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The mission of UUCF's Partner Church program is to develop long-term, mutually supportive relationships with Unitarians in Szentgerice, Transylvania, Romania, and the Khasi Hills of India.
The Partner Church Circle administers UUCF's Partner Church program with the following focus:
- Strengthening the bonds of friendship between members of UUCF and the people of Szentgerice and Puriang;
- Promoting an exchange of people and ideas;
- Providing funds and other forms of assistance to help directly the Unitarian churches and schools of Szentgerice and Puriang; and
- Providing funds and other forms of assistance to both village communities to improve the quality of life of all inhabitants and foster economic development.
Szentgerice, Transylvania, Romania
UUCF has been a partner with the Unitarian church in Szentgerice, Transylvania, Romania, since October 1990. Our members also sponsor students at Unitarian schools at both locations. Click here to learn more about our Partner Church scholarship program. About 800 people live in the village of Szentgerice (the Romanian name for the village is Galateni). Almost 100 people from UUCF have visited and stayed in the village, usually as part of summer trips that happen about every 3 years. Many of the villagers and students have also come to the United States to stay with UUCF members.
Szentgerice School
The scholarship program in Szentgerice was started in 2001 and is the oldest of the Partner Church scholarship programs. It's part of an enduring, 20-year-long partnership between UUCF and the Szentgerice Unitarian Church. The program has provided scholarships for more than 500 high school and college students in Transylvania.
Education in Romania is not free after the eighth grade, so the scholarship program helps students from the village complete their high school education at academic and trade schools. The scholarships cover about half the school fees.
The scholarships are coordinated by the Unitarian Church of Szentgerice. All Szentgerice youth living in the village are eligible to receive a scholarship. To apply, each student writes a letter of application and provides a letter of recommendation. After receiving a scholarship, the students participate in a community service activity and maintain a minimum grade level. Click here for more information on the Partner Church Scholarship Program.
The Janos Zsigmond Unitarius Kollegium high school in Kolozsvar, Transylvania
This is the top academic and oldest high school in Transylvania. Founded in 1557, it is also one of the oldest high schools in Europe and is located in the city of Kolozsvar (the Romanian name for the city is Cluj-Napoca).
The Kollegium enrolls 200 students from Transylvania, with an equal number of boys and girls. Although most of the students are Unitarian, the Kollegium admits qualified students from all religions. The majority of the students live at the school for all four years.Virtually all of the school's graduates go on to a university and many have become community and business leaders in Transylvania. Students must pass a difficult entrance exam to be admitted to the school.
The UUCF scholarship is based on need and covers about 25% of a student's expenses. Rev. Zsolt Solymosi, the vice principal of the school, describes the students as "great students who are financially very poor. Our school, and all the parents, are very grateful for this loyal commitment of UUCF to support education in Transylvania."
Puriang, India
UUCF's partner church in India is in Puriang, a small village of about 1400. It is located in the remote Khasi Hill of northeastern India, in the state of Meghalaya – directly north of Bangladesh and south of Bhutan.
About a quarter of the villagers are Unitarians with most of the others attending Presbyterian and Catholic churches in the village. The villagers speak Khasi, and some speak English as well.
Puriang is a farming community. The village has electricity but no running water. In fact, the nearest source of water is 8 kilometers away. The people are warm and welcoming.
Our partner church is a simple concrete building marked by a flaming chalice on the top. Next to the church is a Unitarian school that serves about 300 students.
Puriang Unitarian School
Since 2005, UUCF has provided sponsorship funds to the teachers and students attending the Puriang Unitarian School. About 300 students attend the school, from nursery school to tenth grade.
The school is open to any child who wishes to attend, with students coming from Puriang and more than five other villages in the area. Conditions at the school are bleak with overcrowded classrooms, no bathroom or outhouse, and no school bus. Some of the children walk up to 2 hours each way to get to school.
American dollars go far in Puriang and the need is great. UUCF members and friends provide financial support to the school for the following:
- A salary supplement for each of the 10 teachers.
- To maintain a safe learning environment (the school buildings are in need of regular repair).
- A winter gift, such as a sweater or shawl, purchased in India and provided to each child and teacher at the end of the school year in December.


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This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. A zero footprint cube browser that is built using Adomd.net and ASP.net. I've been looking for this for a long time. But not only is it everything I've wanted, it is free and you can download the source.
My next project will be to convert this into a web part for SharePoint and add save state. Then life will be good and I will drop the Office Web Components (and all the problems we've had with them).
Thanks to Mosha Pasumansky for linking to this and to Duncan Lamb for linking to Mosha. (In case you don't do much with Analysis Services, Mosha is the development lead on the AS engine team and is the MDX/OLAP/AS guru (see his website and books)). I'm now subscribed to Mosha's blog and already learning quite a bit...
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By: Tina Bryson
PAINTSVILLE, Ky. — The Marion and Thomas Teneralli Housing and Family Advocacy Building was dedicated at the headquarters for Christian Appalachian Project (CAP) in Paintsville, Ky. Aug. 14. The building is the home to programs that serve children and their families, seniors, and individuals with disabilities in Johnson, Martin, and Floyd Counties.
Teneralli grew up desperately poor and while he was stationed in Japan, after the end of World War II, he saw firsthand the devastation of Japanese cities. He witnessed poverty and hunger and would often take food scraps discarded by American soldiers and share them with starving Japanese families and their children.
"I made the stock gift to Christian Appalachian Project because it fulfilled a promise I made to God when I was a young man," Teneralli said. "I promised God that if I ever made it financially I would help poor children who struggled with poverty daily."
When he was a child, his family lived in a factory town and he worked on his grandparents' farm. Teneralli was a house-framing carpenter by trade, but later founded a successful company. He honored his promise to God by giving CAP the largest stock gift by a living donor in its history to meet the needs in Appalachia.
"With his incredible act of generosity, which will impact hundreds of individuals in need in Appalachia, I refer to Mr. Teneralli as "Tom Terrific." All of us at CAP thank God for Mr. Teneralli's thoughtfulness and generosity," said Guy Adams, president/CEO of Christian Appalachian Project. "This gift will enable CAP to continue our work in helping participants with basic needs, as well as repairing and rebuilding substandard homes."
In 2017, 1,543 individuals received critical, emergency, and family-oriented community service through the Family Advocacy Program and 327 homes were repaired through CAP's Housing Program. The naming of the building will honor Teneralli and his late wife Marion. Gifts, like those made by Teneralli, will contribute to CAP's expanded impact in Appalachia for years to come.
Teneralli never forgot his upbringing and in the later years of his life hopes his gift will inspire young people wrestling with poverty in one of America's poorest regions. "I would tell them don't spend a lot of time looking down at your feet," Teneralli said. "Look up toward the horizon. It's not where you start from in life that matters, but where you want to go and how you want to get there that is important."
For more information about the mission of Christian Appalachian Project, visit christianapp.org.


