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Hobbies, model railroads, airplanes, collecting stamps, buying antiques, there are literally thousands upon thousand of popular hobbies. Cultural View seeks to provide a forum that you can use to explore the world of hobbies and hobbyists as well as provide a means of facilitating the growth and spread of beneficial hobby pursuits. There are many great hobbies for all ages, genders, and temperament. Among these are model and scale trains, model and scale building kits, doll houses, coin collecting, historic re-enactment scrapbooking, amateur radio and things of that nature. Whatever the particular hobby there are a goodly number of hobby shops, hobby stores and conventions to supply the typical hobby shop enthusiasts Some people prefer action hobbies and/or outdoor hobbies such as those involved in radio controlled (rc hobbies) – the little cars, planes and so forth, or miniature rocket building activities or fishing. There are still others who crave the more exotic form of hobbies. For example this story about a major financial scandal that is traced to hobbies…well not exactly…read this excerpt, and you will see what we mean. “The expensive hobbies of DSB Bank’s owner and CEO Dirk Scheringa eventually led to the bank’s collapse, says its former financial director Frank de Grave in an interview in Thursday’s Volkskrant.
“DSB Bank was declared bankrupt in October. The bank got into financial difficulties after a run on savings prompted by a campaign by angry customers who say they were over-sold mortgages and charged too-high fees on insurance policies. “‘My evaluation is that Scheringa wanted to [save the bank], but couldn’t. He couldn’t let go of his expensive hobbies such as football [he owned the Alkmaar club AZ], art [he had an extensive collection] and ice-skating [sponsorship]. Therefore the bank had to keep on making a big profit and as a result Scheringa couldn’t move away from businesses that were questionable,’ De Grave is quoted by the paper as saying. “ Okay, we can see the fixation with money and sports and sporting events, especially the money that can be made from soccer, football, track and field, boxing, basketball and baseball, collecting art or whatever but a Bank CEO and owner bankrupting his bank because of his apparently uncontrollable speculative habits or if you wish expensive hobby habits. That is less than responsible, wouldn’t you agree? Anyway this kind of story is the rare anomaly in the hobby world. Most of hobby reality is lot more wholesome than the story of our banker friend. (Well he is a banker, what more can we expect of him?, some might say.) Here is a sample of the kinds of site there are on this subject taken from about.com: If you enjoy collecting, here are some hobbies that may interest you:
Many people's hobbies envolved game playing. Here are just a few of the most popluar games:
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