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If you're planning on hitting up a festival this summer, make sure you check out the latest packing guide to camping music festivals.
Quebec City Summer Festival
When: July 4-14
Where: Toronto, Quebec
300 shows, 10 places and 11 days of music make this festival one of Canada's biggest music festivals. Every year, this festival attracts over one million festivalgoers to Quebec City's historic district for concerts by international superstars and top new talents.
Center of Gravity
When: July 28-30
Where: Kelowna, British Columbia
Canada's hottest beach festival is back! Now in its 10th year, the biggest and exciting festival to hit the Okanagan includes three days packed with extreme sports, sandy beaches, and some of the biggest DJ names in the world.
Future Forest
When: August 5-7
Where: Fredericton, New Brunswick
Future Forest is an outdoor camping festival with a focus on electronic music. The festival originated in 2012 as a fundraiser for a brilliant DJ, Jay Hamilton, who was diagnosed with cancer. Future Forest proudly shows the idea that there are no audience at the event but rather participants who in some way contribute to the overall experience.
Shambhala Music Festival
When: August 9-10
Where: Salmo River Ranch, British Columbia
This is Canada's earliest electronic music festival. Cutting edge talent, lights and sound come together to give life to this event. Seeing it for yourself is the only way to understand exactly what is Shambhala.
My violin is like a soulmate that whispers words of wisdom to me. Together, we've gone through both tears and happiness.
About 12 years ago, I made acquaintance with it following an order from my mom. Many hours of boredom were spent practicing it. And to make things worse, the disappointment in my teacher's eyes as I played the wrong notes was like an invisible hammer, striking on my heart. One day, I finally decided: I hate it!
By chance, things changed when I was seven. I was at home lying on the sofa, wondering how those famous violinists dealt with this terrible dilemma (进退两难). I searched online for the E-minor Concerto, a well-known violin work by German composer Felix Mendelssohn, and listened to it.
A beautiful and mysterious sound came from the violin as the bow moved across it. It was like the music slid over the flowers, rose up, and started to fill the air. The violin's voice woke up the sun, made the trees green, and freshened the air. As the music changed, the sky turned back to gray. A gloomy shade covered the grass as all the sunshine disappeared. I could hear children crying and men shouting. It was like an invisible claw (爪子) had grabbed my heart tightly, making it unable to beat.
That glorious day set off my passion and interest in violin — I grabbed mine and never let it go. Before the memories faded, I stared at my instrument. Without hesitating, I picked it up, rosined the bow, and began to play. Peace filled my heart.
My violin has been by my side for 12 years. When I feel happy, an energetic tune makes it even better; when I'm deep in sorrow, a peaceful tune washes it away; when I'm walking on air, feeling especially pleased with my achievements, solemn tunes calm me down. Gradually, it has become a part of my life.
My violin, shall I compare you to a summer's day?
Nao, the first robot able to show feelings, has been created by a European research team. When Nao is sad, he lowers his head and looks down. When he's happy, he raises his arms for a hug. Nothing is out of the ordinary, except that Nao is a robot.
"We're modeling the first years of life," says Lola Canamero, a computer scientist at the University of Hertforshire. "The feelings are shown through physical gestures and body movements rather than facial or verbal (言语的) expressions."
In the future, says the scientist, robots are likely to act as companions, provide support for old people, and help people shop online. In such uses, the display of feeling will be important in making the interactions (交往) more natural and comfortable.
Nao has been programmed to copy the emotional skills of a one-year-old child. It can memorize faces, and knows the basic rules of good and bad. Based on these it can decide how to react to what is going on. The actions going with each feeling are pre-programmed, but Nao decides for itself when to display them.
Nao is also programmed to have different personalities. A more independent robot is less likely to call for help when exploring a room, while a more fearful robot will show distress if it finds something in the room that may be harmful.
Canamero's team will take its emotional programming forward into medical applications. Part of the project will look at ways to use robots in hospitals to support the roles of doctors, nurses and parents. Children might find that a small, friendly-looking robot that can understand their emotional states makes them less anxious. "We want to explore different roles—the robots will help the children to understand their treatment and explain what they have to do. We want to help the children to control their anxiety." she says.
Most of us spend our lives seeking the natural world. We go fishing, sit in the garden, have a picnic, live in the suburbs or go to the seaside. The most popular leisure activity in Britain is going for a walk. When joggers jog, they don't run the streets. Every one of them tend to go to the park or the river.