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Health Care
Opposing American politicians disagree on almost everything, but why do they disagree on Health Care? As a Canadian; I live in a country using a national Healthcare System similar to programs used in most industrialized countries. Many Americans are unaware that the U.S. is the only industrialized country without a national system, and as a result are ignorant to the […]Read more


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have a problem with the Audi S1 and it's not even the car's fault. I've driven the car on a number of occasions and have always come away impressed, but for one particular (and, arguably, peculiar) reason I haven't been able to click with it. The problem is the name.
As Audi's smallest sports model, 'S1' makes perfect sense, however fellow motorsport nerds will know S1 was also the name of Audi's Group B WRC challenger. That car, particularly in bewinged, flame-belching 'E2' guise, was the poster child for rallying's wildest era. The S1 target market no doubt couldn't care less, but for I enthusiasts such an iconic badge creates certain expectations; imagine if Ford called its next car the Escort RS1800, for instance.
Can the S1 carry the nameplate of its revered forefather with pride?
That's what we'll find out over the coming months on road, on track and perhaps a bit of gravel as well, but to Audi's credit, it went further than it probably needed to with the S1's mechanical specification.
Squeezing the S3's EA888 2.0-litre turbo four into the tiny engine bay can't have been an easy task, though it was probably child's play compared to sandwiching the Haldex all-wheel drive system into its diminutive d dimensions. Combined with a new four-link rear suspension modified from the S3, underbody space is at a premium and forced the regular fuel tank to be changed for a saddle-type arrangement that holds just 45 litres.
It can't have been a cheap exercise, which probably accounts for the $49,990 S1's hefty $10K price premium over the A1 Sport. Our test car is fairly basic, the only options being the black roof dome ($720), heated front seats ($600), convenience key ($670) and 18-inch wheels wearing 225/35 Bridgestone rubber ($1500 – 17s with 215/40 are standard) for an as-tested total of $53,990.
Usually, the larger wheels come as part of the S performance package ($4990, includes Nappa leather, BOSE sound system) or the quattro exterior package ($3990, includes Xenon headlights, bodykit and quattro logos), neither of which our car has.
Given this very car was wearing 17s at Bang For Your Bucks last year, I suspect the 18s were fitted to make it look better in photos.
Which it does, particularly when
Looks cool, love its size, being treated like I have money
Wishing I had a 'real' S1 in the garage
Being handed the keys, knowing there's 8000km of fun ahead
teamed with the vivid Vegas Yellow paintwork, one of three solid colours available (the others being white and black). Metallic or pearl effect paint is a $990 option, but I reckon a bright colour – and the contrasting black roof – is a must for the S1, otherwise it looks too much like a regular A1.
As part of the pick-up process, Audi treated me to a customer handover, just as if I'd actually paid money for 'my' new S1. I was met by the affable and knowledgeable Jamie, Audi Centre Brighton's delivery co-ordinator, who proceeded to spend the next hour explaining the S1's myriad features. We journos like to think we're fairly familiar with the features of most cars, however it turns out there are all sorts of 'easter eggs' to find, particularly at the premium end of the market.
A few examples: hold the unlock button on the S1's key and all the windows open, handy on a summer's day; the parking sensors begin beeping at 1.4m from an obstacle and turn into a solid tone at 20cm; you can load around 600 songs onto the car's 11Gb hard drive, and there's also a DVD player; finally, you can train the MMI system to recognise your voice so it understands speech commands more accurately.
Jamie tells me a regular handover takes around 90 minutes, however more complex models – an A8 for instance – can take up to three hours, though owners aren't obligated to take part and can call with queries if they prefer. A hectic pre-Christmas meant that following its pick-up the S1 lay dormant for a couple of weeks, however with a holiday road trip planned, we'll delve into the driving experience next month. – SN


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when I am waiting for the next Sigler podcast I usually have one of my books from audible on my phone playing through the speakers of the truck many and varied from classics/frontiers like Arther C Clark's Childhoods end to Alex Debogorski's king of the road to Charlaine Harris's southern vampire series never know what I will be getting into
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so i also got the ebooks to get my sister infected since she has an ipad figured that was a good way to get her in the siglerverse oh and i also listen to the podcasts constantly on my iphone in truck stop restaurants with my little acrylic speaker setup so everybody around me has to listen too lol


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Written by Eva Phillips, this article is part of our theme week on Women in Horror.
[Trigger warning: discussion of rape]
Suturing, as an act, sanguinely carves its way throughout Jen and Sylvia Soska's 2012 body-modification-centric horror film American Mary. Before we ever see a face or hear a word of dialogue, we watch sinewy, achromatic flesh being sliced open, spread apart, and methodically stitched with black thread by blacked gloved fingers. We watch this, stunned by the juxtaposition between the very focused, dotingly nimble work of the gloved fingers and the grotesquely wrinkled and malleable flesh. We watch this also jarred by the ethereally doleful rendition of "Ave Maria" — importantly and perspicaciously, a hymn that beseeches a female savior to ward off earthly demons and evils — that sonically sutures into the slicing and massaging of the flesh. Before we ever see a face or hear a word, we are informed that this suturing is an act of salvation, not something to be reduced to a simple barbarism. As it is portrayed in the first few moments of the film, suturing is a complex extension of the two selves involved in the act.
These first scenes of suturing — which, as we are shown in an almost whimsical reveal, involve dead turkey flesh rather than human flesh — introduce us to the proclivities of the film's protagonist, Mary (an unequivocally cool as hell Katharine Isabelle), a profoundly bright and profoundly broke medical student in her final stages of schooling before becoming a surgeon. Before understanding Mary as an individual, we are introduced to the presences in Mary's life which vex and threaten her in strikingly insidious ways. Specifically, her sniveling, vitriolically brooding professor, Dr. Grant (David Lovgren), is presented moments after we watch Mary carefully and gleefully "operate" on her turkey patient as a direct contrast to the joy she derives from her chosen field. During a slideshow presentation in class, in which Mary's phone is bombarded with messages and calls from debt collectors for defaulting on her loans, Dr. Grant lashes out at Mary in the middle of class, barking that having her phone out is "fucking rude" and later admonishing her to "stop fucking up." This violence through language establishes a paradigm that persists throughout the film in which female expression, female control over their anatomy/body and others' is aggressively and oppressively impugned upon and violated by male domination. Mary's passion and talent — and thus selfhood — exists imperiled and impeached by the overtures of men.
To juxtapose this, the Soska Sisters brilliantly introduce, through their own masterful process of directorial and narrative suturing, the world of underground body modification and Mary's unexpectedly intimate and empowering relationship with it. Body modification, which has longstanding cultural values and implications, has emerged as a prominent subculture in which individuals seek to perfect and alter their form to their vision using techniques such as implants, scarification, surgical reconfiguration of particular body parts, and more. The culture is known for a wide array of widely sought after artists — like this guy — and informs many films and television shows, particularly those examining transcendentalism in scientific-modification communities — think Orphan Black — and the multidimensionality of the culture has permeated the filmic consciousness in significant ways.
In American Mary, Mary is thrust into the belly of the beast rather unceremoniously and under non-consensual pretexts: in her interview at a beyond-grimy strip club to secure a job to make more fast cash, Mary is implored by her potential future employer to stitch together an identity-less man who has been brutalized and ripped stem-to-stern by the club's bouncer. Mary sutures the man's wound in exchange for five thousand dollars cash, violently vomiting afterword, and in turn imbricates herself into a world which will challenge her to re-conceptualize her notions of autonomy and self-governed craft.
What is significant about Mary's consequential immersion into the world of body modification is that it is engaged by (very) willing, consenting participants who are firstly and predominantly women. As pertinacious as they are distinct in their appearance, the women who help to "launch" Mary's body-mod specific surgical career — Beatress (Tristan Risk) and Ruby Realgirl (Paula Lindberg), who seek to surgically modify their appearances to resemble Betty Boop and a human doll — value body mod and surgical transformation as a distinct form of sovereign self-possession that reclaims bodies otherwise controlled or possessed by external forces. Grandiosely, Ruby summarizes the allure and the empowerment of body mod, stating "I don't think it's really fair that God gets to choose what we look like on the outside, do you?"
This sort of direct control over one's physical features, particularly when enacted by women/for women, this craven need for specific suturing that allows Mary to not only hone her craft, but define herself through her knack for flawlessly changing skin and bodies. She articulates her selfhood with each stitch while simultaneously allowing those she operates on to attain their purest selves. It is certainly no coincidence that during Mary's operation on Ruby, the rendition of "Ave Maria" we hear in the opening scene is woven in to the scene just as effortlessly as Mary's surgical tools carve and reshape Ruby's flesh. Both women are symbiotically asserting selfhood through an act often thought to barbarously or carnally be "just for men."
Themes of feminine self-expression and self-possession take on another dimension in turns of representation when the disturbing element of bodily violation (through rape) is jarringly introduced into the film's narrative. Mary, who has purchased a new car and clothes with the exorbitant gobs of under-the-operating-room-table money she makes through body mod, attends a party hosted by the repulsively skeevy Dr. Grant, where she is a lone female presence surrounded by lecherous men in her desired field. Already coded as a predator, we are not shocked but nevertheless paralyzingly appalled as Dr. Grant drugs and rapes Mary, all while filming the violent transgression. It would almost seem this act, and the Soska's directorial choice to unflinchingly present the violation in its entirety (often from Mary's "perspective") betrays the trenchant themes of female self-possession and autonomous expression established in the film, and falls into the triggering and tiresome trend of rape and sexual assault in other films. However, keeping with the Soska's own sentiments conveyed in their 2014 interview with Bitch Flicks, the inclusion of the graphic assault scene is reflective of the prevalence of violence against women — sexual, physical, emotional, and so on — that is often ignored, disputed, or monetized. The violence that is acted upon Mary is not a plot device nor a gratuitous exploitation of the female body — and the ensuing violence she enacts as either retribution or psychological processing is not portrayed as erotic or glamorous. Rather, it is seen as coping — tasteless, merciless, and often directionless coping to contend with an act that defied explanation. What is critical, though, is that Mary never loses nor surrenders her mastery over suturing and the identity she consecrates through that (though, she does relinquish from the male-dominated "legitimate" surgeons' realm). Even down to her final moments, she is in control of her craft and identity.
I found myself oddly calling upon a seemingly unrelated text during my viewings of American Mary. With each scene, moments from English novelist Frances Burney's agonizing epistolary non-fiction piece, "Letter to Esther Burney," began to suture themselves, as it were, to the action of the film. Burney's groundbreaking and painfully vivid description of her diagnosis with cancer, the complete deprivation of her voice and autonomy over her own body at the hands of countless male physicians both before and during the mastectomy, and gruesome accounts of the gore and pain of the surgery, are eerily connected to the work done in American Mary.
While both the film and text depict outlandish trauma acted on bodies — whether it be Mary's rape or Burney's invasive cancer and equally invasive and debasing procedure to remove it — both reinstate women's voices and female autonomies in unconventional means. Burney is able to champion her suffering by authorially disseminating her trauma in text, and thus re-transcribes herself into the surgical act which initially strips her of her selfhood. Mary, an author in her own right through her magisterial surgical prowess that defies the parameters of her patriarchal field, literally carves out her own voice and her own sense of control (for better and for worse) through modifying the bodies of others (which in turn allows those individuals to inhabit empowered identities) and altering the man who violated her. Both women confront their trauma, the desecration their bodies endure, by refusing to relinquish the crafts which define them and allow them to reclaim their bodies.
The ethics in American Mary are often dubious at best, but as in Burney's letter the empowerment of the text — as is often the case with what little room women are allowed to articulate themselves in — lies in ferocious audacity sutured in each line or each layer of flesh.
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See also at Bitch Flicks:
American Mary: In Praise of the Amoral Final Girl
Talking with Horror's Twisted Twins: An Interview with the Soska Sisters
Eva Phillips is a relatively recent import to Pittsburgh, PA. She relocated from the crust of Virginia after receiving her BA in English at the University of Virginia to complete her Masters at Carnegie Mellon University. Her interests include: representations of femininity and violence in film, refusing to quell her excitement over The Fast and the Furious franchise; having every cat; queer representations in horror and melodrama (both film and television); queer sexuality and religion; and finally getting to meet Sia and maybe wear her wig. In addition to Bitch Flicks, she writes for the good folks at Indie Film Minute, and has appeared in Another Gaze Journal. Her various disintegrations can be viewed at https://www.instagram.com/menzingers2/.


