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作业来啦~~吼吼一切要回归正轨不能再懒了W!!!还有跟大家说一下 以后我的文章不会有标题了 因为我之前做的时候觉得有标题心里就会有个固定的思维了 自己的总结就会偷懒 所以我就想试试看这样效果怎么样 不知道大家同意否~~~~反对多的话我就下次又回到以前的格式~~~~THANK YOU ^^
插播：12系列出勤统计
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[Time1]
In Rome’s Chinatown, the Blue Skies travel agency is selling more one-way tickets to China than returns. The manager of the Mei Dan beauty parlour says Canada is the new dream, while the Golden Home property agency reports falling prices as immigrants sell up and leave.
“Many, many Chinese are going back home,” says Sonia Fen, a restaurant owner and television celebrity who has lived in Italy for 21 years. “No business and no work. It is a terrible situation.”
As quietly as they began to arrive in large numbers a decade ago, the Chinese community is slipping away, the many “for sale” signs posted on closed-up shops around Rome’s Piazza Vittorio a testament to their exodus. Although Canada is a fresh destination for a minority, China’s rapidly expanding economy is also beckoning.
The trend is not limited to the Chinese, and is apparent across immigrant groups in Italy – a grim consequence of its longest postwar recession, and a warning of how hard it will be for the country to start growing again.
Italy has awful demographics and needs immigrants, notes Antonio Golini, professor of sustainable development at Rome’s Luiss university.
A low birth rate and a population that is pushing back the boundaries of longevity mean that there are fewer Italians and they are getting older, putting an unsustainable burden on the welfare budget.
Results of the October 2011 census released last month revealed a 0.5 per cent fall in the number of Italians in the previous decade. The only age band that is increasing is of that from 70 to 80. Without an increase in resident immigrants, from 1.33m to 4.03m, Italy’s population – a total of 59.4m people in 2011 – would have fallen.
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[Time2]
The mind is a powerful thing, and in a nanosecond, it can elevate or crush our mood. There’s a real problem when we start buying into the negative thoughts we have about ourselves.
Negative thoughts conjures up bad feelings and hooks you into believing that what those old tapes in your head are playing is actually true. In short, it brings your focus to your failures, and that gets you nowhere.
What can you do? Here are some suggestions:
1. Live in the moment
Self-talk is so subtle that we often don’t notice its effect on our mood and belief systems. Key things to notice are “if only or “what if” statements: the former keep you stuck in the past with regret, while the latter keep you fearful of the future. There is nothing you can do about the past, and the future isn’t here yet, so stay in the present moment.
2. Visualize the good things
If we want to change the negative tapes playing in our heads, we have to visualize ourselves positively—that means seeing yourself non-judgmentally. Picture accepting yourself. How would that look? Draw a picture in your mind and expand on it.
3. Recognize that actions always follow beliefs
Whatever you believe, you’ll experience more of, and you’ll also find yourself behaving in ways that are congruent with your beliefs. So, start believing the best about yourself: act as if you believe that you’re a valuable and worthy person.
4. Pay attention to triggers
Triggers are anything that can start the old tapes playing. If a certain person is a trigger for you, set boundaries with them.
5. Develop positive counterstatements to refute negative self-talk
Instead of always putting yourself down in your head, think of some things you actually like about yourself. What are your strengths, what are you good at? Keep your counterstatements in the here-and-now, instead of saying “I’m not good enough” try saying, “I am capable. I’m good at ______. I accept myself the way I am.”
Thinking poorly about ourselves gets us nowhere and is extremely self-limiting. Decide today to turn off the negative self-talk channel in your mind and develop your true potential.
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[Time3]
Ge Donghua looks tired. With a tough job market at the year-end it will be a tough Spring Festival. “Looking for a job is exhausting,” said the fresh graduate from Beijing University of Technology. “We have to condescend ourselves to giving up on ideal posts and accepting average jobs. It’s depressing.”
Ge’s graduation blues is shared by the majority of his peers, according to the 2013 Blue Book of China’s Society released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). The report indicates that 70 percent of college graduates see themselves at the mid-lower or lower level in the social stratification. With a growing number of college graduates considering themselves to belong to the lower levels of society, experts suggest that students lower their expectations of the job market.
