A Big Meal to Beat Jet Lag
Before a long-distance air trip, we've always felt guilty for enjoying a big meal in departure lounges, especially in the middle of the night. But passengers finally have an excuse (eat) their fill because a big meal can help beat jet lag.
It has long been known that darkness prompts the body to feel sleepy by sending signals to a central part in our brain. And in the same way, natural light makes us feel (awake). But scientists also discovered that each of our millions of cells had own tiny sleep pattern which contribute to the body overall they are all taken together. Besides, they found insulin(胰岛素)could kick-start the tiny sleep patterns eachcell and encourage our bodies to change the time at we want to fall asleep.
According to a recent study (conduct) by a group of researchers at Yamaguchi University in Japan, foods which kick-start a big release of insulin, such as carbohydrates, can be crucial to (reset) our body clock when we get out of sync(同步) with our natural cycle.
The study tested the theory on mice which (feed) unusually large meals during the night. Researchers found that insulin was released when the mice ate food high in sugar, and it had an effect on the cells' biological clock.
Dr. Makoto Akashi, the leading researcher of the study, said, "Insulin may help the stomach clock synchronize with mealtime. For example, for jet lag, dinner be enriched with ingredients promoting insulin secretion(分泌), which might bring forward our biological clock. "
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It Really Happened to Me!
A few minutes after take-off there was a loud explosion. I was in seat 10F next to the exit. Everybody gasped and there were a few screams. Then, , it went very quiet-everyone was assessing the situation.
It soon became we weren't going back to LaGuardia Airport, we were for the water. I started thinking this was it. Then I heard the announcement. "This is the captain, brace for impact," and everything suddenly got very clear. I had to stop thinking about death and start thinking about what I was going to do once the pilot landed in the water. "You sat in this seat," I thought," you've got to get this door open. "
At about 300 feet, I started reading the . There were six steps, and I read them two or three times, myself on each step and trying to imagine myself opening the door. Suddenly, we hit the water. My first thought was, "This plane is sinking, we have to get everybody off as soon as possible."
Someone next to me was trying to pull the door in and I said, "No, it's got to go out. ", I'd just read that. I managed to get the door open and I grabbed the hand of a woman sitting next to me. We walked out onto the wing, which was sinking lower and lower. We walked as far along as we could to make for other people. Everyone was helping each other. It was freezing, and nobody had a jacket. Some people were to their waists.
It felt like half an hour before we saw the first ferry. Fortunately, everyone had survived the crash.
I got through it by following the directions: get the door open, throw the door out, figure out if you're sinking. I just kept on doing that until I reached solid ground. Only then did I go into the men's room and cry for a few minutes.
It was, and still is, one scary movie. Thanks to global warming, in The Day After Tomorrow, the world literally freezes over. Yet how1 was the science behind one of the decade's big disaster movies?
"Climate change is a far greater threat to the world than international terrorism," says the science adviser to the British government. "Temperatures are getting hotter, and they are getting hotter more2 than at any time in the past, ""says the international weather expert. "Climate change is ready to3 our pattern of life," says an African ecologist.
The number of extreme weather events has4 from the decade before: heatwaves in Europe, floods in Africa, droughts in Asia and the United States. A record 300 million people flee their homes from natural disasters. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere hits record levels. Trees5 in New England. There's a major influx (流入) of freshwater in the North Atlantic and a slowdown of ocean circulation below the Arctic Circle. Antarctic ice flows faster into the ocean.
Sounds6 , but these aren't scenes from The Day After Tomorrow. They're from the real world. The movie itself exaggerates(夸张) the speed with which global warming brings on a new ice age, but the idea that more heat might lead to more. 7 is real. If cold water from melting glaciers really does change ocean currents like the Gulf Stream, Manhattan could get colder pretty quickly——though in a decade, not a New York minute, as The Day After Tomorrow would have it. But all by itself, heat is already causing problems like drought, crop failures, disease, violent storms-and is 8 much more as the century proceeds.
9 , why haven't we noticed all this? While 72 percent of Americans said they were10 global warming in 2000, by 2004 this had gone down to 58 per cent and only 15 percent believed it had anything to do with fossil fuel consumption. The burning of fossil fuels (such as when you drive your car, or fly in a plane) produces carbon dioxide that contributes to the greenhouse effect and11 substances that are dangerous to breathe. Surely Mums and Dads, at least, should be worried about the effect on their children's health and their grandchildren's world? But perhaps it's hard to get upset about something that sounds so12 and nice as "global warming"? Even the "greenhouse effect" sounds decidedly unthreatening. Who's 13 a greenhouse?
Whatever the reason for our apathy (冷漠), the climate crisis is the keystone issue of our time. Addressing it means addressing14 every other significant environmental and energy problem and it must be done soon, because what is newest and most challenging about global warming is that once its15 are clearly apparent, it's too late to stop them.
The calls to Araceli King's cell phone started on July 3, 2013. Every time, a prerecorded message from Time Warner Cable (TWC) asked to speak to "Luiz Perez. "If King didn't answer the call, the company left a computerized message for Perez.
King didn't know anyone named Luiz Perez, but there were no interactive options given in the messages to opt out of the calls. So they kept coming. From July to October, King received ten calls from TWC, all using the company's interactive voice response (IVR) system.
King, a resident of El Paso, Texas, had given TWC her call number in connection with her account and had agreed to its terms of service, which included using" automated dialing systems or artificial or recorded voices to call you." However, TWC did not, in fact, intend to call her.
