Now in its 26th Year! Aug 14 - 20, 2014 Vol.26, No.48
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Hon. Julian Fraser Save the Seed National Basketball League Kicks off Aug 15th @ 5pm Also this week: scaramouche Closing Party • Back2school Fair • Free Pilates @ save the seed
Photo Provided by Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway
This Week’s Feature Story by Jan Critchley
National Basketball League Begins! With much anticipation, the Hon. Julian Fraser Save the Seed National Basketball League will kick off on Friday, 15th August, beginning with an opening ceremony at 5pm at the basketball court at their Duff’s Bottom facility. Ready and eager to shoot hoops, there are already a record number of registrants with some 18 senior teams signed up to be part of this popular league, and there is also a 9-13 junior division. On the opening night, all of the teams will have players representing them in the “lineup.” Amongst the teams playing are the defending champions “Ruff House” who will go head to head with last year’s finalists “Avengers” and play the last three games on the opening night. This is the second annual basketball league, and both Hon. Fraser and the Save the Seed Energy Centre founder, Bishop John Cline have pledged their support. They said that the league is more than basketball, but is also about youth development, instilling discipline and building character in young people though the sport of basketball. The league will be played under FIBA rules with some by-laws relevant to this specific league. Games
will be played on the weekends on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, with an occasional Wednesday night game – and this season is expected to end by 2nd November. There is a draft system in place whereby each team can secure one of the Virgin Islands’ A Team Players who is over the age of 23 and under 40 years old who played in the BVI Federation Basketball League this year. A raffle pick will determine which team will get which player in the draft. Some of the elite players to be considered, once they agree to the draft are the likes of Jason A. Edwin, Kennedy H. Bass, Ray D. Victor, Randy ‘Chino’ George, Cedric King, David ‘Bolo’ Lettsome, Steve E. Parillon, Travis Isaac, Kelvin Samuel, Phillip Glasgow, Javaghn Cameron, Juan Hatchet, Jevone ‘Bugsy’ Demming, Trevon ‘Reese’ Lewis and Dwayne ‘Kobo’ Penn to name a few. So make it a date to support the teams at the opening ceremony at 5pm on Friday, 15th August and meet all the teams, coaches, managers and organizers of this years’ National Basketball League. Then all you have to do is pick your favorite team and cheer them all the way to the finals! For more information call the Save the Seed Centre on 494-7353.
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By John Crook
Questions swirl as ‘Doctor Who’ begins its new season The BBC has been playing its cards very close to the vest in the run-up to the new season of Doctor Who, which premieres Saturday, Aug. 23, on BBC America. That’s not really anything new, since the British network understandably views the international cult hit as a flagship property, and it’s even more understandable in this case, since five scripts accidentally got leaked online just a matter of weeks ago. (The security lapse apparently happened when the scripts were sent to the BBC’s new Latin American headquarters in Miami for translation). In any case, these new episodes are attracting special buzz not so much for their plot points, but because they feature a new incarnation of the Doctor, now played by Scottish actor Peter Capaldi. His character, a time-traveling space alien, is ancient in age, but periodically undergoes “regeneration” from one physical form to another. It’s a neat conceptual hook that has allowed a series of actors to play the title role since the show originally premiered in 1963. Not counting John
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Hurt’s one-off appearance as a kind of “alt-Doctor” in last year’s 50th anniversary special, Capaldi is the 12th Doctor, but he’s only the fourth actor to essay the role in the current run of the series that was relaunched in 2005. While Doctor Who has been revered by British fans for decades, the show really started to take off in the United States with the 10th Doctor, played by David Tennant, and his successor, played by Matt Smith, the youngest actor ever to tackle this iconic role. In contrast, Capaldi is 56, and has built his career by playing intense characters like his comically profane Malcolm Tucker in the critically acclaimed political Britcom “The Thick of It.” Clearly he won’t be playing the Doctor in the boyish vein favored by Tennant and Smith. In fact, Capaldi reveals in a recent interview with Empire magazine, fans can anticipate a Doctor who is a lot more “alien” than he previously has seemed. “He doesn’t really care much about human beings’ approval,” the actor added in that interview.
