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The American artisan is awash with self-assurance, and there are a host of acceptable reasons. Unemployment continues to be low at 4.5 percent, while opportunities abide to abound as abstruse advancements and a all-around abridgement accessible new doors.
The a lot of contempo Employee Confidence Index appear by recruiting and staffing bureau Spherion showed that the majority of U.S. workers remained assured in their claimed job situations. Coupled with a solid economy, abode trends in a lot of sectors accept tended to favor the American worker, who has apparent added appeal and antagonism for their services.
That said, advisers still face barrier blocks through the blow of the year and into 2008. A abeyant apathetic down in the abridgement and ascent bloom affliction costs are two storm clouds that abide to band and abuse the workforce.
As advisers abide to account from favorable conditions, actuality are four above trends accepted to abide through 2007 and into 2008.
Flex Your Power
If administration wish to absorb acceptable workers, they bigger be flexible. Once a advantage alone offered by the a lot of avant-garde and cutting-edge companies, work-life antithesis is a above trend that abounding advisers not alone want, but apprehend from administration these days.
In abounding cases, alms adaptability in scheduling and job administration helps administration as well. But it's the advisers who are abaft the trend of adjustable plan arrangements, classifying it as added important than pay in abounding surveys.
Cash still talks, but it's a actual brief advantage and absolutely not a altered advantage for a accustomed industry, said Barry L. Brown, admiral of a Florida-based consulting firm. Administration this year are searching at adjustable plan schedules and bigger work-life balance. Being able to adore time with the ancestors or advancing a admired amusement is a able application for job seekers. From the employer's side, it's a good, cost-effective apparatus to allure and absorb acceptable employees.
Adaptable plan environments accept been fabricated accessible in abounding cases by the acceleration in technology. Advisers who are affiliated to the appointment via the Internet, PDAs and web-based software can be advantageous from just about anywhere in the apple now, and abstruse change will alone accomplish the activity easier 10 years down the road.
If anyone alive for me needs to break home to yield affliction of the kids, the dog, whatever, and they wish to plan from there, they can admission a lot of of the advice and files they charge and in fact plan on their appointment computers from home, said Charles Cowan, Ph.D. I anticipate you'll abide to see added humans telecommuting – technology has fabricated it abundant easier to do. And in the future, you'll see added networked firms – firms that are 5 or 10 individuals in altered cities who wish to be affiliated in their access to a auction and can attending like a beyond centralized company.
Show Me the Money
Money talks, and it's still a abundant affective apparatus for employees. A 3-5 percent accretion in advantage bales and college starting salaries are accepted to abide as a adjustment of application the top employees.
One of the better trends will aftereffect from the aptitude shortages abounding accept predicted in assertive industries for some time, said Heidi O'Gorman of a Chicago based consulting firm. These will alpha to be acquainted added acutely. The implications are companies will charge to pay added to accumulate their best people. In accession to paying the best performers more, companies will aswell accept to activity added non-salary allowances to employees. These will charge to be tailored to employees' needs. For example, not anybody will amount adjustable plan hours equally. Some may in fact adopt added vacation canicule or company-paid daycare.
The Assorted Office
In the 1970s, assortment in the abode was about associated with government mandates apropos acknowledging action, or the plight of women ambidextrous with sexism and bottle ceilings. Now, the majority of businesses accept that accretion the demographics of their agents is all-important to survive, as the U.S. citizenry changes rapidly and the all-around abridgement takes hold.
As the Hispanic citizenry continues to outdistance added indigenous groups in the U.S., administration are authoritative a huge advance to appoint bilingual employees. African-Americans, women and earlier workers are high-value targets for recruiters as well.
Companies will charge to clothier their programs for attracting, hiring and advantageous humans to a abundant added assorted accumulation of advisers than anytime before, said O'Gorman. And assortment will no best be authentic as just chase and gender but aswell by age (there are four ancestors in the workforce appropriate now with actual altered generational attitudes appear work) and ability (more and more, workers in the U.S. are foreign-born).
Take This Job and Fill It
As abundant as administration will acknowledge to accomplishing the needs of their employees, there will still be affluence of workers searching for greener pastures. Job-hopping will become a above trend, abnormally a part of adolescent workers, who didn't abound up with the aforementioned acumen of adapter to a aggregation that was instituted in a antecedent bearing of workers. This trend will accommodate a cogent aggressive advantage to those companies that can allure and absorb accomplished employees.


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Andhra Pradesh Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams Has Issued the Official Notice for freejobalert Upcoming Notification of Recruitment for the post of Professor,Reader ,Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor Posts will announce a recruitment notification , All the TTD upcoming notifications 2017 will be given in the official website www.tirumala.org. We have also given a list of few TTD latest recruitment 2017, Through Can Apply for Online. The Organization Released Notification After Check Candidates Age-Limit/ Essential Qualifications , pay scales,Application fee and general Conditions, etc.are given under will be Check the official website of TTD Or Check the link given below.
Eligible Candidates from all States of India (including Retired Persons) are invited to attend to the Walk-In-Interview for appointment to the following higher cadre teaching posts to work in S.V.Ayurvedic College, TTD, Tirupati on Contract basis for a period of one year subject to the condition specified.
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How To Start Your Own Small Business
Thinking about starting a small business? Have you already started and realize you may have missed a few things? This workshop is for you! We review the steps for a successful start, the registrations and regulations, and the components of sound business planning, including financial projections.
Follow-up appointments are then available with SBDC, SCORE, and/or CIC business advisors to focus on your concept development, business profile, and/or business plans, including financial projections.
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Central Virginia SBDC
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TODAY'S CLASS IS HOSTED BY the Community Investment Collaborative (CIC). These offices are located at 300 Preston Ave, Suite 206 in Charlottesville. The building is the Citizens Commonwealth Center at the corner of Preston and Ridge. It's a large 5 story building that used to have a bank on the bottom floor (UVA Credit Union & Stellar One). You can still see the bank drive through on the back side of the building. The parking lot is between the building and the Omni and across the street from the McDonalds. Park in the visitor spaces, if available. Call 434-218-3481 if you have problems. Our office is on the 2nd floor, make a right off the elevator and walk to the end of the hall.
