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6th-9th September, 2010:
Conference on Slave, Forced and 'Free' Labour

will include a PUBLIC evening session on Tuesday 7th September. Talks by Anti-Slavery International and the International Labour Organisation, plus a Q&A panel session. It is hoped to video the event and make it publicly available. More details in due course.

The UK University of Nottingham, Institute for the Study of Slavery seeks to pursue and develop research on contemporary, as well as historical slavery in all parts of the world.

3rd - 17th July: Oxfam Bookfest in Chiswick, West London.

Van Gogh at the Royal Academy of Arts.

The spring Exhibition at The Royal Academy of Arts in London was The Real Van Gogh: The Artist and his Letters.

In The Biorhythm Kit by Jacyntha Crawley the biorhythms of Van Gogh were studied in detail, using his letters and covering one year of his life.

The London Intervarsity Club's

Practical Conservation Group.

Director Profiles continued from the Age Link profile on www.jacynthacrawley.com.

Jacyntha Crawley founded the London IVC Conservation group before the word "conservation" became ubiquitous! Members of London IVC's (the Intervarsity Club's) Practical Conservation Group have volunteered from Fair Isle to Guernsey, and numerous places in between. Fair Isle is the most northerly inhabited island in the British Isles, and was the first " Fair Trade island " in Britain. Over the years London IVC volunteers have gained many practical skills, and much insight into life!

An off-shoot of the London IVC conservation group

is that Dave Lawrence, tel: 07957 577355 or 020 8444 6285, began his conservation "career" as a very keen London IVC volunteer, and now professionally manages 3 nature reserves in North and North West London. One, in Belsize Park has been nominated for " Local Nature Reserve Status". The Jenny Wood Nature Reserve, where most London IVC volunteers now help, is a small, but exceptional, nature reserve in a built up, and rather socially deprived area of London. Please contact Dave Lawrence, if you want to volunteer at any of the reserves in North London. This does NOT have to be a regular commitment: help on an occasional basis is also greatly appreciated.

Dave Lawrence, Nature Conservation Officer, Parks and Open Spaces, London Borough of Camden.

Phone: 020 7974 8818; Mobile: 07881 840366; Fax: 020 7974 3588. To be on the 4-times a year mailing list is free.

Ian Moseley (centre), Jacyntha Crawley (left) and a fellow conservationist who prefers not to be named (right). Picture taken before a Conference in Cardiff, Wales.

Ian Moseley and Jacyntha Crawley are the two main Directors of the London Biorhythm Company.

Wednesday 16th September: London Toastmaster s are speaking in public in the Whitechapel Art Gallery, East London. The offices of the Tower Hamlets Community Credit Union and the Tower Hamlets Co-operative Development Agency are within easy walking distance of the gallery.

Volunteer Ian Moseley photographed driving a tractor on the National Trust owned Golden Cap Estate in Dorset. Members of the London IVC social club, volunteer regularly along this coastline, which is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site.

Ian Moseley.

Ian Moseley was a founder committee member of the Tower Hamlets Community Credit Union . He has been, and is, the Hon. Chairman. In 2003, the Tower Hamlets Community Credit Union won a £1,000 prize for being well run, and one of the best in England and Wales. Scotland has slightly different rules and regulations. Ian believes passionately that no-one should regard themselves as being financially excluded.

Are you interested in setting up a credit union, or a co-operative?

The 2008 Annual Meeting of ABCUL, the Association of British Credit Unions Limited, was in Blackpool from 7th-9th March. e.Newsletter free of charge.

You might be interested in the website www.tescopoly.org, a website promoting real "supermarket debate".

Ian Moseley and Jacyntha Crawley have both been elected to the committee of the Tower Hamlets CDA (Co-operative Development Agency).

In February 2008 the Dog Wardens in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets raised over £3,000 which they took to a dog santuary in Thailand.

Ian has long been a passionate supporter of the 2012 Olympics Games coming to East London. He volunteered to be an (unpaid) steward during the Games months before it was announced that London would house this major sporting event!

