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November 16, 2018
Musical Perspectives
Students from the South African National Youth Orchestra reflect on their August 2018 Immersion Experience with the Minnesota Orchestra and what is next in their musical lives.
By Isha Ranchod
"When you go to these courses, you come back home with this fire, and you want to spread it – let everyone else catch onto it because it's such a great feeling to have!"
Young French horn player Hayley Uithaler's face lights up as she tries to describe her sentiments. Uithaler is a member of the South African National Youth Orchestra (SANYO), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the training and development of South Africa's young musicians.
SANYO students felt a rush of adrenalin for two days straight when the Minnesota Orchestra joined the ensemble for what was called an Immersion Experience in August 2018, as part of the Minnesota Orchestra's five-city tour of South Africa.
For the SANYO members, the impact of the Minnesota Orchestra's visit continues well after the Orchestra has left. Over two months later, the Orchestra is remembered and discussed with vivid excitement by all those who took part in this experience. The Minnesota Orchestra has since begun its new season. How has life moved on for the young orchestra members from South Africa?
Five of these young musicians shared their thoughts.
Small Things Matter Most
Kutloano Bookholane (viola, 15) and Refilwe 'Fifi' Moeketsane (bass, 16) were taking part in SANYO's annual orchestra course for the first time. They started as participants of the Mangaung String Program in Free State, South Africa, which targets historically disadvantaged children by setting up string lessons in some of the province's primary schools. Both Kutloano and Fifi began as violin pupils, but chose to change to their respective lower-registered instruments after about a year of playing the violin.
The top players in this string program, such as Kutloano and Fifi, get promoted to join the Bochabela String Orchestra, made up of strings, congas and shakers, all used together to play catchy African beats, traditional tunes and much more.
When I asked Kutloano what he thought of the Minnesota Orchestra's performances he saw as part of the Immersion Experience, he says incredulously, "Didn't you hear them play? Didn't you hear a world class orchestra?" He added then that it also made him aware that the small things in the music are the things that truly matter the most.
What really made this an immersive experience is that it was so much more than just being given tickets to two performances. SANYO students participated in a side-by-side rehearsal with the Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Osmo Vänskä himself, in which each young player sat next to his or her professional counterpart, making it very personal to each individual. This side-by-side rehearsal was supplemented by masterclasses for the various sections or instrument groups.
"I was so scared I couldn't talk."
I asked how Fifi felt when she woke up on the morning of the side-by-side rehearsal, when they would meet a major American orchestra for the first time. She had told herself to be calm and relax, playing it down in her mind during the build-up. But when she got there, she says she sort of broke down.
"I don't know what happened. I was so scared that I couldn't talk to anyone, and my voice was just non-existent. It was so overwhelming, but in a very exciting way."
She soon recovered, thanks to Minnesota Orchestra bass player David Williamson, with whom Fifi was paired. Over and above giving her tips and intonation exercises, he encouraged her not to be afraid while playing. "I learnt to be confident, because he kept on telling me that I'm good, even though I wasn't so sure about it at the time."
For most of the SANYO members, this was the first time they witnessed, let alone interacted with, a professional orchestra of this caliber. One exception to this, however, is Gilah Kellner (violin, 15), who, just 14 years old at the time, was SANYO's concertmaster for this orchestra course. Gilah was selected as one of three SANYO members to visit the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam in May this year. With this experience behind her and to compare to, she described the Minnesota Orchestra enthusiastically.
"They are a very good orchestra, and they move together. They really exaggerate dynamics, making the tiniest sound, and then beautiful large sounds, playing energetically and in such an expressive manner." Of Osmo Vänskä she says, "He's very passionate and I think that is brilliant. He also conducts in a way that shows he knows what everyone is doing—he is extremely knowledgeable."
Gilah, who is based in Johannesburg, is home-schooled, but hopes to do her post-secondary studies in music performance in America or Germany. She also performed as a soloist in the National Youth Concerto Festival just a month ago. Kutloano, on the other hand, wants to first study something along the lines of mechanical engineering in South Africa, before pursuing a music career overseas in Europe. And Fifi, who was of two minds about it before the Immersion Experience, is now considering a career in music, having spoken to Minnesota Orchestra musicians and seen how much they enjoy what they do.
Musical Waves
This year, the ages of the SANYO members ranged from 12 to 26 years. Two zealous music students from Nelson Mandela University in the coastal city Port Elizabeth, Hayley Uithaler (horn, 22) and Chadley Johnson (trombone, 21), were part of the brass section, and have been since 2016.
Both Hayley and Chadley had been researching their Minnesota Orchestra counterparts and sections well before the Immersion Experience. Chadley joked that he didn't even need to be introduced to his section or his mentor, Minnesota Orchestra Principal Trombone R. Douglas Wright, since he recognized them all immediately.
I asked Chadley what he felt the impact of the experience to have been. He explained that as a musician, you go through waves, and last year had been the most stagnant in his progress, not just in terms of technical ability on his instrument, but also in his motivation to practise and his outlook on the future. He explained that when SANYO brought in a few of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra members to their Summer course in December 2017, it sparked something in him. "With the waves that you go through, having the Minnesota Orchestra members here re-sparked it. So the great part of these courses is you get refueled, and until the next course, you've got what you need to carry on—it equips you to go forth alone."
Play and Deliver
Hayley bonded very well with her counterpart, Minnesota Orchestra horn player Ellen Dinwiddie Smith, not only because she was generous, open and willing to share her knowledge and advice.
"Ellen expressed to me that there will be days when it will feel as if it's not a good day for you, but even on those days, you still need to put your mind in the right place to be able to play and deliver. Now I've seen an entire orchestra that does that. So now you kind of crave that kind of environment from everyone around you, but it was just nice to know that they are human and relatable. Some of them still have performance anxiety! They gave me tips on how to deal with it."
Hayley plans to do a Postgraduate Certificate in Education after she graduates, and although she wants to teach, she is emphatic that she won't stop playing in ensembles and orchestras when she does.
Chadley was the concerto soloist in the Nelson Mandela University Orchestra's concert in September, and he wants to take a Master's degree in performance—ideally in another country—once he graduates. He says he will start preparing and researching universities, auditions and scholarships soon.
There were three recurring themes with all five of these young SANYO members. Firstly, they all loved being able to have dinner with the Minnesota Orchestra members, being able to talk freely, get to know each other, and ask questions that didn't necessarily relate to Sibelius' Symphony No. 2, the music that was rehearsed in the side-by-side experience. Nevertheless, they did all take away new perspectives and techniques for their respective instruments. Finally, they all wished that they had even more time with the Minnesota musicians, be that in the form of masterclasses, lessons, or just another meal together.
After my interview with Hayley and Chadley, I gave them the opportunity to add their own questions. They asked in unison:
"When is the next Immersion Experience?"
Isha Ranchod is a freelance writer based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. A SANYO alumna, she worked as an assistant project manager for SANYO during the Immersion Experience. Ranchod completed a degree in Music with Psychology as her second major with Cum Laude. She holds being a feminist and a member of the Indian diaspora as two major facets of her personality, and she is a passionate dog lover.
Photos by Travis Anderson and Sean Burke.


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2015-05-26 18:36:22
Esther Baker on Sky News
Police have launched a major investigation into claims a high-powered paedophile ring systematically abused children on Cannock Chase in the 1980s and 90s.
And the Staffordshire force has already interviewed one woman who alleges police officers were present - and shielded the perpetrators.
Assistant Chief Constable Jon Drake said: "We are determined to thoroughly gather any evidence which will allow us to bring those who may have been involved to justice, while taking a sensitive approach to supporting the victim throughout."
Esther Baker, 32, waived her right to anonymity to give Sky News shocking details of the alleged abuse, which she says involved at least one politician.
Ms Baker said she was attacked from the age of six at homes studded around Staffordshire and on the Chase.
She claims she and others were plied with alcohol before being abused and that one of the ring was referred to as "Lord" by others.
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"But every one of us that comes forward will hold a different piece of the puzzle. I can't fill it in on my own."
ACC Drake described the allegations as "very serious" and stressed the investigation is at an early stage.
