Do We Miss Something in Life?
"In this life, what did you miss?" The wife asked the husband when she was 25. Sadly, the husband replied: 'I missed a new job opportunity.' When she was 35, the husband angrily told her that he had just missed the bus. At 45, the husband sadly said: 'I missed the opportunity seeing my closest relative his last breath. 'At 55, the husband said disappointingly: 'I missed a good chance to retire.' At 65, the husband hurriedly replied: 'I missed a dental appointment.' At 75, the wife did not ask the husband anymore. At this moment, the husband (kneel) in front of the very sick wife. (remember) the question the wife used to ask him, this time he asked the wife the same question. The wife, with a smile and peaceful look, replied: 'In this life, I did not miss (have) you!' The husband was full of tears. He always thought that they could be together forever. He was always busy with work and trifles. So much so he (not be) thoughtful to his wife. The husband hugged the wife tightly and said: 'Over 50 years, how I had allowed myself to miss your deep love for me.'
In the busy city life, there are many people are always busy with work. These people revolve their lives around their jobs, these people sacrifice all their times and health (meet) the social expectations. They are unwilling to spend time on health care.
They miss the opportunity to be with their children in their growing up. They neglect the (love) ones who care for them, and also their health. But knows what is going to happen one year from now.
life is not permanent, always live in the now. Express your gratitude to the ones you love in words. Show your care with actions. Treat every days as the last episode of life. In this way, when you are gone, those you love would have nothing to feel sorry about.
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Puppies Understand You Even at a Young Age
We like to think our puppies can follow what we're telling them. Well, to some degree they can, even when they're . We have known for a long time that adult dogs are especially in understanding cooperative communication from humans. They can spontaneously follow a human pointing gesture. They're even better at it than apes, which are much more closely related to us, speaking.
But is it a skill dogs pick up simply by spending time with people? Or is it a trait that was for when dogs first became domesticated?
To find out, Bray and her colleagues time with 375 puppies that were going to be trained to be service dogs. By working with pups that had spent most of their young lives with their owners, Bray could figure out whether dogs had to learn to human communications -or if it's something they were born with.
The pups participated in tests designed to assess dogs1 social smarts. In one experiment, a researcher would hide food under one of two cups - and then call to the puppy and point toward the cup that held the . They found puppies were able to use this social signal to choose the correct location.
In another experiment, a researcher would talk to a puppy. "Hi pup. Are you a good puppy? Yes, you are! What a good puppy! "This goes on for about 30 seconds. During this interaction, the researcher would record how much time the pup spent gazing at her with sight.
They found that puppies would respond to human social gaze and could successfully use information given by a human in social context from a very young age. "It seems likely that puppies really are starting the (ask with the communicative ability necessary to be successful rather than just quickly learning a(n) over the course of the task." Bray added. All these findings suggest that dogs are biologically prepared for communication with humans.
Mice are at their best at night. But a new analysis suggests researchers often test the nightly creatures during the day, which could alter results and create 1 across various studies, if they record time-of-day information 2. Scientists assume that waking up lab mice in the daytime may twist research.
Of the 200 papers examined in the new study, more than half either failed to report the timing of behavioral testing or did so 3. On the contrary, they found only 20 percent reported 4 testing. The analysis was published in Neuroscience & Bio-behavioral Reviews.
West Virginia University neuro-scientist Randy Nelson, the study's lead author, says this is likely a matter of human 5. "It is easier to get students and schools to work during the day than at night," Nelson says. But that advantage 6.
"Time of day not only impacts the intensity of many 7, including mice activity, aggressiveness of their behavior, and hormone levels," but changes in those factors can only be 8 during certain parts of the daytime cycle, says University of Wyoming behavioral neuro-scientist William D. Todd. This means that "failing to report time of day of data collection and tests makes 9 of results extremely difficult," adds Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center staff scientist Natalia Machado. Neither Todd nor Machado was involved in the new study.
10, the study researchers say it is critical that scientists report the timing of their work and consider the fact that animals' behavioral and physiological responses can 11 with the hour. As a first step, Nelson says, "obviously, taking time-of-day into consideration seems like 12 fruit in terms of line assing behavioral neuroscience research reliability, reproducibility and rigor (严谨性)
University of Calgary psychologist Michael Antle, who was also not involved in the analysis, says such differences in how studies are run 13 a "reproducibility crisis" in science, with other laboratories unable to 14 study results. "Running a study at the wrong time," he says, "could lead to us completely 15 a finding altogether."
