Perfectly situated on the Gulf of Mexico, in southwest Florida, Naples is well known and loved for not only its beautiful beaches and blue water, but also all of the family-friendly activities and outdoor fun. Here are the four best beaches in Naples.
Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park
This grand state park offers breathtaking Gulf of Mexico views. It is also a home for an incredible diversity of wildlife including sea turtles and many different birds. If you have courage and a sense of wonder, you might even dive into the water and swim with dolphins! Visit early, especially in the busy tourist seasons, to avoid crowds and find a parking spot.
Vanderbilt Beach Park
It is perfect for little ones who love to play in the sand, build sandcastles, and cool off in the gentle waves. With easy access to many lovely hotels as well as shopping and restaurants, this beach is fun for bird watching, paddle boarding, and swimming. Free life jackets are available for little ones. The best time to visit, however, is sunset — arrive early to get a fantastic viewing spot.
Clam Pass Beach
It is family-friendly with three miles of sugary sand and calm water. The long boardwalk and nature trail（路线） are a bit of an effort to be sure, but most folks love the adventurous experience. It's beautiful on either side of the raised wooden path and if you look closely, you can spot butterflies, coastal birds, and other wildlife hiding in the forests. Seashell hunters should arrive early for the best find.
Keewaydin Island Beach
Off the coast of Naples, Keewaydin Island can only be accessed by boat. From wild pigs to bobcats, white-tailed deer, tortoises, and iguanas, there's much to see here on this island that is mostly undeveloped. The sightseeing boat tour leaves from Naples or Marco Island. It's worth noting, however, that there are no public bathroom facilities.
Live with roommates? Have friends and family around you? Chances are that if you're looking to live a more sustainable lifestyle, not everyone around you will be ready to jump on that bandwagon.
I experienced this when I started switching to a zero waste lifestyle five years ago, as I was living with my parents, and I continue to experience this with my husband, as he is not completely zero waste like me. I've learned a few things along the way though, which I hope you'll find encouraging if you're doing your best to figure out how you can make the change in a not-always-supportive household.
Zero waste was a lifestyle movement a few years back. I remember showing my parents a video of Bea Johnson, sharing how cool I thought it would be to buy groceries with jars, and have so little trash! A few days later, I came back with my first jars of zero waste groceries, and my dad commented on how silly it was for me to carry jars everywhere. It came off as a bit discouraging.
Yet as the months of reducing waste continued, I did what I could that was within my own reach. I had my own bedroom, so I worked on removing things I didn't need. I also offered to cook every so often, so I portioned out a bit of the cupboard for my own zero waste groceries. Perhaps your household won't entirely make the switch, but you may have some control over your own personal spaces to make the changes you desire.
As you make your lifestyle changes, you may find yourself wanting to speak up for yourself if others comment on what you're doing, which can turn itself into a whole household debate. If you have individuals who are not on board, your words probably won't do much and can often leave you feeling more discouraged.
So here is my advice: Lead by action.
Billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday announced that he has formed a new artificial intelligence （AI） company, xAI, which has employed researchers from Google, OpenAI and other top technology companies. The goal, Musk tweeted, is"to understand reality."
Musk isn't a novice to AI given that Tesla uses the technology in its cars. While xAI didn't mention what projects it will be working on, the company noted that its team of 11 researchers are drawn from top tech companies such as Microsoft Research, OpenAI and Google.
Musk suggested that the reason he picked July 12, 2023, to announce the start of xAI is connected with a science fiction classic, Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In his tweet, he noted that adding the date 7-12-23 equals 42, which the work of the fiction famously assumes is the answer to life.
The company said it will be advised by Dan Hendrycks, director of the Center for AI Safety. Hendrycks pointed out where AI could cause problems. "AIs could be used by bad people to make new deadly bioweapons," Hendrycks said in May. "Or people could make AI that tries to hurt people on purpose. If this AI was really smart, it could be a big danger to all of us."
The first time xAI was shown to the public was after Musk talked about it in April to the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Musk told Carlson that OpenAI's ChatGPT was a bit restricted and that he wanted to create a different tool that would be a super honest AI that tries to learn how everything in the world works.
The startup reflected Musk's long-voiced concerns about a future in which AI systems could present an existential risk to humanity. Musk said the idea is that an AI that wants to understand humanity is less likely to des troy it.
Blind people have long desired for brightness, but scientists don't have the technology. To bring that one step closer to reality, Zhiyong Fan, a material scientist of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, developed a new artificial eye recently. The device, which is about as sensitive to light and has sharper vision and a faster reaction time than a real eyeball, may outperform human eyes.
The human eye owes its wide field of view and clear eyesight to the retina（视网膜）—an area at the back of the eyeball covered in light-detecting cells. The design for a new artificial eye is based on the structure of the human eye and uses a friendly light-sensitive material. At the back of the eyeball, an artificial retina is lined with Nan scale light sensors（纳米级光感器）. Those sensors measure light that passes through the lens（晶状体） at the front of the eye. Wires attached to the back of the retina send signals from those sensors to the processor, similar to the way nerve networks connect the eyeball to the brain.
"In the future, we can use this to replace damaged human eyes," says the lead designer. In theory, this artificial eye could see more clearly than the human eye, because the artificial retina contains about 460 million light sensors per square centimeter while a real retina has about 10 million light-detecting cells per square centimeter. Besides, the artificial eye ball records changes in lighting faster than human eyes can —within about 30 to 40 milliseconds, rather than 40 to 150 milliseconds. Although its 100-degree field of view isn't as broad as the 150 degrees a human eye can take in, the device can see as well as the human eye in poor light.
