In contrast to rushing past overcrowded tourist landmarks, the new trend of city walk has emerged as a popular alternative to exploring bustling markets, ancient streets, and charming alleys at a leisurely pace.
Here are some good recommendations for city walk in China.
Shanghai
Shanghai has undertaken extensive renovations (修复) in many historic and cultural neighborhoods. For instance, the Wukang Building, which was built in 1924, underwent two conservation renovations in 2009 and 2019. In 2020, it also underwent a "micro-update".
Guangzhou
Yongqingfang, a historical complex in Guangzhou, is situated on Enning Road and is considered the core area of old Guangzhou, as well as the city's most beautiful arcade. Starting in 2009, a series of micro-transformations began in Yongqingfang and have continued to the present day. Today, the revitalized Yongqingfang has emerged as a new cultural landmark, where traditional and modern cultures mix harmoniously in the old city.
Fuzhou
Currently, Fuzhou has a total length of 131 kilometers of mountain trails, connecting with 501.7 kilometers of waterfront greenways and over 200 traditional streets and alleys. The Fuzhou urban forest trail, which winds through numerous parks, facilitates a close connection between mountains, water, people, and the city.
Nanjing
You can experience history and modernity in Nanjing. Walk and taste from Pingshi Street to Shengzhou Road, get a roast duck takeout and two liang (100 grams) of beef potstickers before you sit down for a bowl of soup noodles topped with pork rinds and ribs. Treat yourself to some rich traditional foods.
Candace Leslie Cima is a 75-year-old fashion and lifestyle influencer working to change the attitudes regarding aging for both her generation and the ones following hers.
Candace's video, sharing a comment on her style that says "You're 60. You shouldn't wear that", got 7.4 million views on social media. She is answering comments about her sleeveless shirt style choices with "I am 75, actually." In her mind, there is no stigma attached to being aging.
"I remember being on the checkout line at a supermarket and looking at the headlines on those magazines. They would always have headlines like How to look your best at 20, 30, and 40. Never did they mention 50, 60, and 70," she recalls in a video. In addition to her videos, Candace also has a blog where she speaks at length about aging and fashion. Candace explains that she wears a lot of sleeveless tops, and there is always someone who writes to her that women over 60 should not bare their arms. She has a whole article on her blog devoted to this sleeveless shirt style element, which is called Woman's Right to Bare Arms.
"So... you have some loose skin on your arms or some veins on your legs or age spots on your hand... Why is that a bad thing?" She makes a point, saying that it is we who decide whether it is a bad thing and whether we are ashamed of our natural aging process and let others make us feel less than we are.
After all, everyone ages, so we all as a society should normalize these changes and learn to see them positively.
For her, age is not just a number. It's a badge of honor to wear proudly. "The only way to change that view is that we, as older women, show them that aging is a gift, something to be embraced, valued and shared," she writes.
The summer of 2023 was the hottest ever recorded on Earth. Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from burning fossil fuels are the main causes behind climate change, and scientists say they must be controlled. But there's another greenhouse gas to deal with: methane. Tackling it may be the best bet for putting the brakes on rising temperatures in the short term. That's because it's relatively short-lived in the atmosphere—methane lasts about 12 years, while CO2 can stick around for hundreds of years.
We already have strategies for cutting methane emissions—fixing natural gas leaks (methane is the main component of natural gas), removing coal gradually (mining operations release methane), eating less meat and dairy products (cows burp lots of methane) and electrifying transportation and appliances. Implementing all existing strategies could slow global warming by 30 percent over the next decade, research has shown.
But some climate scientists, including Jackson, say we need to go further. Scientists want to develop ways to remove methane directly from the air. Most ideas are still in early research stages. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine is currently studying these potential technologies, their state of readiness and possible risks, and what further research and funding are needed. Some of the approaches include re-engineering bacteria that are already good at eating methane and developing reactors in methane-rich places to chemically transform the gas.
"Methane is a sprint (短跑) and CO2 is a marathon," says Desirée Plata, a civil and environmental engineer at MIT. "While methane emissions are a significant contributor to climate change, carbon dioxide emissions remain the primary driver. Therefore, we must continue to pursue strategies to reduce CO2 emissions while also targeting methane reduction." For scientists focused on removing greenhouse gases, it's off to the races.
Advances in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have enabled authentic-sounding speech synthesis (语音合成) to the point that a person can no longer distinguish whether they are talking to another human or a deepfake (深度伪造). If a person's own voice is "cloned" by a third party without their agreement, bad guys can use it to send any message they want.
Computer scientist and engineer Ning Zhang has developed a new method to prevent unauthorized speech synthesis before it takes place: a tool called AntiFake.
Traditional deepfake detection methods only work after the damage is done. However, AntiFake prevents voice data from being synthesized into an audio deepfake beforehand. This tool turns the tables on cybercriminals (网络罪犯) by using similar voice cloning techniques they employ, but for voice protection. The software complicates voice data extraction and feature identification crucial for voice synthesis. "We're using an opposite AI technique originally used by cybercriminals, but now we're using it against them," Zhang explained. "We slightly change the recorded audio, just enough to make it unusable for voice clone training while still sounding natural to humans."
Ben Zhao, a professor of computer science at University of Chicago, says that the software, like all digital security systems, will never provide complete protection. But, he adds that it can raise the bar and limit the attack to a smaller group of individuals with significant resources.
AntiFake can already protect shorter voice recordings against cloning. The creators of the tool believe that it could be extended to protect larger audio documents or music from misuse. But the methods and tools that are developed must be continuously adapted because cybercriminals will learn and grow with them.
