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In the Twilight Saga : Breaking Dawn part 2 teaser trailer, we saw a Preview of the powers of Benjamin (Rami Malek) from the Egyptian coven
and Alec (Cameron Bright) from the Volturi .
but there are other ten characters whose powers hopefully we are looking forward to seeing in the movie on November 16th!:-
Henri - According to Amadou Ly, his character - which was created just for the film - has a little power of his own. "With my index power I can flick a person, and they are usually going to hit a wall or go somewhere pretty distant," he explained.
Demetri - Charlie Bewley's character has been a part of the Saga since 2009's New Moon, but we've not gotten to see much of his tracking ability in the films ... yet. Amadou Ly teased, "fans are going to love to see the Demetri that Bill Condon has waiting for them." In the story for Breaking Dawn, Demetri's tracking ability is what sends Alice and Jasper on the run with little notice to the family. Perhaps we'll finally get to see him in action!
Kate - Casey LaBow has hinted that some CGI will come into play with her character's ability (in the book, she has an electrical current which shocks whoever she touches; Bella is immune to it). LaBow explained, "I definitely shock some creatures. Short of them actually giving me a taser to use while we were filming, they have to do some special effects on it. There was a rig and there were some special movie magic moments that happened."
Maggie - Maggie, who'll be portrayed by Marlane Barnes, has the ability to tell when someone is lying. Her ability helped convince the Irish Coven of the truth surrounding Renesmee.
Eleazar - Christian Camargo brought Eleazar to life in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, but the character's ability to read which special gifts other people have will come into play in Part 2 - if it follows this part of the book - as he helps identify Bella's shield.
Siobhan - Siobhan may have the ability to affect the course of certain situations (Carlisle thinks she has the gift, at least). In the book, Siobhan wishes that the Cullens and friends wouldn't have to go to physical battle with the Volturi, and lo and behold, that's exactly what happens. Hopefully actress Lisa Howard brought this into play for her portrayal of the Irish femme.
Alistair - Joe Anderson is a really great actor, so chances are he brought some of Alistair's ability into play for Part 2. Like Demetri, Alistair is a tracker - albeit slightly less talented than Demetri. His power gives him a pull in the direction he is seeking, and when he senses the enormity of the Volturi presence upon him, he is overwhelmed and decides to take off.
Zafrina - The Amazonian warrior vampire is one of the oldest and most talented vampires in the world. She has the gift of visual projection, meaning she can make a person see as she'd like them to. She and Renesmee are kindred spirits pretty quickly. Her gifts help train Bella quite a bit, also.
Renesmee - Ah, Renesmee. Rather than talking, Renesmee usually just shares her thoughts and memories via touch. When she touches another person, she can project mental images into their mind. In one of the still images for Breaking Dawn - Part 2, we got to see her delivering a message to her mom Bella, but we've not yet gotten to see the actual imagery for that.
Bella - Bella Cullen has a powerful shield, and it'll be unveiled bit by bit in Part 2. First, she starts small with it, and then the shield gets to be enormous and very, very powerful. She also learns to lower it, which proves to be a very romantic moment at the tail end.
Which of these powers are you most excited to see?
thanks to TwiExaminer / DT
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On my Monettes, the bottom caps are numbered and the horn plays noticeably worse when you accidentally mix them up. First thing to check when the horn plays funky after a cleaning.
I love my lightweight Monettes. Perfect balance of smoothness and stability like the old school heavy Monettes with the quick response of a Yamaha/Bach.
I had a Holton T-104 Symphony Series Trumpet for awhile. If it was a similar type clone,( sound wise) of one of the older Mount Vernon Bach trumpets.
The T-104 Symphony did have a wider lead pipe wrap etc.,but did not sound like a Conn Connstellation. Sounded more like a Bach #43/72 model Bach.
Based weight wise of the T-104 Trumpet I had,the older Bachs of the Mount Vernon era were heavy weight horns.
From the looks of the Holton T-101 Symphony, on some E-Bay Auctions I have seen. They look to be on the heavy weight side. Holton did make a lighter weight version,called a Holton T-102 Symphony.
Bach may have went back to some of their older weight specs.
I had to laugh when Rowuk referred to a pimped out horn. It had me thinking of maybe some bling that would add flavuh to the trumpet. I think the trumpet after market industry has promoted the mind think that their products ( Megatone...heavy bottom caps...even titanium valve stems !! ) can give us trumpeteers what we have always wished for. For me....stick a straw in a duck and I can get a nice tone from it.
Chuck Cox
1949 Martin Committee Deluxe
Schilke 13a4a ( 80% )
Bach 7C ( 15% )
Bach 5V ( 5% )
If a bit of weight was so definitive, wouldn't Bach, Getzen, Yamaha or Schilke use it as standard? Wouldn't the competitive edge for such little engineering investment be worth it for them? Why didn't the masters Renold and Vincent (or Eldon, Dominik, Jerry or the Getzen family) have at least the OPTION available. Were they too naive? Did they have no idea?
I can tell you why they don't offer this as standard: it simply doesn't work well with their designs. If you want a heavy horn, it need to be designed from the bottom up that way. I would suggest that a heavy horn is not the right solution for most.
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
I think Bach doesn't worry about all the little tricks because it's too small of a market for them. They sell so many trumpets, why bother?
Monette gold plated 993: For sale
I don't know if the link will work but, if it does, go to page 23 and you will see heavy valve caps made by Bach for their trumpets.
Monette gold plated 993: For sale
I am not saying that heavy doesn't work. I have been playing Monette too long to ignore the other side. I am saying that Pimp-o-Mats are not part of the original design and not on the "standard" horns. Pure greed would make the companies use this if it universally fit.
Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
Darn it Rowuk - I've got this money burning a hole in my pocket and I was just getting ready to buy some Mega Super Doppler 9000 Heavy Wave Tech-Caps to go on my horn. I'm horribly disappointed to hear they don't work.
I suppose instead I'll just have to double my order of those hypnosis tapes that make you a better trumpet player while you sleep. Someone on eBay said they really work wonders, and he has 97% positive feedback!
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Committees: '40 Handcraft MB, '49 Committee
Olds: a big pile of them '73 Getzen Severinsen
'49 Buescher 400 Yamaha 731 flugelhorn
Hey, there is nothing WRONG with trying stuff out. There is nothing wrong with supporting an industry. I just think that if there was an easy way to make a trumpet 10-50% better that required no additional engineering, every manufacturer would jump at the chance to get a competitive edge.
The manufacturers are just smarter than many want to admit.........
