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Brief Introduction Qingdao International Beer Festival has become a major event in the calendar of the beautiful city. The first festival took place back in 1991. It is now usually held once a year from the end of July to the end of August, and lasts for about one month. Qingdao is the largest beer production base in China and the festival provides a great opportunity to show-off the city's unique characteristics.

Qingdao International Beer Town (No. 195, Hong Kong East Road) is the Festival's primary location. The area also contains a number of shops and restaurants, catering for a variety of tastes. The festival begins with the opening ceremony in this town, followed by 16 days of beer tasting, evening entertainment and drinking competitions, concluding with the final ceremony from the second weekend of August.

2021 Qingdao International Beer Festival

It is held in four venues respectively in Laoshan District, Huangdao District, Licang World Expo Park, and Jiaozhou City. Among them, the one at Golden Sand Beach Beer Square in Huangdao serves as the main venue, where a grand carnival is held during the beer festival from July 16 to August 8, 2021. Besides, visitors can enjoy the light show, art parade, and visit Qingdao Beer Museum for free.

How to reach Huangdao Venue

From City Center：Take Tunnel Bus 5，6，7，8 or Tour Bus L3 and get off at Haiyun Jiayuan Station.

From Huangdao District：Take Beer Festival Special Line 6，7 or bus 18 operated in Qingdao Economic and Technological Development Zone, and get off at Golden Sand Beach Station.

It may seem as if Mother's Day was invented by a company named Hallmark, but people have been taking time on the calendar to give a shout-out to Mom for a long time. The Greeks and Romans had mother goddess festivals - although their celebrations didn't involve the menfolk taking their underappreciated mothers out to dinner. A more recent tradition was Mothering Sunday, which developed in the British Isles during the 16th century. On the fourth Sunday in April, young men and women who were living and working apart from their families were advised to return to their mothers' houses.

Mother's Day as it is observed in the United States started in the 1850s with Ann Jarvis, a West Virginia woman who held "Mothers' Work Days" to promote health and hygiene (卫生) at home and in the workplace. During the Civil War, Jarvis organized women to improve sanitary conditions for soldiers on both sides, and after the war she became a peacemaker, furthering the cause by bringing together mothers of Union and Confederate soldiers and promoting a Mother's Day holiday.

Jarvis's work inspired another 19th-century woman, Julia Ward Howe. In 1870 Howe published her "Mother's Day Proclamation", which envisioned (设想) the day not as appreciation of mothers by their children but as an opportunity for women to exercise their collective power for peace. Howe started holding annual Mother's Day celebrations in Boston, her hometown, but after about a decade she stopped footing the bill and the tradition faded away.

It was Jarvis's daughter Anna who succeeded in getting Mother's Day recognized as a national holiday. After her mother died, in May 1905，Anna started holding yearly ceremony on the anniversary and conducting a tireless PR campaign to have the day made a holiday. In 1908 she succeeded in enlisting the support of John Wanamaker, the Philadelphia department store magnate and advertising pioneer, and by 1912 West Virginia and a few other states had adopted Mother's Day. Two years later, President Woodrow Wilson signed a resolution declaring the second Sunday in May a national holiday.

It wasn't long, though, before whatever ideals the day was supposed to celebrate were buried under an amount of greeting cards and candy. By the 1920s Anna Jarvis was campaigning against the holiday she had been instrumental in creating. "I wanted it to be a day of emotionalism, not profit," she said.

Every year in June or July, under the Arctic midnight sun, Sámi reindeer-herding families in northern Finland, Norway and Sweden come together for one of the biggest social events of the year "earmarking"-marking the new reindeer calves (幼崽) to identify them.

They gather the wild reindeer stretching out dozens of square kilometers across the Arctic circle. Even young children are expected to join in. The youngest boys and girls help catch the calves. From the age of about 10，they take their own earmarking knives, grab a calf, and mark both ears with a unique pattern.

The Sámi children not only participate in herding work, but are also encouraged to act independently in most areas of life. They have a say in deciding when to eat, when to sleep, and what to wear, even at temperatures of -30℃ -22℉). For the Sámi, developing flexible sleep habits is the best way to help children cope with the extreme Arctic seasons. During the bright Arctic nights, it is also normal for older children of 12 or so to go fishing with friends at night, and only come home in the early morning hours.

This difference contrasts with the child-centered parenting style that has been on the rise in many societies around the world. Even when compared with nearby communities, such as non-Sámi Norwegians, Sámi families are distinct.

One related study in Norway found that Sámi children were more "socially independent than their Norwegian peers", and that "self-regulation of food and sleep were commonly practiced in the Sámi". Sámi children were also expected to regulate and control their own emotions, a pattern that is common in their communities. Adults don't do everything for children. The action is based on freedom, whether the question is about changing sleeping cycles, choosing hobbies or something else. Parents don't plan things that much.

It may come as a surprise that human beings are not alone in inventing vaccine (疫苗). Work published in the Journal of Experimental Biology by Gyan Harwood of the University of Illinois, confirms that honeybees got there first.

The scientists discovered in 2015，that queen bees vaccinate their eggs before they are laid. The vaccine is some pieces of proteins (蛋白质) from diseasing-causing pathogens (病原体). They act as antigens (抗原) which cause a protective immune (免疫的) response. But it raised the question：how the queen received her antigen? For she is fed purely on royal jelly (蜂王浆)，a thing produced by nurse bees. Meanwhile, work bees fly out looking for food to feed nurse bees. Dr Harwood therefore wondered if the nurses received the pathogens while eating the food from the outside, and then got them into their royal jelly, as the queen's food at last.

