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Timing. Timing and getting the timing right is something that is very hard to achieve.

In the current economic climate, timing really is everything. In the newspapers this weekend there was talk of NM Rothschild being called in to save the once dominant estate agent Foxtons. I am pretty sure that no one would of thought they would be reading that headline even just a year ago. Foxtons is best known for its aggressive sales tactics and branded green minis stealing all the parking spaces in London. In May 2007 the company was bought by the private equity firm BC Partners for £390m at the height of the property market and buyout boom. The outspoken and boisterous founder Jon Hunt walked away from the deal with over £360m. It has since been reported that Foxtons is trading well below its performance targets although the company is apparently just being able to repay its interest payments. Now the company would not be worth a fart! It is all about timing - well done Jon Hunt.

It just goes to show how important timing really is, not just in business but in all aspects of life. As someone who was recently made redundant I know this only too well. When you consider past actions and how you wish you would have done something - for example how I wish I had stayed in my well paid headhunting job with an established firm. Instead I thought the time was right to jump ship and do something a bit more trendy by joining a wishy washy events company that over egged their business targets. At the time it seemed like the right thing to do, now I am highly unemployed (last in first out) and trying to get a job in a faltering economy, which is not proving too simple. I suppose the timing of my trip to New York next week does not help either, as the £6 I have in my wallet is not going to go very far even if the pound is riding high against the dollar. It also looks like I will be swimming across the Solent tomorrow in order to get to the uber cool Bestival festival, as it will certainly be cheaper that the £20 ferry crossing! Timing really is everything.

Author: Blueford Ups

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Redvers Downs has put pen to paper and has written a song called The Contents of The Bath. Take a minute to listen to this lyrical rock genius and watch the 3D animated character come to life in the video. You can review the song and add your comments to our rock music forum.

Redvers Downs was massively influenced by rock music, especially rock guitar music from The Small Faces, The Who, The Kinks, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Spencer Davies Group, to mention a few. The change in music styles of today has seen Redvers Downs write some influential protest song lyrics and be outstandingly creative in the production of 3D animated videos.

This rock hero has written outstanding guitar anthems that has filled rock stadiums and is truly a guitar hero to his many worldwide fans. At Redvers Downs website you can listen to free music, watch music videos and even download music free.

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Is this the end for the Prime Minister? Watch our Rock Videos and listen to Goodbye Prime Minister song, you can even download it for FREE!

The Brown saga continues. The poor man just can’t seem to do anything right. We are in the midst of the man’s great ‘relaunch’ and his very own Chancellor had squandered the opportunity before Gordon could even have a chance to tell us of the stamp duty rescue package for first time buyers. The centrepiece of the Prime Minister’s fightback was a year long tax exemption cutting 1 per cent, or as much as £1,750, off the price of houses worth up to £175,000. Industry figures said thatsuspension of the stamp duty tax signalled that Government had at last woken up to the problems facing the housing sector, but most said it would do little to help the overall mortgage funding market, which has virtually ground to a halt since the onset of the credit crunch last summer.

And now it seems the Chancellor also can’t tell us where this additional £600m is to come from, saying it will be detailed in the pre budget report. This really is quite surprising that they have not thought about this one - did they not think that journalists would enquire about this fact - it’s not like they haven’t been fannying around in Norfolk or Scotland all August trying to think of a solution!

They really aren’t the best team to lead the country through these harder times. It is beyond belief, unprecedented even, that our very own Chancellor could talk us into a recession, with incorrect facts and figures about how we are facing our toughest economic period for 60 years. A chancellor is supposed to talk up the economy not admit defeat. The situation was actually worse back in 1992 when unemployment was at 3 million rather than the 1.5 million it is now.

It would be better if the country had any faith in their leader, or even liked the bloke. But the fact is Gordon can’t connect on a level with the decision makers and influential people of the country, let alone the younger generation like me, who just think he is some charmless fat Scot. Cameron does far more to appeal to our generation, and seems to have fresh ideas on policy that always puts the government on the back foot. It really is Goodbye Prime minister.

Author: Blueford Ups

Distributed by: Redvers Downs, redvers@redversdowns.co.uk

Redvers Downs has put pen to paper and has written a song called Goodbye Prime Minister. Take a minute to listen to this lyrical rock genius and watch the 3D animated character come to life in the video. You can review the song and add your comments to our rock music forum.

Redvers Downs was massively influenced by rock music, especially rock guitar music from The Small Faces, The Who, The Kinks, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Spencer Davies Group, to mention a few. The change in music styles of today has seen Redvers Downs write some influential protest song lyrics and be outstandingly creative in the production of 3D animated videos.

This rock hero has written outstanding guitar anthems that has filled rock stadiums and is truly a guitar hero to his many worldwide fans. At Redvers Downs website you can listen to free music, watch music videos and even download music free.

http://www.redversdowns.co.uk/

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Should buying sex be illegal? Watch our Rock Videos and listen to A Billboard Walking song, you can even download it for FREE!