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Middle Years Programme
The Magellan International School offers the first three years of the IB's Middle Years Programme. At Magellan, our Middle School students are encouraged to develop personal understanding, emerging sense of self and community responsibility. Students are challenged to: connect their learning experiences to their lives and understanding of the world; use concepts to explore significance and to examine their knowledge holistically; learn by applying knowledge and skills in unfamiliar contexts; and become caring members of their community through service.
The inquiry-based classroom in Middle School stimulates the natural curiosity of students and encourages them to ask questions. This approach emphasizes real-life situations, decision-making, problem solving, research, and action. Students explore concepts of and experience what it is like to think and act like a historian, scientist, engineer or a mathematician.
As inquirers, students construct their own meaning, rather than relying on their teachers to do so for them. Consequently, students develop deeper and more profound understanding.
The academic curriculum of the MYP encourages students to make practical connections between their studies and the real world through a broad focus on a variety of subjects. Curriculum is focused on eight subject groups:
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A COMPANY which serves up food at Wimbledon is the new caterer at the Galpharm Stadium.
Letheby and Christopher, part of the giant Compass catering group, has been awarded a five-year, £7m catering contract for Huddersfield's premier sports venue.
The company succeeds Sodexho - formerly Ring and Brymer - which had provided catering at the stadium since it opened 10 years ago.
Letheby and Christopher will provide food for up to 24,000 people on match days and for other major events, such as pop and rock concerts.
It will also provide conference, banqueting and hospitality services for events ranging from meetings for 10 people to gala dinners for 450.
Galpharm Stadium managing director Ralph Rimmer said the link-up with Letheby and Christopher further underlined the "wind of change" sweeping through the venue.
It follows a highly successful summer pop concert, the new sponsorship deal and plans to extend the stadium to provide extra space for commercial offices, a new ticket office and a bigger shop for supporters.
Mr Rimmer added: "The venue is undergoing some major changes and this new partnership is a big step in our mission to provide Huddersfield fans with a stadium they can be proud of."
Letheby and Christopher's operations director is Huddersfield-born Simon Evans. He was general manager at the McAlpine Stadium in the mid-1990s.
The venue became the Galpharm Stadium this summer after a 10-year sponsorship deal with the Barnsley-based pharmaceutical company.
Letheby and Christopher operates at the Wimbledon tennis championships, as well as venues such as Hull's KC Stadium and the new Coventry Arena.
Mr Evans said:
"The new catering partnership marks an exciting stage in the stadium's development.
"We look forward to providing a service which will enhance the stadium's reputation as one of the premier conference and event venues in the North."


