The tech trends in this year's product launches are to improve your quality of life, or to boost up your pride. But the more practical gadgets will improve health and wellness, or life experiences, while still keeping things cool.
Roam Portable Speaker
Size matters, but the new speaker truly denies the limitations of a tiny speaker. The Roam is a lightweight, outdoor-friendly home speaker. Its 10-hour battery life helps it work for you every day, in and out of the home. And its built-in auto-tuning feature will adjust the sound based on where you are. Being dust-and-water-resistant, Roam is likely the coolest adventure-friendly speaker on the market now.
Studio Buds
Cancel all that noise with Studio Buds. Their Active Noise Canceling mode continuously detects and blocks out any unwanted wavelength harmful to your delicate eardrums. Audio-wise, Studio Buds treat your ears to the right amount of loudness. Another bonus comes from their up- to-24-hours of playback and a five-minute fast-fuel charging.
OM 5 Smartphone Gimbal Stabilizer（万向支架）
Selfie-stick is nothing dead when vlogging is spreading out of control. OM 5 is its new portable smart gimbal stabilizer. For starters, it simply does not shake at all and its ActiveTrack 4. 0 formula is able to precisely track moving objects in the frame for a high-resolution focus.
STORIES Smart Glasses
While this is no VR set, the smart glasses bring a lot to the table. They have a camera for re- cording first-person-perspective content in HD, a single-touch pad for controlling music and the camera, and near-ear speakers so you can leave your headphones or smartphone in pocket while answering a call.
Cala didn't like us. Any of us. We didn't do anything to offend her and she didn't know us but that didn't matter; she still didn't like us.
As new teachers in the Emirati school, we Westerners greeted her every day. She ignored us. She came into our rooms and bypassed us as she shook hands with all the non-Westerners. When- ever we saw her, she avoided eye contact with us. Eventually, we stopped trying to befriend her.
I wouldn't say her nationality but her friends had been fired from the school. We had been employed in their places and that was enough for her to have nothing to do with us.
Well after 16 months in the school we had a secret friend gifting. To my surprise, I drew her name from the glass jar and that meant she was my secret friend. My role was to buy her a gift and say some- thing about her when we publicly acknowledged who our secret friend was.
I decided to gift her a coloured bangle（手镯）. I added a postcard and wrote "Love and Blessings, Rose Marie. "
Then came the day. We all gathered in the meeting room. When you gave your gift, you said a few kind words about your secret friend and passed the gift to her. What could I say? Everyone knew she didn't like the Westerners. She taught music in the school, so I said "My secret friend is someone who brings music to our ears every day. "She came forward with a huge warm smile. She hugged me and kissed me on both cheeks and accepted my gift.
Since then, she smiles often. We hug and shake hands when we meet. I have seen her wear my gift several times and I am so pleased.
We are a culture drowning in our possessions. We take in more and more （holiday, birthdays, sales, needs）, but rarely find an opportunity to get rid of it. As a result, our homes fill up with so much stuff. And because we believe the best solution is to find organizational tools to manage all of it, we seek out bigger containers or more efficient organizational tips and tricks. But simply organizing our stuff must be repeated over and over.
At its heart, organizing is simply rearranging. And though we may find storage solutions to- day, we are quickly forced to find new ones as early as tomorrow. Additionally, organizing has some other major shortcomings that are rarely considered. For example, it doesn't benefit anyone else. The possessions we rarely use sit on shelves in our basements or garages, even while some of our closest friends desperately need them.
On the other hand, the act of getting rid of stuff from our home accomplishes many purposes. It is not a temporary solution. It is an action of permanence-once an item has been removed, it is removed completely. Whether we re-sell our possessions, donate them to charity, or give them to a friend, they are immediately put to use by those who need them.
Removing possessions begins to turn back our desire for more as we find freedom and happiness in owning less. And removing ourselves from the all-consuming desire to own more creates opportunities for significant life changes to take place.
If you're struggling with how to get rid of stuff, you can first challenge yourself to remove the unneeded things in your home, carry a trash bag from room-to-room, see how big of a donation pile you can make, and even eliminate debt by selling what you no longer need.
It doesn't matter how you remove them, for it is far better to remove than to always organize.
Doctors sometimes prescribe light therapy to treat a form of depression in people who get too little morning sun. But too much light at other times may actually cause such mood disorders. Long-lasting exposure to light at night brings depression, a new study finds, at least in animals. The new data confirm observations from studies of people who work night shifts, says Richard Stevens of the University of Connecticut Health Center.
In the new study, Tracy Bedrosian and Randy Nelson of Ohio State University exposed mice to normal light and dark cycles for four weeks. For the next four weeks, half of the mice remained on this schedule, and the rest received continuous dim light throughout their night. Compared with mice exposed to normal nighttime darkness, those getting dim light at night lost their strong preference for sweet drinks, "A sign they no longer get pleasure out of activities they once enjoyed. "Bedrosian says.
