A number of events are going on at the Cooperage Project, located at 1030 Main Street in Honesdale. Enjoy!
The Cooperage Maker Fair
The Cooperage Maker Fair will be held from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Friday, June 12 on the grounds of the City Museum. The Maker Fair is a place where people show what they are making — a showcase for invention and creativity, and share what they are learning. Anyone interested in presenting their projects, hobbies and experiments should apply to take part at www. cooperagemakerfair. com.
Such Sweet Thunder
At 7:00 pm on Wednesday, June 17, there will be a film screening of comedy Twelfth Night as part of the Such Sweet Thunder: Shakespeare's Plays on Film Series. Dr. Robert Dugan will introduce the play with a brief background. Admission is free, but due to limited seating, booking is required at www. suchsweetthunder. com.
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
On Thursday, June 24, there will be an event called Sounds Like Teen Spirit from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Sounds Like Teen Spirit is designed to provide an opportunity to showcase the talent of our community's youth. School-aged students are encouraged to share their performing art on stage at the Cooperage Project!
Great Brazilian Music Tour
On Saturday, June 27, a fantastic opportunity is ready for you to listen to some great Brazilian music by the musical group Minas. It is from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, and doors open at 2:00 pm. We encourage children and their families to come to learn all about the rhythm, excitement and sound of Brazilian music. The two-hour performance is sure to be fun for the whole family. The admission charge is $5 for each person, and all the money will go to the local food bank. You can also give away old clothes and money at the entrance.
Liao Wentao, a pet undertaker, put the body of 2-year-old Garfield on a small bed surrounded by flowers. Then he let the cat's owner say a last goodbye before cremation (火化). "We send off 400 to 500 pets each year, and there's a great demand for pet funerals," he told China News.
Keeping pets has become a trend for young people in China and people are more than willing to pay for whatever their pets need. From 2019 to 2021, China's pet market grew by almost 18% and hit 348. 8 billion yuan in value in 2021, according to a report by iResearch Consulting Group.
As the pet economy develops, animal lovers' various needs have boosted the emergence and development of related businesses such as bathing, pet food, pet beauty and healthcare.
In addition to basic services, pet owners are increasingly paying for many new services, such as training, pet funerals, insurance, photography and entertainment. The growing pet market has also given birth to a large number of new pet-related jobs, noted CCTV News.
Liu Wei, 33, is a famous pet detective in Shanghai. He and his team work on finding families' lost pets. "We have successfully helped find more than 1,000 pets. Besides cats and dogs, there are other pets like birds, lizards and hamsters," Liu said. "In many big cities, cats and dogs have become an important part of many families and are taken good care of. So what we look for are not just pets, but family members. "
Apart from pet undertakers and detectives, some people work as pet food testers, pet sitters and pet trainers. According to Tu Di, secretary-general of the Hunan Pet Industry Association, the booming pet market shows people's improved living standards.
However, there are also problems with the industry, for example, the high fees of taking pets to the vet (兽医). Many pet owners have called for stricter pricing regulations for pet medical services, reported Global Times.
Language is the bridge that connects people everywhere. On April 20, people around the world celebrated the United Nations Chinese Language Day. To mark the occasion, the UN Office at Geneva, Switzerland, organized the first Chinese Language Video Festival (CLVF).
Participants from 27 countries, including the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, took part in the one-hour special event, sharing their passion for the Chinese language and culture through short videos. Over 340 video submissions told touching stories about a civilized, modern and youthful China through participants' personal experiences in the country.
Though some people find the language difficult to learn, most find it to be rewarding.
For M. Yousaf from Pakistan, learning Chinese gave him a better perspective and insight into the culture. "Learning Chinese is not just learning a language. It's a language of one of the biggest populations in the world," Yousaf said. "If you know this language, you know the civilization and mind of the people. "
Of course the language itself is unique, particularly considering it's tonal (音调的) foundation. "Tones are important because a lot of Chinese syllables (音节) sound similar or even the same – the tone changes their meaning," said Mike Fuksman, an American living in Beijing.
To remember Chinese characters, you can connect them with pictures and make some short stories. Many people find it is important to use imagination when learning Chinese. For example, the Chinese character for "tea" has some lines of grass, the roof of a house and people drinking tea.
Learning any language comes with benefits, particularly for those who are always looking to learn more. Since some languages have "loanwords (外来词)" from Chinese, it may be easier for one to pick up Korean or Japanese after studying Chinese. "It helped me so much when I started learning Japanese," said Yerdana.
This painting Spring Bouquet has a precise structure. The flowers spill over into the lower left-hand corner, with an imbalance as free and as wild as nature. But at once the artist responds to this unbalance. To the right of the vase, Renoir has developed a heavy shadow area, rich in purples and sharply contrasted with the light below it. The placing of the straight line in the lower right side is necessary. If the reader covers this line, he will see that the composition becomes unbalanced.
