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Marshall Edwards Appoints CEO as a Director
May 6, 2010
Sydney, Australia and San Diego, CA - May 6, 2010 - Marshall Edwards, Inc. (NASDAQ: MSHL), an oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel anti-cancer therapeutics, announced that Daniel Gold, Ph.D., the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, has been appointed to serve on the Board of Directors of the Company effective April 30, 2010. Dr. Gold will serve as a member of the Board of Directors until the 2010 annual meeting of the stockholders, at which time he will stand for re-election.
Dr. Gold has more than 25 years of drug discovery and development experience. Most recently, he was President and CEO of Prospect Therapeutics, a mid-stage oncology company. Prior to his tenure at Prospect, Dr. Gold was founder and Chief Scientific Officer at Favrille, Inc., where he was an integral member of a team that raised more than $200 million, including an IPO in 2005, and advanced that company's lead oncology candidate through a pivotal Phase III clinical trial.
Dr. Gold's academic qualifications include Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, at the Harvard School of Medicine and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Cancer Research. He holds a Ph.D. in Pathology/Immunology from Tufts University, Boston and a B.A. in Biology from the University of California Los Angeles.
About Marshall Edwards, Inc.
Marshall Edwards, Inc. is a specialist oncology company focused on the clinical development of novel anti-cancer therapeutics. These derive from a flavonoid technology platform, which has generated a number of novel compounds characterized by broad ranging activity against a range of cancer cell types with few side effects. The combination of anti-tumor cell activity and low toxicity is believed to be a result of the ability of these compounds to target an enzyme present in the cell membrane of cancer cells, thereby inhibiting the production of pro-survival proteins within the cell. Marshall Edwards has licensed rights from Novogen Limited (ASX: NRT NASDAQ: NVGN) to bring four oncology drugs - phenoxodiol, triphendiol, NV-143 and NV-128 - to market globally.
Marshall Edwards is majority owned by Novogen Limited, an Australian biotechnology company that is specializing in the development of therapeutics based on a flavonoid technology platform. Novogen is developing a range of therapeutics across the fields of oncology, cardiovascular disease and inflammatory diseases. More information on phenoxodiol and on the Novogen group of companies can be found at www.marshalledwardsinc.com and www.novogen.com.
Under U.S. law, a new drug cannot be marketed until it has been investigated in clinical trials and approved by the FDA as being safe and effective for the intended use. Statements included in this press release that are not historical in nature are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. You should be aware that our actual results could differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements, which are based on management's current expectations and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, our failure to successfully commercialize our product candidates; costs and delays in the development and/or FDA approval, or the failure to obtain such approval, of our product candidates; uncertainties in clinical trial results; our inability to maintain or enter into, and the risks resulting from our dependence upon, collaboration or contractual arrangements necessary for the development, manufacture, commercialization, marketing, sales and distribution of any products; competitive factors; our inability to protect our patents or proprietary rights and obtain necessary rights to third party patents and intellectual property to operate our business; our inability to operate our business without infringing the patents and proprietary rights of others; general economic conditions; the failure of any products to gain market acceptance; our inability to obtain any additional required financing; technological changes; government regulation; changes in industry practice; and one-time events. We do not intend to update any of these factors or to publicly announce the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements.


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Well, now that I've said everything in the subject line, what is there to say?
Yes, I'm seeking one of these lovelies, just one that's stage quality (doesn't have to be perfect, or lined, or anything of the sort, just presentable and close enough to the original in design to be worth the time). Not for everyday wear, but for my male drag performance bit of our darling Mr. Mercury at Wembley.
(Yes, I'm a 43 year old woman who dresses up as various male celebrities in a stage show. Deal with it! )
As a starving artist with children to clothe and feed, I'm not of sufficient means to hire someone to do the job, especially without any kind of pattern. If anyone can help or has suggestions to make regarding how I can get the Wembley look without the means to afford a Wembley ticket, even at old-time prices, please let me know.
Thanks so much, and feel free to post under this thread or PM me.
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Vanity & The Chicken Wing
Courtney Edson Abrams | Aug 21, 2012 | Comments 0
I was playing around on Facebook the other day and I saw something that unnerved me. There were two pictures, one of a teenager, one of a preschooler. In both photos these beautiful girls were posing. They were doing the "chicken wing." For those who don't know, chicken winging is placing your hand at your hip with a bent arm. It is to make you look thinner. Now I'm guessing the teenager knew this, but the 5 year old certainly didn't. She probably saw her mom, or her mom's friends, or a magazine image where women were doing this and decided to imitate it.
Now I need to make a confession. I am guilty of chicken winging. In fact, I am guilty of studying the poses that celebrities in magazines do and practicing them. I tell myself it's because I want the best picture possible but that isn't true. It's so that I do, in fact, look thinner in photos.
But here's the thing. I am thin. Always have been. I eat right and I get plenty of exercise. I'm a pretty confident person. I have a partner who adores me (and I him), I have two gorgeous children who fill me with joy. I work in a career that challenges mw. I have friends. I'm happy. And yet I still have doubts about my looks, my body, and how others perceive me. As a child I was taller then all the boys and my body was as straight as one. But my confidence was never shaken. My confidence has been shaken now, in the aughts, as an adult.
I don't know why or when this happened. My body thus far has served me well. It has taken care of me, nurtured two babies to term and fed them each for a year. I lost my baby weight plus an extra few pounds. I'm 5′ 8″ and at my lowest weight since I graduated college 15 years ago. Yet I can stand naked in front of the mirror and rattle off a dozen things that bother me about my body without pausing to think. My hips are big. My boobs are weird. I'm afraid I have wrinkles. I have spider veins. The list could go on and on.
Why as an adult do I not believe in myself as much as I did as a child? Is it because we live in a world of airbrushing, photo shop, 24 hour pop culture and what seems to be unattainable beauty? I know all those pictures are faked. I know celebrities have chefs, make up artists, personal trainers and the greatest of all things, Spanx. But I still have my doubts when I look at myself in the mirror.
Going back to the beginning, and thinking about those two girls again. The 5 year old and the 15 year old. I get sad. They are only following the example that the women in their life have set for them. They are making themselves look as pretty as possible for the picture. But I want to grab them and shake them and say "Stop posing! You are beautiful and wonderful and amazing!" The problem of course, is that I am telling them how wonderful they are but not believing it about myself.
If we do not love ourselves along with our flaws, we will never teach our 5 year olds and our 15 year olds that they are beautiful. We will teach them that their beauty is conditional. I realize that in order to create change, I have to be the catalyst for change. So going forth I pledge the following. I'm going to try to love myself more. Compliment instead of criticize. Instead of pointing out each and every flaw when naked I will simply think, "Wow. What you have done with your body is awesome. Keep up the good work." Then hopefully when my 5 year old daughter becomes a 15 year old, she will just smile for a photo, instead of emulating a chicken.
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About the Author: Courtney Abrams is a Health Coach and Founder of Roslyn Wellness. Trained at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, she helps clients work within the realities of their day to day lives to find ways to make small and manageable changes to their health that can maintained over time. Her clients include people trying to lose weight, beat sugar, increase their energy, cook simple healthful food and reduce stress to name a few. She also shares a passion for food policy and educating people about the foods they are eating and the governmental role behind much of it. You can learn more about Courtney and Roslyn Wellness at http://RoslynWellness.com.


