Julius Caesar’s The Explorers Brings Families Together At The Picnic
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Category: Life
Julius Caesar's The Explorers Brings Families Together At The Picnic
Entertainment Management Company Offers A Charitable Day Of Fun For All Family Members
August 23, 2007 – Port of Spain , Trinidad … As part of its newly diversified entertainment roster, veteran entertainment management and consultancy company, The Julius Caesar Entertainment Company is presenting The Picnic. Conceptualised as a day of fun and bonding for the family, The Picnic is set for Sunday August 26, 2007 from 12:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Yellow Stone Park , Santa Barbara Boulevard in Santa Cruz .
The event which is part of the bmobile 'My Lime' promotional campaign will feature activities for all members of the family with live entertainment by Levi Myaz, son of the late, great Richard "Nappy" Mayers. The day's comprehensive line-up of activities will include Yogi's Playground with a bouncy castle and face painting for children of all ages; The Garden Club an exclusive shopping boutique offering Sacha cosmetics and original jewellery by Sweet Eye Designz with wine and cheese from More Vino for the ladies; The Playing Field including football and all fours tournaments for men; The Grill Pit with BBQ treats for both meat eaters and vegetarians; and a relaxation space in the main Picnic Area for those who simply want to kick back for the day.
The Picnic falls under the purview of Julius Caesar's latest initiative, The Explorers and is in keeping with the company's mission to broaden its scope providing entertainment for children and families. The Explorers was initially launched in July 2007 as a dynamic and educational children's summer excursion camp. The camp offered daily tours to various historical and ecological sites throughout Trinidad .
For advance tickets to The Picnic, where friends and family end their summer, please call 755-6592 or 731-4557. Patrons are encouraged to walk with their picnic baskets and coolers along with blankets, cushions and folding chairs and a can for a needy family. All cans will be donated to Kids In Need of Direction (KIND) as part of the Julius Caesar 'I Can Help' charity drive.
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Liza Miller, Director of Public Relations, Caribbean
Funny if yr a Trini. Not funny if yr a Trini. U decide.
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Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
For a couple years I've been blaming it on lack of sleep, not enough sunshine, too much pressure from my job, earwax build-up, poor blood circulation or anything else I could think of.
But now I found out the real reason: I'm tired because I'm overworked.
Here's why:
The population of T & T is 1.3 million.
0.3 million are retired.
That leaves 1 million to do the work.
There are 200,000 in Primary and Secondary schools.
Which leaves 800,000 to do the work.
Of this there are 300,000 employed by the government.
Leaving 500,000 to do the work.
50,000 are in the protective services (Police, Army, Coast Guard and Fire) preoccupied with Crime, Kidnapping etc.
Which leaves 450,000 to do the work.
Take from the total the 100,000 people who work for Works, URP and CEPEP.
And that leaves 350,000 to do the REAL WORK.
At any given time there are 100,000 people in hospitals.
Leaving 250,000 to do the work.
Now, there are 249,998 people in prisons.
That leaves just two people to do the work.
You and me.
And there you are sitting there, at your computer, reading jokes.
AUDITIONS FOR NEW FILM - TUESDAY @ TTW
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Category: Jobs, Work, Careers
Branded, the newest production from Tritan Northstar Entertainment will shoot in Trinidad in 2007. Tritan Northstar Entertainment started in early 2003 as the brainchild of actor/producer G Anthony Joseph, writer/producer of Men of Gray and Flight of the Ibis. The film's producers will hold auditions next TUESDAY at TTW @ 7:00pm. Please feel free to pass this notice on to friends and colleagues. The Producers of Branded are looking to fill the following roles:
Inspection Officer at checkpoint. (no lines) Hoards of scantily clad women (Ladies, please bring your Carnival costume if you still have it!) Garishly dressed men Women on stilts, in feathers, beads. Men dressed as devils. Owner of shop Jane speaks to. (no lines) Guards at bank entrance. (no lines) British tourists. (adlib whistles, etc) Vendor with cart.
Sidekick to Lars (lines) Bank clerk. (lines) Guards (no lines) Security officer. (no lines) Bank official. (no lines) Customers (ad lib stuff) Terrified driver. (no lines) Shy Older Woman. (line) Carnival characters. Pedestrians, tourists.
AUDITION DATE: TUESDAY 27TH MARCH, 2007
TIME: 7:00 PM SHARP (The Producers are here for a brief time, so please be punctual!)
Poetry TV Show Starts Filming This Friday
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Be A Part of SPEAK
Poetry TV Show Starts Filming This Friday
March 22, 2007 – Port of Spain, Trinidad…Aya Vision, Trinidad and Tobago's leading independent film producers, are calling on all interested persons to be a part of the audience at SPEAK, Trinidad and Tobago's first performance poetry television show.The show will be hosted by rapso man, Wendell Manwarren, of the group 3 Canal.
