Fast Food in Thailand

 

Like in China, it is also well-known and widespread in Thailand those people who sell something in the street, either from a stall or van or with their goods laid out on the sidewalk. They offer various types of food especially those who sell rice-and-curry.

There is a popular fast food chain in Thailand named Pepper Lunch which is managed by Japanese.  It offers a hot dish which includes meat, vegetables, and rice. Various kinds of meat and vegetables are served.

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The version of Pizza Hut in Thailand is The Pizza Company, maybe because the franchisee of the said fast food in the past is Thailand Pizza Hut. Pizzas in Thailand are Thai flavor, specifically the tom yun gung pizza. Thailand has so much love with curry and that’s why every food in the country is filled with curry flavored dish especially pizza.

Burger King is not widespread in Thailand unlike KFC which is popular that serves spicy foods like a very spicy chicken wings called Wing Zaab and Hot’n’Spicy fried chicken. Including in their Thailand food is the curry sauce over rice.

Since Thai flavor is distinct, Mcdonalds balanced their menu.  If you happened to drop by and eat in McDonalds Thailand, you will normally find porridge made from rice called McJok which is served for breakfast and a peppery meat salad called McNamtok which is served for lunch and dinner.

X. Tran

心灵的脚步

心灵的脚步

吴博

天空阴沉沉,灰蒙蒙的。抬头望向窗外,初秋的雨如断了线的珠子般啪啪的打在地上,更加打在我的心上。心,跳得更快了,—半小时后,就要分班了。

手中的笔悬在空中,迟迟不肯落下。身后,是谁在小声哼唱着“长亭外、古道边……?”望一眼教室,心中涌起一阵酸楚:我还能属于这个让我投入了太多情感的一班吗?可就算是,身旁也会是一副副陌生的面孔,那个曾经的一班,是否已成为了永远的回忆?

雨,是天空在为我们的分别而哭泣吗?

老师急匆匆地让我们背上书包来到大厅,同学们紧挨着坐在台阶上,有的手拉着手,仿佛这样就会分到一个班级。大厅中,静得可怕,只能听见外面淅沥的雨声。

公布名单了,我紧握的双手冰凉着,却又沾满了汗,听着一个又一个熟悉的名字在耳边响起,看着一个又一个人默默离开,此刻,我只是一个人,孤独的一个人。

终于听到了我的名字,跟随者新的老师,来到了崭新却又陌生的八年三。坐在座位上,周围有隐隐约约的抽泣声,我咬紧了嘴唇,告诉自己:不能哭。

老师让我们依次读读她的寄语,这才发现,桌子上不知何时多了张纯白的卡片,上面有着她隽秀的字迹。18个人依次读了下去,每一句话都是那样触动我的心灵,诉说了我心中所有的紧张、忧虑,却又温暖着我。抬起头,老师清澈的目光中满是慈爱与理解,如一簇温暖的火苗,将心中的冰慢慢融化,只剩下希望与美好。

放学,迈出校门,发现心灵的脚步也迈出了一步。雨渐渐小了,清凉的雨丝拂在脸上,心情也变得明朗:人生中哪能没有离合悲欢?与其在不舍中沉沦,为何不放宽心,在坚强中面对新的生活,面对新的挑战?留恋于过去,倒不如把握好现在与未来。一下子觉得,自己长大了、成熟了。

迈出心灵的脚步,迈向成熟、迈向坚强。

 

 

Natural Resource Depletion

First, what do we understand by natural resource depletion? In simple words, natural resource depletion is basically consumption of a resource faster than it can be replenished. Natural sources are available as renewable and non-renewable sources of energy however; use of any of these forms beyond their rate of replacement leads to natural resource depletion.

 

The problem of natural resource depletion has almost doubled in the last 100 years with the drastic increase in population which has even led to population explosion. To meet the needs of the human population, the rate of depletion of natural resources has become threatening for the environment. It is certainly a big risk for the survival of the future generation as well.

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The fast consumption of fossil fuels leads to emission of greenhouse gases, causing environmental problems like global warming and climate changes.

On the global platform, the awareness regarding this problem has spread among people and they are even making efforts to start using renewable sources of energy like solar, biogas, wind and geothermal energy. However, it must be understood by every individual that any form of energy should be used judiciously in order to make it last rather than exhaust to fulfill the needs of one generation.

