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Fire Safety Training Online

This e-learning fire safety training course is aimed at all staff. This fire safety awareness online course enables individuals to improve their knowledge and understanding of fire safety. Fire safety is a vital part of any business. With the e-learning fire safety course you can ensure a safe environment for your staff and customers with minimum disruption（混乱）to your business. As this course is online, it benefits from constant updates to ensure the content remains accurate to any changing law.

WHAT DOES THE LAW REQUIRE?

The Fire Safety Order requires all employers to: Carry out a fire risk assessment.

Provide appropriate training for their staff—this should be relevant to a person's job. Everyone should have basic fire safety training so this course is ideal.

Provide training for fire wardens（管理人）—Fire Risk Assessments Ltd provides this training online due to this being unique to your site and fire procedures.

THE TRAINING PROGRAM

The average time to complete the course is approximately 30 minutes. After completing each section, people need answer a few multiple choice questions correctly before progress to the next section is possible.

COURSE CONTENT

Main goals including preservation, prevention, protection and procedures

Characteristics of fire

Legal requirements

Fire evacuation（疏散）

Means of putting out fire Interactive quiz

Should you wish to book or find out more about the above course, please call Fire Risk Assessments Ltd on 0208 763 5610 to speak to one of their training advisors. Alternatively you can email them at enquiries@firera.co.uk or visit their website at www.firera.co.uk.

Alameda Recreation and Park Department (ARPD) (510) 747-7529

TEEN TRIP TO THE LELAND HIGH SNOW PLAY

FOR Teens Currently in 6th to 12th Grades

LELAND HIGH SNOW PLAY-Class #8389

Friday, December 9th (Non-Public School Holiday)

8:00 am to 7:00 pm

Meet at The Underground (Veteran's Building — 2203 Central Avenue)

Cost per person: $50 ($60 after January 22nd) — Includes: Lunch, Admission and Transportation

With a 4,000 square feet day use lodge（小屋）, the Leland High Snow Play has a huge supply of tubes to choose from, along with awesome tows（拖车）that will tow you up to the top of the hill! Our varied landscape have something for everyone, while the lodge provides a snack bar video games, pool tables, five indoor restrooms, a warm fire, and a sun deck with plenty of tables and chairs overlooking the play area outside.

Be sure to bring warm clothing and prepare for the cold, but dress in layers in case it warms up. Wear dry boots, socks, and sunscreen. If possible, bring a mobile phone in case of emergency, as well as money for snacks and a light dinner, or bring your own food and drinks.

Do not bring electronic or items that are easy to break during the trip. The ARPD is not responsible for your personal belongings or money.

Your money will be returned only if the ARPD cancels this trip due to weather conditions. Click here to download the registration form and "Leland High Snow Play Liability Form".

Register in person, or mail the completed form to Leland High Snow Play, Inc. Send the liability（责任）form and payment to the ARPD Office, 2226 Santa Clara Avenue, Alameda.

Fax the registration and liability form accepted with VISA.

Lautaro had already spent hours viewing and reviewing the footage（影片片段）he had taken of his grandmother, Maida, in memory of her childhood in southern Italy. There was no shortage of material. Maida was fascinating as she talked about everything from picking grapes in her grandparents' garden to avoiding wild dogs on her daily routine to school. The problem was finding the best form for the material.

Lautaro had already finished a rough cut that followed his grandmother's story in time order. The video began with Maida's earliest memories of the Italian farmyard and ended with her arrival in the United States at age 15, puzzled and excited. Lautaro used family photographs to illustrate Maida's storytelling. He knew the first version was not bad, but he was not satisfied with the overall video. He was certain that something vital was missing.

Running out of his own ideas, Lautaro decided to get some advice. And who better to ask than Maida herself? Lautaro showed Maida the 10-minute video on his computer. As soon as it was over Maida said, "I can't get over how much things have changed, Taro. Your life seems so different from mine." Maida's words inspired Lautaro. Her reaction told him exactly what was missing: his personal point of view.

A few days later, when Lautaro screened his final project for his classmates and teacher, it was only two minutes longer than his original cut, but those extra minutes made a huge difference. Between Maida's recollections of her past, Lautaro has added in photographs of his own life today. The contrasts were both striking and touching, and the final image of Lautaro listening to Maida reinforced the warmth and closeness of their relationship. Laurato smiled with pride as his classmates acknowledged his comparative documentary with cheerful applause.

The 64-year-old, a former senior officer at the State Bank of India, talks about his disabled and wounded dogs like a father about his children-with the same love, affection, and warmth.

He's a well-known animal rights activist. the Secretary at People for Animals (PEA). But nothing defines（界定）Mahendra better than his love for animals. It was this love that led him to establish India's first shelter home for dogs living with disabilities.

It all started in 1998 when, while taking a midnight walk, Mahendra came across a very weak dog on the street. Mahendra decided to feed it and for the next couple of days it became the center of his life, until the night when he found it dead.

Since then, Mahendra started providing treatment to all wounded and sick dogs he came across. After some time, somebody told Mahendra about PFA, which is India's largest animal welfare organization, chaired by Mrs Maneka Gandhi. Mahendra contacted her and, impressed by the work he was doing, Mrs Gandhi asked him to start a PFA chapter in Ahmedabad.

