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Best festival events in San Francisco
The perfect festival event in the Bay Area is waiting for you to celebrate.
Chinese Dumplings(Friday, Feb. 9, 2024, 6: 30 pm-8:30pm)
Tickets: $86+ $6 Fee(General Admission 1)
Location: 152-11 89th Avenue Queens, NY
Discover your passion about Chinese Dumplings in cooking class! Chef Raina will teach traditional shapes and folding techniques to wrap Chinese Dumplings. Receive Additional 15% Discount-Book Direct or Call us Today!
Coffee Festival(Saturday, Feb. 10, 2024)
Tickets: $58+$9.52 Fee
Location: Mason Center Festival Pavilion, 2 Marina Boulevard San Francisco
Get ready for an impressive coffee experience! Enjoy the unique atmosphere! Try the best beans and flavor with a soundtrack provided by live entertainment.
Pet Pictures with a Movie Star(Jan. 27, Feb. 3 & 10, 2024)
Tickets: $20+ $3.18 Fee(1 Pet 1 Picture)
Location: Expert Pet 1649 Ocean Avenue San Francisco
Expert Pet is proud to present a very special event this festival season. A movie star in a fancy dress will be in our shop three days! He shall be here from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Be sure to drop in on time to take your picture with a movie star.
Bone Jour Festival Feast(Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m.)
Tickets: $39+ $3.39 Fee
Location: Berber, 1516 Broadway San Francisco
Themed for the Spring Festival Season, enjoy an 8-course Chinese traditional feast. Bring your pet dog for our festival feast. Note: get puppy food for only a $10 add-on!
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It was early winter several years ago. I had pulled out my old winter coat for another year's use. It was still in pretty good shape although it was looking dirty from so many winters' wear. I didn't really need a new one but I wanted one and casually mentioned it to my daughter one day. She was such a sweet, loving girl that I should have guessed what would happen next. A few weeks later she gave me a new winter coat as a gift.
I put the old one in my closet and started to wear the new coat every day. Each day, though, when I opened my closet, something troubled me. It seemed a shame that my old but still good coat should just sit there keeping no one warm during the cold winter days. After a few weeks, I took it out and drove to a local charity shop. I knew that there was someone who couldn't afford a coat but could get my old one.
My new coat is my old coat now. It is getting a little dirty and worn, too. It has black marks on the sleeves. It is in too bad shape to even donate to charity. I wonder if I should buy a new one soon, but I think I will wait for a while. I don't really need a new one and maybe I can find something else to give to the charity shop instead.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover," Perhaps the best way to deal with our wants then is to give instead. Love, after all, brings us the most joy. And the more of it you give away, the more of it you have.
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Some chimpanzees(黑猩猩)are much wilder when it comes to making beats, scientists have discovered. In a Ugandan rainforest, the chimps have developed their own drumming(击鼓)styles on tree roots. Researchers observed their drumming styles range from rock to jazz. One chimpanzee brought back the style of the late John Bonham, a drummer who played a piece of music, Whole Lotta Love, and is ranked as one of the best. "The chimpanzee makes very fast drums with many evenly separated beats. His drumming is so fast that you can hardly see his hands." said Catherine, leading scientist of the study.
Drumming with feet and hands with their special calls is used to exchange messages through thick forests, even with miles between them. Ben the Alpha's call was a close two quick beats and a distant third, sometimes fourth.
Catherine also said. "We could often recognize which chimpanzee was drumming, and it was a fantastic way to find the different ones we were looking for. So if we could recognize, we were sure they could."
The team was surprised to note the chimpanzees only used their personalized drumming styles when on the move, showing that the chimpanzees could decide whether to be recognized or not. The research could also settle a problem about why these chimpanzees greet each other when they meet but are not observed to say goodbye when they part in the forest. "The chimpanzees don't need to say goodbye because they're effectively able to keep in touch." Catherine said. These long-distance signals give the chimpanzees a way to recognize with each other.
The researchers' next study will be to explore whether different drumming styles can lead to different drumming cultures among the different chimpanzee populations.
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More American businesses are starting to use artificial intelligence(AI)tools to come up with new ideas and to deal with customers.
Mattel is known for making children's toys. The company recently used an AI image generator (生成器) called DALL-E to come up with ideas for new Hot Wheels toy cars. The used vehicle seller CarMax is using ChatGPT to gather thousands of customer comments. The social media service Snapchat has added a chatbot (聊天机器人) to its messaging service. And Instacart, a delivery service, now uses ChatGPT to answer food questions. Even the Coca-Cola company plans to use AI to help create new marketing content. It has not said exactly how it plans to use the technology. But the move shows that businesses are under pressure to use the tools that many of their employees and customers are already trying on their own.
Some experts warn that businesses should carefully consider possible harms to customers, society, and their own companies before choosing to use AI tools in the workplace. Chaire Leibowicz works at The Partnership on AI, a nonprofit group. The group recently released recommendations for companies producing AI- generated images, audio and other media. "I want people to think deeply before deploying this technology" Leibowicz said. "They should play around. . . but we should also think, what purpose are these tools serving in the first place?"
While text generators like ChatGPT can make the process of writing emails and marketing documents faster and easier, they also appear to present misinformation as fact. And image generators like DALL-E are trained in copying widely available digital art and photography. This has raise copyright(版权)concerns from the creators of those works.