He added: "Specially trained officers are carrying out a number of interviews with the victim to build up an understanding of what took place, and her recollections of all those involved.
"We will continue to interview her over the coming days, recognising the horrific nature of what we are investigating. To be clear, regardless of role, anyone who has been involved in criminal offences will be investigated to provide justice for the victim.
"Child abuse is a terrible crime, whenever it occurs. We are keen to hear from anyone who knows more about the allegations, or any other victim of child sexual abuse, and they can contact the police through 101, or anonymously via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
"In this specific case the victim has made the decision to waive her right to anonymity. Staffordshire Police wants to reassure anyone who has been a victim of any form of child or sexual abuse that their anonymity will be protected."
It is understood Ms Baker, currently receiving support from Merseyside's Lantern Project, set-up for survivors of sexual abuse, has given the name of one politician to police.
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1. Job seekers have the power. When the economy was tighter, recruiting was more straightforward. There were more job seekers, and they had fewer jobs to choose from. With the economy much improved, companies need to work harder to attract candidates and speed up the process to avoid losing a great candidate.
2. Personalize the recruiting process. You'll need to woo each candidate as an individual. Even for non-executive roles, searching for top candidates becomes more like executive search.
3. Money talks. Along with getting to making an offer more quickly, companies need to make more compelling offers to win over candidates. Sign-on bonuses and paid relocation are no longer a thing of the past. Expect to have to outbid simultaneous offers or counteroffers from the candidate's current employer.
4. Phones are the dominant technology. The recruiting action all happens on mobile phones, now. Candidates expect not only to have interviews over the phone, but also to access the company's careers information on their phone. If your site isn't mobile-friendly, the candidates may not be friendly, either.
5. There's more opportunity for recruiters, too. Companies won't only be competing for IT staff, they'll be competing for the recruiters who find the IT staff. Companies may have to make competitive offers to hang onto their recruitment specialists. Even companies that previously used internal recruiters may need to turn to agencies for assistance due to being shorthanded.
6. Candidates love video. Static text isn't good enough anymore. Businesses need to integrate video into the recruiting process, with videos about the job opportunities and life at the company. Video interviewing can be a convenient way to interview candidates without having to bring them to the company site.
7. Resumes are passé. Candidates don't want to upload a resume to each potential employer, and they hate having to correct parsing errors after it's loaded into your system. Streamline the process by working with their online profile at sites like LinkedIn. And because resumes can hide a candidate's strengths, also review a portfolio of their work. Seeing what they've actually done will give you a much better perspective of what they're capable of.
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Opening The Door To The Internet
Growing up we did not have computers, or even knew what the Internet was. ( oh dear my age is showing) But in today's world the Internet is how we communicate in so many ways, as parents, we worry about our kids as we Open The Door To The Internet. We want to keep them safe but we aren't always sure how.
Todd Morris the CEO of BrickHouse Security says….. A generation ago, if kids were home and they weren't on a landline phone, they simply weren't in contact with their friends or the world at large. And the lapses in judgment every teen makes on a regular basis didn't have the very real potential of being instantly broadcast on Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter and Reddit.
Today, your 13-year-old could be texting sexually charged messages, communicating with potential predators or enduring online bullying while sitting next to you on the couch. It's scary, but it's a fact.
So what are your options? There are plenty of easy-to-use technology solutions out there – simple, affordable ways to monitor your kids' activity on their phones and computers, even after the communications have been deleted.
Shelagh McManus, online safety advocate for security software Norton by Symantec says the following….
'If You Wouldn't Do It Face To Face…Don't Do It'
"The advice I give ' my own family and friends is encapsulated in: "If you wouldn't do it face to face – Don't do it online" For example, would you go up to a complete stranger and start a conversation?
Just because you feel protected by the apparent distance a screen gives between you and the person you're talking to, you must remember that online is still the real world.
Mid to late teens need to remember that everything they do over the web is captured forever and could come back to haunt them. Many employers and university admissions offices look at social media profiles when researching candidates.
My husband and I actually used to ask random questions based on what the younger family members had put online just to remind them that they should lock down their profiles! If they didn't want their dad, uncles and aunts or future employers asking about exactly what was in that fifteenth drink on Saturday night, they needed to check their privacy settings!"
Only you can decide if these devices fit into your parenting philosophy, but many would argue that it's not only within your rights as a caregiver to look into teen monitoring options, it's also a moral imperative.
If your child is growing up in the United States in the early 21st century, he's been handed the means to engage in a level of private, 24/7 communication that's unprecedented in our history. The tools to monitor that communication are readily available. It's important to know that they exist.
Let You Kiddos Play Interland….. a playful online game that makes learning about digital safety and citizenship interactive and fun.
Your children are going to access the Web somewhere whether that be at a friend's home, at our local library, or at school. There is great benefit to encouraging our children to access the Internet to complete their homework assignments, stay in touch with friends, or to keep up with politics, sports and other worthwhile activities.
Consider Drafting Rules for Online Safety From Mcgruff Safeguard and Have you Kids Sign It.
As our kids get older they have access to smartphones and they tend to plug into all the wrong things, and they have access to some apps that are dangerous. The Cyber Safety Tech Mum shares a helpful guide that show 6 Dangerous Apps for Kids and explains the functionality of each one.
The internet can also bring us a wealth of information. There are great resources out in cyberspace. Start with something you enjoy, (Just make sure you use a good antivirus, spyware blocker and firewall.) Did you know The Internet holds more books than the largest libraries in the world? It's open 24/7 and speaks all languages. Most of the sites and online content is FREE.
Try exploring with your children. Have them show you their favorite sites, try playing a game or two. Find a cooking site and experiment with some recipes you both would enjoy. Or plan a trip and research the place you would like to visit.
Research your family tree or plan an adventure. You can begin with Google, and use the filtered settings to block most of the junk. Or look for a site you like or an article you trust and click away from there.
If you find a site you like, bookmark it so you can revisit it and recommend it to your friends and family.
Some other places to check out with your family…..
YOU TUBE…. a service provided by Google that lets you upload or watch videos. Trust me, you can spend hours doing this. There are many videos that will interest you and you can search for a video related to pretty much anything under the sun.
If your child is searching for videos on YouTube, learn how you can activate YouTube parental controls.
GOOGLE EARTH….. You can view any location on the planet via a satellite image and see a real-time image from overhead. There is a lot of cool stuff to do online, and this is probably one of the best.
You can view your own city, your own street or you can see any place on the planet that you would like to go to. Its reach is unmatched, and it is hard to believe that you actually have the entire world at your fingertips.
SOCIAL NETWORK…..Another fun pastime is visiting social networking sites like Facebook, or Twitter. These platforms help you keep in touch with your friends, no matter what corner of the world they may be in.
This is one of the many cool things to do on the Internet today as everyone is connected with each other in some way. You can constantly see what your friends are up to and they can always feel like they know what is going on in your life.
MUSIC…. The best part about the Internet is the unlimited and extensive access to music. There are radio stations available that can be easily found, and you can hear various genres of online music from all around the world, sitting in your home. Any artist from any time is available at the click of a button, and this is a great way to spend a few hours for music lovers.
GAMES…..There are many fun games to play online as well that you can resort to in order to pass your time. There are specialized websites that exist over the Internet for this very purpose and it is very easy to find them and play their games online.
Your Digital Footprint Teaches kids that the internet is forever and once you do something online, it can't be taken back!
If You Need Some More Information Please Check Out The Links I Have Provided…………
"Internet Safety for Teens, Kids, and Students" From Cool Tech Zone Covers all possible threats for children on the Internet and give practical tips for teachers and parents.
Little Bird…FREE Book Teaching Young Children Internet Safety in a way a preschooler or kindergartener can easily understand.
Net Smartz Kids…..The National Center for Missing and Exploited children volunteered an entire free website for children to learn all about safely using the Internet. The wonderful thing about NetSmartKids is that children will have so much fun that they won't even realize they're learning important lessons about their online safety.
ThinkuKnow Kids…a website to help you go on the internet in a safe way and know who to talk to if you are worried.
