Here are the best hotels in Auckland. from sea view nightclubs to urban art escapes.
So Auckland
The hotel, which feels part- exhibition, part nightclub, sets itself apart from other chains in downtown Auckland. Running paths are laid out on the in room screens to help you see the best of Auckland. It is especially impressive to take in views of the high rises along the Waitemata Seaport from the 16th four cocktail bar at the hotel.
Rooms: From NZ$ 398, room only.
Parohe Island Retreat
Thickly forested Kawau Island lies just beyond the urban orbit. At the remotest end of the seaport around which the island wraps itself, Parohe provides yoga platforms and outdoor baths for guests to relax. It also has a schedule of activities encouraging guests to connect with land and sea, including volleyball and fishing.
Rooms: From NZ$ 650. room only.
Emerald Inn
Across the harbour from downtown Auckland, this hotel is ideal for multi-generational trips. There are enough local activities for families to spend a week here, from the Sunday beachside market to Lake Pupuke. a freshwater flledl volcanic crater(坑) where you can try boating or windsurfing.
Rooms: From NZ$ 235. room only.
Hotel Britomart
The newest arrival on this list is Hotel Britomart, an understated hotel among the high-rises. It is the only hotel on this list to gain a 5 Green Star award for sustainability. The location makes it popular among both holidaymakers and locals. Who happily fill the tables of its superb fish restaurant. Kingi. Local food is so championed that the menu names those responsible for each catch.
Rooms: From NZ$ 377. room only.
From its origins in the California hills in the US to its acceptance on urban streets worldwide, the history of skateboarding spans(跨越) seven decades over which it has developed from an unwelcome sport to an Olympic event in 2020. Now a London exhibition is to show the path from those humble homemade boards of the 1950s to today's hi-tech professional modes.
The exhibition will feature about 90 rare and unique boards along with more than 100 other related objects, including safety equipment and magazines. Half of the skateboards will be on loan from the Skateboarding Hall of Fame Museum in California. A highlight will be a 1967 Bilbo board produced by European Surfing Company, which was set up at Newquay in Cornwall in southwestern England in 1965 and marketed the first skateboards in the UK.
Also on display will be the famous skateboarder Tony Hawk's first professional model, from 1982. with its adaptations for the vent style of skateboarding which uses vertical ramps (垂直坡面) rather than level ground; early homemade boards from 1950s California modeled on the design of roller-skates and surfboards; and the first two models to feature a kick tail-the raised tail enabling skaters to turn or balance the board on the back wheels.
It will also feature Laura Thorn hill's Logan Earth Ski from the 1970s, the first women's professional model. Sky Brown. who at 13 won bronze for Team Great Britain at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, is represented through her first professional model, the Sky Brown&. Skateistan Almost model.
"Skateboards, often misunderstood as being just toys are now hi-tech products responding to constantly changing urban environments," said Jonathan Olivares, the show's director. "This exertion is centenred around a single question; how did the skateboard get to be the way it is? This exhibition takes you on a journey through time, design and space-positioning the skateboard as a truly unique object."
Even before the Internet brought unlimited consumer options direly into our homes, choice had long been seen as the driving force of capitalism(资本主义). The possibility of consumers to choose between competing providers of products and services decides which businesses will grow rapidly and which will bite the dust. The competitive environment caused by consumers' free choice supposedly drives innovation and efficiency, delivering a better overall consumer experience.
However recent experiments on consumer behaviour have suggested that too many options can lead to a range of anxieties in consumers一from the fear of missing out(FOMO) on a better opportunity, to the loss of pleasure in a chosen activity( thinking "why am I doing this when I could have been doing something else?") and regret from choosing poorly. The raised expectations presented by a broad range of choices can lead some consumers to feel ill-informed and indecisive when making a purchasing decision.
Fortunately, randomness offers us a simple way to overcome the choice related anxieties.
When feed with a multitude of choices, many of which you would be happy to accept, throwing a coin may be the better option. This "randomized" strategy can help us to focus on our true preference and sometimes making a quick good choice is better than making a slow perfect one, or indeed making no decision at all.
I's important to remember that you are not required to flow the randomized decision blindly. The suggested choice is just designed to put you in the position of having to seriously consider accepting the specified option, but doesn't force your hand one way or the other.
For those of us who struggle to make decisions, it's comforting to know that when struggling with a selection, we can get out a coin and allow it to help. Even if we resolve to reject the outcome, being forced to see both sides of the argument can often kick start or speed up our decision making process.
At this point, a new live stage show, The Music Critic is touring across the US. In the show. John Malkovich transforms into the sharpest critics of the greatest classical musicians in history and reads their comments aloud as the music critics in his unusual voice.
For example, Frederic Chopin was once criticized by pianist Hyung ki Joo. "Mr. Chopin has, by some means or the other which we cannot understand. Obtained an enormous reputation too often refused to composers who possess several times his genius. Mr. Chopin is by no means a composer of the ordinary. He is worse," Malkovich comments as the eristic.
In the show. even Beethoven got a very bad review from the wonderful composer
Tchaikovsky." He first ills the soul with sweet sadness, and then destroys it by a mass of messy notes." Malkovich reads.
The Music Critic is part concert, part theater. Malkovich says that the similarities between them are part of the draw for him.
"I always say they are like surfing because we just paddle(划) out on our little boards.
