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Error code: DatasetGenerationError
Exception: ArrowInvalid
Message: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 100
Traceback: Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 153, in _generate_tables
df = pd.read_json(f, dtype_backend="pyarrow")
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 815, in read_json
return json_reader.read()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1025, in read
obj = self._get_object_parser(self.data)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1051, in _get_object_parser
obj = FrameParser(json, **kwargs).parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1187, in parse
self._parse()
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pandas/io/json/_json.py", line 1403, in _parse
ujson_loads(json, precise_float=self.precise_float), dtype=None
ValueError: Trailing data
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1997, in _prepare_split_single
for _, table in generator:
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 156, in _generate_tables
raise e
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/packaged_modules/json/json.py", line 130, in _generate_tables
pa_table = paj.read_json(
File "pyarrow/_json.pyx", line 308, in pyarrow._json.read_json
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 154, in pyarrow.lib.pyarrow_internal_check_status
File "pyarrow/error.pxi", line 91, in pyarrow.lib.check_status
pyarrow.lib.ArrowInvalid: JSON parse error: Missing a closing quotation mark in string. in row 100
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1529, in compute_config_parquet_and_info_response
parquet_operations = convert_to_parquet(builder)
File "/src/services/worker/src/worker/job_runners/config/parquet_and_info.py", line 1154, in convert_to_parquet
builder.download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1029, in download_and_prepare
self._download_and_prepare(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1124, in _download_and_prepare
self._prepare_split(split_generator, **prepare_split_kwargs)
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 1884, in _prepare_split
for job_id, done, content in self._prepare_split_single(
File "/src/services/worker/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/datasets/builder.py", line 2040, in _prepare_split_single
raise DatasetGenerationError("An error occurred while generating the dataset") from e
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On the role of beam driven return current instabilities in white-light flares
S.A. Matthews 1, J.C. Brown 2 and L. van Driel-Gesztelyi 3, 4
1 Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St. Mary, Surrey RH5 6NT, UK (sam@mssl.ucl.ac.uk)
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK (john@astro.gla.ac.uk)
3 DASOP, Observatoire de Paris, F-92195 Meudon Principal Cedex, France
4 Konkoly Observatory, Pf 67, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary (lvandrie@mesioq.obspm.fr)
Received 9 July 1998 / Accepted 18 September 1998
It has been shown previously that the low ionization levels in the deep chromosphere of solar flares can cause the return current driven by a thick target electron beam to be unstable to ion aoustic wave generation, contrary to conventional wisdom. We investigate, using Yohkoh data, the possibility that anomalous heating as a result of this instability is capable of producing sufficient heating, in the right places at the right times, to account for the enhanced continuum emission actually observed in white-light flares. The Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) onboard Yohkoh incorporates an aspect camera which, prior to its failure in 1992, provided white-light images at 431 nm with a bandpass of 3 nm. A number of white-light flares were observed during its operational lifetime for which there was coincident hard X-ray data from the Hard X-ray Telescope (HXT), providing suitable candidates for study. Four such events are discussed, and the model found to be viable.
Key words: Sun: activity Sun: flares Sun: X-rays, gamma rays
Send offprint requests to: S.A. Matthews
2. Collisional beam propagation
3. Observations and data analysis
Online publication: November 3, 1998
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ArenaDaemon provides advertising technology services that allow publishers of mobile applications and websites (“apps”) to show ads in their apps, and for advertisers to reach audiences that may be interested in their products or services. ArenaDaemon’s advertising technology includes the GhostOver Software Development Kit (GhostOver SDK).
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Device identifiers such as your IP address, iOS Identifier for Advertising (IDFA), Android Advertising ID, or a ArenaDaemon-specific identifier. Your precise geo-location, when location services have been enabled for an app on your device that has integrated the ArenaDaemon Services. Note that when location services have not been enabled in any of your apps that have integrated the ArenaDaemon Services, we will still infer data about your location based on your IP address. Information that a Publisher Partner has collected about you and shared with ArenaDaemon, such as demographic information (e.g., your age or gender) or information about your interests, to help make the ads served to you more relevant. Information about your device, such as the type and model, manufacturer, operating system (e.g., iOS or Android), carrier name, mobile browser (e.g., Chrome, Safari), and screen size. Information about your app usage, including the apps on your device that use the ArenaDaemon Services and the version of such apps, the app on your device that is requesting an ad, the start/stop time of your app session, your current time zone, and your network connection type (e.g., WiFi, cellular). Information about ads served, viewed, or clicked on, such as the type of ad, where the ad was served, whether you clicked on it, and whether you visited the advertiser’s website or downloaded the advertiser’s app.
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We use the data collected by the ArenaDaemon Services for the following purposes:
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We share data that we collect about you through apps that have integrated the ArenaDaemon Services for the following purposes:
We share data with Advertising Demand Partners so that they can decide whether to bid on ad inventory or serve an advertisement and choose the best ad for you on our mobile advertising exchange and across the broader advertising ecosystem. ArenaDaemon Advertising Demand Partners are obligated to use the information they receive in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. We share data with Data Partners in order to create demographic and interest segments to help Advertising Demand Partners choose the best ad for you on our mobile advertising exchange and across the broader advertising ecosystem. We share data with Fraud and Measurement Partners in order to help with anti-fraud, quality, and security efforts to ensure the safety, security, privacy, and accuracy of the ArenaDaemon Services and the broader advertising ecosystem. We share aggregate information with Advertising Demand Partners and Publisher Partners to help them measure the effectiveness and value of ArenaDaemon Services. For example, we provide Advertising Demand Partners with reports showing how many users viewed or clicked on their ads. We also provide Publisher Partners with reports about the types of ads served to their apps. We share data with ArenaDaemon Partners so that they can build and improve their products and services for use on ArenaDaemon and across the broader advertising ecosystem. For example, your device identifier may be used by a Fraud and Measurement Partner to improve the fraud detection services that they offer both to ArenaDaemon and other advertising companies. We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us and ArenaDaemon Partners in the United States, Ireland, and other countries. We may share the data we collect with such service providers subject to obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures, and on the condition that they use your information only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions. Controlling the Processing of Your data for Personalized Advertising
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Consent: If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, Publisher Partners who would like us to serve you personalized ads must first obtain your consent so that ArenaDaemon and our partners can process your data for this purpose. Some Publisher Partners may choose to obtain your consent for this purpose even if you are located outside of these regions. If you provide your consent, we will collect, use, share, and otherwise process all of the data described above for the purpose of serving you personalized advertising that ArenaDaemon and our partners believe is most relevant to you.
If you decide that you do not want a personalized advertising experience, we will not process your data for this purpose. For example, we will not collect, use, or share your iOS Identifier for Advertising or Android Advertising Identifier, your precise location data, or your demographic or interest information. However, we will still serve you contextual advertising -- ads the content or type of app you are using (for example, serving an ad for a video game to a gaming app).
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You can use your device settings to let us know that you wish to withdraw your consent to ArenaDaemon’s personalized advertising experience across all of your apps on that device.
On iOS, you may withdraw your consent by enabling the “Limit Ad Tracking” setting. On Android devices, you may withdraw your consent by enabling the “Opt out of Ads Personalization” setting. The next time you use an app that has integrated the ArenaDaemon Service on that device, we will effectuate your withdrawal of consent, and we will no longer collect, use, share, or otherwise process data from that device to personalize your advertising experience.
Unless we have another legal basis for storing your data, we will also delete or de-identify the data we have stored about you within 30 days when you use one of these methods to withdraw consent. We will also inform our current ArenaDaemon Partners if you withdraw your consent so that they, as independent controllers of your data, can also respect your choice to withdraw consent.
Even if you do not consent to a personalized advertising experience, or you later withdraw such consent, we will still process your data when necessary to comply with law or to support our legitimate interests, as described below.
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Generate, collect, and use a short-lived ArenaDaemon-specific ID for the purpose of frequency capping -- to prevent you from seeing the same contextual ad too many times. In order to protect your privacy, we will reset this identifier every 24 hours, and we will not share it with ArenaDaemon Partners or any other third parties. Receive and send your IP address to our service providers for purposes of detecting invalid clicks and other fraudulent activity on ArenaDaemon. In order to protect your privacy, we contractually prohibit our service providers from using this data for any other purpose, and we do not share your full IP address with any other ArenaDaemon Partners or retain it internally. Continue to receive data from apps that have not been updated to the latest version of the ArenaDaemon SDK. In order to provide continuity of ArenaDaemon Services to our Publisher Partners and give their users sufficient time to update their apps to versions using the latest SDK, we will continue to support older versions of the SDK during a short transition period. During this time, we will continue to receive data such as your iOS Identifier for Advertising or Android Advertising ID from older versions of the SDK; however, in order to protect your privacy, we will not store, use, or share such data, and we will only return contextual ads to you if you use one of these apps in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland. After March 31, 2019, we will stop returning ads to older versions of our SDK in these countries. United States and Other Countries
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On iOS, you may opt out by enabling the “Limit Ad Tracking” setting. On Android devices, you may opt out by enabling the “Opt out of Ads Personalization” setting. If you opt out through your device settings, ArenaDaemon will send your opt-out preference with each request for an advertisement sent to our Advertising Demand Partners. ArenaDaemon requires that our Advertising Demand Partners honor opt-out preferences expressed using these controls by only serving contextual advertisements in response to such ad requests, and prohibits the use of any data contained in such ad requests to serve personalized advertising or to create a profile of the user or device.
Accessing, Restricting, and Rectifying data We Collect About You Through Apps, and Objecting to Our Use of Such data
ArenaDaemon collects the minimum amount of data about you that is necessary to provide the ArenaDaemon Services. As a result, we do not have sufficient information available to provide secure, authenticated access to the data that we store about you or to confirm that specific data relates to you. However, as noted above, if you live in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, you can exercise control over whether we continue to process your data, and request that we delete or de-identify such data, by withdrawing your consent at any time. You can also contact us using the details below.
Unless we have another legal basis for storing your data, if you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we will delete or de-identify the data we have stored about you within 30 days of when you withdraw your consent.
Privacy Practices of ArenaDaemon Partners
ArenaDaemon requires ArenaDaemon Partners to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. In addition, ArenaDaemon requires Publisher Partners and Advertising Demand Partners, who are each independent controllers of your data, to comply with the ArenaDaemon Publisher Partner Policies and Advertising Demand Partner Policies, respectively, and to provide you with sufficient notice of their processing of your data.
When you consent to ArenaDaemon’s processing of your data, you are also consenting to the processing of your data by the ArenaDaemon Partners with whom we share your data. If you withdraw your consent, we will also inform our current ArenaDaemon Partners with whom we have shared your data of your withdrawal or opt-out so that they, as independent controllers of your data, can also respect your choice. ArenaDaemon Partners may also have separate legal bases for collecting, using, retaining, and sharing your data. For example, some Publisher Partners and Supported Advertising Mediation Partners may mutually agree to process your data for personalized advertising purposes on the basis of legitimate interests. While ArenaDaemon is not involved in the processing of your data in these cases, our policies require partners to provide visible notice when they choose to process your data in this manner.
ArenaDaemon does not permit the ArenaDaemon Services to be used to collect information from apps directed to children under the age of 13 for purposes of personalized advertising. ArenaDaemon may collect information from apps directed to children for other purposes, such as serving advertisements based on contextual information, like the content or type of app you are using (for example, serving an ad for a video game to a gaming app).
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When you visit arenadaemon.com, our servers automatically record certain data in our log files. This web log information includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, and cookie information. Like many websites, we use web log information, along with cookies, pixels, and similar technologies, to operate our websites, better understand how they are used, resolve technical problems, and enhance your experience on our sites.
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230 The Krotons: Episode Three
EPISODE: The Krotons: Episode Three
FORMAT: VHS: Doctor Who: The Krotons
Definitely German Submarines today. Promise.
The Krotons cut the power to the machine interrogating Jamie. They track the Doctor & Zoe to the Tardis. Eelek, the council deputy, goes to see Beta hoping to recruit him help them fight the Krotons. He tells Beta that the Doctor & Zoe then Jamie have gone into the Krotons' machine. Eelek tells him not to obey council chief Selris but to obey him instead. One of the two Krotons is dispatched from their ship, the Dynotrope, to fetch the Doctor & Zoe. Jamie is interrogated about the Tardis, but it decides that he has no value. Selris tells Thara that the Doctor, Zoe & Jamie have all have gone into machine. Thara tells him Eelek has taken over as council leader and is going to try to overthrow the Krotons. The Kroton explains to Jamie that the Dynotrope needs high brains for it's power transfer. It tells him that they do not die, merely exhaust and revert to their base compounds. The Doctor emerges from the Tardis having analysed the liquid he took from the Krotons ship and deduced that it's based on Tellurium. Outside the Tardis the Doctor is looking for sulphurous rocks when the Kroton finds them demanding that they return to the dynotrope. Back at the Krotons' ship Jamie seizes the Krotons' weapon and attacks the remaining Kroton with it, which causes the other Kroton to loose contact with the Dynatrope which is directing it. Hearing what has happened, the Doctor realises that the Krotons can't see in bright light. Once communication is regained the Krotonm attacks the Tardis with it's gas weapon leaving no trace of the Doctor's ship then returns to the Dynatrope reversing it's course. A short while later the Tardis materialises a short way up a hill. The Doctor says he has set the Hostile Action Displacement System. At the Gond city Eelek plans the Gond's attack on the Krotons. Inside the Dynatrope the Krotons' decide that the high brains must be recaptured before they exhaust time in 3 hours time. The Doctor & Zoe return to the city and learn from Vana and Thara what is happrning. The Gonds start to attack the machine's supports. The Doctor gets Beta to process his collected sulphur using instructions he has left. An alert sounds in the Krotons' ship, the Dynotrope is now out of balance. The Doctor goes to stop the Gonds but their work has undermined the cities foundations which starts to collapse burying the Doctor under rubble.
There's a horrendous continuity mix up in this episode when it appears that Beta is in his lab working on the sulphur and under the city undermining the Dynatrope at the same time, but apart from that it's a nice little episode. The stuff with the Tardis is good causing you for a brief moment to think that the Tardis has actually been destroyed by the Kroton. We get our first proper look at the Krotons in this episode. The bodies and heads look very nice, almost like crystal, and I can live with the tube like arms ending in claws. But the rubber skirt from the waist down just doesn't work and makes them look silly. For many years they were rumoured top be the winner of a Blue Peter Design A Monster competition, which Patrick Troughton helped to judge, but this just isn't true. Nowadays Blue Peter have contributed not just a monster to the series, the Asorbalof in Love & Monsters, but a Tardis console as well in The Doctor's Wife.
This serial introduces us to the acting talents of Philip Madoc, here playing Eelik. He'd already been in the second Doctor Who film as Brockley and one of my earliest Doctor Who memories is of him being exterminated in the shed. After this story he'll be back as two of the most memorable Doctor Who villains. First he's the War Lord in two stories time in The War Games (also directed by David Maloney) and then as Doctor Solon in The Brain of Morbius before appearing as the less villainous Fenner in Power of Kroll. He's been in loads of television including UFO as Straker's ex wife's new partner, Space 1999 as Koenig's predecessor Commander Gorski. I recently saw him in Midsomer Murders playing Barnaby's former (Welsh) DCI in The Axeman Cometh, a barking episode involving a rock group. But not half as barking as Country Matters is! He's got a talent for playing German officers and (here we go) in this role he can be seen in one of the most repeated clips on television. He plays the commanding officer of the U-Boat crew captured by the Walmington-on-Sea home guard in the Dad's Army episode "The Deadly Attachment".
I am making notes, Captain, and your name will go on the list; and when we win the war you will be brought to account.
You can write what you like, You're not going to win the war!
Oh yes we are.
Oh no you're not.
Oh yes we are!
Whistle while you work, Hitler is a twerp, he's half-barmy, so's his army, whistle while you work!
Your name will also go on the list! What is it?
Don't tell him Pike!
And by an odd coincidence the subject of Philip Madoc popped up in my Twitter feed last night!
