About us
Family, Career and Community Leaders of America ( FCCLA) is a non-profit national career and technical students organization for young men and women in Family and Consumer Sciences education in public and private school through grade 12. Since 1945，FCCLA has been making a difference in their families, careers and communities by addressing important issues through Family and Consumer Science education.
Mission (任务)
To promote personal growth and leadership development through Family and Consumer Science education. Focusing on the various roles of family members, wage earners and community leaders, members develop skills for life through: character development, creative thinking, interpersonal communication, practical knowledge and career preparation.
Purposes
To provide opportunities for personal development and preparation for adult life.
To strengthen the function of family as a basic unit of society.
To promote greater understanding between youth and adults.
To provide opportunities for making decisions.
To prepare for the various roles of men and women in today's society.
Membership
FCCLA has a national membership of over 205, 000 young men and women in nearly 6, 500 chapters. There are 50 associations. Since its founding in 1945, it has involved more than 9，000, 000 youth.
Financial (资金）and Cooperative Support
FCCLA is supported primarily by student membership dues. Additional money comes from individuals and businesses. It is supported by the US Department of Education artd the America Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS).
National Publications
Teen Times, the official magazine of FCCLA, is published once every three months during the school year and sent to its members. The national staff also publishes a variety of other resource materials for members and adult leaders.
In 1973, I was teaching elementary school. Each day, 27 kids entered "The Thinking Laboratory." That was the name students voted for after deciding that "Room 104" was too dull.
Freddy was an average student, but not an average person. He had the rare balance of fun and compassion(同情). He would laugh the loudest over fun and be the saddest over anyone's misfortune.
Before the school year ended, I gave the kids a special gift, T-shirts with the words "Verbs Are Your friends" on them. I had advised the kids that while verbs may seem dull, most of the fun things they do throughout their lives will be verbs.
Through the years, Pd run into former students who would provide updates on old classmates. I learned that Freddy did several jobs after his graduation from high school and remained the same caring person I met forty years before. Once, while working overnight at a store, he let a homeless man sleep in his truck. Another time, he lent a friend money to buy a house.
Just last year, I was conducting a workshop when someone knocked at the classroom door. A woman excused the interruption and handed me an envelope. I stopped teaching and opened it up. Inside were the "Verbs" shirt and a note from Freddy's mother. "Freddy passed away on Thanksgiving. He wanted you to have this."
I told the story to the class. As sad as it was, I couldn't help smiling. Although Freddy was taken from us, we all took something from Freddy.
When I first married my wife, I lived and worked in Ontario, moving from small town to big city as I pursued my career as a radio broadcaster. We have two sons, both of whom were born in Toronto and moved with us to Ottawa. They went to school, grew up there, and then pursuing their own careers, they also moved. One went to Canada's east coast near a city called Halifax and the other headed to the west coast Vancouver. We had a dilemma; we were left in the middle.
The problem wasn't pressing at the time because I was still working and my job was in Ottawa. However, as we began to considering retirement we wondered where we should spend our final years. We couldn't be close to both of our children and there was no telling when they might again relocate. For several reasons, we settled on a small town on Vancouver Island. At least we were close to one of them. However, he had his sights set on Hollywood and, when an opportunity presented itself, he left Canada and headed south. So, there we were, and still are, in our little west coast town. We love our little corner of paradise (乐园）but we paid a price. We have not been there for some important events such as the births of two of our grandchildren. We have missed watching them grow up, backyard barbecues, and the normal, noisy households. Our home, while comfortable, is also very quiet.
Every fall we travel to see the children and try to spend a week or more with them and we make the even longer trip to see our grandchildren, who are now teenagers, actually into their twenties. They seldom come to visit us. The distances are just too great and it is costly.
Fortunately, both our boys are doing well and our grandchildren are growing straight and tall. We love all of them and they love us but the reality is that they don't need us. We have done our jobs and at least in theory，we can sit back, relax and enjoy the time remaining to us. In fact, we're happy but there were times I think about the things we didn't see. They have also missed having a set of parents and grandparents around.
Life has been good for our family but we have paid a price.
When you watch a movie these days, it's difficult to tell what's real and what's created by using computers. Visual effects can even change how movies are made.
Almost anything that can be imagined by a director can now become reality in the world of movies. "We're really not limited by the technology, '' said David Smith, the CEO of Sony Pictures Imageworks. Mr Smith said that with today's technology, the digital world was more realistic than ever before. For The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Mr Smith's team created a Times Square that was exactly like the real one in New York. "If there are lights inside the stores that are lighting areas inside the store we put those lights there," said Mr Smith.