To find the answer, Dr Harwood collected 150 nurse bees and divided them among six queenless mini boxes equipped with baby bees to look after. They fed the nurses on sugar-water, and for three of the boxes he placed Paenibacillus, a bacterium (细菌) causing young bees' death.

In this case, Dr Harwood marked the dead bacteria with a color, to make their footprint easy to track. And, sure enough, microscope confirmed that pieces of Paenibacillus were getting into royal jelly produced by those bees which had been fed with sugar-water, which is thought to help bee develop immune system.

All told, these findings suggest that nurse bees are indeed, via their royal jelly, passing antigens on to the queen for transferring into her eggs. They also mean, because baby bees, too, receive royal jelly for the first few days after the birth, that the nurses are vaccinating the baby bees as well. Each baby bee is therefore being vaccinated twice.

Easy Ways to Keep Your Brain Sharp

Everyone is forgetful, but as we age, we start to feel like our brains are slowing down a bit-and that can be a very annoying thing.  Read on for some techniques worth trying.

People who regularly made plans and looked forward to upcoming events had a 50 percent reduced chance of Alzheimer's disease（早老性痴呆症），according to a recent study. Something as simple as setting a goal to have a weekly coffee date with a friend will do. There's evidence that people who have a purpose in life or who are working on long or short-term goals appear to do better. In other words, keep your brain looking forward.

Go for a walk.

Mildly raised glucose (葡萄糖) levels can harm the area of the brain that helps you form memories and physical activity can help get blood glucose down to normal levels. In fact, exercise produces chemicals that are good for your brain.

Learn something new.

Take a Spanish class online, join a drawing club, or learn to play cards. A study found that mental stimulation (刺激) limits the weakening effects of aging on memory and the mind. But the best thing for your brain is when you learn something new and are physically active at the same time. Or go dancing with your friends.

A. Focus on the future.

B. This can be especially harmful to the aged.

C. It should be something like learning gardening.

D. So take a few minutes each day to do some reading.

E. But don't worry if your schedule isn't filled with life-changing events.

F. Luckily, research shows there is a lot you can do to avoid those moments.

G. In other words, when you take care of your body, you take care of your brain.

After a day's work in the hospital, Jane Hadgson was finally on her way home. While1 ， she noticed there was a car pulled over at the side of the road and a crowd gathered around someone who was  2on the ground. Jane pulled up to see what happened, which turned out to be3for the victim.

Describing the scene, Jane says, "A crowd of on looker (旁观者) gathered there. Some young men were creamfaced and looking lost. They were4terrified. When I walked up, first-aid kit in hand, they said： 'You're a first aider. Oh thank God. "They were so5that they hadn't even called a doctor yet. "

A young girl was lying there. She had been hit by a car and fallen from her bike, 6on her head and shoulder. " She had not been wearing a7when knocked down and I thought she should not be8in case of a spinal (脊柱) injury, but after looking her over, in relief, I felt fairly9that she had escaped almost unharmed. Even so as time passed the pain she was suffering was10. To avoid her losing consciousness, I kept11to her. We chatted about anything I could think of to keep her12off the pain. She squeezed my hand to relieve pain and this13, describes Jane.

Thinking back, Jane says, "Apart from her boyfriend I wasn't14by anyone else, but that's OK. For me knowing that in a small way I helped the girl is all the15I need. I felt great that I'd made a difference".

Sivert is $1,800 richer, and all it took was for him to stay away from social media during most of his teenage (year).

When the boy was 12，his mom, Lorna, told him if he didn't use social media for the next six years, shegive) him $1,800 on his 18th birthday. Sivert happily accepted the offer. "I thought it was awesome."

Sivert held up his end of the deal, and on his(eighteen)birthday, his mom presented him with $1,800. the distraction of social media, Sivert was able to focus more on sports and getting good grades, while also(avoid) "all the unnecessary drama that was on the social media. "

He's not sure  he'll spend his money on, but Sivert did figure out how to break his social media dry spell: he got an Instagram account. There's "(definite) a learning curve, " he said. "I see my friends fly through their social media apps and I can't do that quite yet."

Lorna is glad her son appears to have  "different perspective" on social media. "We are certainly not against social media, but it's the (health) using of it that matters," she said. "It's about not letting yourself get weighed down by it, or  (addict) to it, or affected by things that people post."

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It was about ten years ago. It was a cold, wet and dark winter day. A fine rain was falling, which left my clothes wet through and froze my bones. I was walking over to visit my Dad. Although his house was only a short walk from mine, I was already wet and suffering. I knocked on his door and stepped in. A warm steam was floating from the kitchen. It touched my nose and suddenly I was eight years old again. Dad was making Grandma's special sauce (料).

When I was growing up, every Sunday Grandma would make us an Italian feast. She would cook her spaghetti (意大利面) sauce for hours. Then she would drop in potatoes, chicken, meat balls, sausage and sometimes even steak (牛排). It always left our stomachs full, our hearts happy, and the house smelling sweet.

I sat down while Dad made me a plate. It felt so good having a meal like I used to when I was a boy. We talked about those old times and laughed over the memories both good and bad. And I noticed something too. I didn't feel cold anymore. Oh, my clothes were still wet from the rain but my heart was warm, my spirit was light, and both my face and stomach were smiling.

Dad and Grandma have been gone for years now. I still miss them both every single day. And although my daughter and I both know how to make Grandma's special sauce, we don't cook it as often as we can. Maybe it is because no matter how hard I try, I can never get it 100% right. I think that maybe I am missing a material. Or maybe it was just the Love with which Grandma and Dad cooked it that made it so delicious.

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I decided to make the food filled with love at last.

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I want to give a taste of love to the seniors in the nursing home nearby.