A super thorough guide relating to VPNs and online privacy
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Get involved as a family. You watch movies together. Why not browse the web together? Making it a family event can be fun. You'll learn more about your kids' interests, and can guide them to websites that are more appropriate to their age.
Remember to teach them that everything they do online lives forever. A safe rule of thumb here is if you wouldn't say it to your grandmother, don't post it online.
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While I was researching the Eye of Horus for Mandala Madness, and finding cool Eye of Horus pages for us to color, I also found some nice Egyptian art that begs to be colored. Enjoy!
The Eyes Have It
I just finished a whole series of articles about eyes over at Mandala Madness, and in the process I found a bunch of cool coloring pages that feature eyes. Here they are! Enjoy!
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On 13 February 2008, the Australian Parliament made a formal apology to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and members of the Stolen Generations. Last week was the 10th anniversary of the Apology from then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, for Australian government policies and practices that caused and continue to cause injustices.
UQ annually recognises the anniversary of the formal apology by flying the Australian Aboriginal Flag and the Torres Strait Islander Flag at UQ St Lucia, UQ Gatton and UQ Herston campuses on 13 February.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary, Forgan Smith building was illuminated in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flag colours, and over 30 UQ staff and students gathered on the steps of Forgan Smith at dusk and sunset for group photos to commemorate the occasion.
From that event, Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj AC and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Unit have prepared a three-minute clip of how UQ commemorated this landmark event in Australian history.
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Loss drives Rams' final effort
The tragic death of a young footballer and wool presser during a midweek training session has been attributed as the catalyst to Mukinbudin Rams' heroic 2018 premiership feat.
Classy midfielder Mark Warmdean, the son of Rams life member Mark Warmdean Sr, collapsed and died while training at Mukinbudin Town Oval on May 24, shocking the wool and grain district.
Warmdean underwent heart surgery to rectify a leaking aorta in 2016 and returned to the Rams this year, after missing last season while recovering from the procedure.
The Central Wheatbelt Football League fixture the 22-year-old father was training for, set to be against the Bencubbin Demons, was abandoned and declared a draw.
The family are still waiting on a coroner's report to determine the exact cause of death.
With the Rams electing to have Warmdean's beloved No.6 embroidered on each guernsey for the remainder of the season, the club secured a grand final berth against league leaders Bencubbin on August 25.
Mukinbudin entered the deciding term facing a five-point deficit, with coach and shearing contractor Steve Paterson rallying the side to a 12.11 (83) to 8.11 (59) win for the late midfielder.
"It was a shocking death, but it really bonded the players," Paterson, who worked alongside Warmdean the day before and the day he died, said.
"We received so much support from the opposition teams and the town itself.
"Football and the Mukinbudin football club were a big part of Marky's life."
Warmdean's partner Jessica Bennell said Mukinbudin's premiership success would be treasured by the family, including his daughter Meliah, 3, son Carter, 2, and stepson Tayn, 5.
"The premiership really meant a lot to me and the kids because the footy team meant a lot to him," she said.
"Every week after he passed, the team played for him.
"The grand final really got my heart racing, but halfway through the last quarter I knew they weren't going to let go — it was something special."
The Rams' rising star award has been named after Warmdean, with emerging talent Sonny King snaring the inaugural honour.
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Welcome to the latest edition of Marketer's Brief, a quick take on marketing news, moves and trends from Ad Age's reporters and editors. Send tips/suggestions to [email protected]
Don't look now, but summer is waning and football is coming, meaning NFL-themed marketing is underway. In this week's Brief, find out how Tostitos is trying to sell more chips in cities with teams and which new stadium has a very limited availability of Chick-fil-A chicken. But we begin with the latest Google Home integration...
For the lazy driver
Hyundai's luxury Genesis brand has teamed up with Google on some new voice-powered tricks that allow drivers to communicate remotely with their cars using a few spoken words. Via a Genesis app for Google Assistant, drivers can ask Google Home to remote start, lock or send directions to their car. The video below shows how it works, while also giving a plug to Hyundai's ad agency, Innocean.
Amazon's private label small but surging
Amazon's private-label program has been rising on the list of worries for marketers – particularly the idea that Alexa will automatically steer orders to them. A new report by online sales tracking firm 1010data shows reason for concern– but also how far Amazon has to go before its private labels pose threats akin to those of Walmart or even Kroger Co. Amazon Basics, the biggest private label, topped sales of $200 million in the first half, up 56% year over year. But compare that to Walmart and Kroger private labels such as Great Value and Private Selections, which are multi-billion-dollar brands, though the retailers don't provide precise numbers. Most Amazon private-label sales are in electronics, led by Echo, whose sales double year over year, according to 1010data.
Very superstitious
Frito-Lay is seizing on sports fan superstitions in an attempt to sell some more chips in NFL cities. Tostitos is dressing its bags in individual team colors as part of its new "Lucky Bags." Digital videos play off team traditions and game-day rituals, like the Mile High Salute in Denver, the blowing of the Gjallarhorn in Minnesota and the Lambeau Leap in Green Bay, which Tostito's refers to as jumping the "Lambeau wall." The trademark rights to "Lambeau Leap" are held by Robert Brooks, the former Packers wide receiver who invented the touchdown celebration. Tostitos wants fans to share their own rituals using #LuckyBags. Here's what we are watching: Tostitos sales in the cities of losing teams.
Chicken blackout
College football fans will be able to buy Chick-fil-A nuggets and other food at the two Chick-fil-A Kickoff Games being played at Atlanta's new Mercedes-Benz Stadium next month. But NFL fans who want chicken at the new home of the Atlanta Falcons during Sunday games will have to buy it elsewhere, even though there's a Chick-fil-A in the new stadium. As it does at all of its locations, Chick-fil-A is keeping the new store closed on Sundays. "Chick-fil-A restaurants can be found in a number of stadiums throughout the country. However, none of those locations are open on Sunday (it makes the chicken taste better on Monday!)," the company said. The Alabama versus Florida State game is being played on a Saturday (Sept. 2) and the Georgia Tech vs. Tennessee game is being played on a Monday (Sept. 4). Meanwhile, another local chicken chain, Zaxby's, recently became the official chicken of the Falcons for the next five seasons. But it doesn't have a shop in the new stadium, where sports fans are getting some pretty good deals when it comes to food pricing. Hometown company Coca-Cola is selling Coke and other soft drinks for $2 with refills available throughout the venue.
Taking on Etsy
After 75 years, Joann Stores is ready for a makeover. The arts and crafts retailer is updating its image in an attempt to appeal to the younger generations of its core customers—many of whom are as old as the company. A new mobile app, updated logo and fresh brand manifesto video, which celebrates the Joann's maker culture among both grandmothers and younger, tattooed hipsters alike, may help the company gain ground against Etsy, the Brooklyn-based craft marketplace. The 865-unit Joann recently acquired Creativebug, a subscription service of how-to video crafting classes.
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60% -- The percentage of marketers that commissioned influencers to make content in 2016, according to Forrester, which notes that 17% consider influencers one of their top three sources of content.
Would You Buy This?
Golfer John Daly has had a well-documented struggle with alcohol. But that is not stopping Four Loko maker Phusion Projects from partnering with him on a new line of drinks blending alcohol, tea, and lemonade called "John Daly's Grip it & Sip it."
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Amazing. pic.twitter.com/jSCM8sDb5q— Jay Kuo (@nycjayjay) August 14, 2017
Conagra Brands named DeLu Jackson to the newly-created role of VP of precision marketing. He was most recently VP-digital acceleration at Kellogg Co. At Conagra, he reports to Chief Growth Officer Darren Serrao. Chipotle Mexican Grill has hired its first chief communications officer. Laurie Schalow comes to the struggling Mexican chain, where she will oversee internal and external communications, from Yum Brands, where she was most recently VP-public affairs.
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Last year, Fairfield County Giving Day took Connecticut by storm. Non-profits across the county shared with their friends, followers, and fans all about what makes them great and asked for donations to help fund their missions. And, you could say it was a wee-bit successful (being sarcastic) with over 9,200 donors who dug into their pockets and raised more than $750,000!
