The Boy Who Sailed the World by Julia Green and Alex Latimer(David Fickling, £6. 99)
A little boy loves the sea so much that he builds a boat and sets sail in it, weathering sea current and storms, making friends and finally sailing home before a new voyage beckons. Words and images are rich with wonder in this lovely picture book for 7+ readers, based on the adventures of the author's brave son.
What a Shell Can Tell by Helen Scales, illustrated by Sonia Pulido(Phaidon,£16. 95)
Young shell-hunters of 12+ will adore this jewel-bright, fascinating work of nonfiction by a marine biologist. Learn what a shell's colour and shape might mean; discover the cone snail's poisonous teeth or the clusterwink snail's green light; and find out what shells can tell us about the past and the future.
The Boy Who Grew a Tree by Polly Ho-Yen, illustr-ated by Sojung Kim-McCarthv(Knights of, £5. 99)
Timi's Mum is having a baby and Timi is unsettled by the change. When he discovers a tiny sapling growing in a closed-down library, he begins to tend it. But the tree grows so fast that Timi won't be able to keep the secret for long. Simply and sweetly told, this little tale for 5+ packs a punch beyond its page count.
Future Hero: Race to Fire Mountain by Remi Blackwood, illustrated by Alicia Robinson(Scholastic, £6. 99)
Jarell loves to draw a complex fantasy world. But when he discovers his imaginings are real and that Ulfrika, the world of his ancestors, is in trouble, he is drawn into danger. Can he accept his destiny and work with clever young warrior Kimisi to defeat the evil wizard Ikala? Fast-paced and accessible, this thrilling new series is perfect for 8+ readers with a taste for magical adventure.
A boy shivered in the harsh Oslo winter, pathetically wrapping his arms around himself on a bus stop bench. He wasn't wearing a coat and temperatures in the Norwegian capital regularly plunge to -10℃ during winter.
A heartbreaking scene, but the actions of the ordinary people who witnessed the difficult situation of 11-year-old Johanne Linnestad Flaaten were both joyous and inspiring.
A young woman sat next to the boy and noticed him rubbing his arms. She immediately asked him, "Don't you have a jacket"
"No, someone stole it," he replied. She questioned him and discovered he was on a school trip and was told to meet his teacher at the bus stop. She asked him the name of his school and where he was from as she selflessly covered her own coat around his shoulders.
Later, another older woman at first gave him her scarf, and then wrapped him in her large padded jacket.
Throughout the day, more and more people offered Johanne their gloves and even the coats off their backs as they waited for their bus.
Johanne's predicament was a hidden camera experiment by Norwegian charity SOS Children's Village as part of their winter campaign to gather donations to send much-needed coats and blankets to help Syrian children get through the winter. Many of the refugees have left their homes without winter clothing.
"People should care as much about children in Syria as they care about this boy," Synne Running, the information head of SOS Children's Villages Norwayy, told The Local. She also noted that the child was a volunteer who was never in any danger during the filming.
Before you worry about bacon and how much it may cost when new animal welfare laws go into effect next year, let's talk about the pigs that gave their lives for it.
California has been on the forefront of protecting animals who live short lives on factory farms either to produce food for us or to be slaughtered and sold as food. The latest advance came in November 2018, when 62. 7% of the state's voters supported Proposition 12, the Prevention of Cruelty to Farm Animals Act. The law began going into effect last year, requiring hens and veal calves to be given more space to live in. Starting on Jan. 15, the law will require that all eggs sold in California come from cage-free hens and that pork sold in the state come from breeding pigs that are not held in cages. These are humane steps designed to lift these animals out of structures that barely allow them to move.
Pork producers have had the longest time to comply(遵守). Some big companies like Hormel Foods have pledged to do so fully, but others have spent the last few years fighting the law rather than figuring out how to put it into practice. They say that the law will significantly raise the price of pork and that it violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution,which gives Congress sole power over interstate business activity. So far, that fight has been a waste of time that pork producers could have better spent figuring out how to retrofit(翻新) their farms.