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Vol. 26, No. 48 • Aug 14 - 20, 2014
Ask Koren
Your personal E-therapist, is in the house!
How to be Happier Ask Koren In all my many years of working with people, I have never met one single person who did not want to be happier. We must treasure the moments we have because time is a gift and life is the greatest gift of all. So why spend so much time unhappy and miserable, when you can be happy and joyful. Here are eight ways to up your happiness quotient: 1. Gratitude. Giving thanks for what we already have breeds in us a spirit of optimism and we learn to focus on the positives in our life. Gratitude fuels happiness because we feel so lucky to be alive that sometimes we just can’t be bothered with little annoyances. 2. Nurture your relationships. Make sure that you spend time with people in whose company you feel better and not toxic people who suck all your joy and leave you feeling drained. Spend quality time with your family, friends and other loved ones. Knowing that someone has your back gives you a feeling of security. 3. Service. You cannot love without serving and you cannot serve without loving. Giving back brings light into someone else’s life and also into your own. You could give things, time or even advice and guidance. It might seem small to you but when you see the joy it brings to someone else, it will really brighten your day. 4. Take care of your health. The body and the soul are so connected that the better care we take of our bodies, the more positive the impact on our souls. We feel more energetic, less ill and stressed and happier. 5. Speak your mind. Being honest with yourself and others gives a sense of freedom. Some of the most miserable people are those who constantly allow themselves to be a doormat and never find the courage to speak out. You don’t have to be rude or Limin’ Times Entertainment Guide
disrespectful, but learn to say no when it needs to be said and stand up for your rights. 6. Find a job you really like. If you are going to spend 8 hours a day at one place, it is so much better if it were at a place you like, doing what you enjoy. You will feel such a sense of fulfillment and satisfaction that even the occasional unpleasant co-worker will not distract you. 7. Love yourself. Stop talking to yourself with hatred and treat yourself with care and in a nurturing way. We tell ourselves ‘I’m ugly”, “no one can love me” and other such nonsense when we should be reminding ourselves that we are beautiful and worthwhile creatures.. 8. Have a spiritual connection. A spiritual connection helps us to forgive ourselves and others and have hope. It helps us to find meaning in life and understand our purpose for being which in turn creates happiness. Let us endeavor to begin a happiness project in our lives and watch the transformation from fear and worry and misery to happiness and thankfulness and joy.
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Your Guide to British Virgin Islands Events By Jan Critchley
Scaramouche Closing Party Scaramouche, one the coolest nightspots in Tortola is having its first season closing party on Friday, August 15th from 7pm till late. There will be a complimentary Italian buffet and late night dancing to your favorite disco and house tunes by DJ Jay Negril and, of course, there will be amazing drinks all night long, so head out to Soper’s Hole and take in the chilled atmosphere at this happening bar and restaurant.
Free Pilates Introductory Session
All you can eat Pancakes Stop by at D’Best Cup in Soper’s Hole any
Would you like to improve your health, your flexiSaturday and Sunday between 7:30am and 12 noon bility, muscular strength and tone? If so, then take this month for their amazing Breakfast Special advantage of a free introductory session of Pilates, at including “All you can eat Pancakes!!” Even better Save the Seed’s Energy Centre Gym with instructor you can choose from a selection of Blueberry, Pamelah Antoine on Monday, 18th August at 5:45pm. Banana or Buttermilk Pancakes. Other tasty treats The session is appropriate for both men and women of include Bar-B-Que Ribs and Eggs served with Hash all fitness levels. To sign up or for more information call Browns & Toast, Salt Fish with Johnny Cake and the Energy Centre Gym on 494-7353. much more. So stop by this weekend for a breakfast
Surf School Make the most of the next few weeks before school starts back and take some surf lessons with
that will keep you going all day long!
