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Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of intent to prepare an environment impact statement.
The U.S. Department Agriculture—Forest Service proposes to conduct vegetation management activities on approximately 167,500 acres of upland forest sites in the Farley Analysis Area to restore sustainable forest conditions in the Desolation Creek watershed. The proposed action will use a range of mechanical harvest and non-harvest thinning and prescribed fire activities to alter species composition, stand structure, and fire regime condition class to re-create conditions that are consistent with the historic range of variably for forests of the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon, and to capture the commercial value of forest raw materials for the benefit of local economies.
The Farley Analysis Area encompasses the Desolation Creek watershed which covers 69,672 acres of diverse mountainous, mostly forested landscapes ranging in elevation from 7,765 ft at its headwaters to 2810 ft at its confluence with the North Fork John Day River near Dale, Oregon. It includes both National Forest and privately-owned lands; private lands comprise about 18 percent of the total area, mostly at lower elevations at the western end of the watershed.
Development and implementation of these actions will be conducted in accordance with the National Forest Management Act, National Environmental Policy Act, Council on Environmental Quality regulations, Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, and with the Umatilla National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan and scientific recommendations of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project.
Comments concerning the scope of the analysis must be received by November 21, 2007. The Draft EIS is expected to be filed with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and be available to the public for review by February 2008. The Final EIS is scheduled to be completed by April 2008.
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Michael A. Beckwith, Technical Writer-Editor, North Fork John Day Ranger District, 401 Main Street, Ukiah, OR 97880, phone (541) 427-5335. E-mail: email@example.com Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
Purpose and Need. Since the early 1900s, fire has been aggressively excluded from forest ecosystems throughout the Nation. From the mid to late 1900s, timber harvest practices in the interior Columbia Basin have emphasized removal primarily of mature ponderosa pine. The result has been a shift in forest conditions toward dense stands of Douglas and grand fir containing large amounts of dead and decaying wood that now are subject to insect infestations, disease, and very large wildfires, in contrast to the more open stands of fire-adapted species (such as ponderosa pine) that would be expected to occur historically.
In addition, in 1996 the Bull, Summit and Tower wildfires in and near the Farley Analysis Area involved mature lodgepole pine forests that had experienced substantial insect mortality. These fires were uncharacteristically intense and covered large area (over 130,000 acres) because, as a result of past fire suppression and timber harvest practices, the forests had become more dense (more trees per acre) and contained a larger amount of dead wood than would have existed historically. These fires resulted in greater loss of old forest structure, wildlife cover and habitat, riparian structure and vegetation, erosion and detrimental effects to soils over very large areas than would have been anticipated historically.
The Desolation Watershed Analysis (1999) found that almost 60 percent of upland-forest sites in the Farley area exhibit moderate or high departures from the characteristic species composition, structure and stand density conditions than would have existed historically. These conditions are outside the range of historic variability for forests in the Blue Mountains and are not sustainable over the long-term, with the end result likely to be very large, destructive wildfires. Therefore, the purpose and need for the Farley Vegetation Management Project is to improve the long-term sustainability of upland forests by reducing stand densities and fuel loads, restoring appropriate species composition, altering forest structure and fire regime condition class, regenerating mature lodgepole stands that currently exits, and to capture the commercial value of raw wood materials for the benefits of local economies.
Proposed Action. The Forest Service proposes to conduct mechanical harvest and non-harvest thinning, prescribed fire, fuels treatment, and reforestation activities on approximately 17,460 acres in the Farley Analysis Area in accordance with the resource management objectives and standards set forth in the Umatilla National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (1990) and the scientific recommendations of the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (1996). These activities are anticipated to yield approximately 60,000 hundred cubic feet of merchantable material. Approximately 100 miles of open and seasonally open roads will be required for the proposed action, including construction of approximately 40 miles of new system and temporary roads, and approximately 50 miles of reconstruction and maintenance of existing forest system roads. Approximately 2 miles of existing road will be closed and/or decommissioned at the conclusion of the proposed activities.
The proposed action requires amendments to the Forest Plan with respect to connectivity among stands exhibiting old forest structure, scenic values, and total area (at the specific stand, subwatershed and watershed level) allowed to be in the less than 20 year old age class. Implementation of the proposed actions could begin in late 2008.
Possible Alternatives. Alternatives will include the proposed action, no action, and additional alternatives that respond to issues generated during the scoping process. The agency will give notice of the full environmental analysis and decision-making process so interested and affected people may participate and contribute to the final decision.
Scoping. Correspondence with tribes, government agencies, organizations, and individuals who have indicated interest Start Printed Page 65562will be conducted and input will be solicited.
Preliminary Issues. Preliminary issues identified include the potential effects of the proposed action on long-term forest conditions and sustainability, fish and wildlife habitat, hydrology and water quality, soils and scenic values.
Comment. Public comments on this proposed action are requested to identify issues and alternatives to the proposed action and to focus the scope of the analysis. Comments received in response to this solicitation, including names and address of those who comment, will be considered part of the public record on this proposed action, and will be available for public inspection. Comments submitted anonymously will be accepted and considered; however, those who submit anonymous comments will not have standing to appeal the subsequent decisions under 36 CFR parts 215 or 217. Additionally, pursuant to 7 CFR 1.27(d), any person may request the agency to withhold a submission from the public record by showing how the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) permits such confidentiality. Persons requesting such confidentiality should be aware that under the FOIA, confidentiality may be granted in only very limited circumstances such as to protect trade secrets. The Forest Service will inform the requester of the agency's decision regarding the request for confidentiality, and where the request is denied; the agency will return the submission and notify the requester that the comments may be resubmitted with or without name and address within a specified number of days.
Early Notice of Importance of Public Participation in Subsequent Environmental Review. A draft EIS will be filed with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and made available for public review by January 2008. The EPA will publish a Notice of Availability (NOA) of the draft EIS in the Federal Register. the final EIS is scheduled to be available April 2008.
