A cool job offer

If the earth-changing events of this year have left you thinking about making a big change and you also happen to be an expert in Roman ruins, then here's a job you might be interested. To be honest, it's one of the coolest jobs that we've ever seen.

Italy's culture ministry is looking for someone to run Pompeii: the enormous ruins near Naples of an ancient Roman city in Italy destroyed by an eruption (火山爆发) of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD- -and one of the country's most popular tourist attractions.

For the first time ever, the job is open to persons of any nationality as well as Italians, and a global search for the right candidate (候选人) is now underway.

“Pompeii is loved by archaeologists (考古学家) from all over the world. We imagine that many applications will arrive ,”said Dario Franceschini, the country's minister of cultural heritage and tourism.

The job is a four-year agreement of employment, with the option to extend for another four. “There will be digging and more big discoveries will be made,” said Franceschini, “This is a job which brings huge satisfaction as well as great responsibility. ”

If you think you're up to the job, the application deadline is November 3. Now's the time to dig up the resume (简历). You can hand it in in person or by fax. The email is also available, but not the phone.

To find out more and apply, just click here.

Lu kaigang, a twenty-one year villager from rural Guangxi, China, known for his modeling countryside videos on short-video platform Kuaishou has gained international attention from the world famous fashion houses. He has received invitations to walk at the some of the largest fashion weeks on the global stages.

Lu has over 4 million followers on his Kuaishou account, where he posts videos under the name“Xiao Xianren”. Lu rose to fame chasing his passion for modelling while working as a restaurant waiter and a factory worker in Nanning, the capital of Guangxi. “I have had a supermodel dream since I was ten, while I was still in a primary school. I saw a fashion show on TV when I feel it was so cool to do that on the catwalk, ”said Lu. Since then, he practices the catwalk every day.

Without any professional training, he learned catwalk from fashion show video. He turned everywhere into his runway, from a narrow passage to a deserted factory.

“From clothing designing and making to filming and posting, these were extremely time-consuming but barely received feedback on line in the beginning. But I still enjoyed the process, ” said Lu. “The early dozens of videos I posted even didn’t receive ‘likes’,” Lu recalled. But I believed what I’ve done would be recognized by the world someday.” Lu insisted on posting his fashion works onto Kuaishou where he hoped to be seen by more people.

Many laughed at Lu’s early works as they thought of him as a funny clown (小丑) wearing very strange costumes. Howerver, Lu’s insistence, coupled with Kuaishou’s powerful algorithms (演算法), enable Lu to be seen, which eventually helped him to enter mainstream fame.

Lu’s big break came in August 2019, when Lu’s fans uploaded his videos from Kuaishou to YouTobe. As those videos became acclaimed, more people became curious about Lu and his international career took off from there. As his followers grew on Kuaishou and other social media platforms, mass media started taking notice.

Kids getting addicted to smartphones or small devices probably make every parent worried as they have to struggle to get them to stop playing with them. Often, when parents take away the smartphone, these kids will get angry or cry.

A few days ago, citizens were amused when photos of a little girl with “panda eyes” spread on the Internet. Apparently, this was a trick played by the girl's parents as she was too addicted to her smartphone, and they wanted to break the habit.

When the girl was sleeping, the mother decided to secretly apply black eyeshadow around her daughter's eyes and it worked. “After waking up and seeing herself in the mirror, she screamed. I told her it's because she played on the phone so much,” said the mother. And the mother warned her not to play so much on the phone anymore.

It was reported that the incident had happened in Thailand and the photos spread quickly. Citizens were divided on this, with some of them feeling that it was a funny joke that would do no harm while some of them said that it was bad to do that for the kids. Some parents would try it on their kids, while some said they needed to be strict with their children's screen time.

However, Public Health of Malaysia has shared a post warning parents not to do so with their kids. They said that parents should rethink this joke as it could cause psychological scars to the kids. They explained that scaring your child with a joke could result in an experience that stayed in their long- term memory and this was not a good way to break a bad habit. It was up to the parents on how to teach and educate their children. Every parent has their own unique way of raising their children. These kids need to know about the effects, results, and responsibilities from their own actions.

For decades, world wars and fears of a brave new world have made British workers very anxious. Yet it appears that the rise of robots has been overestimated, according to new data. The Office of National Statistics (ONS) published a series of data which showed that far fewer jobs are at risk of replacement by robots than previously thought.

In 2017, out of the 19.9 million jobs analyzed in England, 7. 4 percent of people were employed in jobs at high risk of replacement. This marked a fall of 0.7 percent less than in 2011. However, the number of employees that were in jobs at low risk of replacement in 2017 was 27.7 percent of all employees, a rise of 2.4 percent since 2011.