I had always been one of those quiet boys who preferred dreams to the real world. I was, in addition, absurdly shy, and therefore often mistaken for a fool, which upset me deeply. For nothing terrified me more than the prospect of correcting a false impression. Though I was often blamed by mistakes made by my classmates, I never dare to say a word in self-defense. I would simply go home to hide in a corner and cry. My greatest pleasure was to sit alone, reading, and let my thoughts drift away in the stories.
My daydreams were in sharp contrast to real life; they were full of adventures and heroic deeds. They left marks on me. There was, for instance, a book about the history of the Roman Empire, in which an ambassador, while negotiating a treaty, was told that he was to accept the terms offered, on pain of death: his response was to plunge his arm into a fire and continue with his deliberations, in absolute calm. Inspired by his courage, I proceeded to test my own powers of resilience by plunging my own hand into the fire, only to burn my fingers badly. I can still see that ambassador, smiling calmly through his pain. Father hated my reading all the time, and sometimes he threw away my books. Some nights he refused to let me turn on the light in my bedroom. But I could always find a way, and after he caught me reading by the light of a string-wick lamp, he gave up and left me to it.
There was a time when I tried my hand at writing; indeed, I even made a few little poems, but I quickly abandoned my efforts. No matter what I had bottled up inside me, I was extremely anxious about letting it out, and so my adventures in writing ended. I did, however, carry on painting. There was, I thought, no risk of revealing anything personal. I just took something from the outside world and brought it to life on paper. Sometimes I did hide some personal expression in it, but I made sure that it was visible enough to be seen and trivial enough to be ignored. The first time I showed my painting to my father, he was caught in silence for a while and then he breathed deeply, and said: "My son finally made something." Then here I am, as a teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, wondering how everything happened, from my daydreams to painting.
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What we do The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) responds quickly and efficiently to help people affected by armed conflict. We also respond to disasters in conflict zones, because the effects of a disaster are compounded if a country is already at war. |
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Coronavirus: COVID-19 pandemic For people living in conflict zones, the pandemic spread of coronavirus disease (also known as COVID-19) represents a dramatic threat to life. Health systems are destroyed by war, and it could be difficult for people in these areas to prioritize actions related to the coronavirus COVID-19 as there could be many other more immediate threats to life, such as gunfire and bombings. |
Enabling people with disabilities & physical rehabilitation In addition to developing our own prosthetics (假肢)technology we have acquired a high level of expertise and attach great importance to maintaining support for a project over many years. As well as providing physical recovery services, we help people with disabilities play a full part in society. This includes promoting the setting up of small business, providing professional training and promoting sport. |
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Migrants, refugees, shelter seekers The ICRC has adopted a broad description of migrants, to involve all people who leave or fell their home to seek safety or better prospects abroad, and who may be in disaster and need of protection or humanitarian assistance. Refugees and shelter seekers, who are entitle to specific protection under international law, are included in this description. |
Access to education Around the world, millions of people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence are unable to get an education. The fighting can destroy or damage education facilities, it can make it unsafe to get to school and to be in school. In prolonged conflicts, entire generations can remain without education due to economic hardship and to poorly resourced and weakened education systems. This increases social and economic vulnerabilities and raises the risk of exclusion and abuse for many people, particularly girls. For people affected by armed conflict and other situations of violence, the ability to continue or to restart their education is among their top priorities. Education enables people to live and rebuild their lives with dignity and provides them with knowledge and skills to make important decisions about their life, livelihood, and well-being. |
Metaphor (隐喻) is for most people a device of the poetic imagination and the rhetorical flourish - a matter of extraordinary rather than ordinary language. Moreover, metaphor is typically viewed as characteristic of language alone, a matter of words rather than thought or action. For this reason, most people think they can get along perfectly well without metaphor. We have found, on the contrary, that metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in language but in thought and action as well. Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.
The concepts that govern our thought are not just matters of the intellect. They also govern our everyday functioning, down to the most ordinary details. Our concepts structure what we perceive, how we get around in the world, and how we relate to other people. Our conceptual system thus plays a central role in defining our everyday realities. If we are right in suggesting that our conceptual system is largely metaphorical, then the way we think, what we experience, and what we do every day is very much a matter of metaphor.
But our conceptual system is not something we are normally aware of. In most of the little things we do every day, we simply think and act more or less automatically along certain lines. Just what these lines are is by no means obvious. One way to find out is by looking at language. Since communication is based on the same conceptual system that we use in thinking and acting, language is an important source of evidence for what that system is like.