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There are some products that I use a lot of that I find far easier to make myself. Body scrub often falls in to that category as do DIY facemasks, but today I thought I would share with you an easy DIY hair and scalp oil you can use as a pre-shampoo treatment. Feeding your hair and scalp with natural plant oils rather than silicone laden alternatives will do wonders for the condition of your hair. If you are trying to grow your hair, have heat damaged hair or you are simply trying to maintain healthy hair using a pre-shampoo treatment will be great for you. I suffer from a dry, itchy scalp and this method is definitely the thing that has helped me the most over the years because it gives your scalp much needed moisture and calms the itching.
Unlike some hair oils on the market that are sold as finishing products, I use my hair oil generously, leaving overnight where possible and then wash out. I find the longer I leave the oils, the better the results, but if you have less time I suggest applying less product to make it easier to rinse out. The great thing about making your own is that it is incredibly cost effective compared to bought hair oils. It also enables you to use up oils you already have at home because the recipe works with many different plant oils.
DIY Hair and scalp oil ingredients:
For the base oils I use equal parts fractionated (liquid) coconut oil, jojoba oil and argan oils. I don't measure precisely (it simply isn't needed for this recipe) but rather just pour roughly. For years I persisted with using solid coconut oil because I had it in my head that fractionated wasn't as good, but it is a nightmare to remove. Fractionated oil in contrast is lighter in texture and easily absorbed by the hair and scalp so it is a perfect option. It also means that you can blend easily with other liquid oils and you can prepare more than one application. Jojoba oil is actually a liquid wax and is another oil that is easily absorbed. Argan oil is a popular oil for use in haircare, but you generally find very little argan in commercial products, so this is a nice way to use it. Argan oil is rich in fatty acids and Vitamin E, making it a great choice for this kind of product.
To my base oils I add some essential oils for scent and their therapeutic properties. In this blend I have used peppermint, because it is antibacterial and the slight cooling sensation it provides is really pleasant. I also like to use grapefruit essential oil, which has a nice fresh scent and rosemary oil which is a herb well known for boosting circulation. For very sensitive skin, or if you simply don't have any to hand you can leave the essential oils out of the blend, the plant oils will work well by themselves. Whilst you can be relaxed about the quantities of your base oils, when it comes to the essential oils it is important that things are a little more precise. For the peppermint oil I use no more than 20 drops per 200 ml bottle of hair oil made, this gives it a nice refreshing feel on the scalp and a pleasant minty scent. Ideally you will have some precise scales and you can measure exact quantities of your essential oils to avoid sensitisation.
As this recipe doesn't contain any water it doesn't require any additional preservatives, just make sure you pour your oil in a dry, sterilised container, I use a glass bottle with a pipette because I find that easiest for application. Although you don't have to worry about preservatives, plant oils can go rancid (they often will start to smell unpleasant if this is the case), so you can if you choose add some Vitamin E. Personally as I use this blend up quite quickly I don't add it, but you can always make smaller batches and ensure you keep your ingredients out of direct sunlight to prevent spoilage.
Other oils that work well for a hair and scalp blend are avocado oil, squalane and castor oil. You can experiment with what you have to hand, even using oils that you might have in the kitchen, such as olive oil blended with some lighter oils to make it easier to remove.
If you struggle to remove hair oils when you wash your hair, an easy tip is to apply your shampoo to dry hair rather wet. Simply add a small amount of water to the shampoo in the palm of your hand and create some lather, using this method for the first wash really helps remove the oil. The second wash (you are always going to need two washes for removing oils in my experience) you can carry on as normal.
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Join us on Lost Zombies- the social network for the zombie apocalypse.
Yes, I DO spend all my time online, why do you ask?
Anyway, thanks to Tumblr, I discovered Lost Zombies, the social network for the zombie apocalypse. It's basically a gigantic community for creating a massive zombocalypse documentary.
Lost Zombies is a social network whose goal is to create the world's first community generated zombie documentary. Members of Lost Zombies, have their own profile page, can submit photos and videos, as well as take part in chat discussions, and submit content to be used in the documentary.
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I reckon we can get the ICoS contigent over to Lost Zombies. Practice for the real life compound I'll be ruling once it happens. So, join me (this is me) and we'll bring our pretty faces and unique humour to this wonderful new world. Let's corrupt their hard work and endeavours, perform a coup and RULE THIS PLACE WITH FIRE AND DEATH.
I mean, it seems like it could be fun.
After all, it's not like you're working all day, or anything.
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The Galway Black Dragon Kickboxing Gym has eight fighters in action in The Unified World Championships this week.
The four-day tournament, which takes place in Tuscany, starts this morning, and is regarded as the biggest martial arts competition in the world.
Galway's eight kickboxers joined the rest of IKF Team Ireland on Tuesday before heading to Italy to join thousands of competitors from more than 120 countries over five continents.
Pictured at the final training session in the Black Dragon Gym on Saturday were: back row, Alex Fitzpatrick (Tuam ), Peter Sheppard (Knocknacarra ), Pete Foley (Annaghdown, coach and Irish team manager ), Joe McCormack (Kinvara, assistant coach ), James Kelly (Athenry ). Front row: Corey O'Malley (Ballybrit ), Damien Creavin (Ballybrit ), Whitney Sheppard (Knocknacarra ), Sean Ryan (Cong ), and Cian MC Cormack (Kinvara ).


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Have you seen one of those Twitter backgrounds with profile pictures of 'followers' arranged in a tiled manner? Well, something similar to that is what Facebook is testing for its new login page.
Jash Jacbo, blogger at Techzei, spotted the new Facebook login page that is being tested features a colorful tiled background of profile pictures. The current login page has a plain light-blue background color with new features being highlighted on the left and a sign up form on the right.
The new login page design focuses mainly on the sign up form displaying it as a dialog box. The top bar is the same login-bar where users can enter their login credentials to login.
Unfortunately, it was just a test. The new login page only opened up for a few minutes until Facebook decided to switch it was back to the old one.


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Alienware Aurora m9700 SLI laptop review
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System Specs & Subsystem Benchmarks
Alienware Aurora m9700 Specifications
AMD Turion64 ML-44 (2.40GHz)
PC3200 DDR400 1GB Memory
(2x) Seagate 100GB 7200RPM (Serial ATA) RAID0
(2x) GeForce Go 7900GS (256MB) SLI
8x Dual Layer DVD±RW
Integrated Gigabit Ethernet RJ-45
Integrated 56K V.92 modem RJ-11
Realtek 802.11b/g Wireless
17" Wide Screen WUXGA 1920 x 1200
Intel High-Definition audio
Internal stereo speakers w/subwoofer
4 Hi-speed USB 2.0 ports
Express Card Slot /54mm
4-in-1 Memory Card Reader
Height: 1.85"
Width: 15.65"
Depth: 11.75"
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Microsoft Windows XP Pro (SP2)
NVIDIA Forceware 91.31
NVIDIA nForce4 AMD 6.70
Desktop System Specifications
Intel Pentium 4 660 (3.60GHz)
Corsair PC5400 Pro 2GB DDR2
EPoX 5NVA+SLi (nForce4 SLI)
Seagate 250GB 7200RPM (Serial ATA II)
ASUS Radeon X1900XTX (512MB)
Microsoft Windows XP Pro (SP2)
ATI Catalyst 6.6
NVIDIA nForce4 Intel 8.22
Note: Throughout the benchmark tests the benchmarked configurations are the following:
(1) Pentium D desktop configuration above,
(2) the Aurora m9700 configured as it came from factory with SLI enabled,
(3) Aurora m9700 with SLI disabled/single videocard, and
(4) Aurora m9700 with SLI disabled/single videocard overclocked.
The SiSoft2007 SATA hard drive performance strongly favored the Aurora m9700 RAID0 setup over our desktop test system which was included for comparison purposes. The notebook was up to 30% faster when it came to hard drive read/write performance, according to SiSoft2007. The USB 2.0 performance was also quite good, as the Aurora m9700 matched the desktop test system.
Enabling the Aurora m9700's audio controller saw a 20% loss in frame rates, which was about 7% higher than that of the test system. The Pentium 4 660 test system using the ultra quick Radeon X1900XTX was quite a lot faster than the Aurora m9700. It is also very interesting to note what the SLI-enabled configuration was actually the slowest. Keep this in mind as there are many more 3D benchmarks to follow.
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Drop(Sport: Golf)
The action a player takes after striking the ball into water or into an unplayable lie. It is also done when you are taking relief (from casual water). It is done by extending the arm at shoulder height and simply dropping the ball to the ground.
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Enterprise Linux Today: SteelEye to Showcase Enterprise-Class Reliability Solutions at Intel ExchangeOct 12, 2000, 00:07 (0 Talkback[s])
"LifeKeeper for Linux Provides Powerful Clustering and Fail-Over Solutions For Web-Centric Enterprises Running Linux O/S on Intel-Based Servers."
"SteelEye Technology Inc., a leading provider of reliability platforms for Linux-based eBusiness applications, announced today that it will showcase the power and reliability of Intel's industry leading servers running Sendmail, Apache and Oracle8i on Linux. The demonstration today at the Intel eXCHANGE illustrates how Linux-based eBusiness solutions anchored by SteelEye's LifeKeeper for Linux on Intel's IA-64 architecture can provide enterprise-class performance and reliability."
"SteelEye's products running on Intel's Itanium platform provide a powerful and cost-effective solution for today's enterprises and eBusinesses requiring reliability and performance," said Mike Pope, director of Solutions Development of Intel's Solutions Enabling Group."


