Cherry Blossom Bike Tour in Washington, D. C.
This small group bike tour is a fantastic way to see a world-famous cherry trees with beautiful flowers of Washington, D. C. Your guide will provide a history lesson about the trees and the famous monuments where they blossom. Confirm your availability at least three days before the trip is launched in case all tickets are sold out!
Capital City Bike Tour In Washington, D. C.
Morning or Afternoon, this bike tour is the perfect tour for D. C. newcomers and locals looking to experience Washington, D. C. in a healthy way with minimum effort. Knowledgeable guides will entertain you with the most, interesting stories about Presidents, Congress, memorials, and parks. Comfortable bikes and a smooth tour route(路线）make cycling between the sites fun and relaxing.
Washington Capital Sites at Night Bicycle Tour
Join a small group bike tour for an evening of exploration in the heart of Washington, D. C. Get up close to the monuments and memorials as your bike the sites of Capitol Hill and the National Mall. Frequent stops are made for photo taking as your guide offers unique facts and history. Tour includes bike, helmet, and bottled water. All riders are equipped with reflective vests and safety lights.
Doctors at the University of California, San Francisco, in the US, have developed a piece of software that can read minds. The project, supported by Facebook, hopes to help people who, because of medical conditions, are unable to communicate with others.
Until now, various technologies have been invented to help those speech-impaired (语言障碍) people to communicate with others naturally. According to previous study, almost 30% of Americans once found themselves upset and even anxious to use oral language fluently. This new software uses brain signals to change a person's thoughts into text. When we want to speak, the brain sends signals to make the lips, jaw and tongue move in the right way to make an understandable sound. By discovering these brain signals, the new software is able to predict what a person want to say quickly enough to hold a conversation.
The brain-reading software was tested on three volunteers who could all speak like healthy people. They were being treated for epilepsy(癫痫). As part of their treatment for epilepsy, each patient had electrodes(电极)placed on to their brain. Edward Chang, a researcher of the study, used these electrodes to record the signals in the patients' brains while they listened to a list of questions and answered them.
Chang and his team then built a computer program that learned to match the patients' brain signals to the words the patients heard and the words the patients spoke. For the questions, the software matched the correct words 76%of the time. For the answers, it matched the correct words 61%of the time.
Now, the mind-reading software is still limited in certain areas where it was trained. Scientists hope that they will develop a more powerful one that could understand thoughts in real time to give people their voices back. Chang said, "We as scientists should try our best to help people to bring that most important and basic human ability back even if facing challenges"
We've all confronted some cases: in line at the bank or on an airplane, surrounded by individuals who are deeply attached to their digital companions such as smartphones or ipads. Therefore we more or less once came across some disgusting discomfort from silence.
What's the problem? It's more likely that none of us start a conversation because it's challenging, or we think it's impolite and unnecessary. But the next time you find yourself among strangers, consider that short talk or conversations is worth the trouble. Experts say it's an valuable social practice that results in big benefits.
Dismissing short conversations as unimportant is easy, but we can't forget that deep relationships wouldn't even exist if it weren't for casual conversation. short conversations is the grease(润滑剂) for social communication, says Bernardo Carducci, director of the Shyness Research Institute at Indiana University Southeast. ＂Almost every great love story and each big business deal begins with short conversations, ＂ he explains. ＂The key to successful short conversations is learning how to connect with others, not just communicate with them. ＂
In a 2014 study, Elizabeth Dunn, associate professor of psychology at UBC, invited people on their way into a coffee shop. One group was asked to seek out an interaction(互动) with its waiter; the other, to speak only when necessary. The results showed that those who chatted with their server reported significantly higher positive feelings and a better coffee shop experience. ＂It's not that talking to the waiter is better than talking to your husband, ＂ says Dunn. ＂But interactions with peripheral(边缘的) members of our social network matter for our well-being also. ＂
Dunn believes that people who reach out to strangers feel a significantly greater sense of belonging, a bond with others. Carducci believes developing such a sense of belonging starts with short conversations. ＂short conversations is the basis of good manners, ＂he says.
In the super fastpaced world we live in, happiness may not come as easily as we wish. Here are some tips to make us live happily.
Don't avoid or ignore negativity.
This can include people in your life who may be bringing you down, a hostile workplace environment or even a personal stressor that you haven't conquered quite yet. You are in control of your environment and if these negative situations keep making an appearance, it's up to you to handle them.
Take care of yourself and your needs.
In order to live a powerful and meaningful life, you must love yourself. Take care of your actions and how you live each day, and this will be reflected in your thoughts and emotional state of mind.
Determining what is worth your time and effort and what can be challenging. If situations are beyond repair, it's time to let go. Are there relationships or friendships that remain damaged but you know are worth the time? Do what you can to find love in situations where it may have be absent in the past.
