Come for Dinner by Leslie Revsin
Make every meal a feast and every moment with loved ones an occasion with Come for Dinner.
Revsin, the former owner and chef of Manhattan's Restaurant Leslie, offers a collection of over 150 recipes designed for small get-togethers of friends and family. There are various ethnic dishes that draw inspiration from Asia, the Mediterranean, Latin cultures and more. Revsin believes cooking at home provides the opportunity to connect with friends and family on a good level.
Retro Beach Bash by Linda Everett
Grab your beach blanket and your surfboard — it's time for a beach party! With more than 100 recipes for beach picnics and barbecues, Retro Beach Bash is the beach lover's companion for fun in the sun.
Half information and half cookbook, you can browse the pages that are filled with beach fun tips and advice. The second half of this book is a cookbook, which can help you make foods to satisfy every taste on the beach.
Entertaining Edibles by Sidney Escowitz
You've seen them decorating plates at restaurants, admired them at weddings, and expressed great surprise at the chefs who designed them — and now you can produce them at home.
Sidney shares lots of practical tips that will give your finished food sculptures a professional look and send you on your way towards creating your own original works of food art.
Recipes from a Tapas Bar by Olivier Said
If you're a fan of Spanish Tapas bars, this book is a must-have for your library. Even if you don't cook, you'll still want this book if you're a fan of Tapas bars, only for the lively discussions of the cheeses of Spain along with other Spanish wines and spirits.
Walking down a path through some woods in Georgia, I saw a small pool of water ahead on the path. I changed my direction to go around it on the part of the path that wasn't covered by water or mud. As I reached the pool, I was suddenly attacked! Yet I did nothing for the attack. It was so unpredictable and from somewhere totally unexpected. I was surprised as well as unhurt though I had been struck four or five times. I backed up a foot and my attacker stopped attacking me. Had I been hurt, I wouldn't have found it amusing. And I was laughing. After all, I was being attacked by a butterfly!
Having stopped, laughing, I took a step forward. My attacker rushed me again. He charged towards me at full speed, attempting to hurt me but in vain. For a second time, I took a step backwards while my attacker paused. I wasn't sure what to do. After all, it's just not everyday that one is attacked by a butterfly. I stepped back to look the situation over. My attacker moved back to land on the ground. That's when I discovered why my attacker was charging at me only moments earlier. He had a mate and she was dying.
Sitting close beside her, he opened and closed his wings as if to fan her. I could only admire the love and courage of that butterfly in his concern for his mate. He had taken it up on himself to attack me for his mate's sake, even though she was clearly dying and I was so large. He did so just to give her those extra few precious moments of life. His courage in attacking something thousands of times larger and heavier than himself just for his mate's safety seemed admirable. I couldn't do anything other than reward him by walking on the more difficult side of the pool. He had truly earned those moments to be with her, undisturbed.
Since then, I've always tried to remember the courage of that butterfly whenever I see huge barriers facing me.
Famous actor Josh Duhamel leads a group of youngsters in a two-mile charity beach run. He may be an attractive movie star, but there's more to Josh Duhamel than a pretty face. The 40-year-old actor led a youth charity fun run for the third year running on Sunday, in aid of the Red Cross giving a hand to countries and places suffering natural disasters.
Josh sported the charity's T-shirt and black baseball cap with black jogging bottoms as he joined a group of youngsters in the two-mile effort on Santa Monica Beach. Josh was clearly enjoying himself today, sprinting(冲刺) across the finish line raising both arms in a victory salute.
In March last year and January of 2010, Josh led thousands of runners and raised over $200,000 for both Japanese and Haitian earthquake relief efforts. And donations collected at this year's Youth Run will go towards the American Red Cross PrepareSoCal campaign which helps Southern Californians get ready for disasters.
"I do the youth run because I feel that younger people may not be able to donate a lot of money but that doesn't mean that they can't contribute and make a difference,"Josh told the Red Cross website. "Bringing students of L. A. together for these events not only raises a lot of money, but also raises the spirits of those affected by any disaster and helps everyone young and old. "
Duhamel had won the title of Male Model of the Year in an International Modeling and Talent Association competition in 1997. Duhamel began his acting career as an extra in the music videos for Donna Summer's song, "I Will Go With You"in 1998.
Later that year, he won the role of Leo Pres on the ABC soap opera "All My Children". He then began appearing in films, and his acting in the film "Transformers"as well as its sequels(续 集) was so successful that he became a pop film star.
The masked shrew is one of the smallest mammals(哺乳动物) in North America, only a few inches long. However, it recently made a giant jump. Over the past few decades, the tiny shrew has migrated more than 4,000 feet on both sides of the Rocky Mountains. And it's not the only one.
Studies in other parts of the world have suggested that mountain animals are climbing higher.
Lead study author Christy McCain, an ecologist at the University of Colorado Boulder, and her co-authors Sarah King and Tim Szewezyk wanted to show it is true in the Rockies.
