The local transport in Liverpool City Region is convenient for visitors to go around. The following are some means of transport for you to choose from.
By Train
Mersey rail trains run frequently throughout the day across 68 stations in and around the Liverpool area. With 4 city centre underground stations you can easily get around the city.
You can now buy tickets online. Your ticket will be emailed straight to you, so you don't have to think about it at the station, just jump on the train and enjoy your journey!
By Bike
Liverpool is easy to get around by bike. Bike parking can be found on the Liverpool Cycle Map. If you're arriving in Liverpool by train or ferry, bikes go free.
The CityBike bicycle hire system is also available in the city centre. Find more information at www.citvbiheliverpool.co.uk
By Bus
Bus travel in and around Liverpool is a green and convenient way to explore the destination. The bus network is run by Merseytravel, with two main city centre bus terminals — Liverpool ONE and Queen Square.
Justin Bieber is only fifteen years old and has become very popular already. He was raised (抚养) by his mother in Stratford, Ontario, Canada. When he was twelve he won second place in a local singing contest. He started posting (贴) videos of his contest performances on the Internet for his friends and family. Soon these videos had been seen more than ten million times.
A music manager saw those videos and asked Justin to fly to Atlanta, Georgia, to meet the singer and songwriter Usher. A year later Justin released (发行) his first albumMy World. It sold over a million copies in the first two months. Four singles were released before the album. All became popular. This made Justin Bieber the only singer in the history of the Billboard magazine to have four singles from his first album among the most popular songs before the album's release.
Justin Bieber performed for President Obama at the White House last December. He was part of a musical show that raised money for the National Children's Medical Center. He was also among the many singers who recorded the song We Are the World. The song was produced to raise money for Haiti. The video has been seen more than seven million times on the Internet. And it was shown during the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Justin Bieber's family did not have much money when he was young. He did not have as much so other children did. Justin says he wants to influence young people in a good way. He believes that you can do anything if you put your mind to it.
Paperless office was first coined in 1975.Four decades later, we're still chasing(追逐) the paperless office dream. Take the financial(金融的) industry for example—it is one of the slower industries to hug digital transformation. Many financial institutions today still send out trade confirmations by mail. I can tell you from first－hand experience that going paperless is by no means impossible. The Centric Digital office is a paperless work environment where all the office operations go digital, which has amazed our business partners.
Actually, companies need to stress the benefits of a digital culture for communications. Going paperless can save time and money. You could say goodbye to costly repairs, office supply orders, wasted employee time and so on. Besides, forbidding paper in the office forces information to be 100% digital, where you can make endless amounts of backups(备份), which easily increase transparency(透明). Not to mention, top talents want to work for digital companies.
You might think the secret to a paperless company is purely technology. Well, not really. Thanks to products like iPads, smartphones and cloud services, the ability to go paperless is highly accessible. Yet, even with all this technology, companies continue to rely on paper. It's not because they don't have access to the technology, but because they're lacking the policies, organizational structure and a strong desire to change. In order to go paperless, companies need to change the way they think and operate. The decision needs to be made and carried out and everyone needs to work together to make it.
Yes, the paperless office has been a very long time in the making—but it no longer has to be. With numerous amounts of software, services, apps, and technology available today, the only thing we need to do is make the decision to go paperless and see it through.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has to recall hundreds of foods every year. Like cookie snack packs with pieces of blue plastic hiding inside, dressing and sauce containing salmonella (沙门氏菌) or various jams containing with lead (铅).
It can take a few months before a recall is issued. But now researchers have come up with a method that might fast-track that process, leading to early detection and, ultimately, faster recalls. The AI system relies on the fact that people increasingly buy foods and spices online. And people tend to write reviews of products they buy online, which are like bread crumbs (包屑) to food-safety officials sniffing (嗅) out dangerous products.
The researchers linked FDA food recalls from 2012 to 2014 to amazon reviews of those same products. They then trained machine-learning algorithms (算法) to distinguish between reviews for recalled items and reviews for items that had not been flagged. And the trained algorithms were able to predict FDA recalls three quarters of the time. They also identified another 20, 000 reviews for possibly unsafe foods, most of which had never been recalled. The results are published in Journal of the American Medical In formatics Association.
The World Health Organization estimates that 600 million people worldwide get sick annually from polluted food, and more than 400,000 people die from it. "Sohaving tools that enable us to detect this a lot faster and hopefully investigate and do recalls faster will be useful not just in the U. S. but in other countries around the world as well." Study author Elaine Nsoesie of Boston University. She did add one warning even recalled products can still get five-star reviews. So stars alone don't tell the whole sickening story. The proof unfortunately, may still be in the pudding.
Why do you run? Different people have different reasons. Whatever your reason is, there's one thing we can be sure of: Running is much better injury-free. In his book, Dr. Jordan Metzl's Running Strong, Metzl has the perfect suggestions for enjoying your running without losing your well-being (健康). Here are five must-follow rules for injury-free running:
Train for your level of fitness and your goals.
Don't run more miles than your body can deal with. If you run for fitness and your goal is about 30 minutes a day, that's cool. But if you are just starting out,
Wear the right shoes for your feet.
You will hear lots of opinions about whether running shoes really help prevent injury and whether you should even wear them. And some of you may need a little added assistance from inserts (鞋垫).
Be honest about how much sleep you need and stick to it. The cool runner is the one who wins the race. Sleep will get you there.
Fuel (提供能量) your body right for running and recovery.
