Attractions in Wisconsin
Wisconsin Historical Museum 30 N. Carroll Street on Madison's Capitol Square
Discover Wisconsin's history and culture on four floors of exhibits. Open for public program. Admission is free.
Open Tuesday through Saturday, 9:00 am -- 4:00 pm. (608) 264-6555 www.wisconsinhistory.org/museum
Swiss historical village 612 Seventh Ave., New Glarus
The Swiss Historical Village offers a delightful look at pioneer life in America's heartland. 14 buildings in the village give a full picture of everyday life in the nineteenth-century Midwest.
Tue.—Fri., May 1st —October 31st , 10:00 am—4:00 pm. Admission is $20. (608) 527-2317 www.swisshistoricalvillage.com
Artisan Gallery & Creamery Café 6858 Paoli Rd., Paoli, WI
One of the largest collections of fine arts and crafts (手工艺品) in Wisconsin. Over 5000 sp. ft. of exhibition space in a historic creamery. While visiting, enjoy a wonderfully prepared lunch at our café overlooking the Sugar River. Just minutes from Madison!
Gallery open Tue. —Sun., 10:00 am—5:00 pm.
Café open Wed. —Sat., 11:00 am —3:00 pm.
Sun. brunch with wine, 10:00—3:00 pm (608) 845-6600 www.artisangal.com
Christopher Columbus Museum239 Whitney St., Columbus
World-class exhibit–2000 quality souvenirs (纪念品) marking Chicago's 1893 World Columbian Exhibition. Tour buses are always welcome.
Open daily, 8:15 am – 4:00 pm. (920) 623-1992 www.columbusantiquemall.com
While waiting in bus stations, airports or parks, some people are busy with a friendly conversation, and others read newspapers, comics , novels and pocket books. That was many years ago.
Today everyone uses smartphones, tablets and laptops at home, work and school. Exactly, it improves our communication, social media, entertainment and provides convenience to work. The computers, Inter web, and smartphones have become part of our everyday life.
However, the publishing houses suffer terrible losses, and the comics industry is out of business, for everyone goes digital and gadget （小玩意） dependent.
Especially in the COVID-19 times, the sales of PC, laptops and gadgets suddenly went up quickly. Because of health safety problems, people chose to shop online. Moreover, education happens through Online Distance Learning, which forced parents to buy desktops and smartphones. Yet behind the benefits and use of these modern gadgets is a sad reality. Many students lose the face-to-face conversation power skills in public speaking, and social skills.
Another problem is health. The young generation today spends so much time on gadgets inside homes. They don't live the traditional healthy outdoor life. The result is eyesight problems and enjoying very little sunlight. For workers, too much exposure （暴露） to video call meetings has damaged their health. What's more, many of us are expected to continue working at home.
Modern information technology has really-affected our way of life. In the COVID-19 times, these products of modern technology have protected us from public exposure and direct interaction with people. However, its continuous use can also harm people's health and interest. Thus, we should take control of IT application in our life and not allow IT to endanger our health and safety.
Jo Land was surprised when she realized how much her youngest son's school uniform cost. "A jumper was￡25. A polo shirt was￡15," she says. "If it was this expensive for us, how on earth must families with three or four children manage?"
In December 2021, Land put a box outside her house, with a sign reading, "School uniform drop-off". She set up a Facebook group and asked people to drop good-quality used uniforms into the box. The operation started to grow almost immediately. "Some weeks I give out up to 48 uniforms," she says. People drive up and drop the clothing: she sorts through it, keeps it in her "stock room" and posts details about donations on the Facebook group. The first parent to message her gets the items for nothing. Land puts the items in a named bag and then returns it to the box. Recipients (接受者) can come and collect at their leisure.
"Being able to access good-quality preloved school uniforms has been a lifeline," says Kristina, a mother of two. "It's just amazing.
"Every child going to school deserves to feel smart and proud," Land says. "We don't want children to go to school feeling negative, because that affects their learning. Land has noticed that people rarely take without also giving. Sometimes people leave flowers on the box, or they drop off some outgrown clothes too.
Right now, Land is thinking about all the people in her community who will struggle this winter and she gets so many messages from people who are absolutely desperate, because they cannot afford uniforms for their children. Her determination to ensure children can access the uniforms they deserve grows ever stronger.
Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I'm not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don't come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that's just the reality of how life is.
However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it'll require even more time, time that most people won't put in.
This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don't enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.
When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It's sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there's a huge chance that you're wrong anyway.
Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you're not willing to put in the time and work, don't expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won't guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.
Leading intelligence
There is no doubt that artificial intelligence has changed our life, and continues to do so. Earlier this month, many cutting-edge AI technologies were unveiled at Baidu World 2020, the leading tech company's annual technology conference.
Virtual people
"Xiao Li" and "Xiao Kang" are virtual versions of Li Yanhong, chairman and CEO of Baidu, and Kang Hui, a CCTV host. The latest Baidu Brain 6.0, a global leading AI platform, is the driving force behind the virtual people.