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Archive for July 2010
V for Vendetta: "Don't Get Fooled Again" cited in UK High Court defamation strike-out
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From the UK High Court, case HQ09X02688 (published by 5RB), March 2010:
2. Professor Bridle, who is the managing director of the Second Claimant company, brings this defamation claim against Mr Williams, a Health and Safety inspector employed by the Second Defendant, the Health and Safety Executive, ('the HSE') at the HSE's offices in Cardiff. The claim is made in slander in respect of words allegedly spoken by Mr Williams, when acting in his capacity as an HSE inspector, on or about 24 July 2008, to representatives of the University of Wales Lampeter, Mr Cennydd Powell, the University's Head of Estates, and his assistant Mr John Fowden.
3. The words complained of were that Professor Bridle "is not a real professor as he claims" and that Mr Powell and Mr Fowden (and by implication also the university and all other third parties generally) "should not believe a word that he says". It is further said that in telephone conversations between Mr Williams and Mr Powell between 24 July and 31 July 2008, Mr Williams repeated to Mr Powell the alleged defamatory statements…
Summary of Defendants' Submissions
…48. The Defendants submit that publications by the journalists referred to and by the author Richard Wilson in his book 'Don't Get Fooled Again' contain far more serious allegations than those complained of in these proceedings. They are in permanent form, have received and continue to receive far wider publication and would inevitably have caused much greater damage to reputation than the alleged slander by an HSE inspector to the University's estate manager and his assistant.
49. Richard Wilson's book contains a Chapter entitled 'Fake Experts and Non-Denial Denials' which is almost entirely devoted to attacking Professor Bridle. It disparages his academic qualifications, and brands him as a 'charlatan' and a 'liar'. An article in 'The Guardian' dated 30 June 2008 by Peter Wilby refers to Professor Bridle and Asbestos Watchdog in disparaging terms and suggests that his scientific credentials should be subject to careful scrutiny. A critical article suggesting that Professor Bridle was not a neutral expert and was linked to the Asbestos Cement Product Producers Association was published in CMAJ [ a scientific journal] by Kathleen Ruff on 22 December 2008. Critical comments have been published on a blog run by Richard Wilson in September 2008. Julie Burchill wrote an article critical of Professor Bridle and Christopher Booker in The Guardian on 2 November 2002.
50. It is therefore submitted that the incident giving rise to this claim is a peg on which Professor Bridle hopes to hang the next round of his campaign. It is submitted that he has been waiting for the opportunity to "get HSE in the dock" and this action is a contrived way of seeking that. It is submitted that were this action allowed to proceed it would also cause harassment and prejudice beyond that usually encountered in litigation…
…82. It is, I consider, apparent from the correspondence exhibited to the witness statements that the dominant motive in bringing the proceedings is to cause embarrassment and prejudice to the HSE because of the Claimant's anger at the HSE's refusal to accept his views on the subject in question. It is apparent from the evidence that Professor Bridle believes that a claim against the HSE will be likely to bring the debate about the difference in scientific views to a public forum more readily than a claim against an individual journalist would do. Thus I have concluded that, whilst I would not go so far as to characterise the claim as 'vindictive' in the same league as the claim in Wallis v Valentine, it does, in my view, fall into the category of a 'vendetta' as outlined in that case and in Bezant v Rausing.
83. I note particularly the fact that no defamation proceedings have been brought by Professor Bridle against any of the authors of some of the attacks made against him in the press, in the book by Richard Wilson and on the internet. The content of those publications are mostly in terms far more pejorative than the words alleged to have been spoken by Mr Williams, and will have had a much larger audience. The fact that such publications are widely available will inevitably put into issue the extent to which Professor Bridle's reputation has been damaged by the alleged publication in this claim. I do not consider that Professor Bridle's explanation as to why no such proceedings have been brought is credible when compared to the issue of these proceedings for words spoken in either a private meeting or a telephone conversation to either one or two persons (depending upon the evidence).
84. In the light of the lack of any convincing evidence as to why the HSE have been singled out for a claim, and the publishers of the publications referred to have not had proceedings brought against them, and on the basis of the evidence relied on by the Defendants, I have concluded that there is an improper collateral purpose to the claim against Mr Williams and the HSE, rather than simply vindication of reputation…
Accordingly the Defendant's application for summary judgment and for strike out succeeds in its entirety.
*See also*: "Asbestos critic was 'pursuing a vendetta' against HSE"
UK Foreign Office "covering up its mistakes and denying access to critical documents" over Iraq
The picture of institutionalised mendacity presented by Carne Ross in today's Observer is shocking – yet consistent both with my own personal experiences of the Foreign Office over the years – and the wealth of information that has emerged from other sources.
The unelected senior ranks of the civil service have more political power in their own right than is usually acknowledged. They now seem to be making the most of this in their attempt to evade accountability for their involvement in the systematic deception of the UK public (and Parliament) in the run-up to the war in Iraq.
From Carne Ross, writing in The Observer:
I testified last week to the Chilcot inquiry. My experience demonstrates an emerging and dangerous problem with the process. This is not so much a problem with Sir John Chilcot and his panel, but rather with the government bureaucracy – Britain's own "deep state" – that is covering up its mistakes and denying access to critical documents.
There is only one solution to this problem, and it requires decisive action.
After I was invited to testify, I was contacted by the Foreign Office, from which I had resigned after giving testimony to the Butler inquiry in 2004, to offer its support for my appearance. I asked for access to all the documents I had worked on as Britain's Iraq "expert" at the UN Security Council, including intelligence assessments, records of discussions with the US, and the long paper trail on the WMD dossier.
Large files were sent to me to peruse at the UK mission to the UN. However, long hours spent reviewing the files revealed that most of the key documents I had asked for were not there.
In my testimony I had planned to detail how the UK government failed to consider, let alone implement, available alternatives to military action. To support this I had asked for specific records relating to the UK's failure to deal with the so-called Syrian pipeline, through which Iraq illegally exported oil, thereby sustaining the Saddam regime. I was told that specific documents, such as the records of prime minister Tony Blair's visit to Syria, could not be found. This is simply not plausible.
I had also asked for all the Joint Intelligence Committee assessments on Iraq, some of which I helped prepare. Of dozens of these documents, only three were provided to me – 40 minutes before I was due to appear before the Chilcot panel.
Playing by the rules, I had submitted my written testimony to Chilcot before my appearance. In the hours before my appearance, invited to visit the Foreign Office to see further documents (mostly irrelevant), an official repeatedly sought to persuade me to delete references to certain documents in my testimony.
He told me that the Cabinet Office wanted the removal of a critical reference in my evidence to a memo from a senior Foreign Office official to the foreign secretary's special adviser, in which the official pointed out, with mandarin understatement, that the paper sent that week to the Parliamentary Labour Party dramatically – and inaccurately – altered the UK's assessment of Iraq's nuclear threat.
In a clear example of the exaggeration of Iraq's military capabilities, that paper claimed that if Iraq's programmes remained unchecked, it could develop a nuclear device within five years.