SPEAK brings mainstream attention to a flourishing underground poetry scene featuring local and regional poets giving their thoughts on a wide range of issues of personal and national importance.Each half hour show will feature new artists alongside established icons of poetry and music, including Leroy Clarke, Brother Resistance, Levi Myaz, King David, Cecelia Salazar, Stanton Kewley and Ceteswayo Murai.
Filming of the 13 part series starts this Friday, March 23 and continues every Friday and Saturday for three consecutive weekends at Woodford Café Carpark, Woodford Street , Newtown.
Audience members should be seated by 6:30 p.m., as taping starts promptly at 7:00 p.m.For more information contact Aya Vision on (868) 624-5562 or (868) 716-0988 or email gfranco3@gmail.com.
WHAT:SPEAK, a poetry revolution for television
WHO: Emerging artists alongside established icons of poetry and music from the region and local arena, including Leroy Clarke, Brother Resistance, Levi Myaz, King David, Cecelia Salazar, Stanton Kewley and Ceteswayo Murai
WHEN: WEEK 1:March 23rd & 24th
WEEK 2:March 30th & 31st
WEEK 3:April 6th & 7th
WHERE: Woodford Café Carpark, Woodford Street , Newtown
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Liza Miller, Director of Public Relations, Caribbean
~We Are Part of the Earth~ -- PLEASE REPOST!!
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Category: News and Politics
~We Are Part of the Earth~ -- PLEASE REPOST!!
~This is a Test~A Prophecy fullfilled~This isn't just a petition...it's a quest...To Save this Part of Earth and Land that has Far to long Been Forgotten~
To call Yourself a truthseeker and not see the potential for truth in these Mounds..well...Consider how Much Truth we Have been Searching for of the Maya and Egyptians...then think that NoOne even Knows these Peoples Names anyMore...I heard them cry...And Have offered my Help...will You do the same...please...decide to hear and listen to your heart...
Online Petiton to Save 222 acres of Wet Lands of Cahokia Mounds from becoming a trash dump...please take a moment and sign...and if you did earlier...I only managed to catch 10 names by the time I got back to the computer and I know some of you signed the post and passed it on...so if you could sign that would be fabulous...I apologize...this is my first petition...just copy and paste to your browser...thanks and love...
~America's Pyramid Builders~ The Land base of Monks Mound is even One Acre Greater than the Great Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt..and the Mound is far Bigger than the Pyramids of the Maya...Monks Mound is the one Here is Green... ~Uncovering America's Pyramid Builders~ The grandest culture north of the Maya created a city of 20,000 people, built monuments rivaling Egypt's Great Pyramid, then vanished into oblivion by Karen Wright, Photography by Grant Delin When U.S. 40 reaches Collinsville, Illinois, the land is flat and open. Seedy storefronts line the highway: a pawnshop, a discount carpet warehouse, a taco joint, a bar. Only the Indian Mound Motel gives any hint that the road bisects something more than underdeveloped farmland. This is the Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site, a United Nations World Heritage Site on a par with the Great Wall of China, the Egyptian pyramids, and the Taj Mahal. The 4,000-acre complex preserves the remnants of the largest prehistoric settlement north of Mexico, a walled city that flourished on the floodplain of the Mississippi River 10 centuries ago. Covering an area more than five miles square, Cahokia dwarfs the ancient pueblos of New Mexico's Chaco Canyon and every other ruin left by the storied Anasazi of the American Southwest. Yet despite its size and importance, archaeologists still don't understand how this vast, lost culture began, how it ended, and what went on in between. Monks Mound, a monumental remnant of the lost Cahokian culture, is bigger at the base than the pyramid of Khufu, the largest in Egypt. When journalist Henry Marie Brackenridge happened upon the terraced earthwork in 1811, he proclaimed, "What a stupendous pile of earth!" A thousand years ago, no one could have missed Cahokia—a complex, sophisticated society with an urban center, satellite villages, and as many as 50,000 people in all. Thatched-roof houses lined the central plazas. Merchants swapped copper, mica, and seashells from as far away as the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of cooking fires burned night and day. And between A.D. 1000 and 1300, Cahokians built more than 120 earthen mounds as landmarks, tombs, and ceremonial platforms. The largest of these monuments, now called Monks Mound, still dominates the site. It is a flat-topped pyramid of dirt that covers more than 14 acres and once supported a 5,000-square-foot temple. Monks Mound is bigger than any of the three great pyramids at Giza outside Cairo. "This is the third or fourth biggest pyramid in the world, in terms of volume," says archaeologist Tim Pauketat of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It towers 100 feet over a 40-acre plaza that was surrounded by lesser mounds and a two-mile-long stockade. The monument was the crowning achievement of a mound-building culture that began