This year's Giving Day will prove to be bigger, better, and raise even more vital funds than last year, too. It starts at midnight on Thursday, March 5 and goes all the way until 11:59 and 59 seconds. The goal this year is to raise at least $1,000,000 and with 400 non-profits participating, that shouldn't be too tough.


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|Santa Clara Vanguard performing their DCI 2014 show: "Scheherazade."
I just spent the last six hours in a nearby movie theater with some 50 other people watching the preliminaries of the Drum Corps International annual competition. I have a sixteen-year-old daughter in the color guard of a local corps; some of her friends joined me to watch this event live-streamed from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis (home of the Colts) three hours ahead of us.
…What does this have to do with magical realism? Just stick with me for a minute.
My daughter has been gone for nearly eight weeks on tour across the nation, performing at stadiums six out of seven days a week and spending much of the rest of that time either on the field practicing or sleeping on the bus. It is the opportunity of a lifetime, and I am a feminist at heart and believe our girls need to jump on these opportunities every chance they can get in their young lives. Still, the only time I have been able to see her this summer was when she performed live July 5. Her corps had brought their show to our neck of the woods, the Seattle Summer Music Games. I couldn't wait to get there, mostly just planning to hug her and see her beautiful smile and take a lot of pictures.
There were seven corps performing at that July 5 competition–from California, Colorado, Oregon, Texas and Washington. This is generally how it works: each corps travels from city to city, performing their shows, racking up points, getting feedback from adjudicators both on the field and in the stands, then revising their movements until, ultimately, they all meet like they did today, in Indianapolis, to sound off against one another in a battle of bands like none you have ever seen.
In short, it's a spectacle in every positive nuance of that word. Or maybe I should say it's a marvel.
The music, if you are there live to hear it, rattles your eardrums with its powerful "wall of sound" resonance. The dancing and the formations bring the storytelling to life through dramatic ensemble efforts as well as delicate solos defined by stunning, ever-changing shapes. The costumes–and costume changes you literally don't see happening–lend magical elements of character to the spectacle, and the props they bring to the field set the scenes and the landscapes to what ultimately becomes one big gorgeous act of storytelling.
On that July night, there were stories celebrating gypsies and changing seasons, honoring Poe's raven in the poem, "Nevermore'… even a story which captured the beauty of life when something magical happens in "that one second." Stories of spectacle, of marvel, of wonder, of fabulism, embodied by groups of 150 people under the age of 21 in consummate orchestration, as potent and fragile and complicated as the shared mechanisms of the living human organism.
This is the miracle of what we saw live that night and what we watched today at the theater: the machinery of souls united by a singular choreography, telling the stories of the human condition, even at its most mundane level. The elevation of the mundane to art. Falling leaves are a miracle, after all; pure moments of love, the repetitive power of a single mantra from an old poem… these are spectacles, these are moments where fable intersects with the ordinary, these are the things that return wonder to a world stripped of its imagination by technology, bureaucracy and social disconnection.
If this is not enough magical realism for you, continue reading.
I founded and published Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism for ten years (1998-2008) because I had developed an abiding love for the magical story, the fable or parable that tells of the wonders that life can bring us. These moments of awe and possibility can be found everywhere you look; I think all the time about the simple beauty of the flowers in my yard from a distance, how beneath it all, there are worms and dirt and fungus and dead rot and all things unlovely to keep other things alive.
I love these kinds of contradictions; I love that without these contrasts, awe could never occur. In order to have awe, you have to have a biding respect for the union of the probable with the improbable; you have to make your peace with the inexplicable. There can only be light in the world if there is also darkness. These are some of the reasons I became a publisher, editor and, finally, curator of literary magical realism.
One of the things we did regularly was publish theme issues. We managed to put together one on Caribbean magical realism, one of Spirituality and magical realism, one that covered the Iberian peninsula. We never made it to a theme edition focused on tales from the Middle East, though it had been in the plans, were we to continue growing the anthology. Instead, a decade in, my staff and I agreed to move on to other projects, as we felt we had, more or less, achieved what we set out to do.
I found myself missing the purposeful insertion of magical realism in my life, however. I made up for it by reading books of magical realism to my girls while they were still young enough for bedtime stories. Both girls "got" Paolo Coelho's fabulist parable in The Alchemist and both appreciated the magical realist titles they would ultimately read in high school, and at a level that still makes me proud. The last book I read to my youngest daughter (it took me all summer, just four years ago) was Watership Down. She is now a relentless reader of Murakami and helped me celebrate Gabo's passing last spring by bringing yellow roses to her literature class. Both of my girls see the underlying purpose of magical realism: to tell stories in order to save lives, to truth-tell against the ever-present censor, to empower whole communities to act together against oppression by weaving beauty and magic into the ordinary aspects of their lives.
No wonder our family's favorite movie is Big Fish… another book I'm overdue to read.
Earlier this year I realized that I still had not completely read through or was completely familiar with all the collected tales of the Arabian Nights. We all know about Aladdin, but what of the many other wonderful tales that came out of the Golden Age of Islam? Watching the Vanguard unfold their program, I was delighted and suddenly homesick for that place in both my intellect and my heart where the influence of literary magical realism is permanently wedged.
It has been six years since Margin was retired (though the entire site is archived), and I have since gone through many shelves and donated many magical realist novels and story collections. But I still have that copy of Richard Burton's The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights, because I still can't wait to jump into that princess's clever mind and see how she spins fictions to save her life.
Tonight, I watched the Vanguard show again for the second time, and it was just as marvelous as the first time I'd seen it. Between the visuals and the music and the power of the performances, I was transported to a place I still want to see for myself, a place I have glimpsed only sideways through The Alchemist and the classic tale of Aladdin and his magic lamp (perhaps oversimplified in my own mind thanks to Disney).
Besides, I am a mother of daughters. The cleverness of Scheherazade "telling tales" appeals to the feminist in me, the one who knows that wiles are a best practice in self defense. It inspires my belief that there are truths we must tell, even if only slant, in order to maintain our autonomy. As women. As people. As human beings.
One of my daughter's friends, one of the two drum majors for their high school marching band (and both are girls!) was also there tonight and, occasionally, I saw her lift her hands from her lap and practice the moves of a conductor. She likely didn't even know she was doing it. She was leading. I love seeing this in teenaged girls, this "accidental leadership" which can't be kept at bay. There is hope for the human race while we continue to raise strong, thoughtful children who appreciate art and beauty while desiring leadership.
We struck up a conversation at the intermission about the number of expensive props that some of the corps were using in their shows, and she said to me, "I think you can be simple and still do the same thing." To which I replied: "Yes, because ultimately, these shows aren't about props, they're about stories. All art, ultimately, is about story." And she nodded, clearly understanding this simple, and yet complicated, observation.
She makes me miss my own creative, idea-hungry daughter, the one on the road, the one lifting the silken flag with well-toned arms that should belong to a Grecian statue, the one sneaking Murakami stories late at night on the bus by teeny tiny booklight, the one whose upraised chin and cheeks on the movie screen today were as softly golden as Rumpelstiltskin's thread.
Magical realism is everywhere, people. You only need to open your eyes to find awe, wonder, beauty, marvel and magic in the world.
The part of me that decided to create an anthology devoted to magical realism over 15 years ago, to be a teacher/curator/editor, to explore a literary category with a broad mind and multiple lenses… it was gentle nudged awake tonight as I watched the final scene in the Vanguard show, in which the princess, elevated above the field and surrounded by her feather-wafting harem, lifted the golden lamp in her hands, victorious.


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Ten years ago Sunday, President Bill Clinton signed into law the ''don't ask, don't tell'' policy on gays in the military. The law, which has resulted in nearly 10,000 discharges to date, bans openly gay people from serving in the armed forces, requires those who do serve to conceal their sexual orientation and avoid homosexual conduct, and prohibits military personnel from being asked about their sexual orientation. With American soldiers, gay and straight, fighting for their country in Iraq, the wisdom of this policy is increasingly suspect.