The Forest Service believes at this early stage, it is important to give reviewers notice of several court rulings related to public participation in the environmental review process. First, reviewers of draft impact statements must structure their participation in the environmental review of the proposal so that it is meaningful and alerts the agency to the reviewer's position and contentions. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC, 435 U.S. 519, 553 (1978). Also, environmental objections that could be raised at the draft environmental impact stage but that are not raised until after completion of the final environmental impact statement may be waived or dismissed by the courts. City of Angoon v. Hodel, 803 f. 2d 1016, 1022 (9th Cir. 1986) and Wisconsin Heritages, Inc, v. Harris, 490 F. Supp. 1334, 1338 (E.D. Wis. 1980). Because of these court rulings, it is very important that those interested in this proposed action participate by the close of the 45-day comment period so that substantive comments and objections are made available to the Forest Service at a time when it can meaningfully consider them and respond to them in the final environmental impact statement.
To assist the Forest Service in identifying and considering issues and concerns on the proposed action, comments on the draft environmental impact statement should be as specific as possible. It is also helpful if comments refer to specific pages or chapters of the draft statement. Comments may also address the adequacy of the draft environmental impact statement or the merits of the alternatives formulated and discussed in the statement. Reviewers may wish to refer to the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act at 40 CFR 1503.3 in addressing these points.
In the final EIS, the Forest Service is required to respond to substantive comments received during the comment period for the draft EIS. The Forest Service is the lead agency and the responsible official is Craig Dixon, District Ranger, North Fork John Day Ranger District, Umatilla National Forest. The responsible official will decide where, and whether or not to salvage timber, and remove potential hazard trees. The responsible official will select the treatment alternative(s) for the Farley Vegetation Management, as well as potential mitigation and monitoring measures that may be needed. The decision will be documented in a record of decision. The decision will be subject to Forest Service Appeal Regulations (36 CFR part 215).Start Signature
Dated: November 2, 2007.
Kevin Martin,
Forest Supervisor.
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I have followed the activities of the Maine-based True North Health Center - Maine's Center fior Functional Medicine and the Healing Arts, from a distance for a number of years. The integrative center offers a widely-respected conference every year, the most recent October 15-18, 2008. Medical director and obstetrician Bethany Hays, MD was honored this year as the 14th recipient of the Linus Pauling Award from the Institute for Functional Medicine. I have on my desk an exceptional commentary of Hayes, from Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal, on the state of birthing practice in the United States (Is there still a place for normal birth?).
But it was the heated Integrator dialogue about who owns "integrative medicine"
We read with great interest the exchange in your last issue
and felt compelled to add to the conversation. When we read Peter Glidden's
description of how an Integrative Medical model would look and his comment "Too
bad it doesn't exist" we wanted to set the record straight – True North's model
is like the one he describes; only (we think) better.
True North's practitioner
community is varied: six physicians, two advanced practice nurses, one
naturopath, one chiropractor, two mental health professionals and 5 CAM
therapists practicing massage, acupuncture, energy medicine and shamanic
healing; plus three affiliate members who offer HeartMath®, psychotherapy and
addiction and trauma recovery. Patients come in to True North through many
different "doorways" – some see MDs for primary care, some come for
complementary treatments only – some come to see multiple practitioners.
While our original business model
described a case manager
much like Glidden's "gatekeeper"
we found that patients wanted
access to practitioners
more than they wanted a case
manager type person to
with a care plan.
While our original business model described a case manager
role much like Glidden's "gatekeeper" we found that patients wanted direct
access to practitioners more than they wanted a case manager type person to
assist with a care plan. Patient charts are integrated at True North so
practitioners all see each other's notes and we are working on ways to
integrate more effectively.
As an integrated center, we are a work in process. As a
research nonprofit organization we are working to track our results in
meaningful ways. What has kept our collegial relationships rich (and for the
most part healthy) is our choice to use "circle process" as a governance model.
Sitting in circle has given us literally years of listening to each other, learning
from one another and respecting each other across disciplines. We have found
that coming together as a practitioner community is one of the most meaningful
things that we do as a group. One example of this richness is when we hold
collaborative case presentations where we hear a case and then offer each
disciplines' perspective on how to handle the patient's presenting problems.
In addition, our governance model
means that everyone has a
at the same table in determining
how the organization runs.
practitioners and administrators
at the same table is no less fraught
historical tensions than is having
practitioners from different disciplines.
We would like to see groups of practitioners spring up all
over the country in similar practice settings because we think the patients and
the practitioners are best served when their health care providers are learning
from each other. We think a setting where multiple services are available under
one roof gives each modality equal weight in the public's eye and we take care
to credential each service in a rigorous way. Clearly the issue of equality or
more precisely, lack thereof, is what spurs passionate reactions like the ones
in this blog.
In addition, our governance model means that everyone has a
seat at the same table in determining how the organization runs. Having
practitioners and administrators at the same table is no less fraught with
historical tensions than having practitioners from different disciplines is.
Still, we learn a lot from each other and through creating and sustaining
relationships we manage to get a lot done and serve patients well.
We hope the Integrator Blog will keep being a forum for this
kind of discussion. If other practitioners want to learn more about how we've
been doing it – we're happy to share our experiences.
Sincerely, True North's "Decision Circle"
Tom Dahlborg, Executive Director
Charles deSieyes, MD
Susan Fekety, MSN, CNM
Bethany M. Hays, MD, FACOG, Medical Director
Peter Knight, ND, Associate Medical Director
Kathryn Landon-Malone, MSN, CPNP
Chris Bicknell Marden, Director of Marketing and Development
Evelyn Rysdyk and C. Allie Knowlton, MSW, LCSW, DCSW
Catherine Valenza, Business & Operations Manager


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Cheers to Cherries!
Posted on Jun 28th, 2016
It's that time of year again, when bright red cherries adorn the trees all over Northern Michigan. The crowds are beginning to gather for National Cherry Festival, and the tasting room is abuzz with families celebrating one of Michigan's most coveted crops.
At Peninsula Cellars, we are serving up a tasting room tradition–Cheers To Cherries Sangria! This fun take on traditional sangria, made with our Hot Rod Cherry wine is great for entertaining or cooling off on these hot summer days!
This is a simple to make, and easy to enjoy recipe sure to put a little cherry cheer in all your summer gatherings! Use the recipe below to create your own Cheers to Cherries Sangria!