The London Olympic team will need 70,000 (yes, seventy thousand!) volunteers during the 2012 Olympic Games, and the Paralympic Games that will follow them. Can you help?

Chiswick, West London.: Each year Ian Moseley volunteers to distribute bottles of drinking water during the Chiswick, West London., usually at stage 17 on the Isle of Dogs. If you want to volunteer contact Ian, or the Chiswick, West London. organisers. All are welcomed, although volunteering at peak times can be strenuous!

Learn to speak in Public in a

Supportive Environment.

Jacyntha Crawley is an Advanced Toastmaster (ATM) Bronze. You can forget any jokes about being a 'money machine': Jacyntha has heard them before!! As a member of the Athenian Speakers Club, the Toastmaster s club in Hammersmith, West London, Jacyntha practices public speaking regularly. She has also served as the Hon. Secretary. The Athenian Speakers Club meets weekly, and the club is always expanding as members set up new local groups of "Toastmaster s". At all Toastmaster Clubs, guests are very welcome, free of charge. Just turn up to find out more about Toastmaster s. Members of the Athenian Speakers Club have won more national and international awards than any other Toastmaster s Club in the UK, yet, for many Athenians, English is not their first language! Jacyntha believes that the standard of public speaking and enterprise at the Athenian Speakers Club is truly phenomenal.

Toastmaster s International is a worldwide grouping of thousands of local public speaking clubs. New members and guests are always welcomed at Toastmaster s clubs, and you will find established members extremely supportive.

Enterprising "Athenians" and other Toastmasters.

The London International Speaking Professionals: (LISP). Ian Harrison is the President of LISP, and has been an "Athenian", then a founder member,and a past-President of " Riverside Communicators ", the Toastmaster s group in Twickenham, West London.

Maya Driscoll (Ki-author), Kate Jacobsson and Colin Fu are involved with www.WhingeIt.com ", a site for personal development.

Originally from Sweden, mulit-lingual and very widely travelled, Kate Jacobsson has a video production company.
Rod Sloane began his speaking career as a drop-in member of Athenian Speakers Club. He then went on to win awards for his performances, and to help found the Trojan Speakers Club in Ealing, West London, and 25, a Toastmasters Club which originally met on the set of the "Coronation Street" UK soap opera.

Phil Hulme, a "past-Athenian", now living outside London, is the web host for this site, and our other biorhythm related web sites. At www.webhealer.net they host web space for the CROC (concerned residents) website and the Athenian Speakers Club and other Toastmaster groups.

Calum Coburn, another past-President of Athenian Speakers Club, now runs The Negociation Academy (for Business Leadership).

Tony Lazar is a Cognitive Therapist and Hypnotherapist. As well as being "an Athenian", he is also a member of West London Speakers and of Harrovians, based in Harrow, Middlesex.

New York, USA: Julia Willebrand, a serious "Green Party" activist stood for the post of Comptroller of New York State. Web link explains exactly what the Comptroller does! Julia has also set up at least one Toastmaster group in the USA.

An expanded list of articles by Jacyntha Crawley is in the London Biorhythm Company 's Biorhythm Bibliography.

In 2006 Jacyntha Crawley had the "interesting experience" of almost intergrating biorhythms "into mainstream toothpaste"!!! This was not something she had ever expected to be doing!

An employee of an extremely high-powered London advertising agency felt that, as it emerged from the squeezed tube, the coloured curves in the (branded) toothpaste were visually similar to the curves on a biorhythm chart! This was the image the advertising agency wanted to work with! Months went by, there was experimentation, and much discussion! Currently the project is "on hold"!, but it's existence meant that:

Jacyntha realised that no-one ever knows exactly what life will throw up next!

The advertising agency was behind the publication of a number of articles on biorhythms.

Jacyntha made useful contacts within the media. One of the articles written during this period forms the basis of the Biorhythm Compatability Page of the London Biorhythm Company website.

