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Betsy Davis, the proprietor of Portage Bay Goods, the store she founded four years ago in a bohemian Seattle neighborhood, was showing me around her shop one morning this summer. At first glance, it looked like your standard countercultural tchotchke shop, full of scented candles and throw rugs and homemade greeting cards with funny messages. ("Resentment is suicide.") Upon closer inspection, however, the things for sale at Portage Bay Goods were notably ingenious. The throw rugs were made from recycled blue jeans, Betsy pointed out, and the black rubber purses on a table near the door were made from old inner tubes. There were bottle openers made out of bicycle chains, photograph frames made out of old skateboards, drinking glasses made out of discarded bottles. "I just love recycled stuff," she said as I admired some goofy wire sculptures with a cutlery motif. The artist's name was displayed on a little card: Spoon Man.
Betsy's worn blue jeans and tie-dyed jacket also had a recycled look. Like "Pike/Pine," the rapidly gentrifying neighborhood in which her store is situated, she's both a throwback to the 60s and a pioneer in the high-tech world. You would hardly guess from her hippie uniform or her vaguely stoned way of talking ("blah, blah, blah" is her favorite expression) that, at the age of 42, she's a Microsoft millionaire.
So are a number of her friends. One of the strangest outcomes of the software—and now the Internet—revolution has been the creation of a new class: the retired instant rich. In Seattle, most of them worked at Microsoft and "cashed out" when their stock options reached a certain optimum level, a cohort so numerous that it has a name: the Class of Two Thousand. Actually, it's even more: there are close to 60,000 households in the Puget Sound area with a net worth of $1 million or more, and a lot of that money has been generated by the electronic revolution. The city itself is in the midst of a marathon refurbishment. It seems as if half the blocks in downtown Seattle are crane-littered construction sites.
Seattle isn't the only center of newly minted wealth out West. Silicon Valley, the software lodestone 30 miles south of San Francisco, has also produced its share of cash-outs—men and women, most of them still in their 30s and 40s, who made a ton of money off Internet start-ups early in the game and headed (often literally) for the hills, climbing Mount Rainier, trekking in Nepal, watching the sunset from their redwood decks high up in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Because of who they are and where they come from and the way in which they became rich, they've spawned a social revolution of such magnitude that it is transforming entire sectors of the West. Unlike people in the financial-services industry, who end up as bond traders or bankers because they want to make a lot of money, "Microsofties" made their wealth serendipitously; for the most part, they tended to be from academic backgrounds—geeky, creative, interested less in striking it rich (until recently, when the Internet got to be like the Gold Rush) than in devising innovative software programs.
There's also a geographic—or is it a sociological?—component. Wall Street money builds temples of conspicuous consumption: houses in the Hamptons, estates in Connecticut, duplexes on Park Avenue. Silicon Valley and Redmond, the home of Microsoft, frown upon the pursuit of money for its own sake. "It's cool—or cooler—to be understated out here," says Julie Bick, 34, a New Jersey native and Wharton School of Business graduate who left Microsoft in 1995 and wrote an engaging book, All I Really Need to Know in Business I Learned at Microsoft. "Conspicuous consumption isn't the style. People don't have jets or huge vacation homes. They have a cabin in the woods furnished by Ikea." You see as many Volvos as Porsches in the parking lots along Highway 101 in the Valley or on the Microsoft campus. The prestige aeronautical item isn't a Learjet but a paraglider. "I know people out here who have 10 times more money than your typical New York real-estate mogul, but you'd never know it," the writer James Fallows, a transplanted easterner who was spending six months at Microsoft developing a software program for the electronically challenged, told me over dinner one night at the Woodmark Hotel in Kirkland, Washington (just a few miles from Microsoft's headquarters and practically the company's official hotel). "They don't have town cars with drivers, they don't wear Sulka suits. They do have big houses, but you don't know where they are. They're not looking to be written about on 'Page Six.'" Another easterner I know who attended a party out here recounted to me her chagrin when the blue-jeaned guest she was deep in conversation with excused himself and headed for the kitchen; it turned out he was one of the caterers. It's a different value system.
One question that nagged at me as I explored the cash-out phenomenon was: How much money are we talking about here? Two million? Ten million? A hundred million? I knew how much some people were worth because I'd read about them in the paper or because they'd become part of high-tech lore. Paul Brainerd collected $130 million from the sale of his Aldus Corporation, a pioneer in desktop publishing, in 1994 when he was 46. But as I nosed around, I was surprised by how modest the cash-out figure could be. "There are a lot of financial planners around Seattle who will do the calculations for you," one Microsoft retiree explained to me. "Say you're living on $250,000 a year; there are spreadsheets and programs. You figure inflation, growing your capital, and you want to send your kids to Yale, buy a house on the beach. A lot of people watch the stock price and when it hits their number, they're free. After that they're a volunteer at the company." Working out the numbers—and envying the fact that middle-class people everywhere but in Manhattan can actually live well on a quarter of a million dollars a year—I came up with a figure of something like $7 million.
But "fuck-you money," as the retirement number is commonly referred to out here, can be a lot less. I heard about people who'd cashed out with a mere million. Bill Barnes, 32, who helped launch the Microsoft Network and worked with Michael Kinsley at the on-line journal Slate—"I was the tech guy"—told me about "a friend" who'd cashed out with two and a half million. Barnes won't say how much he left with—he cashed out in 1997—but his own number might have been even lower. "I'm glad I left when I did," he told me. "The day it crossed my mind, I looked at my financials and saw that the thing I wanted to do I could go do. My wife and I spent a lot of time with spreadsheets to figure out how much we could live on, and did a half-assed budget that turned out to be wildly inaccurate. We had to figure out how much we could draw on our capital, and finally came up with a number that indicated we needed to work 17.3 hours a week." He's glad he didn't strike it rich in the I.P.O. sense—at least not yet. "I don't know what it would be like if I were stupid rich. I wouldn't want to have to make that choice, wake up every morning and figure out what to do with myself."
Two phrases I heard over and over among Microsofties who'd cashed in their chips: "It's like winning the lottery" and "I didn't know what a stock option was." In this regard, Betsy Davis is typical. A Stanford graduate and daughter of a Seattle attorney, Davis started out at Microsoft as a temp, after typing stints at other Seattle businesses that included a videotape distributor. "I'd done some word processing, but I didn't know much about computers," she told me as we sat in her cluttered office at Portage Bay Goods. She ended up at Microsoft in 1983 after she answered a help-wanted ad. "I was a little under number 400 in the company." (This is a significant statistic in the Microsoft mythology: employees, especially those who got in on the ground floor, can tell you their exact rank in terms of when they entered, a notable distinction in a company that has expanded from 3 people to more than 28,000 since it was founded in 1975.) "It was like being on a frontier. If one was energetic and hardworking, there was work to be done. I wasn't a muckety-muck, I wasn't a visionary, I was just your regular little Joe who got things done." She spent about two years in Ireland working for the company, managing the "localization" of products (adapting Windows to the needs of publicans and weavers, presumably), and left Microsoft in 1997.
What prompted her to found her own company? (Portage Bay Goods also has a concession stand, Portage Bay Goodies, that sells a vast array of mochas and lattes and cappuccinos out of a sidewalk window in the store.) "I don't have a good reason for why I started this store," she says, struggling to reassemble the tale in her head. "In Ireland, people were doing things that were fun, not dowdy. On a personal, survival level I'd spent nearly 14 years managing other people and listening to other people. I wanted to do something that reflected my own voice. I made a spreadsheet." She grabs a piece of paper and roughs it out for me. "There were three things that I decided matter: community, soul, environment. Soul is hard to define. When someone creates something from within themselves, that's soul. Community is the connection between the people who make the product and the people who sell it. Environment? I'm active in community planning in Pike/Pine, trying to figure out how you do gentrification without driving out independent stores." As examples of her approach to enlightened capitalism, she listed her benefits package: employees get a free massage once a quarter, and free bus passes (good for the environment); she will pay their salaries for up to 20 hours a year of community service; and—this really impressed me—her store is in a building owned by a nonprofit group that leases the space upstairs to Catholic Services, which has renovated apartments above her store for the homeless. Her rent goes to support the program.
Was she surprised to find herself rich? "Yeah, totally. I totally remember driving to the ocean one day 15 years ago, saying to myself, If I had $5,000 I'd take three years off and play. Now I own my own house." Does she miss the adrenaline rush of her Microsoft days? "Not really," she answers in her deliberate, oddball way. "Microsoft fed the analytical part of me, the part that likes to get things done." Now she's rehabilitating herself—"therapy and yoga, working with a personal trainer, learning to get my heart rate to go up. I can do a handstand—I did my third one today," she says proudly. "In Seattle, there's this thing going around: simplify life, consume less, have more freedom to choose what your life is."
I heard this refrain everywhere in my travels around the city. It was the mantra of Microsoft money. One afternoon I went down to City Hall and talked with Tina Podlodowski, 39, a lesbian activist with two adopted children. At Microsoft, she headed up Microsoft University, the company's worldwide training program. She left the company in 1992, ran for the Seattle City Council in 1995, and won 65 percent of the vote. A national figure in the gay-rights movement, she was co-chairman of Clinton's re-election campaign in Washington state, and made national news when she resigned after the president agreed to sign a Republican bill denying federal recognition to gay marriages. On the table in her office is a photograph of her with Al Gore. She also helped start the Podlodowski/Mileur Fund for Gay and Lesbian Families with Children. Now she chairs the City Council's Public Safety, Health and Technology Committee and oversees the police and fire departments. "If you had told me I'd be supervising drug busts, heroin, police brutality … " She shakes her head. "That's what I do—make people feel safe—which is how I felt when I got my money."
For Podlodowski, whose own parents were Polish immigrant factory workers in the Northeast, Seattle is a Renaissance city-state, flush with cultural patronage. "We could be the Florence of the next millennium. People are taking their money and putting it into the community. There's a different mentality that drives it. In New York, people want their name on a museum. There's not the sense [in Seattle] that there's an upper class. Having money out here doesn't mean a closetful of Armanis." I thought of how money is raised in New York, the fund-raisers you read about every Sunday in the "Styles" section of The New York Times—posh parties for the New York Botanical Gardens, New York Hospital, the New York City Ballet. In New York, you write the check and go to the party. In Seattle, the prestige thing is to go into the nonprofit sector—and work. "There's been a huge transfer of wealth," says Podlodowski. "How do you harness that? How do you take a nonprofit structure and make it self-mastering? Imagine the sweeping reforms that could happen."
The buzzword for this transformation is "social capitalism." Three years ago, Paul Brainerd, the founder of Aldus, dreamed up Social Venture Partners, which has given away nearly a million dollars to children's causes. Through the group, Brainerd has sought to encourage what he called "a new kind of giving," in which investment is tailored to the specific needs of communities and schools—the social equivalent of small businesses. Among S.V.P.'s projects are grants to elementary schools, mentoring programs, and classes that focus on "at-risk" children in poor districts. "The model we're trying to steal from is venture-capital investing—long-range goals, finding the right nonprofits, learning how to develop philanthropic skills," Paul Shoemaker, the executive director of S.V.P., explained to me one afternoon. We were sitting in the modest boardroom of his light, airy Seattle office, in a renovated building on the edge of a seedy though rapidly gentrifying neighborhood downtown. Dressed in blue jeans and a T-shirt, the standard techie uniform—in a week out West, the only person I saw wearing a tie was the bartender at the sushi bar of the Hotel Nikko in San Francisco—Shoemaker told me that he'd worked at Microsoft for seven years in direct marketing, and retired in February 1998 at the age of 37 to spend more time with his two young boys, one of whom was roaming around the office while we talked. He also wanted to make a contribution to society. "The chance to have 30 years to give back, that's really cool."
"Giving back," like "luck" ("I happened to work in the right company, I'm not smarter than others"), was a common theme among the idealistic cash-outs I met during my time in Seattle. Trish Millines Dziko, one of the few African-Americans among the Class of Two Thousand, was raised in Belmar, New Jersey, by a single mother who "cleaned floors for wealthy white people." Dziko, 42, got a computer-science degree from Monmouth University and worked at Microsoft for eight and a half years as a program manager. She quit in 1996 to found the Technology Access Foundation, an organization devoted to educating "communities of color" in the new technology. "I expected to be working for a very long time. I had no idea that I'd be leaving this early. I left when I felt that I had enough money so that I'd never have to work if I continued to live the way I do. I'm pretty middle-class. I live in a normal house in a normal neighborhood, which is a big step up from the way I was raised. I got a whole generation coming behind me that doesn't even have what I have. We didn't have a lot of stuff, but we never did without. Mother did her philanthropy through the church. I sold cookies, cleaned fish for fish fries, that kind of stuff. I was raised to give back."
Not everyone who drops out of Microsoft heads straight for the public sector. Bill Barnes, *Slate'*s former tech guy, resigned from Microsoft in August 1997 and "fiddled around," putting Betsy Davis's store on-line, consulting, reading—biographies of Churchill and Theodore Roosevelt, the Penguin History of the World. He became a Civil War buff, lingering at Antietam and Vicksburg, checking out Harper's Ferry. Last year he and his wife, a potter, bought an R.V. and traveled around the country for nine months. A fresh-faced young man with a close-cropped chin beard and a Yellowstone cap, he has the genial manner of someone whom life has treated exceptionally well. He exemplifies the Microsoft style—laid-back but energetic, centered but driven. "I got antsy on the last leg of our trip," he told me. "My brain was sending me signals: 'I need to be used, I need to be used.'" Now he's gone back to work: he's vice president of technology for a small Seattle start-up called Giftspot.com, which offers electronic gift certificates. "I'm having a ton of fun. There's nothing more fun than working with smart people. I'd forgotten. I'm in this for a year or two, then the wife and I will hit the road in the R.V. again."
Jabe Blumenthal, 38, a former Microsoftie whom I visited in his big old house in northeastern Seattle, a residential neighborhood of stately Tudor-style mansions from the 1910s, made the point that since a lot of his friends and fellow cash-outs had never expected to be rich, giving up the prospect of even greater riches is no big deal. "There's a difference between people who went into business to make money and those who never thought they'd make money," he said one afternoon as we sat on his sunporch while he watched his six-week-old boy, Pascal. "When Microsoft went public, employees were offered 200 shares at the offering price—something like 20," Jabe recalled. "That day it shot up to 291⁄4, and almost everyone sold their shares. They never thought it could go any higher." Jabe attended a local private school, Lakeside (the same one Bill Gates attended); now he has returned to teach math and physics. What made him leave, I ask. "It's a big world out there; there's a lot of cool stuff to do. At Microsoft"—where Jabe was the first program manager—"I felt like every intellectual ability I had was called into play. What I do now is a little narrower, but the relationships are more intense. If somebody said, 'Do you think you'll be doing this in 10 years?,' I'd say absolutely." As I left, Jabe handed me a card for Airplay, his paragliding school in the Cascade Mountains—"The largest in the country," he said. "I never miss an opportunity to get the word out."
Like just about every Microsoftie I met, Jabe had a second career. I was struck by how few cash-outs—at least in the West—were devoting themselves to golf or lying on a beach (though I did read in The Wall Street Journal about a former Microsoft vice president who was training himself to be a pro bowler). Many of them were managing to reproduce, even if in a scaled-down version, their frenetic lives at Microsoft. "I'm working just as hard here as I ever did," Paul Shoemaker confessed, describing his 10-hour days of meetings and late-night E-mailing sessions. Scott Oki, one of the founders of S.V.P., said the same thing: "My life is as hectic now as it ever was at Microsoft. I don't work on weekends, but Monday through Friday I'm as busy as ever. Now it's no longer achieving business goals or doing deals—it's helping nonprofits achieve their goals. It's a different kind of reward system. I'm trying to give money away instead of make more money."