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Is organizational progress in the EFQM model related to employee satisfaction
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BMC Health Services Research
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Quality, performance, safety and outcomes
BackgroundTo determine whether there is greater employee satisfaction in organisations that have made more progress in implementation of the European Foundation for Quality Management EFQM model.
MethodsA series of cross-sectional studies one for each assessment cycle comparing staff satisfaction survey results between groups of healthcare organisations by degree of implementation of the EFQM model assessed in terms of external recognition of management quality in each organisation. Setting: 30 healthcare organisations including hospitals, primary care and mental health providers in Osakidetza, the Basque public health service. Participants: Employees of 30 Osakidetza organisations. Intervention: Progress in implementation of EFQM model. Main outcome measures: Scores in 9 dimensions of employee satisfaction from questionnaires administered in healthcare organisations in 4 assessment cycles between 2001 and 2010.
ResultsComparing satisfaction results in organisations granted Gold or Silver Q Awards and those without this type of external recognition, we found statistically significant differences in the dimensions of training and internal communication. Then, comparing recipients of Gold Q Awards with those with no Q Certification, differences in leadership style and in policy and strategy also emerged as significant.
ConclusionsProgress of healthcare organisations in the implementation of the EFQM Excellence Model is associated with increases in their employee satisfaction in dimensions that can be managed at the level of each organisation, while dimensions in which no statistically significant differences were found represent common organisational elements with little scope for self-management.
KeywordsEFQM model Total quality Professional satisfaction Quality improvement Excellence Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article doi:10.1186-1472-6963-14-468 contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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TEXAS CITY, Texas – Hourly workers at Marathon Petroleum Corp's Galveston Bay, Texas, refinery voted on Monday to continue a strike, rejecting a contract proposal developed by a federal mediator aimed at ending a stoppage that has lasted three-and-a-half months.
The workers voted by secret ballot at their Texas City, Texas, union hall within sight of the giant Marathon refining complex, which dominates the skyline.
Officials of United Steelworkers union Local 13-1, which represents the strikers, said nearly 900 striking workers had voted and the proposal was overwhelmingly rejected. They declined further discussion on the vote.
A union official said the proposal sought to remove too many protections from the more than 1,000 members on strike.
"There are too many takeaways at one time," Local 13-1 Vice President Larry Burchfield said after announcing the results to more than 100 cheering union members at the union hall on Monday night. "That has really solidified the membership."
Burchfield said the union was ready to meet with Marathon and a federal mediator to renew negotiations for a contract.
In related news, Union says tentative deal reached to end U.S. refinery strike.
A Marathon representative was not immediately available to discuss the vote.
The stoppage at the Galveston Bay Refinery has become especially bitter as the union said the company was pushing proposals that would eliminate job security and roll back safety policies put in place after an explosion that killed 15 workers in 2005, when the plant was owned by BP Plc.
The Galveston Bay strike began on Feb. 1 as part of the largest walkout by U.S. refinery and chemical plant workers in 35 years. The national stoppage spread to 15 plants, including 12 refineries that account for one-fifth of U.S. capacity.
An agreement on national issues, including pay and benefits, was reached between the USW and U.S. refinery owners on March 12 and strikes at 13 plants ended after outstanding local issues were resolved.
The proposal rejected on Monday was based on an offer the company made in April that was rejected by Local 13-1.
In addition to the Marathon Galveston Bay strike, workers remain on strike at the Toledo, Ohio refinery co-owned by BP and Husky Energy.
(Reporting by Erwin Seba; Editing by Terry Wade and Alan Raybould)
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I've been busy.
Pookah got better, but I of course, caught his cold. SMH.
But as he got better, it seems that little patch of eczema on his forehead…
Morphed into an extreme case of ringworm/super eczema. We are treating it with a $55 specialty cream. If it doesn't work, me and my broke wallet will be on our way to the dermatologist.
My mom and dad came to visit…..Pookah…..
We went to the pumpkin patch. (Finally!!!)
Looked at some houses( It was a bust. Power lines humming behind one and a haunted house for the second one.)
Had date night with CDub….
(No photos, I was a bit….drunk…..)
And that is all.
It was busy, I'm still sick, but I had fun.
I'm tired.
But at least I don't have to work today!
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We continue to celebrate Christ's birth – the miracle of God coming to live with us.
Today is the feast of Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzen
On January 2, the Church honours the memory of two friends from an area of what is now Turkey that was called Cappadocia. These men began their friendship while away at school and later became bishops, and great teachers of the Christian faith. They were two of the most influential Christian teachers of all time, honoured by both East and West, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic. Gregory here shares some memories of their friendship.
To think about
"Our single object and ambition was virtue, and a life of hope in the blessings that are to come; we wanted to withdraw from this world before we departed from it. With this end in view we ordered our lives and all our actions. We followed the guidance of God's law and spurred each other on to virtue. If it is not too boastful to say, we found in each other a standard and rule for discerning right from wrong. Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians." From a sermon of St Gregory
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Giving thanks for human friendship and love
Those to seek to explain our faith to others
Our Father…
God our Father, you inspired the Church with the example and teaching of your saints Basil and Gregory. In humility may we come to know your truth and put it into action with faith and love. Grant this through Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord. Amen.


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Terrell Owens has been released by the Dallas Cowboys. One of the greatest receivers of all time was released after getting over 10 TDs and 1000 yards in a lackluster season for the Cowboys.
I sorta get it. The media bugs every team that T.O. plays for, to the point where it makes everybody want to separate themselves from him at all costs. Some of this is his fault, and some is the media's. Obviously he brings it on himself, because he speaks his mind and is passionate about how he is incorporated into the offense. The media knows this, and pokes and prods him until he says something controversial. The guy can't shut his mouth, and it hurts him.
I still think he has at least 2 or 3 good years left. The way he conditions himself makes it seem like he's younger than he actually is. I can see a team like the Raiders pick him up, but he wants to win a Super Bowl. The Cowboys were his best bet at that and they couldn't get it done.
It should be interesting to see what happens from here on out. I assume at least a few teams will want him, but you never know. The guy is already a hall of famer, or infamer. It's a sad day in NFL history…just sad.
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Home is not merely an asset. This is a living place and the spot to feel the actual comfort. However the comfort of the property will never exist without the nice decoration. Home design is needed to ensure it is true. And when it visits a home design, you could interested with a particular idea of home design. A concept that remind you to the dream living place. Referring to the comfortable home design, there is a great concept to consider. The natural home design, this can be a home design with nature as the basic model. This is the reason the look and the impression of the Swing Arm Pin Up Wall Lamp will always remind you to the nature.
The natural home design centers on adopting the natural style in to the home. This is the reason the colors of the nature become the basic of the home design. In the most case, natural home design adopts the leave and the wood color. Green color is still popular as the basic color. With the wood color, the impression of the natural home design looks better.
To get more natural impressions, people use wood furniture and wood decoration too. Wood furniture brings the heat and the relaxing impression of the nature. This impression can be better when it adopts along with of the natural wood. With this specific, the house looks more natural and relaxing.
Adopting natural home design is not as difficult. But one thing for certain, you'll need an idea. It can be quite a big challenge for the most people. You will see the nature to obtain it. But this is simply not enough. You will need something applicable. If you are searching for a notion or an inspiration, home design websites are the most effective source. You'll find many natural home designs from the actual projects. These look interesting. In term of the impression, Swing Arm Pin Up Wall Lamp is also great.


