【推荐1】The Lake District Attractions Guide

Lowther Castle & Gardens

Unique historic restoration project; 130 acres of wild gardens dating from the 17th century to explore, and a beautiful architectural castle ruin, period summerhouses, panoramic lakeland views. and wild play areas. Restored stable courtyard cafe, gift shop and gallery.

Open: Daily from 10:00 to 17:00（16:00 in winter）.

Lakeland Climbing Centre

We are one of the UK’s largest indoor aerial adventure Centres offering climbing and aerial activities for all the family（5 years ＋）. Our award-winning Centre contains Kendal Wall（tallest wall in the country）, awesome bouldering rooms, CrazyClimb and Skyline Indoor Aerial Adventure. Free car parking. Pre-booking recommended.

Open: Mon to Fri 10:00-22:00. Sat, Sun & BHs:10:00-19:00（10:00-17:00 May to Aug）.

Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry

This atmospheric museum takes you back through time to explore the story of the lake District and its inhabitants. Discover the unique traditions of the region through recreated period rooms and workshops lost trades to see how rural people lived, worked and played.

Open: Monday to Saturday and Summer Sundays.

10:30-17:00 Summer. 10:30-16:00 Winter.

【推荐1】Junior golf competition calendar full of new events, changes

Mack Champ Invitational

Champ is using junior golf to honor his late grandfather Mack Champ with the first Mack Champ Invitational. The Cameron Champ Foundation will put on the event, to be played March 20-22 at Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston. The goal of the tournament is to focus on identifying talented players from diverse backgrounds as a way to honor the legacy left by Mack, who passed away in October 2019.

Notah Begay Junior Invitational

One goal of junior golf? Get noticed, preferably by a college coach. The Notah Begay Junior Invitational will offer something quite unusual to its participants: an event broadcast by Golf Channel. Players, ages 8 to 18, must qualify into this event, to be played at a yet-to-be-announced location on a yet-to-be-announced date.

U.S. Junior Amateur

The major men’s amateur events on the USGA schedule–think the U.S. Amateur and U.S. Mid-Amateur–require a companion course for the extremely large field. For the first time in the 73-year history of the U.S. Junior Amateur, the USGA will require one more course. The tournament will start with 264 players playing both Hazeltine National Golf Club and Chaska Town Course in the expanded field.

AJGA Thunderbird International Junior

When the NCAA Championships move to Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Arizona, for the next three years. The Thunderbird, which has divisions for girls and boys, typically has been played at the end of May, but this year, for the first time, it will be played April 9-12, which means, of course, that it finishes on Masters Sunday.

【推荐2】Curious about what books will be published in the months ahead so you can pre﹣order or reserve them？ Please note we have not included every book that is coming out， but rather some that caught our eyes﹣and that we thought should catch yours as well.

The Big，Brave Adventurous Life of Lavinia Warren by Elizabeth Raum

Lavinia Warren never let her height prevent her from leading a full and adventurous life. Although she never grew three feet tall，she became a beloved teacher，a world traveller，an entertainer and the friend of many powerful figures. Lavinia faced several tragedies（悲剧） but always found the strength to go on. Lavinia's extraordinary story also provides a social history of one of the most difficult periods in American history.

The Dollhouse Murders by Betty Ren Wright

Amy is terrified. She hears noises coming from the dollhouse in the attic（阁楼），and the dolls she was playing with aren't where she left them. Every night when Amy goes up to check on the dollhouse？ the dolls have moved again! Secrets become clear as Amy gets closer to showing the mystery （迷）of the dolls in this novel that combines complicated family relationships with a mystery.

The Girl in the Locked Room by Mary Downing Hahn

A family moves into an old， abandoned house. Jules' parents love the house，but Jules is frightened and feels a sense of warning. When she sees a pale face in an upstairs window，though， she can't help wondering about the presence on the top floor. Then Jules is determined to contact the mysterious figure and help unlock the door. Past and present intersect（交叉） as she and her ghostly friend discover the secret of the family who lived in the house all those many years ago.

【推荐1】The weather was bad during the latter days of the voyage. A northwest wind was blowing all the time. The Rangoon sailed slowly. The captain thought that she would reach Hong Kong twenty hours behind time.