The problem is that even if you don't need more money than you have—if you don't even particularly care about money—it's still a measure of worth in our society. "What's the difference between $30 million and $60 million?" said a rich cash-out I know on the East Coast who sold his telecommunications business a few years ago. "The difference is in your head." So why keep trying to accumulate more? "For a lot of guys I know, it's because they can't do anything else," he told me. He named two well-known money managers in New York who are still putting in 16-hour days. "They have no outside interests. They just keep adding zeros." It's a way of defining your achievement, Nathan Myhrvold acknowledged. "It's feedback. It's those white lines in the middle of the road that let you know where you are, and one of those markers is financial. Once you get in that mode—'I'm making lots of money'—you can lose sight of the fact that you don't want to be doing that. It's hard to let go when you're making millions of dollars a year."
Myhrvold, who has amassed a fabled fortune estimated to be more than $250 million—along with a high profile—as Microsoft's chief technology officer, is eloquent on the benefits of his recent and much-publicized departure from the company, billed as a sabbatical. "There were all kinds of things I wanted to do—reading and writing. I was originally going to be a scientist, and took a left turn instead of a right turn. Eventually it dawned on me that no one would ever walk into my office and say, 'Why don't you take some time off?' If you work 10 years here, you get an extra week off." The higher he rose at the company, the harder he worked. "If you succeed, every day your rut gets deeper. You have more people working for you. The moat that separates you from other things gets wider. Success forecloses your options. I've met people who have no money at all yet have arranged their lives so that they're doing what they want to do. A friend of mine who's 40—my age—and I had a discussion. 'Say you live 25 more years,' this person said. 'That means the next three months is one percent of the rest of your working life. When you're on your deathbed, are you going to wish for more money or more time?'"
It was at that point that Myhrvold decided to leave.
Not surprisingly, he has ambitious plans. He went on a dinosaur expedition this summer, and later in the year, he plans to spend some time at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. "I'll see what comes of it. I'm hoping there's something I don't know I want to do."
All the same, he's nervous about leaving behind the main source of his identity. "I'm giving up this fantastic job for … nothing, for an absence of something to do." His friends fret that he'll drop off *Vanity Fair'*s New Establishment list, and that no one will call him on the phone—"though I did get invited to the Sun Valley conference," he said with a nervous laugh.
One of the most startling things about this new pool of western wealth is the openness with which its possessors talk about their status. At first, I had thought the story was in New York, which is having its own cash-out moment—Goldman Sachs and Neuberger Berman doing I.P.O.'s, Internet companies such as TheStreet.com popping up on Wall Street to capitalize on investor greed. But when I tried to discover what cash-outs in the area did with their dough, I was invariably rebuffed. One fortysomething friend of mine, who bailed out of Goldman two years ago to become a pig farmer in New Jersey, backed off from an interview as if I were a leper. Another former Goldmanite curtly rang off when I called him on the phone. At the Harvard Club on West 44th Street, I approached a clot of expensively tailored regulars at the backgammon table in the Grill Room, hoping for some insight as to how they regarded early retirement. I knew that most of them no longer worked, because when the room cleared out after lunch, they lingered on, hunched over the backgammon table, until cocktail hour; I'd heard that yachts and Hampton homes changed hands clandestinely. When I made my introduction as a journalist, the players glared at me stonily. "I don't see the upside in talking about this, and I do see the downside," one finally muttered. A dogged reporter, I made a lunch date with the chairman of the Games Committee; perhaps he could enlighten me. Instead he stood me up. It finally occurred to me: New York is all about work. Work is our badge of honor, the thing that defines us, the reason for tolerating the city's weird, hopped-up environment. No one's going to admit that he or she doesn't work. It would be like admitting to some private weakness or affliction. I'm retired—I can't get it up.
One of the few people who would talk to me was Michael Steinhardt, the 58-year-old hedge-fund wizard who retired in a blaze of publicity a few years ago, having made fortunes for his clients and a reported $400 million dollars for himself. Steinhardt claimed to be retired—this was his second pass at retirement. He had gone off to Israel, and put in a lot of time at his Mount Kisco estate developing his menagerie of exotic animals. He started a movie company, got interested in horticulture. Now he's engaged in philanthropy; among his other schemes I'd read about was Birthright Israel, which proposed to offer a free "educational" trip to Israel for every Jew on the planet. (Did you have to go?, I wondered.)
Steinhardt didn't look retired. I called on him at his headquarters on 59th Street and Madison Avenue, where he occupies a huge corner office on the 17th floor, overlooking the Plaza Hotel and Central Park. A portly, balding man with a mustache and gold-rimmed glasses, he sat behind an immense desk in red suspenders, surrounded by glass cases filled with treasures of ancient Judaica he'd collected over the years. "I've managed to transfer the intensity and temper of trading to my philanthropic life," he told me. Like many self-made men, for whom giving often means serving on boards and submitting to the whims of others, Steinhardt isn't interested in becoming part of the philanthropic establishment. He wants to do things his own way. It was in this spirit that he sponsored, together with 12 other wealthy partners, including Edgar Bronfman and Leslie Wexner, a fund to encourage Jewish education—"to get people used to the limelight interested in collective Jewish causes, such as the creation of new Jewish day schools. The idea was that things need to be done Jewishly; the Jewish world has deteriorated through intermarriage. We Jews aren't great givers anymore. We're the product of two great rivers: Eastern European Jewishness—shtetl life—and American secularism, which has enabled us to go into all professions. As the century ends, one river has become a trickle, while the other has grown and grown. Are we so different from everyone else anymore?"
This was all fascinating, and I admired Steinhardt's vision for increasing Jewish philanthropy. The disconcerting thing was that, in the midst of describing to me his post-retirement dreams, Steinhardt was trading bonds compulsively, ceaselessly, obsessively, breaking off our conversation to bark directives into his intercom at a harried assistant in a yarmulke who materialized every few minutes to debate their current position. "We bought a hundred at 21," he said to the assistant, "so that puts us at, what, $750,000, $800,000? I'm getting antsy. We've blown it a little bit. After we've bought 300 bonds, what happens to us at 15, 16, 17?" Five minutes later, another urgent exchange ensued: "So we're at 450,000. If you short 1,400 bonds, you lose a million. Oh, brother."
"It doesn't feel like retirement," Steinhardt said to me, gazing across his vast desk with watery, troubled eyes. No, it doesn't, I acknowledged. As I headed down the hall, hearing his voice boom over the intercom, it occurred to me, not for the first time, that it's not easy being rich.
One afternoon I joined Betsy Davis in a boardroom on the 41st floor of one of the three skyscrapers that loom over downtown Seattle. We were there to attend a session of SoulTenders, a spiritual-outreach program for stressed upper-level managers that was founded in 1998 by two ex–investment bankers, Liz Ellmann and Christine Noonan. Liz, an elegant woman in her early 40s with close-cropped brown hair and piercing blue eyes, used to work at Bankers Trust on Wall Street, specializing in global markets. "I reached a point where that just wasn't feeding me," she had told me earlier that day, when we met over coffee at the 611 Supreme, a 60s-style coffeehouse in Pike/Pine. "I wondered why it wasn't satisfying. Wall Street is the center of the universe. I was going to church, but I hadn't discovered God." She and her husband—a financial consultant—dropped out and spent a couple of years backpacking in Asia. "A palm reader in India really got it for me. We were in Mysore on New Year's Eve 1991, and he looked at my palm and said, 'You're going to die when you're 62.' It was the thought of my mortality that turned me around. I just felt called upon to serve."
SoulTenders was her answer. "I'm not interested in evangelizing; I'm interested in nurturing the creativity within us." To this end, she's been trying to sign up new recruits for her program; one of her first clients is the Environmental Protection Agency. Companies are starting to lend her the use of their boardrooms and in some instances pick up the tab. "There's a shift from the ordered, Newtonian way to this more open world of the Internet," she explained, fixing her intense blue eyes on me as she offered up a spiritual analogue to deconstruction. "There are no credentialed truths out there; it's alive and evolving." From the Dow to the Tao, as it were.
A few hours later, in the boardroom of Marshall & Sullivan, investment advisers, Liz joined her partner, Christine Noonan, 49, a former executive at IBM, Merrill Lynch, and the Lotus Development Corporation, who is now interested, according to the course brochure, in "reconciling spiritual life with corporate culture." They sat at the head of the table, surrounded by five eager charges who had shelled out $250 for the 12-week course. Today's theme, Liz announced, was "Owning Our Ambition."
As I gazed out over the lovely skyline of Seattle, the green islands and lakes and the snowcapped mountains on the horizon, Liz and Christine addressed their flock, which included a couple of high-level Internet executives who made it clear that they were spending 80 hours a week engaged in start-up ventures, on "the art of blessing the day." Liz read from a poem by Marge Piercy ("Attention is love, bless whatever you can with eye and hand and tongue. / If you can't get ready to bless it, make it new"). At that point, a gong sounded, the kind of faintly resonant bell I'd last heard in an ashram I stumbled into somewhere north of San Francisco 30 years ago. "Take a deep breath and bring yourself into the present moment and as you breathe in let go of everything that has happened in this day," Liz advised in a calm voice. Then she read a Celtic blessing while outside in the corridor, visible through the glass walls of the conference room, secretaries bustled back and forth. Again the soothing bell rang.
After the reading of the blessing, Liz asked for a report on the "god boxes" the group had made the previous week, cardboard containers in which they had placed objects symbolic of their inner conflicts. A man named Bill described how he had put shards of glass in his box and then tied it up with wire. "All my fears stem from fear of fragmentation," he explained. "I don't need to put anything in the box because it's already there." (Maybe he didn't want to look in the box and find out what his conflicts were, the Freudian in me murmured, but I quickly suppressed my doubts.) The participants had been given another assignment—to write "morning pages," a stream-of-consciousness exercise designed to ferret out their deepest anxieties. But most of the group had been so harried by work-related crises and meetings that they hadn't written their pages.
Never mind. Today's lesson, Liz intoned, was about "gratitude." The class assignment was to write a Celtic blessing. First we were to choose some object from our daily lives—"For the Celtic farmer it might have been the milk cow"—then close our eyes and "think about touching it, ask some energy, the presence in the universe, to be with you and that object," and then "invite the poet in you to write a blessing." As an example, she had written her own blessing—to her refrigerator: "Thank you for keeping cool and fresh / the herbs of the meadow, / the produce of the fields and forests … " Then she put on a tape of Celtic music, a soothing medley of pipes and flute. When it was over, she asked for volunteers to read their blessings. A woman named Patricia had written a blessing to her eyeglasses; Bill, the guy who had tied up his "god box," blessed his workspace; Christine blessed her kitchen: "Thank you for your drain, which takes away the unwanted … " ("Lots of levels of meaning there," volunteered a man named Tim.) Feeling as if I ought to participate, I had written a blessing on the piece of paper I'd been handed: "Bless my laptop for giving me the ability to generate words that communicate … " Fortunately, I wasn't called upon to read it. What I really wanted to write was a blessing to my cell phone ("Thank you for enabling me to call my agent at any hour of the day or night … "), but somehow that seemed crude.
As the class drew to a close, Christine gave a packet of thank-you cards to everyone, suggesting the students write to a person of their choice to give thanks for something they'd been given, and recommended an hour's contemplative walk. They were also to write down "50 things you're thankful for in life." Then the resonating bell rang once more, and we dispersed to the elevator bank.
As at many moments in American history when great wealth has accrued to a group—the great philanthropic largesse of Carnegie and Ford, the culture temples of Chicago built by the great midwestern fortunes at the end of the 19th century—the vast piles of money being made in the high-tech industry have already begun to attract an evangelical component, for whom "giving back" is the essence of capitalism. One afternoon I sat around a conference table at the brand-new offices of Gregory Slayton's company ClickAction, just off the 101 freeway in Palo Alto, with a group of cash-outs in their 30s and early 40s who were already—as the philanthropic term goes—making a difference. The language in which they described their philanthropic work had an evangelical cast to it; they had made millions in the software business and were now busy fulfilling the will of God. George de Urioste, whose company, a pioneer in Internet applications, had grown so rapidly that he had had trouble keeping up with it, was a handsome, intense C.F.O. who had taken a year off—"Retired!" he scrawled on his card—"to get off the fast-moving train, slow down life, pursue obscurity," as he put it. He was working with Charles Colson, the 68-year-old Watergate felon turned born-again Christian, in a prison-fellowship ministry developing outreach programs such as the Angel Tree Network that help the families of prisoners in high-crime neighborhoods like East Palo Alto: "We're trying to reach out to the children of prisoners who lack a role model for what it takes to become a good, productive, law-abiding citizen."
Also at the table was John Sage, down from Seattle for the day. John had joined Microsoft in 1989 and been plunged into "the classic Microsoft experience—all-consuming and exhausting." By 1994, still in his 30s, he was "burned out," as the Seattle Times Magazine described him in a cover story last April. In the space of a year, he had gotten married, shipped a new software program—Office 4.0 —and lost a brother to aids. His former Harvard Business School roommate and close friend Chris Dearnley had founded a charismatic church in San José, Costa Rica, to rescue slum children in the grip of drugs and poverty. Dearnley was just about out of money; Sage was at loose ends. "I was twiddling my thumbs, thinking, How do I steward these resources? In one of those great poolside, margarita-induced conversations"—he now refers to it as an "epiphany"—"we dreamed up a business that would serve solely as a source of income for Chris's company."
He handed me a brochure for Pura Vida Coffee—"Supporting Christian Ministry to Children and Families in Costa Rica." Sage had gotten into the coffee business, buying coffee beans cheap from a wholesaler and selling them over the Internet; his target audience was church groups. "The coffee they serve in church is really terrible." Their first batch sold out in a couple of months, and "in a moment of craziness we ordered 10,000 pounds more." All the profits go into the ministry, and Sage was euphoric about the results: "There was this six-year-old deaf girl we bought a hearing aid for, and we have incredible footage that's on our Web site now. The moment when she was fitted with the hearing aid and she hears her mother talking to her for the first time—it just blows you away." For Sage, the work he's done for Pura Vida replicates the Microsoft model; the only difference is that it's nonprofit. "I view this as a laboratory," he said with quiet excitement in his voice. "There has to be a way to harness capitalism on behalf of social causes. By sending brochures and sample packs to churches, we've got a virtuous loop going. By creating a church channel, we've created an opportunity to sell other goods to them—tea bags, stirrers, paper towels. It's a very powerful economic model, and it couldn't happen without the Web." Sage claims to have a "business gene," and I believe him. He can't help making money.
The luncheon meeting at ClickAction had the aura of a revival meeting. David Paterson, a former Apple executive who, at 56, was the senior man at the table, told of having bought a Porsche and getting stuck in a traffic jam. "I thought, Goddamn it, I ought to have the right-of-way here." Everyone around the table laughed. "I came home thinking, What has happened to your head? Money does strange things to people." The others nodded in agreement.
When I got home, there was a bag of Pura Vida waiting for me.
Two days later, I was back at the grill room of the Harvard Club in New York City. Outside, it was a bright summer day; inside, the regulars were huddled around the backgammon table, rolling dice or whatever they did. I was homesick for the West—for the lush green hills of Silicon Valley; for the casual atmosphere of Buck's in Woodside, where V.C.'s (in my day, those initials stood for Vietcong, not venture capitalist) and entrepreneurs sat around tables beneath model airplanes and talked the morning away; for the misty evenings in San Francisco when you drove into the city from the south and the cable cars were trundling up from Fisherman's Wharf; for the woody landscape of Seattle, the lakes and islands that reminded me of Canada. Maybe when life is so much about the outdoors, people get in touch with neglected parts of themselves, dream up other things to do with their lives than make money. Or maybe those are the kind of people who end up out West. Whatever it was, it sure seemed a lot more appealing than the lugubrious tableau at the Harvard Club.
That night I happened to be reading Bertrand Russell's The Conquest of Happiness, and I came across the following thought: "To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization."


