Bradford City Matters

    Welcome to the winter edition（版） of City Matters.

    "Don't Drop It; Stop It!"

    Put rubbish in your wheelie bin（有轮大垃圾筒）.

    You must put your rubbish in your wheelie bin to keep your environment clean. Don't pile your rubbish up（堆放） in your house or garden-use a wheelie bin or one of our larger bins.

    You can buy a wheelie bin from our Waste Management Section at 01943 874122.

    You can tell us about mice or rubbish in your area by phoning our Public Health Unit at 01943 874146.

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    Did you know that you can get a 50 fine（罚款） for dropping rubbish on the streets? Our Council officers are on the streets of Bradford looking for people who drop rubbish. They will fine people who drop litter. This is part of our "Don't Drop It; Stop it!" campaign（运动）.

    Don't fill your bin-recycle.

    Just think how full your bin gets over the holidays.

    To reduce your waste:

    Say "no" to unwanted bags.

    Take your own bags to the supermarket or reuse old ones.

    Get your free shopping bag from our Advice Center.

    Recycle your waste.

    Take bottles to your local recycling center.

    Buy recycled things.

    Cards and paper are good examples.

    Our competition winners

    As part of our "Don't Drop It; Stop It!" campaign, community groups from the north, south, east and west of the city-500 volunteers-entered our competition to clean up their area. The goal was to make the city cleaner for those who live, work, shop or play there.

    The four winners were: High Trees Parent Group, South Bradford Community Project, The Bridge Community Association and Forest Youth Group.

    On a rainy day, about 150 volunteers worked for eight hours to clean up Carson Creek that is near a river. About nine tons of trash(H l)was taken out from there.

    "We did a good job, "said Alan Specter, the organizer of the event, "Were planning to come back here one more time, three years from now, Of course, we hope that there won't be so much trash next time."

    The trash came in all shapes, sizes, and colors: bottles, bicycles, batteries, furniture, clothing, plastic bags, dolls, and even a golf bag with a full set of golf clubs(球杆).

    The dirty and tiring work was done by two volunteer groups Save the Bay and Watch the Whales. Most of the volunteers came from a local police station and a fire station. And some of them were old people who had already retired (退休)。

    That day, it rained a little. All of them wore boots, gloves and raincoats. The work took place along a two- mile river with over 500 big yellow trash bags every where.

    No one found anything that cost much. A five- year-old boy found an earring which he thought might be worth a million dollars. He said he'd sell it. Then he'd donate half of the money to Watch the Whales, and use the other half to buy his favorite ice- cream every day.

    Many people laughed at the boy's story. However, it was easily found that the environment there did become better.

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Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are trying to work? Or when your best friend does not wait for you after school? 

If you do, you need to take control of（控制）your feelings and stop getting angry so easily. Getting angry with people can cause you to lose friends. 

Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written My Feelings Are Just Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells teens how to stay cool when bad things happen to them. The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. 

It can never make them better. Getting angry is not a natural（自然的）way to act, the book says. It is just a bad habit, like smoking. The book says you can control your anger easily—all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry. 

When a baby falls over, it only cries if people are watching it. Like a baby you should only get angry if you are sure it is the right thing to do. 

The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily. Here are our top three: 

①Keep a record. Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily. 

②Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry. 

③Do something different. When you get angry, wall away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh! 

 In the coastal city of Laguna in Brazil(巴西), there is a special fishing team. It is made up of human fishers and dolphins! They work together to catch the same food-mullet(鲻鱼).

 Mauricio Cantor from Oregon State University, US, studied this relationship. As he told Science News Explores, the cooperation started more than a century ago. "The dolphins are really good at finding fish and driving them to the coast," Cantor said. "Fishermen are really good at catching the fish with their nets."

 Cantor's study described how fishers and dolphins give signals (信号) to each other during fishing. When dolphins find fish, they drive them to the coast. Then they arch (拱起) their backs in front of the fishers to tell them to cast(撒) nets. Fishermen will then cast the net s right away, or they may lose the best chance. Fishermen need to be well-trained to understand the signals from dolphins, said Cantor. Once the fish are caught in the nets, dolphins can move in and get some as their food.

 The study found that fishers are 17 times more likely to catch fish by working with dolphins. At the same time, cooperative dolphins have 13% higher survival rates (生存率) than other dolphins."Human-animal partnerships give us an idea of how well our human can get on with nature," Cantor said.

▲ . There is a kind of bird named the"honey guide" in Africa. Their name can show what they do-they work with honey hunters(搜寻者). In return, the birds get their favorite food.