Fantastic fall festivals you won't want to miss
Seymour Apple Festival
Admission to the Seymour Apple Festival is free and so is the entertainment! More than 15,000 people from all over the region come out to take part in the activities, ranging from drawings, vendor booths, food, apple contests to bike decorating contests.
Marionville Apple Festival
The popular Marionville Apple Festival is home to countless activities and events. The carnival pony rides and games will keep the kids busy, while adults will enjoy watching the pie-eating contest and browsing dozens of craft vendor booths.
Humansville Fall Festival
The Humansville Fall Festival may be hosted by a small town, but that doesn't mean it's lacking big fun. Perfect for all ages, this fall festival is celebrating its 70th year and will provide three full days of fun. This year's festival will feature live music from fantastic local musicians, which will definitely make it different from the ones in other years. You'll also find fun carnival rides, talented artisans selling their goods, and an amazing parade to wrap up the event on Saturday.
Southside Fall Festival
The Southside Fall Festival is perfect for family celebrations, with an alcohol-free environment and free admission. Enjoy a colorful parade and float contest, delicious food vendors, live music, karaoke, and more.
Fall Into Arts Festival
Make sure to bring kids along for this festival that celebrates all things creative. The Fall Into Arts Festival features a host of kid-friendly activities like Lego, sand art, bubble stations, sidewalk chalk, a jump house, and more. Parents will have plenty to do as well, with an excellent variety of artists, festival food, a mini film festival, and much more.
At eleven, I decided to learn to swim. There was a pool at the Y.M.C.A. offering exactly the opportunity. Mother continually warned against it, and kept fresh in my mind the details of each drowning in the river. But the Y.M.C.A. pool was safe.
I had a childhood fear of water. This started when I was three years old and father took me to the beach. The huge waves knocked me down and swept over me. The pool was quiet. I was afraid of going in all alone, so I sat on the side of the pool to wait for others. Then came a big boy. He yelled, "Hi, Skinny! How'd you like to be ducked?" With that he picked me up and threw me into the deep end. I landed in a sitting position, and swallowed water. But I was not frightened out of my wits — when my feet hit the bottom, I would make a big jump, come out of the surface. It seemed a long way down. I gathered all my strength when I landed and made what I thought was a great spring upwards. Then I opened my eyes and saw nothing but water. I tried to yell but no sound came out. I went down, down, endlessly.
When I came to consciousness, I found myself lying on the bed in the hospital.
I never went back to the pool. I avoided water whenever I could. This misadventure stayed with me as the years rolled by. It deprived me of the joy of boating and swimming. Finally, I decided to get an instructor. Piece by piece, he built a swimmer. Several months later, the instructor was finished, but I was not. Sometimes the terror would return.
This went on until July. I swam across the Lake Wentworth. Only once did the terror return. When I was in the middle of the lake, I put my face under and saw nothing but bottomless water. I laughed and said, "Well, Mr. Terror, what do you think you can do to me?"
I had conquered my fear of water.
On the night of 14th June 1904, New York's Chinatown was in a deep gloom. For the past 20 years, the restaurants were filled with those crazy about a taste of real Chinese cooking "chop suey". But suddenly, all that seemed at risk. A few days earlier, a chef named Lem Sen had arrived, saying he had invented it a decade before while working at a restaurant in San Francisco. His recipe had been stolen by an American diner to make money. Through his lawyer, he demanded restaurants pay him for using his recipe.
Chop suey was first mentioned by Chinese-American journalist Wang Chin Foo in a list of common dishes he thought most attractive to Western tastes. As he explained, "each Chinese cook has his own recipe. The main parts are pork, bacon, chicken, mushroom, bamboo shoots, onion, and pepper, while accidental ones are duck, beef, salted black beans et C. Yet it is often considered by Westerners that this is a ‘national dish of China' more than any other dish they've known."
Although a hyperbolic way to introduce this dish, it clearly showed that chop suey was indeed of Chinese origin. Where exactly its roots lay has been debated; but it was probably first cooked in Taishan, Guangdong, where most early immigrants to America had grown up. In 1866, the journalist Allan Forman noticed it as a delicious dish despite its "mysterious nature", and nine years later, the first recipe appeared in magazines, with some un-Chinese ingredients thrown in.
It was not long before a myth making began. In 1896, Li Hongzhang visited New York, and newspapers mistakenly reported that while refusing Western dishes at a banquet (宴会), he had enthusiastically accepted a plate of chop suey. This caused a great hit, and many who never heard of it before simply assumed that it was introduced to the US by Li Hongzhang, which accidentally promoted the dish's popularity.
As aging population gets bigger and dementia (老年痴呆症) more common, more families are struggling with a complex question: How do you support a loved one with dementia, especially when you have a full-time job and several kids?
Reg Urbanowski may have an answer to this pressing issue: ROBOTS.