The official's memo pointed out that this was not, in fact, the UK assessment: the UK believed that Iraq's nuclear programme had been checked by sanctions.
The paper to the PLP was instead sent by the foreign secretary to "brief" the wider cabinet. This paper was pure overstated propaganda, filled with ludicrous statements like "one teaspoon of anthrax can kill a million people". The paper was soon made public, as part of the campaign to create public hysteria.
The official's memo about the PLP paper contained nothing secret. It relates to a public document, the PLP paper. Yet, of all the references in my testimony, this was the one that the Cabinet Office most wanted removed. I refused. Strikingly, this memo has never been mentioned to the inquiry, including by its author, who testified earlier this year. Neither has the author of the PLP paper been questioned, or the paper itself discussed.
I was repeatedly warned by inquiry staff not to mention any classified material during my testimony. The only problem is that almost every document I ever wrote or read in my work was classified. It was made clear to me, and to journalists attending the hearing, that if I mentioned specific documents the broadcast of my testimony would be cut off. Other forms of retribution (Official Secrets Act prosecution?) hung in the air. It was a form of subtle intimidation.
Meanwhile, my requests to see documents about the infamous Number 10 WMD dossier were ignored, including requests for letters I had written.
This experience and the inquiry's record so far is cause for concern. It is clear from testimonies so far that most witnesses, most of whom went along with the war at the time, are offering a very one-sided account to the panel. A story is being peddled that sanctions on Iraq were collapsing and the allied policy of containment was failing. Thus, the military alternative to deal with the Iraqi threat was more or less unavoidable.
Though there is some truth to this argument, it was not what the Foreign Office, or the government as a whole, believed at the time. The true story is there to be seen in the documents. In memos, submissions to ministers and telegrams, the official view is very clear: while there was concern at the erosion of sanctions, containment had prevented Iraq from rearmament.
When invasion was promoted by Washington, the available alternative – to squeeze Saddam financially by stopping oil exports or seizing the regime's assets, which I and some colleagues had repeatedlyadvocated, was ignored. Here the documents tell a different but equally clear and appalling story: there is not a single mention of any formal discussion, by ministers or officials, of alternatives to military action. It is hard to pinpoint a graver indictment of the government's failure.
The oral testimonies delivered to the inquiry have not given an accurate picture of what the government really thought. Unfortunately, the panel is neither equipped, nor apparently inclined, to challenge witnesses on the contradictions of their testimonies with this documentary record. This may not be the panel's fault: how can they know which pertinent documents exist?
In these circumstances, it is very worrying that the government machine is still trying to withhold key documents, and silence those of us with detailed knowledge of the policy history – and documents. I have been told too, from secondary sources, that members of the panel have been refused documents they have specifically requested.
There is a clear solution to these problems: break down the continued obstruction by the bureaucracy by releasing the documents – all of them. Only the most secret documents deserve continued protection, and there are very few of these. The vast majority of relevant documents relate to policy discussion inside the government before the war. Though profoundly embarrassing, there is little here that damages national security, except in the hysterical assessment of officials protecting their own reputation. Nick Clegg said a few weeks ago that almost all documents must now be released. He is right.
Carne Ross was the UK's Iraq expert at the UN from 1997 to 2002. He now heads Independent Diplomat, a non-profit diplomatic advisory group
Trafigura: Guilty.
BBC Newsnight has the full story 16m 15s into this piece.
See also, Amnesty International:
Amnesty International today welcomed the guilty verdict by a Dutch court against the multinational company, Trafigura, for delivering hazardous waste to Amsterdam while concealing the true nature of the waste, and for exporting the waste to Cote D'Ivoire.
Today's verdict is the first time the company has been held criminally accountable for its involvement in exporting the hazardous waste to Cote d'Ivoire.
"This judgement appears damning given Trafigura's previous denials of any wrongdoing. The waste, which was ultimately dumped in Cote d'Ivoire, had a huge impact on the lives of tens of thousands of people," said Benedetta Lacey, a special advisor at Amnesty International who has visited Côte d'Ivoire and met victims of the dumping.
"While the ruling is a significant step forward, this is not the end of the story for those affected. There are unanswered questions about the impact that the waste may have had on people's health, and the areas where the waste was dumped are yet to be fully decontaminated"…
Review of "Secret Affairs" by Mark Curtis
By me, from the New Humanist
Secret Affairs: Britain's Collusion with Radical Islam by Mark Curtis (Serpent's Tail)
When Iran's last democratically elected Prime Minister set about nationalising the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Britain sought to replace him with a "dictator" – in the words of our then Ambassador to Tehran – who would "settle the oil question on reasonable terms". In the process, the Foreign Office actively supported a man they saw as "a complete political reactionary," Ayatollah Kashani, whose hard-line followers organised the large-scale protests that preceded the 1953 coup, which installed the arch-conservative – but pro-Western – Shah. Kashani went on to mentor Ruhollah Khomeini, who in 1979 overthrew the Shah and installed the repressive theocracy that continues in power today.
In Secret Affairs, Mark Curtis delivers an unsettling verdict on the conduct of British foreign policy over the last hundred years. In pursuit of our national interest, the UK has repeatedly sided with the most brutal and conservative forces of political Islam – and aggressively conspired against democratic governments around the globe. While this has yielded temporary gains, in the long run the policy has proved enormously costly, even in its own cynical terms.
Across the Muslim world, for most of the past century, Britain's chief enemy has been not religious extremism but the secular nationalists who sought to wrest back control of their country's resources from the former colonial powers. Time and again, from Egypt to Iran to Indonesia, we have sought to undermine such leaders by arming and training their extremist opponents, while giving generous support to Islamist dictators willing to do business on favourable terms. In the process, we have contributed directly to the growth of radical Islam worldwide, and the consequences are now coming home to haunt us.
Eager to retain a strategic foothold in South Asia – in Churchill's words, to "keep a bit of India" after independence in 1947 – Britain was instrumental in the creation of Pakistan, an artificial state with little to hold it together but its identity as a Muslim nation. In recent decades, successive Pakistani governments have sought to bolster their power by fanning religious fervour at home, and backing militant Islamists across the region. Yet Pakistan has long been treated as a key UK ally, and a favoured recipient of military aid – even as, so Curtis claims, Pakistani intelligence services have continued backing the jihadi groups now fighting British forces in Afghanistan.
Closer still has been our relationship with Saudi Arabia, whose modern form Britain also helped shape, at the close of the colonial era. Seeking to position itself as the leader of the Muslim world, the Saudi state has, since the 1970s, spent an estimated $50 billion promoting its fundamentalist brand of "Wahhabism" around the globe, in what one US think-tank describes as the "largest worldwide propaganda campaign ever mounted". In positioning the UK as a favoured trading partner for Saudi oil, arms and, latterly, financial investments, Labour and Conservative governments alike have systematically played down the true character of the regime, and its links to global terror.
