How to Get the Sleep Your Body Needs
◆Boil three to four large lettuce leaves in a cup of water for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, add two mints, and drink just before you go to bed. Lettuce contains a sleep-inducing substance called lactucarium, which affects the brain similarly to opium. Unlike opium, of course, you won't run the risk of addiction!
◆Give yourself a massage. Slowly move the tips of your fingers around your eyes in a slow, circular motion. After a minute, move down to your mouth, then to your neck and the back of your head. Continue down your body until you find you're so relaxed you're ready to drop off to sleep.
◆Take a hot bath 90 to 120 minutes before bedtime. A research study found that women with sleeplessness who took a hot bath during this period of time (water temperature approximately 105°F), slept much better that night. The bath increased their center body temperature, which then immediately dropped once they got out of the bath, readying them for sleep.
◆Keep a notebook at your bedside along with a gentle night-light and pen. Then, if you wake in the middle of the night and your mind starts going, you can quickly write what you dream about on the page, returning to sleep quickly by knowing you "caught" those thoughts.
If you're tired of feeling like you're not at your best or like you're not getting the sleep you need, then it's time to take action! Sign-up for the National Sleep Foundation's Sleep Challenge today!
The boss turned down a raise and gave it to his staff instead. Tony Bennett, the head coach of the University of Virginia (UVA) men's basketball team, was offered a large pay raise after his team won the national championship in 2019. But to everyone's surprise, he turned the offer down and requested that the money go to his staff and the basketball program instead. What's more, he donated $ 500,000 to the basketball players.
The boss bought an employee a new car. On the night before Alabama student Walter Carr's first day at Bellhops Moving company, his car broke down. Nobody could give him a ride to work, so Carr decided to walk the 20-miIe distance overnight. After seven hours, he arrived right on time. When the boss heard about Carr's unbelievable story, he drove from Tennessee to Alabama to give the young student a Ford Escape.
The boss forgave a costly mistake. A diner at a British steakhouse had a stroke of luck when he was accidentally served an expensive bottle of red wine. Instead of blaming the server who made the mistake, as some might, the boss decided to laugh it off "To the customer who accidentally got given a bottle of wine, which is £4,500 last night, hope you enjoyed your evening!" the steakhouse tweeted. "To the server who accidentally gave it away, cheer up! We love you anyway."
The boss gave his staff a free trip to Hawaii. Imagine drinking a cocktail on a sunny, warm beach with 500 of your closest employees. That's how Brian Scudamore, the founder and CEO of home service provider O2E Brands, chose to spend his vacation in 2017. Back in 2012, Scudamore promised his employees that if they could double the company's income in five years, he would take them on an all — expenses — paid trip to Hawaii. Needless to say, they achieved the goal.
An architecture class at WSU will present their ideas for a small luxury hotel to upgrade Pullman's downtown during the Town and Gown Collaborative meeting which will be held from 7:30-9 a.m. on Oct.22 in the Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Event Center. The Collaborative is a joint committee between the city of Pullman, Pullman Chamber of Commerce and WSU. Its purpose is to strengthen ties between the city and the university and to foster a strong relationship to create a special college town.
As part of the third-year class, seven student teams each designed a five-star luxury boutique hotel in Pullman located on the former Mimosa Cafe site on Main Street. Out of seven hotel designs produced, the class will put forward three of the most pioneering solutions to the city of Pullman during the Collaborative meeting.
WSU Architecture Professor Paul Hirzel said that the 5-star luxury hotel choice is absent in the Palouse and a rarity in Eastern Washington, giving his students a unique challenge. Features of their projects include 16-luxury rooms, a roof top swimming pool, loft suites with balconies overlooking the river, and a ground level cafe with sidewalk and riverside courtyards. The project explores a current trend in college towns of providing the five-star boutique hotel choice to the more typical franchise hotel choices.
The presentation to the city gives the students a valuable real-world opportunity to present their projects to potential stakeholders and to advocate for their designs to nonarchitects, Hirzel said. Goals for the project also included exposing his students to the realities of structure and material choice as well as a challenging site condition fronting on both a river(that floods) and a main street.
"When students can achieve beyond their expectations in creating a new vision for downtown Pullman, both the students and the Pullman downtown community will benefit." he said.
One argument for why robots will never fully measure up to people is because they lack human-like social skills. But researchers are experimenting with new methods to give robots social skills to better interact with humans. Two new studies provide evidence of progress in this kind of research.
One experiment was carried out by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT. The team developed a machine learning system for self-driving vehicles that is designed to learn the social characteristics of other drivers. The researchers studied driving situations to learn how other drivers on the road were likely to behave. Since not all human drivers act the same way, the data was meant to teach the driverless car to avoid dangerous situations.
The researchers say the technology uses tools borrowed from the field of social psychology. In this experiment, scientists created a system that attempted to decide whether a person's driving style is more selfish or selfless. In road tests, self-driving vehicles equipped with the system improved their ability to predict what other drivers would do by up to 25 percent.
