I'll fill it in soon!
Why did you choose Portland? I came to Portland to work with one of the most innovative orchestras in the United States.
What do you like to do with out-of-towners? Eat! I really like to show people the unexpected restaurants here in Portland. I like to surprise people with places like Bou Bou, Boda and Tandem. It's not just lobster rolls up here!
Where's your "happy place" on the peninsula? Pretty much anywhere within eyeshot of the water. Coming from Texas, it was something I really missed.
What's the most surprising thing about this city? It has to be the culture. It's a bit of shock to get this far outside of a big city and see so many amazing artists and institutions flourishing.
What's your favorite indulgence and where do you find it? I can't say no to a Holy Donut. But then again, I haven't met anyone that can.
Describe your perfect night—and the following morning—in Portland. Drinks at Portland Hunt and Alpine club with my wife Samantha and then off to catch something at Space Gallery or Merrill Auditorium. After that, maybe a little late dinner at Nosh with friends and some tasty breakfast and people watching the following morning at Aurora Provisions to cut through the fog.
Do you have a serendipity spot? Where do you always bump into good people? Anywhere up and down Congress street.


text:
The Dungeons & Dragons Companion Set is an expansion boxed set for the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy role-playing game. It was first published in 1984 as an expansion to the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set.

Publication history
The Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set was revised in 1983 by Frank Mentzer as Dungeons & Dragons Set 1: Basic Rules. Between 1983 and 1985, this system was revised and expanded by Mentzer as a series of five boxed sets, including the Basic Rules, Expert Rules (supporting character levels 4 through 14), Companion Rules (supporting levels 15 through 25), Master Rules (supporting levels 26 through 36),<ref>Gygax, Gary, Frank Mentzer. Dungeons & Dragons Set 4: Master Rules (TSR, 1985)</ref> and Immortal Rules (supporting Immortals – characters who had transcended levels). The Companion Rules set was written by Mentzer, with art by Larry Elmore and Jeff Easley. It was published by TSR in 1984 as a boxed set containing a 64-page book and a 32-page book. The set contains two booklets: Player's Companion: Book One and Dungeon Master's Companion: Book Two, which were edited by Anne Gray.

The 10th Anniversary Dungeons & Dragons Collector's Set boxed set, published by TSR in 1984, included the rulebooks from the Basic, Expert, and Companion sets; modules AC2, AC3, B1, B2, and M1, Blizzard Pass; Player Character Record Sheets; and dice. This set was limited to 1,000 copies and was sold by mail and at GenCon 17.

Contents
The Player's Companion covers information on character levels 15-25. The book begins with commentary on the changes since a character began as an adventurer at level one. It introduces new weapons, armor types, and unarmed combat rules as well as providing details on running a stronghold and its recurrent costs, such as wages of the castle staff. The Player's Companion details the new abilities and increases in skills, spells, and other abilities that accrue to members of each character class as they rise in level. This section concentrates wholly on human characters, treating dwarves, elves, and halflings separately. The concept of "attack rank" is introduced for the three demi-human classes; although, per the Expert Set rules, they are capped at a specified maximum level, further accumulation of experience points increases their combat abilities. It also introduces the optional character class of druid, presented as a special progression for clerics of neutral alignment.

The Dungeon Master's Companion begins with general guidelines on running a campaign and planning adventures for characters of level 15 and higher. The introduction also constructs a feudal system to provide a basis for the dominions, which will be granted to or conquered by the player characters. This section ends with notes on the organization and running of tournaments. The next section "The War Machine" was designed by Douglas Niles and Gary Spiegel as a method for coping with large-scale battles, especially those in the campaign's background. This book covers running high-level campaigns, including mass combat, other worlds and planes, and new monsters and treasure. It also contains three mini-scenarios.

Reception
The Companion Set was reviewed by Megan C. Robertson in issue 61 of White Dwarf magazine (January 1985), rating it a 7 out of 10 overall. Robertson noted that most characters that reach 15th level in the Basic D&D game should be thinking of settling down and retiring and felt that the D&D Companion Set'' provides: "some ideas for this to be a little more interesting than simple retirement".

References

Dungeons & Dragons sourcebooks
Role-playing game supplements introduced in 1984

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
All the Ways HBO's The Outsider Differs From Stephen King's Book
HBO's creepy adaptation made some key changes, for better and for worse.
posted by Jade Budowski
Saturday 3/7/2020 at 3:00AM EST
Ben Mendelshon and Cynthia Erivo in The Outsider. (HBO)
Set to air its finale this weekend, The Outsider, HBO's limited series chronicling the unraveling of a small Georgia town following the gruesome murder of a young boy, is the latest in a recent uptick of Stephen King adaptations. It may also be the best to make the transition to TV thus far. Helmed by Richard Price (The Night Of, The Wire), the series has featured a stellar cast — particularly Ben Mendelson and Cynthia Erivo — and enough nightmare fuel to keep us itching for the next installment from one week to the next.
Like most book-to-screen adaptations, The Outsider has made a number of changes from King's source material. Some are relatively minor name changes. With the exception of Terry, the Maitlands in particular all got new names. Pregnant detective Tamika Collins was originally Betsy Riggins. DA Bill Samuels is now "Kenneth Hayes." And attorney Howie Salomon and suspect Heath Hofstadter originally had the surnames "Gold" and "Holmes," respectively. The show's pacing and sequence of events are also predictably more cinematic than the book's pages of questioning and exposition that precede any real progress in the case. But HBO's version of The Outsider has also made some more significant changes in its transition from page to screen, and overall, they've affected the show quite positively. Obviously, many a spoiler lies ahead.
This may not seem like a particularly massive change, but shifting The Outsider's setting from the fictional town of Flint City, Oklahoma, to Cherokee City, Georgia has benefited the show in several ways. There's something a little stickier, a bit more unsettling about the series taking place in the humid south that makes all the evil lurking beneath the surface of this case seem all the more tense and effective. The group having to venture to Tennessee (rather than Marysville, Texas) also heightens the drama, taking them much further away from their loved ones. Some locations and essential story beats remain the same: The Maitlands still take a trip to Dayton, Ohio, where Terry has his fate sealed by Heath Hofstadter, but the general vibe of The Outsider is definitely altered thanks to the new southeastern setting.
Holly Gibney
One of the biggest (and best) leaps the show has taken was casting the incomparable Cynthia Erivo in the role of Holly Gibney. Her character in the book is described as a pale middle-aged woman with graying hair who suffers from clinical anxiety. In the show, she still boasts many of the same personality traits — and still reads as autistic, even if she's never explicitly diagnosed as such. But rather than attributing her abilities to science as King does in the book, the series implies there might be something supernatural at work within her. Price has said he made all of these changes with King's blessing, but there was one area where King didn't budge — her name.
If there's one thing The Outsider does incredibly well, it's correcting the oft-unbearable whiteness of its source material. Holly is just one example of this. In the novel, almost every character we encounter is described as white; Price pretty much tosses this out the window, and the show is all the better for it.
Andy Katcavage
Another change that largely seems to exist to serve Holly is the addition of ex-detective Andy Katcavage (portrayed by Derek Cecil). Katcavage is entirely a show creation, perhaps added because Holly's often lonely detective work would not have worked as well on screen as it does in the book. Andy has not only helped to give Holly her own separate life from what's happening in Cherokee City and beyond, but he's provided us with more insight into her wants and desires, giving her a constant friend to depend on (and on a show this frequently depressing, a love interest to get excited about). Of course, their relationship also ups the stakes for Holly should something happen to him.
Maria Caneles and Tracey Powell
These two show-created characters further help to illustrate the horror of El Cuco and the way it destroys families and leaves devastation in its wake. New Yorker Maria Caneles (Diany Rodriguez) is the only surviving "murderer" and El Cuco victim they're able to find, and Holly is first introduced to the concept of El Cuco after a nearby woman at the prison overhears her discussion with Maria. (In the book, Yunis Sablo introduces the monster with the help of a Mexican film). It takes quite a while for the rest of the gang to get on board with Holly's theory after she brings it to the table, and in the interim, El Cuco only grows stronger.
Similarly, the show creates a cousin for Heath Hofstadter named Tracey Powell (Drez Ryan), who falls victim to the same heinous neck rash as Jack Hoskins. Tracey's DNA is also found in the car where Hofstadter kidnapped the murdered little girls, and he evidently dies by suicide via cops, unable to face what he did or what he knows about the evil that now controls him. Tracy doesn't appear at all in the book, but his existence in the series offers us more insight into El Cuco's ability to eradicate entire families and its delight in feeding on unthinkable grief and pain.
Derek Anderson
One of the biggest changes between the book and the series is the death of Derek Anderson, the son of Detective Ralph Anderson (Ben Mendelsohn). In the book, he spends the summer safely at summer camp; in the series he's recently died of cancer. While there is certainly something to be said for how the emotional weight of losing a child affects our protagonist, The Outsider's handling of his grief occasionally borders on cliched, and — even worse — cheesy. (I'm not sure I can discuss the "Dad, you have to let me go" scene with a straight face, and I am someone who likes this show and Ben Mendelsohn's performance a lot).
It makes sense on many levels to immerse Ralph in grief on a much more personal level. We know that El Cuco feeds on this kind of devastation, and that Ralph deeply feels the weight of Frankie Peterson's death, in part due to his own loss. It just feels as though we could have done with a little more showing (rather than telling) how this family is actually moving through their lives following the death of their son.
For a show that has so effectively built on its source material, it will be interesting to see where it goes from here. Originally pitched as a limited series, Price reportedly working on a second season for which there will be no source material.
The Outsider airs its season finale on HBO this Sunday, March 8th at 9:00 PM ET.
People are talking about The Outsider in our forums. Join the conversation.
Jade Budowski is a freelance writer with a knack for ruining punchlines and harboring dad-aged celebrity crushes. She was previously a reporter/producer at Decider and is a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow her on Twitter: @jadebudowski.
TOPICS: The Outsider, HBO, Ben Mendelsohn, Cynthia Erivo, Derek Cecil, Diany Rodriguez, Drez Ryan, Richard Price, Stephen King
More The Outsider on Primetimer:
HBO killed a potential golden goose by canceling The Outsider
HBO cancels The Outsider after one season
P-Valley reclaims stripping from a tired trope in Prestige TV dramas
With HBO's The Outsider, Richard Price bent Stephen King's story to own aesthetic, making it sadder with more death
Dive Deeper: Visit the The Outsider page