251 The War Games: Episode Eight
250 The War Games: Episode Seven
249 The War Games: Episode Six
248 The War Games: Episode Five
247 The War Games: Episode Four
246 The War Games: Episode Three
245 The War Games: Episode Two
244 The War Games: Episode One
243 The Space Pirates: Episode Six
242 The Space Pirates: Episode Five
241 The Space Pirates: Episode Four
240 The Space Pirates: Episode Three
239 The Space Pirates: Episode Two
238 The Space Pirates: Episode One
237 The Seeds of Death: Episode Six
235 The Seeds of Death: Episode Five
235 The Seeds of Death: Episode Four
234 The Seeds of Death: Episode Three
233 The Seeds of Death: Episode Two
232 The Seeds of Death: Episode One
231 The Krotons: Episode Four
229 The Krotons: Episode Two
228 The Krotons: Episode One
227 The Invasion: Episode Eight
226 The Invasion: Episode Seven
225 The Invasion: Episode Six
224 The Invasion: Episode Five
223 The Invasion: Episode Four
222 The Invasion: Episode Three
221 The Invasion: Episode Two
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can you swim in blue lagoon, buxton
A sea of blackened Joshua trees, stripped of life, stood over the desert floor. “They’ve lived through literally hundreds of fires in their lifetimes,” Dr. Shive said. “The Amazing Ever-Living Redwood Tree,” the sign read. Read more. Cross the beautiful High Desert of Arizona and visit the incredible 900 year old Joshua Tree Forest, Eagle Point & Guano Point (with 3 hours to explore the most beautiful natural locations at the rim of the Grand Canyon). Take off on the open road with a full tank of gas and a map and directions in hand. and you will connect to I-40 which will take you east towards AZ. California’s redwoods, sequoias and Joshua trees define the American West and nature’s resilience through the ages. The thermometer at nearby Death Valley had reached 130 degrees, the highest temperature reliably recorded on Earth. Travel through a 900-year-old Joshua Tree Forest. “But I keep coming back to climate change. Access is via the Saline Valley road, which is good-condition gravel to this point. Dr. Shive, the league’s chief scientist, spent much of this year surveying the rugged property and pondering the grove’s long-term health. That trail now serves as a stark dividing line. Worth a visit . “A lot of what we were calling a year ago ‘the largest and densest Joshua Tree forest in the world’ probably didn’t exist in the early part of the 20th century,” Dr. Hughson said. Sequoia National Park, the nation’s second-oldest, has been doing them since 1968, longer than any national park in the West. Suria_Nataadmadja wrote a … Helpful. They last so long that, historically, only one or two of every thousand old-growth trees dies annually, according to Nate Stephenson, a research ecologist for the United States Geological Survey. Ms. Kerbavaz came across one giant called “Father of the Forest.” Redwoods can live 2,000 years, and this one was black to the top. Drive Through A 900-Year-Old Joshua Tree Forest Exclusive 4 Hours At The Grand Canyon West Rim Luxurious, Air-Conditioned Mercedes Sprinter With Panoramic Windows About the same time, a nearby blaze killed almost half the 104 mature sequoias in the Nelder Grove. Arrive at Grand Canyon West (around 9:30 am) Each guest is provided a hop-on/hop-off shuttle service voucher. Note: The old-growth redwood data only shows trees on public lands. For more than a century, until 2002, cattle grazed on Cima Dome. The Save the Redwoods League, founded in 1918 to protect redwood forests (and, increasingly, sequoias), bought the 530-acre grove for $15.7 million just last year. Native American Dancing and Dwellings. Rather than lose one or two “monarch” sequoias in a year to old age, hundreds or thousands have been wiped out at once. The spark came in August, with a lightning strike. In the Alder Creek grove, hundreds of the oldest. Some of the oldest trees were killed by fire. Hualapai Ranch and Western town. Visit the incredible 900 year old Joshua Tree Forest, Eagle Point, Guano Point (approx. Unaffected green-spiked Joshua trees stood in kooky stances. This is the most beautiful, historical and visually intoxicating experience you will ever have! In late October, in spots that the fire did not reach or somehow missed, the desert grasses were the yellowed hue of fall. “It’s not dead yet.”. “Now, I’m like, ‘Dude, that is not good enough — we need to rethink this whole thing,’” Dr. Brigham said. From (ta && ta.queueForLoad ? Wildfires this year were their deadliest test. “It’s got green,” she called out to those climbing through the thicket behind her. Hualapai Ranch and Western town. Joshua Trees is not "en route" from (ta && ta.queueForLoad ? There’s a forest in the Mojave Desert and the drive took us through the 900-year-old Joshua Tree Forest – I wasn’t expecting that. Prescribed burns are easiest, though not easy, in remote locations like national parks. Suria_Nataadmadja wrote a … 5-stars Hotels in Grand Canyon National Park, Popular Grand Canyon National Park Categories, Joshua Trees en route from Las Vegas to Grand Canyon, Re: Joshua Trees en route from Las Vegas to Grand Canyon. In 2017, fire swept through the Black Mountain Grove in Sequoia National Forest, killing nearly a third of the 183 old-growth sequoias that were surveyed. Humans chop down Joshua trees to make room for neighborhoods, roads, even solar farms. Many folks clamber up them and slide down because the sand actually "sings" as you go down. We headed to the Grand Canyon’s West Rim, the nearest rim to Las Vegas, after stopping off at the magnificent Hoover Dam en route. What should I expect on an overnight mule trip to Phantom Ranch. Joshua Tree National Park is an American national park in southeastern California, east of Los Angeles and San Bernardino, near Palm Springs.It is named for the Joshua trees (Yucca brevifolia) native to the Mojave Desert.Originally declared a national monument in 1936, Joshua Tree was redesignated as a national park in 1994 when the U.S. Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act. The redwood, unlike its splintery cousin, the giant sequoia, is prized for its hard wood. What is killing the trees now, he and others said, are flames that reach the crown at the top — torching the crowns, like a giant matchstick. Have a romantic picnic lunch at the rim, stroll the boardwalk of the Hualapai Ranch & Western Town and … Known as the park namesake, the Joshua tree, Yucca brevifolia, is a member of the Agave family. Your journey includes famous sites such as a 900-year-old Joshua tree forest, Eagle Point, Guano Point, and the Hualapai Ranch. This year signaled a fiery future. Lee Flat is described by the park as "the finest Joshua Tree forest in the park", and while it's not as dense as some found in Mojave National Preserve, it's still a magical place to camp. Joshua trees — a yucca, not a tree, named by Mormon settlers — already teeter toward trouble. For the state’s three famous plant species, it is probably both. Two distinct desert ecosystems, the Mojave and the Colorado, come together in Joshua Tree National Park. Helpful. “Not with climate change.”“It’ll never come back like it was,” one botanist said, standing among thousands of destroyed Joshua trees. Cima Dome is a broad mound, a gentle and symmetrical arc on the vast desert horizon. Eagle Point, home to the “Eagle in the Rock” and the world famous Skywalk ($25.00 paid directly to Hualapai) Guano Point with stunning East and North canyon views. The range has shrunk in the past 150 years from an estimated 2.2 million acres to 1.6 million acres. Experience the magnificent Hoover Dam (Photo Stop) Travel and Amenities. Guano Point with stunning East and North canyon views. Date of experience: April 2018. “I was preparing myself for the worst,” Mr. Kaiser said as he toured the burn area. Drive through the 900-year-old Joshua Tree Forrest. If you do that, you will really really want a night or two in Sedona first...trust us. While the Dome Fire was shocking in its scope and ferocity, it was not surprising to the scientists who know the area best. WHERE are you beginning your trip and how may days do you have? IF you have enough time you could drive the 93 all the way from LV and then head up from there through Prescott and Sedona and finally up to GC. Don't be duped by other tour companies who add fees at check-out book with confidence knowing you're getting the best deal. Have a romantic picnic lunch at the rim, stroll the boardwalk of the Hualapai Ranch & Western Town and … Scientists considered it home to the world’s densest concentration of Joshua trees. What can I expect on a Grand Canyon river trip? The Joshua tree. How do I make reservations at Phantom Ranch? The amount of groves burned in the past five years is double what had burned in the previous century. Additional work by Gabriel Gianordoli. There are a few tour companies that note you will "Pass through the Mojave Desert and the 900-year-old Joshua Tree Forest, one of the largest of its kind" en route from las vegas to Grand Canyon West Rim (cannot find any that advertise this for the South Rim). Travel and … “Once you get an adult Joshua tree, they’re somewhat impermeable to anything but fire and bulldozers,” Dr. Esque said. Map sources: Save the Redwoods League; U.S. Geological Survey via the Southwest Biological Science Center; National Interagency Fire Center; Spatial Informatics Group. One in particular she wanted to keep, not realizing how close it was to collapse. “Suddenly, fire is part of the conversation in ways that it hasn’t been before,” said Lenya Quinn-Davidson, area fire adviser for the University of California Cooperative Extension, who lives near Redwood National Park. Upon arrival, you’ll be assigned an automatic SUV for your day of Wild West adventure. A fascinating variety of plants and animals make their homes in a land sculpted by strong winds and occasional torrents of rain. “To the untrained eye or the person not familiar with this region, most wouldn’t even notice it as they go by at 90 m.p.h.,” said Todd Esque, a desert ecologist for the United States Geological Survey. Now wildfires, scarcely a threat historically, are taking out huge swaths at once, aided by climate change and invasive grasses. You may choose to have a … “I was pleading for more time to assess,” she said. Members who are knowledgeable about this destination and volunteer their time to answer travelers' questions. Each of these species already faced a rising onslaught of threats to long-term survivability, from drought to development, blanketed by the unknowable future effects of climate change. In the Alder Creek grove, hundreds of the oldest trees are thought to have died. Young Joshua trees need a nurse plant to hide under, and the prickly, woody blackbrush — unappetizing to livestock — is a perfect partner. Eagle Point, home to the "Eagle in the Rock" and the world famous Skywalk. It jumped from Joshua tree to Joshua tree and across park roads and fire lines, fueled by winds that became swirling firenados. Killing one with fire is difficult. This past summer in the Sierra Nevada, a fire ecologist named Kristen Shive camped in one of the few remaining ancient groves of giant sequoias, among trees as old as the Bible. There were at least 80, and some areas had not yet been surveyed. Joshua trees can grow more than 40 feet tall with spiky, Seussian eccentricity. They are the three plant species in California with national parks set aside in their name, for their honor and protection. “This was just a fire waiting to happen,” said Debra Hughson, chief of science and resource stewardship at Mojave National Preserve. We're trying to drive ourselves to the South Rim instead as we do not like the idea of waiting around with strangers all day. To those who come from around the globe to bear witness, and especially to those in California, they represent something both bigger and more personal. “Cima Dome was a model for where the Joshua tree could persist for the next 100 years,” Mr. Kaiser said. In August, fire swept through 97 percent of the park, home of 4,400 acres of old-growth redwood trees. Dont confuse the Joshua tree with the Mojave yucca, Yucca schidigera. Joanne Kerbavaz, the California State Parks senior environmental scientist. Sorry Dez, I missed that in #5, as you know reading and answering many posts during the day can be tiring sometimes...my bad. The program was long considered a model of forest maintenance, at least before this year’s fires devoured parts of the national park. In (ta && ta.queueForLoad ? The area is called Teutonia Peak and if you do an image search on Google you'll see exactly what I'm writing about. 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Big Basin may look that way in a few years. Thanks Dez for the information on the Mojave Preserve! There are a few tour companies that note you will "Pass through the Mojave Desert and the 900-year-old (ta && ta.queueForLoad ? ta.queueForLoad : function(f, g){document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', f);})(function(){ta.trackEventOnPage('postLinkInline', 'impression', 'postLinks-77669368', '');}, 'log_autolink_impression');Joshua Tree forest is more en route to the so called west rim. Some is still harvested for timber. Big Basin Redwoods State Park, Calif. — Signs of hope can be hard to spot in the devastation of forest fire, but they come color-coded. It requires a detour there to see it. ta.queueForLoad : function(f, g){document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', f);})(function(){ta.trackEventOnPage('postLinkInline', 'impression', 'postLinks-77688590', '');}, 'log_autolink_impression');Joshua Tree forest is really not enroute between Las Vegas and GCNP, however there is a large forest of them off Hwy 93 between Las Vegas and Kingman at Dolan Springs Rd. Joshua Tree Forest. “And that’s one fire.”. “The forest I saw as a kid will not be back for some time,” she said. In two days, the blaze had done almost unimaginable damage. Fires are burning bigger, hotter and higher than ever. So we’re really setting ourselves up.”. It is home to 483 ancient sequoias with a trunk diameter of six feet or more, among them the Stagg Tree, thought to be the fifth-largest in the world. The goal, Mr. Hodder said, is not to turn old redwood forests into outdoor museums, but to maintain a range of vital ecosystems, partly as a hedge against climate change. Not only are they the biggest of the world’s trees, by volume — the General Sherman Tree, considered the largest, is 36 feet in diameter at its base and 275 feet tall — they are among the oldest. Dr. Stephenson said that giant sequoias can suffer 90 percent “crown scorch” — extreme heat that does not consume the needles, but turns them brown and lifeless — and still survive. 4 hours to explore the most beautiful natural locations at the rim of the Grand Canyon). “This dense Joshua tree forest might actually be an artifact of cattle grazing,” Hughson said. Worth a visit . Fires scorched some of the last remaining old- growth redwoods. They are what scientists call charismatic megaflora, and there are few trees anywhere more charismatic than the three most famous species in California. In the Alder Creek grove, hundreds of the oldest trees most likely died. “If anything is programmed to survive, it’s the coast redwoods,” Ms. Kerbavaz said. Arrive at Grand Canyon West (around 9:30 am) Each guest is provided a hop-on/hop-off shuttle service voucher. Scientists worry that future visitors will find no Joshua trees in Joshua Tree National Park, the way some worry that Glacier National Park will be devoid of year-round ice. “Like a lot of California, our redwood forests are pretty departed from their historical condition and their more fire-resilient conditions,” Ms. Quinn-Davidson said. Views of the Grand Canyon West Rim on a day trip from Las Vegas Featuring sights and photo ops of the Colorado River and the 900 year old Joshua Tree Forest Shuttle bus service to all stops inside the park Enjoy interesting facts and live commentary from our experienced tour guides After the train depot, go south on Kelbaker Rd. Drive through a 900-year-old Joshua Tree Forest on the way to lands of the Hualapai Indian Nation ; Spend approximately 4 hours exploring the West Rim of the Grand Canyon. Arrive at Grand Canyon West (around 9:30am): Note: If you upgrade your adventure with Helicopter Air only or Helicopter and Boat rides, you’ll start your tour from the terminal. Joshua trees aren’t used to flames. Two distinct desert ecosystems, the Mojave and the Colorado, come together in Joshua Tree National Park. Their heft, their height, their persistence. Then came 2020. Sequoia Crest, Calif. — Until a few years ago, about the only thing that killed an old-growth giant sequoia was old age. “The smell of redwood in the summertime was the aroma of my youth,” she said. They stand their ground, with panache. As if to provide more proof of its resilience, even when a redwood is chopped down it is not always defeated. Even at Cima Dome, there were relatively few young Joshua trees. Traveling the remote area known as Black Canyon, which has played a significant role in the development of the American Southwest, from the ancient Anasazi Indians and the steamboat landings to its present day use as part of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and eventually passing through the Mojave Desert which contains the 900-year-old Joshua Tree Forest, one of the largest of its kind. This area really allows people to get up close and personal with the strange, Dr. Seuss-like cactus trees. “Now we’re seeing them killed in one fell swoop.”. We found the Joshua tree forest by accident when we got lost looking for Lake Mead( Sat Nav’s!) “But we need to pick priority areas.”. They are never found together. “And we’ve had very excessive fuels and we are turning up the thermostat. Visit the incredible 900-year-old Joshua tree forest. Helicopter Flight that takes your breath away. AAA has good ones and you don't have to be a member. 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Home Yes (1978) 09/14/1978 Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro Coliseum
21,487 capacity
43 years, 4 months and 2 days ago
Young Persons Guide To The Orchestra
Future Times/Rejoice
Tormato (1978)
Circus Of Heaven
Time And A Word
Time And A Word (1970)
Relayer (1974)
Don't Kill The Whale
Starship Trooper
On The Silent Wings Of Freedom
Going For The One (1977)
Robert Ellis
Dave Payne
Events - Raleigh News and Observer - 1978-09-10
Geoffrey Mason
SOUND CHASER
D.A. Payne: YOU ARE ABSOLUTLY CORRECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOTHING HAS EVER COME CLOSE TO THE 1978 OR 1979 TOUR. 1976 HAD THE BEST STAGE, AND ALL THE TOURS HAD AMAZING SOUND, BUT IN THE ROUND 1978 & 1979 HAD THE BEST SOUND EVER!! BEYOND THE POINT OF PANDAMONIUM!!!!!!!! I SAW 6/30/79 THE LAST REAL YES SHOW
52 now...let's see...I was 22 then and was heavy into qualudes...ah yes...it is all coming back to me now! This had to be The best concert Ever that I attended at the Greensboro Coliseum...and there have been many. If I remember correctly, someone took out a frisby before the performance and was tossing it around...pretty soon, everyone was watching that frisby...if someone jumped up and made a good catch, the crowd would cheer...if it hit someone in the back of the head, the crowd would laugh...then one guy threw it as hard as he could and it went into the top balcony, which was closed off...people boo'd and were yelling death threats at this guy...attention quickly shifted though when Yes started playing. I took a lude when I took my seat...I remember holding on to peoples heads sitting in the row in front of me when I had to go to the restroom. I do remember Rick Wakeman's solo...he was my idol since I was a keyboard player.