The Impressionist technique had not yet developed when Renoir painted this picture. Yet the painting with light and color indicates Impressionism is around the corner; there is something of that school in the feeling of the out-of-doors that Renoir has acquired. The texture (纹理) of the flowers is described. Above all, one can't help saying the very nice smell of the flowers is there, too.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in 1841. He began working as a young painter of porcelain and textiles. At age 21, Renoir entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and went on to study under the instructions of painter Charles Gleyre's. Even though his paintings had been initially rejected by the Academy and the public, with time he became one of the most admired artists of his generation.
Unfortunately, in 1899, he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis (风湿性关节炎). It is a disease that causes a lot of pain. In addition, the person affected by it may also have deformities (畸形). Consequently, his movements became very limited and each movement was a big and certainly painful effort.
His son, Jean Renoir, writes in the book Renoir, My Father after his father passed away, the reaction of the people to the painting of the father, after seeing his hands:
Visitors who were unprepared for this could not take their eyes off his deformity. Though they did not dare to mention it, their reaction would be expressed by some such phrase as "It isn't possible!" With hands like that, how can he paint those pictures? There's some mystery somewhere.
Many people desire to return to school to increase earning potential, realize dreams, or finish something they started long ago. Unfortunately, some have families and jobs, and getting to day or night courses can be an impossible thing.
Thanks to the Internet and other forms of quick communication, e-learning for students has become the busy person's preferred method for achieving education goals. In reality, almost anyone can benefit from the flexibility of e-learning.
If you're a stay-at-home mom or dad and looking to return to the school then you are a best candidate for e-learning. As long as you can meet deadlines and perform high-quality work, you can achieve the highest educational goals.
You can earn the master's or doctoral degree, as well as high-level certifications in your online program.
If you live in a place that does not offer the kind of education you want, you may want to look at e-learning in an oversea college or university. For instance, England has some of the world's most well-known institutes.
A. What a pity that they are kept away!
B. Below are some examples about e-learning.
C. But now, here comes a new learning type — e-learning.
D. And now its high-quality education can be enjoyed worldwide.
E. The Internet provides you a new form of learning to realize dreams.
F. Many e-courses enable you to access the learning system whenever you can.
G. If you have got the undergraduate degree, you still have motivations for further education.
When I was a child, I suffered from a disease. It is a 1 condition, which makes it difficult for a person to form relationships and can make one very 2 in one particular thing. One of the biggest 3 I faced was communicating with others. I was shy 4 I loved to recite facts. This sometimes made me a 5 for bullies (欺凌). I didn't really understand as much about the disease or how it 6 my life.
In my 20s, I 7 to Paris. I was deeply attracted by the city, and I 8 a job in a big hotel right then. As an Eiffel Tower ambassador, I 9 guests and visitors as they took the lift to the top of the hotel's 46-story tower. There, I liked to 10 the local attractions and helped people find the best 11 for taking photos. 12, I had a problem with changes in everyday life, 13 when talking with people who were different from me. But I liked to memorize facts, and that really 14 in my job because people loved to 15 all of the interesting things about the city. Gradually, when I clocked in every morning, I felt it's time for me to perform for and 16 the guests. I loved it when I learnt something new because I couldn't 17 to share the information with others.
Everyone is 18, and everyone has a gift. It takes me more than 50 years to 19 that I am different. Just be yourself, be kind, and try to make a 20 in your life.
China's first overpass for wildlife migration has already come into use. Lying over the (new) constructed National Highway 216, the bridge is able to link animal habitats (separate) by the road．
The national highway (design) with the environmental protection as a top priority. Based on years of (science) observation of wildlife migration in the region, the bridge was built with the purpose of reducing the highway's effect the animals. The wildlife overpasses and underpasses let animals (cross) over or under busy roadways safely and allow them to use (they) customary paths, which would otherwise be blocked. Those passageways, with total length of 59 kilometers, enable antelopes and other animals to go across the railway freely.
So far, China (put) great effort into achieving harmonious coexistence between human development and the protection of wildlife. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway,
is the world's highest railroad, has 33 underpasses for the migrating animals.
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Before the Spring Festival, I thought about doing something meaningfully. Suddenly, I remembered that there was a lot of primary school students putting up small shops and sell red bags on the street last Spring Festival. Wanting to have a try, so I begged my father to support him. He bought some lovely red bags and small toy. For the first time in my life I begin to sell things at the gate of the park. This experience of selling taught me the secret of communicating strangers, and I understood what hard it is for my parents to make money.
