteer, came up with the window-sitting idea in 2012 after hearing of a fundraising gimmick that 20 years earlier had worked for the Athenaeum, the 1890s building and cultural landmark Downtown. In the early 1990s, David Willkie, the grandson of the 1940 Republican presidential nominee, lived on the Athenaeum's crumbling roof, in a metal garden shed, for 60 days. He drew attention and money, including $600,000 from the Lilly Endowment. The Athenaeum, designed, coincidentally, by Kurt Vonnegut's architect grandfather, got a new roof. Dalton, an editor of children's magazines, became the first window-sitter in the Vonnegut library. The writer Hugh Vandivier did it last year. Youd types with just three fingers — he hunts and pecks. He types five or six pages in an hour. He does his work in locations that are relevant. He typed "The Right Stuff" in Lancaster, Calif., at the Museum of Art and History because Lancaster is around the corner from Edwards Air Force Base, where a lot of the book's action takes place. He did two Chandler novels in San Diego at the Museum of Contemporary Art because Chandler lived nearby. Youd types the works on one sheet of paper. He tapes another sheet to the back of the first sheet. His end product is one piece of paper that is heavily inked and the other piece that is not as heavily inked. Neither side of the diptych is legible. Youd sometimes gets good money for them — about $7,000 for Chandler's "The Long Goodbye," he said. The Bradbury, however, won't be for sale because at week's end Youd plans to burn the finished product, publicly, for effect. Some sentences stick out in Youd's mind as particularly good, like: "Dead men are heavier than broken hearts," from Chandler's "The Big Sleep," and, from "Farewell, My Lovely": "'Hold on to your chair and don't step on no snakes,' she said, 'I got me an idea.'" Youd is on a mission to type 100 novels. "I'm not saying the greatest 100 novels," he said, "but novels that appeal to me." In each case he uses the same model of typewriter the actual author used, which means of course he types only works that were written on typewriters (so Shakespeare is out, as are newer writers who work on computers). He got the idea from the "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson, who as a young man typed passages from Fitzgerald, Hemingway and other great writers. "I just wanted to feel what it feels like to write that well," Thompson had explained. In an homage to Thompson, the first book Youd typed was Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five," about the author's experience as a prisoner of the Germans during World War II in the city of Dresden as the allies firebombed the city, has, by the American Library Association's count, been banned or restricted more than a dozen times, including the mass burning in 1974. The novel was monkeyed with as recently as 2011, yanked from a high school library in Republic, Mo. School officials there found 21 words that were disturbing, including "balls," "wang," "bastards" and 15 F-bombs. -- [ author: Will Higgins, IndieStar, Indianapolis USA, september 21, 2014 ] Source URL: http://www.indystar.com/story/life/2014/09/21/type-type-typing-fahrenheit-raise-awareness-banned-books/15850155/ Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library: News |
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