I had very good parents. My mother came to America from Scotland by herself when she was 11, and she didn't have much education. My dad was kind of a street kid, and he eventually went into the insurance business, selling nickel policies door to door. One day, my dad asked his boss, "What's the toughest market to sell?" and the insurance guy replied "Well, black people. They don't buy insurance." My dad thought, but they have kids; they have families. Why wouldn't they buy insurance? So he said, "Give me Harlem."
When my dad died in 1994, I talked about him on The Tonight Show. I told the story of how he worked in Harlem and how he always taught us to be open-minded and not to say or think things of racism (种族主义). Then one day, I got a letter from a woman who was about 75 years old.
She wrote that when she was a little girl, a man used to come to her house to collect policies. She said this man was the only white person who had ever come to dinner at their house. The man was very kind to her, she said, and his name was Angelo—was this my father?
The letter made me cry. I called her up and said yes, that was in fact my dad, and she told me how kind he had been to her family. Her whole attitude toward white people was based on that one nice man she met in her childhood, who always treated her with kindness and respect and always gave her a piece of candy. From this experience, I learned a valuable life lesson: never judge people and be open-minded and kind to others.
No one knows when the first printing press was invented or who invented it. but the oldest known printed text originated in China during the first millennium (千年) AD. The Diamond Sutra (《金刚经》), a Buddhist book from Dunhuang, China during the Tang Dynasty, is said to be the oldest known printed book. The Diamond Sutra was created with a method known as block printing (雕版印刷), which used boards of hand-carved wood blocks in reverse.
It was said that the moveable type was developed by Bi Sheng. He was from Yingshan, Hubei, China, living from 970 to 1051 AD. His method replaced panels of printing blocks with moveable individual Chinese characters that could be reused. The first moveable Chinese Characters were carved into clay and baked into hard blocks that were then arranged onto an iron frame that was pressed against an iron plate.
The earliest mention of Bi Sheng's printing press is in the book Dream Pool Essays, written in 1086 by Shen Kuo, who noted that his nephews came into possession of Bi Sheng's typefaces (字体) after his death. Shen Kuo explained that Bi Sheng did not use wood because the texture is inconsistent (不一致的) and absorbs wetness too easily.
By the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, which ruled from 1127 to 1279 AD, books had become popular in society and helped create a scholarly class of citizens who had the capabilities to become civil servants. Large printed book collections also became a status symbol for the wealthy class.
"Why do I feel cold when I have a fever?" "Why does the sun rise in the east?" I knew the day would come when my little girl Sophie would learn to talk and inevitably (不可避免地) start asking those questions. The questions themselves weren't worrying me. I was actually looking forward to seeing where her curiosity would lie.
What was bothering (烦恼) me was whether or not I would know the answers. In the age of the smartphone, this may seem like a silly worry. The answers to almost everything would be just one Google away.
Still, I struggled with how I was going to prepare to become an all-knowing mother. Then one day, it struck me: I didn't need to have all the answers. What a great example I could set if I let my daughter know that I, too, was still learning. And I realized how much more I could learn if I took another look at things I thought I already knew the answer to with the curiosity of a child. My little girl's mind is a beginner's mind— curious, open to new ideas, eager to learn, and not based on knowledge that already exists. I decided that I would deal with her questions with a beginner's mind, too.
Once I decided to become more curious, I started noticing that curiosity was becoming more important in the workplace, too. It seems that leaders don't need to have all the answers, but they do need to be curious.
Curious about curiosity, I searched for answers and found Albert Einstein's famous words, "I have no special talent. I am only passionately (热情地) curious." We might quibble over the view that Einstein had no special talent, but there is one thing for certain—he wouldn't have solved the puzzles of the universe without his passionate curiosity. Then I came across another Einstein quote, "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason or existence."
Are you feeling empty? If so, you are not alone. Actually, it's a common occurrence for many of us to feel empty in various ways. For instance, you might feel empty as something is missing in your life. Or the emptiness might stem from slowly abandoning yourselves, and not listening to your own hopes and desires. Abandoning yourselves can also spark anxiety, depression, guilt and shame. Here are several suggestions to help you out.
Acknowledge the emptiness. If you're experiencing emptiness that's more like a gaping hole, acknowledge it, and be gentle with yourself. If this emptiness is because of a loved one's passing, don't get angry with yourself for grieving years later. In that case you learn to live life alongside that hole of missing that person.
Explore your feelings of emptiness. Scientists suggested exploring the below questions. We can do this while keeping a journal, taking a walk or drinking a cup of tea.
＊Do I tell myself positive things?
＊What am I trying to prove or win?
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＊Am I blaming myself for things that are out of my control?
Fight the urge to turn to the outside world for fulfillment. Instead of trying to fill the emptiness with drugs, alcohol, TV, computer games or anything else, look within, and spend time with yourself. It may feel uncomfortable at first, but the more you practise devoting time and energy to yourself and caring for yourself, the less present those empty feelings will be.