He and his team managed to develop a new type of robots named TP robots. Looking like stand-up vacuum cleaners attached to an iPad, they can be activated remotely via a smartphone and guided remotely by a controller app similar to the way a mouse is used on a desktop computer. All possess audio and visual communication capabilities, allowing the operator to be "in the room" to interact with Mom or Dad.
He believes that caregivers and family members can use a TP robot to "look in" on people with mild dementia. He says, "TP robots provide an effective solution for minimizing caregiver burden, especially for those who have career or other out-of home activities."
Urbanowski and his team have conducted a study that involves providing TP robots for 15 Manitoba families. These robots are programmed to provide reminders of necessary daily routine like turning off the gas, taking medicine and having dinner. They will also help ensure patients are getting the exercise they need to maintain their health and well-being.
Erin Crawford, Program Director with the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba, says she has faith that TP robots will prove beneficial, particularly when it comes to reminding people with dementia to do certain things at certain times. "It means that family members that can't be there, for whatever reason, know that those things are still happening," she says.
A Diet Without Enough Protein Can Cause Depression
Depression is a condition so common. The World Health Organization (WHO) calls it "a leading cause of disability." Difficulty in falling asleep, loss of appetite, and loss of ability to concentrate are just a few of the other effects of depression. While life events such as the loss of a spouse or a job may create a happening of depression, many cases come from within, such as people's diet.
As is reported, both before and during a happening of depression, those with the condition show a "poor appetite". On the other hand, depression may be closely related to protein. Many cases of depression happen to those who don't eat properly, which then result in lack of protein taken into the body.
It all comes down to amino acids (氨基酸). Proteins are made up of amino acids. Both the human brain and nervous system use amino acids as a substance that creates a signal from one brain cell to another or one nerve cell to another. With them communication between the cells becomes possible.
But eight of them, the "essential" ones for communication between the brain cells, must be eaten in one's diet. So a diet which is lacking in protein lessens the signal being sent from one brain cell to the next during a thought. The process can lead to twisted signals, which can not only lead to depression, but also aggression.
A. It happens with aggression.
B. It may lead to serious effects.
C. But how lack of protein occurs?
D. There are 20 different amino acids.
E. But what does protein have to do with depression?
F. The poor appetite itself can create a depressed mood.
G. This is why depression can often express itself as anger or aggression.
Mother's Day is around the corner, and to mark the occasion, I want to share with you what Mom taught me, impressed on me, and how she otherwise 1 me.
From my earliest 2 I felt my mother loved me so deeply. When we entered a room, her entire focus was on me. I felt as if I was the 3 of her universe — a great feeling. Offering her the same 4 I intently listened to her stories without 5. I tried to return that feeling of being truly loved.
6 there was always deep affection flowing between us, she wasn't a softy (心肠软的人). She worked hard and 7 her children to do the same. I began working in our little corner grocery store by age eight and 8 it by the age of twelve. She 9 my hard work and treated me as an equal. I learned that I could do anything through hard work. I learned 10.
Mom always supported my decisions, but also 11 her concern. When I decided to retire early from teaching to writing about etiquette (礼仪), she announced her concern. She 12 that there wasn't a 13 for it—my mom, always the business person.14, by the end of our conversation she 15 me with, "With your training and love of people, you are 16 for this." She followed quickly with a saying I'll always remember, "Nothing is 17 to a man who will have a try." Thanks, Mom.
By 18 my mother taught me how to show respect for others. She gave me my listening skills, my courage, and my manners. Through her, I 19 to be strong, to follow my heart, and to work hard. I never 20. If not for this, I wouldn't be a successful business owner and good friend to all.
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Traditional lion and dragon dances are important part of Chinese cultural celebrations, especially in the Spring Festival. The dances may also be performed at business openings, weddings, or other special (occasion).
In the lion dance, dancers wear masks and costumes, (perform) a dance that imitate (模仿) the movements of a lion. There are (usual) two dancers. One acts the head and the other the body. There are no native lions in China, so the (appear) of the lions is based on that of the lions which (bring) to China during the Han Dynasty. Many lion dances may include lions playing with a large ball, may imitate a fight between lions.
In the dragon dance teams dancers carry a long dragon on poles. By moving the poles, the dancers can make the dragon move forward slowly. The (long) the dragon, the more luck it will bring to the community. As a result, communities try to have very long dragons dancing during the Spring Festival. Chinese dragons may appear frightening, but have a kind, helpful character, and symbolize good luck. That makes (they) very popular during the Spring Festival.
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。
Once upon a time, the moon was very closely to Earth. But one day, an old woman who was cleaning her house struck the moon by accident, so it cried. Some local children thought this was very interested and they started to throw some stone at the moon's face. The little girl was felt sorry for the moon and told the other children to stop, so they wouldn't listen. The moon was so hurt that it decided live further away from Earth, so it would be safe from the children. This is why every month the moon hides her face. However, the little girl, missed the moon so much that she begun to sing to make it return. So every month, the moon turned its face to Earth again to smile down on its only friend.
