On a bitter cold Sunday morning just outside New York City, a group of women — all moms, many strangers to one another — gathered for their very first group scream.
Jessica Kline, the publisher of Macaroni KID Clifton-Montclair, organized the mom screaming event in her community. Two years of a pandemic, burdened with the stresses of childcare and school disruptions（中断）, have left many parents drained. A new CBS News poll finds nearly half of parents report feeling exhausted or frustrated.
Kline told correspondent Meg Oliver that over the last two years, she's often felt overwhelmed and isolated. When the pandemic started, she had three children under the age of six at home. "My house felt narrow; I felt like the walls were caving in on me, "she said."And I just felt like there was no place to go. "
As the women gathered and screamed on this day in Verona Park, in Verona, N. J., caved emotions poured out. They got a great sense of relief. "I love my kids dearly, but it is nice to just be able to go and be in a community of moms." One woman laughed.
Psychologist Lisa Damour, a CBS News contributor, said these screaming events can be a healthy way to express and release emotion. "It offers relief. It's important to talk about the uglier sides of parenthood, to make parents feel less alone and ashamed. "
Kline hopes this is just the beginning of mom gatherings in her community. She said, "I hope that moms walked away with a sense of self-care, even if it's just for a little bit, and a positive memory that they can bring with them after this entire chaos."
Every morning at five o'clock, composer (作曲家) Walter Werzowa would sit down at his computer waiting for a particular daily e-mail. It came from a team that had been working all night to draft Beethoven's unfinished 10th Symphony. The e-mail contained hundreds of versions, and Werzowa listened to them all, looking for the perfect tune—a sound that was unmistakably Beethoven. But the phrases he was listening to weren't composed by Beethoven. They were created by artificial intelligence.
When Ludwig van Beethoven died in 1827, he left behind some musical drafts and notes. There was barely enough to make out a phrase, let alone a whole symphony. But that didn't stop people from trying.
Werzowa and a group of music experts and computer scientists teamed up to use machine learning to create the symphony. Ahmed Elgammal led the AI side of the team. The team's first task was to teach the AI to think like Beethoven. To do that, they gave it Beethoven's complete works, his drafts and notes. They taught it Beethoven's process—like how he went from four notes to his entire Fifth Symphony. Then they taught it to compose a bridge between two sections. With all that knowledge, the AI came as close to thinking like Beethoven as possible. But it still wasn't enough. The AI doesn't really produce something that can continue for a long time and be consistent. So the team had to put the selected pieces together to build a symphony.
Matthew Guzdial researches creativity (创造力) and machine learning at the University of Alberta. He didn't work on the Beethoven project, but he says, "Modern AI, modern machine learning, is all about just copying small local patterns. And it's up to a human to then take what the AI outputs and find the genius (天资). The genius wasn't in the AI. The genius was in the human who was doing the selection."
On June 7, 1195, a fiery spinning ball emerged from a dark cloud in the sunny sky close to the London city. An account of this extraordinary moment survives in a chronicle (编年史) between about 1180 and 1199 by Gervase. It would appear that this is the first credible record of ball lightning in England, and much more convincing than the earliest European description, which was believed to be from the 17th century.
Historians discovered the account of what appears to be ball lightning while exploring Gervase's records of natural events in his chronicle, a treasure of historical details giving insights into medieval culture. They dug through hundreds of pages in Latin and came across this sighting. Gervase's records of natural events appear within the historical narrative, often with no opening statement, and the account of ball lightning is sandwiched between the events of the changing of kings at that time.
No attempt is made to explain the "marvelous sign" in the sky seen near London. Readers are left to draw their own conclusions. But Gervase appears to have been a sharp-eyed observer and reporter of celestial (天空的) activity. His fanciful description of ball lightning is remarkably similar to modern reports.
For a long time, ball lightning was regarded with skepticism. Although it is now generally accepted as a genuine phenomenon with thousands of reported sightings, there is still no accepted scientific explanation of its origin. Understanding the phenomenon has been blocked by an inability to reproduce the effect convincingly in the lab and partly because of the variations in eyewitness reports. Whatever the case, centuries later, Gervase's record makes stimulating reading for modern scientists as well as historians.
A Simple Guide to a Healthy Diet
Here are the healthy foods you should eat more and the unhealthy ones you should eat less.
Eat more nuts and seeds. They have an incredibly powerful mixture of healthy at fiber and other important nutrients(营养).. For example they have a wide range of beneficial effects on your livers and on your brain functions as you age. Regularly eating a proper amount of nuts and seeds can also help you stop weight gain.
