Washington, D. C. Bicycle Tours
Cherry Blossom Bike Tour in Washington, D. C.
Duration: 3 hours
This small group bike tour is a fantastic way to see the world﹣famous cherry trees with beautiful flowers of Washington, D. C. Your guide will provide a history lesson about the trees and the famous monuments where they blossom. Reserve your spot before availability ﹣ and the cherry blossoms ﹣ disappear!
Washington Capital Monuments Bicycle Tour
Duration: 3 hours (4 miles)
Join a guided bike tour and view some of the most popular monuments in Washington, D. C. Explore the monuments and memorials on the National Mall as your guide shares unique facts and history at each stop. Guided tour includes bike, helmet, cookies and bottled water.
Capital City Bike Tour in Washington, D. C.
Duration: 3 hours
Morning or Afternoon, this bike tour is the perfect tour for D. C. newcomers and locals looking to experience Washington, D. C. in a healthy way with minimum effort. Knowledgeable guides will entertain you with the most interesting stories about Presidents, Congress, memorials, and parks. Comfortable bikes and a smooth tour route(路线) make cycling between the sites fun and relaxing.
Washington Capital Sites at Night Bicycle Tour
Duration: 3 hours (7 miles)
Join a small group bike tour for an evening of exploration in the heart of Washington, D C. Get up close to the monuments and memorials as you bike the sites of Capitol Hill and the National Mall. Frequent stops are made for photo taking as your guide offers unique facts and history. Tour includes bike, helmet, and bottled water. All riders are equipped with reflective vests and safety lights.
Wherever we go, we are surrounded by history. Across the globe, cultural heritage is passed down through the generations. It is in the buildings and structures around us. It is in the arts and artifacts (手工艺品) we treasure. It lives in the languages we speak and the stories we tell. But today, it is under attack as never before. Not only are the damages of time threatening our cultural heritage, but conflicts, climate change, globalization and tourism are all a heavy price. Technology is now the most essential weapon in the battle. Here's how technology is preserving our cultural heritage.
As you can imagine, creating the replicas (复制品) via crowd sourced 2 D images is extremely time-consuming. Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms (算法) are being used to do all the required sourcing, allowing millions of images to be stored in a matter of hours. AI will also make restoration and preservation of existing cultural heritage far easier and vastly superior to previous methods.
Virtual reality (VR) technology will play a leading role in preserving our cultural heritage in the coming years.
Many of the most important sites and architecture are extremely fragile. Human interaction with these locations is doing a great deal of harm. Wastes accumulate everywhere, causing enormous problems. As more cultural heritagesites and objects are digitally mapped and recorded, VR technology will increasingly become the way that people experience them. We'll all eventually be able to walk through places, look at (and touch!) artifacts and works of art without ever seeing them with our own eyes.
Finally, our cultural heritage will be preserved via technology. Efforts in research, innovation, data sharing and project work will help promote and preserve the cultural heritage of countries all across the world.
My best friend traveled to stay with our family last weekend. When she arrived, she went straight to the kitchen and, without asking, ate a spoonful of raspberry jam and some dried fruit. She wasn't being rude. I knew she would do this. We've known each other for almost 20 years. She can eat anything she wants from my kitchen. Indeed, I bought her favorite fruits and snacks at the shop that morning.
Our long weekend together was luxuriously (惬意地) simple. I was recovering from surgery and couldn't go to shopping malls. We passed the time running errands (做杂事), going to the post office and collecting dry cleaning. We drank way too many cappuccinos. But we talked. About every little detail of our lives.
There's never been a quiet moment in our friendship. We've lived in different cities for almost a decade. Reunions demand constant conversation, our personalities are matched, to be sure, and a shared history is indescribably valuable. We were competitors in high school before bonding over a bad experience. Then we discovered the many interests that we had in common. Our friendship cemented (巩固) itself quickly. We stayed companions through law school, through our first jobs and our first boyfriends. We supported each other through break-ups and breakthroughs. Ours is a friendship for the ages.
There is something special about friends who know everyone and everything about you. They are rare. These are the people you've chosen to witness your life. They have seen the bright lights of achievement, the depths of despair and the boring routine (平淡乏味) of the in-between.
It's special to unpack feelings and frustrations without wasting time filling in the blanks. As my long weekend shows, with such friends we don't have to "do", we simply have to "be". We drop the act, the performance, the public version of ourselves.
The special friendships are those which never fail to delight, the continuation of which is worth the extra effort, despite distance and difference sneaking (溜进) into your separate lives. I had the very great joy of this reminder last weekend. I'm lucky to have found this friend, to see a future where her companionship remains. Being together is perfection.
Imagine your smartphone's screen gets broken, or your favourite boots get a hole in them. What do you do? You could buy a replacement. Or you could join the worldwide trend of taking your broken stuff to a "repair café".
