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Unsigned

By Beaver | Published: 23/01/2011

I have just been changing wondawall/music/unsigned, so have a look. It has been set up to hopefully cope with the response I am getting, please help me help these new artists.

“Helping new music, get out there!”

Beaver

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So far I have had very little success at making money on-line, they all seem to tell you the same things about how they are telling the truth and that once you start with their system instant money will be sure to follow. One says traffic, the other adwords, another says affiliation, and some all three, it’s all a bit confusing.

What I have found so far, is that when you make your initial purchase you are bombarded by all these extras that you need to also purchase to make it work bumping your initial purchase price up dramatically $100-$200. This, to date has not worked for me either, but in their defence they all supply a 8 week guarantee, and I have received full refunds.

I suggest Clickbank as a safe way to try these ideas out as you are guaranteed to get your money back if you are not happy with their product. You will also need various accounts to make any of this work, and beware of web sites designed for you, they will tell you money is a sure thing but then charge yo $70+ a month for a limited access site when you can own your own domain for $70 per year.

Do your homework, it will save you money and try some of the things offered on Clickbank they are worth a shot to experience and get an idea of how they are really making their money. Remember that pyramid marketing online is still pyramid marketing as we know it.

I will keep you posted as things develop.

Keep trying,

Beaver

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Wondawall/Music/Unsigned

By Beaver | Published: 20/01/2011

Have a look at the music page, I need all the support I can get to help good young bands get heard. These are expensive times, and it is hard for a band to get going. Recordings cost money and promotion costs more, not to mention the image and video. What we can do is go to my Music page click on unsigned listen to the artists give a vote or report on the JJJ link.

It may sound hard but it is easy and these guys need your vote.

Help me help them

Beaver

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Service, What has happened ???

By Beaver | Published: 18/01/2011

I’m sure everyone out there has a bad service story to tell. I have plenty.

I’m not sure when the decline of service started, it has been a gradual thing that we on a whole, have just allowed to happen, until recently. Service has become a sales point now where it used to be a part of the whole experience in buying and transacting. Where did it start to change and why ?

Is it because we don’t live the same way anymore with all of our new technology and gadgets, or is it because of society, and the way we are all living more individually in our own little worlds, with barely the time for anyone else. Is it because we don’t have mandatory armed services anymore giving every person respect for themselves and their country. Or is because of drugs and the attitudes of those using them ? Or is it just money and the cost of paying people to care ?

All are interesting questions, but I hear you ask what is the relevance of this to service ?

Service is based on care, without a natural care for one another there can be no true service. It is not totally lost however so do not despair, just getting harder to find. Government departments house, the Mecca of bad service, if you want to be treated like a number, a nuisance, a fly in someones soup then go no further than Centerlink, (Aust Social Security). The lack of care shown in there is incredible, particularly when a lot of them have, got their jobs there whilst being on the public side of the counter, some of them for ages. You would think that they would get it, remember what it was like to be in the queues and waiting rooms for half a day at a time.

Unlike bank staff, who just bend and change the rules with more inconsistency than a rabid dog walking in the desert. With bank staff it just depends who you get, in fact for all service it depends on who you get not what you’re buying. Private small business owners will be your best bet for a friendly face, its in his or hers best interest to get you back. Other than that it has become a hit and miss affair.

I think what bothers me most about this lack of service, is medical practitioners. One of my good friends, who is a carpenter, had one both of his apprentices damage themselves last week, one with heat stroke and one fell on some rio and needed stitches in his butt cheek. There were to 2 local practitioners within 5 mins and a hospital half an hour away, on both occasions the practices turned my friend away with his young injured apprentices because he didn’t have an appointment and wasn’t on the customer list. My wife has been turned away for the same reason with our 2-year-old child sick as hell.

This should be stopped, an emergency should be handled if possible, Surf life savers don’t let you drown because they are busy why should doctors. I get it if someone has lost a leg or severely broken bones that a local surgery won’t be able to deal with it for lack of equipment and facility, but for minor accidents, sick children or anyone for that matter there shouldn’t be a pre-requisite for service, after all didn’t doctors and nurses train to serve.

The truth of the matter is that for most of us, money has more power, than the care for one another, what a sad time we all live in.

Looking up to better times for mankind.

Beaver

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Flood Flood Flood

By Beaver | Published: 16/01/2011

It seems Australia is going under water.

We are facing on the East Coast of Australia, some of the worst flooding we have seen. What does it all mean ? Are we disappearing beneath the great blue ?

I don’t think so but it is getting closer, check this article taken from The Sydney Morning Herald.

January 16, 2011 – 6:52PM

Creswick residents face second clean-up

Residents and business owners in Creswick have survived the town’s second flood in four months.

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Echuca and Horsham are set to be hit by their worst floods in 100 years as Victoria deals with unprecedented conditions.

The swollen Campaspe River could flood up to 100 Echuca properties when it peaks tonight.

Hundreds of businesses and homes could be flooded in Horsham on Monday and Tuesday when the Wimmera River near the town peaks at midday on Monday.

