与白鲸结缘的美女

最近，一位90后姑娘爆红网络，原因是她与白鲸的许多图片被疯传，网友纷纷为她的行为点赞，称赞她是冰海奇兽的守护神。她叫刘冰雪，哈尔滨极地馆一位白鲸驯养师。
　　而刘冰雪与白鲸结缘也只是偶然。那是读大学的一个假期，刘冰雪陪同学去哈尔滨极地海洋馆游玩，第一次见到白鲸，她就喜欢上了白鲸优美的身影。它那粗壮的躯体，呈独特的白色或黄色，中央横断面大致呈圆形，往两端逐渐变细，觅食时的躯干更显肥胖圆润；头圆且比例小；颈部能点头及转头；喙短；没有背鳍，胸鳍却宽阔呈刮刀状，还活动自如。而当看白鲸进行精彩表演，还不停发出不同“人语声”时，从小就喜欢动物的刘冰雪更对白鲸产生了好感。     

“唐悠悠”:感谢你伴我一路风雨

2014年11月19日,青年演员邓家佳与相恋十年的男友林玉承在澳洲举行了婚礼.婚礼现场的邓家佳数度落泪,在交换戒指之际,她动情地对新郎林玉承说:“自从遇到你,幸福就在我的身边如影随形.当我满身疲惫的时候,你给了我一个宽广的胸膛;当我迷茫困惑之际,你给了我一个温暖的港湾……” 邓家佳曾出演过《十全九美》《爱情公寓》等知名电视剧,其饰演的“唐悠悠”既可爱又有些无厘头,是众多剧迷的超级银幕偶像.不过,与邓家佳的名气相比,林玉承却是一个圈外人,他俩之所以能牵手成功,缘于林玉承对邓家佳倾力关心,陪她走过了风雨十年……     

天职记河南省封丘县青堆村党支部书记王书勤

他曾是一名军人,以服从命令为天职,在部队踏实肯干,吃苦在前,练兵场上不怕危险,勇敢向前,当兵五年,荣立两次三等功,成为一名光荣的共产党员. 如今,他是一名村官,以造福百姓为天职,舍小家,为大家,真心实意为群众办实事、干好事,修路打井架农电,招商引资把厂办,发展养鸡栽树莓,年年收入几百万.     

东苏勃：捕捉“超新星”的奇才

近日，一条“天文学家观测到有史以来最强超新星爆发”的新闻，震撼世界天文圈。这颗名为ASASSN-15lh的天体，距离地球38亿光年，最高光度超过5700亿个太阳，亮度相当于整个银河系千亿颗恒星总光度的20倍。这是迄今为止人类记录到的最强“超新星”。它由34岁的中国人东苏勃最早发现，2016年1月15日出版的美国《科学》杂志刊登了这一研究，东苏勃是论文第一作者。他到底是一个什么样的“天文奇才”？     

“冬桃书记”宋加宝

阳春三月，正是桃花盛开的季节。记者再次走进山东省枣庄市山亭区水泉镇田坑村，驻足山脚，放眼望去，漫山遍野之中，层层桃树依坡而栽，粉嫩的桃花像一团团云霞，映照着充满生机的大地。
　　“冬桃合作社能有今天这个规模，多亏了各级领导和扶贫部门的大力支持，他们帮我们出资金、搞规划、引进新品种、科学管理，使合作社成为绿色观光旅游园区。这不，桃园里有20多名游客正在观赏、拍照呢！”顺着田坑村支部书记宋加宝手指的方向望去，只见一群游客徜徉在5000多亩桃花园里，边走边看边拍照，兴致正浓。     

以全面从严治党 促进扶贫监察问责机制构建

备受关注的中国共产党十八届六中全会于10月27日胜利闭幕,全会公报既对十八大以来党的建设实践作了全面总结,更对未来全面从严治党作了切实动员. 习近平总书记在为全会所作的工作报告中对扶贫和脱贫攻坚工作进行了全面梳理和系统总结,全会公报要求"继续推进全面从严治党,共同营造风清气正的政治生态,确保党团结带领人民不断开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面."     

[碧海方舟]中国首席Golf别墅豪宅

项目简介: 坐落于首都中央的城市高尔夫别墅的碧海方舟,位于北四环与京承高速公路黄金交叉点上,动静相宜.在11.95公顷的占地上,碧海方舟规划了52栋顶极豪华别墅及10栋别墅型公寓.整个项目被周边三大高尔夫球场所营造的总面积超过180万平米的生态绿植丛林包围,独享62万平米的绿色视野.站在碧海方舟别墅区内的2.8万平米浩瀚的中国湖畔,生活的律动从蜿蜒起伏的果岭上驰骋开去,直教人忍不住慨叹人生的神奇和美好.     

