You've got the perfect Halloween costume picked out, but here's the real question: Where are you—or your kid—going to wear it? Here are some of the best.
Silver Spring Zombie Walk
The undead return to Silver Spring, looking for brains—and the 11:15 p.m. screening of "night of the Living dead" at the AFi Silver. One of the region's biggest (and most enjoyable) spooky season gatherings finds hundreds of costumed zombies wandering the streets. Everyone—adults and families alike—gathers at the Quarry House tavern at 7 p.m. before shuffling（移动） over to Ellsworth drive by 9 p.m., then over to the theater. There's no charge to participate, and topical outfits are welcome (the gorier the better).
Halloweeniversary at Baby Cat Brewery
If you've been to Kensington's Babycat Brewery, you know that kids are welcome—and, on some weekend afternoons, seem to outnumber the adults. Fans of all ages are welcome to celebrate the brewery's first year in business, with costumes "strongly encouraged." Younger ones can be amazed at the Kensington Volunteer Fire department's firetruck, which will be on-site from noon to 3 p.m., while older folks will appreciate live music from 3 to 9 p.m. Look for special beer releases to go with the pop-up food from Steezeburger—our No.1 burger in the D. C. area—plus o' Boy pizza and neighbors the dish and dram.
Halloweekend at the Perch
It's a day of two parts at the perch, the park located 11 stories above McLean. From noon to 4 p.m., a family party includes "spooky golf" at the Perch Putt mini-golf course, bounce houses, pumpkin decorating and face painting, and costume and pie-eating contests. From 4 p.m. on, the party is for 21 and older, with live music from the cover band "Lights Out". By 8, beers from the Starr Hill Biergarten, a costume contest and more fun.
In 2009 in a small town, Todd Bol came up with an idea to share his mother's love of reading with others. Bol's mother was a teacher who loved reading. He decided to build a wooden box and fill it with books. Bol placed the box of books on a post in his front yard with a sign that read "Free Books". Soon his neighbours noticed this tiny model of a "schoolhouse". They began taking the books and replacing them with books of their own. The tiny library allowed people the opportunity to "check out" books day or night.
Bol's friends and neighbours wanted little libraries of their own. Bol built several and gave them away. One of his friends, Rick, believed that Bol's little libraries could benefit more than just local friends and neighbours. With these ideas in mind, Bol and Rick came up with a plan to build over 2,500 Little Free Libraries around the world. They believed that books should be available to all people, no matter where they live or what their background is. To help achieve their goal, Bol and Rick created a website that provides information about the Little Free Libraries and how people can establish little libraries of their own.
Thanks to Bol and Rick, the Little Free Libraries are encouraging people to read more. They didn't just provide books. They also helped build friendship and a sense of belonging among community members. As more and more people visited Bol's little library, they began talking with one another. They shared thoughts, ideas, and stories. They got to know one another. Everyone loved the little library. After all, as Bol says, "It's a magic box with books. People tell us all the time that they've met more people in a week than they have in a lifetime."
Today there are more than 25,000 Little Free Libraries around the world, and they can be found on almost every continent.
Human innovation has allowed people to explore space for decades. Within a space station, astronauts have enough air, food and water to complete missions of a year or longer without a resupply. But missions to further reaches of space are a different matter. Establishing a base on the moon or sending humans to Mars seems just on the horizon. That can only happen if innovative and foolproof（万无一失的） ways are developed to supply humans with enough air, water and food.
One company, Interstellar Labs, has developed an advanced, closed loop system that can grow plants anywhere, even in space. They call their AI managed greenhouses BioPods and they are designed to be very efficient. In fact, Interstellar Labs claims that BioPods reduce the amount of land and water needed to produce food by 99 percent. That is not an impossible claim. BioPods don't use any soil to grow plants, and the vast majority of water is recycled and recalculated.
Plants are grown inside BioPods using aeroponics, the practice of hanging plants in the air and spraying a mist of nutrient-rich water on their roots. By using aeroponics, the BioPod system carefully conserves water with amazing results. According to Interstellar labs, BioPod-grow n plants are up to 300 times more productive than traditionally grown plants, using only a small amount of water.
The conditions inside of a BioPod are controlled by AI, which can change anything from the lighting to the temperature and humidity to maximize growth. This optimizes（使最优化） growing conditions no matter what the environment is outside, including the emptiness of space.
The BioPods themselves can be built in almost any environment, too. The pod's structure is made with a 3Dprinter using raw materials in liquid form. The inside part is sealed with an inflatable membrane（充气膜） that is also 3D-printed. This means that a BioPod could be built right on the surface of the moon or Mars, making transporting a large structure unnecessary.
Like most technology developed for space exploration, BioPods can also be used on Earth to provide highly efficient food production systems even in the harshest environments.
After almost an entire year of not going shopping and vacationing, you find the numbers reflected by your bank account meet your heart's desire.
Now the most important question comes, what to do with the earnings? Should you fulfill dreams of the present, invest in preserving the future or perhaps keep saving it for a rainy day?
Our elders always try to teach us the value of money and its moral weakness. One may be on a winning streak（连续成功） now, but it will not always be so. One will have days when there will be no sunshine but only rain and their luck will hide behind those thick grey clouds. Save for those rainy days, they say. Do not spend too much, live within a budget, refrain from credit no matter how small and save for the future.
Since the very first time we earn our own money from a summer job, the lessons start. In fact, the pocket money that we receive when we are children begins the process of learning how to best manage one's money.