Phileas Fogg stared at rough sea with his habitual calm. He never changed his expression for an instant, though a delay (延迟) of twenty hours, by making him too late for the Yokohama boat—Carnatic. But this man showed neither impatience nor anger, it seemed as if the storm were a part of his programme.

Fix, a detective who had been searching for a bank robber (抢劫犯), viewed the state of things differently. The storm greatly pleased him. Each delay filled him with hope that Fogg had to spend some days in Hong Kong. The weather helped him. Though he felt sea-sick, his spirit was full of great happiness.

Passepartout. Mr. Fogg’s servant, was angry beyond expression about the bad weather. Everything had gone so well till now! Did the bad things come? Passepartout was very worried about his master's bet. He wanted to know exactly how long the storm was going to last. The sailors advised him to refer to the barometer( 晴雨表). He shook it, but with no effect It seemed to have no desire to rise.

On the 4th. the sea became calm. Passepartout cheered up! The sails were spread, and the Rangoon sailed at her full speed. The time lost could not, however, be gained again. Carnatic would, of course, be missed.

At six o'clock on the morning of the 6th,the pilot went on board and guided the Rangoon through the channels to the port of Hong Kong. Passepartout still wanted to ask him if Carnatic had left for Yokohama; but he dared not. Mr. Fogg. however, did not hesitate to approach the pilot.

“Do you know when a ship will leave for Yokohama?”

“At high tide tomorrow morning, ”answered the pilot

“What is the ship's name?”

“The‘Carnatic’”.

“Ought she not to have gone yesterday?”

“Yes, sir, but one of her boilers(锅炉)needs repairing.”

Mr Fogg looked calm as usual, but Passepartout held the pilot’s hand firmly, “Pilot, you are the best！”

【推荐2】I could not hear what was going on the other end of the phone, but it was making her cry, and I was crying too.

When I was younger, I used to watch my mum get ready for work in the morning, tracing the line of her lashes with eyeliner, putting on blouses and heels. She said that she liked how it made her feel. I saw her as somebody who would always be there to protect me, who was capable of anything.

The phone call in question was one that she had been waiting on for a few weeks: the final diagnosis of her breast cancer.

The process of treatment was slow and hellish. After the treatment, all her hair thinned, and she wore false eyelashes some days and penciled in the gaps in her eyebrows. My mother, who would never take naps or sleep past eight in the morning, was suddenly so exhausted by being awake that she would sometimes stay in bed for the whole day. Actually after the surgery, she felt too painful and weak to lift a gallon of milk.

She once asked me if I was glad to be aware of her illness. I spent the majority of the year of her treatment worrying but I told my mother that I was glad to have had the privilege of worrying.

Before my 13th birthday, I’d always considered a birthday to have fun and the joy of becoming a year older. Seeing my mom for the first time after surgery was the end of that. That isn’t to say that she had changed fundamentally; my mother was still beautiful and kind and incredibly strong, but the person that she was no longer tied to my ideas of her.

Growing up and beginning to see your parents as people are inseparable processes. That birthday was the turning point of a year that forced me to begin to see my mother as a person, someone whole and real.

【推荐3】I used to be the most determined resolution-maker. Even as a child, I was always goal-centered and loved the feeling of accomplishing things, and every January 1st, I would sit down and write out my resolutions (目标) for the upcoming year. And what resolutions they were! I always picked big goals, like: In the New Year, I will lose 50 pounds! And run a marathon! And study scripture (圣经) every day!

The problem? I’d start out strong, but by February or March, I’d be out of willpower and I’d slide quietly back into my old habits. Every winter, I’d feel guilty and ashamed, looking back at all of the amazing things... I think one of my biggest problems with New Years resolutions was wanting to “dream big” but not having the skills and ability to do those things.

Now I take the opposite approach I’m all about the little goals. First, little goals are easy to set. Instead of saying I’m going to run a marathon, I’ve decided I’m going to run 20 minutes three days a week. Second, little goals are easier to accomplish. Every time I check one of my mini goals off my list, I feel a burst of pride and accomplishment. It’s a great feeling, and I don’t have to wait until the end of the year to enjoy it!