The ONS found that the three jobs with the highest possibility of replacement are waiters and waitresses, shelf fillers and the most basic sales jobs. As expected, regular things in a fixed order and repeated tasks can be carried out more quickly and efficiently by an algorithm(计算程序) written by a human, or a machine designed for specific functions. Therefore, the risk of replacement in such jobs is to be higher.

However, the three jobs at the lowest risk of replacement are doctors, higher education professionals and senior education professionals. Furthermore, while the general number of jobs has increased, most of these are jobs that are at low or medium (中等的) risk, suggesting that the labour market may be changing to jobs that require more complex skills.

Alessandro, an expert in AI, said he was not surprised by the fall in jobs which were at risk. “When something like technology becomes fashionable, there's a rise in major expectations. Our expectation reaches the highest point, and then it comes back down to a more realistic level,” he added.

How to Stay Safe During a Hurricane

Learn more about how to prepare, stay safe and save the children's work on the front lines, meeting children s most vital needs. The following are some hurricane preparedness tips to help protect your children from sufferings during and after disasters.

1.    36     Explain to your child what could happen in the event of a hurricane, using simple, age-appropriate words. Outline an emergency plan for the whole family, with an evacuation plan and meeting location.

2. Practice evacuation.    37     Be sure to run through different scenarios—at home, at school and at other places you visit often. When planning your evacuation route, remember that bridges may be washed out and low-lying areas may be flooded.

3. Stay indoors, if not evacuated. If you aren't advised to evacuate, or are unable to do so safely, stay indoors, away from windows, skylights and doors. Continue to monitor weather reports and don't go outside until the storm has passed,    38    .

4. Keep routines. Children experience comfort from rituals and routines, like a story before bedtime or a family meal each evening.    39    

5. Watch your child for changes in behavior, sleeping patterns, or eating habits. Children may be afraid or anxious for a while after the hurricane.     40     However, if they continue, you should seek professional help.

My life turned a corner two years before. I realized, my first and real enthusiasm is writing _______. As a child, I was introvert (内向的) , and basically a bookworm. The only thing I wished for, was _______, and I used to finish them as quickly as I could. Along with reading, I loved _______ — but at that time, it was mainly prose (散文)! My love for writing started with writing journals, and _______. Even before my teens, I had _______ in many countries, and then technology wasn't as _______as it is now. I guess my letters were quite poetic and charming, because my pen-friends told me that they _______ my letters even after I stopped writing to them as _______ was expensive!

Then my following life wasn't poetic anymore! I _______ pouring my emotions in journals or diaries. Many years passed! Was poetry my passion? Probably! One day two years earlier, one of my childhood friends wrote to me, “Hi there! How many books have you ________ ever since?”

That communication suddenly ________ me up, and lit my dream that I was eager to publish my own collection of poems. The ________ from my childhood came back, I ________ who I was. At that moment, I felt very excited and within a (n) ________ moment, I wrote my first poem! That poem was actually ________, may be one of the best of what I have written so far!

After that first ________, I realized what my real passion was! And poems started coming one after another! Sometimes I got up at ________, and thought about some lines! And I had to write them ________, otherwise these lines will slide away!

The terrible epidemic (流行病) ________ me to write several poems, which may ________ indescribable sufferings of people.

No matter whether you're a woman or a man, shoes are perhaps     61     most important accessories that you use in your daily life. A group of shoes of high quality can be the best part of your cupboard. Your shoes show your taste and your style. But at the same time, they can bring discomfort and pain if they are not chosen     62     (proper).

You may ignore the pain     63     (cause) by a pair of wrongly chosen shoes considering the situation and your     64     (appear), but that will surely bring blister and pain to your feet. And that is why you must be careful about     65     (choose) the right shoes that not only make you look good, but also keep your feet comfortable. There are a large number of companies     66     specialize in comfortable and fashionable leather' shoes for both men and women.

Wearing     67     (comfortable) shoes can result in walking disorder, so you are to blame     68     it. They continuously require the body, especially the feet to adjust to the pain. And this     69     (adjust) affects your walking procedure by putting pressure on you back, ankles, etc. So, next time you buy shoes, you must remind yourself     70     (get) a pair that suits and fits into your feet.

Last year, I took a trip to Chengdu with a tour group.

In the way, we stopped at a shopping center build several years ago. It was not long after I felt bored, so I decided to go out for a walk. I was going down a street when I caught sight of an old man sitting on the sidewalk. Dressing in rags, he was such dirty that I could smell him from several feet away. Although I didn't raise his head, but I could see the sadness in his eyes. I bend down and handed some of my money to him. Moved my behaviour, he kept saying “thank you”.