The picture that emerges is of a nation locked into a series of uncomfortable alliances – of questionable overall benefit even to our narrow self-interest – whose nature our government is unable fully to acknowledge. The issue seems exacerbated by the extraordinary levels of secrecy around UK foreign policy, hindering effective debate about the decisions being taken in our name. Many of the files surrounding Britain's abortive intervention in Suez, for example, still remain classified half a century later. Due to the UK's controversial "30-year rule", much of the more recent historical record is simply missing.
Curtis seems nonetheless to have done an excellent job with the sources available, assembling an impressive array of leaks and government admissions, to argue that, at least in ethical terms, UK foreign policy has changed little in recent decades. He makes a compelling, if somewhat disheartening, case.
Judgement day looms for Trafigura…
From Agence France Presse:
THE HAGUE — A Dutch court will hand down judgment Friday in the first trial of a Swiss-based company whose chartered ship dumped waste alleged to have killed 17 people in Ivory Coast in 2006.
Multinational Trafigura, waste treatment company Amsterdam Port Services (APS), and the Ukrainian captain of the Probo Koala ship were tried with three others for allegedly breaking environment and waste export laws on Dutch territory.
They all pleaded not guilty before the Amsterdam district court. Trafigura risks a fine of up to 2.1 million euros (2.7 million dollars).
"We are happy that four years after the fact, Trafigura has finally been brought before a judge," Marietta Harjono, spokeswoman for environmental group Greenpeace, told AFP.
"But there can only be real justice when Trafigura is prosecuted for the events in the Ivory Coast." This trial was about alleged violations of European law.
Caustic soda and petroleum residues on board the Probo Koala were prevented from being offloaded on July 2, 2006 for treatment in the Port of Amsterdam and redirected to Abidjan, where they were dumped on city waste tips.
The waste, slops from the cleaning of fuel transportation tanks, was pumped back into the Probo Koala after APS demanded a higher price for treatment as it was more toxic than previously thought.
Trafigura declined to pay the increased price.
The company, which denies any link between the waste and casualties and has an independent experts' report backing its stance, reached out of court settlements for 33 million euros and 152 million euros in Britain and Ivory Coast that exempted it from legal proceedings.
But a United Nations report published last September found "strong" evidence blaming the waste for at least 15 deaths and several hospitalisations.
The Ivory Coast claims the dumping caused 17 deaths and thousands of poisoning cases.
Dutch judges have yet to decide on a bid by Greenpeace to have those responsible for the waste dump tried in the Netherlands for crimes committed on Ivorian soil.
In the current case, the prosecution asked the Amsterdam district court to impose a two-million-euro fine on Trafigura.
It sought a one-year jail term for Trafigura employee Naeem Ahmed, 43, who coordinated the operation in the port of Amsterdam, and four months for the Ukrainian captain of the ship, Sergiy Chertov, 46, for allegedly falsifying documents and lying about the nature of the waste.
For APS former managing director Evert Uittenbosch, 60, the prosecution sought a six-month jail term, half of it suspended, for violating environmental laws.
APS faces a 250,000-euro fine for the same violation, and the city of Amsterdam, which administered the port, 150,000 euros for not having prevented the exportation of dangerous waste.
The head of the Tommy company which dumped the waste from the Probo Koala in Ivory Coast was given a 20-year jail term by an Abidjan court in October 2008.
Free Jean-Claude Kavumbagu. Again.
See also (from 2008): Free Jean-Claude Kavumbagu
UPDATE – I'm pleased to report that the Committee to Protect Journalists and Human Rights Watch have both put out statements condemning the arrest and calling for Jean-Claude's release.
Burundi's EU-bankrolled kleptocracy strikes again…
I will never forget the enormous help Jean-Claude Kavumbagu gave me while I was writing my first book, Titanic Express. This is now the fifth time he has been jailed simply for telling the truth.
One of the things that seems to have particularly riled the authorities on this occasion is Jean-Claude's claim that "our defence and security forces shine in their capacity to pillage and kill their compatriots rather than defend their country". Unfortunately this claim is so clearly and demonstrably true that it's difficult to imagine what the Burundi authorities think they have to gain in suppressing it…
From Agence France Presse
Burundi police arrested a journalist for alleged "treason" Saturday over an article questioning whether the security forces could deal with an attack like one that hit Uganda a week ago, an official said.
The July 11 bombings in Kampala claimed by Al Qaeda-inspired rebels killed at least 73 people watching the World Cup final in what the insurgents said was retaliation for Ugandan troops serving in Somalia, where Burundi also has soldiers participating in an African Union force.
"The police arrested the director of Netpress on a warrant issued by the prosecutor of the republic and which had as motive 'treason'," police Colonel David Nikiza told AFP.
Jean-Claude Kavumbagu, head of the online news outlet, was later detained at the central prison at Bujumbura, relatives and prison officials said.
"The authorities are reproaching Kavumbagu for an article that appeared on July 12 and which questioned the capacity of the Burundi defence and security forces to face an Islamist attack like that which has just hit Kampala," a Netpress journalist told AFP on condition of anonymity.
In the article that appeared Wednesday, Netpress wrote that "since Monday morning, the anxiety has been palpable in Bujumbura for all those who have heard about what happened yesterday at Kampala because they are convinced that if these Shebab militants wanted to try something in our country, they would succeed with disconcerting ease."
This was because "our defence and security forces shine in their capacity to pillage and kill their compatriots rather than defend their country," it continued.
It is the fifth time that Kavumbagu, 45, has been imprisoned for his work.
"Yourfreedom" – hit, miss or maybe?
Amid much fanfare and mockery, the UK government this week launched a new website, "Your Freedom", which invites the public to nominate laws that intrude on our civil liberties, hamper business or are simply unnecessary. The suggestion is that the best ideas could then be included in a forthcoming "Great Repeal Bill", with the aim of lightening up the statute book, promoting free enterprise, and reversing the last government's creeping restrictions on freedom.
Most of the reactions to this idea that I've seen have been broadly hostile. I'm still trying to figure out why this is, and the extent to which I agree with the criticisms that have been made. Here are the main arguments I've come across:
1. Most government "consultations" are completely bogus
The last government engaged in a whole series of consultation "initiatives" – perhaps the most memorable of which being New Labour's "Big Conversation". The perception many have is that these were essentially bogus exercises – seeking to create the impression that the government was "listening" when policy-makers ultimately just went along and did what they were going to do anyway. There is a widespread expectation that "Yourfreedom" will end up going the same way.
2. "Direct democracy" is too easily hijacked by extremists, special interest groups, and 'single issue fanatics'.
