What's Happening in Seattle this Week

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Film: Kilowatt Ours by Meaningful Movies, Sept 5th, by donation.  We suck a lot of energy, the majority of which is still generated by good old-fashioned coal.  Learn and discuss the side effects of coal-generated power, and promises of alternatives.  Actually, this topic brings up an interesting side question: If you buy an electric car, where the electricity is generated by coal, is that a net positive or negative for the environment? Activity: BEAN Scholarship Pub Crawl, Sept 5.  BEAN is a fun group of young professionals working for some of Seattle's most famous companies. Each year they get together for a pub crawl party that raises money to help send kids to college.  Go drink for a reason. Employment: PSBJ's Best Workplaces Annual Winner's Panel, Sept 11th, $40.  If whippings are failing to improve employee moral, then learn from the winners.  The good news is, the majority of best practices do not take more money to implement.  Understand how employee morale improves retention and productivity, and how it can help you recruit talented staff. Fashion: Fashion Faux Pas to Fashion Fabulous, Sept 6th, $25.  'Tis the fashion season for Seattle.  The local designers come together to showcase their one-of-a-kind gowns and dresses, and then sell them in auction style to the highest bidder.  The proceeds of this event go to a non-profit providing formal gowns to less fortunate high school girls, so they can have their own little princess memories. Bereavement: Support Group for Grieving Mothers of Adult Children, Sept 8th, free, of a monthly Mother's Tea, of sharing stories and experiences with other mothers dealing with every parent's worst trauma. Music: Hendrix Fest, Sept 7th, free.  Fans who once sneaked out to witness a Hendrix Concert are now returning  with family in tow as the Baby Boomers take the Gen-Xers  under their wing giving them an education of how the music of the past has and continues to influence the music of today.  Astronomy: Star Party, Sept 6th, free. Club members set up the telescopes and the public is invited to come by and peer into the night sky.  Since people like to talk about what they're interested in, all the volunteers are more than eager to answer any questions. Japanese: Calligraphy Demonstration, Sept 4th, free.  The Zen master demonstrates the art and craft of calligraphy, explaining its history and emphasis on immediate and spontaneous _expression_.  Go and improve your penmanship. Business: Light Bulbs to Dollar Signs: Turning Your Idea into a Profitable Business, Sept 4th, $25.  Actually, million-dollar ideas are plentiful; it's the successful execution that's rare.  This meeting covers best practices for translating that idea in your noggin into a profitable business.  Also, they discuss how to evaluate your own idea in terms of market size, profitability, etc., to help decide if your idea is actually the big money-maker that you think it is. Global Trade: Taiwan: Your Gateway to Asia, Sept 10th, $15.  Taiwan and Washington state are already buddy-buddies.  We do a lot of trading back-and-forth, and have more sister-city relationships than we know what to do with.  Go hear about Taiwan's prosperity, and how you can get a piece of it. Organization: RAW, for those who like their food uncooked.  This means eating mostly plant-based food that has not been processed, and for the braver souls, consuming unpasteurized dairy products, raw meats and eggs, and sushi.  On the surface, it seems like—with this sort of diet—you'd end up as a bland, wimpy vegan, which is probably why this group exists.	Radio Stations You Should Be Listening to: Recommending listening material is always a volatile subject.  What we listen to is highly personalized, and of course, your music is cooler than everyone else's.  With that, we venture: C89.5: This is a public station with one type of music - hyper-peppy.  They only play dance and party tracks 24/7, whether it's Saturday night or Monday morning.  So, you get a bunch of munged synthesized versions of rock and pop classics that sounds vaguely familiar to your regular favorites.  The redeeming aspect of this station is, since it's public, there are no ads, so you're listening to 57 minutes of aerobic-worthy music per hour. KRKO: This is one of those stations that is so far out, it's actually in.  They play the favorites of the crusty old-farts, the same old tunes you'd hear playing at the Eagle or the VFW, the type of stuff the WWII crowd digs.  Their music is like playing the accordion, where it's so dorky, it's actually kinda cool. KKNW: This little station works on a different model.  This station sells its air time to the public.  Anybody with the bucks can put together their own package, get on the radio, and then design their own program and sell air time.  So, what you get is a bunch of alternative talk radio subjects too fringe for regular radio.  With a bunch of different programming by all sorts of people, you get the mix of viewpoints that makes it interesting.  There are some people with good information and thoughtful perspectives, and other programs where you just gotta wonder what color is the sky in their world?  Cool Video: A recap of Fashion First

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