Dear Ms. Brown, We are thankful for the complimentary letter you have sent to us regarding our service. Letters like this keep us motivated and guide us to improve our service. We are pleased about your comment as customers' satisfaction is the main motto of our service. It's very rare that the customers take time to give thanks for the services, so we would like to use this letter as an example of the customer's satisfactory remarks in our new brochure if you give us permission to do so. When people see such remarks from satisfied customers, they trust the service and products more. We hope you will help us in this regard. We will be contacting you soon to hear your decision regarding putting your remarks in the brochure. Sincerely, Oliver Watson

When we want something badly for our children, so badly that we behave in ways that aren't helpful for our kids, it can mean we're trying to fulfill a need for ourselves. It's normal to feel good when your child wins, it's normal to want him to win, but when you need him to win in order to feel good about yourself, you have a problem. For example, do you feel like having a child who is a winner proves you're a worthwhile parent? Do you crave the recognition of being the parent of a star athlete? If you can answer yes to either question, you may be trying to feel good about yourself through your child's athletic accomplishments. This is a very common problem. Be willing to take an honest look at yourself. The payoff is tremendous. You become a more aware sports parent who can offer true support and encouragement to your child.

The surface of the earth is different from place to place. Places differ in terms of population size, language, resources, environmental factors, industrial specialization, local history, and human activities. It is these differences from place to place that generate the demand for transportation. People want commodities that are not produced locally—for example, fruits, vegetables, televisions, shoes, paper, and thousands of other goods—and this desire generates the demand for transportation. Businesses need resources that are often not available locally, and this need generates the demand for transportation. We work, shop, and seek entertainment, for the most part, outside our own neighborhoods, necessitating a journey to work, to shop, and to visit the multiplex. Transportation enables us to carry out all these activities.

Tradition is a critical element that cannot be ignored in the creation of architecture. Tradition is the essential element that allows a new work to connect with people on an emotional and intellectual level. The recollection of the familiar is one aspect of design that produces pleasure. This feeling of pleasure or satisfaction exists because we enjoy a sense of security among things that we know and understand. References to a previous tradition are a common component of most major architectural movements. While these movements utilized new technologies and building materials, or invented new building forms, each evoked an emotional response having its roots in an earlier tradition.

There's no subject you don't have permission to write about. Students often avoid subjects close to their heart―skateboarding, cheerleading, rock music, cars―because they assume that their teachers will regard these topics as 'stupid.' No area of life is stupid to someone who takes it seriously. If you follow your affections, you will write well and will engage your readers. I've read elegant books on fishing, mountain climbing, giant sea turtles and many other subjects I didn't think I was interested in. Write about your hobbies: cooking, gardening, photography, knitting, jogging, sailing, scuba diving. Write about your work: teaching, nursing, running a store. Write about a field you enjoyed in college and always meant to get back to: history, biography, art, archeology. No subject is too specialized if you make an honest connection with it when you write about it.

The above graph shows, by gender, the top five measures people took to maintain their physical health in 2014. Above all, the percentage of women was higher than that of men in all measures except in doing exercise. Getting enough sleep topped the list for both men and women. Eating healthy food was the second most common measure for women. The percentage of the men receiving regular oral care was the same as that of the men spending time with friends and family. The percentage gap between men and women was the biggest in receiving regular oral care, and was the smallest in getting enough sleep and in doing exercise.

Maria Mitchell was born on August 1, 1818, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Her awareness for astronomy came to life when her father began to teach her about the stars with the use of his own telescope. At twelve, she aided her father in calculating the exact moment of an annular eclipse. And at seventeen, she opened her very own school for girls, where she taught them science and math. Mitchell rocketed to the forefront of American astronomy when she spotted a comet through her telescope. For her discovery of the comet, she received a gold medal as a recognition from King Frederick VII of Denmark. This gave her worldwide fame, since the only previous women to discover a comet were the astronomers Caroline Herschel and Maria Margarethe Kirch. . In 1865 Mitchell became a faculty member at Vassar College, making her the first female astronomy professor in the United States

《Sandhill Pet Parade》 Just come with your pet to Madsen Field at 11 a.m., Sunday, March 13. ∎ 11:00 a.m. Registration ∎ 11:30 a.m. Parade ∎ 12:30 p.m. Awards All pets are welcome to participate. Entry is free and no pre-registration is required. Pet owners' costumes are optional but encouraged. Pet costumes are also encouraged. Awards will be given for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each category: ∎Large dogs ∎Small dogs ∎Cats and exotic pets Prizes & Honors include: ∎ PetSmart gift cards and Pets Hotel day camp passes ∎ Riding in an open car in the Sandhill Hometown Days Parade on May 20, 2016 For more information, contact us at info@shparade.net or at (560)135-6789.

