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JABA Volunteer Opportunities – January 2015
In honor of the MLK Day of Service in January, JABA is holding a non-perishable food drive “Soup for Seniors” to benefit JABA’s Food Bag Program & the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank, running now until January 19th.You can help by donating nonperishable food items. Especially needed are: canned meat products such as stew, chicken…
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KNITTING TOGETHER is so happy to be supporting “Bundle Up with Books”
What a great idea – So glad we could help! For more information about our knitting circle and how you might help Knitting Together spread the warmth in Charlottesville, visit knittingtogethercville.net. CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — The same teachers who organize Books on Bikes in the summer are helping children “Bundle Up with Books” during winter break. On Tuesday, December…
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Taylor Swift may not write computer code, but these girls do – The Washington Post
… This is where it begins, where girls have aisles and aisles of pink toys and clothes and phones and computers shoved down their throats and are made to believe that technology is something they consume — not create. via Taylor Swift may not write computer code, but these girls do – The Washington Post.
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BBC News – Mediterranean diet keeps people ‘genetically young’
… and it is delicious! Following a Mediterranean diet might be a recipe for a long life because it appears to keep people genetically younger, say US researchers. Its mix of vegetables, olive oil, fresh fish and fruits may stop our DNA code from scrambling as we age, according to a study in the British…
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Nancy Lambert – 2014 Loving With Looms Winner
Congratulations, Nancy! We could not do this without you. Our 2014 Loving with Looms Winner is … Nancy Lambert inspired her friends and family with her selfless giving through the group Knitting Together in Charlottesville. They united to nominate her for this humble award. Read what they wrote and join us in congratulating this wonderful lady…
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Why Women Stopped Coding | Seems odd to me, but probably true!
I was very interested in the NPR article quoted below because it answers a question I have long pondered: Why aren’t there more female programmers? During my 10 years as an IT professional, I never played computer games for very long. Why? Because there were so many things that I could learn about and build, so playing games…
finding joy along the way
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