Date: Thursday, August 9, 2018
Time: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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'The picture promotes women's submissiveness not just in sexual life but also is social life since the event is purely social and I don't think any act of sexual behavior is accepted once you're in there. The picture demeans all women and helps to promote the image of the sexual woman, who's no more than a toy, for the man to grab how many he can and play with. It undermines the woman entity when Lebanese women are currently working very hard to fix their image as complete human beings, and are calling for their full rights. This is not the first time women's bodies are objectified in order to promote a product or event. Event organizers are using this method in a rather constant way to gain men goers. Some events offer free entrance for women. Some wouldn't let you in if you don't bring a woman with you. Their "souk" is based on undermining women's existence. They only see her as a dancing dollar bill no more.'
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Every Summer Behind The Green Door; a prominent group of events organizers in Beirut, organizes a set of parties under the name of Decks on The Beach. They claim to have "simple setting by the sea, open minded crowd and bouncy feel-good tunes", they also claim to promote f
reedom, hedonism, sun, sweat and weird dance moves."
This Friday 29 May, Decks will be organizing an event under the name of Deep Shit, presenting Jack from Friendly Fires and Ed from Foals.
So far so good. The event sounds fun and pretty much interesting if you're into deep house music and a little bit of alcohol abuse. Until the event planners decide to promote their event with a 50's/60's image that is obviously violating women's rights and image.
A semi naked white blond guy is grabbing two white girls by the waist. The two girls…
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Online: Go to the Union-Tribune's Voters Guide for more information on the May 19 special election at votersguide.uniontrib.com
With less than three weeks until the May 19 special election, the propositions Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Legislature placed on the ballot to implement the long-delayed state budget agreement are trailing badly, a new Field Poll shows.
"None of them are above 40 percent 'yes,' which is very ominous in the late stage of an initiative campaign," Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo said.
The nonpartisan survey also found that a large majority of voters regard rejecting the propositions as a vehicle for protesting excessive government spending and higher taxes.
"This is shaping up as a send-them-a-message election," DiCamillo said.
Another finding is that a majority of likely voters surveyed don't believe the ballot measures will accomplish what the proponents say they will.
"I think it's a lack of credibility on the part of the Legislature and the governor, and that extends to their views on each of these measures," DiCamillo said.
The poll found pluralities of likely special-election voters lining up against five of the six propositions on the May 19 ballot:
Proposition 1A. Would constrain future state spending, require a larger reserve fund and extend temporary $16 billion, two-year tax increases approved in the budget deal for two more years: 40 percent yes, 49 percent no, 11 percent undecided.
Proposition 1B. Would allocate $9.3 billion to schools to compensate for past budget cuts: 40 percent yes, 49 percent no, 11 percent undecided.
Proposition 1C. Would allow the state to modernize the lottery and borrow up to $5 billion from future proceeds: 32 percent yes, 59 percent no, 9 percent undecided.
Proposition 1D. Would allow voter-approved tobacco tax funds now allocated for children's health and social services to be redirected temporarily to the general fund to help balance the budget: 40 percent yes, 49 percent no, 11 percent undecided.
Proposition 1E. Would also allow voter-approved funds now targeted for community mental health programs to be redirected temporarily to the general fund: 40 percent yes, 51 percent no, 9 percent undecided.
Also on the ballot is a measure that was part of the package approved by the governor and Legislature but has no direct bearing on the current budget. Proposition 1F would prohibit state elected officials from receiving pay raises when the state is running a deficit. Voters strongly favor the measure, 71 percent to 24 percent, with 5 percent undecided.
Support for the measures is highly partisan, with Republican opposition to Propositions 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E ranging from 61 percent for Proposition 1E to 73 percent for Proposition 1C.
Democrats are more favorable toward the measures, but not resoundingly so. Democratic support ranges from 53 percent for Proposition 1D to 37 percent for Proposition 1C.
The campaigns to pass all or some of the propositions have raised eight times more money than the opposing forces – $16 million to $2 million – but they have a steep hill to climb.
"The distrust most of us have for government is justifiable, but Props 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E are about protecting real people from harmful cuts that will be much worse than what we have seen already," said AARP State President Jeannine English, a leading supporter.
"We've got a job to do in the coming weeks, and we will be taking every opportunity to educate voters about what is really at stake in this election because the future of this state's schools, public safety and firefighting resources, highways and roads, health care for our children and seniors and much more depends on it."
Opponents say voters are simply not buying what the state's political leaders are selling.
"It used to mean something when high elected officials went to the people and said, 'We really think you should do this,'" said Jonathan Wilcox, spokesman for the No on 1A campaign.
"I think this is an awesome rejection of what's going on in Sacramento. The electorate is skeptical of politics and politicians, but what we're seeing now is a real credibility gap."
The credibility issue manifests itself in the polling data in several ways.
Proposition 1A is being sold as a measure that will slow the growth of future state spending. But 61 percent of voters in the Field Poll said that was unlikely to be the result. A strong majority also is aware that the measure extends the tax increases, even though that's not something the "yes" campaign mentions.
Proposition 1C is touted as a way to significantly increase future lottery earnings – a prospect 58 percent of the voters said they considered unlikely.
Propositions 1A through 1E cumulatively would generate $6 billion to help balance the current budget, meaning that if they fail, the deficit would grow by $6 billion. But the poll found voters to be split over whether they believe this is true.
The Field Poll asked voters if they agree or disagree with the following statement:
"If the measures on the special election ballot are defeated, it would make the state's budget problems even worse by increasing the size of the deficit by $6 billion."
When asked how they felt about that statement, 47 percent agreed, 41 percent disagreed and 12 percent had no opinion.
Another indication that voters don't believe rejecting the ballot-measure package would have dire consequences is their reaction to this statement:
"If the measures on the special election ballot are defeated, it would send a message to the governor and the state Legislature that voters are tired of more government spending and higher taxes."
Nearly three-quarters of those surveyed, 72 percent, agreed with that statement to 24 percent who disagreed and 4 percent who had no opinion.
Agreement with that statement crossed all partisan groups – 84 percent of the Republicans, 60 percent of the Democrats and 72 percent of the voters who are not affiliated with either major political party.
"That's the kind of statement you'd hear on conservative talk radio," DiCamillo said, "but this is endorsed across the board."
The Field Poll is based on telephone interviews with 422 voters considered likely to vote in the May 19 special election. The poll was conducted from April 16 through Sunday and has a margin of error of 4.9 percentage points.