The last time Americans seriously debated gays in the military, after Mr. Clinton's broken campaign promise to lift the ban outright, political and military leaders framed the discussion as a choice between the civil rights of gays and the requirements of national security. Few argued that national security might require letting gays serve. Many believed that homosexuality was incompatible with military service. In the language of the law, letting gays serve openly in the military would threaten the ''high morale, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion'' of the American forces.
In the decade since the policy was put into place, however, and particularly since 9/11, it has become clear that it is not the presence of gay soldiers that undermines security. It is the ban itself which does so. Indeed, the policy may be weakening what it was intended to protect: military readiness.
The ban was supposed to safeguard unit cohesion, the watchword of military analysts who oppose letting gays serve. The law states that the presence of openly gay people in the services would create an ''unacceptable risk'' to unit cohesion, which is generally defined as the bonds of trust among service members that make the combat effectiveness of a unit greater than the sum of its parts.
Yet soldiers I have interviewed about their experience serving in the Middle East say the policy has had the opposite effect. One soldier told me that when he was in a unit where he couldn't tell people that he was gay, it was more difficult for him to form close personal relationships within his unit. Serving under the gay ban, he said, erodes the mutual trust that is essential not only to effective bonding but also to effective fighting.
The gay ban was also said to protect military readiness. Most Americans agree, especially after 9/11, that national security should be paramount in any debate over who can serve. That's why the nation was dismayed to learn, last fall, that the Army fired nine gay Arabic-language translators at a time when national security experts were worrying about a dire shortage of intelligence personnel capable of translating Arabic.
Just last month, the Pentagon acknowledged that the military has hired many translators since 9/11 without full background checks. The result? At least three translators now face espionage charges, and the military faces yet another intelligence imbroglio. In short, the government is drastically lowering its standards for critical intelligence agents while throwing out highly competent ones just because they are gay.
The growing understanding that the gay ban is bad for national security may explain why even those who once supported the ban now support letting gays serve. The former judge advocate general for the Navy, Rear Adm. John D. Hutson, who was involved in the development and enforcement of the policy, recently said that the ban is a failed policy whose elimination would strengthen the military. A Fox News poll conducted in August shows that 64 percent of Americans now favor allowing gays to serve openly in the military, up from 56 percent in a similar poll taken in 2001.
Even within the military, anti-gay sentiment has declined over the past decade. One study conducted at the Naval Postgraduate School in California found that between 1994 and 1999, the percentage of Navy officers who feel uncomfortable in the presence of gay people decreased to 36 percent from 58 percent.
The debate over gays in the military was never really about balancing civil rights with national security. Britain, Israel, Canada and Australia are among 24 militaries that lifted bans on gay soldiers without undermining unit cohesion or combat readiness. These experiences show that the choice is not between gay rights and military readiness. It is between prejudice that compromises national security and equality that enhances it. And that's no choice at all.


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I believed many of us have heard this before, no matter how much money you have, it can't buy you happiness. There was an article from Stanford which discussed about this topic and a book was also published on the study. In the article, it also mentioned about Warren Buffet feeling awesome after he has decided to pledge most of his wealth to charity.
I had the similar feeling last week.
A pleasant surprise last week when Noble Group started a run, and a strong one. As I had bought this counter with no idea about it's FA, I decided to take profit and thus it came to me as a pleasant surprise with this extra income. I had not expected the counter to gain 15% within a couple of months. This is definitely one of my good win for this year.
With the extra cash, I decided to buy my family a good seafood dinner over the last weekend and everyone was asking if I had strike TOTO. Everyone was happy and I was happy too. With the remaining cash, I was subtly happy that I can use it to pay for a small portion of the Tissot watch which I have been eyeing for a few months now. My friends have stopped asking when I am buying it .....haha...... alright, I will pay for supper the next time we meet :)
I guess money can buy happiness after all and it all depends on how it was being spend on.


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With Notting Hill Carnival rolling into town, August bank holiday weekend in London is guaranteed to be a riot of colour. But there are plenty of other delights on offer too…
Lead image: The Monster at Alexandra Palace
24-26 August
The incomparable Notting Hill Carnival kicks off with the UK National Panorama Steelband Competition on Saturday 24 August, taking place at Emslie Horniman's Pleasance Park from 6pm-10pm (tickets are £10 for adults and £3 for kids). It's an early start on Sunday, with J'Ouvert – the 'opening of the day' – where revellers converge on the streets to dance and get messy with colourful paints (head for Sainsbury's on Ladbroke Grove from 6am). Then it's the children's parade with family friendly floats, as well as live music and street food in Emslie Horniman's Pleasance Park and Powis Square. Traditionally, there are three stages: The Horniman's Stage, which on Sunday is taken over by Red Bull; the Powis Square Stage, based opposite the Tabernacle; and the Meanwhile Garden Stage, which concentrates on children's entertainment. Generally, line-ups for the stages are not announced in advance of Carnival weekend, but in 2018 there were performances from Major Lazer and Giggs. The Grand Finale Parade takes place on Bank Holiday Monday, starting at 9am on Great Western Road, heading along Chepstow Road, Westbourne Grove and then Ladbroke Grove. Download the Notting Hill Carnival app here.
2 The Monster, Alexandra Palace
23-28 August
Following two sell out years, The Monster – the world's biggest inflatable obstacle course – is headed back to Alexandra Palace this August bank holiday weekend with an even bigger line-up of new activities and games. The 300 metre-long bouncy castle has some 40 obstacles, including the 18-metre Mega Slide, the terrifying House of Hell and the new Exterminator. The Monster will also host Europe's biggest live NERF experience during the special Family Days (27-28 August), where teams of 4-6 people can take part in a battle with the latest NERF blasters in themed zones with interactive challenges, trick shots and special effects, as well as the chance to play with the latest NERF Footballs, Vortex Howlers and Sports Nerfoop. Adults £25, children £20 (aged 7-15). Groups of six or more (adults or children) get a 20% discount. Family Days 27-28 August.
Alexandra Palace Way N22 7AY; themonsterUK.com
3 Victorian Vauxhall at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
Saturday 24 August
Relive the glory days of Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens with a free, Victorian-style family day out featuring circus performers, music hall bands, stilt walkers costumed in scented silk flowers, a vintage carousel and a Victorian inflatable balloon. Tightrope walkers, strong men, Victorian ice creams served from a vintage trike and plenty of free games, including snakes and ladders – taking place across two areas in Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens – will keep the whole family entertained on August Bank Holiday weekend.
Vauxhall Gardens SE11; facebook.com/events
4 Pop Up Cinema, various locations
24-25 August
We do love a pop-up cinema, and London never fails to provide come summer. This bank holiday weekend, Rooftop Film Club is screening My Best Friend's Wedding at Roof East and Late Night at the Bussey Building in Peckham on 24 August at 8pm, and 10 Things I Hate about You on 25 August at the Bussey Building at 8pm. Pop Up Screens is showing Wall-E at Guildhall in the City of London on 24 August at 8.30pm. The Luna Cinema is showing Mary Poppins Returns at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre on 25 August at 8pm. Backyard Cinema brings its L.A. Nights summer season in Camden to a close on 24 August with screenings of Greece (sing-along) at 12.30pm, Mean Girls at 4.30pm and a The Greatest Showman (sing-along) at 8.30pm.
5 The LDN 195 Menu by OpenTable and Carousel, Marylebone
22-24 August
OpenTable, the online restaurant reservations provider, and Carousel, Marylebone's chic dining venue, are hosting a three-day pop-up to champion some of London's most underrepresented cuisines. With more than 55% of diners recently revealing they would like to see some of the less familiar cuisines receive greater recognition, OpenTable has teamed up with Carousel to bring London's diners underrepresented cuisines including Romanian, Goan, Slovenian, Polynesian, Armenian and Ukrainian. The pop up will bring them to life in dishes such as Ukrainian Barbecued Khorovats, Goan Fish Curry and Armenian Flatbreads. Thirty guests per evening will be able to make a reservation at Carousel for the sharing-style menu, including six dishes, a welcome cocktail, half a bottle of wine and a digestif for £50pp. Sittings at 7pm.
