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Benefits of Nurturing a Plant
What food could it possibly do to nurture a 
plant? A plant, however, is easy to love just the way it is. Therefore, nurturing a plant offers us an excellent opportunity to practice unconditional love.Why does virtually every spiritual tradition advocate unconditional love? Because love has such transformational power. Unconditional love brings forth peaceful feelings in both the giver and the receiver.
Select a plant, indoor or outdoor, that you will see every dday.
Practice taking care of and loving that plants as if it were your baby. And it’s easier to care for your plant that your baby—no sleepless nights, no diapers, no crying. Talk to your plant; tell it how much you love it. Love your 
plant whether it blooms or not, whether it lives or dies. Just love it. Notice how you feel as you offer this plant your unconditional love. When you offer this type of love you’re never agitated, irritated, or hurried. You’re simply in a loving space. Practice this type of love each time you see your plant, at least once a day.After a short while, you’ll be able to extend your loving kindness beyong your plant as well. As you notice how
good it feels to love, see if you can offer a similar love to the people in your life. Practice not needing them to change or be different to receive your love. Love them just the way thay are. Your plant can be a wonderful teacher—showing you the power of love. -
Travel to Vancouver
Vancouver is a young city, even by North American standards.
It was not yet a town when British Columbia became part of the Canadian Confederation in 1871. the city’s history, such as it is, remains visible to the naked eye: eras are stacked east to west along the waterfront, from cobblestone late-Victorian Gastown to shiny postmodem glass cathedrals of commerce.
The Chinese, among the first to recognize the possobilities of Vancouver’s setting, came to British Columbia during the 1850s seeking the gold that inspired them to name the province Gum-shan, or Gold Mountain.
For its original inhabitants, the Coast Salish peoples, Vancouver was the sacred spot where the mythical Thunderbird and Killer Whale flung wind
and rain all about the heavens during their epic battles. How else to explain the coast’s fits of meteorological temper? Devotees of a later religious tradition might worship in the groves of Stanley Park or in the fir and cedar interior of Christ Church Cathedral, the city’s oldeset church.Vancouver, with a metropolitian-area population of about
2million, is booming. The mild climate, exquisite natural scenery, and relaxed, outdoor lifestyle is attracting new residents to British Columbia’s business center, and the number of visitors is increasing for the same reasons. Many people get their first glimpse of Vancouver when catching an Alaskan cruise, and many return at some point to spend more time here. -
Give the Right Gifts
Giving gifts is not a normal part of British business culture.
Indeed, British business colleagues are quite likely to feel embarrassed to receive any gift at all. The only exception would be at the conclusion of a deal when it might be appropriate to give a unique commemorative item to mark the occasion. Such items might be gold, sliver, or porcelain with a 
suitable inscription. Again, to voild embarrassment on the part of the recipient, the object must be restrained, tasteful, and not ostentatiously expensive.Small gifts such as a pen or a book, again suitably inscribed, would be suitable tokens of genuine gratitude, and flowers or wine/champagne suffice to thank colleagues for their services. Do not, however, appear patronising or unduly forward, especially if the recipient is a woman.
Alternatively, it will often be appreciated if you invite your
hosts, or others you wish to thank, out for a meal or to the theatre or opera. It is always good form to buy a round of drinks for your colleagues after work.Business gifts are never exchanged at Christmas but it may be appropriate to send a card, particularly as an expression of thanks to your business associates but also as a means of maintaining valuable contacts. Bear in mind that the UK postal service was
founded at about the same time as the antiquated railways so ensure that your cards are mailed in good time.If you know that you are going to stay with a family, it is a good idea to bring something from your own country. Your hosts are letting you into the intimacy of their home, so a coffee-table book about your area of some artefact that typifies
it would consititute a way of letting your hosts into some of the secrets of your own home. If you are unprepared, then your time in your hosts’ house should allow you to think of something they would really appreciate even if you have to mail it from home on your return. -
Introduction of Clothing’s History
Clothing refers to a variety of wearing clothes. Clothing refers to prevend cold and keep warm, athletic supporter of the medium; in modern society it is regarded as the human body decoration items—good, bad, expensive, cheap, it is more of a symbol of a person’s the standard of living (consumption level) and social status of the expression status of goods. And it also plays the same basic function that is original, and the difference is only on the texture.The ancestors of human beings are not wearing clothes. Adam and Eve were naked living at the Eden Years, no taboos tied and they can live quite at ease.
Later, the snake seduced them, and they ate the fruits.
They began to have emotions and began to have a sense of shame, so they put on clothing made by fig leaves. Maybe the clothes of the human ancestors cohered the shame, the mood of people. There is no shelter against the elements to withstand the cold of the function, so perhaps the Garden of Eden are fundamentally not cold.