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The Challenge: Students are hit with huge quantities of information when they begin a new subject
The Science: Research shows that mindful memorization and reflection boosts learning
The Solution: Slow down, reflect, and synthesize to absorb more
S tudents in school are rarely given opportunities to rest and reflect on the knowledge they've acquired, but a new study suggests that giving the mind a little targeted downtime could be a highly effective way to boost learning.
The brain mechanisms that are engaged when the mind is resting and reflecting on previously acquired information can boost future learning, according to research from the University of Texas at Austin published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
To demonstrate this ability, researchers asked 35 adult study participants to memorize pairs of photos in two separate series. In between each series, the participants were given some time to rest and think about anything they wanted. Participants who used the time to reflect on the first series of photos, according to brain scans taken during the break, then outperformed themselves on the subsequent series. This was especially true in cases where minor details of information overlapped between the two tasks.
During reflection, the researchers theorized, the participants were making mental connections that helped them to later absorb information that related in some way (even loosely) to the information that they had previously acquired.
"Nothing happens in isolation," lead researcher Dr. Alison Preston, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Texas, said in a statement. "When you are learning something new, you bring to mind all of the things you know that are related to that new information. In doing so, you embed the new information into your existing knowledge."
The findings counter previously held assumptions that older memories are likely to interfere with new learning. In at least some cases, the findings show, prior memories can act as helpful connections when acquiring new knowledge.
"We've shown for the first time that how the brain processes information during rest can improve future learning," Preston said. "We think replaying memories during rest makes those earlier memories stronger, not just impacting the original content, but impacting the memories to come."
It's important to note, according to Perston, that participants were not necessarily actively reflecting on the previous learning experience.
"In fact, our participants did not know they would later be learning related information — so, they knew of no reason to try to remember what they had just been shown," Preston notes. "We think that it is more likely the case that memory replay during periods of rest is an automatic process — the brain automatically reflects on past experiences to make memories for those experiences stronger."
Preston's findings are in line with a number of studies which have found that when the mind is at rest (engaging in mind-wandering or daydreaming), parts of the brain that aid in memory storage and consolidation, as well as information retrieval, are highly active.
"This study is consistent with an emerging body of research suggesting that the capacity to imagine the future draws on the same mental machinery required to remember our past," Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, psychology professor at Penn University, who has studied mind-wandering extensively, added. "Our deep storehouse of memories is part of the Default Network (or as I like to call it, the Imagination Network), which facilitates not just learning, but also perspective taking, imagination, creativity, future planning, reflection, and morality."
This article originally appeared at The Huffington Post.
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BÀ RỊA-VŨNG TÀU — The Get Home Safe event, held on Monday to raise awareness about traffic regulations, featured a six-minute video about the fatal consequences caused by motorbike and truck drivers who fail to obey traffic rules.
The video sent two key messages: a road crash can happen in the blink of an eye and lives are saved when drivers slow down.
Lê Văn Đức of Đồng Nai Province, a truck driver at Cái Mép International Terminal (CMIT), said that he was impressed by the video.
"The video reminds me to drive in the right lane," he said. "Also, I should drive at the required speed and obey the right of way before making a turn."
The Get Home Safe event, held in Bà Rịa-Vũng Tàu Province, was held to raise community awareness about the importance of following traffic regulations, Vũ Quý Phi, deputy chief secretariat of National Traffic Safety Committee, said.
In Việt Nam, 24 people die and 60 are injured in traffic accidents each day, Phi said.
More than 3,000 attendees at the event participated in road-safety interactive games and watched informative comedic performances.
Truck drivers, local police and transportation professionals spoke about safe driving skills at the event, which is part of the Lifting Safety programme held by the National Traffic Safety Committee in co-operation with the Asia Injury Prevention (AIP) Foundation and APM Terminals, an international terminal operator based in the Netherlands with facilities in 69 countries.
In the Lifting Safety programme in December 2016, the AIP Foundation distributed educational booklets to truck drivers.
The AIP foundation team is preparing to install environmental modifications, including rumble strips and traffic lights, on major highways close to the CMIT facility. — VNS


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What is Early Head Start?
- Help families find resources in the community!
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We offer three quality service options:
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- Offered year-round
- Child Care Center-based: 6 hour class days, 4 days a week
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- Offered September through August.
Building strong relationships with children and families is at the heart of our mission. Through these relationships, our highly trained teachers and family coaches work with parents to explore all areas of their child's development. We also provide quality screenings for hearing, vision, growth, and social emotional development, and support families with follow-up when needed. We partner with parents to choose and work toward individual child goals, as well as to set goals for the family, such as continuing education, buying a home, getting a driver's license, and more!
We value every parent as the child's first teacher, and work hard to provide information and resources to meet each family's unique needs!
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Our program is offered to children 0 to 3 years old, and to pregnant women of any age.
We will request 12 months of income or proof of one of the following:
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22 June 2012 | News | By BioSpectrum Bureau
Bluechiip industry solution trial proves successful
Singapore: Australia company Bluechiip, which has developed a unique asset-tracking solution initially for cryogenic sample management in the healthcare and life science industry, has achieved a successful pilot trial of its tracking solution by ATCC, a US-based leader in biological materials management and processes.
ATCC is purchasing the Bluechiip solution so that they may be an early adopter of the bluechiip technology and to facilitate enhancement of cryogenic sample management and bench research via temperature evaluation and tracking.
ATCC stores approximately 10 million biological samples of different formats. The repository portion of its facility contains 200 freezers to store biomaterials, including vapor-phase liquid nitrogen freezers, mechanical freezers and cold rooms. End users of these products and services originate from over 140 countries and include researchers in academia and government, as well as private industry. ATCC's collections encompass a wide range of biological materials for research, including but not limited to cell lines, microorganisms and bioproducts.
The pilot trial was a collaboration sponsored by Bluechiip, ATCC and Corning Life Sciences. The robust study was conducted at ATCC's biological resource facility in Manassas, Virginia. The pilot trial evaluated the bluechiip technology across a comprehensive range of cryogenic sample management and cold chain processes. The pilot trial verified the bluechiip tracking solution - which enables sample identification and temperature information to be read at temperatures as low as those reached in liquid nitrogen, approximately -196 degrees Celsius and enables data to be transmitted through frost.
Bluechiip's Managing Director, Brett Schwarz, said, "We are excited to receive our first sales order, particularly from a world leader in our first targeted market of biobanking and biorepositories. This is validation of the enormous potential and wideranging applications of the bluechiip tracking solution."
Bluechiip has developed a wireless tracking solution with temperature sensing capabilities for the healthcare and life science, security, defence and manufacturing industries which represents a generational change from current methods such as labels (hand-written and pre-printed), barcodes (linear and 2D) and microelectronic integrated circuit (IC)-based RFID (Radio Frequency Identification).