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Hay bales in a flooded paddock in Rochester after storms caused huge flooding through rural Victoria . Photo: Mal Fairclough

New emergency alerts were issued to two other north-west towns today, with Culgoa residents given an evacuation order, while a flood warning was issued for Quambatook.

Around Victoria, more than 3500 people have fled their homes, 43 towns have been affected and more than 1400 properties have been flooded.

More towns could be affected later this week by the extreme rainfall that has battered the state, many of them having endured two other floods in the past five months.

Residents of the Murray River port of Echuca are waiting nervously and mayor Neil Pankhurst said the town’s levee bank had been designed to withstand a one in 100-year flood, which is dangerously close to what is expected late tonight.

“The levee is designed to contain a flood of the level we’re expecting and we believe it will hold,” Mr Pankhurst said.

“Some properties will have water on them but we’re not expecting any homes to be inundated or have water above floor level.”

Mr Pankhurst said some low-lying properties were likely to be isolated.

Horsham municipal emergency resources officer David Eltringham said the town was expecting a “a one in a 100-year flood”.

“This flood will be a good half a metre or more higher than the flood we had through in September.”

Locals have been sandbagging properties and key assets.

Sandbagging was taking place in Culgoa today to prepare for a devastating flood, similar to that which hit Charlton on Saturday with its main street remaining inundated 24 hours later.

The mayor of Buloke Shire – which includes Culgoa and Charlton – Leo Tellefson, said the floods were far worse than those that hit in September and December.

“We are practised at it but we would rather be doing something else. It is pretty testing,” he told AAP.

More than 6500 properties remained without power early on Sunday, as Powercor worked to restore electricity during the day.

From the air, parts of north-central Victoria resembled massive inland lakes today.

State Emergency Service (SES) operations director Trevor White said the flood event was one of Victoria’s biggest since records began.

“In some of our river systems, we are seeing unprecedented stream rises, the bureau hydrologists are working in close liaison with catchment management authorities at the local level,” he told reporters.

“The situation is quite dynamic … as the modelling continues and we continue to monitor stream rises as it moves downstream of the current peak flows some of those figures will be adjusted.”

On Sunday Premier Ted Baillieu visited Echuca and flood-ravaged Carisbrook, where he said essential services must be fixed in the town, including its sewerage system.

“Clearly these floods are causing significant grief around Victoria and arguably this flood event is one of the biggest in Victoria’s history,” he told reporters.

Mr White urged people living in flood affected areas to stay vigilant, consider evacuating if unpredictable flood levels rose and go to community meetings.

Police deputy commissioner Kieran Walshe said people should never enter floodwaters and that 50 people had been rescued in the past week, 30 of whom were in stranded vehicles.

The Bureau of Meteorology is predicting drier weather in affected regions this week.

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Beaver

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Time For Change

By Beaver | Published: 15/01/2011

Front Page Saturdays West Australian 15/01/11

Tough Drug Laws ‘Futile’

Here I was this morning looking for something to write about, didn’t have to look far. I got as far as the front page of this mornings paper.

A recently retired, 12 year serving, District Court Judge, Bill Groves has said, “The current policy of outlawing drugs has been futile”. He went on to say that jailing not only failed to fix drug abuse it introduced them to hardened criminals. decriminalization is one possible way with heroin and cocaine available through prescription for those battling addiction. He said not to include amphetamines which often lead to violence. He also stressed he did not know how these new strategies would work with all the relevant agencies.

I thought at this point in the article great, someone who is at the judgement end of this problem, is seeing it clearly. Acceptance is the answer, people will do drugs, it is only a small percentage that mess up and that is usually because they can’t get what they need or when they do it doesn’t work because there is no quality control.

Unfortunately the article continued,

Police Minister Rob Johnson, “utterly rejected”, decriminalization of any amount of illegal drugs. “Even in small doses drugs can be extremely dangerous and often lethal… not to mention the immense social costs,” he said.

Now I’m sorry Mr Johnson but you have got it wrong, and it is your sort of close mindedness that we have to remove from decision-making positions. Times change Mr Johnson and we need to change with them. Our jails are full of drug related offenders, police have whole sections dedicated to catching kids having a bit of fun and yes, some of them are dying, this is the real cost to the community.

None of this would be happening, if we,(the government), controlled the drugs, distributing them for the price they are worth, with proceeds going toward better rehabilitation programs. If the government controlled the drug market :- All drugs would be made properly metered doses,(so they know what they are getting).

:- Teenagers will not be able to get drugs like alcohol, penalties in place for anyone caught supplying

:- All users DNA registered and tested prior to scheme admittance so they are not given anything dangerous, and usage can be recorded and controlled

:- Drug related crime will disappear and the black market will be raped of one of its biggest earners.

The list goes on. Look at Amsterdam drugs have been de-criminalised for so long it is only the tourists that haunt the cafe’s, they can’t do this at home. The dutch however rarely do because it is always there, they can do it anytime. It is like living on the Gold Coast before you move there, being able to go to the theme parks whenever you want is a big thing and when you get there you go to them all saying this is great I’ll be back every week. The thing is though, you don’t, you might go a couple more times cause, it is just up the road but they aren’t going anywhere and the excitement wears off.

