Long Island Restaurants with Outdoor Igloos (冰屋)
Smuggler Jack's
Igloo season at Smuggler Jack's features sheltered, private dining with views of the Schmidt Canal. Igloos seat six to eight people and can be reserved for two-hour windows beginning at noon daily. A $25 fee applies all-day Sundays and after 4 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays; $50 Fridays-Saturdays. More information: 516-798-6000, smugglerjacks.com.
Mirabelle Tavern
Mirabelle's lone outdoor igloo this year is available for dining Wednesday through Sunday. It features cushioned wooden chairs, a coffee table, oversized pillows and plenty of lighting. The restaurant's full menu is available. Igloo seats six people. $150 for two hours ($200 on holidays), including a bottle of Prosecco with a food purchase. More information: 631-751-0555, lessings.com.
Coach Meeting House
There's a courtyard dressed in holiday lights with heated igloos, allowing guests the option to lounge inside or out. Each igloo has a couch, chairs and TV. Once in an igloo, guests can use a scannable QR code menu to allow for contactless ordering via their phones. Igloos seat six to ten people, with reservations for a minimum $200 spend. More information: 516-588-9288, coachgrillandtavernoysterbay.com.
Brew Cheese
Located in an alleyway, the eatery has four igloos, which features greenery, lighting and a portable radiator. Customers order by calling the restaurant. Once the order is ready, a server brings it over. Reservations-1 hour and 15 minutes each-are encouraged; no fees; seats up to six comfortably. More information: 631-239-1927, brew-cheese.com.
For many of us, asking for help is a difficult concept. We may feel as if we are admitting a weakness that world would not have known about, had we not asked for help.
However, people who are able to deliver well-positioned requests for help are often seen as very strong individuals. When they demonstrate the humility (谦卑) to ask for help, they earn the respect of others. People who receive a heartfelt request for help are usually honored by the request. In turn, we are strengthened by the very help that is provided.
One of my clients named Kira recently made a shift in how she was interacting with her boss. When asked to prepare presentations, she assumed that she was expected to develop the content, deliver it at the required meeting and then wait for feedback from her boss. However, Kira recognized that she had not yet made use of her boss's support. She could learn far more about creating attractive presentations by walking through a draft with her boss and obtaining feedback earlier in the process rather than at the back end. So she made the request for his support.
The outcome? Her boss was delighted to coach Kira and was enthusiastic about teaching presentation skills to her. By taking the time to work together on presentation for a number of Kira's key presentations, she benefited from her boss's thought process and thus improved her own presentations. Kira's presentations now have punch!
Some of us are uncomfortable asking for help because we believe that our request places burdens on the other person. However, we may miss an opportunity to show others how we value and respect them. People who know you and think well of you are often highly motivated to help. Furthermore, the more specific you can be about what you need from them, the easier it is for them to assist you.
Every time I feel a buzz from my smartphone, a voice comes up inside of me, "Oh, there is something for me that needs attention."
If I were to look in my brain, I'm sure I'd see a surge of dopamine (多巴胺), the pleasure-seeking chemical that drives us toward addictive substances. Now, I'm a promoter of technology, but the following story can show you exactly where it gets in the way and how we can turn it around and use it for good.
A while ago I was on a walk with my little boy and found myself checking my email and responding to a colleague. My colleague learned that I was on a walk with my son, he responded, "That is great; now get off the phone, AND BE PRESENT!"
She was right. I was on autopilot, caught in a habitual cycle of engaging with this little machine. For me, I noticed it was starting to take away from my experiences of being present with the world around me, and with my family.
This has actually become more dangerous as people are feeling forced to engage with these machines while driving not only at stop lights, but while actually driving.
If you do not have one of these little machines yet, at some points, it is highly likely that you will, so maybe this can help preempt the addictive behavior from occurring. What can we do to break this cycle once we're in it? We can actually use the machines to help us. I have begun to schedule little reminders that pop up with a link to a short video that helps me take a minute to be present.
Yes, using the technology for good. In doing this practice, we can become aware when we are on autopilot with our phones, ground to the present moment, and then choose how we want to proceed. We actually create opportunity to have more choices in our lives over what we really want to be doing. Moderation can be so difficult, but this can support us.
A cap and trade system is a method for managing pollution, with the end goal of reducing the overall pollution in a nation, region, or industry. Many supporters of pollution control are in favor of the concept of such systems, arguing that well-designed cap and trade systems are extremely effective, and that they make sense economically as well.
Under a cap and trade system, a government authority first sets a cap, deciding how much pollution in total will be allowed. Next, companies are issued credits, essentially licenses to pollute, based on how large they are, what industries they work in, and so forth. If a company comes in below its cap, it has extra credits that it may trade with other companies.
For companies that come in below their caps, this system is great, because they can sell their extra credits, profiting while reducing their pollution. For companies that cannot get their pollution under control, the system punishes them for their excess pollution while still bringing overall pollution rates down. In a sense, the need to purchase credits acts as a fine, encouraging companies to reduce their emissions.
By creating a cap, nations make it clear that they want to reduce overall emissions, rather than just fining companies for excessive emissions or trying to force all companies to reduce their emissions by a set percentage. Cap and trade systems allow for flexibility, which usually benefits the market. Some people view the concept as preferable to a taxation or fining system, because it is easier to administer and it results in a pollution reduction. These systems are most commonly used for carbon emissions, leading people to refer to it as "carbon trading", and there is a potential for a global carbon trading market, in which more efficient nations could trade credits with other countries.