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In the autumn, when
the leaves were turning
from green into gold,
Hilla and Randie finally
made contact with
another pack.
These were not just
ordinary werewolves, though --
they called themselves
the Grandmothers Moon
and they represented
the wisdom of their kind.
They came from all around
the world, thirteen old women
who held the knowledge of
what it meant to be werewolves.
It was Kayah Hogan, a Hopi woman
from Arizona, who came to speak
with Hilla and Randie and the rest.
Kayah was short and stocky with
a round face framed in wavy black hair
threaded with silver here and there.
In wolf form she was brindled
fawn and cream and gray that
had probably been black once,
and she was perfectly calm.
"What do you want to know?"
Kayah asked them.
"How can we learn to stay calm
when we're wolves?" Hilla asked.
"Your control is amazing."
"You practice," said Kayah.
"Some find that prayer helps.
Others prefer meditation instead.
There are many ways you can try."
Hilla, who was used to trying
all manner of techniques for
controlling chronic pain, was
much encouraged by this.
"Are the hunters real?"
Randie wanted to know.
"The hunters are very real,
and occasionally dangerous, but
they tend to be foolish young men,
so a prudent woman can avoid them,"
Kayah said. "Do not worry too much."
"Can we have children of our own?"
Felice said, twisting her hands.
"That depends on whether you are
a bornwolf or a changewolf," said Kayah.
"Bornwolves have natural control over
their shifting, so they can bear children
in either form -- those carried as human
will be humans, and those carried as wolf
will be bornwolves. Changewolves must
learn control, and can only carry in wolf form,
so all their children will be bornwolves.
It is a difficult skill, and not everyone
who attempts it can master it."
"I'm a changewolf," Felice said.
"My control is --" She wavered a hand
in the air. "-- not very good yet."
"You banked eggs before
you changed," Hilla pointed out.
"You could still hire a surrogate."
"Or perhaps your control will
improve, and then you may conceive
your cubs on your own," said Kayah.
"Do you know any werecats?"
Lucille said, leaning forward.
"I've been looking and looking,
but with no luck so far."
Kayah threw back her head
and gave a long, yelping laugh.
"I know of some cats," she said.
"There are cougars and bobcats here,
then jaguars farther south. Africa has
black panthers and lions; Asia has tigers.
The lynxes are French, I believe."
"Suddenly I'm spoiled for choice,"
said Lucille, blinking with the shock.
"Can you tell me how to reach them?"
"I am a wolf, not a cat," Kayah said
and shook her head. "I will ask Olidia,
though -- I think she knows some of
the black panthers in Africa."
"What do you think about what
we're doing?" Hill said quietly.
"Randie and I didn't get to choose,
but the rest of our friends wanted this,
and we want to keep offering it
to people who need options."
"When my daughter was pregnant,
I was diagnosed with gastric cancer,"
said Kayah. "They told me that I had
less than three months to live, but I was
determined to see my first grandchild.
So I followed rumors -- you know how
that goes -- and I found someone
willing to change me. That was
over ten years ago, now."
"So you're not planning throw stones
from your glass house," Hilla said.
"That's great, but what about others?"
"The Grandmothers Moon are not
quite unanimous in our support,
but we will not stand in your way,"
said Kayah. "It is your choice,
and each pack of werewolves
must find their own way."
"We're not a pack," Hilla protested.
"Yes," said Kayah, "you are."
* * *
Grandmothers provide both practical and social benefits. They guide families and society.
These are the Grandmothers Moon.
Kayah Hogan is 60 years old. This is Kayah's wolf form.
Endometriosis can cause infertility, hence Felice's concern about reproducing as a werewolf.


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What To Consider In Choosing Best Bunk Beds
In designing kids' room, it is the best for you to think for the function instead of the interior only. If you
want to gather your kids in one room, you have to choose the best bunk beds instead of buying the
single or double bed for your kids. Though the function is similar one and another, you need to know
several factors to consider so you don't get wrong to buy because it needs time to apply and build the
bed so your children can sleep in peace.
What You Do to Choose The Best Bunk Beds for Children
If you buy bed for your children, then you have to consider some factors so you can get the best bunk
beds since those kinds of bed are so space-efficient and they are so fun for kids to sleep. However,
don't just look at the model and the design only because there are more things you need to know.
What you need to do for the first time is measuring the room you want to place the bunk bed. You
have already thought about your choice when you want to buy bunk bed, but it is better to know your
room's size.
The measuring activity can make you easily decide the bunk bed type based on your choice and you
can know whether your choice of bunk bed will be fit properly inside the room. In measuring the room,
you have to remember if the bed can stand by itself and it has stairs, ladders, and drawers so you
need to spare some spaces so you can install the ladder and also open the drawer easily. If you just
buy bunk bed which is as the same as the room, then you can open and install other accessories
included in it.
Nowadays, you can't just find one type of bunk bed but you will be served more than one type and
you can be confused just to search for the perfect design. You can find the simple design to the
complex one and it has so many features and configurations. Based on the space and need for the
bedroom, you have to minimize your choice into one or two types of the best bunk beds so you don't
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"Norman Foster. Common Futures" at Espacio Fundación Telefónica
October 12, 2017
The aim of the exhibition is to popularize the architect's work and his vision of the future among a wide audience while revealing his sources of inspiration. The exhibition focuses on continuities, transversal variables in Foster's work, and confirms how the future and the past can inspire the present.
Since his early works more than half a century ago, Norman Foster's architecture has sought to employ technical expertise to anticipate the future and to overcome physical and social barriers. Inspired by both historical constructions and scientific progress, his projects reconcile tradition and modernity, urban intelligence and transformative capacity, aesthetic excellence and technological innovation.
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"Norman Foster. Common Futures"
October 6, 2017 – February 4, 2018
Espacio Fundación Telefónica
Calle Fuencarral, 3
28004 Madrid
On the occasion of the public presentation of his foundation in Madrid, the Norman Foster Foundation, this exhibition – curated by Luis Fernández-Galiano, Senior Professor of Projects at the School of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM) and Editor of the Spanish magazine AV/Arquitectura Viva – documents twelve recent projects entering into dialogue with similar proposals from previous decades to underline the continuity of his concerns and to bring to light the variety of his interests.
From involvement in heritage buildings to habitat projects for the Moon and Mars, Foster's work recovers the memory of the past and anticipates the needs of the future while remaining firmly anchored among the demands and urgencies of the present. All Foster's proposals – the new work and culture spaces, care for cancer patients and populations lacking infrastructures, sustainable urban development and raised cycle paths – stimulate the endeavour to make our cities more liveable. All with the dominant themes of social awareness, openness to change and innovation.
Thus, this Norman Foster exhibition in Spain is held under the auspices of Fundación Telefónica at Espacio Fundación Telefónica, a building which was a paradigm of innovation in its day, the first skyscraper to be built in Spain, whose impressive structure is highlighted by the montage of the display. It is also appropriate for its central area to be occupied by a set of machines at the service of movement – from the bicycle to the space capsule – which are, in turn, an inspiration for these lightweight architectures and a symbol of a fast-paced world undergoing constant change.
In addition, in the twelve sections of the exhibition, we can run through Foster's ideas on different topics of social interest, following an itinerary which begins with a reflection on the past and ends with the future, taking in culture, work, well-being and sustainability. Each section presents a recent project together with another from his initial period, demonstrating the continuity of these features in his architecture, constantly focused on the prefiguration of a common future.
- The future of the past. Barn drawings (1958) – Château Margaux (2009)
We need the past as nutritional support for the present. Our understanding and our emotions live off our memories, but creative activity also uses experience as a source of inspiration.
- The future of culture. Carré D´Art Nîmes (1984) – Prado Museum Extension (2016)
Culture is constructed upon the solid foundations of inherited heritage, together with new strata of interpretation and creation.
- The future of the form. Willis Faber (1971) – Bloomberg (2010)
The architectural form should not be a flight of fancy or a desire to attract attention by means of extravagance. Instead, it should respond to an internal logic integrating composition and construction, the shortest route towards a beauty which is often difficult to grasp or define.
- The future of the function. Functionalism. Sainsbury Centre (1974) – Casa de Gobierno Buenos Aires (2010)
New works should have sufficient flexibility to adapt to the functional changes required in the future.
- The future of work. Olsen Offices (1969) – Apple Campus 2 (2009)
Robotization and mechanization will radically transform the future of work, but the spaces which house it will also undergo substantial changes.
- The future of welfare. Palmerston Special School (1973) – Maggie Centre (2013)
Architecture does not only address the dimensions and needs of the standard person codified in the ergonomic manuals; instead, it should be able to provide welfare for other subjects, for the sick and those who suffer from some kind of disability.
- The future of building and architecture. Climatroffice (1971) – Mexico City Airport (2014)
The history of architecture eloquently demonstrates the commitment of the construction of any age to overcome its own limits, setting itself increasingly ambitious challenges.
- The future of technology. Droneport (2015) – Autonomous House (1982)
The best technique is not the most complex one, but rather the most appropriate one.
- The future of mobility. Of transport. Bilbao Metro (1988) – SkyCycle London (2013)
Improving urban mobility by making it less wasteful of energy and time is a priority for any civil governance, and this is a task to which urban planning and architecture can contribute.
- The future of sustainability. Masdar Development (2007) – Gomera (1975)
There is, perhaps, no more important issue nowadays than the transformation of our economic and territorial model to make it more sustainable.
- The future of the networks. Collserola (1988) – Thames Hub (2011)
The design of the nodes of these networks acquires singular importance, because their capacity and effectiveness condition the volume and dynamism of physical and computer-based flows.
- The future of the future. Cockpit (1964) – Moon (2012)/Mars (2015)
The space agencies are exploring the possibility of building habitats on the Moon and Mars, embodying the long-standing dream of mapping terrestrial life forms beyond our planet.
After graduating from the University of Manchester School of Architecture and City Planning in 1961, Norman Foster won a Henry Fellowship to attend Yale University, where he was a student at Jonathan Edwards College, obtaining a master's degree in Architecture.
In 1967 he created Foster Associates, which later became Foster + Partners, where he continues to serve as Executive President. In 1999 he became the 21st recipient of the Pritzker Architecture Prize and, in 2002, he was awarded the Praemium Imperiale for Architecture in Tokyo. In 2009 he won the 29th Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts and obtained the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1997 he was awarded the Order of Merit by the Queen of the United Kingdom and, in 1995, he received the title of Baron Foster of Thames Bank.
News source: Espacio Fundación Telefónica
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Dutch Ridge 2019-2020 PTA
The Dutch Ridge Elementary PTA is an active volunteer organization where parents and teachers work together to provide educational, fun and enriching programs for children and their families. The PTA sponsors many wonderful programs during the school year that are organized solely by parent volunteers. It's that time of the year again, where the PTA is busy planning for the next academic year. This is a great opportunity to get involved with your child's elementary years at school. Choose from 12 committees to volunteer, we have something for everyone! We are looking forward to another fabulous year at Dutch Ridge!
In case of questions please contact Co-Presidents Erin Carlsen at [email protected] or Jenn Baker at [email protected]