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Go into M&S this summer and you'll see absolutely loads of my illustrations all over their summer food packaging. The range is called 'Great British Summer' and features all kinds of detailed scenes wrapping around the packs, depicting our lovely British summer. Look out for dog shows, cheeky seagulls, ladies with pink candy floss hair, men with huge moustaches...etc.. you know the kind of thing.
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I was happy with the ant action going on in the bottom left corner though : )
Monday, April 16, 2012
Moving Pictures Monday
I was happy with the ant action going on in the bottom left corner though : )
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oh, no cathy!... i disagree. i think it translated very nicely! i felt as i was standing right there and could almost hear the breeze that was causing the trees to move and thus make the dancing shadows. i LOVE dancing shadows created by the wind/breeze. i have them on the floor of my living room through the big picture window every afternoon when the sun comes filtering in through the large maple that is just outside it. it is the coolest effect, and i always wish i could capture it on camera... and now, with moving pictures, i sort of can!ReplyDelete
i love that you did the color and black and white. the photos in the color animation remind me a lot of the old botanical drawing prints. and yes... the ant action going on is pretty cool! if only they knew they were the star attraction of a moving picture by cathy! =)
they don't have one bit of stage fright. =)
as always, very well done! you always bring a fresh perspective... something i would not have thought of. thanks! and thanks for participating as always!
remind me to tell you a tip about how to make it appear as though your camera was fixed {not moving, even slightly}, even if it was moving a bit... by shifting layers and cropping your p.s. image, it can be done. i did it with my moving picture this week. it's a nice trick to use when you don't have a tripod handy, but want the effect. maybe i'll do a tutorial post on it.
These are beautiful - Sorry I didn't participate this week. It seems there's always so much going on!ReplyDelete
I think the one with the ant is pretty good. I also like the colors in the second one. they remind old silent films.ReplyDelete
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Hole Lotta Love
For Doughnuts
by Kathleen Purvis
Has the world gone doughnut crazy?
Doughnuts used to be such simple pleasures. There were cake doughnuts and yeast-raised doughnuts. Aside from your choice of dunking beverage, that was about all you needed to know. You could get them in bakeries, diners and doughnut shops, and your choice of a doughnut didn't say much more about you than "hungry -- wants a doughnut."
Then Winston-Salem's Krispy Kreme chain broke free of its traditional Southern base and began rolling along the sugar-glazed path to world domination of the fried-pastry market.
Suddenly, Krispy Kremes were in Manhattan. Krispy Kreme wedding cakes were the chi-chi choice in Los Angeles. Krispy Kreme bread pudding was spotted at fancy restaurants in Atlanta and Charlotte.
Doughnut debates broke out between the traditionalists and the Krispy Kremites, with some swearing the Krispy Kreme wasn't even a real doughnut.
For the record, we hold these Krispy Kreme truths to be self-evident:
1. There's a reason for the "hot now" sign. A fresh Krispy Kreme is a fine thing. A day-old Krispy Kreme is pointless.
2. The appeal of the Krispy Kreme is not a mystery: Fry food. Cover it in sugar. Is anyone surprised America has embraced the chain that perfected the sugar-glaze waterfall?
3. A Krispy Kreme plain-glazed (chocolate-glazed if you must) is a doughnut. Specifically, it falls into the category of a yeast-raised doughnut. But it's not the only doughnut.
Yes, friends, there are other doughnuts out there. Krispy Kreme shops may be spreading like kudzu, squeezing out the competition, but if you look hard, there are even other doughnuts around here.
First, pour yourself a glass of milk or a cup of coffee -- we won't limit your choice of dunking beverage -- take a deep, cleansing breath, and let's consider some things worth knowing about the other doughnuts.
Doughnuts have a long history. In America, they go back to early Dutch settlers, who made "olykoeks," which roughly translates to "oil cakes." These cakes were fried sweet doughs. They didn't have holes and their lumpy shape apparently led to their nickname, dough nuts.
The hole may stem from the difficulty in getting lumps of dough dropped in hot oil to cook all the way through without burning. Take the center out of the dough nut -- problem solved.
Doughnuts come in many shapes. Fritters, beignets and crullers are all essentially doughnutlike. Doughnuts can be made from several kinds of doughs. There are yeast-raised doughnuts; cake doughnuts made from egg-based batters; and doughnuts made from a version of the classic French pastry, pate a choux. Some are even based on brioche dough.
What all these doughnuts have in common is frying. Many cookbooks mention oven-baked doughnuts, but few cookbooks, in our experience, bother to include them. Doughnuts are, after all, descendants of those Dutch "olykoeks." Without oil, they'd be just "koeks."
Making doughnuts isn't difficult, unless you're afraid of deep-fat frying. The only equipment you really need is a deep-frying thermometer to check the oil temperature, and a way to cut the doughnuts. You can get a doughnut cutter, but we just use round biscuit cutters in 3-inch and 1-inch widths.
After that, the only tough part is deciding which style doughnut is your favorite. And you know what that means:
You've got a hole lot of eating to do.
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Jenna Turner
When did you graduate ACAD? (And what was it called then?) What was your major? Do you continue to work in this area or did you change areas of interest?
Jenna Turner graduated from ACAD in 2011 as a Ceramics Major. Born and raised in Red Deer, Alberta, she spent two years at Red Deer College before transferring to ACAD in her second year to complete her degree. While at ACAD, she had the privilege of studying under Emily Schroeder Willis, Teri Frame and Brian Molanphy, Greg Payce and Katrina Chaytor, who all helped encourage and ground her purpose in Ceramics. For Jenna, working conceptually in Ceramics allows her to explore bigger ideas and engage materials sensitively. "Investigating clay lets me be more conscious about the material; its strengths and weaknesses, and other materials that share the same personalities." This can be seen in the addition of metal, cloth and food into her creative investigation alongside clay.
A lot of graduates use the ACAD degree as a creative stepping stone. So, what do you do? How has what you do evolved since graduation? How did your education at ACAD direct your career?
After graduation, Jenna spent a year saving money while participating in multiple residencies, exhibitions and art sales, before starting her Master's at Tulane University in New Orleans. Currently, she is in the second year of her teaching position (Ceramics) at Tulane University. Jenna feels strongly that ACAD's diverse and 'more-technical' approach to their education syllabuses provided her with the necessary skillset she needed in the 'real world', especially in the realm of Ceramics. In a way Jenna feels that "ACAD has provided her with opportunities and possibilities", giving her needed confidence and push in her lifetime passion; Ceramics. Various conferences, such as NCECA (National Council on Education for the Ceramic Art) and 1000 Miles Apart (Ceramics Conference) together with ACAD's yearly Visiting Artist-in-Residence broadened her network circle and illuminated the possible lifestyles/creative pursuits one can strive for.
What would you like to be recognized for?
"Well, ultimately I would like to be recognized as a good human being… But more importantly I'd like to be recognized for my artwork." Jenna aims to have her art not only be recognized in the 'ceramics world' but also in the 'fine arts world'. Although the stark boundary between fine arts and craft has been slowly diminishing throughout the years and various art movements, Jenna hopes that one day her work will have the possibility of being acknowledged for its strengths in both of the two distinct art realms. "Other than that, of course I would like to start a family, have children and be a mother," Jenna quipped. Noting that most of the mentors and teachers she had did not have kids.