C.Yan

China’s Illegal Fishing Expeditions Threaten World Waters

China’s Illegal Fishing Expeditions Threaten World Waters
Many unrecorded documents for goods are purchased and switched off the printed pages in China and this includes the fish. That’s an increasing responsibility for the coastal guards of China’s neighbors and other countries in West Africa as well as for the global environmental guards.
Throughout this year’s first nine months, the officials of South Korea grasp and penalized the two hundred sixty six fishing ship for running an illegal fishing in the territory of South Korea. This reported by the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries of South Korea. In addition, four thousand six hundred illegal Chinese fish vessels were captured within the ocean of South Korea, according to Korea’s Yonhap News Agency.
Those illegal fishing vessels stumble in an immense space, often under covered, dragged with force. During the time that China regularly report with disproportionately and emphasis their national marine catch to the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), they immensely fail to report the weight in tons of stumbled fish by far off navy. This is based on the research conducted by the University of British Columbia and funded (PDF) by the European Parliament’s Committee on Committee on Fisheries.
According to reports, they measured that the Chinese fishing vessels in China that were seized within the foreign waters have a standard of 4.6 million tons of fish every year between the year 2000 to 2011, a total of twelve billion dollars. Part of this was the fish caught in the sea of Africa which was estimated 3.1 million tons and eighty percent of which was not able to report.
C. Larson

Japan must enhance surveillance system to protect territory

Japan must enhance surveillance system to protect territory
The action of China in breaking the terms of agreement to Japanese jurisdiction have been rolling. The government should construct a detailed statement that indicates an impending danger and secure protection system, taking into account that it will be a continuing struggle.
Ships of Japan Coast Guard have been organizing and carrying out regular patrols throughout the Senkakus and commanding Chinese vessels to depart from Japanese waters every time they put oneself deliberately into a place where one is unwelcome.
Organized body of Chinese air and maritime have reinforced and innovated their military paraphernalia and planned to build naval and air control in the East and South China seas.
The apprehension of central and local governments needs to share a sense of importance requiring swift action concerning the security of territorial solidarity.
The Japan Coast Guard organized to a certain limited extent in dealing with government vessels of China through assembling patrol boats throughout the country, but inside the present economic year it will also implement the process under which it will give way to run twelve huge patrol boats on a full-time jurisdiction.
It is significant to build a persistent aerial surveillance system at the earliest possible moment using the three jet planes.
The cooperation of Japan Coast Guard and Self-Defense Forces is very important in constructing a system effective of securing defense smoothly and continuously in expectation of different situations.
Y. Shimbun

高效能人士的7个习惯 史蒂芬•柯维

这是我最喜欢的自助图书中的一类。每次我阅读它的时候,这本书都给我一个全新的视角去看待生活。

《高效能人士的7个习惯》于1989年出版,在那之后,这本书一直保持在畅销书之列,并且这本书已经影响了上百万人的生活。这本书讲述的道理适用生活的方方面面,包括工作,领导力和管理能力。

科维在这本书中讲述的道理十分了不起。这本书给那些想过一个有意义的而美好的生活的人一个标准体系。这个体系不仅仅适用于我们日常生活中的商业和工作,也适用于其他方方面面。

以下是这本书讲述的7个习惯的总结:

  • “积极主动”:掌控环境而不是让环境掌控你。
  • “先定目标后行动”:先设定你的目标,然后专注在那些可以让你实现你目标的上的活动上。
  • “要事第一”:这是具体操作在第二点中设定的目标。第三点是第二点的实际行动。
  • “双赢”:科维说过成功很大一部分是建立在双赢的基础上。因此,他强调了“双赢”的观点的重要性。
  • “先了解别人,才能使别人了解自己”:这对于维护任何关系来说都是必须的。
  • “协同效应”:科维强调互相帮助的重要性。
  • “不断更新”科维激励我们要不断更新自己的生活各方面的知识储备。

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Student: 李安

出国留学低龄化

根据《中国留学生发展报告(2014)》指出,目前中国的留学生出现明显的“低龄化”趋势。18岁以下未成年的留学生每年成逐年递增的态势。针对这一现象,不同的人有不同的看法,有的人持支持观点,因为相比中国的教育理念,美国的教育理念更加侧重培养孩子的非学术方面的发展,例如领导力,观察力和分析能力等,这样的教育理念更适合孩子的成长。而另外一部分人则认为,孩子在很小的时候就出去读书,没有家庭环境熏陶,更容易养成孤僻的个性,和其他心里健康问题。在我看来,自己的小孩适不适合低龄留学没有同意标准的答案,具体的抉择取决于每个孩子的个性。