71 Blandford Street, Marylebone W1U 8AB; carousel-london.com
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Saturday 24 August
East London's Three Mills Island, the picturesque canal-side destination between Bow and Stratford, will host a brand new festival, One Day at the Disco, on 24 August. The event, headlined by 2ManyDJs and Todd Terje playing back to back, will transforming the island into a giant dance floor celebrating some of the best disco and house music of our time, complete with great street food and sunny cocktails. Derrick Carter Does Disco, Inner City, Detroit Swindle, Mister Saturday Night, CC:Disco!, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy and Chaka Khan't are also on the line-up.
Three Mills Island E3 3DU; onedayatthedisco.co.uk
7 Wimbledon Park Food Festival
24-26 August
The Wimbledon Park Food Festival is back for a sixth year during August bank holiday weekend, with some 50 specialist stallholders tempting you with their artisan wares. You'll also find some great chefs in the Festival Kitchen hosting tastings, talks and demos, as well as plenty for the kids to enjoy, including a pop-up petting farm and face painting. There will be plenty of beer, ale, cider, gin and prosecco to sample, and the event ends even later this year – 7pm on Saturday and 8pm on Sunday – with a live DJ keeping the festival atmosphere going. Tickets are £6 for adults, £3 for kids and £15 for families.
Wimbledon Park (near the tennis and beach volleyball courts) SW19 7HX; fantasticbritishfoodfestivals.com
8 The Lost Love Speakeasy, London Bridge
Until Sunday 25 August
We have been waxing lyrical to anyone who'll listen about this one, and for good reason – it's brilliant! The final show is on 25 August, but tickets for that night have sold out, so get your hands on tickets for the 24th before they're all gone! The experience combines hot jazz, dancing, a compelling story, fantastic food courtesy of Temper Restaurants Head Chef Neil Rankin, and really great cocktails. Taking place in a hidden speakeasy near London Bridge, the experience stars Stella and her house band, The Lost Love Rhythm Kings, who will take you back to the Roaring Twenties to rub shoulders with the damned of New York. Tickets from £15.99 to £149.99.
9 Hackney Downs Dog Day at The Star by Hackney Downs
Saturday 24 August
The Star by Hackney Downs is dedicating a whole day to our beloved canine companions this bank holiday weekend! BBC presenter Anna Webb will be hosting the event, sharing her top dog tips, and commentating on the famous Dog Parade. There will also be dog treats, a doggy pool, prizes from Pets Pyjamas, a raffle with all money raised going to the All Dogs Matter charity, and El Bandarra will be giving away free drinks to dog owners (first come, first served). Click here to include your dog in the parade (categories include Golden Oldie, Best Newcomer and Best Fancy Dress). Alternatively, you can register on the day between 11am-11.45am at the Star by Hackney Downs. 12pm-3pm.
35 Queensdown Road, Hackney E5 8NN; starbyhackneydowns.co.uk
10 Certain Blacks Ensemble Festival, Royal Victoria Docks
Saturday 24 August
Certain Blacks presents Ensemble Festival – a festival of jazz, rock, live arts and circus championing the creative voice of our diverse society – this bank holiday weekend. The event will feature performances from legendary vocalist Cleveland Watkiss MBE and vibraphone master Orphy Robinson OBE (founding members of the Jazz Warriors), as well as renowned jazz trumpeter Byron Wallen (nominated for three MOBO awards). Other performers on the day include Saint Leonard, hot off the back of their appearance at Latitude Festival, as well as circus performers Out of Order, who will delight the crowds with aerial work and contemporary dance, roller skating performer Symoné and artist Madaleine Trigg, who will create a piece of live art. 12pm-8pm.
Crystal Green, Royal Victoria Docks; royaldocks.london
11 Phoenix Arts Club Cabaret Award Winners 2019 at Underbelly Festival, South Bank
Saturday 24 August
The UK's hottest up and coming talent, as seen on the Phoenix Arts Club's Cabaret Awards, take to Underbelly's for one night only in celebration of all things weird and wonderful. They'll be joined by some of the world's most respected cabaret artistes for a night of singing sensations, burlesque, variety, comedy and even a hint of Weimar. Acts include Quick Change Magicians Soul Illusion, a modern quick-change act ready to challenge your perception of magic; Vintage Parisian Powerhouse Belle de Beauvoir, a classic burlesque siren with a contemporary twist; and Notes from Underground, a genre-defying musical collaboration between violinist Yoon-ji Kim and percussionist Julian Humphries fusing contemporary classical with borderline jazz and new world over hip hop breaks and Afro-Brazilian rhythms. Tickets from £17. 7.15pm.
Belvedere Road Coach Park (near Jubilee Gardens), South Bank SE1 8XX; underbellyfestival.com
12 Fulham Beach Club's Ibiza White Party, Fulham
Sunday 25 August
It'll be a total white out at Fulham Beach Club's Ibiza White Party this bank holiday weekend. London's only Thameside beach club will be hosting guest DJs from Ibiza for this wear-only-white party, alongside glitter artists, saxophonists, masseurs, street food including pizza and chicken wings and, of course, cocktails! Get your hands on Rumtails like Black & Gold (Bacardi Negra with Blood Orange Long Tail mixer), sharing cocktails including the Fulham Beach Bowl, and Pornstar Martini Slushies. 12pm-12am.
Wandsworth Bridge Road SW6 2TY; neverlandlondon.com
13 Swing Dance Sunday at Cahoots, Soho
Sunday 25 August
Cahoots, a 1940s-themed speakeasy in Kingly Court, hosts live swing entertainment, complete with polka dots and old classics, on Sunday evenings. From 5pm-7pm, there are dance lessons hosted by the incredible Swing Dance UK. From 7pm, the scoundrels will be opening the doors to to everyone with a DJ set from Auntie Maureen, swing dancers, and the chance to have your own victory rolls done, then, from 8.30pm, the Hotsie Totsies from across the pond will perform classic songs. £20 for dance lessons and after party, table bookings £25pp minimum spend. From 7pm onwards its £10 entry on the door. 5pm-2am
13 Kingly Street, Carnaby W1B 5PG; cahoots-london.com
14 Kansas Smitty's House Band at Fentimans Secret Spritz Garden, Farringdon
Sunday 25 August
In the middle of bustling Farringdon, hidden behind ivy covered walls and unknown to passers-by, lies the Fentimans Secret Spritz Garden. This bank holiday weekend, the hideaway, which is filled with fragrant herbs, aromatic plants and summer spritzes, will play host to the Kansas Smitty's House Band from 7pm. For those looking to get a little more hands on, ethical fragrance brand Lovorika will be running a natural perfumery class on Saturday 24 August where you will learn to create a bespoke natural face spritz.
15 Smithfield Street Party: A Beastly Adventure, Smithfield Market
Sunday 25 August
Culture Mile presents Smithfield Street Party: A Beastly Adventure this August bank holiday. Animals top the bill at this free street party, where you can learn how to dance like a bee, watch extraordinary aerialists fly through the sky and learn how to care for the animals that live alongside us. Highlights include the Grand Avenue, the Soaring Smithfield Canopy where an exciting line up of aerialists swing from the rafters creating a dazzling spectacle in the Victorian iron structures of the Central markets; the Rotunda Garden, a magical Beastly Den where you can create mythical creatures and learn to dance like a bee; the Long Lane, a Watering Hole full of refreshments, world foods and local delicacies; and the Wild Rotunda Plains, where you can go wild, build a den or run through the urban world as never seen before on London's Biggest Play Street.
Smithfield Market, off Charterhouse Street EC1A 9PQ; culturemile.london
16 Ben Pearce Presents Discotechnique with Pillowtalk Dj Set at Night Tales, Hackney
Friday 23 August
The terrace at Night Tales is free to enter, if you're just looking for cocktails and a catch up, but if you want to go large on bank holiday Friday, then this late night exploration of disco, soul, funk and slow jams with platinum-selling deep house producer Ben Pearce is for you. Discotechnique is the latest venture for Ben and friends to take things down a disco route, with inclusive music and positive energy all night. From 6pm. Also, on Sunday 25 August, Chicago royalty Roy Davis Jr is taking his signature soul-infused style to Night Tales. Tickets £11. From 3pm. Tickets for both 18+ events are £11 and photo ID is required.