Eat more fruits and vegetables. It should come as no surprise. And they don't have to be fresh to be healthy.. If you can get canned fruits or vegetables that don't have a lot of salt or sugar, that's fine, too.
. There's about 400% more salt in processed meat than in unprocessed one. The most obvious problem with too much salt is that it raises your blood pressure which can lead to heart attacks. But if you really love it, you can wash it off with tap water to get rid of the extra salt before it is cooked.
Stay away from sugary drinks . In particular, such sweet drinks are linked to a much higher risk of obesity(肥胖症)and heart attacks.
In short, healthy eating can be easy if you follow this simple rule:.
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A. Shy away from salty bacon and sandwich B. Reduce the consumption of processed meat C. If they don't have a lot of sugar, it would be fine D. Such nutrients are very important for your health E. If you can get frozen fruits or vegetables, that's great F. Stick to eating fresh and green while avoiding too much salt and sugar G. Liquid sugar from soda and energy drinks is the worst way to consume sugar |
China's cultural relic protection has made progress, but many problems still exist and need to be solved. China has made over 301based on the law of cultural relic protection.
China has also2four international agreements concerning cultural relic protection and investment in cultural relic protection has also3.
Statistics show that from 2000 to 2005 when China carried out its 10th FiveYear Development Plan, total investment in the field47.889 billion yuan. With financial support from government, China also started a nationwide campaign to search and5cultural relics in 2003.
China has so far included a total of 2,351 cultural relic sites and 518 intangible (无形的) cultural relics on the6of national protected items. Recovery and protection have been7on important cultural relic sites such as the Potala Palace in Tibet and the Palace Museum in Beijing.
Chinese museums have developed well in recent years. China has more than 2,300 museums that8about 150 million people annually.
However, cultural relics in China now face great9. Many historic cities have been10. Illegal trade and smuggling (走私) activities have not been forbidden, which has led to the loss of national treasures overseas.11, many important cultural relic sites have disappeared or are hard to pass on because of too much exploration and improper use. And cultural relics12by minority ethnic groups have lost their character due to the13 lifestyle of the people.
Therefore, we should keep our mind clear and take14to better protect cultural relics, and15the whole society to take part in this cause.
Some people love to read books. They can't get enough of the (print) word. Others have a big appetite for making and eating food. Well, if you are both an (enthusiasm) reader and eater, you may want to take part in an edible book festival, you can have your book and eat it, too!
In such festivals, people create projects and present to judges. There are two rules: the project must be made of food, and it must be based a book. For example, someone might make the chocolate factory from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with chocolate bars.
Sometimes, judges award prizes for the best projects like "Best Pun." A pun is a funny play on words that sound similar but have different (meaning), like tale and tail. A possible (win) for "Best Pun" might show Peter Rabbit, the character from The Tale of Peter
Rabbit, with a tail made of marshmallow fluff (棉花糖). (make) a pun, the project could be called "The Tail of Peter Rabbit", title punny enough to make the judges laugh!
Given the fun and often silly nature, it's not surprising that many of these festivals (hold) on April Fool's Day!
When I was little, I lived in a house with a beautiful garden full of all kinds of flowers, and roses were the most beautiful of them. There was nothing I enjoyed more than sitting in the garden with my mother as she read stories to me. When I was in primary school and old enough to read, I enjoyed reading stories aloud to her.
I will never forget one day when I was in the third grade. I had been picked to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had rehearsed (排练) my lines so hard with me. But no matter how easily I acted at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word disappeared from my head. Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had written a narrator's (旁白、解说员)part to the play, and asked me to change roles. Her word, kindly expressed, still hurt, especially when I saw my part go to another girl.
I didn't tell my mother what had happened when I went home after school that day. But she sensed my pain. Instead of suggesting we practice my lines, she asked if I wanted to take a walk in the garden.
It was May and roses were blossoming and, under the trees, we could also see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) in the grass, as if a painter had painted our garden with red, yellow and green. I watched my mother casually bend down by one dandelion. "I think I'm going to dig up all these weeds," she said, pulling it up by its roots. "From now on, we'll have only roses in this garden."
"But I like dandelions," I protested. "All flowers are beautiful —— even dandelions."
My mother looked at me seriously. "Yes, every flower is beautiful in its own way, isn't it?" She asked thoughtfully. I nodded, pleased that I had won her over. "And that is true of people too," she added. "Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no shame in that." Relieved that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry as I told her what had happened. She listened and smiled reassuringly.
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