In a second test, mice were clocked on how long they actively tried to escape a pool of water. Those exposed to night lights stopped struggling and just floated in the water, a sign of "behav- ioral despair", 10 times as long as the mice that had experienced normal nighttime darkness. All symptoms of depression disappeared within two weeks of the mice returning to a normal light- dark cycle, the researchers report. The scientists also could ease the behavioral symptoms by injec- ting the brains of animals with a drug that prohibits the activity of certain molecules （分子）linked with human depression. This finding further suggests that light at night may cause something related to depression.
Human studies linking nighttime light and mood disorders are important but can't easily detect molecular underpinings （分子基础）as animal studies can, says George Brainard of Thomas Jefferson University. The new work, he says, suggests that the change of the biological clock by light at night can be "an extremely powerful force in regulating biology and behavior. "
No matter what dream you have and how disappointing it might be as you're working toward that dream, stick to it and make it come true. Some of you already know that it's tough. It's hard to make a difference., when you are in the process of achieving dreams.
There will be plenty of opportunity for self-doubt. when you are going to doubt yourself. You'll say, "Why? Why is this happening to me?" For those of you who have experienced some hardships, don't give up on your dreams. , but they will not stay, they will come to pass.
Many of you fail to seek your purpose in life. You dream and then follow it up with a list of all the reasons why the dream is unachievable. . Things like these are the true limits you experience in life and they are what you create or what you allow others to lay upon you.
. Acting on the dream is harder. Recognize that a dream is a journey. On the simplest level, it takes commitment, time and courage. But rarely is something great easily realized. Dreaming is recognizing the potential for greatness and seeking it in all areas of your life. Believe in your dreams and your ability to accomplish them. I'm here to challenge you to reach for your dreams. Do not be afraid to dream. !
A. Dreaming is the easy part
B. Your dreams never walk away
C. Dream big, fight hard and win
D. The rough times are going to come
E. You must spend more time achieving it
F. You feel determined and produce excuses to support the belief
G. A breeze of opportunity, along with pleasure, pain, or both, will blow in
For a majority of people, having things stolen feels like an offence. Robbie Pruitt admitted that he got 1 when he discovered the theft of his mountain bike last September. But soon enough, his 2 took a turn. After letting go of his anger and frustration, he found himself on a road to sympathy3For Pruitt, a keen bicyclist, the first thing to do was 4 his stolen bike. But when he went bike shopping, he found few available, which got him thinking: What if the 5 of bikes was Covid-19 related, and what if the person who'd taken his bike really needed6 to get to work?
With that thought in mind, Pruitt 7 a plan and posted it on the community website. He8 to fix bikes free of charge for anyone who needed it. He also asked for unwanted bikes, which he would mend again 9. And then he would give them away to folks who could truly use them but didn't have the 10 to buy one.
The day the post went viral, Pruitt received thirty 11 bicycles. Then came more than 500 12for detailed information. By the end of 2020, Pruitt had repaired more than 140 for donation or to be 13 to their owners.
Pruitt tries to give his donations to families that are 14 struggling. 15 simply satisfying a material need, he has provided a chance for kids in his neighborhood to learn how to fix their own bikes.
In addition to 16 skills, Pruitt's lessons teach teamwork, encourage self-worth, and pro- mote feelings of community. 17 , the kids have attained a sense of fulfillment.
"It's a really great 18 for kids, " said a neighbor in an interview with the local news- paper. "Pruitt is certainly providing a 19 , but it's not just the bikes. It's the relationships in the community. It's the 20 he can make on people. "
China is now the world's biggest electric vehicle market, with nearly 1. 29 million electric vehicles（EVs） （sell） in 2020 alone, accounting 40. 5 percent of global sales （3. 17 million） last year, and a （grow） of 8. 3 percent year-on-year, according to data from the International Energy Agency.
"The EV firms have grown （dramatic） in a short period of time, and the acquisition of some struggling Western automaker brands further （prove） China's success, "said Gavin Harper, a researcher from the Faraday Institution at the University of Birmingham. "In doing so, they have also had the foresight （plan） in advance for this transition and secure the critical raw materials and the supply chain required for Chinese industry. "
Emissions over the lifetime of battery electric vehicles are 19-34 percent lower than of comparable gasoline vehicles, estimated by the International Council for Clen Transportation based on a life-cycle assessment. "As China's power sector continues to decarbonize, switching to EVs will play increasingly important role in helping the country to achieve （it） 2030/2060 climate goals, " said Xie Chunping, policy fellow at the Lon- don School of Economics and Political Science. "As technology advances, reducing the carbon e- missions of EV manufacturing will （consider） in the years to come, "said Harper.
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In the morning of 15th, August, about five hundreds teachers and students took part in the annual sports meeting on the playground. The opening ceremony began with the national anthem （国 歌）but then an inspired speech was given by the headmaster. When it was over, audience was a- mazed at the events, like the long-distance running and the relay race. Between the sportsmen, Jack and Henry, who are from Africa, stood out due to his speed. The sports meeting was lasted two days. When interviewing, Alan, a foreign teacher, said, "This is the most exciting sports meeting I have never seen!"
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