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As adults, we have a responsibility to teach children to respect and interact with animals in a positive way. Children love animals; they are fascinated by them and can develop very special connections and relationships with them. At the same time, they need to be taught how to interact with animals and, most importantly, when to leave the animals alone. Children must be taught not to chase the family dog or cat, or the wild birds and rabbits at the park. Such lessons help to establish a strong love and respect for all living things ― animals can play a huge role in the development of compassion and understanding for our fellow human beings.

One of the best things you can do to get support for your dream is to support somebody else's first. When you run into a wall of resistance or indifference from friends and family members, stop asking, How can I get them to be a fan of my dream? Instead, ask, How can I be a fan of their dream? Tell your friend who doesn't get what you're trying to do, I've explained my dream a few times, but never asked you, what's yours? If you want help for your dream, start by helping someone else with theirs. If you want support for your hope, start by giving support to someone else's hope. Giving support is often the best way to get it.

Several studies have found that pet owners have lower blood pressure, a reduced risk of heart disease, and lower levels of stress. Pets can also be a plus in the workplace. A study found that in the course of workday, stress levels decreased for workers who brought in their dogs. The differences in perceived stress between days the dog was present and absent were significant. The employees as a whole had a higher job satisfaction than industry norms. Having a dog in the office had a positive effect on the general atmosphere, relieving stress and making everyone around happier. Pet presence may serve as a low-cost wellness solution readily available to many organizations.

Across the developing world today, the mobile health revolution ― mobile phones used as tools for healthcare ― is responsible for a number of improvements. Mobile phones are now used to connect patients to doctors, to monitor drug distribution, and to share basic health information that isn't available locally. Mobile phones are tools to send reminders about medication and appointments to patients. The central problems of health sectors in poor places ― clinics without enough staff, patients in remote places, too few medications or inefficient distribution of them, and misinformation about vaccines and disease prevention ― will all find at least partial solutions through connectivity.

Welcome to Kings Park! THINGS TO DO: - Take a free guided walk at 10:00 am, 12:00 noon and 2:00 pm daily. - Visit the family area for playground fun and a child-friendly cafe. - Have a family gathering for a special event, a picnic and a barbecue. - Enjoy an outdoor concert, film or play in summer. Kings Park is open 24 hours every day. Free shuttle bus into Kings Park from the city. Information and a range of brochures are available from the visitor information center on Fraser Avenue open 9:30am-4:00pm every day or from www.thekingspark.org. Enjoy Your Visit.

《Poster Contest》 Design a poster for the 2014 Science Film Festival! The competition is open to anyone. To Enter: Entries should be the size of 8.5 × 11 paper. The poster should not include any words. Multiple entries will be accepted. Prizes: 1st Place Winner: Digital Camera 2nd Place Winners: MP3 Player Deadline: Friday, November 21, 2014 For more information, visit www.sciencefilm.org/postercontest.

The graph above shows book genres boys and girls liked reading in the United Kingdom in 2012, by gender. More than 50 percent of boys and girls showed a preference for reading adventure books. The smallest gender gap between boys and girls was in adventure books, while the largest was in romance books. The percentage of boys who liked reading sports stories was more than three times that of girls. The animal stories genre was ranked the third most popular among girls. The least popular genre among boys was romance, while for girls it was sports stories.

Deep within the jungle of the southeast Indonesian province of Papua lives the Korowai tribe. Until their discovery by a Dutch man in 1974, the Korowai had hardly any contact with the outside world. The Korowai are still self-sufficient, producing almost everything themselves. Korowai families have their own gardens nearby, in which they cultivate sweet potatoes and vegetables. They live off whatever nature provides in their immediate surroundings. They raise pigs as a means of exchange and dogs for hunting. The Korowai people live in houses high up in the trees. The houses protect families not only against a mass of mosquitoes below but also against annoying neighbors and evil spirits.

The biggest complaint of kids who don't read is that they can't find anything to read that interests them. This is where we parents need to do a better job of helping our kids identify the genres that excite them . The children's librarian at your local public library, your school librarian, or the manager of the kids' section at a good bookstore can help you choose new material that isn't familiar to you. Also, think back on the books you liked when you were a child. My husband and I both enjoyed books by Beverly Cleary and it turns out our kids love them, too.

