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At 74 James Patterson has sold more than 425 million copies of his 200 novels globally, making him one of the highest paid authors in the world. "I do not work for a living. I play for a living. I love doing it, " Patterson tells CNBC. But Patterson's road to success didn't happen overnight. He started writing as a side hustle and he faced a lot of rejection before getting his first book published. Patterson grew up in the woods in Newburgh, New York with an insurance salesman father and a schoolteacher mother. Despite having dreams of being a writer, the idea "always seemedpresumptuous", Patterson says. But after reading books by James Joyce, "it really turned me on to reading, and then I started writing, " he says.

After college, Patterson got his first job as a junior copy writer at the advertising agency J. Walter Thompson. While climbing the corporate ladder, Patterson wrote his first book, The Thomas Berryman Number in the mid-70s. The book "got turned down by 31 publishers", Patterson says. But after it was finally published in 1976, "then it won an Edgar Award for best first novel. " The Edgar Award, which is named after Edgar Alan Poe, honors the best writers in mystery fiction and non-fiction. Despite publishing his first book at age 26, Patterson didn't have a bestseller until he was 40.

"It wasn't like all of a sudden, " he says. In fact, Patterson kept his day job for decades and got promoted to CEO of J. Walter Thompson in 1988. During that time, Patterson says he would read well over 100 books a year to help spark his creativity. "I have a huge imagination and I'm constantly asking, what about this? What about that?" he says.

Despite his success, Patterson says he doesn't like to give advice, especially about writing. But he credits his own success to his work ethic and passion. "I also don't take myself too seriously, " he says. "Yeah, I sell a lot of books, so what?"

China is one of the world's ancient civilizations and has the earliest outstanding bronze casting

technology. Here we've created a list of 4 museums where you can gain an in - depth understanding of Chinese bronze.

Sanxingdui Museum

Address: Sanxingdui Ruin Site, 133 Xian Road, Guanghan, Deyang, Sichuan province

Hours: Comprehensive Gallery (the first exhibition hall): 8:30-18:00; Bronze Gallery (the second exhibition hall): 8:30-18:30. Last tickets sold at 17:00. Closed on the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve

Ticket booking: 0838-5651526

General admission: Gallery ticket 80 yuan

Note: Children shorter than 1.2m (including 1.2m) can visit the gallery free of charge. The ticket must be used on the day it is sold and authorizes one visit to each gallery. 

National Museum of China

Address: East side of Tian'anmen Square, Dongcheng district, Beijing

Hours: 8:30-17:00 (no entry after 16:30)

General admission: Free (passport required for entry), Closed Mondays (except for national holidays)

E - mail: webmaster@chnmuseum. cn

Shanghai Museum

Address: 201 Renmin Avenue, Huangpu district, Shanghai

Hours: 9:00-17:00 (no entry after 16:00), Closed Mondays (except for national holidays)

E - mail: webmaster@shanghai-museum. org

General admission: free (a max of 8, 000 admitted daily)

Hunan Museum

Address: 50 Dongfeng Road, Changsha, Hunan province

Hours: 9:00-17:00 (no entry after 16:00), Closed Mondays (except for national holidays) and the eve of Chinese New Year

Tel: (+86-731) 8415833, 84475933

E - mail: web@hnmuseum. com

General admission: Free (passport required for entry)

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Dear David, 

How are you?

Yours, 

Li Jin

In the last week, terrible floods have hit Prague, the beautiful old capital city of the Czech Republic. These are the worst floods for over 100 years, leaving thousands of people without homes. 

The floods rushed into Prague zoo as well, and hundreds of zoo animals had to swim for their lives. One of the monkeys drowned in two minutes, because the place where he lived was covered by water. 

An elephant, called Kadir, also drowned, but his death helped to save other animals. Kadir was famous because he had appeared on TV. When they heard the news of his death, hundreds of people phoned the zoo offering help. 

After the sad news of the elephant's death, many volunteers came to the zoo to help the animals. This was not easy. They had to use the huge machines to lift things onto ships. Without these, it would have been impossible to lift the very large animals like elephants.

Other animals swam out and were helped to survive by people. For example, one of the seals, Gaston, swam to Germany, 120 kilometers away. In the end, four hundred animals were salvaged. 

Pre-school children who spend time together show one another's personalities, a new research has found. The study shows that environment plays a key role in shaping people's personalities. While genetics still forms the central part of the human psyche（心理），the research finds that personality features are "contagious" （传染的） among our children. "Our finding flies in the face of common assumption that personality can't be changed, " Said Dr. Jennifer Neal, co-author of the study.

The researcher studied the personalities and social networks of two pre-school classes for a full school year. One of the classes was a group of three-year-olds, and the other a group of four-year-olds. Children whose friends were hard-working or outgoing gradually took on these personality features over time. Psychology expert Dr. Emily Dublin said kids are having a far bigger effect on each other than people may realize. 