Given your experiences, what advice would you give a student when it comes to establishing a creative business?
Jenna's biggest advice is that any art student (but particularly Ceramics student) choose what kind of artist they'd like to be once they graduate. To choose between a production potter/sculpture ceramicist (or an artist that primarily does commissions), or someone who does art together with something else. Another advice given was that one should decide where someone would like their income to come from. It is from making such decisions that one would then be able to work passionately and with more focus. Jenna shares that "you are always more productive doing something, than doing nothing at all." It is the constant and consistent hard work that keeps one motivated and opened to more opportunities. Procrastination is a definite no-no and "doing one thing always, somehow and someway, leads to something else and then something else too. "It is basically you trying to keep the ball rolling…" But of course one should also give themselves time especially when it comes to growing a certain clientele. "Give yourself two to three years to really get an interest and support growing". And with the time put aside, "one would be able to know his or her strengths and weakness too." "Social media and a means of communicating your art is also crucial to anyone's practice, which is why figuring out what methods fit you and your practice best is important."
What insights did your four (or one, two, three, five, six) years at ACAD give you when looking at things?
Her educational experiences at Red Deer College, ACAD and third year exchange to the Australian National University gave her opportunities to encounter many educators, mentors and peers with the same strong love for Ceramics. The sense of community was exactly what insight ACAD gave Jenna in the three years she attended the College. It is this community spirit that gives her a certain drive in the way she works. Compared to Tulane, where the Ceramics community was just her among a pool of graduates of other faculties, Jenna was able to approach Ceramics at ACAD from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
After graduation, what obstacles did you encounter and how did you overcome them?
There were no clear obstacles that Jenna faced but she believes that "keeping the ball rolling" and staying busy are ways of overcoming any obstacle. Researching and inquiring about schools, art residencies, job positions also helps in the long run. Staying positive and letting yourself know that it takes time for you to 'shine', and eventually things will come your way.
What do you feel is the role of ACAD and our alumni in shaping our cultural and economic prosperity?
Jenna believes that the degrees that ACAD awards greatly cultivate innovative thinkers, and people who learn and use their imaginations. It encourages students to believe in intuition and instinct, to believe in one's idea even though there may be times where other people might not. Keeping confident and following ideas through are also taught at ACAD. Jenna added that, "the skillsets one picks up at ACAD can be applied in any situation one might find themselves in." The "creative thinking" at ACAD, particularly in the traditional crafts, gives rise to many innovative outcomes. "ACAD has produced people who will go on to affect the world in big and small ways." "Because looking back at the things that survive time, one of which is art, and artists like the ones here from ACAD will go on making art that will continue to support and shape culture and economic prosperity."
Where does art fit into your future?
"Art is my future. If it's not, I have to reconsider my future!" Jenna jokingly commented. For Jenna, art is absolutely something that will always remain present in her day to day. It is something she lives for and will consistently work hard for. Be it taking up small projects to get by and staying open to any work positions, Jenna will keep her love for Ceramics on her sleeve and work hard for it.


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Pure Rockabilly from Mexico: Nicotyna is the name to remember. The band started in 2000 and has become quite famous already in the Mexican rockabilly scene, but also in countries like Spain, California and the USA. The line up of the band is:
Rusty(double bass and vocals), Mario (stand -up drums and vocals), Wadalupe (lead vocals and rhythm guitar) and Alex(lead guitar and vocals).
Their performances on stage are wild and exciting and it's often described as "erotic exotic reverb" and "ataque rockabilly". It sure got me curious, so I think it's very nice to know more about this band and the Mexican culture.
Tell us more about your band Nicotyna, how and when did you started this?
We started at the end of the year 2000 'cause we wanted a rockin' scene here in Mèxico. There was a lot of people who likes rockabilly music but there weren't bands playin' cool stuff. So we said we have to form a band, start to play and tell everybody to come to see us.
So… many people came to our shows and it was a big surprise to us and we decide to go on playin' rockabilly and rock and roll music 'till we die. So this is how we started the rockabilly scene here in Mèxico City. The name Nicotyna was taken from a song of a 50's rocker who sang the song, titled "Nicotine", he was Paul Chaplain.
How is the Rockabilly scene in Mexico ?
The rockabilly scene in Mèxico is growing, the most of it is concentrated in 2 big cities : Mexico City and Queretaro. There are many young people, so young sometimes they can't go to some places 'cause they are still teens and we have to go to other countries at first, like U.S.A. and Spain to play and then we have more shows in Mèxico.
Do you write the songs yourself or do you play only covers?
The most of our repertoire are songs written by us, we also like to sing some songs from the 50's, rockabilly music and contemporary rockabilly artists in our shows.
Have you released any CD's or can we expect an album in the future?
Yes, we have recorded 3 CD's completely with our songs and some covers and also we have participated in 3 other compilations CD's .
We've also made an LP vinyl titled "Greatest Hits" as a limited edition to our first 10 years of being in the rockabilly music and now we have finished the recording of a new CD. We believe the CD will be ready in November 2012, so please get ready to listen the new era of Mexican rockabilly music.
Who is your greatest inspiration?
Well… there are many persons and things that inspire us, like the great rockabilly artists from the 50's era and the rhythm & blues howlers, the cars from the 50's, to know people from other countries …mmm
Who are your favourite artists?
Anyone of us have their own favourite artists like : Janis Martin, Wanda Jackson, Imelda May, Elvis, Eddie Cochran, The Phantom, The Cramps, The Johnny Burnette rock'n'roll trio, Stray Cats, Los Locos del ritmo, The Rio Rockers, Brian Setzer, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Los Rebeldes, etc…
Is there any place you would really like to play?
Oh yes, we would like to play in England, it is a big country …terrible!!! And to be at the Hemsby show …wow .. That would be great!!!
Do you like other music styles too, other than rockabilly and rock and roll?
Well… Many people ask us about it. But we always say that we don't have time to listen another kind of music. But also we like to hear stuff like blues music, Doo Wop and some Psychobilly bands from the eighties era like the Guana Batz, The Sharks, Restless, The Polecats, but firstly we like to hear the rockabilly artists from the 50's.
What's your greatest wish for the future?
We would like to record a CD at Sun studios in Memphis in 2013 'cause they invited us to do a record there and we have to do it 'cause to be in that place is something important …very important to feel the true spirit of our rockabilly idols …yes !! Also we would like to play many countries around the world and get more tattoos!!!
Is there anything you would like to tell?
First of all many thanks to you for having this interview and for what you do to keep rockabilly music alive …and like to invite your readers to know something more about us clicking on our web sites:
And like to tell you that we have a show at "Rockabilly Radio" in the web jukebox "The rusty Quinteros's show" www.rockabilly-radio.net , so please come to listen 'cause it's a frantic and wild show!!!


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"The spirit was already aloft, I was pulling on my boots" - W H Murray, Mountaineering in Scotland
Tuesday, 5 November 2013
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Good news. As they say in France when you meet on the trail and then part to go on your way, "Bonne continuation".ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Conrad. We may yet have that walk in the Lakes.Delete
Sounds like a good beginning. Soon be up them hills.ReplyDelete
I'm back home now, sore but improving. All the best Gibson.Replies
All the best for a speedy recovery Alan. At least we should both be fit for 2014!Delete
I had knee surgery in 1995 (not NHS), after a steady and patient exercise rehabilitation my knee was better than it had been for 10 years.ReplyDelete
In 2013 its still holding up although I'm sure the use of walking poles when going downhill is the key to reducing wear and tear on dodgy knees.