Peninsula Cellars Cheers to Cherries Sangria
2 Bottles of Hot Rod Cherry Wine
2 Large Oranges Sliced
2 Limes Sliced
2 Lemons Sliced
1 quart fresh strawberries sliced
1 2L bottle of Lemon Lime Soda
Slice fruit, soak in mixture of liquids for 4 hours. Serve cold, but do not add ice. Enjoy!


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2 armed robberies reported in Downtown Greenville
2 armed robberies reported in Downtown Greenville
Greenville police are investigating two armed robberies in Downtown Greenville that happened in the past week.
A moped rider says three men held him at gunpoint in Cleveland Park on Saturday.
He said it happened a few minutes before 11 p.m. and the men demanded his moped and fled. Police said one witness saw the incident.
A woman told police a man approached here on the parking deck at the West McBee Avenue bus station just before 10 p.m. on Monday.
The woman said the man pointed a gun at her and demanded her wallet.
She told police the man threatened her life and took the phone she was talking on.
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Member and Member
Paul Leighton
Paul Leighton has been re-appointed as a member of the Police Remuneration Review Body and National Crime Agency Remuneration Review body. His re-appointment is due to commence on 11 December 2017 and end on 31 August 2019.
Currently a Non-Executive Director on the Prison Service Management Board for Northern Ireland and Chair of its Audit Committee. Paul retired as Deputy Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland in May 2009. He worked in policing in both Northern Ireland and the north east of England and from late 1994 to early 1996 he was seconded to Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), where he assisted in the inspection of a number of English police forces. Since 2009 Paul has taken on a portfolio of appointments, including the Hillsborough Independent Panel dealing with issues arising from the Hillsborough football tragedy, and in 2010 was appointed to the Prisons Review Team looking at all aspects of prisons in Northern Ireland. He has also served temporarily as Non-Executive Director on the Board on the Northern Ireland Forensic Science Service.
Members of the National Crime Agency Remuneration Review Body are responsible for:
- making recommendations on the pay and allowances of National Crime Agency (NCA) officers designated with operational powers
- considering written evidence from the Home Office, the NCA, trades unions and other interested parties
- conducting research on pay and related matters
- visiting the NCA to meet NCA officers with operational powers and management to gather information and views on pay and related issues
The member of the PRRB is responsible for providing independent advice to the government on pay and conditions for police officers at or below the rank of chief superintendent in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.


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March 21, 2007
Up Next
After a two-week layoff, the No. 63 Santa Clara Broncos host two important matches this weekend at the Degheri Tennis Center as they face No. 75 Cornell on Friday, March 23 and Montana State on Saturday, March 24. Friday's match against Cornell begins at 1:30 p.m. PT, while the Montana State contest gets underway at 3 p.m. PT. The Broncos will be looking to stretch their win streak to 11 straight matches.
Last Week
Santa Clara has not played since defeating Cal Poly 4-1 on the road on March 11. Against the Mustangs, SCU captured the doubles point in thrilling fashion with Jan Macek and Bobby Rasmussen winning 9-8 (11-9) in the deciding match. In singles, Macek, Blane Shields and Rasmussen all won to give Santa Clara its fourth straight road win.
Broncos On The Move Again
After defeating Cal Poly on March 11, the Broncos actually dropped to No. 67 in the FILA Rankings on March 13. However, the team moved back up to No. 63 in the nation in the latest poll. Not since 2002 has the men's tennis program achieved a national ranking when they were a program-best No. 55 in the nation.
Scouting Cornell
SCU has never faced Cornell in its history. The Big Red are a member of the Ivy League and have posted an 11-2 record during the spring dual match season. The team's only losses came against Penn State and Maryland. Cornell recently defeated Saint Mary's by a 7-0 margin and San Francisco by a 4-2 margin. The Big Red will also play matches against Pacific and Fresno State, along with their match against Santa Clara. Nick Brunner from Sacramento is one of the team's top players.
Scouting Montana State
In the last meeting between SCU and Montana State, the Bobcats earned a 5-2 win in the Broncos second match of the day at Boise State on April 8, 2006. Montana State won doubles despite a win at No. 1 by Kevin McQuaid and Blane Shields. In singles, the Broncos lost the top four matches, while Tommy Hicks and A.J. Kerin picked up wins at No. 5 and No. 6 respectively. The two teams have never met at the Degheri Tennis Center. This season Montana State, which is the three-time defending Big Sky champion, has posted a 4-10 record. Three of their losses have come against ranked opponents. The young team features five freshman, a sophomore and two juniors. Montana State also plays Sacramento State and Pacific this weekend on their trip to California.
Win Streak
Santa Clara has won nine straight matches following its win over Cal Poly on March 11. The Broncos have not won nine in a row since a 12-match winning streak from March 2-April 7, 2002. The team has also won four straight road matches after sweeping three contests away from home from March 4-11.
Mr. Clutch
Senior Bobby Rasmussen clinched the past two matches for the Broncos against San Francisco and Cal Poly. He now leads the Broncos in that statistical category. He has clinched five of the team's 12 dual match wins this season.
Macek/Rasmussen and McQuaid/Shields Moving Up Record Books
The doubles teams of Jan Macek/Bobby Rasmussen and Kevin McQuaid/Blane Shields are moving up the record books in career doubles victories. McQuaid and Shields won a school record 20 matches last year to move to No. 4 all-time in doubles wins. The pair has won six matches this year and is now in sole possession of third all-time with 26 wins. Macek and Rasmussen started the year with 18 career wins together and have burst out of the gate this spring, posting a 16-3 record so far to move into sole possession of second place all-time with 34 wins. Macek and Rasmussen are still 13 wins away from the all-time leaders, Marcell Hlousek and Jeremy Testwuide, who won 47 matches together at SCU from 1997-99.
Macek/Rasmussen Nearing Top-10 In Combined Doubles
Bobby Rasmussen reached 51 career combined doubles wins and Jan Macek reached 48 with the pair's wins against San Francisco on March 7 and Cal Poly on March 11. Rasmussen is now tied with Matt Cox (1998-2001) for the No. 9 spot in Broncos history with 51 combined wins. Next on the list is Taylor Bedilion '05, who had 56 career doubles wins.
