Create a Sustainable Ecosystem in a Bottle
You'll create your own world, and make the most original designs in a bottle! You will continue to experience it for a long time.
By Mr. Botanist
About this event
How does it work?
The host will send you a set of glass containers and you don't need to prepare anything (the glass containers fee and shipping included in the price).
You will get your tacking number, and your sipping will be express sipping!
You need to book your experience session at least I week before the date you want.
When you receive your glass containers, the host will send you a link.
Sustainable Container class will start.
240 hours of experience (minimum)! You will keep your containers and will continue to experience them. The host will bring all the materials.
Important Note: This is just an application/ practice to make a closed sustainable container. Please don't forget that they won't lie forever.
Are you ready to meet a fun botanical activity? You will create your own world! You will make the most original designs as creatively as possible in a limited space.
A container simply is a self-sustainable ecosystem. We will talk about the carbon, oxygen, and water cycle, which is very important scientifically for life. We will have many design materials that you can freely make your own combination. Every container has different life paths. You will create a unique, separate, and long-life container. Right combination containers can live for decades. You will be able to watch for a long time without opening it again, and after 2-3 months, you will start to see some little friends (worms…) in the jar.
An instructor will be with you. It won't be like a regular class, and be ready for fun!
Think feely, design feely, and Love Nature!
If you've ever felt "butterflies in your stomach" when nervous, you're likely getting signals from an unexpected source: your second brain. Hidden in the walls of the digestive system, this "brain in your gut (肠道) " is revolutionizing medicine's understanding of the links between digestion, mood and health. Scientists call this little brain the enteric nervous system(ENS 肠神经系统).
The ENS is two thin layers of more than 100 million nerve cells lining your gut. Unlike the big brain in your head, the ENS can't calculate or compose a love note. "Its main role is controlling digestion," explains Jay Pasricha, M.D. , director of the Johns Hopkins Center. "The enteric nervous system doesn't seem capable of thought as we know it, but it communicates back and forth with our big brain." For decades, researchers and doctors thought that anxiety and depression contributed to gut problems. But Pasricha's research shows that it can also be the other way around.
Our two brains "talk" to each other, so treatments that help one may help the other. In a way, doctors who treat digestive conditions are like advisors looking for ways to comfort the second brain. Psychological approaches also help to improve communications between the big brain and the brain in our gut.
Pasricha says the research suggests that digestive-system activity may affect thinking skills and memory, too. "This is an area that needs more research, something we hope to do here at Johns Hopkins," he says.
Cecilia Chiang, named the "mother of Chinese food in American", a famed restauranteur who helped introduce real Chinese food to America in the 1960s, died on October 28, 2020 at the age of 100. Opened in 1961, Cecilia' legendary San Francisco restaurant, the Mandarin, was arguably the best Chinese restaurant in the US for over 30 years. She challenged the American idea of Chinese food and transformed their appreciation for authentic Chinese cuisine.
Ms Chiang was born in Wuxi in 1920 as the seventh daughter in a wealthy family. After her parents died, Cecilia managed the businesses' finances while still in her teens.
Ms Chiang came to San Francisco in 1959. Once in San Francisco, she met two acquaintances who wanted to open a restaurant. Ms Chiang agreed to put up a huge deposit. But when the two women quit, Ms Chiang found to her horror that the deposit was not refundable. She decided to open the restaurant herself. "I began to think that if I could create a restaurant with Western-style service and the dishes that I was most familiar with-the delicious food of northern China— maybe my little restaurant would succeed," she wrote in her book.
The Mandarin, which was opened in 1961 as a small restaurant, introduced customers to mainly Sichuan, Shanghai and Canton dishes. The early days were especially tough. But little by little, Chinese diners, and a few Americans came regularly. Overnight, the tables filled and became a huge success.
Ms Chiang enjoyed many extraordinary honors. In 2013, when she was 93, she received the long overdue Lifetime Achievement Award from the James Beard Awards, known as the "Culinary Oscars" at New York's Lincoln Center. Cecilia considered it her legacy to have redefined what Americans know about Chinese food and culture. In her acceptance speech, Cecilia said, "This is an incredible honor. James Beard was one of my close personal friends, so this award holds a special place in my heart."
Do you like Chinese traditional painting and dance? They are two important parts of the traditional Chinese art. But what about when they meet each other?
This year, a dance drama titled Poetic Dance: The Journey of a Legendary Landscape Painting (《只此青绿》) was staged on CCTV's Spring Festival Gala and became popular.
According to CCTV, this poetic dance program was inspired by the 900-year-old Chinese painting A Panorama of Rivers and Mountains (《千里江山图》). Created by Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng at about 18, the painting is amazing in its sweeping size, rich coloration and the expressive details, reported CCTV. It shows a Chinese blue-green landscape: "mountains and groupings of infinite (无限的) rise and fall between cloudless sky and rippling (涟漪的) water".
