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Sales of electrified vehicles (xEVs) in the country expanded by 146 percent from January to August, while sales of gas-powered vehicles continued to trend downward amid higher fuel prices. Read more |
Love yourself ♥️
1. Cooking your own meals
Everybody wants to be healthy.
But the harsh reality is you can't purchase
health over the counter.
You've got to earn that healthy body by
eating right.
2. Exercise
It doesn't matter if it's an intense weight
session or a chill walk in the park.
When you exercise you're more alert, and
more energized, and you'll have a better
attitude about work and everything else.
Regular exercise allows you to look and
feel more attractive.
3. Live in the present
Today is a gift.
Appreciate everything you have;
• Your Family
• Your Health
• Your experiences
When you realize everything you have,
you feel more blessed, happier and joyful
in life.
4. Meditation
There is probably no habit more important for a young man in the 21st century to establish than daily meditation.
If you don't learn to discipline your mind now, you can easily find yourself lying on your death bed reviewing your life.
Not only does meditation increase your willpower, but it also;
•Fights stress
• Boosts your resilience
• Improves your mental and physical health
Even just 10 minutes a day, can be life-changing.
5. Plan your day
The power of planning lies in the perspective & control it provides for your life;
It gives you a broad view of the maze that
must be navigated to achieve your long-
term goals
And the ability to manage the small tasks
that are essential to reaching those aims.
6. Learn to embrace discomfort
To transform your life completely, you
need to say goodbye to your comfort
zone. You have to break new ground.
Get into the habit of stepping out of your
comfort zone.
• Read more books
• Start working out
• Choose healthier foods
7. Daily affirmations
Affirmations are a powerful tool to remind
ourselves of our values.
When you repeat them frequently, they start to manifest in your life.
Positive words of Affirmations:
•lam in command of my life
• Today will be an amazing day!
•I can achieve anything I want
•l am capable of anything
I agree with most of the answers so far, except that we actually do understand sarcasm... however, the British sense of humor is beyond our grasp.
Many of us tend to be know-it-alls in discussions.
Beergardens are also a typical German (not only Bavarian) thing.
We plot and plan a lot and think things through, rather than just going ahead and doing them.
To travel is a status symbol in Germany.
Students are not punctual at university, but everywhere else.
We think the Russian are a lot more blunt than we are, although the French consider us to be very blunt already.
An expensive hobby (e.g. a MTB, a motorbike, paragliding) is a status symbol as well.
We lack national pride, because we are still struggling with the memories of WWII.
We take good care of our homes and cars. In France, I found that people were not caring so much about their private and personal space...
Soccer is very important for men in Germany.
We do not only love to listen to Music, we also love to make music; at least we have lots of choirs and offers to learn how to play musical instruments, but I think less people are interested in that today.
We have a strong folklore.
Aspiring intellectual upper-class Germans cultivate a horrible British English accent.
We do love to complicate things when it comes to personal matters.
We are not fond of strikes and anything that interrupts our well-planned routines.
We do not think failure is a good thing.
DAVAO Region now has 16 registered EV charging stations, with most concentrated in Davao City, as the Department of Energy (DOE) works to expand charging infrastructure and integrate the growing electricity demand from electric vehicles into power distribution planning.
Full story: https://www.sunstar.com.ph/.../16-ev-charging-stations...
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THE PHRASE “song of songs” means the greatest, finest or most supreme song of all.
The “Song of Songs” (or “Canticle of Canticles”) is an exquisite collection of love lyrics arranged to tell a dramatic tale of mutual desire and courtship. It offers an inspired portrayal of ideal human love and a resounding affirmation of the goodness of human sexuality, particularly as it relates to the sacredness and depth of married union.
United States musician and author Ted Gioia argues in his excellent book “Music: A Subversive History” (2019): “At every stage in human history, music has been a catalyst for change, challenging conventions and conveying coded messages – or, not infrequently, delivering blunt, unambiguous ones. It has given voice to individuals and groups denied access to other platforms for expression. Pop music has often been dismissed as ‘lightweight’ given its young audience, simple snappiness and mainstream status, but those elements are really where its strength is concealed. Pop songs don’t originate themes of mental wellbeing, equality, liberty, activism – but they do transmit them to the broadest platforms possible.”
Turn on the radio, tune in to almost any station, and what are you likely to hear? Love songs. Songs of new love, disappointed love, grateful love and crazy love. I still remember my time as a radio host in Davao City several years ago, playing the hits of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s. Nothing much has changed. Times change, but throughout history, the flow of love songs has remained constant.
