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Month: March 2007

Hungarian Women Underemployed: Great Economic Opportunities in Hungary

It doesn’t hurt that Hungarian cuisine is the best food Caboodle.hu – Study shows Hungarian gender equality worst in region: According to an annual study published by the Central Statistics Office (KSH) and the ministry of social affairs and labor entitled “Women and Men in Hungary” (“Nők és férfiak Magyarországon”), while 54% of people participating in higher education are women, only 8% of university teachers are female…. In addition, although women are better educated and speak more languages than their male counterparts, they find it more difficult to climb the career ladder, and only 35% of managers are women.

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Barclay’s Bank scamming customers on the way to record profits

Strangely, the bank made 7 billion lastThis articlBBC NEWS | Business | Mis-selling is ‘rife’ at Barclays: As my trainer Simon Pickergill said: “I hate it when they say the customer is always right…. Remember this isn’t just anyone, this is a man who Barclays had chosen to teach us, the bank’s new staff, how to behave.

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Volksoper: Tanzhommage an Queen

For the moment there doesn’t seem to be a suitable candidate within the Staatsoper and Volksoper troupe (the one male dancer whom I’ve seen in Vienna who might have been able to carry the show was let go last year Harald Baluch)…. If ballet directory Gyula Harangoza would bring in a couple of top-notch teachers (perhaps one native Russian star for the large Russian contingent) to personally train his female leads (that’s the system used in Moscow at the Bolshoi and in St Petersburg at the Marinsky: a private coach for each leading dancer), he has the talent in the stable to push the level of dance in Vienna up a level.

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Rock Ballet – Political Ballet:
New Direction in Dance from Joni MItchell and William Forsythe

It turns out that Joni Mitchell is back at work on an amazing antiwar production, of all things a ballet.She is still highly motivated by politics:“Humbly I hope we can make a difference with this ballet,” she told him, speaking of her outrage about the foreign and environmental policies of the United States…. We’re wasting our time on this fairy tale war, when the real war is with God’s creation.

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