—They've reached an agreement on ________ the bonuses are to be divided later.
—I was just doing my job and anyone in my position ________ the same like me.
—Yes, ____________.
—No, _______only some of them.
—Dividing one heavy meal into two smaller ones is helpful.
—Yes, I do. But it's a little far from my college, and the traffic ________ me.
I come from a broken family that many would consider dysfunctional (失衡) at the very least: marriage, divorce, etc. After we grew up. my three siblings and I could go years 1 speaking. And that is where this story 2.
My sister Jeanne and I were born only 14 months 3. but by the time we were teenagers We had lost 4. By age 19, I had moved away from our home in Wisconsin to live on my father's horse farm in Virginia. We lived separate and our connection somehow ended.
Fast-forward about five years, I was 24 and on 5 with my fiance (未婚天) to New York City, a place I had never been to.
During a day of sightseeing, we were crossing a very 6 street loaded with people. I had laughed at something my fiance said, and I 7 heard my name yelled from somewhere around me: "Cheryl! "I 8 in my steps in the middle of the roaD. Tears 9 in my eyes. I knew without a 10that it was my sister Jeanne. I yelled back before even turning to look. "Jeanne? It was her.
I later asked how she'd known it was me—she 11 saw me! She said it was my 12. I wouldn't say my laugh is all that 13 , but I guess to a family member it's infectious. It 14 your heart and resonates (共鸣) in your mind.
Since that time, my sister and I have never been 15We both moved back to Wisconsin. We 16 daily. Many years have passed, and we are now in our 50s. But our meeting 17wasn't just a sign. I see it as more of a 18 , a reminder not to lose touch with loved ones. It is too easy to remain 19. After our sister-to-sister 20 , I don't plan to let that happen again.
Since 1952, we've gathered three expert judges, who consider every illustrated children's book published that year in the United States. In 2017, we began partnering with the New York Public Library to administer the honor now called The New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Books Award.
Here are some of the winners in 2019.
Small in the City
Sydney Smith knows that children are the best observers. In" Small in the City, "he shows us how a young child explores a city-it's unmistakably Toronto－with deep knowledge of all its aspects. If we can find them and are lucky, there is shelter, kindness and hope. Smith presents an elegant urban winterscape precisely, yet with an astonishing looseness.
Neal Porter/Holiday House, $17. 95;ages 4 to 8.
Another
In a world without words, Christian Robinson's" Another" provides the perfect balance of color, shape and texture to take the heroine and her cat companion on a determined and thoughtful voyage from her bed to a funhouse of possibility. The warmth of the color palette and her optimistic expression encourage young readers through a mysterious adventure to an alternate universe of light-filled passages. This is a science fiction picture book classic.
Simon&Schuster;$17. 99;ages 4 to 8.
The Farmer
XimoAbadia has filled the pages of "The Farmer" with color. Rows and dots of red slash against yellow, blue drips and fills, while water vessels mirror the village topography. The farmer's red balloon pants and animal friends add playfulness to the seriousness of his task and the power of the landscape. We chose this book for how hard work, glaring sun and the search for water are presented through space designs that boldly stretch across the pages, reflecting and encouraging self-reliance and determination.
Holiday House, $17. 99;ages 3 to 6.
Just Because
Isabellc Arsenault's richly graphic illustrations for" Just Because" perfectly mix the fanciful and the literal-just the way a child's imagination does. the judges felt. To paraphrase an old movie ad:After spending time with this beautifully designed book, you will believe that fish sing the blues and trees set
their leaves on fire.
Candlewick, S17. 99;ages 4 to 8.
New Holland honeyeaters are experts at sounding the alarm when there's danger, according to new research from biologists at the Australian National University (ANU)and the University of Cambridge.
Study authors, Dr. Jessica McLachlan and Professor Rob Magrath, found honeyeaters can spread the word in the blink of an eye, using a two-stage alarm.
It's particularly effective when they are threatened by fast-moving birds of prey.
＂When a hawk is swooping down, its target has only a second to flee to cover-a split second can make the difference between life and death, "Dr. McLachlan sad.