When something goes wrong, do you tend to recover quickly or fall apart? Some might find it extremely difficult to cope with the barriers. Following are some strategies to help you handle a personal setback and get back on track to achieve your goal.
●Understand it's normal. Fewer than 20 percent of people succeed in reaching their goal on the first attempt. In other words it's not whether a challenge will happen, but it's when. .
●Don't deny it. Sometimes it can be difficult to identify a setback. The problem can be staring you right in the face, but you may deny there's any cause for alarm. This inability to acknowledge the problem doesn't mean you're stupid. It's just that denial can cloud your awareness of the issue. It's important to be open to the honest feedback.
● Stop and consider carefully what went wrong. The most common causes of a setback are personal worries, overconfidence, and poor coping skills. Take a look at any factor that may have contributed to the setback: where you were, who you were with, what you were thinking and feeling.
●Learn from it. Learn from your analysis of the setback, and adjust your plan to try to prevent similar things from happening next time. Each time you adapt your plan and put it into action again, you actually improve your chances of eventual success. .
Remind yourself that your setback is a slip instead of a fall. After adjusting, you can still make progress toward success again.
A. Don't take it seriously.
B. Analyze what happened.
C. Persist in pursuing your goals regardless of challenges.
D. Despite concerns, you may still refuse to acknowledge it.
E. You haven't lost all of the knowledge, skills, and support.
F. Thus, the key lies in managing setbacks effectively when they arise.
G. This is because you learn from each misstep to make your plan more effective.
Rene Compean was no stranger to Angeles National Forest. But after challenging a 1 path last April, the 45-year-old mechanic was lost.
As the day faded into dusk, his concern turned to 2 . Compean climbed to a spot with one bar of 3 ."I'm lost. SOS. My phone is going to 4 ."He texted the police, attaching a photo showing where he was. The 5 showed his legs surrounded by an endless landscape of rocks and plants.
All Compean could do then was wait and 6 . The temperature was dropping fast. After 7 two mountain lions and a bear, he kept a big stick and some 8 rocks beside him in case an animal came close.
Kuo, who works in the technology industry, always loves 9 where photos are taken. When he saw the image of Compean's legs released on the Twitter, he 10 pulled up a satellite map. He 11 his search to the surrounding area after knowing Compean's car was parked near Buckhorn Campground. After comparing it to the satellite map, Kuo 12 something: "He's got to be on the south side because there's not really any 13 valleys on the north side." That finding tightened his search, and finally the 14 matched! Soon, Compean was saved.
Compean's story probably would have ended very differently, if it had not been for a 15 with strong satellite skills and a sharp eye for detail who took action.
China's traditional tea-making was added on Tuesday to the intangible cultural heritage list of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The item "Traditional tea processing techniques and associated social practices in China" (pass) the examination at the 17th session of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee.
China now has 43 items on the intangible cultural heritage list, (continue) to be the most enlisted country in the world.
The traditional tea processing techniques and associated social practices in China consist knowledge, skills, and practices concerning the (manage) of tea plantations, picking of tea leaves, manual processing, drinking, and sharing of tea.
Since ancient times, Chinese people have been planting, picking, making and drinking tea.
(base) on natural conditions and local customs, Chinese tea producers have developed six (category) of tea: green, yellow, dark, white, oolong and black. Besides, there are other varieties, contain flower-scented teas, and more than 2,000 tea products.
The traditional tea making techniques are (main) concentrated in the four tea regions in China. Associated social practices, however, (spread) throughout the country and shared by multiple ethnic groups.
Tea is popular in Chinese people's daily life, served in families, workplaces, tea houses, restaurants and temples, to name a few. is also an important part of socialization and ceremonies such as weddings and sacrifices.
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Dear friends,
My name is Li Hua.
Thank you for your listening!
I loved the spelling bee(拼字比赛) so much that every afternoon after school, I would diligently train. However, little did I know that my opponent in the spelling bee would one day become a cherished friend.
On Friday morning, I woke up at 6:27. My usual waking time was 7:01, granting me an unexpected thirty-four extra minutes to study. As the best speller in my class, I was determined to win the Meadowbrook Middle School spelling bee and defeat my opponent, Nathan Fortescue.
Nathan was a devotee of science and math. He wasn't really a speller at heart; he was a mathematician. Nathan and I had nothing in common except being good spellers. Besides, he seemed to spell well without much effort.
I went to the kitchen and found Dad making breakfast. I told him about the spelling test and my anxiety. He quizzed me on some words, but they were easy for me. Then he asked, "How do you spell ‘argument'?" I confidently replied, "Easy, A-R-G-U-E-M-E-N-T," without a second thought.
Dad shook his head. I didn't believe him, so I checked the dictionary. When I came back,he said I should thank him because that word might be on the test.
As I shut the classroom door, a voice came from the back of the room. "You're looking a bit pale. I'm afraid you might not make it through the spelling bee," Nathan said with a smile as he closed a giant book with dancing numbers on its cover.
"I bet a literature word will knock you out in the first round," I replied.
Then Ms. Hawking entered the room, explaining the rules—one miss and you are out—and the spelling test began. After four intense rounds, only Nathan and I remained. "Olivia, your word is ‘algorithm'," Ms. Hawking announced. I had never heard that word before, but I spelt it: "A-L-G-O-R-Y-T-H-M."
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Ms. Hawking frowned and said that's incorrect.
After class, I sobbed when I felt a hand on my arm.