It won't sound like a big surprise when I tell you that kindness plays an important role in a person's wellbeing. It can lead to changes like higher self-esteem(自尊心) and lower blood pressure. Even just witnessing acts of kindness can make us happier.
"From giving away a cup of hot chocolate in a park to giving away a gift in the lab, those performing an act of kindness consistently underestimated how positive their receivers would feel, thinking their act was of less value than receivers perceived it to be," states a study.
Yet, why is there this difference between what we think someone will feel from an act of kindness versus what they do feel? Why do we underestimate the impact we have on others?
Many of us don't have a real sense of our value. It's been estimated that as many as 85 percent of people struggle with low self-esteem. This "voice" tends to shift our focus inward assessing our every move, and having bad effect on our relationships.
Unlike a conscience(良心), this inner critic doesn't motivate positive behavior. It encourages us to hold back feeding us thoughts like, "Don't stick your neck out": "No one wants to hear from you"; and "You're going to make a fool of yourself."
One wonderful way to fight against our critical inner voice is through acts of being kind to others. We must also try to see ourselves through the eyes of the people we affect. The degree to which we're able to do that will help determine our own happiness along with the happiness we light up in others.
A. However, the work doesn't stop there.
B. People may lower the value of their own kind comments.
C. We all carry around a "critical inner voice" that tends to put us down.
D. Instead of seeing what we have to offer, we may think of ourselves as a burden.
E. This misunderstanding suggests that people devalue their own actions in relation to others.
F. Instead, it turns us against ourselves, making us underestimate our beneficial effect on others.
G. Yet, people may not truly know the impact that even the smallest of kind acts can have on another person.
Adam Klenovich, 17, a student from Beaver Area High School, talks more like an experienced CEO than a(n) 1 teen.
He has big plans to build a fashion label(潮牌) as a 2 to promote other creatives. He also 3 holding events that are part concert, part fashion showcase. But he doesn't just talk. He tries to make his dream 4. He's showcasing and selling pieces from his fashion line IMPERFECT in Gallery 4413.
On display and for sale in the 5 are lots of colorful pieces. IMPERFECT's 6 for now is on shorts and T-shirts. Eleven percent of the money from sale will be 7 to charity. "This is how we help people," said Klenovich, who 8 IMPERFECT nearly a year ago.
Klenovich wanted to use his time being 9 at home because of COVID-19 to put his mind to something that would 10 help himself and others, too. As a creative, Klenovich gets 11 wherever he goes, so the clothing he designs is pretty 12. One thing all clothing has in common is that 13 two pieces are exactly the same.
Klenovich wears something IMPERFECT wherever he goes. "It 14 a conversation," he said. "people may ask, ‘Where did you get that?' " It is also sold on a website and 15 can purchase to support.
"I want to help people," Klenovich said. "That's the biggest thing for me."
Caius and Laurina could be the world's thriftiest couple after (tie) the knot in their all expenses spared wedding. The couple had their dream wedding in Scotland complete with flowers, cakes, photographer and even a jazz band without (bare) spending a cent.
The couple, are into recycling and self-sufficiency, couldn't avoid the 70 pound (marry) fee but everything else was either donated or found for free. The wedding rings were even handcrafted by the bride herself from antlers(鹿角) (find) in her garden while her vintage wedding dress cost ￡1 or $1.50- the couple's only other expense.
His mother Suzanne, who is church reader, conducted the ceremony in a barn at the couple's home while the guests were all asked (bring) a plate of food each. The bride, 36, and groom, 39, (pronounce) man and wife by local reverend (牧师) who offered his services for free, while the photographer offered his services in exchange some graphic design work by the bride, and the cakes were made by her aunt. They said they were determined to have the (cheap) wedding possible so they could save money for their dream home and honeymoon.
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As a young boy, I sometimes traveled the country roads with my dad. He was a rural mail carrier, and on Saturdays he would ask me to go with him. Driving through the countryside was always an adventure: There were animals to see, people to visit, and chocolate cookies if you knew where to stop, and Dad did.
In the spring, Dad delivered boxes full of baby chickens, and when I was a boy it was such fun to stick your fingers through one of the holes of the boxes and let the baby birds peck on your fingers.
On Dad's final day of work, it took him well into the evening to complete his rounds because at least one member from each family was waiting at their mailboxes to thank him for his friendship and his years of service. "Two hundred and nineteen mailboxes on my route," he used to say, "and a story at every one." A young girl wrote letters but had no stamps, so she left a few buttons on the envelope in the mailbox; Dad paid for the stamps. On cold days Dad might find one of his customers waiting for him with a cup of hot chocolate.
A dozen years ago, when I traveled back to my hometown on the sad occasion of Dad's death, the mailboxes along the way reminded me of some of his stories. I thought I knew them all, but that wasn't the case.
As I drove home, I noticed two lamp poles, one on each side of the street. When my dad was around, those poles supported wooden boxes about four feet off the ground. One box was painted green, and the other was red, and each had a long narrow hole at the top with white lettering: SANTA CLAUS, NORTH POLE. For years children had dropped letters to Santa through those holes.
While Mom and I were sitting at the kitchen table I heard footsteps. There, at the door, stood Frank Townsend, Dad's postmaster and great friend for many years. So we all sat down at the table and began to tell stories.
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Frank asked my mother, "What are we going to do about the letters this Christmas?"
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I remembered Dad was busy delivering piles of letters before Christmas each year.
