In each of the fairy tales, there's a happily-ever-after. But what happens when you get everything you've always wanted and still aren't happy? This is the question posed by the award-winning musical, Into the Woods, which will be presented by the Marquette High School drama club in November. This musical looks at the nature of love and parental relationships. It is also full of humor and fantastic music. It will be performed at Kaufman Auditorium on November 15th. You will be impressed by the performance of fantastic high school students.

A few years ago, while setting up camp deep in the rain forest, Morgan and Sanz heard a party of chimpanzees vocalizing loudly in the distance. They thought the chimpanzees were moving rapidly among trees. The chimpanzees were yelling louder and they seemed to be heading straight for the camp. Morgan and Sanz felt the chimpanzees would soon be nearly on top of the tents. Then, just as they heard the chimpanzees closing their distance to a few dozen yards, suddenly the forest went silent. They looked up and saw the chimpanzees peering down. It was such a frightening moment that Morgan and Sanz ran away as if they saw ghosts.

Dogs can tell whether you like them or not. If you like them, they like you back. In fact, they love you and will do anything that they can to please you. People react the same way. If you do not like someone, chances are that they do not like you either. Sometimes we make impulse judgments and dislike people without giving them a chance. What is in our hearts always shows. Keep your heart open to accept the best in everyone. Most people want to be good, fair, and liked. Love others, and you will be loved back.

The Inchcape Rock is a great rock in the North Sea. Most of the time it is covered with water. That causes many boats and ships to crash onto the rock. The rock is so close to the top of the water that all the vessels that try to sail over it hit it. More than a hundred years ago, a kind-hearted man lived nearby. He thought that it was tragic for so many sailors to die on that hidden rock. So he fastened a floating mark to the rock with a strong chain, on top of which a bell was attached. When ships came near, the waves made the mark float back and forth and the bell ring clearly. Now, sailors were no longer afraid to cross the sea there.

Your mouth is the first stage of the digestive process. When you take a bite and begin to chew your food, it becomes smaller, softer, and easier to swallow. Your lips close to stop food falling from your mouth and your teeth crunch your food into smaller pieces. As your food moves around, it becomes coated in saliva, which helps to break down some ingredients of food into smaller pieces. Food becomes smaller in your mouth, which is helpful for the next step of the digestive process.

It was upsetting to hear of your plan to freeze Social Security benefits at their present level. When your administration announced the plan to increase the benefits last year, we, senior citizens, believed your promise. I can't understand the sudden change of your plan. I think the increases are quite reasonable because my generation worked hard and paid taxes. We also faithfully funded the Social Security system during our working years. I urge you to follow your original plan from last year.

A researcher reveals one of the secrets of happiness： contagiousness. If someone I know well becomes happy, the possibility of me becoming happy will increase by 15 percent. If someone I know indirectly, like a friend of my friend or a friend's wife, is happy, it will increase by 10 percent. Instead of having simply many friends, it is more helpful to have a few happy friends. This doesn't suggest that you should cut ties with friends who often worry. Remember you are also the source of the happiness of your friends. You can spread happiness by wearing a bright smile on your face.

Exercise and diet are important, but they are not the only keys to longevity. Meditating might also be important. Planting a garden or playing games with friends might be calming and relaxing. If those things bring you pleasure or make you laugh, then do them. Longevity is a two-sided coin, with quantity on one side and quality on the other. Just as no one wants a great life that's cut short early, no one wants a life that's long but not satisfying. We want to have it both ways: long and happy

The citizens of Small town in America like seeing fireworks on Independence Day. Each of the town's 500 residents believes the experience would be worth $10. The total value becomes $5,000. Meanwhile, the city pays $1,000 for a fireworks display. Because the value of $5,000 exceeds the cost of $1,000, it is efficient for the city to have a fireworks display. However, imagine that a private company decided to put on a fireworks display. It would surely have trouble selling tickets to the event because its potential customers could see the fireworks even without a ticket. Because people would be free riders rather than ticket buyers, the company would fail to produce the efficient outcome.

Dieters are often told to eat with chopsticks. Do you know why? So who do you suppose is more likely to use a fork when eating in a Chinese restaurant; a normal-weight person or an obese person? The answer is the latter. We observed 100 normal-weight diners and 100 obese diners at Chinese buffets, and we noted whether they were eating with chopsticks or forks. Out of 33 people eating with chopsticks, 26 were normal weight and only 7 were obese. Next time you are at a Chinese restaurant, check out who's eating with the chopsticks and who's eating with a fork.

Marketers recognize that to capture the consumers they have to bring their messages different way. To do so, many companies are turning to a strategy known as buzz marketing, whereby consumers themselves are asked to spread the messages. The goal of the marketer is to find the influential consumers and push them . into talking up a particular brand of a product or service to. their friends. They become powerful carriers, telling the brand messages to more people. Ultimately, the brand benefits because an accepted member of the social circle will always be far more credible than any advertisement.