If the measures on the special election ballot are defeated, it would send a message to the governor and the state Legislature that voters are tired of more government spending and higher taxes:
Agree | Dis. | No opinion
Total likely voters 72% 24% 4%
Democrats 60% 34% 6%
Republicans 84% 14% 2%
Nonpartisans/others 72% 22% 6%
Margin of error: +/-4.9 percentage pointsCopyright © 2019, The San Diego Union-Tribune


text: First published in Germany in 1980, this elegantly trim and readable inquiry is the final volume (after The Railway Journey and Disenchanted Night--neither reviewed) of social-historian Schivelbusch's musings on the origin of modern industrial consciousness. Here, Schivelbusch explores the social meanings of the substances denoted by the German word ``Genussmittel,'' a term applied to material consumed for pleasure: spices, alcohol, coffee, tea, opium, and tobacco. In medieval Europe, he reports, the upper classes spiced their foods and mixed their spices to an extent we would find bizarre--not just to preserve foods and mask spoilage but to form a prestigious link to the paradise envisioned in the fabled East. The northern European masses, meanwhile, practically lived on beer; only later would hard liquor plague the by-then miserably industrialized working-class. Then came coffee, tea, and tobacco, whose very different effects as mental stimulants suited the emerging Protestant bourgeoisie classes--while chocolate took on variously southern, Catholic, aristocratic, and erotic associations. Within this general outline, Schivelbusch traces and illuminates a complex of shifting attitudes and practices, and their permutations and implications, with grace and insight and a clean, reasonable delivery free of the difficulty and far-fetched ingenuity that mark many such discourses. A true pleasure. (Illustrations--125 b&w--not seen.)


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Yesterday I made bread for the first time in years. I used the recipe from the bag of King Arthur Flour. I have never owned a bread machine, so I do it by hand. I was surprised at how sticky the dough was, how hard to knead, and then how gratified I was by the sight of it rising. The loaf turned out fat and brown, as well as I might have hoped, and it was gone in a few hours.
At the same time, I was also reading this post on About.com about fundraising. Joanne Fritz outlines the "bread and butter" of fundraising, and that got me thinking about how deceptively simple the basics are. Bread is made of only a few ingredients – flour, yeast, liquid, and usually a pinch of salt. At the top of the "bread and butter" list on Fritz's post is annual giving. Speaking as someone who's spent most of her fundraising years in the annual fund, I'll say that it often does feel like … well, the sliced white bread, compared to major gifts' steak and sizzle.
To be fair to the major gift folks, their lives aren't all glamour, as we learn from this Passionate Giving article. But annual giving – or recurring giving, as it's increasingly becoming– really is the foundation of most healthy nonprofits. It gives nearly everyone the chance to buy an entry ticket as stakeholders of your mission. It gives your organization a chance to impress them with excellent stewardship, several times a year. It reveals and stewards future major donors and those who will leave bequests. It's the bread and butter of your campaign.
Have you ever dined at an upscale restaurant, and been served stale, tasteless rolls alongside melted foil butter packets? How did that make you feel about the rest of the meal to come? If bread and butter are the first chance to impress someone, it's worth your time to make it a quality experience.


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On top of adding the vitamins to my regimen I'm also increasing my water intake. I only drink water, various teas (mostly green tea), and alcohol on occasion. My daily water intake is usually only about 3 16oz bottles per day not including water I get from veggies, fruits, and my daily cup of green tea. Online I read that a person my size and as active as I am should drink about 2.5 liters of water per day. With the summer heat rolling in I might have to drink more since I run out doors weekly. So, how does water promote hair growth? Well in order to grow healthy hair you must stay hydrated. All of the bloggers I follow push the fact that drinking enough water daily is essential to growing healthy hair. I actually love water so increasing my water intake is no problem for me.
So, hopefully by adding vitamins, more water, and more veggies/fruits to my daily diet I can see a slight increase in my hair growth. Like they say beauty always start from the inside.
I'll see you guys tomorrow and hopefully I'll have good news in a month on my hair growth.
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Back to Bristol Ch. 09byGaryAPB©
The rest of Tuesday was just plain busy. It wasn't a good day. It started with me being tired, upset and frustrated. Then I'd had to sack a senior director, and although I knew it was right that he should go, it was inevitable that I would still worry about the man underneath all the business bravado. Sacking people is simply not a nice thing to have to do. But he's only a few months off being able to draw a pension, and an ex-gratia payment should see him through.
It was the evening and I was back in my flat before I really had time to reflect on the events of the day. I began to really like Carole's theory that Peter Davies was a cheat even in his marriage. It was consistent with what I know of him before his marriage. It may explain a little of why Molly was willing to cheat on him with me. And it would explain why she was upset to be reminded that I didn't cheat on her, ever.
Interestingly and by chance, Dennis Murrell's little outburst seemed to support the theory.
But it didn't explain what it was that was so important for Molly to want to talk to me about. There seemed to be only two possibilities. She was going to ask if she could swap back again, that her first husband was a better buy than the second, so she wanted to come back. But I still didn't believe that of Molly. She was too true to her own emotions, she married for love, not because the man was good husband material. The second possibility was that she was going to ask me to move away and leave them in peace. That despite what sort of man Peter Davies was, she was going to see it through. I remembered that was her commitment to Ann Walters years ago when they had met.
Well, whatever the explanation, my answer was the same - No. I'm not taking her back because she sees me as the lesser of evils, nor am I giving up my children.
On Wednesday, I spent the morning doing my bit for a sales presentation, but it ran late. I got back to my office pretty certain I was going to miss my train for London.
Carole was waiting for me, "Don't worry. I've packed your briefcase with all the files you'll need. Now give me your keys, I'll drive you to the station, and then I'll take your car and park it at your flat, I'll leave the keys with the porter, and take a taxi back here."
As she drove along, she asked, "And how goes my soap opera? What's the latest instalment?"
"I don't think there is one. I haven't heard from Helene since she was in my office. I guess that's for the best. And Myra and myself are OK. I think we are at the beginning of what could be a very good personal and business friendship."
"And how about the one great love of your life?"
"Molly? Well, I hope you're wrong. She may be a great love of my life, but I hope there's room for a second great love one day. Just, not yet. I'm in a pretty good place at the moment. I'm beginning to build a good relationship with my sons. I'm back living in a city I know and love. And I'm the managing director of a great company with a great future. Things are pretty good. But I'll admit there's a vacancy for a little companionship, a little delecting as you would say. But that's all."
