Emma Lu

Beauty Matters: Teach Students About Beauty to Lead Them to Virtue

In his new book, Beauty Matters: Creating a High Aesthetic in School Culture, Stephen Turley details the nature of beauty in some of the most precise and definitive terms you will find. Turley, in a recent interview, said he sets a plan for incorporating beauty’s characteristics into the classroom. Through his years as a teacher ...

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Stephen Turley lecturing.

3 Chinese Remedies to Help Soothe a Dry Mouth

The symptom of the medical condition called xerostomia is a dry mouth from reduced or absent saliva flow. Xerostomia may indicate the presence of various underlying medical conditions or the side effects of taking certain medicines. In traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), dry mouth is a symptom signaling a high level of internal heat in the body. If ...

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7 Healthy and Delicious Millet Porridge Variations

Millet is good for your health and you can enjoy it as a porridge. It is rich in nutrients and it also has the reputation of being a “ginseng substitute” soup. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) believes that whole grains are the essence of health. In this regard, millet is seen as the most natural and ...

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Millet porridge with bananas and goji berries.

CCP-Appointed Church Leader Accuses West of Using Christianity to Subvert China

The leader of a Chinese state-sanctioned church has accused the West of trying to subvert the country through Christianity. Xu Xiaohong, the Head of the National Committee of the Three-Self Patriotic Movement of the Protestant Churches in China, characterized “private meeting places” and “foreign infiltration” as problems with the Christian religion in the country. Western ...

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CCP Warns Against ‘Erroneous Thoughts’ as It Faces a Historic Year

The year 2019 is an important one for China. It was 30 years ago that the Tiananmen Square massacre took place. Sixty years ago, the Tibetan Buddhists were crushed by the Chinese army and their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama had to flee to India. Seventy years ago, communist China was established. Being an important ...

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Japan Fights Against Worst Measles Outbreak in a Decade

Japan is currently fighting one of the worst measles outbreaks to hit the country in the past 10 years, as more than 258 people have been declared infected within the first two months of 2019. Measles outbreak The highest number of infections was reported in Osaka with 94 cases. Mie and Aichi prefectures followed with ...

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Genome of Great White Shark Finally Decoded

The great white shark is one of the most majestic creatures on the planet and has been an apex predator in the waters for a very long time. Recently, a team of scientists from Nova Southeastern University (NSU) cracked the genome of the shark, revealing some amazing secrets that might one day help fight even ...

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A great white shark.

How to Access the Akashic Records

In spirituality, Akashic records are considered to be a record of all human events. The records not only pertain to human actions, but also words, intent, thoughts, and emotions. The term Akashic is derived from the Sanskrit word “Akasha,” meaning sky or ether. The name “Akashic record” was popularized by theosophist Helena Blavatsky in the ...

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10 Gifts You Can Give Your Child in 2019

Being a good parent can mean so many things. For some of us, it’s providing our children with everything they need — whether materially or activity-wise; for others, it’s making sure they have a good education and enough money so as not to struggle in the future; and some parents focus on spending time with ...

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Positive discipline.

The Great Responsibility and Honor of a Teacher

There is a story from the Qing Dynasty by an influential scholar named Ji Xiaolan (紀曉嵐). He wrote about a teacher named Song Bantang of Anyi — now Xia County, Shanxi Province — in his writings Reading the Xiaocaotang Notes, If I Smell Three. Song was a government official in Yin County, Zhejiang Province, where ...

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An ancient Chinese teacher with a student.