It is reported today that Harriet Harman will today step up her drive to make buying sex illegal. She is going to release new figures showing that if it reduces people trafficking for sexual exploitation then more than half of men and women support the move. It seems Harman who is Labour’s deputy leader and the minister for women and equality is also on a personal crusade to highlight cultural double standards such as older men condoning the buying of sex but not the selling of it.

A Home office report has looked into prostitution demand and if it should be illegal to pay for sex. The Home Office minister Vernon Coaker has hinted he will criminalise the purchase of sex if there is a national plea to do so. This survey will give ministers confidence in implementing this measure. Currently it is illegal to sell sex but not to buy it. Harman when commenting on the survey said that the results implied double standards saying that people did not mind the principle of paying for sex but would be ashamed if it was their own daughter selling it.

The Ipsos Morui poll which was conducted in July and August showed that 58% of men and women supported making it illegal to purchase sex if it means sexual exploitation people trafficking was reduced. It was apparent that more women than men were against the paying for and selling of sex but men were not surprisingly much more relaxed about the whole affair with just 40% finding it unacceptable.

Over half of those questioned (60%) male and female would feel ashamed if they found out a family member was working as a prostitute, but men would find it unacceptable if a female relative sold sex but relaxed about a male relative buying it. This was especially typical of older men. Younger people were much more unforgiving about the buying and selling of sex with about 64% saying they found the buying and selling of such a thing unacceptable.

Harman has been allowed to express her personal views about this topic before the review has been complete. Either way, this topic does need some consideration.

Author: Blueford Ups

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Redvers Downs has put pen to paper and has written a song called A Billboard Walking. Take a minute to listen to this lyrical rock genius and watch the 3D animated character come to life in the video. You can review the song and add your comments to our rock music forum.

Redvers Downs was massively influenced by rock music, especially rock guitar music from The Small Faces, The Who, The Kinks, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Spencer Davies Group, to mention a few. The change in music styles of today has seen Redvers Downs write some influential protest song lyrics and be outstandingly creative in the production of 3D animated videos.

This rock hero has written outstanding guitar anthems that has filled rock stadiums and is truly a guitar hero to his many worldwide fans. At Redvers Downs website you can listen to free music, watch music videos and even download music free.

http://www.redversdowns.co.uk/

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         What does Roman get for his new secret £200m yacht? Watch our Rock Videos and listen to The Sea is calling me song, you can even download it for FREE!

 The world's biggest privately owned yacht is being built amid great secrecy, but what can Roman expect for his £200m?

In a German shipyard a project shrouded in secrecy and fear is gradually entering its final phase. At 550ft long - almost twice the length of a football pitch - and 70.5ft wide, weighing 12,000 tons, the Eclipse will be the largest privately owned yacht ever built.

The builder, Blohm + Voss, in Hamburg, is testing the yacht's 20,000 horsepower turbocharged engines, as well as everything from its walk-in humidor to the escape submarine concealed in the hull, in trials off the German Baltic island of Ruegen. The tests are being conducted at night to avoid spy shots.

While the exterior sets new records for sleekness and size, the interior raises the bar for excess. Built over nine levels, the Eclipse will have two helipads and a hangar with space for two £1m Eurocopters. One is garaged beneath the other and each is raised on to the helipads by a hydraulic elevator.

There will be four pleasure craft, a 50ft tender to ferry guests to and from shore, 20 jet skis and the private submarine. The 12 seat, £2m sub, made by the Florida based US Submarines, exits the hull through the bottom and can dive to almost 200ft.

The accommodation will feature six guest suites, five VIP suites and a 5,000 sq ft owner's cabin. All come with two en suite bathrooms and balconies. The owner's cabin features a grand piano and a private garden area on the foredeck, spanning decks 4 and 5. There is a mini theatre / cinema, an exhibition space, three dining rooms, an aquarium, a night club, half a dozen hot tubs, swimming pool, a gym with sauna and steam room, and a mini spa. In addition it has a temperature and humidity controlled wine cellar and humidor, two kitchens and staff quarters for up to 100 – to accommodate the 70 strong Royal Navy trained crew, plus RAF trained pilots and Abramovich's SAS trained security guards. There is even a mini hospital for Abramovich's private medical team to work in.

Other firsts include a computerised stabilisation system. The Eclipse is too big to dock in all but the biggest marinas, so has to anchor in often choppy open water. To prevent it rocking, giant stabilisers – effectively motorised paddles – extend from the vessel's sides when at anchor. They move in response to the waves to keep the vessel level at all times. Onboard computers even monitor and memorise the wave patterns to predict pressures on the hull, so ensuring the stabilisers react before a wave hits the vessel.