To give some idea of what it could mean for a concept to be metaphorical and for such a concept to structure an everyday activity, let us start with the concept ARGUMENT and the conceptual metaphor ARGUMENT IS WAR. This metaphor is reflected in our everyday language by a wide variety of expressions: ARGUMENT IS WAR.
Your claims are indefensible.
He attacked every weak point in my argument.
His criticisms were right on target.
I demolished his argument.
I've never won an argument with him.
You disagree? Okay, shoot〜!
If you use the strategy, he'll wipe you out.
He shot down all of my arguments.
It is important to see that we don't just talk about arguments in terms of war. We can actually win or lose arguments. We see the person we are arguing with as an opponent. We attack his positions and defend our own. We gain and lose ground. We plan and use strategies. If we find a position indefensible, we can abandon it and take a new line of attack. Many of the things we do in arguing are partially structured by the concept of war. Though there is no physical battle, there is a verbal battle, and the structure of an argument - attack, defense, counterattack, etc. -reflects this. It is in this sense that the ARGUMENT IS WAR metaphor is one that we live by in this culture; it structures the actions we perform in arguing.
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A. Besides, some scientists note that any new product like this will need to stand up to the real world, where dirt coats surfaces over time. B. It is calculated that covering a 1, 000-square-foot roof with this new paint could cool a building by about 10 kilowatts. C. The price of barium sulfate is comparable to, or even slightly more expensive than, titanium dioxide that is used in some other commercial paints. D. Now it's time to shed some light on the other end of the practical paint spectrum: the "whitest white." E. That is to say, this new paint can be a tool to fight the climate emergency by cutting carbon emissions. F. Unfortunately, manufacturing precise layers of multiple substances and applying them to a surface in a set order costs more than simply slapping on some paint. |
Cool Colour
The "blackest black" paint, famed for its thermal disguise potential, has long absorbed 99.9 percent of public attention. Research shows that surfaces coated with a newly formulated white coloring reflect 98. 1 percent of sunlight, creating a powerful cooling effect.
This coating absorbs just 1.9 percent of sunlight compared with 10 to 20 percent for conventional white or "heat-reflective" paints, says Xiulin Ruan, a Purdue University mechanical engineer. By reflecting so efficiently, the novel paint can actually help a coated building release the heat inside."Our model shows if you're in, you can save up to 70 to 80 percent on air-conditioning in the summer," Ruan says.
Scientists have been developing reflective paints for decades, but commercial products still remain at or above the surrounding temperature. In the past 10 years researchers have found greater success with multilayered coating to reflect many wave-lengths of light.
Thus, Ruan decided to take a hybrid approach and create an ordinary paint that could easily be brushed or sprayed onto a surface. After testing particles of several different compounds, he and his colleagues ultimately selected a relatively inexpensive one called barium sulfate.
Actually, there is plenty of competition from other researchers. The manufacturers have to struggle with "how to make sure that the paint stays white after 30 years of use." However, Ruan says he and his colleagues do have the confidence to remove this fear. He hopes to bring a version of his paint to market in a year or two.
Absent-mindedness
"Most events of absent-mindedness—forgetting where you left something or wondering why you just entered a room - are caused by a simple lack of attention," says Dr. Daniel Schacter, a distinguished psychologist and memory scientist. "You're supposed to remember something, but you haven't encoded it deeply."
"Encoding," Schacter explains, "is a special way of paying attention to an event that has a major impact on recalling it later." Failure to encode properly can create annoying situations. If you put your mobile phone in a pocket of a jacket, for example, and don't pay attention to what you did because you're involved in a conversation, you'll probably forget where exactly you put your mobile phone. Your memory itself isn't failing you. Rather, you didn't give your memory system the information it needed.
As many people accept, women have slightly better memories than men, possibly because they pay more attention to their environment, and memory relies on just that. Yes, visual cues can help prevent absent-mindedness. But be sure the cue is clear and available. If you want to remember to take a medication with lunch, put the pill bottle on the kitchen table- don't leave it in the medicine chest and write yourself a note that you keep in a pocket.
Lack of interest can also lead to absent-mindedness. "A man who can recite sports statistics from 30 years ago may not remember to drop a letter in the mailbox," says Zelinski, a scientist from New York University. There are many cases in life where women can remember prices of bags of different brands while they tend to forget the specific place where they put their bags.