Back to School Fair Ready to go back to school and need some sup-
the surf school guys down at Josiah’s Bay. Lessons plies? Well, if so then head to the Benjamin Romney run for about an hour and costs approximately $60 Recreation Park in West End for the West End per person in groups of around 2-3 people at a time, Community Centre’s second annual Back2School so that everyone gets lots of attention in the water Fair on Saturday, August 16th from 1pm till 5pm. This and are stoked and happy at the end of the session! fun filled event is geared towards all students from The only requirement is that you can swim and kindergarten to college level and the guest speaker bring sun block, and the surf school will provide the will be Brandi Mallory, Makeup Artist and ABC’s boards etc. Call 343-0002 to book your lesson today!
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live music • events • concerts •
THURSDAY - AUG 14
WEST END
ROAD TOWN
SCARAMOUCHE — 2014 Season Closing Party w/
PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm.
DJ Jay Negril late night dancing. Complimentary Italian
SHARKY’S — Happy Hour Mon-Fri 5-7pm.
Buffet from 7pm until late
SATURDAY - AUG 16
CANE GARDEN BAY QUITO’S — Half Price Happy Hour 5pm to 7pm.
ROAD TOWN
Quito plays solo 7:30
PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm
MYETT’S — Specialty Pizza. Candyman plays live
WEST END
Sunset Happier Hour
D BEST CUP — All you can eat Pancake Breakfast
5-7pm. Awesome Crew band 7pm
from 7:30am to 12pm
FRIDAY - AUG 15 ROAD TOWN PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm BENJAMIN ROMNEY PARK — Back2School Fair
CANE GARDEN BAY MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour with Candyman
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from 1-5pm w/ guest speaker
5-7pm. Evolution Band 7pm. Prime Rib Night.
CANE GARDEN BAY
QUITO’S — Half Price Happy Hour with Ras Rio;
MYETT’S — Sunset Happier Hour 5-7pm w/ Sim &
Closing Party with Quito and The Edge @ 9:30
Awesome Crew at 7pm. Sushi & Stir Fry w/ Chef Elsa
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ts • parties • sports • movies and more
SUNDAY - AUG 17
PUSSER’S — Daily Happy Hour from 5-7pm
WEST END
CANE GARDEN BAY
D BEST CUP — All you can eat Pancake Breakfast
UPCOMING EVENTS
MYETT’S — Mexican Monday with Specialty
from 7:30am to 12pm Margaritas, fish tacos. Candyman Sunset Happier Hour NORTH SHORE 5-7pm. Live entertainment SEBASTIANS — Jamaican Sunday Brunch from 11am with $3 Red Stripe
TUESDAY - AUG 19
CANE GARDEN BAY
CANE GARDEN BAY
MYETT’S — Special Brunch Menu & Bottomless
MYETT’S — Simm plays live during Sunset Happier
Mimosa’s. Steel Pan Vibes 1-4pm. Sunset Happier Hour 5Hour 5-7pm. Paella & Sangaria. Awesome Crew 7pm. 7pm. Surprise live Musician 6-8pm. BBQ Night
MONDAY - AUG 18 ROAD TOWN SAVE THE SEED — Energy Centre Gym Free
WEDNESDAY - AUG 20 ROAD TOWN
Shots & Synergy Dance Party — Aug 23 Art, Wine & Farmers Market — Aug 31 St. Ursula’s Day — Oct 20
SHARKY’S — Quiz Night 7pm & Salsa Night 9pm
Introductory Pilates Session at 5:45pm w/ Pamelah Antoine
Trellis Bay Full Moon Party — Sept 9
CANE GARDEN BAY
MYETT’S — Specialty Pizza. Sunset Happier Hour 5-7pm w/ Awesome Crew & Tortola’s Own 3D Band.
