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As a foreign student arriving in Australia, you may feel both excited and anxious. The prospect of arriving in a new county where you may have no friends or family nearby can be discouraging, particularly the thought of what you would do if you were involved in a accident or fell seriously ill.
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I like to believe that some things in life never change. A constant, ever since I could hold a pen, has been the routine at lunch with my grandfather. My grandmother will ask me how the walk was from my parents' house before I take a seat at their kitchen table.
Sitting in his usual spot in the comer is my grandfather. He looks up for a quick "hello" before heading back down to the crossword purz.le in front of him.
"So, how is this one coming alone?" I'll ask. With a failed laugh, he'll slide the crossword toward me. Carefully cut and neatly folded from his newspaper, three quarters of it will already have been finished. Many of the clues are far too advanced for me to figure out. However, I'm happy to help with the strange clue related to sports - my expert knowledge一that still remains.
Even if I'm certain of an answer, I fill in the squares with a pencil, as clues are always checked thoroughly by my grandfather. In the rare event that we're unable to finish the crossword by the end of lunch, he'll call me later that evening to go over the clues he later solved.
Today, lunch unfolds in its usual manner. However, large parts of the puzzle are blank.
"Grandfather, I think this is 49 down... and this, 52 across," I say.
"Oh, right Yes, put that down there," he replies.
I reach across the table to hand him the crossword. Looking at him as he searches for answers, suddenly l feel something different. I note his hair is whiter than I remembered. For the first time I think about my grandfather as, well, a grandfather.
But life is about change we aren't always prepared for. Just as we are on different ends of life, we find ourselves on different ends of the city now too. But at lunch, when we lake up our pens and open the crossword, the world stands pleasantly sill. Now, instead of an exercise of quick wit (才思), our crosswords are about patience and understanding. As clues are slowly understood, so are the truths in life.
If you see a young person in their early 20s driving a car in any Western city, you would not normally give them a second glance. However, in Christchurch, a city in New Zealand's South Island, people do look suspiciously at anyone under 2S in a car. What they are really looking for is a yellow sticker on the car windows. The reason: a new scheme (方案) is targeting car thefts, using a yellow sticker programme.
Half of all car thefts in the quiet city are committed by people under 25, police say, and each year vehicles worth 6.2 million disappear "for good". Police say that car theft is now so worrying that if a good idea"comes along" they'll use it. They say one has. It is called the Under-25 Scheme.
Because of the young age of car thieves in general, police invite owners whose cars are not normally driven by people under 25 to place a yellow triangle on front or back car windows. If police see anyone under 25 driving the car with a yellow triangle sticker on the window, they can stop the car and check the driver.
Police now say it has worked well enough over the last 18 months for them to test it nationally. Robin Scott, a Christchurch crime prevention officer says, "For the 13 months until last October we had 42 fewer cars stolen in Christchurch than the previous year一and only eight carrying stickers were stolen."
Meanwhile, youth advocates in Christchurch feel offended with it. Sam Fisher, a city communications employee, says,"If you divide people up like this, you' re going down the road to asking, 'Who are the thieves in the community? What is the color of their skin? Where do they live? What's their gender?" so you target young black males living in a suburb. That's the problem you end up with."
As for the police, the real issues seem to be finding a sponsor to pay for the whole sticker scheme.
Since the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was passed in 1973, it has helped hundreds of species avoid extinction in the United States. The strong conservation policy has been used as a model in other countries. But it's not as successful as it could be, a new study finds.
Researchers have discovered most species are not being protected until their numbers have become so low that their chance of recovery is slim.
"The ESA is an incredibly powerful law for protecting our endangered wildlife. Yet, for decades, the agency primarily responsible for operationalizing the ESA- the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)一has been starved of resources," lead author Erich Eberhard says.
"As a result, we are very slow 10 give species the protection that they deserve. We typically wait until species are extremely rare and thus at extreme risk of extinction, and then, when a species is finally listed, the USFWS starts trying to recover it."
In 1993, a study found that few species received protection under the ESA until their populations became very small. For the new study, researchers repeated the methods used in the earlier research to see whether protections have become better since the problem was first noted. They also looked at trends in "wait times"一the amount of time between when a species is identified as potentially needing protection and when it actually receives protection under the ESA.
"Our analysis suggests that, in the nearly 30 years since attention was first brought to this problem, we have not become more active in protecting endangered species," says Eberhard.