Drugs are a problem but burying your head in the sand with tough laws is not the answer we have tried this for years and the problem is worse, its time for something different.

Lets stop fighting the problem and start working with it to make it less a problem.

Beaver

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Is the World Flooding ???

By Beaver | Published: 14/01/2011

You can’t help but think about the recent floodings and mudslides across the world and wonder, is this the beginning of Armageddon ? We have been told that the water table will rise and swallow up most, of what we know. It has been predicted that 2012, will see devastation on a mass scale, is this the beginning of something bigger ?

Is the world going to stop for us, as a race ? The polar caps are going and that water seems to be going into precipitation, only to be dropped on us in unrecorded amounts. Maybe this is the way the Earth will flood, no meteor, no war, no volcano just rain and big waves. It is a frightening thought if what we have seen on the news around the world this last 10 days, is just the first noticeable signs, of what is yet to come.

The scale of this sort of natural devastation, as we have seen leaves our petty fighting weapons to shame, mother Earth, has got the edge. Of war, we should fear not. It is the wrath of our not so beloved Earth, we should fear, she has been raped and pillaged by humans, for long enough. We, as the targeted race on this world, should prepare and brace for impact, cause she is only just waking up, we may not survive her full anger.

Get to high ground, store water, food and items that won’t be made easily without power, ie. Blankets, clothes, batteries….

Will this help you ? Maybe.

We need to contribute to reducing the Earth’s wrath, we have seen her power at her gentlest lets not push it.

Sitting with eyes wide open,

Beaver

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Mud slides in Brazil

By Beaver | Published: 13/01/2011

DEVASTATING mudslides and floods killed at least 361 people in a mountainous area near Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian authorities said on Thursday.

Rescue crews resumed their work at sunrise after taking a break overnight, as the scale of the devastation became clearer.

Entire neighborhoods in the municipalities of Nova Friburgo, Teresopolis and Petropolis were swept away by rivers of mud and tumbling rocks.

At least three firemen were killed when they were engulfed in tonnes of mud as they tried to carry out a rescue.

The full extent of the devastation however was unknown because communication and access to the stricken zone was difficult after roads and bridges were destroyed, and telephone service was cut in some areas.

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Officials said the disaster was the worst to befall the Serrana, a soaring, lush area that used to be a getaway for 19th-century Brazilian nobility and is now a tourist spot, especially for Rio residents during summer.

“It’s a huge catastrophe, a major disaster,” the mayor of the worst-hit town of Teresopolis, Jorge Mario Sedlacek, told the GloboNews television station.

At least as much rainwater as the region usually sees in two or three weeks hit the Serrana before dawn on Wednesday, as residents slept.

The downpour triggered mudslides and caused rivers to overflow, carrying away cars, homes and people.

The calamity was the first natural disaster to be faced by Brazil’s new president, Dilma Rousseff, who took power less than two weeks ago.

Her government has released $US420 million in emergency aid to help the rain-hit region, and she was scheduled to fly over the disaster zone on Thursday in a helicopter.

Taken from The Daily Telegraph

Beaver

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We are not the only ones with water problems.

By Beaver | Published: 13/01/2011

This is breaking news from Brazil.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/world/brazil-floods-mudslides-leave-237-dead/story-e6frg1p3-1225987343760

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The Rising Stops

By Beaver | Published: 13/01/2011

The water has stopped rising in Brisbane and now the slow process of cleaning can begin. I have received some new pictures from my brother Adrian Keys, showing the extent of the damage around his area New Farm. He tells me that the River Walk used daily by him and pictured yesterday, has gone, the damage that can be seen is intense and most is still under water.

The clean up is going to take some time and as with all disasters, trades will be in high demand. I hope that with the recent lack of work that has driven most tradesmen interstate to WA or to the mines, that they don’t find themselves short of construction trades. The area that has been damaged and will need workers is over 2/3rds of QLD.

For the struggling construction based businesses in QLD it is two sided, sad for the devastation but cheering for the 2-3 year work load that has just been dumped on them. How do you approach this work without a small smile on your face ? I as a tradesman myself have made income off disaster the first I remember was the huge hail storm some 12-13 years ago in Sydney, some smaller similar storms on the Gold Coast and then the big hail storm just recently in Perth. All of which pale to the level of damage and destruction that this water has done. This isn’t just a couple of trades this is all trades from piling to painting, concreting to roofing, timber and steel frames to drywall.

The next year will test the strength of Queenslanders. I however have no doubt, after living there for 8 years and getting to know the Queensland spirit, that they will turn this loss into a win. The ability to band together for a common cause is a famous Aussie trait that lacks no strength in QLD. Brisbane won’t only be returned to its former glory it will be better.

For now though enjoy the pictures sent to me from Adrian Keys. He can be seen at many of the night clubs and pubs performing around Brisbane. Click on my, My Space link and then “Waiting”, by Adrian Keys, let me know what you think.