The yacht has a huge rechargeable boat battery, which is charged during the day when the vessel is moving to ensure the owner and guests can enjoy complete silence when they are sitting out and dining at night. With the battery on you can then turn off all the diesel engines and all the generators for up to five hours, and all you hear is the lapping of the waves.

Ever since the murder by radiation poisoning of the former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, Abramovich has become  bsessed by security, so the yacht will have the latest protection devices. As well as the submarine, there will be a special missile-detection system. Underwater cameras with heat and motion sensors will detect intruders. All the glass is bulletproof, the yacht is being fitted with the latest antibugging equipment and there are supposedly even flash sensors installed to warn of paparazzi photographers taking snaps through the windows.

      Redvers Downs has put pen to paper and has written a song called The Sea is calling me. Take a minute to listen to this lyrical rock genius and watch the 3D animated character come to life in the video. You can review the song and add your comments to our rock music forum.

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         The smoking ban, are you in favour or against? Watch our Rock Videos and listen to I lost my Gaulois song, you can even download it for FREE!!

A year has passed since the smoking ban and at this juncture I am in two minds.

Annoyingly I am starting to appreciate it for certain reasons. There are the obvious ones – waking up the next morning not smelling like an ashtray, inevitably smoking less (between drinks instead of two to a
pint) and therefore not getting through £6 packs with such gay abandon, oh and improved health in the long run perhaps.

But then there are the other factors to consider, the social dynamics if you will. A cheeky snout outdoors can lead to all sorts of encounters: a stolen moment with a loved one, a deep and meaningful conversation with a friend, or salacious gossip with a colleague. There is something very childish about the whole affair, like being back at school. I am literally at my happiest when stood on the street after a hard days work, pint in one hand, fag in the other, watching the world go by with laughing friends.

Then there are parties. As a general rule of thumb, the life and soul of the soiree are the ones who smoke, therefore all the action is outside whilst the actual party resembles a librarian meeting. Nobody wants this, especially the birthday boy or girl, so where possible my advice for parties in pubs would be to hold it in an establishment where the door to the street or garden is in the same room, thus avoiding people traipsing through said pub, up and down stairs etc, effectively creating two parties.

Alternatively just have a house party. Since the ban I have probably been to a club about three times, the party has quite simply moved to a kitchen.

    Note: a useful by product of the smoking ban has been the ease where one can breeze into the club claiming to have popped out for a cigarette. Bouncers are bouncers for a reason, stride in without a care in the world and if stopped look our academic friend up and down and declare you went for a cigarette and said scholar will wave you through none the wiser. Clubs are still trying to figure this one out.

However this is all a very London centric school of thought. Who is Tony Blair to decide what goes on less close to the epicentre? For I will always yearn for the days when I used to wander into my local pub in Sussex and be engulfed by a thick fug of tobacco: farmers sitting at the bar smoking rollies, roaring commuters chugging Marlboro lights and the landlord comatose over the bar with a pipe hanging out his mouth.

      Redvers Downs has put pen to paper and has written a song called I lost my Gaulois. Take a minute to listen to this lyrical rock genius and watch the 3D animated character come to life in the video. You can review the song and add your comments to our rock music forum.

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Would you protest on a roof to see your child again? Watch our Rock Videos and listen to our Army of Daddies Calling song, you can even download it for FREE!

Right then. Here I am on Harriet Harman's roof. It all seemed like such a good idea in the pub a few weeks ago. The morning chorus of birds is doing little to alleviate the nerves, this really is quite naughty. And surprisingly easy. As London stirred, we opened the gate, and clambered up the side of the house with no security or dogs to disturb us. Extraordinary!!

Looking out across the capital I remember when we first took the girls to the Natural History Museum. It was such a happy day. Blinded by love I would never have dreamt it would end in such an acrimonious divorce. We got an early train into Paddington and took the circle line to South Kensington. We all held hands on the short walk from the station to the museum, a family. The girls loved it, already very excited by their first visit to London; this was the icing on the cake.

That was probably one of the happiest days of my life. Although I did not think it at the time. You never do.

One thing led to another and the marriage fell apart. As it would happen I was painted in court as some sort of Tyrannosaurus Rex, like the one that stood before me that day. My beloved wife would be seen as the leaf eating liberal diplodocus, harbouring our children from the feared predator, the father.

Now I can not see my children, what else do I have to loose? The ex wife has the house, the kids, even the Sky Plus box.

I must do something. I am doing something!

I think these campaigns are working. My all time favourite was the Batman feat at Buckingham Palace. Cunning stunts. Fathers 4 Justice state the importance of the father in a child's development, the importance of family, why we should not encourage a society where children are bought up by lesbians. It is as simple as that.

Anyway for now there are more pressing concerns. The police have arrived and there is a T Rex on the deputy prime minister's roof.

Redvers Downs has put pen to paper and has written a song called Army of Daddies Calling. Take a minute to listen to this lyrical rock genius and watch the 3D animated character come to life in the video. You can review the song and add your comments to our rock music forum.

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