Xiao Li and Xiao Kang are modeled after the two men in appearance, voice and movement. "The virtual people combine various modes of Baidu Brain AI technology, including vision, voice, language and knowledge," said Wang Haifeng, the CTO of Baidu, at the conference.
AI-powered mobile services
Baidu also launched the Duxiaoxiao virtual assistant app and search product. Duxiaoxiao provides users with a range of information services and helps to solve questions in everyday life. For example, Duxiaoxiao will give different feedback to a question by taking user's personalities and hobbies into consideration.
Baidu has trained an "experienced AI driver". The company claimed that its autonomous vehicles have undergone six million kilometers of road tests, carried 100, 000 passengers across 27 cities in the world, and had zero accident. A 5G remote driving service, which was also showcased at the event, allows human operators to remotely control vehicles in case of emergency.
A. Fully autonomous driving.
B. Let's get a glimpse of some of them.
C. A 5G remote service.
D. Over time, the app will change to suit each user's needs based on his or her habits.
E. They are also performed with the two men's knowledge and memories.
F. It's a driving system that can operate independently without a human driver.
G. It's a driving service that can operate the car according to a man's voice and habits.
A little boy named Harry became very ill. He had to lie in bed all day, unable to move. He spent his days feeling 1 and blue.
There wasn't much he could do except look out of the 2 . Time passed, and his illness frustrated him. Until one day he saw a strange 3 in the window. It was a penguin eating a sausage sandwich. The penguin got in 4 the open window, and said "good afternoon" to Harry, turned around, and 5 quickly.
Of course, Harry was very 6 . He was still trying to work out what had happened. Outside his window he saw a monkey busy blowing up a balloon. At first Harry asked himself 7 that could possibly be, but after a while, as more and more crazy-looking 8 appeared outside the window, he couldn't help 9 and found it hard to stop.
An elephant jumped on a stone, or a dog wore a pair of glasses and acted in a 10 way. The little boy didn't tell anyone about this. Those strange characters ended up putting joy back in his heart, and in his body. Before long, his health had 11 so much that he was able to go back to school again.
There he told his classmates all that he had 12 . While he was talking to his best friend, he saw 13 coming out of his friend's school bag. Harry asked his friend what it was, and he was so insistent (坚持) that 14 his friend had to show him what was in the bag.
There, inside, were all the things that his best friend had been using to try to 15 the little boy!
And from that day on, Harry always did his best to make sure that no one felt sad and alone.
The Chinese government recently finalized a plan to set up a Giant Panda National Park (GPNP). (cover) an area about three times size of Yellowstone National Park, the GPNP will be one of the first national parks in the country. The plan will extend protection to a significant number of areas that (be ) previously unprotected, bringing many of the existing protected areas for giant pandas under one authority (increase) effectiveness and reduce inconsistencies in management.
After a three-year pilot period, the GPNP will be officially set up next year. The GPNP (design) to reflect the guiding principle of "protecting the authenticity and integrity (完整性) of natural ecosystems, preserving biological diversity, protecting ecological buffer zones, leaving behind precious natural assets (资产) for future generations". The GPNP's main goal is to improve connectivity between separate (population) and homes of giant pandas, and (eventual) achieve a desired level of population in the wild.
Giant pandas also serve an umbrella species (物种), bringing protection to a host of plants and animals in the southwestern and northwestern parts of China. The GPNP is intended to provide stronger protection for all the species live within the Giant Panda Range and significantly improve the health of the ecosystem in the area.
On a bright, warm July afternoon,Mac Hollan, a primary school teacher, was cycling from his home to Alaska with his friends. One of his friends had stopped to make a bicycle repair, but they had encouraged Mac to carry on, and they would catch up with him soon. As Mac pedaled (骑行) along alone, he thought fondly of his wife and two young daughters at home. He hoped to show them this beautiful place someday. Then Mac heard quick and loud breathing behind him. "Man, that's a big dog!" he thought. But when he looked to the side, he saw instantly that it wasn't a dog at all, but a wolf, quickly catching up with him.
Mac's heart jumped. He found out his can of hear spray. With one hand on the bars, he fired the spray at the wolf. A bright red cloud enveloped the animal, and to Mac's relief, it fell back, shaking its head. But a minute later, it was by his side again. Then it attacked the back of Mac's bike, tearing open his tent bag. He fired at the wolf a second time, and again, it fell back only to quickly restart the chase（追赶）。
Mac was pedaling hard now. He waved and yelled at passing cars but was careful not to show down. He saw a steep uphill climb before him. He knew that once he hit the hill, he'd be easy caught up and the wolf's teeth would be tearing into his flesh.
At this moment,Paul and Beeky were driving their car on their way to Alaska. They didn't think much of it when they saw two cyclists repairing their bike on the side of the road. A bit later, they spotted what they, too, assumed was a dog running alongside a man on a bike. As they got closer, they realized that the dog was a wolf. Mac heard a large vehicle behind him. He pulled in front of it as the wolf was catching up fast, just a dozen yards away now.
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The car abruptly stopped in front of him.
A few minutes later, the other two cyclists arrived.