＂But animals often signal urgent danger using repeated notes, which makes sure others hear the warning but it takes a long time to deliver. "
＂So there's a problem. How to send a lightning-fast message in a long call?”
New Holland honeyeaters solve this problem elegantly. They" front-load" information about urgency into the first note of their alarm call, so other honeyeaters can respond quickly.
The clever honeyeaters follow this up with more notes to reinforce the message and signal how long to remain hidden.
＂They use a long call, with lots of notes, to make sure the message is heard, "Professor Magrath said. "And the more notes, the more urgent the danger."
＂But they also modify the first note to indicate if it's necessary to take immediate cover. So it's a two-part message that is quick, reliable and informative. "
The technique is so effective the authors expect to see other species adopt it.
＂Many other species modify alarm calls as the threat increases, but there is surprisingly little known about how fast they convey the message, "Professor Magrath said.
The researchers conducted their study in Canberra's National Botanic Gardens over a period of several years.
＂These birds live in the Gardens and are used to having people around. This helped us to record natural interactions with their predators (捕猎者) ,such as sparrow hawks and currawongs, and to video the honeyeaters 'responses to different alarm calls, "Professor Magrath said.
Although Facebook offers various privacy settings that can be improved, there is no way to guarantee that your photos will not be seen by people you didn't intend to share with. While the risk of sexual predators stalking (跟踪) children after seeing their Facebook photos is small, it cannot be completely discounted. Posting photos of your children also sets a bad example to them about privacy and opens them up to other dangers, such as identity theft.
Exposure to Sexual Predators
Posting photos of your children on Facebook could bring them to the attention of sexual predators, even if you set the privacy settings so that only friends and family are able to see the photos. Well-meaning relatives can republish the photos, with less strict privacy settings. This practice can be dangerous if there are easily recognizable landmarks or information that can pinpoint the location of the child in the photo. Many Facebook games and apps encourage you to increase the size size of your friend list, but doing so can expose your personal information to unwanted strangers. This information, in tune with status updates revealing your whereabouts and photos of your children, can make it all too easy for someone to stalk your family.
Set a Bad Example
Young children should be taught from an early age about the dangers of revealing too much information to strangers. With smartphones and other electronic devices making it easy to post photos online, it is important that children understand the dangers of uploading the wrong kind of pictures. If you upload lots of photos of your children to Facebook. they may draw the conclusion that there is nothing wrong with sharing images online. For example, many parents post photos of their children in the bath or in their swimwear. Unless children are taught boundaries about sharing personal photos such as these, it can have a negative effect on them later in life.
Identity Theft
After you post photos of your children online on sites such as Facebook, you no longer have any control over what the images are used for. Even with strict privacy settings these photos can be viewed, downloaded, modified and uploaded elsewhere by other people if they are determined enough. Photos of your child could be used for advertising, as many website owners use photos they find on the Internet to promote their sites. Someone could even use photos of your child to create a fake profile on a teen site with the intention of getting close to other teens.
Open Children To Bullying&Intimidation(恐吓）
While posting embarrassing photos of your children on Facebook might seem like harmless fun, it can expose them to bullying and intimidation. If someone distributes these photos to online forums and websites as a joke it can cause a lot of emotional trauma for your child. In some severe cases, teens have committed suicide after threats and bullying online.
In 2010, after six years of training and further six years on the wards, I resigned from my job as a junior doctor. My parents still haven't forgiven me.
Last year, the General Medical Council wrote to me to say they were taking my name off the medical register. It wasn't exactly a huge shock, as I hadn't practiced medicine in half a decade.
It was, however, excellent news for my spare room, as I cleared out box after box of old paperwork, tearing files up fast. One thing I did rescue from the jaws of death was my training portfolio (档案袋). All doctors are recommended to log their clinical experience, in what's known as reflective practice'. On looking through this portfolio for the first time in years, my reflective practice seemed to involve going up to my hospital on-call room and writing down anything remotely interesting that had happened that day.
Among the funny and the dull, I was reminded of the long hours and the huge impact being B. junior doctor had on my life. Reading back, it felt extreme and unreasonable in terms of what was expected of me, but at the time I'd just accepted it as part of the job. There were points where I wouldn't have stepped back if an entry read "had to eat a helicopter today".
