Jin's 4 Mile Crawl/pro-parkour Tees

Hi all, just a reminder as jin's 2 mile cat crawl is less than two weeks away and jin still needs £300 to make it to his donation target. anyone who hasn't yet donated or wants more info can do so at www.justgiving.com/crawl

If you don't just want to donate then it's also possible to support the 'pro-parkour, anti-compeition' message at the same time. If you buy a tee from http://www.cafepress.com/pro_parkour then all profits made will be donated to Jin's charity.

I know this is a shameless plug/advert but it is for a CHARITY, and I hope this is a way to keep spreading the anti-compeition message (competitions have recently resurfaced here ) whilst supporting a worthwhile cause.



Actually just realised, this may be off-topic, if a mod needs to move it, sorry!

Problems sleeping

over the last 3-4 weeks I've been finding it harder and harder to get to sleep at night, at times i haven't been able to get to sleep until past 5am in the morning...despite going to bed usually around 10pm-12am depending on how much work I've got to do.

i'm not sure what it is thats stopping me switching off my mind and going to sleep...i've tried very hard to eliminate sugar from my diet (after getting a filling :-() and i'm drinking more water than I used to. my diet is reasonable (no ready meals, sweets, and i try to cook as much fresh food as possible) but could be better.

has anyone else ever suffered from what i'd describe as mild insomnia and what could you do to put your mind at rest and get some sleep?! :-(

SCPK in the Daily Echo

Some other members of my local community were recently interviewed by a local newspaper, there were a couple of errors because the journalist did her own 'research' (such as mentioning Fuckface as co-creator, & yet again blaming that boys death on parkour) but I think the guys involved got accross the concept of parkour well. What do you think? They managed to get a link to parkour.net put in as well.

http://www.scpk.info/Downloads/details/id=32.html

34 reasons we Brits don't live in a liberal & democratic society.

The following is a copy of extracts from an article by Simon Carr, published in the Independent on Saturday 15th April 2006:



1) As of the beginning of this year, ALL offences are arrestable.

2) There are 3 million DNA samples held on file (rising to four million in two years).

3) People can protest in Parliment Square only with the written permission of the police. Where "reasonably practical" six days' notice must be given.

4) Damaging GM crops is defined as a terrorist act.

5) In 2001 two peace campaigners were prosecuted for causing "harrassment, alarm and distress" to US servicemen at thier base in Britain by standing at the gate holding a placard reading "George W Bush? Oh Dear".

6) A minister can declare a state of emergency and suspend all legal proceedings, including Parliment.

7) The penalty for breaking an ASBO can be up to 5 years in prison.

8) Anyone's internet history - site's you've visited, people you have emailed and whom have emailed you - can be called up by public servants in a dozen departments, including local councils.

9) A journalists second email requesting information from a council press officer was designated "harrassment" and sent to the police.

10) The presumption of innocence is no longer a fixed legal principle.

11) People wearing satirical t-shirts in a "designated area" may be arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. The City of London is a permanently "designated area".

12) Police may take, and retain indefinitely, DNA samples (by force if nessecary) from people who have been arrested but neither charged nor cautioned.

13) Profiles of 37 per cent of all black adult males are held by the police.

14) The existence of an interception warrant (to monitor internet activity) is a state secret, and the penalty for revealing it's existence to the person concerned is punishable by up to 5 years' imprisonment.

15) It is a criminal offence to prevent an inspector from entering a nursery school for purposes of inspection and punishable by up to two years in prison.

16) Of 3,069 Asbos issued to the end of March 2004, only 42 requests were turned down by the courts.

17) Foreigners detained under the 2001 Terrorism Act are able to appeal only to a new court (SIAC), which has no jury. The court isn't obliged to inform the detainee of the case against him, and any appeal against the court's judgement is heard by the same court that passed the judgement.

18) The Law Lords advised that the Act was illegal as foreigners were being sanctioned in a way that British citizens could not be. The Government responded by applying the sanctions to British citizens as well.

19) Trial by jury is abolished for certain fraud cases.

20) A judge may direct a jury to infer guilt if a prisioner claims his right to silence.

21) Hearsay is now permitted in court.

22) "Double Jepordy" has been abolished.

23) "Bad Character" can now be processed as evidence of guilt.

24) Britons can be extradited to America without any evidence of wrongdoing being presented.

25) "Control Orders are not designed to punish people for doing something wrong, but to prevent people from doing something wrong." Hazel Blears.

26) "Where the court of first instance or appeal court quashes a control order ... this does not prevent the Secretary of State exercising his power to make a new control order - even if it to the very same effect, and based on the same evidence, as the original order."

27) Under the Inquires Act 2005, the powers of independent chairmen to control inquires has been removed and given to government ministers.

28) The state can sue for the proceeds of crime under civil law (where there standard of proof is "balance of probability" rather than "beyond reasonable doubt").

29) Under the Anti-Terrorism Act 2005 it is an offence to recommend the violent overthrow of national dictators like Saddam Hussein.

30) The Serious Organised Crime Agency can obtain a warrant for the forcible entry and search of anyone's premises, whether or not they are suspected of an offence.

31) A person hosting a British website auctioning Nazi memorabilia can be extradited to France to face charges of "inciting racism" - even though the site is legal in Britain.

32) The National Identity Register may be used to record every sort of personal information - such as withdrawing more that £200 from a bank, getting prescription drugs, voting, applying for a mortgage, taking out an insurance policy, applying for a fishing licence.

33) Officials can demand access to any bank account or financial records without a warrant for the purpose of detecting benifit fraud.

34) Any cabinit minister may make "emergency regulations" if he believes that an emergency has occured, is occuring or is about to occur.

A Couple of Pics from Plymouth

About a week ago an old mate of mine popped down from Southampton, so we arranged a session, but a while back he injured his ankle in a non-parkour accident, so he's taken up photography instead and did a little shooting while I was training. Here are my favourite photos from the ones he took:







This was the first training I'd done for ~ 2 1/2 months (because of injury), and also the first time I'd ever trained at 8 in the morning (because of his cousins wedding it was the only time we could fit it in), and the two things combined to make it one of my favourite training sessions ever. I'm definitely going out in the early mornings again. :-D