People often think like this-one day when I have enough money, I will travel around the world. Then, once we do earn enough money, tomorrow's plans start shadowing our present ones. However, is it wise to keep living for that future? Will we still enjoy or even be able to backpack in our 50s? How will we ever enjoy our present if we are constantly living for the future?
Good questions, aren't they? I say travel but don't let yourself run dry, treat yourself to some luxuries but also keep enough for your necessities, and enjoy your present but with a plan for the foreseeable future. Life is for the living. So live it sensibly.
Within weeks of chatbots' launch, ChatGPT triggered a new global race in artificial intelligence. The chatbots are part of a fresh wave of so-called generative AI—sophisticated systems that produce content from texts to images. However, one key lesson concerning AI chatbots is to lower our expectations.
Don't use chatbots for factual answers
Google and Wikipedia aren't perfect, but they're good enough for reliable factual information most of the time. That average might be correct or surprisingly wrong. And if the chatbot doesn't know the answer, it might invent a reasonable-sounding answer.
When you are planning a birthday party, you can type into ChatGPT for help with the invitation. AI had sucked up a bunch of children's party invitations from the internet. You can have a glimpse at what all those party-throwing parents had done before.
Do know what chatbots are best at
Chatbots can be amazing at explaining complicated topics like cryptocurrencyn（加密电子货币） as though you're 5 years old. To understand this strength, it helps to know that the software has been fed files from Reddit, including a forum called "Explain Like I'm Five." That makes ChatGPT good at personalized recipe planning. Again, you should treat ChatGPT less as a reliable cookbook and more as a meal-planning brainstorming partner.
Don't get frustrated and give up
The five minutes of travel planning with ChatGPT could have popped up some ideas for you to research further.
A. Don't ask a chatbot once and stop.
B. Do use chatbots to help you brainstorm.
C. Similarly, there are loads of recipes on the internet.
D. ChatGPT can suggest loads of ideas that you can run with.
E. ChatGPT is less like a Magic Ball and more like a brainstorming partner.
F. While chatbots are far from perfect, they are worth an investment of your time.
G. AI chatbots give you the average response from information the software has absorbed.
Jeffrey is a millionaire. Years ago, after returning from abroad, he 1 his small company. Speaking of success, Jeffrey often tells about his extra expensive "school" fee, which he always 2 his success to.
After getting a Ph. D. degree, Jeffrey decided to return to the homeland, starting a company. Before leaving, he bought a Rolex watch with the 3 earned through years of work. At the airport he had to accept the 4 customs check. The watch on his wrist was also demanded to be taken down for 5 . Jeffrey knew that carrying the specific goods out had to pay the tax, and he worried about paying it for his watch. So when he was checked, he told a lie that his watch was a 6 fake（假货）. When he was 7 of his "smarts", immediately, in the presence of Jeffrey, the officers 8 the watch, which cost nearly 100,000, into pieces on hearing Jeffrey's words. Jeffrey was 9 . Before he understood why, he was taken to the office to be examined 10 . The officers looked over everything carefully in the box, and 11 him that he must accept the check and if found carrying fake goods, he would be 12 according to law! Suddenly, his face turned red, and he had nothing in mind after 13 the plane for long.
The additional high "school" fee that he had ever paid made him realize the value of 14 , which he would remember as the 15 of his success forever.
The Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi Province, UNESCO World Heritage Site, have 45major caves and more than 59,000 Buddha statues, with a grotto complex about 1 km long from east to west.
(current), a giant 3D printing reproduction of Cave No.3 at the Yungang Grottoes is display at the Yungang Grottoes Art Museum in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province. This is the first time in the world that 3D printing technology (use) to reproduce such a large-scale cultural relic.
The identical reproduction strictly matches the (appear) and scale of the original. The copy of the cave measures 17.9 meters tall by 13.6 meters wide, while the main Buddha stands at 9.93 meters tall.
During the replication process, 3D technicians first (collect) some 10, 000 images of the cave and the Buddha to build up a digital model, was then divided into 842 parts to be printed with multiple 3D printers. The final installation（安装） and coloring stages took the team three months (complete).
The reproduction not only allows people to get much (close) to the precious heritage items without damaging the original objects, but also helps to enhance the research, documentation, digitalization and preservation of the (relic) themselves.
From the first day he entered my classroom, Henry existed in his own world, shutting out his classmates and me. My attempts at building a friendly relationship with him were met with complete indifference. I could see that his classmates fared no better. Henry was strictly a loner who seemed to have no desire or need to break his silence.
Shortly after the Thanksgiving holiday, we received word of the annual Christmas collection of money for the less fortunate people in our school district.
"Christmas is a season of giving." I told my students, "There are a few students in the school who might not have a happy holiday season. To make donations to our Christmas collection, you can buy food, clothing and toys for these people in need. We will start the collection tomorrow."
When I called for the donations the next day, I discovered that almost everyone had forgotten except Henry. The boy dug deep into his pants pockets when he walked slowly to my desk. Carefully, he dropped two coins into the small container.
"I don't need milk for lunch." He mumbled（含糊地说话）. For a moment, just a moment, he smiled. Then he turned and walked back to his desk.
That night, after school, I took our few donations to the school principal（校长）. I couldn't help sharing the story that had taken place in my class.
"I may be wrong, but I believe Henry might be getting ready to become a part of the world around him," I told the principal.
"Yes," he nodded. "And we might do well to have him share a bit of his world with us. I just received a list of the poor families in our school who need help the most through the Christmas collection. Here, take a look at it."
As I gazed down to read, I discovered Henry and his family were the top names on the list. Seeing this, I decided to do something for him.
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On that Sunday, I paid a visit to Henry's family.
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The next day, I had a special class for Henry.