Around the same time that I was reliving all this through my diaries, junior doctors in the here and now were coming under fire from politicians. I couldn't help but feel doctors were struggling to get their side of the story across(probably because they were at work the whole time)and it struck me that the public weren't hearing the truth about what it actually means to be a doctor. Rather than shrugging my shoulders and ignoring the evidence, I decided I had to do something to redress thebalance.
So here they are: the diaries I kept during my time in the NHS, verrucas()and all. What it's like working on the front line, the consequences in my personal life, and how, one terrible day, it all became too much for me. (Sorry for the spoiler of my book beforehand, but you still watched Titanic knowing how that was going to play out.)
Along the way, I'll help you out with the medical terminology(术语) and provide a bit of context about what each job involved. Unlike being a junior doctor, I won't just drop you in the deep end and expect you to know exactly what you're doing.
“One, two, three, four…five, six, seven, eight…"That is the signal for half a dozen people braving a humid morning at Kamezuka park in Tokyo to bend. stretch. jump, and run on the spot. The group's personal trainer is a portable radio fixed on the top of a children's slide. A male voice's simple instructions, issued to a lively piano accompaniment, have become a necessity of daily life in Japan since the broadcasts, known as Rajio Tais (radio calisthenics广播操), first hit the airwaves almost a century ago.
In 2003, the most recent year for which data is available, 27 million people said they took part in morning calisthenics more than twice a week, whether at work, at home in front of the TV or with Neighbors in the local park. Children perform Rajio Taiso before school sports days or during special summer holiday sessions, earning credits that can be exchanged for snacks, stationery and other gifts.
Regular participants cover a broad cross-section of Japanese society:construction, factory and office workers including the 10, 000 employees of the Tokyo metropolitan government, who are encouraged to leave their desks and start moving at 3 p. m. every weekday.
There are two standard routines-the second slightly more challenging than the first-each involving arm rotations, forward bends, straddle jumps and other aerobic exercises designed to move every muscle and leave participants slightly out of breath. In 1999, a routine was added for people who use wheelchairs or have other mobility issues.
＂Studies show that people who exercise this way for just a few minutes a day have improved bone density, reduced risk of suffering a stroke or heart attack, and are generally in better physical shape than other people their age who don't exercise, "says Yasuo Fukusnl, secretary general of the Japan Radio Taiso Federation.
＂There has never been any pressure to modernise the programme, because people have grown up with it and know it off by heart, "adds Fukushi, who believes the routine helps explain the impressive lifespan (寿命) of Japanese people.
＂We even do this when it rains, "says Tomomi Okamoto, a company director who joins the Kamezuka park sessions in all weathers. "It gets the blood pumping and I always feel much better afterwards. It's a great way to start the day, "she says. "But it's not just about the exercise- it is a way of communicating with your neighbors and getting to know people. "
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D-daughter M-mommy
D:"Mommy, are you leaving home again?"
M:"Yes, honey. Mommy is going to fight a monster!"
D:"A monster? Is it scarier than a big roaring tiger? Oh my!”
M:"Well…yes! A lot scarier! It's called Virus. Many people are working hard to defeat the monster."
D:"Who are they?"
M:"They're the scientists who are working on new medicines to cure the ill and the construction workers who are building new hospitals for patients as fast as possible. They are the delivery people who are delivering masks to everyone in need, risking being caught by the virus monsters, too…They are all ordinary people, including volunteers, but now they are also powerful soldiers; they are the bravest fighters and they are heroes!"
D:"They are so brave! But mommy, are you scared?"
M: Yes, everyone is scared. Mommy's too. But if no one goes to fight the monster, there will be more monsters, and the monsters will be even more aggressive, and they may defeat us all. "
D:"But mommy…I don't want you to leave me."
M:"Baby, mommy doesn't want to leave you either. Sweetie, do you know what "to be brave" means? To be brave is to do the right thing even if you are really scared.?
D:"Mommy, I'll be brave, too. I want to be a doctor when I grow up, and I will fight the monsters together with you."
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