Give back.
Giving our time, energy, love and sometimes money is what life is about. My mom taught me a quote she learned in Mexico that stuck with me forever, "donde come uno, comen dos. (where one can eat, two can eat. )" It moves me every time I say it out loud. At the end of the day, no matter what you have, you are likely in a position to give something small to someone else who needs it. Don't hesitate.
A. Repair what's broken or get rid of it.
B. Be positive.
C. If so, you shall try to fix it and find peace.
D. Do more of what you love.
E. Love yourself fully in order to love others fully.
F. Everything we put out into the world comes back to us.
G. In order to overcome or deal with it, it must be acknowledged.
My father was born in a small town in the US. He wasn't sure what he wanted from life, but something told him to 1 and begin a new adventure.
He began that adventure traveling to cities in the US before going on to Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. He took my mother and us three daughters with him and went wherever the road 2 him.
It's easy to feel 3 when you're on the road. We made lots of new friends on our trip—most of them are mechanics, since we often 4 hours in repair shops. Although that was seemingly boring, that was a way much better than sitting by the roadside while waiting for the engine to 5 when it was 40℃ outside.
Getting along well sometimes seemed 6 . There were always a lot of 7 , especially among us backseat passengers about who had to sit in the middle. But even if it was hard, we learned a lot about 8 . When we were traveling in the Philippines, we drove to Quezon City one day. It should have been an hour's drive but was nearly three thanks to bad roads and 9 traffic. "Did you put our suitcases in the car?" my father asked my mother as we arrived there. From the back seat, we saw her 10 turn toward my father. "No, " she said. "I thought you did. " That was how a sevenhour car trip turned into a 16hour one, which was mostly spent in 11 .
On occasions like that, we had to learn to let go of our anger because we were 12 in a rolling box with the same people for the rest of the journey. Even if I sometimes felt like opening the car door and 13 one of my sisters out, I kept my feelings to myself.
This is why road trips were like social universities to us. We 14 our PHDs (博士学位) in how to get along with others just by traveling in our old car. If we were 15 given a second chance , we would do it all over again. Only this time would I put the suitcases in the car myself.
It is well known that aero（航空）sports have been popular in the US, New Zealand and other countries for years. China's Hainan is famous for its natural （beautiful）of endless sea, and golden beaches. A warm climate and over 300 sunny days each year also provide favorable conditions for aero sports here.
Aero sports, including items such as skydiving and hot air ballooning,(be) in rapid growth in China, and Hainan has seen the combination of such sports and tourism thriving over recent years. A great many frequent visitors China's northernmost island province choose to admire Hainan's fantastic scenery not just at the beach, but also from high above with the help of （professional）qualified skydiving coaches. Visitors can give full expression to their feelings and personalities, and free （they）from their sometimes boring everyday life by participating in aero sports. is shown in reports is that a diving club saw a record-breaking single-day reception of 166 customers during this year's Spring Festival holiday.
With the popular aero sports, as well as advantageous （policy）on building the Hainan Free Trade Port, uncountable number of people from home and abroad have settled in Hainan. The province has held several national-level aero sports events since 7 years, (expect) to build a national sports tourism demonstration zone by 2025. Simultaneously, people's focus about leisure has shifted from(organize) travels to freelance ones(自由行）.
1. 积极的人生态度；
2. 努力学习；
3. 参加体育锻炼。
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It was the day of the big cross-country run. Students from seven different primary schools in and around the small town were warming up and walking the route(路线)through thick evergreen forest.
I looked around and finally saw David, who was standing by himself off to the side by a fence. He was small for ten years old. His usual big toothy smile was absent today. I walked over and asked him why he wasn't with the other children. He hesitated and then said he had decided not to run.
What was wrong? He had worked so hard for this event!
I quickly searched the crowd for the school's coach and asked him what had happened. "I was afraid that kids from other schools would laugh at him, " he explained uncomfortably. "I gave him the choice to run or not, and let him decide. "
I bit back my frustration(懊恼). I knew the coach meant well—he thought he was doing the right thing. After making sure that David could run if he wanted, I turned to find him coming towards me, his small body rocking from side to side as he swung his feet forward.
David had a brain disease which prevented him from walking or running like other children, but at school his classmates thought of him as a regular kid. He always participated to the best of his ability in whatever they were doing. That was why none of the children thought it unusual that David had decided to join the cross-country team. It just took him longer—that's all. David had not missed a single practice, and although he always finished his run long after the other children, he did always finish. As a special education teacher at the school, I was familiar with the challenges David faced and was proud of his strong determination.
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We sat down next to each other, but David wouldn't look at me.
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I watched as David moved up to the starting line with the other runners.