Hope the recovery goes well.Replies
Hi Geoff. I also had knee surgery in 1995 at the same hospital as this time. Checking my 1995 diary I see that I was on a Glen Dessarry Corbett five weeks after surgery. I recall some pain after the steep descent but after that the knee was perfect - and has remained so ever since.Delete
I agree with your point about poles - my surgeon said my knee joint was in excellent condition, meniscus tear aside, and I'm sure using poles has played a big part in preserving the articular cartilage. Recently I bought Pacerpoles although it's too early to pass an opinion on them vs my Leki ones. Most seem to sing their praises though.
Thanks for your good wishes for recovery.
Hi GibsonReplyDelete
Apologies for being late to the party.
That's great news! I hope your recovery goes well, Sir.
Hi Alan - many thanks and good to hear from you. Hope you are doing well.ReplyDelete
Hello Gibson,ReplyDelete
Apologies also for my tardiness in wishing you a speedy recovery. I agree with Geoff's and your own comments above about poles; I've never really grown to love them but I often appreciate them on steep or loose downhills.
Good luck with the return to full fitness.
Thanks Dave. All seems to be going well and I reckon I could be back on the hills quite soon - if my consultant approves on December 4.ReplyDelete
I've lost the habit of blogging since returning from Braemar in September and hope I can regain my interest next year or sooner.


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11-01-2019: 1st 2019 LAN
21-12-2018: Last Friday LAN
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20-01-2017: 1st LAN 2017
03-12-2016: End Of Year MEGA LAN
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28-10-2016: Regular Lan
14-10-2016: Swiss Flat Out Session
16-09-2016: Regular LAN Night
02-09-2016: Regular LAN Night
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25-03-2016: Easter Online Only
11-03-2016: Regular LAN
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05-02-2016: 1st Gaming Night of 2016
16-01-2016: Farewell MEGA LAN for Azrail
12-12-2015: End Of Year MEGA LAN - Any games
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21-11-2014: LAN Party
21-11-2014: Lets Play - EDN Community Centre
07-11-2014: Lets Play
17-10-2014: The Internet Strikes Back
10-10-2014: Heroes of the Storm
26-09-2014: To Game, or Not to Game...
12-09-2014: Games Up
22-08-2014: Friday LAN
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27-06-2014: Friday LAN Night
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24-05-2014: World Domination!
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20-12-2013: One Last LAN
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08-03-2013: DotA 2
22-02-2013: Regular Meat ....with Cheese
22-02-2013: Back to the Future - Gaming Style
08-02-2013: Fail to LAN, plan to fail!
08-02-2013: 2013 EDN PC Gaming CLub AGM
02-02-2013: ACTion Lan
25-01-2013: First LAN 2013
30-11-2012: Shooters
25-11-2012: Alien vs Predator ONLINE
16-11-2012: Humans vs Aliens
21-09-2012: Internet Connection is LIVE!
07-09-2012: Heathen Computer Gods
24-08-2012: Supreme Commander
10-08-2012: David Attenborough – The Gamer
27-07-2012: Things to do without the internet
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15-06-2012: Company of Heroes
18-05-2012: Annihilation (im feeling merciful today)
04-05-2012: LAN Warming Party
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text: The Brussels Griffon. Hands down. All puppies are cute but take a look at this breed which I am in love with. The world knows it from the movie, As Good As It Gets, where Verdell nearly steals the movie from Jack Nicholson. And I hear that George Lucas had the breed when making Star Wars, so Chewbacca as well as the Ewoks were modeled on their cute faces which were originally bred to have human-ish features. Yes, I am partial to them as I have shared one VERY cute guy with my ex for the past 11 years. The last pic is Lamonte at 8 weeks and on his 11th birthday this January. I know. That FACE. Happy Puppy Day!


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The first is that Europe is utterly fucked and the vultures are hovering,
The second thing that is true, is that austerity here is over, and the playing out of its demise is going to raise some nasty questions.
Serco have already had a boost from austerity packaged as growth, but we are at a unique point. I hate to say it, and I do disagree with a few points- but Daniel Knowles chose a beautiful quote here which sums up the problem.
"We are as capable as before of affording for everyone a high standard of life … and will soon learn to afford a standard higher still. We were not previously deceived. But to-day we have involved ourselves in a colossal muddle, having blundered in the control of a delicate machine, the working of which we do not understand. The result is that our possibilities of wealth may run to waste for a time — perhaps for a long time.''
Our shit flinging monkey wheel has not caught up yet, and we are seeing the traditional witterings of white elephant projects, while the road is paved for a lib/lab coalition so we can avoid addressing the democratic and social crisis austerity exposed.
If the Euro collapses, and it is not looking great, there will have to be an examination of the failure of austerity by the end of the summer, and solutions will have to be found immediately because it will have to be reversed. Possibly in the midst of financial chaos and devastation and in a way that provides a basis for our long term future. We are at the point Keynes was at then, and where Keith Joseph and Thatcher were in the mid seventies. Political fantasy cannot reverse it and politicians blindly following its patterns won't either…
The ability to sell austerity as growth will not take us out of this and that is all our political media establishment know how to do at present. The continued attempts to repackage a centre position that died have pushed our democratic and economic crisis to a very serious levels. The multiple crisis we aggravated in the name of austerity are very very serious and arriving on top of crisis resulting from cumulative failures of the ideology at the heart of our banking crisis, as manifested in our public services. These crisis are largely structurally invisible to political debate by design and consensus at the moment. They are the type of crisis that will engulf a nation that is still relatively healthy, by stealth. Did I mention the financial crisis that is happening now? No? Well that's why I thought I might make a few points today.
We need to start talking realistically…
We have a housing crisis, we have an aged population present tense, our political establishment is fundamentally ignorant about the shape of our economy and the relationships between its component parts,. and we have just kicked several pillars of our public sector to death, while consolidating the dogma that caused the problems in the first place, across all our political parties. The list of crisis we have just deliberately aggravated for no visible purpose but preventing assessment of our real identifiable problems. The cost has been great.
We appear to have done this because you cannot challenge a wisdom that the banks interests are our interests when that is clearly batshit. Monetarism. Done. Kapush.
Legislation has been passed which will destroy several important remaining pillars of our public sector. All the wisdom which has guided our economic and social policy development for three decades has been shown as baloney as the consequences become apparent, and we are a toilet for the big boys in the financial catastrophe we delayed. But underneath it all we are in good working order and the shit has not fully hit the fan. Well not quite…
We might want to make a bit of an assessment of where we are actually at, which might be difficult after eons of policy based evidence making.
Ignorance may have been bliss but its over…
While our deleveraging has followed very set patterns, it is becoming evident that the political parties delivering it may have been oblivious. It may have been tribal elitist ignorance it may be corruption, or it may be a bit of both.