台湾背包客的江南梦、中国梦和他更多更多的梦……

在北京最难耐的八月,我驱车前往天伦随园,或许是已经入行有些时日对看项目已经没有了新奇.从八达岭高速经昌平西关环岛,穿过昌平市区,途径水库路,一片郁郁葱葱、青山怀抱的自然风光地带呈现眼前,再往前不远可以看到一片粉墙黛瓦的房屋,再走入其中层林环绕,隐约中传来袅袅曲音,空灵悠扬.寻音而入,林中江南建筑,藐藐天籁即出于此,此境此曲让人惬入梦里江南,随园的一切是那种可以唤起如女人想拥有无数首饰的幻想.对,就是这种强烈想拥有的感觉,无论你是否富有,只要你有一份江南梦,一份难以释怀的中国梦,你都会想成为随园的主人.     

“爱情”分时出卖:机关算尽终难逃噩运

时运不济,失业女孩做了大款情人 在成为“小三”之前,赵美春的职场生涯一路坎坷. 今年25岁的赵美春是吉林省东丰县人,父亲在镇上经营着一家小杂货店,母亲是农民,家里还有一个弟弟.2008年夏天,赵美春从中专毕业后,做过酒店迎宾员,当过商场售货员,工作很辛苦,收入却很低.为此,她一直闷闷不乐. 两年后,赵美春成功应聘到一家保健品公司做文员.从商场售货员变身白领,她心里着实高兴了一把.     

女人明白要趁早:"潇洒姐"王潇的另类励志经

王潇,人称"潇洒姐",新女性励志典型,毕业于中国传媒大学播音系,曾在中央电视台一套节目直播整点新闻,曾就职干美国安可顾问公司战略传播部. 2004年,她以总分第一名的成绩考入中国人民大学艺术学院研究生院;2006年创业,成立目后佐道设计顾问有限公司;2008年发表网络红文《写在三十岁到来这一天》;2010年出版《女人明白要趁早》……     

Family support for the elderly in Korea: continuity, change, future directions, and cross-cultural concerns.

This article discusses major issues and concerns regarding family support for parents and elderly people in industrialized and urbanized Korea. It summarizes new trends in family support for elderly members, continuing influences of the traditional value of family support (filial piety), growing needs for public services for elderly people and their families, urgent calls for the state to assume greater responsibilities for providing social security and services for the elderly, needs for cross-cultural studies of family support, and certain cultural similarities and differences to be considered. The article concludes with some suggestions for future research.     

The impact of school and college expenditures on the wages of southern and non-southern workers

Based on previous evidence of diminishing earnings returns to greater educational expenditures, the hypothesis that southern schools and colleges have greater returns than non-southern schools and colleges is tested but is not accepted. Per pupil expenditures for both school and college, however, significantly raise earnings for southern male full-time workers. The elasticity of expenditure with respect to the wage for high school graduates is 0.1212 for southerners and 0.0360 for non-southerners, and the elasticity for college expenditure is 0.0468 for southerners and 0.0260 for non-southerners. The author is grateful to Philip R. P. Coelho, W. Lee Hansen, Wayne H. Joerding, Victor J. Tremblay, and an anonymous referee for helpful suggestions and to the Mississippi Research and Development Center for support of this research.     

The connection between working hours and body mass index in the U.S.: a time use analysis

Over recent decades, Americans have transitioned from working in active jobs to working in sedentary jobs, and there have been dramatic increases in hours worked for certain demographic groups. While a body of research documents that time spent working is associated with increased body mass index (BMI), this paper explores possible mechanisms for that relationship using time use data. This paper finds that, for workers in non-strenuous jobs, 10 additional hours spent working are associated with an increase in BMI of 0.424 for women and 0.197 for men, representing an increase of 2.5 and 1.4 pounds, respectively. The paper does not find a relationship between working time and BMI for workers in strenuous jobs. For workers in non-strenuous jobs, the effect of time spent working on BMI becomes smaller after accounting for time spent sleeping for both men and women and time spent in exercise and food preparation for women only; the effect becomes larger after accounting for screen time for both men and women and time spent in secondary eating and commuting for women only. Screen time is the single time use channel associated with the largest differences in the estimated effect of time spent working on BMI for both women and men employed in non-strenuous jobs. After controlling for all time use channels, the effect of hours worked on BMI decreases for women, but increases for men. These findings suggest plausible mechanisms for the association between time spent working and obesity.     

Family Support for the Elderly in Korea

Abstract

This article discusses major issues and concerns regarding family support for parents and elderly people in industrialized and urbanized Korea. It summarizes new trends in family support for elderly members, continuing influences of the traditional value of family support (filial piety), growing needs for public services for elderly people and their families, urgent calls for the state to assume greater responsibilities for providing social security and services for the elderly, needs for cross-cultural studies of family support, and certain cultural similarities and differences to be considered. The article concludes with some suggestions for future research.     