"So nothing's happened about her tearful walk out?"
"No. But I wasn't expecting anything. Anti-climax seems to be the name of the game with her. I really do think that Molly is a nice person, she doesn't mean to hurt or upset people. The same's true for Ralph, her father. But I begin to feel that they are playing mind games with me. Maybe they don't mean to. But they do, and I'm fed up with it. I'll sit peacefully on the train and think about it for a couple of hours."
"I hope you don't. I put the first draft of your quarterly report to the Group Board in your case. I need you to go through it and mark it up with corrections."
"Something to look forward to!"
Wednesday afternoon in Head Office was good. I seemed welcome, and anyone who I saw and who I respected as having influence, seemed to think I was doing OK at Franks. I was called into HR. They knew of the Dennis Murrell debacle, but they weren't surprised. Apparently, Charles Dyer and the takeover team had spotted Dennis as having to go when they did their review. HR just wanted to be sure there would be no nasty repercussions.
Coming out of HR, who do I bump into the delectable but now untouchable Myra?
"Hello, I wasn't expecting to see you here."
She smiled, "I could say the same."
"Are you doing anything this evening by any chance?"
"Yes. Heading back to Bath. I'm in Bristol tomorrow."
"Could I convince you to catch a later train, and we'll have an early dinner? I'm at a bit of a loose end. I'm sure we can grab something to eat and you catch a nine or nine thirty train."
"Sounds good. I'll see you in Reception at six say?"
Dinner with Myra was good. Maybe because there was no shadow of 'what happens later' hanging over us, we both knew that later she was going to catch a train for Bath. After we left the restaurant, we took one taxi between us, first going up to Paddington Station to drop off Myra, and then to head back to my hotel in St James. It was just after we'd dropped Myra at the station that my phone rang. It was Molly. My first thought was for the boys.
"Hello, Molly. I wasn't expecting to hear from you. Are the boys OK?"
"They're fine. Don't worry. Are you OK to talk, you're not at dinner or anything?"
"No. I'm in the back of a taxi just going round Marble Arch, and I've had dinner."
"Are you alone?"
"Did you have a lonely dinner?"
I felt myself reacting: mind your own bloody business. Maybe that's why I replied, "No. I had dinner with Myra Hepsted. You've seen her. She was the girl I took to the RNIB Ball, remember?"
"Oh!" I could hear the disappointment in her voice. Good. Maybe her love life is in tatters, there's no reason for her to think mine is. It is, but there's no reason for her to know that.
I left a pause, before I asked, "What do you want, Molly?"
"I just wanted to say.... Well, for a start I wanted to say how wonderful it was, having all four of us playing board games on Monday, it was like we used to be."
A wave of sadness and regret hit me. How dare she conjure up emotions for something she chose to break up? We'd still be a family is it wasn't for her. "Yes it was. It's a pity we don't do that anymore. I wonder why?"
I waited for a reply. There was nothing, until there was an eventual deadness to the sound and I knew she had gone. Sod her!
I stared at the dead phone, and I felt that knot in my stomach. Why does she do this? How does she do this? We've been divorced for four years, and yet one phone call and she can get me making thoughtless barbed comments, she can get me so angry, so frustrated, so ...I don't know what.
I accept that she is a great love of my life, but how many girls have I been with since? How many miles have I travelled around the world? How many times have I cum without a thought of her? Surely, I should be over her by now?
I realised that my cab was stationary, we'd arrived at my hotel and the driver was waiting for me to get out.
Thursday was hectic, a major sales presentation in the morning, followed by a meeting with our American partners who hold the patents on our scanner, then some internal meeting, and finally another sales dinner at the Savoy Hotel. In the end I caught the last train, a stopper all the way to Bristol, and eventually I got home at two o'clock on Friday morning.
But I was up at my usual time. I changed the clothes in my overnight bag from the dirty ones from the London trip to clean ones for the Exeter trip. I decided not to bother with breakfast, but, between cups of coffee, I did walk down the road for a paper.
When I got back I collected my car keys and loaded up. I was standing on the top step at the main entrance waiting for Myra to turn up, when who should come along, but Molly.
I looked at her, I was suspicious, "Molly! Good morning. What brings you to see me this early on weekday?"
"Carole told me that if I wanted to see you before the weekend, my only chance was now."
"Oh. And?"
"And I want to say I'm sorry. I'm sorry I rang off the other night. I'm sorry that I ran away on Monday.... ..it's just that you say these things. I know you must hate me, but why do you have to say things to upset me? It's been five years now...."
The irony of it struck me, "I guess I could ask you the same question. Anyway, what is so important?" I paused before she could answer, "I'm a bit pushed for time right now. I'm going away for the weekend, down to Exeter, I'm hoping Carole's booked a nice country house hotel outside Exeter somewhere. But I'll be back on Sunday."
"Well, I wanted to say sorry. And I wanted to agree some time when we might talk. I want to talk to you, Chris, please...."
"So you and Ralph keep saying. Well actually I want to talk to you, I don't know what to get Jamie for his birthday. I don't want to buy him anything that'll upset you or Peter. But, it'll have to be Sunday, I'm afraid. How about I have the boys on Sunday afternoon, about two thirty say, and then we can talk when I come back. Will they be at your place or Ralph and Susan's?"
Just then, we both turned, as Myra was staggering up the steps with a bag over each shoulder, a briefcase in one hand and a very heavy looking overnight case in the other.
Myra just looked at me, "Car keys please. I'll put these in your car." She glanced at Molly and probably realised that she was interrupting a private conversation, "Sorry, I'll wait for you in the car. OK?" and she held her hand out for the keys. I gave them to her and she staggered off.
I looked round at Molly, she looked rather shaken, which was odd, Myra wasn't that rude.
"So where will they be?" I prompted.
Molly started down the steps, "Oh. They'll be at Ralph and Susan's. I'm going there for Sunday lunch....it doesn't really matter....no, it doesn't matter." And she was gone.
I watched her go. I think I was probably shaking my head in bewilderment.
I walked over to my car, Myra was sitting in the passenger seat, waiting for me, "I hope I didn't butt into a private conversation."
"Nothing I understood. Don't worry. Why so many bags?"