Plenty of people are surprised, or even shocked, to discover an explicit love song in the Bible — complete with erotic imagery. But the “Song of Songs” is exactly that. It shows no embarrassment about the passion between lovers. Consequently, there have been intermittent attempts throughout history to exclude the “Song of Songs” from the Bible, almost as if it should be labeled “for adults only.”
Imagine, my dear reader, what happened in 16th-century Spain. Professor Fray Luis de León was dragged out of his classroom and imprisoned for four years. His crime? He had translated the “Song of Songs” into Spanish.
If you start reading the “Song of Songs”, you will discover that the book creates an atmosphere very different from that of most modern love songs and pop music. Because love songs are universally popular, many people may approach the “Song of Songs” with great expectations. Yet readers often discover that it is quite different from what they imagined.
One reason is its rich and sometimes puzzling poetic imagery. Another is that the “Song of Songs” can be difficult to follow. At times, one passage does not seem clearly connected to the next. Its language and structure therefore require readers to slow down, reflect and look beyond the surface of the poetry.
Still, try to explore the “Song of Songs”. Look beyond its unusual imagery and seemingly disconnected passages. One thing is certain: you may discover not only a profound celebration of human love but also a deeper understanding of the love between God and His people.
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By Klaus Döring
The phrase “a dream itself is but a shadow” comes from William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet (Act 2, Scene 2), spoken by Hamlet to express how fleeting, unreal and insubstantial human ambitions and perceptions truly are.
I dream of a better world. A world without war and only peace. Without hunger and thirst. Daydreams.
Dreams at night: At one time, people thought that the figures appearing in dreams were messengers from gods. It was generally believed that dreams came from something outside the person or from people with special skills.
Today, it is believed that dreams are created by the dreamer. And because dreams are something a person creates, they may have a special meaning for the person who dreams them.
Just why you have a particular dream when you do may depend on many things. Your health may have an effect on your dreams. A person who is ill or uncomfortable will have different kinds of dreams from those of a person who is well and happy.
If a person is hungry, feeling cold or very tired, his dreams may include these feelings. Many dreams seem to be made up of disguised feelings. Also, the events of the day before may have a lot to do with what one dreams. Often, the persons or situations in a dream are those that you encountered during the day. Or your emotions may make you have the kind of dream you have. Needing or wanting something may also be expressed in a dream, and being frightened may become part of a dream.
The feelings of happiness or disappointment that come out in dreams were probably already present in the dreamer.
But why can’t some people remember their dreams? Do you experience this too? Many of us struggle to remember the details of our dreams. The reasons lie in the complicated cycles of our sleep, as we can learn from Stephen Dowling, a British writer.
Dowling continues: For many of us, dreams are an almost intangible presence. If we’re lucky, we can only remember the most fleeting glimpse in the cold light of day; even those of us who can recollect past dreams in astonishing detail can wake some days with almost no memory of what we had dreamed about.
There is little ethereal about the reasons this might be happening, however. Why we have dreams — and whether we can remember them — are both rooted in the biology of our sleeping bodies and subconscious minds.
Sleep is more complicated than we once thought. Rather than being a plateau of unconsciousness bookended by slipping in and out of sleep, our resting brains go through a roller coaster of mental states, with some stages full of mental activity.
Indeed, we often blindly accept what is happening in this often nonsensical narrative until the time comes to wake up.
The problem is, the more jumbled the imagery, the harder it is for us to grasp it. Dreams that have a clearer structure are much easier for us to remember, psychology professor and author Deirdre Barrett said in a recent story on Gizmodo.
Francesca Siclari, a sleep researcher at Lausanne University Hospital, says there are clear distinctions between our states of wakefulness and sleep — and that is no accident. “It’s probably a good thing that the dream life and the waking life are completely different,” she says. “I think if you remembered every detail like you can do in waking life, you would start to confuse things with what’s actually happening in your real life.”
The fact is: Not being able to remember everything about our dreams is important so that we don’t confuse them with reality. And if you wish to remember your dreams, try to follow Harvard Medical School sleep researcher Robert Stickgold’s advice — simply repeating to yourself as you drift toward sleep that you want to remember your dreams means you may wake remembering them. Stickgold laughs: “It actually works. If you do that you really are going to remember more dreams, it’s like saying ‘There’s no place like home’. It really works.”
Let’s try it. Good night.
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