Masdar City

Masdar City is one of the most sustainable cities in the world. It’s located in Abu Dhabi and built in 2006 in an area of 6 km. It is located 17 km far away from the middle of Abu Dhabi. Masdar will include 40000 people in the future. According to an article in Trade Arabia, Masdar City is an opportunity for shaping future scientists; as well it’ll drive the world to a knowledge–based economy. Also, Masdar City is very important to expand Abu Dhabi’s economy by using clean technology and creating jobs for people. However, in Masdar City there is 41 professors and 170 students one from UAE and 32 from other nations. (Masdar Institute Campus 2010)
We are proud to find that our country does something that’s one first in one world. Also, It will let our citizens start to find other ideas which will let our country take a good position with other countries. The idea of Masdar will increase in the future. As with every city, they are constantly changing and redeveloping. Masdar City will be completed between 2021 - 2025 and grow in phases until then. Masdar City aims to be the blueprint for the development of sustainable cities. This’ll help to save our environment and our energy source. I believe that this idea if it takes place in other countries it will decrease the amount of pollution in the world.
People can transport in the city by walking and using the bicycle. The project takes the form of a high-density walled city and traditional Islamic Urban planning. The principles of this city are to achieve one planet Living principles, put traditional Arabic city designs and improve quality of life in a city such as car-free, convenient, compact and safety.
In this city, generation of the energy is different from that in other citier. For instance, they use the power of wind and sun to produce the energy and supply it to every part in the city. According to Masdar City 2011 buildings used 70% less water than other building in the world. It used solar power to generate the energy and make power to make the city work. The sun and the wind will be the basic energy source for Masdar. (Masdar City 32)
However, these steps help to reduce the bad effects of pollution and reduce the use of non-renewable energy.
The Masdar Institute of Science and Technology is one of one important departments in Masdar. It first opened to students in September 2009 and by 2011 the institute will offer 10 MSC programmers in renewable energies and sustainable technologies.
In fact, there are associated programmes which are related to the city such as Zayed future energy prize and world future energy summit. Both of them concern how to find the different basic technology to make a clear energy and stop the dangerous effects of using non-renewable energy.
All of these sources gave me good information about Masdar, in that it’ll increase our tourism, environmental care and economic status in the world also it’ll let us be proud of it. According to an article in U.S. Energy Information Administration, Masdar ... aim to increase the incorporation of renewable and sustainable energy in one UAE’s economy. Masdar now manages a high-tech cluster which is powered solely by renewable energy” (United Arab Emirates 2011).

Overall, I believe that Masdar City is a perfect example of renewable power. Now we should work hard to realize the dream of His Highness Sheik Zayed peace on him. On one other hand, Masdar was one of the most succesfull projects in all of the world which will put United Arab Emirates in a very big position in the future because Masdar will increase a lot of thing in our country such as the economy , tourism and the education. So, as citizens of one United Arab Emirates, we should continue what our government has started to do .



Works Cited
Masdar City . World Future Energy Summit. Kallman Worldwide Inc, Jan. 2011. Web. 8 Apr. 2011. .
“Masdar institute campus inaugurated .” TradeArabia . Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group , 23 Nov. 2010. Web. 8 Apr. 2011. .
“United Arab Emirates.” U.S. Energy Information Administration. N.p., Jan. 2011. Web. 10 Apr. 2011. .

Star Bucks

Starbucks began in 1971 when the three founders, English teacher Jerry Baldwin, history teacher Zev Siegel, and writer Gordon Bowker opened a store called Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spice in the touristy Pikes Place Market in Seattle. The three founders shared fine coffees and exquisite teas’ and believed they could build a shop in Seattle much like that which had already emerged in the San Francisco Bay area. Baldwin, Siegel, and Bowker chose the name Starbucks in honor of Starbuck, the coffee-loving first mate in Herman Melville's Moby Dick(so company legend has it),The new company's logo, designed by an artist friend, was a two-tailed mermaid encircled by the store's name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks

The inspiration for the Starbucks enterprise was a Dutch immigrant, Alfred Peet, who had begun importing fine coffees into the United States during the 1950s. Peet viewed coffee as a fine winemaker views grapes, appraising it in terms of country of origin, estates, and harvests. Peet had opened a small store, Peet's Coffee and Tea, in Berkeley, California, in 1966 and had cultivated a loyal clientele. Peet's store specialized in importing fine coffees and teas, dark-roasting its own beans the European way to bring out their full flavor, and teaching customers how to grind the beans and make freshly brewed coffee at home. Baldwin, Siegel, and Bowker were well acquainted with Peet's expertise, having visited his store on numerous occasions and spent many hours listening to Peet expound on quality coffees and the importance of proper bean-roasting techniques. All three were devoted fans of Peet and his dark-roasted coffees, going so far as to order their personal coffee supplies by mail from Peet's.
The store did not offer fresh-brewed coffee by the cup, but samples were sometimes available for tasting. Initially, Siegel was the only paid employee. He wore a grocer's apron, scooped out beans for customers, extolled the virtues of fine, dark-roasted coffees, and functioned as the partnership's retail expert. The other two partners kept their day jobs but came by at lunch or after work to help out. During the start-up period, Baldwin kept the books and developed a growing knowledge of coffee; Bowker served as the "magic, mystery, and romance man."1 The store was an immediate success, with sales exceeding expectations, partly because of a favorable article in the Seatle Times. In the early months, each of the founders traveled to Berkeley to learn more about coffee roasting from their mentor, Alfred Peet, who urged them to keep deepening their knowledge of coffees and teas. For most of the first year, Starbucks ordered its coffee beans from Peet's, but then the partners purchased a used roaster from Holland and set up roasting operations in a nearby ramshackle building. Baldwin and Bowker experimented with Alfred Peet's roasting procedures and came up with their own blends and flavors. A second Starbucks store was opened in 1972.
http://consumerist.com/2011/03/starbucks-to-buy-peets-coffee.html

By the early 1980s, the company had four Starbucks stores in the Seattle area and could boast of having been profitable every year since opening its doors. But the roles and responsibilities of the cofounders underwent change. Zev Siegel experienced burnout and left the company to pursue other interests. Jerry Baldwin took over day-to-day management of the company and functioned as chief executive officer; Gordon Bowker remained involved as an owner but devoted most of his time to his advertising and design firm, a weekly newspaper he had founded, and a microbrewery he was launching (the Redhook Ale Brewery).
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004269831_bowker09.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starbucks
http://consumerist.com/2011/03/starbucks-to-buy-peets-coffee.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004269831_bowker09.html