Rasmussen Aiming For Top-10 In Singles
Senior Bobby Rasmussen has gotten off to a fantastic start to the spring season in singles, posting a 13-4 record to move his career singles record to 58-48. He passed Marcel Hlousek for eighth all-time in career singles wins with his win against San Francisco and then moved into a tie for seventh with Ryan Pang '98 with a match-clinching win against Cal Poly. Rasmussen has now won six straight matches for SCU.
Wong Super Frosh
Freshman Jay Wong hit a bump in the road on March 11 as his eight-match winning streak was snapped with a 6-2, 6-3 loss to Cal Poly's Matt Baca. However, he continues to have an historic first season on the Mission Campus. The San Jose native has a 23-7 record on the year. He is now tied for fifth all-time in single-season singles wins. The all-time record for wins in a season is 30, accomplished by Francisco Zepponi when he posted a 30-8 record in 2002. Wong's .767 winning percentage is currently second all-time behind Zepponi's .789 winning percentage in 2002.
Resurgent Hicks
Sophomore Tommy Hicks won 24 singles matches as a freshman last year. However, he started off struggling in the dual match season this year going winless in his first five matches. However, the Portland, Ore. native has recovered nicely, winning six in a row to move his dual match record at above .500 at 6-5. He is now 14-10 overall this year.
Shields Unbeaten
Junior Blane Shields has made a name for himself as a doubles specialist at SCU. However, he has proven to be a great singles player as well this season. After going 7-2 in the fall in singles, Shields has been perfect this spring. He is currently 5-0 at the No. 6 position for George Husack's squad and has clinched two wins for SCU.
Bronco Firsts
The Santa Clara men's tennis team has achieved a number of notable firsts this season on the courts. The team defeated UC Irvine for the first time in program history on Feb. 4, earning a 6-1 win. The team's win over the University of Arizona on Feb. 10 contained a pair of firsts. The Broncos had never beaten Arizona in the past and they had not beaten a Pac-10 team on the road. However, SCU accomplished both tasks with its 4-3 victory. The Broncos achieved another first in their last match, defeating Cal Poly on the road for the first time in school history.
Ranked Foes
SCU has already played nine ranked opponents this season, Boise State (25), California (18), Pepperdine (9), UC Irvine (74), Arizona State (57), Arizona (72), Hawai'i (73), Oregon (75) and Saint Mary's (72). Those rankings were at the time of the match. The Broncos played only 10 ranked opponents all of last season. Cornell, SCU's next opponent is currently ranked No. 75.


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A QUEEN FOR THE MODERN AGE? / The fascinating Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette is back in vogue. A two-hour PBS documentary on the last queen of France aired Sept. 25, and will be followed by the premiere of Sofia Coppola's film "Marie Antoinette" on Oct. 20. There has been a remarkable spate of books on this subject: two works of historical fiction -- last year's "The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette," by Carolly Erickson (St. Martin's Press), and "Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette," by Sena Jeter Naslund (forthcoming from William Morrow this month) -- plus a scholarly study, "Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution" (Henry Holt, due this month), by Caroline Weber, a professor of French at Barnard College.
All of the above are indebted in varying degrees to Lady Antonia Fraser's beautifully crafted 2001 biography, "Marie Antoinette: The Journey." Coppola's interest was sparked by the abridged English translation (released in 2000) of a massive 1991 biography of Marie Antoinette by French historian Evelyne Lever. Coppola bought the rights to Lever's book (which takes a somewhat chilly view of the queen) and hired her as a historical consultant. But it was the Fraser biography, which Coppola said had "humanized" Marie Antoinette, that directly inspired the screenplay, written by Coppola.
The film stars Kirsten Dunst and by permission of the French government was shot on location in the gardens and palace of Versailles, including the Hall of Mirrors. It was shown to mixed reviews (there were reports of booing) at the Cannes International Film Festival in May. Controversy is already swirling over the score's quotation of 1980s "new romantic" pop music, as well as over the film's startling neglect of the French Revolution (it ends before Marie Antoinette's imprisonment and death by guillotine). Coppola provocatively claims she has simply made a movie about "teenagers in Versailles."
The Marie Antoinette saga presents daunting problems to any adapter. Where should our sympathies lie: with the plucky, fun-loving 14-year-old girl torn from her home at the Habsburg court in Vienna to serve as a broodmare for French royalty -- or with the impoverished French proletariat whose taxes underwrote the ostentatious luxuries of a parasitic aristocracy? For two centuries, views of Marie Antoinette have been sharply polarized: She was either a saint and martyr or a monster and a Messalina (one of the many scathing sobriquets flung at her in her lifetime).
Deftly evenhanded, Fraser makes Marie Antoinette a palpable, pitiable presence without ever coercing us to suspend ethical judgment. She explodes myths -- Marie Antoinette never said, "Let them eat cake" -- dismisses salacious rumors about the queen's nymphomania and lesbianism and induces respect for the queen's courage in adversity. But Fraser also accepts as credible the charges of treason, partly based on a leak of military secrets, which led to Marie Antoinette's conviction and execution.
Fraser dwells relatively little on the systemic problems in French society that would erupt in the Revolution of 1789. Medieval feudalism lingered in France as it did not in England, which was already in the first stages of the Industrial Revolution. And the French resistance to banking reform depressed its economy until the 19th century. In Fraser's engrossing book, the suffering or frustration of the French citizenry sometimes seems like mere background noise -- as it was for too long for Marie Antoinette herself.
While drawing on multiple sources, the PBS documentary betrays its beguilement by Fraser. Marie Antoinette's role as a hapless intermediary between competing European superpowers is well portrayed, as is her empress mother's domineering intrusion from afar and her young husband's endless public humiliations. The future King Louis XVI was a shy, affable, blundering gourmand who fell so far short of his royal forebears' womanizing prowess that he failed to complete sexual intercourse with his own wife for the first seven years of their marriage.
The production uses Marie Antoinette's multitude of surviving portraits magnificently. The camera's slow pan fairly caresses her changing face as it matures into doting motherhood. The location photography and crisp editing are splendid, but less impressive are the dull re-creations where an actress standing in for Marie Antoinette gratuitously wanders around with a parasol, her slack or striding contemporary body language and mannish, athletic hands at jarring odds with what the narrator is telling us about the queen's "Habsburg dignity and French grace." The magical "Versailles glide" is nowhere in sight.