14 Bohemia Place, Mare Street, Hackney E8 1DU; nighttales.co.uk
17 Dragged On Board London Bus Tour, central London
Saturday 24 August
Feisty, fun and fabulous, Dragged On Board is like no other bus tour in London. Learn all about London's diverse LGBTQ+ history while taking a wild ride through the capital on board the Pride Bus complete with a live drag show. You're invited to bring your own booze and sing along to pop divas like Celine Dion and Britney Spears on this witty and wonderful tour. The bonkers, boozy Dragged On Board bus tour lasts 90 minutes and is for over 18s only. Departures at 3.30pm and 6pm from Charles II Street, next to Her Majesty's Theatre, and 8pm from Westminster Embankment opposite the London Eye (bus stop K). Tickets £25.
18 Festibowl, Finsbury Square
22-23 August
Festibowl – the summer pop-up that has given the quintessentially British sport of lawn bowls an inner city spin – returns to it home turf of Finsbury Square for the bank holiday weekend. Get involved in the silliest, most theatrical game of bowls you've ever played while indulging in street food and drinks. People of all ages can play as the rules are simple and the bowls are easy enough to roll down the green, but Festibowl is so much more than a game when the hilarious MC, Mr Benjamin Owls Esq, gets on the mic, narrating each group's Great British Bowl Off. You'll also find cocktails to keep the energy up and street food by the likes of Mama's Jerk, Popdogs, The Bowler Meatballs and Baggio Burger.
Finsbury Square Bowling Green, Finsbury Square EC2A 1RR; festibowl.co.uk
19 Anxiety Workshop with Max Strom, triyoga Camden
23-25 August
Some six million people suffer with anxiety in the UK, so spending your bank holiday learning how to cope with it would be time well spent. TEDx regular and world renowned anxiety expert Max Strom is hosting a weekend workshop at triyoga in Camden. His workshop will show you how to use movement and breathing patterns to cope with stress and anxiety. Take the entire weekend workshop for £170 (20% off the full price when you book for you and a friend), or pick the workshops that work best for you at £45 each: Crisis is the axis for transformation (23 August, 7pm-9pm); Some doors open only from the inside (24 August, 10.30am-12.30pm); Communication, connection & boundaries (24 August, 2pm-4pm); and Strength, grace & healing (25 August, 10.30am-12.30pm).
57 Jamestown Road, Camden NW1 7DB; triyoga.co.uk/workshop
20 Victorian Carnival at Mr Fogg's House of Botanicals, Fitzrovia
Saturday 24 August
Mr Fogg's House of Botanicals in Fitzrovia is transforming into a summery Victorian Carnival this bank holiday weekend. Enjoy eclectic tropical-style beats and a set by DJ Auntie Maureen as she spins summertime tunes on Saturday from 6.01pm. Sip on special cocktails such as the rum-based Carnival Highball and choose from a range of sharing platters to feast on. Early birds might even get their hands on complimentary doughnuts… A Victorian Carnival food and drink menu will be available from Friday 23 August. 12.01pm-10.01pm.
48 Newman Street, Fitzrovia W1T 1QQ; mr-foggs.com
21 Bank Holiday Weekend at Flat Iron Square & Omeara
24-25 August
Head for Flat Iron Square and Omeara this Bank Holiday for a healthy mix of street food, Pimm's and late-night parties. Keep it casual with a trip to the Pimm's Garden, complete with stripy deckchairs, a photo-ready flower wall and free garden games including giant Jenga and mini-tennis (free entry). On Saturday night at Omeara it's Little Gay Brother's Bank Holiday Special, taking over two rooms and a roof terrace with outrageous performances, high-energy dance shows and the best international queer music talent (10pm-5am, tickets £25.30). On Sunday 25 August, the Buena Vista Cuban Carnival takes over Omeara for an authentic Cuban carnival presented by Sambroso Sambroso where you can learn Rumba or Cuban Salsa followed by a Buena Vista tribute band and DJs (7pm-4am, tickets £10).
Flat Iron Square, 64 Union Street SE1 1SG; flatironsquare.co.uk
6 O'Meara Street SE1 1TE; omearalondon.com
22 Teens Go Free to Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: The Immersive Experience
19 August-1 September
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds: The Immersive Experience is a spectacular hi-tech re-imagining of this cult classic. Cutting-edge 'layered reality' company dotdotdot has worked with prolific composer Jeff Wayne to re-imagine his Musical Work into a multi-sensory experience of immersive theatre, virtual reality, augmented reality holograms and other impressive tech. You'll be thrust you right into the centre of the of HG Wells' Victorian England and the Martian invasion of 1898, where you'll be able to smell the grass and feel the ground shake as the first cylinder lands. Even better – teens aged 12-15 go free between 19 August and 1 September when accompanied by a paying adult (max two free teens per full paying adult). Running until 13 November with tickets from £49.50.
56 Leadenhall Street EC3A 2BJ; dotdot.london/TWOTW
23 Summer Garden Party on the Coaling Jetty, Battersea Power Station
Until 1 September
Battersea Power Station is celebrating the opening of its historical Coaling Jetty with a Summer Garden Party on the river. Inspired by Battersea's agricultural past, the garden is a wildflower haven perfect for just chilling. Alternatively, you can get stuck into the month-long line-up of live music, food and drink, wellness, workshops and family fun. There's a rotating programme of pop up food and drink from Vagabond, Battersea Brewery, Cinnamon Kitchen and more every Thurs & Fri 4pm-8pm, Sat 12pm-8pm and Sun 12pm-6pm. You'll also find DJ sets every Fri from 5pm-8pm, live acoustic sounds from Busk in London every Sat & Sun from 11am-5pm, Jazz on The Jetty every Thurs from 6pm-8pm and Sharky & George Garden Games & Crafts every Sat from 11am until 24 August. Wellness warriors can enjoy Pilates PT Method & Dynamic Pilates every Sat at 9am & 10am, OyoGo Yoga every Sun at 9am & 10am, and free massages from Urban every Sat & Sun from 12pm-5pm until 25 August.
24 Bank Holiday Weekend at Model Market, Lewisham
23-25 August
Model Market in Lewisham is celebrating the bank holiday weekend with a three-day party featuring free rum punches, the return of the Wheel of Fortune and a six-strong selection of local DJs throwing down tunes until late. The first 100 people through the door each day will bag themselves a free rum punch, the Wheel of Fortune on the Can Hatch bar will be offering up prizes ranging from craft beer to a £50 bar tab, and there'll be killer specials from steak masters Growlers and taco newcomers Dos Mas. Open from 5pm-1am on Friday, 2pm-1am on Saturday and 2pm-10pm on Sunday. Entry is £3 after 5pm and free all day Sunday. Street Feast fans in east London should head for Dinerama's all-day party on Sunday, running from 1pm-11pm with Phonica Records DJs playing from start to finish (free entry).
196 Lewisham High Street SE13 6LS; streetfeast.com
25 The Mansion Party – Carnival Edition at Belair House, Dulwich
Friday 23 August
Trekking to Notting Hill for Carnival is a bit of a mission, so why not opt for something a little closer to home, like The Mansion Party – Carnival Edition at Belair House? Don your finest gear and enjoy a three-course Caribbean dinner, served at 7.30pm, before the party really begins at 9pm. The beautiful period mansion will host live music in four rooms across two floors, with RnB, Dancehall, Soca, Afrobeats and Garage in Room 1 to Rare Groove & Slow Jams in Room 2, 80s Soul & 90s RnB in Room 3 and Lovers Rock & Reggae vocals in Room 4. Doors open at 7pm. Dinner and dancing £45; dancing only (from 9pm) £15. To book see eventbrite.co.uk or call 020 123 1262 / 07944 023 493.
