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Beijing Imperial Court Food(宫廷菜)

Imperial Court Food is a style of food with origins in the Imperial Palace and is well-known for the original features of the raw materials and carefully selected ingredients. In addition, the dishes are decorated with different colored vegetables and fruits in various shapes. Each dish has a special name such as Yu Feng, Huan Chao. And some of them even have short stories. Today, Imperial Court Food has become an important school of Chinese cooking with several places offering this special taste. While expensive, it is worth trying.

Restaurants of Imperial Court Food

Fangshan Restaurant

Fangshan Restaurant is the most famous one offering the first-class Imperial Court Food. The restaurant is made up of three parts and it can hold 500 people eating at a time. It is decorated in imperial style with the design of dragon and phoenix. Here is the best place to experience the life of the Chinese emperors in former days. Now, it serves nearly 800 kinds of Imperial Count Dishes. Among them, Man-han Banquet is the most famous

Li Jia Cai Restaurant

The dinner here is served by set menu starting at Y298/person. That is to say, a guest cannot order a dish but a set of dishes. There are no chemicals in the dishes and all tastes are natural. This restaurant has welcomed many famous people including Bill Gates, the former premier of Britain John Major, and Chinese superstar Jackie Chan

Yushan Restaurant

The layout of the restaurant follows the imperial palace. When eating in the restaurant dinners are served by waitresses in traditional imperial clothes

Da Zhai Men

The dishes and snacks cooked in this restaurant are worthy to have a try. And, the traditional performances at night are one of the restaurant's attractions

Royal Palace

Both of the food and services of this restaurant are so good. You can also enjoy some wonderful performances in this large courtyard.

If there was a subject at school that made me anxious, it was science. Maybe that's because in my tenth grade, I couldn't understand my physics teacher's instructions, causing me to accidentally set fire to the classroom. So, when my husband and I decided to home-school our daughters, we made a deal: he would teach science, while I would handle everything else. But that's not how things have been going these past few weeks, since my husband has been too busy to teach the girls.

Recently, while out on my morning hike before starting lessons, I noticed that the sky was a beautiful blue, and the air was filled with the sweet smell of flowers. That's why I decided that the day's lessons would be taught outside, although I remembered that my daughters hadn't had any science classes from my husband for a while.

I returned to the house to get the girls ready. We headed up into the forest, settling ourselves by a pond that rarely has any visitors. My daughter Saoirse started to pick up pond weeds and catch frogs, while my other daughter Ula looked at me, waiting to be instructed. I handed her a drawing board and colored pencils. “We wait,” I told her, “and see if something comes along. In the meantime, just draw what's around you.”

We worked for more than an hour, hardly speaking. A bird flew across the water, and then settled in front of a fallen tree. I quickly told Ula, worried that she'd not seen the creature. But she had, and she started drawing it. An hour later, she finished her picture and I stared down at it. She drew the bird on her paper with amazing accuracy. But there was one other interesting fact about this drawing: she also drew me, sitting beside her.

I realized, as I stared at this child's drawing of us watching a bird, how I'd lived for 40 years, gathered 10 years of higher education, and never understood the foundation of science before this moment. The foundation of science is a sense of wonder; it isn't about accurately reciting words from a textbook. It is first and foremost about stepping outside our busy lives and amazing at the world around us.

Pigeons in London have a bad reputation. Some people call them flying rats, and many blame them for causing pollution with their droppings, But now the birds are being used to fight another kind of pollution in this city of 8.5 million.

“The problem for air pollution is that it's been largely ignored as an issue for a long time,” says Andrea Lee, who works for the London-based environmental organization Client Earth. “People don t realize how bad it is, and how it actually affects their health. "London's poor air quality is linked to nearly 10, 000 early deaths a year. Lee says, citing (引用)a report released by the city manager last year. If people were better informed about the pollution they're breathing, she says, they could pressure the government to do something about it.

Nearby, on a windy hill in London's Regent's Park, an experiment is underway that could help -the first week of flights by the Pigeon Air Patrol. It all began when Pierre Duquesnoy, the director for Digitasl Bi, a marketing firm, won a London Design Festival contest last year to show how a world problem could be solved using Twitter. Duquesnoy, from France, chose the problem of air pollution.

“Basically, I realized how important the problem was, "he says. “But also I realized that most of the people around me didn't know anything about it." Duquesnoy says he wants to better measure pollution, while at the same time making the results accessible to the public through Twitter.

“So,” he wondered, "how could we go across the city quickly collecting as much data as possible? "Drones were his first thought. But it's illegal to fly them over London. "But pigeons can fly above London, right? "he says, "They live -actually, they are Londoners as well. So, yeah, I thought about using pigeons equipped with mobile apps. And we can use not just street pigeons, but racing pigeons, because they fly pretty quickly and pretty low

So it might be time for Londoners to have more respect for their pigeons. The birds may just be helping to improve the quality of the city s air .

Each post on Twitter or Tweet to this online social network can run no more than 140 characters. Explaining a scientific concept in only 140 characters can be almost impossible.