Admirably, this Marie Antoinette uses subtitles instead of voice-overs for its fascinating interviews with French historians. Foreign languages are too rarely heard on mainstream American TV, including news programs, an omission that can only worsen national provincialism. In this case, the elegant, aggressive formality and residually neoclassic syntactic parallelism of French provide a thrilling dramatic approximation of the haughty court ritualism in which the young Marie Antoinette was trapped.
Among the interviewees, Lady Antonia and the French contributors scintillate with wit and charm, while Simon Schama, the British historian who teaches at Columbia University, decidedly does not. It's a positive relief whenever we leave Schama's snide glibness for Fraser's disciplined deep emotion: As Marie Antoinette's family life turns tragic, Fraser's voice catches and her eyes well with tears.
A recurrent dilemma is that the silky, elegiac music and dazzling visuals so enchant that we over-identify with the embattled heroine, as in a fairy tale. Escalating political events get summarized more and more rapidly (there go the Bastille and the Declaration of the Rights of Man!) until they seem like annoying distractions. Stick-figure period drawings in which writhing crowds protest and rampage seem aesthetically repellent: Who are those untidy, faceless creatures who dare invade Marie Antoinette's pastoral dream?
The struggle to maintain political perspective is abandoned altogether in the Erickson and Naslund novels. Fraser shows Marie Antoinette gaining reflectiveness and stature over time. Erickson and Naslund, however, make the peculiar decision to cast their books in the first person as well as the present tense, which collapses the reader with the protagonist and allows little space for detachment or objectivity.
Erickson's book purports to be a diary left by Marie Antoinette in her prison cell. The story begins the night before her execution in 1793, then snaps back 24 years to the pubescent archduchess being hawked on the international marriage market. There is action and titillation throughout -- a clash with Madame du Barry, stolen moments of sexual ecstasy, massacres of peasants, bricks crashing through windows.
But the queen's diary seems suspiciously eloquent for someone who had documented difficulties with reading and writing. Furthermore, Erickson's invention of characters and incidents (such as a protracted sex holiday enjoyed by the queen in Sweden) and her omission of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace (a hoax that irreparably damaged Marie Antoinette's reputation) seem questionable for a writer who has produced straightforward biographies of Elizabeth I and the Empress Josephine.
Naslund, the author of the well-received "Ahab's Wife" (based on Melville's "Moby-Dick"), makes Marie Antoinette's inner voice even more florid. There is a density of poetic description and historical reference in this 500-plus-page novel that seems highly improbable for any character's spontaneous reaction to unfolding events. As with Erickson's novel, Marie Antoinette's diction and tone change too little from adolescence to adulthood. The chronicle follows Fraser closely, except that the queen is exonerated of all fault; she is brought low by dastardly lies and hearsay. But with its lavish settings and heightened emotions ("My heart flutters"; "My other breast is dying of jealousy"), the book will undoubtedly offer pleasure and instruction to loyal readers of historical romances.
Though sometimes impeded by excess recycled biographical material, Weber's "Queen of Fashion" examines Marie Antoinette from an arresting angle -- her theatrical persona as a fashion innovator (a theme that Fraser touches on but strategically underplays). Forced to jockey for position, French courtiers were slaves of fashion, while queens tended to be more modest and reserved. Fashion flash was practiced instead by the kings' semiofficial mistresses -- a role that Weber demonstrates was borrowed by Marie Antoinette (whose husband had no mistress) and that eventually compromised her reputation and made it easier for scurrilous pamphleteers to caricature her as a whore. Regularly exceeding her annual clothing allowance at a time of national debt, she was scorned as "Madame Déficit."
Marie Antoinette's opulent clothing occupied three public rooms at Versailles, but nothing survived the mob's sack of the palace in 1789. Her "look books" have been preserved in the French national archives. They show the pinpricks made by the queen as she chose her dresses each morning. Weber surveys Marie Antoinette's controversial patronage of commercial stylists and her extravagant "pouf" hairdos, bejeweled ball gowns, Renaissance masquerade costumes and daring masculine riding habits, followed by her shift to rural straw hats and simple muslin and prints, which nearly bankrupted the French silk industry.
The nagging question is why Marie Antoinette has suddenly become so ubiquitous. Though the invasion and occupation of Iraq have been perceived by many around the world as an exercise in American imperialism, our current first lady, Laura Bush, has more in common with the cloth-coat Pat Nixon than with Nancy Reagan, who spent $200,000 on new White House china during a recession, or with Hillary Clinton, who wore a lavish black-velvet opera coat trimmed with gold braid to sweep, Marie Antoinette-like, into her interrogation by the special prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr.
Has representative democracy, paralyzed by rancorous partisanship and bureaucratic incompetence, become the waning ancien regime assailed by hordes at the gates? There is an uneasy sense of siege in Europe and the United States from restive immigrant minorities who have taken to the streets or bred saboteurs. The intelligentsia seem fatigued, sapped by pointless theory, and impotent to affect events. Fervor has shifted to religious fundamentalists in both Christianity and Islam. Materialism and status anxiety have come to the fore in the glitteringly high-tech West. Yet the turbulent Third World offers agonizingly stark contrasts. The Marie Antoinette story, with its premonitions of doom amid a giddy fatalism, seems to signal a pervasive guilt about near-intractable social inequities.
The court machinery created by Louis XIV at Versailles was a precursor of the star-making Hollywood studio system, with its glorification of beauty and glamour. Under the dithering, ineffectual Louis XVI, however, the artificial superstructure of the French elite had reached its decadent limit. As Weber shows, Marie Antoinette's fashion display was no longer about the nation but about unfettered self-indulgence.
Similarly today, "image," as fabricated by stylists and often divorced from any discernible achievement, has become the primary focus of celebrity culture (and has overflowed into the art world). Yet stars have become smaller and smaller, interchangeable ciphers with blank doll faces. The perverse agelessness created in the late 18th century by powdering of the hair of both sexes is now paralleled by cosmetic surgery and nerve-deadening injections, which produce a strained simulacrum of youth.
In this period of bland, gender-neutral ideology in the workplace, the Marie Antoinette milieu may offer the archaic fantasy of sophisticated womanly wiles and the alluring arts of seduction. At times, the novels about Marie Antoinette seem to recall Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind," with its epic panorama of the destruction of a pleasure-driven, heedlessly exploitative civilization.
