Four destinations for electric-bike tours across Canada
Banff by e-bike
White Mountain Adventures and Banff Cycle both launched guided e-bike tours of Canada's first national park this summer. The former's offerings include a 50-kilometre there-and-back ride along the Bow Valley Park way and a50-km return ride along the car-free Rocky Mountain Legacy Trail. Banff Cycle, meanwhile, adds a three-hour" Banff and Bow Valley" guided trip to the mix.
Fat-biking in Yukon
This new ride from the luxurious Mount Logan EcoLodge on the Alaska Highway near Haines Junction provides an exception to the rule that Canadian e-bike tours are unavailable in winter. Equipped with oversized tires to allow riding on snow and other unstable surfaces, the electric fat bikes can be booked for two-hour guided tours that explore the wilderness bordering Kluane National Park.
Sipping and e-cycling in Niagara
Niagara Cycling Tours hosts group outings of at least four e-bike riders that range in length from 65 to more than 110 kilometres. The offerings include a two-day "Niagara Introductory Ride," which can be customized to visit local attractions, and a new "Beers and Bikes" tour, which rides between more than a dozen craft breweries(啤酒厂).
Gardens and gouda on Vancouver Island
Based in pretty Qualicum Beach. the new Electric Bike Co. offers a three-hour"Home and Garden Tour" highlighting high-design private houses and seaside flowers; and a four-to five hour ride and ferry(轮渡) voyage to Hornby Island, home of the Helliwell and Tribune Bay provincial parks.
Tik Tok? Why not? Making our channel was my grandson Kevin's idea from the start. It' s his fault that I've got nearly5million followers. We were just sitting in the kitchen one day, and he filmed me chatting. I can barely remember what I said - I think something about clocks? That's what I thought he was telling me to do: tick tock, a clock! It was meant to be a joke, but overnight that video got 1 million views.
Kevin had made online videos with me for years already. which never bothered me. So. we just kept on going with this to see what could happen. Now I do all sorts of strange things: dancing in the garden, dishing out advice, saving stupid things. 1 just have fun and do whatever. Sometimes I think of things I'll say or do in advance, but mostly I'm just being me. Apparently, everyone thinks this little old lady is funny. It's all quite a surprise to me. I was the quiet kid at school, and then I worked in a factory and raised a family. Making people laugh wasn't my area.
At first it was all just fun a way for Kevin and I to keep ourselves busy. But I realized making these videos makes me feel younger. too. I might be 92. but 1 only feel 65 when we're flaming And now, I'm also making money from what we do. I get sent all sorts of things for free: pocketbooks, clothing, sunglasses, all sorts of stuff. Apparently, I'm an influencer now I get paid to put stuff in my videos. I'm a walking advert. Who does that in their 90s?
These kids often get in touch wanting advice, usually about relationships. Now I respond in my videos. If they want to live a long and happy life like me, I tell them: don't smoke cigarettes, love yourself and don't drink every day. It's simple.
When leaning a foreign language, most people fall back on traditional methods: reading, writing, listening and repeating. But if you also gesture(做手势) with your arms while studying, you can remember the vocabulary better, even months later. Linking a word to brain ares responsible for movement strengthens the memory of its meaning. This is the conclusion a research team reached after using magnetic pulses(磁脉冲) to disturb these areas in language learners.
As Mathias and his colleagues describe in the Journal of Neuroscience, they had 22 German-speaking adults lea a total of90 invented words (such as "lamube" for "camera "and" atesi" for" thought" )over four days. While the test subjects first heard the new vocabulary they are also shown a video of a person making a gesture that matched the meaning of the word. When the wood was repeated, the subjects performed the gesture themselves.
Five months later, they were asked to translate the vocabulary they had learned into German in a test. At the same time, they had equipment tied to their heads that sent weak magnetic pulses to their motor cortex-the brain area that controls voluntary arm movements. The researchers concluded that the motor cortex contributed (有助于) to the translation of the vocabulary learned with gestures.
The effect did not occur when the test subjects were only presented with matching picture instead of gestures when leaning vocabulary. In contrast, children-unlike adults-seem to benefit from pictures as much as gestures in the long run. In an experiment published in 2020 the Leipzig research group had young adults and eight-year-old children listen to new vocabulary for five days, sometimes paired with matching pictures or videos of gestures. After two months, the two methods were still tied. But after six months. the adults benefited more from the gestures than the pictures, while the children were helped equally by both.
In the not-too-distant future, driverless cars will drive our streets. These cars will need to make quick decisions to avoid endangering human lives-both inside and outside of the cars.
To determine attitudes toward these decisions, a group of researchers created a modem version of the classic exercise known as" the Trolley problem". They raised a series of moral dilemmas(道德困境)involving as elf-driving car with brakes(刹车) that suddenly give out Should the car change direction to avoid a group of passers-by, killing the driver? Or should it kill the people on foot but spare the driver? Does it matter if the passers by are men or women? Children or older people? Doctors or murderers?
To put these questions to a large range of people, the researchers built a website called Moral Machine, where anyone could click through the situations and say what the car should do" Help us learn how to make machines moral," a video asks on the site.
What the researchers found was a series of near universal preferences, no matter where someone was from. People everywhere believed the moral thing for the car to do was to spare the young over the old, spare humans over animals, and spare the lives of many over the few. The in findings were published Wednesday in the journal.