Some have also expressed the opposite worry – that the government may end up being influenced too much, and in a retrograde direction. Early suggestions on the website included a number of calls to un-abolish the death penalty, repeal our membership of the European Union, and scrap the Human Rights Act. Hardly inspiring…
3. Many of the proposals put forward by the public have been absurd, and this undermines the credibility of the whole exercise.
One widely-reported "Yourfreedom" proposal was that marriage to horses be legalised. Although I can't find it on the website now (I'm guessing it either got deleted or the Daily Mail made it up for effect), there are plenty of other jokey suggestions in evidence – including that we repeal the law of gravity and the second law of thermodynamics.
4. The site has been badly designed and plagued by technical problems, which again undermines the project's credibility.
The "Yourfreedom" website crashed within hours of launching, and was very slow-moving for much of the rest of the day. At the time of writing, these problems have still not been resolved – the site was again inaccessible for several minutes when I checked it in the last hour. Some more detailed technical criticisms have been made by Chris Applegate here.
Looking these points in turn…
1. Government consultation.
I'm not surprised that people are cynical about government "consultations" in general, and online "listening" initiatives in particular. The "Big Conversation" was just one high-profile example of a much wider tendency within government. A friend of mine was recently involved in a campaign to save her local maternity ward from closure. The (unelected) local health authority had set up a "public consultation" about the whole thing, but none of the available options involved not-closing-the-maternity-ward. Government consultation has too often been used to give a veneer of democratic legitimacy to a fundamentally undemocratic decision-making process, with the discourse tightly controlled, and the outcome pre-determined by those in power.
The last government's e-petitions site was arguably a step forward from the "local consultation" model, but it shared some of the same characteristics. All proposed petitions would be reviewed by the government, and only those deemed appropriate would be published. I tried submitting one myself, after a friend of mine in a country to which the UK gives a lot of aid money got locked up for criticising that country's President. The petition got rejected, for reasons that still don't seem clear to me, and I know that many other people had a similar experience.
For me, one crucial difference with "Your Freedom" is that there appears to be no pre-moderation, and no vetting of comments. This is the first government consultation I know of where the discourse is not tightly controlled by those in power, and this seems like quite a significant step forward. (By contrast, it's pretty common for newspapers like the Daily Telegraph to pre-screen all comments on their online articles, weeding out those that criticise their coverage or touch on sensitive issues.)
The flipside of this, obviously, is that people will then use the website to say things that we find offensive or strongly disagree with, or which mock the entire exercise. I actually think this is one of the site's best features. Every General Election I've voted in has had a pile of candidates wanting to bring back hanging, set up a Christian fundamentalist state, deport all immigrants etc. They all lost. Standing alongside them were a long line of "Monster Raving Loony" candidates from the "Forward to Mars" party – but no-one took this to negate the value of the entire electoral process, and neither did their presence cripple our democracy. In fact, I'd suggest that any large-scale democratic exercise that doesn't feature significant numbers of cranks, wingnuts and piss-takers is probably not very genuine or open. While I don't think the cranks and wingnuts are particularly good for our democracy, as soon as you start setting up criteria for excluding people you make it easier for those in power to shut out genuinely valid criticism, which to me seems far more dangerous.
I think it's too early to say whether the government will really take on board any of the suggestions that come out of the "Your Freedom" exercise. I know there's a high risk, based on past form, that they won't. Political priorities may change. The civil service may see the idea as a threat to their pre-eminence and do their best to frustrate it. Or maybe this really is nothing more than a cynical public relations exercise.
But there is one element to this process which I think could lead to some real changes, and I'm surprised that it hasn't been given more attention. Within an organisational system as large, old and complex as the UK state, it would be very surprising if there weren't some areas of the law that are dysfunctional, and that could productively be tweaked or trimmed down. Given the number of people who work within, or engage with, the UK government on a day-to-day basis, it is likely that there will be some people who have detailed information about the nature of these dysfunctions, and ideas about what could be done to address them. Given the sheer size of the state, and the nature of large organisations more generally, it seems possible that at least some of this information has not yet been brought to the attention of the people who make decisions at the top of the heirarchy – ie. ministers and senior civil servants.
It seems to me that "Yourfreedom" is quite well set up for capturing – and prompting debate around – just this kind of specialist information, and highlighting it directly both to policy-makers and (equally importantly) the wider public. Here's an (imperfect) example of the kind of thing I mean, from an idea submitted to Yourfreedom on July 2nd: "Reinstate the right to work for people awaiting a decision on their asylum claim".
I work in a specialist NHS service for refugees and people seeking aslyum and the academic and anecdotal evidence shows worklessness as a detrimental force in almost every client I see. They lose essential skills and confidence and struggle to find something meaningful and productive to do. It places barriers in the way of developing language skills, adjusting across cultures and establishing the kind of social capital that supports everyday life.
In addition to lightening the burden on taxpayers, service providers and the host community, permission to work would enable the individual to maintain their skills, many of which would be of great value to us here in the UK, maintain their well-being ( particuarly their mental health) and fit them for the challenges that lie ahead – whether they gain or are denied refugee status.
For a simple overview of the issues: link
2. Direct Democracy
It does seem possible that input from the "wingnuts" may sway the government to some extent on an issue like immigration or the Human Rights Act, where the coalition doesn't yet seem to have fully made up its mind – though I'm doubtful that the more extreme proposals will have much of an impact. But as it happens, the picture is a bit more complicated than some of the media coverage (not least the recent BBC Newsnight piece in which I featured as a token "Joe Public") would suggest.
While a proposal to "Bring back the death sentence" has received more comments than most others on the site – 286 at the time of writing – the average "rating" from users is just 1.7 out of 5, suggesting that many contributors strongly disagree. The call to scrap the Human Rights Act is also widely commented on, but gets a score of only 2.8 out of 5. A proposal to "Repeal the Digital Economy Bill", meanwhile, has had nearly as many comments (278), and an average rating of 4.9 out of 5.
There have also been a number of suggestions to scrap Control Orders (which allow the government to impose de facto house arrest on anyone they say they suspect of being a terrorist), reform the libel laws to protect freedom of speech, clarify the law that led to the notorious "Twitter joke" trial, and repeal the law restricting demonstrations outside Parliament.
3. Joke suggestions
My personal favourite called for a ban on "necro-bestiality" ("I don't want to have to worry about what some pervert might do to my cat when it dies"), prompting a heated debate: "If I want to maybe sell my dead cat to some sicko, I don't need any bureaucrats in Brussels interfering". There's also a rousing call to repeal "Sod's law" ("This law has dogged my life and the lives of millions of others"). I find it odd, though, that anyone would think this negates the value of the whole exercise, any more than the existence of the Monster Raving Loony party undermines the point of an election.