We turn our back to the sun and wait for a wave. We're not the wave, which most of us think we are, but we are really not the wave," Malkovich emphasizes. "The wave is created by the collision(碰撞) between the material and the audience. We ride the wave or we don't.
For sure, it is fun to criticize anyone, However, there's something more at the heart of The Music Critic- and there's a lesson for all of us. Everyone will be at the receiving end of bad reviews at some point. As Malkovich points out: If Beethoven and Chopin got dismissed, you will too.
"I think of it as an inspirational picce for people in the creative industry to keep going," Malkovich says." You know, face all the criticism, enjoy it, and have fun with it because you're going to get it. There's no one who's going to be spared."
It's no secret that we all want to be liked and respected. . Here we will go through a list of bad habits that can make people think twice about you.
Being polite with some people but not others
You might not be aware of this, but when you're talking with someone who is clearly less important than another person in the room, it shows. You may be using fewer. words with that person or speaking in a colder tone. . If you want to be more likable. It's important to be equally polite to everyone.
Being too dramatic
Are you the kind of person who tends to be dramatic? If so, I've got some bad news for you. . Not, only does this behavior create a negative atmosphere. It also makes it difficult for others to take you seriously.
Of course, you don't have to be as cool as a cucumber(黄瓜) all the time, but try not to be too dramatic. .
Telling inappropriate stories or jokes.
This bad habit can create an uncomfortable atmosphere. It makes people feel like they are not respected and can even lead to hurt feelings or social tension. . The key is to consider the situation and the relationship between you and the person you're talking to.
A. This means respecting people's physical and emotional space
B. Making assumptions can lead to false accusations and judgments
C. This is a sign of disrespect and may hurt the less important people's feelings
D. Recognize that there are times when it's best to just let things go and move on
E But you may not realize some of the things you do may make people dislike you
F. People can tell when you try to make everything a big deal and they don' like it
G. Remember that what may be funny to one person may be unacceptable to another
For a few moments the tourists thought they were about to witness something terrible.1 they had a once in a lifetime opportunity to watch a whale baby emerge into the world.
2 into the blue waters just off the coast of Dana Point, California, people on a small boat spotted an adult whale swimming around. Then a pool of something3 appeared to spread.
"Many of us thought it may be a shark tack. But it was not. Instead of the4 of life, it was the beginning of a new one!" one of them wrote online. "This is a5 for all of us. We've never seen it happen before. "
"The fact that you can see the blood means the6 must have just come out. It isn't something that is seen or7 very often. In fact, I don't know if there're any other videos like that. They are extraordinarily 8 ." said Schulman Janiger, a biologist."I 9 that I were there. "
Schulman Janiger admitted she'd never10 an actual birth. About nine years ago. She was just11 enough to spot a newborn whale less than an hour old.
"Whales are born with soft fins(鰭) that take about 24 hours to become12 . Until then they can't really swim and the mothers have to13 their babies so they can rest and breathe," she continued. "Animals on land smell each other. But animals in14 can't smell. So their skin is very sensitive. That's why we can see the baby whale and its mother touch their faces15 in the posted videos. "
On Tuesday. Baidu. a Chinese search engine and artificial intelligence firm, released a new version of its artificial intelligence model. Ernie 4. 0. Baidu's CEO. Robin Li. demonstrated it at the (company) annual Baidu World conference in Beijing, said the model was able to understand complex questions and instructions and employ reasoning and logie (create) answers to questions.
In a live demonstration. L asked Ernie 4. 0 to generate advertising (material) in duding posters and a marketing video. He also asked Ernie 4. 0 to come up with a novel complete with characters with (variety) personalities.
Li said that technology can transform how certain products work. Baidu's search engine can generate a customized answer to a query(查询) instead of just ( provide)a list of results and links.
Beijing-based Baidu started off as a search engine firm and over the past decade has invested (heavy) in artificial intelligence technology such as autonomous driving more recently, generative AI to stay competitive.
At present. Ernie 4.0 (be) not yet available to the general public, but some people have been invited to try it.
My sister Tina and I are very different. I'm a just simple minded girl, at least in her eyes, while she is literally the symbol of perfection. When I was young I wanted to be like her. If she wore her hair in a new style one day, 1 would do the same with mine the following day. I always tried to follow her and her friends around and begged to be included, but her life didn't really have much space for a bothersome two year younger sister. Over time. My admiration for her had turned into indifference. Living in the same apartment as strangers. We barely spoke to each other.
I even felt relieved in secret when she informed me this year that she would be spending eight months studying abroad. I assumed I'd use her video player and wear the dresses she left behind. That was the only way 1 thought her leaving would affect me.
I sat in my room that first evening after she departed and tried to concentrate on my homework. However. I couldn't get rid of the feeling that something was wrong, or something was missing. I looked around the apartment and everything was the same. But it was so silent that I could hear my own breathing. 1 went to Tina's room. Both her video player and her talk on the phone with her friends were absent. When 1 sat down on her bed. I became sharply aware of how different my life was without her. Even though we didn't always talk. Just having her there made me feel secure.
Sitting there. I looked back at the wasted years and regretted trying to live my own life and overlooking hers. I felt particularly bad because I had not even given her a hug before she boarded her plane, and that made my heart ache.
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As the night went on. 1 decided to do something to make it up.
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For a long time there was nothing but silence on the other end of the line.
