Once in a village lived a rich man. He had many slaves and servants for work. The rich man was very unkind and cruel to them. One day one of the slaves made a mistake while cooking food. He overcooked the food. When the rich man saw the food, he became angry and punished the slave. He kept the slave in a small room and locked it from outside. Somehow the slave escaped from that room and ran away. He went to a forest. There he saw a lion. Instead of becoming afraid of the lion and running away, he went close to the lion. He saw the lion was injured and one of his legs was bleeding. The slave searched for herbs to cure the lion's wound and took care of the lion. After a few days the lion recovered. The slave and the lion became very close friends. A few days went by but one day the slave was caught by one of the guards of the rich man. The guard took him to the rich man, who decided to punish him severely. The rich man ordered guards to put him in the lion's cage. The whole village got the news about it and came to see. As soon as the slave was locked in the lion's cage, the lion came near him and started licking his hand and hugged him. It was the same lion that the slave had helped in the forest. Seeing this, everyone was surprised. The rich man thought that the slave was such a great person that the lion didn't kill him. He freed the slave, made him his friend and started to treat all his servants and slaves better.

I heard something moving slowly along the walls. I searched for a match in the dark and tried to strike it, but it wouldn't light. This time I was certain: Something was moving in the tunnels, something alive, and it wasn't a rat. A very unpleasant smell came into my nostrils. Finally, I managed to light a match. At first I was blinded by the flame; then I saw something creeping toward me. From all the tunnels. Shapeless figures crawling like spiders. The match fell from my trembling fingers. I wanted to start running, but I couldn't.

Since you can't use gestures, make faces, or present an object to readers in writing, you must rely on words to do both the telling and the showing. Show more than you tell. Use words to make the reader see. For example, don't leave the reader guessing about Laura's beautiful hair. Show how the gentle wind touches the edge of her silky, brown hair. Don't just say you felt happy. Show yourself leaping down the steps four at a time, coat unzipped, shouting in the wind, Hurray, I did it!

It is important to recognize your pet's particular needs and respect them. If your pet is an athletic, high-energy dog, for example, he or she is going to be much more manageable indoors if you take him or her outside to chase a ball for an hour every day. If your cat is shy and timid, he or she won't want to be dressed up and displayed in cat shows. Similarly, you cannot expect macaws to be quiet and still all the time―they are, by nature, loud and emotional creatures, and it is not their fault that your apartment doesn't absorb sound as well as a rain forest.

Hydroelectric power is a clean and renewable power source. However, there are a few things about dams that are important to know. To build a hydroelectric dam, a large area must be flooded behind the dam. Whole communities sometimes have to be moved to another place. Entire forests can be drowned. The water released from the dam can be colder than usual and this can affect the ecosystems in the rivers downstream. It can also wash away riverbanks and destroy life on the river bottoms. The worst effect of dams has been observed on salmon that have to travel upstream to lay their eggs. If blocked by a dam, the salmon life cycle cannot be completed.

Give children options and allow them to make their own decisions―on how much they would like to eat, whether they want to eat or not, and what they would like to have. For example, include them in the decision-making process of what you are thinking of making for dinner―Lisa, would you like to have pasta and meatballs, or chicken and a baked potato? When discussing how much they should eat during dinner, serve them a reasonable amount; if they claim they are still hungry after they are through, ask them to wait five to ten minutes, and if they continue to feel hunger, then they can have a second plate of food. These are fantastic behaviors that, when taught properly, teach brilliant self-confidence and self-control.

The above graph shows the world's top international tourism spenders in 2014. China was at the top of the list with a total of 165 billion dollars. The United States of America (USA), the world's second largest spender, spent more than twice as much as Russia on international tourism. Germany, which spent 20 billion dollars less than the USA, took third place. The United Kingdom (UK) spent 58 billion dollars, which was more than half of the amount spent by the USA. Of the five spenders, Russia spent the smallest amount of money on international tourism.

《Green Chef Cooking Contest》 Welcome to our cooking contest! This is a community event. Your challenge is to use a seasonal ingredient to create a delicious dish. ∎ When:S unday, April 10, 2016, 3 p.m. ∎ Where: Hill Community Center ∎ Prizes: Gift cards to three winners Register at www.hillgreenchef.com Sign up by April 6 Participants should prepare their dishes beforehand and bring them to the event. Can't cook? Come eat! Join us in sampling the dishes and help to judge for just $3.

