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Man’s Facebook Post Got 500 People To Come To Struggling Restaurant In 1 Day

Kimberly Yam

[1]    A Canadian restaurant that had trouble staying afloat

has become quite the catch, thanks to a simple Facebook

post.

    After Colin Ross, 31, decided to eat at a struggling

[5] shop called Whitbie’s Fish & Chips following a long night

out, he fell in love with the food. But the patron was

discouraged to find that John McMillan, the shop’s

69-year-old owner, couldn’t even afford to pay himself.

    So last weekend, Ross wrote a rave review, calling on

[10] people across Facebook to check out the shop. And days

later, McMillan watched as hundreds visited his restaurant

and revived his Lethbridge, Alberta business.
    McMillan told Global News that he’s moved by

this outpouring of generosity from the community.

[15]    “He did it out of the goodness of his heart and

Lethbridge came and did it out of the goodness of their

hearts,” the proud owner said of Ross and his other

patrons.

    About 400 people showed up to the fish and chips

[20] shop shortly after Ross’ post went up. The day after, a

whopping 500 people showed up to support the

restaurant, BuzzFeed reported. McMillan has even had to

hire another chef to keep up with business, CTV noted.

    “Our business has just gone right through the roof to

[25] the point where, you know, we’ve got people waiting an

hour and a half to an hour and three quarters for their

dinner,” he told the Calgary Eyeopener.

    Whitbie’s has come a long way from where it was

just a few weeks ago. The owner, who’s originally from

[30] Scotland, explained to Global News that much of his

business’ struggles are due to a bad location.

    “People don’t know where I am,” he told the outlet.

“The last three months here have been absolutely

horrible, just horrible.”
[35]    When Ross made his first visit to the restaurant in

search of a hangover cure, he said he didn’t see anyone

else there besides McMillan. The customer, who

ordered a halibut special, was both pleased with the food

and touched by the owner’s personality. And though

[40] McMillan initially refused Ross’ offer to help, the patron

went ahead and shared his thoughts of the shop on Face-

book.

    “The owner was a gem, real classy stand-up guy, so

I ask everyone in Lethbridge to share

[45] this and go support this hard working gentleman,” he wrote.
    The post has received thousands of shares from peo-

ple across the social media site. With business now

booming, McMillan told the Calgary Eyeopener that

he’s bursting with community pride.
[50]    “The people of Alberta just come together,” he said.

“This is the greatest province and the greatest country.”
(Fonte: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/how-one-facebook-post-hel-ped-revive-a-struggling-fish-and-chips-shop_us_57c450f8e4b0664f13c96bc9 Agosto 2016).

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Alzheimer's patients feel emotions long after memory has faded

  Alzheimer's patients continue to feel happy or sad long after they have forgotten watching an emotive film, a study, carried out in 2013, shows.

  In the study, a group for 17 Alzheimer's patients were shown films, one sad and one happy, and then given tests to establish how much of the film they could remember. They also scored their emotions over time. The results were compared to a similar group of healthy people. Some patients did not remember having watched a film at all yet still described the emotions triggered by it and the effects lasted for at least 30 minutes.

  Leading researcher Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez, of the Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, said: ''Our findings suggest that even though patients with Alzheimer's disease may not remember instances of maltreatment, they can still experience the negative emotions triggered by such events.

  One patient in the study said: "I feel like all my emotions and feelings are rushing in on me. It‘s extremely confusing and I do not like that feeling.''

  Dr. Guzmán-Vélez said: "The persistence of this patient‘s intense negative emotion and her inability to conjure up a logical explanation for the cause of her feelings illustrate the confusion that a patient with Alzheimer's disease may experience when experiencing an apparently inexplicable feeling."

  The fact that these patients‘ feelings can persist, even in the absence of memory, highlights the need to avoid causing negative feelings and to try to induce positive feelings with frequent visits and social interactions, exercise, music, dance, jokes, and serving patients their favourite foods.

  The study, therefore, highlights the fact that actions toward patients with Alzheimer's disease have consequences, even when the patients do not appear to remember the actions. This has important implications for carers and family members.

Disponível em: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/ 11120439/ Alzheimer-patients-feel-emotion-long-after-memoryhas-faded.html. Acesso em: 05 maio 2017. Adaptado.

Glossary: carried out: conduzido; triggered: desencadearam; findings: descobertas; highlights: realça

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Alzheimer's patients feel emotions long after memory has faded

  Alzheimer's patients continue to feel happy or sad long after they have forgotten watching an emotive film, a study, carried out in 2013, shows.

  In the study, a group for 17 Alzheimer's patients were shown films, one sad and one happy, and then given tests to establish how much of the film they could remember. They also scored their emotions over time. The results were compared to a similar group of healthy people. Some patients did not remember having watched a film at all yet still described the emotions triggered by it and the effects lasted for at least 30 minutes.

  Leading researcher Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez, of the Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, said: ''Our findings suggest that even though patients with Alzheimer's disease may not remember instances of maltreatment, they can still experience the negative emotions triggered by such events.

  One patient in the study said: "I feel like all my emotions and feelings are rushing in on me. It‘s extremely confusing and I do not like that feeling.''

  Dr. Guzmán-Vélez said: "The persistence of this patient‘s intense negative emotion and her inability to conjure up a logical explanation for the cause of her feelings illustrate the confusion that a patient with Alzheimer's disease may experience when experiencing an apparently inexplicable feeling."