Foxy Halloween Cat Fight — Oct 25 6th Annual Microphone Messenjahs (Spoken Word/Poetry) — Oct 25 Halloween — Oct 31 BVI Triathlon Federation-Semi Steel — Nov 15
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fit all students from kindergarten to college and will have school supplies such as writing books, pens, pencils, crayons, rulers, hand sanitizers and lots more. Call Charles Benjamin on 541-2056 for more information.
Coming Up Shots & Synergy Dance Party If you enjoy dancing and cocktail shots then don’t miss Bounce’s new Shots & Synergy Dance Party, from 9pm on 23rd August 2014 at Bamboushay Lounge on Waterfront Drive. Every hour the bartenders will mix a different $2 shot, taste all of them and get a Synergy Membership Card. The light show and DJ will be provided by Bounce, so dress to impress and get your drinking boots on!
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By Jane Bakewell
The Cereal Sell Out Some of us have our favorite cereal brands that date back to childhood. Possibly yours were familiar favorites like Cheerios, Rice Krispies or Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes. For me it was a toss up between Raisin Bran and Grape Nuts. Loved those wheat flakes with sweet raisins (never enough in the box for me) and the crunchy goodness of those barely nuggets. My father, our early morning breakfast chef, always insisted, especially in the cold winters of the Midwest, that we have hot Oatmeal or Cream of Wheat. His favorite combo was Cream of Wheat with Kellogg’s All-Bran on top. Need that fiber, he would say. I preferred topping mine with Grape Nuts. As I grew into my twenties and got more health conscious, I brought my vegetarian diet back home to the consternation of my mother, who did not fancy meatless meals, I also begin to examine my cereal choices. I left the Raisin Bran behind – too much sugar. But those Grape Nuts were still “kosher” as there were only four ingredients: wheat flour, malted barley, salt and dried yeast. They passed the test, which included avoiding any product with a paragraph or more of ingredients, some of which you could not pronounce let alone know what it was made up of. I stayed loyal to my Grape Nuts, interspersed with healthy granola (not the sugar coated, calorie-laden ones on most shelves today) and occasionally Jordan’s Natural Muesli. Grape Nuts began to be harder and harder to find here in the BVI, stores stopped carrying it opting for the latest “fad” cereals with all the new “buzz” ingredients such as anti-oxidant cranberries, a hint of vanilla or cinnamon, fiber-rich etc. So
I started hoarding when I found Grape Nuts – two boxes at a time or more. On my quest for my favorite brand recently, I spotted the familiar Grape Nuts logo. But lo and behold this was not the original but a hybrid! It had cranberries and a hint of vanilla. I can do that, I thought to myself, but to my dismay when I looked on the side of the box, there was that awful “paragraph of ingredients” including three types of sugar. My familiar nuggets were drowned in a sea of flakes and puffed this and puffed that. Loyal to my brand, I thought, OK this time I will give it a shot and see what it tastes like. This was, in hindsight, the consummate consumer mistake. Let me end this by saying to the folks at Post Cereal Company, which dates back more than 100 years, with all your new and “creative” ideas – you do not need to reinvent the wheel. Once you have a solid product tested over the years – please leave it alone! My hope is that this latest spin on the original will die out like most fads do and I will find my familiar Grape Nuts with only four ingredients loyally waiting for me on the supermarket shelf. 11
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By Dean “The Sportsman” Greenaway
An International Volleyball Referee’s Pathway Team sports in the Territory are sorely lacking referee from their country representing them – except erees who are internationally certified. Many people the BVI. The referee representing the BVI she play but none seek to become officials. Currently, explained, would not be from the Territory as there’s Glenford “Chappy” Maduro in Softball and Norval no one certified at that level. Young – who’s certified in both Basketball and “This has a lot to do with national pride,” Georges Football – are only two with international certification said. “At the beginning of every game in a tournament in team sports. the referee from each country is introduced. It would Tamisha Georges – a passionate Volleyball National be very nice to have somebody from the BVI there as team player – is working