《Trash-to-Art 2016》 Celebrate Eco Recycling Center's 10th anniversary by participating in a trash-to-art contest, sponsored by Hopkins Library. How to participate: • Submissions will be accepted on one day only: Friday, March 25 at Hopkins Library, from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. • Come see your art on display at Hopkins Library throughout the month of April! During this time, your artwork will be judged by our panel, as well as popular vote. Categories: • Adults (18 & older) • Teens (13-17) • Children (6-12) Awards: 1st, 2nd, & 3rd place in each category Guidelines:: • Each participant can submit up to two entries. • We reserve the right to decline entries that will pose health dangers. Visit ecorecycling.org or call (831)146-1483 to get more information.

Carlos Sanchez's long-time friend, Frank Sandoval, had fallen on hard times and was about to lose his home. Frank's wife was sick and their two small children were temporarily staying with his mother. Carlos hadn't talked to Frank for several months and decided one day to call him and see how he was. When Frank confided in Carlos about his situation, Carlos immediately went to Frank's home. When he walked in, he was shocked to see his friend so thin and frail. He sat down with Frank and asked him how much money he needed. Frank told him it was hopeless, that it was too much to pay back. Carlos pulled out his checkbook and wrote him a check for fifty thousand dollars. He told Frank that things would get better―and they did. Three years later, Frank paid Carlos back with interest.

Water has no calories, but it takes up a space in your stomach, which creates a feeling of fullness. Recently, a study found that people who drank two glasses of water before meals got full sooner, ate fewer calories, and lost more weight. You can put the same strategy to work by choosing foods that have a higher water content over those with less water. For example, the only difference between grapes and raisins is that grapes have about 6 times as much water in them. That water makes a big difference in how much they fill you up. You'll feel much more satisfied after eating 100 calories' worth of grapes than you would after eating 100 calories' worth of raisins. Salad vegetables like lettuce, cucumbers, and tomatoes also have a very high water content, as do broth-based soups.

The basic task of the preschool years is to establish a sense of competence and initiative. The core struggle is between initiative and guilt. Preschool children begin to initiate many of their own activities as they become physically and psychologically ready to engage in pursuits of their own choosing. If they are allowed realistic freedom to make some of their own decisions, they tend to develop a positive orientation characterized by confidence in their ability to initiate and follow through. If their choices are ridiculed, however, they tend to experience a sense of guilt and ultimately to withdraw from taking an active stance. One middle-aged woman we talked with still finds herself extremely vulnerable to being seen as foolish. She recalls that during her childhood family members laughed at her attempts to perform certain tasks. She took in certain messages she received from her family, and these messages greatly influenced her attitudes and actions. Even now she vividly carries these pictures in her head, and these messages continue to control her life.

I opened the letter and started reading. I didn't even read the whole thing. I read only the beginning―where it said, 'We are pleased to inform you that you have received a scholarship that covers full tuition'―and I started jumping and running around the house. I couldn't even believe it. I read the letter four more times. My dream school had offered me a full scholarship. That was more money than I could even imagine. All the stress, studying for exams, and staying up late to study―it was all worth it.

It takes time for water to soften a sponge. When you are telling an employee, lawn service worker, your teenager, or anyone else, what it is that you want them to do, you may just have to repeat the order and instructions several times before the receiver really gets what it is you want done. That's not bad. That's normal communication lag. Be patient. When you are asking someone a question, in an effort to learn a fact that you feel is important for you to know, but they just don't seem to be willing to give you an answer, take it as a signal that you need to rephrase your question a little and repeat it again, and again, and again, until finally you are heard and answered.