Dale Brittain
This was my 2nd show, after seeing them in Charlotte, in Oct of 1972. I liked the in the round setting..Awaken was just mind blowing. Steve Howe was really on that night
D. A. Payne
So many Yesshows over the years and so little time to write about them. Today's window seemed appropriate for discussing the best one.
Like Mr.[Ms?] Beacham below, 14 Sept. '78 was my first. Two September days will remain burned in my memory banks after all others have faded - one being very recent, obvious and unpleasant; the other 3 days short of 23 years more distant and quite a contrast when viewed in context of the overall human experience.
Like many who saw Yes in their prime and write of it here, I was a teenager at the time; 15 to be exact. Naturally one's perspective at 15 can't be compared to 39, but no one at any age could possibly have missed any of that concert's magnificence. I can vividly remember every thought and every emotion as if they were yesterday. Later Yes encounters in '84, '88, '89, '91, '94, '99 and 2000 all had their moments [particularly 2000], but each was missing at least one component or property of 1978's power. I absolutely guarantee my opinion would not change if I could travel back in time to experience it again. If time traveling ET's are in fact among us and regard us as something more than food, I would welcome their call and generosity!
Enough background, qualification and disclaimers - on to the show:
Sound - Beyond debate the best even among my collection of attended Yesshows. Omnidirectional PA was a major factor, but others had to be crucial as well [engineers with true Yes consciousness not the least among them]. Despite today's even more amazing technology no band I have seen-not even Yes themselves-has achieved what Yes did then. Every single instrument could be heard perfectly no matter what, where or when. As just a few examples I can remember Alan's metals and Rick's minimoogs slicing right through everything and sounding utterly interdimensional - it seemed their sounds could be touched or even caught as they rushed right past the concertgoer. Jon sounded as if he were singing for you in your own living room, and his harp work in Awaken was astonishingly loud and clear. Steve and Chris both had a presence neither has duplicated since, at least that I have heard [though they came close during Masterworks 2000]. Chris' bass [harmonized Rickenbacker?] in particular had a sound and feel much missed in later concerts. A friend who tragically was not there heard it in recordings years later and called it, aptly, a "bengal tiger". Everyone was in perfect balance, and no one drowned anyone else out. Later tours did not have such a balanced mix. Also the loudest I've heard them, which did not detract but definitely enhanced.
Performance - The virtuosity we've seen since, but never quite the energy or spirit. Enough said.
Set List - Wonderful, appropriate and fresh. As others have said, warhorses like Roundabout and AGP hadn't yet been played for the billionth time and were still as easy to revel in as were later pieces from Relayer, GFTO, etc. I remember vividly Future Times, including Jon's introduction of it spiked with a "little joke" about the new album [Tormato] slated for release "in a few months". He then corrected himself and said it would be "about 2 weeks", which turned out to be true. Point being in those days we anticipated each new Yes album like a new set of Tablets from the Mount. Yes was about mystery as much as anything then - before the Internet and its tradeoffs. Nothing compares to the experience of hearing a new Yeswork for the first time live with absolutely no prior clue, and I've always liked Future Times better than many other people do probably because it was so introduced. Circus of Heaven didn't register as clearly, though I remember a bit of it and thinking it must be new also. Somehow Silent Wings got completely lost - I don't recall them playing it at all though I'm sure they did. Must have been unconscious from what had already transpired [I did no drugs]. Maybe Silent Wings was just too mindblowing to keep queued that night. It is arguably one of Tormato's best numbers if not its best.
Arrangements - Brilliant and vital beyond words. The medley's construction, arrangement and progression were pure genius. If I'm not mistaken it contains Rick Wakeman's first and only performance of Relayer material ["Soon" and last part of "Battle Section" from Gates of Delirium]. His interpretation and arrangement of these were quite awesome for someone who has expressed so much disregard for Relayer's music. His approach to Awaken was his best ever in my experience. See: Tormato Tour/any bootleg audience tape made with decent equipment and unedited - I recommend 1979's third consecutive New York performance to anyone who can find it.
Lights - Here I confess to a [then] 15 year-old's inability to process absolutely everything. Subsequent Yes lighting schemes actually made a greater impression - Big Generator and Masterworks I think eclipsed '78 for lighting effects, though certainly only in that regard. If their light shows had been presented with Tormato tour's sound, energy and presence I would probably still be in a coma. Fate placed the '76 tour, with its supernatural lighting and a gloriously Patrick Morazified Yes, exactly one year short of my first Yes contact and awareness [Awaken 2nd Movement on the FM 2 weeks or so before GFTO's release]. Definitely have to add a '76 Yes gig or two - maybe all of them - to my time travel itinerary.
Overall Energy and Consciousness - Can't possibly be described to anyone not there. Strong though varyingly diluted doses of it could be had in subsequent tours, but Yes somehow never completely regained their "Trooper" aura and excitement.
Post-Trooper Yes have had many a great night since to be sure, but that 1978 concert was truly and completely in its own league as I'm sure were hundreds of others in its era.
Next installment: ABWH '89. Until then, enjoy all the memories at hand.
P & J Beacham
The '78 Tormato show was my first Yes concert, and it was a magical experience. They made their way through the totally pschyced audience, to that amazing round stage, and played the most amazing set of inspired music. Highlights were "Awaken", "Starship Trooper" and a medley that covered lots of musical ground. The sound and lights were out of this world, and Greensboro Colisieum isn't known for having the best acoustics. I think they may have played a few selections from Tormato which was'nt released yet.
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Mapping the Art of Andrea Mclean
Arts, Hermes Issue IV
Andrea Mclean and I became friends a long time ago because of our mutual love for the art of William Blake. I first heard Andrea talk about her art, William Blake and maps at a Blake Society event in London. Andrea had collaborated with Henry Eliot on designing a map based on William Blake’s quotes and art and Blake’s imagined city called Golgonooza (A video interview on this map is included below).
Hermes chatted to Andrea about her art and other inspirations.
Hermes Q1-Can you tell us about your background, what brought you to art?
I grew up in a small town called Coleford in the Forest of Dean in England by the River Wye which borders with Wales. A place with an amazing geology and ancient history, there was also the mining of pigments – the purple ochres especially were magical. The Forest landscape has puzzle woodland, caves, rivers and pools – some of which can be found along a journey down into caves.
My parents opened up The Forest Bookshop, my two brothers, our tabby cat, and I could go down a spiral stairway from our home above into the bookshop when it was closed and look at books. Illustrations and maps in story books first brought me to art. Seeing the Mappa Mundi in Hereford brought me to larger scale art. It’s an encyclopaedia that can be seen all at once with interweaving stories.
Water-ribbons by Andrea Mclean
Hermes: Many of your pieces of art are maps, perhaps you can tell us more about that.
I’d say that my works are about maps in the same way that they are about poetry and mythology. My wish is to make the invisible visible. This, is something that I believe can be done by a form of spiritual mapping, over half my paintings are circular.
A map to me, has the qualities of a Medieval Mappa Mundi, a Mandala or a map for pilgrimage. These ancient templates have been redrawn over and over, but bring about new change. Recently, `I’ve been delighted to introduce students to ways of mapping and each produced unique, personal circle maps.
Mapping is also a way of seeing the world in a moment of time, experiencing cosmos. After art school at the Slade I has a scholarship year to The British School at Rome. There, once, when walking along the cobbled streets I had a vision of the whole city laid out like a beautiful mosaic. A similar thing had happened after I’d first left home in Bristol – seeing the city as if from above.
A Journey Made by Andrea Mclean
Hermes: Would you describe this as spiritual art, or esoteric art?
Making the work is a form of meditation where you see the colours to work with ahead of time. It is very close to the creativity seen in dream life. The idea of the ‘dream’ has never ceased being important to me. The word ‘dream’ is even put of my name!
I would describe artmaking, for me, as a spiritual practice involving the imagination, creativity and the finding of symbols. By self-actualisation and self-realisation, symbols of self are found then re-hidden and this allows for micro-macro experience of cosmos.
‘Cosmos’ is my other important word. I aim to make pictures that are both full of busy life and calm and tranquil.
Esoterically, I’m interested in transformational placings of diagrams and figures within the image.
Golgonooza, William Blake inspired map by Andrea Mclean
Hermes: What is the medium for these pictures? Why do you work in this medium?
My ‘landscapes of the Imagination’ works on paper start with monoprint with printing inks and are worked into further with watercolour. I developed this method after studying some works by William Blake in the Prints and Drawings library at the British Museum.
The large Paintings on linen are oil colours, some of the circular ones, like the Mappa Mundi painting I painted in 2005 which is now in the collection of the British Library, is linen stretched over a bell wheel. This is because I read about the, now lost, Mappa Mundi that was in Siena Town Hall that used to be stretched on a wheel until it fell to pieces with time, with the last scrap of the map left being eaten by a tame wolf. Hopefully there are no tame wolves in the British Library. My map hangs near the Map Room on the 3rd Floor.
I’ve now found some circular cotton paper for sale at L. Cornelissen & Son art shop that I’ve been using for a series of mixed media drawings. Every art shop is a place for the materials of Alchemy.
At the edge of the Wood by Andrea Mclean
Hermes: Please comment on how you were influenced to make this art and about who influences you.
Lascaux Cave Paintings, William Blake, Charlotte Salmon, Hildegard of Bingham vision paintings, all kinds of engraved emblems, especially symbolising the soul, mostly I’m very touched by the painted line and how it can show mythologies of creation and the night sky. As far as being influenced, I seemed to be an artist rather than it being something I wanted to do. Saying that, I have come to really enjoy being an artist, which is as much about looking at nature in a certain way and visiting galleries and exhibitions as making artwork.
Hermes: How do you prepare yourself to make this type of art?
I prepare to become lost in the work by first emptying my mind. I have easels and materials ready but also many cushions and rugs. Much of the work is done sitting crossed legged on an office type chair at the easel but also with the canvas placed on a coffee table that has wheels fitted. All my furniture has wheels fitted as I so often need to make new spaces.
It’s a bit like stepping on to a train. There’s organisation needed to plan the journey, but once there there’s this time outside of time. With the train it could be reading some poetry by or drawing tree or water patterns in a sketchbook. With artwork it seems to go deeper and a four-hour session seems both a long and a very short time. Coffee is also important!
Mappa Mundi by Andrea Mclean
Hermes: Could you tell us more about the colours, why do you use certain colours? Do they have a significance? Are the colours representing anything?
The ochre pigments, purples browns and reds are the ones from the Forest of Dean and they are the earth colours. I also use raw umber and many kinds of transparent green. Then there’s the sky colours blues, pinks, grey-blues. I use ‘jewel’ colours – cobalt violet and transparent mauves and darken a little with different kinds of black, lighten ultramarine with zinc white. Sometimes I use certain colours for certain projects and these may be based on dreams.
The Reflective Earth by Andrea Mclean
Hermes: What direction is your art going for the future?
I’d like to have an exhibition of just the circular paintings and drawings. The circular drawings have been the main way of working in 2020. Making small worlds one after another. I am reading widely about world Mythology currently which I hope will reflect back into my artwork. I’d like to make more work to do with constellations.
Thank you very much for the interview. I really appreciate your paintings. Where can people find your art-do you have a website? Any upcoming exhibitions?
I’ve no planned exhibition, but I’m about halfway through a new body of artwork and am preparing to teach on two public courses at the Royal Drawing School in Spring 2021. One on ‘Mythology: Drawing Narratives’ and one on ‘Mapping: Internal Landscapes’.
My website is www.andrea-mclean.co.uk
William BlakemandalaAndrea McleanGolgoonozaMappa MundimapsHildegard of BingenLascaux
Written by Debbie Elliott
Debbie Elliott is the author of various fiction works all with a theological theme. Her latest book is 'Monkey Mind Robot Body' which looks at the coming impact of AI and trans-humanism. Debbie's non-fiction work looks at the theology of all religions and the history of prominent people in these realms, her specific interests are the work of G I Gurdjieff, Rudolf Steiner and the megaliths of standing stones that can be found all over our world. Debbie also makes podcasts for her YouTube channel; DJ Elliott, on various topics and has interviews with a selection of great guests on subjects that range from art to zoology. Her Youtube series ‘Occult Lives’ discusses diverse subjects from astrology to theosophy." All can be found at www.debbie-elliott.co.uk
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The Path is One; the Ways Thereto Must Vary - The Mystic Symbolism of Reginald Machell’s ‘The Path’
Aesthesis, Imagination & Knowledge
Arts, Philosophy, Hermeticism, Hermes Issue IV
Arts, Theosophy, Hermes Issue IV
The Sacred Image and Art of the Fourth Way.
The Divine Dance
Wayne Gatfield, Theosophy, Hermes Issue II, Dance and Initiation
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Maseve mine shuts down operations to develop a new mining plan and leaves over a 1000 employees with questions of what the future holds for them
Community Alerts/Collen Raphata/Chaneng-Rustenburg/10 July 2017
The Maseve mine which is about 35km North of Rustenburg near four villages (Chaneng, Robega,Mafenya,Rasimone) South Africa North west province which is Platinum Group Metals(PTM) and a Toronto mining company. The operations have been shut down but it’s said to be for four months because the company is working on a new mining plan that will change its primary mining method as Maseve has been underperforming since 2016.
This has left 1000 mine workers with questions as the future is a bit shaky. This started after the mine contracts found the report that they don’t have to work on Friday morning on the 07th of July, they told that have to come no Monday morning on the 10th it’s where they told them that the mine have been closed for new mining plan.
The CEO Michael Jones of PGM said that there are two Mine Companies that like to bid on Maseve which are Anglo American Platinum and Royal Bafokeng Platinum and he also said they have only four month to come up with the plan until October 31 2017. By Collen Raphata
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A history of high-power laser research and development in the United Kingdom
60th Celebration of First Laser
Colin N. Danson, Malcolm White, John R. M. Barr, Thomas Bett, Peter Blyth, David Bowley, Ceri Brenner, Robert J. Collins, Neal Croxford, A. E. Bucker Dangor, Laurence Devereux, Peter E. Dyer, Anthony Dymoke-Bradshaw, Christopher B. Edwards, Paul Ewart, Allister I. Ferguson, John M. Girkin, Denis R. Hall, David C. Hanna, Wayne Harris, David I. Hillier, Christopher J. Hooker, Simon M. Hooker, Nicholas Hopps, Janet Hull, David Hunt, Dino A. Jaroszynski, Mark Kempenaars, Helmut Kessler, Sir Peter L. Knight, Steve Knight, Adrian Knowles, Ciaran L. S. Lewis, Ken S. Lipton, Abby Littlechild, John Littlechild, Peter Maggs, Graeme P. A. Malcolm, OBE, Stuart P. D. Mangles, William Martin, Paul McKenna, Richard O. Moore, Clive Morrison, Zulfikar Najmudin, David Neely, Geoff H. C. New, Michael J. Norman, Ted Paine, Anthony W. Parker, Rory R. Penman, Geoff J. Pert, Chris Pietraszewski, Andrew Randewich, Nadeem H. Rizvi, Nigel Seddon, MBE, Zheng-Ming Sheng, David Slater, Roland A. Smith, Christopher Spindloe, Roy Taylor, Gary Thomas, John W. G. Tisch, Justin S. Wark, Colin Webb, S. Mark Wiggins, Dave Willford, Trevor Winstone
Journal: High Power Laser Science and Engineering / Volume 9 / 2021
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 April 2021, e18
The first demonstration of laser action in ruby was made in 1960 by T. H. Maiman of Hughes Research Laboratories, USA. Many laboratories worldwide began the search for lasers using different materials, operating at different wavelengths. In the UK, academia, industry and the central laboratories took up the challenge from the earliest days to develop these systems for a broad range of applications. This historical review looks at the contribution the UK has made to the advancement of the technology, the development of systems and components and their exploitation over the last 60 years.
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Frank Ocean hosting private nightclub party tonight in a secret New York City location
October 17th, 2019 by KRNB
iStock/BoskoJrFrank Ocean’s Blonded company is hosting an invitation-only nightclub event Thursday night at a secret location in New York City.
“This Thursday night a new party from @blonded called PrEP+ in NYC,” Gayletter magazine posted on Instagram, Ocean appeared on the cover of the publication’s issue 10 in April.
“PrEP+is the first in a series of nights; an ongoing safe space made to bring people together and dance,” Gayletter continues. “PrEP+ will welcome globally celebrated DJs.”
The event, Gayletter adds, will be a throwback to Manhattan nightlife three decades ago. “The night is named PrEP+ as an homage to what could have been of the 1980s’ NYC club scene if the drug PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) — which can be taken daily to prevent HIV/AIDs for those who are not infected but are at high risk — had been invented in that era.”
