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Some call it the party of the year! Emerald City Swank features silent and live auctions, a raffle, dancing, tasty dinner, flowing wine and spirited competition.

Why? To raise money to support Seattle Works! We're working hard every day to inform, connect and inspire people in their 20s and 30s to take action. If you want to live in a community with active volunteers, informed citizens, savvy charitable donors and community leaders who know each other and work together, then you want to be at this event raising your paddle!

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I like this article a lot.

Quoted: The most important part of my day isn't on the trading floor. Every day at 8:30 A.M., I get up from my desk and walk to a health club across the street. I do yoga and work out for probably an hour and a half, between 8:30 and 10. There's only been two or three times in the past 30 years when someone has come across the street and told me I should get back to the office. One of them was the 1987 market crash.

Quoted:Desiring to teach yoga to the world, he is said to have fallen (pat-) from heaven into the open palms (-añjali) of a woman, hence the name Patañjali.

Blasphemy!

Quoted: Don’t write a functional specifications document. Why? Well, there’s nothing functional about a functional specifications document.

Functional specifications documents lead to an illusion of agreement. A bunch of people agreeing on paragraphs of text is not real agreement. Everyone is reading the same thing, but they’re often thinking something different. This inevitably comes out in the future when it’s too late. “Wait, that’s not what I had in mind…” “Huh? That’s not how we described it.” “Yes it was and we all agreed on it — you even signed off on it.” You know the drill.

Functional specifications document are “yes documents.” They’re political. They’re all about getting to “yes” and we think the goal up front should be getting to “no.” Functional specs lead to scope creep from the very start. There’s very little cost in saying “yeah, ok, let’s add that” to a Word document.

Quoted: Scheduling a vacation can generate particular angst for younger workers. Eager to make a good impression on co-workers and bosses, many young people fret about using all their vacation time. They haven't figured out what's acceptable and don't want to push the envelope. Sometimes, they fear their absence will create more work for others or slow important projects. Other times, hard-driving managers set bad examples, and young employees feel too intimidated to take what little time they're due.

Quoted: When the project is done, Unilever expects to eliminate the jobs of the more than 1,000 human-resources staffers. But Mr. Bull says it is a "mistake" to outsource to save money. Rather, he says, managers should view outsourcing as a way to focus the company's resources and attention on its most important tasks.