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Shoki Shakes Winter promotion- 10% off milkshakes, panini's, sandwiches and lots more!

Shoki Shakes is offering a special 10% discount on Milkshakes, Panini’s, sandwiches, crepes and lots more for Middlesex students and staff and 50% off milkshakes (excluding specials) on weekdays between 3pm-4pm *

*Discounts cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer.

Located 5mins from Hendon campus

81b Church Road, Hendon NW4 4DP
Tel: 02082034499
www.shokishakes.com

TV Production Company seeks budding entrepreneurs for new show

TV Production Company Two Four Broadcast is planning a series with perfume and cosmetic guru Jo Malone. Jo will give twelve ‘tabletop’/small businesses or individuals the advice and support they need to get their products onto high-street shelves. A great opportunity for anyone who has a unique product but perhaps not have the resources to turn it into ‘the next big thing’.

The series will concentrate on products in four categories: Home & Garden, Children & Toys, Food & Drink and Fashion Accessories.

If you already sell your products on a small scale - it doesn’t matter how many were sold or where – then this could be the next step up. You need to have designed, made and sold the product, it must be a product not a service. Successful applicants will be teamed up with industry experts who can help them push their business forward.

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STUDENT WRITERS: WIN £1,000 PLUS THE LITERARY TRIP OF A LIFETIME

2nd February 2010; British GQ magazine and the Norman Mailer Writers Colony announce a new annual competition for non-fiction writing.

The winner will be invited to spend a month at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, a residential educational centre based at the legendary author's former home in Provincetown, Massachusetts, USA. All travel, accommodation and expenses covered, plus a cheque for £1,000 and the chance to be published in a future issue of Britain's leading men's magazine. Runners-up will receive cash prizes and the chance to be published in GQ.

Dylan Jones, Editor of GQ, comments "We hear a lot of gloomy predictions these days about the future of print journalism, the crisis in old media, the shrinking possibilities for serious long-form writing and reporting on the world. But we at GQ believe, as do our friends at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony, that there will always be a need and a place for brilliant narrative, non-fiction, whether that's journalism, criticism or memoir. Mailer called writing The Spooky Art. "You go in each morning," he said, "and there's a blank page. Maybe it takes five minutes, maybe it takes an hour. Sooner or later you start writing, and then the words begin to flow. Where does that come from? You can't pinpoint it. You always wonder, 'Will it stop tomorrow?'" For that reason I urge any student who hopes to avoid a bleak future in law or medicine to stop what they're doing and start writing now, today."

The awards will be judged by a panel including Editor of the TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Sir Peter Stothard; award-winning novelist and critic Geoff Dyer; Canongate publisher Jamie Byng; bestselling novelist and Contributing Editor to GQ Tony Parsons; Condé Nast Managing Director and bestselling author Nicholas Coleridge; GQ Editor Dylan Jones; GQ Features Director Alex Bilmes; leading literary agent Ed Victor; publisher and investor Spas Roussev, and platinum-selling singer-songwriter Lily Allen.

We are calling for submissions of published and unpublished work completed in the twelve months from May 1 2009. Entries can be on any topic but must be no less than 2,000 and no more than 4,000 words long and submitted by email to gqmaileraward@condenast.co.uk <mailto:gqmaileraward@condenast.co.uk>, on or before May 1, 2010.

Entries must be submitted as Word documents, double-spaced. All entries must include name, home address, name of college / university, email address and phone number, including mobile phone.

The competition is open to all undergraduates and postgraduates at UK universities. Entrants must be over 18 years old on February 4th, 2010.

Summer Jobs Available

Do you want a great summer job which will give you the opportunity to meet international students and help them to have a good time in London this summer?

We are looking for sociable, friendly and supportive student helpers to provide support and advice for residential Summer Package students this summer. For more information and contact details click here. The full job description and person specification is available here.

This job is a great opportunity to gain valuable experience and develop skills.

Dragon's Den

BBC TV’s series Dragons’ Den is looking for new business ideas, inventions or products with serious business potential that are investment ready and looking for funding.

Dragons’ Den is a challenging place to pitch, but it’s also a genuine business opportunity to secure investment. Ideas, businesses or products that meets some of these criteria are most likely to attract the Dragons’ interest:
- A unique selling point : a product that serves a need which nothing else does
- Flexibility : something that can be scaled up to make real money
- Marketing : a clear way the product or business can be sold and marketed
- Mutually beneficial : what would the Dragons get out of it?
- Exit strategy : a plan for how the Dragon / Dragons would make money and cease their involvement
The BBC will be auditioning in the coming months – to apply, go to www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden.

Part-time Script Writers

Any students interested in working on an online music program, mostly drafting short story scripts for a music internet soap opera.

Roles would be paid, we are looking for people to write ‘hard-hitting, fast-paced creative’ scripts, approximately 10 minutes each, weekly.

More details from teddyhayes@hotmail.com

TV training opportunity for under-represented groups

Middlesex and Top TV Academy have launched the Diversity Training Programme - Cascade - to provide training opportunities in television for under-represented groups, including paid placements.

Ten successful applicants will receive on-the-job training at a top independent TV production company, as well as workshops with media professionals and £8,000. Cascade, which is being funded by the Skillset TV Freelance Fund, an industry fund for TV freelancers, is designed to help underrepresented groups in the UK break into the TV industry, giving them valuable skills that will strengthen their case for work in the modern media.

The application process consists of two days of training for 60 candidates, from which a shortlist of 40 will be drawn up. Those 40 will then be interviewed by independent TV production companies and ten of them will be offered a six month contract with a TV company, including a ‘salary’ of £8,000.