Hongrui Jiang, an electrical engineer at the University of Wisconsin, though, thinks engineers need a much more practical and efficient way to produce vast series of tiny wires on the back of the artificial eyeball to give it superhuman sight, which is super hard to achieve.
Travelling to a foreign country can make you frightened if you don't know the local language. Mr. Thibault has a number of tips to help travelers manage in a destination when they don't speak the native tongue. Here are a few of them.
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Mr. Thibault tends to rely on Google Translate and suggests that travelers find an app that works for them. Ideally, find one that specializes in the language you need to translate especially if the language uses a character set you're not familiar with, or have difficulty pronouncing.
Speak with Your Hands and Head
Pointing with your hands and nodding or shaking your head, Mr. Thibault said, are easy ways to communicate with locals in the country you're in. "," he said.
Learn a Few Key Words
Knowing basic words and phrases like "hello", "thank you" and "I'm sorry, I don't speak your language. Do you speak English?" is a must, Mr. Thibault said. ", and at least enough to acknowledge that you don't know more, is a form of respect and will make you go a long way to be liked by locals."
Work with a Local Travel Agent
If you feel particularly uncomfortable in the country you're heading to, and you have to go anyway, .
Hire a Local Tour Guide
A tour guide can help you get a better grasp of the local language and is a good person to practice words and phrases with. Whenever Mr. Thibault visits a new country, he books a sightseeing tour with a guide on the first day of his trip. "," he said.
A. Learn the Language on the Internet
B. Download a Language Translation App
C. Gestures are all universally understood
D. Let the local people feel that you are really sorry and polite
E. Showing that you care enough to learn some of the language before you go
F. I use this day to learn about my destination and get familiar with the language
G. relying on a local travel agent who knows both your and your destination's languages can be incredibly useful
My nephew Tyden and I were attending another nephew's birthday party at a local amusement center. It was the kind of place where you get tickets for scoring points on the games and then 1 them in for prizes.
Tyden won a jackpot（头奖） of tickets, so we went to cash them in and select his prizes. I was feeling nostalgic（怀旧的） because my husband and I had our first 2 at this center and had exchanged little trinkets（饰品） from the showcase. I noticed a 3 and remembered my partner loves it. I asked the young man behind the 4 if I could just 5 the turtle without tickets. He said unfortunately that was not an option.
I decided I needed to win 350 6 . I left Tyden at the counter to finish 7 his prize with his grandma. I bought game tokens（游戏币） and entered the games room with all the delighted little faces 8 fun and laughter. I had just chosen a game I thought I could win when I heard Tyden's 9 voice, "Auntie, Auntie! Look!"
He leapt to me and 10 the turtle from behind his back and presented it to me. My eyes 11 up with tears and my heart burst with 12 . He had listened to that whole conversation and chosen to give instead of getting whatever he wanted. Before I could thank him, he said, "I wanted you to have it, so you didn't have to spend money because you work hard." I gathered him up, hugged him 13 , and told him how much I love his heart, his 14 , and him. I am so 15 to have the title of his Auntie.
As digital technology gradually integrates（融入） into （vary） fields of economic and social development, there is also improvement in the production as well as social governance among these countries and regions （involve） in the Belt and Road Initiative. This is especially true for traditional rural areas, are now encountering new development opportunities. Take the rural governance as an example, with the help of digital technologies, the governance in the rural areas is （effective） promoted.
In agricultural high-tech industry demonstration zone in Yangling, Northwest China's Shanxi province, satellite navigation technology, drones, as well as 3D modeling and printing （be） used to provide stronger support the intelligent and precise management of agricultural production.
The World Internet Conference （WIC） Digital Silk Road Development Forum （hold） on April 16,2024 in Xi'an, capital city of Shaanxi.
"Digital Villages and Sustainable Development" was a key agenda of the forum. The （participate） had discussions on the following topics, which included urging digital technology to empower agricultural production, promoting the improvement of rural governance and （contribute） wisdom and strength to rural development.
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Dear everyone,
A Writing Assignment
Mrs. Peabody, the English teacher, gave the class a writing assignment. "Write something in some way related to summer vacation," she said. "Be as creative as you can. But," the teacher added, "make sure you use proper spelling and grammar."
That night Jim sat at his desk at home and stared at a blank sheet of paper. He didn't want to write about his summer vacation as usual. What could he write about, except a dog, a water park and two weeks of camp? Boring... He'd actually been happy to get back to school.
So he wrote what he wanted. Not an essay at all but a short story, science fiction. It was about a distant planet that didn't have summer—it was spring all the time. And it didn't have vacations either. The aliens on the planet worked 24 hours a day. They wished they had vacations.
The next morning he handed in the story, but later that night he lay awake until 3 A. m., thinking, "Why did I do that? Will Mrs. Peabody think I ignored the assignment?" English was his favorite class. Maybe he would be g Mrs. Peabody for a chance to write another one, the sort she wanted.
But when he got to class the following day, it turned out that Mrs. Peabody had already read and graded the essays.
The teacher said, "I'm going to pass back your summer vacation writings in a minute. I'm afraid I've got some rather harsh words to say. Almost everyone in class simply wrote an essay about his or her summer vacation… Almost everyone."
"This is bad," Jim thought, "I'm getting an F. I know it."
"But," the teacher continued, "one of you had the courage to be as imaginative as I asked you to be. Jim Martin was the only one who got an A on the assignment."
Jim couldn't believe his ears.
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When Mrs. Peabody invited Jim to share some thoughts on his writing, other students were all looking at him expectantly.
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Mrs. Peabody thought it was time to explain Jim's grade.
