People say home is where the heart is. However, when the home you’re living in isn’t safe, the heartache can be a real headache. That was the ________ for one Nova Scotia family until neighbors stepped in to help them get through the difficulties.

When Alvero Wiggins was diagnosed with kidney failure, it created a(n) ________ effect on the family. That meant spending about nine hours a day on the ________. And that also meant ________ work. Unable to earn a living, Wiggins, his wife, and their three children were ________ to move into a shelter. The terrible conditions they faced led to a(n) ________ adjustment for Wiggins’s family.

________, Alvero Wiggins had developed strong ties with his community. ________ his illness, he was an active volunteer in two local youth-related organizations. So many people in the neighborhood were willing to offer a helping hand. Sarah MacLaren, one of his neighbors, had ________ alongside him for years. And she knew how much Wiggins ________ in the pursuit of ________ others. So she thought he ________ to get something back. Getting his family a better place to live in became the most ________ mission for her.

MacLaren was ________ a local housing initiative --A Home For Everyone. For the past 15 years, she and her peers have ________ funds for various housing-related charities. Along with her charitable board, the ________ was made that this year’s earnings would go toward helping the Wiggins family find a new place called home. With their ________, a four-bedroom townhouse near a park and a swimming pool would be the home of the family.

“It means a lot to us to have a home,” Wiggins told CBC with ________. “I don’t even know how to find the words to ________ everybody who has supported me. I believe everything will ________ gradually.”

Step back in time to experience the golden age of railroading. North America’s railroad museums and tourist lines provide affordable fun for the whole family! Plan your complete vacation with visits to these leading attractions. For information on advertising in this section, call Tom Vorel at 630-248-2299.

750 Depot Street

Located 60 minutes east of San Diego Ride on the San Diego Arizona Railway: the last trans-con link, completed in 1919 and built by sugar-magnate (巨头), John D. Spreckels.

Trains depart from the historic 1917 Campo Depot every Saturday and Sunday. Check our website for train’ schedules and tickets.

www. psrm.org     619-465-7776

17155 W. 44th Avene

There is something amazing about trains. The familiar whistle has always promised adventure. Experience it again with a visitor to the Colorado Railroad Museum, one of the top 10 railroad museums in the United States with one of the largest collections of narrow-gauge (轨距) equipment. The 15-acre rail yard also features a roundhouse restoration facility and renowned library. Train rides throughout the year. Group rates-and-programs available.

ColoradoRailroadMuseum.org   800-365-6263

810 S. Main St.

Lately, train watching around The Bridgeview B&B has been extremely exciting with motive power from BNSF. UP, KCS, CP, CN, CSX and Ferromex often leading, plus add NS units into the mix. and you have some amazing lashup (应急设备) possibilities! Trains entering or exiting Enola Yard pass right by our front porch. From the spacious decks and sitting room, you can watch the Susquehanna River, Blue Mountains and train action on Rockville Bridge! Plus, visit Hershey, Gettysburg, and PA Dutch Country! Comfortable rooms all with private baths, A/C, Wifi, and a tasty breakfast are included with your stay. Take a virtual tour on our website and check us out on Facebook for daily updates, pictures and guest comments.

www. bridgeviewbnb.com   717-957-2438

N6639 Dilly Lake Road

America’s Only Moving

BED& BREAKFAST DINNER TRAIN

The train departs Tuesday through Saturday evening at 5:30 pm year round. The train features a choice of a queen bed in our sleeper deluxe suites or a full size bed in our 1914 Pullman Private Car. Enjoy cocktails in the lounge and then move to the diner for a scrumptious 4-course chef prepared meal from our onboard kitchen. When the train returns to the station view the starlit sky while trading railroad tales with other passengers around our gas fire on the patio. Wake up to a hot breakfast buffet in the diner. See the world famous Mark Twain Zephyr at Trego Depot!

www. spoonertrainride.com   715-635-3200

The funny thing about basically doing anything is that we typically know what to do. The hard thing is actually doing it, day after day after day. The problem isn’t knowledge. The problem is willpower. Hold that thought.

Last year a friend wanted to get in better shape, so he started the Hard 75 Challenge, which involves following a diet, working out twice a day for 45 minutes each session, drinking a gallon of water, reading 10 pages of a nonfiction personal development book, and taking a picture of yourself. Every day. For 75 straight days.

Fail to complete any of the above on any given day? Start over.

In many ways, Hard 75 is similar to a diet. As anyone who has tried knows, following a specific diet is hard. Temptation. Availability. Consistently making the right choices is hard.

The same is true for exercising outdoors. It’s hard to force yourself to go for a run when your day got away from you and it’s 8 p.m. and raining and 35 degrees. If you can pull off the Hard 75, that’s awesome.

But it’s really hard.

And it was really hard for my friend.

He started, got disappointed, got up the determination to start over, got disappointed, forced himself to start over… while he got in a little better shape, he didn’t make the progress he hoped for.

Then he took a different approach. Instead of following a strict diet, he just created a few simple rules. He wanted to eat healthier, so he cut out all “white” foods (breads, white rice, potatoes, crackers, added sugar). When he went out to eat, he avoided failing to find the “right” food by just choosing the healthiest option available.

And instead of following a specific exercise program, he just decided that he would always work out for at least 20 minutes every day. Most of the time he did longer workouts, but still: The only rule he had for himself was that he would work out for just at least 20 minutes a day. That way he never “failed,” never got disappointed, and never felt like he had to start over. As long as he got his 20, he was good.

The same approach applies to everything. In my case, I decided I needed to drink more water and less soda. So I decided I would always drink water with meals. Within a couple days, that habit became automatic.

Bottom line? Diets are bad. Having to rely on willpower is even worse.

