Getting older means greater maturity and wisdom. In a society that is aging fast, it has become crucial to find ways to prevent related mental and emotional disorders. Music emerges as a promising look for promoting well-being of the elderly.

Music has a great power to cause strong emotions and intense pleasure.Singing and dancing to music with others is not only fun but also improves mood. Musical activities are great ways to reduce stress because they take our minds off problems. They also help us feel less lonely and more connected with other people.

A song may become a soundtrack for a particular time, such as a delightful party with friends that you had a long time ago. Listening to that song allows you to remember all the happy memories from that time.

Finally, music contributes to keeping our thinking skills sharp. It makes our brains work hard in unique ways to understand the rhythm and melody. For example, exposure to background music , particularly classical music, during cognilive ( 认知的) tasks is shown lo improve older people's cognitive processes, such as processing speed and working memory . In conclusion, music is a powerful look lo fight against aging-related emotional and cognitive problems. It is an enjoyable and social activily, available to anyone regardless of their background or previous musical experience.

A. Music can also open forgotten doors lo our memories.

B. Recalling happy memories can lift our mood on a bad day.

C. Even passive music listening can help elderly adults think better.

D. This helps people feel better when they are depressed or anxious.

E. However, it often involves a series of physical and mental challenges.

F. The ability to form new memories is essential for processing information.

G. Thus, this accessible intervention should become a major policy priority for healthy aging.

A Letter from Willa Cather to President TomaS Masaryk

Honored Sir, 

Your letter, sent to me through your Legation at Washington, confers upon me great honor and gives me great pleasure. I am glad to have carried a message from the Bohemian (波希米亚) neighbors, whom I grew up with, to their home country of the

Czech Republic.

I have just returned to New York, where I had the pleasure of taking Annie Pavelka, the living "Antonia" in my book My Antonia, and six of her children to the first screening of A Lost Lady. I have the good fortune to proserve relations with most of my characters. "Antonia" and her splendid children are flesh and blood realities. Every time I go back to them, I feel how much more interesting and lovable they are than my picture of them. I wish I could present them to you in person.

I regret that I cannot satisfactorily meet your kind request for biographical (传记的) material. I avoid biographers, asking them to wait until I get my work further along. My first novel was published in 1912, and a period of twelve years is hardly long enough for a writer to find the form best suited for writing. I was not young when I began to write, and though living is a good preparation for writing, I do need more time to acquire a simple and modest way of presenting my work, however well I know what I wish to present.

I am able to send you a very good photograph taken recently. I enclose a short biographical account which my publishers use for publicity purposes, and some casual reviews. Biographies usually begin to come along just about the time a writer has no more to say, and I do not feel that time has yet come to me.

I beg you, President Masaryk, to believe in my grateful appreciation of your letter.

Respectfully yours,

Willa Cather

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Dear Hans,

Yours,

Li Hua

For all programmers and processor industry participants, the RISC-V website is almost a must-visit as an open standard. Instruction Set Architecture, which is defined as the design of a computer from. the programmer's perspective, enabling a new er a of processor innovation through open cooperation.

Unlike X86 and ARM, which are owned by certain enterprises, RISC-V is an open one, allowing anybody to download its instructions handbook and use it. Maybe that is why some US lawmakers are targeting RISC-V. Republican Senator Marco Rubio and Democratic Senator Mark Warner have reportedly been urging US President Joe Biden to take action regarding RISC-V, because, they fear that Chinese companies might make use of the open-source platform to improve their chips(芯片) technology.

Maybe the legislators(立法者) do not realize that by targeting RISC-V they are targeting not only a company or a platform but the idea of openness itself. Being a US company. RISC-V has a global membership, with a number of Chinese and US enterprises as members. It has for long been known as an open-minded institution promoting technological cooperation despite the political tensions, and the US lawmakers targeting it seem to be closing one of the last channels of technology communication between China and their nation.

By doing so they are harming the United States' own interests and its technological leadership in the world. Open source is a good computing tool that benefits those who share programs as well as those who learn from it. The Android smartphone system, for example, has developed largely because Google decided to make it an open-source system, which attracted worldwide smartphone businesses to adopt its standard.

The US lawmakers might next target GitHub, or, some day, even forbid programmers from accessing the Internet. That will only lead to the US losing its technological edge, never to get it back again.

One of Kenya's famous camping sites is found about 230 kilometers north of the capital, Nairobi, in the Ngare Ndare Forest Reserve. What visitors will find unique about this camping site is the forest reserve's 7-meter-high tree platform on which they can set up their tents and camp. Below the tree platform, campers can gather beside a fire site dug out under a giant tree while watching the African sunset as darkness sets in.

For tourists who enjoy group activities, the Rapids camp, located just an hour-and-a-half drive north of Nairobi is an ideal destination. Its closeness to Nairobi and the famed Thika Super highway makes it very easy to access. The camp lies close to the Sagana River and has a river camping site of about 450meters and Kenya's largest waterfall in terms of volume.

Camping lovers in Kenya can also visit the Crayfish camp, which offers travelers an adventure by Lake Naivasha. This approximately 177-square-kilometer lake is home to many varieties of plants and fish. The camp features well-maintained grounds with all major activities within easy reach of each other. The Crayfish Camp, located 18 kilometers from Naivasha town, also has green grounds that can accommodate 400 campers.

For visitors who love touring coastal areas, Kenya offers Mike's camp on Kiwayu island. in the Lamu Archipelago. The campsite sits next to two villages, Kiwayu, which is an hour's walk south of the camp, and Chandani, a 20-minute walk to the north.

