Old Tea Forests in Pu’er Win World Heritage Site Title

The Cultural Landscape of Old: Tea Forests of the Jingmai Mountain in Pu’er gained the World Heritage Site status at the 45th session of the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO on Sunday.

    1    (locate) in Lancang Lahu autonomous county in Pu’er, the    2    (new) named heritage site consists of five large, well-preserved old tea forests, three protective barrier forests and nine ancient villages in the old tea forests.

The cultural landscape was created by the ancestors of the Blang people, who immigrated to the Jingmai Mountain in the 10th century AD and     3    (discover) wild tea trees. On the basis of long-standing practices, local people developed the understory growing technique, which involves allowing trees    4     are small and sufficiently shade-tolerant to thrive under the canopies(树荫) of taller trees. They also created ideal light conditions for growing tea trees, while preventing insect through a well-preserved forest ecosystem,    5    (produce) quality organic tea leaves without the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers.

During its 45th session, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee said the cultural landscape is    6    outstanding example of a sustainable land-use system based    7    the combination of horizontal and vertical land-use patterns.

Chen Yaohua, director of Peking University’s World Heritage Research: Center, said the tea growing technique on the. Jingmai Mountain is quite unique. It represents the ecological wisdom that can inspire sustainable    8    (develop) in the world, said Chen, who has led studies on the site for the past 12 years. According to his research, about 10 percent of the tea trees on the mountain are at least 100 years old, with the     9    (old) dating back more than 300 years.

Core zone of the World Heritage Site covers about 72 square kilometers on the mountain. The buffer(缓冲) zone spreads over about 120 sq km. The cultural landscape of old tea forests     10    (include) on China’s tentative list for seeking world heritage status in 2012.

6 . My fitness journey started when I couldn’t fit into my coats and weighed 176 pounds. This was my wake-up call. I was overweight, unhappy, and struggling to get back to health and happiness. I needed to be healthy again, so I decided to lose weight and regain control of my life.

I started working out and lost 40 pounds in two months. I was 33 with two kids. My journey started but I had much more to do. I ran marathons but grew bored of them, so I stepped up the challenge: and competed in triathlons (三项全能) for the next five years. I thought I discovered my passion. I’m a fierce competitor and enjoy racing even more. At 38, I was unable to compete and train at the level I desired. I was fearful of being lost and unhappy again.

As I was leaving the weights area one day, a girl asked if I competed in body building. I told her I didn’t and she said I should. This was the start of my new passion. I approached a bodybuilder at the gym and asked him about the sport and he convinced me to train for my first figure show.

I won every class I entered. I demanded a great deal from my body and aimed to improve before every competition, I maintained 10-11 percent body fat all year round. I have added 10 pounds: of muscle in the past four years.

Women over 40 needs to know that it’s possible to achieve our dreams. It’s about choices. Age isn’t a factor. If you want it, you have to work for it. If it were handed to you, it wouldn’t be sweet or unique.

7 . A foreign language app with more than 300 million users is marking: Columbus Day, which is alternatively recognized as Indigenous (土著的) Peoples’ Day, by 1aunching classes in two native languages.

The Duolingo app, which is free, has started offering classes in olelo Hawaii and Navajo. “Navajo is the most popular indigenous language in North America,” said Duolingo’s lead community. specialist Myra Awodey, who pushed for the, addition of this Native American tongue and expressed concern about the death of languages that, aren’t used. Rosetta Stone, another language-teaching program, also has a Navajo course as part of its endangered language series.

We have lost around 600 languages in the last 100 years and as many as 90 percent of the world’s languages could extinct by the end of the century, according to the United Nations Permanent Forum of Indigenous Issues.

The app developed its course in Hawaiian, after it was approached by networks of schools, organizations and programs focused on education in Hawaii. “So many people in our community cherish olelo Hawaii, but not all of them have the time or resources to take classes,” said Poki’I Seto of the Kanaeokana network that promotes; the teaching of the native Hawaiian language. “The Hawaiian language movement is carrying our olelo to places we never thought it would go. And that’s how it should be.”

Duolingo’s new indigenous curricula (课程) aren’t full. courses like for English or Spanish or German, but are starting as a sort of boot camps to expand later. It’s expensive for apps to develop courses for smaller languages because the classes, must use recordings of real people speaking the language. In contrast, courses for more, common tongues such as English, Spanish or German can use computerized voices.

8 . A fire swallowed a warehouse (仓库) on San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf, threatening to spread to a historic World War II-era ship before firefighters controlled it. One firefighter got a hand injury while battling the fire.

After the fire, investigators searched the building to determine whether homeless people were inside. “We’re trying to confirm if anybody is in this building,” San Francisco Fire Lt. Jonathan Baxter said. “Nobody is supposed to be in the building and we are hoping that there is no victim.”

However, at least two workers were inside the warehouse when the fire broke out before dawn. Alejandro Arellano was cleaning out a fish storage locker when the fire began shortly after 4 a.m. “I saw a lot of smoke. A few minutes later, fire was everywhere,” he said. “It was very scary. I’ve never seen anything like it.”

More than 130 firefighters fought the fire, some using ladder trucks to drench (浸湿) the warehouse from above. A fireboat was used to protect a ship that stormed Normandy on D-Day in 1944. The ship is among numerous tourist attractions on the wharf. Coast Guard crewmembers and police assisted by keeping other ships away.

Shops and restaurants on the wharf have been shut in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus (冠状病毒) and were expected to reopen on May 31. Fishing companies said the fire worsened an already tough business climate. Kenny Belov, owner of the seafood wholesaler TwoXSea, said his building near the warehouse was not damaged but he worried the fish in his freezer could be ruined. Fire investigators were still assessing the damage and were looking into the cause.

10 . Galileo was born in Pisa on February 15,1564. The family moved to Florence in the early 1570s. In his middle teens, Galileo attended the monastery school in Vallombrosa and then in 1581 at the University of Pisa, where he was to study medicine.

However, he became interested in mathematics and decided to make the mathematical subjects and philosophy his profession. Galileo then began to prepare himself to teach mathematics and several of his lectures have survived.

In 1585, Galileo left the university without a degree and for several years he gave private lessons in the mathematical subjects in Florence and Siena. During this period he designed a new form of hydrostatic (流体静力学的) balance for weighing small quantities. He also began his studies on motion, which he pursued steadily for the next two decades. In 1588 Galileo applied for the chair of mathematics at the University of Bologna but was unsuccessful. However, his reputation was increasing and later that year he was asked to deliver two lectures to the Florentine Academy.

He also found some theorems (定理) on centers of gravity that brought him recognition among mathematicians and the support of Guidobaldo del Monte, a nobleman and author of several important works on mechanics. As a result, he obtained the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1589. There, Galileo demonstrated, by dropping bodies of different weights from the top of the famous Leaning Tower, that the speed of fall of a heavy object is not related to its weight, as Aristotle had claimed. He continued his research on motion and by 1609 he had determined that the distance fallen by a body is proportional (成比例的) to the square of the falling time.

Galileo died on January 8, 1642.