"It is safer to use AI tools as a ‘thought partner' but still people as the creator of final products," said Anna Gressel. She works at the law company Debevoise & Plimpton, which advises businesses on how to use AI.
How to Choose Extracurricular Activities
From sports to clubs to outside organizations, there are many activities to take part in outside the classroom. Fortunately, it becomes quite easy once you figure out what you enjoy doing in general. With a little more careful thought, you can also choose an activity that interests you.
Think about your interests and know your advantages. Before you start considering specific(具体的)activities, take a step back. Think about what excites you and find your passions(热情). Now that you have a better idea of what you like to do in general, decide on those that you are good at. Ask yourself what skills they show. Then find activities that require the same ones. Make sure that you will enjoy yourself by choosing an activity that lets you shine.
In addition to your interests and advantages, know what you would like to improve about yourself. Use activities as a way to make yourself better. Find out new challenges, without the added stress of having to earn good grades at them. You can use activities to develop general skills that you may not have.
Find out what activities are available(可用的)and look into each one. If the website seems incomplete, talk with your teacher or parents. Also look for calendar details, such as start-and-end dates, plus event schedules, to make sure it won't get in the way of anything else going on in your life. Once you have a list of activities that match your interests, do a little research.
A. Think about skills you want to develop.
B. This can make choosing one a little difficult.
C. Use your freshman year to explore your choices.
D. In this way, you will have a better idea of what to expect.
E. Also make sure that their culture is a good match for your own personality.
F. Use those to decide on activities that will keep you interested for a long time.
G. Search your school's website for a complete list of all the activities it provides.
I'm obsessed (迷恋) with music. As a teenager, I couldn't leave the house without my 1 . My summers were filled with festivals, and my shelves with 2 .
But one day last year something changed. I became aware of a faint tapping sound in my left ear. It wasn't loud enough to be 3 , but the next day it turned into a whooshing sound. By the weekend it had started to become hard to 4 in my left ear.
I was then sent to see specialists. They said it was the mitochondrial disease that caused the 5 , but they couldn't say for sure. So 6 , I am still undiagnosed (没有确诊).
I was given hearing aids, but they didn't work. I've signed up for a lip-reading course and am 7 British Sign Language. My friends have been 8 , some have offered to learn BSL, but I feel it's really me who has to 9 this new life.
Other deaf people have warned of feeling isolated (孤立) and I'm determined not to make that my 10 . I do get 11 when I have to go out of my comfort zone. Going to a bar and asking for a drink is fine 12 they start making small talk—at that point I'll declare I'm deaf.
I've always preferred to 13 ahead, but since this happened I take life day by day. The doctors have speculated (推测) that my 14 might come back. The future is 15 , but I'm at peace with that.
Dumpling is a Chinese cuisine. Actually, the tradition of eating dumplings during winter solstice has its (originate) in early times.
It is said that dumplings were invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a (fame) physician from the Eastern-Han Dynasty. He was once official in Changsha.When he returned home for private life, he saw people lived an (extreme) hard life and that their ears were red with cold in the snowing winter. He was sad and let his follower cook (drive) out the chill with mutton, hot pepper and some medicine. Zhang let him boil them first and cut them up, then wrap them with flour. After (boil) them, he gave the medicinal food to the people there on the day of the winter solstice. Zhang Zhongjing called it "cold dispelling dumpling soup". By eating this kind of ear-like food, people's ears (cure).
Thereafter, every winter solstice Zhang Zhongjing made "cold dispelling dumpling soup" in order to prevent and cure ailments (cause) by the cold. Then there became a saying that you eat dumplings during the winter solstice, then you won't freeze your ears off.
Afterwards, Zhang Zhongjing died on the day of winter solstice. honor of him, every household makes dumplings every year on the day of the winter solstice.
1.学农活动的内容和安排；
2.你参加学农活动的感受。
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Dear Jim,
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Yours
Li Hua
My brother Joe and I no longer live in the same state, but I make sure to give Joe a call every Christmas. In fact, I will never forget a Christmas when I was seven and Joe was five. I've kept a secret about that Christmas for 20 years. Now hearing Joe's voice makes me feel guilty (内疚的) about it all over again. I think he probably doesn't even remember it.
When we were kids, Joe almost drove me "crazy"! If Mom brought home my favorite yogurt, Joe would make sure to eat it before I got a chance. When our parents gave us each our own basketball, Joe insisted on playing with mine instead of his own.
That Christmas when I was seven, I was determined to teach him a lesson. At that time I was old enough that I no longer believed in Santa, but I knew Joe did. I couldn't stand him thinking Santa had put him on the "nice" list when I knew he'd been naughty (淘气的) all year.
One day before Christmas, I put on my winter jacket and headed over to our neighbor's backyard. It was filled with rocks. To me they really looked like coal (煤炭). I was sure that they'd look like coal to Joe too. I filled a lot of the rocks into the pockets of my winter jacket, brought them up to my room and hid them under my bed. Then I waited.
That morning, I got up early, went downstairs secretly and put the rocks into the red stocking with Joe's name on it. I watched Joe take down his heavy stocking, lay it on the living room floor.
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Looking at the gift inside, Joe's smile disappeared suddenly.
I said on the phone, "Hey, Joe, do you remember that Christmas morning when you were five …your stocking…"