But Scarlett O'Hara, of course, survived through spunk and grit. The picture of an innocent Marie Antoinette as scapegoat, facing down her accusers and led to the slaughter, is reminiscent of plays and films about Joan of Arc, which used to be much more in circulation. There are also resemblances to Princess Diana, who was similarly recruited for royal procreation and found herself lost in a cunning, deceptive courtly maze. And like Marie Antoinette, Diana came to a violent end in Paris.
After 9/11 -- when great towers fell, like the Bastille, in a day -- coping for the professional class has required cognitive dissonance. Life's routine goes on amid a surreal bombardment of bulletins about mutilations and massacres. When since the Reign of Terror has ritual decapitation become such a constant?
The fury and cruelty of the French mob were strangely mixed with laughter -- as when the severed head of Marie Antoinette's friend, the Princesse de Lamballe, was spruced up by a hairdresser and waved on a pike outside the royal family's window. These are the grisly surprises that now greet us every day through our own windows -- the glass monitors of TVs and PCs.
The return of Marie Antoinette suggests that there are political forces at work in the world that Western humanism does not fully understand and that it may not be able to control.


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WASHINGTON, May 27, 2010 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued the following statement on the most recent U.S. Agricultural Trade Outlook Forecast for fiscal year 2010: "Today's strong economic report is good news for communities across the country, not only because of the increasing opportunities for America's farmers and ranchers to sell their products overseas, but also because of the importance of agricultural exports to the American economy. With each $1 billion in exports supporting 8,000 to 9,000 jobs at home, efforts to increase trade are an important part of the Administration's effort to strengthen our economy here at home.
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* The trade surplus in agriculture is now forecast to reach $28 billion, the second highest ever achieved.
* The report comes on the heels of an historic six-month pace by U.S. agricultural exports, which shattered records with $59 billion in sales in the first half of the fiscal year and generated a 14 percent increase over the same period last year.
* U.S. agricultural exports to China grew by nearly $3 billion during the first half of the fiscal year to $10.6 billion, making China the United States' top market for this period. In total, exports to Asia have reached record highs, led by strong increases in China and Southeast Asia. Other outstanding country and regional customers include the European Union, Turkey, and North Africa.
The report can be seen at: http://www.fas.usda.gov/.
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After years of waiting, Gene Schach, a Crescent City native, has checked off a major bucket list item by setting foot on the catch deck of the St. George Reef Lighthouse.
Gene's stepdaughter Angela Ragan said Gene is living with brain cancer and has been talking about the lighthouse as long as she's known him.
"My mom really wanted to get him this helicopter tour since it has been on his bucket list all of his life," Ragan emailed.
After landing Sunday, Gene was helped from the helicopter by his sons, Jeff and Kevin. The intrigue never left his face as he was shown around the outside of the structure and given details about its construction.
Inside the lighthouse kitchen, Gene sat quietly and listened to more information. His condition limits his speech, but he's able to communicate with his family.
Jeff said that for the family, the lighthouse has always been a sort of mysterious entity that would appear through the fog when they were combing the beach as kids.
Gene stopped at the kitchen rather than climbing the remaining levels to the upper deck and light. Asked if the flight was everything he's hoped it would be, Gene nodded and only said "yes," with a bright, enthusiastic smile across his face.
He was also able to leave his mark there, in the form of his signature inside the lighthouse's guest book.
Ragan said after the tour, that Gene was "over the moon," and absolutely delighted to have been able to make the trip.
Carol Schach, Gene's wife of 31 years said Gene has talked about the lighthouse as long as she's known him, and they had reservations to make the trip back in 2012. However, they were informed at the time that the tours would be discontinued until the landing pad could be renovated. She said he was very disappointed at the time.
"We were so glad that we could get in this time," she said. "I didn't go because, well, it's not on my list. He went with several of his friends and they are all just raving about it."
Gene was accompanied by friends Russ Kinikin, Lynn and Rand Hill, Scott Kinikin and Jess Miller, along with sons Kevin and Jeff.
Ragan was able to join them later after flying from Seattle and driving from Medford. The group met up with Ragan and had lunch at the Chartroom Restaurant where they had a great time discussing their trip to the lighthouse.
Gene is a retired attorney living in Crescent City. His father was Ray Schact, who owned Ace Hardware before it was destroyed by the 1964 tsunami and later relocated. Ragan said he's well known and respected in the community, calling him "the most consistently kind person I have ever met."
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|09 Apr 2011
Linux CENTOS 7 / various Windows OS'es and servers
Port Forwarding query -- accessing Server from Internet
Hi all
I have a Server connected to a fixed IP on local LAN say 192.168.0.7
Now I just want to use some client software REMOTELY (outside the LAN) which simply requires me to type in IP address + user / password.
Now if my Router reports my current IP address as www.xxx.yyy.zzz is THAT the address I should use and do I need to port forward anything -- The application is Vsphere NOT RDP as RDP needs me to connect to a WINDOWS machine (Real or VM inside tha LAN).
On the server I can access ANY of the running VM's from the Vpshere client.
I've actually "Poodlefaked" it so I can get my INTERNET IP address by starting the No-IP program from within any of the VMs at start up. This should allow mw to retrieve the current Internet IP address.
(No-IP - Dynamic DNS, Static DNS for Your Dynamic IP)
The No-IP works fine for me --there are others you can use for similar functions when you have dynamic IP's.
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|09 Apr 2011
Windows 7 Pro x64
Yes you need to type in your public IP address. the one the WAN port on your router gets from your ISP.
You also need to forward the port/s used by that program to the private IP address of the PC you want to connect to on your LAN.
If your router also has a REAL firewall you may also need to create a firewall rule to allow the connection WAN to LAN on that/those port/s that program uses.
If that is the case then you need an account with DDNS that keeps track of your public/WAN IP and you use a domain name instead of an IP address to make the connection. DDNS does all the lookup for domain name to IP address once it has a record of the WAN IP changing.
I see you know about all the dynamic services. Yes you need one of those if you don't have a static WAN IP.
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David Lassner officially becomes the 15th president of the University of Hawaiʻi System on July 1, 2014.