History is a discipline. It is the art of reconstructing the past. As historian John Tosh writes, All the resources of scholarship and all the historian's powers of imagination must be harnessed to the task of bringing the past to life—or resurrecting it. The past is messy, but historians make sense of the mess by collecting evidence, making meaning of it, and organizing it into some kind of discernible pattern. History is an exciting act of interpretation—taking the facts of the past and weaving them into a compelling narrative. The historian works closely with the stuff that has been left behind—documents, oral testimony, objects—to make the past come alive. As John Arnold has noted, The sources do not 'speak for themselves' and never have done so.... They come alive when the historian reanimates them.

While there is no denying that exceptional players like Emmitt Smith can put points on the board and enhance team success, new research suggests there is a limit to the benefit top talents bring to a team. Researchers compared the amount of individual talent on teams with the teams' success, and they found striking examples of more talent hurting the team. The researchers looked at three sports: basketball, soccer, and baseball. In each sport, they calculated both the percentage of top talent on each team and the teams' success over several years. For both basketball and soccer, they found that top talent did in fact predict team success, but only up to a point. Furthermore, there was not simply a point of diminishing returns with respect to top talent; there was in fact a cost. Basketball and soccer teams with the greatest proportion of elite athletes performed worse than those with more moderate proportions of top level players.

Healthy living in individuals lays the foundation for healthy living throughout society and the world. For instance, healthy relationships depend upon healthy individuals sharing personally and working mutually to develop win¬-win agreements on how to grow and maintain the relationship. Similarly, healthy parenting depends upon healthy parents. Children learn the foundations of how the world works and how to develop their personal reality relative to the consciousness and behaviors of their parents. They model and subconsciously embrace much of their parents' behavior, so it becomes their own. Thus, the beliefs and behaviors of parents provide psychological and social information to the children that function almost like food does for the body; in this case, the information helps build their personal realities and shape their behaviors. Consequently, psychological, social, as well as the physical diets provided by parents must all be healthy or the children learn to repeat the unhealthy patterns of their parents.

Gold is a relatively soft metal, so much so that rings are very rarely made from pure gold metal because they get scratched quickly. But if you alloy gold, by adding a small percentage of other metals such as silver or copper, you not only change the color of the gold—silver making the gold whiter, and copper making the gold redder—you make the gold harder, much harder. This changing of the properties of metals by very small additions of other ingredients is what makes the study of metals so fascinating. In the case of gold alloys, you might wonder where the silver atoms go. The answer is that they sit inside the gold crystal structure, taking the place of a gold atom, and it is this atom substitution inside the crystal lattice of the gold that makes it stronger.

A female lawyer working for a prestigious New York law firm once accompanied the male CEO of a major client to Latin America to negotiate a complex deal. Soon after they arrived, the head of the prospective Latin American partner suggested that he and the CEO go off together to discuss business―while his wife and the lawyer go shopping. The lawyer was outraged, assuming this to be an example of Latin American gender bias. Before voicing her objections, however, she called a colleague back in New York, who told her that he, too, had been excluded from preliminary talks during his last negotiation in that country. The Latin American executive was just looking for a diplomatic way to get her out of the picture as a lawyer, not as a woman. It was the local practice, the colleague suggested, for lawyers to negotiate only with other lawyers, not with the businesspeople. Had the woman lawyer insisted on participating, she would have spoiled the deal and destroyed her credibility.

The most successful retirees are those who look at retirement as a long endeavor that can last 20 or 30 years or longer. They don't throw all of their years of preparation away by investing in the next hot stock or investment idea. They're very careful with their finances; they know they have to make sure that their money will last for the rest of their lives. They stay conservative and focused on a finish line that is years and years away. People who struggle in retirement are those who still have a get rich quick mentality. Even though they no longer have the comfort of a paycheck coming in, they still put their retirement nest egg at risk by chasing every hot tip that they get. In other words, they are looking for short cuts to bring them financial stability and peace of mind.

