Four Hotels That Will Make Your Life Easier
Marriott Detroit Airport
It' s such an ideal option for business travelers in a hurry. Here is the basic idea: You download the iPhone or Android app. The night before, you can " check-in" virtually. When you arrive you get a message that the room is ready and your key, which is already tied to your reservation, is waiting for you at the desk.
Yotel New York
The self-service kiosks(一体机) at this high-tech New York hotel are open 24x7 and work just like the ones you' d see at an airport. There are just five-steps to register and obtain your room card. There' s even a luggage robot. You tap in the number of bags you' re carrying, then wait for a robot arm to swing down and store your luggage in a locker.
Hyatt Regency Minneapolis
Business travelers like the fast kiosk check-in works. Like the Yotel, the kiosk asks you to put in your credit card. The whole process takes about three minutes. When travelers leave, they can be equally impressed with the fast check-out. You never have to wait in line.
Radisson LaCrosse
The Radisson is trying to make the kiosk process even faster, you use a mobile app to register and then receive a password by email or text. When you get to the kiosk, you can scan the password to get your key without any other steps required. It' s incredibly fast.
As a child, Liu Wenwen didn' t like the suona, a " loud" traditional Chinese musical instrument, also an ancestral treasure of her family that was to become her career.
Liu says she felt ashamed. In the 1990s, people admired things that were modern and international. The suona was considered out of date. Her father' s family has performed with the suona for seven generations, while the tradition on her mother' s side of the family can be traced back to the early Qing Dynasty, Despite her unwillingness, she followed her parents to play the suona as early as 3 years old. Besides it, Liu has also learned traditional Chinese vocal music and dancing - skills that have improved her oral muscles and sense of rhyme, helping equip her to be a professional musician.
It wasn' t until 2008 that she first found suona music beautiful. That was when she entered the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to learn the instrument more systematically from Liu Ying, a professor and top player. " The music played by the professor is just amazing, and different from what I had heard before," she says.
She loves exchanging ideas about suona playing techniques with her students. " It' s wonderful to see the younger generation carrying on this cultural tradition. " Liu Wenwen said she is pleased to see the suona regain popularity among young people, sometimes combined with jarz, opera and other art foms. This has stopped its decline in the 1990s. Her name, when mentioned on China' s social media platforms, often is followed by a video of her live performance at a concert in Sydney, Australia. Westerners were amazed by the loud, unfamiliar instrument and its colorful music. " I felt my hard work had paid off. I trained for over 20 years, probably just to win cheers and applause for traditional Chinese music on the international stage" .
Antony Aumann, a religious studies and philosophy professor at Northern Michigan University told Insider he had caught his student submitting essays written by the Al chatbot, and Aumann had his student rewrite the essay.
It' s not just his struggling with the rise of Al chatbots like ChatGPT. As a result of these tools becoming accessible to anybody with an Internet connection, education departments across the entire country are adjusting work process and redesigning entire courses, according to the NYT, forcing students to submit handwritten essays or introducing oral exams. The New York City and Seattle public school systems have already banned ChatGPT on their own networks and devices. " I think the consideration behind the ban is reasonable," Aumann said. " They want to make sure that their students are learning the critical thinking skills that ate part of learning how to write. "
But universities aren' t likely to follow the ban. After all, going around these restrictions is quite easy. Even tools designed to assist teachers in catching students secretly making use of Al tools like ChatGPT will probably be of little use, because students can change a few words from what ChatGPT produced, add some grammatical mistakes on purpose, and the detectors no longer think it' s written by a chatbot.
Besides, some professors including Aumann argued that the cat is already out of the bag. Once students are captured by ChatGPT' s convenience and efficiency, it' d be pointless to fight ChatGPT in the classroom.
Instead of absolute prohibition, Aumann suggested encouraging their students to react to ChatGPT in the same way they react to learning source - they will be asked to evaluate its reasons and arguments.
Florida wildlife officials say manatees(海牛)facing starvation are benefitting from a program that feeds them on tons of donated lettuce (生菜). The program aims to save as many of the large animals as possible as water pollution has led to shortages of their favorite food, seagrass.
The effort has provided the manatees with more than 25 tons of lettuce. The feedings usually draw about 300 to 350 manatees per day. Sometimes, there are as many as 800 manatees, Normally, wildlife experts advise against people feeding wild animals. This is because it can lead the animals to make an unhealthy connection between humans and food. It is a crime in Florida for a person to feed manatees on their own, even though officials say many people want to do so. Experts believe the best way people can help is to donate money through an official institution (机构).
In 2021, 1101 manatee deaths were reported, largely from starvation. The normal five-year average is about 625 deaths. State wildlife officials say that so far this year, 164 manatee deaths have been recorded. Tom Reinert, the local director of state' s Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, said the feeding program has helped to educe the rising death rates. (Officials estimate there are about 8800 manatees in Florida waters. That is a big improvement from about 2000 that existed in the 1990s. The increased numbers were responsible for manatees being removed from the endangered species list.