Whether you are experiencing difficult relationships, losses, or feeling a lack of purpose or meaning, you are worthy of a fulfilling and meaningful life.
A. Control your current feelings.
B. Spend time with yourself every day.
C. How do you handle your emptiness?
D. Don't beat yourself up for feeling this way.
E. Have I been judging myself or comparing myself to others?
F. It's important to acknowledge and accept your feelings of emptiness.
G. Do you spend too much time on filling your emptiness?
People often go to cafes to relax themselves and keep themselves from falling asleep, but Mr. Healing, a popular cafe chain, actually does the 1. Customers can come in, order a drink, lie down a comfortable massage(按摩)chair, and take a 2.
Many people 3 lack of sleep as a result of overwork, so any opportunity to relax and even take a nap is greatly 4. Mr. Healing is the perfect place to go when you're on a short work or school break and you need to 5 sleep. The cafe offers massage periods in various modes, 6on how much time you have and how you choose to spend it.
The 20-minute session is 7 at $ 3.5, the 30-minute massage costs $ 7, and the 50-minute session is $ 9, all of 8 also include a drink. Once you make your choice, you are taken to the "healing center". You are asked to 9 your shoes as well as any jewelry that might damage the chairs, after which you can choose a massage 10, from "stretch" or "sleep". You can start with stretch for a few minutes, and then 11 to sleep if you want to take a short nap. After it comes to an end, you are taken back to the cafe area to enjoy a coffee 12 one of the many other 13 drinks on the menu.
Mr. Healing cafes are so popular that customers are advised to make reservations 14 to be sure that a massage chair is 15 . "I have to sit in a chair and 16 a computer monitor all day due to my job, the healing room was 17 effective to relieve 18 and stress," said Park Hye-sun, a 24-year-old officer.
Some have described Mr. Healing and other similar cafes 19 simple fashions, but others see them as a 20 business model, because they offer a service that people really need.
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Nowadays, locallygrown food is on the rise, and is important to know why this trend (趋势) in farming matters.
Hawaii is a pretty faraway place. Hawaiians bring in about 85 percent of (they) food.
Steven Chiang, the director of the Agribusiness Incubator Program at the University of Hawaii, pointed out that in Hawaii, the cost of labor (劳动力) is high for people who might want (farm) the land. Since many different groups and individuals (个人) own small pieces of land, getting access to farmland (be) also difficult.
However, Chiang added, "There are many (benefit) to growing food locally on our islands and elsewhere. For one, we can hold onto the types of food we like. Food in our soil will have the chance to become (full) grown. Also plants can reduce the carbon dioxide in the air, will benefit our environment. Having local food helps make people value their farmland. So areas of land that might (use) for other things, like new apartment or office buildings, can be protected."
So what can you do？You can do your part by supporting and (buy) locallygrown food. You can even grow your own foodeither in a container in your kitchen in your backyard!
The new People's Republic of China saw Dr Lin Qiaozhi playing a key role. In 1954, she was to the first National People's Congress and, over the next several, she held many important positions. Her heart, however, was . She was more interested in patients, publishing medical research on care for women and children, and training the next generation of doctors. "The OB-GYN department cares for two lives," She told new in her department. "As doctors, we should be for the patients and treat them as our sisters."
Though Lin Qiaozhi never married, she was known as the "mother of ten thousand babies", having over 50,000 babies in her lifetime. Dr Lin did not until the day she died, 22 April 1983. Since she had no children of her own, she left her to a kindergarten and a fund for new doctors. And even as she dying, her final thoughts were for others. "I'm ready to go," she said. "Don't try to rescue me any more. Don't waste the medicine any more. "
, the missing child returned home ten days later, tired but healthy.
Eric threw himself on the sofa, sighing. Mother's Day was approaching, but he didn't have a present. "How can I buy a present without any money?" he thought.
Eric picked up the newspaper that was lying on the couch. He noticed a large advertisement on the front page. The local department store was sponsoring a contest (比赛). "Tell us why your mom is special and win a shopping spree (疯狂购物) for her," said the advertisement.
"This is perfect!" thought Eric. He ran to his room with the newspaper. Taking a pencil and a blank piece of paper from his desk, he started to write.
"My mom is the best mother in the world. She always makes lunch for me to take to school, and she never forgets my dessert. She reads as many books to me before bed as I want. She always remembers to check under the bed for monsters. And she gives me the best hug, but never in front of my friends, who would laugh at me for hugging my mom."
Eric liked what he had written. He copied it neatly and got an envelope and a stamp from his bed. He ran to the mailbox with his entry (参赛作品). "Mom will love having a shopping spree," he thought.
Eric checked the mailbox every day for his prize. Days went by, and then weeks. Soon it was the day before Mother's Day. Eric still hadn't heard anything about the contest.
"What am I going to do now?" he wondered. He didn't have a present, and he didn't have a shopping spree. And he still didn't have money.
He had to think of something. Eric closed his eyes and curled his toes and thought hard.
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Suddenly he had an idea.
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The next morning Eric handed his present to his mom.