Researchers found that the 130 countries with more than 100respondents(调查对象) could be grouped into three groups that showed similar moral preferences. And these preference seemed to be connected with social differences. Respondents from collectivistic cultures, which" value the respect for older members of the community," showed a weaker preference for sparing younger people.
The researchers noted that the study's results should be used with extreme carefulness. and they shouldn't be considered the final word on societal preferences-especially since these respondents were much fewer than they had expected.
Choosing a major is obviously a major decision, but don't panic! If you take these things into careful consideration, you'll be sure to find just the right track for you
⒈ Is it your passion(热爱)?
Wouldn't it be better to spend that time in classes you love? The cool thing about college is that you aren't forced to spend four years leaning things you don't care about. You can tailor your curse load to fit a career path that interests you! Choose a major that makes it exciting to attend class.
⒉ Will it guarantee a career?
No matter how hard I wish, college isn't just for fun-you will walk out of here after four years with a degree in whatever major you choose. Make sure your major(s)on minor(s)will guide you toward a degree that leads you to that right career path. From this moment on you should be doing what you love and loving what you do,
⒊ Is it your idea?
It is highly unlikely that you will find happiness in a major chosen for you by somebody else or a major that is common among your friends. It does not matter if all your friends are law and society majors. if you're really passionate about computer science or elementary education, go for it!Make sure you have a clear, uninfluenced mind to make this important decision.
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You do not have to declare business management because you're frightened and that might be a safe bet Take your time completing your general education courses and getting involved on campus to figure out who you are and what interests you. Go to career fairs, network with former graduates, and talk to friends and professors to learn about the wealth of jobs beyond college. Your calling might be out there and you don't even know it yet.
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A. You can change majors. B. B. This is only your decision C. C. It is okay to be undecided! D. Is your dream job on the other side? E. Consider the amount of time you'll spend in college classes. F. Take your time figuring it out to ensure you make the right choice. G. It takes trying something for a while to determine whether or not it's right for you. |
Friday night meant a family dinner for me at home. There would be discussions and laughter. Even so, I1those moments.
Preparations for the dinner would begin2that day. As both my parents worked, sometimes I would be given instructions to3the chicken in the oven (烤箱)after school. I would repeat the4process like a cooking machine. The only5was my mother's chicken soup. Once the dinner was cooking, the table would be6. A white lace cloth, the good china, napkins. Though I failed to see am7, I had to light the candles with my mom.
Years later, my father passed away, and then my mother insisted on going to live in a care home. I seemed to be totally.8from the boring tradition, but I didn't feel9I missed the chicken soup. Although I have her recipe, I've never actually10the soup myself. I missed the warm-lighted candles. Standing together, we'd make11with our hands around the lit candles, bringing the light into our hearts.
That's why I accepted12when my husband advised to13the tradition" I can help with the soup. "If there's one thing I've14, these family traditions are really worth cherishing before they15from the chicken soup recipes to lighting candles.
Over a long time, unhealthy diets, lack of physical exercise, and perhaps stress are major causes for diseases like high blood pressure tobacco(addict) and so on. These lead to various long-term diseases such as depression and heart disease, cancers, and many(other). Internationally, these diseases(call)"Lifestyle Diseases". A lifestyle disease is linkedliving behavior of that person. Heart disease and obesity are the results of bad habits like(smoke) and alcohol abuse(酗酒). Lifestyle diseases are becoming more common nowadays. For the first time in the human history these lifestyle diseases kill more people than infectious ones.
Most likely, each person wants to live a long and happy life. So, can people start a healthy lifestyle? First, you must(clear) set your goal. Do not start the change tomorrow
Monday. You need to start from today! Naturally, you need to eat healthy food, and exclude(排除)fast food and sandwiches from your menu. Besides, it is of equal(important)to keep mental health. Do not allow pessimistic emotions( disturb) you repeatedly.
As the late afternoon sun beat down on his farm last May, Brandon Leseberg finished feeding his cows and decided to call it a day. As they often did, his two sons, Louie, 6, and Everett3 followed him. As they headed for the house, the two boys ran ahead of their father who stopped to close the gate. Louie stopped at a water tap(水龙头) above an old well Unknown to the Lesebergs, the board covering the well had, over time, grown brittle (易碎的). When Louie stepped on it, it caved in.
Brandon had just finished locking the gate when he tuned around and saw only his youngest son. Where's Louie?" he shouted. "He fell in the hole!" Everett said. Brandkon, 37, quickly realized what had happened. He ran to the well and heard Louie struggling. Without hesitation, he jumped in.
As he fell some 70 feet down the well Brandon heard Louie screaming. Somehow Brandon managed to grab onto a pipe that ran down the side of the well. He hit the cold water at th bottom of the well. He popped his head out of the water and grabbed Louie, who was panicking and trying to stay afloat(漂浮的) in the water. Brandon raised his son onto his chest as he put his own legs and back against the narrow walls for support. "All right, Dad, you can pull us out now," Louie said.
If only it were that easy. There was no way he could climb out. The pipe that he'd grabbed during his fall was too slippery(滑的)to be of any use. There was only one way out. Looking up to see Everett looking down at them from the top of the well, Brandon shouted, "Everett, you're going to have to be a big boy and save us. Run to the road and stand by the mailbox until someone stops. Tell them we need help. "
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Everett did as he was told.
The neighbours now tuned their attention to Brandon, but he was too heavy to pull ou of the well using just the rope.