The scraping of barrel bottoms in the treasury, and the continued political media shock at the entirely expected development of events would support that. It may actually be that Stella Creasy did not know that the payday loans market she campaigns against is a natural by-product of the economic approach her party wanted to take, she didn't know it was literally an austerity created market that works symbiotically with banks. It may be that Ed Miliband did not know that deliberately aggravating a housing crisis, and demonising those worst affected to not make housing benefit savings and benefit Buy to Let, was silly. It is clear that no-one in government had any clue. Our political media-ocracy may not have understood the nuance of austerity, we did. That's why they had to go to so much effort to keep debate narrow and had to triangulate around some of us.
The struggle for the last two years was not the emergence of an anti-cuts movement. It was those upholding this trying to stop it being threatened with no thought to what comes after, or the effect of their actions. Battering down those whose reality contradicted political position. Those have behaved this way on twitter had no clue voters and readers were watching them even if they didn't engage with it, and in their willingness to gaslight and troll vulnerable people, they have been very instructive. In the eighties disaffection with the left took years, the net speeds up change.
It has taken our national political media being pushed through a public trial, and dramas that are going to make great tv movies one day, before we are allowed to identify our political press as a source of dysfunction without risking our lives being destroyed. Two years ago it was heresy to challenge the idea that our political press's attention was our only hope of salvation. This kind of politics now has about 5 minutes left in it
Hysteresis(it has a name) does permanent damage.
This not an abstract concept, towns all across Britain show the scars of this type of politics and economics, it has been the natural by product of our economic and social policy consensus for the last 30 years. It has laid waste to places this country needs. We just deliberately spread the cancer that corroded towns that used to be our industrial heartlands, into the towns that still retain our precious industrial base. For growth. With no evidence to suggest it would have a different effect this time. We decimated small medium sized enterprises, sucked money out of their customers pockets and it is beginning to look like the politicians doing it truly had no understanding of what they were doing. 'We' hacked at the only guaranteed engines of future, our education system, our health system, and laid waste to SME, and are effectively deskilling entire sectors of the population. And those demonised to cover it not only knew they were targets but had 30 years of evidence to look at. While the political press put us on trial.
Deskilling entire areas of the country and laying them to waste. Taking away futures that should be this countries future. The effects already showing, and the cuts that did it were invisible to those at the heart of our establishment, while the fear they created is an economic impediment.
We knew what was happening to us, and I should think the levels of disaffection we saw last summer will be small potatoes to this year. We need to start talking about growth. What it is. Where it comes from.
We also need to start talking about the purpose of local and national democracy…
Government have just deliberately increased the deficit households live at, oblivious to the personal household debt bubble in this country, or the fragility of the overvalued housing market that underpins it. We sucked money directly out of the heart of the economy with welfare, to increase the debt that households would take on and I don't even think the ministers doing it understood that is what they were doing. They are advised by those whose interests they act in.
Our politicians felt no qualms about subjecting British mothers to slut shaming while pushing them out of work and their communities, and rolling back equality, hate speech against disabled people, until recently, was the centre position. A housing benefit bill which should have alerted us to our economic problems years ago, was used to justify demonising those caught in its clutches. This was economically necessary. In 2012. All MAINSTREAM political parties agreed. They agreed across Europe. The horrific extremes of that now evident in Greece. Their media did not find this at all odd.
Half of working families are now going to find themselves claiming a benefit that links them to policies like workfare, should they trip and fall. after it is revealed the depths that politicians will go to once you fall over that line. The computer system for Universal Credit was raising titters at Labour Party Conference last summer, is now causing panic everywhere. Our government apparently believe you can 'nudge' the support people need, to a website and haven't really considered the complexity of a project that has to work outside the heads of the commentariat.
Our political media establiishment have just done some terrible things and aggravated just about every social crisis and economic problem we had. We face a summer of chaos, draped with red, white, and blue trademarked Olympic banners. Our complex intersecting problems are because the 'wisdom' underpinning our dominant and political ideological spectrum is nonsense.
What of Local Democracy?
Local politicians attending Town Hall meetings are like Merovingian kings, fighting for local baubles of power, while Serco et al enjoy a revolving door to Downing Street. Parties now view local democracy as a paddling pool for their media savvy guppies, with local politicians existing to take shit for their powerlessness. There has never been accessible discussion about this erosion of local authorities, and we are told Mayoral elections and media friendly local democracy is the way forward. Political parties are in crisis, memberships of all our political parties talk about being superceded by this media-ocracy
Many local authorities exist now as webs of admin, attempting to meet statutory responsibilities they retain, with patchwork resources they have no control over. Resources which are run for profit which they cannot afford to purchase to meet needs. Making the choices of which people go without and taking the shit for those choices, while trying to mop up the gaps in service delivery.
Austerity was packaged as growth,and its political rejection gave an immediate boost to Serco et al, before we move on I'd like to know why. We are in a democratic crisis, and those who benefit from democracies erosion are rarely likely to question it. These are the services most intertwined with our private sector in our real economy. Serco et al have no such connection and we need a discussion about the power that comes with the services they run, because it is power over us and we don't vote for them.
Why were WE all on trial?
Those targeted this last couple of years were left vulnerable because a blue print for social policy made in the forties decided reality would be invisible to political debate and political debate would forever more consiste of demonising or patronising those living in it. Left and right were happy to continue this because they were groups mutually agreed as irrelevant. You have to go to enormous effort to ignore the evidence to the contrary, but we have a shitflingling monkey bubble around our political culture, and they usually take care of it. They assume other people share their dysfunction. As the monkey wheel got more homogenous, more and more groups fell into the deserving/undeserving group and the shit got more offensive. Everyone has noticed it stinks.
Politicians were particularly happy to have this way of keeping attention away from markers of economic and political failure, a way to open up markets and tinker directly with the economy and guarantee no-one would pay any attention and to keep our political class busy…or those who advised them were. Welfare was a key tool in Austerity politics. Obnoxiously arguing over the respective morality of these 'groups' shows no signs of losing novelty for any part of our political spectrum. Becoming a teacher, doctor, or social worker can get you a place in undeserving these days(success being a place on the monkey wheel.)
Watching the lengths our political media establishment had to go to to perpetuate this, when they found their internet paddling pool made it impossible was instructive. Watching politicians campaign against the payday loans market that was the inevitable consequence of their parties approach, and their media poppets demand the right to be seen as fighting for those worst affected, by gaslighting and abusing them, distasteful.
We were on trial because they needed a distraction and we are invisible to our political media establishment, left and right. They assumed they could put us on trial. They forgot themselves and made their future publishing home one that we will all share.
Why did women take the biggest brunt of the cuts?
That blueprint devised in the forties said that state help was about unemployment, and it turned out poverty had a female face and inequality was more complicated than that. Anything outside that employment is 'undeserving'(politically speaking), the safety net only required for personal failure even if it is failure to earn the second income of a husband after your motherhood kills your earnings potential….
Beveridge didn't know, but since Beveridge it has been a matter of political convenience,. Governments and their agencies have known that welfare masked gender inequality since his system confirmed it in the forties. They plan around it and make sure rooms where kids might be waiting have toys. Since the late seventies we have had an economic and political consensus that gender inequality be repeatedly exploited. While our public services manage the consequences of this exploitation and are run by political culture committed to undermining them. Gender inequality and the credit boom didn't mix, and a generation of mothers were already waking up to how far we had to travel for equality, austerity ensured that wake up was a sharp one.
