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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. -
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. -
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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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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Pets Are Important
The basic meaning of “pet” is an animal we keep for emotional rather than economic reasons. A pet animal is kept as a
companion, and we all need companions to keep as feeling happy. But pets offer more than mere companionship: they invite us to love and be loved. Many owners feel their pets understand them, for animals are quick to sense anger and sorrow. Often a cat or a dog can comfort us at times when human words don’t help. We feel loved, too, by the way pets depend on us for a home, for good and drink. Dogs especially look up to their owners, which makes them feel important and needed.A pet can be something different to each member of the family, another baby to the mother, a sister or brother to an only child, a grandchild to the elderly, but for all of us pets provide pleasure and companionship. It has even been suggested that tiny pets should be sent as companions to astronauts on space ships, to help reduce the stress and loneliness of space flights.
In this Plastic Age, when most of us live in large cities, pets are particularly important for children. A pet in the family keeps people in touch with the more natural animal world. Seeing an animal give birth brings understanding of the naturalness of
childbirth, and seeing a pet die helps a child to cope with sorrow. Learning to care for a pet helps a child to grow up into a loving adult who feels responsible toward those dependent on them. Rightly we teach children to be good to their pets. They should learn, too, that pets are good for us human beings. -
The Mid-Autumn Festival in China
This year, there is something special about the Mid-Autumn Festival in China, because it falls on October 3, overlapped with the country’s National Day holiday, and people in China could have eight days for holiday. That is so exciting and people can get together for enjoying the long holiday.
The joyous Mid-Autumn Festival, the third and last festival for the living, is celebrated to the fifteenth day of the autumn equinox. Many referred to it simply as the “Fifteenth of the Eighth Moon”. In the western calendar, the day of the festival usually occurs sometime between the second week of September and the second week of October. This day is also considered a harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grain has been harvested by this time and food is abundant. With delinquent accounts settle prior to the festival, it is a time for relaxation and celebration. Food offerings are placed on an altar set up in the courtyard. Apples, pears, peaches, grapes, pomegranates, melons, oranges and pomelos might be seen. Special foods for the festival included moon cakes, cooked taro, edible snails from the taro patches or rice paddies cooked with sweet basil and water caltrope, a type of water chestnut resembling black buffalo horns. Some people insist that cooked taro be included because at the time of creation, taro is the first food discovered at night in the moonlight. Of all these foods, it could not be omitted from the Mid-Autumn Festival.The round moon cakes, measuring about three inches in
diameter and one and a half inches in thickness, resemble western fruitcakes in taste and consistency. These cakes are made with melon seeds, lotus seeds, almonds, minced meats, bean paste, orange peels and lard. A golden yolk from a salted duck egg is placed at the center of each cake, and the golden brown crust is decorated with symbols of the festival.In China, there are several famous Chinese poems about the Mid-Autumn festival. The mostly widespread is the poem written by Li Bai: Thoughts in the Silent Night
Besides my bed a pool of light—
Is it hoarfrost on the ground?
I lift my eyes and see the moon,
I bend my head and think of home.
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The Fulcrum of Life
One young man was sentenced to life imprisonment, he lost the courage to live. In preparation for the end of his life, he recalls a living in his world of more than 20 years, family members, relatives, schoolmates, teachers, who had himself said that a commendable, and to encourage the warm words.
He thinks of at this time, I do not die right away as long as being able to search for to one, I am only wanted for this one
words but lived down. He has remembered half finally, suddenly, that has been that a fine arts teacher speaks in middle school. Think that the teacher says when he intersects up a set of the practical joke crow work: “You have drawn some what dry color is a little fairly beautiful.” This phrase has become praise of the young people the world over the past search of a placement, with the impact point, he survived and became a writer.To everyone, there must be a fulcrum in their lives. The fulcrum of live can warm our hearts and give the courage to us. With it, we can live better full of confidence and faith. You know, “Give me a lever, I can pry up God’s earth.” It just points out the truth. In our lives, someone will say some words to make you warm and kind. You will keep them in your mind. When you are in trouble, you will remind of them and be encouraged by them. Scientists study shows that in fact the people’s eyes constantly search the world, from one placement to another placement. If for any search and could not find a placement, it will be because of tension and the blind. Also, warm words can change one personal destiny, because of he has got eternal belief and the fulcrum of life. From the little story, we can find the truth. Remember the story, and often call attention to yourselves about the warm words in your whole lives.
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