When the dancers moved elegantly(优美地), audiences seemed to be looking at the moving mountains and rivers. "It brings me a pure experience of beauty. It is not only a drama but also an exhibition. Vast mountains and rivers are coming to life!" Internet user Mo Weisha wrote in a review. "More than a thousand years later, green mountains and rivers still impress people as they did long ago." Some people even decided to watch the dance again when it was staged in the theaters later. In fact, in recent years, more and more modern shows feature Chinese traditional culture and have received warm welcome. As for the reason, it is due to people's great love for traditional culture.
"The younger generations have grown up with a more open mind. They accept Chinese culture and are proud of it." Yao Wei, director of Henan TV Station's Innovation Center, told China Daily.
Do books unite us? Award — winning author and poet Kwame Alexander thinks so. . Millions of young people around the world have read and loved his novels and poems.
On September 8, I spoke with Alexander at the National Book Festival. I asked about his new novel, The Door of No Return, which is due out on September 27 for young readers. .
Did any experiences inspire you to write The Door of No Return?
Going there so much, tasting the food, meeting the people, and putting my feet in the ocean, I felt some type of warmness. I felt like I was connected to Ghana. I wanted to write a story that was based there. Those trips inspired me.
In the book, the character of Kofi is faced with an unexpected challenge. How do you think challenges can bring us together?
We can't figure everything out on our own. . We realize that we have others around us who can support us. give us ideas and help us. That makes us a stronger family and community, and stronger, better people.
Characters in your books look and act like kids I know. Why do you think it's important to make your characters real and relatable?
Kids can tell if a character is fake, or if it's not real, and they get turned off. They don't want to read the book. I hope kids like not only the beginnings of my books but the ends of my books. .
A. I went to Ghana, in West Africa, 11 times
B. Truly appreciate people spreading the word
C. Sometimes, we need help from other people
D. Alexander is the author of several best-selling titles
E. Here are highlights from my conversation with the author
F. In order to do that, I need to make the characters believable
G. The author spent much of his childhood and teenage years in Virginia
It is natural that young people are not often comfortable when they are with their parents. They say that their 1 don't understand them. They often think that their parents are out of touch with modern ways; that they are too strict 2 their children; and that they 3 give their children a free hand. It is true that parents often find it difficult to win their children's 4 and they tend to forget how they themselves 5 when young. For example, young people like to act at once without much 6. It is one of their ways to show that they have 7 up and they can face any difficult situation. Instead, 8 people worry more easily. Most of them 9 things ahead, at least in their minds, and do not like their plans to be upset by something 10.
When you want your parents to let you do 11, you will have better success if you ask 12 you really start doing it.
Young people often make their parents angry with their choices in clothes, in 13and in music. But they do not mean to cause any trouble; it is just that they feel 14 from the older people's world, into which they have not yet been accepted. That's why young people want to make a new culture of their 15. And if their parents do not like their music or entertainments or clothes or their ways of speech, this will make the young extremely 16.
Sometimes you are so proud of yourself that you do not want your parents to 17yes" to what you do. All you want is to be 18 and do what you like. It is natural enough, after being a child for so many years, that you were completely under your parents control.
If you plan to control your life, you'd better 19your parents and try to get them to believe you. If your parents see that you have a high sense of responsibility, they will certainly give you the 20 to do what you want to do.
A robot used for housework (test) out in a family. He looked like a tall and handsome man with smooth hair, (speak) in a deep voice. Larry was going to be away from home so he hired such a robot (accompany) his wife Claire. Claire didn't like the idea at the beginning, she agreed to it at last. At her first sight of Tony, Claire was alarmed. When Tony offered to help her dressing, Claire felt (embarrass).
(gradual), Tony began to win Claire's trust. He helped Claire realize her dreams by making her home elegant, giving her a new haircut, changing the makeup she (wear) and giving her advice on her dresses. Therefore, at the party all the guests were invited were filled with (admire) when they saw her house was completely changed.
After the test, the company was satisfied with Tony's report because he had (success) made a woman regain her confidence.
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
We can only imagine how tough it has been to follow the rules on social distancing, especially when sun is out.
We should be thankful because so many millions of people across this country have been done the right thing continuously - millions going through the hardship of self-isolation - faithful, patiently, with thought and care for others as well as for ourselves.
In the past several months, we have had seen the personal courage not just of the doctors and nurses and of everyone. Many people keep risk this deadly virus to support the infected area, especially the medical staffs. It is thanks for that courage, that devotion, that duty and that love which our country has been unbeatable. We will defeat this novel coronavirus together.
1）建议他申请；
2）给出理由；
3）表达期望。
注意：1）词数100左右；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