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ReWell-project aims at increasing the capacity of academic staffs to develop vocational and adult education programmes and practices, which promote sustainable use of countries´ natural and human resources, improve people´s employability and wellbeing and combat exclusion in Pirkanmaa, Morogoro and Kampala regions, in the context of global industry and trans-national policies.
The project contains joint studies, teaching and supervision, based on collaborative research on regional adult and vocational education (VET). The shared themes in research, teaching and studies are:
1. Adult education and VET policy in regional and global perspective;
2. Industrial, economical, environmental and welfare policy in regional and global perspective;
3. Ethical and environmental aspects in adult and vocational education;
4. Role and responsibility of adult education and VET research and studies in regional and global perspective.
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• Collaborative research, leading to dissertations and joint publications;
• Mutual student exchange (3,5-4 months/ student);
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A Christmas message from the Moderator
Christmas takes us to the central mystery of the Christian faith – the recognition that in this miraculous child, God himself is with us all.
Christmas takes us to the central mystery of the Christian faith – the recognition that in this miraculous child, God himself is with us all.
The Church of Scotland has welcomed the publication of a new action plan which seeks to improve palliative and end of life care.
Fuel poverty figures show more than one in three Scottish households are fuel poor with almost one in 10 living in deep fuel poverty.
The Learn Eldership publication was recognised at the Scottish Magazine Awards 2015 in the 'Innovation' category .
Eight places of worship including four Church of Scotland churches have been awarded grants totalling 1.45 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Historic Environment, Scotland.
A campaign coordinated by the Church of Scotland's Church and Society Council is on the cusp of reaching a target of hearing from 10,000 people from across Scotland speaking out for change. ...
Homeless men take the place of Jesus and his disciples in The Last Supper, a powerful new painting by Iain Campbell.
The Church of Scotland has welcomed an historic new international agreement to tackle climate change. Rev Sally Foster-Fulton, convener of the Church and Society Council, hailed the outcome of the United Nations Climate Change Conference ...
If you are involved in ministry with children and young people and would like to explore new and exciting ways to work, the Community of Faith Conference is for you.
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Past Grand Master's Letter M.W. Tom Jackson
Masonic lodges provide the local points of connection between Masons and their communities. While Shrine 'Temples' serve broad geographical areas - for example, there are three Shrine temples based in Minnesota - lodges cover a smaller area. A lodge might serve a single town, for example, or in the case of Twin Cities-based lodges, a certain portion of the metro area. Lodges are meant therefore to be regular connection points for local charity, local social events, and thereby foster more regular and familiar attendence that would be the case if we had to travel miles and miles. This regular participation leads to the comfort of deep and lasting friendships that can only develop through shared projects and events.
In days gone by, new candidates were required to join the lodge closest to them. That is no longer the rule, with a more mobile society. Yet we are still connected to our local area.
The links at left describe some of the ways in which Lake Harriet Lodge supports our local communities of SW Minneapolis, Edina and the Southwest Metro area.


