2nd June, 2009 Press Releases

swiss smile kids – The Future of Children’s Dentristry

Are you scared of seeing the dentist? According to a recent survey, 80% of all people are scared of seeing the dentist with at least half of those claiming bad childhood dental experiences as the reason.

Thankfully all that is about to change with the arrival on Brook Street, W1 of swiss smile kids. In their native Switzerland swiss smile treat 400 people a day.

Swiss smile is aiming to revolutionise kids’ dentistry by utilising special techniques to make the kids feel safe and secure about going to the dentist. Award winning pediatric dentist, Dr. Atar, the clinic’s resident dentist has carefully thought through the whole process, using special materials for young teeth and psychological tools that help the child to feel at ease.

Here are a few of the behaviour management techniques he uses when treating kids:

Voice Control -modulating your voice so the child listens and obeys Tell Show Do – for phobic patients – the doctor tells what they are going to do, then shows, then does the procedure Child Renese – Using child language to explain the procedure Distraction – Using toys/dvds/other means to distract the child

Dr. Atar is an award winning dentist:
http://www.qmul.ac.uk/news/newsrelease.php?news_id=670

The clinic has a child friendly consulting room and a waiting room with kids’ DVDs and things for them to do. The whole atmosphere is more like walking into a 5* boutique hotel than a dentist … And at prices comparable to my own high street dentist.

The two Zurich based female owners were recently awarded Businesswomen of the Year in Switzerland and their clinic there regularly treats 400 people a day. Their Brook Street branch, their first in London, is open 365 days a year and offers a same day service.

Here’s a link to their website.
http://www.swiss-smile.com/en/london-brook-street/

I hope to hear from you on this. Dr. Atar is available for interviews and free child consultations are available if you would like your child or a child you know to have a swiss smile experience.

23rd May, 2009 Press Releases

MEP Spokesperson David Craig I/V Opps

The EU Election is on 4th June but who cares?
All we have are the usual unknown non-entities, desperately hoping for a lucrative seat on the Brussels gravy train. Meanwhile most voters can’t be bothered wasting their time voting for self-serving third-raters with no ideas and no policies.

There is, however, reason to be hopeful. David Craig, the author who last year uncovered Gordon’s Brown’s massive overspending in his bestseller Squandered: How Gordon Brown is wasting over £1 trillion of our money has now turned his attention to the EU in his latest book The Great European Rip-Off (Random House,£8.99).

In The Great European Rip-Off: How the Corrupt, Wasteful EU is Taking Control of our Lives Craig exposes the shocking greed, arrogance, incompetence and corruption that are the hallmark of today’s EU.

If the media want new and refreshingly honest opinions about what is going right and wrong in Brussels and Strasbourg, then David Craig is the person to talk to.

1. Greed, expenses fraud and cover-ups by MEPs as they become millionaires in just 5 years
2. How the European commissioners are often tarnished third-raters sent to Brussels to keep them out of domestic politics
3. The lack of democracy as 80% of our laws are now made by 27 unelected bureaucrats
4. The importance of this year’s elections – the last act in a fight to the death between centuries of democracy and a centralising bureaucracy
5. How the European Parliament is a powerless hot air factory with little power
6. The failure of all the EU’s main policies – agricultural, fisheries, carbon emissions, biofuels etc
7. Widespread waste and corruption throughout the EU – why no action is ever taken.

Moreover, Craig was so disgusted with the rot that he found permeating all areas of the EU bureaucracy, that he is standing as a candidate for Libertas in the EU elections. While most of our MEPs have used their seats in the European Parliament to enrich themselves at the taxpayers’ expense, Libertas successfully campaigned in Ireland for a rejection of the dreadful Lisbon Treaty. By doing this, Libertas achieved more in one year than our European politicians have achieved in the last thirty years.

In Brussels they’re not listening because they no longer care what voters want. David Craig is one of the few people in Britain prepared to stand up against the Brussels bureaucracy to force them to listen.