Links to tickets have reportedly been sent to invited guests who will learn the name and location of the venue shortly before the event begins.
Ocean, who also wrote the foreword for a new book about the Oscar-winning film Moonlight, said in the W Magazine October cover story that he’s currently working on the follow-up to his 2016 platinum album, Blonde.
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I am a Computer Science major in college right now. What would you recommend I do now to help find a job and make money when I get out into the "real world?"
Asked by Jack over 9 years ago
Fresh out of school, your main problem getting employed will be lack of a track record. This is a double-bind that catches a lot of new graduates: can't get a job without experience, can't get experience without a job. As a programmer, though, there's one excellent way to build a portfolio that other fields don't benefit from. I'm talking about open source software. Anyone can download it, anyone can read the source, anyone can modify it--and, thanks to Github, anyone can put it up online where anyone else can see it. If you interview with any halfway-conscious organization these days, at some point they are going to ask for your Github username, and they ask because they want to see what you have there. So what kind of software exactly should you be writing? Doesn't much matter. The common recommendation here is "scratch your own itch." That is, write a program that solves a problem you have. Once it's in reasonable shape, get it up on Github, write a little blog post about it, and iterate. Definitely make a point of writing and open-sourcing different types of programs too. Apart from showing versatility, you're at an ideal point in your career to explore all the different possibilities. Good luck and welcome to the occupation!
If you had a teenage kid right now, would you advise him or her to go into programming?
Asked by JBM over 9 years ago
Given it was something they were interested in, absolutely! It's interesting and intellectually stimulating work that pays well.
What's an appropriate hourly rate for a programmer in the US?
Asked by TomTom over 9 years ago
Depends on the specialty. If I were freelancing right now, I'd be charging $125 an hour.
Were Mark Zuckerberg and the developers who started Facebook true geniuses or did they just execute the right idea at the right time?
Asked by MMA83 over 9 years ago
I've actually never used Facebook (though I love Twitter), so my answer may not be worth much here. However, I'll make an attempt based on what I do know. It's my understanding that Zuckerberg is indeed extremely intelligent and a highly skilled programmer. However, the common wisdom in this industry is that brilliance counts for much less than hard work, giving the market what it wants, and a lot more luck than anybody is comfortable talking about. I don't see anything that makes me think that Facebook is different in this regard.
Navy Officer (Former)
What's the most dangerous situation you were ever in?
McDonald's Manager
Did you have to deal with a lot of disrespectful customers? What would they say?
Subway Store Manager
What do you think is the healthiest option on the Subway menu?
When a new site with a novel UE catches fire, do you as a programmer immediately go and learn the basics of how that UE is created?
Asked by UnPinterested over 9 years ago
Personally I don't. While you have to be a generalist to work at a company this small, I'm much more interested in the "backend," meaning roughly the things that happen behind the scenes. A novel UX like Pinterest (and looking at their UI is a reminder that "novel" isn't the same as "good") doesn't capture my interest like it does that of some of my co-workers. Of course, this doesn't mean that I don't steal from other websites' design when I see something I do like.
What's up with programmers looking like such slobs all the time? There are hundreds at the company I work for, and for them it's like sweatpants, flip-flops, unwashed, unshaven, the whole bit. I don't expect 3-piece suits, but it's a pretty professional place - they should at least look the part.
Asked by KGB over 9 years ago
You know what makes a programmer a professional? When they write good-quality code that lets the user get done what they want to get done, that lets them do it efficiently, and that another person can maintain long after they're gone. Let me review that statement...nope, don't see anything about dressing any particular way in there.
Any big lessons learned you can share about past and present start-ups you've worked with?
Asked by Reubenesque over 9 years ago
I don't know how big these are, but these are the things I'd tell to someone about to join their first startup: * The emotional rollercoaster is normal. It's not like in a big organization where every success and every failure is shared with hundreds of people. Everything that happens feels very personal. * Apple computers are overrated. Buy a commodity PC and install Linux. You'll get more power for your money. * Take care of your body. Make sure you get enough exercise, sleep and water. Snack on fruit and nuts, not candy or chips. Get up and stretch regularly, or rig up a standing desk. Startups are stressful enough already without ruining your health on top of it, and your mind is _not_ separate from your body. If one is in bad shape, the other can only do so well. * The business dudes are not your enemy, but they do bear watching. Don't let them make promises you can't keep. Remember that they need you (a lot) more than you need them. * It's normal, every so often, to wake up and realize that you are in a completely different business than you originally thought. A startup that can "pivot" in a new direction at this point has a better chance of success than one that carries on with the original plan. * Don't start a company where the only plausible exit strategy is getting acquired. Build something that actually takes in revenue.
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Since the datapath architecture of the last two pipeline stages of the architecture in Figure 5.7 and their data dependency behavior is exactly identical to the first two stages, the last two pipeline stages can be folded into the first
VLSI ARCHITECTURES FOR LIFTING-BASED DWT
two. This can be accomplished by appropriately scheduling the necessary data for operation in the architecture. This folding architecture was proposed by Lian, Chen, Chen, and Chen in [30]. The architecture has two pipeline stages, with three pipeline registers, Rl, R2, and R3. For the wavelet filters requiring computation of four lifting factors, such as the (9, 7) filter, intermediate data (R3) after first two lifting steps (phase 1) are folded back to Rl as shown in Figure 5.8 for computation of the last two lifting steps (phase 2). The architecture can be reconfigured so that computation of the two phases can be interleaved by selecting proper data by the multiplexers. As a result, we need two delay registers (D) in each lifting step in order to properly schedule the data for each phase. Based on the phase of interleaved computation, the coefficient for multiplier Ml is chosen as either a or c and similarly b or d for multiplier M2. As a result, the hardware utilization is always 100%. For wavelet filters requiring only two lifting steps, such as (5, 3) type wavelet filters, the folding is not required.
5.3.3 Flipping Architecture
While conventional lifting-based architectures require fewer arithmetic operations compared to the convolution-based approach for DWT, they sometimes have long critical paths. For instance, the critical path of the lifting-based architecture for the (9, 7) filter is 4Tm + 8Ta while that of the convolution implementation is Tm -I- 2Ta. One way of improving this is by pipelining, as has been demonstrated in [28, 29, 30]. However, this results in the number of registers increasing significantly. For instance, to pipeline the lifting-based (9, 7) filter such that the critical path is tm + Ta, six additional registers are required.
Recently Huang, Tseng, and Chen [36] proposed a very efficient way of solving the timing accumulation problem. The basic idea is to remove the multiplications along the critical path by scaling the remaining paths by the inverse of the multiplier coefficients. Figures 5.9(a)-(c) describes how scaling at each level can reduce the multiplications in the critical path. Figure 5.9(d) further splits the three input addition nodes into two 2-input adders. The critical path is now Tm -I- 5Ta. Note that the flipping transformation changes the round-off noise considerably. Techniques to address precision and noise problems have also been addressed in [36].
5.3.4 A Register Allocation Scheme for Lifting
Chang, Lee, Peng, and Lee [31] proposed a programmable architecture to map the data dependency diagram of lifting-based DWT using four 3-input MAC (multiply-adder calculator), nine registers, and a register allocation scheme. The algorithm consists of two phases as shown in Figure 5.10. We explain
VLSI ARCHITECTURES FOR DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORMS
Fig. 5.9 A flipping architecture proposed in [36]; (a) original architecture, (b)-(c) scaling the coefficients to reduce the number of multiplications, (d) splitting the three-input addition nodes to two-input adders.
below the data-flow principle of the architecture in terms of the register allocation of the nodes in the data dependency diagram as proposed in [31].
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 1 Phase 2
First stage
Second stage
HP output LP output
Fig. 5.10 Data-flow and register allocation of the data dependency diagram of lifting.
From the data-flow in Figure 5.10, it is obvious that the architecture has two phases (Phase 1 and Phase 2). These two phases operate in alternate fashion. The sequential computation and register allocation in phase 1 of the data dependency diagram shown in Figure 5.10 are in the following order:
R0 < X2i—\\ i?2 <— x2u R3 <- R0 + a{Rl +R2);
RA <- Rl + b(R5 + R3);
R8 <— R5 + c(R6 + -R4);
OutputLP <— R6 + d(R7 + i?8); OutputHP *— R8.
Similarly, the sequential computation and register allocation in phase 2 of the data dependency diagram of lifting are as follows:
R0 <— X2i + 1‘, Rl <— %2i + 2\
Rb <- RQ + a(R2 + Rl)\
R6 <- R2 + b(R3 + Rb)~,
R7 <— R3 + c(R4 + R6)\
OutputLP <— RA + d(R8 + R7)\ OutputHP R7.
As explained above, two samples are input in each phase and two samples (LP and HP) are output at the end of every phase until the end of input data. The output samples are also stored into a temporary buffer for usage in the vertical filtering for the two-dimensional implementation of lifting-based discrete wavelet transform.
5.3.5 A Recursive Architecture for Lifting
According to the multiresolution decomposition principle of DWT, in every stage the low-pass subband is further decomposed recursively by applying the same analysis filters. The total number of the output samples to be processed for an L-level of DWT is
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Use ventured in a sentence
Sentences ending with ventured
Once, and only once during my legal apprenticeship, he had been pointed out to me on the street, where he rarely ventured. [9]
With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. [7]
Every step must be warily taken; each step must be made sure before the next is ventured. [5]
Short sentences using ventured
Lady Haldwell now ventured unwisely. [11]
Has Berenike ventured among them? [10]
I ventured farther. [11]
Sentences containing ventured two or more times
No pilot ever ventured to a ship on such rough seas as Gaspard ventured for small profit or glory. [11]
More example sentences with the word ventured in them
It's because of your concern for the welfare of your workers in the mills that I ventured to come and talk to you of how most of them live when they're at home," replied Siddons, as Janet thought, rather neatly. [9]
Of all the young men she knew, not one had ever ventured into anything of the sort. [9]
He has not yet ventured out of the dreamland which surrounds him into actual life. [10]
He--I know he would never have ventured it. [10]
Blushing, and confused with shyness, she remained standing by Caesar's seat; and though she only ventured to raise her eyes now and then for a stolen look, she felt herself the object of a hundred curious, defiant, bold, or contemptuous glances. [10]
Then they looked wistfully up at the pilot house, and finally, little by little, Clay ventured up there, followed diffidently by Washington. [5]
So sacred that whoso ventured to mock them or make fun of their work, could not afterward enter any respectable house, even by the back door. [5]
The first person who had ventured to dance the gaillarde before the eyes of the monarch and his horrified courtiers, was Sophonisba--her partner was Duke Gonzaga. [10]
The ground upon which I have ventured was already occupied by three considerable Memoirs. [6]
The danger in which Heinz stood of being drawn into the monastery made him deeply anxious, and he had already ventured several times to oppose his design. [10]
The theft raid which he had made upon the village turned out better than he had ventured to hope. [5]
Late one night, when the delegates were gone, Stephen ventured to speak what was in his mind. [9]
A year ago, when Italy saw utter ruin staring her in the face and her greenbacks hardly worth the paper they were printed on, her Parliament ventured upon a 'coup de main' that would have appalled the stoutest of her statesmen under less desperate circumstances. [5]
Many of these western kinsmen answered: not so the magisterial Bumpus who lived in Boston on the water side of Beacon, whom likewise he had ventured to address,--to the indignation and disgust of his elder daughter, Janet. [9]
It scared people well a couple of hundred years ago when Sir John Marsham and Dr. John Spencer ventured to tell their stories about the sacred ceremonies of the Egyptian priesthood. [6]
Meantime, whilst he was talking with the protonotary, the bolder guests ventured to move about more freely, and of them all Cordula imposed the least restraint upon herself. [10]
Unfortunately, its character was such that Wolf scarcely ventured to hope for the full success of the surprise. [10]
Now that she was losing her most sincere friends, the only ones who might have ventured a kindly warning, she must learn to guard herself. [10]
Once more she ventured, and this time she fortified herself with the thought: "It's a good lie--it's a good lie--I won't let it grieve me. [5]
At last she ventured, and her breath came a little shorter as she spoke. [11]
You have never ventured, and dare not now venture, from under it. [7]
I have just ventured to send out a carrier dove," he added, turning to the artist, "to inform Myrtilus that he may expect you before sunset. [10]
His senior deacon ventured to say to him that some of his people required to be reminded of the great fundamental doctrine of the worthlessness of all human efforts and motives. [6]
A Mr. Hollander ventured to say of some part of the matter that "it was a dirty trick. [7]
All Pere Savry ventured to say in reply was: "Upon your head be it, M. Jean Jacques. [11]
Once, indeed, he ventured to refer to "the meal in the firkin, the milk in the pan," but he chiefly restricted himself to subjects such as a fastidious conventionalism would approve as having a certain fitness for poetical treatment. [6]
He had not ventured to raise his eyes and look into her face. [10]
Once more he ventured to protest, but I told him my resolution was fixed, and that I would at all costs secure escape from my six years' misery. [11]
And when she ventured to look at him, he had fallen into thought. [9]
At length I ventured to give him a hint that our young friend and myself would both of us be greatly gratified if he would begin reading from his unpublished page where he had left off. [6]
Once she had ventured to enter and ask its price--ten dollars. [9]
Among those who ventured to doubt the justifiability of the proposed marriage was Helene's mother, Princess Kuragina. [2]
Few men had ventured to cross swords with him. [11]
At last I ventured to ask what literature it was that interested her so much, when she turned and frankly entered into conversation. [4]
And so I ventured to ask once more a question which I had asked years before and had gotten such a sharp answer that I had not thought it prudent to meddle in the matter further. [5]
Some of them ventured to ask him if Harvard had bust up. [9]
Who would have ventured to apply this motet to the brave and clever Saxon, high as he, too, towered above most of his peers? [10]
The Tribune modestly ventured the theory that Mr. Crewe had appeared to each of the twenty in a dream, with a flaming sword pointing to the steam of the dragon's breath. [9]
At last it ventured out,--showing at intervals, like the boat rising on the billow, sinking into the hollow, and climbing again into notice. [6]
At last I ventured a story myself; and vast was the success of it. [5]
One of them ventured a compliment, namely,--that I talked as if I believed what I said.--This was apparently considered something unusual, by its being mentioned. [6]
These proposals, which Uri had not yet ventured to moot to his father, he, with good intentions, brought before the assembled elders; he hoped that their acceptance might spare the people great suffering. [10]
It was not until they had seen him gradually diminish into a mere speck upon the distant road, that they turned to each other, and ventured to laugh aloud. [12]
It was not unexpected, yet his brief report fell heavily on the heart of Els, which had just ventured to beat gaily and lightly. [10]
It is an unanswerable argument to this effect that no candidate for any office whatever, high or low, has ventured to seek votes on the avowal that he was for giving up the Union. [7]
So all might turn out better than she had ventured to hope. [10]
He could be trusted to go and say, 'My lord, the carriage waits,' but if they ventured to add a sentence or two to this, his memory felt the strain and he was likely to miss fire. [5]
When I ventured to suggest that Miss Treherne might also be excepted, he said, with maddening suggestion: "She lets Mrs. Falchion fool her, doesn't she? [11]
Presently he ventured to remark, with deference-- 'Pretty good stage of the river now, ain't it, sir? [5]
Assuming the negation to refer only to the victory and not to the lunch, M. de Beausset ventured with respectful jocularity to remark that there is no reason for not having lunch when one can get it. [2]
I have ventured to recommend to them the man who seems to me the best equipped to carry on the work I have been trying to do here--in short, my dear Hugh, yourself. [9]
Here he ventured to look below, expecting to see Carterette, but there was only the white sand, and no sound save the long wash of the gulf. [11]
Lastly, he stole to Ledscha's home, and, knowing that her father was absent, had ventured as far as the open courtyard in the centre of the stately dwelling. [10]
I had ventured to inquire about the hearings. [9]
Sometimes he ventured to hope that he had made a mistake in estimating the direction which the vein should naturally take after crossing the valley and entering the hill. [5]
She gave it to him and, unpleasant as it was to her to do so, ventured to ask him what her father was doing. [2]
When he ventured to glance her way again her face was cold, stern, and he fancied even contemptuous. [2]
He therefore ventured to give no decided answer, but enquired, "Has the woman committed some crime that you are pursuing her? [10]
When she returned to Ghent, even if Don John had not been appointed governor, she might even have ventured to make her house the rendezvous of the heads of the royalist party. [10]
He ventured not to follow or detain her. [5]
He was permitted to do what no one else ventured, for his cheerfulness and wit, his gift of story-telling, and sharp tongue often succeeded in dispelling the clouds of melancholy from the brow of his imperial master. [10]
Balashev respectfully ventured to disagree with the French Emperor. [2]
If I ventured to describe the attitude, there would be a fine howl--but there the Venus lies, for anybody to gloat over that wants to--and there she has a right to lie, for she is a work of art, and Art has its privileges. [5]
If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl--but there the Venus lies, for anybody to gloat over that wants to--and there she has a right to lie, for she is a work of art, and Art has its privileges. [5]
If I ventured to cautiously hint that there was not another respectable family in England that would humble itself to hold out the hat--however, that is as far as I ever got; he always cut me short there, and peremptorily, too. [5]
She only ventured to cast a stolen glance at him. [10]
William Wetherell ventured to ask Jethro who the man was. [9]
The philosopher ventured to approach him, and there was warm sympathy in his tone as he asked: "What ails you, Bassianus? [10]
It is ventured to affirm this even of Virginia and Tennessee; for the result of an election held in military camps, where the bayonets are all on one side of the question voted upon, can scarcely be considered as demonstrating popular sentiment. [7]
At the same time they sounded very natural, as we say, and I felt as if I had published them somewhere or other before; but I could find no evidence of it, and so I ventured to have them put in type. [6]
For the first time she ventured to call herself unhappy and, while walking through the streets with downcast eyes against the wind, struggled vainly to resist some mysterious, gloomy power, that compelled her to minutely recall everything that had resulted differently from her expectations. [10]
Perhaps--her pulses again throbbed faster at the thought--he had not ventured to come alone because some feeling for her stirred in his own heart, and, spite of his beautiful young wife, he did not feel safe from her. [10]
The avocat was thinking deeply, and as, in the dusk, he left the Cure at his own door, all that he ventured was: "Singular--a most singular person! [11]
First one and then another of the conspirators showed up cautiously--armed to the teeth--took in the amicable situation, then ventured warily forward and joined the love-feast. [5]
When standing in the wings with Terry he ventured to apologise playfully for the joke, but Terry made no answer; and once again he had whispered good-naturedly as they stood together on the stage; but the reply had been a low, scornful laugh. [11]
Raevski reported that the troops were firmly holding their ground and that the French no longer ventured to attack. [2]
I have reached the time of life which I have dreamed, nay even ventured to hope, might be the limit of the sentence which was pronounced upon me in my infancy. [6]
The officer of the suite ventured to remark to the prince that if these battalions went away, the guns would remain without support. [2]
She lay in the state between sleeping and waking, looking so long at his motionless figure that at length she almost feared he had died as he sat there; and softly rising and drawing close to him, ventured to whisper in his ear. [12]
I should share the offence of the painter if I ventured to describe it. [6]
Hannah's satisfaction over the new stove had by no means subsided, and Edward ventured, without reproof, to praise the restored quality of the pie crust. [9]
The instigator of the mutiny was said to be a Gallic captain who had taken part in the surprise of Delphi, but, having ventured to punish disobedient soldiers, he was killed. [10]
M. de Beausset, the man so fond of travel, having fasted since morning, came up to the Emperor and ventured respectfully to suggest lunch to His Majesty. [2]
Woe be to the incautious who, lulled by a week of fancied security, ventured out into the dishevelled field for a little food! [9]
We expect from the fine lady in her brocades and laces a generosity of display which we should reprimand with the virtuous severity of Tartuffe if ventured upon by the waiting-maid in her calicoes. [6]
Not one of the Egyptians who knew the captain of the prisoners' guard had ventured to send an arrow at the escaping prisoners. [10]
The noise in the corridors grew louder, some one dealt a smashing kick on a panel, and Wetherell ventured to ask Mr. Bixby if he thought the doors would hold. [9]
One must respect the business-brain that produced it--the splendid pluck and impudence that ventured to promulgate it, anyway. [5]
Was it possible that, on account of a request which every lover ventured to address to his lady, she would withdraw the favour which rendered him so happy? [10]
So it chanced that when he returned home he ventured to contract a formal betrothal with an honourable maiden of noble lineage, against the explicit desire of her distinguished parents. [10]
In the hope that it may be no intrusion upon the sacredness of your sorrow, I have ventured to address you this tribute to the memory of my young friend and your brave and early fallen son. [7]
You are so sure of yourself," she hesitated a moment, for she had never ventured to discuss religion with him, "of your faith. [9]
In the mood suggested by my story I have ventured on the poem that follows. [6]
These measures, whether strictly legal or not, were ventured upon, under what appeared to be a popular demand and a public necessity; trusting then, as now, that Congress would readily ratify them. [7]
She let me speak, but when I ventured to repeat what people said of the Spaniard, angrily started up and showed me to the door. [10]
She ventured to speak of it to Master Byles Gridley. [6]
The cashiers of some of these gentlemen, who were younger men, ventured to say--when out of hearing --that they admired the championship of Mr. Mender, but it would never do. [9]
Clement Lindsay was so well received at his first visit that he ventured to repeat it several times, with so short intervals that it implied something more than a common interest in one of the members of the household. [6]
Its result had so distressed her that she never ventured again to show herself to me. [6]
Neill says that Smith ventured L 9 in the Virginia company! [4]
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Alice chess
Alice steps through the looking-glass; illustration by Sir John Tenniel.