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3.4 factory directors (manager) the discretion of professional morality level affects condition of accounting profession morality greatly
The behavior of 3.4.1 factory directors is an accountant the main component of exterior behavior environment
Establish accounting firm is the author's oneself only to see, not be the thing that in one day can realize, accordingly, at present still a few very real problems need to solve. Have a such conte: Accountant of some company invite applications for a job, the manager is held the position of personally take an examination of an official, he raises a question only to all applicant, namely " 1 1= ? " . Ground of applicant one after another comes in, some saying that be equal to 1, some saying that be equal to 2, also some saying that be equal to 3... the manager shakes his head express dissatisfactory. After only an applicant has heard the issue of the manager, face about has closed the door, go to the front of the manager is close next, add in director ear side to ask " do you say to be equal to a few " ? The manager nods approvingly, result this person by employ. Although this is a laughingstock, reflected a very real problem however. Can infer, if the enterprise has really so a manager that do as one wants, have again so an accountant of absolutely obedient, the real rate of its accountant information canned be imagined. Grow this, it is to be able to cause the corruption in state-owned company to cause, operator to seek small group profit, color expedience of outstanding achievement, seek, make a false report boasts and exaggerate etc; 2 it is to be able to cause a private enterprise to hide income, escape taxation.
3.4.2 normative factory directors (manager) behavior
Can say accountant information is lack fidelity " fountainhead " the factory director that is an enterprise greatly (manager) . Want to solve this problem, be about from " fountainhead " grab. The author thinks, the most efficient way increases the diaphaneity that the accountant works namely, execute finance affairs to make public (cannot include commercial secret of course) , not only should make public to ranking administrator branch, should make public to worker masses more, make everybody has to enterprise and financial standing roughly understanding. "The eye of masses is bright " . Have a such riddle: After left hand is captured by what thing, do not grab the right hand? Answer to a riddle is: The right hand. In the enterprise, administration is just like the right hand, the accountant is supervised be like left hand, when accounting personnel with representing a state already of effectiveness enterprise " double identity " when undertaking the accountant is supervised, when the interest that encounters enterprise and country conflicts, also entered " twine oneself " odd group. Accordingly, we can increase the profit of worker masses into this interest to encircle, make 3 person supplement each other, restrict each other again. Really also a few enterprises were executed now so called " factory Wu is open " , but public rate and real rate are so not satisfactory. Worker masses serves as an enterprise (especially state-owned company) main body, should have right of know the inside story. The force of masses also cannot be underestimated, once masses joins supervisory procession, be helpful for forming " personnel of accountant orgnaization, accounting dare not make a holiday, factory director (manager) dare not ask to make a holiday " good general mood.
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This week BHMS welcomed special guests from China!
Zhongming Mao, the Vice President from SICFL (Shanghai Industry & Commerce Foreign Language College) and 6 Senior Directors visited BHMS on June 27th and attended a MOU (Memorandum of Understanding and Agreement) ceremony with the president of BHMS, Mr. Meister, in order to create a Joint Education Program in Hotel and Hospitality Management.
Our guests also met BHMS' senior staff and learned about the school's vision, the offered academic programs, the industry training placements and business concepts as well. Moreover, they visited the new campus building, the student accommodations and had lunch with our students.
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Treatment for memory problems depends on the underlying cause and severity of the condition. Common treatments include lifestyle changes, medication, and other therapies.
Lifestyle strategies that can be helpful for people with memory impairments include the following:
- Avoid hurrying (rushing)
- If possible, be open about memory problems so others will be more patient
- Follow a routine
- Label important items and/or their locations (e.g., photographs, pictures, and items in kitchen cupboards and dresser drawers)
- Use memory aids (e.g., personal digital assistants [PDAs], digital clocks, answering machines, lists, calendars, pill boxes, maps)
- Use memory techniques (e.g., mnemonic devices, repeat key information, make associations with landmarks or pictures)
Some types of memory loss are treated with medication. In some cases, making adjustments in current medications can help improve memory problems. This happens frequently with epilepsy patients who experience memory issues as a side effect of epilepsy medications.
Commonly-prescribed medications for Alzheimer's disease include tacrine (Cognex), rivastigmine (Exelon), galantamine (Razadyne), donepezil (Aricept), and memantine (Namenda). Some doctors prescribe donepezil for patients with mild cognitive impairment.
Most types of amnesia are not treated with medication. Some amnesia patients find occupational therapy helpful, as they are able to relearn information that has been lost and use memories that remain to build new ones. Memory training teaches amnesia patients how to organize the information they take in, process this information, and build upon it. Music therapy can help some dementia patients with behavioral issues, helping them to remain calm or to reconnect with positive emotions that are drawn out through music.