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Situated along Interstate 35 near the center of the Eagle Ford shale deposits, the community of Cotulla in LaSalle County has a plan to handle the impact of its new boom town status. This is mostly due to the foresight of community leaders who sought out assistance in managing its unrivaled growth.
A key step toward ensuring Cotulla's growth is positive and sustainable is an Economic and Competitive Assessment Study of the community recently conducted by the Economic Development Program at the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX). The findings and recommendations of the independent, third-party assessment were presented Nov.15 at the South Texas Forum in Cotulla.
"TEEX conducted the competitive assessment over a period of several months, looking at the town's ability to attract business investments and helping to formulate parts of a master plan for the town by focusing on sustainability, growth and resilience," said John Adams, an economic development expert with TEEX Knowledge Engineering and one of the authors of the study.
Some key features of the community, according to the study, include its strategic location along I-35 in the center of the Eagle Ford oil boom. The state has already begun improvements to I-35 and the highway access roads to Cotulla. Substantial corporate investments are being made and will continue as the oil and gas activities increase and new suppliers expand to provide goods and services to the industry. Newly constructed hotels provide opportunities to attract meetings and conferences to the area.
Another advantage Cotulla has is its forward-thinking leaders, and their focus on long-term sustainability and diversification of the local economy, Adams said. "By developing a master plan for Cotulla and LaSalle County, community leaders will have a blueprint for managing its explosive growth in a strategic, sustainable, step-wise fashion," he added. "Branding Cotulla and LaSalle County as a growing, diverse community and hub of commercial trade will enhance the area's sustainability."
In addition, Adams said that the community will benefit from regional growth in the Gardendale industrial area, growth at Anadarko, expansion of oil and gas handling operations, and increased electricity production.
Among the immediate needs identified in the report are expanded fire protection, infrastructure enhancements, and housing for the influx of workers to the region. A key recommendation from the study the expansion of the Cotulla Airport, which held a groundbreaking earlier this month. The expansion of operations and infrastructure at the Cotulla Airport will help to establish the community as the supply-distribution and services hub of the region, Adams said, adding that a county-wide Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) should also be considered. Another recommendation calls for revitalizing downtown and preserving and promoting historical assets. Already in the works is a sports complex, which is expected to draw regional tournaments and other sports events.
"The TEEX Impact Study is a great tool to promote Cotulla and LaSalle County," said Larry Dovalina, Cotulla City Administrator. "Our dynamic growth is a hallmark of the region's attractiveness for investment, new business and jobs."