But there was still one challenge for visual effects artists, said Paul Debevec of the University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies. "We're still trying to figure out how to perfect the human face in movies, " said Debevec. He said the movie — The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was still one of the best examples of computer generated movies, as actor Brad Pitt could be from an aged man to a baby in the movie.
Mr Debevec added that besides changing the look of an actor's face, there could be another use for digital faces in the entertainment. Last year, effects artists created a digital face of the Asian pop singer Teresa Teng who was dead. Fans could still see and hear the concert on YouTube.
Mr Debevec expects directors will start to use more virtual production techniques, like those seen in the movie Avatar. Mr Debevec says that with virtual production, there won't be a need for so many people behind the scenes. But visual effects artists agree, even with advanced technology, there is no replacement for a real actor showing a character in a movie.
Tips on How to Get Along Better With People
Your coworker may drive you up the wall, but you've decided you'll no longer rise to his or Her bait (引诱）.Try these tips for improving your relationship with his or her — and anyone else who pushes your buttons.
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Thinking about potential criticisms ahead of time allows you to have an appropriate response on hand should you need it. If you don't get engaged in the content of his or her comment, you push his or her back into a positive intent, which makes a person think about why he or she offered a rude comment.
⒉Switch thinking ment.
Realize that every single human being has a different way of looking at life, If you try to approach things from his or her angle, you may find that potentially sticky conversations will go far more smoothly.
⒊Slow Down
Take the time to stop and compose yourself after someone says something you don't like. A lot of times you'll find out that the person's intent is not to hurt you, and once you've understood that, things often clear up.
⒋Be positive
People who are at ease, polite, understanding and considerate are always charming and attractive. Dress well, work on accepting compliments gracefully —without worrying about whether you deserve them. Practice these skills long enough, and they will become second-nature.
A. Prepare Yourself.
B. Be pleasant, and smile.
C. you can't have two competing emotions at the same time.
D. and then make an effort to understand the other person's point of view.
E. Take a few slow, deep breaths, relieve stress, and then talk with the other person.
F. This works to reduce anxiety, and staying calm can help you get along better with others.
G. So when someone says you gained weight, thank him or her for being concerned and then change the subject.
One day, when I was a teenager, I was home along doing two of my favourite things: I was eating a huge plate of spaghetti and mealbails and I was 1.
At the time, my family pet bird - a big white cockatoo named Luke was free from his 2 and flying around inside the house. Luke, which wasn't3 to use real words, was chucking (咯咯地叫) away, 4 me, but I wasn't paying attention to him. I was 5 on reading my detective book. 6 Luke decided to get closer and before I 7 it, he'd landed right on top of my spaghetti and meatbails! I was so surprised - my mind went8. My reaction was the same as yours would be: I shooed (用"嘘"声吓唬)him off my food! This wouldn't have been so bad 9 one thing: Luke had 10 my spaghetti. So when he 11 again, the spaghetti still winded in his12 went flying everywhere. He landed on my shirt. He hit me in the 13. As I pulled noodles out of my hair, Luke 14 spaghetti sauce all the way. He wasn't15, except for his16the sauce in his beautiful white 17 turned him splotchy (油渍斑斑的)orange for several weeks.
See how funny spaghetti can be? And see how 18 reading can be? So go ahead and enjoy a good book. But if you like to read while you eat, you'd better keep an eye on your food. And if you find a19 novel at the 20 with red, splotchy (油渍斑斑的)spots on two pages near the middle, you'll know that I've read that book, too!
When I first began my teaching career 20 years ago, a friend of my father said to me, "We were expecting great things from you. You could (be) a political leader or police chief, but instead you just became a teacher." I told him if I (inspire) one of the children that year to be a leader, and one every year for the rest of my career, I would be very proud of my contribution to our community.
Education is the key to a (safe), healthier and wealthier world. you are a teacher, you just have chosen the most (reward) profession in the world. I sometimes hear from the students who I taught many years ago. They are now adults leading their communities. I got great (satisfy).
Imagine you plant a small and weak tree in your yard. Then you move away. One day you are back. But it looks different now, strong tall, with many(branch) and beautiful leaves. You stand in its broad shade, remembering the little tree (plant) years ago. That is teaching.
is Koltotrorl that educators are nation-builders. Our world needs them.
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