Thus, in 2014, he started the shelter. It took a long time for Mahendra to find land where the shelter could be set up. Finally, Ramesh Bhai Patel, a farmer from a village named Jundal, agreed to give his land for free. Along with a team of four doctors and many volunteers, the shelter now has twenty-five dogs that were unable to walk at all when they were brought in. Today, they're slowly healing（康复）.

Dogs that have healed with proper treatment are sent back to where they came from if the environment there is safe. However, the shelter will be home to the disabled dogs for all their lives. says Mahendra.

The shelter runs on the money coming from Mahendra's own pocket. He and his wife get a monthly income of 45,000 rupees（卢比）each. There have been some financial crunches now and then but Mahendra is determined that no matter what challenges come their way, they'll fight through.

A job is more than just a job, especially to the older generation. "It's not the money that matters, but the sense of self-worth," 56-year-old Cheng Wonlan said. So, every day Ms Cheng carries a bag of parcels, letters and documents of all shapes and sizes and does her rounds in North Point. She's a deliverer.

Five years ago, Ms Cheng was a nurse at a private clinic. She had worked there for almost 30 years but was made jobless when the clinic closed down. It was extremely difficult for her to find another job as a nurse. "People do not trust my ability when they learn how old I am," she said. After two years of searching, the mother of two eventually found another nursing job. But then after two years, she quit. Why?

"My colleagues were young and they didn't understand me because of my age. They often asked me, ‘You are so old, what are you working for?' "I was very unhappy." she said. So while the rest of her family left for work, she was left to lonely boredom at home. Then, one of Ms Cheng's neighbors told her about Employee's Retraining Board (ERB) offering retraining courses for older people on specific occupations, such as convenience store assistants, junior clerks and so on.

"I was interested in courier work. I didn't think my age was a barrier because I was fit and healthy," she said. Upon graduation from the ERB, Ms Cheng was offered a job by the Speeding Shuttle Courier Service Company Limited. But then Ms Cheng was caught between honor and employment. It took Ms Cheng 24 hours to make up her mind and eventually she took heart and went off to work as a courier.

Ms Cheng's employer is delighted with her. "Ms Cheng has been working with us for two months and has shown a good responsible attitude to work." Anthony Chong, who runs the company, said. Mr Chong said he hired older people because they were able and reliable. "Age is not an important factor but attitude is. Many old people are more capable than youngsters. They will not run from difficulties but young ones might," he said. "It is not easy to recruit（招募）young people since many of them shy away from hardship and challenges."

Ashok Gadgil has spent the past three decades helping people in need—and he has no plans to stop. On May 2nd, Gadgil won the $100,000 Lemelson—MIT Award. Each year, the honor is given to an inventor who has improved the lives of people in developing countries. Gadgil's inventions have helped more than 100 million people around the world.

Gadgil is a professor and physicist at the University of California, Berkeley. When he's not teaching, he works to find solutions to global problems about energy and water safety. "I chose to focus on problems where my knowledge of science could help," Gadgil said.

In the 1980s, he came up with a program to make energy—efficient light bulbs more affordable for people in developing countries. Then in the 1990s, Gadgil designed his first life-saving invention. UV Waterworks. It kills deadly viruses from drinking water. It costs just one cent to clean five liters of water. Gadgil was inspired to find an inexpensive solution to the clean water crisis after more than 10,000 people in his home country of India died from an outbreak of Bengal cholera in 1993. The disease is spread through polluted food and drinking water.

So far, the invention has provided safe drinking water to more than 5 million people in India Liberia, Nigeria, the Philippines and Ghana.

Families in refugee camps in Sudan are given food aid. But they still have to cook the meals. In order to do so, refugee women leave the safe camps three to five times a week to gather firewood They walk up to seven hours a day to find enough wood to fuel their stoves. Cooking over an open fire can be dangerous to one's health and to the environment, too, because of the amount of smoke it produces. Gadgil visited the area many times with his students and his co-workers to work with the refugee women on designing a clean, fuel-efficient stove. The Berkeley—Darfur Stove he created saves 55% of fuel. That means the women wouldn't have to leave the houses to find firewood as often. The invention also helps to save homes more than $300 a year. About 125,000 women and their families have been helped.

As a professor, Gadgil encourages his students to stay positive about finding solutions to hard problems. "Be optimistic when you try a hard problem," he says. "It's when you solve a large problem that you can have a powerful effect on the world."

Many people feel that dreams are a uniquely human experience, but just as many dog owners will likely disagree. Commonly reported signs of doggy dreams include shaking legs and muffled（低沉的）barks.

Scientists confirm that dogs probably do dream. It turns out that dog brains and human brains have many similarities during sleep cycles. Researchers used special machines to measure electrical activity in a dog's brain and a human's brain. Scientists already knew that when humans dream, a certain part of the brain is active during sleep. Researchers discovered that the same part of the brain is active in sleeping dogs. Scientists have other data that back up these findings.