Alice Chess is a chess variant invented in 1953 by V. R. Parton which employs two chessboards rather than one, and a slight (but significant) alteration to the standard rules of chess. The game is named after the main character "Alice" in Lewis Carroll's work Through the Looking-Glass, where transport through the mirror into an alternate world is portrayed on the chessboards by the after-move transfer of chess pieces between boards A and B.
This simple transfer rule is well known for causing disorientation and confusion in players new to the game, often leading to surprises and amusing mistakes as pieces "disappear" and "reappear" between boards, and pieces interposed to block attacks on one board are simply bypassed on the other. This "nothing is as it seems" experience probably accounts for Alice Chess remaining Parton's most popular and successful variant among the numerous others he invented.
White mates in two moves by Udo Marks
[Moves returning to board A are notated "/A".]
Solution: 1.Kb1/A! (waiting!)
1...Re7 2.Rxe7/A#
1...R(e8)-other 2.Re7/A#
1...R(g5)-any 2.Rg5/A#
1...Ba1 2.Qxa1/A#
1...Bb2 2.Qxb2/A#
1...B(c3)-other 2.Qc3/A#
1...B(h5)-any 2.Nf3/A#
1...N(c5)-any 2.Rc5/A#
1...N(d6)-any 2.Bd6/A# (2.Bc7/A+? Nd6/A!)
1...b6 (or 1...b5) 2.Nc6/A#
1...e2 2.Qe3/A#
1...g2 2.Bh2/A#! (2.Bg3/A+? Rxg3)
Tries:
1.Qd3/A? (threatening 2.Rd5/A#) Nxd3? 2.Rc5/A#, but 1...Ra8+!
1.b5/A? Ba1! 2.Qc3/A+ Bxd4/A!
Move rules
Pieces move the same as they do in standard chess, but a piece transfers at the completion of its move to the opposite board. This simple change has dramatic impact on gameplay.
At the beginning of the game, pieces start in their normal positions on board A, while board B starts empty. After each move is made on a given board, the moved piece is transferred (goes "through the looking-glass") to the corresponding square on the opposite board. (So, if a piece is moved on board A, it is transferred to board B at the completion of its move; if the piece started on board B, it ends up on board A.)
Position after 1.Nf3 e6 2.Ne5 Bc5
Position after 3.Nxf7 Bg1
For example, after the opening moves 1. Nf3 e6, the white knight and black pawn transfer after moving on board A to their corresponding squares on board B. If the game continued 2. Ne5 Bc5, the knight returns to board A and the bishop finishes on board B (see diagram).
A move in Alice Chess has two basic stipulations: the move must be legal on the board on which it is played, and the square transferred to on the opposite board must be vacant. (Consequently, capture is possible only on the board a piece currently stands: pieces on board A can capture only pieces on board A; pieces on board B can capture only pieces on board B.) After capture, the capturing piece transfers to the opposite board the same as a non-capturing move.
To demonstrate, if the above game continued 3. Nxf7, the knight transfers to board B. Then with Black to move, both 3...Kxf7 and 3...Bxf2+ are not possible. Black cannot play 3...Qd4 either, since the queen may not hop over the pawn on d7. But the move 3... Bg1 is possible (see diagram), despite the fact a white pawn sits on f2 on board A. (The bishop move on board B is legal, and the square transferred to, g1 on board A, is vacant.)
A final stipulation applies specially to moves by the king: a king may not transfer to a vacant square on the opposite board, if this would put the king in check. Castling is largely regarded as permitted in Alice Chess. The en passant rule is normally not used, but can be.
Early mates
Alice Chess Fool's Mate
Alice Fool's Mate
Several exist, one is: 1. e4 d5 2. Be2 dxe4? 3. Bb5# (see diagram).
At first glance, it might seem that Black can simply interpose a piece between White's bishop and his king to block the check (for example, 3...Bd7 or 3...Nc6 or 3...c6). But any piece so interposed immediately "disappears" when it transfers to board B. And Black cannot escape check by fleeing to the opposite board via 3...Kd7, because the move is not a legal move on board A. Therefore it is checkmate.
Another form of Fool's Mate: 1. e4 d6 2. Bc4 Qxd2? 3. Bb5#
And another: 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nf6? 3. Qxe5#
Alice Chess Scholar's Mate
Alice Scholar's Mate
1. e4 h5 2. Be2 Rh4 3. Bxh5 Rxe4+ 4. Kf1 d5 5. Qe2? (threatening 6.Qb5#) 5... Bh3# (see diagram).
1. d4 e6 2. Qd6 Be7? 3. Qe5+ Kf8 4. Bh6# (Seitz-Nadvorney, 1973).
Position after 11.0-0-0
Paul Yearout vs. George Jelliss, 1996 AISE Grand Prix
[Annotations by George Jelliss; moves returning to board A are notated "/A".]
1. d3 Nf6 2. Nc3 c5 3. Qd2 Nc6 (To give a direct check to the king the checking piece must come from the other board, so it is necessary first to transfer forces to the other board.) 4. d4/A Rb8 (This way of developing rooks is common in Alice Chess.) 5. e3 g5 (This prevents the Bc1 coming to g5 or f4.) 6. f4 Rbg8/A (Guarding Pg5 on the other board.) 7. Nd5/A h6 8. Nf3 gxf4/A (Inconsistent play on my part. Ne4/A now looks better to me.) 9. Bxf4 Rg4 10. Be5/A Rh5 11. 0-0-0 [diagram] (Perhaps judging that the activated black force now being on the second board the king might be safer there. The black queen is now effectively 'pinned': 11...Q-c7/b6?? 12.Qd8#.) 11... Ne4/A 12. Bc7 Ra4/A 13. Ba6 Bg7 (The idea is 14...Rc4+ 15.c3/Nc3 Bxc3+/A.) 14. Bb5/A Rc4+ 15. Kb1/A Rf5/A 16. Ba5/A (Desperate measures now needed to save the 'pinned' queen.) 16... Rxd5 17. Qxd5/A Qxa5 (Threatening 18...Qa1#.) 18. a3 Qd2/A 19. Qxd7+ Kf8 (I put these two moves in as an 'if...then' clause, but it seems Paul may not have noticed the discovered check, so perhaps I should have kept quiet!) 20. Qxg7/A Qc3 (Stops Qh8#.) 21. Rd8/A 1-0 (Black resigns. If 21...Bd7/Be6/Nf6 [then] 22.Qg8/Re8/Qh8#.)
Minor (and not-so-minor) rule modification has sprouted a number of different variations on Alice Chess.
Alice Chess 2
The black army starts out on the opposite board (board B).
Ms. Alice Chess
Null or zero moves are permitted. (A move consisting of piece transfer only - from the current square a piece sits on, to the corresponding square, if vacant, on the opposite board.) A king cannot escape check with a zero move, and castling is denied if either king or rook have made a zero move. By John Ishkan (1973).
8x4 version of Alice Chess
O'Donohue Chess
Alice Chess rules, except that a move is permitted even though the square normally transferred to on the opposite board is occupied. (In that case, the transfer portion of the move is omitted.) By Michael O'Donohue (2003).
Duo Chess
Black starts out on board B; transfers are optional; non-pawn pieces may make zero moves (and may capture in so doing); a king is checked when an opposing piece sits on the king's zero square; mate must cover the king's ability to flee via a zero move. By Jed Stone (1981).
Parton also introduced a smaller, 8x4 version of Alice Chess (see diagram). He also observed that Alice Chess can be played using three boards instead of two. (Players then having a choice between two boards when transferring pieces.)
Alice Chess rules can be adopted by practically any other chess variant too, by simply doubling the number of gameboards in the variant and applying the piece transfer policy. (E.g., Raumschach using two 5x5x5 boards.)
Knightmare Chess
Looking-Glass Chess - also by V. R. Parton
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GA summary 2002-09
This summary covers the DNSO GA mailing list's (and related) discussions and news between February 27, and March 12, 2002.
GA list archives are available online at [www.dnso.org]. Please feel free to forward this summary as you believe to be appropriate.
(Please note that this summary does not claim to be complete. In fact, it does so even less than the usual summaries, since I have to catch up two weeks of traffic. In particular, I have refrained from the temptation to include all the bits about what's currently going on at the ICANN meetings in Accra. - T.R.)
(i) Structure: Reactions to the Lynn Proposal. In a follow-up to the "preliminary comments" thread covered in the previous summary, Alexander Svensson noted that "having an Ombudsperson and a Manager of Public Participation sounds like a good idea." However, he says, "it is equally necessary to ensure public participation not only personally (by making it someone's job), but also structurally (by making it part of the ICANN process and structure)." [www.lextext.com], [www.dnso.org]
David P. Farrar suspected that the Lynn plan may "in fact be merely a red herring." "It is one of the oldest political tricks," he continues, "to propose something so extreme and controversial that when you finally withdraw it the masses are so happy they didn't get Proposal A they don't complain so much about Proposal B." It turned out that David was not the only one with this particular suspicion. [www.dnso.org]
In another posting, David (who also represents the GA on the Structure TF) tried to analyze the "pros and cons of the Lynn plan." The message is written in a very concise manner, and has a whole lot of good points. It's required reading in its entirety, and I'm not going to summarize it here. [www.dnso.org]
Danny Younger forwarded an interesting quote from RIPE NCC's response to the ICANN document: "Seeing that you are proposing fundamental changes to ICANN and the principles behind the ICANN - RIR MoU, signed in 1999, we believe that in the interest of our members, we have to thoroughly re-assess our relationship with ICANN." [www.dnso.org]
In the following discussion, DPF suggested that the ccTLDs "should carry on forming their own peer association" to negotiate with the DoC taking "over ICANN's role with regards to any ISO3166-1 entries in the root". In another posting on this, he also characterizes the behavior of ICANN management as a declaration of war on the ccTLDs, and notes that "ICANN was primarily created due to the need to create new gTLDs not to form some mini-UN over the ccTLDs." Looking for ICANN's functions with respect to the ccTLDs, he comes up with a list of three functions needed: 1. Update the root zone, 2. Notify of minimum technical standards for a TLD, 3. Establish and administer re-delegation when needed by the local Internet community. "This could all be done very easily by the ccTLDs acting as a peer organization," he concludes. [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org].
Another "Preliminary Statement" on the Lynn proposal was posted by Rob Courtney of Center for Democracy & Technology, on behalf of the NAIS team. In that statement, the NAIS group demands that the ALSC's report should be "openly evaluated before the whole idea of the At Large is abandoned." It is also pointed out that ICANN Board action during the Accra meeting will be necessary in order to hold elections for new at-large directors. The current at-large directors' terms end this year. Further, the NAIS team states that the Lynn proposal "fails to provide adequate support" to the principles of "openness, transparency, inclusiveness and participation". [www.dnso.org]
(ii) Structure: icannatlarge.com. Significant discussion took place concerning the icannatlarge.com effort, and the steering group established for that effort. Some of that discussion concerned various details of the effort, at a time when the ALSC's forum list was unreachable. Other discussion covered the question whether or not members of DNSO constituencies should be allowed to participate in an at large effort. The links below are to messages at both ends of the spectrum of opinions raised. [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org]
(iii) Waiting List Service. Ross Rader forwarded comments on the WLS from Michael Mann from Buydomains. [www.dnso.org]
Abel Wisman and Don Brown proposed GA feedback on the Waiting List Service, which lists various observations and concerns raised by GA members. The document concludes that "the GA does not support or endorse the WLS proposal in any manner", and suggests that attention be turned to the ICANN Redemption Grace document, and that policy and procedure for the handling of expired registrations be developed. "The policy and procedure should safeguard the rights of Registrants during the post-expiration grace period and it should contain specific language designed to prevent potential abuses by the Registries and Registrars." [www.dnso.org]
The document was supported by Kristy McKee, Harold Whiting, George Kirikos, Hugh Blair, Sotiris Sotiropoulos, David P. Farrar, Marc Schneiders, William X. Walsh, and Genie Livingstone.