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Three Pac-12 baseball players named to NCBWA midseason stopper of the year watch list
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Three Pac-12 relief pitchers are among 50 players named to the midseason watch list for the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association Stopper of the Year Award, an honor given to the top reliever in NCAA Division I baseball, the NCBWA announced on Wednesday.
Representing the Pac-12 on the watch list are the following student-athletes (in alphabetical order): David Berg, So., UCLA; Jake Reed, Jr., ORE; A.J. Vanegas, Sr., STAN.
Berg, the 2013 NCBWA Stopper of the Year award winner, has thrown 38.2 innings in 25 appearances this season, most in the Pac-12 and fourth-most in the nation. The junior right-hander has recorded a 3-1 record with nine saves and his 1.63 ERA is third-lowest in the Conference. Berg has also won 11 of his last 12 decisions dating back to 2012 while his 24 saves a year ago set an NCAA single-season record and his 51 appearances tied another one. The All-American became the first reliever in Pac-12 history to be named Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year in 2013.
Reed, a junior from La Mesa, Calif., leads the Pac-12 and ranks 10th in the NCAA with 10 saves. He boasts a 2-1 record with a 3.18 ERA and has struck out 22 batters in 22.1 innings pitched. The converted starter is third on Oregon's all-time saves list, fourth in innings pitched, seventh in wins and ninth in strikeouts and appearances.
Vanegas, who has appeared in 11 games for the Cardinal this season, is one of three players on the list that has posted a 0.00 ERA with five weeks left in the regular season. On the year, he owns a 1-1 record with 20.0 innings of work. He has registered 14 strikeouts versus three walks while his five saves is tied for seventh in the Conference.
Nominations for the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Award were made by baseball sports information/media relations contacts. At the conclusion of the regular season, the Division I national saves leader and four other relief pitching standouts will be selected as finalists and released Wednesday, June 4, prior to start of NCAA Super Regional tournament competition.
The NCBWA's All-America Committee will select the winner, with this year's recipient to be announced during the 2014 College World Series.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The FAA reported earlier this month that it had completed nationwide equipment installation for the NextGen aircraft tracking system.
The announcement — like others in the past and probably those in the future — raises more questions than it provides answers, particularly for general aviation.
The nationwide installation of the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) network supports a satellite-based surveillance system that tracks aircraft with the help of GPS. This gives what the FAA says is a more accurate aircraft location than the current radar system.
Completing this installation is but one step in a long march.
Of the 230 air traffic facilities across the nation, 100 are currently using the system. All facilities are expected to be operational by 2019. At that time, all aircraft operating in controlled airspace will be required to be equipped with ADS-B to broadcast their locations by Jan. 1, 2020.
And therein lie the questions. As a spokesman for the Experimental Aircraft Association says, "the devil is in the details."
Several reports show the program is already behind schedule and over budget. Will the government make up for lost time while at the same time reduce spending?
Pilots have been reluctant to invest in equipment for their aircraft for several reasons. First, there is no certainty that equipment purchased now will be compatible with the system when it is completed. Second, the cost of the equipment is an uncertainty. The equipment now costs between $5,000 and $10,000 per aircraft. Third, will technology improve so the cost might be reduced? Or will a greater volume of sales help bring the cost down for individual aircraft owners? Fourth, will there be battery-operated equipment so aircraft with no electrical system may operate in controlled airspace?
According to the FAA, one advantage to NextGen is it will permit more direct flights from point-to-point, reducing travel time. This leads to more questions: Does this mean more airspace will be controlled, reducing where and how non-equipped aircraft may operate? If not, will there be less airspace where these aircraft may operate in day VFR conditions, or will it mean aircraft must be so-equipped in order to operate in any airspace?
Another question is what happens in the event of a system failure? Anyone who owns or works on a computer knows they have a tendency to malfunction. What is the FAA's back-up plan when the system inevitably fails?
What's more, these are just some of the questions needing answers.
Officials from general aviation's alphabet groups are talking with FAA officials about these concerns — and others.
The organizations are working together, but have their differences. That's because each group is out to protect its own members' interests. For example, some business aviation can accept operations closer to that of the airlines. Other GA groups represent pilots who fly for recreation and fear losing access to the skies. Meanwhile, the airlines want more airspace to call their own.
As the EAA's Dick Knapinski says, "let's take the time to do it right and not have to come back and do it over. Our main concern is to see that everybody flies."