Ryan Becker teaches physical science. He didn't discover Twitter until 2011, when he attended a technology conference with a session on using the network to connect with other teachers. “I knew nothing about Twitter or Facebook,” he recalls. “But the description sounded interesting.”

Becker soon realized that he didn't want to limit Twitter to teachers interacting with other educators. “I thought, 'Why can't kids realize all of these uses? '” And to find out, he began including Twitter into his classes.

Becker's school provides all of its students with netbooks. Becker let the kids set up Twitter accounts. For kids who do get accounts, Becker makes sure those accounts are protected. By that he means each student has to approve all followers, and his or her tweets will not be visible to people outside that protected-follower list.

Once his class had signed up, Becker had them Tweet during class time. He used Twitter himself to share science videos and articles with his students as he ran across them—things he might not have had time to load and share during class periods.

“One of my big reasons for using Twitter is that I try to get students to connect science to their own lives.” he says.

Becker stresses that his use of Twitter is only in the classroom. “Usually if I'm asking them to use it. I'm giving them time in class,” he notes. “It's not meant to supplant (代替) classroom learning. It's meant to complement and extend it. ”

But teachers will need to be careful that the students who use Twitter in class don't have their horizons expanded too broadly, says DeRosier. If inappropriate things end up filling students' feeds, the teachers may pay the price, she warns, because “When things go wrong on the Internet, they go catastrophically wrong.” She recalls the case of a high school teacher who was being filmed using Twitter with his class.

How to Form a Positive Reading Habit

Books are a source of joy, learning, insight and imagination. How we choose what to read says a lot about our preferences and passions. .

Give old favorites a re-read

There is a particular kind of pleasure that comes with easing open a well-worn book, flipping through pages you have thumbed before, maybe multiple times. . It can bring you back to the time in your life when you last met those characters. You're left with a rich reflection on who you were, who you are and where you turn for meaning and inspiration.

Learn something new

If you are a lover of novels, think about what your favorites have in common.. That can send you down a glorious rabbit hole of non-fiction books that will brighten your understanding of times, places and people who already live in your imagination.

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Book clubs are positive on so many levels, not least of which is that they open your mind to books you might not otherwise have considered. If you don't belong to one — and even if you do — try to think about your reading choices in a public way. Ask friends what they are reading and go with any recommendations that interest you.

Give yourself permission to move on

Sometimes you just can't get through a book — and that's okay. Just like living positively means acknowledging when it's time to let go of something that isn't serving you well, reading positively means giving yourself permission to close a book that isn't keeping you interested or inspired. . The positive pleasure of reading is indeed unending.

A. Get social

B. Set up a book club

C. There are unlimited choices to turn to instead, after all

D. Here are some tips for making reading a positive habit in your life

E. Reading books that you enjoy helps maintain your habit and become a life-long reader

F. Re-reading favorite books can do more than bring you back into beloved worlds and stories

G. A particular time in history, region of the world or type of character may become a new theme

My husband and I were serving in Peace Corps in a remote village in northern Thailand. There were many1and difficulties, particularly around our housing. We moved into our house this June. Shortly after, while we were away at Peace Corps training, the owner ripped out(扯掉) all the surrounding banana groves to raise the ground level—she had planned on2our house and building a new one after we left.

She brought in tons of dirt. This3our house in a kind of moat(壕沟), and when the heavy rain came, our house4. This, needless to say, was upsetting, but it turned into a5, because when the headmaster at my school became 6 of it, he got my eighth-grade class to come to help clean up. The boys7into the moat to drain(排水) the water, while the girls mopped up the water 8, spread newspapers to 9 it and cleaned up. Before the 10was truly solved, however, we had another flood. This turned into a party, with teachers and students

11 helping clean up, and our host mother bringing lunch for everyone.

There were countless other less dramatic(引人注目的) 12of care and generosity. This community is13to us, and there is no way we can ever 14them. I plan to pay it forward as best I can, by15looking for people in need of some kind of help, remembering how kind and compassionate my Thai community has been.

If you've ever ridden public transport, you've probably heard snoring（打鼾）and found someone sleeping in the seat across from you. The natural vibration（震动）of buses and subways (make) us feel sleepy, according to a new study in Science Alert.

Why? It's all about sensory input - information going to your brain. On a bus, your senses give you （continue）and repeating information. For example, the air conditioner and engine create constant white noise. Meanwhile, you're sitting still and your （surrounding）don't change. The vibrations of the engine are also ongoing. Your brain has almost no new information to process.

Repeating information will be （ignore）eventually and your brain will enter a low-energy state. The fact that you fall asleep quickly with your eyes （close）on a bus is because your brain gets used to all the repeat.

    “When you're tired, it doesn't take much time （start） nodding off and we've found that the gentle vibrations made by car seats  you drive can lull（使放松） your brain and body,” said Stephen Robinson,  researcher from the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

Robinson's team monitored 15 volunteers' heart rate variability（心率变异性）– a well-known indicator of sleepiness. This line of research can assist in the development of practical and relevant guidelines for limiting （expose）to vibrations in the car industry. Robinson believed that the research could be helpful  improving road safety. “We hope that future car seat designs can build in features to disturb this lulling effect and fight vibration-induced（震动引起的）sleepiness,” he said.