her way well. There are a few people who have towards becoming an internationally met the regional requirements I think certified Volleyball referee, the pathand can go on to that level. Whether way least traveled by our players. they are interested I don’t know, but Two years ago, she expressed her that’s one of the things I want to do.” interest to the BVI Volleyball In 2012 Georges along with Association officials. Among her reaAmadonna Creese, Talyia Nibbs, sons, Georges said, is a desire to give Simone Penn and Natrice Peters back to the sport and contribute to its began the certification process capigrowth and development. talizing on a national volleyball certi“This is something I’m very pasfication course conducted by sionate about and at a very young Stephen Payne. Tamisha Georges age I realized that there’s no succesAfter passing the course, they are sion plan,” Georges noted explaining that when she allowed to referee in local league matches – something took up the sport as a nine year old, there were many they must do for three successive years. After which people in the sport to ensure its continuity, but that’s the local association can put forth the recommendano longer the case. “That’s the point where we’re at tion to get the person exposure and their hours countnow and outside of that, we don’t have children comed towards international certification. ing up in Primary Schools playing Volleyball. By the Once that process is completed and they are sanctime I was in High School, I could bump, not spike as tioned by FIVB, they can go on to international referee good as I can now but I could spike and serve a ball. courses. As a player, Georges said every year the Right now, children are learning to do that in High courses help her to gain and retain knowledge. School. So there’s no succession—there’s no continu“Whether I’m playing or sitting out the game, it’s easy ation.” to recognize this is the play that should be called,” Georges notes that when they attend internationshe noted. “Obviously, if you’re studying to be a referal tournaments it can almost be looked at as being ee you have to know the rules and it has really unfair because every other country has a certified refenhanced my knowledge of the game.” 13
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By Jan Critchley
The Other Woman After discovering her boyfriend Mark King (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) is married, Carly Whitten (Cameron Diaz) tries to get her ruined life back on track. But when she accidentally meets Kate (Leslie Mann), the wife he's been cheating on, she realizes they have much in common, and her sworn enemy becomes her greatest friend. When yet another affair is discovered with young, sexy Amber (Kate Upton), all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on this cheating, lying, three-timing Casanova! The three women meet up at a beach house and Amber reveals that she knew all along that Kate was married to Mark, claiming that Mark had told her that he was getting divorced. So the next morning,
When they reveal this to Kate, she is done, and helps
the hung-over Carly says she wants to plan the ulti-
Carly get more incriminating information.
mate payback using her own job as a lawyer, Kate's
The final showdown comes when Mark is invited
knowledge of Mark's lifestyle, and Amber's looks –
to Carly's law firm for a meeting and he is forced to
to get revenge.
stand face-to-face with all three women and Kate
Back in New York, Kate starts to mess with Mark
immediately asks for a divorce.
by putting hair removal cream in his shampoo and
Mark is confronted with the evidence of his cor-
give him estrogen in his smoothies, causing him to
ruption and the fact that all the money has been
grow breasts. Carly meets with Mark on a date,
returned to the defrauded companies, leaving Mark
catches him flirting with another woman, and slips
with absolutely nothing. He is fired from his job, and
laxatives into his scotch and water. However, Kate is
goes into a rage, rushing to his computer only to see
not quite over Mark despite his infidelities and she
his bank accounts empty. He goes outside the build-
agrees to go on a business trip with him to the
ing and sees his car getting towed and screams in fury.
Bahamas.
In the last scene you see the three women meet-
Meanwhile, Carly and Amber find out that Mark’s
ing up to toast their friendship, but will their lives
business dealings have been less than scrupulous
remain intertwined? You will have to watch to find
and that he has been embezzling money from clients.
out! Available now on DVD and iTunes.