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Volunteering jobs from 4 organizations
Ageing Well
The aim of this organization is to improve the health of older people by encouraging and supporting them to be more active — particularly those who join little or no physical activity. Ageing Well is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to come forward with new ideas for activities of the program.
Availability: from Monday to Friday / Morning or Afternoon
Minimum (最低的) age: 50
G64 COVID Help
During the COVID-19 pandemic (流行病), the role of volunteers within our community has never been more important. These job chances include helping with shopping, driving and check-in calls for those who can't leave their houses. There are also many other activities you can get involved in to help make a difference in your local community. In addition, personal protective equipment will be supplied.
Availability: from Monday to Saturday / Morning or Afternoon
Minimum age: 16
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland
Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland (CHSS) supports people across Scotland with heart or brain conditions. When knowing such diseases, many people experience fear and loneliness and struggle with the influence on their lives. CHSS helps deal with that. The care and support they deliver every day make sure that people can live the life they want. Availability: from Monday to Friday / Morning or Afternoon
Minimum age: 16
Give Blood 4 Good
Give Blood 4 Good is looking for students at the University of Edinburgh to raise awareness of blood donation (献血) in Scotland. We also focus on educating young people (aged 17-24) about blood donation because the regular donation is the lowest among this age group in Scotland. We want to raise awareness and educate people about blood donation.
Availability: from Monday to Sunday (24h day/ night)
Minimum age: 17
Matthew Whitaker is a jazz pianist who is blind. He grew up in Hackensack, New Jersey. His parents said Matthew had an ear for music before he could even talk. "When he was three years old, he played nursery songs with both hands and played the chords (和音) and the melody of the songs at the same time, but most kids didn't do that. Matthew hadn't had a lesson or anything," said Matthew's parents.
The great pianist can now play anything he hears. His performance is really remarkable. Less than 20 years old, Matthew has toured in the headlined famous venues from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center, and won a number of music awards.
That drew the attention of Dr. Charles Limb, a neurologist (神经病学家). He uses MRI brain scans to better understand how extremely creative people do what they do. Specifically, Limb wants to know why the, brains of certain artists could better give rise to new ideas. So far, several artists have taken the exams. Dr. Limb also approached Matthew, and made him undergo two MRI exams — first while he was in different conditions, including music, and then while he was playing on a keyboard.
Dr. Limb found that Matthew's brain seemed to have reused its disused visual cortex (视觉皮层) to build other spirit pathways. Even when -Matthew was simply listening to one of his favorite bands, his entire visual cortex lit up. "It seems like his brain is taking that part of the tissue that's not being activated by sight and using it to feel music, which is beyond our expectation," said Dr. Limb.
Matthew's teacher, Dalia Sakas, wants to make sure Matthew isn't just a flash in the music world. She thinks he needs to learn to read braille (盲文) music, which is a Slow process. Matthew does not like to slow down. He just wants to play music. At the piano, what he feels is just joy.
Everyone likes a quick medical diagnosis (诊断). And no one gives one faster than Google. Just enter your symptoms (症状) in a search window — the uncomfortable neck, headache, high body temperature, and it'll immediately tell what's wrong with you. You can almost enter your symptoms anytime and anywhere.
A study from Australia's Edith Cowan University-(ECU) looked into 36 international website-based symptom checkers. Researchers found they produced the correct diagnosis as the first result just 36% of the time. Online symptom checkers were also sometimes good and sometimes bad when it came to finding the right diagnosis within the top three results, with a rate of 52%. And the same websites managed to get the right diagnosis in their top 10 results 58% of the time.
"That could be a problem for a society, that more and more depends on websites for health advice. For example, according to the search records, about 7% of the questions Google receives are health-related, which works out to about 70,000 asks per minute. As for the answers, most of the time they are unreliable at best and can be dangerous at worst," says scientist Michela Hill.
The most popular health websites, like Google search simply don't know enough facts about the patient in question to make a correct diagnosis, especially his or her medical history and other symptoms. They usually can't look at the whole picture. Besides, websites' ways of producing a diagnosis are often not fully regulated or even monitored by government bodies.
That's not to say online symptom checkers don't play a role in the health of a society. As a means of monitoring outbreaks of certain diseases in public, they're already proving helpful. For example, the UK's National Health Service is using these tools to monitor symptoms and possible "hot spot" locations for certain diseases on a national basis. But if you're experiencing real pain or discomfort, the best advice Doc Google could offer would be to go and see a real doctor.
Each year, about 250 billion to-go cups that serve coffee and tea from places like Starbucks and McDonald's are produced to satisfy the world's love for hot drinks on the run. These paper-based cups have the inside surface covered with plastic to prevent water from escaping, and keep water from being absorbed into the material, but that also removes any opportunity for the cups to be biodegradable (可生物降解的).
The materials that created these cups of goodness and convenience are recyclable, but only if separated. In addition, the demand for such resources is low, so they are worth next to nothing.
In response to this great challenge, NextGen Consortium, a multi-year partnership led by Starbucks and McDonald's launched their first big initiative (倡议)—NextGen Cup. The first step in NextGen Cup was an open competition where participants presented ideas for sleeves, cups, lids and other parts of the hot-cold paper-based takeaway coffee cup that would make it reusable, recyclable, or biodegradable, to finally be widely used. 12 winners, announced in 2019, shared a prize of $ 1 million, as well as personalized growth, and support from members of NextGen Consortium.