《Family Movie Night》 Join us for a 'free' Family Movie Night in the Bluebird Elementary School gym on Thursday, May 12 at 6:30 p.m. Movie: SNOW PRINCE Free Popcorn for Everyone! Pizza and soft drinks will be available for sale. ∎ Pizza Slice: $1.50 ∎ Soft Drinks: $1.00 Students must be accompanied by their parents or guardian for the entire evening. Bring your own blanket or pillow and get comfortable!

Kaspar Fürstenau was a German flutist and composer. After he was orphaned, Anton Romberg took care of him and taught him to play the bassoon, but Fürstenau was more interested in the flute. At the age of 15, he was already a skilled flutist and played in a military band. In 1793-94, Fürstenau made his first concert tour in Germany. In 1794, he became a member of the Chamber Orchestra of Oldenburg, where he played until the orchestra was abolished in 1811. Kaspar Fürstenau continued his career as a flutist performing together with his son Anton Fürstenau in the major cities of Europe.

Your parents may be afraid that you will not spend your allowance wisely. You may make some foolish spending choices, but if you do, the decision to do so is your own and hopefully you will learn from your mistakes. Much of learning occurs through trial and error. Explain to your parents that money is something you will have to deal with for the rest of your life. It is better that you make your mistakes early on rather than later in life. Explain that you will have a family someday and you need to know how to manage your money. Not everything is taught at school!

In most people, emotions are situational. Something in the here and now makes you mad. The emotion itself is tied to the situation in which it originates. As long as you remain in that emotional situation, you're likely to stay angry. If you leave the situation, the opposite is true. The emotion begins to disappear as soon as you move away from the situation. Moving away from the situation prevents it from taking hold of you. Counselors often advise clients to get some emotional distance from whatever is bothering them. One easy way to do that is to geographically separate yourself from the source of your anger.

Six-month-old Angela is sitting in her high chair during lunch and sees her bottle on the table. She is pretty tired―it's been a tough day!―and she wants her bottle. She looks at it as her mother, Sophie, feeds her and gets more and more frustrated. Eventually, she turns away from her mother's spoonfuls, arches her back, turns around in her high chair, and vocalizes as if she is about to cry. Sophie is clueless about what Angela wants. When Sophie happens to look at the table for another reason, she notices the bottle on it. That's what you want, she says, and gives Angela her bottle. Success at last!

Recently on a flight to Asia, I met Debbie, who was warmly greeted by all of the flight attendants and was even welcomed aboard the plane by the pilot. Amazed at all the attention being paid to her, I asked if she worked with the airline. She did not, but she deserved the attention, for this flight marked the milestone of her flying over 4 million miles with this same airline. During the flight I learned that the airline's CEO personally called her to thank her for using their service for a long time and she received a catalogue of fine luxury gifts to choose from. Debbie was able to acquire this special treatment for one very important reason: she was a loyal customer to that one airline.

Some of the most extensive research on the subject of success was conducted by George and Alec Gallup. They interviewed people acknowledged as successful in a wide variety of areas: business, science, literature, education, religion, etc. The goal of the researchers was to determine what these high-achieving people had in common. There was one thing they all had in common: the willingness to work long, hard hours. All of them agreed that success wasn't something that had just happened to them due to luck or special talents. It happened because they'd made it happen through continuous effort. Instead of looking for shortcuts and ways to avoid hard work, these people welcomed it as a necessary part of the process.

When you're eager to get your slice of the pie, why would you be interested in giving a hand to other people so that they can get their piece? If Ernest Hamwi had taken that attitude when he was selling zalabia, a very thin Persian waffle, at the 1904 World's Fair, he might have ended his days as a street vendor. Hamwi noticed that a nearby ice-cream vendor ran out of bowls to serve to his customers. Most people would have sniffed, Not my problem, perhaps even hoping the ice-cream vendor's misfortune would mean more customers for them. Instead, Hamwi rolled up a waffle and put a scoop of ice cream on top, creating one of the world's first ice-cream cones. He helped his neighbor and, in the process, made a fortune.

What's happening when we're actually doing two things at once? It's simple. Our brain has channels, and so we're able to process different kinds of data in different parts of our brain. Therefore, you can talk and walk at the same time. There is no channel interference. But you're not really focused on both activities. One is happening in the foreground and the other in the background. If you were trying to explain on the cell phone how to operate a complex machine, you'd stop walking. Similarly, if you were crossing a rope bridge over a valley, you'd likely stop talking. You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once.