(iv) DNSO funding. Verisign announced that it would redraw its offer to match any donations made to support the work of ICANN's Domain Name Supporting Organization and Names Council for up to $100,000. [www.dnso.org]
Peter de Blanc followed up to state that he expects Verisign "to match the donations to date, as small as they may be." [www.dnso.org]
Elisabeth Porteneuve pointed out that she believes that an "other donations" item of 9050 USD in 2000 "is a donation for matching funds". [www.dnso.org]
(v) ICANN staff draft towards Mission Statement. Alexander Svensson forwarded an ICANN Staff Draft titled "What ICANN Does", and published on March 7. In that draft, ICANN staff describes the corporation's current activities. [www.dnso.org]
The draft caused significant discussion. ICANN director at large Karl Auerbach produced a shorter list of "what ICANN ought to do", which is considerably shorter than the staff document. [www.dnso.org]
Elisabeth Porteneuve thanked Karl for "this excellent synthesis", and suggested to add IPv6 deployment to the list. [www.dnso.org]
As a comment to Karl's posting, Peter de Blanc (.VI) noted that "it is truly amazing that something once done by volunteers ... now costs over US $5 million per year to sustain a bureaucracy that did not exist prior to commercialization of the Internet." "Frankly," he continues, "I do not see the need to pay so much for so little. Like there is not even a [Quality of Service] guarantee on the operation of the root server system." [www.dnso.org]
Kent Crispin (now ICANN Staff) commented that there used to be paid IANA staff, that the Internet was much smaller in 1995/96, and that "the complexity of the things that IANA/ICANN does don't scale linearly with the size of the Internet." Concerning the cost, Kent claims that ICANN is "amazingly cheap," "given the demands made." [www.dnso.org]
Per K�lle (.DK) responded that Kent's note was "rubbish", and argued that "as far as TLD's is concerned ICANN/IANA is (only) managing a database with +250 entries." In a different posting, Peter de Blanc stated his agreement. [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org]
In response to that, Kent noted that the cost for the .DK database (which Per had also quoted) was indeed quite high from a pure database management point of view. "The reason it costs you $3mil to run your database has almost nothing to do with the size of your database," Kent writes. "The cost is caused almost entirely by other factors. Similarly, the costs to ICANN/IANA for running the root zone have essentially nothing to do with the size of the root zone." [www.dnso.org]
In another note from Karl Auerbach, he pointed out that "much is *still* done by volunteers." "ICANN management," he claims, "likes to inflate the complexity of what it is doing." As an example, he quotes Stuart Lynn as saying that the operation of 12 root servers would cost $10,000,000 per year, and compares that with own estimates which yield about $3,000,000 per year. Also, he states that the cost ICANN itself currently incurs to run one of the root servers is not known. [www.dnso.org]
(vi) Root Server Operator MoU. In a branch of this discussion, Marc Schneiders asked where the memorandum of understanding between ICANN and the root server operators which Karl had mentioned was available. It turned out that the document seems to be unavailable. [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org].
(vii) dot-usa. Danny Younger forwarded a Reuters news item on dotusa.com: The web site where users could "register" .usa domain names was shut down by a US court, according to the Federal Trade Commission. There was then some discussion on what the decision could mean for various kinds of alt.roots, and where the differences between dotusa.com and the other alt.roots, and new.net, are. [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org].
This summary covers the DNSO GA mailing list's (and related) discussions and news between March 13, 2002, and March 20, 2002.
Note that, once again, no claims of completeness of this summary are made. A lot was said during the time covered, and a lot of this is left out of this summary. However, I hope that this summary can provide readers with a helpful collection of starting points for their own reading of the list archives. If you believe that I missed a significant position or sub-thread, please don't hesitate to follow up with your own summary of that.
List Monitoring
The posting rights of Jeff Williams have been suspended by the list monitor for eight weeks because of repeated violation of the list rules; the suspension was announced on Monday, March 18. No appeal was received by the GA's chairman as of today, March 21. [www.dnso.org]
(i) WLS. Verisign announced the publication of a collection of comments received regarding the WLS proposal at [www.verisign-grs.com]. At the point of time at which this announcement was made, the registrars' constituency had, however, not yet submitted its commentary. [www.dnso.org]
They submitted their comments (and posted them to the GA list as well) two days later. [www.dnso.org]
(ii) Verisign removing expiration dates from WHOIS data. George Kirikos pointed out that, for the domain auction-barn.com, the whois data as accessible at whois.networksolutions.com does not contain an expiration date. (As of this writing, the expiration date is still not given; T.R., 2002-03-21, 00:15 CET.) [www.dnso.org]
In a follow-up, Rick Wesson pointed out that the Registrar Accreditation Agreement _requires_ registrars to include the expiration date in their whois database. [www.dnso.org]
No explication for the lack of the information has, so far, been provided by Verisign.
(iii) Accra meeting documents posted. The DNSO secretariat has posted a collection of URLs and notes relating to the ICANN meetings in Accra at [www.dnso.org]. [www.dnso.org]
(iv) "Substance over rhetoric." ICANN's former chairman Esther Dyson suggested that ICANN should hire GA co-chair Alexander Svensson "to manage At-Large outreach for the next year," and offered to contribute to the funding; her pledge is supposed to be "matched by institutions such as Harvard's Berkman Center [...], Markle, Bertelsmann, and the like." [www.dnso.org]
This suggestion caused considerable debate on the mailing list.
During that discussion, Barbara Simons noted that "the number of 'instant' at-large members would be a six digit figure if you count everyone who registered and five digits if you just count those who confirmed their registration." [www.dnso.org]
In her response, Esther Dyson mentioned that the ALSC had asked for the list of at-large members, "to no avail." Asked by Barbara who turned down the ALSC's request, Esther noted that "Denise Michel would know the details, but it was staff (since the board did not meet to consider the request)." [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org].
In a different branch of this thread, current ICANN chairman Vint Cerf noted that "the resolution that implemented the ALSC proposal, except for the election component, should be on the website already." (It certainly is now.) Michael Froomkin commented: "Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?" to which Vint responded: "Please also note the verbatim board discussion in which a number of directors expressed the hope that elections might be possible if/when the deficiencies documented in the ALSC report and elsewhere can be overcome." [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org].
(v) "Discussion draft -- ICANN reorganization." Danny Younger posted some "comments on the funding aspects of ICANN's problems." [www.dnso.org]
Peter de Blanc commented that the proposal that ICANN should charge each ccTLD $ 7,200 was "a disturbing concept," and pointed out that some ccTLDs have few registrants (with, in part, less than 500 names registered). "Those ccTLDs can hardly afford US $ 7,200. In fact in one of the countries I am referring to, a special permit is required to convert local cash to US $," Peter continued. He then reported about a conversation with Josh Eliot, who used to "perform the IANA function" prior to ICANN, and now works for a company which "provides DNS as a paid service to large clients [...]. They do this for a fee based on the number of 'DNS inquiries' they get [...]. Josh's company gives incredible QoS (Quality of Service) level guarantees," Peter writes. With root server operations in mind, he suggests that it "will be interesting to see what fees Josh's company will charge." [www.dnso.org]
Another note by Danny, stating that "perhaps we can obtain necessary funding without the need to actually seat governments on the board of ICANN," provoked a response from Vint Cerf, who stated that "the proposal that Stuart made would not put government employees on the board but would offer governments an opportunity to choose among a slate of candidates developed by a nominating committee." To this, Jon Weinberg responded that the proposal as published leaves the nomination process of board members to the governments. Vint replied that his statement reflects "the evolution of thinking since January 24." "The nominations process was one area that Stuart left kind of loose, not knowing what he might hear from the GAC," Vint writes. [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org].
James Love suggested a "much different model for the governments" than the one imagined by Vint: "Giving (some) governments a direct role [...] will blur issues such as the legal authority of the entity and its accountability to the public." Also, Jamie asks, "what are you going to tell China?" In his reply, Vint conceded that "you may well be right that this won't work - which is one of the reasons we have asked the GAC to respond with its own ideas." Jamie then focused on the model of public-private partnerships used by Stuart Lynn, and commented that the structure suggested by the Lynn proposal "is pretty much the worst way to structure this." [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org].
(vi) "Motion for a vote of no confidence in the Board." Danny Younger proposed a "vote of no confidence in the board." [www.dnso.org]
In the subsequent debate, some agreed, some didn't.
Mike Roberts (ICANN's former president and CEO) pointed out that he doesn't "detect support for the Lynn plan from any significant stakeholder group thus far." The "Board has bent over backward not to endorse the plan," he notes. With respect to director representation and accountability, he notes that there are "three years of experience in which nomination, selection and seating of the Directors from the names, protocols and address areas has functioned better than one might expect." "Let's not be in a rush to jettison structures that are getting the job done, especially those, such as the DNSO, that are showing considerable recent improvement in quality and process," he writes. Concerning at-large elections, he notes that the board "left a door open for an initiative." He then goes on to comment on various points of the Lynn proposal, and opinions raised in the recent debate. I suggest you just read these comments in Mike's own words. [www.dnso.org]
(i) ICANN structure. In a thread started by Jefsey Morfin, Michael Froomkin asked participants to "remain open for the idea that many of the functions currently under the ICANN/IANA rubrics should be split off and handed to other groups, either new or existing." ICANN director Karl Auerbach followed up to state that "there are several reasons why the IANA contract should be transferred to a distinct and separate entity," including transparency of decision processes, funding, and a lack of need to "throw IANA into the political maelstrom that is ICANN." [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org].
On a related topic, Danny Younger reported from a session at University of Pennsylvania, where Vint Cerf and Dave Farber "exchanged thoughts on the origins of the Internet and speculated as to its future." "It appears that both speakers had agree not to dwell on this topic," Danny writes. "This topic" means, of course, the paper published by Farber, Weinstein, and Neumann last weak. Danny's conclusion from private conversations following the session: "there still remain opportunities for us to present options to the Board which will allow for both enhanced participation and representation." [www.dnso.org]
Danny also submitted a restructuring proposal to the Evolution and Reform Committee. J. William Semich of .NU pointed out that the proposal "seems very weak" on the issue of ICANN funding, and reposted "some of the same concerns [he] posted to Ira Magaziner and the NTIA in Oct 1998 on the issue of funding ICANN." In that message, Semich criticized that ICANN's bylaws provide "NO accountability for its borrowing, spending, and fee structure." As a counter-force, he suggested a "'budget review committee' solely comprised of the groups that will fund the new Internet Authority," plus some alternative versions of how such a committee could work. [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org].
Also on funding, Danny forwarded a message from Elena Broitman to the registrars' list, where she reports on her work as a representative of the registrars' constituency on the Budget Advisory Group. George Kirikos commented that "it's a fallacious argument that registrars are the real funding source of ICANN." "Ultimately," he writes, "it is end-users who are funding ICANN." [www.dnso.org], [www.dnso.org].
In a further comment on his own restructuring proposal, Danny also looked at the question (which was raised by Jefsey) how the director selection process suggested could be made dynamic, and came up with a simple, but interesting suggestion: "ICANN has previously accepted the notion that certain threshold requirements must be met for any constituent entity that seeks recognition. Carrying that logic forward, it may also be held that a constituent group must maintain a certain quantity of members lest it become disaccredited and lose the right to elect representatives to the Board." [www.dnso.org]
(ii) Expiration date missing from some whois database entries. In a follow-up to the last summary, Bruce Beckwith of Verisign Registrar pointed out that the lack of expiration data on auction-barn.com, which had been discussed on the GA list, was one out of "several domains that have suffered data problems." Also, he writes, the software bug which caused this was resolved "long ago. Any domain registered in the past two years [...] has accurate data, and the expiration date shows correctly." [www.dnso.org]
(iii) Domain name hoarding. Marc Schneiders reported a case (number9.org) in which a domain had expired a year ago, "but was still in the 'Unpaid Names Dept' of Register.COM." He was able to register that domain through Register.COM after sending them e-mail and making a phone call. His comment about the procedure: "In fact it stinks." [www.dnso.org]
(iv) "Advertising material" sent out by Verisign. Sotiris Sotiropoulos forwarded "A Warning To Our Customers" from godaddy.com's President Bob Parsons. According to that warning, Verisign is sending domain expiration notices which "are designed so that it is not obvious that the notices are from Verisign, Inc., as opposed to Go Daddy Software." "The purpose behind these notices is to get the unsuspecting customer to transfer to and renew their domain name(s) with Verisign Inc. at significantly higher prices," Parsons writes. (A scanned sample of such a notice is provided on the web site to which the message points.) [www.dnso.org]
Chuck Gomes commented that "the Verisign Registry has no involvement in issues like this nor does it have any authority with regard to competitive practices of registrars." [www.dnso.org]
On the same topic, William Walsh forwarded a message from the openSRS list, with a pointer to United States Postal Service regulations for mail "that reasonably could be considered a bill, invoice, or statement of account due, but is in fact a solicitation for an order." William suggests that the expiration notices "may be a violation of US law," and that recipients should file complaints with the US Postal Inspectors. [www.dnso.org]
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Utopia and the Image of Imagination
by Christopher Kul-Want
We live in a period when it is widely proclaimed that there will be no future; Capital continues to dominate the world order with invidious consequences as ecological catastrophe looms and nationalist tendencies prevail once again. Powerless to arrest the slide towards imminent global disaster, the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek observes that for humanity today, ‘it is easier to imagine the end of life on Earth than it is to imagine the end of Capitalism.’
It would seem to follow from this ominous presentiment that the idea of utopia, especially in the manner originally conceived of by Thomas More of a blissfully happy society living in harmony with Nature, is utterly incongruous for our own apocalyptic times. And yet, if we look back at the period of the 1930’s when the world also faced crisis point – the rise of Fascism, the Holocaust and the Second World War – we find that two of the great political thinkers of the time, Ernst Bloch (1885-1997) and Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), both of whom were Jews and were all too aware of the Holocaust’s impact upon their people, wrote extensively about utopia. How, it might be asked, did these realists conceive of utopia in a manner that was credible both politically and philosophically, and in a way that was not idealistic or naive? And, how can their writings on this subject still be inspirational for us today?
The word utopia was first coined in the English language by Thomas More as the title for his eponymous book of 1516. In fact, the word is composed from two words in Greek, the prefix ou is a term of negation that means non, while topos denotes a place or site. So, literally speaking, utopia means no-place, nowhere, or elsewhere. While More may have considered the island that was his utopian nowhere as a site of desire, an ideal which society was yet to reach, Ernst Bloch and Walter Benjamin were more discerning in thinking through the implications that utopia means, literally, nowhere. They recognized that utopia/nowhere signals a limit to understanding, and that this limit needs to be acknowledged if utopian hope is to be kept alive. Bloch’s and Benjamin’s writings, therefore, do not describe their vision of what an utopian society looks like since such visions of utopia always reflect the values and prejudices of their authors (More’s Utopia, for instance, is firmly patriarchal). Imposing a blueprint upon utopia closes down its possibilities and contradicts the potential for its realization.
In the hope of keeping the utopian desire, and the freedom that it represents, alive and open towards its own future possibility, Bloch and Benjamin turned to an analysis of the contradictions and conflictual tensions within Capitalism and the unresolved symptoms in social experience that reflect these conflicts. They believed that understanding these symptoms could reveal the underlying desire within the collective unconscious of society for utopia, a desire that, ultimately, amounts to a rejection of Capitalism as the root cause of alienation, repression and global disaster.
One of the principal symptoms in social experience that Bloch and Benjamin identified in relation to utopian hope is the experience of boredom, however paradoxical this may initially seem,
‘Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.’
‘We are bored when we don’t know what we are waiting for. That we do know, or think we know, is nearly always the expression of our superficiality or inattention. Boredom is the threshold to great deeds.’ Walter Benjamin.
Both Bloch and Benjamin understood that consumerism is based upon an underlying anxiety to relieve boredom and to drive time away; such is the purpose, for instance, of what is known today as ‘retail therapy’, but also all forms of consumerist distraction. Equally though, these writers understood that a certain kind of boredom – what they called ‘profound boredom’ – when it is not displaced into consumerism and distraction can be an experience of forgetfulness, of time lost and of an indeterminacy that defies the measured and counted time of Capitalist ideology. In this respect, boredom marks a limit to understanding, precisely because it cannot be defined – in the same way that unconscious desire cannot be defined, for if it were so it would be absorbed into Capital for the purposes of profit. In other words, the kind of profound boredom that Bloch and Benjamin value is akin to dreams, it is a kind of day-dream, albeit one that is not relatable. Thus, Benjamin writes about boredom as the trace of the dream for utopia, its outter appearance,
‘Boredom is a warm gray fabric lined on the inside with the most lustrous and colorful of silks. In this fabric we wrap ourselves when we dream. We are at home then in the arabesques of its lining. But the sleeper looks bored and gray within his sheath. And when he lays awake and wants to tell of what he dreamed, he communicates by and large only this boredom. For who would be able at one stroke to turn the lining of time to the outside?’