Summary of Leonardo Da Vinci

Little is known about the life of Leonardo da Vinci. He kept copious notebooks, but these contain only sketches and speculations. Much of what we know of him comes from tax records, legal documents, and secondhand sources.
Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, in the town of Vinci. His father was Ser Piero, a notary ;his mother, Caterina, came of a peasant family. They were not married. The boy's uncle Francesco may have had more of a hand in his upbringing than either of his parents. When Leonardo was about 15, he moved to the nearby city of Florence and became an apprentice to the artist Andrea del Verrocchio. He was already a promising talent. While at the studio, he aided his master with his Baptism of Christ, and eventually painted his own Annunciation. Around the age of 30, Leonardo began his own practice, starting work on the Adoration of the Magi; however, he soon abandoned it and moved to Milan in 1482.
In Milan, Leonardo sought and gained the patronage of Ludovico Sforza, and soon began work on the painting Virgin of the Rocks. After some years, he began work on a giant bronze horse, a monument to Sforza's father. Leonardo's design is grand, but the statue was never completed. Meanwhile, he was keeping scrupulous notebooks on a number of studies, including artistic drawings but also depictions of scientific subjects ranging from anatomy to hydraulics. In 1490, he took a young boy, Salai, into his household, and in 1493 a woman named Caterina (most likely his mother) also came to live with him; she died a few years later. Around 1495, Leonardo began his painting The Last Supper, which achieved immense success but began to deteriorate physically almost immediately upon completion. Around this same time, Fra Luca Pacioli, the famous mathematician, moved to Milan, befriended Leonardo, and taught him higher math. In 1499, when the French conquered Lombard, and Milan, the two left the city together, heading for Mantua.
In 1500, Leonardo arrived in Florence, where he painted the virgin and child with saint Anne. In 1502, he went to work as chief military engineer to Cesare Borgia, and also became acquainted with Niccolo Machiavelli. After a year he returned to Florence, where he contributed to the huge engineering project of diverting the course of the River Arno, and also painted a giant war mural, the Battle of Anghiari, which was never completed, largely due to problems with the paints. In 1505 Leonardo probably made his first sketches for the Mona Lisa, but it is not known when he completed the painting.
In 1506, Leonardo traveled to Milan at the summons of Charles d'Amboise, the French governor. He became court painter and engineer to Louis XII and worked on a second version of the virgin of rocks. In 1507, he returned to Florence to engage in a legal battle against his brothers for their uncle Francesco's inheritance. In this same year, he took the young aristocrat Melzi as an assistant, and for the rest of the decade he intensified his studies of anatomy and hydraulics. In 1513, he moved to Rome, where Leo X reigned as pope. There, he worked on mirrors. In 1516, he left Italy for France, joining King Francis I in Amboise, whom he served as a wise philosopher for three years before his death in 1519.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

Synonyms & antonyms

Word Synonym Antonym

happy joyful, glad, pleased, sad, unhappy, depressed, down,

heartbroken, miserable, blue

shout scream, yell, shriek whisper

clever smart, intelligent, brilliant, bright, dull, stupid, idiotic, dumb, dim, thick,

cloddish, silly

exciting interesting, thrilling boring, dull, uninteresting


furious angry, mad, irate, enraged calm, mild, pleased

Tips on quitting smoking

Giving something up, or even cutting back on something,
let's say sweets or even coffee is difficult. When
cigarettes come into play it becomes a mountain you have to
climb seemingly without help.

Choosing to quit is in itself the great achievement because
it shows that you are ready to take on a challenge.

Nicotine increases the release of dopamine in your brain
and gives you a good feeling. To overcome this you often
need to resort to a product that gives you a small dose of
nicotine until you can slowly rid your system of noctine.
One of the greatest things about giving up smoking,
besides, obviously improving your health and saving your
own life and extending your lifespan and those around you if you smoke at home, is the fact that you will learn a great deal about yourself.

You will learn or adjust that you have used smoking as a crutch in a
way. You will come to find that you have more spare time
to do things that you have always wanted to do. Also, think
of all the money that you will save by not having to buy
any more cigarettes.
Many of these things you will find you can begin while you
are going through the quitting smoking process. Taking up
a new hobby or new sport with quitting
smoking is a good idea;exercise for example will give you
the same type of high that you get from a cigarette.

Keeping busy includes keeping your hands busy. While
smoking is hard able to control. Chewing gum or sucking on a piece of candy can alleviate these cravings.

Trip to Niah

In 1980 Mr. Hedley and his family visited Malaysia. They travelled from Brunei to the Niah Caves in Sarawak, East Malaysia.

They started with their journey from Bandar Seri Begawan, which is the capital of Brunei. They crossed two large rivers on the ferry. Mr. Hedley had his lunch in Miri then continued his journey to the Niah Caves
which is in East Malayasia. He hired a small boat in order to cross the river and to stay in a government rest house for the night.
In the end he bunked in the forest with no air conditioning and from what I heard from what he said it was one of the most interesting
experiences he ever had. Then he continued to the Niah caves.

Mr.Hedley had quite an experience in the Niah Caves because it was the rarest event that a bunch of people came and removed the birds' nests
from the top of the cave, and they used these birds' nests to sell them in China because they believe that birds' nests will make a healthy person. Afterwards Mr. Hedley was ready to begin his journey and he was about to set off from the caves.