Belair House, 5 Gallery Road SE21 7AB; belairhouse.co.uk
26 Green Rooms Market at Peckham Springs
Sunday 25 August
Green Rooms Market returns to Peckham Springs this August bank holiday weekend for a day of plant shopping, workshops, live music, food and drinks. Discover houseplants, garden plants, pots, terrariums, cacti, macramé, and artworks from London's finest botanical businesses at this family and dog friendly event. You can also join in interactive workshops and pick up some plant care tips. Free entry. 11am-5pm.
22a Blenheim Grove, Peckham SE15 4QN. greenroomsmarket.com
27 Searcys at The Gherkin's Sky High Botanical Glasshouse, the City
Until 1 September
Searcys at The Gherkin has transformed the entire Iris bar on level 40 into a luscious botanical glasshouse in partnership with Perrier-Jouët Champagne this summer. Enjoy champagne pairings by Perrier-Jouët, a botanical gin cocktail menu, a seasonal menu celebrating the best of British produce, exclusive private dining experiences and live entertainment – all while enjoying panoramic views and glorious sunsets from one of London's most iconic skyscrapers. Perrier-Jouët vintages and Champagne Masterclass tasting flights (from £40pp) are available all summer, Iris Bar mixologists have designed a menu of botanical gin-based cocktails, and Searcys' Shaun Rowlands is showcasing the flavour and versatility of British seasonal produce with a summer menu featuring the likes of Colchester rock oysters and dressed Portland crab.
30 St Mary Axe EC3A 8EP; searcysatthegherkin.co.uk


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Welcome to S15 Owners Club!
This owners club has been made in the benefit of owners of the Nissan Silvia S15 chassis, allowing them to socially integrate and share their knowledge and advise.We also intend to create events and social activities for members to take part in to help members meet and get to know each other.


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Today, Ubisoft gave people their first real glimpse into the gameplay that will make up ASSASSIN'S CREED IV: BLACK FLAG. The trailer expands on the chaotic and dynamic world that players will be entering while solidifying Captain Edward Kenway as the most ruthless pirate to sail the seas.
Without a doubt Ubisoft's next Assassin's Creed project is ambitious. Black Flag's reveil trailer hit on the high notes of the game's ambition and direction but raised flags because it showed little gameplay. This gameplay trailer certainly seems to try to answer the call of those left skeptical after the first trailer by including scenes filled with gameplay and ways to explore the Caribbean.
Is it successful in answering the woes of the skeptical?
Kind of.
As one of the skeptics this gameplay trailer only answers some of my woes — namely showing gameplay. It shows snippets of land and naval based combat, mostly snippets that anyone who is familiar with the franchise knows all to well. Any other game I would be content with just this amount of gameplay but I fear that Black Flag might end up just like ASSASSIN'S CREED III — an incredibly ambitious project that had immense potential but didn't deliver in the end.
A demo might be the only thing that can truly satisfy my skepticism that revolves around this game. That's because ASSASSIN'S CREED III's gameplay wasn't bad, it just didn't grab your attention for the 30 plus hours you spend in the game. Its world felt bland and redundant. That's what I fear for Black Flag.
I look foward to this year's E3 (the Electronic Entertainment Expo) because it will likely make or break my excitement for this game. To get a real in-game glimpse into the kinds of situations and activities you'll be engaged in as Edward Kenway.
The real saving grace for this game may be the environment that it's placed in. It's a dynamic world that is "unpredictable" and rugged, it's something that makes this game intriguing, and if executed correctly, truly innovative for the action/adventure genre. It seems as if Ubisoft is aiming to make an experience that will be truly unique to each player. No weather pattern will be exactly the same, no combat scenario will play out quite like another.
Edward Kenway is an outlaw and an assassin. He is unlike any of the assassins we've played before him and that's what puts some life back into "Assassin's" franchise. It will be interesting to see how piracy and the duties of the assassin's brotherhood intertwine.
Despite all of the pros and cons that surround this game, only time will tell if this game will be the Assassin's game we thought ASSASSIN'S CREED III was going to be or follow down the same path of disappointment that its predecessor did.


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Tomorrow will be Sunday and in three weeks, I will be racing the Manchester Marathon and I am shitting it.
Training has not been good. But next week I will be doing a nice temp run in Langdale with some good hill walking before I begin to taper and spend those extra hours where I would have been running to concentrate on core and do some cross training.
I need to squeeze one long run in again and maybe doing a 15 miler at speed just to convince myself that I am ready.
Oh well off to what has been distracting me and preventing me training the way I wanted to. Thats right Work.


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Updated Photo Gallery
We've certainly had a busy summer at the Roselle Public Library!
Check out all of the fun we had in our updated Photo Gallery!
See photos from our Make It Monday programs, Grandparents Got Game, YA Game On!, Scribble Jim & Scribble Jane, Let's Play in YS, Henna Hand Painting, Barry North the Yo-Yo Man, Jan's Clan Puppets, Tic Tac Meow, the July Game On event, and Play It AGAIN in Youth Services.


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Florida-Cuba ferry could start as early as June
by Florida Properties Group on 4/11/2016
Florida-Cuba ferry
TAMPA – Ferry operators interested in carrying cargo and passengers to Cuba have opened discussions with officials at several Florida ports.
The Cuban government has not yet approved a U.S. ferry to use one of its ports, but ferries are expected to be a popular way to travel and ship cargo from Florida to the Caribbean island.
Jorge Fernandez, CEO of Havana Ferry Partners of Fort Lauderdale, tells The Tampa Tribune that the company recently met with Cuban government officials and is optimistic it will receive permission to set sail as early as June.
Fernandez is interested in sailing from Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Key West, but he also has been exploring ports in the Tampa Bay area. Port Manatee would be preferred over ports in Tampa and St. Petersburg, he said, while in Cuba a landing in Havana would be preferred over the port in Santiago….... Read More


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Five situations when you shouldn't coach your colleagues
It is very enlightening to see that more and more companies invest time and money in teaching their managers coaching
Anyone who decides to study the science of motivation will soon come across the major theories of human needs. People have strong physiological urges of different sort, they want to be safe, need to relate to others, strive for all kinds of reinforcement to strengthen their self-esteem, and ideally, intend to bring the most out of their talents, i.e. to self-actualise. As the well-known theorist, Abraham Maslow asserted, these needs have a hierarchical order with the prerequisite of lower level needs to be fulfilled first, before we can start focusing on the top ones in the pyramid. Alderfer further distilled these thoughts to state that humans have three categories of innate needs: Existence, Relatedness and Growth, fitting neatly with Maslow's hierarchy.
I have observed several times talking to professionally and financially successful people with emotionally supportive relationships that some of them are still not completely satisfied, and have a strong desire to really become themselves at work, not just do business to fund their private life. However, even if you have a profession that you truly enjoy and where you can use your talents every day, a new kind of dissatisfaction tends to develop. An uneasy feeling that there should be more to life, despite the fact that you successfully climbed to the top of the Maslow pyramid.
Richard Barrett offers some food for thought at this point, in his theory called Seven Levels of Personal Consciousness. He defines seven focus areas with primary motivations for each. You will not be surprised to learn that on the first level, people focus on Survival and want to feel safe and secure in the world. At the second, Relationship level, we intend to feel a sense of love and belonging, while at Self-esteem level we wish to feel a sense of personal self-worth. So far, total overlap with the needs theories. Barrett calls the fourth (and middle) level Transformation, where we try to become more of who we really are by uncovering our authentic self. This would, I think, open the floor for self-actualisation.
The model, luckily, doesn't end here, but highlights the opportunity to build a new pyramid for maybe the second half of our life. Level five is Internal cohesion, in which you find meaning in your life, aligned with your passion or purpose, and create a vision for your future. This is exactly the need pressing those who like their work in which they have reached success, but still crave for something more. The focus, however, is still on yourself.
On the sixth level, Making a difference, the focal point changes from yourself to others. You partner up with people to actualise a common purpose for mutual benefit and fulfilment to really make a difference on a much broader scale than what you would be capable of on your own. The seventh level of personal consciousness, according to Barrett, is Service. Probably only a few people rise to the point where they devote their life to selfless service in pursuit of their passion or purpose. But it's good to know that it is also an option available for anyone.
On which level do you think you are currently standing? Are you ready to step forward?
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