The movie thing just happened in real life on the New York bus. 1 the night of Sunday November 4, on the No. 5 bus from Union Square, an American boy 2 Moberg first met with Hayton, a 22-year-old Australian girl with a rose in her 3 . But he soon 4 her in a rush of people sadly. So he 5 a website—nygirlofmydreams.com where he posted a 6 of a beauty with a flower in her hair. Forty-eight hours later, a friend of the girl's came across the 7 , noticed the drawing and sent Moberg an email.
Four days later, on Thursday night, Moberg and the girl, Hayton, came together. After 8 with each other for some time they 9 they both were born in March, and they even have many other things 10 .
Mober g could not tell what 11 him to the girl. "There was a natural attraction to her. I just couldn't 12 it," he said.
Hayton said Mober g seemed really 13 . "Many American boys are like in the 14 ," she said.
It does look like a movie. Hayton is from the other side of the 15 —Melbourne, Australia. She doesn't often take the New York 16 . However, after her home burnt down on the night of October 31st, she was 17 onto the No. 5 bus on that Sunday night 18 she had to go and live with a friend.
But the end of the movie is 19 yet. "We'll probably wait to get to know each other 20 and see what happens," Mober g said.
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Give fishermen a string, and they can use it to catch fish, but give it to young men from Huotong Town and they can make a lion fly. Indeed, many children growing up in the town in Ningde City, Fujian Province, might be under the impression that lions can actually fly, as they come into contact with the popular string lion dance at an early age.
From a distance, bamboo lions with colorful long hair could be seen high above a small wooden stage in Xingxian Village in mid-March, each seeming to have a life of their own. Closer up, it was possible to see that they were linked by what looked like countless long strings that were being operated by a team of young people behind the stage.
The young people made every effort during the show, sometimes using their weight to pull the strings, and other times jumping up and down to control the strings to make the lions do various fancy actions, ranging from rolling, jumping, to running one after another, and fighting for a ball.
Applause broke out from the crowd as the lions came to rest, and a group of young boys stepped out from behind the curtain.
"This is my happiest moment, getting recognition from the audience," says Chen Jihong, 24, who leads the team of around 30 members aged between 13 and 24.
Like other children in the region, Chen was first fascinated by the dance as a child when his mother took him to watch a lantern show on the day of longtaitou, or Dragon Head Raising Day. He remembers how the crowd suddenly became excited and cheered for the string lions to come out. Curiously, he pushed through the crowd to get a closer view as the lifelike lions came into sight.
Huang Zhenqiao, a senior inheritor of the tradition that was named a national intangible (非物质的) cultural heritage in 2006, says that the string lion dance dates back about 1,300 years and is one of the most attractive shows at the local lantern show on that day.
The recorder (竖笛) is a pipe-like musical instrument which has been taught in British primary schools for many generations. But now, it faces extinction, with one of the UK's top music schools reporting an 80% reduction in the number of young people playing it in the last 10 years.
The instrument's future is so worrying that the European Recorder Teachers Association is trying to bring it back to life again so it does not go the way of the lute. The ERTA argues that if the recorder was good enough for the Beatles, it has a place in modern music today.
Tom Redmond, the headmaster of Chetham's school of music in Manchester, said only three of its pupils practised the recorder, compared with 15 a decade ago. "More pupils were taking up the piano or other instruments," said Redmond. "The ones that became really popular are the ones students spend more time playing alone. With the instruments being more socially based, there has been a reduction."
Redmond also said that this problem went "beyond the recorder itself" and was a mirror of the future of music. "Like removing any plant or animal from an ecosystem (生态系统), removing the recorder has a huge chain reaction beyond just the instrument. You need these instruments to create the inspiration for music, and without that, there is less excitement for them and to learn music," he said.
Chris Orton, a recorder tutor and chair of the ERTA, is leading the fight against the instrument's extinction. He said, "The recorder is increasingly ignored by students, and yet it has a rich history and unbelievable attractions. As well as making beautiful sounds, it's an accessible instrument because it is low-cost compared to other woodwind instruments, and it's light and easy to carry."
China's development in space technology is likely to modernize food preservation on Earth, with spacecraft engineers changing and reusing a barrier film (隔离薄膜), originally designed for the orbital space station, to effectively maintain the health and freshness of people's daily meals.
This flexible film that can block gases and germs, providing exceptional protection for food. The China Academy of Space Technology presented a video showing lab researchers dividing a piece of tofu into two parts and placing each in separate packages—one regular and one made of the new high-barrier film. After seven days, it was observed that the tofu stored in the regular package had gone bad, while the tofu contained within the high-barrier material remained fresh.
The new high-barrier film draws inspiration from space coating technology. The original purpose of this coating technology was to protect the equipment of the space station from atomic oxygen. In low-orbital space, sunlight can break down oxygen molecules into atomic oxygen, which can erode (腐蚀) spacecraft materials. Therefore, engineers apply a barrier coating to prevent erosion.
It is also necessary to package food and medicine to prevent the entry of water and oxygen, as they can lead to the growth of tiny living things and result in spoilage (变质).
Since 2016, the Academy has proposed using space coating technology for the development of next-generation high-barrier films. After four years of exploration, the research team has achieved significant progress and successfully established China's first high-barrier film production line and mass production line.
The high-barrier film has very strict requirements for water resistance. If a football field was covered with such a film, the amount of water that could pass through it each day would be the size of your finger.
The new high-barrier film is increasingly used for packaging expensive food. When the cost drops, the range of its application will be much greater, serving as an option to food preservation in the future, reducing or even removing the need for additives in food. This would both ensure the quality of food and so that it can be kept longer.