"Oh! I'm the delivery girl for a whole set of ITI Staff Handbooks, and ITI Pension Scheme Books. That's all."
Friday in Exeter was good. Stephen Hobbs had heard of Dennis Murrell's demise. He was very cautious in his words, until I let him understand that I wasn't sorry to lose Dennis, when Stephen smiled and just added, "So can we give up steam hammers and the water wheel and use electricity and other modern gadgets?"
I did tell him that I may ask him to help in some way as I reorganise the Production team, but I wasn't sure how yet. He was happy to be in Bristol whenever I asked. Later, he offered to take me to dinner, but I'd already arranged to meet Myra.
My dinner with Myra was much like Wednesday night. We had a pleasant dinner, and we were agreed that the Exeter operation had great potential. We soon had put together a shopping list of things we needed to know to help us plot a future. We didn't have a lot of time for socialising, as Myra had found out that the last train from Exeter to Bath was at about eight thirty, but it was a tribute to our professional relationship that we could get through a lot of work in a short time, and I dropped her at Exeter St David's station just in time for her train.
On Saturday, I became a tourist in Exeter. It was a city that, although really only just down the road from Bristol, I hardly knew. And I was impressed, I liked it. And in the evening, I turned up for the Company Barn Dance. Again I was impressed by the nice people that all the staff seemed to be. At one point I remember sitting by myself for a moment, thinking it's funny how birds of a feather do flock together. Just like Dennis Murrell was obviously a friend of that other alpha male, Peter Davies; so Stephen Hobbs seemed to have recruited a bunch of nice characters, like himself.
With a few glasses of wine in both of us, I felt relaxed enough with Stephen that I asked him, "Why did you allow yourselves to be taken over by TDF? You must have had a great future as an independent operator."
He smiled, "The previous owners were two brothers who both wanted to retire. TDF had a pretty big chunk of our order book. The brothers were both our top management and our sales team. Without them we didn't have either a sales channel or a managing director, and they wanted their money. It was their retirement fund, you can't blame them. We're a bunch of engineers. Good ones, but that's what we are. And we didn't have the leadership to get us the money for a management buy-out." And he turned and looked at me with a very questioning look in his brown eyes.
I was flattered, but also the MD of the parent company, I smiled, "Managing Directors are two a penny. They're easy to find." And we let the matter drop.
The Barn Dance went on until well after midnight. The following morning, Sunday, I slept late, had a wonderful cooked breakfast and read the Sunday papers, before setting out to drive back to Bristol. I'd enjoyed Friday and Saturday, and life was pretty good.
I turned up at Ralph and Susan's at almost exactly two thirty. The boys ran out and jumped into the car. Beyond a Hello and a smile from both Susan and Molly, nothing was said.
I was just about to get in my car when Ralph came up to me. I looked at him, I would guess somewhat suspiciously, "Yes, Ralph?"
"I just thought I'd let you know, I asked Susan about seeing Peter on Good Friday. You were right, Peter was heading here, just as Susan was walking back from Jean Pilton's. He stopped and gave her a lift for the final few yards. But he saw your car here and didn't come in, he didn't want an argument."
That didn't sound right to me, but I just said, "Well, it isn't important. It wasn't keeping me awake at night, Ralph." And I smiled and got in my car.
As I drove away, I realised what was wrong with the explanation. It was total crap, but I'm not going to worry about it.
The weather wasn't so good, so I just took the boys back to my place. I got them something to eat later on, and we watched a couple of DVD's. I was quite pleased that they seemed happy not doing anything particularly special. But I was still nervous about whatever the evening was to hold. I was about to have the promised talk with Molly - again!
When I took the boys back, it was Susan that opened the door.
"Hi, Two young tearaways returned, duly fed, watered and entertained."
"OK. Thank you."
I stood there and waited, expecting to be asked in.
Susan looked at me, "Is there something else?"
"Yes. I was expecting to see Molly. She wants to talk to me apparently."
Susan smiled, very sweetly, "Well, she's not here. So, you can assume she doesn't want to talk to you, apparently."
I just about said "Oh." before the door was shut in my face.
I walked away very slowly, but with increasing anger. Fuck her! She's done it again. She comes to me on Friday with how important it is to talk, and now she's not here. Well, damn her, and fuck her, and I don't give a shit anymore!
Ralph came down the side of the house. I looked at him.
"She does need to talk to you, Chris. She's gone home, but you could go round there."
"No, Ralph, I couldn't. I've just about had a bellyful of you and your bloody daughter telling me that we need to talk, and every time, every bloody time she runs away. And I am most certainly not chasing around after her."
He watched me, and when he thought I'd calmed down a bit, he said, "She's upset and scared. Please, Chris, go and see her. There's so much she should talk to you about."
"No there bloody well isn't. She wanted to talk to me, so we go out to lunch, and I spend the whole afternoon with her, and she didn't say a damned thing. Then she comes to my office, takes one look at me and walks out. Then you say we must talk, so I come round here last Monday, on what would have been my wedding anniversary of all days, and when I tell her that I tried to be a halfway decent husband, she bursts into tears and runs away. Then she phones me, and rings off. And then she turns up on my doorstep and runs away with it apparently not mattering at all. And now she's hiding at home. I've had enough of it. I'm pissed off, fed up and angry."
He smiled, conspiratorially, "Women, eh? We can't live with 'em and we can't live without 'em."
That supercilious little epithet just made me angrier. I think at that point I lost it, "Fuck off, Ralph. I'm totally pissed off with you and your bloody daughter. You may like playing silly mind games. You may be happy that your wife lies to you. You may think your poor little daughter is all hurt and upset with me. But I don't fucking care. Understand? No more. Not now, not ever."
Ralph looked hurt. We stared at each other in some stand-off.
My problem was that I liked Ralph. He was an honest and trustworthy man, I was sure of it. I just couldn't really believe that he was playing games or interfering in my life without reason.
He very tentatively asked, "Cup of sherry? I think we both need one."
"Only if we can keep off your bloody daughter and her need to talk to me. OK?"
He didn't answer, but we both walked down their garden to his shed. As he poured two very healthy cups of sherry, he asked, "Why do you think Susan lies to me?"
I regretted throwing that one at him, it wasn't important, and it was in the heat of the moment. I sighed, but I answered him, "Because I was driving away from this house, down the road, that is turning left out of your drive. OK?"