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
The SetList Program allows you to search through the Grateful Dead's setlists for shows between 1965 and 1995. It also allows users to comment-on and share their experiences for each show. Find a show you've attended, and leave some comments for other users!
Search Grateful Dead Setlists:
State/
Date 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95
Exact Match Lookup
Only search shows with comments:
< Back · Home
1 Show Found
Field House (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) - Troy, NY
The Other One
Download/Listen to this Show at Archive.org
Where to start with this one? The giant Allman Brothers mushroom logo that someone had drawn in the dust on one of the equipment trucks? The Hells Angels in force at the show (no trouble at all...)? The 95 degree temperature inside the hall? Bobby, Jerry, and Donna doing the hula (yes, really!) during Iko Iko... The white lights being turned up full behind Jerry at the end of He's Gone so that he in fact did dissapear in front of our eyes... The bathroom sink that someone accidently ripped out of the wall during the show... or the Hell's Angels AFTER the show, when they came flying through the bumper to bumper post-show traffic jam. Whee!
Hard to believe but this was my very first show... What a long, strange, (wonderful) trip it has been. I still catch the boys wherever and when ever I can.. Just two weeks ago Bobby sat in with the Waybacks at the Great American Music Hall, What a treat. My one hope is that Bobby, Phil, Micky, and Billy will appreciate just how much we miss them together. It's summer and the time is right for Dancin in the Streets with "The Dead" Lets make it happen again soon, and having Joan, Rob, and Bruce would make it a great great party!! With all the horrors around us, give us something to get excited and happy about... Hope to see you on the road!!!
This is my all-time FAVORITE Scarlet-Fire. It's so sunny! 5-8-77 gets a lot of attention so I think this one is rather overlooked. But it's gorgeous! I've listened to it so often that I have the solo during Scarlet pretty much memorized forever.
- (02/16/2008)
My first show, spent the day at SUNYA for MayFEST - Robert Hunter if I recall - that might not be correct, then afternoon over the river and through the woods to the field house we went and saw an awesome show....I have some photos from it...blew me away. Too much to remember...or forget..woke up 3pm the next day...yikes!
At this writing, the Scarlet>Fire from this show (a gem) is available as a free download on the official Dead site here: http://www.dead.net/30daysofdead
... thank you Sirius for sharing the 5/7/1978 Troy, NY show with us today for the 12:00 Noon Hour ...
iko iko on & on & on & on .......
tyedyetom
Comment on this Show!
Band Configuration
(10/20/74 - 02/17/79)
Lead Guitar: Jerry Garcia
Rhythm Guitar: Bob Weir
Bass: Phil Lesh
Keyboards: Keith Godchaux
Drums: Bill Kreutzmann
Drums: Mickey Hart
Backup Vocals: Donna Godchaux
Note: Band configuration is across specified time period. Configuration for particular show may have differed.
The SetList Program is Copyright © 1996-2021 Madhu Lundquist. Band configurations compliments of .
Direct all questions/comments to
Send all corrections to


text:
The Breda A.14 was a prototype three-engined biplane, designed by Società Italiana Ernesto Breda as a night bomber in 1928.

Design and development
The aircraft was proposed to the Regia Aeronautica, but failed assessments, and was abandoned. The aircraft was designed to solve the flight problems experienced on the A.8. The A.14 was tested in 1928, powered by three  Alfa Romeo Jupiter engines. Although performance was improved, the Regia Aeronautica decided not to accept the A.14. To make up for the costs, it was suggested that a demilitarised version be sold to civilians, but a lack of civilian interest resulted in the abandonment of the project.

Specifications

References

Further reading

A.14
1920s Italian bomber aircraft
Biplanes
Trimotors
Aircraft first flown in 1928


This yummy top is all sorts of gypsy wild! The sides widen out towards the hemline thanks to 9" comfort slits, where gorgeous hand-knotted fringe falls luxuriously all the way round. On the sleeve hems, too! You can cinch it at the waist with a wide Moroccan belt or contrasting sash or scarf, or let it drape dreamily over your favorite pants or skirt... either way, it is a style you can wear any time, any way!


text:
CMO interview: Building the brand customer proposition at eBay
Recently installed marketing chief and former AMEX customer and consumer marketer, Julie Nestor, shares her views on brand building, consumer insights and Australia's retail landscape
Nadia Cameron (CMO)
03 October, 2018 07:02
Julie Nestor
It's been six months since Julie Nestor joined eBay Australia as chief marketing officer, and one of her initial priorities has been launching the online marketplace's first loyalty program.
Debuting in June, eBay Plus was originally overseen by the product team but in need of marketing's touch and customer lens, she says. Having sat on customer retention teams at both Optus and American Express, as well as worked on NRMA's membership program during her 20-year career, loyalty and retention are passion points for this experienced marketer.
"At first though, this didn't feel like loyalty as you were asking a customer to pay for it. It made me think about it differently and realise loyalty has evolved," Nestor tells CMO. "People are willing to pay for subscription services that provide value. That can still be a loyalty program and drive the same outcome in the end – with customers spending more, staying with you, and so on."
Because when eBay asked customers what they needed, certainty around free delivery and returns on anything they buy came up trumps. So the program's core proposition is free delivery and returns on millions of items for a flat fee.
"That's where we started and it's meeting expectations," Nestor says. "It was the right thing to launch for existing eBay customers, but to attract new people, it needs more. That's a big focus in the next 6-12 months."
Getting the customer loyalty program right is just one of the ways eBay is attempting to shift organisational focus from a product-led proposition to customer centricity. According to Nestor, 'loyalty' efforts previously focused on cross-sell and upsell, rather than how to achieve customer stickiness.
"Personalisation has been a global capability but wasn't really there in terms of customer mapping and journey, and starting with what we know about customers and why they come to eBay," she explains.
"When you're a market leader with all this volume, the mentality is around how you keep making the machine work a bit harder every year, rather than that cultural shift to customer centricity. The latter requires us to look at fundamental things like opt-out rates, how many people are reading our emails, how do we respond to them, and just because you bought a phone last week, why are we still feeding you phone offers as you're not going to buy another one."
What's also been absent at eBay, Nestor argues, is the art and human insight. "Sometimes we've had to come in and interrupt the algorithm and use a human brain to say how can we do this differently and what might be aspiring to a customer. It's not just relying on the machine," she says.
Read more Former Virgin Mobile CMO and CEO joins oOh! as first customer chief
Nestor's plans to invest heavily in brand building is another reflection of the shift in thinking at eBay. A fresh brand-led campaign is due out shortly emphasising some of the core customer-led capabilities of what the marketplace delivers.
While very comfortable in the performance management space, Nestor suggests eBay lost brand focus in recent years. "You have to get away from that constant onslaught of retail promotions, discounts and coupons and start driving a more valuable buyer experience from the product you have," she continues.
"I'm coming in with a strong buyer lens, which is what eBay needs right now. It's been such a successful business – 9.5 million Australians on the site every month – but we have to keep growing and still get the group that haven't made the transition. And it has to be better than just continuing to give them tactical offers. There needs to be a clear reason to think about eBay and to change consideration set.
Read more The Star's first CMO creates all-new marketing team
"That requires us to shift the balance towards spending on brand over performance and across the funnel."
To help, Nestor is looking at what people actually think about eBay and notes significant perception gaps.
"We still have this legacy of being the second-hand auction marketplace even when over 90 per cent of what we sell now is new," she says. "But every time I tell that at a BBQ, people are surprised. So telling that story is important, and it's hard to do via performance marketing."
Assisting Nestor reset the balance are two new resources: One executive with strong skills in media and creative, and another with strong expertise in customer engagement. At the same time, she recognises the need for data and insight to help her cause.
Read more Why you should be tapping language-based consumer insight to build brand
"I'm pushing hard on getting a full MMM [media mix modelling] and MTA [multi-touch attribution] model in next year to help with that," she says. "We've put in a lot more in-market testing with creative work and we've done some synthetic test and control to get a read out on brand so we can put an efficiency target next to it."
There's no shortage of data at Nestor's disposal within eBay already, and she says it's mind boggling how many ways the business can potentially gain customer insight. But with so many things to talk to customers about, she again notes a tendency to focus on product and internal insight over customer need.
"There are so many messages – such as abandoning a cart, so should we talk to you about that product, or do we remind you we have a money-back guarantee or best price promise? They were all very initiative focused and not very customer centric," she says.
Read more NAB confirms Ristevski as group CMO and customer leader
To combat this, Nestor is looking to overlay eBay's first-party data with third-party data to better understand customers in terms of overall interests and preferences.
"If you're a bit of a discount shopper and you're price conscious based on some of the other places you're buying from and your spending patterns, we can give you an offer more relevant to price," she says. "Whereas if you're someone who really values convenience and has a lot of subscriptions and comfortable with them, we're probably going to talk more about eBay Plus.
"It's a segment approach that's different to what's traditionally been used by eBay, which would be based on your value and behaviour with us today, as opposed to potential value based on you in the open world."
Nestor says different data sets should be used by the brand to engage customers depending on channel and context. "When someone is on the site, we need to trust the algorithm to get that second purchase," she says. "This is about trying to be a lot more relevant and reducing the amount of communication we're sending.
Read more WW chief brand officer: Creating a global health and fitness brand
"One of the biggest challenges I find is the overuse of owned channels to reach your customers. I'm thinking about how to get personalised offsite and take that same rigour with messaging and personalisation we use on owned channels and use them offsite more."
Mindful versus mindless
Another initiative Nestor kicked off to help her customer cause is on 'mindless versus mindful' shopping. As a democratic online marketplace, it's hard to control every product and listing, she explains. A challenge is making sure customers trust eBay to provide the best outcome.
This led to significant insight work and research around customer segments and identification of 'mindful' versus 'mindless' shopping.
Read more Eymery switches L'Oreal for Seek digital marketing gig
"Mindful shopping is, for example, needing to buy a birthday gift for your mum that has to be special and is you're prepared to put time into it," Nestor says. In contrast, mindless is shopping for toilet paper or nappies and is usually driven by search.
"If you're doing the latter and we don't give you a fast experience, you're not coming back. EBay has been way too geared for mindful shopping even for mindless purchases," she says.
Based on these insights, eBay Australia has started change the user experience onsite based on products it knows fall in either category. It's starting with its top-selling technology products, along with fashion.
"We need to attract more young females to eBay and fashion is the way in," Nestor says. "We're starting at a vertical level on inventory that matters to a customer's ongoing likelihood to continue to purchase and stay with eBay."
Read more CMO interview: What Mortgage Choice's marketing leader is doing to instil CX
Up next: How Nestor views the Amazon effect, plus what to do about CMO tenure and managing CEO expectations
How leading CMOs balance the art and science of marketing leadership
More from Amazon Web Services
Tags: ebaycustomer insightdata-driven marketingmarketing careersbrand strategy