This year mothers found they literally do not exist and our entire political spectrum agreed. Grown women, adult voters, expected to take the brunt of the cuts and welcome to political debate or fight those cuts, if they were there to justify their relationship choices or the birth of their children and cry gratefully to a political media establishment who like it that way. Women get a mention when we are being told who will pick up the slack for the Big Society…or we need to drop bombs on brown people, or when a political guppy needs someone to patronise.
Was anyone else on trial?
Yes. Our political media establishment. We were on trial to distract from that. How many women are there in the political media establishment? Er….
It is this disconnect that has also allowed an entire culture to confuse the difference between a market economy and a real economy, and the failure of 30 years ideological consensus to go unnoticed, It is a disconnect which allows them to exploit inequality however it is manifested, people with disabilities and poor people make easy targets.
Think of the children..
The political blueprint of the forties dictated that inequality identified by Beveridges system, could be used to patronise, Thatcher then used it as a basis for demonisation. The fight since has been between the two and fought in an indifferent and untouched political press. Social services departments biggest foe while dealing with inequality is the tabloid mentality underpinning social policy development and the attention of the press, and the erosion of services this political consensus demands. Over the last few years, not fit for purpose has been a tag often rightly applied to what remains of departments.
Mundane and uninteresting to a political class for whom users of those services are the bread and butter of ideological bartering, or providers of horror stories upon which brief outrage can be whipped. Surestart provided political cover for a while.The insidious and corrosive politics of marketisation has pretty much strangled our public sector under bureaucracy so resources can be sucked out to guess who? A corrosive baseless media managed politics all that is currently holding it up.
The grotesque headlines failures in these services throw up have been used to demand their further corrosion and marketisation for 30 years.That isn't really going to continue. It can't. The Rochdale grooming case was the tip of the iceberg and what was done this year to Children's Services was inhuman. Adult social care, our social care crisis and an ageing population, while the NHS is again in chaos? It doesn't bear thinking about, and I am glad Toby Young;s face was a motif for the devastation Gove has done to our Education system, can't think of a better scapegoat.
The power gained through public service delivery has never been discussed, and that power has been handed to private businesses in a closed 'market', that would make the US blush.
Conferences for the concerned lefty press, and the roundabout of handwringers, are happy to invite the occasional novelty povs to talk about anything but the problem, while the doors to the conferences carving up the public sector market charge hefty fees.
Easier to punish the poor than take on the voluntary sector, and discussion of social policy failure is tucked safely away in Wednesday's Guardian society pull out, no interruption to the political narratives required for it to continue. No examination because our political press sell the message that allows it, and do not need to understand what is under it. To question it would be to question their tribe. That's been quite a problem, I think we should probably examine it.
The areas of social policy this political blindness have infected most deeply, are those which are vital to the most vulnerable people in the country. Kate Belgrave is quite good at going talking to them, while the the media poppets fighting 'for' them wish those voices would go away. They were the ones hit hardest this year and it was services already in, or on the verge of crisis, their invisibility and irrelevance to our media-ocracy is why.
While the left and right were becoming posh media tribes..
The Beveridge blue print allowed welfare to become one of the central economic and social tools for Thatcherism. In the past two years, left and right argued about what should be done with the poor, and spat about cartoons of their forefathers, while demand was being sucked in real time out of the economy, and our political class had no clue why. The most vulnerable paid. This was the political debate Beveridge designed.
Welfare has been consistently expanded for three decades for a reason and that reason is not the fecklessness of the poor. If Beatrice Webb got cross at Beveridge because he told her welfare was a tool to keep wages low and he didn't give a shit about the poor, surely someone else could have picked up on it by now? Real lives are strangled under a bureaucratic cosh, and poverty was deliberately created, while it's predictable effects became tabloid fodder. Social security became workfare. Now the media manage our relationship with those who represent us it is easy to maintain.
Welfare crisis and real reform due about now?
Half of working families are now going to find themselves claiming a benefit that links them to policies like workfare should they trip and fall, after it has been revealed the depths that politicians will go to once you fall over that line. Most mothers without independent wealth, earning what mothers earn will be subject to control and demonisation.The computer system for Universal Credit was raising titters at Labour Party Conference last summer, the whole ill thought out project is now causing panic across the country as Tax Credit renewals also bring reminders of future changes.
Workfare volunteers sleeping under bridges to man the Royal Jubilee celebrations is beyond parody, but workfare has been expanding for years and it has changed the shape of our labour market. Those parts our political media claiming protest works on the back of opposition to it, the ones who paved the way for it to arrive. Whether we fit deceitful and idle or deserving and worthy, to these people, depends entirely on who is shitting on us. The Spads populating the PR sections of our voluntary and social enterprise sectors, viewing their place shaping policy as a political/media career entry point, blissfully unaware of the scale of the impact of the ludicrous policies they inspire. Our political media now see policy plucked from imagination as the norm.
The shitflinging monkey wheel doesn't work any more. Its inhabitants may have believe that as long as they project accusations onto us we would jump back to the 19th century where they get to keep their assigned spots. They now face a very rude awakening. The dysfunction is theirs not ours and they have prevented us discussing very serious problems, many of which share a source closer to them than us.
Those targeted by this barbaric nonsense in 2012 democratic Britain were told the only recourse acceptable to our political establishment, was to 'appeal' to the the political media culture projecting this dysfunction. Go justify yourself and beg for clemency guaranteed not to arrive, and face hostility created by the culture of political parties, think tanks, and newspapers. Stray too far and find the safety and privacy of your family threatened and undermined. Always expect to be told this dysfunction is shared, regardless of evidence to the contrary, because THIS is political debate.
A sense of entitlement evident in the brats of our political establishment who have treated this crisis as a way of establishing careers in the political media media, and cannot grasp why discussion needed to be a bit wider than that. Politicians have run out of ideas, these monkeys fling shit to feign political debate and David Cameron will never eat a pasty again.
We don't live in the forties and ignoring problems doesn't make them go away, whether they are in banking, social work or the DWP. We should have paid attention to those markers of failure, but there is no avoiding the crisis that result. Now those who prevented the country from doing so will have to move aside.
Now that our political press is mainly press releases, churnalism, shit flinging and handwringing, people aren't really buying into it..there is better information out there. The dysfunction projected with such brutal effect for austerity was almost entirely in their heads and their tools are slipping out of their hands as we slip into crisis.
''Retrenchment by indebted and frightened people has caused the weakness of western economies'', said Martin Wolf yesterday. The political press need to recognise their part in the frightening. And I don't believe it is a problem isolated to the UK.
Whitehall Brain Boost Time
The facile layer that manage the message politics has placed between government and governed, is a deeply corrupting influence that is on trial, and it has clearly existed largely to prevent us discussing the problems we face. Anyone pointing this out in a hostile culture that largely exists to sustain itself and a fucked status quo, will find themselves at the end of deep hostility which may put their family and privacy at risk.
In light of the view of our Chancellor at this point from within his own party, I would have thought it was now obvious we need to replace that layer with something equivalent to the brain boost Whitehall experienced during wartime. No longer can this debate rest in the hands of an ill informed commentariat and think tanks and self interested politicos, only trained in selling spin on an issue to a floating voter. Not when political debate is stretched thin between vacuous manufactured liberalism and obscenely ignorant social conservatism, and not when the cost is now so great.
