【推荐2】Best Hotels in Denver, CO

Four Seasons Hotel Denver

●5.0-star hotel class

●Free WiFi

Situated in Denver’s Theatre District, Four Seasons hotel draws luxury-seekers with the promise of luxurious amenities and high-end service. Rooms at Four Seasons Hotel Denver are equipped with LCD TVs and complimentary Wi-Fi. Meanwhile, on-site amenities like the full-service spa and the newly redesigned EDGE Restaurant & Bar are considered added bonuses. Some recent reviewers say the service doesn’t match the high price tag.

Hotel Teatro

●4.5-star hotel class

●$27 nightly resort fee

●Free WiFi

Cozy guest rooms decorated with modern amenities, including flat-panel LCD TVs, Keurig coffee makers and bathrooms with rainforest shower heads as well as a fitness center, an on-site restaurant, and a library-themed lounge. But recent visitors complained the high valet parking fees, which are not covered by the daily amenity fee.

Grand Hyatt Denver

●4.5-star hotel class

●Free WiFi

You’ll be treated to spacious rooms(equipped with coffee makers, minifridges, flat-screen TVs and high-speed internet access), a fitness center and a pool. The highlight of a stay at this hotel was the excellent customer service. Travelers describe the employees here as efficient and extremely friendly.

Clayton Members Club & Hotel

●4.5-star hotel class

●$29.46 nightly resort fee

●Free WiFi

Located in Denver’s Cherry Creek neighborhood, the hotel sits within walking distance of a variety of restaurants, shops and galleries. Though many reviewers were blown away by the hotel’s stylish interiors and delicious restaurant, others complained the customer service was uneven and described the pool as too small.

【推荐3】Zhenbeipu West Studio

Zhenbeipu West Studio has become one of the preferred locations for shooting outdoor scenes for Western China and Ancient China movies. Two of the most famous ones include Red Sorghum and Big Words of Western Tour. The studio offers cameraman service for visitors wanting to experience acting in a movie on some of their favorite sets.

Admission: 60 yuan

Working Hours: 8:30 am-5:30 pm.(winter)/ 8 am-6 pm.(summer)

How to get there: take the No.16 bus from the West Gate or the No.303 bus from the South Gate to the site.

The Cliff Carvings

The Cliff Carvings in the Helan Mountains are known to be a carved history of ancient Chinese people who lived and hunted some 10, 000 years ago near these mountains. It was listed on the official world cultural heritages by the UNESCO International Committee of Rock Painting in 1977.

Admission: 70 yuan

Working Hours: 8 am-6 pm.

How to get there: take the No.16 bus at downtown Yinchuan and get off at Zhenbeipu, then hire a car to get there for 5 yuan.

The 108 Pagodas

Buddhists(佛教徒)think that there are 108 kinds of worries in a person's life. It is said that tourists will forget their worries and become lucky by praying in front of—and count out—the 108 Pagodas.

Admission: 70 yuan

Working Hours: 8 am - 6 pm.

How to get there： take the No. 2 bus at downtown Qingtongxia, exit at the Qingtongxia Hydropower Station, then get on a ferryboat to get there for 15 yuan per person.

Shapotou

Situated in Zhongwei City, Shapotou is a national 5A-level tourist attraction sitting on the north bank of the Yellow River. The park offers plenty of activities. Sliding from the top of a sand dune on a sand board is a tourist favorite. In addition, visitors can hire a sheepskin raft and float along the Yellow River to observe all the fascinating sceneries along the waterway.

Admission: 90 yuan

Working Hours: 6 am - 7 pm.

How to get there: take shuttle buses to Shapotou at Zhongwei Bus Station to get there for 3 yuan, or take a taxi at downtown Zhongwei to get there for 20 yuan.

【推荐1】It is predicted that in 2023, a quarter of all new cars purchased in China will be an all-electric vehicle or a plug-in hybrid. By some estimates, more than 300 Chinese companies are making E.V.s, ranging from discount off rings below $5,000 to high-end models that rival American and German automakers. There are roughly five million charging units in the country, with more coming.

While other E.V. markets are still heavily dependent on allowances and financial stimulation, China has entered a new phase: Consumers are weigh in e the features and prices of electric vehicles against gas-powered cars without much consideration of state support, it took China more than a decade of allowances, long-term investments and infrastructure (基础设施) spending to lay the foundation for its electric vehicle market to start standing on its own. Of the world ‘stop-10best-selling E.V. brands, half are Chinese. And it’s not just the car sales that are booming in China. The Chinese battery manufacturers are the biggest players in the industry.

Mr. Li, a 27-year-old employee at a construction firm who recently decided to trade in his gas-powered car for an E.V., said financial stimulation did not weigh on his decision to go electric. In Chengdu, the big city in southwestern China where Mr. Li lives and works, traditional cars are restricted from being on the road on certain days of the week to help reduce traffic jams and pollution. Electric vehicles, however, are free to come and go. For electric cars, parking is free for the first two hours at public parking lots.

【推荐2】E-scooter(电动滑板车)sharing, which once looked like it would completely change traffic in large cities around the world, is turning out to create just about as many problems as it solves.

When e-scooters began to appear on the city streets, it was thought that people would take e-scooters instead of driving, which could cut down on traffic jams, pollution, and parking problems. And for some people, there is usually no direct public transport from the bus and subway stops to their homes. So, e-scooters were also seen as a solution for the "last-mile" problem at first, helping connect riders' homes with bus and subway stops.