No one can live without water. But due to the wastage of water, there soon will be scarcity everywhere. To stop this, the government will initiate strict rules. Now from 15th April onwards, don't waste water or will invite a fine of Rs 2,000. The Municipal Corporation informed that the residents will be fined from April 15 until June 30. Thus watering of the lawns, courtyards, as well as washing of cars or any other vehicle with a hosepipe will not be allowed. Chief Engineer Manoj Bansal reported that there will be strict checking. Images or videos of the violators can also be updated on WhatsApp of the civic team of officials.
According to the officials, there will be a special eye on the northern sectors because the civic body has found that the water consumption in such sectors is higher than the southern sectors. MC public health has found that there are houses bigger than one canal, so the consumption is more up to 1,376 liters of water per head.
Over than 500 people were challaned for wasting a lot of water. However, the councilors confirmed that the number of people was less and checking will be strict to stop water wastage. Due to rise in temperature, the demand also increases. The residents who stay at the upper side complain of a low water pressure. While the situation is worse in the southern side of the city.
Chandigarh is already facing a shortage of water. Because it only gets 85 Million Gallons Daily (MGD) in demand of 116 MGD during summers. Thus the shortage leaves everyone high and also dry. Mayor Davesh Moudgil has said that he will ask the public health team. To stay alert and also issue challans immediately on seeing somebody who is wasting water.
So now you might be thinking of how much have you wasted until now. And it's high time that you stop doing so. Not only you will have to pay for it, but also it can lead to water scarcity. So save water and contribute your good to the society. But soon these popular cities will face water scarcity soon! So start saving.
15 times Barney Stinson proved he is legen – wait for it – dary!
These 10 Bollywood Superstars Are Not Known By Their Real Names!


text:
Explanatory Statement
1.1 Matters Of National Significance
1.2 Designated Areas
Section 9 of the Australian Capital Territory (Planning and Land Management) Act 1988 (the Act) states that the object of the National Capital Plan (the Plan) is to ensure that Canberra and the Territory are planned and developed in accordance with their national significance.
In order to establish an effective relationship between the Commonwealth's role in the planning and development of Canberra and the Territory as the National Capital, and the ACT Government's role in the planning and development of the Territory in the interests of good government of the Territory, it is essential to have an understanding of the implications and intent of the concept of 'national significance' as presented in the Plan.
Part One provides a narrative describing the national significance of Canberra and the Territory. This narrative describes the aspiration of our forebears and the subsequent selection of the site for the nation's capital, the winning plan for a city which now symbolises Australian democracy, the values, ideas and achievements of Australian people, and the city as a place of foreign representation. Following this narrative, a series of 'matters of national significance' are nominated. These matters of national significance are those considered vital to advancing the aspects of Canberra and the Territory which are special to the character of the city and to the National Capital role.
Having regard to the national significance of Canberra and the Territory and the matters of national significance, Part One specifies Designated Areas in accordance with section 10(1) of the Act. These areas represent those places and spaces deemed to have the special characteristics of the National Capital.
Canberra is nationally significant as a major outcome and symbol of the Federation of Australia and home of Australia's democracy. The city was conceived as an ideal city, a National Capital worthy of the aspirations, passions, values and patriotism of the Federation movement for the fledgling Australian nation. Canberra is home to the Parliament and Executive, is the centre of national administration and home to many of Australia's national institutions. It is a city which embodies the Australian spirit, and symbolises Australian life and achievement.
Canberra is one of the few cities in the world designed on a greenfield site through an international town planning competition. The result of this is a city in which the character and setting are unique – a beautiful city of identifiably Australian character, based on 'city beautiful' and 'garden city' town planning concepts prevalent at the time of the city's inception.
An international competition for the design of Australia's National Capital was announced in 1911. Walter Burley and Marion Mahony Griffin's (the Griffins') winning plan, on which the development of Canberra was first based, was more than sympathetic to the aspirations of those in Federal Parliament at the time. The Griffins' used the topography to provide fitting sites, approaches, outlooks and backdrops for great buildings to house the nation's major institutions of democracy, for ceremonial occasions, and for other purposes related to the national functions of the city. The open space system, the hills, and grand avenues accentuate natural axes and become both the symbolic and functional base for the Capital.
Adherence to the vision of the National Capital as a 'great and beautiful city', has ensured that the immediate landscape setting of the City as well as the distant mountains in the Australian Capital Territory have been consciously protected from development; has protected the environment of the ACT from excessive pollution; has created the open space system which separates individual towns yet binds the whole together into the city of Canberra; and has preserved the integrity of land and buildings for national purposes.
As the seat of Australia's robust democracy, Canberra provides the Australian community with public spaces for vibrant exchange between the citizenry and their parliamentary representatives. Canberra has been the site for momentous decisions and movements for change that have impacted on the lives of all Australians and continue to resonate today.
The city is significant for its role in commemoration – the celebration of people, events or ideas that have meaning and value for the community, and sites or objects which are a physical expression of prevailing ideas and beliefs of the Australian people. The central areas of Canberra are home to the many commemorative works representing people, ideas and events that have cultural significance for the nation, which reflect the evolving values, ideas and aspirations of the Australian community, and which contribute to the education of all Australians by enhancing our sense of place and increasing our understanding of cultural diversity.
The major criteria defined in the aspirations of our first Members of Parliament and translated so eloquently in the Griffins' plans, are the keys to the character of the Canberra of today. These principles and the city they produced were judged to be of national significance when first espoused in 1907, and remain so today.
Matters of national significance in the planning and development of Canberra and the Territory include:
The pre-eminence of the role of Canberra and the Territory as the centre of National Capital functions, and as the symbol of Australian national life and values.
Conservation and enhancement of the landscape features which give the National Capital its character and setting, and which contribute to the integration of natural and urban environments.
Respect for the key elements of the Griffins' formally adopted plan for Canberra.
Creation, conservation and enhancement of fitting sites, approaches and backdrops for national institutions and ceremonies as well as National Capital uses.
The development of a city which both respects environmental values and reflects national concerns with the sustainability of Australia's urban areas.
In identifying lands that have the 'special characteristics of the National Capital' and deciding the extent of the Designated Areas, three primary factors are relevant:
Canberra hosts a wide range of national functions – activities which occur in Canberra because it is the National Capital and which give Canberra a unique function within Australia.
The Griffins' strong symbolic design for Canberra Central has given the National Capital a unique and memorable character.
Canberra's landscape setting and layout within the Territory have given the Capital a garden city image of national and international significance.
The National Capital functions include Parliamentary uses; key Australian Government policy departments which have a close association with Parliament; official residences of the Prime Minister and the Governor-General; chanceries and diplomatic missions of foreign countries; major national institutions such as the High Court, Australian National Gallery and the like; and major national associations.
Land has also been set aside and developed for non-building uses. Examples are Anzac Parade, which performs a ceremonial purpose as well as functioning as a roadway, and Anzac Park which is effectively set aside for memorials. All of these examples and like activities and functions have the 'special characteristics of the National Capital', and should be included within Designated Areas of the Plan for their national significance to be recognised, and assured.
The Griffins' design incorporated the hills of (inner) Canberra – Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain, Red Hill and Mount Pleasant – and the lake and its foreshores into the plan, as much as buildings and roads.
The Griffins' design had four main elements:
the use of topography as an integral design feature and as a setting
a symbolic hierarchy of land uses designed to reflect the order and functions of democratic government
a geometric plan with the central triangle formed by grand avenues terminating at Capital Hill, the symbolic centre of the nation
a system of urban centres.
Canberra has been developed as a series of separate but linked towns, established in valleys and shaped and separated from each other by a system of open space. This arrangement has protected the major hills and ridges from development, and has created a scenic backdrop and natural setting for the urban areas. It has reinforced the garden character for which Canberra is renowned. This landscape setting makes a major contribution to the environmental quality which is a feature of Canberra's character. Conserving and enhancing the landscape setting is important in retaining the character of the National Capital.
Within Designated Areas the National Capital Authority has sole responsibility for determining Detailed Conditions of Planning, Design and Development, and for Works Approval.
The use of land within Designated Areas for a purpose not specifically set out in a Precinct Code may be permitted by the National Capital Authority where it is satisfied that a particular proposal is not inconsistent with relevant principles and policies of the Plan.
Designated Areas comprise:
Lake Burley Griffin and its Foreshores
the National Triangle and adjacent sites
the balance of the Central National Area adjoining the Lake and the Triangle, and extending from the foot of Black Mountain to the airport
sites set aside solely for Diplomatic use
the Inner Hills which form the setting of the Central National Area
the Main Avenues and Approach Routes between the ACT border and the Central National Area.
A map of the Designated Areas is available here.
Governance Prev
Part Two – Statement Of Planning Principles Next