When people share the same daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal rhythms, connections among them form faster and stay stronger. The people trust each other more deeply, and coordination becomes easier. After all, they are frequently doing the same things and working on the same problems together. In fact, several organizations use regular stand-up meetings to maintain strong bonds and reinforce a shared mindset. A CEO of a food company talks about his short daily meeting with his team. He explains, The rhythm that frequency generates allows relationships to strengthen, personal habits to be understood, and stressors to be identified. All of this helps the members of the team understand not only their roles but also how they can get the best out of one another.

When Paul Dver was a high school student, he met comedian Soupy Sales and became friends with him. He even occasionally talked to the comedian on the telephone. Paul would tell his fellow high school students that he was friends with Soupy Sales, and of course they didn't believe him. One day, he asked Soupy for a favor. Paul and his friends were appearing in a play, and he asked Soupy to record an advertisement for him because if it were recorded in Soupy's voice, the local radio station would play it. Soupy did more than just record the advertisement as written. He threw in some ad-libs and made it funny. Of course, Paul's high school friends were amazed to hear Soupy's voice on the radio advertising Paul and his friends' play.

In the not-too-distant future, everyday objects such as shoes, carpets, and toothbrushes will contain technology that collects information. You will then be able to personalize these objects, allowing them to change physical state like color or respond to your daily mood. They will also be able to exchange data with other objects and send information to other people. For example, your toothbrush will be capable of analyzing your breath and booking an appointment with your doctor if it detects the smell of lung cancer. In other words, what were once just ordinary objects will be increasingly networked and intelligent. Manufacturers will use the information generated by these smart products to sell you other services or enhance your ownership experience.

When you ask people to rank the days of the week in order of preference, Friday is ranked higher than Sunday, although Friday is a workday and Sunday is not. Would people rather work than play? Not quite. Then, why do people prefer Friday to Sunday? The reason is that Friday brings promise ― the promise of the weekend ahead and all the activities we have planned. Sunday, while a day of rest, does not bring with it the joy of anticipation. To the contrary, although we may be having a picnic in the park or walking around town, these delightful activities are damaged by the anticipation of the full workweek ahead. Whether good or bad, our emotional state is determined both by feelings that are triggered by the world at present and those generated by our expectations of the future.

One of the reasons I've collected a large library of books over the years is because books are a great go-to resource. Other than having a conversation with someone who has accomplished what you hope to achieve, in my experience books and published works offer the most in terms of documented research and role models for success. The Internet has quickly become an invaluable tool as well. Whether offline or online, you're trying to find people who have already gone down the road you're traveling, so you can research, model, and benchmark their experience. A college professor once told me, Gary, you're smart, but people have lived before you. You're not the first person to dream big, so you'd be wise to study what others have learned first, and then build your actions on the back of their lessons.

The old saying Use it or lose it is never more appropriate than when referring to flexibility. Children are generally very flexible, as noted when an infant chews on his toe or puts his foot behind his head. This flexibility, however, is usually short-lived unless the child remains active and engages in flexibility-related activities such as gymnastics or wrestling. As adults, we can lose flexibility rather rapidly unless we make a conscious effort to maintain it. In short, flexibility does not have to disappear with age, but it often does because of a simple lack of exercise.

Charlie knew something was wrong. The lake was gone. He paused and scanned the field, but he could not see anything familiar. Suddenly a dog barked behind him. The sound, unexpected and loud, startled him, so he began to run away. Then another dog was barking, and another, and he had no idea where the dogs were. He was terribly frightened and he ran with increasing awkwardness, tearing at the weeds with his hands, pulling at the air, so that everything about him seemed to be running except his slow feet. The sound of the dogs seemed to be all around him, even getting louder.

Hiding behind a barrier is a normal response we learn at an early age to protect ourselves. As children, we hid behind solid objects such as furniture or our mother's skirt whenever we found ourselves in a threatening situation. As we grew older, this hiding behavior became more sophisticated. As adults, we fold one or both arms across the chest in an unconscious attempt to block out what we perceive as a threat or undesirable circumstances. Women's use of arm barriers is less noticeable than men's because women can grasp on to things like handbags or purses.

Globalization has resulted in a global brain drain, which refers to the situation in which countries lose their best educated workers. A report released by the Arab League in 2009 found that roughly 100,000 scientists, doctors, and engineers were leaving countries in the Middle East and North Africa every year, with most of the scientists and doctors never returning. Another study suggested that vast numbers of developing countries' doctors were working abroad, including 41% from Jamaica and 30% from Ghana. The brain drain has even worried some wealthy countries. The government of New Zealand, for instance, launched a program in 2006 to try to attract its professionals living abroad back home.