The Bower Reuse and Repair Centre has just launched Australia's first repair café, in Sydney's inner west. The crowd-funded project will hold weekly repair sessions focusing on bikes, furniture and electrical items.
The first repair café was set up in Amsterdam in 2009, and the Repair Cafe Foundation says there are now more than 400 around the world. A repair café is a free face-to-face meeting of skilled volunteers and local residents who want things fixed. Visitors bring broken items from home and watch, learn or help as the repairs get done. Some things are fixed during the event, while for more challenging items people might be referred to local speciality repair shops.
Last year, according to the ABS, Australians sent more than half a million tons of leather to landfill—more than ten times the amount that was reused or recycled. Mending represents an attempt to resist the throwaway culture. Repair cafés get people talking and give them the chance to network and learn about the local resources available. And, perhaps most surprisingly for anyone who considers mending to be some kind of drudgery, repair cafés can be fun and creative.
"In a circular economy, repair cafés fit right in", says the organiser Martine Postma. In rejecting buy-use-throw, the circular economy aims to keep resources moving around in the economy, rather than moving them through it to a dead end, where they cannot be put into valuable use.
It might be quicker and easier to throw stuff in the bin, but it's more expensive and less fun too.
The direction of our lives is determined by the choices we make every day..
Choose to break a bad habit
your friends and family can always tell you. Then make every effort to break them and always replace them with new positive ones.
Choose to work smarter
Many people feel like their lives are out of balance and that they don't have enough time to do everything they want to. First of all, you need to be aware of the time that you might be wasting by doing activities that are not creating results. , such as setting up a schedule and sticking to it, will make your life flow better.
Choose to give your work a sense of purpose
Helping and encouraging other people will not only make your life be more meaningful, but it will also make you more money. If you put your heart and your efforts into helping others, then the financial part of life takes care of itself.
There are many takers in this world, but our lives will be better as we become givers and serve the world as givers. You want to learn to become unselfish with yourself and learn to give your time, your money, and of course, your love.
A. Spend your time helping others grow and your finances will grow with it
B. Therefore, learning some good time management techniques
C. To work with purposes is a good choice
D. If you don't know what your bad habits are
E. The following choices will contribute to personal success
F. Choose to sow more than you harvest
G. Choose to form good habits
Every year about 40, 000 people attempt to climb Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. They 1 with them lots of waste. The 2 might damage the beauty of the place. The glaciers (冰川) are disappearing, changing the 3 of Kilimanjaro.
Hearing these stories, I'm 4 about the place—other destinations are described as "purer" natural experiences.
However, I soon 5 that much has changed since the days of disturbing reports of 6 among tons of rubbish. I find a 7 mountain, with toilets at camps and along the paths. The environmental challenges are 8 but the efforts made by the Tanzania National Park Authority seem to be 9.
The best of a Kilimanjaro 10, in my opinion, isn't reaching the top. Mountains are 11 as spiritual places by many cultures. This 12 is especially evident on Kilimanjaro as 13 go through five ecosystems (生态系统) in the space of a few kilometers. At the base is a rainforest. It ends abruptly at 3, 000 meters, 14 lands of low growing plants. Further up, the weather 15—low clouds envelope the mountainsides, which are covered with thick grass. I 16 twelve shades of green from where I stand. Above 4, 000 meters is the highland 17: gravel (砾石), stones and rocks. 18 you climb into an arctic-like zone with 19 snow and the glaciers that may soon disappear.
Does Kilimanjaro 20 its reputation as a crowded mountain with lines of tourists ruining the atmosphere of peace? I found the opposite to be true.
According to a new report by IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), the deadly heat waves, floodsdroughts are disturbing the(life) of thousands of people from the American West to southern Europe and central China. And they will be likely only to get(bad) as global temperatures continue to rise. "So far, all regions of the world(affect) by some extremes," says Sonia Seneviratne, an environmental(science). "We can link extreme weather to climate change in same way we can link cancer to smoking, " says Friederike Otto, one of the report's authors. And, like smoking, the damage is hard(disappear), Otto says. The most important thing, experts say, is to make sure these events don't grow even more common and intensethey are now. "I feel(strong) that the public needs to know that dangerous climate change is here and now, " says Michael Wehner, an extreme weather researcher. To limit global warming to just 2℃, Wehner says, "It's my feeling that we would have to do something rather extreme." Something extreme, he adds, means completely(get) rid of consumption of coal, oil, and natural gas.
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Last week, I take part in the Cultural Exchange Week but enjoyed myself in England. I visited the city museum and several place of interest, which made me have better understanding of the English society, culture and history.
What's more, I was luckily enough to meet my pen friend Tom there. I stayed at his home. And I'll never forget the days when we spent together. When I left England, he offered to me a dictionary as a gift. It's of great help for me to learning English. I will make full use of them and learn English well.
I hope Tom will come to China when it's convenience for him!
