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It was three in the afternoon. I was putting my baby to sleep 1the phone rang. It was a little girl asking for the Goldstein family. “ 2 ” I said, “you've got the wrong number.”3 the phone didn't stop ringing. Each time it was the voice of a little girl. She was 4one call after another, each time asking for the Goldstein family. My baby wouldn't stop crying. I started to become 5 I left the phone off the hook(挂钩) for about an hour,6that this would make her lose7. But hardly I put the phone back on the hook when she8again. I started to cry. After about the tenth call I told her that if she called one more time I would call the 9.
At 6:30 pm, the phone rang for about the 25th time. I picked it up, but remained10 and I could hear the same voice of a girl. What kind of 11would allow her to do this all the afternoon! I12to speak to her mother. To my 13 she called her mother to the phone. I told the mother what her little girl had been doing to me all the 14 The mother assured(向—保证) me that this was the15phone call her daughter had made that day. “My daughter's teacher gave all the girls in the class the phone number of their new teaching assistant. The entire class of 30 girls was told to call the new assistant to 16 what time their class would be. The teacher must have given them the wrong number by mistake!”
Until about 9:00 pm, the phone 17rang from time to time. Each time, it was a little girl wanting to know what time the class was! Some girls, even after hearing they had the wrong 18 would anyway ask if I knew the time! I would just19 It had turned into a joke now! I would never have thought that an entire 20 of girls, all with the same voice, was calling me!
Tyler Kellogg drove more than 3,000 miles last year. His goal is to help as many people as he can.
Tyler Kellogg calls himself a long-time do-gooder, and last summer he really did a lot of good. After collecting together $2,000 and using his car as a sleeping space, the 21-year-old college student hit the road. His goal was to do random acts of kindness for 100 strangers.
He drove 1,600 miles, from his parents' house in Adams Center, New York, to the Florida Keys, then back again. “The first person I helped was a person fixing a boat lift on a lake in Oneida, New York,” Kellogg remembers. “I was shaking when I asked if he needed a hand.” What if he thought Kellogg was crazy? “When he said, ‘can you help me get this lift into the water?' I knew everything was going to be fine.”
He helped a policeman fix a downed barricade(路障) in Washington, D.C., and spread many yards of mulch(护盖物) in Maryland and North Carolina. And somewhere outside Atlanta, he met a man who was crying because his wife had recently died and he had no one to talk to. “For three hours we sat in his garden,” Kellogg says. “When I left, he said, ‘Thank you. I realize now that my life will go on.' ”
In 55 days, Kellogg helped 115 strangers and made an exciting discovery. “You don't have to have much money,” he says. “You just have to ask people, ‘How can I help?' ”
The new study shows that we spend more time using the mobile Internet reading newspapers or magazines or doing some other things. According to the European Interactive Advertising Association(EIAA), the average European spends 4.8 hours reading newspapers and magazines but 1.6 hours more using the mobile Internet a week.
The EIAA questioned 15,000 people in 15 European countries, looking at how people are using the Internet and its influence on their everyday lives. It found that the mobile Internet is increasingly finding its way into the public awareness. Over 71 million Europeans now have Internet access on their mobile phones. In the UK, 10 million people now access the Internet through their mobile phones and spend 6.3 hours doing so in a week.
Unsurprisingly, younger generations in the UK are leading the way, with nearly half of the country's 16-to 24-year-olds and a quarter of 25- to 34-year-olds using the Internet, spending 6.5 and 6.2 hours online each week.
Entertainment plays a main role in our mobile Internet lives, with one in five British people using their phones for online games, a third listening to the online radio and 39 percent watching films, TV or other videos at least once a week. One third of those using an Internet phone said they received videos, images or other multimedia on their mobile, and 61 percent said they passed on contents they received.
From a communication point of view, 80 percent of those questioned agreed that the Internet had made it easier for them to stay in touch with friends and family.
Alison Fennah, director of the EIAA, said the mobile Internet use had come to the point that marketers should be looking to develop strategies (策略) that connect with consumers more effectively. “Better devices as well as improved consumer motivation that start coming together in 2011 can make a great difference to extending the online experience.” Fennah said.
People who do not get enough vitamin A in their diet may develop night blindness. But in the developing world, a lack of vitamin A causes much more serious harm to children. The world Health Organization links the lack of vitamin A to as many as 250,000 child deaths every year.
One excellent source of vitamin A is found in newly developed sweet potatoes with orange flesh. Orange sweet potatoes contain high levels of beta-carotene, which the body changes into vitamin A. Experts say orange sweet potatoes could help the Africans who are lacking in vitamin A. But, first, more people will need to be persuaded to eat them. Sweet potatoes need a better image in Africa. Jan Low with the International Potato Center says, “We do have an image problem with sweet potatoes. In many African countries, they are seen as a crop of the poor.”
Ms. Low explains that sweet potatoes are mainly grown by poor women to feed their families in case another crop fails. The sweet potatoes commonly grown in Africa have white or yellow flesh. But they are low in vitamin A.
Jan Low took part in a project to study how to market orange sweet potatoes to Africans best. She worked on an information campaign(活动) in Mozambique and Uganda. The campaign included radio messages about the nutritional(营养的) benefits of the orange sweet potato. They advertised its ability to “fight diseases, make you strong, clear you skin and make you look healthy”. In areas without radio, the campaigners spread the message through theater. The performances included singing, dancing and storytelling. And everywhere they went, the campaigners wore orange T-shirts and hats. They even drove orange cars.
Dan Gustafson heads the Washington office of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. He mentions the efforts in the past to increase the popularity of other nutritious crops. He says most of these efforts failed because organizers of the campaigns did not consider what people wanted to eat. People want to eat what they are familiar with. But Mr. Gustafson sees a better chance for the efforts to increase the popularity of the orange sweet potato in Africa. Except for the color, the orange sweet potato is almost the same as what people already eat. Dan Gustafson says, “I think this time the campaigners will succeed, because they have made enough advertisements and the difference between the vegetable they have advertised and what people already eat is not a radical one.”
About 7 million people over the age of 65 have been diagnosed with depression, and many more could be suffering. It is high time that you learned how to know the signs and help them. Depression is a big problem for seniors, especially those who are lack of care and attention. Older people are much more likely to be alone, socially isolated(孤立的) or feel a lack of purpose. Sometimes older people have a much more difficulty time admitting mental health problems. Many times, the link between depression and physical illness is much stronger.
The elderly don't like to express sadness the way that young people do. Older people who are depressed may have more physical troubles and may pay more attention to them. Depression may result from early memory loss and meanwhile, depression will make a person forget more and faster. A patient with early memory loss and depression really needs to be treated for the depression to slow the memory loss. A mood change is also a sign of depression. If a previously calm person becomes increasingly annoyed, or a previously clean person no longer bothers to shower or clean up, that person should be considered.
Don't tell older adults that you think they may be depressed, as older adults — particularly men–see depression as a weakness. What you should do is tell them you're worried about their health. Tell them they seem to be out of sorts.
Say you just want to check with the doctor to see what's going on. Once you've used physical symptoms to get that person to agree to a check-up, mention your fear to the doctor and allow the doctor to approach the subject of depression with the patient.
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