Learning from the Wise | Pray. Work. Motherhood.
This past weekend, I made the decision to take my three girls on a five-hour road trip to visit my great-aunt in Morgan City, Louisiana. We left HH and Superman here in Houston for A Weekend to do Manly Things.
I decided to take this trip because I have been doing a lot of thinking about how generations from the past learned basic life skills and relationship counseling from older family members and friends. In other words, they sought wisdom from those who had already experienced many of the same things they were currently going through. I know this sounds simplistic, but hear me out. We are living in a world where everything is Googleable, from "how soon should I give my baby solids?" to "what do I do if my spouse and I fight over money." We look up YouTube videos to learn to sew a button, knit a sweater, frost a cake, and change a tire. Of course, sometimes these things really are best illustrated with the help of modern technology. And sometimes, non-experts don't give the best advice, like the time an older family member fed my two month old applesauce. Clearly, some guidelines from a doctor would be better when it comes to recommended ages for feeding babies solid foods.
But when did the internet become not only our first, but largely only, reference library? Superman and I have recently been working through some relatively minor issues in our marriage, and for the first time in a very long time, my first instinct wasn't to find a book or a website to walk me through the conflict resolution. My first thought was to call my widowed grandmother, who had been married to my grandfather for almost 50 years when he died. He was a man with a good heart, but he was an alcoholic. Surely my grandma could give me advice on how she coped with that, every day of her marriage? This really got me thinking about how families in general are spread out all over the country, and thus no one is really "around" to ask these types of questions. And so we look to the internet for answers. Why not grandma? Why not the neighbor lady who raised three kids? Why not the grizzled war veteran?
First stop? Jesus in the Adoration Chapel at our parish church. The Holy Spirit nudged me to stop in on the way out of town to ask Jesus to protect us and grow closer to Him over the weekend. We awere running a bit behind schedule when we left the house, so I was tempted to skip the stop, but I decided this would be a great tradition to institute, and there's no time like the present! As it turns out, we arrived right at 6:30am, which was exactly when a small group of folks gather in the Chapel to pray Morning Prayer of the Divine Office. PERFECT start to the day! As we exited the Chapel and headed back to the car, we saw a parishioner walking her dog. The girls enjoyed the few minutes that I allowed them to play with and pet our new furry friend, and it was in that moment that I realized this weekend should be about drinking in the experiences as they happen. I silently resolved not to say "Not right now," "Come on, hurry up," or "Let's GO, girls!" all weekend. I'm proud to say I didn't!
We stopped several times on the way there, including once at a rest stop which had a playground. I let the girls run and slide for at least 15 minutes, something I'd have never done without my new resolution to let them drink in each experience. Once we arrived at our destination, Therese immediately began exploring the backyard.
Meanwhile, Elizabeth and Marie were being kept busy by a Photo Scavenger Hunt that their great grand-aunt had prepared for them. They were racing against the clock, and each other, to find each of these items. And the fun twist she added? They had to take a selfie with each item! I have never heard so many squeals of excitement!
The "#18" that we found. Notice the selfie contains very little face. This photo wasn't cropped; it captures the photographer's original composition.
We baked a cake, and Marie got to use the hand mixer for the first time.
We went through old photographs and shared family stories, most of which were about older generations long since passed, and which I'd never heard before. To round out a perfect weekend, Aunt Judy presented the girls with leotards and tutus, and gave them their very first ballet lesson.
Can you top that, YouTube?
← No 7 Quick Takes today…we're road trippin!
It truly makes me so happy when women from older generations take their roll of teaching us seriously. I have been blessed with several family friends who have taught me so much.
My heart aches all the time when I think about all the things I want to do and be as a homemaker, especially, that my grandmother was gifted at. I had to grow up to appreciate her gifts, and now she is gone. So many times I wished I could pick up the phone to riddle her with questions.
What a blessing that you have family members to turn to, and you don't have to reinvent the wheel by learning your skills from youtube!!!


Why Buy Luna by Simone Perele?
The Simone Perele Luna Bikini Swim Bottom 1BWB70 has a solid body with a sheer crochet-like trim at waist. Simone Perele's Luna Bikini Swim Bottom is made of polyamide/elastane.
The Simone Perele Luna Triangle Underwire Swim Top 1BWB41 is bra-sized and has a solid colored body with crochet-like trim. Simone Perele's Luna Triangle Underwire Swim Top is made of polyamide/elastane.
The Simone Perele Luna Triangle One Piece Swimsuit 1BWB10 has wire-free cups that are lined with same fabric, and sheer trim along straps. Simone Perele's Luna Triangle One Piece Swimsuit is made of polyamide/elastane.


text:
J Gary Shansby
Former CEO of Shaklee
J. Gary Shansby is the founder and chairman of Partida Tequila, a privately held premium Tequila company based in Newport Beach, California. As...
J. Gary Shansby is the founder and chairman of Partida Tequila, a privately held premium Tequila company based in Newport Beach, California. As chairman, Gary provides the marketing vision, strategy, and brand building guidance for Partida Tequila.
A noted brand builder, Gary co-founded a consumer goods private equity firm after serving as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Shaklee Corporation. He has spent his career developing and marketing more than 50 household consumer brands such as Famous Amos Cookies, Mauna Loa Macadamias, La Victoria Mexican Foods, MetRx, Terra Chips, Voss Water, Pureology Hair Care Products, Vitamin Water, and Shaklee Nutritional Products. Gary brings his extensive brand-building experience to the spirits category with the goal of making Partida Tequila the most highly respected premium Tequila brand in the US and abroad. Gary has an intense love of Mexican culture, history and the tequila lifestyle, and owns a home in Careyes, Mexico.
Gary was formerly the Chairman of the Board of Directors and CEO of Shaklee Corporation, and has over 40 years of experience with consumer products companies. During his years at Shaklee the company grew from a small family business with annual sales of less than $80 million to a Fortune 500 multinational corporation with annual sales of over $500 million.
Prior to joining Shaklee, Gary was a partner in the management consulting firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton where he was instrumental in developing their strategic planning and marketing strategy practice for consumer products clients. Earlier in his career, he held senior level general management, marketing, and acquisition and diversification positions with the Clorox Company, American Home Products Corporation (now Wyeth Corporation), and the Colgate-Palmolive Company.
Gary has served on numerous business, education, and government boards and commissions, some of which include: Board of Trustees of The California State University, California Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, Founding Chairman of the Lincoln Club of Northern California, and Chairman of the California State Commission to Review the Master Plan for Higher Education. In 1978, Gary endowed the J. Gary Shansby Chair in Marketing Strategy at the Graduate School of Business, The University of California, Berkeley. Gary received his B.A. from the University of Washington in 1959. In 2006, he endowed the J. Gary Shansby Chair in Marketing Strategy at the Graduate School of Business, The University of Washington, Seattle.
more » « less
RelationshipsInterlocksGivingData
Prostate Cancer Foundation The Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF) was founded in 1993 to find better treatments and a cure for prostate cancer.
• Board Member
• BA (?→'59)
Donation/Grant Recipients
Showing 1-10 of 12 :: see all
Inactive Federal Political Committee
• 3 contributions · 15,000 USD ('00→'02)
Straight Talk America
California Republican Party/V8
• 1 contribution · 10,000 USD ('08)
John S. McCain III US Senator and Representative from Arizona
• 7 contributions · 5,600 USD ('00→'07)
Lincoln Club of Northern California Federal PAC
California 2008 Gop Delegation
• 2 contributions · 1,800 USD ('08)
Pete Wilson Former US Senator from & Governor of California
San Francisco Republican County Central Cmte Federal Fund
Wish List, the Fundraising Group for Pro-Choice Republican Women
• 1 contribution · 1,000 USD ('00)
Tom Campbell US Representative from California; Dean of Chapman University School of Law
Updated about 10 years ago
Types Person, Business Person
Articles documenting info on this page
Number of documents: 32 :: see all
« back view more »
Analyst-created lists of people and org