We need to assess why austerity did what it actually did domestically, why it was so easily imposed as common sense when it was always clearly nonsense. Why no-one in our political media class had the ability to say so, and why it appears our politicians were largely ignorant of the effect of their own economic policies. Why were our political press fighting discussion of this and not hosting it? Why there is not a single functioning protection from people, should their government decide to turn on them or a means to access democracy? Why and how our political debate so quickly fell into a grotesque projection of the dysfunctional onto the complex nation they serve and have isolated themselves from.
Economic policies appear to have attempted to shock us, so our crisis could be exploited for the benefit of those who caused our current crisis. I think the shock wears off after 34 years of the same schtick, so I thought I would write this down now. Just because it's over, and they are things I think are probably going to come up and I can.


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Ms Loh Shu Ching is the CEO of Ren Ci Hospital. She started her career in the healthcare industry with Tan Tock Seng Hospital in 1993 and was seconded to the Home Nursing Foundation, a voluntary welfare organisation, as its General Manager in April 2009. She became the CEO of Ren Ci Hospital in 2011. She also sits on the Intermediate and Long Term Care (ILTC) Manpower Council and the Agency for Integrated Care (AIC) Information Technology Steering Committee. Ms Loh has a Masters of Arts in Healthcare Administration from the University of Iowa, USA on a scholarship awarded by Tan Tock Seng Hospital.
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May 10, 2017, 6:30 PM
Cambria Rabobank, 1070 Main Street
A Quorum was established by attendance of Crosby and Laura Swartz, Connie Gannon, JoEllen Butler, and Christine Heinrichs. Harry Farmer, CCSD liaison, Tony Church of NCAC, Jeff Kwasny, and Laurel Stewart also attended.
Public Comment and Questions:
Tony Church noted that the County has incorrect information on the letter it sent extending the streamlined procedure for permits to remove hazardous trees. The tree replacement requirements apply only to Monterey Pine and Coast Live Oaks, not all trees, in the ratio of 4:1 for Monterey Pine and 6:1 for oaks. He will write to the county informing them of the error. Crosby will write a letter on behalf of the Forest Committee.
Minutes of the April Meeting were approved with amendments.
Treasurer's Report: Laura Swartz reported no changes, balance $3,208.76. Lynn Singer charged $135 to review the tax filing. Laura sent the completed letter and tax records regarding nonprofit status to the state Board of Equalization.
Sub-Committee Reports
Education/Planting/Mitigation/Operations: Connie reported that nine people attended Greenspace's Saturday morning Native Plants for Vegetation Workers workshop. Mike Rice demonstrated techniques by clearing one lot. Rick Hawley took us around another lot that was not yet cleared, showing examples of native plants that should not be weed-whacked. One vegetation worker, a friend of Rick's, translated for those who needed it. Five people were certified and will have their names added to the Fire Department's list of certified vegetation workers. Fire Fighter Michael Castellonos attended. Greenspace will reproduce the native plants flyer and advise people to ask for the list at the fire station.
CFC Directors Mailing List: Crosby and Christine continue to work on updating the list.
Invasive Weed Guide Funding: Laura and Christine will approach the county Fire Safe Council for additional funding.
County Permit Referral Package: The Forest Committee is still not receiving County Planning application packages. Laurel Stewart reported that Winsor Construction has applied for a lot line adjustment to allow it to sell a parcel of 41 acres. the county is disinclined to create parcels smaller than the required 320 acres minimum ag parcel, but this site is steep and would make the contiguous site over 400 acres. The prospective buyer has a cabin there and has sunk a well. He is a tree surgeon and has been good to the oaks there.
PG&E Work Refusal Letter: Connie Gannon reported that Bruce Fosdike reported at the Fire Safe Focus Group that although PG&E has rescinded their order to remove one of his trees, he would like the entire opinion retracted. He will continue to work with them on it and report to the Forest Committee.
Forest Management
Sudden Oak Death Field Sampling: SOD Blitz training and sampling will be done May 11-14.
Forest Health Program Grant Status: The concept paper was not invited to advance to the full application level. This involves the biomass cogenerator plant. Fire Safe Council Business Manager Dan Turner will report at Fire Safe Focus Group.
Multi-Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan: The updated LHMP, including the Health District, has been completed and is being circulated. Public forum for discussion scheduled for May 30.
Report from Fire Safe Focus Group: Connie reported that Bruce Fosdike has a $500 grant for community involvement for which he has no project. She suggested getting volunteers together to pull french broom on Bridge Street. CCC crews are fully occupied in the Sierras for the rest of the year and are not available for weed work in Cambria. Weeds are very bad this year, with thistles ready to bloom and spread their seed. Heads need to be cut and bagged now. Weeds should be disposed of in greenwaste containers, no plastic bags. Kathe Tanner, reporter for The Cambrian, has had her hours reduced and will no longer cover public meetings. Connie will write a Letter to the Editor to The Cambrian about the weeds. Christine will send her photos.
New Business:
BRC Map: Laura is coloring a map to illustrate lots currently retired, lots under conservation easement and lots on the Water Wait List that may be developed. She and Crosby are working with the Buildout Reduction Committee. Members discussed the issues. Water Wait List owners claim they want to build their Dream Home, but then build a house and sell it for profit. Many positions on the Water Wait List are held by people who already live in Cambria and real estate professionals who bought the lots on speculation. Houses being built are much bigger than houses built in the past. The lot at Bay and Chester has been sold. Reports say that the new owners are environmentally conscious and the hope is that they will build something good for the community.
Site Visit: Laurel invited the members to join her and the NCAC Land Use Committee for a site visit to the Fiscalini Ranch section from which 175 eucalyptus trees will be removed. The application includes saplings, young trees, large older trees and 39 very large older trees.
Spring in Cambria: Harry Farmer is hearing migratory songbirds in Strawberry Canyon. Laura and Connie noted that there are more crows, possibly filling the ecological niche formerly occupied by jays.
Unfinished Business
Smartphone Invasive Weed Application: Christine has not heard back from What's Invasive, which is managed by the University of Georgia. She will pursue creating a page on iNaturalist.
Sarah Bisbing's presentation is being rescheduled.
Agenda Items for Next Meeting: Contact Crosby with agenda items.
Adjourned at 8:37 pm.


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I felt worse again on Thursday morning, so I stayed at home for another day. On Friday I went into the office by tram, and the 2.2 miles represents my walk home that evening after a few drinks with my colleagues... mainly because public transport is pretty sparse that time of night, and I hate taking taxis.
Today is the first day I've been really keyed up to get out again, but the fates were against us: when we got to our chosen spot (a nature reserve at the edge of the city) a snow flurry had started. The first snow of winter was on 27 October 2012, so we're now into our seventh consecutive month of snow. I'm seriously thinking of moving to Siberia for the milder climate!
I'm now more-or-less back to full health, so no more excuses: I'm determined to be posting 30+ miles this time next week.
Inspired by Tony McNally's latest post my attention has turned back to kit. With less than 12 weeks to the big event it's time to get myself a second pair of shoes. Tony makes the excellent point that most trainers are only good for 300-500 miles. Even with low mileage weeks like this one and sometimes using my older trekking shoes during the colder months I must have done close to 200 miles in the Brooks Adrenaline GTS 12s I bought just after Christmas. I'm inclined to get another identical pair (or possibly the next iteration GTS 13s), taking the view that 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. By alternating the pairs I hope to ensure that both remain in a decent condition until 22 June. My mission this week: to find somewhere to buy them locally, or a supplier willing to ship them to me...
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