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Friday, 19 June 2009
Thursday, 18 June 2009
The Sisterhood
THE SISTERHOOD is a group of savvy and successful women who take charity fundraising to another level.
How many women do you know who would raft 180km down the treacherous Amazon in 3 days in just 19 hours? Not many?
Well step forward Emma Sayle, who is your real life Lara Croft, Superwoman and supreme business woman all combined. Formidable does not even do Emma justice; she is one of a kind.
How many women do you know who would raft 180km down the treacherous Amazon in 3 days in just 19 hours? Not many?
Well step forward Emma Sayle, who is your real life Lara Croft, Superwoman and supreme business woman all combined. Formidable does not even do Emma justice; she is one of a kind.
Emma set up The Sisterhood in September 2006. Born from a meeting between two highly competitive individuals, The Sisterhood came to fruition not on a whim, but on a challenge and less than a year later an elite group of fearless females turned up on a sunny beach in Dover to undertake the original challenge to race The Brotherhood across the English Channel to France.
11 months of training through wind, rain and sun and more injuries than our on-board physiotherapist could cope with; The Sisterhood reached France in a World Record time of 3 hours 42 minutes
They are a team of 40 extremely photogenic women who are from a variety of professions and sporting backgrounds, ranging from professional athletes to women who haven't taken part in sport for over 10 years. They spent 2007 taking part in adventure races, triathlons, and dragon boat regattas round the world before smashing the world record across the channel.
The Sisterhood's Art of Sport featuring sporting celebrities such as Freddie Flintoff and Josh Lewsey was picked up by the Sun and sold as The Sun's 2008 calendar. They have continued in 2008 doubling in numbers and taking on the worlds longest raft race The Great Amazon Raft Race, a 3 day stage race over 180km down the Amazon in Peru.
On top of that 2008 has seen them conquer the Venice Vogolonga, The Great River Race in London and several adventure races and Triathlons. Emma holds a world record for the fastest crossing of The Channel in a Dragon Boat powered by a female crew in just 3 hours 42 minutes. She was also part of the 4 women who won the women's international race down the Amazon.
The charity this is for is "Babes in Arms" and in 2 years they have raised of £200,000, a phenomenal amount.
The annual Sisterhood Ball was held at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, Mayfair on 30th October where £20,000 was raised.
Watch out world, the sisters are in town and nothing can stand in their way.
http://www.sisterhoodchallenge.com/
www.killingkittens.co.uk
On top of that 2008 has seen them conquer the Venice Vogolonga, The Great River Race in London and several adventure races and Triathlons. Emma holds a world record for the fastest crossing of The Channel in a Dragon Boat powered by a female crew in just 3 hours 42 minutes. She was also part of the 4 women who won the women's international race down the Amazon.
The charity this is for is "Babes in Arms" and in 2 years they have raised of £200,000, a phenomenal amount.
The annual Sisterhood Ball was held at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, Mayfair on 30th October where £20,000 was raised.
Watch out world, the sisters are in town and nothing can stand in their way.
http://www.sisterhoodchallenge.com/
www.killingkittens.co.uk
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Menshaib - a formidable company
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COMBINING HIGH end fashion, expert needlework and stunning fabrics, the mother and daughter team of Gita and Malika are taking the fashion world by storm.
Menshaib was set up in December 2003 and currently sells their clothes at high profile events and clothes fairs. They were at Cartier Polo, summer 2008 and sell at charity fairs such as MacMillan Cancer Charity Fair. 10% of every sale went to the charity.
Malika is currently developing the website for the business and can be contacted at the email address provided for private sales and commissions.
Malika studied at the London College of Fashion and all the clothes they sell are from Delhi, India where they are handmade and embroidered with every piece has exquisite detail.
Malika designs all the clothes personally and the current collection consists of three key jackets.
Princess - 2 months of breathtaking craftsmanship, with embroidery that represents the Tree of Life. Paisley - the designs are in silk and wool
Military - silk jacket reflecting the military theme
Jackets range from £225 - £325
Shawls £35 - £1400
Kaftans £45- £350
Menshaib was set up in December 2003 and currently sells their clothes at high profile events and clothes fairs. They were at Cartier Polo, summer 2008 and sell at charity fairs such as MacMillan Cancer Charity Fair. 10% of every sale went to the charity.
