Though many people think of summer as a time to slow down and enjoy a vacation, it can also be the perfect time to make money or get experience. Here are some good summer jobs for you.
Survey-taking
Survey-taking is a way to make money during your summer holiday, especially if you live in an area that doesn't have many chances. With a computer or smartphone, you can sit on your sofa and search for survey sites such as Surveys On The Go, InboxDollars or Swagbucks. Without much effort, you can start making money for your opinions. However, the ease of use comes with a low earning potential.
Food Delivery(递送)
If you enjoy driving, you can use your car to deliver food. You can sign up to deliver food from restaurants with services such as Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub. Another choice is delivering daily used goods with services such as Postmates, Shipt and Instacart. The earning potential for delivery can be higher than for other jobs because customers often give tips. The disadvantage is that these jobs require you to put in more time.
Photo Applications
If you go to the mall, you can use an app such as Field Agent or Gigwalk to make money by taking pictures of products in stores. See any help-wanted signs in the store windows? Take a picture and get paid for each one you find.
House Sitting and Pet Care
Summer is a time when people take vacations and may need someone to look after their homes or pets. Services such as HouseSitter and MindMyHouse connect homeowners with proper house sitters(看房人). For animal lovers who would rather care for someone's pet while they are away, you can turn to services like Rover.
What began as a summer job has now taken young Brennan McVey to the steps of the Rockaway Township Municipal building and the mayor's(镇长的) office. Known by his neighbors and the township as the "Rubbish Bin Manager", McVey was given a special mention during the regular Rockaway Township Council meeting on October 25, for his work to help his neighbors and prevent unwanted run-ins with the local bear population. "Our children are our future, and when a child can respond to needs by making a decision that gives a community a chance to improve its quality of life, it represents a great moment for our township. McVey is a shining example of a positive person," Mayor Michael Dachisen read to the public.
The 10-year-old Green Pond boy had an idea in 2016 of helping to stop bears in his neighborhood from becoming endangered "troublemakers" by helping his neighbors take out the rubbish the morning of its pickup.
McVey, who is a fifth-grader at Katherine D. Malone Elementary School, noticed that some of his neighbors would leave the rubbish out the night before, an open invitation to bears. "I saw a lot of bears in the neighborhood and I thought I could help," he said. On collection day, McVey gets up early in the morning and heads to the houses of the neighbors who agreed to pay a small fee to have the young businessman bring out their rubbish to the curb(路缘).
"We had a lot of bear sightings in our community. This is one way to stop the bears from coming in by keeping the food source out of their way," the mayor added.
McVey has turned the Rubbish Bin Manager into a business, posting fliers (传单) around Green Pond, and his neighborhood has really taken to the idea.
Vitamin B could help lessen the effects of the most dangerous type of air pollution, according to a new study published recently. In the first study of its kind, a team of international researchers looked at the damage caused by one of the pollutants that has the most serious impact on health: PM2.5.
Particulate matter, or PM, is a type of air pollutant consisting of small particles(微粒) of different sizes. PM2. 5 has a diameter of fewer than 2. 5 micrometers, about 30 times smaller than a human hair. These particles are so small that they can go into our respiratory system(呼吸系统), resulting in lung and systemic inflammation(炎症) and stress.
The team found that something as simple as a daily vitamin B supplement could potentially reduce the impact of the tiny particles on the human body, although they stressed that the research was in its early stages and the sample size was small.
For this study,10 volunteers were initially exposed to clean air and given a placebo (安慰剂) to check their responses. The group then took another placebo for four weeks before being exposed to heavily polluted air from downtown Toronto, where an estimated 1,000 cars pass every hour. The bad air was delivered to the volunteers through an "oxygen-type" face mask. The experiment was then repeated, with each volunteer taking a vitamin B supplement daily made up of 2. 5 mg of folic acid (叶酸), 50 mg of vitamin B6,and 1 mg of vitamin B12. B6 can be found in liver, chicken and nuts, and B12 in fish, meat, eggs, milk and some cereals.
The researchers found that four weeks of vitamin B supplements reduced the damage of PM2. 5 exposure by 28%-76%. The results highlight how prevention at an individual level could be used to fight the harmful effects of PM2. 5.
There's a good reason people say laughter is the best medicine. In a recent study from Rehabilitation Nursing Journal, researchers looked at changes in loneliness for older adults in nursing homes after receiving laughter therapy (疗法). Each of the 31 participants received laughter therapy twice a week for six weeks, while the same number of controls only received usual care. At the end of the six weeks, those who participated in laughter therapy reported less loneliness than the control group.
Laughter therapy is a low-key option that you can practice in many ways. Jenna Pascual, a laughter yoga teacher, hosts group and one-on-one classes with seniors. She starts by guiding people through warmups to get comfortable with stimulating laughter. These may involve deep breathing exercises, clapping and light stretches paired with laughter, and call-and-response laughter. She then transitions(转变) to laughter around a theme, such as a Hawaiian beach party or Star Wars, pairing laughter with small movements.
Many forms of laughter therapy are available to all. "Laughter therapy is great for people with disabilities," says Katie Ziskind, a marriage and family therapist. Pascual also works with people in wheelchairs or hospital beds.
Rehabilitation Nursing's study is one in a long line of research confirming laughter's ability to improve well-being in older adults. In a 2015 study from the International Journal of Nursing and Midwifery, people aged 60 or older at a retirement center attended two 90-minute laughter therapy classes a week for six weeks. At the end of the experiment, participants had improved general health. In a 2016 study from Nursing Open, older adults at an elderly daycare center had laughter therapy once a week for four weeks. The participants experienced reduced depression, along with increased sociability.