The researchers found that the population sizes of species when they first became protected under the ESA are not statistically different from those in the 1993 study. They also discovered that there are long wait limes between when a species is identified as likely needing protection and when they actually receive them.
I can say that our study paints the current state of the ESA as a bit of cautionary (告诫的tale for the strong conservation policy," says Eberhard.
You've ordered a new pair of shoes online. They arrive; you rush to the front door and carry the box as you open it. You untie the laces, guide them toward your feet and they don't fit
So, back in the box they go and an hour later you drop them at the local collections store. It's disappointing. The shoes have never been worn and they'll be making their way to a new home soon. Right? Wrong.
What does happen to our goods when we order online and then return them? The reality is that much of it simply ends up in landfill (垃圾场). Each year, 5 billion pounds of waste is generated through returns in the world. In the US alone, customers return approximately 3.5 billion products, of which only 20% are actually faulty according to Optoro, a company which specializes in tackling (解决) the returns.
It turns out that returns create a real headache for companies. Many companies simply don't have the technology to handle these faults in returned goods, so it is often most profitable for them to sell them cheaply to discounters via a web of shipping, driving and flying them around the globe, or to simply truck them to the dump.
Optoro's software helps retailers (零售商) and manufactures resell unsold goods more easily. They offer a number of options for retailers, including a website切resell their goods, called Bling, as well as helping with re-routing goods t donation, store shelves, Amazon or eBay. They estimate their work helps reduce landfill waste by 70%.
Ann Starodaj, Senior Director of Sustainability at Optoro, says that while consumer habits might still be harmful, creating a profitable and environmentally friendly fashion model from start to finish is the way forward: "I don't think people are going to stop buying stuff, but creating a business model where you're making it easier for them to make sustainable choices is very important"
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We've all been there一you've sen! a message and it's marked Tread," but you haven't heard anything back. What's the deal? In 2011, the word"rbomb" was added to the Urban Dictionary, meaning not responding to or ignoring a message after reading it often deliberately."Rbomb" is common, so learn to be wise.
Expect the best. Remind yourself that the person is probably just busy. Ask yourself if you actually know their schedule. There could be some time commitments you aren't aware of .
For example, they want to give you a longer response but can't right now. They put their phone away to focus on work or school. They accidentally forget to reply. Maybe they think about what they want to say but don't actually text it.
Resist the temptation (诱感) to double-text. If you send a lot of follow-up texts, it'll be hard for them to keep up and they might get overwhelmed. Leave them with just one text to catch up on一the other person will probably appreciate your patience.
See if there are any confusing texts that you need to clarify. It's okay if you review your message again and notice that it might have been a little vague一it happens! You might feel relieved because you find something that is easy to misread.
Put your phone away. Don't let it frustrate or confuse you. If you get your mind off any notifications (通知), you'll be able to brainstorm new ways to spend your time.
A. Give the receiver a little space so they have a chance to reply.
B. They finished writing the text but failed to send it.
C. Read over your previous messages.
D. You can keep social media from bothering your life.
E. Keep it out of sight and get some peace of mind.
F. The following are a few other reasons for a delayed response.
G. Fix your attention closely on next responses.
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Temperatures in the Norwegian capital regularly drop to -10℃ during winter.1 in the harsh winter without wearing a coat, a boy wrapped his arms around himself on a bus stop bench.
It's a2 scene but the actions of the ordinary people who witnessed the dilemma of 11-year- old Johanne are both joyous and3 .
A young woman siting next to the boy noticed him rubbing his arms. She immediately asked him, "Don't you have a4 ?" "No, someone stole it," he replied. She inquired and5 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 she6 draped (披上) her own coat around his shoulders.
Later, another woman gave him her scarf and then7 . him in her large overcoat. Throughout the day, more and more people8 to give him gloves and even the coats off their backs as they waited for their bus.
9 Jahanne's experience was an experiment by Norwegian charity SOS Children's Villages.10 with a hidden camera, the experiment was part of their winter campaign to gather11 of much-needed coats and blankets to help Syrian children through the winter. Many of the refugees have left their homes12 winter clothing.
"People should care as much about children in Syria as they are13 about this boy."Synne Ronning, the information head of SOS Children's Villages Norway, told The Local. She also 14 that the child was a volunteer who was never in any danger during the15 .