Liz Mills, Managing Director of Top TV Academy, said: “The recent economic downturn is having a huge impact on job opportunities for new entrants to the TV industry. So a scheme that offers paid on-the-job training at this particular time will be hugely beneficial to the successful applicants.”

For more information on the scheme and how to apply, go to www.mdx.ac.uk/cascade Go to top

Free theatre tickets for under 26s

Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond is offering free theatre tickets for under 26s on Thursday nights, as part of the Arts Council subsidised 'A Night Less Ordinary'.

For information about their current and future shows, visit www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk. To book, email the theatre at box.office@orangetreetheatre.co.uk giving the following details:

1. You name
2. The date you would like to attend
3. The number of tickets you require (up to 6)
4. Your contact telephone number
5. Your home address
6. Your date of birth

They will then check ticket availability for that night and confirm by email if they are able to offer you tickets.

Research project recruiting people who have experienced discrimination

Staff at theUniversity's Social Policy Research Centre and Law Department are looking to interview people in the UK who have experienced discrimination on race or gender or related grounds (e.g. sexual orientation, religion or nationality). This is part of an EU-funded project GENDERACE which is being carried out in 6 European countries. The aim is to assess how the discrimination was experienced and to what extent support or other resources were available.

If you have experienced discrimination on any of these grounds whether on its own or combined with another ground, we would like to interview you. We are interested even if you did not pursue a legal claim provided you went so far as to make a complaint or took advice as to your rights. All the information will remain strictly confidential.

We can arrange the interview at a place and date that is convenient to you or we may be able to do it by telephone. We can reimburse travelling expenses and lunch.

You can find more about the project at http://genderace.ulb.ac.be/. If you are willing to be interviewed please contact one of us by email or you can call 0208 411 4103 during office hours (9am-5pm). We are looking forward to hearing from you.

Professor Eleonore Kofman (E.Kofman@mdx.ac.uk)
Dr Helena Wray (H.Wray@mdx.ac.uk)
Dr Erica Howard (E.Howard@mdx.ac.uk)
Dr Ludovica Banfi (L.Banfi@mdx.ac.uk) Go to top

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Job opp: Part-time paid role as panel member

Dubit youth marketing agency are recruiting fun, enthusiastic, intelligent young people to be 'panel members' providing feedback and views to a major broadcasting company in London.

Each month they will ask panel members for their opinions on topical issues
- recent topics have included 21st Century Women and the Credit Crunch. Panel members are asked to write approx 300-500 words in length or do a 2-minute video feedback. Panel members will also be asked to attend two seminars at the broadcaster's headquarters in London.

Travel expenses are paid and you will also be paid for your commentaries work.

If you are interested please forward your C.V to rachel.gough@dubitlimited.com. For more information, click here.
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Take part in BBC Three's health and lifestyle documentary

25 September 2009: We keep being told that worldwide people are getting bigger and are regularly warned of the associated health issues. In this series, BBC Three aim to investigate what this means in reality by sending young people to a country where obesity is a big issue in order to investigate further whether this is really the case. Living with a local family for a week, they would find out more how culture plays a role in determining eating habits and how the nation's views on body image compare to those in the UK.

BBC Three are looking for young men aged 18 to 28, who struggle with their weight and find it hard to adopt a healthy lifestyle. They are also looking for men who are comfortable with being the size they are and have strong opinions on the UK attitudes to body image and size. For more information, click here [Word doc]

New massage clinic on campus

The university now has a new massage clinic service operating from the sports injury clinics at the Hendon and Archway campuses. The service is open to all staff and students and covers soft tissue massage.
For appointments please e-mail the clinicians:
Emily Gill – e.gill@mdx.ac.uk
Victoria Hyland – v.hyland@mdx.ac.uk
Barry Malone – b.malone@mdx.ac.uk
For general enquiries e-mail – e.abrahamson@mdx.ac.uk

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Special 10% student discount on gift website

Middlesex has teamed up with the stylish online gift shop Treat Him/ Treat Her to offer a 10% discount to Middlesex students on all purchases. Benefits incude:

Over 400 gift ideas from all over the world
14-day no quibble return guarantee
6-hour "Emergency" delivery service available in London
Next-day delivery and international delivery also available
100% secure ordering
Friendly gift advice from their care team
Luxury gift wrapping

To find the perfect gift for a man, visit

To find the most beautiful present for a woman, visit

To redeem, simply enter the offer code (TREATMDX) in the promotions box in your shopping cart once you have selected your items, and click on Apply Code Go to top

Shiatsu Clinic at Trent Park campus

We are pleased to announce a new Shiatsu clinic based in the Treatment room at Trent Park Sports Hall.

Shiatsu originates from Japan, it is a form of bodywork in which pressure is applied to points on the meridians of the body in order to remove blockages and allow efficient Chi flow. It is based on oriental philosophies and includes stretches and stillness, stimulation and sedation, in the presence of the moment.

The Shiatsu practitioner aims to re-connect the body with it's owns desire to heal, shiatsu gives time to the body to seek its own harmony and symmetry. Shiatsu is performed fully clothed on the floor. After a treatment one feels refreshed, clear headed and relaxed. Shiatsu can help the following problems:

Lower back/shoulder and neck pain
Stress/Fatigue/Depression
Digestive problems
Asthma

Student: £22; Staff: £30
A treatment lasts one hour. Gift vouchers available. Clinic open on Friday afternoon but other booking can be made by prior arrangements.

To book a treatment, contact Dominique on 07813345057 or email: d.rivoal@mdx.ac.uk