In this video message to UH students, faculty and staff, he discusses his appointment and priorities moving forward.
Right on!
We've got the right man at the head of our University and its campuses, most important to watch the pride of families and students when they move up from CC to UH.
I had some good ideas, I shared with Gene Akumana when I interviewed at UH West Oahau with him and Linda. Our Native Hawaiian students and those, particularly first generation in families to struggle to deal with their dual roles of good son-good daughter and working student. I didn't realize how much trouble he and that campus were at that time and withdrew my application for Assistant of Clinical Services when I felt his unprofessional aura. I thanked Linda, I felt she understood when I said the Clinic needs to be a game room…Virtual Reality helped my soldiers at Tripler deal with the horrors of our teaching them to be killers and then expecting them to rejoice when we say "Thank you for your Service". They need to get hold of their anger, anxiety, guilt…especially those with mTBI or who came from families where abuse was not even labeled or seen as such. I have volunteered to work with Catherine Li at our Vets Student Center….it will make a difference if we take their concentration, anxiety and anger issues into account on their road to success. We know they have perseverance beyond belief…they just need a little assistance to get to the ends they want for themselves and their families.
I am married to a part Native Hawaiian and currently director of the Prevention and Control Division and Chairperson of the Tenure committee, Tom Wills. I have a hapa grandchild and understand that culture is not just a language difference but a way of life difference. We could all embrace understanding where the other comes from.
The hat I gave you at the Polynesian Voyager Send off…is a reminder that you will not always be loved.
I am here to cover your back when needed. John and the others were so right in passing the torch to you. and the fact that you still talk to all (except the unnameable crook) to get some feedback of where things can go wrong, I am sure will allow you to make most things go right.
Barbara Melamed, Ph.D. ABPP
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Dean Hedges knows I am available. In any manner I would be happy to assist you in making our University seem more like a home.
I'd like to add a suggestion for the direction the UH System is going—
The Alumni paid-learned-and-gone, are still part of the larger process in the worldclass view of the University: In a world where science and intelligence and information is yet exponentially expanding and rising they-too still need to be learning what they learned: it changes daily and compoundedly by every article published: by more and-more doctors: The Alumni need not just opportunities to spend more on education, but also the currency of 'updates' to know the better books, the newer and brighter discoveries, the differences between what they learned before graduation and what they'd be learning in the same curriculum 'today'.
The 'difference' shouldn't take much…a little more time and money to the professional assembly to write it all down for a new periodical… plus the effort in the President's Office, to see it all gets done….
Perhaps this sounds too guided, but this world is, traveling together.
Perhaps I should include this cute anecdote: When I was in Elementary school I read my dad's college text on electricity and magnetism, (he got a Masters in Chemistry): its final chapter was The DeForest Audion Tube…but of course by time I read it we had Japanese-ten-transistor-radios… You get the picture: by time your kids are in college you'll need a new education yourself—the world isn't just a shopping cart and isn't slowing down by itself for the corners…


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Olympian Effort: Tellers, Johnstons head to Sochi
Larry Johnston says he knows one word in Russian.
It is "nyet," the Russian word for "no."
Debbie Teller says she knows one fewer word than Johnston.
Karl Teller, meanwhile, has been trying to pick up bits of Russian on his vehicle's CD player, and Debbie says he might know five words by now, while Karen Johnston says she's working on one word: "Dosvidaniya," meaning goodbye.
With this kind of in-depth language acumen, it ought to be a heck of a trip when the Tellers and Johnstons punch their tickets to Sochi, Russia, on Sunday, on a whirlwind, five-day trip to see Mammoth's John Teller compete with the U.S. team in Olympic ski cross on Thursday, Feb. 20.
"We've had this idea for about six months," Debbie Teller said, "but it wasn't until the last two weeks that we knew Johnny was going to make the team, so it was quite an experience."
For the two Mammoth families, who have vacationed together before—a cycling trip across Alaska comes to mind—this one, said Larry, "will be the trip of a lifetime."
"It was a lot of work," he said of the preparations.
"We got our visas done; we had to send those out and have them approved; send our passports; and before any of that, first we had to know that Johnny was going at all.
"And then it took a long time to get that from the U.S. Olympic Committee, then we had to confirm flights and find a place to stay.
"We had to find flights back, and then some things got changed around and we had to revise fights, and we had different visas."
But, he said, it all will be worth it to stand at the finish in Sochi, cowbells in hand, particularly if Johnny comes through with a medal.
"This," he said, "is going to be a lot of fun."
One last bit of business was in securing some Russian currency for when their plane touches down, first in Moscow, then again once the second leg of the trip is complete in Sochi, along the Black Sea coast.
To that end, Larry Johnson proudly pulled out a 5,000-ruble note.
"I think it's worth about 15 bucks," he said.
He then shrugged.
"We'll find out when we get there."


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Furion, the Prophet is a hero from Dota Allstars and as Tequoia, Nature's Prophet in Dota 2. In Dota Allstars, he is an Intelligence Sentinel hero while in Dota 2, he is an Intelligence Radiant hero.
|Ability Name
|Ability Description
|Sprouts a ring of trees around a unit, trapping it in place.
Verdant overgrowth is a common ailment reported by Nature's Prophet's attackers.
|Range: 625/700/775/850
Radius: 150
|Teleports to any point on the map.
The Prophet keeps his sentinel over the forest, protecting it when in need.
|Range: Global
Cooldown: 50/40/30/20
|Nature's Call
|Converts an area of trees into Treants. Treants have 550 HP and deal 26-30 damage.
Verodicia bestowed the Prophet with the ability to summon the Treant Guard, a mythical sentient army of the wild.
|Range: 750
Radius: 150/225/300/375
|Wrath of Nature
|Damaging energy bounces around the map, striking enemies close to the cast point that are in vision. Each enemy hit beyond the first adds damage.
Aghanim's Scepter: Increases damage, bounces and units killed by Wrath of Nature spawn Nature's Call treants*.
|Range: Global
Max Targets: 16 (18*)
|Ability Name
|Ability Description
|Sprouts a ring of trees around a unit, trapping it in place.
|Range: 600
Radius: 150
|Teleports to any point on the map.
|Range: Global
|Force of Nature
|Converts an area of trees into Treants. Treants have 550 HP and deal 21-23 damage.
|Range: 750
Radius: 150/225/300/375
|Wrath of Nature
|Damaging energy bounces around the map, striking enemies close to the cast point that are in vision. Each enemy hit beyond the first adds 7% damage.