They also complain that the regulations on the law are not set. But the California Department of Food and Agriculture, which has yet to finalize the regulations, says that the delay should not have prevented producers from retrofitting their housing for breeding pigs. The agency has publicly posted draft regulations, which mostly concern record-keeping, certification and definitions of terms.
For fans of bacon and other pork, any rise in cost is the price of not having a pig suffer before it's killed for food. It's a price the animals shouldn't have to pay.
Tina Brigham, a 50-year-old store owner from a suburb of Washington, DC, wrestled with the puzzles while waiting for customers. "If it's a 30-minute puzzle, I try to figure it out in 12," she said. After several years, she found she could easily put together employee work schedules in her head. "A lot of stores use an electronic scheduling tool, but I have all the data in my mind," she said. "I think my brain seems sharper and more focused because of the game."
The games do seem to work. In one 2020 study, Gary Small, chair of psychiatry at Hackensack University Medical Center, found that 1,091 women and men who frequently played cards, bingo, or did crossword puzzles had sharper thinking and memory skills — equivalent to an IQ up to 5. 6 points higher — than those who rarely did. The study doesn't prove that the puzzles directly led to the higher IQs, but it does show that even people who increased their game-playing in their 70s seemed to get brain benefits within a few years.
Exactly how games sharpen memory and cognitive function is still something of a mystery. But advances in neuroimaging(神经影像学) allow researchers to study how the brain reacts to all sorts of outside stimulation. Small later included 60 women and men completing Latin squares. As the puzzles grew more difficult with fewer clues, players slowed down and made more mistakes. That's when he discovered something surprising: More regions of the brain got involved, especially in the prefrontal cortex(前额叶皮质区), an area involved with problem-solving, judgment, and memory
Small suggests that if you find yourself debating whether to spend the next 20 minutes taking a walk or playing a brain game, you should choose the walk. Physical activity can help deliver oxygen and fuel to your brain cells. "If you do one thing to help your brain, I'd say it's exercise," he says. "Getting good sleep and keep a balanced diet are also important. Brain games work best as part of a whole package of brain-healthy strategies." And remember: A little fun never hurts.
The China State Council issued a document in early August, suggesting employers across the country make flexible working arrangements and give their workers Friday afternoons off during hot summer days in order to boost tourism and consumption.
Online surveys have shown that most correspondents are in favor of the State Council's proposal for longer weekends, as two and a half days are enough even for one to plan a short journey. People will have more time to be together with their families.
However, there are doubts as to whether this well-intentioned initiative can be put into practice.While the regular two-day weekend is still a dream for a large number of working people in various industries, a two-and-half-day weekend is really a luxury many people can barely afford.
If staff workers of government department and public institutions no longer work on Friday afternoons, local residents will have nowhere to go if they have urgent issues to solve through these establishments.
Obviously, the only way out is to implement policies concerning paid annual leave in a realistic manner so that the working people can make arrangements for their days off work. As a result, holidaymakers don't need to all rush to the same scenic spots during the same period of time, which would be beneficial to the protection and operation of these spots. Thus it serves the initial purpose of boosting economic growth through developing tourism.
The government is supposed to pay more attention to the protection of labor rights and employ all possible means to ensure their holidays as well as the functions of government institutions, instead of just making economically motivated policies.
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A. Also, this is an effective way to increase consumer spending. B. The right of workers to rest and paid annual leave are protected under the law. C. A larger number of workers, if not all, will benefit from official holiday arrangements. D. Most people think that they will actually not be able to enjoy the benefits of such a scheme. E. After rest and relaxation, employees will become more energetic when they come back to work. F. Another worry is that this measure will finally be exclusively(专有地) enjoyed by a limited number of employees. G. As long as paid annual leave remains unrealistic in most industrial sectors, the two-and-half-day weekend seems pointless. |
Within two years of first showing signs of memory loss, Peter Marshall had to give up work as early onset Alzheimer's began to take hold.
