Outing Destinations in Australia
Australian Seabird Rescue Center
The Australian Seabird Rescue, Research, Rehabilitation and Coastal Education Center in Ballina offers a comprehensive educational experience for people of all ages. All presentations include a one-hour informative talk by one of their trained volunteers, as well as a chance to see wildlife that may be in their care. Animals that you may get the opportunity to get a close-up look at may include some sea birds, and even the endangered sea turtles（海龟）.
The Laland Sea of Sound Festival
This is a major festival of music, arts and culture staged in the symbolic location of Wahluu-Mount Panorama. The festival will bring together some of Australia's most famous artists during the two-day music feast from Friday to Saturday.
Bathurst Mintature Rallway
The club started in 1977 and today operates and maintains nearly 600 metres of track at the John Mathew's sporting complex in Durham Street Bathurst. Over the years many buildings, features and a lot more tracks for your enjoyment have been added. Everyone will have a great family day out! It operates every third Sunday of the month. It is located next to the Tennis Centre in Durham Street. Train tides are available weather permitting and passengers must wear covered footwear.
Bathurst Farm Experience
Experience a real farm and interact with animals at Bathurst Farm Experience. Feed lambs, chickens, horses and learn about their uses. Birthday parties are great fun at Bathurst Farm Experience. They provide the venue; you provide the kids and the food.
Bookings are essential for all visits, times by arrangement. If you have particular activities you would like to try, please disuss this when-hooking-es all activities cannot fit into a 90-minute visitl Extra time may be possible for more activitics, charges in 30-minute-btek, $50. 00 per hour.
I never thought I would go far from home. I was an ordinary high school student from a working-class family, and I didn't think traveling the world was in the cards for me. For my undergraduate and doctor degree, I only applied to universities within an hour of my hometown in the United Kingdom. Staying at the same university seemed like the safe option. A few years later, as I was considering a postdoc（博士后）, I once again wanted to stay close to home, in the comfort of my Ph. D. lab. But I hope to run my own lab one day, and I knew that seeing a different approach to science would be valuable.
I heard about a fellowship program in Japan that sounded like a good fit. The flexibility of the program appealed to me. I could choose how long I would be there-rom as little as a month to as month as a year-long enough to experience a new place, learn and get some msearch done but short enough to make the experience less scary. I thought of it almost as a holiday, somewhat like going to a conference in an interesting far-off place.
But when I was accepted, the head of the group I was going to join wanted me to stay for the full year. I hesitated. After much thought, I worked up my courage and signed on for the year-knowing that, if things went badly. I could come home earlier.
Almost everything was different from what I was used to, but getting used to these differences was easier than I had expected. Eating out with my labmates offers a great communicative opportunity. Talking with my new colleagues about their experiences conducting mearch in other countries helped open my eyes to new ways of doing things.
After my fellowship, I thought I would leave Japan to do a postdoc elsewhere. But when my fellowship adviser offered me a longer-term position in his lab. I couldn't say no. This time,though,it wasn't because I was afraid to go somewhere new. It was because I wanted to take advantage of an exciting opportunity. After the jump I took with fellowship. I now feel I can do anything.
My daughters are lovely and attractive. The 4-yearold has big blue eyes and easy laughter. The 7-year old's long strawberry blond hair and sweet smile are already turning the boys' heads. I love everything about these girls. and they know it.
But I try not to tell them they' re beautiful. My young daughters are totally innocent about the pressures of being a woman in our society. They know nothing about plastic surgery, diets. "feeling fat", or eating disorders. We adults know all too much about such things and in the face of this cruel reality we tend to start telling our girls,as soon and often as possible, how beautiful they are. Here's the thing. though. What we're also doing is bringing the beauty pressure home to our littlest girls. The more I talk about beauty and looks, even in a positive way. ,the more I'm conveying the importance of those things.
However, it doesn't mean I don't praise my girls. Instead of saying "You look beatutiful!" I might say the more specific "Don't you look fancy today!" or "Those colors go so well together. " It means that I treat my daughters not as my little dolls, but as real people who are developing their own sense of self and style. It means that they are in change of how they look.
Naturally, I buy most of my girls clothes. But I don't usually manage their outfit （整套衣服）choices. My daughters can go girly with necklaces and head-to-toe pink, or they can choose to give up dresses altogether. Of course we've seen some mismatching, but they own those styles. They never ask if they look pretty, and they walk with an easy confidence that has nothing to do with what l or anyone else will say about how they look. And that's the confident spirit I want them to take into their teens and adulthood.
During the darkest days of the drought（干旱）that hit the western US since the early 2000s，rivers went dry from north to south. Consequently, low river flows severely reduced the amount of carbon-free electricity that could be produced by the thousands of hydroelectric power plants（水力发电厂）along rivers across the West.
Now, a group of researchers have figured out that an extra 100 million tons of carbon ended up in the atmosphere because people had to use carbon-emitting（碳排放）power sources instead of hydroelectric power during drought. That's equal to adding about 1.4 million cars to road for every one of those years. "That's a big piece of the pic, "says Noth Diffenbaugh a climate scientist at Stanford and one of the authors of the study.