4. Technical problems
If you wanted any more proof of the UK government's collective, ongoing problem in understanding the internet, you saw it in the technical problems that have plagued "Yourfreedom". That the website crashed after just a few thousand visits could be taken as a sign that the government wasn't expecting very many people to use it, and therefore didn't allocate enough bandwidth. Also disappointing was the fact that these problems dragged on for so long.
A further annoyance is that an idea can rank as "highly rated" simply by having a high average score – even if the total number of votes it has received is very low, thereby overshadowing a rival idea that has a slightly lower average but a far larger support base.
Whether these problems end up crippling the project will, I think, depend on how quickly they get sorted out. For all the difficulties, the government claim to have had 2,205 ideas, 7,419 comments and 18,000 votes on the project's first day, and it's clear that the site is still being actively used several days in : I've counted 14 new contribution in the last hour in the "civil liberties" category alone.
Old media meets new media
One thing that hasn't surprised me is the near-universal derision that "Your Freedom" has prompted from the mainstream media. The Mirror, the Daily Mail, the BBC and others have chosen largely to ignore the serious contributions made by the public – even the very popular ones such as the call to repeal the Digital Economy Bill – and focussed instead on the most extreme and frivolous proposals.
Partly this seems to be a class issue. For years, mainstream journalists and editors were the gatekeepers for any critique of government policy, and this gave them a great deal of power. Whether you were a thinktank, a lobby group or a campaigner, if you wanted to be heard, you had to get on the news. The voices of ordinary members of the public could only be heard in tightly-controlled circumstances – a 30-second slot in a pre-screened radio-phone in show, a 100-word "letter to the editor" which in most cases would not even have been published. Columnists and TV pundits were "opinion leaders" and "opinion formers", with a near-monopoly on the analysis of government policy. Now ordinary people are getting to form – and express – our own opinions on these things. The internet is giving us more and more opportunities to cut out the middleman, and many members of the "pundit class" feel very threatened.
When people feel threatened, they tend to retreat into stereotypes. To many within the UK media, the British public now seems to fall into two basic categories. We are either stupid, fixated on the X-factor and shamefully apathetic about politics, or we are extremist "single issue fanatics", contemptibly obsessive about politics. Anyone who writes a blog, or contributes an idea to something like "YourFreedom" must, by definition, fall into the latter category, and the idea of asking people like us for our opinions is almost as contemptible as we are. Welcome to the world of the Daily Mail, and John O' Farrell…


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"That was my first college point so I was happy about that," said Johnson, who finished two-for-five from the field four-for-four from the line.
"He took a step forward," Ken Bone said of Johnson. "I can't wait to when he can show everybody what he can really do, but it'll come. He was better today than last week and he was better last week than the week before."
The victory improved the Cougs to 2-0 as they now gear for a trip to Spokane to face Gonzaga on Thursday at 6 p.m..
After basing the starting lineup last week in the season-opener against Cal-State Bakersfield on rebounding efficiency, Bone said his starting lineup against Lamar was more about speed. The Cougars' starting lineup consisted of guards DaVonte Lacy, Royce Woolridge and Dexter Kernich-Drew alongside forwards Will DiIorio and Junior Longrus.
"They're (Lamar) really small, so we just decided to go smaller. In fact that was a struggle at times, we were big but we weren't really gaining an advantage being the bigger team so we tried to go small and quick to match them," Bone said.
The small-ball approach still resulted in a notable Cougar advantage on the glass. They outrebounded the Cardinals 38-29 and came up with 12 offensive boards. Bone said assistant coach Curtis Allen deserves the credit for preparing the team to dominate the glass without necessarily packing the paint.
"He orchestrates the different drills, talks to the guys, shows them video in regards to rebounding. I think he's done a really good job again this year of getting the guys motivated to rebounding," Bone said. Sometimes it's misleading, you can be right by the hoop but then you get into a physical battle for a rebound. When you're way out there on the perimeter, it's hard to screen a guy off that's determined to go get it," Bone said.
On defense, the Cougars look to be steadily adjusting to the NCAA's new defensive rules. They avoided the foul trouble that plagued so many players last week, tallying just 15 total. Lacy said the adjustment isn't complete just yet, with the team still needing improvement on the block/charge call. But stopping the dribble-drive is starting to shape up, he said.
"On the ball, I feel like we did a better job than we did last week and we just got to continue to improve," said Lacy, who led all scorers with 21 points. "It's just playing more. When something is new you got to keep doing it and doing it and then it becomes normal to you. We just gotta keep playing more in practice like it and in the game we gotta feel out the refs and see how they're calling it."
The Cougars deployed their new high-pressure man-to-man defense, but also used matchup zone defense to impede direct drives to the hoop. Lamar put up only 20 free throws.
"It (zone defense) needs to contribute to keeping players from penetrating in the paint as easily as they're able to against our man (-to-man defense)," Bone said. "But our man's gotta get better too. They were hard to guard, they were pretty quick. They did a nice job the second half of getting the ball to the high post and really attacking us off the bounce at the high post and that's hard to defend."
"Like everybody else, I think around the country, I was talking to an official during the game he said 'hey, your complaints are no different than anyone else's, it's nationwide. The rules have changed and we all need to adapt," Bone said.
AFTER A DOMINATING START, the Cougars went in the tank for a stretch in the second half that narrowed their lead from 18 to four. Lacy said the team could feel the energy in the building dropping and that's when they knew they needed to turn it around. The Lamar run came to a halt after Lacy checked in and immediately drove to the bucket for a finger-roll layup.
Bone said his lineup combinations attributed to the Cardinals' run because he didn't have the correct combination to properly break the full-court press Lamar switched to. The Cougars remained poised, adapting to the press, and eventually extending the lead to 22 with a little more than two minutes left to play.
"I like the fact that we didn't panic. I think we've talked about this for a couple games and hopefully we won't discuss it every game, hopefully we get a lead and be able to maintain that lead but it's hard. You know other teams that are behind usually at some point are going to make a run and they did, and they did a good job it," Bone said.
The highlight of the night came in the second half when Kernich-Drew stole the ball and finished at the other end with a 360-degree dunk, something Lacy said would have had the Australian native making an early trip back home if it had gone wrong.
"If he doesn't make that he's on the first flight back to Australia," Lacy said.
Kernich-Drew turned in a nice night offensively after a woeful 0-for-5 shooting effort against Bakersfield. He hit 6 of 13 shots from the field and finished with 15 points, seven rebounds and four assists.


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He's won National Coach of the Year honors (2011). He's finished undefeated against the Big East in South Bend on three occasions, set the program winning streak for most consecutive home victories, and finished 1st (tied), 2nd (three times), 3rd (twice), and 4th in seven of his 12 seasons in the nation's perennially toughest conference, just twice finishing in the bottom half of the league's standings (2006 and '09).
