Welcome to the Township of Greater Madawaska
Opening Hours to the Public
From 8:30 am to 4:00 pm
General Introduction
The Township of Greater Madawaska, located in the Ottawa Valley, Canada, is a beautiful and different tourist destination in Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, offering opportunities of four seasons of outdoor adventure-from boating to fishing, from championship golf to skiing, and from rock climbing to mountain biking. The choices are limited only by your energy and sense of adventure.
Relaxation Activity Recommendation
If relaxation is your preference, the beauty of our natural landscapes is a joy to experience. Take a relaxing drive on the countryside roads, read a book by the river, enjoy sunbathing in one of our waterside parks, listen to the call of the birds and the sound of the wind, enjoy starry nights, and reconnect with Mother Nature! Celebrate the end of an exciting day in one of our local restaurants or pubs, enjoying fine cuisine to simple home-cooked food.
Our wealth of beauty, combined with typically local warmth and hospitality, just may let you make Greater Madawaska your country home. So come here and experience the natural beauty and local life.
A few years ago, I was an English professor, and I asked my students to finish a paper during the holiday. Mike, one of my students, came to class without it. He explained that his safe（保险柜）had been stolen by a worker who was repairing his house. His notebook computer was in the safe, where his paper was. I was sure that he didn't tell a lie because he had been a really good student.
Then over the two weeks, Mike started to show up to class looking very tired. He said that he was on a hunt for the guy who stole his safe, and he was spending late nights with his cousin driving around looking for the thief because they knew his car. They wanted to find the thief and get the safe back because his living expenses were in it besides the paper.
Then Mike rewrote the paper and turned it in. It wasn't up to his usual quality, and he still kept coming to class looking like he hadn't slept all night. One day, he came very happily to my office, and he reported that he had found the thief after a long search that involved experiencing dangerous situations. He said that they found the thief's car in front of a big supermarket, and they caught him and sent him to the police station.
I read the news that Mike had in fact put an end to the thief's attempt to steal from the supermarket. It turned out that Mike got his money and notebook computer back. I gladly accepted his original paper, and it got a much higher grade than the rewritten one because of his virtues. And I reminded him that he should be responsible for his own safety and talk to me or other teachers first if he met with anything like that.
Massive flooding in America's Yellowstone National Park caused widespread damage and resulted in many changes. The recent floodwaters changed the path of a river popular for fishing. It also devastated homes, bridges and roadways.
Yellowstone became America's first national park in 1872. It is known for its natural beauty that includes mountains, rivers and lakes. The forces of fire and ice have shaped the park for thousands of years. It is a place where visitors can get close to different kinds of wildlife.
Flooding caused by heavy rains and melting mountain snow did cause a lot of damage. It drove more than 10,000 visitors out of the park. The rain also damaged hundreds of homes in nearby communities. Luckily, no one was reported hurt. However, the park could remain closed for up to one week. Some entrances might not open all summer. The water also washed away camp structures, flooded small towns and cut power to parts of southern Montana and northern Wyoming. The event happened as the park was beginning its busy summer season and received millions of summer visitors.
The Yellowstone River was running at a historically high level of 4. 9 meters as it flowed past Billings, Montana's largest city. The city got its water from the river and was forced to close its treatment plant（工厂） because it couldn't operate effectively with water levels that high. Billings officials said the city only had a 24-hour supply of water. They were asking people to protect water until the river could drop and the plant could restart operations. "None of us planned a 500-year flood event on the Yellowstone when we designed the equipment," said Debi Meling, the city's director of public works.
Yellowstone officials said, "The northern half of the park is likely to remain closed over the summer. This will greatly affect local economies that depend on summer tourists. But we have faith in the park repairs and economic recovery."
The average person must think the field of artificial intelligence or AI is making great progress. The boss of a top tech company thinks that in search of creating AI that has the flexibility of the human brain, "the game is over". Don't be fooled. We should see it in a reasonable way. Machines may someday be as smart as people and perhaps even smarter, but the game is far from over. There is still a large amount of work to be done in making AI machines that can truly understand and reason about the world around them. What we need right now is more basic research to speed it up.
AI is making progress. Artificial images look more and more realistic, and speech recognition can often work in noisy environments. But we are still likely decades away from human- level AI that can understand the true meanings of articles and videos or deal with unexpected difficulties. The field is stuck on the same challenges that scientists have been pointing out for years: getting AI to be reliable and getting it to flexibly deal with unusual situations. Unluckily, the fact is that these systems still fail to work reliably and struggle with new situations.
Although deep learning has advanced the ability of AI machines to recognize patterns in data, it has three main disadvantages. The patterns that it learns are superficial. The results it creates are hard to explain. And the results are difficult to use in the other processes, such as memory and reasoning. As Harvard University computer scientist Leslie Valiant noted, "The central challenge in the future is to unify the formulations（统一公式）of learning and reasoning." You can't deal with a person carrying a stop sign if you don't really understand what a stop sign even is.
It's time for AI researchers to get out of turning to the media straightly for help, and ask important questions about how to build systems that can learn and reason at the same time.
As teenage students, you may feel stressed in the holidays for many reasons. Whatever the season is, it's important for you to take care of your mental health. Here are a few suggestions to consider.