text:
Musable
A gathering place for authors, readers, and publishers in far northern California (Chico, Paradise, Redding, and beyond) to read about the work of local writers, visiting authors, and others. Reviews are copyright Chico Enterprise-Record and are used by permission. Please subscribe to my free "Barnetto" newsletter: barnetto.substack.com
"Prison Vocational Education And Policy In The United States"
"It's a custody world." Spoken by an administrator of a prison vocational education program, it sums up the challenges faced by three Chico State University researchers contracted to help the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) determine whether new basic and vocational education programs instituted in 2007 were reducing recidivism. Back then, some 66% of those released were re-arrested within three years.
The idea was to assess the situation, modify behavior, prepare prisoners for re-entry into society, and follow up. All very logical, all very numbers-based. And, it turns out, all very misguided.
The story of the final report, and the behind-the-scenes reality, is told with wry wit by the three professors, a curriculum consultant and two sociologists: William Rich, Tony Waters, and Andrew J. Dick (who died in 2012). "Prison Vocational Education And Policy In The United States: A Critical Perspective On Evidence-Based Reform" ($100 in hardcover from Palgrave Macmillan; also for Amazon Kindle) sounds dry. Far from it.
The book presents the report in the context of prison bureaucracy and the inherent limitations of gathering data. (In the prison system, the researchers are warned, everyone lies.) Eight vignettes provide personal reflections from the white professors ushered into a world of mostly black and brown faces.
In the end, the report went nowhere as the Great Recession hit hard and vocational programs were abandoned. Yet lessons abound. "A class may be well conducted, teachers well trained, and a curriculum well chosen, but the fact that the students may have to submit to anal cavity searches before and after class has consequences for how much learning occurs and the quality of that learning."
The authors "still think that vocational education in prison is a good idea," especially for those with limited sentences, "but this is no longer all we think. We know that prison populations are far more difficult than spreadsheets at the main office may indicate…."
Prison is about punishment and restriction of freedom. "Classes will always be disrupted" for "lockdowns, sudden transfers, gang segregation, safety training, tool checks, and many other routines that trump the educational goals specified by the Legislature."
It's a custody world.
Posted by Dan Barnett at 9:00 PM No comments:
Labels: nonfiction, prison system
"Joy: 100 Poems"
Christian Wiman is Professor of the Practice of Religion and Literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. A few years ago he was diagnosed with an incurable blood disease, underwent a bone marrow transplant, and through days of treatment and a measure of recovery wrestled with a fundamental question, expressed in a 2012 interview: "What might it mean for your life--and for your death--to acknowledge the insistent, persistent call of God? … My work--prose and poetry--is still full of anguish and even unbelief, but I hope it's also much more open to simple joy."
It is the season of joy, but "what might that one word, in these wild times, mean?" That question appears in an extraordinary introduction to a poetry anthology, edited by Wiman, that attempts not to define but to inhabit its subject.
"Joy: 100 Poems" ($25 in hardcover from Yale University Press) "is aimed against whatever glitch in us or whim of God has made our most transcendent moment resistant to description. … The great Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai once wondered why it is that we have such various and discriminating language for our pains but become such hapless generalizers for our joys."
Wiman's essay drives the reader beyond the safe bounds of mere happiness. Joy "is a homesickness for a home you were not aware of having." Richard Wilbur knows: "Joy's trick is to supply/ Dry lips with what can cool and slake,/ Leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache/ Nothing can satisfy."
"But," Wiman writes, "there's no forcing it. Clamoring after joy leads only to fevered simulacra, … the collective swells of manipulative religion, the manufactured euphoria of drugs. … So what does one do with this moment of timelessness when one is back in time?"
The answer comes from experiencing the poems, mostly from our own time, whose diverse voices are sometimes hard, profane (there's an ode to urination), but also comprehending something about our lives that can't be said flat out.
It's like, writes Lisel Mueller, the sadness that comes when we are transported by music. "Joy, joy, the sopranos sing,/ reaching for the shimmering notes/ while our eyes fill with tears."
"How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World At Odds"
Former Paradise resident John Wilson (@jwilson1812) was for twenty-one years the editor of the now-defunct literary journal "Books and Culture." He published many pieces by his friend Alan Jacobs (@ayjay), Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University in Texas.
Jacobs makes significant use of social media and that got him thinking about thinking, especially in a connected world where we can craft our own ideological cocoon. While some writers seem pessimistic about our ability to overcome biases, Jacobs is more hopeful.
The problem is not so much about biases but about "an orientation of the will: we suffer from a settled determination to avoid thinking. Thinking troubles us; thinking tires us. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits. … Who needs thinking?"
Well, we all do. In "How To Think: A Survival Guide For A World At Odds" ($25 in hardcover from Currency; also for Amazon Kindle), Jacobs focuses not on the fallacies of argumentation but instead attempts to reach the reader at an emotional, self-reflective level.
We do not actually think for ourselves. "We think in active feeling response to the world, and in constant relation to others. Or we should." And we need to recognize how important those relationships are in our thinking and at times push ourselves to connect with the "other." ("People who like accusing others of Puritanism," he writes, "have a fairly serious investment … in knowing as little as possible about actual Puritans. They are invested, for the moment anyway, in not thinking.")
Some groups stifle thinking by insisting we conform. Instead, we should strive for "true membership in .. a fellowship of people who are not so much like-minded as like-hearted. … Learning how to feel as we should is enormously helpful for learning how to think as we should. … You have to be a certain kind of person to make this book work for you: the kind of person who, at least some of the time, cares more about working toward the truth than about one's current social position."
As we approach a new year, there is perhaps no better resolution.
Labels: nonfiction
"Conversations With The Past"
Ruby English was Annie Bidwell's maid, and later also secretary, from 1914 until Bidwell's death in 1918. In an interview recorded in 1964 English remembers: "I was beside her when she died. I was right at the side of her bed when she breathed her last breath. She didn't say anything except, 'My head feels like it's full of piles of grass.' She would say that over and over. What kind of pain that was, I don't know."
English added: "Of course, before Mrs. Bidwell was cold, people were trying to get me to work for them. I never had to have a reference. Everybody said, 'If Ruby could please Mrs. Bidwell, she could please anybody.'"
Oral history from English and sixteen other interviewees is captured in "Conversations With The Past" ($16.95 in paperback from the Association For Northern California Historical Research, anchr.org), superbly edited by David Brown, Nancy Leek, Josie Reifschneider-Smith, and Ron Womack. Past president Dorothy Hill, now deceased, began the interview project in the mid-1970s.
Subtitled "Vibrant Voices From Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta And Tehama Counties," the book is available at The Bookstore and Bidwell Mansion in Chico; Discount Books and the Butte County Historical Society in Oroville; My Girlfriend's Closet in Paradise; and Gridley Museum. Footnotes and historical photographs provide helpful context, and there's a list of a dozen contributing local museums at the end, all to spark a reader's further exploration.
The voices include Adolph "Ad" Kessler with a firsthand account of his discovery of Ishi. Llewellyn Gay remembers pioneer life in Orland and Newville, in Glenn County, and a letter to President McKinley that was answered by the bunkhouse muleskinners instead.
The book ends with retired Lassen Volcanic National Park Chief Ranger Lester Bodine, interviewed by Ruby Swartzlow in 1979. He talks about all the preparations necessary for the visit of President John F. Kennedy, who stayed the night at the park and then dedicated Whiskeytown Dam and lake. (Kennedy is shown on the cover feeding a deer.)
It was September 1963, and a chilling editor's comment concludes the book, noting that this "was Kennedy's last official act before heading to Dallas two months later."
Labels: history
"Nancy Kelsey Comes Over The Mountain: The True Story Of The First American Woman In California"
The new children's picture book from retired librarian Nancy Leek of Chico is called "Nancy Kelsey Comes Over The Mountain: The True Story Of The First American Woman In California" ($15.95 in paperback from Goldfields Books; goldfieldsbooks.com). It's available on Amazon and locally at Bidwell Mansion, Made In Chico, and ABC Books. Each page features a full-color drawing from Paradise's own Steve Ferchaud.
In a postscript Leek tells the story in greater detail, noting that Kelsey "thought that she was the first American woman in California. In fact, when she got to Sutter's Fort, Mary Walker, the wife of explorer Joel Walker, had already arrived from Oregon. But Nancy was the first woman to come to California by the perilous route over the Sierra Nevada."
Kelsey and her ever restless husband Ben "joined the Bidwell-Bartleson Party for California" in 1841. "It was a hazardous trek," Leek writes in the postscript. "Nancy was pregnant during this six-month-long journey, and gave birth to a boy at Sutter's Fort after arriving there in December 1841. The baby did not survive." She eventually had eleven children (two died in infancy). Kelsey herself died in 1896.
The children's story starts with Kelsey left alone in the mountains while the men of the party scouted ahead. She "sat on her horse, holding her little girl, Martha Ann, on her lap. She was afraid to dismount her horse. Who knew what stranger, what bear or mountain lion, might come on her suddenly?" The story quotes Kelsey's own account: "I was left with my babe alone, and as I sat there on my horse and listened to the sighing and moaning of the winds through the pines, it seemed the loneliest spot in the world."
The story then picks up the start of the journey, the arrival in California, and in 1846 Kelsey's part as the "California Battalion" helped "take California away from the Mexican government." Perhaps she helped sew the original Bear Flag.
It's been almost two centuries since Nancy Kelsey was born. This captivating book keeps alive for a new generation the life of an extraordinary woman.
Labels: children's, history
"Roads Not Taken"
Chicoan Emily Gallo is exploring the lives of a group of unlikely friends who frequent the famous Venice Beach boardwalk in Southern California.
Her first novel, "Venice Beach," introduces writer Finn McGee who comes to stay with his daughter, Kate, and who befriends the mysterious Jedidiah Gibbons, an escapee from the Jonestown massacre; in San Francisco Jed becomes caretaker of the Columbarium (the title of the second book).
"Kate And Ruby" takes up the story of McGee's daughter whose marriage to Martin breaks up when he comes out to her. Ruby, Martin's mother, resents the interracial couple and then "practically disowned Martin for being gay." Unexpectedly, Kate becomes Ruby's caregiver, and life's dailyness changes them both.
The theme of sexual identity is foregrounded in Gallo's newest story, "Roads Not Taken" ($12.95 in paperback from CreateSpace; also for Amazon Kindle; an Audible.com audio version is narrated by the author).
Kate had taught a young man named Malcolm Washington in high school. Malcolm now waits tables at Café Gratitude in Venice but everything changes when he applies for a second job at Marie Moss Senior Housing.
Savali, a Samoan, is on staff, and Malcolm is smitten. Though the novel intertwines the stories of the residents, the focus is on Malcolm's coming to terms with Savali's "non-binary" gender identification. Savali is Fa'afafine, a third gender in Samoan society.
Malcolm is straight and prefers to call Savali "she." Savali was born male, telling him that "I realized that I was, in fact, comfortable in my body and my mind in both genders. I also realized that I could wake up on any given day and prefer to dress or behave in one or the other. In other words, I identify as both and I identify as neither."
What does it mean for Malcolm to love Savali, and how does one navigate the "gender spectrum" and the desires that may be incompatible with being a couple? Though not explicit, the story delves deeply and respectfully into what is for Malcolm a new world of sexuality.
Gallo (emilygallo.blogspot.com) is scheduled to be interviewed by Nancy Wiegman on Nancy's Bookshelf, Friday, December 1 on mynspr.org (KCHO 91.7 FM) at 10:00 a.m.
Labels: novel
"California Standoff: Miners, Indians And Farmers At War 1850-1865
"Incomplete accounts," writes historian and retired Political Science professor Michele Shover, "are a common problem in local history. For example, Butte County's violent clashes between settlers and Indians were treated as random 'one-off' events--intermittent atrocities sprinkled among accounts of Victorian-era 'happy talk.'" John Bidwell himself "suggested the effects of such events were peripheral distractions, not core experiences."
Over the last two decades Shover has worked with original sources in an attempt to tell a more nuanced story, analyzing "underlying causes, political issues, conflicts of interest, cultural assumptions. …" The result is a magisterial work of scholarship that is also immensely readable. "California Standoff: Miners, Indians And Farmers At War 1850-1865" ($24.95 in paperback from Stansbury Publishing; also for Amazon Kindle) challenges assumptions and develops new historical understanding.
Meticulously detailed, with fifty pages of endnotes, the book's dozen chapters provide a riveting picture of the competing interests swirling around the community Bidwell founded. As Shover notes, "Politics was personal in nineteenth-century Chico, influencing social life and where residents spent their money." There are contemporary resonances everywhere.
Shover disputes what she calls Theodora Kroeber's "misanalysis of Maidu culture" and historical "distortions" all of which have implications for Kroeber's "Ishi In Two Worlds."
Shover also concludes that the Mountain Maidu raided the Mechoopdas working on Bidwell's ranch in the mid-1850s because they likely considered this "collusion."
Shover's research shows that many more Indians than the standard account of 32 died as they were resettled to Round Valley in 1863. "Primary documents disclose that close to 200 … died on the climb up the Coastal range mountain to the reservation." The record, she says, was "manipulated to shield the Army from its failure to deliver the Indians."
For the first time, Shover explains that these Indian deaths were not caused by the Army, but by "the most mortally dangerous type of malaria" that infected the group "while camped near Big Chico Creek in the summer of 1863."
The story Shover tells is one of violence since there were "no effective institutions in place that protected … against abuses." Her study, giving all sides their due, breaks new ground. It is indispensable.
Labels: history, John Bidwell
"Shane The Shamrock Tries To Find Luck"
Retired teacher Cynthia Hutchinson lives with her husband in Bieber, about fifty-five miles north-northwest of Susanville. She has begun writing a series of children's books, filled with colorful sketches, aimed at the younger set.
The first is "Shane The Shamrock Tries To Find Luck" ($16 in paperback from Dorrance Publishing; also for Amazon Kindle). The sixteen-page tale is followed by fourteen questions about events in the story ("What was the first thing he tried to do that the ladybug suggested?"; "What did Shane hope to try someday?").
It all begins "with this little shamrock named Shane who only had three leaves. And he thought to bring luck to anybody that he must be a four leaf clover. He decided to set out on a journey to see if anybody could help him find luck."