In what form does such an experience of ‘profound boredom’ occur today? That is, the kind of boredom that is not simply about displaced anxiety, the desire to coerce time, but rather the experience of boredom that involves a sense of the loss of self and of rational time? One of the many circumstances in which such boredom seems to occur, and which is a widespread experience today, is on long motorway journeys. Sometimes the driver or passenger discovers after a certain time of passing that she cannot remember part of the preceding journey as well as her own thoughts during it. In these circumstances memory becomes opaque and foggy (‘gray’), time has passed yet it cannot be quantified.
Significantly, certain contemporary artists, such as Julian Opie and Fiona Tan, allude to this type of experience of boredom as part of their wider interest in utopia (Tan’s recent project of 2018 is entitled Elsewhere). Opie’s extended series of images of three lane motorways entitled variously, Imagine you are driving; I dreamt I was Driving my Car; Night Motorway (print form as well as endless computer film) (1998 – 2017), convey a sense of abstracted monotony that is utterly empty, as if the driver or passenger is absent both from others and herself. Like Opie’s images, Tan’s films of streaming night-traffic on five and six lane motorways in Los Angeles (Vertical Red, Vertical White and Vertical Wide) induce an abstracted affect. For the viewer, staring over a period of time at the car head and tail lights as, going nowhere, they climb up and descend Tan’s plasma screens is akin to the vacant pleasure of staring into a fire or at the flowing water of a river.
To be emptied of content and of meaningful purpose is, paradoxically, a profound experience; boredom’s vacuity is not necessarily always superficial or escapist. Rather, it is an impulse within us that opens up the mind to – we know not where, to nowhere. Nowhere in this instance being, not the definitive image of a future time to come in the tradition of More’s Utopia, but rather the trace of an undefinable time: the time of the unconscious. As Bloch writes, ‘The fact that we can…sail into dreams, that daydreams, often of a completely uncovered kind, are possible, indicates the great space of the still open, still uncertain life in man.’
Christopher Kul-Want
Ref: See for example, Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia (1916)and his three volume work The Principle of Hope (1954-1959); Walter Benjamin’s utopianism, articulated in terms of a combination of both Communist sympathies and Jewish Messianism, permeates his entire work.
Ref: ‘The Storyteller, Observations on the Works of Nikolai Leskov’.1936. Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Volume 3, 1935-1938, translated by Edmund Jephcott, Howard Eiland, and Others, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006, p. 149.
The Arcades Project [1927-40], translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The Belknapp Press of Harvard University Press, 1999, p. 105.
Ernst Bloch, The Principle of Hope, volume 1, translated by Neville Plaice, Stephen Plaice and Paul Knight, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, p. 17.
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Helen Tiedeman: Unlawfully detained and locked in alzheimer unit
Home > Dependent Adult Abuse > Helen Tiedeman: Unlawfully detained and locked in alzheimer unit
The Abuse of Helen Tiedeman
Dr. Helen Frank MD
Long Term Care Center,
Vegreville, AB.
Mr. Courtney Ohlhauser, Public Guardian Officer
Office of the Public Guardian, Red Deer, AB.
Ms. Laurel Wyllie RN, Director of Care
Vegreville Long Term Care Center, Vegreville, AB.
Ms. Michelle Duncan, RPN, Director,
Alberta Mental Health Services,
Camrose, AB.
Re: Helen Tiedeman, Secure Unit, Vegreville Long Term Care Center.
Helen Tiedman has told us this morning that it is one full year since she has been detained. I responded to her that it is October 1, 2009, she replied, “No, October 2nd”. As usual, she is totally oriented to date and time.
Tiedeman continues to be stripped of all rights and unlawfully detained in a locked unit. She is disallowed to even walk down the public sidewalk. When we have encouraged her to take a walk out in the court yard, she has told us, “I am not going to walk around there like a penned up animal”.
She is obviously seriously depressed informing us that she wishes she was dead, suggesting that the lifesaving surgery should not have been performed.
This Alberta senior was gainfully employed for thirty five years, she was a responsible tax paying citizen. Now she is being detained in a locked unit with less rights than a prisoner at the Remand Center. She is being given no money by trustees or guardians.
There are those who disparage her, however there are something like 220 names in her guest book of friends who continue to visit her, months after she has been removed from their midst. The round trip to Vegreville from Tofield takes over an hour and a half.
We submit that if a lodge vacancy comes up and her name is next on the list, she should be immediately placed.
It is unconscionable that professionals, public advocates and other caregivers have been aware of this unjust situation and to date nothing has been done to rectify this troubling situation.
We shall be awaiting your reply and be grateful to be in receipt of
such reply by the 15th of October, 2009.
cc. The Honourable Ms. Mary Anne Jablonski, Minister Seniors and Community
Ms. Barb Martini, Director Public Guardian Office, St. Paul. Alberta.
Ms. Helen Tiedeman
REGISTERED MAIL
Mrs Vera (John) Heitman
Mr. Ralph Tiedemann
5135 52 Avenue
Sherwood Park, AB. T8G 1G1
Viking, AB. T0B 4N0
Reference: Helen Tiedemann
Many individuals, especially from the Tofield area, are strongly aware that it has caused great distress to Helen Tiedemannn, (over whom you hold guardianship and trusteeship), to have been detained for close to two years.
For a whole year, she was detained in a locked unit with individuals who suffer from advanced cognitive impairment. Some of these persons who cannot communicate, wandered into her room causing her to keep her door closed, even locked, especially at night to protect herself from demented,helpless persons.
For close to eight of those months, October 2008 to May 2009, she was totally restricted to this locked unit, like a maximum security prisoner. After a year, October 2009, she was moved out of the secure unit, but is restricted to three outings a week. All this has been devastating for her.
She has told us that she has an organ which she bought after she was working.When we asked her who taught her how to play, she told us that she taught herself. We all know how she loves music.
We urge you to return her organ to her. The organ may help to ameliorate her difficult existence and alleviate her daily expressed anguish and distress of being detained and away from community and friends. And we trust that this terrible inequity which has been wrought against her, will soon be brought to an equitable close. Thank you.
We would be grateful to be in receipt of your response by March 14th, 2010. Thank you.
cc. Ms. Helen Tiedemann
The Honourable Minister of Seniors, Mrs. M. Jablonski
Ms. Brenda Lee Doyle, Director, Office of the Public Guardian
HAND DELIVERED
The Honourable Premier, Mr. Ed Stelmach,
Legislature Building, Edmonton, AB.T5K 2B6
MLA Fort Saskatchewan – Vegrevile
CONSTITUENT – Helen Tiedemann, 4832 57 Avenue, Tofield, AB.
Now a wrongly detained two year Resident Long Term Care Center, Vegreville, AB.
Dear Mr. Premier:
Helen Tiedemann worked for thirty five years at the Tofield Hospital. Day after day, month after month, she faithfully served the community. Then after a heart attack and a pacer implant, she was placed under guardianship and trusteeship despite the fact that she had not been negatively affected by the heart attack. She was assessed as incompetent and stripped of all rights and money by Dr. N. Flook and Social Worker Elizabeth Gottschalk, at the Misericordia Hospital. Helen then, was detained for two months at the Tofield Hospital and then eight months in the Vegreville Care Center, locked dementia unit, maximum security, never allowed to leave the locked unit. Nor did her Guardians ever take her out. After an outcry from the senior’s community (Tofield) , she was reassessed and found to have been wrongly assessed and wrongly placed. However her Guardians did not move her out of the locked unit for an entire year until we intervened by means of a complaint.
In the Fall of 2004, prior to these happenings, she had put in her name at the Tofield Senior Citizens Lodge. She gave her name and Forms (filled out and signed by Dr. Richard Hackett), to Jan Valliere, Lodge manager. Helen told us that when she was in the Tofield Hospital in May 2008, she inquired of Dr. Hackett if he remembered filling out those Forms for her, he said he did. The Application had been accepted by Valliere. Now, Valliere is denying access to Helen.
On October 1, 2008, @ 1:30 PM, seven persons of the Elder Advocates of Alberta Society met at the Tofield Lodge with the Lodge manager, Jan Valliere and a Lodge Board member, Bob Young to discuss the matter of Helen being admitted to the Tofield Lodge. At the said meeting, Valliere stated she would not accept Helen, she did not appear to be willing to discuss the matter. She said a vote had been taken.
During the meeting, duration of about an hour, Valliere said unkind things about Helen Tiedemann, which could be considered defamatory in that we were complete strangers.
When at the meeting I stated that Helen often phones me, Bob Young commented he would have her phone taken from her (paraphrased).
We have inquired as to the professional/ educational status of the lodge manager and have learned that Valliere was a long time employee of the lodge prior to becoming manager, possibly doing the same kind of work that Helen Tiedemann carried out at the Tofield Hospital for long years.
We find it disturbing and irresponsible that both Ms. Valliere and Mr. Young spoke in a derogatory manner about this senior citizen. Perhaps they are not well suited to be in the care of elderly persons.
This is a public, tax supported facility and Valliere has assumed power to determine who will reside in the lodge and who will not. We have also learned that Valliere is a good friend of Helen’s Guardian (see attached letter). Also, a nephew of the Guardian is on the lodge board.
This is a human rights issue. Helen has been horrifically abused by the system and presently is acting out against those who are imprisoning her. She continues to be detained at the Vegreville Long Term Care Center although she does not require long term care. She is distressed and angry. She is suffering. She has been abused and continues to be abused.
As her MLA, we urge you to go to bat for Helen and assure her, her right to return to her home in Tofield where she faithfully worked and served for many years and allow her to live out her days in peace and comfort. This is a public facility and she has a right to be there. Thank you.
Respectfully submitted, we would be grateful to be in receipt of your response in regard to this urgent matter by the 1st. April, 2010. Thank you.
Att: Correspondence addressed to Guardians of Helen Tiedemann 12/ 03/ 10
cc. Helen Tiedemann
VIA FACSIMILE 780 415 8611
Complaints Officer, Ms. Charlotte La Rose
Complaint under the Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act (AGTA)
Re: Guardians and trustees of Helen Tiedemann
Sherwood Park, AB. T8G 1G1 Viking, AB. T0B 4N0
Reference: Helen Tiedemann, 4832 57 Avenue, Tofield, AB.
A wrongly detained two year Resident of Long Term Care Center, Vegreville, AB.
We thank you for your correspondence of April 15, 2010. You again state that our correspondence of March 8, 2010 was received on March 25, 2010. If you check the faxed date on our fax letter, you will see that your office must have received said letter on March 8, 2010. A that time, you called us an hour later questioning whether it was a two or three page letter and therefore we re-faxed the letter. We find it somewhat troubling that you have no recall of your phone call to us.
Further to the matter of Helen Tiedemann. The office of the Public Guardian has been made aware of this abusive situation since its’ beginning. Helen has informed us that, in May 2008, after she after was discharged from the Misericordia Hospital and detained at the Tofield Hospital, she was totally denied all rights by her guardians. She was disallowed to attend “anywhere”, (community functions or even attend church). She was held as a virtual, maximum security prisoner.
An appeal was made to the Office of the Public Guardian, May 2008 by Leony Gomez and Pastor Kevin of the Lutheran Church. A meeting was held in the Family Room of the Tofield Hospital. Mr. Courtney Ohlhauser, Public Guardian representative was in attendance. At that meeting, a list was made of some of the functions Helen would be allowed to attend such as floor curling at the Mennonite church, church attendance at her own church, etc. and from thereon, she was allowed to attend those functions while she remained at the Tofield Hospital.
However, when in October 2008, the guardians moved Helen Tiedemann to a locked unit of the Vegreville Care Center, the guardians again curtailed all her rights and held her in total lockdown, not allowed to leave the facility. Nursing staff were the enforcers.
Early in 2009, we, the Elder Advocates of Alberta Society, were widely publicizing the unjust Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act. Many Citizens of Tofield and area became aware of this legislation and began calling us to say that they knew of a person from their community who was being denied, all rights and being wrongly detained. They told us of Helen Tiedemann who was being detained in a locked unit.
Not because of us, but because of the outcry by persons in the Tofield and surrounding Area, Helen was reassessed in June 2009 and was found to have been improperly placed. The first assessment at the Misericordia Hospital was found to be in serious error. However, her guardians continued to detain her in the locked unit.
On October 2, 2009, we made a telephone appeal to the Office of the Public Guardian, Courtney Ohlhauser, 1-403 3405564. He said was not prepared to do anything to ameliorate Helen’s bizarre situation.
On October 2, 2008, we also made a written appeal to Mr. Ohlhauser which was also made to:
Dr. Helen Frank MD, Helen’s physician at the Care Center.
Ms. Laurel Wyllie RN, Director of Care, Vegreville Long Term Care Center,
Ms. Michelle Duncan, RPN, Director, Alberta Mental Health Services, Camrose, AB.
This correspondence was copied to:
Honourable Ms. Mary Anne Jablonski, Minister Seniors and Community Support Services and
The only person who responded to this appeal was Dr. Helen Frank, her faxed letter of October 15, 2009 strongly stated:
“We at the Vegreville Care Facility agree that Ms. Tiedemann’s placement with us is inappropriate”.
Dr. Frank then restates: “…we agree that Ms. Tiedemann was placed inappropriately and if you could aid in her being placed somewhere else, we would greatly appreciate it”.
We have also made several complaints to the Protection For Persons in Care (PPCA). After an October 2009 complaint to the PPCA abuse line concerning a staff caregiver, within days, she was moved out of the locked unit into the long term care but continued to be severely restricted to three outings a week. Only five persons could take her out, not even her beloved Pastor who visited her and made the hour and a half drive from Tofield. If on a Sunday she was taken to Tofield for a church service, she had to be back at the locked unit by 2:30 PM. Why?
We have also made a lengthy appeal on her behalf, to her MLA, the Honourable Premier, Mr. Ed. Stelmach. His Office has been given misinformation by the Office of the Public Guardian who apparently have said that the Guardianship Applicants are affiliated with us.
On March 1, 2010, two persons from the Tofield Lutheran church made Application to the Surrogate Court, Queen’s Bench for the guardianship and Trusteeship of Helen Tiedemann. The Court dismissed the Application, twice applauded the performance of the present Guardians and seized the file. Brenda Feehan of Family law,representing the Office of the Public Guardian was asked to address the court.She recommended to the court, that Helen have another assessment.
Two failed assessments and a CAT scan. Now there is a call for another major assessment! An assessment which may cost Helen her hard earned dollars anywhere from $5,000. to $7,500. For what?
She is frightened of another assessment and so she should be. We have a litany of documented, wrongful assessments, of seniors who have been stripped of all access to their money and rights. The account of Flora L’Heureux who year after year,assessment upon assessment was denied her rights despite attending Norquest College and winning an award. Inga Dorcea Sondrup, and others come to mind.
One Albertan, was locked up for three years with severely, cognitively impaired persons in a secure unit until he was released this past summer.He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer disease in 2006 and many times was told by his family’s that he was being detained because he had Alzheimers. In the locked unit caregivers told him that he did not belong there.
That senior had been assessed twelve times in sixteen months by physicians /psychiatrists/ psychologists / professors of Gerontology, who had signed either a Form 1, a certificate, a Personal Directive Form 2 or letter after having allegedly assessed the cognitive state of this man.
In another matter, a physician wrote ‘Alzheimer Disease’ on a senior’s driving document. On the behest of a son, the elderly man was apprehended by the RCMP, and detained for a month in an active treatment hospital. A lawyer intervened and he was freed. However on discharge, despite having been assessed many times while in hospital, and the assessors having been unable to declare him incompetent while in hospital, the attending physician / gerontologist, made him promise he would attend at an appointment for a major psycho-neurological assessment, which she had made for him at Glenrose Hospital.
Another senior was detained in the dayroom of a Calgary active treatment hospital for a year.There was a sign on the window of the dayroom to not close the venetian blinds. It took $10,000 in legal fees to free him and return him his access to his money.
A lady who speaks three languages, but poor English, who does not read or write English, failed an assessment and is confined in a hovel 6’1/2′ by 11′. She had come to hospital for care and was never allowed to leave because she was subjected to a competency assessment which of course she failed. She had been functioning well in the community, paid her bills, her taxes, planted a huge garden.
These accounts constitute not only horrific abuse but are criminal acts perpetrated against Canadian citizens.
We submit that the process of assessing competency is a pseudo science and could be perceived as an industry, a lucrative, non-regulated industry.
Helen, does not belong in a long term care space. She pays approximately $1,700 for room and board and could be well placed in the community for that money. She begs to return to her home and personnel community, Tofield.