He nodded, so I continued. "I passed Susan in Peter's car about three hundred yards down the road. Now, Jean Pilton's house is about four hundred yards up the road the other way. So, Peter didn't pick Susan up on the way back from Jean Pilton's. And by the time they got here, my car would have been totally out of sight. There would have been no reason for Peter not to come in. OK?"
Ralph looked troubled, but then he brightened with, "I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation. Let's not make a big thing of it."
"I agree. There are a lot more important things in this world."
There was a long silence, before Ralph asked, "How's Myra?"
I looked at him, surprised. "She's very well as far as I know. Why?"
"You told me she's not in your life. Right?"
"Right. She and I had a very, very quick fling some weeks ago, But we're just friends and colleagues now. Why?"
"Think about it from Molly's point of view. She was your date at that Ball, and she said to Molly that she was going to get her hooks into you. Right?"
I smiled at the memory, "Yes."
"And then you're at the Theatre with her. Right?"
"Yes. But how did Molly know about that?"
"Susan found out from somewhere. Someone must have told her, I don't know who. And then you're having dinner with her in London this week. Right?"
"Yes. But only because I was at a loose end that night."
"And now you've just been away for a romantic weekend in Devon with her. Right?"
"No, wrong. But I can see how Molly might have thought that. I gave her a lift down to Exeter for a day's work at Franks, on Friday. We met up in the evening for an early supper, whilst she briefed me on what she'd discovered. And I put her on the eight thirty train back to Bath where she lives. Myself and Myra are not an item. But, even if we were, so what? Can't I have girlfriends? I am single man, or have you forgotten that?"
"I know you are." He paused, apparently deep in thought, "My guess is that Molly will ask you to do something that is probably the hardest thing you'll ever have to do in your life. And she fears that you are currently building a new life with Myra right here in Bristol, and that she has no right to ask anything of you."


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After journeying from the southern tip of South America, red
knots appear on the shores of Delaware Bay in May. They are generally so thin that they look like sparrows. There they will try to gorge themselves on the eggs of the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) and put on a layer of fat. If successful, they will look more like plump doves when they leave for the Arctic.
Ground surveys at Delaware Bay last spring found 24,000 red knots. That's an improvement from the 15,000 counted in 2008. Biologists also reported increased numbers of crab eggs on the bay estuaries. But neither the horseshoe crabs nor the red knots can be called a "recovered population" and the fate of the birds is linked to the crabs.
Horseshoe crabs are used as bait in the conch and eel industry. NJ fishermen contend that the cottage crab industry was unnecessarily hurt by by imposing a harvesting ban in 2006 that was extended indefinitely by law in 2008.
In an nj.com article, biologist Amanda Dey with the New Jersey Endangered and Non-Game Species Program said about last year, "We've seen a bump up in the numbers. ... It was a year that we had settled weather, so there were more crabs and more birds. We'd like to think we saw the bottom. But we don't know."
Dey is part of the team of scientists studying both the crabs and the birds. They traveled to Tierra del Fuego, where they counted about 14,800 red knots in prime South American wintering grounds. The good news is that amount matches winter counts there over the past three years, which suggests that there has not been further declines. Unfortunately, the overall numbers are still at a potential crash level.
New Jersey has the only moratorium among the 15 coastal states. Neighboring Delaware limits harvests to 100,000, male-only crabs annually.
It would probably surprise many New Jerseyeans that Delaware Bay is at the center of this dispute. It's because the Bay is where the world's largest population of breeding horseshoe crabs emerges from winter waters each spring to lay eggs on the estuary shores.
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The aspect of your attentive mind that can see the bigger picture, including your inherent worth, capabilities, and accomplishments.
The Wise Advocate knows what you are thinking, can see the deceptive brain messages for what they are and where they came from, understands how you feel (physically, emotionally), and is aware of how destructive and unhealthy your habitual, automatic responses have been for you.
The Wise Advocate wants the best for you because it loves and cares for you, so it encourages you to value your true self and make decisions in a rational way based on what is in your overall best interest in the long term.
Equally devastating were Steve's deceptive brain messages that kept him from being able to truly connect with his wife, children, and coworkers. In his case, Steve's deceiving brain tried to convince him that everyone in his life wanted something from him and that they were not spending time or talking with him because of who he was or because they genuinely cared for him. This false perception caused Steve to become easily annoyed and excessively angry with anyone he perceived was indirectly asking him to do something. Of course, Steve's deceptive brain messages were clouding his ability to invoke his Wise Advocate to help him see the truth: that the people in his life really liked and respected him because he is smart, funny, caring, and insightful, which draws people to him and his ideas. Contrary to what his deceptive brain messages were saying, the people in his life didn't want him to do their work or take care of him—they wanted to spend time with and learn from a genuinely interesting and charismatic man.
Sadly, believing in and relying on his deceptive brain messages caused Steve to live in a state of chronic stress. No matter where he looked, he saw needy, helpless people everywhere, which drained his energy and fueled his frustration further. Unfortunately, his response to these unsettling surges of anger and disappointment in others was to avoid people whenever possible and to seek solace and relaxation each night in a few glasses of wine. While drinking definitely helped dissolve the stress, it created worsening problems at home and at work: Steve became ever more emotionally distant from the important people in his life, which made him feel alone and deeply sad. Ed, Sarah, Abby, and Steve are just a few examples of the devastating toll deceptive brain messages can take on people's lives and how listening to such false messages can lead to depression, anxiety, relationship difficulties, isolation, addictions, unhealthy habits, and more. When they were not able to use their Wise Advocate to look at the bigger picture and did not align their actions with their true self, our patients were stuck in an endless cycle of deceptive brain messages.
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The package focuses on online promotion, which is a cheap and practical form of promotion, the package includes social media promotion strategies which are credible ways to promote new music, there is a 60-day money back guarantee.Cons
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If you believe you have created a good piece of music that deserves to be promoted, Music Marketing Manifesto may be a worthwhile investment for you if you do not understand social media marketing and John, the found, certainly does.
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Do you believe you are a good musician? Do your friends also think that you have it in you to make it big in the music line? If the answer is yes, you ought to consider this review of Music Marketing Manifesto closely. Music Marketing Manifesto is created by John Oszajca, who is a musician himself. Johns aim is to arm you with a simple but very effective marketing strategy to promote your own music album online.