The plants and animals in the forest try to help, and near as they can figure Shane had to become more like them in order to find luck. That ladybug? Well, she said, "You don't need four leaves to bring luck to anyone. You just need to be able to fly like me to have luck. Why don't you climb up on that tree branch and try to fly?"
That doesn't quite work, and Shane hits the ground, only to hear laughter from a nearby rose bush. The rose advises Shane he doesn't have to fly to be lucky; he just has to look beautiful. But decorating himself with fallen rose petals doesn't make much difference. He's still Shane, the three-leaved shamrock, only now covered with rose petals.
A butterfly explains that Shane can grow another leaf if we wraps himself up in a leaf cocoon, but that doesn't work, and a daisy has him stand near her by a stream in a windstorm.
Nothing changes until he meets his four-leaf-clover friend Sissy, and though Shane doesn't grow another leaf he gains something more valuable: an understanding that even a four-leaf-clover can't actually bring luck to anyone. Instead, he learns, what counts is standing by one's friends, especially when they are in need.
As luck would have it, the next story may give Shane that opportunity.
Labels: children's
"Jake And The Hot-Air Balloon"
Paradise resident Maurice "Big Mo" Huffman is known in the music scene for his melding of blues, Southern rock and funk with his award-winning Big Mo And The Full Moon Band (bigmoblues.com). After he and his wife Robin moved to California in 1989 he began telling their son Miles a bedtime story featuring a ten-year-old orphan named Jake Foster and a talking mouse named Milton.
"Jake And The Hot-Air Balloon" ($11.95 in paperback from Page Publishing; also for Amazon Kindle) is the first in a planned series featuring the intrepid adventurers.
Jake's parents had drowned in a Caribbean storm. His only relative, aunt Hilde, died when he was five, and Jake wound up in a Colorado orphanage.
He "was a tough boy and knew that this was what life had dealt him, but even the toughest boy can face moments that are too hard and where he needs somebody. Jake was alone though, left with his dream of being high up in a hot-air balloon."
Word comes of a nearby hot-air balloon race, and Jake desperately wants to go, but an older bully and his minion at the orphanage get Jake into trouble. He's forced to make the biggest decision of his young life, disobeying those in charge and sneaking off to the races and right into the area where the balloons are set to lift off.
You just know something will happen and, sure enough, Jake finds himself aloft in one of the balloons where he meets Milton the talking mouse, a resident of the balloon basket. It's Milton's job to keep Jake safe, and, it turns out, that's a tall order.
Along the way, sailing over the world, the balloon is shot down by a group of very odd and friendly people on a floating mountain whose job it is to shoot holes in Swiss cheese but who aren't very accurate. Their balloon eventually repaired, Jake and Milton travel to the Caribbean, rescue a girl named Lilly, search for her scientist parents, and fight off a some bad guys.
The action-packed story ends with a few threads hanging, a big yellow bird, and a hint of the adventures to come.
"Origin: A Novel"
According to the Bidwell Mansion Association's website, "In 1841 at the age of 22, John Bidwell became one of the first pioneers to cross the Sierra Nevada to California." Bidwell knew the range because in 1776, the Franciscan missionary Pedro Font named it on a map. Font was born in Spain which has its own Sierra Nevada.
That is where "the former spiritual leader of the Palmarian Catholic Church" lives, according to El País. This "dubious offshoot" of the Roman Catholic Church venerates Francisco Franco and considers Adolph Hitler something of a saint. Wouldn't it be only natural for this ultra-conservative group to try to stop any science that questions faith?
My lame attempt at creepy connections is overshadowed by the master connectionist, Dan Brown. In "Origin" ($29.95 in hardcover from Doubleday; also for Amazon Kindle), Brown notes that all the facts are real. (After the depiction of the Palmarian Church, one of the characters says "you could look it up.") Finding stuff hidden in plain sight is a hallmark of Brown's work.
The thriller once again stars symbologist Robert Langdon and takes place mostly in Barcelona. I chose to listen to the seven-hour audio abridgement narrated by Paul Michael (who also reads the full novel, over eighteen hours' worth), a man of many voices.
Langdon is in Spain attending a mysterious presentation by the atheist billionaire and futurist Edmond Kirsch, his former student, at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Kirsch believes his work in computer modeling and Artificial Intelligence has finally answered the two most important questions: Where did we come from? Where are we going?
Before the big reveal Kirsch is assassinated by a Palmarian, and Langdon and the beautiful museum director, Ambra Vidal, fiancé of the soon-to-be King of Spain, flee for their lives. The entire book is a setup for the eventual revelation of Kirsch's recorded message, and the question is whether what he says puts a scientific arrow through the heart of religion. Spoiler alert: It doesn't; in fact, it's something like a TED Talk, though philosophically incoherent (as Brown seems to realize).
In the end, an interesting casing but not much meat. As for scariness, it's a hollow weenie.
"The Wealth Of A Nation"
Who is Nathan Englander?
He's an attorney in the California city of Bakerton three quarters of a century in our future. He "was a first rate Rush running guard at UCLA," referring to a game that replaced football, basketball, and most other sports, which required genetic advantages in the players.
Ordinary folks, though, with appropriate golf-like handicaps, could play the highly regulated Rush. As Nathan tells Emerson McKernan, Bakerton's acting Art Museum Director, "the game, like those that it replaced, is a thinly veiled substitute for the battlefield, and the more physical the game, the more obvious it is. That is what fans pay to see."
Chico writer T.B. O'Neill (tboneill.com) creates a chilling dystopian society uncomfortably similar to our own world in "The Wealth Of A Nation" ($15.95 in paperback from CreateSpace; also for Amazon Kindle).
Rush events are provided by the state for the entertainment of the Citizens, who not only don't work but are forbidden to work. The Workers (and the smaller group called Entrepreneurs) "produce what the nation needs." To keep Workers going, the state pushes the addictive drug Reassert ("the dopamine and serotonin inducer that keeps you level and ready for the day" as the ad says).
As Nathan was taught, "it had taken five generations … to build the wealth of the nation to such abundance, such surplus, that only a minority of the brightest and most capable were asked to work and care for the others. And as a result, there was no more incessant, unrelenting, demeaning competition that kept everyone striving for unaccomplished prosperity."
Nathan's "mother and father were Workers, but his grandparents Citizens." To protect each group from the other, Bakerton sports a giant Wall separating Workers from Citizens. Englander finds himself defending Ari Howard, a Citizen who "defaces" the Wall with his extraordinary graffiti art (his talent is vouched for by Emerson, herself a work of art, who becomes Nathan's love interest).
But there are violent economic and political forces that cannot abide the status quo, and not for noble reasons. The complex and immersive thriller showcases O'Neill's world-building talents and provides an unsettling answer to the question: "What is freedom worth?"
Labels: dystopia, novel
"The Mindful Vegan"
Butte College kinesiology instructor Lani Muelrath (lanimuelrath.com) has been a vegetarian/vegan for more than four decades. The last twenty-five years she has also been a practitioner of mindfulness meditation and now, in her new book, she brings both together with "The Mindful Vegan" ($17.95 in hardcover from BenBella Books; also for Amazon Kindle).
The heart of the book is as its subtitle indicates: "A 30-Day Plan For Finding Health, Balance, Peace, And Happiness." This is very different, Muelrath writes, than serial dieting. "Micromanaging and analyzing every bite and obsessing over body weight and size mask underlying stress, anxiety, and not-good-enough syndrome."
Those who endeavor to practice vegan living face their own ingrained habits (such as compulsive snacking) as well as pressures from family and the wider culture. These stressors often provoke unhealthy defensive reactions. Enter mindfulness, which "gets to the roots of your challenges around food--whether it's refurbishing old habits, employing self-regulation of emotions, or becoming more at ease and grounded in vegan living."
The key is that mindfulness "expands that moment between stimulus and reactivity. You gain new access to the choice of where to place your attention, rather than having your attention taken hostage by reactive thoughts and emotions. Once you open the door to the possibilities of choice, you can more freely choose your responses."
Muelrath notes that mindfulness (with roots in Vipassana or Insight Meditation) is non-sectarian. In the 30-day plan she introduces the awareness techniques gently (a one-minute meditation on the first day, two minutes on the second, and so on, with free audio versions on the book's website). The author also provides a dozen recipes (including "Berry Good Ice Cream") and additional resources.
Once a practice of meditation is established, Muelrath brings in the vegan perspective (emphasizing personal health and environmental care) and, in honest yet encouraging discussions, takes up "wandering minds," "moods and foods," "cravings," "addictions," and more.
With these new practices, one just might forget, as Muelrath did, about that chocolate stash in the cupboard. That, she says, is real freedom.
Lani Muelrath is scheduled to be interviewed by Nancy Wiegman on Nancy's Bookshelf, Friday, November 3 on mynspr.org (KCHO 91.7 FM) at 10:00 a.m.
Labels: guidebook, mindfulness, vegan living
"London Spirits: Short Stories"
Rob Burton, Professor of English at Chico State University, was born near London and grew up in England. In his latest book he revisits familiar haunts by means of unconventional narrators, women and men from the afterlife who played a part in London's history.
"London Spirits: Short Stories" ($10.95 in paperback from Stansbury Publishing; also for Amazon Kindle) is a series of fourteen enchanting tales (grouped into "Now," "Then," and "Now And Then") wherein sung and unsung voices are heard again.
In "Die Into Life," there is Fran in the present day who receives a call asking her to meet an old friend from her wild University of London days. "She put the phone down and looked around the kitchen at the symbols of a twenty-year marriage: pots hanging obediently on their hooks, cheery family snapshots on the refrigerator door, …." If she goes, will she return?
Yet even in the "now" there are words from the past that strike Fran deeply, and Burton's craft suggests that rather than history being a settled affair, it still has the power to surprise us, like art. "That's how art happens sometimes," a burping man named Puggy tells Mark in "The Knowledge. "You don't intend it to be a certain way but it assumes its own identity and takes its own course. It's quite magical, eh?"
In "The Purest Ecstasy," Virginia Woolf recalls "the daily practice of writing. Mysterious voices, bidden and unbidden, called to me." Sherlock Holmes solves "The Curious Case of Miss Irene Adler," and plumbers Phillip Clark and Tom Crapper, flushed with success, explain the "Westminster shudder" of the seventeenth-century.
The Celtic warrior-queen Boadicea speaks in the final story which gives its name to the book. She led a revolt against the Roman invaders in AD 60 or so for love of Londinium, and now her spirit says: "O fog-shrouded city, drizzle-dazzled town, metropolis of mud and thick materialism, what can I, your guiding spirit, say that has not already been said about these two thousand years of history? … What is the shape of your historical narrative?"
The funny-piercing answer throws a little shade on those who would forget what came before.
Labels: London, short stories
"A Deadly Wandering"
A terrifying highway accident in Utah in September eleven years ago left two rocket scientists dead. It was caused by nineteen-year-old Reggie Shaw veering into the wrong lane; Shaw survived, physically unscathed, but the answer to the central question--was he texting at the time?--would not come easily.
Matt Richtel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter, based in San Francisco, traces the ripple effects of the accident in a deeply reported, and deeply affecting, book, "A Deadly Wandering" ($15.99 in paperback from William Morrow; also for Amazon Kindle). It's subtitled "A Mystery, A Landmark Investigation, And The Astonishing Science Of Attention In The Digital Age." The reader comes to know family members, those in the judicial system, lawmakers, and attention researchers in a story so emotionally compelling one cannot look away.
"A Deadly Wandering" is the Book In Common for Chico State University (csuchico.edu/bic) and Butte College (butte.edu/bic), and the larger community. Author Matt Richtel will be speaking at Chico State's Laxson Auditorium Tuesday, October 24 at 7:30 p.m. Adults $20, Seniors $18, youth and students are free. Tickets can be obtained through Chico Performances (chicoperformances.com).
There is much for the heart in this story, but also for the mind. "There is a tension going on inside the brain," Richtel writes. "It is a tug-of-war between two different aspects of the attention system. … Top-down attention is what we use to direct our focus, say, on a work project … or when driving on the road. … Bottom-up attention is … what allows our attention to be captured instantly, without our control, say, by the sound of our name … or the ring of the phone. Bottom-up attention operates unconsciously, automatically, driven by sensory stimulus and contextual cues."
You can have your hands on the wheel and be looking straight ahead at the road, but your mind may be focused on texting. Research indicates it may take ten or fifteen seconds for your mind to regain focus on the road--far longer than anyone had thought previously.
It's not easy to keep the right focus. As Richtel suggests, our cell phones have become akin to slot machines and users to compulsive gamblers.
Labels: attention, social media, texting
"Theologians And Philosophers Using Social Media: Advice, Tips, And Testimonials"
Thomas Jay Oord (thomasjayoord.com) teaches at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, and is an ordained elder in the Church of the Nazarene. He's also a prolific user of social media and notes that, referencing Marshall McLuhan, "the medium is the message": as we use Facebook, Facebook (in ways we perhaps don't fully understand) uses us. As McLuhan also noted, "the medium is the massage."
In an effort to understand how his scholar and ministerial friends get a grip on social media, he asked 91of them to write about their social media practices. The result is a breezy compendium of good advice focusing on the how.
"Theologians And Philosophers Using Social Media: Advice, Tips, And Testimonials" ($29.95 in paperback from SacraSage Press; also for Amazon Kindle) includes a chapter by Chico theologian and writer Greg Cootsona (gregcootsona.com).
Cootsona teaches religious studies at Chico State University, served as associate pastor for adult discipleship in New York and Chico, and is directing a multi-year grant project through Fuller Seminary called "Science For Students And Emerging Young Adults." His book, "Mere Science And Christian Faith: Bridging The Divide With Emerging Adults," is scheduled to be published soon by InterVarsity Press.
"Social media," he writes, "also brings with it several surprises. The first is a shocking level of incivility. … The second is how much I have to learn about how it is truly the way we communicate today, and yet, how much I have to learn in effectively employing social media." The keys, he says, are not to use polarizing language, recognize that there are many more readers than trolls, "create a strategy and goals with your social media use," and "post in the service of what you are convinced the listening public needs to hear."
Public theologian Brian McLaren (brianmclaren.net) warns against feeding the trolls; Professor of Science and Religion Karl Giberson (karlgiberson.com) notes that "a public intellectual needs to have a thick skin"; and Helen De Cruz (helendecruz.net), a philosopher of religion and philosopher of cognitive science, reminds social media users to "try to have fun and don't overthink it."
It's all great fun and a real tweet.
Labels: social media; theologians; philosophers
"First Blush: North State Writers 2017 Anthology"


