On the football field, it doesn’t always matter what team you’re on. When a fellow player is in need, everyone answers the call.

A Pennsylvania high school football team, parents, teachers and staff showed a great act of kindness for a member of the host team after a recent game. The game was really a fight to the finish, but these people came together to provide encouragement for a greater fight ahead.

The two teams are Avon Grove High School and Coatesville High School. During a Friday night game, both teams came together at midfield to give Gavin Picard balloons and a gift. Gavin. who plays for Avon Grove. was recently diagnosed(诊断)with lymphoma(淋巴瘤):

Moved by the kindness of both teams and the community, Rachel Wilson, Gavin’s teammate, shared her thoughts about the support for Gavin online. “Coatesville players and caches came up to our team after the game to show their support. There were not very many dry eyes in the stadium.“

Rachel added that in sports it’s about so much more than the game. This act of kindness proved that. She said the Coatesville team had experienced quite a struggling week, so they understood how things could affect players on and off the field. “Class act all the way. Football is more than wins and losses, ” she said. “It’s a brotherhood, a strong connection like no other. ”

Community support for Gavin continues as a family friend set up a GoFundMe page to help raise money for his treatment. There is a sea of love and support for the star football player in the comments. A latest message was shared online that Gavin completed his first round of treatment.

It’s easy to believe that robots are stealing jobs from human workers and badly affect the job market; after all, you’ve likely heard that they are tracking and moving packages without the use of human hands.

But there’s no need to worry about a robot takeover just yet, says a new study from BYU sociology professor Eric Dahlin. Dahlin’s research found that robots aren’t replacing (取代) humans at the rate most people think, but people are likely to greatly exaggerate (夸大) the rate of robot takeover.

To understand the relationship between job loss and robots, Dahlin surveyed nearly 2, 000 people about their views on jobs being replaced by robots. They were first asked to guess what is the percentage of employees whose employers (雇主) have replaced jobs with robots. They were then asked whether their employers have ever replaced their jobs with robots.

The study found that only 14% of workers say they’ve seen their job replaced by a robot. But those who have experienced job displacement due to a robot overstate the effect of robots taking jobs from humans by about three times.

“Our understanding of robots taking over jobs is greatly exaggerated,” says Dahlin. Those who haven’t lost jobs overstate it by about double, and those who have lost jobs overstate it by about three times. Eye-catching headlines saying a bad future of employment have likely overblown the situation of robots taking over jobs.

The finding fits early studies, which suggest that robots aren’t replacing workers. Rather, workplaces, where both employees and robots are working together, deliver more value in a way. “An everyday example is an autonomous machine at your local department store,” says Dahlin. “This robot cleans the floors while employees clean under shelves or other difficult-to-reach places.”

Seismometer (地震仪) stations not only sense ground shaking due to earthquakes but also signals at the surface of our planet, such as storms and — as the researchers discovered — also floods. For this research, scientists turned an earthquake seismometer station near the town of Ahrweiler in Germany into a flood tracking tool. Using seismological information from the time of the event, they can tell people about the disaster in a timely way.

As the town of Ahrweiler took the full force of a flood, scientists found the seismometer exactly showed the track of the flood for one hour. By comparing mathematical models, the researchers were able to estimate (估算) the speed with which the flood moved. In fact, this was the only systematic source of measurable information about how the flood developed because the three present water level stations in the town were out of service early.

As the research shows, this method can provide information that is valuable to track flood for warning and rescue activities. “If the data from that station is available (可用的) and as our research now shows, real time information on the magnitude and speed of the flood will be available as well, ”says Dr Michael Dietze at the University of Gottingen. “As 10% of Europe’s surface area is likely to suffer from rapid flooding by rivers, we may want to start thinking about new ways of flood early warning. The present network of water level stations is not enough to be fully prepared for future events, ”Dietze adds.

Dietze and his team are working on a plan to discover further areas at risk of flooding and provide them with low cost “watch tower” scismometer pairs — an effort to cut the losses caused by future floods. Dietze says, “The deadly July flood that hit the Ahrweiler in Germany in July 2021 gave a warning to the locals, the government, emergency services and scientists — how much we need to learn to improve the present flood warning systems. ”

Chou doufu is a fermented (发酵的) tofu with a strong smell but good flavour. The street snack is usually sold at night, served out of a small bowl and toothpicks (牙签) to pick it up.     13    .

Chou dou fu was invented by a man named Wang Zhihe during the Qing Dynasty. He studied to become a local officer, but tried and failed many times. Every time he left his hometown to take the exam in the capital city, he would end up using all of his money for travelling and be left with nothing to buy food.     14    , Wang Zhihe decided to make a living in the capital city while preparing for the next year’s exam.

His family back home was wealthy from their tofu factory business.     15    . He bought some simple tools to make it in order to sell it on the street. During that time, the summer heat was causing the fresh tofu that he didn’t sell to become moldy (发霉).     16    . He decided to cut the tofu into smaller pieces, dry them in the sun and then pickle (腌渍) them with salt. They were stored in a jar until autumn came. The moment he opened the jar, he was hit with the special smell of fermented tofu that had become grey.     17    , so he sent them to the neighbors who found that they enjoyed the dish, too. From then on, chou doufu has become a famous street snack.

In 2016, Yu Yongguang, a teacher at the Jiangsu University, saw a Yangtze finless porpoise (江豚) for the first time in a newspaper. He found himself _________ by the “smile” of the porpoise. Two months later, Yu set up an on-campus association (协会) to protect the species in _________. At first, there were only seven members.

In recent years, his efforts have _________, and the association now has about 750 members. _________, thanks to close partnership with universities, government and non-profit organizations, the association has succeeded in _________ about 8,000 volunteers to contribute to the cute species’ _________.

With the development of the association, its work has gone far beyond _________ simple publicity activities. Under Yu’s leadership, his team members _________ the country’s first popular science book about the finless porpoise. They have also drew up various designs for a science popularization curriculum (科普课程) _________ different groups of people.

In addition, he has also __________ his team to the major habitats of the porpoise to conduct scientific study and environmental recording. Based on this work, the team has written a series of reports that include __________ suggestions on improving the habitat protection work. At present, the number of Yangtze finless porpoises is growing __________ and stands at around 1,000.

Yu said he never imagined that the small association he __________ would unite so many forces to protect the animals. He believes that the __________ of different parts of society together will see the number of finless porpoises continue to __________, and will also help the environment along the Yangtze River to improve continually.

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The Zuo zhuan, generally translated as Zuo Tradition, is     33     ancient Chinese narrative (叙述) history that is considered as a commentary on the ancient Chinese chronicle (编年史), the Chunqiu—the Spring and Autumn period (770-476 BC). The Zuo zhuan focuses mainly on political, social and military     34     (event) of China’s history. It explains its historical background, and contains much rich and lively     35     (describe) of the Spring and Autumn period history and culture. The Zuo zhuan has more Chinese sayings and idioms     36     any other classical work, and its simple flowing style came to be held as a model of elegant classical Chinese. It was, for many centuries, the primary text through     37     the Chinese gained an understanding of     38     (they) ancient history.

Although the Zuo zhuan     39     (regard) as “a masterpiece of great historical narrative” for a long time, its early textual history is largely     40     (know) and its author has been widely debated. The “Zuo” of the Zuo zhuan’s title was     41     (traditional) believed to refer to one “Zuo Qiuming”—a figure of the 5th century BC thought     42     (be) a blind student of Confucius—but there is little actual evidence to support this. Modern scholars now generally believe that the Zuo zhuan was originally an independent work finished during the latter half of the 4th century BC that was later rearranged as a commentary to the Chunqiu.