Wakeout
This year has been an odd one, and many people's fitness has suffered due to long periods of sitting or lying. That's why Wakeout has been named Apple's iPhone App of the Year. Wakeout's genius is that it's a fitness app that doesn't require you to roll out a yoga mat, or clear space. Instead, Wake out will recommend exercises that can be done immediately, whether you're sitting or lying down. You can schedule workouts for the whole day, or relax yourself before bedtime.
Discord
If you want to set up or are looking for a chat group for a group of like-minded people, then Discord is the way to go. It's fully cross-platform, so you can go from your phone to the computer, and it has all the features you expect from a chat app. It even has voice chat. You can join groups easily through a link.
StubHub
With StubHub, you can buy and sell tickets straight from the app-whether it's for a concert or sports event-up until the day it is happening. You can also pick and choose your favorite bands or sports teams, so StuhHuh can provide you with event recommendations that you' 11 he interested in.
Seven-7 Minute Workout
Seven-7 Minute Workout aims to give you the most benefit possible in just 7 minutes through a series of quick exercises that target specific areas of your body. There are no facilities(设备)needed, just enough space to get going. It's free to use, but joining the 7 Club for $10 a month(or $60 a year) will give you access to a wider range of exercises, personal workout plans, and support and guidance from a personal trainer.
In 1990, Hal Donaldson was 23 years old, fresh out of college and found himself in Calcutta, India, where he was asked to interview Mother Teresa.
Donaldson says about the great woman famed for feeding the hungry, "She wasn't wearing shoes and her ankles were swollen. She sat down with me and was very polite." After the interview. Mother Teresa asked him, "What are you doing to help the poor?" Donaldson admitted that he was young and wasn't focused on helping others. With a smile on her face, Mother Teresa said. "Everyone can do something."
Those words deeply struck Donaldson and forced him to face some hard truths about himself.
Hal Donaldson grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. When he was 12 years old, his parents were hit by a drunk driver; his father died, and his mother was seriously injured. To make ends meet, they went on welfare. Donaldson says. "I had holes in my shoes and clothes. When you're teased at school for that, you just want to escape."
He managed to do just that. Donaldson got into college and turned his focus to making money for himself. He says, "I was just trying to find my way out of insignificance. However, it's easy to overlook others along the way. I was the guy that would see a homeless person and cross the street, so I didn't have to confront(面对)him. My focus was on climbing to the top instead of helping those trying to climb with me."
Donaldson returned home from India with a different thought. He traveled to eight cities in America and stayed on the streets and listened to stories of the homeless. "My heart broke," he says. "I knew I could no longer just live for myself."
Inspired by Mother Teresa's words and the stories he'd heard across America, Donaldson loaded a pick-up truck with $ 300 worth of groceries and handed them out to anyone who needed help. In 1994, Donaldson created the nonprofit organization, Convoy for Hope, which works with communities across America and around the world. Their work focuses on feeding children, women's empowerment, helping farmers and disaster services.
When John Dougill first came to Japan 30 years ago, he noticed a strange phrase adorning(装饰)his neighborhood butcher's shop in Kyoto. Instead of "meat shop", its sign read "flesh shop".
Dougill assumed the shop staff weren't aware of their English-language error. But when he told the owners about it, they nodded politely at him. And they didn't change the sign.
“It didn't matter if the sign said 'flesh' or 'fresh' or 'meat'," recalls Dougill, a professor at Ryukoku University, who has researched the use of English in Japan. "It was just there to catch people's attention. It wasn't being used to communicate, as people could see it was a meat shop from outside."
It was Dougil's first encounter with the Japanese phenomenon of "Engrish" or "Japanglish". Engrish is what happens when English mistakes appear in Japanese advertising, on products like T-shirts and stationery, or on restaurant menus.
In the West, Engrish is often viewed more as an example of everyday racism(种族主义) intended to laugh at non-native English speakers. It's also not wholly a Japanese phenomenon.
There's "Konglish" in Korea, "Singlish" in Singapore and "Chinglish" in China-all referring to the different ways in which locals have repurposed English.
In Japan, Engrish falls into two categories: Decorative English is used to create a mood and is purely targeted at Japanese people, while Communicative English is meant to provide instructions to foreigners but is often grammatically incorrect or misspelled.
According to the website engrish.com-which showcases examples of Engrish across the world-English in Japan is used as a design element in products and advertising to give them a modern look and feel(or just to "look cool"). It's not used to communicate a specific message, but rather a mood. That's particular to Japanese culture, where meanings are often not clear but inferred.
"There is often no attempt to try to get Engrish right, nor do the vast majority of the Japanese population ever attempt to read the English design element in question," the website states.
If you easily make mistakes when in a hurry, a new study from Michigan State University-the largest of its kind to date-found that meditation(冥想)could help you improve the situation.
The research tested how open monitoring meditation(OMM)-or, meditation that focuses awareness on feelings or thoughts as they unfold in one's mind and body-altered brain activity in a way that suggested increased error recognition.
"People's interest in meditation is outpacing what science can prove in terms of effects and benefits,"said Jeff Lin, MSU psychology doctoral candidate and study co-author. "But it's amazing to me that we were able to see how one session of a guided meditation could produce changes to brain activity in non-meditators."