Many people dream that they are trying to move but cannot. Interestingly, part of that experience is not a dream. When people sleep, the brain releases a chemical that causes the physically act out dreams while they are sleeping. Dog brains release the same chemical. In one study during which this chemical was blocked, sleeping test dogs performed physical activities, such as standing up, sniffing around the room for imaginary rabbits, or chasing imaginary balls.

Because of these similarities,researchers believe that the content of a dog's dream might come from the same source as a human's dream. "People's dreams are usually based on things they did that day," says Dr Samamtha Hudispith. "So there is reason to believe that dogs dream about the things they've done that day. Of course, there will never be a way to prove this. Dogs cannot describe their dreams the way humans can."

A long lost 16th century civilization has been unearthed in rural Kansas-all thanks to a teen who helped archaeologists（考古学家）confirm the incredible discovery.

The long-lost city called Etzanoa-where up to 20,000 Indians once lived-was discovered in Arkansas City, in the south-central part of the state，when a high school boy found a cannon（炮）ball that tipped off the experts that their long-held suspicions about the existence of Etzanoa were correct.

The city, whose name means "The Great Settlement", is believed to be the second-largest Native American city in the U.S. and was the site of a battle between Spanish explorers and Indian soldiers in 1601.

"The Spanish were amazed by the size of Etzanoa," according to Donald Blakeslee, a 73-year- old Wichita State University archaeologist, who announced the discovery. "They counted 2,000 houses that could hold ten people each. They said it would take two or three days to walk through it all."

For years, he and other scientists hunted for the fabled city. They dug up pottery, knives and stone tools that would link it to records from Spanish explorers - but couldn't confirm that it was Etzanoa. Then last year, Adam Ziegler, who attends a nearby high school, discovered a half-inch iron cannon ball — linking it to the 1601 battle. During the battle, the Spanish fired cannons at Indian soldiers, who eventually fled the city.

Kansas officials now want to turn the long-lost city into a scenic spot. "We're looking at creating something that could be great for the region, and for 50 years and more down the road," said Jay Warren, an Arkansas City Council member. "And we think the site could also be a hands-on field training facility for archaeologists from all over the world."

Most people think that the capital of the movie world is Hollywood, in the United States. . Mumbai used to be known as Bombay, and so the film industry there is called "Bollywood". Bollywood makes twice as many movies each year as Hollywood-more than 800 films a year.

The movies from Bollywood are very different from Hollywood movies. For one thing, Bollywood movies are much longer than most Hollywood movies. . Because Bollywood films contain so many different features, this style of film is sometimes called a "masala" film. ("Masala" is an Indian word for a mixture of spices.)

. It takes much longer to make a movie in Hollywood than in Bollywood. In fact, filming may begin on a Bollywood movie before the script（剧本）is even finished. The director and writers can make up the story while the film is being made. Sometimes they will even write the script by hand instead of taking time to type it.

. They may work on several movies at the same time and even shoot scenes for several films on the same day using the same clothes and scenery. Since most Bollywood movies follow the same kind of story, shooting scenes for several films at the same time is not a big problem for actors or directors. The average Bollywood film, with a budget of only two million US dollars, seems very cheap compared to the average budget of sixty million US dollars for a Hollywood film-thirty times as much!

A. Hollywood movies are regularly filled with violence.

B. However, the real movie capital is Mumbai, in India.

C. Only Indian people can understand Bollywood movies.

D. Most Bollywood movies are more than three hours long.

E. Bollywood actors are very popular and some are in high demand.

F. Another big difference between them is the way the movies are made.

G. This also helps keep the cost of Bollywood movies lower than the cost of Hollywood movies.

You're sitting at your desk. A teacher is writing on the blackboard. Kids are yelling in the playground outside. A book falls off the desk next to you. Suddenly, the teacher hands you a pop quiz.

Don't panic! You're in a "virtual classroom". Everything you see and hear is coming to you through a computer-operated display that you're wearing on your head like a pair of very big glasses. Wearing this kind of virtual-reality equipment, you can find yourself sitting in a classroom, touring a famous museum, wandering across a strange landscape, flying into space, or playing with a cartoon character. Virtual-reality equipment that delivers images and sounds directly to your eyes and ears makes these fake worlds seem lifelike.

Unlike the classroom, the technology is real. It's a type of technology that uses computer programs to simulate（模拟）real-world situations. Movie directors and video game producers have been using computers for years to create ever more realistic special effects. Some companies are now building three-dimensional fantasy worlds in which players, linked by computer networks, appear to meet and go on quests（探索）together.

They see virtual reality technology as a useful tool for learning more about why people act as they do. It could help psychologists better identify and come up with solutions for behavior problems, for example.

"We've spent the last 100 years looking for certain laws in how people interact with the real world," says psychologist Albert. " This is a psychologist's dream."

A. You aren't actually in school.

B. This technology has been used in many fields.

C. Some psychologists are also getting into the act.

D. Grown-ups, too, stand a chance of benefiting from this technology.

E. As part of one classic test, you watch letters flashed on a computer screen.

F. You don't have to leave your room to experience all that mentioned above.

G. Now, we've got a powerful tool that lets us create worlds and see how people perform