对于那些个性独立的,个性开朗的孩子来说,如果家庭的经济来源足够支持孩子出国读书,那么,我个人认为,这个做法是可取的。因为相比中国的教育制度,美国和其他国家的教育制度更加灵活,在升学的时候,参照的条件除了学习成绩外,还有很多其他非学术能力,例如参加公益活动的数量,课外活动和个人的创新能力。灵活的课程制度更加适合学生的学习和创造能力的提高。

另外一方面,对于那些个性不独立,而且个性孤僻的孩子来说,不尊重孩子的个人想法,盲目的将孩子送出国读书时十分不可取的。在国外,孩子不仅要克服语言困难,也要克服文化差异。很多父母盲目将孩子送到国外去,孩子到一个新的环境,因为缺乏家人和朋友的关心,又很难融入当地文化,这样会使孩子的个性更加孤僻,不愿意和其他人交往接触,也会使孩子对学习产生厌倦的情绪,反而使情况恶化。

总而言之,每个孩子的个性都是独一无二的,没有一套适用于所有家长和学生的方法和定论,因材施教才是可取的。

 

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http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/education-plus-development/posts/2015/02/24-early-child-development-mai-young

项刘宇

 

 

 

 

 

Artificial Heart: It’s Development through Time

Our hearts are becoming fragile by the day. If we look at the statistics of USA, 610,000 people die due to heart disease every year. A large number of these deaths could have been prevented with the help of heart transplant but still there are too few hearts.

The first human heart transplant was performed by South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard. Soon surgeons around the world were transplanting hearts. But the problem was that all the recipients died within a year of transplant.

Since the late 1960s, doctors have been working on artificial heart. The most influential device was made by Willem Kolff, who invented the first dialysis machine for kidney.Kolff collaborated with fellow engineer, Robert Jarvik to work with him at University of Utah. What we got was Jarvik-7. It was made of two pumps, four valves and two air hoses. Due to its large size (like refrigerator), it could only be implanted in adults.

The US FDA approved the use of Jarvik-7 to be used on humans in 1982. Total five patients were implanted with Jarvik-7 but none of them survived more than 18 months. The device has been modified and renamed many times since then. SynCardia, a descendant of Jarvik-7 has been used many times.

Scientists are now working on a pulseless heart in which there is no heartbeat.

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Student workers from Zambo get salaries on time

Student workers from Zambo get salaries on time
According to the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), in spite of the current armed clash in Zamboanga City, the student laborers living the city still receive their wages on time.
DOLE Undersecretrary Danilo Cruz mentioned that their regional office offered about 1.4 million pesos as payment of wages of Special Program for the Employment of Students (SPES) payees in Zamboanga City.
Apart from giving the chance to gain profit, Cruz emphasized that SPES offers student workers the opportunity to resume their education as well as enhance their skills in employment in the future.
The officer in labor also mentioned that DOLE granted the I-Café Computer Services Project of Ave Maria College Associate of Computer and Information Technology (AMC-ACIT) Alumni Association in Liloy, Zamboanga del Norte amounting to three hundred seventy three thousand four hundred pesos livelihood assistance under the Integrated Livelihood Program of DOLE.
The alliance also employed a manager in a shop who receives an allowance amounting to three thousand pesos every month.
The DILP is one of the DOLE’s program officially registered under the Community-Based Employment Program (CBEP) of the government which have a purpose to produce sustainable local business regarding the extensive self-employment and efficiency across the country.
M. Jaymalin

当时只道是寻常

华师一附中高二    吴国丽

 

我不知道该用怎样的笔调为那些逝去的日子唱一首时光的挽歌,我知道,它是宁静辽远的,我亦知道,它是匮乏的。

我也不知道该用怎样的文字来为这个飞速变幻的时代写长诗,我知道,它是喧哗与骚动的,而我也知道,它是悲凉中透着可爱的。

从刀耕火种的原始文明,到男耕女织的田园生活,从布票粮票的计划时代,到改革开放三十多年的今天,我们在漫长的时间轴上或快或慢向前推进,从一种生活走向另一种生活。当我们回望那些消隐在时光深处的日子时,我们或悲或喜,却不凄凉。