Then some companies started to make e-scooters and rent them out. They put lots of e-scooters in popular locations around busy cities. And customers can use their smartphones to find and rent e-scooters. It usually costs about $1 to unlock an e-scooter and then about 15 to 25 cents for every 15 minutes after that. When customers finish riding, they simply can park e-scooters in any place that's convenient.

However, soon e-scooters were being left almost everywhere. They were blocking sidewalks and sometimes roads. E-scooters weren't just in the way, and they were also dangerous. e-scooters can go as fast as 16 miles per hour. They're too fast for sidewalks and can put walkers in danger. But they're usually too slow for city streets, where they block the faster traffic of cars and buses. And people began to get injured. Scientists studied nearly 200 people who got injured in a three-month period in Austin, Texas. About 15% had serious brain injuries. Riders aren't just getting injured, there have also been several e-scooter-related deaths.

Most cities with e-scooters have now made rules about where and how e-scooters can be used. Other cities have gotten rid of them completely. Anyway, e-scooters have become a very popular way to get around in many big cities, but it will take time and effort to make e-scooters fit in with big city traffic safely.

【推荐1】Hawks(鹰) and other raptors(猛禽) are impressive predators, and many of these species are adapted for fast, quiet flight to help them attack their prey(猎物). After all, raptors make their living by flying down to take small animals off the ground. While a hawk clearly couldn’t lift a full-grown dog, it might seem reasonable that raptors could lift a small dog, cat or possibly even a human child. Is that a reasonable concern, or just a flight of fancy?

There are urban legends about hawks stealing 12-pound pets, and some taking away kids, but these are based on wrong descriptions of how much weight these raptors can lift. Hawks and owls, for instance, can’t fly away with prey that outweighs them. And given the light weight of even big raptors like red-tailed hawks and great-horned owls —which average about 2 pounds and 3 pounds separately, — they’re unable to take away most adult dogs and cats, not to mention human children.

Some larger red-tailed hawks may be able to carry prey weighing 5 pounds,which could include not just puppies and kittens but also some adult cats and dogs from small kinds. Great-horned owls also focus on small mammals and birds, but they have the most diverse diet of any North American raptor, including larger animals like skunks, ducks and even other raptors. They don’t create a serious threat to pets overall, although they have been known to attack house cats and chickens left outside overnight.

While most pets and kids are probably safe from raptors, it still might be wise to take a few precautions, depending on the situation.

One of the most effective precautions is to watch over your pets when they’re outdoors, which is generally wise anyway, for their safety as well as that of your neighbors and local wildlife. Some pet owners try to drive raptors away, using reflective tape and so on. Some of these might work, at least for a while, but they can’t replace human supervision. If raptors fly down at your pet, an umbrella could help prevent off some species, while a flashlight can reportedly discourage owls after dark.

The presence of wild raptors suggests you live in a healthy ecosystem, and if you can bear to share space with them, there’s a good chance they’ll repay you for your tolerance. Instead of hunting pets, for example, many raptors are far more likely to hunt pests like rats.

【推荐2】As the threat against coral reefs has increased, researchers are introducing innovative methods to farm healthy corals more efficiently.

Unlike the traditional way of growing corals in the ocean, land-based nurseries nurture (培育) corals in tanks before planting them onto reefs. While the operations tend to come with a high price tag and are more labor intensive, they provide an opportunity to raise corals in a controlled environment where experimental methods could be used and allowed for repairing reefs on a massive scale.

These methods include growing corals in tanks on land, or using advanced techniques to promote growth rates and adaptability to the changing environment. Coral Vita, a for-profit company in Grand Bahama, can now grow corals up to 50 times faster than in nature by cutting corals into small pieces, a process known as “microfragmentation”.

The farm is also equipped with a high-tech aquaculture system, referred to by Coral Vita employees as the “life support system,” which can regulate water quality through temperature, pH and other adjustable settings. The system can be set up elsewhere with some adjustments for a region’s specific coral. “It can be very plug and play, which is really important for large-scale restoration,” says Teicher, founder of Coral Vita.

The potential for large scale is critical to Coral Via’s business plan, which is connected to the idea or “selling restoration as a service”. In 2021, Coral Vita signed its first restoration contracts with the Grand Bahama Port Authority. “There are about 100 countries and regions with coral reefs,” Teicher says. “There need to be large-scale coral farms in every single one of them. The amount of funding in the non-profit space is a drop in the bucket, and our model could help make the field less dependent on donations.”

Marine biologist David Vaughan points out that Coral Vita may have a couple million dollars in start-up costs and plants fewer than 5,000 to 10,000 corals a year. “That isn’t the economic scale that we need to get this to,” Vaughan says, adding hundreds of thousands of operations “costing couple of dollars a coral” will be required.

【推荐3】After years of talking too much, I’ve come to realise that if one never listens to others. Well, he is limiting his access to lot of knowledge and information. Recently, after much consideration, thought I’d check out what the world of chat rooms is like.

I expect there are many chat rooms where people with similar interests get to know other and share their views on various aspects of life. These are great, much cheaper than telephones, and people can chat to one another freely. It seems some people are just very bored, and want to insult others, giving this area of information technology a bad name. I think lot of people are using the rooms simply for personal conversation that no one else can understand.

I guess it’s good that bored people in our technological society have others to talk to. It means teens may feel more connected to others and not so alone in the world, maybe even having a positive effect on their growth. I’m a true believer of the concept technology is here to further the consciousness of humanity. Computer and the internet can help bring all of us in the world together, thus improving our society to higher level. Having the technology is great to make the Internet work properly, I think we need to improve the quality of what communicate about when we are on the net.