Aghanim's Scepter: Increases damage and bounces.
|Range: Global
Max Targets: 16 (18*)
Dota Allstars:
The land is never safe. Furion, therefore, never rests. The leader of all Night Elves, Furion tirelessly works to protect the sanctity of his woods. It comes as no surprise that he who helped defeat Archimonde would be called upon once more in the Sentinel's hour of need. The fury of nature is at his disposal, the trees come to life at his command, the wind carries him to lands far away, and nature itself strikes all who defy his will. He is more than just a Keeper or a Prophet, he is a savior.
Dota 2:
When Verodicia, Goddess of the Woods, had finished filling in the green places, having planted the coiled-up spirit in the seed, having lured the twining waters from deep within the rock, having sworn the sun its full attention to the growing things, she realized that her own time had reached its end, and like one of the leaves whose fate she had imprinted in the seed, she would fall without seeing the fruiting of her dream. It pained her to leave the world bereft, for the sprouts had not yet broken through the soil- and they would be tender and vulnerable to every sort of harm. She found in her seed pouch one last seed that she had missed in the sowing. She spoke a single word into the seed and swallowed it as she fell. Her vast body decomposed throughout the long winter, becoming the humus that would feed the seedlings in the spring. And on the morning of the vernal equinox, before the rest of the forest had begun to wake, that last seed ripened and burst in an instant. From it stepped Tequoia, Nature's Prophet, in full leaf, strong and wise, possessing Verodicia's power to foresee where he would be needed most in defense of the green places--and any who might be fortunate enough to call him an ally.
Furion, the Prophet is an unusual Intelligence hero. His only damaging spell is his ultimate, Wrath of Nature, which is most effective when cast as far as possible from its intended victims. Instead of offensive spells, he relies on his physical attacks and his allies to take down enemies. With his summoned army of Treants, he is a great lane pusher. His main advantage is his amazing mobility. Using Teleportation, he can blink anywhere on the map at will. A player with good map awareness is invaluable help to his allies, since he can potentially join any battle, anywhere on the map. With Sprout, he can trap enemy heroes and then finish them off with his strong physical attacks and allied help. He can summon an army of Treants with Nature's Call and quickly destroy enemy towers and structures before the enemy can regroup to retaliate. His final spell, Wrath of Nature, can be used to soften up targets across the map while drawing large amounts of gold from enemy creeps. Whether you wish to play Nature's Prophet, or effectively oppose him, map awareness is the key to your success.
|The controllable treant minion created by Tequoia's Nature's Call ability. Stats are detailed to the right.
|Greater Treant
|A stronger variant of the Treant. Created upon killing an enemy hero with Tequioa's Wrath of Nature when he has Aghanim's Scepter. Stats are detailed to the right.


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Not content with your fix of World of Warcraft while sitting at a PC or laptop? Then the forthcoming World of Warcraft Remote Auction House (WoWRAH) iPhone app is for you.
Although not allowing access to the full game, WoWRAH allows you to login and browse any Auction House your account characters have access to. Such functionality is free, but Blizzard is introducing premium features under a new service called World of Warcraft Remote (WoWR). With a WoWR account you will also be able to bid and buy on auctions directly from your iPhone. You can also post items for sale, and collect gold from sold items.
WoWR is currently in beta, but the subscription price has now been revealed as $2.99 a month on top of your existing subscription to WoW. If you are lucky enough to be part of the beta then all the premium features are currently free to use. The same features in the app will also be available on the web, but you still need to subscribe to access them.
Here's a full list of the features and differences between the free and subscriber WoWR accounts:
To learn more visit the Auction House FAQ and the WoWRAH web page.
Read more at WoW.com
Matthew's Opinion
And you thought turning your PC off meant an escape from WoW? Not anymore. Blizzard have very cleverly realized that its subscribers can't spend all day sat at a PC with WoW installed as some of us have jobs. However, many of us do have an iPhone, or access to the web at work, so why not offer a limited, but still useful set of features to keep us hooked on the game.
Charging for the privelige of accessing these features may seem like a step too far seeing as you already pay a subscription every month, but I bet a lot of regular WoW players will see this as added value and happily pay. Even if only 10% of players sign up for this that's still well over a million new subscriptions, or an additional $3 million in revenue each month before the Apple tax is applied.
If you don't own an iPhone or iPod touch, don't worry, Blizzard is promising support for other devices in the future. I suspect Android support will be next.


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Tourism Australia announces Lisa Ronson as new CMO
- Published by Ozgur Tore
Tourism Australia has today confirmed that Lisa Ronson will be joining Australia's national tourism organisation as its new Chief Marketing Officer.
She replaces Nick Baker who recently announced he will be leaving Tourism Australia to pursue new opportunities early next year.
Ms Ronson joins Tourism Australia from Westpac, where she is currently the financial services company's Head of Marketing Services.
Lisa has 18 years marketing experience, in a career which has seen her hold senior brand marketing, advertising and sponsorship roles working across a range of diverse industries and global brands, including David Jones, Telstra, Visa International and Carlton and United Breweries.
Tourism Australia Managing Director, John O'Sullivan said Ms Ronson's work with high profile, national and international brands as well as her extensive digital experience had been key factors in her appointment.
Ms Ronson will commence her new position in February 2015 but will conduct a proper hand over with Mr Baker before he departs Tourism Australia at the end of January 2015.


text: Guira cuckoos are very adaptable and have taken full advantage of their surroundings. They are able to eat insects such as hairy caterpillars, which other birds avoid. On cold nights, they will huddle together in a tree for warmth. They are in the same family as roadrunners and have a foot with two toes forward and two toes back that allows the bird to run along the ground or climb tree trunks. These cuckoos also practice communal breeding, living in large flocks with one generation of offspring helping their parents to raise the next generation. Groups will use a single nest for approximately 20 blue speckled eggs from multiple females, but when others aren't looking, the cuckoos will sometimes push eggs from the nest to decrease competition for their own chicks.