And after a workout or race, you need to deliver nutrients to all the body rebuilders in your muscles, so they can do their job and get you back into tip-top shape for your run tomorrow.
Pay attention to pain.
When pain changes the way you run, stop running. And use dynamic rest (动态休息) to stay in shape until you are back on your running feet.
A. Get seven to eight hours of sleep every night.
B. Try to find out what is going on and treat the pain.
C. you need to get there slowly.
D. Running should be seen as fun rather than pain.
E. It is because of the health benefits, including lowering your risk of disease.
F. The right running shoes can help correct foot-movement problems that lead to injury.
G. A good pre-run meal plan is one that keeps you stepping strong.
The 11-year-old girl who fought off an attempted kidnapping this week was considered as “Brave Teenager” for her quick thinking that helped police identify the suspect.
That's exactly what happened. Alyssa was 1 her school bus in Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday morning when a man drove up. The man got out of his vehicle holding a knife and came towards her 2. Predicting what was going on, the girl was trying to escape before the man could grab her, but 3. There's a violent 4 before she broke free from the man's 5 grasp and they both fall to the ground. Fortunately, Alyssa was running away 6 the man hurried back to his car and drove off.
The girl was 7 blue slime, sort of thick liquid, at the time of the kidnapping attempt. 8 she was able to get the slime onto his upper arm and a little bit on his lower arm because she knew that might be better 9 if the policemen did find him. As expected, the suspect 30-year-old Jared Paul Stanga got 10 in no time due to the blue slime Alyssa marked on his arm.
Alyssa told investigators that the same man had 11 her about two weeks ago at the bus stop and made her feel 12. She told her mother and school officials what had happened, and her mom had been walking her to the bus stop each day. Tuesday was the first day since the previous 13 that the girl's mother did not go with her to the bus stop.
Asked how she felt after her 14 escape, Alyssa said, “mostly proud of myself,” and the officer praised, “Alyssa's detailed observation and quick thinking did make a big difference to save herself in such an 15.”
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Cosmic rays are mysterious, high-charged atomic particles traveling through space at the speed of light, have puzzled scientists for years. But for Yang Jia, a member of the National Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top political advisory body, the ability to see and study them help generate interest in science and space among schoolchildren.
Cosmic rays, first (discover) in 1912, have been an enigma for years, but their detectability means they can be studied by middle and high school students with a basic knowledge of physics.
Yang, also a professor and a member of the Jiusan Society, a democratic political party, proposed further (promote) the study of cosmic rays on school campuses at this year's Two Sessions.
"It's a wonderful idea. I heard a presentation from a scientist Zhang Chuang, and I was quite excited. I think it is a wonderful way (share) their knowledge with young people. At that time, I heard in Los Angeles, there were already 80 high schools having such extra curriculums, and in Italy, there were 50. But in China, there were just a few," said Yang.
An organization called Campus Cosmic Ray Observation Collaboration (establish) in September 2020 to promote the idea. Zhang, head of the organization, said they plan to build more stations on school campuses across China.
"We've been working on building more observation stations on campuses. At the moment, we have three in Dongzhimen, and we plan to set up more. Now we are working with three schools to build such stations. We also try to put our existing data on the website so that students can carry out related studies with open access," said Zhang.
cosmic ray observation belongs to the field of frontier physics, experts say introducing it to the campus helps popularize science among students.
Chinese scientist Shen Changquan, 79, (guide) Dongzhimen High School workshop for seven years since his retirement. He said such activities can help increase young students' interest in science.
"By exposing students to cutting-edge science, students can stand on the shoulders of giants and touch a wider world. It's not about being scientists. It's just that a lot of advanced equipment today requires physics knowledge, and improving the physics level of all people is very important," said Shen.
Talking about the future of the proposal, Yang said she is looking forward to seeing more dialogue between top scientists and students in China. She said they are optimistic, and the difficulties ahead, the drive for humans to fully understand the unknown can never be stopped.
"No. You can't get on without money. Please get off. I really need to get going," Jeffrey, the bus driver, impatiently told a girl who wanted to get on the bus but only had a few pennies. She was around seven years old, and Jeffrey wasn't in the mood to deal with unaccompanied children that day.
"Please, sir. I want to visit my grandma," the girl begged. "Then go and ask your parents for the money and come back next time," Jeffrey replied. The girl finally left the bus, upset. Jeffrey saw her sit down at the bus stop and drove off. "My goodness! What have I done?" he asked himself regretfully later.
He finished his route and went home, greeting his wife, Greta, and sitting on the sofa to rest. He got his phone out to surf the Internet mindlessly. One local man had shared a picture that made him surprised. It was a picture of the little girl he had just refused an hour earlier. The word "Missing" was written on top of the picture. Shocked, he read further and learned the girl had left home and disappeared a day before. Her parents were anxious, trying to find her.
Jeffrey's back went cold. This girl was missing, and he had just kicked her out of the bus. "What have I done?" he said to himself. Immediately, he stood up and went to the front door, putting his shoes on hurriedly. "Where are you going?" Greta asked, coming out of the kitchen.
"Quick! Call 911 and this number," Jeffrey said, showing her the picture of the girl on his phone. "I saw this girl at a bus stop earlier, but I turned her away because she didn't have enough money. I'm going to find her." "OK, which bus stop exactly?" she asked, and he explained. Greta then called the police and the girl's parents immediately.
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Jeffrey anxiously rushed to his car and started the engine.
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Jeffrey then asked the girl gently, "Did you escape from your home? Where were you going?"