For interviews please contact Suzanne Noble, Tel: 0203 355 1529/07957 371840 or suzanne@stunningpr.com

Editors Note: David Craig is the pen name for Neil Glass, who self-published his first book ‘Rip Off’ when none of the major publishing companies wanted to take a chance on a book revealing the corruption that goes on at management consultancies, many of whom they worked with on other books. Following sales well into five figures, David turned his attention to the public sector in his book, ‘Plundering the Public Sector,’ a look at New Labour’s massive overspending on consultancies. His next book, ‘Squandered: How Gordon Brown is wasting over £1 trillion of our money’ was published last year and became a bestseller. David is now a highly successful author and public speaker.

20th April, 2009 Press Releases

Established Ghostwriter Releases First Novel via Pay-per-Chapter Website

Lena Semaan is launching her first novel, Toxic People, on the web. As a ghostwriter Lena has produced books for Noel Edmonds, Jacqueline Gold, John Bird, Colin Fry and, most recently, wrote the account of an ex stripper’s life Girl in High Heels.

Her own book – ‘a not so moral tale of hedge funders and hubris’ is based on true stories from the world of hedge funds. She plans to release it on the internet where subscribers will be sent each chapter by email. To give them a taste of the book she has published the prologue online and will provide updates as chapters are produced.

Readers who sign on now at http://toxicpeoplenovel.wordpress.com will be able to purchase the entire novel for $3 with those that join later having to pay as much as $9 for the entire book. The prologue is up now and free. Each chapter will be released once a determined threshold has been achieved. The idea is that the more people who sign up, the sooner Lena will release the book.

Lena says, “This is an experiment but the alternative is to keep going backwards and forwards with my agent at WMA trying to second guess publishers who are not in good shape this year. Still, if they want to snap it up, they will still have a chance!”

Toxic People Synopsis:

It’s 2005 and the financial markets are booming. For anyone with a head for numbers and a desire to make big money, the sexiest, most aspirational place to work is in hedge funds. David Taylor is a successful but insecure banker who, along with his colleague Drew sets up his own fund, backed by rogue financier Raef Savage – a man for whom narcissistic personality disorder was named.

Unknown to them Raef is playing a totally different game where there will only be one winner: him. Flick Savage, his trophy wife doesn’t think so. Raef’s sex addiction and his affair with David’s mercenary, NY lawyer girlfriend Sarah is the last straw for her. But she’s not the only one he’s crossed. Quietly watching is the smart, reticent but increasingly vengeful Ellie Hines, Raef’s PA. She hates bankers. She hates the City. And when Raef steps into dangerous territory, she reckons it’s time these money men learned a lesson or two.

As everyone sets out to grab what they believe is theirs, the world they know is sinking in a quicksand of its own making.

About the Author:

Lena Semaan was once a copywriter. In between availing herself of the lavish hospitality of various directors, photographers and fine restaurants, she wrote award winning ads for major clients. It was too much fun so she switched to the corporate world where she pretended to fit in. These days she is a corporate refugee, freelance marketing consultant, ghostwriter of eight books, hotel and restaurant reviewer and contributor to Italian Elle Decoration and other style magazines. Her popular blog, womanofexperience.blogspot.com has a strong following amongst City types, lawyers and thinkers. Lena is currently single, though not all the time.

15th April, 2009 Press Releases

COUNTRY by Gerry Judah

Wolverhampton Art Gallery
11 April – 27 June 2009

Leading contemporary artist Gerry Judah challenges us to explore our understanding of war, conflict, peace, natural disasters and devastation in a solo exhibition, COUNTRY at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. The exhibition is co-curated by Independent Curator Jenny Blyth, and Kate Pryor-Williams, Exhibitions Curator.

Gerry Judah’s work is a direct response to landscapes of destruction whether the result of war or climate change. His paintings are inspired by conflict – particularly in the Middle East whether Iraq, Afghanistan or Gaza, articulating global concerns for the environment and the decimation that follows natural disasters such as the flooding of New Orleans in 2005, and the recent Australian bushfires. He recreates scenes of ruinous settlements that we witness daily as reported by the media. Urban landscapes, constructed from scores of buildings, complete with internal structures, communication wires and water towers are fixed onto canvas, and then systematically destroyed. The ensuing rubble and detritus are fused onto a background of empty white canvas with layers of acrylic gesso to create ‘white on white’ and ‘black on black’ abstract paintings.