The most important element for supporting the remaining population will be restoring seagrass beds. So far, Florida has set aside 88 million to deal with that problem. " You can' t just go out and plant a bunch of seagrass," Reinert said. But he added, " Projects are getting started and are in the planning stages.
Are you someone who easily gets tired and doesn' t feel like doing anything? Do you label this kind of behavior as mere laziness?
Feel disconnected from everything.
People experiencing exhaustion most commonly don' t feel like themselves anymore, don' t feel engaged by anything and constantly struggle with the sense of helplessness and inability to take back control of their lives.
Used to be motivated and passionate.
A clear difference between someone who' s worn out and someone who' s lazy is that the tired people used to have things they were passionate about. And even hate doing anything because of how much they overworked themselves.
Become moody and annoyed.
Do you suddenly find yourself easily angry? If you start to have trouble controlling your emotions, especially when it never used to be a problem for you, this might be the reason why.
One of the warning signs is that you start neglecting your self-care and socially keep away from others. You stop making an effort to dress up yourself or look good and you tend to spend most of your time by yourself doing nothing.
Changes happen gradually.
Studies show that exhaustion develops in five major stages, according to degrees of severity. The honeymoon phase, the onset of stress, chronic stress, exhaustion and habitual exhaustion. By the time you reach the final stage, exhaustion will make you suffer from depression and anxiety.
A. lgnore your self-care.
B. Focus on warning signs.
C. Do you often feel emotionally out of control?
D. So it' s important to raise awareness about exhaustion.
E. But the lazy people don' t ever devote themselves to things.
F. However, they may now be struggling to find interest in anything.
G. Here are five signs to show you' re experiencing exhaustion rather than lariness.
Life is full of ups and downs. You must understand that you will sometimes1 in things and it is okay when that happens.
From being a kid to transitioning(转变) into a(n)2 adult, you will fail in many things in life but that will only3 you more about yourself. You will get to learm about your true4 . The things you are good at, and the things that you are bad at.
In my early years at school, I had5 with some subjects and I used to get really bad grades. Sometimes I would get an F and that would make me really6 . I used to think: " What will I show my parents?" So what I used to do was7 those grades, I would turn the F into a B just to8 my parents, and eventually, I was caught doing that, I realized a lot after that. I knew that I had to accept that failure and9 it. Then with series of trials, something10 actually came from it. I started doing better with my grades. That F turned into a B11 and that B turned into an A.
Whenever you face a failure,12 think that you are not going to recover from this, you must think of13 to better yourself. Did you know that it took Thomas Edison 10,000 attempts to14 the light bulb? This is the15 that we must learn from our failures, not run from them!
Demand on tourism burst as the Minsu market' s recovery sped up during the May Day holiday. Oceans of tourists flooded into Zibo in China' s Shandong Province for its BBQ. drove its Minsu market to boom. According to the online booking site Tujia, Minsu' s average room price remained lower than the national average level, but (it) booking number increased three times in Shandong Province during the May Day vacation.
(base) on Tujia statistics, other cities in Shandong Province also showed remarkable performances on Minsu bookings. Qingdao and Weihai were among China' s Top ten tourism destinations. former even surpassed (超过) Chenglu and Chongqing for the first time to take the number one spot. (additional), the booking numbers in Yantai, Jinan, Rizhao and Tai' an of Shandong Province also (see) a good performance.
The Minsu in rural areas still gain(popular), with the booking number (account) for nearly 40% of the total, according to Tujia.
Among customers booking the Minsu in rural areas, the " post-80" and " post-90" generations are still the mainstream, The (hot ) types of accommodations are lofts, inns, and single-family villas. Besides, fruit and vegetable picking, DIY activities, and food-tasting events are the top choices holiday activities.
In high school, I was an editor of the school newspaper at the student union. And I won two national awards. I' ve been so focused on my dream of being a magazine editor that I' ve never wasted my time being fake-friendly to people -I was too busy for that. I almost didn' t socialize much in school, which meant I almost didn' t have any real friends in school. Unexpectedly, that annoyed a lot of people out of my expectation, so they began to talk about me behind my back. The gossip(流言蝵语)never bothered me since I was so into my goals and had no time to care much. But then I appeared on TV, and things changed.
When the show first broadcast last May, I received dozens of mean posts about me on the media sites, calling me " crazy" , and even some dirty words were used. Worse still, some strangers shot their fingers at me. How could they say such terrible words to me when they' d never met me? I still tried to focus on my work and told myself not to care about this, but that didn' t stop their comments from streaming in. Every day, mess messages continued to come in and it seemed no sign of end.
When I walked into class on a Monday morning, some girls actually pointed and whispered that I broke down the TV program. I wish I could have faced all negative things calmly or even ignore the gossip, but I couldn' t. Each time I went out of or into the classroom, there would be people I knew or total strangers, staring at me or whispering only adding to my sense of shame, and I just wasn' t able to shake any of it off. All the negative attention started to overwhelm me physically and mentally.
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Soon after, all the negative words started to destroy me.
I saw a quote in the journal. " Once you choose your way of life, be brave to stick it out and never return. "