Maybe you have watched the sun as it was setting in the sky. Sometimes it looks as though it is on fire, especially when it is shining through the clouds. The reason it looks that way is that the sun is on fire. Can you guess how hot the fire at the center of the sun is? It is more than 25 million degrees on the Fahrenheit scale! That's 250,000 times hotter than the hottest summer day at your favorite amusement park. But what may surprise you even more is there are many stars in the universe that are thousands of times hotter than the sun.

I did a television show once with Louis Armstrong. All of a sudden, as Louis was playing, a fly landed on his nose. So he blew it off. He kept singing, and the fly landed back on his nose. So he blew it off again. It was being taped, and everyone in the audience tried not to show they were laughing. They didn't want to let their laughter out and ruin his performance. When Louis finished, everybody burst into laughter. And then the director came out and said: Let's do one more take without the fly. But that was the take he should have put on TV.

Most dictionaries list names of famous people. The editors must make difficult decisions about whom to include and whom to exclude. Webster's New World Dictionary, for example, includes Audrey Hepburn but leaves out Spencer Tracy. It lists Bing Crosby, not Bob Hope; Willie Mays, not Micky Mantle. Executive editor Michael Agnes explains that names are chosen based on their frequency of use and their usefulness to the reader. According to him, however, entertainers who are alive are not included. For that very reason, Elton John and Paul McCartney aren't in the dictionary, but both Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, who died decades ago, are.

It's great to have people in your life who believe in you and cheer you on. They are truly interested in what you are trying to achieve and support you in all of your goals and efforts. Each of us needs people in our lives who encourage us so that we can feel confident in our capabilities and move forward toward our goals. But there will be times in your life when there is no one around to stand up and cheer you on. When this happens, don't get depressed. Instead, become your own cheerleader. Give yourself a motivational pep talk because nobody knows your strengths and talents better than you and no one can motivate you better than you.

The water that is embedded in our food and manufactured products is called virtual water. For example, about 265 gallons of water is needed to produce two pounds of wheat. So, the virtual water of these two pounds of wheat is 265 gallons. Virtual water is also present in dairy products, soups, beverages, and liquid medicines. Every day, humans consume lots of virtual water and the content of virtual water varies according to products. For instance, to produce two pounds of meat requires about 5 to 10 times as much water as to produce two pounds of vegetables.

Children are much more resistant to giving something to someone else than to helping them. One can observe this difference clearly in very young children. Even though one-and-a-half-year-olds will support each other in difficult situations, they are not willing to share their own toys with others. The little ones even defend their possessions with screams and, if necessary, blows. This is the daily experience of parents troubled by constant quarreling between toddlers. There was no word I heard more frequently than Mine! from my daughters when they were still in diapers.

Food is one of the most important tools you can use as a manager. Having a full stomach makes people feel satisfied and happier. Eating together gives employees time to make connections with each other. Providing an occasional snack or paying for a lunch now and then can help your employees feel appreciated and make the office feel more welcoming. These do not need to be elaborate setups. If you have a small budget, you're not going to want to buy lunch at a restaurant for your entire group. Bringing in some cookies once in a while is enough; you can also encourage employees to bring in food themselves. The key to using food effectively is for it not to become a planned event. If everyone knows you bring donuts to the Friday morning meeting, it becomes an expectation and not a surprise. To create goodwill, the food must appear to be unexpected. It is also a good idea to praise employees who bring food in without being asked; this creates an atmosphere of sharing.

Families don't grow strong unless parents invest precious time in them. In New Man, Gary Oliver writes about a difficult decision made by professional baseball player Tim Burke concerning his family. From the time Tim can first remember, his dream was to be a professional baseball player. Through years of hard work he achieved that goal. While he was a successful pitcher for the Montreal Expos, he and his wife wanted to start a family but discovered that they were unable to have children. After much thought, they decided to adopt four special¬needs international children. This led to one of the most difficult decisions of Tim's life. He discovered that his life on the road conflicted with his ability to be a quality husband and dad. Over time, it became clear that he couldn't do a good job at both. After more thought, he made what many considered an unbelievable decision: he decided to give up professional baseball. When Tim left the stadium for the last time, a reporter stopped him. And then he asked why he was retiring. Baseball is going to do just fine without me, he said to the reporter. It's not going to miss a beat. But I'm the only father my children have and I'm the only husband my wife has. And they need me a lot more than baseball does.