Paying for Sex While Traveling As Tourists: The Experiences of Israeli Men

This qualitative study explored the experiences of 15 Israeli men who paid for sex while traveling as tourists abroad, based on in-depth, semistructured interviews with them. The findings focus on three major aspects of the participants’ experiences: the meaning of sex for them and their reasons for wanting to pay for it; the problems involved in paying for sex; and paying for sex while traveling abroad as a preferable option to paying for sex in Israel. The discussion offers sociological and psychological intersubjective explanations for the men’s preference to pay for sex as tourists overseas.     

Investigating the Acquisition,Generalization, and Emergence of Untrained Verbal Operants for Mands Acquired Using the Picture Exchange Communication System in Adults With Severe Developmental Disabilities

This study compared the total amount of training time and total number of trial blocks for individuals with severe developmental disabilities to acquire mands under control of unconditioned establishing operations and mands under control of transitive conditioned establishing operations for manual sign and for the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS). Also examined was the generalization of mands across settings and communicative partners, as well as the emergence of untrained tacts and intraverbals for mands acquired using PECS. Mands for preferred items and for items needed to complete a chained task were acquired more rapidly and in fewer training blocks for PECS than for manual sign. Moreover, mands established using PECS generalized across settings and communicative partners. Finally, untrained tacts and intraverbals using PECS were shown to emerge for some of the participants following PECS training. These results suggest that PECS may be a viable alternative communication system for adults with severe developmental disabilities who have little or no history of systematic instruction and limited imitative repertoires.     

Elders with Serious Mental Illness: Lost Opportunities and New Policy Options

This article reviews key federal Medicaid policies affecting older adults with serious, long-term mental illness: (a) the Medicaid exclusion of coverage for Institutions for Mental Diseases, (b) the Preadmission Screening and Resident Review Process, and (c) the Medicaid Home and Community Based Services waiver policy. Documenting the incentives and restrictions in these policies provides an historical context for understanding the current gaps in treatment for elders with mental illness. New federal options under the Deficit Reduction Act may provide opportunities for reducing the institutional bias for older adults with mental illness and for improving mental health services for elders under Medicaid.     

Body dimension measurements for pillow design for Taiwanese

Study reported a pillow with a uniform height was not suitable for sleeping in supine and lateral positions. The study aims to determine the pillow dimensions for fitting supine and lateral positions for Taiwanese. Ten females and ten males subjects with a mean age of 21.9 years (SD= 1.07 years) participated in the study. Body dimensions of head, neck and shoulder in crown and sagittal planes were measured with the Martins' anthropometer and a curve measurer to determine the pillow's sizes. The results showed that the basic form of pillow for both genders is a U form from the front view. The middle area of the pillow is for supine position and the both side areas are for lateral positions. The base of pillow is a rectangle from the top view. The pillow is designed with a width of 75 and 70 cm for male and female, and a depth of 40 and 35 cm for male and female. The height in middle area and both side are 4 and 14 cm for male, and 2 and 12 cm for female. A neck rest with a height of 1.5 cm was proposed for neck support.     

Assessment of vocational opportunities and continuing job placement for persons with mental disabilities: factors indicating levels of necessary support

We determined primary factors in allocating support for vocational opportunities and continuing job placement for clients with mental disabilities. The study analyzed 29 items regarding work attitudes and vocational skills for 70 clients as assessed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Rehabilitation Center for the Physically and Mentally Disabled. The evaluations were performed using the situational assessment approach with a 3-point support scale system assigned through observation of behavior. The results of these evaluations placed 35 clients in employment groups (A and B) and 35 clients in a sheltered workshop group (C). The data was analyzed by multivariate analysis. Predictions of success and functional differences among the groups were indicated by the data. Differences were found among the three groups in work attitudes and skills such as "self-direction" and "directions for social participation". Out of the 35 clients currently employed, 11 were recognized as needing ongoing assistance from supported employment offices. For the supported employment group (B), the major work attitudes and skills for which they required continuous services for maintaining stable jobs were 'emotional stability' and 'learning of working skills and accomplishment of work.' In a previous study, the major differences between the competitive employment group (A) and the sheltered workshop group (C) were in areas of 'responsibilities,' 'goals for life,' 'motivation for the work and understanding of contents for work,' and 'safety during work.' Our study supports these findings. In addition, transition from the sheltered workshop to supported employment required training to improve skills and support for 'responsibilities,' 'goals for life,' 'participation in leisure activities and community-based activities,' and 'preparation and cleaning for work.'