The bottom line of this deal is that if your music is good, all it needs is a methodology by which it can reach out to music lovers at large. Once it reaches them, it is bound to be appreciated widely. Even the greatest piece of music on earth is of no use as long as nobody knows about it. In other words, John wants to tell you through Music Marketing Manifesto that marketing is everything in the world of music, and you can sell thousands of albums online if you follow Johns advice. This is pretty incredible since with the advent of YouTube, getting your music or name out of the box is not as difficult as it used to be.
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If you are frustrated over the fact that your music does not have the right access or reach, you need to discover the power of the Internet to promote it at practically no cost, and reach out to millions of music lovers. John promises to hand over precisely that power of the Internet to you through his training videos, tools, and tips to achieve that goal smoothly.
John has created a private members-only website that contains exclusive video training and guidance on how you can use the Internet, search engine marketing techniques, and powerful social media networks such as Twitter and Facebook to promote your music. One thing is for sure about Johns strategy that selling music online is the right way to do it. The target market for music is primarily the younger generation, which engages heavily on the Internet and social media networks. Who knows, after using this product your music may be selling on Amazon in no time at all!
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John has divided his Music Marketing Manifesto training program into four modules that cover the marketing strategy, mechanics, targeted online traffic and communication aspects of online music promotion. Each of the modules includes multiple lessons that go into painstaking details about how to promote your music.
All the tools, strategies and techniques are provided in various formats, including PDF files, videos, and audio files. The package is full of multimedia content, and John has designed it to be a comprehensive marketing training program for you to take your music across to the largest audience possible online.
Music Marketing Manifesto is sold at a price of $97. It comes with a 100 percent money back guarantee if you return the product within 60 days of purchase (this is good). John insists that the membership training program is open only for a limited amount of time to train only a limited number of people. This is suspicious though when people say this. Does The Home Depot limit the number of shovels it is going to sell? OK, Lowes will continue to sell shovels so that knocks out that argument. John must feel no one else can make a similar product to Music Marketing Manifesto.
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I thank the hon. Member for Christchurch (Mr. Chope) for mentioning the fact that I received the beer drinker's champion award this week from the Campaign for Real Ale. I got it not for the number of pints that I drank, although I have drunk quite a few, but on behalf of the fight for the full and fair pint.
In the context of co-operatives, hon. Members who go to the Stranger's Bar after today's proceedings and take a glass of cheer will be supporting the small brewery co-operatives that sell their products there. I chair the Catering Committee, and the Catering Department sells Fairtrade products that are based on co-operatives. We therefore touch the lives of Members of Parliament and millions of peopleour constituentswhom we represent.
Ms Claire Ward (Watford): Does my hon. Friend agree that we should publicise the fact that we support co-operatives not only through measures such as this Bill, which we hope will get its Second Reading, but through products that we buy in the House of Commons and in our constituencies?
Mr. Turner: Yes, indeed. I certainly endorse that. My hon. Friend captures the flavour of what we are essentially doing here today, representing the people of our constituencies who are involved in all these majestic endeavours.
Today is an important day. It is the best day that I have had in Parliament for many years, because we are doing something practical and real on behalf of the people we represent. William Morris said:
Richard Younger-Ross (Teignbridge): I apologise to the hon. Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Thomas) for not being here when he introduced the Bill earlier, but I have been here for much of the debate. I congratulate him on a very worthy Bill, and I am pleased to be able to speak in the debate.
When we talk about co-operatives, I am reminded of the town where I was born, Walton-on-Thames, in the Surrey stockbroker belt. There, if hon. Members
Sadly, Winstanley was moved away from that first co-operative commune in Walton by the local residents. Perhaps they realised that it would be good real estate at a later date and wanted to move him on. They moved him on to Cobham, and it then took a number of years for the co-operative movement to catch on and take wind, but we should all be pleased that it did. It has a noble and proud history, as all hon. Members appreciate. The question is, where does it go from here?
The hon. Member for Plymouth, Sutton (Linda Gilroy) has already mentioned many of the initiatives in the south-west, and I shall not go back over them. I shall mention a few areas that have touched my life, and tell the House why I think that this is an important Bill. We have seen what happened to the building societies. Most of us were dismayed when a number of mutual societieswhich were started up so that their members could help each otherwent off to become banks, and to join the other side in the battle and make profits for their shareholders rather than for the mutual benefit of all their members. I bitterly remember the day that we lost the battle for my building society. Luckily, I was able to move to another one which has remained a mutual, but I was distressed that something was eating away at a common good, at something that was a power against profit and greed. It was sad to see that power eroded during the 1980s, a period in which greed seemed to dominate.
Many hon. Members have mentioned the well-known social aspects of the mutuals. The hon. Member for Epsom and Ewell (Chris Grayling) talked about Conservative clubs closing, and about carpetbaggers. I am sure that parties have seen clubs close in all areasthey certainly have in my constituencyand the assets being sold off. It is sad, when people have come together over a period of history, to see that history come to an end. Things roll on, however, and I hope that the Bill will help to resurrect and shore up the co-operative movement and the mutual societies.
I hope that people who wish to come together to share profits, and to work together towards a co-operative aim, will benefit from the Bill. I see a battle in society between those who wish to work for the common good and those who wish to work for profit. With globalisation, more and more companies are becoming part of multinationals and fewer and fewer appear to be working for the benefit of their members, so sometimes we seem to be losing that battle. If we are to win and if we are to stop those who aim only for profit, people must come together and we must encourage them to form new co-operative ventures. I hope that they do so when we pass the Bill. It will make them feel more sure that their efforts will not be plunderedI use that word because it is appropriateby those who come after or even during their tenure.
In particular, I hope that people in agriculture, food production and other forms of manufacturing come together to speak out with a united voice against those who wish to gain great power and profit. The Bill should be considered as a means to help redistribute profits. As I promised to be brief, I shall finish on that point.
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Ruth Kelly): It is a pleasure to respond to the debate. Let me say how much I enjoyed the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow, West (Mr. Thomas), which was informative, stimulating and entertaining, and congratulate him on his choice of Bill. He has campaigned effectively on these issues and I am sure that he will continue to do so. As several hon. Members made clear, the industrial and provident societies sector is large and diverseit has more than 10 million membersand the co-operative movement is well represented in the House. Many powerful speeches pointed to the sector's achievements and potential for development.