Locally, Jacyntha Crawley is the Membership Secretary of The Richmond Society, and is a strong supporter of Richmond Trees, organised by John Bruce Cairns and of CROC, the "self-help" group for (bullied or) concerned residents.

Independent Books by other members of the Athenians Speakers Club.

Rod Sloane runs the Solicitors Institute . He has published 121 Marketing Ways to Grow Your Small Business. Rod speaks to local business organisations, and is a competition winning speaker. He also helped found Trojan Speakers Club in Ealing, West London, and then set up the Toastmaster s group Manchester Orators. Originally, Manchester Orators met on the actual set of the hit British TV soap opera Coronation Street .

www.ebookpremier.com is a web site run by Colin Fu, a past-President of the Athenian Speakers Club. At www.ebookpremier.com they try to help those who want to become online entrepreneurs. A lot of good value e-Books are available on www.ebookpremier.com, and Colin is also the Internet Matketing Specialist, and the Online Business Strategist behind the Yoga for Stress Relief Program. Colin took part in the Asia Pacific Speakers Summit 2007. Colin is also involved with www.WhingeIt.com, a site devoted to personal development and growth. Colin Fu, Ph.D., C.Eng, M.I.E.E, +44 7818 408107.

Ki Publishing Co-operative News.

Mary Phelan Phelan is an Art historian and sometime graphic artist. She is a co-founder of artyfacts.info, a London-based online arts magazine that she edits and contributes to. She also editor for Ki Publishing.

Mary Phelan is the author of Where Do You Live? A New Look at Old Houses, and has published articles on architecture.

Mary Phelan is passionate about the interaction of words and image. This is why she is extremely impressed with the quality of the art of Frances Quail, and has put considerable effort into editing "The Many Hatted Man and the Butterfly Lady", a very readable modern fable to be published by Ki Publishing, sample illustration on the right.

Professional caterer and nutritionist, Maya Driscoll , second from left, bottom row, and wearing the Presidential Medal, is the author of a comprehensive book on home entertainment from scratch. This is the next book in the Ki Publishing catalogue, and is edited by Mary Phelan.

Maya Driscoll lectures and provides cookery demonstrations. She is involved with, and volunteers for, the London-based charity Lambeth Home Start .

When you are right ... Never, ever "give up"!

The London Biorhythm Company, Ki Publishing and Batik Cards, have a long running complaint against Royal Mail Post Office Boxes. At the London Biorhythm Company , at Ki Publishing and at Batik Cards , we have a genuine complaint in the way that biorhythm representatives have been continually ignored by the Royal Mail Post Office Boxes. This is why the London Biorhythm Company , Ki Publishing and Batik Cards are in dispute with Royal Mail Post Office Boxes. The London Biorhythm Company rented a P.O. Box from Royal Mail Post Office Boxes, and had always paid promptly and annually in advance. In August 2006 Royal Mail Post Office Boxes staff intercepted, and by their own admission, pulped our incoming mail. At the London Biorhythm Company , Ki Publishing and Batik Cards , we complained politely; then complained and requested an apology. Polite complaint 1, and polite complaint 2, having been disdainfully ignored, we upped the stakes to complaint 3, in which the London Biorhythm Company , Ki Publishing and Batik Cards additionally requested a re-instatement of full service, after all the London Biorhythm Company had fully paid-up for this service, and at the London Biorhythm Company we had always given the counter staff chocolates at Christmas! Now, at the London Biorhythm Company , at Ki Publishing and at Batik Cards , we have lost patience. Our genuine complaints are routinely, and deliberately, ignored. Polite complaints to the Royal Mail Post Office Boxes got us nowhere, so, the London Biorhythm Company , Ki Publishing and Batik Cards are now 'going for' maximum media coverage, and full compensation for, the disruption of service to the London Biorhythm Company , to Ki Publishing and to Batik Cards ; and the loss of the London Biorhythm Company 's, Ki Publishing's and Batik Cards 's efficient image.