Rules, on the other hand, are easy.

And great, especially when those rules help take you to the place you someday want to be.

Have you ever witnessed the astonishing beauty of auroras (极光)? They are a gift from the heavens resulting from the interaction between the atmosphere and cosmic radiation.

However, as the saying goes: One man’s meat is another man’s poison. In South Korea, a flight attendant, 53, died from cancer due to prolonged exposure to intense cosmic radiation, determined a South Korean labor court.

According to South Korean authorities, the flight attendant logged an average of 1, 022 annual flying hours throughout his career, with half of his flights spent crossing the regions in and around the North Pole, where cosmic radiation reaches extraordinarily high levels.

Cosmic radiation, which comes from the sun and other stars in the galaxy, is constantly hitting Earth. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency, cosmic radiation can be divided into two types: solar radiation and galactic cosmic radiation. Solar radiation comprises charged particles emitted by the sun, known as the solar wind, while galactic cosmic radiation comes from the remnants (残余部分) of supernovas (超新星) - powerful explosions created during the last life stages of massive stars.

Despite the continuous and powerful nature of cosmic radiation, we are generally shielded from their worst effects. Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere provide protection from this radiation, with the magnetic field being strongest in tropical areas and weakest at the poles. Consequently, individuals living in higher latitudes, like Heilongjiang province, experience slightly more cosmic radiation than those in lower latitudes, such as Hainan province. Moreover, at higher altitudes, such as when passengers are flying on an airplane, the thinner atmosphere results in more intense exposure to cosmic radiation.

For astronauts and flight attendants on polar routes, lacking the shielding offered by Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere exposes them to potential health risks. According to NASA, astronauts who spend six months in space encounter a radiation exposure roughly equivalent to undergoing 1,000 chest X-rays.

However, what makes cosmic radiation dangerous also holds therapeutic (治疗的) potential. The high speed and energy of cosmic radiation have provided insights into treating tumors (肿瘤). Scientists can now artificially produce charged particles similar to cosmic radiation. Compared to conventional radiotherapy (放疗), charged particles can target tumors more effectively with less harm to the surrounding healthy tissues, according to the journal Frontiers in Oncology.

History has been characterized differently. It’s hard to define such a monumental thing without dealing with the tensions between what is fact and what is fiction, as well as what was included and what was left out. So it’s only fitting that those tensions are wrapped up in the history of the word itself.

The short version is that the term history has evolved from an ancient Greek verb that means “to know”. The Greek word historia originally meant inquiry, the act of seeking knowledge, as well as the knowledge that results from inquiry. And from there it’s a short jump to the accounts of events that a person might put together from making inquiries-what we might call stories.

The words story and history share much of their ancestry, and in previous eras, the overlap between them was much messier than it is today. The working out of distinction has taken centuries. Today, we might think of the dividing line as the one between fact and fiction. Stories are fanciful tales woven at bedtime. That word can even be used to describe an outright lie. Histories, on the other hand, are records of events. That word refers to all time before this very moment and everything that really happened up to now.

The distinction is still messier than that, of course. Plenty of stories like the story of a person’s life or a "true story" on which a less-true film is based -are supposed to be factual. And plenty of stories go against easy categorization one way or the other. Take the notion of someone telling their side of a story. To them, that account might be perfectly correct. To someone else, that account might be totally incorrect.

As the linguistic divide has evolved since the Middle Ages, we have come to expect more from history -that it be free from the imperfections of viewpoint and selective memory that stories so often contain. Yet it isn’t, humans being the imperfect creatures and history being something that is made rather than handed down from some all-knowing writer.

That is why feminists, for example, rejected the word history and championed the notion of herstory during the 1970s to point out the fact that history has mostly come from a male perspective. The “his” in history has nothing, linguistically, to do with the pronoun referring to a male person. And some critics pointed that out back in the 1970s, saying that the invention of herstory showed ignorance about where the word comes from. But there’s evidence that the feminists knew as much at the time. And more importantly, the fact that it sounds possible that there would be a link can still tell us something. It can suggest a lot the about gender and whether a female viewpoint is included in the tales passed down in textbooks. That’s why, even if the origins of the word “history” are clear, the question of who gets to decide which version of the past is the right one remains a controversial debate centuries after the term came to be.

I am sitting in an empty football field after my last high school football game has finished a few hours ago. I’m the quarterback (前卫) on my team. But in fact that’s not true now. I was the quarterback, and that’s a good way to end a high school football career at a high point.

I’ve been sitting here by myself shivering in the cold and thinking back over the game and other games I’ve played in my life. I’m looking at the goal and thinking how it always seemed to reach out and pull me with a secret, magical force.

I was 8 when I first started playing football. My dad loved football and would practice with me at home- passing, catching, running. He tried to teach me everything he knew about the game. “Just remember: don’t ever give up.” “Stay in the game. Don’t lose your concentration.” “Go out there-and give 110 percent every time.” Well, that was a long time ago but I still hear his words ringing in my ears. I had a lot on my mind before the game today. I don’t like things to be an end, I guess, and this was the last game, and it was the league championship. I was talking to myself and reminding myself about what to do and not to do. I didn’t sleep at all last night. But when the game started my mind became empty. Everything dropped away from me. I just lived in this game, this moment. I didn’t hear the crowd; I didn’t feel the cold or the pain; I never felt tired. I just kept my eyes on the ball, and inside a soft white light showing me the way to the goal, which was a beautiful feeling.

It’s all over now and it’s really getting cold here. It’s starting to snow. The sun’s almost gone and I can hardly see the goal. Now it’s dark and I’m sitting here all alone. Well, I guess it’s time to say goodbye and move on.

Yours,

Li Jin