They win close. They win blowouts. They've won 17 of 29 vs. ranked foes over the last three years by slowing it down to win ugly, by showing incredible teamwork and ball movement in aesthetically pleasing victories, and by occasionally shooting better teams out of the building.
They won with a dose of defense after several seasons in which offense reigned as the program fought its way to respectability.
Brey has won with and without stars, coached three Big East Players of the Year and 10 other All-Big East first teamers in 12 seasons. His 37-17 mark over the last three years is the second-best among all Big East teams in conference play. Only Louisville and Syracuse can claim better marks than Notre Dame's 70-36 over the last six conference seasons.
But Brey's Irish teams haven't won much when it inarguably matters most.
Problems of PerceptionIt was a question posed to Brey prior to the team's 67-63 loss to Xavier in its opening NCAA Tourney game last spring.
"Mike, fair or not, coaches are judged by their performances in March…."
Brey cut the question short, understandably annoyed at the inference. "Who said coaches are judged on tournaments?" he asked. "What rule book is that in? Is that your rule book? What's your record? I need to see your playing stats before you start doing that."
More understandable than Brey's annoyance, however, was the reporter's unfortunately all-too-necessary question.
Longtime Notre Dame basketball fans appreciate the program's rebirth and decade-long excellence after eight consecutive seasons of NCAA Tournament exile.
Fans well-versed in the sport and its history enjoy the journey, the process, and the progression of every regular season that leads up to Selection Sunday's annual reward for their team's efforts. They value tough road wins, home victories over the nation's best, and teams, such as Brey's 2012 overachievers, that bring unexpected joy to a season seen as lost before it began.
But in my estimation, those fans can be referred to as the "10 percent'ers."
Because 90 percent of the college basketball world doesn't remember that Notre Dame reached #5 nationally at the conclusion of the 2011 regular season.
Those same 90 percent, and most Irish fans, forgot or never knew that Notre Dame and Brey once beat #10 Marquette (led by Dwyane Wade and a team that eventually reached the Final Four), #8 Maryland (advanced to the Sweet 16 along with Notre Dame) and #2 Texas (reached the Final Four) in a six-day span…away from South Bend.
Those 90 percent forgot or never knew that Notre Dame went 16 years between Sweet 16 appearances (1987-2003), and they certainly don't care that the 2011 national champion UConn Huskies finished 9th in their own conference, lost twice to Notre Dame, and finished the regular season losing four of five and seven of their last 11 contests.
That's not Brey's concern, his charge is to put forth a team that wins and graduates every player under his tutelage. Check and check.
But its the reality of college basketball world and more relevant, the prevailing feeling among a disjointed Notre Dame basketball fan base that can rarely be bothered to fill the Purcell Pavilion to watch one of the three best home teams in college basketball slay nearly every foe that enters (100 wins, 7 defeats over the last six home seasons).
When A + B does not equal CBrey's Irish have finished among the Big East's top four in four of the last six seasons. They've subsequently finished those six seasons losing to Winthrop (1st Round), Washington State (2nd), Penn State (NIT semi's), Old Dominion (1st), Florida State (2nd), and Xavier (1st).
Some of those opponents were likely undervalued. Some were streaking, or athletic, or strong where Notre Dame was weak. But the average number of losses by those six opponents in the seasons they effectively ended Notre Dame's hopes is a staggering 10. In other words, NCAA Tournament advancement was certainly their for the Irish taking.
Why doesn't Notre Dame follow its regular seasons, either solid (most installments), late-streaking (2010), or spectacular (2007, 2008, 2011, 2012) with wins in the NCAA Tournament?
The Irish have prevailed in just two NCAA Tournament games since a 2003 Sweet 16 appearance, and in just six total over Brey's 12 seasons. Since that '03 season and a three-year scuffle in the NIT (2004-06), Notre Dame has beaten only George Mason (2008) and Akron (2011) before suffering subsequent double-digit losses in Round 2.
Its a reality that's as incongruent as it is maddening to the Irish fan. Notre Dame has beaten the best college basketball has to offer, defeating 17 Top 10 teams in Brey's tenure. The Irish beat 2011 national champion Connecticut twice in the Huskies title season of 2011, and were the last team to beat UConn (and that Irish victory occurred in Storrs) before its amazing 10-game Big East/NCAA Tournament run to a pair of titles
Notre Dame beat Louisville on the road last year. The Cardinals advanced to the 2012 Final Four. That three-season trend continued with a win over Final Four bound West Virginia in 2010. Yet teams such as Xavier, Florida State, and Old Dominion proved impregnable as the calendar showed mid-March. This against Irish teams that defeated nine straight foes in the Big East (2012) or surged to #5 nationally prior to the NCAA's (2011), or won six straight over the likes of Pittsburgh, Georgetown, Connecticut, Marquette, Seton Hall, and Pitt again (to conclude 2010).
In Brey's 12 seasons, the Irish have defeated the nation's #1 team, the #2 team (twice), the #3 team, the #4 team (four times), and the #5 team, but never won more than two NCAA Tournament games at season's end.
Add up the myriad positives over the last 12 years and I'd be shocked if Notre Dame's next coach guides more successful Irish teams than did Brey when his time in South Bend is complete. I expect the successor's Irish will lose more games, challenge for fewer conference titles (wherever that may be) and be far less consistent over the decade the follows Brey's seasons at the University.
But one two-weekend NCAA Tournament run would offer more wins than have Notre Dame's efforts over the last nine tournaments.
Thanks to Brey, winning has become the norm again at Notre Dame, a development wholly unlikely prior to his arrival, as the Irish wallowed at the bottom of the Big East and scuffled near or below .500 in 9 of the 11 preceding seasons.
And thanks to Brey, expectations regarding the program and its place in college basketball have finally been raised.
"We're in business to win NCAA championships," said Notre Dame director of athletics Jack Swarbrick. "If I didn't think Mike Brey couldn't win an NCAA championship in basketball, we wouldn't be sitting here today. I believe he can. I believe this program can."
For Brey, its officially Onward to Victory…in March.


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- King James Bible: John, Chapter 6
- Chapter 6 6:1 After these things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the sea of Tiberias. 6:2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased. 6:3 And Jesus went up into a mountain, and there...
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- The Horned God in India and Europe
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- Figurehead from Cornwall and Captain Cat and the Sailors from Wales to perform
- This week's spotlight on acts performing at this summer's Falmouth International Sea Shanty Festival, falls on a "group of lovely ladies" from Cornwall and a Swansea-based folk outfit.
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- All aboard HMS Pinafore! Success of latest Gilbert & Sullivan show in Kirkcaldy
- The performance opened, not with Sullivan's overture, but with the addition of a sea shanty scenario at the quayside tavern alongside which the HMS Pinafore is moored.