His wife Lisa started a blog called "Oh Hello Alzheimer's" to help her cope with the progressive1of her husband's fading memory. "I get2every day from people saying, 'Thank you—now I don't feel so alone'," she said.
As the disease3, Peter's memory4faded and he began to refer to Lisa as his "favourite person". Then, one day last year, they were watching a wedding5on television when Peter suddenly looked at his wife and said, "Let's do it!" "Well, OK, we should get married then," she told him.
The next day,6,Peter appeared to have forgotten all about it. Still, with the 20th7of their wedding approaching this year, the idea seemed to make sense to Lisa in the face of her husband's rapid8. Sarah, Lisa's daughter from a marriage before she met Peter, helped organize the event. "I knew that my stepdad, who I am very close with, was there through some of the9times of my life."
When Lisa joined her husband to10vows for the second time, his delight was clear for all to see. "It was just magical — straight out of a11." she said.
The music12the theme of the day: a saxophonist played Unforgettable as Lisa walked down the aisle.
"There wasn't a dry eye, and I was13. " Lisa said. "I hadn't seen Peter that happy in a long time." As they danced while guests14. Lisa said her husband 15 a few words in her ear. "Thank you for staying," he said.
The first domestic chickens we have found lived no earlier than 3,670 years ago, suggesting they have a far shorter history than we thought. These birds don't seem to have been raised for their meat, (make) it unclear what drove domestication. The chickens alive today descend from a wild bird native to South-East Asia(call) the red jungle fowl, but exactlydomestication occurred was unclear. Some researchers have estimated that the first domestic chicken lived more than 6000 years ago, while others claim(find) chicken bones at 10,000-year-old sites. analysis by Ophelie Lebrasseur at the Centre for Anthropobiology and Genomics of Toulouse in France and her team concludes that the(early) clear evidence of domestic chickens appeared between 1,650 BC and 1,250 BC at a site called Ban Non Wat in central Thailand. Not only(be) chicken bones superabundant at the site, but there are signs that people were buried with thee birds, Lebrasseur says makes a domestic relationship clear. Lebrasseur and her team suspect chicken domestication might have been triggered by the(appear) of cereal farming in South-East Asia. "This created a more open, less tree-covered environment, which is actually an environment where red jungle fowl thrive," she says, "And they could have fedthe waste from human societies."
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1）开设时间 2.）课程内容 3）报名方式。
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I had a dream from primary school: to work in television. My parents owned a little grocery store, so we were definitely not fancy people. Thankfully, my dad had raised me to have a lot of confidence. He often said, "You can do anything you want to do." My dad was particularly supportive. He was my steady rock——always there for me.
With his help and encouragement, I was admitted to the radio and television arts program at Ryerson in Toronto. I really loved the program and worked hard and I was named the most outstanding graduate. I felt like I was already living my dream. I began to think that maybe I could apply for an internship(实习资格) in CBC or CTV.
Luckily, Global Television had just started broadcasting in Canada that year. I thought to myself: I'm new and they're new, so if I'm going to get to know cone person at Global, it might as well be the president. I was scared, but I knew deep down inside that this was what I wanted. When I called my dad and told him my plan, he said, "Good, Faye. That's exactly what you should do. "
With my heart just about pounding out of my body, I called up the president of Global Television. Suddenly Mr. Slaight was on the phone. "I've heard that your studio facilities are amazing. I could come at eleven o'clock on Monday or eleven o'clock on Sunday for a tour. What would suit you better?" I caught him totally off guard. He stuttered a bit, and then picked a day. When I hung up, I was scared but excited.
I arrived at the studio on the appointed day. When Mr. Slaight took me around, he looked at me and said, "What do you want?" He sounded furious but curious. "All want is a chance to audition(试镜). I just want you to know my face. That's all I'm asking. "
I didn't know whether I'd ever hear from him again, but two weeks later, his secretary called, "Mr. Slaight wants to know if you'd like to come and audition for a new school life show." I immediately answered, "Sure!"
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When I arrived at the station, I went direct into the audition and began my short performance.
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Finally came the day of my first public appearance on live TV with my parents at home watching.