While you can try laughter therapy alone, there are advantages to doing it with others. "I want to stress the power of simply hearing laughter and watching others enjoying themselves laughing," says Pascual. "I've worked with seniors who were not in the mood to laugh, but after hearing and watching others laugh in my classes, they ended up laughing with us."
Science fiction, or sci-fi, with more themes related to environmental issues, overpopulation, and technological growth, has explosively (爆发地) grown in popularity since the beginning of the 21st century.
Some Chinese Sci-Fi History
Few works were translated. And the Western world had little to no taste for it.
The history of Chinese sci-fi is extensive, but the modern genre first took root during the 1900s. Authors such as Lu Xun promoted sci-fi's early development in China and translated multiple Western stories like Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon. Following the 1970s, China began its own golden age of science fiction. Movies, clubs, magazines, societies and communities formed around this genre and became increasingly popular among Chinese readers.
Its Entry into the West
Chinese sci-fi has become internationally recognized, mainly because of Ken Liu, who translated The Three-Body Problem, the first contemporary Chinese sci-fi novel to be translated into English. Chinese sci-fi's introduction into the West began with this novel, and it couldn't have been given a better international debut(亮相). Liu has become a go-to source for Chinese authors seeking international audiences.
What Makes Chinese Sci-Fi Distinctive (独特的)
The subgenre is unique for using a number of cultural and traditional objects, words, places and beliefs. The stories are also different because many modern Chinese sci-fi authors were heavily affected by the events of the 20th century. Their perspectives(思维方式) and ideas on morals, ethics(伦理), government, politics, science and anything in between come from standpoints previously unknown to Western readers.
A. Published in 2014, it proved to be a huge success.
B. He is a writer, translator and computer scientist.
C. Before the 2000s, Chinese sci-fi was lesser-known.
D. Chinese sci-fi also made its way to take the West by storm.
E. Similar to Western sci-fi, it has experienced the ups and downs.
F. This laid the foundation for its eventual introduction to Western readers.
G. This makes Chinese sci-fi a cultural and historical analysis of China.
U. S. Navy veteran(海军退伍军人) Donald Helfer flew 28 times over enemy land during WWII. Along with the Navy Flying Cross and a Bronze Star, Helfer even received a(n)1from the President in which the President expressed his appreciation for Helfer's2"to bring about the total defeat of the enemy".
3, Helfer was never one to expect fame or money. Later, he retired to Florida. He passed away in 1993, taking the memories of his impressive4with him—almost. While Helfer's children knew of their dad's time in the navy, they5knew the true nature of his service.
When Helfer's6items—including medals, photos and records—turned up in a dumpster (大垃圾桶) in Hickory, the man who found them immediately recognized their7. The finder sent these things to Navy vet and American Legion Post 544 Commander Jeff Truitt for safekeeping until Helfer's8could be found. Truitt was able to9Helfer's grown children in New York, and his daughter, Linda Delorey, living in North Carolina.
Later, Delorey went from home to Hickory to10Truitt. Delorey was very excited as she turned the pages of the neatly organized binder(活页夹) Truitt had put together11her father's treasure.
Now that the family12has been brought back, Delorey plans to13it with her relatives as soon as she's able to. "Helfer was just one of the millions who14—and his story should be told and15forever," Truitt said.
This year sees the 193rd birthday of Jules Verne, the famed French poet, novelist, and playwright(剧作家) known "Father of Science Fiction".
One of Verne's lesser-known works from 1905, The Lighthouse at the End of the World, (adapt) carefully for the first time into a five-issue comic book miniseries(迷你剧) in April. (plan) by the experienced creative team of Brian Haberlin and David Hine, Jules Verne's: Lighthouse gets a sci-fi twist(曲折) and casts (reader) into the high seas of outer space for a swashbuckling(惊心动魄的) adventure.
Here's the official (introduce):
"Jules Verne's: Lighthouse " is set at the edge of the galaxy, a giant supercomputer known as the Lighthouse exists: the only brain powerful enough (guide) ships through a large area of naturally occurring wormholes, (potential) cutting months or even years off a spaceship's journey. Three humans, one alien, and a nanny robot have manned there mote station for years in relative peace until the arrival of Captain Kongre and his band of cruel pirates threatens the future of civilization and (show) that each of the Lighthouse crew has been hiding shocking secret: he who controls the Lighthouse controls this part of the galaxy.
Brett Bacon, along with his wife Lindsay and their newborn child, was out boating on the lake near their house in Lake Windermere in British Columbia when he saw something strange in the water.
At first Bacon just thought it was a carpet(地毯) in the water. As soon as he realized it was a bird and saw its wide wings and even its head popping up, he knew what it was.
It was a giant eagle. Eagles can actually get waterlogged (浸水的) as compared to other large birds that can go in the water and get out. It's not strange to see eagles go into the water to catch fish and then pop back up, but this thing was wet through and struggling to stay above the water. It was trying to swim and trying to fly away, but it just couldn't get out of the water at all. The large bird's only chance to get out itself was by swimming but it was about a kilometer to shore(岸边) in any direction.
Seeing the state of the bird, Bacon knew he needed to do something to help it out. Lindsay started recording and caught what happened next on video, while their son lay on a seat across from Bacon.
Bacon brought the boat close to the eagle. It took a few tries. But after about fifteen minutes, Bacon was actually able to take hold of the bird and bring it into the boat. "People must have just thought I had a dog on my lap, but from my bottom to my head, he was the same height as me," said Bacon.
As soon as the bird was in the boat, it immediately took off and dropped into the water again.
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"We need to pick it up again, so let's turn around," said Bacon.
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The whole community just came down to watch this eagle.