In one test, the self-driving car was observed making a left-hand turn. The study found the system could cause the vehicle to wait before making the turn if it predicted the oncoming drivers acted selfishly and might be unsafe. But when oncoming vehicles were judged to be selfless, the self-driving car could make the turn without delay because it saw less risk of unsafe behavior.
The researchers say they believe the technology could also be used in vehicles with human drivers. It could act as a warning system against other drivers judged to be behaving aggressively. The research suggests that humanoid robots have the ability to affect people socially just as humans do. Fang said this ability could become more important in the future when machines and humans are expected to interact regularly.
Things You Shouldn't Do While Shopping
Leave your kids alone.
If you plan to bring your children with you to do holiday shopping, make sure that they are well-rested and fed. It's also not the staff's responsibility to watch after your children since they have to attend to other customers. If you do have to take your kids with you, use this as an opportunity to teach them the manners every parent should teach their child.
Park like you own the place.
The only thing worse than shopping in stores during the holidays is parking at the store. Be patient in the lot and avoid unnecessary honking (鸣笛) or spot stealing. It is also recommended leaving your car at home and grabbing a cab, Lyft, or Uber instead.
Keep the cart in the middle of the passageway.
Keep in mind that the flow of traffic in the passageways is the same as on the road-stick to the right and let people pass on the left. If you're looking at something, be sure to park your cart to the right side of the passageway so other people can get around you. And that could make it difficult for other shoppers to get by.
For the clothes that don't fit after the try-on, fold or hang them and return them to a staff member on your way out. This will make the shopping experience more pleasant for both the shoppers and staff since the changing rooms won't be filled with unwanted and messy clothes. By keeping your changing room clean, you're showing respect for your fellow shoppers and staff who work there.
A. Otherwise, the staff have to organize them.
B. Leave unwanted clothes in the dressing room.
C. Especially rude driving habits could be dangerous, too.
D. The extra cost could be worth the lack of parking stress.
E. If it's possible to shop without a cart, you could save some money.
F. You shouldn't park your shopping cart in the middle of the passageway.
G. You should never leave your kids unattended because they may injure themselves.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 had struck the mountain. Matrone couldn't 1 it any longer. "Let's get out of here," he told his wife, dressing quickly. They 2 the parking lot, where others were digging their cars. Fifteen minutes after the first earthquake, another earthquake 3, this one measuring 5.6.
With a dozen vehicles freed, guests 4 down the driveway. But when they reached the main road, the path was 5 by a six-foot-high wall of snow. Matrone got out of his car and 6 the snow drift. There was no road, just piles of shining 7. He turned and yelled down to his wife, "We're 8!" And they made their way back to the 9.
A handful of guests sat in white sofas. Matrone paced the reception area, 10 discussing choices with his wife. This was when the snow on the mountain began to 11.
They heard the snow slide before they saw it. As the wall of snow and ice 12 downward, it pressed the air into a terrible low 13. The snow slide gathered speed and size, grabbing rocks and trees and anything else in its 14 as it roared down the mountain.
The snow and the 15 of everything it had brought down the mountain with it tore the hotel from its foundation, collapsed it into a pile of ruins, and sent remains 16 more than 100 yards away. People caught inside were left 17 in the ruins. Everything had gone dark.
When the 18 finally arrived, eight hours after the disaster occurred, there was no movement anywhere. All was now 19. Hard rescue work began. It was bound to be a 20 tragedy. Who would be the survivors?
Raised by a single, immigrant mother, Christina Williams and her two brothers didn't grow up with much. So one day when the family was listening the radio and heard a call-in contest announced, Christina decided this was her chance to get something (much) .
The third-grader called in and after (answer) a few small questions, won the $50 prize. "It wasn't much but to me, it was everything because it showed me there (be) bigger things and chances out there," she said.
Her mother helped her put money in her very own bank account, started her on the road to financial (free). Now, as an adult, she doesn't have to worry about money much but she's never forgotten that small win as a child.
"It inspired me to start my present project (call) Back Getters, a company that helps others 'have each others' backs'," she explained. "I hope that people will (inspire) to make kindness, sympathy, and compassion the first thing in every communication they have because every single one of us is so (power) and our actions, big or small, can have a huge effect-just like that $50 I won from the radio station."
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Grandpa lives in a distant mountainous area with forests around. He runs a grocery store, that wild animals appear from time on time. One day, two small deer came to the door. They looked hungrily and Grandpa gave them some food to eat. Since now, the two deer have never left, lying in front of the shop after fed. Gradually, the lovely deer are popular, attract a lot of people to see them. As the result, Grandpa's business is getting even more better. The deer have become an alive advertisement, so more but more customers come to buy item in the store. Grandpa's kindness is paying off.