“这是最好的时代,也是最坏的时代。”彼时此时皆然,所有的时代皆有美与丑示人,只不过时间是个精于撒谎的大师,它将记忆中的丑悄悄擦去,留下无瑕的回忆。

也许此时,我们的物质文明确是远超于精神文明的,甚至更可怖一点——现代人精神的彷徨与没落。但我始终相信,这个时代必有其伟大之处,在层层污秽下,必有那亘古的纯洁。

我爱所有的时代,因为它们就是我们自己。

“陌生花开,可缓缓归矣”

此时也是人间四月,却不见草长莺飞的轻快的生气了。不见孩童纸鸢,不见舞雩风前。从前“山原旷其盈视,川泽行其骇瞩”的景致都变为了熙攘和喧闹;从前“天街小雨润如酥,草色遥看近却无”的羞涩的绿,仿佛也被灰色的钢筋水泥、迷乱的霓虹吸收殆尽;从前“窈窕以寻壑,崎岖而经丘”的逸兴,从前折枝赠友、曲水流觞的雅兴,仿佛也像那些春天一样,回不来了。

那是风雅的时代,同样也是“阡陌交错,鸡犬相闻,老死不相往来”的时代。“我想你了,就会翻过三座山,走二里路,去牵你的手。”自幼养于这种安定与寂寞中的人们,形成了特有的沉静从容、淡然温良,与那个时代的真诚友善形成我们最羡慕的和谐。

特定的历史背景会孕育特定的文明。随着时间的推进,文明逐渐与自然疏离。机器代替双手去劳作——传统工艺无以传续;机器代替双脚去远行——灵魂被身体落得很远。

我想起那天坐在机场候机厅巨大的玻璃前,看眼前起飞降落的离别与重逢,听着回荡在空旷大厅里的广播,一片浓稠的夜色中只有不安的信号灯在静默等待,它们像死去的星星。不知为什么,在这标志着便捷与时效的透明空间里,我忽而感到悲凉。

到杭州时,迎接我的是旧旧的火车站,让人想起朱自清的《背影》。在铁轨纵伸的远方,仿佛随时会晃来一列绿皮火车,咯吱地唱着岁月的歌谣,穿梭于缓慢的时光流中,即使火车开动了,仍有时间拥抱、亲吻——它会把别离拉长,长至万里,长至一生,而不是倏忽间,便海角天涯,了无痕迹。

或许我们怀念的,是那个年代时,人们葆有的纯朴,是一种让人心安的信任,是一种高贵而贴近自然的精致与智慧。而当我们转换视角,看到它的愚昧之面、闭塞之面时,我们会生出一种纤细的惆怅,会带着在过去日子中沉淀下来的品格走向下一个时代。

丰盈中怀念匮乏

月亮仍是天空的瞳孔,只不过诗人木心看见的,不再是古意的从容了。

这个宏大的时代不断快进,其实从第一次工业革命开始,甚至从新航路开辟开始,我们的道路就注定了。

浮躁、虚伪、功利、利己、欺诈、野蛮、空虚……仿佛一瞬间,我们的文明退化了、消失了。人们挣扎在网络中,握着正在充电的手机的样子被另一些尖酸刻薄的聪明人比作系在电线杆上的狗。虚拟时空里的健谈渊博,却变作现实生活中的社交恐惧;手机间频传亲密, 现实中却淡漠擦肩,多讽刺。

然而我们亦要看到这个时代的丰盈。倘若没有电视、网络,这首小诗《从前慢》便也只是驻在他笔记本里一列美丽又寂寞的孤儿了。倘若没有开放,我们或许会停留,但也不会前进。

我始终相信,镌刻在我们民族骨髓中的真善美可能会被压抑,但绝不会减损,我们的追求或各相异,但我们不会忘本。黑子不光存在于此时代,只是此时更显著,而可以确定的是,黑子遮蔽不了太阳。

我想,所有的时代都有它的意义,都有其美丑,这也正是我们无止尽向前行进的原因。我们爱《从前慢》,爱的是现今少存的“慢”, 而有意无意忽略了它的匮乏——不止是物质。无论我们怎样批判当今时代,都是怀着一种深沉的爱,它以科技与文明给我们另一种生活方式,也教我们另一种思维方式。正如“心远地自偏”,如何在这纷繁中找回“从前慢”的温存与优雅,是我们自己的事——与是否“从前”无关。

我爱所有的时代,因为身在其中。当时只道是寻常,因了这种心境,回首顾望,才有芬芳。

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Name: 吴国丽

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