- Dateline: March 4-11
- "Banks and Braes: A Cappella in the Celtic Tradition" offers about a one-hour performance of light concert repertoire featuring tunes of the Celtic lands, including sea shanties, ballads and contemporary selections.
- City Centre Bulletin: Sea shanties, statues and students - what to look out
- Liverpool Lightnight 2015. A performance of traditional sea shanties by the Liverpool Shanty Kings,outside the Maritime Museum,Albert Dock. It's another weekend, another festival as the Sea Shanty Festival arrives in the city from Friday.
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It's been a month of birthdays…
In addition to this very blog turning 5-years-old very recently, on 7th May my freelance business – morganonlinemarketing.co.uk – reaches its 3rd birthday.
Way back in 2013, only a mere 3 months after taking the plunge, I wrote a post titled 3 Things I've Learnt 3 Months Into Self-Employment. 33 months later, I wanted to pass on 3 more things I've discovered now that I have a longer-term view of freelancing life, and I also thought that it might be interesting to revisit the initial 3 things I blogged about – to see if they're just as true/more true/less true – now that a whole bunch of time has passed…
3 Things I've Learnt 3 Years On
Alrighty then… Let's go.
1) You can't say "yes" to everything
As you'll see below (or here), the #1 of my original '3 Things' was also about saying "yes" – but it was from the other person's perspective. This time it's about me saying yes.
You often hear the common wisdom that is to "say yes to everything." A guy I know and look up to on the Cardiff entrepreneurship scene admitted to me that he follows this course, saying yes to absolutely everything/anything that comes his way and never turning anything down.
But you know what? That's borderline foolish. (Sorry person-referenced-above-who-I-have-now-insulted…)
Because when you say yes to something, you could be saying "no" to something else.
So while you can say yes to everything, you probably shouldn't. Our time is finite, so if you agree to do something and it takes x hours to do, you can't save or reuse those hours on something else (unless you sacrifice time from something else, such as time spent on a hobby, with family/friends, or sleeping). What if you say yes to something good, but then something great comes along, and you can't do the great thing because you're busy doing the good thing? That would suck, wouldn't it?
You have to be careful about what you choose to do and not just say yes to things willy-nilly. It may seem harsh and even cruel to say no to certain things, but you have to be careful and tactical with your time.
I certainly feel like I'm getting better at this, especially in the past year or so.
2) Do away with distractions
Early on in my freelancing career, I was a moderator for Inbound.org for a time. I took to the moderating quite obsessively, upsetting some people in the process (but that's a whooole other story…!), before quitting for good. While I was doing it though, I noticed that I was doing it a lot. To touch upon the above point, our time is finite. I could've spent that time differently – especially in the early days of freelancing.
I don't regret it too much though. The whole upsetting-people thing aside, I made a lot of great contacts and friends in the SEO industry while I was living and breathing Inbound.org, and it helped to get my name out there. Hell, I've not contributed on there for years and yet I'm still in their Top 50 all-time members as I type this, hah!
…But at the same time, it wouldn't have helped with sales or client acquisition, at a time when that was absolutely crucial to focus on. Obviously I did ok in the end (otherwise I wouldn't be writing this!) but it might've been a much smoother ride if it'd been distraction-free.
So, if you've got any distractions in your life, try and put them to one side. (He says, still absolutely obsessed with Twitter… We've all gotta have at least one vice, right? Right.)
3) The community around you is so, so important
I harp on about them all the time (most likely to the point of causing boredom and sickness), but I love Welsh ICE more than I can explain. The coworking space and startup community just outside Cardiff has been pivotal to my freelancing success.
When I first looked into coworking, I thought it consisted of just three things: a desk, coffee, and WiFi. Oh and I knew that I'd go stir-crazy it I worked from home all day everyday, spending every waking minute talking to my cats. But there's been much more to it than that: I've had support from members (whether it be dedicated mentoring sessions or a simple pick-your-brains moment with someone who's been-there-and-done-it); I've networked with members; members have passed on referrals to prospective clients; members have become clients (including the space itself!); I've hired members to do things for me; we've collaborated on projects together; and so on. I've also made a bunch of friends up there (aww).
I've read (well, listened to) quite a few books recently, and most of them have said that you need to surround yourself with positive people and not negative people. Places like ICE aren't perfect for sure, and I don't get on with absolutely everyone (because life just ain't that perfect), but there's certainly more of the former than the latter. And their on-going support has been really important to me.


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As a social worker, Alison Taylor has a passion for protecting children and seeing that justice is served on their behalf. But when she starts getting harassing phone calls and bizarre "gifts," it seems she may be the one in need of protection. When her tormentor's attentions take a violent turn, her brother Cole comes to her aid, along with his new partner, an ex-Navy SEAL, Detective Mitch Morgan. As her relentless stalker turns up the heat, Mitch takes a personal interest in the case. Protecting Alison has become more than just a job—because his own happiness now depends on keeping her safe.
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Executive director Bunny McDiarmid must have been boiling with excitement last week with news that Greenpeace would once more be allowed to apply for charitable status.
Greenpeace had been all bitter and twisted that the Charities Commission and High Court deemed them political activists and as a result, they lost their charitable status.
Makes you wonder if their profit targets will be met once their legal fees are tallied up and accounted for. Especially on the back of a terrible last year when they posted a record 69% drop in full year profit.
But greedy Greenpeace want their mythical 60,000 supporters' money to be tax-free. Maybe that's to help pay a hippy $70,000/pa for a "fundraising role", as well as allowing them to funnel cash offshore to the parent company to follow the $1.9 million they sent over in 2011.
The case they will make to Roger Miller, Caren Rangi and Kirikaiahi Albert at the Charities Board must involve actor Christopher Lloyd and a DeLorean, going by Bunny's remark that "the group was delighted the Court of Appeal recognised that promoting peace and nuclear disarmament was for the public benefit."
How very 80s. Despite bumbling Don Brash being the only one to openly question the nuke-free policy in the last 25 years, most New Zealanders are fairly on board with being nuclear free. Maybe Miller, Rangi and Albert will be convinced at Greenpeace lightning-fast brand changes.
Maybe that's why their anti-business messaging on their website has mysteriously vanished. Replacing it is some plug for the 2013 new Rainbow Warrior visit.
No more boycotting of Fonterra, Sealord, Cottonsoft, Shell et al . . . we're going back to the future. Nuclear free and all that.
Greenpeace's problem is that its own name is something between an anachronism and a wholesale contradiction of its purpose.
There's nothing peace-promoting about a corporate organization that endlessly demands boycotts of companies and the items they put on supermarket shelves.
Those products are often made by New Zealanders and they'd like to hang on to their jobs. People tend to be quite peaceful when they have a steady income.


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