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It's a commercial people are talking about and it champions good ol' juvenile humor!
Kmart's latest online commercial features a store worker who informs the shoppers that Kmart can "ship your pants" for free. This is repeated over and over. So what's the joke? Well try saying that phrase loudly a number of times and you may begin to see how it may begin to sound!
It doesn't stop there as customers begin proclaiming how they just "shipped their bed" and "shipped their drawers". Okay, so what do you think? Too low or is this fair game for a commercial that aims to be funny by appealing to our juvenile sense of humor?


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Gmail traffic between Google's data centres is now encrypted to prevent unauthorised government snooping, the company said today.
In October last year, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents that indicated the spy agency had been tapping intra-data centre links to capture Google and Yahoo user data.
At the time, Google said it would start encrypting all its internal traffic in response to the revelations about mass government surveillance.
Google's Gmail security engineering lead Nicolas Lidzborski said the process is now complete.
"In addition, every single email message you send or receive—100 per cent of them—is encrypted while moving internally," Lidzborski said.
"This ensures that your messages are safe not only when they move between you and Gmail's servers, but also as they move between Google's data centers—something we made a top priority after last summer's revelations."
Lidzborski also said that from today, Gmail will use encrypted Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) only, to prevent interception of email traffic.
Rival freemail provider Yahoo is also encrypting email connections by default.
Microsoft, which too featured prominently in Snowden's leaked documents, said in December last year it will embark on an aggressive cryptography campaign, using Perfect Forward Secrecy and 2048-bit cypher keys.
Data communications and user content will be encrypted fully by the end of 2014, Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith said.


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Volgen brand power supplies, manufactured by the Kaga Electronics group, have a reputation worldwide for providing compact, extremely high-quality AC/DC and DC/DC power supplies. Our motto, "Quality First" is taken very seriously. We understand that our products are used in the marketplace for these essential reasons… reliability, dependability and affordability.
Simply put the companies we support cannot afford non-functional products! Can anyone?? That's why the manufacturing process is performed under stringent quality control procedures which result in extremely low returns. We are constantly striving to improve our design and manufacturing processes to offer affordable products without sacrificing quality and reliability.
The Kaga Electronics group has a global presence with several mass production facilities throughout the world. We are strategically positioned to manage your supply chain whether it is domestic USA or offshore.
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Kaga Electronics Co Ltd. is a publicly traded corporation on the Tokyo stock exchange (http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/8154:JP). We are recognized as a premier supplier of electronic components worldwide. Established in 1968, Kaga offers hundreds of products including memory, LED's, storage devices, power products and PC peripherals. The Kaga group consists of over 50 companies operating in 12 countries including Japan, China, Europe, Asia and the United States. We tailor our operations to match the needs of our customers making procurement, manufacturing and sales on a global scale possible.
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Brake Campaign: Drive Less, Live More
Brake is a road safety charity who campaign to promote action on road safety. Their invaluable work aims to make our roads safer for all to use and to prevent accidents resulting in serious injury and even death.
Brake have launched a campaign called 'Drive Less, Live More'. Research carried out by the charity has shown that 75% of drivers surveyed think that people in the UK use their cars too much. Brake has shown through their research that this is resulting in exposure to an increase in air pollution and a lack of exercise, both of which impact negatively on our health.
Brake in conjunction with their partners AIG and Specsavers have prepared this useful guide, showing the statistics for each local authority.
According to Brake, there are 5 deaths and 64 serious injuries on UK roads every day. This is a 4% increase since last year. It follows that if there are fewer cars on the roads, then the number of accidents should go down too.
As a personal injury solicitor representing victims of road traffic accidents, I could not agree more with this campaign. Research carried out by elephant.co.uk showed that almost 1 out of 3 accidents happen within a mile a motorist's home. It is unclear if this is as motorists lose concentration when nearing their home, or if it is because there are more journeys taking place. Brake's research has shown that 23% of journeys made in their survey were of less than 2 miles in distance.
Research has shown that motorists in the UK often drive when it is unnecessary to do so. This may be due to the ease of the journey, or when running late to get to work on time or to catch a train. This is dangerous in itself. Will the motorist be able to drive as safely if they are concerned about being late?
I consider that when faced with a short journey, we should think twice before picking up the car keys. There are only benefits that can come from such action. Fewer cars on our roads will result in less air pollution, an increase in daily exercise and a reduced chance of road traffic accidents.
My experience as a personal injury solicitor is that even minor road traffic accidents can have serious consequences for the individual involved and their families. Any action that can reduce the risk of accidents can only be a good thing.
If you or a loved one have suffered injury as a result of someone else's negligence, contact us free of charge and in confidence on 020 3051 8825 or at firstname.lastname@example.com for specialist legal advice. Alternatively, you can complete this form and one of the solicitors in the Personal Injury team will contact you. You can find out more about the Accident Claim team.