Finally, on October 3, 2013, King contacted TWC. She explained to a representative that she wasn't Luiz Perez and asked that calls to her cell about his account stop. As it turned out, Perez had opened an account with TWC 20 months earlier, in February 2012, using a phone number that was later assigned to King by Sprint, the phone company.
The calls, however, still did not stop. King made additional requests to TWC to put an end to them, but TWC proceeded to call her 79 more times. So on March 20, 2014, she filed a complaint in the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. She claimed that TWC was against the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a law that prohibits companies from dialing any phone number or leaving a voice mail without consumers' prior agreement.
Yet even after TWC had been served the summons, it still called King an additional 74 times. In all, she claimed to have received 163 calls from TWC for "Luiz Perez," according to court papers.
Among other points, TWC argued that it did not know that Perez's cell phone number had been reassigned to King and, therefore, the company's liability(责任) was unci ear, since that situation—intending to call one party and accidentally calling another because the number had been reassigned—wasn't expressly addressed by the TCPA.
The fifth-graders at Denver's Thomas A. Edison Elementary School sit in a circle with their principal Forest Fransen. Placing an empty soda bottle on the floor, Fransen and the kids spin it to choose the order of children who will "tell about themselves. "After a few embarrassed giggles, a boy named Paul says, "I like to go fishing a lot. There are six in my family and two are babies. That's all. "Another boy Don reveals that "I've got a sister in junior high; I had another sister, but she had cancer. "The children are fascinated.
So goes the first class in "emotional skills," a new course that has spread to several dozen public and private schools in cities from New York to San Francisco. Increasing numbers of states are arranging some form of classroom instruction for mental health to help children forestall the emotional scars that lead to drug abuse and delinquency (青少年犯罪), etc.
For one fifth-grade lesson, the teacher breeds jealousy by repeatedly choosing the same bright, attractive youngster to do blackboard work. When the child balks at this favoritism, the teacher reveals her trick, and then tries to lead the students to admit that they feel jealous. "It's important that no one feels he is strange or evil if he is jealous from time to time. By admitting jealousy and talking about it, children are less likely to act out their aggressive feelings. "
At four schools in Colorado Springs, where the courses have been taught for the past two years, about half the parents say their children have become more willing to discuss their problems. "Before, my daughter just threw a fit, "said one mother. "Now, she is reported to have fewer discipline problems. "Social workers say they get more" self-referral kids with problems they sense they can't handle alone. " Among the few criticisms, one parent said that" these attitudes and insights are training that I would rather have my child receive at home. "
Despite this seeming success, no one is yet sure how much of the kids' improvement is due to normal growing up or merely the extra attention they get in the course. Noting that the Colorado teachers have been trained in special seminars, critics also fear that untrained or insecure teachers could easily confuse the kids they are trying to help.
Emotional-skills courses are obviously well-intentioned efforts to forestall critical social problems. As the courses spread, though, mistakes seem inevitable. Thus, sharp questions are likely to be raised about whether those efforts are pointed in the right direction.
A. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work. B. By the 1990s there were over one million Co-Workers in more than 40 countries. C. Today the order comprises different branches of Sisters and Brothers in many countries. D. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where in 1931 she took her initial vows as a nun. E. Mother Teresa's work has been recognised and acclaimed throughout the world and she has received a number of awards and distinctions. F. The order also has houses in North America, Europe and Australia, where they take care of the shut-ins, alcoholics, homeless, and AIDS sufferers. |
Mother Teresa
Mother' Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 26, 1910. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call. She knew she had to spread the great love to the world. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming.
On October 7, 1950, Mother Teresa received permission from the Holy See to start her own order, "The Missionaries of Charity", whose primary task was to love and care for those persons nobody was prepared to look after. In 1965 the Society became an International Religious Family. In 1963 both the Contemplative branch of the Sisters and the Active branch of the Brothers was founded. In 1979 the Contemplative branch of the Brothers was added, and in 1984the Priest branch was established.
The Society of Missionaries has spread all over the world, including the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries. They provide effective help to the poorest of the poor in a number of countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and they undertake relief work in the wake of natural catastrophes such as floods, epidemics, and famine, and for refugees. The Missionaries of Charity throughout the world are aided and assisted by Co-Workers who became an official International Association on March 29, 1969.
Kindness Is Power
Kindness, the motivation and recognition of positive actions towards others, is invaluable—it has an amazing power to alter how you view others and the world around you. When you are kind to other sit makes them happier and more likely to spread that kindness. There are many ways to show kindness, so find the method that best fits you.
Giving to others is a common notion of kindness. You can give money to a charity or offer food to a homeless person. Underlying giving as a form of kindness is the sacrifice of something you have to improve another person's life. Giving manifests in different ways and is capable of turning someone's life around. Whether it is a dollar or a full meal, giving as kindness is important.
Listening to others is a subtle form of kindness, but it can mean the world to them. When you listen to people, you show that you respect them and what they have to say. You honor their words and indicate that they are important to you. For people who feel isolated or unimportant, something as simple as listening can boost their confidence and self-esteem.
Random acts of kindness are typically spontaneous (自发的) forms of positive action. Paying for someone's food, helping a stranger replace a flat tire, or even telling your cashier to have a good day are all small ways to show others kindness. Often, it is these acts that create a silver lining for people who are having a bad day. It does not take much to change someone's day, so look for small opportunities to better someone's life.
Loving-kindness meditation(冥想) fosters compassion for yourself and others. This practice creates loving feelings for others and enhances them in yourself, which leads to an increased likelihood of your offering kindness to others. Loving-kindness is as simple as offering positive thoughts to respected, loved, neutral, and hostile people in your life.