We reiterate in recent months she often states “I can’t take it anymore”. She also says, “I want to go to my grave”.
The Office of the Public Guardian has been aware of this abusive situation since the very beginning.
This is a shameful, shocking story happening in Canada, an alleged democratic state. As noted, the plight of Helen Tiedemann is not an isolated incident.
P.S. Today we had encouraged Helen to go out for a walk. She just told me, that when she attempted to go, she was stopped at the door. Why? She is to be allowed out only in the fenced courtyard. She refuses to go in the courtyard, says she feels like a penned animal there. She desperately needs that exercise not only for better body but better frame of mind.
Honourable Ms. M. Jablonski, Minister of Seniors and Community Supports
Mr. Robert Bhatia BA, Deputy Minister, Seniors and Community Supports
Mrs Vera (John) Heitman Mr. Ralph Tiedemann
A wrongly detained Resident of Long Term Care Center, Vegreville, AB.
Dear Madam:
Further to our correspondence of yesterday, April 20, 2010, we wish to add a copy of correspondence that was sent by registered mail to the guardians and copied to Brenda Lee Doyle, Director of the Office of the Public Guardian.
We reiterate, that the Office of the Public Guardian, on numerous occasions, was made aware of the horrific abuse of Helen Tiedemann. As a matter of fact it is deeply troubling that also numbers of professionals have been made aware of this situation and to date, nothing has changed. Everyone is on the taxpayer payroll, but no remedy is forthcoming.
The Guardians, on receipt of our March 8, 2010 letter, immediately announced to Helen that she could have many more rights. However, yesterday when she wished to go for a walk around the block, she was stopped at the door by a PCA.
This is a shameful, shocking story happening in Canada, an alleged democratic state. As noted in yesterday’s letter, the plight of Helen Tiedemann is not an isolated incident, the violation of the rights of seniors is epidemic.
Attn: Letter to Vera Heitman & Ralph Tiedemann, March 8, 2010, copied to Office of Public Guardian, Brenda Lee Doyle
We speak in defense of vulnerable seniors and therefore have interest in this matter.
Yesterday, April 20, 2010, during a phone conversation with Helen, we encouraged Helen to go out for a walk. Apparently after Bingo, because it was a lovely day, she took her walker and prepared to go for a small walk. She informed me, that when she attempted to go, she was stopped at the door. Why?
Have you put out a directive / instructed staff, that she is not allowed to go for a walk? Obviously, she was under the impression that she was free to go.
An LPN then told her she is to be allowed out only in the fenced courtyard. She refuses to go in the courtyard, she says she feels like a penned animal there.
Helen desperately needs that exercise not only for healthier body but also for better frame of mind.
Please clarify this matter for us and for Helen. Thank you.
We would be grateful to be in receipt of your response by May 7th, 2010.
cc.
Ms. Charlotte LaRose, Complaints Officer, Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act
Mr. Rod Urquijo, Capacity Assessment Policy Analyst,
Office of the Public Guardian, Acting Adult Guardianship & Trusteeship Act Complaints Investigator,
Ms. Barb Martini, Director Public Guardian Office, St. Paul, AB.
Re: Guardians of Helen Tiedemann, Vegreville Long Term Care Center, Vegreville AB.
Helen Tiedemann is being disabled. She is not being allowed to leave the facility for a walk.
Is this is a deliberate intent to handicap and immobilize her?
Presently she cannot walk, without the aid of a walker from bed to bathroom. She sits on her bed all the time. This is a woman who walked all over Tofield, to church, to dinners, to the Golden Age Club and is now virtually handicapped because she is being held in a room with no recreation or exercise.
She wishes to walk down town. This would distract her from her grief of being detained away from community and friends. Her Guardians, Vera and Ralph have said that she cannot walk safely on the sidewalk. We therefore submit options:
Come and take her for a walk which to this date, they have never done.
Hire someone to do so. After all, the guardians are spending thousands of dollars of Helen’s hard earned money on lawyers, courts and lengthy cognitive assessments.
It is inhumane what is happening to her now. Helen desperately needs that exercise not only for healthier body but also for better frame of mind. Presently she is like a prisoner in “stir”. It is unspeakably cruel what you are allowing the guardians to do to her. She is suffering. She is seriously depressed. We hear her anguished cries, many times, daily, on the telephone.
In a Protection For Persons in Care Preliminary report dated April 27, 2010 from Bobby Murphy RN, a Health Care Aid was cited as saying:
“She could hear her on the phone and could hear her crying. The resident is frequently on the phone crying so she did not think anything of it”.
Helen has told us many times, “I can’t take it anymore”. “I want to go to my grave”. We urge your immediate intervention in this matter. We would be grateful to be in receipt of your response by August 10, 2010.
Legislature Building, Edmonton, ABT5K 2B6
Attention Ms. Donna Rogers, Constituency Assistant
Wrongly detained Resident of the Long Term Care Center, Vegreville, AB.
Further to our telephone conversation of Tuesday, April 13, 2010. You stated to us that the Office of the Public Guardian had indicated to you that the Applicants for Guardianship and Trusteeship in the Tiedemann matter were part of the Elder Advocates of Alberta Society. Please call us to clarify exactly what information was given to you in order that we may make an objection to the Public Guardian Office in regard to this apparent misinformation.
Has the Premier been made aware of the horrific abuse that his constituent has suffered and continues to suffer? Has he read our letter of Appeal?
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.
Human Rights complaint refused
Myrtle Hofer: Senior apprehended by Public Guardian
Emma Kadnar: Diapering of Continent Senior
Senior neglected by the Public Guardian
Mental Health Review Panel Transcription
Tags: Adult Guardianship and Trusteeship Act, Alberta Health Services, Ed Stelmach, helen tiedeman, Mary Anne Jablonski, Office of the Public Guardian, Vegreville Long Term Care Center
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Hansen continues unbeaten record at FIS Nordic Combined World Cup
BEIJING, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) -- Norway's Gyda Westvold Hansen came out the winner of the second Individual Gundersen at the FIS Nordic Combined World Cup in Lillehammer, Norway on Saturday.
Another Norwegian Mari Leinan Lund jumped the furthest distance with 97 meters and led after the ski-jumping, but she couldn't keep Hansen at bay for long. The World Cup leader pulled away in the last 2.5 kilometers of the 5km cross country race as she triumphed by 52.6 seconds.
Austria's Lisa Hirner was third. Italy's Annika Seiff, who ranked third after the ski jumping section, dropped back to 7th place.
Hansen tops the overall ranking and continues to wear the yellow bib. Mari Leinan Lund has the blue bib representing the best jumper, and the red bib for the best skier belongs to her sister Marte Leinan Lund. Enditem
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Start \ Catalog \ Teksty naukowe \ Etyka polityczna \ Wojna i interwencja wojskowa \ Judith Lichtenberg - Jak oceniać żołnierzy walczących w niesłusznej sprawie (How to judge soldiers whose cause is unjust.)
Judith Lichtenberg - Jak oceniać żołnierzy walczących w niesłusznej sprawie (How to judge soldiers whose cause is unjust.) Featured
Having learned my just war theory at Michael Walzer’s figurative knee, for many years I accepted the independence of jus in bello from jus ad bellum unthinkingly. Just war theory consists of two separate parts, one concerning the legitimate grounds for going to war and the other the rules of engagement once war had begun. This two-part view, the “independence thesis,” went hand in hand with the “symmetry thesis,” or “the moral equality of soldiers”: soldiers whose cause is unjust have the same rights to fight and to kill as those whose cause is just. But troubling questions sometimes crowded in. Doesn’t the justice of a country’s cause affect what actions it can legitimately take? Can’t victims of aggression legitimately do things aggressors cannot? Most fundamentally, “how can there be permissibly violent means of pursuing impermissible ends?” Walzer casts glances at these problems when he proposes the idea of a “sliding scale,” in which the rules of war yield “slowly to the moral urgency of the cause: the rights of the righteous are enhanced, and those of their enemies devalued.” He rejects the sliding scale in favor of the weaker qualification, “supreme emergency,” in which the rules of war are overridden “only in the face of an imminent catastrophe.”
Yet Walzer does not discuss the threat the ideas of the sliding scale and even supreme emergency pose for the foundational distinction between jus ad bellum and jus in bello. It’s not hard to see why. To have probed further would have transformed Walzer’s book from a thought-provoking yet highly accessible introduction to the main moral problems of war, as seen through the lens of traditional just war theory and international law, into a dense and difficult philosophical tract. For it’s clear that once we challenge the distinction we find ourselves in murky waters from which there’s no easy escape. The wonder is only that most of those in the just war tradition have for so long taken the independence of jus in bello from jus ad bellum and the symmetry thesis for granted.
These views have now been challenged by Jeff McMahan and David Rodin, and their compelling arguments force us to take the plunge. Rodin poses the problem succinctly:
If an aggressive war is fought within the bounds of jus in bello, then the Just War Theory is committed to the seemingly paradoxical position that the war taken as a whole is a crime, yet that each of the individual acts which together constitute the aggressive war are entirely lawful. Such a war, the Just War Theory seems to be saying, is both just and unjust at the same time.
McMahan offers a detailed argument to show that “unjust combatants”—those who fight for an unjust cause—will inevitably violate one of the fundamental rules of jus in bello, the requirement of proportionality.
At the outset I would like to thank the Professor Judith Lichtenberg for sharing this article. Please accept heartfelt thanks for that.
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Big Winner Nancy Pelosi
Democrats keep losing elections - but still control the country's direction.
By Will Offensicht | July 6, 2017
Regardless of how unpopular President Trump might appear to be in various polls, Democrats have lost all five of the recent special elections to replace members of the House of Representatives whom Mr. Trump had appointed to federal office.
In particular, Democrats lost despite pouring enough money into the Georgia election to make it the most expensive House election ever. This unbroken string of frustrating failure has caused many Democrats to call for replacing Representative Nancy Pelosi as the minority leader in the House.
This song has been sung before. Representative Tim Ryan challenged her for party leadership after the Democrats lost the White House to Mr. Trump in 2016; Ms. Pelosi won resoundingly, 134 to 63. The New York Times reported:
Ms. Pelosi, whose victory was mockingly cheered by Republicans as good news for them, dismissed the idea that House Democrats could no longer win with her at the helm. And she vowed that Democrats would continue to stand as a foil to President-elect Donald J. Trump's administration.
"We know how to win elections," Ms. Pelosi said. "We've done it in the past. We will do it again by making that differentiation."
In the event, she has just lost five "winnable" elections in a row. Her critics have pointed out that the Republicans repeatedly advertise that regardless of a voter's opinions of Mr. Trump, sending another Democrat to the House would support Ms. Pelosi's policies, all of which are anathema to Republicans. Thus the thought that she ought to be replaced with a less divisive figure.
Money, the Mother's Milk of Politics
There are many reasons why this is unlikely to happen. For one thing, during her 15 years in House leadership, Ms. Pelosi has learned to get pretty much anything she wants from her Democrat colleagues.
"She has a lot of friends," Mr. Ryan said. "This is her caucus, clearly."
Even more importantly, the Times explained why her job is secure regardless of the five straight losses:
Since entering the House Democratic leadership in 2002, Ms. Pelosi has raised nearly $568 million for her party. Just in the 2016 election cycle, she raised over $141 million. ..." [emphasis added]
"Nobody pushed Michael Jordan into retirement," said Representative Emanuel Cleaver II, Democrat of Missouri.
Political money contributed to Republicans is clearly evil, but money given to Democrats is not only OK, it's influential enough to keep a failed leader in power.
A handful of principled or far-left Democrats think Rep. Pelosi's popularity with the monied set is a bit unseemly for a party that claims to care about the little guy:
"You can't tell people you're against big money, that you're fighting for the average American, and then spend so much of your time with PACs and corporate interests and the very wealthy," said Representative Beto O'Rourke, a Texas Democrat who has been frustrated with Ms. Pelosi and is running for the Senate. In any case, Mr. O'Rourke added, "if money were the critical factor, we'd be in the majority right now." [emphasis added]
This is clearly a minority view among Democrats, as expressed by their continued votes to keep her as leader. Do they, perhaps, know something that is not obvious?
Loser? What Loser?
The real reason Ms. Pelosi isn't going anywhere is that her losses are in numbers only.
Yes, she no longer commands a Democrat majority in Congress and doesn't seem to be able to win any more seats to make up the difference. On paper, this looks very bad: isn't the whole point of a political party to win seats and thus power?
Yet in spite of losing legislative seats, the overall "big government" philosophy represented by Nancy Pelosi's Democrats is winning even without a Democrat in the White House or Democrats in official charge of either house of Congress. Although they've lost more than 1,000 federal, state, and local elective offices since President Obama took office, Democrat "big government" ideas are supported wholeheartedly by the "deep state."
Every swamp-dwelling federal and state government employee supports Ms. Pelosi's theories of governance and will spare no effort to help her thwart President Trump's efforts to "drain the swamp." Their support makes it possible for her to keep her vow that Democrats would "stand as a foil" to President Trump's administration. She didn't mean elected Democrats, she was referring to the entire Federal bureaucracy, much of the court system, and nearly all of the media, who are as loyal Democrats as any elected official.
Ms. Pelosi doesn't even seem to care that Democrats have lost so many elective positions - and, really, why should she?. She acts as if government isn't run by elected officials anyway. She doesn't mind the Republicans' successful efforts to use her as a reason not to vote for Democrats. Her Democrats have enough Senators and Representatives to block most of Mr. Trump's agenda, particularly since the Stupid Party can't get its act together, and the swamp dwellers will continue the policies she favors.
Yes, President Trump is signing executive orders, only to have them kneecapped by pro-swamp courts. Republicans campaigned on repealing Obamacare for years and now can't even pass a bill despite commanding majorities. A handful of new onerous Obama-era regulations have been rolled back - leaving a half-century of overregulation still firmly in place. Progressives are hollering as if Republicans just skinned and ate their puppy, but really, they have nothing to complain about. Insider Dems know this, which is why Nancy Pelosi is still sitting pretty.
As Chief Swamp Critter, she's a major force behind efforts to keep Mr. Trump from draining it.
Has Mr. Trump been able to build his wall? Nope.
Has Mr. Trump been able to repeal Obamacare? Nope.
Has Mr. Trump been able to cut taxes on anyone? Nope.
Has Mr. Trump gotten rid rid of our idiotic ethanol subsidies which lower "gasoline" mileage while increasing carbon generation? Nope.
Has Mr. Trump been able to cut the sorts of solar subsidies which have turned German electricity into a luxury good? Nope.
Has Mr. Trump been able to do much about the swamp? Nope, nope and nope!
Why should Ms. Pelosi care who wins elections? Why should she go anywhere as long as she's winning so yuuuugely where it really counts?
Will Offensicht is a staff writer for Scragged.com and an internationally published author by a different name. Read other Scragged.com articles by Will Offensicht or other articles on Partisanship.
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Blank Reg said:
I think you are being too harsh on Trump's achievements. He's already got his first SCOTUS pick in, with perhaps 2 more coming down the pipe. That alone could be sufficient to turn the ship of state around.
He's been in office just under 6 months, and you're complaining he hasn't accomplished the things you listed yet? We're just getting started. By 2020, I do expect to see Obamacare repeal (really don't care whether it's "replaced"), a wall at least partially built (people like to see physical structures, but that "wall" could just as easily be one of concrete, electronics/sensors, or simply flying lead), and an end to some subsidies (tax cuts are less of a priority).
ALL of us need to drain the swamp, he can't do it all by himself.
bsinn said:
Not sure if it is Ms Pelosi's doing or the legacy of President Obama's 8 year Dependency State. The health care debates seem to revolve around the fact that people would prefer that someone else pay their medical bills. Insurance reform seems to be the easy one. The hard one is winding down the open ended entitlement that is Medicaid. It is very difficult to take away freebies. Especially from people who have left the work force and don't really have any marketable skills. While our economy has about 6 million open job positions, these folks are not willing or ready to fill them.
While it may have been a mistake to make reforming Obamacare the top priority, it did zero in on the key issue that tick off the core Trump supporters...people turning safety nets into hammocks.
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Most of us who have been reading comics for the last thirty years or so have at least a little bit of the collector mentality about us: You buy a comic, you read it, it goes in a bag and in a box, perhaps never to be seen again.
Here at Sequential Swap, the goal is to spread our comic reading experience as far and wide as possible, through the swapping of trade paperbacks and graphic novels. We are an online community connecting people who are much more interested in reading these books than in sticking them in a closet somewhere and forgetting about them.
Want to get in on the fun? Well, first you have to own a couple of trades or graphic novels that you're willing to list for swap. Once that's taken care of, you're welcome to join and contact any of our members to negotiate one-for-one swaps. Check out the About page for more specific info.
What are you waiting for? There's a whole lot of reading you haven't done yet!
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