Malika is currently developing the website for the business and can be contacted at the email address provided for private sales and commissions.
Malika studied at the London College of Fashion and all the clothes they sell are from Delhi, India where they are handmade and embroidered with every piece has exquisite detail.
Malika designs all the clothes personally and the current collection consists of three key jackets.
Princess - 2 months of breathtaking craftsmanship, with embroidery that represents the Tree of Life. Paisley - the designs are in silk and wool
Military - silk jacket reflecting the military theme
Jackets range from £225 - £325
Shawls £35 - £1400
Kaftans £45- £350
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Jak's Cafe a Mecca in South Kensington
JAK’S CAFE is a mecca where excellent food and drink is served seven days a week to throngs of satisfied customers.
The cafe offers a relaxed space, with long tables for communal dining and socialising. Business meetings can be held here alongside beautiful fashionistas. Timed right you can have the whole space to yourself and wile away many hours with wonderful food.
The cafe opened in January 2008 and due to the popularity and excellent concept expanded to the size it is today. The services have also expanded and Jak's cafe can now cater for private functions, birthday parties or just a simple lunch.
There is a large room at the back of the cafe where business meetings with up to 20 people can be held in private. There are daily breakfast, lunch and dinner with daily specials and all food is fresh on the day with a large part being organic.
Most dietary needs are catered for with a selection of Italian and organic delights that can be taken home.
Opening hours are 7am-7pm seven days a week.
Address: 77c Walton Street, South Kensington, London, SW3 2HT
The cafe offers a relaxed space, with long tables for communal dining and socialising. Business meetings can be held here alongside beautiful fashionistas. Timed right you can have the whole space to yourself and wile away many hours with wonderful food.
The cafe opened in January 2008 and due to the popularity and excellent concept expanded to the size it is today. The services have also expanded and Jak's cafe can now cater for private functions, birthday parties or just a simple lunch.
There is a large room at the back of the cafe where business meetings with up to 20 people can be held in private. There are daily breakfast, lunch and dinner with daily specials and all food is fresh on the day with a large part being organic.
Most dietary needs are catered for with a selection of Italian and organic delights that can be taken home.
Opening hours are 7am-7pm seven days a week.
Address: 77c Walton Street, South Kensington, London, SW3 2HT
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Beat those Blues with Colour Therapy
Colour is a varying in the wavelengths of light and is a form of energy that is used in Colour Therapy.
Light affects all of our living cells and used in the correct way, it can be used to heal.
Colour Therapy can be used for various problems whether it is physical, mental, emotional or spiritual and as an all round relaxation therapy.
Colour is therapeutic and can be used alongside conventional medicine in a therapeutic way.
Colour energy can be a catalyst for our healing process and encourages our bodies to work in a normal and harmonious way.
Colour is all around us and does not to be "diagnosed" by a practitioner; it just needs to be incorporated into our normal day to day lives in a positive way.
Everyone has a favourite colour, and this can spring from childhood where colour was a comfort to us.
Memories are a strongly determine if we like certain colours. Negative emotions can make us like a colour where as positive emotions have the opposite effect.
Another explanation is an adverse reaction to a colour can mean that there is an imbalance in a particular part of the body.
Being aware of these preferences can tell us about ourselves and can also help us address a deep emotional issue that we may be harbouring.
Colour can be incredibly enlightening and transforming. Colour Therapists are trained to work with you and colour to bring a more positive outlook on your life.
Colour is simply light of different wavelengths, and each colour has its own specific wavelength and vibration.
These wavelengths resonate with energies in different areas of the body. We absorb colour energy visually but also through the skin and the electro magnetic field of our aura. Colour Therapy can be used in a number of different ways.
Different colour therapists will use different techniques but the most common are; the placing of coloured silks on the body; the directing of coloured light on to the body; solarised water; meditation with colour and colour breathing. A light box is the most common form of directing colour to the body using coloured filters.
The right colour for you is dependent on which colours you feel emotionally drawn to. Certain colours can be triggers to emotional, physical, mental and spiritual aspects of a person and a Colour Therapist can help you work on a particular aspect to heal you.