After all, nature has winter and summer, so then they added some nature factors. People began to use clothing to wrap themselves in layers. They became more and more thick. Underwear should be outside the jacket, coat still needs to work outside the smock, and head is added to a variety of hats and scarves, while the feet wearing shoes are not enough, but also putting on something called socks. What’s more in India, it is not enough for women to wrap a scarf on their heads, and they also cover a layer of hazy veil on their faces. Analyzed together, it removed the reasons of the use of cold and folklore and still had some moral values. The clothes developed to the subsequent emergence of the bikini. There has been miniskirt, and working on the material it will bravely develop with the “thin and thoroughly exposed”. Clothes get rid of a number of useful properties and come into the aesthetic areas. The fashion industry has become popular, and the fashion models go to the stage for showing in style. -
Coffee and Coffee Shop (2)
More generally, coffeehouses became meeting places where
business could be carried on, news exchanged and the gazettes read. By 1739 there were 551 coffeehouses in London, including meeting places for Tories and Whigs, people of fashion or the “cits” of the old city center. Coffeehouses were known as gathering places for stockjobbers, merchants and lawyers, booksellers and authors. According to one French visitor, the Abbé Prévost, coffeehouses, “where you have the right to read all the papers for and against the government,” were the “seats of English liberty.”At that time ladies were not permitted in coffeehouses. In a well-known engraving of a Parisian coffeehouse of ca. 1700, the gentlemen hang their hats on pegs and sit at long communal tables strewn with papers and writing implements. Coffeepots are ranged at an open fire, with a hanging cauldron of boiling water. The only woman present, is directly separated in a canopied booth, whence she doles out coffee in cups.
In London, coffeehouses preceded the club of the mid-18th century, which skimmed away some of the more aristocratic clientele. Lloyd’s of London started in a coffeehouse. Auctions in salesrooms attached to coffeehouses provided the start for the great auction houses of Sotheby’s and Christie’s.In New York the Tontine Coffeehouse at the foot of Wall Street near the docks became a central meeting place. In small cities a coffeehouse functioned as a place where messages might be left and picked up. American coffee shops are also often connected with indie, jazzman, and will often have them playing either live or recorded in their shops.
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Coffee and Coffee Shop (1)
The word “coffee” entered English in 1598 via Italian caffé, via Turkish kahve, from Arabic qahwah. Its ultimate origin is uncertain, there being several legendary accounts of the origin of the drink. One possible explanation is the Kaffa region in Ethiopia, where the plant originated.Coffee shop, or café shares some of the characteristics of a bar, and some of the characteristics of a restaurant. As the name suggests, coffeehouses focus on providing coffee and tea as well as light snacks. In some countries, café may more closely resemble restaurants, offering a range of hot meals, and possibly being licensed to serve alcohol. Since the 16th century, in Persia, the coffeehouse has reserved as a social gathering place where men assemble to drink coffee or tea, listen to music, play chess, perhaps hear a recitation from the Shahnameh.
The traditional tale of the origins of Viennese coffeehouse begins from the mysterious sacks of green beans left behind when the Turks were defeated in the Battle of Vienna in 1683. A knowing Turkish-speaking Pole supposedly began the first coffeehouse in Vienna with the hoard.
Coffeehouses first became popular in Europe upon the
introduction of coffee in the 17th century. The first London coffeehouse opened in Cornhill in 1652; Boston had its first in 1670, and Paris in 1672. Though Charles Ⅱ later tried to suppress them as “places where the disaffected met, and spread scandalous reports concerning the conduct of His Majesty and his Ministers” (a criticism that was accurate—both the French and American revolutions were largely plotted in coffeehouses), the public flocked to them. They were great social levelers, open to all, and as a result associated with equality and republicanism. -
Eyes Talk For You
I know a lot of people feel really uncomfortable when people
stare at them, but it doesn’t bother me so much. I think there usually is a reason for them to do so. Maybe they like what I’m wearing. Maybe I remind them of someone they know. Or maybe they are just observing how tall I am! Anyway, I guess they don’t mean any offence. They are just friendly and curious. Personally, I’m always curious about the people around and I know I would stare at others more if it wasn’t “against the rules”.In Asia, it’s not culturally impolite to stare and as a white person, people really tend to stare at you. I know that a lot of travelers find it very offensive, but in Nepal, I learnt that the best thing to do was to stare back at the person staring at you. Sometimes it would take a full 10 seconds or more of staring and smiling but eventually the other people would start to smile and you felt a real connection. Actually it’s really amazing what you can say with your eyes alone.