In the summer months the THERME Bad Wörishofen is a real find for those in the know. With real palm trees, a beach of fine sand and fabulous oases of tranquillity – in the heart of Germany's Allgäu region – it invites you to while away carefree leisure hours. Relax in the shade of real palm trees, let your feet sink into warm white sand, allow your gaze to wander over turquoise water and enjoy a refreshing cocktail at the pool bar – a real holiday treat! The huge opening dome at THERME Bad Wörishofen is our "fair weather guarantee"; it can be opened in just 8 minutes. Then the vast expanse of water becomes an additional open air pool and the whole THERME becomes an exclusive outdoor bathing complex.
The four-week ThermenSommer (SpaSummer) programme makes the summer season a very special experience. In addition to our daily spa services, during the ThermenSommer we also have some enticing free programme highlights every Monday to Friday: South Seas bingo, beach barbecues, yoga on the spa beach, zumba courses, beauty extras and lots of other special activities combine to make it the perfect short break in the South Seas paradise. Visitors to the Vitality Baths & Saunas can enjoy a top-class sauna programme.


Longer lasting football goals for the garden at affordable prices. Garden goals with thicker cord nets that perform better and last longer.Made by footballers for footballers,engineered and built to last. Better by design and easier to use they look good in any garden. These garden goals are a competitively priced version of the durable ITSA GOAL professional club football goals and outperform all other plastic garden goals including Forza Goals,Samba Goals and Far East goal posts found on sites like Amazon and Argos. The best selling and most popular garden football goals in the UK. Garden goal posts that give value for money with extended two-year warranty that other brands just cannot match.


text:
Aprophata eximia es una especie de escarabajo longicornio del género Aprophata, subfamilia Lamiinae. Fue descrita científicamente por Newman en 1842.

Se distribuye por Filipinas. Mide 14-15,5 milímetros de longitud. El período de vuelo ocurre en los meses de junio y septiembre.

Referencias

eximia
Insectos descritos en 1842
Insectos de Filipinas


text:
Quranic Reflection No. 366 Āyat 35:29 – Profitable transactions
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَتْلُونَ كِتَابَ اللَّهِ وَأَقَامُوا الصَّلَاةَ وَأَنْفَقُوا مِمَّا رَزَقْنَاهُمْ سِرًّا وَعَلَانِيَةً يَرْجُونَ تِجَارَةً لَنْ تَبُورَ
Innal-ladhīna yatlūna kitābal-lāhi -aqāmus-salāta -anfaqū mimmā razaqnāhum -'alāniyatan yarjūna tijāratan tabūr
Indeed those who recite the Book of Allah and maintain the prayer, and spend secretly and openly out of what We have provided them, hope for a gain that will never perish.
(Sūratul Fātir, No.35, Āyat 29)
This verse mentions three different actions that will bring huge profit for the doer. The profit is indestructible and will have no loss. It gives hope to the believer who performs these actions.
The three actions mentioned are the foundation of religious practices:
Reciting the Book of Allah. The word 'yatlūna' comes from tilāwah, to recite the Quran – the Book of Allah. The guidance derived from this recitation is then manifested in the other two actions – worship of Allah and fulfillment of the rights of others. Believers recite the Quran as it should be recited (Q 2:121). The Ādāb of tilāwah include doing wudhu before reciting, reciting in a beautiful voice, reflecting on the verses and interacting with them. These and other etiquettes make the Quran recitation a memorable experience.
Maintaining Prayer. Salāt is the pillar of Islam through which the soul ascends to Allah. It is the prerequisite for all good deeds. The Holy Prophet (s) said: For everything there is a face and the face of your religion is prayers. So see to it that none from amongst you damages and disfigures the face of his religion (Bihārul Anwār, v. 82, p. 209).
Giving charity. The verse defines charity as giving from that which Allah has granted. It is a trust given to human beings and others have a right in it. The verse also describes the way the charity is given, both openly and secretly. In another verse of the Quran, Allah also describes the open and secret ways of giving charity. He says: If you disclose your charities, that is well, but if you hide them and give them to the poor, that is better for you, and it will atone for some of your misdeeds, and Allah is well aware of what you do (Q 2:271).
The holy month of Ramadan is a time when each of these three qualities mentioned in the verse is enhanced and perfected. It is the best time for reciting the Quran. The reward for reciting one verse of the Quran in this month equals the reward for reciting the whole Quran in other months. Imam Muhammad al-Bāqir (a) has said: Everything has a spring and the spring of the Quran is the month of Ramadan (Bihārul Anwār, v. 96, p.386).
Salāt is beautified in the month of Ramadan. Imam Zaynul Ābidīn (a) says in the Du'ā to welcome this month: O Allah bless Muhammad and his family, and give us grace to perform punctually the five prayers with due regard to their limits which You have defined, and duties which You have enjoined . . . And in this respect, raise us to the rank of those who performed them with success . . . in most perfect and complete parity and most evident and touching humility (Du'ā 44, Sahīfa Sajjādiyya).
The month of Ramadan is also a time to give to the needy. Fasting makes the believers acutely aware of the misery of the needy and thus an extra effort is made to provide for them. Imam Ja'far al-Sādiq (a) has said: Allah shall ward off seventy kinds of calamities from one who gives charity in the month of Ramadan (Wasā'il al-Shī'ah, v. 9, p. 404).
In the month of Ramadan, which will inshāAllah begin after a few days, work at enhancing and perfecting the good deeds you do, especially the three mentioned in this verse. It is not just a matter of performing them, but performing them in the best possible manner. That is what the holy month should do for us, bring out the best in us. The ultimate goal is the pleasure of Allah, a profit beyond which there can be nothing else.
Sources: Āyatullāh Nāsir Makārim Shirāzī (Ed.), Tafsīr-e Namūneh;
https://academyofislam.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sahifa-Dua-44-Translation.pdf