"Some forms of meditation have you focus on a single object, commonly your breath, but open monitoring meditation is a bit different," Lin said. "It has you tune inward and pay attention to everything going on in your mind and body. The goal is to sit quietly and pay close attention to where the mind travels without getting too caught up in the scenery."
Lin and his MSU co-authors-William Eckerle, Ling Peng and Jason Moser-hired more than 200 participants to test how open monitoring meditation affected how people detect and respond to errors.
The participants, who had never meditated before, were taken through a 20-minute open monitoring meditation exercise while the researchers measured brain activity through electroencephalography (脑电图or EEG. Then, they completed a computerized distraction(分
"The EEG can measure brain activity at the millisecond level, so we got precise measures of brain activity right after mistakes compared to correct responses," Lin said. "A certain neural signal occurs about half a second after an error called the error positivity, which is linked to conscious error recognition. We found that the strength of this signal is increased in the meditators relative to controls."
"These findings show what just 20 minutes of open monitoring meditation can do to improve the brain's ability to detect and pay attention to mistakes," Moser said.
Motivation plays a role in almost everything we do. From getting out of bed in the morning to dealing with a chore or going after a new role at work, it's finally the sense of motivation that drives us from beginning to completion of any task that life throws to us, They can complete daily tasks without a second thought and remain efficient from morning to evening. Others, however, may struggle to find a sense of motivation for different reasons. Fortunately, here are a few ways you can introduce motivation into your daily routine.
●Create attainable goals. Feeling stressed because of a goal or a project is normal. Even if the task is a big one, you can break it down into small goals to work your way to the finish line. For example, if you have a difficult project coming up, don't wait until the last minute to begin, .This will make you feel challenged, while also allowing you to feel as if you've completed important activities.
●.By rewarding yourself one thing at a time or at the end of the day, you can also teach yourself to be a more motivated person. This is about treating yourself for good work! Every time you complete a task, you know you're going to get a reward. Likewise, if you don't complete any task, you won't get a reward,
● Create positive habits over time, In order to make motivation a positive habit, a person needs to try and start completing activities every single day. Of course, it is fine to miss a day here and there but that should be done cautiously.
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A. Reward yourself. B. Assess rewards for different achievements. C. Some people find motivation easy to come by. D. Instead, make a list of achievable goals for each day. E. It usually takes around two months to develop a habit. F. So, over time, you associate rewards with being motivated. G. It is not difficult to develop a positive habit related to motivation. |
Shopping is an important part of Christmas preparations,1find it more exciting than us grown-ups so they participate in Christmas shopping with special 2.
One little girl was doing just that when she3saw Santa walking by. Or, that's at least what she4! Thinking the tall stranger with a grey beard was Santa Clause, she5him and asked what he got for her for Christmas.
"Santa? I've been told many times," the man said as he knelt(跪下)and6the little girl. "Have you been a good girl this year?" he asked her, upon which she7proudly.
The8that unfolded was sweet and heartwarming. Having stepped into the9of Santa, the man asked the girl if she was10for Christmas, which she undoubtedly was!
In her11, Santa came straight from the North Pole, with Rudolf and his reindeers(驯鹿), and was not a12she met at the supermarket! So she was surprised to meet Santa and she told him her Christmas wishes. The man was13to help and soon they began talking about what she was going to prepare for Santa and Rudolf!
"Can I14them all?" Santa asked, eagerly expecting to try the cookies the girl15to prepare for him.
The girl cheerfully said "yes" and then she told Santa that reindeers ate grass. Santa then16his little friend of the fact that grass was hard to find at the North Pole. Some details having been17, it was now time for Santa to return to his hard work of preparing18with his countless Christmas elves(精灵), up far in the North Pole.
For now, she and Santa had to go their19ways until Christmas Eve, when Santa would return to pay her a visit and make her20come true.
East China's port city of Quanzhou once (consider) "the very great and noble city" by the Italian explorer Marco Polo. It won UNESCO World Cultural Heritage status last Sunday, (bring)the total number of the country's UNESCO World Heritage sites to 56.
UNESCO (accept)"Quanzhou: Emporium of the World in Song-Yuan China"a cultural property on its World Heritage List on the 44th session of the World Heritage Committee (hold)in Fuzhou, capital of east China's Fujian Province.
Located on narrow plains along the coastline of Fujian, Quanzhou was a large port along the historic Maritime Silk Road, (particular) in ancient China's Song Dynasty(960-1279)and Yuan Dynasty( 1271 -1368).
A number of famous medieval (explorer), such as Marco Polo, Friar Odoric of Pordcnonc, and Ihn Battuta, visited Quanzhou and wrote descriptions of the port as one of the (big) harbours in the world, and a vibrant(充满生机的)market inmerchants from across many different regions exchanged their goods.
Its past is proved by several historic sites. Additionally, as well as being one of the major hubs of commerce and exchange along the Maritime Silk Roads, Quanzhou was leading centre for shipbuilding and the development of navigation technologies during the Song Dynasty.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(八)，并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线(\)划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下而写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；2．只允许修改10处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。
I have been fond of and good at writing when I was young. When I was in Grade Eight, my teacher encouraged me share some writing technique with the other students. I was only too glad to do that. I went to the platform or shared my views on what to write a good composition. Afterwards, I answered some questions raising by my classmates. They turned out that my speech was such a great success that all my classmates applaud warmly. I felt a great sense of achieve and satisfaction. By sharing, we can not only help the others but also increase our own happiness.