However, have you ever wondered what happens if you do break the eye contact rules? That must be very terrible! If you do the wrong things, there must be a trouble waiting for you. Don’t try it easily.
So whatever you go in the world you can say a lot without even opening your mout. The problem is that sometimes what you are saying with your eyes depends on where in the world you are. One thing is for sure, though. Wherever in the world you end up, a friendly look and a smile can open doors. So I challenge you to go out there and let your eyes do the talking.
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Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland (often called “Ulster” after an ancient Irish Kingdom which once existed in that part of Ireland) is the smallest of the four nations, both in area and population. With only 1.5 million people, it is smaller than many Chinese cities. Its capital, Belfast, is a relatively small town of around 350,000 people, but is much the biggest city in the province. Though Northern Ireland is small it is significant because of the political troubles there.Physically, it is mostly rural, with low hills, a beautiful district in the south-west, and a rugged coastline, which includes its most famous landmark, the “Giant’s Causeway”, a rocky promontory made up of black hexagonal columns formed by cooling lava millions of years ago. Legend has it that the giant
Finn Macool built it to cross the sea to Scotland. The nature of its link to Great Britain has been a key element in Northern Ireland’s history, and remains an issue today.The Northern Ireland economy has its problems, partly as a result of the troubles discouraging investment, partly as a result of its peripherality in relation to the UK. Its wealth per head is the lowest of any UK region. Nevertheless living costs are also comparatively low, and a standard of living is possible for those of middle to upper incomes which many Londoners might envy. Industrial companies there include the aircraft manufacturers, Shorts, who build small commuter aircraft, as well as parts for other manufactures such as Boeing, and the UK’s largest shipbuilders, Harland and Woolf.
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Wales
The capital of Wales is Cardiff, a small city of about 300,000 people on the south coast. This southern area was an important element in Britain’s industrial revolution, as it had rich coal deposits. Coal-mining became a key industry for the Welsh, employing tens of thousands at its height. So its recent disappearance has been a major economic and cultural blow.
But South Wales has been very successful in attracting investment from abroad—particularly Japan and the United States, which has helped to create new industries to replace coal and steel.Wales is the smallest among the three nations on the British mainland, though larger than Northern Ireland. It is very close to the most densely populated parts of central England. Though it is hillier and more rugged than adjacent parts of England there is no natural boundary. So Wales has been dominated by England for longer than the other nations of the union. Nevertheless, what is remarkable is that despite this nearness and long-standing political integration Wales retains a powerful sense of
its difference from England. It also retains its own language, Welsh. This is a Celtic tongue completely different from English, spoken by 19% of the population, a much higher proportion of the population than speak Gaelic in Scotland. Again, all those Welsh-speakers are also fluent in English.As in Scotland the Welsh people elect their Members of the Parliament to the London parliament. The Walsh too have nationalist party, “Plaid Cymru” (The Party of Wales), which campaigns for an independent Wales. Of the 38 Welsh MPs, 4 are members of the party. Under a Labor government Wales will probably gain its own parliament to manage its own internal affairs.
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Scotland
Scotland is the second largest of the four nations, both in population and in geographical area. It is also the most confident of its own identity because alone amongst the non-English components of the UK it has previously spent a substantial period of history as a unified state independent of the UK.
Physically Scotland is the most rugged part of the UK, with areas of sparsely populated mountains and lakes in the worth, and in the south. Three quarters of the population lives in the lowland zone which spans the country between these two highland areas. The largest city is Glasgow, in the west of this zone, Scotland’s capital city is Edinburgh, on the east coast forty miles away from Glasgow. It is renowned for its beauty, and dominated by its great castle on a high rock in the center of the city. Both cities have ancient and internationally respected universities dating from the 15th century.Scotland was not conquered by the Romans, though they did try to, and for a while occupied as far as the edge of the northern highland zone. Nor was most of Scotland conquered in the southeast-hence Edinburgh’s Germanic name. Like England, Scotland began to experience Viking raids in the 9th century. In 1603, however, Queen Elizabeth the First of England died childless, and the next in line to the throne was James the Sixth of Scotland, so he also became James the First of England, uniting the two thrones. But for another hundred years
Scotland maintained its separate political identity. However, in 1707 by agreement of the English and Scottish parliaments, Scotland joined the Union.The dream of an independent Scotland has not vanished. Members of the Scotland Parliament were elected for a fixed four-year term. The Labor Party, which had traditionally done well in elections in Scotland, became the largest single party. The Scotland National Party which wants an independent Scotland is the second largest party and the Conservative Party the third largest in the Parliament.
Scotland has a great tradition of innovation in the arts, philosophy and science. There is a good way to think of Scotland: superficially fully integrated into the UK, but concealed beneath this is a still-strong Scottish identity.
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