The new study is not the first to explore the contagious effects of personality features. A 2015 psychology study found that rudeness at work can be contagious as it travels from person to person "like a disease". The study found that seeing a boss being rude to an employee was enough to cause people to be rude to those around them.

The researchers questioned 6, 000 people on the social "climate" in their workplaces, which included offices, hotels and restaurants. They found 75 percent of those who took parts said they had been treated rudely at least once in the past year. And the study also suggests that merely seeing other people suffer rudeness made it more likely that a person would treat their colleagues in the same way. Rudeness could include leaving someone off an invite to a company event, sending unkind emails, finding fault with others or failing to give praise.

Dr. Torkelson believes companies need to be more aware of the harm that rudeness in the workplace can do as it can damage the working environment. She said better training could help to fight against the problem. 

Allen Cook and his daughter Melissa were renovating(整修) her house, when they found a beautiful, heart-warming love story. "The envelope in the ceiling was old and yellow. It had never been opened, It was unbelievable when my son-in-low started reading it. In the letter she was talking about the baby she was going to have, " Allen Cook said.

The story began in May 4, 1945, the typed letter was written by a woman named Virginia to her husband, Rolf Christoffersen. At the time, he was a sailor in the Norwegian navy. The envelope was marked "return to sender" and never found its way to her husband. Allen's daughter used the Internet to find the phone number of someone named Rolf Christoffersen and gave him a call, leading her to his son in Santa Barbara, California.

"Someone called me at my office. They just googled my name because I have the same name as my father. Melissa asked me where I grew up and I told her. She told me she had the letter, " Christoffersen's son, 66 now, said. The younger Christoffersen wasn't yet born when his mother Virginia wrote the letter, but he said her words were very special to him. His mother, who died six years ago, wrote about her love for her husband.

"I love you Rolf, as I love the warm sun, and that is what you are for my life, the sun about which everything else revolves around me, " she wrote. Seventy-two years later, her words were finally heard by her husband. Christoffersen immediately called his father, who is now

96. And read the letter to him over the phone. "I was so surprised after all these years. I was very emotional, " the elder Christoffersen said.

The long-lost letter was finally received just before Mother's Day; it was another precious connection to Virginia Christoffersen. "It's Mother's Day and reading her words reminded me just what a wonderful person she was and how much she loved us" her son said, through tears.

So whether you are "a yoga professional" looking for somewhere new to practice, or "a novice" interested in trying yoga for the first time, Move GB is pulling all the stops out for National Yoga Month, reaching out to its 1, 281 yoga partners to generate a yoga schedule for Londoners that will keep you inspired and feeling great throughout the month.

Monday, 3 September

Sunrise yoga in the clouds at Yogasphere

Start the day with an active yoga practice. An hour of mind, body and soul relaxation makes you feel flexible, inspired, and ready for the day ahead. 

24th floor of The Shard, 32 London Bridge Street SE1 9SG; movegb. com

Saturday, 8 September

Aerial（空中的）yoga at Flying Fantastic

Aerial yoga gives a slightly different reading of the ancient art of yoga. It uses poses through seven paths in the body and can help those with back and shoulder pain and provides a good workout. It's devoted to helping you reduce the tension in the bones and muscles, which in turn increases your balance ability and flexibility in the muscles. 

Yard Arches, 229 Union Street SEI 0LR; movegb. com

Wednesday, 12 September

Color therapy with Chroma Yoga

Conquer the mid-week tiredness and stimulate your senses with Chroma Yoga, which combines yoga practice with light and color therapy techniques, brain-stimulating music and natural smell to create a wellness experience. 

45 Charlotte Road, Hackney EC2A 3PG; movegb. com

Thursday, 20 September

Power yoga at Factory 45

Turn on your holiday with an experimental studio space in the heart of Borough that is now home to art, music, fashion and fitness. 

44-46 Newington Causeway, Elephant & Castle SE1 6DR; movegb. com

I believe even the smartest people have to work hard to achieve success, because there is no such person as a born winner. People turn themselves into winners by their own1 . 

I learned this lesson from a(n) 2 many years ago. I took the head 3 job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program. 

It was a4 for the school's old team to play against the new team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn't even practice to5 the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldn't6 I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to7 that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were8 me. I had to change my9 towards their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little 10 . Most importantly, I began to treat them like 11 . That summer, When the other teams enjoyed their 12 , we met every day and 13 passing and kicking the football. 

Six months after suffering our14 on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to win.15 , we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a16 for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn't what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me the greatest17 of my life!

From the experience I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can 18 the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and 19 them. I helped them to see themselves 20 , and they built themselves into winners. Winners are made, not born.