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The South West Wales Regional Forum was established in 2014 to drive the delivery of the tourism strategy in the region. The forum meets quarterly to discuss and review tourism developments and to bring together key stakeholders within the region.
The forum also includes a Tourism Advisory Board member whose role it is to feed information at a national level and represent the region at the Board meetings.


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The 9th Bühl International Bluegrass Festival (13-14 May 2011) will bring a powerful lineup of North American bands to the Bürgerhaus Neuer Markt in Bühl, Germany. Fortunately for European bluegrass enthusiasts, they will make other appearances in Europe around the time of the Festival. Redgrass (Canada) will be playing in Switzerland and France from 8 May to 17 May. The schedules for the US bands, as given on their websites, are as follows:
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver (13-21 May)
13 May Haus der Kultur, 84478 Waldkraiburg, Germany
14 May International Bluegrass Festival, Bürgerhaus Neuer Markt, 77815 Bühl, Germany
16 and 17 May Novodvorska Cultural Center, Prague, Czech Republic
[The single concert originally scheduled for Prague was booked out by early February, so a second concert by DL&Q was arranged for the following night]
20 and 21 May 3rd Red Wine Bluegrass Party, Teatro della Gioventù, Genoa (Genova), Italy
The Special Consensus (14-28 May)
14 May International Bluegrass Festival, Bürgerhaus Neuer Markt, 77815 Bühl, Germany
[Greg Cahill was the first US bandleader to perform at the Bühl festival when he brought the ChowDogs in 2003, and he looks forward to bringing the Special C. this time]
15 May Pfarrjugendheim, Am Apostelplatz 1, 44805 Bochum, Germany, 7.00 p.m.
19 May Trekanten Biblotek and Kulturhus, Sebbersundevj 2, Aalborg, Jylland, Denmark, 8.00 p.m.
20 May Karens Minde Kulturhus, Wagnersvej 19, 2450 Copenhagen (Kobenhavn), Denmark, 8.00 p.m.
21 May Kulturforsyningen, Voldgrade 1, 4800 Nykobing, Denmark, 8.00 p.m.
26 May Fritz-Henssler-Haus, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 33-37, 44137 Dortmund, Germany, 8.00 p.m.
28 May Willisau Bluegrass Festival, Schweizerisches Agrarmuseum Burgrain, Burgrain 20, CH-6248 Alberswil, Switzerland
Please check the websites of these bands for any further updates between now and May. A full, updated schedule for the five-week tour by Valerie Smith & Liberty Pike (5 May-10 June) can be seen on the Music Contact agency website and in the monthly Music Contact newsletters, which are reprinted on the European Bluegrass Blog.
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I got an e-mail the other day from friends who read in their local paper about Portland's "Velveteria black-velvet painting museum, the 'Zoo Bombers' who race on kiddie bicycles down steep roads near the Oregon Zoo, the Voodoo Doughnut shop and the nude bike festivals." They wondered if I'd blogged these very Portland oddities and I had to admit that, while I had seen references to a couple of them on an episode of Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations," I hadn't actually written about them myself.
It's not that I don't appreciate the quirkier corners of life in the Northwest. It's just that I myself (and yes, I admit to a certain middle-brow boredom with goofiness) don't find them particularly interesting. Plus, they're covered in other media that thrive on that kind of stuff.
But, like the graffiti I've written about before, certain little items of street art do attract my attention. So when we were at Navarre the other evening, what should we find when we got out of the car but a little vending machine shaped like a house with the mysterious name "Meme-O-Matic"? It purports to tell your fortune by digesting the content of dreams that you submit on a piece of paper.
Now whether this little machine actually works, I can't tell you, but you can't help but wonder what it is, who made it, and what if it really worked? That it just sits there piquing the curiosity of passersby makes it so much fun. And worth writing about.
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
Oddities: Meme-O-Matic
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Was Governor Romney Effective in Massachusetts? Pundits Should Find out!
Patrick B. Pexton deserves a banner headline with his Ombudsman column link above.
Pexton writes about a survey he initiated of Governor Romney's past record as the political leader of Massachusetts. Pexton rightly says Romney's past performance as governor is a good indicator of how effective a President he would be, if elected. Pexton read 700 articles published in The Boston Globe about Romney's one term as Massachusetts governor.
Moreover, Pexton recommends a journalist inquiry in the style of the late David Broder, asking reporters and pundits to go to Massachusetts, to ask the people how they perceived Romney's one term as governor.
Pexton's op ed summarizes the quality of Governor Romney's one term as Massachusetts governor was mediocre at best and inconsistent at its worst, with the emphasis on the latter.
Pexton writes: "Romney, for example, is nothing if not agile. (Julie speak says agile is a euphemism for 'inconsistent'.) In his gubernatorial campaign, (Romney) tried many messages before finally landing on themes along these lines: 'I fixed the Salt Lake City Olympics and I'll fix the patronage and budget deficits of Massachusetts. I'll veto any tax increases. I support the statewide ballot initiative to abolish bilingual education. And I'm the only guy who stands in the way of an entrenched Gang of Three — Democrats controlling the governor's chair, and House and Senate." (Yawn! Does this rhetoric sound boringly familiar?)
Pexton goes on: "(Romney)...also, in the final three weeks, ran a relentless and expensive negative TV ad campaign against his opponent, Shannon P. O'Brien, just like he did this year against GOP rivals Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry and others. Voters interviewed by the Globe in 2002 said they couldn't wait for the election to be over and called it the most negative campaign for governor they could remember."
(OMG! Even children will be exposed to this horrid political negativity - they'll grow up believing all politics is negative. There must be safety equipment or computer chips we can purchase to protect us from the same smelly-same old, heard during the nasty primary election!)
My point in this blog : Romney gets a C-minus grade for his one term as Massachusetts Governor.
Our country can't trade the experience of President Obama, who gets some high marks for moving forward on many challenging initiatives, for a risky Romney, who's term as Massachusetts governor was inconsistently mediocre.
Somebody in the world of political pundits must be assigned to Massachusetts, to ask people, many of them descendants of the original T-Party activists in Boston Harbor, whether or not they like Romney Care- the model for "Obama-care", aka, health care reform. Pundits must also review the 700 articles in the Boston Globe about Governor Romney's administration, to evaluate his one term administration.
I agree with Mr. Paxton - A David Broder approach is needed. Wake up America! Don't let the next president be elected based upon the decadent amounts of money spent on negative ads. Instead, let's be thoughtful - let's evaluate the past performance of both candidates and create a side by side check list - the one with the higher grade deserves re-election. I suspect President Obama's accomplishments to shine through the expensive smut the one term Governor Romney is bound to heave in Obama's re-election direction.
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The 9000 Series Entry Door is the only fiberglass entry door with an aluminum-clad jamb system, making both the door and the jamb rot-, rust- and maintenance-free. This door features an energy efficient polyurethane foam core and attractive double hip panel design. With 15 decorative window options, this door will add beauty to your home for years to come.
This product is only available to OEMs.
- Patented aluminum clad jamb system
- Aluminum mounting flange with snap-in vinyl flush brickmold for a traditional look
- Fiberglass door core
- Thermally broken adjustable threshold
- Maintenance-free; no paint required; rot, dent and rust resistant
- Energy efficient CFC-free polyurethane foam core
- Stiles and lock block for structural integrity
- Attractive double hip panel design
- Foam-filled compression seals
- Made in the U.S.A. — Chester, South Carolina


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Type: Decorative/Vanity
Start every morning with flattering bathroom lighting from Moen.
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Enjoy your deck after dark with the subtle glow of low-voltage, energy-efficient LED lights in five functional styles.
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Trex® DeckLighting™ is a collection of subtle yet brilliant post rail, riser and recessed lights from the leader in luxury outdoor lighting.


