Stripped for action

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A new company should be prepared to start gradually before it confronts companies which are already well established, according to David Hinde, who founded UK Sportsgear in 1993 from his own home. The company has expanded rapidly after supplying the Welsh and Scottish teams at the Commonwealth Games, and now has 20 employees. When he started, he had no experience of the clothing industry, so was very careful to listen to clothing producers and to prospective customers. His company sells to rugby clubs, universities and companies seeking a corporate design for employees' sports teams.

Management, Officials and employees, Clothing industry, Sport clothes industry, Hinde, David, UK Sportsgear

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Stripped down to the tone

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Different countries have different musical timing systems. Ethnomusicologists have discovered African bushmen's scale is 'equi-pentatonic' - the pitches of the notes are exactly 2.4 semitones apart. Other areas of Africa use an equi-heptatonic scale. This awareness is challenging the supremacy of our semitones. The Society for the Promotion of New Music held a forum to develop microtonality. James Wood has developed double-size percussion instruments and founded the Centre for Microtonal Music at the Guildhall School.

Analysis, Music, Ethnomusicologists, Microtonic music, Microtonal music

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The history of life as we know it

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It is important to believe that ordinary people have something important to say, according to Brian Lewis. This belief prompted him to establish the Yorkshire Art Circus in 1980. This project has involved recording the thoughts of local people in places including former council estates in Hull, England, and Boreham Wood, England. Lewis is employed by Housing Associations and Housing Action Trusts to record tenants' stories in an attempt to improve community spirit.

Social aspects, Oral history, Lewis, Brian

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