Imagine that a study on the effects of drinking coffee comes out in the news. The study suggests that drinking at least three cups a day significantly improves attention and memory. A woman reads this study and immediately increases her morning coffee ritual to three cups. For the next month she thinks she is more attentive and remembering things better because she's drinking more coffee. Then she reads a newer study that says drinking more than two cups of coffee a day is linked to significantly decreased attention and heightened anxiety. The second study has been promoted as actively as the first, and is equally convincing. She thinks, I have been feeling more anxious lately, and maybe I'm not as focused as I thought, and she decreases her coffee intake down to two cups.

We frequently overestimate agreement with others, believing that everyone else thinks and feels exactly like we do. This misconception is called the false-consensus effect. Psychologist Lee Ross began studying this in 1977. He made a sandwich board with the slogan 'Eat at Joe's' and asked randomly selected students to wear it around campus for thirty minutes. They also had to estimate how many other students would do the task. Those who were willing to wear the sign assumed that the majority would also agree to it. On the other hand, those who refused believed that most people would find it too stupid to do. In both cases, the students imagined themselves to be in the majority.

In the late 1600s, Sir Issac Newton conducted a series of experiments involving prisms, light, and color, which form the basis of our current understanding of color. These experiments involved refracting white light through a prism ― a simple triangular glass object that separates light waves into individual colors. The results revealed that light could actually be broken down into seven individual colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Until this discovery, it was assumed that a prism somehow colored the light passing through it. To prove this wrong, Newton reversed the process. He projected the colors back into the prism, which resulted in pure white light. Artists and scientists alike were amazed by this discovery that light is the source of all color.

In a study, 211 women signed up for a sixteen-week weight-loss program. All participants were randomly separated into three groups: long-term public commitment, short-term public commitment, and no public commitment. Those in the long-term group wrote their names and weight-loss goals on index cards that were publicly displayed in the fitness center for the full sixteen weeks of the program. Those in the short-term group did the same, but the cards were displayed for only the first three weeks. Those in the no-public-commitment group did not fill out cards. At the conclusion of the study, the effect of long-term public commitment was evident. At the sixteen-week mark, the long-term group had, on average, exceeded their goals by about 102%, while the short-term group achieved an average of 96% success and the no-commitment group reached only 88%.

Daylight Saving Time is a way of making better use of the daylight in the evenings by setting the clocks forward one hour during the longer days of spring and summer, and back again in the fall. Recently, researchers have shown that changing a person's body clock twice a year has its own significant costs, especially when they lose an hour of sleep in the spring. The day after Daylight Saving Time begins, thousands of drivers suffer from a regional case of jet lag, and accident rates rise by 7% on that day. Even more damaging, one anti-daylight-saving researcher has claimed that students in daylight saving regions spend seven months of the year out of step with their natural biorhythms. Consequently, when the researcher compared the SAT scores of students in Indiana counties that observed Daylight Saving Time, he found that they scored sixteen fewer points than their fellow students in counties that chose to observe standard time all year long. Education policymakers devote millions of dollars each year to closing small SAT performance gaps that unfairly disadvantage one group of students relative to another. These results suggest that eliminating Daylight Saving Time might offer one relatively inexpensive solution.

Many people make the decision to become a teacher after having a deep personal experience with a teacher. I once sked an elementary school teacher, Sera, why she chose a career in that field, and she told me that she had a learning disability when she was growing up and did not have a very easy time in school. She went on to tell me how many classmates had called her stupid and made fun of her, and how she had felt when she couldn't find any help. When Sera was in sixth grade, however, she met a teacher who changed her life. During a class, the teacher asked the girl to answer a question about a story she had just asked the students to read. The girl didn't know the answer and the teacher realized something was wrong. She asked the girl to stay after class. When they were alone, Sera said, I'm stupid. Everyone says so. I'm sorry, but this is the best I can do. The kind teacher told her that she was not stupid. She told the girl that perhaps she just needed to learn things in a different way and she was going to help her. The teacher told the problem to the school counselor and made sure the girl was tested. It turned out she was dyslexic. Once she was diagnosed as dyslexic and began using some alternative ways to learn, she actually started liking school and doing better. That teacher made a huge difference in that girl's life. Sera decided that even if it was hard, she was going to find a way to help other children. From that moment on she was determined to work hard and find a way to become a teacher.