As the 2010 Report on Chinese College Graduate Job Pressure, released by CASS, shows, 18 percent of graduates would accept unpaid employment, compared with only 1.58 percent in 2006.
“The once high-flying college graduates are now accepting the fact that they are not as rare as their predecessors decades ago,” commented South Metropolitan Daily last week. Experts say that the expansion of university enrolment since 1999 significantly increased university output while society’s ability to absorb such a great number of graduates has not been fully developed.
Hu Ruiwen, from the Shanghai Academy of Educational Sciences, said that graduates positioning themselves at the lower levels of society is a reflection of the current market demand for college graduates.
Hu thinks it is inevitable that college graduates face a tough market, with the country’s university education having been transformed from elite education to popular one.“To some extent, universities now shoulder part of the responsibility to produce an educated workforce, rather than just academic talents,” said Hu.
According to a report by the National Instituteof Education Sciences, domestic demand for academic personnel from research institutions and universities is about 100,000 per year. “But there are over half a million postgraduate students entering a job market,” said Hu. “It’s easy to feel disillusioned when one’s expectations meet reality.”
Wang Feng, from the National Center of Education Development Research, agrees. Wang thinks that China’s higher education is now facing a dilemma. It is caught between professional and academic education. “The country now needs a great number of well-educated workers to serve its expanding industrial and technological ambitions,” said Wang.
“At the same time, the education model retains its traditional, even outdated approach, meaning graduates struggle in a market that emphasizes professional skills.”
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[Time4]
A kindergarten teacher has decided to let her class play a game.
The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes.
Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates,
So the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.
So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/she hated. Some had 2 potatoes; some 3 while some up to 5 potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry with them the potatoes in the plastic bag wherever they go (even to the toilet) for 1 week.
Days after days passed by, and the children started to complain due to the unpleasant smell let out by the rotten potatoes. Besides, those having 5 potatoes also had to carry heavier bags. After 1 week, the children were relieved because the game had finally ended....
The teacher asked: "How did you feel while carrying the potatoes with you for 1 week?". The children let out their frustrations and started complaining of the trouble that they had to go through having to carry the heavy and smelly potatoes wherever they go.
Then the teacher told them the hidden meaning behind the game. The teacher said: "This is exactly the situation when you carry your hatred for somebody inside your heart. The stench of hatred will contaminate your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot tolerate the smell of rotten potatoes for just 1 week, can you imagine what is it like to have the stench of hatred in your heart for your lifetime???"
Moral of the story: Throw away any hatred for anyone from your heart so that you will not carry sins for a lifetime. Forgiving others is the best attitude to take!
True love is not loving a perfect person but loving an imperfect person perfectly!!
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[Time5]
Canada Post ushered in the Chinese Lunar New Year with their highly anticipated Year of the Water Snake stamps on Tuesday in the Canadian city of Toronto.
The latest issue combined complex techniques and luxurious designs to portray both the essence of the snake and beliefs of the Chinese people. On the domestic issue, a red snake is seen gliding on water, while on the international issue, there's a yellow and jade green snake coiled into a figure eight, an auspicious number in the Chinese culture.
The design team spent months researching on-line, consulting experts in the Chinese community, and producing hundreds of drafts before coming up with the final design. Stamps may be small, but the designs require a lot of thought and intricacy to complete, said Lafferty.
"It takes over a year to put together a stamp of this caliber and design and several reviews of the design elements," she said. "This one's quite unique, it has embossing, it has gold foil to make it extra luxurious for the snake and a lot of detail."
Dozens of avid collectors left satisfied, with the new designs in their hands. One collector, Fong Chen, left with over 300 Canadian dollars worth of items. He says he never misses out on the Chinese Lunar New Year stamps, something that's become a bit of a tradition for his family.
"The stamps are a piece of our culture, a piece of Chinese culture, so it's good to let the kids know, it keeps a tradition too," he said.
