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...date, Stein has put around 30 of her household staff through the program. They work in her home (and practice on Stein's lucky friends) while being trained for up to nine months. But upon graduation, they find work at resorts on the island, stay on at Jari Menari, or work overseas (some have been hired away to work in destinations as diverse as Bermuda and Italy). A few of the best join Stein's traveling entourage, helping her train staff at five-star resorts around the world...
...American spa trainer began showing her security guards and gardeners how to give massages to her house guests. She later realized that the skills she was imparting could create better futures for her staff by enabling them to enter the island's important resort industry. From this came Jari Menari (dancing fingers) - part vocational-training enterprise, part massage center and something Stein calls "my way of giving back to Bali...
...Visitors are welcome at Jari Menari. Fully trained therapists offer four kinds of massage - starting at a bargain $15.90 - and there are massage-and-meal packages (one, the Tuesday Supper Club, features a 90-minute massage followed by dinner at Stein's villa for $100). There is also a daylong class for visitors that includes tuition, some yoga, lunch and a 90-minute knead at the end of the day - all for $170. For more information, see www.jarimenari.com...
...relations campaign, a rarity in Finland. It has established a company called Oivavoima Oy (Excellent Power), with offices on Pohjoisesplanadi, an elegant tree-lined boulevard in Helsinki. From here it hopes to conquer all of Western Europe. Emphasizing that ASE uses a different reactor than the one at Chernobyl, Jari Anttila, Oivavoima's managing director, says: "There is no serious reason why the general public in Finland should question our technology." The final decision on whether or not the FIN5 project proceeds rests with Vanhanen's cabinet, and he does not want it. "We must do the sensible thing...
According to Jari A. Villanueva, a bugler and bugle historian who was the curator of the Taps Bugle Exhibit at Arlington Cemetery from 1999 to 2002, Butterfield did not compose “Taps” but merely revised Scott’s “Tattoo,” an earlier bugle call. Villanueva makes a compelling case for why Butterfield would have been familiar with the version of “Tattoo” to which “Taps” is very similar...