thousands of years earlier and was never duplicated on this continent. Why Cahokia crumbled and its people vanished is unknown. Malnutrition, overcrowding, a dwindling resource base, the raids of jealous trade partners—any or all of these reasons may have contributed to the city's demise. No one knows whether the populace cleared out all at once or dispersed gradually, but by A.D. 1300 Cahokia was a ghost town. By the time Europeans arrived in the Mississippi bottomland, the region was only sparsely settled, and none of the native residents could recount what had happened there centuries before. So far, archaeologists have uncovered no evidence of invasion, rampant disease, overpopulation, deforestation, or any of the other hallmarks of the decline and fall of civilization. Cahokia abounds in artifacts, but archaeologists have not yet made sense of them in a meaningful way. "It actually becomes quite scary," says John Kelly of Washington University in St. Louis. "After a while you begin to realize that you're dealing with rituals that had a great deal of meaning 800 years ago and that you're kind of clueless." Intellectual frustration is not the only reason for Cahokia's obscurity. Pauketat complains that the region is geographically challenged. It has the look and feel of a place "like Buffalo, except warmer," he says. Cahokia doesn't exactly lure others away from more exotic digs in Turkey, Mexico, or Peru, he says. "That's the problem with this site." Another reason for its lack of popularity is the ordinary, perishable building materials used by the residents. "Cahokians are discounted because they built with dirt—dirt and wood, things they valued," says Pauketat. "I get tired of hearing people say, 'We have civilization and you guys don't.' " Meanwhile, developers see Cahokia as ripe for expansion; strip malls and subdivisions threaten on every side. "It's developing faster than we can survey," Pauketat says. "We don't know what we're losing out there." Although a good portion of the central city is now protected, archaeologists are discovering related sites throughout a six-county region on both sides of the nearby Mississippi—an area 3,600 miles square. Indeed, digs are under way in such unlikely places as a railroad yard eight miles west in East St. Louis, where a new bridge is scheduled. "If you want to find out the archaeology of an area," says Brad Koldehoff of the Illinois Department of Transportation's archaeology team, "build a road through it."
High Contrast--Literature of the Digital Evolution
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Category: Writing and Poetry
Hello again, I'd like to invite you to read this issue of High Contrast--Literature of the Digital Evolution. It features one of my members, Janique Baker's works of poetry. Her penname is simply "Erotica".
This is the editor's Foreword:
High Contrast--Literature of the Digital Evolution.
January 26, 2007 (Larry Wilson: King of Erotica, Janique Baker, Tim Majkowski, Jenn Bouwman) Category: Writing and Poetry
"I'd like to welcome you to today's issue of High Contrast--Literature of the Digital Evolution. We've got a few treats in store for you; The return of Tim Majkowski, whose first inclusion in HC recieved a tremendous amount of acclaim, One of the most highly visible artists here on Myspace, Larry Wilson, who most of you will know as dapharoah69, The King of Erotica, and most excitingly, the debut of Trinadadian artist Janique Baker, whose penname is simply "Erotica", and Jenn Bouwman.
Mrs. Baker, born in 1981 in Trinidad & Tobago, is uniquely gifted in that she has a beautiful voice and is an exceptionally gifted dancer as well. Her poetry speaks to the young people of her generation yet it still is potent enough to make mature, more older persons think. We look forward to seeing her upcoming collection of poetry, "Then to now", become available. Stay-tuned here for more details and information on an article I will be doing soon featuring Mrs. Baker.
I hope you enjoy this issue as much as I did in it's creation---always remember, our artists love and appreciate comments and feedback!"
REAL TRINIS By ozymajic (sound and spirit) p&c 2005
All meh real trinidadians hands up in the air Me real trinidadians jump around like yuh jus dont care All meh real trinibagonians hands uplet me see When yuh see we wave and misbehave thats jus the trini in we!!
how do you know a real trini? They could tell you whas a congoree Stew and roti, betty goatie.... after 29 is 30 how yuh know a true trinidadian give we a dustbin we making a steelpan flags and stags and caribs in we hand a trini plus a trini is a band....
we does turn foreign to local anywhere we go we start a carnival make a bachanal...in any capital... a trini fete does make the others look like funeral i am a trinidad original i eating pelau and i eating dhal if yuh know that a crix is vital two hands up like de dial!!!
some come by boat some leave by plane some some call trinidad name in vain some come down once in a while like rain some say they never setting foot here again in we twin island a combination they have no appreciation this is de land of my creation where hurricane does change direction!!!
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