The new study looked at 47 different species of small mammals in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. First, the researchers studied the small mammal samples (样本) collected in Colorado over the last few decades and built a database on where these mammals were typically found and how high up. Next, they conducted a series of field surveys in the Colorado Rockies, counting small mammals and recording where each species is found today. They then calculated how much each mammal population has moved over the last few decades.
They found that 26 of the 47 species studied had moved upward over time. Masked shrews were among the species with the largest jumps, climbing a total of about 4,500 feet. McCain noted that species with the largest upward jumps tend to share some important characteristics. Most of them are animals specifically adapted to cold weather. 11 of the 47 mammal species actually shifted downward. McCain noted they may be less sensitive to mountain warming. Six species do not appear to have changed at all. And four species have completely disappeared from the mountains in the period between the 1980s and now.
"This is the first indication," McCain said, "that large animal communities are responding to climate change. " The findings are consistent with the conclusions of other studies around the world — that mountain ecosystems are sensitive to climate change and wildlife in these places is already responding to the pressure, both of which can urge humans to change the current situation.
Everyone makes mistakes. Mistakes are an essential part of what makes us humans. They are an important step in learning, growing, and improving yourself. Not making mistakes is actually the biggest mistake you can ever make. Below are some ways to help you learn from mistakes.
Take 100% responsibility. After making a mistake, reflect on it. Only accepting responsibility can make learning possible. Therefore, take 100% responsibility, accept the consequences and be part of the solution to the problem. The sooner you accept responsibility, the sooner the problem is identified, and the sooner a resolution will be possible.
Figure out the cause of the mistake. Figuring out the cause will also help you avoid repeating it next time. Determine the specific action that led to the mistake. Take time to look into the events, see if there are things that need to be improved, and take time to work on them. Make the necessary changes to see the positive results.
You cannot change the mistakes that were made in the past, but you can take the lesson learnt and apply it when necessary. Don't move forward through life being afraid of making
mistakes. The moment you see mistakes as lessons rather than mistakes, you will no longer have this crazy scare of meeting them along your journey.
Apologize if necessary. Apologizing for a mistake that you made, which affected someone, can make a big difference. By apologizing, you are showing bravery.
A. Move on fearlessly.
B. You cannot be perfect all the time.
C. So make them, learn from them and grow.
D. Blaming others for your mistakes will do you no good.
E. Making mistakes makes you understand that you are not perfect.
F. Knowing why you made the mistake is the key to learning from it.
G. That's because it takes courage to stand before someone and admit your mistake.
In April, the lockdown in Morris Township was coming to an end. Matthew Sullivan watched his1neighbors looking out their windows. Returning to the workplace, they would have little time to2their lawn(草坪).
Sullivan, an energetic 14-year-old, saw the3of lawn care. Thus, he had an brilliant idea in his mind. To meet the4, Sullivan started his own business, and named it Leaf-It-To-Us, in which he5a group of able-bodied 13- and 14-year-olds to do lawn work involving weeding, leaf-blowing, planting and fence-painting.
Last Saturday, Sullivan and his partners6the local charity Help Morris NOW a $1,000 check that they had earned. "What the Leaf-It-To-Us kids had done 7me," Nestor Bedoya, the founder of Help Morris NOW, said. "When they came up to me and said ‘we are presenting you with this8', I couldn't have 9those kids at their age, doing what they're doing, with the purpose of helping others. "
Though the company had10given its earnings to St. Jude Children 's Research Hospital, this season it11its causes. "Now we've gone12, so we're helping out people in our community,"Sullivan said.
Sullivan13that they have made more than $5,000 in total since this April. Last year, they completed around two to three jobs a week. This year, they've14to two jobs a day.
They plan to keep the lawn care business running so that they can maintain their15giving.
—Something ______ to him.
The digital protection project of the Mati Temple Grottoes(石窟) in Zhangye city, Northwest China's Gansu Province, (complete) so far, according to local researchers. First built around 1,600 years ago along the route of the ancient Silk Road, the Grottoes are famous for Buddhist relics(遗迹) in more than 70 caves, (make) one of the top three Hexi Buddhism culture grottoes in China, with the (value) position of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang and Yulin Grottoes in Anxi.
The project was launched last June, withtotal investment of 3. 89 million yuan(about $530,000), (include) data collection for the surrounding environment of the grottoes, digital scanning of the sculptures (preserve) in primary caves. Digital technology is a new approachpreserving cultural relics and will take the lead in a new era for future exhibitions.
The work is focused on one of the site's major attractions called the Thousand Buddha Grottoes, have eight caves that are among the best-preserved in the whole site, said Yao Guilan, (direct) of the institute for cultural heritage preservation in Zhangye.
To preserve the site better, funds have been raisedan archaeological(考古的) research containing experts at home and abroad is also underway.
1)时间与地点:8月1日,泰山(Tai Mountain);
2)活动的过程;
3)你对于这次活动的简单评论。
注意:词数80左右 (标题已给出但不计入总词数)。
A Mountain-climbing Activity