El dulce sabor de una mujer exquisita (por Gabriel García Márquez) « Mensajes de Reflexión Si aún no ha pasado el bisturí por tu piel, si no tienes implantes de silicona en alguna parte de tu cuerpo, si los rollitos no te generan trauma, si nunca has sufrido de anorexia, si tu estatura no afecta tu desarrollo personal, si cuando vas a la playa prefieres divertirte en el mar y no estar sobre una toalla durante horas, si crees que la fidelidad sí es posible y la practicas, si sabes cómo se prepara un arroz, si puedes preparar un almuerzo completo con postre, si tu prioridad no es ser rubia a como de lugar, si no te levantas a las 4:00 a.m. para llegar primera al gimnasio, si puedes salir con ropa de gimnasia tranquila a la calle un domingo, sin una gota de maquillaje en el rostro… ESTÁS EN VÍA DE EXTINCIÓN… Eres una mujer exquisita! Una mujer exquisita no es aquella que más hombres tiene a sus pies; si no aquella que tiene uno solo que la hace realmente feliz. Una mujer valiosa no es aquella que tiene más títulos, ni más cargos académicos. Gabriel García Márquez mujer exquisita
10 Clever Architectural Creations Using Cargo Containers: Shipping Container Homes and Offices Cargo Architecture: 10 Shipping Container Homes & Offices Article by Urbanist, filed under Offices & Commercial in the Architecture category. With the green theme growing in popularity across every stretch of the world, more and more people are turning to cargo container homes for green alternatives for office, and even new home, construction. There are countless numbers of empty, unused shipping containers around the world just sitting on the shipping docks and taking up space. The reason for this is that it’s too expensive for a country to ship empty containers back to the their origin in most cases, it’s just cheaper to buy new containers from Asia. The result is an extremely high surplus of empty shipping containers that are just waiting to become someone’s home or office. There are plenty of benefits of to the so-called shipping container architecture model. The world’s first hotel built from recycled shipping containers has popped-up in Uxbridge, West London.
VC Confidential: Why Great Companies Get Started in the Downturns I have always been amazed by how many of our success tech stories, as well as Fortune 500 companies, started during drastic down turns. Innovation does not take a holiday, and in fact, thrives during difficult times when pain & need are greatest. While the current downturn is historic, it pails in comparison to the 22 year depression the US experienced from 1873 to 1895, triggered by the Vienna stock market crash. During this extended drought, a large number of Fortune 500's & major corporations started including Eli Lilly, IBM, Merck, Hershey's, Gillette, Alcoa, J&J, Chevron, GE, AT&T, Abbott, Lilly, Coors, Johnson Controls, Bristol-Myers and PPG to name a few. During the great depression (1929-1939), Texas Instruments, HP, 20th Century Fox and United Technologies all launched. Other periods: during the Oil shock & market crash (1973-1976) Microsoft, Genentech & Apple started.
WNC Green Building Directory | Articles By Matt Siegel on 03/24/2011 “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has,” anthropologist Margaret Mead said. The Western North Carolina Green Building Council — its members and its founders — demonstrates the truth in those words: About a decade ago, the council literally started as a conversation between two people. It then grew into a group of several people, who started out sitting around a table and discussing how to grow green building in the region. Ashley Featherstone and Jon Senechal representing WNCGBC at Earth Day 2001. In 2011, the organization celebrates its tenth year of helping create a more sustainable and healthier WNC. According to Duncan McPherson, another WNCGBC founder, “The primary need was education at that point, which included educating the city, inspectors, builders and architects. ... Here are some achievements from the past 10 years that the Council can put numbers to:
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