text:
Walnut Lane Bridge to close for five months
Roadway will shut down until September
By Daniel Craig
Construction Traffic
Street View/Google Maps
This screen capture shows the Walnut Lane Bridge that crosses the Wissahickon Creek and connects Philadelphia's Roxborough and Mount Airy neighborhoods.
Commuters who travel through Northwest Philly over the Wissahickon Creek will have one less option until fall rolls around.
PennDOT announced earlier this month that Walnut Lane Bridge would be closed for five months starting April 1, to replace a deteriorated concrete deck and sidewalks. It is expected to reopen sometime in September.
RELATED STORY: Falls Bridge to close for repairs
Officials say the work is part of a $14.7 million project to rehabilitate the historic bridge, which was built in 1907. Construction work began in November.
Also, part of the plan is reconstructing the roundabout on the Mount Airy side of the bridge to improve safety conditions.
During the closure, traffic will be detoured over Wissahickon Avenue, Midvale Avenue, and Henry Avenue. One sidewalk on the bridge will remain open for pedestrians.
Read more Construction Traffic Mount Airy Development Repairs Bridges Roxborough Germantown Northwest Philadelphia Roads Philadelphia


117 new entries added to veterinary slogans, that include pictures. 1. Providing the best of everything.
1 Providing the best of everything.
3 Hands that heal, hearts that care.
4 Putting heart into pet care.
5 The hospital with heart.
6 Doing our best for pets.
7 Caring for your pets is what we do best!
8 We take the worry out of caring.
9 Speaking your pets language.
10 Putting your pet first.
11 We help you keep your best friend healthy.
12 Special friends. Special needs.
13 Treating pets as friends.
14 Only the best for your best friends.
15 The best care for your best friend.
16 We personalize pet care.
17 We care for your pets - completely!
18 We care as much as you do.
19 We care for your pet like you do.
20 Your pet is our pet.
Can you think of a good Veterinary Slogans we're missing? Or come up with a clever one of your own. Please share below.


I usually stitch in the quiet, but today I was entranced as I listened to a Radio 3 concert – a Hungarian musician – cello – Miklos Perenyi playing Kodaly's Sonata for Solo Cello Op 8.
My mind has wandered around, making connections and exploring tangents and wondered about borders, outer edges, margins/marginal – in cloth with this work..but in our world, our societies, our cultures, peoples. It is giving me a frame (as borders do!) and a context which seems to relate to everything in my mind and heart as winter solstice approaches.
These little birds are nesting in the eaves under the roof again.
The frame is the winding thread that wraps the tibetan incense we burn, the fracture where the thread does not quite meet barely glimpsed but highlighted here.
Emerging from hibernation – slowly, tentatively..
Between moons many things happen… my best beloved burmese passed away between these last 2. I stitch.. rhythmic, repetitive, flow of concentration, absorbing my mind, allowing for some much needed inner space.
The yellow thread was stitched blindfold – of which more some other time… and a thank you to Vicky for the silk and indigo moons..
Day 1 – Cloth layered and constructed – free piecing with herringbone and a long back stitch … Suspended in the space and ready to start stitching … Such an exciting moment raising the piece by stitching thread to 2 corners, throwing the ball of thread over the wire and pulling the work up and into place and space!


text:
Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide and fourth in cancer-related deaths. In 2020, there were an estimated 604,000 diagnosed new cases of cervical cancer and 342,000 deaths worldwide. Learn about the appropriate screening tests and the HPV vaccine to help prevent cervical cancer.
All women are at risk for cervical cancer. However, data show it occurs most often in women over the age of 30. The primary cause of cervical cancer is human papillomavirus (HPV), an extremely common family of viruses that are transmitted through sexual contact. HPV causes almost all cervical cancers. In the United States, Hispanic, non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native, and non-Hispanic Black women have higher rates of new cervical cancer cases than women of other races and ethnicities. These higher rates may reflect differences in cervical cancer screening rates and outcomes that vary by socioeconomic status and access to quality care.
Prevent cervical cancer with the HPV vaccination
CDC leads efforts in preventing and detecting cancers early and improving the overall health of cancer survivors. For example, CDC's Inside Knowledge About Gynecologic Cancer Campaign shares educational materials with communities and healthcare providers on the five types of gynecologic cancers: cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal, and vulvar.
When found early and managed effectively, cervical cancer is preventable, treatable, curable, and associated with long-term quality of life. CDC's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) provides breast and cervical cancer screenings and diagnostic services to women who have low incomes and are uninsured or underinsured. Access to childhood immunizations through the Vaccine for Children (VFC) program can aid in increasing HPV vaccinations and help prevent future cases of cervical cancer.
Routine cancer screenings help prevent cervical cancer. The United States Preventive Services Task Force and the World Health Organization both recommend that women receive appropriate cervical cancer screenings. These screenings help to identify precancers that may lead to cervical cancer. In the United States, women aged 21– 65 years, who receive regular cervical cancer screenings are less likely to get cervical cancer and less likely to die from it. Women aged 21-29 years should only receive a Pap test to screen for cervical cancer. Women aged 30-65 years have three available options for cervical cancer screening: Pap testing alone, HPV testing alone, and HPV and Pap testing together. In general, women older than age 65 don't need cervical cancer screening if their previous tests were negative and they have had three Pap tests, or two HPV tests (with or without the Pap test), in the preceding 10 years. However, there may be situations in which a health care provider may recommend continued Pap testing.
HPV vaccination is safe and effective. CDC recommends HPV vaccination at age 11 or 12 years (or can start at age 9 years) and for everyone through age 26 years, if not vaccinated already. Vaccination is also recommended for teens and young adults (15 – 26 years) who are not already vaccinated.
CDC recommends two doses of HPV vaccine for persons who start the series before age 15 years. Three doses of the vaccine are recommended for those who start the series at age 15 years or older. Three doses are also recommended for people with weakened immune systems aged 9 through 26 years.
Some adults between the ages of 27 and 45 years, who are not already vaccinated, may decide to get the HPV vaccine after consulting with their medical provider about their risk for new HPV infections.
Working Together to Reduce Cervical Cancer
We all play a role in preventing cervical cancer. Learn how you can lower your risk and promote the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer.
Consult with your healthcare provider to understand the risk for new HPV infections and benefits of receiving the HPV vaccine.
Ask your medical provider to screen for cervical cancer during gynecological visits.
Receive cervical cancer screening tests to prevent cervical cancer or detect it early, when it easiest to treat.
Continue to receive cervical cancer screenings, even after obtaining all recommended doses of the HPV vaccine.
Practice safer sex and routinely get screened for any sexually transmitted infections.
Avoid smoking to reduce cervical cancer risk.
What can parents do?
Vaccinate both young girls and boys with the HPV vaccine to prevent future cases of HPV-associated cancers.
Encourage children to receive the HPV vaccine at an early age.
Remind children to be screened for cervical cancer when they are aged 21 years or older.
What can healthcare professionals do?
Recommendations for cervical cancer screening.
Recommend that preteens and teens get vaccinated against HPV.
Educate parents on the benefit of HPV vaccinations.
Co-administer the HPV vaccination with other adolescent vaccines to reduce the number of clinical visits.
Screen women for cervical cancer during regular gynecological visits. Remember family doctors and internists can also do cervical cancer screening. If a precancer or cancer is detected, get the right follow-up care
Help women understand which screening tests are best for them and when to get them.
What can communities do?
Collaborate with partners and advocates to educate community members on the prevention and control of cervical cancer.
Build partnerships with local public health organizations and health departments to advise community members about cervical cancer prevention.
Identify ways to increase accessibility to cervical cancer services with your local health officials and address challenges such as transportation and healthcare costs that may deter one from seeking medical care.
Point community members to HPV vaccinations and cervical cancer screenings.
Communicate accurate and culturally-relevant public health messages about cervical cancer prevention.
Gynecologic Cancer Awareness
Inside Knowledge About Gynecologic Cancer Campaign
National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)
Videos about Gynecologic Cancer
Last Reviewed: January 24, 2023
Source: Office of Minority Health & Health Equity (OMHHE)
homeHealth Equity
About OMHHEplus icon
Timeline - Achievements in Minority Health
Public Health Agents of Change
What is Health Equity?plus icon
Health Equity In Action
Health Equity Video Series
CDC's CORE Commitment to Health Equityplus icon
Illustrative Examples of CORE Goals
Conversations in Equity Blog
Events, Forums, and Continuing Educationplus icon
Protect Our Children & Youth From COVID-19
Public Health Ethics Forumplus icon
Program Agenda
Previous Forum-2019
State of Health Equity at CDC Forumplus icon


Learning doesn't end at 3 p.m. or in June, and neither should data-driven support for students. With secure access to education data, out-of-school time (OST) partners like afterschool programs and internship programs can align learning beyond the school day and school year to students' interests and skills. This video shows what it looks like when data is used to support students both in and out of the classroom.
A policy brief highlighting the value of school-community collaboration and data sharing and the unique role that state policymakers play in making these partnerships possible.
A summer blog series showcasing examples of effective school-community collaboration from across the country.