Colour Therapy is totally holistic and non-invasive therapy for all that is needed to do. Colour should be part of our every day life not something that is experienced for an hour or two with a therapist.
For more information on Colour Therapy visit http://www.colourtherapyhealing.com/
Report by Jennifer Anne Sutcliffe for 'Your Town Your Choice' and InMagazines.
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Saturday, 6 June 2009
TERMINATOR : SALVATION - James Murphy looks out for loose wiring
‘Terminator: Salvation’
A review by James Murphy
Cyberdyne systems file T-1000
Director: McG
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin
Genre: Sci –fi / Action / Horror
Rating: 12 A
Skynet Launch: On general release throughout the UK now.
Mission Summary:
2018, post nuclear Armageddon. Humans are hunted and destroyed by machines. Help is at hand from resurrected criminal, Marcus Wright. Marcus protects a soldier called Kyle Reece, and thereby wins attention from John Connor, humanity's leader. Together, these men could lead humans to the ‘salvation’ in the film’s title. But the machines are getting smarter and stop at nothing to ensure mankind’s extinction..
This is an accomplished action film. The camera work, colour schemes, sound effects and lighting design are all perfectly impressive. And there is an engaging plot / story, existing independently from previous ‘Terminator’ mythology, whilst paying it a strong thematic tribute. But the director should be sued under trade descriptions law, because this is simply not a ‘Terminator’ film.
Sure, there are visual, soundtrack and storyline references to the Arnold Schwarzeneggger (Arnie hereafter) films. But those are mere punctuations to a sequence of battles that feel like some strange hybrid of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘The Matrix’. The entire first half of the film assaults your senses, with little if any pause for old fashioned fun.
We get a pointless prologue, with Sam Worthington’s Marcus being sentenced to death in 2003. Helena Bonham Carter cameos as a terminally ill scientist, imploring Marcus to donate his body to medical research. Marcus obliges, before the opening credits and action sequence set the scene in 2018: an unending war between man and machine, played out in the dusky ruins of civilisation.
The action then hinges on whether Marcus is an asset or liability to the human resistance as they frantically plan a final offensive against the machines’ central layer (‘Skynet’). Cue much shouting in submarines and bunkers, as Christian Bale’s John Connor attempts to buy time for Marcus to infiltrate ‘Skynet’. There is nothing wrong with any of that and it would make a great set up for a new and original franchise.
But this is ‘Terminator’, a series whose central appeal hinged on just one man: Arnie. Had Arnie not played Terminator in the first film back in 1984, we would not have had Terminators 2 or 3.Those films did have clever conceits with time travel and they re-defined 'special effects'. But the pleasure was in the Arnie moments. There was something instantly iconic about his patrols down streets: acquiring clothes, weapons and one liners with which he could progress to either destroy or protect the forces of good.
‘Salvation’ does its best to compensate for Arnie’s absence. There is one scene in particular that recognises his contribution to the series. I will not spoil it here, but it happens in the last quarter of the film. And it had the whole audience clapping, laughing and cheering. I shared that delight, feeling animated and entertained for the first time in the whole film.
There is simply no substitute for Arnie. Christian Bale does his best as John Connor and even says ‘I’ll be back’ in a nod to the previous films. But he is somewhat muted by a film that fails to stretch his talent for crafting characters. Bale is a great Batman, but that is an actor’s part, rather than the ‘rent an action star’ vehicle that this film could and should have been.
We needed a Vin Diesel, a Jean Claude Van Damme. We really needed Arnie. Sam Worthington’s Marcus does have powerful physical presence, but even he cannot save this from being a forgettable and ultimately pointless entry to a franchise that died as soon as Arnie declined to say ‘I’ll be back’.
Systems Analysis: A fine action film, with worthy sentiments and storyline. But it lacks the star power and inventive fun which defined the ‘Terminator’ brand. Technically distinguished but unremarkable on the whole, the film could have been directed and acted by machines!..
3 out of 5. ‘Hasta La Vista, Baby!’..
A review by James Murphy
Cyberdyne systems file T-1000
Director: McG
Starring: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin
Genre: Sci –fi / Action / Horror
Rating: 12 A
Skynet Launch: On general release throughout the UK now.