Over the past century, society has witnessed extraordinary advances in medicine, science, and technology. These advances came about because an individual, or many individuals, used the full resources of his or her intellectual imagination to solve problems that had previously been thought to be unsolvable. However, during the same period, there has been no comparable worldwide advance in ethical behavior. That is, in part, because human beings rarely use the full resources of their intellect to solve moral problems. Exercising moral imagination means using our intelligence to devise creative and innovative ways to help others. Concerning charity, for example, it means not only providing immediate assistance to the impoverished, but also helping the poor in ways that will enable them to support themselves and no longer need help. Therefore, in any situation in which help is required, we should use our intelligence to discover the most effective and loving way to help those in need.

By some estimates, music based on oral tradition had previously seldom been performed for more than one or two generations. By contrast, with the coming of records not only were the classics preserved, but formerly ephemeral hits could now survive as oldies. So the music of one generation's youth could be replayed years later to evoke memories in some (often quite narrow) age group of people. Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms of course survived well beyond their social and cultural settings, taking on new meanings in the recordable world. Memories of falling in love or just being free and having fun also came to be linked to tunes that could be recalled or replayed again and again throughout life, thanks to the recording.

People tell about their own experiences all the time, but they do not necessarily tell about the same experience in the same way every time. The telling process, even in the relating of a firsthand experience, can be a highly inventive process. That is, the art of storytelling involves finding good ways to express one's experiences in a way appropriate to the listener. A fine line exists, therefore, between invented stories and the relation of firsthand experiences. The entertainment factor exists in relating firsthand experiences just as it does in inventing stories. Nobody wants to listen to what happened to you today unless you can make what happened appear interesting. The process of livening up an experience can involve simply telling that experience in such a way as to eliminate the dullest parts, or it also can involve 'improving' the dull parts by playing with the facts.

Ta¬Nahesi Coates, a senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly, ran a personal blog for years. Coates posts daily on a wide array of subjects: movies, politics, economic inequalities, the Civil War, TV shows, favorite poems, or whether pro football is too dangerous to play. Coates, who is African American, is also well known as an eloquent writer on race, and he posts about that frequently. Yet his blog is amazingly abuse¬free: comments spill into the hundreds without going off the rails. This is the most hot¬button issue in America, and folks have managed to keep a fairly level head, he says. The secret is the work Coates puts into his discussion board. Before he was a blogger himself, he'd noticed the terrible comments at his favorite political blogs. Coates realized that negative comments create a loop: they poison the atmosphere, chasing off productive posters. So when he started his own personal blog, he decided to break that loop. The instant he saw something abusive, he'd delete it, banning repeat offenders. Meanwhile, he went out of his way to encourage the smart folks, responding to them personally and publicly, so they'd be encouraged to stay and talk. And Coates was unfailingly polite and courteous himself, to help set community standards. Soon several dozen regular commenters emerged, and they got to know each other, talking as much to each other as to Coates. Their cohesion helped cement the culture of civility even more; anyone today who looks at the blog can quickly tell this community isn't going to tolerate nastiness.

The last Saturday of each month was always a highlight in Adrian's life. He and his dad had a regular fishing date. Adrian learned a lot about fishing and about life on these expeditions. His father pointed out that there are some rocks that are too dangerous to go onto, even when the sea looks calm. It might look like a perfect spot for fishing, but rocks that are too close to the water's edge can be deceptively dangerous. Many careless fishermen had lost their lives on these rocks. Concrete crosses marked the spots where these people had been swept into the sea. Adrian had had a few narrow escapes when he had ventured too close to the edge. He quickly learned to respect the mighty waters of the ocean. Adrian's dad also taught him which kinds of bait were suitable for catching various kinds of fish, and he also learned which sinkers were right for the different fishing areas. On top of that, he soon knew exactly how to make fishermen's knots and how to untie tricky knots in his fishing lines. But Adrian wasn't always keen to take his dad's advice. When his dad showed him how to bait his hook, he said that a little piece of the hook should always stick out, but Adrian thought otherwise. He thought it logical for the bait to hide the hook, so he ignored his dad―but after quite a few days of catching nothing, decided to follow his dad's advice. When he did so, he started catching really big fish―and his mom was delighted with the fresh fish she could cook for supper. Adrian gradually realized that it pays to listen to people with experience and knowledge of dangerous places. He also realized how stupid it was not to listen to his dad who gave him precious advice free of charge!