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City Weekend Jazz Events: Mario Cavolo with Ronnie Williams at Sound Blue This Saturday, June 26th

Two month's ago outstanding drummer Ronnie Williams, myself and a couple of excellent local Chinese musicians were featured in a live music project shot by our video production partner Qin Xin Media. What started as a simple plan to shoot some footage turned into a very special night as the music and the vibe in the room did that magical thing it sometimes does.

Sound Blue is a very nice joint, an intimate live jazz venue with a nice Kawaii baby grand up on stage, and excellent room acoustics, seating for 38 downstairs and 30 more up on the loft style 2nd floor. Domestic bottled beers only 30rmb too. Hope to see you there. Please do RSVP at the City Weekend link.

City Weekend Jazz Events: Mario Cavolo with Ronnie Williams at Sound Blue This Saturday, June 26th

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Apologies for last week's technical difficulties; we are back this week at the regularly scheduled time - Tuesday 8pm Beijing Time / Monday 8pm PST. Enjoy listening with our radio show player on the right or check out the Grassroots Talks Radio website and player at the links below

Back to back on Monday evening starting at 8pm til 10pm PST / Tuesday Noon - 2pm Beijing time

Grassroots Talks Money with Mario Cavolo - Monday 8pm EST / Noon Beijing time (+15 hours)
Grassroots Talks Health with Mario Cavolo - Monday 9pm EST / 1pm Beijing time (+15 hours)
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UPDATE: The article was also published today at Nadeem Wayalat's UK Economics & Investing website MarketOracle.

It is a compliment much appreciated to find one of my business reviews on China featured at Rick Ackerman's home page today January 22nd. Rick is a genuine master of the trading world, particularly with respect to his remarkable calls on the direction of gold and index futures. His live trading chat room is typically filled with top caliber traders on every continent.

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From Rick's Feature Article

"We put the knock on China the other day – not for the first time — in a commentary concerning Google’s security problems there. This elicited a fascinating response from reader Mario Cavolo, a frequent contributor to the Rick’s Picks forum who lives and works in Shanghai as a motivational speaker. We asked him to expand his remarks, which cast China in a very bullish light. Here’s what Mario had to say:"

Go to the article at www.rickackerman.com: A "Fly On The Wall" Is Bullish On China

Well I have to admit that at age 49 maintaining better health has become more of a priority. This week on Wednesday November 11th puts me in Shanghai at Health Shanghai 2009. I 'll be giving a 30 minute keynote address on the importance of creating a corporate vision and culture which includes a culture of health. Not to mention from an HR point of view that good health reduces a company's massive health care costs, healthy employees are happier and more engaged on a daily basis. This event has been organized and coordinated by a number of partners including Shanghai Airlines and the World Anti-Aging Academy of Medicine China, a member-based society since 1995 dedicated to the protection and preservation of the health of the public, and the advancement of education and research in the clinical specialties of anti-aging and regenerative medicine...

...meanwhile, shifting interests to the musical and artistic side of life, I will not be performing at the Mandarin Oriental Sanya this weekend as I will be on a mid-November jazz piano concert tour in Zhoushan on Nov 13th, Guangzhou on Saturday, Nov 14th and Ningbo on Sunday, Nov 15th. Many thanks to China Art Events Co. Hangzhou for organizing this mid-November tour. Cheers, Mario

II have to say this is a great thing happening and impacting a lot of people. As often in life, good things will suddenly appear from an unexpected and surprising direction. Founder of nonprofit Grass Roots Community Network and radio host, Grass Roots Talk Radio Thursdays 8pm PST, Dr. Al Brown is doing very well with a rapidly growing audience of listeners and callers, who like many of us, simply want to get a grip on where they are, who they are, what's really important and where they're going. Many of Al's radio show listeners, callers and guests are a part of the Afro American community in Los Angeles and it seems that the perspective of someone such as myself, an Italian American businessman living in China for 10 years is adding a fresh point of view to shake things up a bit...on yesterday's show we batted around the meaning of money and the values we attach to things, which themselves have no value other than that which we attach to them...hmm, seems we've unexpectedly got ourselves an LA-based global radio show folks...Cheers and Blessings, Mario

...I've had a lovely little miracle in my life lately, reconnecting with my old friend Dr. Al Brown who invited me to be interviewed on his new radio show, Grass Roots Talk Radio, which is part of Grass Roots Community Network (GRCN), the organization in Los Angeles he founded 20 years ago. Along with his son Allen II, his organization provides life skills and mentoring programs to youth facing today's challenging transition to adulthood and uniquely uses performing arts to empower youth and communities.

Callers into the radio show have genuine challenges that need to be faced realistically and courageously. As I was waiting in the caller queue preparing a message to share with listeners, it was amazing to hear my old friend playing disc jockey with a purpose! I suddenly realized that while he was talking a caller through their challenges, it was like a live one-on-one coaching session being witnessed live by a few thousand people. In my hand was the book No Man Is An Island, one of the bestsellers written by famous spiritualist and Trappist monk Thomas Merton, which I was glancing through as I was preparing my thoughts for the show.

I quickly came upon the lesson for the day reminding us that our purpose in life is to discover, sometimes through struggle, the meaning in our lives, and then, to LIVE ACCORDING TO IT. The first part is trite, talked about too commonly, too often, and too simply. The second part; that's the real deal, where all the fluff and bullshit fades away, leaving YOU stand firm where you are, to fulfill your ultimate purpose, to lift the world in ways small or grand, but to lift it nonetheless, finding that life is well worth living.

The second part of the lesson is to not let people pull you off that path. The world wants to distract you. Bad people want to ruin you and your plans. You need to see that, to realize that, to know that and to know it deeply so that when they come along, those influences are powerless in their attempt to weaken and distract you from who you are. Cheers, M

#22 MY FIRST SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT DISASTER

I’ll never forget it. The humiliation coursing through my veins like acid rather than blood. My body, my emotions, the desire to flee, to escape to get away from the ruin of it was deep and devastating. I never imagined it would, should or could happen to me. I walked out of the ballroom heading toward the nearest restroom I could find with my only goal to crawl under a rock and stay there forever. I didn’t perform a keynote speech again for over two years. THAT”S how ruined I was.

In fact, I now remember it fondly and firmly state to you; such an experience should happen to most of us. I certainly didn’t feel that way at the time! It was my 5th or so keynote speaking engagement and the year was 1985. I was...

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