Mission Summary:
2018, post nuclear Armageddon. Humans are hunted and destroyed by machines. Help is at hand from resurrected criminal, Marcus Wright. Marcus protects a soldier called Kyle Reece, and thereby wins attention from John Connor, humanity's leader. Together, these men could lead humans to the ‘salvation’ in the film’s title. But the machines are getting smarter and stop at nothing to ensure mankind’s extinction..
This is an accomplished action film. The camera work, colour schemes, sound effects and lighting design are all perfectly impressive. And there is an engaging plot / story, existing independently from previous ‘Terminator’ mythology, whilst paying it a strong thematic tribute. But the director should be sued under trade descriptions law, because this is simply not a ‘Terminator’ film.
Sure, there are visual, soundtrack and storyline references to the Arnold Schwarzeneggger (Arnie hereafter) films. But those are mere punctuations to a sequence of battles that feel like some strange hybrid of ‘Saving Private Ryan’ and ‘The Matrix’. The entire first half of the film assaults your senses, with little if any pause for old fashioned fun.
We get a pointless prologue, with Sam Worthington’s Marcus being sentenced to death in 2003. Helena Bonham Carter cameos as a terminally ill scientist, imploring Marcus to donate his body to medical research. Marcus obliges, before the opening credits and action sequence set the scene in 2018: an unending war between man and machine, played out in the dusky ruins of civilisation.
The action then hinges on whether Marcus is an asset or liability to the human resistance as they frantically plan a final offensive against the machines’ central layer (‘Skynet’). Cue much shouting in submarines and bunkers, as Christian Bale’s John Connor attempts to buy time for Marcus to infiltrate ‘Skynet’. There is nothing wrong with any of that and it would make a great set up for a new and original franchise.
But this is ‘Terminator’, a series whose central appeal hinged on just one man: Arnie. Had Arnie not played Terminator in the first film back in 1984, we would not have had Terminators 2 or 3.Those films did have clever conceits with time travel and they re-defined 'special effects'. But the pleasure was in the Arnie moments. There was something instantly iconic about his patrols down streets: acquiring clothes, weapons and one liners with which he could progress to either destroy or protect the forces of good.
‘Salvation’ does its best to compensate for Arnie’s absence. There is one scene in particular that recognises his contribution to the series. I will not spoil it here, but it happens in the last quarter of the film. And it had the whole audience clapping, laughing and cheering. I shared that delight, feeling animated and entertained for the first time in the whole film.
There is simply no substitute for Arnie. Christian Bale does his best as John Connor and even says ‘I’ll be back’ in a nod to the previous films. But he is somewhat muted by a film that fails to stretch his talent for crafting characters. Bale is a great Batman, but that is an actor’s part, rather than the ‘rent an action star’ vehicle that this film could and should have been.
We needed a Vin Diesel, a Jean Claude Van Damme. We really needed Arnie. Sam Worthington’s Marcus does have powerful physical presence, but even he cannot save this from being a forgettable and ultimately pointless entry to a franchise that died as soon as Arnie declined to say ‘I’ll be back’.
Systems Analysis: A fine action film, with worthy sentiments and storyline. But it lacks the star power and inventive fun which defined the ‘Terminator’ brand. Technically distinguished but unremarkable on the whole, the film could have been directed and acted by machines!..
3 out of 5. ‘Hasta La Vista, Baby!’..
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Friday, 5 June 2009
Max Clifford praises local magazines
Leading PR guru Max Clifford, has described regional magazines as an antidote to the ’nasty and negative’ culture of national newspapers.
Max told delegates at the Periodical Publishers Association’s regional magazines summit that local magazines were a force for good within society.
“As the national press gets ever more hostile and ever more economical with the truth, I think it’s increasingly important that people in their local areas get to know what’s really going on and really happening and also read a magazine that actually cares about the quality of life,” he said.
“I live in a beautiful place but work in a savage world. There’s an awful lot of good things going on - you won’t know that from reading the national press but you might know that from reading your local publications.”
Max said regional magazines had an opportunity to help build communities and promote themselves at the same time, by holding events such as carol concerts and charity teas.
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