COVID-19. You read that right. It's not just that we're sick of COVID-19 but coronaviruses (冠状病毒) have been with and in us for hundreds of years. A former president called it "just a cold". The wording might have been slightly clumsy.  This was just the fifth.

 It was fascinating. And it was mostly meaningless, at least at the county or personal level. Every one will eventually get COVID-19, just as every one had the first four coronaviruses when you were young

 Keep it to yourself; no one else, wants it! If you have low immunity (免疫力), you are easy to get. any of the numerous viruses that cause flu-like, symptoms in people. The people around you are your protection. This is nothing new: We used vaccination (疫苗接种) to control smallpox.

For those who can't be very ill, there is an injection that will help their immune system get a head start. The effectiveness doesn't last quite as long as the disease; that's not surprising. And the disease (coronavirus infections, any of the five). doesn't give lifelong immunity anyway, not before 2019, not after 2023. Nothing new: You get seasonal colds every season; these are often coronaviruses.

 Pay attention to the people closest to you, the ones who know what they're doing and, more important, share your risk pool (same town or county). Ask your medical provider what you should do. They are advised by the county, which gets information from the state, which gathers patient CDC data.

A. So what should you do?

B. Then who is to turn to?

C. And the same rules apply as with any cold:

D. But there were already four coronaviruses that caused seasonal colds.

E. Because of advances in basic sciences, we could watch the virus change.

F. Your family doctor is who knows you and knows all this and a whole.

G. With the data we can analyze the virus and apply suitable and personal therapies.

What Is Your Pet Trying to Tell You

Animals want our attention, and sometimes they're quite obviously about asking for it. Unusual behaviors are often our pets' way of telling us to stop what we're doing and play with them. It's why Fido constantly chases his tail and why Kitty keeps rolling around. A desperately bored pet may have "bad" behaviors to get a reaction - even a negative one!

Feed me.

Sure, your dog loves you, but that's not why he's licking (舔) your face. A puppy learns to lick his mother's mouth to get a little leftover food, so Spot isn't kissing you in our sense of the word; he just wants a snack.

I'm stressed.

Cat owners also misinterpret their furry friends'kisses. While a cat might lick you to show love, sometimes she'll do it to ease herself. One way to tell if her licking is stress-related is to see if it goes on for an extended period of time. Birds also over clean when they feel anxious. Some will even drag out their own feathers.

My tail tells all.

Dogs wag (摇) their tails to the right when they see something or someone they want to approach, and to the left when they see something they want to avoid. When frightened, dogs curl their tails in, while cats wrap theirs around themselves. And if a cat's tail looks like a question mark, she's eager to play.

Holidays are not necessarily for fun or rest. Doing something meaningful can also gain special pleasure. When the final bell rang, the students were reminded that there was no school on Monday—the Labor Day.(劳动节) "Enjoy your extra day off," said the teacher to her class. An extra day of fun suited Kayla just fine. She loved breaks. She wanted to go out to play with her friends. When the school bus dropped Kayla off, she ran into the house happily.

"How was school, Kayla?" asked her mom.

"It was great, Mom. I am excited about no school on Monday."

"You just started back to school two weeks ago. Already in need of a break, huh?" asked Kayla's mom with a laugh.

Kayla slept in the next morning. Saturday was her favorite day of the week. It rained most of the day, so Kayla enjoyed playing video games inside. On Sunday, her friends came over and they played basketball for several hours. Then it was Labor Day, you know, the extra day off that Kayla was so looking forward to. But Kayla was awakened early that morning by her dad. He told Kayla that in honor of Labor Day, the family would be cleaning both inside and outside the house. Kayla couldn't believe it. This was a holiday. A day when she was supposed to be enjoying freshly squeezed lemonade while playing in her tree house. As Kayla wiped her eyes, she began to wonder if this was just a bad dream.

"Kayla, your breakfast is ready. We have a lot of work to do today. Let's get a move on," said Kayla's mom. As she sat down at the kitchen table, Kayla asked her parents, "Are you serious about working today? Isn't Labor Day a holiday?"

"Yes, Kayla. It is," replied her dad. "But your mom and I thought working hard today would make you appreciate why Labor Day was celebrated in the first place."

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At first, Kayla felt disappointed at her parents' plan for the holiday. 

Thanks to this new hands-free suitcase, carrying around heavy luggage may soon become a thing of the past. Designed by an Israeli company NUA Robotics, this "smart" suitcase will follow you everywhere you go.

The carry-on suitcase, currently a prototype (雏形), connects to a smart phone app via Bluetooth. It has a built-in camera sensor that can "see" you and follow you around on flat surfaces like airport floors. It comes with an anti-theft alarm to prevent someone carrying it away when you're not looking and it has a backup battery that you can use to charge all your devices.

"It can follow and carry things for people around while communicating with their smart phone, and avoiding obstacles," explained Alex Libman, founder of NUA Robotics. "We're combining sensor network, computer vision, and robotics. So if you download our app, press the follow-me button, the luggage recognizes the specific user and knows to follow and communicate."

NUA is still testing the device and trying to improve features like speed and customization (定制), but they hope to make the suitcase available to customers in a year's time. If it proves successful, they want to use the Bluetooth pairing technology to automate lots of other devices, like shopping carts at the supermarket. These devices are especially meant to be useful to the physically disabled and elderly. "Any object can be smart and robotic," Libman said, "We want to bring robots into everyday life."

The Israeli tech company made it clear that the finished product will look just like a regular suitcase. They're planning to partner with a carry-on luggage maker, since the device that makes it "smart" weighs just 2.5 pounds and can be fitted on old-fashion luggage.

With NUA's smart suitcase, carrying round heavy luggage isn't a burden. But how their invention will handle tough obstacles like stairs? It will be interesting to wait.