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Like many writers, I have a day job. I've been asked a few times whether I'd like to write full-time or (put it another way) why I haven't given up the job now I've got a book deal. The answer varies a fair bit depending on my mood and the time of day, but the three main reasons why I don't write full-time are:
1) I'm quite risk-averse. (I'm a lawyer by day. This is very common amongst bookish Malaysians whose parents want them to be able to cari makan.) Sadly, having one book deal is no guarantee that I would ever get another.
2) I quite like having a day job. Mine is interesting, well-paid and well-regarded, jokes about killing all the lawyers aside. I am good at it and like my colleagues.
3) I'm not sure I'd actually like writing full-time.
That last might need some explanation, given how
maniacally invested "passionate" I am about writing. (I'm not an obsessed loser! I'm a passionate millennial!)
To be happy in your career you need three things.
1) Autonomy: You have power to decide what to do, when to do it and how to achieve your goals. You're going to have to do things that aren't really your choice in any job, but it's a spectrum. Pretty much nobody is going to be happy in a job where they have to ask permission to go to the loo.
2) Expertise: You're good at what you do.
3) Meaning: There's a point to what you're doing.
People think writing full-time is great because there's a ton of autonomy — you don't need to be in the office or on the shop floor by 8 am or to still be there by 6 pm; nobody's telling you what to write or how to write it — plus meaning, because making things is inherently meaningful. With expertise, they assume that once you've been published, that has been established. Taken that way, it looks a lot better than most jobs.
And don't get me wrong, writing for money is very nice in a lot of ways. But depending on your circumstances, it can look a lot like any other job. Because if you want to keep getting work, you are going to have to submit to restrictions. So if I'm sent proofs to review on Friday evening and told they're needed back by Sunday evening, that's my weekend gone because I am going to get that done. That's a willing acceptance of a curtailment of my autonomy, and nobody cares if I take an hour or two off from the task to go for a walk or have dinner, but it's still, you know, a weekend gone. I don't get overtime pay or days in lieu for doing a rush job — it just comes with the territory.
That's one hit to autonomy. Other hits are: nobody is telling you what to write, but maybe you wrote a book and you love it so much and you send it around and nobody bites, so it's back to the drawing-board and you have to try something different. Maybe you've planned a ten-book series that is going to be your magnum opus, but the first book flops so nobody wants to buy the other nine, and you have to move on to other ideas. Maybe you've been invited to write something for an anthology and it's really not your bag, but you want to work with the editor and be published with that press, so you make it work.
So autonomy can be moderated. But actually my main problem with the idea of writing full-time — why I think it might not be great for me (of course everyone is different and so what works for them will be different) — is the issue of expertise.
I think most people like to feel that they are good at something and that they are contributing to the world. But few of us are so serenely convinced of our worth that we feel no need for external validation that we are good at the things we would like to be good at. In a (decent) regular job, you get regular reinforcement that you are good at things and useful to your fellow humans. You get a paycheck. You do stuff and there is visible evidence that it has been done and was of use to someone else, whether it is a piece of legal advice that helps someone run their business, or some calls you made and emails you sent which helped a meeting take place. You might even have performance reviews from time to time.
When you write fiction, the amount of validation you get in terms of external signifiers might have very little to do with how good the fiction is. There are a lot of bad bestsellers, and many classic works of literature whose authors were not recognised in their lifetime. So you already know there are no reliable fixed measures of worth, and frequently there is not an obvious direct relation between the rewards of a writing career and the amount of effort you put in. (Tobias Buckell wrote a really good post on this called Writers and pellets, which I remind myself of whenever something bad happens in my writing career — and something good.)
Even as a published writer the reinforcement you get that your work is wanted is relatively infrequent. You get a contract. You go away and hide in a cave and write the thing you're contracted for. Around a year later, you emerge from the cave and show the thing you've written to whoever contracted you for it. Even if they like it (and they might not!), that's a year without much certainty that what you're working on is worth the time and effort you're putting into it. You don't know if it's any good, if you're any good, or anything.
All you can put your faith in is meaning: the work itself is meaningful. The process is worthwhile. Hard work won't betray you.
Personally, I like being told on a fairly regular basis that I'm doing a good job, so it works for me to have a role where once in a while I am forced out of my cave to do something other than stare at a blank page until the drops of blood come. I also like getting out of the house and seeing people, which my job requires of me, so that's a plus. In the circumstances, I think it's better for my writing and my general well-being that I have another career.
Of course, the circumstances may change. And my choices do mean that I am pretty busy! I'll talk about how I balance things in my next post in this series. In the meantime, here is your daily reminder of my CYBERPUNK: MALAYSIA giveaways! Enter for a chance to win a book of short cyberpunk stories set in Malaysia!
Previous Publishing Journey posts
Mission statement: Ten things I believe about writing
Breaking through writer's block, or, how I started writing and publishing short stories
How I published a short story collection


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Below are stories from people who have benefited from the trainings and strategies on CareerChangeChallenge.com. Email me your career change story and how this website helped you at jullien at careerchangechallenge.com.
– Jullien, changed from non-profit & education to full-time PurposeFinder & entrepreneur
Thank you, plain and simple. Thank you.
Hope you are well my brother.
Hella love,"
– Cat, changed from non-profit & education to startup & staffing
I think the most important lesson that I've learned through this process, and also through studying patterns of success is the power that comes from controlling your own narrative. If you can't tell your own story, then someone else will – and it won't sound right.
I would like to thank Jullien for his hard work in creating this wonderful program. I would also like to thank everyone I connected with throughout this process. Wish you all good luck on your journeys, and hopefully our paths will cross as we pursue our D.R.E.A.M's!
Peace & Respect,"
– Askshay, changed from big 5 public accounting firm to accounting for a media company which is his passion
I just wanted to let you know that it totally gave value to me and inspired me to re-write my resume highlighting all the value I've created. Keep up the good work!"
– Larissa C., changed from permaculture to start-up environmental non-profit
– R.V., changed from poetry & activism to public relations & fashion
– Sarah F., changed from full-time college student to D.R.E.A.M. job in media & entertainment
Absolutely, the 30 days career change challenge was advantageous and timely. It gave me the language to comprehend and to leverage my current and last bridge job and also a time frame for me to deploy my exit upward or outward plan.
Thanks for the language, I must have had a "sick beat", now I have lyrics and "sicker beat", driven by restored passion. ((Smile))
Last month, I received a 13% pay increase. By still underpaid and underemployed. Salary.Com, said that I am at the top of my pay scale. I just started this job 7months ago.
Another asset I achieved from the challenge was creating and maintaining my online brand.
My online brand in developing. I have received three recruiter job solicitation via Linkedin. I did not have a Linkedin account prior to the 30 days career change challenge. Thanks Dude.
I had purchased by domain name in 2001, .net and .org, the .com was not available.
I am currently working on Resume 2.0 and will be starting my first 30 days do it group in March.
I have been following you on twitter and I thank GOD for using you to create value in other people lives. God is pleased with you."
– Donovan
– Jonathan, seeking to grow and find more meaning is his current job
– gave me a realistic view of what was needed to make my career transition
– my resume was already updated when the job was posted internally
– I was ready to easily elaborate why I am fit for the position as a result of my ongoing meetings with my "A Team". It was hard to get a group of people together, but I took advantage of one-on-one weekly coffee chats with people that can help.
My 30 Day do it Group with my church group is still going strong. I'll be skyping in while someone else takes over leading the discussions. We had our latest meeting this past weekend and I'm happy to report 100% goal attainment this time! We were an excited bunch. We've worked on everything from household chores, losing weight, eating right, getting ready for new babies, to writing chapters for books.
Thank you for all your help. I've been telling my friends that are looking to change jobs all about your program!"
– J. Massenburg
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The Kardashians Take Cuba! Family Unites for Vacation Days After Met Gala Madness
The Kardashian family is at it again! The first family of reality TV have set their sights on Cuba, months after a travel ban to the country was lifted.
Landing in Havana on Wednesday, Kourtney, Kim and Khloe made the trip a family affair, including Kanye and Kim's 2-year-old daughter North, as well as Kourtney's 6-year-old son Mason in the foreign festivities. Kris, Kylie and Kendall appear to be laying low stateside.
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So far, Khloe has been the only one kind enough to share snaps from the trip on social media. "Pablo was here! Cuba," Khloe posted to her Instagram soon after their arrival, along with cigar selfies with sisters Kourtney and Kim, and bestie Malika Haqq.
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The reality star also shared shot of her strutting her stuff in a form-fitting tan dress and wide-brimmed hat.
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The family is rumored to be filming scenes in Cuba for the upcoming 13th season of Keeping Up with the Kardashians, making the country the latest in a series of travel episodes on the show, following epic vacations in Greece, Thailand, Bora Bora and the Dominican Republic. The getaway was a much-needed trip after Monday night's Met Gala festivities -- Kris, Kim, Kanye, Kendall and Kylie went all out for the star-studded ball -- and the family appears to be taking a nice break from the madness to kick up their heels—literally!
For now, we'll just have to wait for more pics from the Kardashian clan, from what is sure to be an unbelievable adventure. Cuba, get ready for the Kardashians to take over!
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