Janet Williams, one of the many collectors waiting in line for the stamp designers to autograph her new stamps, echoed the same sentiments.
"They're so pretty, and it's our pride and joy of Canada that produces it," she said. "I'll keep on collecting them."
Other than its gorgeous designs, Williams said flipping through the stamps she's collected over the last few decades have now become a way for her to reminisce the earlier years.
"In the stamp, I enjoy most of all is the color and the meaning of it. I truly believe what it portrays and what it predicts," she said. "It's just fascinating to collect them, it brings me joy to look at them, and I enjoy going back through the pages of every year what I've been through, the trials and tribulations."
Chinese Lunar New Year is a significant event on the Chinese calendar. Feb. 10 will mark the end of the Year of the Dragon, and ring in the Year of the Snake.
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OBSTACLE
There is always a little time after a breakup where you allow yourself to imagine that it isn’t real. Sure, you had a big fight. Yes, you needed some space apart from one another. And you were willing to endure a few difficult weeks where you stayed in your respective corners and reflected on all the mistakes you made. All of this, you knew how to wrap your mind around. You could live it because there was a voice in the back of your head — one you intentionally fostered — which said that this was all some grave mistake. At some point in the near future, you thought, the two of you were going to come running back into one another’s arms, admitting how wrong you were to ever go, and explaining how you perfectly mirror the other’s feelings. Everything was supposed to work out.
And as long as that is a possibility, as long as you are able to tell yourself, “This is going to work out at some point,” it’s okay. At least until you’re proven wrong, the breakup isn’t quite real. Sure, it’s not like it was before, but it’s as if you’re standing outside a home for which you still have the key. You’re cold now, but you’ll go back inside. And even without a vague sign of reciprocation for your lingering feelings, you’ll stay in the limbo for as long as they’ll let you. It’s better, of course, than finding out that they’re over it. Anything is preferable to that.
One day, though, it’s going to happen. You’re going to hear through mutual friends that they’re seeing someone else. You’re going to hear rumors which become too detailed, too realistic, to ignore any longer. You’re going to simultaneously want to see proof so badly that you’ll go out of your way to run into the couple, and want to pretend as though they do not and have never existed. Their presence in your life puts and end to both your former relationship, and the increasingly tenuous hope that you would be able to pick up where you left off. Suddenly, there is no gray space to inhabit where things would likely one day work themselves out. There is a feeling of your ex somehow crossing an invisible line. Before, everything was forgivable. Before, the breakup was simply a mutual mistake. Now, they have slept with someone else. They have held hands with someone else. They may have even told someone else they loved them. What were once easy steps to retrace are now intensely complicated, peppered with hurt feelings and your recurring thoughts of what they must look like in bed together.
You wish you could ignore it, but it’s all you can think of. As your mutual friends all turn their eyes to you — waiting for you to lose it, waiting for you to go into “crazy ex” mode and start implicating them in your messiness — you can’t help but turn your eyes to the new couple. You have never felt a stronger desire to know every detail and yet be so wounded by every thought. You want to know, but you don’t.
You hate them, but you love them. And all the while, the pressure to remain mature, to remain the person who accepts a love lost with a stoic generosity, becomes more than you can bear. It feels as though everyone gets to continue living their life and enjoying themselves except you. You are the one who has to be humiliated, who has to learn from everyone else’s mistakes.
There are moments where you consider calling. You get drunk enough to dial a number that you might hang up on, or drive past their house ten times without ever parking the car. You torture yourself with the prospect of standing up for yourself, of making your presence known, even if it inconveniences everyone. And then you realize it — what may be the most damaging of all your unfortunate epiphanies. The truth is, they don’t owe you anything. You are no longer together, and they no longer want you. As much as you want to paint this new couple as a personal slight against everything you had together, the “you” as you understood it no longer exists. And every overture you make to get them to apologize for a wrong they didn’t actually commit only proves that you are the one who has lost. And so you stare at their name in your contacts, you realize that you aren’t going to call them — that you couldn’t even if you really had the courage to — and you wonder how you start to forget a number you’ve known by heart for so long.
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