What is the quickest way for you to measure your effectiveness at work? Maybe you have long-term measurements in place, such as monthly or yearly goals. But what if you want to know how you're doing today? You could look at your to-do list. You could also ask your boss. But maybe the best way would be to see what others in your line of work are doing. That would tell you if you were ahead or behind them. And if you were behind other workers, you could try to figure out what you're doing wrong. It may not be the only way to measure your effectiveness, but it certainly can provide a good reality check.

I was driving when I saw the flash of a traffic camera. I figured that my picture had been taken for speeding, even though I knew I wasn't speeding. Just to be sure, I went around the block and passed the same spot, driving even more slowly. But again the camera flashed. Thinking this was pretty funny, I drove past even slower three more times, laughing as the camera took pictures each time while I drove by it at a snail's pace. Two weeks later, I was at a loss to find that I had got five tickets in the mail for driving without a seat belt.

Many foot problems are due to poor-fitting shoes, including narrow toes and high heels. No wonder women are more likely to have foot problems! Make sure your shoes fit well and don't cause unnecessary pressure. Avoid buying shoes in the morning, as the feet expand during the day. What fits perfectly at 10:00 a.m. may seem too tight by 6:00 p.m. When trying on shoes, move your toes up and down to make sure there is enough room. Try on both shoes, as most people have one foot that is slightly larger than the other. You might make an undesirable decision if you buy your shoes after trying on just one of the pair.

If you are having a problem with your neighbor, don't avoid the neighbor and don't call the police. It is unlikely that either of those ways will work. Try handling the problem yourself, remembering to use these strategies: Don't criticize your neighbor's behavior; instead, explain how the behavior is affecting you. Rather than react emotionally, think about what you want to say and then say it calmly. Be ready to compromise. If these strategies are not effective, the ideal solution may be to ask another neighbor to help you solve the problem.

In 1793, young Yale graduate Eli Whitney was journeying to a teaching job in South Carolina when he was invited to the plantation near Savannah. Whitney was disturbed by his glimpse of slavery and the backbreaking demands of cotton plantation life. He wanted to relieve some of the tiring work. Therefore, he built a cotton gin, a simple machine that quickly and efficiently removed the seed from the cotton fiber. In one hour, his gin processed the same amount that required ten hours of slave labor. He submitted his patent, returned to Connecticut, and began taking orders. However, his innovative invention had a reverse effect. The gin required more slaves as cotton culture expanded.

We all have courtesy in our hearts. All you have to do is cultivate it. It's a little like riding a bike: Once you learn, it stays with you because the ability is natural. If you never get on the bike, however, you will never make use of that innate ability. It is often said that Latinos are friendly people. When people come back from visiting Mexico or Latin America, they always comment on the friendliness they experienced. I think it's more than friendliness. Latinos are courteous by nature and by custom. This is something we must continue to teach our children, and continue to pass on to everyone we meet.

Experts say that you only need 20 to 30 minutes of modest physical activity three times a week to shape up your body. You can do it easily and you don't need to go to the gym. Climbing the stairs instead of riding the escalator counts. Briskly walking 10 minutes around the neighborhood, three times a day, satisfies your daily exercise requirement. Anything you do with pleasure that works up even a light sweat is exercise. Remember, if an activity is easy to perform, easy to fit into your schedule, and easy to love, you're more likely to stick with it.

The strawberry poison arrow frog is found in the rain forests of Central America. It has bright red coloring that warns predators that it is toxic. Frogs are not usually known for their parenting skills, but strawberry poison arrow frog mothers go to great lengths for their offspring. Once her tadpoles hatch on the forest floor, the mother carries her offspring one by one into the treetops. Her trips often take her 100 feet off the ground. She places each tadpole into a pool of rain water that gathers in a leaf. The mother returns to each pool every few days to bring food. After three weeks, the tadpoles develop into tiny frogs and leave the water for land.

Uppsala is the fourth largest city of Sweden. Lying 70 km north of the capital city of Stockholm, this city has a population of less than 150,000. The transportation system for the travelers is developed quite well. Those who have the taste for ancient architecture can visit the Uppsala castle, which has an array of old paintings. Uppsala is the birthplace of Ingmar Bergman, a famous director, who used this beautiful city as a film-setting. This attractive city invites you to participate in the Uppsala Reggae Festival happening every year in the month of March. Uppsala also gives you an adventurous experience with its chilly climate and rugged landscape.

The graph above shows the average rainfall for spring and fall in Korea from 2006 to 2D10. Over the given period of time, the average rainfall for spring in each year was more than 200 millimeters. The average rainfall for fall in 2007 sharply increased compared to the previous year and reached a peak of over 450 millimeters. Since 2008, the rainfall for both seasons continuously increased. The sum of the average rainfall for spring and fall was the greatest in 2007 and the smallest in 2008. In 2010, the gap between the average rainfall for spring and the average rainfall for fall was the narrowest.