Concerned with the rupture of place, lives and architecture by violence, Judah’s epic landscapes have an unearthly quality, where dove-grey shadows and segments of light created by the relief work are played out across the canvas as if it were a lunar landscape. With a delicate poetic tone, he invokes a palpable presence of absence. Judah wants viewers to experience the ghostly complexities of the present without a past and no apparent future. Whether these scenes are a result of war or natural disaster, they remind us of our vulnerability, and force us to consider solutions.

Head of Curatorial Services, Marguertie Nugent, said,

‘We are extremely excited to be exhibiting the recent works of Gerry Judah. Both thought provoking and provocative, the series COUNTRY shows Gerry Judah as a contemporary artist reacting to current International politics and environmental affairs. His paintings are overwhelming and disturbing yet beautifully intricate, displaying both absorbing and immersive qualities.’

She continues,

‘COUNTRY also links directly to our existing Northern Ireland and Contemporary Collection displays at Wolverhampton Art Gallery which alongside this exhibition address issues of global conflict and International politics.’

The exhibition will be launched on 23 April 2009, 5.30pm – 8pm in conjunction with Andy Warhol Paintings and Posters.

Born in Calcutta, India, Gerry Judah studied at Barnet College of Art before obtaining a First Class degree in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and post-graduate Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. In the last twenty years, Judah has built a reputation for innovative designs for films, television, theatre, museums and spectacular public installations for many clients. He has also exhibited in a number of exhibitions including the Whitechapel Art Gallery, Camden Arts Centre and Yorkshire Sculpture Park and his work has entered many public and private collections.

Gerry Judah lives and works in London.

ENDS

Media Contacts:
Suzanne Noble @ Stunning PR, Tel: 0203 355 1529/07957 371840 or suzanne@stunningpr.com

Notes to Editors:

• Wolverhampton Art Gallery is open Monday – Saturday, 10.00am – 5.00pm. Free Entry.

• Further information regarding Gerry Judah can be seen at www.gerryjudah.com

• The title COUNTRY must be referred to in capital letters only.

• Gerry Judah is represented by Jenny Blyth Fine Art. Jenny Blyth has worked with Judah since 2005 on a number of projects including Frontiers (2005), Angels (2006) and Motherlands (2007). She is an independent curator and art consultant based in London and was previously a curator at the Saatchi Gallery from 1990 to 2002.

• Wolverhampton Art Gallery is part of Wolverhampton Arts + Museums service, funded by Wolverhampton City Council. It receives additional funding as a Regularly Funded Organisation of Arts Council England and from the Museums, Libraries Archives Council through Renaissance in the Regions West Midlands.

• Renaissance is the Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLA) Council’s £150million programme to transform England’s regional museums. For the first time ever, investment from central government is helping regional museums across the country to raise their standards and deliver real results in support of education, learning, community development and economic regeneration. A network of ‘Hubs’ has been set up in each English region to act as flagship museums and help promote good practice. Alongside the Hubs, MLA Regional Agencies and Museum Development Officers are providing advice and support, Subject Specialist Networks have been set up, and national museums are sharing their skills and collections to ensure Renaissance benefits the entire museums sector. Renaissance is helping museums to meet people’s changing needs – and to change people’s lives.

• Arts Council England works to get great art to everyone by championing, developing and investing in artistic experiences that enrich people’s lives. As the national development agency for the arts, we support a range of artistic activities from theatre to music, literature to dance, photography to digital art, and carnival to crafts. Great art inspires us, brings us together and teaches us about ourselves, and the world around us. In short, it makes life better. Between 2008 and 2011, we will invest £1.3 billion of public money from government and a further £0.3 billion from the National Lottery to create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country.