Staying physically healthy is your best defense against holiday stress. You should keep your good habits as usual. Do play a variety of sports, but make sure to drink enough water after exercise. Try eating a balanced diet every day. Don't overeat or fill up on sweets at party dinners.
Calm your mind. Buying something simple and inexpensive with your family will help you have peace of mind through the holidays when you're shopping for goods. You can also color or draw with him or her to deal with stress and improve mental health during the holidays.
Practise gratitude. Having gratitude means expressing thanks for what is good in your life. Remember to often show your thanks. Before meals, give thanks to the one who cooks them. Give thanks even if that person is you. When you practise gratitude, you may also spread it. That way, your mind will be at peace.
Make time for joy. What kind of things can bring you joy? Washing clothes for your parents, looking after your relatives, or volunteering in your community is an effective way. Even delivering a plate of cookies to a neighbor is a choice.
Make time for yourself. Maybe you need time for yourself after being with family for a long time. Even a little break can make a big difference when it comes to reducing stress.
A．Keep up your healthy habits.
B．Try holding parties and enjoying yourself.
C．You may try listening to your favorite music alone to relax.
D．Reading a book with your best friend can make you calm down.
E．You just do something right to help others to make yourself happy.
F．Before you say goodbye, invite everyone to share their favorite holidays.
G．Write a note to let them know you appreciate it after your friends help you.
Several years ago, at the door of a house, I saw a small dog walking excitedly to me. As I took the 1 out of my bag, she swung her tail. I 2 things every day, and I'm used to being greeted by different dogs.
However, she was the 3 dogs I'd seen. "Sir, give the thing to my dog, Pippa, please," said her 4 , Melissa. I lowered the parcel towards Pippa's mouth, and she seemed to walk away with it 5 . Melissa explained, "As a member of our family, she takes pride in 6 us to get things inside." What a cute dog!
Pippa 7 my daily visits. Even when there was no parcel for her house, I couldn't 8 riding by her house, thinking that she was waiting for me. I'd stop to write "MAIL FOR PIPPA" on a card and then hand it to her. Pippa became someone 9 to me.
Last month, she risked her life to rescue a girl in the water. She was a real 10 . People around finally 11 for such a brave animal.
Now, meeting dogs is what I 12 most about being a man to send parcels. I've also made friends with some of them, who love it when I arrive at their 13 . I think I've got the best job in the world!
Every Christmas Eve, I dress up as Father Christmas and carry balls for all the dogs I've got to know through my 14 . I write on each card, "To Dogs Met on the Way to Work." I always think all dogs are 15 , but this Christmas I'll favor Pippa and award her an extra gift for her bravery.
Mexico has a unique food culture, and tamales（玉米粉蒸肉）, for example, is a kind of delicious food. At least three times a week, David, a bus driver, buys tamales in the street. Tamales are made of corn flour as well meat, beans and cheese. David (eat) the dish since childhood because the taste is (extreme) good.
Tamales are not only tasty, but they are also a good way (provide) enough energy for people in the workday. They carry lovely memories for (million) of people like David. He remembers his grandmother preparing tamales for family celebrations and religious events.
Tamales are eaten in several neighboring countries under other names. But number of tamales in Mexico is huge, according to food researcher Ricardo. He has identified 25 families making tamales in Mexico, have many different kinds (base) on tastes and sizes.
The popularity of the tamale is so great that people can't stop (enjoy) them. It is not a simple dish but a symbol of culture. David thinks tamales should (pass) from generation to generation, and he says he will eat them with his wife, children and other relatives to celebrate every festival, just like his parents and grandparents did.
Catherine's nine-year-old son, Chirag, won his first silver prize at a swim meet. It seemed like he could swim before he could walk. His dad is a competitive swimmer and a former champion, so many people think it is surely in his genes.
That's wrong! Until a few years ago, Chirag was afraid of water. It wasn't his fault. His dislike came from Catherine's childhood phobia（恐惧症）.
One summer when Catherine was a child, she and her brother went to a pool to learn basic swimming skills. All that went well and soon it was time for class. A coach was hired and he agreed to do a trial round. He took children to the deep end and asked them to swim across the breadth of the pool. While Catherine's brother stayed calm and made it, she, however, immediately disliked the task. It was Catherine's first time in such deep water, and the bottom of the pool seemed so far away that she felt really frightened. She felt she was going to drown（淹死）for lack of air. At that moment, she thought that swimming wasn't for her. After being rescued from the water, she didn't swim again.
Fast forward to her thirties, she was a mother of a child and living in an area with a lot of rivers and beaches. Then her son, Chirag, started school, and swimming was a compulsory course. Every Wednesday, the day for the weekly swimming lesson was Chirag's bad dream. From the previous evening, he would be anxious and teary-eyed about going to school. It turned out that Catherine had passed on her anxiety about swimming to her little boy.
She was always worried about keeping her child safe around water and was starting to realize that the best way to do that was making him learn how to swim. Words of comfort were of no use to Chirag. He still sat outside the pool during his classes. It was obvious that he needed professional lessons to help build his confidence. She needed to challenge herself to encourage her son.
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So Catherine signed up for swimming classes with her son. …… To Catherine's amazement, she didn't drown! |