Later, they launched two pilot programs at independent coffee shops in California. In one case, customers were given "smart" reusable cups made mostly from recyclable plastic. They then could drop their empties into collection containers at key locations, for washing and reuse. These cups were printed with RFID chips or QR codes, through which coffee shops can know where there is the greatest need for collection containers and how many are not using them.
To reduce coffee cup waste, Cup Club is already replacing millions of takeaway cups in the UK, while Recup in Germany, has performed a deposit system (押金系统) that simply adds a small extra fee to any coffee cup which is returned to the buyer after the cup is deposited in any registered collection point.
Many parents don't allow or help their children to learn to swim. A child who has learned to swim has the confidence to attend activities about water, like parties. More importantly, the child is safer in and around water. Here are some tips for you to help your child learn to swim.
Introduce your child to water early in life. Children who become familiar with water in the early days are less likely to be afraid of water later. You can build a private pool for your child. Or allow your child to use a public pool. Most public pools have special pools for the youngest children.
For older children who want to learn to swim but have a fear of water, introduce them, to water gradually. Be sure not to avoid the pool when the water is cold and uncomfortable because you want the experience to be pleasant. What if your child only wants to hang his feet in water at first?
Once your child has become comfortable with, water, he will be able to begin the basics. They'll be followed by learning how to float (浮起来), kick and so on. If you find it challenging to teach your child to swim, consider asking a private instructor to work with him.
Never allow a child who can't swim into the water alone and never leave a child unobserved in the water. Follow all pool and water safety recommendations at all times. And before swimming, check the possible dangers in the pools.
A. First a child must learn proper breathing skills.
B. It's also useful for adults to practice swimming.
C. When building it, you should avoid a deep pool.
D. So creating an environment with water is necessary.
E. But the ability to swim can be important for children.
F. Have patience, and finally he'll become confident enough to get in.
G. Whoever helps your child swim, let him swim in a safe water environment.
Atdhe Trepca had long been interested in film-making, 1 he did an internship (实习) at Warner Bros. Studio where he 2 experts in the field. There was a French documentary (记录片) which actually 3 his latest project. "I thought it'd be really 4 to start conversations with strangers like the documentary by asking them the 5 question: Are you happy?" Trepca says.
He started his journey to 6 his conversations with strangers in February 2019. "I brought with me lots of 7 about every person I 8 he says, "And now I realize that this question really serves as a 9 to the soul (灵魂). Because when you approach a stranger with that question, all their 10stories come to the forefront and they start 11 something that they've done. One of the purposes of making these videos is to give people a chance to 12 themselves."
Although these videos seem to show stories worthy of 13 that they receive on social media, Trepca believes that everyone's story is also worthy of the same respect. "My videos are 14 endless, because I truly believe that everyone has a story." Besides, he finds that the happiest people haven't had the most15lives. "Even if we are faced with difficult times, we can hold a positive attitude to our lives," Trepca says.
An honest taxi driver Mr. Joseph Inso from Sagada, Mt. Province returned the cellphone which was dropped from the pocket of my niece to front seat of the taxi Ganduyan.
We boarded the taxi at Lubas (go) to Km 4, La Trinidad, Benguet at about 9:00 am on May 26, 2019. However, when we arrived at the house, my niece noticed her cellphone was missing. She searched her pockets and her bags only (find) it in neither of them. So she suspected (怀疑) she might have (accidental) dropped it in the taxi we boarded. Right away we contacted the (lose) cellphone and it was ringing but no reply.
It's after two days the taxi driver found the cellphone. Then the taxi driver (remind) of the calls that we had sent him. So he contacted me this afternoon and I met him at Slaughter Compound, Baguio City. I was very (appreciate) of his returning the cellphone.
I asked for his name and took pictures the taxi. To the taxi driver, thank you very much for your (honest).
Outside my kitchen window, there are people all over the place. We had lived in this house for a year and I knew everyone on the block, except Mrs. Miller, the old woman who lived by herself two doors down. She almost never left the house.
I thought it was time to get to know her. I carried my baby and set out to meet the neighbor. As I came to her house, Mrs. Miller's black dog looked at me. The dog was old, but she was always standing guard. I thought at least Mrs. Miller had someone to look after her. She needed more than a dog to rely on. I knocked on the front door.
"Come in!" Mrs. Miller said when she saw us, feeling a little surprised. "Have a seat here in the livingroom." I had only just sat down when her phone rang. Mrs. Miller received two phone calls.
When she answered and came back, she said, "I'm sorry, dear. It's just the neighbors calling to check in. Susan on the street was asking if she could pick up my groceries (食品杂货). The boys next door offered to take care of my garden."
"How nice it is," I thought. "Do you have children?" I asked. "No. It was just Mr. Miller and myself until he passed away." "I'm so sorry," I said. "You must have family. n She replied, "A sister. But we're both in poor health and it's difficult for us to visit each other." She pointed to her painful legs.
"Can you get to a doctor?" I asked. She said, "Oh, there's a nurse who usually comes to check on my health." Then her face became serious. She added, "Margo used to pick up my medicine every Monday. But she has just moved out of town."
I knew what she was thinking: What would she do without Margo?
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"I could take over for Margo," I said.
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When Christmas arrived, I decided to help Mrs. Miller prepare for the festival.
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