But despite this, our children are growing up nature deprived. I spent my boyhood climbing trees. These days, children are robbed of these ancient freedoms, due to problems like crime, traffic, the loss of the open spaces and strange new ideas about what is best for children, that is to say, things that can be bought, rather than things that can be found.
The truth is to be found elsewhere. A study in the US: families had moved to better housing and the children were assessed for ADHD—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Those whose accommodation had more natural views showed an improvement of 19%; those who had the same improvement in material surroundings but no nice view improved just 4%.
ADHD is one of the great problems of modem childhood. One study after another indicates that contact with nature gives huge benefits to ADHD children. However, we spend money on drugs rather than on green places.
The life of old people is measurably better when they have access to nature. The increasing concern for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years. And study after study finds that a garden is the single most important thing in finding that quality. Even problems with crime and aggressive behaviour are reduced when there is contact with the natural world.
We need the wild world. It is essential to our well-being, our health and our happiness.
Even if you think that your parents are mean-spirited at times, loving them is a normal part of life. Here are some ways to love your parents.
Tell them you love them every morning. A gentle "good morning" and "I love you" will warm a coldest heart. Remember that they brought you into this world.
Respect them more and value the moments with them. You can use these moments to learn from them, preparing yourself for when you're off on your own. It's OK to get angry but angry actions don't help you or your parents. After this, share your feelings with your parents.
Obey their requests. It will make your attitude better and earn you more respect from them. It may seem as if you are going through hell when you don't get what you want. Understand that parents are human beings and make mistakes. Forgiveness is the key. Since you can forgive your friends, why not forgive your parents?
Do things with your parents like watching TV, or go somewhere with them. Anyway, spend as much time with them as you can.
A. Keep them company.
B. Parents will in turn express their love to you.
C. You love them because they created you and raised you.
D. Act calmly, write down your feelings, or talk with your friends.
E. Please remember parents are the dearest people for us in the world.
F. However, you should remember it is your parents who love you and protect you.
G. Without your parents, we might still wander at an unknown corner in an unknown world.
After graduation, Susan was asked to become the executive director of the Floating Hospital. She 1 at first, as it was a very big job and she didn't know if she could 2 it. But finally, she 3. While her job was rewarding, she soon got tired of it. When she sat at her desk one day, an idea 4 to her that she wanted to go down to the New School for Social Research. 5 she was learning to trust her intuition (直觉), she decided to have a go.
Without any forethought, she titled the 6 "Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway". Susan was 7 as she faced the first session of the twelve-week course. The two hours went well, but she then was 8 with a new fear, for she didn't know what to teach the next week. But every week she found she had more to say. And her 9 level grew. She realized she had learned so much over the years about 10 fear. And her students were drinking it up. At the end of the course, they were 11 at how shifting their thinking really changed their lives.
Susan 12 decided to write a book based on the course she had taught. She faced many roadblocks. And after four agents and fifteen 13 from various publishers, she 14 put the proposal (申请) in a drawer.
After three years of writing, she was going through the drawer that 15 her rejected (拒收) book proposal. Picking it up, she had a strong 16 that she held something in her hands that many people 17 to read. So, she set out with much 18 to find a publisher who believed in her book the 19 way she did. This time, she succeeded. She succeeded 20 her wildest dreams.
She was so happy she followed her heart and never gave up overcoming fears that stood in her way.
Lin Qiaozhi, a specialist in women's diseases, lived from 1901 to 1983. She was very busy in her chosen career, (travel) abroad to study as well as writing books and articles. Among them was a small book explaining how to cut the death rate from having and caring for babies. She gave some simple (rule) to follow for keeping babies clean, healthy and free from sickness. This book (intend) for women in the countryside in case that they could not reach a doctor when they had emergency.
It was very difficult for a woman (get) medical training at that time when girls' education was always placed second boys'. However, it was hard work and determination as well as her gentle nature that got her into medical school. made her succeed later on was the kindness and (consider) she showed to all her patients. There was story after story of how Lin Qiaozhi, tired after a day's work, went late at night to deliver a baby for a poor family who could not pay her.
Lin Qiaozhi chose not to have a family of (she) own. Instead, she made sure that about 50,000 babies were (safe) delivered.
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