The other great thing about making small goals instead of resolutions is that you can build small goals on top of each other, adding the achievements together. For instance, recently I decided to make sure I ate five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. After a few months, this became a solid habit.

【推荐1】Our love of music and appreciation of musical harmony is learned and not based on natural ability, a new study by University of Melbourne researchers has found. The researchers said previous theories about how we appreciate music were based on the physical functions of sound, the ear itself and a born ability to hear harmony.

The study shows that musical harmony can be learned, and it is a matter of training the brain to hear the sounds. So if you thought that the music of some foreign culture (or Jazz) sounded like the crying of cats, it’s simply because you haven’t learned to listen by their rules.

The researchers used 66 volunteers with a range of musical training and tested their ability to hear combinations of notes (音符) to determine if they found the combinations familiar or pleasing. They found that people needed to be familiar with combinations of notes. If they found the notes unfamiliar they also found the sound unpleasant. This finding put an end to centuries of theories claiming that physical functions of the ear determine what we find attractive.

The study found that trained musicians were much more sensitive to unpleasant notes than non-musicians. When they couldn’t find the note, the musicians reported that the sounds were unpleasant, while non-musicians were much less sensitive. This shows the importance of training or nurturing (培养) the brain to like particular sound of combinations of notes, like those found in jazz or rock.

Depending on their training, a strange chord (和弦) sound was pleasant to some musicians, but very unpleasant to others. This showed us that even the ability to hear a musical note is learned.

To confirm this finding, they trained 19 non-musicians to find the notes of a random selection of western chords. Not only did the participants’ ability to hear notes improve rapidly, afterward they reported that the chords they had learned sounded more pleasant — regardless of how the chords were played.

The question of why some combinations of musical notes are heard as pleasant or unpleasant has long been debated.

We have shown in this study that for music, beauty is in the brain of the beholder (观看者)”, a researcher said.

【推荐2】How did the ancient Chinese keep food warm in winter?

Facilities like electric rice cookers, microwaves, and electric kettles, make it easy for people to keep food warm and enjoy a comfortable winter. So how did Chinese people in ancient times keep food warm in winter without these? In fact, ancient Chinese people used their own methods of heat preservation as early as the Shang and Zhou dynasties.

● “Wen Ding”, ancient rice cooker

One of the major functions of an electric rice cooker is to keep food warm. The “Wen Ding”, an ancient cooking container, served the same purpose, but instead of using electric energy, the ancient cooking container preserved heart by burning fuels like charcoal(木炭).

● “Ran Lu”, ancient small hot pot

The “Ran LU” is a small size cooking vessel(器皿) made of bronze, which can be divided into three parts. A charcoal stove forms the main structure, with a bottom tray to hold charcoal ashes, and a movable cup at the top. Some experts have concluded that the vessel’s structure suggests it may have been used as a small hot pot and that these vessels became popular in the Warring States Period(475—221 BC)

●“Bronze You”, ancient kettle

The Bronze You was one of the most common wine containers during the Shang and Zhou dynasties. The Bronze You can also be used to warm wine. For example, the Bronze You with beast mask design, unearthed in Jiangxi province, has an opening where charcoals could be placed. Just as people today can’t do without an electric kettle, the Bronze You allowed people to enjoy a hot drink.

●“Bronze Yan”, ancient steamer

Although the “Wen Ding” was effective at keeping food warm, the ancient Chinese people later found that its burning produced pollution. As a result, the “Bronze Yan ”was made with a two-tier structure and used to steam rice and other grains. After the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 25-AD 220), further improvements to the“Bronze Yan”   led to the modern-day steamer.

【推荐3】Basic to any understanding of Canada in 20 years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive population growth. In September 1966 Canada’s population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930’s and the war had held back marriages and the catching - up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950’s, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950’s supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived (源自) from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.

After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer, more women were working, young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families, rising living standards were cutting down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was once more falling in step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time of the Industrial Revolution.

Although the growth in Canada’s population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the first half of the 1960’s was only nine percent), another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be composed of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate before 1957.