In almost every instance, the book as originally written is the best. Simplifying great writing means less-than-great writing. If you want to read Bambi, then read it as Felix Salten wrote it, not the child-friendly popular version. If you want to know Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends, it is best to meet them in Alan Alexander Milne's original story with Ernest Shepard's drawings. Most children are used to reading the classics published as the popular versions, which often bear little likeness to the original. It is not a good idea to buy weak editions. Try to find the versions written by the original authors.

Breathing is something you do without thinking, but it can be consciously controlled. Correct breathing comes from the deepest area of the lungs, and benefits both your body and mind. But years of stress and poor lifestyle have left us with shallow, rapid breathing, whereby we use only the top third of our lungs. Learn to breathe properly and you will benefit from a lower heart-rate, reduced blood pressure, and lower levels of stress hormones. Plus breathing properly is essential when you're exercising. It will make you feel relaxed and keep you in shape.

Have you ever noticed how a coin at the bottom of a swimming pool seems to tremble? This occurs because the water in the pool bends the path of light reflected from the coin. Similarly, stars twinkle because their light has to pass through several miles of Earth's atmosphere before it reaches the eye of an observer. It is as if we are looking at the universe from the bottom of a swimming pool. Our atmosphere is violent all the time. This disturbance acts like lenses and prisms that shift a star's light from side to side by tiny amounts several times a second.

For half a century, from Picasso's arrival in Paris in 1904 to Henri Matisse's death in 1954,the two artists were not only rivals for the leadership of the international avant-garde but also each other's greatest critic and fan. They could foster creativity through rivalry. Throughout history, there are many other talented contemporaries 一 Verdi and Wagner, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, Gauguin and Van Gogh who tested and taught one another, pushing each other to experiment in ways they might never have dared. Even if they were different in many aspects, the competition through rivalry inspired greater innovation.

After World War II, the armies gathered up many hungry, homeless children and placed them in large camps. In these camps the children were cared for and fed. However, at night they did not sleep well. They seemed restless and afraid. Finally, a psychologist found a solution. He gave each of them a slice of bread just before they went to bed. If they wanted more to eat, more was provided, but this particular slice was not to be eaten — they just held it. The slice of bread produced amazing results. The children would go to sleep, feeling they would have something to eat tomorrow. That assurance gave the children a calm and peaceful rest.

How should parents introduce their kids to pocket money? Some parents link this with a set of chores to help their kids understand that money is something they earn. A mother of a child says that linking jobs, such as laying the table and emptying the dishwasher, with pocket money is helpful. She likes the fact that it makes her child familiar with the notion of working for money. Other parents, however, insist that children do not learn a work ethic this way. Rather, they feel that it makes children help parents not because they ought to but because they want something. Whatever your decision, make clear why your children get pocket money and what it means.

How do we know how a melody sounds when we are not hearing it? We send information about the melody from our memory to our auditory cortex. Then, we experience a mental sound. Because Happy Birthday is sung only on birthdays, it is not usually there when we want to listen to it. If our ears do not feed the auditory cortex the information about the song, we must get it from our memory. The information sent from memory will allow us to havea fake listen. Through this process, we are able to discover things about the song even when we are not hearing it.

Our society is a youth-oriented culture, one that assumes that what is new and current is of most value. Listening to older people to find out how to live is not very common in our society. Older people are often put into nursing homes or live lives isolated from the young. We live in a society that values youth above age. However, there is a reason why human cultures, for thousands of years before our time, respected the old. A lifespan of 75,give or take 20 years, is not much time to learn what matters in our life by ourselves. Years ago I met a boy in Brazil who told me that his best friend was an elderly man on his street. This type of friendship is a gift not valued by many young people in the so-called developed world. As I look back on my life, I always tried to learn from mistakes. I wish I had received wise advice from those with more life experience than I had. We desperately need elders in our lives, people who have lived a long time and achieved wisdom.

I called my son, Josh, during his first semester at college to wish him luck on his final exams. His response was, Dad, there is no such thing as luck. It's all hard work. He is a passionate kid, who throws himself at things that he loves. At first I thought his response was extreme. But, on further reflection, I believe he had it right. I've watched him with admiration as he has strived to meet goals others might think impossible. At nineteen, he decided to try his hand at competitive weight lifting. This wasn't a natural choice for a former cyclist, but he was determined to break the national record for lifts. Josh identified the best trainer in California and drove two hours each way, several times a week, to learn weight iifting from him. Josh read everything he could about the sport, and spent hours training at the gym. After two years of weight training, he entered a competition. We arose at 5:00 a.m. and drove three hours to Fresno for it. The gym was filled with weight lifters who had been competing for years. I was worried that the result of his performance would disappoint him. But Josh blew away the national records by lifting 50 pounds more than the previous record holder. Was he lucky? No, he would never have succeeded unless he had put tremendous effort into achieving his goals.