In particular, the potential for regenerating the rural economy was identified by my hon. Friend the Member for Stroud (Mr. Drew) and others. The potential for supporting football's original recreational function through Supporters Direct and supporters clubs was described by my hon. Friend the Member for Leigh (Andy Burnham), whose constituency borders mine, and the sector's potential for providing a venue for marriage proposals was mentioned. I was delighted to hear the anecdote told by my hon. Friend the Member for West Bromwich, West (Mr. Bailey). Most appropriately, the Bill has been described today as offering traditional values in a modern setting.
Adam Price (East Carmarthen and Dinefwr): The Minister has mentioned the excellent work of Supporters Direct. Does she welcome the excellent contribution made by the Swansea City supporters trust, which last night managed to secure the future of league football in Swansea by getting Tony Petty to agree to a sale? Again, an overseas business man with no interest in football was stripping a club of assets. Will the Minister join me in welcoming his agreeing to sell to a consortium led by a former playernot at five to midnight, but at five to elevenand wish the new owners and the trust every success?
Ruth Kelly: I thank the hon. Gentleman for drawing the matter to my attention and I send my congratulations and support as he requests.
I look forward to sharing a pint with my hon. Friend the Member for Wolverhampton, South-East (Mr. Turner) and I congratulate him very much on his recent award. In passing, I ask my hon. Friend the Member for Bolton, North-East (Mr. Crausby) to give my regards to Bolton's Labour clubs, which fulfil a valuable function.
The Government and the mutual movement have a shared interest in an inclusive society in which all have equal access to the means of participating to the best of their ability, in markets as social institutions that confer rights and obligations in equal measure on the participants, and in the exercise of individual liberty in concert with the acknowledgement of mutual responsibilities. That is a powerful position from which to start.
Many Members have referred to the roots of the mutual movement in the work done by the Rochdale pioneers back in 1844. More than 150 years later, those principles still ring true and the mutual movement is still thriving, an important partner as we proceed with our public policy
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On the Labrador
Solitary wave moving through the waters,
I watch you growing, lifting, sweep, boundless, vast!
Spume on the reef of morning breaking from the mist,
the earth stands still beneath your turning compass.
Oh more beautiful than the night, stained by the flare
of lightning, sudden, white. Oh to celebrate you
as the rain celebrates the earth, arms outstretched.
I want my music to mean, memory to ensnare you.
I want to feel you the way I feel the strands of nets
strain and bite through my fingers' rough skin
when I heave them up, fin and silver twist of sunlight
gleaming, heavy with the weight of the ocean.
Salt-betrothed, leaning over the railing. Thus
have I fought sound and silence, the rising deep,
at the sheer arch of wings stretching over a wave,
rising like a harbor to the returning ship.
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Teaching machines to play fair
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Machine learning is increasingly used to make decisions about people's lives, such as whether to give someone a loan or whether to interview someone for a job. This brings with it the risk of discrimination, particularly if the data used for training the machines contains bias.
One strategy for ensuring such systems are fair is to modify the training data they learn from. Such approaches have been successful empirically, but typically lack strong theoretical fairness guarantees.
We provide mathematical definitions of some common notions of fairness, which are closely related to the concepts of equality of outcome and equality of treatment. Using these definitions, we show that it is possible to prove that a data representation is both fair and useful.
These provable properties can be used in a governance model involving a data vendor, a data user and a data regulator, where fairness and prediction accuracy are achieved separately to ensure transparency and prevent perverse incentives.
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We've all seen the traditional Apsara dance shows being advertised around town, often coupled with a hotel buffet dinner. It is a tried – and some might say tired – and tested tourist favourite but on Saturday, Hotel 1961 brings something different: a contemporary dance performance combining Apsara moves with jazz, soul and pop music.
The show is the brainchild of Australian Nick Coffill, producer of brand-new collective, the Bambu Stretch Project, "an intense, fourteen-week training program that uses the classical tradition of Cambodia as a framework for contemporary dance."
The dance company so far consists of just three female performers who have been rehearsing for a month, and the fruits of their labours will be shown tomorrow, December 1, at 6.30pm.
The young dancers are all classically trained graduates from the School of Arts in Siem Reap.
Former theatre designer Coffill got the idea after watching countless hotel shows and feeling "they could be much better," with higher production values.
Classical dance teacher Ms Yon Chanta (L) with the three new dancers Son Srey Nith, Kong Seng Va and Khun Srey Noch. Photograph Nick Coffill
He says, "We see in Siem Reap a great opportunity to change the face of the tourist and hotel shows, where we see kids having to repeat ad nauseum the coconut dance and the Apsara dance. What's happening is Khmer culture is being flattened out. We see it as a chance to think about the contemporary world, and take that great classical tradition of Cambodian dance and ratchet it up to the 21st century."
Dutch choreographer and artistic director Bob Ruijzendaal has been working with the trio on various routines set to modern music.
"Bob is using a whole kaleidoscope of different music," Coffill says, "From the great music of Sinn Sisamouth, the music of the 1960s of Cambodia, which is still played on the radio. We're looking at jazz music, world music, pop, anything that's got a light fresh attitude that can engage with the dancers."
The girls have also been working with top classical dancers from Phnom Penh with international experience who, Coffill says, know how to engage with the audience "using the eye" – something that's not typically seen in traditional Khmer dance.
"Traditional court dancing in Cambodia is dancing for the gods. So to engage with an audience is unnecessary. The idea of winking or pouting to the audience is a complete anathema."
In Coffill's new, modern vision of Apsara the girls won't be dressed in traditional costume, just simple cotton trousers and t-shirts – the costume of contemporary dance.
The 35 minute performance will include stories about working women in Cambodia – from the night market stall holder to the street sweeper.
Long-term, Coffill plans to expand the dance troupe, and to establish the Bambu Theatre Company. His aim is to be Siem Reap's "first contemporary, full-time dance company" by summer 2013, giving weekly performances of "damn good theatre" at various venues for locals and tourists alike.


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USB True emulation now available for Command & Control
Adder, a leading developer of KVM switches, extenders and KVM over IP solutions, today announced the availability of the Command & Control Switch (CCS4USB).
CAMBRIDGE, UK - July 28, 2009 - Adder, a leading developer of KVM switches, extenders and KVM over IP solutions, today announced the availability of the Command & Control Switch (CCS4USB).
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