In normal years, over 20% of the electicity comes from hydroelectric power plants. But that number fluctuates with the ebb（退潮）and flow of water. And when water is not enough. the amount of hydroelectric power decreases.
States like Califomia. Washirgton, and Orgon that rely on hydroelectic power during water-rich years were the hardest hit. In Califormia, for example, the extra carbon dioxide emitted because of the drought added up to over 7% of its total carbon emissions.
That's not a minor problem. Many of the western states have made plans for how to reduce their emissions over the next few decades. Califormia, for example, is trying to get its emissions down to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. But drought makes it harder to meet the emissions reduction goals.
While the carbon cost of drought is large, Diffenbaugh points out, with this study and a lot of others from the past few years, we've learned more and more about when and why carbon-free energy sources face challenge. Armed with this information, he says, energy managers can figure out how to fill the gaps in energy demand with more renewable resources.
The History Of Chocolate
The Theobroma Cacao tree provides us with one of the world's mest delicious foods—chocolate. The tree originally comes from the Amazon region of South America. Hand-sized pods（菜）that grow on the tree contain cacao seeds-often "cocoa heans. "
The earliest use of cacao beans dates back to around 1000 B. C. when the Mayan people used cocoa as a drink. It is believed that drinking cups of cocoa was important on occasions such as wedding ceremonies. In Peru, for example, eating or drinking a mixture of chocolate and chili was said to be good for the stomach.
Christopher Columbus, the famous Spanish explorer, made his fourth voyage across the Atlantic in the early 1500s and arrived in-Central America. Cocoa beans were used as money in many parts of Central America.
In the sixteenth century, chocolate was taken back to Spain by Hernando Cortez, another explorer. It later spread to France in the seventeenth century. The popularity of chocolate continued to spread further across Europe and the Americas. The only Asian country to accept it at that time, though, was the Philippines, which the Spanish invaded in the sixteenth century.
Slaves' were brought to the Americas from Africa to farm the cocoa. Eventually, the cacao tree was taken to Africa. Today. Africa provides almost seventy percent of the world's cacao, compared with one and a half percent from Mexico. Who would have thought that chocolate bars had so much history?
A. Spain was a great country at that time.
B. These seeds are used to make chocolate.
C. These seeds are originally from South America.
D. It was at this time that he first discovered the value of cocoa beans.
E. Drinking cocoa was also believed to have positive effects on health.
F. The people there added other things such as sugar to make it sweet.
G. As chocolate became more popular, more people are needed to plant coco.
Hesitantly, I stood on the doorsteps of an unfamiliar louse-L'Arche,and was about to meet my new 1 . Stepping through the door,,I was 2 by several ladies. One took her hand out of her mouth to shake mine. I remember holding her 3 hand and wondering if I was really 4 for what lay ahead.
L'Arche is a home for developmentally delayed adults,5 helping them experience love through a sense of 6 . My new home consisted of two assistants, including myself, and four developmentally delayed ladies. I can best describe my "job" at L'Arche as something 7 to a nanny（保姆）.
My day began around 7 am. We spent the 8 changing diapers（尿布）, giving baths, helping the ladies get dressed and eat. After breakfast I 9 the ladies brush their teeth. Next, it was laundry time. By 9 am I was 10 enough to have a rest.
When I first read about L'Arche, I 11 the chance to be a part of it. I had always enjoyed helping people with special 12 in a 9. to-5 job. But living with them 24 hours a day was totally 13. . I quickly discovered I didn't have as much love and patience as I had 14 . The unpredictable things made each day a(n) 15.
However, I knew that my housemates were16 themselves in the best way they knew. They didn't get many of what our culture considers " 17"cards. They were no stranger to pain or ilness. They had every reason to be 18 , but they weren't. They trusted me with their true selves.
When I arrived at L'Arche,I thought I had so much to offer. But apparently. it became the 19. My housemates offered me more than I offered them. They made me realized I needed to slow ,down and 20 the simple things in life.
Thailand's leader traveled to the northern city of Chiang Mai earlier this week to personally inspect areas with (extreme) poor air quality.
Prime Minister Prayuth ordered govemmeat agencies to fight the air pollution has reached dangerous levels Recently, pollution levels in and around Chiang Mai (rise) above those of major world cities known having poor air quality. Much of Chiang Mai's current t pollution is a result of farmers (bum)crops. Many farmers set fires at this time of year as a way (clear)land for planting. Agriculture experts say the air pollution is (bad)this year than last year because of terribly dry weather.
"We need to work on a long-term (solve)with understanding from the public," Prayuth said. " We need time to change the way we farm grow crops. " He said officials had given out nearly two million face (mask)to people in affected areas.
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When I was a little kid. I was curiously about everything and I was always trying different idea One day, I went into my neighbor's front yard with branches and leaves stick out of my pockets, "I'm acting like a tree so butterflies will come," I tell the hostess. As I waited for the grass, the hostess went back . Later, she brought out a huge blue preserved butterfly and hid it behind her back.She walked over, pulled out butterfly. and said," A butterfly has come to see you. " I couldn't believe that I saw. My wishes had never come true, so one did that day.
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