  The fact that these patients‘ feelings can persist, even in the absence of memory, highlights the need to avoid causing negative feelings and to try to induce positive feelings with frequent visits and social interactions, exercise, music, dance, jokes, and serving patients their favourite foods.

  The study, therefore, highlights the fact that actions toward patients with Alzheimer's disease have consequences, even when the patients do not appear to remember the actions. This has important implications for carers and family members.

Disponível em: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/ 11120439/ Alzheimer-patients-feel-emotion-long-after-memoryhas-faded.html. Acesso em: 05 maio 2017. Adaptado.

Glossary: carried out: conduzido; triggered: desencadearam; findings: descobertas; highlights: realça

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Alzheimer's patients feel emotions long after memory has faded

  Alzheimer's patients continue to feel happy or sad long after they have forgotten watching an emotive film, a study, carried out in 2013, shows.

  In the study, a group for 17 Alzheimer's patients were shown films, one sad and one happy, and then given tests to establish how much of the film they could remember. They also scored their emotions over time. The results were compared to a similar group of healthy people. Some patients did not remember having watched a film at all yet still described the emotions triggered by it and the effects lasted for at least 30 minutes.

  Leading researcher Edmarie Guzmán-Vélez, of the Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, said: ''Our findings suggest that even though patients with Alzheimer's disease may not remember instances of maltreatment, they can still experience the negative emotions triggered by such events.

  One patient in the study said: "I feel like all my emotions and feelings are rushing in on me. It‘s extremely confusing and I do not like that feeling.''

  Dr. Guzmán-Vélez said: "The persistence of this patient‘s intense negative emotion and her inability to conjure up a logical explanation for the cause of her feelings illustrate the confusion that a patient with Alzheimer's disease may experience when experiencing an apparently inexplicable feeling."

  The fact that these patients‘ feelings can persist, even in the absence of memory, highlights the need to avoid causing negative feelings and to try to induce positive feelings with frequent visits and social interactions, exercise, music, dance, jokes, and serving patients their favourite foods.

  The study, therefore, highlights the fact that actions toward patients with Alzheimer's disease have consequences, even when the patients do not appear to remember the actions. This has important implications for carers and family members.

Disponível em: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/ 11120439/ Alzheimer-patients-feel-emotion-long-after-memoryhas-faded.html. Acesso em: 05 maio 2017. Adaptado.

Glossary: carried out: conduzido; triggered: desencadearam; findings: descobertas; highlights: realça

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HUMANS IN CALIFORNIA 130,000 YEARS AGO? GET THE FACTS

National Geographic- April 26, 2017

  In an announcement sure to be polemic, researchers say they have found signs of ancient humans in California between 120,000 and 140,000 years ago—more than a hundred thousand years before humans were believed to exist anywhere in the Americas.

  ''I realize that 130,000 years is a really old date and makes our site the oldest archaeological site in the Americas,'' says study leader Tom Deméré, the paleontologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum, whose team describes their findings in Nature. ''Of course, extraordinary claims like this require extraordinary evidence, and we believe the Cerutti mastodon site presents this evidence.''

  To be clear, the team has not found human bones at the site. But as Deméré and their colleagues tell it, their evidence—a mastodon skeleton, mastodon bone flakes, and several large stones—shows that the area was a ''bone quarry,'' where an unknown hominine supposedly smashed fresh mastodon bones with stone hammers, perhaps to extract marrow or to mine the skeleton for raw materials.

  However, many of the world‘s leading experts in American archaeology already have expressed some form of skepticism to the paper‘s claims. Some have rejected it completely.

  ''The earliest occupation of the Americas is a highly contentious subject,'' says University of Southampton archaeologist John McNabb. ''The date of the find at 130,000 years ago is a really big time difference for archaeologists who are used to talking about 12, 13, 14,000 years ago.

Disponível em: . Acesso em: 5 maio 2017. Adaptado.

Glossary: site: sítio (arqueológico); claim: afirmação; bone quarry: aglomeração de ossos; smashed: esmagados; hammers: martelos; marrow: medula óssea.

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HUMANS IN CALIFORNIA 130,000 YEARS AGO? GET THE FACTS

National Geographic- April 26, 2017

  In an announcement sure to be polemic, researchers say they have found signs of ancient humans in California between 120,000 and 140,000 years ago—more than a hundred thousand years before humans were believed to exist anywhere in the Americas.

  ''I realize that 130,000 years is a really old date and makes our site the oldest archaeological site in the Americas,'' says study leader Tom Deméré, the paleontologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum, whose team describes their findings in Nature. ''Of course, extraordinary claims like this require extraordinary evidence, and we believe the Cerutti mastodon site presents this evidence.''

  To be clear, the team has not found human bones at the site. But as Deméré and their colleagues tell it, their evidence—a mastodon skeleton, mastodon bone flakes, and several large stones—shows that the area was a ''bone quarry,'' where an unknown hominine supposedly smashed fresh mastodon bones with stone hammers, perhaps to extract marrow or to mine the skeleton for raw materials.

  However, many of the world‘s leading experts in American archaeology already have expressed some form of skepticism to the paper‘s claims. Some have rejected it completely.

  ''The earliest occupation of the Americas is a highly contentious subject,'' says University of Southampton archaeologist John McNabb. ''The date of the find at 130,000 years ago is a really big time difference for archaeologists who are used to talking about 12, 13, 14,000 years ago.

Disponível em: . Acesso em: 5 maio 2017. Adaptado.

Glossary: site: sítio (arqueológico); claim: afirmação; bone quarry: aglomeração de ossos; smashed: esmagados; hammers: martelos; marrow: medula óssea.