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Cardio Express is an integration of different aerobic systems involving boxing, martial arts, and plyometrics in under 20 minutes. This is strictly a cardiovascular aerobic workout for someone looking for something quick and fun using the whole body. Cardio Express is for the intermediate individual.
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Walk Around the World
Get fit, Get active and Walk around the world this March!
This March hundreds of locals are expected to track their steps and collectively walk around the world as part of a fantastic local initiative – Walk Around The World.
This community well being project aims to get the community and local business registering enough steps to equate to walking around the world. In its fourth year, Walk Around the World promotes the incorporation of exercise into your everyday lifestyle to reduce the risk of chronic lifestyle diseases.


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Today I'm giving you my thoughts on Gaga's first perfume release, Fame. When Gaga started talking about releasing a scent she said she wanted it to smell like blood and semen and have the consistency of bodily fluid. So how close has Gaga come to this?
I'm predicting this is going to be a very big seller for Christmas with all the Gaga fans wanting to smell like Mama Monster. So here's the lowdown on what may be the hottest fragrance of the season.
Firstly the fragrance is black, but magically it sprays clear. Now when I first got it I had a lot of fun trying to spray it to see if I could 'catch it out' but no it always sprays clear. Magic. So I sprayed it on myself and had a good sniff. As I sniffed I read the back of the box.
'Tears of Belladonna
Crushed Heart of Tiger Orchidea
With A Black Veil Of Incense
Pulverised Apricot
And The Combinative Essences
Of Saffron and Honey Drops'
So what does that culminate in smell wise?
Well the perfume is heady and sweet. It has a spice and a warmth. The main scent is the very strong incense sweetness, if you're not a fan of sweet scents this may not be for you. It does simmer down to a much more workable scent which lets the spice of the undertones come through. It reminds me a little of Beyonce's Heat fragrance, very heady and the same spicy floral. If you like your perfumes sweet you'll love this.
It's going to be a massive scent for the season and I'll bet it is on most Gaga fans Christmas lists!
This one is from Gordons Chemists, Gift Sets starting at £25.00 and EDP Sprays start at £22.99
So any of you Gaga fans going to be asking Santa for this?
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At this point in time, poking fun at teh Wash Post is like pointing at all teh pennants with teh 60's dates on them at Leafs games.
Okay, here's a Shorter Patrick B. Pexton:
Conservatives complained about this, conservatives complained about that. These complaints were ludicrous and unfounded, so naturally we took them seriously. But as it turns out, the staff at the Washington Post are never wrong. Unlike teh conservatives in this case. And liberals too. I don't have any reason to mention liberals here since I studiously ignore their complaints - but trust me when I say that they are also wrong. And that's what we in teh bidness call Journalism.
That out of the way, here are a coupla videos:
For Science!
For teh long lost Goddamn Batman:


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The Central Recreation facility is located on South Ervin Avenue. The complex contains approximately 16,000 square feet situated on 15 acres of land. Various instructional and athletic activities are held at this location/center.
CLICK HERE for Directions to Central Recreation Center.
Gymnasium Office, restrooms w/ showers, a high school regulation basketball court, seating capacity for 200 persons and variety of activities. This facility is available for rent to anyone wanting to have parties, meetings, reunions, family gatherings, etc.


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Banana chocolate chip bread & butter pudding
Made with brioche and bananas this lovely bread and butter pudding will be a hit with all the family.
Prep time: 15 minutes
Total cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves 4 - 6 kids
8 chocolate chip brioche fingers (I use le pasquier brioche) approx. 280g
2 ripe bananas, mashed
For the custard
250ml cream
250ml whole milk
70g sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
½ orange zest
1) First make the custard. Heat the cream and milk till just under boiling point, add orange zest and set aside.2) In a big mixing bowl (enough to hold the cream and milk mixture) beat eggs, sugar and vanilla extract till pale. Pour the cream & milk mixture gently into the egg mixture and mix well. 3) Buttered the dish. Slice the fingers lengthways and dip them into the custard mixture. Repeat. Line the dish with half of the soaked fingers, pour in the mashed bananas and top with the other half of the fingers. (Tip: dip the fingers and put into the dish immediately) 4) Pour the rest of the custard into the dish, completely soaking the brioche fingers. Let it stand for 20 – 30 mins. 5) Preheat oven 150F. Place dish in a roasting pan and fill halfway with hot water. Bake for 35 – 45 mins. Should be crusty at the top and wobbly in the middle.
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In Genova, there is always something happening ... something extraordinary.
This time there was the International Music Festival, and there is a Robert Capa exhibition on too. One I wish I'd had time to visit. But it's on until October, 2014.
Then last night, out at Boccadasse, I photographed this ...
That is how I experience Genova. It's a city that is rarely 'ordinary'.


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Time to summon up the element of water for this giveaway from Oceanictime which is a great blog if you like your watches in the wet.
A Magrette Reggatare 2011 from a watch company based in New Zealand which sets itself the task of making "classic modern" watches which it appears they are pulling off rather nicely.
Watch: Magrette Regattare
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Murray House B&B
- 1 Murray Place, Newport, RI 02840
- Newport County
- (401) 846-3337
- (800) 773-5797
A charming bed & breakfast, located in the famous Newport Mansion district on Bellevue Avenue. Salve Regina Campus, the end of the Cliff Walk and Bailey's beach are a five minute walk away, and only a short, easy drive to downtown Newport.
All efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of the information on this website, however it is subject to change. Information is updated in an ongoing manner in partnership with local tourism offices, individual businesses and organizations and via a direct feed from goprovidence.com and discovernewport.org
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The New Fairbank Hotel (Closed)
Open May 29, 1987 Closed May 2013
Like Hamilton Strip, and Cannonball Cabaret in Mississauga, Fairbanks Hotel Gentlemen's club is truly a working man's strip club.
Metal detectors at the door, kind of a dank interior, and situated in kind of a rough area of town, this is my kind of club! The only marks they loose are from changing it from their previous format.
What is was like:
All the girls were imported from asian countries (Thailand, the Philippines etc). While most of them had some broken english, it was not really needed.
There was a guy in a tuxedo who would come around with a menu. You would go through the girls, and pick the one you wanted, and he would take your money. In exchange he would give you one poker chip per dance.
The next song, your dancer would come over and immediately hop on your lap and start grinding away for however many songs you purchased. (This was before you were allowed to touch at all, and was REALLY nice for the time).
They did such a good job, that my buddy used to consistently finish in his pants by the end of his dances.
I have hear from friends, that if you had some real cash, you could get the girls to come up to the hotel part of the club with you, but I had no personal experience with that. (not because I personally objected to it, but because I have never had any real money to throw around!)
The New Fairbank Hotel
2418 Dufferin Street
Toronto, On
(416) 781-9317
Private Lap Dance: $10.00
Free entrance to VIP area.


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It is a improbable time to be a young person keen on science, math, engineering or know-how (STEM). Explore your interests or launch your future career by enrolling in a STEM camp located in the Midwestern US. Robert Kubica shall be joined on the group, as expected but solely confirmed at the moment with Vitaly Petrov, a highly rated youngster who was runner up in the GP2 collection last year. Petrov would be the first ever Russian Components One driver. Automotive Engineering 2016 – a part of Advanced Engineering 2016 – is a should-attend occasion for the UK's auto group. It offers quite a few alternatives to do business, discover out about new technologies and make essential future contacts at automotive OEMs and suppliers.
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While contemplating modifications for the B mannequin the edges had been a weak point on the previous model so Yamaha built a flange on to the rim of the XS650b. When a buyer pulls up out the front, the first thing I do after greeting the client is stroll around the automotive and examine it for tire put on, disc wear, oil leaks that may be seen from outdoors. I then drive the automobile, preferably with the proprietor in the car. I explain issues to the customer as I discover them.
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